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Please visit https://jamboree.scouting.org/ for the latest information and FAQs
Stay Tuned: More Info Coming soon!
(Dates will be added for travel and touring)
The National Jamboree will only host 15,000 participants in 2023. So, space will be extremely limited and will be very competitive to secure slots. Therefore, we will begin collecting a "hold deposit" of $500. The "hold deposit" is fully refundable – up to March 31, 2022. This will allow the Aloha Council to determine the demand for slots. In 2021, we secured 120 slots – and we were nearly sold out. We will try diligently to secure as many slots as possible, but I assume it won't be at previous levels. The "hold deposit" applies to both youth and adults.
The cost to attend the National Jamboree in 2023 will be $4,280. This fee is for all Scouts and Adult Leaders.
The Jamboree is open to all qualified youth and adults on a first-come, first-served basis. Adult leaders can apply to be part of the council contingent or as staff at the Jamboree. Contingent leaders will be selected from volunteers that apply for adult leadership roles.
This fee covers the following:
All transportation to, from, and during the event.
Pre-Jamboree training event(s)
Additional expenses by participants will include any needed uniforms, personal gear, and spending money.
National Jamboree River Rafting Experience Signup and Headcount
Qualifications to attend the National Jamboree include:
All participants must have a current BSA membership.
All participants must agree to abide by the Scout Oath and Law.
All participants must adhere to the Jamboree Code of Conduct.
All participants must have completed at least one long term camping experience prior to the Jamboree.
All participants must have completed the 6th grade or will be at least 12 years old (but who has not yet reached their 18th birthday by 8/1/2023) and a first-class Scout by July 1, 2023.
All adult participants must be a registered leader
All participants must have a completed National Jamboree Medical form signed by a licensed physician.
All participants will be placed in a Jamboree troop.
All participants will be a member of a patrol within their unit.
Registering for National Jamboree is a two-step process:
You register with Aloha Council to pay your Jamboree fees.
You apply to the National Jamboree website to attend: jamboree.scouting.org/participants (You do not need to be pre-registered on the National Jamboree website to complete the Council registration). **Early-Bird Pricing Ends October 31st
The registration system will close at midnight Eastern time on April 30, 2023
** You must have/create a my.scouting.org login to access the National registration site.** Tip: When registering a youth participant, you'll need to sign-in using the youth's my.scouting account with the youth registrant's BSA Member ID, not the parent's BSA member ID. Note: When registering as a participant, no fees will be collected at the time of registration – registration fees will be collected by your local council.
Pro-tips when registering for Jamboree as a participant
Make sure you're ready to register by making sure you have the basics covered –
BSA membership must be current.
Member ID number must be linked in the profile of the registrant's My.Scouting account.
Your current email is in your My.Scouting account.
Check your email after registering to complete your required disclaimers.
Jamboree Registration Troubleshooting
You can send an email with Aloha Council 104, BSA membership #, my.scouting username, and full name to national.jamboree@scouting.org.
Pricing and Payment Schedule
A deposit of $500 is due with your initial registration. Failure to adhere to the above payment schedule will result in a forfeiture of your participation and reassignment to an alternative participant.
Regular payments of $315 will be due at the end of every month. If paying by credit card, an additional fee of 5% will be assessed on all transactions. PDF
Deposit - $500.00 (due at registration)
By May 31, 2022- $315.00
By June 30, 2022- $315.00
By July 31, 2022- $315.00
By August 31, 2022- $315.00
By September 30, 2022- $315.00
By October 31, 2022- $315.00
By November 30, 2022- $315.00
By December 31, 2022- $315.00
By January 31, 2023- $315.00
By February 28, 2023- $315.00
By March 31, 2023- $315.00
By April 30, 2023- $315.00
If anyone signs up for the 2023 National Jamboree and is unable to attend, a refund will only be issued by the Aloha Council if there is an alternative to go in that person's place. If an alternative is not able to be found a partial refund will be made. This will include any fees paid to date less any contractual fees submitted on your behalf.
National BSA scholarship information – initial deadline: July 31, 2022 / second deadline: November 6, 2022 PDF
**Scholarship applications are exclusively completed via the National Jamboree event registration system.** The scholarship application is part of the registration process. If you are already registered, please go back to the Jamboree website and go back to the Jamboree registration. Log in to the application with the reservation code. Once you view the application, go to the scholarship section and edit the questions in that field. Make sure to 'save' the answers to the questions.
Aloha Council is working on scholarship opportunities – additional information to follow.
Scouts are encouraged to participate in the Council Fundraising campaigns: Camp Cards and Popcorn Sales
they will sell thru Jamboree Troop not their home troop.
National Scout Jamboree Health History:
If you have not already downloaded Section I: Jamboree Risk Advisory or Section II: BSA Annual Health Medical Record (AHMR) you can download these forms using these links Jamboree Risk Advisory Fillable 20220304.pdf , BSA AHMR.pdf
Take Section I and Section II to your Healthcare Provider for completion. Your healthcare provider must complete both sections AND you must submit them through the on-line Jamboree Health History process to be completely registered for the Jamboree.
The AHMR must be dated on or after July 1, 2022. To submit, you will receive an email from the National Office linked to your individual Jamboree Registration ID. If you do not see the email in your inbox, check your spam or junk mail folders (Jamboree Registration noreply@qemailserver.com)
Before you submit your information electronically using the specially provided link, you should have:
Section I: Jamboree Risk Advisory page 3 completed and signed by your physician. Your Reservation Code for the Risk Advisory is: provided in the email
Section II: BSA Annual Health and Medical History Part C completed and signed by your physician.
Both of the above pages saved separately in either PDF or Jpeg format and ready for upload when prompted.
If you claim an immunization waiver, please also have that form completed, signed, and ready to upload when prompted. BSA Immunization Exemption Form.pdf
YOU WILL NOT BE ALLOWED TO PARTICIPATE AT THE JAMBOREE UNTIL BOTH SECTIONS I and II ARE COMPLETED AND ELECTRONICALLY FILED
The information provided in the Jamboree Health History will be used by healthcare professionals only. It will be stored on a secure password protected server, which is compliant by HIPAA standards.
The more background information the health team has about an individual, the better they will be able to provide care should that individual become ill or injured.
You will be notified by email that your Jamboree Health History has been accepted.
National Jamboree is Scouting's flagship event. It is a one-of-a-kind gathering of approximately 40,000 Scouts, leaders, and staff that showcases everything that is great about the BSA and its members. Typically held every four years, the Jamboree is an amazing opportunity for participants, volunteers, and visitors to experience the best of Scouting, all in one place. Features include one of the longest zip line courses in North America, a world-class skate park, ATV offerings, treetop canopy tours, rock climbing, patch trading, stadium shows, and much more! It is held at the Summit Bechtel Reserve on over 40,000 acres in the New River Gorge, the permanent home of the National Scout Jamboree and BSA's fourth High Adventure base.
With every Jamboree, the Aloha Council assembles a Jamboree Contingent. The contingent consists of several units, each comprised of youth and adult leaders. Contingents will include male and female ScoutBSA Troops.
Initial Registration + $500 deposit
National Jamboree Registration + FAQs
Jamboree River Rafting Signup
2023 National Jamboree Meeting #1
2023 National Jamboree SM Leaders Meeting
2023 National Jamboree SM Leader Mtg #2


to address problems that are current?
I'm finding it hard to answer this thread - there are so many conflicting ideas and requirements as Andrzej's note shows. His comment reminds me of the old adage "A people who forget their history are doomed to relive it". There are indeed in occam and the transputer many ideas that are just as relevant to today's world as ever. For some details see my conference paper "//Legacy/ of the /transputer"/. /However, there is a perception problem: that because (for mostly commercial reasons) the transputer processor itself "failed"**, that occam and the transputer were necessarily a Bad Thing and to be condemned en-masse. This is unfortunate.
I can see that the current demand for multi-core systems is a great opportunity for CSP patterns to be used, and agree that without significant penetration into the mindset that will be lost. Perhaps this is an area that WoTUG can spend some money - out and out advertising and sponsorship? Anyway, the other side of the coin is that people are wedded to their existing ideas and systems, sometimes by commercial necessity.
The main barrier I have at my own workplace is that pretty much all of the >1 million line core codebase of the software is written in plain old C - and mostly to C89 standards - and there is a significant portability requirement. Some, in outlying areas, is in C++ or Java. New languages like C# and Ruby and Python are nowhere in sight.
The consequence is that from a work viewpoint I'm very interested in where a self-contained C-language CSP threads library might go, but bring C++ in and I lose interest again.
If we could come up with a serious competitor to the pthreads library, written in portable C, that would be wonderful. If it had versions in Embedded-C++ and C# that would be even better. I'm not convinced that Java is a platform that needs CSP in the same way, but I guess others are, so add in Java if you wish.
P.S. I am (slowly) writing a new book describing occam-pi; at present it's about 100 pages of an early draft of the core language. I'm interested in feedback - if you would like to see it please write and ask.
**there are still transputers buried inside an awful lot of the set-top boxes of the world.
(Paperback)" is available on Amazon.
can be used to simplify a lot of the code.


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Жан (Иоанн, Хуан) III (, , ; 1469 — ) — первый король Наварры из дома Альбре.

Биография
Вступил в брак с королевой наваррской Екатериной де Фуа (сестрой Франциска Феба из дома де Фуа) и в 1484 году, вместе с её рукой, получил корону Наварры. Вынужденный колебаться между Францией и Испанией, а также бороться с многочисленными враждебными ему феодалами внутри страны, Иоанн почти всё время своего правления провёл в войнах; коронации в Памплоне ему удалось добиться лишь в 1494 году.

Заподозрив его во враждебных Испании сношениях с Францией, Фердинанд Католик оклеветал его как схизматика и еретика, следствием чего стала папская булла 1512 года, низлагавшая Иоанна и его потомство до 1560 года. Иоанн вынужден был бежать из страны, но затем вернулся, поддерживаемый французскими войсками, хотя после ряда неудач, в результате голода, ненастья, сильной смертности солдат, вынужден был отступить, умер в 1516 году. Кроткий и весёлый, он любил горожан и крестьян, танцевал и шутил с ними, играл им на флейте.

Брак и дети
Жена: с 14 июля 1484 года Екатерина I де Фуа (1468 — 12 февраля 1517), королева Наварры, графиня де Фуа и де Бигорр, виконтесса Беарна и Марсана, дочь Гастона де Фуа, (1444 — 23 ноября 1470), принца Вианского, и Мадлен Французской (1 декабря 1443 - 21 января 1495), дети:
 Ана де Наварра д'Альбре (19 мая 1492, По — 15 августа 1532, По);
 Мадалена де Наварра д'Альбре (29 марта 1494, Олите — май 1504, Медина-дель-Кампо);
 Екатерина де Наварра д'Альбре (1495, Памплона — ноябрь 1532, Кан), аббатиса монастыря св. Троицы в Кане;
 Жанна де Наварра д'Альбре (15 июня 1496, Памплона — после ноября 1496, Памплона);
 Квитерия де Наварра д'Альбре (1499 — ок. 13 сентября 1536, Монтивилье), аббатиса в Монтивилье;
 сын (июнь 1500);
 Андрес Феб де Наварра д'Альбре (14 октября 1501, Памплона — 17 апреля 1503, Сангуэса);
 Генрих II (18 апреля 1503, Сангуэса — 25 мая 1555, Ажетмо) — король Наварры; женат с 24 января 1527 года на Маргарите Ангулемской (1492—1549), дочери Карла Орлеанского, графа Ангулема и Перигора.
 Буэнавентура де Наварра д'Альбре (14 июля 1505, Памплона — 1510/11);
 Мартин де Наварра д'Альбре (после 1506 — после 1512, Сангуэса);
 Франциско де Наварра д'Альбре (1508 — после 28 августа 1512, Совтерр-де-Беарн);
 Карл де Наварра д'Альбре (12 декабря 1512, По — сентябрь 1528, тюрьма Неаполя). Согласно завещанию отца должен был унаследовать после деда, Алэна д'Альбре, графство Перигор и виконтство Лимож. Был захвачен в плен во время осады Неаполя (см. Война Коньякской лиги);
 Изабель де Наварра д'Альбре (1513/14 — после 1555), жена (с 16 августа 1534) Рене I, виконта де Рогана, графа де Паре, барона Леона (погиб в 1552, под Мецом)

Текст завещания Жана III д'Альбре опубликован в Dartigue-Peyrou, Charles. Le vicomté de Béarn sous le règne d'Henri d'Albret. 1517-1555 (Paris : Les Belles lettres, 1934).

Литература

Ссылки
 Сайт Foundation for Medieval
 Сайт Bearn and Foix. Titles of European hereditary rulers

Короли Наварры
Дом д'Альбре
Графы де Фуа
Виконты Беарна

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In the end, the rehabilitation of NJ Transit will be dependent on more funding to rebuild infrastructure and expand services.
If the state is going to fix NJ Transit, New Jerseyans will have to pay more to accomplish it. There's no avoiding that reality.
The only question now is whether that burden is placed upon commuters alone or on the broader public in some other fashion.
Either way frankly stinks, but the alternative is an agency that continues to crumble into disrepair and dysfunction, and that would be even worse for the region.
While officials figure out the most effective — and politically palatable — path forward, other reforms continue to chip away at NJ Transit's problems, providing needed foundational work in the aftermath of eight years of neglect under former Gov. Chris Christie.
Last Thursday, Gov. Phil Murphy signed into law reforms that overhaul NJ Transit's governance, expanding legislative oversight of the agency and expanding its board from eight members to 13, including two members of the public, one of whom must be a regular bus commuter and another a regular train commuter. That's a key change, incorporating into the leadership members with more skin in the game.
These reforms come on the heels of other efforts to improve service and safety. The agency has been expediting long-delayed implementation of positive train control safety upgrades. An increasingly crippling shortage of engineers is being addressed by, among other things, lifting residency requirements.
But in the end, the rehabilitation of NJ Transit will be dependent on more funding to rebuild infrastructure and expand services. And there's also the little question of paying the state's contribution for the Gateway tunnel project, a critical $30 billion plan for a new rail tunnel across the Hudson River.
Murphy and legislative leaders have been dancing around the funding issue. The state pumped in more money under the current budget, but that's not a sustainable approach. The governor has discussed a dedicated funding source — read: a new tax of some kind — but has offered no details on what form that might take. Sticking commuters with another rate hike would be onerous; public transit loses its value if it's cheaper to drive. Murphy has only committed to keeping rates stable through the end of the fiscal year on June 30.
The governor, meanwhile, continues to provide every indication that he's eyeing more tax hikes in his next budget. It's either that or concede that some of his grand visions are unattainable, especially as he continues to treat costly public-worker benefits as virtually untouchable. Democratic leaders in the Legislature can be expected to resist some of those increases, which will leave New Jersey in its usual predicament of trying to do too much with too little.
But greater investment in NJ Transit is an inescapable expense that should not fall solely on the shoulders of commuters, who are already paying high prices for insufficient services. New Jerseyans should be ready and willing to share the burden.


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I guess the PKD patients must are familiar with the GFR (glomerular filtration rate) which has close relation with the kidney function. And with the kidney function declining, the GFR of the PKD patients will decline, too. So most of the PKD patients want to know in which level they need to do the dialysis. The following information maybe can help you.
There isn't an exact answer to the question. Various factors can affect the time of dialysis. Generally speaking, the GFR is lower, the possibility of PKD patients doing the dialysis is greater. However, the ages, physical quality, and the creatinine level also are the decisive factors. For example, when the PKD patients have a high creatinine, it is time for them to do the dialysis.
Besides the dialysis, there are also some traditional Chinese medical therapies can treat thePKD.
The traditional Chinese medical bath in our hospital can improve the GFR of the PKD patients. It has thousands of years history in China, which is made by various kinds of the traditional Chinese medical herbs. Our Chinese medical herbs have strong effects to treat the kidney failure. The kidney failure patients are supposed to soak into the Chinese medical bath for 45-90minutes. Because the Chinese medical bath is hot, it can make the pores open, so the active Chinese medical ingredients can immerge to the kidney parts easily. At first, it can promote the whole blood circulation of the body. Then the Chinese medicine can repair the damaged kidney cells and vessels. At last, the permeability of the glomerular will be improved. Besides that, this therapy also can take away the cold qi and strengthen yang of the PKD patients.
However which GFR level the PKD patients staying, they need not to do the dialysis with our Chinese medical therapy. You can send emails to kidneyhospitalabroad@hotmail.com to know more information about our therapies.


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When not managed effectively, high levels of workplace stress can lead to several negative personal and performance outcomes. Some professional groups work in highly stressful settings and are therefore particularly at risk of conditions such as anxiety, depression, secondary traumatic stress, and burnout. However, some individuals are less affected by workplace stress and the associated negative outcomes. Such individuals have been described as "resilient." A number of studies have found relationships between levels of individual resilience and specific negative outcomes such as burnout and compassion fatigue. However, because psychological resilience is a multi-dimensional construct it is necessary to more clearly delineate it from other related and overlapping constructs. The creation of a testable theoretical model of individual workforce resilience, which includes both stable traits (e.g., neuroticism) as well as more malleable intrapersonal factors (e.g., coping style), enables information to be derived that can eventually inform interventions aimed at enhancing individual resilience in the workplace. The purpose of this paper is to introduce a new theoretical model of individual workforce resilience that includes several intrapersonal constructs known to be central in the appraisal of and response to stressors and that also overlap with the construct of psychological resilience. We propose a model in which psychological resilience is hypothesized to mediate the relationship between neuroticism, mindfulness, self-efficacy, coping, and psychological adjustment.
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40 Reasons Why We Love Yorkshire
We are very proud of making it to 40, but also really proud that we have retained our Yorkshire roots and identity. There is so much about Yorkshire that makes it unique and here's 40 reasons why we love it:
Seaside: You can't beat the East coast for some of the best scenery around, with Yorkshire's seaside resorts still proving to be amongst the most popular in the UK. Take in Whitby, Filey, Scarborough, Robin Hood's Bay or Bridlington and you've got quintessential Englishness right there.
Breweries: Going right back 200 years, Yorkshire was famous for its breweries and through 20th century mass production from John Smiths, Samuel Smiths and Tetley's we now find ourselves with some of the UK's most successful breweries on our doorstep with Saltaire, Theakstons, Black Sheep and Timothy Taylors and some of the country's most successful independent breweries, such as Magic Rock, Kelham Island and Northern Monk.
Yorkshire Puddings: To many people outside of the region this might be its sole identity, but the Yorkshire pudding has been a staple part of a Sunday roast for generations. There's an art to making them properly, but get that batter rising just right and this is possibly our greatest export.
Tea: Everyone knows the healing and revitalisation that a cup of tea can bring. It has supported the working lives of the nation for years, and while we can argue long and hard about who makes the best tea, it is probably easiest to agree it is Yorkshire Tea made by Taylors of Harrogate, and then just sit down and enjoy a cuppa.
Henderson's Relish: A most versatile condiment, and many Yorkshire folk would find a way to justify adding a splash to pretty much anything savoury. Rich and spicy, it is unique to its Sheffield heritage but has spread far and wide, with exiled Yorkies getting it shipped globally in distress packages. And don't talk to me about Worcestershire Sauce.
Cheese: While Wensleydale might be the most well-known, Yorkshire has been producing cheeses since the Norman invasion. We specialise in crumbly cheeses from Nidderdale, Wensleydale, Teesdale, Swaledale and Coverdale, but also churn out a mean cheddar or Gouda in various cottage creameries throughout the region.
Countryside: Where do you start in describing the breathtaking panorama of Yorshire's countryside? With rivers, ruins, waterfalls, gardens, valleys, heather and farmland as far as the eye can see, from the Dales north of Grassington and Skipton to the Moors between Thirsk and the east coast, just take it all in, it will never age.
Pubs: Okay, pub culture is not unique to Yorkshire, but we specialise in the traditional and homely inns that have stood for hundreds of years and still provide the same purpose; to welcome people, provide an escape, socialise and serve wonderful ales. Some of the country's most identifiable pubs reside in Yorkshire and the very fabric of British hospitality can be traced back there.
Bands: Popular culture might easily sidestep Yorkshire en route to the North West, with Liverpool and Manchester providing much of the UK's music heritage in the last 50 years. But don't forget Sheffield producing Human League, ABC, Def Leppard, Pulp and the Arctic Monkeys and Leeds giving us Soft Cell, Sisters of Mercy, The Wedding Present and Kaiser Chiefs. Throw in York's Shed Seven and Bradford's The Cult and there's a thriving scene to be explored in Yorkshire.
Artists: With such an appealing landscape and so many layers of culture to get lost in, it is no surprise that Yorkshire has produced a series of great artists over the last century. Barbara Hepworth and Henry Moore showcased a range of talents, while David Hockney joins a host of contemporary artists inspired by the rich tapestry of what surrounds them.
Comedians: Nothing identifies a person from Yorkshire more than their sense of humour, and it is no surprise that a comedy heritage can be traced back through Michael Palin, Norman Collier, Ernie Wise, Bobby Knutt and Charlie Williams to more contemporary comedians such as Vic Reeves, Leigh Francis, Toby Foster, Reece Shearsmith and Ade Edmondson.
Authors: Bram Stoker's Dracula and Charlotte Bronte's Wuthering Heights are the most famous literary masterpieces to stem from God's Own County, but over the last century the region has also given us Alan Bennett, JB Priestley, Barbara Taylor Bradford, Barry Hines, Alan Ayckbourn, Keith Waterhouse, Tony Harrison and David Peace.
Footballers: Quite apart from the very origins of the game being traced back to Sheffield, the region has produced some of the best footballers to grace the game, including Brian Clough, Kevin Keegan, Gordon Banks and David Seaman, plus roughly half the team that got England to this year's World Cup Semi-Finals.
Cricketers: Few things epitomise the spirit and history of Yorkshire than its passion for cricket and the principles still maintained around the many teams and leagues in the region today. And at the very top of the game, Len Hutton, Geoffrey Boycott, Brian Close, Ray Illingworth and Fred Trueman are joined by modern day greats such as Michael Vaughan and Joe Root.
Natural Wonders: From Aysgarth Falls to Brimham Rocks and from Spurn Point to the Nidderdale Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty, Yorkshire is a Geological feast, displaying unspoilt prehistoric history intertwined with greenery and idiosyncratic quirks.
Shopping hotspots: Quite apart from the quintessential pleasures of browsing around the gift shops, craft stores and cottage industries that frequent the cobbled backstreets of Yorkshire's market towns, the region boasts the boutique shopping of Harrogate, York and Leeds and the big city malls of Meadowhall in Sheffield.
Film Scenes: There can't be many regions that have contributed so proudly to the UK's film scene with some of British culture's finest works stemming from Yorkshire; with Kes, The Full Monty and Rita, Sue & Bob Too displaying working class culture and the fabric of ordinary British life in perfect and time-honoured detail. Some classics have also been filmed in Yorkshire, such as the Railway Children, Robin Hood Prince of Thieves and Harry Potter & the Deathly Hallows.
Sweets and cakes: Never let it be said that Yorkshire doesn't have a sweet tooth. It hosts what is believed to be the world's oldest sweet shop in Pateley Bridge and can also proudly boast the origins of curd tarts, parkin, gingerbread, liquorice allsorts and the Pontefract Cake.
Rhubarb Triangle: A nine square mile triangle between Wakefield, Morley and Rothwell in West Yorkshire, this was designated with protected status for the rich harvest of rhubarb it has produced since the 1800s.
Olympians: Even before the 2012 explosion of Yorkshire talent, the region famously boasted Sebastian Coe, Peter Elliot and Adrian Morehouse, but the London Olympics went off the scale, with Jessica Ennis, Nicola Adams, the Brownlee Brothers and Max Whitlock the most famous amongst a host of medallists.
Sculptures: Central to this is the Yorkshire Sculpture Park near Wakefield, while there are also professionally curated sculptures available for viewing in Leeds's Henry Moore Institute and Art Gallery, plus the Hepworth Gallery, also in Wakefield. Meanwhile, you might accidentally come across some wonderful sculptures at Bolton Abbey, Newby Hall Gardens and RHS Harlow Carr Gardens.
Actors: The list of famous faces from Yorkshire to have graced stage and screen reads like a 'Who's Who of modern popular culture'. We have Sean Bean, Brian Blessed, Brian Glover, Dame Judi Dench, Ralph Ineson, Ben Kingsley, Dame Diana Rigg and Sir Patrick Stewart. Add to that TV performers such as Paul Daniels, Frankie Howard, Gordon Kaye, Paul Shane and Mollie Sugden.
Place Names: The quirks and eccentricities of Yorkshire are no better demonstrated than by some of the most delightful place names you will ever come across. A visit to some of these needs to go on your bucket list: Blubberhouses, Appletreewick, Cautley Spout, Gilberdyke, Jingling Pot, Mickleby, New Biggin, Pocklington, Sigglesthorne, Swinefleet, Giggleswick and Uncleby.
Museums: Quite apart from creating the history in the first place, Yorkshire is pretty good at capturing and celebrating it too. Take your pick from The National Media & Photography Museum in Bradford, Sheffield's Magna, all the Viking history to be seen in York, the Royal Armouries in Leeds and the UK's first children's museum, which is Eureka in Halifax.
Stately homes: Mixed in with the scenic greenery are a sprinkling of stately homes preserved to show the public a slice of history amidst some beautiful grounds opened up for us all to use. Have a look around Castle Howard, Harewood Hall, Chatsworth and Wentworth.
Theatres: Sheffield is often hailed as the theatrical epicentre of Yorkshire with its twin offerings of the Crucible and Lyceum opening out onto a communal square, while Leeds offers the unique history of the City Varieties and Grand Theatre. Meanwhile Bradford's Alhambra, York's Theatre Royal and Scarborough's Open Air Theatre offer plenty too.
TV settings: We all know about Emmerdale, particularly when it was centred on Emmerdale Farm, and we also know about the essence of Yorkshire life captured by Last of the Summer Wine, filmed in Holmfirth, but you can add to that All Creatures Great & Small, Heartbeat, Downton Abbey, Threads and Brideshead Revisited.
Cities: Much of Yorkshire's charm is in the quaint tiny villages that appear from nowhere, but Yorkshire's cities are amongst the most progressive, challenging and thriving in the country. Sheffield, Bradford and York offer a plethora of arts, cultural and retail opportunities, while Leeds has the biggest financial, legal and digital sectors outside London and has become a European retail destination.
Racecourses: With more than 170 meetings held every year, horse racing is a staple part of Yorkshire life and a vital source of income for many towns in the region. From Thirsk, Ripon, Malton and York, to Doncaster, Pontefract, Wetherby and Beverley you can take your pick on pretty much any given day and find top class racing within a short drive.
Sports Grounds: With some of the country's famous teams such as Yorkshire County Cricket Club, Leeds United, Sheffield United and Sheffield Wednesday in the region, don't be surprised that Yorkshire boasts some of the best and most famous sporting arenas in the country in Headingley, Elland Road, Bramall Lane, Hillsborough, Valley Parade and the John Smith's Stadium.
MPs: Fair enough, we might not like them or agree with them most of the time, but Yorkshire has produced some stout and unflinching members of parliament in modern times. We can go back a long way to Guy Fawkes if we are looking at political activists, but in terms of MPs we can boast Harold Wilson, Denis Healey, Herbert Asquith and Roy Hattersley.
Music festivals: A more recent phenomenon, but one that is gaining traction. Yorkshire might be famous for brass band festivals and a fair bit of choral and opera, but today we can boast the Leeds Festival at Bramham Park, Bingley Music Live from Myrtle Park and Tramlines in Sheffield, which has evolved to Hillsborough Park.
Sayings: Summed up by the 'Yorkshireman's Motto': "Ear all, see all, say nowt; Eyt all, sup all, pay nowt; And if ivver tha does owt fer nowt – Allus do it fer thissen" the region is famous for a unique take on the Queen's English, including 'be reight', 'ey up!', 'that's proper champion' and perhaps the most important one 'yer brew's mashin'.
Chocolate making: Yes, it's true. We gave the world football and beer (to some extent anyway) and we gave them chocolate too, in the form of master chocolatiers at Terry's in York, Rowntrees in York, Thorntons originally from Sheffield and Mackintosh from Halifax, who originally produced Quality Street.
Rugby League: In these circles there's only really one code of rugby, and while union is played in plenty of areas around Yorkshire, rugby league has a northern identity that Yorkshire is central to. The M62 corridor is the home of all Super League's top clubs with Leeds Rhinos and Bradford Bulls winning the most trophies in the modern era and Castleford Tigers definitely on the up, but the whole of West Yorkshire is a RL hotbed which traditionally started long before football began to take over.
Unusual sports: Rolling cheese down a hill, bog jumping, gorge jumping, bed racing, yes it all happens in Yorkshire, but have you heard of ferret legging? Of course you have.
Accents: To the outsider there might not be much difference in the accents, but within God's Own County there's a world of difference between the accents of North, East, South and West Yorkshire, so be careful you don't judge it wrong.
Minsters and Abbeys: Take your pick from the working wonder of York Minster and Ripon Cathedral, to the ruined beauty of Bolton Abbey, Fountains Abbey and Kirkstall Abbey and you have history right in front of you, and set in glorious grounds just waiting to be explored.
Markets: Food festivals and farmers markets are hosted almost every weekend somewhere in Yorkshire, but the tradition of weekly markets maintains the identity of dozens of towns and villages in the area. From Ripon and Wetherby to Knaresborough, Beverley, Pontefract, and Skipton, you don't have to travel far to witness true Yorkshire folk doing their best for their local economy.
Fish & Chips: Yorkshire boasts several AA and Michelin-starred restaurants and a plethora of big name eateries, but the nation's favourite dish is still widely celebrated in the region. Harry Ramsden's may have originated in Guiseley near Leeds but that building is now a Wetherby Whaler, while the Magpie Café is still going strong in Whitby. But on many street corners and shopping parades there remains a local Fish & Chip shop and the ritualistic cry of 'scraps wi' that?'
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Microsoft's acquisition of Zenimax is another step towards its domination of the games console market, says GlobalData
Following the news that Microsoft has acquired Zenimax for $7.5bn;
Rupantar Guha, Associate Project Manager for Thematic Research at GlobalData, a leading data and analytics company, offers his view:
"Microsoft's $7.5bn Zenimax acquisition demonstrates how the company wants to dominate the games console market, which will be worth $60bn by 2025, according to GlobalData forecasts. The deal's inclusion of several prominent game studios, including Bethesda (and with its massively popular titles such as The Elder Scrolls and Fallout) will give Microsoft a powerful boost in its battle with Sony in the next-generation consoles market.
"Microsoft is determined to outpace Sony in the console race. Having priced its new Xbox consoles to match Sony's PS5, the company will add several high-profile new games to the platform. Zenimax titles such as Wolfenstein, Doom, Quake, Prey and Dishonored will compete with PS5 exclusives such as Spider-Man: Miles Morales, Gran Turismo 7 and Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart.
"The appeal for Microsoft's Xbox Series X and Series S consoles will be boosted by the availability of Bethesda's Starfield alongside the in-house developed Halo Infinite in the coming years, although it remains unclear if Sony will get access to Starfield. The acquisition by Microsoft also means Sony is likely to miss out on future Besthesda titles. However, it will reportedly receive games such as Deathloop and GhostWire: Tokyo, which have already been announced as PS5 exclusives.
"Microsoft currently ranks fourth out of 36 companies in GlobalData's gaming thematic sector scorecard, which ranks companies based on their competitive positioning in the most relevant themes in the sector. Meanwhile, Sony is further down at 11. Both Microsoft and Sony score of five out of five in the game development theme due to their ownership of leading game studios. With the Zenimax acquisition, Microsoft added eight studios, taking its total to 23, while Sony has 14 worldwide. This is another indication of Microsoft's growing focus on first-party titles, which GlobalData predicts will be available exclusively on Xbox services and platforms.


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Money is available for children of unsolved murder victims
A Battle Creek group has school supply money available for survivors of unsolved murder victims.
Money is available for children of unsolved murder victims A Battle Creek group has school supply money available for survivors of unsolved murder victims. Check out this story on battlecreekenquirer.com: http://www.battlecreekenquirer.com/story/news/2017/09/04/money-available-children-unsolved-murder-victims/626395001/
Trace Christenson, Battle Creek Enquirer Published 6:00 a.m. ET Sept. 4, 2017
Mike and Bonnie Nunnally, standing, and Danasia Smith-Nunnally and her son, Daneko Erskine, 5.(Photo: Trace Christenson/The Enquirer)
Families Against Murder/For Equal Justice, created a fund in 1997 to help with school supplies and other needs for the children and grandchildren of murder victims, according to Bonnie Nunnally, the group's founder and president.
The scholarship fund also provides money for counseling services, clothing, tutorial needs and other health and educational services to support a healthy recovery, she said.
The money is designed for children and grandchildren up to age 18 of parents or legal guardians who are victims of unsolved murders in Calhoun County.
Nunnally said the program is available especially as school begins for supplies, boots, coats, glasses and backpacks for the children.
Nunnally began F.A.M.E. and the scholarship fund in memory of her son, Jermel Smith, who was shot and killed in 1996. His death remains unsolved.
Smith's daughter, Danasia Smith-Nunnally, who was four at the time of his death, now oversees the scholarship program which is administered by the Battle Creek Community Foundation.
Information about the fund and applications are available at the foundation at 32 W. Michigan Ave. or by calling 269-962-2181.
Nunnally and her husband, Mike, have encouraged law enforcement and the judicial system to continue investigations of unsolved murders and creation of cold case investigation teams.
Information about F.A.M.E. is available at www.fameforall1997.com. Contact the organization at fame4utwo1997@aol.com
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Q: RubyGem version error: rack(1.0.0 not ~> 1.0.1) I was working on a rails project on my laptop and pushing code to github.  Now I cloned the project on my desktop.
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I get the following error:
rake aborted!
RubyGem version error: rack(1.0.0 not ~> 1.0.1)

(See full trace by running task with --trace)

Before this error I had to run the following commands:
sudo gem install -v=2.3.5 rails
sudo gem update rack

A: sudo gem install -v 1.0.1 rack

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Bullying and gay suicide: Columnist Dan Savage speaks out.
Columnist and author Dan Savage will be online Tuesday, Oct. 12, at 10 a.m. ET to discuss bullying and gay suicide and his YouTube It Gets Better project to reach out to troubled teens.
Hello, everyone. Dan Savage here to take your questions about anti-LGBT bullying and the It Gets Better Project.
Q: It Gets Better For...Everyone?
Congratulations on a terrific idea for gay teens. But don't you think "It Gets Better" should be a motto for EVERYONE in high school? My high school days weren't terrific -- certainly not nearly as bad as the teens you are trying to help. But what got me through it was that it all ends eventually.
A: Dan Savage
I do think it's a good motto for everyone. But I believe that LGBT teenagers—I know that LGBT teenagers—are particularly isolated and need to hear from LGBT adults.
Bullied straight teenagers go home, almost invariably, to a shoulder to cry one, and support from their families. Bullied LGBT teens all too often go home to more bullying from their parents, and then are dragged to churches on Sunday for still more bullying from the pulpit. And gay teenagers are routinely lied to about what it is to be a gay adult. Witness the GOP nominee for governor telling an audience—which may have contained closeted gay kids (G-d help them)—that gay people can't be successful. Someone needs to break that to Ellen, huh?
It can't hurt to remind all kids, though, gay or straight, that whatever they're facing now, however painful it might seem, however inescapable, it does end. And it does get better.
— Oct 12, 2010 10:08 EDT
Q: KUDOS
Dan - As a hetero female, I've read and vastley enjoyed your columns for years. Granted, this initiative has been getting decent coverage, but I'm disappointed that it isn't attached to every story about these suicides. I watch the morning shows while I'm eating breakfast before work every morning and not once have I seen mention even thoough the suicides get plenty of coverage. Thoughts on why this is?
Oh, do a Google news search on It Gets Better Project. It hasn't been mentioned in every report, of course, but it's been getting tons and tons of coverage. Which is crucial—we need kids to hear about it, or overhear about it, and the media coverage is helping.
So are the Tweets and Facebook postings. This is a viral campaign, and it's been very, very successful, and we know from the response from teenagers, their parents, and many school teachers that it is reaching the kids it needs to reach.
Q: Thank you.
I have many friends who have submitted videos to your project and I think it's just wonderful. Not a question, but a quick thank!
Thank you, and thank your friends for contributing.
One thing that distinguishes this campaign from, say, red ribbons for AIDS awareness: where are those red ribbons now? Moldering away in landfills and dresser drawers. People have moved on to other causes, other issues that we need to raise awareness about. And that's inevitable and only right, I think.
But unlike the ribbons, the videos people are making and contributing right now will live on; they will be maintained on the website, and kids who are four now will be able to watch them when they're fourteen, and the messages of hope and strategies for coping with or confronting bullying will be just as useful and relevant then as they are today.
Sadly.
Q: Alternative to public high school
My son was bullied in middle school. For high school, fortunately he was accepted to a magnet school for the arts, where he thrived. As a single mom, there was no way I could have quit my job to home-school him, nor could I afford private school. What can other parents do to find a safe school environment for their children?
Conduct all business with school administrators in writing—that should be clear from all the cases where parents insist they talked to school administrators about bullying, and nothing was done, and then the school administrators claim, after someone has died, that they never knew, weren't told, the parents never came to them, etc.
If your kid is being bullied, put it in writing. Bring a lawyer. And if your kid has been assaulted, GO TO THE POLICE. When a 16-year-old kid beats up an old woman at a shopping mall, he gets arrested. When a 16-year-old kid beats up a 13-year-old kid at a high school, he doesn't even get suspended.
Assault is a assault, and it's a crime, and it doesn't matter if your victim is 13 or 63.
Q: Not sure how much to attribute sexual orientation to this.
I just have to ask why the special attention to the poor kid, just because he was gay. At that age, I don't think being gay made him get bullied, he was bullied because he was perceived as a target. A straight, shy kid could have done the same thing just as easily. At what point do we stop discriminating based on color/sex/orientation and just say that bullying is WRONG?
No one is saying that bullying straight kids is wrong. It is wrong. The It Gets Better Project is targeted at gay kids to address their unique isolation and combat the lies that LGBT kids are told *about being LGBT.*
But the message applies to all kids: It gets better, hang in there.
And on a personal note: I know that straight kids get bullied. My older brother, who is straight, had it worse in our grade school than I did, he was more brutally bullied than I was. But he understands that he wasn't also hearing from his church that he was sick and sinful and brought the bullying on himself, and he could go to our parents and tell them what was happening, and why, and get their support. I couldn't. If I went to our parents, I feared it would attract attention to what I was trying to desperately to hide from them.
Q: Prevalence
Dan, we've all heard the sad statistic that LGBT youth are at higher risk for suicide than their peers. But I am wondering: has that risk gone down over time, or stayed the same, or gone up? It seems to me that these days gay people are more generally accepted - or, at least, it's impolite in mixed company to talk too loudly about hating us. So it seems things might be improving. But then comes news like these suicides, the recent bashing that just made the news, etc. Are things getting better for youth at all, or not?
I think things are getting worse in some places even as they get better in others. And I blame the religious right.
We've been subjected to a 15-year-long campaign of anti-gay dehumanization by self-described "Christians," people who define Christianity has 1. hating gay people and 2. wanting to see their capital gains taxes slashed. The kind of rhetoric injected into the culture about gay people—we're intrinsically evil, we're trying to destroy the institution of marriage, we're a threat to the family—has real-world consequences for gay kids.
Mom and dad in an area dominated by conservative politics and mega-churches—places with few openly gay adults—can only abuse gay people from a distance, at the ballot box. But their children, steeped in the same bigotry, exposed to the lies promulgated by religious "leaders," they go to school on Monday and there's a gay or perceived-to-be-gay 13-year-old kid. And they can abuse that kid in person,in real time, and with their fists.
And in many of the places where this is going on, the schools—even public schools—are run by homophobic adults who view gay kids as the problem, as having brought the bullying down on themselves.
So while it is getting better and has gotten better for gay people in many parts of the country, it has been getting worse in many places. Look at where the suicides have almost all taken place this fall: very small towns, rural areas, exurbs. In those places, it's getting worse.
Q: No question-
but a big thank you for captioning the video of you and Terry on the home page! Too often I find people who create those sites unwilling to consider that deaf and hard of hearing people are unable to access the information. Thanks for considering ways to be inclusive!
We've been encouraging others to do the same. Adding captions is a labor-intesive process (it took my BF three hours to add captions to ours). We're really encouraged and thrilled to see the videos coming in now that are in ASL—of course, recognizing that not all deaf or hard-of-hearing folks know ASL. But they're great, and we want to see more of them.
Sadly they're not captioned for the signing-impaired!
Q: Support for GLBTQ candidates this fall?
We need more candidates in office who will fight for gay rights and against bullying. Given Carl Paladino's disgraceful comments yesterday, don't we need to work hard to support GLBTQ candidates, particularly those who are out and advocating for the community? I know you've been outspoken against anti-gay candidates, but are you supporting or helping any of the openly gay candidates this cycle? A friend forwarded me a link to an "it gets better" video from Ed Potosnak, an openly gay candidate running in NJ.
I would hope that people are supporting legit, qualified LGBT candidates. I certainly do.
Q: Parents helping kids
If a high school student comes out to his/her parents, should the parents discourage the child from coming out to any of his/her peers? It seems like some teenagers don't react well to finding out a friend/peer is gay.
Usually when a kid comes out, it's because he or she can't stand the pressure of being closeted anymore. The kid can't keep up the lies and deceit anymore. I do think kids should be encouraged to take a long, hard look at their particular circumstances before coming all the way out, and if it isn't safe, they should wait, or be strategic. (Usually it's the parents who present the greatest danger—large numbers of homeless teenagers are LGBT kids who were thrown out of their homes when their parents were told or discovered that their kids were gay.)
Q: P.S. Your 'it gets better' video with your husband
I watched it at work, and it made me cry. Thank you thank you thank you for starting this project. I live in the Twin Cities, and the kid who killed himself at Anoka-Hennepin High school made big news here. His mom is working to make the anti-bullying measures clearly include homosexuality-based discussions. Thank you for all you do for the HUMAN community. ~Angela P.P.S. I still have your book "The Kid" from the late '90s and have lent it to several friends!
I would encourage everyone to read this story in the Minnesota Independent about the spate of suicides in the Anoka-Hennepin school district, the effort to institute anti-bullying programs, and the appalling efforts by "Christian" parents to block those programs:
http://tinyurl.com/27ugxtz
Q: Culpability of Educational Institutions
Do you think that educational institutions should be liable for charges of criminal negligence should homosexual students under the care commit suicide because they were bullied?
Yes, I do. And I think that's probably the only hope we have for making sure that bullying isn't tolerated: when it starts to cost them, when stopping bullying presents a smaller headache/walletache for school systems than turning a blind eye.
Anti-gay group organizes in Anoka-Hennepin schools as community deals with gay suicides
Q: Sports
Hi, I think sports is one of the worst institutions that promotes homophobia. Do you think this can ever be changed? I'd say football is the worst of all. Aside from it's hatred of gays, football seems to be built around the pillars of violence, ignorance, misogyny and morbid obesity (just watch a few of the commercials). Throw in the gay hating stuff and it's just about the most revolting mix of messages for young people I can think of. If you do think it can be changed, what would you do, in practical terms, to get this started?
Well, I think the problem is that, for many young males, being a straight guy means two things: not being a girl, and not being a fag. So anything that's perceived as feminine or gay, on the part of males, is met with violent disapproval.
Most of the kids who are bullied, and most who've committed suicide, were boys who weren't masculine, or couldn't hide their sexualities. We need to address the homophobia at the root of this crisis but also the misogyny that undergirds and informs it.
So long as some children—out of ignorance, or trickle-down homophobia (as Kathy Griffin dubbed it)—react violently to difference, we will have this problem. And the problem is made worse when school administrators are themselves homophobic.
Q: Potomac, Md.
Hi Dan: I saw your "It Gets Better" video, and was very moved by it. Do you have any sense of the impact videos like yours are having?
We're hearing from kids all over the country who are watching these videos and finding comfort—and helpful coping strategies, and good advice on how they can make it better. We're also hearing from the parents of bullied 13- and 14- and 15-year-old LGBT kids who are telling us that they're sitting their kids down in front of the computer to watch the videos, and that they're helping. We are also hearing from the parents of straight kids who say the same.
Ok, I'm out of time, and I have to run. Thank you so much for all of your questions, I wish I could've gotten to more. Thanks to the Washington Post for having me.
Please visit our new site: ItGetsBetterProject.com.
Dan Savage is a nationally syndicated relationship advice columnist and author.


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In this second solo outing from the leader of Glaswegian underground/folk band Appendix Out, Alasdair Roberts' melancholy, sometimes off-kilter voice narrates the listener through an arcane realm where gods command, women shapeshift into goslings and nature rules over flowering heaths and wild waters. If that sounds horribly twee and pastoral, don't panic. This ensemble of original material is original in every way, notwithstanding certain echoes of Incredible String Band's motley eclecticism, the pained isolation of Nick Drake and the neat integration of bits of British traditional music.
This latter trick points up Roberts' skill: Join Our Lusty Chorus includes portions of Copper Family staple Sportsmen Arouse, Carousing utilises the tune to Bonny At Morn and familiar lyrical snatches surface elsewhere, but there's no hint of tokenism or bandwagon-jumping. It's informed, sensitive, entirely apposite. Someone named Polly (Truelove? Muse? Literary device?) appears in five songs by name and elsewhere, one suspects, by implication: as love object in the macabre I Fell In Love; as instrument of lust in Come, My Darling Polly – a solo piece whose quasi-contemporary imagery of black olives and red wine juxtaposed with archaic chastity belts and scolds' bridles sets a tense temporal anomaly. Other songs might have emanated from The Mabinogion (Down Where The Willow Wands Weep) or Lothlorien (The Whole House Is Singing). Sparsely decorated with guitars, bass, drums and occasional glockenspiel, mandolin and piano, Roberts' territory is unselfconscious, vulnerable, intelligent and dead cool.
At first hearing Farewell Sorrow is weird and shambolic; at second it's elemental and natural; at third it's beautiful, literate and compelling. Whatever that elusive X-factor is, Ali Roberts has it.


Question One: How do I make sure I don't break the law?
I've been asked this question many, many times by people interested in email marketing, and this question always surprises me, because it is very easy to avoid violating federal law when you're sending permission email to your customers, prospects, readers, or members.
In fact, there is far too much worry and concern about breaking federal law that is justified because the federal law is proving to be very weak on clamping down on spam. Now I don't mean to say this is a good thing, because I think the federal law should have been much stronger; however, it does make it easy for you to avoid violating the law. The truth for legitimate businesses is there is little to be concerned about as long as you respect your customer and conduct your email marketing campaigns in accordance with a high level of respect and integrity.
For example: a company that respects its subscribers would always offer its subscribers an opportunity to opt-out of any email list or newsletter. This same opt-out mechanism is of course stated in the federal Can-Spam law. It really doesn't need to be stated there because any person conducting high integrity email marketing automatically puts opt-outs in each email because they want to keep their subscribers happy and they don't want to anger prospects or customers who don't want to receive their emails.
You can also avoid running afoul of the federal Can-Spam law by making sure that you document the permission of each person you are emailing. This is also very easy to do. Simply make sure that you have a subscription form that sends out a confirmation email—the double opt-in process—and then make sure that you respect the permission of each subscriber by only emailing those who are remaining on the list.
There are several other things you must avoid to stay in compliance with the federal Can-Spam law, including not harvesting email addresses from the web, not engaging in what are called "dictionary" attacks, and not using misleading subject lines or email headers. In other words, don't do the kinds of things that spammers would do. Make sure your email is sent only to people who have opted-in—those who have given you permission to send them email—and ensure your email message is relevant to that person. Again, it should also have a clearly labeled subject line and offer each subscriber and opt-out mechanism in case they do not wish to receive further emails from you.
Staying in compliance with the federal Can-Spam Act is very simple, and the vast majority of honest, responsible email marketers who have experience in the business will have to make absolutely no changes to their email campaigns in order to comply with the law. The only ones who will have to alter their behavior to comply with the law are, in fact, the same people who would never comply with the law: the spammers.