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Somalia's government welcomed the death of Bilal al-Sudani, the Islamic State group leader killed by U.S. special operations forces in a remote part of northern Somalia on Wednesday night. "It's a very positive and welcoming," Hussein Sheikh Ali, national security adviser for Somali President...
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Nigeria Experiencing Significant Changes Due to Growth of Digital Economy - NITDA
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How many times it happens to you to have few space on your hard disk and to want to know which are the folders that take most of the space? You would surely have liked a tool able to visualize these informations in a way easily understandable. Right for this task, in 1990, a professor from University of Maryland, Ben Shneiderman, created the TreeMaps. The TreeMaps show data with rectangles with areas proportional to their value and with background colors.
Here is a nickel new jQuery plugin that will allow you to show TreeMaps on your site starting from datas in a simple HTML table or from other sources too.
The plugin is made of only one function treemap that, applied to a jQuery object, replaces it with the TreeMap generated from the supplied datas.
The fuction getData takes as argument the element to which the plugin is applied and returns an array in which every element is in turn an array containing the description and the value of the data in the first and second item respectively (and eventually another data in the third item shown with a color code).
To set the width, in pixel, of the borders between cells, the option borderWidth is available.
When data contain the secondary value too to show the rectangle color, you can show a color legend with the legend option. The legend automatically detects if the secondary data is a numeric one or not, showing a color gradient in the first case or a discontinue list of colors in the second one.
The class of a sigle cell.
Hi, I love the treemap plugin, nice work! I am struggling with the colorCell option, what values do I have to put in ? My colors (in hex codes) are not reflected in the treemap.
One other thing is how to resize the text so that it fills a square totally, any ideas ? Now I just do some styling in the description cell.
I don't know what I am doing wrong but I can't get it to work. I have saved the treemap.js file in my root folder and written some classes for a linked stylesheet.
I have taken the data from a list but it just displays as a list not as the treemap.
I ultimately want to be able to display a treemap back in a wiki for a project I am doing at Surrey Uni.
Awesome thanks for posting this!
Hello - I can't seem to get this plugin to work with jquery 1.3.2 , not even the small demo's. When reverting to 1.1, all is fine. Have anyone already determined what needs to change to be supported w/ jq 1.3.2?
Any progress on this new version? I'd love to see an update, especially if it offers more extensive content support (IE, easier popup and clickable) and fixes the intermittent 'dangling cells' quirk where a few cells extend beyond the bottom-right of the treemap rectangle, as well as the newer jquery/jqueryui compatibility concern.
...in getDataFromTable() to get the basic functionality working in jQuery 1.4.2. Although I don't know whether the code will format properly in this comment!
Basically, later versions of jQuery don't seem to like the "greater than" selector, and I figured that the children() function would probably do the same job, though I'm no jQuery expert.
alternative suggestion for how I can achieve this result.
...oh, and thanks for the plugin, by the way! Sure it's going to come in useful for me!
I'm wondering if it would be possible to have the cells randomly ordered.
I'm thinking of using this plugin to show a tag cloud, but I don't want them to show up ordered from the biggest to lowest.
I guess it's not possible because of the nature of treemap, but it's worth asking, right?
I am trying to implement the treemap plugin to show criticality of a user. Each user will be a block in the treemap, whose size will be dependent on the criticality. Is there a way for me to color code each block based on the user's criticality? You article mentions a secondary array to pass colors. I was not able to get this to work. Could you please post a sample of how this can be done?


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Reports of abuse at camp
Scouts from the USA © Jean-Pierre Pouteau (CBA)
Thousands of leaders of the Boy Scouts of America allegedly abused children and teens over decades. A network of lawyers now wants to bring the perpetrators to justice.
The "S case.D." reads like an endless tale of woe. It lasted for years and began when S.D., whose full name is to be protected, was 13 years old. Perhaps as young as twelve, the 57-year-old no longer knows for sure.
What S.D. on the other hand, by its own admission, cannot forget: How he was sexually abused hundreds of times by his then-Scout leader at Camp Acahela in Pennsylvania in the 1970s. Before the assaults, his tormentor had given him plenty of drugs and alcohol to make him compliant. Here's what the indictment filed a few days ago in Philadelphia says.
High media attention
Whether it's the "Washington Post," "New York Times" or CNN, the U.S. media is devoting a great deal of attention to the "Case S.D."Highest attention. And not just this. Nearly 800 former scouts are currently taking legal action with the help of a network of law firms.
The nationwide advocacy group aims to bring to light previously unknown, concealed abuse cases within the ranks of the Boy Scouts of America (BSA). To do so, it is using TV ads to try to get abuse victims to come forward to the network with previously concealed information.
The wave of lawsuits is turning into a frontal assault on the largest youth organization in the U.S., with 2.7 million members. The latter had commissioned an internal audit from expert Janet Warren of the University of Virginia. According to the report, the organization identified exactly 7.819 perpetrators, the 12.Alleged to have abused 254 victims – between 1946 and 2016.
120 additional reports with specific allegations of abuse
The BSA are nothing less than "the largest pedophile ring in the world," says victim advocate Tim Kosnoff. He had sifted through thousands of files on allegations of abuse and was simply shocked. BSA had "known for decades that sex offenders had infiltrated the Boy Scouts".
Under prere from the threat of lawsuits, the Texas-based youth organization recently said it had forwarded 120 additional reports with specific allegations of abuse to law enforcement authorities. Files are now being sought at the local level to obtain information on "suspected additional perpetrators".
In its own investigations, the Scout organization is lagging behind the pace of revelations. As early as 2012, the Los Angeles Times had made public hundreds of names of defendants who were not on the BSA's "blacklist.". They were not reported to the authorities, nor did the parents of the alleged victims receive any information.
Existence-threatening disaster
In addition to the loss of reputation, the expanding abuse scandal is a catastrophe that threatens the existence of the more than 100-year-old BSA. Organization faces bankruptcy in the face of mass tort suits. The looming insolvency comes at the same time as political efforts to raise statutes of limitations: Victims of abuse are to be given longer than before to seek legal redress. Almost 20 U.S. states want to pass corresponding laws.
The new wave of lawsuits also poses a problem for the Catholic Church in the USA. After Mormons and Methodists, Catholics make up the third-largest number of members of the Scout Association, at about ten percent. U.S. Boy Scouts' ties to U.S. bishops' conference have long tradition. With its "National Catholic Committee on Scouting," the church has maintained an organization since 1934 specifically to deepen and expand these contacts.
Meanwhile, if the BSA goes bankrupt, claims for damages would be difficult to enforce. Victim advocate Kosnoff doesn't challenge that. He said he wants to reveal the full extent of the unknown, hidden or concealed abuse in the U.S. Boy Scouts: The perpetrators, he says, are "the true hidden predators in our communities".
"Constitutional concerns."
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/**
 * @file Some useful functions you can use with graphs.
 *
 * see: "Programming Game AI by Example", Chapter: "The Secret Life of Graphs",
 * by Mat Buckland
 *
 * @author Human Interactive
 */

"use strict";

var THREE = require( "three" );

var NavGraphNode = require( "./NavGraphNode" );
var NavGraphEdge = require( "./NavGraphEdge" );

var world = require( "../../core/World" );

/**
 * Creates a graph helper.
 *
 * @constructor
 */
function GraphHelper() {

}

/**
 * Creates a graph based on a grid layout.
 *
 * @param {SparseGraph} graph - The graph object.
 * @param {THREE.Vector2} dimension - The dimension of the grid.
 * @param {number} offset - The offset between nodes.
 */
GraphHelper.prototype.generateGridLayout = function( graph, dimension, offset ) {

	// first create all the nodes
	generateNodesGridLayout( graph, dimension, offset );

	// now to calculate the edges.
	generateEdges( graph, offset );

};

/**
 * Creates a helper mesh to visualize the grid.
 *
 * @param {THREE.Vector2} dimension - The dimension of the grid.
 * @param {number} offset - The offset between nodes.
 * @param {THREE.Color} color - The color of the grid.
 */
GraphHelper.prototype.createGridHelper = function( dimension, offset, color ) {

	var grid, gridSize, i;

	// increase the dimensions, because the nodes should be in the center
	// of a grid cell
	gridSize = dimension.clone();
	gridSize.addScalar( offset * 0.5 );

	// mesh properties
	var geometry = new THREE.Geometry();
	var material = new THREE.LineBasicMaterial( {
		color : color || new THREE.Color( 0xffffff )
	} );

	// generate vertices for the grid
	for ( i = -gridSize.x; i <= gridSize.x; i += offset )
	{
		geometry.vertices.push( new THREE.Vector3( i, 0.01, -gridSize.y ), new THREE.Vector3( i, 0.01, gridSize.y ) );
	}

	for ( i = -gridSize.y; i <= gridSize.y; i += offset )
	{
		geometry.vertices.push( new THREE.Vector3( -gridSize.x, 0.01, i ), new THREE.Vector3( gridSize.x, 0.01, i ) );
	}

	// create the lines
	grid = new THREE.LineSegments( geometry, material );

	// prevent auto update
	grid.matrixAutoUpdate = false;
	grid.updateMatrix();

	world.addObject3D( grid );

};

/**
 * Creates helper meshes to visualize the nodes.
 *
 * @param {SparseGraph} graph - The graph object.
 * @param {THREE.Color} color - The color of the edges.
 * @param {number} size - The size of the helpers.
 */
GraphHelper.prototype.createNodeHelper = function( graph, color, size ) {

	var geometry = new THREE.PlaneBufferGeometry( size || 1, size || 1, 1, 1 );

	var mesh, i;

	// create for each node position a mesh as visual feedback
	for ( i = 0; i < graph.getNumberOfNodes(); i++ )
	{
		mesh = new THREE.Mesh( geometry, new THREE.MeshBasicMaterial( {
			color : color || new THREE.Color( 0xffffff ),
			side : THREE.DoubleSide
		} ) );

		// adjust mesh
		mesh.position.copy( graph.getNode( i ).position );
		mesh.rotation.set( Math.PI * -0.5, 0, 0 );

		// save a reference to the node
		// used for intersection tests
		mesh.userData.nodeIndex = i;

		// prevent auto update
		mesh.matrixAutoUpdate = false;
		mesh.updateMatrix();

		world.addObject3D( mesh );
	}
};

/**
 * Creates a helper mesh to visualize the edges.
 *
 * @param {SparseGraph} graph - The graph object.
 * @param {THREE.Color} color - The color of the edges.
 */
GraphHelper.prototype.createEdgeHelper = function( graph, color ) {

	var start, end, edges, lines, i, j;

	// mesh properties
	var geometry = new THREE.Geometry();
	var material = new THREE.LineBasicMaterial( {
		color : color || new THREE.Color( 0xffffff )
	} );

	// iterate over all nodes
	for ( i = 0; i < graph.getNumberOfNodes(); i++ )
	{
		// get edges of the current node
		edges = graph.getEdgesOfNode( i );

		// extract the position of from/to and store them into the geometry for
		// the linesegements
		for ( j = 0; j < edges.length; j++ )
		{
			start = graph.getNode( edges[ j ].from ).position.clone();
			end = graph.getNode( edges[ j ].to ).position.clone();

			// lift the lines a bit
			start.y += 0.01;
			end.y += 0.01;

			// store the vertices in the geometry
			geometry.vertices.push( start, end );
		}
	}

	// create the lines
	lines = new THREE.LineSegments( geometry, material );

	// prevent auto update
	lines.matrixAutoUpdate = false;
	lines.updateMatrix();

	world.addObject3D( lines );
};

/**
 * Creates a helper mesh to visualize a path. The path object
 * is an array, that holds all node indices from a start to a
 * destination node.
 *
 * @param {SparseGraph} graph - The graph object.
 * @param {object} path - The path as an array with node indices.
 * @param {THREE.Color} color - The color of the path.
 */
GraphHelper.prototype.createPathHelper = function( graph, path, color ) {

	var start, end, lines, i;

	// mesh properties
	var geometry = new THREE.Geometry();
	var material = new THREE.LineBasicMaterial( {
		color : color || new THREE.Color( 0xff0000 )
	} );

	for ( i = 0; i < path.length - 1; i++ )
	{
		start = graph.getNode( path[ i ] ).position.clone();
		end = graph.getNode( path[ i + 1 ] ).position.clone();

		// lift the lines a bit
		start.y += 0.03;
		end.y += 0.03;

		// store the vertices in the geometry
		geometry.vertices.push( start, end );
	}

	// create the lines
	lines = new THREE.LineSegments( geometry, material );

	// prevent auto update
	lines.matrixAutoUpdate = false;
	lines.updateMatrix();

	world.addObject3D( lines );
};

/**
 * Creates a helper mesh to visualize a path. The path object
 * is an array, that holds all node indices from a start to a
 * destination node.
 *
 * @param {SparseGraph} graph - The graph object.
 * @param {object} tree - An array with edges the search has examined
 * @param {THREE.Color} color - The color of the path.
 */
GraphHelper.prototype.createSearchTreeHelper = function( graph, tree, color ) {

	var start, end, edges, lines, i, j;

	// mesh properties
	var geometry = new THREE.Geometry();
	var material = new THREE.LineBasicMaterial( {
		color : color || new THREE.Color( 0x00ff00 )
	} );

	// iterate over all edges
	for ( i = 0; i < tree.length; i++ )
	{
		// extract the position of from/to and store them into the geometry for
		// the linesegements
		start = graph.getNode( tree[ i ].from ).position.clone();
		end = graph.getNode( tree[ i ].to ).position.clone();

		// lift the lines a bit
		start.y += 0.02;
		end.y += 0.02;

		// store the vertices in the geometry
		geometry.vertices.push( start, end );

	}

	// create the lines
	lines = new THREE.LineSegments( geometry, material );

	// prevent auto update
	lines.matrixAutoUpdate = false;
	lines.updateMatrix();

	world.addObject3D( lines );
};

module.exports = new GraphHelper();

/**
 * Generates nodes based on a grid layout.
 *
 * @param {SparseGraph} graph - The graph object.
 * @param {THREE.Vector2} dimension - The dimension of the grid.
 * @param {number} offset - The offset between nodes.
 */
function generateNodesGridLayout( graph, dimension, offset ) {

	var i, j;

	for ( i = -dimension.x; i <= dimension.x; i += offset )
	{
		for ( j = -dimension.y; j <= dimension.y; j += offset )
		{
			graph.addNode( new NavGraphNode( graph.getNextFreeNodeIndex(), new THREE.Vector3( i, 0, j ) ) );
		}
	}
}

/**
 * Generates edges based on existing nodes in the graph.
 *
 * @param {SparseGraph} graph - The graph object.
 * @param {number} offset - The offset between nodes.
 */
function generateEdges( graph, offset ) {

	var i, j, node, neighbor, distance;

	// this will be used to determine the adjacent nodes
	var boundingSphere = new THREE.Sphere();

	// the radius is the length of the diagonal of a node area plus a little
	// buffer
	boundingSphere.radius = offset * Math.SQRT2 + 0.01;

	// iterate over all nodes
	for ( i = 0; i < graph.getNumberOfNodes(); i++ )
	{
		// retrieve node
		node = graph.getNode( i );

		// set the position of the bounding sphere to the current node
		boundingSphere.center.copy( node.position );

		// now check all other nodes for neighborhood
		for ( j = 0; j < graph.getNumberOfNodes(); j++ )
		{
			// the current node can't be its own neighbor
			if ( i !== j )
			{
				// retrieve neighbor
				neighbor = graph.getNode( j );

				// check, if the neighbor is within the radius
				if ( boundingSphere.containsPoint( neighbor.position ) === true )
				{
					// calculate distance, the cost of the edge
					distance = node.position.distanceTo( neighbor.position );

					// this neighbor is okay so it can be added
					graph.addEdge( new NavGraphEdge( i, j, distance ) );
				}
			}
		}
	}// next node

}

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Culture and Indigenous Knowledge
The people of the Pru West District has a very rich cultural heritage that is envious of other sister districts. The annual Nkyifie Annual Yam Festival celebrated by the people of Prang, Kwabena celebrated by Abease and the religious annual Maulideen Festival of the people (Muslims) of Prang are some of such sacred rich cultural practice that unites the people for a common course. The Molideen Festival brings patrons from all over the country and other part of the world because of its spiritual value.
Beyond this is a rich heritage of herbal medicine and indigenous knowledge that is most often quite relevant than orthodox practices. A very common practice is the use of indigenous knowledge to heal people who have broken legs or arms. It is most often effective and guarantees speedy recovery than that practiced in the formal hospitals. The challenge for district development is how best to streamline and harness this local knowledge into our formal health delivery systems. It is a challenge.
because in Ghana health policy is basically a national issue and therefore driven by central government policy rather than local governments. This challenge notwithstanding, it is in the interest of district administration to ensure that such rare knowledge of extreme importance is not left to fade out with the death of such practitioners. There should be mechanisms to streamline and support their continuous practices.
There are a number of festivals that are celebrated by the people in the District. The most widely celebrated festival are the Nkyifie Yam festival, Molideen and Kwabena (Abease). The table below depicts festivals their locations and the time they are celebrated.
Traditional Setups
The district currently has two Traditional Paramount Chiefs namely; Prang Paramountcy and Abease Paramountcy. It is believed that, these paramountcies were are from the Nchuburu and Brong ethnic groupings who work together as separate traditional leadership structure, there however spotted internal litigations in some few communities but the district is generally peaceful in terms of traditional administration. Despite this, the two paramountcies collaborate in promoting the development of the District.
Situation of Communal Spirit and Participation
The tradition of communal spirit and participation in the development process of the communities especially in terms of labour and financial resource is a major project implementation strategy in ensuring sustainability of programmes and projects. There is somewhat high communal spirit in the District especially in the rural areas where the Chiefs command a more respect. However, this spirit for some time now is becoming very low or almost non-existent in the urban communities.
Religious Composition
The distribution of the population by the various religious denominations is not different from that of the region. Christianity forms about 54% compared to the regional figure of 70.8%.
Pentecostal/Charismatic is the dominant denomination accounting for 19.7 percent of the population. There are more female Christians (56%) than male Christians (52.2%) in the district, with 20.8 percent of the females being Pentecostal/Charismatic. Islam is the second largest religious group representing 21.7 percent of the population.
Other people in the district are adherents of African Traditional religions constituting 12.6 percent of the population with a higher proportion of males (13.4%) than females (11.9%). However, 11.2 percent of the population practice no religion at all, and 0.3 percent represents other minor religious groups.
The district is ethnically diverse with people from northern Ghana forming about 65% of the population, among the northern tribes are Konkonbas, Mamprusis, Dagonbas, Gonjas, Dagaaba?s, Frafras, Kusasis, and the Moshies. Battors, Gas, Adangba and a few Akans follow. The natives, Chumerus and Bono constitute a relatively small portion of the population. Even though, the natives form a small portion, the population shows homogeneity which has positive implications for development.
Cultural Practices Inimical To Development of the District
There are still some few cases of early marriage within some of the migrant communities. This calls for a sustained public education to forestall such practices. However, the challenge is that these people are mostly nomads making it difficult to communicate to them. It only comes to light when there are complications that may cost the life of the victim.
1. Inadequate publicity on festivals
2. Early child marriages


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Aliabad (, also Romanized as 'Alīābād) is a village in Misheh Pareh Rural District, in the Central District of Kaleybar County, East Azerbaijan Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its population was 41, in 9 families.

Situation
The online edition of the Dehkhoda Dictionary, quoting Iranian Army files, reports a population of 173 people in late 1940s. According to a more recent statistics the population is 35 people in 16 families.

There is a hazelnut forest on the village territory, along the paved road connecting Aghuyeh and Oskelu villages. In addition, a resting area has been built near the village on the Mikandi valley. As a result, Aliabad is one of the most beautiful areas of Arasbaran region.

The grasslands on the village mountains are the summer quarter of Mohammad Khanlu tribe.

References

Populated places in Kaleybar County
Kurdish settlements in East Azerbaijan Province

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Findings: There is no lead screening on file today for one 2 year old child. This child meets the new age requirement for blood lead level testing. Please have parent/guardian AND health care provider complete Page 4 of health inventory and have health care provider administer blood test if indicated. *There are 2 other children who should have Page 4 of the health inventory completed by parent/guardian AND health care provider. Provider is reminded that all children born on or after 1/1/15 or who otherwise meet the new requirements will need to have blood lead level testing completed at 12 months and 24 months. Please obtain and add copies of paperwork to children's files and send copies to Lic Spec.
Findings: There is no emergency card present during inspection today for one 2 year old child. Obtain from parent/guardian and add to file. Send copy to Lic Spec.
Findings: Provider has completed 12 hours of continued training for the 2016-2017 training cycle, but it was completed late. Provider has completed Basic Health and Safety training (3 hours) for the 2017-2018 training cycle. Provider should complete 9 additional hours of continued training by February 28, 2018. Please send copy of certificate(s) of completion to Lic Spec.
Findings: Provider had 1 infant, 3 two year olds and 1 three year old present during inspection time today. The TV was on for the majority of the inspection (but was switched to music shortly before lunchtime). Provider is reminded that children 2 and older should not view more than 30 minutes of passive technology per week and children under 2 should not view any passive technology. Please send written correction to Lic Spec regarding how this will be corrected.
Findings: Provider does not have a written screen time policy that has been given to parents/guardians. Provider should create a screen time policy and give a copy to parents/guardians by adding to contract, adding an addendum to contract or providing them with a separate handout. Send copy to Lic Spec.
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It's the centerpiece of the winter season in Nice. The sun is getting higher in the sky, days are longer and spring is starting to seem like more than a distant dream. Nice Carnival is a yearly event that begins in February sometime before Fat Tuesday and ends sometime after. In between there are parades with floats and flowers, tons of free activities for kids and various neighbourhood events. For the most part though, Carnival in Nice is a spectator sport. It is not the custom for non-participants in the organised activities to don masks or costumes.
The first historical mention of the Nice Carnival dates from 1294. Certainly Nice participated in European Carnival traditions throughout the Middle Ages when the celebrations preceding Ash Wednesday provided an opportunity for the oppressed peasant class to mock the aristocracy. The masks and disguises protected them from repercussions for what would ordinarily be a beheading offense. Naturally things eventually went too far and the Church cracked down, chasing Carnival celebrations indoors.
Public celebration recommenced in 1830 to honour visiting nobility and continued as a yearly free-for-all where people pelted each other with flour and eggs. The modern form of the Nice Carnival dates from 1873 when the painter Alexis Mossa designed grotesque, outlandish characters and put them on floats. Although interrupted on several occasions by war, the Carnival has continued to this day.
Each Carnival presents parades of floats centered upon a theme and the floats often, although not always, have gently political overtones. The parades take place on three or four afternoons or evenings a week during the Carnival period. Most parades are free. In addition to the floats there is also the "Bataille des Fleurs" in which floats resplendent in meticulously arranged flowers glide through the streets while young men and women toss flowers at the spectators. There is always an admission charge for the Bataille des Fleurs. The final weekend of the Carnival includes the "Bartenders Race" and, to cap off the festivities, the Carnival King is burned in the sea on the last night followed by fireworks. He'll be back next year!
The parade route alters slightly every year but usually involves a parade partway up the Promenade des Anglais. For some parades and all the Bataille des Fleurs events, you need to buy a ticket. The most expensive tickets are in the tribunes lined up on the Promenade des Anglais and the cheapest just allow you to stand along the parade route. Tickets are on sale at the Nice Tourist Office or you can purchase them in stalls set up on the Promenade des Anglais.


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Q: Different Sized Posts So I am using Rails 5 and 'bootstrap', '4.0.0.alpha3'. Im using Bootstrap Cards and Im having the size of the cards be col-lg-6. What Im trying to do though is for large screens Id like the posts to kind of rotate different sizes. Right now on my index page the posts look like this
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and so on and so on.
So Im trying to add just a little basic styling to it and what Im wanting it to look like is for more posts to have a showing of something like this on my index.
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So basically Im looking for two different card sizes, Im just not sure how to get them to work properly. If you all need to see anymore code Ill gladly add it.
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The opened cup on the contact types of single combats in Sport Life.
In honour Day of physical education and sport of Ukraine, «Association of professional types of single combats» jointly with «Ukrainian kung fu Federation » conducted the opened cup.
The program of the event was boxing matches with battle section that included hits, wrestling moves and throws — kung fu sanda.
6 competing pairs which already passed preliminary selection are appeared in the finale of the cup and took part in boxing.
Nickolai Matulevskiy is the president of European kung fu Federation, master of international class, marked that on a ring we saw the twelve best sportsmen in above mentioned types of sport, which were selected through intermediate contests.
Competitions for sportsmen — not simply event. Preparation to such activities does not stop,that is why, besides the physical activity , sportsmen adhere to follow active and healthy way of life, regulate sleep patterns and have proper nutrition. No matter when the competition is going to start.
Tradition to conduct the opened competitions is unchanging within 20 years. It is not the first year when Sport Life Chernigivska accepts sportsmen and guests with gladness.


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Nacho is at the Outer Banks SPCA shelter waiting for his forever home.
Meet Nacho, an 8-year-old Chihuahua-mix who is waiting to be adopted.
All of the SPCA's adoptable fur babies are micro-chipped with free registration prior to adoption. The adoption fee includes up to date vaccinations, the spay or neuter surgery, a free exam with a local vet and more.
To meet him and the other animals waiting to be adopted — and to find out how you can help — stop by the OBX SPCA at 1031 Driftwood Drive, Manteo.
You can also help support the shelter by taking stopping by the OBX Dog Bath station at the Manteo Farmer's Market from 8 a.m. to noon Saturday. The bath is by donation, so you can show your love and support, and get your furry family member in ship-shape and bristol fashion. The market is along the waterfront at George Washington Creef Park.
For more information on how to help and to adopt a furry companion, call (252) 475-5620, email spca@darenc.com or visit obxspca.org.
COAST's PET OF THE WEEK is presented by Miss Lizzie's, a family-owned boutique that has been serving the Outer Banks with flair since 2001. The women's boutique offers just about anything a fashion-forward woman would want to accentuate her personal style, from jewelry, belts and other accessories to tops, pants, dresses and more. The shop carries a host of top designers, including Alberto Makali, Andria Lieu, AZI Jeans, bentley a., BKG & Co. NY Inc., Central Falls Co, Curio, David Kahn Jeanswear and more.


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During production we use selected qualitative Italian commodity and metal supplies alongside with leather or water repellent textile liners. Production takes place in the brand's Budapest based workroom, in small sequence, with highly qualified professionals and careful handwork.
Erzsébetváros is the smallest, in addition the most populous district of Budapest. It is an elemental part of downtown and at the same time it is the most multi-sided district of our capital as carrying historical importance and not mentioning nightlife, which is the biggest far and near wide. VIIth district has several nicknames, such as Jewish-district or party-district, which clearly represents it's cultural richness. Erzsébetváros and Dohány street is the home the biggest synagogue of Europe. This district is highly visited by tourists as several sights, restaurants, nightclubs, pubs and shop attracts them.
Budapest as the capital city of Hungary was created in 1873 by the merger of the 3 cities of Pest, Buda and Óbuda. Both its past and present are diverse and colourful. Budapest is the home of several world heritage sites, amongst them Heroes' Square, Andrássy street and also the worlds' second oldest underground railway. Nevertheless, as our capital has most thermal baths in the world, it is a beloved touristic centre and destination in Europe.


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Lincoln-Way board wants more money from day care operator
By Susan DeMar Lafferty
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Playground for day care at Lincoln-Way West High School, New Lenox, Feb. 20, 2016. (Allen Cunningham, Daily Southtown)
A contract for on-site day care services in Lincoln-Way High School District 210 will be renegotiated after school board members said they wanted more money from Aunt Nancy's Day Care, which has been using the schools for free for several years.
Superintendent Scott Tingley presented a proposed contract at Thursday's board meeting to continue services with Aunt Nancy's for the 2016-17 school year, with the day care paying $60,000 per year, unless enrollment falls below 85 percent of its capacity, at which time it would pay half of that amount. Capacity is a total of 132 children for the three high schools.
The board voted 5-2 to seek $90,000 per year and to strike the 85 percent clause, with board members Joseph Kirkeeng and Joseph Kosteck opposed.
Tingley said the $60,000 was based on $20,000 per school to cover the cost of operations and utilities and to "begin to pay us back for the costs incurred over the years."
That was the amount "they were willing to agree upon," he said.
"I expected a higher amount," said board member Christopher Lucchetti, who also opposed cutting the rate in half if enrollment dropped by 20 children.
"When you consider the revenue they are making and what they would pay for rent, maintenance and utilities, it just doesn't seem like this is a proper amount," he said.
Kosteck said, "They don't want it tied to a percentage of their revenue, but they are happy to penalize us. This is unacceptable."
Board members agreed that on-site day care is a valuable benefit and convenience that they want to continue to offer district employees.
The board also agreed to add Union School District 81 to its list of feeder schools that would be eligible for the day care service, along with Manhattan District 114, New Lenox District 122, Frankfort District 157-C, Mokena District 159, Summit Hill District 161 and Lincoln-Way Special Education District 843.
Board President Dee Molinare said children of employees from Lincoln-Way and its feeder schools are served first, and if there is space, the day care service would be open to the public, but Tingley said he expects the 132 limit will be reached through Lincoln-Way parents.
According to its current contract, parents in those districts are eligible for a 20 percent discount, but that discount has been questioned by some parents who use it and by board members.
The 20 percent is based on Aunt Nancy's charges, not on the area's average fees for such services, Tingley said. Aunt Nancy's only provides day care in the Lincoln-Way high schools.
The proposed new contract sets higher fees that are "equal to or less than the competitive market," Tingley said.
For the upcoming year, parents will pay Aunt Nancy's $261 per week for infants, $235 for toddlers, $220 for 2- and 3-year-olds, and $198 for preschoolers, Tingley said. This year's rates ranged from $237 for infants to $177 for preschoolers. The increased fees will cost employees between $700 and $800 per year more, Tingley said.
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The board also will exercise the termination clause in its current contract, which allows either party to terminate the deal with 90 days notice.
Tingley said the district will seek competitive bids this fall for an on-site day care service for the 2017-18 school year. The board can expect to select a provider in December, which will allow it the necessary time to get licensed by the Illinois Department of Children and Family Services.
Aunt Nancy's would be welcome to bid, and Tingley said others have expressed an interest.
Messages left with Nancy Power, vice president of the day care, were not returned.
Board members also wanted assurances that violations at the day care centers cited by the Illinois Department of Children and Family Services had been rectified.
Tingley said the site issues for which the district was responsible have been addressed, including mulch, peeling paint and loose floorboards in the playground. Aunt Nancy's is responsible for the cleanliness in its rooms.
Molinare said if day care violations are not corrected within 30 to 60 days, its license can be revoked.
Kirkeeng questioned if there was adequate space to operate day care facilities in the schools.
The superintendent said classrooms will be renovated at Central and East, but West was built to accommodate the day care operation.
The board continues to scrutinize other financial matters.
In approving a resolution to prepare the 2016-17 budget, which is expected to be voted on at the Sept. 15 board meeting, Kirkeeng questioned why the budget is adopted in September if the fiscal year begins July 1. The district should at least have a tentative budget so they can monitor expenses from July, August and September, he said, adding, "We've got to get in front of this in April."
Tingley said the district did not have a full-time business manager. Steve Langert, a retired school business official, works 100 days per year. The board recently hired a full-time finance director, Kelly Luzzo, and another interim staff member, Rich Pagliaro, retired assistant superintendent for business and personnel in Joliet High School District 204, who will work with Langert.
Tingley said it may also need to consider hiring someone on a temporary, part-time basis to handle all the requests for records and information from the Securities and Exchange Commission, the Department of Justice and the public.
The district received 50 Freedom of Information Act requests from May 17 to June 8 from residents and the media, which take several hours a day to process, he said.
The SEC is investigating the district's bonds, budgets and financial reports to determine if any federal securities laws were violated. In April, Lincoln-Way attorney John Izzo reported that millions of dollars in bond proceeds were diverted to other funds by former Superintendent Lawrence Wyllie without board knowledge or approval.
Federal prosecutors are looking into the Superdog training center created at Lincoln-Way North High School by Wyllie without board knowledge or approval at a cost of at least $45,000. U.S. prosecutors have subpoenaed all contracts and communications between the school district and the Frankfort Square Park District, which operates the facility.
In other matters, the board tabled approval of a temporary easement at its 191st St. and Harlem Avenue site, until the site could be appraised.
Chicago-based Aetna Development has received approval from Tinley Park to build a strip mall on land abutting the district's 70-acre site.
The developer has offered to pay the district $2,500 for a 12-month easement, which would allow its trucks to have better access to its site, but it is willing to consider a six-month easement, as suggested by Lincoln-Way board members.
John Murphy, attorney for the developer, said the easement will save his client time and money and minimize construction traffic on arterial roads.
"Anything that helps us, helps you," he told the board, saying development of his site will help the district sells its acreage. He expects to have all permits and begin construction of a strip mall in early September.
Board member Chris Kosel reminded the board that the developer once had a contract to buy Lincoln-Way's land, but after tying up the land for years, the deal fell through.
"He chose not to buy this property, and now he wants to drive his trucks through it," Kosel said. "I cannot in good faith sign another document with him. It's not worth it for $2,500."
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"This project will get built come hell or high water. If you don't want to do this, just tell us," Murphy said in response. "The temporary easement will be long gone before you sell it."
The board agreed to have Appraisal Associates appraise that and other district-owned parcels for $7,500 within the next 30 days.
Some board members thought the easement was worth more than $2,500 and will ask the appraiser to put a value on it.
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Quick and simple, stewed plums can also be spread like jam.
23 min. 15 min. 38 min.
Cut in half, remove the stone, then cut in half again.
Pour 400 g caster sugar over, the juice of ½ lemon and 4 tablespoons water.
Cover and put on low heat.
Bring slowly to the boil, and leave to cook for 5 minutes, then remove the lid and cook for a further 5 minutes.
If you don't like the skin, you can pass the stewed fruit through a sieve pushing it through with a maryse.
Try varying the quantity of sugar depending on how sweet or tart you prefer your stewed plums.
You can use any variety of plums you can find, but do check the flavour, as stewed plums (rather like stewed apricots) often tend to be rather tart.


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Q: Multiple instances of an ASP.net application from a single web site configuration in IIS As the title suggests I'd like to create a single Web Site in IIS that creates multiple instances of an ASP.net application based on the requested Host.
So that all instances are running the same codebase, but each instance has it's own Application object, Session's collection etc.
For example :

host1.domain.tld/default.aspx -> this.Application["foo"] = "host1"
host2.domain.tld/default.aspx -> this.Application["foo"] = "host2"
host3.domain.tld/default.aspx -> this.Application["foo"] = "host3"

I know I can configure IIS to listen to a specific IP address, and set the DNS for host(1|2|3).domain.tld to point at this IP address.  Then use Global.asax to check the requested host to setup host specific settings.  But the application will still be running as a single instance on the server.
I'd rather have multiple instances of the application running for each host so that their runtime is fully separated, it would also be nice if I could have them in separate Application Pools too, but that's not so important
Of course, I could add the sites individually into the IIS on the servers, but there are some 1600 instances that will need to be configured and this will be very time consuming to do and difficult to manage.
Being able to setup a single instances on a number of servers, then control the load balancing via DNS configuration or filtering on the firewalls both of which can be easily controlled programmatically.
FYI - the asp.net version in use is 4.0 and the IIS is running on a Windows Server 2008.
Any suggestions would be great.
Many thanks

A: The simplest and most robust way to do this would be to setup individual IIS sites. I know you don't want to do this because it will be very time consuming and definately would be difficult to manage.
However, you've already created a website so now perhaps it's time to create a management tool for instances of that website. As there are 1600 instances that you want to configure, there's a fairly good chance that you already have details of those 1600 instances stored somewhere, such as a database or a spreadsheet.
So:

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*Get the data about the 1600 instances into a usable format, a Sql Server database (Express, or paid for!) would probably be ideal.

*Investigate the IIS7 provisioning APIs

*Put together a tool that allows you to create all 1600 instances from the data you have about them, automatically / in batches, via the IIS7 API.

*Maintain tool and expand it ready for the inevitable changes that will be required when you need to add or remove instances.

Don't forget that putting your own tool together for a task such as this gives you a lot of flexibility, although there may be tools out there for this purpose that are worthy of investigation. For that (i.e. a non-programmatic solution), I'd suggest asking at http://www.serverfault.com


Splendor is back in stock at Amazon.com! While it failed to capture the SDJ for 2014 (losing to Camel Up , the one with the dice-pooping pyramid), I've played Splendor almost 20 times this year and I'm sure it'll hit the quarter list. You will love those crazy poker chip gems if you haven't played it yet.
Splendor was the biggest hit of Gateway 2014 last weekend, with it being constantly checked out. I'm glad I bought one and hope Asmodee will send us a copy soon because we could easily support two copies in the Board Game Library.
While the game has fallen in and out of print the since early this year, it's back on Amazon so get it now!
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Song Lyric Sunday: The Cramps, "Bikini Girls With Machine Guns"
John Holton Song Lyric Sunday, Song of the Day December 25, 2022 December 23, 2022 1 Minute
Source: Melanie
Merry Christmas to you and yours! Appropriate for the holiday, Jim has chosen "Punk" as the theme for this Song Lyric Sunday. Once again, not being really familiar with the genre, I went and looked up what I could find about. Turns out, a band about which I read years ago in Guitar Player magazine, The Cramps, fits the bill. They're a garage punk band fronted by lead singer Lux Interior and guitarist Poison Ivy. The song I chose is their 1989 hit, "Bikini Girls With Machine Guns," from the album Stay Sick. This is their only song to reach the US charts, peaking at #10 on the Alternative Airplay chart, no doubt helped by the heavy airplay on MTV (back when they actually played music). They did much better in the UK, placing five singles in the Top Ten on the Independent Singles Chart, including 1985's "Can Your Pussy Do The Dog?" that reached #1.
I been a drag racer on LSD
And I rode bare-assed on top of the Sphinx
I even had a gorilla on the slopes of kismet
And man, that was fun for a while you bet but…
Bikini girls with machine guns
This stuff'll kill ya
It's loaded with fun
Well I savored many foreign kinds of delicacies
Intoxicated 'til I can't tell what the hell I could see
Had all the violence and liquor within close reach
But all bars, pills and three ways lead me back to the beach and…
Now they say that virtue is its own reward
But when that surf comes in I'm gonna get my board
I got my own ideas about the righteous kick
You can keep the reward, I'd just as soon stay sick…
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And that's Song Lyric Sunday and Song of the Day for Christmas Day, 2022.
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J-Dub says:
Not sure how I missed this video since I always watched MTV. It's been years though but yep in 1989, that's how we passed the time.
I don't think we got cable until all the Braves games moved off of WTBS, and we got rid of it about eight years ago. By that time MTV had all but stopped playing music videos except for from 6 to 9 AM.
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newepicauthor says:
This is a really fun song, John. Thanks for finding it and sharing it, as I think it fits perfectly. I hope you have a wonderful Christmas and a great New Year.
Thanks Jim! You too!
Okay, that's a weird song.
It's a weird band….


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Falling Skies is exciting, with a sprawling, interesting cast and great stories.
TV Review: Falling Skies – "Two-Hour Series Premiere"
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TNT's newest drama is Falling Skies. Produced by Steven Spielberg, it is the story about a group of humans trying to survive six months after the Earth has been taken over by aliens, All the major cities and military bases have been destroyed, most of the population is dead. Survivors band together, but are forced to split up, as large gatherings attract unwanted attention from the new rulers of the planet. The fight seems hopeless, as the 2nd Massachusetts, which comprises almost all of the main characters of the show, packs up to leave Boston.
By the time the first episode is over, a lot has gone down. Weaver (Will Patton, 24, The Agency), the leader of the 2nd, sets up camp at an abandoned high school. How long this will work for them is uncertain, but at least the military and civilians are operating on more equal footing. See, Weaver is a military guy, and he's not all that sympathetic to the non-soldiers of the group, often seeing them as a liability, even though he swears to protect them. When camping in a neighborhood, he lets the soliders sleep in the houses, but makes the civilians stay outside in tents. It's a duality that makes his character a bit unpredictable. What is clear, though, is Weaver will do his best to make sure mankind survives.
But setting up a camp of nearly three hundred may not be the wisest idea. After all, there are between three and four thousand humans gathered in one settlement when Falling Skies begins. The leader of them all, Porter (Dale Dye, Saving Private Ryan, Band of Brothers), splits them up into smaller units because he fears the alien invaders will soon be able find their large camp. Three hundred is still a lot, and as the malicious creatures run out of humans to find in the cities, it shouldn't take long to locate that many people moving together along a road.
What is unknown is the aliens' motivation for the take over. They destroy major cities and set traps to lure and kill humans in grocery stores, and yet, they are not hunting down or keeping a look out for packs moving along roadways. They also enslave teenagers, including Ben (Connor Jessup, The Saddle Club), the son of Weaver's second in command, Tom Mason (Noah Wyle, ER, The Librarian movies), with some kind of mechanical harness. So extermination is not their primary goal, but they show no remorse about killing any people they come in contact with.
It makes sense for the aliens in Falling Skies to keep an eye on armories and stores, as small groups of humans don't post as much of a threat, and can get their food from houses. The types of bands that will be raiding larger storage spaces are those that might want to fight back. As such, some of what the aliens do makes sense. But the slavery does not, at least, not yet.
Also strange is the fact that the aliens have six legs, but the mechanical robots they build are bipedal, like humans. Some students at the makeshift school in the 2nd ponder this, as humans build robots in their own image. Are these six legged creatures not in charge? Are there two legged aliens as well? It's a little confusing, and leaves plenty to think about.
Tom Mason is really the main character of Falling Skies. He is a widower and former history professor with three sons, one of which, as mentioned above, has been taken by the aliens. Tom looks out much more for the civilians than Weaver does, but he also has studied military strategy, and so realizes that tough decisions sometimes have to be made. This is likely the reason why he allows his eldest son, Hal (Drew Roy, Hannah Montana, Greek), to come along on dangerous missions. The military needs every soldier it can get, and Hal is plenty old enough to hold a gun.
In fact, Hal isn't even the youngest fighter working under Tom. Jimmy (Dylan Authors, Connor Undercover) is a mere thirteen years old. Tom doesn't seem all that comfortable allowing Jimmy in the field, but accepts Weaver's decision, knowing that every single member of their group is better off learning to defend themselves, and practical application is the only real way to learn.
Also working for the 2nd are Dai (Peter Shinkoda, I, Robot) and Anthony (Mpho Koahu). Not much is known about these two yet, except that neither seem to have family in the group, which certainly makes them better fighters. Tom does what needs to be done, but should Hal be threatened, Tom will be distracted for his son's well being. Mike (Martin Roach, Aaron Stone) is like Tom, in that he has a son enslaved. This likely means things will not work out happily for him, as if only one of them get their kid back, Tom is a main character, so he has the better shot.
Does this ragtag army have any chance against the technologically superior conquerors? Tom seems to think so, and as someone who has studied combat history, he may be onto something. But spreading out into smaller groups is more for survival than to fight back, and with the army on the retreat, they aren't even attempting to defeat the occupiers. Which is fine, for now. After all, it's hard to win a war when you're worried about finding something to eat, and taking care of a bunch of civilians. Settlement first, then regroup and attack.
Of course, there have to be some love stories going on to make a series more interesting and give an element for people to care about in the long-term. Tom's potential mate is named Anne Glass (Moon Bloodgood, Terminator Salvation, Day Break), a pediatrician who lost pretty much her entire family, and is now serving as doctor to the entire group. She has a bit of help from med student Lourdes (Seychelle Gabriel, Weeds), but that is it, and there are three hundred people to care for. It's hard to see when Tom and Anne will even have the time to hook up, though they have great chemistry, and both of their spouses are dead, so they are available.
Lourdes is a bit more aggressive than Anne, already letting the boy she likes know her intentions in a number of not-so-subtle ways. The boy is Hal, who doesn't notice, no matter how strong the signals being sent. He is entirely into his girlfriend, Karen (Jessy Schram, Life, Unstoppable). Karen and Hal have more in common, both being army scouts, rather than civilians, but the line is fuzzy here, and under the right circumstances, this triangle could erupt in a nasty way. It doesn't really bode well for Karen that she is recurring and Lourdes is a main character, even though Karen seems like a better fit.
Do shows like Falling Skies need love interests to shake things up? After all, the focus is survival and aliens, right? Well, yes, but people are looking for physical comfort all the time, and none more so than when their lives are on the line. The danger keeps adrenaline up, and everyone needs someone at the end of the day. The little love bits make things real, and allow viewers to invest in the characters more, so it's tolerable, even enjoyable sometimes.
Among the other civilians are Anne's two surviving relatives: her aunt Kate (Lynne Deragon) and uncle Scott (Bruce Gray, Medium, Traders), the latter of whom starts a school to educate the children, including Tom's youngest, Matt (Maxim Knight). This is the real human element, as Tom, Hal, and the others are very focused on combat. Scott and Matt are striving for something in their lives besides death and destruction. While that may be hard to understand for many, the very young and the very old have different viewpoints on life, and it's refreshing that those are represented in Falling Skies.
The aliens are not the only threat the survivors face. Not everyone thinks it's a good idea to band together and help each other. In fact, some selfish jerks are just enjoying the chaos, finding fun where they can, and realizing it is easier to stay hidden and alive without caring for others. Falling Skies introduces a gang of rebels in the first two hours to represent these types of people, and provide a counter balance for the noble, do-gooder heroes.
The gang is led by the notorious John Pope (Collin Cunningham, Da Vinci's Inquest, Stargate SG-1) Pope observes the 2nd, and would like to get his hands on some of the 2nd's bigger weapons, and will stop at nothing to do so. He lures Tom and a small team into a weapons depot, then kills one of their men and captures the rest. He tries to trade Weaver the hostages for some supplies, including a big, car-mounted gun. Weaver refuses.
Should Weaver negotiate with terrorists? Probably not. As stated above, Weaver does understand his responsibility to the civilians, and won't mess with the safety of hundreds of people for the sake of a few. It's a smart tactical decision, and one Pope, with all of his self-interest, cannot understand. This leads to a showdown where Pope arrogantly attracts aliens to their position, figuring he can leverage the threat to get what he wants. The plan backfires, and Pope ends up in Weaver's custody.
Weaver has Tom place Pope in a cell, rather than kill him, or send him away, where he might cause more trouble. In fact, Pope is listed as one of the main characters of the series. Does that mean he will soon be tamed into fitting in? If so, that will be disappointing. But Falling Skies doesn't appear to make anything easy on anyone, so hopefully that will not be the case.
The last main character not yet mentioned, is Margaret (Sarah Sanguin Carter). She is part of Pope's gang, but doesn't seem all that happy about it. Margaret kills two of her comrades to help Tom escape. She implies she has been raped by her dead fellows, and that is plenty of motivation to turn her as soon as she has an option. What is unclear is how she will fit in with the larger group, since there has been almost no interaction between her and them. This is a wait and see thing.
With a sweeping cast, intriguing plots, and great special effects, this is a show not to miss. Be sure to tune in to TNT every Sunday at 10 p.m. ET, the normal time slot for Falling Skies.
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Everyone Is Devastated That bell hooks Has Passed Away
The author's writing on marginality, intersectionality and tenderness influenced a generation of writers.
By Helen Holmes • 12/15/21 3:36pm
bell hooks poses for a portrait on December 16, 1996 in New York City. Karjean Levine/Getty Images
All someone would have to do to register the tectonic impact activist and author bell hooks had on contemporary writers, thinkers and people is check Twitter: on Wednesday, news broke that hooks had passed away at the age of 69, and creatives of all kinds are effusively expressing their grief. hooks wrote several books' worth of influential and compassionate intersectional theory, but perhaps her best known works are All About Love: New Visions, a radical re-examination of "love" that posits that the word is best used as a verb, not a noun; Feminism is for everybody: passionate politics; and Ain't I A Woman: Black women and feminism, an intersectional examination of oppression that centered around the abuse directed at Blackness and femininity.
For so many thinkers, hooks afforded her readers the opportunity to rethink how marginalization, tenderness and relationships between human beings have been tragically misunderstood and gone about in all the wrong ways. Her writing also taught people that their individual perspectives, divorced from the structural inequities that divide us, mattered.
bell hooks taught me. She gave us the language, the courage, the example to speak our blackness in the world intra-mural and against white patriarchal heterosexist capitalism. bell taught us without fear. RIP bell hooks.
— BDF (Black diaspora faggotry) (@blacklikewho) December 15, 2021
bell hooks said "To be loving is to be open to grief, to be touched by sorrow, even sorrow that is unending."
we carry people on with us. we carry their legacies and teachings with us, with every step we take and every act of love we enact on ourselves and others. even in grief.
— 5hahem (@shaTIRED) December 15, 2021
O feminismo negro está de luto.
A teoria critica está de luto.
A filosofia está de luto.
A educação está de luto.
Todos aqueles que acreditam em uma sociedade sem barreiras deveriam estar de luto.
Que os ancestrais te acolham bell hooks.
— Winnie é meu nome. gosto de livros e de café. (@winniebueno) December 15, 2021
And There We Wept, the first book she published, was a work of poetry. Poetry was essential to the way hooks understood the world and constructed her arguments about the way we live. She also worked as a professor in Berea College in Kentucky, having taught at different universities for much of her career. Cumulatively, hooks published over 30 books within the course of her lifetime, gave many academic lectures and led copious feminist discussion groups; community engagement and the exchange of ideas with her peers was just as essential to her work as the individual rigors of scholarship.
In terms of her own education, hooks got her undergraduate degree at Stanford University, a master's degree in English at the University of Wisconsin and her University of California at Santa Cruz. Its fitting that her abundant work has gone on to educate so many.
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ParticleSystemManager mcParticleSystemManager = new ParticleSystemManager(); .
If you are not inheriting from the Microsoft.XNA.Framework.Game class, you may pass null into the constructor instead of this.
Where this.GraphicsDevice is the Graphics Device that the particle system should draw to, and this.Content is the Content Manager that the particle system should use to load texture and effect (i.e. shader) files.
However, if you only want the particle systems to be initialized once they are needed, it is better to just initialize the ones that you need individually since when the particle system manager's update and draw functions are called it will update and draw all particle system's that are initialized.
If DPSF is set to inherit from DrawableGameComponent, these function calls will not actually update the particle system. Instead, the particle system will be updated when the base.Update() function is called, as this is when all of the Game Components get updated. However, having these function calls remain here will not cause any problems and will allow the particle systems to still be updated if you set DPSF to not inherit from DrawableGameComponent, but you may remove them if you like.
Where mcWorldMatrix, mcViewMatrix, and mcProjectionMatrix are the World, View, and Projection matrices respectively. You must set the World, View, and Projection matrices before drawing to ensure that the particle systems are drawn properly according to the camera's properties. Since Sprite Particle Systems are drawn in 2D screen coordinates, they will not be affected by the World, View, and Projection matrices, but it does not hurt to set them anyways if they will be mixed in with 3D particle systems. To set the transformation matrix for a Sprite particle system, you can set the mcFireballParticleSystem.SpriteBatchSettings.TransformationMatrix property.
If DPSF is set to inherit from DrawableGameComponent, these function calls will not actually draw the particle system. The particle system will be updated when the base.Draw() function is called, as this is when all of the Game Components get drawn. However, having these function calls remain here will not cause any problems and will allow the particle systems to still be drawn if you set DPSF to not inherit from DrawableGameComponent, but you may remove them if you like.
It is a good idea to destroy particle systems when they are not in use and you know they won't be used again for a while, as this will free all resources used by the particle system. This can free up a lot of memory, especially if the particle system has memory allocated for a large number of particles. When you are ready to use the particle system again, just re-initialize it. If the particle system is used frequently however you may want to just leave it initialized, as initializing and destroying particle systems allocates and de-allocates memory, which is expensive to do at run-time, especially if many (thousands or tens of thousands) of particles are allocated by the particle system.
For more examples of defining, updating, and drawing particle systems take a look at the GameMain.cs file included in the DPSF Demo source code.


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Per M. Goverud (1 October 1905 – 10 September 1976) was a Norwegian politician for the Centre Party.

He served as a deputy representative to the Parliament of Norway from Vestfold during the term 1958–1961. In total he met during 26 days of parliamentary session. He hailed from Hof.

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1905 births
1976 deaths
People from Hof, Vestfold
Deputy members of the Storting
Centre Party (Norway) politicians
Vestfold politicians