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Child abuse inquiry
Who is Melanie Shaw, why is she locked up, and what do her supporters want?
She was one of the first people to talk about abuse at Beechwood
David WhitfieldDigital Content Editor
Melanie Shaw supporters hold posters outside the Old Bailey ahead of a court appearance by Tommy Robinson in September (Image: David Mirzoeff/PA Wire)
Over the last year, an average of more than 14,000 people have searched for her name every month.
There are at least ten different Facebook groups dedicated to her.
And at a recent court appearance by Tommy Robinson, it was her name that was being chanted by supporters.
But who exactly is Melanie Shaw, why is she locked up- and what are her supporters calling for?
The simple answer is that Melanie was one of the very first people to make allegations of sexual abuse at Beechwood children's home in Nottingham.
But have a quick browse of the internet and you will find a host of further answers involving buried bodies, secret court hearings, and Westminster paedophile rings.
We have therefore attempted to tell Melanie's story below, as best as we can. It won't answer all of the questions about her, but it will hopefully provide some detail which might not be immediately available to everyone.
Melanie's story
Melanie was born in October 1970, and was placed in foster care at a young age.
She grew up in Kirkby-in-Ashfield, and from 1981 to 1987 she was at Ashfield Comprehensive School in the town.
When she was 16 she was sent to Beechwood children's home in Mapperley. She stayed there for around a year.
The Redcot unit at Beechwood children's home pictured in September 2002 after the death of a child at the home.
When she left, she overcame drug problems, started doing voluntary work.
In an interview broadcast in 2015, she described how she was a full-time mother for 24 years before she decided to speak out about what had happened at the children's home.
In 2010 she went to the police to report what had happened to her at Beechwood, and was one of the first people to do so.
In more recent years she has lived in Sherwood and Sneinton.
What does Melanie say happened to her in Beechwood?
Melanie said that she was raped in the basement of the Lindens unit at Beechwood in Mapperley, and was physically and sexually abused.
She has spoken about one particular member of staff who she said had threatened to kill her 'like the others' if she spoke out over abuse. She said he told her that he had already murdered and buried two children in the grounds of Beechwood.
Beechwood children's home: The history of the 'home from hell' in Nottingham
And she also said that, while she had never been abused by a politician, she was aware of young boys from Beechwood being taken by minibus down to London to be abused by 'the rich and elite'.
No charges have been brought against anyone who she alleged had assaulted her at Beechwood. And she has said she has a fear that she is going to be found dead.
Why is she locked up?
As far as Nottinghamshire Live is aware, Melanie has been either convicted of, or found to have carried out, offences on five different occasions since 2014.
In December 2014 at Nottingham Crown Court, she was convicted of arson being reckless as to whether life was endangered, and damaging property. She was given a community order for three years and a five-year restraining order.
In February 2016 at Nottingham Crown Court, she was given three restraining orders, fined £200, and handed a three-month prison sentence for displaying threatening, abusive, insulting words or behaviour or disorderly behaviour to cause another harassment, alarm, or distress; and two counts of pursuing a course of conduct which amounted to harassment.
Melanie Shaw pictured in 2015
In January 2017 at Nottingham Crown Court, she was given two years in prison; six months for breach of a suspended sentence order, nine months for breach of a restraining order, and nine months for breach of a separate restraining order.
In March 2017 at Derby Crown Court she was given eight months in prison; eight months in prison for making a threat to kill; three months (concurrent) for common assault, and one month (concurrent) for damaging property.
And in October 2018 at Leeds Crown Court, a jury found that Melanie - who was deemed unfit to stand trial - had committed three counts of arson being reckless as to whether property was damaged or destroyed. She was due to be sentenced for this on January 14, then on February 11, and was finally sentenced on April 2, 2019. She was given a hospital order and a separate restriction order. The restriction order has no fixed time limit and means that she can only be discharged with permission from the Secretary of State for Justice.
(The Ministry of Justice does not give out information on release dates for individual prisoners. In the event that Melanie served the full term of her two-year sentence from January 11, 2017, she would have been due for release in January 2019. However, there is also the eight-month sentence she was given in March 2017 to take into account. And she was later remanded in custody in connection with the arson offences which she was eventually sentenced for on April 2, 2019.)
You can see a list of Melanie's court appearances at the bottom of this story.
Where has she been held?
Melanie has been held in a number of different prisons. These include, but are not necessarily limited to, HMP Peterborough, HMP Foston Hall in Derby, HMP New Hall in Flockton near Wakefield, HMP Eastwood Park in Gloucestershire, and HMP Styal in Cheshire.
Foston Hall prison
At her sentencing in April 2018, it was confirmed that Melanie was being treated at Rampton Hospital in north Nottinghamshire, and that she would continue to be treated there.
What do the authorities say?
In terms of the allegations made by Melanie, Nottinghamshire Police said: "Nottinghamshire Police investigated all of the allegations thoroughly. Where the threshold was met, the CPS considered the evidence.
"Unfortunately, it was determined that the evidential test was not passed and, as such, no prosecutions brought.
"Our enquiries have also not identified any unaccounted-for people at Beechwood Children's Home.
"Searches were carried out at Beechwood in February 2012.
"The work was undertaken by us in conjunction with national search advisors and searches were made of the grounds and building. It included the use of search dogs and radar following concerns reported by a member of the public.
"Nothing was identified at the time that supported the reports."
This is what has happened to Beechwood children's home since it closed
Nottingham East MP Chris Leslie said: "Melanie Shaw first contacted me several years ago, since when I have offered support as I would to any constituent in her circumstances. I have continued to enquire after Melanie's welfare, including with the prison.
"It would be inappropriate and not responsible of me to discuss the details of these highly sensitive matters with anyone other than Melanie or her legal representatives, who are always welcome to contact me at any time.
"However, over many years now there have been stories circulating about Melanie's case, and most of the posts circulating on social media are wildly inaccurate."
Chris Leslie MP (Image: PA Wire)
Paddy Tipping, Nottinghamshire's Police and Crime Commissioner, said: "I've known Melanie for many years and we have talked about the difficulties she has faced.
"It's disappointing that she is in prison while she waits for sentencing, but we are doing what we can to help her and we are regularly in touch with the professional people who support her.
"However, in the short term this is a matter for the Crown Court."
The two legal firms in Nottingham which represent Melanie for civil and criminal matters said they could not comment without explicit permission from their client, which has not yet been obtained.
The Ministry of Justice said they do not comment on individual cases.
What do her supporters want?
Although the various groups come from slightly different angles - with some focusing more on the what happened at Beechwood and others on the London/Westminster allegations - they all want Melanie out of prison.
A member of the Justice for Melanie Shaw group, which has been running since 2014, said that, taking into the account the time Melanie had spent on remand, she should have been released from prison in June 2018 following the completion of her two-year sentence.
She said: "I think she is being persecuted, and I can't help thinking it's a set-up. They wanted her in prison, and they've got her in prison.
"I'm not going to pretend Melanie is an angel. She can be a bit of a handful. Even if you think she's all right, you still have to be a bit wary of how she can react, which is because of what she's been through.
"But what is happening to her now is disproportionate to what she is supposed to have done. Prisoners set fire to their cells every day of the week.
"If it isn't a conspiracy, why are they making it look like one?"
A protest against child abuse outside the Council House in Nottingham's Old Market Square in 2014
She added: "We've always believed that the police weren't trying their hardest to investigate the fate of children who had allegedly died at Beechwood - allegations I believe there is truth in.
"I'm prepared to believe that when Melanie went to the police she produced quite a bit of evidence about what she was saying.
"Melanie said she gave evidence to the police and it disappeared. I can't prove that's true, but that's what she said.
"I think it's accepted that the authorities didn't know how many children were in care - and what happened to those who disappeared."
IICSA in Nottingham and Nottinghamshire: The background to the Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse
Melanie's court appearances
Nottinghamshire Live contacted eight courts - Nottingham Crown Court, Nottingham Magistrates' Court, Derby Crown Court, Derby Magistrates' Court, Peterborough Crown Court, Peterborough Magistrates' Court, Cambridge Crown Court and Leeds Crown Court - in order to try and get a full picture of Melanie's court appearances.
Nottingham Magistrates' Court declined to provide information about Melanie's court appearances. However, some information about her appearances at Nottingham Magistrates' Court was provided by another court.
It remains a slightly confusing picture, with different parts of the criminal justice system giving - at times - conflicting information about her court history.
But as far as we can best establish, these are Melanie's court appearances since 2014. Not all will necessarily have been appearances in person, as some may have been by videolink.
Melanie Shaw's court appearances
December 11, 2014 (Nottingham Crown Court)
Found guilty of arson being reckless as to whether life was endangered at an address in Bonnington Crescent, Sherwood on February 1, 2014; and damaging property at the same address on June 26, 2014.
She was given a community order for three years with supervision from the probation service. She was also given a five-year restraining order banning her from contacting the victims of the arson attack or going to their home.
August 26, 2015 (Peterborough Magistrates' Court)
Pleaded not guilty to a charge that between June 22, 2015 and July 13, 2015 at Peterborough she pursued a course of conduct which amounted to the harassment of [a named person] and which she knew or ought to have known amounted to the harassment of her in that sending flowers, gifts and card to HMP Peterborough, telephoning and camping outside HMP Peterborough, harassing members of staff on their way in and out of work, contrary to section 2(1) and (2) of the Protection from Harassment Act 1997.
Remanded on bail for trial at Peterborough Magistrates' Court on Nov 11, 2015.
November 11, 2015 (Peterborough Magistrates' Court)
Pleaded guilty to the charge above. Remitted to Nottingham Magistrates' Court on conditional bail for sentence on December 4, 2015.
December 4, 2015 (Nottingham Magistrates' Court)
Appearance for sentencing over the above charge. Remitted to Nottingham Magistrates' Court to Jan 20, 2016. Remanded on bail.
January 20, 2016 (Nottingham Magistrates' Court)
Appearance for sentencing over the above charge, sent to Nottingham Crown for sentence on February 10, 2016.
February 17, 2016 (Nottingham Crown Court)
Given three restraining orders, as well as other penalties, after being convicted on three counts.
(1) Pleaded guilty to displaying threatening, abusive, insulting words or behaviour or disorderly behaviour to cause another harassment, alarm, or distress on July 21, 2015 in Nottingham. She was also fined £200 for this offence.
(2) Pursuing a course of conduct which amounted to harassment from June 21 to July 6 in Nottingham. She was also given and a three-month prison sentence (suspended for two years) for this offence.
(3) Pursuing a course of conduct which amounted to harassment from June 26 to July 13 in Nottingham. She was also given and a three-month prison sentence (suspended for two years) for this offence, concurrent.
June 3, 2016 (Peterborough Magistrates' Court)
Appeared charged with attending HMP Peterborough on June 1, 2016 - which she was prohibited from doing by the restraining order imposed by Nottingham Crown Court on February 17, 2016. Case sent for trial at Peterborough Crown Court on July 1, 2016.
September 16, 2016 (Peterborough Crown Court)
The above matter was transferred to Nottingham, as the restraining order was issued at Nottingham.
January 11, 2017 (Nottingham Crown Court)
Sentenced to a total of two years in prison.
(1) Six months in prison for a breach of a suspended sentence order in relation to the indictment of February 2016;
(2) Nine months in prison (consecutive) for breach of the restraining order in relation to the indictment of February 2016;
(3) Nine months in prison (consecutive) for the breach of the restraining order dated June 1 at HMP Peterborough.
February 8, 2017 (Derby Magistrates' Court)
Appeared charged with one count of criminal damage on August 25, 2016, one count of making a threat to kill on August 20, 2016, and one charge of assault by beating on September 24, 2016. All sent to Derby Crown Court for March 8, 2017.
(Also, one charge of assault occasioning ABH in February 2016 was withdrawn; and one charge of threatening to destroy and damage property in August 2016 was withdrawn.)
March 8, 2017 (Derby Crown Court)
Given a total of eight months in prison for the offences listed above. This was:
(1) Eight months in prison for making a threat to kill on August 20, 2016;
(2) Three months in prison (concurrent) for common assault on September 24, 2016;
(3) One month in prison (concurrent) for damaging property on August 25, 2016.
January 10, 2018 (Derby Magistrates' Court)
Appeared charged with two counts of arson on February 8 and February 10, 2017, and one count of sexual assault on February 15, 2017; all sent for trial at Derby Crown Court on Feb 7, 2018.
March 16, 2018 (Derby Crown Court)
The arson cases above were transferred to Leeds Crown Court.
July 21, 2018 (Derby Magistrates' Court)
Three charges of criminal damage and one count of sexual assault dating from February 2017 were all withdrawn.
October 16, 2018 (Leeds Crown Court)
A jury found that Melanie - who was deemed unfit to stand trial - had committed three counts of arson being reckless as to whether property was damaged or destroyed.
She committed the offences on February 8 and February 10, 2017, at HMP Foston Hall, Derby; and on June 21 at New Hall prison in Wakefield, West Yorkshire. She was due to be sentenced on Jan 14.
January 14, 2019 (Leeds Crown Court)
Melanie was not present in court when a judge decided to adjourn sentencing on the arson charges until February 11.
February 11, 2019 (Leeds Crown Court)
Once again sentencing on the arson charges Melanie was convicted was adjourned, this time to April 2.
April 2, 2019 (Leeds Crown Court)
Finally being sentenced for the arson charges, Melanie was given a section 37 hospital order, meaning that she will be sent to hospital for treatment, rather than to prison; and a section 41 restriction order.
Under the section 41 order, which has no fixed time limit, she can only be discharged with permission from the Secretary of State for Justice.
Melanie Shaw
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LPV of the Month September, 2017
T Camelopardalis
T Cam is a bright Mira that has been well observed by the AAVSO since 1904. Over 18,000 observations are in the AID from over 600 different observers as can be seen in the light curve shown below which displays all observations in the AID. It is one of the Legacy LPV Program stars. Since it's a northern circumpolar star, there is generally very good coverage year round
The light curve based on the last 2,000 days is shown below.
The light curve based on the last 6000 days is shown below.
It's spectral class is S4 to S8.5 according to the VSX and is classified as a Mira. The GCVS lists T Cam as having a visual magnitude range of 7.3 to 14.4 with a mean period of 369.3 days.
Analysis of all AID data in the period 1904 to the present day indicates an overall mean period of 373.6 days. There is also another signal present at 357 days which could be an annual alias of the main period. Another one is present at 185 days. This one could be an annual alias, however since coverage of the star over the year is reasonably complete, it is more likely this is a harmonic of the main period which reflects the non-sinusoidal nature of the light curve.
A reasonable amount of CCD photometry has been reported to the AID since 2003. B-V, V-R and R-I have been measured around 2.0, 2.0-2.5 and 2.0-2.7 respectively at both around minimum and maximum.
T Cam is contained in the list of LPV Humps maintained by Frank Schorr as a possible "candidate" for a LPV hump star. It seems to show what appears to be a double maximum on specific cycles. This is evident to some degree in the phase diagram below which is based on the complete dataset. For other cycles, the discontinuity appears to be more a hump on the ascending part of the lightcurve rather than a dual maximum
The plot below provide a closeup of a dual maximum feature for a specific cycle (early 2004).
The plot below provides a closeup of a hump feature for a specific cycle (mid 2005). The difference between the dual maximum and hump features appears to be that there is a definite dip in brightness between the discontinuity and the main maximum for the double maximum case.
Marsakova and Andronov (2007) analysed a selected group of LPV's which show hump features in their light curves based on 80 years' worth of data from the VSOLJ and AFOEV and T Cam was one of the stars analysed in greater detail. They found that, as with many other LPV's with humps, the humps don't occur in every cycle. For T Cam, they found that it occurred on in 2 out of 3 cycles on average (68 cycles in 100 to be more precise).
The average phase of the cycle where the dual maximum or hump appeared is 0.16. This can be seen in the phase diagram above based on AAVSO observations. T Cam has an asymmetrical light curve with the ratio of duration of ascending branch to the total period being about 0.476.
An analysis has been performed to ascertain any changes in mean period in T Cam over the past 113 years based on observations in the AAVSO AID. The figure below suggests that there has been a "meandering" of the mean period between the range of 366 to 380 days. This slow meandering behaviour (with period changes generally less than 3.55% of the mean period) is relatively common in the longer period Miras and semi-regular stars. Similarly there is a small change in the amplitude as shown in the Figure below.
Interestingly T Cam was once believed to show remarkably large proper motions (over 0.1" per year) and was out of kilter with the proper motions measured for other S-type stars. Stephenson and Hulbert (1984) redetermined T Cam's position on historical plates and came up with a much slower rate of progression of around 0.009" per year maximum thus revealing it is quite normal!
T Cam is an interesting LPV to follow so all are encouraged to maintain the coverage that has been in place over the last 113 years.
"Correction of Spuriously Large Proper-Motion Determinations for the S-Type Stars T Cam and S Uma", C.B Stephenson & S.J Hulbert, Astron. J, 89, 1261 (1984)

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The best thing about this is there are no mess and no clean-up.
When cooking the corn I love the ears with the stems! You can use this as a handle and just peel it like a banana. Perfect every time!!


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Q: decorate xml subtree with lxml I want to transform this xml tree
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to
<doc>

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</doc>

I use this python code
from lxml import etree
f = etree.fromstring('<doc><op>xxx</op></doc>')

node_a = f.xpath('/doc/a')[0]
ele = etree.Element('cls')
node_a.insert(0, ele)

node_cls = f.xpath('/doc/a/cls')[0]
node_op = f.xpath('/doc/a/op')[0]
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Is it the best solution ?
Now I want to obtain
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I am unable to find any solution.
Thanks for your help.

A: I prefer to use beautifulsoup better than lxml. I find it easier to handle.
Both problems can be solved using the same approach, first find the element, get its parent, create the new element and put the old one inside it.
from bs4 import BeautifulSoup
import sys

soup = BeautifulSoup(open(sys.argv[1], 'r'), 'xml')
for e in soup.find_all(sys.argv[2]):
    p = e.parent
    cls = soup.new_tag('cls')
    e_extracted = e.extract()
    cls.append(e_extracted)
    p.append(cls)

print(soup.prettify())

The script accepts two arguments, thr first one is the xml file and second one the tag to surround with new tag. Run it like:
python3 script.py xmlfile op

That yields:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<doc>

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For <doc>, run it like:
python3 script.py xmlfile doc

With following result:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
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OBJECTIVE To develop practical Canadian guidelines for primary health care providers based on the best available evidence for addressing health issues in adults with developmental disabilities (DD).
QUALITY OF EVIDENCE Authors of background papers synthesized information from their own clinical experience, from consultations with other experts, and from relevant professional publications. Based on discussions of these papers at a colloquium of knowledgeable health care providers, a consensus statement was developed. Standard criteria were used to select guidelines for consideration and to rank evidence supporting them. Most evidence was level III.
MAIN MESSAGE People with DD have complex health issues, some differing from those of the general population. Adequate primary health care is necessary to identify these issues and to prevent morbidity and premature death. Physical, behavioural, and mental health difficulties should be addressed, and primary health care providers should be particularly attentive to the interactions of biological, psychological, and social factors contributing to health, since these interactions can easily be overlooked in adults with DD. Attention must also be paid to such ethical issues as informed consent and avoidance of harm. Developmental disabilities are not grounds for care providers to withhold or to withdraw medically indicated interventions, and decisions concerning such interventions should be based on patients' best interests.
CONCLUSION Implementing the guidelines proposed here would improve the health of adults with DD and minimize disparities in health and health care.
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James Allen "Jimmy" Boles, age 79, of Rockwood, passed away Wednesday, November 14, 2018. Survivors include daughters: Lynn Craig & husband, Joe of Kingston, Patti Sheldon & husband, Ron of Kingston, and Vicki Sapp of Rockwood; grandchildren: Brandi King & husband, D.L. of Knoxville, Matthew Sheldon & wife, Brittany of Harriman, Tyler Sheldon of Kingston, and Trevor Sheldon of Kingston; great-grandchild: Brody King; sister: Bobbie Jean Harrison & husband, Tate of Dayton, Tennessee; sister-in-law: Ann Boles of Rockwood; beloved dog: "Toby"; and several nieces, nephews, other relatives and friends. The family will receive friends Saturday, November 17, 2018 from noon until 1 p.m. at the Evans Mortuary in Rockwood. Funeral services will follow. Committal services and interment will follow in the Oak Grove Cemetery in Rockwood with full military honors by the Roane County Military Memorial Honor Guard and the Tennessee Army National Guard.


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De Bosseveerhoeve is een hoeve in de tot de Oost-Vlaamse gemeente Destelbergen behorende plaats Heusden, gelegen aan de Molenweidestraat 24-32.

Geschiedenis
Deze hoeve behoorde aanvankelijk toe aan de Abdij Nieuwenbosch, dat in 1246 bij het Scheldeveer te Heusden was gebouwd. Het klooster werd in 1579, tijdens de Beeldenstorm, verwoest en in Gent werd een nieuw klooster gesticht. Omstreeks 1630 werd, mogelijk met materiaal van het verwoeste klooster, een nieuwe pachthoeve gebouwd dan wel de reeds bestaande pachthoeve hersteld.

Toen in 1882 de Schelde werd rechtgetrokken kwam een groot deel van de kloostersite op het grondgebied van Melle te liggen.

De hoeve bestaat uit losse gebouwen zoals het woonhuis, in 1630 of kort daarna gebouwd. Het werd in de 18e en 19e eeuw nog uitgebreid.

De bedrijfsgebouwen zijn van 1890 en omvatten stallen en een dwarsschuur, terwijl de in het gebouw opgenomen duiventoren van oudere datum is. Dan is er nog een bakhuis van eind 19e eeuw en een dwarsschuur die vermoedelijk in de 17e eeuw werd gebouwd en elementen van de middeleeuwse abdijschuur bevat.

Onroerend erfgoed in Destelbergen

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Music is the language of love
This year Leeds Trinity University is celebrating its Golden Jubilee. It used to be called Trinity and All Saints Teacher Training College and was founded in 1966. Since then, thousands of students have passed through this college and have contributed to enormous progress, particularly in the field of education and in other sectors of society. In 2013 it became Leeds Trinity University, attracting many young people from all over the world. Leeds Trinity University began celebrating its fifty years of service in September 2016, hosting various events such as Eucharistic Celebrations, holding different conferences, sports events and many other activities.
On the 4th of March 2017, Leeds Trinity University organised an extraordinary event which was held in Leeds Cathedral. The Cathedrals Group Choir Festival, which comprised 11 universities across England, Leeds Trinity Cathedral Boys' and Girls' choir and many other choir groups made the evening gorgeous. All the university choir groups and other groups performed terrific spiritual music. I honestly admired the atmosphere of the audience's attention; you cannot imagine how the spirit of the singers captured the attention of the listeners.
Ninety percent of the singers were young adults who engaged themselves in praising God. The choir festival went on for more than three hours but the last twenty minutes had a spectacular scenario, which gave magnificence to it. When all three hundred singers, aged from 12 to 70, joined in singing, it seemed like Angels had come down from heaven and were singing among us.
The singers and the musicians delivered their fabulous performances, which inspired all the audience. It was absolutely amazing to see more than 300 singers coming together and singing. It was breath-taking, as if it were coming from one single voice.
Young adults must engage in praising God through singing and worshipping Him. Music has no boundaries, no ethnic background, no race and no religion, but it explores the love of God and enhances human values. Nowadays, many young adults prefer to listen to music rather than to sing. As a matter of fact, young adults can express their feelings in both ways, which will enable them to appreciate God's gift. Music is the part of our human culture in which we express our joy or sadness.
Music has a very important role in the life of human beings. It has a natural capacity to enable us to share from the beginning with others. Therefore, we are forced to appreciate this gift of God and we should use it in an appropriate manner for positive, constructive purposes. It is clear that most young adults value music because it is the most inspiring form of art. Furthermore, by its rhythm, melody, harmony of tones and variety of sounds, music produces endless scales of feelings and humours. Music can promote the most high and decent feelings in a person. There is no doubt that the Cathedrals Group Choir Festival event promoted the spirit of prayer in our hearts.
As a young adult, do you recognize that music has the power to talk to God?
Why do you not listen to some spiritual songs and, by doing so, you might find a serenity of life in you?
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Stately and sweet, Florence is a proper little lady.
It isn't a royal name -- but it feels like it should be.
Florence is the Anglicised form of both the Roman names Florentius and Florentia, meaning "belonging to Florens," which was a common Roman cognomen. Florens itself means "blossoming," derived from floreo meaning "to blossom, flower, flourish."
Florence is also the English name given to the Italian city of Firenze. There are several theories as to how the city came by its name. The most plausible are either that it derived from the Latin Colonia Florentia meaning "flowering colony" (possibly as a figurative term) or that it was a corruption of Fluentia -- from fluens "to flow" -- owing to the fact that it was situated between two rivers.
In the Middle Ages, Florence was used as both a masculine and a feminine name, most likely thanks to its use by saints or to denote a person being "of Florence". There are several Saints Florentius, including a 3rd century Roman martyr, and a St Florentia (d. c. 303). Latinised forms included Florentius, Florentia and Florencia, though all were called by the vernacular Florence.
Also in use was similar Floria, derived from the Old French flur "flower," which were used in the vernacular form Flur/Fluri and often used with the epithet 'sweet'. Florkin was used as a diminutive.
Florence was never wildly common, but it was used enough for it to engender the surname Florence. Notable namesakes include Florence of Worcester (d. 1118), a renowned monk and chronicler, Florence (or Floris) of Holland (d.1210), a 13th century nobleman and cleric, and Florence Wilson "Florentius Volusenus" (c. 1504–1547), a Scottish humanist.
After the 15th century, Florence became far less common as a masculine name, but it maintained better use as a female name. There were exceptions of course, which mostly depended on local area. In Midlothian, Cumbria and Hereford, for example, it clung on as a masculine name for quite a while and eve in my poll of the most popular Elizabethan Norfolk names, Florence was only used once -- for a male.
Overall however, Florence became more common for girls, especially among the peerage. For example, Florence Poulett (b.1612), daughter of politician John Poulett, 1st Baron Poulett had a niece named after her, which was then passed down from mother to daughter for several generations.
In his top 50 rankings from 1538-1700, Smith Bannister lists Florence four times for girls: 1590-9: #38; 1600-9: #47; 1610-9: #44; 1640-9: #47.
In Ireland, Florence was maintained for much longer as a masculine name thanks to its being used to render several Irish names such as Flaithrí and Fingin. Notable examples include Fláithrí Ó Maolchonaire "Florence Conroy" (1560– 1629), an Irish Franciscan and theologian and Florence "Flurry" Knox, a pub landlord in the novel Some Experiences of an Irish RM (1899) by Somerville and Ross.
In the first half of the 19th century, Florence was in moderate use. Initially wasn't especially popular -- it doesn't appear in Dunkling's top 50 girls names for England and Wales in 1700, 1800 or 1850 -- but it was used continually, and still occasionally for boys.
Dickens used the name for his character Florence Dombey in Dombey and Son (1846) which seems to have given the name considerable boost, and author Elizabeth Gaskell named one of her daughters Florence Elizabeth in 1842. Florence Nightingale (1820-1910) was so named because she was born in the city of Florence in Italy, as was and this was perhaps the influence for other parents as Florence was a fashionable destination for wealthy English Victorians.
A further boost to Florence's fortune came with the event of the Crimean War from 1853-1856. Parents clamoured to give their children eventful names. Battles led to several babies being named Alma, Balaklava, Inkerman, and Sebastopol and names notable figures were also used. Thanks to her part in the war effort and her being used as by the British government as a poster girl, Florence Nightingale became an overnight sensation and national treasure.
Births in England and Wales:
1838: 26 births
1840: 21 births (at least 3 males)
1846: 86 births -- The year Dombey and Sons was published.
1848: 256 births
1854: 545 births -- The year Florence Nightingale went to the Crimea.
1856: 1677 births
As we can see, effect of both Dickens and Florence Nightingale the name Florence was marked and it went from strength to strength.
From not ranking in the top 50 in 1850, it was #14 by 1870, #6 in 1880, #3 in 1890, and #2 in 1900. Data from the 1881 census shows that it was most prevalent in England, especially in the southern counties, though it did reach #49 in Scotland by 1900.
It maintained it's popularity initially in the 20th century, but gradually began to decline. It was #2 in 1904, #6 in 1914, #23 in 1924 and #49 in 1934, after which it fell out of the top 100.
This can be seen in Dunkling's data for the number of girls registered with the name in every 10,000 births in England and Wales over the 20th century:
394 142 44 10 4 - - 4 - - 6 -
From 1996 to 2003, Florence bobbed along comfortably in the bottom quarter of the top 200 in England and Wales. It gradually began to pick up from 2004, bursting into the top 100 in 2008 at #94. Since then it has risen steeply, ranking #54 in 2010, #34 in 2012 and #29 in 2013.
As it was in the 19th century, Florence proves it's still very much an English rose. Individually, Florence is much less popular in Wales than England (#71 in 2013 compared to #29 in England) while it has yet to reach the top 100 in Scotland and Northern Ireland in recent years.
In Scotland, the name has ranked consistently between #100-#300: #233 in 2010, #142 in 2011, #203 in 2012 and #155 in 2013.
In Northern Ireland, Florence has had no more than 8 births in any given year, peaking at #229 in 2012 and ranking #284 in 2013.
* Florence of Worcester (d. 1118), a renowned monk and chronicler.
* Florence Wilson "Florentius Volusenus" (c. 1504–1547), a Scottish humanist.
* Fláithrí Ó Maolchonaire "Florence Conroy" (1560– 1629), an Irish Franciscan and theologian.
* Florence Caddy (1837–1923), English writer.
* Florence Nightingale (1820-1910), pioneer of modern nursing.
* Florence LaBadie (1888-1917), Canadian silent movie actress.
* Florence Lawrence (1890-1938), inventor and actress, referred to as "The First Movie Star."
* Florence Marjorie Robertson "Dame Anna Neagle" (1904-1986), British actress and singer.
* Florence Bjelke-Petersen (b.1920) Australian politician and writer.
* Florence Henderson (b.1934), American actress and singer.
* Florence King (b.1936), American author.
* Florence Welch (b.1986), British singer and frontwoman of Florence & the Machine.
* Florence Dombey, a charcter in Dicken's novel Dombey and Son (1846).
* Florence "Flurry" Knox, a pub landlord in the novel Some Experiences of an Irish RM (1899) by Somerville and Ross.
Variants: Florentine, Florentina; Florentia, Florentius (Late Roman), Florenz (German), Floor, Floris (Dutch), Fiorenza, Fiorenzo (Italian)
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Diminutives: Flo, Florrie, Flossie, Floy, Fen, Ren, Fee, Lorrie, Cherry
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Victorian Darlings Upright Elegance Dickensian Names Names of Roses
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The EU Adopts the Damages Directive
The Emergence of an EU Level Playing Field in Private Antitrust Actions
The EU levels the playing field for antitrust damages across the Member States, drives its members towards the UK model, and saves its most far-reaching provisions for the protection of its leniency regime.
As part of its emphasis on the need to enhance deterrence against antitrust violations, the European Commission has over the past decade been fine-tuning proposals to create an effective European private enforcement regime through the pursuit of damages actions before European Union ("EU") Member State courts. The approval by the European Parliament on 17 April 2014 of a new Directive on Private Damages Actions in Competition Law (the "Directive"), which was signed by the European Council of Ministers on 10 November 2014, seeks to establish a less fragmented regime for the pursuit of such actions across the 28 Member States of the EU.[1]
Until now, the lack of a uniform framework for private damages actions under competition rules had created great uncertainty among the antitrust Bar, and more importantly, among potential claimants considering which jurisdictions might offer fertile territory for antitrust damages actions. The European Commission concluded, as far back as 2005, that claimants were being confronted with significant evidentiary burdens, uncertainty in potential outcomes and various risks associated with the rejection of an action for damages (especially as regards adverse orders to bear the legal costs of one's opponent).[2]
The net effect of these uncertainties was arguably to dis-incentivise private actions in antitrust cases in certain jurisdictions, and to channel the vast majority of claims towards those jurisdictions with the most developed damages regimes, and those seen as offering the most claimant-friendly process, disclosure rules or legal costs regime. In some cases, this led to cases better suited to one jurisdiction being shoehorned into litigation before the courts of another Member State.
The overarching aim of the Directive is to approximate the procedural rules of national courts in relation to damages actions based on the infringement of EU or national competition rules. The Directive seeks to make it more straightforward for victims of anti-competitive conduct across the EU to obtain compensation. It sets out minimum standards to achieve its goals, while leaving it open to Member States to introduce measures that might go beyond the prescribed standard in the Directive, provided that they are consistent with the Directive's aims. The 28 EU Member States have two years to transpose the Directive into national law. While that process often leads to a patchwork of implementation across the Member States, it is the clear intention of the EU to secure a high degree of uniformity.
Observers of the British legal system will note a close conceptual resemblance between the new Directive and the established UK model of cartel damages claims, although there are some important differences. It is therefore to be expected that the UK will remain a preferred forum for damages claims within the EU.
Key Legal Elements
The new Directive introduces a number of important common elements into the legal regimes of the EU Member States which regulate private antitrust enforcement actions, including the following:
The new regime has sought to confirm the evidentiary value of Decisions and Judgments adopted respectively by a National Competition Authority ("NCA") and by a national court. A final Decision of an NCA (or national appellate court) will constitute irrefutable evidence in litigation in that Member State that an infringement has occurred. Similarly, a pre-existing decision in one Member State shall constitute prima facie evidence of an infringement for the purposes of a damages action in another Member State (albeit that, from a jurisdictional perspective, and depending on market definition, this may assist the claimant little in the second Member State). This provision is designed to allow NCA or national court decisions to be used as strong evidence to instigate follow-on damages actions across the EU.
The Directive requires States to enable both direct and indirect purchasers to claim for losses suffered as a result of an antitrust infringement.[3] The Directive encourages claims from end-customers by allowing claims from indirect purchasers.[4] Indirect purchasers will only be required to establish evidence that the direct purchaser has suffered an overcharge as a result of the cartel, and that the indirect purchaser purchased goods or services affected by the cartel arrangements from the direct purchaser.[5]
This marks a departure from established principles in some Member States. For example, it raises an interesting question under UK law, where proof of loss is a constituent element of the tort claim for breach of a statutory duty (the basis under which antitrust damages claims would normally be brought). The Directive does not appear to extinguish this element of the claim, but does create a presumption of loss in favour of the indirect purchaser, which will apply unless the defendant can "demonstrate credibly to the satisfaction of the court that the overcharge was not, or was not entirely, passed on to the purchaser".[6]
With respect to the important issue of the disclosure of documents, crucially, the Directive establishes that Member States' national courts must be able to order a defendant or a third party to disclose relevant documents required by the claimants who present "a reasoned justification" as to "the plausibility of its claim". According the Commission's Staff Working Document, this change in practice will constitute a significant modification for many Member States' evidentiary regimes. Indeed, in some Member States, the changes required by this provision will fall somewhere on the continuum between transformational and revolutionary. The Directive also brings an increased degree of prospective certainty to an area that, since the 2011 Pfleiderer judgment, has left the disclosure of any and all requested documents to a case-by-case analysis.[7] The new rules stipulate there are certain "black list" documents that are entirely exempted from disclosure. These documents include immunity and leniency statements and settlement submissions. The Commission has clarified that if the new rules were to permit the disclosure of leniency statements or settlement submissions, it would have a detrimental effect on entities cooperating under the leniency and settlement programs adopted at EU level and in individual Member States. Nevertheless, this is a remarkable piece of legislative expansionism — indicating that the EU legislation may be at its most fearless when guarding the powers of its own institutions. Certain "grey list" categories of evidence, such as information prepared by investigated entities specifically for proceedings before a competition authority (including responses to Requests for Information or replies to a Statement of Objections), or withdrawn settlement submissions, can only be revealed after the Competition Authority has closed its file. The rationale here appears to be that the Directive should reflect how successful leniency and settlement programs have been regarding the uncovering of cartels and the fact that both the Commission and the NCAs consider it vital to ensure the continued protection of existing procedures. Some justification can clearly be claimed for this view. However, it is open to question whether the approach is a principled one, and it may face challenge on EU fundamental rights grounds, or under Article 6 of the European Convention on Human Rights, if parties to litigation are prevented from obtaining non-privileged documents which are critical to their ability to pursue their case and which they would, absent the Directive, otherwise be entitled to see under domestic law.
Other "white list" documents can be disclosed at any time, subject to the requirements of proportionality and relevance being met.
In the past, the Commission had expressed the view that the existence of different national limitation periods across the EU Member States might constitute an obstacle to the effective recovery of damages.[8] The new framework seeks to approximate limitation periods for the bringing of damages claims by providing that Member State limitation periods are obliged to run for at least five years after the infringement has ceased. The Directive provides that the metaphorical clock does not start to tick until the infringement has come to a halt and the claimant knows or can reasonably be expected to know: (a) of the behavior of the defendant and that it constitutes an infringement of competition rules; (b) the infringement caused the Claimant harm; and (c) the precise identity of the infringer. In addition, any domestic limitation period is suspended as long as a competition authority is investigating the infringement.[9] Such suspension will end at the earliest one year after the infringement decision has become final or after the proceedings are otherwise terminated.[10] It should be borne in mind that existing limitation periods will continue to be determined according to national rules until the Directive is transposed into national law. Litigants will not be able to reanimate claims which have expired domestically but which have received a notional "new lease of life" under the terms of the Directive.
The new Directive obliges Member States to consider fully the 'passing-on defence' where damage claims are made.[11] By definition, the successful use of the 'passing-on defence' allows the accused undertaking to be able to refuse the payment of damages to claimants who have 'passed-on' the overcharge to their customers. The burden of proof regarding the passing on of the overcharge will lie with the defendant (which, as mentioned above, is one of the few departures from the orthodox position under UK law), but its successful discharge will mean that it can be used as a shield in diminishing its liability.
The new rules introduce a presumption that the infringing party should be capable of being held fully liable to compensate both direct and indirect purchasers for the same infringement, to encourage collective redress. Uncertainties remain as to how this will be implemented in practice, and important issues are left to potentially divergent national laws. For example, the Directive does not address how damages should be quantified or apportioned as between direct and indirect purchasers. Coupled with the operation of the presumptions regarding passing on, this may mean that an infringing party could potentially be required to pay more than once for the same infringement. The Directive stipulates that compensation for actual loss at any level of the supply chain should not exceed the overcharge harm suffered at that level,[12] which is presumably intended to address this risk. However, the Directive offers no further detail on how this safeguard would operate. Greater clarity will hopefully emerge as the Directive requires the Commission to issue guidance to national courts on how to estimate the share of overcharge passed to indirect purchasers.[13]
Another important principle encompassed within the Directive is that, subject to certain exceptions and limitations, including for small or medium sized enterprises, Member States must ensure that cartel members are to be held jointly and severally liable for the resulting harm caused by their proven cartel activities.[14] Those who have suffered from the activities inherent to cartel behaviour (i.e., direct and indirect purchasers) therefore have the option of filing a claim against only one of the infringing parties (again, a reflection of the position in the UK).[15] There are certain limitations under the Directive regarding the joint and several liability of cartelists. Cartel members that have been granted immunity from fines under a leniency programme will be liable only to their own (direct and indirect) customers, unless a claimant can prove that it is unable to obtain adequate compensation from the other cartel members.[16]
The Directive provides that defendants should be able to recover a contribution from any other infringer. However, this is subject to the limitation that the amount of contribution of an infringer which has been granted immunity from fines under a leniency programme shall not exceed the amount of the harm it caused to its own direct or indirect purchasers or providers.[17]
Finally, the Directive adopts methods designed to bolster the development of out-of-court settlements.[18] Protracted litigation and associated legal costs operate as a disincentive to private enforcement. The Directive therefore provides for the suspension of limitation periods for up to two years pending consensual dispute resolution (i.e., settlement negotiations, arbitration and mediation).
Member States will have two years from the adoption of the Directive to implement the relevant provisions into their national legal systems, and there is already speculation that some Member States might be less than enthusiastic implementers. Moreover, because the Directive merely establishes a set of minimum standards that Member States should implement, the possibility remains that material differences among Member State litigation enforcement regimes will continue to exist.
Those differences will be compounded by the fact that each Member State will need to transpose this directive in a manner sensitive to the peculiarities of its own law of tort/delict and its own civil procedure rules. Indeed, any parties which have infringed competition law through joint behaviour are to be jointly and severally liable for the infringement. In a cartel context, this approach plainly serves the interests of justice. It is open to question whether justice will consistently be served by imposing liability for the totality of any harm caused to a third party by a vertical agreement between one very powerful party and one less powerful undertaking, particularly in circumstances of marked inequality of bargaining power. For example, the various rebuttable presumptions established by the Directive operate differently in the legal systems of the Member States, the practical significance of which depends on the requisite legal standard for rebutting such presumptions in each Member State, and even the extent to which a Member State operates a concept of "burden of proof" in civil proceedings.
The Directive is therefore unlikely to bring a complete end to the current practice of "forum-shopping" by antitrust damages claimants, especially when one takes into account the ability of complainants to target individual cartel members as the focus of their private damages action (on the basis of the joint and several liability principle) and the fact that elements of the Directive such as disclosure will inevitably be embraced less fulsomely in some Member States than in others. However, going forward, such forum-shopping may be less focused on the availability of disclosure or limitation periods, and more on the speed, expertise and efficiency of the courts of each Member State, and their regimes on legal costs.
While it is clear that the adoption of a minimum set of rules in this area of the law must be considered to be a positive development from the viewpoint of legal certainty, and while the enhanced private enforcement climate will add weight to the deterrent effect of antitrust enforcement, it is open to question whether the Directive will make a material difference to the success and frequency of private enforcement actions in any meaningful timeframe. While the Commission has been quick to point out that it wishes to avoid the pitfalls of relying excessively on private enforcement (to the potential detriment of public enforcement), one is left with the impression that the hurdles for plaintiffs in bringing successful enforcement actions are still significant, even though the obstacles created in this field by differences in legal culture will be diminished by the Directive.
In this regard, perhaps the greatest threat to the growth of private enforcement stems from the Commission's practice of striking settlement agreements with defendants under its so-called Article 9 procedure, and the parallel trend occurring among NCAs at Member State level. Absent definitive findings on relevant markets, dominance and a theory of harm, elements which are all usually absent in settlement agreements (the EU version of US Consent Orders), private damages claimants may continue to encounter highly significant hurdles to successful claims across the EU. The lack of binding common rules on class actions, including on the "opt-in" versus the "opt-out" model, also indicate that it is unlikely that private antitrust enforcement will gain the same momentum in the EU as in the United States. Those with aspirations to create a US-style private enforcement culture might find themselves at least a little disappointed.
What is clear though is that the Directive substantially reinforces the attractiveness of early applications under applicable leniency regimes, not only by protecting leniency statements from disclosure, but also by limiting the liability of the immunity recipient for the harm it caused. This further accentuates the liability divide between whistleblowers and other cartel members, and increases the stakes when it comes to securing a leniency marker.
[2] European Commission, 'Damages actions for the breach of antitrust rules' (2005) Staff Working Paper, at para. 6.
[3] Article 14, Directive of the European Parliament and of the Council on certain rules governing actions for damages under national law for infringements of the competition law provisions of the Member States and of the European Union, 24/10/2014 – http://ec.europa.eu/competition/antitrust/actionsdamages/damages_directive_final_en.pdf .
[4] Supra, Article 14.
[5] Supra, Article 14(2).
[7] C-536/11 – Donau Chemie and Others, Judgment of June 6, 2013, not yet published; Case C-360/09, Pfleiderer AG v Bundeskartellamt, [2011] ECR I-5161, where it was held that no category of documents could automatically be withheld and that, in the absence of EU law, it is for the national court to decide on the basis of national law and on a case-by-case basis whether to allow the disclosure of documents, including leniency documents. The national court should balance both the interest of protecting effective public enforcement of EU competition rules and ensuring that the right to full compensation can be exercised effectively.
[8] White Paper on Damages actions for breach of EC antitrust rules, COM (2008) 165, at Section 2.7, page 8.
[9] Directive, Article 10(4).
[10] Supra, Article 10(4).
[11] Supra, Chapter IV.
[13] Supra, Article 16.
[18] Supra, Articles 18 and 19.
Mr. Pablo Figueroa is the co-author of this article dated November 14, 2014.
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Q: For post deployment/upgrade testing in kubernetes, what is the best trigger for the tests I am adding end-to-end tests to our dev env which is in kubernetes.  I'd like to kick off tests whenever a service is updated.  My question is: what is the best way to kick off tests when a new/updated service is ready.
I have found two options that seem ok, but not perfect:
1) post-upgrade helm chart hooks
2) validating admission webhooks
Does anyone have experience in this regard or an opinion on the best way?  Is there another way that I have missed?
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After suggesting admission webhooks to my devops team, they pointed me to kubernetes controllers and I found this:
https://github.com/bitnami-labs/kubewatch
I think that kubewatch will meet my needs.


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NFHCA Div. II National Poll
Smith Earns Third NE10 Player of the Week Award
Norwood, Massachusetts, junior All-American nets two hat tricks, breaks NE10 single-season scoring record in two big wins
NE10 Field Hockey Weekly Report
EASTON, Mass. (October 23, 2017) – Stonehill College junior All-American Kacie Smith (Norwood, Massachusetts/Norwood) has been named the Northeast-10 Conference Player of the Week for field hockey, the league announced today.
Smith earns Player of the Week honors for the third time this season and fourth of her career after netting six of Stonehill's eight goals in a 2-0 week. She potted back-to-back hat tricks in wins over Merrimack College and No. 8-ranked Pace University as the Skyhawks sealed a first round bye for next week's NE10 Tournament. Smith opened with three goals over a 12-minute span in the second half as Stonehill bounced back from a goal down early for a 4-2 win over Merrimack on Wednesday night, breaking the NE10's single-season scoring record of 82 points by Keliann Margiotta from LIU Post in 2014 with her second goal of the night. Smith followed that up with three more goals, including the game winner with 1:50 to play in Saturday's 4-3 triumph over Pace – the top defensive team in NCAA Division II.
Smith, who has also collected Longstreth/National Field Hockey Coaches Association (NFHCA) Division II Player of the Week honors twice this season, leads all three divisions of NCAA field hockey in goals and points, while ranking second across the divisions with her Division II-leading and program-record 17 assists. Her 37 goals are just one shy of former teammate Erika Kelly, '16's program and NE10 record of 38 set in 2013, and three shy of the NCAA Division II mark of 40 by Jamie Vanarstdalen in 2008, while her program and NE10-record 91 points are 11 shy of Vanartsdalen's Division II record of 102 in 2008.
Smith has scored at least a goal in 15 of Stonehill's 16 games this season, with ten multi-goal games and netting nine hat tricks. She leads the NE10 with nine gamewinning goals and her season goal total is nine higher than anyone else in Division II, while her point total leads the Division by 29. Smith totaled a career-high 11 points with a career-best four goals and three assists in the Skyhawks 9-0 win over American International College on September 8, and then added a ten point game, with four goals and two assists, in a 12-0 win over the University of New Haven on September 17.
Smith, the reigning Longstreth/NFHCA Division II North Region and NE10 Player of the Year, was a consensus first team All-American as a sophomore. She has totaled 73 goals and 29 assists for 175 points in just 57 career games played. Smith now ranks second all-time in program history for career goals, points and gamewinning goals, and third for assists. She trails Kelly's career goals record by 25, and her scoring mark by 43 points, and is seven assists below the career assists record of 36 by Kelly Latendresse, '07. She is three game winning goals shy of Kelly's program record of 19. Smith ranks 13th NCAA Division II history for career scoring and 14th for career goals.
Stonehill (13-3, 10-0 NE10), ranked No. 6 in last week's Penn Monto/National Field Hockey Coaches Association (NFHCA) Division II poll and 5th in the first NCAA Division North Regional ranking of the year, is back in action tomorrow night, when it hosts No. 4 Saint Anselm College, ranked No. 1 in the region, for its Purple & White Game at W.B. Mason Stadium at 7 p.m. The Skyhawks can clinch the NE10 regular season championship with a win over the Hawks. Stonehill closes out the regular season on Saturday at No. 5 LIU Post at noon.
April 3, 2018 Field Hockey Receives ZAG/NFHCA Academic Honors
December 15, 2017 Smith Earns Longstreth/NFHCA Division II Player of the Year Honors
December 12, 2017 Smith Earns NFHCA East Region Player of the Year for Second-Straight Season
December 11, 2017 Smith & Antonellis Earn NFHCA All-America Honors
December 5, 2017 Smith Highlights Synapse Sports Honorees as Offensive Player of the Year
November 11, 2017 NCAA FIRST ROUND: #3 Shippensburg Runs Past #7 Field Hockey, 6-1
November 10, 2017 #7 Field Hockey Visits Defending National Champions, #3 Shippensburg for NCAA Tournament First Round
November 7, 2017 Smith Featured in SI's "Faces in the Crowd"
November 6, 2017 #6 Field Hockey Earns Ninth NCAA Bid
November 3, 2017 NE10 SEMIFINAL: #6 Field Hockey Drops Last Minute Heartbreaker to Assumption, 1-0
November 1, 2017 Field Hockey Pair Earn NE10 All-Rookie Status
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October 28, 2017 #5 LIU Post Rallies Past #6 Field Hockey, 2-1
October 25, 2017 Smith Earns Third Longstreth/NFHCA Division II Offensive Player of the Week Award of Season
October 24, 2017 #4 Saint Anselm Edges #6 Field Hockey on Final Corner, 3-2
October 23, 2017 Smith Earns Third NE10 Player of the Week Award
October 21, 2017 Late Smith Strike Lifts #6 Field Hockey Past #8 Pace, 4-3
October 19, 2017 Gerew and Sylvia Selected to Participate in Victory Sports Tours/NFHCA Division II Senior All-Star Game
October 18, 2017 Smith Powers #6 Field Hockey Past Merrimack, 4-2
October 14, 2017 #9 Field Hockey Rallies Past Southern N.H., 4-3
October 10, 2017 Two Second Half Goals Lift #9 Field Hockey Past Franklin Pierce, 2-0
October 7, 2017 Field Hockey Wins Seventh Straight at St. Michael's, 4-1
October 4, 2017 Field Hockey Shuts Out Assumption, 4-0
September 30, 2017 Smith Fires Field Hockey Past Adelphi, 5-3
September 27, 2017 Smith Collects Second Longstreth/NFHCA Division II Offensive Player of the Week Award of Season
September 26, 2017 Field Hockey Wins Again at AIC, 7-2
September 25, 2017 Smith, Freedman Honored by NE10
September 23, 2017 Field Hockey Keeps Rolling Against Southern, 9-0
September 20, 2017 Field Hockey Cruises Past Bentley in NE10 Opener, 5-0
September 17, 2017 #10 Field Hockey Rolls Against New Haven, 12-0
September 13, 2017 Smith Earns Longstreth/NFHCA Division II Offensive Player of the Week
September 13, 2017 #9 Merrimack Takes Shootout Over #10 Field Hockey, 5-4
September 11, 2017 Smith Named NE10 Player of the Week
September 11, 2017 #5 Field Hockey Slips Past Assumption, 3-2
September 8, 2017 #5 Field Hockey Cruises Past AIC, 9-0
September 3, 2017 #2 East Stroudsburg Shoots Past #5 Field Hockey
September 2, 2017 #3 Millersville Defeats #5 Field Hockey, 3-1
September 1, 2017 Field Hockey No. 5 in NFHCA Preseason DII Poll
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San Antonio – St. Mary's faced its third straight 3-0 match, only this time falling off from the sweep of rival Incarnate Word in a 3-0 loss to University of Texas-Permian Basin Thursday.
The loss to the Falcons (11-12, 4-5 in conference) hit St. Mary's (13-8, 4-5 in conference) hard and will likely loom for the remainder of the season as it could determine whether or not the Rattlers advance to the Heartland Conference tournament.
"We really needed a win tonight to secure a spot in the tournament," said the Rattlers' lone senior this season, Allie Murray (San Antonio), following the home loss at Bill Greehey Arena. "As of right now it looks like we need to win out, and right now that's our goal. We have a few conference matches left, and we really need to beat everyone that we have left."
The senior accurately predicts the rest of St. Mary's season, which will be high-intensity, do-or-die matches for the Rattlers' five remaining conference games. The Rattlers dropped to a tie with UTPB for fifth place in the rankings after Thursday's loss, but are essentially in sixth due to the Falcons holding the tiebreaker following the season sweep.
St. Mary's fight for the remainder of season was seen against the Falcons, as the first two sets were won by just two at 24-26, 24-26. But as the Falcons are also fighting in their own right for a chance at the title, they charged for a 25-18 third-set victory, denying a Rattler comeback.
"We came out really strong Tuesday and we were really happy with the way we played," says Murray, who led with 19 assists against the Falcons. "And tonight we just couldn't find it."
Freshman Jenna Paul (Alvin, Texas) was able find open spots Thursday, leading the Rattlers with 11.5 points and 11 kills, followed by Kelsey Huber (So., San Antonio) with eight kills and 10 points.
The Rattlers' stats matched fairly evenly with the Falcons' except for one, which might have been the deciding factor in Thursday's loss. So far this season, St. Mary's has found success through hard, consistent kills, a strategy the Falcons may have picked up on as they totaled 16 blocks with 28 block assists to St. Mary's five blocks and six block assists.
St. Mary's has no other choice but to look ahead, a plan senior Murray moves toward with confidence in her team.
"We're really working on putting the pieces together right now because they were together for awhile," she said. "But we'll be fine."
The Rattlers will play their third straight home game against provisional conference member McMurry University on Saturday at Bill Greehey Arena at 12 p.m.
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Q: Phase shift problems with ICL7611 op-amp Update: This problem has been solved, the error was in another circuit that was providing the current and not with this. Note to everyone (and self): ACS712 is direction sensitive, even for AC currents. Connecting in the opposite way gives a 180 degree phase shift in the current.
I am using the ICL7611 op-amp to add DC to an AC signal. In a non-inverting amplifier configuration. The output looks good on magnitude, but is shifted by nearly 90 degrees in phase.

simulate this circuit – Schematic created using CircuitLab
This is how my output is looking (Red is Voltage, Green is current). Normalized in magnitude.

While reading the datasheet of ICL7611, I found this piece of information.

Does it mean, the IC is adding a phase shift? If yes, how do I compensate it? If no, Why am I getting this phase shift?  Thanks.


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Hassle free mongodb rest app
# Features
* Uses ACL (Access Control List) to better manage routes. So no route management.
* Uses built in JWT Token Authentication.
* Support for prevention of brute force attacks using [express-brute](https://github.com/AdamPflug/express-brute)
* Uses [sails](https://github.com/balderdashy/sails) like models and controllers
* Blueprints to make life easy
* Support for embeded documents to enable transactions

#Installation
```sh
npm install -g quail-cli
```
#Prerequisite
A running instance of mongodb

#Getting Started

1. Create a project by running the command
```sh
quail create <myapp>
```

2. Change directory to your app and npm install
```sh
cd myapp && npm install
```

3. Create a model
```sh
quail add-model user

OR

quail m user
```

4. Create a controller
```sh
quail add-controller user

OR

quail c user
```

5. Run the app
```sh
npm start
```

Quail supports sails like blueprints out of the box but is protected by ACL(access control list). Change your acl to allow the following actions [find , findOne, create, update and destroy] for the user controller
```javascript
module.exports = {
    routes: {
        authenticated: {},
        not_authenticated: {
        	User:{
        		find: true,
        		findOne: true,
        		create: true,
        		update: true,
        		destroy: true,
        	}
        }
    }
}
```
Now restart the server and send a post request to http://localhost:3000/user with request body
```
*POST to http://localhost:3000/user
{
	name : 'Quail',
}
```

Get all the user by sending a get request to http://localhost:3000/user
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*GET to http://localhost:3000/user
```

Get a particular user by sending a get request to http://localhost:3000/user/:id
```
*GET to http://localhost:3000/user/:id
```

Update a particular user by sending a put request to http://localhost:3000/user/:id
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*PUT to http://localhost:3000/user/:id
{
	name:'Quail is awesome'
}
```

Destroy a particular user by sending a delete request to http://localhost:3000/user/:id
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*DELETE to http://localhost:3000/user/:id
```

* Docs coming soon

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By: ETN Editorial Desk - Published: March 8, 2018 at 5:21 am
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Among the many success stories on TLC's My 600-lb Life, Brittani Fulfer has an incredible one to share with the world. From weighing 605 pounds, Brittani has come a long way and continues to be an inspiration to anyone who wants to lose weight. Keep reading to know more about Brittani's remarkable weight loss journey.
Losing weight is not easy, and Brittani Fulfur is one person who knows that fact first hand. She appeared on My 600-lb Life and shared her story with the world.
Brittani was morbidly obese, and her appearance on My 600-lb Life changed her life forever. Since then, she lost more than half of her weight and is practically unrecognizable! So, Where is Brittani Fulfur now and how much weight did she lose?
We've got everything you need to know about Brittani from My 600-lb Life.
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A native of Tualatin, Oregon, Brittani appeared on the show in January 2016 with a heartbreaking story to tell.
Weighing 605 pounds then, Brittani revealed her spiral into a life of morbid obesity after being abused by a family member when she was five years old.
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The abuse continued for six years, and Brittani sought refuge in binging on food. She was overweight her entire life, and at the time of her high school graduation, she weighed 400 pounds.
Brittani feared that she would be alone all her life, But when she met Bill, her husband, he told her that he liked big women.
Brittani shared this picture of the two on their wedding day.
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Fearing her weight would affect her life and marriage, Brittani appeared on the show where Dr. Now and therapists gave her help and advice.
"My husband doesn't see my undress most of the time [sic]," Brittani said. "I don't walk around naked because I am afraid that he will be absolutely disgusted if he sees me and that he will never look at me the same way again. So, I hide and do nothing all day."
Brittani also confessed to thinking of food all day long and said, "I think about food nonstop from the moment I wake up until the moment I go to bed. I know that's not normal, but I can't remember a time when food wasn't the most important thing to me."
Even a simple task like showering was the "most exhausting" part of Brittani's day. She feared that she wouldn't be able to ever have kids with her husband.
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Throughout Brittani Fulfur's weight loss journey, one thing that kept her going was hope. She stuck to the diet recommended by Dr. Now and managed to lose 35 pounds before her gastric bypass surgery.
Over the year, Brittani managed to lose a whopping 230 pounds! She continued losing weight, shedding an additional 103 pounds. And she had 27 pounds of fat taken from her stomach when an episode of My 600-lb Life: Where Are They Now? was filmed in 2017.
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