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Every state in America is under siege by this innovation mantra that is driven by the fact that America is somehow needing to redouble its efforts in corporate innovation because it is competing with the world for global business. This is why public universities are being hijacked, it is why we are seeing Maryland transportation being run by a French business, and it is used as the reason corporations can no longer pay taxes as they must be competitive with other nations. ALL OF THIS IS HYPE USED TO EXPLAIN THE USE OF OUR TAXPAYER MONEY FOR BOOSTING CORPORATE PROFITS. American jobs are not dependent on the growth of these businesses globally......domestic jobs are hindered by this global growth. This growth only grows profits and it makes these companies unaccountable to anyone other than shareholders.
Third Way corporate democrats are making these changes. It is why Maryland's policy is moving this way. It is not good for the democratic base because as we know, it is killing the middle/lower classes. THEY ARE TELLING US......TOUGH LUCK. WE ARE TELLING THEM.....NO YOU DON'T!!!!
O'Malley made his political career moving Maryland Forward as his campaign slogan shows. Below I want to show you where these pols want to take us. We see an article on MIT that is in full corporate swing and is the prototype of other public universities. You can see that they amount of public and student money that goes into these 'corporate programs' enriches a few within these departments and simply serves as a corporate laboratory. IT DOES NOT BENEFIT MOST PEOPLE AND IT COSTS ALL OF US DEARLY AS ACCESS TO A BASIC EDUCATION IS DISTORTED SIMPLY TO MEET THESE CORPORATE GOALS.
Why the French company of Veola in Maryland rather than growing our own industry-players? IN ORDER TO OPEN MARKETS IN OTHER COUNTRIES, THE US MUST ALLOW OTHER COUNTRIES TO OPEN THEIR MARKETS HERE. Are we getting good service or best practices? NO. We are simply opening a door for whomever O'Malley and the Maryland Assembly is promoting. So, Maryland taxpayers paid for all of the new buses and public transport vehicles tied to Veola......that is where our Transportation Trust fund went. Contracts will have those buses owned by whom at the end of the term?
VOTE YOUR INCUMBENT OUT OF OFFICE!!!!
BELOW YOU SEE KOCH BROTHERS AND TEA PARTY GOVERNOR SCOTT WALKER PROPOSING JUST WHAT IS ALREADY HAPPENING IN MARYLAND. UMBC IS A KOCH BROTHER'S DREAM. U OF M IS ON ITS WAY. IT IS EASY TO SEE HOW THIRD WAY CORPORATE DEMOCRATS ARE JUST AS CORPORATE AS ANY REPUBLICAN. IT'S HARD TO BE A DEMOCRAT WITH GOALS OF WEALTH AND GLOBAL CORPORATIONS LIKE THAT.
Wisconsin Governor Seeks Shift in Higher Ed November 19, 2012 - 4:20am Higher Ed
Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker, a Republican, announced in a speech Friday night at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library in California that he plans to propose major changes in the funding of technical colleges and University of Wisconsin System, The Wisconsin State Journal reported. Walker said that funding needs to shift so that higher education institutions are funded not on enrollment or even completion, but on completion in programs that train students for jobs that the state needs.
"We're going to tie our funding in our technical colleges and our University of Wisconsin System into performance and say if you want money, we need you to perform, and particularly in higher education, we need you to perform not just in how many people you have in the classroom.
"In higher education, that means not only degrees, but are young people getting degrees in jobs that are open and needed today, not just the jobs that the universities want to give us, or degrees that people want to give us?"
"We're going to tie our funding in our technical colleges and our University of Wisconsin System into performance and say if you want money, we need you to perform, and particularly in higher education, we need you to perform not just in how many people you have in the classroom," he said. "In higher education, that means not only degrees, but are young people getting degrees in jobs that are open and needed today, not just the jobs that the universities want to give us, or degrees that people want to give us?"
Senate Minority Leader Chris Larson, a Democrat, said that Walker's plan sounds like "social engineering" that would force students to study "what industry wants" rather than what students want.
THIS STUDY SHOWS THAT ALL OF THESE EFFORTS AT RECREATING SCHOOL STRUCTURES ARE NOT GIVING THE PUBLIC BETTER QUALITY........WHY IS IT THAT MARYLAND IS ALWAYS PLOWING AHEAD WITH POLICY THAT IS PROVING TO BE INEFFECTIVE IF NOT BAD FOR THE PUBLIC? THESE POLS ARE WORKING FOR GLOBAL CORPORATIONS......NOT YOU AND ME.
Study: Deregulated Universities Don't Have Better Outcomes October 18, 2012 - 3:00am Inside Higher Ed
A study released Wednesday by Policy Matters Ohio, a nonpartisan think tank, found that deregulating the governance structure of public higher education institutions -- a primary component of Ohio Governor John Kasich's higher education agenda -- doesn't have a significant effect on outcomes such as enrollment, graduation rate and the number of low-income students who graduate, but could lead to higher tuition rates, at least in the states examined. The study looked at three classes of institutions: "highly deregulated" (Virginia and Colorado), "partially deregulated" (Illinois, New Jersey and Texas), and "coordinated" (Kentucky, Maryland and Minnesota) and compared their outcomes to that of the nation and Ohio over the past decade.
"Given the track record of deregulation in other states, we have little reason to think that this approach will make tuition more affordable, increase access for low- and moderate-income students, or increase graduation rates," the report's authors write. "The primary factor affecting access and affordability is state support for higher education and state targeting of support for low- and moderate-income families."
The report's authors readily acknowledge that most of the deregulation took place about halfway through the decade and that confounding variables in the states selected might have an effect on the overall outcomes.
WONDER WHY WE ARE NOT SEEING JOB CREATION AS ALL OF THIS TAXPAYER MONEY IS SUNK INTO THESE ECONOMIC TROUGHS? ALL OF THESE SCHEMES TO MARKET THE STATE ARE MET WITH A WORLD OF SIMILAR MARKETING AGENTS THAT ARE LOST IN THE HYPE. WE ALL KNOW HOW TO MAKE JOBS.......WE HAVE PEOPLE IN OFFICE BENT ON MAKING THOSE BUSINESSES INTERNATIONAL. WE WATCH AS O'MALLEY GOES TO INDIA AND ISRAEL ON ECONOMIC JUNKETS.......WE ARE PAYING FOR HIS NATIONAL CAMPAIGN SPOTLIGHTS
Report: DBED just a 'marketing agency' Posted: 9:00 am Mon, November 26, 2012
By Alexander Pyles
Daily Record Business Writer
Maryland's economic development agency uses more resources to market the state than it does to develop the state's job market, according to a report by an anti-tax group that is frequently critical of the O'Malley administration's business acumen.
WHO ARE THESE STUDENTS GETTING INTO ELITE SCHOOLS AND COMING AWAY WITH FUTURE CORPORATE JOBS ALL FINANCED BY FEDERAL AND STATE TAXPAYERS? LOOK AT THE BOTTOM OF THIS ARTICLE TO SEE THE CITIZENS OF MASSACHUSETTS DEALING WITH A BUDGET DEFICIT.
Polaris Venture Partners BUYS MIT RESEARCH AND MAKES BILLIONS. MASSACHUSETTS CITIZENS CAN'T EVEN GET GOOD HEALTH CARE. YOU CAN TELL THIS MAKES ME HOT!!!!!
IT IS ABSOLUTELY ABSURD TO THINK THAT THIS CORPORATIZATION OF UNIVERSITIES IS A GOOD THING FOR THE PUBLIC OR FOR ACADEMICS. MAKING MILLIONAIRES OF UNIVERSITY RESEARCHERS WHO ARE PAID BY TAXPAYERS AND ARE GETTING FREE LABOR FROM STUDENTS. RATHER THAN BASIC RESEARCH WHICH HAS ALWAYS BEEN THE VENUE FOR UNIVERSITIES, WE ARE NOW SEEING APPLIED PRODUCT ORIENTED RESEARCH THAT SHOULD BE IN CORPORATE R AND D.
HOW WILL THESE START-UPS, WHICH TO ME ARE JUST LIKE APPS ON MOBILE PHONES OR CABLE CHANNELS OFFERED BY A SATELLITE DISH.....HOW WILL THIS AFFECT OVERALL COMPETITIVENESS OF THE US WHEN BASIC RESEARCH FAILS TO PROVIDE THE NECESSARY GROUNDWORK? THESE PROFESSORS ARE MERELY EMPLOYEES OF THE CORPORATIONS SEEKING ANSWERS AND PRODUCTS.
THE PUBLIC DOES NOT GET THE PATENT.....THAT IS ALL PROPRIETARY. AS AN ACADEMIC I AM FINDING IT HARDER TO FIND OUT FOR WHAT TAXPAYER MONEY IS BEING USED AND WHAT RESEARCH IS BEING DONE. WE DON'T HEAR OF THE FAILED RESEARCH THAT IS FOOTED BY THE TAXPAYER AS CORPORATIONS WIN BIG WITH WINNING RESEARCH. WHO GETS ALL OF THIS SUCCESS AND MONEY? WHO HIRES THESE PROFESSORS THAT BECOME MILLIONAIRES?
THE PUBLIC WILL HAVE NO CONTROL ON THE TYPE OF RESEARCH IS DONE. WHEREAS THE STUDENT WOULD PURSUE HIS/HER INTERESTS WE NOW HAVE AN ASSEMBLY LINE...........VOCATIONAL CAREER COLLEGE.
VOTE YOUR INCUMBENT OUT OF OFFICE!!!!!!
Hatching Ideas, and Companies, by the Dozens at M.I.T.
By HANNAH SELIGSON Published: November 24, 2012 New York Times
HOW do you take particles in a test tube, or components in a tiny chip, and turn them into a $100 million company?
Dr. Robert Langer, 64, knows how. Since the 1980s, his Langer Lab at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology has spun out companies whose products treat cancer, diabetes, heart disease and schizophrenia, among other diseases, and even thicken hair.
The Langer Lab is on the front lines of turning discoveries made in the lab into a range of drugs and drug delivery systems. Without this kind of technology transfer, the thinking goes, scientific discoveries might well sit on the shelf, stifling innovation.
A chemical engineer by training, Dr. Langer has helped start 25 companies and has 811 patents, issued or pending, to his name. That's not too far behind Thomas Edison, who had 1,093. More than 250 companies have licensed or sublicensed Langer Lab patents.
Polaris Venture Partners, a Boston venture capital firm, has invested $220 million in 18 Langer Lab-inspired businesses. Combined, these businesses have improved the health of many millions of people, says Terry McGuire, co-founder of Polaris.
Along the way, Dr. Langer and his lab, including about 60 postdoctoral and graduate students at a time, have found a way to navigate some slippery territory: the intersection of academic research and the commercial market.
Over the last 30 years, many universities — including M.I.T. — have set up licensing offices that oversee the transfer of scientific discoveries to companies. These offices have become a major pathway for universities seeking to put their research to practical use, not to mention add to their revenue streams.
In the sciences in particular, technology transfer has become a key way to bring drugs and other treatments to market. "The model of biomedical innovation relies on research coming out of universities, often funded by public money," says Josephine Johnston, director of research at the Hastings Center, a bioethics research organization based in Garrison, N.Y.
Just a few of the products that have emerged from the Langer Lab are a small wafer that delivers a dose of chemotherapy used to treat brain cancer; sugar-sequencing tools that can be used to create new drugs like safer and more effective blood thinners; and a miniaturized chip (a form of nanotechnology) that can test for diseases.
The chemotherapy wafer, called the Gliadel, is licensed by Eisai Inc. The company behind the sugar-sequencing tools, Momenta Pharmaceuticals, raised $28.4 million in an initial public offering in 2004. The miniaturized chip is made by T2Biosystems, which completed a $23 million round of financing in the summer of 2011.
"It's inconvenient to have to send things to a lab," so the company is trying to develop more sophisticated methods, says Dr. Ralph Weissleder, a co-founder, with Dr. Langer and others, of T2Biosystems and a professor at Harvard Medical School.
FOR Dr. Langer, starting a company is not the same as it was, say, for Mark Zuckerberg with Facebook. "Bob is not consumed with any one company," says H. Kent Bowen, an emeritus professor of business administration at Harvard Business School who wrote a case study on the Langer Lab. "His mission is to create the idea."
Dr. Bowen observes that there are many other academic laboratories, including highly productive ones, but that the Langer Lab's combination of people, spun-out companies and publications sets it apart. He says Dr. Langer "walks into the great unknown and then makes these discoveries."
Dr. Langer is well known for his mentoring abilities. He is "notorious for replying to e-mail in two minutes, whether it's a lowly graduate school student or the president of the United States," says Paulina Hill, who worked in his lab from 2009 to 2011 and is now a senior associate at Polaris Venture Partners. (According to Dr. Langer, he has corresponded directly with President Obama about stem cell research and federal funds for the sciences.)
Dr. Langer says he looks at his students "as an extended family," adding that "I really want them to do well."
And they have, whether in business or in academia, or a combination of the two. One former student, Ram Sasisekharan, helped found Momenta and now runs his own lab at M.I.T. Ganesh Venkataraman Kaundinya is Momenta's chief scientific officer and senior vice president for research.
Hongming Chen is vice president of research at Kala Pharmaceuticals. Howard Bernstein is chief scientific officer at Seventh Sense Biosystems, a blood-testing company. Still others have taken jobs in the law or in government.
Dr. Langer says he spends about eight hours a week working on companies that come out of his lab. Of the 25 that he helped start, he serves on the boards of 12 and is an informal adviser to 4. All of his entrepreneurial activity, which includes some equity stakes, has made him a millionaire. But he says he is mainly motivated by a desire to improve people's health. TAXPAYERS ARE PAYING MIT SALARIES!!!!
Operating from the sixth floor of the David H. Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research on the M.I.T. campus in Cambridge, Mass., Dr. Langer's lab has a research budget of more than $10 million for 2012, coming mostly from federal sources.
The research in labs like Dr. Langer's is eyed closely by pharmaceutical companies. While drug companies employ huge research and development teams, they may not be as freewheeling and nimble, Dr. Langer says. The basis for many long-range discoveries has "come out of academia, including gene therapy, gene sequencing and tissue engineering," he says.
He has served as a consultant to pharmaceutical companies. Their large size, he says, can end up being an impediment.
"Very often when you are going for real innovation," he says, "you have to go against prevailing wisdom, and it's hard to go against prevailing wisdom when there are people who have been there for a long time and you have some vice president who says, 'No, that doesn't make sense.' "
Pharmaceutical companies are eager to tap into the talent at leading research universities. In 2008, for example, Washington University in St. Louis announced a $25 million pact with Pfizer to collaborate more closely on biomedical research.
But in some situations, the close — critics might say cozy — ties between business and academia have the potential to create conflicts of interest. REALLY?????
There was a controversy earlier this year when it was revealed that the president of the University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center owned stock in Aveo Oncology, which had announced earlier that the university would be leading clinical trials of one of its cancer drugs. Last month, the University of Texas announced that he would be allowed to keep his ties with three pharmaceutical companies, including Aveo Oncology; his holdings will be placed in a blind trust.
"One question is how much is the commercial interest driving the research," Ms. Johnston says. "I think that universities and the public policy makers are a little unsure where they think the balance should be. Does this opportunity skew the research agenda in terms of commercial application instead of the public interest?" She was speaking generally, and not commenting on any particular institution. CONFLICT OF INTEREST AND CORPORATE CONTROL? REALLY????
Dr. Langer says that there is no pressure at his lab for students to turn their research into a business. In fact, he says, about half of his students stay in academia. "I feel like one of our successes is that we trained so many great people who are now teaching at universities," he says, adding that strict ethics rules are in place to prevent conflicts.
If they remain in academia, scientists at M.I.T. can still take equity stakes in the companies that their discoveries helped form. But they are barred from owning shares in any company that provides a research grant to their lab. They also cannot be executives of a company, although they can serve as paid advisers.
One issue at the crux of technology transfer is: How do universities protect the public good? THEY DON'T!!!!!
"M.I.T. always reserves rights for all nonprofit institutions, noncommercial research and education," says Lita Nelsen, director of M.I.T.'s Technology Licensing Office, who has helped the Langer Lab file for hundreds of patents, close to 80 percent of which have been approved.
As an example, a controlled-release polio vaccine developed in the Langer Lab was financed by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation for use in the developing world. The foundation has also arranged to use, through Seventh Sense Biosystems, a rapid way to draw blood with a microneedle patch that could be used outside the confines of a medical center. (The approach is still in human trials.) The Langer Lab has also been working with the United States Army on a regenerative-tissue project that would help wounded soldiers from the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.
When a discovery is licensed at M.I.T., the university splits the profit three ways — among the department where the discovery was made, the university and the inventors. Who determines who these staff that will be millionaires or students who will go to work for these spin-offs will be?
"The founding principle in 1861, when M.I.T. was created, was to provide and support the industrialization of America. I always say we were founded on the principle of tech transfer," says Susan Hockfield, who served as M.I.T.'s president from December 2004 until June of this year.
David H. Koch, executive vice president of Koch Industries, the conglomerate based in Wichita, Kan., wrote in an e-mail that "innovation and education have long fueled the world's most powerful economies, so I can't think of a better or more natural synergy than the one between academia and industry." Mr. Koch endowed Dr. Langer's professorship at M.I.T. and is a graduate of the university.
YES, many of the Langer Lab's discoveries are helping to fight disease. But you can't say that about a hair-thickening product that is made by a company called Living Proof. The product is sold at stores like Nordstrom and Sephora; Dr. Langer serves on the company's board and holds a small equity stake.
How did he end up in the hair care business? That discovery actually came from a way to create new materials, the original intent of which was to treat prostate and ovarian cancer. Various chemical compounds, however, could be fished out from the discovery for many different purposes, including a hair thickening product.
Of course, not everything that comes out of the lab is a sure bet. A drug may not make it past clinical trials, or an alternative treatment may prove more effective.
Dr. Langer is still assessing the commercial potential of a project involving the vocal cords. He and Dr. Steven M. Zeitels, director of the Massachusetts General Hospital Center for Laryngeal Surgery and Voice Rehabilitation, who has operated on singers like Adele and Julie Andrews, developed a gel that can be used on vocal tubes to make them more pliable. The gel had promising results in clinical trials on dogs, according to Dr. Langer. "I don't know if it's a company, though," he says.
But he favors the kind of research that takes chances. As Dr. Bowen of Harvard says of Dr. Langer's students: "They all come away thinking nothing is impossible."
Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick signed the the state budget into law on July, 8, 2012, 10 days after lawmakers sent it to him on June 28, 2012.[1] FY2013 began on July 1, 2012, and with no budget signed into law, legislators passed a temporary spending measure to keep the state government operational.[2]
The state operates on an annual budget cycle and is currently in FY2013.[3] The state's fiscal year begins July 1.
Massachusetts has a total state debt of approximately $102,258,050,000, when calculated by adding the total of outstanding official debt, pension and other post-employment benefits (OPEB) liabilities, Unemployment Trust Fund loans, and the FY2013 state budget gap.[4] The total state debt is higher than the prior year's total of $97,940,986,000.[5]
Massachusetts's total state debt per capita is $15,522.96.[6]


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Gay activists will always tell you whom they fear the most by the people they try to kneecap.
GLAAD, the Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation, has identified the 36 commentators who spook them the most in their Commentator Accountability Project.
These 36 commentators have been chosen by GLAAD because their unapologetic and unwavering declaration of the truth about homosexuality and the homosexual agenda threatens GLAAD's objective to destroy the last trace of Judeo-Christian morality in our public life.
GLAAD has published this "enemies list" so that its network of heterophobes can contact headquarters anytime one of these commentators exercises his First Amendment right to freedom of speech and religion on local or national media outlets. The goal of GLAAD is clearly to drive these voices off the air.
GLAAD's sad little McCarthyite roster is a veritable "Who's Who" of the pro-family community. Among the voices they are seeking to silence are Gary Bauer, Chuck Colson, Rev. Jim Garlow, Bishop Harry Jackson, Jim Daly of Focus on the Family, Tony Perkins of the Family Research Council, and Tim Wildmon of the American Family Association.
Yours truly happens to be on this hit list, along with familiar leaders of the pro-family movement such as David Barton of Wallbuilders, Rev. Al Mohler of the Southern Baptist Convention, and Maggie Gallagher and Brian Brown of the National Organization for Marriage.
Here's a striking thing. Of the 36 spokesman gay activists fear the most, no less than 11 have a programming presence on the American Family Radio Talk Network, which is a division of the American Family Association.
In other words, almost one-third of the folks that send shivers up the spine of gay activists promote and defend their values on AFR Talk.
This makes AFR Talk the most feared radio network in America.
The folks who give gay activists the shakes, whose programs or commentaries air on AFR Talk, are (in alphabetical order), David Barton, Michael Brown, Chuck Colson, Jim Daly, Bryan Fischer, Jim Garlow, Kevin McCullough, Tony Perkins, Frank Turek, Don Wildmon and Tim Wildmon.
I received a call from a reporter with a prominent left-wing magazine, who has observed that in states where AFR Talk has its greatest presence, the most socially conservative candidate in the GOP field, Rick Santorum, has done the best. She partially attributes Santorum's success, rightly or wrongly, to the influence of AFR Talk.
AFR Talk will continue to promote and defend the Judeo-Christian values of faith, family and freedom that animated the Founding Fathers, and we will continue to do so without fear, retreat or capitulation to the forces of secular fundamentalism.
In other words, AFR Talk intends to be the most feared network in America for years to come. Get used to it, GLAAD. We're not going anywhere.
Follow me on Twitter: @BryanJFischer, on Facebook at "Focal Point"
(Unless otherwise noted, the opinions expressed are the author's and do not necessarily reflect the views of the American Family Association or American Family Radio.)
Bryan Fischer is the Director of Issue Analysis for Government and Public Policy at the American Family Association, where he provides expertise on a range of public policy topics. He hosts the "Focal Point" radio program on AFR Talk,which airs live on weekdays from 1-3 p.m. Central on American Family Radio's nationwide talk network of 145 stations.
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The Oakland Raiders have signed LB Omar Gaither.
The Oakland Raiders have signed veteran LB Omar Gaither, the team announced Wednesday. Gaither has played in 77 games with 40 starts over six combined seasons with Philadelphia and Carolina.
The 6-foot-1, 235-pound Gaither, who will wear No. 53, was in 2012 training camp with Houston and spent the 2011 season with Carolina, where he saw action in 10 games with four starts. He played in 67 games with 36 starts over five seasons with the Eagles, entering the league as Philadelphia's fifth-round selection (168th overall) in the 2006 NFL Draft out of Tennessee.
Gaither's career totals include 393 tackles (254 solo), 51 special-teams stops, six sacks, 25 passes defensed, two interceptions, one forced fumble and two fumble recoveries. To make room on the team's active roster, the Raiders Wednesday placed LB Travis Goethel on injured reserve (knee).


After the simple example, I'll show you how you can make things look a little flasher by using Lightbox combined with images instead of mouse over tooltips.
Now in your codebehind, create the RowDataBound method. At this point you need to take into consideration what's actually contained in your header row. If the columns are sortable then the header will contain web controls (Data control link buttons) in order to facilitate the clicking. If they just contain text then there won't be any controls and we can just work with the table cell directly.
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The Lightbox example allows us to add slicker looking help text to our column headers. They're not really tooltips, because the user does need to click on them before the help image is displayed, however I think it's a nice example of Lightbox in action. It shows how incredibly easy it is to add to any application, as well as how slick it looks.
We're still processing the cells in the Header Row as before, but this time we're adding an additional control to each cell (In my example above I'm actually adding 2 controls, but the label is just a quick way to get some spacing between the column header text and my help link). However we need to add the control outside of the 'foreach (Control ctl in cell.Controls)' loop, because obviously adding an item to a collection we're currently processing isn't a good idea (that is to say it won't work, and will generate the error: Collection was modified; enumeration operation may not execute). So instead, we check the LinkButton's text inside the loop, assign the value to the variable headerTitle, and then add the control outside.
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Next we check the headerTitle string which was set previously, and see which control we're adding Help Text for so we can link to the appropriate image. The "title" attribute is optional, if it exists then it is displayed underneath your image as a caption by lightbox. Finally, we add the control(s) to the cell.
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The above examples are very simple, but that's the idea. Either of the above methods can be taken much further to provide much more complex solutions, or used as they are for a nice simple and quick solution.
Thanks for posting, this was very helpful.
I have tried to add a tooltips on a light box html file and doesnt seem to work. Any one witha solution.
why it doesn't work? i use gridview with all column allow sort. When i use u'r code, it's doensn't display anything... any idea about it ?
Thanks for posting that Charley!
I have used these ideas in the rather generic snipplet (C#/csharp) below.
It is typically called from the DataBind callback for each individual column, in the same way as you would have done for data cells.
Good post, although I ended up using a different approach..
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You don't have to look very far for wisdom. The proverb tells us that wisdom is readily available, even crying out for you to listen. Do we listen?
Wisdom speaks righteousness and truth plainly. Nothing material this world has to offer can be compared to the riches of wisdom. The fruits of wisdom in a life are of more value than silver and gold.
Great character and integrity come with wisdom. These things are to be valued: prudence, knowledge and discretion. So often not the way of this world we live in today.
Great strength and understanding are found to be found in wisdom. Wisdom takes its time and stands strong and true in this "instant" world of ours.
How will we hear the wisdom of God if we don't take time apart from all the clamouring voices of the world urging us to self gratification NOW? This "noise" only serves to weaken us and take us far from God and wisdom.
Listen to verses 12-31. They tell us the story of God and wisdom.
We get so caught up in the dailyness of our lives that we forget these timeless truths about God and His creation. How wonderful to be reminded today of how God and wisdom go hand in hand since the beginning!
That is a picture of a life without God, without wisdom. A sorry state indeed. A picture of rebellion against all that is wise and good. Is that where we are?
However, back in Proverbs verse 32-35, we see a different picture, a life blessed with the knowledge of God and lived in His wisdom.
Wisdom calls……will we take the time to listen today?
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What's Behind North Korea's Recent Efforts to Promote Its Education Sector?
North Korean propaganda has been unusually fixated on praising the country's education sector. Why?
By Tae-jun Kang for The Diplomat
When North Korea's propaganda media outlets increase coverage of a certain topic, it often points to an ulterior motive.
The latest example is North Korea's education sector. In recent months, several major propaganda outlets have intensively increased coverage of this industry in North Korea.
What is notable this time is that Pyongyang appears to be eager to promote how "advanced" and "innovative" it is in terms of developing its education sector instead of repeating more routine propaganda messages.
DPRK Today, one of the most active propaganda websites, for instance, said in early March that a student from Pyongyang University of Education had developed at least four educational programs using virtual reality technology within a year.
North Korea's state-run Rodong Sinmun newspaper also reported in December last year that the country had introduced VR technology in its education sector.
According to the paper, the country has developed a virtual examination experience, a virtual classroom, and an intelligent education system using robots. Rodong Sinmun added that universities across the country were busy and eager to develop new educational methods.
Universities across North Korea have been "engulfed by the enthusiasm" to constantly create new teaching methods by introducing VR technology and the project to supply "excellent" teaching methods has assumed an important place in the education sector, the paper noted.
Another propaganda website, Arirang-Meari, also published a total of 10 reports between March 1 and March 29 promoting North Korea's achievements in the education sector, which appears to be more than usual.
This raises a question: Why North Korea is so eager to promote its education sector?
There is obviously no clear answer unless Pyongyang comes out to say what's behind its move. But it is still possible to take a guess.
One clue is North Korea's latest step to increase ties with Vietnam.
It has been widely reported by international media that Pyongyang hopes to attract more tourists from Vietnam after the summit between the North and the United States.
North Korean tourism officials urged travelers from Vietnam to seize a "golden" opportunity to visit the country, saying it is the "right chance" for the North to generate a tourist market in Vietnam upon a "very successful summit in Hanoi."
It is understandable to see North Korea's interest in Vietnamese tourists, since the tourism sector is one of the few routes for Pyongyang to earn foreign money amid tight international sanctions. Currently, the North's tourism industry still heavily depends on China.
But the tourism sector might not be the only channel where North Korea hopes to make foreign money.
In the latest meeting between officials from North Korea and Vietnam, the two sides agreed to bolster cooperation in various fields between two nations – and they particularly stressed the education field.
Although North Korea has kept itself isolated from the rest of the world for a long time, it still accepts international students in many ways. Most people head there for Korean language and cultural courses, but there are also some who earn full degrees.
Studying in North Korea means an opportunity to experience one of the world's most "secretive" countries, but it costs money.
There are many Korean language and culture programs up and running managed by foreign tourism agencies, and they are easy to find online. Tongil Tours, for example, charges students 2,800 euros ($3,100) for a program that lasts about a month in Pyongyang.
Meanwhile, one report suggested that it costs about $18,000 for foreign students to spend a year at a graduate school in North Korea. That includes $3,500 of tuition for one semester.
The figures might not look high for those who are from affluent countries, but they are for North Korea.
In a country where all educational institutions are controlled by the government, it is an easy guess that those institutions are a pipeline for Pyongyang to pump foreign money into the country. Given all this, it is little wonder why North Korea is so busy promoting its education sector to foreigners.
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Stacy Stoldt is never not working on an exhibition.
Even when the Lenhardt Library's public services manager is staffing the desk, answering reference questions, and locating articles for staff, the "million and one" details involved in putting together the library's four annual rare book exhibitions are percolating in her brain.
Stacy Stoldt awaits patrons in the Lenhardt Libary.
Stoldt has streamlined the process since she first began working at the Chicago Botanic Garden in 2007, but it remains a lot of work to curate an exhibition. "There's the research, the writing, the editing, the design, the approvals," she said last month. "Here we are in January, and we're in the design phase of our next exhibition, which opens in February, but back in November I was already meeting with someone about books for an exhibition that opens this May. There's always a deadline looming."
Stoldt loves her work, and one of her chief pleasures is deciding which literary treasures will be selected. It is a process involving research, more research, and finally, she says, just a bit more research. The excitement of finding the perfect volume has prompted Stoldt to burst into song (just ask cataloger Ann Anderson, a neighbor in the basement office who sometimes joins in).
The public services manager and her colleagues have many volumes from which to choose: in 2002, the Lenhardt Library acquired a magnificent collection of 2,000 rare books and 2,000 historic journals from the Massachusetts Horticultural Society of Boston.
An Exhibition Takes Shape
Stoldt shows rare books to a group in the rare book reading room.
Before Stoldt begins hunting down books, there are meetings to decide Lenhardt Library exhibition topics for the year. That process begins with a brainstorming session including Stoldt, Lenhardt Library Director Leora Siegel, and Rare Books Curator Ed Valauskas. Sometimes the trio bases their topics on themes within the collection, such as the upcoming succulent show that features the work of A.P. de Candolle and botanical-rock-star-illustrator Pierre-Joseph Redouté.
Alternatively, they might collaborate with another botanical library on a theme, as happened when the Lenhardt Library team worked with the New York Botanical Garden's LuEsther T. Mertz Library on the recent exhibition Healing Plants: Illustrated Herbals. Other times, they select topics that complement events held at the Garden, such as Butterflies in Print: Lepidoptera Defined, which ran in conjunction with last summer's Butterflies & Blooms.
Newest Exhibition Focuses on Orchids
The Lenhardt Library's newest exhibition, Exotic Orchids: Orchestrated in Print, runs through Sunday, May 11. This image is from Xenia Orchidaceae: Beiträge zur Kenntniss der Orchideen, by Heinrich Gustave Reichenbach.
The newest Lenhardt Library exhibition complements the Orchid Show and is titled Exotic Orchids: Orchestrated in Print. Running through Sunday, May 11, it features such rare books as Charles Darwin's seminal On the Various Contrivances by which British and Foreign Orchids are Fertilised by Insects, and on the Good Effects of Intercrossing, published in 1862. Another item is Curtis's Botanical Magazine, with a beautiful color illustration of Angraecum sesquipedale, also known as Darwin's orchid. "One doesn't come alive without the other," said Stoldt. "I'm always trying to put the connections together for people."
For some exhibitions, Stoldt does it all—A to Z. For others, she receives the researched text, citations, and selected illustrations from Valauskas or Siegel and develops the material into an exhibition. Once the topics are established, research is completed, and explanatory text is written and edited, graphic designers enter the picture. Stoldt selects images from the featured books to use with the accompanying text, and then the designers work their magic. Along the way, Stoldt and Siegel review the progress. The result is an exhibition compelling not only for its content but for its elegant layout, which extends throughout the display cases that greet visitors as they enter the library.
Accompanying library talks are on Tuesday, February 18, and Sunday, March 9, at 2 p.m.
"For our new Exotic Orchids exhibition, we really wanted to show some bling!" said Stoldt. Within the Rare Book Collection, there was so much to choose from on orchids that she found the selection process daunting. Visitors to the exhibition will find the beauty and science of orchids well-represented, and discover items about orchid conservation and preservation as well.
Art Conservation Key to Documenting Plants
Stoldt noted that conserving the books and the artwork that document a plant's existence is almost as important as preserving the actual plant. In cases two and three of Exotic Orchids, there are select illustrations from two orchid collections, Les Orchidées (1890) and Les Orchidées et les Plantes de Serre (1900–10), which the Lenhardt Library recently had conserved by the Northeast Document Conservation Center (NEDCC) through grant funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH).
How did the conservation process work? Professionally trained book and paper conservators removed the illustrations from their original acidic bindings; then the inks were tested, the surfaces were cleaned, and the illustrations were digitally photographed. Then the illustrations were placed in chemically stable folders and housed in custom-made boxes made from lignin-free archival boards. Conservation completed!
Cypripedium VIII. color plate
The Rare Book Collection
Stoldt recently brought out some rare volumes to demonstrate the variety within the Rare Book Collection. As noted on its web page, the collection reflects a relationship between people and the plant kingdom that has been documented since the earliest days of print, when botanists were not simply plant describers, but explorers.
Out came volume after volume, with Stoldt pointing out noteworthy details about each. Among them was the oldest book in the collection, Historia Plantarum, written by Theophrastus (d. 287 B.C.E.) and published in 1483 (it has some unusual marginalia). There was also an exquisite Japanese book on flower arranging, Nageire Kadensho: Saishokuzu Iri, published in 1684 and donated by longtime library volunteer Adele Klein. Stoldt continued her informal presentation with seemingly boundless enthusiasm, finishing with lush life-size images from The Orchid Album, published between 1882 and 1897.
More than once, Stoldt returned a book to the vault at the end of the show-and-tell only to call, "but wait! There's more!" as she glimpsed another book she absolutely had to show. This librarian really, really loves her books. And she feels very protective of them.
Stoldt recalled the horror she felt once when she was installing an exhibition, with a rare book exposed nearby on a book "cradle": "There was a sign that said 'Exhibit installation in progress: please do not touch the rare books,' but this person came in from the rain and loomed over it, dripping wet. I got her out of the way, but that was a close one."
Cultivating Relationships
More often, visitors are sensitive to the delicate state of the Garden's rare books. Some Garden members make a point of coming to each new exhibition and attending the free gallery talk. "One patron always calls from Wisconsin to find out about the next talk," said Stoldt. "And once, a library regular who came to a talk told me how much she loved the book Brother Gardeners [about eighteenth-century gardeners who brought American plants to England]. I was able to show her some books by the book's featured plantsmen, including Joseph Banks, John Bartram, and Phillip Miller, among others. It's what I call an 'on-demand rare-book viewing.' She was thrilled. These are the kinds of things that lead to relationships with people."
Devoted patrons feel that the library and its exhibitions enhance their lives; in turn, some are moved to enhance the Rare Book Collection. "We have our patrons, and then we have our patron saints," said Stoldt. One patron who came to the 2009 exhibit on Kew Garden's 250th anniversary enjoyed the accompanying talk by Ed Valauskas so much that she donated the 1777 edition of Cook's Voyage, or A Voyage Towards the South Pole, by Captain James Cook, which had been in her family for family for decades. And longtime members John and Mary Helen Slater made it possible for the library to acquire 11 volumes of Warner's Orchid Album.
Inspiring the Next Generation
Stoldt loves to see the excitement she feels about the Garden's Rare Book Collection spreading to a new generation. She recalled a day when a grandfather brought his grandson to the library, and the child asked to see a rare book. "I asked him what he was interested in, and he said, 'poisonous plants.' First, I showed him Histoire des Plantes Vénéneuses et Suspectes de la France by Bulliard, a book on poisonous plants written in French from the eighteenth century, but what really spoke to him was a book with the 'coolest illustrations!' entitled Poisonous Plants, Deadly, Dangerous and Suspect, Engraved on Wood, 1927, by John Nash. This kid was just amazed. I love seeing young readers light up when they've found something intriguing for them in print. It's heart-warming."
Cattleya aclandiae from a rare book color plate
Although that particular drop-in visit and viewing request occurred on a busy weekend day, another library staff member was available to manage the circulation desk while Stoldt showed the books. "I can't stress enough the importance of making an appointment for a viewing," she said. "Besides kids, grandparents, and garden clubs, people from all over the world come to Lenhardt Library to see primary resources they can't find elsewhere. We've had writers and scholars from England and the Netherlands, and even a Thai princess, come to see the Rare Book Collection. Everyone is welcome."
Don't be surprised if you come to see one specific book in the collection and end up seeing many more. It will be a visit you won't forget!
Rare book viewings are by appointment only during the hours of 10:30 a.m. until 3 p.m. Monday through Friday, subject to availability. For an appointment, call (847) 835-8201.
Click here to purchase tickets to the Orchid Show online.
Amy Spungen
Amy Spungen is a freelance editor and writer, and a huge fan of the Chicago Botanic Garden.	View all posts by Amy Spungen
Posted on February 13, 2014 January 7, 2016 Author Amy SpungenCategories Education, Programs and Events, The Orchid ShowTags exhibitions, Lenhardt Library, orchid show, orchids, rare book, theorchidshow
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I lived in Jacksonville, Florida in my early 20's before moving to Kenosha, Wisconsin. I became a mom just two weeks after my 20th birthday. My sister graduated college. She was the first Kleszynski to achieve a college degree and I was proud of her and her future.
I would fly in often with my son Austin because Donny was out to sea. At first Austin was cranky with her because she was not comfortable with him. Over time, that subsided and they created a bond that till this day is indestructible. It was Austin that made the two of us want to try and hash out our differences.
This peaceful existence was short lived. By my late 20's, I was a mother of two and had filed for divorce. I know for certain that my sister talked to my ex husband about my life. He confirmed that fact with me a long time ago.
I will never forget the day that he came home after being served divorce papers. He had invited my sister and mother to visit. I had been at work and when I returned things got heated between my soon to be ex-husband and myself. He took away all my credit cards, my checkbook and any access to finances. I stormed out of the house while they sat there in the living room with Austin and Chloe. They had no idea what had just happened in the basement.
They left, but later I met them at an Applebee's restaurant nearby to tell them what had transpired. My mom was warned by a family member to come prepared with financial assistance. This person had a feeling that my ex-husband was planning to make things difficult for me. After hearing my story, my sister accompanied me to get Austin and Chloe from his care. I wanted them away from their father who was a drunk and had no clue how to be a dad to them. It was an incredible feeling to have her with me by my side when we went to get the kids. I was scared to be in his presence and we both just wanted the kids to be safe and out of harms way.
My sister and I were repairing our relationship and even becoming close when she found out that she was pregnant with her son. I was one of the first people to know that she was expecting. I was so happy for her that she was going to be mom.
Not everyone took the news of her pregnancy as well as I did. My sister waited a month or two before telling my dad that she was expecting. The conversation with my dad didn't go as she had planned. Nonetheless, I was there for her. Immediately after their conversation, my sister called me in tears and recapped what was said. I felt I had to call my dad to console and comfort him and assure him that everything would be okay.
I understood some of the feelings that people were having. They felt angry and frustrated with her life decision because she had a degree but was not working. She was also living between my parents and her boyfriend's house. She was not established. I was already a mother of two children, but there was no comparison between her pregnancy and mine if you ask me. I was in the military, engaged and not dependent on my family. My life was prospering. This gave me the ability to back her up in this new chapter of her life. I was there when she gave birth and I watched my nephew come into this world. Witnessing his birth was one of the best experiences of my life.
Four months after my nephew was born and right before Christmas we lost our aunt suddenly. Our aunt was a huge part of our sisterly relationship because she oftentimes served as our mediator. She helped when our relationship was estranged. I always wonder if she were alive today…would our relationship be different?
That was the day that I realized that relationships could change within a blink of an eye. My sister stayed in my parents' living room to recover and so they could care for her and help with my nephew. She did not even feed him, let alone change his diaper. I was furious about the situation and expressed it very vocally. I didn't like how she was taking advantage of my parents, especially my mom, for MONTHS! I know my anger was because I was frustrated that I had to be the strong one, the prospering single mom and because I was not dependent on others.
By Easter, my mom was getting tired of taking care of my sister. From what I gathered, my Mom had told her she had no choice but to become independent soon because they were going on a trip to Florida with friends for a well deserved vacation. I'll be damned, as soon as they left for Florida, she figured out how to care for herself. Isn't that amazing? I have noticed that motherhood can really change someone once they learn to embrace the gift that has been given to them. I believe my nephew was exactly what my sister needed in her life. He helped her realize life is not about her anymore and that it was time for her to step up to responsibilities.
I love my nephew like my own child and she loves Austin and Chloe like her own. I am happy to say that no matter what disagreements we have had, we have never taken it out on the kids. The kids were not the reasons for our arguments with one another and we kept them out of it. The kids were the reasons why everything in my late 20's was going pretty well with my sister though. Our relationship wasn't perfect by far but we learned to fight more like "normal" siblings if that makes any sense. Our relationship was what I had always wanted to have with her–to be more like sisters rather than competitors and enemies.
Was Barbara Alpert's quote going to come true for us?


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'use strict';

describe('radixFilter', function () {

  var filter;

  beforeEach(module('a8m.math.radix'));

  beforeEach(inject(function ($filter) {
    filter = $filter('radix');
  }));

  it('should converting decimal numbers to different bases(radix)', function() {
    expect(filter(8, 2)).toEqual('1000');
    expect(filter(15, 16)).toEqual('F');
    expect(filter(32586, 16)).toEqual('7F4A');
    expect(filter(32, 8)).toEqual('40');
  });

  it('should not be able to convert base less than 2 , and bigger than 36', function() {
    expect(filter(998, 37)).toEqual(998);
    expect(filter(15, 1)).toEqual(15);
  });

  it('should get a !number and return it as-is', function() {

    expect(filter('string')).toEqual('string');
    expect(filter({})).toEqual({});
    expect(filter(!0)).toBeTruthy();

  });

});

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<?php

namespace Swarming\SubscribePro\Ui\ComponentProvider;

use Swarming\SubscribePro\Gateway\Config\ConfigProvider;
use Magento\Vault\Api\Data\PaymentTokenInterface;
use Magento\Vault\Model\Ui\TokenUiComponentProviderInterface;

class VaultToken implements TokenUiComponentProviderInterface
{
    /**
     * @var \Magento\Vault\Model\Ui\TokenUiComponentInterfaceFactory
     */
    protected $componentFactory;

    /**
     * @param \Magento\Vault\Model\Ui\TokenUiComponentInterfaceFactory $componentFactory
     */
    public function __construct(
        \Magento\Vault\Model\Ui\TokenUiComponentInterfaceFactory $componentFactory
    ) {
        $this->componentFactory = $componentFactory;
    }

    /**
     * @param \Magento\Vault\Api\Data\PaymentTokenInterface $paymentToken
     * @return \Magento\Vault\Model\Ui\TokenUiComponentInterface
     */
    public function getComponentForToken(PaymentTokenInterface $paymentToken)
    {
        $jsonDetails = json_decode($paymentToken->getTokenDetails() ?: '{}', true);
        $component = $this->componentFactory->create(
            [
                'config' => [
                    'code' => ConfigProvider::VAULT_CODE,
                    TokenUiComponentProviderInterface::COMPONENT_DETAILS => $jsonDetails,
                    TokenUiComponentProviderInterface::COMPONENT_PUBLIC_HASH => $paymentToken->getPublicHash()
                ],
                'name' => 'Swarming_SubscribePro/js/view/payment/method-renderer/vault'
            ]
        );

        return $component;
    }
}


text:
default: wnlemmatizer.cpp
	g++ -O3 -g -o wnlemmatizer wnlemmatizer.cpp -I $(WNHOME)/include -L $(WNHOME)/lib/libWN.a


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Extreme attitudes like xenophobia and xenophilia entail a dramatic reduction of the complexity of life leading to a type of "either-or" attitude: who is not with us is against us. Later on, this mental convenience will be expensively paid.


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text:
import tensorflow.compat.v1 as tf

from tensorflow_gan.examples.stargan import ops

class OpsTest(tf.test.TestCase):

  def test_padding_arg(self):

    pad_h = 2
    pad_w = 3

    self.assertListEqual([[0, 0], [pad_h, pad_h], [pad_w, pad_w], [0, 0]],
                         ops._padding_arg(pad_h, pad_w, 'NHWC'))

  def test_padding_arg_specify_format(self):

    pad_h = 2
    pad_w = 3

    self.assertListEqual([[pad_h, pad_h], [pad_w, pad_w], [0, 0]],
                         ops._padding_arg(pad_h, pad_w, 'HWC'))

  def test_padding_arg_invalid_format(self):

    pad_h = 2
    pad_w = 3

    with self.assertRaises(ValueError):
      ops._padding_arg(pad_h, pad_w, 'INVALID')

  def test_padding(self):

    n = 2
    h = 128
    w = 64
    c = 3
    pad = 3

    test_input_tensor = tf.random.uniform((n, h, w, c))
    test_output_tensor = ops.pad(test_input_tensor, padding_size=pad)

    with self.cached_session() as sess:
      output = sess.run(test_output_tensor)
      self.assertTupleEqual((n, h + pad * 2, w + pad * 2, c), output.shape)

  def test_padding_with_3D_tensor(self):

    h = 128
    w = 64
    c = 3
    pad = 3

    test_input_tensor = tf.random.uniform((h, w, c))
    test_output_tensor = ops.pad(test_input_tensor, padding_size=pad)

    with self.cached_session() as sess:
      output = sess.run(test_output_tensor)
      self.assertTupleEqual((h + pad * 2, w + pad * 2, c), output.shape)

  def test_padding_with_tensor_of_invalid_shape(self):

    n = 2
    invalid_rank = 1
    h = 128
    w = 64
    c = 3
    pad = 3

    test_input_tensor = tf.random.uniform((n, invalid_rank, h, w, c))

    with self.assertRaises(ValueError):
      ops.pad(test_input_tensor, padding_size=pad)

  def test_condition_input_with_pixel_padding(self):

    n = 2
    h = 128
    w = h
    c = 3
    num_label = 5

    input_tensor = tf.random.uniform((n, h, w, c))
    label_tensor = tf.random.uniform((n, num_label))
    output_tensor = ops.condition_input_with_pixel_padding(
        input_tensor, label_tensor)

    with self.cached_session() as sess:
      labels, outputs = sess.run([label_tensor, output_tensor])
      self.assertTupleEqual((n, h, w, c + num_label), outputs.shape)
      for label, output in zip(labels, outputs):
        for i in range(output.shape[0]):
          for j in range(output.shape[1]):
            self.assertListEqual(label.tolist(), output[i, j, c:].tolist())

if __name__ == '__main__':
  tf.test.main()


ATLANTA (AP) — The Atlanta Falcons know they can't afford to fall too far behind in the division as they prepare to play the Carolina Panthers on Sunday. Atlanta made the playoffs at 10-6 in 2017 despite finishing third in the South, behind New Orleans and Carolina.
Now, coming off last week's loss at Philadelphia, the Falcons (0-1) need to beat the Panthers to avoid falling two games behind only two weeks into the season.
For Carolina and Atlanta, this is an early opportunity to establish a pecking order in the division.
"For us to have a division game … early in the season, I think it's good for us and good for the division, too," Quinn said.
A road win would be another strong statement for Carolina (1-0), which won its opener over Dallas .
Each team has lost key starters to injuries.
Carolina tight end Greg Olsen and as many as three offensive linemen could be held out. Olsen has a broken bone in his foot for the second straight year, but hopes to return this season and has not been placed on injured reserve.
Panthers right tackle Daryl Williams (knee) was placed on IR Wednesday, joining left tackle Matt Kalil (knee), who was put on IR before Week 1. Also, three-time Pro Bowl right guard Trai Turner was placed in the NFL's concussion protocol on Wednesday.
The Falcons placed two key defensive starters, safety Keanu Neal (left knee) and linebacker Deion Jones, on injured reserve this week. Neal will miss the remainder of the season. The team hopes Jones will return , but he must miss at least eight games.
Meanwhile, running back Devonta Freeman could be held out with a knee injury. Tevin Coleman would move up to the role of lead back.
The Panthers will turn to rookie Ian Thomas at tight end. Thomas is still very raw having only played two seasons of major college football at Indiana.
Quarterback Cam Newton said it's impossible to replace Olsen, a three-time 1,000-yard receiver. Newton likes what he's seen from Thomas.
Quinn prefers having Freeman and Coleman split the carries "because then we can feature the uniqueness of them, the balance of them." But Sunday could be another chance for Coleman to prove he can be more than a backup. He had six starts in his first three seasons.
Middle linebacker Luke Kuechly and defensive tackle Kawann Short led Carolina's defense in holding Dallas to 232 yards and eight points last week. Kuechly was all over the field, making 13 tackles. He set the tone with six stops in the first quarter.
Short had two timely sacks. He lines up beside former Falcons defensive tackle Dontari Poe.
In a handoff from one former Louisiana State player to another, Duke Riley will take over for Jones at inside linebacker. Riley had been starting on the weak side.
Rookie Foyesade Oluokun, a sixth-round pick out of Yale, could share time with Kemal Ishmael at weakside linebacker, with De'Vondre Campbell still starting on the strongside.
Damontae Kazee will be start at Neal's safety spot.


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ArtCurious and Top Artist Dissect Important Moments in Art History [Podcast]
By My Modern Met on July 28, 2021
The next season of the Top Artist podcast starts on August 4, but while you wait for the new season to arrive, we have some special episodes in store, in which we were lucky enough to chat with our friend Jennifer Dasal from the ArtCurious podcast. Since season two of Top Artist is all about artists who make an impact, we wanted to take a look at some major moments in art history that made a splash. The result is not one, but two special episodes where Jessica Stewart (our resident art historian and one of the hosts of Top Artist) and Jennifer Dasal (curator, creator, and host of ArtCurious) break down significant moments in the history of art.
In this first episode, they'll chat about everything from a surprising social justice painting from Norman Rockwell to how an early 20th-century photographer helped stop child labor thanks to his work. Of course, they can't help but mention Pablo Picasso and his powerhouse painting Les Demoiselles d'Avignon, which turned the art world on its head. Lastly, they'll break down the significance of 17th-century painter Artemisia Gentileschi and her groundbreaking work as a female artist in the Baroque period.
Once you get your fill of art, make sure you go over and subscribe to the ArtCurious podcast, as Jessica and Jennifer will continue the discussion with four new moments of art history greatness on August 9. During that episode, they'll chat about everything from photojournalist Gordon Parks, LIFE's first Black staff photographer, to Frida Kahlo's game-changing paintings.
So what are you waiting for? You can listen to the full episode below or on the Top Artist website. Or, subscribe using your favorite podcast app and never miss an episode. And, if you want even more content from our show, sign up for our newsletter or follow us on Instagram.
Love art history? You won't want to miss this special episode of Top Artist in collaboration with ArtCurious.
We chat about everything from Norman Rockwell's social justice art to one of Picasso's most famous paintings.
"Les Demoiselles d'Avignon" by Pablo Picasso (1907). (Photo: Public domain via Wikipedia)
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Here Are The Winners of My RØDE Cast 2019!
Launched in February, the inaugural edition of the My RØDE Cast podcast competition was a big one. Entrants simply needed to submit a 1-2 minute podcast on any topic and in any format to go in the running to win a share in over $150,000 of prizes (including RØDECaster Pros and PodMics). We were blown away by the response: the podcasts flooded in, with over 900 entries received from 56 different countries around the world, collectively racking up over 30,000 plays (so far) on the My RØDE Cast Whooshkaa channel.
The winners were selected by a trio of podcasting heavyweights: Jacob Salamon, CEO and founder of Wisecrack; Mike Dawson, voice and engineer of The Adam Carolla Show; and Jordon Lott, content coordinator at Acast. There was also a People's Choice prize for the podcast with the most votes from the public.
Way Back & A Matter Of Fact displays a sophisticated mix of quirk, interest, entertainment and a clever use of music and sound effects in a light-hearted "podcast about the parts of history that they definitely don't teach you in school!"
"Way Back and a Matter of Fact is a podcast that I hope brings to life some of the more interesting parts of history," says Michael, "whether it's about hiring human alarm clocks or the great molasses flood in Boston or any number of crazy stories that have happened through time.
"I was a history major in college and I have worked in radio since I was 14. My thought was how can I combine those two things and thus Way Back Matter of Fact was born as a feature on my radio show (where I go by my air name Moose Michaels) and from there it naturally became a podcast.
"Winning My RØDE Cast is an incredible honour. Ever since I began my career in radio I've always wanted a similar studio at home to make my own outlet for the ideas in my head. I'm incredibly humbled to have been fortunate enough to win this competition and with RØDE's help I can take my love of audio, storytelling and history to new heights with several new ideas I'm already cooking up."
Nursery Crimes lampoons true crime podcasts by turning traditional nursery rhymes into breathless, portentous crime documentary. A knowing mix of moody sound and sharp scripting turns Jack & Jill into a tale of infidelity, murder and tough justice.
Just Like Before combines meditative vibes and self-learning in a tale about first love and lost. The lovelorn narrative struck a chord with thousands who voted it People's Choice.
The prize packs for each of the winners are loaded with podcasting gear to help these budding superstars on their way, including RØDE mics and accessories; the RØDECaster Pro Podcast Production Studio; headphones from Urbanears; sound effects from Blastwave FX; software subscriptions from Adobe; tuition from SchoolOfPodcasting; SSDs from Angelbird, acoustic treatment from Primacoustic, and more.
A huge thanks to everybody who entered and who supported the competition by voting, listened and sharing. My RØDE Cast will return in 2020 - bigger and podcastier!


I recently ran across an "Ain't Laurent Without Yves" sweatshirt by the infamous brand Reason while I was shopping, and of course I had to have it.
Designer parody clothing has been one of the largest street style trends this season, and Saint Laurent Paris wasn't the only target. Plenty of major design houses were parodied, including Celine, Hermes, Balmain, Kenzo, and Prada just to name a few.
Many of the creative directors from the design houses listed above have embraced the designer parody clothing trend by wearing it themselves. "Ain't Laurent Without Yves" clothing sold out of the Collette stores and continues to prove just as profitable.
In my opinion, all of the designer parody clothing logos are obviously not made from the actual designers that they are parodying. If anything, the clothing is adding extra publicity and buzz for the brand. If a shopper buys designer parody clothing chances are they know who the designer is, and they are not purchasing it because they think they are purchasing a designer's product.
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(CTN News) – It is imperative to know how to do a hanging indent in Google Docs if you are working in an academic or professional environment.
This is especially true when formatting standards need to be followed. There is no way to write your thesis for you if you don't understand how to do a hanging indent in Google Docs.
However, you will at least make your thesis look nicer by knowing how to do it.
As a matter of fact, after spending all the effort and time writing your paper, you want to be able to show it off in the most effective way possible.
Indenting a paragraph with hanging indents is a requirement of both the American Psychological Association (APA) and Harvard referencing styles, among others, so it is imperative to learn how to do it correctly.
So without further ado, let's take a look at how to make a hanging indent in Google Docs.
In Google Docs, here's how you can create a hanging indent
1. Using Google Docs, highlight the text that you would like to apply indents to and then select the Format option.
2. Select Indentation options under Align & indent and then click the Align & indent button.
3. There is a drop-down menu that allows you to select Hanging from the Special indent selection.
4. To set the size of the indent in centimeters, you will need to enter a value into the box to the right of the box.
5. Then click the Apply button.
Now that your text has been indented correctly, it should look like this.
You can do it in a jiffy. Remember that most universities and educational institutions have slight differences in the formatting they require when it comes to academic papers.
Therefore, it is wise to check what they expect ahead of time, and don't forget to proofread your work before you submit it!
If you want to make sure that everything is included in your essay, then why not follow the steps on how to view the word count in Google Docs?
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BIAFRA: SELL-OUT MEND CLAIMS OWNERSHIP OF TRIPOB AND RE-IPOB AS VANGUARD BECOMES THE SPOKESPERSON.
In Vanguard's unquenchable thirst to frustrate the restoration of Biafra, it has again, today, 3rd September 2016, published another tale, still targeted at misleading the public and to keep these non-existing groups: The Rebranded Indigenous People Of Biafra (TRIPOB) and Reformed Indigenous People Of Biafra (RE-IPOB) alive in the minds of Nigerians and the world at large.
In Vanguard's bid to cover up for her vapid plans to burn Biafran flag on October 1 2016, which would have indicted Nigeria, it said, ''following appeals by well-meaning Nigerians across the world, especially civil war veterans of the defunct Biafra Republic, TRIPOB shall no longer burn the flag of the defunct Biafra Republic as earlier planned for October 1, 2016, a date which has also been rescheduled.
Recall that Vanguard had earlier lured some reputable Biafrans like Dr Arthur Nwankwo and Prof Nwankwo Nwaezeigwe. These individuals rained insults on Vanguard for associating them with such ''amorphous'' group while they charged them (Vanguard) to retract their names from such deals to avoid ''unpleasant consequences''.
Vanguard, who has since this recent propaganda failed to produce their invisible Spokesman ''Chima Effiong'', has again gone back to appoint a notorious criminal who was involved in several kidnappings of foreign oil workers and the masterminded the October 1 2010, bomb blast in Abuja, as the leader of this imaginary group.
Vanguard is the only media house that knows the structure, mission and vision of TRIPOB & RE-IPOB; Vanguard is the only media house that holds press conference with this invisible group and in addition, has assumed the office of their Spokesperson.
Nigerian Government should build more psychological hospitals to accommodate more lunatics if an incarcerated criminal like Charles Okah would be an option to be considered in issues as significant as Biafra agitation.
Gbomo Jomo a.k.a. Charles Okah is making a fool of the Movement for the Enslavement of Niger Delta (MEND) by cleverly conniving with the Yoruba dirty media and the Hausa-Fulani political bigots to keep Okah's name in the press.
According to Biafra Intelligance Team (BIT), Gbomo Jomo is hoping to appeal to the stupidity of Buhari to prevail upon South African government to release Henry Okah for the flag handover ceremony.
It is now established that MEND, via this perfected art of treachery, is working hand-in-hand with the Hausa-Fulani government of Nigeria to further enslave the Niger Delta and now wider Biafra. This is a proof that these bands of criminals (MEND) are unrepentant.
Yoruba media handlers should have told Charles Okah that informants all over the world remain in jail for their own safety or they are dead.
IPOB IS ONE AND UNITED UNDER THE SUPEREME LEADERSHIP OF NNAMDI KANU.


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I play my grandmother's memory loss in a game for closeness.
'He wasn't at the funeral, was he?' I say, because we had this conversation when I called in yesterday, and I want to both want to speed over it and humour her about the things she still finds important.
She frets, as a woman of a certain generation who has had only sons and who has, as a result, only daughters-in-law.
'If I'm sick, who will care for me?' She asks and flicks through the television channels with the remote, as if there might be an answer on the screen. I reach out and take her hand in mine.
'I will,' I say. She shrugs.
My great-aunt, my grandmother's sister, sang in their brothers' band. They went round the local dance halls, playing the hits of the day while couples jitterbugged and drank warm, sweaty glasses of gin and lemonade. My grandmother liked dancing with the Americans because they knew the best moves. They all walked home in splintering groups, and kissed in moonlit doorways, thinking that the world might end tomorrow.
Not all the Americans left at the end of the war. Some of them married my grandmother's friends. One great-uncle brought home a French girl. My grandmother stopped work at the local factory and helped her sister in the local shop. After marriage, there was no time for my great-aunt to sing.
'I miss her,' says my grandmother, and I nod along with her to show a sympathy I don't feel. My great-aunt died before I was born. Something like a heart attack; she screamed, and her tongue stuck out, and her eyes went black, and then she was gone. My grandmother drove for a solid nine hours to make it there to help her nieces lay her out.
They had three brothers, and they're all dead now too. Saxophone, piano and accordion laid down and covering in dust. When my grandmother hears music, she cries. Every note is a memory, and not every memory is welcome.
'Make me some tea,' I go into the kitchenette and fiddle with the power cord for the kettle. 'I want a biscuit.' There aren't any in the tin, so I say I'm going to the shops, but she's already chatting away to the presenter on the television, telling him she likes his new sweater.
When I was very small and sent to visit my grandparents, they would drive me across the Forth Road bridge. My grandda would drop me and my grandmother at the end, turn the car round, drive back over, then park and read the paper. Even on a still day, by the time my grandmother and I reached the end of the bridge my hair would be snarled into knots. My grandmother carried a comb in her handbag, and I'd stand and twitch from one foot to the other while she sorted me out. If I didn't complain too much, I was allowed an ice-cream, even in winter. My grandda smoked woodbines, and a whirl of smoke would come out and greet us when he rolled down the window to shout his ice-cream order. It was always strawberry he wanted, but he still shouted. Then we'd sit in the car and eat our ice-creams, and then we'd drive home.
I lock my grandmother in her flat when I go out for the biscuits. It's a brisk afternoon, so I take the long route through the park. I hopscotch on the tarmac. We haven't walked the Forth Road bridge in years. I count the years as I jump, then soak a shoe in the wet puddle at the edge of the grass. Like a child, I'm satisfied by the sensation at first, then annoyed.
I played the flute in a marching band the summer my parents went to my grandfather's funeral. The procession ended with fireworks I couldn't see. The light rain and the heat made my woollen tights itch while I did as I was told and marched on the spot, staring straight ahead. The park and the bandstand are empty today when I pass them, but I scratch my leg in tribute. There's a dog sitting by an empty bench, and it runs off when I lean down to pat it. It doesn't come back.
The phone calls generally come at noon, but she was late today; I don't know why.
'I'll fix it this afternoon,' I said, and wrote on the back of my hand to remember to bring a screwdriver with me. And milk.
'Mary wrote to me this week,' she said, 'but I can't find the letter.' That letter has been lost for at least five years now, by my reckoning.
I forgot the screwdriver. But by the time I got there she had forgotten I was coming. I wrote it in my diary for next time and washed my hand at her sink. The soap smelt of roses. I can still smell the roses on my skin now, lifting my hand to my face, and feeling how cold my nose is. Winter roses. The bushes in the park are cut back, and the trees make lace patterns against the sky. My nose is wet with the start of a cold. I sniff, and shake water off my shoe.
My room at my parents' house is still bright yellow. My grandmother helped me paint it when my parents went away one weekend. I told her about school, and she told me about being in service at my age. It's a rare memory. Sometimes I think I've invented it, that I wanted something to hang on to now she has retreated into the past.
I leave an uneven line of footprints leading up to the shop. On the way back, I can still feel the creeping damp up the side of my sock, but the shoe doesn't leave a wet mark.


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Post subject: Una - going strong!
You may seen a blast of posts from me as I have a lot of questions, but thought while I'm at it I'd give you a general update.
When I first came here I had adopted Una as a one year old Beardie, she is now about 3 and a half and a lot bigger but equally as happy. She's been living off a diet of Sweatheart cabbage with powder supplements on top, marioworms, and occasionally silk worms. Not sure if its the most balanced diet but she likes it and I've never had any health problems with her. She mainly eats the cabbage, I have noticed the older she gets the more cabbage she eats and the less worms, this seems to be what happens with beardies. She still eats her marioworms but usually not a lot and she's a lot more picky about them than she is silk worms, she LOVES silk worms, she recognises the pot and follows it if I move it around, and as soon as they come out shes right on the, where as you have to wave marioworms in front of her face to have a chance of her eating them.
Anyway, won't go on for too long, just wanted to re-introduce her.
Post subject: Re: Una - going strong!
Not the best diet but with the silkworms you're providing a good bit of the correct food along side the junk (mealworms) food.
Silk worms may be used as a staple, mixing them with morios to give variance is always a good idea and if you can get any other critters such as roaches down her that would be good.
Damm, they are waxworms she loves not silk worms not something I can give her on a regular basis are they?
Do you know any online retailers where I can get silkworms? As my local pets at home doesn't stock them.


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Carmilla är en kortroman av den irländske författaren Sheridan Le Fanu, publicerad 1872. Romanen är namngiven efter en av personerna i berättelsen, och hon betraktas som den första kvinnliga vampyren i litteraturen.

Handling
En ung kvinna, Laura, bor med sin far och tjänstefolk i ett slott ensligt beläget i Österrikes skogar. När ett egendomligt sällskap anländer i en vagn framförd av galopperande hästar sker en olycka, vagnen välter och en ung avsvimmad kvinna lyfts ut. En äldre dam som säger sig vara kvinnans mor anser sig inte kunna ta med den sköra kvinnan utan ber att hon ska få stanna kvar i slottet vilket Laura och hennes far accepterar. En stark och erotisk attraktion uppstår mellan Laura och Carmilla, som kvinnan uppger som sitt namn; hon är i övrigt helt förtegen om sin bakgrund. Egendomligheter börjar emellertid uppträda: Laura upplever ett nattligt besök av en obehaglig varelse och får en stingande känsla i bröstet, ett restaurerat familjeporträtt av en grevinna Mircalla visar stor likhet med Carmilla, unga kvinnor i trakten drabbas av oförklarlig svaghet och dör slutligen. Genom faderns äldre vän, vars dotter avlidit på samma sätt, lokaliserar man en grav där grevinnan Mircalla ska ha begravts 150 år tidigare. Den öppnas och den som vilar där förefaller vara identisk med Carmilla. Hon oskadliggörs och hela historien återberättas av Laura många år senare.

Betydelse
Carmilla skrevs under en tid då övernaturliga fenomen, spök- och skräckhistorier i den gotiska traditionen var vanligt förekommande i litteraturen och präglade större delen av Sheridan Le Fanus författarskap. Berättelsen publicerades ursprungligen som en av fem noveller i samlingen In a Glass Darkly. Gemensamt för novellerna är "världens första ockulta detektiv" doktor Martin Hesselius. I Carmilla omnämns denne dock bara i prologen. Carmilla väckte uppståndelse bland dåtidens läsare inte minst för sitt sexuella innehåll och den förbjöds under en tid men vann också popularitet. Berättelsen anses ha varit inspirationskälla till samtida skräcklitteratur och omnämns speciellt ha inspirerat Bram Stoker till romanen Dracula, 1895. Carmilla har blivit föremål för tolkningar ur många perspektiv såsom skuld och straff, sökande efter kunskap, lesbisk kärlek och könsmaktsordning. Den amerikanske litteraturprofessorn Elizabeth Signorotti jämför Carmilla och Dracula ur ett genusperspektiv. Hon ser Lauras och Carmillas relation som en kvinnornas utmaning av den rådande manliga maktstrukturen medan i Dracula återtas den manliga kontrollen över kvinnokroppen.

Carmilla har ingått i flera antologier, bland andra den svenska Vampyrbiten, 1973. Det finns också flera filmer baserade på novellen: Carl Dreyers danska Vampyr, 1932, Roger Vadims franska Blod och rosor, 1960, Hammer Films Vampyren - en erotisk mardröm av Roy Ward Baker, 1970, och den spanska kultfilmen La novia ensangrentada (The Blood Spattered bride) av Vicente Aranda 1972.

I romanen Monster i terapi av Jenny Jägerfeld och Mats Strandberg, 2020, tar en ung kvinnlig terapeut emot historiska klienter, bland dessa Carmilla och Laura.

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