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Hicks Art Center Gallery presents 'And this is how you are a citizen…'
By Samantha Bambino, The Times
Works by three artists explore gendered citizenship and society Jan. 23-March 12
Michelle Angela Ortiz's "Playing in the River" (acrylic on wood panel, 16" x 20") is featured in "And this is how you are a citizen…" from Jan. 23 to March 12 at Bucks County Community College's Hicks Art Center Gallery in Newtown
Bucks County Community College's Hicks Art Center Gallery invites the public to "And this is how you are a citizen…" Jan. 23-March 12, as well as related theater, poetry and musical events with the intention of generating dialogue and understanding.
"And this is how you are a citizen…" brings together three artists — Catherine Pancake, Michelle Angela Ortiz and Imani Roach — whose work reflects on gendered citizenship, family, identity and belonging.
The exhibition's title is a line from Citizen, An American Lyric by Claudia Rankine. Guest curator Maria Dumlao said in the book-length poem, Rankine explores the realities of what it means to be a black citizen amid the everyday acts of racism in our contemporary "post-race" society. The artists borrow from Rankine's lyricism their ability — both as an individual and as part of a collective group of citizens — to speak, perform, and stay alive in the midst of adversity.
"Each of the artists poeticize one's relationship to place and one's connection to history with its inherited trauma," said Dumlao, an associate professor in the college's arts department. "Then — taking into account a broader notion of citizenship as a second-class citizen, a gendered citizen, a non-identified citizen, or a laborer citizen — each artists' work considers personal history and citizenship as a multi-tiered construct, one that applies to membership, position and relationship between the individual, community, state and society."
"And this is how you are a citizen…" will host an artist panel from 3 to 4:30 p.m. on Wednesday, Feb. 6, in Grupp Hall room 257 on the Newtown Campus. That will be followed by a gallery reception from 5 to 7 p.m., including a curator's talk at 6 p.m. Admission to the gallery, reception and artist panel is free.
In conjunction with the exhibition, the college presents "The Vagina Monologues" at 7:30 p.m. on Friday, Feb. 22, in the Zlock Performing Arts Center on the Newtown Campus. The event commemorates the 20th anniversary of both Eve Ensler's award-winning play and the founding of V-Day, the global activist movement to end violence against women and girls (cisgender, transgender, and those who hold fluid identities).
After the performance, a discussion will take place with the cast and a representative of A Woman's Place, the Bucks County shelter for abused women. General admission tickets are $10 and $5 for students age 18 and older. Tickets are available at tickets.bucks.edu/ or at the door. Proceeds benefit A Woman's Place.
In addition, three poets who have been published by the independent press Bloof Books will read from their works at 7:30 p.m. on Wednesday, March 6, in the Presser Room of the Music and Multimedia Center on the Newtown Campus. Jennifer L. Knox, Nikki Wallschaleger, and Shanna Compton will share their poetry, followed by a book signing and discussion of the intersections of feminism, literary arts, and small-press publishing. Admission is free.
Finally, the college presents "Creatrix — A Celebration of Women Composers" at 7 p.m. on Monday, March 11, in the Presser Room. The free concert features the Bucks County Community College Concert Choir and Percussion Ensemble performing music that honors the value of a single citizen, male or female, in modern society.
Bucks County Community College is located at 275 Swamp Road, Newtown, where there is ample free parking. For more information about "And this is how you are a citizen…," including a list of gallery hours, visit bucks.edu/gallery or call 215–968–8425.
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Q: Softkeyboard's "check" button vs using .unfocus()
In this video I first click on a field within the first tab, then click the soft keyboard's "check" button. This hides the soft keyboard and takes the focus away from that field. I then navigate across tabs and back to the first. No field has the focus at this point. This is the expected behavior.
In the second iteration, I click in the notes field. Without closing the soft keyboard, I then click the submit button. That button calls FocusScope.of(context).unfocus(); which hides the soft keyboard and takes the focus away from the notes field (the teal border disappears). However, at this point I click on the next tab and the soft keyboard reappears. And when I click back the first tab the notes field once again has the focus.
Why does this happen?
What underlying code does the "check button" on the keyboard call and can I wire this up to the button rater than calling the .unfocus() method to get the expected result?
Edit: Still no explanation. The undesirable persistent keyboard does not occur on iOS.

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Chapter 13 bankruptcy is very powerful. For instance you can use it to stop a house foreclosure, make up the missed mortgage payments and keep the house. Or you can also pay off back taxes through your Chapter 13 plan and stop interest from accruing on your tax debt.
Filing your papers with the bankruptcy court stops creditors in their tracks. When you file for Chapter 13 bankruptcy (or any other kind of bankruptcy), something called the automatic stay goes into effect. It immediately stops your creditors from trying to collect what you owe them. At least temporarily, creditors cannot legally grab (garnish) your wages, empty your bank account, go after your car, house or other property, or cut off your utility service or welfare benefits.
Some people use Chapter 13 bankruptcy to buy time. For example, if you are behind on mortgage payments and about to be foreclosed on, you can file Chapter 13 bankruptcy papers to stop collection efforts, and then attempt to sell the house before the foreclosure.
Chapter 13 bankruptcy requires discipline. For the entire length of your case (three to five years), you will have to live under a strict budget; the bankruptcy court will not allow you to spend money on anything it deems nonessential. You must also undergo financial counseling.
Payments may be deducted from your wages during your case. If you have a regular job with regular income, the bankruptcy court will probably order that the monthly payments under your Chapter 13 plan be automatically deducted from your wages and sent to the bankruptcy court.
The majority of debtors never complete their Chapter 13 repayment plans. Despite good intentions, although most people who file for Chapter 13 bankruptcy assume they'll complete their plan, only about 35% of all Chapter 13 debtors do. Many drop out very early in the process, without ever submitting a feasible repayment plan to the court. If you can come up with a realistic budget and stick to it, however, you should be able to complete your Chapter 13 plan.
Chapter 13 bankruptcy can stay in your credit file for up to 10 years from the day you file your papers, although rarely are Chapter 13 bankruptcies reported for more than seven years. After your case is over, however, you can take steps to improve your credit. In fact, some Chapter 13 bankruptcy courts have established programs to help you do just that. In such a program, if you have paid off around 75% or more of your debts, you may attend money management seminars and apply for credit from certain local creditors.
Chapter 13 bankruptcy has several important restrictions. Your first step is to see whether or not you are legally allowed to use the Chapter 13 process.
If you own a business as a sole proprietor, however, you can file for Chapter 13 bankruptcy as an individual and include the business-related debts for which you are personally liable.
For you to qualify for Chapter 13 bankruptcy, your income must be high enough so that after you pay for your basic human needs, you are likely to have money left over to make periodic (usually monthly) payments to the bankruptcy court for three to five years. The total amount you must pay will depend on how much you owe, the type of debts you have — certain debts have to be paid in full; others don't — and your court's attitude. A few courts allow you to repay nothing on debts that legally don't have to be repaid in full, as long as you repay 100% of the others. Some courts push you to repay as close to 100% of your debts as possible. Most courts fall somewhere in between.
To determine if your disposable income is high enough to fund a Chapter 13 plan, you must create a reasonable monthly budget. If you are not proposing to repay 100% of your debts and the court, the trustee or a creditor thinks your budget is too generous — that is, it includes expenses other than necessities — your budget will be challenged.
You do not qualify for Chapter 13 bankruptcy if your secured debts exceed $871,550 (be aware that this amount increases according to a set formula every three years). A debt is called "secured" if you stand to lose specific property if you don't make your payments to the creditor. Home loans and car loans are the most common examples of secured debts. But a debt might also be secured if a creditor — such as the IRS — has filed a lien (notice of claim) against your property.
In addition, for you to be eligible for Chapter 13 bankruptcy, your unsecured debts cannot exceed $290,525 (again, subject to triennial increase). An "unsecured" debt is any debt for which you haven't put up any collateral. The debt is not related to any particular property you possess, and failure to repay the debt will not entitle the creditor to repossess property. Most debts are unsecured, including bank credit card debts, medical and legal bills, student loans, back utility bills and department store charges.
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My grandpa and grandma lives in Lambsburg VA. There is this old school in Lambsburg that has been there for more than 50 years. We went there on June 8 and we saw some scary things on the chalk boards in there.
One board says help me out. The building has not been used inside for more than a decade. The school has not been in secession in over 25 years and it makes me wonder if there is anything that happens at night.
on the side of the window and also I saw blood on side of the brick wall.
My uncle witnessed an white apparition at his mail box one night about dark. When his dog seen the form he hid under my uncles chair on the porch. This was at the old Marshall place in Lambsburg.


The first thing that comes to our mind when we talk about Galaxy is Samsung and their Galaxy line. We have talked a lot about the Galaxy S III and the Galaxy Note II. But, what about the mid-range Galaxy devices? Well, today we have a mid-range Galaxy device: the Galaxy Ace Plus. Here is our take.
The design of the Galaxy Ace Plus is decent. The Plus does remind us of its predecessor, the Galaxy Ace. This is mainly due to form factor. But Samsung has made few tweaks to the design. The Galaxy Ace Plus has tapered back made of shiny black plastic. This glossy plastic is a bit slippery, but the phone is comfortable to hold, and the screen is small enough to reach everywhere with your thumb only, making the handset suitable for one-handed operation. Dimensions wise the device measures 114.5 x 62.5 x 11.2 mm.
Display: The Galaxy Ace Plus has a 3.6 inch TFT display. It has a resolution of 320X480 pixels which gives it a pixel density of 158ppi, which is a bit on the downside. Brightness wise, the display is usable on a cloudy day. But not so on a sunny day.
Processor: The Ace Plus has a single core 1GHz Qualcomm snapdragon. Which is pretty basic, but works well for those who don't use their mobile device as a personal computer.
Camera: The Ace Plus has a 5MP rear cam which can take 2592x1944px pics. But it can only record VGA videos @30fps.
Memory: The Galaxy Ace Plus comes with an internal storage capacity of 3GB. It is also provided with a microSD slot which can support up to 32GB. It also has 512MB of RAM.
Battery: The Ace Plus comes with a 1300mAh battery which can give a talk time of up to 11 hours.
The Ace Plus comes with Android 2.3 Ginger Bread out of the box, with touchwiz 4.0. But it can be updated to Android 4.1 Jelly Bean. Samsung does include its bundle of apps with device, like facebook, chatON, etc.
The Galaxy Ace Plus is a good choice if you are searching for a device on a budget. It comes with good features for a reasonable price.


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Various Documents Concerning Eastern Orthodox and Oriental Orthodox Joint Commission and Unity
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Addis Ababa – 1971
Joint Commission for the Dialogue between Eastern Orthodox & Oriental Orthodox Churches Revamped
Statement of the Orthodox Church of Antioch on the Relations between the Eastern and Syrian Orthodox Churches
H.H. Mor Ignatius Zakka I Iwas on Unity
Catholicos Mor Gregorius Bar 'Ebroyo on Orthodox Unity
Ecclesiology and the Dialogues Between Eastern Orthodox and Oriental Orthodox Churches
Fr Tenny Thomas on St Severus of Antioch
Hypostasis in St Severus of Antioch
Expressing the Same Incarnational Faith
An Explanatory Letter from the Greek Orthodox Patriarchate of Alexandria
Unity in Antioch
Unity in Diversity: The Opportunities and the Challenges
Restoring the Unity in Faith: The Orthodox-Oriental Orthodox Theological Dialogue
Second Letter of Cyril to Succensus
First Letter of Cyril to Succensus
Why Orthodox Unity?
Communique of Geneva 1985
Geneva – 1970
Bristol – 1967
Aarhus – 1964
A Response To The Agreed Statements
The Current State Of The Dialogue For Orthodox Unity In The Middle East [Published in 1998]
From A Letter Of The Blessed Dioscorus The Archbishop of Alexandria To The Monks Of The Hennaton
The Monastic Concerns Regarding Unity And Reconciliation of Traditions
Anathema! Some Historical Perspectives On The Athonite Statement Of May, 1995
Anathama: An Obstacle To Reunion?
Recent Efforts For Unity Between The Two Families Of The Orthodox Church
Was Dioscorus of Alexandria a Eutychian (monophysite) heretic?
Severus of Antioch: Eastern and Oriental Orthodox Perspectives
The Agreed Statements: Oriental Orthodox Responses
True Unity Will Be An Inspiration To The World
Barriers to Unity
Two Families of Orthodox
Chalcedonians and Non Chalcedonians: Realizing Unity
Chalcedonians and Non-Chalcedonians: The Last Steps to Unity
EASTERN ORTHODOX LEADERS RECOMMIT THEMSELVES TO DIALOGUE
"The heresy of the self-appointed reanointers"
Byzantine Orthodox Ethos: A threat to Our Liturgical Theology?
Beyond Dialogue: The Quest for Eastern and Oriental Orthodox Unity Today
John X's Vision for the Patriarchate of Antioch
EASTERN ORTHODOX-ORIENTAL ORTHODOX RELATIONS: PRACTICAL STEPS TOWARD UNITY
Ecumenical Trends in the Armenian Church
Discussion about Father John Romanides' Paper "One Physis or Hypostasis of God the Logos Incarnate"
One Physis or Hypostasis of God the Logos Incarnate
Leo and Theodoret, Dioscorus and Eutyches
Unity Efforts Between Eastern and Oriental Orthodox Churches
The Christology of St Severus of Antioch – Part 2
After Chalcedon – Orthodoxy in the 5th/6th Centuries
The Sentence of the 5th Council
History of Dialogue… on Communique of Geneva 1985
History of Dialogue… on Proposals for Lifting Anathema…
History of Dialogue… on Recommendations on Pastoral Is…
History of Dialogue… on Second Agreed Statement (…
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Unofficial Consultation
Fourth Unofficial Consultation
Orthodox-Oriental Orthodox Theologians
Summary of Conclusions
January 22-23,1971
The following conclusions and questions have arisen out of our informal discussions in Addis Ababa about the lifting of anathemas and the recognition of Saints:
1. We agree that the lifting of the anathemas pronounced by one side against those regarded as Saints and teachers by the other side seems to be an indispensable step on the way to unity between our two traditions.
2. We are also agreed that the lifting of the anathemas would be with a view to restoring Communion between our two traditions, and therefore that it presupposes essential unity in the faith between our two traditions. The official announcement by both sides that there is in fact such essential unity in faith, a basis for which is already provided by the reports of our earlier conversations at Aarhus, Bristol and Geneva, would thus appear to be essential for the lifting of anathemas.
3. We agree further that once the anathemas against certain persons cease to be effective, there is no need to require their recognition as Saints by those who previously anathematized them. Different autocephalous Churches have differing liturgical calendars and lists of Saints. There is no need to impose uniformity in this matter. The place of these persons in the future united Church can be discussed and decided after the union.
4. Should there be a formal declaration or ceremony in which the anathemas are lifted? Many of us felt that it is much simpler gradually to drop these anathemas in a quiet way as some churches have already begun to do. Each church should choose the way most suited to its situation. The fact that these anathemas have been lifted can then be formally announced at the time of union.
5. Who has the authority to lift these anathemas? We are agreed that the Church has been given authority by her Lord both to bind and to loose. The Church, which imposed the anathemas for pastoral or other reasons of that time, has also the power to lift them for the same pastoral or other reasons of our time. This is part of the stewardship or Oikonomia of the Church.
6. Does the lifting of an anathema imposed by an ecumenical council call in question the infallibility of the Church? Are we by such actions implying that a council was essentially mistaken and therefore fallible? What are the specific limits within which the infallibility of the Church with her divine-human nature operates? We are agreed that the lifting of the anathemas is fully within the authority of the Church and does not compromise her infallibility in essential matters of the faith. There was some question as to whether only another ecumenical council could lift the anathema imposed by an ecumenical council. There was general agreement that a council is but one of the principal elements expressing the authority of the Church, and that the Church has always the authority to clarify the decisions of a council in accordance with its true intention. No decision of a council can be separated from the total tradition of the Church. Each Council brings forth or emphasizes some special aspect of the one truth, and should therefore be seen as stages on the way to a fuller articulation of the truth. The dogmatic definitions of each Council are to be understood and made more explicit in terms of subsequent conciliar decisions and definitions.
7. The lifting of anathemas should be prepared for by careful study of the teaching of these men, the accusations leveled against them, the circumstances under which they were anathematized, and the true intention of their teaching. Such study should be sympathetic and motivated by the desire to understand and therefore to overlook minor errors. An accurate and complete list of the persons on both sides to be so studied should also be prepared. The study should also make a survey of how anathemas have been lifted in the past. It would appear that in many instances in the past, anathemas have been lifted without any formal action beyond the mere reception of each other by the estranged parties on the basis of their common faith. Such a study would bring out the variety of ways in which anathemas were imposed and lifted.
8. There has also to be a process of education in the churches both before and after the lifting of the anathemas, especially where anathemas and condemnations are written into the liturgical texts and hymnody of the Church. The worshipping people have to be prepared to accept the revised texts and hymns purged of the condemnations. Each Church should make use of its ecclesiastical journals and other media for the pastoral preparation of the people.
9. Another important element of such education is the rewriting of Church history, textbooks, theological manuals and catechetical materials. Especially in Church history, there has been a temptation on both sides to interpret the sources on a partisan basis. Common study of the sources with fresh objectivity and an irenic attitude can produce common texts for use in both our families. Since this is a difficult and time-consuming project, we need not await its completion for the lifting of anathemas or even for the restoration of Communion.
10. The editing of liturgical texts and hymns to eliminate the condemnations is but part of the task of liturgical renewal. We need also to make use of the infinite variety and richness of our liturgical traditions, so that each Church can be enriched by the heritage of others.
11. There seems to exist some need for a deeper study of the question: "Who is a saint?" Neither the criteria for sainthood nor the processes for declaring a person as a saint are the same in the Eastern and Western traditions. A study of the distinctions between universal, national and local saints, as well as of the processes by which they came to be acknowledged as such, could be undertaken by Church historians and theologians. The lifting of anathemas need not await the results of such a study, but may merely provide the occasion for a necessary clarification of the tradition in relation to the concept of sainthood.
12. Perhaps we should conclude this statement with the observation that this is now the fourth of these unofficial conversations in a period of seven years. It is our hope that the work done at an informal level can soon be taken up officially by the Churches, so that the work of the Spirit in bringing us together can now find full ecclesiastical response. In that hope we submit this fourth report to the Churches.
(Minutes of the Unofficial Consultation 1970 Geneva and 1971 Addis Ababa)
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The present crisis demands new solutions. And the solution is public transport, for space to accommodate cars is limited and cleaner and fuel-efficient technologies defeated by the number of vehicles. The Delhi government is planning to have 120 km of metro, 292 km of brt, and 50 km each of monorail and light rail by 2020. These will be interconnected. We need different modes of transport. In the Walled City, for instance, metro or brt will not work because the roads are not wide enough. There we are going for the light rail system, says Rakesh Mehta, chief secretary, Delhi.
brt is cheaper and quicker to construct as compared to metro. Metro costs Rs 100-300 crore per kilometre, while brt costs Rs 10-20 crore. While Bangalore metro is scheduled to roll out in 2011, I expect it to be ready only by 2015. Its intended coverage is inadequate, says G V Dasarathi, director of applications, Cadem Technologies, member of a network of citizens promoting public transport in Bangalore, Greener Bangalore. The Delhi metro has, however, inspired other cities. The Delhi Metro Rail Corporation (dmrc) has carried out a feasibility study for a Chennai metro. Ahmedabad and Hyderabad are also developing a metro system. But Kolkata and Delhi metros have not met the projected ridership. The Kolkata metro was to carry about 1.7 million passengers per day but its ridership is only 0.2-0.3 million.
Integrating different public transport systems is crucial to their optimal utilization. We found that only people who live or work near metro stations and those who had cars and could park them were using the metro. We have 100 feeder buses and are going to get 300 more, says Anuj Dayal, public relations officer, dmrc. brt acting as a feeder to metro is a good thing. Metro cant reach everywhere and there is enough demand in Delhi for the two systems.
Meeting this demand will require massive investment. But the benefits of public transport if properly countedhealth and energy and space efficiencywill make it worthwhile. Enhancing energy and emission efficiency will need a younger bus fleet and special provisions like a dedicated bus lane.
One challenge with public transport is meeting its operational cost. Revenues come mainly from fares and advertisements, but fares have to be kept low to ensure that more people travel by bus. A few countries levy taxes on cars which are channelled into developing public transport. France asks employers with more than nine employees to pay a transport tax that contributes to public transport operation. Such a tax could be introduced in India, says S K Lohia, director, urban transport, urban development ministry.
London levies a congestion tax on cars to drive into central London. It has now proposed linking the tax to emission levels. This discourages use of personal vehicles. Other possible sources of finance could be differential parking fees for private vehicles during peak and non-peak hours. Parking fares could also be varied depending on the locality and duration of space use. San Francisco, Belgrade and Bogota are some cities with such methods of parking pricing.
Until recently public transport systems were not considered for the clean development mechanism (cdm). The brt system in Bogota, TransMilenio, is the only public transport system registered for cdm with the un Framework Convention on Climate Change. This makes it earn carbon credits. A new methodology for evaluating brt systems had to be developed when TransMilenio applied for cdm. Emission reductions are calculated taking into consideration upgrade of bus fleet, increased bus capacity, development of infrastructure for better bus operation and incentives for commuters to switch from cars to public transport. TransMilenios estimated revenue from cdm between 2006 and 2012 is us $ 20 million for reducing greenhouse gases by 1.7 million tonnes.


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Tom DeMichael's MODERN SCI-FI FILMS FAQ is Entertaining but Redundant
Posted on June 3, 2015 by PipedreamerGrey in Book Review // 0 Comments
REVIEW SUMMARY: Modern Sci-Fi Films FAQ reads like a series of well-written Wikipedia synopses, and while the book might qualify the author as the best undergrad film course essayist ever, he's a long mile off from convincing anyone that he's a film expert.
BRIEF SYNOPSIS: Modern Sci-Fi Films FAQ recaps the plots of genre fans' favorite movies from the last 40 years and offers some behind the scenes trivia along the way.
PROS: This book is chock full of very thorough synopses written in an entertaining tongue-in-cheek tone.
CONS: There aren't actually any FAQs in this book, which makes the title both misleading and confusing.
BOTTOM LINE: Modern Sci-Fi Films FAQ would have been an extraordinary book if it had been published twenty years ago, but IMDB and Wikipedia have long since rendered it redundant.
AMAZON SYNOPSIS:
"This FAQ travels to a long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away… visits a theme park where DNA-created dinosaurs roam… watches as aliens come to Earth, hunting humans for sport… and much, much more. Filled with biographies, synopses, production stories, and images and illustrations many seldom seen in print the book focuses on films that give audiences two hours where they can forget about their troubles, sit back, crunch some popcorn, and visit worlds never before seen… worlds of robots, time travel, aliens, space exploration, and other far-out ideas."
At one point, I found myself read this volume during a power outage. When a family member asked what I was doing, I simply explained "Coping with Wikipedia withdrawal," and that's about as accurate and succinct a review as it's possible to give this book. Despite its misleading title, Modern Sci-Fi Films FAQ is not a list of answers to Frequently Asked Questions at all. In fact, the book features neither questions nor answers. Rather, the book is a conversational recap of the best science fiction movies released since the seventies.
Modern Sci-Fi Films FAQ starts with a forward written by Academy Award-winning special effects artist Dennis Muren, then proceeds to examine each of the biggest sci-fi movies of the last thirty years, beginning at the genre's literary roots. Written in an easy, casual style, the book covers films from 1970 onward, including such fanboy favorites as Alien, Alien Nation, The Matrix, and Stargate. There are twelve chapters in total, covering topics like the Wonders of Time Travel, Sci-Fi-entists and Their Experiments, and Robots and Robot Wannabes. Each movie entry includes a point-by-point plot synopsis along with the vital statistics that sideline any movie's Wikipedia article. These entries are entertaining and thorough, but succinct, making this book easy to browse whenever the mood strikes.
Though the book is ambitious in its a attempt to cover over four decades of film, it is by no means comprehensive, choosing instead to cherry pick the most significant films of that period. That may be understandable, given the physical restraints of a trade paperback, but it would quickly become frustrating to anyone looking to use the book as a research reference. DeMichael includes the first Star Trek film, for example, but not the fan favorites The Wrath of Khan or The Voyage Home, which are arguably the best of the franchise. What's more, while some sections are quite informative, offering trivia that I hadn't read before, the vast majority of the book is devoted to recapping the plot of movies it discusses, which renders it redundant once a person has seen the movies in question. If you haven't seen the movies in question, watch out, because DeMichael doesn't shy away from spoilers.
All in all, reading Modern Sci-Fi Films FAQ has left me with a great deal of respect for DeMichael's writing skills. His friendly narrative voice made a brick of a book an easy read, and for that, I'll be on the look out for other titles bearing his name in the future. However, on the balance, I have to recommend giving this book a pass. It simply doesn't contain enough new information to validate the book's expense for hardcore fans, and there's no reason for anyone who's not a hardcore genre fan to read nearly four hundred pages on the topic.
Let's be honest – a guy named "Snake" is always going to raise a few suspicions.
Imagine the parents of a young girl when they're introduced to her new beau.
"Mom…Dad – This is Snake, and we're engaged!"
Hoo-boy.
The Snake in our case is, of course, Snake Plissken. He's the ex-soldier, turned bad guy (then turned good guy) in John Carpenter's 1981 sci-fi action flick, Escape from New York. Set in 1997, World War III has left America in shambles (the long-recurring dystopian future sci-fi setting) and the Manhattan Island in New York has become a maximum security prison (in other words, the Big Apple has a lot of worms in it.) The US government recruits a reluctant Snake to save the President, who has become a hostage of the inmates. He accomplishes the task, but the whole affair leaves Snake in a more cynical state than when he started.
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OSHA News Releases – April 2008 (Archive)
04/30/2008 - OSHA Trade Release - OSHA announces new key personnel
04/30/2008 - Region 8 OSHA News Release - Department of Labor's OSHA announces alliance with OSHA Training Institute, Rocky Mountain Education Center at Red Rocks Community College
04/29/2008 - Region 2 OSHA News Release - Conklin, N.Y., manufacturer faces additional $75,000 in fines from U.S. Labor Department's OSHA for failing to correct machine guarding hazards
04/28/2008 - OSHA Statement - Statement by Edwin G. Foulke Jr., assistant secretary of labor for U.S. Department of Labor's OSHA, on Workers Memorial Day 2008
04/28/2008 - Region 1 OSHA News Release - U.S. Labor Department's OSHA, occupational health nurses and state unite to safeguard employees and occupational health professionals in Massachusetts
04/28/2008 - Region 1 OSHA News Release - West Warwick, R.I., construction safety demonstration held to help kick off U.S. Department of Labor's OSHA 2008 teen summer job safety campaign
04/25/2008 - Region 4 OSHA News Release - U.S. Department of Labor's OSHA cites Lyons, Ga., metal fabricator with four safety violations and nearly $60,000 in proposed penalties
04/25/2008 - Region 5 OSHA News Release - U.S. Department of Labor's OSHA cites Marion, Ohio, company for workplace safety and health violations
04/25/2008 - Region 6 OSHA News Release - U.S. Department of Labor's OSHA fines Voegele Mechanical Contractors in North Little Rock, Ark., $79,000 for trenching and excavation hazards
04/24/2008 - Region 4 OSHA News Release - U.S. Department of Labor's OSHA proposes more than $94,000 in penalties following inspection of construction trench in Atlanta
04/24/2008 - Region 5 OSHA News Release - U.S. Department of Labor's OSHA renews alliance with Lake County Contractors Association
04/24/2008 - Region 6 OSHA News Release - Teen summer job safety campaign held in San Antonio as part of national U.S. Department of Labor's OSHA kickoff of 2008
04/24/2008 - Region 6 OSHA News Release - Campaña de seguridad para trabajos de verano de adolescentes realizada en San Antonio como parte de la inauguración nacional para 2008 de la OSHA del Departamento de Trabajo de los EE.UU.
04/23/2008 - OSHA Trade Release - OSHA announces informal public hearing on proposed rule on Confined Spaces in Construction
04/22/2008 - OSHA Trade Release - OSHA and the Industrial Truck Association renew Alliance to prevent hazards of powered industrial trucks
04/22/2008 - Region 2 OSHA News Release - Westchester County, N.Y. contractors face $130,600 in fines after cave-in hazard spotted at public library construction site
04/22/2008 - Region 3 OSHA News Release - U.S. Department of Labor's OSHA recognizes March-Westin Co. Inc. for workplace safety and health success
04/22/2008 - Region 8 OSHA News Release - Operation Excel/YouthBuild event in St. Louis held as part of national U.S. Department of Labor's OSHA kickoff of 2008 teen summer job safety campaign
04/21/2008 - OSHA National News Release - U.S. Labor Department kicks off youth job safety campaign on TODAY show
04/21/2008 - Region 2 OSHA News Release - Batavia, N.Y., construction demonstration held as part of kickoff of U.S. Department of Labor's OSHA 2008 teen summer job safety campaign
04/21/2008 - Region 5 OSHA News Release - U.S. Labor Department's OSHA launches youth job safety campaign in Chicago
04/21/2008 - Region 6 OSHA News Release - DuPont Pontchartrain Chemical Solutions in LaPlace, La., achieves U.S. Labor Department's OSHA recognition for safety and health
04/21/2008 - Region 9 OSHA News Release - OSHA fines Guam construction company $135,400 for safety violations
04/21/2008 - Region 9 OSHA News Release - U.S. Department of Labor's OSHA kicks off 2008 teen summer job safety campaign at Sacramento Job Corps Center
04/21/2008 - Region 10 OSHA News Release - Puget Sound Skills Center, Burien, Wash., event held as part of national U.S. Department of Labor's OSHA kickoff of 2008 teen summer job safety campaign
04/18/2008 - Region 2 OSHA News Release - U.S. Department of Labor's OSHA launches safety and health alliance to protect employees in Union County, N.J.
04/18/2008 - Region 2 OSHA News Release - U.S. Labor Department's OSHA fines 11 contractors more than $135,000 for fall hazards at Walden Galleria Mall construction project in Cheektowaga, N.Y.
04/17/2008 - Region 3 OSHA News Release - U.S. Department of Labor's OSHA recognizes PPL Martins Creek Power Plant for stellar workplace safety and health
04/17/2008 - Region 3 OSHA News Release - U.S. Department of Labor's OSHA launches alliance with Roofing Contractors Association and Roofers' Local #30
04/16/2008 - Region 9 OSHA News Release - U.S. Labor Department's OSHA recognizes U.S. Postal Service's Chula Vista Main Office as safety and health 'star'
04/15/2008 - Region 6 OSHA News Release - U.S. Department of Labor's OSHA fines Valero Energy Corp. in Port Arthur, Texas, more than $100,000 for alleged safety violations
04/14/2008 - OSHA Trade Release - OSHA and the American Foundry Society renew Alliance
04/14/2008 - Region 4 OSHA News Release - U.S. Labor Department's OSHA to provide safety and health training for Alabama Gulf Coast construction industry employers
04/14/2008 - Region 7 OSHA News Release - U.S. Department of Labor's OSHA cites DCS Sanitation Management Inc. for multiple safety and health violations following electrocution death
04/14/2008 - Region 10 OSHA News Release - U.S. Labor Department's OSHA awards safety and health 'star' to U.S. Postal Service's Spokane Processing & Distribution Center
04/11/2008 - Region 7 OSHA News Release - U.S. Department of Labor's OSHA recognizes General Electric Environmental Services facility in Lee's Summit, Mo., for safety and health excellence
04/10/2008 - Region 5 OSHA News Release - U.S. Department of Labor's OSHA forms alliance with Wisconsin Builders Association
04/09/2008 - Region 1 OSHA News Release - U.S. Labor Department's OSHA, Springfield and Auburn businesses, team up to reduce noise hazards in central and western Massachusetts workplaces
04/08/2008 - OSHA Media Advisory - U.S. Labor Department's OSHA, Haskell Co. and University of South Florida forming construction safety partnership
04/08/2008 - OSHA Trade Release - OSHA renews Alliance with the Brick Industry Association
04/08/2008 - OSHA Trade Release - OSHA renews Alliance with the National Telecommunications Safety Panel
04/08/2008 - OSHA Trade Release - OSHA Announces Federal Advisory Council Meeting
04/08/2008 - OSHA Trade Release - OSHA and the Concrete Sawing and Drilling Association renew Alliance to protect safety and health of construction workers
04/08/2008 - Region 1 OSHA News Release - U.S. Labor Department's OSHA, Petra Construction Corp. and CONN-OSHA join to enhance safety on major Guilford, Conn., residential construction project
04/08/2008 - Region 1 OSHA News Release - Con-Way Freight cited for safety violations by U.S. Labor Department's OSHA following death of forklift operator at Manchester, N.H., depot
04/07/2008 - OSHA Trade Release - OSHA supports National Work Zone Awareness Week
04/07/2008 - Region 6 OSHA News Release - U.S. Department of Labor's OSHA renews partnership with Texas contractor groups to promote construction safety and health
04/03/2008 - Region 5 OSHA News Release - U.S. Department of Labor's OSHA forms alliance with Central Ohio Golf Course Superintendents Association
04/02/2008 - OSHA National News Release - U.S. Department of Labor's OSHA cites Winter's Architectural Roofing for alleged workplace safety and health violations
04/01/2008 - Region 1 OSHA News Release - U.S. Labor Department's OSHA and Consigli Construction form safety and health partnership for construction of new Bangor, Maine, courthouse
04/01/2008 - Region 3 OSHA News Release - U.S. Department of Labor's OSHA launches alliance with Roofing, Heating & Metal Contractors Association to target hazards in roofing industry


If you're one of those geeks in the world that is obsessed with being able to control their environment via a mobile device (and really, that's most people), then you'll want to take a look at this cool new hack that is depicted in the video above.
Using an inexpensive LED kit from IKEA, the people at Open Picus have created a way for you control the colors and intensity that the strip displays via a webserver that can be accessed over WiFi. Whether you're looking to gain the edge in your neighborhood's yearly holiday light contest or simply trying to add some geek-cred to your dorm room, this hack is something you should take a look at.
The process to make this happen is relatively simple, requiring you to know how to solder and be comfortable compiling software from source via a step-by-step walkthrough on the Open Picus wiki. The project does require you buy some additional hardware, namely a Flyport WiFi Makerkit, which will run you about $100 as well as the kit from IKEA making your total investment to be around $130.
By removing the factory installed micro-processor and replacing it with the FlyPort, you'll be able to interface with the LEDs via the Open Picus IDE software, which is a free download. Controlling the LEDs is very simple and even better, totally customizable. By modifying the code via the IDE you can control the length that each color is displayed, or even add to the number of colors to be displayed when a pattern is running.
Open Picus is something of a European equivalent to the US based SparkFun, it's a company that sells hardware development kits for people to learn and explore electronics. If you're an aspiring geek that wants to learn about electronics then this would be a great project to start out with.


It doesn't matter how sure you are of your purpose and your pursuit, you're going to experience seasons of doubt. I'm not talking about doubting the likeliness of events or results, but doubting your very ability to succeed. This is dangerous.
Doubt comes down to a lack of trust; in our vision, in ourselves, in God's provision… If we truly believe what we're doing is what we're supposed to be doing, then what reason do we have to doubt our success? Still, we all do it. No leader is immune.
Where does that doubt come from? Is it completely internal, or do other people 'inject' doubt into our lives?
Fun Friday: Verizon or AT&T?
I started to write something weighty, but then I realized it's Friday. It's only the first week of my new content plan, so I certainly can't go breaking the rules just yet!
Are you sticking with AT&T or are you jumping ship to head to Verizon?
Explain yourself. Either answer is fine. I reserve my judgement.
You can't build a business without a network. You can't start a new project without support. It just can't be done. You need people in your corner. For an introvert, this can be the one obstacle that freaks you out and keeps you from getting into the game.
A year and a half ago, one of my biggest fears was the fear of meeting new people. I was a complete introvert. I had my friends and that was about it; no need to meet new folks. Well, that's a dangerous attitude to have if you're starting up a real estate business.
The introvert in me had to grow up and learn how to get out there and meet people. It's been a great journey in which I've learned much more than can be contained in just one blog post. These are the tips I've picked up along the way….
I'm writing for you.. most of the time.
Sometimes, I like to write for me.
But most of the time I'm writing for you. I want to add a little value to your lives. I love helping people find information, think through things, and create solutions. That said, I need to know what your problems are before we start trying to solve them.
I'm not a big fan of New Year's Resolutions. They don't stick. If you need an arbitrary date in order to start working towards a goal, odds are that goal wasn't very important to you.
If it was, you wouldn't wait till January 1st to get cracking on it, would you?


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Ontario Provincial Police cruiser, June 21, 2019. Photo by Mark Brown/Blackburn News.
Victims of Moraviantown crash filing $7 million lawsuits
By Michael HugallJuly 16, 2019 2:14pm
The families of two Indigenous people are filing a combined seven-figure civil suit after a life-taking and life-altering collision.
In 2016, Bailey Jacobs was killed and Tanner Whiteye was left with permanent paralysis when a Chrysler 300 turned south onto Centre Street in Moraviantown, hitting both pedestrians and leaving another unharmed.
The incident left Jacobs to suffer "serious and ultimately fatal injuries, "while Whiteye was left with "serious and permanent injuries."
Court documents obtained by Blackburn News show both Jacob's and Whiteye's families are filing separate suits seeking damages that total more than $7 million. Jacobs' grandmother and four siblings are suing for $650,000 for damages pursuant to the Family Law Act. Whiteye has filed a lawsuit in the amount of $6 million for general and special damages. His mother, Yolanda, is looking for $500,000 in damages pursuant to the Family Law Act.
There are four parties facing lawsuits as a result of the collision. Now 24 years-old, Brayden Hopkins from Thamesville is named as the operator of the black 2008 vehicle which was involved in the collision. A statement of claims names Dean Altiman as the owner of the car making him lawfully responsible for Hopkins' alleged negligence. The Delaware Nation at Moraviantown Band Council is named in the suits, with the documents indicating that "at all material times the defendant (the band council) owed a duty of care to persons travelling along Centre Road."
This includes the well being of Whiteye and Jacobs, the statement reads.
None of the defendants appeared in the Ontario Superior Court of Justice on Tuesday.
The OPP conducted an almost year-long investigation into the crash and determined the driver of the vehicle was not at fault. There were no charges laid as a result.
Since then, police have remained tight-lipped regarding the results of their investigation.
Court documents also show an M. Hopkins as one of the assisting officers who responded to the scene, there is no confirmation on whether the officer is related to the defendant.
Blackburn News reached out to the OPP for further clarification on what the investigation determined throughout the course of 2017, but has not yet received a response.


Apple CEO Tim Cook introduces iOS 7 at a keynote address during the 2013 Apple Worldwide Developers Conference at the Moscone Center on June 10, 2013 in San Francisco, California.
There's an old saying that tech bloggers like to use: "It wouldn't be June without an Apple developer conference in the earlier part of June. Let's wait to see what Apple announces and then either type about it or make videos about it, or perhaps both." Ask any tech blogger about that saying, and if he or she denies it, the appropriate response is, "You're either with us, or you're against us." Maintain eye contact the entire time you say that phrase, too.
Anyhoo, this year will be no different. Apple has just announced the dates of WWDC (Worldwide Developers Conference) – it'll run between June 2 and June 6, almost certainly with an opening keynote where Tim Cook and friends will unveil what's next for Apple.
The announcements skew heavily to the software side – this is a developer conference, after all – but previous WWDCs haven't been without hardware announcements. Last year, we saw the totally redesigned and very-cylindrical Mac Pro and revamped MacBook Air models; the Retina MacBook Pro was unveiled in 2012; the iPhone 4 debuted back in 2010; there was the unibody MacBook Pro and the iPhone 3GS back in 2009; the iPhone 3G was revealed in 2008. But the point of the conference is software, software, software. Last year it was a heaping helping of iOS 7.
That's not a bad thing, by any means. Without software, all you've got are paperweights. You could argue that software's far more exciting than hardware nowadays: Phones are rectangles, tablets are rectangles, laptops are rectangles that fold down on top of other rectangles. Software is the soul of our gadgets.
We'll have plenty of WWDC coverage right here – make sure to check back in early June.


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Руска дореформена ортографија (чешће дореволуционарна ортографија) је бивша ортографија руског језика која је била у реду до њене реформе 1918. године. Сачувала се у емигрантским издањима.

Разлика између дореформене и савремене ортографије

Алфабет
До револуције у руском алфабету било је 35, а не 33 слова као данас. То су следећа слова: -{а, б, в, г, д, е, ж, з, и, i, к, л, м, н, о, п, р, с, т, у, ф, х, ц, ч, ш, щ, ъ, ы, ь, ѣ, э, ю, я, ѳ, ѵ}-.
Називи слова су следећи: а, бе, ве, ге, де, је, же, зе, и, и (десјатјеричноје), ка, ел, ем, ен, о, пе, ер, ес, те, у, еф, ha, це, че, ша, шца, јер, јеры́, јерь, јать, е, ю, ја, ѳита́, и́жица.
Како видимо, у алфабету било је 4 упразднених слова: i, ѣ, ѳ, ѵ. Али два слова у алфабету није било: -{ё}-, -{й}-.
Знакови -{ё}- и -{й}- само формално нису били у алфабету, али су били у употреби као и данас.

Изговор упразнених слова
Слово i изговарало се као и. Слово ѣ изговарало се као "је". Слово ѳ изговарало се као ф. Слово ѵ изговарило се као и. Слово ъ на крају речи није се изговарило. Таквим редом, за звук ф одговарало је 2 слова: ф и ѳ. За звук [e] било је 2 слова, е и ѣ, а за звук [и] три слова - и, i и ѵ.

Правила употребе упразнених слова
Слово i користило се пред гласним словима (укључујечи е, ё, ю, я), а такође пред "й" и за реч "мiръ" у значењу "Свемир" за разлику од речи "миръ" са значењем "Мир, тишина".

Слово ѣ користило се у 128 основима речи руског језика, а такође у неколиким суфиксима и окончањима. Да их лакше запамтите, било је измислено неколико стихова са словом ѣ.

Слово ѳ користило се у речима, које су дошли у руски (а раније и црквено-славенски) језик право из грчког језика и било је уместо грчког слова ѳ (тета). Таквих речи није било пуно:

 Сопствена имена: Агаѳья, Анѳим, Аѳанасий, Аѳина, Варѳоломей, Голиаѳъ, Евѳимий, Марѳа, Матѳей, Меѳодий, Наѳанаилъ, Парѳенонъ, Пиѳагоръ, Руѳь, Саваоѳъ, Тимоѳей, Эсѳирь, Иудиѳь, Ѳаддей, Ѳёкла, Ѳемида, Ѳемислоклъ, Ѳеодор (Ѳёдоръ, Ѳедя), Ѳеодосий (Ѳедосий), Ѳеодосия, Ѳеодотъ (Ѳедотъ), Ѳеофанъ (но Фофанъ), Ѳеофилъ, Ѳерапонтъ, Ѳома, Ѳоминична.

 Географски називи: Аѳины, Аѳонъ, Виѳания, Виѳезда, Виѳиния, Виѳлеемъ, Виѳсаида, Геѳсимания, Голгоѳа, Карѳагенъ, Коринѳъ, Мараѳонъ, Парѳия, Парѳенонъ, Эѳиопия, Ѳаворъ, Ѳеодосия, Ѳермофилы, Ѳессалия, Ѳессалоники, Ѳивы, Ѳракия.

 Народи и становнике градова: коринѳяне, парѳяне, скиѳы, эѳиопы, ѳиване.

 Нарицатељна имена: анаѳема, акаѳистъ, апоѳеозъ, апоѳегма, ариѳметика, диѳирамбъ, еѳимоны, каѳолический (но католический), каѳедра, каѳизма, киѳара, левиаѳанъ, логариѳмъ, мараѳонъ, миѳъ, миѳология, моноѳелитство, орѳография, орѳоэпия, паѳосъ (страсть, али Пафосъ — острво), риѳма, эѳиръ, ѳимиамъ, ѳита.

 Ред ретких сопствених имена такође писало се кроз ѳ. То су више од ста речи из Ветхог Завета, као Аштероѳ-Карнаимъ (Бит. 14:5), ред грцких и јеврејских ретких географских назива: Елевѳерополь, стари град (рушине) у Јужној Палестини на путу међу Јерусалимом и Газом. Људи, који не знају Библејску географију или нису познате са њом, могу да уопште не види речи са ѳ којих овде нема.

Ортографија оделних морфема (приставака, окончања)

Особености ортографије

Измене у дореволуционарној ортографији током XVIII - XX века

XVIII - поч. XIX векови

Средина XIX века

Почетак ХХ века

Референце

 Philipp Ammon: Tractatus slavonicus. in: Sjani (Thoughts) Georgian Scientific Journal of Literary Theory and Comparative Literature, N 17, 2016, pp. 248-56

Руски језик

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3.9 million Americans now work remotely.
If you want to live a location independent life, unless you are retired, you need to find remote jobs you can work from anywhere.
Whether you decide that you want to RV full-time, become a housesitter or any other lifestyle that requires you to be mobile, you have to find a way to support your lifestyle. Let's look at some remote jobs you can work from anywhere.
The need for copywriters is everywhere. Look around, and you are going to see words on signs, promotional papers and more. Someone had to write them. Why not you?
Affiliate marketing is where you sell someone else's product, and you get a cut of the commission. You are not a sales rep for the company. You simply refer people to the link and make money for sending them.
If you know multiple languages, you can make money teaching online.
There are many companies that no longer want to require their customer service to come to a specific location. Many companies are happy to have their reps operating from home.
You can help people find the information they need through the online library.
You can coordinate just about anything online. Find a company that needs a coordinator and see if they will let you work remotely.
Many sales can be performed online. Look for a company that will let you work in their phone sales or live chat sales department.
There is a serious shortage of interpreters. If you can help people understand each other, you will be busy all of the time.
You don't have to be a major artist to start your graphic design business. Many programs will help you take your semi-good talent to the next level.
Every business wants to rank at the top of the search engines. If you can help them get noticed on the search engines, you won't hurt for business.
Managing social media can be done all online. You may be required to post updates, or you might be asked to reply to comments and requests as well.
Virtual assistants can do a variety of different things from checking email, setting appointments and more.
Many people like their meetings, webinars or other conversations to be transcribed. If you have a high WPM typing rate, you are going to make more money.
With more jobs offering the options to work remotely, there is no reason you have to stay in one place. These remote jobs you can work from anywhere are just the tip of the iceberg.
Try researching jobs in your current field to see if there are remote work opportunities so you can work remotely from anywhere.
Have you worked any remote jobs? Feel free to share with us in the comments section.


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Dust Off Those Tuxes! Snakkle Hits the Dance Floor with Some Vintage Celebrity Prom Pics
By Tara Bennett on May 1, 2012
For celebs, walking the Hollywood red carpet in gorgeous dresses or suave suits is just part of the job. Not many of us will ever get to experience that kind of glamour, but everyone has to start somewhere, right? Average folks and the famous usually get their first taste of looking fancy and dressing to impress at our high school proms. Snakkle collected some revealing pictures of Hollywood's most fabulous attending their proms. Can you name these fresh-faced high school kids who would find future fame?
Dress Slips and Flour Bombs: Snakkle Looks Back at Some of Hollywood's Best Red Carpet Mishaps
By Kacey Arnold on April 18, 2012
Wardrobe malfunctions occur daily in Tinseltown. Sure, some could easily be avoided by, say, wearing underwear, but that wouldn't be Hollywood, would it? Start practicing your leg bombs, tape up your "ladies," and make sure no one can see through your dress—we're taking a walk down the red carpet.
HOT GALLERY: New Year's Eve TV Hosts Past and Present—Before They Were Stars
By Brett Singer on December 19, 2011
Pop culture pop quiz time. What kind of list contains the names Anderson Cooper, Tila Tequila, and Howard Stern? (Cue the Jeopardy theme.) Give up? They have all served as hosts of New Year's Eve specials at least once during their careers. Although the annual TV appearances of folks like Dick Clark (and heir apparent Ryan Seacrest) are as attached to ringing in the New Year as "Auld Lang Syne," other talented people have helped us count down, kiss our sweethearts, and make resolutions. (Breaking them starts the next day. It's okay, we do it too. We're not judging.) Let's look at some New Year's Eve TV hosts, past and present, before they became stars. 10… 9… 8…
HOT GALLERY: These Celebrities Are Famously Coupled Up—But What Were They Like in Their School Days?
By Nina Hämmerling Smith on December 15, 2011
'Tis the season for togetherness, tight-knit families—and trips down memory lane. Ever wondered what these celebrity couples were like before they got together? We've got their school-days pics.
Guess Who: Check Out Your Favorite Emmy-Nominated Stars Before They Were Famous!
By Lisa Angelo on July 14, 2011
Emmy nominations are out! See if you can guess who these fresh-faced nominees grew up to be!


How to install btrfs in RAID1, with bcache, on Ubuntu.
To avoid problems, use the most recent kernel you can. I did all this on Ubuntu 14.04 LTS but with Linux kernel 3.17.
Earlier kernels (btrfs versions) reported all sorts of unpleasantness in dmesg. 3.17 works.
I tried a bunch of recipes that failed. Several suggested it was possible to migrate existing btrfs volumes to use bcache.
Nothing I found came close to working without completely rebuilding the btrfs volumes.
I'm too lazy to look it up at the moment, but I believe you can use the same caching device for multiple storage devices.


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Athletics / Guess Who Took Down Usain Bolt ? [VIDEO]
Guess Who Took Down Usain Bolt ? [VIDEO]
Athletics, India, News
Usain Bolt made history by winning the 200m race at the World Athletics Championship quite comfortably. The Jamaican sprinter clocked in with a season best timing of 19.5 seconds and added one more gold to his name. Bolt had earlier won the 100m event, and the second gold is sure to boost his confidence after being laid off for major part of the season due to injury.
Usain Bolt sees the funny side
However, there was an incident after the race that caught a lot of attention. Bolt was having his usual celebratory walk after winning the race and was suddenly taken out by a cameraman. The cameraman was busy filming Bolt's celebration and got too close to the Jamaican.
Both men collided, losing their balance and going to the ground immediately. Bolt, was able to see the funny side of the whole thing and stood up with a wide smile on his face.
Watch Cameraman Hits Usain Bolt After 200m Race
Bolt will be back in action for the 4x100m relay later in the tournament and the fans will be eagerly looking forward to the same.
Tune into Sports Rediscovered for all the latest news and updates from the World Athletics Championships and Usain Bolt.
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Usain Bolt Is Still The Fastest Man On Earth
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World Athletics Championships: Gowda Brings Glory
Vikas Gowda Wins Jamaican International Invitation
Federation Cup Brings Good News For Indian Athletics
Indian Wheelchair tennis star Shiva Prasad is doing his bit for Para-athletes
ICC World Twenty20: India vs. Pakistan Preview
Hockey India Announce Nomination For Annual Awards
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Els mimètids (Mimetidae) són una família d'aranyes araneomorfes.

Descripció i comportament
Són normalment de color groc i marró i fan entre 3 i 7 mm de llargada. Es caracteritzen per les files de pèls en les seves llargues potes davanteres, que consisteix en una llarga espina, seguida per una sèrie de pèls progressivament més curts.

Els mimètids normalment cacen altres aranyes movent els fils de la teranyina de la seva presa per simular els moviments d'un insecte atrapat. Quan la seva presa ve a investigar, la capturen i se la mengen. Per això en anglès les anomenen pirate spiders (aranyes pirata). També s'han observat mimètids que s'alimenten d'insectes. Els hàbits d'alimentació de les aranyes presenta problemes en l'aparellament, i se sap ben poc com fan els mascles la cort a les femelles per evitar ser devorats. Tanmateix, alguns mimètids mascles del gènere Gelanor, de l'Amèrica del Sud, tenen uns apèndixs enormement llargs que fan servir per inseminar les femelles.

Sistemàtica
Amb la informació recollida fins al 31 d'agost de 2006 i hi ha citats 12 gèneres i 152 espècies, de les quals la majoria formen part dels gèneres Mimetus (61) i Ero (38 espècies). La seva distribució, força ampla, abasta Europa, una gran part d'Amèrica i Àsia, i algunes zones d'Àfrica i Oceania.

La categorització en subfamílies segueix les propostes de Joel Hallan en el seu Biology Catalog.

Gelaninae
Simon, 1881
 Arochoides Mello-Leitão, 1935 (Brasil)
 Gelanor Thorell, 1869 (Sud i Centreamèrica)

Melaenosiinae
 Kratochvilia Strand, 1934 (Príncipe)
 Melaenosia Simon, 1906 (Índia)

Mimetinae
Simon, 1881
 Arocha Simon, 1893 (Perú, Brasil)
 Australomimetus Heimer, 1986 (Austràlia)
 Ero C. L. Koch, 1836 (Zona Paleàrtica, Àfrica, Sud-amèrica, EUA, Àsia, Austràlia)
 Mimetus Hentz, 1832 (arreu del món)
 Phobetinus Simon, 1895 (Vietnam, Sri Lanka)
 Reo Brignoli, 1979 (EUA, Kenya)

Oarcinae
Simon, 1890
 Gnolus Simon, 1879 (Sud-amèrica)
 Oarces Simon, 1879 (Sud-amèrica)

Superfamília Mimetoidea
Els mimètids havien format part de la superfamília dels mimetoïdeus (Mimetoidea), al costat dels malkàrids. En alguns casos se'ls havia agrupat en les superfamílies dels araneoïdeus o dels palpimanoïdeus.

Les aranyes, tradicionalment, havien estat classificades en famílies que van ser agrupades en superfamílies. Quan es van aplicar anàlisis més rigorosos, com la cladística, es va fer evident que la major part de les principals agrupacions utilitzades durant el segle XX no eren compatibles amb les noves dades. Actualment, els llistats d'aranyes, com ara el World Spider Catalog, ja ignoren la classificació de superfamílies.

Referències

Bibliografia
 Platnick, N.I. & Shabad, M.U. (1993): "A review of the pirate spiders (Aranae, Mimetidae) of Chile". American Museum novitates 3074. Abstract - PDF (12Mb)

Enllaços externs
 Arachnology Home Pages: Araneae
 Platnick, N.I. 2003. World Spider Catalog
 Iziko, Museums of Cape Town

Vegeu també

 Mimetoïdeu
 Llista d'espècies de mimètids
 Classificació de les aranyes


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Dr Vipul shah teaches neurologists examination techniques in ISTART 2015 meeting in Mumbai.
dr shah taugh orthopaedic colleagues the criteria for best managing forearm fractures in children, presented the evidence on the use of botulin in cerebral palsy and how to do growth modulation surgery in children.growth modulation surgery is used to eqalize the lenghts of the leg bones when one leg is bigger or smaller than the other and is much superior procedure than the old procedure which involved cutting of bones,incidentally dr shah was taugh this technique first hand by dr peter stevens himself who invented the 8 plates when dr shah spent 4 months at the primary children hospital salt lake city utah,usa in 2007.
Information about functioning and disability is essential for clinical practice, research, education, as well as for health, social policy and advocacy. Increasingly, countries are enhancing their data about functioning and disability using the WHO International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health (ICF). The ICF is an international standard for health and disability information - key for collecting valid, reliable and comparable health and disability data.
· Participants, in the theoretical concept of the ICF and its potential application in practice.
· Teaching and providing participants, who already have experience with the ICF, a structured workshop and corresponding materials so that they can train others on the ICF.
Participants specially working in the fields of cerebral palsy, multiple sclerosis, spinal cord injury, traumatic brain injury, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, diabetes mellitus, obesity ,stroke, head and neck cancer, breast cancer, bipolar disorders, depression, rheumatoid and ankylosing spondylitis ,osteoporosis ,low back ache, osteoarthritis ,chronic widespread pain ,vertigo ,hearing loss ,inflammatory bowel disease, sleep problems , hand problems and professionals working with amputees were all associated in this workshop.
Dr vipul shah of the R.P.Shah Memorial Trust for children with disabilities and indian cerebral palsy team was invited to be a part of the work as GLOBAL EXPERT, it is a big boost to our morale that this recognition has happened to our team leader.
after 4 days of hectic travelling in the nooks and corners of eastern utttarpradesh ie purvanchal region which comprised of camps in allahabad ,badohi,jaunpur and pratapgarh ,indian cerebral palsy team thanks the media for extensive support for the cause.
this is the story of sonia and kuntal in boston (USA),blessed with a beautiful baby boy only to find that sattaki had bilateral club feet,in which both his feet were turned inwards,after numerous consulatations sattakis parents started him on plaster in boston, 7 plasters later sattaki was still looking as deformed as earlier,sonia and kuntal started getting desperate and found about the indian cerebral palsy team and dr vipul shah,dr shah one of the very few surgeons in india using the ponsetti technique looked at the e mailed pictures and told sonia that sattaki could be corrected, sonia came down to lucknow and within just two plasters sattaki was fully corrected ,none of the casts slipped from sattakis leg much to the delight of sonia and kuntal and 2 months down the line sattaki is fully cured and sonia is back to boston ,we wish sattaki a great future and dr shah will be following sattaki up regularly by images and you tube videos!!
we welcome roli to the team!!!
in a great news the indian cerebral palsy team member garima singh who has been working as a researcher with dr vipul shah has been selected for the prestigious american academy of cerebral palsy and developmental medicine fellowship,miss garima beat tough competetion to land the fellowship ,many of her competetors had more years under their belt but what tipped the scales in her favour was the fact that she and dr vipul shah have been able to generate 9 international level researches in the field of cerebral palsy amd developmental disabilities in the last calendar year,we wish garima the best in life!!!
the indian cerebral palsy team,R.P.Shah Memorial Trust for children with disabilities and the T.D.Mishra social working comittee decided to celebrate Dr vipul shah`s birthday in a unique way,the team got together to do a camp for poor and disabled children in agra on dr vipul shah`s birthday ,together the team examined 60 children with cerebral palsy and other problems in agra during 2 days ,as dr shah always felt that there is no bettter way to celebrate occasions than healing children who need our help!!
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the patient is fit and fine and very happy with the result join us in wishing her the best of health and speedy recovery!!!
PLEASE JOIN US IN OUR EFFORTS TO PROVIDE OUR CHILDREN THE LATEST THAT TREATMENT CAN OFFER!!
In a heartening move the Executive Body and the General Body of the Pediatric Orthopedic Society of india (POSI) agreed to become partners with Indian Cerebral Palsy to host the conference on Pediatric Disabilities in 2013, The agreement was ratified in the General Body meeting of POSI.
Molecular Genetics at the University of Toronto.
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Infographic: Film Industry By The Numbers
By Peter Sciretta/March 5, 2010 10:00 am EST
I always find Infographics to be fun, which probably explains why we feature them a lot on /Film. OnlineMBA has created an Infographic which focuses on the Film Industry by the numbers, showing that even in a recession, Hollywood remains strong in the world of entertainment. Check out the full infographic, after the jump.
Via: Online MBA


I'm having fun re-doing my very first designed amigurumi making a female version of Sir Bunny.
She is Girl Bunny, still to sew her up and write down the pattern for the changes I made. I'm so happy with the way she turned out.


The Democrats are determined to overturn the Republicans' gain last Tuesday of two Senate seats, and are in the process of stealing those seats in plain sight.
But there is more to this open theft than just that. The shamelessness and unapologetic audacity of this election fraud is no accident. The Democrats in Arizona and Florida and their allies in the establishment media piously intone that "all votes must be counted" as this fraud unfolds before our eyes, but they're neither stupid nor naïve. It is much more likely that their very brazenness is not a bug, but a feature.
If the Democrats pull this off, they will have shown conservatives -- and the world -- that nothing could stop them. The governor of Florida couldn't stop them. The courts couldn't stop them. President Trump himself, who has been commenting repeatedly on Twitter about the theft, couldn't stop them.
The intention is to intimidate and demoralize conservatives, induce them to give up and get out of this dirty game. This is, in a word, terrorism. The Left has taken a page from the fourteen-year-old playbook of Islamic jihadists. In my book The History of Jihad From Muhammad to ISIS, I detail numerous analogous incidents, in which Muslim rulers displayed gratuitous brutality against their captive non-Muslim populations solely to intimidate and demoralize them. To reinforce the lesson that resistance was futile.
While noting that the Muslim onlookers were happy at this spectacle, Ibn Hayyan doesn't record the reaction of any Christians who may have witnessed this scene. It isn't, however, difficult to imagine: amid their shock and horror came the realization that there was nothing they could do. It was useless to resist Abd al-Rahman. And for the most part, they didn't.
The Democrats are not rounding up conservative leaders and executing them in the city square -- however, the approval of mob violence from the likes of Hillary Clinton and Eric Holder is a sign that such a day might not be as far off as we would like to think. In the meantime, however, the effect is the same: we are meant to learn that they have carte blanche, that the democratic process is over, and that we might as well just submit to their will.
This is all the more reason why we must work harder to stop their thefts in Arizona and Florida, and to take all legal means to end their dishonest and underhanded practices once and for all.


What do we learn from our pains?
Pain can be a valuable lesson!
Two men, one a wise man, and the other an ordinary person, were traveling through a forest on a dark, moonless night. Suddenly, a shaft of lightning flashed in the sky.
The ordinary man began to tremble in fear. A storm! His mind was immediately given over to confusion. Should he continue to walk? Or should he find a safe place to stop till the storm was spent? He began wishing that he had never decided to undertake the journey. He cursed himself as foolish and unlucky. In other words, he fell headlong into suffering with just a few strokes of lightning!
The wise man, on the other hand, simply used the moments of lightning flashes to take a better look at the road ahead and kept moving. He ensured that he was traveling in the right direction, thanked the lightning for its help, and moved onward.
Pain is just like this flash of lightning. You have no control over its existence. But whether you suffer from it, or learn from it, is entirely up to you! Then, you will realize that you are the cause of your own pain, and only you can be the solution.
When you observe your pain deeply, innocence opens up in you. For the first time, you become aware that you are not the body. No pain can touch the real 'you'. Once you realize that you are beyond pain, you transcend pain to become a "dukkha ateeta" (one who has gone beyond suffering). You experience the rare freedom that arises with non-attachment to the body which you will carry all your life. You transcend your mundane life and enter into a spiritual plane. You then exist in the world as an atman, an enlightened master. The whole material world disappears and another world arises – of incomparable beauty, innocence, joy and compassion.


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Q: How to get parents of an element with xpath in selenium (python) I have a script that takes all the images I want on a webpage, then I have to take the link that enclose the image.
I actually click on every image, take the current page link and then I go back and continue with the work. This is slow but I have an a tag that "hug" my image, I don't know how to retrieve that tag. With the tag it could be easier and faster. I attach the html code and my python code!
HTML code

2017
4K
6.7

TITLE

2019
4K
8.0

TITLE

Python code
self.driver.get(category_url)
WebDriverWait(self.driver, 10).until(EC.visibility_of_element_located((By.CSS_SELECTOR, 'div.archivePaging')))  # a div to see if page is loaded
movies_buttons = self.driver.find_elements_by_css_selector('img.img-full.wp-post-image')

print("Getting all the links!")
for movie in movies_buttons:
    self.driver.execute_script("arguments[0].scrollIntoView();", movie)
    movie.click()
    WebDriverWait(self.driver, 10).until(EC.visibility_of_element_located((By.CLASS_NAME, 'infoFilmSingle')))
    print(self.driver.current_url)
    self.driver.back()
    WebDriverWait(self.driver, 10).until(EC.visibility_of_element_located((By.CSS_SELECTOR, 'div.archivePaging')))

Note that this code don't work now because i'm calling a movie object of an old page but that's not a problem because if i would just see the link i don't need to change page and so the session don't change.

A: An example based on what I understand you want to do - You wanna get the parent a tags href
Example
from selenium import webdriver
driver = webdriver.Chrome(executable_path=r'C:\Program Files\ChromeDriver\chromedriver.exe')

html_content = """

            2017
            4K
            6.7

TITLE

            2019
            4K
            8.0

TITLE

"""
driver.get("data:text/html;charset=utf-8,{html_content}".format(html_content=html_content))

Locate the image elements with its class and and walk up the element structur with .. in this case /../..
driver.get("data:text/html;charset=utf-8,{html_content}".format(html_content=html_content))
aTags = driver.find_elements_by_xpath("//img[contains(@class,'img-full wp-post-image')]/../..")
for ele in aTags:
  x=ele.get_attribute('href')
  print(x)
driver.close()

Output
https://www.link1.de/
https://www.link2.de/


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Thomson & Craighead back where it began
Thomson & Craighead, The Time Machine in Alphabetical Order, 2010, Courtesy Carroll/Fletcher, London
DCA stages the largest solo show in Scotland of the work of Thomson & Craighead from 18 January -16 March 2014. It is an exhibition which represents a triumphant return for the visual artists to a city that has played a formative role in their careers.
This show also represents another major landmark as it commemorates twenty years working together as collaborative artists – back in the city where it all began.
Best known for creating work from the flotsam and jetsam of global Internet culture, the artists work across video, sound, sculpture, installation and online space. They use technology as a means to reformulate fundamental human questions for our fast-moving times.
The exhibition entitled Maps DNA and Spam runs from Saturday 18 January to Sunday 16 March and features new work (the local homage Dundee Wall, Corruption and The First Person) and a selection of the duo's best-regarded installations The Time Machine in alphabetical order, Belief, Six Years of Mondays and A short film about War.
The artists met and first collaborated as students at Duncan of Jordanstone College in Dundee in the early 1990s. The city of Dundee and Scotland specifically, is clearly something that is both close to their hearts and crucial to their careers. Alison Craighead, is a native Aberdonian, and the pair also have a home in Kingussie, with the artists splitting their time equally between London and Speyside.
In October 2013 Thomson & Craighead's place within the pantheon of contemporary artists working in the digital age was confirmed when their work was name-checked in Turner Prize Winner Grayson Perry's BBC Reith Lecture series. He said: "There are artists that work digitally in a very interesting way. Two artists, British artists – Jon Thomson and Alison Craighead – very interesting. They do thought-provoking, lyrical, often hilarious interventions with the kind of flow of information that is pouring around the web."
Perry believes that not only is the work compelling in and of itself but also that it points the ways for artists of all kinds to exhibit and sell their work outside of the traditional gallery system and its gatekeepers. With the duo's championing of online editions and e-commerce the Courtauld Institute's Julian Stallabrass claims ironically that the old art order has good Reasons to Hate Thomson and Craighead.
Jon Thomson, born 1969, and Alison Craighead, born 1971, live and work in Scotland and London. They make artworks and installations for galleries, online, and outdoor projects. Much of their recent work, as showcased here in Dundee, looks at how communications networks like the worldwide web are changing the way we relate to the world around us – the conflict between our private and public identities, the global and the local and the way in which modern communications inform our sense of place and self in the world.
Jon Thomson says: "We're both extremely honoured to be asked to come back to Dundee, especially as it's almost exactly twenty years since we started showing work as artists. Dundee and DCA specifically, holds nothing but positive associations for us both: we met here and studied together in the city and we're delighted to be returning for the first time since participating in the group show Timecode in 2009."
Some highlights on display include:
Dundee Wall is a site-specific installation that provides a local spin on their previously produced London Wall, where status updates taken from online social media generated within a few miles of DCA are typeset, printed and pasted across a gallery wall in chronological order, offering a poetic snapshot of the area's social networking traffic. Expect to see a mixture of the banal, profound and sometimes humorous musings of the local digital community.
The Time Machine in alphabetical order – The 1960 film version of HG Wells' famous novella has been careful re-edited by hand to play in alphabetical order according to every word spoken in the film. In so doing, the artists attempt to impose 'a kind of time travel' upon the movie's original time line through the use of a system of classification.
Six Years of Mondays – This video documentary is of particular local interest as it features time-lapse movies made by the Fife man Graham Smith who has been recording the view from his bedroom window every day from 6am to 6pm since 2006.
The First Person – The First Person is a generative video work that takes an endless stream of first person testimony sourced from American self-help websites and randomly intercuts this quoted material with the found video footage of a burning house.
Thomson & Craighead, The First Person, 2013, Courtesy Carroll/Fletcher, London
Thomson & Craighead – Maps DNA and Spam
Dates: Sat 18 January – 16 March 2014
Venue: DCA, 152 Nethergate, Dundee , DD1 4DY
More info: www.dca.org.uk


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Tim Robinson: Connemara
Harvest Films | 2011 | 57 mins
Director Pat Collins Producer Sharon Whooley Editor Keith Walsh Camera Colm Hogan Steadicam Mick O'Rourke Sound John Brennan Music Susan Stenger
Tim Robinson has been extensively mapping and studying Connemara for the last thirty years. His work has reached international recognition through publications such as 'Listening to the Wind', 'The Last Pool of Darkness' and his forthcoming 'A Little Gaelic Kingdom'. Tim Robinson: Connemara is a sixty minute film based on the three Connemara books and a visual interpretation of his work as a map-maker and writer. An exploration of landscape, history and mythology – this film acts as an intersection between writing, film-making and the natural world.
What We Leave in Our Wake
Director/Producer Pat Collins Editor Tadhg O'Sullivan Camera Colm Hogan, Feargal Ward Sound John Brennan
What We Leave in Our Wake is a filmic essay which unfolds as a series of conversations on Ireland, exploring themes such as emigration, mythology, consumerism, socialism, the place of the church in Irish life, the central role of land in Irish history and the sense of a civic society. Combining images of contemporary Ireland with an evocative blend of archive, What We Leave in Our Wake questions what persists rather than the temporary fluctuations and trends, and talks to some of those uniquely placed to comment on how this country has evolved.
Featuring contributions from Joe Lee, Patrick O' Connor, Leila Doolan, Iain McGilchrist, Peter McVerry, Declan Kiberd, Desmond Fennell and Olivia O' Leary and archive recordings of John McGahern and John Moriarty among others.
Living in a Coded Land
Harvest Films | 2014 | 80mins
Director/Producer Pat Collins Editor Tadhg O'Sullivan Camera Colm Hogan/Feargal Ward Sound John Brennan
Based on an original idea by Dr. Patrick J.O'Connor, 'Living in a Coded Land' is a poetic and imaginative film essay that makes unexpected links between events and locations, history and contemporary life. The film revolves around the notion of a sense of place and stories associated with place, reflecting on the subterranean traces of the past in the present and probing themes such as the impact of colonialism, emigration, the famine, land, housing and the place of art in society. Making extensive use of archive from RTÉ and the IFI, the film seeks to explore the more elusive layers of meaning that make up this country.


The first responder bike ambulances have attended to as many as 122 cases so far in Bengaluru.
Most of the cases that the paramedics have attended to is that of road accidents.
On Infantry Road, in Bengaluru, as many as 19 cases were attended to, in the recent past. While 14 each were attended near Gali Anjaneya Temple, K R Puram police station and Nice Junction, 17 were aided on the spot at Sumanahalli Bridge.
At least 30 Bajaj Avenger 220CC bikes, modified into two-wheeler ambulances, have been introduced across the State. Among them, 20 are in Bengaluru.