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Why Charlie Lee Believes Litecoin Can Be Instrumental in Bitcoin Lightning Network
By Nathan Reiff
For some cryptocurrency enthusiasts, one of the most promising aspects of the digital currency space is the Lightning Network. Conceived as a separate network which adjoins to the existing bitcoin network, Lightning could allow for user-to-user transactions which would not suffer from extended processing times or high transaction fees. Because Lightning Network payments would be made on an individual basis, the thinking goes, they could perhaps be dealt with separately from the general bitcoin blockchain, thereby freeing them from the slowdowns associated with typical transactions.
Charlie Lee, the outspoken founder of litecoin, believes that his digital currency could be instrumental in facilitating the Lightning Network as it develops. He re-echoed his enthusiasm just last week.
Litecoin the "Easiest Onramp"
In a tweet from July 11, Lee suggested that litecoin "will also be the easiest onramp onto the Lightning Network. BTC takes too long and fees [too] high? No problem. Open an LTC payment channel on chain cheaply and quickly, then atomically swap for BTC if/when you need to. This can be done in one step."
Lightning Labs, a developer behind the Network, has a beta feature in its network in which two cryptocurrencies could be selected, although this feature is not yet on the live mainnet, according to Crypto Vest. Litecoin, for its part, has its own independent Lightning Network which has tested atomic swaps, although there remains some fine-tuning to do before this procedure can be readily incorporated.
As of now, litecoin is one of the go-to digital assets when it comes to on-chain transactions that are both fast and cheap. However, the bitcoin network, once plagued by congestion, has managed to overcome many of those issues. It now runs on relatively low fees and has even become the preferred network for the transmission of large transactions. Because of the way that the Lightning Network processes transactions, some in the crypto community feel that large transactions are too risky for the new network.
The Lightning Network, in development for several years, was launched in March of this year. Many felt that the launch was rough, as traffic problems were widespread and some users experienced losses. Even several months in, the Lightning Network has not seen its capacity increase as many hoped for.
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Q: multi value for the same param on sql i'm not sure if is possible..but i want to join this 2 sql query in one and get all results:
select cod from services,services_has_tab2 where services.id=services_has_tab2.services_id and services_has_tab2.tab2_id= "1"

and
select cod from services,services_has_tab2 where services.id=services_has_tab2.services_id and services_has_tab2.tab2_id= "2"

in my program Java (spring) i have:
List<String> strLst  = jdbcTemplateObject.queryForList(sql2,new Object[] {"1,2"},String.class);

but not work with "1,2" i have only result for the first param (1).

A: Use IN.
SELECT cod
FROM   services,
       services_has_tab2
WHERE  services.id = services_has_tab2.services_id
       AND services_has_tab2.tab2_id IN ( "1", "2" );

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Make a note of the Banff Festival in 2022! From October 29 to November 6… Featuring live performances at the Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity and other venues…
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When Does Stagecoach 2023 Take Place? The annual Stagecoach country music festival rides into the Empire Polo Club grounds in Indio, California, from April 28 to 30, 2023.
The world's largest country music festival, Stagecoach, will celebrate its 15th anniversary on April 28-30, 2023. Taking place in the Indio Valley desert in California, the festival will boast some of the best names in country, Americana and Roots music.
How Much Do Stagecoach Tickets Cost? The Stagecoach Festival 3-day pass is starting at $377, and $469 for Saturday and Sunday passes.
Luke Combs and Smokey Robinson finish conclude the three-day Stagecoach festival in 2022.
Stagecoach Festival, the world's biggest country music festival, will return April 28-30 2023 for its 15th Anniversary event. The event, which will take place in the California desert of Indio Valley, will include some of the biggest names in country, Americana, and Roots music.
How Much Are Stagecoach Tickets? The Stagecoach Festival 3-day admission costs $377, while Saturday and Sunday passes are $469.
2022 Banff Mountain Film Festival/Location
From November 25, 2021 to October 23, 2022, you may also view two more separate film lineups from the comfort of your own home with the Virtual Banff Film Festival.
Over the course of nine days, you may view 30 programs, including feature films, blended film programs, guest speakers, and author events, similar to what you would experience at our live event in Banff.
Banff Mountain Film Festival/Event locations
The Tunnel Mountain hike is an excellent walk of easy to medium difficulty that can be hiked from downtown Banff. This is an excellent family activity. Tunnel mountain is Banff's smallest peak to summit with an elevation gain of about 300m, some moderate switchbacks lead up the mountain.
The VIRTUAL Festival 2021 will take place from October 30 to November 7. Film programs, as well as special guest speakers, will be available to watch on our online viewing platform throughout the festival.
the Sierra Nevada mountains
FRESNO, CA (FOX 26) – Makenzie Sconce, the star of "The Girl on the Mountain," paid a visit to Great Day with her father, director Matt Sconce. The movie was filmed in the Sierra Nevada mountains.
Acronym. Definition. Brachial Artery Normalization of Forearm Function (BANFF).
The Banff Centre Mountain Film Festival is a film competition and yearly exhibition of films and documentaries covering mountain culture, sports, the environment, and adventure and discovery.
Every year, the Banff World Tour team licenses over 40 films including a variety of genres and subjects such as climbing, skiing, kayaking, biking, adventure, culture, and the environment.
It's really romantic and one-of-a-kind, and it's certainly worth a shot. Overall though, if you ask us, we really recommend getting off the beaten path, getting out of your comfort zone and experiencing Banff as it's intended to be. A place to get away from the stresses of everyday life and reconnect with nature.
Wildlife Awareness on Tunnel Mountain
Black bears, grizzly bears, moose, coyotes, and cougars are often seen in the area.
Hike Tunnel Mountain
Tunnel Mountain is one of our favorite Banff activities since it's situated in the middle of the town, it's a free and simple trek that can be done all year, and it's popular with residents.
Details about the online platform. We have a customized streaming platform for the Festival and World Tour, which you can check out at filmfest.banffcentre.ca. UPDATE, 30 JUNE 2022: We've migrated to a new platform (using the same URL, filmfest.banffcentre.ca) with the goal of improving audience experience.
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Q: Delete subdirectories in Windows Is there a way to delete all subdirectories named .svn from all levels of a directory tree, without touching anything else? rd/s and del/s don't seem to do it.

A: Add the following to a batch file. Do make a backup of the files first.
@for /f "tokens=*" %%a in ('dir /s /b /ad *.svn 2^>NUL') do rd /s /q "%%a"

A: for /r /d %i in (.svn) do rd /s /q "%i"
Use %%i instead of %i in batch files, and make sure your current directory is at the top of the hierarchy you want to start from.
Edit: Just noticed that this will also catch folders that end in .svn, not just those that are named .svn.

A: If your hard disk is NTFS, you can use the free Everything search engine.
After it's installed, right click on the directory and select "Search Everything...".
Then type *.svn to see all such named files and sub-directories.
Click on the first in the list, then type ctrl-A to select the whole list, then type Del to delete them all.

A: I see this question asked all the time for users of SVN, you do NOT need a special script to get rid of those pesky .svn folders.
I don't know what platform you are on, but you can use:
 svn export

To make SVN make a copy of your working copy without the .svn folders.
http://www.yolinux.com/TUTORIALS/Subversion.html
http://svnbook.red-bean.com/en/1.0/re10.html

A: You can run powershell one liner:
dir "PATH" -rec|?{($_.psiscontainer)-and($_.name-eq'.svn')}|rm -fo


Down 9.2 pounds in two weeks!
AND won a chocolate cake from Magleby's!! THAT was a bit rough to resist, but it had more points than I get in a whole day! No thanks.
Luckily, I have a son who is ready, willing and able to make those temptations disappear! Haha.
Seriously though guys, I'm having a lot of fun with this Weight Watchers stuff. It's huge to me that I can choose whatever food I want and just count the points. I've eaten out several times –Kneaders, Arby's, Pizza Hut–and still lost big.
Oh, and frozen fruit is my new best friend.
This Valentine's Day I was positively determined to have the best Grammy treats in the history of Grammy treats–for when the kids came with their Valentines.
I have no idea if I pulled it off–but for me, it was pretty close.
I made a lovely little butter cookie dough and at the last minute, I added the remaining bits of the freeze-dried strawberries (mostly pink dust) from the can in the cupboard.
That's what all the red flecks are that you see in the dough.
In the summertime, I saw this sweet little cookie cutter stamp from William Sonoma.
For some reason, it just melted my heart and I couldn't resist.
The press was so much fun to use and sooo easy.
Anyway, I think they are simply adorable…don't you?
As I was painting little jelly hearts in the center of each one the nursery rhyme about the Knave stealing the Queen's tarts kept going through my head.
His cookies look a lot like mine–only way bigger.
Mine are the perfect size–and worth stealing all the same.
Gradually add to creamed mixture and mix well.
Shape with cookie cutter or press.
Decorate with sugar if desired.
If you used a cookie with a jam well in the center--carefully spoon in a small amount of jam in and let the cookies cool completely.
I have to lose 25 more pounds–says my new doctor–before we can do my knee surgery. Now, as you may know, I'm not a huge fan of taking the total medical approach over a much more natural one. But I haven't been able to work in the yard of my new house, since I moved in–and I can't have that. I realized that I'll do whatever I need to do to be mobile again.
Anyone want to do it with me? Fruits, vegetables, eggs, chicken, beans and fish are ZERO points. That means that you don't even need to count them!! Yeah, I'm having a blast.
And down 4 pounds from last week.
With all the crazy polar freezing and arctic blasts that are going on across the country this week–it seems odd that I would be rejoicing in the small but lovely smattering of snow that we got here in our neck of the woods.
I seriously can't help myself.
if we can get it to fall, that is.
I check the weather every night before bedtime and then again in the morning–you know–in case something has changed while I wasn't looking, all in the hopes that there will be just a single snowflake on the radar.
Yeah, it's that big of a deal to me.
we still had no snow for Christmas.
It was criminal weather behavior and someone should go to jail.
Somehow, we survived that trial and finally–at long last, we had a full day and night of snow. Enough to actually stick this time.
If this keeps up, I might be persuaded to drop the charges against the weather man.


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How much does it cost to swim with whale sharks?
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Booking a swim with the whale sharks costs about $60 to $100 and is possible online or in person.
Tour prices in Australia
King's Ningaloo Reef Tours $385 $270
Ningaloo Blue Dive $395 $255
Ningaloo Whaleshark Swim (previously Ningaloo Dreaming) $390 $250
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Yes, Whale Sharks are considered a part of the shark family, but no, Whale Sharks are not dangerous. These gentle giants are very docile and extremely agreeable to swimming alongside humans. In fact, they are not very shark-like at all. They feed on plankton, krill, fish eggs, and some deep-sea fish.
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Price. Observer AUD $260.00 includes (Morning & Afternoon Ningaloo Reef Snorkel and lunch with Whale shark observation only from vessel.)
When's the Best Time To Swim with Whale Sharks? Whale Shark season at Ningaloo Reef runs from March to July, although it's also common to see whale sharks in the area until as late as August. From April onwards, hundreds of manta rays congregate in the area, and from June humpback whales even start to appear.
The best time to see and swim with Whale Sharks at Exmouth in 2022 on the Ningaloo reef is from March to August this year. The whale shark is the world's biggest fish and congregates along the Ningaloo Reef.
Touching whale sharks can disturb the protective mucous layer on their skin – and it can also have unpleasant consequences for you or me. The tiny, tooth-like scales (known as dermal denticles) that cover the skin of most shark species can cause a painful graze known as "shark burn".
Whale sharks are slow moving animals, but they are so big it will appear they are moving fast. Divers can expect that the whale sharks may swim right up to them and must pay close attention at all times. … It is illegal to touch a whale shark, so make sure to swim out of the way if one swims toward you.
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These huge animals are not dangerous. Whale sharks have never attacked humans.
Swim with the largest fish in the ocean, the Whale Shark, every year between mid-March and mid-July in the Ningaloo Marine Park following the mass spawning of coral. Tours are accessible from Coral Bay and Exmouth on Western Australia's Ningaloo Reef.
Yes, the driving distance between Perth to Ningaloo Coast is 1218 km. It takes approximately 14h 23m to drive from Perth to Ningaloo Coast.
Ningaloo Reef is in Australia and it is one of the most unique places to visit in Australia. Each year tourists visit Ningaloo Reef in Australia to swim and snorkel with whale sharks and see the amazing variety of marine life. People who live in Australia can visit Ningaloo Reef to swim with whale sharks.
Australia's other great reef, the Ningaloo Reef offers some of the most accessible coral reef snorkeling in Australia. … While the current can be dangerous for weaker swimmers, moderate to strong swimmers with the aid of snorkeling fins will find that there is a lot to see.
Best Time to Swim with a Whale Shark. The good news is that the likelihood of swimming with a whale shark on your first tour is around 95% success rate from very late March to late July each year.
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When is the best time to visit Ningaloo reef? Ningaloo Reef has something to offer all year round, but the absolute best weather months (in our opinion) are mid March, May, June, September and October. In these months the water is warm, weather patterns are consistent and it's not too busy.


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Five actions for business to prepare for following COP26.
At COP26, it became clear that business has a vital role to play in solving the climate crisis and 2022 will be a year of business action.
To deliver, collaboration between businesses and with government will be critical.
Business will need to build a clear sustainability strategy and targets, supported by robust measurement and accountability.
This November, tens of thousands of government negotiators, climate activists, NGOs, indigenous peoples, businesses, protestors, and other interested parties in Glasgow, as well as online around the world, gathered for the most important climate change event yet. While the focus during the two weeks was on the inner sanctum of the Blue Zone – where the core negotiations took place – all other stakeholder groups wanted their voices to be heard on the agenda.
Given the momentum generated by this diverse group of stakeholders, what was the signal for business? At COP26, it became clear that 2022 is going to be the year of action for business. Not only will business need to build a strategy and set targets, but it will also need to deliver against them. It will also need to work with each other—and with governments—to support systemic change. Climate action is about to enter a chapter of increased action, measurement and accountability, and business needs to be ready.
Going into COP26, existing national commitments projected a temperature rise of between 2.7°C to 2.9°C. With commitments agreed under the Glasgow Climate Pact, the latest analysis suggests we are looking at an increase of 1.8°C to 2.4°C. While this is an improvement, it isn't 1.5°C – and the commitments agreed to date will require detailed plans, measurement and accountability. These plans need to become actions from the public and private sectors immediately – the world can't wait until COP27.
Here are my five main take-aways from Glasgow:
1. Business must contribute to keeping 1.5 alive, by accelerating its efforts
Even before COP26, business was beginning to realize its crucial role in tackling the climate crisis. Many companies have set net-zero targets, and more are being announced every day. In Glasgow, business was highly visible, and we heard multiple world leaders reference the growing role of the private sector in their speeches. But the bottom line is that businesses need to shift focus away from setting targets that may be many years in the future to reducing their absolute emissions today – and evidencing action each year.
The private sector is taking a big step forward in establishing how it can be part of the solution and this is important, because there is a real need to establish trust in our commitments and accelerate if we are to meet our collective targets. While the formal COP process is long and complex, keeping 1.5 alive relies significantly on the reductions of Nationally Determined Contributions. Businesses can and must contribute – using their ability to act more nimbly, set impactful targets and help close the gap between rhetoric and action.
We need renewed urgency and action before 2030: 2030 should be a new milestone year for net-zero and decarbonization roadmaps for those who can, and action must be demonstrated today. Incoming best practice will be to mirror forward guidance on financials – to commit to yearly emissions reductions and then to deliver it – and be held accountable for it. This needs to happen in a current timeframe, with businesses asking themselves what their reductions are in 2021 and 2022. 2030 will be too late to start. We need meaningful reductions from now to 2030 and then pushing on for net-zero as soon as possible thereafter. As EY's Global Chairman and CEO Carmine Di Sibio noted, "those who can go further and faster must do so now."
We need more targets with teeth from measures that matter: Businesses have to develop plans with real, measurable targets and transparent roadmaps to meet them. Businesses must build trust in their commitments and report on their plans every year. Stakeholders are going to hold you to your emissions reduction curve. At the Green Horizons Summit at COP26, Emma Howard Boyd CBE, Interim Chair of The Green Finance Institute highlighted, "As leaders, we need to be ruthlessly focused on achieving our net-zero goals. Not in the far distant time. But right now, every year throughout this decade."
As leaders, we need to be ruthlessly focused on achieving our net-zero goals. Not in the far distant time. But right now, every year throughout this decade.
Emma Howard Boyd CBE
Interim Chair, Green Finance Institute Chair, Environment Agency
2. Business should prepare for the implications of the changing market and regulatory landscape
One of the highlights of the first week of COP26 was the announcement by the Glasgow Financial Alliance for Net Zero (GFANZ), a forum uniting over 450 financial service providers from 45 nations to accelerate the transition to a net-zero global economy by 2050. The alliance is responsible for $130 trillion1 of assets, a significant proportion of the global total.
This announcement could signal a big wave of M&A activity as investors look to divest high-carbon assets and acquire green technologies to deploy within their own organizations. We are already witnessing this with the energy sector, as they begin to action their decarbonization strategies. But who's going to be the good custodian of these high emission assets as major listed companies sell them? Businesses must prepare and take stock of the wave of transactions that are to come.
The regulatory landscape for climate commitments is gaining much needed additional rigor: COP26 saw the UK announce that it will become the first 'net-zero financial center' – requiring all financial institutions and listed companies to publish plans on how they will transition to net-zero from 2023. Businesses should expect other governments to follow London's lead, and anticipate the pressure from asset owners and managers to trickle down the chain. As they look to align their portfolios to be aligned with the Paris Agreement and the Glasgow Climate Pact, they will be looking to the businesses they engage with to ask for their net-zero plans.
Understand your supply chain and exert positive influence: Leaders must delve deep into their supply chains and gain a detailed understanding of where their scope 1, 2 and 3 emissions come from and establish a target reduction plan. To meet market standards, these plans should include a short-term target of 2025 or 2030 and a framework to obtain accreditation by the SBTi (Science Based Targets Initiative) across all three scopes.
Sustainability has gone mainstream, and we must keep up: More broadly, these announcements also reinforce the point that COP26 and sustainability language has gone mainstream – everybody needs to be "foundationally competent". This means both current CEOs and boards – all the way through to future employees currently in education. This is a huge signal for businesses to upskill their leaders and workforce to equip themselves to navigate this agenda.
3. Businesses should expect and prepare for higher momentum on the convergence of sustainability standards
The launch of the new International Sustainability Standards Board (ISSB) by the IFRS Foundation in the first week of COP starts a crucial path toward globally consistent sustainability reporting standards. This global baseline for sustainability disclosures will provide clarity and consistency that the market has been calling for. It will underpin everything from the definition of net-zero to the mechanics of carbon offset markets.
We need to build trust by embracing both financial and environmental transparency: Businesses should expect the framework for sustainability standards to develop far more quickly when compared to other standards set in the past, given the technical work prior to the ISSB announcement. Business will need to meet this speed by aligning internally to prepare for increased demand – and mandates – for sustainability disclosures. The ISSB is focused on disclosures that are comparable globally and compatible with financial statements. Developing these will require the full force and power of the financial reporting, accounting and audit profession to get on board.
As this landscape rapidly evolves, we can also expect to see the regulatory landscape for sustainability disclosures to move from limited to full assurance. In Europe, under the EU Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive, we will expect limited assurance for a lot of European based companies in 2023 financial year and then a likely move to full assurance mid-decade. Erkki Liikanen, Chair of the IFRS Foundation Trustees, indicated that "sustainability information (must be) produced with the same rigor, assurance of quality and global comparability as financial information."
Sustainability information (must be) produced with the same rigor, assurance of quality and global comparability as financial information.
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Chair, IFRS Foundation Trustees
Ensuring data veracity will be crucial to maintain competitive advantage. The convergence of globally consistent sustainability standards has created a new element to guide peer to peer comparisons – leaders must ask themselves if they are confident in the data they are using? Does it meet market standards? Do they have the appropriate and necessary systems, taxonomy and reporting capabilities for the path ahead? What do they need to equip themselves to lead in the changing landscape?
4. Business should consider adaptation as an important part of their agenda
Much of the focus of business on climate change has so far been on mitigation – in particular decarbonization. But the costs of climate change that are already being felt by so many calls on increased efforts for adaptation. COP26 saw calls from the G77 group, which represents more than 130 countries and 85% of the world's population, for the creation of a "loss and damage" facility. This would have created a formal body for funding, although it wasn't included in the final agreement, being replaced instead with a proposal for "technical assistance". Businesses that operate around the world must consider the investments that are needed to adapt to the effects of climate change, but this cannot come at the expense of mitigation.
Even if 1.5°C is achieved, there are going to be unstoppable impacts of climate change that many countries are already experiencing. Nobody is immune from this – from Dhaka and the Bangladesh coastline, and island nations all over the world fighting rising sea levels and costal erosion caused by stronger and more persistent storm seasons – to flooding in Germany and India, to deep freezes in Texas and raging forest fires in California, Canada, and Australia. Business must realize their role in financing investment that is resilient to these shocks. As John Kerry, Special Presidential Envoy for Climate, U.S. Department of State, said on the side-lines in Glasgow, "Mother Nature is going to be relentless. And she's more powerful than any of us. So, what is going to happen is you're going to see millions of people moving from places they can't live in anymore."
Many developed economies have already invested in adaptation, although they may not think of it as such. Projects to tackle coastal erosion or investing in flood defences are common across Europe and North America and will continue to increase. The narrative here is less on this investment being because of climate change and more being one of investing in infrastructure and job creation. But for some reason, we haven't always been talking about that as the cost of climate change.
Much of the $100b annual funding to developing economies isn't about mitigation – it is about adaptation, which is a matter of survival for many. As Kate Barton, EY's Global Vice Chair – Tax, noted in Glasgow; "the wealthiest developed nations have an obligation to support developing nations in fending off the disastrous impact of climate change."
The wealthiest developed nations have an obligation to support developing nations in fending off the disastrous impact of climate change.
EY Global Vice Chair – Tax
5. Climate change is everybody's business and business needs to engage with different voices
While thousands of government negotiators formed the core of COP26, this year saw the voices of non-state actors play a larger and more influential role. NGOs, indigenous peoples, gender groups, young people, climate activists, protestors, and businesses engaged with what was happening in Glasgow – either on the ground, online, or around the world.
As we strive for net-zero, dialogue is critical: As businesses learn to navigate its path on sustainability and climate action, they need to resist the urge to exist in a vacuum of positive reinforcement, and they must learn how to engage with the different voices. Because, as the Peoples' Climate March reminds us, "to change everything, we need everyone."
Activists help by creating energy and momentum for climate action and bringing to light things that businesses didn't understand, but at the same time, activists have to understand that businesses cannot transform their supply chain overnight. By engaging with all stakeholders, we can bring climate activism from the street to the boardroom. We turn passion into strategy, and ultimately deliver climate action. There is an opportunity for courageous leadership from businesses to lead, by building what may have once been considered unlikely alliances to work together towards this common goal. Because climate change is everybody's business.
As United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres says, 1.5C may still be alive, but it is "on life support". Climate change is everybody's business, and we can't ignore that we all have a part to play. Businesses big and small, and the people behind them, are going to have to lean in and take action. Business faces an opportunity to further contribute to planet and society, rebuilding the trust deficit triggered by the financial crisis.
COP26 has only reinforced the urgent need for us to work together and move quickly from purpose and promises to plans and proof. Our stakeholders in the planet and society won't wait for COP27 for answers, and business has an unprecedented opportunity to collaborate and create value from sustainability for people and the planet. It's time to embrace and jump into action – or be pushed.
Amount of finance committed to achieving 1.5°C now at scale needed to deliver the transition | Glasgow Financial Alliance for Net Zero (gfanzero.com)
Sustainability is the most pressing issue of our time, and business is key to driving the change needed to reverse climate change. Through setting ambitious targets, adapting to new regulation, embracing transparency and focusing on adaptation, business can help to protect and create new sources of value – for business, people, society and the world as a whole. Climate change is everybody's business and businesses and governments must work together to support systemic change.


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Q: how to clone variable html element in JQuery I have a set of divs which are elements of database and I want to set an event for each of them so that if I click on one of them it will be cloned.
I tried something but it didn't work,
here is the code on my page :
<% @ideas.each do |idea| %>
<div id="idea_<%=idea.id%>" class="idea">
    <%= idea.title %>
</div>
<% end %>

And here is the CoffeeScript code :
ideas = document.getElementByClassName("idea")
for iter in [0..ideas.length - 1]
  do ->
    ideas[iter].(get_id).click -> ideas[iter].(get_id).clone().appendTo('.container');

Any ideas ?

A: Here is a slightly modified version that should do what you are looking for. One thing to always keep in mind in Javascript/Coffeescript is the scope that your code will be running in. In this case, it is very important to use the do keyword so that the iter variable is properly captured. Without it, when you clicked any idea, it would always clone the last idea, because by the time the click handler actually executes, iter will have reached the end of the loop.
ideas = document.getElementByClassName("idea")
for iter in [0...ideas.length]
  do (iter) ->
    ideas[iter].click -> ideas[iter].clone().appendTo('.container');

Here is a modified version that is a bit cleaner as well. jQuery can handle all of that iteraction for you.
$('.idea').click ->
    $(@).clone().appendTo('.container')

What are you trying to do with the 'get_id' part? I'm just kind of ignoring it, so let me know if I misunderstood.
Edit:
To only clone once, the easiest way is to use jQuery's 'one' method instead of 'bind'.
$('.idea').one 'click', ->
    $(@).clone().appendTo('.container')


Father: There is not a day in my life that I don't benefit from his parenting. He loved and raised Kaye well. She first saw a love for kids and a love for teaching in her father.
Man: All men want to leave something behind that outlasts them. As a teacher and principal, Mr. Billy invested in others. Many of those impacted by him waited over an hour in a visitation line to express appreciation to his family.
Christian: Mr. Billy is known as a good and generous man, but he is not in heaven because he was good. Mr. Billy worked hard throughout his life, but he is not in heaven because of his work. We believe he is with the Lord because Jesus is good and because of the work Jesus did for us on the cross. We don't stand before God in our goodness; we stand before him in His goodness.
So that was my message. Since then, I have done some more thinking and processing.
This life goes by very quickly.
It seems like yesterday I was a pallbearer at my grandmother's funeral. At that point, there was a generation between death and me, and it seemed so far away. Now all our grandparents have died, and we have lost our first parent. Even if I die an old man of natural causes, I am quickly moving towards that day. We are really like a "smoke that appears for a little while, then vanishes" (James 4:14). The scarcity of time and the brevity of life should increase our urgency for what really matters.
The Bible reminds us, "Love is as strong as death, jealousy is fierce as the grave" (Song of Solomon 8:6). The grave is fierce. It does not give us another chance to have one more conversation or give one final hug. So we are wise to keep a short record of wrongs, live at peace with everyone, and tell those we love that we love them.
Everything is meaningless … without Him.
We spent some time in the cemetery of Hebron Baptist Church, where Mr. Billy is buried. I walked the rows and read tombstones, some who had been buried over 120 years ago. No one remembers these people now. So much of the earthly things that likely mattered to some of those buried have proven to be absolutely meaningless. A cemetery graciously reminds us, "Only one life, 'twill soon be past. Only what's done for Christ will last" (CT Studd).
The Teacher in Ecclesiastes asked, "What does a man gain for all his efforts that he labors at under the sun?" and then stated, "There is no remembrance of those who came before; and of those who will come after there will also be no remembrance by those who follow them" (Ecclesiastes 1:3, 11). But if we seek Him and rest in His work for us, instead of laboring under the sun without Him, He gives meaning and significance to all.
He has conquered the grave.
The grave is fierce, but He has conquered it. Death is strong, but He is stronger. For those of us who are His, we will live, even though we die (John 11:25). Because He conquered the grave, we grieve, but not as ones without hope.


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Jean Strickland
Can you talk about your writing process and how it developed over the years? Do you have any strategies for plotting or revising?
What's your favorite piece of writing advice to give new writers just starting out?
If the concept and hook for my story are quite classic, what tips would you have for putting in unique touches?
What advice would you give an author who gets comments about a need for deeper worldbuilding in their story? How can we get all that stuff we know about the world onto the page…without info dumping?
Shelby Kisgen
First, I love your books!!! Huge fan here! 🙂
Second, what's your best revision tip? How do you know when to trash a novel and move on to a new project with more potential?
When you began writing, how did you hold true to your vision for your stories in the face of rejections? What helped you to believe you had something brilliant to say?
How did you celebrate your first book? Thanks!
Heather A Harwood
Do you have tips on how to make your world feel as important as your characters?
Any insight into using a diverse range of characters in an ensemble novel? Writing from one's personal perspective is fine – but limiting. Yet writing from other perspectives seems to make one worthy of attack who feel that their stories are being usurped by others. Where's the middle ground, especially in fantasy?
Do you have tips on naturally seeding in information about the world that will come into play later?
Hi! I'm a really big fan of yours, especially of your Circle of Magic books! As a new writer, I have this anxiety: I want to make my first book as perfect as possible, to put my best foot forward when I introduce myself to the world as a writer. Do you have any thoughts you can share on that, based on your own experience as a prolific writer?
What are some suggestions to avoid the "info-dump" when it comes to worldbuilding? Your books have such vivid settings, but they grow so naturally rather than having the reader be told what to expect in an info dump.
I'm a big fan and thrilled you are here! When writing a new novel, do you like to outline first or are you more freeform?
Barbara Mitobe
I absolutely love your books and have been reading them since I was thirteen-years-old. You have been one of my biggest sources of inspiration for wanting to write my own stories.
Do you plan well in advance the different series you want to do in the same world? How do you keep the various character histories straight? What's your process for creating a series?
How do you keep track of all the details of such an expansive world?
I'm worried my concept isn't unique enough to attract an agent or sell in the market. What can I do?
What are your thoughts on Science Fantasy. I heard it's not sellable.
When worldbuilding for fantasy, how should a writer invent new details to the world without having them shoehorned in or come out-of-nowhere?
Will you be attending BookCon this year?
Sandy Perlic
Thank you, Tamora, for your perspective on writing and life as a writer. I so enjoyed learning from you.
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Here are a couple informal introductory videos intended for our international ministry site (recorded in Afrikaans as well). They briefly address the clarity and simplicity of the Gospel – so we thought we'd include the English versions here. They're short and (mostly) to the point. Enjoy!


Looking at Stellar's site, we can see a massive increase in the number of active accounts.
The question is how did this happen? What led to their massive growth?
Everyone knows that the cryptocurrency market has experienced a very hard downtrend during 2018. Most of the virtual currencies lost part of their value, including Stellar Lumens. During this year, Stellar lost around 85% of its price.
Looking at the data from the site, It took almost four years to get from 0 to 1,000,000 accounts, and only two months to double the number. That's pretty amazing.
One of the most important things related to this impressive growth is related to the massive airdrop conducted by Stellar.
After signing a partnership with Blockchain.com, Stellar decided to conduct a $125 million airdrop. Because of this, Stellar became the network performing the largest airdrop in the market ever.
but there's more to it..
IBM and Stellar have also been working side by side in many different fields. IBM and Stellar launched a program that allows consumers and merchants in the South Pacific region to make cross-border payments. IBM is using Stellar Lumens (XLM) as well for these projects.
As we can tell from other cryptocurrency trends, the market follows partnership news in a positive way.
In addition to that, The Diruna project registered more than 1 million active accounts. In this way, Diruna (DRN) helped Stellar increase the number of active accounts on the network.
One of the biggest things that we all need to consider before dumping all our savings into Stellar is whether or not these active accounts will be sustainable growth. Everyone likes free money and that includes free Stellar. Running a giveaway is a great way to grow the company, but can they maintain their growth for the long term is what we should be thinking about.


NEW YORK, Sept. 27, 2017 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- At its 2017 Analyst Day, Applied Materials, Inc. unveiled a new three-year financial outlook and illustrated how materials innovation is enabling a new era of computing to make possible IoT, big data and artificial intelligence (A.I.). The company is targeting non-GAAP adjusted earnings per share (EPS) of $5.08 for fiscal 2020 based on a $45 billion wafer fab equipment (WFE) market with increases in market share, gross margin, R&D investment and operating profit.
In Services, Applied expects to deliver compound annual growth of 15 percent for the next three years to reach $4.5 billion in revenue by 2020 driven by continued strong demand for its equipment, higher process complexity and greater demand for comprehensive service agreements. In Display, Applied expects 23 percent in compound annual growth over the same period, led by increases in consumer demand for larger, more life-like displays in the TV and mobile device markets, which are enabled by Applied's leadership in large-area materials engineering.
Applied is committed to investing in attractive growth opportunities and distributing excess cash to shareholders through share repurchases and dividends. The company announced a new share repurchase program authorizing up to an additional $3 billion in repurchases. As of the end of the company's fiscal third quarter, approximately $995 million remained available under the prior authorization.
A replay of the 2017 Analyst Meeting, along with presentations and related materials, will be available on the Applied Materials investor relations website at http://www.appliedmaterials.com/company/investor-relations.
The non-GAAP adjusted EPS target assumes non-GAAP adjustments as applicable for future periods, which we are unable to predict without unreasonable efforts due to their inherent uncertainty. Management uses non-GAAP adjusted financial measures to evaluate the company's operating and financial performance and for planning purposes. Applied believes these measures enhance investors' ability to review the company's business from the same perspective as the company's management, and facilitate comparisons between periods on a consistent basis. There are limitations in using non-GAAP financial measures because they are not prepared in accordance with GAAP and may differ from non-GAAP methods of accounting and reporting used by other companies.
This press release contains forward-looking statements, including those regarding anticipated growth and trends in our businesses and markets, industry outlooks and anticipated levels of capital equipment spending, technology inflections, our strategies, our development of new products and technologies, the anticipated demand for our products, growth in our market share positions and opportunities, our business and financial performance and outlook, our financial model, capital allocation, and investment and growth strategies, and other statements that are not historical facts. These statements and their underlying assumptions are subject to risks and uncertainties and are not guarantees of future performance. Factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from those expressed or implied by such statements include, without limitation: the level of demand for our products; global economic and industry conditions; consumer demand for electronic products; customers' technology and capacity requirements; the introduction of new and innovative technologies, and the timing of technology inflections; our ability to develop, deliver and support new products, expand our markets and increase market share; the concentrated nature of our customer base; market acceptance of existing and newly developed products; our ability to obtain and protect intellectual property rights in key technologies; our ability to achieve the objectives of operational and strategic initiatives, and attract, motivate and retain key employees; the variability of operating expenses and results among products and segments, and our ability to accurately forecast future results, market conditions, customer requirements and business needs; and other risks and uncertainties described in our most recent Form 10-Q and other SEC filings. All forward-looking statements are based on management's estimates, projections and assumptions as of September 27, 2017, and we assume no obligation to update them.


We've been having beautiful days lately, full of sunshine and flip flops, with long, drawn-out endings involving watermelon, hoses, and swimming suits. The evenings bring long walks or reading sessions, laying on our stomachs or flopped on our backs, accompanied by the comforting drone of fans.
It's been a long, long time since I've posted anything here, I know. I've missed it terribly, but the ins and outs of our daily family routine just haven't allowed for it, I'm afraid. Since I last posted, I took the Bar Exam (and passed—thank heavens!), my daughter started school, I worked part time at a wonderful job, we moved for a new job for Ryan, we had another baby (!), I started another part-time job, and now we are getting ready for another move across the state for another new job. It's been busy, busy, busy. The other morning, though, as I got home from running, everything seemed still for a few minutes. My two-year-old had just woken up, and I took him outside—something we rarely have time to do in those rushed, get-ready-for-school hours. I couldn't resist taking some pictures of the little things that are so fresh and inspire such wonder in the early morning hours—things which only a few hours later seem hot and tired and generally uninspiring. G found a snail and crouched down in glee to admire it. We watch him inch out of a pot of some long-neglected herb plant, which I have hopes of rejuvenating for an herb garden. We'll see.
The morning was so fresh and so quiet, I felt energized to make a muffin recipe I've been experimenting with lately. And then I realized I already had my camera out. And then I thought how much I wanted to share this recipe, not to mention preserve it for myself in some more permanent form than a scribbled mess on a scrap of paper that will inevitably be lost. And then…well, I just couldn't' help myself. Maybe now things have shifted in a way that I'll be able to carve out some time again for blogging. I have found that, as a mother, my life and schedule and abilities are constantly ebbing and flowing. Sometimes I can do this. Sometimes I can do that. I can never do everything, but I can always do something, and finding a way to do something that brings joy within the confines of naps and nursing and school schedules is so key to feeling happy and productive. I'm hoping that—as our youngest has transitioned into a more predictable schedule—that something can be blogging again.
In any case, I'm so excited to share this recipe. If you've been here before, you know I'm partial to muffins and am always trying to find recipes that are breakfast acceptable. If I wanted dessert, I'd have a full on slice of cake. When I want a muffin, I want a muffin, and I want to be able to eat it at 7am and not feel guilty. I've also been trying to incorporate a little more healthy protein into our diets, particularly since my kids would live off of bread if they had their way. So, in pursuit of all that, I've been experimenting with ways to use beans in breads. I'm sure all of you have seen black bean brownie recipes and such floating around the blogosphere, and I've tried some chickpea chocolate chip cookies that were very popular around here. If you haven't been converted to bean-based breads, don't write them off right away. They can be amazingly good, and particularly moist. (Although, I'll warn you I've tried some rather bad ones as well). I'm not sure why black beans have been the bean of choice in popular recipes. You have to use a lot of sugar to disguise the flavor, and at some point, it just seems like adding some beans isn't really going to make a sugar-laden, frosting-covered treat that much better for you. You might as well have the real thing, you know? Recently, I've tried using white beans more frequently and have been pleasantly surprised by the results. The taste is more mild, so you don't need to disguise anything.
When I found this Culinary Institute of America recipe, I couldn't resist tinkering with it. The result is nothing like the original (a chickpea-lemon muffin), but it's delicious. The brilliant part of the recipe, which I kept, lies in beating the egg whites, something I never thought to do for a muffin recipe, despite countless egg-beating sessions for cakes and pancakes.
The muffin is ultra moist and light. The orange lends a bright, citrus hint and is a lovely contrast to the cardamom. We particularly liked them with marmalade and a dollop of greek yogurt.
I'm so looking forward to sharing this space again. Enjoy your breakfast!
These light and fluffy muffins are low in sugar and fat but high in flavor—the bright citrus and exotic cardamom add a bit of novelty and blend perfectly together. I prefer to use a mix of olive and canola oils, as the olive oil is a bit overbearing on its own. However, the recipe should work fine with any mild-flavored oil. If you warm the beans a bit before blending, you'll get an extra-smooth texture, which is key to successfully incorporating beans into baked goods. This is important if you have a run-of-the-mill blender, but a high-quality food processor or blender will handle the job nicely without any pre-warming help. These are best eaten within a few hours. After a day, they become crumbly and less flavorful.
Preheat oven to 325°F. Grease a standard muffin tin.
Beat the egg whites until the hold stiff peaks. Set aside.
Put the beans, orange zest, orange juice, oils, sugar, and egg yolks in a food processor or blender. Purée until smooth.
Combine the flour, baking powder, salt, and cardamom in a large mixing bowl. Stir in the bean mixture.
Scoop the batter into muffin tin.
Bake about 20 minutes, or until a toothpick inserted in the center of a muffin comes out clean.
We miss you! Any chance you'll be in Oregon soon?
i'm glad you're back at it!


Boards Depuy Synthes Gorsky's Renewed Commitment to Orthopaedics?
Gorsky's Renewed Commitment to Orthopaedics?
Gorsky was as committed to the medical device business as I've ever heard him yesterday on the earnings call. Usually pharma is the focus with a sprinkle of consumer and medical devices thrown in to appease the crowd.
Yesterday was different. He actually conceded that the performance hasn't been uniform across the entire medical device portfolio and committed to improving specifically in Orthopaedics. He was happy with the knee and spine performance in 2018 and says the business is setup well for 2019, returning to above-market growth in 2020.
Is this more smoke and mirrors from management or do you think the future is brighter for Depuy Synthes based on what you're seeing at the field level?
We are seeing nothing in the field to make us think that all of sudden JNJ is excited about the future of their spine division. This is 100% smoke and mirrors. When I read his comments, as a senior spine rep, he doesn't seem to understand what he is speaking to. Gorsky stated "In spine, we continue to focus on areas such as severe deformity, degeneration as well as others. We have a number of new launches that we have coming out including the interbody cage. Biomaterials is an area of interest to us as well." Nothing specific - Number of new launches? Really? "the interbody cage"?!? What the cage that everyone's had for 3 years now? We're lucky no one asked a follow up question focused on specifics. We continue to lose share year after year after year. I can't speak to the Ortho or Trauma side but we are getting killed on the spine side.
I know many won't agree but a lack of robotics in Spine is killing us.


Bio Festival will be a 100% organic-focused and eco-friendly festival and will target both b2c customers and retailers.
The festival is a large celebration of coffee and its surrounding culture, addressed equally to industry professionals, home baristas and the general public.
FOODTECH is targeted at the production, packaging and handling technologies of Food & Drinks, and directed to owners and executives from the sector's productive and commercial enterprises.
A premium trade show, targeted exclusively at hoteliers, but also at professionals and entrepreneurs from Greece's Tourism industry.
The largest international trade show for the provisioning and equipment of Hospitality and Foodservice companies in Greece and the leading commercial and social forum for the Tourism industry in Greece, Cyprus and Southeast Europe.
The largest international Food & Beverage trade show in Greece, and the leading exhibition of its kind in Southeast Europe.
The only specialized trade show of wine and spirits in Greece, with a purely professional character and an international orientation.
The trade show has been a key hub of trade activity for the past three decades, showcasing and promoting the latest trends in products, services and knowhow for the Bakery & Confectionery sectors.


Purchased an iMac from Best Buy in 2011. A few months later it wouldn't boot up due to a problem with the hard drive. Took it to the Mac store, and their solution was to reformat the drive. After the format, their diagnostic tests said that the drive was "A OK".
Rewind 15 years. In another lifetime I was a computer tech support agent for a major computer company. We would regularly receive calls from people whose hard drives had crashed. Our standard procedure was to first try and reformat their drive and let them go. This might buy them a day, a week, or even a few years. But inevitably they would be calling tech support again with a dead drive. It was predictable.
So now that I was faced with this situation on my own computer, my instincts jumped to the forefront and screamed at me that "this is a bad drive… they need to replace it". I urged them to replace it, but they refused, saying that there was nothing wrong with the drive. If I wanted a different drive, I would have to buy it. Warranty wouldn't cover it.
I pushed just shy of making a scene.
I should have made a scene.
I have now suffered through 5 years of a computer that has always seemed to be a little slower than it should be. And the drive has died. Of course, outside the warranty.
Now, I'm purchasing a new drive and going through a few days of lowered productivity because I didn't make enough of a scene in the Apple store that day.
If the drive dies in the first year for any reason, it's a dud. Don't fall for the "reformat and it's fine trick". It's not fine.


Riot Games has unveiled Bard, The Wandering Caretaker, today. This support character specializes in movement to edge out his foes.
Bard is League's first support to gain advantages solely from moving around Summoner's Rift. By constantly collecting his unique chimes, he covers plenty of ground at all stages of a game, and offers his team both solid sustain with his health packs and unrivalled team mobility with his long range portals.
Cosmic Binding – Bard fires out a burst of spirit energy in a line, damaging and slowing the first enemy struck. After Cosmic Binding hits an enemy, the burst of energy continues through, searching for secondary targets. If it hits a wall, it stuns the initial target; if it hits a second enemy, it stuns both targets.
Caretaker's Shrine – Bard conjures a health pack that gains power for a few seconds. Allied champions who walk over the pack gain health and a brief burst of movement speed, while enemies can stand on the pack for a moment to destroy it.
Magical Journey – Bard conjures a portal on a target wall. The portal tunnels through to the far end of the wall, granting one-way passage to all champions, friend and foe, who enter it.
Tempered Fate – After a brief delay, Bard places all units in a targeted area – friend or foe, including champions, minions, monsters and turrets – in stasis. Frozen units are immune to all damage until the effect wears off.
That last one is my favorite. Gotta love friendly fire being introduced! Check out Bard's full story here.
lol,His ulti is likely copy of Heroes of the storm's infamous Zeratul or Dota 2's beloved carry Faceless Void.
After all those unique kind of abilities(especially Passive),You make a ulti which is already in play.
Oh yes. Karthus is mad.
But. When did MMOBomb start posting these things? Not that I don't like it. Just out of curiosity.
Quite a while now, it's nice to hear from these guys about Mobas. All my info in one place, you know?


Glasgow Mela in on this weekend (Sat&Sun) 12-8pm at Kelvingrove Park. Apart from watching this cool culture event. As a photographer who may be scared of capturing portraits of strangers; as in approaching the subject and asking for permission. This could be an introduction to practice your craft. At any festivals / gatherings. People are more socially open, so you should improve your confidence, communication and technique at these kind of events before taking stranger portraits on the streets. Just a tip!
Here are some photos I had taken last year.
Approach the people whom you find interesting. Introduce yourself, tell them what you find amazing about them. Talk to them about their image, interest, hobby / profession. Ask to take their portrait. If they so "no", that is the worst that can happen. If they say "yes" you capture them, and thank them. Smile! Be relaxed and be yourself, if you are nervous they may sense it. If you love, love photography! Then you should be relaxed and happy.
Another good tip especially if you are like me, and always shoot manual; is to have your camera setting ready to shoot. So you are not fumbling about with the buttons/dials when photographing a person, taking up a lot of their time.
After you have captured their Portrait. It is entirely up to you, if you want to show them the photo on the LCD screen (if digital), ask for their email to post them the photo you taken, and if photography is your business, then perhaps give them a business card.
Once you become comfortable in your technical skills, then you should try and be creative. Direct your subject to look in to the lens or look away from the camera. Choice of shot full body, 3/4 or headshot. Ask them to pose a certain way. The list goes on and on.
Remember there are people who say you can't and people who say you can, both are right! No excuses, get out there and capture the photos.
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Our first real introduction to "The Greek Revival Style" was in 1977 when we purchased Carr-Osborn House in Fall River Mass. The architect was Russell Warren. The home came furnished with the original circa 1843 furniture. Much of the furniture was from the firm of Meeks.
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# 5138. An American Empire Center Table. Circa 1830-40. Rosewood / Egyptian Marble / Black Marble. Size: 31" tall / 35" across. This tri foot base table has an Egyptian Marble center support with bronze upper and lower caps; The marble top was probably replaced at one time and the surface is glass like. This design is uncommon with most centertables of this era usually having a wood center post or support. The marble column unbolts for more easy transportation. { We have located a similar item: offered by Christies on Thursday June 2, 1983 -Quervelle 5370 - lot # 185 "An Empire Mahogany Veneer Marble top Center Table - New York, 1830-40" The estimate was then $3,000.00 - $3,500.00.} $3,500.00.
# 4472. A dated 1830 Portrait Bust. Signed on the bust in large script: "R. Trentanove Fece Roma 1830". Size: 26 1/2" tall and 16" wide. Material: Carrara Marble. Condition: minor edge flakes to the toga; multiple tiny paint splatters to the surface; the sockel was neatly broken into and reglued. Please see detailed images below. This handsome classical portrait bust in typical of the era (1830's). Probably commissioned as a portrait bust by the sitter. In storage in a Newport warehouse since about 1925. Raimondo Trentanove, Italian 1792-1832; Initially a pupil of De Maria and Bartolini, Trentanove worked in Rome in close partnership with Canova. There he was involved in the execution of numerous works in his master's style, including direct copies after Canova, antique sculpture and portrait busts. Amongst the latter there exists a fine marble of Canova himself, now in the Galleria d'arte Moderna, Milan. Another version of the present impressive memorial bust of Napoleon may be found in the Museo del Risorgimento, Faenza. This portrait bust was completed two years before Trentanove's death in 1832. In the exhibition catalogue: " Art and the Empire New York 1825, 1861 " Edited by Catherine Hoover Voorsanger and John K. Howat ( ISBN 0-87099-957-5 ) on page 137 is mentioned: "Also in 1824 the (American) Academy elected as honorary member the Italian Raimondo Trentanove, a favored pupil of Canova . . . an act calculated to emphasize the institution's connections to Europe and to counter criticism of American cultural provincialism." This bust weighs 103 lbs. {It is possible that this may be a portrait bust of Charles Lucien (Carlo) Jules Laurent Bonaparte, 2nd Prince of Canino and Musignano (May 24, 1803 – July 29, 1857) was a French naturalist and ornithologist. He was the son of Lucien Bonaparte and nephew of Emperor Napoleon.}Price $30,000.00.
# 4474. A Pair (2) of 19th century Charles X Column Lamps. Fitted for electricity. Bronze (dark and gold patinations). Size: 22" tall to the base of the contemporary electrical shaft. Condition: electrified and missing the clock work mechanism, the burner collar and the shade holder ring. This pair is unusually high style because of the four baccus heads joining around the center of the lamp. Price for the Pair is $11,000.00.
# 2149. A Rare Charles X Column Lamp. Fitted for Electricity. 25.5" tall to the base of the electrical fitting. Retains its burner collar and shade ring. Good original patina with dark bronze and fire gilt surfaces. Probably French. Unmarked. The Column Lamp is a very elegant form of lighting, usually fitted with a mellon or ball glass shade. Price: $5,500.00.
# 4559. A Charles X single Carcel or Column Oil Lamp. Bronze patinated in gold and dark patina. Size: 21.5" tall. Condition: The lamp has it's mechanical works, the spring wound motor that pumps the oil to the burner; the burner is missing as is the burner cage and shade ring; it has been fitted for electricity by simply running the wire up the shaft without really hurting the integrity of the mechanism. Could be reconverted back to oil will little effort. This rare lamp is French and is so marked by the firm of Dardonville and Sons - Paris as incised on the mechanism along with numbers. Price: $4,500.00.
# 5048. A pair (2) of single arm Argand lamps. Labeled: " Gardner New York " Gardner was a retail gallery in New York City. Size: 16" tall sitting on a square base that is 6". Condition: still oil, never fitted for electricity; very distressed finish: most of the gold gilt work is gone and the painted surface is in very poor condition; the prisms are not period to the set; there is a small interior thimble like wick holder missing from one of the two lamps as noted in the detailed images. This set is ready for restoration and will be a handsome addition to a period interior. Price $3,950.00 the pair.
# 3081. A Single Carcel Lamp. Paris Porcelain with fire-gilt bronze metalwork. Fitted for electricity (mechanical innerworkings removed and burner/shade holder removed). Style: Neo-Grec. Manufactured between 1869-1880. Condition: the lower porcelain section has an apparent crack from the upper edge to the intermediate gold band. Minor surface wear consistent with use and age. We believe that the art work is part stenciled but for the most part hand painted. This is a rare lamp depicting Greek figures, four in all. The predominant ground colors are turquoise, terra-cotta with black and gold tracery. There are three separate porcelain section joined with fire gilt bronze elements. Unmarked. The main image depicts a soldier / warrior atop a winged horse / Pegasus / killing a mythological monster. This high quality lamp would have been used in a room of furnishings consistent with cabinet makers such as Pottier and Stymus, Leon Marcotte, Herter Brothers and Alexander Roux. Size: 20" tall to the bottom of the modern electrical socket and the base has a 6" footprint. Price: $3,000.00.
We have had the privilege of owning three Duncan Phyfe items, inlcuding the above pictured Rosewood sideboard. Metal inlay and brass gallery. A similar form is pictured on page 173 (Dover), plate 155 in Nancy McClelland's Duncan Phyfe and the English Regency 1795-1830. In the 1920's through the 1940's this era furniture in Newport was considered just good used furniture and often time ended up in rooming houses where rooms were rented by the week. We sold this sideboard over 25 years ago.
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Video Premiere: "Lucky and Finnegan" by Ronley Teper
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Video Still; Photo Credit: Davide Di Saro
In collaboration with prolific director and mixed media animator, Davide Di Saro (Land of Talk, Malajube, Coheed and Cambria), Ronley Teper releases her latest video "Lucky and Finnegan" exclusively on The Big Takeover.
The video is the final in a trilogy that includes two other animated short films soundtracked by her songs Faith and Pointy Pedals. The final piece of animation showcases an exuberant and imaginative universe; a perfectly unique pairing for the song's gritty, slow-trotting delivery.
Based on a live recorded song, "Lucky and Finnegan" is a surreal animated film narrating an adventure of mystical creatures racing toward a new world of self-discovery within a shamanic experience. A colourful vision of a surreal voyage through enchanted forests, gloomy haunted houses, monstrous magical towers, giant walking volcanoes, and vertiginous space-time warps.
The video itself is entirely hand-drawn, revealing Di Saro's incredible sensitivity to detail and scale, utilizing low frame- rate, vintage-style classic animation. The film recently went through the festival cycle, and was nominated for the prestigious Jutra award.
Teper has just returned home from a European tour with her band the Lipliners. You can catch her live show in Toronto at The Tranzac Club on December 9th and 17th. You can also choose to download her music via Bandcamp
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Camera IconWhat does child abuse look like in Western Australia?Picture: Thinkstock
The rising reality of child abuse in Western Australia
Parkerville Children and Youth CareSponsored
July 8, 2018 5:02AM
In Australia, one in four girls and one in six boys will be abused before the age of 18.
It's a confronting statistic but one that could also be conservative.
According to Parkerville Children and Youth Care Clinical Psychologist Amanda Paton, these numbers could actually be a higher than expected.
"The biggest problem we have in WA is that we don't have good data from our state that tells us how prevalent it is, so rates could be much higher," she said.
Parkerville Children and Youth Care supports vulnerable children, young people, adults and their families across WA, working to protect and care for those who have experienced trauma from abuse.
Ms Paton said current data from the Australian Institute of Health and Wellbeing showed that children from lower socioeconomic areas, regional areas and those of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander descent were over-represented. However, the issue doesn't just stop there.
"Child abuse happens across all contexts, demographics and cultural backgrounds – it does not discriminate," she said.
Whatever the circumstances, Ms Paton said early intervention was vital in ensuring children received the protection and care they needed immediately, and continuously.
"Abuse brings with it a whole range of impacts that will carry through a child's life into adulthood," she said.
"Emotionally and psychologically, they can experience poor self-worth, difficulties managing anger, anxiety and worry, and in some cases they can have symptoms of clinical depression."
Abuse can also affect their capacity to learn and pay attention in class and may even lead to substance misuse, self-harm, antisocial behaviour and eventually trouble with the law - according to Ms Paton.
"One of the biggest issues we see though is how children then relate to others," she said.
"Some statistics show that over 93 per cent of abuse is perpetrated by someone known to the child, typically someone within the family or close network, so these children often find it very hard to trust and believe the world is a good place, and that adults can be trusted after they have experienced abuse."
Ms Paton said through the Multi-agency Investigation and Support Team and the Child Advocacy Centre model - which comprises a police investigation unit, child protection workers, specialist child interviewers, psychological therapeutic services and child and family advocates - children who have experienced child sexual abuse were getting the help they needed sooner.
Since opening its George Jones Child Advocacy Centre in 2011, Parkerville has provided services to 15,700 children, young people and their families. The not-for-profit organisation will be opening its second centre, the Stan & Jean Perron Child Advocacy Centre, in Midland. Donate towards its second centre,or for more information on Parkerville Children and Youth Care please visit parkerville.org.au.


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Q: Monetary symbol (not $) in DataGridView field values I'm building an application that is for a non-profit in Guatemala. Everything in the system is in Quetzales, which is denoted with a Q (i.e. Q100.00) is 100 Quetzales.
I need to be able to modify the monetary values in any DataGridView column, but I've been unable to figure out an easy way to do it with formatting like you can with a dollar sign. I don't want to use computer region settings because some people using the system, use computers from the US.
Not sure if it's important, but values come out of a sql server database from a 'money' type field.

A: When formatting a string you can specify which culture you want to use:
decimal cost = 1500m;
string s = cost.ToString("C", CultureInfo.GetCultureInfo("es-GT"));

Result

Q1,500.00

A: If you do not want to rely on the Regional settings you can force the application to execute using the Guatamala culture regardless of the regional settings.
CultureInfo culture = new CultureInfo("es-GT");
decimal amount = 123.43M;

// Set the culture for the thread
System.Threading.Thread.CurrentThread.CurrentCulture = culture;

// Uses the thread culture for formatting
MessageBox.Show(amount.ToString("c"));

// Alternatively if you do not want to set the thread culture
// you can explicitly format using the passed culture
MessageBox.Show(amount.ToString("c", culture));


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title:      "Enumerables"
date:       2018-04-07 17:26:37 +0000
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**#all?**

-- The block passed must return true for *every* iterataion for the entire #all? expression or method
-- Every iteration, every loop of the block must return true

all_odd = [1,3] .all? do |number|
number.odd?
end                        #=> true
all_odd                 #=> true

**#none?**

-- Opposite of #all?
-- The method returns true if the block *never* returns true for all elements

If **any** of the elements in a collection evaluate to TRUE when passed to the block... #none? will return *false*

If **none** of the elements in a collection evaluate to TRUE when passed to the block... #none? will return *true*

**#any?**

-- Returns TRUE if *at least one* iteration of the block evaluates to **true**, but FALSE if *none* do

(Good if you want to ensure that at least one element in a collection will create a TRUE expression within the block passed...)

[1,2,100] .any? { |i| i > 99}      #=> true

**#include?**

-- Returns TRUE if the given object *exists* in the element
-- If it doesn't, it will return FALSE

the_numbers = [4,8,15,16,23,42]

the_numbers. include? (42)         #=> true
the_numbers. include? (6)           #=> false

**#select**

-- When this is evoked, the return value will be a NEW ARRAY containing all the elements of the collection that cause the block passed to return TRUE

(This means that for each iteration, if the block evaluates = TRUE...the element yielded wil be kept in the return value array)

[1,2,3,4,5]. select do |number|
number. even?
end
#=> [2,4]

**#detect** or **#find**

-- Two names for the *same method*

**#detect** will only return the *first element* that makes the block TRUE...whereas...**#select** will return *all elements* from the original collection that cause the block to evaluate = TRUE
-- **#detect** always returns a single object

**#reject**

-- Returns an array with the elements for which the block is FALSE

[1,2]. reject { |i| i. even?}         #=> [1]

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Q: Multivariate time series model evaluation with conditional moments Consider multivariate time series models that estimate potentially time-varying conditional means, variances, and correlations (one type of model might be a VAR(p)+Garch(1,1)+DCC Gaussian Copula model). I will simulate from one "true" distribution and compare other potential models to it. I don't particularly care about RMSE because I care just as much about the conditional covariance matrix as the conditional means. For the sake of simplicity, assume that the conditional mean and conditional covariance are sufficient to explain "true" distribution.
I can calculate the conditional mean vector and conditional covariance matrix of each model and the true model at any given point in time. Alternately, I can calculate the forecasted conditional means and covariances on a rolling basis.

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*Is there any reason to prefer the Kullback-Leibler divergence or Bhattacharyya distance as comparison methodologies or should I just do both? Alternately, is there a different method that is even more appropriate.

*In the constant multivariate Gaussian case, is it possible to make statistical inferences based on these comparison methodologies, such as that the divergence is not statistically bigger than zero or that the divergence of one is bigger than another?

*If I calculate the conditional means and variances at any given point in time, I could calculate the comparison statistic in each period. This would produce a time series of divergences/distances. Is it reasonable to make statistical inferences in this case by just assuming it is a typical time series?

A: There are some methods out there for two sample testing of covariance matrices but no one has specifically looked at testing for conditional covariance matrices. Are you interested in an overall differences between covariances or differences in specific rows of the covariance matrices or recovering the exact support of the difference ? If the first, you might be able to use existing literature on two sample testing of covariance matrices. This would definitely work for point 2 in your question. This is really an open area of research and quite under explored in the time-varying setting. An alternative to KL-distances is using the maximum t-statistic across all the entries of your conditional covariance matrix.


This dryer is very heavy and bulky. Years ago I bought the Italy3800, when Good Morning America had it on Steals and Deals for $50. Loved it! Still use it at home. I am a very busy hair stylist and the new Italy would kill my arm and wrist if I used it all day. Gladly, I sold it to a junior stylist who is not busy. I do love most of the Barbar dryers I have bought. I suggest them to my clients a lot.


Ronald Clinton Walker III known as RJ, passed from this life on March 21, 2019. RJ was born August 13, 1993 in Carmel, California. RJ was 25 years of age. RJ loved family. He truly loved his brother, Robert. RJ looked forward to attending family gatherings and family parties. Especially the parties! RJ valued the quality time and family interactions at those events. RJ had a smile that made you want to smile. He loved to laugh. RJ was in a good place! He was motivated, happy, upbeat, and outgoing! He was enjoying his job and his life! He attended church and looked forward to going. RJ had a caring heart, and he had a habit of looking out for his friends going through personal struggles. On occasions, several of those friends stayed in his grandmother and grandfather's home without their knowledge! RJ's main love was his daughter Alenna! She was the light of his life! His joy! His heart! The happiness that she brought to his life was glaringly apparent when he spoke of her! RJ loved and cherished the time spent with his daughter. He adored her, and he loved to hear her say "Daddy". How he would glow with pride! RJ is survived by his father Ronald Jr., mother, Arlena, brother, Robert, daughter, Alenna, grandparents, great grandparents, aunts and uncles, great aunts and uncles, cousins, and a host of others who loved him dearly.