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Brazil hampered by injuries ahead of last-16 clash against South Korea
World Cup favourites Brazil are racing to overcome injuries to key players as they prepare for their last 16 match against South Korea on Monday, after a heavily changed side lost 1-0 to Cameroon on Friday night.
Neymar is still recovering from an ankle injury suffered in their debut win against Serbia, and they have only one pure full-back available after left-back Alex Telles suffered a knee injury in the match against Cameroon.
Starting full-backs Danilo and Alex Sandro are out after injuries suffered earlier in the competition and their availability is still unclear.
Telles and forward Gabriel Jesus, who also suffered a knee injury against Cameroon, were officially ruled out for the rest of the tournament by the Brazilian FA on Saturday.
With their ticket already booked for the next round after two wins, Tite on Friday made nine changes to the team that won 1-0 against Switzerland, leading to Brazil's first loss to an African nation in its World Cup history.
"The physical demand is ever increasing, the time is short, it's a cumulative effect of games and sometimes you don't have the ideal recovery time on your hands," coach Tite told a news conference on Friday.
"I don't really know what to say other than that, mentally, the Cup is very demanding. It drains you. The intensity of the matches, the preparation — they are components of analysis that we have to delve into deeper, but they are all considerable."
Tite did not let the media attend their training session on Saturday but said Neymar, Alex Sandro and Danilo should be on the pitch to test their condition.
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King Photo Release: Iowa Is In The House!
Washington, D.C.- Congressman Steve King released the following photos documenting several of the highlights of a busy day spent meeting and working with Iowans on issues important to the state and his 4th District constituents.
Today's work-day started off with Congressman King meeting the students of Le Mars Community Middle School on the House of Representative's steps to welcome them to the nation's capital.
King welcomes Le Mars Community Middle School students to the United States House of Representatives.
As a member of the House Agriculture Committee, and with the re-authorization of the Farm Bill pending, King was pleased to have the opportunity to meet today with representatives of the Iowa Cattlemen's Association. The meeting featured a full discussion of King and the Iowa Cattlemen's shared legislative priorities, which include promoting greater international trade of Iowa's agricultural products.
Congressman Steve King (center) discusses the 2018 Farm Bill with the Iowa Cattlemen's Association.
Fittingly, after meeting with producers who raise the food for our dinner tables, King met with representatives of those who make food available to consumers: the Iowa Grocery Industry Association.
Congressman Steve King (center) meets with Iowa Grocery Industry Association President Michelle Hurd, Keith's Foods President, Brian Burnam, Fareway Stores C.E.O Reynolds Cramer, and Fareway Stores Vice President Garrett Piklapp.
Healthcare remains an issue that Iowans care deeply about, and Congressman King is a nationally recognized leader in the effort to fully repeal ObamaCare before it can permanently destroy America's health care system. King had the opportunity today to sit down with members of the Iowa Pharmacy Association who are in town for their 2018 Congressional Pharmacy Summit.
Congressman Steve King discusses health care issues with members of the Iowa Pharmacy Association.
It was another productive day in D.C., and Iowa was truly in the House!


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Q: Laravel 8. Смена role_id при регистрации для разных пользователей У обычного пользователя role_id = 4, а у партнера role_id = 5
Подключён пакет "laravel/ui": "^3.2"
Когда создается пользователь то роль присваивается 2 по умолчанию где ее менять?

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Simon Rattle in Trafalgar Square [July 1]
SIMON RATTLE PRESENTS PEOPLE'S CONCERT IN TRAFALGAR SQUARE
Trafalgar Square will be transformed into a giant free music stage for Sir Simon Rattle and the London Symphony Orchestra to present BMW CLASSICS on Sunday 1 July 2018.
This free summer concert marks the renewal of a continuing partnership between BMW and the London Symphony Orchestra, bringing access to world-class music to everyone in one of the world's most iconic public spaces.
With an audience in the square of up to 10,000 people, the concert will be live streamed for the first time exclusively on YouTube, making the concert accessible to music fans worldwide. The London Symphony Orchestra regularly live streams its concerts free from the Barbican Centre. This occasion marks the first live stream of the orchestra's iconic free summer concert.
Simon Rattle will take to the stage to conduct 100 musicians from the London Symphony Orchestra, alongside 50 young musicians from the LSO On Track programme in East London and musicians from the Guildhall School of Music & Drama.
The programme will feature music on a theme of dance and ballet by Dvořák, Massenet, Tchaikovsky and Stravinsky and includes a world premiere by 29 year-old composer and pianist Kate Whitley, founder of Peckham Car Park's Multi-Story Orchestra.
Commenting today, Simon Rattle said: "This is a dream concert for me on a stage like no other. I hope that the excitement of the musicians of the London Symphony Orchestra playing beside these brilliant young musicians in such an extraordinary public space will fire people's imaginations. And prove that, inside or outside the walls of a concert hall, the experience of great music is for everyone. I am truly grateful to BMW and the Mayor for London for making this possible."
The Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan, said: "This summer Trafalgar Square will be transformed into the capital's biggest concert hall so that visitors, Londoners and people viewing online can enjoy an incredible free performance by Sir Simon Rattle and the London Symphony Orchestra. They'll also be able to enjoy the world premiere of Kate Whitley's Sky Dances – a new work by an emerging composer.
"I'm delighted that 50 outstanding young London musicians will join the professional ranks of the LSO for this special performance which will showcase the next generation of musical talent in the capital and firmly reiterate London's position as a global capital of music."
Kate Whitley said: "I am inspired by the idea of working with young people as performers and integrating them with professional musicians. To create a work for these musicians on this stage right in the centre of London is a thrilling challenge for me."
Candice Morrissey, Head of Music Partnerships in EMEA at YouTube said: 'We echo the sentiment of Sir Simon Rattle that great music is for everyone; giving people access to incredible and engaging content no matter where they are is core to our mission at YouTube. It's wonderful to see a world class cultural institution like the LSO using the YouTube platform to broaden its audience, and we are thrilled to partner on live streaming their 'people's concert' in Trafalgar Square to people all around the world.'
BMW Classics
Sunday 1 July 2018 5pm
Trafalgar Square, London
Free, no ticket required. Early arrival essential. No glass or furniture in the Square.
Featuring music from Dvořák's Slavonic Dances, Massenet's Le Cid, Tchaikovsky's The Nutcracker, Stravinsky's The Firebird and a world premiere by Kate Whitley – Sky Dances.

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Home Leadership & Governance The Board Lucy Dimes
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Lucy brings experience in industries at the forefront of growth and technology based innovation and an understanding of complex outsourcing and long term global strategic partnerships.
Previous Roles
She was a Non-Executive Director of Berendsen PLC and a member of its Audit, Remuneration and Nominations Committees. In her executive career, Lucy was Chief Executive Officer of UBM EMEA until September 2018 and was previously Chief Executive Officer, UK & Ireland, of Fujitsu, the Chief Operating Officer and Executive Director of Equiniti Group, Chief Executive Officer UK & Ireland of Alcatel Lucent (now Nokia) and had a 19-year career at BT, where she held various senior roles, including Managing Director of Group and Openreach Service Operations.
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Reflexology is an ancient natural therapy which utilizes energy zones on the hands and feet to provide relief for a variety of illnesses as well as to energize the body system. It has been in practice in China for thousands of years and till today, remains a popular and common therapy in China, Japan, Taiwan, South Korea and Thailand and is also increasingly popular in other parts of the world including Europe, Australia and USA.
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It is widely known that the waste products(toxins) accumulated from the food we eat and the polluted air we breathe in contribute to many health problems to our body. When the waste products in our body reaches an excessive level, they can cause fatigue, lethargy, restlessness or other health problems.
These health problems are virtually undetectable and the doctor will continue to give you a clean bill of health despite you knowing somewhere, somehow, things are not quite right with your body. Afterall, who knows your body better, yourself or the wise doctor who probably think that you are imagining things!
There are various methods to clear the build up of these waste products(toxins) in our body; including fasting, dieting, sweat out in a sauna, regular physical exercise or even colon-cleansing. Some of these detox and cleansing methods are costly, some are difficult to maintain and some are plain dangerous!
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I am sorry to say that I have just seen the movie. I was deceived from the endorsements of other Christian pastors that this was a biblical movie. My pastor on Sabbath however, did NOT recommend that we see the movie, fearing that the true message of God's sacrifice would be lost through all the violence, and also because that this comes from a devil-indorsed industry.
However, I and my husband still, yet repentantly, viewed the film. I was in shock at the false doctrines being portrayed in the movie. The "Marian" themes portrayed were so incredibly obvious. The characters in the movie kept calling Mary, "Mother." I was furious. Blasphemy I say !!!!!!!! Catholic mysticism also played a primarily role in the form of relics. At one point in particular, when Christ falls with the cross, a women goes to give him water and wipes his face with her tunic. The supposed "image" of Christ's face is then revealed on the cloth. This is the cloth that is supposedly kept at the Vatican. I am so thankful that my pastor did not indorse the film, but am shocked that other evangelical Christian leaders have not exposed the film for what it truly is, false catholic dogma. This is not a film for believers and now that I know the truth I will try my best to discourage it to others, believers and nonbelievers alike.
As a Christian I was hesitant to see the movie after reading so much here on your site and listening to different reviews, etc from other sources. I was however asked by other Christians to see the movie with them. In my flesh my curiosity led me and in my spirit of fellowship I was drawn also.
As I watched the scourging scene unfold I kept asking myself how does this glorify God? I couldn't find in Scripture where such violence or a fixation for the extreme was revealed in any of the accounts. From there the downward spiral of violence continued to the point of being the most horrific display of anything I have ever seen in all of my pre-salvation days. If God wanted us to focus on this aspect of Christ's suffering wouldn't He had inspired the authors of the Gospel accounts to treat it with much more detail?
I think Gibson has missed the true Gospel message by trying to evoke an emotional response from his audience by searing their minds with 21st century poetic license and sensationalism of film which draws the focus back to him as some genius of film-making. When I left the movie more people were talking about what Gibson had done rather than anything that Christ had done.


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Q: Proper usage of "trying" Let's say there is an atmospheric condition where the water in a bucket partially freezes then reverts back to a completely liquid state and vacillates back and forth but never actually freezes. Is the following sentence grammatically incorrect? "the water in the bucket is trying to freeze".
Someone I am debating claims that it is incorrect because an inanimate object can't "try". They say that "tend" should be used instead. I argue that tend isn't the perfect word to use because it implies a likelyhood or a certain outcome- eg "water tends to freeze at 31.9 degrees but not at 32.1".
I would never use try in a sentence like "thunderstorms try to produce heavy rain". They obviously "tend to produce heavy rain". For some reason, however, I find "the water in the bucket is trying to freeze" much more logical in this case than "the water in the bucket is tending to freeze". I would use the latter phrase if the water was freezing or mostly frozen, but not if it was staying liquid with brief forays into a crystal state.

A: You can express the idea of a near-freezing state of the water in a bucket, without attributing human-style intentionality to the water, by saying:

The water in the bucket is on the verge of freezing.

Merriam-Webster's Eleventh Collegiate Dictionary (2003) defines anthropomorphism as follows:

anthropomorphism n (1753) an interpretation of what is not human or personal in terms of human or personal characteristics: HUMANIZATION

It's easy to see why scientists generally disapprove of anthropomorphism, at least in the abstract. But it's also easy to see why people (including scientists) find anthropomorphism so hard to avoid: Many of our most common verbs—try, want, desire, hope, ask, wish, love, demand, refuse, insist, agree, etc.—are bound up in the way human beings respond to stimuli.

A: Scientifically it is ridiculous to say the water is 'trying to freeze'.
But idiomatically that sort of expression is used all the time.
In Britain it is quite normal to say, of the weather, 'it is trying to rain' and/or "the sun is trying to come out". They are accepted idioms.
And the state of the weather is the first thing that a large number of British people remark upon when they wake up. It goes with the morning cuppa. What it is doing out of doors is a national obsession, in all four seasons of the year.

A: Yes, it is grammatically correct, and it is meaningful.
No, of course water does not have an intention. But it can make figurative, poetic sense to talk about it that way - and people do.
This is not unusual, and everyone (I hope) understands what is really meant by such an expression: It is as if the water itself is trying to freeze but has difficulty succeeding.
A similar, very common expression is to say that the sun is trying to come out (from behind the clouds).  No one really thinks of the sun as trying anything, but the image is a good one, so people use it.

A: The answer may depend on which preferred definition of "inanimate" is used.
At http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/inanimate, the definition option b states, "b :  lacking consciousness or power of motion ."
Although water is unconscious in terms of a living thing, it is quite capable of motion.
According to http://scienceforkids.kidipede.com/chemistry/atoms/ice.htm, water molecules move and expand on their way to becoming ice.
Under this analysis, water is not inanimate because water does have power of motion.
Therefore, water can "try" to freeze using definition b above.

A: I'm not sure if this applies to your case, but this use of "trying" is an urban slang construction that's gotten popular in the US recent years.
Consider "I'm trying to get a sandwich." This just means "I want to get a sandwich," and I haven't actually tried anything yet, nor am I being obstructed in any way that would entail "trying." There's some connotation attached to it as well, but I re-wrote this answer maybe 10 times trying to explain it and I couldn't settle on anything, so I gave up. (note the different use of "trying" here...)

A: Walden University Writing Center Staff
 deprecates the use of anthropomorphism in scholarly writing:

Anthropomorphism is "an interpretation of what is not human or
  personal in terms of human or personal characteristics"
  (Merriam-Webster, 2010), and it is one of the most common attribution
  errors found in student writing....
Incorrect: This experiment will attempt to demonstrate that laughter leads to long life.
Correct: The purpose of this experiment is to demonstrate that
  laughter leads to long life.

Of course, in everyday language, anthropomorphisms are quite common, and considered appropriate, in some topic areas:

The sun's trying to come out.
It's trying to rain.
The plant's trying to reach upwards towards the light.

But even in colloquial registers, by no means all similarly constructed statements sound acceptable to many people (except as comedy):

?/*The paint's trying to dry.
?/*The door's trying to shut.
*The plane is trying to be on time.


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The food was delicious but our favorite part was our server, Sara! She not only took great care of us but she was so personable, interactive and fun.


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Insight into qualification requirements for solar plants at net-metering system up to 20 MW - Daily News Egypt
Business Insight into qualification requirements for solar plants at net-metering system up to 20 MW
Insight into qualification requirements for solar plants at net-metering system up to 20 MW
Companies will be classified based on their experiences, qualification certification valid for one project with specific
Mohamed Farag September 13, 2018 Be the first to comment
The New and Renewable Energy Authority (NREA) issued the qualification requirements for the companies operating in solar cell systems connected to national grid with capacities from 500 kW to 20 MW, based on a net-metering system.
Daily News Egypt obtained a copy of the requirements booklet. According to the first clause, companies will be classified based on their experiences in the field of solar cells connected to the national grid, with capacities from 500 kW to 20 MW, based on a net-metering system, starting from August 2018.
The second clause specified the required documents for qualification. It also pointed out that the companies established under the Egyptian law and have previously obtained qualification certificates in supplying, installing, and maintaining solar cell systems for capacities up to 500 kW, or any newly established companies that has not obtained a qualification certificate yet, to apply for a new certificate from the executive director of the NREA.
Those companies shall attach their organisational structure, including resumes of the companies' employees, projects manager, designing engineer, technical managers, and installing technicians, to their applications to the NREA.
They shall also submit a list of rigs used in solar power projects and attach them with test certificates of those rigs in accordance with international standards.
In addition, they shall provide their previous professional experience certificates over last three years besides a detailed technical report on the projects after the completion of the operation and installation stages, to verify the projects' quality.
The third clause of the requirements includes the validity period of the qualification certificates and renewal conditions. Taking into consideration that the Egyptian Electric Utility and Consumer Protection Regulatory Agency's amendments to solar energy's regulations were just issued recently, the lack of experience in implementing solar power projects using photovoltaic cells with capacities up to 20 MW, and to allow the chance for local companies to acquire expertise, therefore the qualification certificates will be valid for one project and for specific capacity.
The qualified companies are entitled to apply individually or in alliance to obtain a certificate for the implementation of a solar power project with capacities from 500 kW to 20 MW.
The qualification certificate is valid for one project determined by the qualified company. If any company has the desire to implement one more project, it shall apply for another qualification certificate. Qualification certificates shall be allocated for each project separately for three years, and then the companies shall be classified into categories.
The fourth clause specified cases of cancelling a qualification certificate. They include violation of one or more of the previous conditions of qualification, including "violation of any agreements or obligations," disregarding electrical safety factors, or use of non-complying equipment.
When the qualified company or alliance breaches its obligations through which it received the qualification certificate for the implementation of a specific project or any customer complained about the quality or efficiency of solar power system installed by the company, the NREA shall be entitled to address that company to adjust its situation within 15 working days.
When the non-compliant company or alliance fails to adjust its situation within 30 days from the date of request for clarifications, the company or alliance shall be banned for 12 months.
The NREA shall also inform electricity distribution companies of cancelling a qualification certificate of the banned company or alliance. The decision shall also will be published on the authority's website.
The fifth clause determined the quality requirements for supply, installation, delivery, and operation services, whereby the company undertakes to ensure the quality of the services provided, in addition to presenting a technical and financial offers to the customer after a field visit to the site, including a detailed assay of the solar cell systems, components of the system, its cost, payment methods, and the warranty period.
After the customer approves the offers, a contract shall be signed between the two parties to supply, install, operate, and connect the solar cells system to the national grid, specifying the obligations of each party.
The company shall carry out the required installation works after obtaining the approval from the entitled electricity distribution company, in accordance with the industrial and professional standards and regulations.
Each solar power system shall be operated, tested and delivered in the presence of both the customer and a representative of the entitled distribution company, provided that the company offers a practical training programme for the customer.
The company shall provide the customer with all designs and catalogues of the installed equipment, in addition to the catalogues of periodic and preventive maintenance and all publications and documents.
The company shall also add security instructions on equipment and supplies, and provide the customer an invoice of the total cost of the equipment and services provided with a certificate of warranty.
The sixth clause elaborated the details of the "comprehensive system warranty" with a minimum period of 24 months starting from the date of delivery. During this period, the company must repair or replace any broken-down equipment at its expense and carry out all necessary periodic maintenance.
The company shall also offer "a warranty on components" to ensure that all components that have been installed will not face any malfunction, due to design or operation. It must set the minimum warranty periods for the components.
The seventh clause specified the after-warranty services, where the customer can sign a maintenance contract, which obliges the company to respond quickly to the client's request for maintenance and to conduct all necessary repairs.
The eighth clause of the requirements determines the responsibilities of the NREA, as it shall coordinate with the distribution companies to carry out periodic review of the projects implemented by each company to evaluating them in accordance with the requirements of qualification.
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Granddad: Wisconsin girl has no link to suspected kidnapper
By Todd Richmond
Aaron Lavinsky
The sign outside Barron, Wis., City Hall, Friday, Jan. 11, 2019, welcomes Jayme Closs, a 13-year-old northwestern Wisconsin girl who went missing in October after her parents were killed. Closs was found alive in the rural town of Gordon, Wis., about about 60 miles north of her home in Barron, authorities said Thursday, Jan. 10. (Aaron Lavinsky/Star Tribune via AP)
Ex-kidnapping victims: Jayme Closs needs space, time to heal
'What a miracle!': Elizabeth Smart rejoices after Jayme Closs is found alive after missing for months
Wisconsin man arrested in teen's abduction, parents' deaths
MADISON, Wis. — The grandfather of a northwestern Wisconsin girl who authorities say was abducted during a home invasion that left her parents dead said Saturday that the family has no connection to the suspect and doesn't understand why he targeted her, deepening a mystery that has captivated the state for months.
Someone blasted open the door of James and Denise Closs' home near Barron with a shotgun in October , gunned the couple down and made off with their 13-year-old daughter, Jayme Closs.
Jayme had been missing for nearly three months Thursday when she approached a stranger near the small, isolated north woods town of Gordon and pleaded for help . Officers arrested 21-year-old Jake Thomas Patterson minutes later based on Jayme's description of his vehicle. He was jailed on suspicion of kidnapping and homicide.
Investigators have said Patterson's goal was to kidnap Jayme, but he appears to have no connection to the family. Jayme's grandfather Robert Naiberg said in a telephone interview Saturday that the only thing the family knows for sure is that no one knew Patterson. He said Jayme told FBI agents she didn't know him at all.
"He didn't know Jayme, he didn't know Denise or Jim," Naiberg said. "(Jayme) don't know him from Adam. (But) he knew what he was doing. We don't know if he was stalking her or what. Did he see her somewhere?"
Patterson attorneys Charles Glynn and Richard Jones said in a statement they consider the situation "very tragic" and that they are relying on the court system to treat their client fairly. Charges are expected against Patterson on Monday, when he is expected to make his initial appearance in court.
The news that Jayme was safe set off joy and relief in her hometown of Barron, population 3,300 and about 60 miles (100 kilometers) from where she was found. The discovery ended an all-out search that gripped the state, with many people fearing the worst the longer she was missing.
Jayme's aunt, Jennifer Smith, posted on Facebook Saturday that Jayme was doing well.
"Jayme had a pretty good night sleep it was great to know she was next to me all night what a great feeling to have her home. As a family we will get through all of the healing process Jayme has. It will be a long road but we are family strong and we love this little girl so much!!"
Another aunt, Sue Naiberg Allard, posted that Jayme got "the most awaited hug ever" when she returned home.
Jayme told one of the neighbors in Gordon who took her in that she had walked away from a cabin where she had been held captive.
"She said that this person's name was Jake Patterson, 'he killed my parents and took me,'" said another neighbor, Kristin Kasinskas. "She did not talk about why or how. She said she did not know him."
Barron County Sheriff Chris Fitzgerald said investigators are trying to figure out what happened to Jayme during her captivity and why she was seized, and gave no details on how she escaped except to say Patterson was not home at the time. He said there is no evidence Patterson knew Jayme or her family or had been in contact with her on social media.
"I know all of you are searching for the answer why any of this happened," Fitzgerald said. "Believe me, so are we."
The sheriff said he didn't know whether Jayme had been physically abused.
Patterson took measures to avoid leaving evidence at the scene, including shaving his head beforehand, and a shotgun was recovered from the home where Jayme was believed held, Fitzgerald said.
Property records show that the cabin belonged to Patterson's father at the time of Jayme's disappearance.
The cabin is in Eau Claire Acres, a development about 10 miles (16 kilometers) outside the tiny town of Gordon, nestled in the dense evergreen forests of northwestern Wisconsin that are popular with vacationers in the summer and snowmobilers and ATV riders in the winter. Law enforcement barricades blocked the road leading to the property Saturday.
Naiberg, Jayme's grandfather, said he spent a few hours with her on Friday. No one pressed her to talk, he said, adding that FBI agents and doctors advised them to let her speak when she's ready. He said she was largely silent and did not talk about how Patterson had kept her confined.
Patterson, who was unemployed, remained largely an enigma Saturday.
He has no criminal record, the sheriff said. He worked for one day in 2016 at the same Jennie-O turkey plant in Barron as Jayme's parents. But the sheriff said it did not appear Patterson interacted with the couple during his brief time there.
Over the past few months, detectives pursued thousands of tips, watched dozens of surveillance videos and conducted numerous searches for Jayme, including one that drew 2,000 volunteers but yielded no clues.
In November, the sheriff said he kept similar cases in the back of his mind as he worked to find Jayme, including the abduction of Elizabeth Smart, who was 14 when she was taken from her Salt Lake City home in 2002. Smart was rescued nine months later after witnesses recognized her abductors on an "America's Most Wanted" episode.
Associated Press writers Jeff Baenen in Barron, Wisconsin; Amy Forliti in Gordon, Wisconsin; Gretchen Ehlke in Milwaukee; and Brady McCombs in Salt Lake City contributed to this report.
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Q: How to create a session cookie in java with path while still having good programming practice of functional programming I really like functional programming, I like its immutability concepts and also it's no side-effects concepts for functions.
I'm trying to take some of these concepts into java.
Now I have some kind of a servlet which receives a request and if browser did not send a cookie to server then i would like to create a cookie with a certain path to the user.
now inside the servlet i don't want to hold that logic because its common to multiple servlets.
so i extract it into some kind of a cookie manager which will do that:
CookieManager.java.handleCookies(request, response)

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*Check if browser sent cookie.

*If not set cookie with new session cookie value with certain path.

however i don't like it because now the servlet will call the CookieManager.java.handleCookie will have a side effect I would rather it to return some kind of a response and further use it in my servlet wihtout having it effect its parameters that i'm passing into it.
anyone can suggest a solution which would both be elegant, no side effects, and excellent in performance?
thanks

A: You can make use of servlet filter. It would be well suited for your case. You can map your filter to URL pattern and write your code inside dofilter method. Filters are recommended if you want to have pre and post prcoess of request/response. Since you are doing preprocess for you request it would fit in your case. If is also loosely coupled, because you can remove it, modify it, or add another rule anytime without modifying the core servlet code.

A: One good solution is to use create a servlet which will act as a parent class for all other servlets.
Now in this servlet put this logic of cookie handling in a common function say handlecookie.
In your get and post APIs of this servlet first call this handleCookie and then service API of servlet (keep this empty)
In al child servlet classes you can only override the service class inherited from the parent class and things should work fine for you
Servlet filters are other solution that you can make use of.


This year, Earth Day is on April 22nd. We had the pleasure of commemorating this day with the guidance of Mrs. Blake. We began by praying together and then sitting in quiet meditation. Then, Mrs. Blake read aloud, Reschenka's Eggs, a story about a magical goose that Babushka saves, and their beautiful eggs. Then, with the help of Mrs. Salaiz, we took some time to paint eggs of our own. While we waited for them to dry in the sun, Mrs. Blake shared the Pope's Earth Day video with us. We learned that it important to take care of our Earth because it is our home. We also discussed the importance of Earth's natural resources. Afterwards, we took our painted eggs and turned them into biodegradable pots by planting lettuce seeds in them. Before we ended our day, we wrote a reflection about our Earth Day activities in our journals. It was a great day!
The planters in our garden have different types of soil. Each student made a hypothesis about which type of soil would grow the best and biggest plants. We made observations and measured the the plants. We will go back to the garden soon to check on the plants' progress.


The inner circle of creative mathematicians have the well-kept trade secret that in a great many cases theorems come first and axioms second.
In 'The Narrow Mathematician', The American Mathematical Monthly (Jun-Jul 1962), 69, No. 6, 464.


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Devin will be here to lead the demo session of Twilight Of The Gods where players will each assume the role of a deity from myth and legend, and battle to the death to see who is the strongest god, using human armies, mystical beasts, and heroes of renown from both past and future.


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Q: Запрос на удаление информации (alert, confirm) Доброго времени суток! Подскажите, как грамотно реализовать, например, запрос на удаление информации? Есть иконка с ссылкой ?do=edit&id=34. Хотел повесить событие click на эту ссылку, он игнорирует и сразу переходит по ней.
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Если событие onclick возвращает false, дальнейшие действия не выполняются. Если true или void (ничего т.е.), происходит переход по ссылке.

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Как-то так навскидку.
В отдельном файле:
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The black 'Ghostbusters' actress has faced a deluge of racist tweets since the new movie came out.
Leslie Jones has had enough. Ever since her new movie, the all-female "Ghostbusters," came out, she's been flooded with racist tweets directed at her and homophobic tweets being posted in her name.
Jones has reposted a number of the hateful tweets, including the homophobic ones posted by an account identical to hers, in order to "expose" the people who wrote them. Some supportive Twitter users have advised Jones to stay above the fray, but she chose to take a different approach.
Sadly, racism on Twitter is nothing new. One U.K.-based study found that a potentially racist tweet is sent about once every nine seconds.


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Q: How can I encrypt a Disk Utility RAID volume? I have two SSDs in an external enclosure, exposed to the OS as independent drives. I want them to appear as a single encrypted APFS volume, with RAID 1 mirroring. I'd like to set up RAID via the native Disk Utility, rather than third-party software like SoftRAID.
In Disk Utility, I can create a RAID 1 set containing the two drives. However, in the format choices I only see APFS, not APFS (Encrypted).
If I create the RAID Set using APFS, right-click the volume in Finder and choose "Encrypt", the operation succeeds, and the volume works. However, Disk Utility immediately shows the RAID Set as "Offline" with one disk "Missing/Damaged". The same thing happens if I use Disk Utility to Erase the volume as APFS (Encrypted).
Is there any way to encrypt the volume without breaking the RAID Set?


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Bett Williams is the author of Girl Walking Backwards. Her new book, The Wild Kindness chronicles cover seven years of psilocybin growing and use, both solitary and in community with queer artists and writers.
I attended the Cultural and Political Perspectives on Psychedelic Science Conference wearing a dirty cowboy hat, in keeping with my self-conscious awareness that I was an impostor, being that I am a non-academic writer, an outlier/tripper and former mushroom grower (for personal use) from an old coal town in New Mexico, a true psychedelic vortex on the map. It's a place full of people so eccentric that being a lesbian is about as controversial as saying you like cheese. The panel I was moderating was called Psychedelics and Sexual and Gender Minorities.
I think, yes. I am using the word "queer" rather than LGBTQ etc., because, like psychedelics, queerness exists in a realm larger than identity politics. Queer is a realm of being that is personal, political, spiritual even, and like psychedelics, the form it takes is dependent on cultural context. Queer has always been whatever we decide it is.
I wondered if queerness even mattered in the realm of psychedelic science, an arena currently fraught with issues of controversial corporate funding; MAPS acceptance of a donation of one million dollars from the Mercer Foundation being one example. Peter Thiel's creation of Compass Pathways, the company behind the promotion of pharmaceutical psilocybin, is another. We are dealing with structural institutions that, whether they mean to or not, foster hetero-White male dominance from the get-go. Yes, Peter Thiel is an out gay man; but, whatever. This is exactly my conundrum, and one I brought with me to the conference. Is queerness really psychedelic? If so, does that mean it's an innately a revolutionary force?
I connected with the panelists at lunch and my ambivalence about the question faded quickly. I was amongst familiars who clearly had done serious time in psychedelic space, both on the ground politically, in their careers, and in the zones. I was taken in by the vulnerability of Jae Sevelius, who was quite nervous about her presentation. Jae works with the Center for AIDS Prevention Studies (CAPS) and leads several research projects at the Center of Excellence for Transgender Health. She was no novice to speaking in public, but she wasn't used to having to communicate a strong opinion, and yes, this time she had one. She described her reaction to MAPS accepting the Mercer Family Foundation donation as one that "floored and appalled" her. It was a gut feeling that I could tell was still with her, as I watched her pull herself together before she took her place at the podium, in an attempt to hold back a flood of emotion.
"Should psychedelic science be concerned with social justice issues?" she said, with an eloquent and arresting composure that held the room.
It's about bringing the values of these marginalized communities to the conversation, integrating those values, and, if possible, centering marginalized groups and giving them actual power, like real jobs, publishing their views, and monetary support.
She went on to say right action is not about enforcing "diversity" in psychedelic spaces. It's about bringing the values of these marginalized communities to the conversation, integrating those values, and, if possible, centering marginalized groups and giving them actual power, like real jobs, publishing their views, and monetary support.
There's a diplomacy that arises in times of crisis and great change simply because it has to. When political strategy comes with an open heart mixed with intellect, a track record of activism, and genuine curiosity, it's an alchemy that can turn golden, kind, and joyous. Jae brought this energy to a room full of people equally capable of guiding this new wild critter show we call the new psychedelic revolution to a better fruition than what's been writ for us thus far.
All this while Rick Doblin himself was sitting in a foldout chair to her left.
Gregory Wells, PhD, is a psychologist who specializes in psychedelic integration. Via his genuinely fierce slide show on the old San Francisco LGBTQ scene, he laid out exactly what queers have brought to psychedelia. He gave a brief history of The Cockettes, an avant-garde theater troupe influenced by the films of Jack Smith, and yes, a ton of LSD. The Cockettes influenced club culture, the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence, and the Radical Fairies and, as a result, nearly every fundraiser ever held at a gay bar or pride parade. It was never just about a good party. The queer culture Wells speaks about has always been serious about people staying alive—and giving us all a reason to want to live. The resurrected bar, The Stud, a psychedelic wormhole in gentrified San Francisco, has a direct lineage to this psychedelic tradition.
I suggested to the panelists that psychedelics are queer because you get to "be everything." Even psychedelic people who identify as straight I'm sure can relate to this.
I suggested to the panelists that psychedelics are queer because you get to "be everything." Even psychedelic people who identify as straight I'm sure can relate to this. My question is how actual queers affect psychedelic culture as a whole. The panelists had no ambivalence around this question.
Queers know how to make community in times of crisis. We know how to mobilize outreach in larger circles. We set up fundraisers, community centers, nightclubs, recovery rooms, galleries, non-profits with all of the skill, good graphic design, pleasant attitude, and finesse of Dolly Parton on Modafinil. Queers used to be illegal, just like the drugs we like. It doesn't feel very good. We don't like it. Gonna change it. Queers are as good at getting addicted as we are at getting free. We know how to party, but we need each and every one of us here. The dating pool is small enough as it is, so we work hard at helping people recover from addiction and other traumas so we can keep seeing them around. Even people we hate, we like seeing around. Queers did PR for safe drug and alcohol use way before Burning Man built their chill out/med tents, way before Noah Levine capitalized on substance recovery for outsider types. Lastly, queers seem to know that a broken heart can be a crisis as serious as a car crash.
To watch the psychedelic mainstream move forward with the medicalization of psilocybin and MDMA, it's hard not to remember the AIDS era, when drugs were being withheld for reasons having to do with politics, bigotry, and corporate capital. They were finally given to us, but at a price. I haven't forgotten. We were supposed to say thank you when they finally decided gay, trans, and POC lives were worth saving. Unlike AID's drugs, psychedelics are relatively easy to acquire and administer. Herein lies my dilemma with psychedelic science and the corporate pharmaceutical machine. How deep do we go to lead our communities towards mainstream legitimacy? Should we jump ship before the dominant system gets even more ugly?
I learned from the panelists that I don't need to view it so much as a black and white issue, that it's possible to live in many worlds; another thing us queers do well. We can live a rogue outlaw life while at the same time working to change the mainstream psychedelic culture with the intent that maybe we can make it less gross, maybe even fabulous.
I think of a New Age workshop I attended at age 15 in Santa Barbara. An entire room full of people emanating "light," tried very hard to convince me I was bisexual, not a lesbian. The whole ordeal ended with me in a tearful panic attack that thankfully turned to rage. I screamed – Do you have any idea what it is like to come out as a lesbian at age fifteen? It was 1985. Had that homophobic attack happened in psychedelic space, I shudder to think of the possible psychic wound that might have calcified within me. We are queer and we find our way. It's easy for me to forget how bad it can get, how tragic it can be, and was, and is, for some.
As a therapist, Jeanna Eichenbaum works deep in trenches of the LGBTQQI community, offering trauma therapy as well as psychedelic integration support, which she has been trained in extensively.
Before Jeanna came out as the woman she is, she spent many years struggling with her identity, in a state of horrible self-hatred. She had no friends and was living a life in secrecy and hiding. She met a man who claimed to be an experienced psychonaut. He was convinced that if Jeanna took a large dose of LSD or psilocybin, she would work through her issues and figure out she was, indeed, a man. Longing for a "normal" life, Jeanna agreed to trip with him. This prayer for "normal" began with 400 micrograms of LSD.
It didn't go quite as her guide had planned. Basically, what happened was this: God harangued Jeanna for quite a while, for, like, an eternity, asking her over and over, "WHAT DO YOU WANT???" In the face of the voice's insistence, she began blurting out everything she had ever been ashamed of until finally she was empty, done, and exhausted. Lots of other crazy things occurred that only Jeanna has the talent to tell. It was epic. Deserts and ocean waves were involved.
This paper was presented at Cultural and Political Perspectives in Psychedelic Science, a symposium promoted by Chacruna and the East-West Psychology Program at the California Institute of Integral Studies (CIIS), San Francisco, August 18 and 19, 2018.
Cover photo: Clement Hil Goldberg.


KANSAS CITY — We have a bishop.
"Are you willing to serve the people in this diocese in the tradition of the apostolic faith of the church?" asked Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò, apostolic nuncio to the United States.
"With faith in our Lord, Jesus Christ, and with the love of God in my heart, I do accept the pastoral care of the people of God in the Diocese of Kansas City-St. Joseph," replied Bishop James V. Johnston, Jr.
With that promise spoken shortly after 2 p.m. on Nov. 4, Archbishop Viganò and St. Louis Archbishop Robert Carlson of the metropolitan see of Missouri province, led the seventh bishop of the Diocese of Kansas City-St. Joseph to his cathedra — the bishop's chair — at the Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception, and he was officially installed.
That was one of the many lines that caught the packed congregation by surprise as Bishop Johnston addressed his diocese for the very first time in a homily punctuated by gentle laughter.
Bishop Johnston told the congregation he hails from the hill country of Tennessee, and now finds himself living in bishop's quarters inside the 10-story Catholic Center, smack in the middle of downtown Kansas City.
But there are advantages to the 19th Century building, including the huge bronze casting of an eagle by one of history's most renowned American artists, Augustus Saint-Gaudens.
Bishop Johnston told the congregation that he chose the Feast of St. Charles Borromeo as the date of his installation for a reason, as he told them gently his vision and model as bishop.
"One is struck by the fact that he was a man for the times that he lived in," Bishop Johnston said of the 16th Century cardinal-archbishop of Milan.
"He wisely brought about needed reforms in the church during a time of chaos and confusion, not only in the church but in the world, a world plagued by political turmoil and a world plagued, literally, by the plague," he said.
"What is sometimes overlooked is that St. Charles relied heavily on others to help him. He called forth many collaborators, and together they got to work to set in motion movements and institutions that continue to bear fruit in the church today," he said.
"St. Charles is a wonderful model for me and all bishops," Bishop Johnston said.
"But here's the caution, at least for me anyway," he quickly added.
"One can easily be deceived to believe that success in the church is merely a matter of strategy or getting the right programs in place, or navigating astutely through the politics and personalities," Bishop Johnston said.
"No doubt these things are necessary, and part of our life in a church made up of human beings," he said.
"But they are secondary. St. Charles Borromeo knew this," the bishop said.
"What did St. Charles know that we do well to imitate? To answer that, we need go no further than our readings today," Bishop Johnston said.
"His first advice: Be real," Bishop Johnston said.
"Know who you really are in light of your identity in Christ," he said.
"A perennial temptation of the enemy around since the Garden of Eden is to get us A) to forget who we are, and B) to grasp at some false notion of ourselves, to forget knowing who we are in right relation to God and one another, and to grasp at some form of power instead," Bishop Johnston said.
"Our true identity is found in Jesus Christ as sons and daughters of the Father, redeemed by love and born again in the Spirit as new creatures," he said.
"As friends of God, we are called to a new life of love which comes about through obedience to God and his commandments," Bishop Johnston said.
"We run into trouble when we forget who we are and whose we are, which is why our central and most important act in God's household is an act of remembering — a remembering that renews our identity by recalling the Paschal Mystery and making that saving mystery really present to us," he said.
"From identity comes mission," Bishop Johnston said.
"Put another way, our goal is to get to heaven and drag as many people along with us as we can," Bishop Johnston said.
"Love needs the truth, but it is also true that truth needs love," Bishop Johnston said.
"Love and truth cannot be separated. Where love and truth come together, we find mercy. This is the love of the Good Shepherd, the love of Jesus," he said.
"This is the love that liberates us from illusion," Bishop Johnston said.
"This is the love that won't let us settle for anything less than what God created us to be," he said.
"This is the love that does not grasp at some false god, but spends itself, pours itself out, and suffers for and with others," he said.
"This is the love manifested on the cross by the Good Shepherd which draws all people to himself, and it is here that the church measures her true success," Bishop Johnston said.
As he began his homily, Bishop Johnston thanked Archbishop Viganò and Archbishop Carlson, and the more than two dozen bishops and archbishops from around the country — including Louisville Archbishop Joseph Kurtz, president of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops — for their presence that day inside Kansas City's Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception.
Bishop Johnston promised never to forget his first see, the Diocese of Springfield-Cape Girardeau.
He thanked the EWTN television network for broadcasting the installation Mass. Both his mother and his ailing father could watch their son back home in Tennessee.
He turned to Kansas City, Kan., Archbishop Joseph Naumann, who served as apostolic administrator of the Missouri diocese since April while continuing as leader of his own see on the Kansas side.
"I wish to convey on behalf of the faithful in the Diocese of Kansas City-St. Joseph our deep, deep gratitude for the selfless, wise and generous service of our diocesan administrator, Archbishop Joseph Naumann," he said.
Bishop Johnston also asked the people of Kansas City-St. Joseph to remember his predecessor.
The real work of healing is not his, the bishop said.
"Jesus is the true healer, and at best, a bishop is merely a physician's assistant," Bishop Johnston said.
"Jesus and only Jesus is our healer and source of unity. If we forget this, the church becomes just another human organization, prone to factions and arguments," he said.
"The good news for us is the same good news that's been there from the outset, and it's mentioned at the beginning of St. Mark's Gospel: 'The time is fulfilled, and the kingdom of God is at hand. Repent and believe in the Gospel,'" Bishop Johnston said.
"This is where I begin with you as your new bishop. Our task is twofold — to repent and to believe," he said.
"This is where we each begin anew, and where we must continually return — to repentance and belief, and this is how the church is renewed and becomes healthy and holy and fruitful," he said.
Bishop Johnston recalled the words of St. Augustine: "When I am frightened by what I am to you, then I am consoled by what I am with you.
That passage, from St. Paul's second letter to the Corinthians, Chapter 5, Verse 14, is the official motto of Bishop James V. Johnston Jr., Seventh Bishop of the Diocese of Kansas City-St. Joseph.


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On morning of Eagles parade, SEPTA, PATCO, rideshare got fans to the city on time
by Jason Laughlin, Posted: February 8, 2018
PATCO ticket buyers wait in a long circular line at the Woodcrest station.
TOM GRALISH
Philadelphia Eagles fans have had decades to prepare for their team coming home as Super Bowl champions, and when the day arrived, they didn't want to be late.
Fans packed trains, walked across the Ben Franklin Bridge, and filled subway stops to get in position hours before the 11 a.m. parade started. The region's public transportation systems seemed up to the task of moving all those people, with lines being reported, but rides moving along steadily as fans sang and chanted their way toward the parade route.
All week SEPTA had been encouraging parade goers to rely on the Market-Frankford and Broad Street lines, which can together carry up to 65,000 people at a time, and while those routes were busy, riders reported service moved along efficiently. Both lines were free throughout Thursday.
At 8 a.m., the riders at Fern Rock station were happy – and almost everybody was in green.
Conrad Lokey, 61, came with his family from the Cheltenham Avenue, a short drive and had his first subway ride in years.
"Last time was in '08 with the Phillies," Lorke said, recalling the celebration after the World Series win.
Even people who had to work gave a sign of relief when they finally got on the southbound train.
Lode Kone, 35, an immigrant from the Republic of Mali, worked a night shift at a gas station clerk. He said he expected no problems getting to his house near 52nd Street and Baltimore Avenue.
"I'll get home," he said with confidence.
SEPTA reported trains filled with parade goers late Wednesday night on the Paoli/Thorndale and Lansdale/Doylestown lines. By 6 a.m. Thursday morning, there were lines around parking lots and onto streets at Regional Rail stations.
At the Paoli station, Praveen Reddy, 49, of Chester Springs, waited for a SEPTA train with his son Srihith, 10, and daughter Nishka, 8.
Reddy had started his day at 3 a.m. when he woke up to drive his older children to the Thorndale SEPTA station. Those children finally got on a train around 6 a.m., he said.
Praveen Reddy, 49, of Chester Springs, (second from right), woke up at 3 a.m. to drive his older children to the Thorndale train station. Reddy, his younger kids, and a friend originally tried getting on at Exton, but SEPTA trains kept passing by, he said. pic.twitter.com/dwKRgFm5VY
— Erin McCarthy (@erinK_mccarthy) February 8, 2018
Later in the morning, Reddy and his younger children tried getting on a train at the Exton station farther up the line, but trains there weren't stopping, he said. So they drove down further to Paoli, where half-empty SEPTA trains were stopping and passengers with passes could get on easily.
By 9 a.m., SEPTA workers estimated 2,000 riders had gotten on at the Paoli station.
"I'd say, more like two million," one employee said with a laugh, referencing parade crowd estimates.
At the West Trenton station, teens and families waited impatiently for a train in the dark around 6:10 a.m. SEPTA employees with bullhorns called for people to step back from the yellow caution line for safety as the train pulled into the station around 6:30 a.m.
But 45 minutes later, the West Trenton station was nearly empty, with more SEPTA workers than passengers. That train made the run all the way into Philadelphia mostly empty, with startled passengers saying, "I never thought I'd seen an empty train."
SEPTA estimated 65,000 to 70,000 used Regional Rail Thursday morning.
SEPTA largely turned to the same playbook used when Pope Francis visited Philadelphia in 2015: In the morning all Regional Rail trains would come into the city. In the evening, all trains would go out. SEPTA only loaded trains at its outermost stations on the Regional Rail to avoid passengers trying to board closer to the city being left behind by already filled trains.
Unlike the Pope's visit, however, which came with nearly a year of advance notice, the region's transportation officials had just a few days to firm up their plan for Thursday. SEPTA officials began working on a plan a few weeks before the Super Bowl, said spokesman Andrew Busch, but had less than a week to confirm details like the day the parade would be held.
Crowds gathered at the PATCO stations in New Jersey, too, as early as 5 a.m. A woman from Ventnor waited an hour and 45 minutes at the Lindenwold stop starting at 7 a.m. in a line she said was more than a mile long. Some in line didn't know they had to purchase tickets ahead of time and left dejected.
PATCO train in Camden fills up, crowd sings "We are the Champions" #eaglesparade pic.twitter.com/vOg1AgrBZZ
— Jan Hefler (@JanHefler) February 8, 2018
PATCO reported moving 10,000 people an hour through the morning Thursday, but shortly before the parade was scheduled to begin, PATCO began offering tickets again since the morning rush had gone without incident.
The day was not without frustrations. Some SEPTA riders reported trains traveling that were only half full. That could have been a result of most fans arriving at stations very early, but at least one rider reported a largely empty train leaving people behind as it departed Elwyn and arriving in the city without being filled.
SEPTA limited Regional Rail access to weekly and monthly pass holders and people who bought 50,000 Independence Passes, so many had to rely on other alternatives, including rideshare services. By 7:45 a.m. Uber driver Lashanda Schuman, 30, had made as much after just three passengers as she normally makes in eight hours of driving, she said Thursday morning.
"It's already profitable," she said. "I already made $200 so far."
The demand for Uber had pushed prices up to two and three times their normal rates, she said. She made $101 on one trip taking a family from the suburbs to the parade.
Her plan for the day was to drive until the parade started, then head home to watch.
Meanwhile, the region's highways were running surprisingly well. By 9 a.m. the highways were not more crowded than the tail end of a typical rush hour, PennDot reported.
Staff writers Erin McCarthy, Jan Hefler, Mark Fazlollah, and Bob Fernandez contributed to this article.
Posted: February 8, 2018 - 11:41 AM
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'Major' SEPTA Regional Rail disruptions begin tomorrow
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Leonardo helicopter clears final FAA approval, Navy selection could sustain hundreds of jobs in Northeast Philly
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Southwest cancellations will rise due to grounded Boeing jet
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Pennsylvania turnpike tolls to rise 6% next year
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Camden's Walter Rand transportation hub will receive $7 million grant. A walkway will be built over MLK Blvd.
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This is what you have for lunch.
I don't know if I'm gilding the lily with the compote or not, but whenever I see sausages I think of figs, and I liked the richness a dollop of it added to the soup. Mr TBTAM thought the soup was perfect without it, but then he spread the compote on warm bread and ate it along with the soup. You can make and eat it either way. Or not at all. Because the soup really is delicious all on its own.
There are lots of recipes for this soup out there out there – this one is modified from Epicurious, found via Smitten Kitchen. We used Italian sausage, but I'd love to try it with Kielbasa or the more traditional Portuguese Linguica sausage. Smoked sausage will slice up easier than Italian, and would add a wonderful flavor. If you use linguica, you may not need the herbs since the sausage is spiced nicely. You can use white potatoes, sweet potatoes or both – I used what I happened to have around. Not sure why I added the carrot, it was probably not necessary.
Salt, pepper and a pinch of hot red pepper flakes for seasoning.
Heat olive oil in large pot over medium high heat. Add sausage and saute till browned on all sides.
Add onions and carrots to the pot and saute till onions are transluscent, about 8 minutes.
Add potatoes and saute, stirring often, about 10 minutes or until they start to soften.
Add garlic and cook for one minute. Add broth, thyme, oregano and bring to a boil, deglazing pan as it heats. Turn down heat and simmer covered, till potatoes are soft, about 20 minutes.
and heat till kale is wilted.
Season and serve hot, with fig compote on the side. You can stir a spoonful of the compote into your soup, or spread it on warm bread and eat alongside the soup. Or not.
Combine ingredients and simmer in a small pot over low heat, mashing the figs with a fork as they soften, until thick and rich. Serve either as a dollop in your soup or spead onto warm baguette slices.
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I just found your blog and I'm enjoying reading through it. I love kale and this soup looks delicious!


It's been a fascinating process getting feedback from experts, the public, and the Good Food Oxford Steering Group on the draft Oxford Good Food Charter, which, when launched next month, will become a statement of our shared vision for a better food system in Oxford. A shared vision is no easy thing to create – food, as well as bringing people together, arouses strong emotions and sometimes conflicting views. But however frustrating it has sometimes felt to make 'revision number 23 to draft 17.5′ of the Charter, we've been incredibly fortunate to have had a diverse group of people input their thoughts, each and every one making it a stronger document.
Interestingly, most of the debate has centred not on the nine points on page 1 outlining a vision of food that is good for people, good for the planet and good for communities, but on the points on the second page about how to achieve that vision. This is both encouraging and daunting – it reveals that there is a lot of shared ground on how we would like to world to be, but that there is work to be done to come to a more coherent picture of how to achieve that vision. Some of the most hotly debated points have been around meat consumption. Meat not only carries one of the highest greenhouse gas footprints per kilogram and per calorie of any food, but also raises important issues of animal welfare, and indeed whether it is morally right to be eating meat at all. But while vegans have a point that their diet has the lowest GHG emissions, and the fewest animal welfare implications, part of our job is to create a Charter that appeals to and engages with the mainstream – we can't afford to frighten people off. It was also pointed out that sending the message of a blanket reduction in meat and dairy consumption could adversely affect small food producers depending on these products for their livelihoods, the subject of the 'local economy' point in our vision.
A second touchpoint has been the level of prominence to give to local food in the recommendations section. Many of the respondents to the Charter consultation identify closely with the local food movement and have devoted much time and energy to pushing forward local production and consumption through farmers' markets and box schemes. Yet while local food helps fulfil a good number of the vision criteria (knowledge and skills, jobs and livelihoods, regional food culture, to name a few), there are still issues of affordability, and recent studies suggest that 'local' as a single criterion does little to reduce the overall environmental impacts of food – indeed transport emissions are only a small part of overall emissions, and local transportation methods may be less energy efficient than larger-scale logistics. As some of our respondents pointed out, one of the main issues with over-emphasising local food as solution is that the scale of the local food system is currently so small. As the 2013 FoodPrinting Oxford report discovered, somewhere less than 0.5% of Oxford's food is directly traded from local farmers. We should indeed be working hard to raise this percentage, but in the meantime we also need to be reaching out to increase the sustainability of the remaining 99.5% of our food system.
Finally, we have had interesting discussions on labelling and certification as routes to improving the sustainability of our food. Labels are a contentious issue as while some, like Organic, were seen to offer a firm guarantee of quality, ethics and environmental integrity, other labels, like Red Tractor, were viewed by many with suspicion that they were little more than signs of basic legal compliance. Others were concerned that labels such as RSPCA Freedom Foods gave the impression of high animal welfare whilst masking conditions that might still be unacceptable to some. Fairtrade also provoked some controversy, with the important point raised that non-certified groups of farmers in the developing world can stand to lose out compared to their certified neighbours who win extra support and premium prices. Closer to home, promoting labels like Organic could have an adverse impact on smaller producers who cannot afford certification fees. After some discussion of all of these issues within the Steering Group it was decided that certification could be a useful tool for choosing more sustainable food (we particularly flagged the MSC certification for fish in this respect), but only in the context of consumers gaining greater knowledge of the food system as a whole and being encouraged to use their own judgement in choosing food, whether certified or not.
Within the next few days we'll be putting the final touches to the Charter and there will be a copy on the web site soon. It has been a wonderful juggling act and learning process to try to take into account the many valid and passionately held views that food arouses in us and to craft them into a document that is still practical enough to have real impact on the mainstream. We hope that you're happy with the final product when it is released. Thank you for all your views and inputs and we look forward to continuing the discussions – the Charter is just the start!


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Q: Is it possible to call native ios Facebook login dialog from just a web page (not a web app)? We have an ios app that uses native Facebook login just fine.
Then we also have a website (app is basically an optimized client for it) where people can login via Facebook too. When they open our website in mobile safari, they are directed to Facebook pages to authenticate there and it works, but.. it is still far from native and users have to retype credentials they often have in ios already.
So could it be possible to to somehow launch system fb authentication for just a web page (maybe using some clever URL schema?) and get granted token back to web?

A: Difficult way
As described here http://aaronparecki.com/articles/2012/07/29/1/oauth2-simplified#mobile-apps you could find URL scheme to trigger the native iOS app for app authorization:
fbauth://authorize?redirect_uri=[redirect_uri]&client_id=[client_id]&response_type=token

But if you call that link it's not possible to have a redirection. You could try to hack that redirection but maybe you could not find a way out.
A secure way to solve that problem is to use a SSO token to authenticate user on your App when he logs in, and next on Safari take a redirection, with a custom url to your APP, that do as bridge to FB App via Token stored in your APP. After FB authentication you can directly redirect user back to your landing page in Safari. As said by @Lego it's an alternative way to direct authenticate that could be made by going deep to custom URL used by FB.

A: No, it is not yet possible to directly authenticate the user via the native Facebook App, but it's possible to authenticate the user using a custom URL scheme which opens your native iOS app which then handles the authentication flow:

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*The user authenticates natively with your iOS App. You then store the user login (not password) in your app (i.e. using NSUserDefaults).

*Then the user opens your web page in Mobile Safari. You redirect the user via a custom url scheme to your app (i.e. using myapp://authenticate). Apple documentation on implementing custom URL schemes: click

*Now, if you have an active FB session in your iOS app, you can either directly redirect the user back to your landing page in Mobile Safari, passing the access token via url get parameter or you first re-authenticate the user, displaying a login view with the user name pre-filled, which you have stored in your iOS app before (step 1) and then redirect the user to your landing page, again all depending on session state and your security needs.

A: For opening face book app you can use Custom URL scheme. But i am  not sure if u can authenticate user from it. In case if you could also then it will be confined up to the fb account which is already configured on that device app .so better try to use face book api or something

A: I don't get your question exactly but i think as per your question you want to create fb app Login in safari or in your custom web view.
is this perfect ?
as per my knowledge web view is different thing and native app is different thing.
if you are Login in web view then no need to check anything token or other thing because it will give you Logout thing there.
but if you are Login in your application then "developer.facebook.com" will definitely help you.
and yes, you will do most of the thing in your app as native facebook app do.
Hope it help....


Patients and visitors to Hedrick Medical Center will soon be seeing construction contractors in and around the facility working to ensure the city-owned building meets the most current state and federal building codes. When the hospital opened in 2014, it passed inspections by state and local officials, but new regulations, and in some cases new interpretations of existing federal regulations, now require upgrades be made. These upgrades are focused on ensuring the facility continues to meet fire prevention codes and other regulatory requirements. After reviewing bids from multiple contractors, Ross Construction was selected to head the project with a winning bid of $763,860. Total project cost is anticipated to be roughly $1million, with work scheduled to get underway the week of June 27. Since the hospital building is owned by the City, the City Council will provide oversight of the project, working in close partnership with the original architect, as well as with Hedrick Medical Center. All three entities will continue to work collaboratively to ensure the building meets guidelines that govern construction of critical access hospitals.
"The regulatory requirements for buildings within various industries are complex and ever-changing," says Ike Holland, Chillicothe City Manager. "But we're committed to doing all we can to ensure our buildings meet all necessary state and federal requirements. In this instance, we're grateful for our partnership with Saint Luke's Health System as we implement these improvements."
The partnership between the City of Chillicothe and Saint Luke's Health System began in 2003 when Saint Luke's assumed responsibility of Hedrick Medical Center. "It's truly a privilege to serve and care for the Chillicothe community," says Steve Schieber, Hedrick Medical Center CEO. "We value and appreciate our relationship with the City of Chillicothe and our ability to work together to ensure our patients receive care at a facility that's not only beautiful, but also in compliance with the latest codes and regulations."


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You are here: Home / News & Updates / SEARCA News / SEA photo winners showcase aspiring youth agripreneurs alongside mentors
By Monalinda B. Cadiz
15 January 2020, Wednesday
Southeast Asian youngsters eager to learn from adult mentors' enterprising farm activities comprise the winning entries in the recently concluded 13th Photo Contest of the Southeast Asian Regional Center for Graduate Study and Research in Agriculture (SEARCA). Four Filipino photographers dominated the six categories, including one who bagged the two new special awards.
First place winning entry by Mariano Sayno shows a mother-and-son tandem in the town of Victoria in Laguna, Philippines, known for its duck raising cottage industry. The adjudged best photo shows a young boy cheerfully holding a duck as he watches his mother place freshly laid eggs in a basket full of eggs, which frames the pair.
The second placer by Phan Thi Khanh of Vietnam shows a grandmother-granddaughter team patching up a fishnet in the coastal city of Hue. Third placer Jose Ramos II's entry shows a bright-eyed young boy appearing to be listening to an adult man as they gather weeds in a rice paddy field. The People's Choice Award winner, which garnered over 1,400 likes on Facebook, also shows two young men, the older seemingly teaching the younger one to plant seedlings—photograph by Christopher Andres.
The winning photos for the new special prize categories, the SEARCA Director's Choice and the DepEd Secretary's Choice (selected by the Secretary of the Department of Education of the Philippines) also echo the theme "Cultivating Southeast Asia's Youth Agripreneurs." Dr. Glenn Gregorio, SEARCA Director, chose the refreshing image of two young girls and their grandmother in a cutflower farming scene. For the DepEd Secretary's Choice, Dr. Leonor Briones selected a photo showing children studying outdoors in a rural farming community. Both photos were submissions by Jaime Singlador.
For 2019, the SEARCA Photo Contest winning prizes were increased to USD 1,000 for 1st place, USD 800 for 2nd place, USD 500 for 3rd place, and USD 200 for Peoples Choice. For the new special awards, the SEARCA Director's Choice and the DepEd Secretary's Choice will each receive USD 500.
SEARCA received a total of 762 entries from 235 professional and amateur Southeast Asian photographers from 10 countries during the submission period from September to November 2019. As in previous years, most of the entries were from the Philippines, Myanmar, Indonesia, and Vietnam. Nonetheless, aside from these top sources, entries from Thailand and Lao PDR made it to the top 15 finalists.
The winning photos and the rest of the finalists may be viewed at https://photocontest.searca.org. The SEARCA Photo Contest is annually held and is launched in September through searca.org and the SEARCA Facebook page.


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Haven't tweeted for a while! What's up????
Guys sorry for telling you thats but mike was naked on a beach running around with his d***k hanging and brent was kissing a girl in a cabanna. We didn't get any complaints for brent kissing a girl but we surely got complaints if this guys who's running around naked works for us!


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New Certificate Programs Announced at MTSM
11.18.20 | News
MTSM recently announced the development of two new Certificate programs in its School of Theology.
Gospel of Mark Workshop Helps Prepare for New Liturgical Year
Dr. Matthew Genung, Associate Professor and Conway Chair in Biblical Studies conducted a virtual Gospel of Mark Workshop via Zoom on November 4
Formation Candidates Installed in Ministry of Acolyte
The Most Rev. Dennis M. Schnurr, Archbishop of Cincinnati, installed 12 Mount St. Mary's Seminary & School of Theology (MTSM) seminarians in the Ministry of Acolyte on November 4.
MTSM Declared Historical Site
The International Order of Alhambra declared Mount St. Mary's Seminary of the West, currently known as Mount St. Mary's Seminary & School of Theology (MTSM), an American Catholic Historical Site during a dedication ceremony last night.
Formation Candidates Installed in Ministry of Lector
The Most Reverend Dennis M. Schnurr, Archbishop of Cincinnati, installed 12 Mount St. Mary's Seminary & School of Theology (MTSM) Seminarians in the Ministry of Lector on September 3.
New Immaculate Conception Statue From Same Quarry as Michelangelo's Pietà
Mount St. Mary's Seminary & School of Theology (MTSM) recently installed a new statue of the Blessed Mother under the title of the Immaculate Conception, the Patroness of the Seminary, on campus.
Dr. Kenneth Craycraft Named Gardner Endowed Chair
Dr. Kenneth Craycraft named the James J. Gardner Family Chair of Moral Theology at MTSM.
Dr. Matthew Genung Named Conway Endowed Chair
Dr. Matthew Genung, Associate Professor, has been named the Conway Endowed Chair in Biblical Studies at MTSM.
MTSM Announces 2020-2021 Pastoral Internships
MTSM announces the Pastoral Internships for Seminarians for the 2020-2021 academic year.
Rebranding to MTSM and New Course Structure
As part of the rebranding process, MTSM restructured from having divisions for the Seminary, Diaconate Program and Special Studies into two distinct components – the Seminary and the School of Theology.
MTSM Hosts Sacred Music Workshop
Mount St. Mary's Seminary & School of Theology (MTSM) hosted a one-day workshop of continuing education in the field of sacred music yesterday on campus.
MTSM Welcomes New Faculty Members
"Our new faculty members bring tremendous expertise and diversity to the table," said Fr. Anthony Brausch, Ph.D., President & Rector of MTSM. "The talents and resources of our teaching staff provide our students with unique opportunities to grow and develop in their chosen studies".
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My book is finally out.
I wrote this book several years ago, and intended to publish it soon after I finished it. But then I was diagnosed with cancer, so it hibernated in the cave of files in my computer until I was once again well enough to release this book into the world!
Isn't the art BEAUTIFUL???? I commissioned it, again, three years ago from a fantastic artist named Merilliza Chan. You can check out her work at https://www.merilliza.com/. I'm sure she was frustrated that she did this awesome painting, but then couldn't show anyone for THREE YEARS!
The thing that has most struck me with this book release is how supportive everyone has been! Seriously, people have come out of the woodwork to tell me how excited they are and proud. It has been a wonderful and overwhelming experience.
Check out the book and tell me how you like it!
If you can imagine, the book has been up for two days and it has already hit some bestseller lists!
Next Post Book Giveaway on Goodreads!


By default, in Windows Server 2016, the Preview of the Images were not displayed on the Preview Pane, instead, the icon is displaying which is of no use. A quick tip to enable it back.
2. Make sure that, the "Always show icons, never thumbnails" as unchecked and click OK.