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Islam and the West ( 29 Sept 2019, NewAgeIslam.Com)
After the Christchurch Thing, People Are More Understanding of Muslims
By Greer Berry
Following the Christchurch mosque attacks, Kiwis are more interested than ever in the Muslim world. But what about those who had already converted? Greer Berry talks to a man who says he's the only Maori Muslim in Manawatu about why he converted to the religion.
Colin was in the car with his daughter when he knew he had to tell her.
She had come to pick him up to go somewhere, but instead, he asked if they could swing by the mosque on Cook St in Palmerston North.
It was March 15, a day etched in all Kiwis' memories, especially those in Christchurch.
Overcome with emotion, Colin decided now was the time he had to come clean.
"On the way there I said: 'I've got to tell you something,'" the 59-year-old remembers, becoming upset at his recollections.
For the first time, Colin revealed to those closest to him that he had converted to Islam the year before.
"She was good, but she was upset because I hadn't told her."
He's a private person and it was a private journey for him, so he had never felt the need to tell others about his decision.
Colin was also worried about what others would say or think, about being judged and misunderstood. It's something he still worries about.
On this day, the terrorist attack had changed that. He felt like he needed to share his newfound faith with his three children, "just in case".
"It was hard, but the Muslim community is strong. It was because of that that I thought: 'I've got to tell my kids'.
"I know the kids, no matter what I do, will support me," he says.
"Now they know, it's really good, they're really supportive."
Colin's road to conversion is one many others have found themselves on.
He was going through a hard time and was looking for a sense of belonging and contentment, and in Islam, he found that.
The religion is the fastest-growing faith in the world.
There aren't official figures on the number of people in New Zealand converting, but anecdotally, mosques around the country are reporting an increase in those attending prayers and interested in finding out more about the religion.
Following the Christchurch attacks, a Wellington mosque was reporting three to five people a day converting, and other mosques similarly reported running out of printed material aimed at educating others about Islam.
The Manawatu Muslims Association is trying to establish a group to arrange a database of new converts, something to keep track of the faith's latest followers.
Friday prayers at the mosque have swelled following the Christchurch attacks.
Association president Riyaz Rehman says there's a sense of people wanting to come together more, to bond over their shared faith, to feel safe and a strength in numbers.
Those numbers were replicated during the religious holiday known as Eid, where Muslims come together to break their fast following the holy month of Ramadan.
"We need more space. We had 1500 people from around the region," he says.
Association member Zulfiqar Butt says the idea about grouping together potential new converts is so that they can band together to support each other in their newfound faith.
Butt has been buoyed by the upsurge in interest in Islam and says he hopes anyone who wants to know more will visit.
"There is certainly an increase," he says, from all backgrounds, with their own stories to tell.
"Even yesterday we were approached by a transgender person, wondering if they were welcome. And I said: 'Of course, you are very welcome'."
And he arranged one of the association's members to show them around and support them.
Colin says he's noticed a few new converts over the past few months.
"They're trying to get a convert group together so we can all meet up now and then, talk about the hassles and troubles we've had and how we can get through them."
Colin says he hasn't actually come face-to-face with the stigma he fears.
But he knows that stigma well – he was guilty of it himself.
When his niece married a Muslim man in Australia, he says he initially worried for her.
"But just through her, and seeing the change in her, it's changed my attitude, I suppose."
He didn't know any other Muslims and his only perception of them was a negative portrayal in the media.
"After the Christchurch thing, I think people are more understanding of Muslims. I mean there's always going to bad people in every religion, every community, and the Muslims, they just have a big heart, they get everybody together and it's just amazing. They call it the religion of peace."
In Colin's life today, only his kids and his boss know about his conversion to Islam.
He doesn't want his name or photo used for this story. Despite not suffering from any stigma or prejudice, he's worried about the response from those around him.
"It's been a very emotional time going through it, especially on my own. It has been hard sometimes, but like I said, the Muslim community is just so caring and giving."
Brought up in the Church of England through the foster-care system, Colin says he came to Islam when he was going through a tough patch and the niece who had married in to the religion sent him positive affirmations to lift his spirits.
One Friday, on a whim, he decided to head to the Cook St mosque in Palmerston North.
"It was a scary thing. It was packed, just absolutely packed. They looked at me as they went past, curious, like who is this person? Then straight after it finished I walked out. I was shy," he says.
"I just listened and watched. I did that for about two or three Fridays. It just gets into you. Then one day two of the brothers came up and introduced themselves."
"It's a really emotional thing. Just going and listening to them talking, it really touches you.
"I'm so pleased that I did, that I took that little step forward and went in. I'm the only Maori in there."
He officially converted during Ramadan last year and since then has been finding his way through his new faith.
"It has been a change. When I first started, I was just a Kiwi guy eating everything and anything, and I was there eating and one of the brothers came up and said: 'Excuse me, brother, we just eat with our right hand,'" he says, sheepishly.
He's learnt how to pray and experienced other lifestyle changes, such as understanding the Quran, food and language.
"My inner peace now is better than it used to be. I don't get as stressed out as I used to."
What does he wish ordinary Kiwis knew about Islam?
"The good things," he says, pausing due to emotion, his tears not far from spilling over his cheeks.
"Before I knew anything about Islam or Muslims, you see all these horrible things on TV and think the worst. But until you see that other side of them, you think: 'Oh there is more to these people.' It is amazing. They're beautiful people. Caring."
And despite the obvious pain and trauma caused by March 15, Colin is grateful the incident caused him to open up to his children.
"If that hadn't happened, they still probably wouldn't know," he admits.
"It was amazing at the vigil, the amount of people that were there, and the follow on afterwards.
"We still get people coming along and wanting to know more. It's just a shame it took something like that to happen, but people are finding out better things because of it. And it has made everybody stronger."
Original: Hello, Brother: Why Kiwis are converting to Islam
Source: The Stuff, Manawatu Standard
URL: http://www.newageislam.com/islam-and-the-west/greer-berry/after-the-christchurch-thing,-people-are-more-understanding-of-muslims/d/119869


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Home Women Veterans Historical Project [Portrait of Joan Lyle, 1943]
[Portrait of Joan Lyle, 1943]
Title [Portrait of Joan Lyle, 1943]
Subject headings World War, 1939-1945
Women Airforce Service Pilots (U.S.)
Era World War II era (1940-1946)
Service branch Women Air Force Service Pilots (WASP)
Item description Portrait of Joan Lyle taken in September, 1943. Lyle wears a WASP flight helmet and leather jacket.
Veteran's name Lyle, Mary Joan Whelan
Veteran's biography M. Joan Whelan Lyle (b. 1920) of Minneapolis, Minnesota, served in the WASP (Women Airforce Service Pilots) in 1943-1944.
Joan Whelan Lyle was born on 12 March 1920 in Minneapolis, Minnesota. She graduated from St. Lois Park High School in 1937 and enrolled at the University of Minnesota. While there, Lyle took private flying lessons. With other student pilots, she formed the Minneapolis Flying Club and eventually earned her instructor's rating. In 1942, she graduated from college and worked briefly as a flight instructor at the Minneapolis Airport. She then attended air traffic control training in Chicago and worked in the control tower in Cincinnati while waiting to get into the WASP.
After several unsuccessful attempts to join the WASP, in spring of 1943 Lyle appealed her case to Jacqueline Cochran, founder of the WASP, and was accepted. From September 1943 to March 1944 she attended training at Avenger Field in Sweetwater, Texas. Following graduation she was sent to Dodge City, Kansas, for B-26 training. She was then sent to Gowen Field in Boise, Idaho, to tow targets for gunnery students. Lyle left the WASP when it was disbanded in December 1944 .
Lyle returned home to Minneapolis and to flight instructing. She moved to Pembina, North Dakota, to work at a relative's flight school. After the school closed, she moved to Los Angeles so she could fly year round. She worked briefly as an instructor in East Los Angeles, and later at airports in Culver City and Santa Monica. She also worked in aircraft sales for Beechcraft as a private pilot for a Chicago business. In 1953 she married George Lyle, and soon thereafter Lyle stopped flying. The couple has seven children.
Image type Formal portrait
Source collection WV0396 Joan Lyle Oral History
Collection summary 2007 oral history interview, copies of photographs, clippings, military records.

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Architecture students work wonders on 15-cent land
Why Uthra Case is a plot straight out of Sherlock Holmes
Lockdown pushes 200 Dalit families in Kerala into extreme poverty
No CAA for them: Nearly half a million Srilankan Tamil repatriates face an uncertain future
Death of Gandhi: The painting captures the nation's horror and pain
The fascinating lives of Kerala's fishers in watercolour
Greeshma Neelakandan·
To those who always lament about the new generation students' lack of interest in public affairs, here is a team of vibrant young students who have turned a 15-cent abandoned space in the heart of Kollam town into a peaceful evening hangout spot. The third year architecture students of Bishop Jerome School of Architecture in Kollam took a 15-cent land at Asramam under lease and made an attractive hangout space there using common waste and easily-available materials such as bamboo, used sacks, mud, coconut husk and shells.
The student team took up the project as part of a national competition being conducted by the National Association of Students of Architecture (NASA). As per the guidelines NASA provided, the students have to find a live place in the town and recreate it using waste materials. Asramam ground is a famous public ground in Kollam and the recreated area is a part of it.
"The spot is at one corner of the ground and has been abandoned by the natives. The whole area was bushy and messy when we began cleaning work as part of the project. It took us almost one month to finally get the area ready for the modification work," said Diya Sosa Cheriyan, one of the leading participants in the team.
The team included 21 students from the college and their first hurdle was to find a suitable location in the town and get it for lease. "The whole procedure was tiring. We had to meet many officials before we attained the land. The lease period was 10 days, but now the Municipality and the district administration want us to retain it, as our project has been a boon to the public. Everyday a number of natives arrive at this location for spending their evening," said Thoufif, another participant.
Though the project is part of a competition, the students say they want to retain and do more in that project as the public have been greatly benefited out of it. "The whole idea was to do something advantageous for all. The modification activity needed only two weeks. The process began in late July. Our team used to spend hours together working on it. Most of the days, we used to work till 7:30 in the night," Diya said.
After witnessing the crowd who come there to spend evenings, the district administration has now changed their stand regarding the period of lease and asked the students to maintain what they have done in the area. "This is adjacent to a pathway and I used to walk through this pathway earlier itself. Since the whole area was filled with bushes, it was really difficult to walk through it. Now people can walk without fear. The students deserve recognition for the great effort. They have done a commendable job with little time and expense," says Ganga Krishnan, Head of the Department at the college, who is also a native.
It cost only around Rs. 25,000 for the students to complete the work. The leasing process cost them around Rs.10,000. The main installations are seating arrangement made out of bamboo, mud and sack. Besides, swings and other bamboo-made installations are also there in the park. For the game lovers, the park is an ideal spot for playing carrom. If the district administration supports by providing fund, the students plan to elaborate their work with lighting and other arrangements.
The students have already submitted photographs and video required by NASA for the competition. The winner will be declared in October.
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Greeshma Neelakandan
Greeshma Neelakandan is a staff reporter with The Kochi Post.
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I didn't see the function in the documentation, and maybe it doesn't exist...but is there a way to include the latest post, or multiple posts from the site?
If so, can this be setup a step further and set an auto-send to specific groups that has just the latest posts on a repeating schedule, such as weekly, monthly, etc?
@Patrick Cohen, wow, thank you. I'm not sure how I missed that.
I'm actually in need of features from both. Is there a way that these two plugins would play nicely together, mainly the management of the subscribers?
I believe that has actually been discussed before but I would need confirmation from both plugin developers on that.
Any way to get Subscribe by Email and e-Newsletter to share subscriber lists?
That's a tough question. We have been speaking about it and we'd like first to know what are the features that you'd like both plugins to share. User management may be possible but there are still a lot to think about it.
I think it'd be neat if the subscribe by email could be an add-on to the e-newletter. That way the templates, user management, user subscription could be management from one location. Or maybe a shortcode could be added to e-newsletter that allows you to insert a recent post or 3 into your newsletter.
I have clients that could benefit from both of these plugins and it'd be easier for a lay user to have one area in the dashboard to manage it all from.
Hope your well today, sorry about the delay on this post here.


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Q: Open URL in NEW Microsoft Edge window I'm writing an application (using C#) which needs to open provided URL in a NEW window of a specified web browser.
The only browser I have problems with is Microsoft Edge.
Opening a page using browser exe doesn't work at all. Browser window does not even appear.
Process.Start("C:\Windows\SystemApps\Microsoft.MicrosoftEdge_8wekyb3d8bbwe\MicrosoftEdge.exe", "https://google.com");

I've searched over the internet and found another way:
Process.Start("microsoft-edge:https://google.com");

This code opens the page, but attaches it to an existing window, if any.
Is there a way to open the page in a NEW window?

A: I am joining the line of desperate users of this program.
Here are my findings from today searching of such simple job (for normal browser).

*

*Bat file - no go
Using direct call for microsoft-edge:"url" or calling for 3rd party utility is resulting all the same. Still working "nicely" but once you want more tha one site, it will add up another TAB.

    @echo

    EdgeLaunch.exe "http://www.idnes.cz"

    EdgeLaunch.exe "http://www.seznam.cz"

    exit

Sources:
EdgeLaunch: http://www.edgemanage.emmet-gray.com/Articles/EdgeLaunch.html
EdgeLauncher: https://github.com/MicrosoftEdge/edge-launcher

*Power shell script
WARNING: as an research I am bypasing the security policy for the execution

    Set-ExecutionPolicy -Scope CurrentUser -ExecutionPolicy Bypass -Force;

    Start-Process -FilePath "msedge" -ArgumentList "http://idnes.cz"
    Start-Process -FilePath "msedge" -ArgumentList "http://novinky.cz"

FUN FACT: if you leave the URLs blank, it will open new-windows. Once you add valid url...again in tabs.

*HTML-Javascript - seriously?!!! - nearly working
For all the shitty as it sounds. It is working nearly, but.
Such popups are normally restricted. And even when I 20 times allowed pupus from local html file. Edge somehow ignores this eevery new startup. (omfg)

But, ok classic HTML structure, and a script on the page with:
 params  = 'width='+screen.width;
 params += ', height='+screen.height;
  params += ', top=0, left=0'
 params += ', fullscreen=yes';
 params += ', directories=yes';
 params += ', location=yes';
 params += ', menubar=yes';
 params += ', resizable=yes';
 params += ', scrollbars=yes';
 params += ', status=no';
 params += ', toolbar=yes';
 params += ', show=yes';

window.open("http://idnes.cz",'window1', params);
window.open("http://novinky.cz",'window2', params);

Desperate fact: It opens the windows on a second manual attempt. But. Once you set "status=yes" attribute. It will again be the TAB.
Thats all I got from internet. Nobody with solution of simply opening 2 damned windows with some webpages.

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I guess the show must Go on..
Well, I'm thinking of starting it tomorrow, then the deadline can be the 17th, and the voting can end on Christmas Eve.
Today is the 17th, Plum. Ready when you are!
Re: SOTM #109 – Christmas! – VOTE!
I guess that's it then, three entries. All right, everyone vote for one or two!
My vote goes to Steo and R4Y_ANC3L.
Steo will win, I guarantee.
Thanks for making me feel optimistic.
It's still early days though, the voting period is far from over and anything can happen.
I am only hoping that more people could vote in this period of time.
Right, there we have it: five votes for Steo, and two for R4Y. Congratulations Steo on winning yet another SOTM!
The next season will be Freestyle and will begin on New Year's Day.
Thanks Plum and thanks for the votes guys.
I'll get to use my special rank for longer now too.
Congrats to Steo for his 3rd win!
Congrats on a well-deserved victory, Steo!
If it wasn't already obvious, the image is basically capturing Globox's personality from Rayman 3.
I missed Christmas but I have one ready for the next season!
Time to start with something for the new year!
Is it ok to re-enter this for this freestyle? I haven't got any ideas at the moment as I've been up to my eyeballs lately as some would say, but I'd still like to enter something.


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Here to help, our double-ended Avocado Masher Tool features a special scraper on one end to make it easier to scoop out the flesh and remove the stone plus a stainless steel avocado masher to create the perfect green mash for salsas, pasta sauces and guacamole.
With a comfortable soft-grip handle.
"What a strange-looking object" I thought when I unpacked my last delivery box from Lakeland. But it fitted in the drawer with my other utensils (nearly all from Lakeland) and when I next bought avocados, I thought I would try it out. And it did the otherwise tricky job of mashing the flesh without any difficulty, resulting in a lovely smooth gloop. So even though I'm hardly a millennial, I think I'm going to use it a lot.
superb utensil does the job perfectly & so easy to clean.
Purchased on 22nd and tried out on a ripe avocado the next day, I was very disappointed as it flexed and bent upwards, I had to chop the avocado into quite small pieces before the masher was any use.


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The Iran deal helps provide a particularly 'marvelous recruiting tools' for ISIS
Natasha Bertrand
Residents carry an injured man at a site damaged by what activists said was a barrel bomb dropped by forces loyal to Syria's president Bashar Al-Assad in Maarat Al-Nouman, south of Idlib June 8, 2015.
REUTERS/Khalil Ashawi
Iran stands to gain more than $100 billion from a comprehensive nuclear deal with world powers, a chunk of which will likely go towards continued support of embattled Syrian President Bashar al-Assad.
The prospect of an economically empowered Iran further bolstering the Assad regime even further is particularly daunting given the regime's use of barrel bombs — steel barrels packed with explosives and shrapnel — against its own citizens.
The attacks are a "marvelous recruiting tools" for ISIS, Frederic Hof, a former State Department policy planner on Syria under the current White House who is now a Senior Fellow at the Atlantic Council, told the Daily Beast.
As Iran's primary Arab ally in the region, Syria is critical to Iran retaining its geopolitical influence in the region, which is why Tehran spends as much as $35 billion per year propping up the Assad regime while also deploying thousands of Iranian Revolutionary Guards soldiers and pro-Assad Shiite militiamen to Syria since the conflict began in 2011.
The Syrian dictator, for his part, regularly targets neighborhoods where civilians are known to congregate, such as hospitals, schools, and playgrounds.
As a result, "everyday decisions—whether to go visit a neighbor, to send your child to school, to step out to buy bread— have become, potentially, decisions about life and death," Hof wrote last month in an analysis of the war's casualties.
Courtesy of Stratfor
"Barrel bombs are not hi-tech or even sophisticated weapons that are sold by modern defense companies,"Riad Kahwaji, CEO of the Dubai-based Institute for Near East and Gulf Military Analysis, told Al Jazeera in February. "They are primitive bombs built by bloody dictatorships with the objective of terrorizing people."
The bombs cost between $200-$300 to build and are extremely imprecise, but their power is increasing: "What's changed with the recent improvements to the DIY barrel bombs is they've become far more reliable," Eliot Higgins, a blogger who has covered the Syrian civil war extensively, explained to Newsweek. "They are much larger, with an estimated weight of up to 2,000 pounds, and has a DIY impact fuse, so it's more reliable."
Furthermore, Assad's troops are dropping chlorine bombs on civilians. The Obama administration knows all about this too, and " has repeatedly warned that those responsible for chlorine bomb attacks will be held accountable"
A family mourns the loss of their relatives to what activists say was a barrel bomb dropped by forces loyal to Syria's President Bashar al-Assad, in Aleppo's al-Fardous district April 29, 2015.
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Significantly, the administration knows who is bankrolling the savagery.
"The president and his people are intellectually attuned to the fact that Tehran is the principal outside facilitator of mass murder in Syria," Hof told Business Insider last month.
Meanwhile, the regime's violence has allowed ISIS to market itself as the only group that can protect Syrians from the government's brutality.
The president and his advisors "are intellectually accepting of the proposition that the Assad regime's mass murder is a recruiting tool for [ISIS]," Hof noted. "People in the administration are not lacking in intelligence, they can connect the dots on these things."
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import java.util.Map;

import javax.sql.DataSource;

import net.paoding.rose.jade.dataaccess.DataSourceFactory;
import net.paoding.rose.jade.dataaccess.DataSourceHolder;
import net.paoding.rose.jade.statement.StatementMetaData;

/**
 * 当你的应用程序只需要一个DataSource时候使用这个实现即可!
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 * @author 王志亮 [qieqie.wang@gmail.com]
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 */
public class SimpleDataSourceFactory implements DataSourceFactory {

    private DataSourceHolder dataSource;

    /**
     * 构造候还得继续调用 {@link #setDataSource(DataSource)} 设置数据源,谢谢
     */
    public SimpleDataSourceFactory() {
    }

    /**
     * 提供的数据源要求非null
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    public SimpleDataSourceFactory(DataSource dataSource) {
        setDataSource(dataSource);
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     * 设置数据源。
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    public void setDataSource(DataSource dataSource) {
        if (dataSource == null) {
            throw new NullPointerException("dataSource");
        }
        this.dataSource = new DataSourceHolder(dataSource);
    }

    @Override
    public DataSourceHolder getHolder(StatementMetaData metaData,
            Map<String, Object> runtimeProperties) {
        return dataSource;
    }

}

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The Affordable Care Act is a comprehensive health care reform law enacted in March 2010 that impacts both employers and individuals.
Applicable Large Employers are generally employers that, together with other employers in their controlled group, employed 50 or more full-time and full-time equivalent (FTE) employees in the prior calendar year.
When two or more entities are treated as a single employer under section 414(b), (c), (m), or (o) of the Internal Revenue Code.
Full-Time Equivalent employees are calculated by adding all the hours worked by part-time employees (those working less than 30 hours per week) in a month and dividing by 120. Note: If the part-time employee works more than 120 hours but less than 130 hours during the month, only 120 hours must be included in the calculation.
Generally, a type of plan purchased by the employer from an insurance company where the insurance company assumes the health coverage risk.
Generally, a type of plan where the employer assumes the risk and pays participants' claims out of its general assets or a trust.
Generally, a type of self-insured plan where rates are based on group experience. They typically have fixed monthly payments that are used to pay claims and maintain stop-loss coverage. For instance, one year rates may be low due to a healthy population of the group but that could change the next year due to illness/injury in the group.
ALE members must file this form with the IRS and distribute it to certain employees to report information concerning the coverage offered.
This is the transmittal form that must accompany Form 1095-C when ALE members file it with the IRS.
Employers that are not ALE members and offer self-insured health coverage use this form to report certain information to covered individuals and the IRS about the months of coverage offered to employees. This form is also used by insurers to show coverage provided to individuals under a fully insured plan.
This is the transmittal form that must accompany Form 1095-B when non-ALE members who offer self-insured coverage file with the IRS.


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Freeze warning AND dense fog advisory in the Valley through Tuesday morning.
Sunny skies every day for the rest of the week means afternoons will get a bit warmer.
Showers return to the Valley early next week.
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Uche Pedro is a Nigerian blogger, writer, social media expert and entrepreneur. She is the founder of Bainstone and BellaNaija, an online entertainment, fashion and lifestyle magazine.
Uche is a household name in the Fashion/ Media industry in Nigeria. She set up Bellanaija in 2006 to showcase the beauty of Nigerian weddings and attires. She began to blog about fashion and celebrities in Nigeria by scanning magazine articles, pictures and interviews of Nigerian fashion personalities.
Born in 1983, she had her primary and secondary education in Nigeria before moving to Canada to study Business Administration at Richard Ivey School of Business, University of Western Ontario.
She has won a number of awards and recognition including; Outstanding Contribution to Fashion Communication Award, Future Awards Africa for Young Media Entrepreneur of the year in 2013. She won 'Best Blogger – Africa' at the 2016 Nickelodeon Kids' Choice Awards and has featured in high profile television shows, interviewed by popular CNN correspondent Isha Sesay and the American media mogul, Oprah Winfrey in 2010.
with over 1 million unique visitors and 9 million page views each month, BellaNaija has become the go-to lifestyle, entertainment and fashion portal in Africa. Her website has established a loyal following amongst the young, cosmopolitan, upwardly mobile set in Nigeria.
Uche is passionate about issues affecting 'the girl child' and young entrepreneurs.
She is happily married to Bode Pedro and they are both blessed with a set of twin.
Uche Pedro is our CEO of the week!


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Brittany became enamored with all forms of spirituality in the midst of her Master's program. She pursued her own study of sacred texts, immersed herself during a month-long trip to Thailand, and attained extensive education on the energetic chakras. She has since become a certified Reiki practitioner and a registered yoga teacher.
Brittany loves connecting with her tribe, being in the flow, dancing, nature, raising the vibe, smiling, music, being playful, traveling, reading, metaphysical conversations, adventure, and forever being a student of an epic life!
Brittany is certified in the following: RYT-200, BUTI Yoga, Hot BUTI Yoga, Reiki I & II.
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I still can't find the dev_0892 line in any of the driver files. Sorry but it is still unclear to me how to be sure a drive is made for my device. Where is the Generic.inf file? How can I know that a driver is a HDA FF00 version?
@ddelo posted the Power Shell command above for you to find out which .inf you are using, did you do that?
Out of curiosity, do you guys prefer the opus or mp4a audio codec on YouTube? You can turn opus off using browser config switches to turn off webm or use the h264ify extension.
Not sure if this piece of information is still current, but I read two comments that said YouTube sets mp4a (AAC) to 44.1 and opus to 48, so that's another variable in play. I guess the answer would also depend on what you have Windows audio set to in the drivers, 44.1 or 48 to prevent re-sampling.
I'm a bad judge of sound, but I am thinking Windows set to 44100 and Youtube forced to mp4a-aac sounds better than Windows set at 48000 and Youtube on Opus. Switching isn't really an issue because my media player I use wasapi exclusive, so it'll just push through 48000 regardless of what Windows is set to.
Last edited by Sunspark; 19 Mar 2019 at 20:49.
I'm kinda confused about this whole drivers section. I've got kinda old drivers on my realtek (6.0.1.8228) and I wan't to update to the newest one. My mbo is gigabyte ab350m gaming 3 and i've got kingston hyperx cloud headset. I really don't know what UAD is and I don't know how to install drivers (well atleast these news, older i know, install>device manager>search on desktop and its intalled, now its a bit harder for me) and how to exactly find one that I need for this system. Can anyone help ?
I have the ALC892 connected via optical cable on my Logitech Z-5500. I was on 8612, after update on 8648 and yesterday i update to latest 8652. I play and test it with various FLAC music files that i own, with enabled the Dolby Digital Live from the Realtek HDA Panel and with enabled the Dolby Prologic IIx from the options of the driver.
The result is just AMAZING!!! The best drivers that i have used until now!! Top on Bass, Middle and High sounds and the realtime encoding from stereo FLAC files to Dolby Digital Live is just PERFECT!!!
When you say you can't find the inf name, do you mean that you downloaded and extracted the driver files and you can't find it?
In any case, the drivers from MUC, are not always what you need, as they are submitted to MS by manufacturers and are specific to their machines. In station- drivers, github and the other similar sites you find drivers for all integrations, including the FF00 Generic.
To make that more clear, I use the FF04 CXAPO driver, and the last year or so, I found it in MUC 3-4 times!
Yes I have extracted this CAB file and there is no such thing as a hdxrtgi.inf among the files. I find this very weird since MUC did offer compatible drivers for my device some versions back containing the subsys hardware-id line.
It's not weird at all. There're so many different audio implementations and each manufacturer is following the well known saying "Does the damn thing work?...Don't mess with it". So if it's not broken, they don't bother with updates of older systems, as they are pretty much occupied with the new ones...you know those that will increase revenue!!


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#ifndef DEBUG_DWARF_H
#define DEBUG_DWARF_H

#include "../ast/ast.h"
#include "../pass/pass.h"
#include "../reach/reach.h"

#include <platform.h>
#include <llvm-c/Core.h>
#include <llvm-c/Target.h>

#define DW_LANG_Pony 0x8002
#define DW_TAG_Producer "ponyc"

PONY_EXTERN_C_BEGIN

typedef struct dwarf_t dwarf_t;
typedef struct dwarf_meta_t dwarf_meta_t;

typedef struct gentype_t gentype_t;
typedef struct symbols_t symbols_t;

enum
{
  DWARF_FLOAT        = 1 << 0,
  DWARF_SIGNED       = 1 << 1,
  DWARF_BOOLEAN      = 1 << 2,
  DWARF_TUPLE        = 1 << 3,
  DWARF_PRIVATE      = 1 << 4,
  DWARF_CONSTANT     = 1 << 5,
  DWARF_ARTIFICIAL   = 1 << 6
};

struct dwarf_t
{
  symbols_t* symbols;
  pass_opt_t* opt;
  LLVMTargetDataRef target_data;
  bool has_source;
};

struct dwarf_meta_t
{
  const char* file;
  const char* name;
  const char* mangled;
  const char* typearg;
  const char** params;

  LLVMBasicBlockRef entry;
  LLVMValueRef inst;
  LLVMValueRef storage;

  size_t line;
  size_t pos;
  size_t offset;
  size_t size;
  size_t align;

  uint8_t flags;
};

/**
 * Initialise the debug symbol emitter.
 */
void dwarf_init(dwarf_t* dwarf, pass_opt_t* opt, LLVMBuilderRef builder,
  LLVMTargetDataRef layout, LLVMModuleRef module);

/**
 * Emit debug symbols for a compilation unit. For Pony, there is always a
 * single compilation unit. The file scope for a pony program compilation
 * unit is the package and module where the main actor resides. For Pony
 * libraries the file scope is undefined.
 */
void dwarf_compileunit(dwarf_t* dwarf, ast_t* program);

/**
 * Emit debug symbols for a Pony basic type: U8, ..., U128, I8, ..., I128,
 * Bool, F32, F64. Basic types are builtin, hence have no compilation
 * unit scope and their size and ABI alignment depends on the primitive
 * structure.
 */
void dwarf_basic(dwarf_t* dwarf, gentype_t* g);

/**
 * Emit debug symbols for a pointer to some Pony type. Note that this can be
 * Pointer[A], which would be dwarfed as A**. Pointer[U64]
 * instead is dwarfed as U64*.
 */
void dwarf_pointer(dwarf_t* dwarf, gentype_t* g, const char* typearg);

/**
 * Traits are dwarfed as composite types with no members, the actual debug
 * symbols for the underlying type are parsed at debug time. Symbols for traits
 * are only created once per type (not type instance). There is no need to
 * forward declare a trait dwarf symbol ever.
 */
void dwarf_trait(dwarf_t* dwarf, gentype_t* g);

/**
 * Forward declare a debug symbol for some composite type (tuple or nominal).
 * Once the underlying gentype_t becomes final (i.e. gentype is called without
 * 'prelim' being true), the debug symbols need to be finalised with a call
 * to dwarf_composite. If debug symbols for composite types are not finalised,
 * the symbols will not be in the final binary. The same applies for any
 * symbols that depend on the forward declared dwarf entry. Forward declaring
 * a symbol is also necessary for Pony primitives. They have no fields, but
 * might have methods, which from the perspective of debug symbols are members,
 * and reside in the same DWARF meta structure as fields. Note that there are
 * also recursive type definitions.
 */
void dwarf_forward(dwarf_t* dwarf, gentype_t* g);

void dwarf_composite(dwarf_t* dwarf, gentype_t* g);

/**
 * Emit debug symbols for a field of some composite type. This requires to
 * have called dwarf_forward beforehand. If the owning type is not forward
 * declared, behaviour is undefined.
 */
void dwarf_field(dwarf_t* dwarf, gentype_t* composite, gentype_t* field,
  int index);

/**
 * Emit debug symbols for a method. A method itself is implicitly a new lexical
 * scope. However, a method might have arbitrarily many nested lexical scopes
 * which need to be introduced with a call to dwarf_lexical_scope.
 */
void dwarf_method(dwarf_t* dwarf, ast_t* fun, const char* name,
  const char* mangled, const char** params, size_t count, LLVMValueRef ir);

/**
 * Introduce a new lexical scope.
 */
void dwarf_lexicalscope(dwarf_t* dwarf, ast_t* ast);

/**
 * Emit debug symbol for a methods implicit receiver parameter.
 */
void dwarf_this(dwarf_t* dwarf, ast_t* fun, const char* type,
  LLVMBasicBlockRef entry, LLVMValueRef storage);

/**
 * Emit debug symbol for a methods parameters
 */
void dwarf_parameter(dwarf_t* dwarf, ast_t* param, const char* type,
  LLVMBasicBlockRef entry, LLVMValueRef storage, size_t index);

/**
 * Emit debug symbols for a local variable.
 */
void dwarf_local(dwarf_t* dwarf, ast_t* ast, const char* type,
  LLVMBasicBlockRef entry, LLVMValueRef inst, LLVMValueRef storage);

/**
 * Set the current debug location.
 */
void dwarf_location(dwarf_t* dwarf, ast_t* ast);

/**
 * Finalise emitting the debug symbols for a composite type. By the nature
 * of how Pony type generation works, a composite type's components will
 * be final, before the type itself becomes final.
 */
void dwarf_finish(dwarf_t* dwarf);

/**
 * Dump collected debug information into the object file. Debug symols
 * will not be included in the final binary without calling this
 * finaliser. Frees all memory allocated during dwarfing.
 */
void dwarf_finalise(dwarf_t* dwarf);

PONY_EXTERN_C_END

#endif


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template<typename T>
class List {
private:
	class Node {
	private:
		T value;
		Node * prev;
		Node * next;

	public:
		Node(T value, Node * prev, Node * next)
			: value(value), prev(prev), next(next)
		{
		}

		T& getValue()
		{
			return this->value;
		}

		void setValue(T value)
		{
			this->value = value;
		}

		Node * getNext() const
		{
			return this->next;
		}

		void setNext(Node * next)
		{
			this->next = next;
		}

		Node * getPrev() const
		{
			return this->prev;
		}

		void setPrev(Node * prev)
		{
			this->prev = prev;
		}
	};

	Node * head;
	Node * tail;
	size_t size;
public:
	class Iterator
	{
	private:
		Node* current;
	public:
		Iterator(Node* start)
			: current(start) {}

		Iterator& operator++()
		{
			this->current = this->current->getNext();
			return *this;
		}

		Iterator operator++(int)
		{
			Iterator valueBeforeIncrement = *this;
			++(*this);
			return valueBeforeIncrement;
		}

		bool operator==(const Iterator& other) const
		{
			return this->current == other.current;
		}

		bool operator!=(const Iterator& other) const
		{
			return this->current != other.current;
		}

		T& operator*()
		{
			return this->current->getValue();
		}
	};

	List() : head(nullptr), tail(nullptr), size(0)
	{
	}

	List(const List& other)
		: List()
	{
		for (Node * currNode = other.head; currNode != nullptr; currNode = currNode->getNext())
		{
			this->add(currNode->getValue());
		}
	}

	List(std::initializer_list<T> initList)
		: List()
	{
		for (T item : initList)
		{
			this->add(item);
		}
	}

	T first() const
	{
		return this->head->getValue();
	}

	void add(T value)
	{
		Node * newNode = new Node(value, nullptr, nullptr);

		if (!this->isEmpty())
		{
			newNode->setPrev(this->tail);
			this->tail->setNext(newNode);
			this->tail = newNode;
		}
		else
		{
			this->head = newNode;
			this->tail = newNode;
			this->head->setPrev(nullptr);
			this->head->setNext(nullptr);
		}

		this->size++;
	}

	void addAll(const List& other)
	{
		for (Node * currNode = other.head; currNode != nullptr; currNode = currNode->getNext())
		{
			this->add(currNode->getValue());
		}
	}

	void removeFirst()
	{
		Node *ptrNext = this->head->getNext();
		delete this->head;

		this->head = ptrNext;
		if (ptrNext != nullptr)
		{
			this->head->setPrev(nullptr);
		}

		size--;
	}

	void removeAll()
	{
		Node *ptrHead = this->head;
		while (ptrHead != nullptr)
		{
			Node *next = ptrHead->getNext();
			delete ptrHead;
			ptrHead = next;
		}

		this->head = nullptr;
		this->tail = nullptr;
		this->size = 0;
	}

	size_t getSize() const
	{
		return this->size;
	}

	bool isEmpty() const
	{
		return this->size == 0 ? true : false;
	}

	static List getReversed(List l)
	{
		List reversedList;

		for (Node * currNode = l.tail; currNode != nullptr; currNode = currNode->getPrev())
		{
			reversedList.add(currNode->getValue());
		}

		return reversedList;
	}

	std::string toString() const
	{
		std::ostringstream outputStream;

		for (Node * currNode = this->head; currNode != nullptr; currNode = currNode->getNext())
		{
			outputStream << currNode->getValue() << " ";
		}

		return outputStream.str();
	}

	List& operator<<(const T& value)
	{
		this->add(value);
		return *this;
	}

	List& operator<<(const List& other)
	{
		this->addAll(other);
		return *this;
	}

	List& operator=(const List& other)
	{
		if (this != &other)
		{
			Node *ptrhead = this->head;
			while (ptrhead != nullptr)
			{
				Node *next = ptrhead->getNext();
				delete ptrhead;
				ptrhead = next;
			}

			this->head = nullptr;
			this->tail = nullptr;
			this->size = 0;

			for (Node * currNode = other.head; currNode != nullptr; currNode = currNode->getNext())
			{
				this->add(currNode->getValue());
			}
		}

		return *this;
	}

	~List()
	{
		Node *ptrHead = this->head;
		while (ptrHead != nullptr)
		{
			Node *next = ptrHead->getNext();
			delete ptrHead;
			ptrHead = next;
		}
	}

	Iterator begin() const
	{
		return Iterator(this->head);
	}

	Iterator end() const
	{
		return Iterator(nullptr);
	}
};

#endif // LIST_H


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Jan 18. 2023. 10:42 AM
End of an era: AFLW trailblazer Daisy Pearce hangs up the boots
Sophie Welsh
Melbourne's Daisy Pearce celebrates winning the preliminary final against Brisbane on April 2, 2022. Picture: AFL Photos
MELBOURNE captain Daisy Pearce has announced her retirement from the AFLW after 55 games at the highest level and countless more in the state league.
The 34-year-old made the announcement on Wednesday morning at the MCG, flanked by Melbourne coach Mick Stinear as her partner, two children, and teammates watched on.
"I'm closing the chapter on my playing career with a very full heart, not just because we ticked the premiership box in the season just gone, but because of a career that I've loved and cherished," she said.
The best of Daisy: Highlights from a champion's career
02:19 Jan 18. 2023. 11:43 AM
Check out the highlights of Daisy Pearce's career from seasons one through seven of the AFLW
"I think there was a bit of an assumption that it was win it and I'm done or lose it and I might have to consider going again, but in fact the satisfaction of last season, the enjoyment and the closeness of the bonds that we've now formed, it actually made it a bit more confusing and harder to step away.
"No matter what's happened over the journey, content has never been something that I have felt, so as the weeks ticked by post-season, whilst there were definitely spurts of thinking about going back-to-back... there was also an element of overall satisfaction.
"It's probably been one of the harder decisions that I've ever had to make."
Daisy Pearce poses for a photo with partner Ben and twins Sylvie and Roy on January 18, 2023. Picture: AFL Photos
Daisy Pearce hugs her Melbourne teammate Karen Paxman after announcing her retirement on January 18, 2023. Picture: AFL Photos
Daisy Pearce hugs her Melbourne teammate Eliza McNamara after announcing her retirement on January 18, 2023. Picture: AFL Photos
Daisy Pearce and daughter Sylvie leave a press conference on January 18, 2023. Picture: AFL Photos
An emotional Lily Mithen watches on as Daisy Pearce announces her retirement on January 18, 2023. Picture: AFL Photos
Daisy Pearce shares a laugh with her Melbourne teammates after announcing her retirement on January 18, 2023. Picture: AFL Photos
Daisy Pearce and Mick Stinear embrace at a press conference announcing Pearce's retirement on January 18, 2023. Picture: AFL Photos
Daisy Pearce embraces daughter Sylvie after announcing her retirement on January 18, 2023. Picture: AFL Photos
Daisy Pearce sheds a tear as she announces her retirement on January 18, 2023. Picture: AFL Photos
Daisy Pearce's son Roy waves at Pearce as she announces her retirement on January 18, 2023. Picture: AFL Photos
Daisy Pearce's husband Ben and daughter Sylvie watch on as Pearce announces her retirement on January 18, 2023. Picture: AFL Photos
Daisy Pearce poses with Melbourne CEO Gary Pert, coach Mick Stinear and her family and teammates after announcing her retirement on January 18, 2023. Picture: AFL Photos
Daisy Pearce (centre) poses for a photo with Melbourne AFLW coach Mick Stinear (left), CEO Gary Pert (right) and her twin children Sylvie and Roy on January 18, 2023. Picture: AFL Photos
Daisy Pearce poses for a photo with her Melbourne teammates after announcing her retirement on January 18, 2023. Picture: AFL Photos
Pearce captained the Dees in 2017-2018, then again from 2020 to season seven, 2022 after taking time off in 2019 to give birth to twins Sylvie and Roy.
COMMENT Pearce's story one of humour, humility and heart
She made the AFLW All-Australian team in 2017, 2018 and 2022 (season six), as well as being voted the AFL Players' Association's best captain four times.
Her remarkable career was capped off by an elusive premiership in November when the Demons toppled Brisbane in a memorable decider.
Melbourne captain Daisy Pearce and coach Mick Stinear lift up the premiership cup after winning the AFLW S7 Grand Final against Brisbane at Brighton Homes Arena. Picture: AFL Photos
Under Pearce's leadership, the Demons threatened for the premiership nearly every season, and made two Grand Finals in 2022 before finally getting over the line in season seven.
Pearce joined Melbourne as a marquee player ahead of the AFLW's inaugural season after a storied 200-game career in the Victorian Women's Football League.
'I just feel content': Why Daisy chose to retire now
01:15 Jan 18. 2023. 5:04 PM
Daisy Pearce reflects on her decision to retire after 55 AFLW games
Her legacy in the women's state league lives on, with the league's best and fairest award named after Pearce (and fellow footy pioneer Helen Lambert).
ANALYSIS Why Daisy Pearce's impact stretches beyond AFLW
Her impact on footy extended far beyond the AFLW space as part of Channel 7's commentary team for AFL matches.
Pearce has already secured a coaching position at Geelong, and expects to start at the Cattery later this year.
"Geelong's not putting any pressure on me to make any decision too soon," she said.
"The biggest deadline is Roy and Sylvie starting kindergarten on February second."
>>Watch the full press conference in the player below
'Emotional' Pearce announces her retirement
AFLW trailblazer Daisy Pearce says she walks away from the game "with a very full heart".
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Forming reflective practitioners for service in the ecology of the urban neighbourhood
We are a husband-and-wife team committed to loving our local neighbourhood and seeing it flourish. Neighbourhoods matter. We want to help people look beyond the four walls of institutions and develop the ability to listen deeply to what the skills and gifts are in their own communities. It's only after we listen that we can discern contextualised opportunities to bring about peace, justice and mercy in the ecology of the neighbourhood. We believe that through our Spirit-inspired relationships and initiatives we can embody transformative love in our world. We believe in the goodness, diversity and complexity of the urban space, even though this is sometimes a forgotten area for engagement. Cities are places that need "salt and light" and good deeds so that they become resilient and places where all can live, work, learn and play together.
Rev. Dr Karina Kreminski
Inner city dweller. Explorer. Writer. Leaf blower hater. Flâneuse. Neighbourhood enthusiast. Lover of all things urban. Tea snob. Shalom builder.
Rev. Dr Karina Kreminski has worked in the fields of English teaching and journalism. She has been a Senior Minister in the Church and was Missiology Lecturer at Morling College in Sydney. Karina has a doctorate in missional formation and writes and blogs about spirituality, mission and theology. She has also been on various denominational boards and vision committees. She loves forming people for leadership and speaks regularly at churches and conferences on neighbourhood and community mission and activism. Karina is the facilitator of The Happiness Lab at the Surry Hills Neighbourhood Centre where she is a board member, and is involved in a storytelling project called Surry Hills & Valleys with locals in Surry Hills, an inner city village in Sydney. She has written a book called Urban Spirituality: Embodying God's Mission in the Neighbourhood.
DR ARMEN GAKAVIAN
Dr Armen Gakavian has mentored young leaders and men from disadvantaged backgrounds in Australia and Armenia. His PhD was in cultural identity and longing for place. He has lectured in sociology, politics, social change and leadership and has worked as a researcher for universities and NGOs in the areas of social inclusion, social policy, faith-based social services, community development and multiculturalism. Armen was a founding member of the Centre for Comparative Genocide Studies at Macquarie University, Sydney, and of various NGOs and initiatives including the Australian branch of Mission Armenia NGO and an Armenian-Turkish dialogue group. He pioneered the Ministry at the Margins for The Australian Navigators, in partnership with The Salvation Army in Ivanhoe Public Housing Estate in Sydney's northwest. He is currently Coordinating Editor and Associate Director of Ethos: EA Centre for Christianity and Society.
Teaching/Preaching
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Formation huddles for practitioners
Creation of resources (toolkits, Bible studies, other material)
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On topics such as
Neighbourhood work
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Urban Spirituality
Placemaking – Theology of place
Cultural Exegesis and Contextualisation
Displacement and Homelessness
Urban Mission
Theology of Mission
Missional Ecclesiology
Love your neighbour
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Q: pandas add columns with values only i have a df with multiple columns and sometimes the column is null. I would like to concat columns that are ONLY populated. Right now I am just adding all columns and have a lot of blank spaces.
Num    Country   City
1        USA
2               Philly

So i would like the a 4th column that is
Num    Country   City  Total
1        USA             1,USA
2               Philly   2,Philly

But this is what i am getting
Num    Country   City  Total
1        USA             1,USA,
2               Philly   2, ,Philly

A: You could use a list comprehension as well. It should be quick and readable:
df['total'] = [', '.join([j for j in i.astype(str) if j != '']) for i in df.values]

Here is a full example:
import pandas as pd

data = '''\
Num,Country,City
1,USA,
2,,Philly
'''

df = pd.read_csv(pd.compat.StringIO(data)).fillna('')

cols = ['Num','Country','City']

df['total'] = [', '.join([j for j in i.astype(str) if j != '']) for i in df[cols].values]

A: You can filter out nulls.
df.apply(lambda row: ", ".join(row[i] for i in df.columns if ~pd.isnull(row[i])]),
         axis=1)

A: Here's an alternative solution, similar in methodology to @AntonvBR, but slightly different in the mechanics:
df['total'] = [', '.join(list(filter(None, i))) for i in df.values.astype(str)]

   Num Country    City      total
0    1     USA             1, USA
1    2          Philly  2, Philly


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$8: Seniors, students with ID, active military with ID and veterans.
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The Washington National Cathedral offers daily worship and follows the Book of Common Prayer. The services are open to everyone, regardless of age, race or ethnicity. They also have a sacred space for meditation at the Center for Prayer & Pilgrimage, where people can find a space to relax and sit in silence.
In recent years, the Cathedral has developed an extensive set of initiatives, such as assisting Veterans, ending gun violence, advocating for LGBT rights, promoting the acceptance of all races in America and actively pursuing interfaith collaboration.
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Darth Vader: This is by far the most popular carving at the Cathedral. It is a Darth Vader gargoyle placed upon the northwest tower. It was initially submitted in the form of a drawing on behalf of the Cathedral's design-a-carving competition. After the designer won third place, it was mutually agreed upon to turn it into a sculpture, so that it could be admired at a distance, with binoculars.
Space Window: An incredible addition to the Cathedral is a window that contains a 7.18-gram basalt lunar rock from the Sea of Tranquility on the Moon. It was donated to the Cathedral by the Apollo 11 crew and was dedicated to the fifth lunar landing.
Canterbury Pulpit: This pulpit is famous because it has hosted every important person in history-- from the former U.S presidents to the Dalai Lama. A notable fact is that Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr preached his last sermon here before his assassination a week later.
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Burials: Apart from the statues, there are several notable American citizens buried in the Cathedral, such as President Woodrow Wilson and Helen Keller.
Axis: The Cathedral's east-west axis is slightly off-center by six feet-- there is no straight line as one would imagine, from the nave to the carving of Christ. This was a deliberate mistake that is common in most Medieval Cathedrals, to signify the imperfection of the world.
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Students are required to have completed applications turned in before attending the after school program. Parents are asked to update contact information on a regurlar basis and provide written notification of any changes.
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PMMI Welcomes Diverse Executive Committee
Patty Andersen poised to be first female chairperson in PMMI history
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PMMI Vice-Chairperson Patty Andersen
PMMI, The Association for Packaging and Processing Technologies, ushered in the new decade with a new Executive Committee, naming Emmanuel Cerf, vice president, Polypack, Inc. Chairperson of the Board and Patty Andersen, vice president of Human Resources and After Market Services, Delkor, as Vice Chairperson. Mark Anderson, president and CEO, ProMach, Inc. remains on the Executive Committee as the Immediate Past Chairperson.
"The executive committee of our board of directors plays a crucial role in laying the foundation for PMMI and leading our industrywide initiatives to connect the makers of goods with their processing and packaging suppliers," says Jim Pittas, president and CEO, PMMI.
Cerf has served the industry as a member of multiple PMMI Committees, including serving on the Board of Directors and as Chairperson of the Show Committee. Cerf takes over the mantle of Chair from Anderson, president and CEO of ProMach. Mark Anderson has also participated in numerous PMMI Committees and served as Chairperson of the Strategic Planning Committee.
PMMI Chairperson 2020 Emmanuel Cerf
Patty Andersen is the first female elected to PMMI's Executive Committee in its 87-year history. She will serve as Vice Chairperson of the PMMI Board of Directors, followed by a term as Chairperson.
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As co-owner of Delkor, Patty Andersen has played a crucial role in guiding the company's strategic vision and direction. Recognized as one of the leading U.S. manufacturers of robotic packaging machinery, Delkor won Minnesota Business Magazine's 2018 Best in Class award for a midsized manufacturing business.
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I do not sleep though I sometimes doze off a little. If I am up I am talked to and in my efforts to answer cause pain. The fact is I think I am a verb instead of a personal pronoun. A verb is anything that signifies to be; to do; to suffer. I signify all three.


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OwlCrate JR is a monthly book subscription box for kids aged 8-12. They send books as well as interesting and educational book related items.
The Cost: $27.99 a month + shipping. Save with longer subscriptions.
Coupon: For a limited time, use coupon code JRGEM to save 10% off an OwlCrate JR subscription!
The Products: You will receive (1) hardcover middle grade book plus assorted gender neutral book-related items.
An info card was included listing each item in the box as well as the theme for May: Monster Mash.
This book is full of suspense that grips you from the start. Thisby Thestoop is an ordinary human living on Black Mountain and she is the gatekeeper for all sorts of monsters and horrible creatures that live here. She has a laundry list of daily chores such as feeding trolls and stabling nightmares. I really got into the book after the first few chapters and found it hard to put down.
Thisby is doing her daily chores when she comes to learn that a Royal Inspection is coming up, an event that has never occurred in her twelve years of living on the mountain. Then she learns that something has escaped from the Darkwell which she has also never known to happen. The promise of an adventure full of mystery and danger engage the reader as they dive into the grotesquely magical world of Nth.
In each box, there is a signed bookplate sticker and a letter from the author. This month's author, Zac Gorman, wrote a cute and humorous letter about the book just for readers. This makes it such a personal experience to me, and as a kid, I think I would have found it pretty special.
I love the bright green on the front of this bookmark, it feels very monstery to me. I think the illustration on the back showing monsters engrossed in books is really cute.
This Thisby Thestoop mask came complete with instructions and a little piece of string to use for wearing it. I thought it was a creative touch to go along with the book.
These are probably the cutest little markers I've ever seen! I thought these were such a fun addition to the box to fit in with the monster theme. The colors are nice and bright, the monster faces are adorable and even more fun, they are scented! They have a slanted tip and they color very smoothly.
This bag was designed exclusively for the box by Alex Clauss, an illustrative designer who has worked with OwlCrate Jr. before, most recently on the March box. I love the design of this bag! Where the Wild Things Are is a classic and the silhouette design with the beautiful quotes is such a subtle, yet, an obvious nod to the book. The sturdy canvas material and large size will make it a perfect new library bag for the kids and me to use.
What better way to incorporate monsters than with some classic Goosebumps characters! This monster vs. monster themed game is a fun activity that can be played with 2-6 players and is recommended for ages 6 and up.
With popular titles like night of the living dummy and the scarecrow walks at Midnight, you'll enjoy reminiscing about the fun events that happened in each book or be inspired to read a new one.
Monster Button – Estimated Value $1.00 (I am estimating this on the lower end of what button pins cost on Etsy since OwlCrate Jr. seems to work with a lot of independent artists).
Each box includes a button that fits with the monthly theme, this time it features a friendly little monster.
Book of Monsters Sticker – Estimated Value $2.00 (I am estimating based on prices I have seen for stickers by artists on Etsy).
Each box includes a sticker that is designed specifically for the box and matches the theme. I think this was designed by Serena Ferraro since that is the only listed item creator and I wasn't able to locate online.
The June OwlCrate JR theme will be Hidden Gems. The book provides a twist on a familiar tale that fans of Red, A Tale Dark and Grimm will appreciate!
Verdict: This was my favorite OwlCrate JR box so far, mostly because the items were somewhat nostalgic for me as a Gooesbumps and Maurice Sendak fan. The book itself was engaging, and the monster theme was really fun. I enjoyed the way that they incorporated the theme into this month's box. I also love that they choose freelance artists or smaller, independent businesses to get their materials. It seems that every piece is carefully designed or selected and really makes the box feel exclusive to the story and OwlCrate Jr. experience.
I estimate the total retail value of the box to be $52.43 and we paid $34.98 ($27.99 + $6.99 shipping). I think that's a great value for all of the fun items that we received this month!
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"…they saw no man, except Jesus only." Matthew 17:8 After the disciples had witnessed the glory of the transfiguration, they saw "Jesus only." In like manner, Christians today should fix their attention primarily on the heartwarming reality of a living Savior. We must not worship the preacher nor settle for mere cold, abstract "religion." Some people view Jesus only as a vague "beautiful idea?; but He's a real Man living in Heaven, and He desires our love and devotion. Believer, never allow anything to divert you attention from the reality of the Savior who lovingly gave Himself for you.. See Jesus only! If Christ is precious to you, He'll be preeminent to you!


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