"The new Strategic Materials Policy can promote production as well as storage of defence-related strategic materials. The Ministry had detailed discussions on the policy," said Parrikar.
Parrikar also said the government is also working on "Design in India" policy which will aim at building, enhancing and promoting designing capabilities of Indian manufacturers and entrepreneurs so that they can design products of world-class standards to compete with global counterparts and take advantage of "Make in India" programme.
MUMBAI: Defence Minister Manohar Parrikar today said "the government is set to introduce 'Strategic Materials Policy'" soon.
He inaugurated a three-day International Conference & Exhibition on Reinforced Plastics, 2017 (ICERP 2017) here.
The conference is organised by FRP Institute, an association of Indian Reinforced Plastics or Composites sector.
The Minister assured the Defence Procurement Policy (DPP) will soon include composite products developed indigenously.
He was responding to a long standing demand of Indian composites industry to source defence equipments, components and ancillary material domestically from Indian manufacturers of composite products and extend support under the 'Make in India' programme.
Parrikar also said the DPP will be updated soon.
"The domestic manufacturers needs to enhance designing capabilities to compete with global standards. As far as the defence industry is concerned, there is huge potential to source material, equipments domestically, but quality standards and innovations in designing are highly essential", said the Minister.
According to him, Indian composites industry can certainly enhance supplies to the defence sector if they provide products of global standards in terms of quality and designing.
"We will soon include composites products in the DPP, which will allow domestic composites manufacturers to supply to Indian Defence Industry," Parrikar added.
The Rs 5,000 crore composites industry, had made a strong pitch for support from the government.
Pradip Thakkar, Chairman of FRP urged the Defence Minister to extend the government's support to the Indian composites industry to unleash its full potential.
"The Indian composites industry is fully capable of supplying 100 per cent of requirements of the defence sector, if given due support. Composite materials are emerging as an innovative alternative for steel and aluminium and hence, can be used in defence equipment manufacturing," said Thakkar.


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La Blanche - 70cl, 40% vol.
Selection - 70cl, 40% vol.
While "Calvados Pays d'Auge" needs to undergo lengthy ageing in oak casks to reach full maturity, a Calvados produced from apple and pears and distilled only once in a column still offers a range of flavours dominated by the fruit, and can be enjoyed young.
Reserve - 70cl, 40% vol.
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Reserve - 3cl, 40% vol.
V.S.O.P Pale & Dry - 70cl, 40% vol.
V.S.O.P. - 150cl, 40% vol.
XO - 70cl, 40% vol.
Golden colour. Double distilled, aged in small oak casks, this Calvados offers a harmonious nose mixing baked apples, almond and spice hints. The mouth is supple, soft and well developed. Fruity at first it evolves towards vanilla and woodier notes.
Hors d'Age - 70cl, 42% vol.
This Calvados has been aged over 15 years in small oak casks and shows the complexity that makes Christian Drouin "Coeur de Lion" the star of Calvados. The colour is flamboyant amber flame like; the nose is complex and balanced. On the palate, it is smooth, dominated by wood and spices, with great length.
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We met an amazingly sweet woman and her father and I got to take a few photos for them, which they seriously could not have been more ecstatic about. We also found and saved a huge turtle - the poor dehydrated guy was stuck in a giant field so I carried him back to the closest lake. It was so heart warming seeing how fast he jumped in that water. No, I am not ADD (I don't think). Moral of the story: it's those crazy, random things that happen during shoots that make them the most memorable!
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Mix the chia seeds, liquid, vanilla extract and salt. Place in the refrigerator overnight to thicken. In the morning, you can add a splash more of liquid and any toppings you choose. Almonds, berries, shredded coconut, ground flaxseed, or a drizzle of maple syrup will all be delicious. This is an easy meal to prep in advance and transport in a mason jar.
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Mix flour, baking soda, cream of tartar, cinnamon and sea salt in a bowl and whisk or sift ingredients together.
In the stand mixer cream butter, crisco, brown sugar and granulated sugar together. Then add the eggs one at a time. Next, add in the vanilla and greek yogurt.
Last slowly add in dry ingredients to the mixture. The dough should pull away from the side of the bowl. Form a ball with the dough and cover bowl with plastic and put in the fridge for 30 minutes or you can have it sit over night.
While dough is cooling, unwrap and cut the carmel squares in half.
Then measure about 2 tablespoons of dough and place a half of a carmel in the center, cover completely with dough. Roll them into a ball. Then place the ball in a mixture of cinnamon and sugar and cover the entire exterior of the dough ball (approx. 3 tablespoons of granulated sugar and 2 teaspoons of cinnamon). Flatten hands and place on the cookie sheet. Then sprinkle sea salt on top.
Bake for 10-12 minutes, a good measure is when the edges start to get golden brown you should take them out.
Hope you like these as much as we did!!


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Smilodon californcius
From Rancho la Brea, Pleistocene group
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Sabers and jaw made of plastic to prevent breakage
Nearing the size of today's Bengal tigers, these cats sport the largest canines of any of the cats, living or fossilized. That the canine of a fossil lion was found driven clear through the leg bone of another, evidences the power of these large cats, and the incredible strength of their teeth.
Although we do not know the coloration of these animals, it is clear that they had stubby tails, like a bobcat. Most likely they were exclusively carnivorous, though they could have been used to eating vegetation as well.
These cats among thousands of other animal remains were excavated from tar seeps near downtown Los Angeles, California. The massive graveyards made by these pits are probably post-flod. Huge tar impregnated bones of mammoths and other animals were used as fuel by early pioneers to the area. The pits were so full that bones showed on the surface.
The bones of a woman were the only human remains found in these pits.
Some evolutionists give these bones an age of 10-25,000 years. We believe they are probably less than 4,000 years old.
Some creationists have speculated that these animals were swept into the pits by Noah's Flood. The facts, however, probably fit a slow accumulation over a few hundred years.
Facts: The pits cover several thousand square feet. They are 20 feet deep in places. Tar and gas have continually come up from the ground. Streams of water flow over the seeps, carrying sand into the tar. Animals coming to drink would unknowingly stand in the tar and become trapped, becoming easy prey for carnivores. About a thousand of these big cats, as well as over a thousand dire wolves and even more coyotes, are all found together which strongly suggests that they too were trapped while preying upon the other unfortunate creatures.
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Thank you for visiting Tactical Elements. When I first envisioned what this business would be about, I stopped to reflect on the memories and people I have met along the way. One thing that I quickly realized when entering the world of knives is that the people you surround yourself with truly do have an impact on your outlook. The knife community is one filled with crazy amounts of talent and those talents are attached to some of the nicest, most humble and truly genuine people you will ever meet. I am honored to call many of these makers, collectors and enthusiasts my friends and family. At Tactical Elements I want to share with you some of the coolest things that I have come across. It may be something that we carry, a collaboration we have in the works or it may simply be something that is just so cool that I have to share it. If one takes the time to look back at the greats and legends of this community, they will see those same creations present in many of the modern knives today. I believe that one should take a look at the greats before us, as well as watching the upcoming makers who are also pushing the limits and striving to improve daily. I am truly humbled and thankful for all of the support many of you folks have provided me.
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Thomas Edward Kabes
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October 14, 2021, 82, Mount Olive –
Thomas Edward Kabes, 82, resident of Williams Mill, Mount Olive, died Thursday, Oct. 14, at home.
Graveside service is Monday, Oct. 18, at 2 pm, at Wayne Memorial Park. Officiating, The Rev. Jeff Dail. Family will receive friends at the cemetery after the service. In lieu of flowers, memorials may be made to Mount Olive First Pentecostal Holiness Church Children's Ministry, Disabled American Veterans, or the ASPCA.
Family was very important to Tom. In 1997, he married Gayle Williams Weeks of Mount Olive. He was very proud of his many Kabes nieces and nephews, as well as his two stepdaughters and their families, Lea Weeks Matthews and Rebecca Weeks Broadway, which gave him three grandchildren, Buddy Grady, Danielle Grady, and Brooke Broadway, and the newest joy, a great-grandson, Jameson Grady.
Tom was the second of eight children born to Frank and Rose Kabes. His siblings are Robert F. Kabes, deceased, Don Kabes of Rochester, NY, Ralph Kabes, deceased, Jean Ann Kabes Byrd of Maple Hill, Carol Rose Kabes Hopkins of Raleigh, Frances Raymond Kabes of Litchfield Sayre, Penn., and Mary Kabes Anders of Rochester, NY. The Kabes family owned and operated a dairy farm. The boys fed and milked the cows in the morning, and again after school, and on weekends. Chores were first priority before walking to school and after returning home from school. In their elementary school years, the children attended Dutch Town School, a one-room schoolhouse where all grades were taught in one room. Many stories have been told about the antics the boys did and planned while walking to and from school to school.
Tom graduated from Waverly High School in Waverly, New York. The year was 1957. In August of that year, he enlisted in the United States Air Force, beginning what would be a 23-year career which caused him to serve tours of duty in the Philippines, Formosa, West Germany, Holland, Greece, South Vietnam, Thailand, and Australia. His service at Seymour Johnson Air Force Base which was for two years brought him to eastern North Carolina. He was a proud Air Force serviceman and kept in touch with several of his military friends, especially so with Charles Edwards of New York. Tom retired from the Air Force with the rank of master sergeant. Following his military career, he and his brothers, Bob and Don, opened Kabes Brothers Construction here in Wayne County. They predominately constructed homes and like structures. Oh, the stories they would tell about riding in a Ford Falcon station wagon.
It is interesting to note that Tom's grandfather, Frank M. Yilek, was an immigrant from Czechoslovakia, who came to America in 1889, along with his parents.


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Less radical tumor surgery can offer better long-term kidney function
david Posted On February 7, 2011
Patients with kidney tumours larger than four centimetres are much more likely to enjoy good long-term renal function if they undergo nephron-sparing surgery rather than radical nephrectomy, according to a study in the February issue of the urology journal BJUI.
Researchers from the Department of Urology at Johannes Gutenberg University in Mainz, Germany, studied 166 patients for up 19 years, with a median follow up of five-and-a-half years. The participants were split into two groups – 81 "younger" patients up to 55 and 85 "older" patients aged 65 and over.
They found that, regardless of age, the patients who underwent radical nephrectomy (RN) were twice as likely to develop new onsets of chronic kidney disease than those who underwent nephron-sparing surgery (NSS).
"In RN the surgeon removes the whole kidney and the tissue around it, while in NSS the surgeon removes the cancer and part of the kidney surrounding it so that the patient still has some working kidney left after the operation" explains lead researcher Dr Frederik C Roos.
"Overall survival and complication rates were similar between the two groups, but long-term kidney function, which is very important to overall health and quality of life, was much better in the patients who had received NSS.
"Kidney tumours are more common in people in their 60s and 70s and increasing life expectancy means that more elderly patients will seek treatment for this condition.
"Our results show that 76% of older patients enjoyed good long-term kidney health with NSS as did 85% of younger patients.
"This is important as loss of kidney function is also associated with other health issues, including higher incidence of cardiovascular disease and cardiac deaths and reduced function in other organs."
Key findings included:
* The incidence of chronic kidney disease in younger patients (aged 23 to 55) was 31% after RN and 16% after NSS. In older patients (aged 65 to 84) it was 51% and 24% respectively.
* Overall survival (OS) rates did not differ significantly between surgical procedures. In the younger age group, the OS rates for NSS and RN patients were 92% and 91% at five years and 84% and 70% at 15 years. In the older group – where death from any cause was included – they were 72% and 89% at five years and 18% and 41% at 15 years.
* Complication rates were similar for both procedures, occurring in 35% of younger patients and 26% of older patients. They occurred in 16 NSS and 12 RN patients in the younger group and 10 NSS and 11 RN patients in the older group. There were no deaths as a result of the surgery.
"It is important to choose the type of surgery that patients receive for kidney tumours based on a number of factors, such as tumour features, biological age, other illnesses and the patient's wishes and social support" says Dr Roos. "The patient's actual age should not be a factor in whether they receive the surgery.
"We believe that our research shows that, if the factors we have outlined above make NSS feasible, it is the best surgical option for younger patients and carefully selected older patients with a kidney tumour of four centimetres or more."
Perioperative morbidity and renal function in young and elderly patients undergoing elective nephron-sparing surgery or radical nephrectomy for renal tumours larger than 4cm. Roos at al. BJUI. 107, pp554-561 (February 2011). DOI: 10.1111/j.1464-410X.2010.09516.x
Established in 1929, BJUI is edited by Professor John Fitzpatrick from Mater Misericordiae University Hospital and University College Dublin, Ireland. It provides its international readership with invaluable practical information on all aspects of urology, including original and investigative articles and illustrated surgery. http://www.bjui.org
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The company also has plans for 25 future projects estimated to generate up to PhP25B in revenues.
"The current housing backlog stands at over 5.9 million countrywide, with socialized and economic housing accounting for the bulk of this requirement," said Romarico "Bing" Alvarez, chairman of P.A. Properties.
P.A. Properties is well-positioned to capitalize on the huge housing backlog with 137 hectares of landbank.
"The government needs to develop the synergies and participation of all stakeholders, including the private sector, employers, citizens and development partners in the provision of shelter," Alvarez said.


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I cant believe it was my blogs first birthday yesterday!!
Am so excited about it! the last year of blogging has been so fun! i've review some amazing books! and met some amazing and interesting people that have broadened my reading!
thank you! its so exciting!


While you focus on Rossington's supposed post on facebook (and I am waiting on him to use the same media outlet to reaffirm the CBF useage, not some social outlet which may or may not be him BTW) DO NOT forget to focus on lead singer JVZ and his backup of GR comment!
GARY ROSSINGTON: Well, it became such an issue, you know, about race and stuff where we just had it, in the beginning, because we were southern. And that was our image back in the 70s and late 60s because they kind of branded us from being from the south so we showed that. But I think through the years, you know, people like the KKK and Skinheads and people have kind of kidnapped the dixie rebel flag from the southern tradition and the heritage of the soldiers. That's what it was about. And they kind of made it look bad in certain ways. So we didn't want that to go to our fans or show the image like we agree with any of the race stuff or any of the bad things.
Billy it was Gary. It was on the official Skynyrd Facebook site (which has over 2,000,000 "likes") and it was on the official Skynyrd website. My God man we have enough enemies to fight without continually persecuting our friends. If only we put forth as much effort condemning those that wish to eleminate the Forrest monument that has been in the news as of late, as we have persecuting someone who says they will keep flying our colors.


I don't think I'm very loose actually. People tell me I am but I don't see it actually. Today I told Dan I was going to tackle a coupe of sectional pots that I would be really invested in. The studio was empty today except for me and I was firing the electric reduction kiln and I was up and down like a toilet seat all day fiddling with it. I started some sections and scrapped them since I knew I was not in the zone. Dan and I have lots to do to get ready for a groundhog firing, a lecture and a workshop so I didn't want to have stuff to deal with. I threw some plates and bowls and dealt with them fresh off the wheel. It is impossible to be tight if you deal with clay fresh off the wheel.
and I was all into "Making Marks". For my money that was his best book of many gooduns. On Instrgam today a good potter said he felt like he had a stick shoved up his arse after looking at my pots. I think it is a wise thing to shove a stick up your arse in the beginning and get it in there as tight as you can. Then after several years of pain you can pull it out and it will feel so good and your arse will be loose as a goose.
The Starworks Dark Wild is not a clay for the weak at heart. You must deal with it when it wants to be dealt with. I have found the wetter the better so this immediate approach to clay is good for me and Dark Star.
Now I wish I could be at NCECA to hear your eulogy everybody's favorite grasshopper. Toes crossed that it will be available somewhere on line.
'Making Marks' is not only IMHO Grass's best book ever, but the best ever written on the subject. I am still surprised that there are huge numbers of people who have never heard of it.


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Ongoing reforms rise to financial challenges
Article - December 18, 2013
The young and developing Sudanese banking and financial sector has weathered various challenges and holds a wealth of opportunity for investment, particularly in Islamic products, with potential of reach to hundreds of thousands of new clients
COMMERCIAL BANKS REPRESENT ABOUT 97 PER CENT OF SUDAN'S FINANCIAL SYSTEM
Agriculture has traditionally formed the backbone of Sudan's economy, contributing to between 35-40 per cent of its GDP and today still employing 80 per cent of the workforce. That was until oil exports started flowing in 1999 and the petroleum industry became the alpha provider of the country's income. Rising oil production, high oil prices, and significant inflows of foreign direct investment fuelled an economic boom that lasted almost a decade and spurred the creation of new infrastructure and services – particularly in energy, health and education – to serve the nation's new wealth generator.
The region that is now South Sudan was responsible for about 75 per cent of the former Sudan's total oil production, 55 per cent of its fiscal revenues and two-thirds of its foreign exchange earnings. Understandably, following South Sudan's secession in July 2011, Sudan's oil earnings dropped and its economy took a substantial hit: between 2010 and 2012 real GDP growth fell from 3.4 per cent to -2.6 per cent, inflation increased from around 13 per cent to top 44 per cent, and the current account balance deteriorated from -2.1 per cent of GDP to -10.8 per cent.
Today, Sudan's current estimated GDP of $2,600 on a purchasing power parity basis places it roughly in the same league as other developing African nations, such as Nigeria, Djibouti, Western Sahara and Cameroon. The secession also prompted the Central Bank of Sudan to introduce a new currency in July 2011, keeping the name of the Sudanese pound, but the value of one Sudanese pound (SDG) has fallen since its introduction from around $0.37 in 2011 to $0.26 in 2012 and $0.17 in 2013.
The Sudanese authorities responded in June 2012 with a comprehensive package of corrective measures to turn around the economic imbalances thrown up by the country's division and lay the groundwork for a much-needed process of adjustment. Anti-inflationary measures have been introduced and according to the Ministry of Finance the aim is to bring inflation down to under 21 per cent in 2014 "by applying tough policies but without harming the economy".
In the 80s Sudan's banking system became the world's first to be fully Sharia based
It also points out that inflation was also affected by the Government applying a 60 per cent increase on public sector salaries and its social funding initiatives that help 500,000 families in need of assistance to meet monthly
payments. Other measures taken in 2012 included gradually repealing fuel subsidies, the formal devaluation of the pound, a sharpened focus on more effective tax collection methods and highlighting the huge untapped potential in other sectors of the economy beyond oil and gas.
Sudan's overlooked industries are a 'gold mine' of opportunities for international investors. If tapped appropriately, the country's gold reserves could potentially make it Africa's third largest gold miner, after South Africa and Ghana, and one of the top 15 in the world. As such, the Sudanese authorities are aiming to produce nearly 50 tonnes of gold – with an estimated worth of $2.5 billion – annually in the imminent future. The Ministry of Finance also points to Sudan's massive economic and investment potential in a wide range of sectors, such as finance and banking, power generation, agriculture, infrastructure development and telecommunications.
Uniquely, the Sudanese banking system was the first banking system in the world to be based entirely on the rules of Islamic Sharia law, which is rapidly gaining international presence and features principles such as risk-sharing, leasing and interest-free 'loans'.
Commercial banks represent around 97 per cent of the financial system, based on total assets, with insurance companies and a small microfinance sector making up the remainder.
Efforts are ongoing and in March 2013 a second package of measures and reforms were announced and the IMF reports that the signing of an agreement between Sudan and South Sudan the same month "opens a window of opportunity for renewed policy reforms to address the post-secession challenges" that should add stability to Sudan's young and developing financial system.
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Signing up, if possible, my Sorceror Bellona and my brother's infiltrator Spartakus.
Can bring a fop cleric stick with me.
Signing up with Scout Aquilas please.I have a volugan glove.


The Naira was granted some breathing room this week as the Dollar weakened on slowing growth fears in the United States.
While the local currency has scope to end gains amid expectations over the Fed taking a pause on rate hikes this year, the upside is likely to be limited by falling Oil prices. With depressed Oil reducing government revenues and complicating the CBN's efforts to defend the Naira, the local currency remains in the firing line. If Oil prices continue to weaken during the early parts of 2019, the Naira is at threat of depreciating.
The final trading week of 2018 has been explosively volatile and wildly unpredictable due to geopolitical risks. Global sentiment repeatedly swung from extremely bearish to bullish this week as investors tussled with concerns over slowing global growth, US-China trade developments, Brexit-related uncertainty and a partial US government shutdown. Although US stock markets bounced back to life yesterday to end positive and Asian shares traded mostly higher this morning, it is certainly too early for any celebrations. With investor appetite for riskier assets seen diminishing amid the unfavourable market conditions, global equity markets remain vulnerable to downside shocks. The geopolitical risk factors weighing painfully on global sentiment are likely to encourage investors to seek safety in the Japanese Yen and Gold.
Explosively volatile equity markets, global growth fears, Brexit uncertainty and political instability in Washington have accelerated the flight to safety – ultimately sending Gold prices to levels not seen in more than 6 months. With turbulent market conditions guiding investors towards safe-haven assets, Gold is on route to concluding 2018 firmly above the $1,272 resistance level. The yellow metal has the potential to become a major talking point across markets next year, especially when considering how the Dollar is seen weakening on growth concerns and Fed expected to take a pause on rate hikes in 2019. Taking a look at the technical picture, a yearly close above $1,272 is likely to trigger a move higher towards the $1,288 and $1,300 level.


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package jetbrains.buildServer.nuget.tests.integration.feed.server;

import jetbrains.buildServer.controllers.MockResponse;
import jetbrains.buildServer.nuget.feed.server.NuGetAPIVersion;
import jetbrains.buildServer.nuget.feed.server.NuGetFeedConstants;
import jetbrains.buildServer.nuget.feed.server.controllers.NuGetFeedHandler;
import jetbrains.buildServer.util.StringUtil;
import org.jetbrains.annotations.NotNull;

import javax.servlet.http.HttpServletRequest;
import javax.ws.rs.*;
import javax.ws.rs.core.Context;
import javax.ws.rs.core.MediaType;
import javax.ws.rs.core.Response;
import javax.ws.rs.core.UriInfo;
import java.io.File;
import java.net.URI;

@Path("")
public class NuGetJavaFeedTestController {

  @GET
  @Path(NuGetJavaFeedIntegrationTestBase.SERVLET_PATH + "{query: .*}")
  @Consumes("*/*")
  public Response getCommandResponse(@Context UriInfo uriInfo, @PathParam("query") String query) throws Exception {
    return getResponse(getRequest(uriInfo));
  }

  @POST
  @Path(NuGetJavaFeedIntegrationTestBase.SERVLET_PATH + "{query: .*}")
  @Consumes("*/*")
  public Response processBatch(@Context UriInfo uriInfo,
                               @PathParam("query") String query,
                               @HeaderParam("Content-Type") String contentType,
                               byte[] body) throws Exception {
    RequestWrapper request = getRequest(uriInfo);
    request.setMethod(HttpMethod.POST);
    request.setContentType(contentType);
    request.setBody(body);

    return getResponse(request);
  }

  @GET
  @Path(NuGetJavaFeedIntegrationTestBase.DOWNLOAD_URL)
  @Consumes("*/*")
  public Response getDownloadResponse1() throws Exception {
    return getFileResponse();
  }

  @GET
  @Path("/app" + NuGetJavaFeedIntegrationTestBase.DOWNLOAD_URL)
  @Consumes("*/*")
  public Response getDownloadResponse2() throws Exception {
    return getFileResponse();
  }

  @NotNull
  private Response getFileResponse() {
    final File file = new File("testData/packages/WebActivator.1.4.4.nupkg");
    return Response.ok(file, MediaType.APPLICATION_OCTET_STREAM)
      .header("Content-Disposition", "attachment; filename=\"" + file.getName() + "\"" )
      .header("Content-Length", String.valueOf(file.length()))
      .build();
  }

  @NotNull
  private RequestWrapper getRequest(@NotNull UriInfo uriInfo) {
    final URI uri = uriInfo.getRequestUri();
    final String query = StringUtil.isEmpty(uri.getRawQuery()) ? StringUtil.EMPTY : "?" + uri.getRawQuery();
    RequestWrapper request = new RequestWrapper(NuGetJavaFeedIntegrationTestBase.SERVLET_PATH, uri.getRawPath() + query);
    request.setServerPort(uri.getPort());
    return request;
  }

  @NotNull
  private Response getResponse(@NotNull HttpServletRequest request) throws Exception {
    request.setAttribute(NuGetFeedConstants.NUGET_FEED_API_VERSION, NuGetAPIVersion.V2);
    final NuGetFeedHandler handler = NuGetJavaFeedControllerIoC.getFeedProvider().getHandler(request);
    final ResponseWrapper response = new ResponseWrapper(new MockResponse());

    handler.handleRequest(NuGetJavaFeedIntegrationTestBase.FEED_DATA, request, response);

    Response.ResponseBuilder responseBuilder = Response
            .status(response.getStatus())
            .entity(response.toString());

    for (String name : response.getHeaderNames()) {
      responseBuilder.header(name, response.getHeader(name));
    }

    return responseBuilder.build();
  }

}

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Music » Cover
After 22 Years, the Monday Night Allstars Are Still Alive and Kickin'
The current Monday Night Allstars (from left): Rodney Shelton, Jim Brock, Ziad Rabie, Shana Blake, Chris Allen, Rick Blackwell, Joe Lindsay. (Photo by Alison Voelzow)
On a rainy night in Charlotte, a string of multi-colored holiday lights twinkle sadly as chaos ensues onstage at the Double Door Inn. It's a Monday in early January, the final night of the storied Queen City music club, and the Monday Night Allstars, which have performed in this space every week for the past 22 years, are about to dish out another set of thick, meaty, calorie-filled, Southern-fried funk, blues and R&B.
Off to one side, original bass player Rick Blackwell cradles his instrument, strokes his chin and gazes pensively into the mist of lights, as if he's having an out-of-body experience. Way in the back, on the other side, original guitarist Joe Lindsay stares down at the floor. At the right front corner of the stage, original drummer and percussionist Jim Brock bends forward and chatters nervously with friends in the audience.
As various other band members and guests plug in, tune up and talk, saxophonist Ziad Rabie speaks into a microphone at center stage about the importance of this Charlotte music institution. Some of the older members in the audience are well aware of its importance; they've been coming to the club since it opened in 1973.
"For many of us," Rabie says, "this place will live on forever, but what we want to do is make sure that we keep the spirit of the Double Door going forward into the future. Because the Double Door is like an artist — like, there'll never be another James Brown, there'll never be another Stevie Wonder, there'll never be another Michael Jackson . . . and there will never be another Double Door Inn."
What Rabie does not say is implicit: There will never be another Monday Night Allstars.
The Monday Night Allstars earlier this year performed the final night of the Double Door Inn (with guest Lenny Federal in the baseball cap). (Photo by Daniel Coston)
FIVE MONTHS LATER, the original core members of the Monday Night Allstars — Blackwell, Lindsay and Brock — are sitting around a picnic table at Common Market in Plaza Midwood, reminiscing on their 22-year ride as one of the best-known and best-loved local bands in the Charlotte area. The group had recently taken its first-ever break from performing weekly shows, but are now back at it, playing every Monday night at the Visulite Theatre on Elizabeth Avenue, just around the corner from where the Double Door once stood on Charlottetowne.
The problem is, a lot of the band's fans don't know the Allstars are still at it.
"People assume, 'The Double Door's gone, guess the Monday Night Allstars are, too,'" Brock says. "But we're not. Not yet, anyway."
It's been tough getting the word out about the group's new venue. On its first Monday night back, only about 15 to 20 showed up at the Visulite. Things picked up a little after that, but it wasn't until the past few Monday nights in June that more and more people began to trickle in to see their old favorite band perform old favorite jams like "Sing a Simple Song," "Signed, Sealed, Delivered," "Tell Me Something Good" and "Kiss."
Brock says recreating the magic of the Double Door gigs has been difficult. "I'm not sure you can recreate something like that, you know, but we're trying because we want to keep doing this," he says. "I think the fact that after 22 years the Monday Night Allstars have become sort of a tradition in this town, it stands to reason that just because the Double Door went away doesn't mean this tradition has to go away. I mean, this town, you know, it tears down a lot of shit. You should at least try to keep some traditions going."
Les Moore in 1999. (Photo by Daniel Coston)
If ever there was a tradition to preserve, the Monday Night Allstars is a rich and worthy one. The group grew out of a weekly jam session in 1994 at the now-long-gone Stanleyville Grill, which occupied the corner of Seventh Street and Pecan Avenue in Elizabeth, where a Starbucks now sits. Singer, songwriter and guitarist Les Moore was the soundman at Stanleyville and wanted to put together a night where local musicians could come in and casually play together.
"It actually started out on Sundays," Blackwell says, "and anybody could come in and sit in and jam with us." Within a year, Moore got a job working sound at the Double Door and took the Stanleyville Sunday night jam with him. "It was still a jam session at that point, but eventually certain players started showing up regularly and playing together behind Les," Blackwell remembers.
Those certain players were Blackwell, Brock and a very young Lindsay, along with saxophonist John Alexander, keyboard player Mark Stallings, and a phenomenal singer and stage ham named Charles Hairston. "We'd play some of Les' tunes and other stuff and people started showing up regularly and it turned into a band situation," Blackwell says.
When the Charlotte Blues Society requested Sunday nights at the Double Door, owner Nick Karres offered the jammers Monday nights instead, and the players eventually began calling themselves the Monday Night Allstars. "Nick says to us, 'Let's try this and we'll do it until it doesn't work anymore,'" Brock says. "It ended up working until the day the place closed."
THE MONDAY NIGHT ALLSTARS weren't just random musicians. Blackwell, a Texas native who moved to Charlotte at 15, had first played at the Double Door as far back as 1975, when he performed in a jazz-fusion band. He and Hairston went on to become members of Mo' Money, one of the hottest R&B cover bands in the Charlotte area at the time.
The Monday Night Allstars in 2008. (Photo by Daniel Coston)
Lindsay, a young South Carolina native who'd gotten a gig playing in a Carowinds show band in 1990, would come into Charlotte to see Mo' Money perform. He developed a friendship with Blackwell, who eventually brought the hot young guitarist to the Monday jam at the Double Door.
Meanwhile, Brock had long been an in-demand drummer and percussionist in Charlotte who first played at the Double Door in 1977 and worked with numerous area musicians including Don Dixon, Marti Jones and Mike Cross.
All three would go on to do serious studio work with major artists ranging from folk singer Janis Ian and country singer Kathy Mattea to rockers Joe Walsh and Joe Cocker to R&B acts including K-Ci & JoJo, Anthony Hamilton, Calvin Richardson and Stephanie Mills.
These were hot studio aces who needed the outlet that the Monday Night Allstars offered. "It was like a little release for us every week," Blackwell remembers.
By 1996, the Monday Night Allstars had gained a strong weekly following at the Double Door. People would come in to play pool, drink at the bar and watch Monday Night Allstars singer Hairston bend down on his knees during James Brown songs, dance with female audience members while crooning Otis Redding songs, and sing with as much passion and soul as any R&B great you could name.
The late, great Charles Hairston in 2008. (Photo by Daniel Coston)
Brock's son James was young and impressionable during those years, and Hairston's stage antics rocked his world. "He was one of a kind. Nobody else like him," James Brock told me on the night of the Double Door's closing. "One of the most amazing things I've ever seen was when Charles would sing [the Curtis Mayfield classic] 'People Get Ready' and step off the mic, and the volume of his voice — he'd walk around the bar — and the volume of his voice would keep up with the PA. Because he could project so loud. He'd walk around to people and sing to them. It was like church in here. It really was."
The Monday Night Allstars recorded their one and only CD, Live from the Double Door Inn, during their second year at the club. It included classic but not obvious R&B standards ranging from the Jackie Wilson hit "A Woman, A Lover, A Friend" to Marvin Gaye's "Pride and Joy" to Mayfield's "People Get Ready." The CD sold out immediately and the band had to print up new copies, which also sold out. It's sadly no longer available.
"It was like church in here. It really was." — James Brock tweet this
"If my memory serves correct, the place was packed every Monday night for two years straight after we put out that CD," Lindsay remembers. "You couldn't move in that club, it was so crowded."
BY THE EARLY 2000s, celebrities were showing up at the Double Door on Monday nights to see the Allstars. Tom Jones came in and sat in the front row the whole night. K-Ci & JoJo sat in with the band. And when the legendary keyboardist Al Kooper, a founding member of Blood, Sweat and Tears and discoverer of Lynyrd Skynyrd, was in town recording at Reflection Studio, he asked if he could sit in with the Allstars.
Kooper. (Photo: Michael Borkson)
A notorious rock 'n' roll curmudgeon, Kooper amused the band when he assumed they couldn't play his classic song "I Love You More Than You'll Ever Know," which appeared on Blood, Sweat and Tears' 1968 debut album, Child Is Father to the Man.
"Al had been here all week in the studio and was just wanting to play," Brock remembers. "So he came in and did his thing, and moaned and groaned, and. . ."
Brock, Blackwell and Lindsay all bust out laughing.
"Rick put it best when he told Al, 'Play your little song, we got ya,'" Brock remembers.
Blackwell furrows his brow: "Who said that?"
Brock: "You did!"
"Yeah, he didn't think we could handle it, did he?" Blackwell says, and laughs lightly. "I don't know if I said 'little song,' though."
The three nudge each other. They're like brothers. Brock is the oldest, at 64; Blackwell is 62; and at 48, Lindsay is the kid brother. But the real elder sibling was Hairston, who died in 2009 of prostate cancer. He would be 69 had he lived.
The core original members last month at Common Market in Plaza Midwood. From left: Blackwell, Lindsay and Brock. (Photo by Mark Kemp)
"People are my first love and singing is my second," Hairston told former Creative Loafing music editor Jeff Hahne in 2008, a few months before the singer died. "It's fun to love people and have them appreciate what you do. It's the one thing that I've always taken very seriously in my life. I appreciate the love of other people — it's the strength to get me through what I'm going through right now."
Losing Hairston was tough on the band. He was the wild card. The crazy older brother. He'd come in around midnight, perform like a mad man, then leave. The others never knew exactly where he'd go. "We didn't even want to know where he went," Brock says, laughing. Then he gets serious. "But he showed up every fucking Monday night," Brock continues, "and he didn't care if it was two people or 200 people, he was on. Always on."
"Always on," Blackwell echoes.
Hairston would call out names of songs at random and the Allstars would charge into them. The band never rehearsed. It has not rehearsed once in its 22 years. The players just do songs they all know, and when they want to add more, they listen to recordings and then test-drive them the next Monday night.
Rick Blackwell in 1999. (Photo by Daniel Coston)
"You have to realize, Rick had been in bands with Charles for years when we started this," Lindsay says. "And then I was in a band with Charles — the Charles Hairston Experience — and Charles and I also did a lot of acoustic stuff together. So we already had a very extended song vocabulary. It was real easy for us to just say, 'Hey, let's play such-and-such.'"
When Hairston died, the band vowed to soldier on. After all, Hairston had told them to do so, and he was the big brother. "They're talented enough that they can do that," Hairston said to Hahne. "There are other bands that wouldn't be able to work if I wasn't able to."
THE PAST SEVEN YEARS have been a period of many transitions for the Monday Night Allstars. They went through three replacement singers — Carey Sims, Mandyl Evans and Jody Gholson — before locking in on current singer Shana Blake, the band's first female member.
"We kind of wanted to try something different and we heard Shana sing here and there, and we just asked her if she wanted to do it," Blackwell says. "It's worked out great. She's been fantastic."
John Alexander in 1999. (Photo by Daniel Coston)
And there have been many other musicians who've come and gone over the years. The current lineup — Brock, Blackwell, Lindsay, Blake, sax player Rabie (the architect of the Bechtler Museum's Jazz at the Bechtler series), drummer Chris Allen, and keys player Rodney Shelton (who wrote Keith Washington's 1991 hit "Kissing You") — is as strong as any era of the Monday Night Allstars.
"We never considered stopping," Brock ways. "We never felt like just because the Double Door closed, that would be it for us. We did give it a little bit of a break before we started back, to let the bereavement pass. If we'd immediately gone somewhere else, it would have been weird."
The Allstars got several offers from local clubs including Hattie's Tap and Tavern on the Plaza. "We had eight or nine offers but none of them really made any sense," Brock says. "We looked at a few places and thought, 'Nah, we couldn't do that here.' Shag dance clubs. Hattie's. They just didn't feel right. And then the Visulite called and that's how we wound up there."
Joe Lindsay in 1999. (Photo by Daniel Coston)
It's been hard. Everybody knew about the Monday Night Allstars at the Double Door. It was legendary. It had become much bigger than either the band or the club. For one thing, Monday night had been a big pool night at the Double Door.
"The sharks would show up and there was this whole other world going on in the back around the pool tables," Brock remembers. "They were there for that and for the music, too. But we don't have those folks now because there's no pool tables at the Visulite."
"The thing about the Double Door," Blackwell adds, "is that it was the place to be on Monday night. It was the thing to do — for a long, long time."
"Every cab driver knew it, every hotel knew it," Brock continues. "So people coming into town wanting to know what to do on Monday night would always hear, 'Go to the Double Door and see the Monday Night Allstars.'"
If Charlotte doesn't continue to support the Monday Night Allstars at the band's new digs, the Visulite might have to discontinue the event. If that happens, the core members say they may just hang it up for good. And the loss to Charlotte would be equivalent to the loss of a loved one. Or the loss of a great bar or restaurant. It would be significant.
"Yeah, if they pull the plug at the Visulite, my guess is that we wouldn't keep doing it," Brock says, and pauses for several long seconds. Then, with a big Cheshire cat grin, he adds, "But you never know! You never know about us. We've been through a lot together."
Watch the Monday Night Allstars with the late Charles Hairston singing Earth, Wind and Fire's "Shining Star":
Watch the Monday Night Allstars today, with singer Shana Blake, performing "Congo Square":
Watch a tribute to the late, great Hairston:
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Help Keep the Monday Night Allstars Alive
The ball's in your court
by Mark Kemp | Jul 5, 2017
Ryan Pitkin
After 43 years, the Double Door Inn threw down for one final jam session 1
Goodbye, Double Door
by Ryan Pitkin | Jan 4, 2017
Jeff Hahne
Monday Night Allstars still shine
Band solidifies lineup with Shana Blake
by Jason King | Oct 17, 2013
All-Stars always shine
Benefit planned to help ailing singer
by Jeff Hahne | Sep 16, 2008
Visulite Theatre
1615 Elizabeth Ave. (Elizabeth)


My very own Easter Bunnies! 🐰 🐰 🐰 Happy Easter!
And just like that, my babies are 4 months old 🖤🖤 I can't say these last 4 months have been easy. Raising twins and a toddler is definitely the hardest thing I ever had to do and with every passing month new challenges come our way.. but every time one of them smiles or giggles at me I forgot all the sleepless nights and long days.
May your Easter be Blessed with Grace, Joy, Love and Abundance. Happy Easter!!
My heart in the tree.
In the cherry blossom before the rain began.


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A: One way to install eclipse is through the software center.

Another way is to visit http://www.eclipse.org/downloads/compare.php?release=luna and compare the different packages,
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Please come and enjoy a meal - there is a small charge for the meals and tea and coffee is included in the price. Best wishes Jeanette, Glynn and the Help for the Homeless team.
Weekly Christian craft based event for primary and junior school aged children with a meal served during the last hour of the event.
This is new venture - a parents and tots group with a Christian Foundation, crafts and child centred teaching.
Sunday School starts today - it's Sunday School but not as maybe you knew it!
It will be held on the last Sunday of each month.
Copyright © 2019 Welcome to Chell Parish.


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Transferred Malice and Transferred Defenses: A Critique of the Traditional Doctrine and Arguments for a Change in Paradigm
Michael Bohlander
New Criminal Law Review: An International and Interdisciplinary Journal, Vol. 13 No. 3, Summer 2010; (pp. 555-624) DOI: 10.1525/nclr.2010.13.3.555
The aim of this paper is first to focus on analyzing the existing judicial authorities on the matter of transferred malice and the transfer of defenses as well as the academic commentary, firstly within English law and secondly in comparative law research. It will then try to address the underlying structural issues of the transferred malice doctrine to find out whether the current English and Welsh approach is defensible or in need of rethinking: in other words, whether the stress on the idea of a "transfer" is really appropriate and helpful or rather misleading, and what the consequences of a departure from the idea of a transfer of intent are for the transfer of defenses. The human rights impact of the Human Rights Act 1998 and the state's corresponding duty to protect the rights of its citizens by means of an adequate provision and application of the criminal law will come into play as well. Given the additional issues surrounding independent but contributing human agency, this paper will not address the transferred malice scenarios that arise in complicity cases.
©© 2010 by the Regents of the University of California
Vol. 13 No. 3, Summer 2010
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Portugal is a country with countless fascinating stories of missionaries and their voyages of discovery. If you are ones who love the history of Catholicism during the Age of Discovery, then this is the country that you would want to visit. My admiration for the missionaries of the past grows stronger whenever I have a chance to stroll along the seashore and stare at the ocean at night. I imagine the thousands of Portuguese missionaries risking their lives to follow Jesus' command, "Go and baptize the people of all the nations" (Matt 28:19). With audacity, they transverse into the darkness of the unknown of the Atlantic Ocean. My Cross-Cultural Program (CTP) experience became even more meaningful when I learned that the Portuguese missionaries were the first ones to arrive in Vietnam in the 16th century.
Before heading to Portugal for CTP, I was quite worried upon hearing about many challenges facing the European church today. However, my worries faded away as soon as I encountered the SVD and the people in Portugal. Each year, the Divine Word Missionaries (SVD) collaborate with the Holy Spirit Sisters (SSpS) to organize the youth gathering, Verbum Jovem, to help the young people to pray and discern their vocations. This year we had more than 120 young people participated in Minde, a small town located 20 minutes south of Fatima. The SVD has two parishes here. Due to a large number of participants, the SVD often asks the local people for accommodations. I was assigned to one of the Portuguese families with other Divine Word Missionaries. In this experience, I was deeply touched because we were strangers, yet the family warmly welcomed us into their house with great kindness and hospitality. Even though the language was a barrier, since this was my second week in Portugal, I was moved by the love and warm hospitality from the people.
Not only was I touched by their kindness, but also their way of living out the Catholic faith. Portugal is considered to be the poorest country in Western Europe, but their value of faith is strong and robust.Most of the Portuguese that I had talked to recognized the importance of passing on the Catholic faith to the younger generation. I encountered many instances where people gave witness to the faith through simple acts, such as family gathering for prayer, praying before or after meals, and their devotion to Our Lady, just to name a few.
For the Portuguese, the apparition of Our Lady at Fatima is monumental.It is not merely a miraculous event that happened to three ordinary children at Fatima, but it also plays a very important role in the history and politics of Portugal. This event significantly shapes the local church. The people here acknowledge many challenges that the church is currently facing. However, they believe that their prayers and petitions for the protection of the Divine Providence and of Our Lady of Fatima are best ways to defend their country against the corrosive elements of the modern world. After a short time living in Portugal, I learned that the best way to get in touch with the people is through praying the rosary. For many faithful in Portugal, the rosary is the most powerful and effective tool to foster unity and to safeguard their faith as Our Lady of Fatima had promised to preserve the faith of Portugal.
Ministries in Portugal are very diverse. One way the Divine Word Missionaries contribute and respond to the needs of the local church is through parish ministry. Despite hindrance from secularism and materialism, the young people in Portugal still hunger for the Word of God, and above all, the true Spirit of the Gospel. Our founder, St. Arnold Janssen, once said, "The best joy that we can offer to the people today is the Good News of our Lord Jesus. "His words urge all of us to work tirelessly in proclaiming the joy of the Gospel to the people, especially in the secular context of Europe where people quickly identify with destructive pleasures of life and reject the reality of pain and suffering. The sign of the cross continues to illumine the loving heart of Jesus in the midst of our lives, in good and bad times.


Have you ever looked back on a time when you were lazy, unmotivated, unwilling, and then looked at your current beast-like attitude towards training and wondered how you managed to transition from that unfit human you once were to the machine you have become?
or, are you currently feeling unmotivated and wondering how you can get to the point where keeping fit and healthy, and putting in work feels fun rather than a horrible chore?
What's the difference between the person who savours the grind and the person who struggles to to put in the time?
The mind plays a pivotal part in every aspect of your life, and in calisthenics that's exception. your mind is what stops you from starting, distracts you from continuing and keeps you from getting up when you fall.
What motivates us to train?
Valence refers to how much the outcome is worth to you.
So according to this, if there is an outcome you desire, you believe you will get it, and you believe you can get it, you'll be motivated.
For example, you may REALLY WANT(valence) to get fit and look good and KNOW THAT PUTTING IN WORK WILL GET YOU THAT (Instrumentatlity) but NOT BELIEVE YOU CAN BECAUSE YOU'RE TO UNFIT, OR TOO OLD ETC (Expectancy), your motivational equation won't add up and you won't feel the desire to spring up off the couch and do 20 burpees.
One thing i learned early on in personal trainer school was to show people how to get their feet wet, just to build the habit of exercise, before taking them to the deep end. If you've never exercised in your life, build a habit of walking every day first, then start adding in something you're capable of like maybe jogging, then maybe some pushups; what's happening here is you're building up your expectancy – your belief that you can which is what often stops people before they start. Then so long as the outcome outcome is still worth it (valence), you should start to enjoy smashing goals to get to it.
This applies to learning new moves too. Want to do a human flag, but find yourself struggling to put in the time to train it? Do you believe you can put in the effort? Do you believe putting in the effort will get you that flag? Is that flag worth it for you? Find your mental weak point and address it.
My summary advice on getting motivated is to listen to Nike and just do it. If it's worth it to you, then shut off your mind from all doubts and excuses, make a plan and just do it. And once you've been doing it long enough (usually about 30 days) and your mind has established the habit of exercise within it's neural networks, that's when you can start to enjoy the thing that once seemed so hard.
Here's a story I've seen a thousand times: A person gets started, establishes the habit of exercise, trains everyday like clockwork, craves it, loves it…then a few months later they skip a few days of training, eats some bad food, so they write off that week.."I'll get back into it next week"…then next week they have a conference out of town and can't find time to train or eat… "ok…I'll wait til I get back, then start fresh"…then they get back on a Wednesday but they're too tired to train… "I'll start again next Monday for sure"…but Monday never comes.
This is common, I've done it myself, and once again the culprit is mindset.
I consider this a relapse. As an ex-smoker I can tell you the feeling is the same. When you quit smoking you start to replace the habit of smoking with healthy habits that don't involve smoking. Then one day you're out at a party with a drink in your hand and you decide, I'll just have this one cigarette, the next day, just one more, you tell yourself you'll quit again Monday and once again Monday never comes, and you're a smoker again.
Likewise, when you replace your unhealthy habits with healthy ones, the old version of yourself remains in there waiting to relapse if you allow.
The truth is there will be circumstances that are out of your control that will prevent you from training. And it's even good sometimes to take a bit of time away from training for full recovery and for your own mental sanity. What we don't want is to allow our two week break to become two months, which becomes two years, which becomes "I remember when I was fit and healthy".
Avoiding this involves bringing yourself back to the mindset that got you started in the first place and not letting yourself fall too far before doing so. When your two week vacation ends and you feel rejuvenated, its' time to hype yourself back into the zone. Don't ever wait until Monday. Remind yourself that you love this. Remind yourself that how you feel after you workout will be completely different to how you feel before. Remind yourself that it's still worth it, that you have goals and you can achieve them, that the struggle is your friend and that you love the challenge. Remind yourself that the longer you wait, the more difficult it will become, so don't wait until Monday, there's no time like the present.
This section is here to tell you to believe in yourself. You are capable of so much more than you think. You ever see these kids with amazing talents doing flips and planching at the age of 3? Or writing concertos at the age of 10? This is not a magical talent, they were just never told where to stop, or what they couldn't do, they only saw what they could.
The challenge with being a teenager or adult is you have years of expectation programmed into your mind. You have been told that certain things are difficult so you approach them with too much caution, you have felt failure over the years and it's compounded itself into a fear of trying. So when you walk up to a bar to attempt something, you approach it with the demons of your past on your shoulders.
I believe a big part of truly unlocking beast mode is to zen the f*** out. Bring yourself to the present. Practicing mindfulness can help but even if you don't want to go that far, appreciate the value of bringing yourself to the moment and focusing purely on what you are about to do right now: this move, this rep, this moment. Appreciate the opportunity that you have right now, while letting go of the fears, failures and expectations of the past. Do this for long enough and you'll form the habit of maximum effort and focus in every element of your training.
That part about entering a competition you don't feel ready for hit close to home haha! Great article!


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Q: How to run and render gym Atari environments in real time, instead of sped up? Currently when I render any Atari environments they are always sped up, and I want to look at them in normal speed. I am using Gym Atari with Tensorflow, and Keras-rl on Windows. The language is python.

A: Somehow late, but run on this cause i was looking for an answer myself.
What I did was to sleep before every step for 1/fps. Something like:
from time import sleep
sleep(0.0416) (24 fps)
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Posted 12:12 pm, January 16, 2020, by Associated Press
Mitchell Finley
ST. LOUIS – A man has been sentenced to more than four years in prison for robbing a St. Louis County bank.
Mitchell Finley, 57, was sentenced Wednesday for the heist and for being a felon in possession of a firearm, the U.S. attorney's office says in a news release.
Court documents say he approached a teller in April, placed a white bag on the counter and announced that he was robbing the bank. The teller put $4,131 into the bag.
He then went to a nearby restaurant, where he was arrested. A backpack that was found next to him contained the clothing he wore during the bank robbery and the stolen money. The court documents say he also had a pistol in his waistband.
Man sentenced for armed robbery at Richmond Heights Post Office
Former Missouri officer sentenced for bank robbery
Doctor sentenced to prison, fined for health care fraud
Woman pleads guilty to her role in robbery of Richmond Heights post office
Missouri man sentenced in $6 million K2 distribution conspiracy
Man arrested for Target store theft was already on probation for other crimes
Former Dojo Pizza owner gets 65 years on child porn charges
Former St. Louis Community College employee sentenced for embezzling college funds
St. Louis man charged in armed robbery of pizza delivery drivers
Prosecutors say a man stole $88,000 from a bank vault. The FBI caught him after he flashed stacks of bills on social media.
Armed felon sentenced for shooting at St. Louis police officers in Central West End
Missouri developer sentenced to prison for Kirkwood scam
Carjacker in crash that killed boy sentenced to 10 years


The idea of loving the poor and needy from another culture can feel overwhelming to the church in America. We want to have compassion, but often don't know how. The Vine Uganda is committed to introducing the beauty of Uganda to the church. The Apostle James said, "Pure and genuine religion in the sight of God the Father means caring for the orphans and widows in their distress and refusing to let the world corrupt you…" The Vine Uganda serves as a bridge between the church and the needy. We love partnering with churches throughout the world as we bring hope not only to Uganda—but to churches that desperately need to see the love of God outside their own walls.
We'd love to partner with your congregation. The Vine Uganda offers speaker presentations that can educate and ignite your church's passion for orphans and vulnerable women. We will also offer organized trips to visit and serve our friends in Kamuli.
To learn more or request a speaker please contact our Stateside Coordinator, Lydia at lydia.thevineuganda@gmail.com .


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» Federal judge allows lawsuit against Applebee's mandatory tipping
Federal judge allows lawsuit against Applebee's mandatory tipping
On Behalf of Lancaster and St. Louis, PLLC | Feb 7, 2018 | Business Law
Former customers at a string of New York City-based Applebee's restaurants are suing over a forced tipping system, which the plaintiffs argue should be voluntary. At the restaurants in question, customers pay using an at-table, digital payment system, which forces customers to pay a minimum tip of 15–18 percent (based on the restaurant)—with neither an opt-out option nor an opportunity to designate a smaller amount.
While the restaurant menus indicate that prices do not take taxes and gratuity into account, the plaintiffs claim the restaurant did not properly disclose the tipping system. They are suing for false advertising, unfair business practices, negligent misrepresentation, breach of contract and unjust enrichment.
Applebee's, using five defenses to refute the plaintiffs' allegations, petitioned the court to have the lawsuit dismissed. Last week federal judge J. Paul Oetken ruled to permit the class action lawsuit to proceed, discrediting Applebee's claims:
Claim #1: The menu properly displayed the tipping structure. Oetken asserted that notifying customers that prices do not include taxes and gratuity is not the same as defining the tipping structure.
Claim #2: The plaintiffs were not really required to tip, as they could have asked the wait staff for a paper bill to circumvent the automated tipping structure. Oetken held that it is not reasonable to assume that customers would know about his option.
Claim #3: Tipping is a widely accepted social norm. According to Oetken, this social norm permits customers to tip less than normal in the event of poor service, and Applebee's failed to provide this option.
Claim #4: None of the plaintiffs alleged injury. The judge claimed that customers who would not have otherwise tipped the standard 15–18 percent could have been harmed by being forced to pay it.
Claim #5: Because tips went to the wait staff—not the restaurant—there are no grounds for unjust enrichment. Oetken held that even if all tips went to wait staff, this could have positively impacted the restaurant, because increased income generation through tips could lead Applebee's to pay their staff less.
Should it be legal for a restaurant to implement a requisite, minimum tipping system? What do you think?


The International Monetary Fund says efforts to stimulate the economy with ultra-low interest rates and huge purchases of bonds are necessary, though there could be some bad side effects.
The IMF's "Global Financial Stability Report" says this "accommodation" by central banks must be monitored closely because it could prompt companies, pension funds and others to borrow large sums that they would have trouble repaying if the economy turns sour.
IMF official Jose Vinals also said low interest rates in developed nations could temporarily boost the flow of money into emerging nations, disrupting their economies.
Vinals urged Europe to set up a "banking union" covering many nations with a single supervisor and system for coping with troubled banks. He called on European nations to speed up financial reform efforts, and noted the process is well along in the United States.
Vinals spoke in Washington as top officials from around the world are gathering for meetings of the International Monetary fund and the World Bank later this week.


In today's food news, via our friends at Food News Journal: Pepsi will launch a new low-sugar soda in July. Plus, bad conditions at a Kellogg cookie plant lead to a second listeria warning from the FDA. And can craft brewers rescue the most boring craft beer?


At Nordstrom's new tiny store in Los Angeles, customers will be able to enjoy a glass wine, but they won't be browsing the aisles. The fashion retailer's new 3,000-square-foot Nordstrom Local store has no dedicated inventory, but packs plenty of experiences.
The retail concept store will be a "neighborhood hub" where customers can access Nordstrom services, such as personal stylists who can transfer merchandise in for customers. Shoppers can also get alterations, a manicure, or just have online orders hand-delivered to their cars.
While the store won't house merchandise, Nordstrom's Buy Online, Pick-Up In-Store (BOPIS) service will be available for pick up on the same day for Nordstrom.com orders placed before 2 p.m. BOPIS orders and alterations made in the store can be hand-delivered to a customer's car via Nordstrom Local's Curbside Pickup. In 2016, the company had a BOPIS store sales volume of 45%.
Alterations and purchases made through Nordstrom Local can also be delivered directly to a customer's home on the same day if ordered by 2 p.m. Customers will also be able to make returns at Nordstrom Local from Nordstrom stores, Nordstrom.com and Trunk Club.
"We know there are more and more demands on a customer's time and we wanted to offer our best services in a convenient location to meet their shopping needs," said Shea Jensen, Nordstrom senior vice president of customer experience who led the Nordstrom Local initiative. "Finding new ways to engage with customers on their terms is more important to us now than ever."
Nordstrom has been testing new ways to engage customers in its regular stores as well. Part of its rollouts this year include the expansion of Nordstrom's "reserve online & try in store" service. The retailer plans to offer this feature in roughly 50 stores by the end of the year and announced currently it is expanding the service to four stores in the Chicago market, up from six in the Seattle area.
"Customers like having more ability to shop on their terms," said James F. Nordstrom, president of stores, in August. "The store plays a huge role in that, and they're really important. And they're going to be the hub of a lot of the things that we do over time, which is why we want to continue investing in our most important markets."
Nordstrom Local could be seen as the redefining of the brick-and-mortar version of this department store. When it opens shop in West Hollywood on October 3, the store will have one styling suite and eight dressing rooms surrounding a central meeting space where customers can sit comfortably, enjoy a glass of wine or beer, and chat with their personal stylists.
A Nordstrom personal stylist can help customers with fashion advice, finding a gift or developing a whole new wardrobe. Stylists and salespeople have a new digital tool, Nordstrom Style Boards, which allow them to create digital boards filled with personalized fashion recommendations, like a summer vacation or wedding, which customers can view on their phone and purchase directly through Nordstrom.com.
Customers can make an appointment with a stylist online, over the phone or in-person. They can also get advice of a stylist by having a conversation with them through the app.
Additionally, on-site tailors at Nordstrom Local will alter any garment from jeans to a suit. Trunk Club & Trunk Club Custom services will provide another location for customers to meet a Trunk Club Stylist or pick up or return a trunk. Tailors will help customers create a Trunk Club Custom garment.
The tiny shop will also off eight different manicure services to help customers complete their looks.
And of course there will be drinks throughout any of these services, as Nordstrom Local will serve a full beverage menu including California-sourced beer and wine, cold-pressed juices from Pressed Juicery, and handcrafted espresso drinks from Nordstrom Ebar.
Nordstrom Local is located at 8401 Melrose Place, Los Angeles, CA.


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Former Working Dairy Farm on 300 Acres
300 acres • $2,000,000
Other private organization (educational, religious, for-profit, etc.)
Dan Maclure
2684 King George Road, Sutton, VT 05867
Other open and/or non-farmable land:
Buildings and 2 ponds comprise approximately 10 acres.
Was a working dairy farm in the late 1990's prior to being converted to the King George boarding school. The land has been only hay for the last several years. About 80 acres of Sugarbush with approximately 4-5,000 taps.
Private water. Two spring fed ponds.
5 BR/3 BA residence; 6 BR/2 BA residence; 5 BR/2 BA apartment building; two dormitories.
Approximately 58,000 sq. ft. among 13 buildings: including a large barn, sugar house, maintenance building, utility building, 5 BR/3 BA residence, 6 BR/2 BA residence, 5 BR/2 BA apartment building, two dormitories, meeting hall, classroom building, administration building and studio.
300 Acres with 13 buildings (the former King George boarding school).
This 300 acres of open meadows and beautiful woodland overlooking Burke Ski Mountain and into the White Mountains and valleys was a working dairy farm in the late 1990's before being converted to the former King George boarding school on the southeast side of Sheffield Heights. Includes thirteen buildings constructed andrenovated between 1920 through 2000 with a total of 58,000 sq.ft. dormitory buildings for 96, main classroom building with 22 rooms including a theater, art studio, computer lab, dance studio, 7 classrooms and dining hall with kitchen. Administration building has 14 rooms, 8 of which were offices. Large barn used for recreation room, woodworking & offices. Community center, sugarhouse, meeting house & maintenance along with many other buildings. Two spring fed ponds and a recreational field. Easy access to Interstate 91. This multipurpose property can be used for large farm with living quarters. Think of the possibilities!