Choosing the right mouthguard is essential. There are three basic types of mouthguards: the pre-made mouthguard (also known as "stock mouthguards), the "boil-and-bite" fitted mouthguard, and a custom-made mouthguard from your orthodontist or dentist. When you chose a mouthguard, be sure to pick one that is tear-resistant, comfortable, well fitted for your mouth, easy to keep clean, and does not prevent you from breathing properly.
These can be purchased at a sporting goods store. These types of mouthguards are typically "one size fits all." They tend to be bulky depending on the size of your mouth or appliance you may be wearing. This type of mouthguard can be beneficial for patients wearing a "herbst appliance" as they can be trimmed to fit around your appliance.
Boil and Bite Mouthguards Boil-and-bite mouthguards can be purchased at most sporting goods stores and are relatively inexpensive. As your teeth move into proper alignment you will be able to re-boil and bite the mouthguard to fit around your brackets properly. A mouthguard that does not fit proper may result in broken brackets.
Here is a video on how to properly boil and bite a mouthguard when wearing braces.
Here is a helpful video on how to properly trim, a mouthguard for patients wearing a herbst appliance.
Custom-made mouthguards are specially designed by your orthodontist or dentist to provide optimal protection against mouth injuries. If you wear braces or a retainer, it is imperative for you to wear a mouthguard during contact sports. If you have questions about wearing a mouthguard, our orthodontic team can tell you how to choose the right mouthguard to protect your smile.
Sports related injuries to the mouth and jaw are some of the most common injuries received by athletes. Below is an image of an actual patient of our office. We cannot stress the use of mouthguards enough. Our goal is to help minimize your chances of a sports related injury to your smile. Be sure to ask your doctor about mouthguards at your next appointment.
This is an actual patient of our office who was not wearing his mouth guard as suggested by our team. A week after we gave him a mouthguard for soccer he got a knee in the mouth. He obviously chose not to wear it for that game. Please don't let this be you.


The village of Écuras is a small village located west of France. The town of Écuras is located in the department of Charente of the french region Poitou-Charentes.	The town of Écuras is located in the township of Montbron part of the district of Angoulême. The area code for Écuras is 16124 (also known as code INSEE), and the Écuras zip code is 16220.
The altitude of the city hall of Écuras is approximately 218 meters. The Écuras surface is 24.22 km ². The latitude and longitude of Écuras are 45.685 degrees North and 0.566 degrees East. Nearby cities and towns of Écuras are : Rouzède (16220) at 2.86 km, Eymouthiers (16220) at 4.53 km, Bussière-Badil (24360) at 4.63 km, Montbron (16220) at 5.45 km, Orgedeuil (16220) at 5.62 km, Busserolles (24360) at 5.99 km, Roussines (16310) at 6.06 km, Soudat (24360) at 6.70 km.
The population of Écuras was 557 in 1999, 650 in 2006 and 644 in 2007. The population density of Écuras is 26.59 inhabitants per km². The number of housing of Écuras was 657 in 2007. These homes of Écuras consist of 302 main residences, 298 second or occasional homes and 57 vacant homes.
Here are maps and information of the close municipalities near Écuras.
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At right you can find the localization of Écuras on the map of France. Below, this is the satellite map of Écuras. A road map, and maps templates of Écuras are available here : "road map of Écuras". This map show Écuras seen by the satellite of Google Map. To see the streets of Écuras or move on another zone, use the buttons "zoom" and "map" on top of this dynamic map.
To search hotels, housings, tourist information office, administrations or other services, use the Google search integrated to the map on the following page : "map Écuras".
This is the last weather forecast for Écuras collected by the nearest observation station of Angoulême.
Week Forecast: Light rain today through Saturday, with high temperatures bottoming out at 14°C on Saturday.
The latest weather data for Écuras were collected Thursday, 25 April 2019 at 19:48 from the nearest observation station of Angoulême.


What a fantastic idea and an uber fun card (thanks to your husband and you, obviously a great team)!
You can tell your husband that it was a great idea, and I think that you executed on it brilliantly. Thanks so much for playing along at CASology this week.
Christine this is such a clever take on the challenge….you and hubby are a good team!!
I'm thinking your husband is a keeper! He's so creative and oh so helpful! So glad you joined us at CASology this week!
Gotta love those husbands that come up with creative thoughts. Wonderful card!
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According to WebMD, the definition of holistic medicine is "a form of healing that considers the whole person — body, mind, spirit, and emotion — in the quest for optimal health and wellness." This is not a traditional form of medicine, and not one that is widely talked about. I am passionate about this form of medicine because it not only focuses on a set of symptoms, but a person as a whole. It is also said that if one part of the body is not well, all other parts are affected and will have imbalance in life.
Physical symptoms are not the only type of symptoms out there. Physical diseases are not the only types of diseases that can occur. The human body is so much more than the physical aspect – there are more parts that need to be focused on in order to evaluate a patients' well-being. Holistic medicine focuses on the whole person, treating each part of the body. I'm interested in this field of medicine because I truly believe that the human body is not just a set of symptoms to be diagnosed and treated; sometimes it is more than that that needs to be looked at and evaluated.
Holistic medicine is a very nontraditional approach to medicine. However, that does not mean that it is invalid. There are several types of approaches to holistic medicine that can be proven effective. It's our job as future physicians to gain knowledge on all forms of medicine, in case we receive a patient who inquires about it.


Rothco 5515 Black Wintuck 1-Hole Face Mask. This product is made of acrylic material. It covers you full head with an execption of a hole on the front center for your eyes and nose. Wintuck Acrylic One-Hole Face Mask is as warm as wool but made from a non-allergenic material to keep you warm all winter long. The face mask is U.S. Made and come in black.
Hey thanks for shipping in a timely manner that's important and I'm happy with that. As far as the Wintuck face mask goes though. I work in North Dakota and I was hoping the mask would have been made out of a better material. I probably would have paid maybe six bucks total for this product, but it is what it is, I can't really complain about online purchases that's how it goes.
Anyways, thanks for the timing though guys, good company, I'll order something else from your site in the future.
Ordering was easy, received the item quickly and would definitely order again from ArmyNavy USA. Thank you.


Over Homecoming Weekend, the Department of English sponsors a English alumni reception before the football game. Recent and not-so-recent alums chat with faculty and discussed their current and future plans. We look forward to this annual event.
Are you a junior during the 2012-2013 academic year? The Newberry Library offers competitive, paid summer internships. For more information, see their information on their webpage regarding Newberry Library Undergraduate Internships. Last year's interns worked with the Midwest Modern Manuscripts, Rare Books, and Special Collections.
Curry Internship – Offered by the Governor's Office: Summer Internships with the State of Illinois for college juniors, seniors, and graduate students.
Dunn Fellowship – Offered by the Governor's Office: One year fellowships with the State of Illinois for college graduates.
Pollution Prevention Internship – Summer internship with the Illinois Environmental Protection Agency.
Governor's Environmental Corp – Summer internship with Illinois Environmental Protection Agency.
Internship opportunities at Chicago Shakespeare Theater are designed to provide an enriching, career-broadening experience for qualified college and graduate students. The level of responsibility and the ongoing workload of an ever-growing artistic institution require that interns be highly motivated, energetic and self-reliant. No housing is provided and internships are unpaid.
Do you have a recent essay of which you are particularly proud? The 17th Annual Clement S. Stacy Undergraduate Research Conference, sponsored by Purdue University--Calumet, takes place in April (with abstracts due in January). Funding from the college may be available; contact Professor Belschner for additional information.
Every Fall (usually in September), Illinois Wesleyan University also sponsors the annual MUSE Undergraduate Literature Conference.
The Department of English is pleased to welcome Professor Kasia Bartoszynska, who is teaching 19th century literature and British Literature II!


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Q: play framework handling json from jquery (with gson) I am trying to use jquery to send the following to a controller in play framework (1.2.3):
[{"name":"username","value":"abc"},{"name":"fullname","value":"abc def"},
{"name":"email","value":"abc@def.com"},{"name":"password","value":"111222"},
{"name":"password2","value":"111222"}]

In my play 1.2.3 controller (I am trying to use gson), I have tried using JsonElement/Object/Array as the parameter but I always get null for the JsonObject/ELement/Array inside the controller - not sure if this is the right approach.  Any suggestions would be welcome or a better way of handling this (I would prefer to send json from jquery - handle it in play for processing).
public static void testForm(JsonObject json)

A: If that is the exact json string you are using you are missing the end tag to the array ] try adding that to the end.

A: How do you send your json and how to you get it in your controller ? There is no automatic binding for json in play so you have to excplicit
MyObject myObject = new GsonBuilder().create().fromJson(request.params.get("myObject");

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BRING ON YEAR 4 - 2019 3 March 8am-10am.
This year I will bring a Wheel Barrow so we can really collect heaps without lugging bags of rubbish the long path that the Conservation Park has - being a waterfront area where the ocean meets the park - debris from the ocean does tend to wash up in this area.
Looking forward to getting in there this year to clean up again.
I don't know about you but I like to clean up everywhere I go - anytime I see rubbish blowing I pick it up and put it in a bin. Clean Up Australia is every day to me.
The Conservation Park at Beachmere gets a lot of "sea" debris coming in from the ocean side of the park. Last years clean up we found an old computer washed up and dragging bags back and forth to pick up point was tiring. But with a new found idea brought to the group - this year I am bringing a wheelbarrow to help with the cleanup. That way as we work to clean we can load the barrow and just do one trip out with rubbish instead of many.
Who do you know that can come to assist us on the 3rd March from 8am till 10am, Bishop Road, Beachmere opposite entrance to Palms Lake Resort.
What else is possible here we have not even considered?
Wow, this week first time in a while I have seen some Council clean up around the "easements" (waterways) around the Conservation Park in Bishop Road - (there are no stormwater drains that side of Bishop Road and up from there towards Bribie Island road) which means rubbish has already been picked up and cleaned on the Road area of the Park. Yah! One less thing we have to do on Clean Up Day. YAH!
To register online at the Clean Up Site to the site that you are attending is important a. for insurance purposes for the CUA team - gives the Site Supervisors an idea as whom to expect on the day and how to coordinate the bodies showing up to the areas of there site that needs cleaning up.
b. lets Clean Aust collect peoples details so they increase their mail out ist to help create more awareness of there other campaigns they have happening all year round. YAH!
Did you know that a Site Supervisor is advised to view there allocated site prior to clean up day and access where attention is needed with safety/risk for "cleaners" to be taken in effect?
Don't forget to bring a Wheelbarrow this time!!!
I found out at the BANG meeting last night that the IGA has donated some water to our site - so I will have an esky on the day to keep our water nice and cool.
In 2018 I received by first aid certificate and CPR training and am excited to have a new set of "skills" up my sleeve this year (not that we will need it) but I wanted to share this with you all none the less.
Am looking forward to creating change in Beachmere March 3rd 8am-10am and beyond.
What else is possible for the clean up of Beachmere we have not even considered?
One more sleep to my annual clean-up day - this will be my 4th year running being site manager for this site. It is like visiting an old friend and asking what can I do to help? Where would you like me to clean up?
Who do you know that would want to come out and assist me in the fun of cleaning up after last weeks cyclone high tides?
I have packed my wheelbarrow and have water donated by local IGA all cold and ready to go.


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Movie Reviews & Analysis
The Fanged and the Furryous: A "Zootopia" Recommendation
March 13, 2016 K-K Bracken
It is perhaps ironic that a Disney movie about not judging on preconceived notions shattered all my initial expectations of it. I expected Zootopia to be a middling to fair animated feature, not a stunningly textured self-aware joke machine. I expected Zootopia to be a brainless anthropomorphic romp, not a kid-friendly critique of institutionalized racism and sexism. I expected Zootopia to be a furry movie, and that assumption was maybe correct.
Let's just get this out of the way: yes, I think Idris Elba as a cape buffalo is still attractive.
Zootopia tells the story of fresh-from-the-farm Judy Hopps (Ginnifer Goodwin), who is determined to become the first ever bunny cop on the beat. She teams up with Nick Wilde the confox (Jason Bateman) to uncover a conspiracy that exposes corruption at the very heart of the bustling city of Zootopia.
Both Judy and Nick deal with prejudice throughout Zootopia. Although she worked hard to become the top of her class at the police academy, Judy is still explicitly a "diversity hire," and her new captain keeps her on meter maid duty regardless of her talent. Nick shares childhood memories where he was assumed to be violent just for being a predator. Zootopia touches on issues of intersectionality, apologizing without expecting forgiveness, and how biases warp the media and our own expectations of those we share the world with. It also manages to be simultaneously pro-police and anti-police corruption.
The animation in Zootopia seamlessly rides the line of the uncanny valley, with impossibly big Disney eyes set into fur and hair and hide and wool. There were minute mammalian details which gave the whole movie a "PG-rated Bojack Horseman with Mickey's animation budget" feel. The city of Zootopia is split into biodome districts (rain forest, desert, tundra, etc) so even amidst the language-speaking, clothes-wearing, upright-standing animals, there's still a bit of zoology to be learned. The movie conveniently ignores the issue of "what exactly do these carnivores eat in this post-predator/prey dichotomy society," but much like the nudist yoga-instructor elephant's intimate lower body details, it didn't have to be present for Zootopia to be an enjoyable experience.
"Life isn't some cartoon musical where you sing a little song and all your insipid dreams magically come true. So let it go," says Chief Bogo (Idris Elba), with a cheeky jab at Disney's last non-Pixar mega-hit. Zootopia doesn't have the musical numbers of Frozen, but it didn't need them to overthrow its previous opening weekend record ($75 million to Frozen's $67.4 million). Artistically, thematically, character- and humor-wise, Zootopia is the better film. That's pretty impressive for a movie I'm 90% sure started as a "bunny/buddy cop" mix up.
If the high animation quality, awesome messages, and promise of laughter isn't enough to convince you to give Zootopia a try, perhaps the all-star supporting voice cast is. A sampling of these include JK Simmons, Alan Tudyk, Jenny Slate, and Octavia Spencer. Shakira plays a pop-star gazelle, constantly flanked by four beefy tiger back up dancers.
Zootopia is fun, and Zootopia is funny, and you better believe that Zootopia is furry.
Author: K-K Bracken
K-K Bracken grew up overseas and in the Washington, DC area, went to the Ohio State University to get her BA in English, and has been in Columbus, Ohio ever since. She is currently querying her first novel ORCHESTRATION under the name Bracken Beveridge. She is the founder and organizer for the first Steven Universe exclusive fan convention, Beach City Con.
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Planning bathroom layouts is one of the most difficult tasks in a new build or renovation.
One of the biggest problems is where to place the shower in order to get the best use of the limited space, both in the shower area itself and in the remaining bathroom.
Luckily, new solutions come along all the time and installing a glass blade to separate your shower from the main bathroom is taking over as an optimal solution. A frameless glass shower can provide a luxurious, contemporary finish and solves design issues - all in one.
Glass used for frameless screens is of a very high grade and toughened so more expensive than the glass used in conventional framed shower surrounds.
Glass can actually be customised to form an enclosure, so rather than a tiled wall, a custom built glass shower may work out more economical in the long run.
Frameless glass will usually serve well for both modern and traditional bathroom designs – whilst the minimal look lends a contemporary edge, even classic bathrooms with moulded tiles and decorative tapware benefit from the lack of visual interruption.
A frameless shower screen appears virtually invisible so safety precautions when designing your layout must be made to avoid it being run into.
For the ultimate design feature, your glass can be printed with any photograph or design and replace tiles on one wall of your shower.
Different types of handles are available, including brass, polished chrome or, trending now is no knob at all - just a hole.


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How to access the Tony Hawk Pro Skater Warehouse demo this Friday
Justin Kahn	- Aug. 12th 2020 1:45 pm ET Twitter icon @justinkahnmusic
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We have some more details on the Tony Hawk Warehouse demo today courtesy of the PlayStation Blog and Xbox Wire. The remake combines both of the original titles in the series (along with much more) in a ground-up re-work for modern-day consoles. But an early promotion will see a demo of the games' iconic Warehouse stage recreation go live later this week. Head below for more details and how to go hands-on this Friday.
As you'll know from our launch coverage (and the odd, yet precise naming scheme), Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 1 and 2 is looking to rekindle the success of the original games from the late 90s. We know just about all of the classic game modes, tricks, and stages are present and accounted for, but we also got some details on both the returning cast and some brand new skaters a couple of months back. Fast forward to mid-August, and we are just days away from accessing the Tony Hawk Warehouse demo.
Tony Hawk Warehouse demo:
It's a brief demo, but gives you just enough to get a feel for the game and, according to hands-on impressions, brings that sense of nostalgia you were hoping for. There are no specific goals to hit, hidden tapes or games of SKATE to play here, just 2-minutes of free skate to rack up as many points as possible. You will only be able to play as Tony in the demo, but it sounds like the entire library of tricks are available for players to customize and more. The 2-minute Tony Hawk Warehouse demo free skate can be played as many times as you want until the full game is released on September 4, 2020.
For this demo, you'll be taking part in a classic, no-frills Single Session. You have two minutes – unless you go into Overtime by keeping a combo going past the time limit – to rack up as much score as you can as you explore the Warehouse.
There are a couple of ways to gain access starting on Friday, August 14 via both PS4 and Xbox One, but unless you were one of the lucky 2,000 Chipotle customers to get it, the pre-order method will be your only option.
9to5Toys' Take & more:
While it would have been nice to see the Tony Hawk Warehouse demo go live and free for anyone interested in giving it a go — you know, because that's usually what a demo is for — only those who pre-order the game digitally will gain access. Listed with a $39.99 MSRP, you can pre-order the game via the Xbox digital marketplace or PSN right now to ensure you score access to the demo. Starting today at 11 a.m. EST, anyone who pre-ordered the game will be able to pre-download the demo. It does not appear as though physical pre-orders are eligible for the demo access here.
Learn more about Tony Hawk Warehouse demo here and the full experience in our previous coverage.
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They say if you ask 10 beekeepers a question, you'll get 11 different answers. This is not only because beekeepers are contrary by nature; it's because despite thousands of years of "domestication," bees can be quite stubborn about doing things their own way, a way that is often in direct opposition to humans' conventional wisdom. A good beekeeper takes the bees' instincts into account and adjusts her methods accordingly.Few things generate more disagreement than the best strategy for getting bee colonies through the winter unscathed. Everybody who has done it successfully is sure their method is the reason for their success. And every beekeeper who opens up a dead hive in the spring goes back to square one and questions everything about their winterizing method. In an average winter, an average beekeeper can easily lose 30 percent of his hives. Last winter, with its unrelenting cold, saw even higher losses for many.
Wintering bees on Long Island is unusually challenging because our weather is so changeable. Last week, with temperatures near 60, my bees were out and about like it was the middle of spring. They even found something blooming and were swaggering home with their pollen pockets bursting. A sudden cold snap could take them by surprise and prevent them from getting in a protective cluster fast enough to maintain the necessary warmth.
This year, we've put off winterizing, in part because the weather has allowed it. But the biggest reason for our dawdling is that we're still not completely sold on any single method.
In our second season as beekeepers, Patrick spent some time researching how best to get our girls through the winter. Since he is a carpenter, his idea was to insulate the hive structure itself, rather than winterizing from the outside. His research turned up the original drawings from L.L. Langstroth's patent application—jackpot!
Langstroth is called the father of American beekeeping, and the Langstroth hive is the standard for beekeeping in the modern world. It is the design used by most backyard beekeepers, as well as by commercial beekeepers who truck hives by the hundreds from one farm to another so the girls can pollinate the crops. But the Langstroth design in use today isn't the original design. The patent drawings depict a double-walled hive, insulated between the walls with raw wool. Langstroth hives sold commercially today are single-walled, providing virtually no protection from the cold.
With a dearth of available sheep, Patrick opted for foam panels to insulate the hives. He crafted two beautiful hives, and our thinking was that these would serve as year-round homes for the girls. After all, you don't remove the insulation from your home in the summer, right? Insulation works to maintain interior temperature, warming in the winter and cooling in the summer.
We moved the girls into their new homes late last fall, and both made it successfully through the winter, at least until I panicked when it was still freezing in March and checked to make sure they had enough food. My good intentions resulted in chilling one hive to death. But the good news was that despite the insanely long winter, the bees had plenty of food left and came through in good strong numbers.
As planned, we left the surviving hive in the insulated box, and moved a captured swarm into the other insulated box last summer. The bees seemed happy enough, but they weren't producing very much honey. A change seemed in order. So we left the new colony in the insulated box and moved the original colony back into a standard non-insulated hive, where they began churning out honey like it was an Olympic competition. The insulated box colony sputtered along all season, struggling with mites, small hive beetles, pretty much everything but locusts and zombies. They produced minimal amounts of honey, and after the hive beetles destroyed most of that, they're going into winter very weak. I've been feeding them sugar water so they can stock up, but I'd be surprised to find them alive in the spring.
The other hive is so strong that we've really struggled with how to winterize them without messing up their natural system. The original plan was to move them back into the insulated hive for the winter, but their construction crews have been hard at work, sealing up cracks and crevices with propolis, a substance they make from sap, which is like honeybee super-glue. They've even closed up part of the front door with wax to keep out drafts. We decided that moving them would be foolish when they're so well-prepared on their own, so we'll wrap the hive in black tar paper instead. Besides keeping the hive walls dry, the tar paper will help warm the interior on sunny days, giving the girls a chance to break cluster and move to new food stores.
Three factors come into play in preparing a hive for winter: food, temperature and moisture. You want to leave the bees with enough food to make it through to spring, but not with so much empty space that they can't keep the hive warm. Our big hive is going into winter with two deep boxes and one medium. Each deep box is a solid 60 to 70 pounds, loaded up with honey and pollen. We opted to winter our weaker hive over in just one deep box so they'll have less real estate to heat. The risk is that they might not be able to store enough food in one box, but that hive has fewer bees, so we're hoping it will all balance out.
Temperature is the next big challenge. Bees spend the winter in a cluster. They vibrate their wing muscles to generate heat, keeping the queen in the center at all times. The temperature in the cluster hovers around 93 degrees Fahrenheit. The bees on the outside of the cluster continually rotate inward, so nobody is on the chilly outside for too long, and the cluster moves in unison to stay near a food source.
The tighter the hive is sealed, the warmer it stays. But the downside of sealing a hive up tight against winter cold is the risk of moisture buildup from bee respiration. If that moisture is allowed to build up and condense on the top of the hive, it can quickly become a fatal cold shower. Most often, it's not cold that kills hives, but cold water. Providing a vent at the top of the hive allows moisture to find its way out and should solve the problem.
Unless any one of a million things goes wrong. I guess we'll see when spring comes.


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Q: Filter a list when text is change in a ListFragment I have a fragment which extends ListFragment. This fragment includes also an EditText element, and I want to filter the list when its text is changing.
I thought about the following code:
    EditText inputSearch = (EditText) getView().findViewById(R.id.inputGroupSearch);
    inputSearch.addTextChangedListener(new TextWatcher() {

        @Override
        public void onTextChanged(CharSequence cs, int arg1, int arg2,
                int arg3) {
            // When user changed the Text
            getListAdapter().getFilter().filter(cs);
        }});

But, somehow getListAdapter() doesn't has "getFilter()" method.
I would love to get a better idea to solve it out.
Thanks!

A: Try this :
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            android.R.layout.simple_list_item_activated_1, list.TERM));
   lv.setTextFilterEnabled(true);
   et.addTextChangedListener(new TextWatcher()
   {
        public void afterTextChanged(Editable s)
    {
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    public void beforeTextChanged(CharSequence s,
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    {
    // Abstract Method of TextWatcher Interface.
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    public void onTextChanged(CharSequence s,int start, int before, int count)
    {
    textlength = et.getText().length();
    array_sort.clear();
    for (int i = 0; i < words.length; i++)
    {
       if (textlength <= words[i].length())
       {
          if(et.getText().toString().equalsIgnoreCase((String)words[i].subSequence(0, textlength)))
               {
                 array_sort.add(words[i]);
               }
       }
    }
    lv.setAdapter(new ArrayAdapter<String>(getActivity(),
                android.R.layout.simple_list_item_activated_1, array_sort));
  }
   });

A: Typecast the adapter returned by getListAdapter into your own custom adapter
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    @Override
    public void onTextChanged(CharSequence cs, int arg1, int arg2, int arg3) {
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    @Override
    public void beforeTextChanged(CharSequence arg0, int arg1, int arg2, int arg3) { }

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Cassie Dewell novels
C.J. Box Box, C. J
1) The Highway: Highway Quartet, Book 2
eAudiobook, eBook
OverDrive Macmillan Audio English
1 copy, 7 people are on the wait list.
2013 OverDrive St. Martin's Publishing Group English
Winner of the Edgar Award for Best Novel, the New York Times bestselling author of Back of Beyond and Breaking Point and the creator of the Joe Pickett series is back.
"If CJ Box isn't already on your list, put him there." – USA Today
When two sisters set out across a remote stretch of Montana road to visit their friend, little do they know it will be the last time anyone might ever hear from them
2) Badlands: Highway Quartet, Book 3
Box, C. J.
2015 OverDrive Macmillan Audio English
"Edgar Award-winning, New York Times bestselling author C.J. Box is back with a masterpiece of suspense set in a time and place that readers won't soon forget. Twenty miles across the North Dakota border, where the scenery goes from rolling grass prairie to pipeline fields, detective Cassie Dewell has been assigned as the new deputy sheriff of Grimstad-a place people used to be from, but were never headed to. Grimstad is now the oil capital of North...
3) Paradise Valley: a novel
1 copy, 1 person is on the wait list.
For three years, Investigator Cassie Dewell has been on a hunt for a serial killer known as The Lizard King. He works as a long haul trucker. His prey are the "lot lizard" prostitutes who frequent truck stops. Working for the Bakken County, North Dakota, sheriff's department, Cassie has set what she believes is the perfect trap and she has lured him and his truck to a depot. Standing by ready to close the net are half a dozen undercover officers,...
4) The bitterroots: a Cassie Dewell novel
7 copies, 51 people are on the wait list.
"Former police officer Cassie Dewell is trying to start over with her own private investigation firm. Guilty about not seeing her son and exhausted by the nights on stakeout, Cassie is nonetheless managing...until an old friend calls in a favor: she wants Cassie to help exonerate a man accused of assaulting a young girl from an influential family. Against her own better judgment, Cassie agrees. But out in the Big Sky Country of Montana, twisted family...


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Could London go into lockdown next? Officers visit pubs to exterminate the drinkers before the curfew
At 10 p.m., officials were spotted in London pubs trying to trick the drinkers after Westminster City "funny police" searched mailboxes for lock-ins.
They were pictured in a bar on Portobello Road in Notting Hill, West London, and kicked people out when the curfew began.
A man looked sad when he and friends protested in front of a policewoman in front of the upscale house.
Another picture showed an officer walking into a pub and talking to women who were not wearing face coverings when the new closing time had passed.
It comes after the capital was put on the coronavirus watchlist on Friday morning after a surge in infections.
In the meantime, council inspectors have been looking through mailboxes and windows to track down pubs and clubs that have been locked after the curfew.
At 10 p.m., officials were spotted in London pubs trying to trick the drinkers after Westminster City "funny police" searched mailboxes for lock-ins
Police officers were walking down the street in Soho, London, to ensure bars and restaurants were closed in time for the curfew
Restrictions currently in place across England prohibit venues from opening after 10 p.m. to help slow the spread of Covid-19 infections. In the picture people coming home from Soho in central London
Westminster City Council officials were caught in the act looking into venues in typically busy Soho, London.
Restrictions currently in place across England prohibit venues from opening after 10 p.m. to help slow the spread of Covid-19 infections.
Ecommerce consultant Dan Barker spied on the inspectors in action and snapped photos that he uploaded to his Twitter feed.
He wrote, "Odd sight – city inspectors working through Soho looking for illegal speakeasies open after 10pm."
A man looked sad when he and friends protested in front of a policewoman in front of the upscale house
Police were pictured in a bar on Portobello Road in Notting Hill, West London, as the curfew began
In the meantime, curious council inspectors have been peering through mailboxes and windows to track down pubs and clubs that are holding lock-in after the coronavirus curfew
He later told Yahoo UK, "I think I've seen them go to a dozen places – there are quite a few pubs and bars in the area.
It took me a moment to process what they did first. I saw her again about 15 minutes later outside the hippodrome, which is usually open 24/7. «
It came when night owls going into town for a few drinks in the evening were evicted from pubs and restaurants when the country's first pub and restaurant curfew came at 10 p.m.
Chairs and tables were left empty after customers who were enjoying drinks with friends at outdoor tables in Soho, central London, were asked by hospitality workers to "get off to help" when the government curfew went into effect.
However, some asked if the best decision was to all race at the same time, as crowds would then gather on narrow streets.
One Twitter user wrote: "Part of me is wondering if the 10pm curfew was the right call. Now every single pub will kick their guests out at exactly the same time.
& # 39; That sounds dangerous !! Common sense people would go (or not go at all) at a different time, but still. & # 39;
The UK's coronavirus R rate could now be up to 1.5, government scientific advisors warned on Friday after spikes across all regions of the country
Metropolitan police officers, including Commissioner Dame Cressida Dick, enforced the new coronavirus restrictions when bar and restaurant staff cleared tables and chairs from the streets before 10 p.m.
Others enjoyed a drink in the pub beer gardens in London Bridge while for others the restrictions caused some cancellations as revelers feared their meals would be canceled.
However, bars and pubs have come up with an inventive new way to bypass the government curfew – opening hours earlier.
Music bars will open their doors as early as 3 p.m. on the weekend, and other venues have introduced unlimited beverage offers from 10 a.m.
People are leaving bars and restaurants at closing time in Soho, London, the day after pubs and restaurants were subject to a 10pm curfew
The crowds flocked to the streets during closing time in Soho in central London on Friday night
A street cleaner is pictured at work outside bars in Soho, London, at work on Friday evening
People leave bars and restaurants in Soho, London on Friday night
It comes when, after a busy night in central London last night, many people were filmed on their way home when all the bars in the city closed at the same time as the curfew came.
The Popworld bars in York and Liverpool are open from 4pm on Fridays and 3pm on Saturdays. The bar also offers a 50 percent discount until 8 p.m.
The Caribbean restaurant Turtle Bay offers a bottomless brunch from 10 a.m. with unlimited cocktails and an extended happy hour until 8 p.m.
Who will pay for Rishi's £ 5 billion giveaway? Chancellor points to tax increases
Rishi Sunak hinted yesterday that tax hikes will be necessary to fund the coronavirus crisis after unveiling a new package of measures to keep the UK economy alive through the winter as economists estimated the latest handouts would cost $ 5 billion Could cost pounds.
The Chancellor announced his winter economic plan at lunchtime in the House of Commons as he put his hopes of avoiding massive job losses in the coming months on a wage subsidy system that will replace holidays.
With Mr. Sunak's employment promotion program, the government will increase the pay of those who can only work part-time in "viable jobs".
The multi-billion pound support package was also included Further VAT cuts for the hospitality and retail sectors, and the expansion of emergency loan programs for businesses in difficulty.
Economic research firm Capital Economics calculated that Mr Sunak's new business bailout could cost £ 5 billion, bringing the total cost of government Covid-19 support to potentially around £ 200 billion.
Mr Sunak was asked at a press conference on Downing Street this afternoon about how the UK is going to pay for the crisis and he signaled that tax hikes might be on the way as he said he will likely have to make tough decisions in the future We are coming on the way back to sustainability. "
Mr Sunak had previously told MPs that Britain "must endure and live with the uncertainty of the moment," which means "getting to know our new borders" – but he insisted,Your life can no longer be put on hold.
The closure of the government's vacation program in late October has sparked dire warnings of layoffs in the coming months, but the Treasury Department has now decided to focus its fiscal firepower on saving jobs that have a future rather than zombies that don't.
Mr Sunak said the UK must face "the compromises and tough choices that the coronavirus brings" and that "in reopening the economy it is fundamentally wrong to keep people in jobs that only exist while on vacation".
When the updated hours were announced on Twitter, "I think we just have to start a little earlier than Boris …"
Other facilities have also encouraged drinkers to start their night earlier and test drinks and dinners on social media.
The Source Bar at the University of Central Lancashire at Preston said, "Don't forget! New coronavirus restrictions mean we close at 10 p.m. every night.
"So get down early with your roommates to check out our dinner and drink deals!"
The Drapers Arms in Hackney, London, also called the drinkers.
"Our booking system will stay open until 9pm," it said last night. "Aside from everything else, we're still a pub and you're still welcome to come and have a drink.
"We have a couple of bottles that can only last 59 minutes. I also think if you come in and sit down and order a steak and a glass we can do that. & # 39;
On Thursday's first night of curfew, London's streets filled with hundreds of revelers as all of the city's bars emptied at the same time.
Kirsty Lewis, 24, of north west London shared a video of the moment people walked out of pubs and restaurants on Oxford Street, titled "10pm curfew" The busiest I've seen in central London in months .
She added, "I think most people were socially distant, or at least tried to get away from other groups – but as you can see in the video, this got a bit tricky and was a problem as they were all trying to push themselves on tubes.
"I know a lot of people were arguing about going back to their houses or apartments to have more drinks where they would normally have stayed later in the bars or restaurants.
"Also from the restaurant point of view, the owner of the place I went to seemed very upset that he had to kick people out … will obviously have limited his income.
"My friend and I actually went a few stops down to a subway station to avoid the main store. Then it wasn't too bad."
Health experts yesterday viewed reports of previous openings and cheap incentives as a "worrying development," suggesting that discounted drinks may affect judgment and lead to a reduction in social distancing.
Medical researcher Dr. Stephen Griffin told MailOnline, "I fully understand that businesses are struggling and that the hospitality industry has been hit hard. It is understandable that this policy may require venues to resort to these measures.
"Although table service can limit some interactions, it does not make much sense to enforce early closing times if opening the same number of people is visiting a particular facility.
"If cheap alcohol is also offered, it can impair judgment and lead to reduced compliance with social distancing.
"We need to remember that ventilation and the wearing of face coverings are key factors in preventing the transmission of Covid-19. These factors should all be taken into account by all of us when visiting restaurants – wearing a mask is obviously not an option while eating, drinking, perhaps diners should be asked to wear it while moving, e.g. B. when they come or go or go to the bathroom.
A man locks the doors of a bar in Soho, London on Friday night as the curfew broke out
"Outdoor seating is obviously the best solution given the rule of six, social distancing and good hygiene."
He added that he was struggling with the idea of closing the venues at 10pm because "it is feared that it may just compress the hours of people socializing, making places busier or promoting earlier starts".
Dr. Griffin said, "I understand the intent was to prevent people from moving on to late-night venues, but that idea was later tarnished by ministers who suggested it was okay to mix up in private homes under the rule of six."
Professor Sir Ian Gilmore, Chair of the Alcohol Health Alliance UK, added: "When making decisions about how and where to socialize, it is important for each of us to remember that we are in a global pandemic and therefore our decisions should not be based on where to buy the cheapest beverage deals.
& # 39; The World Health Organization recommends limiting or avoiding alcohol during the pandemic to ensure our immune systems don't compromise.
"We must all continue to do our part to reduce the spread of coronavirus by avoiding crowded areas and maintaining social distancing."
Table service rule guidelines "Unclear and unfair," say hospitality owners
Cafe, restaurant and bar owners criticized the new table service rule as unclear and unfair.
The government announced that as of Thursday, "licensed space" in the hospitality industry will have to serve customers at tables to prevent them from gathering at checkouts and bars. This is part of the new coronavirus guidelines announced on Tuesday.
Cabinet Minister Dominic Raab suggested including fast food chains like McDonald & # 39; s.
Cafe owners have suggested that they not only work with table service, while other chains have stated that they do not respect the rules that apply to them.
Atkinsons Coffee Roasters, which owns several cafes in Lancashire, said the new table service rule shows that the government "does not understand or even recognize the coffeehouse sector."
A spokesman said the current system of queuing customers two meters apart while wearing face covering and having screens with cashless payments at their checkouts is already Covid-proof.
They said, "It's all about pubs and restaurants. We don't just need table service. We have already installed Covid-safe systems. & # 39;
A spokesman for Caffe Nero said it did not consider cafes as part of the table service rule, while Costa Coffee could not confirm whether it would serve customers at the checkouts or use table service.
Kate Nicholls, UK director of Hospitality Hospitality, said policy changes "daily" and inconsistencies between decentralized governments are creating confusion among hospitality executives.
She said, "We understand that fast food restaurants are exempt from the new rules, but there is certainly some level of confusion. Companies have been given next to no time to implement rules that have been introduced without consulting the industry and we are rushing to interpret them. These restrictions will have a huge impact. & # 39;
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Thieves target Halkirk area
Break-ins and burglaries have been been happening in and around Halkirk lately.
Dorothy Anderson and Rose Koenraadt
Sep. 28, 2016 12:00 p.m.
HALKIRK HERALD — The seniors held their first meeting of the new season on Tuesday, Sept. 20. The new carpet has been laid on the floors and on part of the walls as soundproofing at the centre. Bingo has started, and the next bingo day is in the afternoon of Tuesday, Sept. 27. Floor curling started after the meeting and will be held every Tuesday evening at 7 p.m. All monthly meetings are held on the third Tuesday, and are preceded by a potluck supper starting at 6 p.m. New members are always welcome. The next meeting is Oct. 18.
Break-ins and burglaries have been been happening in and around Halkirk lately. Please remember to lock things up. It's unfortunate that this is going on.
We extend get-well wishes to Stan Smith, who suffered a broken hip at home and is recuperating in the Red Deer Hospital.
John and Judy deMos drove to Ontario recently for a holiday. They visited with family and friends, all the while taking in some sightseeing. They rented a house in Prescott that was built in 1830. The stone walls were a foot-and-a-half thick, though the inside had been modernized. Prescott is right on the St. Lawrence Seaway and was only a short walk away, as was Fort Wellington. They returned home before the leaves started to change. It was typical Ontario weather – humid, though so dry in some areas that fire bans were still in effect. A good holiday, but it's always nice to be home.
Coming up: Sept. 29 – Regular bingo at the Hall at 7:30 p.m. (no special bingos for special seasons at the request of the players); Oct. 5 – from 4-8 p.m. and Oct. 6 – from 8-11 a.m., the Halkirk 2 Wind power open house is being held at the Halkirk Hall; Oct. 15 – the annual Elks Oyster Fry and White Elephant Sale at the Hall. The proceeds of those elephants are going towards operation and repairs of the Community Hall. Tickets are available by contacting Dale or Melody Kent at 403-884-2456; Nov. 6 – Halkirk Community Fall turkey supper organized by the Elks and friends in the Hall from 4-7 p.m.; Dec. 4 – Breakfast with Santa in the hall, sponsored by the Halkirk Elks. Please mark these dates on your calendars.
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Thanks Kristi! We are so happy with the space 🙂 And it definitely gives us a place to display one of our favorite photos!
Rugs can always help define a space. You could put a rug under your dining table. Nothing expensive and something easy to wash/vacuum. BTW your room makeover looks great!
Great idea Johanne! You are absolutely right– rugs are definitely an awesome solution to ground an area. Thanks for the tip!
You have a beautiful home, Tanisha! I love the changes you have made. Great work.
Thank you so much Brandi! We love how it's turned out so far. Still some projects to do, but I'm sure we'll have tons of fun tackling them!
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Home/Animal News Stories, Main Page/The Bear Facts – Largest Bear in the Fossil Record
The Bear Facts – Largest Bear in the Fossil Record
South American Short-Faced Bear World's Largest Bear
A report in the forthcoming scientific publication "The Journal of Palaeontology", describes the fossil evidence in support of a claim by a group of scientists that they have identified the largest known specimen of a bear in the fossil record. This "Goliath" of a bear, an American Short-Faced bear when rearing up on its hind legs would have stood more than eleven feet high, dwarfing all the Brown and Polar bears in the world today. This huge male is believed to have weighed in excess of 3,300lbs making it at least a third as big again as the heaviest bears known today.
Largest Bear
The South American Short-Faced bear (Arctotherium angustidens), lived in Argentina approximately 2.5 million years ago (Late Pliocene epoch).
Co-author of the paper detailing the fossil specimen, Leopoldo Soibelzon, a researcher at the Vertebrate Palaeontology Division of La Plata Museum stated:
"During its time, this bear was the largest and most powerful land predator in the world, so we think it lived free of fear of being eaten."
Soibelzon and his colleague Blaine Schubert of East Tennessee State University analysed the fossilised remains of the bear, which were originally discovered by construction workers in the 1930s and donated to La Plata Museum shortly afterwards.
The researchers conducted and extensive study of extant and extinct bears and found that the most reliable predictor of body size in bears is based on seven particular bone measurements. The team then calculated the giant bear's size using these bone measurements in conjunction with equations to assess body mass. The scientists think that the bear evolved to such a huge size due to the absence of other large carnivores in the environment. The Sabre-toothed cats and Terror Birds were also apex predators but not as bulky or as powerful as this bear would have been.
To view models and figures of sabre-toothed cats and other apex predators of the Cenozoic: Models of Prehistoric Mammals.
With the abundance of big herbivores living in the region at the time, there were plenty of dinner options available for a bear with a giant appetite.
Soibelzon commented:
"A. angustidens probably had an omnivorous diet composed of a great variety of components, but with a predominance of animal remains. Amongst them, probably the bones and flesh of large mammals were very important in its diet."
This particular beast, the scientists say, reached old age despite sustaining a number of serious injuries during its life. The pathology (disease and injuries) are preserved on the fossil bones. The research team are not certain how these injuries were caused, but the scientists have commented that "male-to-male fighting would be a possibility."
Such intra-specific competition between such large animals could have caused the injuries but also, if the bear had predated on mega fauna such as Megatherium and other powerful animals then the injuries could have been a result of attacking large prey. Disputes with other carnivores are also not ruled out by the research team, such as a quarrel with a pride of Sabre-tooths over a carcase.
The South American Short-Faced bear is part of a family of bears known as the tremarctines. There is just one living representative of this family, the Spectacled bear, a relatively small species. However, during the Pliocene and later Pleistocene there were many large bears both in the Americas and in the Old World (Europe).
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A new term to many Indians that became familiar on Dec 26th, 2004. Tsunami is a Japanese word derived from Tsu (harbour) and nami (wave). It is a series of waves displaced on a massive scale either due to volcanic eruptions, earthquakes or meteorite impacts. The most common cause is an undersea earthquake.
Tsunamis can be generated when the sea floor displaces the overlying water vertically. Such displacement occurs at the plate boundaries when denser oceanic plates slip under the continental plates in a process known as subduction. Waves are formed as the displaced water mass moves under the influence of gravity to regain its equilibrium and radiates across the ocean like ripples on a pond.
A single tsunami event may involve a series of waves of varying heights; the set of waves is called a train. In open water, tsunamis have extremely long periods (the time for the next wave top to pass a point after the previous one), from minutes to hours, and long wavelengths of up to several hundred kilometres.
The wave travels across the ocean at speeds from 500 to 1,000 km/h. As the wave approaches land, the sea shallows and the wave no longer travels as quickly, so it begins to 'pile-up'; the wave-front becomes steeper and taller, and there is less distance between crests.
Tsunamis propagate outward from their source, so coasts in the "shadow" of affected land masses are usually fairly safe. However, tsunami waves can diffract around land masses. They also need not be symmetrical; tsunami waves may be much stronger in one direction than another, depending on the nature of the source and the surrounding geography.
One of the early warnings of a Tsunami comes from nearby animals. Many animals sense danger and flee to higher ground before the water arrives. The Lisbon quake is the first documented case of such a phenomenon in Europe. The phenomenon was also noted in Sri Lanka in the 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake. Some scientists speculate that animals may have an ability to sense subsonic Rayleigh waves (a type of surface wave associated on the Earth with earthquakes and subterranean movement of magma) from an earthquake minutes or hours before a tsunami strikes shore.
Japan has implemented an extensive programme of building tsunami walls of up to 4.5m high in front of populated coastal areas. Environmentalists have suggested tree planting along stretches of sea coast which are prone to tsunami risks.
Tsunamis occur most frequently in the Pacific Ocean. The Pacific Tsunami Warning Center was established to track these killer waves and provide warning. Unlike in the Pacific Ocean, there is no organized alert service covering the Indian Ocean. This is due to the absence of major tsunami events. In light of the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami, UNESCO and other world bodies have called for a global tsunami monitoring system.


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Q: When using a list comprehension, is there a way to mention it in itself? Hi guys I'm using a list comprehension for a very simple task, is there a way to mention its own list in itself, what I mean by this, is... if for example I have the following code:
def intersection(list_1, list_2):
    return [item for item in list_1 if item in list_2]

The code is basically returning a list with all the items that both list_1 and list_2 have, it works, but I want it to also check if the item is not already stored in itself, so then that way there is no duplicates, I want to keep the order so that is why set() is not an option, something to note is that I want to know if there is a way of doing something like this:
 [item for item in list_1 if item in list_2 and not in 'itself']

I would love to learn other ways of achieving the same, but my main question is if that is possible or not. I also want to mention I am aware that is achievable using a for loop.

A: Try this,
final_list = [list_1[i] for i in range(len(list_1)) if list_1[i] in list_2 and list_1[i] not in list_1[:i]]

or this,
[item for i, item in enumerate(list_1) if item in list_2 and item not in list_1[:i]]

whichever is more comfortable to you

A: That's an interesting question. I'm not sure how to reference the list comprehension as it's being built, or if its memory can be accessed while the list is being constructed.
Here's some ways that I've tried:
def intersection(l1: list[int], l2: list[int]) -> list[int]:
    # Return list intersection without dups using sets and list comp
    l1, l2 = set(l1), set(l2)
    return [i for i in l1 if i in l2]

def intersection2(l1: list[int], l2: list[int]) -> list[int]:
    # Return list intersection without dups using sets and list comp
    return list(set([i for i in l1 if i in l2 and i]))

def intersection3(l1: list[int], l2: list[int]) -> list[int]:
    # Return list intersection optimal
    return intersection(l1, l2)

listOne = [1,2,3,4,5]
listTwo = [4,5,6,7,8]

print(intersection(listOne,listTwo), '\n')
print(intersection2(listOne,listTwo), '\n')
print(intersection3(listOne,listTwo))


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Home » Features » Art, History, and Archaeology » Giuseppe Tucci, an Orgiastic Aha! Part Two
Chakrasambara and his consort Vajravarahi, 15th–16th century, Tibet.
In union, primordial energies come to be: spiritual potentiality and
spatial reality. The potential becomes real; the spiritual becomes
spatial. Image courtesy of Musee Guime
This three-part series examines tantric deities in the yab-yum posture of symbolic sexual congress. But beyond the obvious, why are they dancing? Indeed, why dance? This is a fundamental question where there is a depiction of dance in religious art, more so in prescriptive meditation art. I wondered earnestly for years why Padmasambhava used dance as the first art of Tantric Buddhism, establishing Vajrayana Buddhism at Samye Monastery in Tibet. I marveled at its primacy. I sought the insight to make the connection with dance and the establishment of psychic energy. One day, I asked the Je Khenpo, the head lama, of Bhutan, "Why did Guru Rinpoche use dance as the first art of Tantric Buddhism?" He answered, "Because people like dancing." Sometimes answers are simpler and more surprising than expected.
I was startled when I read that Italian explorer Giuseppe Tucci (1894–1984) described the coupled deities in a temple mural of tantric meditation cycles, as engaged in "an orgiastic dance." Tucci was the most perceptive of adventurers, with an ability to extrapolate cultural traces toward speculation of the very ancient. He was a master of interpreting symbols. The diverse languages in which he could read and write—among them Chinese, Pali, Sanskrit, Tibetan, Persian, Hebrew, and Classical Greek—each used an entirely different set of symbols to represent the sounds that comprise spoken language. Beyond fluency, Tucci was satisfied only when he could experience the poetry of a language, extinct or extant.
Tucci brought the same finesse to the study of Buddhist religious art, meticulously identifying every figure in temple murals, and by the same means he also learned the vast interconnectedness of meditation teachings, which are symbolically represented by figures—what Tucci called "A Buddhist Olympus"—as well as written down and transmitted mouth to ear. He was fluent in symbols, and his particular observations on the symbol of deities in yab-yum are noteworthy.
Ratna-Daka, Tsaparang, Tucci, Indo-Tibetica, Plate XXIV, p. 66.
The direct power of the deity is strong in this tantric dance
Beyond archeology and linguistics, Tucci believed that knowledge of art and philosophy is essential to learning about a culture. He wanted to know what the symbols meant to those who produced them, down to a nuanced appreciation of cultural values. He used the word "orgiastic" several times in referring to deities in erotic embrace while dancing. After consulting with an Italian scholar, I confirmed that the Italian word and meaning was essentially the same as in English, connected to the Greek word orgia, "a gathering of several people who give free rein to their own instincts and sexual desires; from classical antiquity a ritual festival with norms of a Dionysian character; a mysterious rite."
Orgia becomes a word with the emergence of Bacchic rites by the followers of Dionysius. Its origin is a religious superabundance. There was sex, slaughter, dismemberment, miracles in the natural world, dancing, chanting, and taboo transgression, all of it innocently in praise and honor of the god Dionysius. None of it was for its own sake, for the sake of pleasure, or the thrill of subversion. It might be worth noting that dismembered bodies float in the charnel grounds and hells depicted in the borders just underneath the deities in yab-yum about which Tucci writes so insightfully.
Chakrasambhava and Vajrayogini in yab-yum. Sajaha Tradition, date
unknown. Note the very plain background. The arabesque of the
yogini's body from toe to arm, the weight and sense of movement in
the deity's lunging leg—these characterize dance. A delicate balance
is attained between sensuous realism and iconographic stylization.
Orgiastic is quite a term to use in describing a dance—particularly a dance of meditation deities. Tucci uses it when describing dancing wrathful deities in yab-yum in a mural painting at Tsaparang Temple in the Guge region of western Tibet. The words yab-yum mean father-mother, but in an expanded sense akin to the Chinese terms yin and yang, expressing complementary elemental energies. In the Tibetan conception, the male deity and his female consort are two aspects of the same single divinity; neither is superior. It is a transcendent symbol of the highest mystical union, Bliss and Emptiness, realizing the illusion of form. At the same time it is a depiction of sexual activity between athletic deities.
The tai chi symbol, representing the forces of yin and yang
in harmonious movement and balance, the seed of each
within the other. Traditional. From Core of Culture
By contrast, the tai chi symbol representing the movement of yin and yang is not a depiction of sexual activity, although it is similarly meant to express fundamental ontological principles, including sexual coupling. Tucci emphasizes the visual connections to Indian art preceding their expression in Tibetan art. Ancient Indian sculpture and painting included a clear, if sacred, erotic energy between coupled deities. The eros is real, not merely symbolic, or less so, metaphoric. It was holy and it was sexually aroused.
Khandaria Temple of Kama Sutra postures. Khajuraho, India, 9th–10th centuries. This is a literal depiction of sex, shaped and exalted into a ritual form. This is considered beautiful, powerful and sacred; the transmission of wise, ancient teachings. There is nothing salacious or licentious in this image despite its erotic and explicit content. From Core of Culture
Shiva, the Supreme Deity, is coexistent with the Void. In encountering his shakti, there arises the creation of the primordial energies giving life to everything; co-emergent, co-created. Even today, devout Hindus are sometimes bashful about the stone carvings depicting positions of the Kama Sutra that adorn temples. It is not symbolic sex to them. Tucci's expert research methods transcended moralistic blindness and shock at the explicit. He was scientific and objective. Decades after first writing about tantric deities in yab-yum in Tibetan art, he would write one of his final books on erotically coupled tantric practitioners in Nepalese art, a subject more sexually extreme and varied than the one at hand.
Achala, destroyer of ignorance, in a martial dance with his dakini.
Early 16th century, Nepal. Courtesy Himalayan Art Resources
Had the artists, or the yogis whose visions inspired them, wanted to eliminate the sexual aspect from the representation of cosmic principles, they would have designed something more like the tai chisymbol: no phallus, no yoni; lots of ontology. This art is overtly sexual for a reason. Enduring resonances of pre-historic indigenous ritual union? Actual tantric code "hidden openly" within mural paintings of tantra cycles, understood only by the sexually initiate? The ultimate metaphoric energies as literal beings in the mechanics of meditation? Elsewhere, Tucci suggests that the archaic Indian spiritual masters felt the deepest fundamental energies of life and sought, through symbolizing each in concrete form, to address them and turn them toward enlightenment and redemption.
This means that to depict them is to control them, to master them with dominant metaphysical principles. This does not preclude genuine eros in the depiction. In fact, the depiction of erotic union acknowledges the mystery of its archaic raw power. Buddhism absorbed the cultures and religions that preceded it; Buddhism did not annihilate them. Ancient beliefs, philosophies, and practices live on in Buddhism, transformed by its philosophy and metaphysics, while retaining the essence of their primordial identity and power.
The Gelugpa reformations effected to drain the blood and make abstract the occult from older Tibetan practices, systematizing them, and promoting a philosophical and metaphorical interpretation of sacrificial and erotic symbols, precisely because there were such entrenched practices and beliefs otherwise. To what extent is the eros real in Tibetan art? To whom? Why are Tibetan visualization deities dancing while coupled in erotic embrace? It is rather an outrageous idea. In an art in which nothing is left to chance, there is a reason they are dancing while conjoined in blissful union, producing an image of Bliss that is mind-blowing, all embracing.
"There remain, therefore, only the central figures on the wall to the right and to the left: a terrifying panel of coupled divinities who seem to be engaged in a gruesome dance. They are adorned with necklaces made of skulls and cut heads, brandish weapons, hold cups of skulls, and trample on creatures of more modest proportions who seem to contort under their mortal pressure." (Tucci, 65)
Deity Hevajra with consort Nairatmya. Gilt bronze, Nepal, 17th century. Note the deity
has 16 arms and four legs; the dakini has two arms and two legs. Shining gold pierces
through the central column of energy chakras. The multiple arms can be seen as a
four-armed deity dancing. Image courtesy of the Art Institute of Chicago.
Tucci, Giuseppe. 1935. Indo-Tibetica lll.2. Rome: Reale Accademia d'Italia
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In an experience with another person (opposite sexes), I/we had a transcendence of oneness and pure consciousness/being/expanding into the Universe that I have to use the physics concepts of entanglement/nonlocal spacetime/vacuum field to understand/accept as realities, and not just nice imaginations/hallucinations. The Tibetan yabyum images are comforting visual poetry on emotional/psychological/social levels. Western psychology would label me psychotic.


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L'église Saint-Jean-Baptiste  est érigée dans la commune de Devesset, département de l'Ardèche en région Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes. L'édifice est situé au cœur du chef-lieu de la commune.

Historique
Les documents cités dans la bibliographie de l'article et en référence et  permettent d'établir la chronologie suivante :

 1292 : Le mandement de Devesset passe des comtes de Valentinois aux hospitaliers de Saint-Jean de Jérusalem. Devesset est alors le siège d'une commanderie appelé parfois « château ». Sa chapelle n'est connue que par des textes. De son côté, le village doit posséder une église paroissiale distincte.
 1428 - 1439 : La commanderie est plusieurs fois prise et incendiée par des bandes de routiers qui ravagent le Velay.
 1472 : Le grand prieur Jean Cottet la fait réédifier presque entièrement.
 1565 - 1585 : La commanderie sert successivement de refuge aux troupes huguenotes et catholiques (Guerres de religion).
 1583 : Nicolas de Vesc, grand vicaire de l'évêque de Viviers, rédige un procès-verbal de sa visite à l'église de Devesset : « il y a six ans que le service divin a été rétabli dans sa localité, mais il se célèbre dans la chapelle du château attendu que l'église paroissiale est détruite ».
 1616 : Une visite prieurale précise que l'église paroissiale est dédiée à Saint-Jean-Baptiste, patron de l'ordre, qu'elle s'élève dans le château et qu'un petit corps de logis est réservé au curé et son vicaire.
 1750 : Le procès-verbal d'une visite prieurale décrit l'intérieur de l'église. Le texte indique que le sanctuaire et la nef, couverts de lauzes, sont voûtés et séparés par une balustrade en bois, qu'une niche est située au-dessus du tabernacle dans laquelle se trouvent le Saint-Sacrement et une statue dorée de la Vierge avec de chaque côté les statues de saint Jean et de saint Jacques, qu'il y a aussi un « "retable soutenu par deux colonnes torses garnies de feuillages de vigne dorées" ».
 1789 : Révolution…
 1793 : Fermeture de l'église au culte ?
 1802 : Réouverture officielle au culte : l'église demeure paroissiale dans le cadre de la mise en place de l'organisation temporelle concordataire. La paroisse de Devesset est alors rattachée au diocèse de Mende jusqu'au .
 1838 : Destruction par un incendie d'une partie de la commanderie et donc de l'église paroissiale.
 1839 : Des devis estimatifs de réparations sont dressés en août et septembre par Moiselet, architecte de la ville du Puy. De son côté, le desservant de la paroisse, le père Joseph Souchon, commence sur un terrain privé la construction d'un nouveau presbytère et amorce l'édification d'une nouvelle église.
 1840 : La mairie sollicite l'architecte de Tournon, Prosper Thévenet, pour des devis estimatifs afin d'achever les édifices ébauchés par le père Souchon, donnés à la commune et dont les murs s'élèvent à
1841 : Première adjudication. Demandée au curé Joseph Souchon en septembre, elle demeure sans suite.
1842 : Nouvelle adjudication en février. Elle reste sans adjudicataire car le prix des matériaux, provenant de l'ancienne église, est déduit du montant total ; selon le maire ces matériaux n'existent plus puisqu'ils sont déjà remployés. Un nouveau cahier des charges est proposé en mars. Une troisième adjudication, faite en avril, est attribuée à Jean-François Palix, marchand patenté au bourg de Lestra, à Saint-Agrève.
 1843 : Le conseil municipal demande un délai pour l'achèvement des travaux.
 1844 : En août Prosper Thévenet dresse un procès-verbal de réception définitive des travaux. On constate que le devis du  mentionnait le clocher « à droite du chœur, c'est-à-dire du côté de l'entrée ; la sacristie devant faire le pendant de cette construction ». C'est probablement pour des raisons de clarté et d'ensoleillement que la sacristie a été construite à droite du chœur, du côté de l'entrée tournée vers le midi, et que le clocher se situe à gauche en direction du couchant.
 1867 : Réparations au clocher.
 1891 : Des subventions sont demandées pour la construction d'une tribune.
 1906 : Inventaire de l'église dans le cadre de la Loi de séparation des Églises et de l'État.
 1994 : Les paroisses catholiques de Devesset, La-Chapelle-sous-Rochepaule, Le Pouzat, Rochepaule, Saint-Agrève, Saint-André-en-Vivarais, Saint-Jean-Roure,  Saint-Jeure-d'Andaure et Saint-Romain-le-Désert forment l'« Ensemble Inter Paroissial de Saint-Agrève ».
1996 : Rénovation de l'intérieur de l'église : le crépi et les enduits intérieurs sont notamment retirés afin de mettre en évidence les pierres des murs.
 2003 : Création de la paroisse « Saint-Agrève en Vivarais », par fusion des paroisses catholiques de l'« Ensemble Inter Paroissial de Saint-Agrève » ( janvier) .

Description générale

L'église est en moellon de granite. L'appareil est disposé en assises régulières. Les encadrements des ouvertures, les cordons d'étage du clocher et les chaînes d'angle sont en pierre de taille de granite. Les toitures sont couvertes en lauze schisteuse sur la nef à longs pans et sur les deux croupes. Le clocher possède une flèche polygonale, il est à égout retroussé de plan carré. Sa couverture est en ardoise. L'édifie construit en même temps que le presbytère présente un ensemble homogène. Ses façades montre les deux tranches de travaux : les traces d'une surélévation aux sommets des murs gouttereaux soit deux rangs de pierres et une génoise.
À l'intérieur, le chœur de l'église est en cul-de-four. Sa nef à un vaisseau, couverte d'un plafond lambrissé, présente des murs en moellon de granite irrégulier laissant apparaître deux grandes arcades latérales probablement construites pour loger deux autels latéraux.

Vocable
Saint Jean-Baptiste est le patron de cette église.

Visite de l'édifice

Le sanctuaire
Plusieurs éléments aux fonctions liturgiques précises :
le siège de présidence,
la Croix du Christ,
l'ambon,
l'autel,
permettent ici la célébration « face au peuple » selon la liturgie issue du Concile Vatican II.

Le tabernacle est placé au centre de l'abside. Sa porte encadrée par des colonnettes est surmontée d'un fronton triangulaire présentant un symbole trinitaire et un mot sculpté en hébreu signifiant Dieu. Il est supporté par l'ancien maitre-autel en placage de marbre gris, offert par François Flouret.

Sculptures

Statues
Plusieurs statues décorent l'église :
 Saint Joseph, statue offerte par Louis Bert.
 La Vierge à l'Enfant, 1880.
 Saint Antoine de Padoue1880.
 Saint Jean-Baptiste, patron de l'édifice.
 Le Sacré Cœur, 1880.
 Jeanne d'Arc, bénite en 1912 , réplique signée André Besqueut (1850 – 1942).
Le Christ en croix dominant l'assemblée.

Chemin de croix
Le Chemin de Croix rappelle différents épisodes en quatorze stations du premier vendredi saint : la Passion du Christ.

Autres éléments
Divers éléments :
 les fonts-baptismaux avec une représentation des évangélistes et leur clôture en fer forgé qui pourrait être l'œuvre d'Henri Veÿ, ferronnier de Saint-Agrève.
 le confessionnal réalisé à la fin du  et restauré en 1961.
 un élément rappelant l'histoire de paroissiens : le monument aux morts pour la France 1914 – 1918 avec 14 noms sous la forme d'un tableau.
 le monogramme JHS, une couronne d'épine et une croix sculptés de l'ancien maitre-autel.
 l'autel de la Sainte Vierge offert par Pierre Delobre et décoré du monogramme AM, de deux branches de rosiers et d'une rose sculptée sur la porte de son tabernacle.
 l'autel de saint Joseph décoré du monogramme S J et de lys sculptés.

Cloches
Le clocher abrite deux cloches :
 Marianne réalisée par Jacques Ducray de Lyon en 1760,
 Marie Françoise réalisée par Jean-Claude Burdin dit Burdin Ainé en 1872.

Chronologie des curés

? – 1994
Un curé a la charge de la paroisse dont le territoire correspond approximativement à celui de la commune.

1994 – 2003
Une équipe presbytérale dont les membres sont « curés in solidum » (responsables solidairement) a la charge de l'ensemble de l'Ensemble Inter Paroissial.

Depuis 2003
Avec la création de la paroisse Saint-Agrève-en-Vivarais succédant à l'Ensemble Inter paroissial une Équipe d'Animation Pastorale (E.A.P.) composée de laïcs en mission et de prêtres nommés « curé » a la charge de la paroisse nouvelle.

Références

Voir aussi

Articles connexes
Devesset

Liens externes

Bibliographie
Archives départementales de l'Ardèche.- La Croix de l'Ardèche.- année consultée : 1906.
 Alice Lacour, L'Ardèche… d'une église à l'autre, Aubenas, Imprimerie Fombon, 2013, 375 p.
 Églises en Ardèche, Service diocésain de la Pastorale des réalités du tourisme et des loisirs du diocèse de l'Ardèche et de la Commission d'art sacré, 2010.
 Jacques Perrier, Visiter une église, Paris, Centurion, 1993, 143 p.
 Inventaire général du patrimoine culturel, Région Rhône-Alpes, Devesset (Ardèche).
 Ribon Jean.- Reflets de l'Ardèche, Pages d'histoire civile et religieuse.- Édition et Région, La bouquinerie, Valence.- 2007.- 376 p.

Église en Ardèche
Église dédiée à saint Jean-Baptiste

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Home / Children's Books / Education & Reference / What's Different … What's the Same?
Vivid and engaging photographs explore the concepts of same and different.
Vivid and engaging photographs explore the concepts of same and different. Youngsters are invited to use what they know about color, texture, shape and weight to observe how objects change. An answer key presents the surprise discovery that all pairs of objects weigh the same, providing a unique introduction to conservation of mass.
Take a look at the pairs of objects. What's different? What's the same? Use what you know about color, texture, shape, and weight to observe how the objects change. See if you can guess how all of the object pairs are the same. You may be surprised!
Nancy Chapel Eberhardt is currently an educational consultant. She has had a long career as teacher, administrator, diagnostician, and curriculum developer. Her special interest in literacy, particularly vocabulary development, led to the creation of What's Different … What's the Same? This is Nancy's first collaborative effort with Jamie, which has demonstrated that a picture is definitely worth a thousand words!
Nancy lives in Connecticut with her husband and her dog, Bear.
6 reviews for What's Different … What's the Same?
Compare and Contrast with a Friend! A resounding 4.5 stars for this little book. Top notch language and learning resource!
As a former teacher, I value the objectives and the visual appeal of WHAT'S DIFFERENT…WHAT'S THE SAME?
The goal is to help children discern similarities and differences among items, to find the salient shared aspects of the items, to compare and contrast. These are fundamental skills that promote critical thinking and reading / listening comprehension.
The cover of the book shows an African American boy comparing a ball of yarn with a woolen cap knit from that same yarn. How are the two items different? How are they the same? How do the objects compare in terms of the four key attributes: weight, color, shape, and texture?
The book has about 30 pages. Each different comparison fills two pages so, for example, a block of red clay on the left-hand page, and a red rose fashioned out of the clay on the right-hand page. The illustrations are photographs. The authors list the targeted vocabulary words: attributes, same, different, texture, color, shape, and weight. The book begins with a page titled How to Use This Book and ends with a two-page chart that children complete but they would not need to write in the book. There is a good deal of evidence to support the effectiveness of semantic feature analysis, and using the corresponding chart, especially when peers collaborate on the task.
I suggest letting children share the book and engage in an interesting discussion about each pair of items. Or, parent and child could engage in the discussion together so important for language development. For example, two readers could discuss how the three raw eggs and the three scrambled eggs as pictured are similar and different in terms of color, shape, texture, weight, and more taste, smell, etc.. Spending only 5-10 minutes, readers could complete one comparison a week, and let the learning last all semester.
Why 4.5 stars? It would be slightly better in my view if children were encouraged to think of other ways the pictured objects are similar and different, besides the four key attributes: shape, color, weight, and texture. I realize that this other idea is mentioned at the bottom of the final page, under the chart, but it seems like an afterthought. I would like that other idea to show up on the How To page of the book.
Bottom line? Good stuff. This book is so simple that it appears elegant. It serves its purpose with very little fanfare.
Great Teaching Tool! I actually used this fabulous book with a middle school student to teach the idea of cause and effect. She loved it. The pictures and concrete examples helped her understand the concept of cause and effect as it relates to more abstract notions. Perfect teaching tool — thanks to the authors for writing it.
Brilliant idea for a everyday topic – First of all, the photography in the book is great and it really is a great way for kids to stop and think about the world around them. My girls loved the book and they asked many questions about things around the house as it related to the book. Every kid I know will be getting this book for Christmas.
What's Different…What's the Same? I bought this for my 5 year old grandaughter. She love it and we are giving one to her kindergarten class. The pictures are so very great and so colorful. We really enjoyed it.
Great book for language development! At first glance, this is a cute book with great photography. Teachers and speech paths will quickly realize that is also promotes vocabulary development, correct sentence usage, and verbal sequencing. I'm hopeful that Chapel and Eberhardt will team up to create more books like this one.
Fun, interactive science for young minds – I bought this book to share with my grandchildren(4 and 6 yrs. old). It presents the concept of matter in a engaging and interactive way. The photographs were beautiful, and each page gave us something interesting to discuss. Since the authors used many simple household items clay, popcorn, cookies, we extended the book with some fun and tasty experimenting of our own.


Buttered Coffee or Fat-Free Bagel Eater?
Like most things in nutrition, there are two extremes. With dietary fat, we have those who are stuck in the 1980s and think fat makes you fat and gives you heart disease. But on the other end of the spectrum we have those who are now adding butter to their coffee and chanting phrases like "eat fat to lose fat!"
I've never understood why everything must be taken to the extreme with nutrition. Most of the time, the answer will lie in the middle. There's a sweet spot.
That's why I like to recommend between 20-30% of total calorie intake coming from fat for the majority, or 0.4g per pound, which tends to work out to be a similar amount. There will be some cases when this goes lower (toward the final stages of a competition prep) or higher (if using a low carb diet), but for most people this is a good place to be.
The only fat I'd actively avoid would be trans fats. Because of their processing, these types of fats provide very little, if any, benefit to the body and may actually do more harm than good. Trans fats typically come in the form of margarines and hydrogenated oils – commonly found in prepared desserts and snack foods.
We need fat in our diet. They not only play a key role in many processes within the body, but there are marked benefits for those of us wanting to improve body composition, like testosterone production, satiety, and controlling blood sugar.
Of course, specific situations and dietary circumstances will dictate exact amounts, but you can't go wrong with keeping a variety of healthy fats as 20-30% of your total daily calorie intake.


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Az indiai sólyom (Falco jugger) a madarak osztályának sólyomalakúak (Falconiformes) rendjéhez, azon belül  a sólyomfélék (Falconidae) családjához tartozó faj.

Előfordulása
Afganisztán, Pakisztán, India, Nepál, Bhután és Banglades területén honos.

Megjelenése
Testhossza 39–46 centiméter, szárnyfesztávolsága 102–112 centiméter, a hímnek a testtömege 420–630 gramm, a tojóé pedig 675–1100 grammig terjed.

Életmódja
Madarakkal, hüllőkkel és rovarokkal táplálkozik.

Szaporodása

Fészekalja 2-3 tojásból áll, melyen 30 napig kotlik.

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