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StarMetro Vancouver: Harm reduction in housing facilities and public places can save lives, experts say
By BC Non-Profit Housing Association
Perrin Grauer / StarMetro Vancouver / November 18, 2018 (with mention of Housing Central)
VANCOUVER—Outfitting shared and public washrooms in housing developments and other public spaces with harm reduction measures can and will save lives, according to a group of presenters at the Housing Central Affordable Housing Conference.
While few organizations condone drug use in their washrooms, such areas are frequently used for drug consumption due to their accessibility, privacy and perceived safety, said Shannon Riley, a clinical educator in overdose emergency response and prevention for Vancouver Coastal Health (VCH).
"If you have a bathroom, (substance use) will happen," Riley said during Sunday's presentation.
And installing measures intended to impede substance use (such as "blue lights" which render veins less visible, making injections more difficult) simply drive people who use drugs to undertake riskier behaviours, possibly resulting in greater harm or even death, she said.
Harm reduction strategies recommended by VCH include regular monitoring of washroom facilities, a door which unlocks after a fixed amount of time to allow staff to check on occupants, a shelf or table for belongings, and an emergency naloxone kit. Tamper-proof sharps disposal units, intercoms, emergency call bells and clear signage outlining these measures and how they work are also key recommendations.
And with communities across the province being affected by the overdose crisis — which shows no signs of slowing — such considerations cannot be viewed as specific to certain neighbourhoods or demographics, such as Vancouver's Downtown Eastside, Riley said.
September 2018, saw 128 reported overdose-related deaths in B.C., pushing the total to more than 1,100 overdose fatalities for the year, according to a report from the B.C. Coroners Service. This puts the year's total number of deaths on track to match or exceed the 1,458 overdose fatalities that occurred in 2017 — the worst annual total in Canadian history.
But Riley's colleague Kimberly Murphy pointed out these overdose statistics don't reflect how widespread the risk of overdose truly is. Yes, Murphy said, people overdose from illicit drug use. But so do people who accidentally misuse prescription medications. And beginning to understand drug overdose in this way — as a risk faced by a broad cross-section of Canadians — is a perspective shift Murphy said she believes can reorient some of the pushback she sees to ideas like outfitting public places with harm reduction equipment.
Such a perspective shift is perhaps more clear when one thinks about sex education, said Murphy, who is a co-ordinator of harm reduction services for VCH. Some people might imagine that providing condoms to youth encourages them to have sex. But in fact, she said, young people are having sex anyway, and educating them on how to do it safely prevents them from undertaking risky behaviours.
"So, it's more about changing people's perspectives," Murphy said. "If you put (harm reduction tools) in place, you're not sending the message that (substance use) is OK … You're not advocating for anything, you're preventing death."
https://www.thestar.com/vancouver/2018/11/18/harm-reduction-in-housing-facilities-and-public-places-can-save-lives-experts-say.html


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§ The Gemara returns to the topic of the source for resurrection in the Torah. Rabbi Tavi says that Rabbi Yoshiya says: What is the meaning of that which is written: "There are three that are never satisfied…the grave, and the barren womb, and earth that does not receive sufficient water" (Proverbs 30:15–16)? And what does a grave have to do with a womb? Rather, they are juxtaposed to say to you: Just as a womb takes in and gives forth, so too a grave takes in and also gives forth, with the resurrection of the dead. And are these matters not inferred a fortiori: If with regard to a womb, into which one introduces the embryo in secret, one removes the baby from it accompanied by the loud sounds of the woman crying out during childbirth, then with regard to the grave, into which one introduces the corpse with sounds of wailing and mourning the dead, is it not right that one removes from it the resurrected dead accompanied by the loud sounds of the resurrected multitudes? From here there is a response to those who say: There is no resurrection of the dead derived from the Torah.
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Basics of Worldbuilding
E M Sherwood Foster
So You Want to Build a World?
No matter what type of world you're creating for a story in mind, whether it be an alternate history or an epic high fantasy or the Next Great American Novel, you have to incorporate at least some aspects of worldbuilding. Even genres such as literary fiction require a distinct setting and characteristics, and careful outlining and world development allow your readers to immerse themselves in the story you've crafted.
But what if you're new to worldbuilding and you don't exactly know where to start? Or what if your work requires a great deal of worldbuilding because it's fantasy, science fiction, or another speculative genre? If the second question is the case, you might be wondering how much worldbuilding you have to do and what parts of your world you should focus on.
For this post I'm looking at the big picture, something to start off with. Because once you start outlining the biggest and most important aspects to your world, the rest becomes much easier to develop. Here are a few aspects to worldbuilding that you can develop to get you started.
How Are You Going About It?
First determine what kind of worldbuilding you're going to be doing. This depends on the type of story you're writing. Do you plan on modelling our own world or starting completely from scratch? Does the world exist completely apart from ours, or does it takes place somewhere magical and still hidden in our own world? Is it our world, but an alternate history or a possible dystopia?
Once you've got that down, it becomes easier knowing whether you can base the major components of your world off of something preexisting and recognizable or otherwise. So it might be a primary world, a world existing in our own, or a secondary world, as Tolkien would call it, a "subcreation" that might be based off our reality but merely finds inspiration off our world rather than basing itself off it. When you've determined what type of creativity you're going for, next comes the big picture that first brings your story to life.
Define Your Setting
One of the biggest aspects to worldbuilding is the world's development, such as its history, its landscape, how the environment and surroundings affect the plot, characters, and events that take place in the moment in time you choose to talk about. Think about real life and how unique events and tragedies have shaped the cultural values and societies seen today. A great fiction example is Brandon Sanderson's The Way of Kings, where the unnatural (to us) weather and geography shape the setting, civilization, and how the people interact. This all works together to establish the specific setting the plot takes place in.
You might want to think that setting and worldbuilding are the same thing. After all, the world you've created is going to be where your story and all its scenes takes place. The places your characters interact with and experience should have the same factors as the world you're building already, right? True, but not completely.
Settings are the specific surroundings you're describing at the moment, while the history and background you created as part of your worldbuilding is its foundation. It's like how Tolkien's legendary The Silmarillion created a history of the First and Second Age of Middle Earth, setting up the events of The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings later on. So when you start a story, you need to develop how things have happened, how major events led to the first moment of your work. Then go from there.
Both your characters and your readers need to know where they are in the story, but they also need the context, the history, the background to how your world works, and they need to learn more and more as you walk them through the story. Readers learn the where and the what around them (without the info-dumping of course). So start off your worldbuilding by establishing what your physical world is like. Next comes how people and cultures interact within it.
Define Your Culture
Next comes what your society and culture (or cultures) is like. The culture is different from the history of your world, as it's the values and customs of a group of people with specific values and ideas. Imagine you've created a history leading up to the time your story starts. This forms the basis for how the people in your culture think, act, what their customs are, and more.
Start by asking yourself what the people are like. After all, the culture is made up of people. It'll be best to go for the outward-in approach. What do they look to outsiders? How does the geography affect what they wear, eat, work for, etc.? Imagine your people group lives in a winter climate. You would need to think about how they combat the snow and keep warm, what food there is around for them, and more.
Basically, when your readers are first introduced to a people, they need to be introduced to a group that makes sense from the outside. Then you go deeper. You've shown what the people are like outwardly, now get into their minds, their ideologies. This is where a lot more development comes in.
What Does Your World or Culture Value Most?
This is another thing to keep in mind when defining your culture. What does your culture value? What makes it stands out not only from the other cultures you might introduce, but also other cultures in other stories you've read? I once took an online class describing how worldbuilding should go for the "deeply, not broadly" perspective. In other words, focus on one thing that defines your culture and develop that the most, discussing smaller aspects to culture to further develop your world without placing as much emphasis on those other things.
But I think there's even more to it than that, so here's something to think about. How does what your culture values determine how the characters interact? How has it affected the setting? Or how has that value played at part in your history, and how can you go about incorporating that?
Imagine if your culture was a technologically advanced society dedicated to improving the environment. What kinds of environmentally-conscious technology would your characters use? What sort of devastation happened or is happening in your world's history that has led your society to develop these values? What is your character's ideological stance on these values? Do they agree with them or not?
This opens up a range of ways to discuss the deeper themes of your work without going into exposition or anything like that. It might be a source of tension between characters. It might be values that are harmful to others and it usurped by the protagonist later. If you develop the values then, you develop the story and move the plot forward.
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Fishing Poll: Taking a Census of Ocean Species [Slide Show]
Taxonomists are cleaning up and adding to the book of life on hundreds of thousands of known marine species—from plankton to sperm whales
By David Biello on June 26, 2008
There may not be too many fish in the sea, to paraphrase the old song, but there are certainly a lot. Scientists don't have a good idea of just how many fish—or crustacean, sponge, squid, plankton, and even mammal—species there are in the ocean, but they estimate as many as one million. The Census of Marine Life aims to record as much of that as possible by 2010, cleaning up the species registers and expanding them where necessary.
The first step is making sure there are no duplicates in the catalogue. Experts have so far discovered more than 56,000 species are described more than once. Once they whittled down that list, what remains is now part of the new World Register of Marine Species—the official repository of the census's information.
The bread crumb sponge proved the most egregious offender, garnering a grand total of 56 separate listings, perhaps because it has no fixed address or form and likes to cling to a variety of objects such as floats, pilings or even the undersides of rocks. But it can always be identified by scent: It smells like burnt gunpowder, according to marine biologists.
Even Swedish biologist Carl Linnaeus, modern taxonomy's founder, was not blameless: he gave the sperm whale four different names.
At the same time, more than 1,000 new marine species are discovered every year, including at least 100 fish. The deep sea and Antarctic waters continue to reveal their secrets. For example, recent expeditions to the Weddell Sea between Antarctica and the wider South Atlantic found more than 1,000 new species alone—from single-cell plants to deepwater crabs living miles beneath the ocean's surface.
When the census is complete in 2010 researchers expect to have tallied more than 230,000 individual species for the inaugural effort. But that will not be the end of the work: They estimate that the census will represent a mere third of all the species in the world's oceans. There are still many more fish (species) in the sea. This slide show shows off some of the ones we know.
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The double-stranded RNA bluetongue virus induces type I interferon in plasmacytoid dendritic cells via a MYD88-dependent TLR7/8-independent signaling pathway.
Ruscanu, Suzana; Pascale, Florentina; Bourge, Mickael; Hemati, Behzad; Elhmouzi-Younes, Jamila; Urien, Céline; Bonneau, Michel; Takamatsu, Haru; Hope, Jayne; Mertens, Peter; +12 more... Meyer, Gilles; Stewart, Meredith; Roy, Polly; Meurs, Eliane F; Dabo, Stéphanie; Zientara, Stéphan; Breard, Emmanuel; Sailleau, Corinne; Chauveau, Emilie; Vitour, Damien; Charley, Bernard; Schwartz-Cornil, Isabelle; (2012) The double-stranded RNA bluetongue virus induces type I interferon in plasmacytoid dendritic cells via a MYD88-dependent TLR7/8-independent signaling pathway. Journal of virology, 86 (10). pp. 5817-5828. ISSN 0022-538X DOI: https://doi.org/10.1128/JVI.06716-11
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Dendritic cells (DCs), especially plasmacytoid DCs (pDCs), produce large amounts of alpha/beta interferon (IFN-α/β) upon infection with DNA or RNA viruses, which has impacts on the physiopathology of the viral infections and on the quality of the adaptive immunity. However, little is known about the IFN-α/β production by DCs during infections by double-stranded RNA (dsRNA) viruses. We present here novel information about the production of IFN-α/β induced by bluetongue virus (BTV), a vector-borne dsRNA Orbivirus of ruminants, in sheep primary DCs. We found that BTV induced IFN-α/β in skin lymph and in blood in vivo. Although BTV replicated in a substantial fraction of the conventional DCs (cDCs) and pDCs in vitro, only pDCs responded to BTV by producing a significant amount of IFN-α/β. BTV replication in pDCs was not mandatory for IFN-α/β production since it was still induced by UV-inactivated BTV (UV-BTV). Other inflammatory cytokines, including tumor necrosis factor alpha (TNF-α), interleukin-6 (IL-6), and IL-12p40, were also induced by UV-BTV in primary pDCs. The induction of IFN-α/β required endo-/lysosomal acidification and maturation. However, despite being an RNA virus, UV-BTV did not signal through Toll-like receptor 7 (TLR7) for IFN-α/β induction. In contrast, pathways involving the MyD88 adaptor and kinases dsRNA-activated protein kinase (PKR) and stress-activated protein kinase (SAPK)/Jun N-terminal protein kinase (JNK) were implicated. This work highlights the importance of pDCs for the production of innate immunity cytokines induced by a dsRNA virus, and it shows that a dsRNA virus can induce IFN-α/β in pDCs via a novel TLR-independent and Myd88-dependent pathway. These findings have implications for the design of efficient vaccines against dsRNA viruses.
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M7 raises €60m for Central Euro fund, buys logistics asset
The London-based real estate investor has collected an extra €25m for its Central Europe-focused vehicle and added a logistics asset near Budapest to its previous acquisitions in the region.
M7 Real Estate has completed the final close of its debut central European fund after collecting €60 million from third-party investors.
The London-based property investor said it received an extra €25 million in capital commitments for the vehicle, called M7 Central European Real Estate Fund I, since its most recent close in October 2016 when it had corralled €35 million.
Via the fund, M7 has targeted both core and core-plus assets in major cities across the Czech Republic, Poland, Croatia, Hungary and Slovakia, investing across all real estate sectors.
The fund was launched in early 2014 after M7 set up an office in Warsaw. Further offices have subsequently been set up in Prague, Zagreb, Budapest and Bratislava.
In addition to the fund close, M7 has also acquired the 650,000 square foot Aerozone Logistics Park in the Hungarian capital. The asset is located close to Budapest's airport and is of a modern Grade A standard with a range of multinational tenants. The sellers were CA Immo Group, the Vienna, Austria-based property firm, and Union Investment, the Frankfurt-based investment arm of DZ Bank Group. Neither the sellers or the buyer has disclosed the price of the logistics asset.
"The acquisition of the Aerozone Logistics Park demonstrates how we are able to utilize our pan-European network to identify assets in prime locations across Western Europe, CEE and the Nordics, which offer the opportunity for active asset management to deliver value to our investors in line with the individual strategies we have created for them," said David Ebbrell, M7's chief investment officer.
M7's most recently publicized deal was last month when, via a joint venture with real estate giant Blackstone, it acquired a €1.28 billion portfolio of Dutch and German logistics assets from Hansteen Holdings, the London-listed real estate investment firm. It was understood Blackstone used capital from its Blackstone Real Estate Partners (BREP) Europe V vehicle which, as of March, had attracted $7.1 billion of equity from investors.


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DVD: Family Guy DVD release date is set for May 1, 1999. Dates do change so check back often as the release approaches.
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Digital: Family Guy digital release from Amazon Video and iTunes will be available 1-2 weeks before the Blu-ray, DVD, and 4K releases. The estimate release date is April 1999. We will update this page with more details as they become available. The movie has been out for around since its theatrical release.
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This animated sitcom features the Griffin family, with Peter as the patriarch, Lois as the mother, and their children Chris, Meg, and baby Stewie. The family, living in Rhode Island, confronts many politically or socially challenging issues in a humorous, stylized way. Many topics are politically incorrect, socially sensitive, or simply improper, but always are presented in a humorous manner. There aren't many issues or people that this show doesn't poke fun at, and the talking family dog, Brian, is the philosophical, moral center of the family, while Stewie is the maniacal device-building mastermind, always cooking up a devious scheme to conquer the world and the future, or at least his own family. The show is edgy but interesting in its portrayal of social issues.
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Family Guy DVD/Blu-ray is rated TV-14. This program contains some material that many parents would find unsuitable for children under 14 years of age. Parents are strongly urged to exercise greater care in monitoring this program and are cautioned against letting children under the age of 14 watch unattended. This program may contain one or more of the following: intensely suggestive dialogue (D), strong coarse language (L), intense sexual situations (S), or intense violence (V).
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The movie currently has a 8.4 out of 10 IMDb rating and N/A Metascore on Metacritic. We will continue to add and update review scores.
Theatrical Release Date: January 31, 1999
DVD & Blu-ray Release Date: May 1, 1999
Age Rating: TV-14
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Genre: Comedy, Animation
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/ News / CH2M Pilots Multi-State, Mileage-Based User Fees Effort to Support I-95 Corridor Coalition
CH2M Pilots Multi-State, Mileage-Based User Fees Effort to Support I-95 Corridor Coalition
Parul Dubey on August 9, 2017 - in News, Projects
DENVER – The I-95 Corridor Coalition is set to test the design, implementation and acceptance of user-based alternative revenue mechanisms for funding transportation after the U.S. Federal Highway Administration awarded the Delaware Department of Transportation, on behalf of the Coalition, a Surface Transportation System Funding Alternatives grant for the multi-state project along the eastern seaboard.
CH2M is performing the overall project management, planning and technical work for the project, which will look at mileage-based user fees as one of the alternatives.
The Coalition, which includes all the Departments of Transportation and the major toll and turnpike agencies in the region, is focusing its $1.16 million project on three major activities within the states of Delaware and Pennsylvania:
Education and outreach: developing public outreach materials that explain to the driving public, transportation officials and stakeholders why investing in transportation is important, why the current fuel tax does not provide a long-term and equitable solution and why exploring a usage fee approach is necessary.
Planning and analysis of issues: formulating approaches to the estimation of out-of-state mileage, interstate transfer of MBUF funds, interoperability with the toll facilities, the role of department of motor vehicles (DMVs), privacy concerns and options to promote equitable application of a user fee approach.
MBUF pilot system: conducting a three-month pilot consisting of approximately 50 vehicles in the two states. Pilot deployment will include an operational concept document, system requirements, selection of one or more vendors to provide hardware and related services and pilot evaluation.
"The primary source for surface transportation revenues — the pay at the pump fuel tax, which is typically based on a fixed amount per gallon — is not keeping up with the increasing infrastructure and operational needs of the roadway networks, let alone future investment needs," said Dr. Patricia Hendren, I-95 Corridor Coalition executive director. "This is especially true of the Coalition's region, where the infrastructure is America's oldest and the need for capacity enhancements and continual maintenance and rehabilitation is most acute."
Selected – in part for their niche MBUF policy and technology capabilities – to help the Coalition find the best alternative to meet these needs, CH2M leads the industry as the first consultant to successfully plan, develop, design, test, manage and rollout multiple MBUF pilot programs in the U.S., including:
Overseeing all aspects of the Oregon Department of Transportation's Road Usage Charge Pilot Program, as well as the deployment planning for the follow-up state-wide program, OReGO.
Serving as prime consultant leading Colorado's RUC Pilot Research Study.
Conducting a comprehensive independent evaluation of the California Road Charge Pilot Program—a 5,000-person volunteer program for assessing the feasibility of RUC in America's most populous state.
Performing work for the Western Road Usage Charge Consortium, including a project to identify and address concerns and expectations for privacy protection, and a current project to assist in developing a Common Concept of Operations for a regional pilot.
The Coalition's geography is a massive economic driver for the U.S., representing 37 percent of the nation's population, 40 percent of the gross domestic product, 12,058 interstate highway miles and 907,000 total road miles.
"Together, this extensive network of roads serves 103 commercial airports and 46 water ports," said CH2M Advanced Mobility Systems Practice Director Lou Neudorff. "Finding an alternative mechanism to fund necessary transportation improvements to keep people and goods moving quickly, cost-effectively and reliably through this transportation system is vital to the quality of life and business growth for the country and this region."
The I-95 Corridor Coalition MBUF Steering Committee, comprised of representatives from the participating states, including staff from the respective Departments of Transportation, DMVs and finance agencies, along with other key stakeholders from the tolling industry, trucking industry and AAA, will oversee the project's efforts to find a future-proof solution to fund transportation improvements.
About CH2M
CH2M leads the professional services industry delivering sustainable solutions benefiting societal, environmental and economic outcomes with the development of infrastructure and industry. In this way, CH2Mers make a positive difference providing consulting, design, engineering and management services for clients needing world-class solutions in environmental; industrial and advanced facilities; transportation; and water markets, from iconic infrastructure to global programs like the Olympic Games.
Ranked among the World's Most Ethical Companies and top firms in environmental consulting and program management, CH2M in 2016 became the first professional services firm honored with the World Environment Center Gold Medal Award for efforts advancing sustainable development. Connect with CH2M at www.ch2m.com; LinkedIn; Twitter; and Facebook.
About the I-95 Corridor Coalition
The I-95 Corridor Coalition is a partnership of transportation agencies, toll authorities, public safety and related organizations, from the State of Maine to the State of Florida, with affiliate members in Canada. The Coalition provides a forum for key decision makers to address transportation management and operations issues of common interest. This volunteer, consensus-driven organization enables its myriad state, local and regional member agencies to work together to improve transportation system performance far more than they could working individually. The Coalition has successfully served as a model for multi-state/jurisdictional interagency cooperation and coordination for over two decades.
I-95 Corridor Coalition
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Lifestyle Health Obama cares! Like it or not, the U.S. Supreme Court's ruling last Thursday has brought the Affordable Care Act full circle: it has now been validated by all three branches of the federal government.
I Had a Heart Attack
Written by George E. Curry
By George E. Curry
NNPA Columnist
Nothing was more startling than when a cardiologist looked me directly in the eyes and said matter-of-factly: "It looks like you had a heart attack." I was dumbfounded. When? Where? How much damage was done? Why didn't I know it?
It certainly didn't feel like I had suffered a heart attack.
I had just covered and participated in the 50th anniversary of "Bloody Sunday" in Selma, Ala. The ceremonies had special significance to me because as a senior at Druid High School in Tuscaloosa, I had participated in the last day of the march in Montgomery, where I saw James Baldwin and Harry Belafonte for the first time.
Ann and I arrived a day early, had dinner with Susan Gandy, the youngest of my three sisters, who had driven over to Montgomery from Tuskegee with her husband, Iverson, Jr., and my neice, Rachel.
In addition to covering the president's speech Saturday, I had received a Freedom Flame Award that night and on Sunday morning was one of the speakers at the Martin and Coretta King Unity Breakfast. I walked across the Edmund Pettus Bridge on Sunday and completed my writing and editing for the NNPA News Service on Monday.
We stopped in Buford, Ga. Tuesday en route back to Washington, D.C. to visit Ann's son, Derek Ragland; his wife, April, and our grandkids, Austin, 5, and Autumn 1.
On Wednesday night, I felt a slight pain in my chest, but dismissed it as indigestion. It continued Thursday night. When the pain persisted Friday night, Ann insisted on taking me to the hospital and I acquiesced.
We ended up at Emory Johns Creek Hospital. To Ann's disbelief, I grabbed my iPad mini, a book, my charger, and a notebook as we headed out of the door. I know how long the wait can be in emergency rooms and did not want to be without reading material if I became trapped in the waiting lounge.
But once my symptoms were shared with the intake nurses, I was whizzed through the paperwork and placed in a room to wait for a doctor, to be administered an EKG and, of course, give blood.
"We're going to keep you overnight to see what's happening," the attending physician told me. From the way he said "keep me," I deduced that they were not keeping me around just to get to know me better. Something was amiss and I wasn't sure what it was. I was wheeled into a private room in the Intensive Care Unit, where I was closely monitored around the clock, had blood extracted – usually at ungodly hours – and hooked up to a series of instruments. A hospital is not place to get sleep; it's the only place in the world where they wake you up to give you a sleeping pill.
I was told around midnight that at 7 a.m. Saturday, a stent would be inserted into my heart to unblock a clogged artery. At the age of 50, I had a triple bypass. I had played quarterback at Druid High and Knoxville College and neither drank – not even wine – smoked nor used illicit drugs. Yet, an athletic past and clean living were not sufficient. I was the son of the South and I had grown up in a family where our grease was cooked in grease.
Now, 18 years later, I was told that of the three bypassed arteries, one was completely blocked, one was 97 percent blocked, and one was functioning fine. The surgery itself was not as dramatic as the bypass, which required the heart to be stopped temporarily. This time, the cardiologist made an incision in my groin, placed a stent over a balloon catheter and slid it into the heart muscle to improve blood flow. I was awake, but did not feel any pain.
From there, the ICU nurses — especially Glenn, Rene, KayLee and Shig — took fantastic care of me. They could not have provided better care, even if that meant waking me constantly.
I had a follow-up visit and a stress test with Dr. Jigishu Dhabuwala at the North Atlanta Heart and Vascular Clinic before being released to the care of Dr. Boisey O. Barnes, my regular cardiologist in Washington. I spoke with Dr. Barnes during this period and before I returned home, he had already discussed getting me into a heart rehabilitation program and enrolling me in a Harvard study to prevent second heart attacks.
After writing about my bypass 18 years ago, Bill Pickard, a Detroit businessman, said I had probably saved his life because he took some immediate steps to improve his health after reading about my challenge in Emerge magazine.
At the urging of "Uncle Mike" Fauvelle of Setauket, N.Y., I am writing about my second close call with death, hoping that it, too, will prompt you to not only pay closer attention to your health, but be aware of the small signs of trouble and do something about it immediately if you sense something is awry.
George E. Curry, former editor-in-chief of Emerge magazine, is editor-in-chief of the National Newspaper Publishers Association News Service (NNPA) and editorial director of Heart & Soul magazine. He is a keynote speaker, moderator, and media coach. Curry can be reached through his Web site, www.georgecurry.com. You can also follow him at www.twitter.com/currygeorge.
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Andy Rourke (* 17. Januar 1964 in Manchester) ist ein englischer Rockmusiker. Bis zu deren Auflösung 1987 war er Bassist der Smiths. An den finanziellen Einnahmen der Band war er jedoch nur zu 10 % beteiligt. Rourke spielt seitdem vor allem als Sessionmusiker und arbeitete unter anderem mit Sinéad O'Connor, Morrissey und The Pretenders zusammen.

Nach seinem Umzug nach New York bekam er eine Sendung bei East Village Radio und trat gemeinsam mit dem DJ und Produzenten Olé Koretsky unter dem Namen Jetlag in der dortigen Clubszene auf. Im März 2016 bildeten Rourke und Koretsky zusammen mit dessen Partnerin Dolores O'Riordan das Projekt D.A.R.K. als Nachfolgeformation von Jetlag.

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Felix Otto Dessoff (14 de janeiro de 1835 - 28 de outubro de 1892) foi um maestro e compositor alemão.

Biografia

Dessoff nasceu em Leipzig e ingressou no conservatório da cidade onde ele estudou composição, piano e condução com alguns dos mais famosos professores do período, incluindo Ignaz Moscheles (piano) e Moritz Hauptmann e Julius Reitz (composição). Ele estabaleceu sua reputação, primeiramente como maestro. Aos dezenove anos de idade, ele foi o diretor do teatro de Düssedorf e cinco anos depois oferido a ele a posição de diretor da Ópera da Corte de Viena. Ele deixou seu cargo em Viena em 1875. Em Viena, ele tornou-se professor do Conservatório de Viena. Ele também foi amigo de Johannes Brahms, fazendo, posteriormente, muitas estréias de trabalhos orquestrais do maestro. Ele compôs alguns de seus trabalhos na década de 1850 e no início da década de 1860. Ele, posteriormente, tornou-se o diretor da Casa de Ópera de Frankfurt. Sua amizade íntima com Brahms pode ser vista em cartas de 1878, quando Dessoff dedicou sua obra mais conhecida, seu Quarteto para Cordas Op.7 em F, para Brahms.

Dessoff morreu em Frankfurt em 1892. Sua filha, Margarete Dessoff, fundou o Coral Dessoff, quando ela estava na Cidade de Nova Iorque.

Referências

 Bozarth, George S. (1990). Brahms Studies: Analytical and Historical Perspectives : Papers Delivered at the International Brahms Conference, Washington, DC, 5-8 May 1983 at Google Book Search. Oxford University Press. page 314.
 "History of the Dessoff Choirs". The Dessoff Choirs. .

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Q: Patterns to avoid long switch block in UI? Sometimes you have many entities which have common parts, but also should be addressed uniquely in UI. For example, in a CMS, you have many content types (like news, images, articles, pages, etc.) which have title, URL, SEO settings, etc. in common, but which also have specific fields. For example, image have a path field, while news doesn't have that.
Now when you want to work with these items per page, you encounter long switch and if blocks. For example:
switch(currentLoadedContentType)
{
   case ContentType.Gallery:
       // Show gallery specific fields;
       break;
   case ContentType.News:
       // Show news specific fields;
       break;
   case ContentType.Artiel:
       // Show artiels specific fields;
       break;
   case ContentType.Page:
       // Show pages specific fields;
       break;
}

As you increase the number of content types, this lists gets longer and longer. What patterns are available to reduce the length or eliminate this long switch, but at the same time don't result in repetition. (I'm a big fan of DRY).

A: You should use a strategy pattern to handle the different content types. You can put the strategies in a lookup table and then retrieve them as appropriate. The lookup table could be fed from a config-file, if necessary.
public void RegisterContentHandlingStrategies()
{
    strategies.put(ContentType.Gallery, new GalleryContentHandler());
    strategies.put(ContentType.News, new NewsContentHandler());
}

public void HandleContent(Content content)
{
    ContentHandler handler = strategies.Get(content.Type);
    handler.handleContent(content);
}

A: I am assuming, you display the fields in a generic fashion (e.g. a propertygrid).
If so, you could make the model objects know about their 'public' data.
For example, the model base class has a user_customizable_properties method, and in the view, instead of the switch statement, you could do something like
for field in currentLoadedContentType.user_customizable_properties():
    show_field(field)

Frameworks like ruby/rails or django provide their scaffolding/admin interface this way (although they use a little more reflection than my example)

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Super Columbine Massacre RPG! (Windows)
Contemporary, Historical events, North America
Super Columbine Massacre RPG! is a recreation of the events at Littleton High School on April 20th, 1999 in the style of a 16-bit RPG. You play as Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold, usually together in a party. Most of the dialogue is taken from Eric Harris's diaries and recordings of the two and real photographs are used in cutscenes. The music is MIDI versions of period metal and alternative.
The game is broken into two acts. The first concerns the actual shootings. It starts in Harris's bedroom on the morning of the shootings. You must gather all necessary equipment and record a video to leave behind. You can also gather items that give you combat bonuses, such as a Marilyn Manson CD and a Doom CD.
After that, you head to the school for a stealth segment where you must plant bombs without being seen. While combat is turn-based, overworld activities such as this are done in real time. In this act, the game can only be saved in the school parking lot, so most of this must be done in a single pass. After planting the bombs, you get your weapons and wait for the bombs to go off.
When they don't detonate, you storm the school. This is the first actual combat in the game. If you run into an enemy, you go into combat mode. Unlike many games of this type, there is no escaping. You must battle to the death. There are many optional side-quests to perform and story segments to watch in the school, all of which give you extra XP. At the end of this act, Harris and Klebold shoot themselves in the library.
The second act finds Klebold in hell and separated from Harris and his equipment. Doom music plays in the background. He soon finds that the game Doom is quite accurate as hell is swarming with Doom monsters. He must re-unite with Harris, perform quests for dead celebrities and finally battle Satan himself for his respect.
Game Engine: RPG Maker
Bold concept that doesn't really work Ace of Sevens (4471)
Plné Hry Dec 02, 2008 80 out of 100 80
Hrej! Jun 03, 2006 7 out of 10 70
This game was made with a pirated English fan-translation of the Windows version of RPG Maker.
In 2008, a documentary film named Playing Columbine was released, which chronicles the history of the game.
Super Columbine Massacre RPG! (Official site. Download and discuss the game.)
Wikipedia (The Super Columbine Massacre RPG! article at Wikipedia)
Ace of Sevens (4471) added Super Columbine Massacre RPG! (Windows) on Aug 27, 2006
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Danny Ledonne
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Canada has a strong relationship with Latin America and the Caribbean. Not only are we neighbours, but we are members of the same regional institutions that work to reinforce good governance, security and economic prosperity in the region.
While Latin America and the Caribbean generate dynamic economic growth, countries in this region are facing the challenges presented by some of the highest levels of inequality in the world. This includes unequal access to economic opportunities and basic essential services, such as health care and education.
As a result, more than 225 million people live in poverty in the region. Institutions are struggling to meet the needs of their societies. Unemployment is high and crime is on the rise.
The Canadian International Development Agency's (CIDA) country strategies for the Americas and the Caribbean take into account both the great potential of this region and the challenges it faces. The strategies all have one common thread: helping our neighbours reduce poverty and inequality.
The Government of Canada is committed to making a difference and providing support to the people in the region through its Aid Effectiveness Agenda. By bringing greater accountability, increased efficiency and more focus to our international development assistance, our work will have greater impact in achieving sustainable results.
This includes focusing our bilateral aid to five countries in the Americas —Bolivia, Colombia, Haiti, Honduras and Peru— and to the Caribbean region. In some sectors, supporting regional solutions can bring mutual benefits to many individual countries. CIDA is working with respected inter-American institutions, such as the Organization of American States, the Pan American Health Organization, and the Inter-American Development Bank to capture the effectiveness of this regional approach.
CIDA's Aid Effectiveness Agenda includes both geographic and thematic areas of focus. Its three thematic priorities are increasing food security, securing the future of children and youth, and stimulating sustainable economic growth. CIDA's country strategies in Latin America and the Caribbean are guided by these themes, and are bound together by a vision of equal opportunity for all. To achieve meaningful, sustainable results, we are integrating democratic governance, environmental sustainability and equality between men and women into all our programming and planning.
For example, in Colombia, Canada is the lead donor for children's rights and protection with programs aimed at protecting vulnerable children from violence, preventing their recruitment into armed conflict and providing young people with positive alternative options. Canada is also a leading donor in basic education in Peru. In Northern Peru, for instance, CIDA's support has helped significantly improve mathematics, reading and communications skills among poor girls and boys, especially in rural areas. In Southern Andean and Amazonian Peru, we are working to give poor, rural, indigenous children equal access to quality education in their first language.
In the Caribbean, CIDA's programming will increase economic opportunities and help the region adapt to a single market that will improve its trade and competitiveness. Training a new generation of Caribbean leaders through strengthened vocational training means that at-risk youth will have the skills needed for employment.
In Guatemala, Honduras and Nicaragua, Canada is working to increase food security for the most vulnerable, particularly the rural poor who rely on the agriculture sector. To address this, CIDA's programs focus on helping small-scale farmers gain access to credit, new agricultural technologies and more diversified crop systems.
Canada recognizes that every country's needs and development priorities are unique and so our approach supports the development priorities of each country's national development plans.
In Haiti, where the poverty and inequality levels are the highest in the region, Canada plays a leadership role within the donor community. Haiti is the largest recipient of Canadian development assistance in Latin America and the Caribbean. In the days and weeks following the earthquake of Jan. 12, 2010, Canada led the international community in responding to the needs of the Haitian people. The Government of Canada has committed more than $1 billion to Haiti between 2006 and 2012. This response is part of our long-standing commitment to the Haitian people. Long before the earthquake, CIDA was supporting Haiti's central institutions and its election processes, contributing to school feeding and immunization programs, providing electricity to remote areas, and helping raise HIV-AIDS awareness.
Canada believes that the immense potential in the region provides the basis for a brighter future, particularly for people who are still living in poverty without the basic necessities of life. Canada will continue to support its neighbours and regional partners to meet the basic needs and opportunities of all people, so they can lead safe and productive lives. We share this hope with the people of Latin America and the Caribbean.
The Honourable Beverley J. Oda is Canada's Minister of International Co-operation.


One word to describe Joy's story is FREEDOM. It was during her first semester in college that Joy began to experience the freedom that Jesus brings when she surrendered her life to him. Jesus healed Joy of sexual abuse and addiction, and because of her story she hopes to always write and speak vulnerably and honestly. After all, she is a millennial.
Currently, Joy is completing her Doctor of Educational Ministries, at Dallas Theological Seminary. In 2013, she launched JoyPedrow.com with the goal to help women experience freedom from their shame, abuse, and addiction.


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ANMM - OPERATION JAYWICK – DARK VICTORY
Luscious recently produced a second film to feature in Action Stations at the Australian National Maritime Museum. Entitled 'Operation Jaywick – Dark Victory' the film was a joint production between the Singapore National Museum and the Australian National Museum showcasing the birth of Special Forces in Australia.
Due to the covert nature of the original operation there was a very limited amount of historical material to tell the story. The 16 metre by 3 metre ultra-widescreen format of the delivery dictated the images were built in 6K requiring a technically complex production and delivering workflow to enable us to meet the delivery date working to a compressed timeline.
Luscious undertook a significant amount of historical research before writing the scripts, storyboarding the film, researching and creating the 2D and 3D imagery (including a true-to-life 3D CGI Krait and the foldable canoes) then producing and delivering the critically well received film.
Luscious commissioned, briefed and produced the soundtrack including sourcing historical sound bites and historically accurate sound-bite recreations which were brought together to create a collage style narration for the film.
Informational Graphics were designed and projected into 3D space with 2D subtitles then added in several languages to accommodate the international nature of the audience.
A guided immersive Virtual tour of 'The Krait" is now under production with the look and design matched to the original 'Operation Jaywick – Dark Victory' film. Upon completion the experience will be installed at both the Singapore National Museum and the Australian National Maritime Museum.
Tags museum, experiential, film, postproduction, 3D CGI
JAMES CAMERON - CHALLENGING THE DEEP
Luscious was commissioned by the Australian National Maritime Museum to create an immersive, narrative-rich museum experience using emergent technologies to document James Cameron's work as an explorer and storyteller.
The exhibition features five films playing on four large screens set so as to be enjoyed as a linear or non-linear journey within the exhibition space. The soundtrack and the computer controlled programming of the films is designed to deliver narrative specific relative to the location of the visitors throughout the gallery.
As well as film scripting, production and editing, soundtrack conception, interactive display design and the computer controlled lighting plan, Luscious created the television, online and print advertising campaign to promote the exhibit.
James Cameron; Challenging the Deep, opened its doors on the 28th of May to critical and public acclaim with global interest building in what is truly transformative experience.


The Pelikan Stola III ($36) is probably the closest competitor Pelikan has to the Pilot Metropolitan or the Lamy Safari. If you've been looking for a professional, upscale looking fountain pen in the sub-$50 range, The Stola III is definitely a strong contender. However, there are some plusses and minuses to consider before hitting the "buy it now" button.
For me, a big plus is the beautifully clean simple design of the Stola III. Its a matte silver pen with a gloss black clip with Pelikan's signature "beak" design. Its a sophisticated design that is both modern and classic. The body of the pen is metal on a brass base, not plastic, so it feels sturdy. The total weight of the pen, capped with a full long cartridge is 32 gms. Uncapped and unposted with a cartrdige, it weighs 20 gms.
The finish of the pen is a fine mica metallic silver with a clear gloss finish over the metallic paint. The pen itself is metal but there is definitely layers of paint and clear gloss over it, like a nice auto or motorcycle paint finish. The end cap and clip are flat black and glossy.
I'm including my weight chart which shows some other common models capped and filled.
In general, I am not much for pen packaging. I prefer that it be protective for shipping and storage purposes but it doesn't need to be much more than that. The packaging for the Stola III falls right into that sweet spot. There was a white outer shipper box and then the inner matte silver paperboard box that reminded me of a book. When opened, the pen was tucked under a black, satin ribbon in a flocked, recessed area and stored in a clear, cellophane tube. I removed the cellophane for photography purposes and left the paper tag that is tucked under the clip.
Inside the pen was a long European cartridge in blue. In shipping, my cartridge ended up leaking. I suspect it was a result of the winter weather here in Kansas City which vacillated between freezing and a balmy 70 degrees fahrenheit this weekend so the seal probably split causing the leak. I swapped it out for a Pelikan Edelstein Topaz long cartridge instead. This is actually one of the reasons to put the Stola III in the plus column. It is a sub-$50 fountain pen that takes standard European cartridges or converters. Unlike the Pilot Metropolitan that takes either Pilot cartridges or a Pilot-specific converter or the Lamy Safari which also requires proprietary converters and cartridges.
The Stola III is only available with a medium nib which is steel. It is not the same nib that comes on the M-series pens. The Stola III nib is a much stiffer steel nib, not gold. Not for $36. The advantage is that the Stola III nib is much easier to use for new fountain pen writers as the nib is more forgiving at more angles than the M-series nibs. I myself have not had the best luck with the M-series nibs because, as a left hander, my upside down writing angle causes me to push rather than pull the nib which chokes the softer tines of the M-series pens making the writing stutter and start and stop. I did not have this problem with the Stola III. The Stola III wrote smoothly and had no false starts for me.
I was a bit concerned that the medium nib might be too wide for my small writing but it actually wrote quite nicely and very few of my letters filled in. The medium nib allowed the Topaz ink to shade nicely and the nib was a nice balance of smooth and a little grippy on the Rhodia paper which was a perfect balance. Sometimes pens can be too smooth and I feel like I have to chase to keep up with them but the Stola III seemed to be the perfect sweet spot. On other papers, the Stola III felt even smoother and even had a little bit of a stub look and feel to it which I liked.
The longer I write with the Stola III the more I enjoy the feeling of it. I like the smooth grip section and the weight of the pen. The only other thing I discovered is that because of the way the friction cap works, the cap cannot be posted without potentially damaging the plastic inside the cap that is what makes the closure work and keeps the pen from drying out.
As you can see in the photo above the plastic edge inside the cap sits awfully high and when I tried to rest the cap on the end of the pen I could feel it rubbing on the plastic while simultaneously not making a good seal and wobbling precariously. I did not mind not posting the Stola III as the pen is 4 5/8″ (11.5cm) unposted which was long enough to comfortably write with for me but if your hands are larger it may pose an issue. If you absolutely need to be able to post your cap, then the Stola III might not be your pen of choice.
Compared to the Lamy Safari and Pilot Metropolitan/Retro Pop, the Stola III has a similar overall length and width to the Pilot but does not taper quite as much. It definitely has a more refined, sophisticated look. I'm already thinking of it as my dressier pen where my Retro Pop and Safaris are more playful, casual pens.
Overall, the Stola III offers a lot at a low price point: good looks, metal body, standard European cartridges and converter options, nice nib and build quality. On the downside though, the pen is only available in a medium nib, only available in the silver and black model at present and the cap does not post. Hopefully, Pelikan will consider offering more color and nib size options in the future to make the Stola III more appealing to a wider audience though I think most pen enthusiasts can find a place in their hearts and in their wallets for this little gem.
DISCLAIMER: This item was sent to me free of charge by Pen Chalet for the purpose of review. Please see the About page for more details.
Ana, this is a great, informative review of the Pelikan Stola 3. I have a Pelikan 400 in my collection and like it a lot. The Stola, however, seems to be a good pen for me to purchase and use as my EDC pen.
At its price point you don't worry about it getting lost or damaged as much as you would if it were a more expensive pen, like my Pelikan 400. Also, I would be less worried about someone else using it.
I agree with you about the Stola's appearance.when comparing to the Lamy or the Pilot Metropolitan. If I were to list these three pens in order of best appearance, it would be the Stola as best, followed by the Metropolitan, and the Lamy coming in as last place. Just my own personal taste.
As far as the Stola being available in only the medium nib..,..that works out great for me. It is usually my choice in nibs. I use fine nibs too, but feel that the medium nibs doesn't have the tendency to become dry as much.
I am going to pick up one of these Pelikan Stola pens real soon. My wife won't like that idea very much, since I already have so many Pens.
I believe Pelikan use the similar concept on Pelikan 2000 some years back, only that on 2000 the barrel was plastic with brass insert. The 2000 also has more forgiving nib with rounder tipping. I do like the way it lays ink on paper despite the lack of line variation.
I like my Stola very much. They have added more colors, and I'm enjoying my subtle pink one.


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Imagine that you have no interest in computers or computing. That Facebook and Twitter sound like racehorses running in the 2.30 at Haydock Park. Further, imagine that the thought of having to deal with computers pushed you into a severe anxiety state.
Ms Naylor, the Company Secretary of a flooring company, fitted this profile. For many years she had filed paper monthly contractor's returns to HMRC and had never missed a deadline. When the returns were converted to an online filing version from April 2016, she was thrown into the computer age and with unfortunate consequences.
For months she tried to fathom out how to register for online filing and was constantly delayed by the non-arrival of an elusive activation code from HMRC; repeated tries at getting support from various help lines failed to prompt the code to appear in the mail, letterbox mail that is.
With each passing month late filing penalties were accruing, and Ms Naylor's health started to fail. The anxiety she experienced resulted in visits to her local cardiology clinic for various tests, and still the access code failed to arrive even when the application process was repeated, this time with help from her daughter – newly returned from university.
Eventually, after many months of frustrating delays, she and her daughter managed to complete the login process and file all the outstanding returns.
With what remained of her over-stretched nervous system, Ms Naylor appealed against the multitude of financial fines on the basis she had a reasonable excuse – no knowledge of computers and poor health.
After considering the arguments from both sides, the court ruled to quash the fines, and allowed Ms Naylor's appeal. Phew… A victory for common-sense.
Apparently, Ms Naylor did not seem to receive much help from her professional advisor. Can we just confirm that any clients reading this post can be assured that we are computer literate and very willing to help if you have problems dealing with the online world.


Located on Birch Avenue on the Washacre estate in Westhoughton, the centre was originally built and run by Bolton Council to provide a youth centre, community support and a meeting facility for local residents. The centre became the base for HACFRA (Hindleys and Clough Farm Residents Association), whose volunteers helped run it, organising events, trips and activities - high profile events included Summer Fun Days and the annual Washacre FM community radio broadcast. In 2013, the management and running of the centre was taken on by WAVE (Westhoughton Active Volunteer Enterprise), a Community Interest Company (CIC), with the centre leased from the Council. The management team, as well as day-to-day operations, is responsible for budgeting, fundraising, programming, as well as making sure the John Holt Centre serves the wider community of Westhoughton.
The Centre comprises of a large room which has a café facility, suitable for meetings of up to 50 people, dance and fitness classes; a smaller room for smaller meetings or group activities; an office and toilet block, and a smaller interview/studio room. Space outside is dedicated to a large MUGA (Multi-Use Games Area) for sport and entertainment; there is a children's play area, and a car park.
An integral and vital community resource, the John Holt Centre is used by many agencies to provide services to the community including: Bolton Council (Area Forums), Greater Manchester Police (drop-ins and PACT meetings), Bolton at Home (Work Club)… many community groups use the centre, and Westhoughton Community Network is a frequent visitor for its meetings.
For enquiries call 01942 859535 or email wave.cic@live.co.uk.
New for 2019, a Bakery Class for children (ages 5+), 'Little Bakers' is a term-time 1½ hour session teaching children cooking skills. Every Tuesday and Saturday during term-time. Cost is £7 per child per session.
By arrangement with local shops the John Holt Centre regularly receives short-dated food which is offered free to the local community. Watch Facebook for announcements.
A new Art Group - Art by Elise - has begun at the John Holt Centre - Wednesdays 12:30pm to 2:30pm. This is a class for all abilities, so if you've ever wanted to have a go then just turn up. There are no 'term times' so you can start any week that you like.
The John Holt Community Centre is available for hire for private parties, meetings and functions. Ideal for children's parties. Kitchen facilities; WiFi; Disables Access. Prices start from £10/hour.
A Grub Tub is situated in the foyer for donations to the Urban Outreach foodbank scheme.
Call 01942 859535 or E-mail.
John Holt Community Centre Social Media - Facebook Twitter .


Flying cars have long been a staple of science-fiction but urban designer and author Karl Sharro has suggested that they could soon become reality.
In the first keynote speech of this year's Dubai Design Week, Sharro called for an overhaul in the planning of cities, particularly in the Gulf. Crucial to this, he explained, would be allowing people to travel through cities in three dimensions, effectively replacing traditional roads with a series of tunnels and tubes connecting buildings.
"If you look at the Sheikh Zayed Road [in Dubai], it takes up a big chunk of space, but it also cuts the city in two halves and is not easy to cross," said Sharro during his talk titled The New Arab City – Volume 1: The Gulf. "If you use tunnels, you can reclaim it, create green space, and put the buildings closer to each other.
"But [these routes] don't have to be underground, they can be up in the air. And if we put them all together, we have a network that allows us to move through the city in a three-dimensional way," he continued.
One of the major features of cities in the Gulf is the prevalence of shopping malls and Sharro, who also runs the popular satirical Twitter account @KarlreMarks, addressed what might happen to these buildings with the rise of e-commerce. In Europe, particularly, an increasing number of shopping malls are becoming derelict.
"For some people, there is a negative connotation attached to shopping malls," he said. "But I think shopping malls [here] are growing into something different to what we see in the West. They have become more active, social spaces […] Anyone who tries to reduce Dubai to the idea of big, flashy shopping malls doesn't quite understand what's so special about this city.
Sharro went on to discuss how work spaces can be redesigned to better suit employees as well as suggesting ways of introducing a more holistic feel into high-rise accommodation, including building with timber. He also called on architects in the Gulf to embrace "the native form of modernism" that was prevalent here in the 1960s and 70s, using as an example the Hajj terminal at King Abdulaziz International Airport in Jeddah.


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package pl.polidea.androidflip3d;

import android.graphics.Camera;
import android.graphics.Matrix;
import android.view.animation.Animation;
import android.view.animation.Transformation;

/**
 * Animation used to flip image in 3D.
 *
 */
public class Flip3DAnimation extends Animation {
    private final float mFromDegrees;
    private final float mToDegrees;
    private final float mCenterX;
    private final float mCenterY;
    private Camera mCamera;

    public Flip3DAnimation(final float fromDegrees, final float toDegrees, final float centerX, final float centerY) {
        super();
        mFromDegrees = fromDegrees;
        mToDegrees = toDegrees;
        mCenterX = centerX;
        mCenterY = centerY;
    }

    @Override
    public void initialize(final int width, final int height, final int parentWidth, final int parentHeight) {
        super.initialize(width, height, parentWidth, parentHeight);
        mCamera = new Camera();
    }

    @Override
    protected void applyTransformation(final float interpolatedTime, final Transformation t) {
        final float fromDegrees = mFromDegrees;
        final float degrees = fromDegrees + (mToDegrees - fromDegrees) * interpolatedTime;

        final float centerX = mCenterX;
        final float centerY = mCenterY;
        final Camera camera = mCamera;

        final Matrix matrix = t.getMatrix();

        camera.save();

        camera.rotateY(degrees);
        camera.getMatrix(matrix);
        camera.restore();

        matrix.preTranslate(-centerX, -centerY);
        matrix.postTranslate(centerX, centerY);
    }
}


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What's coming up this weekend?
Take a look at some of the key games coming up across the divisions with our matchday preview...
@EFL
There are plenty of fantastic fixtures to look forward to as EFL action resumes this weekend. We've picked out some of the standout match-ups below...
LEEDS UNITED v SHEFFIELD UNITED
A game which needs no introduction, Leeds United v Sheffield United has all the makings of a classic. The hosts sit second in the table, with the visitors just two points and one place behind them ahead of Saturday's early kick-off. The Blades are the only Championship side to have enjoyed more possession than Leeds in a league game this season, but all that will count here is the final result.
ROTHERHAM UNITED v NORWICH CITY
This is a clash which could have a big impact on both ends of the Championship table. Norwich could find themselves in second place depending on Leeds' result by the time they kick off at Rotherham, who themselves will have a close eye on the standings, with just goal difference currently keeping them in the drop zone. Both Clubs have players in fine form; the Canaries' Emi Buendia has been involved in 10 goals in his last 10 league games, while Rotherham defender Semi Ajayi has scored six in nine league appearances.
WIGAN ATHLETIC v BOLTON WANDERERS
A derby clash with more than just bragging rights at stake, Bolton's trip to the DW Stadium could go a long way to deciding the fate of both Clubs this season. Wigan sit just above the relegation zone on goal difference, while victory for Bolton here could cut the gap between the teams to just four points. Wigan have won a league-high 83 per cent of their points at home, while Bolton have lost nine of their last 10 away games in all competitions.
Here are this weekend's Championship fixtures in full:
DONCASTER ROVERS v BARNSLEY
Friday night's fixture looks an excellent one on paper, with second-placed Barnsley heading to sixth-placed Doncaster. Rovers' home form has been superb of late, but no side has taken more points in League One than Barnsley since the turn of the year, setting up what promises to be a cracker at the Keepmoat Stadium. Victory for the away side could bring them to within two points of league leaders Luton Town.
OXFORD UNITED v BRADFORD CITY
Oxford and Bradford occupy two of the four spots at the bottom of the League One table, making this a crucial clash, with games running out. The Us sit 21st, with goal difference keeping them the wrong side of the trap door, with Bradford currently four points behind. It's on the road where the Bantams could really use a boost, having won just one of their last 15 away games in all competitions. Can they secure a vital victory here?
BRISTOL ROVERS v CHARLTON ATHLETIC
Two sides with plenty to play for, both Bristol Rovers and Charlton Athletic will be desperate for three points here. While recent results have gone some way to helping their respective positions, nothing is certain yet, with Charlton occupying fifth place and Rovers just three points above the relegation zone after three consecutive wins. The hosts have conceded the fewest goals from set-pieces in League One this season, while the visitors have scored the most. Who will come out on top?
Here are this weekend's League One fixtures in full:
EXETER CITY v COLCHESTER UNITED
Ninth and seventh in the table respectively, and separated by just two points, Exeter and Colchester are still in the Play-Off mix, despite some shaky recent form. Both sides go into this one on the back of a defeat, but will be hoping for three points here to re-ignite their promotion charge. Exeter will be looking to avoid a third straight home defeat for the first time since September 2016, and will be encouraged by the fact they haven't lost on home soil against Colchester in their last five EFL meetings.
YEOVIL v MACCLESFIELD TOWN
It's a real relegation six-pointer at Huish Park, as 22nd-placed Yeovil host bottom-of-the-league Macclesfield on Saturday afternoon, both having lost back-to-back league games. Yeovil have never beaten Macclesfield in the EFL in five attempts, and will be hoping Sol Campbell's Silkmen don't pick up three points here, with the gap between the sides six points heading into kick-off. The result here really could be crucial...
MANSFIELD TOWN v LINCOLN CITY
The 60th EFL meeting between these two sides has so much riding on it, with both Clubs going for automatic promotion from League Two. As it stands, Mansfield are in third place, above MK Dons on goal difference only, while league leaders Lincoln are five points clear of second-placed Bury and could move a step closer to glory with a win here. Mansfield have won five home games in a row - a sixth would really make things interesting!
Here are this weekend's League Two fixtures in full:
All games are Saturday, 3:00pm kick-offs unless stated otherwise.


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Q: ImportJSON payload POST BODY I use ImportJSON to interact with API and GOOGLE SHEETS, the task was to write in a body query.
{
  "reportType": "SALES",
  "groupByRowFields": [
    "FiscalChequeNumber",
    "OpenDate.Typed"
  ],
  "groupByColFields": [],
  "aggregateFields": [
    "DishDiscountSumInt"
  ],
  "filters": {
    "OpenDate.Typed": {
      "filterType": "DateRange",
      "periodType": "CUSTOM",
      "from": "2023-02-01",
      "to": "2023-02-20",
      "includeLow": true,
      "includeHigh": false
    }
  }
}

I tried to edit the code, but my technical knowledge is not enough and this is what I got:
function ImportJSONPayload(url, fetchOptions, query, parseOptions, includeFunc, transformFunc) {
  var fetchOptions = {"method": "POST", payload: {
    "reportType": "SALES",
    "groupByRowFields": {
        "FiscalChequeNumber", "OpenDate.Typed"
    },
    "aggregateFields": "DishDiscountSumInt",
    "filters": {
        "OpenDate.Typed": {
            "filterType": "DateRange",
            "periodType": "CUSTOM",
            "from": "2023-02-01",
            "to": "2023-02-20",
            "includeLow": "true",
            "includeHigh": "false"
        }
    }
}};
  var jsondata = UrlFetchApp.fetch(url, fetchOptions);
  var object   = JSON.parse(jsondata.getContentText());

  return parseJSONObject_(object, query, parseOptions, includeFunc, transformFunc);
}

But unfortunately, nothing works.
I tried reading the technical documentation, but I do not understand it.
Can you help me?


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Q: Firebase callable function not receiving arguments Implementing a simple function on typescript to call a Firebase callable function is not working.
Using firebase-tools@4.0.3 -g, firebase-functions@2.0.5, firebase@5.3.1
Firebase callable function:
import * as functions from "firebase-functions";

exports.httpsOnCall = functions.https.onCall((data, context) => {
  console.log(data);
  return data;
});

It is deployed correctly
Calling the function in webapp:
const a = Firebase.functions.httpsCallable("httpsOnCall");
  a.call({ a: 1, b: "testing", c: true }).then(result => {
    console.log(result);
  });

Firebase object initialization:
import * as firebase from "firebase";

const config = {
  apiKey: "asdasdasd",
  authDomain: "APPNAME.firebaseapp.com",
  databaseURL: "https://APPNAME.firebaseio.com",
  projectId: "APPNAME",
  storageBucket: "APPNAME.appspot.com",
  messagingSenderId: "123456"
};
firebase.initializeApp(config);
const Firebase = {
   functions: firebase.functions()
}

Log from firebase:
null

Log from webapp:
{data: null}

It seems like data is not reaching the httpsOnCall function, even though the context variable is populated.

A: //imports
const firebase = require("firebase");
require("firebase/functions");

//call steatment
const a = firebase.functions().httpsCallable('httpsOnCall');
        a({ a: 1, b: "testing", c: true })
            .then((result) => {
                console.log(result);
            })
            .catch((error) => {
                console.log(`error: ${JSON.stringify(error)}`);
        });

A: Instead of doing a.call, just call the function a with the parameters, like this:
const a = Firebase.functions.httpsCallable("httpsOnCall");
  a({ a: 1, b: "testing", c: true }).then(result => {
    console.log(result);
  });

See the guide for an example.


Many Americans tap into retirement savings to cope with an emergency. What follows can be devastating. Read this article to better understand what an emergency fund can mean to your retirement.
Unfortunately, without an emergency fund, 29 percent of Americans are dipping into their savings, with 43 percent taking out two or more loans from their retirement plans, according to a recent survey by TIAA-CREF.2 Moreover, 44 percent of those surveyed were said to regret their decision to borrow from their retirement accounts.
For every dollar that's taken from your retirement plan is a dollar less that is earning you compounded interest and reducing what you'll ultimately have saved. But that's not all. Besides the obvious reduction in your retirement plan, early withdrawals from your 401(k) or IRAs can be expensive due to withdrawal penalties and fees. In fact, many tax rules are designed specifically to discourage siphoning retirement accounts. For example, a withdrawal from your IRA or 401(k) before age 59 ½ will typically cost you a 10 percent penalty. So if you're in the 25 percent tax bracket and withdraw $5,000, you'd end up paying $1,750 in taxes and penalties.
If you find yourself in a situation where you need to take out a loan, there are many retirement plans that will waive early withdrawal penalties for life events such as buying your first home, paying for college, to cover specific medical expenses, health insurance costs, or if you become disabled. For more information on retirement plan loans and specific guidelines, visit the IRS website.
Before you borrow from your retirement savings, it's in your best interest to speak with a financial professional or retirement plan representative to discuss the possible long-term impact of taking out such a loan. They can also help you begin to establish and build your emergency fund.
Today, financial advisors typically recommend accumulating an emergency fund of at least six months' worth of living expenses. However, having just a $500 fund is a great start, providing you with some readily available cash to see you through many unexpected expenses. To help get you started in building an emergency money account, try using Bankrate's emergency fund worksheet or Money-Zine's emergency fund calculator.
Too many Americans are looking to their retirement accounts to get out financial binds. Before this happens to you, be sure to weigh all of your options carefully before borrowing or prematurely withdrawing, and consult with a financial professional. Finally, don't delay building your emergency fund. The time to start is today!