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История почты и почтовых марок Лагоса, ныне входящего в состав современной Нигерии, охватывает период второй половины XIX — начала XX веков, когда в почтовом обращении британской  использовались собственные почтовые марки (1874—1906).

Домарочный период
Ранняя история почты этой территории началась в 1851 году, когда Великобритания захватила Лагос и его остров, бывший центром трансатлантической работорговли. В 1861 году Великобритания объявила Лагос своей колонией, а в 1886 году — протекторатом. Уже с 1852 года из Лагоса начал ходить почтовый пакетбот, однако календарный штемпель и ручной штемпель  («Оплачено в Лагосе») здесь стали использоваться только с марта 1859 года.

Выпуски почтовых марок
Первые почтовые марки Лагоса были выпущены 10 июня 1874 года. Миниатюры были выгравированы и отпечатаны лондонской компанией De La Rue в марочных листах по 60 штук, на бумаге с водяным знаком  и зубцовкой 12½. При этом марки печатались в два приёма — основной и дополнительный, которым производилась надпись номинала. На марках первых эмиссий был помещён портрет королевы Виктории и дано название территории. Выпуск марок продолжался до 1905 года.

Лагос стал первой британской колонией, для которой были эмитированы марки высоких номиналов (2 шиллинга 6 пенсов, 5 и 10 шиллингов), однако марки достоинством в 10 шиллингов в основном употреблялись для фискальных нужд.

Всего за тридцать лет (1874—1904) для Лагоса было издано 59 почтовых марок. Надписи на оригинальных марках гласили: «Lagos» («Лагос»);  («Почтовый сбор») и  («Почтовый и гербовый сбор»).

В составе Южной Нигерии
С 16 февраля 1906 года Лагос был включён в состав протектората Южная Нигерия, который затем сам стал частью современной Нигерии в 1914 году. С 1906 года на территории Лагоса начали применяться марки Южной Нигерии, однако остатки лагосских марок также были в одновременном почтовом обращении по всей территории этого протектората, пока их запасы не были израсходованы.

Память
В 1974 году в ознаменование 100-летия со дня выхода первой почтовой марки на своей территории Нигерией выпускалась юбилейная серия из четырёх марок номиналами в 5, 12, 18 и 30 кобо. На миниатюре достоинством в 18 кобо была запечатлена первая лагосская однопенсовая марка 1874 года. Художник этой и двух других марок серии — С. Элуаре (S. Eluare), четвёртая марка была создана А. Онвудимегву (A. Onwudimegwu).

К 120-й годовщине первой нигерийской марки в 1994 году также выходила серия из четырёх миниатюр номиналами в 1; 1,50; 5 и 10 найр, последняя из них — с изображением марки Лагоса 1874 года.

См. также

Примечания

Литература
 Proud T. The Postal History of Nigeria. — Heathfield, East Sussex, UK: Proud-Bailey Co. Ltd., 1995. — ISBN 1-872465-17-X.
 Scott 2007. Standard Postage Stamp Catalogue. — New York, NY, USA: Scott, 2006.

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Q: How to calculate employees working hours in sql My company business hour is 7:30 to 18 and 13:00 to 15:00 is lunch time.
Important part is about lunch time that should not calculate as working time of employee at all.

*

*So imagine employee start working at 8:30 and exit at 15:00 so the time of 4:30 hours should be calculate for him. actually I want to remove lunch time from attendance time of employee in different situations:

My fields are all  in Time(7) format in Sql.

A: This is one approach in SQL Server. It fundamentally splits each person's shift into two - Pre-Lunch and Post-Lunch. When a shift goes into (or past) lunch, it uses the lunch times as the bounds instead.
I've also written it in bits (e.g., CTE, sub-query, etc) so you can run those individually to see what they do. It is likely you'll need to update it for your own database structures etc.
-- Data setup

CREATE TABLE #WorkLog (WorkDate date, StartTime time, EndTime time, StartLunch time, EndLunch time)

INSERT INTO #WorkLog (WorkDate, StartTime, EndTime, StartLunch, EndLunch) VALUES
('2020-09-01', '07:30', '18:00', '13:00', '15:00'),
('2020-09-02', '12:00', '15:00', '13:00', '15:00'),
('2020-09-03', '15:00', '18:00', '13:00', '15:00'),
('2020-09-04', '08:30', '15:00', '13:00', '15:00')

SELECT * FROM #WorkLog

------

-- Find times worked

; WITH PreLunchTimes AS
        (SELECT WorkDate,
                StartTime AS StartTime,
                CASE WHEN EndTime < StartLunch THEN EndTime ELSE StartLunch END AS EndTime
        FROM    #WorkLog
        WHERE   StartTime < StartLunch
        ),
    PostLunchTimes AS
        (SELECT WorkDate,
                CASE WHEN StartTime > EndLunch THEN StartTime ELSE EndLunch END AS StartTime,
                EndTime AS EndTime
        FROM    #WorkLog
        WHERE   EndTime > EndLunch
        )
SELECT  WorkDate, SUM(Elapsed_Mins) AS Total_Work_Mins, CAST(DATEADD(minute, SUM(Elapsed_Mins), 0) AS time) AS Total_work_time
FROM   (SELECT  WorkDate, DATEDIFF(minute, StartTime, EndTime) AS Elapsed_Mins
        FROM    PreLunchTimes
            UNION ALL
        SELECT  WorkDate, DATEDIFF(minute, StartTime, EndTime) AS Elapsed_Mins
        FROM    PostLunchTimes
        ) AS A
GROUP BY WorkDate
ORDER BY WorkDate

Here's a db<>fiddle
Issues:

*

*If you have shifts go past midnight, you'll need to add in appropriate code to deal with that.

*If all lunchtimes are 13:00 to 15:00, then you can just set these as variables (e.g., @LunchStart and @LunchEnd) rather than storing them in the data.

A: I am posting this code to solve your problem
TimeSpan? ActualTime = obj.ExitTime - obj.EnterTime;
string[] LunchTime = obj.lunchTimeString.Split('-');
TimeSpan ActualLunchTime = TimeSpan.Parse(LunchTime[1].Trim()) - TimeSpan.Parse(LunchTime[0].Trim());
TimeSpan WorkingHours = TimeSpan.Parse(ActualTime.ToString().Trim()) - TimeSpan.Parse(ActualLunchTime.ToString().Trim());

In this code what I have done is:

*

*You have to calculate the actual time including lunch time.

*Your 2nd problem is lunch time it's format is (13:00 - 15:00). So, I can't take time(7) in sql so take it as varchar and then split it with '-'.

*Then calculate the total lunch time with it.

*Lastly subtract actual time and actual lunch time you will get your working hours.

A: Alas you forgot to give us the structure of you database table. Are your EnterTime and ExitTime full DateTimes, or do you have a WorkDay, and a TimeOfDay on that day where the Employee Starts and Stops working?
Besides that you forgot to give us your table structure, I don't know how you communicate with your database, whether you use entity framework, or talk traditional SQL, and which SQL dialect you speak. Some dialects have the possibility to do DateTime calculations, others don't.
The comment of MadReflection is wise: if you can change your database, consider to remember the start and stop DateTime of the shift before lunch and the start / stop DateTime of the shift after lunch. This way you are prepared for future changes like different lunch times per Employee, or even per day of the Employee. If you think in DateTime for Enter and Exit, you can even let an Employee start working on New Year's eve and stop working in a different year.
Luckily, you don't have to let the DataBase calculate the lunchTime, because you can do the lunch time calculations locally. This is faster than letting the database management system calculate them and transfer the results from the DBMS to your local process.
Locally the lunch time calculations will just a subtraction of two longs, which is way faster than the code needed to transfer the data.
So we can't give you the SQL. You'll have to write the procedure to fetch the data yourself.
You'll need a method to fetch the EnterTime / ExitTime per Employee during a period of time, or maybe for all Employees. The result is something like:
class WorkingTimes
{
     public EmployeeInformation Employee {get; set;}

     public DateTime EnterTime {get; set;}
     public DateTime ExitTime {get; set;}
}

And methods to get this information per employee, or for all employees:
IEnumerable<WorkingTimes> FetchWorkingTimes(DateTime beginPeriod, DateTime endPeriod)
{
    ...
}

IEnumerable<WorkingTimes> FetchWorkingTimes(int employeeId,
     DateTime beginPeriod, DateTime endPeriod)
{
    ...
}

To convert the fetched data in the format that you want, a simple LINQ method will do:
class WorkingTimeExt
{
    // TODO: if needed: add employee information

    public System.DayOfWeek DayOfWeek => this.EnterTime.DayOfWeek;
    public DateTime EnterTime {get; set;}
    public DateTime ExitTime {get; set;}

    public DateTime StartLunch {get; set;}
    public DateTime StopLunch {get; set;}
    public string Lunch => String.Format("...", this.StartLunch, this.StopLunch);

    public TimeSpan WorkingTime => this.StartLunch - this.EnterTime
                                 + this.ExitTime - this.StopLunch;
}

The calculation of WorkingTime is fast, it is the addition of some longs.
TimeSpan defaultLunchStart = TimeSpan.FromHours(13.00);
TimeSpan defaultLunchEnd = TimeSpan.FromHours(15.00);

IEnumerable<WorkingTimes> fetchedWorkingTimes = ...
IEnumerable<WorkingTimesExt> result = fetchedWorkingTimes
    .Select(fetchedTimes => new WorkingTimesExt
    {
         EnterTime = fetchedWorkingTimes.EnterTime,
         ExitTime = fetchedWorkingTimes.ExitTime,
         StartLunchTime = fetchedWorkingTime.EnterTime.Date + defaultLunchStart,
         StopLunchTime = fetchedWorkingTime.ExitTime.Data + defaultLunchStop,
    });

If you need to do this regularly, consider to create an extension method for it:
IEnumerable<WorkingTimesExt> result = ToExtendedWorkingTimes(
     this IEnumerable<WorkingTimes> source,
     TimeSpan timeLunchStart,
     TimeSpan timeLunchStop)
{
    return source.Select(fetchedTimes => new WorkingTimesExt
    {
         EnterTime = fetchedWorkingTimes.EnterTime,
         ExitTime = fetchedWorkingTimes.ExitTime,
         StartLunchTime = fetchedWorkingTime.EnterTime.Date + timeLunchStart,
         StopLunchTime = fetchedWorkingTime.ExitTime.Data + timeLunchStop,
    });
}

A: Another worked option with time worked converted to HH:MM format:
CREATE TABLE t1 (dow VARCHAR(10), workstart TIME, workend TIME);
INSERT INTO t1 VALUES
('Monday', '7:30', '18:00'),
('Tuesday', '12:00', '15:00'),
('Wednesday', '15:00', '18:00'),
('Thursday', '8:30', '15:00');

WITH
lunch(lunchstart, lunchend) AS (
SELECT CAST('13:00' AS TIME), CAST('15:00' AS TIME)
),
attendances AS (
SELECT *,
CASE WHEN workstart <= lunchstart THEN
     CASE WHEN workend <= lunchstart THEN
          DATEDIFF(minute, workstart, workend)
     ELSE
          DATEDIFF(minute, workstart, lunchstart)
     END
ELSE 0 END --AS morning_shift
+
CASE WHEN workend >= lunchend THEN
     CASE WHEN workstart >= lunchend THEN
          DATEDIFF(minute, workstart, workend)
     ELSE
          DATEDIFF(minute, lunchend, workend)
     END
ELSE 0 END --AS afternoon_shift
AS total_mins
FROM t1, lunch
)
SELECT *, FORMAT(total_mins / 60 * 100 + total_mins % 60, '#:0#') AS hhmm
FROM attendances;

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The Company is a recognized pioneer and leading developer of hyper-realistic digital humans for entertainment, virtual reality, augmented reality and artificial intelligence. Pulse is most popularly known for producing the animated digital human likeness of the late Michael Jackson that appeared in a live performance of the Billboard Music Awards on May 18, 2014, seen by more than 11 million television viewers and generating more than 2,400 news articles and 98 billion Internet impressions, and, more recently, the co-creation and development of live entertainment properties and television show formats featuring the iconic Swedish pop group ABBA.
Founded by the world's leading executives and producers of photorealistic digital humans, such as the lead character from the film "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button" and the concert experience "Tupac at Coachella," Pulse is currently developing computer-generated digital humans for entertainment and media applications, such as holographic live performances, virtual reality, augmented reality and artificial intelligence. The Company has a multi-year revenue share agreement with the Estate of Michael Jackson and the Company also counts the estates of Michael Jackson, Elvis Presley and Marilyn Monroe as significant shareholders.
The Company sees digital humans emerging as ubiquitous in society, culture and industry. They will not only perform for audiences on stage or in film, but they will also represent individual consumers as digital likeness avatars, in realistic and fantasy form, appearing and interacting on the consumer's behalf in electronic and mobile communication, social media, video games and virtual reality. Future digital humans will provide a relatable human interface for artificial intelligence applications, 'thinking' machine systems that, through the Company's technology, will appear as realistic communicating humans in mobile devices, digital signage, classrooms and through lightweight wearable augmented reality glasses and virtual reality headsets. The Company's long-term goal is to develop its technology beyond entertainment applications, ultimately supporting licensees and joint venture partners who are seeking to build the 'face' of artificial intelligence, to provide a human form to interactive artificially intelligent computer beings.
Pulse has operations in Hobe Sound, Florida and Las Vegas, Nevada.
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This news release includes certain information that may constitute forward-looking statements. Forward-looking statements are typically identified by terminology such as "could," "may," "will," "expects," "anticipates," "future," "intends," "plans," "believes," "estimates," "proposed," "planned," "potential" and similar expressions, or are those, which, by their nature, refer to future events. All statements, other than statements of historical fact, included herein, including statements about Pulse's beliefs and expectations, are forward-looking statements. Forward-looking information is necessarily based upon a number of assumptions that, while considered reasonable, are subject to known and unknown risks, uncertainties and other factors which may cause the actual results and future events to differ materially from those expressed or implied by such forward-looking information. Although Pulse believes that such statements are reasonable, it can give no assurance that such forward-looking information will prove to be accurate. Pulse cautions investors that any forward-looking statements by the Company are not guarantees of future results or performance, and that actual results may differ materially from those in forward-looking statements as a result of various factors. Accordingly, due to the risks, uncertainties and assumptions inherent in forward-looking information, readers and prospective investors in the Company's securities should not place undue reliance on forward-looking information. All forward-looking information contained in this press release is given as of the date hereof, and is based upon the opinions and estimates of management and information available to management as at the date hereof and is subject to change. The Company assumes no obligation to revise or update forward-looking information to reflect new circumstances, whether as a result of new information, future events or otherwise, except as required by law.
In addition, certain statements in this communication related to Recall Studios' offer to acquire Pulse Evolution, including the combined company's future performance, results, and plans, are "forward-looking statements" that are subject to risks and uncertainties, are based on management's current expectations, and as a result of the following risks and uncertainties, among others, actual results and events may differ materially: the consummation of the proposed transaction; the successful integration of Recall Studios and Pulse Evolution and the ability to realize synergies and other benefits; the availability of funds to meet debt obligations and to fund operations and necessary capital expenditures; and the risks and uncertainties detailed by Pulse Evolution in its filings with the OTC. More information on potential factors that could affect our financial results is included from time to time in Recall Studios' SEC filings and reports. Pulse disclaims any obligation to update information contained in these forward-looking statements.
The tender offer referenced in this press release has not yet commenced. This communication is for information purposes only and is not an offer nor a solicitation of an offer to purchase, sell or exchange securities or a solicitation of a proxy from any stockholder. Subject to future developments, additional documents regarding the proposed transaction, such as a registration statement on Form S-4, may be filed with the SEC, which investors should read carefully if and when they become available because they contain important information. Investors may obtain a free copy of the documents filed by Recall Studios, when they are available, from the SEC's website at www.sec.gov.
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is going on right now and there is a big huge day of announcements from Microsoft, Sony, EA, and Ubisoft.
*Microsoft already happened and the highlights from their conference is down below.
The new ELITE Xbox controller!
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Q: SELECT FOUND_ROWS() always returns ONE, How to solve this the following sql always returns one SELECT FOUND_ROWS()
i have followed this example from net :
public List<Employee> viewAllEmployees(
                int offset,
                int noOfRecords)
    {
        String query = "select SQL_CALC_FOUND_ROWS * from employee limit "
                 + offset + ", " + noOfRecords;
        List<Employee> list = new ArrayList<Employee>();
        Employee employee = null;
        try {
            connection = getConnection();
            stmt = connection.createStatement();
            ResultSet rs = stmt.executeQuery(query);
            while (rs.next()) {
                employee = new Employee();
                employee.setEmployeeId(rs.getInt("emp_id"));
                employee.setEmployeeName(rs.getString("emp_name"));
                employee.setSalary(rs.getDouble("salary"));
                employee.setDeptName(rs.getString("dept_name"));
                list.add(employee);
            }
            rs.close();

            rs = stmt.executeQuery("SELECT FOUND_ROWS()");
            if(rs.next())
                this.noOfRecords = rs.getInt(1);
        } catch (SQLException e) {
            e.printStackTrace();
        } catch (ClassNotFoundException e) {
            e.printStackTrace();
        }finally
        {
            try {
                if(stmt != null)
                    stmt.close();
                if(connection != null)
                    connection.close();
                } catch (SQLException e) {
                e.printStackTrace();
            }
        }
        return list;
    }

and this is my code based on the above :
public List<TempcardViewModel> getTempcardHistory(String query) {
        TempcardViewModel tempcardObj = null;
        List<TempcardViewModel> tempcardList = new ArrayList<TempcardViewModel>();
        Connection connection = getConnection();
        if (connection != null) {
            try {
                PreparedStatement assingedTempcardPS = connection.prepareStatement(query);
                ResultSet assingedTempcardlist_rst = assingedTempcardPS.executeQuery();
                    while (assingedTempcardlist_rst.next()) {
                        tempcardObj = new TempcardViewModel();
                        tempcardObj.setEmpid(assingedTempcardlist_rst.getInt("empid"));
                        tempcardObj.setEmpname( assingedTempcardlist_rst.getString("empname"));
                        tempcardObj.setTempcardnumber(assingedTempcardlist_rst.getString("tempcardnumber"));
                        tempcardObj.setIssuedate(assingedTempcardlist_rst.getString("issuedate"));
                        tempcardObj.setTempcardstatus(assingedTempcardlist_rst.getString("tempcardstatus"));
                        tempcardList.add(tempcardObj);
                    }
                    assingedTempcardPS.close();
                    assingedTempcardlist_rst.close();

                    PreparedStatement noOfRecordsPS = connection.prepareStatement("SELECT FOUND_ROWS();");
                    assingedTempcardlist_rst = noOfRecordsPS.executeQuery();
                    if(assingedTempcardlist_rst.next())
                        this.noOfRecords = assingedTempcardlist_rst.getInt(1);
            } catch (Exception ex) {
                ex.printStackTrace();
            } finally {
                try {
                    closeConnection(connection, null, null);
                } catch (Exception ex) {
                    ex.printStackTrace();
                }
            }
        }
        return tempcardList;
    }

I am using this for paging which i have done in jsp/servlets.
when i use this SELECT FOUND_ROWS() it returns 1
at the same time when i use this query : SELECT COUNT(empid) FROM acct_tempcardhistory;
it gives desired out put but when i go for filtering than the values are not correct.
how to solve this, Please help me.
thanks and regards

A: You can try like this;
   PreparedStatement noOfRecordsPS = connection.prepareStatement("SELECT FOUND_ROWS() FROM acct_tempcardhistory;");


Northern Oklahoma College in Tonkawa is hosting their annual Alumni & Friends Day at the Ballpark Saturday, April 13. at the Maverick Sports Complex in Tonkawa.
The Mavs baseball team is scheduled to host NOC-Enid at 1 p.m. for a double header, while the Mavs softball team hosts NOC-Enid at 2 p.m. for two games.
Free food will be served at 2 p.m.
However, a concern going in to Saturday is will rain make an impact on the games. At this time (Thursday), the games are still scheduled for Saturday. The National Weather Service in Norman is expecting rain chances to kick in after 1 p.m. Saturday Afternoon. If the games are cancelled due to weather, we will inform you.


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Category Archives: EX (remade)
Ever since I put your picture in a frame…
Posted in EX (remade), Uncategorized
EX 2014. Billy Mullaney, Annie Enneking, Megan Mayer, Charles Campbell
This is the fourth in a series of posts leading up to Skewed Visions' remaking of the performance EX from 2014 called EX(remade) in June 2016. In addition to maybe supplying some history and background from the initial production, this series might also provide some context for the current production, including how the current piece is being shaped out of what came before. Last time I talked about using a song to shape the performance. This post comes out of my ass.
For the first time since its recording, I watched documentation of EX all the way through. If you aren't familiar with the pain of watching your own work, you likely have a healthier self-esteem than I. One thing I noticed — not only becauseI wanted to extract my eyeballs every other second — was the fact that the performance of EX(remade) in June 2016 must be deeply different than EX was back in 2014.
Of course from the beginning it was intentional to remake this performance, rather than to reproduce it. As I have noticed several times while watching "the same" performance at a further distance in time from its initial manifestation, this quickly lends itself to a kind of bleeding of the work. Where, although all the punctuation is correct, the lifeblood of the experience has been drained away and we're left with a convincing simulacrum. I have found myself wanting to defend these High-Definition Digital Copies, but doing so makes me feel cheap and as if I had fallen for a simple con I should have seen through. The stakes ought to be higher than that.
So now but I also don't want to do lose what I alluded to in an earlier post, a desire to resist conventional modes of dealing with these things so that the mundane, practical and pervasive (skin, dust, blinking) nature of the suffering and loss is present and tactile. And if reproduction would turn this texture into a glossy image of the show, doing something like "quoting" it (yes, my darlings, that crossed my mind — despite how it now looks like intellectual masturbation) is just as bad.
So what is "deeply different," wise guy?
I think it's simply because I am making a piece about two years ago, rather than making a piece about now. In that way, in my head, it's like something being framed.
I hope it works.
Ex and the Codex
Posted in EX (remade), History, New Work, Uncategorized
photo: Willis Bowman
This is the third in a series of posts leading up to Skewed Visions' remaking of the performance EX from 2014 called EX(remade) in June 2016. In addition to supplying some history and background from the initial production, this series may also provide some context for the current production, including how the current piece is being shaped out of what came before. Last time I talked about how the process originally began out of loss. This post has a little bit about the whole deal with using a song to shape the performance.
If there is a black hole at the center of loss, then my challenge was to resist making "something" out of that nothing, and instead to keep from covering that hole with "meaning" and let it remain the "nothing" that it is.
In making EX, I returned to structure to help me out.
Back in 2007 I gave my part of Strange Love (device/performance) a structure that I thought was intimately connected to the content of the piece as I saw it. If the initial impulse of that piece was to bring the life of Stanley Kubrick's Dr Strangelove film into contemporary political reality because of a rhetorical echo between "communism" and "terrorism", than the trope of cyclic returning was apt, and so a cyclical structure seemed appropriate for the performance — even though there was nothing inherent to the material I was using that demanded it. The film isn't particularly cyclic.
It was my impression at the time that the triple recurrence of the performance gave shape to what was essentially a self-destructive entropic dive. I hoped that it also helped make my point, such as it was.
For EX, I didn't want there to be this kind of "positive" outcome, a shape that lent itself to meaning. But my experience with Strange Love suggested that using a very concrete structure was useful to give the audience something to hang onto when what there was in terms of "plot" or "narrative" was being destroyed along with language, images, and theatrical conventions. So it was very purposeful to take the structure of Radiohead's song Codex and use it as the scaffolding that the material that we were making in the studio could live on. I didn't want to "destroy" plot, narrative, conventions, in EX. I wanted to get along with the tattered remains that I was left with. I wanted the emptiness.
So the connection between the song and the performance would be arbitrary, but purposeful. (The echo of the name was coincidental.) There were repetitions in EX, but they occurred not because I wanted them to, or because the idea of repetition was thematically relevant to the content of the piece we were making, but because the song structure provided it for us.
I took advantage of my participation in Emily Gastineau's project for her Art Is Easy in 2014 at the Minnesota Biennial ,,, at the Soap Factory to map out the song's structure. I taped a very long sheet of paper to the wall, plugged in my earbuds, and made a lot of marks. At the end of this mapping I had a chart that more-or-less represented the sonic aspects of the song over time, with each kind of sound having its own track across the page. Each second of the song translated into 12.63 seconds of performance. Billy decided to call this sheet of paper that we'd tape up and take down at every rehearsal, the Codex. Then, after coming up with a lot of different kinds of things in the studio, I assigned them to different tracks on the Codex. Voila.
That's why although there are a few seconds of the Radiohead song that are looped at one point in the performance, there is no need to know the song, or hear the song, or know about this process, to experience the performance fully. The connection between the two is arbitrary and structural, and doesn't allow the imposed gratification or meaning of the song to shape the content of the black hole. But it does — if you'll excuse this runaway metaphor — mark the black hole's event horizon.


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This is a lovely school that follows a traditional community school model. It has high expectations of its students but understands that all students are different, and success should be fostered in whatever form it takes, not just academic.
This school therefore teaches in a holistic manor and allows its teachers the freedom to make lessons creative and inspiring. From September, they will be losing a member of the Humanities department who is relocating and therefore have a vacancy for a committed Geography Teacher.
The school has good behaviour throughout and Geography as a subject is popular at GCSE with improving results.
There is a great support network in place and teachers at this school benefit from the numerous professional development opportunities offered.
The school is looking for an inspiration and engaging Geography Teacher who is confident in their ability to deliver good or better lessons on a consistent basis.
The school is not concerned what stage of career the teacher is at as they can offer a leading induction for NQT's and possible responsibility for experienced teachers.
The school is looking for a teacher who is hard-working and committed to seeing pupils from a range of cultural and social backgrounds achieve excellent results. The school offers ongoing professional development and career progression based on performance.
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Delphinium dubium är en ranunkelväxtart som först beskrevs av Georges Rouy och Fouc., och fick sitt nu gällande namn av Pawl.. Delphinium dubium ingår i släktet storriddarsporrar, och familjen ranunkelväxter. Inga underarter finns listade i Catalogue of Life.

Källor

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Q: Run function after any category is deleted I need to delete some of the values of custom field whenever any categories is deleted. I tried this hook but it is not working.
add_action( 'delete_term_taxonomy', function($tt_id) {

    // Whatever i need to do after a category is deleted

}, 9, 1);

Can any one help me with this?
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I am dynamically populating list of categories into advanced custom field repeater which has fields like category_name, category_description, category_slug, enabled and order.
function my_acf_set_repeater( $value, $post_id, $field ){

//     echo '
'; print_r($value); echo '
';

    // this one should consists array of the names
    $settings_values = get_categories();

    $i = 0;

    foreach( $settings_values as $settings_value ){
//      echo $settings_value->name;
      $value[$i]['field_6357b02a9bb1b'] = $settings_value->name;
        $value[$i]['field_63594327553ef'] = $settings_value->description;
                $value[$i]['field_635945b6aa743'] = $settings_value->slug;
      $i++;

    }

//     echo '
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    return $value;

}

add_filter('acf/load_value/name=categories_to_display_in_homepage', 'my_acf_set_repeater', 10, 3);

This repeater is shown in theme option page, so that user can enable which categories to show in home page along with ordering it.
Fields like category_name, category_description, category_slug are dynamic. Fields enabled and order are custom which user fills in.
Its working fine. But the problem here is, whenever a category is deleted, it is removed from theme option page as well. But the enabled field and order field values are shifted to another category in that repeater field.
So I need to remove that field values related to deleted category as well.


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The Underwater Welder
Oct 01, 2012 Issue #42 - The Protest Issue By Ryan Hamm
It seems like Jeff Lemire shouldn't be successful. The artist and writer tells emotional stories, uses non-traditional art and watercolors to create impressionistic settings and characters, and seems obsessed with tales about family and fatherhood.
And yet, somehow, he's become one of the comic book world's most sought-after voices, with his acclaimed runs on Sweet Tooth and Animal Man making him one of the most popular writers in the industry.
With The Underwater Welder, Lemire has returned to the art form of the graphic novel. The novel, like his incredible Essex County (also published by Top Shelf), takes place in Canada, though this time in a seaport village instead of a rural community.
The plot centers on Jack, who works as an underwater welder on an oil rig and is about to become a father. He finds himself drawn to a mysterious stopwatch he discovers while diving. In his quest to find out what the watch means, he wrestles with his disappointment in his own father, what it means to be a responsible and good husband and dad, and how living in the past can destroy your future. The story veers into the supernatural, but in a very meaningful way. Like all of Lemire's work, the story packs an emotional gut punch that hits you when you're not expecting it. It's sure to stand as one of the year's best books in any medium. (www.topshelfcomix.com)
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package co.uid.controller;

import javax.faces.bean.ManagedBean;
import javax.faces.bean.SessionScoped;
import java.io.Serializable;

/**
 * @author Max Levicky
 *         Date: 29.03.2014
 *         Time: 12:05
 */
@ManagedBean(name = "systemController")
@SessionScoped
public class SystemController implements Serializable {
    private String messages;
//    @RequestMapping(value = "/", method = RequestMethod.GET)
//    public String getItem(Model model) {
//        Item item = new ItemImpl();
//        model.addAttribute("item", item);
//        return "index";
//    }

    public String getMessages() {
        String result = messages;
        messages = "";
        return result;
    }

    public void addMessage(String message) {
        messages = message;
    }
}

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Coelophoris is een geslacht van vlinders van de familie spinneruilen (Erebidae).

Soorten
C. andasy Viette, 1965
C. ankasoka Viette, 1965
C. comorensis Viette, 1981
C. lakato Viette, 1965
C. lucifer Viette, 1972
C. marojejy Viette, 1965
C. pluriplaga Viette, 1956
C. sogai Viette, 1965
C. trilineata Mabille, 1900

Spinneruilen


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Colonel Kwiatkowski ()  is a Polish comedy-drama film directed by Kazimierz Kutz. It was released in 1996. The movie is loosely based on post-WW2 life of , a Polish anti-Soviet resistance member who assumed a false identity of "Wojciech Kossowski" to infiltrate the Polish People's Army.

Plot
Just after the end of the World War 2, Kwiatkowski, a military physician, finds himself in a quarrel with a Soviet officer. To avoid escalation, he pretends that he is a high-ranking UB official. After getting away with it, he is asked by a mother of an AK fighter to help her son from becoming a political prisoner. Kwiatkowski frees the young man by pretending to make an inspection of the facility he is jailed in. The fake officer decides to use the post-war confusion and lawlessness to liberate several other political prisoners.

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1996 films
Polish comedy-drama films
1990s Polish-language films
1996 comedy-drama films


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A Very Merry Burnett Christmas
What's On Things To Do What others are saying
Giving your loved ones and North Burnett locals lots to smile about this Christmas!
If we asked you to tell us what you know about Bundaberg, you'd undoubtedly say one thing: it's where Bundaberg Rum comes from. And while this is most certainly true, and almost makes a visit to the coastal city worthwhile all on its own, that isn't the only reason to make the drive north. Turns out, as well as being home to some spectacular beaches, Lady Elliot Island and the access point to a World Heritage-listed marine park, Bundaberg is a food and booze lovers haven, chock-a-block full of amazing places to eat, drink and then drink some more (this is rum country after, all).
Discover Kinkuna, Bundaberg's Hidden Gem
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What would you say if I told you that you could camp on an unspoilt beach just 45 minutes from Bundaberg? What would you say if I also told you that you may even have the beach all to yourself if you time it just right? Let's say a sneaky little mid-week getaway...
Holiday like a Celebrity
Turtles Attractions Accommodation Itineraries What others are saying
Ever wondered what Bundaberg hotspots would catch the eye of a Hollywood actor? Well look no further! Recently the charming Lincoln Lewis, who started out on Home & Away and is the son of NRL legend Wally Lewis, strolled into town looking for adventure.
50 Years of Turtle Research
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This summer marks half a century of turtle research at Bundaberg's Mon Repos beach. We talk to the man who started it all, way back when, and who is still talking to the turtles, 50 years on.


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U.S. Wonders if Drug Data Was Accurate
By ALEX BERENSON
The Food and Drug Administration is examining whether Eli Lilly & Company provided it with accurate data about the side effects of the antipsychotic drug Zyprexa, a potent medicine that has been linked to weight gain and diabetes.
The F.D.A. has questions about a Lilly document from February 2000 in which the company found that patients taking Zyprexa in clinical trials were three and a half times as likely to develop high blood sugar as those who did not take the drug.
That document was not submitted to the agency. But a few months later, Lilly provided data to the F.D.A. that showed almost no difference in blood sugar between patients who took Zyprexa and those who did not.
The F.D.A. confirmed its inquiry in response to questions from The New York Times. The agency said it had not yet decided whether to take any action against Lilly.
"The F.D.A. continues to explore the concerns raised recently regarding information provided to the F.D.A. on Zyprexa's safety," Dr. Mitchell Mathis, a deputy director in the psychiatry division of the agency's center for drug evaluation and research, said.
A Lilly spokesman, Phil Belt, said the company had rechecked its database and found errors in the original statistics. The data submitted later was accurate, Mr. Belt said.
But the 2000 document said that its figures had already been checked for error. The Times disclosed the existence of the document in an article last December.
The discrepancy between Lilly's initial data and what it later submitted came at a time when Zyprexa's sales were soaring, even as some doctors and foreign regulatory agencies were questioning the drug's safety.
The F.D.A. has never concluded that Zyprexa causes diabetes more than other widely used psychiatric drugs, although the American Diabetes Association has.
Zyprexa remains Lilly's top-selling drug, with $4 billion in worldwide annual sales. But prescriptions in the United States have fallen nearly 50 percent since 2003 amid the safety concerns.
Zyprexa and other antipsychotics are intended to quell the hallucinations and delusions associated with schizophrenia and to treat some cases of mania.
The document from 2000 and others were provided to The Times by James B. Gottstein, a lawyer who represents mentally ill people he says are forced to take psychiatric medications against their will.
Besides the F.D.A. inquiry, Lilly is facing federal and state investigations into the way it marketed and promoted Zyprexa. The company has already agreed to pay $1.2 billion to settle 28,500 lawsuits from people who contend that they developed diabetes or other diseases after taking the drug. At least 1,200 more lawsuits are pending.
Mr. Belt, the Lilly spokesman, said in a statement that the company properly marketed Zyprexa and disclosed its side effects to the F.D.A. and doctors.
"Lilly always cooperates fully with requests for information from the F.D.A.," he said, "and that includes any requests regarding information on Zyprexa. Lilly is forthcoming with all relevant clinical data on all of our products."
Lawyers who represent drug companies said the F.D.A. largely depended on the companies to be honest about the side effects of their drugs. With a staff of fewer than 3,000, including support personnel, the agency's drug division oversees more than 12,000 prescription medicines and 400 nonprescription drugs.
In most cases, said William W. Vodra, senior counsel at the law firm of Arnold & Porter and a former F.D.A. associate chief counsel, it does not perform detailed audits of clinical trials or independently check the integrity of the data that companies send to it.
"There's no way they could police the system with the resources they have," Mr. Vodra said. Companies provide the agency's scientists with so much information that "there is a point at which you can't even think about what they've given you," he added, "let alone what's behind that stuff that they may not have given you."
Robert A. Dormer, a partner in the law firm of Hyman, Phelps & McNamara, who represents drug companies, said that the companies did not have to provide every analysis they performed to the F.D.A. "Companies do lots of drafts of things," Mr. Dormer said.
The Zyprexa document that has aroused the most interest at the F.D.A. is a Feb. 21, 2000, paper in which Lilly scientists discussed whether Zyprexa's label should be changed to alert doctors of the risk of hyperglycemia, or high blood sugar, associated with the drug.
The paper showed that 154 of 4,234 patients, or 3.6 percent, who took Zyprexa in clinical trials developed high blood sugar. Only 1.1 percent of patients who took a placebo developed the condition.
Doctors have said that difference is worrisome because most patients in the clinical trials were taking Zyprexa for only a few weeks or months. Untreated hyperglycemia can eventually lead to diabetes, a disease in which the body's insulin-producing cells die and patients lose the ability to regulate their blood sugar. Diabetes is the sixth-leading cause of death in the United States.
The data that Lilly provided to the F.D.A. was notably different from the results discussed in the February 2000 paper, with the gap between the two patient groups much narrower. The company told the agency that patients taking Zyprexa developed high blood sugar at a 3.1 percent rate, while those taking the placebo had a 2.5 percent rate.
Mr. Belt said that after the February 2000 paper, Lilly performed a final quality check of the data and discovered that some patients had been incorrectly included in the analysis, while others had been excluded.
"The original data referred to in the memo was a preliminary analysis, not the final accurate analysis that was provided to the F.D.A., and is therefore very misleading," he said.
The Times reported in December on the existence of the February 2000 document, as well as other company documents and e-mail messages that contradicted public statements by Lilly about Zyprexa's risks.
Lilly has said that the documents and e-mail messages were taken out of context and do not present a balanced view of Zyprexa's risks and benefits. A federal judge has criticized The Times for violating a protective order that covered the documents.
N.Y. / Region
Copyright 2007 The New York Times Company


With Uber upending the transportation industry, Airbnb shaking up hospitality, and a host of financial services companies aiming to unseat the incumbents, it can be a scary time to be a legacy company, whatever your current market position. Billions of dollars are flowing into startups, most of them hoping to destroy the old guard across a variety of industries.
If you're Allstate, the insurance giant founded in 1931 with over $35 billion in revenue and an impressive spot (#81) on the Fortune 500 list, you fight back by forming a company-wide effort called CompoZed Labs, the stated goal being to "provide fully functional technology services and products at extreme speed, improving quality and delivering beautiful business solutions that work at Allstate."
Join us for an Agile in Action Field Report on Julie Clayton's two-year journey of launching Allstate's Charlotte-based CompoZed Agile development lab and leading cross-functional teams into a zone of elevated innovation, productivity, and performance. Additional details and to RSVP for this Next Wave Agility-sponsored free event.


Galyn Johnson, P.C. provides services in all areas of Family Law. This includes, but is not limited to divorce, custody/parental responsibility, parenting time/visitation, child support, spousal maintenance, division of property and debt, division of military retirement and other retirements, step parent adoptions, modification of prior orders and paternity.
We hope to make a difficult process easier by providing reasonable, affordable, efficient and knowledgeable service to our clients. We are a small firm so you know from the outset that Galyn will be dealing with your case. Galyn handles all cases with the efficient help of her paralegal, Marianne.
We believe that in any divorce situation there are no "winners". If you are looking for an attorney who will guarantee you a "win", do not look here. If you are looking for someone to help you get what is fair and in everyone's best interests then give us a call. Our job is to protect your interests, to help you through a difficult time, and get you a fair and equitable settlement. This we will do. We will not take your spouse "to the cleaners" and we will not rack up unnecessary attorney fees just to "make him pay".
We care about you and your family, and we will use our expertise to ensure that you are able to move on with your life in the best way possible.
Our retainers usually start between $2250.00 and $3750.00, depending on the complexities of your case. Please contact us to set up a Free Initial Consultation for a definite retainer amount.


This Wild Celery soup is an alternative to the traditional one served after sunset during Ramadan in Morocco when food is allowed to be eaten and the daily fast has ended.
I think it makes a welcome addition to a bleak rain-swept cold winter's day offering warmth and comfort.
The Mallow adds texture and thickens the soup due to its mucilaginous qualities.
Heat a large saucepan over a medium heat. Add the oil and onion and cook for 5 minutes without colouring. Add the wild celery and fry for a further couple of minutes. Stir in all the spices and coat in the oil.
When the lentils are cooked add the mallow with some seasoning and simmer for a further couple of minutes to wilt the leaves.
Pour into bowls and serve immediately with the lemon wedges to squeeze over the top.


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Expanded Liability for Sexual Harassment in Illinois
By Kenneth W. Gage and Jon A. Geier
On April 16, 2009, the Illinois Supreme Court expanded Illinois employers exposure to damages for sexual harassment and distinguished Illinois law from federal law in this area. In Sangamon County Sheriffs Department v. The Illinois Human Rights Commission, (Sangamon County), the Illinois Supreme Court held that an employer is strictly liable for sexual harassment committed by a supervisor, regardless of whether he is the plaintiffs supervisor or in the plaintiffs chain of command.
The plaintiff in Sangamon County was a records clerk with the Sheriffs Department. The alleged harasser was a patrol division sergeant. He worked a different shift that partially overlapped with the plaintiffs shift, but he had no supervisory authority over her. The Sheriffs Department responded promptly when the plaintiff first complained of the harassment, conducted a thorough investigation, and disciplined the harasser. The Human Rights Commission found the Sheriffs Department strictly liable for the harassment that preceded the plaintiffs complaint and awarded her damages.
Challenges Regulators Face when Conducting Bank Stress Tests
Kenneth W. Gage
Global Compensation, Benefits, and ERISA


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Five Characteristics of Ultra-High-Net-Worth Investors
Many financial advisors dream of catering to the most elite investors seeking advice on how to invest their great fortunes. Here is an inside look into the attitudes and characteristics of the denizens of elite advisors mahogany-paneled executive suites.
By Gil Weinreich | December 09, 2011 at 08:48 AM
Many financial advisors dream of catering to the most elite investors seeking advice on how to invest their great fortunes. With thanks to the Spectrem Group, which surveys ultra-high-net-worth investors–those with $5 million to $25 million in assets to invest–on a quarterly basis, here is an inside look into the attitudes and characteristics of the denizens of elite advisors' mahogany-paneled executive suites.
The ultra-high-net-worth are young retirees, who amassed their great fortunes as managers, business owners and senior corporate executives. Their average age is 61; only 24% are still working full-time. The fully retired (63%) vastly outnumber the semi-retired (13%).
Most of the ultra-high-net-worth seek the help of a professional advisor. A third of UHNW investors enjoy regular advisory relationships and another 27% seek an advisor's help when events impel them to–for example, when they want to plan for retirement or diversify an overly concentrated portfolio after a corporate liquidity event. There is plenty of room for advisors form new relationships or expand existing relationships with UHNW investors. Fully 43% of UHNW assets are untended by advisors. And while UHNW investors express the highest level of satisfaction with their advisors (80% are satisfied), a smaller percentage (70%) were pleased
with their advice during the recent recession.
How does an advisor impress one of these coveted clients? By being honest and trustworthy. That is the preference of 99% of UHNW investors choosing a new advisor; in comparison, only 83% said fees were a key concern, less than those who identified the advisor's track record (93%), transparency and communication (93%) or depth of products and services (86%) as key criteria. Evidently, this is where an advisor's reputation, built over many years, counts the most.
How does an advisor lose his UHNW clients? Poor communications is the key reason identified by UHNW clients, including not returning phone calls in a timely manner (57%), not proactively contacting the client (49%) and not returning emails in a timely manner (42%). In contrast, not providing the client with good ideas and advice (49%) and long-term portfolio losses (29%) were of lesser significance. Most UHNW clients hear from their advisors on a monthly (49%) or semi-annual (33%) basis, and are satisfied with the frequency of the advisor's communications tools (account statements, newsletters, face-to-face meetings, etc.). However, UHNW were less than impressed with the quality specifically of newsletters (23% satisfaction) and blogs (11%).
How loyal are UHNW clients? Most (62%) have just one advisor. In the event an advisor separated from his firm, 60% of clients would follow the advisor whereas the safety and brand name of the firm would keep 40% of clients in their place. Two-thirds of UHNW are comfortable with the fees they pay their advisors, and they prefer fees over commissions by a two-to-one margin.
While little in this report should come as a surprise to those familiar with ultra-wealthy investors, the very low satisfaction with advisor blogs may provide the best clue as to how advisors may prospect among this client segment.
Spectrem suggests that newer forms of online communication may provide an opportunity "not only to communicate with existing clients but to appeal to prospective clients who will become familiar with your investment attitudes." Such communications may also provide advisors with a venue to build the reputation for honesty and trustworthiness that UHNW investors desire most in an advisor.


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Q: Is blazor stable enough now for production or should i use MVC with a JS Framework instead? It has been awhile since blazor has been introduced and I was about to use Vue and ASP.NET Core MVC for my next project but I forgot Blazor exists. I was wondering if this framework is stable enough to invest? The project won't be something big though

A: Blazor Server Side is production ready, but Client Side is not as of today (12/12/19).


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Human activity risking life on Earth, warn scientists
A group of scientists have warned that human activity is destabilising the Earth system that we depend on, with four of the nine planetary boundaries now being crossed, potentially leading to serious risks and dangers.
The researchers explain that the planetary boundaries concept, first published in 2009, identifies nine global priorities relating to human-induced changes to the environment. These nine processes and systems regulate the stability and resilience of the Earth system – the complex interaction of land, ocean, atmosphere and life – that humans depend on.
In a new study, published in the journal Science, the international team of 18 researchers find that four of these boundaries have now been crossed – climate change, loss of biosphere integrity, land system change and altered biogeochemical cycles. They warn that crossing such boundaries could have serious consequences, both now and in the future, across the world.
Lead author, Professor Will Steffen, from the Stockholm Resilience Centre at Stockholm University and the Australian National University, said, "Transgressing a boundary increases the risk that human activities could inadvertently drive the Earth system into a much less hospitable state, damaging efforts to reduce poverty and leading to a deterioration of human wellbeing in many parts of the world, including wealthy countries."
He added, "We are starting to destabilise our own planetary life support system."
The study explains that exceeding the planet's limits is a major cause for concern. For example, eutrophication, when the environment becomes enriched with nutrients, such as from agriculture chemicals, and the continued loss of biodiversity is likely to undermine ecosystem services that human societies depend on.
Continuing to cross the planetary boundaries, which also include stratospheric ozone depletion, ocean acidification, freshwater use, atmospheric aerosol loading, and the introduction of novel entities, could push the Earth system into a new state, the researchers warn.
"In the last four years we have worked closely with policymakers, industry and organisations to explore how the planetary boundaries approach can be used as a framework for sectors of societies to reduce risk while developing sustainably," said Johan Rockström, co-author of the study and director of the Stockholm Resilience Centre.
"It is obvious that different societies over time have contributed very differently to the current state of the Earth. The world has a tremendous opportunity this year to address global risks, and do it more equitably."
In September, nations will agree the UN's Sustainable Development Goals and it is hoped a universal climate change agreement can be reached late this year.
Rockström added, "With the right ambition, this could create the conditions for long-term human prosperity within planetary boundaries."
Photo: NASA Goddard Space Flight Center via Flickr
Lord Stern: delaying climate action is 'dangerous'
Investors asked to disclose climate change risks
Climate change a 'firmly established' material risk for mainstream investors
COP19: rich countries 'have a moral responsibility' to disaster-struck developing nations
Mass migration and social unrest: why the west should care about climate change
Related Topics:Australian National UniversityBiodiversitychemicalsClimate ChangedeforestationEarthecosystemenvironmenthuman activityJohan Rockströmozoneplanetary boundariespovertyriskStockholm Resilience CentreStockholm Universitytoday_editorWill Steffen
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INC - Education Sector
Aryans Group celebrates Founder's Day
Chandigarh 8th December-Under its Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) Plan, Aryans Group of Colleges, Rajpura Near Chandigarh celebrated its Founder's Day with the children at the "Institute for the Blind", Sector–26, Chandigarh.
The function started with the prayer recitation followed by the Cake Cutting Ceremony by the students. Woolen wears, Fruits, sweets etc were also distributed to the students on the occasion.
The function was attended by Prof. Roshan Lal Kataria himself; Dr. Anshu Kataria, Chairman, Aryans Group; Management of Institute for Blind including Principal, Mr. J.S. Jayara; Secretary, Mr. B.D Sharma; Mrs Anu, Coordinator etc were also present on the occasion.
Mr. J.S Jayara while thanking said that these special students need inclusion not exclusion, integration not disintegration to integrate them into the mainstream of social life. Jayara further added that these children are visually impaired but have a strong vision; hence equal opportunities for these special children should be given for their self-reliance to ensure full participation in society.
It is to be mentioned that Aryans Group was started with one B School. But in a short span of 13 years, with the guidance & support of Prof. Kataria, the Group has established its Engineering College, Law College, Management College, Pharmacy College, Agriculture College, Business School, Education College, Nursing College, Degree College, Polytechnic College and Primary School.
The function was organized on the occasion of 71st Birthday of Aryans Group Founder, Prof. Roshan Lal Kataria (D.C) who dedicated his life to shape the future of thousands of meritorious & needy students.
Born and brought up of Muktsar, Prof Roshan Lal Kataria is the founder of Aryans Group of Colleges. Prof. Roshan Lal Kataria did his MA (Economics) from Dehradun. He started his career in Economics lecturer from Government College, Muktsar and later on worked in Govt College Zira, DAV Institutions. He also worked in Chandigarh for more than a decade for spreading awareness regarding UGC/NET examination.
NATIONAL SERVICE SCHEME (NSS) AND IIT ROORKEE SUCCESSFULLY CELEBRATED 31st NATIONAL ROAD SAFETY WEEK Saplings planted during Swachhata Pakhwada at MCM SACHCHIT KUMAR SHARMA & MITUL MAHISH BRING GLORY TO KB DAV-7 Acclaimed santoor player Kirpal Singh regales during memorial programme at MCM GGDSD Model United Nations (MUN) 2020, a three-day conference titled 'Zimane-Azadiye' was kicked off at the campus today. After Rocking the World- Now School Students 'Climategiri for Climate Action' in Chandigarh इंदिरा गांधी राष्ट्रीय मुक्त विश्वविद्यालय ने चार नए कार्यक्रम शुरू किए MHRD's two-day IIC Innovation Ambassador Training Series commenced at LPU Swachhata Pakhwada begins at MCM DAV LPU students won Six Medals for National Youth Games 'Khelo India' in Assam


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module Print3Broken where

greeting :: String
greeting = "Yarrrrr"

printSecond :: IO ()
printSecond = do
    putStrLn greeting

main :: IO ()
main = do
    putStrLn greeting
    printSecond


New York (October 22, 2007) — Enhancing its ongoing entertainment media advocacy, the Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation (GLAAD) announced today that Queer Lounge, the central meeting point for queer-friendly filmmakers and professionals at film festivals, has been added to its media programs portfolio.
Dedicated to facilitating greater public awareness of queer film through educational panels, events and hospitality services, Queer Lounge will run January 18-24, 2008 during Sundance and other film festivals happening concurrently in Park City, Utah and will be held at 608 Main Street, in the heart of festival activities.
"We are in an historic era of gay visibility in film," says GLAAD President Neil G. Giuliano. "As our community fights every day for equality before the law, Queer Lounge helps change hearts and minds by broadening the reach of independent films telling the stories of every day lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender people."
Queer Lounge was founded independently in 2003 by former film executive Ellen Huang to build bridges between mainstream and queer-friendly films and professionals. Through its educational programming and central location at festivals, Queer Lounge increases the crossover appeal of films with lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) content. GLAAD has licensed Queer Lounge as a media program to complement its ongoing entertainment media advocacy.
"Over the past five years, Queer Lounge has become a trusted advocate for queer-friendly films and filmmakers," said Huang. "Joining with GLAAD will take Queer Lounge to the next level and enable it to become an even more powerful resource for the industry."
"Queer Lounge offers a vital opportunity to raise the visibility of films with gay content as a means of increasing understanding and tolerance," says GLAAD Senior Director of Media Programs Rashad Robinson. "The addition of Queer Lounge to GLAAD's programmatic efforts increases our capacity to ensure fair, accurate and inclusive representations of our community in the media."
During the 2008 festivals in Park City, Queer Lounge will host similar educational and industry discussions, as well as GLAAD's "And the Nominees Are" event announcing the 19th Annual GLAAD Media Awards nominees. ABSOLUT® Vodka, an inaugural sponsor of Queer Lounge in 2004, will return as a Presenting Sponsor in 2008.
Queer Lounge has previously had a successful presence during Sundance and at the Toronto International Film Festival®. Panel discussions are held during each festival centering on thematic ties of LGBT films. During the 2007 festivals in Park City, Queer Lounge hosted several panel discussions, including the panel "Gays, Faith & Film," featuring the cast and filmmakers of For the Bible Tells Me So and Save Me, and the producer of A Jihad for Love. The panel explored how the three films navigated the reconciliation of religious faith with gay orientation, and was broadly declared by attendees as one of the best panel discussions they had ever attended during the festivals in Park City.
At the 2006 Toronto Film Festival, Queer Lounge hosted an invitation-only industry brunch followed by a panel discussion entitled "Post-Brokeback: New Horizons in Financing LGBT Film." At that festival, and at the Park City festivals each year from 2004 through 2007, Queer Lounge has also produced a comprehensive Program Guide to films with LGBT content or filmmakers.


Andrew moved from the United Kingdom to Sydney 7 years ago and has never looked back. His life is driven by curiosity and this reflects in his talent as a magician and an avid mountain runner.
He can often be found running in some of the most challenging ultra marathons in the world or scuba diving with sharks. Andrew is super excited to work for Inspired Adventures, combining his passion for philanthropy and adventure and inspiring others to complete their own personal challenges.


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This sample provides a envoy-based managed instance group behind an external
load balancer that can terminate mutual TLS (mTLS) to authenticate API clients.

## Preparation

This example assumes that you have TLS credentials for the server as well as
the clients available and set their path in the .tfvars file.

To try it out you can create a set of self signed certs:

```sh
mkdir -p ./certs && cd ./certs
openssl req -newkey rsa:2048 -nodes -keyform PEM -keyout server-ca.key -x509 -days 3650 -outform PEM -out server-ca.crt -subj "/CN=Test Server CA"
openssl genrsa -out server.key 2048
openssl req -new -key server.key -out server.csr -subj "/CN=test.api.example.com"
openssl x509 -req -in server.csr -CA server-ca.crt -CAkey server-ca.key -set_serial 100 -days 365 -outform PEM -out server.crt

openssl req -newkey rsa:2048 -nodes -keyform PEM -keyout client-ca.key -x509 -days 3650 -outform PEM -out client-ca.crt -subj "/CN=Test Client CA"
openssl genrsa -out example-client.key 2048
openssl req -new -key example-client.key -out example-client.csr -subj "/CN=Test Client"
openssl x509 -req -in example-client.csr -CA client-ca.crt -CAkey client-ca.key -set_serial 101 -days 365 -outform PEM -out example-client.crt
cd ..
```

And reference them in your tf.vars

```tf
ca_cert_path  = "./certs/client-ca.crt"
tls_cert_path = "./certs/server.crt"
tls_key_path  = "./certs/server.key"
```

## Setup Instructions

Ensure that your tf variables file (.apigee_envgroups.test.hostnames[])
contains the same hostname as you used in the CN of your certificate.

For the rest see the main [README](https://github.com/apigee/terraform-modules#deploying-end-to-end-samples)
for detailed instructions.

## Testing

If you used a hostname for which you don't have a DNS entry you can use:

```sh
INGRESS_IP=$(gcloud compute addresses describe apigee-external --global --format="get(address)")
curl https://test.api.example.com/my-proxy --resolve test.api.example.com:443:$INGRESS_IP --cert ./certs/example-client.crt --key ./certs/example-client.key --cacert ./certs/server-ca.crt -v
```

Otherwise use:

```sh
curl https://my-domain.com/my-proxy --cert ./certs/example-client.crt --key ./certs/example-client.key --cacert ./certs/server-ca.crt -v
```

## Providers

| Name | Version |
|------|---------|
|  [google](#provider\_google) | n/a |

## Modules

| Name | Source | Version |
|------|--------|---------|
|  [apigee-x-core](#module\_apigee-x-core) | ../../modules/apigee-x-core | n/a |
|  [apigee-x-mtls-mig](#module\_apigee-x-mtls-mig) | ../../modules/apigee-x-mtls-mig | n/a |
|  [mig-l4xlb](#module\_mig-l4xlb) | ../../modules/l4xlb | n/a |
|  [nip-development-hostname](#module\_nip-development-hostname) | ../../modules/nip-development-hostname | n/a |
|  [project](#module\_project) | github.com/terraform-google-modules/cloud-foundation-fabric//modules/project | v16.0.0 |
|  [vpc](#module\_vpc) | github.com/terraform-google-modules/cloud-foundation-fabric//modules/net-vpc | v16.0.0 |

## Resources

| Name | Type |
|------|------|
| [google_compute_firewall.allow_xlb_hc](https://registry.terraform.io/providers/hashicorp/google/latest/docs/resources/compute_firewall) | resource |

## Inputs

| Name | Description | Type | Default | Required |
|------|-------------|------|---------|:--------:|
|  [apigee\_envgroups](#input\_apigee\_envgroups) | Apigee Environment Groups. |
map(object({
    environments = list(string)
    hostnames    = list(string)
  }))
 | `{}` | no |
|  [apigee\_environments](#input\_apigee\_environments) | Apigee Environment Names. | `list(string)` | `[]` | no |
|  [apigee\_instances](#input\_apigee\_instances) | Apigee Instances (only one for EVAL). |
map(object({
    region       = string
    ip_range     = string
    environments = list(string)
  }))
 | `{}` | no |
|  [ax\_region](#input\_ax\_region) | GCP region for storing Apigee analytics data (see https://cloud.google.com/apigee/docs/api-platform/get-started/install-cli). | `string` | n/a | yes |
|  [billing\_account](#input\_billing\_account) | Billing account id. | `string` | `null` | no |
|  [ca\_cert\_path](#input\_ca\_cert\_path) | Path to User CA Cert File (pem). | `string` | n/a | yes |
|  [exposure\_subnets](#input\_exposure\_subnets) | Subnets for exposing Apigee services. |
list(object({
    name               = string
    ip_cidr_range      = string
    region             = string
    secondary_ip_range = map(string)
  }))
 | `[]` | no |
|  [network](#input\_network) | VPC name. | `string` | n/a | yes |
|  [network\_tags](#input\_network\_tags) | mTLS proxy network tags | `list(string)` |
[
  "apigee-mtls-proxy"
]
 | no |
|  [peering\_range](#input\_peering\_range) | Peering CIDR range | `string` | n/a | yes |
|  [project\_create](#input\_project\_create) | Create project. When set to false, uses a data source to reference existing project. | `bool` | `false` | no |
|  [project\_id](#input\_project\_id) | Project id (also used for the Apigee Organization). | `string` | n/a | yes |
|  [project\_parent](#input\_project\_parent) | Parent folder or organization in 'folders/folder\_id' or 'organizations/org\_id' format. | `string` | `null` | no |
|  [support\_range](#input\_support\_range) | Support CIDR range of length /28 (required by Apigee for troubleshooting purposes). | `string` | n/a | yes |
|  [tls\_cert\_path](#input\_tls\_cert\_path) | Path to Server Cert File (pem). | `string` | n/a | yes |
|  [tls\_key\_path](#input\_tls\_key\_path) | Path to Server Key File (pem). | `string` | n/a | yes |

## Outputs

| Name | Description |
|------|-------------|
|  [nip\_hostnames](#output\_nip\_hostnames) | Map of envgroup name -> hostnames. |


Stephen A. Purpora, 54, died Feb. 2, 2019.
Purpora was born Sept. 20, 1964, in Cook Country, Illinois, to Susan and William Purpora. He graduated from Whitefish Bay High School, attended Westminster College in Missouri on a baseball scholarship and went on to University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. He worked at the family's petroleum businesses, Protanic Inc. and Purpora Engineering, and became president in 2002.
Survivors include his wife of 29 years, the former Michelle Koller; three daughters, Ashley Purpora, Sydney Purpora and Samantha Scofield and her husband, Zane; a brother, Ross Purpora; and many other relatives and friends.
Services will be at 5 p.m. Friday, Feb. 8 at Alliance Bible Church, 13939 N. Cedarburg Road in Mequon, Wisconsin. The Rev. Roger Erickson will officiate. Visitation will be from 2 to 5 p.m. at Alliance Bible Church.
In lieu of flowers, the family requests donations be made to 222 Ministries, P.O. Box 895 Grafton, WI 53024; The Project 82 Foundation, 9702 N. Cedarburg Road, Mequon, WI 53092; or The Milwaukee Rescue Mission.


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Carnell Associates
CARNELL is a complete service building inspection, consulting and environmental engineering company serving the real estate buying public since 1969. With over 50,000 inspections completed, CARNELL leads with sound, knowledgeable and reliable information important to your purchase. CARNELL's engineers and architects are trained in disciplines such as civil, mechanical, chemical and environmental.
Malcolm Pirnie
West Harrison (3.24 miles)
At Red Oak Consulting, we concentrate on your unique management and information technology requirements. Our strength is built on a century of environmental expertise and hands-on engineering and operational experience combined with cutting-edge management know-how. By applying a?total systems approach to your issues, we can assist you create lasting, implementable pathways to higher performance.
De Nardis Engineering
White Plains (3.64 miles)
De Nardis Engineering DNE is an organization of talented design specialists bringing together a culmination of knowledge spanning over 45 years in the engineering field. The company provides comprehensive structural engineering services in varied kinds of projects, including commercial and domestic buildings, industrial, institutional and educational facilities, stadiums, amphitheaters, arenas, convention
Boswell Engineering Associates
Boswell Engineering, one of ENR's Top 500 Engineering companies and Top 100 Construction Management companies, is a progressive, full-service organization. Since our establishment in 1924, Boswell has kept pace with the rapidly changing technological advancements within the industry and is therefore capable to supply private and public sector customers with a complete array of professional services.
Adler Consulting
Welcome!Adler Consulting supplies creative technical skills and maturity in the evaluation and resolution of the most difficult Transportation Planning and Traffic Engineering challenges. We are recognized and respected for our contributions to the Transportation Planning profession, as fully qualified specialists who are adept in the methodology of its discipline.
Eagle Air Conditioning
The Complete HVAC Provider Providing climate control for White Plains, Westchester County, Rockland County and the surrounding Metro area. Since 1984, Eagle Air Conditioning. has been committed to delivering the finest heating, ventilation and air conditioning HVAC solutions for your building s in White Plains, Westchester County, Rockland County and the surrounding Metro Area.
Chas H Sells
Briarcliff Manor (5.04 miles)
The company was set up in 1925 by its founder, Charles Sells, an expert engineer and land surveyor. From its beginning as a local engineering and surveying company to its position now as one of the top design companies in the U.S., WSP SELLS has based its growth on in-depth experience, strategic office locations, and qualified team.
Underground Systems
Armonk (5.29 miles)
Since 1975, USi has been continually delivering state of the art products and services for design, operation, maintenance and life extension of all aspects of today's underground power delivery system. USi supplies engineering services and advanced technology products for the electric power industry.
West Harrison NY - 3.2 mi
White Plains NY - 3.6 mi
Briarcliff Manor NY - 5.0 mi
Armonk NY - 5.3 mi
Scarsdale NY - 6.8 mi
Ossining NY - 6.9 mi
Valley Cottage NY - 8.9 mi
Orangeburg NY - 10.0 mi
Croton On Hudson NY - 11.5 mi
New Rochelle NY - 12.0 mi