Elder of Zion, Nahum Goldmann.
The conniving Zionist crook, Nahum Goldmann, made an astonishing prediction in June of 1940, only nine months after the Second World War began. He declared that if the Nazis were to achieve final victory "6,000,000 Jews in Europe are doomed to destruction."  The Nazis were not victorious however, but that didn't stop the deceptive and cunning Zionist propagandists from claiming exactly six million had died anyway.
Elder of Zion, Max Nordau.
Elder of Zion, Rabbi Stephen Wise.
Elder of Zion, Chaim Weizmann.
On September 10, 1941 the president of the World Zionist Organization, Chaim Weizmann, wrote a letter to British Prime Minister Winston Churchill gloating that International Jewry had brought America into WWI and could do it again (and did eventually do it again).  Weizmann was the principle Zionist architect behind the "Balfour Declaration."  He would become Israel's first president in 1948.
Elder of Zion, David Ben Gurion.
The Jewish hatred and malice towards Gentiles is supremely illustrated in the Zohar. The Zohar says of "Amalekites" : "when God reveals himself, they will be wiped off the earth. But withal redemption will not be complete until Amalek will be exterminated." (H. Sperling and M. Simon, Editors, "Bereshith 25b", The Zohar, Volume 1, The Soncino Press, New York, (1984), p. 100) According to the Chief Rabbi of Safed, Gaza is a war against Amalekites.
Elder of Zion, Isser Harel.
Jewish foresight of future events seems to have no end. Yet another incredible display of Zionist psychic ability came from Israel's preeminent spymaster and founder of the infamous Mossad, Isser Harel (pictured). In 1979 Harel predicted with uncanny accuracy the events of 9/11. Michael Evans, a Christian Zionist evangelist, visited Harel at his home in Israel and had dinner with him and Dr. Reuven Hecht, a senior adviser to then prime minister Menachem Begin.
Elder of Zion, Benjamin Netanyahu.
In reality Zionists are not actually psychic, but this bizarre, continuous foretelling of the future is obviously not a coincidence. These Zionists simply iterate what is going to happen and then, through unparalleled Jewish mental and physical forces and political/economic intrigue, they make it happen–no supernatural psychic powers required. As quoted in the Jewish Daily Bulletin, July 27, 1935, Zionist terrorist leader, Vladimir Jabotinsky, explained: "There is only one power which really counts. The power of political pressure. We Jews are the most powerful people on earth, because we have this power, and we know how to apply it." Jews have been orchestrating world events for a very long time, and these amazing pronouncements lend ultimate credence to that fact.
Zionist Jews instigated and fomented World War's I and II. They fabricated the holoco$t as Rabbi Stephen Wise let slip in 1900: to promote sympathy for Zionism–that is to say the Jewish occupation, colonization, ethnic cleansing and destruction of Palestine so that "Israel" could be erected atop its ashes.
 Goldmann, Nahum. The Jewish Paradox. New York: Grosset & Dunlap, 1978. Pgs, 122-123.
 "Doom of European Jews Is Seen If Hitler Wins." The Palm Beach Post. June 25, 1940.
 ZionCrimeFactory. "The "Six Million" Myth." The Works and Research of ZionCrimeFactory. Web. <http://zioncrimefactory.com/?p=89>.
 Kapner, Brother Nathanael. "Woodrow Wilson – Pawn Of The Jews." Real Zionist News. <http://www.realjewnews.com/?p=537>.
 Irving, David John Caldwell. Churchill's War. London: Focal Point, 2001. Pages, 76-77.
David Ben-Gurion's Protocols of Zion-like statement quoted in Look Magazine. Click to read.
 Marrs, Texe. "Masonic Jews Plot to Control World—." Power of Prophecy. <http://www.texemarrs.com/042003/masonic_jews_plot_world_control.htm>.
 ZionCrimeFactory. "Israel Did 9/11 – All The Proof." The Works and Research of ZionCrimeFactory. Web. <http://zioncrimefactory.com/?page_id=2>.


In her 75 years, there is no way to doubt that Lilias was familiar with "the poured-out life." It is reasonable to say that by the end of her life in 1928 Lilias poured out as much as she was able. She gave up a promising career as an artist to be one of the first missionaries to take the gospel to Algeria. Without extensive cultural knowledge or ability to speak Arabic, she left her English home and used her own wealth to fund her missionary endeavor. She had an issue with her heart and her health was at risk for the entirety of her life. Both her parents died while she was overseas. Seemingly no fruit came from the first few years of her ministry. The Algerian government persecuted Christians during much of her time in country. Many of those she saw converted were severely persecuted and killed. Her life did not heed itself but was poured out for the sake of others.
Lilias Trotter's forgotten life is actually a signpost of her faithfulness. Isn't it true that the last, the least, the unknown, and the faithful will be the greatest and the first among us in heaven? If that is the case, then Lilias will be far ahead of many.
Lilias' life was not loud or showy. She gained very little in terms of worldly fame. She lived a quiet, humble life. She didn't seek the furtherance of her own name or ministry.
We can learn much from Lilias' quietly poured-out life. But perhaps the greatest thing we could ever learn from her is the fact that most people don't know her.
We think far too often of how to build our platform or gain followers. Even if we don't say it, we think it would be nice if some people remembered us after we die. We would like a book published, or an accomplishment acknowledged on a website, or to make an "influencer" list. We want to be among those who have a legacy that outlasts us. However subtle, these prideful thoughts rest in our minds. They lie to us and tell us that gaining just a little more than Jesus is okay.
May God kill our desire to seek our own legacy. We should slay the lurking thought that obedience to God should give something other than Christ.
Christ is sufficient to meet all our needs. Nothing in this world can satisfy us, and nothing in this world is eternal. "So we do not focus on what is seen, but on what is unseen. For what is seen is temporary, but what is unseen is eternal" (2 Corinthians 4:18).
So I ask again: Is it worth it if we gain nothing but Jesus?
^ I. Lilias Trotter, The Parables of the Cross, (Oxvision Books, 2015), 57.
^ Lilias Trotter, Parables of the Christ-Life, (Valde Books, 2009), 7.
Allyson Todd is an associate editor and intern for women's initiatives at For The Church. She holds an undergrad degree from Midwestern College, a dual major in Christian Ministry (missions emphasis) and Humanities. Todd is currently pursuing a Masters of Divinity at Midwestern Seminary where she works full time as Office and Event Coordinator for Student Life, and is a member of Wornall Road Baptist Church in Kansas City, MO. Her ultimate desire is to continue learning more about the Word of God and equipping women to make disciples. You can follow her on Twitter at @_allysontodd.


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Q: Core Data Lock because of merge? I have a refresh process that runs in the background (just using performInBackground is all) and part of that has db updates so I have a separate MOC for the background thread. I then use the didSave notification to merge in the changes to the main MOC. While the app is refreshing in background, the user can click around the UI.
Mostly works, but i'm seeing some locks every now and then. When I look at the method called before the lock, its something that accesses the main MOC. Nothing in my refresh process accesses this, everything accesses a background MOC. BUT, I was thinking that the changes i make to the background MOC do get merged using the didSave notification. If I try to query one MOC while its doing mergeChangesFromContextDidSaveNotification, would that be the issue? What's the best way around this? I thought I had solved my db issues with a separate MOC for my background thread, but the merge is gonna be an issue right?

A: You are on the right track. Each thread using its own MOC; and main UI thread getting notifications when background thread updates the data. There is nothing in what you describe that can result in a lock. The locks you experience are most likely a result of long running code executing in the main thread, blocking the UI, while you think this processing is being done in a background thread.

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Q: React Native: Animated node with tag 1 does not exists I keep getting the error:
Animated node with tag 1 does not exists

Im not event using the Animated Tag in any of my code so why do I get this error.
This is my package.json
        {
      "main": "node_modules/expo/AppEntry.js",
      "scripts": {
        "start": "expo start",
        "android": "expo start --android",
        "ios": "expo start --ios",
        "web": "expo start --web",
        "eject": "expo eject"
      },
      "dependencies": {
        "@react-native-community/async-storage": "^1.12.1",
        "@react-native-community/masked-view": "^0.1.10",
        "@react-navigation/native": "^5.9.3",
        "@react-navigation/stack": "^5.14.3",
        "expo": "~40.0.0",
        "expo-status-bar": "~1.0.3",
        "jquery": "^3.6.0",
        "react": "17.0.1",
        "react-dom": "16.13.1",
        "react-native": "^0.64.0-rc.4",
        "react-native-android-permissions": "^1.0.2",
        "react-native-device-uuid": "^1.2.0",
        "react-native-gesture-handler": "^1.8.0",
        "react-native-incall-manager": "^3.3.0",
        "react-native-paper": "^4.7.2",
        "react-native-peerjs": "^1.0.4",
        "react-native-permissions": "^3.0.1",
        "react-native-safe-area-context": "^3.1.9",
        "react-native-screens": "^2.15.2",
        "react-native-vector-icons": "^8.1.0",
        "react-native-web": "~0.13.12",
        "react-native-webrtc": "^1.89.1",
        "react-native-webview": "^11.0.0",
        "socket.io-client": "^4.0.0"
      },
      "devDependencies": {
        "@babel/core": "^7.9.0"
      },
      "private": true
    }

if you require more files, please ask?

A: Just go down 1 version, so react-native: ^0.63.0
Expo is currently not supporting react-native 0.64.0+
Expo:

Today we're announcing the release of Expo SDK 41. SDK 41 includes React Native 0.63, the same version as in SDK 40. Thank you to everyone that helped with beta testing. Curious why we didn't include the recently released React Native 0.64? Learn more.)

UPDATE: doing expo upgrade looks to also fix the issue. Just worked for me

A: I had the same error and this fixed it for me:
npm install https://github.com/expo/react-native/archive/sdk-39.0.4.tar.gz


Computing technologies have driven economic growth and made all of our lives easier, allowing us to easily connect with people across the world and access information no matter our location. The price of these technologies has decreased even more so than the sticker price indicates, as new computers are so much more powerful than older models. If the typical worker in 1982 wanted to purchase something with computing power of an iPad2, it would have cost more than the 360 years worth of wages.
Patent counts are one way to measure innovation. They are an imperfect measure, however, because patents vary in importance and some might be low quality. Due to varying standards, it is more difficult to make cross-national and over-time comparisons; making those comparisons can be informative about both innovation and differences in countries' patent systems, however.


Elegantly geometric, this striking short pendant is available in three lengths, all of which look great over t-shirts and jumpers. Handcrafted from sterling silver with 18ct gold plate and a brushed matte finish. You can accentuate the look with matching ring and earrings. Hallmarked and also available in silver. Shown on model in 18"


"We live in a small village in Kurnool district, Andhra Pradesh. Asking for help or even taking paapa to the hospital takes hours. Everything is difficult. I can see that she is becoming dull. She never wants to eat anything and her stomach is swelling too. The doctor has asked us to do the transplant by this month." - Prema.
Thanu Sree's father Gopal runs a small barber shop in their village. Prema used to work in fields as a daily-wage worker, but has stopped working since the children became sick. Everything they had has been spent and they have no way of arranging the Rs 16 lakhs needed for treatment.


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Emergency, India, Medical emergency, panic, Spicejet
SpiceJet Flight Makes Emergency Landing in Kolkata
February 26, 2019 February 26, 2019 emergency landing, India, Kolkata, medical emergency, panic, SpiceJet, Surat
SpiceJet flight SG-389 made an emergency landing in Kolkata, India, on February 26th.
The plane took off for Surat, India, but had to turn back after a passenger who was flying for the first time suffered a panic attack.
The plane landed back safely.
Emergency, engine trouble, India
Vistara Flight Makes Emergency Landing in Kolkata
February 25, 2019 February 25, 2019 Chennai, emergency landing, engine issue, India, Kolkata, Vistara
Vistara flight UK-733 made an emergency landing in Kolkata, India, on February 25th.
The plane was coming from Chennai, India, when the crew reported an engine issue.
The plane landed safely. All passengers and crew members remained unharmed.
Crash, India, Indian Air Force
Indian Air Force Jets Collide During Air Show Practice; 1 Dead, 2 Injured
February 19, 2019 February 19, 2019 Bengaluru, Crash, India, Indian Air Force, Plane, Surya Kiran, wrongful death
Two Indian Air Force jets collided mid-air in Bengaluru, India, on February 19th.
The accident happened when the Surya Kiran aircraft were rehearsing for the 'Aero India 2019' air show at the Yelahanka airbase.
One pilot was killed in the crash. Two others were injured and were taken to a hospital.
blown tire, India, Sri Lankan Airlines
SriLankan Airlines Plane Bursts Tire on Landing at Chennai Airport
February 19, 2019 February 19, 2019 blown tire, Chennai International Airport, Colombo, India, Sri Lanka, SriLankan Airlines
SriLankan Airlines flight UL-121 burst a tire on landing at Chennai International Airport, India, on February 17th.
The incident happened when the Airbus A330-200 plane was coming from Colombo, Sri Lanka.
All one hundred and forty-two passengers aboard remained safe.
Airbus, Emergency, IndiGo, Myanmar, oil pressure
IndiGo Flight Makes Emergency Landing in Yangon
February 13, 2019 February 13, 2019 Bangalore, Bangkok, emergency landing, Engine, India, IndiGo, Myanmar, oil pressure, Thailand, Yangon
IndiGo flight 6E-75 made an emergency landing in Yangon, Myanmar, on February 12th.
The Airbus A320-200 plane heading from Bangalore, India, to Bangkok, Thailand, was diverted after the crew received an oil pressure warning for one of the engines.
Air India, cracked windshield, Emergency, UK
Air India Flight Makes Emergency Landing at Heathrow Airport
February 9, 2019 February 9, 2019 Air India, Delhi, emergency landing, England, Heathrow Airport, India, windshield cracked
Air India flight AI-111 made an emergency landing at Heathrow Airport, England, on February 7th.
The plane flying from Delhi, India, was on approach to Heathrow Airport when a windshield cracked.
The plane continued for a safe landing. All passengers and crew members remained unharmed.
Airbus, Emergency, engine trouble, Go Air, India, Vibration
GoAir Flight Makes Emergency Landing in Ahmedabad
February 8, 2019 February 8, 2019 Ahmedabad, emergency landing, engine vibrations, GoAir, India, Kolkata
GoAir flight G8-532 had to return and make an emergency landing in Ahmedabad, India, on February 6th.
The Airbus A320-200N plane took off for Kolkata, India, but had to turn back due to engine vibrations.
Air India, Emergency, India, Medical emergency
Air India Flight Diverts to Bhopal due to Medical Emergency
February 7, 2019 February 7, 2019 Air India, Bengaluru, Bhopal, Delhi, emergency landing, India, medical emergency.
Air India flight AI-503 made an emergency landing in Bhopal, India, on February 5th.
The plane heading from Bengaluru to Delhi, India, was diverted after a passenger suffered a medical emergency.
The plane landed safely. The patient was rushed to a hospital, however, he died on the way.
Emergency, Emirates, India, Medical emergency
Emirates Flight Diverts to India due to Medical Emergency
February 5, 2019 February 5, 2019 Cochin International Airport, Dubai, emergency landing, Emirates, India, Indonesia, Jakarta, medical emergency, United Arab Emirates
Emirates flight EK-359 made an emergency landing at Cochin International Airport, India, on February 2nd.
The plane heading from Jakarta, Indonesia, to Dubai, United Arab Emirates, was diverted after a passenger suffered a medical emergency.
Aeroflot, Airbus, Emergency, Landing Gear, nose gear, Russia
Aeroflot Flight Returns to Moscow due to Gear Problem
January 29, 2019 January 29, 2019 Aeroflot, Delhi, emergency landing, India, landing gear, nose gear, Russia, Sheremetyevo International Airport
Aeroflot flight SU-232 had to return and make an emergency landing at Sheremetyevo International Airport, Russia, on January 25th.
The Airbus A330-300 plane took off for Delhi, India, but had to turn back after the crew failed to retract the nose and left main gear.
The plane landed back safely. Everyone aboard remained unharmed.
Air India, India, tail strike
Alliance Air Flight Suffers Tail Strike at Diu Airport
January 28, 2019 January 28, 2019 Alliance Air, Diu Airport, India, Mumbai, tail strike
Alliance Air flight 9I-623 suffered a tail strike after landing at Diu Airport, India, on January 26th.
The incident happened when the plane was coming from Mumbai, India.
Air India, Emergency, Kazakhstan, Medical emergency
Air India Flight Diverts to Kazakhstan due to Medical Emergency
January 27, 2019 January 27, 2019 Air India, Astana International Airport, Chicago, Delhi, emergency landing, Illinois, India, Kazakhstan, medical emergency
An Air India flight made an emergency landing at Astana International Airport, Kazakhstan, on January 26th.
The plane heading from Delhi, India, to Chicago, Illinois, was diverted after a passenger suffered a medical emergency.
The plane landed safely. The patient was taken to a hospital.
Airbus, Emergency, India, IndiGo, Vibration
IndiGo Flight Returns to Lucknow due to Engine Vibrations
January 23, 2019 January 23, 2019 emergency landing, engine vibration, India, IndiGo, Jaipur, Lucknow
IndiGo flight 4E-651 had to return and make an emergency landing in Lucknow, India, on January 21st.
The Airbus A320-200N plane took off for Jaipur, India, but had to turn back due to engine vibrations.
The plane landed safely. All passengers and crew members remained safe.
Emergency, India, Spicejet, technical fault
SpiceJet Flight Returns to Mumbai due to Technical Issue
January 12, 2019 January 12, 2019 Dubai, emergency landing, India, Mumbai, SpiceJet, technical glitch, United Arab Emirates
SpiceJet flight SG-13 made an emergency landing in Mumbai, India, on January 9th.
The plane took off for Dubai, United Arab Emirates, but had to turn back due to a technical glitch.
Emergency, engine trouble, Go Air, India, Vibration
GoAir Flight Returns to Mumbai due to Engine Vibrations
January 11, 2019 January 11, 2019 Delhi, emergency landing, engine vibrations, GoAir, India, Mumbai
GoAir flight G8-319 had to return and make an emergency landing in Mumbai, India, on January 10th.
The plane took off for Delhi, India, but had to turn back after the crew noticed engine vibrations.
The plane landed back safely. All one hundred and sixty-eight people aboard remained unharmed.
Air India Express, Boeing, Emergency, hydraulic failure, India
Air India Express Flight Returns to Mumbai due to Hydraulic Failure
January 8, 2019 January 8, 2019 Air India Express, Dubai, emergency landing, hydraulic failure, India, Mumbai, United Arab Emirates
Air India Express flight IX-247 had to return and make an emergency landing in Mumbai, India, on January 6th.
The Boeing 737-800 plane took off for Dubai, United Arab Emirates, but had to turn back due to a hydraulic failure.
The plane landed safely. All one hundred and seventy-seven passengers and six crew members remained unharmed.
Boeing, Emergency, engine trouble, India, Spicejet
SpiceJet Plane Makes Emergency Landing in Varanasi
January 8, 2019 January 8, 2019 China, Delhi, emergency landing, engine issue, Hong Kong, India, SpiceJet, Varanasi
SpiceJet flight SG-32 made an emergency landing in Varanasi, India, on January 6th.
The Boeing 737-8 MAX plane heading from Hong Kong, China, to Delhi, India, was diverted due to an engine issue.
The plane landed safely. All one hundred and forty-people aboard remained unharmed.
Air India, Emergency, India, technical difficulty
Air India Flight Makes Emergency Landing in Kolkata
January 7, 2019 January 7, 2019 Air India, Bangkok, Delhi, emergency landing, India, Kolkata, technical issues, Thailand
Air India flight AI-335 made an emergency landing in Kolkata, India, on January 5th.
The plane heading from Bangkok, Thailand, to Delhi, India, was diverted after the crew noticed some technical issues.
The plane landed safely. All one hundred and fifty passengers aboard remained unharmed.
Emergency, engine shut down, India, IndiGo
IndiGo Flight Returns to Chennai due to Engine Issue
January 6, 2019 January 6, 2019 Chennai, emergency landing, engine shut down, India, IndiGo, Kolkata
IndiGo flight 6E-923 had to return and make an emergency landing in Chennai, India, on January 3rd.
The plane took off for Kolkata, India, but had to turn back after the crew needed to shut down one of the engines.
The plane landed back safely. All one hundred and thirty-six people aboard remained unharmed.
Airbus, Emergency, India, IndiGo, smoke
IndiGo Flight Makes Emergency Landing in Ahmedabad
January 3, 2019 January 3, 2019 Ahmedabad, Delhi, emergency landing, India, IndiGo, smoke
IndiGo flight 6E-6373 made an emergency landing in Ahmedabad, India, on January 1st.
The Airbus A320-200 plane flying from Delhi, India, was descending toward Ahmedabad when the crew reported smoke in the cockpit and cabin.
The plane landed uneventfully. All passengers and crew members remained safe.
Emergency, India, Medical emergency, Turkish Airlines
Turkish Airlines Plane Diverts to Kolkata due to Medical Emergency
January 2, 2019 January 2, 2019 Bangkok, emergency landing, India, Istanbul, Kolkata, medical emergency, Thailand, Turkey, Turkish Airlines
A Turkish Airlines flight made an emergency landing in Kolkata, India, on January 1st.
The plane heading from Istanbul, Turkey, to Bangkok, Thailand, was diverted after a passenger suffered a medical emergency.
The plane landed safely. The patient was rushed to a hospital.
cabin pressure, Emergency, India, Spicejet
SpiceJet Flight Makes Emergency Landing in Ahmedabad
January 2, 2019 January 2, 2019 Ahmedabad, Cabin pressure, emergency landing, India, Jodhpur, SpiceJet
SpiceJet flight SG-2976 had to return and make an emergency landing in Ahmedabad, India, on December 31st.
The plane took off for Jodhpur, India, but had to turn back due to an issue with the cabin pressure.
The plane landed safely. All seventy-nine passengers and four crew members remained unharmed.
Emergency, India, IndiGo, Medical emergency
IndiGo Flight Diverts to Bhubaneswar due to Medical Emergency
December 24, 2018 December 24, 2018 Bengaluru, Bhubaneswar, emergency landing, India, IndiGo, Kolkata, medical emergency
IndiGo flight 6E 822 made an emergency landing in Bhubaneswar, India, on December 22nd.
The plane heading from Kolkata to Bengaluru, India, was diverted after a 32-year-old male passenger suffered a medical emergency.
The plane landed safely. The patient was rushed to the Capital Hospital in Bhubaneswar where the doctors later declared him dead.
Airbus, cabin pressure, Emergency, India, Kuwait Airways
Kuwait Airways Flight Returns to Mumbai due to Cabin Pressure Problems
December 24, 2018 December 24, 2018 cabin pressurization, emergency landing, India, Kuwait, Kuwait Airways, Kuwait City, Mumbai
Kuwait Airways flight KU-304 had to return and make an emergency landing in Mumbai, India, on December 22nd.
The Airbus A320-200 plane took off for Kuwait City, Kuwait, but had to turn back due to issues with cabin pressurization.
Emirates Flight Diverts to Ahmedabad due to Medical Emergency
December 23, 2018 December 23, 2018 Ahmedabad, Dubai, emergency landing, Emirates, India, medical emergency, Myanmar, United Arab Emirates, Yangon
An Emirates flight made an emergency landing in Ahmedabad, India, on December 22nd.
The plane heading from Dubai, United Arab Emirates, to Yangon, Myanmar, was diverted after a 5-year-old passenger suffered a medical emergency.
The plane landed safely. The child was taken to a hospital.

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Q: Xcode template has wrong copyright name, where is it being picked up from? I made a mistake a while ago and enter my name as "Martin itt" which is wrong so i have updated my login etc and all seems to be well.. but when i create an new xcode project my comment headers are wrong.
If you look at the example below the create by is perfect and it has my correct name. But if you notice the Copyright then you will see "Itt" where it should be "Pitt".
Where is this value being picked up from?
I have edited my username and it reads perfect now..
Any ideas?
//
//  ViewController.h
//  BasicInteraction
//
//  Created by Martin Pitt on 9/15/12.
//  Copyright (c) 2012 Martin Itt. All rights reserved.

A: You can set the Copyright information by changing the Organization in your Project Settings:

A: If there is nothing set on the project, the default name and company information comes from your personal contact card in the address book / contacts app.

A: What jrturton says above is incorrect and I can't stress enough how much it annoys me seeing people posting this without trying it. It does NOT pull from your contact card. It pulls from a specific template directory... and it pulls from your username for the computer. Change you're account username and you'll see what I mean. Please reference this directory and link for information regarding custom templates: /Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer/Library/XCode/Templates
How to set ___COPYRIGHT___ in Xcode 4.5


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Alison Clemens
Archivist and Special Collections Librarian
With Archival Workers Emergency Fund Organizing Committee, and through the generosity of colleagues, raised over $130,000 in mutual aid funds for archival workers affected by the Covid-19 crisis.
With Digital Library Federation Born Digital Access Working colleagues, developed "DLF Born-Digital Access Working Group Access Values" (osf.io/ed7vk/), September 2020 and wrote "Collecting User Experiences, Needs, and Desires for Accessing Born-Digital Archival Collections" white paper (osf.io/wd29k), March 2020.
With team of practitioners, develop curriculum for Born Digital Access Bootcamps; led two inaugural, all-day bootcamps at the New England Archivists Annual Meeting and Digital Archivists of Philadelphia, 2017; and led a third two-hour bootcamp at the Digital Library Forum meeting in Henderson, Nevada, 2018.
With Society of American Archivists Committee on Education, reviewed and refined SAA curriculum for arrangement and description; created Arrangement & Description certificate program
With research team, designed and conducted an exploratory study to document current born-digital access practices in cultural heritage institutions. A preliminary report of findings is available.
With the Membership Committee of the Rare Books and Manuscripts Section of the American Library Association, revised the RBMS Careers FAQ and the RBMS Educational Opportunities Directory
Planned and piloted UH Special Collections Brown Bag Series with an inaugural presentation focusing on UH's Texas Music Collection
Conducted finding aid creation and ongoing digitization project metadata review for the University of Houston Libraries' Early Texas Documents Collection, comprising the library's exemplary collection of Texana
Completed collections survey for the University of Houston Libraries Special Collections of over 106 collections, in order to compile processing priorities and conduct an audiovisual and digital materials survey
Completed capstone project processing and creating a reading room exhibition and blog post for The Daniel Stern Papers at The Harry Ransom Center
Created EAD and MARC records for The Dolph Briscoe Center for American History's Bringing Hidden Collections to Light project; converted over 200 EAD records to MARC
Assisted with exhibition preparation, writing, and editing for exhibitions at The Morgan Library & Museum, including for "In the Company of Animals: Art, Literature, and Music and the Morgan" and "Charles Dickens at 200"
Created access audio files and descriptive metadata for The Paris Review Audio Archive database, forthcoming in The Morgan's reading room
Created comprehensive inventory of 130 manuscript items mounted in an extra-illustrated first edition of John Forster's Life of Dickens
Curated exhibition catalog on literary textual revision for course on the Book Arts
Researched, wrote, and presented a paper on Winnie Allen, archivist of the Dolph Briscoe Center for American History from 1936-1960. Conducted research and writing for the paper under the supervision of David B. Gracy II; presented the paper at Indiana University, Bloomington. This paper is currently in the process of revision with an eye toward publication.
Served as team leader for a Preservation Needs Assessment of the University of Texas Classics Library; focused on handling and preservation; collection management; digitization and reformatting; and emergency plan.


This started life as 2 publicity stills from the 1988 film "Heathers", each picture had elements the other lacked due to overly aggressive cropping so initially using both I created a complete picture. Once I had my complete base image I then added a new background once merged I tweaked the colour then added 2 minor effects. Winona is pretty sweet in this picture a fresh faced 17 year old.


Trellis is reminiscent of classic treillage patterning. The latticework filters light, harmoniously unifying both contrast and texture. A Trellis provides balance and support - important aspects of a healthy lifestyle.


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What You Can Do To Balance For Better This International Women's Day
Empowerment, Social Impact
First recognized by the suffragettes in 1911, International Women's Day is not only a day that celebrates the social, political, economic, and cultural achievement of women, but also is a call to action to accelerate gender parity and women's rights around the world.
Last year, we united together to #PressForProgress to work towards achieving gender equality after hearing that the gender gap will most likely take over 217 years to close. This year, we continue working towards that goal where the theme's calls for a better gender-balanced world and put a stop to gender bias. As the website cites, "from grassroots activism to worldwide action, we are entering an exciting period of history where the world expects balance. We notice its absence and celebrate its presence. Balance drives a better working world".
Fact is, gender balance doesn't only benefit women, it benefits everyone. It isn't a women's issue, it's a social and business issue that we need to address.
When we move towards a future with balance…
Women and girls around the world will have the same opportunities as men and boys socially, economically, and culturally. Girls will be able to go to school and learn, instead of being sold off as a child bride. Mothers can start a business creating and honing their craft to support their families and invest in their communities, rather than feel powerless and dependent on their husbands.
The playing field will finally be leveled as women will be respected and valued enough to be paid as much as a man for the same job.
Our society won't feel the need to label gender in recognition, programming, or leadership categories anymore because women and men can finally compete in the same categories and are recognized equally.
And that's just the tip of the iceberg.
Gender balance cannot be achieved alone by women, it has to be a partnership with men as well. Lack of support from men will only stall progress. Although the goal may seem far-fetched, small steps will pave the way. While the majority of us will use social media this week to echo this important goal, what else can we do in our everyday life to raise awareness and promote gender balance?
Create an inclusive and safe work environment
In the era of #metoo, #timesup, and #blacklivesmatter, fostering diversity and equal representation in gender, race, and nationalities are crucial at a workplace. Inclusion gives everyone an opportunity to contribute ideas, promotes innovative thinking, and strengthens culture belonging. Not only does it offer different perspectives and solutions to problems, it can create greater potential for positive change.
Inclusion is more than a checkbox, it's a mean for survival.
For example, I work as a conference planner for a health/medical not-for-profit association and my team works with many physicians, cardiologists, specialists on various committees to bring our scientific programming to life at our annual congress. In a report dated 2016, there are only 22% of female cardiologists in Canada, which is extremely low since heart disease is the leading cause of death among women. Something we recently strive to do at the beginning of each year is to ensure the 3 G's are represented across our committees and advisory boards: Gender, Generation, and Geographic Location. This way, we are taking a first step at working towards achieving balance and ensuring the needs of our delegates are being represented, met, and heard.
Creating an inclusive workplace is a work in progress. At minimal, we have to include women of different backgrounds and ethnicity to have a seat at a table where important decisions are made. We cannot afford to ignore the talent and contribution of half of the population anymore.
Champion other women online and offline
We work, collaborate, and engage with many women throughout the day. Whether it is a co-worker, small business owner, freelancer, supplier, or friend, we are surrounded by many talented, fabulous, and creative women within our communities.
Recognition and recommendation can go a long way. For a small business owner, freelancer, or an aspiring artist, engagement such as a comment or share over our personal social media channels can reach at least a hundred new potential people that she hasn't had a chance to reach before. Offline, we can easily set-up face-to-face coffee dates and bring women together from different backgrounds. When we do our small part and pay it forward, we are working together to ensure women's work are being heard and seen.
Let's show the world what value women bring to the world and recognize all the hard work they have done.
Boost other women's confidence up
Lastly, to achieve a gender-balanced world starts with us. As women, we have to first support one another and not tear each other down. Jealousy, comparison, and sabotage will not get us to a balanced world, they will only set us back.
Boosting another woman's confidence up is not as complex or difficult as we think. It can be as easy as giving a co-worker a compliment on a Wednesday morning, or encouraging your aspiring business friend to step outside of their comfort zone so that we could continue to grow and thrive. We now live in a world where we are more than connected than ever, but we aren't maximizing it to its full potential. Let us use it positively to be kind to one another and work towards breaking that ceiling.
Because, let's face it: when we feel confident in who we are and what we do, it changes us. Confidence gives us a sense of purpose and belonging that tells us what we are doing matters and that we can make the world a better place.
What are some other ways you are incorporating into your daily routine at achieving gender balance? I'd love to hear from you!
Download/Save our #BalanceForBetter affirmations below and let's use our voice online to help advocate for a gender balanced world. Don't forget to tag us on Instagram/Facebook (@discoverherproject) and Twitter (@discoverherprjt)! Make sure you use the official IWD hashtag #BalanceForBetter and our's #HerTimeToLead!
Here in Ottawa, here are some awesome events taking place in celebration of International Women's Day this week:
March 4: Women's Leadership Summit, hosted by University of Ottawa's Faculty of Social Sciences and Franklin Templeton Investments
March 5: CEO Talk – Women In Business, hosted by Ottawa Board of Trade and Ottawa Business Journal
March 5: Grow your biz with SHE BIZ, hosted by SHE BIZ and Startup Ottawa
March 6: 11th Annual Women In Business Conference
March 7: International Women's Day Summit, hosted by Elevate International in collaboration with the University of Ottawa, Willis College and Kind Village
March 8: Mayor Jim Watson's International Women's Day Breakfast at City Hall
March 8: Walk In Her Shoes, hosted by CARE Canada
March 8: Feminist Mixer, hosted by Feminist Twins,The Ottawa Coalition to End Violence Against Women, and EmpowHer Network
March 9: The Women in the World Conference, hosted by World Vision
March 10: Ottawa Women's Self-Defense Seminar, hosted by Storm Innovations Inc. and Mighty Maestro Fitness
March 15: Women Leaders in Business: Innovation for Sustainable Development, hosted by UNA-Canada
March 19: Ottawa's WE Talk Business Boot Camp, hosted by BDC
March 20: Entrepreneurship and Leadership Program for Girls, hosted by Startup Canada, JA Ottawa, ambiSHEous™, and the Telfer Centre for Entrepreneurial Leadership
March 25: The Women's Adventure Film Tour, hosted by Adventure Film Tour
For information on other cities, head on over to the International Women's Day website and visit their city events page to see what else is happening around you. Another fantastic avenue would be going on Eventbrite or Facebook events.
"The story of women's struggle for equality belongs to no single feminist nor to any one organization, but to the collective efforts of all who care about human rights." – Gloria Steinem
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Major construction to install turf softball and baseball fields at Colby College is underway, and calling the project merely a win-win proposition is a less-than-full accounting.
Plans for the new softball and baseball complex show adjacent turf fields.
Both programs will benefit from new fields and related facilities, and there are multiple wins for academics at Colby as well. Harold Alfond Director of Athletics Tim Wheaton points out that the new facilities will help the College attract the strongest academic applicants; lights will allow athletes to practice later in the day, causing fewer conflicts with academic and extracurricular activities; and teams' access to the fields beginning in February will result in less travel for away games. "For us, the impact is huge," Wheaton said.
There are also exciting opportunities for community use of the facilities for local programs as well as a place for regional tournaments. And Colby's Collins Observatory is moving to Runnals Hill, where light pollution will be less of a factor.
Colby will become the first college in the New England Small College Athletic Conference (NESCAC) to have synthetic turf for both baseball and softball. These will be the third and fourth artificial fields on campus, following the Bill Alfond Field, installed in 2004 for field hockey and lacrosse and resurfaced in 2014, and Seaverns Football Field in the Harold Alfond Stadium, converted to artificial turf in 2008. Like the other synthetic playing surfaces at Colby, these fields will be cleared of snow, providing space for intramural and informal sports activities as well as varsity practices beginning in mid-February.
Construction on the softball and baseball fields began the first workday after commencement, May 26, and a week later thousands of cubic yards of earth had been excavated and other preparations were underway. The fields will be completed this fall.
The complex will include a pavilion featuring hitting tunnels for batting practice. There also will be on-grade dugouts, public restrooms, elevated bleachers behind home plate on both fields, bullpens outside the playing area, and full lighting for night practices and games. In addition there will be a team drop-off area and parking spaces for people with disabilities, enhancing safety and accessibility. Landscaping and plantings will enhance aesthetics, and pathways will be lit with LED fixtures. With the quality of the new fields and the related facilities, the experiences of Colby baseball and softball players and their fans will be the best in the NESCAC, College officials said.
Both new fields will be the same size as the fields they replace. The location of the baseball field, named for MLB legend Colby Jack Coombs, will not change. Softball will move across the road, from alongside the field house to adjacent to Coombs Field, where the observatory and music shell were located.
Approximately $2.5 million has been committed to date by nearly a hundred alumni, parents, and friends of both Colby baseball and softball, with fundraising efforts ongoing.
With the passing of former Colby baseball coach John Winkin in 2014, a group of alumni who played under the National College Baseball Hall of famer rallied to honor his memory by giving a gift to name a space at the fields. A generous baseball family has pledged to match any gift with a one-to-one match up to a total of $250,000 to make the tribute to Winkin possible.
For more information on the fields, including how to support the project, please visit colby.edu/baseballsoftball.
A view of the softball and baseball fields project from right field, Coombs Field, about a week into the project.


This RSView32 project is an updated version of my famous old Juice Bottling demo.
It was updated to simulate a portion of a water bottling plant for the purpose of providing data for RSSQL, Historian, and PlantMetrics.
New in this demo is a Labeler and Printer.
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The Unbreakable Genius Of Mark Zuckerberg
In just 12 years, he built an empire of 1.71 billion followers. His next goal: to friend the rest of humanity.
By Dave Gershgorn | Published Aug 23, 2016 4:30 PM
Photography by F. Scott Schafer
In just 12 years, the Facebook founder built an empire of 1.71 billion followers. His next goal: to friend the rest of humanity.
Down the hall from Mark Zuckerberg's desk sits a virtual reality studio. Foreign heads of state and other dignitaries have been known to lose themselves here in games of zero-gravity Ping-Pong and the real-seeming experience of firing virtual fireworks at each other. Such are their number, and frequency, that on an early summer morning Zuckerberg is at a loss to remember—or perhaps too diplomatic to divulge—one of their names. He does, however, recall the anecdotal nugget of the man's visit.
"He wouldn't leave," says Zuckerberg, sitting in a glass-walled conference room in Facebook's cavernous and almost factorylike headquarters in Menlo Park, California. "His aide was like, 'Mr. Prime Minister, you have to take off…you're two hours late for your flight.'"
That is exactly the reaction that Zuckerberg—the 32-year-old, still jeans-and-tee-clad creator and CEO of Facebook—wants to elicit from millions of people he hopes will strap on his Oculus Rift headset. But there's way more to it than a feeling of presence with Ping-Pong opponents. Zuckerberg wants Oculus, or some future iteration of it, to replace our laptops, our smartphones, our televisions, the art on our walls, and, in some cases, seeing our friends in the flesh. So instead of owning a bunch of devices, you will swipe your emails and favorite shows into virtual view and go at it. The point isn't living in solitary work or game mode, but rather connecting even more frequently with people through a technology that tricks your mind into thinking it's somewhere else, without actually having to be there. Or letting you hold and flip through digital files at your desk as if they were physical, with augmented reality. Having brought together 1.71 billion people on a social-media network that began just 12 years ago in his dorm room—a network that now comprises the largest global audience in human history—Zuckerberg wants all of us to start connecting in his new realities.
As he sees it, in just 10 years' time, "VR will be a mainstream-computing platform." And just as we saw an explosion of apps for our smartphones, an entire ecosystem of activities will be built up around it.
"You can bring these objects into any space," he says. "I'll be able to say, 'OK, we're here together, let's play chess.' Now here's a chessboard, and we can be in any space. We can play chess on Mars."
Zuckerberg's long game isn't the chessboard, or even building out a virtual Mars—though he plans on being a part of that too. His driving vision is to connect our entire planet. For that reason, he pushed Facebook to buy Oculus for $2 billion in 2014—when everyone else thought it was just another screen for gamers—seeing it as a means to socialize in immersive technicolor from across the world. For that reason too he's working to beam the Internet, via DIY transmitters, or drones and lasers, to the billions on the planet who do not yet have online access. And in this larger pursuit of connecting people and technologies, he has pledged nearly the entirety of his fortune (99 percent of his Facebook shares, valued at some $45 billion) to his Chan Zuckerberg Initiative, named for him and his wife, Priscilla. Its stated goals are "advancing human potential and promoting equality." And he plans to do that, in part, by improving education and trying to cure the world's most intractable diseases—by giving scientists access to engineers, whose work could include artificial intelligence.
It's safe to say that no one is doing more, in so many fields, to bring about this singular vision of connectivity. "I certainly would not underestimate him," says Ben Horowitz, whose venture-capital firm, Andreessen Horowitz, is a Facebook investor. "He is totally determined, willing to fail and try again, has the resources, and he's a genius. If he can't lead the way, then I'm not sure who can."
Oculus' design team tests hardware at Facebook HQ. Facebook
That was hardly Silicon Valley wisdom two years ago when Zuckerberg urged Facebook to purchase Oculus. "Everyone really scratched their heads and said: 'VR, is that really a thing? And, Facebook? Why is Facebook doing it?'" says Mike Schroepfer, the company's chief technology officer, referring to the idea of Facebook getting into the hardware business. At the time, Oculus didn't have the necessary hand- and head-positional tracking that would make it feel immersive, or real to life. "It was sort of a one-demo thing," says Schroepfer.
In the past two years, a number of important advances have occurred: higher-quality, pixel-dense LED screens; faster processors; and improved sensors. And during that same time, others have followed Zuckerberg's lead. Google backed Magic Leap, an augmented-reality platform that overlays objects onto the real world. (It also rolled out the $15 Google Cardboard, which offers a VR experience via your smartphone.) Microsoft unveiled its HoloLens (also AR). And Apple is reportedly developing its own headset.
What Zuckerberg is proposing—and working to create—is a radical rethinking of our relationship with our personal technology, which he doesn't see as all that personal right now. "It's kind of crazy to me that we're here in 2016 and the defining relationship we have with computers and phones is apps, not people," he says. "It feels very unnatural and overly technical to me." His goal is to help build out the next-generation computing platform, in which, he says, "people are the foundational element."
His end goal is a seamless integration of our digital and analog lives: augmented reality, also known as mixed reality. Not a full virtual zone like in VR, but one based in the real world, in which you call up the things you need, and the people you need, when you need them. "If you look around the room," he says, gesturing around the nearly empty conference room, "how many of the things here need to be physical?" It turns out, not much. Not the laptops on the tables, not the TV screens on the walls. "Instead of buying these things for hundreds of dollars," he says, "you'd buy it for like a dollar in an app store and use it whenever."
In addition to the social apps he expects to find in the virtual world (attending a lecture across the globe, for example, or standing inside a 360-degree live stream of a street protest in a foreign capital), Zuckerberg sees this technology usurping our solitary moments.
Instead of binging on eight hours of Netflix, with our brains in a zoned-out state, Zuckerberg sees some of us choosing the interactive brain-on experiences of AR and VR. "I think a lot of time people frame the question like this: 'Is it weird that people will be spending time in something like VR when they could be interacting with people instead?'" says Zuckerberg, who notes that he has teams doing studies on the mental effects of VR exposure. "I think that misses the point on a couple of fronts, the main one being that what is actually being replaced are other modes of technology like TV, where I think we're more passive. …You want to be in a personalized experience where you're making decisions. You want to be interacting with other people. And VR is a natural extension of that." So in Zuckerberg's augmented future, we all become more social, not less.
On a wing
The Aquila drone made its first test flight on June 28.
On the surface, it's easy to dismiss Zuckerberg's efforts to connect the planet as solely self-interested. After all, Facebook is a public company that makes money by selling ads against its user. And his Internet-access program called Free Basics, which makes a limited portion of the Web available for free, has been accused of a Facebook bias. When India rejected it in February, the criticism centered on Facebook acting as gatekeeper, deciding what would and would not be accessible.
Yet Zuckerberg argues the Internet has the power to lift people out of poverty and promote education, which explains why he's made connectivity the cornerstone of his $350 billion company. As Horowitz puts it: "Mark has a mission much larger than himself, and he won't stop until he achieves it." Within Facebook, large swaths of resources tackle complex tasks like automatic language translation. That way, people can eventually communicate with nearly all of humanity, with fewer barriers to understanding.
While India was a major setback— "There are a billion people in India who are not on the Internet, so that's a big one," Zuckerberg says—he has a track record of proving naysayers wrong. Today, Facebook has launched Free Basics in 42 countries, bringing 25 million people online for the first time.
Zuckerberg slots the unconnected of the world into three categories: 1 billion who can't afford the Internet, 1 billion without access because they are out of reach of Wi-Fi, and 2 billion who don't know why they would want or need to buy a data plan in the first place.
Mark Zuckerberg's Personal A.I. Assistant
Tasks that the virtual butler could same day carry out.
For the billion who want it but can't afford it, Facebook is designing plans for cheaper infrastructure, and aiming to cut the costs for the telecommunication companies. In July, Facebook introduced another hardware product to improve connectivity in rural areas: OpenCellular, a shoebox-size transmitter that's attachable to existing infrastructure and can broadcast 2G to LTE cellular service as well as Wi-Fi, and can support up to 1,500 users within 6 miles. Facebook is making the schematics free, encouraging telecom companies or entrepreneurs to build wireless infrastructure off the OpenCellular platform.
For people in remote areas, Facebook is planning to launch drones to transmit Internet from the sky. Named Aquila, the drone has the wingspan of a Boeing 737—113 feet—but weighs just 880 pounds and consumes the wattage of a large microwave. It's essentially one big wing, laden with Internet-beaming lasers. These drones might eventually stay aloft three months at a time, using solar power and gravitational energy. On its inaugural test flight, the drone stayed airborne for 96 minutes—three times longer than planned—before being grounded due to a structural failure. Aquila's lasers will send signals to towers and dishes over a 31-mile radius, delivering enough bandwidth to support thousands of users.
The last 2 billion, those unconvinced of the Internet's purpose, are the most difficult. Zuckerberg puts it like this: "You've never used the Internet, and someone comes up to you and asks, 'Do you want to buy a data plan?' You're like, 'Why?'"
Why indeed, if you've never sent an email? The commitment is enormous, and the venture is full of prickly political and cultural issues, as the India blowback showed. Yet this goal is crucial to Zuckerberg's belief that the Internet makes the world a better place. "If we are trying to give every person the power to share and connect to everyone," he says, "then it's hard to do that when more than half the people are not on the Internet."
Others too want to see this happen. Elon Musk and SpaceX are taking this on via Internet-beaming satellites, as is Facebook's fiercest competitor, Google, with its inflatable balloons and drones. So why should Zuckerberg be the one to succeed? "I think anyone could do it," he says sincerely. "But I think often the question is, 'Who cares the most to get it done?'"
Priscilla Chan and Mark Zuckerberg
Mark Zuckerberg and Priscilla Chan are banking that software can fix the world's issues.
In 2015, when Zuckerberg and Chan's daughter, Max, was born, Zuckerberg wrote an open letter to her, pledging to commit—within their lifetimes— 99 percent of their wealth to education reform and fighting disease, among other things.
Zuckerberg has long cared about education. In 2010 he donated $100 million to the Newark, New Jersey, school system—a venture that left him frustrated due to the bureaucracy and politics. This time around, he's focusing on reforming education with something he understands: software.
In January 2014, Zuckerberg toured a school in Sunnyvale, California, which is part of Summit Public Schools, a charter-school system started by a software engineer. The classrooms were set up like a startup, with no walls between them, and computers on every shared table. Most compelling to Zuckerberg, though, was that they were experimenting with personalized education. Each student learned at his or her own pace. Groups worked together on more complex problems. Zuckerberg asked the program's founder to meet the school's engineering team that had built the initial personalized education platform. "Her response was, 'Yeah I'll introduce you to him,'" Zuckerberg said.
Zuckerberg, surprised that the "team" was a single person, made her a deal. He'd give her more engineers (which will number 30 from his own troops by the end of the year) as long as the software remained free for other schools to use, thus connecting educators and propagating knowledge. She accepted. This school year, about 120 schools will use the personalized education software. In the next decade or so, Zuckerberg hopes to get half the country on board.
To Zuckerberg, education is just another engineering problem. So is medical research. So is anything. That's the heart of the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative as it progresses: the idea that engineers can scale progress in any field. A researcher studying cross sections of the brain to understand neuron pathways, or to look at the growth of cancer cells, could take years, and even a lifetime, of physical scanning and study. But applying AI (and its ability to sort information exponentially faster than humans) to this process could reduce that time by orders of magnitude. "If top scientists had the firepower of a world-class engineering organization behind them," says Zuckerberg, "I'm pretty optimistic we could help build some tools that can unlock a lot of new understanding."
Not one to lack vision, he's willing to go so far as to say that science can, through AI and machine learning, one day manage or cure the main diseases that kill humans, such as cancer. "I really want to convince the world that it is possible," says Zuckerberg, "to get to a place where we can manage all diseases by the end of the century. I believe that we can."
And no one has yet gone wrong betting with him.
This article was originally published in the September/October 2016 issue of Popular Science, under the title "The Most Social Man On The Planet."


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The West Toronto Railpath
blogTO recently published a piece about the West Toronto Railpath: "the city's hidden urban trail next to the train tracks." In this particular instance, the headline is actually pretty accurate. (If you know blogTO, you'll know what I mean.) I think that there are a lot of Torontonians who don't know this railpath exists. Build over top of a decommissioned rail line (but adjacent to an active one), the railpath is a 2.1 km trail that runs from the Junction in the north (basically adjacent to Junction House) to Dundas West & Sterling Road in the south. But there are plans to extend it further south to Queen West. Public meeting number two was held back in February of this year (presentation here) and construction of the extension is expected to start as early as next year. The City has to acquire some additional lands in order to make this all happen.
Here's a map from the City showing both the current West Toronto Railpath and the planned extension:
What I like about this map is that it starts to show you just how multi-modal the city is becoming and how important these individual initiatives are for our broader mobility network. Here you can see how the WTR currently connects into the Bloor GO / Union Pearson Express station and how the extension will bring it within striking distance of the planned King-Liberty Village station. You can see how the railpath will interface with the Davenport Diamond Greenway that I wrote about last month (mustard color). And you can see the various pedestrian/cycle crossings that have already been built to better stitch the city together. Though hidden to some, these pathways, greenways, and crossings are critical to how many people commute and enjoy this great city. I have certainly been doing a lot of the latter this summer. Almost exclusively atop two wheels.
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ଓଡ଼ିଶା ରାଜ୍ୟ ଖାଦ୍ୟ ଆୟୋଗ, ଭୁବନେଶ୍ୱର || ODISHA STATE FOOD COMMISSION, BHUBANESWAR
The National Food Security Act(NFSA), 2013 provides for food and nutritional security in human life cycle approach, by ensuring access to adequate quantity of quality food at affordable prices to people to live a life with dignity and for matters connected therewith or incidental thereto.
This Act was published in the Gazette of India on the 10th of September, 2013 but deemed to have come into force on the 5th day of July, 2013.
As per the provisions under section 16 of this Act, every State Government shall, by notification, constitute a State Food Commission for the purpose of monitoring and review of implementation of this Act. However, pursuant to the provisions under section 18 of this Act , the State Government may, if considers it necessary, by notification, designate any statutory commission or a body to exercise the powers and perform the functions of the State Food Commission.
In view of these provisions, the Odisha Information Commission was designated in November,2015 to exercise the powers and perform the functions of the State Food Commission.
Subsequently, Odisha Government decided to constitute an exclusive commission and accordingly the Department of Food Supplies & Consumer Welfare issued Notification No. 5725 on 15th March,2016. Pursuant to the said notification, offers of appointment were issued on the 9th May, 2016 to appoint Shri Ranglal Jamuda, I.A.S.(Retd.) as the first Chairperson of the Commission along with Shri Manoj Kumar Panda, Special Judge(Retd.) and Dr. Sipra Mallick,(former M.L.A.) as Members. All of them assumed charge between 10th May to 18th May 2016.
Subsequently Ms. Rajashree Mohanty,O.A.S.(S) and Shri S.K.Sarangi, O.R.S. assumed charge as Member Secretary and Administrative Officer respectively. The Commission is also assisted by a few supporting staff to perform the functions.
The commission has a mandate to monitor and evaluate the implementation of the National Food Security Act (NFSA) in the State. Three schemes namely- Targeted Public Distribution System, Integrated Child Development Services and Mid Day Meal come within the purview of this Act.
Statutory Function of SFC :
There are mainly three major Function of SFC:
inspect or cause to be inspected, the non-compliance of policy decisions of the Government relating to NFS Act
organise regional camps to build awareness about benefits and entitlements under the Act; and
define measures for redressal of grievances in three implementing departments i.e. FS&CW, W&CD and S&ME.
Powers of SFC :
The Commission have been empowered to,
monitor and evaluate the implementation of the schemes pursuant to the NFS Act, 2013;
either suo motu or on receipt of complaint inquire into violations of entitlement,
hear appeals against orders of the District Grievance Redressal Officer; and
give advice to the State Government, their agencies, autonomous bodies as well as non-governmental organisations involved in delivery of relevant services for the effective implementation of food and nutrition related schemes, to enable individuals to fully access their entitlements specified in this Act.
Field Position on Food & Nutrition Security :
Each of the Scheme coming under this Act, is being implemented by the respective Administrative Department without much synergy. It is essential to bring all the players to a common platform to optimise their efforts and effectiveness through convergence and better appreciation of the ground realities.
Innovations in Securing Food and Nutrition :
In addition to TPDS, ICDS & MDM schemes, district authorities may have introduced/identified schemes/programmes to cater to the special needs of their locality. Such innovations as well as good practices will be shared from time to time with an open mind.
Integrated Grievance Redressal Mechanism
FS&CW Department had notified P.D.,DRDA as the District Grievance Redressal Officer(DGRO) under the NFSA on 14th October 2015. In the 1st convergence meeting of SFC convened through the FS&CW Department and held on 2nd June 2016, Chief Secretary to Government had requested Secretary W&CD and S&ME Departments to issue office order/notification for District Social Welfare Officer and District Education Officer to assist DGRO in disposal of grievances at district level.
Institutionalisation of Independent DGRO/NFSA Cell
As per the decisions taken in the said convergence meeting, DRDAs are to earmark an independent room in the offices of DRDAs to function as "NFSA Cell" for redressal of all grievances which could not be resolved satisfactorily at the level of C.S.O., D.S.W.O. and D.E.O. with the assistance from C.S.O., D.S.W.O. and D.E.O.
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EC Twins – "Won't Let You Down" [Twin Turbo] [Free Download]
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The EC Twins are bringing some serious heat this summer. Their label Twin Turbo Records launched to bring a fresh perspective, tracks different from what most artists are putting out these days. Their latest tune "Won't Let You Down" has a old school vibe, reminiscent of a disco-era track. But it also works well in the modern age, with a catchy vocal loop and a slightly slower tempo than most tracks for easy summer listening. It's definitely a major left turn from the duo that brought you the club-leveling song "Pussy Pop" and "Love Me Harder," and we're always big fans of diversity in dance music. Don't forget to pick up a free copy of this tune ASAP.
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ROM-4 is a four-member J-pop group that consists of Masaki Kaji, Masataka Kubota, Ryo Kimura, and Gouta Watabe.

History
The rap group "ROM-4" was formed for the Japanese television drama, Seishun Energy: Check It Out, Yo! in Tokyo (青春★ENERGY ~ チェケラッチョ!! In Tokyo), that aired on Fuji TV from April 12, 2006 to June 15, 2006.

The show's about 4 third year high school students of present Tokyo that are not motivated, but when they encounter rap, it helps motivate them to take charge of their lives and their dreams. Thus the song "Keep It Goin' On" represents their motivation, spirit and seishun (young) energy.

In the drama, Takumi (played by Masataka Kubota), Satoru (played by Gouta Watabe), Shingo (played by Masaki Kaji) and Sanpei (played by Ryo Kimura) form the group ROM-4.

The name, ROM-4, is an abbreviation for Rapで、俺(O)達、モ(M)テタイ、Yo(4)!」の略, which means "through Rap R, Oretachi ('we') O, Motetai ('want to be hot') M, Yo (from 'yon' which is Japanese for '4') 4. Therefore, a literal translation of ROM-4, would mean "We want to be hot and rap, yo!"

ROM-4 made their CD debut on June 21, 2006, when they released their CD single called "Keep It Goin' ON" for the show. On November 13, 2006, the single sold 465 copies in Japan and its highest ranking on Oricon was 174, appearing on the chart once.

Discography

Singles stats

Single was released for the Seishun Energy: Check It Out, Yo! in Tokyo TV show in Japan (JPN), only.

Track listings

Track Listings for the Keep It Goin' On CD single:
"Keep It Goin' On"
"Keep It Goin' On (SUNSHINE REMIX)"
"Keep It Goin' On ~Instrumental~"

See also
 Masaki Kaji

References

External links
 Sony MEJ's ROM-4 Webpage
 Fuji TV's ROM-4 Webpage

Japanese pop music groups
Vocal quartets

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The dust has barely settled after a busy BTME and it's time for the Six Nations once again. All eyes will be on the magnificent Millennium Stadium and the new Desso pitch which will be under the spotlight. Following a recent visit by Complete Weed Control, the playing surface is in sparkling condition and ready for action.
The rugby year culminates in the World Cup and it promises to be a fantastic spectacle spread all over the country utilising many different stadia.
With all winter sports getting to the 'sharp end' of the season, everyone expects the playing surfaces to be in great condition. This gives Turf Managers massive headaches - especially as we are heading into 'proper' winter conditions and temperatures are dropping.
Keeping the sward in top condition is paramount. There are many products available as witnessed by us all at Harrogate. However, the right choice for your particular sports arena depends on so many different parameters.
Soil sampling is the first way to decide what nutrients may or may NOT be required. Samples of the leaf itself can show up the stress it may be under and then decisions can be made on how to best treat the pitch.
As usual, a close eye must be kept on the latest pesticide news. By June 2016, the whole 'selective' herbicide market will change. Many of the phenoxy type ingredients of the usual three-way mixes that we are all accustomed to using will no longer be available.
This will mean that the new herbicides that have been used sparingly over the last few seasons will come to the fore. Florasulam and fluroxypyr will be the main guns in the arsenal to fight broad leaf weeds in turf. They are excellent; but will produce a sharp intake of breath when the cost per hectare is discussed in the future.
With pesticides in mind, it is worth noting that the Amenity Forum is holding a series of seminars throughout the country. This group gives all of the latest information: updates from CRD (Chemical Directorate) as well as the latest legislation and other Voluntary Initiative information. They are very worthwhile to attend for all seeking to deepen their industry knowledge. Visit www.amenityforum.co.uk or contact Independent Secretary Alan Spedding - Alan.Spedding@amenityforum.net to sign up for the nearest meeting to you.
February is the month when planning for the new season ahead is in full swing across all facets of our industry.
Who can do my soil sampling?
What if ice or snow threatens the fixture?
Complete Weed Control and our Complete Ice Control teams are on hand throughout the country and able to answer all these questions. They can offer the practical solutions on applying all products safely and accurately on all sports surfaces using the most up to date technology. We have also a nationwide network for all gritting requirements.
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(sæc?); adj. Accused, charged, guilty Swerian ðæt hig nellan nǽnne sacleásan man forsecgean ne nǽnne sacne forhelan let them swear that they will not bring a charge against an innocent man, nor conceal one who is justly charged, L. Eth. iii. 3; Th. i. 294, 5. v. un-sac, sæc.
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Østrig-ungarske kroner var valutaen og guldstandarden i Østrig-Ungarn. Ved en valutareform i 1892 afløste kroner den hidtidige Gulden, der var en sølvstandardvaluta. I folkemunde kaldte man guldmønterne 10-, 20- og 100-krone for guldkroner. Indtil 1900 var gulden gyldig ved siden af kronen. Ombytningsforholdet var to kroner for en gulden.

I det østrigske område af Østrig-Ungarn var 100 heller lig med 1 krone. I det ungarske område var betegnelsen korona og svarede til 100 filler. På pengesedlerne var valutaens navn angivet på alle Østrig-Ungarns sprog (koruna, korona, corona, krona, kruna, coroană).

Østrig 1892 til 1918

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Selvom den oprindelige plan om en valutaunion mellem Østrig og de gamle stater i Østrig-Ungarn mislykkede, forblev kronen navn på flere af de nye staters valuta. Først trykkede man blot ny tekst hen over de gamle pengesedler. På grund af forskellig inflation i landene efter 1. verdenskrig fik kronen forskellig værdi.

Første Republik 1918 til 1925
Kronen blev videreført i den første østrigske republik efter 1918. Den østrigske krone led dog under stor ustabilitet under inflationen i efterkrigstiden. I 1925 indførte man i stedet den østrigske schilling, der opretholdt sin stabilitet. Værdien af 1 schilling var 10.000 kroner.

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Joan of Stones
Ready to charge across the Hudson River, an equestrian statue of Joan of Arc overlooks Riverside Park on the west side of Manhattan. It arose in December 1915, six years after two energetic men – a distinguished mineralogist and jewelry company executive and a patron of the arts – set out to honor the French saint in New York City.
The 20-foot high bronze statue, atop a granite pedestal, has never been a major attraction. Admirers always note, however, that it is the work of a woman sculptor, Anna Vaughan Hyatt. Her sculptures also show up at the Bronx Zoo and Columbia University, among other places.
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Anna studied at the Art Students League under Gutzon Borglum, who created Mount Rushmore. In 1909, she entered a plaster cast of a statue of Joan of Arc in the 1910 Paris Salon, where it received an honorable mention. Subsequently, Hyatt would sculpt Joan in bronze for the New York City memorial.
As a child, the martyr Jeanne d'Arc experienced visions that called her to drive the English from France and restore the Roman Catholic King Charles VII to the throne. She survived the battlefield and court and church intrigue only to be captured and burned at the stake by the English, at the age of 19 in 1431.*
Joan of Arc had been gone for several centuries when she came back into vogue. During the late nineteenth century, thousands of French citizens began to make pilgrimages to her birthplace and new statues of her were erected in towns across France.
The reason for the excitement was the Church's decision to beatify her in a series of ceremonies at St. Peter's in Rome in April 1909. More than 30,000 French pilgrims, dozens of French cardinals and bishops, and all kinds of "notables" attended.
In the U. S., George Frederick Kunz, a mineralogist and former vice president of Tiffany & Co., and J. Sanford Saltus, a philanthropist and the heir to a steel fortune, decided that New York City should honor the new saint. Both men revered French painting and sculpture, were recipients of the Legion of Honor, and felt a strong affinity with the people of France.
George Frederick Kunz
They co-founded the Joan of Arc Statue Committee in 1910. Within three years, Kunz – who was the real driver – had raised $20,000 for the construction of a statue.
"In working for a statue to honor Joan of Arc here in New York," Kunz told the New York Times, "we are not thinking of anything having to do either with religion or woman suffrage. She represents, I think, the best type of true womanhood."
He continued chauvinistically:
We are beginning to realize more and more that New York is the most wonderful city in the world and the monument must be an ornament to it. As long as it is what it should be we do not care who makes it, a Russian, an Italian, an American, or a Hottentot.
Meanwhile, Anna Hyatt had already started to work on the statue, using her niece as a model for the figure.
Kunz turned his attention to the pedestal. The man had traveled the world in search of rocks, gems, opalized wood, meteoric iron and the like. In 1900 he had procured the Star of India for J. P. Morgan, who later donated it to the American Museum of Natural History in New York City.
Kunz was passionate about stone and hoped to use it to infuse the monument with meaning.
For this reason, the granite pedestal contains stones from the castle at Rouen where Joan of Arc was imprisoned; from the cathedral at Reims where Joan watched the coronation of Charles VII in 1429; from Domremy, the village where Joan was born; and from the city of Orleans, where Joan led French forces to victory during the Hundred Years' War.
Statue unveiling, December 1915;
Soldiers' and Sailors' Monument in left distance.
It was Kunz's idea, as well, to bury a copper box inside the pedestal. The box contained mementoes of the era, including American and French currency, commemorative medals, and more than a dozen letters and speeches including salutations from President Wilson.
Lastly, a specimen of Staurolite, also known as "fairy stone," went into the box. The crystal symbolized the tears shed for Joan of Arc, Kunz explained.
In December 1915, Jean J. Jusserand, French ambassador to the U.S., dedicated the statue. By this time, of course, the Great War had started and Jusserand's message of fighting to the death held both poignancy and urgency.
Jean J. Jusserand
delivered remarks at the dedication
Through the war and for some years after, ceremonies were held regularly at the Joan of Arc memorial. Kunz often participated. On November 2, 1918 – nine days before the Armistice – he joined a French bishop to place a wreath on the pedestal. The bishop noted that American soldiers in France were pressing to victory "like the men led by Joan of Arc."
Dr. Kunz (as he liked to be called) had launched his career in 1876 when he sold a spectacular tourmaline to Charles Lewis Tiffany. Kunz would serve as Tiffany's chief gemologist for the rest of his life, discovering and analyzing gorgeous, exotic stones. The crystal known as Kunzite was named in his honor after he identified it in the Connecticut countryside in 1902.
After the death of Kunz's first wife, he waited ten years before remarrying a young woman aviator.
It's kind of funny that her name was Opal.
*A highly abbreviated account. She also was charged as a cross-dresser.
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