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Q: fetch mp3 file from phone storage (with specific folder) in flutter app I want to fetch mp3 files from phone storage with specific folder,
Actually am using  on_audio_query pkg for this but on_audio_query is fetched all mp3 files in my phone storage.
please anyone guide!
code:
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  final AudioPlayer audioPlayer = AudioPlayer();

void initState() {
requestPermission();

myPath();
super.initState();

  }

     void requestPermission() {
    Permission.storage.request();
  }

    String? appDocPath;
  Future<void> myPath() async {
    Directory? appDocDir = await getExternalStorageDirectory();
    setState(() {
      appDocPath = appDocDir!.path.toString();
      print("dir lenght: ${appDocPath}".length.toString());
    });
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  Widget build(BuildContext context) {
    print("dir: ${appDocPath}".toString());
    return Scaffold(
      appBar: AppBar(),
      body: FutureBuilder<List<SongModel>>(
        future: _onAudioQuery.querySongs(
          path: appDocPath,
          sortType: null,
          orderType: OrderType.ASC_OR_SMALLER,
          uriType: UriType.EXTERNAL,
          ignoreCase: true,
        ),

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      if (file.existsSync()) {

        _audioQuery.scanMedia(file.path); // Scan the media 'path'
      }
    } catch (e) {
      debugPrint('$e');
    }
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change path to your device path.


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Prashant Jain is Executive Director & Chief Investment Officer at HDFC Mutual Fund, India's leading mutual fund. HDFC Mutual Fund's asset under Management is over INR 4360 billion of which over ~INR 2050 billion is in equities and equity oriented schemes as on Dec 2021.He has 30 years of investment management experience.Prashant holds the distinction of being the only fund manager in India & one of the few globally, to have continuously managed a scheme for over 27 years. This fund, namely, HDFC Balanced Advantage fund (earlier known as HDFC Prudence fund) is the largest equity oriented scheme in India and has delivered a CAGR of ~18.0% since inception till Dec 2021 vs Sensex CAGR of ~10.1% during corresponding period.He completed his PGDM from Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore in 1991. Before this, he has obtained a Bachelor's degree in Mechanical Engineering from Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur.Prashant has worked with SBI Mutual Fund (1991-1993) as well as Zurich India Mutual Fund (1993-2003) in different capacities. He moved to HDFC Mutual Fund, subsequent to the takeover of Zurich India Mutual Fund by HDFC in 2003.
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Brijesh Bhatia is working as Senior Research Analyst & Editor at Equitymaster Research. Prior to working at Equitymaster, he had worked as Head of Research at Dealmoney Securities Pvt Ltd, Edelweiss Broking Ltd, Asit C Mehta Inv Int Ltd, UTI Securities and LKP. He appears as an expert analyst on various business news channel to share his views on markets. Apart from media, he has been a speaker at various domestic and international trading events like Association of Technical Market Analysts, Traders Carnival and Definedge Technical Analysis events.He has an edge over Technical analysis patterns like Harmonics, Wyckoff, Kagi and Heikin Ashi and also shares his analysis on blog and Twitter. He has coached more than 500 candidates on Technical Analysis from basics to advanced level.
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Vishal Kshatriya is a Chartered Accountant by profession and Trader by passion. He has been trading and tracking markets for over 15 years. Vishal started his career as a Trader on Proprietary Desk at Edelweiss where he managed huge funds and deployed Long/Short and various other low risk strategies. Later, he was co-heading Technical and Derivative Research Desk in Edelweiss. Vishal has contributed significantly to developing Advanced Trading platforms.Vishal prefers to do momentum trading and strictly follows rule-based trading method to eliminate emotion. He believes that if you cannot explain why you have bought or sold stock at particular level, then you are gambling and not trading. He uses Heikin-Ashi and Point & Figure charts for trading and has developed various rules and a set-up that has made trading stress free for him.Currently, Vishal Kshatriya is leading the Digital Product team at Moneycontrol.
Mayuresh Joshi has worked as a financial analyst, investment banker, wealth manager, and portfolio manager for over 14 years and has extensive experience in the fields of investment banking, strategic alliances, business development, wealth and portfolio management. He has frequently appeared in the national media, including ETNOW, CNBC Awaaz, NDTV Profit, CNBC-TV18 and Bloomberg TV, for delivering comprehensive financial and investment analysis.Prior to joining us at William O'Neil India, he had a 10-year long stint with Angel Broking as Vice President, Head of Portfolio Management Services. Before that, he had worked with HBL Leisure as Manager - Cash and Financial Management and UTI Bank as a Team Leader. He started his professional journey in 2001 with Blue Star InfoTech, Mumbai. He holds a B.Com degree from RA Podar College, University of Mumbai. He is also a Chartered Accountant (Intermediate) from Institute of Chartered Accountants of India (ICAI) and a member of Institute of Company Secretaries of India.Joshi is a fitness enthusiast and likes to pursue sports-related activities in his leisure time, which includes playing lawn tennis and cricket. He is responsible for research and content for India products. His experience in the asset management business will also be invaluable as William O Neil India starts building its asset management business.
Nooresh Merani is an IT Engineer by qualification and Adviser/Trader/Analyst/Blogger/Educator by profession. Nooresh's trading blog www.nooreshtech.co.in is one of the most popular technical analysis/trading platforms in India. For 15 years, he has been writing his Technical Views on Indian Equity Markets, Global Indices, Commodities and more, with a focus on turnaround points on Nifty/Sensex. He regularly offers advice on spotting some big moves in mid to small cap stocks. In his blog, he also often dives into the history of Indian Markets and provides regular updates on the current market. Nooresh has trained more than 3,000 participants on Technical Analysis over the past 10 years. He has conducted training sections across Indian metros and other cities such as Indore, Surat, Ahmedabad, Pune. He is a regular face on business channels such as CNBC-TV18, ET Now and Bloomberg TV India.
Prashant Shah is one of the few professionals with number of coveted and renowned designations in the industry. He has been awarded Chartered Market Technician (CMT®?) and a Certified Financial Technician (CFTe) by CMT Association and International Federation of Technical Analysts (IFTA) respectively. He is first in India, who is holder of the right to the Master of Financial Technical Analysis®? certification designation by IFTA for the original research conducted by him on Line Break charts swing trading techniques. He is also a Member of Society of Technical Analysts, London.He has worked with various financial firms and he has been practicing Technical analysis using "Noiseless Charts " in particular for a number of years. Prashant is a leading practitioner of one-dimensional charts in financial markets. As a result, he has become synonymous with noiseless charting in India. Prashant has written bestselling books on Point & Figure and Renko chart trading methods and his interview has been published on popular financial portals (including Money control)Prashant is a SEBI registered Research Analyst. He regularly appears on business media channels for his views and opinions on markets. His firm writes research reports for popular firms and institutions. He is a founder member and CEO of Definedge Solutions, a Pune-based young vibrant company having a wonderful amalgam of market-traders, analysts and information technology experts.
K Anant Rao has been tracking the financial markets for close to one and half decade with a career that has spanned varied roles: successful analyst, trader, broker, strategist and investment adviser manager. Currently, he is co-founder and Principal at Kurtosis Analytics & Advisors. Throughout his career he has interacted various foreign institutions / Bank who manages ETF, Hedge Funds, Pension fund, Arbitrage Fund. Anant was heading Institutional Trading desk at Karvy between 2011-2014, where he interacted and advised to various FII's, Domestic Institutions and Hedge funds who wants to invest in India for ETF's, Pension Fund, Long Only Fund, Low Risk Arbitrage Fund, PMS and High Risk Fund involving Option writing strategies. Before that he was associated with ICICI Securities in Institutional Equities division where he serviced various foreign banks proprietary book where he managed more than billions of dollar in low risk Arbitrage strategy. His role was not limited to this, he further worked on with Hedge funds who are active in option writing and delta neutral strategies. Anant has been a regular columnist and market commentator in various media, a regular speaker at various industry conferences in India.
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Somasundaram PR joined the World Gold Council in January 2013, as Managing Director, India. Som is responsible for leading the World Gold Council's activities across the Indian gold market.
Som has over 27 years' experience across diverse industries including the FMCG and banking sectors. Prior to joining the World Gold Council, Som was the Chief Executive Officer of Lakshmi Vilas Bank, a private sector bank. Before that, he was part of Standard Chartered Bank in India for over eight years in various senior roles before taking on the role of Managing Director of Standard Chartered - STCI Capital Markets, the securities arm of Standard Chartered Bank. Previously, Som had spent over 13 years with Hindustan Unilever (HUL) in a variety of roles, as well as working at Tata Consultancy Services. He is also a qualified Chartered Accountant.
Prashant Jain is Executive Director & Chief Investment Officer at HDFC Mutual Fund, India's leading mutual fund. HDFC Mutual Fund's asset under Management is over INR 4360 billion of which over ~INR 2050 billion is in equities and equity oriented schemes as on Dec 2021.
He has 30 years of investment management experience.
Prashant holds the distinction of being the only fund manager in India & one of the few globally, to have continuously managed a scheme for over 27 years. This fund, namely, HDFC Balanced Advantage fund (earlier known as HDFC Prudence fund) is the largest equity oriented scheme in India and has delivered a CAGR of ~18.0% since inception till Dec 2021 vs Sensex CAGR of ~10.1% during corresponding period.
He completed his PGDM from Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore in 1991. Before this, he has obtained a Bachelor's degree in Mechanical Engineering from Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur.
Prashant has worked with SBI Mutual Fund (1991-1993) as well as Zurich India Mutual Fund (1993-2003) in different capacities. He moved to HDFC Mutual Fund, subsequent to the takeover of Zurich India Mutual Fund by HDFC in 2003.
Rohit is the Founder and Market Strategist at indiacharts.com. He is also a Former Fund Manager and Head of Research Sharekhan by BNP Paribas
Since the first time he set his eyes upon prices and price movements in the markets, the use of visual representation of price movement to identify trends became the obvious passion. The 30 year journey has evolved starting from price and volume information to now include Macroeconomic cycles, business performance statistics and everything about markets around the world.
After an 18 year journey at Sharekhan ended he stepped down being a Fund manager to Managing my own. In Dec 2019. They Launched Indiacharts Mentorship Program, the most comprehensive Learning experience for Serious and Passionate traders/investors wanting to get the A-Z of what he calls 'Complete Market Analysis' at one place in a rigorous 3 month experience. This Journey has just started.
His longest Journey was with Sharekhan Ltd where he started as a Market Analyst. After calling the bottom of the bear market right after 9/11 in 2001 he took on the role of Head of Research and later Market Strategist. In an attempt to change the way they do Research on stocks he developed the Value Wave Model that combined the Long term Elliott Wave Fractal of a company with its Value and Growth phases of the business cycle. The performance of the forecasts made back then give him great confidence on its application has for long term investing.
As a Fund Manager he launched the First Portfolio Management Service based on Absolute returns using managed futures strategies in the Nifty and Stocks. By 2010 their returns were near 100% [on zero leverage], v/s Nifty at 0% Having read about the Kondratieff cycle in 1997 he got down to measuring and mapping it for the Indian stock market in 2007.
He had his 10 years and 10,000 hours of learning. During this period he worked first with Dalal Street Journal completed MBA in Finance and joined a proprietary trading firm Sanwa Finance. He simultaneously started to write the Blog Indiacharts to share my growing understanding freely online. In an attempt to fully commit himself with the business of sharing his market studies and educating the world on these models he launched the paid Newsletter 'Indiacharts Insiders' in 2013. To those who are willing to pay heed to these market forecasts it can protect them from financial disasters, and then actually help them create wealth.
Brijesh Bhatia is working as Senior Research Analyst & Editor at Equitymaster Research. Prior to working at Equitymaster, he had worked as Head of Research at Dealmoney Securities Pvt Ltd, Edelweiss Broking Ltd, Asit C Mehta Inv Int Ltd, UTI Securities and LKP.
He appears as an expert analyst on various business news channel to share his views on markets. Apart from media, he has been a speaker at various domestic and international trading events like Association of Technical Market Analysts, Traders Carnival and Definedge Technical Analysis events.
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In 2008, he joined Proficient Commodities as the research head, heading a team of 200 proprietary traders.
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Joshi is a fitness enthusiast and likes to pursue sports-related activities in his leisure time, which includes playing lawn tennis and cricket. He is responsible for research and content for India products. His experience in the asset management business will also be invaluable as William O Neil India starts building its asset management business.
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He has worked with various financial firms and he has been practicing Technical analysis using "Noiseless Charts " in particular for a number of years. Prashant is a leading practitioner of one-dimensional charts in financial markets. As a result, he has become synonymous with noiseless charting in India. Prashant has written bestselling books on Point & Figure and Renko chart trading methods and his interview has been published on popular financial portals (including Money control)
Prashant is a SEBI registered Research Analyst. He regularly appears on business media channels for his views and opinions on markets. His firm writes research reports for popular firms and institutions. He is a founder member and CEO of Definedge Solutions, a Pune-based young vibrant company having a wonderful amalgam of market-traders, analysts and information technology experts.
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Anant was heading Institutional Trading desk at Karvy between 2011-2014, where he interacted and advised to various FII's, Domestic Institutions and Hedge funds who wants to invest in India for ETF's, Pension Fund, Long Only Fund, Low Risk Arbitrage Fund, PMS and High Risk Fund involving Option writing strategies. Before that he was associated with ICICI Securities in Institutional Equities division where he serviced various foreign banks proprietary book where he managed more than billions of dollar in low risk Arbitrage strategy. His role was not limited to this, he further worked on with Hedge funds who are active in option writing and delta neutral strategies.
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Small and mid-caps often become most volatile in black swan events. Does that mean investors are better off without them?
If one wants to invest in equities now, what would you suggest? direct stocks or mutual funds?
How bond yields and equities are related to each other during different economic seasons
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Nifty major trends and leaders
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The owners of this beautiful craftsmen home in the hills of Berkeley wanted to complete their vision for their home and make a series of usable and varying outdoor spaces to relax and spend time with their family. New low and transparent fencing w/ vertical pickets create an inviting entry from the street and provide curb appeal drawing people into the front garden. A large Japanese maple was protected and greets people as you enter the front garden. Low, simple planting accent the striking tree and add an elegance to the space. The back garden has an olive grove patio for a casual dining terrace, raised vegetable garden beds, a fire pit & movie wall with seating, a koi pond for their 7 koi & a large flexible lawn space planted w/ low water use native grass.


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(edited to reduce verbage as I put the pieces together).
A friend has challenged me to code my Trading Plan, so I've downloaded the demo and grabbed the EL doc from TS.com. With 20 yrs of SW dev and a pretty good knowledge of charts, this could be fun. But, sometimes you need to ask stupid questions, so here we go.
1) Is the demo version fully featured and documented? There seem to be some gaps. E.g., EL doc discusses "strategies" at length, but I see almost no references to them in MC doc.
ANSWER: Found a post where a Strategy = 1 or more signals. Fine.
Q Still: Is there more doc than what's in the Help?
PARTIAL ANSWER: I see that Signals are enabled in the Beta PLeditor.
Q Still: Do signals only work in real time, and maybe backtesting?
2) Is PLEditor supposed to close itself periodically? It's possibly related to having an open window on a Study that's been added to a chart, but I think I've seen it other times as well.
3) I laugh at every semi-colon: is this really just a C pre-processor that Marketing had the nerve to call "Easy" ?!
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Here's a simple one: Can I create a 2 symbol chart with the demo version, and how?
Help screens basically just say, "Open dialog windows and click Add", but when I do that I get, "Please run QM to add the symbol manually." QM is running in another window in this workspace, and the symbol is there. In fact, I clicked on it from the symbol list in Format Symbol, thinking that might add it, but it replaced the one that I had there. So its data is accessible, which suggests that the "run QM" message is out of place: I'm trying to add the symbol to this chart, not the workspace.
BTW, I'll probably be plunking down the Big Bucks as it looks like this has the ability to do what I want. But it will be nice to get a little closer to actually doing it before opening the wallet.
We're working on developing complete and detialed documentation to include all the new aspects of PowerLanguage but so far we have to recommend referring to Easy Language documentation.
Signals should be working bot in relaltime data and backtesting, please contact us if you're having issues with some certain case.
Please tell more if this keeps occuring, we'll need more information - this should not be occuring, MultiCharts and PLEditor are functioning as separate applications.
I'm afraid this question is better addressed to TS - what we aimed for is total compatibility with EasyLanguage, which as languages go is easy - it is defininitely possible to write indicators with little learning.
Have both symbols added in QuoteManager. Plot a chart of the first symbol, right-click chart, in the menu select Insert Symbol. A new Format Symbol dialog opens, select the required second symbol in it and choose its settings.
Signals work as expected in the Beta. Good to see.
The PLeditor exit was sporadic, and never when I was in it, but if I ever find a pattern to it, will send you details.
Glad I was able to help with the interface; if you're still having the PLEditor closing issue, please keep us informed, we're very interested in this. So please write or post here if this happens and describe what were you diong at the moment, what kind of code did you have open in PLEDitor, etc. - details will be most appreciated.


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French man turns huge WW2 German bunker into B&B
Title: French man turns huge WW2 German bunker into B&B
Date: 23rd August 2021
Summary: LAMPAUL-PLOUARZEL, FRANCE (AUGUST 19, 2021) (REUTERS) (SOUNDBITE) (French) FORMER BUNKER EXPLORER AND PIONEER OF 'BUNKER ARCHAEOLOGY' WHO STARTED DIGGING UP BUNKERS IN THE 1980S, HERVE FARRANT, SAYING: "We searched for them, we even excavated them and we made discoveries. It took us time. Those blockhauses (German word for "bunker") had been forgotten and buried after the war. And we would open them up using shovels and so on. They were intact, even back then, but with time, they are all decaying because the sea salt is corroding them. So as years go by, they will disappear for good. Among these bunkers where there were beautiful paintings (some had been decorated by soldiers stationed there), three out of four have fallen victim to urban development." SAINT-PABU, FRANCE (AUGUST 19, 2021) (REUTERS) DRONE FOOTAGE OF BUNKERS ON COAST VARIOUS OF PARTIALLY BURIED BUNKER (SOUNDBITE) (French) 22-YEAR-OLD STUDENT AND PORTSALL INHABITANT, THOMAS PRIGENT, SAYING: "It is part of the history of Brittany and the Breton coast, because we have hundreds, thousands of bunkers, blockhauses. There are really part of the landscape and you can't have a walk on the coast without seeing one every 100 or 200 metres." MARCEL GRANGE AND PARTNER SITTING ON FORTIFICATION REMAINS, LOOKING AT HORIZON (SOUNDBITE) (French) CIVIL SERVANT FROM CHARENTE-MARITIME REGION, MARCEL GRANGE, SAYING: "It is a moment of our history, of the history of humanity, and it is a bit sad to want to destroy all this. On the contrary, it holds memories. Our grandparents have lived through this, my parents did too." VARIOUS OF PARTIALLY BURIED BUNKER (SOUNDBITE) (French) 52-YEAR-OLD LOCAL TEACHER, STEPHANE FROUIN, SAYING: "People have taken over those sites and so has the plants, which has taken over in some places. So it is always interesting to see the variations there can be (from one site to another)." LAMPAUL-PLOUARZEL, FRANCE (AUGUST 19, 2021) (REUTERS) TIPPED-OVER BUNKER ON BEACH BEACH SEEN THROUGH BUNKER ENTRANCE
Embargoed: 6th September 2021 11:48
Keywords: Atlantic Wall Brittany German Nazi Germany WW2 World War Two blockhaus bunker fortifications history
Location: SAINT-PABU, LAMPAUL-PLOUARZEL, LE PORTZIC AND PLOUGONVELIN, BRITTANY, FRANCE
City: SAINT-PABU, LAMPAUL-PLOUARZEL, LE PORTZIC AND PLOUGONVELIN, BRITTANY, FRANCE
Topics: Conflicts/War/Peace,Europe,Editors' Choice
Reuters ID: LVA009ERI1T8N
Story Text: A bunker built by German troops in northern France during World War Two has been given an unlikely new lease of life as an underground guesthouse, welcoming history buffs and visitors after remaining buried for years.
France's northern coast, including in Brittany and Normandy, is still strewn with fortifications left behind by the German army, which built up a so-called Atlantic Wall to try and fend off Allied Forces after invading France in 1940.
In Saint-Pabu, on the Breton seaside, concrete bunkers are half buried along the sandy beaches, in an area that once operated as a radar station to detect planes.
Serge Colliou, a bunker enthusiast, bought up a plot of land in the area, and spent 18 months digging out and renovating the 400 square metre bunker, turning it fully-functioning rental, complete with a bar area and cosy living room.
Nods to the war are present throughout the space, with memorabilia like helmets and reproductions of guns, although Colliou said he did not want to go overboard to allow guests to enjoy it for parties too.
"We adapted (the bunker) while preserving a certain feel," Colliou said. "We wanted to give the building a second life, so we are not going to live in the past forever. We saved some aspects, you know where you are, there are historic cues, but this isn't a museum either."
French visitors and foreigners including Germans have stayed as guests, after the bunker opened for rent a year ago, Colliou added. The site, now in a residential area and surrounded by houses and gardens close to the coast, was once operated by 30 men in the German airforce or Luftwaffe.
A night in the L479 bunker costs 320 euros (375 U.S. Dollars) a night for 6 people and a second floor can be opened to welcome up to 20 guests for 1100 euros (1289 U.S. Dollars) a night.
Some local mayors in France have looked to remove remains such as bunkers on beaches, in part as they can occasionally pose a danger to bathers. Some of the fortifications may be preserved for historical reasons, however, including in areas such as Saint-Nazaire, La Rochelle and Brest, and restored.
"We are starting to preserve those famous bunkers and it is a good thing, but we cannot save them all," said Herve Farrant, a bunker specialist and author who began to explore the structures in the 1980s.
(Production: Manuel Ausloos)


Well. Guess we know what Nick's doing this weekend.
At least it's not extirpation.
Are you sure? We never did find out exactly what that involves.
We know it involves walnuts and shae butter, but we don't know what ELSE it involves.
What *is* that stuff they're hanging over? Molten lava? Boiling blood?
Pit of rusty spikes I think.
If the punctures don't get you, the gangrene will.
Could be a sea of walnut shells. Those things are murder to step on accidentally.
Walnut shells have nothing on Legos. But of course, walnut shells would go along with the "extirpation" theory. We know that it involves walnuts, but no one has ever said what part of the walnuts it involves.
Meh. I've had worse workspaces. Seriously, I have.
I know, right? My boss never lets me order delivery.
Never delivery, no calls from outside the office, that labtop they've got hooked up looks more advanced then anything I've ever seen a company -willingly- purchase (I mean, fair's fair, it just had to be more advanced then, from the 90s).
I mean, outside of the pit of rusty spikes, overall an upgrade. You might even be able to sell me on the spikes, as multiple instances of the jobs I've worked at before are at places with high infection risks ANYWAY.
I was going to say, there really doesn't seem to be much difference between this and other businesses. Well, maybe the food delivery is a bonus, and they don't have to listen to other people's conversations, but other than that . . .
Ah… One of those new/old open office floor plans I see.
Given that they've been known to extirpate people for poor shoe tying (IIRC), this may be just the equivalent of being forced to attend a sensitivity training class.
Or spit polishing with actual spit, or warming the polish, or wearing flip-flops instead. And that's just the shoe portion of the dress code.
At least they don't appear to be forced to hot desk.
It was all that weekend volunteer work at Skin Horse. Or maybe it was all that android smuggling. Or maybe helping Sergio escape. Or maybe Mr. Green just got too jealous of her outside relationships.
I thought she was volunteering at Skin horse now? Or did her company finally call her back in?
So, two questions about ordering in comes to mind. One, how does to poor delivery guy get passed the spikes? Two, how does he get the food up to the higher hanging "offices"?
Delivery hands off to Security, Security calls Maintenance, Maintenance breaks out the ladders they used to hang the cages in the first place, employees in the hotseat get their food. Simple, for A-Sig's definition of "simple".
Yeah. Pretty sure the delivery guy doesn't even get inside the building.
Um … this is Ansigma we are discussing, right?
Clearly they just keep sending out new requests until the delivery peoples' corpses form a walkway to their cages.
It's what I would do.
I actually think she would. She genuinely seems to like listening to Nick talk about his day and his interests.


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Hurricane Isaac: ASPCA Has Boots On The Ground, Mounting Animal Rescue Efforts
Dusten Carlson
Hurricane Isaac may be dying down, but the storm is leaving plenty of destruction in its wake. In response to the needs of the storm-torn Gulf Coast, animal protection agency ASPCA has announced that they are currently planning rescue operations for stranded and lost animals.
The ASPCA announced on their website today that they are hard at work preparing rescue efforts for the animals left imperiled by Hurricane Isaac. The official announcement on their website reads:
"As you know, exactly seven years after Hurricane Katrina, Hurricane Isaac is devastating Gulf Coast communities. Waist-high flooding has forced thousands to evacuate their homes, and as first responders work to rescue people stranded by the storm, the ASPCA is planning rescue operations for stranded and imperiled animals."
The ASPCA reports that they are only in the beginning stages of their response, but they have already made great progress. Mainly, they have established a relationship with the Louisiana State Animal Response Team to plan and execute animal rescue. They are currently deploying responders to conduct door-to-door animal rescues in houses that are either flooded or abandoned and are assisting a Louisiana animal shelter facing flooding. They are supplying boats and other equipment for water rescue missions and have transported animals from a Mississippi shelter to make room for potential Isaac victims.
Donations can be made to assist the ASPCA with animal rescue and evacuation here.
"The ASPCA relies on the support of compassionate people like you to conduct rescues like this one and to assist animals facing other crises."


Dylan Hutchison was in the zone on Saturday, tallying four hits and leading Spring Hill Panthers Varsity to a 15-4 win over Palestine. Hutchison singled in the first, homered in the third, doubled in the fourth, and singled in the eighth.
Spring Hill Panthers Varsity got things moving in the first inning. Hutchison singled on a 2-1 count, scoring one run.
Spring Hill Panthers Varsity tallied five runs in the fourth inning. Spring Hill Panthers Varsity big bats were led by Marshall Lipsey, Hutchison, and Trent Gregson, who all drove in runs.
Hunter Hollan toed the rubber for Spring Hill Panthers Varsity. He went three innings, allowing zero runs on zero hits, striking out eight and walking zero.
Spring Hill Panthers Varsity socked two triples on the day. Gregson had a triple in the fourth inning. Hutchison had a 3 bagger in the third inning.
Spring Hill Panthers Varsity collected 14 hits. Hutchison, Caden Noah, Lipsey, and Gregson each collected multiple hits for Spring Hill Panthers Varsity. Hutchison led Spring Hill Panthers Varsity with four hits in four at bats. Spring Hill Panthers Varsity tore up the base paths, as three players stole at least two bases. Noah led the way with two.


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36 Phone Calls: An interview with Writer Jeremy Brock
Posted on 17 June 2015.
Writer Jeremy Brock talks to Hampstead Theatre's Online Features Editor, Susie Benson, about his new play 36 Phone Calls which opens Downstairs on 25 June
'36 Phone Calls is about what it is to be human ultimately: what it is to be frail and driven by irrational emotions. This is a play both comic-absurd and poignant, I hope. A man's midlife crisis framed in 36 conversations.'
Award-winning screenwriter Jeremy Brock is describing his innovative take on a one-man show, which opens at Hampstead Downstairs on 25 June. Funny and empathetic, the play examines 'the most private and intimate feature of being human – our attempt at love and the fallibility of that attempt'.
A warning here though: Brock's perspective on this subject is unsparing, so the sharply observed comedy is pierced with some gut-wrenching moments. Through conversations with wife, lover, mother, children, friends and clients, Brock's character Martin attempts to make sense of all the disjointed aspects of his life, struggling with 'the guilt, the confusion and the explosive consequences of an affair'. The calls 'signify the different versions of himself that Martin presents to the world' as he gropes towards some sort of atonement. The audience isn't party to the other side of these conversations, a device that allows Brock to play with meaning and significance.
'As the piece progresses, its interiority becomes more apparent,' says Brock. 'And you become aware that what you're watching is not so much an A to B of someone's three weeks in exile from their family, but more an exploration of what it feels like to be disconnected.'
I met up with Brock during the exhilarating first few days of rehearsal. He is animated and engaging, and wears his success as a screenwriter lightly, though he is widely acclaimed for films such as BAFTA-winning The Last King of Scotland starring James McAvoy, the Oscar-nominated Mrs Brown, and How I Live Now, directed by Kevin Macdonald. After an absence of almost twenty years, Brock is returning once more to his first love, the theatre, with two plays at Hampstead within eighteen months. Last year The Blackest Black, directed by Michael Longhurst, also explored disconnectedness and how 'people struggle with who they are in the world and who they are in their secret life.'
With 36 Phone Calls, Brock anticipates that the intimacy of the Downstairs stage will allow the audience to feel part of Martin's physical and psychological space. Martin, kicked out of the family home, is holed up in a claustrophobic, rented cell that 'amplifies the comic disjunction' between all his talking and his very palpable aloneness. A key aspect of the piece will be how the character's interior world will be captured in the physical action that Brock details so compellingly in his script.
'Moments such as Martin's kung fu fighting and his silent dancing after he has taught his son to make a pancake are just as important to me as the dialogue. The way he conducts himself reveals everything about his yearning, his sadness, his hopefulness and ambition to escape this place'.
Jo McInnes, making her Hampstead debut, will be directing her husband, Lee Ross, as Martin. Brock recognises that this relationship brings a symbiotic trust to rehearsals, facilitating a very useful short-cut to the requisite emotional intensity of 36 Phone Calls. Working with McInnes is a joy because she's so collaborative and Brock feels 'very lucky with Lee Ross because he's so fluid and fluent in that range of emotion that Martin experiences in this hour of crisis in his life'. The green light on the script came only a fortnight before rehearsals began, which Brock finds 'incredibly enlivening and enriching' after the sluggish wheel-grinding of the film-making process.
Brock had his first full-length play presented at the Bristol Old Vic in 1985 shortly after university, but he rapidly began writing for television. He became a script editor at the BBC, where he co-created Casualty, moving on to numerous high profile dramas, including the 2008 film of Brideshead Revisited. He is currently working on several TV projects, but he identifies a satisfying level of involvement in writing for theatre that is often absent in screenwriting, describing it as the ability to have a 'more progressive conversation' about form, structure and artistic intention.
'Theatre, without a shadow of a doubt, allows me as the writer to stand at the centre of the process and express myself most fully. The only exception would be if I was a novel writer, but I'm not a novelist. I write films and I write plays and I write television. That is my metier and theatre is where I feel most expressed.'
36 Phone Calls was not a commission, but Brock very much wrote it with the Downstairs studio in mind. He says that Edward Hall and Greg Ripley-Duggan's belief in him was an enormous boost, after his being away from the theatre for such a long time. The experience on The Blackest Black was so rewarding that it gave him the confidence to 'just sit at the screen and write the thing'.


Happy reunion!! This lady had to go in to hospital and left her dog in the care of her neighbour. The neighbour took the dog for a walk but took him off the leash....We found the roaming dog and took him in to the shelter. Because this dog wasn't ill or injured and his coat was well looked after, we assumed he had an owner. We loaded his profile on to the internet to hope that his owner would see him. Upon leaving hospital and learning that her dog had been lost, the lady looked on our 'found' page on our Chinese social media. She contacted us and we asked her to come down to the shelter. She answered questions for us to make sure that the dog was hers but there was no doubt he was hers because as soon as he saw her he went crazy. She had found her dog! What a lucky escape this dog had! He could so easily have been picked up by dog meat traffickers. This lady had stern words with her neighbour.
We've been asked if dogs are reunited with owners when they are lost and rescued or saved from the dog meat trade. Sometimes it can be a happy ending like this one.


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Unlike most yoga classes, this one has onlookers, many using their phones to take pictures.
It's a breezy early September evening in Smithtown, New York, and more than a dozen yoga practitioners have gathered for the first of two hourlong sessions. Instead of a standard studio, though, they are laying out their mats at the Smithtown Historical Society's Frank Brush Barn, where some very special visitors are waiting for the practice to begin. Ten goats amble about the tarp-covered practice space, which has been carefully fenced to keep them from wandering off. One woman with a broom and pan follows them, discreetly sweeping up waste. The goats behave, well, like goats. They bump the steel gate or use it to rub an itchy leg, nibble on the tarp and the teacher's tunic, lap water from a pail in the corner and calmly lick their backs. One goat nuzzles a woman's arm as she lies on her mat. For the most part, the animals appear to take the experience in stride. As for the people, they appear to be having a blast. Giggles erupt at every bleat and one yogini modifies her Chair pose to include some goat scratching. Handlers place the two baby animals (one contentedly chewing its cud) on people's backs as they go into Child's pose; one little goat is carefully balanced on a practitioner's upswept feet. Unlike most yoga classes, this one has onlookers, many using their phones to take pictures. "This is one of the funniest things I ever saw in my life," one of them remarks.
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Goat yoga has been a hit at Smithtown ever since the first session was held this past June. The historical society's executive director, Marianne Howard, explains the program's popularity this way: "I think it's a combination of people wanting to relax and be around the animals, getting to play with the animals in a safe and fun seeing." Instructor Lois Carboni agrees, saying, "Everybody's very happy. Their energy is focused on the goats. It's a fun experience." The whole thing was the idea of Karen Bayha, owner of Steppin' Out Ponies & Petting Zoo in Dix Hills and one of the evening's goat wranglers. She brought it up "just joking around" after seeing goat yoga on YouTube. Although the animals are fed before being brought to the barn, Bayha says they nibble because "they're like kids, they like to touch everything." Goat yoga began when a yoga teacher attending a 2016 party hosted by Albany, Oregon, farm owner Lainey Morse suggested setting up mats in Morse's goat-studded field. Pictures of the event went viral, and a new trend was born. According to her website, goatyoga.net, Morse has turned the concept into a full-time business, with a full schedule of classes and an online store ordering goat-themed yoga apparel, totes, and jewelry. Going to the Dogs (and Cats) Goats aren't the only animals scampering about during yoga classes: Dogs and cats are also making the yoga scene. Sometimes animal yoga classes are held to promote a good cause. That's the case at Good Mews Cat Shelter in the Atlanta metro area. Community outreach chair Lisa Bass, RYT, offers cat yoga classes, noting that "as soon as the mats go gown, there's a cat on every mat." Bass says the main reason for the classes is to show the cats some love. "There's a lot going on during the day," she explains. "Yoga takes it to the other end of the spectrum. It has this calm energy and I think the cats are attracted to that. We've had cats who would head bump every participant." The only rule: "If there's a cat on your mat, you have to work around that cat."
Jana Combs, 46, a homemaker from Sandy Springs, attends the Good Mews classes regularly. "The moment I heard about the idea of combining my love for yoga with my love for cats, I was in," she says. "The cats truly seem to like the interaction and the attendees really enjoy the relaxed, easygoing atmosphere." Unlike classes with goats and cats, Doga—created by Suzi Teitelman of Jacksonville Beach, Florida, where she teaches a class on the beach every month—involves dogs as active practice partners with their human caretakers. "You're hands-on with the dog," says Teitelman, who adds that she has taught Doga (dogadog.org) to other instructors. "The poses are created for both of you and you're both getting physical benefits from the yoga." Like other teachers of animal yoga classes, Teitelman has gotten a lot of positive feedback. She says, "When you're in a calm yoga state, the dog can see that." That easy feeling helps explain the attraction of yoga with animals in general. As Bass puts it, "It's unique; you get to bond with animals. It's so good for the soul."
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Leyla McCalla is an outstanding singer and multi-instrumentalist best known from her time with the Carolina Chocolate Drops, but now emerging as a superstar in her own right. The Chocolate Drops were definitely a folk band so you might ask what she's doing at a jazz festival. In fact of course the roots of American folk music and American jazz are inextricably intertwined through the African-American experience.
McCalla is a New York born Haitian-American who has recently been exploring her Haitian roots as well as the music of Louisiana where she now lives. Her music doesn't fit neatly into any genre, but the New Orleans sound comes through strongly in this performance. Best known for her trademark cello sound (not an instrument common in any of the genres) she also plays a mean banjo, which is apparently important in Haitian as well as African-American music. She also plays guitar on some of the more overtly R&B numbers.
Many of the songs, whether in English or Creole, deal with social injustice. These include settings of Langston Hughes' poems, and her own songs on both the personal and political including one on the ever topical plight of refugees trying to get to America.
Over the course of an hour the music ranged from the Latin sounding Haitian Twoubadou beats, to very New Orleans sounding blues, with echos of traditional jazz. Supported by a fine band of guitar, bass and drums, much of the music will be found on her forthcoming album, which will undoubtedly be snapped up when it's available.
The concert opened with Mélissa Laveaux, a Canadian singer-songwriter and guitarist also of Haitian descent who has recently been back to Haiti to explore her roots. With her own guitar, plus bass and drums, this was another set of songs mostly in Creole, again dealing a lot with social issues particularly those drawn from the little known early 20th century history of Haiti.
Musically this was a much simpler rock-based set dominated by the huge and expressive voice of Laveaux. Despite suffering from a cold she managed to go through a range of sweet sounds, yelps, shouts and laughter that brought the audience to its feet.
I doubt if anyone came to this concert expecting to hear jazz, and you can debate endlessly the merits of including this music at a jazz festival. In McCalla it gave us a chance to see a truly outstanding artist so it's hard to quibble. In fact I suspect that hardened jazz fans may well have enjoyed the show, and the folkies and world music fans might even have left thinking that McCalla's bluesy sound in particular might be worth exploring some more.


Get down to Farnborough this Thursday evening, and cheer on our Women as they take on Arsenal Ladies in the FA Womens Super League Continental Cup.
So far in Group One, the Royals have lost 2-1 to Chelsea but picked up a valuable point away at Millwall, a 1-1 draw.
A win would be of great importance to Jane Ludlow's side against an Arsenal team which one their first game of the tournament, 3-0 against Watford Ladies.
The Royals Fun Zone will be open from 5.30pm on the night, so there's plenty of fun for the youngsters to enjoy!
Tickets are priced at £4 for adults and £2 for concessions, and can be bought on the night or online at reading.fawsl.com.
Want to kit yourself out to back the Royals? Our Mobile Megastore will be based in the Farnborough Town FC shop where you will be able to buy replica kit from 17:00 till Kick off. There will be a voucher distributed as you enter the ground that will get you special Women's Summer league discounts on all 2013/14 kit. A selection of match day essentials will also be available – come and pay us a visit!
The address for the Rushmoor Community Stadium is Cherrywood Road, Farnborough, GU14 8UD.
Click here for more information on the competition, and watch above for highlights of our last game against Millwall.


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I have several people in my life who are on a weight loss smoothie/meal replacement kick. I think it's great for them. They have found something that works and it's helping them lose weight and gain confidence. So important in life.
Unfortunately, with weight loss supplements of any kind, and my body, I do not do well. Most of the time, I just get sick. Many weight loss supplements – of the powder form – is made with artificial sweetners and contain soy. This product that my family has started to use, does as well. And that's okay. Like I said before, I'm not knocking it at all. I want everyone to be successful. And healthy. And if this is a way to jumpstart that, then all be it – let's do it!
I, however, am trying to eat cleanly – and not put anything artificial in my body – it's not an easy task. And I've really slipped over the past 3 months, but I'm ready to commit now. Several friends of mine (whom I love so much) have said to me – "Rose, you can't take an all or nothing approach. Doing so is going to set you up to fail." I think I am finally hearing them.
Now, the shake/smoothie idea intrigues me so I have been googling "Paleo Protein Smoothies" and here is what I've found. I mean, if the whole "shake" idea works, why not do it in a way that puts 100% of goodness into my body?
3/4 cup of canned pumpkin. If you can though, use fresh pumpkin.
A handful of frozen strawberries. To be honest, you could probably use other berries too!
Coconut oil, make sure it's liquid and around 2 tablespoons.
To make sure the smoothie actually comes out right blend the the ingredients together without the coconut oil, then add it in afterwards and blend again. Enjoy!
Either add coconut, almond milk or water, it's your choice.


For some Florida orange growers, Hurricane Irma did more than destroy crops. It wiped out the best growing season in ten years.
This was supposed to be a comeback year for the citrus industry, which has suffered years of declining production.
Nearly all of the oranges grown in Florida are used to make orange juice.
"We were really excited about this upcoming crop," Ned Hancock, owner of Hancock Citrus in south-central Florida, told CNNMoney. "This was going to be the first improved crop that we've had in a decade, really."
Growers have been struggling since 2004, when four hurricanes ripped through Florida, washing away much of the year's harvest. Then the industry was hit by a crop-killing disease that spread like wildfire. Last week, Irma decimated broad swaths of crops across the state. The damage is still being surveyed, but experts say the impact will be severe.
Ned Hancock owns a citrus farm and serves as a commissioner for the Florida Department of Citrus.
Hancock comes from generations of citrus farmers, and he's been in the business about three decades.
He says Irma's destruction is the worst he's ever seen. It hit the entire state, he explained, unleashing fierce winds coast to coast that toppled trees and ripped unripe fruit off their limbs, leaving them worthless.
After an initial walk-through of his groves on Wednesday, Hancock estimated he'll only be able to harvest about 50% of his crop. And that's only if flooded areas drain before the water begins to rot tree roots.
What's particularly gut wrenching about all of it, Hancock said, is the idea that a storm could put some growers out of business.
"In most industries, there's no downsizing if you're doing things right," he said. "But in this case, it's just mother nature coming in, and it doesn't matter how good you are...It's been hard, it's been hard."
Florida growers are no stranger to hardship -- their annual orange production dropped from 242 million boxes a year to 150 million boxes after the 2004 storms, Shannon Shepp, head of the Florida Department of Citrus, told CNNMoney.
Then in 2005 the industry was hit by a disease called citrus greening that leaves fruit bitter and inedible. That's cut orange production by at least half over the past ten years. In 2016, only 69 million boxes were harvested.
But this year, things were looking up.
"We were seeing a stability level that we haven't seen in many years, thanks to some of the things we've been doing to mitigate against [citrus] greening," Shepp said. That's important, since Florida's citrus industry is worth about $8.6 billion and employs 45,000 people.
She said an early estimate for 2017 put the harvest season at 75 million boxes -- 6 million more than last year. It would be the first production increase since the 2007-2008 harvest season. One decade.
But then came Irma, and now, Shepp says that lucky farmers will likely get to harvest about a third of their crops.
"That's what's so disappointing about [the hurricane]. We've been fighting this greening for 10 years," Hancock, the farmer, said. "We feel like we've won a little victory, and it's just a deflating feeling to ride through these groves, where you can see you had a great crop of fruit, but it's all on the ground."
He said he doesn't expect to have another "normal" harvest until 2019 at the earliest, at which point farmers can try to recoup some of their losses. And it'll take four to five years before newly planted trees will bear fruit ready for harvest. For the time being, Hancock says he's focused on "figuring out a way to stay in business."
One lifeline he's hoping for: Money from the U.S. Department of Agriculture, which issues payouts to producers whose output is curtailed by a natural disaster.
Hancock says he got some disaster relief from the government after about half of his harvest was obliterated in 2004, after hurricanes Charley, Frances, Ivan and Jeanne struck Florida.
"It really proved to be extremely beneficial," he said.
The USDA says it's anxious to help. The agency said in a press release Wednesday that it's loosening some application rules for federal assistance to give farmers easier access to relief funds.
Whether it's enough to keep him in business isn't clear, but Hancock says he's cautiously optimistic.
"We're tough people. We'll find out some type of way to keep going," he said, pausing before adding, "I hope."


Joseph "Irvin" LeBoeuf, 84, a native and resident of Montegut, died at 7:45 a.m. Thursday, March 24, 2011.
Visitation will be from 9 a.m. to noon Tuesday at Samart Funeral Home of Houma. Mass will be held at noon at the funeral home with burial in Rogers Cemetery.
He is survived by his wife, Velma Theresa Dupre LeBoeuf; two sons, Ricky and Dane LeBoeuf; four daughters, Arrolene Gauthier and husband, Fred, Myra LeBoeuf and husband, Paul, Shirlene Ledet and husband, Billy and Patty Roddy and husband, Faron; one brother, Horace LeBoeuf; one sister, Sylvia L. Bertness; 20 grandchildren; 29 great-grandchildren and nine great-great-grandchildren.
He was preceded in death by his parents, Elie A. and Emma Marie Dupre LeBoeuf; two sons, Michael and Brian LeBoeuf; two daughters, Brenda L. Thibodeaux and Linda L. Hutchinson; five brothers, Lorice, Raymond, Leroy, Alvin and Alton LeBoeuf; five sisters, Cecile L. Naquin, Lucina L. Neal, Gertrude L. Dupre, Velma L. Molinere and Della L. Naquin; one grandchild and one great-grandchild.