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Just Announced – WYD The Biggest Event in Panama History?
The event in Panama will be enormous. Panamanians are celebrating Pope Francis' decision to hold World Youth Day 2019 in Panama.
World Youth Day is held only every three years and will be hosted by Pope Francis in Panama City, Panama.
A prior World Youth Day in the Phillipines set the world record in 1995 for the largest number of people attending a religious event with over 5 million attendees. Other World Youth Days have also been huge.
Expect the mega-event to bring positive attention to Panama as well as a meaningful economic boost along with a huge influx of tourists.
The selection also continues the Pontiff's interest in Panama which came with the appointment of Panama's first cardinal just one year ago. The Cardinal happens to be from David, Panama near Boquete. Cardinal José Luis Lacunza Maestrojuán said "I think that it (World Youth Day) will be an occasion a revitalization of the Church in general, and for the youth in particular … not just from Panama, but from Central America and all of Latin America."
He also joked that by choosing Panama to host the mega-event, Pope Francis "made a lot of mischief, the first of which was appointing me Cardinal. It was a great mischief!"
And Panamanian Bishop Manuel Ochogavia Barahona of Colon-Kuna Yala has described the coming World Youth Day as a "Fiesta Latina" with a lot of "sun and salsa."
Panama's bishops see World Youth Day 2019 as 'fiesta Latina'
Catholic News Service, August 3, 2016, by Jonathan Luxmoore
WYD Panama will 'revitalize' Church in Central America
Catholic News Agency, August 1, 2016, by Elise Harris
"Krakow, Poland, Aug 1, 2016 / 04:53 pm (CNA/EWTN News).- After Pope Francis announced Panama as the host of the next World Youth Day, the country's bishops said the decision is a reflection of his attention to the peripheries and voiced their hope to be a "bridge" for those who come from all continents.
"I think that it will be an occasion a revitalization of the Church in general, and for the youth in particular … not just from Panama, but from Central America and all of Latin America," Cardinal José Luis Lacunza Maestrojuán of David told CNA July 31.
Panama, he said, will be an opportunity for a demographically young Latin America to "charge their battery" in living the Christian life.
He noted how the decision to hold the 2019 WYD in Panama comes just a year after he was named the country's first cardinal, jesting that Pope Francis "made a lot of mischief, the first of which was appointing me cardinal. It was a great mischief!"
Now Panamanians "have the opportunity to show what we really are," he said, explaining that while Pope Francis might have made "this mischief" in giving Panama the task of organizing the 2019 event, "with a big smile gives us this challenge to go forward."
Pope Francis announced Panama as the location of the next international WYD gathering after celebrating the closing Mass for the July 26-31 youth encounter in Krakow.
In his comments to CNA, Cardinal Lacunza noted that given its geographical location, Panama serves as "a bridge" connecting North, South, and Central America.
Given the fact that many youth from Central America will be able to arrive to Panama by land at a low cost, the cardinal said that though he's not 100 percent sure, "this must be one of the reasons why Pope Francis elected Panama to be the host."
In a July 31 press briefing following the official announcement, the cardinal addressed the obvious question as to whether, given its size and population, Panama can actually handle organizing a WYD.
In response, Cardinal Lacunza pointed to the Panama Canal Treaties that handed over control of the canal from the U.S. to Panama, nothing that many people asked the same thing: "will the Panamanians be able to manage the Panama Canal?"
"The Panamanians demonstrated that they had the ability not only to manage the canal, but also to broaden the canal," he said, explaining that given its location Panama can serve as a bridge for the Americas and for youth from around the world.
He told CNA that while there will certainly be challenges, the organizing committee has already begun to plan the event, and will meet with the Pontifical Council for the Laity July 3 in Rome to sketch out some initial ideas the event's theme and organization.
Bishop Manuel Ochogavía Barahona of Colon-Kuna Yala, who also took part in the briefing, told CNA that in his opinion the idea for the bishops of Central America to propose Panama as the location of the next WYD "was born from a Church that wants to serve the youth."
"Our reality in Latin America is a reality that really needs God," he added. As a continent plagued by various forms of violence, trafficking and poverty, they need youth who will be able to give answers, he said.
They need youth "who can give answers to a society that needs peace in order to confront the violence, a society that needs solidarity in front of the poor distribution of wealth, a society that needs to strengthen the ties of the family, of fraternity and to build a future for God."
"This is how I think the petition arrived," he said, observing how Pope Francis frequently talks about the need to reach out to the peripheries.
Bishop Ochogavía noted that his own diocese sits on the periphery where there are "various forms of poverty and marginalized and excluded people," explaining that the presence of WYD can bring the Gospel to these people and put "hope to their hearts."
Similarly, Archbishop José Domingo Ulloa Mendieta of Panama City told journalists during the briefing that WYD will be "a balm" for the youth affected by violence, trafficking, and drugs.
World Youth Day Panama will serve as a stimulus so the youth "can rediscover the path that God wants for each one of them."
He spoke about the cultural richness of Panama that those who come will find, which stems from the country's multi-cultural background, the sense of love and openness Panamanians have, and their love of salsa dancing.
While there is already a strong collaboration with the government in terms of getting things started, the archbishop jested, "the best preparation will be to learn how to dance salsa.""
Cardinal José Luis Lacunza Maestrojuán


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Born in Kumamoto, Japan, Keiko started her classical ballet training at the age of three and soon after began the modern, jazz and contemporary dance training. At 16 she moved to London and completed her study at Central School of Ballet where she achieved a BA Hons degree in professional dance and performance. After graduating she worked with various companies and productions such as Bucharest Ballet, Deutsche Oper Berlin, Murley Dance Company in London, Michael Jackson Forever Tribute Concert in Wales and the German TV series Babylon Berlin on sky. Since 2016 she lives in Germany and is a newcomer in the cast of Flying Bach.


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Novel '1984' by George Orwell - Dystopia or Possible Reality?
By Joel Nicholls
Second place in Essaymama Essay Writing Contest
In the middle of the 20th century, George Orwell frightened the world with the pessimistic forecast he elaborated in 1984. Since this year is far behind us, the novel may seem outdated regarding the threats and challenges we face today. Orwell, inspired by the events in the Cold War, presented a cruel type of totalitarian society, inspired by the Soviet Union under the rule of Stalin. Yet, the ubiquitous character of the Big Brother denies the idea that Orwell's vision was limited to the events he witnessed. Over twenty years after the fall of the Soviet Union, the Big Brother and his philosophy of governance remain a typical example of the protagonists of power in the world. Orwell's predictions for the future, defined by a boot stamping on a human face, were enough to scare both misanthropic pessimists and idealistic optimists. What fraction did the writer belong to? Was he trying to present a gloomy dystopia or a possible reality? Perhaps he did both.
1984 is a dystopian novel in its essence, but to me, Orwell was an impeccable realist. The book is so convincing in the fact that this kind of reality is possible for the future of our society, that the writer had to be deeply convinced in its probability. As a touchstone for our culture, 1984 still is a warning alarm that reminds us how things are about to get worse. We survived the bloodiest century in human history, although we still haven't come to the final nuclear annihilation predicted by Orwell. One reading of this book was enough for me to understand that although this writer was inspired by the Soviet society, his vision can be applied to any government, in any period of history. In the era of globalization and digitalization, the Big Brother seems more realistic than ever before. Even his goals – to enslave the citizens and to keep them frightened and threatened by constant wars, existential crises and continuous brainwashing – are easily applicable in today's governmental systems. However, the means of power have changed.
Instead of direct imposition of power, typical for the practices of Lenin and Stalin that served as an inspiration to Orwell, today we recognize the principles of abundance, freedom and democracy. However, these alleged liberties are created in the minds of the subject, serving as means for a more subtle way of governing that has the same Orwellian goals. "War is peace, freedom is slavery, ignorance is strength" – these are the postulates of Orwell's dystopian society. When it comes to the civilization we are witnessing today, it seems like our existence is defined by the final part of this motto, "ignorance is strength". The need to gradually reduce general knowledge and people's spiritual potential is not exclusive to communist societies. Unfortunately, this hypothesis is an unspoken imperative of higher education programs in contemporary western societies. The system of student evaluation by contemporary educators certainly leads towards their transformation in entertainers. Each lesson that requires more effort is being censored for the sake of simpler methods that appeal to the digital generation. The downfall of arts and humanities in American high schools carries an Orwellian vigor in its essence. The final goal of Orwell's Newspeak was Duckspeak – speech that would be produced solely by the throat, without any participation of the brain centers. When I take a look at the pointless news produced by the numbing mass media, this dreadful prediction seems somewhat familiar.
If Orwell could see the turn our society took by following the trail of technological innovation, he would consider his Big Brother to be a rather benign phenomenon when opposed to the outrageous systems for general supervision and the daily attacks on privacy we witness today. Various Internet corporations are monitoring every human in this world without their knowledge or direct permission. They are collecting personal information on our identity. They know all about our habits, connections, prospects, and interests. Monitoring polices are no longer aimed towards politically exposed persons. Today, every citizen is a target. When we see that all countries belong in the territory of global supervision, we realize that democracy is nothing more than an illusion. The information coming from conflicted countries is shamelessly manipulated. When the news reaches us, we are not even able to think for ourselves. Edward Snowden's reports told us what we already knew: the Big Brother is absolutely real.
1984 is an unusual blend of the past, present, and future of the human society. It is a credible analysis of power, which can be related to all political ideologies and systems. Power does not choose its means of realization. However, people have an instinct to oppose to things that are being served to them. Winston Smith personifies that natural rebellion that's still present today – some of us do not succumb to mediocrity. In the end, Winston realizes that he loves the Big Brother more than liberty. His transformation represents the end of rebellious spirit and desire for freedom. Winston, who is finally "purified" with the methods of the Party, is a dark prediction for humanity. I choose to believe that Orwell's prediction was unnecessarily pessimistic in this part. Throughout the book, I sympathized with this character and suffered with him. Fortunately, I don't see myself ending up like he did. Many people, who are supposed to be content by the pleasures and convenience served by technology, are refusing to go on the path of mindlessness. If we are living in a world where freedom is slavery and ignorance is strength, I choose to be a fragile seeker for the truth, who is enslaved by the freedom of choice.
Life Obstacles: The Punishment or the Necessary Impetus?
The Most Inspiring Book You've Ever Read. The Brothers Karamazov by F. Dostoevsky
What Are the Effects of Illiteracy for the Civilization?

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Sanna Marin Bio, Height, Age, Birthday, Boyfriend, Wiki, Parents & Net Worth
Sanna Marin is a famous Finish politician who is the youngest Prime Minister in the world at her only 34 years old. Born on November 16, 1985, the looking nice politician Marin was the Minister of Transport and Communications. She has been a member of the Parliament of Finland since 2015 and belongs to the political party Social Democratic Party. In addition, she is the third female Prime Minister in Finland.
Sanna Marin Early Life & Education:
Sanna Mirella Marin was born on November 16, 1985, in Helsinki, Finland. She grew up in Espoo and Pirkkala. Nothing details known about her parents; other famous relatives as well. She studied at Pirkkala High School in 2004 and completed her graduation. Then she enrolled at the University of Tampere and a Master's degree in administrative science in 2007. She is the first child in her family to attend university.
Sanna Marin Career:
Sanna Marin began her journey in politics after her completing education in 2012 at 27 years old. She served as the Vice President of the Social Democratic Youth. She became the city council of Tampere. In 2015, she became a Parliament Member of Finland from the electoral district of Pirkanmaa. Finally, she becomes the Prime Minister of Finland in 2019 being nominated by the Social Democratic Party.
Sanna Marin described herself as that she comes from a rainbow family. She has been in a relationship with her long-time boyfriend Markus Räikkönen. Together the couple has a child born in 2018 but they are not married yet.
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Creating Atomic Theory
Isotopes and mass spectrometers
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The Isotope was discovered at the end of the 19th century the scientist Federick Soddy from England and Kasimir Fajans both discovered through observation these radioactive substances and named them Isotopes.
An Isotope is an atom whith a differnt number of neutrons than protons.
In 1919, two years after the end of the first world war Francis Aston created the mass spectograph to find isotopes of Neon. The mass spectrograph was later used by scientist Gyorgy Hevesy's in the study of radioactive lead isotopes to study plant growth.
The mass spectrometer is an instrument which can measure the masses and relative concentrations of atoms and molecules. It makes use of the basic magnetic force on a moving object.
http://hyperphysics.phy-astr.gsu.edu/hbase/magnetic/maspec.html
The picture above shows how a mass spectrometer works. Particles moving into the spectrometer are charged and pass into a tube which conducts the particles down where they are introduced into a magnetic field which provides the centripetal force to bend the charge into a circle of a radius. All the processes in a mass spectrometer take place in a vacuum.
http://antoine.frostburg.edu/chem/senese/101/atoms/images/ms3.jpg
An easy way to understand Mass Spectrometers is to visualize a canonball coming at you and you wanted to change the course of the cannonball by squirting a water hose at it. Because the mass of the cannonball is so large, it would hardly be moved. However, if instead of a cannonball a ping pong ball was shot toward you the hose would greatly affect the path of the ball, because the mass of the ball would be less than the force being exerted on it. In a mass spectrometer the magnetic field acts in the same way as the hose, causing the particles to veer off course. By calculating the speed of the object and the change in course, it is possible to calculate the mass of the object.
A Mass Spectrometer
The mass spectrometer is used to characterize isotopes. It does so by organizing isotopes with there mass, their abundance in nature and how many different isotopes of a certain element actually exist.
Why would anyone need to know the mass of an atom?
Archeologists use mass spectrometers in order to find the mass of a specific isotope, Carbon 14. Carbon 14 which is radioactive and slowly decays with time gives archeologists a very good idea of the age of artifacts. This is known as Carbon dating.
Guilhaus, Micheal. What is Mass Spectrometry? 4 Oct. 2006 <http://www.bmsf.unsw.edu.au/about/index.html>.
Hunt, Andrew. "Isotopes." Dictionary of Chemistry. London: Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers, 1999. 207.
"Isotopes." Encyclopedia of Earth and Physical Science. New York: Marshall Cavendish, 1998. 628 – 631.
"Isotopes." McGraw - Hill Encyclopedia of Science and Technology. Vol. 9. New York: McGraw.
Mass Spectrometer. 4 Oct. 2006 <http://hyperphysics.phy-astr.gsu.edu/hbase/magnetic.html>.
Nier, Alfred O, and Harry E Gove. Mass Spectroscope. 2002. 4 Oct. 2006<http://www.accesscience.com>.
Nobel Prizes in Science. 20 June 2005. 4 Oct. 2006 <http://www.lbl.gov/abc/ wallchart/chapters/appendix.html>.
Volti, Rudi. "Isotopes." The Facts on File Encyclopedia of Science, Technology, and Society. Vol. 2. New York: Facts on File, 1999. 84, 561, 748.
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The EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) represents a significant change in the data protection compliance regime for data controllers and data processors. These revised regulations came into full effect from the 25th May 2018 and apply to all businesses within WH Ireland Group plc in both the UK and Isle of Man.
Further information on GDPR and the Principles and Rights can be obtained from the UK Information Commissioners website.
What action is WHIreland taking?
To meet the requirements under GDPR we have revised our client Privacy Notice to inform clients of how their personal rights will be applied to data held by WH Ireland Group plc. Please take the time to read the information below.
WH Ireland Limited and WH Ireland (IOM) Limited are wholly owned by WH Ireland Group plc. This privacy notice explains how we use any personal information we collect about you.
We collect information about you when you engage us for financial planning/financial advice/investment management services. This information may relate to your personal and financial circumstances. It may also include special categories of personal data such as data about your health, if this is necessary for the provision of our services.
The primary legal basis that we intend to use for the processing of your data is for the purpose of our legitimate business interests in providing our services to you. The information that we collect about you is essential for us to be able to carry out the services that you require from us effectively. Without collecting your personal data we would also be unable to fulfil our legal and regulatory obligations.
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Pakistani Digital Retailer SnappRetail Raises $2.5 Million Pre-Seed
Jordanian Fintech Startup liwwa Raises $18.5 Million Pre-Series B
Founded in 2021 by Adeel Rasheed, Moazzm Ali Khan, and Ahsan Aziz, SnappRetail aims to digitize traditional retailers by providing them with a suite of digital services.
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SnappRetail, Pakistan-based digital retailer, has raised $2.5 million in a pre-seed round led by Zayn Capital's BitRate Fund, alongside participation from Antler and Century Oak Capital.
Founded in 2021 by Adeel Rasheed, Moazzm Ali Khan, and Ahsan Aziz, SnappRetail aims to digitize traditional retailers by providing them with a suite of digital services to improve cash flow, manage inventory, and have access to microcredit. "Our target retailer is the one which has daily sales ranging from Rs1M to Rs3M and stores 10K to 20K products at the store location," says Adeel Rasheed, CEO at SnappRetail. "Such retailers face competition from modern supermarkets. To be able to compete, the first thing they need to do is to switch from manual operations to digital operations."
While supermarkets, global retailers and department stores are growing rapidly in Pakistan, the startup's POS device and end-to-end operations platform for inventory, stock ordering, and analytics are designed to enable traditional stores to keep pace. "We are trying to create an ecosystem where all aggregators and other applications can come in and take advantage of our base platform," said Moazzam Ali Khan, co-founder at SnappRetail. "With our pilot, we have seen that retention is very high and gross transaction value through the system is extremely high versus any other play."
The new funding raised will be used to strengthen product development, grow the team, and increase the startup's footprint inside and outside Pakistan.
Revenue in Pakistan's e-commerce sector is projected to reach $7,666 million in 2022, with an annual growth rate of about 6% from 2022-2025, according to data from Statista. Among the startups driving this growth is Bazaar Technologies, raising $70 million in funding this year. For startups looking to provide solutions for the traditional sector, Jugnu raised $22 million while 24Seven raised $6 million this year.
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On the occasion of the 30th anniversary of Naba, the New Academy of Fine Arts established in Milan in 1980, the project "Learning machines. Art Education and Alternative Production of Knowledge", curated by Marco Sotini in co-operation with Alessandro Guerriero, has been organized. The project, encompassing a symposium (Learning Machines. Discorsi, that took place on December 10th and 11th), an exhibition (Learning Machines. Figure), a Temporay Library – Reading Room (Learning Machines. Biblioteca) and a volume (The manual.
An Academy in 100 words) is structured around the relationship between art education and knowledge acquisition processes, from institutional processes to alternative practices of cultural production.


, Ger. Lausitz, Pol. Łużyce, region of E Germany and SW Poland. It extends N from the Lusatian Mts., at the Czech border, and W from the Oder River.
..... Click the link for more information. , by Saxony in 1635 and was taken by Prussia in 1815.
a district in the German Democratic Republic (GDR), near the Polish border, in the Middle European plain, in the basin of the Spree River. Area, 8,300 sq km. Population, 861,100 (1970), including Germans and Lusatians (Wends). The administrative center is the city of Cottbus.
Cottbus is an industrial and agricultural district of the GDR. In 1970, 51.6 percent of the economically active population was employed in industry and construction and 14.6 percent was engaged in agriculture and forestry. Cottbus is distinguished by its high rate of development in industry. The district produces more than two-fifths of the output of brown coal (by strip mining in the Lower Lusatian Basin) and half of the production of electric power in the GDR (powerful thermoelectric plants are located in Liibbenau, Vetschau, Schwarze Pumpe, Trattendorf, Lauta, and elsewhere). The chemical industry is well represented in Cottbus District: the Schwarze Pumpe Combine, which is the largest enterprise in the GDR for the processing of brown coal; a chemical coke combine in Lauchhammer; a large synthetic fiber plant in Wilhelm-Pieck-Stadt Guben; and a plant producing synthetic fuel in Schwarzheide. The ceramic and glass industries are also important (particularly in Weisswasser). The traditional textile and knitted-wear industry is significant in Wil-helm-Pieck-Stadt Guben, Forst, and Cottbus.
Crops grown in the district include grains (rye and wheat), potatoes, sugar beets, and fodder. Market gardening is wide-spread in Cottbus District. Dairy livestock and swine are raised. Fishing from ponds is an important industry.
a city in the German Democratic Republic, on the Spree River. Administrative center of Cottbus District. Population, 82,900 (1970).
Cottbus is a river port and a transportation junction. The production of cloth, rugs, and other textile goods takes place in the city. The machine-building, woodworking, and food-processing industries are also represented. There is a textile engineering school in Cottbus.


Kyle Van Osdol is a motion designer and digital artist working in Oklahoma City. His work encompasses a wide range of art mediums, including motion design, animation, projection mapping, video editing and sound design. Aesthetically, Kyle blurs the line between science, technology, and art. His animations seem to portray an abstracted underbelly teeming with macroscopic life.
Kyle has focused his digital expertise on the creation of animations and projection mapped installations that aim to marry both digital and analog concepts, where VFX and practical effects are seamlessly incorporated as a means to transport the viewer to a surrealist world.
His animations have been showcased around the nation, including the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival for Flying Lotus' Hypercube in 2015 to current, curated by STRANGELOOP (David Wexler). And most recently, his work was used in Tchami's 2016 Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival in collaboration with TIMEBOY (John King) and featured animations for Clams Casino's music video "Blast".
Kyle's diverse skill set has also allowed him to work with a wide range of clients that have allowed him to create pieces for music videos, tour visuals, interviews, and short films.


Our sponsors have kindly agreed to open the foundry to visitors on this special day. Ticket holders will be able to wander round the foundry at their leisure, speaking to staff and learning what goes on in the world's most famous bell foundry. The foundry normally only accepts pre-booked visitors for which there is a charge of £11 per head. Regrettably, due to Health & Safety and insurance restrictions, persons under the age of 14 cannot visit the foundry.
A number of open tower routes will lead visitors from the outskirts towards Central London and some further towers will be open in Central London. Routes will be available catering both for drivers and those opting for public transport.
Walking tours of city churches will be available at a cost of £8 per head. Further details will appear in due course.
Refreshments will be available for the majority of the day at St Saviour, Pimlico – the venue for the Ringing World National Youth Contest. Also in the hall will be exhibitions and stalls from ringing societies, Central Council committees and ringing-related businesses. The Ringing World will have a stall here selling a complete range of centenary merchandise.
Two mini-rings will be placed in Dean's Yard, outside Westminster Abbey, for visitors to ring.
'Inspired by Bells' is an art exhibition specially created for the Ringing World's Centenary. It will be staged at the ROA Gallery in Pall Mall. The artworks will show bellringing from a contemporary artist's perspective and the exhibition will include a wide range of works - drawing, painting, cartoons, sculpture, and video. Nearest tube Piccadilly Circus & nearest tower St Martin-in-the-Fields.
A bar, sponsored by John Taylor & Co, offering real ales and soft drinks in the pleasant surroundings of Dean's Yard.
A recital by Jonathan Galloway, secretary of the British Carillon Society.
Members of the Abbey Company of Ringers will lead tours of the NW tower. These will include the ringing chamber, where beautifully-written peal boards record all but the most recent peals on the bells (each one rung to commemorate a significant national event or royal anniversary), and a viewing of the bells. Numbers for the tower tours will be limited.
Ticket holders will benefit from free-of-charge entry to the Abbey prior to Evensong (the normal adult admission price to the Abbey is £15).
The Abbey bells will be rung for up to an hour following the service. With the agreement of the Dean and Chapter, there will be an opportunity for a number of visitors to take part in the ringing alongside members of the Abbey Company, provided that a high standard of ringing is maintained. Details of how to apply for this opportunity will be distributed with tickets.
Included in "Maximus" tickets is this reception to be held in Central Hall, Westminster between 4pm and 6pm immediately after the Abbey service. Central Hall, Westminster is located in Storey's Gate just across the road – quite literally – from the main entrance to the Abbey. The Centenary Reception is going to be held in the Library and Lecture Hall – two large and imposing rooms (with lift access for the disabled) off the grand entrance foyer on the first floor. As well as a cup of tea with cake and the opportunity to mingle and chat with ringing friends from all over the country, at 5pm there will be a welcome from the Ringing World Chairman and we will be treated to a specially composed touch on 24 handbells by an expert band led by Philip Earis of Cambridge. During the reception prizes will also be presented to the winners of the Ringing World National Youth Contest.
A tune-ringing performance by the renowned Wandle Ringers to be held in St Margaret's Church, Westminster.


More powerful than a simple scanner, OCR is capable of detecting characters in order to transcribe a paper document into an editable format. In the case of expenses claims management, this process removes the need for manual data entry, and avoids the typos that go with it.
New technologies are developing rapidly to automate company processes. Optical Character Recognition (OCR) is a tool that fits perfectly with this approach, since this technique allows a computer system to recognise text automatically.
Although subject to certain limitations due to its recent launch, this innovation is a real time-saver when processing expenses claims.
This technique could prove very useful in expenses claims management by automating the entry of expenses. No more manual entry with a build-up of receipts that can easily be misplaced. With OCR, all the user has to do is take a photo of their expenses receipt so that information such as date, total amount, VAT, currency and type of expense can be recognised by the software. Then the software will relay this information to the travel expenses management solution.
As a result, the employees' role is simply to check that the information is correct. They complete fields relating to analytical information/variables (project code, assignment, etc.) not available on the receipt.
Companies particularly like the overall reduction in processing costs.
The technology has markedly improved and achieved almost flawless recognition of printed documents.
What are its known limitations?
Obviously, software cannot read handwritten documents with the same accuracy as humans. This is the case for handwritten taxi receipts, for example. However, this profession is also going digital and more and more taxi and chauffeured car drivers are issuing electronic receipts.
Carpark tickets can sometimes be problematic for OCR. Information that is hard to read, written in several directions or even superimposed makes the task difficult for machines.
In this case, the employee must manually enter fields that have not been recognised. However, the receipt will already have been scanned and stored in the tool (it even has probative value for the tax authorities).
Some OCR software programs are already achieving impressive results with 90% of receipts being entered in a fully automated way, compared to 75% for others. Of course, they still need to be checked by humans, but they allow great optimisation of the expenses claims entry process. This makes life easier for users and improves data entry quality for the company.


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flydubai launches flights to Podgorica
Dubai-based airline flydubai has announced the start of flights to Montenegro's capital Podgorica, which will begin on 01 November
Airline offers two flights a week to the capital of Montenegro
Only UAE-based carrier to offer direct air links
Flights include a stopover in Sarajevo
Dubai-based airline flydubai has announced the start of flights to Montenegro's capital Podgorica, which will begin on 01 November. With two flights a week, the flights include a stopover in Sarajevo, a popular destination on the flydubai network. Podgorica joins the airlines network in Central and Eastern Europe, which includes Belgrade, Bratislava, Bucharest, Prague, Skopje, Sarajevo and Sofia. flydubai will become the only UAE-based carrier to offer direct air links to Podgorica.
Commenting on the launch, Ghaith Al Ghaith Chief Executive Officer of flydubai, said: "With the launch of our flights to Podgorica, we continue to offer passengers more ways to explore and discover Montenegro. The popularity of our summer flights to Tivat has shown a continuous demand for more access to this part of the world and we are delighted to be offering flights to Montenegro on a regular basis."
Podgorica offers its visitors plenty to explore, with its charming architecture, green spaces and scenic surroundings, along with a bustling café culture and numerous museums to visit. Skadar Lake National Park, home of the largest Lake in Southern Europe, is a short drive outside of the city, while the popular coastal city of Tivat can be reached with a 90-minute drive.
"With the launch of this new route, flydubai will become the first airline to offer regular services between Podgorica and Sarajevo," said Jeyhun Efendi, Senior Vice President Commercial (UAE, EU, ME, CIS) at flydubai. "We look forward to the new opportunities that this will provide along with the flows of trade and tourism that these flights can offer."
flydubai is dedicated to providing its customers with a better travel experience by offering greater choice and flexibility. With flydubai's Business Class, passengers can enjoy a more personalised flying experience while Economy Class offers comfortable seating and a convenient way to travel.
For the full timetable and fares, visit: https://www.flydubai.com/en/plan/timetable
About flydubai
From its home in Dubai, flydubai has created a network of more than 90 destinations and over the next decade the airline will see its fleet grow by up to 236 aircraft. Since commencing operations in June 2009, flydubai has been committed to removing barriers to travel, creating free flows of trade and tourism and enhancing connectivity between different cultures across its ever-expanding network.
flydubai has marked its journey with a number of milestones that represent the scale of the ambition planned for the airline:
An expanding network: Created a network of more than 90 destinations in 48 countries across Africa, Central Asia, the Caucasus, Central and South-East Europe, the GCC and the Middle East, and the Indian Subcontinent.
Serving underserved markets: Opened up more than 65 new routes that did not previously have direct air links to Dubai or were not served by a UAE national carrier from Dubai.
An efficient single fleet-type: Operates a single fleet-type of 55 Boeing 737 aircraft.
Record-breaking orders: Placed the largest single-aisle aircraft orders in the region at the 2013 and 2017 editions of the Dubai Airshow.
Enhancing connectivity: Carried more than 75 million passengers since it began operations in 2009.
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Among probably the most popular electrical wiring thoughts is on how to wire a swap. While using switches in the home is kind of effortless, wiring a single may not be that simple for everyone. An ON-OFF switch is really quite simple to wire. There are different kinds of switches, but for this example, let's say you're putting in a single-pole toggle switch, a very popular switch (and the most straightforward).
You will discover a few colours of wires in a usual single-pole toggle switch: black, white, and inexperienced. Splice the black wire in two and link them around the terminal screws - a single on prime as well as the other around the base screw of your swap. The white wire serves for a supply of uninterrupted power and it is normally related to a light-weight colored terminal screw (e.g., silver). Join the inexperienced wire to your ground screw of one's switch.
These methods would generally be sufficient to make a standard switch perform and not using a challenge. Then again, should you are certainly not self-confident which you can attain the job properly and safely you superior enable the professionals get it done as a substitute. Immediately after all, there is a reason why this task is among the most commonly encountered electrical wiring queries asked by most people.
For a few reason, how you can wire a ceiling fan can be one of quite possibly the most widespread electrical wiring inquiries. To simplify this activity, you need to use an individual swap for a single ceiling fan. To wire the enthusiast, it's merely a issue of connecting the black wire of your ceiling fan towards the black wire from the switch. When there is a lightweight, the blue wire ought to be related for the black wire on the change likewise.
You can find explanations why they're one of the most typically requested electrical wiring inquiries. A single, a lot of consider it really is simple to complete, and two, these are the common electrical jobs in your own home. But then you definately shouldn't place your safety at risk in the objective to save money. The stakes could even be a lot larger when you try to spend less and do an electrical wiring task with out sufficient awareness or encounter.


Agreeing on the definition of terms is a great way to start a class debate. When a definition of a term might be more subjective than objective, it can be fun and even necessary to divide up the class into pairs or small groups and have them come to their own small group consensus on the word's definition. The smart phone then becomes a small group, in-class research tool. Who needs a book in class when they can Google, select, and read from many different sources within the strictly set time limit?
When teaching immigration issues, there are many loaded terms that need defined at the start of class (illegal, legal, documented, undocumented, et al.) I could stand at the front of the room and go over these but, really, in this case how I define these terms might too strongly reflect my own more liberal leanings and dampen the conversation I want the class to have around the issues. I want everyone in the class to come to their own definitions of these words. Good teachers aren't interested in making students into copies of themselves, they want students to learn to think and come to their own conclusions. Using their cell phones, students can research, select, and pick apart how these terms are defined before coming to their group's decision.
After the time limit, each group reports back their definitions to the terms and we can have the broader discussion around what these terms mean as we enter the debate.
When students ask in advance, they can be allowed to tweet during the more information based classes. This involves trust on the teacher's part and accountability on the student's part. Decide on a hash tag for the class (#[ClassName], #[OrganizationName], and/or #[ClassTopic]) and ask your students to use it. Encourage tweeting memorable quotes from the lecture or other students, facts they found interesting, or reference materials suggested by the teacher. After class, you can then review and respond to the tweets with more information or keep the discussion going. It also tells you what struck the most powerful chords with your students.
This method of engagement turns tweeting into high-level note taking in a way. It also means that your students will be engaging the world outside the classroom and may get additional feedback from other sources – not just you or the other students in the room.
Ready, Set, Google! You have fifteen minutes to research your opinion with examples or a story about Topic X. After time expires, students then have three minutes to present their opinion in a structured way that uses verifiable facts or through an applicable story that relates to the topic. The structure is typically the presentation of the facts or story, what the story or facts mean, and then presenting the conclusion opinion statement.
For the immigration class again, "Undocumented workers take away or do not take away jobs from U.S. citizens" would be an example of a Ready, Set, Google opinion topic. The student would go into the Google search, pick up facts or relatable stories and form their opinion – if they didn't already have it formed going into the Google search. After the time expires, they would then present the facts or stories, say what they mean, and then offer their opinion statement – in this case, they would either say, "Undocumented workers take away jobs from U.S. citizens" or "Undocumented workers do not take away jobs from U.S. citizens." The classroom is then opened up to debate. Yes, cell phones are back out as classroom members look up facts and stories to argue against or for the opinion just presented.
Think about your overall class topic and come up with the issues that could be divisive or make good student presentations. The time limit can make this fun or frustrating – be mindful of the makeup of your individual classroom.
If everyone in the class has a smart phone, you can setup a SurveyMonkey (or other survey website) and use the link as an easily distributable test or pop quiz. Why waste the paper if you don't have to? Put the website link on the board and have students take the test or quiz on their phone within a set time limit. Of course, make sure they have adequate time and that the questions are related directly to what you covered that day. You would be surprised how fast people can type on their phone.
Of course, people will have access to Google this way – this is why I suggest making the questions directly related to what you just covered during the classroom activities that day. These answers would be more "were you paying attention" specific as opposed to general knowledge questions.
I would be remiss not to mention polling since it's the first way many teachers embraced the cell phone. Students text their answers to the question the teacher has asked and the results are displayed visually on the screen. There are some great services out there that allow you to do this – Google "classroom cell phone polling." Some services will remind you more of American Idol with students texting a phrase or number code to a special phone number. Others have students browse to a website to enter their answers. The visual result is an aggregate of what percentage of the class said A, B, or C as the answer to your question. There are fees associated with this so check out your best options.
I much prefer Four Corners or Human Graph activities for classroom polling. Getting students up and moving helps with knowledge retention and makes for a different and fun experience. When your class is lecture hall size though, the cell phone poll may be a better way to go.
Can You Really Assume Everyone in Class Will Have a Smart Phone?
The assumption here is that everyone in class will have a cell phone. Since I teach adults who are all over the economic and age spectrum, I do understand incorporating the phone isn't always an option but these techniques can be a clever way to make learning more student-centric using a device most people have quite handy in their pocket.


Clay County Sheriff Department Investigators have arrested Leroy Tobias, age 34, of Chicago, IL and charged him with aggravated assault that occurred at Hill Circle in western Clay County.
Clay County Sheriff Eddie Scott stated the victim, a 73 year old female, received serious stab wounds and was airlifted to North Mississippi Medical Center-Tupelo. Her condition is listed as serious.
No bond has been set pending an arraignment in the Clay County Justice Court. Tobias remains incarcerated at the Clay County Detention Center.
Scott stated the investigation is ongoing and more details will be given in the near future. Anyone with any information is asked to contact the Clay County Sheriff Department at 662-494-2896 or Golden Triangle Crime Stoppers at 1-800-530-7151.


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 "States should undertake a legal review of weapons, including those that employ a cyber capability. Such a review should entail an analysis, for example, of whether a particular capability would be inherently indiscriminate, i.e., that it could not be used consistent with the principles of distinction and proportionality. The U.S. Government undertakes at least two stages of legal review of the use of weapons in the context of armed conflict: first, an evaluation of new weapons to determine whether their use would be per se prohibited by the law of war; and second, specific operations employing weapons are always reviewed to ensure that each particular operation is also compliant with the law of war."<ref>[https://harvardilj.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/15/2012/12/Koh-Speech-to-Publish1.pdf Harold Hongju Koh, International Law in Cyberspace, 18 September 2012], 6</ref>


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The Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society (HIAS) was founded in New York City in the 1880s by the Russian Jewish community of New York in response to the influx of Russian Jewish immigrants fleeing the pograms in the Pale of Settlement in Russia and Eastern Europe. In 1889, a shelter which was used to house many of the immigrants adopted the name Hebrew Sheltering House Association. This organization merged with HIAS in 1909 and by 1914, had branches operating in Boston, Philadelphia, Baltimore and Washington, D.C.
The Boston office of HIAS was chartered in 1904 under the leadership of Harris Poorvu, Hyman Pill, Abraham Alpert, Meyer Bloomfield, Max Wyzanski and Samuel L. Bailen. HIAS operated autonomously from the national office in New York, even after their merger in 1916. Between 1914 and 1916, the Boston HIAS was affiliated with the Federated Jewish Charities (now Combined Jewish Philanthropies). In 1948, HIAS became a member of the Combined Jewish Appeal, another organization that created the current Combined Jewish Philanthropies. Poorvu served as president for twenty years before becoming treasurer. Abraham Alpert was the educational director of HIAS until his death in 1939. Alpert's daughter, Helen, became the long-standing executive director of the Boston HIAS office in 1940.
This collection includes records of the Boston HIAS office only. For information about the New York HIAS records, contact the American Jewish Historical Society in New York.


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Microsoft wrestles with HTML5 vs Silverlight futures
September 9, 2010 onlyconnect	24 Comments
Former Microsoft Silverlight Product Manager Scott Barnes has posted a series of tweets following a visit to Microsoft:
So.. after a week in Microsoft HQ etc.. i have a lot of inside info that just basically puts into question the future of #Silverlight #wpf
he remarks, and then:
Right now there's a faction war inside Microsoft over HTML5 vs Silverlight. oh and WPF is dead.. i mean..it kind of was..but now.. funeral.
Barnes positions it as a fight between Windows/IE9 backing HTML5, and the developer division backing Silverlight. He also suggests that Microsoft is contemplating a classic "Embrace and extend" strategy for HTML:
HTML5 is the replacement for WPF.. IE team want to fork the HTML5 spec by bolting on custom windows APi's via JS/HTML5
He says further that Microsoft has "shut down the designer story" – I am not sure what that implies, though I can imagine that a lot of money has been sunk into the Expression tools without drawing significant market share from Adobe's Creative Suite.
Barnes is a straight-talking guy but clearly this is all speculation. Nevertheless it is obvious that, on the eve of launching IE9 beta with its fast JavaScript engine, hardware accelerated graphics, and pixel-precise bitmap drawing, Microsoft has a tricky job positioning HTML5 vs Silverlight. For that matter, even positioning Silverlight vs desktop Windows Presentation Foundation is not easy.
Since we are also on the eve of launch for Windows Phone 7, which Microsoft has flagged as a strategic product and which uses Silverlight as its app platform, it seems unlikely that the technology will be sidelined; but rumours of internal divisions on the subject do not surprise me.
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24 thoughts on "Microsoft wrestles with HTML5 vs Silverlight futures"
Tokes says:
I'd take more note of Scott if he wasn't making claims like "HTML5 is the replacement for WPF…" that's just plain silly. Even the Silverlight vs HTML5 is over-discussed – I wrote, http://andrewtokeley.net/archive/2010/09/04/when-should-you-use-silverlight.aspx to try and get people to realise SL is not competing directly with HTML5 – in my opinion they solve different problems and I wish more people understood that – Scott should know this and he sounds more like he's carrying a chip ion his shoulder rather than being constructive.
Hadi Hariri says:
Here are my thoughts on the topic
http://hadihariri.com/blogengine/post/2010/09/08/WTF-you-got-against-Silverlight!.aspx
Apparently the link didn't work:
http://tinyurl.com/3x7r8p8
Artem says:
What does it mean "oh and WPF is dead", even on desktop? Sounds strange, not to say more. Should we go back to WinForms, or the whole desktop infrastructure will be replaced with HTML5?
@Artem
Bear in mind it is all speculation. It is true though that most of Windows 7 (what comes in the box) is native code. What then is the runtime for managed code, whether that is .NET or JavaScript? WPF, Silverlight, or HTML/JavaScript, or some new combination, say HTML/.NET? There won't be any return to winforms, and WPF will still work, but we could see a change in the future strategy. Could be Silverlight subsuming WPF; could be some new thing in Windows 8.
I'm kind of with Artem on this one. It seems strange and highly unlikely that Microsoft would be killing off WPF (or even saying that WPF is a dead technology) because of HTML 5. Even if there was some kind of hybrid runtime for Managed code a la Javascript/.NET, there would still need to be a desktop UI framework to handle things.
Microsoft also has a lot of people investing a lot of time in WPF Code (Financial applications, Microsoft Surface Applications, etc). To rip that out from underneath developers and claim it "dead" after having WPF for such a short period of time (as far as traditional large desktop application life-cycle is concerned) seems like a step backward.
I'm seriously hoping that his statement was strictly referring to the use of WPF in XBAP (XAML Browser Applications) since that seems like the only area that WPF really competes with HTML5/Silverlight.
@Justin WPF isn't going anywhere, it won't be killed off. The question is more about where Microsoft is investing. For example it's interesting to me that LightSwitch targets Silverlight and not WPF – because it will work both on Windows and on the Web, and probably on Windows Phone in future. That's more strategic than doing something similar for WPF.
@Tim Very true. I guess it's all in how you interpret the wording.
Even so, how much are developers working with Silverlight and WPF going to be able to move forward with innovative products without Microsoft still investing in those technologies.
If Microsoft isn't investing in WPF (as well as Silverlight, from the sound of things), it seems like Microsoft is going to alienate a lot of developers who have already adopted those technologies.
Nikola Malovic says:
WPF is such an advance technology that it doesn't require any additional investment to stay the best windows app UI technology for many years. The fact MS is investing into SL last years is just a reflection of that fact and IMHO it is not WPF who is killed by SL, it is more SL becoming WPF v2 (cross-platform).
As for future of the SL as web technology VS HTML5, I guess HTML5 would win just because the requirements of the normal web sites are so dumb that SL usage is an overkill and lack of real SEO support is major problem in that aspect. As for SL requiring plugin, so does the HTML5 – just the plugin comes built in browsers as HTML5 parsing engine. Try to use it in *non-modern* browsers today – won't work.
As for reducing the SL investments in favor of HTML5, quite frankly there's nothing urgent to be added to SL4 (the development pace was already to fast hurting adoption) offering similar capabilities as Flash so it makes all the sense to me that spotlights are focused on IE9 and HTML5 where…
Anyone who thinks that MS will kill off Silverlight/WPF in the near term needs to look at Win Phone 7.
The entire dev story for the platform is C#/Silverlight/WPF/XNA.
Joe Smo says:
Silverlight out of browser – no need for WPF. 🙂
Surprised that the dev divsion would be backing anything against HTML5. As a dev I can't imagine why I'd want to use a locked-in M$ product over an open standards one that has far wider acceptance, and means my skills are less focused on supporting the M$ ecosystem and far more transportable (though reasons like that may be one reason why they'd rather stay proprietary).
Fact is if ms doesn't pursue html5 they will be further and further behind
Html5 tooling is a big win for ms
However with lack of what I consider an incomplete spec we will all be paying for the lack of compatibility.
Chui Tey says:
Thanks for the heads up Tim. What Scott Barnes wrote is more or less echoes what people outside Microsoft are wondering.
I remembered the day when BillG announced that WinHelp was getting replaced with ChmHelp. It was a gutsy move.
In there lies the precedent that Silverlight on Windows Mobile will be displaced as well.
HTA didn't go very far in the past, as the browser wasn't mature enough and a memory hog. Perhaps with HTML being more ubiquitous today than it has ever been, and improved browser engines, we will see a resurgence. Certainly, Mozilla is snapping at Windows heels with the promise of local HTML applications.
There was a time when MS was big enough to create it's own reality. Today, the platforms are fragmenting, and Apple, the new behemoth has put a wall up against running other companies Runtimes.
MS has only one good choice – keep deploying Silverlight until it can no longer be ignored, and then press for antitrust against Apple. Joining the standards game means the eventual death of it's Windows platform. Already, Android devices are getting bigger and more functional. It is a matter of one or two years when it supplants desktops. MS cannot afford to be a development tools company.
vishi says:
Are we supposed to believe that a former employee of microsoft can wander around the campus, presumably in and out of crucial meetings, review internal documents and find out all sorts of critical strategic plans. Absurd. More likely he wasn't even allowed in the canteen.
Does it occur to anyone that just perhaps he has a chip on his shoulder regarding the fact he is former?
Did he fall or was he pushed? And where's the blood?
@vishi no idea, but the issues are real; I wrote a separate post on Microsoft's difficult choices.
Some use-cases for Silverlight will be replaced by html5 in the public web, no doubt. But for applications, it can't come close to functionality / developer productivity.
And to say html5 will replace wpf is just ridiculous. perhaps wpf / silverlight will merge, but that is just semantics. It will be quite a while before a xaml based UI technology that leverages the full .net framework disappears from windows (call it what you like).
I just finished a project where we developed a wpf UI for controlling medical chemistry analyzers, with WPF talking to custom windows device drivers that control the machines. It's laughable to think we could have built that on html. it cracks me up. the guy is a crackpot.
Michael Washington says:
The thing that I find in common with a lot of negative posts on the subject is 'expectations'. The arguments seem to mostly center on a 'expectation that was not met', and this is always a source of anger.
Let us not focus on any hopes and dreams from marketing over the years, and look at what 'is the reality right now'. There is a lot to Silverlight. So much that it is far from 'dying'.
Don't get me started on LightSwitch. That product will 'shake the world' (in a good way), in my opinion. It will cause Silverlight to be spread to practically every corner of the corporate world.
Christopher Levy says:
Until the HTML5 standards body adopts a file level encryption DRM standard into the product spec, premium content won't flow to HTML5 clients. I have spoken to the author of the standard Ian Hickson and his response left me thinking that the HTML5 group just doesn't comprehend the media landscape. Sure DRM isn't perfect. It's about as good as you are going to get and on that note, nothing is perfect.
lygren says:
Go to "Windows4All.com" and try writing an HTML5/JAVASCRIPT website to match it. If you cannot, you know right there which is the winner between SilverLight and HTML5.
infocyde says:
Windows4All.com is impressive, but I've seen the same done without Silverlight, both with Flash (Gho.st? and Open Laszlo) as well as Javascript (though a link escapes me at the moment).
I would love to see Microsoft succeed, and I hope Tim Heuer succeeds leading the Microsoft Silverlight effort (very cool dude, very supportive of fellow devs, and a very talented developer in his own right) but it is far from a done deal.
I have developed regular web application and XAML based WPF applications. I would say that WPF/XBAP/SL would win every time. WPF is so much easier and faster to develop with. HTML5 is a standard and will change very slow. This is why Flash and WPF will never die. They can change quite rapidly to fulfill the needs of the user base.
HTML is seen as the common denominator, but that is starting to not be the case any more. HTML as we know it will be dead some day if people think about it.
I can't see this happening in the real world either – not for some time at least. The corporates move slow with things like browser and OS roll-outs – they are expensive and cause heaps of legacy testing, customisations and fixes to existing code. They same can not be siad with plug-in roll outs as they don't tend to touch stuff that do not rely on them – and they can be safely rolled out to specific users with very little cost. In the meantime developers will continue writing in SL and WPF. IE9/HTML5 may shake the world of the little web dev guys out in the cold world, but the big boys will not allow M$ to just drop and run – and M$ are not prone to either. SL4 is impressive – a really good dev platform for intranet apps which are not so concerned with plug in or Xap download size/time (as they can all be pre-delivered and offer much greater speeds over an internal LAN). SL/WPF is here to stay. I am not sure if I see a real merging between the two either as SL has a slightly different mandate especially with respect to security – though somethings deemed too much of risk up until SL4 are now in there (e.g. ClipBoard access – so no need for leveraging Flash just for x-browser ClipBoarding whcih was just silly – and required BOTH plug-ins) and (assuming there will be one) SL5 may include even more.
McG says:
@Chui Tey
Antitrust against Apple? Because of what? HTML5? Macs? iPad? C'mon, even the iPhone has less sales than both RIM and Nokia… or are you talking about iPod/Zune? More like the other way around…


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Q: Code generator help-- Wont stop at sequence I want I made a python random sequence generator, I can tell it the max the length of the sequence can be but I want it to stop at a specific sequence... I have spent a couple days searching for a way to do this.
I made the generator do what I want, make a random letter (uppercase and lowercase) and number sequence(I am able to manually change the max it can be) and I made it so It will run forever using a while loop. searched for a couple days to get it the way I want but wont work.
import string, random

while True :
    def id_generator(size=2, chars=string.ascii_uppercase +
string.ascii_lowercase + string.digits):
        return ''.join(random.choice(chars) for _ in range(size))
    if id_generator() == "2g":
        break
        print("found your code")
    else :
        print(id_generator())

The "size" makes the max the sequence can be. I wanted the the if statement to say if it creates "2g" to stop and say "found your code" else just keep generating... I think it has something to do with the if statement

A: First of all, don't define the function in the while loop. Define it elsewhere and then call it inside the while.
Next, after calling the function assign its value to a variable and let that be used by the conditionals.

A: I finally got it...
import string, random

num = input("Pick your num: ")

while True :
    def id_generator(size=2, chars=string.ascii_uppercase + string.ascii_lowercase +
string.digits):
        return ''.join(random.choice(chars) for _ in range(size))
    if id_generator() == num:
        print("found your code")
        print(num)
        break
    else :
        print(id_generator())

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Seyran Ates
Sep 7th, 2006 | By Ophelia Benson
This is horrible news.
Seyran Ates, lawyer, writer, and human rights activist was attacked at the beginning of June…by the screaming husband of one of her clients. "You whore", the man shouted. "What ideas have you been putting into my wife's head?" No one intervened when Mehmet O. lashed out at Ates, her client and another woman. Now Ates is facing the consequences. She has handed in her law licence and also her membership of the women's rights organisation Terre de femmes. "This acutely threatening situation has brought home to me once more how dangerous my work as a lawyer is, and how little protection I have had and have as an individual," Ates explains.
Great. The bullies win, the human rights activists lose. Spiffy.
The "ideas" to which the jealous husband was referring form part of the biographical adventures that bind the writer Seyran Ates with her colleagues Necla Kelek, Serap Cileli and Ayaan Hirsi Ali. Long before she used the term "feminism" to describe the thing that so preoccupied her, she had had an urge for freedom that was nothing less than a small miracle. Who can explain why of all the girls from Anatolia who headed off to the Eldorado of Germany with their mothers and fathers, this one would decide to throw overboard everything she knew and had learned? Suddenly becoming appalled by things that had been utterly normal for generations – boys' circumcision and wedding nights with blood-soaked sheets which were endured by all involved with fear and horror, beatings, sadistic excesses, forced marriages, humiliations and bad jokes? How does individuality suddenly awaken out of a collective?
How indeed. A question I've been pondering for a long time. What does it take for people to push away the carapace of habituation just a little, just enough to look at things a little bit slant?
Her gratitude towards German society in which one can become a student rep, write essays and then go on to study law, even against the wishes of one's parents, was construed by the politically correct as betrayal. "Aren't you frightened," Ates was asked in an interview with die Tageszeitung, "of being cited by conservative politicians as the chief witness for repressive measures?" No she was not. She answered that it was essential to think about sanctions against forced marriages, and that she had nothing against the questionnaire (compiled by the state of Baden-Württenberg for Muslims applying for German citizenship) in which 17 of the 30 questions concerned women's rights…
It takes nerves of steel not to be frightened of that.
Ates, like her fellow fighters, gets furious with people who romanticise immigrants and are willing to pass off their brutality as a "cultural feature." "Kreuzberg…is colourful because the Germans there are colourful; the Turkish culture there is grey. No one looks upwards. That's where the women are who are not allowed to participate at any cost, they look out from behind the curtains. Women who sometimes don't even know where they are, locked away." And the Green party, which could have got the Turkish feminists on board as the "true patriots" also preferred at their "Future Congress" on September 1 to stick with female immigrants keen to talk about German racism. German courts have long passed only manslaughter sentences for honour killings – because cultural influences qualify as mitigating circumstances.
And now German courts have lost Ates. Bad, very bad.
Seyran Ates is Staying
It is irrelevant
Farther into the swamp of cultural relativism
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Can she and her associates not get round-the-clock police protection?
And if not? Why not?
I thought this sort of thing was against the Basic Law of the Federal Republic
Evidentially subject to interpretation GT…
If "cultural factors" are being admitted in considering the severity of an offence, then surely the drunken English football fans at the world cup should have claimed that drinking to excess, shouting racist abuse and assaulting German citizens of Turkish origin, hurling chairs at innocent bystanders and fighting with police officers were simply part of their culture, and should be "respected" by the authorities?
On my way home just now I saw a front page blurb on a newspaper indicating that she's retracted her decision to quit. I double-checked latest news on the net and it seems to be the case, but didn't yet see anything available in English, or I'd have pasted a link in.
Ah, thanks, Stewart, that's good news. (Note to self: remember to try to follow up.)
Drunken football fans. Why yes, of course. And by the same token, drunken or sober wife-beaters in all countries and cultures can make the same claim. If anybody can then everybody can. And if anybody does then more or less everybody does; and so it goes. "Hey, it's my culture to be a rude overbearing selfish shit; deal with it."
Till something appears in English, the bottom-line quote in the Tageszeitung has her saying she's overwhelmed by the solidarity that was expressed by so many people. Somewhere else (N24) it appears the wave of solidarity came from other lawyers. Well, the people who need her are the ones who don't dare express themselves…
Thanks…hey, would you like to translate a few sentences for me and I can post it in a N&C? More people will see it that way (and I might link to it from News, temporarily, for the same reason, until there is something in English).
Listen, Seyran, solidarity from here too.
OK, check your inbox. Forgot to send the link with it. It's: http://www.nd-online.de/artikel.asp?AID=96919&IDC=7
Thanks ever so.


And the drill not only applies to the sport of kettlebell but also to Olympic weightlifting and powerlifting, Martone says. By the time people reach the swing at the end of the drill, their backs should be straight with no backward lean.
Martone recommends always performing the standing vertical jump after the hip-flexor stretch to ensure a vertical torso.
I have read about the drill presented in this video in Jeff's Kettlebell RX book. After now seeing it in real time, I am looking forward to trying it. Good stuff.
Awesome drill, I can wait to try it. I Know this is nit picky, but it would really help presentation if Jeff didn't sound like he had just woken up with a wine hangover.
Jeff I can see where you're coming from, but after watching his vid's on the Journal and main site for years now...it's normal for Jeff. All his vid's have very good material.
Stephen i would agree, also whoever shot the video might have been sharing that wine, a tripod might have helped.


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July 23rd, 2009:
Collectable Guitars pt 31 – Tokai Talbo
Jul 23rd, 2009
This guitar was originally made from 1982 to 1984 in Japan by Tokai, who at this point were looking to expand away from the copies they specialised in.
It was very unusual in that the body was not made of wood, as you might expect, but aluminium instead. As such the name was actually an acronym for Tokai ALuminium BOdy. The benefits of using aluminium were sustainability- no trees get chopped down to make enough aluminium for a Talbo body, and a different sound.
Made of cast aluminum alloy AC-4B, which is commonly used in racing car engines, the Talbo's design is simple and elegant, combining new and traditional elements. Basically, it's like two superimposed teardrops with the tips pointing right and left to yield a bi-level, sculptured double cutaway. Its headstock decal reads "The New Legend Of The Guitar History."
The aluminium body was mostly solid, but with a large hollow chamber for the controls and for weight reduction. It had Blazing Fire pickups, usually a bridge humbucker and two single coils although two humbucker versions are not uncommon. The neck is made of maple and is bolted to the body.
The Talbo Blazing Fire is a quality guitar, comfortable, easy to play, with a great sound. If there's a limitation, it's that the three-way select limits the tonal potential, although this is mitigated somewhat with the two volumes. Perhaps the most famous appearance of the Tokai Talbo in the 1980s was in the hands of the band Devo.
Tokai Talbos were promoted briefly in American and European markets for perhaps a couple years, but after 1984 seemed to disappear from the radar. They didn't disappear  though. The Talbo appears to have continued in production in Japan since its '82 debut. And what's more, it continued to evolve. What had been called the Blazing Fire became simply the Talbo, in its present state offered with twin humbuckers. In 1999, Tokai introduced the Talbo Woody, an all-wood version made of two hollowed-out pieces of maple.
A more interesting variant was the Talbo Junior that debuted in 2000. It takes the teardrop-shaped sound chamber and encapsulates it in cast aluminum, then hollows the top of the body and cutaway horns, making them just a frame. Then, to spice things up, it adds a built-in amplifier under the strings. That same year, the Talbo's body was extended and turned into the Talbo Bass. And finally, Tokai brought back the Blazing Fire moniker on a fantastic blue-tinted transparent plexiglass version, still with the 3-D Talbo shape, but with no aluminum. These are produced in Korea.
So what of the original Talbo? Well, prices probably are about £700-£1000 for the guitars and basses, while the new Woody models are probably significantly less.


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Christian Fiction Sheds Preachy Tone for Sales
I don't know if George Bush had an impact on this, but something to think about. Click on title for full article.
-Dee
China Daily, Updated: 2005-06-23 10:58
Christian books test boundaries as sales surge
According to the Book Industry Study Group, which uses data from all sectors of the industry, total U.S. book sales rose 2.8 percent in 2004 to $28.6 billion, while religious books saw 11 percent growth to nearly $2 billion...Christian fiction too, long belittled as either low-quality dross or frivolous and a waste of time is enjoying a boom that has been linked by some to George W. Bush's presidency.
Joan Marlow Golan, executive editor of Steeple Hill, an imprint of romance publisher Harlequin dedicated to "faith-based" fiction, said the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks were "very important in terms of the growth of Christian fiction."
Last year, Steeple Hill launched an imprint of "hip, fun and smart fiction for modern and savvy women of faith." Golan said. "My first thought was Christian girls just want to have fun too, so why not do a variant of chick lit."
Another publisher offering Christian chick lit is privately held Random House whose Broadway imprint will release "Emily Ever After" in July, the story of a country girl coming to New York. Doubleday-Broadway recently announced plans to more than double the sales of its religion unit.
Golan said Steeple Hill was also trying to shed the preachy tone of some Christian fiction. "It's rather tedious if characters talk like pastors giving a sermon."
(Agencies)
Related article link
Reuters: Same articl, but includes Dekker and Kingsbury. 3 pages long


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The following is a synopsis of the tern status in southwest Nova Scotia for the 2004 nesting season. My "tern" work and observations deal primarily with the tern colony on The Brothers. These two tiny islands are located about 1 km offshore from Lower West Pubnico in Yarmouth County.
The first terns arrived in Lobster Bay on May 1, 2004.
One cripple Great Black-backed Gull and 3 Great Black-backed Gull nests were removed from South Brother. One Great Black-backed Gull nest was removed from North Brother. On June 12, 2004 there was one Great Black-backed Gull nest with two 7-day old chicks in the centre of the tern colony on Île-aux-fraises (a.k.a. Green Island). These gull chicks were unfortunately left there unharmed. By mid-season, the tern colony of 459 nests was abandoned. Perhaps I should have requested permission from CWS to remove them.
Census on Île-aux-fraises - June 12 - 459 Common and Arctic Tern nests (up from 362 in 2003), 90 to 95% Common Terns.
The number of Roseate Tern nests, at 76 on The Brothers, was slightly down from the 86 of the 2003 season. Fledgeling success during the last two seasons, though, has been pretty close to zero, due to predation by mink and also in part by some sort of avian predator. Before the mink attacks I had counted as much as 58 Roseate Tern chicks (June 28). The mink attacked the colony between July 4 and July 11 (most likely closer to July 11). It was captured in a lethal trap on July 16.
It is quite possible no Roseate Tern chicks fledged from The Brothers in 2004 as was the situation in 2003. The majority of the chicks of all three species of tern were killed by the mink. Only a few carcasses were actually eaten.
10 to 12 adult Roseate Terns are believed to have been killed by the mink. Most of these carcasses were collected and later picked up by CWS. At least one adult Roseate is believed to have been dismembered by an avian predator.
About 10 adult Common and Arctic Terns also appeared to have been dismembered by some sort of avian predator. Owl? A few adult Common and Arctic Terns are also believed to have been killed by mink.
Green Rock (also shown as "Green Island" on the charts) had a small amount of Arctic Tern Nests (perhaps 10 pairs).
Little Half Bald Tusket Island (a.k.a. Inner Bald and Mossy Bald) appeared to have had a small tern colony in 2003 and in 2004. I did not land on the island but only motored by.
All in all, a devastating year for the terns of south-west Nova Scotia.
What to do to ensure success for the 2005 nesting season.
The following is a chronological listing of my 2004 work with terns in general, of the Lobster Bay area, but especially with the Roseate Terns of The Brothers. The report also includes tern observations from other local residents.
May 1, 2004 - Lobster fisherman, Arthur d'Entremont, reported about 4 "terns" a few kilometers south-west of The Brothers.
May 3, 2004 - Jerome D'Eon reported seeing 2 terns in Pubnico Harbour near Walter Surette's fish plant.
May 5, 2004 - I visited The Brothers accompanied by Israel d'Entremont. All was well. We saw no terns and found no gull nests. We fixed up a few Roseate Tern nest shelters.
May 6, 2004 - Raymond S. d'Entremont reported seeing about 50 terns above The Brothers. Lobster fisherman, Robert Nickerson, also reported a few terns above The Brothers.
May 8, 2004 - Lobster fisherman, Réal d'Entremont, reported 200 to 300 terns above The Brothers at 6am.
May 10, 2004 - About 125 terns at Île-aux-fraises (a.k.a. Green I.) - about 90% Common Terns and 10% Arctic Terns. We saw a few terns around Little Half Bald Tusket I. I was expecting more tern activity there. There was only a little tern activity on Flat Island and no activity on The Brothers as we motored by. My crew: Israel, Rémi and Jean-Bernard d'Entremont.
May 19, 2004 - I went alone to visit The Brothers in fog about as thick as pea soup. I found about 100 terns (all 3 species) above North Brother, but only one tern at South Brother. There were no gull nests on N. Brother. Due to a heavy swell, I did not attempt a landing on S. Brother.
May 27, 2004 - On S. Brother, I removed a cripple Great Black-backed Gull and 2 GBb Gull nests each containing 3 eggs were destroyed. There were a a few terns above the island including some Roseate Terns. No tern nests could be found on S. Brother. Several hundred gulls and some Double-crested Cormorants were using the island as a roost as we arrived.
On N. Brother, the tern and gull situation was better. Only one GBb Gull nest was destroyed. It contained 2 eggs. There were about 300 terns on N. Brother including all 3 species. We also counted 95 tern nests as we walked around the island. None of these could be positively identified as Roseate Tern nests. Most of the nests contained one egg; a few with 2 eggs and only 2 or 3 with 3 eggs. I expect the Roseate Terns to begin laying in early June. I hope to do my yearly nest census in about 2 weeks when the nest numbers will be at its maximum.
One tern egg appeared to have been opened by some predator; only half of the shell remained.
June 4, 2004 - Destroyed one GBb Gull nest from S. Brother. No tern nests on S. Brother and very little tern presence above the island.
We counted about 415 tern nests on N. Brother including about 35 Roseate Tern nests. There were no gull nests to destroy. I expect a good tern nest census when I will do my official count in about 10 days.
Crew and helper: Israel d'Entremont.
June 12, 2004 - Official census day on Île-aux-fraises (a.k.a. Green Island) and The Brothers.
We counted 459 Common Tern and Arctic Tern nests on Île-aux-fraises. About 90% were Common Tern nests; there was no presence of any Roseate Terns.
Two 7-day old Great Black-backed Gull chicks were also found on Île-aux-fraises. Even so, the tern colony appeared in great shape.
The situation on The Brothers was not as good as I had expected. There were no terns on South Brother and the number of tern nests on North Brother was down to 526 from 648 in 2003. There were 102 tern nests on South Brother in 2003. The number of Roseate Tern nest was only marginally down to 61. On June 13, 2003 there were 68 Roseate Tern nests on The Brothers. I expect more Roseate Tern nests in the coming weeks.
Now to some grim realism. Six adult terns were found dead on North Brother; 2 Common Terns and 4 Arctics. Some had been dismembered as if taken by an owl; others were intact. One Common tern had a broken bill. One of the Arctic Terns had been freshly killed with an injury to the head, its blood on the vegetation was still wet. I collected the fresher carcasses and stored them in my freezer for later analysis, if required.
The question is, "Are these the result of an owl or a Mink attack, or both?". Mink have been observed on the mainland adjacent to The Brothers and are known to have killed a flock of tame ducks there this spring. I will await instructions from Canadian Wildlife Service or from the wildlife division of the Nova Scotia Department of Natural Resources as to what to do next.
Crew: Rémi and Israel d'Entremont.
June 16, 2004 - Bill Moseley, a trapper hired by DNR, placed 4 mink traps on N.Brother. He located what looked like possible mink paw prints in the fine soil below the overhanging bank of the island.
June 17, 2004 - Israel and I checked out the mink traps on N. Brother. They were all untouched and there were no more dead terns. We will leave the traps there for the season.
The eggs were starting to hatch. Only one, believed to be a Common Tern, was fully hatched and one Arctic Tern was starting to peck through the egg shell. All appeared well.
A few more Roseate Tern nests were located. Now there is a total of 65 documented Roseate Tern nests and their eggs should begin hatching soon.
June 21, 2004 - Another mink trap check on N. Brother. All traps o.k.
About 100 Common and Arctic Tern chicks had hatched. Two dead Common Tern chicks were collected; one appeared to have been pecked to death (possibly by an adult tern?). The cause of death of the second chick was undetermined.
Three more Roseate Tern nests were discovered bringing the total now to 68. We found no Roseate Tern chicks yet.
Israel d'Entremont was my assistant.
June 22, 2004 - Again, no mink presence to report on N. Brother. The Roseate Tern eggs were beginning to hatch. Six RT chicks were found. No mortality of any kind on the island. All appeared excellent on N. Brother.
Crew: Israel, Rémi and Jean-Bernard d'Entremont.
June 28, 2004 - Another visit to N. Brother to check the mink traps and to survey the Roseate Tern nests. My assistant was my son, Nigel.
The mink traps remained untouched, however, there was evidence of a predator. Two Arctic Terns and one Common Tern were decapitated with a variety of stages of dismemberment suggesting perhaps the possibility of an owl?
We also found about a dozen dead Common Tern chicks, one of which appeared to have recently fallen from the overhanging sod bank and was collected.
On a brighter note, 8 more Roseate Tern nests were discovered bringing the total now to 76. Also 58 RT chicks have been documented. Unfortunately one of these chicks was found dead and three more RT chicks, all about 2 or 3 days old were just barely alive. Two of these chicks had an older sibling which appared healthy.
I am very pleased with the state of the colony at this time.
July 4, 2004 - All was still good on N. Brother. A few new dismembered carcasses were located. All the Mink traps fine.
July 11, 2004 - Disaster on N. Brother. Nigel and I went to N. Brother to do some observation from a portable blind.
We first checked the mink traps and found one had been sprung by a female Common Eider. It was dead in the trap. We also found a few adult terns which had been dismembered, including decapitation. One such bird was an adult Roseate Tern on the observation platform; its head and wing below on the ground. This was all minor. Likely the result of owl predation?
The great disappointment came when we started checking the nest structures for Roseate Tern chicks. We were only able to find three still alive. One of these was under a lobster crate with a dead Adult Roseate Tern and a dead, almost fledged, Common Tern. The adult Roseate had a recent injury to its head. This bird was collected. Adult Roseate Terns and chicks were in many nesting structures. Most of the adult tern mortality was very recent. One adult Roseate and one adult Common Tern were still alive with injury to their necks. They had incoordinated movement and could not walk or fly.
The injuries appeared consistant with the Mink kills of 2003; dead birds with blood or visible injury to head or neck.
Five recently deceased adult Roseate Terns were collected for later study by CWS.
There will be no Roseate Tern chick banding this year.
As to the blind, we did set it up and observed the terns for about 90 minutes. There was definitely less tern activity than my last observations from a blind there of two years ago. We saw no terns with leg bands and none of the dead birds had been banded. Some of the fish being brought looked like herring; a couple of Roseates were carrying Sand Lance. A few Common Terns were trying to feed their young with Butterfish with no success. Nigel saw a tern with a large dark greenish fish, perhaps a mummichog. All in all, the tern activity in N. Brother was much lower than expected. We also kept an eye out for predators but saw none while we were there.
July 14, 2004 - More traps to capture the mink(s) were placed on N. Brother by retired biologist, Paul Tufts. Paul examined several tern carcasses and confirmed them as mink kills. I collected two Roseate Tern mink kills and one Common Tern which appeared to have been killed by an avian predator. We found 3 Roseate Tern chicks still alive.
I just received a phone call of a Black-crowned Night Heron in one of the ponds on the mainland in plain view of N. Brother. I don't know if this is significant. I know these birds have attacked tern colonies elsewhere.
Israel d'Entremont was our helper today. The weather was miserable.
Oh, I forgot to mention that a two week old Common Tern chick was killed by one of the mink traps. Presumably, it had fallen off from the overhanging turf bank where it had been hatched, and had walked into the trap.
July 16, 2004 - We caught a mink! Whether it is the one and only is yet to be determined. One of the traps placed at the base of the sod bank had again killed an almost-fledged Common Tern. This was not the same trap as the one on July 14. The two sprung traps were reset before we left the island.
We found very few newly dead terns. The adult birds were still bringing in fish.
My assistants: Israel and Rémi d'Entremont.
The frozen tern carcasses were picked up by CWS staff and the dead mink was delivered to the DNR office in Tusket.
July 20, 2004 - No more new dead birds on N. Brother. Two more adult Roseate Tern carcasses were found. They appeared a week or so old and had died before the mink capture.
One of the mink traps had killed a Spotted Sandpiper.
My crew: Ric Surette with his sons, Andrew and Jonathan, and Jean-Paul d'Entremont.
July 24, 2004 - Another bird killed by a mink trap on N. Brother. This time, a Willet. No new dead terns were found. Some Common Terns had fledged. Still a lot of tern activity.
Crew: Ric Surette with his sons, Andrew and Jonathan, and Nigel D'Eon.
July 30, 2004 - The 7 mink traps were removed from N. Brother. They were all still set.
All the terns were gone from the island. This seems earlier than usual.
August 1, 2004 - I have heard from Donny Jacquard of Wedgeport, that the terns abandonned Île-aux-fraises (a.k.a. Green I.) by mid-season. No explanation so far. Note that on June 12, there were two 7-day old Great Black-backed Gull chicks on the island, in the middle of the tern colony.


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Q: Shield ui wicket datasource I'm trying to implement shield ui Popup Editing with wicket and java. My html and java code:

Java's code is:
DataSource datasource = new DataSource("datasource");
DataSourceOptions options = datasource.getOptions();

options.setData(
        new HashMap() {{
                  put("ID", 1);
                  put("Name", "Item1");
                  put("Age", 45);
                  put("BirthDate", "16/08/2006");
                  put("Active", false);
        }},
        new HashMap() {{
                  put("ID", 2);
                  put("Name", "Item2");
                  put("Age", 45);
                  put("BirthDate", "16/08/2006");
                  put("Active", false);
        }},
        new HashMap() {{
                  put("ID", 3);
                  put("Name", "Item3");
                  put("Age", 45);
                  put("BirthDate", "16/08/2006");
                  put("Active", false);
        }},
        new HashMap() {{
                  put("ID", 4);
                  put("Name", "Item4");
                  put("Age", 45);
               put("BirthDate", "16/08/2006");
                  put("Active", false);
        }}
);

add(datasource);
//END testing shieldui

There is no documentation about implementing datasource for grid editting so I've tried all combinations using remote and datat tags in order to get the data from may java code. No success.
When I deploy my war I get a grid whith several rows with current date in field BirthData but all other fields empty.
I dont know where that data comes, if I remove data:"datasource" from html file i get only grid headers, no data.
Please any suggestion will be grateful.