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Home / News / RSM advises on sale of Essex-based healthcare business to private equity firm
RSM advises on sale of Essex-based healthcare business to private equity firm
RSM's corporate finance team has advised shareholders on the successful sale of Essex-based Mountain Healthcare to London-based private equity house Literacy Capital plc.
Mountain Healthcare, headquartered in Finchingfield, is a leading provider of healthcare services across the UK. The business specialises in providing Sexual Assault Referral Services and Police Custodial Healthcare, supporting the interface between healthcare and the criminal justice system. With around 350 employees operating a 24/7 service offering, Mountain Healthcare has built a strong reputation in the market for delivering high-quality service outcomes through its two key business propositions.
Two of the four original Mountain Healthcare founders, Vanessa Webb, Medical Director, and Gary Green, Business Development and Corporate Compliance Director, will remain with the business, while two further shareholders have exited.
Literacy Capital will support Mountain Healthcare by strengthening the management team and Board. Chris Sellers, formerly the Group Business Development Director at Capita and former Managing Director of Capita's Health division will become Executive Chairman and Interim CEO. A new CFO will be named in due course.
Mountain Healthcare has achieved year on year growth since 2014 and in FY18 delivered more than £15m of revenue and £3m of profit.
The Mountain Healthcare shareholders were advised by RSM partners Sukhi Johal and Stephen Orriss, with support from Davin Kandola and Christian Hitchen. Tax advice was provided by Melanie Reed and Nigel Gleaden.
Sukhi Johal, Corporate Finance Partner at RSM in East Anglia said: 'The shareholders have built up a very successful business focused on providing high quality healthcare services in the criminal justice system, and Mountain Healthcare is now one of the largest employers in this part of East Anglia.
'This investment by Literacy Capital will strengthen the management team and give the business the perfect platform on which to enter its next stage of growth and diversify its service offering.'
'We were delighted to be able to advise the Mountain Healthcare shareholders on this deal, and we wish the business well in the next stage of its development.'
Sukhi Johal Partner +44 (0)121 2143162 Contact Sukhi
Stephen Orriss Partner +44 (0)1908 687800 Contact Stephen


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Reporter Accuses Newsweek of Muzzling 'Inconvenient Info' on OPCW Probe of Syrian Chemical Attack
© AP Photo / Peter Dejong
by Tim Korso
Tim Korso. Sputnik International
https://sputniknews.com/world/201912081077516275-reporter-accuses-newsweek-of-muzzling-inconvenient-info-on-opcw-probe-of-syrian-chemical-attack/
A shadow has been cast upon the chemical weapons watchdog's findings regarding the alleged Douma attack in 2018 since WikiLeaks published a leaked email from one of the body's investigators, who argued that the probe's findings have not been correctly represented in a report by the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW).
Tareq Haddad, a reporter for Newsweek, stated that he has left the organisation over the latter's unwillingness to publish his "newsworthy revelations" about the leaked letter of an OPCW employee concerning a report on the alleged Douma chemical attack in Syria.
I have collected evidence of how they suppressed the story in addition to evidence from another case where info inconvenient to US govt was removed, though it was factually correct.
— Tareq Haddad (@Tareq_Haddad) December 7, 2019
The journalist accused his former employer of acting in a biased way by "suppressing" his story about the leaked letter along with some evidence in another article, which contained "info inconvenient to the US government" despite it being "factually correct", while releasing other stories related to the OPCW probe. A Newsweek spokesperson commented on Haddad's accusations in response to a Fox News' request for comment, stating that "the writer pitched a conspiracy theory rather than an idea for objective reporting" and that this pitch was rejected by the outlet's editors.
Haddad didn't elaborate any further on what information was allegedly muzzled by Newsweek, but announced his intention to publish the full story "shortly". He also showed interest in revealing facts proving that Newsweek had originally supressed the story, but said his former employer threatened him with legal action, citing "confidentiality clauses" in his contract.
I'm sure the character attacks will follow soon but thank you to everyone for the outpouring of support so far. I'm currently working on the piece and hope to have it ready in the next few days. Stay tuned.
The reporter said he is currently seeking legal advice on how to proceed and is looking for some kind of "whistleblower protection". He added that at the very least he will publish evidence without "divulging the confidential information".
OPCW Mail Leak
According to Haddad, the story suppressed by Newsweek was supposed to talk about the email from a member of the OPCW fact-finding mission sent to Douma, Syria to determine if prohibited chemical weapons were used in the alleged attack on it by Damascus in April 2018. In this email, published by the whistleblowing website WikiLeaks, the investigator asks the OPCW to publish the unedited version of their report, arguing that it has "morphed into something quite different to what was originally drafted".
The author of the email pointed out that the report didn't contain evidence casting a shadow over accusations that Damascus used a chlorine agent in the attack since residual chemicals could be a part of household chlorine-based bleach and the exposure symptoms, shown on a notorious video published by the terrorist-affiliated White Helmets, didn't correspond with witness testimony.
OPCW distortions: "Crucial facts "...have morphed into something quite different to what was originally drafted."@LatuffCartoons
Leaked email:https://t.co/Z3N1r0xkZ4 pic.twitter.com/vZ5dMmOgZe
— WikiLeaks (@wikileaks) November 24, 2019
The leaked email also recalled that the fact-finding mission doubted the cylinders, which allegedly contained chlorine gas, were dropped from an aircraft as was claimed by the Syrian opposition, citing damage inconsistent with these claims.
OPCW defended its report, arguing that all the concerns expressed by its employees had been taken into consideration when the organisation drafted the final report.
False-Flag Douma Attack
An investigation into the alleged use of chemical weapons by Damascus was opened in light of the video published by the White Helmets, an NGO often spotted working with Syria-based terrorist groups, and a showing purported chemical gas attack in Douma, Syria on 7 April 2018. The footage showed the White Helmets administering unknown medicine and pouring water on several people at a local hospital, including children to allegedly treat them for the effects of attack.
The video was then broadcast by a majority of mainstream media outlets despite Damascus dismissing it as "staged" and assuring it never used chemical weapons against its own population. The Syrian government recalled that its entire chemical arsenal was destroyed under OPCW supervision after similar accusations were made against Damascus in 2013. However, Damascus could not guarantee that some chemical weapons didn't remain in the hands of armed militant groups and terrorists, who seized and controlled significant parts of the country at the time.
The footage was used by the US, UK, and France to justify massive missile strikes against Syrian military targets, accusing its government of the atrocity despite a preliminary OPCW report not being ready.
© AP Photo / Kevin Wolf
Damascus Unsurprised by Revelations About Redacted OPCW Report on Duma Attack - Ambassador
The watchdog's report claimed that chemicals were used in the alleged attack, but failed to attribute it to any forces, acting on Syrian territory.
In a stunning revelation preceded by a six-month investigation, BBC Syria producer Riam Dalati stated on 13 February that the White Helmets' video had been staged and that there in fact had been no fatalities in Douma on that day. His investigation also showed that sarin gas was not used in Douma although the producer was not sure about chlorine.
OPCW Backs Adding Novichok Nerve Agent to List of Banned Chemicals
OPCW Suppression Scandal 'Detonator Which Could Unleash Explosive Trends' - Russian Envoy
OPCW Modified Chemical Weapons Report on Syria's Douma, Crucial Details Omitted - Wikileaks
NGOs Like White Helmets Should Be Kept Away From OPCW Conference - Russian Envoy
Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW), Syria, Douma, media bias, bias, Newsweek

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Roger Hardy, 46, is CEO of Vancouver-based Shoes.com, which owns the American site OnlineShoes and Canadian shoe seller SHOEme.ca. The company, with 450 employees, had $176 million in sales last year. It sells two of its own shoe brands, Hardy and PIKA, and it has four brick and mortar stores, in Vancouver, Toronto and two in West Virginia. His first entrepreneurial venture was Vancouver-based Coastal.com, which sold contact lenses and eyewear online. That business went public in 2004 and in 2014, it sold to a French optical company, Essilor, for $450 million. In this edited and condensed interview, Hardy talks about why Zappos didn't scare him away from selling shoes online.
Susan Adams: How did you become an entrepreneur?
Roger Hardy: I always had an entrepreneurial mindset. My first job, when I was 13 in a town outside Ottawa, was selling Dicky D ice cream from a freezer on my bike. I got to keep 10% of the sales. When I was in university I had a T-shirt business that did university wear including sororities and sports teams. I later bought the rights to a music festival.
Adams: How much did you make from those college businesses?
Hardy: From my T-shirt business, I made enough to fund my university costs. From the music festival I remember I deposited $32,000 in cash in $20 bills. My profit was $10,000.
Adams: What was your first venture after college?
Hardy: I founded an online contact lens company in 2000, Coastal.com. Later we added eyewear.
Adams: How did you finance it?
Hardy: We didn't have the resources to fund it through friends and family. My parents were both teachers. I secured a $150,000 loan from a high-interest-rate subordinated lender in Vancouver called Mercury Partners. Then I did a sub-debt deal for $500,000 from another firm. That got me through the first year. Fast forward a couple of ears to 2004 and I did an IPO on the TSX Venture Exchange, a small exchange in Canada. We listed for $6 million and then in 2012 we did a $20 million listing on the NASDAQ.
Adams: At least in the U.S., online contacts is a crowded business with big players like 1-800-CONTACTS. How did you distinguish yourself?
Hardy: No one has ever heard of 1-800-CONTACTS in Canada. We had one out of every five contacts sales in Canada both online and offline, and in the Nordic countries we had tremendous market share, much higher than 1-800-CONTACTS achieved in the U.S. We focused on markets where we were No. 1. We became the de facto provider in Australia, New Zealand, Japan. We opened retail stores in Sweden, Australia, New Zealand, Canada. We had great service and very fast delivery times.
Adams: Why did you sell the company?
Hardy: We didn't want to sell. In 2014 we had an unsolicited bid from Essilor, a French optical company. They offered to buy us for $450 million in cash. We took it to our shareholders, who thought it was a great return.
Adams: How much did you make on the sale?
Hardy: Between myself and my family, we had about 30% of the stock.
Adams: After pocketing more than $100 million, you probably didn't need to work.
Hardy: I'm one of those strange people. I choose to get up and go to work every day. I'm fortunate enough to be passionately engaged in what I'm doing.
Adams: What was your involvement in founding SHOEme.ca?
Hardy: The founder, Sean Clark, worked with me at Coastal. In 2012 he had this idea that there was an opportunity in the Canadian market to build an online footwear and apparel business. I became the seed investor. We considered ourselves to have cofounded the business. Sean had the idea and I said yes, we can do this. We walked down the hall at Coastal and six of the senior managers invested in the seed round.
Adams: How much was the total seed investment?
Hardy: It was less than $1 million.
Adams: Did you decide to start an online shoe company because Zappos had pulled out of Canada in 2011?
Hardy: We just thought there was an opportunity in general. The first year we had $1 million in revenue and the second year, $2 million.
Adams: Did you raise more capital?
Hardy: After Coastal was acquired in 2014, Sean asked me if I would come over and help him handle growth. That year we were on track to go from $3 million to between $10 million and $15 million. We decided that was the time to raise more capital and do an acquisition of a company in the U.S., Shoes.com, which would give us access to more brands. We raised $30 million from friends, family and former Coastal investors.
Adams: What made you think you could compete in the U.S. with a company as dominant and popular as Zappos?
Hardy: Our acquisition had less to do with Zappos than with our own thinking that we liked the category. Footwear is a growing market. We were much more interested in the Canadian market than the U.S. We bought our way into some suppliers and vendors. The U.S. is a more mature market. Between 12% and 15% of US footwear was sold online when we did this. Canadian retail was only about 1% online at the time. We thought, gosh, Canadians might be different but we're going to start ordering some things online in the next few years.
Adams: How has that panned out?
Hardy: As expected. The more great brands we offer Canadians, the more receptive they are.
Adams: What's your strategy with your three different web addresses? Why not combine them under Shoes.com, which seems like the most compelling brand name?
Hardy: This year OnlineShoes is celebrating its 20th anniversary. It was the very first footwear retailer in the US and has created a tremendous amount of brand equity. SHOEme.ca will be rebranding to Shoes.com in the coming months.
Adams: Do you encourage shoppers to ship and return as many pairs of shoes as they want the way Zappos does?
Hardy: If it means returning a pair of shoes for a better fit or look, we absolutely encourage customers to do so.
Adams: What percentage of your revenue comes from Canada?
Hardy: Between 20% and 25%.
Adams: Then at least three quarters of your business is competing with Zappos. What's your strategy?
Hardy: I don't think of us as competing with Zappos at all. We're focused on the outdoor, athletic and comfort market. Zappos is focused on the entire footwear category. We're also focused on the Canadian marketplace.
Adams: Doesn't Zappos sell outdoor, athletic and comfort shoes?
Hardy: Our competitors carry many of the same brands we do, but we're creating a proprietary, personalized shopping experience that we believe is setting us apart.
Adams: Why would someone buy from you instead of from Zappos? You can never beat them on speed or price, can you?
Hardy: We don't want to show you thousands and thousands of shoes and waste hours of your time. To this end we recently launched the first artificial intelligence-powered shopping tool using visual intelligence technology. It's connecting customers with the right products and introducing them to new brands and styles. Also we recently launched a pay-after-delivery service that allows customers to buy their shoes and try them on for fit before paying for them.
Adams: How can you ignore your competitors?
Hardy: If you think of what your competitors are doing, you're going to run in the same direction. We think about what our customers want us to be and how do we get in front of that need. There are 90 million millennials coming up in North America who are going to look for a new, better way to shop or browse or discover.
Adams: I tried your new artificial intelligence tool, which is supposed to help customers do that, and it seemed very crude.
Hardy: It's at an early stage. But it's exposing people to more brands. Crude is a good word.


But as popular as it is in the industry, it is still hard to find qualified and experienced Revit users.
This is because the company already has a collection of families or there is a Revit guru who handles the families.
The key to learning how to create quality Revit families is to understand the Family Editor modeling concepts and component creation process.
Worldwide, Autodesk Revit Architecture has become one of the most popular BIM software tools.
This can be confusing and frustrating for beginners or those trying to transition to BIM. However, when the concepts and methodology are grasped, Revit family creation is not that difficult.


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This is a list of the main association football rivalries in Germany.

Domestic club football

Inter-regional

Regional

Baden-Württemberg

Bavaria

Former East Germany

Hesse

Schleswig-Holstein

Lower Saxony / Bremen

North Rhine-Westphalia

Saarland

Local
Bavarian football derbies:
Munich derby: Bayern Munich vs. 1860 Munich
Unterhaching–Munich derby: SpVgg Unterhaching vs. Bayern Munich or 1860 Munich
Augsburg derby: TV 1847 Augsburg vs. BC Augsburg
Würzburg derby: Würzburger Kickers vs. Würzburger FV
Berliner derbies:
 East–West Berlin derby: Union Berlin vs. Hertha BSC
East Berlin  derby: Union Berlin vs. BFC Dynamo
Berliner political derby: Berliner AK 07 vs. BFC Dynamo
Bochum derby: VfL Bochum vs. SG Wattenscheid
 Brandenburg derby: Brandenburger SC vs. Stahl Brandenburg
 Cologne derby: 1. FC Köln vs. Fortuna Köln vs. Viktoria Köln
 Essen derby: Rot-Weiss Essen vs. Schwarz-Weiß Essen
 Frankfurt derby: Eintracht Frankfurt vs. FSV Frankfurt
 Hamburg derby: Hamburger SV vs. FC St. Pauli
 Herzogenaurach (Adidas–Puma) derby: ASV Herzogenaurach vs. 1. FC Herzogenaurach
 Leipzig derby: Chemie Leipzig vs. Lokomotive Leipzig
Oldenburg derby: VfB Oldenburg vs. VfL Oldenburg
 Stuttgart derby: VfB Stuttgart vs. Stuttgarter Kickers

European club football
Real Madrid versus Bayern Munich is the match that has historically been played most often in the Champions League/European Cup with 26 matches. Real's former biggest loss at home in the Champions League came at the hands of Bayern on 29 February 2000 (2–4). Due to Bayern being traditionally hard to beat for Madrid, Madrid supporters often refer to Bayern as the "Bestia negra" ("Black Beast"). Despite the number of duels, Bayern and Real have never met in the final of a Champions League or European Cup.

National team
The German national team also has many rivalries, including with England, Italy, the Netherlands, France, and Poland. When there were two German national teams, West and East Germany, they were also rivals.

England

The England–Germany football rivalry is considered to be mainly an English phenomenon—in the run-up to any competition match between the two teams, many UK newspapers will print articles detailing results of previous encounters, such as those in 1966, 1990 and 1996. Football fans in England often consider Germany to be their main sporting rivals and care more about this rivalry than those with other nations, such as Argentina or Scotland. Most German fans consider the Netherlands or Italy to be their traditional footballing rivals, and as such, usually the rivalry is not taken quite as seriously there as it is in England.

The English and German national football teams have played each other since the end of the 19th century, and officially since 1930. The teams met for the first time in November 1899, when England beat Germany in four straight matches. Notable matches between England and Germany (or West Germany) include the 1966 FIFA World Cup Final, and the semi-finals of the 1990 FIFA World Cup and UEFA Euro 1996.

France

The France–Germany football rivalry between the national football teams of Germany and IFrance, is one of the few longstanding football rivalries at a national level.

Italy

The Germany–Italy football rivalry between the national football teams of Germany and Italy, the two most successful football nations in Europe and only behind Brazil internationally, is a long-running one. Overall, the two teams have won eight FIFA World Cup championships (four each) and made a total of fourteen appearances in the final of the tournament (eight for Germany and six for Italy) – more than all the other European nations combined. They have played against each other five times in the World Cup, and many of these matches have been notable in the history of the tournament. "Game of the Century", the 1970 semifinal between the two countries that Italy won 4–3 in extra time, was so dramatic that it is commemorated by a plaque at the entrance of the Estadio Azteca in Mexico City.

Germany has also won three European Championships while Italy has won it twice. The two countries have faced each other four times in the European championship, with three draws (one German penalty shoot-out victory) and one Italian victory. While Germany has won more international championships, Italy is largely dominant in the head-to-head international match-up, having beaten Germany 15 times in 37 games, with 13 draws and 9 defeats. Moreover, Germany had never defeated Italy in a major tournament match until their victory in the Euro 2016 quarter finals, on penalties (though statistically considered a draw), with all Germany's other wins over Italy being in friendly competitions. However, the draw between the two teams in the group stage of Euro 1996 eliminated Italy from the tournament, while Germany had already qualified for the knockout stage.

Netherlands

The Germany–Netherlands football rivalry is one of the few longstanding football rivalries at a national level. Beginning in 1974 when the Dutch lost the 1974 FIFA World Cup to West Germany in the final (though deeply rooted in Dutch anti-German sentiment due to the German occupation of the Netherlands during World War II) the rivalry between the two nations has become one of the best known international football rivalries in the world.

Both football nations have been among the top ranked according to the strongest football nations by Elo Ratings, and have met a total of 45 times (of which 14 matches were competitive) which resulted in 16 victories for Germany, 17 draws, and 12 victories for the Netherlands.

East Germany vs. West Germany

The East Germany–West Germany football rivalry was an association football rivalry between teams from East Germany and West Germany, existing from 1949 to 1990, while two separate German countries existed.

Clubs from the two countries met at official level in both national team and club competitions like the FIFA World Cup or the European Cup. While the West German national team received strong support in East Germany, with supporters from the East often travelling to away matches of the West German team in Eastern Europe, encounters between teams from the East and West in European Cup competitions were often hard-fought.

See also
 Association football and politics
 Football hooliganism#Germany
 List of association football club rivalries in Europe

References

External links
 FootballDerbies.com
 FIFA.com
 EuroRivals.net – fixtures, results and videos of football derbies

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Probably the most famous rock climb in the world, this was the first route up El Capitan, with a large cast of characters driven to the task by the indomitable Warren Harding. Climbed by the elite in a day, and by the uncommonly gifted without aid, this remains a big adventure for the average wall climber as a mixed free and aid climb in 3 to 5 days. Very popular among the international set, this route suffers badly from crowding and environmental apathy.
W. Harding, W. Merry, G. Whitmore, 1958.


Ivybridge Community College - Outstanding Dancing Achievements for Sisters.
Outstanding Dancing Achievements for Sisters.
Ivybridge Community College students Lucy Barnfield, in Year 10, and her sister Chloe Barnfield, in Year 8, compete nationally in Ballroom and Latin Dancing.
They have decided to join forces to take on the competition head-on as a partnership together. In their first competition of the season in Swindon, they made it through to the Semi Finals in the Years 14-15 Open Samba, the Semi Finals in the Under 16's Ballroom and then the Finals for the Under 16's Latin securing 3rd place.
Congratulations to them both on these achievements and good luck for your next competition in May.


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Africa • Featured • Military • News
Mali: Attack on army post leaves several dead
Several soldiers have been killed and others injured in two separate attacks in central Mali, the army said in a statement late Tuesday.
Unidentified gunmen raided the Sokoura military post Tuesday in the Mopti region, according to the Malian Armed Forces.
The army said urgent measures were taken in the area, near the town of Bankass, with troops on alert amid an ongoing operation to track the attackers.
A unit sent to reinforce this operation had fallen into an ambush nearby in the town of Paroukou.
The provisional toll was 11 soldiers dead including nine in Sokoura and two in Paroukou. The army said an airstrike had been launched killing 13 terrorists and destroying two vehicles.
"Deeply saddened by these two attacks, the Minister of Defense and Veterans Affairs wishes divine mercy to those who lost their lives, a speedy recovery to the injured and sends his condolences to the bereaved families," said the statement.
No group has claimed responsibility of the attack so far, but similar attacks are usually claimed by Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM).
Despite the presence of French and UN peacekeeping forces in Mali, armed groups are still very active in the West African country.
Meanwhile, a military junta had ousted President Ibrahim Boubacar Keita in August and promised to win the war against terrorism in Mali.
Since 2012, militants have carried out violent attacks in northern and central Mali, killing thousands of soldiers and civilians.
Last year, at least 456 civilians were killed and hundreds more wounded in central Mali alone, according to Human Rights Watch.
Tagsattack Mali Malian Armed Forces Mopti
Armindo Tiago tests positive for coronavirus
Macron Is Paying the Price for France's Bloody History in Africa
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Q: Applying 2 different CSS styles on Shiny Button I am developing a R Shiny Application that use the shinyWidgets library. I use 2 times the radioGroupButtons widget. I would like to make it green the first time, and red the second time, using CSS. (In reality I want to make more customisation).
Here is a basic code, applying CSS to every buttons. How can I apply 2 CSS classes?
Thank you very very much for your help !
library("shinyWidgets")
library(shiny)

# Useless server
server <- function(input, output) {
  output$distPlot <- renderPlot({
    hist(rnorm(input$button1), col = 'skyblue', border = 'white')
  })
}

# Ui
ui <- fluidPage(
  sidebarLayout(
    sidebarPanel(

        # A CSS for every .btn button
        tags$style(HTML("
            .btn {
              color: #2ecc71;
              border: 2px #2ecc71 solid;
            }
            .btn:hover {
                color: #fff;
                background-color: #2ecc71;
            }
            .btn-default.active, .btn-default:active, .open > .dropdown-toggle.btn-default {
                color: #fff;
                background-color: #2ecc71;
                border-color: #2ecc71;
            }
        ")),

        # first radio button, it is green!
        radioGroupButtons("button1", label = "It's green !!", choices=c("choice1"=50, "Choice2"=100, "Choice3"=150), selected=100),

        # second radio button, I wish it is red!
        radioGroupButtons("button2", label = "I wish I was red :( ...", choices=c("choice1"=1, "Choice2"=2), selected=1)
    ),
    mainPanel(plotOutput("distPlot"))
  )
)

shinyApp(ui = ui, server = server)

A: So you want to add some specific classes to your radioGroupButtons. Well, ShinyWidgets doesn't let you, so why not create your own radioButtons widget function.
(Well, this function will be almost entirely copied from radioGroupButtons)
Hint: Type radioGroupButton into the R Console to view the source code.
And lets tweak that function, such that it accepts a class argument, which will be applied to the html element. Then, you can easily access the different radioGroupButton-classes with your CSS.
Working code below:
library("shinyWidgets")
library(shiny)

# Defining the new Widget.
customRadioGroupButtons <- function (inputId, label = NULL, choices, selected = NULL, status = "default", size = "normal", direction = "horizontal", justified = FALSE, individual = FALSE, checkIcon = list(), class=NULL) {
  choices <- shinyWidgets:::choicesWithNames(choices)
  if (!is.null(selected) && length(selected) > 1)
    stop("selected must be length 1")
  if (is.null(selected))
    selected <- choices[1]
  size <- match.arg(arg = size, choices = c("xs", "sm", "normal",
                                            "lg"))
  direction <- match.arg(arg = direction, choices = c("horizontal",
                                                      "vertical"))
  status <- match.arg(arg = status, choices = c("default",
                                                "primary", "success", "info", "warning", "danger"))
  divClass <- if (individual)
    ""
  else "btn-group"
  if (!individual & direction == "vertical") {
    divClass <- paste0(divClass, "-vertical")
  }
  if (justified) {
    divClass <- paste(divClass, "btn-group-justified")
  }
  if (size != "normal") {
    divClass <- paste0(divClass, " btn-group-", size)
  }

  # Below here, the paste call is the only difference to the original function.
  radioGroupButtonsTag <- tagList(tags$div(id = inputId, class = paste("radioGroupButtons", class),
    if (!is.null(label))
      tags$label(class = "control-label", `for` = inputId, label),
    if (!is.null(label))
      br(), style = "margin-top: 3px; margin-bottom: 3px; ", style = if (justified) "width: 100%;",
      tags$div(class = divClass, role = "group",
      `aria-label` = "...", `data-toggle` = "buttons",
      class = "btn-group-container-sw", shinyWidgets:::generateRGB(inputId, choices, selected, status, size, checkIcon))))
  shinyWidgets:::attachShinyWidgetsDep(radioGroupButtonsTag)
}

# Useless server
server <- function(input, output) {
  output$distPlot <- renderPlot({
    hist(rnorm(input$button1), col = 'skyblue', border = 'white')
  })
}

# Ui
ui <- fluidPage(
  sidebarLayout(
    sidebarPanel(

      # Note: Consider making a function if you use this more often.
      tags$style(HTML("
                      .radioGroupButtons.green .btn {
                        color: #2ecc71;
                        border: 2px #2ecc71 solid;
                      }
                      .radioGroupButtons.green .btn:hover {
                        color: #fff;
                        background-color: #2ecc71;
                      }
                      .radioGroupButtons.green .btn-default.active, .radioGroupButtons.green .btn-default:active, .radioGroupButtons.green .open > .dropdown-toggle.btn-default {
                        color: #fff;
                        background-color: #2ecc71;
                        border-color: #2ecc71;
                      }

                      .radioGroupButtons.red .btn {
                        color: #EE102B;
                        border: 2px #EE102B solid;
                      }
                      .radioGroupButtons.red .btn:hover {
                        color: #fff;
                        background-color: #EE102B;
                      }
                      .radioGroupButtons.red .btn-default.active, .radioGroupButtons.green .btn-default:active, .radioGroupButtons.green .open > .dropdown-toggle.btn-default {
                        color: #fff;
                        background-color: #EE102B;
                        border-color: #EE102B;
                      }
                      ")),

      # first radio button, it is green!
      customRadioGroupButtons("button1", class="green", label = "It's green !!", choices=c("choice1"=50, "Choice2"=100, "Choice3"=150), selected=100),

      # second radio button, I wish it is red!
      customRadioGroupButtons("button2", class="red", label = "I wish I was red :( ...", choices=c("choice1"=1, "Choice2"=2), selected=1)
      ),
    mainPanel(plotOutput("distPlot"))
      )
    )

shinyApp(ui = ui, server = server)

A: You can add a Bootstrap status then overwrite the class, for example if you add status = "danger", buttons will have class btn-danger :
I can remove the limitation to valid Bootstrap status in the function, it could be useful for such styling (fill an issue here so i remenber).
library("shinyWidgets")
library("shiny")

# Useless server
server <- function(input, output) {
  output$distPlot <- renderPlot({
    hist(rnorm(input$button1), col = 'skyblue', border = 'white')
  })
}

# Ui
ui <- fluidPage(
  sidebarLayout(
    sidebarPanel(

      # A CSS for every .btn button
      tags$style(HTML("
                      .btn-success.btn {
                      color: #2ecc71;
                      background-color: #fff;
                      border: 2px #2ecc71 solid;
                      }
                      .btn-success.btn:hover {
                      color: #fff;
                      background-color: #2ecc71;
                      }
                      .btn-success.active {
                      color: #fff;
                      background-color: #2ecc71;
                      border-color: #2ecc71;
                      }

                      .btn-danger.btn {
                      color: #EE102B;
                      background-color: #fff;
                      border: 2px #EE102B solid;
                      }
                      .btn-danger.btn:hover {
                      color: #fff;
                      background-color: #EE102B;
                      }
                      .btn-danger.active {
                      color: #fff;
                      background-color: #EE102B;
                      border-color: #EE102B;
                      }
                      ")),

      # first radio button, it is green!
      radioGroupButtons("button1", label = "It's green !!", status = "success", choices=c("choice1"=50, "Choice2"=100, "Choice3"=150), selected=100),

      # second radio button, I wish it is red!
      radioGroupButtons("button2", label = "I wish I was red :( ...", status = "danger", choices=c("choice1"=1, "Choice2"=2), selected=1)
      ),
    mainPanel(plotOutput("distPlot"))
      )
    )

shinyApp(ui = ui, server = server)

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Wednesday night myself and Kristin went to the first Chicago Blogger Network event downtown at Tribute in the Essex hotel. The drinks were flowing and there was amazing food being passed around. The event was a total success and I had the pleasure of meeting so many wonderful bloggers and industry people as well! What a fashionable and fun group of people! I think I actually came away from the night with a few new friends to boot!
A special thank you to the ladies over at Chicago Blogger Network for setting up such a great event!
To make the night even that much more amazing, I won a pair of FABULOUS earrings! They are so wonderful they get their own post ;) Make sure to check back tomorrow to see my new jewels!
You look amazing!Love your dress!
thanks for the mention! it was awesome meeting you!
How fun! I'd love to go to something like that!
Your blog is so fab!! We really love it! You look amazing here- the coat and pop of color on your clutch are paired perfectly! Lovely!
Nice meeting everyone!! such a fun night!!
Everyone looks so cute! Nice pics!
It looks like you ladies had a blast! You and Kristin are my two favorite bloggers, I've gotten so many fashion tips from your blogs! I even bought a "kristinhassan" top :) Congrats on your winnings!
You look absolutely gorgeous! What a great dress!
i may have to track you down and steal this dress!


Why build relationships? Root's answer will surprise you.
With the publication of his first book, Revisiting Relational Youth Ministry: From a Strategy of Influence to a Theology of Incarnation, Andrew Root has stormed onto the youth ministry scene as a force to be reckoned with. Root is Assistant Professor of Youth and Family Ministry at Luther Seminary, which is also home to youth ministry stalwart Rollie Martinson. Root has a background in youth ministry through church work, Young Life, and as a gang prevention counselor. Though he is young, he is theologically astute, graduating from Princeton Theological Seminary with a Ph.D. in Practical Theology.
I have realized that a youth ministry of influence has very little to do with the incarnation…. God became human to be with and for us, not simply to influence us toward this or that end. (This would actually be there heresy of docetism, which believed that Jesus only appeared to be human in order to influence us.)… The incarnation is not about influence but accompaniment.
Root does not simply leave his method to intellectual theological arguments, but gives us a final chapter on what this might look like in real youth ministries. His suggestions and theological insights, if taken to heart, really do have the potential to change youth ministry as we know it.
While reading the book, I came to the realization that, to my knowledge, there is no youth ministry book that is as theologically deep and rich as Root's. Kenda Creasy Dean and Ron Foster's book The Godbearing Life is the only work close to Root's in nature, but even it does not probe the depths of a particular theological subject like Root's. In my estimation, Root's book will be noted as being the first in a line of theological books written specifically for the context of youth ministry. With the publication of this book, a new (and needed) genre has been birthed.
This is truly a must-read book. Root's gift to the youth ministry community is not only in the content he provides, but also in modeling for us what it looks like to think theologically about youth ministry. Taking both to heart will change for the better the way you do and think about youth ministry. In fact, this book is helpful in forging a Neo-Youth Ministry.
Matt Cleaver has written since 2004 on youth ministry, theology, and the church. His blog was ranked by Youth Specialties as a Top 20 Youth Ministry Blog. Click here for Matt's list of the Best Youth Ministry Books.
Matt, I'm reading this book right now and it's totally blowing my mind. I read a shorter article by root a long time ago that was essentially a major distillation of this book, and loved it. I have to agree with everything you've said… I think this book is pretty much ground-breaking in the field of YM.
Kenda Creasy Dean's book "Practicing Passion: Youth and the Quest for a Passionate Church" is pretty theological as well… you should check it out. It is a practical theology as well.
I caught onto Root via his articles, too. I think the first thing I read was in the Journal of Student Ministries. I try to read anything he writes.
Yeah, I've read Practicing Passion. It's been a while since I've read either, but in my mind Godbearing Life stuck out as more "theological." Both are great books.
I am not currently involved with youth ministry, but if I were, I think I would want to read this book. It sounds provcative and challenging.
These are the books that will completely change the way you think about youth ministry, for the better. Links are to my reviews of each book.
A psychologist makes you question every assumption you have about adolescence.


I am writing to enquire about the following item which I saw on the Alan Walker Fine Antique Barometers website: "William Harris & Co. - London. 19th century mahogany stick barometer"
Fine quality early 19th Century mahogany Stick Barometer, in essentially original condition, with ''swan-neck' pediment over signed engraved silvered brass register plate, bearing rack-and-pinion operated vernier. The case of 'flame' mahogany, edge moulded, ebony banded and inset with detachable mercury Fahrenheit thermometer; the original concealed barometer tube terminating behind turned cistern cover.


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Q: java swing vs mvc: is this pattern indeed possible? I am new in swing, but managed to create a descend gui.
My problem though is that I was not able to apply the patterns suggested in references/tutorials, mainly the MVC pattern.
Is it me, or in JTree and using SwingWorker, it is not possible to have a clear separation of controller/view/model?
For example I use a Swingworker, but then I can not "fit" a controller in the design.
I.e. the action of the control essentially is in the doBackground method that is inside e.g the action perform of a button.
So no controller class.
The result of the action in swing worker is to update a Jtree, so I pass the result to a class I named model, but this class has to have access to the treeModel of the Jtree that is inside the JFrame i.e. the view, so no clear separation of view and model.
I looked at a lot of tutorials but all presenting the MVC had a trivial example, and in most cases the view (which was just a some labels!) updated everything. Am I completely confused, or it is not posible or at least easy to integrate an MVC pattern in a swing application that uses swingworkers and jtrees?
I am talking about the actual domain data and not the MVC that is implemented in the swing components.
Can someone help me (and spare me from this terrible headache) either with an overview of how this design could be approached or at least with a tutorial, that is useful, with a non-trivial example?
Thanks

A: When I have build larger applications (person years of development), we often abstract the MVC architecture above the individual components to a top level controller/model and view, and accept that the individual components will be their own personalized MVC.  GeoffreyZheng is absolutely correct in his assessment, and it is something I have actually loved about developing with the Swing environment.  That being said, if you want true MVC, you will probably need to abstract away from individual components and talk about a view in a more abstract terminology.

A: Swing is not stricly MVC, as the company previously known as Sun openly admits it:

(A traditional MVC separation) didn't
  work well in practical terms because
  the view and controller parts of a
  component required a tight coupling
  (for example, it was very difficult to
  write a generic controller that didn't
  know specifics about the view). So we
  collapsed these two entities into a
  single UI (user-interface) object.

For JTree you have TreeModel as, you guess it, model. Some simple components like JLabel don't even have a model.
As the link further explains, you do get certain level of separation with UI classes supplied by LAF. However Swing components themselves have to maintain and control a lot of UI related properties.

A: Still in many cases it is preferable and possible: Of course the controller needs to know about the component, which is responsible for the action, but still the view doesnt need any specific action implementation. You just dont implement the action in a view class, instead you use a controller (which knows about the view and model). So add the action listener there, updating some model details for example, even within a SwingWorker.
In almost every example I saw until know it was implementend like that, I dont see where this is anywhere different with any other component, like a jtree.
Maybe with having a look at the differences between MVC and MVP (which I prefer) its easier to understand: MVC or MVP

A: Not sure if this will help, but try Swing Application Framework (SAF) (JSR 296). As far as I read or try this, it helps to separate view from event handling. But I'm not so in details with more complex examples (like with JTree)
http://java.sun.com/developer/technicalArticles/javase/swingappfr/
https://appframework.dev.java.net/
Good luck!


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Nadine Jolie CourtneyUpdated: Jun. 29, 2021
Hives can show up on various parts of your body, including your face. Check out how to identify the symptoms, triggers, and treatments—plus when to see a doctor.
Hives are annoying, itchy, and unsightly, but at least they tend to appear on areas of the body that can be hidden by clothing. But then there are face hives—they're not more severe than hives elsewhere on the body, but they can be more embarrassing.
Hives go by the medical name urticaria. "Hives are a type of allergic reaction that causes your body to release histamine and manifests as itchy, red bumps or welts that can appear anywhere on the body," says Peterson Pierre, a dermatologist in Westlake Village, California. They're often pink, white, or flesh-coloured and turn up as itchy swellings. They may last for several hours before going away, but they can also reappear on a different part of the body.
Here's everything you need to know about what causes hives on your face, how to treat them, and how to prevent new ones from occurring.
(Related: Does Sunlight Give You Hives? 5 Things to Know About Solar Urticaria)
What causes hives on the face?
No matter where they appear on the body, hives generally have a variety of causes. Everything from stress and sun exposure to extreme cold, friction, and an allergy can trigger this pesky reaction. Here are some top causes of hives on the face.
Been extra stressed recently? It's possible that it has a connection to your hives flare-up. But it's not necessarily the main cause. "We usually rule out these other causes first to make sure that we're not missing something treatable or that the patient should be aware of," says Papri Sarkar, MD, a board-certified dermatologist in Newton, Massachusetts. And while stress may play a role in your hives, that doesn't mean it caused the reaction. It comes down to the tricky difference between correlation (two things being related) and causation (one thing causing another).
So it's possible that stress causes hives. But it's equally as likely stress just makes hives worse. What we do know, though, is that there's a link. For instance, a 2018 study in Advances in Dermatology and Allergology found higher stress levels in women with chronic hives.
There's an exception, says Dr. Sarkar, who references a rare condition called adrenergic urticaria. For people with this disease, emotional stress causes small, transient hives to appear. "Unfortunately, we don't yet understand the mechanism of this," she says. "Injecting stress hormones like epinephrine or norepinephrine in patients with stress-induced hives can reproduce the hives, though. In these patients, coffee or chocolate may also induce hives."
Tempted to spend a beach day sunbathing? You know to apply sunscreen to your face, but if you're prone to hives, make sure you bring an umbrella for shade too. Sun exposure and hives are linked, according to pediatric dermatologist Sheilagh Maguiness, MD, an associate professor in the Department of Dermatology at the University of Minnesota Medical School. "Solar urticaria is an uncommon form of hives. It refers to hives occurring minutes after sun exposure," says Dr. Maguiness, who is also co-founder of Stryke Club skin care line for teen boys.
Scientists still aren't sure why this form of physical urticaria affects certain people but not others. What they do know is that the trigger isn't simply the sun's heat. It's true that heat can cause hives, but for people with solar urticaria, it's the sunlight that causes a reaction, says Dr. Sarkar. "In patients with solar urticaria, sunlight causes histamine to be released from certain cells—mast cells—which triggers hives," she says. "Protecting the skin from the sunlight using UPF clothing, seeking shade, wearing sunscreen can all help."
Patients are often put on antihistamines to block the release of histamine as a fix. And lest you think a blip of time spent in the sun won't make a difference, think again. Dr. Pierre says that exposure to just a few minutes of sunlight may cause hives.
(Related: 8 Simple Tricks to Better Protect Yourself From the Sun)
Autoimmune diseases such as Hashimoto's disease and lupus can be tricky to diagnose and may lead to a host of frustrating symptoms—weight gain, weight loss, extreme tiredness, muscle aches, and more. While there's much about autoimmune diseases that remains unknown, Dr. Maguiness says that there's a correlation between them and hives outbreaks.
"Hives can be a manifestation of an underlying autoimmune disease," she says. "The one most commonly reported in association with hives is autoimmune thyroid disease. This might be due to the association with anti-IgE (immunoglobulin E) or IgE receptor antibodies. People that have anti-IgE antibodies are more likely to have chronic autoimmune urticaria."
Certain autoimmune diseases, such as lupus, thyroid disease, and rheumatoid arthritis, produce autoantibodies that can react with an antibody that may cause hives, says Dr. Sarkar. These diseases generally tend to cause chronic hives. "Each individual lesion may still last 24 hours, but the crops of hives will last more than six weeks total," she says. If you have chronic hives, your doctor will look for autoimmune diseases. "Treating the underlying disease often improves the hives," Dr. Sarkar says.
"In many cases, especially in children, hives are seen following an infection," says Dr. Maguiness. According to the American College of Allergy, Asthma, and Immunology, infections may be bacterial in nature, as they are with strep throat and urinary tract infections (UTIs), or viral, like a cold, hepatitis, and mononucleosis.
Temperature changes
Shuffling between extreme heat and extreme cold—say, walking from a building blasting heat to the freezing outdoors—can trigger hives in people with cold urticaria. With this form of the condition, it's the quick drop in temperature that causes the outbreak, says Dr. Pierre. It can happen if you go from sweltering on the beach during a hot summer day to plunging into cool ocean water. "Similarly, a rise in temperature, as seen during exercise, can cause exercise-induced urticaria," says Dr. Pierre.
Hives are frequently caused by friction or rubbing against something, but they can also occur thanks to virtually invisible triggers. "If you have hives in reaction to a certain trigger in the air—like pollen, cat dander, et cetera—it's more likely to appear where you actually had the contact," explains Dr. Sarkar. "Most often, that's the face, neck, and extremities since those tend to be the areas that are most often exposed." Hives could also be caused by bug bites, a hypersensitivity known as papular urticaria.
Other causes
The list of potential causes for hives on the face and body is numerous. "Hives are really common, and there are many possible causes or triggers," says Dr. Sarkar. Additional reasons you might have hives include:
pressure, such as from clothing
foods like peanuts, shellfish, or egg
medications, especially certain antibiotics or aspirin or ibuprofen
allergens like pollen, animal dander, and dust mites
How long do hives last?
Individual hives don't stick around for long. "Each individual lesion generally lasts less than 24 hours," says Dr. Sarkar says. But don't get too excited. While an individual hive may be there and gone in a day, the reaction in general doesn't usually end quite so quickly. Hives can disappear from one area and reappear elsewhere.
Overall, hives can last days to weeks, she says. In some cases, the hives last for longer than six weeks; these are considered chronic. In these instances, Dr. Sarkar says, searching for an underlying disease is a must. Doctors will do a workup, checking for allergies and autoimmune disorders, among other potential causes.
Is there treatment for hives?
Most hives will go away on their own, especially with lifestyle management. However, if you're suffering from chronic hives, known as chronic urticaria, you'll probably want to find treatment. "The two mainstays of treatment involve identifying and removing the offending agent and the use of antihistamines such as Allegra, Zyrtec, and Claritin, to name a few," says Dr. Pierre.
If those don't help, your doctor may turn to newer biologic therapies, such as omalizumab, says Dr. Maguiness.
Dr. Sarkar carefully emphasizes that the treatment for hives depends on the individual cause. "If it's an allergic reaction, usually antihistamines and avoiding the allergen help. If it's due to stress, taking a medication that helps to mediate the stress response [and avoiding stress] can help. If it's an autoimmune disease, we usually treat the root cause," she explains. She stresses the importance of getting to the bottom of your chronic hives. Without understanding the cause, it's hard to settle on a good solution. "There are so many causes of hives that it's almost impossible to give one treatment regimen for all of them," she says.
(Related: Make Hives Disappear With These Simple Home Remedies)
When you should seek medical attention
In rare cases, hives can become dangerous and require immediate medical attention. "Sometimes the swelling that we see in the skin in discrete plaques can be present in the oral or respiratory system as well," says Dr. Sarkar. "If that happens, patients may develop respiratory problems and progress to being unable to breathe. This is a medical emergency and needs to be treated right away."
An early symptom to look out for is an itchy or swollen tongue or lips. "At the first sign of that, I recommend patients call 911," she says. And get medical help if you're having a hard time breathing or swallowing, or if your tongue feels larger.
Next: What Causes Hives? Everything You Need to Know About Urticaria
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Victoria Osteen - Sunday Sermon (January-29-2019) Stand Firm In Your "Yes" To God
Victoria Osteen (January-29-2019) Sunday Sermon: Stand Firm In Your "Yes" To God.
In this message, Victoria will encourage you to say yes to God. Second Corinthians 1:20 says, "For as many as are the promises of God, in Christ they are [all answered] 'Yes.' So through Him we say our 'Amen' to the glory of God." What is it that you need to say yes to today? Is it, "Yes, God, I'm going to forgive those people who hurt me"? Is it, "Yes, I'm going to believe that You can bring good out of this difficult time and show me Your favor"? Maybe it's, "Yes, God, I'm going to reach out to those people whom You're asking me to reach out to even though I don't feel like I have time"? What does your yes look like?
Written by Victoria Osteen
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Victoria Osteen (born March 28, 1961) is the co-pastor of Lakewood Church in Houston, Texas, an author, the wife of Joel Osteen, and the daughter-in-law of John Osteen.Victoria Osteen was born Victoria Iloff in Huntsville, Alabama. She lived near Marshall Space Flight Center where her father, Donald Iloff – a mathematician with General Electric – was a member of GE's Saturn rocket project team led by German rocket scientist Wernher von Braun. In 1963, at the age of two, Osteen moved with her fam...
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ZMRAA is an implementation of the MRAA API for Zephyr project.

Releases
-----------------
* v1.2.0 - Support for Zephyr 1.8. Added STM32 Nucleo L476RG.
* v1.1.0 - Support for Zephyr 1.7.  Added Quark SE C1000 Development board
  support.
* v1.0.0 - Initial release of ZMRAA targeting Zephyr 1.6
  Includes preliminary support for AIO, GPIO, I2C, PWM, SPI, and UART

Supported Devices
-----------------
* Arduino 101
* Quark D2000 CRB
* Quark SE C1000 Development Board
* STM32 Nucleo L476RG

Supported APIs
-----------------
* GPIO
* I2C
* AIO
* PWM
* I2C
* SPI

Protocols per Core: Arduino 101
-------------------------------
In general almost every protocol mentioned above is present on each core.
However, that stops being the case when you look at it from the POV of what's
present on the Arduino headers. The following table lists the protocols that
are present per core and exposed via the headers:

| Protocol |           ARC                  |           QUARK                |
|----------|--------------------------------|--------------------------------|
|   AIO    | Present                        | Not present                    |
|   GPIO   | Present                        | Present                        |
|   PWM    | Present                        | Present                        |
|   I2C    | Present                        | Not present                    |
|   UART   | Not present                    | Present                        |
|   SPI    | Present (Only internally)      | Present                        |

Pin Availability on Arduino 101 via ZMRAA
-----------------------------------------
On 101 there are at least 69 pins that can be configured. ZMRAA tries to provide
access to as many as possible. Most of the pins exposed on the headers of the
Arduino 101 can be accessed via both cores - Quark and ARC, but there are a
few pins and protocols that can be accessed from only one of the cores. To see
which protocol is available on which core please check the corresponding section.

A look at the pins accessible via the **Quark core:**
**GPIO** - D2-D5, D7, D8, D10-D13
**PWM** - D3, D5, D6, D9
**UART** - D0(RX), D1(TX)
**SPI** - D11(MOSI), D12(MISO), D13(SCK) | CS via GPIO

Pins accessible via the **ARC core:**
**GPIO** - D14-D19 (These are analog pins A0-A5 numbered 14-19)
*ex: mraa_gpio_init(14); in this case pin A0 would be used as a digital pin*
*    mraa_gpio_init(15); in this case it's pin A1 and so on and so forth*

**AIO** - A0-A5, D10-D13
*you can number the digital pins as they are: mraa_aio_init(10)*
*This initializes pin D10*

**PWM** - D3, D5, D6, D9
**I2C** - I2C pins on the board
**SPI** - Not exposed externally, but has access to the internal BMI160

*If a protocol and its corresponding pins have not been mentioned under a*
*particular core then that protocol is not available on that core.*

Adding ZMRAA to Zephyr
----------------------

```
cd zephyr/ext/lib
git clone https://github.com/intel-iot-devkit/install.git mraa
```

Then you need to apply [zmraa.patch](zmraa.patch) to add the configuration entries
```
cd $ZEPHYR_BASE
git am ext/lib/mraa/zmraa.patch
```

ZMRAA Examples Note: Please change pin numbers accordingly based on platform.

ZMRAA AIO Example
-----------------
The ZMRAA AIO example needs special care when running on D2000. Please see following for more info

prj.conf AIO setting for D2000:
CONFIG_ADC_QMSI=y
CONFIG_ADC_QMSI_SS=n

prj.conf AIO setting for C1000_SS and A101_SS:
CONFIG_ADC_QMSI=n
CONFIG_ADC_QMSI_SS=y

ZMRAA Shell Example
-------------------
The ZMRAA shell example creates a simple Zephyr shell which provides a command set for interacting with ZMRAA GPIOs and I2C busses.  The ZMRAA shell is available on all supported board targets.

**Board targets:**
* `BOARD=arduino_101`
* `BOARD=arduino_101_sss`
* `BOARD=quark_d2000_crb`
* `BOARD=quark_se_c1000_devboard`
* `BOARD=quark_se_c1000_ss_devboard`

### Arduino 101
Build the image
```
source $ZEPHYR_BASE/zephyr-env.sh
cd ext/lib/mraa/examples/shell
make BOARD=arduino_101
```

[Flash the target](https://www.zephyrproject.org/doc/boards/x86/arduino_101/doc/board.html#flashing).  After resetting the target, a mraa shell will be available:
```
shell> ZMRAA v0.0.3 on Arduino 101 x86

mraa> gpio list
00     IO0: GPIO UART
01     IO1: GPIO UART
02     IO2: GPIO
03     IO3: GPIO PWM
...
```

### Quark D2000 CRB
Build the image
```
source $ZEPHYR_BASE/zephyr-env.sh
cd ext/lib/mraa/examples/shell
make BOARD=quark_d2000_crb
```

[Flash the target](https://www.zephyrproject.org/doc/boards/x86/quark_d2000_crb/doc/quark_d2000_crb.html#flashing).  After resetting the target, a mraa shell will be available:
```
shell> ZMRAA v0.0.3 on Intel D2000 CRB
mraa> gpio list
00     IO0: GPIO UART
01     IO1: GPIO UART
02     IO2: GPIO
03     IO3: GPIO
...
```

### Quark SE C1000 Development Board
Build the image
```
source $ZEPHYR_BASE/zephyr-env.sh
cd ext/lib/mraa/examples/shell
make BOARD=quark_se_c1000_devboard
```

Flash the target
```
make BOARD=quark_se_c1000_devboard flash
```

```
shell> ZMRAA v0.0.3 on Quark SE Devboard/C1000 x86
mraa> gpio list
00        :
01 VDD_HDR:
02 VDD_HDR:
03 AP_UART: GPIO UART
...
```

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They seem to have a lot of people that complain about everything under the sun in the comments, but that didn't stop me from doing a full analysis of the new bag that was just released on Kickstarter.
Well, maybe you do… but I found this to be a complete surprise! It also reminds me that I should watch more TED talks!
When I was in Morocco, I decided I needed to get way out of town into the Sahara desert to really lean into it. I rode a camel and everything. Believe me, riding a camel is not fun at all. I thought it would be a bit like riding a horse, but it definitely wasn't. I've now ridden on about five different camels in various countries (Morocco, Egypt, Oman), and I can tell you every experience was negative. I tried to have a good attitude about it and embrace the romance and adventure of it, but not even my positivity could overcome a continually negative experience. Just over those dunes there in the distance was Algeria. I almost crossed over, but my guides there warned me it was a bit dangerous.
So this year I spent about two months in Africa, and I feel very lucky for it! I spent the vast majority of it early in the year here in Morocco and then the second month was later in the year down in the south. What a huge place Africa is… I guess we all know it is pretty huge from the map, but when you actually get there, it's pretty much beyond comprehension!
Here's a photo of some Moroccan men along the side of the road on the desert-side of the Atlas Mountains. The way this look was achieved is with a little bit of compression-magic. I used a 300mm lens, which made that awesome old city behind them loom large and soft. I felt lucky to have this nice arrangement of colors… the nice cool blue of their dress with the warmth of the old buildings behind.
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There have been many famous movies made here including The Last Temptation of Christ, Kundun, The Mummy, Gladiator, and The Prince of Persia. There were even a few scenes from Game of Thrones shot here!
One of the coolest things about being in Marrakech was being up high when the mosques call their faithful to come pray many times per day. From the top of every mosque you hear all kinds of sounds and songs… I have no idea what they are saying, but it does sound kind of awesome.
It was a long and windy drive from Aït Benhaddou to Marrakech, but it was totally stunning. There were about ten other places I wanted to stop in the mountains, but I didn't have the time. But maybe this one mosque was just enough. I was surprised there was still snow on the mountains, and it made for the perfect background.
Whenever I am in places that are far away and I see people doing insane things with vehicles, it never ceases to amaze. And most things I see seem to appear totally unsafe, and more or less like fraternity pranks! What's the craziest thing you have seen?
I can't believe this thing has somehow evaded the principals of Newtonian physics! When I pulled into a small kasbah called Aït Benhaddou in the desert to take some photos, I saw this huge truck full of hay rumbling past. I barely kept my wits about me to take a photo just after it passed.
On the plus side, it must be very easy to get the hay off the truck!
This is a Aït Benhaddou, an incredible kasbah near Ouarzazate, Morocco. I've always wanted to visit this place ever since I saw it in Gladiator. It's the place where Russell Crowe was taken on a stretcher and where he learned to become a gladiator. You may also remember it if you watch Game of Thrones. It's one of the spots where Daenerys took her dragons with the unsullied.


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10 Facts About Longevity
Across the world we are experiencing an ageing population, leading to growing concern regarding the costs of pensions, health and social care. However, longevity is about more than just end of life issues and is already having a profound social and economic impact across all ages. Here are ten facts aimed at helping you understand how longevity is already changing the way we live our life.
The UK's Office for National Statistics (ONS) predicts a girl born in 2014 has a life expectancy of 83 and for a boy 79. However these predictions are based on the assumption of no further progress in improving life expectancy. Given over the last 150 years best practice life expectancy has improved by two to three years every decade that's a strong assumption. Allowing for modest rates of future progress the ONS predicts a new born girl will live to 93 and a boy to 90. Assuming progress continues at its past rate then these become 105 and 102.
https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/birthsdeathsandmarriages/deaths/bulletins/deathsregisteredinenglandandwalesseriesdr/2015
Between 2001 and 2015 the chances of a man dying from heart disease declined by more than 50% and the risk of dying from cancer also declined. For men aged 35-49 the most common cause of death is now suicide not disease.
However as we live longer we are becoming more likely to die of other diseases such as Dementia. The number of deaths from Alzheimers increased threefold between 2001 and 2015 making it the lead cause of death in 2015.
The good news though is that older people are increasingly less likely to die each year. The mortality rate of someone aged 80-84 today is the same as someone aged 70-74 in 1963. For someone aged 70-74 today their mortality rate is the same as someone aged 60-64 50 years ago. In that sense 74 really is the new 64. Would The Beatles still write "When I'm 64" today?
Source : Pew Research Center http://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2016/04/21/worlds-centenarian-population-projected-to-grow-eightfold-by-2050/
Because mortality rates have fallen more and more people are reaching the age of 100. In 1990 there were an estimated total of 95,000 people aged 100 or more across the world, the equivalent of 2.9 people out of every 10,000. Current estimates suggest that the number of centenarians has increased nearly fivefold and by 2050 more than 3.5 million people will have enjoyed a 100th birthday party – that's around 24 people out of every 10,000.
The oldest person to have lived (or to have been verified) is Jeanne Calment of France who lived to be 122 years and 164 days old, passing away on the 4th August 1997. The oldest person alive today is Violet Brown of Jamaica who is 117 years old and 80 days.
Despite all the improvements in life expectancy over the past 20 years Mme Calment still holds her title as the oldest person ever to have lived and will do so for at least a further five years. This leads many to believe that there is a biological limit to how long we can live for.
Saying there is a limit to life expectancy is not uncontroversial. Increasing research and investment is being made into understanding ageing itself. In 2018 the WHO meets to update its International Classification of Diseases. There is growing pressure to include ageing as a disease, opening up the logical possibility of curing ageing and removing mortality.
The next person to live for longer than Jeanne Calment will receive a very substantial birthday present. Dmitry Kaminskiy of Deep Knowledge Ventures has promised a $1million prize for the first person to live to 123 years of age.
Whilst average life expectancy has been increasing the gains have not been equally spread. A US study based on 1.4 billion tax records suggests that the gap in life expectancy between the richest 1% and the poorest 1% is 14.6 years for men and 10.1 years for women. This gap has been widening over time –between 1980 and 2010 the gap has increased by 8 years[1].
To compound matters it isn't just that the gap is widening but for some groups life expectancy is falling. Anne Case and Angus Deaton show that for non-Hispanic white men and women in the US without a college degree and aged between 25-29 and 60-64 mortality rates are rising even though they are falling for everyone else. The declines in this group may contribute to explaining why in the last two years US and UK life expectancy have shown very small declines. Whilst best practice life expectancy continues to increase not every country is implementing best practice.
The general perception of longevity is that it means we are older for longer. However in many respects what is happening is that we are actually younger for longer.
In the UK in 2013 74 year olds had the same mortality rates as 64 year olds in 1977. However in 1977 63% of those 64 year olds were in employment whereas today only 10% of 74 year olds are working. What would happen to retirement age if 74 year olds today were working as much as their mortality rate equivalent 64 years olds in 1977?
The answer is that for the UK people would be working an additional 8 years longer, for Germany an additional 6 and for the US 4. Having people work for longer will be crucial in solving the public finance challenges around longevity. However achieving these extra years of work will need a radical overhaul in corporate policies and approaches to older workers.
In 1880 around 75-80% of U.S men aged 70-74 were in the work force – retirement as a concept didn't exist. By 1994 this had declined to 12% as retirement became commonplace. However this major downward trend is now firmly in reverse. By 2004 15% of men aged 70-74 were in the workforce which rose to 19% by 2014. The Bureau of Labor Statistics expects it to reach 23% by 2024.
The younger generation seem to be factoring this into their life plans. According to a survey by Manpower Group 37% of Japanese millennials expect to work until they die as do 12% of British and American 18-34 year olds.
There is some good news in this though. Especially in less physically demanding jobs working until later is correlated with longer life expectancies. A study by Oregon State University of nearly 3000 individuals who retired between 1992 and 2010 shows that those who retired at 67 and not 65 had a 21% lower risk of dying at 67. For those who worked until 70 the risk fell by 44% and retirement at age 72 saw a 56% fall in probability of dying compared to retirement at 65.
Marriage is happening later and later and increasing numbers of people never marry. In 1970 only 5% of Japanese were never married by age 50, by 2010 this had risen to 16%.
In 1960 50% of Americans were married by the age of 21 and only around 12% of 25-34 year olds weren't married. By 2014 the average age of first marriage had risen to 29 and 50% of 25-34 year olds were unmarried. In Japan the average age of first marriage has risen by 4 years for men and 5 for women to reach 31 and 29.
It isn't just the age of marriage that is being pushed back. In 1975 90% of 30 year olds in the US lived on their own, today it is 70%. In 1975 56% of them owned a home, today it is 33%. There are many factors, positive and negative, behind these trends but as life expectancy has increased so too has the age at which the traditional markers of adult commitment are made.
Source : https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/birthsdeathsandmarriages/livebirths/bulletins/birthsummarytablesenglandandwales/2015
As well as marrying later and buying houses later, people are having children later. The average age of women when they give birth in the UK has risen since 1975 and is now just over 30. Fertility rates for those aged over 40 are now greater than those under 20. A woman in their early forties is now more likely to become a mother than a grandmother.
Source : https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/birthsdeathsandmarriages/divorce/datasets/divorcesinenglandandwales
Divorce rates on average are declining. The divorce rate in England and Wales rose continuously from 1960, when it stood at 1.3 per 1000 married men, to reach 25 in 1990 but since then has shown a substantial decline to 13.1. However declines in divorce are focused on the under 50s, for those over 50 divorce rates continue to rise and there are even specific dating apps such as "Stitch" to cater for this age group. Also noticeable is a shift in the most likely age for divorce. Even as recently as 1990 this was between 25-29 but by 2014 it had risen 40 to 44.
Andrew Scott is a Professor of Economics at London Business School and the author (with Lynda Gratton) of "The 100 Year Life – Living and Working in an Age of Longevity". You can find him at www.andrewscott.global or on twitter @ajslondon1.
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(Israeli) Attorney General Tours Infiltrator-Infested Neighborhoods, Shocked, Pledges Change
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Can you imagine Eric Holder doing this?
Attorney General Yehuda Weinstein on Monday evening toured southern Tel Aviv's neighborhoods, which have been literally taken over by illegal infiltrators from Africa, and was shocked by what he saw and heard...
The local residents approached Weinstein and told him about the daily harassment and crimes they are forced to deal with.
Residents of southern Tel Aviv have been suffering from endless harassment, fear and violence perpetrated by the many illegal Eritrean and Sudanese infiltrators who enter Israel to find employment and come to live in their working class neighborhood. The residents, along with Border Guard officers, accompanied Weinstein during his tour.
"It is the government's policy to combat this phenomenon," Weinstein told the dozens of residents and infiltrators who gathered around him. "This phenomenon is difficult, especially in our country, which is too small to contain such a large quantity of infiltrators. We took a number of steps, including building a border fence and passing laws that we helped to enact, but the problem still exists. [The infiltrators] certainly raise difficulties that should not be belittled. We are acting proportionately and cautiously and to the best our ability to handle this difficult and complex problem."
Weinstein told the residents that he was glad about the visit simply because it enlightened him as to the reality they face. He added that he planned to come up with a new legal procedure that will prevent the continuation of the status quo.
The security fence that was built along Israel's southern border has brought the number of infiltrators almost to a halt, but there are tens of thousands already concentrated in southern Tel Aviv and Eilat, with a smaller number in Arad, Ashdod and other areas.
Interior Minister Gideon Saarrecently toured southern Tel Aviv in an effort to learn up close about the infiltrator problem, which former MK Yaakov Katz (National Union) brought to the country's attention as head of the Knesset Committee on the issue.
Saar said that the problem is "one of the most difficult, sensitive and delicate problems that Israeli society faces."
"This problem did not form overnight and I recommend against creating the impression that it can be solved overnight. The situation needs to be changed, and this is what I intend to do."
In April, MK Elazar Stern (Hatnua) was attacked by an illegal infiltrator from Eritrea as he was visiting neighborhoods in southern Tel Aviv.
Can you imagine a U.S. congressman getting attacked by an illegal alien?
During the visit, Stern tried to cross a street along with the residents, when an infiltrator, who had been following them, tried to obstruct his way. One Israeli resident yelled at the infiltrator and asked him to go away. The illegal infiltrator reportedly opened his shirt to show a large cross, then attacked Stern from behind and hit him in the head, knocking down his kippah and stepping on it.
Following the assault, MK Stern said, "These are phenomena that would not be tolerated anywhere else in the world, but occur right here among us."
As we know, that's not correct.
Here is the article: Attorney General 'Shocked' by Visit to Southern Tel Aviv (Elad Benari, Arutz Sheva, Aug. 6, 2013).
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Icknield Walk First School is a larger than average first school located in Royston, Hertfordshire, England.  It has approximately 335 registered students and has an overall 'Outstanding' Ofsted rating. The school runs the Rise and Shine Breakfast Club for its pupils and hosts both the Fair Play After School / Holiday Club and the Queens Road Playgroup.

It is a member of the Royston Area Schools Partnership (RASP), which comprises the other seven first schools in Royston and the surrounding villages.

History
Building work, with an estimated budget of £68,400, began in 1965 on the site of Royston's former Militia Camp. The school was initially intended to open in April 1966 as a junior school for 320 children but following Hertfordshire County Council's decision to introduce a three-tier system of first, middle and upper schools it was resolved that only infant school age pupils would be admitted when it opened. The school opened at the start of the summer term of 1966 with 129 pupils, and was the first in Hertfordshire for the five- to nine-year-old age group. A playgroup opened at the school in early 1967.

In its early years, the school accommodated the pupils of Royston's Studlands Rise First School, which was under construction.

In 1986, pupils from the school took part in the BBC Domesday Project in which they created a contemporary picture of their lives. Icknield Walk's contributors recorded details about their classes and the school's summer fete, of which one pupil wrote: "There was a Sinclair C5 to ride in. It is battery powered and the handle bars are under your legs. There were other rides we could go on too, there was a Chuffy Train and a tractor ride". In 2011, the project was digitised as part of BBC Domesday Reloaded.

Icknield Walk First School has hosted the independently run Fair Play After School / Holiday Club since 2005.

On Friday 28 April 2006, the school celebrated the 40th anniversary of its opening. Pupils and staff dressed up in fashions from the period since the school first opened its doors, and a new outdoor classroom was officially opened by the MP for Royston, Oliver Heald. The then headteacher, Marilyn Jones, said: "The celebrations went beautifully and the children and staff looked fantastic. We had hippies, punks and new romantics. We even had a few Elvis Presleys and Marilyn Monroes. The children and the teachers all had a real laugh. […] We wanted to do something different to mark the 40th birthday so we decided to build an outdoor classroom and, after discussing it with the children, it was decided that we would build an outdoor stage where they could put on shows. Parents have helped by donating plants and small trees to provide shade and colour, and over the next two to three years we will continue to build it up and make it a project of which to be proud."

In May 2010, the school was visited by Larry Achike, a former finalist in the triple jump at the 2000 and 2008 Olympic Games (where he was placed 5th and 7th respectively) and winner of the 1998 Commonwealth Games gold medal. He met pupils and watched their PE lessons.

One year later, in May 2011, the school agreed that the Queens Road Playgroup, which had been operating in Royston for 50 years, could relocate to its grounds, subject to planning permission. Royston mayor Robert Inwood officially opened the playgroup's new home within the school's gates in September 2011.

In November 2012, teaching assistant Terry Hartga was seen clean-shaven for the first time in more than forty years when the beard he had been growing since 1968 was shaved off as part of the school's fundraising activities for Children in Need.

The school hosted a mini fun run in advance of the annual 'Royston in Blue' charity race in 2013.

New climbing equipment was installed at the school in early 2015. Headteacher Jane Sherwood told local newspaper The Royston Crow: "The children love the climbing equipment. It is good not only for motor skills development but it also allows for imaginative development – the equipment can be a castle or a puppet theatre, for example."

In mid-2015 it was announced that the school would receive additional funding to help increase childcare provision in Royston if hundreds of new houses were built in the town.

For twenty-four years the school's annual firework display was organised free of charge by Colin Freeman and Steve Johnson, whose children had been pupils at Icknield Walk when they first began. A special tribute was paid to Mr Freeman at the 2015 firework display following his death earlier in the year.

Year 4 pupils from the school participate in the annual 'Youth Makes Music' concert organised by the Royston branch of the Rotary Club and which is held at the University of Cambridge's West Road Concert Hall.

Leadership
The School's first headteacher was Constance Mary Bull, who led the school until she retired in 1980. Her successor as headteacher was John McGrellis.

Subsequent Icknield headteacher Marilyn Jones retired in July 2009 after leading the school for ten years. She said, "I have had a fantastic ten years at Icknield Walk, and there are lots of people to thank for that – parents, staff, governors, PTA committees and most of all the children. What I am going to do with my days in September is still a mystery to me but I will think of everyone at the school fondly and there will be a big hole in my life that was once Icknield".

Icknield Walk First School's current headteacher is Jane Sherwood, who has been in post since September 2009.

Awards and achievements
In June 2011, Icknield Walk First School's tennis team reached the County Finals of the Hertfordshire Schools Partnership Mini-Tennis competition.

The school's most recent inspection by Ofsted, the inspection and regulation body for schools in England, took place in July 2014. The subsequent report assessed the school as 'Outstanding'. At the start of the 2014/15 school year, the school held a special activity afternoon, with a bouncy castle and ice lollies, so that its pupils could celebrate the achievement. Headteacher Jane Sherwood said: "We are particularly pleased to achieve an outstanding grade in all areas – this is particularly difficult under the current inspection framework. […] The activity afternoon is our way of saying thank you and well done to the children who work hard and always try their best, behave so well and are rightly proud to belong to our school." Icknield Walk's previous full Ofsted inspection in 2009 had concluded that overall, "This is a good and improving school. Pupils progress well and often attain standards that are above average in English, mathematics and science by the time they leave the school". A subsequent interim assessment in 2012 concluded, "the school's performance has been sustained and that we can defer its next full inspection".

In July 2015, Icknield Walk First School won first place in the Royston in Bloom 'Grow a Menu' competition. Reporting the victory in The Royston Crow, reporter Rebecca Day noted the judges "were 'highly impressed' by the school's enthusiasm and determination to continue vegetable gardening in the future. The pupils plans to use produce grown in the gardens in school meals and projects."

In October 2015, the school was given a Silver Mark Award as part of the Sainsbury's School Games scheme.

Notable pupils and staff
Notable former pupils of Icknield Walk First School include:
 Robin Belfield, former National Theatre Staff Director.

Notable former staff of the school include:
 Irene Cranwell, Britain's oldest regular broadcaster, was heard on BBC Radio Cambridgeshire for twenty-one years until very shortly before her 100th birthday.
 Jo Moxham (née Zinzan), a former captain of the England netball team and bronze medallist at both the 1998 Commonwealth Games and 1999 World Championships, taught PE at the school.

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Title: A computational-philosophical approach to the international law on AI
This brief talk will provide an overview of the research project I would like to start at the CDH.
Because of the relevance it holds for virtually all emerging technologies, AI is seen as a promising case-study of how to address structural challenges for international law on technology. A number of international actors have drafted ethical guidelines for AI governance, placing the focus on values such as autonomy, accountability, or digital sustainability. This research project builds on this momentum. The first general objective is to evaluate the contours of an international law on AI. The second general objective is to give this emerging international law a normative backbone by drawing upon a specific doctrinal approach to international law, thereby drawing on a republican approach structured around a notion of freedom defined as meaning an absence of domination. The third general objective is to identify the lessons learnt from this republican international law on AI for international law on emerging technologies. The results will contribute to theoretical issues in international law and help identify best practices for policymaking in the context of technologies. They will also improve international law's capacity to address technological developments that impact individuals and States alike.
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