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Town gets by-district extension
Matthew Cabe Staff Writer @DP_MatthewCabe
APPLE VALLEY — Town officials have entered into an agreement that extends the period during which the town will switch to a district voting system.
The agreement, executed Feb. 27, extends Apple Valley's transition period from 90 to 180 days in accordance with the California Voting Rights Act. The town now has until Aug. 14, 2019, to switch from at-large to by-district voting in order to avoid a costly lawsuit.
Town Attorney Thomas Rice told the Daily Press on Monday the 90-day extension has been added to the deadline triggered by the Town Council's Feb. 15 adoption of a resolution that initiated the transition process.
At least five public hearings will be held before the switch, according to a previous Daily Press report. Two will take place before maps are drawn. Two more will be set for discussion of the maps. A final hearing will bring the Council's vote on the by-district change.
Rice said town officials are still working on scheduling details for the hearings. He said he expects "additional opportunities" for public input beyond the legally required hearings.
"The town intends to make a tentative public outreach schedule available online by Friday," Rice said.
The Feb. 27 agreement was signed by Town Manager Doug Robertson and Malibu-based attorney Kevin Shenkman.
The latter represents the Southwest Voter Registration Education Project, the largest and oldest non-partisan Latino voter participation organization in the country, according to the nonprofit's website.
On Jan. 2, Apple Valley received a letter from Shenkman that threatened legal action if the town didn't voluntarily change its at-large system, which he said violated the CVRA.
Shenkman alleged that the current system results in "racially polarized voting" and dilutes the ability of minorities, Latinos namely, to elect their choice of candidates.
Before the Council reluctantly adopted the Feb. 15 resolution by a 3-0 vote, Mayor Pro Tem Scott Nassif said the town's position was that research found that voting in Apple Valley was not racially polarized.
At the time, Nassif said the research — conducted after the town received a letter similar to Shenkman's in 2016 from Victorville-based attorney Robert Conaway — also found that by-district elections here would not "necessarily give any demographic, or minority, a clear advantage over having at-large voting."
The Council agreed to the switch, however, in order to avoid litigation that would likely cost several millions, even if the town were successful, town documents show.
By contrast, the price tag for a by-district switch is estimated at $60,000, a figure that includes more than $30,000 paid to Shenkman per California Elections Code.
Matthew Cabe can be reached at MCabe@VVDailyPress.com or at 760-951-6254. Follow him on Twitter @DP_MatthewCabe.


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Advancing Multi-Modal Deep Learning: Towards Language-Grounded Visual Understanding
Kushal KafleFollow
Using deep learning, computer vision now rivals people at object recognition and detection, opening doors to tackle new challenges in image understanding. Among these challenges, understanding and reasoning about language grounded visual content is of fundamental importance to advancing artificial intelligence. Recently, multiple datasets and algorithms have been created as proxy tasks towards this goal, with visual question answering (VQA) being the most widely studied. In VQA, an algorithm needs to produce an answer to a natural language question about an image. However, our survey of datasets and algorithms for VQA uncovered several sources of dataset bias and sub-optimal evaluation metrics that allowed algorithms to perform well by merely exploiting superficial statistical patterns. In this dissertation, we describe new algorithms and datasets that address these issues. We developed two new datasets and evaluation metrics that enable a more accurate measurement of abilities of a VQA model, and also expand VQA to include new abilities, such as reading text, handling out-of-vocabulary words, and understanding data-visualization. We also created new algorithms for VQA that have helped advance the state-of-the-art for VQA, including an algorithm that surpasses humans on two different chart question answering datasets about bar-charts, line-graphs and pie charts. Finally, we provide a holistic overview of several yet-unsolved challenges in not only VQA but vision and language research at large. Despite enormous progress, we find that a robust understanding and integration of vision and language is still an elusive goal, and much of the progress may be misleading due to dataset bias, superficial correlations and flaws in standard evaluation metrics. We carefully study and categorize these issues for several vision and language tasks and outline several possible paths towards development of safe, robust and trustworthy AI for language-grounded visual understanding.
Computer vision; Machine learning; Optical pattern recognition; Computer algorithms--Evaluation; Natural language processing (Computer science); Semantic computing
Imaging Science (Ph.D.)
Chester F. Carlson Center for Imaging Science (COS)
Christopher Kanan
Matt Huenerfauth
Nathan D. Cahill
Kafle, Kushal, "Advancing Multi-Modal Deep Learning: Towards Language-Grounded Visual Understanding" (2020). Thesis. Rochester Institute of Technology. Accessed from
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When hair transplant first became a potential hair loss treatment, patients were usually charged as much as $15 per graft with fewer sessions. Advancements with modern medicine today have fortunately developed better outcomes and more affordable prices for this hair operation, while patients are provided with lasting and healthy hair. Hair loss victims may either choose per graft Mexico hair transplant cost or per session, which vary depending on the technique chosen.


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Texas Christian Advocates Call Brain-Dead Pregnant Woman Marlise Munoz Decision an Abortion
By Dawn Cherie Araujo ( [email protected] ) Jan 27, 2014 07:56 PM EST Comment
Operation Rescue's president, Troy Newman, speaks to the press regarding the judge's ruling to take pregnant Marlise Munoz off life-support an example of "Culture of Death."
Erick Muñoz has won his battle to have his pregnant wife taken off life support. Marlise Muñoz, 33, who is 23 weeks pregnant and brain dead, was removed from respirators and ventilators on Sunday morning after a two-week legal battle.
On Friday, a Texas District Court ruled a state law forbidding the withdrawal of life-sustaining treatment to pregnant patients did not apply to those patients deemed legally dead. The judge ordered John Peter Smith Hospital in Fort Worth to remove Marlise from life support by 5 p.m. Monday.
The case drew national attention, and prompted statements of sympathy from high-profile Texas politicians: Republican Gov. Rick Perry said called the situation was "tragic" and said while he was praying for the family, it was a "matter for the court." Democrat state senator and governor hopeful Wendy Davis said a decision "should be made my Mrs. Munoz's family, in consultation with her doctors."
Christian anti-abortion activists also quickly became involved in the case. Marie T. Hillard, director of bioethics and public policy at the National Catholic Bioethics Center told Catholic media removing Marlise from life support before 23 or 24 weeks of gestation would amount to an abortion and that the Erick Muñoz needed to act in his child's best interest.
The Kansas-based advocacy group, Operation Rescue, held vigils outside the hospital and members of the group attended Friday's. Members of the National Black Pro-Life Coalition were also on the scene in Fort Worth.
These groups are now speaking out against the court's decision.
On Sunday, Operation Rescue's president, Troy Newman, released a statement calling the ruling an example of a "Culture of Death."
"It is despicable that dehumanizing and deceptive language was used to refer to Marlise as a 'corpse' and her baby's condition as 'incompatible with life' in order to elicit public support for putting them to death," he said.
Erick Muñoz found Marlise unconscious in their home two days before Thanksgiving. She was 14 weeks pregnant with the couple's second child, and doctors believe she may have suffered from a blood clot. She was taken to John Peter Smith Hospital on Nov. 26 and declared brain dead two days later.
The hospital initially refused to remove Marlise from life support, despite her husband's requests, citing a section of the Texas Advance Directives Act that states a person "may not withdraw or withhold life-sustaining treatment under this subchapter from a pregnant patient." The law was drafted in the late '90s with the help of the Catholic archdiocese of Austin.
Erick Muñoz sued the hospital on Jan. 14.
"Since my wife's death on Nov. 26, 2013, I have had to endure the pain of watching my wife's dead body be treated as if she were alive," he said in an affidavit. "As her husband, I wish every day she was live, but I am positive that my wife has passed away for many reasons." He also told the court Marlise had previously instructed him to not keep her on life support should something happen to her.
Texas Man Removes Life Support from Pregnant Wife Marlise Munoz
After spending two-months watching his brain-dead pregnant wife lie on her hospital bed, Erick Munoz has his wish granted by a judge to remove life support from his wife, which would also kill the fetus.


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Cerys Matthews is a singer/songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, author and broadcaster. She hosts a Sunday morning music show on BBC 6 Music, makes documentaries for television as well as BBC Radio 2 and 4 and is a regular writer and presenter for the Culture Show and the One Show. Cerys won gold at the Sony Radio Academy Awards and her Penguin published sing-a-long book Hook, Line and Singer has been a bestseller. She has served as creative director for the World music expo and as a judge for the Dylan Thomas literary prize, 2013. Cerys has, since childhood, collected, sung and played traditional songs from Wales, Ireland, Scotland and England, and has gone on to share them with audiences worldwide. She remains an avid collector of songs from all over the globe. She was lead singer and songwriter for multi-million selling band Catatonia, and duets with Sir Tom Jones on perennial winter favourite 'Baby, It's Cold Outside'.
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Dana Point, CA is located in Orange County in Southern California. We have 349 businesses listed for Dana Point and below you'll find links to restaurants, hotels, shopping, and attractions in the Dana Point area. As you can see by the map of Dana Point some of the nearby cities include Capistrano Beach, San Juan Capistrano, Laguna Niguel, San Clemente and Aliso Viejo. For you map buffs, the Dana Point latitude is 33.467, the longitude is -117.698, and the elevation of Dana Point is 44 feet. An interesting fact is that the Dana Point city population is 35,870 which equates to approximately 1.2 percent of the 3,026,786 residents in Orange County.
The New Dana Point CFM Saturday Farmers Market, in Dana Point, California, takes place in January and ends in December. This Farmers Market event will be located at Pacific Coast Highwsy & Golden Lantern Street.
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Dana Point contains a lovely harbor, beaches with camping and a convenient location not ... Seen in the photograph above is the Dana Point Harbor and Marina.
Things to do in Capistrano Beach in Orange County California - located near Dana Point, Doheny, and San Clemente.
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On a pink and white square, Hawaii Gov. Ben Cayetano signed the quilt and then wrote, "Aloha." Wisconsin Gov. Tommy Thompson added "Lions Park School Best Wishes."
Mt. Prospect's Lions Park Elementary School has received signatures from governors across the United States as part of a quilt project started in October by teacher Leslie Totaro. She wanted to provide a unique way to interest her 4th-grade class in learning the states and capitals.
Quilt patches were mailed to all the governors with a letter from students asking the leaders to sign it and name their state. Each child selected a state to contact.
"I thought it would be a good way to get them enthusiastic about the states," Totaro said.
"A personal connection makes them take a personal interest in the states," added Principal Patricia Cassidy.
Steve Mathews, 10, enjoyed the project so much he volunteered to write to two additional states. "I like history. It's fun to know about the stuff in the states. And it's kind of cool for (the governors) to know us," he said.
The patchwork quilt will be about 54 inches square when completed, said parent Sherry Armgardt, who volunteered to put the quilt together.
This is the first year for the newly built Lions Park School, so it's only fitting to display the school's first historical piece of artwork, Cassidy said. The quilt probably will go up in the library or hallway.


The professionals speak: Practitioners' perspectives on professional election campaigning.
Tenscher, J., Koc-Michalska, K., Lilleker, D., Mykkänen, J., Walter, A.S., Findor, A., Jalali, C. and Róka, J., 2016. The professionals speak: Practitioners' perspectives on professional election campaigning. European Journal of Communication, 31 (2), pp. 95-119.
Faced with some fundamental changes in the socio-cultural, political and media environment, political parties in post-industrialized democracies have started to initiate substantial transformations of both their organizational structures and communicative practices. Those innovations, described as professionalization, become most obvious during election campaigns. In recent times, the number of empirical studies measuring the degree of political parties' campaign professionalism has grown. They have relied on a broad spectrum of indicators derived from theory which have not been tested for their validity. For the first time, we put these indicators to a 'reality check' by asking top-ranked party secretaries and campaign managers in 12 European countries to offer their perceptions of professional election campaigning. Furthermore, we investigate whether any differences in understanding professionalism among party campaign practitioners can be explained by macro (country) and meso (party) factors. By and large, our results confirm the validity of most indicators applied in empirical studies on campaign professionalism so far. There are some party- and country-related differences in assessing campaign professionalism too, but the influence of most factors on practitioners' evaluations is weak. Therefore, we conclude that largely there is a far-reaching European Union-wide common understanding of professional election campaigning.


Ellis writes English based thrillers. I normally avoid American thrillers because the heros seem to end up doing the impossible, a la Superman. So, I decided to try the British version. Much the same.
DCI Matt Ballard has announced his intention to retire in the next few months; that is, until a photo was sent to Ballard of the scene of an unsolved murder; a photo taken before the decades-old murder occurred.
Other photos followed, then a fresh body in the same area as the three unsolved murders. Ballard's team uncovered plenty of evidence, but there was nothing that led to a solution. Was the killer the same person from before or was it a copy cat killing?
Gradually, Ballard became aware that he was the target of someone's spying on him. Everything he held close, all his hidden secrets, were gradually forced out of him until his super decided to remove him from the case.
Instead, Ballard went alone to bring down the killer, a la Superman.
There is a nice twist ending, but you may have it figured out before then.
This is a well-told story. I enjoyed the read. But I still don't like thrillers. I prefer a good who-done-it.


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The story behind our military voting waiver request
August 2, 2010 Secretary of State's Office
In recent days, our office has received some inquiries about a federal waiver request to the U.S. Department of Defense by our Elections Division in early July dealing with military voters.
The inquiries come on the heels of this FOX News story headlined "DOJ Accused of Stalling on MOVE Act for Voters in Military." The story mentions Washington as one of two states (Hawaii is the other, according to FOX) requesting this waiver.
We've asked for a waiver from the "45-day rule" in which states are supposed to mail ballots for military and oversea voters at least 45 days before Election Day.
So why the waiver request?
To make a long story short, the 45-day timeframe doesn't comply with Washington's statutory deadlines for candidate filing, printing ballots, mailing and receiving ballots, or certifying the Primary or General Elections. Go here to see a more detailed explanation on why we requested this waiver.
It's worth noting that the Office of Secretary of State is surveying our state's roughly 50,000 military and overseas voters to ask if they would like to receive their blank ballots by email rather than postal mail.
During the 2010 legislative session, our office requested legislation (House Bill 2483 and Senate Bill 6238) that would have permitted military and overseas voters to return a ballot by fax or email as long as the voter's signed declaration is returned with the ballot. The proposals also would have allowed military or overseas voters to request to receive all future ballots by fax, email or other electronic means. The federal Military and Overseas Voter Empowerment (MOVE) Act, recently passed by Congress, mandates that voters be able to designate how they want to receive their ballots, by mail or electronically.
HB 2483 was unanimously passed by the House but wasn't bought up for a full vote in the Senate. We're considering a similar version of this legislation again in 2011.
State Elections Division officials say sending ballots electronically to military and overseas voters will greatly increase the efficiency of getting the ballot to these voters who are located all over the world. Many county elections offices that have military bases in their communities have been emailing ballots to military and overseas voters for years. This has been a popular program with these voters, officials say.
As for the FOX News story, Elections officials say it isn't accurately portraying the Department of Justice or the Federal Voting Assistance Program officials on this issue. As our Elections folks noted, they recently received some tough questioning from Department of Justice and Federal Voting Assistance Program honchos on why they should grant us the waiver. To our Elections staffers, it's clear to them that DOJ and FVAP are not "ignoring" the MOVE Act or "encouraging" states to use the waiver.
military and overseas voting, MOVE Act, online voting, U.S. Department of Defense, U.S. Department of Justice
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7 thoughts on "The story behind our military voting waiver request"
Joyce McCloy says:
Thank you for writing about this. This may be the first response to the headlines built upon a vacuum of information. Many people do not realize that only since January of this year did the Dept of Defense agree to act as a Voter Registration Agency. This was not mandated by law but was agreed upon by SoD Gates after requests by Sens Coryn and Schumer as well as several states' top election officials.
Military can request blank ballots by email in many states but it is not secure to transmit a voted ballot by email.
Infosec of Troops says:
There are several issues but one you know is that to get a ballot sent the troops need to give personal information over some non-military networks giving away their location and information to any communications company.
Did you tell the troops that according to Military command they need to ask their commander's permission to put this specific troop information , ie..name, DOB, Location, etc on open networks . If their immediate command say OK, then they can otherwise they can not.
W. Johnson says:
Yes, thank you for offering more details concerning our state requesting a waiver. However, I am not sure why this was not taken care of at the beginning of the summer and done proactively. If you wish to change the voting format, wouldn't you think it would be done much farther in advance? Let's stop making things so complicated and just get this done in a timely matter, shall we?
With the push to allow convicted felons to vote and the amount of fraud by ACORN one would think that it would be a priority of the federal and state governments to ensure our military men and women are given whatever they need in order to cast their votes.
Whoever is responsible in the state Senate for not putting the House passed law to enable our military to vote should either be impeached for dereliction of duty or fined severely for total incompetence.
Bob Carey says:
To comment on "Infosec of Troops" comments, his assertion is not correct. Military personnel ARE NOT required to get their commanding officer's permission to put their personal information through an online system when used for registering to vote or requesting an absentee ballot. They are free to use online registration and absentee ballot application tools as they see fit.
I would request that WA SoS office remove "Infosec of Troops" information from this blog post as incorrect information.
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Dave Johnson says:
Senate bill XYZ, house bill bla, bal, bla—if the MOVE Act was passed in October 2009, why are we just now figuring out that we can't comply? Why haven't actions already been taken to comply? I bet the same people who want to give convicted felons, in prison, the right to vote have something to do with this, and I'm also am willing to wager that if they get their way you will figure out how to get the ballots to them on time—without a waiver! Answer please—no spin—why is Washington one of the states that can't get this right—40 out of 50 were able to figure it out!
Dave Johnson
Registered Voter
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Brian Zylstra says:
Hi Dave – The fact is, our Elections Division staff figured out immediately that we had an issue with complying with the MOVE Act once it was enacted. They've been working on this issue ever since. After the Elections Division applied for the waiver for the 45-day rule, Elections Director Nick Handy and Assistant Elections Director Katie Blinn had a lengthy discussion with federal officials about why the waiver was necessary for Washington and they stressed that it WOULD NOT DISENFRANCHISE OUR STATE'S MILITARY VOTERS one bit. You want to know why Washington is one of the few states that requested the waiver? It's because our primary date is in August, just 2 1/2 months before the General Election, whereas most states have their primary earlier in the year, which means it's no problem for them to comply with the new MOVE Act. It's not a case that our state "can't get this right." The bottom line is that we give our military voters a 51-day window to get their ballot back, not 45 days. What you need to know is that this 51-day window includes 30 days before Election Day and another 21 days after Election Day. Under the MOVE Act, the 45-day window for states ends ON Election Day. Without this waiver being approved by the feds, the 45-day rule would have meant that military voters would have had to send their ballots back way before Election Day in order to reach their county elections division by Election Day. Why should our military voters be given less time to ponder their ballot and send it in when nonmilitary voters within our state have until Election Day to return THEIR ballot?
As for the comment about giving convicted felons the right to vote while they're still in prison, Secretary of State Reed opposes giving such felons the right to vote. In fact, he supports Washington's longtime policy, going back to our territorial days, that suspend the voting rights of convicted felons when they are incarcerated or on community supervision. The 9th Circuit Court of Appeals has agreed to re-hear this case. Here is a blog post about it that we did earlier this year: http://blogs.sos.wa.gov/FromOurCorner/index.php/2010/04/9th-circuit-will-rehear-wa-felon-voter-case/ . – Brian Zylstra, Office of Secretary of State


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Tea growing in Azerbaijan is concentrated in an area of 5.33 thousand square kilometers located within the Lenkeran-Astara region, including the districts of Astara, Lankaran, Masalli, Lerik, Yardimli, and Jalilabad. Around 90% of Azerbaijan's tea is produced in Lankaran close to the southern border with Iran. Tea was first grown around the Caspian Sea region of Azerbaijan in the 1880s. Due to its favorable climatic conditions, the region now produces 99% of the Azerbaijani tea crop.

History
Towards the end of the 19th century, M. O. Novoselov planted the first set of experimental tea bushes in the Lankaran District. In 1896 he established a tea factory. and by 1900 small experimental tea plantations had been set up in the area. In 1912, Novoselov wrote Russkiye subtropiki ('Russian subtropics'), which discussed the right conditions for growing tea in the district. After the failure of the enterprise in around 1920, the Azerbaijan Institute of Gardening and Subtropical Plants initiated a study on tea growing. As part of their development of the tea industry, the Soviets increased tea production in the area around Lenkaran and Zakatala.

In May 1949, ministers in Moscow set out plans to develop tea plant in the Azerbaijan SSR to increase tea production in the USSR by developing the land. The resultant increase in production of domestic tea in Georgia (country), Krasnodar Krai and Azerbaijan grew by 1988 to 38.5 thousand tons, mainly of black tea. A plan that was proposed to advance the tea plantations further was approved and implemented by Technical-Economic Experts' Council of the State Plan Committee of the Soviet Union in 1953. It involved a full plan to improve production facilities, machinery tools, and irrigation, all of which resulted in increased productivity. Lövəyin, Khanbulanchay, and Vileshchay are now the main contributors for supplying water.

In 1982, 26 thousand tons of tea was produced, with tea-growing in Azerbaijan covering an area of 9.3 thousand hectares in 1983, mostly being green tea, but with black tea commonly grown in Lankaran District. At this time 65 to 70% of the local dry tea demands were being fulfilled, with the sector employing 65,000 to 70,000 workers. In 1987, the Azerbaijan Government implemented an edict to enhance tea production in the country, with a plan to expand tea production to 21,000 hectares by 2000. so increasing green tea yield to 80–90,000 tons and dry tea yield to 20–22,000 tons. However, events such as the collapse of the USSR and the first Nagorno-Karabakh War, tea production in Azerbaijan fell, reducing 1,200 tons by 1995.

Current production

Azerbaijan's tea plantations lie between the Caspian Sea and the Talysh Mountains, in a region where the subtropical climate and humidity make it an ideal location growing tea.
The main tea-growing areas are situated in the districts of Lankaran, Astara, Lerik, Masalli, Zakatala, and Balakan. Azerbaijani tea is produced mainly for internal consumption, but it is also exported to Turkey, the Russian republic of Dagestan, and Georgia.

In the Sheki-Zagatala economic-geographical region growth in the sector is relatively weak. Recent reports suggest the weather conditions in Southern Caucasus might be able to support new tea plantations, and areas have been earmarked by the government for future expansion. Government initiatives to help reinvigorate production are expected by 2021 to have led to a doubling of the size of land used to grow tea.

Tea industry
The tea-packing factory Sun Tea Azerbaijan, which has been in continuous operation since 1996, is the largest tea-packing factory in the CIS. The regional leader in South Caucasus, its annual production is around 15 thousand tons. The company produces a pure green tea leaf at its primary tea treatment factories at Lenkaran and Astara, which deal with leaf drying, twisting, fermenting, dry sorting and packaging. It mainly produces packaged teas, green teas, and fruit teas. Tea is exported to the Caucasus, central Asia, and the CIS, primarily Russia.

For its premier brand, Azerçay, the company uses leaves from locally situated tea plantations, or from India, Vietnam, or Kenya. Its factory in Baku obtains high-quality Ceylon teas through its Inter Tea from Sri Lanka. The factory mainly uses a mixture of Ceylon and Indian teas to make several types of tea, each with a different quality and composition.

Tea culture

Azerbaijani greatly enjoy drinking tea, known as chay, and still maintain their ancient and traditional tea ceremonies when drinking what is their main beverage of daily life. It is common in Azerbaijan for a guest to be welcomed firstly by black tea, often served in a pair-shaped crystal Armudu glass, which is said to keep tea hot longer at the bottom and cool more rapidly at the top. In Azerbaijani culture, serving tea at the beginning of a meal is a symbol of hospitality. Sweetened tea is preferred to regular tea. By custom, sugar is never dissolved directly as a method of sweetening it. Instead, a sugar cube is dipped slightly into the tea before it is sipped, a custom that began in medieval times, when the presence of Toxins in the tea was detected in this way, when they reacted with the sugar. Azerbaijani people also enjoy flavouring their tea with spices, such as cinnamon, lemon or ginger. Tea is made using fragrant herbs to produce corn silk tea, mint tea, cinnamon tea, saffron tea, ginger tea, dog-rose tea, hawthorn tea, and thyme tea. Tea is often served with jams made from figs, strawberries, apricots, walnuts, and blackberries, called dishleme ('bite'), a tradition designed to help the flow of conversation.

Because of the high demand for tea in Azerbaijan, almost every neighborhood has a tea house, known as a chaykhana. The tea house's chaykhor ('tea connoisseur') always knows that a good tea has to have a deep burgundy colour. Purrengi ('velvet tea') is the most common type of tea served in such establishments.

Historically, chaykhan were mainly male-dominated establishments, as women were not permitted not enter public places. The term chaykhana denotes a place where men have tea, and this cultural tradition persists in Azerbaijan in the same way that Pubs in Britain once excluded women. Chaykhanas maintain the tradition of being places where men go to discuss politics or other important issues over a game of backgammon.

The drinking of tea in Azerbaijan often features during important occasions such as the celebration of an engagement, a marriage, the birth of a child, or a funeral.

Law on tea-growing
A state program on the development of tea growing from 2018 to 2027 was approved on 12 February 2018, with the aim of developing tea production, increasing the export potential of the industry, and ensuring the employment prospects of the rural population.

See also
 Azerbaijani tea culture
Tea production in Bangladesh
Tea production in Indonesia
Tea production in Kenya
Tea production in Nepal
Tea production in Sri Lanka
Tea production in Uganda
Tea production in the United States

References

Azerbaijan
Agriculture in Azerbaijan

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William Robertson Breckinridge (October 16, 1907 – August 23, 1958) was a pitcher in Major League Baseball. He played three games for the Philadelphia Athletics in 1929. He later practiced law in Tulsa, Oklahoma.

Personal life
Breckinridge was the son-in-law of oil entrepreneur Waite Phillips, marrying his daughter Helen Jane Phillips on December 22, 1932, in Benton, Arkansas. The couple had two sons, Phillips and Peyton Anthony; Peyton was elected an Oklahoma legislator in 1968, serving the 38th house district in the 32nd Oklahoma Legislature, and then 8 years as a state senator. His grandson, Phillips' son Flint, served the 78th house district in the 43rd and 44th Oklahoma legislatures.

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Vesuvius est une communauté située dans la province de la Colombie-Britannique, sur l'Île Saltspring.

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Yoofs in hoods defy Geldof shocker
Cloistered over a pint of Caledonian in an Edinburgh boozer late last night with the leading lights of the most clued-up resistance movement here, I watched them wince at the BBC's coverage of yesterday's disturbances. I had been out of town as Dissent's Carnival for Full Enjoyment got underway around noon, and returned to find the town centre blockaded by scores of police battalions in riot gear. Lothian and Borders police said "mutual assistance forces" (meaning squads from the Met, Merseyside and West Midlands forces who have been studying footage from Genoa for months) had been deployed to prevent "mayhem".
On the Beeb's early evening coverage, activists not involved in the clashes condemned a violent minority, as did locals and a police commander. As the evening wore on, the angle shifted. By midnight, News 24 was screening incensed locals and a Make Poverty History spokeswoman who said the protesters were undermining "Bob Geldof's message". The over-dub was culled almost verbatim from the police report.
What happened, to the best of my knowledge, was this: a small group of anarchists and clowns – who had been corralled and searched by police even before they began to drum and dance – were boxed in throughout Edinburgh through the early afternoon. But the police (there were over 1,000 on duty) continued to allow locals to enter the controlled areas, though would not let them leave. Pregnant women and children were penned in for hours. When trouble began, it was as much caused by locals and others looking for a scrap as by the 200-odd masked protesters. There was damage to public property. The first of 100 people charged with public order offences appeared at Edinburgh sheriff's court today.
In the pub, the comrades were aghast. Some had been corralled and searched earlier; others had been preparing for the far more significant march to Gleneagles tomorrow. These are the people who, along with some radical NGOs, have made it plain that they intend peacefully to blockade the Gleneagles hotel on Wednesday. They work with anti-authoritarian groups, but have also mobilised the diverse sections of civil society that will fill the 100 coaches to depart for Gleneagles station in the morning. These are the people who realised that begging the G8 for a crust for Africa is lunacy.
The winces turned to curses when the front page of today's Daily Mail wafted before the cameras. Its headline: "Live Hate". Today's' Scottish edition of the Mail has "Anarchy on out Streets"; the Edinburgh Evening News carries "The Nightmare Comes True". The hyperbole makes Revelation look like a parking ticket. It is noteworthy that the news stands are filled with the same picture (a shot of a bobby crossing blunt instruments with a man in a hoodie and a facemask). The shots of bleeding civilians and raging officers are buried within.
This is not to condemn the police outright. They have been fed a diet of Genoese belligerence for months. At Faslane yesterday, they were genial and handled the blockade of the nuclear plant there sensibly, despite some provocation. If anything, the flared tempers were in part the result of the sheer frustration of genuine activists whose voices went unheard at Make Poverty History's sanitised rally on Saturday. (I am told that, while Walden Bello, the only anti-capitalist to grace the Meadows' hallowed stage, implored his indifferent audience to take direct action against the G8, MPH's press office was frantically instructing stage managers to "get him off!"). If the police were provoked, the media's attack, launched from the chaises long of Television Centre and Northcliffe House, is a calculated attempt to discredit intelligent, direct resistance to the G8 by association and misrepresentation. Tomorrow at noon, their faces unmasked for all to see, those protesters will take to the streets.


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Home Opinions Columns Asian representation in media is rising, but it's not enough
Asian representation in media is rising, but it's not enough
Adrianne Offril
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2018 saw a large increase in the amount of Asian and Asian-American representation in pop culture, most notably with the premiere of "Crazy Rich Asians," Hollywood's first movie with an all Asian cast in 25 years. In addition to this highlight, there have been other noteworthy milestones for Asians in the film industry. Pixar released the short film "Bao," centering around a Chinese-Canadian mother suffering from empty nest syndrome. Vietnamese-American actress Lana Condor made her mark as the lead in Netflix's film "To All the Boys I've Loved Before," and John Cho starred in a lead role in the Sundance Award winning film "Searching."
Representation on screen is not the only platform where Asians have been gaining recognition; Asian artists have proven to be just as powerful in the music industry as well. During the 2019 Grammy Awards, an impressive amount of Asian artists were recognized for their work including H.E.R., a half Filipino, half Black artist who took home the award for Best R&B album. BTS, the worldwide sensation Korean Pop group was nominated for Best Recording Package, and the first female Asian American DJ; TOKiMONSTA (Jennifer Lee) was nominated for Best Dance/Electronic Album.
While the story of the Asian experience becomes more recognized in mainstream media, does that mean there is enough Asian representation? Or will there ever be enough? At this point in time where there has been an upshot of Asian and Asian-American recognition in media, it is definitely something worth celebrating. However, we still have a very long way to go for these artists to truly get the credit they deserve.
For Asian-American artists, it has been hard to break into a market where they are a minority, and one that pits their identity against their art. In the past, Asian artists have had to unconsciously or consciously hide part of their identity in order to "make it" in the Western market. It isn't a well-known fact that artists such as Bruno Mars and Darren Criss are of Asian descent because they don't fit the typical Asian stereotype. This doesn't invalidate their identity, but it may, unfortunately, have played a part in why they have found success. Because they don't outwardly look like what most Western audiences perceive Asians as, they don't get negative stereotypes attached to them, allowing them to go further in their respective industries.
Photographer Bao Ngo, who worked on Grammy-nominated Japanese-American singer Mitski's album, doesn't think that "adhering to Western norms or seeking such representation through something as White and oppressive as Hollywood or the American music industry is the way to go about gaining recognition (it)." Instead of trying to cater to the Western standard, Asian artists and creatives need to put out work that not only speaks to them but also to something people can connect with. Gaining validation from the community you represent rather than the one that oppresses you holds much greater value at the end of the day.
Being recognized as an Asian artist is something worth celebrating, but it is also important that artists are applauded for more than just the fact that they are Asian. Asians are still very much viewed through the Western stereotypical standard, making it hard for Asian artists to showcase their work and talent without being reduced to just another Asian artist or a "token." For example, a study conducted by professors and scholars at six California universities found that while Asian actors have been getting more roles on screen, most of them are marginalized and reduced to the "token Asian" of the show or movie, playing on stereotypes such as the "model minority" or child prodigy.
There needs to be a point in which the work of Asian artists is celebrated for its merit and not just lauded for its visibility. It would be nice to see art that is praised for what it is without commenting on race or being tied to efforts to make it appeal to a Western audience.
Commending Asian artists for the work they do and increasing its presence throughout the media is a step in the right direction. 2018 proved to be a productive shift this was, as artists garnered even more footing in their respective fields. As consumers of media, however, we need to be mindful that Asian representation is still insufficient and that we are still very far from where we should be.
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Q: How to use the Developer Tools in IE 7? could any one tell me how to use the Developer Tools in IE 7?I am using the .Net programming language .Wanna to debug the javascript and jquery.

A: Add
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to the script where you want to debug. It will also prompt the Visual Studio to handle from there if it is installed
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For debugging script in IE8 developer tool bar

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd565628(VS.85).aspx#dbugjscript

For IE7 sepecif JavaScript debugging you can also refer to this answer
Debugging JavaScript in IE7

A: When debugging within the browser, it really doesn't matter what kind of server-side language or frameworks you are using (java, .net, php, whatever) all you are really debugging is the javascript on the pages, and javascript is javascript no matter where it came from.
IMO you are MUCH better off if you use chrome's developer mode (activate by right clicking and choosing inspect for instance) or the firefox-plugin called firebug for debugging javascript, but sometimes you get bugs which are only present on IE, in which case you need to check them out using tools for IE,
AFAIK there is no built-in tool for IE7, but here are some tools which work with IE7 to make debugging easier: http://www.ehow.com/list_7148039_developer-tools-ie7.html

A: If you want to debug your JS code using IE(x) native developer tools you first have to (as sreddhar said) put a "debugger" inside of it.
Then, you obv have to open the dev tools (F12), and under the tab "Script" just press "Start Debugging". It refreshes your page and whenever it finds "debugger" inside your code it stops in that particular point, then you can decide to put some breakpoints, view the call stack, watch and evaluate variables and so on...

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41 Aurigae, som är stjärnans Flamsteed-beteckning,  är en dubbelstjärna eller multipelstjärna i den norra delen av stjärnbilden Kusken. Den har en kombinerad skenbar magnitud på ca 5,83 och är svagt synlig för blotta ögat där ljusföroreningar ej förekommer. Baserat på parallaxmätning Gaia Data Release 2 på ca 10,5 mas, beräknas den befinna sig på ett avstånd på 310 – 316 ljusår (ca 95 parsek) från solen. Den rör sig bort från solen med en heliocentrisk radialhastighet på ca 31 km/s och ingår sannolikt i stjärnhopen Hyaderna.

Egenskaper
Primärstjärnan 41 Aurigae A är en blå till vit stjärna i huvudserien av spektralklass A2 Va+ och magnitud 6,15. Den har en effektiv temperatur på ca 9 000 K.

Följeslagaren 41 Aurigae B är en gul till vit underjättestjärna av spektralklass kA5hA5mF0 (IV-V),  som har kalcium K-linje och vätelinjer för en stjärna av spektraltyp A5 och metallinjer för en typ F0-stjärna i dess spektrum. Den kan möjligen klassificeras som en Am-stjärna. Den har en massa som är ca 2 solmassor, en radie som är ca 1,8 solradier  och utsänder ca 11 gånger mera energi än solen från dess fotosfär vid en effektiv temperatur på ca 7 900 K. År 2012 hade paret en vinkelseparation av 7,39 bågsekunder vid en positionsvinkel på 357,7 °.

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 https://www.universeguide.com/star/41aurigae

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What are the best forest apps for Android? It's not easy task to find the best forest software. Here are top and most downloaded forest applications of all time.
Check out following categories and popular forest apps or jump to the latest forest apps.
Which forest app is best for Android? Download forest app for Android like Celtic Garden Free, GO Launcher EX Theme Forest, Jewel Mania - Jungle Dash. Try to decide for yourself.
Celtic Garden Free is a free app by DualBoot Games. It is persoalization, live wallpapers, forest, irish, fountain app in v1.30 ready to download.
GO Launcher EX Theme Forest is a free app by . It is launcher, theme, grren, tree, forest, elves, ents app in v4.10 ready to download.
Jewel Mania - Jungle Dash is a free app by . It is diamond, puzzle, jewel, gem, jungle, forest, animal, crystal, blitz, dash, mania, candy, crush, bejeweled app in v1.00 ready to download.
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Jungle Escape is a free app by . It is bird, save, survive, run, flee, evade, dodge, fly, glide, sail, coast, rush, forest, maze, app in v1.00 ready to download.
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"Be brave with your colour combinations" Lindsey Hunter of wedding planners Get Knotted advises.
Despite the simplicity of primary colours it is hard to find a more eye-catching combination and this is an easy way to brighten up your wedding day. Primary colours contrast and enhance the simple black and red check theme for this wedding featured by The Knot. The bridesmaids wore shawls in the same fabric and the Groom had it for the back on his waistcoat and trim on his shirt. Nice touches!
Customised place settings are all the rage. They take lots of time and thought but then these little touches are what make your special day very personal and memorable. My maiden name was Browne and I became a White so our theme involved these 2 colours and a lot of hand cutting of pieces of card and ribbon to make place names, napkin rings and favours. It took hours but I will never forget sitting with my sisters in the sunshine creating these finishing touches and getting excited about the day to come. Pinterest is a fabulous source of inspiration and below is a favourite example of great use of colour and personalisation.
Now if you said to the bride you were going to combine green, pink and orange she might not be very keen, but wow the Gordon Red Ancient tartan with the pink stripe picked out with pink plates and flowers, the orange stripe by the ribbon and the green in the water glasses works so well. Proof that sometimes you need to be bold with colour!
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The treatment for herpes simplex ocular infection varies according to which eye part is affected.
Before you begin to utilize any ointment or eye drops, your ophthalmologist could gently scrape away a few of the infected cells from your eye's surface. They'll numb the eye with anaesthetic drops prior to the procedure, which is called debridement.
Treatment is with antiviral drops or eye ointment (such as ganciclovir gel or Acyclovir ointment). These don't destroy the virus but inhibit it from reproducing further until the eye infection disappears. You must take the entire course just as prescribed. Frequently, this is several times per day for up to 14 days. The goal is to inhibit damage to the cornea (the transparent frontal portion of the eye).
Treatment is the same as epithelial keratitis (above). Aside from the antiviral drops or eye ointment, your specialist could include steroid eye drops. This aids to diminish inflammation. And take note that steroid eye drops should only be utilized under the close supervision of the specialist. The specialist will prescribe the accurate dose and strength along with antiviral treatment. If wrongly used, steroid drops result in more damage than good.
Antiviral tablets could be utilized in some instances.
These infections will typically resolve on their own in one to three weeks. Treatment may not be advised. You are expected to be examined or checked, until the infection disappears, to assess that the cornea doesn't become infected.
Note that if you have herpes infection of the eye, you shouldn't wear contact lenses until a day after the infection and the symptoms have totally gone away.
Can herpes infection of the eye recur?
Some individuals develop recurring episodes of an active herpes infection. As mentioned earlier, these happen if the virus re-triggers occasionally – like cold sores. A recurring infection could take pace anytime between several weeks and numerous years after the initial active infection.
At least 50% of individuals who have an episode of active herpes infection will experience a recurrence within ten years from the primary infection. Recurrences take place more frequently in some individuals than others.
If recurrences are severe or frequent, your ophthalmologist could recommend that you take oral antiviral education every day to inhibit episodes of an active herpes infection. Studies have revealed that, usually, the number of herpes recurrences is approximately halved in individuals who take regular oral antiviral medication.
Some people state that active herpes infection episodes may be activated by strong sunlight. Therefore, wearing sunglasses could also aid to prevent recurrences. Moreover, it is likely that active infection could be triggered if you're unwell or in bad condition for another reason. On the other hand, the proof for this is inadequate. A few women state that they get herpes recurrences around their menstruation period, but again there's inadequate proof to support this.
If a herpes recurrence does occur, every episode is treated or managed as mentioned above.


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Pigeon Forge dinner shows are sure to entertain you and yours! There's music, comedy, magic and even buffalo. Yes, buffalo. Not to mention lumberjacks, horses, and dogs. Take a look at the list of dinner theaters below and pick out where you'll be dining.


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Hyderabad : Centre focusing on developing vaccine for Delta variant says G Kishan Reddy
Hans News Service | 26 Jun 2021 6:43 PM GMT
Union Minister of State for Home Affairs G Kishan Reddy
Union Minister G Kishan Reddy says Centre will take a call on vaccinating children after second phase trials
Hyderabad : Union Minister of State for Home Affairs G Kishan Reddy said that the Centre was making efforts for the development of a super vaccine to handle any challenges that the Delta plus virus might pose.
Addressing the media on Saturday after inaugurating the oxygen concentrators bank, launched by the Lions Club in Sitarambagh, the Union Minister said the Centre would take a call on vaccinating children below the age of 18 years, after the completion of the second phase trials.
He said some people have approached courts questioning trials on children. But, the courts have dismissed such petitions and allowed the continuation of research.
Appreciating the Lions Club for starting an oxygen bank and providing oxygen concentrators, besides taking up several social services activities, the Union Minister said that many non-governmental organisations in the country have been working along with the government to save people from Covid.
Kishan Reddy said that the Centre has improved about 1 lakh oxygen concentrators and sent the same to the States. In a record time of eight months, he said that 51,000 oxygen concentrators were made operational.
"In addition to providing masks and PPE kits to 85 countries, the Centre has augmented medical oxygen to meet the demand by deploying and running 85 oxygen expresses on the green channel.
Also, the Centre had deployed flights to expedite the distribution and supply of oxygen in different parts of the country," he added, appealing people not to spread fake news on the Delta plus variant of Covid.
Later, the Minister distributed hygiene kits and essential commodities to the people at Aghapura.
G Kishan Reddy


If you've been reading my beginner series of tutorials then you've probably seen a few example applications and had a bit of a play with Ionic.
When building an app from scratch though it's a bit more intimidating, and you'll probably run into a few roadblocks along the way. What I wanted to do in this tutorial was to come up with a concept for an application, and then build it from scratch using Ionic's "blank" template.
Before you go through this tutorial, you should have at least a basic understanding of Ionic concepts. You must also already have Ionic installed on your machine.
We're going to start off by generating a new project based on the "blank" template. This is mostly an empty skeleton project, but there is a bit of example code in there that we will get rid of.
Once the code is generated, open up the project in your text editor. I explain the structure of an Ionic application in this post so take a look at that if you'd like some more background information about the code the Ionic CLI generates.
Basically, all of the components (our application will be made up of a bunch of different components) for our application will be in the src folder (including the root component in the app folder, and all of our page components in the pages folder). A component will consist of a template (.html file), class definition (.ts file) and maybe some styling (.scss file). As well as components, you might also create things like services here (like the data service we will create later) as well, which don't have a template or styling, but are similar in structure to a normal component. These services are also refered to as "providers" and will be placed in a providers folder.
Right now, there is just a single HomePage component that sets up a dummy view. We are going to modify this to display a list of all the todo items in our application.
The app.component.ts file defines our root component. This component is special when compared to the rest of the components because it is the first component that will be added to the application, and from there we can display more components, which can then add even more components and so on. Basically, our application structure is like a tree with the root component at the root of that tree.
The template is accessing that class member that is stored in the TypeScript file to configure the <ion-nav> component.
The : any part of the variable declaration is just a TypeScript thing, which says that rootPage can be any type. TypeScript also allows you to enforce more specific types, rather than just using any. If you're not comfortable with TypeScript yet and are confused by this, don't worry about it – you can leave types out and your application will still work fine. I won't be using types in this tutorial, except for dependency injection where it is required (which we will get to later). If you would like to know more about using types and TypeScript in Ionic, you should read Ionic: TypeScript vs ECMAScript 6.
The root page is the first page that will be displayed in your application, and then you can navigate to other pages from there. To change views in an Ionic application you can either change this root page, or push and pop views on top of that page. Pushing a view will change to that view, and popping it will remove it and go back to the previous view. For a more detailed explanation of navigation in Ionic, I recommend taking a look at A Simple Guide to Navigation in Ionic.
Now that we've got our basic application set up, let's start making things happen. First, let's set up our todo lists template.
to the DOM (Document Object Model), an embedded template will be created for each items specific data. So, if our items array (which will be defined later in the class definition) had 4 items in it, then the <ion-item> would be rendered out 4 times. Also notice that we are using let item, which assigns a single element from the items array to item as we loop through the array. This allows us to reference its properties, and also pass it into the viewItem function.
We are also setting the title to Todos! and we are supplying a button using <ion-buttons>. Since we have supplied the end attribute, the button will be placed in the "end" position. Different attributes may behave differently depending on what platform they are running on, but on iOS for example, "end" will place the button to the right of the nav bar. Also note that on the button itself we give it an attribute of ion-button which will give the button the Ionic styling, as well as icon-only which styles buttons that only contain an icon and no text.
We are using (click) to attach a click listener to this element, which will call the addItem() function in home.ts (which doesn't exist yet).
Now that we have our template sorted, we need to create the functions we are referencing in our HomePage class, and we also need to supply the items data (we will just set up some dummy data initially).
Remember before how we assigned a type of any to the homePage variable? Now we are assigning a type of NavController to the navCtrl parameter in the constructor. This is how dependency injection works in Ionic, and is basically a way of telling the application "we want navCtrl to be a reference to NavController". By adding the public keyword in front of it, it automatically creates a member variable for us. This means that we can now reference the NavController anywhere in this class by using this.navCtrl.
We've created functions for adding items and viewing items, but before we can take this any further we are going to have to create a AddItemPage and ItemDetailPage component.
We're going to create a new component now that will allow us to add new todo's. This will be a simple form where we supply a title and description to create a new todo.
IMPORTANT: When pages are generated in Ionic, something called "lazy loading" is set up by default. To keep things simple, we will not be covering that in this tutorial. To make sure you do not run into any issues, you should delete the add-item.module.ts file that is generated. The @IonicPage() decorator should also be removed from the add-item.ts file.
Whenever we create a new page, we need to ensure that it is imported into our app.module.ts, and declared in the declarations and entryComponents arrays.
Just like last time, let's create our template for the component first.
There's nothing too crazy going on here to start off with. We have another button defined, this time calling a saveItem function that we will define in add-item.ts shortly. We also have a button that references a close function – since we will eventually launch this page as a Modal we want the ability to dismiss the page, so we will also be defining this function in add-item.ts.
Then we have some inputs, and on them, we have [(ngModel)], which sets up two-way data binding for us. Any change we make to the title field will be immediately reflected on the this.title member variable in add-item.ts (which we will also add shortly). The same goes in reverse, any change we make to this.title in add-item.ts will also be immediately reflected in the template.
Also notice that on our save button we use the full attribute, this is a handy little attribute that will make the button full width for us.
Now we are going to set up the class for our Add Item component.
We're importing a weird new service here called ViewController which can be used with Modals to dismiss (close) them.
Apart from that, we are just creating the saveItem function which sets up a newItem object, which will use the current values of title and description (i.e. whatever the user puts in the input fields we set up two-way data binding on). We then dismiss the view, but we also pass in that new item to the dismiss function. This will allow us to set up a listener back on our home page (which will launch this page) to grab that item. In this way, we can pass data from one page to another (however, keep in mind that a modal isn't required to pass data between pages).
As I just mentioned, we are sending some data back to the HomePage component to be saved, so we are going to have to set that up. We are also going to import our new AddItemPage component into the HomePage so that we can create that view when the user clicks Add Item.
If you look at the top of this file, you can see that we are now importing the AddItemPage component. This will allow us to create a Modal using that page, as we are doing in the addItem function. Notice that we also set up the onDidDismiss listener here, which will grab that item that is being passed back and then save it using the saveItem function. For now we just save an item by pushing it into the items array, but eventually we will save it into storage.
We've also removed the dummy data, because now when a user enters in a new item it will be added to this.items through the saveItem function. We also set items to be an empty array initially.
Now we want to add the ability to click on a specific todo list item, and then view the details of that item (i.e. the description). To do this, we are going to create another new component.
Now let's set up our new components template.
Compared to the rest of the templates, this one is pretty straight forward. We're just using the <ion-card> directive to fancy it up a bit, and outputting the values of title and description which will be defined in item-detail.ts.
When we push this page we will pass in the data of the item that was clicked, and then we just set the title and description to that of the item using NavParams.
Now all we have to do is set up the viewItem function in home.ts and import the new detail page.
The todo application will basically work now, but the data isn't being stored anywhere so as soon as you refresh the application you will lose all of your data (not ideal).
What we're going to do now is create a service called Data that will handle storing and retrieving data for us. We will use the Storage service Ionic provides to help us do this. Storage is Ionic's generic storage service, and it handles storing data in the best way possible whilst providing a consistent API for us to use.
This means that if you are running on a device and have the SQLite plugin installed, then it will use a native SQLite database for storage, otherwise, it will fall back to using browser based storage (which can be wiped by the operating system).
Click here to learn more about the different storage options for HTML5 mobile applications.
This one is a little bit different to the rest of the components we have been creating (and it would be more appropriate to consider it a service). Instead of using the @Component decorator, we are instead declaring this class as an @Injectable.
In our constructor, we set up a reference to the Storage service.
Our save function simply takes in the array of all of the items and saves it to storage, whenever the items change we will call this function.
We will also need to set up the Storage service (which requires us to include a new import in the @NgModule), as well as the Data provider, in our app.module.ts file.
Notice that we have declared these services in the providers array, rather than in the declarations or entryComponents arrays.
Now we need to update home.ts to make use of this new service.
So here's our final bit of code. Again, we're importing the data service and passing it through to our constructor. We are still setting the items to be empty to start off with, and fetching the data using the data service. If there are any items returned it will set items to that, but if there is not it will just set it to an empty array again.
It's important to note here that getData returns a promise not the data itself. Fetching data from storage is asynchronous which means our application will continue to run while the data loads. A promise allows us to perform some action whenever that data has finished loading, without having to pause the whole application.
For more information on promises, check out Andrew McGivery's post on the subject (keep in mind though that the promise syntax is different in Ionic).
Finally, we also add a call to the save function in the data service when a new item is being added. So now this function will update our items array with the new data straight away, but it will also save a copy to the data service so that it is available next time we come back to the application.
Obviously, there's a lot more we could do with this application like making it prettier, adding the ability to delete and edit notes and so on. However, for now, hopefully that should have given you a pretty decent introduction to creating apps with Ionic.


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WATCH TWO CLIPS FROM THE NEW SEASON OF THE 'SCREAM' TV SERIES
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Season 3 of the Scream TV series has been delayed for ages, but it's finally premiering on VH1 next week, with all six hour-long episodes being shown from Monday July 8th through to Wednesday July 10th – and it seems that they've finally been allowed to use the iconic Scream mask at last. It'll be a while before UK viewers will be able to see it [probably on Netflix], but we have two clips for you to view, the first one riffing on the first film's terrifying opening, only that this time around it's the Halloween remake that's being watched!
This season is called Scream: Resurrection, and is about:
"A local star football running back, whose tragic past comes back to haunt him and threaten his hard-earned plans for the future … and the lives of his unlikely group of friends".
R.J .Cyler, Keke Palmer, Paris Jackson, Mary J. Blige, Tyler Posey, Tyga, Giorgia Whigham, Jessica Sula, C.J. Wallace, Giullian Yao Gioiello, and Tony Todd star.
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I'm a huge film fan and will watch pretty much any type of film, from Martial Arts to Westerns, from Romances [though I don't really like Romcoms!]] to Historical Epics. Though I most certainly 'have a life', I tend to go to the cinema twice a week! However,ever since I was a kid, sneaking downstairs when my parents had gone to bed to watch old Universal and Hammer horror movies, I've always been especially fascinated by horror, and though I enjoy all types of horror films, those Golden Oldies with people like Boris Karloff and Christopher Lee probably remain my favourites. That's not to say I don't enjoy a bit of blood and gore every now and again though, and am also a huge fan of Italian horror, I just love the style.


Warm up your insides or settle your ailing stomach with Taimatsu's white rice porridge. Known in Japanese as Kayu, this porridge is made using fluffy, chewy Koshihikari rice grown in Niigata prefecture (one of the best areas of Japan for rice cultivation). Enjoy this porridge as it is, try with a little honey or syrup, or combine with a topping of pickles or bonito flakes.


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There is a nuclear power plant in Houston in the path of Harvey
From The Statesman.com The massive nuclear power plant on the Texas Gulf Coast, the South Texas Project, could shut down as Hurricane Harvey approaches with wind speeds topping 100 mph. "We're in planning stages, we're in close coordination with county, state and federal agencies," said Buddy Eller, the spokesman for the plant, which is co-owned by Austin Energy. Plant policy is to shut down the reactors when a storm's sustained wind speeds exceed 74 mph, Eller said. Currently, he said that winds are only projected to hit 40 mph at the plant site.
But, Eller added, much remains in flux: the forecast could continue to shift, bringing stronger winds that could lead the shut down. On the flip side, Texas's electrical grid operator, ERCOT, could ask the plant to remain online. Both reactors are currently online and running at 100 percent.
Umm first of all why is there no alert for this, and why is this nuclear power plant in the Houston area still operating at 100 percent? If this plant is still operating at 100 percent we can have a major problem on our hands, and hopefully precautions have been made to shut this down since this report. Harvey is a very major hurricane, and if this plant should be in it's path sometime tonight then could have a major problem should Harvey decide to target this area. Let's all hope Harvey does nothing to this, and that 100 percent operation has ended tonight. Should any damage be done to this facility, we could have a very serious situation on our hands.


Similar to the Safari Zone of previous games, the Pastoria Great Marsh contains many Pokémon that are unobtainable elsewhere at this point in the game.
Before you enter the Great Marsh, visit the observatory upstairs. The people there can tell you how the Great Marsh works, and the binoculars by the windows will give you a preview of the Pokémon that you can catch in the Great Marsh. The binoculars will usually reveal the Pokémon of the day, which does not normally appear in the Marsh, but can be caught anytime that day.
For 500 Poké Dollars, you are allowed to take 500 steps and throw up to 30 Safari Balls. You can't fight Pokémon here, so the only way to make them easier to capture is to throw bait or splatter them with mud. This may drive the Pokémon away, but if successful, the Pokémon becomes easier to capture. Throwing mud increases your chances of capturing the Pokémon, but also increases the chance of it fleeing. Throwing bait does the opposite. Throwing bait lowers the chance of it fleeing, but also lowers your chances of capturing the Pokémon.
Speak to the Safari Game player near the gate. She has found HM 05, and would be happy to give it to you. You'll need Defog later, so be sure to challenge the Safari Game at least once!
The defog is needed in Celestic town and Mt. Coronet. While you can get through them without a defog (which might not be recommended), you may still need it at the Turnback Cave (after getting the National Pokédex) to obtain the Giratina.
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Q: how to implement soap request in php? I searched this website for a helpful response for integrating a SOAP Request in PHP, but I didn't find anything that solved my problem.
I'm new to SOAP and can't figure out why I am not getting any response:
 <?php
$xml = '<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>'.
    '<soap:Envelope xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"'.
    ' xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema"'.
    ' xmlns:soap="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/">'.
        '<soap:Body>'.
            '<food xmlns="http://www.localhost:81/dbWIP/xml1.xml">'.
                '<price>$5.95</price>'.
            '</food>'.
        '</soap:Body>'.
    '</soap:Envelope>';

$url = "http://www.localhost:81/dbWIP/xml1.xml";

$ch = curl_init();
echo $ch;
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $url);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER, false);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYHOST, 0);

$headers = array();
array_push($headers, "Content-Type: text/xml; charset=utf-8");
array_push($headers, "Accept: text/xml");
array_push($headers, "Cache-Control: no-cache");
array_push($headers, "Pragma: no-cache");
array_push($headers, "SOAPAction:http://www.localhost:81/dbWIP/xml1.xml");
if($xml != null) {
    echo $xml;
    curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, "$xml");
    array_push($headers, "Content-Length: " . strlen($xml));
}
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_USERPWD, "user_name:password"); /* If required */
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POST, true);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, $headers);
$response = curl_exec($ch);
echo $response;
$code = curl_getinfo($ch, CURLINFO_HTTP_CODE);
echo"<br/> CODE:"$code;
curl_close($ch);
?>

A: I think you are missing URL from curl_init which will initialize a cURL session, but yours has no URL.
    $curl = curl_init("http://www.localhost:81/dbWIP/xml1.xml");
    curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_HTTP_VERSION, CURL_HTTP_VERSION_1_0);
    curl_setopt ($curl, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYHOST, 2);
    curl_setopt ($curl, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER, 0);
    //curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER, 1);
    //curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYHOST, 2);
    curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, $headers);
    curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_POST, true);
    curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, $xml);
    curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);

    $response = curl_exec($curl);

And try setting your headers to
   $headers = array(
        'Content-type: text/xml;charset="utf-8"',
        'Accept: text/xml',
        'Cache-Control: no-cache',
        'Pragma: no-cache',
        'Content-length: ' . strlen($xml),
    );

A: Try to remove the quotation marks:
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, $xml);


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Families Avoiding Financial Distress After Injury Through Legal Funding
October 15, 2015 /in Blog /by Crystal Olsen
Hardworking Americans are living on the financial edge. With 76% of households living paycheck-to-paycheck, families are stretching even farther to reach the American Dream. This struggle isn't limited to those who are truly impoverished. According to a recent Brookings Institution study, nearly two-thirds of households living "hand-to-mouth" are middle-class families that own homes and save for retirement. This means that a staggering 25 million working-class households are unprepared to weather unexpected events that could threaten to push them to the edge of financial ruin.
So what happens if life gets unpredictable? When you're injured in an accident? When you have your ability to earn an income taken away? Insurance industry special interests have recently been on offense, criticizing legal funding—an industry that provides upfront cash to litigants in exchange for a portion of the potential settlement. Yet, Oasis Financial co-founder and CEO, Ralph Shayne rebuffed these critics Thursday saying that his company helps families "bridge the gap at a time of real need."
He pointed out that insurance companies "have a profit motive to capitalize on people's immediate financial needs and give them a quick offer that is cents on the dollar to the well-established fair value of the claim. The effect can be crippling to families that need that money to get back on their feet."
Insurance industry talking heads often try to push their agenda by intentionally mischaracterizing legal funding as a "lawsuit loan." In reality, financial professionals generally agree that it has the features of an asset sale, not a loan. Legal funding companies purchase a small portion of a consumer's legal claim and do not get paid until the case is settled, which can take many months to a several years. Legal funding requires no monthly payments. And, if the case does not settle, the consumer keeps the money—all of it.
Legal funding causes no risk to a consumer's credit. No risk of being sent to collections. And, no risk of being forced into bankruptcy. Shayne says that "these benefits can be a huge relief to families feeling the uncertainty and stress that comes with fighting for a fair settlement in the legal system."
Credit cards and other types if financial products are certainly other options for many families trying to get by while waiting for a settlement. Yet, they come with their own risks. For example, if a person loses his or her case and has been living on credit cards, he or she will still have to pay that money back—plus interest—and can get trapped in a long, devastating cycle of debt.
"Choice is what families in distress need, and yet struggle to attain," Shayne stated. "We give them a valuable option." While legal funding is available in most states, new insurance industry-driven regulations have forced some companies like Oasis—one of the founding members of the Alliance for Responsible Consumer Legal Funding (ARC)—to limit access in places like Tennessee. This has eliminated options for families. Other state legislatures are considering such regulations, but they may hurt consumers more than they help.
Retha Arbogast of Evergreen Park, Illinois, was a passenger in a vehicle that was hit by a distracted driver. The accident caused a severe neck sprain, ruptured disks, and partially flattened her spinal cord. Arbogast's injuries made it impossible for her to work at her job cleaning houses, and bills quickly piled up. With legal funding, Arbogast was able to keep herself afloat until she was able to work again. "I was able to pay my physical therapy bills and keep a roof over my head…If legal funding hadn't been available to me, I can say with certainty that I would be homeless."
Shayne says he hopes that future regulations are based on industry best practices, not "controls being pushed by the trillion-dollar insurance industry in an aggressive organized effort that has hurt working families." Model legislation being forwarded by ARC would help standardize contracts to improve transparency for consumers.
"We strive for transparency and clarity in interactions with the families that come to us for help," Shayne said. "We know they know that they are in tough situations, and we take our role in helping them very seriously."
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Valuable new knowledge and models of storage risk related to faults in reservoirs
News • Nov 23, 2022 14:33 CET
For three years, the FRISK research project has quantified fault-related leakage risks in reservoirs considered for CO2 storage. – FRISK has provided a high level of technical work. To interpret the faults correctly is the cornerstone of everything that comes after, says Richard Tozer, Structural Geologist at TotalEnergies, one of FRISK's industry partners.
Combatting extreme weather with nature-based solutions
World leaders gather yearly at the climate summit to discuss actions that can contribute to the fight against natural disasters and the climate crisis. To support the political discussions, the EU has initiated a series of side events to highlight research, innovation, and activities that will help meet the climate goals in the Paris Agreement.
NGI leads the new ISSMGE technical committee TC222 Geotechnical BIM and DigitalTwins
News • Oct 13, 2022 08:53 CET
To increase knowledge and coordinate work NGI – Norwegian Geotechnical Institute has initiated the TC222 Geotechnical committee in the International Society for Soil Mechanics and Geotechnical Engineering (ISSMGE) focusing on geotechnical Building Information Modelling (BIM) and Digital Twins.
Managing Director at NGI, Lars Andresen, has become a member of the ISSMGE European President's board
News • Jun 29, 2022 11:48 CET
The board's main focus will be to further develop the collaboration between geotechnical engineers in Europe during the next four years.
Linking art and research to disseminate knowledge on plastic pollution
Every year, 230,000 tonnes of small plastic pellets end up in the ocean. Some of them have been washed ashore at Huk beach in Oslo. Now the plastic has become photo art and a part of NGI's research – on how plastic pollution changes nature.
Norwegian researchers lead a gigantic EU project which will find solutions for invisible pollution
News • Mar 11, 2022 14:04 CET
Frying pans with teflon coatings so your food does not burn. Detergents to keep your clothes and dishes clean. These are examples of how we, in our daily lives, come in to contact with invisible pollutants called PM substances. These pollutants end up going down the drain and they do not degrade and can travel long distances in the environment. They remain in water and are problematic for humans and the ecosystem. Now the EU is taking action.
New method developed for simulating landslide tsunamis
News • Feb 07, 2022 16:13 CET
The method shows that through modelling advanced landslide physics, both small scale experiments and real tsunami events can be explained with the same model. The results have been published in Nature Communications.
The MLRA 2021 conference takes place from 25 to 27 October in Wroclaw, Poland and online.
MLRA 2021 – "Machine learning & Risk assessment in geoengineering" is a joint International Symposium of two events 3ISMLG and TCMW. Many from the Norwegian Geotechnical Institute (NGI) having a key role will attend.
New method forecasting tsunami uncertainty
News • Sep 28, 2021 10:59 CET
In a new paper "Probabilistic tsunami forecasting for early warning", NGI researchers have contributed to derive a new method for tsunami forecasting coined Probabilistic Tsunami Forecasting (PTF). The innovation of the PTF is to connect forecasted tsunami height to the ratio of correct vs missed and false alarms in tsunami early warning.
New piling solution will ensure both stability and energy from the ground
News • Jul 13, 2021 04:00 CET
In partnership with Malvik municipality, the Norwegian Geotechnical Institute (NGI) will increase the use of geothermal heating in areas with thick deposits. For the buildings of the future the technology may increase the use of local thermal energy, reduce CO2 emissions, reduce pressure on the electricity grid and lead to cheaper electricity bills.
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