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BREAKING: Protesters against Turkish invasion blockade arms companies in Filton
News, Oct 10th
Activists have staged a lock-on outside BAE Filton (South Gloucestershire) this morning. The entrance to a complex of businesses that trade arms to Turkey have been shut down.
Four people continue blocking the entrance, with their hands locked together inside steel tubes. A tailback of BAE employees and others attempting to enter the site is being dealt with by police.
British Aerospace and Engineering (BAE) has a large base in South Gloucestershire. In 2017, the company agreed to a £100 million deal with the Turkish Air Force to develop a new fighter jet.
Many of the businesses that sell to the Turkish regime have presence in Bristol. That, along with BAE, includes Lockheed Martin, Qinetiq, Leonardo, MBDA and Airbus.
Today morning, the protestors held up banners saying "Fight Fascism, support Rojava". One protester said:
"We're here to protest the arms companies here that have been supplying arms to Turkey who are currently invading Kurdistan in north east Syria. Kurdish people have been on the front line of the fight against Isis. We are now all abandoning them and allowing Turkey to continue with their genocide. It's about time we stood up and stood by the Kurdish people."
Another added:
"I'm lying outside the office of BAE in Bristol; there is also MBDA here and Airbus who supply … parts of weapons and aircraft to the Turkish state, who are currently launching an invasion against Kurdistan in northern Syria. We're here to support those people who are living there and those who are working there and fighting their revolution."
A third protester said:
"We're blockading the offices of BAE and MBDA who are arming the genocide of the Turkish state. As we speak, they're blowing to smithereens villages in Syria and northern Kurdistan. We're here in solidarity with the Rojava revolution. We understand that they can't be left alone, they've fought so hard to keep the world safe from Isis. We can't now abandon them as the US government has done.
"It's time for everyone to step up and act in solidarity with the people of Rojava. We're not going to stand by while they commit genocide, we're going to stand with our friends in the YPG and the YPJ."
Another banner read "Remember Anna – keep fighting", in reference to Anna Campbell, who travelled from Bristol in 2017 to join with the Women's Protection Unit (YPJ) fighting the revolution in the autonomous area of Rojava. Anna was killed by a Turkish airstrike in northern Syria in March 2018.
Mikey, a friend of Anna's who is now in Rojava, sent this message on 7th October:
"There are 12,000 IS prisoners in SDF territory. If Turkey invades we could potentially see the death of democracy and the rebirth of the Islamic State. This cannot be allowed to happen after everything that has been achieved here. We have already lost too many comrades, friends and loved ones in the defence of humanity and against tyranny and genocide. We must resist and do whatever we can to put an end to the Fascist Turkish invasion.
"To my friends and loved ones living in the UK, we need you now to help the people of north east Syria."
Another Bristolian activist in Rojava said this morning.
"The main thing we really need here is a no fly zone, so please if anyone wants to yell at their nearest politician about that, that would be great."
BAE is the world's fourth largest and the UK's largest arms company. Turkey is a priority market for UK arms deals, and UK government officials have made regular visits to the country.
The blockade ended with no arrests.
Photo credit: Bristol Kurdish Solidarity Network
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"Butterfly #2, Lg." is embossed in black two times on mauve marbled paper. The butterflies are painted with metallic iridescent paint, cut out and layered on the mauve paper that has been edged with a gold Krylon leafing pen. This is layered on sage card stock. Card by Terri Johnson.


Forward Ohio U. From left to right: Alicia Lundy-Morse, Lydia Ramlo, Jayden McAdams. Photo by Forward Ohio U.
Here's how the Judicial Panel will run the Student Senate elections next week.
Student Senate will hold its annual election for the student body to select who will represent them next year on April 2.
This will be a single ticket election, with every candidate except one being part of the Forward ticket. One independent candidate is contesting the election to represent the Scripps College of Communications.
Chief Justice Walter Milhoan wanted the current Student Senate election to be contested so he would be able to train the rest of the Judicial Panel how to handle a contested election.
Milhoan extended the original deadline from Feb. 28 to Mar. 12.
Last year's election was also uncontested. The last time there was a contested election was two years ago, when three tickets ran.
Milhoan said that there's been a national trend of fewer people running for student government positions, so a single-ticket election at Ohio U isn't too unusual. He also expressed confidence in current Student Senate President Maddie Sloat and the people who are currently running.
Lydia Ramlo, candidate for Student Senate president and sitting treasurer, said it is frustrating that there is a lack of engagement among the student body.
However, she said the situation does not undermine her or her ticket's resolve.
According to Milhoan, each ticket can have up to 38 members. These include three executive officers, six senators for residence life, five off-campus senators, five senators at-large, one senator for each of the academic colleges, and nine senators for the Senate appropriations commission.
These 38 senators alone do not make up the entirety of Student Senate. Outside of the elected officials, there are 13 commissioners whom the executive officers appoint and the senate must approve with a two-thirds supermajority. There are also a variety of non-elected people on the commissions.
The Student Senate Judicial Panel, led by Milhoan, administers these elections. It is a body independent of Student Senate that ensures every participant follows the election rules.
The chief justice appoints members of the Judicial Panel, who then need the approval of two-thirds of Senate. The Judicial Panel also has a clerk of courts who acts as a liason between it and Senate.
Members of the Judicial Panel serve one-year terms until they leave the university, resign, or are impeached. After an election, the incoming executive officers appoint the new chief justice and the outgoing senate has to approve them.
The Judicial Panel is only in its third year of existence, after its creation from the merging of three former senate commissions.


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Adult / June 16, 2016
A Discworld Novel. Author: Terry Pratchett. Summary: According to the writer of the best-selling crime novel ever to have been published in the city of Ankh-Morpork, it is a truth universally acknowledged that a policeman taking a holiday would barely have had time to open his suitcase before he finds his first corpse. And Commander Sam Vimes of the Ankh-Morpork City Watch is on holiday in the pleasant and innocent countryside, but not for him a mere body in the wardrobe. There are many, many bodies and an ancient crime more terrible than murder. He is out of his jurisdiction, out of his depth, out of bacon sandwiches, and occasionally snookered and out of his mind, but never out of guile. Where there is a crime there must be a finding, there must be a chase and there must be a punishment. They say that in the end all sins are forgiven. But not quite all… (Goodreads summary.) Content Review: Sexual content: There are statues of near-naked men and women decorating a mansion. A lady explains that maids are forbidden to even look at high-ranking guests because of previous unfortunate incidents when they were overawed by the privileges of hot-blooded…
A Discworld Novel. Author: Terry Pratchett. Summary: It's an offer you can't refuse. Who would not to wish to be the man in charge of Ankh-Morpork's Royal Mint and the bank next door? It's a job for life. But, as former con-man Moist von Lipwig is learning, the life is not necessarily for long. The Chief Cashier is almost certainly a vampire. There's something nameless in the cellar (and the cellar itself is pretty nameless), it turns out that the Royal Mint runs at a loss. A 300 year old wizard is after his girlfriend, he's about to be exposed as a fraud, but the Assassins Guild might get him first. In fact lot of people want him dead. Oh. And every day he has to take the Chairman for walkies. Everywhere he looks he's making enemies. What he should be doing is . . . Making Money! (Goodreads summary.) My Thoughts: One of his more obvious lessons but possibly more inventive topics, as the basic nature of economics is taken and woven into a fast-paced fantasy plot. Content Review: Sexual content: Two characters find a closet full of "inventive erotica" instruments. There isn't really description of the contents, but…
A Discworld Novel. Author: Terry Pratchett. Summary: It's bad enough being new on the job, but Teppic hasn't a clue as to what a pharaoh is supposed to do. After all, he's been trained at Ankh-Morpork's famed assassins' school, across the sea from the Kingdom of the Sun. First, there's the monumental task of building a suitable resting place for Dad — a pyramid to end all pyramids. Then there are the myriad administrative duties, such as dealing with mad priests, sacred crocodiles, and marching mummies. And to top it all off, the adolescent pharaoh discovers deceit, betrayal – not to mention a headstrong handmaiden – at the heart of his realm. (Goodreads summary.) Content Review: Sexual content: Character says his mother was a concubine. Character sometimes wonders how he was conceived, since his dreamy father and mother rarely notice each other. Some scantily dressed handmaidens. Some innuendo. Language: 30 bloody, 21 d***, 15 derogatory terms, 5 hell Violence: Man jumps off well to his death. Some threatened violence that doesn't come to anything.
Witches Abroad
A Discworld Novel. Author: Terry Pratchett. Summary: Once upon a time there was a fairy godmother named Desiderata who had a good heart, a wise head, and poor planning skills—which unforunately left the Princess Emberella in the care of her other (not quite so good and wise) godmother when DEATH came for Desiderata. So now it's up to Magrat Garlick, Granny Weatherwax, and Nanny Ogg to hop on broomsticks and make for far-distant Genua to ensure the servant girl doesn't marry the Prince. But the road to Genua is bumpy, and along the way the trio of witches encounters the occasional vampire, werewolf, and falling house (well this is a fairy tale, after all). The trouble really begins once these reluctant foster-godmothers arrive in Genua and must outwit their power-hungry counterpart who'll stop at nothing to achieve a proper "happy ending"—even if it means destroying a kingdom. (Goodreads summary.) My Thoughts: Usually, the melting-pot style retellings that try to cram as many fairytale references into one story as possible are just annoying. They're scattered and random, and I don't like the stories being reduced to a passing paragraph or two around the protagonist as he/she continues on his/her way. Witches…
Thief of Time
A Discworld Novel. Author: Terry Pratchett. Summary: Time is a resource. Everyone knows it has to be managed. And on Discworld that is the job of the Monks of History, who store it and pump it from the places where it's wasted (like underwater — how much time does a codfish need?) to places like cities, where there's never enough time. But the construction of the world's first truly accurate clock starts a race against, well, time, for Lu Tze and his apprentice Lobsang Ludd. Because it will stop time. And that will only be the start of everyone's problems. Thief of Time comes complete with a full supporting cast of heroes and villains, yetis, martial artists and Ronnie, the fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse (who left before they became famous). (Goodreads Summary) My Thoughts: I can't think of anyone better than Pratchett to write about time, with all the confusion and déjà vu and paradoxes that comes with. And yes, don't worry – he got in all the requisite puns one would imagine when thinking of managing time. Content Review: Sexual content: 3 instances of innuendo. Language: 32 d***, 6 hell, 5 bloody, 4 derogatory terms Violence: Man is…
Thud!
Adult / June 9, 2016
A Discworld Novel. Author: Terry Pratchett. Summary: Koom Valley? That was where the trolls ambushed the dwarfs, or the dwarfs ambushed the trolls. It was far away. It was a long time ago. But if he doesn't solve the murder of just one dwarf, Commander Sam Vimes of Ankh-Morpork City Watch is going to see it fought again, right outside his office. With his beloved Watch crumbling around him and war-drums sounding, he must unravel every clue, outwit every assassin and brave any darkness to find the solution. And darkness is following him. Oh . . . and at six o'clock every day, without fail, with no excuses, he must go home to read 'Where's My Cow?', with all the right farmyard noises, to his little boy. There are some things you have to do. (Goodreads summary.) My Thoughts: Although all the Diskworld novels are much alike in their light-hearted ingenuity, comedic tone, and occasional critiques, they still vary in my interest. Thud I liked much better than others. The secondary reason is probably because the comedy is much more serious – this book is not just laughing at the wild vagaries of this world, it's laughing with tears in…
Drink, Slay, Love
Young Adult / May 27, 2016
Author: Sarah Beth Durst. Summary: Sixteen-year-old Pearl is a vampire. She's got a sparring partner/boyfriend in one, a favorite human source of blood, and the Fealty Ceremony, her introduction to the adult world, coming up. Everything is great. It all starts to go downhill when she meets a unicorn one night, which stabs her through the heart. Of course nobody believes her; unicorns are mythical, after all. But the facts are unavoidable. Pearl can walk in the sunlight now, she's starting to have a flicker of a reflection, and worst of all, a pesky thing known as conscience seems to be awakening in her. Her new abilities only bring more trouble. Now that she can walk in sunlight, she can go to the local high school and locate enough humans to feed the king and his retinue when they show up. The only problem is… Pearl's beginning to like these exasperating humans. My Thoughts: A very light, fluffy read with a touch of redemption. The development of Pearl is well-done; we don't see the main character as a pure vampire for very long, but it's just long enough that we can see her transform over the course of the book…
Adult / April 23, 2016
Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy #4. Author: Douglas Adams. Summary: Back on Earth with nothing more to show for his long, strange trip through time and space than a ratty towel and a plastic shopping bag, Arthur Dent is ready to believe that the past eight years were all just a figment of his stressed-out imagination. But a gift-wrapped fishbowl with a cryptic inscription, the mysterious disappearance of Earth's dolphins, and the discovery of his battered copy of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy all conspire to give Arthur the sneaking suspicion that something otherworldly is indeed going on. . . . God only knows what it all means. And fortunately, He left behind a Final Message of explanation. But since it's light-years away from Earth, on a star surrounded by souvenir booths, finding out what it is will mean hitching a ride to the far reaches of space aboard a UFO with a giant robot. But what else is new? (Goodreads summary) My Thoughts: Definitely of a lower quality than the first one. There's a lot of time spent on Earth, some of it on an unnecessary, 'adult' romance line that doesn't even make sense. Content Review: Sexual content:…
Life, the Universe, and Everything
Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy #3. Author: Douglas Adams. Summary: The unhappy inhabitants of planet Krikkit are sick of looking at the night sky above their heads–so they plan to destroy it. The universe, that is. Now only five individuals stand between the killer robots of Krikkit and their goal of total annihilation. They are Arthur Dent, a mild-mannered space and time traveler who tries to learn how to fly by throwing himself at the ground and missing; Ford Prefect, his best friend, who decides to go insane to see if he likes it; Slartibartfast, the indomitable vice president of the Campaign for Real Time, who travels in a ship powered by irrational behavior; Zaphod Beeblebrox, the two-headed, three-armed ex-president of the galazy; and Trillian, the space cadet torn between a persistent Thunder God and a very depressed Beeblebrox. How will it all end? Will it end? Only this stalwart crew knows as they try to avert "universal" Armageddon and save life as we know it–and don't know it! (Summary from Goodreads) My Thoughts: It's like a popular television show that just can't stop. New things happen every time, old plot lines may even be accidentally advanced, but nothing really…
The Restaurant at the End of the Universe
Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy #2. Author: Douglas Adams. Summary: Arthur Dent and his comrades are facing death at the hands of the Vogons, and their only help right now is a grumpy old ghost. On the plus side, there's a good chance of tea later. As usual, the motley band of space-travelers are riding the flow, trying to stay ahead of annihilation, with a few extra efforts at figuring out what's going on in Zaphod's dual-brain. By this time, of course, they've given up on understanding what's happening. The best thing you can do, really, is hold on until you can find a really good eating place and take a break. One apocalyptic dining experience, coming right up. My Thoughts: If you enjoyed the first, there's a good chance you'll enjoy this one. More of the same wit, clever plays on tropes, random happenings, and disregard for plot. My only advice is not to read the Hitchhiker's Guide books too close together – they're funniest when you're fresh. Content Review: Sexual content: Character says when he was born there was an accident with a time-machine and contraceptives. The "triple-breasted whore of Eroticon Six" is mentioned again. A disembodied voice…

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Day 17 General Chapter – Friday 20 July 2018
On the agenda of the last day of the chapter was the voting of the elaborated motions which were all adopted by the complete chapter. After the voting of the motions the official picture of the chapter was taken. In order to conclude the activities, the general superior gave his conclusive speech. At 12h precise the chapter was officially closed.
July 20, 2018 General Chapter, News Brothers of CharityBy MB
Day 16 General Chapter – Thursday 19 July 2018
At 9.30 am the election chapter started with the election of the three general assistants who, together with the general superior and the vicar general, will lead the congregation for the next six years in a spirit of service.
Day 15 General Chapter – Wednesday 18 July 2018
The chapter commission worked this morning on the additions to the motions as they were written out as projects the previous days. The afternoon was given over to a long plenary meeting, where every proposal was reviewed and supplemented with a number of remarks. The recasting of the constitutions did not immediately come to a compromise, and it was finally decided that the proposal developed by the commission set up for this purpose could be included during the next chapter period.
Day 14 General Chapter – Tuesday 17 July 2018
The whole day was spent to the further discussion of the proposed motions and the proposed modifications of the constitutions in both the linguistics groups and the provincial groups. All attention is devoted for tomorrow where during the plenary session the reporting will follow and where hopefully a few concrete agreements can be made about the completion of the proposed documents.
Day 13 General Chapter – Monday 16 July 2018
We were very saddened to hear of the death of Bro. Paul De Cocq from Belgium this morning. During the opening prayer he was specially commemorated, and we thanked the Lord for his life as a Brother of Charity. Today it became a full day in plenum. This morning the chapter committee reported on its activities during the past week. In the afternoon, Bro. Adrian Hartotanojo gave the report from the committee which looked at a possible revision of the constitutions. The last session reported on the work of the European province, brought by Bro. Luc Van Dyck.
Day 12 General Chapter – Saturday 14 July 2018
It does not have to be all work and no play. With this sensible saying in mind, all capitulants and their translators and secretaries, and the brothers of the General House left for an outing, or rather, a pilgrimage. We took a Saint Francis tour, with visits to a number of lesser known locations where Saint Francis lived and stayed.
Friday Bro. Deogratias Rwabudandi was celebrated in a special way during the Eucharist at the occasion of his 51th birthday. The whole morning the capitulars where in plenum to discuss the reports of the linguistic discussion groups and to change ideas. The theme "In the mission of charity" had gathered a lot of ideas. At the end of the meeting Jacques Van Daele thanked in the name of the present associate members. In the afternoon the chapter commission worked further on the redaction of the motions which have to give a summary of the activities of this first week of the chapter of affairs.
Today the third part of the theme of the chapter was discussed: "In the mission of the charity". Bro. Jimi Huayta-Rivera gave the first introduction which he placed under the icon of the washing of the feet. After him it was the turn for Father Tomaz Mavric, the superior general of the Congregation of the Mission and the Company of the Daughters of Charity. For him the Vincentian mission of the caritas is before all a mission of total availability and it calls us therefore to a dynamic love. The afternoon was dedicated to the meetings of the linguistic groups in order to discuss the rich content of the morning session.
Day 9 General Chapter – Wednesday 11 July 2018
The day started with a special celebration of the Eucharist during which we remembered and honoured Saint Benedict of Nursia, the patron saint of the European province, and also Bro. Pierre Caubergh, a Belgian brother who passed away yesterday. Bro. Venance Kapita gave an extensive introduction to the theme 'Be radical in prophecy as consecrated men', the second part of the chapter theme. With this abundance of topics, the discussion groups were started up to come to an outline that was presented to the plenary at 5 pm.
Day 8 General Chapter – Tuesday 10 July 2018
Tuesday was the start of the Chapter of Affairs. For the next three days, the chapter theme will be thoroughly discussed. The delegates of the associate members were welcomed. The introduction to the first part of the theme 'Be radical in prophecy' was presented by Bro. Martin de Porres. After the presentation, there was the first plenary meeting with requests for clarification and initial orientations. The plenum resumed in the evening and the four secretaries of the language groups reported the very rich discussion. After the session, the associate members came together for a group photo and had the opportunity to get to know each other.


something wrong with motion....did you shoot 4k 60p?
Aren't you waiting for the Panasonic S1?
4k 60p only in APSC crop mode ?
so, no 4k 60p FF ?
There are other things in a6400 too....biggest positive is the elimination of 29 minutes in video! another good thing is the adoption of HLG video, hdr video without the need of slog.
is there any native 4k H.265 10 bit footage, to download and test in my system, for editing ?
16-55 2,8 has smooth rack focus ? Is there any demo video to see ?
is there ANY prime lens from fuji , that has SMOOTH rack focus from one point to another via touch screen , like canon and sony ?
rack focus with fuji is problematic.... on most videos i saw, the transition is not as precise as with canon and sony (it passes the target and then goes back, like panasonic does) It seems like it uses contrast detection instead of PDAF.
h.265 file from XT3 plays fine on my i7, gtx 1060 PC in Resolve...even with 2 luts and heavy grading.
Panasonic announces the 10-25mm f/1.7 Micro Four Thirds Lens!
it would be nice to had IS...on BMPC 4K especially.
can you test 18-55 OS , with rack focus via touch screen (between 2 objects) ? Is it smooth ?
is there any comparison between 420 and 422 , with any other camera ? Is there any technical reason not writing internally 10bit 422 ?
digital IS adds more crop.... what's this ? 2010 ?


iAlliance is a programme run by Enclude in association with their fellow charity, Quality Matters.
iAlliance builds a partnership of key stakeholders within a particular service area to guide the development of service delivery solution e.g. the iAlliance eCASS project includes a number of state funded agencies, i.e. Health Research Board and Drug Tasks Forces, as well as academic experts and service provider personnel.
This project, which provides extremely cost effective, high functionality cloud based Client Relationship Management [CRM] systems, is innovative within Europe, in relation to its approach, method and scope.
To align the best of strategic technology with the best practice in service delivery, to create high impact, standardised, service delivery solutions for the non-profit sector.
To create the capacity to gather and aggregate quality data from the point of service thus creating the data source for a business intelligence capability of funders and academics.
To engage with service providers, funding agencies, philanthropy and academic providers in developing these innovative solutions.


Nate and Jeremiah recently went exclusive and described all about Nate and Jeremiah Son their newest addition to the family, Baby Oskar. Following below are the words of Nate and Jeremiah giving an interview and talk about Poppy's younger brother and their new bundle of Joy.
The latest addition to our family is our newborn baby boy Oskar Michael Brent Berkus. Nate and Jeremiah son is pretty cute. It's the cutest Oskar Brent Berkus was just under 20 inches long he was 8 pounds 2 ounces. Nate and Jeremiah Son is perfect the second he came out and he's the sweetest baby. He's so good, he's so calm, and he's really strong so it's like the perfect addition to this house.
He is already moving his head. When he's having his bottle which is so weird. I feel like babies aren't supposed to be able to do that yet well he's Bionic that's right he's a bionic baby yes. So Oskar's name is actually the middle name of Fernando Bengoechea, my former partner who died in the Indian Ocean tsunami.
Oskar's middle name is the first name of my father who died two years ago. So our little boy has sort of a double blessing because those two men live their lives to the fullest they really embraced every adventure and every opportunity. He carries the weight of those names not in a negative way but in a way that we hope for him will lead him through life. Just taking a big bite out of every experience and really living his own life to the fullest how much you love being parents.
Honestly there's this moment where we were sitting in the hospital and I had Oskar in my arms and Poppy on my lap and I just got this wave of like pure consciousness that like this is our family. This is Nate and Jeremiah Son and Daughter. This is our love story that we built these are the people that were responsible for and you just felt like you were part of a pack. I mean the great adventures of Poppy and Oskar.
I used to describe that feeling in the hospital is almost tribal. Needed my little tribe. Yeah it's really I mean he's brought so much joy to our lives and to our family's lives. When we had him, it's Nate and Jeremiah Son. It's not just for you it's your parents and your siblings and everybody is involved. Hopefully in something so joyful and miraculous. With every new life that comes into our family there is this surge of goodwill. Good intention and love and joy and we're definitely in that moment right now.
Poppy Brent Berkus was born to be a big sister. I'm not decidable with it inherently one of those people that are really nurturing watching how sweet she is with them. How connected she is with Nate and Jeremiah Son, her brother. Already up to two weeks, it's really fascinating it's been really a beautiful moment for us. It's exactly what we set out to do we really view ourselves the same as everybody else. Our family the same and the fact that you've accepted that and you do too it's not lost on us.
We hope you liked the article. If you want to read the story behind daughter Poppy's name read here For latest updates follow us on our social media platforms. Thanks!
Thank you for inviting us into your life and your feelings. These two children couldn't be luckier to have parents like you! I just love you both and your family! Blessings to you always.


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Idyllic Villages set in Stunning Countryside
Lower Mill Estate sits at the heart of the Cotswolds – one of England's most diverse, attractive and appealing areas. It has a rich heritage of country houses, wildlife parks, nature reserves and gardens and it's dotted with idyllic villages and historic towns such as Bourton-on-the-Water, Stow-on-the-Wold, Tetbury and Cirencester. The regency pleasures of Cheltenham and the Georgian glories of Bath are less than twenty miles south-west of the estate.
Discover the Cotswolds
In the area around Lower Mill Estate, there are hundreds of local events to enjoy: festivals, markets, exhibitions, performances, country fairs and seasonal celebrations. Experiment with Cajun and Zydeco music at the biggest gathering of its kind in the UK; visit festivals of cricket, jazz, literature, music and science; or watch more eccentric entertainment, such as 6-a-side football – played in the river at Bourton-on-the-Water. And the perfect end to a memorable day? Knowing that the quiet and luxury of the estate awaits.
Places To Eat Out
In addition to our onsite restaurant, Ballihoo, we are surrounded by wonderful, award-winning country pubs.
Discover our favourites
The Source of the River Thames
The source is marked by a solitary stone with the inscription:
THE CONSERVATORS OF THE RIVER THAMES
THIS STONE WAS PLACED HERE TO MARK THE
SOURCE OF THE RIVER THAMES
Why not take a leisurely walk or bike ride with the family to the source of the river Thames, and stop off for lunch at a traditional English Cotswold pub.
Bourton-On-The-Water - The Venice of the Cotswolds
The Cotswolds have always been looked upon as the Heart of England. It is one of the few regions with an architectural style all of its own, with its typical steeply pitched roofs, stone mullions and dormer windows. Built almost exclusively in warm yellow Cotswold stone, this delightful village has a unique appeal to visitors and residents alike.
Regularly voted one of the prettiest villages in England. Bourton-on-the-Water has more than its share of Cotswold houses and cottages, many of them three hundred years old, some dating back to Elizabethan times four hundred years ago.
Ballooning in the Cotswolds offers you the opportunity to fulfil ambitions or to share the experience of a lifetime. Drift slowly with the wind over the beauty of the Cotswold Landscape and enjoy the unique combination of exhilaration and serenity that you will discover aboard a hot air balloon flight.
A balloon ride from one of our launch sites at Cirencester, Stroud, Bourton-on-the-Water or Cotswold Water Park near Swindon will be a flight to remember. The experience will be celebrated with a glass of Champagne and Flight Certificate.
Cotswold Wildlife Park
Cotswold Wildlife Park is set in 160 acres of parkland and gardens around a listed Victorian manor house and has been open to the public since 1970.
The Park is home to a fascinating and varied collection of mammals, birds, reptiles and invertebrates from all over the world, and aspires to show animals to people – so that they can come to understand and respect all forms of wildlife; to understand what is special about each species, and how the various species have evolved over very long periods of time, adjusting to survive in habitats from many parts of the earth.
Visitors of all ages to the Cotswold Farm Park will be in for a treat when they find themselves amongst an unrivalled group of British farm rare breeds including sheep, cattle, pigs, goats, horses, poultry and waterfowl.
Other attractions include farm safari rides, an indoor tractor school, a soft play area and adventure playground, a farm nature trail and seasonal demonstrations such as lambing in the spring. Facilities include toilets, a gift shop and a restaurant.
Westonbirt National Arboretum
One of the most spectacular tree collections in the world. A place to relax and recharge, a place to learn, and a resource for science.
The diversity and vibrancy of leaf colours to be found at Westonbirt are unsurpassed in Britain creating a botanical experience like no other.
Visit a working trout farm –
Bibury Trout Farm is one of Britain's oldest, and certainly most attractive, trout farms, spread across 15 acres in one of the most beautiful valleys in the Cotswolds, the Coln Valley. The crystal-clear waters of the Bibury Spring provide the essential pure water required to run the hatchery which spawns up to six million trout ova every year.
Roman Cirencester (Coronium)
Visit the Corinium Museum and step back in time. Learn what the Romans did for us, and how life wouldn't be the same without them! Take a peek through a Roman townhouse, and enjoy the sights and smells of our Roman garden. Marvel at the stunning mosaics, and experience what it was like to be a Roman soldier.
The Corinium Museum has one of the finest and most extensive Roman collections in the country. Corinium, Roman Cirencester, was the second largest Roman town outside London and the major Roman administration centre for south-western Britain.


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The Nelsonite vol. 31, no. 2
NEWS and EDITORIAL
Generation X from an Xer Perspective
By Kevin Pritchard In the past the world has always kept
a condescending eye on the
generation gap, and how each
generation looks at the changes in. our
surroundings. The baby boomers, who now
have all the power and prestige, are now
reaching the half-century mark, and the next
generation of leaders are shadowing in the
forefront. This generation has seen the
yuppie success of the 1980s turn into the
uncertainty of the current decade: jobs,
money, health care, and education costs. The
kids that grew up with "Just Say No" and
MTV are now twenty something and are
about to take on the world at large, but is
group, known as Generation X ready to lead
or doomed to suffer in the belly of self pity,
anger, and apathy?
Generation X was a term used by writer
Douglas Copeland in 1989 in a book of the
same name, in which he discussed a
generation of apathetic people, bom between
1963 and 1979, that will have to deal with
the social ills of divorce, job despair, and
AIDS. In 1995, one Gallop poll stated that
about one-third of adults ages 18 to 35 come
from a divorced family, and an increasing
amount say that they may never reach the
amount of success as their parents have
today. It is also a generation that has seen
the AIDS epidemic explode, crime on the
rise, college costs skyrocketing, and
alternative music come into the pop culture
mainstream.
Now you are asking yourself what does
all of this mean to you. Maybe it's nothing
but a young writer's angst at the world at
large, but it does have its points. The
important point is that this is a new
generation that is now entering the work
force with uncertainty: downsizing
businesses, long hours and little pay. In debt
up to the ears, we have to work our bodies
to the bone just to have money for food,
clothing, and the occasional date, and worst
of all, still living at home driving parents
crazy with our wild antics. This is the good
life for a Generation Xer, all work and
definitely no play.
The future seems to look bleak for this
group of people, but actually there is some
hope for us yet. Consider this an adventure,
a journey into the unknown, where there may
or may not be gold at the end of the tunnel.
The excitement comes from the experience
of the journey that will define everything
about yourself and the destiny you are
currently charting.
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while gaining valuable experience.
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Transcript NEWS and EDITORIAL Generation X from an Xer Perspective By Kevin Pritchard In the past the world has always kept a condescending eye on the generation gap, and how each generation looks at the changes in. our surroundings. The baby boomers, who now have all the power and prestige, are now reaching the half-century mark, and the next generation of leaders are shadowing in the forefront. This generation has seen the yuppie success of the 1980s turn into the uncertainty of the current decade: jobs, money, health care, and education costs. The kids that grew up with "Just Say No" and MTV are now twenty something and are about to take on the world at large, but is group, known as Generation X ready to lead or doomed to suffer in the belly of self pity, anger, and apathy? Generation X was a term used by writer Douglas Copeland in 1989 in a book of the same name, in which he discussed a generation of apathetic people, bom between 1963 and 1979, that will have to deal with the social ills of divorce, job despair, and AIDS. In 1995, one Gallop poll stated that about one-third of adults ages 18 to 35 come from a divorced family, and an increasing amount say that they may never reach the amount of success as their parents have today. It is also a generation that has seen the AIDS epidemic explode, crime on the rise, college costs skyrocketing, and alternative music come into the pop culture mainstream. Now you are asking yourself what does all of this mean to you. Maybe it's nothing but a young writer's angst at the world at large, but it does have its points. The important point is that this is a new generation that is now entering the work force with uncertainty: downsizing businesses, long hours and little pay. 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If you have an a r t i c l e or news » t i l t h s item you wish published, please contact The Nelsonite at (757) N25- 2S52 or Thomas Nelson Community College P.O. Box 9407, Hampton, Virginia 2367(1. Kirkland Published in PTK Anthology A Phi Theta Kappa member from TNCC has had work selectedfor publication in the Society's 1997 literary anthology"Nota Bene. 99 A short story by Stephanie Kirkland, entitled "The Pond," was one of 17 manuscripts selected for publication from more than 1,500 submissions from community college honor students from the United States and Canada. The judges based their selection on the outstanding literary merit of the submission, according to "Nota Bene" editor John Clemens of Hartwick College in New York. "The judges were extremely selective, and the selections chosen represent the very best examples of the writing talents of our two-year college students," Clemens said. 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Home / Science / This Scientist Scanned His Brain 2X A Week For 18 Months
This Scientist Scanned His Brain 2X A Week For 18 Months
Posted by: Mohammad Daeizadeh in Science December 15, 2015 0 446 Views
"Easily the biggest factor we found in terms of affecting my brain connectivity was whether I had had breakfast and caffeine or not," Russell Poldrack says.
Credit: Stanford
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Every Tuesday and Thursday morning for a year and a half, Russell Poldrack started off his day by climbing into an MRI machine and scanning his brain for 10 minutes. The self-experimentation has made the psychologist's brain the most studied in the world.
Poldrack, who began the work at the University of Texas and has continued it at Stanford University, committed himself to the long-term study in order to expand the understanding of how different parts of the brain talk to each other, an organization known as the connectome, and how that behavior changes over time.
To bolster the results, Poldrack also fasted and drew blood on Tuesdays, which was analyzed to draw connections between brain function and gene expression. This step also showed definitive—and surprising—evidence of just how the brain reorganizes itself when it's low on coffee.
The results are published in Nature Communications.
In any action that a person undertakes, many different regions of the brain communicate with each other, serving as a sort of check-and-balance system to make sure that the correct actions are taken to deal with the situation at hand. These messages are communicated over more than a dozen networks, sets of functional areas of the brain that preferentially talk to one another.
There are multiple networks for vision, a somatosensory/motor network, and there are others that are attributed to attention or task management. Collectively, these are known as the connectome. Because the strength or efficiency of these individual networks can affect behavior, they have become of greater interest to researchers in recent years.
To isolate these connections, researchers examine functional MRI data collected while the patient (including Poldrack) is at rest.
"I would get in the MRI and basically close my eyes and zone out while it took a picture of my brain every second for 10 minutes," he says. "Once we had that data, we could get ideas of which regions of my brain are talking to each other by how correlated they are over time. This tells us how much connectivity there is within each network."
Previously produced connectome maps have consisted of snapshots of individual brains, averaged together to identify general networks between different functional areas of the brain. Poldrack was interested in learning if these connections hold up for the same person over months.
Do they change depending on mood or other environmental influencers? And, if the connections do change, how much would his connectome look like someone else's? Would his activity on a "sad" day look like that of a depressed person's?
Poldrack's connectivity was surprisingly consistent, but it did show some changes over the course of the 18 months that have never before been observed.
While this result raises many new questions, the robust consistency showed that the long-term approach has promise for revealing differences between healthy brains and those of patients with neurological disorders that might suffer from disrupted connectivity, such as schizophrenia or bipolar disorder.
An obvious piggyback experiment to an 18-month-long study is to examine changes in gene expression. On Tuesdays, Poldrack fasted and gave a blood sample after his scanning session. The RNA from his white blood cells was sequenced to determine his gene expression, which was then compared to his brain function.
The researchers found a strong correlation between brain activity and changes in the expression of many different families of genes. They also found that expression of genes related to inflammation and immune response matched Poldrack's psoriasis flare-ups. Because the dataset is so massive, there are still many questions to ask, which is why Poldrack is making all of the data publicly available.
Fasting for the blood draw also revealed a surprising bonus result: "Easily the biggest factor we found in terms of affecting my brain connectivity was whether I had had breakfast and caffeine or not," Poldrack says.
On Tuesdays, when he hadn't drunk his morning joe before the scan, the connectivity within his brain looked very different from his caffeinated brain. Anecdotally, this makes sense. But such an influence had never been observed before. In particular, the connection between the somatosensory motor network and the systems responsible for higher vision grew significantly tighter without caffeine.
"That was totally unexpected, but it shows that being caffeinated radically changes the connectivity of your brain," Poldrack says. "We don't really know if it's better or worse, but it's interesting that these are relatively low-level areas.
"It may well be that I'm more fatigued on those days, and that drives the brain into this state that's focused on integrating those basic processes more."
The results are evidence that long-term analysis is a useful tool, Poldrack says, and hopefully make it attractive to a larger population of subjects. In many ways he was an ideal subject—he was available, committed to the long haul, and could sit still in the scanner—but diversity will ultimately lead to more interesting discoveries.
"I'm generally a pretty happy and even-keeled person," he says. "My positive mood is almost always high, and my negative mood is almost always non-existent. It would be interesting to scan people with a wider emotional variation and see how their connections look over time."
In the meantime, Poldrack and his colleagues have made the entire dataset and the ready-built tools to analyze it available. The dataset is so large and deep, Poldrack says, that he hopes people will approach it from innovative angles and uncover connections that will help advance the research.
Poldrack, meanwhile, plans to hone software to elucidate the interplay between brain function and gene expression.
"It's a hard dataset to know what to do with, because it's hard to tell if something is noise or if it's real with just one person. But there's potentially some really interesting stuff here," he adds. "There are a ton of relationships between brain connectivity and gene expression in the blood, that are clearly there and seem to be strong, but we just don't have a way to understand them based on current neuroscience."
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Infosys Ltd, India's second- largest IT services firm, on Friday reported better-than-expected 16 per cent rise in the fourth-quarter net profit and forecast strong revenue growth for the current fiscal on new client additions.
Consolidated net profit at INR 3,597 crore in the January-March period of last fiscal was 16.2 per cent higher than INR 3,097 crore net earning in the same period of 2014-15, the company said in a statement.
Turnover rose 23.4 per cent to INR 16,550 crore in the fourth quarter of 2015-16. On a sequential basis, Infosys' net profit rose 3.8 per cent from INR 3,465 crore in the October-December quarter while revenue was up 4.1 per cent from INR 15,902 crore during the same period.
Infosys said sales will rise between 11.8 per cent and 13.8 per cent in $terms in the 2016-17 fiscal year that began on April 1. Revenue will grow between 11.5 and 13.5 per cent in constant currency terms, indicating a faster growth rate than the industry average as the company shifts to high-margin digital services business.
Industry body Nasscom had in February forecast a 10-12 per cent growth for IT and software services exports in 2016-17. Under Vishal Sikka, the company's focus has been artificial intelligence, adding new contracts and keeping hold of staff to boost sales. This, together with acquisitions, has helped turnaround Infosys that was losing share to rivals like Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) and Cognizant.
Infosys, whose board in February extended Sikka's term as Chief Executive by another two years to 2021, added 89 clients in the last quarter, including 5 large clients who pay more than $50 million annually.
Sikka is eyeing revenue of $20 billion by 2020, more than double of $9.5 billion sale in 2015-16. "Over the course of this year, we saw this strategy of bringing automation and innovation to our clients, on a foundation of learning and education, start to show results in the organic growth of our client relationships, in our win rates in large deals, and in the types of projects we are seeing in strategic areas where we never participated before," he said.


Our softwood logs are usually mixes species which may include spruce, larch and pine. Softwood logs are often seen to be of poor quality and not high quality, however softwood logs can be a top quality log providing they are correctly seasoned and dry. Here, at EWF supplies top quality softwood logs which we recommend are used in wood burning stoves only due to the nature of the wood (spitting). A softwood log burns faster but hotter than a hardwood log.


According to census data in the year 2000 there were 855 housing units in Ogden. This represents a 9.3% growth from 782 in 1990.
Of those housing units, none were located in either urbanized areas or urban clusters, and 855 were located in what is classified as a rural area.
Homeownership rate in Ogden is about 49.1%. Ogden's vacancy rate, including seasonal lodging, is about 18.6%. Average household size is 2.54 people.
The majority of houses, apartments or condos in Ogden were built after 1972.


James Miller, 1905-7. Large 3-storey and double attic symmetrical Queen Anne style hotel, additions to rear and sides. Cream harl; some squared and snecked red sandstone rubble to rear (surviving from earlier Starforth building, 1881, destroyed by fire, see NOTES). Deep dentilled eaves cornice.
S (FRONT) ELEVATION: 11-bay main block with 3-bay projecting pavilions; regular fenestration. Main block with central projecting gabled entrance bay, substantial square advanced porte-cochere with twinned Tuscan columns on panelled pedestals and semi-circular glass dome.
segmental-arched loggia at ground floor carrying walkway at 1st floor (now glazed-in). Pavilions with 2-storey canted and glazed projections to outer bays, Venetian windows to centre and divided by embossed bronzed aprons. 2 tiers of pedimented attic dormers (except lower tier to main block).
W ELEVATION: rectangular-plan 2-storey 5-bay dining room annexe; tall wiwindows at 1st floor to S; blank canted projection to E. To N (REAR) 5-bay 3-storey sandstone block (only surviving part of former hotel) with 2-storey bowed projection to centre.
E ELEVATION: 10-bay. 2-storey 5-bay modern extension with glazed link.
with shallow pilaster to walls with volute capitals and deeply dentilled compartmentalised ceiling.
Broad axial terraced steps leading to lawns below hotel, with fountain and urns.
Originally multi-pane cross casement windows, now partially replaced. Steeply pitched rosemary tiled piend and platformed roof. Harled stacks.
The present hotel replaces an earlier structure of 1881, a red sandstone Baronial effort by John Starforth which was destroyed by fire in 1905. The gate lodge (listed separately) and stables were once part of a matching ensemble. Compares closely with Miller's Turnberry Hotel of 1904.
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This evening we went to St. Jude's evening service. St. Jude's are giving us the house rent free for a year and we are helping out with their services. On Sunday evenings they have a cafe service, a relaxed worship service sitting at tables with tea, coffee and sticky buns. We helped lead the worship tonight and spent time chatting which was lovely.
There was a Youth for Christ Summer Serve team in the church this week who did a 'Landlubbers' holiday Bible club which our kids attended. They absolutely loved it. The team were there tonight too and Elijah and Hannah were delighted.
We're having a wee break for a week, so no blog entries until next weekend! We'll update the mini blog on the right of this window from the mobile phone. If you just see a white box click on it for the updates page.
Yesterday we went to the seaside near to Carrickfergus Castle where Eileen's parents live. Not in the castle exactly, but in Carrickfergus!
The temperature was 15C and there was a cool wind blowing. Note the gray skies, sunshine and showers are the extent of the summer weather this year.
Well, we spent two weeks moving in to the new house - crawling into attics to find boxes stored eight years ago. We are starting to feel at home again after a relaxing week living in the house. We've been to St. Judes's church, who are giving us the house for a year, and are starting to get involved in the services. We are leading worship tonight at their cafe service, and taking two services on the 12th of August.
We went to our home church in Monkstown today and it was really nice to start to feel integrated again.
This afternoon we're going to Carrickfergus castle for a medieval festival! Today there is actually a bit of sunshine, but we are still feeling the cold and wonder if we will ever wear our shorts and T-shirts again!
After we arrived on Sunday we hoped we'd have a few days to get over the jet lag and relax. Not a chance. Monday morning we met with Denis Johnston for a debrief, then we met with Elaine Hutchinson who is going out to teach in St. Andrew's on the 13th July. Then around lunchtime we were told we had to move furniture into our new house. So all afternoon, in the rain, we started moving house. Every day since we have been over cleaning, getting boxes from attics, sorting and using an industrial carpet cleaner we hired. Tonight we are exhausted.
We experienced a few little reverse culture shock items. First it's strange getting used to daylight at 10pm, we haven't seen long summer nights in eight years. Secondly, we cannot get use to all the modern menu filled mobile phones people use here. It took us three days to finally get one working properly.
Here are some little photos of our new house.
We arrived back in George Best Airport, Belfast about 24 hours after we'd left Paraguay. It was very easy travelling this time - short waiting times, the kids slept well, and all the luggage arrived safe and well. I took some photos and video and will put them up over the next couple of days.
The goodbyes at the airport were pretty tearful, but we felt we closed well with our friends and did not feel we had left any emotional loose ends. It was even more emotional reading peoples' letters on the plane. Eileen and I though that it was a very special time of our lives that had drawn to a close. We intend to go back for a holiday in a few years, but that mix of people will not all be together again, people will have moved on. They are all very special people in Asuncion and St. Andrew's School. We will miss them.
Today is our last day in school. We're feeling pretty sad. Secondary showed a nice Powerpoint today with photos of me with them over this last 6 months.
The kids were at the hospital this morning for more nebulizing. They had improved a lot yesterday evening, we're very thankful for that.
This will be the last update for a few days. Watch the Live mini blog as we can update that from our mobile phone.
So, Goodbye Paraguay!! We will miss you.
What a day! Both Elijah and Hannah have had coughs and colds. We went to the doctor the other day just to make sure they were fine for flying. He said the coughs were pretty bad and gave us some inhalers and medicine. Today they went back for a check-up and he wanted to put them in hospital for nebulizing! I said that was impossible. We were pretty stressed and went as out patients where they got an antibiotic injection and 3 nebulizations with oxygen. Right now they are resting in bed. Pray for their coughs that they will improve for Saturday and our flights home.
Yesterday was my last time at Surubii, the school sports ground. Secondary pupils did an assault course after lunch. They we're half dead by the end of it. Below is a slide show of the day's activities.
It was our last service in St. Andrew's Church yesterday. Eileen and I have led the English speaking church here for four years now. It is the church we have raised our children in, and they are very fond of it. We've led the worship, preached and taught Sunday school there for almost eight years. It was sad to leave. Afterwards we had a shared lunch in the Metcalfe's and it was a beautiful afternoon, perfect temperature, great food and good company. We've only six days left in Paraguay now.
Last Saturday was the leaving party - a despedia - for Elijah's and Hannah's class. Families from both years met on Saturday to play and spend the afternoon together. It was lovely to spend time chatting to parents we have got to know over the years. Friendships between classmates and parents in school are very close here. Birthday parties are always big events with the entire class always invited. While the children play the parents spend time together getting to know each other. We've got to know some of them quite well and we are sorry to say good bye. It was a great afternoon and the kids loved spending some quality time with their friends.
Monday saw the annual International GCSE award night for St. Andrew's College. Along side the Paraguayan curriculum we do a full English curriculum from Cambridge International Examinations. Students take seven GCSE subjects and several AS levels. The theme for the night was a literary café, and the students presented scenes from Romeo and Juliet, singing, a monologue, their artwork, and some ballet. It was a good evening to talk to the parents too.


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import React, { Component, PropTypes } from 'react';
import { connect } from 'react-redux';
import FlatButton from 'material-ui/FlatButton'
import TextField from 'material-ui/TextField';
import Dialog from 'material-ui/Dialog';
import * as ClassesActions from 'redux/modules/classes'

@connect(state => ({
  modalOpen: state.classes.classAddingModalOpen,
  classNumber: state.classes.classNumber,
  classLetter: state.classes.classLetter,
  classEditingModalId: state.classes.classEditingModalId,
  state: state.auth
}), ClassesActions)
export default class ClassEditDialog extends Component {

  submitHundler = () => {
    if (this.props.classEditingModalId) {
      this.props.update(this.props.classEditingModalId, { classNumber: this.props.classNumber, classLetter: this.props.classLetter })
      this.props.closeAddingModal()
    } else {
      if (this.props.classNumber && this.props.classLetter) {
        this.props.add({ "classNumber": this.props.classNumber, "classLetter": this.props.classLetter })
        this.props.closeAddingModal()
      }
    }
  };

  render() {

    const actions = [
      <FlatButton
        label="Закрыть"
        primary={true}
        onClick={() => this.props.closeAddingModal()}
      />,
      <FlatButton
        label="Готово"
        primary={true}
        keyboardFocused={true}
        onClick={this.props.classNumber && this.props.classLetter ? this.submitHundler : () => {}}
      />,
    ];

    return (
      <Dialog
        title="Добавление Класса"
        actions={actions}
        modal={false}
        contentStyle={{ maxWidth: 320 + 'px' }}
        open={Boolean(this.props.modalOpen || this.props.classEditingModalId)}
        onRequestClose={() => this.props.closeAddingModal()}
      >
        <TextField
          hintText="Номер"
          floatingLabelText="Номер"
          value={this.props.classNumber}
          onChange={(e) => this.props.classNumberChange(e.target.value)}
        />
        <br />
        <TextField
          hintText="Абревеатура"
          floatingLabelText="Абревеатура"
          value={this.props.classLetter}
          onChange={(e) => this.props.classLetterChange(e.target.value)}
        />
      </Dialog>
    );
  }

}

const styles = {
  classesContainer: {
    marginTop: 130 + 'px'
  },
  addButton: {
    position: 'relative',
    top: '-2px',
    left: '30px',
    backgroundColor: 'rgba(220, 220, 220, 0.2)'
  },
  title: {
    marginLeft: 50 + 'px',
    display: 'inline-block'
  }
}

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London 2012 Olympic Qualifying update post Sydney WTS
By Merryn Sherwood on 19/04/12 at 2:51 am
As the most valuable event in terms of Olympic qualifying points on offer, it's not surprisingly that the first ITU World Triathlon Series of 2012 managed to shake up the London simulation. What's interesting is not just what happened, but how it sets up this weekend's Eilat ETU European Triathlon Championships and Ishigaki ITU Triathlon World Cup. It's that time of the week again to dive into the Olympic simulator.
Elite Women's Qualification
A quick look at the pointy end of the women's simulation shows that not that much happened in Sydney, even though Switzerland's Daniela Ryf did not race, Germany's Kathrin Muller didn't claim enough points to overtake her and therefore the eight nations that are currently in a place to send three athletes did not change. However, Muller is now points behind Ryf though, and on track to overtake her this weekend as she is racing in Ishigaki.
But where there was movement was on the edge of the list. Canada's Kathy Tremblay claimed her best series result since 2009 in Sydney, and that eighth place put her up 14 places on points list and just on the edge of the Olympic picture. It means a good result in Ishigaki this weekend, where she will wear the #2, could propel further up the list and help secure Canada two women's spots. Tremblay is currently in the final Olympic spot, which means Canada now have two including the one held by Paula Findlay. Luxembourg's Elizabeth May also put her NOC back in the spotlight, after a month out of the simulation, she is currently back in the Olympic field, and Slovenia's Mateja Simic held onto her place.
While it had little impact on Australia's almost assured three places, Erin Densham's win was a huge boost for her own selection chances. Densham is so far unbeaten in elite ITU competition to start the year, with wins in Mooloolaba and Sydney, and her points total now puts her firmly in place as Australia's fourth athlete on the list, 345 points behind Emma Snowsill. In selection news from New Zealand, Andrea Hewitt was officially joined by Kate McIlroy and Nicky Samuels at Triathlon New Zealand's official team announcement on Wednesday in Auckland. Of course, their places are contingent on New Zealand holding onto those three places come May 31st. They are currently sitting seventh on the list ahead of Switzerland.
This weekend there are athletes and scenarios to keep an eye on in both Japan and Israel. Aside from Tremblay's result in Ishigaki, Melanie Annaheim can confirm her own individual selection for Switzerland with a top-5 confirmation result, while Hungary's Zsofia Kovacs and Margit Vanek could further secure spots for their NOC with solid results. Also watch for the Japanese team, particularly Kiyomi Niwata and Yuka Sato, as competition heats up for the places their Olympic team.
While defending champion Emmie Charayon and two-time champion Nicola Spirig are the favourites in Eilat, the athletes to watch are those who are currently on the fringe of making the field, like Maria Czesnik (POL), Agnieszka Jerzyk (POL), Irina Abysova (RUS), Alexandra Razarenova (RUS) and Katrien Verstuyft (BEL). Eilat is the final Continental Championships that will count for London, with each men's and women's winner claiming a place for their NOC in London.
Click here for the current women's Olympic simulation
Elite Men's Qualification
As stated before Sydney, it's going to be extremely hard to budge the current top four NOCs with three men's spots: Great Britain, Germany, Spain and France, because each nation has more than three athletes in the top 50 in the world. But the battle below them was on in Sydney and it was Russia and Ivan Vasiliev that took advantage. Vasiliev was Russia's third athlete on the qualification list heading into Sydney, but was sitting out of the picture behind Portugal's Joao Pereira as the ninth nation, when top eight can send three.
It wasn't unusual to see Vasiliev lead the swim but it was to see him break away on the bike – with New Zealand's James Elvery – and hang on for sixth place overall. That netted him 677 points, enough to move up to 27th on the men's Olympic ranking, and rocket Russia up from ninth to fifth. New Zealand moved down to sixth, as their third man Ryan Sissons did not finish due to a nasty crash, while Courtney Atkinson didn't race, dropping Australia dropped to seventh. Atkinson had just of enough points buffer to hold off Brent McMahon and Simon Whitfield. Whitfield is Canada's third man and just 64 points behind Atkinson. Portugal took the biggest hit with Russia's rise, dropping to ninth spot and currently only able to send two athletes. But this weekend Portugal could possibly put themselves back in, if Pereira can do well enough in Eilat to overtake Whitfield – who is not racing in Ishigaki. He needs 117 points to equal Whitfield, which is 16th place or above in Eilat.
The other big individual mover in Sydney was South Africa's Richard Murray, whose first World Triathlon Series medal moved him 14 places higher than before to 39. Triathlon South Africa's selection policy is that an athlete must be top 47, he's well on his way to achieving that. One athlete who did lock in London was Kris Gemmell, who scored the first spot on the New Zealand men's team with his seventh place. That met Triathlon New Zealand's automatic qualifying criteria, but Gemmell didn't have to wait long to find out his teammates are, with Sissons and multiple Olympic medallist Bevan Docherty also named in New Zealand's team on Wednesday. Just as in the women's selection though, the spots are contingent on whether New Zealand hold onto all three places on May 31st.
The ETU European Championships this weekend also could have an interesting impact on the men's field. With Alistair Brownlee not back to defend his title, or Jonathan Brownlee or William Clarke racing, there is a chance for a nation to shake up qualifying. While it's hard to look past Javier Gomez for the title, athletes like Vasiliev, Pereira, Filip Ospaly (CZE) or Danylo Sapunov (UKR) have plenty to race for. In Ishigaki, McMahon and Jones need to continue their string of good results to help Canada's campaign.
Click here for the current men's Olympic simulation
ITU's official Olympic qualification period closes on May 31st. For more on how the qualification process works, please click here.
Find more details about this event - 2012 Dextro Energy World Triathlon Sydney
28/03/12 - 2012 Olympic Qualifying Update after Mooloolaba World Cup
15/03/12 - 2012 Olympic qualifying update after Oceania Championships
12/03/12 - Olympic Qualification 101 – How athletes and countries get to London 2012
london 2012 | erin densham | kris gemmell | kyle jones | ivan vasiliev | kathy tremblay | olympic qualification | brent mcmahon


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Q: Yii2 Dynamic form wbraganca copy value to cloned field I am using wbraganca dynamic form in my Yii2 project, where I want to copy the values entered in the first set of fields to the set of fields in the cloned div.
What I understand, that jQuery copies the values to the cloned field by default.
When going through the dynamicform.js of the extension,
I find code which I think overrides the default functionality that is not allowing the values to be copied over to the cloned field.
The relevant code responsible for the same is like this:
$template.find('input, textarea, select').each(function() {
if ($(this).is(':checkbox') || $(this).is(':radio')) {

...
 $(this).prop('checked', false);
            } else if($(this).is('select')) {
                $(this).find('option:selected').removeAttr("selected");
            } else {
                $(this).val('');
            }
});

....

Now my question is how I can copy the value of first set of fields to the cloned fields.
for example my field is like:
<?= $form->field($modelCustomBreakTime,
"[{$i}]days")->dropDownList(['select',$days]) ?> //where $days are days of week

so basically what I want is when I select Monday, the copied value should be Monday.
Update: _form.php contents
<?php

use app\models\User;
use yii\bootstrap\ActiveForm;
use yii\helpers\ArrayHelper;
use yii\helpers\Html;
use kartik\time\TimePicker;
use wbraganca\dynamicform\DynamicFormWidget;
$instructor_id=htmlspecialchars($_GET["id"]);
$instructor_array = ArrayHelper::map(User::find()->where(['user_role' => 'instructor'])->andwhere(['status' => 10])->all(), 'id', function ($model) {
    return $model['first_name'] . ' ' . $model['last_name'];

})

/* @var $this yii\web\View */
/* @var $model app\modules\admin\models\CustomBreakTime */
/* @var $form yii\widgets\ActiveForm */
?>
<?php
//$instructor_id=htmlspecialchars($_GET["id"]);
       // var_dump($id);

?>

    <?php $form = ActiveForm::begin(['id' => 'dynamic-form']);
        $days = ['Monday' => Yii::t('app', 'Monday'),
    'Tuesday' => Yii::t('app', 'Tuesday'),
    'Wednesday' => Yii::t('app', 'Wednesday'),
    'Thursday' => Yii::t('app', 'Thursday'),
    'Friday' => Yii::t('app', 'Friday'),
    'Saturday' => Yii::t('app', 'Saturday'),
    'Sunday' => Yii::t('app', 'Sunday'),
]; ?>

 Break Times

             <?php DynamicFormWidget::begin([
                'widgetContainer' => 'dynamicform_wrapper', // required: only alphanumeric characters plus "_" [A-Za-z0-9_]
                'widgetBody' => '.container-items', // required: css class selector
                'widgetItem' => '.item', // required: css class
                'limit' => 10, // the maximum times, an element can be cloned (default 999)
                'min' => 1, // 0 or 1 (default 1)
                'insertButton' => '.add-item', // css class
                'deleteButton' => '.remove-item', // css class
                'model' => $modelsCustomBreakTime[0],
                'formId' => 'dynamic-form',
                'formFields' => [
                    'days',
                    'start_time',
                    'end_time',

                ],
            ]); ?>

            <?php foreach ($modelsCustomBreakTime as $i => $modelCustomBreakTime): ?>

CustomBreakTime

                            <button type="button" class="add-item btn btn-success btn-xs"></button>
                            <button type="button" class="remove-item btn btn-danger btn-xs"></button>

                        <?=$form->field($modelInstructor, 'id')->dropDownList($instructor_array, ['options' => [$_GET['id'] => ['Selected'=>'selected'],'prompt' => 'Select Instructor']])?>

                        <?php
                            // necessary for update action.
                            if (! $modelCustomBreakTime->isNewRecord) {
                                echo Html::activeHiddenInput($modelCustomBreakTime, "[{$i}]id");
                            }

                        ?>

                                <?= $form->field($modelCustomBreakTime, "[{$i}]days")->dropDownList(['select',$days]) ?>

                                <?= $form->field($modelCustomBreakTime, "[{$i}]start_time",['enableLabel' => false])->widget(TimePicker::classname(), ['pluginOptions' => [
                            'minuteStep' => 15,
                            'showMeridian' => false,
                            'defaultTime' => date('H:i', strtotime('11.00')), ],
                    ]) ?>

                                <?= $form->field($modelCustomBreakTime, "[{$i}]end_time",['enableLabel' => false])->widget(TimePicker::classname(), ['pluginOptions' => [
                            'minuteStep' => 15,
                            'showMeridian' => false,
                            'defaultTime' => date('H:i', strtotime('11.00')), ],
                    ]) ?>

            <?php endforeach; ?>

            <?php DynamicFormWidget::end(); ?>

        <?= Html::submitButton($modelCustomBreakTime->isNewRecord ? 'Create' : 'Update', ['class' => 'btn btn-primary']) ?>

    <?php ActiveForm::end(); ?>

A: If you are looking into the js file then you might have overlooked the events section for dynamicform.js line 26
var events = {
    beforeInsert : 'beforeInsert',
    afterInsert : 'afterInsert',
    beforeDelete : 'beforeDelete',
    afterDelete : 'afterDelete',
    limitReached : 'limitReached'
};

But you can use these events only if you are not using nested forms. You can bind afterInsert event like below
$('.dynamicform_wrapper').on('afterInsert', function (e, item) {
  //code to copy values from the desired row/field set
});

dynamicform_wrapper is the value of widgetContainer widget property.
For the Nested forms, there isn't any support provided yet officially, although you can write your own script for that like using Mutation Observers to trigger a js function whenever an element is inserted or deleted.
Here is a good article with a working example.

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