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<?php

namespace Magento\Directory\Api;

use Magento\TestFramework\TestCase\WebapiAbstract;

class CurrencyInformationAcquirerTest extends WebapiAbstract
{
    const SERVICE_NAME = 'directoryCurrencyInformationAcquirerV1';
    const RESOURCE_PATH = '/V1/directory/currency';
    const SERVICE_VERSION = 'V1';

    const STORE_CODE_FROM_FIXTURE = 'fixturestore';

    /**
     * @magentoApiDataFixture Magento/Store/_files/core_fixturestore.php
     */
    public function testGet()
    {
        /** @var $store \Magento\Store\Model\Group   */
        $store = \Magento\TestFramework\Helper\Bootstrap::getObjectManager()->create('Magento\Store\Model\Store');
        $store->load(self::STORE_CODE_FROM_FIXTURE);
        $this->assertNotEmpty($store->getId(), 'Precondition failed: fixture store was not created.');

        $result = $this->getCurrencyInfo(self::STORE_CODE_FROM_FIXTURE);

        $this->assertNotEmpty($result);
        $this->assertArrayHasKey('base_currency_code', $result);
        $this->assertArrayHasKey('base_currency_symbol', $result);
        $this->assertArrayHasKey('default_display_currency_code', $result);
        $this->assertArrayHasKey('default_display_currency_symbol', $result);
        $this->assertArrayHasKey('available_currency_codes', $result);
        $this->assertArrayHasKey('exchange_rates', $result);

        $this->assertTrue(
            in_array($result['base_currency_code'], $result['available_currency_codes']),
            'Missing the base currency code in the array of all available codes'
        );
        $this->assertTrue(
            in_array($result['default_display_currency_code'], $result['available_currency_codes']),
            'Missing the default display currency code in the array of all available codes'
        );

        // ensure the base currency is listed in the array of exchange rates, and has a rate of 1 (no conversion)
        $this->verifyExchangeRate($result['base_currency_code'], 1.0, $result['exchange_rates']);
    }

    /**
     * @param string $code
     * @param float $rate
     * @param array $exchangeRates
     */
    protected function verifyExchangeRate($code, $rate, $exchangeRates)
    {
        $this->assertNotEmpty($exchangeRates, 'Expected to have non-empty structure of exchange rates');

        $foundCode = false;
        $foundRate = false;
        foreach ($exchangeRates as $exchangeRate) {
            if ($code == $exchangeRate['currency_to']) {
                $foundCode = true;
                if ($rate == $exchangeRate['rate']) {
                    $foundRate = true;
                }
            }
        }

        $this->assertTrue($foundCode, 'Did not find currency code in the exchange rates: ' . $code);
        $this->assertTrue($foundRate, 'Did not find the expected rate for currency ' . $code . ': ' . $rate);
    }

    /**
     * Retrieve existing currency information for the store
     *
     * @param string $storeCode
     * @return \Magento\Directory\Api\Data\CurrencyInformationInterface
     */
    protected function getCurrencyInfo($storeCode = 'default')
    {
        $serviceInfo = [
            'rest' => [
                'resourcePath' => self::RESOURCE_PATH,
                'httpMethod' => \Magento\Framework\Webapi\Rest\Request::HTTP_METHOD_GET,
            ],
            'soap' => [
                'service' => self::SERVICE_NAME,
                'serviceVersion' => self::SERVICE_VERSION,
                'operation' => self::SERVICE_NAME . 'GetCurrencyInfo',
            ],
        ];
        $requestData = ['storeId' => $storeCode];

        return $this->_webApiCall($serviceInfo, $requestData);
    }

    /**
     * Remove test store
     */
    public static function tearDownAfterClass()
    {
        parent::tearDownAfterClass();
        /** @var \Magento\Framework\Registry $registry */
        $registry = \Magento\TestFramework\Helper\Bootstrap::getObjectManager()->get('Magento\Framework\Registry');

        $registry->unregister('isSecureArea');
        $registry->register('isSecureArea', true);

        /** @var $store \Magento\Store\Model\Store */
        $store = \Magento\TestFramework\Helper\Bootstrap::getObjectManager()->create('Magento\Store\Model\Store');
        $store->load(self::STORE_CODE_FROM_FIXTURE);
        if ($store->getId()) {
            $store->delete();
        }

        $registry->unregister('isSecureArea');
        $registry->register('isSecureArea', false);
    }
}


She splashed in water puddles during the rain with an umbrella that had every color of the rainbow, it turned as she moved, as if it was dancing with her. Spring must be in the air! Snowdrops were melting and the neighbors seemed to be waking up from hibernation. The charm around her neck bounced as she moved, revealing a palette of shiny golds and purple shades.
This refined and royal heart shaped pendant was handcrafted in 9 karat gold with a kiss of rose. Three amethysts play within this floral frame. One purple amethyst winks at the top, the other stands boldly in the center, while the final teardrops at the bottom. It has been acid tested and weighs 2.6 grams. It is marked on the back with '9ct' and the mark 'H&W'. It was made in England around 1900 with a heavy nod to the Art Nouveau fashion of the day.
Dance with this shiny amethyst pendant through every season, rain or shine!


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UNFORGETTABLE Review
Brandon AveryDrama April 21, 2017
Director: Denise Di Novi
Writer: Christina Hodson, David Leslie Johnson
Cast: Rosario Dawson, Katherine Heigl, Geoff Stults, Cheryl Ladd, Whitney Cummings, Robert Wisdom, Simon Kassianides, Jayson Blair, Isabella Kai Rice, Alex Quijano, Marissa Morgan, Aline Elasmar, Kincaid Walker, Leslie A Hughes, Lauren Rose Lewis, Mitch Silpa, Katelyn Kay, Alex Staggs, Robin Hardy, James Augustus Lee, Frederick Keeve, Mia Moore, Wendy Suzann Miller
Runtime:100 minutes
Production Company: DiNovi Pictures, Warner Bros.
From the release of the first trailer, Unforgettable appeared to be a forgettable soap opera drama that we've all seen before. If you were one to roll your eyes during its marketing, know that you're weren't alone. These sentiments were most likely shared across the board, for it seems this story has been told an exaggerated number of times, though here there is the bonus of two prominent stars. Surprisingly, with her directorial debut, Denise Di Novi was able to craft an entertaining film that takes its time to bloom. The performances were as great as they needed to be, with the thrilling sensation of not knowing how it would end. It also contains a cliffhanger ending that leaves you full and satisfied.
Once upon a time it looked as if Tessa Connover (Katherine Heigl) had the life some women would call perfect. A great husband, a beautiful daughter, a large house, and enough money at one's disposal. In some situations, there's not too much to complain about there. What's great about her casting is the director had to pull off the look of a cold-hearted ice queen that you simultaneously felt sorry for at times. Di Novi was able to accomplish this with ease with Heigl. From the first shot I was a bit frightened by Tessa's stone faced persona as we got to soak in her demeanor. Julia Banks (Rosario Dawson) was the exact opposite in her role, appearing to be a beautiful butterfly you wouldn't want to harm. Pitting these two against each other was fun, seeing as both had valid reasons to take a noble stance.
Tessa is the ex-wife, while Julia is soon to replace her, and the film teases you as to why the initial marriage didn't work to begin with. As you're waiting for that answer, in some cases you sympathize with Tessa's predicament. A man she loved has moved on, and another woman is taking her place and becoming her daughter's step-mother. So as an audience member, you're on the fence on which side you should take, but deep down you know there's a mystery afoot. Though, while Julia may seem like the perfect angel, she still has a past that may spice things up. Honesty is key, and her decision to not be honest thickens the plot in a unique way. I loved her character and how she patiently waited for the right time to strike, and she knew how to hold her own. It was a difficult situation for her to be in, but she handled it with strength and class.
Films like these have to have a grand payoff that shines towards the end, and in that sense I'd say Unforgettable does. It takes a while to get there, but along the ride, the script constantly brings different appetizers to the table to keep you entertained. The confrontation towards the end of the film is inevitable, and slightly came out of nowhere right at the perfect time. Seeing that Julia and Tessa are becoming sworn enemies that have to share a life, you're not sure who, or how, one would come out on top. I'd have to say this decision to handle that part of the story was near perfect in its conclusion. What stood out the most was Tessa's desire to stay in a role that wasn't hers anymore. She's beyond crazy and would stop at no lengths to get what she wants. Even if it means killing someone, she's likely to snap maniacally to get her way.
This film had a few good surprises that you'd never see coming. It's not completely original as most films aren't, but it still gives you its own sense of flavor. As far as the plot there was an instance or two where a certain line of dialogue was ignored, which prolonged the flow of things, but overall the writing done by Christina Hodson and David Leslie Johnson was exactly where it needed to be. You could watch this film on repeat, and it is great enough to keep your attention, or have it playing in the background when guests are over. This is all due to the cast putting you in their shoes. I think what would grab most people's attention is how relatable some of the characters are, but hopefully they wouldn't take events as far as the characters did.
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Walt Disney Television (WDT) redefines the future of media and entertainment. Delivering compelling creative, great storytelling, ground-breaking technology, high-impact marketing and innovative distribution, WDT offers multiple opportunities to build a career that supports entertaining and informing the world. A key unit of The Walt Disney Company, one of the world's most admired vertically integrated media enterprises, WDT includes global live action and animation entertainment, news, owned television stations, and radio. If you've got a passion to join our team of talented professionals we want to hear your story.
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Esher High School is a forward-thinking and outward-looking school, where aspirations are high and ambitions unlimited. Here each child is valued and his or her uniqueness is cherished and the learning environment is designed for maximum engagement and achievement.
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With the money he got after selling his Ford Endeavor, Shahnawaz bought 160 oxygen cylinders to provide to the needy.
This article was first Published on April 21, 2021 at – : https://bit.ly/32KaIRX
By Trending Desk
Mumbai: At a time when the country is facing an acute shortage of oxygen at this time of coronavirus crisis and patients are dying due to lack of it in hospitals, a good Samaritan who lives in Malad, Mumbai, has become a messiah for the people in the locality. Popularly known as 'Oxygen Man', Shahnawaz Sheikh is working in the locality to deliver oxygen to patients on a phone call. His team has also set up a 'control room' so that people do not have problems in receiving oxygen at this time of crisis. Also Read – Humanity is Still Alive: Railways Hero Mayur Shelke Who Saved a 6-Year-Old Child Donates Half of Reward Money For His Education
Passionate about helping patients at this critical time, Shahnawaz said he has sold his Rs 22 lakh SUV a few days ago to help the people in the locality. With the money he got after selling his Ford Endeavor, Shahnawaz bought 160 oxygen cylinders to provide to the needy. Shahnawaz said that last year he had run out of money while helping the poor so he had to sell his car. Also Read – 13 COVID Patients Dead After Fire at Vijay Vallabh Hospital in Mumbai's Virar; CM Thackeray Orders Probe
Speaking to a news daily, Shahnawaz said last year, his friend's wife died in an auto-rickshaw due to lack of oxygen and after which he decided to work as an oxygen supply agent for patients in Mumbai. To provide timely help to the people, Shahnawaz has also issued a helpline number and has set up a control room. Also Read – Coronavirus in India April 22, 2021 Updates
Shahnawaz further said that the condition this time in comparison to last year is not the same and this January, he received 50 calls for oxygen, and at present 500 to 600 phone calls are coming every day.
His team members, who have helped more than 4000 people, explain to the patients how to use the cylinders. After use, most of the patients deliver empty cylinders to their control rooms. According to Shahnawaz, they have reached out to more than 4000 people since last year.
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package org.compass.annotations.test.inheritance;

import org.compass.annotations.Searchable;
import org.compass.annotations.SearchableProperty;

/**
 * @author kimchy
 */
@Searchable(poly = true)
public class B extends A {

    private String value3;

    @SearchableProperty(name = "value1e")
    public String getValue1() {
        return super.getValue1();
    }

    public void setValue1(String value1) {
        super.setValue1(value1);
    }

    @SearchableProperty(name = "value2e", override = false)
    public String getValue2() {
        return super.getValue2();
    }

    public void setValue2(String value2) {
        super.setValue2(value2);
    }

    @SearchableProperty(name = "value3e")
    public String getValue3() {
        return value3;
    }

    public void setValue3(String value3) {
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}

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"The Essence of Discipleship," Liahona, May 2011, 84–86
By Silvia H. Allred
First Counselor in the Relief Society General Presidency
When love becomes the guiding principle in our care for others, our service to them becomes the gospel in action.
From the beginning of time, the Lord has taught that to become His people we need to be of one heart and one mind.1 The Savior also explained that the two great commandments in the law are "Love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind" and "love thy neighbour as thyself."2 Lastly, soon after the Church was restored, the Lord commanded the Saints to "visit the poor and the needy and administer to their relief."3
What is the common theme in all these commandments? It is that we must love one another and serve one another. This is, in fact, the essence of discipleship in the true Church of Jesus Christ.
As we celebrate 75 years of the Church welfare program, we are reminded of the purposes of welfare, which are to help members help themselves become self-reliant, to care for the poor and needy, and to give service. The Church has organized its resources to assist members to provide for the physical, spiritual, social, and emotional well-being of themselves, their families, and others. The office of bishop carries with it a special mandate to care for the poor and needy and to administer such resources for the members in his ward. He is assisted in his efforts by priesthood quorums, Relief Society, and in particular, home and visiting teachers.
Relief Society has always been at the heart of welfare. When the Prophet Joseph Smith organized the Relief Society in 1842, he said to the women, "This is the beginning of better days to the poor and needy."4 He told the sisters that the purpose of the society was "relief of the poor, the destitute, the widow and the orphan, and for the exercise of all benevolent purposes. … They will pour in oil and wine to the wounded heart of the distressed; they will dry up the tears of the orphan and make the widow's heart to rejoice."5
He also stated that the society "might provoke the brethren to good works in looking to the wants of the poor—searching after objects of charity, and in administering to their wants—to assist by correcting the morals and strengthening the virtues of the community."6
Men and women of the Church participate jointly today in bringing relief to those in need. Priesthood holders provide essential support for those needing spiritual guidance and help. Inspired home teachers bless lives and provide the blessings of the gospel to every family unit. In addition, they lend their strength and talents in other ways, such as helping a family in need of home repairs, in helping a family move, or in helping a brother find needed employment.
Relief Society presidents visit homes to assess the needs for a bishop. Inspired visiting teachers watch over and care for sisters and families. They are often the first response in times of immediate need. Relief Society sisters provide meals, render compassionate service, and give constant support during times of trial.
Church members all over the world have rejoiced in the past and should rejoice now at the opportunities we have to serve others. Our combined efforts bring relief to those who are poor, hungry, suffering, or distressed, thereby saving souls.
Every bishop has available to him the Lord's storehouse, which is established as "faithful members give to the bishop of their time, talents, skills, compassion, materials, and financial means in caring for the poor and in building up the kingdom of God on the earth."7 We can all contribute to the Lord's storehouse when we pay our fast offerings and make all our resources available to the bishop to assist those in need.
Despite the rapidly changing world, welfare principles have not changed with the passing of time because they are divinely inspired, revealed truth. When members of the Church and their families do everything they can to sustain themselves and still cannot meet basic needs, the Church stands ready to help. Short-term needs are met immediately, and a plan to help the recipient become self-reliant is established. Self-reliance is the ability to provide the spiritual and temporal necessities of life for self and family.
As we increase our own level of self-reliance, we increase our ability to help and serve others the way the Savior did. We follow the Savior's example when we minister to the needy, the sick, and the suffering. When love becomes the guiding principle in our care for others, our service to them becomes the gospel in action. It is the gospel in its finest moment. It is pure religion.
In my various Church assignments, I have been humbled by the love and concern bishops and Relief Society leaders demonstrate for their flocks. While I was serving as a stake Relief Society president in Chile during the early 1980s, the country was experiencing a deep recession and the rate of unemployment was 30 percent. I witnessed how heroic Relief Society presidents and faithful visiting teachers went about "doing good"8 under such grim circumstances. They portrayed the scripture in Proverbs 31:20: "She stretcheth out her hand to the poor; yea, she reacheth forth her hands to the needy."
Sisters whose families had very little themselves were constantly helping those who they thought were in greater need. I then more clearly understood what the Savior saw when He declared in Luke 21:3–4:
"Of a truth I say unto you, that this poor widow hath cast in more than they all:
"For all these have of their abundance cast in unto the offerings of God: but she of her penury hath cast in all the living that she had."
A few years later I witnessed the same thing as a stake Relief Society president in Argentina when hyperinflation hit the country and the economic collapse that followed affected many of our faithful members. I witnessed it yet again during my recent visits to Kinshasa in the Democratic Republic of Congo, Antananarivo in Madagascar, and Bulawayo in Zimbabwe. Ward members everywhere, and Relief Society sisters in particular, continue to build faith, strengthen individuals and families, and help those in need.
To think that a humble sister or brother with a Church calling can go into a home where there is poverty, sorrow, sickness, or distress and can bring peace, relief, and happiness is astonishing. No matter where the ward or branch is or how big or small the group is, every member throughout the world has that opportunity. It happens every day, and it is happening somewhere at this very moment.
Karla is a young mother of two. Her husband, Brent, works long hours and commutes an hour each way to work. Soon after the birth of their second little girl, she related the following experience: "The day after I received the call to serve as a counselor in my ward Relief Society, I began to feel quite overwhelmed. How could I possibly take on the responsibility to help care for the women in my ward when I was struggling just to fulfill my role as a wife and mother of a very active two-year-old and a new baby? Just as I was dwelling on these feelings, the two-year-old became sick. I wasn't quite sure what to do for her and care for the baby at the same time. Just then, Sister Wasden, who is one of my visiting teachers, unexpectedly came to the door. A mother of grown children, she knew just what to do to help. She told me what I needed to do while she went to the drugstore to get some supplies. Later on she arranged for my husband to be picked up at the train station so that he could get home quickly to help me. Her response to what I believe was a prompting from the Holy Ghost along with her willingness to serve me were just the reassurance I needed from the Lord that He was going to help me to fulfill my new calling."
Heavenly Father loves us and knows our unique circumstances and abilities. Although we seek His help daily through prayer, it is usually through another person that He meets our needs.9
The Lord said, "By this shall all men know that ye are my disciples, if ye have love one to another."10
The pure love of Christ is expressed as we give selfless service. Helping one another is a sanctifying experience which exalts the receiver and humbles the giver. It helps us become true disciples of Christ.
The welfare plan has always been the application of eternal principles of the gospel. It truly is providing in the Lord's way. Let us each renew our desire to be part of the Lord's storehouse in blessing others.
I pray that the Lord will bless each of us with a greater sense of mercy, charity, and compassion. I plead for an increase in our desire and ability to reach out and assist the less fortunate, the distressed, and those who suffer, that their needs may be met, that their faith may be strengthened, and that their hearts may be filled with gratitude and love.
May the Lord bless each one of us as we walk in obedience to His commandments, His gospel, and His light. In the name of Jesus Christ, amen.
See Moses 7:18.
See Matthew 22:36–40.
Doctrine and Covenants 44:6.
Joseph Smith, in History of the Church, 4:607.
Teachings of Presidents of the Church: Joseph Smith (2007), 452.
Teachings: Joseph Smith, 452.
Providing in the Lord's Way: A Leader's Guide to Welfare (1990), 11.
Acts 10:38; Articles of Faith 1:13.
See Teachings of Presidents of the Church: Spencer W. Kimball (2006), 82.


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Q: How to create a WriteStream with limit of written bytes? I need to implement write stream to file with fixed limit 50Mb. How to create WriteStream with that limit?
Thanks

A: I propose to count the bytes you are writing to the stream and stop writing if you have reached the limit. If you are going to pipe data from a read stream into the write stream, use the read streams 'data' event to count the bytes piped into the read stream.

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HomeCrypto NewsMarketeToro Releases Another Video Teaser Before The Major Announcement Testing the Patience of Shiba Inu (SHIB) Community
eToro Releases Another Video Teaser Before The Major Announcement Testing the Patience of Shiba Inu (SHIB) Community
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eToro, Israeli social trading, and multi-asset brokerage company, is taking a test of Shiba Inu Community patience as it released another video teaser of 6 seconds with the caption, "Just wait for the second half of the game tonight. We're coming", before the major announcement which is scheduled to be released today i.e., 13th February 2022.
Hot Dogs Café can be seen in the video with the caterer and the customer looking towards the sky with surprise.
Just wait for the second half of the game tonight. We're coming. #FlyWithUs #eToro pic.twitter.com/IaQyjIlCAd
— eToro US (@eToroUS) February 13, 2022
The Hot Dogs Café in the video may symbolize the recent partnership between Welly's – the burger joint and Shiba Inu (SHIB) or the first one-of-a-kind SHIB Branded restaurant.
Formerly, the financial services company, eToro released its first video teaser on February 8, 2022, in which Shiba Inu, a cute Japanese dog breed could be seen looking here and there like he's searching for something while standing on the footpath.
eToro doesn't have officially released the details about the announcement yet. But the clues provided via both teasers are confirming that some big announcement will soon be released about the Shiba Inu token by the company.
We are excited to have more details about the announcement. As soon as we have any official update from the eToro, we will definitely update it on the website as soon as possible.
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Electricity, one of the most versatile and widely used power sources, is used extensively on almost every farm. Farmers are so familiar with electricity that they may take electrical safety for granted. When this happens, accidents often follow. The National Safety Council reports almost 500 electrical fatalities annually. On average, more than 20 of these deaths are directly related to farming operations.
How much electricity is fatal? People can feel electrical currents at levels as low as approximately 1 milliamp (mA), which produces a slight tingling sensation. Increasing current levels above the 5 mA "let go" threshold can cause loss of muscular control, irregular heart rhythm and, finally, cardiac arrest. Five mA is only a small fraction of the current needed to power a 60-watt bulb, which draws about 1/2 amp, or 500 mA.
Electrical shock occurs when a person touches an electrically charged object at the same time they are touching another surface capable of conducting electricity to ground. A current then passes between the points of contact. The shock effects depend on the amperage, duration of contact and resistance of the pathway through the body. For example, damp skin is less resistant to current flow and permits greater shock effects. For this reason, you should work in a dry environment while handling electrical equipment.
The seriousness of a shock depends on the path the current takes through the body. For example, a small current passing through the heart is much more critical than a current passing between two fingers of the same hand. Testing for live current with one hand instead of two reduces the risk of a dangerous shock by making current less likely to flow through the heart.
Be aware of potential danger from power lines when operating grain augers and other types of tall farm equipment.
Never use any electrical hand tool that does not carry the Underwriters Laboratories (UL) Listing Mark. This mark indicates the tool has undergone extensive testing and has been found to be safe when properly maintained.
Older tools with a two-wire design should be immediately upgraded to a three-wire system by qualified personnel. If your tool cannot be upgraded, discard it. Most power tools in use today have a three-wire system. This third wire serves as an emergency ground in case of an internal short or ground fault.
Make sure the three-wire system is maintained through all adapters and extension cords. Adapters not properly connected to receptacle boxes make the ground fault wire ineffective.
Never disconnect or carry power tools by their cords. This causes the cord's insulation to rapidly deteriorate. Inspect tool and extension cords routinely for fraying and other signs of deterioration. Repair or replace immediately.
Consider using a ground fault interrupter (GFI). GFIs do not replace traditional protection provided by current isolation, insulation and grounding, but they are a backup if insulation or grounding fails due to age, abuse or mechanical breakdown. The GFI detects low levels of leaking current and cuts off power quickly at leakages greater than 5 mA.
Too often, careless handling of farm equipment around electric power lines and utility poles leads to tragedy. Accidents can be prevented by insisting that hired hands and family members learn to survey work areas before using farm equipment. Make each worker determine that equipment will not come within 10 feet of power lines or power support equipment. Electrocutions can occur even if actual contact is not made with the line. The greater the line voltage, the farther electricity is able to "jump" to a ground conductor.
Recognize that power lines often follow property lines. As workers reach the end of the field and turn the equipment, there is a good chance power lines will be nearby. Power lines also are often near grain and equipment storage facilities. Be sure that paths from equipment storage areas to fields and from the fields to grain storage areas are safe routes. If you have any doubts that your equipment will clear a line, assume that it will not and take measures to avoid possible contact.
Crop storage equipment such as balers and stackers can be extended in height to exceed electric code clearances for power lines. When storing hay or baled straw, take precautions to be sure the stacking equipment will not come into contact with power lines.
Portable grain augers are a leading cause of farm electrocutions. Lower augers when moving them from one bin to another. The operating height of an auger usually is greater than the height of power lines. If workers push one into a line by hand, they can be instantly electrocuted.
Voltages greater than 1 volt disturb cattle, decrease dairy cow milk production and lower the average daily gain in beef cattle. If animals are exposed long enough to voltages greater than 25 volts, the voltage can be fatal.
Stray voltage on farms may stem from several sources. The voltage may occur predictably throughout the day, or it may occur randomly. These factors make controlling stray voltage a major problem.
Ground faults on the farm.
Voltage gradients across the ground or floor due to wires faulted in the earth.
Electric fence wires shorting directly to equipment or energizing pipes and equipment.
Electrical motors and equipment can "short out" or ground fault to their outside casings. The severity can vary from a fault with no visible effect to a complete short circuit. When short circuits occur, all conductive materials, such as stainless steel milk lines and pipe fencing, become energized. Wood also can conduct electricity when it is wet. To correct the problem, faulty equipment should be repaired or replaced immediately by someone with proper training. The three-wire electrical supply line helps reduce the problem when the fault first occurs.
Voltage gradients through the earth or across a floor occur when an underground wire faults to earth. This often happens when the insulation of underground wires not rated for direct burial becomes damaged. Typically, the wires have not been buried at the proper depth. Underground wires buried many years ago are suspect, particularly if voltage gradients are detected in the earth. To correct the problem, the lines must be replaced with ones rated for direct burial.
Electric fence wires running through buildings can cause problems when building electrical wire is used. The maximum insulation rating of building electrical wire is 600 volts, which is not adequate insulation for the high-voltage pulse output of a fence charger. When this type of stray voltage is suspected, look for breakdowns in the insulation that could be causing a fault to metal equipment inside a barn. To prevent this problem, use insulated wire rated beyond the maximum voltage output of the fence charger.


Home improvement specialist Ron Hazelton hosted an interactive game called "Built for Life" at the Home Fire Sprinkler Coalition booth at the International Builders' Show in Las Vegas. Meeting attendees lined up at the booth to answer multiple-choice questions about home fire sprinklers. If they answered correctly, they got to spin the wheels of a slot machine for a chance to win a flat screen TV, Nintendo Wii games, a Husky wrench set, or a Home Fire Sprinkler Coalition cap.
NFPA vice president Gary Keith, chair of the Home Fire Sprinkler Coalition, spoke at this morning's press conference at the International Builders' Show in Las Vegas about the fire problem in the United States.
"As a country, we've done a good job in reducing the number and severity of home fires through public education, improved codes and standards, and the wide-use of smoke alarms," said Mr. Keith. But he added that in order to take the next step towards saving lives and property from home fires, we need to take a serious look at residential sprinklers.
NFPA's Fire Sprinkler Initiative provides resources for the fire service and other sprinkler advocates who want to demonstrate the need for home fire sprinklers in their community. And the non-profit Home Fire Sprinkler Coalition provides educational material for consumers, builders, the fire service, and others who are seeking unbiased, non-commercial information about home fire sprinkler systems.
Mr. Keith had a simple philosophy about adding the next level of fire protection in new homes. "If you build it, sprinkler it," he said.
In this issue, we highlight a huge step forward in our efforts: Pennsylvania, New Hampshire, and California have all passed measures to require fire sprinklers in all new one- and two-family homes. We also outline some actions you can take to fight any anti-sprinkler legislation that may get filed in your jurisdiction.
We also talk about an event at the International Home Builders' Show next week in Vegas, where initial findings of a groundbreaking study on the environmental impact of home fire sprinklers will be released.
And on our blog, NFPA's Russ Sanders talks about a tragic fire that killed two young brothers on Christmas Day in Kentucky -- and how fire sprinklers could have made a huge difference in that event.
NFPA President Jim Shannon praised the work of fire officials and fire safety advocates after three states (Pennsylvania, New Hampshire, and California) adopted the 2009 edition of the International Residential Code (IRC) which will require home fire sprinklers in all new one- and two-family homes.
"The nation's fire service and other fire safety advocates deserve tremendous recognition for their efforts to bring safety home by working to get sprinklers in every community," Mr. Shannon said. Read more.
According to NFPA, about 3,000 people a year die in home fires. When fire sprinklers are present, the chances of dying in a home fire decrease by about 80 percent. Home fire sprinklers control heat, smoke and flames allowing occupants time to escape and giving firefighters a safer environment.
Two brothers - 12-year-old Solon Bailey and 10-year-old William Bailey - died in a tragic house fire in Glenview, Kentucky on Christmas day. The boys were visiting their grandparents and were sleeping in an upstairs bedroom when the fire broke out. According to local news reports, preliminary autopsy results show that the boys died from smoke inhalation. Five other family members, including the boys' parents, managed to escape with injuries.
In this op/ed on Courier-Journal.com, NFPA's Russ Sanders, former chief of the Louisville Fire Department, says that this terrible tragedy, along with other fire deaths in the Louisville Metro area in 2009, most likely could have been prevented with home fire sprinklers.


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Ugandan biologist, Dr Etheldreda Nakimuli‐Mpungu is named among the five winners of the coveted Elsevier Foundation Award in recognition of her work in fighting depression among persons living with HIV/Aids.
Nakimuli is listed alongside scholars from Indonesia, Nepal, Peru and Yemen in honor of their accomplishments in nutrition, psychiatry, biotechnology, women's health, bio-environmental sciences and epidemiology.
They are also celebrated for mentoring young women scientists who are pursuing careers in agriculture, biology and medicine in their respective countries.
Nakimuli is recognized for using psychotherapy as treatment of depression and alcoholism in Ugandans living with HIV. She is working with service providers to integrate depression screening with HIV treatment, as well as to include local communities in discussions of depression to help de-stigmatize the illness.


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Q: Delay sending email by x seconds in Mail.app Gmail has a useful feature where they allow you to "undo" the sending of an email by up to 30 seconds (if I recall correctly) of any email. It does this by not sending the email for up to 30 seconds, allowing you to cancel and edit the email, or not send it at all instead.
In using Mail.app on macOS, I've missed this incredibly useful feature. Is there a way to automatically send the email after, say, 30 seconds with the ability to cancel it before it's sent? Mail.app can use plugins, so maybe there's a plugin for this?
Note: I am looking more for a "send after delay" rather than a "schedule send" feature, which is more streamlined and allows me to send emails normally without having to choose a time.


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Q: Cannot add Cordova-plugin-file to Meteor WhatsApp tutorial project I want to modify the Meteor WhatsApp tutorial project to access a local file on an IOS device. I believe I need to use the Cordova plugin Cordova-plugin-file. However, I cannot seem to find a way to install it.
I have tried several CLI commands, with the following results:
meteor cordova plugin add cordova-plugin-file
Current working directory is not a Cordova-based project
ionic cordova plugin add cordova-plugin-file
ionic: command not found
meteor add cordova-plugin-file
=> Errors while parsing arguments:
While adding package cordova-plugin-file:
error: no such package
Any suggestions?

A: I just found the correct command format as: meteor add cordova:cordova-plugin-file@6.0.1


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Legacy Legend Legson Kayira of Malawi – Bare feet among the stars
Imagine you were born in what was then called Nyasaland. Imagine your parents were so poor, they could not even afford to have a child. Imagine that your mother decided to throw you in the river. Imagine you survived but went on to have the most difficult of childhoods. Imagine you dream to become a teacher you can help free the minds pf your fellow countrymen and countrywomen, but that opportunity is refused to you. What would you do? Would you accept your fate and live the simple life of a peasant , in the same fashion your parents and grand-parents did before you, or would you try the impossible to reach your dream?
Today, I am inspired by Legson Kayira, son of Timothy Mwenekanyonyo Mwamalopa Arinani Chikowoka Kayira and Ziya Nyakawonga, born in a village called Mpale in the Karonga district of northern Malawi, near the Tanzanian border.
This story should start with the words 'Habayeho ntihakabe', once upon a time that should have never been, as it has all the makings of an African mythology, yet this story is nothing if not real.
In the early 1940's, a small boy was born in a poor family in the British protectorate of Nyasaland, which we now know under the name Malawi.
At the time, his mother Ziya Nyakawonga, was ill and too weak to take care of her heavy new born baby. In despair, she decided to throw him in the nearby river. She did not place her young one in a basket to be carried by the waterflow as in the story of Moses. She did not stay by the river to see what happened, she turned away and quickly went back home.
But like in Moses story, fate was watching over him: the baby floated on the water and was found by neighbour before he could drown!
They took him back to his mother, probably admonishing her for her desperate gesture. From there on, he was to be known as Didimu, by the name of the river that almost claimed his life.
Didimu had a very difficult childhood as you can easily imagine. His parents were both illiterate and lived of the meagre proceeds of their 20-acre farmland.
"I came from one of the poorest families that God ever created since the beginning of time."
There was never any idle time or time to play for him. The moment he could walk on his own, his father taught him to plough the field and care form their crops. When he was old enough to hold a spear, he was thought how to hunt for wild hogs with spears so he can help feed his family.
On weekend, the young boy would look after his grandfather's cows and sleep in a barn. He loved the time at his grand-fathers, though, especially the Saturday evening. That's the time his grandmother would tell the kids country tales. Imagination was the only escape he could get from his dire circumstances.
The first gift his parents were to ever give him was to put him in school. The tuition was less than a dollar, but it had taken them a whole harvest to be able to afford it.
Wenya mission school was about eight miles away from home and Didimu almost gave up, but his parents never allowed him to entertain that idea. They knew school was the only way out for their son and were intent on seeing him complete his education.
The young boy got used to waking up before sunrise, completing his chores and walking for hours every day to attend school. After a while, he ceased to see it as an obstacle and started enjoying the seemingly boundless world he learned about in this school run by missionaries from the Church of Scotland.
Primary school was an important time of self-determination for the young boy. The first thing he did when he started reading and writing was to choose a new name for himself, so people who stop calling him by Didimu, a constant reminder of his first days on earth. It was often the case in those days that the European educators would arbitrary give you a 'Christian' name, but the young Kayira boy wanted his own unique name. He liked the word 'leg', so he created the name Legson, certain that the 'son' gave it an English consonance easy for his teachers to remember.
The second important thing he did was to choose a birthdate. Yes, you heard it right, choose a birth date. As it was the case in those days – and is still the case in many parts of the developing world – his birth was not officially recorded, and no one knew the exact date it had occurred. All he was told was that he was born during harvest time (May or June). He chose May 10th, 1942, as his date of birth.
Legson was a dedicated pupil and at the end of his primary school, his grades earned him a place at Livingstonia Secondary School, another school run the missionaries from the Church of Scotland. Livingstonia was founded in 1894 and it was named, as you probably guessed, after David Livingstone, who had famously "discovered" the source of the Nile alongside his compatriot Henry Morton Stanley. How anyone can discover a place already inhabited is beyond belief, but I diverge.
He was immediately captivated by the school motto "I Will Try". He was going to adopt it as his own personal leitmotif for the rest of his life.
He loved reading and reading gave him an insight on a world he never knew even existed. The story Booker T Washington seduced him and instilled in him the idea one could free themselves from bondage.
You must remember that this was in the mid-fifties and Malawi, still known as Nyasaland, was a British protectorate federated with Rhodesia. It was only in 1964 that Nyasaland gained its independence was declared from British rule.
He decided that he was to become a teacher, not only as a way out of the farming life of his parents, but as a gateway to free the minds of the young ones and teach them about the world as he had been.
Regrettably, his application for the teacher's college was refused. The reason he was given was that he was too young to become a teacher!
The young man, who had walked 8 miles a day back and forth to school when he just a young boy, was not going to be defeated by this rejection. If he could not study in his birth country, he would go and get his college degree abroad. And not anywhere in the world: in America, the land of the free!
"I saw the land of Abraham Lincoln as the place where one literally went to get the freedom and independence that one thought and knew was due him. One day I would also go there, I would also go to school there, and I would also return home to do my share in the fight against colonialism."
When he was a teen, he was shocked that of the 3 million people in Nyasaland in those days, there were only 22 university graduates, and none of them from an American college.
"I want to be the first."
Pause. Rewind. Study abroad? In America? In 1958?
You must be thinking that we skipped an episode where his family had made fortune and had money to send him abroad. No, they were still as dirt poor as they were when he was a child, if not more.
Did Livingstonia offer him a scholarship? No!
So how was a teenage boy from a small village where every single soul was poor, a boy whom, all his life, had tilled land and kept cows to help his family, going to afford a trip overseas? When he was unlikely to even have enough money to make a trip to the capital?
Well Legson made a decision that made everyone in the village think he had completely lost his mind: he was going to walk all the way to the US.
You can easily imagine how people made fun of him when he made his big announcement and how sorry neighbours probably felt for this poor family who sent their kid to school and he came back mentally incapacitated!
No one even knew where America was, not even his parents.
But the 16 years old had made his decision and nothing was going to change his mind. He chose a date for his departure, went about the village to bare his goodbyes.
On the fateful day of October 14th, 1958, he said farewell to his family and started what was going to be a journey of several thousand miles.
His mother did not believe he would go far. She even laughed and told him she was sure he would be back within a week. She did not know it was the last time she would ever see her eldest son. Life had not been kind to her; her husband had passed away when Legson was in primary school and of her nine children, only Legson and two younger twins, a boy and a girl, had survived childhood. All the others had been successively swept away by illnesses.
Legson had studied a world map and his plan was to walk to travel North to Port Said or Alexandria in Egypt where he would look for work on a ship headed for New York.
He carried an axe, to cut through the forest, a small food provisions for at least five days, a map of the world and a map of Africa, a book 'Pilgrim's Progress from This World', the religious book by John Bunyan, and his bible. He was barefoot, but proudly wore his school-uniform from Livingstonia for the trip, certain that the school motto "I Will Try" printed ion his t-shirt would bring him good luck.
Today, with the development of road infrastructures, the 800 miles between Northern Malawi and the Ugandan capital, his first stop on his way to Egypt, would take you less than a day drive. In those days, his journey was going to take him several months, walking and stopping her and there to do jobs so he could feed himself.
It was no easy journey, and many times he was home sick and worried about his family.
He reached Mwanza in Tanzania in July of 1959. He stayed in this port city by Lake Victoria for six months, working to earn enough money to buy a ticket on the steamer to Kampala, in what then called the Protectorate of Uganda.
"On January 19 in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and sixty, I arrived in Kampala, a vast and impressive commercial city in the Protectorate of Uganda. The steamer anchored at Port Bell, only five miles away from downtown Kampala."
It was in the wee hours of the morning, there was a cool breeze in the air, and he stayed on the deck for a second to admire the busy industrial neighbourhood which linked Kampala to other harbours on Lake Victoria and to the rest of the country via rail.
But quickly, his mind nervously came back on his journey and what waited for him the moment he would step on the pier.
" My heart was throbbing with anxiety now, wondering whether or not I would be able to get into the city without any traveling documents."
He stepped out of the boat and onto the quay and made his was to the Customs Office where the agents were yelling to the disembarking passengers: "Passes, passes!"
He was about to line-up and walk towards whatever punishment they had for undocumented immigrants, when he saw two men standing at the far end of the pier and waving at the group. They were yelling and calling for students to exit through the gate where they were standing.
This was his salvation. Legson joined the student's line-up, and when he got at the front of the line, the man asked him if he was a school-boy, he nodded, and was allowed in the city.
Despite this 'victory', Legson was increasingly overwhelmed by this situation, though he was the one who had set it all in motion.
"I thus arrived in Uganda, my temporary destination, but America, my goal, was still far away, far away across land and ocean. I pulled out my map as soon as I was beyond sight of the suspecting Customs men. With my fingers I compared the distance I had covered and the distance still to be covered. I had come that far and there was no point in turning back now, I tried to console myself. At the same time, I pitied myself for having plunged into such a journey. The motto on my shirt still said, "I Will Try", and I repeated the words as I had done now times without number: I Will Try. My shirt, however, was dirty, my shorts were dirty, and I was dirty."
When he entered Kampala, he saw a young boy who was selling cooked plantain bananas:
"Matoke (bananas) for sale here", the young boy yelled. A familiar scene even to this day, some sixty years later.
"I folded my map and after putting it back into the pocket went to the boy and bought a few bananas. Sitting down to eat my bananas, I pulled out my Pilgrim's Progress and opened to my favourite page. "… and if you will go along with me, you shall fare as I myself, for there, where I go, is enough and to spare."
He didn't really know where to go next, but he knew reading those words, that he would be ok.
He decided to stay in Kampala for just a few days so he can figure out his next move. It started doing odds jobs here and there, preparing to continue his trip to the distant Egyptian port.
One day, he found a library and went in to get any information he could on studying in the US. He found a directory of American Universities, and he opened it, the first entry he saw was of a school called Skagit Valley College, in Washington State.
He followed the instructions and sent out an application letter. Hoping for the best but preparing for the worst, Legson kept on working and saving money.
To his big surprise, the school replied with a few weeks to inform him that his application was approved, and he was awarded a full scholarship, available once he was in the US.
Yes, the offer did not include any ticket to America.
Now that you know Legson, you can easily guess what his next move was to keep on walking his way North. He was emboldened and reinvigorated by his official invitation to the US. It was certainly not time to run back home or stay in Uganda for such a 'solvable' issue.
The young man learned that he would need to go to Sudan to get a Visa for the US, so he packed his bag and went on another journey by foot from Kampala to Khartoum. His first trip from home to Kampala was of about 800 miles, this leg would be of 1 600 miles!
An incredible sixteen hundred miles where he faced lions, hyenas, snakes, elephants, you name it!
By the time he reached Khartoum, two years had gone by since he's left Malawi, he had crossed four countries and learned numerous languages along the way.
He made his way to US Embassy, he wasn't met with a wall when he walked into the American Consulate, on the contrary. The diplomats were impressed when they heard he had walked all the way from an unknown village in Nyasaland, on the pursuit of an impossible dream.
The American consular officials were so impressed by his remarkable walk that they helped him get in contact with the College in Washington, which confirmed that his scholarship was still waiting for him. When they heard what he had gone through to come to the US – they hadn't realised what his situation was when he applied for admission – they organised to get him on the next plane to America! The Embassy arranged for him to get all the necessary travel documents.
It was the most exciting and joyful moment, in his life. All the sacrifices he had made were going to pay off big time.
When Legson Kayira, born Didimu Kayira, the child of a family so poor they couldn't even afford to have children and had almost got rid of him when he was a baby, got on a plane to the country of his dreams, the United States of America, the weight of two years of travel and pain endured along the 3000 miles on foot quickly faded away.
It was December 20, 1960, on a cold winter day, that the 18 years old dreamer was greeted at his arrival at Seattle-Tacoma Airport by the Atwoods, the family that was going to host him while he attended the college, and school officials, including George Hodson, the Dean of the College! He probably felt like a dignitary despite his humble demeanour and his old secondary school t-shirt that still read 'I will try'.
He was an instant celebrity, in Washington State and across the whole country. Everybody wanted to see this young man who had walked 16 miles a day as a child and 2 500 miles across Africa, just to get an education.
While in Mount Vernon, Legson stayed on the family farm of the Atwoods, his adopted family. Bay View farm was nothing like the 20 acres field he grew up on, he helped milking the cows just for pleasure and not just to survive another day.
After graduating from Skagit College, Legson attended the University of Washington, where he earned a degree in Political Science.
In 1965, while studying at the University of Washington, Legson published his autobiography simply titled 'I Will Try', an eloquent account of this most extraordinary and epic journey. It was an instant success: 'I Will Try', remained on the New York Times bestseller list for 16 weeks after its publication. It was best-seller in the United States and England and was translated in numerous other languages since.
Legson went on to pursue his graduate studies in England, in no other than Cambridge University, where he graduated with a History degree in 1966.
He dreamt of returning to his recently independent home country, but then President Kamuzu Banda, who thought the writer to be subversive and did not like his open criticism of his regime, banned him from coming home. His books were also banned, but they were smuggled in and clandestinely shared with students for years.
Legson decided to stay in the United Kingdom, where he worked for years in the British public service, while pursuing his passion for writing. After "I Will Try," the author published five novels: 'The Looming Shadow' (Doubleday, 1967), 'Jingala' (Doubleday, 1969), 'Things Black and Beautiful' (Doubleday, 1970), 'The Civil Servant' (Longman, 1971),and 'The Detainee' (Heinemann, 1974). The author was working on a sixth fiction when he passed away in October 2012, a couple days before the 54th anniversary of his departure from Malawi. He was 70 years old.
"They would reach their destinations sooner and merely by sitting down. I would reach my destination later and merely by counting my steps, but someday I would sit down and console myself that we both had reached our destinations, and this was all that mattered."
Yes indeed.
May you Rest in Eternal Peace, Legson.
Um'Khonde Patrick Habamenshi
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Neverland Ranch Calif.'s new state park?
SACRAMENTO, Calif. Assemblyman /*Mike Davis*/, Los Angeles, said fans from all over the world would flock to Jackson's former estate in the Santa Ynez Valley.
Davis wants the /*California Department of Parks and Recreation*/ to explore the feasibility of taking over the 2,500-acre estate.
The estate is now co-owned by the Jackson family and /*Colony Capital LLC*/, a Santa Barbara-based private equity firm that took control of /*Neverland Ranch*/ in a venture with /*Michael Jackson*/ after he nearly lost the estate to foreclosure.
Turning the sprawling estate into a state park would face many obstacles, including the state's own fiscal woes. California is facing a budget shortfall of $19 billion.
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Rhode Island's Ocean and Coastal Magazine
Fall 2015: Water
This issue looks at the various ways we rely on water.
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WATER EVERYWHERE
A century has passed since residents of several villages in Scituate, Rhode Island, received notices that their properties were being condemned, and would be flooded, in order to create the Scituate Reservoir, a water supply that would provide for the needs of 60 percent of the state's population.
Author Maury Klein chronicles both the heartbreak of the families who lost homes, farms, businesses, and even family graves, as well as the pressing need to provide residents with a safe, adequate water supply.
Today, as Hugh Markey writes, the prospect of altering the flow of water in Rhode Island's rivers by removing decrepit dams evokes a visceral response from neighbors, who have strong connections to the ponds that these dams created decades, even centuries, ago. Though restoring river habitats and fish runs would provide ecological benefits, people have keen feelings about the waters they consider theirs.
This issue of 41°N considers water in some of the many ways it permeates our lives—as supplying a fundamental need for all living things, as a conduit for international trade, as a source of refreshment and recreation, and even as the hidden essence of a millennia-old fermented beverage.
Drink it in, and as always, please let us know what you think.
—MONICA ALLARD COX, Editor
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CHICAGO (AP) — Legendary Chicago blues guitarist Otis Rush, whose passionate, jazz-tinged music influenced artists from Carlos Santana and Eric Clapton to the rock band Led Zeppelin, died Saturday at the age of 84, his longtime manager said.
Rush succumbed to complications from a stroke he suffered in 2003, manager Rick Bates said.
Born in Philadelphia, Mississippi, Rush settled in Chicago as an adult and began playing the local clubs, wearing a cowboy hat and sometimes strumming his guitar upside down for effect.
He catapulted to international fame in 1956 with his first recording on Cobra Records of "I Can't Quit You Baby," which reached No. 6 on the Billboard R&B charts.
He was a key architect of the Chicago "West Side Sound" in the 1950s and 1960s, which modernized traditional blues to introduce more of a jazzy, amplified sound.
"He was one of the last great blues guitar heroes. He was an electric God," said Gregg Parker, CEO and a founder of the Chicago Blues Museum.
Rush loved to play to live audiences, from small clubs on the West Side of Chicago to sold out venues in Europe and Japan.
"He was king of the hill in Chicago from the late 1950s into the 1970s and even the 80s as a live artist," said Bates.
But he got less national and international attention than some other blues musicians because he wasn't a big promoter.
"He preferred to go out and play and go back and sleep in his own bed," said Bates. "He was not a show business guy."
Rush won a Grammy for Best Traditional Blues Recording in 1999 for "Any Place I'm Going," and he was inducted into the Blues Foundation Hall of Fame in 1984.
In one of his final appearances on stage at the Chicago Blues Festival in 2016, Rush watched beneath a black Stetson hat from a wheelchair as he was honored by the city of Chicago, according to the Chicago Tribune.
He is survived by his wife Masaki Rush, eight children and numerous grandchildren and great grandchildren, according to a family statement.
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New club supports women in math
Serena Zacharias | Thursday, September 13, 2018
Thousands of miles apart, 2018 Notre Dame graduate Caitlyn Booms and senior Katie Gallagher arrived at the same conclusion: Notre Dame needed a supportive club for women pursuing mathematics.
Gallagher, co-president of the Women in Math club, studied abroad last year at Oxford University, where her classes were dominated by males. After finding support in the Mirzakhani Society, an association that promoted women studying math at Oxford, Gallagher was inspired to create a similar club at Notre Dame.
Back on campus, Booms had also been considering the importance of having a support system for women studying math for the past few years.
"Throughout my undergrad career, I participated in several programs outside of Notre Dame, including a conference for women interested in math grad school, the Budapest Semesters in Math program and a Research Experience for Undergrads (REU), where I met several other women studying math," Booms said in a Facebook message. "These experiences made me realize the importance of having other female math students to work with and be friends with, and they made it clear to me that Notre Dame was lacking such a community."
The two came into contact and discussed ideas over winter break, and Booms initiated the club last spring while Gallagher finished the year at Oxford, Gallagher said.
Since Booms graduated, Gallagher and senior Arianna Blanco became more involved, and the club has grown.
"We are currently applying to become a chapter in the Association for Women in Mathematics, AWM, with the help of a few faculty members," Gallagher said.
Senior Kristine Anderson, social chair of the club, said they are holding academic and social events to help connect women interested in math.
"We have biweekly Sip 'N Solves, which is a homework-based event where girls can get together and do homework," Anderson said. "It's a good way to find someone in math classes you're in, and upperclassmen are there to help give advice for classes they have already taken."
Anderson said they are also planning on holding a research and internship panel for women who have been involved with math research or internships to discuss what they have done with other girls who are interested. She said math is a versatile field with applications in research, business, economics and politics, and women should consider the various opportunities math can provide.
"As far as social events, we're doing a board game day. … We'll have some sort of fall event, and we will host a pizza party later on," Gallagher said.
Gallagher said these events will help girls in math learn more about opportunities available to them, and they will give Notre Dame women in math a better support system, which is what Booms had hoped for the club.
"I think it's really important for women in math to have a strong community and to be supportive of each other, primarily because it is a field that is still largely male dominated and discrimination and bias against women still exists," Booms said. "Having a support group of women in your same position can be extremely encouraging and can make women feel more comfortable and capable."
She said she hopes the club can help women in math feel less alone.
"Mathematics can be quite a difficult subject to study, and it is easy to doubt one's ability to be successful," Booms said. "Having a Women in Math group where you can discuss these feelings and be uplifted and supported by other women can be crucial in ensuring that women studying math at Notre Dame are not only successful, but as happy and confident as well."
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Mario Vargas Llosa: How I Lost My Fear of Flying
Mario Vargas Llosa was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2010 "for his cartography of the structures of power and his trenchant images of the individual's resistance, revolt and defeat." Peru's foremost writer, he was awarded the Cervantes Prize, the Spanish-speaking world's most distinguished literary honor, and the Jerusalem Prize. His many works include The Feast of the Goat, The Bad Girl, Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter, The War of the End of the World, and The Storyteller. He lives in London. This essay, making its U.S. debut, is excerpted from Touchstones: Essays on Literature, Art and Politics. There are certain naïve people who believe that a fear of flying is, or can be explained by, a fear of death. They are wrong: fear of flying is fear of flying, not of death, a fear as particular and specific as a fear of spiders, or of the void, or of cats, three common examples among the thousands that make up the panoply of human fears. Fear of flying wells up suddenly, when people not lacking in imagination and sensitivity realise that they are thirty thousand feet in the air, travelling through clouds at eight hundred miles an hour, and ask, 'What the hell am I doing here?' And begin to tremble.


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6 Cool Microsoft Surface Book Features Microsoft Surface Book : Front View
6 Cool Microsoft Surface Book Features
Joel Santo Domingo
21 Oct 2015, 6:01 p.m.
We have long wondered when Microsoft would release a laptop, and now we have the answer. With the Surface Book, the company has taken a lot of the miniaturization and system-building expertise it gained from making its Surface and Surface Pro tablets, and used it to build a premium laptop that also happens to be a detachable-hybrid Windows tablet. We've been using the Surface Book for a bit since it launched. Here are some nifty features that stood out for us.
1.	The Latch
The latch that attaches the tablet portion to the keyboard, which Microsoft calls the dynamic fulcrum hinge, takes care of some of the most annoying nits we have with detachable-hybrid tablets. Having the motherboard, some of the battery cells, and the heavy screen glass built into the tablet/screen portion makes the system top-heavy, which means tipping over in Laptop mode is a concern. By using a set of parallel hinges to open the screen and by putting the majority of the battery cells in the keyboard base, the Surface Book has a self-stabilizing center of gravity. The fact that it engages and disengages its locking mechanism in only two seconds (electronically!) is pretty cool, too.
2.	Windows 10
After living through Windows 8 and Windows 8.1, it's a relief to be using a version of Windows that works well with either a keyboard and touchpad. The last versions all but required some touch-screen use, particularly in the Start Screen (aka, Metro interface). That was annoying at best, and counterintuitive at worst. Don't get me wrong, the touch screen on the Surface Book is one of the best on the market, but I still wouldn't want to use it full time for typing, navigation, and cursor control.
3. Battery Life
On our battery rundown test, the Surface Book lasted a whopping 15 hours 41 minutes (in comparison, the Apple MacBook Pro 13-inch lasted 11:10). That's longer than the Dark Knight Trilogy (7.6 hours), the complete Lord of the Rings Extended Edition (12 hours), or the first six films in the Star Wars saga (13.8 hours). You won't even have to fast-forward through the Jar Jar bits. To put that another way, that's enough time to last the whole non-stop flight from NYC to Hong Kong, especially if you take breaks for take-off and landing.
4. Detachable Discrete GPU Option
A discrete graphics processor unit (GPU) lets you play 3D games more smoothly, or help speed multimedia creation tasks like editing photos and videos in Adobe Creative Cloud or Creative Suite. You can order an optional Nvidia GeForce GPU with the Surface Book. It sits in the keyboard base, so you can leave it behind and save battery power when you need the extra portability in Tablet mode.
5. Surface Pen
The included Surface Pen attaches to the side of the screen magnetically, which is much more convenient than the fabric loop on the Microsoft Surface Pro 3. The eraser-like button on the top of the Pen automatically brings up OneNote on the Surface Book with a single click, and opens Cortana if you hold down the eraser for a second or two. The Surface Pen has 1,024 levels of pressure sensitivity, which is sufficient for prosumer-level artwork. It also varies the thickness of lines when you're writing, so you can make delicate or bold pen strokes.
Last, but not least, if you want to fly the Windows flag, there's no better system than the Surface Book. It has a shiny chrome Windows logo on the top lid. The rest of the system simply has an elegant aesthetic, with its all-metal body, book-like hinge, super-bright PixelSense screen, and the Surface Pen that clings to the side of the screen like a koala on espresso. The fact that it has the power to back up those looks just adds to the appeal.
For more details on the Microsoft Surface Book, check out PCMag's full review.
This article originally appeared on PCMag.com.
Microsoft Surface Book : Front View
The Surface Book it not strictly a laptop. Rather, it's a powerful detachable-hybrid Windows tablet that gives you the best qualities of a laptop PC, with the ability to detach the screen for use as a tablet.
Microsoft Surface Book : Right-Side Ports
On the right side, you'll find a mini DIsplayPort and the Surface Dock port, which doubles as the jack for the charger.
Microsoft Surface Book : Left View
On the left side of the keyboard base, you'll find a pair of USB 3.0 ports and a SD card reader.
Microsoft Surface Book : Keyboard
The backlit, chiclet-sytle keyboard is more comfortable to use than any keyboard cover on a slate tablet.
Microsoft Surface Book : Hinge
The Surface Book's hinge opens up in a unique way, and the system is always balanced and stable on your lap or on your work surface.
Microsoft Surface Book : With Surface Pen
The included Surface Pen features pressure sensitivity, quick access to Cortana and OneNote, and an eraser tip.
Microsoft Surface Book : Back Camera
The rear-facing 8-megapixel camera can also shoot 1080p videos.
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