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Q: Javascript AJAX pending request I'm trying to create a function which when You send a http(s) request. If there is 5 or more ongoing requests, you have to wait until one
of them is completed then you can process next request.
i have done this so far
 function makerequest ("/routeplanner/data","GET",sucess,error)
{

var xmlHttp = new XMLhttpRequest();

var count =0;

xmlHttp.onreadystatechange = function() {
if (xmlHttp.readystate ==4 && xmlHttp.statue ==200) {
success (xmlHttp.responseText);}

else if (xmlHttp.status !=200 &&count !=3){
count++;
xmlHttp.open(method,url,true);

else if (count ==3){
error("you have reached the maximum number of tries")
}
}
xmlHttp.open("GET","/routeplanner/data",true);

xmlHttp.send(null)
}

any idea how that can be done in pure JS.

A: Syntax issues with your example code aside, you need to keep track of the count outside of the function that does the check.
// Store this outside of the function
var activeRequests = 0;
var maximumRequests = 5;

function makeRequest(...) {
  // Quit early if the maximum has been exceeded
  if (activeRequests >= maximumRequests) {
    error('too many requests');
    return;
  }
  ...
  xmlHttp.onreadystatechange = function () {
    ...
    // Decrease the number of active requests when one is completed
    --activeRequests;
    ...
  };
  ...
  // Increase the number of active requests when one starts
  ++activeRequests;
  ...
}

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A very mature, monolithic style of Grange that has an autumnal decaying vegetation, mushroomy nose, with some hints of ashtray, currant, and caramel. The wine is medium-bodied, has some sweetness on the attack, but then narrows in the finish. Overall, it seems somewhat monolithic, with an austere finish. It is a blend of 93% Shiraz and 7% Cabernet with surprisingly low alcohol for a Grange (12.1%).


The face of recruitment is changing; the days of paper-based Resume exchanges between employers and job seekers are going through a complete overhaul. Gone are the days when aspiring talent would flock to hiring managers at job fairs with their Resumes- stacks of applications would be manually collected, sorted, and shortlisted to match desired criteria- a tedious cycle that would give even the bravest of recruiters shudders down their spine considering screening time for just one job vacancy alone can easily take up to 23 hours.
This is why streamlining the recruitment process is becoming increasingly pivotal. With continuous growth, diversity in talent gaps, and evolving labor market dynamics where your competition will go the extra mile to nab outstanding talent before you can- it is no longer realistic for hiring to be based on outdated processes. As a forward-thinking company, you cannot afford to jeopardize your legacy due to hiring bottlenecks, and this is why ScanShake is the perfect technology solution to revamp your job fair strategy altogether.
An edgy mobile platform, ScanShake empowers employers with tremendous efficiency, organization tools and cost savings. Instead of collecting bundles of paper-based resumes, employers need to just scan the unique QR code (generated by ScanShake's Visitor app) to collect all visitor details they need. This reduces massive paper trails, makes information exchange instant and empowers exhibitors to captures key attendee information in a more persistent, searchable and accessible format.
ScanShake also offers value to the Event Attendee or Visitor. After their QR code is scanned, they receive a contact card from the Exhibitor that they can use for post-event follow-ups.
With independent iOS and android compatible apps for both exhibitors and attendees, this seamless transfer of the resume and business card all happens within a matter of seconds- there is no paper wastage, no need for any manual data recording, or the imminent threat of losing out on exceptional talent because of misplaced resumes in between the hustle and bustle of the candidate traffic. There's never been a better time to stop dreaming about effortless resume management- it's already a reality for our clients.
ScanShake was built with a realization that every event is unique with its own nuances. The recipe to fundamentally changing the job fair experience has more ingredients to it than just quick resume collection and information swapping.
As an event host, you are able to define precise data requirements and customize forms which job seekers use to register for the hiring event. This means the job seeker profile adapts to the requirements of your event. Need to capture fields like work experience, internships, LinkedIn Profiles, a university ID or a transcript? You can set the profile requirements in ,minutes.
Want more? You can use the ScanShake powered job fair as an opportunity to market your brand, attract talent, and establish yourself as a business that is keen on not only connecting with job seekers but also genuinely invested in building long term relationships. Talent engagement is an art we have worked hard to master, and we'll show you the ropes to ace this process along the way.
How Does One Identify Relevant Talent with ScanShake?
Resume organization is the cornerstone of how ScanShak e allows you to maximize the value you derive from each event. For example, you can "star" candidate resumes to create handy shortlists, add searchable "tags" to perform all kinds of categorization, and even add quick notes to track pivotal soft skills such as leadership or promising cultural fit potential to retain context of conversations with candidates taking place during the job fair.
All the data gathered can then be accessed by a web-based interface that offers export features to allow you to deep-dive into profile analysis and import into other HRMS systems.
Enjoy figuring out what you'll do with all that extra time on your calendar that just opened up, you're welcome.
How Can Event ROI Be Measured?
ScanShake eliminates room for any assumptions with its detailed reporting features. As a host or exhibitor, you will have access to event analytics that of scan volume activity, number of attending visitors and exhibitors, breakdown of job seeker population by dimensions like Industry or Major and even identification of the most active recruiters and candidates at the event.
The post-event reports will reveal the value employers walked away with as well. It will give you numbers on how many candidates each employer scanned and what percentage of them ended up in their shortlists.
With measurable insights at your disposal, job fair organizers can finally feel confident in understanding the engagement they were able to produce and what areas they need to improve on. Armed with stats and data, they are able to approach employers after the event, follow-up on their hiring activity and discuss future improvements.
ScanShake works hard, so your recruitment team can work smart- invest in conversations and talent engagement and leave the Resume collection and sorting to us. With all the time and cost savings, you can focus better on nurturing high quality leads and marketing your brand!
If you'd like to experience the power of seamless information exchange at your next job fair, speak with our expert to learn more about ScanShake here.


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Q: In flutter_bluetooth_serial flutter Device gets disconnected when navigated to next screen Is there any solution to keep it conected always? Device gets disconnected when navigated to next screen and connects again when back on the screen, Is there any solution to keep it conected always?
I am trying to connect my app with HC 05 Adapter, and I am successfully able to connect the adapter. But the issue is that in app I check the availability in one screen and connect to device and receive data. till here everything is ok but when I navigate to other screen the device disconnects and when I come back on connection screen the device reconnects after checking availability. Is there any solution to keep it connected even when changed the screen.


Millennials shouldn't let a modest salary deter them from saving for retirement, as deferrals as low as 5 percent may be able to get them closer to $1 million saved by age 65.
Many are afraid they don't have enough money. Others honestly have no idea how or where to start. And lots of people are intimidated.
Think of it this way: A financial planner will work for you, not vice versa. And you need to look at it as a long-term relationship – someone who will spend years helping to guide your finances. You don't have to be buddies, but you must have a trusting relationship.
Without a doubt we, the Millennial Generation, believe that we can change the world. There is a "change agent" in each and every one of us. How do I know? Well, because we are different.
"Taking out payday loans or auto title loans is a very dangerous practice and can leave the lendee in more financial harm than good," says Rianka Dorsainvil, CFP®, President and Founder of Your Greatest Contribution.
I recommend that my clients create a family fund with their discretionary cash flow, but only after they have paid money into their retirement accounts, investments and savings accounts that fund their own goals.
Advisor Rianka Dorsainvil, 28, advises clients to set aside earnings for the specific purpose of assisting aging loved ones. Ideally, money to fund a family emergency, such as long-term care, is withdrawn from 30% of an adult child's take-home pay.
"[My grandmother] was the kind of person who took care of everyone else."
Like so many other African-American women of her generation, Dorsainvil's grandmother "was the kind of person who took care of everyone else," says the financial planner and the FPA's 2015 NexGen President-Elect.


It's extremely common to hear investment commentators talk about "growth" and "value" as though they are polar opposites. But Validea CEO John Reese says not to buy that false notion.
Reese says the "fallacy of the growth-versus-value notion goes even deeper. … That's because implicit in the debate is the idea that any given stock is either a value stock or a growth stock, and that's just not true." He highlights a pair of stocks that currently get approval from the growth strategy he bases on the writings of renowned quantitative investor James O'Shaughnessy — and a separate value strategy he bases on O'Shaughnessy's writings. One of them: AXA, a Paris-based financial company that's involved in life insurance, property and casualty insurance, asset management and banking.
Can Investors Time the Market By Going Against the Flow?


In China, home automation is just starting. CEBus is considered to be a suitable protocol that will satisfy both simple and complex home network. It also enables a slow transfer from traditional house to a highly automated one.
As a feasibility study, the demonstration system mainly contains two simple subsystems: HVAC and Light System, other devices include smoke detector, clock, etc. All the devices can be found and manipulated on the TV screen with a remote controller. But there are no requestor objects in the TV as this is for demonstration purpose only.
Currently the power line is the only media. In the future we will develop more media.
All the devices support CAL and Home Plug & Play, except that the light fixture can only recognize a few simple commands. You can send and receive commands with "CEBus Explorer" – software designed by us.
Domosys PLIII is widely used in our nodes, Intellon's P300 is used in every light module.
* Light Control Panel, also acts as a house mode input key pad.
* Electric Fan, acting as a cooling device.
* Heater, acting as a heating device.
* Thermostat, able to measure the current temperature, accept user set point, and then control Fan and heater.
* Clock, currently only able to keep the time, but in the future, a time schedule and event schedule will be stored in it and control your house as timed.
* Television set, control and monitor center.
* PC adaptor, connecting to PC.
* Fire alarm, as time is too limited, we have to use the PC-adaptor as part of the alarm.
The light controller is a compound node that can control all the lights and set house mode. The light fixture, with small ROM space and reduced function, can only recognize a few messages, such as dim command: 21 2 setvalue C | 31 30, feature select: 21 2 setvalue f | 31, etc. Light controller is the configure master.
* Thermostat, fan and heater are of the same system. Thermostat is a configure master.
* Clock and TV are single nodes that do not belong to any subsystem.
When a new light fixture is first powered on in your house, it will broadcast M15, get a valid address from the light controller and then is able to work. User can control the light on the Light Control Panel. To cancel the setup data in the light fixture, just hold the button for 3 seconds, a bind process will start again.
When the fan or heater is first powered on, it broadcasts a Macro 15, the thermostat will start to configure the new node. To start a new configuration, hold a special button down and then power up the device. This is the same as defined in the HomePnP.
Push a special button down before power on the device, then hold on for 3 seconds, will cause the device to abort loading any setup data. For master nodes, it will start to hail for system address and unit address. For other nodes, it will broadcast macro 15.
During configuration, the flash of the LED contains special meaning.
* Press the "Lightx" button will toggle the state of the corresponding light. If the button is held down for more than 0.8 second, the light level will change with predefined step_size and step_rate.
* Press the "Scene" button will set the lights to a user defined scene. To define a scene, just hold the scene button down until all the LED's on the panel flashes.
* Press the "Enter" button to when your come back, then your house will be in "occupied" mode.
* Press the "Leave" button will make your house enter "unoccupied" mode.
There is only one button on the fan. Each time the button is pressed, the speed of the fan will be changed. The state of the fan will be displayed on the thermostat simultaneously.
* There are four buttons, each contains a LED. The left most LED(first one) indicates the state of the motor. Note that the motor will remain running for one minutes after the heater is stopped.
* The second and third one indicate the current heating power.
* The fourth LED indicates the configuration state during installation.
* Press the left most one(first one) to show the current temperature.
* Press the second one to display the fan state. 0 mean off, 1 means low speed, and so on.
* Press the third one to show the cool setting temperature, press up and down button to modify it.
* Press the fourth one to display the heater state.
* Press the fifth one to show the heat setting temperature, press up and down button to modify it.
* Press the sixth one to set the device work online / offline.
When the current temperature is higher than the cool setting temperature, and the house mode is not in "unoccupied" mode, the fan will be on. When the current temperature is lower than the heat setting temperature, and the house mode is not in "unoccupied" mode, the heater will be on. Note than if the "online" LED is off, this automation will not be generated.
As a sample node, the clock now can only keep and display current time. Modifying the time is an easy process so we will not talk in detail. The time can be read by the other devices, such as TV, as shown in figure 3.
With the remote controller, every devices can be listed on the TV screen, except the light fixture, which is a simple node. Light level can be modified, clock time is changeable, fan speed is controllable… All these can be done with the remote controller.
The fire alarm is not a single node, but connected to a personal computer, so as to quickly develop the node for demonstration purpose. When smoke is detected, the computer will send an alarm CAL message and then all the lights will flash. In addition, a warning message will be shown on TV.
CEBus Explorer is still under construction. There are mainly three parts.
The CEBus explorer uses Domosys' PLIII as transceiver.
User can read all the device information into the computer. They are shown in device-context-object-IV mode, as most of the figures in HomePlug & Play specification. The bind lines are also shown. User can use mouse to draw a bind line, and then write the binding information to device.
CEBus User Interface. This is designed for average users. The Analog Control Object is shown as a virtual knob, Meter Object look like a real meter, etc. User can use the mouse the change them. Unfortunately, this part is still under construction.
For the other commands, when you operate on the TV, you can see them in the CEBus Explorer.


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Robert Joseph Jenkins
August 5, 1947 — September 13, 2022
First Baptist Church of Blanchard
9:00 - 10:00am (Central time)
12:00 - 12:30pm (Central time)
Robert Joseph Jenkins was born to the late EC and Rhea Jenkins, a truck driver and surgical nurse/infection control manager in Everett, MA on August 5, 1947. He was active in his home church, First Baptist Church of Blanchard, and was a member of the Men's Sunday School class led by William "Pete" King. Robert proudly served in the Navy as a Boatswain's Mate during the Vietnam War. He later worked as an electrician, electrical inspector for the city of Shreveport, and served in the US Air Force reserve as a Master Sergeant as a part of the Red Horse 307 Unit. He was an avid hunter and fisherman who loved to catfish on Cross lake with friends and family.
Robert was blessed with a large and loving family. He married his best friend and soul mate, Connie Presley Jenkins on June 15, 1991, in Blanchard, LA. Robert raised four children and lived his life with humility and laughter.
Robert never met a stranger and was known to be a loving and cheerful person. He always had time for those who needed him no matter when or where. He will be greatly missed by all including his school and military friends.
Robert joined our Lord and Savior in heaven on the night of Tuesday, September 13, 2022. Robert is survived by his wife, Connie Jenkins; his son, Jason Jenkins and wife, Blanca; his daughter, Shelley Wells and husband, Kelly; his daughter, Mindy Viteri and partner, Michael "Chad" Moore; grandchildren, Brentton and Pierson Jenkins, Hayden and Kinley Wells, Alejandro and Caroline Viteri and Katherine Allen and husband, Caleb; great-grandson, Josh Allen and mother of Jason and Shelley, Anita Jenkins. He is preceded in death by his son, Daniel "Danny" Carter; his brother, Ran Jenkins, and his parents.
A funeral service is scheduled for 10:00 a.m. on Friday, September 16, 2022, at First Baptist Church of Blanchard preceded by visitation at the church from 9:00 a.m. to 10:00 a.m. Burial will follow at Northwest Louisiana Veterans Cemetery at 7970 Mike Clark Rd. Keithville, LA. 71047. Kevin Young and Pastor Clay Fuqua will officiate services. Guests are encouraged to wear CAMO to celebrate Dad's favorite time of the year and look. Veterans are encouraged also to wear their symbolic caps honoring their service in the military.
Flowers, donations, and condolences may be offered through the church or memorials may be made in lieu of flowers to the Everywarrior.org project in Robert's name.
To order memorial trees or send flowers to the family in memory of Robert Joseph Jenkins, please visit our flower store.
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Q: PermissionError: [Errno 1] for os.rename as quick action This question represents the latest issue encountered when solving another problem. Let me explain the current issue first and leave the initial difficult at the end.
os.rename(old_path, new_path)

This Python command works when running the Python script in Automator (using the the run button on the top right).
/usr/local/bin/python3 "/Users/user/Library/Scripts/move.py"

However, when run as a quick action, it throws the error
The action "Run Shell Script" encountered an error: "Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/Users/user/Library/Scripts/move.py", line 6, in <module>
os.rename(folder_path, folder_nath)
PermissionError: [Errno 1] Operation not permitted:

All suggested solution tell me to grant various programmes full disk access. However, after having done so for Terminal, Finder, Automator and bash, I still see the error. I even changed the permissions for the folder to be renamed in the 'Get info' box. Nothing has helped.

This problems seems to be isomorphic with a problem I had earlier with another commend not working as a quick action:
os.system("""/bin/mv \"""" + old_path + """\" \"""" + new_path + """\"""")

This command works in PyCharm; it works when I run the python code containing it in Automator (using the Run button in the top right).
/usr/local/bin/python3 "/Users/user/Library/Scripts/move.py"

However, it does not work when I run this workflow as a quick action triggered by a keyboard short-cut: the quick action clearly works as the little cog rotates, but the file remains unchanged.

A: I have solved this issue. When it comes to quick actions like this, you need to grant full disk-access permission to the application open when you use the quick action.
As I use this quick action when using, for example, TextEdit, I needed to give TextEdit full disk-access permission.


Boasting a private infinity pool and a terrace with seating and dining areas, Samsara is a villa situated in Megalochori of Santorini . Fira Town is at a distance of 7 km. The villa consists of 3 queen bedrooms, one of which has en-suite bathroom, a living and dining area, a fully equipped kitchen and a separate bathroom. BBQ facilities are available in the terrace. The scenic Oia is 14 km from Samsara Private Villas, while Kamari is 7 km away. The nearest airport is Santorini (Thira) Airport, 7 km from Samsara.
All children are welcome. All children under 3 years stay free of charge for children's cots/cribs. All children under 17 years are charged EUR 80 per person per night for extra beds. All children under 11 years are charged 70 % of the room stay per night per person when using existing beds. The maximum number of children's cots/cribs in a room is 1. The maximum number of extra beds in a room is 2.
13 % VAT is included. 0.50 % City tax is excluded. € 100 Cleaning fee per stay is excluded.


Talk & Play is a free event, taking place every two months, that provides the opportunity to game enthusiasts, players and makers to meet and exchange knowledge in a friendly, relaxed and safe environment.
Everybody's welcome, regardless of their background and knowledge level: if you like games, we'll make sure you have a good time! Important: this is NOT an event only aimed at developers.
Important: RSVP via meetup.com is mandatory to attend the talks, due to limited seating capacity. Registrations will open on Wednesday, January 27th at 2pm CET (Berlin time). Please note that registration won't be required to attend the event from 9pm for the game showcase part.
— TALK: A couple of short game-related presentations, followed by a Q&A session.
— PLAY: All participants are welcome to bring games they've made or are still working on so that the audience can play them – a perfect opportunity to discover and play new games, collect feedback and, who knows?, maybe find collaborators for future projects.
This time we're trying a new format: short talks only, 5 minutes each!
Over from London, George will talk about the design process behind Fabulous Beasts, a digital physical hybrid game about making a world of fabulous creatures by stacking game pieces in a precarious tower.
How digital games are influencing board games and vice versa. Chris will discuss the numerous ways that board games are joining the digital era.
How to play(test) complex future societies?
This short talk is about how and why to give information to the player, by using the game elements themselves instead of classical UI or language.
Videogame developers are not always aware of the different messages that their videogames – like other forms of media – carry, and may end up repeating a mainstream discourse with which they not agree.
In this talk I will make an attempt to unpack the recent fascinating and contradicting phenomenon of online citizen science games, which combine the world of frivolous play with that of serious work.
Lessons learned and not learned while juggling programming/art/design/writing/marketing.
Game showcase registrations are now closed. If your game is not on the list above you're still welcome to bring it, but we can't guarantee there will be space to show it – please check with a member of the team from 9pm.
Check out the recap of the previous event if you want to get a better idea of what Talk & Play is like.


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Festival season is upon us! Music, friends, wellies and light refreshments in plastic cups!
Scotland hosts a variety of yearly festivals, set in spectacular scenery, what a magical way to enjoy the great outdoors.
Belladrum Tartan Heart is quite simply, the friendliest, wackiest, most inclusive festival in Scotland. Homegrown in the Highlands - Scotland's best festival of music and performing arts for all ages.
Here is a look at last years highlights - enjoy!
Why not extend your stay with an overnight at Loch Ness, dinner with spectacular loch views or even pick up a Scottish souvenir at our Nessie Shop.


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BREAKING NEWS: Church of the Word reaches a settlement with the Episcopal Diocese of Virginia
This is the second Virginia Anglican parish to reach a settlement with the Episcopal Diocese of Virginia in recent weeks. From Robin Adams and Church of the Word:
GAINESVILLE, VA – Church of the Word (COTW), one of a handful of Northern Virginia churches embroiled in a four-year long lawsuit with The Episcopal Church (TEC), will retain its church property after an out-of-court settlement signed Monday, April 18, released it from the pending litigation.
The leadership of COTW, which is a multiracial congregation made up of predominantly young families, is relieved to have achieved their major goals of separating from TEC, retaining their property, and preserving their tradition of worship and ministry.
Church of the Word is one of a number of formerly Episcopal congregations that had severed ties with the denomination over matters of doctrinal drift and novel pastoral practices. Upon breaking away from the denomination in December 2006, TEC filed a lawsuit against eleven Northern Virginia churches in an attempt to keep them from retaining their property. Currently, the next phase of this litigation will continue for the remaining seven churches with the commencement of a late-April 2011 trial in the Fairfax County, Virginia, Circuit Court.
COTW's settlement allows it to keep its property, and now free of litigation, may concentrate on its vision, which is to 'Encounter and Share Jesus Christ'. It does, however, require that COTW sever its affiliation with the newly established Anglican Church in North America (ACNA), and the Anglican District of Virginia (ADV) for a period of five years.
COTW's pastor, Rev. Robin Adams said, "This settlement allows us to keep the church building that was paid for by us, not the Episcopal Church. It also allows us to put this painful experience behind us and move on with ministering the love of Christ to a broken world. We will not lose our Anglican identity, though we may have to rethink how we do church in the short term.
Adams said the requirement to temporally disaffiliate from ACNA is one of the more difficult aspects of the settlement, but he remains positive.
"Our goal is to return to the ACNA fold when the disaffiliation period is completed as a stronger Christian body," he said. "We'll continue to worship in our accustomed manner, and for most of our members, this provision will not even be something they'll notice in our day-to-day church ministry."
Adams called the disaffiliation requirement "a failure to 'respect the dignity of every human being,' as the baptismal covenant says, and is certainly unchristian."
"It is heartbreaking that The Episcopal Church and the Diocese of Virginia were unwilling to explore out of court settlement options with Church of the Word unless it severed all ties to its orthodox Anglican family," ADV Chairman Jim Oakes said. "Church of the Word and all within the ADV have been seeking the Lord in prayer as we search for the best path forward. In spite of the separation mandate, we support the members of Church of the Word and they will remain our dear brothers and sisters in Christ."
Church of the Word has believed all along that its property belonged to those who paid for it – the local congregation. The Episcopal Church, on the other hand, believes that all church assets within the denomination are held in trust for the national church, regardless of state property laws. An earlier court decision sided with the breakaway churches, but was then reversed upon appeal to the Virginia Supreme Court. The suit was returned to the circuit court for re-trial based on a different body of law in June 2010.
"We originally voted to leave the Episcopal Church in 2006 over theological and pastoral issue," COTW's former senior warden Dane Swenson said. "We felt the denomination had drifted away from basic Christian belief and practices. For example, Anglicans are supposed to hold that Jesus Christ is the way, the truth, and the life, as opposed to just another possible option among many. And we believe that the Bible is the guiding authority for Christian doctrine, and must not be subservient to or shaped by the culture of the moment."
Initially the denomination had provided a process by which the congregations could leave the denomination and maintain ownership of the properties they had purchased and maintained.
"Had the Diocese of Virginia stuck to its original agreement in its official 'Protocol for Departing Congregations,' then four years of expensive legal action could have been avoided," Adams said. "Nevertheless we are thankful to have reached settlement with the diocese today."
While Church of the Word is relieved to be able to keep its property, the congregation actually outgrew its facility long ago and has had to put building plans on hold during the years of uncertainty due to the litigation. Robin Adams says the church will develop its modest site to the best of its abilities, and will refocus on planning for the future.
"Any financial resources we might have saved toward expanding went toward our legal fees in this case," COTW treasurer Robert Miller said. "Maybe there are people out there who think our stand against biblical compromise was worth the cost. Maybe they'll help us raise the funds we need. You never know how God will work."
With faith that God will supply the church's need, Adams says it will establish a fund for anyone who might like to donate. He's hoping like-minded friends still in the Episcopal Church might pledge a gift to help Church of the Word, even while they work for reform within that body.
"You never know unless you make your needs known," Adams says.
Official Statement from the Episcopal Diocese of Virginia:
Today the Diocese of Virginia and the Episcopal Church announced a settlement with Church of the Word (COTW), Gainesville, the second reached with one of the nine congregations that left the Episcopal Church in 2006 and then sought to retain Episcopal church property. Church of Our Saviour, Oatlands reached a settlement on February 20. "We are pleased to have reached another settlement, an important step toward enabling all involved to focus our shared energies on our important ministries," said the Rt. Rev. Shannon S. Johnston, bishop of Virginia.
"This settlement has a set of unique circumstances that led the Diocese to allow COTW to retain Episcopal property," stated Henry D.W. Burt, secretary of the Diocese of Virginia. "Changes in the immediate vicinity of the church, namely massive construction along Route 29 that eliminates direct access to the church, create significant challenges for any congregation in that space. Should COTW ultimately decide to relocate, the Diocese of Virginia has given them the certainty and control they need to determine what is best for the congregation and the day school they offer to the Gainesville community."
Under the agreement, the Diocese will retain $1.95 million from a payment by the Virginia Department of Transportation (VDOT) for loss of value to the property as a result of the construction. In exchange, COTW will retain the church building and personal property, and will be responsible for the mortgage on the property. COTW will also retain $85,000 in cash from the VDOT payment and be permitted to negotiate for additional monies from VDOT. In addition, COTW will voluntarily disaffiliate from the Convocation of Anglicans in North America (CANA), the Anglican District of Virginia (ADV) and the Anglican Church in North America (ACNA) for a period of five years. The pastor of COTW will be allowed to remain in the CANA healthcare plan and retirement plan, if permissible under the conditions of these benefit plans.
"This is a welcome and appropriate resolution for all involved," said Bishop Johnston. "It allows everyone to continue their important work while we will continue to preserve and expand the legacy of the Episcopal Church for future generations."
The trial on property issues for the remaining seven Episcopal Church properties will begin in the Fairfax Circuit Court on Monday, April 25.
Official Statement from the Anglican District of Virginia, which calls the settlement "heartbreaking":
FAIRFAX, Va. (April 19, 2010) – Anglican District of Virginia member parish Church of the Word in Gainesville, Va., has voted to take a settlement option presented by the Diocese of Virginia and The Episcopal Church in the matter of their property. The settlement results in Church of the Word's outright ownership of its property for future ministry. However, it will require Church of the Word to disaffiliate from the Anglican District of Virginia (ADV), the Convocation of Anglicans in North America (CANA), and any other Anglican entity for a period of at least five years.
"It is heartbreaking that The Episcopal Church and the Diocese of Virginia were unwilling to explore out of court settlement options with Church of the Word unless it severed all ties to its orthodox Anglican family. Church of the Word and all within ADV have been seeking the Lord in prayer as we search for the best path forward. In spite of the separation mandate, we support the members of Church of the Word and they will remain our dear brothers and sisters in Christ," said ADV Chairman Jim Oakes.
"There's no question: This litigation is a distraction from our mission and the good work our churches are doing every day to change lives. We never wanted a court battle in the first place and were saddened when amicable negotiations over properties that were purchased and maintained by our congregations were abruptly cut off.
"The litigation, which now involves seven parishes, does not define ADV and has not hindered our growth. In fact, we have grown to 32 member congregations and nine mission fellowships. We will continue to pray for a quick resolution to this matter as we look forward to the celebration of our Lord's resurrection on Easter morning," Oakes concluded.
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Grandpa Dino said...
DioVA: "In addition, COTW will voluntarily disaffiliate from the Convocation of Anglicans in North America (CANA), the Anglican District of Virginia (ADV) and the Anglican Church in North America (ACNA) for a period of five years."
Voluntarily??? My, oh my. Words fail me.
RWK said...
If temporary disaffiliation is what it takes for the Diocese to proclaim "victory" and save some face, I guess I can leave with that. It strikes me as petty and vindictive but ultimately, like many such actions, unimportant. If this is an effort to strangle ACNA in its crib, all I can say is Herod had a similar plan. Five years in Egypt...not that big a deal.
RWK: "It strikes me as petty and vindictive..."
Petty and vindictive is the marching order of 815...
RalphM
Why is it that anytime I hear about the litigation (or some settlement like this where the Diocese of VA gets to call all the shots) I feel sick to my stomach?
Okay, now DioVA has gone off the deep end ...
How can they defend removing robin+ from any oversight? Robin+ is an Evangelical, so I can understand the Episcopate is maybe less as important and Anglo-Catholic, but the whole nature of 815 argument is hierarchical ecclesiology, so to say we settle but no affiliation makes no sense.
If they have left TEC and cannot affiliate with the ACA, what denomination will they belong to? Which bishop will come for Confirmation, if any?
Chazaq said...
The final negotiating positions indicate pretty clearly what each party wanted most and cared about least.
The Episcopalians wanted the money. The Episcopalians didn't care much for the people or the building (from the photo, who could blame them; looks like an old seafood restaurant).
COTW wanted the buildings and the people. They didn't seem to care much for Anglican ecclesial tomfoolery or the money.
Steven in Falls Church said...
Money grubbing -- what your present-day TEC is all about.
Both sides achieved objectives that were important to them. Seems fair enough. No one has to accept anything in a settlement that he doesn't want or doesn't feel is better than the impending results of litigation. Had Church of the World not settled, they strongly risked ending up with absolutely nothing but debts. There was no up side for them to continue the litigation.
Scout,
I understand that is the nature of the settlement - but the "withdraw from ACNA clause" - especially when you limit it to five years, seems to serve no purpose except revenge. I'd be open to hearing how demanding congregations to leave ACNA serves any other useful purpose. The requirement, as I said before, still strikes me as nothing more than an effort to destroy a rival, which is not justifiable, especially from a group of Christians.
RWK - I think there is an important principle that explains why this type of provision is cropping up in these settelements, both in Virginia and in other locations (e.g, Pennsylvania). It is important that there be no thought among restive parishioners, whether be over current controversies or future ones, that they can encourage discord with a view to getting sufficient votes on a given day (under processes entirely within their control and not contemplate by the governing documents of the church) to declare a majority favoring their viewpoint and (and this is the key element) consequent legal rights of ownership under secular law. My speculation is that both the Diocese and the national church perceive ACNA and CANA as having intentionally and knowingly provided a structure within which to receive properties for the benefit of persons who decided to depart the Episcopal Church and that that pattern should not be seen, for present or future purposes, to be rewarded by precedents in which people leave, seize physical control of properties, wait out expensive litigation, and then achieve their designs through settlement.
I personally think it a good policy to insist upon and one that will discourage such actions in the future, to the benefit of the larger Christian community.
A Parable:
There was an increasingly dysfunctional family that included several children. After years of asking the parents to reverse course, the children fled to loving homes where they received the good parenting they had been denied.
The dysfunctional parents were enraged and sought to punish the children who had fled. They found one, took money the child had received from the government and forced the child to leave the home of the new, loving parents. "If we catch you in the loving parent's home, we will come after you and hurt you again!" was the warning left with the child.
The dysfunctional parents were very pleased as they now had money to help hunt down and punish the other children.
How mean spirited and factually distorted is your parable.
Unlike the parables of Jesus that are intended to uplift and inform.
Carolyn said...
RalphM, great parable. Sums up TEO's MO very well. I know this because It upset John.
Parables, if well crafted, can be very useful teaching devices. It's a pedagogic form that most approach warily, because the standards of the Best of the parable masters were so terribly high. Moreover, a flawed parable can be powerfully misleading, just as a clever one can be marvellously illuminating. If I were to try to pull Ralph's out of the weeds a bit, I'd probably mention that the fractious kids left home, but (and here's the twist) threw the parents out on the street and then reclaimed the premises and argued that they owed the parents nothing because there were several kids and only two parents.
Okay, Scout, I can see your point. Except that I would add that the parents had inherited the church from their parents who got it from their parents. Each generation was expected to follow in the footsteps of the previous generations (not just one, but all previous generations). When the parents decided to walk a different way, the kids, who had been taught what the grand and great-grand parents believed, took the house back for the sake of the teachings of the previous generations (something those previous generations expected would continue).
Ralph said...
Putting religious restrictions on the recognition of property rights, such as the 5 year clause not to affiliate with CANA or the ACNA, seems to me patently against federal fair housing laws--which say you cannot discriminate on the basis of religion (or race, color, sex, national origin) in a sale of property.
Sounds a lot like the deed restrictions (forbidding the sale to blacks or Jews) still on titles in old neighborhoods which are now illegal and unenforceable.
So if COTW makes a religious affiliation with other Anglicans in that time....TEC will then come back again at law to take the property? It will expect the court to support one side of a purely religious-based dispute?
That's not the kind of First Amendment interpretation that is American, whatsoever.
Scout and Anam Cara: A better parable would be of persons which helped the establishment a chapter of an association in a town, say something like the Rotary or the Lions Club. The XYZ club seems great for a while, and then this new chapter sees the national XYZ club going way off the tracks in multiple ways. The local club had spent years of time and their own sweat and money to build their chapter, and had a very nice meeting hall they built with their own hands, to which the XYZ club national had contributed nothing. Then the national club votes that all club halls now belong to them in trust....majority rule, after all...(even though totally contrary to all established Trust law...). The local chapter, fed up after many years, finally leaves the national organization--and XYZ national sues for the property--even though XYZ national is nowhere on the deed, and, the legal principle that one party cannot create a trust from another parties property--as trusts must originate with the titled owner.
THAT really is what is happening with TEC, and the only reason they are getting away with it, is that they can afford to pay lawyers for a very long time.
I'm not there, and probably shouldn't judge, but I'd have a hard time being a part of Church congregation which acquiesced to theft.
The tuth is that CANA had a plan to take over Episcopal churches for their own benefit. For those who have not read the Chapman letter go here- http://wildernessgarden.blogspot.com/2008/02/chapman-letter.html
Cana, the Vestry, the Rector,, the and then the Rev Anderson took our church for several months. They faithfully followed the program in that letter and only strong and quick actions saved our church for future Episcopsalians.
We were inundated with CANA handouts and no contrary literature was allowed.
CANA did not exist in 2003, so implying the Chapman Letter was CANA's plan is (to put a polite spin on it)"misleading".
Maybe they were not called CANA in those days but it was the same people- Anderson, Mims, Duncan, Iker etc. All backed with IRD money.
That's another interesting track- following the money from IRD.
None of those listed above are members of CANA unless by "Mims", you are referring to Bishop Minns.
Credibility takes a hit when you can't even spell the name of the person you are accusing.
I have never found that credibility and correct spelling are particularly linked. I have seen very true statements badly spelled, and very false ones spelled with splendid precision.
DavidH said...
One presumes that "Mims" was indeed meant to be "Minns," although there's a Virginia Supreme Court justice named "Mims" who used to belong to a church that broke away from TEC and who proposed a change in the law in 2005 that was designed to enable the CANA folks to leave and take the property.
Bishop Iker is going to be delighted to know that there is an IRD check waiting for him.
When accusations are made that include inaccurate dates, non-existent group affiliations, and misspelled/mispronounced names, it adds up to an accusation that is unsubstantiated. It is not just a spelling error.
I will assume that the Chapman letter is legitimate (following the link in this thread presented it to me for the first time). It was never presented to the vestry or used as a plan in my CANA church. If it had been, I would have known.
I don't think the Chapman Memo has much to do with this in the specific. By contrast I think that it is the Allison Barfoot strategy memo that is far more relevant and the "secret memo" from +Robert Duncan to the Global South steering committee indicating that the churches (in this case I an unsure if he is referencing only the network, and, subsequently of course CANA would be included as "dual" citizen in ACNA in which he clearly stated it was the intent to leave with the property. Both of these documents became available in the renewed discovery process when Calvary Pittsburgh revisited the courts for enforcement of the 2005 settlement.
Ralph M. I suspect that none of these documents made by leadership were ever made available to vestrys etc. On the Chapman memo, I believe it was the Washington Post who got a hold of that first and it may have been that that commenced the Calvary suit that was settled in 2005. The Barfoot memo, I believe, was written in 2004, and interestingly, every single male recipient is now a CANA or ACNA bishop. Barfoot, of course, is not eligible.
For Ralph M. ....On the Barfoot Memo, she specifically mentions her conversation with Martin Minns:
http://www.thinkinganglicans.org.uk/overseasAEO.pdf
David H. You will be able to clarify as my recollection is rough. This article states: "An earlier court decision sided with the breakaway churches, but was then reversed upon appeal to the Virginia Supreme Court. The suit was returned to the circuit court for re-trial based on a different body of law in June 2010." My memory is that the Va Supreme Court determined that, without addressing the constitutionality of 57-9 at all, since CANA (and I assume the Virgina Anglican district) were not "branches" of TEC, 57-9 did not apply and they reversed the lower court. What exactly does the the above comment reference by a "different body of law" ? On first glance, it would seem that TEC/Dio of Virginia now holds all the legal cards unless something re trust law or contracts etc. comes into play? EmilyH
The Barfoot memo is specifically about Alternate Episcopal Oversight. While it acknowledges that there may be property disputes, it is not a plot for retaining property ownership.
"Secret" Duncan memo? Why would it need to be a secret that people wish to retain their property?
How much money will the DVA want for Truro Church? And will they insist that the parish disaffiliate from CANA?
RE the question in the 2023 comment: I assume no more than Fair Market Value if the departing group is going to be permitted to purchase the property. However, I doubt that Truro or the Falls Church will be sold to departing factions. These properties are too intimately connected to the history of the Church in Virginia for the Diocese to give them up. Some type of lease may make sense in Truro, where there is not a strong continuing Episcopal congregation. Based on the settlements that have already occurred, I would think that the non-affiliation provision is going to be a standard component of any settlement where departing parishioners are granted use of the buildings as part of the settlement. That may not be acceptable to some of the groups, in which case there probably won't be a settlement that involves continued occupation of the premises.
On the secret memo...that was its title header by its author that is the title I used. I assume he titled it so (I believe it was bishop Duncan,) because he wanted it kept private. It was one of the .most damaging documents revealed in the discovery during Calvary's effort to have the 2005 decision imposed as they argued Bishop Duncan was in violation.
A further concern... Duncan had consistently denied in the 2005 action it was his intent to take Pittsburgh out of TEC, although this document was not written until 2007,it was clear that by that time when the settlement was in effect a d presumably based on the assumption that Duncan would not try to do so, that was not true a
and cast doubt on whether it ever was true.
BabyBlue said...
The Virginia churches were very public in their decision to separate from The Episcopal Church. Judge Bellows noted that fact in his original ruling supporting the vote to separate. Not sure why Anons are posting about the Diocese of Pittsburgh - if they want to throw stones why do they post anonymously? Doesn't that seem rather secretive?
BB - you're of course right that the Virginia departing groups were very open about their intentions to leave. I think it fair to say also that they were very open about their intentions to lay claim to the Episcopal properties. In Virginia, my guess is that the "Division Statute" had some people convinced that they could pull it off overtly. In other jurisdictions, however, where one had nothing to go on but past legal precedent, there was a rather complicated stratagem to hold on to the "Episcopal" brand as a way of clouding the property issues. This was why in Pittsburgh and in Ft. Worth sees these parallel "Episcopal" structures. I think the references in the comment thread are to that kind of activity.
RalphM. In my own defence I meant no disrespect when I wrote Mims instead if Minns. My eyesight is not great annd that was how I read it.
I have no idea when CANA became CANA and now ACNA and I do not really care. My first knowledge of that group came in 2006 when our church went through turmoil and split. I know what they did to our church with all their secret underhand messages and methods.
John and Ralph: my understanding (I welcome correction) is that CANA pre-dated the 2006 defections and was essentially an outreach by the Nigerian Church to expatriate and emigre Nigerians in America. My experience in my church is that some folks who were trying to engineer the takeover of the property by departing parishioners latched on to the CANA structure as useful in squeezing the situation into the "branch" and "division" language of the Virginia statute, later held not to apply. But for that objective, I don't think any of us would have heard much about CANA. I believe it is for property control reasons that CANA became the structure held onto by the Virginia groups, as opposed to full embrace of ACNA. Once the Division Statute was taken off the table by the Supreme Court, CANA had not further utility and now it appears that the departing groups are rolling into the ACNA structure.
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Historique
L'arboretum d'Amance a été créé le  par Lucien Daubrée (1844-1921), directeur général des Eaux et Forêts. Il est situé près du hameau de La Bouzule qui était alors relié à la gare de Nancy par un chemin de fer. Ce sont 16 ha 98 qui sont repris à la forêt domaniale ; l'arboretum s'étant sur 10 ha 19.

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L'arboretum devra être en partie reconstitué après chacune des guerres puis après la tempête de 1999.

Il a été étendu entre 1960 et 1967 sur 3 ha de la commune de Champenoux. Sur ces 3 ha 81 essences ont été plantées en petites parcelles.

En 1964, l'ensemble de l'arboretum devient la propriété de l'INRA qui le gère depuis cette date.

Description
L'arboretum d'Amance regroupe près de 400 espèces d'arbres provenant des régions tempérées du globe, et constitue une des plus riches collections d'espèces forestières du nord-est de la France.

Le site de l'arboretum d'AMANCE, son histoire, les espèces présentes, les enseignements sylvicoles et scientifiques, le lien avec les œuvres de l'école de Nancy : de nombreux artistes se sont inspirés de la nature pour leurs œuvres notamment à travers l'Art Nouveau avec l'émergence de l'École de Nancy.

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Место, на котором стоит собор, было передано в дар епархии в 1828 году для строительства приходской церкви в Эннисе. Строительные работы были начаты в тот же год, но продвигались медленно. Недостроенная церковь впервые использовалась для проведения мессы в 1842 году. Год спустя, 26 февраля 1843 года, епископ Патрик Кеннеди освятил храм во имя святых Петра и Павла.

Дальнейшее строительство и украшение церкви было приостановлено во время Великого голода, но впоследствии были работы по внутреннему оформлению церкви были возобновлены. Башня и шпиль церкви были завершены в 1874 году. Приходская церковь получила статус прокафедрального собора в 1889 году, когда епископ Томас Дж. Макредмонд переехал в Эннис.

В 1894 году был возведён главный вход в собор и произведён капитальный ремонт здания. В 1930-х годах к зданию пристроили новую ризницу и зал для собрания капитула, а также установили орган. Собор был закрыт на шесть месяцев в 1973 году для проведения работ по перестройке здания в соответствии с требованиями Второго Ватиканского собора. Орган был отремонтирован в 1985 году.

Прокафедральный собор стал собором в 1990 году. После пожара в соборе в 1995 году пришлось восстанавливать алтарь, а также обновлять интерьер; работы были завершены в конце 1996 года.

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Неоготическая архитектура Ирландии
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CARS PRO CUP SERIES: Heavner Opts Out Of Dillon Motor Speedway Event
July 11, 2012 by Walters Web Design
ST. LOUIS, MO (JULY 11TH, 2012) Ryan Heavner is disappointed to announce he will not be following the CARS Pro Cup Series to Dillon, South Carolina this weekend. The team was set to unload at the egg shaped Dillon Motor Speedway on July 14th. However, the Bob Schacht Motorsports crew has decided to opt out of the weekend's event due to insufficient sponsorship funding.
CARS PRO CUP SERIES: Ryan Heavner Welcomes Times Oil Corporation
July 8, 2012 by Walters Web Design
JULY 8TH, 2012 (ST. LOUIS, MO) CARS Pro Cup Series driver Ryan Heavner is pleased to announce a new partnership with Times Oil Corporation, a third generation family business. This new deal, a local partnership with both driver and company based out of Lincolnton, North Carolina brings exciting new opportunities to both parties.
CARS Pro Cup Series: Ryan Heavner Runs Top Five At Caraway Speedway
JUNE 26TH, 2012 (ST. LOUIS, MO) Sixteen year old Ryan Heavner entered the Caraway Speedway gates for the first time last Saturday. This would be Heavner's twenty-second time on the CARS Pro Cup Series starting grid and he had set high expectations on both himself and crew leading into the event.
CARS PRO CUP SERIES: Ryan Heavner Turning Focus On CARS Pro Cup Series
May 23, 2012 by Walters Web Design
MAY 23RD, 2012 (ST. LOUIS, MO) Ryan Heavner was looking forward to the new challenges of a full season in the ARCA Racing Series this season, piloting a machine out of the Bob Schacht Motorsports stable. However, Heavner's ARCA program has recently been put on hold.
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Lobbying by sitting Illinois lawmakers under scrutiny
by: JOHN O'CONNOR, Associated Press
FILE – In this April 16, 2013 file photo, Illinois Rep. Luis Arroyo, D-Chicago, speaks on the House floor during session in Springfield, Ill. A federal bribery charge against an Illinois legislator has led to questions about whether lawmakers be allowed to lobby other units of government.
Illinois like most states allows legislators to lobby outside state government. The federal charge last month against former Rep. Arroyo laid bare an example of how lobbying privileges could be abused. (AP Photo/Seth Perlman File)
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) — A federal bribery charge against an Illinois state legislator has led to questions about whether lawmakers should be allowed to lobby other units of government.
The federal bribery charge last month against former Rep. Luis Arroyo laid bare the potential ethics tangle. Most states allow lawmakers to lobby outside state government, and Illinois isn't even the least restrictive. Eighteen states, including California, have no restrictions on such lobbying.
Arroyo, a Chicago Democrat, is accused of attempting to bribe a senator to support his plan to legalize slot-like "sweepstakes" gambling machines. At the time, Arroyo was registered as a Chicago lobbyist, representing a company that operates the games before the City Council.
Such an arrangement can pit loyalties against each other, said David Melton, interim executive director of Reform for Illinois.
"There's an obvious potential for log-rolling in terms of trading favors back and forth — and a dereliction of their exercising good judgment as to what or should or should not be policy — and log-rolling in terms of edging over into explicit bribery," Melton said.
Democratic Gov. J.B. Pritzker promised a "comprehensive" ethics-reform review, including a potential ban on legislators lobbying and called the circumstances generated by Arroyo's dual roles are "challenging and problematic." No one answered a phone call placed Friday to the office of Arroyo's attorney.
House Republicans have already produced a package of legislation, including a ban on lobbying by active legislators and a revamp of annually required statements of economic interest. Those forms' broadly worded questions aimed at unearthing an officeholder's financial situation and potential conflicts currently allow for answers of "None" or "N/A."
Several members of the Illinois House and Senate are registered to lobby in Chicago — including Senate President John Cullerton, although reports filed by the Chicago Democrat show no lobbying activity since 2016. The reports are easily accessible online.
Illinois is not alone in allowing lawmakers to lobby. In Maryland, for example, it's not unusual for a sitting legislator to be a registered lobbyist before Congress or in nearby Virginia. Lobbying lawmakers who face a potential conflict must disclose it in writing and may seek advice from the Legislature's ethics counsel, said Delegate Kathleen Dumais, co-chairwoman of the Maryland Joint Committee on Legislative Ethics. She said a legislator who lobbies on Capitol Hill and faces a later vote on the same issue in the Statehouse should request permission to be excused from the vote.
One problem facing policymakers is definition. Chicago defines a lobbyist as anyone who represents someone else "to influence any legislative or administrative action."
For Democratic Sen. Elgie Sims, a Chicago attorney, it means representing his law firm's clients who have contracts with the Chicago Police Department, the Chicago Park District, and the Chicago Transit Authority.
For Rep. Jaime Andrade, it means using his expertise in building permits and zoning-amendment language honed during two decades as a Chicago City Council aide and legislative assistant before joining the Legislature in 2014.
"I'm a paper-pusher," said the Democrat who first registered as a lobbyist while seeking income during the 2015-17 state budget crisis which halted lawmakers' pay. "I know what the holdup is, and I know what the process is. People are overwhelmed by the process and the time it takes."
Some ethics advocates suggest prohibiting legislators from earning any outside income. Others counter that would discourage talented people from seeking office. The base legislative salary is $69,464.
Rep. Michael Zalewski, a Riverside Democrat, last registered as a Chicago lobbyist in 2015 when he worked for a law firm that required more active intervention with city officials on clients' behalf. His new law firm represents dozens of gambling interests, and this year he relinquished his involvement in legislation to legalize sports betting after facing criticism, even though he had sought an opinion from the House ethics officer, who had approved his participation.
"There will be a conversation in the very near future about what lobbying entails at the state and local level and the times when, as an attorney or as a member of another profession, you're required to register because you're meeting with a government official," Zalewski said. "It's all getting harder and harder to navigate."
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by Kayla Strayer / Jan 19, 2021
FAYETTEVILLE, N.C. (WNCN) -- Cumberland County Schools say teachers will have to wait longer than originally discussed to start getting the COVID-19 vaccine.
District leaders were hoping teachers could start getting vaccinated by the end of this month, but since the state expanded its current vaccination group to 65 and older, the next group's date will likely be delayed.
by CBS 17 Digital Desk / Jan 19, 2021
KERNERSVILLE, N.C. (WNCN) - A North Carolina man was arrested Tuesday in connection with the Jan. 6 riots at the United States Capitol, the Federal Bureau of Investigation said.
Christopher Raphael Spencer, of Pilot Mountain, was taken into custody without incident in Kernersville. He was charged with knowingly entering or remaining in any restricted building or grounds without lawful authority, violent entry and disorderly conduct on Capitol grounds, and obstruction of justice, the FBI said.
SAMPSON COUNTY, N.C. (WNCN) - A Fayetteville man is in jail in Sampson County after troopers pulled him over for speeding and found a gun and drugs, the sheriff's office said.
Shaun McMillian, 42, was arrested on Friday. Sampson County Sheriff's Office spokesperson Lt. Marcus Smith said McMillian was stopped by a North Carolina State Highway Patrol trooper.
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Q: Floating point results In my C code:
I see some of the results in floating point come out to be for example 2.404567E+1. it seems to me that for results less then 1 the results turn out to be in some exponential series.
So, I have 2 questions:

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*how can I get the result rounded off to some digits ie instead of 5.23542342734 I just want the result to be 5.23

*How can I get rid of exponential results and get results as for example 0.1648 instead of 1.6483517E-1

A: You can control the output format of printf() (I'm assuming you're talking about printf()?) in a number of ways.  e.g.:
printf("%.2f\n", 5.23542342734);  // Prints "5.23"
printf("%.4f\n", 1.6483517E-1);   // Prints "0.1648"

See e.g. http://www.cplusplus.com/reference/clibrary/cstdio/printf/ (or a million other references out there on the internet) for more details on format specifiers for printf().

A: Adjust format string:
 printf ("%.2f", float_data);

http://linux.die.net/man/3/printf
Or to use to truncate/approximate the value to some decimal places, i think the following should work:
trunc = floor (float_val * 10000) / 10000;

The above will preserve only upto 4 decimal places of float_var and store it to trunc. Use round () if needed.


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298.62 Lands may be acquired for rights-of-way and other purposes.—Any and all districts and subdistricts created or organized under the laws of the state may acquire by gift, purchase, exchange, donation or condemnation, any lands within or without the said district for canal rights-of-way, or for other general purposes of the said district, and if acquired by condemnation the procedure shall be as prescribed in chapters 73 and 74.
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The Black Theatre Workshop Honours Dedicated Artists
Vision Celebration Gala Recognizes H. Nigel Thomas, and More
Fringe ArtsChahinez Dib — Published February 8, 2020
H. Nigel Thomas received the 2020 Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Award. Photo Chahinez Dib
The Black Theatre Workshop hosted their annual fundraiser Vision Celebration Gala on Feb. 1. Photo Chahinez Dib
Kicking off Black History Month, the Black Theatre Workshop hosted their annual fundraiser Vision Celebration Gala on Feb. 1.
The event serves to honour dedicated Black artists who have made a significant impact on the development of the arts in the country.
This year, BTW honoured literary leader H. Nigel Thomas, among others. Thomas received the 2020 Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Award.
Thomas was recognized by the BTW during the Vision Celebration Gala for his contribution to the elevation of Black voices in literature.
According to BTW's website, Thomas "has been instrumental in providing a nuanced perspective of the inner lives of marginalized voices in Canada."
Thomas is a Concordia alumnus, but also a graduate of McGill University and Université de Montréal. A retired professor from Université Laval, he decided to resign from his position at the university and devote himself to writing full time in 2006.
The 2020 Dr. Clarence Bayne Community Service Award was presented to Leon Llewellyn. Photo Chahinez Dib
Alongside his career as a writer and educator, Thomas has been a long-time supporter of BTW. His journey as an activist for Black writers started many years ago.
Born in St. Vincent and the Grenadines, he immigrated to Canada in 1968.
Thomas tutored students and advocated for Black students in the Protestant School Board. This period of his life began in the late 70s, and lasted for about a decade.
Moreover, he co-founded The Free South Africa Committee, which aimed to support Black South Africans living under apartheid by organizing vigils and protests.
The writer co-founded other projects such as Kola Magazine, a platform to publish the works of Black writers.
The 2020 Dr. Clarence Bayne Community Service Award was presented to Leon Llewellyn.
Born on the island of Grenada, he graduated from Sir George Williams University—now Concordia University—where he received a bachelor in fine arts in 1974 and a diploma in art education a year later.
"Art is about ideas and so it contains ideas. Not everyone is able to do the things an artist is able to do in terms of translating, communicating ideas." — Leon Llewellyn
He was recognized by the BTW for his significant volunteerism in arts and education within the Montreal Black community.
Llewellyn worked as a political cartoonist. He's also created works for many Black community organizations such as BTW, UHURU, and Focus Umoja.
In addition to his career as an artist, he also spent his career working for the English Montreal School Board for 35 years. Llewellyn would encourage his students to think outside the box and to combine their personal experiences and art together in order to create.
Llewellyn used the word "special" to describe his teaching background.
Along with other teachers, Llewellyn started a project that lasted nine years where they would ask students to bring an old family photograph, to research the photo, and to write the story behind it. His teaching background helped him to develop techniques in archiving and researching.
It is important for Llewellyn to share with others the skills and knowledge he acquired while teaching.
"Art is about ideas and so it contains ideas. Not everyone is able to do the things an artist is able to do in terms of translating, communicating ideas," he added.
Two years ago, after meeting with the Black Community Resource Center, Llewellyn donated his original photographs, drawings, and archival textural material to Concordia's Special Collections Archives.
The BCRC put Llewellyn in contact with Alexandra Mills who is with a Special Collections Archivist at Concordia's library, and agreed to look after it.
"I'm happy about that because it can be shared now and I don't have to be worried about these papers in my home," said Llewellyn.
Méshama Eyob-Austin received the Victor Phillips Award, and the Gloria Mitchell-Aleong Award was given to Athena Holmes. Photo Chahinez Dib
The BTW recognizes two youth awards in the community each year.
This year, 17-year-old writer Méshama Eyob-Austin received the Victor Phillips Award. The writer was published last year in an anthology called Black Writers Matter which is a collection of work including other emerging Black writers.
"I'm trying to make my work as much as a reflection of me, my experience, my identity. In the anthology, that's a reflection of my Black identity, my identity as a young Black woman," she said.
The Gloria Mitchell-Aleong Award was given to musician and drag performer Athena Holmes. Raised in B.C and based out of Montreal, Holmes gets a lot of inspiration from the city by being around people.
"Montreal is nice to connect with Black people from around the world and people around the world, different languages, and the art is kind of more varied here than in B.C.," they said.


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Ted Baker signs global licensing agreement with Timex
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Ted Baker has announced a global licensing agreement with Timex Group, which the brand states will allow it to "underpin its own global plans" to create watches that will "fully complement" its current apparel and accessory collections.
Timex Group will launch the new collections Internationally through premium retail partners and its global distributor network in summer 2019.
Ted Baker chief executive Ray Kelvin said in a statement: "This is an exciting opportunity for Ted Baker to drive accelerated growth in our watch business by leveraging the Timex Group global footprint and infrastructure, in line with our strategy to further develop Ted Baker as a global lifestyle brand."
Timex Group president and chief executive Reiss Schmidt added: "We are delighted to bring Timex Groups expertise and long history as an authentic watchmaker to Ted Baker and look forward to producing exciting and innovative timepieces for their consumers."
Ted Baker is a global lifestyle brand that operates through three main distribution channels: retail, which includes e-commerce; wholesale; and licensing, which includes territorial and product licences. It offers a wide range of collections including menswear, womenswear, childrenswear, accessories, jewellery and footwear, luggage, home interiors, fragrance and skinwear, and gifting and stationery.
The British retailer has 532 stores and concessions worldwide, comprising of 195 in the UK, 113 in Europe, 127 in North America, 88 in the Middle East, Africa and Asia and 9 in Australasia.
The Timex Group design, manufactures and markets timepieces globally, and includes a portfolio of owned and licensed brands, including Timex, Guess, GC, Versace, Versus Versace, Salvatore Ferragamo and Nautica.
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Traveling in Burma fifteen years ago, designer James Lowther bought his first handmade lacquer piece, a century-old betel box in burnt orange. Thus began James' journey to create The Lacquer Company, a London-based luxury brand that blends contemporary Western designs with the ancient, painstaking craft of handmade lacquer. As the company has grown, so has its need for sophisticated agreements with designers, lenders, and potential investors. We were thrilled when James invited us to help, and are honored to be a part of a venture that contributes to a livelihood for traditional craftsmen and a sustainable market for their work—all while creating exquisite and unique luxury goods.


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Igor Miguel Castro Rocha (born 3 May 1984) is a Portuguese professional footballer who plays for Valadares Gaia Futebol Clube as a left back.

Club career
Born in Vila Nova de Gaia, Porto District, Rocha spent most of his career in the Segunda Liga after being formed at Boavista FC. He appeared in 216 matches at that level for C.D. Trofense, C.D. Santa Clara (two spells) and C.D. Feirense.

Rocha spent four seasons in the Primeira Liga, making a combined 26 appearances for Associação Naval 1º de Maio and Vitória de Setúbal. He made his debut in the competition while at the service of the former club, playing 63 minutes in a 0–2 home loss against S.L. Benfica on 17 February 2008.

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1984 births
Living people
Sportspeople from Vila Nova de Gaia
Portuguese footballers
Association football defenders
Primeira Liga players
Liga Portugal 2 players
Segunda Divisão players
Boavista F.C. players
G.D. Ribeirão players
C.F. União de Lamas players
S.C. Dragões Sandinenses players
Associação Naval 1º de Maio players
C.D. Trofense players
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(Japanese) Spiritual Blessing. This is the Japanese name for attunements/ initiations/transformations. Reiju is one of the five elements of the system of Reiki. Reiju helps to strengthen students' connection with spiritual energy and raises their personal energy levels. This in turn gives a sense of reconnection to one's true self. It also helps to clear the meridians allowing students to conduct more energy through the body. Reiju is just the first step. Students are also asked to practice with the mind and the body using the five precepts, waka and chanting and the techniques respectively. Reiju is the same for each level – there are no differences as it is the student's ability to draw on more energy that creates the differences not the reiju itself. No symbols or mantras are used in the reiju. The reiju does not 'attune' the student to the symbols as is believed in the West. The reiju appears to have links to practices from within the more esoteric elements of Tendai called Mikkyô. It mirrors a Tendai ritual called go shimbô also known as 'Dharma for Protecting the Body'. The ritual of reiju supports the teacher in making the connection with the energy. If a teacher practices hard and long he or she will find that it will be possible to eventually leave the physicality of the ritual behind. It is believed that Usui Mikao would just sit opposite the student and create an energetic space where the reiju could occur, there was no physical ritual involved or any use of mantras and symbols. Eguchi Toshihiro, a student of Usui Mikao apparently also worked in this way.


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import ru.touchin.roboswag.core.log.Lc;
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Your Health Checkup: Athletic Brain Injuries
Even mild traumatic brain injuries can lead to an increased incidence of many diseases, including heart disease, diabetes, and dementia.
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When I was a youngster, my parents refused to let me play football past the little league age that ended with 6th grade. They were so bent on my becoming a surgeon, they didn't want to take the chance of an injury to my hands. They couldn't have known that preventing head trauma, not even on the radar screen at that time, was more important.
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Today, concussive head injuries are a well-recognized risk in contact and collision sports and represent a global health problem, with an estimated incidence of around 70 million cases per year worldwide (2.8 million in the U.S.). However, such traumatic brain injuries (TBIs), a leading cause of morbidity and mortality, garnered scant attention years ago. New research comparing outcomes in more than 4,000 individuals with TBIs versus an equal number without TBIs has shown that the incidence of hypertension, coronary heart disease, diabetes, stroke, depression, and dementia increased after even mild TBIs and persisted for the ten years of follow up. Changes that could emerge several years after the TBIs were found especially in those younger than 40 years old, and even as young as 18. Individuals who developed multiple post-injury problems had higher mortality during the decade-long follow up.
The researchers concluded that TBIs of any severity — even mild TBIs — were associated with a higher risk of chronic cardiovascular, endocrine, and neurological comorbidities and higher mortality. Helmets and a new neck collar may help reduce injuries. However, the new data raise the question whether the relatively brief screening done following a TBI event is sufficient, compared with a longer term follow up to search for multisystem problems.
The reasons for the changes after TBIs are not known, and other organ injuries sustained in the trauma may contribute. Drugs may also play a role. Some athletes ingest multiple body-building supplements that contain substances at high doses such as testosterone, human growth hormone, amphetamines, diuretics, thyroid hormones, insulin, and anabolic-androgenic steroids, the latter often via injection. Many of these drugs have important psychiatric, physical, and medical risks such as increased risk for mania, depression, cognitive impairment, infertility, liver and kidney abnormalities, and cardiovascular morbidity and mortality.
I have emphasized multiple times that non-FDA approved dietary supplements can carry major risks. Just because something is labeled "natural" does not mean it is safe. A bee sting is "natural," as is poison ivy. Hence my advice for those who ingest dietary supplements: Caveat emptor. Let the buyer beware.
And, today, we must also factor in changes following COVID infection. A study that compared brain scans before and after SARS-CoV-2 infection concluded that brain changes could be a lingering outcome of even mild COVID-19. The imaging found that infected individuals had loss of brain size and developed abnormalities mainly in areas associated with smell, compared with participants who hadn't been infected with the virus. Whether athletes with post-COVID brain changes are at increased risk of TBIs needs to be explored.
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