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Workers' Compensation for Chronic Pain
A workers' compensation judge has the freedom to consider different doctors' opinions before deciding whether to award workers' compensation benefits. The judge is not limited to the most restrictive opinion but may award benefits if any of the physicians who examine the injured worker has the opinion that the worker can no longer work, for instance because of chronic pain. The insurer, Massachusetts Retail Merchants, AIG, in the case of Remberto Galdamez appealed from a decision awarding Mr. Galdamez § 34A permanent and total incapacity benefits. The Massachusetts Department of Industrial Accidents Reviewing Board affirmed the award of benefits at Board No. 037394-08.
Laborer Injured Loading Fish
Mr. Galdamez, born and raised in El Salvador, came to the United States in 1987. Within days of arriving in the United States, he began working as a laborer for Channel Fish Co., Inc. On September 19, 2008, he suffered a work-related injury when a heavy barrel rolled off a truck and landed on his shoulder and neck. He continued to work until the pain became overwhelming. He then attempted light duty, but, according to the employer's testimony, he was not able to perform any physical work. Mr. Galdamez was examined by Dr. John Lynch, the impartial physician, pursuant to G.L. c.152, § 11A(2). Although the report was deemed adequate, in response to joint motions filed by the parties, the judge allowed additional medical evidence due to the complexity of the medical issues.
Workers' Compensation Judge Finds Worker Totally Incapacitated
The judge found Mr. Galdamez to be totally incapacitated, based on the medical evidence and the testimony of both Mr. Galdamez and his employer, Louis Sylvestro. The judge also adopted the medical opinions of Dr. James Hewson and impartial physician Dr. John Lynch, causally relating the injuries and resulting disability to the September 19, 2008 industrial accident. The insurer appealed the award of benefits to Mr. Galdamez.
Insurer Says Judge Mischaracterized Physician Testimony
On appeal, the insurer argued that the judge mischaracterized Dr. Eugenio Martinez's opinion regarding disability by finding that Dr. Martinez opined Mr. Galdamez was totally disabled from gainful employment. In fact, the insurer contended Dr. Martinez opined only that Mr. Galdamez suffered from "chronic pain syndrome" and was totally disabled from his usual occupation.
Reviewing Board Finds Error Harmless – Judge Relied On Other Physicians' Testimony
Although the Reviewing Board agreed that the judge mischaracterized Dr. Martinez's opinion, it found the error to be harmless because her decision was not based on his opinion, but on the opinions of Drs. Lynch and Hewson, both of which amply supported the judge's conclusion on incapacity. The judge adopted Dr. Lynch's opinion that Mr. Galdamez was totally disabled due to his work-related neck and shoulder injuries and resulting chronic pain syndrome. Additionally, the judge adopted the opinion of Dr. Hewson, who likewise found that Mr. Galdamez suffered from chronic pain syndrome and was totally disabled from gainful employment as a result of his work injuries. The Reviewing Board said the judge was free to credit the testimony of one medical expert over another, but the evidentiary basis of that award should be clear. The Reviewing Board found the the judge clearly adopted medical evidence supporting her ultimate conclusion on incapacity and causation, and therefore any error in mischaracterizing another opinion she did not adopt was harmless.
No Need for Vocational Expert To Assess Residual Capacity: Award Affirmed
The insurer also argued that the judge did not adequately address residual capacity because there was no vocational analysis. Despite the absence of a specific vocational analysis, the Reviewing Board credited the judge with assessing a number of relevant factors. She found Mr. Galdamez speaks limited English, has difficulty reading or writing in either Spanish or English, and worked as a laborer for the same employer for 21 years. She credited his testimony that he continued to experience pain and debilitating symptoms. She also credited the testimony of the employer that he did not believe Mr. Galdamez was physically capable of performing his work duties. Thus, in addition to the credited medical evidence, the judge considered the work history, complaints of incapacitating pain, limited education, and language difficulties, and she found Mr. Galdamez to be permanently and totally disabled. Since the finding of total incapacity was supported by the evidence, an explicit vocational analysis to determine residual earning capacity was unnecessary. For all these reasons, the decision of the administrative judge to award permanent and total incapacity benefits was affirmed.
If you are hurt at work, you may be entitled to workers' compensation benefits. An experienced Massachusetts workers' compensation attorney can evaluate whether you have a sound claim and fight to make sure that your employer and its insurer follow the rules or give you guidance if there is no insurance available. Contact us by calling 800-367-0871 or using our online contact form.
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Accueil Le parc Histoire de loup
Set off for a trip, following in the footprints of wolves, from the French Alps to Hudson Bay. The park is home to four packs. Meet the grey wolves of Europe, the arctic wolves and two packs of black wolves from the west of Canada.
Grey wolves of Europe: an unforgettable encounter!
Long hunted by humans, wolves are now protected. A symbol of efficient teamwork, the predator is gradually becoming a part of our ecosystem once again.
Come on a wolf hunt with us! Follow the green path as it meanders through the forest and discover where the wolves hide. On the way, you can learn all about these fascinating animals thanks to our explanations and exhibitions. Be brave! We promise you will be rewarded for your courage!
Black wolves from west Canada: a blazing gaze!
Sainte-Croix is home to a pack of timberwolves, which also live in the well-known American park of Yellowstone. Read all about them!
Yellowstone as if you were there: Enter the Yellowstone visitor centre and find out how wolves were reintroduced to the legendary park. You'll be a mine of information on the Timberwolf after your visit! Our Yellowstone mine underground observation area gives a superb view of the black wolves.
Arctic wolves: strange doctors
Eskimos call the arctic wolf "the caribou doctor" because the predator selects the weakest members of the species as prey and therefore leaves the population free from disease. Other types of wolf have the same opportunistic approach, helping to maintain balance within an ecosystem.
Settle in La cabane du trappeur (trapper's cabin) and observe our pack of arctic wolves. The visitor centre gives all the information you need to understand the trappers of North America. If all the talk of prey has made you ravenous, you can even satisfy your own hunger in the restaurant !
120 hectares of unspoilt countryside
Spanning 120 hectares, the Parc Animalier de Sainte-Croix is home to a selection of European fauna and a contributor to worldwide biodiversity. Explore the five areas of our leafy park where 1,500 animals representing 100 species roam freely.
Looking to do something really different?
Stay with us and be a part of the animal kingdom
discover nature activities
L'appel nocturne du loup
Wildlife expedition in a safari train
Hop on the safari train on an hour-long expedition to observe the animals of Europe. All aboard ! This 3-kilometre-long trip takes you to the heart of the park where you will encounter the very best that nature has to offer. The expedition will give you an insider's view of the elk's and reindeer's habitat and the vast nature reserve shared by the Przewalski's horses and European bison.
Discover the different species of this universe
Dormir au parc
Surrounded by wildlife
Stay over with your new friends. Relax in one of our well-appointed eco lodges. You'll have the time of your life !
our accomodations
Cabane du Trappeur
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Protecting wildlife and biodiversity
At Sainte-Croix, we are committed to the conservation and protection of the environment.
Since we founded the reserve in 1980, Sainte-Croix has been committed to protecting our planet. Our awareness-raising campaigns for staff and visitors have helped establish our role as leaders in nature protection instruction.
More than 50 animals have been released into their natural habitats since the reserve opened.
Captive-bred animals may be released into the wild to help increase populations of endangered species.
Our wild spaces
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Creating a New Economy for the Poor, Starting With Women in the Third World
Mark Karlin,
In many ways, despite advances in technology, the exploitation of the poor by the haves has not changed much over the past few centuries – nor has ignoring those of such abject destitution that they barely survive.
In the DVD "Bonsai People: The Vision of Muhammad Yunus," documentary maker Holly Mosher offers a detailed insight into the innovative microcredit financing that helps poor people rise into a functional economic system and improve their standard of living. Over the years, Yunus has learned that this form of lending works best when put in the hands of women, often organized into groups who share responsibility for ensuring repayment of the modest loans.
The laboratory for Yunus's innovative approaches to reducing impoverishment is his native country of Bangladash. From microcredit lending, Yunus has moved onto creating social businesses that improve the health and welfare of the poor, while providing employment and investment opportunities. This includes a network of health clinics. In short, Yunus is working with poor people, particularly women, to create a functional interconnected economy for a group long left behind by those individuals with means.
Due to the success in Bangladesh, Yunus is now working to expand his "bootstrap financing" for the poor and social businesses to other nations, including the US. The effort, however, will require vigilance to keep profiteers from hopping on board and taking financial advantage of the poor through high interest rates and social businesses that don't have the community interest at heart.
You can get a copy of "Bonsai People" and contribute to the non-profit mission of Truthout by clicking here.
Mark Karlin
Mark Karlin founded BuzzFlash.com in May 2000. He wrote daily commentaries for Truthout for eight years and was a senior member of the staff. He recently spent a month traversing Vietnam. Follow him on Twitter: @MarkDKarlin.


Orientation (also known as onboarding) and ongoing support are key pieces of the selection process and will increase the odds of your new hires' success, contribution to and tenure on the team. New hires come to an organization fully charged, excited about their new adventure and filled with energy and potential. By effectively tapping into that energy, knowledge and wisdom right from the start, you can maximize the new employee's potential and productivity well past the first year.
We know that many quick quits can be prevented. There is a direct correlation between shortened tenure and actions you do, or do not, take (yup, sorry—you again). Develop a relationship. Show you care. Start by having conversations with your new employees.
What kind of support or direction do you need from me that you aren't getting? What are you getting that you don't want?
How are you getting along with your other team members? What introductions would you like me to make? Are you finding people to go to lunch with? Are you finding people to go to when you need help?
How does the job measure up to what we promised so far? Where are we on or off? How might we course-correct?
What other interests would you like to explore, either now or over time?
How does the work pace and schedule work for you? Is there anything we need to adjust?
How can I help you get more of what you want from this workplace? We want you to be happy here!
Yes, all this conversation and connecting requires time and energy on your part. But it might just prevent a quick quit!
Meet with your new hires often: Daily for the first week, weekly for the first month, once every two weeks for the first quarter, then at least once a month for the rest of the first year. Build your relationship consistently. Have an "expectations exchange" with them. Clearly define what you expect from them and ask what they are expecting from you.
Introduce them to others on your team even before their first day. People with several options could be tempted by another offer before they show up for the first day of work.
Spend time teaching them about the organization they have just joined. Tell stories, share your experiences and knowledge about the culture and history.
Involve your key people in the new hires' orientation. Expose new employees to others' views as well as your own.
Mentor and find mentors for them as they work to close the inevitable skill gaps.
Observe them—what do they enjoy the most? What's easiest or hardest for them to learn?
Develop a learning plan to ensure they are challenged.
Ask great questions . . . ongoingly!
Be available to support this treasured new talent in this uncertain early stage of their employment. That may mean seeking them out to see how they are doing and conveying that you are behind them all the way.
Get creative as you think about ways to welcome your new talent! Yes, all this conversation and connecting requires time and energy on your part. But think about the goal: preventing a quick quit.
Beverly Kaye is the Founder of Career Systems International. Sharon Jordan-Evans is the President of the Jordan Evans Group. This article is based on concepts from Love 'Em or Lose 'Em: Getting Good People to Stay by Beverly Kaye and Sharon Jordan-Evans.


Morgan County Probation ensures that offenders released from jail on probation follow guidelines that a court has instructed the offender to follow. For example, some may not be allowed to carry a firearm for a certain period of time, while others may only have to serve community service. Probation is a time period where an offender must obey the rules the court has set for them so that they may prove to the court that they are able to obey rules and regulations before letting them fully back into society.


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Dogs play awkward game of tug-of-war
January 5, 2023, 9:25 a.m.
Benny and Lucy battle it out for their new stuffies in the most gentle possible way. Too funny!
Pakistan shaken by suspected suicide bombing
A blast in a mosque in Pakistan's northwestern city of Peshawar has killed at least 34 people and injured up to 150, an incident local officials suspect to be a suicide bombing targeting police.
Ottawa MP Yasir Naqvi 'seriously considering' run for Ontario Liberal leadership
Liberal Ottawa MP Yasir Naqvi says he is "seriously considering" a run for the Ontario Liberal Party leadership. Speaking on Ottawa Morning, Naqvi said the current Ontario government under Progressive Conservative Premier Doug Ford and the state of the province are his reasons for interest in the job. "I'm really concerned about the state of affairs of our public health system and our public education system," he said. "We are seeing complete chaos in the system." The leadership of the provincia
The new Manitoba cabinet lineup following Monday's shuffle by the premier
WINNIPEG — Premier Heather Stefanson has shuffled her cabinet. The move was prompted by recent announcements by five Manitoba cabinet ministers who are resigning soon or staying on but not running again in the election scheduled for Oct. 3. Here is the list of cabinet ministers following Monday's changes: — Heather Stefanson, premier, intergovernmental affairs — Cliff Cullen, deputy premier, finance, responsible for Manitoba Hydro — Kelvin Goertzen, justice, attorney general, responsible for Man
Violent incidents on TTC continue into weekend
A pair of violent incidents on Friday and another assault on Saturday continued the disturbing trend of violence on the TTC. Ahmar Khan reports.
Online map creates tour of Vancouver bars, nightclubs — that are no longer here, from Luv-A-Fair to The Cave
A Vancouver artist has created an open-source map that chronicles the city's bars, nightclubs, venues and art spaces, past and present. Artist and musician Leah Abramson says she was inspired to create the map after she found herself walking the city and regularly coming across spots that used to be home to venues that closed years ago. Around the same time, a friend posted something on social media lamenting places that have come and gone. She created the map as research for an artist-lead walk
Record turnout as Pavel sweeps to victory in Czech Republic's presidential elections
Retired general Petr Pavel secured a million more votes than his opponent Andrej Babis to win the Czech presidential election. There was record turnout for the second round of voting.View on euronews
Police given 45-minute training video and infographics as decriminalization set to begin in B.C.
A day before possession of small amounts of certain illicit drugs is temporarily decriminalized, about a third of B.C.'s frontline police officers have completed the first phase of training on how to implement the new rules. During a technical briefing Monday, reporters learned the province has developed a 45-minute recorded presentation on the decriminalization pilot project as part of the first phase of training for the province's more than 9,000 officers on the streets. The three-year B.C. pi
Funeral service held for 2nd officer caught in avalanche in Kaslo, B.C.
A funeral service for the second police officer caught in a deadly avalanche near Kaslo, B.C., is being held on Monday, nearly two weeks to the day after the ceremony for his colleague. The celebration of life for Const. Mathieu Nolet is taking place at the Rod and Gun Club in Nelson, B.C., at 11:30 a.m. PT. The Nelson Police Department is streaming the service live. Nolet, 28, was skiing with his colleague, Det. Wade Tittemore, in a mountain pass 60 kilometres north of Nelson when an avalanche
Memphis police disband unit that fatally beat Tyre Nichols
MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) — The Memphis police chief disbanded the city's so-called Scorpion unit on Saturday, citing a "cloud of dishonor" from newly released video that showed some of its officers beating Tyre Nichols to death after stopping the Black motorist. Police Director Cerelyn "CJ" Davis acted a day after the harrowing video emerged, saying she listened to Nichols' relatives, community leaders and uninvolved officers in making the decision. Her announcement came as the nation and the city st


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The holiday shopping season can make or break a retailer's entire fiscal year. It's no secret that sales increase tremendously as the calendar year winds down and consumers ramp up their purchasing habits to buy gifts for friends and relatives, or simply to take advantage of end-of-year sales. For the most part, the holidays represent an opportunity for retailers of all stripes to pad their bottom line with a surge of revenue.
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Even Military Rape Victims Aren't Safe from the GOP -- 3 Republican Moves Against Women We Have to Beat Back /
Even Military Rape Victims Aren't Safe from the GOP -- 3 Republican Moves Against Women We Have to Beat Back
By now, the story of Representative Lisa Brown, almost certainly banned from speaking due to her uttering the word "vagina" during the debate of an anti-choice bill on the House Floor in Michigan, is spreading fast. The humor used by pro-choice politicians in Michigan is understandable and has called necessary attention to their policy debate. But it shouldn't hide the fact: what's behind the high-profile skirmish is one of the worst anti-choice bills any state has seen, a so-called omnibus bill that would decimate reproductive healthcare options in the state.
The series of state-level and national legislative assaults on reproductive rights that's come to be known as the "war on women" is still going strong, despite sizeable public backlash. The GOP's approach--throw every kind of abortion ban or family planning cut to the wall and see what sticks -- means that even if the most heinous bans and provisions don't go through thanks to outctry, something will.
Here are a few examples of what the GOP has been up to since the last time we checked in.
1. Michigan's Omnibus "Super" Bill Targets Abortion From All Sides
During debate over an omnibus bill that would curtail reproductive rights, Rep. Lisa Brown concluded her speech with the phrase that would soon ricochet around the news cycle: "And Finally Mr. Speaker, I'm flattered that you're all so interested in my vagina, but no means no." As a result, she was forbidden from speaking about the bill the next day.
But the argument she was making is not a laughing matter. The package of bills that prompted "vaginagate" is a doozy, including a so-called "super bill," a bundle of restrictions rolled together. The worst of those seeks to eliminate all abortions in the state after 20 weeks, with no exceptions for rape, incest or the health of the mother.
But while that is the most controversial proposal--it would essentially force women who have found out their fetus isn't viable to carry it to term anyway--the rest of it has already passed, and it puts the squeeze on abortion rights from all angles. It bans the all but nonexistent practice of "sex-selective" abortions; eliminates "tele-med" abortion, in which a doctor supervises the procedure remotely; and introduces "coercion screenings" to add a hurdle to women seeking the procedure. It also introduces a passel of noxious TRAP laws (Target Regulation of Abortion Providers) which put requirements on things like hallway width and require clinics to jump through various hoops to stay open.
In the fall, the state senate will vote on many of the regulations that passed the House. The 20-week ban is shortly to follow on the docket.
As for vaginagate, Jessica Valenti gets to the crux:
I wished this latest GOP gaffe surprised me, but Republicans feeling squirmy about women's "down-theres" while desperately trying to keep said "hoo hoos" in check is pretty standard these days. We live in a country where it's fine to legislate vaginas but saying the actual word is forbidden.
2. Congressional Republicans May Block Abortion Access for Military Rape Victims
Women in the military are already vulnerable to rape, but even more dehumanizing is the fact that they are the only federal employees who are not able to access abortion in the cases of rape or incest. If a woman in the armed services is raped and becomes pregnant (as happens in a few hundred cases a year), she has to pay for her abortion herself and often if she's abroad, travel off-base.
The Shaheen amendment, an addendum to the NDAA, would fill this gap and extend abortion coverage to military women who are victims of rape or incest. Stand Up for Service Women (StandWithServicewomen.org), a coalition that's advocating for the amendment, explains why it's necessary.
This policy is unfair and unjust given the sacrifices of our military women, wives and daughters. Our government provides civilian women, like federal employees, with insurance coverage for abortion in the case of rape and incest and it should provide servicewomen and dependents with the same care. It is a basic matter of fairness.
It's so basic that it's even supported by Republican senators like Susan Collins and John McCain. But its prospects in the GOP- and Tea Party-controlled House are grim. The Army Times reported an expert saying the bill has "little chance" of making it through.
3. Kansas Inches Toward Eliminating Abortion
In Mississippi, where the sole abortion clinic is under threat thanks to GOP legislators, we could see the first state where there are zero providers. As that clinic's legal battle continues, Robin Marty notes that Kansas is doing its best to catch up:
Kansas's new TRAP law nearly closed every clinic in the state. Their "conscience" bill allows pharmacists to refuse both to fill prescriptions for contraceptive methods, but also to refuse to refer a customer needing a prescription to another pharmacist. And one law proposing to take "no taxpayer funding for abortion" to ridiculous extremes nearly closed the basic OB-GYN training program of the state university, and would have cost the school its medical accreditation.
She asks if Kansas is on its way to being a state without any abortion, and says that if the slate of 2013 legislation comes through, it might.
4. State Laws Restrict Rights Elsewhere
The Guttmacher Institute did a survey in May of abortion restrictions enacted up to this point in the year, and already found quite a few. The highlights which Guttmacher sent out in its press release includes the multiple new restrictions in Kansas as well as a few more:
Ban abortion at 20 weeks postfertilization in Georgia;
Prohibit the use of telemedicine in the provision of medication abortion in Oklahoma;
Limit abortion coverage in the Alabama health exchange;
Bar specialized family planning providers or abortion providers from receiving family planning funds in Arizona;
Expand the types of organizations that may refuse to provide contraceptive coverage in Arizona;
Require reproductive health facilities to report statutory rape in Georgia and require statutory rape investigations for abortion patients under age 14 in Mississippi; and
Mandate abstinence-until-marriage education in Tennessee.
It's clear that war on reproductive freedom has fronts in multiple states as well as in the national debate over issues like abortion for women in the military.
If opponents of reproductive rights have so many tactics and are so unyielding, defenders have to meet them at every one of those fronts.


Here are the behind-the-scenes pictures we shared on our Facebook and Twitter pages today.
Cast member Hayden Christensen (Anakin Skywalker) behind the scenes of Star Wars: Episode II – Attack of the Clones.
Director Mike Newell giving instructions to cast member Robert Pattinson (Cedric Diggory) on the set of Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire.
Showrunner Julie Plec with cast members Ian Somerhalder (Damon Salvatore) and Nina Dobrev (Elena Gilbert) on the set of The Vampire Diaries.
Cast member Dominic Rains (Kasius) filming a scene for Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.
Cast member/director Ben McKenzie (Jim Gordon) and cast members David Mazouz (Bruce Wayne) and Camren Bicondova (Selina Kyle) on the set of Gotham.
Cast members Matt Smith (The 11th Doctor), Karen Gillan (Amy Pond) and Arthur Darvill (Rory Williams) behind the scenes of Doctor Who.
Cast members Josh McDermitt (Eugene Porter), Sonequa Martin-Green (Sasha Williams) and Jeffrey Dean Morgan (Negan) on the set of The Walking Dead.
Stormtrooper and Shoretrooper actors taking a break from filming at the Canary Wharf tube station for Rogue One: A Star Wars Story.


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However, whatever your decision (online application with a lender or loan), refinance your mortgage plan options should be simple for you payment.
The changes are welcome and specifically help homeowners with adjustable rate mortgage.
However this did not prevent lenders fierce competition with each other.�In fact, competition has increased due to the decrease in real estate market refinancing, the lender wants to make a quick buck or two.


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package com.datatorrent.lib.math;

import java.util.HashMap;
import java.util.Map;

import com.datatorrent.api.DefaultInputPort;
import com.datatorrent.api.DefaultOutputPort;
import com.datatorrent.api.StreamCodec;
import com.datatorrent.lib.util.BaseNumberKeyValueOperator;
import com.datatorrent.lib.util.KeyValPair;

/**
 *
 * This operator emits minimum of all values sub-classed from Number for each key in KeyValPair at end of window.

 *

 *
 * Ports:

 * data: expects KeyValPair<K,V extends Number>

 * min: emits KeyValPair<K,V extends Number>, one entry per key

 *

 * Properties:

 * inverse: if set to true the key in the filter will block tuple

 * filterBy: List of keys to filter on

 *

 * @displayName Minimum Key Value
 * @category Math
 * @tags minimum, numeric, key value
 * @since 0.3.2
 */
public class MinKeyVal<K, V extends Number> extends BaseNumberKeyValueOperator<K, V>
{
  /**
   * Input port which takes a key vaue pair and updates the value for each key if there is a new min.
   */
  public final transient DefaultInputPort<KeyValPair<K, V>> data = new DefaultInputPort<KeyValPair<K, V>>()
  {
    /**
     * For each key, updates the hash if the new value is a new min.
     */
    @Override
    public void process(KeyValPair<K, V> tuple)
    {
      K key = tuple.getKey();
      V tval = tuple.getValue();
      if (!doprocessKey(key) || (tval == null)) {
        return;
      }
      V val = mins.get(key);
      if (val == null) {
        mins.put(cloneKey(key), tval);
      } else if (val.doubleValue() > tval.doubleValue()) {
        mins.put(key, tval);
      }
    }

    /**
     * Set StreamCodec used for partitioning.
     */
    @Override
    public StreamCodec<KeyValPair<K, V>> getStreamCodec()
    {
      return getKeyValPairStreamCodec();
    }
  };

  /**
   * Min value output port.
   */
  public final transient DefaultOutputPort<KeyValPair<K, V>> min = new DefaultOutputPort<KeyValPair<K, V>>();
  protected HashMap<K, V> mins = new HashMap<K, V>();

  /**
   * Emits all key,min value pairs.
   * Clears internal data. Node only works in windowed mode.
   */
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CVWG has been invited to have its own show at the Louisa Arts Center this summer! Special Exhibits chair, Sue Stover, encourages everyone to enter up to five pieces of art. There is no entrance fee. For more details click HERE.
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Judy Westrick graduated from Wayne State University in 1985 and earned a Ph.D. in physical organic chemistry from University of Colorado, Boulder in 1989. Since her Ph.D., she has performed research with several interdisciplinary groups such as the Institute for Behavioral Genetics, US EPA, and American Water Works Association. In 2001, she joined the faculty at Lake Superior State University. She founded and directed the Lake Superior State University Environmental Analysis Laboratory; a self-supporting laboratory used to fund undergraduate training and research as well as K-12 camps and professional workshops. During her tenure, she mentored 81 senior research projects, advised the Chemistry Club, and was a key player in Lake Superior State University Chemistry Department becoming ACS accredited. As a leader in cyanotoxins and harmful algal blooms research, she has managed numerous occurrence studies, determined cyanotoxin susceptibility of drinking water treatment processes, developed analytical methodologies, and validated commercial analytical products such as cyanotoxin ELISAs. Dr. Westrick has organized and served on several expert panels, reviewed grants for numerous federal agencies, written reviews, and edited a special edition of Toxicon. As the new Director of the Lumigen Instrument Center at Wayne State University, her goal is to provide professional and high quality research and instructional support to Wayne State University researchers as well as to the greater Detroit and Michigan communities.
X. He, M. Pelaez, J.A. Westrick, K. O'Shea, A. Hiskia, T. Triantis, T. Kaloudis, M. Stefan, A. de la Cruz;, D. D. Dionysoiu. "Efficient Removal of Microcystin-LR by UV-C/H2O2 in Synthetic and Natural Water Samples.", Water Research, 46(5) 1501-1510 (2012).
B. J. Keller, R. C Back, J. A. Westrick, M. Werner, B. Evans, A. Moerke, G. Zimmerman, D.D. Wright, E. Grenfell, J. Courneya. "Sediment quality at select sites in the St. Marys River Area of Concern.", Journal of Great Lakes Research, 37, 12-20 (2011).
B.C. Moore, Y. Wang, F. S. Cannon, D.H. Metz, J.A. Westrick. "Relationships between adsorption mechanisms and pore structure for the adsorption of natural organic matter by virgin and reactivated granular activated carbons during water treatment.", Environmental Engineering Science, 27(2), 187-198 (2010).
J.A. Westrick, D.C. Szlag, B.J. Southwell, J.A. Sinclair. "Review of Cyanobacteria and Cyanotoxins Removal/Inactivation in Drinking Water Treatment.", Analytical Bioanalytical Chemistry, 397(5), 1705-1714 (2010).
S.A. Oehrle, J.A. Westrick, B.S. Southwell. "Detection of Various Freshwater Cyanobacterail Toxins using Ultra-Performance Liquid Chromatography - Tandem Mass Spectrometry.", Toxicon, 55(5), 965-972 (2010).


Apprenticeship transferred to Lloyd Hittmann, Pharmaceutical Chemist of Lyons Road, Drummoyne, Sydney.
My first job was as locum for Stewart F Shearman's Pharmacy in Crown St, Orange, for a fortnight followed by a fortnight as locum for Tom Hallett's Pharmacy also of Crown St, Orange.
Purchased Tom Hallett's Pharmacy in Crown St, Orange, and managed that for 2 years.
Opened and managed the Mall Pharmacy in Central Road, Unanderra, NSW.
On 7th February, we purchased Carr's Pharmacy. I operated the Dispensary as 'David Coates – Chemist' and my wife Robin, operated the front of the shop as 'Robin Coates – Health & Beauty Aids'.
On 27th November we amalgamated with Allan's Pharmacy that was owned by Allan Kahler and from then on we traded as Coates & Kahler – Chemists.
On 28th February, we sold Coates & Kahler – Chemists to Michael Coates (my son who is also a Pharmacist) and Monir Elhage who continue to trade as Coates & Kahler – Chemists.
On 15th March , my former partner Allan Walter Kahler PhC MPS passed away – not only a business partner but a close personal friend. We first met as young chemists in Wollongong in the early 1960's and played together in the Illawarra Pharmacists Squash Club. From 1968 to 1978 we were in friendly opposition in separate Pharmacies in Fairy Meadow and then in 1978 we amalgamated our two pharmacies and worked together in a wonderful partnership that lasted 20 years. R.I.P.
In May 2012, the Illawarra Pharmacists Association presented me with a Certificate of Achievement marking 60 years as a Community Pharmacist.
In November of this year, I finally retired from Pharmacy. At age 83, I decided at was time. One needs to let go while still at one's peak. It was most gratifying that the Chemists for whom I was doing locums, did not want me to retire.
Elected a member of the Pharmaceutical Society of NSW.
Joined the Illawarra Pharmacists Association.
Pharmacist Locum Service Director for Illawarra Pharmacists Association.
Australia Day – 26th January: Awarded the medal of the Order of Australia for Service to Scouting, to Pharmacy, and to the Community.


Se admiten mascotas con un coste adicional de 75 USD por alojamiento, por noche.
We stayed after a sporting event at Notre Dame. The hotel was somewhat basic but clean and well maintained. We would stay here again.
Clean and comfortable. Pillows are very hard. Bring your own.
Obviously very new. Near everything. Great service and comfort. Will be staying here again.
Clean, spacious room at an affordable price. Everything we needed.


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Article • 04 April 2017
Darkness Surrounds Us
Paula Hawkins' psychological thrillers: several million opinions and counting.
The Girl on the Train, Paula Hawkins' gripping story of love, obsession and murder, was a runaway success, smashing records and selling more than an astonishing 18 million copies worldwide. It also occupied the No. 1 spot on the UK hardback chart for 20 weeks, the longest run of any book previous. Faster than a speeding bullet, The Girl on the Train won over critics, with many labelling it the thriller of 2015. All the while word-of-mouth travelled, elevating the book into 'must-read' territory. Stephen King loved it ('A really great suspense novel. Kept me up most of the night.'), as did Marian Keyes ('A long, long time since a book gripped me like this.').
Hawkins has said she wrote the first half of the book about a woman who sees something unsavoury on her daily commute very quickly. The story was also adapted by DreamWorks Pictures into a movie starring Emily Blunt in lightning-quick time – debuting in cinemas a mere 20 months after the book's release. It was a box-office smash, grossing almost four times the film's $45 million budget.
The Girl on the Train brought all the chills and thrills expected of a page-turning thriller, but also offered a fresh, 'domestic' take on a genre long dominated by serial murderers, granite-jawed detectives and gore. 'I think people have got a little bit tired of a trope of a beautiful dead woman on the first page of a novel,' Hawkins said in an interview with The Guardian. 'It's more the psychology of crime going on. They don't tend to be so much about violence or about bloody acts.'
'Domestic noir' is a term attributed to British author Julia Crouch, and one that's been liberally applied to Hawkins' writing. In a nutshell it refers to the exploration of the darkness that exists behind the shiny, happy social-media facades of our modern lives; and the locked doors of our suburban homes. If it's a truism that novelists should use their platform to reflect the issues of our times, then indeed domestic violence should not be shied away from. And, thankfully, authors like Hawkins are opening the doors to exploring the horrors that exist all around us.
Just two years on from Hawkins' propulsion to global notoriety, she releases her second novel, Into the Water. Set in the northern English town of Beckford, the mystery lingers around an infamous waterhole that, due to the deaths of several women, has been dubbed the Drowning Pool. But is it a suicide spot or some kind of dumping ground? This time Hawkins explores the murky territory of the stories we tell about our pasts and their power to destroy the lives we live now. Unsurprisingly, DreamWorks were keen to secure the film rights to Into the Water, and took out an option months before the novel's release.
'This story has been brewing for a good while,' Hawkins said in a statement. 'For me there is something irresistible about the stories we tell ourselves, the way voices and truths can be hidden consciously or unconsciously, memories can be washed away and whole histories submerged.'
Into the Water Paula Hawkins
The addictive No. 1 psychological thriller from the author of The Girl on the Train, the runaway Sunday Times No. 1 bestseller and global phenomenon.
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Iran Uses Crypto Mining to Lessen Impact of Sanctions, Study Finds
LONDON, May 21 (Reuters) – Around 4.5% of all bitcoin mining takes place in Iran, allowing the country to earn hundreds of millions of dollars in cryptocurrencies that can be used to buy imports and lessen the impact of sanctions, a new study has found.
At its current level of mining, Iran's bitcoin production would amount to revenues close $1 billion a year, according to figures from blockchain analytics firm Elliptic.
Iranian officials could not immediately be reached for comment.
The United States imposes an almost total economic embargo on Iran, including a ban on all imports including those from the country's oil, banking and shipping sectors.
While, exact figures are "very challenging to determine", Elliptic estimates are based on data collected from bitcoin miners by the Cambridge Centre for Alternative Finance up to April 2020, and statements from Iran's state-controlled power generation company in January that up to 600 MW of electricity was being consumed by miners.
ANALYSIS: Why Is Iran Experiencing Power Cuts and Gas Shortages?
Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies are created through a process known as mining, where powerful computers compete with each other to solve complex mathematical problems. The process is energy intensive, often relying electricity generated by fossil fuels which Iran is rich in.
The country's central bank prohibits the trading of bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies mined overseas, although the currencies are widely available on the black market, according to local media reports.
Iran officially recognized crypto mining as an industry in recent years, offering it cheap power and requiring miners to sell their mined bitcoins to the central bank. The prospect of cheap power has attracted more miners, particularly from China, into the country. Teheran allows cryptocurrencies mined in Iran to pay for imports of authorised goods.
"Iran has recognised that bitcoin mining represents an attractive opportunity for a sanctions-hit economy suffering from a shortage of hard cash, but with a surplus of oil and natural gas," the study finds.
The electricity being used by miners in Iran would require the equivalent of around 10 million barrels of crude oil each year to generate, around 4% of total Iranian oil exports in 2020, according to the study.
"The Iranian state is therefore effectively selling its energy reserves on the global markets, using the Bitcoin mining process to bypass trade embargoes," the study reads.
"Iran-based miners are paid directly in Bitcoin, which can then be used to pay for imports – allowing sanctions on payments through Iranian financial institutions to be circumvented."
Financial firms that have started offering cryptocurrency services, particularly in the United States, should consider potential sanctions they are exposed to due to Iranian bitcoin mining, Elliptic said.
(Reporting by Anna Irrera Additional reporting by Dubai newsroom Editing by Rachel Armstrong, William Maclean)
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Who wouldn't want to embrace the Elegance, the glamour and the feel of the ambitious male in the 1920's? We're going to observe the wardrobe, the tailored-to-perfection tuxedo and the vintage attire of the magnificent film – The Great Gatsby!
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Greek & Roman Studies
Jesse Weiner
Professor of Greek and Roman Studies and Religion
Ph.D., Classics, University of California, Irvine; M.A. Classics, University of California, Irvine; B.A., New College of Florida
Jesse recently arrived at Wesleyan from California, where he previously taught courses in Classics at the University of California, Irvine and California State University, Long Beach. He teaches a broad array of topics across Greek and Roman Studies, and his primary research interests encompass Latin epic, drama, and reception studies. Jesse's current book project examines intersections of politics, poetry, and physics in Lucan's Bellum Civile through the poem's ruminations on monuments and its engagement with material philosophy. He is also the author of numerous recent and forthcoming articles on classical traditions in modern culture. Jesse was named a Program Scholar with Ancient Greeks/Modern Lives, and he has presented his work at numerous national and international conferences. His essay "Antigone in Juárez: Tragedy, Politics, and Public Women on Mexico's Northern Border" was awarded the 2013 Women's Classical Caucus Prize for the best paper (post Ph.D.) addressing women's or gender studies in classical antiquity. Outside of the classroom, Jesse is an avid rock climber, and he is excited to explore the craggier side of the Midwest. So far, his climbing trips have taken him to dozens of countries across five continents.
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CSS Based Design
Let me tell you why you're here. You're here because you know something. What you know you can't explain but you feel it, that there's something wrong with the web.
Let me tell you why you're here. You're here because you know something. What you know you can't explain but you feel it, that there's something wrong with the web. You don't know what it is but it's there like a splinter in your mind driving you mad.
You can see it when you look out your browser window or when you turn on your web tv. You can feel it when you go to work, when you go to church, when you pay your taxes.
This is the web that you know. The web as it was at the end of the twentieth century.
This is the web as it exists today…
Welcome To The Desert Of The Web

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I didn't say it would be easy. I just said it would be the truth.
Why Use XHTML?
Web development is a war and we are soldiers, writing hacks and workarounds to make designs look right in buggy older browsers.
What if tomorrow the war could be over? What if we could build sites that won't fall apart in future browser releases? Isn't that worth fighting for? Isn't that worth developing for?
XHTML encourages good practice. All your markup will be well-formed and all your tags will be closed. This makes page rendering easier for browsers and it makes bug-tracking easier for you.
Best of all, using XHTML means that you must keep your presentation separate from your content.
All you have to do is free your mind.
Why Use CSS?
Just imagine all the benefits that come with separating your presentation from your content.
Your pages will be smaller, much smaller. Without the bloat that comes with nested tables, spacer images and font tags, your mark-up will be leaner and meaner. That will appeal to search engines.
Life will be simpler for the people in charge of the design: the presentation of an entire site full of documents can be changed by altering just one file without ever touching the content.
Life will also be simpler for the people in charge of the content: your mark-up will be human readable allowing the content to be updated without changing the rules that govern the presentation.
With Cascading Style Sheets, your content will be accessible to all browsing devices, past and present. That means everything from Lynx to web-enabled mobile devices and fridges.
Remember, all I'm offering is the truth - nothing more.
Okay, I'll try to stop with the Matrix-speak and get down to business.
Where should you start when you want to create a CSS based design?
"Content Is King". It's a pithy old adage but it's true.
Everything begins with the content. Everything else is layered on top.
Your finished page will have layers of presentation piled one on top of the other. But if you peel those layers away, what you are left with is the very heart of your page: the content.
Standards compliant browsers will see a beautiful many-layered page. Browsers with partial CSS support will see a partially layered page. Older browsers and search engine robots won't see the layers of presentation but they will see the page.
The process of adding these layers is called progressive enhancement.
The result of allowing those layers to be stripped away without affecting your content is called graceful degradation.
The first and most important step on the road to CSS based design is having semantically correct mark-up.
That's just a fancy term for describing your content correctly.
Semantically Correct Mark-up
Put headings and subheadings into <h*> tags,
,
,
, etc.
If a piece of text acts a label for an <input> item in a <form>, then describe it as such by using the  tag.
Wrap your paragraphs in
 tags. If you have a list of links, then put them in a list (
 or
) and make each of them a list item,
.
You may have pre-conceived notions about how these will look.
The default presentation of tags is a result of browsers following basic rules.
What you must learn is that these rules are no different than the rules of a computer system. Some of them can be bent. Others can be broken.
You think that all
 list items appear vertically with a bullet point next to them? You think that's air you're breathing now?
Free. Your. Mind.
I'm sorry. That was the last Matrix reference: I promise.

 and
Sometimes you'll want to describe some content but there won't be a suitable tag available. You can't make up your own tags but you can reach for
 and .
A
 is a block level element. That means it's self-contained and comes with a built-in line break.
A  is an inline element. Inline elements don't include a line break and must be contained within a block level element.
Both
 and  are like blank slates just waiting for styles to be applied to them.
Don't go overboard with
 and . If there's an existing tag that describes your piece of content correctly then use that tag.
Classes and IDs
If you want to apply a style to all instances of a certain tag, then you simply reference that tag in your stylesheet.
If, on the other hand, you want to apply a style selectively, then you're going to need to add either a class or an ID to the tag.
Classes are reusable. A document can contain any number of tags that use the same class, e.g.:

An ID is unique. A document can only contain one instance of
.
Even though we can name our classes and IDs anything we wish, it's still a good idea to try to use descriptive rather than visual terms. Describe a class as being "important" rather than "bigredbold".
If we combine the power of
s and IDs, we can take the semantic description of our documents even further than the tags provided by XHTML allow.
Most web pages can be divided up into sections like "main navigation", "sub navigation", "main content" "related material", etc.
XHTML doesn't give us the tags to describe these chunks of content. But if we take the blank slate block-level tag (
) and give each section a unique identifier (ID), then we've taken semantic description to the next level.
If you mark up your pages with areas like
,
, etc. then you have a way to reference those chunks of content. You will then be able to affect their visual appearance and even change how they are positioned.
Applying Styles
If you've followed the advice I've given you so far then what you have now is a semantically correct document with no superfluous tags or attributes, broken down into helpful chunks.
Now we can begin to add the layers of presentation. We already have the core.
Inline styles
It's possible to embed your styles within the very tags themselves e.g.:

But what's the point of that? We want to separate presentation from content, not mix them up.
The  tags.
This is slightly better than inline styles but it still means our content and our presentation are in the same place.
External Stylesheets
By keeping our styles in external documents we achieve a true separation of content and presentation. We can also change the presentation applied to a multitude of documents by altering just one external file.
The easiest way to reference an external stylesheet is by using the <link> tag within the  of your document, like this:
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" media="screen" href="path/to/stylesheet.css" />
Notice that there is an attribute called "media" which we have set to "screen". This means that the styles in that stylesheet will only be applied to on-screen presentation. We could use a different stylesheet entirely for printing out our documents, referenced with the "media" attribute set to "print".
The <link> tag is the most universally recognised way of referencing an external stylesheet. Even older browsers with just partial CSS support understand it.
Standards compliant browsers also understand the @import method of referencing stylesheets. We can use this to our advantage. We can provide a basic stylesheet with the simplest of instructions referenced by <link>. We can then add more complex instructions in stylesheets referenced by @import like this:
@import url("path/to/stylesheet.css");
Like the <link> method, we can put our @import command within the  of our document (nested in  tags). However, there's a much cleverer way of referencing our more complex stylesheets.
We can put our @import command within the basic stylesheet that we referenced using <link>. That means our document only ever references one external stylesheet, a very basic one, but that stylesheet itself references more complex instructions.
Stylesheets within stylesheets. Basic styles for basic browsers. Complex styles for more complex browsers.
Once again, we've taken separation to another level. Now our stylesheets have been separated into basic styles and complex styles. We can go even further than this. To make life easier for us, we can have separate stylesheets for typography, positioning, etc., nested like russian dolls, one stylesheet referencing the next.
In our basic stylesheet, the one we reference with <link>, we can put simple information like the basic colours and fonts we want to use.
We start by referencing the  tag. Here's how we specify the font-family we want to be used:
font-family: "Verdana", "Arial", "Helvetica", sans-serif;
Notice how we can specify different fonts in order of preferences. We want to use Verdana. Failing that, Arial. If Arial isn't installed, then Helvetica will do. Finally, if none of those fonts are installed, then we say that any sans-serif font will do.
Now we can add some basic colour information. Whenever you specify the colour of something, it's always a good idea to also specify the background colour.
We could use colour keywords like "white", "black", etc. but they're fairly limited. We get a wider a range of values by using RGB values like #ffffff, #000000, etc.
Using web-safe RGB values also allows you to use a shorthand method of writing out the values. Instead of writing #6699cc, we can just write #69c.
Here's how we'd add to our existing styles for the  tag to specify black text on a white background:
Pseudo-classes
Now that we've set the typeface and colour for our document, let's just take care of our links.
We can style our links to look however we want; bold, italic, underlined, whatever. We can also specify different styles for the various possible link states: link, visited, hover and active. These are called pseudo-classes.
a:link{
color: #f93;
a:visited{
color: #c93;
color: #fc6;
a:active{
That's the right order to specify the pseudo-classes. Here's a handy mnemonic for remembering the order: LoVe HAte.
Sizes and Units
Whenever we specify the size of something using CSS, we have a number of different options open to us.
When sizing text, for example, we can use percentage values, pixels, points or ems. We can say font-size: 15px, font-size: 120%, font-size: 12pt or font-size: 1.5em. The important thing is that we always specify units of some sort.
Layering The Presentation
Once we have our basic typography and colour laid down and referenced via <link>, we can begin to add more complex styles referenced via @import.
CSS allows us to add typographic flourishes that were previously impossible to achieve on the web. Print designers will tell you how important leading and kerning are when laying out text on a page. The CSS equivalent to leading is line-height. For kerning we use letter-spacing:
.ourclass {
letter-spacing: 0.5em;
Another handy feature of CSS is the ability to add a background image to any element.
background-image: url("path/to/image.file");
We can also control the amount and direction of tiling we want from the background image. This is done using background-repeat. If we don't want the background image to tile at all, we give this a value of none. If we want it to tile vertically but not horizontally, we give background-repeat a value of repeat-y.
We can also position the background image so it need not necessarily begin in the top left corner of its containing element (the default position for background images). To do this we use background-position and we can specify either keywords, e.g. top, right, etc. or we can use units like pixels or percentages. We can even mix units.
background-position: 90% 25px;
Every element has an invisible box around it. The content of every element is surrounded by padding. This padding is contained by a border. The border is surrounded by a margin.
We can manipulate the values of all three of these properties. For instance, we can change the width, style and colour of the border:
border-style: dotted;
border-color: #000;
Or we can combine these all together with this shorthand notation:
border: 2px dotted #000;
For padding and margin we can specify the width for all four sides. Again, we are free to use any units we want and we can mix units.
If you are wondering whether to increase the padding or the margin of an element in order to add space around it, just remember that the padding extends right up to the border and will inherit values from the element itself such as background-color. The margin on the other hand, begins outside the border and doesn't inherit values from inside the border.
Here's one way to specify all four margin values of an element:
Or we could use this shorthand notation, going clockwise from the top:
In this case, because the top and bottom values are the same and the the left and right values are the same, we can use even more shorthand and just specify the vertical and horizontal values:
margin: 20px 10px;
If we wanted the same value on all four sides, all we'd have to declare is:
Many elements have inherent values for margin: it's what determines between the space between paragraphs or the distance between the edge of the screen and where the  begins. We can still manipulate these values. So if you wanted no space between the edge of the screen and the beginning of the , simply declare:
You've probably noticed that I didn't specify any units there. Didn't I say that you should always specify units? Well, there's one exception to that and that's when the value you're giving is zero. Zero pixels is the same as zero percent is the same as zero points.
One of the most obvious ways of manipulating an element's appearance is to change its size. We do this by altering its width and/or height. Once again, we are free to use any units we wish:
So what happens when we declare an element's size but we also declare sizes for its padding, border and margin?
width: 200px
border: 10px;
In theory, all of these values are added together to give the total width:
200 (width)
+ 10 (left padding)
+ 10 (right padding)
+ 10 (left border)
+ 10 (right border)
+ 10 (left margin)
+ 10 (right margin)
260 pixels total width
Unfortunately, the Windows version of Internet Explorer 5 (and, depending on your doctype, IE6) gets it wrong.
Internet Explorer gives the overall total width at 220 pixels. The actual content of the element is reduced to 160 pixels because of the application of padding and border. Only the margin values are correctly applied.
You'll need to bear this discrepancy in mind when you're putting together CSS designs but there are workarounds to get around this.
CSS allows us not only to change the appearance of page elements. With block-level elements we can also affect where they appear in the page. This is done using the position declaration together with declarations like top, left, bottom and right.
Again, you can use any units you like, though pixels are probably your safest bet.
By default, all page elements have a position of static which simply means that they appear where they would normally appear anyway, without any CSS trickery applied. When we want to manipulate the position of an element, such as a
, then the two most important positioning options available to us are relative and absolute.
Using position: relative, declarations like top and left refer to the element's normal (static) position in the document:
This would put an element ten pixels below and to the right of where it would normally be.
Using position: absolute, declarations like top and left refer to the containing element. In most cases, this would be the :
This would put an element ten pixels below and to the right of the top left corner of the screen.
Once you declare that an element has a position that is absolute, that element is taken out of the flow of the document. Its default position is no longer where it would normally appear. Instead, its default position is the top left corner of its containing element (usually the ).
In other words, the order of absolutely positioned elements in the XHTML document no longer matters. Their positions now depend entirely on the CSS. Your document could have
 followed by
 but you could use CSS to place the navigation before the content.
Absolute positioning allows for pixel-perfect designs to be realised although it is more suited to "fixed" rather than "liquid" designs. It also forms the basis of DHTML animation. DHTML is simply the combination of HTML, CSS and Javascript (styles applied to HTML elements can be manipulated with Javascript).
Absolutely positioning elements is all well and good when you know the exact size of each element and the exact position where you want them to appear. It can't help you if you want the position of one element to depend on the position of another.
You might want to declare, for instance, "whatever follows this element should appear to the right of it". Because absolutely positioned elements are taken out of the document flow, they have no context to relate to.
Luckily, we have the very powerful float declaration which is all about context.
As we have seen, all block-level elements have an in-built line break. A series of block-level elements, such as
s appear one underneath the other.
By applying a float declaration of left or right, we can determine what happens to the element that follows. Instead of appearing underneath its preceding element, it butts against it.
For the following examples, let's assume that each box is a
 of fixed width and height.
Let's apply float: left to box number one:
Box number two butts against the right of box number one.
Now let's apply float: left to boxes one and two:
Box number two butts against the right of box number one and box number three butts up to the right of box number two.
We are also provided with an antidote to float. It's called clear. By applying a clear declaration of left, right or both, we can "break out" of any abutting caused by preceding elements.
Let's apply clear: left to box number three:
Even though box number two has a float: left declaration, box number three appears below it instead of butting against it. By declaring clear: left on box number three, we can be sure that nothing will appear to the left of it.
Here's a fairly complicated arrangement:
We've declared float: left on box number one so anything following it should butt against its right side. However, it's followed by box number two which has float: right declared so it appears off to the right hand side. Anything following box number two should butt against its left side. However, in this case the following element, box number three has a clear: both declaration so it doesn't appear to the left or right of anything.
Now you've seen just some of the things of which CSS is capable. There are many more stylesheet declarations that I haven't covered but we've seen the most important cornerstones.
Begin with correctly marked up XHTML documents.
Add basic styles with a stylesheet referenced with the <link> tag.
Use @import to reference stylesheets with more complex declarations.
Position page elements either absolutely or relatively.
If you build your websites this way, the rewards will be manifold:
Faster loading times: stripping out  and
 tags can bring page sizes down enormously.
Backwards compatibility: even the oldest web browser will be able to access your content.
Better search engine rankings: Google loves semantically correct documents and hates tag soup. Clever Google.
Ease of updates: you'll be able to update your content without worry of changing your design and you'll be able to change your design by just changing one or two files.
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BRIAN L. CARDIFF, LTJG, USN
Brian Cardiff '73
Date of birth: January 2, 1950
Date of death: June 25, 1975
Brian Lee Cardiff
Creation, salvation, contemplation, population, communication, compassion, solution – Brian cared about life. "Do what makes you happy. Do what you know is right. And love with all your might. Before it's too late."
– Mike Finder –
From Supercarriers of the US Navy - The Complete History
25-28 Jun 1975: USS Forrestal stood out of Palma de Mallorca for flight operations in the western Mediterranean . Shortly before nightfall on the 25th, 'BUCKEYE 511', an A-6E (BuNo 152918), Lt (JG) Lloyd T. Hunt and Lt (JG) Brian L. Cardiff of VA-85, collided in mid-air with Aircraft No. 611, a Grumman EA-6B (BuNo 158814), crewed by Lt. Commander Joseph R. Capute, Lt William B. Bierbower and Lt (JG) Robert W. McConchie from VAQ-134.
Although the crew enjoyed a mostly clear evening, lookouts reported some haze. The aircraft launched by 1855 but flew separate missions: the Prowler crew investigated a shipping contact during their submarine and surface surveillance coordination plan, and the Intruder flew spar bombing and "basic airwork practice." As the two aircraft completed their runs and returned to the USS Forrestal, they turned into a 30° left bank turn toward the inbound heading and slammed into each other, near 38-40-N, 4-30-E, at 2001.
BUCKEYE 511 rolled three to five times to the left and 611 pitched down and rolled left, at which point the crew ejected. Although searchers rescued the other men they could not recover Lt (JG) Cardiff, and despite an exhaustive search overnight they terminated further efforts and declared the naval aviator "lost at sea" at 17:40 on the 26th. The crew held a memorial service for their fallen shipmate two days later as the ship transited the Strait of Messina.
LTJG Brian Lee Cardiff was born in Columbus, Ohio, on January 2, 1950. He graduated from Linden McKinley High School in June 1968, where he served as Student Council President.
He attended the Naval Academy Preparatory School in Bainbridge, Maryland. Upon completion in May 1969, he entered the United States Naval Academy. He graduated in June 1973, as company commander.
He entered Naval Flight Officer training in Pensacola, Florida, in July 1973, and was designated Naval Flight Officer on May 1, 1974. Prior to reporting to Attack Squadron EIGHTY-FIVE, he was attached to Training Squadron EIGHTY-SIX, Naval Air Station Glynco, Georgia; and Attack Squadron FORTY-TWO, Naval Air Station Oceana, Virginia Beach, Virginia.
Brian reported to VA-85 as Bombadier/Navigator in the A6E Intruder. On June 25, 1975, he was involved in a mid-air collision with an EA-6B Prowler while preparing to come aboard the USS Forrestal (CVA-59) in the Mediterranean Sea. All five aircrew from the two aircraft were forced to eject. All were recovered safely except Brian.
He loved playing golf. He was a big Ohio State Buckeye football fan.
He is interred in the Naval Academy Cemetery.
Brian is one of 10 members of the Class of 1973 on Virtual Memorial Hall.
← Frederick Minier '73
Frederick Caesar, III '73 →
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Where he grew up remains a mystery, but legend holds that it's somewhere in the Arizona desert. A graduate of Azusa Pacific University, Darryl has lived in LA and SD for a collective 17 years and is proud to consider himself a Super Californian.
He is a left handed individual, but prefers the term "Correct Handed" in order to keep things PC. Darryl loves music and is a huge craft beer snob; when given the choice between Heineken and PBR, he'll have a water. When he is not working to improve his client's market position, you can find Darryl hanging out with his son, wife, cat, 2 turtles and friends all over sunny San Diego.


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By Super User Sep 2, 2020 96
Superintendent Innocentia Buyiswa Keetse scooped the City Manager Special Award during the City of Ekurhuleni Women in Uniform Awards held on Friday, 28 August.
The City Manager, Dr Imogen Mashazi, awards this category to a female official who stands out in terms of their contribution to the City, service rendered to the community, selflessness, hard work and dedication.
Supt Keetso joined EMPD as a constable in 2002, working her way up to Precinct Commander in Tsakane. She has shown her leadership abilities during recent public demonstrations in her precinct and her ability to lead a stable team of law enforcement officers. Her colleagues and the community they serve speak highly of her.
The superintendent says her listening skills and compassion has improved the working relationship between EMPD and the community. She is testimony to how far life-long learning can take one in terms of personal development. She has acquired various qualification since enlisting as a metro police recruit, including a certificate in Public Relations, Diploma in Policing, Bachelor of Art in Policing and she is currently doing her Masters in Policing.
"I can confirm that there is a future for the women and all other employees in Ekurhuleni but we need to study. We need to grab the opportunities presented by the City and better ourselves. I am so grateful for being appreciated by the City with this award. It means no matter how insignificant a contribution might look, if it adds to the betterment of the City, someone is watching," Supt Keetse said.


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Der Sarkophagdeckel des Nachtnebef aus Kalkstein ist Teil der altägyptischen Sammlung des Roemer- und Pelizaeus-Museums in Hildesheim. Er wird auf die Spätzeit, 30. Dynastie (359–341 v. Chr.) datiert.

Mumienförmige Steinsarkophage aus Kalkstein oder Granit sind im privaten Bereich seit der Zeit Amenophis III. in der 18. Dynastie belegt und vor allem in der 19. Dynastie beliebt. Im späten Neuen Reich und der III. Zwischenzeit sind ausschließlich Kistensarkophage aus Stein nachgewiesen und erst ab der 26. Dynastie, der Saïtenzeit, werden wieder mumienförmige Sarkophage hergestellt und sind bis in die Ptolemäerzeit in Gebrauch.

Fundort
Wilhelm Pelizaeus erwarb den Sarkophag Anfang 1910 im ägyptischen Kunsthandel zusammen mit dem Sarkophagdeckel (Inventarnummer PM 1050). Beide Sarkophage überließ er im April 1910 seiner Heimatstadt Hildesheim. Das Inventarbuch enthält den nicht mehr zu verifizierenden Hinweis, beide Sarkophagdeckel seien zusammen gefunden worden. Der Fundort ist unbekannt. Dieser Deckel des Nachtnebef ist vollständig erhalten, lediglich kleine Abstoßungen befinden sich auf der Steinoberfläche. Von der einstigen Bemalung sind nur noch kleine Reste im Gesicht und am Brustschmuck erhalten.

Beschreibung
Der Text auf dem Sarkophagdeckel nennt einen Mann ohne Titel namens Nachtnebef, Sohn der Dame Neschons, als Besitzer des Sarkophags. Er ist aus geglättetem Sandstein gearbeitet und 187 cm hoch, 63 cm breit und 50 cm tief. Die Form des Deckels ahmt den stilisierten, in Mumienbinden gehüllten Körper des Verstorbenen nach. Nur der Kopf mit der schweren dreiteiligen Strähnenperücke ist nicht verhüllt und rundplastisch herausgearbeitet. Dieses Merkmal sowie die Sockelplinthe sind typisch für die mumiengestalteten Sarkophage dieser Zeit. Die Perücke lässt die Ohren frei, die Augen sind von schwarz gemalten Schminkstrichen umgeben. Die Augenbrauen sind ebenfalls schwarz bemalt. Die Proportionen und die Gestaltungen des breiten, rundlichen Gesichts sind charakteristische Stilkriterien für einen Datierungsansatz in die 30. Dynastie. Auf der Brust der Mumie ist ein Brustschild (Pektoral) eingeritzt, das in seiner Form eine Kapelle nachahmt, in der drei hockende Götterfiguren (Osiris zwischen Isis und Anubis) dargestellt sind. Darunter verlaufen bis zu den umhüllten Füßen drei Spalten mit Inschriften, die Zitate aus Spruch 72 des Totenbuches enthalten. Sie sollen garantieren, dass dem Verstorbenen alle Wünsche erfüllt werden. Zu diesem Spruch ist eine Nachschrift bekannt, in der betont wird, dass sich die Wirksamkeit erhöht, wenn der Spruch auf einem Sarg geschrieben steht.

Spruch 72, Zeile 1–9:
"Seid gegrüßt, Ihr Herren der Kas, frei von Sünde,
die (ihr) bis in Ewigkeit seid, ewig dauernd!
Ich bin zu euch vorgedrungen, ich bin verklärt in meiner Gestalt,
ich bin ausgestattet mit meinen Zauberkräften
und ich bin geprüft in meiner Zaubermacht.
Rettet mich doch vor diesem "Gierigen" der Erde!
Der Mund der Gerechten ist mein Mund, mit dem ich rede,
meine Opferspeisen werden mir in eurer Gegenwart gegeben.
Denn ich kenne euch."

Nachschrift:
"Wer dieses Buch kennt auf Erden,
oder wenn es auf seinen Sarg geschrieben wird -
der geht heraus am Tage in jeder Gestalt, die er wünscht,
und tritt wieder ein zu seinem (Wohn)sitz, ungehindert.
Dem werden Brot und Bier gegeben
und ein großes Stück Fleisch vom Opferaltar des OSIRIS.
Er geht hinaus zum Binsengefilde,
und Gerste und Spelt werden ihm dort gegeben.
Er weiß zu befehlen, wie auf Erden,
und er verwirklicht jeden Wunsch,
gleich jenen Göttern, die dort sind.
Ein wahres Heilmittel, Millionen Mal (erprobt)."

Literatur
 Katja Lembke, Bettina Schmitz, Heike Wilde: Schönheit im Alten Ägypten – Sehnsucht nach Vollkommenheit. Roemer- und Pelizaeus-Museum Hildesheim, 25. November 2006 bis 1. Juli 2007; Badisches Landesmuseum Karlsruhe, 28. Juli 2007 bis 27. Januar 2008. Gerstenberg, Hildesheim 2006, ISBN 3-8067-8559-7, S. 274–275.
 Wilfried Seipel: Ägypten. Götter, Gräber und Kunst. 4000 Jahre Jenseitsglaube. Band 1 (= Kataloge des Oberösterreichischen Landesmuseums. Neue Folge. Nr. 22). Landesmuseum, Linz 1989, ISBN 3-900746-14-1, S. 308 (hier liegt eine Verwechselung vor, abgebildet und beschrieben wird PM 1050, angegeben ist PM 1949 und dessen Maße).
 Albert Ippel, Günther Roeder: Die Denkmäler des Pelizaeus-Museums zu Hildesheim. Curtius, Berlin 1921, S. 100.

Weblinks
 Eintrag in The Global Egyptian Museum

Einzelnachweise

Roemer- und Pelizaeus-Museum Hildesheim
Archäologischer Fund (Ägypten)
30. Dynastie (Ägypten)
Archäologischer Fund (Afrika)

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This whole "calling the cops on Black people minding their business" stuff has gone too far.
One White woman recently exercised all her White privilege and interrupted a party that her daughter sneakily attended. Even though the daughter showed up to the party at her own will, the racist Becky proceeded to call the police, claiming that the Black boys held her child hostage and raped her.
The video is disturbing. The story is disturbing. And yet, this is nothing new in 'Merica.
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The Mallorca regatta will be the kick off for the European circuit and will show the level of the teams battling to qualify their nations for the 2020 Tokyo Olympics.
The 49th edition of the Trofeo Princesa Sofía IBEROSTAR will be held from 30th March to 7th April in the bay of Palma de Mallorca. It is the most important Olympic sailing event in Spain and worldwide: around 1.000 sailors from over 50 nations are expected in Mallorca. The Spanish sailing event is the first International Olympic class's event in the European calendar and therefore gathers together a high number of teams trying to qualify for Tokyo 2020.
With the second Olympic cycle underway, the Sofía IBEROSTAR is set to become a key event to measure the team's and sailors' performance level before the World Sailing Championships to be held this year in Aarhus, Denmark, the first opportunity to classify nations for the Olympic Games.
Ferran Muniesa, race manager, assures that "this new edition will see a high level in the racing areas as it is a key year for sailors". Muniesa also expects a "high participation" and hopes the Sofía IBEROSTAR continues to be regarded as "the most appreciated and valued event" by the International fleet. "We work hard throughout the year to offer a unique event both ashore and at sea; we are endorsed by almost 50 years of experience and we have the best professionals in our team" highlights the race manager.
The bay of Palma will welcome once again the top World sailors that will race against each other over a six day event. Club Nàutic S'Arenal and Club Marítimo San Antonio de la Playa will be the venues for Olympic classes. S'Arenal will be host to the Finn, 470 M & W, 49er & 49er FX and Can Pastilla will be the venue for Laser, Laser Radial, RS:X M & W and Nacra 17.
For second consecutive year, Real Club Náutico de Palma, one of the organising clubs together with Arenal and Can Pastilla, will be the venue for ORC and One design classes. The Sofía IBEROSTAR for ORC and One design classes will be held from 29th March to 1st April. The Olympic classes' regatta will start on 31 March with registration and measurement. Races are scheduled from 2nd to 7th April with a qualifying series with 10 to 15 races (depending on each class) and a Medal Stage, the great final to decide the podium in each category as well as the absolute winner of the 49 Trofeo Princesa Sofía IBEROSTAR.
The weather conditions for sailing in Mallorca make of the Trofeo Sofia one of the favourite events for International teams that take the opportunity to move their training venues to the Bay of Palma during the winter season.


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Q: What is required to use Vertex Array Objects? I am trying to use Vertex Array Objects in one of my programs, but it seems that my PC don't support this feature.
When I execute this function glewIsSupported("GL_ARB_vertex_array_object"), it returns false.
If I try to update my video driver, this could make Vertex Array Objects available?
How can I check wich OpenGL my videocard support?
Vertex Array Objects can be used starting with OpenGL 3.0?

A: VAO - according to spec: http://www.opengl.org/registry/specs/ARB/vertex_array_object.txt are written against OpenGL 2.1.
In OpenGL 3.0 it is in official spec, so when GPU supports OGL 3.0 then VAO are for sure supported.
You can use http://www.ozone3d.net/gpu_caps_viewer/ to check all OGL extensions.
What GPU do you have?
Via chrome will not support new features from OpenGL 3.0 as you see

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Apply eye shadow while looking into a mirror at a downward angle to achieve the best effect. Avoid pulling on your eyelids or putting pressure on them. You should look downward if you want to get the right application the first time. This will make it easier for you to be able to see the lid clearly.
TIP! Avoid conditioner if your hair is fine. Usually, using it 1 to 2 times a week is good enough.
Both rosewater and cucumbers can be used to remove dark circles from under the eyes. These have cooling properties that lighten skin affected by dark circles. Simply dip a couple of soft cotton pads in rosewater or cucumber juice, and place each upon closed eyes for approximately 15 minutes.
TIP! It is important to exfoliate and shave before you use spray tanning products. Skin needs to be prepared for the color to ensure that it absorbs evenly and doesn't leave telltale orange streak marks.
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