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I'm one of your Greens voices in the NSW Parliament. I'm passionate about protecting our wild places and repairing climate damage. I care about reforming out of touch drug laws, fighting for better health and mental health services and creating liveable communities with integrated active transport connections, thriving arts scenes and vibrant nightlife.
I'm Cate Faehrmann, and I took my seat in the NSW Legislative Council in August 2018.
I came to this place with a long history as a human rights activist. I started my journey on the frontlines of the campaign for a woman's right to bodily autonomy and in the fight for LGBTQIA+ equality.
Throughout my career and my life I've championed the conservation of nature and environmental sustainability. I was Chair of Sea Shepherd Australia, a founding Director of GetUp!, previous Executive Director of the Nature Conservation Council of NSW and a former Board Member of the Environmental Defenders Office.
Most recently I worked as Chief of Staff to former Australian Greens Parliamentary Leader, Senator Richard Di Natale.
'I came to the Greens due to shared values of environmentalism, social and economic justice and the desire to work for a future that puts people and the planet ahead of the vested interests of the big business buddies and dodgy developer donors of the old parties.'
In my spare time you'll likely find me exploring our uniquely beautiful wilderness or enjoying some of the many music festivals our state has to offer.
We need strong voices to fight back against regressive, far-right that's poisoning politics and whose presence in our parliaments threatens to send us backwards. I hope you'll join me on this journey to fight for our values and for a future for us all. Thank you.
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Waste & the Circular Economy
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Music, Night-time Economy & Culture
Hospitality & Liquor
Mid-North Coast
Western NSW & Northern Tablelands
Cate Faehrmann MLC
Greens MP for NSW
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Most areas in Reunion are very quiet, as there tend to be low levels of noise from traffic.
Reunion is an extraordinarily good part of Airdrie for travelling by car. Finding a parking spot is easy. The bike is a rather limited mode of transportation in Reunion because. Nonetheless, it is a flat ride to most destinations. Most houses for sale in this neighbourhood are located in areas that are also not very well-suited for those who travel by foot because most daily needs are challenging to meet without having to use a car.
Reunion experienced its largest construction boom following the year 2000, so most of the available housing stock is from this time period. The predominance of single detached homes in the housing stock of this neighbourhood is an important part of its character. Homeowners occupy roughly 95% of the dwellings in Reunion and 5% are rented. This neighbourhood is notable for those looking for three bedroom homes.
It is a reasonably short walk to reach primary schools from any location in Reunion. However, there are no high schools in this part of Airdrie. As far as food is concerned, in all but a very small number of cases, a car is needed to shop for groceries.
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If you're the kind of person who likes to be prepared, then you probably have a medical kit around. It has the standard list of things you'll need in it, and if you're actually serious then you'll have trained on how to use what's in it. Ask most guys who consider themselves to be "prepared" how to control bleeding or use a tourniquet, and you could probably get a decent answer. We've talked about all kinds of medical topics here at AP, from patient assessment to first aid, mindset, and more. For a lot of folks, that stuff is pretty basic at this point. What's a normal blood pressure look like? Easy. High quality CPR? Sure — you might even stay on top of the changes to the procedure. Trauma? Simple — you're all about DCAP-BTLS and have your rapid assessments down to a science.
Some folks, in fact, have moved far beyond the standard sling-and-swathe and can put in IVs, do some suturing, or even know when and how to do a needle decompression if they absolutely had to. All of that information and study, however, tends to focus around what we think we will deal with in our own personal lives if medical care is unavailable, and for most guys (and girls, if we're being honest), that means a standard list of stuff.
If you're reading over this list and thinking, "Yup, that about covers the important things," then you're probably pretty normal. In fact, while writing this article I asked twelve different people, who consider themselves to be pretty well-prepared, for the things they thought they should be able to handle; the above list is the result of their combined input.
Only ONE of them mentioned anything having to do with pediatric, gynecological, or obstetric emergencies; in fact, most of them freely admit when asked that they wouldn't have the faintest idea how to handle one, although one of the others stated that he was "pretty sure" that if he had to deliver a baby, he could figure it out and "nobody would die." They aren't uncaring, stupid, or somehow worthless; they simply never considered that they might need to know about anything else besides the standard "I got injured fighting for freedom" paradigm with a little "gotta worry about my feet and my sanitation" thrown in.
Here's the thing. Most preppers have families that include women and children, both of whom have systems, anatomy, and potential emergencies that differ from adult men. And while some of the things on the list above are pretty standard — after all, bleeding calls for direct pressure regardless of whether the patient is 10 or 50 — you'll still need to understand if and how those events would differ when presenting in a child, or be knowledgeable enough to help out in a "female" emergency, regardless of your current level of comfort in even discussing them, let alone assisting in them.
What's the normal blood pressure for a 5-year-old child? What two characteristics do infants have that differ from adults AND require special consideration so they don't cause airway problems? How serious is it if your 18-month-old starts seizing? And what about all the things that can go wrong for females? Are you well-versed enough to be able to provide medical care for a gynecological or obstetric emergency? If your wife starts bleeding, how much is too much? What can cause excessive bleeding? When does it become something critical? And what can you do for her in that situation?
It's easy to skip those parts in the various medical books, and shrug off the "chick problems" or pediatric medical care as being your wife's job to handle on her own. The truth, however, is that if your wife or significant other goes down sick or injured, someone will have to provide care for not only her, but your children as well. If she is the only one who knows enough about female or pediatric medical issues to do that, you've got a problem. The same applies to you, and any medical issues that are germane to you personally.
To be fair, it's not just men that miss the importance of this. Many female preppers stash a few boxes of feminine products and maybe a 90-day supply of birth control and Midol and call it good; in fact, of the females I asked, only one of them had more than that — one had less. Is that enough? What about supplies to deal with things like yeast infections or UTIs? Some women have chronic problems that can cause excruciating pain; have you considered accounting for pain medication or other things needed to ensure proper management of these conditions? Pregnancy, labor and delivery certainly won't stop in a SHTF situation either; you should also have far more than enough supplies to either handle a pregnancy or prevent one altogether, as well as care for a newborn if your wife or significant other hasn't gone through menopause yet.
And since we're also discussing sanitation, what about disposal of all of these hygiene products? That needs to be considered as well, since they aren't exactly biodegradable. Researching "old school" ways to manage such things is well worth you and your significant other's time. In fact, there is a whole host of things that should be looked at, planned for, and trained for. Personal responsibility dictates that all adult members in a family or group recognize the extent of what they themselves will need, and seek to fill those needs on both a physical supply and mental training level.
Children don't have the same normal ranges for vitals, or even exactly the same anatomical proportions; an infant's tongue, for instance, is disproportionately large when compared to an adult and can interfere with their airway. Add in the fact that they're exclusively nose-breathers for their first few months, and suddenly something as simple as a severe cold and cough can become a big deal. Febrile seizures, diseases such as RSV, and other problems that children are susceptible to can make training or supply gaps very obvious in a hurry, when even a bulb syringe can become a lifesaver. Conditions like asthma, diabetes, allergies, and chronic ear infections can cause parents some sleepless nights and worry even in this age of modern medicine on demand; what if you don't have access to that? What if you can't get the supplies you need?
These issues aren't always easy to discuss or handle, but in order to be truly prepared, you and your family members need to think about a number of problems that could affect the females and children in your family. Take the time to research gynecological and pediatric emergencies, conditions, and issues, and understand enough to know when something IS an emergency for your wife or child.
There could come a day when the only person who can provide them the medical care they need…is you.
People had better get their minds wrapped drastically increased post-SHTF mortality rates, obviously.
This includes taking care of the bodies, and the extreme psychological challenges among the survivors.
In the Balkan wars, the elderly and others would sometimes just stay in bed, starving to death, mentally exhausted.
It was called "the quiet death." The elderly were especially vulnerable, and thought of it as saving valuable food resources for the young.
This is where you would need lots of Hydrated Lime and extra bed sheets (50# bags of lime are available at any garden store, Tractor Supply or Home Depot / Lowes. for cheap $3-5 a bag).


At The Safe House, we have challenged our insurers and now have one of the most comprehensive insurance policies in the industry issued by Marsh Singapore which is backed by the Lloyd's of London. Our coverage has recently been increased from SGD 300 million to SGD 350 million for any one loss for our Bullion Storage. It was also extended to include the coverage for Terrorism and Sabotage which is not commonly available among most vaults. Furthermore, we have a US$50,000 and US$200,000 liability protection for our Class I and Class II Safe deposit boxes respectively, included in the rental price, which can optionally be increased if our clients wish to do so.
Storage resellers and marketing materials often use the term "All Risk" to describe insurance. This can be misleading because "All Risk" means "a type of insurance coverage that can exclude only risks that have been specifically outlined in the contract".
Obtaining an extremely strong all-risk vault insurance was probably one of the most important milestones for Silver Bullion and The Safe House. This insurance essentially removes all physical storage risk and has a better coverage than most established vaults.
In essence the insurance will fully cover the possibility of inside jobs. (i.e. TSH Staff Stealing Bullion).
Mysterious Disappearance essentially covers the possibility of operational errors by TSH. Few vaults have this coverage due to costs and because it requires a lot of trust in vault processes and very stringent vault reviews by the insurance issuer. Including Mysterious Disappearance in the insurance coverage was one of our main priorities.
Mysterious Disappearance coverage is the closest thing to "All Risks Covered" insurance.
We perform regular random internal audits to confirm that the bullion is indeed present in the vault. The original Parcel Ownership List that confirms the physical presence of each parcel by serial number is published online twice a week and can be downloaded by our clients.
The bullion stored at The Safe House is audited four times a year by independent third party auditors making sure all our inventory is in place. Each audit is available online.
There are three independent audits (every trimester) by Bureau Veritas / Inspectorate - an LBMA (London Bullion Market Association) approved inspection company. The audit is performed on a statistically significant random sample of the bullion.
The fourth and most comprehensive audit is performed at the end of each year by Ernst & Young LLP – our Financial Auditors.
The Safe House also has an annual ISO 9001 audit performed by SGS Singapore, the world's leading inspection, verification, testing and certification company. The audit checks our Management system and procedures including testing procedures, operational procedures, IT system, customer satisfaction etc.


NASHVILLE – The Beacon Center of Tennessee today released its 2012 Tennessee Pork Report, exposing the fact that state and local governments across Tennessee wasted $468 million over the past year. This is the seventh annual report published by the Beacon Center, Tennessee's leading free market think tank.
The government waste, fraud, and abuse in the 2012 Pork Report comes from state and local government budgets, media reports, appropriations bills, state audits, and independent research conducted by Beacon Center staff and scholars.
An electronic version of the report can be found at: http://www.beacontn.org/wp-content/uploads/2012-Pork-Report.pdf.
The Beacon Center of Tennessee is an independent, nonprofit, and nonpartisan research and government watchdog organization dedicated to providing concerned citizens and public leaders with expert empirical research and timely free market solutions to public policy issues in Tennessee. The Center's mission is to change lives through public policy by advancing the principles of free markets, individual liberty, and limited government.


The Israeli Ministry of Defense (MoD) has unveiled a prototype of an upgraded version of its Namer heavy armoured personnel carrier (APC) fitted with a turret that is armed with a 30 mm gun. In a statement released on 31 July, the MoD said the prototype was developed by its Merkava Tank Administration together with the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) Ground Forces and will begin a series of trials in the coming days.
Deliveries of Krab 155 mm self-propelled howitzers (SPHs) to the Masurian Artillery Regiment (11 MPA) will be completed this month, marked by a ceremony on 31 August in the presence of officials from the ministry of defence, the unit said on its website. Fourteen Krabs were delivered to the regiment by tank transporters on 31 July.
ANKARA — Turkey's procurement authorities have decided to go ahead with a draft program for the local production of scores of armored amphibious assault vehicles. Turkey's procurement agency, the Undersecretariat for Defense Industries (SSM) and FNSS, the company that has been tasked to design, develop and manufacture the vehicles, held a "successful" review meeting over the program mid July.
WARSAW, Poland — Ukraine is negotiating the sale of 100 T-84 Oplot main battle tanks to Pakistan, and plans to use the funds to modernize the production capacities of its state-owned defense industry and invest in research and development, according to daily Gazeta Wyborcza. The potential deal, which is to be handed to Ukraine defense group Ukroboronprom, would mark another export contract for the supply of the tanks following a deal signed in 2011 with Thailand. Bangkok is to obtain a total of 49 Oplots.
War is Boring – What's the Democratic Republic of Congo Doing With These Ukrainian Tanks?
Three years ago, Ukraine announced it would sell 50 of its T-64BV-1 tanks to an unspecified foreign customer, rumored to be the Democratic Republic of the Congo. This became official in 2016 with the delivery of 25 of the tanks to the country, according to information just released by Ukraine to the U.N. Register of Conventional Arms.
In the summer of 2016, a French magazine published some curious photos of a Leclerc main battle tank of the French Army, painted in the jagged new Scorpion camouflage scheme—and sporting a massive 140-millimeter, fifty-five-caliber gun. You can check out pictures here and here and here. The huge smoothbore gun came from the experimental T4 gun turret built in 1996 by GIAT and the Bourges arsenal.
The U.S. Army's chief of staff said he wants future versions of its main battle tank, the M1 Abrams, and other ground combat vehicles to feature active protection systems, as-yet-undeveloped lighter armor and a driverless option. Gen. Mark Milley outline such technologies when speaking Thursday at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C. He was responding to a question about whether he was concerned that Russia plans to field a new tank, the T-14 Armata, in 2020.
A FINAL series of blast tests have been completed on the two short-listed contenders vying for a multi-billion-dollar Australian Defence Force contract to build its new Combat Reconnaissance Vehicle. The bid — hotly contested between Victoria and Queensland — would be based at the old Holden factory should defence giant BAE Systems be awarded the $5 billion contract to build 225 combat vehicles.


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Hôpital de la Pitié / Hospice des Orphelins, Paris, Seine, France
The Hôpital de la Pitié was founded in 1612 for the reception of paupers. It occupied premises at at 1 Rue Copeau (now Rue Lacépède) and was so called because its chapel was dedicated to Notre Dame de la Pitié. In 1657, it became an annexe of the General Hospital of Salpêtrière and became an asylum for orphans and also for the children of beggars.
Hôpital de la Pitié, Rue Copeau, Paris. © Peter Higginbotham
In 1809, the children were transferred to new premises at 124 Rue du Faubourg Saint Antoine, which became known as the Hospice des Orphelins. The Rue Copeau building then became an annexe of the Hotel Dieu Hospital.
Hospice des Orphelins, Rue du Faubourg Saint Antoine, Paris, c.1818. © Peter Higginbotham
In the 1820s, the Hospice des Orphelins housed up to 750 inmates of both sexes, aged from 2 to 12 years. They were taught reading, writing and arithmetic. At an early age, the boys were sent to learn rural occupations or were apprenticed to some trade, though still remaining under the protection of the institution until they were of age. The girls were taught, sewing, embroidery and other domestic skills.
In 1838, a further move took the institution to 74 Rue d'Enfer where it was housed in part of the premises already used by the Hospice des Enfants-Trouvés. Children were transferred from that department into the Hospice des Orphelins at the age of two. It also received children whose parents were dead, those whose parents certified they were unable to support them, and the children of poor persons having to enter hospital for treatment. Both sections of the Rue d'Enfer site were run by the Sisters of St Vincent de Paul. The children were all educated in reading, writing and arithmetic, and were placed out in trades at the age of 21.
From 1859 to 1906, foundlings, abandoned and orphaned children were officially known as 'enfants assistés', while a separate category of 'enfants moralement abandonnés' (morally abandoned children) was created in 1881 — children aged from 12 to 16 whose parents could not provide education, from a material or moral point of view; from 1907, these different categories all became 'pupilles de l'assistance' (wards of assistance), then 'de l'État') of the state.
The Rue d'Enfer site (now Avenue Denfert-Rochereau Avenue) is now occupied by the Saint Vincent de Paul Hospital. In 1911, the Pitié moved from the Rue Copeau to a site adjacent to the Salp&eacirc;trière Hospital, with which it merged in 1964.
Archives de Paris, 18 Boulevard Sérurier, 75019, Paris. Has extensive records for the city's foundling, abandoned and orphan children from 1639 onwards — there is a useful introductory page.
Dinan, Susan E. Women and Poor Relief in Seventeenth-Century France: The Early History of the Daughters of Charity (2017, Routledge)
Fuchs, Rachel Abandoned Children: Foundlings and Child Welfare in Nineteenth-Century France (1984, State University of New York)
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Search Engine Journal covers the recent GeoVector/Mapion announcement about "point and search" mobile local technology in Japan.
From the GeoVector announcement:
With Mapion Local Search, users can now walk down the street anywhere in Japan and point at over 700,000 objects such as buildings, shops, restaurants, banks, historical sites and instantly retrieve information on what they are looking at or find what they are looking for just by pointing their phone. Just like one uses a mouse to click on an object on a computer screen and retrieve information, now users can Click on the Real World® using their mobile phone.
There's a company called NeoMedia, which has similar technology, that I wrote about awhile ago. And my colleague Mike Boland previously wrote about "point and search" mobile-local/visual model last year.
What's interesting — and exciting — about this is the way in which this kind of model potentially accommodates the limitations of current cellphones and is relatively "passive" for users.
Muni Wi-Fi and Sling Bling
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Author and Title: Jane Barlow. A Creel of Irish Stories
First Edition: London: Methuen, 1897. 1 volume, cr. 8vo., 6s.
Serialization: "Three Pint Measure." British Weekly, 22 March 1894
Summary: Contains the stories "The Keys of the Chest," "A Deserted Child," "An Account Settled," "M'Neills' Tiger-sheep," "The Snakes and Norah," "Three Pint Measures," "The Surree at Mahon's," "The Shortest Way," "The Stay-at-homes," and "A Proud Woman."


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Focus Features Sets Early 2022 Release For 'Mrs. Harris Goes To Paris'
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The feature take of Paul Gallico's novella Mrs. Harris Goes to Paris is set for a theatrical release March 4, 2022 via Focus Features in the U.S. and Canada, the distributor said Tuesday.
Mrs. Harris Goes to Paris stars Lesley Manville, Isabelle Huppert, Jason Isaacs, Lambert Wilson, Alba Baptista, Lucas Bravo and Rose Williams.
Directed by Anthony Fabian and in partnership with the House of Dior, the film tells the story of a widowed cleaning lady (Manville) in 1950s London who falls madly in love with a couture Dior dress, and decides that she must have one of her own. After she works, starves and gambles to raise the funds to pursue her dream, she embarks on an adventure to Paris that will change not only her own outlook, but the very future of the House of Dior.
Carroll Cartwright, Fabian, Keith Thompson, and Olivia Hetreed adapted. Producers are Xavier Marchand, Guillaume Benski, and Fabian.
eOne financed the project with support from the National Film Institute of Hungary. Universal has also set a February 25, 2022 release in the UK and abroad.
The only other movie dated for a domestic release on March 4 next year is Warner Bros/DC's Matt Reeves reboot The Batman.
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Full name, Arlene Carol Dahl; born August 11, 1928 (some sources say 1924), in Minneapolis, MN; daughter of Rudolph S. (a Ford motor dealer and executive)and Idelle (maiden name, Swan) Dahl; married Lex Barker (an actor), 1951 (divorced, 1952); married Fernando Lamas (an actor and director), 1954 (divorced, 1960); married Christian R. Holmes III, 1960 (divorced, 1964); married Alexis Lichine, 1965 (divorced, 1969); married Rounsevelle W. Schaum (divorced);married Marc A. Rosen (vice president, Elizabeth Arden Inc.), July 30, 1984;children: (second marriage) Lorenzo Lamas (an actor); (third marriage) CaroleChristine; (fourth marriage) Stephen. Addresses: Contact: c/o Dahlmark Productions, P.O. Box 116, Sparkill, NY 10976.
Made stage debut as Flouncie in a Philip Barry play, Minneapolis, MN, 1938; also appeared in Questionable Ladies, New York City; I Married an Angel, Dallas, TX; Liliom, Phoenix, AZ; The King and I, Boston, MA; One Touch of Venus, Chicago, IL; The Camel Bell, Chicago, IL; A Little Night Music, Chicago, IL; Life with Father,Chicago, IL; Forty Carats, Delta State University; Murder among Friends, Phoenix, AZ.
Appeared in Roman Candle, Palm Beach, FL, Detroit, MI, Columbus and Warren, OH; Blithe Spirit, Chicago, IL, San Francisco, CA; Bell,Book, and Candle, NY, ME, Chicago; Marriage Go Round, Detroit, Dallas, Chicago.
Also appeared in The Big Bankroll, Saprogee-Filmarco.
Also appeared as hostess, Model of the Year, CBS; in Perry ComoShow; Tonight Show, Starring Johnny Carson, NBC; Merv GriffinShow; Mike Douglas Show; Today Show, NBC; Good Morning America, ABC; Jig Saw John, NBC; Night of 100 Stars, ABC.
Also wrote "Let's Be Beautiful," a syndicated beauty column, 1950-70; "Arlene Dahl's Lucky Stars" column, 1988-90; "Arlene Dahl's Astrological Forecast," a syndicated astrological column, c. 1990; contributing editor of magazines, including Girl Talk, Family Circle, Soap Opera Digest, and The Best.


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Ready for a safe and secure Tour de Yorkshire 2019
Posted on 30 April 2019 at 05:54pm in News stories
North Yorkshire Police will be on hand to support the safe and secure running of the Tour de Yorkshire 2019 between Thursday 2 May and Sunday 5 May.
Hosted by Welcome to Yorkshire and Amaury Sport Organisation, the cycle race is attracting some of the biggest teams from around the world as they take on hills, dales, moors, towns, cities and villages across Yorkshire.
There will be four full stages of racing:
Stage 1 on Thursday 2 May: starts in Doncaster and ends in Selby, covering 179km, with 32km (18 per cent) of those in North Yorkshire. The route will take in Escrick, Stillingfleet, Cawood, Thorpe Willoughby and Selby.
Stage 2 on Friday 3 May: starts in Barnsley and ends in Bedale, covering 135km, with 68km (50 per cent) of those in North Yorkshire. The route will take in Leathley, Harrogate, Killinghall, Wormald Green, Ripon, West Tanfield, Carthorpe, Burneston and Bedale.
Stage 3 on Saturday 4 May: starts in Bridlington and ends in Scarborough, covering 134km, with 128km (96 per cent) in North Yorkshire. The route takes in Reighton, Hunmanby, Folkton, Cayton, Seamer, East Ayton, Hackness, Harwood Dale, Fylingthorpe, Robin Hoods Bay, Whitby, Sandsend, Egton, Grosmont, Sleights, Cloughton, Burniston and Scarborough.
Stage 4 on Sunday 5 May: starts in Halifax and ends in Leeds, covering 182km, with 130km (71 per cent) in North Yorkshire. The route takes in Sutton-in-Craven, Crosshills, Skipton, Embsay, Burnsall, Threshfield, Kilnsey, Kettlewell (including Park Rash), Middleham, Masham, Grewelthorpe, Kirkby Malzeard, Pateley Bridge, Greenhow Hill, Blubberhouses and Askwith Moor.
For more information about the stages, please go to the official Tour de Yorkshire website https://letour.yorkshire.com/the-latest/tour-de-yorkshire-2019-routes-announced-in-leeds/
Deputy Chief Constable Phil Cain, of North Yorkshire Police, said: "The Tour de Yorkshire has developed into a spectacular event which we are very proud to support.
"North Yorkshire Police and the other forces involved in the policing of the event, West Yorkshire, Humberside, South Yorkshire, have worked very closely with Welcome to Yorkshire and the other partner agencies throughout the planning process.
"Once again we have been able to draw on the valuable experience gained from the previous four Tour de Yorkshires and the Tour de France Grand Départ in 2014. These events were hugely successful in terms of spectator and participant experiences, and also in delivering effective partnership working across agencies and geographic boundaries.
"This year's race will again be escorted around the region by specialist police motorcyclists using rolling road closures. Disruption will therefore be kept to a minimum in most locations, with around one hour delays as the peloton passes through the race route.
"Importantly, we have worked very closely with the local authorities to ensure the emergency services can respond to urgent calls during the event.
"Each of the police forces involved will deploy enhanced levels of resources to the crowded locations. This is not because we anticipate any disorder – far from it. Our experiences with the Tour de France in 2014, and the previous Tour de Yorkshire races, showed us that having an enjoyable time with fellow fans is the priority of those in attendance. It is very much a celebratory and family atmosphere, with the style of policing reflecting the occasion.
"However, we are conscious of the large crowds that will gather at certain points of the route, and we want to ensure residents and visitors enjoy the Tour de Yorkshire in a safe environment."
Project Servator tactics in operation for the Tour de Yorkshire
Building on the previous two events, there will again be a greater emphasis on crowd safety and crime prevention at this year's Tour de Yorkshire.
A number of strands of police activity are being co-ordinated to achieve this for the event under Project Servator, including:
highly visible, unpredictable deployments of police officers and other specialist resources, such as police dogs and armed police officers
deployment of teams of police officers who are specially-trained in the latest techniques to detect criminals and identify those with criminal intent
using an extensive network of CCTV cameras and working with CCTV operators to identify criminal activity and gather evidence
developing a network of vigilance amongst staff, businesses and retailers raising awareness of how to report suspicious activity
raising awareness of the public's role in helping us to keep sites and crowded places safe and how to be vigilant for and report suspicious activity
DCC Cain said: "Project Servator tactics are proven to be effective in deterring and detecting criminals across a wide range of criminality, including those conducting 'hostile reconnaissance'. This is the information gathering stage criminals and terrorists go through to select their target and plan their activity.
"By doing this, we aim to make key sites and crowded places as uncomfortable for them as possible and prevent them from carrying out their reconnaissance, thereby disrupting the planning of their criminal activity.
"We call on people to be vigilant and report anything suspicious immediately by telling a police officer, calling 101 or 999 if an emergency response is required, or calling the Anti-Terrorist Hotline on 0800 789 321.
"Ultimately we, like all the other partners involved, want everyone who comes to experience the Tour de Yorkshire to thoroughly enjoy it in a safe environment.
"You will see us providing a reassuring and visible presence, and we will be keeping a watchful eye over this magnificent event that we are very proud to support."
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Prior to joining InquireFirst, Luisa served as the Institute of the Americas' STEM Programs Manager, following four years as a key contributor to the Institute's Science & Innovation Summer Camp, co-founding a professional workshop for STEM Instructors and expanding its reach to Latin America.
As a Gates Millennium Scholar, Luisa completed her bachelor's degree specializing in neuroscience & physiology at the University of California, San Diego. She co-authored a book titled "Mexican Migration and the U.S. Economic Crisis: A Transitional Perspective" in collaboration with the Mexican Migration Field Research Program. Her work focuses on parallel relationships between traditional and scientific medicine. Subsequently, Luisa became a licensed Emergency Medical Technician where she provided her services for three years in Imperial County on the U.S.-Mexico border, which has the highest unemployment rate in California.
In the educational sector, Luisa served as Civil Engineering Department Lead for two years at the national Mathematics, Engineering, Science, Achievement (MESA) program. She took the IOA STEM Programs to an international audience utilizing her experience of 10 years in the U.S.-Mexico border region, where she designed an innovative workshop for both students and instructors in Argentina and Mexico.
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Toyota Motor Corp. ruler of the world's automotive sales from 2008 to 2010 is back. Japanese manufacturers were re-occupied the # 1 sales position after the first three months of 2012 recorded sales of 2.49 million units. Toyota sales depose two previous rulers, the GM 2.28 million and 2.16 million units of Volkswagen.
"They have high competition and re-recorded the best sales," said Jeff Schuster, senior vice president of LMC Automotive Forecasting in Troy, Michigan, United States. "They have a new product in the world that help sales as new Camry and the Prius family."
Toyota became the world's number one manufacturer in 2008 when the American auto market hit by the crisis and bankruptcy. GM took over last year and manufacturer based in Wolfsburg, Germany, VW, climbed into second place. Toyota slipped to third place due to lack of supplies following the Japan earthquake and tsunami, and flooding in Thailand.
Globally, Toyota sold 7.35 million cars last year. For fiscal 2013, Toyota hopes to increase its sales 18 percent to 8.7 million units.


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Q: Is this the correct way to use Prototypes or is there a better way of doing this? I'm currently working on a project and I have limited understanding of JavaScript and I've used Prototypes (one to try learn them, and two because it seemed like the great idea at the time).
I have a JS file that is just full of Prototypes and calls them like so:
$(document).ready(function() {
    var dash = new Dash();
});

var Dash = function() {
    var _ = this;

    _.defaults = {
        pages: {},
        page_name: {},
        page_order: []
    };

    _.init();
};

Dash.prototype.init = function() {
    var _ = this;

    _.getPages();
    _.onClickNewPage();
    _.onClickEditPage();
};

Dash.prototype.getPages = function() {
    var _ = this;

    // calls some ajax
};

Pretty much all the Prototype methods just modify the page depending on what the user wants to see.
Is this the correct way to use Prototypes? If not is there a better way? What could I improve on and what are the memory implications of calling var _ = this; in each method to access other methods?
Apologies if this is an obvious question but all I'm finding on Google is Cat vs. Dog examples and they're not very useful.
I really want to make this code as efficient as possible whilst using best practises.
Also note: I'm not inheriting anything, just accessing different methods a lot.

A:
Pretty much all the Prototype methods just modify the page depending on what the user wants to see.

That's about the purpose of the code, which has nothing to do with prototypes or not.

I'm not inheriting anything, just accessing different methods a lot. Is this the correct way to use Prototypes?

No. If you neither have inheritance nor multiple instances (and you create only one new Dash in your page), then using a class constructor with prototype methods is overcomplicated. There's no need for this.

If not is there a better way?

Just use some kind of module pattern where you put all those functions as declarations in a common scope, or on an object literal if you want to focus on OOP and extensibility.
If you want to make the module reusable, wrap it in a function that returns the object.

What are the memory implications of calling var _ = this; in each method to access other methods?

Local variables do not have any memory implications, but your _ has a readability issue. Just go with the standard this. way of calling methods.

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the Battle of Manu was a major battle that was fought in early May 896 near the fort of Manu (Ad Ammonem site, modern Mellita 24 km west of Sabratha, Libya) between the forces of the Aghlabid Emir Ibrahim II and the forces of the Nafusa tribe.

Aftermath

After the battle, the Aghlabids attacked Qansara, a city and a Rustamid locality located in the vicinity of Nefta either by Ibrahim personally right after the battle or by his son Abu l-'Abbas in august-September 897. Its in this city where around 500 inhabitants including 80 scholars were imprisoned and brought back to Ifriqiya where they were massacred and gruesomely executed by Ibrahim.

The disaster at Manu marked the end of Rustamid rule over Jebal Nafusa as the Nafusa deposed their Rustamid govenor Aflah ibn al-Abbas and replaced him by his cousin who himself was later replaced by Aflah. In the years following the defeat at Manu, Abdallah ibn al-Khayr became the Hakim of Jebel Nafusa.

See also

 Rustamid Dynasty
 Aghlabids

References

History of Libya

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Q: Не отсылается сообщение по udp Есть код:
UFUNCTION(BlueprintCallable)
    void OnBoneHit(FString bone);

void ACameraPawn::OnBoneHit(FString bone)
{
    ARamaUDPSender sender;
    sender.StartUDPSender("UdpSendSocket", "127.0.0.1", 11111);
    sender.RamaUDPSender_SendString(bone);
}

Вызывается так:

Ловлю сообщения по заданному порту, ничего не приходит. Код udp взят здесь.

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void ACameraPawn::OnBoneHit(FString bone)
{
    if (bone == "none") return;
    UWorld* World = GetWorld();

    ARamaUDPSender* pSender;
    for (TActorIterator<ARamaUDPSender> It(World); It; ++It)
    {
        pSender = *It;
        pSender->StartUDPSender("UdpSendSocket", "127.0.0.1", 11111);
        pSender->RamaUDPSender_SendString(bone);
        break;
    }
}


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Hospice founder praises London Irish Foundation for bringing smiles to children's faces
A mother who set up a children's hospice in memory of her eight-year-old son, who died from a brain tumour, has praised the work of a foundation which has helped her, and her team bring smiles to the faces of children and their families.
Fiona Devine's son Alexander was diagnosed with a brain tumour when he was just four years old. After Alexander's passing, four years later, Fiona embarked on a journey not knowing what was ahead. With her own experience of caring for her terminally ill son she realised there was no hospice support for children in her county, so she set up the Alexander Devine Children's Hospice Service.
The hospice, which is based in Berkshire, offers respite care, specialist play, symptom management, family support, end of life care and bereavement support to families in Berkshire and the surrounding counties.
Speaking about her beautiful boy, Fiona said: "Alexander was our first-born child. I had a normal pregnancy; normal delivery and he was meeting all his normal milestones that you would expect a baby to do. But unfortunately for a period of time, just before his fourth birthday, he was having lots of headaches, being sick and feeling very tired.
"You know it's your first baby, your first child, so it's hard to know whether or not he was unwell because he was full time at nursery and maybe he was picking up multiple viruses.
"I had him backwards and forwards to my doctor's surgery. Little ones at that age do pick up lots of things. But I think you have to trust your instinct as a new mum, and I just wasn't happy with the way he was. I had asked for a referral to a paediatrician, and, sadly, while we were waiting for that appointment to come through, Alexander woke up one Sunday morning and it was almost like he had a stroke. His whole left side had gone, his speech was slurred. He was really struggling to stay awake. So, we rushed him to the emergency on-call doctor, and he said to take him straight to our hospital and not to go to A&E - which is what we did.
"Alexander was scanned on the Monday and tragically they found a mass in his head. By Wednesday we were in the Leopold Ward at the Radcliffe Infirmary in Oxford, supporting Alexander who received his first brain surgery.
"So, from diagnosis to his first operation, it was an absolutely devastating time. It was such an enormous amount of tragic news to get your head around. It really was a trauma. So, following his first operation, Alexander had six weeks of radiotherapy and more surgery. He had a clear year, so he was able to start school, you know, get back to whatever a normal life is."
Sadly, however, Fiona noticed that Alexander was daydreaming a lot, having slight seizures and alarm bells rang. Alexander's cancer had returned. There was no longer an option of surgery.
Fiona said: "There was no curative treatment at that time. He had run out of options. So, all we had was chemotherapy to treat symptoms and to try and prolong life.
"But there is a real balance between prolonging life and having a quality of life.
"Alexander was diagnosed just before his birthday and sadly passed away when he had turned eight. His birthday was in the October, and he passed in February."
It was through Fiona's family's experience they realised that in Berkshire there was no dedicated specialist service for children at the end of life, and a stretched service, for those children who were on that very sad journey of being diagnosed or having a life limiting or life-threatening illness.
She added: "We did a lot of research and there was nothing available for families. You know, we knew nobody, we had nothing. We had no connections, and we didn't have any money that's for sure. We were just a very ordinary family who were blessed with an extraordinary little boy who really was my best friend and who was kindness itself. He was funny, clever, and very kind. He was everything you would want your child to be. But it was an added trauma having to travel out of our county to receive that specialist care. That's how his charity was born.
"So, here we are, 15 years later. When we started, we were going through a recession, and we have just had two years of Covid-19. Everything we do relies so heavily on fundraising and organisations being really kind to us. One such organisation is the London Irish Foundation – another charitable organisation which gives so much to people and to communities. It is a charity which has really helped us put smiles on our children's faces.
"Our relationship with the foundation is a lovely one. When they come to the hospice, it's always a huge buzz for our children. Alexander would have loved it. He was a rugby fan. The children really love that interaction with the London Irish Rugby Club players. The foundation has been so generous around Christmas by giving Christmas presents to children and their families. They also give us tickets to games, which, is a really lovely thing for families to be able to do, particularly for the dads. I think dads can get overlooked sometimes. It's hard because people grieve in very different ways, and, very often, not always the case, but men are sometimes perhaps not so good at talking things through perhaps as females are. So actually, doing things like going to a game, whether that be with the family, or with a friend, it's really good therapy.
"We really love the fact the London Irish Foundation is a community-based charity and that they want to get involved with youngsters. It does mean such a lot to our families and children. Their support means such a great deal to us all.
"I wish the foundation every success in its fundraising dinner on May 14, 2022. Their work is really brilliant, and we certainly are so appreciative of the foundation helping us help such vulnerable children who love to smile."
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Ericsson to bring 5G to Brazil
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October 19, 2015, 10:00 (CEST)
Latin America's first test systems for 5G and IoT to be deployed in Brazil during 2016 together with América Móvil
Supports Brazil's digital agenda to accelerate opportunities in areas such as health care, education, energy, agriculture and within new industry applications
New 5G research projects announced with University of São Paulo, University of Campinas and Federal University of Ceará
In conjunction with Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff visiting Ericsson (NASDAQ:ERIC) Headquarters in Sweden today, the company announced it would further support Brazil in the realization of its digital agenda.
Hans Vestberg, President and CEO of Ericsson, said: "ICT can support the transformation of virtually all sectors of society as well as all industries. I am convinced the next generation of mobile broadband and the Internet of Things, enabled by 5G, will further accelerate the opportunities to advance in areas such as health care, education, energy services and agriculture, and within new industry applications."
As part of enabling Brazil's digital agenda, Ericsson together with América Móvil will bring the first 5G test system to Brazil during 2016. Ericsson's 5G test system is where innovation meets implementation, allowing telecom operators and ecosystem partners such as academic institutions, health care, energy and agriculture players to test 5G capabilities in a live network. In addition, Ericsson and América Móvil will also deploy a test system for Internet of Things (IoT), enabling Brazilian industries and the public sector to prepare for ICT transformation. The IoT test system will specifically focus on low battery consumption applications, such as low power sensors for remote areas.
Vestberg said: "For 5G, our focus is to understand how the systems will be used by both society and industries. To be ready with complete commercial networks in 2020, Ericsson is partnering with América Móvil for the first 5G test system in Brazil as a clear demonstration of our competitive advantage, and at the same time we are bringing research out of the labs and into live test networks.
"We have been part of Brazil's development since 1924, and I am proud that we continue to bring industry-leading technology in support of the country's further development."
In addition to previously announced 5G radio research with Federal University of Ceará (UFC), Ericsson today announced additional programs with the University of São Paulo (USP) and University of Campinas (UNICAMP) to be conducted in 2017:
Cyber-Physical Systems with USP and UNICAMP: networks that communicate without human input; autonomous communications systems based on sensors. These could for example provide the foundation for road systems that communicate with road authorities in case of emergency, weather systems that monitor road conditions, and self-driving cars.
MiMo (multiple-input multiple-output) with UFC: transceiver design with multiple antennas on base stations and user terminals (MiMo) systems for 5G. The aim is to increase the capacity of current wireless communications systems. significantly. .
D2D (Intelligent radio resource allocation) with UFC: control and provision Quality of Service in 5G systems. Using algorithms and radio resource allocation techniques, the idea is to enable higher bit rates and improved user satisfaction for 5G mobile communications systems.
With its unique experience of leadership in each generation of mobile networks, Ericsson is the technology leader and driver of the 5G evolution. Ericsson had the lead coordinator role for METIS I, laying the foundation for 5G, and continues in that role for METIS II, which leads the development and standardization of 5G. The company has a long tradition of collaboration and research, furthering the long-term development of communication technologies. Ericsson's radio test bed demonstrated 5Gbps back in 2014 - a world first - and the company is now commencing outdoor trials and measurements. The aim is full-scale commercial deployment by 2020.
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December 9, 2008 at 4:30 pm (The Show)
nialler9 and The Indie Hour do their bit to save The Celtic Tiger. Damn shame how men age better than women.
Sometime in early November after the Kill Krinkle Club interview, I was walking down O'Connell Street when, suddenly, I became aware of all the beautiful, shiny, twinkling Christmas lights. Before I knew what had come over me, I was wandering – dazed and confused – down Henry Street laden with bags full of yuletide bric-a-brac. It seems that clever government of ours had duped me into shopping by turning on the Christmas lights early this year! That's why we elected them into power, isn't it? I mean, what a clever stunt to pull on a nation made up quite largely of (soon to be unemployed) Arts graduates who have a quite fair grasp of consumer psychology! We didn't have a clue. And look at that, now we're all broke before Christmas, but sure, at least the country's economy's safe. I'll drink mulled wine to that.
So that's why I fell of the radar there for a bit, people. Time to get podcasting again! Below you shall find the mp3s for each indie hour in November under each of the bands' photographs.
Kill Krinkle Club Thursday6th November
Elina and Justin of Kill Krinkle Club. Only slightly better looking than nialler and myself (see pic above)
MP3: Kill Krinkle Club on The Indie Hour
We were joined by the lovely Justin from Kill Krinkle Club who, as well as giving us an insight into he and his partner Elina's musical mission to Kill Krinkle, played a few live songs for us and a few from the couple's debut EP. We also spoke to Soper from The Hot Sprockets about the release of their EP Country Dirt and we listened to Sleep, Shake from that EP. As well as Kill Krinkle Club and The Hot Sprockets, we listened to 24 Stella from Moutpiece's eponymously titled and rather deadly debut album, Jetta's Palace from The Jimmy Cake and finished up with Geography from Messiah J & The Expert.
Mo-T Thursday 13th November
Golly! They seemed like such nice boys on the show.
MP3: Mo-T on The Indie Hour
This week we spoke to Mo, Paul and DJ Carnage aka The Weapon of Mo-T fame, who gave us a sneak preview of a few tracks from their forthcoming album. We had a bit of a giggle, and I'm looking forward to hearing the album in full in the new year.
We also spoke to our old buddy El from Noise Control about their new gaming life, as well as their up-coming gig in Crawdaddy on 13th of December, and we listened to Cities of Dreams.
We started off with Shackelton from So Cow, we listened to The Hare from Spook of the Thirteenth Lock, and we finished off with the ear drum busting Adebisi Shank's tribute to their no 1 fan Colin Skeehan.
The Ambience Affair Thursday 20th November
MP3: The Ambience Affair on The Indie Hour
The truly charming Jamie and Marc from The Ambience Affair joined us this night of the show, and shared with us a few tunes as well as Jamie's controversial theory of not listening to music from the past. I sort of got his point by the end of the show. They had a bit of a boo boo with their live tracks, as their set is basically founded on the use of loop pedals, which didn't happen on air, but didn't take away from the performance too much.
I was really delighted to see them perform live in Whelan's the following Monday, and to see just how well Jamie uses the loop pedal to set his act apart from a more traditional singer-songwriter. It was really bloody good, and I enjoyed the bit of the set from support act Little Xs for Eyes that I caught. Keep an eye on The Ambience Affair's myspace page for up-coming gigs and whatnot.
We also spoke to Paul G Smyth from The Jimmy Cake on the telephone about their Vicar Street gig – which was a good evening all round – and we listened to Haunted Candle from Spectre & Crown.
We started this show with Ornithopter from Chequerboard's Penny Black, who played a captivatingly beautiful set at The Jimmy Cake's Vicar Street gig. And we listened to Amberscence from Halves, who played a jolly good show on the following Saturday at Whelan's. Dude, they did a bell routine which was like some kind of indie High School Musical. It was deadly.
Messiah J & The Expert Thursday 27th November
MP3: Messiah J & The Expert on The Indie Hour
We were joined once again by Messiah J, The Expert and their guitarist Frankie for another delightful visit on the indie hour. They're such gentlemen. We had a good listen to a few tracks from their excellent third album From The Word Go, which really does get better on every listen. I have to admit on first listen, I was a bit hesitant. I was every inch the petulant fan and was like awww it's different from Now This I Have To Hear and now I'm all 'Turn the magic onnn, turn the magic onnnn, doo be doo wah!' in the shower and on the bus, to the dismay of my flatmates and fellow Dublin Bus passengers. But, like, have you heard that track from the album? Turn The Magic On? It's impossible not to do a little dance to it or at least a sit-down bop-of-head style thing. It's ridonkulously catchy. That's why it's their next single I suppose. As well as Turn The Magic On, we listened to Megaphone Man and Panic Station from the album, and the lads treated us to a live version of Keep the Noise Down. Oh, and I said 'willy' on air. What a rebel.
We started the show with the pretty astonishingly gorgeous 27 Strangers from Villagers, who I caught supporting Halves in Whelan's the Saturday before this show, and watched with my jaw to the floor this 'new' band playing like international indie superstars. They'll definitely be on everyone's Ones To Watch 2009 lists. They'll be coming on the show in the new year so looking forward to that, as well as the release of their EP, expected early 2009. I have one tiny problem with the name of this track – I keep almost nearly calling it 27 Dresses, the anti-feminist flick about a girl who's always the bridesmaid never the bride which (shame!) I watched from start to finish without vomiting. Anyway, you can kind of hear at the start of the mp3 below that I very nearly made the blunder on live radio. Now that would have been embarrassing. More embarrassing than admitting to have seen the flick even.
We also heard the stunning Radio from Katie Kim from her album Twelve, which is another beaut. Go forth to your local indie record store (ie Road) and seek its wintery loveliness out. You won't regret it.
I played Lumpy Dough from Fight Like Apes' debut album – they were great at The Academy last Friday. They were a bit like super stars really. They played a thoroughly accomplished set and some of the new tracks displayed sounded very promising indeed. I just wish they'd change the lyrics to the Fish and Chips song – the music is deadly but the words are kinda stupid. But whatever, maybe it's better their way.
We finished off this show with a chat with Allen from the Ballroom of Romance, and we decided that he has definitely been the most frequent indie hour guest over the years! Glad to have him, he's a legend. He was talking about the Dalek gig which was on in ALT the following Saturday, and we finished the show with the frankly scary Asylum from Dalek's forthcoming album Guitar Tactics.
Phew. That should keep you going for a while, but I will be back shortly with the mp3 from last week's show when we talked to the dasterdly duo that is Mail Order Messiahs. Tune in this week when we'll be joined by my favourite band ever, Heathers. Yipeee!


Posted: Thu Mar 27, 2008 2:56 pm Post subject: Actors!
Does anybody know if Gandalf will still be Gandalf (Sir Ian Mckellen) in the Hobbit?
He has expressed interest in it. Nothing is written in stone though.
Oh, good! i can't imagine anyone else playing Gandalf. Who is going to be Bilbo?
Ian Holm will play the older version of Bilbo/nararator, and a few other people are being considered for the main role of Bilbo, including James Mc Avoy, Jack Black, Danial Radcliff, and Martin Freeman.
NO! NOT JACK BLACK! NOT DANIEL RADCLIFFE! seriously where do they come up with this crap?
Do you know i just died on the inside. Why does Ian Holm have to be so old.
I think he makes the best Gandalf, they can't pick anybody else, he's perfect.


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I grew up in a small, remote northwestern town in Canada called Amos. Empty streets and a lot of boxes. As far back as I can remember, I felt extremely alone and isolated. I just couldn't fit in to any of the boxes. Late into lonely nights under my grandmother's roof, where I was being babysat more often than not, I would stare at the paintings hung on her walls and be lifted into fantasy, leaving behind a grey, villagey monotony. Ripe with blissful innocence, somehow the two-dimensional souls understood me more profoundly than the three-dimensional ones in my actual life.When I was 14 years old, my parents took me on a trip to Mexico that would shape me irreversibly. All of a sudden, I had a purpose. My life had revealed its meaning to me. I was going to travel. More than anything, I needed to connect with people of a different background and culture. Evolve as a human through living the world.Only three years after that trip, at 17 years old, I managed to leave what I called home with empty pockets and full spirit. I moved to Banff, Alberta and learned some english before hitchhiking through the U.S down to the border of Mexico, followed by Central America. Since then, I managed to "stay" on the road. I never knew what sort of a living would sustain that, but I found ways to stay free, from waitressing night and day to working with an NGO.In my free time, I would draw portraits of people around and away from me. The constant has and always will be young women. The mo
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State-of-the-art operations center under construction in Johnson City in addition to a new standalone financial center; New branch coming to Brentwood
KNOXVILLE, TN — March 24, 2022 — Underscoring its local roots, Knoxville-based Mountain Commerce Bank (MCB), a subsidiary of Mountain Commerce Bancorp, Inc. (OTCQX: MCBI), continues to expand and invest in Tennessee.
Evidence of MCB's commitment to the Volunteer State includes the recent announcement of its entry into the greater Nashville market with a new branch in Brentwood, and the construction of a new operations center in Johnson City to support future growth. The bank plans construction of a new financial center in the Johnson City market as well.
With assets approaching $1.4 billion, Mountain Commerce Bank has been on a steep, upward trajectory over the last 15 years and has every intention of remaining locally headquartered in Knoxville.
"We're a local, hometown bank and have been for more than 110 years," said William E. "Bill" Edwards III, MCB president and chief executive officer. "From our acquisition of a two-branch bank in northeast Tennessee, to the subsequent relocation of our headquarters to Knoxville, to our new operations center in Johnson City and now our planned expansion into the greater Nashville area, we believe in Tennessee. These construction projects are just the latest indicators of our commitment to the local area and the local economy."
Edwards said there is a direct correlation between the bank's ongoing success, its current expansion and the loyalty customers have for MCB.
"Our clients have made a commitment to MCB, which has been fundamental to our growth over the years. In turn, we're making a commitment to the local Tennessee communities we serve. Deposits at MCB are reinvested right here – not siphoned off for some far-off project that will never benefit Tennesseans or the local economy. Reinvesting locally is the way we think banking should be done."
A five-star BauerFinancial-rated institution that features Hometown Banking and Smart Technology, MCB's planned branch in Brentwood is slated to open in the second quarter. The expanded operations center in Johnson City is currently under construction on Gray Commons Circle and should be ready for occupancy this fall. And provided all the customary approvals are met, groundbreaking for the new branch and financial center on Memory Gardens Road – just off I-26 at Exit 17 – is planned for this summer.
"These are exciting times for the employees and shareholders of MCB," Edwards said. "But we recognize that our continued growth is a direct reflection of the confidence our clients have in our ability to meet their banking needs every day. And for that, we are exceedingly grateful."
Mountain Commerce Bancorp, Inc. is the holding company for Mountain Commerce Bank. The company's shares of common stock trade on the OTCQX under the symbol "MCBI."
Mountain Commerce Bank is a state-chartered financial institution headquartered in Knoxville, TN. The bank traces its history back to 1910 and will serve middle and east Tennessee through 6 branches located in Erwin, Johnson City, Knoxville, Nashville and Unicoi. The bank focuses on providing responsive relationship banking to small- and medium-sized businesses, professionals and clients who value personal service and attention. For further information, please visit us at www.mcb.com
At the end of December 2021, MCB had $1.335 billion in total assets and $1.108 billion in total deposits.
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Mountain Commerce Bancorp, Inc. Announces Fourth Quarter 2021 Results And 4% Increase in Quarterly Cash Dividend


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Q: Spring Schedule task for specific time at runtime Does anyone has any experience with task scheduling in Spring?
I understand you can schedule for a fixed time period or interval using annotations
https://spring.io/guides/gs/scheduling-tasks/
But I was wondering if anyone knows how to do this using dynamic user input at runtime.
For example a user schedules an email to be sent at 5:02pm exactly, is there a way add a new task dynamically using that as a time?

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*Collect user input and store it in DB as date/time, for example, we can call that value as NEXT_SEND_TIME.

2.Annotate mail sending method with @Scheduled as below, this method will be called automatically( by spring) for every 5 seconds (5000 ms).
3.Get current time and compare it with NEXT_SEND_TIME.
4.If current time is greater than NEXT_SEND_TIME , then trigger email for that user.
@Scheduled(fixedDelay=5000)
public void sendMail() {
    // do step 3 & 4 here
}


Michael Burkeen/John Savage motion to approve the both the December 2015 regular and February 2016 annual meeting minutes as presented.
The YTD March financials are on track with the YTD budget. $27,000 in operating account and $33,000 in reserves and CD's.
Muskrats in Red Maple Pond.
Kingsland berm maintenance needs to be improved with dead tree removal and tree replacements. Association should work with the Alderman to get a letter to Kingsland to get work completed in two weeks due to safety issues. Kingsland needs to better maintain, install mulch and remove weeds.
Discussion of DRG's took place.
McCloud Aquatics installed the fountains mid March and pond treatments should begin in May. There have been some electrical problems with several aerators.
Chak has volunteered to be the admin for the community facebook. John Savage met with Brian – B2B to improve the website for $2500 – no on-going maintenance fees.
Parkway trees inside the main entrance belong to the church on the west side and the developer on the east. Neither have plans to replace at this time.
The next meeting has been scheduled for June 20th – Pub 56.
John Savage/Mike Burkeen motion to adjourn the meeting at 7:40 p.m.


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Mara Schwerdtfeger
Mara Schwerdtfeger is a sound artist and composer creating performed pieces and commissioned soundtracks for dance, film, and installations. Her practice explores the crossover between physical and digital environments through the use of field recording and digital manipulation. She holds a bachelor of design (digital media) from RMIT and attended LungA School where she collaborated with peers on weekly exhibitions, creating and curating an array of works. Having studied violin from the age of four Mara completed her Viola AmusA in 2016 and performs in multiple bands and duos as well as solo. She currently works with Liquid Architecture producing their podcast series.
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This piece is an interweaving abstract conversation exploring the concept of voice through a... This piece is an interweaving abstract conversation exploring the concept of voice through a series of four sound elements. The deconstructable nature of the piece allows for multiple forms of expression to be heard both as individual voices and together as an active cohesion of sound.
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We work on the land of the Kulin Nation, and pay our respects to their elders—past, present and future.
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Why is rebuke - giving and receiving - so central to religious growth?
Is "yashar" an intellectual or spiritual appellation?
Why is loving people important, how is it expressed, and what does it have to do with Torah study? If tzedakah is not enough, what else is demanded of us?
Why is it important to be beloved by other people? How does loving Hashem help a person succeed in learning?


Yates & Life Education Australia are committed to growing more mini-green thumbs.
Life Education Australia has been empowering children and young people to make safer and healthier choices through education for nearly 40 years. They are Australia's largest preventative health organisation, endeavouring to empower children to live a safe and healthy life through education.
In 2018 we are encouraging young people to get out into the garden to grow and learn healthy habits. Schools, pre-schools and community groups are invited to apply for one of 15 $1,000 grants to help create a garden space where kids can learn healthy habits and improve their physical and mental well-being. Applications open May 2018.
Yates has a proud history of working with Landcare Australia from 2009 – 2017. Landcare Australia a national network of thousands of locally-based community groups who care for the natural resources of our country – with more than 4000 community Landcare groups, 2000 Coastcare groups and many thousands of volunteers across the country.
To help protect and repair our environment, Yates donated a percentage of sales from the'Nature's Way' range of products to Landcare Australia up until 2017.
Retina Australia is a voluntary organisation, which is concerned with retinal degenerative diseases such as retinitis pigmentosa and macular degeneration. Retina Australia provide funds for scientific research, information and peer support to those affected by retinal degenerative diseases.
Yates has supported Retina Australia since 1999, donating more than $104,000.00 through the sales of Yates Cosmos 'Bright Eyes'. This money has been spent on research to find a cure for Retinitis Pigmentosa (RP). Statistically, there are more than 8000 young Australians with RP making it the leading cause of youth blindness.


ED WOODWARD failed to mention Louis van Gaal today as he spoke about Manchester United's bright future.
The executive vice-chairman was discussing the club's financial results with United on course to become the first British club to earn more than half a billion pounds in a single year.
But in an official club statement, Woodward gave a big snub to Van Gaal.
He alluded to the club's young guns but the lack of acknowledgement towards the boss adds more uncertainty as to whether he's staying at Old Trafford.
Van Gaal's men have endured a topsy-turvy season on the field and face an uphill battle to secure Champions League qualification for next season.
But off the field the picture is bright.
United's third-quarterly financial results released today showed the club expect to earn between £500m and £510m of revenue in 2016.
Broadcasting revenue for the third quarter was £27.8m and matchday revenue came in at £29.8m, with total operating expenses of £102.2m - a 3.2 per cent increase compared to the same quarter last year.
Woodward will speak in greater depth about the results and field questions from investors during a conference call this afternoon.


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Raising gifted kids may seem like a luxury, but I'm here to tell you that it can be challenging in many ways! It is not a piece of cake!
How many of you could tell me, without stopping to think about it, what's the lowest and highest two-digit number? How about the lowest and highest three-digit numbers? Or the sum of 59 + 59? Or what (30 + 30) – 30 equals?
I don't have to stop and think about these things, because they're some of the math facts my five-year-old has blurted out in the past 24 hours.
I also know how many states' abbreviations contain consecutive letters of the alphabet in ascending order (Delaware, Hawaii, and Minnesota – DE, HI, and MN). And what makes fruits (seeds) botanically different from vegetables (no seeds). And that if you were to write a letter to Mars, you'd have to add not only your country but also "Planet Earth" to the return address on your letter.
These things I know from overhearing recent conversations between my 5-year-old first-grader and her big sister, age 7, who's in third grade.
We're afraid others will think we're bragging.
We're afraid others will think we're whining if we mention the challenges (what could possibly be hard about raising really smart kids?).
We're afraid others will judge us for wanting what's best for our kids.
We're afraid others may think we "bought" our kids a "gifted" label by paying for tutors that could help them ace the "gifted" test.
Yes, there are many blessings to having a child who is academically gifted. But raising a gifted child also involves unique parenting challenges.
And since our kids are only 5 and 7, we're still relatively early in this journey.
This Life UnEdited "Living With" post will cover my own family's experiences. I'll also reference challenges that other families I know have faced in raising their own gifted children.
This means that many gifted kids (though not all) sleep less than the average for kids their age.
Knowing this when my kids were infants – and knowing that they would both later be diagnosed as gifted – would have been helpful.
I thought there was something wrong with me, and/or my eldest, when she got by on nine hours of sleep per 24-hour period, from age 2 months to age 4.5 months.
As in, that much sleep TOTAL at night (even though she was still waking for a feeding or two). And no naps.
Sometimes I could get her to fall asleep in my arms. But as soon as I put her down and went to take a shower, she'd wake up and start howling before I had the water turned on.
Now that they're older, it takes my eldest forever to "turn off" her mind at night and go to sleep. We've tried relaxation/deep breathing, massages, yoga, you name it. She still tosses and turns.
The fact that their minds are always going means that they need constant engagement, and are very high-energy in general.
Fortunately, with two of them, they're now old enough that they can entertain each other. Unfortunately, they'll create ten messes in ten different rooms in no time flat, if I don't keep a close eye on them.
Starting new projects – say, "Paint/Magic Marker Your Sister" or "Let's Do A Science Experiment In The Bathroom" – is easy. Finishing them is hard. Before something is "done," they're bored and ready to move on to the next thing.
Days we can get out to a museum or a park are great, though it's challenging when there's just one adult to keep up with two of them. Days when the weather is subpar, or the adult's health is subpar (I'm coming off 6 months of no driving due to a broken foot), are torture.
If all else fails, running around in circles is always an option. My five-year-old came down on one recent school morning, minutes after waking up, fully dressed and with her bed already made. She began running laps around the stairwell at the center of our house, "to get ready for phys ed" that afternoon.
If they're NOT being sufficiently stimulated by their surroundings, they might do things they know they shouldn't. Like act out in church and Sunday school. Or graffiti classroom furniture with their crayons. Or apply scissors and artistic license to their hair, their clothing, or whatever is within reach.
Yes, lots of kids are "high energy" and need constant stimulation. But my kids have been known to exhaust not just relatives who know them and spend time with them regularly, but also teachers and child-care providers who are used to spending time around kids the same ages as ours.
One of the first things you learn about, when you find out you have a "gifted" kid, is "asynchronous development." This means that just because your kid is years ahead of their peers in, say, reading or math, DOESN'T mean they're "advanced" in all areas.
In our kids, this has been most evident in gross motor skills and social skills. Our kids were talking in full sentences shortly after their first birthdays but didn't walk until several months later. By the time each of them ditched the diapers, they were well past their third birthdays and had been working on this skill for over half their lives.
And it's easy to forget that a kid doing 2nd-grade work (as our girls were in pre-K and kindergarten) may well have the social skills and work habits of a preschooler.
We struggle to cope with asynchronous development on a daily basis, and have since our girls were born. At first, it was mastering developmentally-appropriate physical skills, from riding a bike to learning to write legibly. These days, it's helping them keep up with the workload and social demands of being a grade or two ahead of their classmates academically, even though they've each moved up a grade already.
Most young kids, if thrown together with other kids their age (say on a playground), will spontaneously start playing together. Mine, not so much.
Nowadays, preschool is essential for getting kids academically prepared for kindergarten. And working parents who can afford to, choose a daycare program for its academics as much as anything else.
For us, our main goal with preschool was getting our kids to interact with their age-peers.
Even the basics of "parallel play" were beyond our kids in preschool. They had no problem playing with kids several years OLDER than them, or kids several years YOUNGER.
But put them together with kids the same age, and it was like magnets repelling each other. They just weren't interested in doing what kids their age were doing, and couldn't relate to them at all.
Don't get me wrong; we know how fortunate we are. Our district has a gifted program PLUS a support system for gifted education, and already knows that moving kids up a grade or two ("acceleration") does more good than harm.
My friend Keisha's first-grader hates school and tries to stay home most days. His teachers know that he's bored, learned to read before kindergarten, and currently does third- and fourth-grade math at home. But their county has a law prohibiting acceleration and other forms of differentiation (giving the child more challenging schoolwork to accommodate his needs), so the teachers' hands are tied.
Nire, another friend, struggles to pay her kids' parochial-school tuition. Their district eliminated gifted programs in public schools a decade ago, for budget reasons. Though it's a challenge to meet the modest tuition, the private school's small class size means the teachers accommodate her kids' needs more than their public school would.
And then there's my friend Jan, whose profoundly gifted son is in seventh grade. He's been in the same school district since day one. But every fall, she has to spend the first two months of school arguing with the district to ensure they accommodate his learning needs. She works as a freelance writer, partly so her work schedule is flexible enough to afford her time to do this every fall.
What does this look like? In a preschooler, this can mean flying into a full-blown tantrum as soon as they face a challenge, as my kids used to (and still do). In school-age kids, as countless friends of mine will attest, this can mean procrastinating on a big project because of fear of failure, or overly-high internal expectations. (Or a false assumption that they will breeze through it, just like everything else.) For kids who sail through elementary and secondary school, this can mean crashing and burning when they get to college, or flunking out of grad school.
Some gifted kids develop severe anxiety from trying to live up to their own high standards. Others become anxious for other reasons. My friend Sadie's kid is currently the only second-grader in his school's gifted program. He's already becoming an anxious perfectionist in his own schoolwork. Fortunately, his gifted program includes lessons on how to cope with these tendencies. Unfortunately, he refuses to go to the gifted classroom most days. Why? Because he feels "singled out" and doesn't like being "different" from the other kids. At age 7, he's already in counseling.
About 1/7 of gifted children also have learning disabilities. These "GLD" kids, also called "twice-exceptional" or "2e," face an uphill battle in getting all their learning needs met. School districts that accommodate all of 2e kids' learning needs are rare.
Michelle's son, a high-school junior, is thriving now. But two years ago things looked very different. Trying to adjust to high school as a gifted ADHD kid on the autism spectrum drove him to multiple suicide attempts.
These kids are the lucky ones, in schools that try hard to meet all their learning needs. Others never get this far in the gifted program, if their school even has one.
My younger brother Evan graduated third in his high-school class, and was in more college honor societies than I can count. This, despite being so profoundly dyslexic that he could barely write a coherent sentence when he started high school. He was in the gifted program until middle school, when the middle-school teacher kicked him out because "dummies" didn't belong in the gifted program.
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Flossie McCowald was a teacher before becoming mama to Kimmie and Essie. A country girl who married a city boy, she and her family now live in Suburbia, U.S.A. When not schlepping her girls to Scouts, Code Club, swim lessons, or church choir, she enjoys bicycling, cooking, crocheting, and volunteering. She shares all her parenting mistakes, screw-ups, and things she learned the hard way her parenting tips, tricks, and hacks to save busy parents time, money, and sanity at https://supermomhacks.com/. You can also find her on Facebook, Instagram, Pinterest, and Twitter @supermomhacks.
LOL I'm sorry but I can't help but laugh a little at memories of all my own children's "bad behavior" that did not go over well with others – better than crying! The Sunday School superintendent at church was the worst. Of COURSE my kids were acting out in the Preschool class because they were bored out of their skulls, but when I requested that they be moved up a level to something more challenging and developmentally appropriate, I was told that their behavior was too immature for that. !!!
Oh no, I think we should apply the saying, knowledge is power, to everything. I have one of my boys with Autism. And I would love it if people would ask me about him, instead of judging him and assuming he's just another 'bad behaving' child. There are often reasons behind everything. I just hope parents start to be more open and communicate more on things that can help to uplift us all.