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The Weekend Interview part one: Antonio Conte
It is four months since Antonio began working at Chelsea and a good time to speak to the official Chelsea website about the progress made and about how he is settling into west London life…
This weekend Antonio Conte is able to enjoy a thoroughly well-earned rest from guiding his Chelsea team through match action.
Work, and especially working hard, are phrases never far from the lips of our head coach when he discusses how his first season in London is progressing, and no-one could accuse Conte of not leading by example.
A midfielder famed for his energy as well as his technique and tactical nous, he has taken that on into his managerial career where his animated instructions from inside the technical area are already one of the most well-known sights of today's Premier League, leading to a joke or two about him almost joining in with the pressing of the opposition defence.
What is clear from Conte's words before and after games, and his activity on the touchline, is that Chelsea at the moment is a work in progress, but with an outstanding October followed by that stellar opening to November's fixtures against Everton, it is a project currently coming along nicely.
It is four months since it began, and the perfect moment for Conte to speak to the official Chelsea website about the progress made and about how he is settling into west London life – questions he begins by considering together.
'Now for four months we have been working very hard with the players and I enjoy this,' he says.
'It is not easy to arrive in a new club and to find out about a new country, a new language, and also you have to bring your new method, your new philosophy of football. But after four months I am pleased about it all, because the players always have shown me a great attitude, a great work-rate during the training sessions and also during the games.
The club is very close to me and it supports me. The fans are fantastic when we play at home and away so yes, I am pleased.
Given the intensity with which Conte concentrates and directs during the 90 minutes of match action, it is understandable he did not realise the fans were frequently singing, 'Antonio, Antonio,' during the 5-0 win last weekend until pointed out by one of his assistants. After the game he described it as fantastic and thanked the supporters.
Away from the intensity of the match, even when discussing it not long after the final whistle, Conte cuts a calmer figure and it is no surprise he reacted to the bad results against Liverpool and Arsenal in such a methodical and flexible way.
Initial misconceptions from some observers that he is wedded to one system of play that yielded success with past teams have quickly been banished. Conte explained early in the season he was prepared to try different formations and would continue to do so until the goals stopped going in at the wrong end. Happily, it has not taken long.
'We started the season with another system because the idea in my mind was that I wanted to play with the 4-2-4, and then we switched with 4-3-3 and we played also in the same way like last year, 4-2-3-1.
'But I noticed in some circumstances we didn't have the right balance because when you concede more goals than your opponent and even more chances to score a goal, it is never a good thing. For this reason, we switched to the new system of 3-4-3 and I think this is a good fit for our squad because also we have the strikers adapted for this system.
'I thought it would improve us offensively as well as defensively and we didn't lose our offensive situation. In this way we have increased it because we scored many goals and created a lot of chances to score the goals and also if you maintain the clean sheet, I think this is the right way.'
When Conte decided to switch to a back-three, he did so not with the 3-5-2 of his Italy side but instead the 3-4-3 he announced in advance in a press conference would be his Chelsea choice. The type of attacking players in the squad determined this.
It is further evidence he is tactically flexible, as is a comparable time earlier in his management career when he took over a Bari side mid-season that were shipping goals before Conte stemmed the tie with a different solution.
'When I arrived in Bari I remember the position in the table was very bad. We were in the three at the bottom but I always trust in my work and at Bari we played with the 4-2-4. In the first season we achieved good results. The next season we were promoted to Serie A and we still played with the 4-2-4.'
It has pleased Conte a lot that even though he is now working away from the famously tactically sophisticated Italian league, his current players have proved so quickly adaptable.
'The first time I changed to this system was against Arsenal for the last 25 minutes, and then we continued with this idea of football. For sure in this month we have developed, we have worked a lot on this system, and for sure I have to say thanks to my players because they had the right concentration, the right attitude, the right will to stay more than before in the training sessions and now it is easier than one month ago. But we know we can improve a lot on different aspects - the pressure on the ball, quickly being more compact - for sure we have to improve.
'I think in England something is changing because there are different coaches from different countries and they are bringing new different ideas and new methods and new philosophies of football, and I think this is very good for the English league.
'In the pre-season I preferred to work on the concept, on the principles and then you develop the system of play, but I always knew this squad could play with this 3-4-3 system. In my mind there was this possibility.
'I knew the characteristic of the players and for this reason when I spoke to the club and we planned the season, this system was an alternative to the 4-2-4.'
In Italy Conte earned praise for the way he encouraged the best out of previously less-heralded players such as Stephan Lichtsteiner and Andrea Barzagli at Juventus and for Italy, Emanuele Giaccherini and Eder.
Now at Chelsea he seems on a similar path with Victor Moses and fresh-signing Marcos Alonso. There is more to top management than simply getting the formation right.
'I think that a manager must improve his players,' Conte agrees. 'It is important to work with the team but also one-to-one to bring out the talent of the players, to improve the weaknesses and become strengthened.
'Here at Chelsea we have a lot of talent but now we are working a lot with these players and I am pleased to see the great attitude and the great will to improve, and to play for the team because when you want to win something important, it is important to be a team.'
It is a way of thinking Conte applies to his backroom assistants as well.
'In my staff I have many people and I prefer to give them their responsibilities because I think it is important to have direct relationships with each player, especially to explain the physical work,' he details.
'It is important this type of work is done directly with the player, and to explain to them if someone wants to know why we do this type of work.
'So I have two coaches for the physical work, two for the metabolic work and one for the strength work, and then I have two assistant coaches and also my brother who helps me to prepare for the games with analysis studying the opponent and studying our game.
'I also have Carlo Cudicini who is helping me and the other staff a lot with his experience because he knows the club well and for sure he is a person very important at this moment. He is helping to create a good relationship with the players.
'Communication is very important. It is important not only the manager but the staff feel their responsibility. The manager is the boss but you must give the opportunity to your staff to exploit their knowledge.
'It is important when you are in a great team to have good staff to help you in every moment of the day.'
- In part two tomorrow, Antono Conte talks about his life in a new country and about some famous names who made the same journey earlier.


I was heartbroken to read that Empire star Jussie Smollett had been viciously attacked in Chicago in what was allegedly a racist and homophobic hate crime. The assailants allegedly shouted, "This is MAGA Country!" during the attack. I will opt not to go into politics, instead sticking to the human side of the issue at hand.
Perhaps this is an oversimplification of the complexity of human behavioral impulses, but one thing we can all do is be cognizant of daily microaggressions that add negative energy to the collective consciousness. Together, we can raise the vibration of this earth.
Discriminatory jokes and offhand sarcastic quips about people's gender, race, religion, ethnicity or sexual orientation are not harmless. They add to a collective hostility towards specific groups of people. Harmful language can also embolden people who are living in a state of fear and ignorance to commit egregious acts of hate against others. In addition, our children hear it, our grandchildren hear it, our friends and co-workers hear it. With each word we speak, we possess the power to either poison or heal a new generation of human beings.
I understand that we are not always in a position to create a teachable moment, but you can certainly, gracefully, remove yourself from the conversation. As we have all witnessed, words can cause harm, and unfortunately, negative words can translate into negative actions if spoken to the wrong people.
I pray for Jussie Smollett's healing, and I pray that this incident serves as a landmark. When my son was about four years old, one of his favorite books was a children's book titled, Words Are Not For Hurting. The concept is so simple, and as adults we often forget. Let's try to remember.


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Pacific National train consisting of X class locomotive X31 and cement hopper wagons, Grovedale, Victoria, 27 April 2007. Photo: Wongm, Wikimedia Commons.
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1435 mm; 1600 mm
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1342 kW (X31–6); 1491 kW (X37–54)
113.8 t (X31–6); 116.0 t (X37–54)
Introduced by the Victorian Railways, most initial service of the X Class was on the standard gauge line between Melbourne and Albury, but they later operated in other areas. X31–6 entered service in 1966. Units X37 onwards were introduced from 1970 and had more powerful engines than the first six deliveries. A number of the class continue in service with Pacific National and Aurizon on standard gauge and broad gauge lines, while SCT has two for shunting purposes.

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LG Electronics Inc., South Korea's second-biggest tech company by sales, said Tuesday it has acquired Robostar Co., a local robot company, as part of its business diversification strategy.
LG Electronics took over a controlling 30 percent stake in the robot manufacturer. It invested in a 20 percent stake by purchasing 1.95 million common stocks worth about 53.6 billion won (US$47.6 million) and bought a 10 percent stake held by the firm's executives.
LG Electronics said it plans to acquire an additional 3.4 percent stake in Robostar held by the firm's management by the end of 2019, bringing its total stake ownership in Robostar to 33.4 percent.
Established in 1999, Robostar is known for its prominent technologies in making robots, including those for the production of semiconductors and cars.
LG Electronics said it will utilize Robostar's industrial robot technologies in establishing what it calls intelligence factories.


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Survey says Crawford only doing 'fair job' in battling substance abuse
Alisha Sonner
Crawford County was the focus of a recent public opinion survey that found that the majority of respondents believed that the county was only doing a "fair" job of addressing substance abuse.
The survey, by Leigh Drake of Aranelle Consulting LLC., was sponsored by the Crawford County Council for a Drug-Free Community and took place from Nov. 1 to Nov. 30.
Several results of the survey were surprising and some were even shocking to many on the council.
"There's a few things in the survey that caught my eye," Jon Kuss, chairman of the council and director of programs with Hoosier Hills PACT. "One of the things in the survey that really jumped out at me was that 35 percent of respondents thought that 'several' adults in the area use drugs or drink with their children. That's really disturbing. It's not uncommon for that to happen, but it's certainly bothersome that it happens on that level."
The survey also produced some expected results, such as that 61 percent of those surveyed thought that "many" had tried cigarettes. It was also revealed that 28 percent thought that "many" had tried chewing tobacco. If all responses were combined (several-half-many), the survey indicated that 80 percent of those believed that youth had tried chewing tobacco.
"This survey was designed for Crawford County," Drake said, after completing the survey. "And there's certain parts of it that are really striking. For instance, 68 percent of respondents said they had experienced alcoholism or a drug addiction situation in their family. That's a high amount, and it's really a painful reminder of how big the problem is. It also gives the community an idea of what direction needs to be taken in order to reduce these numbers."
Another issue that caught Kuss' eye was that such a high number of those responding thought that "many" of the county's youth had tried marijuana.
"If you combine all of the responses, 80 percent thought that area young people had tried marijuana," he said. "That's a really high number, but that's the value of this survey. It actually puts a number to the things that we have always suspected."
The survey, however, indicated that harder drugs, like heroine, cocaine, methamphetamine, inhalants and club drugs, like ecstasy, are not popular with area youth. But other parts of the survey indicated that the use of beer, strong alcohol and painkillers is a problem.
"Prescription drugs are a growing problem here," said Becky Smith of the Crawford County Youth Service Bureau. "We're actually doing a lifeskills program on it now. We're showing the students films and educating them about the dangers of prescription drugs. We're trying to get ahead of it, but it is a major issue now."
The survey included responses from 117 people in Crawford County. There were 73 female respondents and 44 male respondents. The majority of respondents (42) were 25 and under. There were 19 respondents between the ages of 25 and 35. The rest were over 35, but only eight were 75 or older.
The top troubling issues for youth in Crawford County were tobacco use, drug use, alcohol use, sexual activity, teen pregnancy, under-age drinking, poverty, lack of jobs, nothing to do, domestic violence/child abuse, not enough options for entertainment and reckless driving.
The survey noted that reckless driving scored higher than operating while intoxicated or speeding on the issues list. The survey also noted that respondents aged 25 and under thought teen pregnancy a more troublesome issue than sexual activity, while adults primarily scored sexual activity as more troublesome than teen pregnancy.
More than 40 percent of respondents thought the community was doing a fair job of addressing abuse in the community, while only 18 percent thought it was doing a good job. The remainder didn't know or thought it was doing a poor job.
Except for Alcohol Anonymous and Narcotic Anonymous, most respondents thought it somewhat difficult or very difficult to obtain substance abuse treatment in the area.
"The whole idea of this survey is that it will help organizations and agencies in the county secure funding and help with grant applications, and to assist in the battle against substance abuse," Drake said. "We hope it will encourage discussions in classrooms about drug, alcohol and tobacco abuse. And we hope the information in the survey will be used by families, which will help create awareness of substance abuse problems."
"This should help the community recognize the abuse problem," Kuss said. "It's something we don't want to just sweep under the carpet."
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BIRELL PRAGUE GRAND PRIX ON SATURDAY: Geoffrey Ronoh sets sights on his own course record while Kenyans Caroline Kilel and Viola Jelagat head strong women's field
Geoffrey Ronoh running in the lead last year together with Geoffrey Mutai: Photo Credit Birell Prague Grand Prix
Geoffrey Ronoh, the defending champion in the Birell Prague Grand Prix, leads parallel lives. He is as committed to his career as a Wildlife Ranger in Kenya, combating the menace of poachers, as he is to breaking his own course record of 27:28 in Saturday's 20th edition of this spectacular evening 10 k race. Recovered from injury which has hindered his progress this year after an outstanding 2014 on the road, he will face tough opposition in fellow Kenyans Daniel Chebii, winner of this title three years ago, and Josphat Kiptis, champion of the Mattoni Olomouc Half Marathon in late June, another of the seven races in the RunCzech Running League. In the women's field, Viola Jelagat has already caught the eye this year with fourth in the Sportisimo Prague Half Marathon in March and the experienced Caroline Kilel, the 2011 Boston Marathon winner, should pose a threat, as could be the Ethiopian Amane Beriso, who impressed to win the Ostia Half Marathon title in Italy in March. The Birell Prague Grand Prix is an IAAF Gold Label event, the highest category of road race.
As with so many of his fellow elite Kenyan runners, 32 year-old Geoffrey Ronoh exudes the epitome of laidback cool, even with race day approaching and facing questions of whether he can reproduce the devastating form of last year. Not only did he beat the renowned road exponent Geoffrey Mutai by four seconds to win the Birell Prague Grand Prix, he handed the then world record holder in the marathon and his training partner, Wilson Kipsang, a racing lesson in winning the Mattoni Olomouc Half Marathon to announce his arrival as a formidable road racer on the international scene.
His form in 2015 has stuttered because of injury. He was troubled by a hamstring injury after finishing fifth in the Volkswagen Prague Marathon in 2:10:52 in early May, a personal best for the distance but the dominance of the previous year was absent. The persistent injury forced him to withdraw from racing but regular massage and easy running at his base in Iten have revived him. He believes he can produce his best form for Saturday: "This year I had many injuries but my recent training has been going well. I'm back to my normal shape. I want to improve my time of 27:28 and Prague will also be a form guide as I look to run a marathon before the end of the year."
Any idea that his excellence as a professional runner of three years' standing is produced by a focus on running, rest and precious little else is soon dispelled, once the conversation turns to his parallel life as a Wildlife Ranger. This is no sinecure, but a proper job bringing danger and shift work which would seem daunting even without the demands of top-class athletics. "I do sentry duty and that includes night shift. I have been taking this positively, I try to utilise my time, I try to budget with it, so when I'm on night duty, I consider it my day and sleep during the day."
It was a boyhood of weekends and holidays with friends, hunting in the bush, which first attracted him to a career as a ranger which now goes back eleven years. But the young Ronoh began to think of conservation rather than hunting: "We'd go hunting but then I began to think of guarding the animals instead of hunting them, no more killing but looking after them."
This led to enrolling in the ranger force, mandatory military training including, as Geoffrey Ronoh describes it: "Refresher courses with the British Army when they come to Kenya, I am trained to use a gun. I've come across contacts with poachers in my duties and have recovered both guns and ivories."
This career also provided an impressive stamina base – he describes tracking in the bush up to 200km in a small group, on the lookout for poachers. It's little wonder he possessed such a formidable engine when he entered the professional running world. As for a future when his running is no longer at the elite level, Geoffrey Ronoh is in no doubt where this lies: "It was an ambition since my schooldays to be a Wildlife Ranger. Some lived in my village and I liked the way they behaved to us. I liked everything about their way of life, what they did for animals."
Further information about the Birell Prague Grand Prix can be found online: www.runczech.com
By: Andy Edwards


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Q: Moment.js - How To Detect Daylight Savings Time And Add One Day I need to create Date Objects from strings of Date data for every hour of every day since the year 2000.
The strings look like this for every hour, in a Month/Day/Year Hour format...
"04/02/2000 01", "04/02/2000 02", "04/02/2000 03" ...all the way to... "04/02/2000 24"

Now, I have the following code, which works fine except for on days with Daylight Savings Time...
  // Split At Space
var splitDate = "04/02/2000 24".split(/[ ]+/);
var hour = splitDate[1];
var day  = splitDate[0];
  // Split At Slashes
var dayArray = day.split("/");
if (hour === "24") {
       // Months are zero-based, so subtract 1 from the month
     date = new Date(Date.UTC( dayArray[2], parseInt(dayArray[0] - 1), dayArray[1], 0, 0, 0 ));
     date.setDate(date.getDate() + 1);
} else {
     // Months and Hours are zero-based, so subtract 1 from each
     date = new Date(Date.UTC( dayArray[2], parseInt(dayArray[0] - 1), dayArray[1], hour, 0, 0 ));
};

On days with daylight savings time, like 04/02/2000 adding a day does not work if the hour is 24.  Instead, it just returns Sun, 02 Apr 2000 23:00:00 GMT
With Moment.js, is it possible to detect a DST day and get this code to work correctly?

A: To detect DST, use the .isDST() method: http://momentjs.com/docs/#/query/is-daylight-saving-time/
moment([2011, 2, 12]).isDST(); // false, March 12 2011 is not DST
moment([2011, 2, 14]).isDST(); // true, March 14 2011 is DST

Using this test, you should be able to determine how to modify your program's behavior accordingly.

A: Here's how I made a little checker:
var curDst = dtdate.isDST()
var prevDst = moment(dtdate).clone().subtract(1, "day").isDST();
var nextDst = moment(dtdate).clone().add(1, "day").isDST();
var isDstChangeDate = (curDst !== nextDst) === true || (curDst === prevDst) !== true;

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Dendreon Shares Boosted by Early Neuvenge Clinical Trial
Published 12:39 PM ET Mon, 20 Aug 2007 Updated 3:19 PM ET Thu, 5 Aug 2010 The Associated Press
Shares of Dendreonrose Monday after the company said its breast cancer drug was effective in an early stage clinical trial.
The drug, Neuvenge, was tested on 18 patients with metastasized breast cancer who did not respond to standard treatment. They were given the drug at the start of the trial, a second dose two weeks later, and a third dose four weeks after the trial began.
Dendreon said the drug produced a "significant immune response" that was increased by additional doses. Four patients showed evidence of "anti-cancer activity," including three whose illness did not progress for more than a year.
Neuvenge is designed to increase the body's response to HER2/neu, a kind of protein that is prevalent in tumors.
The drug was also well-tolerated, with the most severe side effects including fever and chills that typically faded one or two days after infusion of the drug.
The results from the study were published in the Journal of Clinical Oncology.
The shares closed at $7.32 on Friday.
Dendreon stock surged in early April, reaching an all-time high of $25.25 after a Food and Drug Administration panel recommended approval of the company's prostate cancer vaccine Provenge. The stock gave up most of those gains in May, after the FDA asked Dendreon for more data about the drug.


ANGLING: Ringer gets away from cold snap!
Aswe shivered and slid our ways through last week, town ace Phil Ringer was fishing in temperatures of 28 degrees – while trying to avoid bites from turtles!
And the latter was par for the course in the three-day Iberian Masters feeder champs, fished on a wide Spanish river with a fair head of carp...and hordes of greedy turtles.
His first time in the competition, he made second in his zone on one day with 10 good carp but nowhere in particular on the other two.
As Phil was still driving back, dad Geoff said: "He reckons that on the third day he had more turtles than carp, and they obviously didn't count.
BACK here, in much lower temperatures, Gilders' Pete Dixon travelled down to the River Frome and enjoyed the magic of catching six grayling to 2-2 – hangovers from the REAL ice age 10,000 years ago – plus a 4lb salmon while trotting with a centrepin.
MUCH nearer home 'Chub meister' Phil Mapp hit the banks of the Ouse, Sunday evening, determined to get some in before snow-melt water filled the river.
And that after-dark session saw him land a 6-13 new PB chub...just a couple of hours after optimistically prophesying on facebook that he was going to get 'a new PB tonight'!
THE local match calendar was virtually wiped out by the Beast from the East, but some hardy souls fished a Meadowlands open which went to Pete Caton with just 10-2 of carp while Paul Cook had 4-4 and 'Jacko' on 2-2.
ON the same section, the day before the snow, Towcester's Vets found an ice-free spot where Tosh Saunders won with 3-1 of perch followed by Tony Hirst on 2-2 and Rob Rawlins 1-1.
DENNETTS & Heyford's last pre-snow Sunday sweep, Peatling Parva, saw Dave Jackson win with 30-8 ahead of Fionna Dennett 14-4 and John Hewison 10-6.
NOTE: midnight Wednesday sees start of the legal close season on rivers and streams (March 15 to June 15 inclusive).


A few useful adds to the site to help you plan your ultimate evening.
Timecaps are now posted directly on the site: top right corner on the traditional platform, scroll down if you're on a mobile device.
Schedules and standings now have a page in the "Leagues" menu above. It'll get you a list of active leagues. Click on the calendar or standings icons to get the info you need without logging into Zuluru.
And don't forget, all the Guidebooks for players and captains can be found right here. These contain important details, such as bad weather policy, league specific rules, and yes, timecaps.


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Grand Theft Auto San Andreas, Vice City And Liberty City Gone On App Store Sale [Save $12]
Posted in Deals by Miika on October 9, 2016
GTA San Andreas Sale.
If you're a fan of the Grand Theft Auto franchise you'll be happy to find out that three games from this series have gone on sale, in the App Store. Rockstar Games have decided to heavily discount the San Andreas, Vice City and Libery City stories editions of GTA, for iPhone and iPad. This sale is available for a limited time only. Grab it now and save up to $12 if you purchase all three games!
All that you have to do is to follow the links available below and download the applications from their official App Store page. Read on and see how much the discount for each product is and what to expect from these trademark games. Use the buttons available at the end of this article to share the offer with other gamers and allow your friends and family to enrich their GTA collection!
Grand Theft Auto App Store Sale
1. GTA San Andreas ($6.99 $2.99)
Help Carl Johnson to return to his home in San Andreas, revenge the murder of his mother and take control of his home streets while battling corrupt cops and dangerous gangs. The app comes with over 70 hours of gameplay and has a great App Store rating. It works on iPhone 4S and newer iOS devices. Be aware that the app size is impressive, over 2GB.
Fact: Do mind that you need to be 17 years of age in order to be allowed to download the app.
2. GTA Vice City ($4.99 $1.99)
Re-live the thug life of the 1980s and lead your character to the top of the criminal world from Vice City. The app has received 64-Bit support with the version 1.6 that was released this summer. It's also available only to players aged 17 or above. The app's size is also quite impressive 1.16 GB to support the extended campaign and numerous gameplay hours. Last but not least it includes expanded Retina Screen support. Mind that the app successfully runs on iOS 5.1.1 and newer.
3. GTA Liberty City Stories ($6.99 $1.99)
This is the newest of the three games from the Grand Theft Auto franchise. In this edition you have to help Toni Cipriani survive his return home to Liberty City. The metropolis is in turmoil as corrupt politicians, union strikers, organized crime and drug traffickers clash against each other to control the city. Help the Leone family to regain the control of the city if you own an iPhone 5 or newer. The app comes with 60 FPS gameplay for iPhone 6S and newer devices. 3D Touch support is also available and extends the controls range.
Other Game Theft Auto Applications
4. GTA III ($1.99)
5. GTA Chinatown Wars ( $1.99)
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ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — Wildlife groups fear a proposed river crossing for a $2 billion power line project that will funnel wind and solar energy from rural spots in New Mexico and Arizona to larger markets in the American Southwest could be a death trap for migratory birds.
The Bureau of Land Management and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has already approved a small stretch of the project that would cross the Rio Grande in the Socorro-area.
SunZia Project Manager Tom Wray says the project includes bird conservation plans such as limiting the highest-levels of wires in sensitive areas and using sun-reflective diverters to keep birds away.


This is my Black Forest hand painted cake I made for an Anniversary recently.
This cake is inspired by the lovely Alexandria Pellegrino of The Opera Cake Co.
This has been on my wish list ever since I took the class, and finally had the opportunity to make it.
The original Cake is made in a lovely pale blue and looks absolutely gorgeous. But the customer wanted my Black Chocolate Fondant and I do like how it turned out too.
Of course there is lots of room for improvement in my painting skills but I think overall I really liked the way this turned out.
The customer loved her cake which made me very excited too.
This cake made it to the Daily Top Three on Cakes Decor too!
Can d painting b done on buttercream? If yes how long it can stay out of fridge without colors leaking out.


The photo backpack Trekking from the German manufacturer mantona offers optimal protection of your DSLR camera and photographic equipment combined with perfect wearing comfort. With their high functionality, mantona products unite all requirements of ambitious amateur photographers and semiprofessional photographers.
The main compartment of the mantona Trekking is opened exclusively via the zipper running along the comfortable back padding which makes this innovative backpack thief-proof.
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I'm very new to PDM so my apologies for silly questions that I might ask.
We're implementing PDM Pro at the moment and I was hoping to get some help with automatic part numbers.
Basically, we have automatic serial numbers assigned to files created/imported anywhere in to the vault. Any tips on how to make that to be folder specific action? For example, we don't want any part numbers to be assigned to parts in Work in Progress folder, but we want them to be assigned with part numbers when released and moved to a final location.
Also, is it possible to set separate serial number conventions for different file extensions? For example, PTxxxxxx for Solidwork files etc and DOCxxxx for any documents, images and so on?
I would be grateful for any tips or advice on how to tackle this issue.


I can't believe that it's already been two weeks since I entered blogland! I've been having so much fun! I'm just excited that you guys are liking coming to visit me as I much as I like sharing projects and visiting your blogs too! Thank you so very much to the followers of Crafts and Sutch! There will be a very special giveaway opportunity for you ladies soon!
I came home and turned them into these darling picture holders!
Paint brush, Mod Podge, craft paint, wooden spool, scrapbook paper, wire, wire cutters, scissors, hot glue gun, and embellishments.
I painted the top and bottom of each spool and then cut some scrapbook paper to fit in the middle. Then I Mod Podged the paper onto the spool.
I embellished each one with ribbon, buttons, or rhinestones.
I used jewelry wire for my spiral, but you could use anything heavy gauge that you have on hand. Mine is 20 gauge. Just be sure that your wire is strong enough to stand up and hold a picture. I cut about 8-10 inches of wire and wrapped it around a marker (3 to 4 times) to make my spiral. Then I put a dab of hot glue on the bottom of the spiral to keep the wire together (you will cover this later).
To make the wire stand up in the middle of the spool, I wrapped a small piece of paper towel around the bottom.
I pushed the paper towel wrapped wire into the hole and secured it with hot glue.
These would make super cute gifts, and I think they would be adorable place card holders at a "Cute as a Button" baby shower. It kind of makes me want to throw one. :) Anyone pregnant? LOL!
...just think of the possibilities...if you can stick a wire in it or wrap a wire around it, you've got a picture holder! My mind is reeling!
Congrats on your 2 week anniversary! These are adorable!
How cute! I love this idea--so clever!
Very cute idea! I am your newest friend and follower.
Ok, those are absolutely adorable!! I never would have thought to do that - what a great little gift idea. You could even get some letters and do one letter on each holder to spell out a name or something.
This is Christi from The Frugal Novice, by the way - I'm a Texan too! :) Thanks for stopping by my blog and being a part of Friendly Friday. I'm now following you back through GFC. Have a great weekend!
These are so cute! I love them!!!
So cute! My project list is growing and growing.
I'm a new follower from friendly friday.
These are sooo cute and unusual. Thanks for the tut on how to make them.
Hope you can stop by and see me sometimes over at Pittypat Paperie.
These are adorable! I am going to get busy!
Following you from Follow Me Friday!! I hope you can stop by our blog too and do the same. Have a great weekend.
These are too cute, and great tutorial!
These are so adorable. They would make the perfect gifts!
Thanks for featuring my party on your side bar. I've added your button to my blog roll.
These are adorable and would make super cute gifts as you said. I'm your newest follower!!
Hey there, thanks for the kind comments and follow! I can totally see myself making these, very clever! Would never have thought you'd been blogging for only a couple of weeks, nice job!
very creative :) thank you for linking up to MMM...be sure to link up next week!
Stopping by from Tuesday Tag-Along to say hello, I have been following your blog for a little while now. Hope you have a wonderful day!
I love these...what a great idea! I'm your newest follower from Tuesday Tag Along!
Very cute! I love 'em!
Stopping by from TTA! And I absolutely love these!!!
What a CUTE idea! Thanks for linking up!
Love these. So cute. What a great idea to add the patterns to the spools.
Stopping by and following from TTA.
Really great project and tutorial. I am a sucker for spools! I always love finding a new crafty gal.
Welcome to blog land! You have started off with a bang!
These are so adorable! I love it when you can taken a cheapy find and turn it to something so so cute!
Great idea! Thanks for sharing these with us.
I love these spools. They would make a wonderful daycare craft for my older ones. I do have one question, do the spools fall over easily when the pictures are on them?
Thanks for the snazzie idea.
Oh by the way I'm your newest follower, at the moment that is. Found you at Welcome Wednesday.
Wow, this is cute! and great tutorial. Also, your nails are beautiful.
These are so cute. I am stopping by from Sweet Charli! I love the color combos that you used. Thanks for sharing how to make them!
These are absolutely adorable. TFS!
I so love these! Very cute and creative! Thanks for linking up at PonyTails@FishScales!
I featured you at PonyTails&FishScales! Thanks again for linking up!
Great idea! Love this project. I added a link to my Wooden Spool Crafts article on Squidoo. Thank you!
أن حشرة بق الفراش حشرة ضئيلة للغايةٌ ليست قادرة على الطيران، كما أنها تقوم بالتكاثر ذاتياٌ وهي حشرة نشيطة بشكل كبير في أوقات الليل لأنها في تلك الأوقات لا يمكنه واحد من أن يراها، كما أنها تعتمد على غذائها على القيام بمص دم الإنسان أو الحيوانات المنزلية وسميت بحشرة بق الفراش.
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Rehearsals are underway
Posted by A Friend of a Friend / 8. For Sense
The first read through is in full swing…. we can't wait to introduce you to our fantastic cast!
Don't forget to book your tickets in advance for the show on 10th July, tickets start from £10 and all profits go straight to Sense – connecting sight, sound and life: https://www.theotherpalace.co.uk/whats-on/for-sense
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For Sense heads to Andrew Lloyd Webber's new theatre
Check your inbox for this week's newsletter from The Other Palace and click through to buy tickets to For Sense on Monday 10th July.
Tickets are £10-18 and will be donated to Sense – connecting sight, sound and life
Click here to book now: https://www.theotherpalace.co.uk/whats-on/for-sense
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AFOAF team up with Sense for immersive fundraiser
In a crowded room a hearing sighted person sees who is talking to them and hears what they are saying. A deaf person may use their vision to lip-read what others are saying. But if they lose their sight as well, how will they know someone is trying to communicate and what they are trying to say?
For one night only, The Other Palace hosts a unique performance of Said Shed, and the award winning Love in the Past Participle, written by John Hamilton May. This distinctive theatrical fundraiser for deafblind charity Sense features hearing impaired performers, and challenges audiences to experience theatre in an entirely new way.
1 in 7 people in the UK (9 million) are deaf or hard of hearing, and there are 1.86 million people in the UK with sight loss. Living without the ability to fully connect with your surroundings can be isolating, and those with sight or hearing loss can face challenges and fundamental restrictions on how they communicate with the world. For an estimated 250,000 deafblind people in the UK, lack of both sight and hearing is a daily struggle.
Our world is organised around hearing sighted people, and this can present many challenges to a person who is deafblind or has sensory impairments.
Together with director David Frias-Robles, A Friend of a Friend Productions returns to invite theatregoers to relinquish their sense of sight and sound at the door.
Find out more: http://www.afriendofafriendproductions.org/forsense/
Welcome back John Hamilton May
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Playwright John Hamilton May is the
winner of the BBC Verb New Voices Award, and was recently shortlisted for BBC
Opening Lines and the Perfect Pitch Award, marking him as One to Watch in the future of new writing. His honest
and powerful work has been performed internationally, inspiring audiences around the country and the world. His play, Love in the Past Participle marks his fourth collaboration with AFOAF.
You can read our interview with him from last year's Blackfriars Stories project here: http://www.afriendofafriendproductions.org/blackfriars-johnhamiltonmay/
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'Mounted Police and Blacks' by Godfrey Charles Mundy, 1852.
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Harvard Economist: Immigration Costs US Workers $500 Billion A Year [VIDEO]
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Rachel Stoltzfoos Staff Reporter
Immigration effectively redistributes half a trillion dollars from U.S. workers to the businesses that hire immigrants each year, Harvard economist and immigration and wages expert George Borjas testified before Congress Wednesday.
Based on a supply and demand model, Borjas found an increased supply of immigrants competing in the U.S. job market does produce a net gain for current U.S. workers of about $50 billion a year. But that small gain in the context of an $18 trillion economy is far outweighed by a transfer of wealth from U.S. workers to the businesses that hire those immigrants that amounts to $500 billion dollars.
"What immigration really does is not so much increase the pie, as redistribute the wealth," Borjas testified before the Senate Subcommittee on Immigration and the National Interest. "So what I've learned from all this is that immigration happens to come out to be just another government redistribution program."
Borjas also found it's nearly impossible to manipulate the supply and demand so the net gain to the U.S. economy is much more than $50 billion. So the necessarily modest net gain is masking an enormous transfer of wealth.
"If one wishes to believe that the immigration surplus is around $50 billion, it follows from the same calculation that the redistribution of wealth from workers to firms is around half a trillion dollars," Borjas said in prepared testimony.
The U.S. admits about one million new legal permanent residents every year who are eligible to compete for any job in the U.S. economy, as well as about 100,000 refugees and asylum seekers, 700,000 guest workers and students often eligible to compete for jobs during and in the years after their schooling.
"This is not in the people's interest," Republican Sen. [crscore]Jeff Sessions[/crscore], chairman of the subcommittee, said in his opening statement. "Our goal should be to work every day to create policies that advance the training, and the job prospects of Americans first — lawful immigrant and native-born alike. That is our responsibility."
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More than 130 residents on a remote Japanese island are evacuated and flights diverted after a volcano suddenly erupts on Friday morning.
One man suffered minor burns to his face from the blast on the southern island of Kuchinoerabujima, however, no other injuries have been reported.
Huge plumes of black smoke filled the sky after the volcano erupted on the island which is around 1,000 km (621 miles) southwest of Tokyo.
Residents gathered on the roof of an evacuation centre as lava flowed down the side of Mount Shindake.
"It sounded like dynamite had exploded, and the house shook," one resident told TV Asahi. Others described a smell of sulphur and clouds of smoke that blacked out the sky.
The coast guard ship was sent to evacuate the island's 137 residents, whose only access to the outside world is via boat.
An ash cloud reached more than 9,000 metres into the sky causing airlines travel chaos. Japan's All Nippon Airways said it would divert some flights to Okinawa and Southeast Asia.
Officials have now warned of more possible eruptions and Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has set up and emergency response team. Speaking in Tokyo, he said officials will do everything they can to look after the islanders.
Volcanic eruptions are common in Japan as more than 30 people died in Septemer when Mount Ontake erupted.


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Objetivo: matar (Quel pomeriggio maledetto en su título italiano) es un largometraje de producción española e italiana, estrenado en
Italia el 30 de noviembre de 1977 y en España el 5 de mayo de 1978.
Fue dirigida por el italiano Mario Siciliano, acreditado como Marlon Sirko, y producida por parte española por Julio Pérez Tabernero Producciones Cinematográficas.

Argumento
Harry Chapman (Lee Van Cleef) es detenido tras robar la recaudación de un canódromo por la traición de su socio y encarcelado.
Chapman es liberado a cambio de trabajar como asesino profesional para una organización; su último encargo, el cual le es notificado por un travestido en un local nocturno, le permitirá reencontrarse con Krista (Carmen Cervera), su ambiciosa y traicionera exesposa. La organización desconfía de Harry, por lo que envía tras él a Luc (Alberto Dell'Acqua), un asesino más joven, deseoso de retarlo. Harry escapa a una trampa tendida por Luc, quien debe enfrentarse al travestido y a dos compañeros de este. Harry contacta a su llegada con Benny, un antiguo compañero en el ejército, quien le advierte de la llegada de Luc.

Reparto
Lee Van Cleef ... Harry Chapman
Carmen Cervera ...	Krista
John Ireland ... Benny
Alberto Dell'Acqua (como Robert Widmark) ... Luc
Karin Well ... Liz
Fernando Sancho ... Traficante de armas
Aldo Bufi Landi ... Jack
Diana Polakov ... Liv, la modelo
Paolo de Manincor ... Mandy
Fabián López Tapia
Jean-Pierre Clarain
Franco Caracciolo ... Travestido

Banda sonora
La banda sonora está compuesta por el italiano Stelvio Cipriani; en una de las escenas suena  la composición para la película romántica Anónimo veneciano, obra del propio Cipriani.

Referencias en la cultura popular
El productor Julio Pérez Tabernero intervino en los años 90 en el programa de Tele 5 La máquina de la verdad, donde mencionó la producción de la película y la contratación para la misma de Lee Van Cleef y John Ireland; la intervención se ilustró con imágenes de Objetivo: matar.

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Enlaces externos
Ficha en Film Affinity
Ficha en IMDb

Películas dirigidas por Mario Siciliano
Películas de 1977
Películas de España
Películas de Italia
Películas rodadas en España
Películas de asesinos a sueldo
Películas con temática LGBT de España
Películas con temática LGBT de Italia
Películas de suspenso

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Q: Is there a way to check for every FormControl validity in one line? I wanted to understand if there was an existing method allowing us to check all formControls validity at once.
Example:
// we have the following
hello = new FormControl('', [Validators.required]);
world = new FormControl('', [Validators.required]);

Instead of writing this:
// check validity
if (this.hello.invalid || this.world.invalid) {
    return;
}

Is there a own line function? This is just two form controls, but let's say you have 10 of them, it can become rather cumbersome....
Thanks in advance

A: You can check all the controls validity together using form.valid
Try like this:
if(this.myForm.valid) {
}


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- Create a cluster with three "worker" nodes
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The Works of the Rev. P. Doddridge, Том 2
Авторы: Philip Doddridge
The former of them is indeed the foundation of the rest; because as religion is a reasonable service, all the change which is made in the affections and resolutions, in the pursuits, enjoyments, and hopes of a good man, arises from that different view, in which he is now taught to look on those objects, the nature of which is to direct his choice, to determine his conduct, and regulate his passions: It will therefore be the business of this evening's discourse to shew you,
I. That wherever there is a real principle of regeneration, there will be new apprehensions of things.
When God created the natural world, he said, in the very beginning of this work, Let there be light, and there was light*: And thus he deals in this new creation, which raises the soul from a chaos, to such a beautiful, well-ordered, and wellfurnished frame. God, says the apostle, who commanded the light to shine out of darkness, has shined into our hearts, to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God, in the face of Jesus Christ; whereas before The understanding was darkened, being alienated from the life of God, through the ignorance that was in them, because of the blindness or perverseness of their hearts.
Now this illumination, of which I am speaking, does not so much refer to a speculative, as to a practical and heartimpressing knowledge. It is true, that when a man once comes to be in good earnest in religion, he generally arrives at a clearer and fuller knowledge even of the doctrines of christianity, than he had before: For he then sets himself to enquire with greater diligence, and to seek light of the great Father of lights. with greater earnestness; he gets clear of many evil affections, that put a corrupt bias upon his judgment; and he comes within the reach of those promises, Then shall we know, if we follow on to know the Lord§; and If any man will do his will, he shall know of the doctrine, whether it be of God. Yet I think, I may very properly say, that at various times, when our judgment of any object is the same, our apprehensions of it are very differIt is one thing, for instance, to believe that God is the omnipotent, all-wise, and all-gracious Governor of the World; and another, and very different thing, to have the heart powerfully impressed with an apprehension of his ability and readi
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Ephes. iv. 18.
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John vii. 17.
ness to help us. I will therefore a little more particularly illustrate those respects, in which the apprehensions of such as are really regenerate, differ from those which they formerly had: And I hope you will do yourselves the justice to reflect, as we go along, how far you have ever felt these apprehensions which you hear me describe; and I have a pleasing persuasion, that many of you have felt them, in a much livelier manner than they can be described. I would observe then to you, that a regenerate soul has new apprehensions of God-of itself,of Christ,-of eternity, and of the way and method that God has marked out for its being happy there."
1. A regenerate soul has new apprehensions of the blessed God."
There are very few, who pretend so much as to doubt of the being of a God; and fewer yet, that will venture to deny it and even among those, who have denied it, and disputed against it, some, by their own confession, have felt their hearts give them the lie, and upbraid them for using the powers of reason and speech, against the giver and preserver of both. I persuade myself at least, there are none that hear me this day, who would not look upon a professed atheist as a monster, unworthy to be a member of human society, and little to be trusted in any of its relations. Yet after all, while the being of the blessed God is warmly asserted, his nature is so little understood and considered, that there are thousands who may still properly be said, to be Without God in the world*, or in practice and temper, though not in notion, to be atheists in it. Wicked men therefore in general are described, as those That know not Godt: But where God has determined to glorify his mercy in the salvation of a sinner, he Shines into the heart for this blessed purpose, to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God. And thus the glories of the Divine Being are known to the regenerate soul in such a manner, as they are not to the most acute metaphysician, or the sublimest philosopher, who is himself a stranger to the spiritual life.
The person of whom we now speak, has new apprehensions of the spirituality and omnipresence of God,~of his majesty and purity,-of his power and patience,-of his goodness, and his intimate access to men's spirits, with the reality and importance of his operations upon them."-Permit me a little to represent the views of each, both to direct your
indeed to a state of brutality. Most deplorable it is, to see the power and energy of those motives, which are taken merely from this earth, and its little concernments; so that if a man did but know what was the favourite vanity, he might almost predict, from the knowledge of circumstances, how a man's actions would be ordered; and might almost be sure, that he would follow, whithersoever this interest, or that pleasure, this ambitious, or that mercenary view called him; though all the prospects for an eternal world pleaded the contrary way. Such is the folly and Madness that is in men's hearts while they live ; and after that, they go down to the dead*, and spend that immortal duration, which they have despised, in fruitless lamentations. Fatal delusion! which it is the great design of the gospel to cure.
But when a soul becomes wise to salvation, it is taught to Look not at the things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen; because it has now a full sense of what before it only notionally confessed, that the things which are seen, are temporal; but the things which are not seen, are eternal↑. Eternity! it is impossible I should tell you, how much an eye that is enlightened by God, sees, and reads, as it were in that one word; while one scene beyond another is still opening on the mind, till its sight, and its thoughts are swallowed up: And as the creatures are as nothing with respect to God, so all the interests of time, with respect to eternity, appear as Less than nothing, and vanityt. To be made for an everlasting existence appears in so awful a view, that while it has some pleasing hope, it rejoices with trembling; and every remaining fear, with relation to this great interest, seems a greater evil, than the certainty of any temporal calamity.
I might add upon this head, that the regenerate soul has not only new views of the importance, but likewise of the nature of the invisible and eternal state; and particularly of the nature. of the celestial happiness. It does not consider it merely, or chiefly, as a state of corporeal enjoyment, formed to gratify and delight the senses; but as a state of perfect conformity to God, and most endearing intercourse with him; of which as it begins already by divine grace to taste the pleasures, so it most ardently thirsts after them; and would be heartily willing to lose this body for ever, and to bid an eternal adieu to every object capable of giving it delight; rather than it would consent to lose,
Eccles. ix. 3.
+ 2 Cor. iv. 18.
Isa. xl. 17.
in a perpetual succession of such objects, the sight of the Father of Spirits, and that sensibility of his love, which adds the most substantial solidity, and exalted relish to every inferior good, that can be desired from it.
5. A regenerate man has also new apprehensions" of the way which God has marked out to this happiness."
Nothing is more common, than for carnal and ignorant men to imagine, that it is a very easy thing to get to heaven; and upon this presumption, they Hew out to themselves cisterns, broken cisterns that can hold no water*; and often live and die with a Lye in their right hand↑. But the renewed soul, having such awful notions of the blessed God, and such apprehensions of the excellency and glory of the heavenly state, as you have heard, deeply feels how absolutely necessary it is, that something of a very great and important change should pass in the mind of that sinful creature, that ever hopes to be a partaker of it. He sees, that it is impossible, any external profession, or external rite, should secure so great an end; impossible, that baptism should be regeneration, in that sense in which the scripture uses the word, or that by this alone, though ever so regularly administered, a man's eternal happiness should be secured. He sees, that to be associated to this or that party of christians, to join with established, or with separate churches, and to be ever so zealous for their respective order, worship, and discipline, is a thing quite of foreign consideration here; and that the best, or the worst of men, may be, and probably are, on one side, and on another; nay, that ignorance, pride, and bigotry may take occasion from hence, to render men farther from the kingdom of God, than any mistake in judgment, or practice, on these disputed points, could have set them.
No, my brethren, when a man's eyes are enlightened by God's renewing Spirit, he sees and feels, that in the language of scripture, he must be Created anew in Christ Jesus: He sees, that Holiness is a character without which no man shall see the Lords; and he is perhaps little anxious, whether this, or the faith that produces it, shall be called a condition, or a qualification, or an instrument, while he sees he must perish without it: He sees, that as it is absolutely necessary, so it is very extensive, as the Commandment which is its rule is exceeding broad: He sees, that it must not only effectually regulate the actions of his life, but controul all the sentiments of his heart: Nay, he sees,
* Jer. ii. 13. + Isa, xliv. 20. Eph. ii. 10. § Heb. xii. 14. || Psal. cxix. 96.
it must not only be submitted to as a necessary, but be chosen as a most amiable thing: And accordingly, he does chuse it as such. The unregenerate soul, when he hears of repentance and reformation, though he understands not half that it means, nor is aware of what will in fact be the greatest difficulty of it, looks upon it at best as a nauseous medicine, which he must take, or die: But the regenerate man finds his heart so wonderfully and so happily changed, that he regards it for itself, as the food, the health, and the life of his soul; as that which necessarily brings its own pleasures, and in a considerable degree its own reward along with it; so that now, as David beautifully expresses it, He openeth his mouth, and panteth; because he longs for God's commandments*.
And I will add once more, The good man is also made sensible of the place which faith and holiness hold, in the scheme which God has laid, for our justification before him, and our acceptance with him. I do not say, that all christians conceive of this with equal perspicuity, or express their conceptions with equal exactness: The most candid allowance should here be made for the different ideas they fix to the same phrases, as they have been used to look upon them with veneration, or with suspicion. But this I will venture to say, because I am persuaded the scripture will bear me out in it," that the confidence of a regenerate soul is not fixed on his own holiness, or faith, as the meritorious cause of his acceptance with God." He is deeply and cordially sensible, that he is made Accepted in the beloved↑; and seeing nothing but guilt, and weakness, and ruin in himself, he ascribes to the blessed Jesus, and to the riches of God's free grace in him, his righteousness, his strength, and his salvation. And where a man is thus persuaded, I think he must in effect believe, even though he might scruple in words expressly to own it, "that Christ, as our great surety, having perfectly obeyed the law of God himself, and by his blood having fully satisfied the divine justice for the breach of it, we, on our believing in him by a vital faith, are justified before God by the imputation of his perfect righteousness." This latter way of stating it, when rightly explained, appears just equivalent to the former; and it is a manner of conceiving and expressing it, which, when rightly understood, seems extremely suitable to that deep humility, and poverty of spirit, to which the renewed soul is brought, when, like a New-born babe, it desires the sincere milk of the word, that it may grow thereby. But as
* Ver. 131.
† Eph. i. 6.
1 Pet. ii. 2.


Neurons in vivo exhibit irregular firing, and some aspect of their firing pattern such as the degree of firing irregularity does not fluctuate greatly in time for individual neurons, while it differs among neurons . By analyzing spike trains recorded from a variety of cortical areas, it has been revealed that neurons in motor-related cortical areas fire regularly while neurons in visual and prefrontal cortex fire randomly . Here, the firing irregularity is defined as a variability of consecutive interspike intervals, independent of the firing rate. In those studies, the firing rate has been ignored, because it may fluctuate greatly in time depending on external stimuli or behavioral contexts of an animal.
Though the neuronal firing rate may fluctuate with external stimuli, this does not necessarily mean that the rate is extrinsic and perfectly controllable; there could be some uncontrollable intrinsic aspect in the firing rate fluctuation. In this contribution, we go contrary to the above-mentioned studies, and attempt to characterize neuronal spike trains solely in terms of the firing rate, ignoring the firing irregularity. The key feature of neuronal spike trains we now pay attention to is dynamic mode of rate fluctuation, such that the rate either fluctuates smoothly in time or changes abruptly between several stationary states.
We compare two different models of a fluctuating rate process for their goodness-of-fit with respect to spike trains recorded from single neurons in several cortical areas of rats. The first model is the state space model constructed under the Empirical Bayes method [3, 4]. The generative inhomogeneous Poisson process is defined as the conditional distribution of the spike times t i ≡ t 1 , t 2 , . . . , t n given the rate λ ( t ) , p t i λ ( t ) = ∏ i = 1 n λ ( t i ) exp - ∫ 0 T λ ( t ) d t . We give the prior distribution of λ ( t ) by incorporating the tendency of the rate to be flat, p λ ( t ) ∝ exp - β ∫ 0 T d λ / d t 2 d t . The hyperparameter β is selected by the principle of maximizing the marginal likelihood, and then we obtain the maximum a posteriori (MAP) estimate for the rate λ ⌢ ( t ) . The second alternative model is the Hidden Markov model (HMM) whose hidden states represent different rate states [5–7]. The number of states is selected with a variation Bayes method.
In this way, two different estimations of the firing rate are obtained using the continuous state space model and the discrete HMM. We compare them for each spike train obtained from a neuron, and examine whether the continuous or discrete representation of the state transition is more plausible. Then, we examine how the different preferences are distributed in different cortical areas.


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Dr Jorge Mejia is the head of the signal processing department at the National Acoustic Laboratories in Sydney, Australia. Jorge has several years of research and development experiences working with the industry in algorithm development for hearing aids and assistive listening technologies. In 2010, he was nominated finalist for the early career research scientist of the year, awarded by the CRC Australia. In 2013 he was appointed finalist for the emerging health researcher of the year, awarded by BUPA, Australia. His current interest is in the areas of psychoacoustic of hearing and evaluation of advanced signal processing strategies for hearing aids. Jorge leads the department of signal processing at NAL and heads the technology area overseeing the research and development of hearing health-related technologies at NAL.
PhD, (2010) University of Sydney, Department of Medical Science, Master of Engineering Science (2004) Queensland University of Technology, Diploma of Engineering (2002) Queensland University of Technology, and Bachelor of Engineering (2001) Queensland University of Technology, Australia
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Zim professor arrested over Grace Mugabe's "fake" PhD
Zimbabwe's Anti-Corruption Commission (ZACC) has arrested vice chancellor of University of Zimbabwe, Professor Levi Nyagura, for allegedly abusing his office when he awarded a doctor of philosophy degree (PhD) to former first lady Grace Mugabe.
Local newspaper, The Herald, reports that Nyagura awarded the paper to Robert Mugabe's wife, the former first lady, without approval of the University council and the senate.
Grace Mugabe was awarded tghe dubious PhD in 2014 within months of enrolling at the University. Mugabe's thesis, "The Changing Social Structures and Functions of the Family: The Case of Children's Homes in Zimbabwe", is also said to only have been published four years after she "graduated".
Nyagura appeared in court on Monday, and was granted $200 bail by Tilda Mazhande at the Harare Magistrate's court. He is expected to be back in court on March 5. Nyagura denied the allegations made against him.
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Who are Berkeley Homes ?
Berkeley Group builds beautiful, successful places, blending homes, parks and public realm with great facilities to create fantastic communities where people love to live. We work together with trusted partners to tackle the shortage of good quality homes. And we make a lasting contribution to the landscape and to the communities we help create. We have built 19,500 homes in the last five years, across London, Birmingham and the South of England.
Berkeley Group is made up of six autonomous companies: Berkeley Homes, St Edward, St George, St James, St Joseph and St William. We are publicly-owned and listed on the London Stock Exchange as a FTSE 100 company.
Berkeley's business strategy is called Our Vision. This focuses on five key areas: our customers, homes, places, operations and people. Through this framework we are striving to become a world class business.
The Berkeley Foundation was set up in 2011 by the Berkeley Group. So far it has committed over £14.9 million to over 100 charities and worthy causes. The Berkeley Foundation focuses on four key areas: homes, jobs, skills and care. Funding comes in a variety of ways: the Berkeley Group covers overhead costs; employees have so far raised over £5.3 million; and we are also very grateful for support from our consultants, subcontractors and supply chain.
A brief history of Berkeley
1976 – Berkeley Homes established
1985 – Listed on the London Stock Exchange
1996 – St James established through a joint venture with Thames Water
2006 – St Edward established through a joint venture with Prudential
2008 – Berkeley Group wins Queen's Award for Sustainable Development
2014 – St William established as a joint venture with National Grid
2014 – Berkeley Group wins the Queen's Award for Sustainable Development
2016 – St Joseph established, with a focus on Birmingham and the West Midlands
2018 – Berkeley Group becomes the first carbon positive UK homebuilder
Built +19,500 homes in the last 5 years
Contributed £1.7Bn to community facilities and affordable housing
Created +11,000 jobs
Contributed £12Bn to the UK economy over the last 5 years
Delivered +10% of all new homes in London in the last 5 years
Delivered 6 new schools in the last 5 years, with 8 more planned
2017/18 pre-tax profit of £934.9 million, a +15.1% increase
£2.19Bn in forward sales (April 2018)
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The global operation support system (OSS) and business support system (BSS) system and platform market is poised to witness lucrative growth opportunity in the forthcoming years, according to Transparency Market Research (TMR). The report states that the top five market players hold approximately 40% of the overall market share in 2015, indicating towards a highly fragmented landscape. The prominent vendors in the global OSS BSS system and platform market are Accenture Plc, Nokia Siemens, Amdocs, Hewlett-Packard Company, and Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ). The leading players are anticipated to focus on expanding to emerging economies, in order to tap into the vast potential of these regions. Players are increasingly forming alliances with mobile network operators to gain a competitive edge. Vendors are updating their products, such as ensuring that their product is equipped with new technological innovations such as service delivery platforms, in order to create an advanced and differentiated product portfolio to gain a thrust in the global OSS BSS system and platform market.
The global OSS BSS system and platform market was evaluated to be at US$29.11 bn in 2015. With a robust 10.5% CAGR, the market is predicted to clock in a revenue of US$70.97 bn between 2015 and 2024, the duration of forecast.
Based on the type of component, the OSS segment is expected to account for a substantial market share by the end of 2024. The rise of the segment could be ascribed to the dire need for matching the service quality levels in the telecommunication sector along with demand for high speed internet in economically developed regions such has Europe and North America.
Considering geographical segmentation, North America is predicted to witness burgeoning demand for OSS BSS system and platforms, propelling the region to the lead. The dominance of this region could also be on account of the presence of prominent MNOs and telecom service providers.
Operations Support System (OSS) and Business Support System (BSS), are largely used by communication service providers for service fulfillment, service assurance, customer service and billing. There has been a substantial change in the service providers' offerings owing to technological innovations and data management.
The steady virtualization of network components coupled with software-defined networks are allowing service provider networks to seek new solutions. The emergence of technologies such as 3G, 4G and LTE is impelling the CSP's to offer wireless, VoIP and a number of similar services all consumer devices and different businesses. These functionalities used by communication service providers, particularly OSS and BSS for is expected to augment the demand for OSS and BSS over the years to come.
Cloud OSS BSS is a combination of both capabilities and deploying them through cloud. Cloud OSS BSS aids the operators in catering to the customer requirement through a service eco-system and transforming infrastructure and bring life to software defined networking. The systems are typically built using a platform driven approach consisting of common software components for deployment through cloud. This helps in the realization of a single IT environment that consists of all OSS and BSS applications, stored in central database.
Cloud OSS BSS leads to a digital transformation of the business at a technological as well as organizational level. This is a key trend emerging in the global OSS BSS system and platform market, fuelling market growth to a great extent.


The final set of the Central Currents in Globalization series starts off with two volumes that focus on the politics of globalization from 'above' and 'below'. The first volume considers the idea of global political governance, including the impact of globalization on the nation-state and the role of multilateral regimes such as the United Nations. The second volume looks at globalizing political developments at ground level, including the notion of a 'global civil society' and the rise of the 'anti-globalization' movement. The final two volumes in the series review the various social theories and philosophies of globalization – including cosmopolitanism and human rights – along with the political critiques of globalization as homogenizing, marginalizing and/or exploitative force.
What Does It Mean to Talk about the Global Consequences of Social Action? How Are Individuals, Communities, Peoples and Nations to Relate across a Global Space?
What Are the Limits of Cosmopolitanism? Can There Be a New Be a New Form of Cosmopolitanism Shaped by Globalization? What Happens to Cosmopolitanism under Conditions of Globalization?
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Richard Vincent, 40, turned himself in to police Thursday afternoon in connection with last week's death of Randy Street, police said.
One person is in custody in connection with a suspicious death in Mount Vernon.
Mount Vernon resident Richard Vincent, 40, turned himself in to police Thursday afternoon in connection with last week's death of Randy Street, police said.
He was charged with manslaughter.
"The Mount Vernon Police Department will not tolerate any acts of violence and disregard for the law in our city," Mount Vernon Police Chief Richton Ziadie said in a statement. "The men and women of the Mount Vernon Police Department will work vigorously and diligently to bring to justice anyone committing these types of crimes. We extended our heartfelt condolences to the family and loved ones of the victim."
The investigation into Street's death remains ongoing, and anyone who may have information is asked to call the detective division at 914-665-2510.