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Shriver arraigned
By Staff | Feb 20, 2013
A Fairmont man was arraigned Tuesday in Tyler County Circuit Court on 12 charges, one of which included attempted murder.
Howard Paul Shriver, 33, is charged with attempted malicious wounding and domestic battery after he allegedly attempted to shoot his wife, Shannon M. Shriver with a BB gun on Aug. 18. The majority of indictments presented to Shriver stem from an incident occurring on Oct. 9, when he allegedly violated his protective order by entering the home of his estranged wife and two children and attempting to harm his children and murder his wife.
The Oct. 9 incident resulted in charges of burglary, violation of a protective order, two counts of retaliation against a witness, unlawful restraint, two counts of domestic assault, destruction of property, attempted murder and domestic battery. Shriver pleaded not guilty to all charges.
Tyler County grand jurors returned indictments against eight other defendants on Feb. 12. The following defendants were arraigned on Tuesday.
– Damien E. Baker, 19, of 407 Dodd St, Middlebourne, pleaded not guilty to three felony charges. Charges included breaking and entering a building other than a dwelling, petit larceny and destruction of property. In April 2012, Baker allegedly broke a window out of a building owned by Rupert and Sylvia Dawson. Upon entrance of the building, he is accused of stealing two grenade shape lighters and a spoon collector set, valued at $110.
He was remanded to the North Central Regional Jail and will return on March 18 at 10 a.m.
– Vincent M. Kochanowski, 24, of 425 South Third Avenue, Paden City, pleaded not guilty to entry of a building other than a dwelling. On Oct. 13, Kochanowski allegedly entered a building owned by Douglas R. Tracy.
– Quinten M. Keller, 18, of 202 3rd Street, Middlebourne, pleaded not guilty to grand larceny. On July 29, Keller allegedly stole numerous pieces of jewelry valued at $11,160, two gold coins totaling $100, $20 worth of miscellaneous U.S. coins, 20 Prozac and 10 Xanax from an individual. He was remanded to the NCRJ and is to return to court on March 17.
-Dwayne Ueltschey, 33, of 40031 State Route 26, Woodsfield, Ohio, pleaded not guilty to seven counts of forgery and two counts of uttering. On Oct. 29, Ueltschey allegedly wrote two checks totaling $200 to Kevin Thompson and the Tasty Freez in Paden City. On Oct. 29 and Nov. 1, Ueltschey allegedly forged his signature on five checks totaling $500 that he made payable to Kae Cornell.
Kae Cornell, James V. Wells and Curtis Lemasters will return for arraignment on March 7 at 10 a.m.
-Kae Lee Cornell, 40, of 42 South Third Avenue, was charged with five counts of uttering. On Oct. 29 and Nov. 1, Cornell allegedly cashed forged checks totaling $500.
-James V. Wells, 24, of 314 1/2 Main Street, Middlebourne, was charged with entry of a dwelling and grand larceny. On Nov. 30, Wells allegedly entered the home of Louis J. Wells and stole $1,370 worth of jewelry. Wells was released on a $5,000 personal recognizance bond and will return for arraignment on March 7 at 10 a.m.
-Curtis Lemasters, 27, of North Second Avenue, Paden City, was charged with third offense or subsequent offenses of driving while his license was revoked for driving under the influence of alcohol and second offense DUI on Dec. 29.
A capias was issued for the arrest of Telma M. Morgan. Morgan, age and address not available, did not appear for her return on Tuesday. She is charged with grand larceny for allegedly stealing a 1995 Ford F-150 pickup truck belonging to Darrell Morgan.
Robbie L. Harlan, 30, of 53 Chestnut Street, Sistersville, pleaded guilty to one count of possession of a controlled substance (oxycontin, a Schedule II narcotic) with intent to deliver. He was sentenced to one to 15 years in the W.Va. Division of Corrections. If he remains on good behavior, Judge Karl will consider probation.
A May 15 jury trial date was set for Ronald A, Morgan III. Morgan, 36, of HC 60 Box 92, Pine Grove. Morgan is charged with two counts of grand larceny, conspiracy to commit an offense against the state, and destruction of property.
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Looking at this crazy flying train design, we couldn't help but wonder if the 1950s is making a comeback? Dahir Insaat is the company responsible for many well-produced viral videos featuring dubious claims about what our future might look like. However, this is nothing new. The company's Youtube channel looks like it took some ideas from a 1950s science fiction comic book, and yet it has never failed to capture our attention beyond the decade and push us to overlook the obvious flaws.
Sure, the name has changed from the "Walking Machines" to "Metrobus" to "Flying train." The medium changed from illustration to 3D animation. The fantasy nature of the genre hasn't veered far off.
Walking Machine by Arthur Radebaugh from the 1950s
Metro bus by Dahir Insaat
While we happily let go of the 70s, 80s, and 90s, the 50s seems to be the decade constantly lurking around and ready to comes out upon demand.
As a country, the 1950s America made a lot of promises but failed to deliver. Ever since then, as a society, America has been trying to chase the feel-good decade, when it is full of promises for a great future.
The politicians haven't let people forget the 1950s fantasy either. Ronald Regan channeled it in his "Let's makes America great again" 1980 campaign, while the 70s were tinted by the Vietnam war, economic recession, and the Watergate.
Donald Trump picked it up again in 2016 after the country went through one of the worst financial crisis. When asked when was America great, Trump confessed his campaign motto is a reference to the 1950s. He said: "Remember that. That's when we had a country."
It is a fantasy sales pitch people are willing to jump into without thinking. Dahir Insaat claims the flying train will travel several hundred feet above the ground at 400 miles an hour and support up to 2000 passengers.
It would still need to be anchored to a rail system via an electronic arm.
While it looks amazing, the question is, will it work? and do we need it? In short, probably not.
We already have a much cheaper and safer train that travels at roughly 250 miles per hour. While the flying train design might reduce the friction factor with aerodynamic, the amount of power used to take off will most likely make it less efficient than the traditional train.
Even if we eventually developed the technology to make it works, the flying train would take up a massive amount of space to accommodate two-way travel, and unable to cut through mountains via tunnels.
The environmental impact of the design would be enormous. Like a helicopter, the amount of noise pollution will drive any resident crazy on the path of the flying train. Judging from the way it flys, the train will probably murder countless birds at 400 miles an hour.
The flying train concept, as tempting and entertaining as it is, does not deserve the 2.5 million views on YouTube. It belongs in the same cabinet as L. Ron Hubbard's Dianetics, collecting dust since the 1950s.
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Home Theater Reviews Theater Review: Well
WELL – Written by Lisa Kron; Directed by Stacy D'Angelo. Produced by Firehouse Theater Company (presented at the John Hand Theater, 7653 East 1st Place, Denver) through July 20. Tickets available at 303-562-3232 or firehousetheatercompany.com.
This is not really a play. As written by Lisa Kron, it's a "multicharacter theatrical exploration of issues of health and illness." And it's definitely NOT about her Mother – although her Mother is present on stage at all times reclining in a simulation of her living room. It's also a solo performance – but it has other people in it. Sounds confusing, right?? However, as played, it is as clear as a bell. Except for the nine-year-old belligerent Black girl that keeps interrupting scenes and the other actors who can't quite figure out what they are supposed to be doing and her Mother who is only trying to help.
Poor Lisa is just trying to get through the script she wrote which ponders the question "Why are some people sick and other people are well?" To do so, she takes us through her Mother's life-long battle with "allergies" and her personal difficulties growing up in an environment that accepted and encouraged ill health. She has hired and rehearsed four other actors to appear in scenes with her that depict her time in an allergy clinic, her days growing up in a diverse neighborhood, and her relationship with her mother . . . . although the play is NOT about her mother. While not trying to be humorous, Lisa's adventures nevertheless play out as funny in spite of herself. The hired actors become enamored with her sweet caring mother and frustrated with the many interruptions to their scenes to the point that they finally walk off the stage and won't return. So Lisa decides that's where the intermission will be.
They come back but things have clearly spiraled out of Lisa's control and the humor continues. Until a scene in a medical facility when one of the hired actresses – Ghandia – turns the whole play on its ear by describing in vivid detail the frustration of being chronically ill and not being able to do anything about it. A hush fell over the room and suddenly it became important to listen and understand what the message of this "exploration" really was. Is she talking about physical pain or the racial disturbances of the 60's and 70's her mother fought against? The adventure isn't over – but finally even the actress playing her mother must break character to let Lisa know where she has gone off track and allow her real mother a voice. In a touching finale, Lisa reads a speech that the real Ann once made to her neighborhood association that pleaded for a true understanding of integration. Using the metaphor of physical illnesses, Lisa has subtly commented on the state of social unrest and her mother's activism.
Julie Kaye Wolf comes off a winning streak of roles – having previously played Elizabeth Proctor in THE CRUCIBLE and Annie Sullivan in THE MIRACLE WORKER at this same theatre – to create a determined but befuddled Lisa. Her intentions are so good, but her methods just don't seem to work. She stops and starts erratically, but when she finally loses her temper and stands up for herself, she displays a fearless streak. Kerry Beebe as Ann gives us a warm loving mother well aware of her daughter's type of play. She makes it clear she doesn't want to be a part of the whole proceedings, but finds herself stuck in the spotlight. She doesn't "even like having my picture taken," she protests. But she remains supportive of her daughter throughout even though her memories of the incidents being acted out are quite different from the way Lisa remembers them.
The four actors who assist with the "exploration" are Ghandia Johnson as the insolent little girl who keeps interrupting and terrorizing Lisa; Johanna Jaquith who plays her deeply disturbed roommate at the allergy clinic; Jack Mariotti and Michael Bateman play medical personnel, neighbors like Big Oscar, and themselves reacting to the chaos happening around them. They all flow easily from scene to scene only gradually revealing their confusion and uncertainty about what was going on. While working at cross purposes, these six actors perform together flawlessly to tell Lisa's story.
Stacy D'Angelo's direction shows an understanding of the multi-layers of this script while finding the humor in the situations depicted. The set – designed and built by Jeff Jesmer – provides a neutral zone for the "play" and a cluttered but semi-organized living space for Mom. The lighting design by Emily Maddox creates a "safe" spot for Lisa to address the audience where no one else can hear her – or so she thinks.
I couldn't help but wonder if this was a play Kron had written as a memorial to her mother. But it was easy to discover that WELL was first performed in 2004 and arrived on Broadway in 2006 (playing for only two months) while her mother lived till 2017. One can only imagine what her reaction was to seeing a version of herself on stage. As an audience member, I can only wonder if this is what her mother was really like.
A WOW factor of 9!!
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Moisture affects a huge range of diverse materials in formulation research areas. For example, drug formulation performance can be critically affected by humidity changes leading to phase changes, hydration, crystallization and deliquescence of pharmaceutical powders.Other areas affected by humidity include solubility, hydrate/solvate formation, packaging, powder flow, tablet testing, aerosol and inhalers.
One of the many tools used to characterise the effects of moisture in formulation is microscopy , ranging from common microscopy using dark-field, bright field or cross-polarisation through to Raman, FTIR microscopy and more esoteric imaging techniques such as Atomic Force Microscopy , 3D X-Ray Tomography or even photo-acoustic microscopy (PAM).
In this article we present some case studies to highlight how different kinds of microscopy can be effectively used to study the effects of moisture humidity on real life formulation situations.
Studies of crystallisation of amorphous samples under humidification include hydration of stable and unstable hydrates, deliquescence and liquefaction of hygroscopic samples, co-crystallisation and solvate desorption at high humidities. Polarized light microscopy and birefringence can be used effectively to study crystal morphological growth. Polymorphism can be studied by Raman, FTIR, and light microscopy (ref 1). Light microscopy of amorphous lactose crystallisation with humidification can be combined with Raman data to show the change from amorphous to crystal state with increasing RH.
The behaviour and stability of potential drug candidates on exposure to water are critical in deciding which candidates are taken forward in drug development studies. Gravimetric techniques such as Dynamic Vapor Sorption (DVS) can be combined with FT-IR and a humidity cell to gain deeper understanding of the molecular changes occurring. This helps in the development of drug candidates with optimal stability / performance.
Naloxone HCL (an anti-narcotic substance) was used as a model system to study the effects of moisture sorption on active drugs.The water sorption and desorption isotherms showed jumps in the water uptake at 10% and 60% RH corresponding to formation of the mono and dihydrate. IR Intensity versus RH plots of these two peaks corresponding to the asymmetric water stretching frequencies at 3518 cm-1 and 3421 cm-1 showed a jump in intensity at 10% and 60% RH. These two jumps correspond to formation of the mono- and dihydrate forms and agree well with the gravimetric data.
Effects of humidity on flowability of lactose due to changing amorphous and crystalline content were studied using Raman and light microscopy. Effects of humidity on dry milk powders were measured using light microscopy (ref 2).
Using Raman microscopy combined with a humidity cell it is possible to image skin sections of skin/drug preparations to determine speed of adsorption of the drug, evaluate wound healing therapeutics and study skin ageing related to hydration.
Adhesion between drugs and their carriers with amorphisation due to humidity have been studied using atomic force microscopy.
These are just a few areas where microscopy can be usefully used to study the effects of changing humidity on real life formulation samples. To help meet the many needs of scientists and technicians in these areas, Surface Measurement Systems have developed an environmental microscopy cell GenRH-Mcell (ref 3) to enable precise critical humidity microscopy studies in situ. Additionally, humidity critical studies can be undertaken via a variety of instrumentation by providing humidity generation as an add-on to other techniques such as XRD, 3D X-Ray Tomography, DMA, TGA, DSC, rheology, contact angle, aerosol EDB, optical tweezers, traps, particle sizing, and QCM. Conditioning regimes such as mechanical and texture testing, ball-milling, powder compaction, spray drying, freeze drying, and powder flow can also be emoployed.
If you have any humidity generation needs or questions in such areas please feel welcome to contact the author or join our Open LinkedIn discussion group on Humidity generation as an add-on.
About the author: Jan Gorgol (jgorgol@surfacemeasurementsystems.com) studied Physics at Bristol University followed by a Masters at Brunel University while working with XPS & SEM at the Experimental Techniques Centre. After working extensively in surface science instrumentation globally he now is Product Manager for the GenRH series of humidity generation products at Surface Measurement Systems.
1. Dependence of cocrystal formation and thermodynamic stability on moisture sorption by amorphous polymer. David Good, Crystal Miranda and Naír Rodríguez-Hornedo: CrystEngComm, 2011,13, 1181-1189.
2. Surface Measurement Systems, Application Note 503 – Investigating Dried Milk Powders Using Optical Microscopy at Different Humidity Conditions.
3. Surface Measurement Systems, Application Note 501 – Environmental Microscopy using the GenRH-A Humidity Generator and Mcell Accessory.


Visitors to London that enjoy theatre and the spectacle of performance could be in for a treat when it comes to planning out their itinerary, as a trip to The Scoop could be just the ticket.
Located in the heart of one of the busiest tourist areas of the English capital, the venue is an outdoor ampitheatre that prides itself on offering free live performances for anyone wishing to head along and take a seat, with live shows taking place daily.
Operated by More London – a community estates management business committed to safeguarding public spaces for the enjoyment of visitors across the English capital – The Scoop is one of multiple sites across London that the group ensures remains a bastion of cultural enjoyment for all.
Offering seating capacity for up to 800 guests, The Scoop resides on the south bank of the River Thames and is in close proximity to an array of other cultural attractions that draw millions of visitors to this vibrant area every year.
From live music at lunchtime to catching a play or movie screening in the evening, the organisers put on a changing roster of attractions that will keep guests coming back time and again to see just what is happening next at this popular venue for al fresco culture.
Film in The Scoop, art exhibitions, theatre, opera and dance are just some of the great performance pieces that attract lovers of culture from far and wide to this interesting and affordable venue.
No tickets are required and visitors do not need to pre-book their place, they simply head along, find a seat and enjoy the performance, whatever that might be.
How do I get to The Scoop?
For anyone harbouring hopes of visiting The Scoop during their time in London, they should rest assured that it is a relatively simple destination to get to.
One of the fastest and most convenient ways to get there is to make use of local bus services, with routes offering stops in the proximity including: 47, 343, 381, N199, N381 and RV1.
London river taxis can also be secured from the nearby pier of London Bridge City Pier.
Meanwhile, overground rail services also operate at regular intervals and travellers can head to several nearby stations, including London Bridge, Fenchurch Street, Cannon Street and Liverpool Street. Moreover, the popular stations of London Waterloo and London Waterloo East are just a relatively short walk away to the west.
The Docklands Light Railway, affectionately known to the locals as the DLR, also offers the nearby stop of Tower Gateway.
Full details of all public transport options for anyone planning to visit The Scoop can be found by heading to the official website of Transport for London. Here, visitors can find everything they need to plan their journey, ranging from station opening times and service timetables to planned maintenance to the Underground network, which can affect some routes.
Travellers hoping to enjoy a great bite to eat during their time in the area might be tempted by some of the many outstanding restaurants and pubs that can be found in this vibrant part of central London.
Strada – Italian restaurant serving classic Italian dishes including risotto, pasta and wood-fired pizzas.
Upper Deck Bar – A maritime-influenced quayside bar with a rooftop terrace offering exquisite light bites.
The Horniman – A traditional English pub housed in a former tea warehouse, offering excellent food and drink for guests.
Balls Brothers Hay's Galleria – Offering delicious dishes from a global menu paired with outstanding vintage wines from the establishment's extensive wine cellar.
The Shipwright Arms – A large traditional public house offering classic British cuisine and regularly showcasing live sports.
Shad – A modern Indian restaurant offering authentic dishes from 22 of the country's regions.
Suchard – Simple Thai restaurant priding itself on combining classic Thai fine dining with authentic street food and an array of house specialities.
Brigade Bar & Bistro – A modern European bistro housed in a former fire station.
Magdalen – A modern European fine dining restaurant, offering a refined and relaxing setting.
The Bridge Lounge & Dining Room – Contemporary British cuisine served in a former public house, with views overlooking City Hall in the heart of London.
Visitors hoping to shop 'til they drop when planning a day out at The Scoop are also equally well catered for, with many of the UK's biggest high street retailers to be found in the area, including Marks & Spencer, Next, Starbucks, Accessorize and WH Smith, among others.
Anyone planning a visit to the area can also enjoy visiting the many independent retailers that can be found here, with fantastic and unique offerings that mean travellers can be sure to find a perfect memento of their time in the city.
However, it is not just excellent shopping opportunities and great food and drink that draws millions of visitors to this busy part of the English capital every year, as the area also offers a wealth of outstanding sights to see and attractions to explore.
Visitors should plan to see as many of these great sights as possible during their time in London, as many offer a once-in-a-lifetime experience that travellers planning a fun-packed itinerary for their time in the centre will not want to miss out on.
Individuals planning to drive during their time in the English capital should remember that traffic volumes can be heavy during both the day and night, especially during the morning and evening rush hours when traffic can come to a standstill in some areas.
It is therefore important for motorists to plan their journeys in advance to avoid travelling at these times when possible and to choose routes that are likely to be the least congested. Travellers might also like to pre-book their parking before setting off on any journey, as the availability of spaces can be limited.
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We can judge the emotional content of pictures in as little as 13 milliseconds (with more polls!)
By dmunger on March 8, 2007.
Two days ago, we discussed research suggesting that the emotional qualities of images affect short-term memory for those images. When you watch a movie depicting a rapid sequence of images, you're more likely to remember images that have strong emotional content -- especially images that are arousing, whether they depict positive or negative things. Most fascinating of all: when we see images for a very short time, we're more likely to remember positive images, but when we view them for a longer period, we're more likely to remember negative ones.
But our discussion didn't address some of the possible objections to the work. It's possible, for example, that something else about emotionally-laden pictures is different: maybe they're brighter than other pictures. Maljkovic and Martini analyzed the colors in the photos they used in their study and found that there was indeed a small correlation between brightness and valence: positive pictures tended to be slightly brighter than negative pictures. What's more, brighter pictures were better remembered than darker pictures. However, there was no indication, as in the emotion data, that there was a difference in how the pictures were remembered based on how long the pictures were viewed. Brightness alone couldn't explain their results.
Another possible objection might be that the test wasn't really about memory at all. Perhaps it simply takes longer to process an image as "negative," so for short viewing times these pictures are never perceived as "negative" at all. To address this concern, Maljkovic and Martini designed a new experiment. I'll show a couple examples of their displays below.
This movie (QuickTime required) will start with a grey screen. Then an image will quickly flash, and then get replaced by two random patterns. Your job is simply to classify the the emotion depicted in the image as positive, negative, or neutral.
Movie 1:
Now try another one:
The researchers showed hundreds of such movies to volunteers and had them rate them on a 9-point scale where 5 was neutral, and found that they were able to reliably rate them, even when the exposure time to the image was just 13 milliseconds (our example above flashes the image for 1/30 of a second, or 33 milliseconds). Here's a graph of their results:
So clearly we are capable of classifying images as positive or negative even after seeing them very briefly. This leaves only one plausible explanation of the results: our memory, not our perception of images, is what varies depending on the emotional content of those pictures.
You can test our demo by manually scrolling through the movies to see what was portrayed. I think there'll be little dispute that the first image is negative, while the second one is positive.
Maljkovic, V., & Martini, P. (2005). Short-term memory for scenes with affective content. Journal of Vision, 5, 215-229.
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Potty-mouth your way to the center of attention
[originally posted December 9, 2005] A few months ago, Jon Stewart opened the eyes of his Daily Show audience when he interviewed the author of the book On Bullshit. Viewers accustomed to hearing the familiar bleep when Stewart enters foul-mouth mode were surprised to find that the word came…
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Whatever it means about our brain that we can detect emotional content in 13 msec, I'm glad nature usually gives us more time to explore a scene and make more complete associations to it. It's like a shooting range where the subject is supposed to shoot the threatening guys, but not the innocents. 13 msec wouldn't be much for that.
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DavidD --
You're absolutely right to question whether that's really enough time to react with lethal force. Consider this post.
By Dave Munger (not verified) on 09 Mar 2007 #permalink
This makes sense if you consider how quickly we supposedly process microexpressions.
What does it mean that I easily knew the first was negative but was totally baffled by the second, even after repeat viewings? Does it mean I'm also blind to people's positive microexpressions? :)
Wild speculation on a Friday night. This blog is so much fun!
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- Record voice messages. Share photos & videos.
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Kay Walkingstick: Guided Tour and Hands-on Workshop, Montclair Art Museum
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Join us for two hours of professional development at the Montclair Art Museum. Our day will include a guided tour of the new exhibit featuring the work of Kay Walkingstick followed by a hands-on workshop. Using the themes of literal landscapes of the Southwest and emotional landscapes within us, participants will create a representative or abstract watercolor on watercolor paper with oil pastels details.
To register, click HERE.
The Montclair Art Museum will be the final stop of the national tour of Kay WalkingStick: An American Artist, the first major retrospective of the artistic career of Kay WalkingStick (b. 1935), a citizen of the Cherokee Nation and one of the world's most celebrated artists of Native American ancestry.
Featuring more than 65 of her most notable paintings, drawings, small sculptures, notebooks, and the diptychs for which she is best known, the exhibition traces her career over more than four decades and culminates with her recent paintings of monumental landscapes and Native places. Her distinctive approach to painting emerged from the cauldron of the New York art world, poised between late modernism and postmodernism of the 1960s and 1970s. Over decades of intense and prolific artistic production, she sought spiritual truth through the acts of painting and metaphysical reflection. Organized chronologically around themes that mark her artistic journey, Kay WalkingStick: An American Artist traces a path of constant invention, innovation, and evolving artistic and personal growth through visually brilliant and evocative works of art.
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require 'optiflag.rb'
require 'test/unit'

module AlternateArgs extend OptiFlag::Flagset
  flag "directory" do
    alternate_forms %w{d dir D DIR DIRECTORY}
  end
end

class TC_AlternateArgs < Test::Unit::TestCase

  def test_alternate_forms
    command_lines =
           ["-d FLOTSAM","-dir FLOTSAM",
            "--directory FLOTSAM",
            "-DIR FLOTSAM","-DIRECTORY FLOTSAM",
            "-directory FLOTSAM","-D FLOTSAM"]
    command_lines.each do |command_line|
      args = AlternateArgs::parse(command_line.split)
      assert_equal("FLOTSAM",args.flag_value.directory,
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      assert(! args.errors?,
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end

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Peeling paint, mould growth or wall staining can all be signs that walls are damp. This is one of the late stage indicators that your gutters require urgent attention. Walls can become soaked for long periods due to clogged or broken gutters and downpipes, resulting in overflows or leaks. The guttering systems on properties are often overlooked when undertaking routine maintenance.
To ensure that the issues identified above are prevented or rectified, a full survey will be conducted. We can undertake all types of gutter repairs, complementing our cleaning services.
Poor pitch can be corrected so that water always flows to the downpipes, preventing water collection. Sagging can also cause water to collect and overflow. Another common problem is broken support brackets that can lead to sagging and which can eventually lead to leaks. Poor support may even result in guttering or downpipes falling from the property.
Other causes of leaks are misaligned sections, together with damaged or missing seals. These can be corrected or replaced. Further common issues that we can address include repair of cracks and holes. Separation from fascias, walls and soffit boards can also be dealt with, as can missing guttering or downpipes. Dropped downpipes can be lifted and secured.
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use crate::progress::ChangeBatch;
use crate::order::PartialOrder;

/// A set of mutually incomparable elements.
///
/// An antichain is a set of partially ordered elements, each of which is incomparable to the others.
/// This antichain implementation allows you to repeatedly introduce elements to the antichain, and
/// which will evict larger elements to maintain the *minimal* antichain, those incomparable elements
/// no greater than any other element.
#[derive(Clone, Debug, Default, Eq, PartialEq)]
pub struct Antichain<T> {
    elements: Vec<T>
}

impl<T: PartialOrder> Antichain<T> {
    /// Updates the `Antichain` if the element is not greater than or equal to some present element.
    ///
    /// Returns true if element is added to the set
    ///
    /// # Examples
    ///
    ///```
    /// use timely::progress::frontier::Antichain;
    ///
    /// let mut frontier = Antichain::new();
    /// assert!(frontier.insert(2));
    /// assert!(!frontier.insert(3));
    ///```
    pub fn insert(&mut self, element: T) -> bool {
        if !self.elements.iter().any(|x| x.less_equal(&element)) {
            self.elements.retain(|x| !element.less_equal(x));
            self.elements.push(element);
            true
        }
        else {
            false
        }
    }

    /// Performs a sequence of insertion and return true iff any insertion does.
    ///
    /// # Examples
    ///
    ///```
    /// use timely::progress::frontier::Antichain;
    ///
    /// let mut frontier = Antichain::new();
    /// assert!(frontier.extend(Some(3)));
    /// assert!(frontier.extend(vec![2, 5]));
    /// assert!(!frontier.extend(vec![3, 4]));
    ///```
    pub fn extend<I: IntoIterator<Item=T>>(&mut self, iterator: I) -> bool {
        let mut added = false;
        for element in iterator {
            added = self.insert(element) || added;
        }
        added
    }

    /// Creates a new empty `Antichain`.
    ///
    /// # Examples
    ///
    ///```
    /// use timely::progress::frontier::Antichain;
    ///
    /// let mut frontier = Antichain::<u32>::new();
    ///```
    pub fn new() -> Antichain<T> { Antichain { elements: Vec::new() } }

    /// Creates a new singleton `Antichain`.
    ///
    /// # Examples
    ///
    ///```
    /// use timely::progress::frontier::Antichain;
    ///
    /// let mut frontier = Antichain::from_elem(2);
    ///```
    pub fn from_elem(element: T) -> Antichain<T> { Antichain { elements: vec![element] } }

    /// Clears the contents of the antichain.
    ///
    /// # Examples
    ///
    ///```
    /// use timely::progress::frontier::Antichain;
    ///
    /// let mut frontier = Antichain::from_elem(2);
    /// frontier.clear();
    /// assert!(frontier.elements().is_empty());
    ///```
    pub fn clear(&mut self) { self.elements.clear() }

    /// Sorts the elements so that comparisons between antichains can be made.
    pub fn sort(&mut self) where T: Ord { self.elements.sort() }

    /// Returns true if any item in the antichain is strictly less than the argument.
    ///
    /// # Examples
    ///
    ///```
    /// use timely::progress::frontier::Antichain;
    ///
    /// let mut frontier = Antichain::from_elem(2);
    /// assert!(frontier.less_than(&3));
    /// assert!(!frontier.less_than(&2));
    /// assert!(!frontier.less_than(&1));
    ///
    /// frontier.clear();
    /// assert!(!frontier.less_than(&3));
    ///```
    #[inline]
    pub fn less_than(&self, time: &T) -> bool {
        self.elements.iter().any(|x| x.less_than(time))
    }

    /// Returns true if any item in the antichain is less than or equal to the argument.
    ///
    /// # Examples
    ///
    ///```
    /// use timely::progress::frontier::Antichain;
    ///
    /// let mut frontier = Antichain::from_elem(2);
    /// assert!(frontier.less_equal(&3));
    /// assert!(frontier.less_equal(&2));
    /// assert!(!frontier.less_equal(&1));
    ///
    /// frontier.clear();
    /// assert!(!frontier.less_equal(&3));
    ///```
    #[inline]
    pub fn less_equal(&self, time: &T) -> bool {
        self.elements.iter().any(|x| x.less_equal(time))
    }

    /// Returns true if every element of `other` is greater or equal to some element of `self`.
    #[inline]
    pub fn dominates(&self, other: &Antichain<T>) -> bool {
        other.elements().iter().all(|t2| self.elements().iter().any(|t1| t1.less_equal(t2)))
    }

    /// Reveals the elements in the antichain.
    ///
    /// # Examples
    ///
    ///```
    /// use timely::progress::frontier::Antichain;
    ///
    /// let mut frontier = Antichain::from_elem(2);
    /// assert_eq!(frontier.elements(), &[2]);
    ///```
    #[inline] pub fn elements(&self) -> &[T] { &self.elements[..] }
}

/// An antichain based on a multiset whose elements frequencies can be updated.
///
/// The `MutableAntichain` maintains frequencies for many elements of type `T`, and exposes the set
/// of elements with positive count not greater than any other elements with positive count. The
/// antichain may both advance and retreat; the changes do not all need to be to elements greater or
/// equal to some elements of the frontier.
///
/// The type `T` must implement `PartialOrder` as well as `Ord`. The implementation of the `Ord` trait
/// is used to efficiently organize the updates for cancellation, and to efficiently determine the lower
/// bounds, and only needs to not contradict the `PartialOrder` implementation (that is, if `PartialOrder`
/// orders two elements, the so does the `Ord` implementation).
///
/// The `MutableAntichain` implementation is done with the intent that updates to it are done in batches,
/// and it is acceptable to rebuild the frontier from scratch when a batch of updates change it. This means
/// that it can be expensive to maintain a large number of counts and change few elements near the frontier.
///
/// There is an `update_dirty` method for single updates that leave the `MutableAntichain` in a dirty state,
/// but I strongly recommend against using them unless you must (on part of timely progress tracking seems
/// to be greatly simplified by access to this)
#[derive(Clone, Debug)]
pub struct MutableAntichain<T: PartialOrder+Ord> {
    dirty: usize,
    updates: Vec<(T, i64)>,
    frontier: Vec<T>,
    changes: ChangeBatch<T>,
}

impl<T: PartialOrder+Ord+Clone> MutableAntichain<T> {
    /// Creates a new empty `MutableAntichain`.
    ///
    /// # Examples
    ///
    ///```
    /// use timely::progress::frontier::MutableAntichain;
    ///
    /// let frontier = MutableAntichain::<usize>::new();
    /// assert!(frontier.is_empty());
    ///```
    #[inline]
    pub fn new() -> MutableAntichain<T> {
        MutableAntichain {
            dirty: 0,
            updates: Vec::new(),
            frontier:  Vec::new(),
            changes: ChangeBatch::new(),
        }
    }

    /// Removes all elements.
    ///
    /// # Examples
    ///
    ///```
    /// use timely::progress::frontier::MutableAntichain;
    ///
    /// let mut frontier = MutableAntichain::<usize>::new();
    /// frontier.clear();
    /// assert!(frontier.is_empty());
    ///```
    #[inline]
    pub fn clear(&mut self) {
        self.dirty = 0;
        self.updates.clear();
        self.frontier.clear();
        self.changes.clear();
    }

    /// This method deletes the contents. Unlike `clear` it records doing so.
    pub fn empty(&mut self) {
        for index in 0 .. self.updates.len() { self.updates[index].1 = 0; }
        self.dirty = self.updates.len();
    }

    /// Reveals the minimal elements with positive count.
    ///
    /// # Examples
    ///
    ///```
    /// use timely::progress::frontier::MutableAntichain;
    ///
    /// let mut frontier = MutableAntichain::<usize>::new();
    /// assert!(frontier.frontier().len() == 0);
    ///```
    #[inline]
    pub fn frontier(&self) -> AntichainRef<T> {
        debug_assert_eq!(self.dirty, 0);
        AntichainRef::new(&self.frontier)
    }

    /// Creates a new singleton `MutableAntichain`.
    ///
    /// # Examples
    ///
    ///```
    /// use timely::progress::frontier::{AntichainRef, MutableAntichain};
    ///
    /// let mut frontier = MutableAntichain::new_bottom(0u64);
    /// assert!(frontier.frontier() == AntichainRef::new(&[0u64]));
    ///```
    #[inline]
    pub fn new_bottom(bottom: T) -> MutableAntichain<T> {
        MutableAntichain {
            dirty: 0,
            updates: vec![(bottom.clone(), 1)],
            frontier: vec![bottom],
            changes: ChangeBatch::new(),
        }
    }

    /// Returns true if there are no elements in the `MutableAntichain`.
    ///
    /// # Examples
    ///
    ///```
    /// use timely::progress::frontier::MutableAntichain;
    ///
    /// let mut frontier = MutableAntichain::<usize>::new();
    /// assert!(frontier.is_empty());
    ///```
    #[inline]
    pub fn is_empty(&self) -> bool {
        debug_assert_eq!(self.dirty, 0);
        self.frontier.is_empty()
    }

    /// Returns true if any item in the `MutableAntichain` is strictly less than the argument.
    ///
    /// # Examples
    ///
    ///```
    /// use timely::progress::frontier::MutableAntichain;
    ///
    /// let mut frontier = MutableAntichain::new_bottom(1u64);
    /// assert!(!frontier.less_than(&0));
    /// assert!(!frontier.less_than(&1));
    /// assert!(frontier.less_than(&2));
    ///```
    #[inline]
    pub fn less_than(&self, time: &T) -> bool {
        debug_assert_eq!(self.dirty, 0);
        self.frontier().less_than(time)
    }

    /// Returns true if any item in the `MutableAntichain` is less than or equal to the argument.
    ///
    /// # Examples
    ///
    ///```
    /// use timely::progress::frontier::MutableAntichain;
    ///
    /// let mut frontier = MutableAntichain::new_bottom(1u64);
    /// assert!(!frontier.less_equal(&0));
    /// assert!(frontier.less_equal(&1));
    /// assert!(frontier.less_equal(&2));
    ///```
    #[inline]
    pub fn less_equal(&self, time: &T) -> bool {
        debug_assert_eq!(self.dirty, 0);
        self.frontier().less_equal(time)
    }

    /// Allows a single-element push, but dirties the antichain and prevents inspection until cleaned.
    ///
    /// At the moment inspection is prevented via panic, so best be careful (this should probably be fixed).
    /// It is *very* important if you want to use this method that very soon afterwards you call something
    /// akin to `update_iter`, perhaps with a `None` argument if you have no more data, as this method will
    /// tidy up the internal representation.
    #[inline]
    pub fn update_dirty(&mut self, time: T, delta: i64) {
        self.updates.push((time, delta));
        self.dirty += 1;
    }

    /// Applies updates to the antichain and enumerates any changes.
    ///
    /// # Examples
    ///
    ///```
    /// use timely::progress::frontier::{AntichainRef, MutableAntichain};
    ///
    /// let mut frontier = MutableAntichain::new_bottom(1u64);
    /// let changes =
    /// frontier
    ///     .update_iter(vec![(1, -1), (2, 7)])
    ///     .collect::<Vec<_>>();
    ///
    /// assert!(frontier.frontier() == AntichainRef::new(&[2]));
    /// assert!(changes == vec![(1, -1), (2, 1)]);
    ///```
    #[inline]
    pub fn update_iter<'a, I>(&'a mut self, updates: I) -> ::std::vec::Drain<'a, (T, i64)>
    where
        I: IntoIterator<Item = (T, i64)>,
    {
        for (time, delta) in updates {
            self.updates.push((time, delta));
            self.dirty += 1;
        }

        // track whether a rebuild is needed.
        let mut rebuild_required = false;

        // determine if recently pushed data requires rebuilding the frontier.
        // note: this may be required even with an empty iterator, due to dirty data in self.updates.
        while self.dirty > 0 && !rebuild_required {

            let time = &self.updates[self.updates.len() - self.dirty].0;
            let delta = self.updates[self.updates.len() - self.dirty].1;

            let beyond_frontier = self.frontier.iter().any(|f| f.less_than(time));
            let before_frontier = !self.frontier.iter().any(|f| f.less_equal(time));
            rebuild_required = rebuild_required || !(beyond_frontier || (delta < 0 && before_frontier));

            self.dirty -= 1;
        }
        self.dirty = 0;

        if rebuild_required {
            self.rebuild()
        }
        self.changes.drain()
    }

    /// Applies updates to the antichain and applies `action` to each frontier change.
    ///
    /// This method applies a batch of updates and if any affects the frontier it is rebuilt.
    /// Once rebuilt, `action` is called with the corresponding changes to the frontier, which
    /// should be various times and `{ +1, -1 }` differences.
    ///
    /// # Examples
    ///
    ///```
    /// use timely::progress::frontier::{AntichainRef, MutableAntichain};
    ///
    /// let mut frontier = MutableAntichain::new_bottom(1u64);
    /// let mut changes = Vec::new();
    /// frontier.update_iter_and(vec![(1, -1), (2, 1)], |time, diff| {
    ///     changes.push((time.clone(), diff));
    /// });
    /// assert!(frontier.frontier() == AntichainRef::new(&[2]));
    /// changes.sort();
    /// assert_eq!(&changes[..], &[(1, -1), (2, 1)]);
    ///```
    #[inline]
    #[deprecated(since="0.8.0", note="`update_iter` now provides an iterator as output")]
    pub fn update_iter_and<I, A>(&mut self, updates: I, mut action: A)
    where
        I: IntoIterator<Item = (T, i64)>,
        A: FnMut(&T, i64)
    {
        self.update_iter(updates)
            .for_each(|(time, diff)| action(&time, diff));
    }

    /// Sorts and consolidates `self.updates` and applies `action` to any frontier changes.
    ///
    /// This method is meant to be used for bulk updates to the frontier, and does more work than one might do
    /// for single updates, but is meant to be an efficient way to process multiple updates together. This is
    /// especially true when we want to apply very large numbers of updates.
    fn rebuild(&mut self) {

        // sort and consolidate updates; retain non-zero accumulations.
        if !self.updates.is_empty() {
            self.updates.sort_by(|x,y| x.0.cmp(&y.0));
            for i in 0 .. self.updates.len() - 1 {
                if self.updates[i].0 == self.updates[i+1].0 {
                    self.updates[i+1].1 += self.updates[i].1;
                    self.updates[i].1 = 0;
                }
            }
            self.updates.retain(|x| x.1 != 0);
        }

        for time in self.frontier.drain(..) {
            self.changes.update(time, -1);
        }

        // build new frontier using strictly positive times.
        // as the times are sorted, we don't need to worry that we might displace frontier elements.
        for time in self.updates.iter().filter(|x| x.1 > 0) {
            if !self.frontier.iter().any(|f| f.less_equal(&time.0)) {
                self.frontier.push(time.0.clone());
            }
        }

        for time in self.frontier.iter() {
            self.changes.update(time.clone(), 1);
        }
    }

    /// Reports the count for a queried time.
    pub fn count_for(&self, query_time: &T) -> i64 {
        self.updates
            .iter()
            .filter(|td| td.0.eq(query_time))
            .map(|td| td.1)
            .sum()
    }
}

/// Extension trait for filtering time changes through antichains.
pub trait MutableAntichainFilter<T: PartialOrder+Ord+Clone> {
    /// Filters time changes through an antichain.
    ///
    /// # Examples
    ///
    ///```
    /// use timely::progress::frontier::{MutableAntichain, MutableAntichainFilter};
    ///
    /// let mut frontier = MutableAntichain::new_bottom(1u64);
    /// let changes =
    /// vec![(1, -1), (2, 7)]
    ///     .filter_through(&mut frontier)
    ///     .collect::<Vec<_>>();
    ///
    /// assert!(changes == vec![(1, -1), (2, 1)]);
    ///```
    fn filter_through(self, antichain: &mut MutableAntichain<T>) -> ::std::vec::Drain<(T,i64)>;
}

impl<T: PartialOrder+Ord+Clone, I: IntoIterator<Item=(T,i64)>> MutableAntichainFilter<T> for I {
    fn filter_through(self, antichain: &mut MutableAntichain<T>) -> ::std::vec::Drain<(T,i64)> {
        antichain.update_iter(self.into_iter())
    }
}

/// A wrapper for elements of an antichain.
#[derive(PartialEq, Eq)]
pub struct AntichainRef<'a, T: 'a+PartialOrder> {
    /// Elements contained in the antichain.
    frontier: &'a [T],
}

impl<'a, T: 'a+PartialOrder> AntichainRef<'a, T> {
    /// Create a new `AntichainRef` from a reference to a slice of elements forming the frontier.
    pub fn new(frontier: &'a [T]) -> Self {
        Self {
            frontier,
        }
    }

    /// Returns true if there are no elements in the `AntichainRef`.
    ///
    /// # Examples
    ///
    ///```
    /// use timely::progress::frontier::AntichainRef;
    ///
    /// let frontier = AntichainRef::<usize>::new(&[]);
    /// assert!(frontier.is_empty());
    ///```
    #[inline]
    pub fn is_empty(&self) -> bool {
        self.frontier.is_empty()
    }

    /// Create an iterator over the elements in this `AntichainRef`.
    ///
    /// # Examples
    ///
    ///```
    /// use timely::progress::frontier::AntichainRef;
    ///
    /// let frontier = AntichainRef::new(&[1u64]);
    /// let mut iter = frontier.iter();
    /// assert_eq!(iter.next(), Some(&1u64));
    /// assert_eq!(iter.next(), None);
    ///```
    pub fn iter(&self) -> ::std::slice::Iter<T> {
        self.frontier.iter()
    }

    /// Returns true if any item in the `AntichainRef` is strictly less than the argument.
    ///
    /// # Examples
    ///
    ///```
    /// use timely::progress::frontier::AntichainRef;
    ///
    /// let frontier = AntichainRef::new(&[1u64]);
    /// assert!(!frontier.less_than(&0));
    /// assert!(!frontier.less_than(&1));
    /// assert!(frontier.less_than(&2));
    ///```
    #[inline]
    pub fn less_than(&self, time: &T) -> bool {
        self.iter().any(|x| x.less_than(time))
    }

    /// Returns true if any item in the `AntichainRef` is less than or equal to the argument.
    #[inline]
    ///
    /// # Examples
    ///
    ///```
    /// use timely::progress::frontier::AntichainRef;
    ///
    /// let frontier = AntichainRef::new(&[1u64]);
    /// assert!(!frontier.less_equal(&0));
    /// assert!(frontier.less_equal(&1));
    /// assert!(frontier.less_equal(&2));
    ///```
    pub fn less_equal(&self, time: &T) -> bool {
        self.iter().any(|x| x.less_equal(time))
    }

    /// Returns the number of elements in this `AntichainRef`.
    pub fn len(&self) -> usize {
        self.frontier.len()
    }

    /// Copies `self` into a new `Vec`.
    pub fn to_vec(&self) -> Vec<T> where T: Clone {
        self.frontier.to_vec()
    }
}

impl<'a, T: PartialOrder> ::std::ops::Deref for AntichainRef<'a, T> {
    type Target = [T];
    fn deref(&self) -> &Self::Target {
        self.frontier
    }
}

impl<'a, T: 'a+PartialOrder> ::std::iter::IntoIterator for &'a AntichainRef<'a, T> {
    type Item = &'a T;
    type IntoIter = ::std::slice::Iter<'a, T>;
    fn into_iter(self) -> Self::IntoIter {
        self.iter()
    }
}


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AVTechnology
Digital Signage Magazine
EDUWIRE
DiGiCo Speakers Used on Ben Howard Tours
By AVNetwork Staff (Systems Contractor News) 2015-06-10T21:36:00Z
British singer-songwriter Ben Howard is enjoying success on both sides of the Atlantic, having completed a sold out UK tour in December, a successful run in the US, returning to the UK in April, where he filled arenas round the country, including three nights at London's Alexandra Palace, Glasgow's SSE Hydro, Cardiff's Motorpoint Arena and Birmingham's NIA. His soul-searching brand of folk-pop has earned him a dedicated following. Audio rental company Nitelites is using DiGiCo SD7s for both Front of House and monitor positions on the tour.
Nitelites director Andy Magee, who has been working with Ben since 2012, elected to take up the FOH position, with Barrie Pitt mixing monitors. They use SD7s.
"The band knows exactly what they want and we try very hard to give it to them. It's always a challenge and every console we use is pushed to the limits of its performance," he says. "Almost all the band members are engineers and have worked in studios, so they push us really hard. It's good for us because it keeps us sharp.
At FOH the show is heavily dependent on automation.
"If things change during the show, I can hit a safe button and get exactly what I need," he says. "The band is great and the show sounds fantastic; the layering in the music is really subtle."
Andy's SD7 has the addition of a Waves Soundgrid, along with a DiGiGrid MGB to multitrack every show to a MacBook, which he plays back to Ben each day. Barrie, meanwhile, has a Universal Audio Apollo 16 plugin server with a DiGiCo Mini-Rack. A pair of SD9's are also employed as the support band consoles.
And what of support? "Before the tour started, I had some hardware training from Rob Andrews and Dave Bigg at DiGiCo," Andy concludes.
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We spent the day out in the Harbor, at Mom and Dad's house. We'd basically been recovering since Relay the weekend before...so a quiet day in the sunshine was just what we needed. With a pool on the deck, the beach to play on, and fresh fish on the grill...you really couldn't ask for more.
It was the first year that we had really had any fireworks for the boys -- after Thomas's first experience (below), he decided it was safer to watch from behind Grandpa than by hanging with Grandma the Pyro. Both boys loved watching the kid-sized fireworks, and we all loved that the sun wore them out...and they both slept soundly from about 8 pm on. Jonathan and I were able to sit down by the beach and watch the show from the Trelevens' barge around 10:30...and just be able to walk back upstairs when it was over. There were a ton of firework displays around Henderson Bay that night...but the best, by far, was the Trelevens'.
Grandpa and his Wee Skis. Thank you, Costco, for the awesome matching suits w/hats!!
It's almost as if Grandma was driving this...right off the road and into the bay!
And some of my favorite shots of the fireworks. I'll preface this with the fact that I was a tired, old pregnant mama...so when I sat down to shoot, I didn't want to get up. You'll see a lot of the same boathouse rails, but the explosions are different. :) Chalk it up to Wee Ski 3.0 wanting to keep me in one place.
I just love this eclectic one.


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Q: how do I query mysql table with array? $array contains multiple values for example $array = mathew,thomas,ethan,joseph;
I need to do a mysql query with all names and retrieve its individual values.

A: "WHERE name IN ('" . implode("','", array_map('mysql_real_escape_string', $array)) . "')"

By adding the quotes this way (use copy paste the quotes may be hard to see) it will let you match strings, and it will escape them as well.
If it's just numbers you can do the simpler:
"WHERE name IN (" . implode(",", $array) . ")"

A: $query="SELECT * FROM tablw WHERE username IN(".array_map(function($x){
    return '"'.$x.'"'; // add quotes
},implode(',',$array)).")";
// now you can execute query

Don't forget to escape all data (You can do it in array_map)

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Colors è il tredicesimo album in studio del musicista statunitense Beck, pubblicato nel 2017.

Tracce
Tutte le tracce sono state scritte da Beck Hansen, eccetto dove indicato.

Bonus track (Ed. Deluxe)

Collegamenti esterni

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Mistrzostwa Afryki w Rugby 7 Mężczyzn 2018 – dziesiąte mistrzostwa Afryki w rugby 7 mężczyzn, oficjalne międzynarodowe zawody rugby 7 o randze mistrzostw kontynentu organizowane przez Rugby Africa mające na celu wyłonienie najlepszej męskiej reprezentacji narodowej w tej dyscyplinie sportu w Afryce, które odbyły się w tunezyjskim mieście Jemmal w dniach 13–14 października 2018 roku.

Do zawodów przystąpiło dwanaście reprezentacji, które rywalizowały w pierwszym dniu systemem kołowym podzielone na cztery trzyzespołowe grupy. W drugim dniu czołowe dwójki z każdej z nich awansowały do ćwierćfinałów, a pozostałe zmierzyły się w walce o Bowl. Faworyzowane zespoły Kenii i Ugandy zajęły odpowiednio drugą i trzecią lokatę, zwyciężyła zaś nieoczekiwanie reprezentacja Zimbabwe uzyskując jednocześnie zaproszenie do Dubai Sevens 2018 i South Africa Sevens 2018 rozegranych w ramach sezonu 2018/2019 World Rugby Sevens Series, zaś wraz z Ugandą także prawo udziału w turnieju kwalifikacyjnym do kolejnego sezonu światowego cyklu.

Zawody były transmitowane w Internecie na oficjalnym kanale YouTube Kwesé Sports.

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Understanding the biomechanics of the pelvis is necessary for all women's health practitioners. However, looking at the patient from the cranium to the feet for other causes of chronic pain or pelvic pain is a necessary skill-set for the complicated patient that is driven to seek care from a pelvic health practitioner. This two-day course focuses on the integration of biomechanical alignment, changing and normalizing bony joint alignment, observing and correction of dysfunctional fulcrums of motions.
This course also includes basic review and implementation of Maitland, Mackenzie, Cyriax methods are osteopathic points of view of manual therapy. Looking at the cervical, thoracic, lumbar spine, pelvis, lower extremities and feet are necessary for treating the complicated patient as a whole. Implementation of muscle energy techniques of the pelvis, the Hesch Method, and the Integrated System Model are discussed and introduced. Diastesis assessment, core and lumbar stabilization strengthening and progressions are instructed with taking into account the chronic pain, pelvic pain and pelvic organ prolapse type-patients. What to do with an uneven bony alignment in the pelvis? How do you correct a sacrum that returns to a dysfunctional position after each treatment? Does a leg length discrepancy matter? Does cranial sidebending or a foot in overpronation change the entire system which became the catalyst leading to chronic pelvic pain? How does a diastasis change the forces within the abdomen relating to low back pain and pelvic pain? This course is designed for the pelvic rehab therapist seeking to add these evaluation and treatment techniques to their clinical toolkit.
11:00Torsions within the system, fulcrums of movement, increased thoracic kyphosis and lumbar lordosis, pronated feet: where to start?
2:00 LAB: Head to Toe Orthopedic Scan Sit to Stand Movement Assessment: what changes with sitting and standing?
8:00 Introduction to the Hesch Method. Ilial and sacral springing.
11:30 LAB: Assessment of cranial position and its relationship to the sacrum, sacral position and changes of the sacral position during sitting.
1:15 Diastesis & core training: where do we start and where do we end?
This course was amazing. It gave me a better outlook on assessing the body as a whole. I loved she provided treatment techniques to help us progress our patients. Best class I have taken in a long time!
A great course to look everywhere and then bring it "altogether "Thanks!
By far the most integrative course I've taken! This has really pulled all the orthopaedic Plies of the pelvis together for me.


Here are some simple remedies for treating common summer ailments using natural ingredients and methods. Treatments vary according to age, as well as whether women are pregnant or breast feeding, to ensure that every person is given an option that works for them.
Pour two drops of essential oil of lemon (citrus limon/zest) or two drops of essential oil of ginger (zingiber officinale/rhizome) or two drops of essential oil of peppermint (mentha piperita/leaves) on a tissue and breathe in deeply for two or three inhalations. Do not make contact with the skin. Repeat if necessary.
If no essential oil is available, eating some stem ginger may help prevent an episode of nausea.
Pour two drops of essential oil of lemon or two drops of essential oil of ginger on a tissue and breathe in deeply for two or three inhalations. Do not make contact with the skin. Repeat if necessary.
If no essential oil is available, eating some stem ginger may help prevent an episodes of nausea. However, children may have problems with this as they tend to dislike the taste.
The atmospheric diffusion of the essential oil citronella of Ceylon or bourbon geranium (rosata, odorata) will help to keep mosquitoes at bay. Diffusion can either be active (using a spray device) or passive (using a fixed base).
Citronella leaves or bourbon geranium leaves should be cut into small pieces and mixed with a cut of lemon balm to create a 'pot-pourri'. If flies try to get into the mixture, simply add two drops of essential oil of peppermint or a few leaves of exotic basil (ocimum basilicum).
Placing a bourbon geranium plant in front of the window will also help keep mosquitos away.
Essential oil of citronnella is recommended. The 'pots-pourris' are also suitable but without the addition of essential oil of peppermint. All products must be placed out of arm's reach of children.
Immediately apply one or two drops of essential oil of fine lavender (natural or medicinal) to the burn. Repeat 2 to 3 times if necessary. This is helpful as lavender has a localised anaesthetic action and will help with the pain and the healing process.
Immediately apply a little hazelnut vegetable oil, calophyllum oil or calendula oil. If you don't have any of these to hand, you can use St John's wort. Bear in mind that St John's presents a risk of photosensitisation, so exposure to the sun is not recommended following use.
This treatment is also suitable for managing sunburn, as all of these products are anti-inflammatory agents.
Apply a few drops of calophyllum or an oily maceration of calendula. Otherwise, St John's wort oil or liquid jojoba wax will also be very effective.
Chew a clove or infuse two to four cloves in water close to boiling point and use this infusion as a mouthwash. Repeat four to five times during the day whilst waiting for your appointment with the dentist.


Since I retired a few weeks ago from the university, I don't talk as much. I don't lecture up to twelve hours a week. I spend more time in silence; I have more time to think about my speeches and sermons. I spend a lot of time writing and preparing presentations in the quietness of the Cincinnati Mercantile Library in downtown Cincinnati or in the carrels of the Northern Kentucky University library.
Even though my careers center on talking, there is less stress when I don't talk as much. I don't have to worry about saying too much or saying something I might regret because I did not think it through carefully enough. Not talking as much gives me more time to do other things. I find that I observe more closely and ponder more deeply.
Ausonius said, "He who does not know how to be silent will not know how to speak." Solomon in his wisdom made the point that there is a time to be silent. I think all of us could communicate better if we spent more time in silence.
Practice important conversations by going over mentally what you plan to say. Spend private time each day either anticipating your responsibilities for the day or pondering what you learned that day before you retire for the evening.
I wish our leaders would spend less time on camera talking about issues and spend more time behind closed doors thinking and studying issues. The decisions might be of higher quality.
We pay the ultimate respect by a moment of silence. We honor a person's life by a period of silence. We can be surprised to the point of silence.
When I am silent, I learn more; I find out more about others and myself. I observe more, and I am less stressed. I have taught that in my listening seminars for years, but now I am even more aware of the truth of the importance of listening.
The title of this piece is just part of the idiom. The entire quotation is "Speech is silver; silence is golden." Maybe we should all seek a little more gold and a little less silver.


Erick Chaparro, 21, had a 3-1 record and pitched a no-hitter in helping the Rice Lake Orangemen win the 10th Annual Hollywood Days Men's Fastpitch Tournament.
WATERTOWN, Minn. – Rice Lake's bats, arms and gloves were in solid form and as a result the Orangemen won the 10th Annual Hollywood Days Men's Fastpitch Tournament, June 21-22, at the Hollywood Sports Complex in Watertown.
The Orangemen defeated the Fargo Bombers 5-2 behind the three-hit pitching of 21-year-old Erick Chaparro, who walked four and struck out five to lead Rice Lake to its second tournament championship in consecutive weekends.
The Orangemen also won the Rice Lake Aquafest Invitational, June 13-15, the first such title for the ball club in the 36 years of the event.
Fargo stuck Chaparro with his lone loss (5-4) on Saturday in round-robin play, but the right-hander from Maracaibo, Venezuela bounced back in fine form in the second meeting.
Where are some of the next generation of fastpitch pitchers coming from? Fargo, North Dakota.
FARGO, ND – When Kyle Koterba left his Montana home to attend college in North Dakota, he intended to play baseball.
Sometimes though, the best of plans get waylaid. But you won't find Koterba crying and bemoaning his fate that he never played college baseball. On the contrary, he found a sport much more to his liking: fastpitch softball.


Worried about the US Elections? Don't be.
Dearest Eden, I am so stressed about the U.S. election and the hate and the candidates. Any wisdom to share? Thanks, N.
The elections are a process. Just a process. No evil, no good. Just an expansion and a shifting of the world. All will be well. We have already told you thins. Relax. Settle down. Do not fear the future. Good things are coming, humanity is growing, and yes, as we say, these are growing pains. But all will be well. Christmas will be good.
New expansions are coming. The world is changing. All is good and well and do not fear. Love is here.


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Q: Chrome extensions alarms on system standby I created a Chrome Extension that should make some checks every 24 hours
var oneDayInMinutes = 24*60*60;
chrome.alarms.create('checkState', {periodInMinutes: oneDayInMinutes});

What happens to this alarm when the system goes to standby? Is it fired about 24h after it was set, it's shifted by the time the system was in standby mode or it's turned off or disabled in some way?

A: It is supposed to fire at earliest 24h after it was set. If the time was missed, it should notice and fire anyway.
There is, however, an open bug indicating that, at least in OS X and for short time periods after the system wakes, the alarm may be shifted by the time system was asleep. I suppose this corrects itself after a
while - but don't quote me on that.
You can work around the bug by listening to chrome.idle events and re-creating alarms after wake.


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Candasnos
Candasnos (municipality). It has a population about 349 inhabitants, the area is about 121,10 km², it belongs to Provincia de Huesca, its autonomous community is Aragon, its density is 2,88, its number of homes is 293 , 275 buildings are registered in this place, it has 178 counted men, it has 171 counted women, the average altitude is 285,83 m, there are 1,08 males for each female. There is information in Classora Knowledge Base about 11 rankings, reports and surveys. (edit this text)
Candasnos (municipality). It has a population about 349 inhabitants, the area is about 121,10 km², it belongs to Provincia de Huesca, its autonomous community is Aragon, its density is 2,88, its number of homes is 293 , 275 buildings are registered in this place, it has 178 counted men, it has 171 counted women, the average altitude is 285,83 m, there are 1,08 males for each female. There is information in Classora Knowledge Base about 11 rankings, reports and surveys.
Name: Candasnos
Municipality: Candasnos
Province: Provincia de Huesca
Autonomous community: Comunidad Autónoma de Aragón
(Latitude, Longitude): (41.495625, 0.06864782)
Autonomous Community: Aragon
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The Wedding Ring – A Symbol of Commitment or Just the Old Ball and Chain?
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]It goes without saying that many married couples today wear wedding rings. The act of exchanging rings during the wedding ceremony has been around for many centuries and has become a tradition that many wouldn't want to miss out on. But where and how did this tradition come to be and what symbolism is really hidden behind the wedding ring?
Just like the wedding ring, the history of the engagement ring's origin is also quite interesting. Originally the engagement ring represented more of a binding promise, or a kind of "deposit" for the upcoming wedding ceremony. The reason for this was simple – parents wanted to make sure that their daughters would be financially well taken care of. As such, the engagement and the presentation of the engagement ring represented a legal agreement which had to be kept. This statement is the opposite of today's tradition, where the engagement is seen as a promise of marriage but is still easy to break.
Today, most married couples feel that the precious metal on their hands is a sign of their common bond. The fact that most partners – both the bride and the groom – have the same (or a similar) design for their rings is supposed to indicate a bond between two souls. The typical circle shape, with neither a beginning nor an end (how so many also similarly view love), embodies the eternity of everlasting love.
The metal – classic gold alloy, modest silver, or trendy platinum?
The sky is the limit for couples today as far as design and craftsmanship go. Since gold is generally too soft, for example, it is processed together with other harder metals. Alloys made out of gold are generally the most popular. Many couples choose white gold or rose gold as the material for their wedding rings. Typical alloys consist of 18 carat gold, made up of 1000 parts metal to 750 parts pure gold.


KIMBERLY A. SZUCS, Ph.D., OTR/L - Dr. Szucs is a teacher-scholar whose research agenda has two main foci: describing biomechanical and neuromotor control changes that are precursors to the development of cumulative trauma disorders and pathology, and the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL).
seven national scholarly presentations at a wide variety of conferences including the Lilly International Conference on Evidenced Based Teaching, the American Pain Society National Conference, the American Occupational Therapy Association Annual Conference and the American Congress of Rehabilitation Medicine.
multidisciplinary research collective dedicated to addressing the problem of chronic pain. She also collaborates with peers within her department and the RSHS on studies that contribute to the scholarship of teaching and learning. In the past five years, Dr. Szucs has helped her teams earn five internal grants with colleagues in occupational therapy, psychology and physical therapy. One other grant proposal was not funded. Dr. Szucs extends her scholarly contribution by serving as an alternate member of the DU IRB Committee. She also currently serves on the review board for the American Journal of Occupational Therapy and for the Journal Human Anatomy.
of Biomechanics and as a reviewer of critically appraised papers for the American Occupational Therapy Association, to name a few.
KIMBERLY A. SZUCS, Ph.D., OTR/L - Dr. Szucs is a highly dedicated academician and servant leader who exemplifies the criteria for excellence in service to the mission. She is recognized by her students and colleagues, both here at Duquesne University and within the occupational therapy profession as an enthusiastic and excellent servant leader.
Dr. Szucs holds a variety of positions in service that reflect her service to scholarship. She is a grant reviewer for the University Faculty Development Fund, an alternate member to the RSHS Institutional Review Board, and a reviewer for the Chronic Pain Research Consortium Research Stimulator Grant. In addition she is a reviewer for multiple professional journals including the Journal of Athletic Training, Gait and Posture, BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders, Industrial Health, Clinical Anatomy, and the American Journal of Occupational Therapy. Dr. Szucs is also a reviewer for abstracts and conference proposals for both occupational therapy and biomechanical national conferences.
Her service to the University and Rangos School of Health Sciences includes her role on the Dean's Award for Excellence selection committee, and the Chair and OT Department representative for the John A. Short Award in Anatomy. She is also the Academic Advisor to the DU chapter of the Delta Zeta Sorority and a commuter affairs faculty representative.
ELIZABETH DEIULIIS, OTD, OTR/L -Dr. Deluliis is a highly dedicated academician who exemplifies the criteria for teaching excellence. She is recognized by her students and colleagues, both here at Duquesne University and within the Occupational Therapy profession, as an enthusiastic and excellent educator.
Dr. Deluliis also serves as the Academic Fieldwork Coordinator (AFWC) for the Department of Occupational Therapy. Dr. Deluliis's SES scores consistently exceed the criteria for teaching excellence. Across her courses, students consistently report that her courses are harder and require more effort for learning. The domain scores in the vast majority of cases, across multiple courses, are typically above the RSHS average. Students report she is a content expert, is always organized and prepared, and that she is an exceptionally effective teacher. Dr. Deluliis utilizes a variety of interactive teaching pedagogies by incorporating contemporary, evidence-based strategies to both challenge and support learning. Dr. Deluliis has recently implemented various innovative and advanced teaching methods, including virtual lectures, student response systems, and 'flipped' classrooms. She has been an early adopter and advocate for contemporary pedagogical strategies to improve student learning.
JERYL D. BENSON., Ed.D., OTR/L -Dr. Benson's passion and dedication to service make her an excellent recipient of this award. Since joining the Department of Occupational Therapy, Dr. Benson has consistently demonstrated a pattern of excellence in service.
Dr. Benson serves the University in several ways. She has served multiple times on the University Creative Teaching Award selection committee and is a Near Peer Leader in the CTE Faculty Mentoring Exchange Program. Within our school she is a long-standing member of the RSHS Student Standing Committee, has been a member of multiple RSHS faculty search committees and has served on the Dean's Award for Excellence selection committee. ln the Occupational Therapy Department, she has chaired the last three OT faculty search committees and was a committee member on two others. She has served as the Chair of the OT Department Awards committee for over a decade and is a member of OTD Curriculum Committee. In addition, Dr. Benson has served as the faculty advisor to the Student Ambassadors program since its inception in 2000.
KIMBERLY A. SZUCS, PH.D., OTR/L - Dr. Szucs is a valued member of the Rangos School and the Department of Occupational Therapy. Dr. Szucs teaches undergraduate and graduate courses within occupational therapy and cross disciplinarily. She consistently demonstrates a routine pattern of excellence in teaching. She is a model teacher scholar who works diligently to perfect her craft and is an educator who routinely studies the outcomes of her teaching and adjusts to perfect her pedagogy.
JERYL D. BENSON, Ed.D., OTR/L - Dr. Benson is a teacher scholar whose publication and presentation record reflects clear synergies between her school-based practice orientation, her research traditions and her teaching. She has eleven peer-reviewed publications and conference proceedings, with four of these studies published in 2013. Additionally, three recent publications are in the Journal of Occupational Therapy in Schools and Early Intervention, which is the only journal within the occupational therapy professional directly focused on research and intervention within school-based settings. Dr. Benson has received four small internal grants totaling $11,240, to support her scholarship. The two most recent grants support her research as a teacher scholar and specifically evaluate learning outcomes. She is on the review board for three occupational therapy/allied health journals and her expertise in pediatrics is evident in her recent invitation to become a member of the National Board for Certification in Occupational Therapy Certification Exam Blueprint Weighting Committee. This exam is the penultimate test for occupational therapists wishing to enter into the profession.
ANNE MARIE WITCHGER HANSEN, Ed.D. OTR/L - Dr. Hansen has demonstrated a consistent pattern of extraordinary dedication to the Spiritan Mission of our University through her service to the University, her School and Department, her students, the community and even the world. She engages in these service contributions freely and never seeks nor accepts compensation. Her consistent and significant presence as a servant leader to the public and community including significant service in scholarly/professional organizations has enhanced the reputation and prestige of Duquesne University, the Rangos School of Health Sciences and the Department of Occupational Therapy regionally, nationally and internationally.
What have Drs. Elizabeth DeIuliis and Ann Stuart been up to?
The Accreditation Council for Occupational Therapy Education (ACOTE®) has reviewed the Report of the On-Site Evaluation for the Occupational Therapy Doctorate program at Duquesne University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania and ACOTE voted to "Grant a Status of Accreditation".
The next on-site evaluation is scheduled for academic year 2022/2023.


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How Asking A Simple Question Launched A Business That's Helping The Developing World
Kathleen Wright never wanted to be a fashion visionary, but now she's taking meetings at Tory Burch and Diane von Furstenberg.
[Image: Flickr user Indi Samarajiva]
By Lindsay LaVine 3 minute Read
When Piece & Co. founder Kathleen Wright graduated from the University of Illinois with a business degree, she knew she wanted to work with women in developing countries, but what that looked like wasn't exactly clear.
Fast-forward nine years (after a five-year stint in the private sector and four years with a nonprofit), and Kathleen found her calling. In 2012, Wright launched Piece & Co., a Chicago-based company that connects global artisans with brands that source socially responsible products.
The idea for Piece & Co. sprouted from her work in the developing world, when she asked women artisans a simple question: What would help you the most? The answer wasn't money–it was consistent employment. A shortage of opportunities was the problem. Wright networked with people she'd met while working for a nonprofit and, with her first round of funding, hired an operations team to find and create a process for vetting artisan groups around the world, ensuring quality and fair labor practices.
Don't ignore that little voice that steers you to the right opportunities, tells you something's a risk worth taking.
One of Piece & Co.'s first big orders went to an artisan group in India. "You could feel the mood shift when [the women] knew they'd be working for an extended period of time," Wright says. When people are working, hope spreads through the entire community, she notes. The artisans are able to put healthy food on their tables, and their children can remain in school, she says. The company's on track to exceed its goal of creating sustainable employment for 5,000 women in the developing world by the end of the year, Wright says.
In the past two years, she's partnered with designers Rachel Roy and Cynthia Rowley, as well as Madewell and Toms, to create clothing and accessories, and will collaborate with Crate & Barrel, Nordstrom, and Alice + Olivia later this year. Next spring, brands like J.Crew, Diane von Furstenberg, Tory Burch, Rebecca Minkoff, and Sperry will release Piece & Co. collections. Fast Company spoke with Wright to find out what she learned in launching her startup. Here are her four biggest lessons:
1. Listen to your gut.
When she started her business, Wright says she wished she knew the importance of listening to her gut. Don't ignore that little voice that steers you to the right opportunities, tells you something's a risk worth taking, or suggests an employee may not be the right fit, Wright says. You need to learn to follow your gut in a way that's quick, so you can make a decision and move on, she notes.
2. Cultivate a mentoring team.
Wright says finding a mentoring team was critical to her success, and she has five people she turns to for sage advice in the fashion and entrepreneurial space. This was particularly important, as Wright says she wasn't a fashionista, nor was she particularly interested in artisanship.
Whether it's one mentor or five, Wright suggests finding the right people to be in your corner, learning from them, listening to their advice, and keeping them engaged in what you're doing.
3. Be authentic.
Last year, a mentor gave Wright one piece of advice that's really stuck with her: the more authentic you are, the more you attract the right people–whether they're investors, brands, employees, or customers. Before, Wright says, she was "middle-of-the-road," and didn't want to come on too strong, for fear of repelling people.
Since that time, she's overcome that fear, realizing that Piece & Co.'s biggest customers believe the company can deliver on her mission and business model.
4. Never doubt what you're doing.
Noting that launching a company is harder than one would think, Wright says she was most surprised by her own "stick-to-itiveness" and resolve, grounded in her belief that her vision was worth it. The work for Piece & Co.'s U.S.-based team of 10 can be stressful at times, but Wright seeks to create an environment where they can manage the inevitable ups and downs of a startup.
For example, Piece & Co. celebrates its victories on a bulletin board. Recently, Wright says she received an email from a co-op in Mexico expressing concern for artisan groups in Africa after news broke of the Ebola virus. Where individual communities' worlds were small before, now they're asking about their counterparts around the globe. "[The victories] get you through the tough times," Wright says. You can bet that email will make the bulletin board.
Lindsay LaVine is a Chicago-based business and lifestyle freelance writer who's worked for NBC and CNN. Her work has appeared online in Entrepreneur.com, Reuters.com, Today.com, NBC News, MSNBC, Yahoo, Business Insider, BlogHer.com and Fox Business.
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Romas Kalanta, né le  à Alytus et mort le  à Kaunas, est une figure lituanienne de la lutte contre l'occupation soviétique. Le , Romas Kalanta s'immola dans un square en face de l'hôtel de ville de Kaunas, en signe de protestation contre l'oppression de l'occupant envers la langue et la culture lituanienne.

Son inhumation immédiate et en secret par les autorités provoqua les 18 et  des manifestations contre le pouvoir. Malgré la volonté des autorités de la cacher, la nouvelle de l'immolation parvint à l'Ouest, où elle mit en évidence l'incorporation forcée de la Lituanie à l'URSS.

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High Times Legislative Roundup: Sept. 15
Home » Marijuana News » Legalization
There are just two months remaining before three initiatives aimed at legalizing recreational marijuana will be voted on in the upcoming November election. Two states — Alaska and Oregon — hope to pass legislation similar to Colorado and Washington that will establish a tax and regulatory system for the cannabis industry, while the District of Columbia is pushing to allow adults to possess up to two ounces of weed and cultivate six plants without risk of prosecution. DC's initiative, however, will not establish a retail pot market.
Marijuana advocates believe each of these measures has a significant chance of winning majority approval, which could be enough success to steamroll further progress across the country in 2016. However, some fear that even one failed initiative could be enough to put a wrench in the momentum that much of the nation has been experiencing for the past several years. Yet, the overall vibe is mostly positive.
"We're in a position where we will continue to move forward, and it's unlikely we will move backwards," said Mason Tvert with the Marijuana Policy Project. "In Colorado in 2006, people told us we were crazy to run an initiative because we would lose and the state would never legalize marijuana, but public opinion is moving toward ending prohibition, and we expect to see that continue. And even if one or more don't pass this year, we will surely see several pass in the near future."
Here is a look at what your pot-friendly legislators were up to last week:
Pennsylvania: Medical Marijuana Closer
The Pennsylvania state Senate reconvened last week, with a focus on medical marijuana. Earlier this summer, Senate Bill 1182, also known as the Compassionate Use of Medical Cannabis Act, was approved by the Law and Justice Committee. It's next stop is the Appropriations Committee.
"We are planning on hopefully moving out of appropriations on Sept. 15 and on to a full Senate floor vote on Sept. 16 … and get it over to the House as soon we can," said state Sen. Mike Folmer. "We have the votes, but we just need to get through the political process, and that can be very slow because our system of government is never really meant to be fast."
Although Governor Tom Corbett has vocally expressed his disapproval for medical marijuana in the past, he has loosened his opinions in recent months in regards to allowing children access to non-psychoactive cannabis oils.
…Philadelphia Mayor Michael Nutter announced plans to sign an ordinance that will decriminalize marijuana in the city. A finally revision of the bill is expected to be finished by the end of October, which will make possession of less than an ounce of marijuana punishable with a $25 fine instead of criminal penalties. The amended measure will also impose a $100 fine for anyone caught smoking pot in public, but the courts will allow offenders to perform community service to waive the fine.
Colorado: Voters in Colorado Springs Won't Vote on Recreational Marijuana
Earlier last week, the Colorado Springs City Council voted 6-3 to ignore the issue of recreational marijuana in 2015. The measure, which slated for the April 2015 ballot, would have allowed voters to decide whether to bring recreational marijuana businesses into Colorado Springs. Supporters will have to raise the issue again next year.
Georgia: Macon Hearings
Georgia C.A.R.E. is pushing lawmakers to reconsider passing CBD-only legislation over concerns that restricted cannabis laws will not be enough to fulfill the needs of medical marijuana patients. "The cannabis plant contains many compounds that have proven to be effective in treating a variety of conditions," said James Bell with Georgia C.A.R.E. "We should not be determining who can and cannot benefit from this healing plant."
There are concerns that Big Marijuana lobbyists are influencing the governor into passing legislation for CBD-based medicine, with more focus on profit than treatment.
"Today the study committee will hear from adult patients with various medical conditions. We hope their testimony will convince lawmakers that we need to legalize the whole plant and allow doctors to treat patients who can benefit. Introducing a limited bill such as House Bill 885 will do little to get the medicine needed by so many," Bell noted.
Maryland: Decriminalization Goes Into Effect October 1
Governor Martin O'Malley recently signed a proposal into law that will decriminalize the possession of small amounts of marijuana – the measure goes into effect on October 1. The new law will make the possession of less than 10 grams of weed punishable with a fine up to $100 for a first offense — $250 for a second offense.
"As a young prosecutor, I once thought that decriminalizing the possession of marijuana might undermine the public will necessary to combat drug violence and improve public safety. I now think that decriminalizing possession of marijuana is an acknowledgment of the low priority that our courts, our prosecutors, our police, and the vast majority of citizens already attach to this transgression of public order and public health," O'Malley said in a statement.
New Mexico: Albuquerque Mayor Veto's Decriminalization Initiative
Albuquerque mayor Richard Berry posted a YouTube video last week announcing that he was vetoing the initiative to decriminalize the possession of marijuana. Voters were slated to head to the polls in November to cast a ballot on the question of making possession of less than an ounce of weed a civil infraction – punishable with a $25 fine. Yet, the governor believes passing such a measure would be too much of a conflict with state and federal laws to be worthwhile.
Maine: Lewiston to Decriminalize?
The Lewiston City Council reported earlier last week that an initiative to decriminalize the possession of small amounts of marijuana was certified for the November ballot. The measure, which was submitted by Citizens for a Safer Maine, proposes to make it legal for adults 21 and over to be in possession of up to an ounce of marijuana without fear of prosecution. Supporters are hopeful that this measure and several others on the ballot this November will be as successful at last year's decriminalization measure in Portland.
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Ben Howard has returned with a new single, a new album and details of a UK tour – check out 'A Boat To An Island On The Wall' below.
A sprawling and ambient seven-minute track, 'A Boat To An Island On The Wall' is the first taster of Howard's self-produced, upcoming third album 'Noonday Dream' – his first new material in four years.
Set for release on June 1, 'Noonday Dream' was recorded in various studios between South West France and South West England – including the legendary Sawmills, where the likes of Muse, Oasis, The Stone Roses and Supergrass have all made seminal albums.
Howard's upcoming UK and world tour dates are below, with tickets on sale from 9am on Friday April 13 and available here.