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Ryan Johanningmeier
A football life
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Denver Post file photoRyan Johanningmeier during football practice, Sept. 3, 1998.
Ryan Johanningmeier: A Football Life
Published Dec. 26, 2015
By Nick Groke, The Denver Post
He gave everything he had to be the best football player he could be. The pain of losing his dream to play in the NFL was nothing compared to what he carried with him after he was forced to give up the game.
A mother's memory never unspools in order, like a movie plot. It flashes up randomly over time. One moment, Ryan Johanningmeier is a 9-year-old rascal romping up the stairs to tell his mom about an escaped pet snake. Then he's a 21-year-old All-America football player standing next to Peyton Manning.
Ryan's mom, Sandy Curfman, can rattle off his adventures as though they happened yesterday.
"Ryan, he was in the fourth grade then, he comes to the top of the steps one night and says, 'I have good news and bad news, mom.' And I said, 'Well, what's the bad news?' " she recalled.
"The snake got out in the house," he said.
"Well, what's the good news, honey?" she said.
"I'm looking for it."
Football fans may remember Johanningmeier from the waning years of Colorado's golden age, when the Buffaloes flipped from coach Bill McCartney, who first recruited him, to the Rick Neuheisel years to the Gary Barnett teams. Johanningmeier (pronounced Joe-HAN-ing-mye-er) was a versatile athlete who played every position on Colorado's offensive line from 1996-99, a large and nimble blocker who grew up in nearby Lafayette and matured into an All-American.
Associated Press file photoRyan and Jashon Sykes celebrate after Sykes intercepted a Boston College pass for a touchdown, Dec. 31, 1999.
Offensive linemen are the silent guardians of football. They tough out a sumo-style existence of hand-to-hand combat for the benefit of someone else. Their purpose is to protect.
But who protects the protector? Johanningmeier clawed his way onto an NFL roster. But he never played a down as a pro. And, when he died alone in his Lakewood apartment March 9, after he went to bed and never woke up from a lethal overdose of painkillers, football fans had probably forgotten about him. He was 38.
Ryan's parents, his family, his friends, they remember it all. They remember the love of a son and a buddy, the promise of an enormous football talent, and his daily, endless battle with pain.
"I don't think he'd be dead right now if he hadn't played football," his mom said.
His was a football life, outsized in body and commitment. At 6-foot-7, Johanningmeier would often rest his elbow on the shoulders of teammates. It was a gentle reminder of his enormous frame and a silent reassurance he would keep them safe.
But former elite athletes in their 30s don't normally die without warning. During his playing career, Johanningmeier underwent seven surgeries, on his wrist, ankle, knees, shoulder and back. Pain wore him down.
"You can't rewrite history. You can't think about what might have been," said Adam Reed, a center who played alongside Johanningmeier at Colorado. "Where does any one chain of events start? Where does the train get off track from whatever your original fate was?"
Johanningmeier was a dominating lineman at Colorado. As a junior, in 1998, he was among an elite class. Seven of the 10 linemen ahead of him on the all-Big 12 Conference first and second teams played in the NFL. Playboy magazine selected Johanningmeier for its 1999 preseason All-America team and flew him to Phoenix for a weekend party. As he did on CU's line, Johanningmeier found himself standing next to quarterbacks.
Courtesy of Sandy CurfmanRyan was named a preseason Playboy All-American in 1999, where he met Peyton Manning, who had been honored the year before.
Tennessee's Peyton Manning, the 1998 All-American quarterback and a recent No. 1 draft choice by the Indianapolis Colts, was there to welcome the new crop. He and Johanningmeier posed for a photo.
"They look like they're babies," Curfman said. "It's so cute."
Their paths would soon go in wildly different directions. Manning was ready to launch what would become a record-setting NFL career. Johanningmeier was preparing for what would become a painful senior season.
"If Ryan doesn't get hurt, maybe he's still playing ball," Reed said. "Maybe he plays two years and burns out. Who knows?"
While no one knew it at the time, everything changed after Johanningmeier took a hit to his back in the CU spring game in 1999, an injury that would, in subsequent years, send him into a spiral.
A pile of players chased a fumble. Johanningmeier ran over to help. He hurdled two players and targeted the safety for a block. When he planted his feet, defensive players hit him from each side, straight at his shoulders and square in his back. He bent over backward and landed in the grass.
The pain was severe. But no one knew the damage. By August, he was ready for preseason drills. When CU's season began, he was listed on practice reports as "day to day with back spasms."
"He tried to handle everything himself," said his father, B.J. Johanningmeier. "He always wanted to be stoic."
1999 Oklahoma at Colorado highlights
By the third week of the season, trainers discovered the source of his pain. Johanningmeier had three compressed vertebrae in his back, almost certainly the result of that hit in the spring game. But he kept playing.
"There's a curse of football," Reed said. "You get back in and you go. You don't think about it. There's a little bit of meathead to it. But that's required. That's the culture. You're a member of a team. You don't want to let anybody down. You sacrifice yourself for the betterment of the group."
Johanningmeier, a co-captain, played through pain all season, helping CU to a 7-5 record and an Insight.com Bowl victory over Boston College. Cortisone shots — football's go-to remedy to get injured players back on the field — helped keep him going.
It seemed Johanningmeier, with his skill and toughness, was positioned well for the NFL draft. Instead it was the beginning of the end of his time on a football field.
"If we could have intervened at any time, that's when we should have," his mother said with the benefit of hindsight. "We should have encouraged him he was done. But we didn't know at the time.
"It was his body, his choice. He was young. You don't think you're going to be crippled the rest of your life."
Denver Post file photoJim and Sandy Curfman, Ryan's mother and stepfather, in their Golden home. "When people are really in pain, to where it's controlling their life, we can't understand that," Sandy said.
Johanningmeier had football in his blood. He was a third-generation football player. His grandfather Bill played at Loras College in Iowa after he returned from World War II. Ryan's father, B.J., was a standout defensive lineman at Colorado State in the 1970s who got NFL training camp invitations from Green Bay and Washington. He signed with the Broncos in the 1974 strike year but was cut.
As a kid, after his parents divorced, Ryan kept a photo on his bedroom wall of his dad playing in a Broncos uniform at San Francisco's Candlestick Park.
Grandfather Bill Johanningmeier Sr., father B.J. Johanningmeier, and Ryan.
"It was something we always did together — we always went to football games," B.J. said. "It's part of our heritage."
The NFL, Ryan hoped, would justify all the work and the pain. Trainers injected cortisone shots straight into Johanningmeier 's spine, from his senior season through pro workouts for scouts. The shots were his shot at the NFL. He couldn't sit or stand for more than 20 minutes at a time, but maybe, hopefully, the pain and inflammation would fade in time for the NFL draft in 2000.
At the predraft NFL scouting combine in February, Johanningmeier was prospect OL12. Never mind his name. He was numbered meat. Ryan interviewed with 17 teams, including the Broncos. Each team had its own team of doctors, and they all wanted their own set of medical tests. X-rays, MRIs, blood tests, urine samples.
The St. Louis Rams used a tag system on prospects. Yellow tags for off-field issues. Red tags for health issues. Ryan got a red tag.
1998 Colorado at Missouri highlights
"It's like trading horses," B.J. said.
While his history of injuries gave NFL teams pause, Johanningmeier's size and versatility were selling points. He had played every position on the Buffs' line during his career, including tight end.
"He just adjusted," B.J. said. "He spent a lot of time figuring it out rather than grumbling about it."
Scouts and coaches encouraged him with their predraft predictions. Some told him he might go as high as the third round. The NFL picked 254 players in seven rounds over two days. Johanningmeier wasn't chosen. Minutes after the final pick, his phone lit up. His health issues had scared away every team from drafting him, but five organizations wanted him to sign as a free agent.
The Atlanta Falcons, coached by Dan Reeves, offered him a two-year contract with injury stipulations and a $12,000 signing bonus. He quickly accepted.
"It was exactly where he wanted to be," Reed said. "That's why it was so hard when it ended."
Johanningmeier's sacrifices piled up. A rookie free agent plays at the lowest rung of an NFL training camp ladder, hardly noticed. The Falcons' head college scout knew him as Ryan Yorgenheimer. He would never get the Falcons' attention or make the 53-man roster if he didn't play. So Johanningmeier tried to play through his pain in training camp, even if the pain made him play poorly.
Associated Press file photoRyan warms up during practice at the Atlanta Falcons training facility in 2000.
"We talked about it. I asked him if he really wanted to keep going," B.J. said. "He told me, 'I'd like to give it a shot.' I asked him, 'Do you think you'll hold up?'
"We'll see, won't we?" his son said.
His dad understood.
"I remember my dad, he said to me, 'It's up to you if you want to play,' " B.J. recalled. " 'But 20 years from now, will you say you wish you'd given it a shot?' "
The Falcons were scheduled for an August preseason game in Tokyo. But the pain in Johanningmeier's back was too severe for him to sit on a plane for 15 hours. Instead, he flew to Los Angeles to meet with a back specialist. Doctors discovered he had congenital spinal stenosis — he was born with a narrow spine. That spring game hit in 1999 was so painful because it squeezed a disc out between his vertebrae, like a fist closing around a wet sponge. It put a vise grip on his spinal nerves.
A surgeon cut into his back and removed part of a herniated disc and some nerves near his spine. The Falcons put him on their injured reserve list, ending his season. The pain did not subside once he recovered. So he retired after the season.
"He always said: 'Football is what I do. It's not who I am.' But he put so much time into it," his dad said.
"Football is the kind of sport where one day you're wearing a helmet and it's all broken in, and the next day you'll never wear it again. It's a terminal ending. Whether you want it to be or not."
Associated Press file photoRyan Johanningmeier talks with his father, B.J., in his hospital bed before surgery to remove a disc in his back later that day.
Before football wore down Johanningmeier like an aged coal miner, crippling his back, he was full of fun and shenanigans. There was the time in high school when he watched "Happy Gilmore" and tried to hit a shuffle-step golf shot off the tee like Adam Sandler.
"He thought it was the funniest movie he'd ever seen," said Rob Grall, a close friend of Ryan's from Centaurus High. "So we're on the 15th tee the next day, and he hits this thing and it goes straight left, right at a big bay window of a giant house."
Sept. 8, 2000: It was July, and this was Ryan Johanningmeier's fourth epidural for a herniated disc, his second in four months. A doctor injected cortisone into the space between his spinal cord and vertebra, with the hope of soothing the inflamed fluid at the center of his spine.
The shot hasn't helped. A little more than three weeks ago, he still couldn't sit or stand for more than 20 minutes at a time.
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He lived in the "Fat Shack," they called it, a house he shared with three other CU football players and a tennis player. They watched marathon TV sessions of "Star Trek: The Next Generation."
"He and I did a lot of stuff that neither of us did with anybody else," said Reed, one of Ryan's roommates. "Just goofy, dumb stuff."
When Johanningmeier's NFL dreams fell through, he came back to Boulder. He was different, his friends said. When the time comes to reinvent yourself after college, the transition can be a challenge. Johanningmeier's turn was more complicated. He had touched the big leagues, if only briefly, but it washed away in a flash.
With the Falcons, Ryan's back injury turned into three back injuries. The compressed vertebrae in the middle of his spine caused more discs to swell and nerves to pinch, in his lower and upper back.
"They were like dominoes," his mother said.
With football over, Johanningmeier used his business degree in management systems from Colorado to create a home-based information technology business, helping people and companies set up websites and run networks. He also occasionally worked as a spotter in the press box at Buffs football games.
And he began collecting broken-down pinball machines. Maybe he saw himself the same way.
"He'd buy them and fix them up, but he'd need someone to help him lift them up onto a box," Grall said. "He would try to do it, and he couldn't. I'd be like 'Dude, just stop.' "
His only relief came with heavy doses of pain medication. Doctors prescribed narcotics. But there were no remedies. Surgery meant cutting through his chest and ribs and pulling out his organs to reach his spine. There was no guarantee it would help. So he stayed on the pain meds.
"The procedure that could possibly alleviate his pain had a 50 percent success rate," Reed said. "And he was like, 'Well, hell, that's no kind of chance. A 50-50 shot?' At that point, he was more of a realist."
His friends were deeply loyal to him, and he to them. While he suffered through the pain, Johanningmeier kept a lineman's code. Always the protector. When Grall was in a hospital, Ryan was the first to visit. When Reed's wife gave birth to a daughter, Ryan was quick to visit.
"He didn't want to come across as needing help or having something wrong," Grall said. "He hid it from some people."
They charge inmates for Advils in jail. Johanningmeier learned this quickly. Two rust-colored pills were all he had to curb the pain. He was also withdrawing.
For more than a decade, Johanningmeier was addicted to narcotic pain meds, his mother said. He was prescribed oxycodone and oxymorphone, two powerful opiates, to treat three back injuries that caused him severe pain all day, every day.
The back-breaker
Sept. 9, 2000: Questions about his health kept teams away on draft day. Left uncalled after 254 draft picks, Johanningmeier had to settle for a team he knew next to nothing about. The Falcons hadn't talked to him before the draft and couldn't pronounce his name, but they weren't unfamiliar with the 6-foot-7, 305-pound 23-year-old.
Reed Johnson, Atlanta's director of college player personnel, gave this scouting report of the player he called Ryan Yorgenheimer...
"When people are really in pain, to where it's controlling their life, we can't understand that," his mother said.
It's easy to assume there's a remedy. It's just a back injury. There must be a fix. But there wasn't. So Johanningmeier took narcotics like they were daily vitamins.
For football players, this isn't unusual. In October, former New York Giants safety Tyler Sash died after accidentally overdosing on two powerful pain meds he was taking for a series of injuries he suffered as a player.
Johanningmeier was usually good about handling the meds. He knew not to take them during the day while he worked. But when the work day was done, and the pain was peaking, he would pop his pills. In July 2014, police found him asleep in his car with the engine running. He wasn't driving a moving car, but it's still illegal. He was sentenced to four weeks in jail this past February for driving under the influence.
Jail was a good thing for him, in a way. There was no oxycodone and no methadone, another strong synthetic drug he had been prescribed as part of his pain management. For four weeks, he could take only Advils. So he suffered through withdrawals and detoxed. He lost 30 pounds.
Getting off the drugs was the easy part. Getting out from under the pain was nearly impossible. It never went away. So he refilled his prescriptions for more meds as soon as he got out.
On the first Saturday in March, Johanningmeier walked from his apartment in Lakewood to a nearby bank to deposit paychecks he missed while in jail. As always, he carried the pain with him like a backpack. On his way home, he passed out and fell forward, hitting his head on a concrete curb. Neighbors found him unconscious and called an ambulance. He had overdosed. He was rushed to the hospital and revived.
By Sunday afternoon he was back home and e-mailed his mother. He didn't tell her about his hospital trip.
The Jefferson County coroner later estimated that Johanningmeier died quickly sometime Monday afternoon. His mom thinks he knew something was wrong. He tried to climb into bed in the middle of a work day. That's where he was found. The coroner's report stated he died of a toxic overdose of opiates and an enlarged heart.
"It happened again, and nobody was there to save him," Curfman said.
Daily Camera file photoKelly McFadden, with daughters Makayla, 4, and Piper, 5, looks at old photos of Ryan. Former CU players, coaches, friends and family gathered to remember the former CU football player who died at 38.
If you watch a football game and follow only the ball, you'll be staring mostly at the quarterback and rarely at his protection. Those linemen, the invisible working stiffs who get beaten down and knocked over only to climb back up, are invisible bodyguards.
"The guys who are special offensive linemen, who are hard and tough and can handle those ups and downs, and keep growing, they develop a great sense of responsibility," said Tom Cable, Johanningmeier's line coach from 1998-99 and now an assistant coach with the Seattle Seahawks.
"We're the caretakers — we take care of the quarterback, we take care of the runner, we take care of the team," Cable said. "If you're a good team, then your offensive line is a big part of it. Their spirit and their vibe is the core of good football teams. That spirit, Ryan is a great example of that. He felt responsibility for his teammates and his family, that's just how he was as a person."
At a Colorado practice in 1999, Cable called out Johanningmeier in front of the team. A burly former lineman himself, Cable has a booming voice. The field fell silent.
Johanningmeier trembled. Was he in trouble? Did he miss a block? Was his toughness being challenged? He expected his coach to wring him out. Cable instead congratulated him. Johanningmeier had just been voted a preseason All-American. His team cheered.
Football was the thing that Johanningmeier did well. It was also the thing that hurt him. But how can you give up on your gift?
"There were many times I asked him," his mom said, " 'Ryan, now that you know all that you know, would you still go back and repeat this whole life again?'
"And he said, 'Yes.' "
Cyrus McCrimmon, The Denver PostAdam Reed, left, and Rob Grall swap stories of their friend and former teammate Ryan Johanningmeier, who passed away in March of 2015 at age 38. "He didn't want to come across as needing help or having anything wrong," Grall said.
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Public and Local Acts of the Legislature of the State of Michigan, Parte 2
Por Michigan
charge of the court to be in writing, as provided by an act entitled "An act to declare and establish the practice of charging or instructing juries, and settling the law in cases tried in the circuit courts," approved March twenty-fifth, one thousand eight hundred sixty-nine.
SEC. 8. All acts or parts of acts contravening the provisions of this act shall be construed as void and of no effect as applied to the counties in the twenty-eighth judicial circuit.
This act is ordered to take immediate effect.
Approved April 16, 1891.
Certain acts void,
[ No. 32. ] AN ACT requiring certain of the regular terms of the circuit
court for the county of Iosco to be hereafter held within the city of Au Sable.
Court to be held in Au Sable.
Proviso as to
SECTION 1. The People of the State of Michigan enact, That two of the regular terms of the circuit court for the county of Iosco, heretofore appointed, shall be held during the remainder of the year A. D. one thousand eight hundred and ninetyone, within the city of Au Sable, and during each year thereafter, two of the regular terms of said court shall be held within
said city: Provided, That the common council of said city, place of holding, shall furnish and provide, free of expense to said county, a suit
able place for holding said court, within said city, and transacting the business thereof, and also a suitable and sufficient jail, for the incarceration of prisoners during the sittings of said court, both to be inspected and approved by the judge of said court which approval shall be in writing, and shall be filed
with the clerk of said county. Judge to desig- SEC. 2. Within ten days after this act shall take effect and held at Au Sable. become a law, and said approval be so filed, the circuit judge of
the twenty-third judicial circuit shall designate which two of the four regular terms of the circuit court for_the said county of Iosco, heretofore appointed for the year A. D. eighteen hundred and ninety-one, shall be so held within said city, which designation shall be in writing, and shall be immediately thereafter transmitted by him to the clerk of the said county.
SEC. 3. The judge of the said circuit shall thereafter, when fixing and appointing the times of holding the several terms within his circuit, in such appointment determine and designate which of the regular terms, to be then fixed and appointed, shall be so held within said city of Au Sable, for the two years next ensuing.
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[ No. 33. ]
AN ACT making an appropriation for the Michigan
Pioneer and Historical Society, for the years eighteen hundred and ninety-one and eighteen hundred and ninety-two.
SECTION 1. The People of the State of Michigan enact, Appropriation. That there is hereby appropriated to the Michigan Pioneer and Historical Society, from the general fund, the sum of one thousand dollars, as follows: The sum of five hundred dollars for the year eighteen hundred and ninety-one, and the sum of five hundred dollars for the year eighteen hundred and ninety-two, which said sums of money shall be Purpose of, expended by said Michigan Pioneer and Historical society in collecting, arranging and preserving a library of books, pamphlets, maps, charts, manuscripts, papers, paintings, statuary and other materials illustrative of and relating to the history of Michigan; to rescue from oblivion the memory of its early pioneers; to procure and preserve narratives of their early exploits, perils, privations, hardy adventures and noble achievements; to collect material of every description relative to the history, genius, progress or decay of our Indian tribes; to exhibit faithfully the past and the present resources of Michigan.
SEC. 2. There is hereby further appropriated to said Additional Michigan Pioneer and Historical Society, from the general
appropriation. fund, the sum of four thousand dollars, as follows: The sum of two thousand dollars for the year eighteen hundred and ninety-one, and the sum of two thousand dollars for the year eighteen hundred and ninety-two, or as much thereof as may be necessary to publish two volumes of historical Purpose of. and other material relative to and illustrative of the history of Michigan. Said Michigan Pioneer and Historical Society shall collect, arrange and prepare the materials for said volumes for printing, which shall be printed by the State printer, under the direction and superintendence of said Michigan Pioneer and Historical Society, and said volumes Size of volumes. shall not contain more than seven hundred and thirty pages each and shall be printed and published in kind of type, quality of paper, style of binding and printing similar to the "Pioneer Collections" heretofore published by said Michigan Pioneer and Historical Society, and said Michigan Pioneer Number of and Historical Society shall not publish or issue more than copies, three thousand copies of each of said volumes published as provided for in this act.
SEC. 3. Five hundred copies of each volume published, as Disposition of. heretofore in this act provided for, shall be deposited in the State Library of Michigan for exchange with the Pioneer and Historical Societies of domestic and foreign states and governments, and the officers of said Michigan Pioneer and Historical Society shall make a further distribution of one copy of each of said volumes to each of the duly and legally
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incorporated public libraries in the State of Michigan when authoritatively and officially requested so to do by the legally elected officers or other legally constituted managers of said public libraries, and the residue and remainder of said copies of said volumes shall be delivered to and be in the custody and care of the State Librarian, to be sold by said Librarian at a price not less than seventy-five cents per copy, and the moneys arising from such sales shall be deposited in the State Treasury to the credit of the general fund.
SEC. 4. The various sums appropriated by this act shall be placed to the credit of the State Pioneer and Historical Society, on the books of the Auditor General's office, and shall be drawn from the State Treasury only on the warrant of the Auditor General in payment of vouchers duly certified by the president and secretary of said society, for expenditures actually incurred in accordance with the provisions of this act.
SEC. 5. No part of the annual appropriations shall ever be paid for any services rendered by its officers to the society while in the discharge of their official duties.
Officers not to receive any part thereof.
[No. 34.]
AN ACT making an appropriation for the support of the
State Public School for the years eighteen hundred and ninety-one and eighteen hundred and ninety-two, for making improvements at that institution and to provide a tax for the same.
Appropriation, purposes, etc.
SECTION 1. The People of the State of Michigan enact, That the sum of thirty-five thousand dollars be and the same is hereby appropriated out of the general fund to meet the current expenses of the State Public School for the year eighteen hundred and ninety-one; and that the further sum of thirty-five thousand dollars be and the same is hereby appropriated out of the general fund to meet the current expenses of the State Public School for the year eighteen hundred and ninety-two; and that the further sum of five thousand three hundred dollars be and the same is hereby appropriated out of the general fund for the following named purposes for the State Public School: For general repairs on building and painting, two thousand five hundred dollars; for slate or metal roofs on main buildings and cottages, one thousand dollars; for furniture and bedding for cottages and main building, eight hundred dollars; for improvements in the hospital buildings, six hundred dollars; and for a new washer and improvements in the laundry, four hundred dollars.
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SEC. 2. That the general sums appropriated by the pro- How paid, etc. visions of this act shall be passed to the credit of the State Public School and paid to the board of control of that institution, or to its treasurer, at such times and in such amounts and manner as is now provided by law and this act, and as may be made to appear to the Auditor General to be necessary.
ŠEC. 3. The Auditor General shall add to and incorporate To be incorpowith the State tax for the year eighteen hundred and ninety- for 1891-92. one, the sum of thirty-eight thousand dollars and for the year eighteen hundred and ninety-two the sum of thirtyseven thousand three hundred dollars to be assessed, levied and collected, which sums when collected shall be passed to the credit of the general fund to reimburse it for the sums appropriated by section one of this act. This act is ordered to take immediate effect. Approved April 16, 1891.
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AN ACT to prevent the taking, catching or destruction of
fish in Donnell's lake and Diamond lake in Penn township, Mud lake in Calvin township and Indian lake, Dewey lake, Cable lake, Magician lake and Crooked lake in Silver Creek township, all in the county of Cass; and Crooked lake and Round lake in the township of Keeler in Van Buren county; and Brush lake in the townships of Berrien and Pipestone, and Long Lake in Berrien township, Berrien county, and Lee lake in Newton township in the county of Calhoun.
SECTION 1. The People of the State of Michigan enact, Unlawful to fish That it shall not be lawful for any person to take, catch or ner, etc. kill any fish in the lakes known as Donnell's lake and Diamond lake in Penn township, Mud lake in Calvin township and Indian lake, Dewey lake, Cable lake, Magician lake and Crooked lake in Silver Creek township, all in the county of Cass; and Crooked lake and Round lake in the township of Keeler in Van Buren county; and Brush lake in the townships of Berrien and Pipestone, and Long lake in Berrien township, Berrien county; Lee lake in Newton township, county of Calhoun, with spear, net, [grap-hook] grab-hook or by the use of jacks or artificial light of any kind, or any kind of fire-arms or explosive material, set lines or other device, except the hook and line.
SEC. 2. Any person violating any of the provisions of violation a this act shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof, shall be fined not to exceed twenty-five penalty. dollars and costs of prosecution, or imprisoned in the county jail not to exceed thirty days, or both such fine and imprisonment, in the discretion of the court.
misdemeanor.
Evidence of vio. lation of act.
SEC. 3. In all prosecutions under this act it shall be prima facie evidence on the part of the people of the violation of the provisions of this act, to show that the defendant was found upon the waters of said lakes
said lakes with spear, net, trapnet, jack or artificial light of any kind, or with dynamite, giant powder, or any other explosive substance or combination of substances.
City may purchase rights of toll road companies, etc.
May condemn such rights.
AN ACT to authorize the cities and townships of this
State to acquire by purchase or condemnation all the rights of toll or plank road companies in the streets or highways of such city or township, and to authorize such toll or plank road companies to sell the whole or any portion of its road or franchise to any city or township in which the same may be located, or to any other person or corporation. SECTION 1. The People of the State of Michigan enact, That any city of the State in which any toll road company has the right to maintain gates or collect toll, [on) or any street or highway within said city, may purchase all rights of said company in such street or highway at a valuation to be agreed on between the common council of the city and the board of directors of such toll road company.
SEC. 2. In case no agreement can be reached for the purchase of the rights of such toll road company, said city is authorized to condemn such rights in which condemnation such city shall proceed as in the condemnation of lands for streets, according to the provisions of act number one hundred and twenty-four of the public acts of one thousand eight hundred and eighty-three, and the acts amendatory thereof, so far as the same are applicable, but the damages to which such company may be entitled shall be paid wholly by said city
SEC. 3. Any plank road company organized under any of
the laws of this State, is hereby authorized to sell the whole
or any portion of its road and franchises to any city, town-
ship, person, or corporation on such terms as
mutually agreed upon.
Authority to sell,

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Why bringing back the draft for military service would be a disaster
Matthew Harwood
Aside from conscription violating citizens' freedom from state servitude, what havoc might a bloated US military wreak?
Wed 11 Jul 2012 14.46 EDT First published on Wed 11 Jul 2012 14.46 EDT
An American soldier after the capture of Hill 471, near the northern border of Khe Sanh, Vietnam, April 1968. Photograph: Bettman/Corbis
The corpse of long-dead idea is beginning to stir.
"I think we ought to have a draft," retired General Stanley McChrystal, former commander of international forces in Afghanistan, said in late June at the Aspen Ideas Festival. "I think if a nation goes to war, every town, every city needs to be at risk. You make that decision and everybody has skin in the game."
Earlier that day, McChrystal noted that less than 1% of Americans currently serve in a voluntary military that has been at war for more than a decade since 9/11. "We're running it very, very hard and, at a certain point, you can't expect it to go forever," he said.
And on Tuesday, influential defense blogger Thomas Ricks, a fellow at the Center for a New American Security, trumpeted McChrystal's call in the New York Times in an editorial provocatively called, "Let's Draft Our Kids." (That "our" is an unfortunate pronoun considering Ricks never discloses whether or not he has children likely to face his renewed call for conscription.)
Ricks, however, took the argument farther than McChrystal, laying out a vision of a "soft" draft because no conscript would deploy. According to Ricks' proposal, all high-school graduates would face three choices. Option one: serve in the military for 18 months performing menial tasks – essentially, becoming the Pentagon's back office – for low pay, in return for free college tuition. Option two: perform national service for two years in return for benefits, like tuition aid. The third, or libertarian, option for prospective conscripts is to opt out.
"Those who declined to help Uncle Sam, though, would in return pledge to ask nothing from him: no Medicare, no subsidized college loans and no mortgage guarantees," he allows. "Those who want minimal government can have it." Naturally, Ricks seems to argue, that's the price of freedom – while never stating whether these citizens' tax dollars will continue to go to financing such privileges for conscripts.
But what Ricks' technocratic proposal to turn young Americans into what he callously and dehumanizingly refers to as "cheap labor" never confronts is that conscription entirely inverts the rightful relationship between a free individual and the state. When the state can compel any of its citizens to do work not freely chosen, or render service not volunteered, that society can no longer be considered liberal in the Enlightenment sense of the term. There's a reason why the word conscript pairs so well with the word slave: both become objects who no longer own themselves.
This objection to conscription is not novel; it's almost as old as the republic itself. During the war of 1812, the Madison administration tried to institute a draft and failed. Senator Daniel Webster excoriated the idea in the House of Representatives in December 1814:
"Where is it written in the constitution, in what article or section is it contained, that you may take children from their parents, and parents from their children, and compel them to fight battles of any war, in which the folly or the wickedness of government may engage it? Under what concealment has this power lain hidden, which now for the first time comes forth, with a tremendous and baleful aspect, to trample down and destroy the dearest rights of personal liberty?"
Indeed, Webster's blistering attack against conscription should also give pause to Ricks' optimism that a draft would make the United States more conservative with its military might. "[H]aving a draft might, as General McChrystal said, make Americans think more carefully before going to war," he wrote:
"Imagine the savings – in blood, tears and national treasure – if we had thought twice about whether we really wanted to invade Iraq."
Nowhere does Ricks provide any evidence that conscription would pacify the American urge to wage war. Conscription didn't stop the United States from fighting the civil war, both world wars, or in Vietnam – although, in the latter case, the draft and the protests against it did help end American aggression in Indochina, but with enormous costs to American social harmony.
What's more worrisome is that Ricks doesn't pause to consider the consequences were he to be wrong about the draft's effect of restraint on military adventuring, especially in light of the fiascos in Afghanistan and Iraq. What if a new generation of conscripts did not make older Americans or their representatives less war-prone? How can he be confident that these conscripts wouldn't eventually get deployed? If they were, what would the government do with those who rightfully resist fighting wars of choice that violate their consciences? Must they go to prison?
Rather than confront either the historical record or the possible unintended consequences of his proposal, Ricks would rather gamble with young Americans' autonomy – and their lives – in a social experiment that treats them instrumentally as mere means, which might lead literally to their end.
If proponents of the draft like Ricks and McChrystal really want to make the United States more war-averse, why don't they advocate taming the beast rather than serving it fresh meat?
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Green Aviation founder Oisin Green
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'I was with the Irish army in Lebanon, but setting up a drone business is the hardest thing I've done'
As part of our weekly How My Business Works series we profile Green Aviation.
Aug 7th 2016, 9:45 AM
THE WHISTLE OF missiles flying overhead was something that Oisin Green got used to surprisingly quickly.
"After a while it was happening so often that you would walk from the dining hall to your room, and you would hear the sound of artillery and know that it was going a few kilometres down the road," he tells Fora.
Green was an infantry troop commander as part of an Irish peacekeeping force stationed in south Lebanon in 2000. Israel had invaded part of the country in 1978 and, more than 20 years later, still had a presence there.
"Several months before I arrived (Irish private) Billy Kedian was killed by mortar fire from an Israeli post after making sure that everyone got to a bunker ahead of him," Green says. "It brought things into stark contrast – what we were doing and how dangerous it could be.
"There was full-blown fire from the time we arrived; constant bombing – morning, noon and night – mainly from the Israeli side from the time they withdrew under artillery and aircraft fire."
Green would wait for several years after the Israelis withdrew in the middle of 2000 for his next tour, serving in Bosnia in 2004 and 2005.
After studying as an electrical engineer, it was in the military that Green got his hands on some of the most advanced weapons in the world.
"I was teaching for the last few years of my career in the military, I was in the infantry weapons wing, so any time a new weapon came in we did the pre-purchase trials to come out with the best one," he says.
"We were potentially buying for the next 20 years, because the equipment had to last – and we were exposed to a lot of cutting-edge technology."
His 12 years in the army would help Green go on to found one of Ireland's first commercial drone companies, Green Aviation.
Among the sniper rifles and mortars, Green got a chance to get up close and personal with some of the most advanced unmanned aircraft in the world.
During a break from the military and a stint as a contract pilot for Ryanair, he decided to set up his own company.
"The idea always was to keep it open with a view to drone contracting," he says.
Now married with three young children, Green is now trying to convince companies that technology the army has used for years can also help give their firms an edge.
What do you do and how long have you done it for?
Green Aviation is one of several startups jostling for space in Ireland's nascent commercial drone industry, which authorities are only starting to get to grips with. The company provides drones to companies for a variety of uses, primarily for large-scale surveying work.
Green officially launched the business in 2015 to focus on providing drone services. However, the company differs from many other drone firms in that it is focused on high-end applications.
The drones it uses are much larger and heavier than normal, allowing them to be fitted with bigger and higher-resolution cameras. They can stay in the air for over a dozen hours, as opposed to more run-of-the-mill units that may only be able to remain airborne for an hour or less and are more prone to reliability issues.
Based in Dublin, the firm is backed by Mayo-born aviation millionaire Ulick McEvaddy, a former Irish army officer who founded Washington-based aircraft leasing company Omega Air.
(Second right) Green Aviation founder Oisin Green at the company's launch
The company had hoped to set up a drone base in the former Carnmore Airport in Galway, although there are indications that the council is trying to set up a film studio there instead.
Green Aviation is at a pre-revenue stage, however Green says that the firm has signed a 'pre-contract agreement' for building-site inspections potentially worth €2 million a year with a company in Dubai. He also expects to close another, slightly smaller contract with an Irish semi-state in the next few weeks.
"We are focused on doing large infrastructure inspections that are currently being done by manned aircraft," he said.
"We are pitched at larger projects and they can take time to come through, but we are beginning to see the fruits of our labour."
What are your costs and how do you make money?
At the moment Green Aviation is quite small, employing three people, including Green, on a full-time basis. While it has yet to land one of its 'big fish' contracts, it has completed a few small jobs for various companies, such as agreeing a deal with the Aviva Stadium to use its drones for infrastructure inspections and marketing.
Last year the firm made a €128,000 loss, although this came before it officially 'launched'. Nevertheless, Green expects that the company could break even as soon as the end of this year once it closes the first of its major contracts.
"We should nearly be at break even by the end of this year, it's one of the reasons why we were very conservative and didn't go after smaller contracts," Green says.
"We have bootstrapped the operation as much as we could, which will bear fruit once we have the contracts signed off.
"We would expect that the one from the semi-state will bring in over €400,000, being conservative."
However, the company's technology doesn't come cheap either. The drones, a top-end model supplied by Belgian firm Flying-Cam, have been used in the filming of several blockbuster movies including Skyfall and Harry Potter.
Youtube Sky-Cam's drones were used during the filming of Harry Potter Youtube
"For one drone without any control software or spare parts, you could be looking at €200,000. And then you have to add in cameras and sensors for it to do what you need it to do, but it brings something to the table that the smaller guys can't," Green says.
What is your market?
Rather than trying to compete with companies making drones for commercial use, Green is looking at the possibilities for businesses to use the technology.
"We could do detailed photography of a wind farm with 70-metre turbines and highlight the areas that are damaged," Green says.
"If you were to get someone to take photos of each part of each turbine it would take much longer, and you would still have to sit someone down and look through them to see where the damage is done, whereas we can highlight it much quicker. We also process the data and make it easy for them to understand."
With this in mind, Green says that the firm is targeting a mix of state bodies and large commercial operators.
"We are looking at a mix of both, but really it is for whoever can see the benefit of using larger drones that can carry bigger sensors. If someone is interested in our services, their background doesn't matter to us," he said.
Green says that Ireland will likely be the "proving ground" for the technology, while it is expected that much of the company's business will be sourced abroad. However, he says the firm will maintain a decent presence here and would hope to have several local contracts on the go at any one time.
https://www.facebook.com/greenaviationltd/videos/510832715754923/
What is the competition?
There are about 100 commercial drone pilots licensed by the Irish Aviation Authority, with the number increasing significantly in recent years as more operators look to set up here.
Jay Bregman, who co-founded taxi app Hailo in 2011, has set up a company called Verifly which has operations in Dublin and is developing a system to register unmanned drone flights. Another Irish startup, Skytango, is trying to build a marketplace for drone enthusiasts.
However, Green says that these companies, as well as tech giants such as Google and Amazon, operate in a very different space to Green Aviation.
"They offer completely different services; none of them are in direct competition with us and what we are trying to achieve," Green says.
"We are going after manned aircraft. If you take a powerline network, it is being surveyed by a helicopter crew with two or three guys; but you can have one pilot flying three or four drones simultaneously and you can lower costs by exponential rates."
AP / Press Association Images Amazon is looking to take advantage of drone technology AP / Press Association Images / Press Association Images
Fear of the unknown is possibly Green's biggest problem, he adds: "You are dealing with the mindset of 'why change it if it isn't broken?' Companies are worried, they say 'what if it crashes, how much do we save?' It takes time but people are slowly coming around to the idea."
What is your vision?
A man used to a challenge, Green isn't bothering to aim low. Not content on just getting off the ground in Ireland and the Middle East, the ex-army officer is hoping his firm can take off all over the world and in the short term is hoping to grow exponentially.
"In five years I would be disappointed if we weren't operating in North and South America, the Middle East and a number of European countries," he says.
"We have three staff now and we will take on another 15 when Dubai goes to a full contract and then in Ireland I would be looking to hire another five people to serve the market here."
Long term, the company is hoping to develop its own drones and software, projects that would likely take years and cost millions of euro to complete. As Green points out himself though, trying to look beyond a few years into the future is pure speculation and he is instead focusing on the here and now.
"We are looking at the types of goals we would like to see within five years. I would just like us to grow and prosper," he says.
"It has been tough at times and with a wife and three young kids it can be very tricky. Even after being in the army and working as a commercial pilot, this is the hardest thing I have ever done.
"You eat into your savings and the numbers go down and there are times when you don't see a light at the end of the tunnel and you wonder whether it is all worth it, but I wouldn't be the first entrepreneur in that situation. It has been tough, but I think that soon we will be up and running."
This article is part of our weekly series examining the nuts and bolts of businesses. If you would like to see your company featured please email news@fora.ie.
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Q: How to add appendix in thesis using LyX I want to add an appendix (questionnaire etc.) at the end of my thesis after the references. I use the article class and work with LyX: Document -> Start appendix here. But I am not getting it in the TOC.
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\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
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\usepackage{color}
\definecolor{document_fontcolor}{rgb}{0, 0, 0}
\color{document_fontcolor}
\usepackage{babel}
\usepackage{float}
\usepackage{textcomp}
\usepackage{pdfpages}
\usepackage{tipa}
\usepackage{amsmath}
\usepackage{graphicx}
\usepackage{setspace}
\PassOptionsToPackage{normalem}{ulem}
\usepackage{ulem}
\usepackage[unicode=true,
 bookmarks=true,bookmarksnumbered=false,bookmarksopen=false,
 breaklinks=false,pdfborder={0 0 0},backref=false,colorlinks=false]
 {hyperref}

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A: In your document, after the chapters,
insert the appendix
\begin{document}
    \tableofcontents

    \mainmatter
    \input{chapter1}
    \input{chapter2}
  ...

    \appendix
    \cleardoublepage
    \input{appendix1}
    \input{appendix2}
     ...
 \end{document}

where the appendix1 is defined in a appendix1.tex file:
%\appendix
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\chapter{appendix1}

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Q: Memory Vector Layer Corrupted? I was working with a large data set that had data for roads, rivers, railways, etc. all together so I decided to break the different data out so I could label it differently on the map and check each on and off separately.  I selected all of one type, copied it to the clipboard, and pasted it as a new memory vector layer.  Everything was working fine yesterday, but when I opened the file this morning all of the data in the attribute table was gone in the vector memory layers I created.
I had toggled off edits and saved all my layers before closing yesterday.  Why did this happen? Should I have pasted as just a vector layer instead or should I have saved my selections as separate shapefiles instead?
Also, another issue I am experiencing is that I have several separate shapefiles with different address points.  I was copying and pasting points between shapefiles yesterday without issue (they are the same formatting in the attribute table btw) but when I tried to do that this morning I could paste, but not save the shapefiles.  I was getting the following error message:

Errors: ERROR: 1 feature(s) not added.
Provider errors:
        OGR error creating feature -2: Attempt to write non-point (MULTIPOINT) geometry to point shapefile.

Why was this working yesterday and not today? Did I somehow change the type of shapefile (i.e point, line polygon) without realizing it?
I am using QGIS 2.4.0-Chugiak.

A: For your first question: memory layers are only stored by QGIS temporarily, so you should always save them as seperate shapefiles immediately if you don't want to lose any changes.
Secondly, I have never seen that error (I use QGIS 2.2) but some people claim it to be a bug which has been reported: https://hub.qgis.org/issues/10747
An alternative may be to create a new blank shapefile and paste all your required points that way?


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NYC game developers Large Animal Games have created a downloadable PC video game based on bird sounds and expertise provided by the Macaulay Library at Cornell's Lab of Ornithology.
Which is where I work.
The game is called Snapshot Adventures. It was recently was acquired by Yahoo! games, which is a great for both the Lab and for environmental education, since part of the money it earns will directly fund our ecology work.
You can play it for free here.
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Q: DataTables.net select inputs filter ignore time in datetime I'm using DataTables.net for rendering data in my laravel project. Now I came across with issue.
In few columns I have data in dd.mm.yyyy H:i . I'm also using DataTables.net select inputs filter
My column sorting does as it should (clicking on table headers). The problem is that select inputs are filled with ex:
31.12.2014 08:12

Now what I want is that filter will sort those columns as date (not date time). Because if my table has 100 rows, that means 100 select options under fields with datetime values. I want them to be grouped by date ignoring time.
Any solutions?

A: There would be a few solutions you could try.
I don't know how you have your query setup but you could possibly add a select on there and account for the difference right in your query and return just the date portion of it.
...->select(DB::raw('DISTINCT DATE(DATE_ADD(your_date_column, INTERVAL x HOUR)) AS your_date_column'))

Where your_date_column is the name of the column of the dates you are looking for and x is the number of hours to change, which can be a negative value if you are behind.  This will return a collection of unique dates which appear in your database which are offset by the number of hours.
The other solution would be to loop through your result set and set them to the dates as you go.  Carbon would make this fairly easy.
foreach($results as $result) {
    $date = \Carbon::createFromTimeStamp($result->your_date_column);
    $date->addHours($hoursToAdd);
    $result->your_date_column = $date->toDateString();
}

A: This type of select allows you select just a fixed portion of a field, than you can group by the portion you selected. So if you just need the first 10 characters from the date field you could select it like this.
SELECT SUBSTRING('date',1,10) AS trimmed_date
FROM table
GROUP BY trimmed_date;

This will return the information as trimmed_date. If you still wanted it to be date you could do it this way.
SELECT SUBSTRING('date',1,10)
FROM table
GROUP BY SUBSTRING('date',1,10);

A: Pull your date/time data from the database as a unix timestamp, should look something like 13249141986.  When you create your dataTable, use a renderer for that column.  Here is a hint:
var table = $('#example').DataTable( {
    "data": dataSet, // in my case I'm building using data from a variable
    "columns": [
        { "title": "Name" },
        { "title": "Modified",
          "render": function (data, type, full, meta) {
              return type === 'display' ? jQuery.datepicker.formatDate('M dd, yy', new Date(1000 * data)) : data;
            }
         }
    ]
} );

When the renderer is called for displaying, I'm parsing it to something readable, otherwise I'm just returning the raw seconds.  This should get you started.


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Are Professional Sports Outfits Too Important For Firm's Logos?
In a article in the past few months in the Nyc Times, typically the NBA publicly stated it is contemplating allowing trademarks on player's uniforms. This would come as hardly surprising to all those who are familiar with often the sports enterprise; and of course, sports is focused on making money. Merely read this estimate from Indicate Cuban, operator of the Dallas Mavericks, concerning putting art logos on NBA uniforms.
Golf ball is not the very first industry to become tempted through the financial advantages of logos upon uniforms. Keep in mind the debate that encircled the suggestion of marketing 'Spiderman 2' through Main League Football? The idea would attract the younger target audience to football games through putting the exact Spiderman logo design on the angles. Eventually, the concept was processed, but these types of proposals will certainly continue, as well as sooner or later, the very business-minds within the sports business will give within.
Should this particular be considered a shame-a breach associated with tradition? Perform logos cheapen a sport? Prior to angrily protesting this monstrosity, consider this.
For a long time, NASAR offers allowed selling companies in order to plaster their own logos head gear, uniforms and also cars, along with NASCAR has become one of the most well-known sports in the united states. In European countries, all the large soccer golf clubs have beneficiaries that place their images on player's jerseys.
Group sponsoring is actually a million-dollar-a-year market. It's just a matter of period before the NBA, NFL, NHL and MLB give in to be able to logo packed uniforms. As well as it's not really a shame-it's organization.
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Introduced Siberian chipmunks Eutamias sibiricus have been reported to be important reservoirs for human Lyme disease, as they may host high numbers of hard ticks carrying Borrelia spp. and other pathogens. In the present study, we assessed the prevalence of Borrelia spp. and other pathogenic bacteria in ectoparasite arthropod species infesting Siberian chipmunks and coexisting native small rodents. Small rodents were trapped with Sherman traps in Veneto (NE Italy), where the largest Italian populations of chipmunks occur. A total of 14 individual ticks were found on 223 rodents, with 6 more ticks obtained from stored dead chipmunks from the same study area. Ectoparasites were screened for pathogens by molecular analyses including species-specific PCR amplifications. Rickettsia monacensis, Borrelia lusitaniae, and Anaplasma platys were present in the parasites of both native rodents and introduced chipmunks. The present findings suggest a role for the invasive species E. sibiricus in the maintenance of the Ixodes ricinus life cycle, which may result in the modification of the transmission dynamics of tick-borne pathogens. Moreover, the presence of Rickettsia in urban populations of chipmunks may represent a serious risk for human health and should be investigated further.
Arthropods and associated pathogens from native and introduced rodents in Northeastern Italy
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Q: PowerBI show wrong data by connecting with Google Analytics if I apply a Data Filter Inside the query I'm getting the same kind of issue with "Events".
I'm trying to track the creation of Invoice Disputes (when the clint detect some error in the invoice) for March '19.
The thing is that when I get the data for the event without filter nothing in the query (in order to use the filters on the Report tab) I get the value of 316. BUT i know that the correct Value is 302.
Wrong Value
So I tried to filter the month directly on the query before load the data and guess what? the correct value shows up.
Correct Value
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Q: Answering with "Let's!" or "Let's go!" I have been reading conversations like the following:

Person 1: Hey, let's go for a jog this afternoon!
  Person 2: Let's!

Is it correct to only say "Let's!" instead of "Let's go!"?

A: It's a common enough expression, but more likely, I'd have thought, to occur as Yeh, let's.

A: Yes.
Answers to questions often omit words which would be repeated from the question:

"Did you do the dishes?"  "Yes, I did [do the dishes]."

The response "Let's!" is a grammatically quite standard example of this, and it can mean other things beside "Let's go":

"Do you want to see a film tonight?"  "Yes, let's [see a film tonight]."

Depending on where you live and whom you talk to, though, "Let's!" on its own may be more or less idiomatic than "Let's go!" or other similar answers.  To my ear, "Let's!" alone seems a bit unusually curt; but "Yes, let's!" or "Do let's." are both quite normal (the latter being perhaps more old-fashioned and more BrE).

A: Let's being a contraction for let us, responding "Let's!" to the suggestion to jog is properly informal and conversational.
(Responding with "Let us!" sounds like you're asking permission.)
There's nothing wrong with answering "Let's go!" but it's not necessary, unless Person 2 perhaps wishes to imply "Right now!"


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Q: How to end call in android in latest devices like 4.2 i m using the below code to end call, but its not happening.
     private void endCallIfBlocked(String callingNumber) {
             try {
               TelephonyManager tm = (TelephonyManager) getApplicationContext().getSystemService(getApplicationContext().TELEPHONY_SERVICE);
               Class c = Class.forName(tm.getClass().getName());
               Method m = c.getDeclaredMethod("getITelephony");
               m.setAccessible(true);
               ITelephony telephonyService = (ITelephony) m.invoke(tm);
               telephonyService = (ITelephony) m.invoke(tm);

               telephonyService.silenceRinger();
               telephonyService.endCall();
             }
             catch (Exception e) {
               e.printStackTrace();
             }
           }

    }

i'm failing to get 'getITelephony' object, it will throw exception. I'm using samsung galaxy s duos phone. How to block calls in this programatically

A: The getITelephony Reflection method is deprecated as of Android 4+.
So you can't use it on Android 4+.


Tryon (USA) / Saint-Imier (Switzerland), 11 September 2018 – As part of its long-lasting commitment to equestrian sports, Longines is proud to be part of the FEI World Equestrian GamesTM Tryon 2018, one of the biggest and most exciting events on the global sporting calendar, combining eight equestrian world championships. The games – held every four years – are staged in 2018 in Mill Spring, North Carolina from September 11-23. The winged-hourglass brand will serve as the Official Timekeeper of all equestrian competitions and present the Official Watch of the event, a chronometer belonging to the Record collection. In addition, Longines will proudly present elegant timepieces to all medallists in the different disciplines namely Jumping, Dressage, Driving, Endurance, Eventing, Para-Equestrian Dressage, Reining and Vaulting.


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People set to step out and glow for Lindsey Lodge Hospice
More than 450 walkers will step out to raise funds for Lindsey Lodge Hospice on Friday 14 June.
People of all ages and abilities will be on the starting line at 8pm, ready to take part Lindsey Lodge Hospice's Glow Walk and Glow Worm Wiggle, in a bid to beat the £27,000 grand total raised last year.
Lindsey Lodge Head of Fundraising Tom Moody said: "We're delighted to reveal we've had 200 more walkers than last year sign up for our 2019 event, so the atmosphere is going to be fantastic!
"Our Glow Walk will, for the second time, start and finish at Lindsey Lodge and take a 10-mile route around Scunthorpe, but this year we've added a family-friendly three-mile Glow Worm Wiggle for tiny feet."
On the night, there will be a party atmosphere to kick start the event, teamed with a warm up hosted by Penny Golding, the Hospice's very own Glow Vibes instructor, along with an opportunity to purchase flashing headwear and glow sticks.
Tom said: "We will also invite our walkers to remember their loved ones by carrying a lantern during the last stretch of the walk, to place in the in the grounds of the Hospice on their return.
He added: "Every penny raised by our Glow Walkers goes towards providing our specialist care, and Lindsey Lodge is now supporting more people than ever our 27 year history.
"Last year we saw a 65% uplift in the number of admissions to our Inpatient Unit, as well as a 22% increase in the number of attendances to our Bereavement and Counselling Service, so fundraising makes a significant contribution towards our £3.5 million running costs.
"Whether it's walking in memory of a friend or loved one, as a way of keeping fit or simply to do something different with their friends on a Friday night, all our Glow Walkers will be raising much-needed funds for Lindsey Lodge Hospice."
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The consumption of video content is rapidly changing with the emergence of new technologies, streaming services and the continued growth of mobile devices, leading content owners to adapt quickly and capitalize on the opportunity.
As video content consumption habits change, TV operators and broadcasters are looking at how they can better understand and engage with their consumers. The advancements in technology and the growth of analytical customer data tools offer more insight into the customer profile and behavior – which now plays a significant role in business decisions.
Customer data is key, and centralizing data from multiple sources offers companies the opportunity to create advanced, rich user profiles which can be used to launch new attractive services and offer relevant business models for target audiences.
Quite often, broadcasters have large sets of consumer data, from a range of silos, which gives them lots of data and little insight into the customer without using clever tools to interrogate the data. In order to use this data efficiently and to learn about the consumer, their habits, tastes and preferences; centralizing consumer data from multiple platforms, into a single platform provides a 360° customer view. Ultimately, operators should try and collect consumer information from each of the sources featured below.
Across any media organization, operators will be collecting data from multiple sources, such as social data, subscription data, CRM data, payment data, geo-location and possibly even web analytics. Further still, it is possible to track anonymous traffic using advanced metering tools and services entering the marketplace. All of this information offers service providers a whole host of data at their fingertips.
All of this information contributes to developing a comprehensive user profile to further understand viewing habits and offer personalized products, bundles and packages relevant to specific consumer tastes.
Once a consumer has registered as a digital subscriber, their information should be stored in a centralized cloud CRM solution. As a customer, you can store their information in one place and interrogate it to drive business decisions. These can include, loyalty, product take-up, payment models such as digital subscriptions or pay-per-view, popular devices, and much more.
Supporting social login and social sign on reduces barriers for consumers who favor this form of authentication. In-turn, it provides us with a unique insight into their personal life. The information available through social sign on offers deep insights into their hobbies, interests, favorite movies and TV shows and what they actively interact with. This information, when used correctly, helps service providers to offer recommendations, acquire content of interest and significantly improves the customer profile.
How can you Utilize Consumer Data to Drive Customer Experiences?
A 360° centralized customer view can be achieved, providing marketing teams with the information they need to tailor and create services you know will entice your customers. With personalized experiences, your customers will feel like they have a tailored service which can help to build customer loyalty and reduce churn for the business. These practices will increase customer retention, incentivize new customers and can help win-back lost customers.


Cut at 45RPM and pressed on dead-quiet vinyl at RTI, the iconic audiophile label's analog reissue intensifies the quintet's storied sophomore effort. Due to the wider grooves, this pressing benefits from increased spaciousness, punchiness, energy, pacing, and dynamics. Joplin's hurricane-force singing reverberates with texture, grittiness, and volume. An arresting array of instrumental colors and tones comes on with clearer separation and depth. While previous pressings find the band and Joplin's voice in competition with one another for room, both emerge as distinct entities. Always noted for its rawness, Cheap Thrills sounds as close to live as it gets, an unadulterated portrait of nervy rock n' roll delivered with exuberant enthusiasm and all-out determination. This is music at is most visceral.


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Give customers a real-time preview of a monogrammed Product. This interactive live preview updates the the text and styling of an item's monogram based on customer input, showing exactly what the finished item will look like.
Add interactivity and show customers exactly what they're getting with this add-on. Customers preview personalization as it will appear on finished product, or in a separate Live Preview area on the Product Page (depends on setup and Product Images).
Our customization leverages your existing BigCommerce Product Options, so no extra work for you! Easily apply to existing Products or create new Products.
Let customers preview custom monogrammed Products. Customers can input text and select Product Options (font, color, and more) to get a real time live preview.
Our developers will work with you to build a live preview that showcases the Product Options you offer, such as color, font, size, and more.
Offer mugs, cups, jewelry, or flasks with custom monograms? This add-on can be used to personalize any monogrammed Product.


On Mac, the installer will add the plugin to the system folder for VST plugins (/Library/Audio/Plug-Ins/VST) and will install the AudioUnit to the AU directory (/Library/Audio/Plug-Ins/Components). The standard directories are scanned by most DAWs as they start up, so the plugin should appear immediately in your host software. It is capable of running in 32 or 64 bit hosts.
On Windows, the installer is a zip file. When unzipped, you will find several versions of the VST plugin (64 bit). Copy the plugin to the location of your choice. You then need to make sure that your 64 bit host software is scanning that location for the plugin to show up.


Ruffles and the National Basketball Association are teaming up to bring fans a chance to win a trip to attend a 2016 NBA Finals game through the Celebrate Black History Sweepstakes. This generous Grand Prize package includes round trip air, coach transportation, double occupancy hotel accommodations, two tickets to the game, a commemorative gift bag, and a cool $200 in the form of a check. The total Approximate Retail Value of the Grand Prize comes to a whopping $3,350. Celebrate Black History Sweepstakes participants that do not end up winning the Grand Prize can hopefully still cash in on one of the many Daily Prizes. There is a total of 148 Daily prizes being awarded in the sweepstakes with a total of 4 Daily Prizes awarded per day. The Daily Prizes consist of one $200 NBA Store gift card and one Ruffles/NBA mini basketball. The Daily Prizes will be shipped by the end of May 2016 and have a total Approximate Retail Value of $34,222.80.
Individuals looking to get involved in the Celebrate Black History Sweepstakes should rush directly to designated sweepstakes page where they will need to create a lineup of 5 people who are game-changers in their lives. These "game-changers" can be anyone from a historical figure to a friend or family member. After submitting their lineup, participants should feel good knowing that a donation will be made to the Thurgood Marshall College Fund, a national organization whose member-schools are publicly supported Historically Black Colleges and Universities.
It is wise not to delay entering the Celebrate Black History Sweepstakes as registration comes to an end on February 29th, 2016.


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Expanding the brand beyond its cable TV network
By tech.co.uk staff published 31 May 07
The natty VBox unit measures just 190mm by 90mm
This Freeview adaptor provides access to all the free-to-air channels, expanding the brand beyond its cable TV network
Decent picture quality
Basic connections
Low audio output level
The cute VBox is the first Freeview set-top adaptor from cable TV provider, Virgin Media. It's aimed at non-cable customers looking to take up the brand's quadplay of services - incorporating broadband, phone, mobile and TV - and uses the digital terrestrial television platform (DTT) with its free-to-air TV channels and digital radio stations.
The VBox is touted as 'Free TV' to any non-cable TV customers subscribed to its 8Mb broadband and Talk Anytime phone bundle (costing £20 per month), or a one-off £40 charge for anyone taking the broadband service only.
Natty dread
The natty unit measures just 190mm by 90mm, which is about the same size as a VHS tape (for those that can remember that antique format), and it can be mounted vertically using the supplied tabletop stand.
There's also a TV mount to fit the VBox to the back of the TV set, while remote handset commands are fed to it via a remote receiver cable sat on top of the set.
Audio/video connections at the back of the VBox are extremely basic with just two Scarts and a 3.5mm stereo/optical output jack for hookup to a hi-fi or surround sound amp.
Features are thin on the ground too, but there's a Virgin Media branded eight-day on-screen TV guide, access to interactive content - via the red button, of course - and a next/previous channel swap button. There's no CAM slot for access to subscription based Top Up TV packages, though.
The plug 'n' play installation makes light work of tuning and storing channels, and our test model quickly tunes and stores 50 TV channels and 27 digital radio channels in our medium strength reception area.
Pictures from the VBox look robust with bold, solid colours and good smooth levels of detail. It's a solid performance that copes well with weaker signal strengths, and there's barely any picture break-up or dropouts to cause picture concerns.
The audio output level from the Scart is lower than normal, which means that you'll need to listen to the TV at a higher volume level, but this is no big deal.
Clean and serene
Digital audio output via the 3.5mm jack/optical socket is impressive. News dialogue is clean with only a slightly over-emphasised HF to cause us to grumble, and makes dialogue sound too sibilant occasionally.
The VBox is a surprising addition to Virgin Media's range of products but offers a solid performance from the Freeview service.
It can be purchased separately as a TV add-on but will appeal mainly to those wanting to subscribe to the brand's bundled services that live outside the cable network.
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ROSEVILLE – The Ready, Steady, Balance Health Fair on Friday, Sept. 22, co-sponsored by Sutter Roseville Medical Center, is focused on preventing falls among the elderly.
The free health fair, which is also sponsored by StopFalls Sacramento and BrightStar Care, will be held from 9 a.m.-noon Friday at the Maidu Community Center, 1550 Maidu Drive, Roseville.
For more information, contact Sutter Roseville's Kate Carleton at 916-878-2415.


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Hazel was born in Woking and grew up in Surrey. From her teens she knew she wished to pursue an artistic career but had no knowledge of living artists. It was only at Art College that she realized it was possible to make a life out of painting. Within a year of her graduation she was earning her living by her paintings and soon had her first show in London, where her watercolours sold out in the opening hour. She followed this with regular exhibitions, heeding the advice of one of her College lecturers: 'Always has an exhibition on the horizon'. Since then she has had many successful solo and mixed shows mostly in London but also as far afield as Venezuela and Zimbabwe. She has a light-filled studio and gallery in West London and a studio in Cape Town, and has travelled widely throughout the world, especially in Southern Africa.
Hazel always loved the written word and began writing articles and books about painting in the 1990's. Analyzing visual practice became an interesting challenge. She has now written 10 books, mostly on watercolour, almost all published by HarperCollins. She currently writes a bi-monthly article for 'Kunst for Alle', one of Norway's leading Art magazines and contributes articles to magazines, such as 'The Artist' and 'Leisure Painter'.
In 1996, with a desire to communicate her passion to a wider audience, Hazel took up the offer of her own television series 'Splash of Colour' with Anglia TV. This propelled her into the public eye and later brought her the role as an Art Expert on Channnel 4's ever popular painting programme 'Watercolour Challenge'. Her natural enthusiasm and engaging personality won the hearts of millions of viewers and her talents as a communicator made her much in demand for lectures, workshops, painting holidays and demonstrations, taking her from the QE2 to the Kalahari Desert..
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No matter how long or far you have strolled around Paris, explored narrow cobbled laneways or ventured into private courtyards, there is no chance that you would simply stumble across this secret garden and courtyard without knowing where to find it.
If you love discovering hidden treasures in Paris and are looking for a little adventure, sneak into Hôpital Hôtel-Dieu to see a delightful hidden oasis in a very unusual location, but let's keep it our secret.
Located right in the centre of Paris, next to the Notre Dame Cathedral where thousands of tourists pass by each day without an inkling that it exists.
Let's image you visited the Notre Dame and need a little respite away from the crowds, somewhere quiet where you can sit down, relax and rest your weary feet.
With your back facing the Notre Dame cross the road, diagonally to the right and find the main entrance to Hôtel-Dieu, Paris' oldest hospital.
Enter through the main doors, turn left and then right.
Be confident and quiet, you are going to visit your sick Aunt, right?
et voilà, you are in!
Founded in 651 when poverty was rampant, Hotel Dieu began as a general institution to look after the poor and sick, offering food and shelter in addition to medical care.
The hospital was ravaged by several fires and the current building dates back to 1877.
The concept of this original hospital was to aid the poor and funded by charity. It wasn't until the end of the 18th century that it became a place to cure the sick.
Napoleon ordered part of the hospital to be rebuilt after another fire destroyed a large part of the building.
For the past 50 years, the hospital has specialised in the field of diabetes and associated illnesses including the research of new insulins, the effects of nutrition and artificial pancreas.
Perhaps you could play a little Chopin, allowing the music to waft up to the patients that occupy the 349 beds in what is regarded as the oldest, still operating hospital in the world.
This ancient courtyard and secret garden offers a quiet moment to relax and explore without the usual tourists that descend upon the city.
Wander around and admire the garden pots that will be brimming with colourful flowers in the warmer months but keep it our little secret and hopefully it will stay that way so we can pop in for a little respite when we are in the area.