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title: Observable.FirstOrDefault<TSource>(IObservable<TSource>, Func<TSource, Boolean>)
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# Observable.FirstOrDefault\<TSource\> Method (IObservable\<TSource\>, Func\<TSource, Boolean\>)

Returns the first element of an observable sequence that matches the predicate, or a default value if no value is found.

**Namespace:**  [System.Reactive.Linq](System.Reactive.Linq/System.Reactive.Linq)
**Assembly:**  System.Reactive (in System.Reactive.dll)

## Syntax

```vb
'Declaration
<ExtensionAttribute> _
Public Shared Function FirstOrDefault(Of TSource) ( _
    source As IObservable(Of TSource), _
    predicate As Func(Of TSource, Boolean) _
) As TSource
```

```vb
'Usage
Dim source As IObservable(Of TSource)
Dim predicate As Func(Of TSource, Boolean)
Dim returnValue As TSource

returnValue = source.FirstOrDefault(predicate)
```

```csharp
public static TSource FirstOrDefault<TSource>(
    this IObservable<TSource> source,
    Func<TSource, bool> predicate
)
```

```c++
[ExtensionAttribute]
public:
generic<typename TSource>
static TSource FirstOrDefault(
    IObservable<TSource>^ source,
    Func<TSource, bool>^ predicate
)
```

```fsharp
static member FirstOrDefault :
        source:IObservable<'TSource> *
        predicate:Func<'TSource, bool> -> 'TSource
```

```javascript
JScript does not support generic types and methods.
```

#### Type Parameters

- TSource
  The type of source.

#### Parameters

- source
  Type: [System.IObservable](https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/Dd990377)\<TSource\>
  The source observable sequence.

- predicate
  Type: [System.Func](https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/Bb549151)\<TSource, [Boolean](https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/a28wyd50)\>
  A predicate function to evaluate for elements in the sequence.

#### Return Value

Type: TSource
The first element in the observable sequence for which the predicate holds, or a default value if no value is found.

#### Usage Note

In Visual Basic and C\#, you can call this method as an instance method on any object of type [IObservable](https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/Dd990377)\<TSource\>. When you use instance method syntax to call this method, omit the first parameter. For more information, see [](https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/Bb384936) or [](https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/Bb383977).

## See Also

#### Reference

[Observable Class](Observable/Observable)

[FirstOrDefault Overload](FirstOrDefault/Observable.FirstOrDefault)

[System.Reactive.Linq Namespace](System.Reactive.Linq/System.Reactive.Linq)

# Observable.FirstOrDefault\<TSource\> Method (IObservable\<TSource\>)

Returns the first element of an observable sequence, or a default value if no value is found.

**Namespace:**  [System.Reactive.Linq](System.Reactive.Linq/System.Reactive.Linq)
**Assembly:**  System.Reactive (in System.Reactive.dll)

## Syntax

```vb
'Declaration
<ExtensionAttribute> _
Public Shared Function FirstOrDefault(Of TSource) ( _
    source As IObservable(Of TSource) _
) As TSource
```

```vb
'Usage
Dim source As IObservable(Of TSource)
Dim returnValue As TSource

returnValue = source.FirstOrDefault()
```

```csharp
public static TSource FirstOrDefault<TSource>(
    this IObservable<TSource> source
)
```

```c++
[ExtensionAttribute]
public:
generic<typename TSource>
static TSource FirstOrDefault(
    IObservable<TSource>^ source
)
```

```fsharp
static member FirstOrDefault :
        source:IObservable<'TSource> -> 'TSource
```

```javascript
JScript does not support generic types and methods.
```

#### Type Parameters

- TSource
  The type of source.

#### Parameters

- source
  Type: [System.IObservable](https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/Dd990377)\<TSource\>
  The source observable sequence.

#### Return Value

Type: TSource
The first element in the observable sequence, or a default value if no value is found.

#### Usage Note

In Visual Basic and C\#, you can call this method as an instance method on any object of type [IObservable](https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/Dd990377)\<TSource\>. When you use instance method syntax to call this method, omit the first parameter. For more information, see [](https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/Bb384936) or [](https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/Bb383977).

## See Also

#### Reference

[Observable Class](Observable/Observable)

[FirstOrDefault Overload](FirstOrDefault/Observable.FirstOrDefault)

[System.Reactive.Linq Namespace](System.Reactive.Linq/System.Reactive.Linq)


Robin Swift treats Loverboy, center, and Blackie with cheese crackers during the two's nightly visit to the Swift's home in Tonica, Ill. Swift raised the two raccoons from infancy after they were abandoned by their mother. Despite living on their own in the wild, the two come back nightly to visit with the Swifts.


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Turns out Melatonin and Vitamin D may be useful in preventing recurrent melanoma formation, and may even have a preventative effect.
This might be most helpful in patients with Parkinson's disease, who have an increased risk of melanoma, and also in those with a history of excessive sun exposure, other skin cancers, a family history of melanoma, or use of Viagra, which now is suspicious for increasing the incidence of melanoma.
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India First Woman Lawyer – Friends, in today's article we will talk about Cornelia Sorabji, India first woman lawyer. Cornelia Sorabji was the woman who raised her voice loudly for the rights of women. If today women are boldly moving ahead in their field, then the credit goes to women like Cornelia Sorabji. Cornelia Sorabji faced discrimination many times due to being a woman in her life, but she never lost courage and not only fulfilled her dream but also opened the avenues of progress for other women.
Friends, through this article, we will know who was Cornelia Sorabji. What was the name of Cornelia's father? Along with this, we will also learn about the struggles of Cornelia Sorabji and the work done for the rights of women. So let's start the biography of Cornelia Sorabji, India's first woman lawyer.
Cornelia Sorabji Biography
Friends Cornelia Sorabji was born on 15 November 1866 in Nashik, Maharashtra. Cornelia Sorabji's father's name was Reverend Sorabji Karsedji while Cornelia Sorabji's mother's name was Francina Ford. Cornelia Sorabji's parents were Parsis but later converted to Christianity. Cornelia Sorabji also had a sister.
Cornelia Sorabji's mother had opened a school for girls in Pune. This was a time when people were not serious about women's education. People did not send their daughters to study. At that time women were not aware of their rights. In such times, Cornelia Sorabji has seen her mother fighting for women's education and rights. Local women often came to Cornelia Sorabji's mother to get her opinion on matters related to her property. In such a situation, all these things had a great impact on the life of Cornelia Sorabji.
Cornelia Sorabji's father wanted to give good education to his daughters. He taught his daughters in his mission schools. After this, he tried to get his daughters enrolled in Bombay University for further studies. But the Bombay University officials refused admission saying that to date no woman has been admitted to Bombay University. However, later Bombay University had to change its decision and Cornelia Sorabji was admitted to Bombay University. In this way, Cornelia Sorabji became a woman studying at Bombay University.
Even while studying at Bombay University, Cornelia Sorabji had to face many difficulties due to being a woman. But he faced all the difficulties and focused his full attention on his studies. Eventually, Cornelia Sorabji's hard work paid off and she topped in English literature in her college. After this Cornelia Sorabji wanted to go to England for further studies. He hoped that due to topping, he would get a scholarship to study in England.
Cornelia Sorabji did not get the scholarship despite topping the exam because she was a woman. This matter was also raised in the House of Commons but Cornelia Sorabji did not get any help. In such a situation, some powerful and famous women of the world came forward to help Cornelia Sorabji and they collected money and gave it to Cornelia Sorabji so that she could go to England for further studies.
As we told you that Cornelia Sorabji had to face discrimination many times due to being a woman. If she had dealt with one difficulty, then another difficulty would have stood in front of her. When Cornelia Sorabji reached Oxford University to study law, the university told her that she could only study English literature. In such a situation, Benjamin Jovet helped him and got a special law course made for him. In this way, Cornelia Sorabji became the first woman to study law at Oxford University.
After studying, now it was the turn to take the examination, but even here the university discriminating against them did not allow them to sit with the men and take the examination. In such a situation, Cornelia Sorabji appealed against it. Eventually, his appeal had an effect and he was allowed to take the exam a few hours before the commencement exam. Cornelia Sorabji was the first woman in Britain to be allowed to appear in the Bachelor of Civil Law examination. However, after passing the examination, the university blocked her path by saying that no woman could take her degree till 30 years after passing the examination.
Cornelia Sorabji had to face troubles not only in England but also in India she had faced discrimination. Apart from the British officials, Indian kings also left no stone unturned to discriminate against Cornelia Sorabji. In the year 1894, Cornelia Sorabji came back to India after finishing her studies. At that time there was an order of the Chief Justice of Bombay that no woman should be given a job. In this way, Cornelia Sorabji's dream of working as a solicitor was shattered.
Let us tell you that in those days there was a curtain system in India. Women were not even allowed to talk to men outside the family, let alone see them. Cornelia Sorabji closely observed the atrocities on women in India. He saw that women do not even have the freedom to step out of their homes. In such a situation, the woman could not even tell the police about the atrocities happening to her. Cornelia Sorabji demanded to make her a legal advisor to the government to stop the atrocities on Hindu and Muslim women, but the government refused, citing the rules.
Despite this, Cornelia Sorabji did not give up and decided to work alone. Cornelia Sorabji fought for 20 years as a lawyer and social activist for women to get their due. Many times she also became a detective to help women. During this, he gave more than 600 women their rights and liberated them from the atrocities of men.
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The Mediterranean luxury of Gandiablasco
DESIGNGANDIABLASCO
Gandiablasco, outdoor furniture symbol of Mediterranean luxury
Passion for the outdoors, a dream that comes true on the edge of a cliff in the north of the Balearic Islands and which takes inspiration from the Mediterranean, the colors and the generous nature. This is the story of Gandiablasco, a family business founded in 1941 in Valencia, Spain, by José Gandía Blasco and reinvented by his son José A. Gandía-Blasco Canales. A long journey that started from the Valencian textile industry passing through the design of furniture and outdoor spaces in the mid-90s, and which currently has distribution in more than 90 countries on 5 continents, as well as various showrooms.
The collections, still produced at the Valencian factory, include modern furniture for outdoor environments, all linked to a Mediterranean lifestyle born over 20 years ago, inspired by the indigenous architecture of Ibiza and the passion for the outdoors of the founder of Gandiablasco. The elemental geometry applied to the furniture for swimming pools, gardens, terraces and courtyards gives a strong character to the brand that responds to timeless and universal aesthetic canons, to the point that clean shapes and sober colors have become a trademark. The luxury of simplicity that favors the cleanliness of shapes, together with linearity, completes the external environment they furnish, the landscape, without overdoing it. The clean design, elaborated with aluminum frames combined with polyethylene, opened up market niches that had never been there until then, confirming the expansion of the company all over the world.
The beauty and timeless functionality that characterize the furnishings designed by Gandiablasco, in the latest collection are reinterpreted with the creative features of Luca Nichetto, Søren Rose, Mayice Studio and Made Studio, some of the most famous icons of the Spanish brand.
Gandiablasco always seeks essentiality and timelessness in its creations, the source of natural inspiration has always been the Mediterranean where, for several millennia, the cultures that have inhabited the territory have created different forms of expression in any discipline.
Onde by Luca Nichetto, a perfect mix of Italian and Scandinavian aesthetics
"The idea was to create a modular sofa and allow it to develop in a flexible, versatile form. An inspiration that comes from observing changes in the market and the need to create furniture for the outdoors that can also be used for interiors ".
This was created by the Venetian architect Luca Nichetto with the Onde outdoor collection designed for Gandiablasco, in which Scandinavian aesthetics blends with Italian design. It is in fact a modular line - made up of armchairs, sofas and tables with simple and minimalist lines - designed for the outdoors but equally captivating in an indoor space.
Capa, Nordic style for an intimate and welcoming experience
"As a designer I have always worked to invent something that does not exist: it is like a constant struggle to bring together a purpose with a need, a union capable of being the solution to a problem".
Word of the Danish designer Søren Rose, who in the Gandiablasco collection Capaper evokes the Danish concept of "hygge" and aims to transform any type of outdoor environment into an intimate and welcoming experience. Between Copenhagen and New York, the designer skillfully combines opposites to give results that are as simple and serene as they are refined and elegant.
The soft light of the Nordic style is perceived in each of the elements of this compact and singular series: the armchair, the two-seater sofa and the coffee table of the collection combine thermo-lacquered aluminum welded into structures with soft lines, the Iroko wood of the armrests, generous and warm textile touches and innovative surfaces thanks to a new material, Dekton® by Cosentino. It is a timeless and sustainable proposal, which is placed outdoors in the passing fashions, reflecting the soft light of the Nordic style.
Buit, an ergonomic aluminum mesh that looks like a sculpture
Sculptural, metallic, ultralight, Buit is the collection of outdoor furniture designed by Mayice, the studio founded by architects Marta Alonso Yebra and Imanol Calderón Elósegui for Gandiablasco. The central element of the collection, awarded with Archiproducts 2019 and the NYCxDESIGN 2019 Awards, is aluminum, a fetish material of the Spanish company, and the various modular furnishings are born from a study of resistance and ergonomics, and consist of a simple armchair and a pouf in aluminum mesh woven with a special quilted fabric for exterior reminiscent of wool, developed in collaboration with Kvadrat - Febrik, with great resistance.
The starting idea of the collection was to create a sort of ultra-light aluminum mesh and fabric rug that could deform according to the way you sit on it. From an aesthetic point of view, Buit brings visual lightness. Being a folding sheet, the visual impact on the space is less than that of other volumetric furniture. On a material and functional level, its lightness allows the water to disappear quickly and not to allow dust to settle.
Bosc, comfort and aesthetics between tradition and modernity
Bosc is an elegant collection of outdoor furniture designed by Made Studio for GlandiaBlasco. The series consists of a lounge armchair, a 2 and 3 seater sofa, and modular compositions. The freshness of the Bosc collection recalls the suggestive atmosphere of the Mediterranean, the long coasts soaked by the sea, places where you can get lost and find yourself. The comfort and adaptability of the armchair and sofas recreates the same feeling of relaxation and welcome, enhanced by the textile component that makes the products comfortable even before sitting down. Armchairs and sofas have a welded aluminum structure and micro-perforated sheet metal that reproduces the traditional natural wicker pattern.
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Inspired and titled for the beautiful melody, "Colors of the Wind" as sung by Vanessa Williams. It was released in 1995 and won the Academy Award for Best Original Song and also won the Grammy for Best Song Written for a Movie (Pocahontas). It tells a beautiful and moving story of how we are connected with each other and with all of nature.
Something I wish we would not forget so easily and so often.


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Agriculture and Food Systems - Theses
Regional growth and convergence in Victoria
Regional growth and convergence in Victoria (893.1Kb)
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O'Hagan, R. J. (2001). Regional growth and convergence in Victoria. PhD thesis, Institute of Land and Food Resources, The University of Melbourne.
© 2001 Dr. Rowan Jane O'Hagan
Widespread variation in per capita income levels and the persistence of long standing income disparities are evident across Victoria. Persistent regional disparities are economically inefficient and socially inequitable. Economic change in Victoria between 1980 and 1998 is analysed to ascertain whether it has led to increased regional inequality. The regions are defined as the Australian Bureau of Statistics Statistical Divisions. Regional inequalities in income and employment are examined as important indicators of economic welfare. The factors influencing aggregate growth in the Victorian economy are identified, and incorporated into a model of regional income growth. Standard statistical measures of dispersion show that taxable per capita income in the non-metropolitan regions is diverging from the Victorian state mean, whilst the per capita taxable income of Melbourne is increasing. The distribution of income within regions, as measured by the Gini coefficient, is becoming more equal. Vector autoregression modelling of the aggregate Victorian economy indicates that the terms of trade and supply are the major sources of shocks to the economy. These variables are incorporated into a model of regional income growth, based on neoclassical growth theory. The average speed of convergence of the regions to their individual steady state was rapid at 22 per cent. The terms of trade, the unemployment rate, the gross value of agriculture per capita and average rainfall were found to be significant in the model. Within the neoclassical framework of regional economic growth, persistent regional disparities can be attributed to barriers to factor mobility and/or economic shocks. The above findings are interpreted within this framework, in relation to the process of regional adjustment, population change, regional labour markets and the possible impediments to economic growth.
neoclassical convergence theory; regional growth; Victoria; regional population
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Essencia is an independent collective of artists from different backgrounds. Their aim is to Essencia uses art as a means of communication and education, exploring diverse issues and themes that impact our daily lives. Their collective energy unite artists from around the world using art in their own communities, with the aim of learning and teaching through the exchange of colours, music, dance, photography, performance and the infinite possibilities of creative expression.
ffect our daily lives and global community.
Each year the Festival unites artists from across the world in an annual nomadic meeting. So far artists from Canada, Brazil, Chile, Senegal, France, the USA, Australia, Peru, Philippines and Tunisia participated in its workshops, exhibitions and public events.
The first Essencia Festival was launched in Montréal and Toronto (Canada) in September 2010, celebrating the four elements of the Earth, the four Cardinal directions, and the four elements of Hip Hop culture Their objectives were to gather various artists from around the world and bring a different vision to their own communities of how graffiti and hip-hop was being used in other parts of the world, as a tool for social empowerment.
festival, which also uses art as a tool of education. This delegation included three street artists, Shalak, Fiya, Aishaa, MC Meryem Saci, and photographer Mariel Rosenbluth. They painted various artistic and community murals and, through workshops, 40 children and youths of the community actively participated in discussions exploring ways to resolve child poverty.
different neighborhoods of Sao Paulo, the main team: Mother Earth. Over 400 youth and children from the "periferias" (underprivileged communities) participated in educational art workshops. Artists from Australia, Brazil, Canada, Chile, France, Senegal, and the USA, participated in the final Essencia Art Exhibition at one of Sao Paulo's most popular artistic spots, the Matilha Cultural Gallery.
The success of this year's festival was enormous and Essencia is now embedded into the hearts of its many participants, artists, and collaborating organizations. Essencia Collective keeps on growing and it is proof that art and culture can make a positive difference and impact on our daily lives and global community. Next year's festival will be returning to Canada with positive and booming energy from around the world!.


Size: Maximum size is 70 cm, though most specimens are very much smaller.
Description: Stocky, carp-like shape and olive-green skin, darker above and almost golden below. Rounded fins and slightly forked tail. Single pair of barbless in the corner of the mouth.
Location: This is not likely found in the CMN area but may have been recorded in the upper Murray.


The USDA National Organic Program, through its certifying agents, certifies that farmers, ranchers, and food processors are "organic" and thus authorized to use the "organic" label and seal on their products. The USDA maintains a National List of Allowed and Prohibited Substances. This list tells certified "organic" businesses which non-organic ingredients they may use under their organic label.
The Organic Foods Production Act does not permit consumers to sue the USDA directly for violations of the program, so a group of consumers sued Abbott Laboratories. Abbott is certified "organic" by the USDA to make an organic version of its popular Similac infant formula. The consumers claimed that under New York and California labeling laws, Abbott's Similac Advance Organic Infant Formula was mislabeled as "organic" because it contained several non-organic minor ingredients that were declared on the label but not expressly listed on the USDA National List as allowed in "organic" food.
This situation has arisen because until 2010 the USDA said all these non-organic ingredients could be used in organic infant formula because they were "nutrient vitamins and minerals," and did not need to be listed individually. In 2010 the USDA changed its policy and started rulemaking to take these non-organic ingredients out of the blanket category of "nutrient vitamins and minerals." This would require them to seek approval one-by-one to get on the National List. Until this rulemaking is completed, these ingredients remain in organic infant formula, permitted under the old "nutrient vitamins and minerals" rubric. This rulemaking has stalled, and this is why those ingredients may still be used in organic infant formula.
The issue in the consumers' lawsuit was whether plaintiffs under state law could challenge the "organic" labeling of a product manufactured under a valid USDA organic certificate. The U.S. District Court in Brooklyn, NY, agreed with Abbott that Abbott had the right to make the "organic" claim. The court found that in the Organic Foods Production Act, Congress directed the USDA to administer a uniform national standard for "organic" labels, and if state law in any of the 50 states could decide a product was not "organic," this would destroy the uniformity Congress intended.
On March 23 the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, in New York City, affirmed the lower court decision. It ruled that the consumers' claim, i.e. that under state law the Similac "organic" label was false, conflicted with the USDA organic certification scheme. This meant that the Federal organic program "preempted" state law. This ruling echoed an earlier decision by the Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit, in St. Louis, in 2010. In that case, consumer plaintiffs were unsuccessful in challenging the "organic" label for milk from Aurora Organic Dairy.


This past weekend, I had the pleasure and honor of speaking at Kent State University for the Arab Student Association's Women's History Month event: Modest Me. I haven't done much public speaking in regards to Muslim women in a very long time, but I've never been shy about speaking in front of large groups. I was on a panel with two other influential women, Winnie Detwa (a fashion/lifestyle blogger) and Fatina Abdrabboh, (the director for the Michigan Arab American Anti-Discrimination Committee (ADC)).
We were given questions ahead of time to prepare, but the answers I gave were a lot of the same ideas that I present in my blog, so I didn't have to write anything down. One thing really stood out to me throughout the event, and it was that the questions asked by the audience members came from an uneducated space. Which is completely acceptable; I am in no way saying this is a bad thing. Quite the opposite; these events are created for this exact reason. But this just reaffirmed a view I've always had about non-Muslims' perception of us: they are simply uneducated.
I included in my introduction the clause that I welcomed any question, no matter how offensive it may seem. I wanted people to feel comfortable asking anything, because I feel that is the only way to truly seem approachable. I made sure to notice people's reactions as the panelists spoke, and I saw a lot of nodding heads and smiles. It was important to also add in humor, which I wanted to do in order to make the subject a little less serious.
The best part of the night came at the end, after the event was over. I had students come up to me, thanking me for speaking on such an important topic. They told me they had learned so much from our talk, and many exchanged information with me so we could plan more events in the future. It really warmed my heart to know that in that span of two hours, I was able to reach over 200 students and give them a different view of Muslim women than what they see in the media.
This reaffirmed my belief that so many people have the wrong idea about Muslims, simply because they are uneducated. The proof of this lies in my daily interactions with people. I am always asked about my hijab at the gym, as many people don't know that Muslim women- can in fact- work out! I am asked about it at the mall as I shop for clothes at Express, or as I buy $5 scarves at Charlotte Russe. It amazes me that as many Muslims as there are in my city, many have never spoken to one. And a lot of it has to do with the fact that we are unapproachable.
I cannot stress it enough; we NEED to be more approachable. That is the only way to show who Muslims truly are in this country. We can post articles on social media until our fingers are tired, but the only way to prove ourselves is by living our life and being the embodiment of a good Muslim in our society.
Another way to help educate is by pointing out the wrongs in people's thought process when we hear them. We cannot allow false assumptions to be made and let go. I read a post today on an Instagram site I follow, and the girl was talking about how she was in an elevator at a hospital where she works. She overhead a woman saying all these awful (and incorrect) things about Muslims. Yet because she was at work, she couldn't say anything to this woman. While I can understand that, I would have politely tried to approach the woman and ask her to check out some sites or visit a local mosque to learn more about Islam. Letting it go only adds to the fuel that woman has, and as she was talking to someone else, that is one more person who will have the wrong impression of Muslims.
However, I think that while there are many injustices happening to Muslims nowadays (as Fatina pointed out in our panel, anti-arab/Muslim hate is at an all-time high, even more so than 9-11), we cannot dwell on those. Because for every negative incident, there are so many positive ones. And to use those negative experiences as an excuse to turn the hate around on another group, is not only cowardly, but it contradicts the defense we use when a Muslim commits a crime and we disassociate ourselves from them. The hate/acceptance goes both ways.
Maybe I am a rare exception, but I rarely have negative experiences with non-Muslims. And I am giddy at the thought of being asked questions about my faith and culture. I NEVER get offended. And I've had some crazy questions haha.
So the next time you are given the opportunity to speak to someone about Islam or Arabs, take it. You never know who that person may be in contact with; you may end up passing knowledge that will travel across many groups. And if you encounter those very few who are so deep in their ignorance that no amount of education will dissipate, take a deep breath, smile, and move on. For people like that are not worthy of your time. Focus on what you CAN change, and eventually, we'll get there.


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Highland Heights, Kentucky, is a home-rule-class city located in Campbell County. According to the 2010 U.S. Census, 6,923 people lived in Highland Heights. Highland Heights is home to Northern Kentucky University and General Cable. These are Fortune 500 companies whose current headquarters were built in 1992. It is located in Cincinnati.
Highland Heights, located 7 miles (11km) southeast of Cincinnati via I-471, is accessible via I-471. Highland Heights is found in northern Campbell County, at 39°2'24''N 84°27'21''W (39.040035; -84.455851). It is bordered by Fort Thomas to the north, Wilder to the west, and Cold Spring to the south. Interstate 275, the beltway around Cincinnati, runs along Highland Heights' northern and western edges. It is located at Highland Heights' north border.
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Northern Kentucky State College was previously located in Park Hills. It was moved to a more extensive campus in the city in 1971. It is now called Northern Kentucky University (NKU), with subsidiary businesses and other developments growing in the city.
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On this week's episode of the B&H Photography Podcast, we welcome Malike Sidibe to the show. With just 23 years under his belt, Sidibe has accomplished a great deal in his relatively short time on planet Earth, and not just photographically. But 2020 has been quite a busy year, even for him. His photography has generally been in the realm of editorial, fashion, and personal projects, and he has a lengthy list of clients that include Time, The Atlantic, Nikon, Nike, and The New Yorker, but this year he created a bold body of work covering the Black Lives Matter marches in New York and made a name for himself with editors shooting portraits via Zoom and FaceTime. We talk with Sidibe about how he has been able to move back and forth between these various genres of photography, concentrating the first part of the show on his experiences covering protests in Brooklyn and how his emotions brought him to the street, but his photographer's spirit and eye enabled him to capture some of the most arresting images of the summer. We discuss shooting style, the Nikon Z 7 and lens choices, keeping gear secure, and staying safe in the midst of chaos. In addition, we talk about his process in portrait shoots through FaceTime, the iPad he used, and the tools he sent to his models and subjects for these unique collaborations. We also discuss Sidibe's personal story of immigrating to the United States at age 13, his early struggles in school, and how NYC SALT, a high school photography program, helped him on his journey. It's easy to recognize the talent, time, and work that Sidibe is dedicating to "making the future me happy," but his good humor and creative love for photography are evident in this informative and lively conversation. Join us. Guest: Malike Sidibe Photograph © Malike Sidibe From "Black Lives Matter" series © Malike Sidibe From "Black Lives Matter" series © Malike Sidibe From "Black Lives Matter" series © Malike Sidibe From "Mami Wata" series © Malike Sidibe From "Mami Wata" series © Malike Sidibe From "Mami Wata" series © Malike Sidibe From "Mami Wata" series © Malike Sidibe From "facetime" series © Malike Sidibe From "facetime" series © Malike Sidibe Previous Pause Next Host: Allan Weitz Senior Creative Producer: John Harris Senior Producer: Jason Tables Executive Producer: Lawrence Neves
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Over the past few years, electronics have evolved way past the silicon wafer. Researchers have developed functional circuits that can meld with human tissue and dissolve when sprayed with water, and stretchable batteries that could soon power wearable gadgets.
Now, a group of Swiss scientists has revealed the latest in innovative electronics: a flexible, transparent circuit that is tiny and thin enough to fit on the surface of a contact lens.
The researchers put their new device on a contact lens as a proof-of-concept in a paper published today in Nature Communications—an electronically-enabled lens, they suggest, could be useful in monitoring the intraocular pressure of people with glaucoma, for instance—but they envision the circuitry someday being implanted in all sorts of biological contexts.
"I believe this technology can have important impacts in medicine and health monitoring," says lead author Giovanni Salvatore, a researcher at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology. "It could be used for very wearable and minimally invasive devices, for ultralight solar cells, and most importantly, for very conformable and implantable devices which can serve to monitor biometric parameters in the human body."
Creating the circuits—which are printed on a one-micrometer thick layer of a substance called parylene—is a multi-step process. To begin, the scientists deposit the parylene on vinyl polymer that provides support, then print the circuitry on top of the parylene. Afterward, the entire chip is placed in water, which dissolves the underlying polymer, leaving the ultra thin circuitry intact. The result is something that's about one-sixtieth as thick as a human hair.
This process, they say, confers a number of unique advantages. The circuit is extremely flexible, bending and crinkling to fit around, for instance, a hair, plant leaf or finger while still functioning properly. Because it's extremely lightweight, it could be feasibly used in a range of long-term medical applications.
After heart surgery, for instance, your doctor could someday prescribe you an implanted device similar to this one that monitors your the blood pressure in your aorta. Nearly-invisible environmental sensors could be deployed in an ecosystem to track levels of soil nutrients and pollutants, sending the data wirelessly to scientists' computers.
All the same, it'll still be a few years before you see this sort of circuit popping up in commercial medical or environmental devices, as there are a number of hurdles before they can be practically implemented. Salvatore notes that his team isn't as far along in creating equally durable, flexible and lightweight versions of the other components crucial for a biomedical device (sensors and long-lasting batteries, to start).
Other research teams, however—most notably John Rogers' lab at the University of Illinois—are at work developing ultra thin LEDs, wireless antennas and solar cells that can be put to use. After that, they say, the next step is creating a system that transforms the varied individual devices into a cohesive network, transmitting data wirelessly and working in concert.


Like to be greeted with a bottle of bubbly when you arrive at a hotel? Or maybe a few chocolates? Not Kylie. Apparently she has requested that all chocolate, crisps and booze be removed from her £450-a-night Moulin Rouge suite at the Malmaison in Manchester. She's also said to have booked the rooms either side of the suite so that they remain empty.


Ukraine's president, Petro Poroshenko, has said he expects Ukraine to join the European Union eventually, and said Europe would be safer, richer and younger with his war-torn country as a member.
Speaking at a summit in Kiev attended by senior EU leaders, Poroshenko said it would be "impolite" for Brussels to refuse Ukraine what he called a "membership perspective".
"A friend in need is a friend indeed," he said. He thanked EU states for imposing the latest round of sanctions against Russia, which were published on Friday, despite a tentative ceasefire in the east of Ukraine agreed last week.
The new sanctions impose tough financial penalties on Russia's biggest oil company, Rosneft, and on its banks and arms companies. The EU has made it harder for the firms to raise money from capital markets. It has also banned 24 Russian officials and frozen their assets. They include separatist leaders in Ukraine, four deputy parliamentary speakers, and Sergei Chemezov, an ex-KGB spy who served with Vladimir Putin in east Germany. The EU says he is one of Putin's close associates.
The moves are in response to what the EU claims is a campaign by Russia to destabilise Ukraine. Speaking on Friday, Poroshenko said that Ukraine was "one of the biggest parts" of Europe because of its size and people. "My personal idea is Europe simply can't be the European Union without Ukraine," he suggested.
He said bringing Ukraine inside the EU would make the bloc more stable and "culturally diversified". It would also "collapse" the idea that Ukraine had to be part of Russia's zone of influence.
There is little immediate prospect of Ukraine joining the EU. But the issue of European integration has been at the centre of the turmoil that has gripped the country since late last year, when Ukraine's then president, Viktor Yanukovych, tore up an association agreement with the EU and accepted a bailout from Russia.
Yanukovych's move triggered months of streets protests in the capital, Kiev, and led to him fleeing the country in February. Ukraine's new pro-western government then endorsed the agreement, signed by Poroshenko days after he became president in June. The EU and Ukrainian parliaments will simultaneously ratify the agreement next week.
Poroshenko said he had received unprecedented levels of support from EU leaders and the US, most recently at last week's Nato summit in Wales, in the wake of Russia's annexation of Crimea and its covert invasion of parts of eastern Ukraine.
"I feel a full member of the European family," he said. The president declined to criticise Putin directly. Instead he said "ambition and emotion" had driven the Kremlin's support for pro-Russia rebels.
He said the ceasefire agreed in Minsk last Friday was fragile but working. Poroshenko sketched out his plan to bring peace to the rebel-held Donestk and Luhansk regions. It involved devolving power to local municipalities without compromising his country's territorial integrity, he said.
The latest EU sanctions do not target Russia's gas industry – unsurprising, given Europe's reliance on Siberian gas. But they do deal a major blow to its oil businesses. EU companies are forbidden from signing new contracts involving drilling in Russia's Arctic, as well as deep sea and shale projects. BP holds a 19.75% stake in Rosneft, and said on Friday that it was still assessing the implications of the sanctions.
"We will have to look at the sanctions very carefully and will comply with them," said a BP spokesman in London.
In May, BP signed a separate shale gas cooperation agreement with Rosneft although drilling has not yet started. BP-branded petrol stations can still be seen around Moscow although they are now formally owned by Rosneft.
The sanctions also affect the Russian pipeline operator Transneft, a subsidiary of Russia's energy company Gazprom.
The US also unveiled further sanctions on Friday. It named a string of major Russian companies including Gazprom, the oil companies Lukoil and Rosneft, and Sberbank, Russia's largest bank.
Poroshenko made his remarks at the Yalta European strategy meeting, an annual summit held for the past decade in Crimea at the palace where Churchill, Roosevelt and Stalin agreed Europe's postwar settlement. This year it is being held in Kiev for the first time, with Tony Blair and Sir Richard Branson among the speakers.
Opening the event, Poroshenko said he expected Crimea to return to Ukraine, though he ruled out using military means to get it back.
Estonia's president, Toomas Hendrik Ilves, a well-known critic of Kremlin power, described 2014 as an annus horribilis for Europe and said Russia's cynical "dismemberment" and "invasion" of Ukraine had plunged the continent into its gravest crisis since the second world war.
"We have seen the fundamental tenets of security in Europe thrown out of the window," Ilves said. He compared Moscow's opportunistic land-grab in Crimea – justified by the need to "protect" ethnic Russians – to Hitler's annexation of Sudetenland.
Ilves also referred to Leviathan, Thomas Hobbes's 17th-century work of political philosophy. "What Russia has done is bring us back to 1648 and Hobbes's war of all against all," he said.
Martin Schulz, the European parliament president, said Ukraine's problems were Europe's problems. He said the EU was embroiled in an ideological battle between two worlds – one based on democracy, human rights and the rule of law, and the other on "fear, intimidation and oppression".
"Many of us are at a loss to understand the strategy of Russia and its motivation," he said. On sanctions, he added: "They are a clear signal. We Europeans are united on this. We're serious about this. We are so serious we are willing to accept the negative consequences of sanctions for our own economies."


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The 1973 Endangered Species Act has been a costly failure that hasn't protected species or helped them to recover. It has, however, resulted in government stealing people's property and blocked economic progress.
Since 1973, more than 2,470 species of plants and animals have been listed as endangered or threatened under the Endangered Species Act (ESA). Billions of dollars have been spent by federal, state, local governments, and private individuals to help those species recover. People have been forbidden to build homes or businesses on their own land, told they must stop farming or logging, and road and hospital construction has been halted or delayed. Yet for all this effort, just 78 species have been removed from the Endangered Species List — just 3.1 percent of all species ever listed.
Further, a majority of the species removed from the list were taken off because they had been initially improperly placed on it due to data errors (18 species); were foreign species given no protection by the ESA (22); were recovered due to other laws or regulations, such as the banning of DDT (13); or, worst of all, delisted because they became extinct while on the list or were already extinct at the time they were listed (10 species). In more than 44 years of existence, at best, ESA is responsible for helping 13 species to recover — though it's questionable whether the recovery of those 13 species, mostly plants, is actually due to the ESA, since they existed almost entirely on federal land and were thus already protected.
In addition to failing to accomplish its primary goal, ESA has caused innumerable horror stories for property owners, plants, and animals. For instance, in 2012, construction on a $15.1 million underpass in Texas was brought to a screeching halt when workers came across a single "bracken bat cave mesh weaver," a blind, translucent spider that was thought to be extinct. There was just one big problem: The spider was so similar to another blind spider in the region that in order to confirm its identity, researchers killed it. In doing so, they may have killed the last remaining bracken bat cave mesh weaver in existence. Since that time, no other member of the species has been identified, and construction on the project was delayed for three years.
In multiple southeastern states, many landowners began clear cutting their long-leaf pine trees, critical habitat for the Red-cockaded woodpecker, once it was listed as endangered, because they feared losing their property rights after watching their neighbors, in whose trees woodpeckers had established homes, lose their right to manage their property. Property values declined wherever woodpeckers appeared, and logging was undertaken at a feverish pace to avoid the woodpecker taking up residence on people's land.
Since 2014, landowners in Thurston County, Washington, have had their ability to develop their property severely restricted due to the discovery of three subspecies of the Mazama pocket gopher, which has been twice listed as threatened under ESA. To avoid being sued by the federal government, Thurston County now requires landowners who want to build on their property to determine whether their soils are suitable gopher habitat.
In one case, because inspectors discovered a single mound of dirt indicating the possible presence of gophers on an eight-acre parcel of land during a site review, Steve and Deborah McLain have been unable to get a permit to build a home on their property, despite offering to cede the acre surrounding the mound as protected gopher habitat. In another instance, a home developer had to fence off 64 percent of a one-acre lot to get a permit required to build a home.
The true cost of the ESA should be measured in houses, homeless shelters, and hospitals not built or significantly delayed; medical and technological discoveries not advanced; funds not available for education, crime control, health, or environmental matters; and in "protected" species lost or still on the list and declining.
ESA fails to protect species because it creates perverse incentives to destroy species and their habitat. More than 75 percent of the listed species depend on private land for all or part of their habitat. Yet if people provide suitable habitat for an endangered species, their land becomes subject to severe regulation and possible confiscation.
Property owners are faced with three undesirable options: kill an endangered species member — "shoot, shovel, and shut up" — destroy habitat before a species moves in, or lose the use and value of their land. Clinging to this approach condemns the very species ESA was passed to protect.
For 44 years the ESA has made property owners adversaries of endangered species. At a minimum, we must make property owners allies in species conservation by compensating them for losses incurred when protecting endangered or threatened animals and plants.
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Kempton, IL has a population of 150 and is the 25,664th largest city in the United States. The population density is 705 per sq mi which is 217% higher than the Illinois average and 679% higher than the national average. The median age in Kempton is 44 which is approximately 19% higher than the Illinois average of 37. In Kempton, 59% of the population over 15 years of age are married, 93% speak English and 1% speak Spanish. 75% of Kempton residents were born in Illinois, 23% were born out of state, 0% were born outside of the United States and 3% were foreign born.
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The first part of Isaiah's book, the prophesied judgment and redemption of Judah, ends with a beautiful description of God's restoration of Judah after her humiliation (Isaiah 11), and then in this short chapter, with an exclamation of praise for the goodness of God manifest in this salvation.
Though we once were enemies of God, by his love we have been made his own. He was angry, but has become our salvation. His love has driven away our fear. We are not slaves, but adopted children, swept by grace into the family of God.
The steadfast love of God never ends. It is a well with no bottom, the depths of which only draw us closer to his heart. For eternity we will never cease to sing praise with joy for God's infinite goodness.
The chapter follows after a tradition of songs of praise from the people of God. These first verses remind us of the song of Miriam on the shore of the Red Sea after God miraculously brought Israel through, liberating them from their slavery.
In Jesus' victory over death, these songs may become ours as well. The promise of the life and freedom of all the earth as described in Isaiah 11 will be ours because of Jesus. What an appropriate response to sing and dance for the goodness that is already ours, and the Promised Land that is already being prepared and we long to see.
Of all the beauty and goodness that we hope to one day see fulfilled, the best will be the presence of God truly among us, a presence we will know like we know our family now. Now we see God like a poor reflection. In eternity, we will see God face to face. The Holy One of Irael, Immanuel, will be in our midst. Now we only know a part. In eternity we will know fully, and be fully known (1 Corinthians 13:12).
Mary, mother of Jesus, sang of justice and peace at the announcement of her coming child. We call her song the Magnificat.
Until he returns, let us never cease to sing the song of our salvation, and the salvation of the earth the groans for justice. Let us dance justice, life and peace upon this fragile earth, and work in her the life Jesus has purchased for us all, resisting oppression, working for life, and doing it all in freedom and joy.
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LA CRESCENTA — If Tuesday's Pacific League-opening 15-8 win over Burroughs was any indication, the reserve members of the Crescenta Valley High boys' water polo team will get ample opportunity to learn on the job this season.
But when you've got a starting lineup as dangerous as the Falcons', there's room for a little trial and error.
Alan Dearman scored three goals and Josh Chi and Louis Wojciechowski added two apiece to pace Crescenta Valley to a 10-0 lead by the 5:21 mark of the second quarter, effectively ending any shot the Indians might have had of an upset of the defending league champions, who are currently ranked No. 1 in CIF Southern Section Division V.
"We just wanted to come out and try as hard as we could to start out really strong," Dearman said. "That was our mentality, to just try and open it up in the beginning."
Dearman and his starting teammates watched nearly the final two thirds of the match from the bench and there was certainly a drop-off in the Falcons' dominance, although never enough to really put the outcome of the match in doubt.
The Indians played the Falcons (10-2) even in the second half as far as goals scored and Rusty Blakey's two tallies were the only ones for Crescenta Valley over the final five minutes of the first half, by which point its lead had been cut to 11-4.
Of Burroughs' four first-half goals, two came on five-meter attempts and a third was aided by a 6-5 man advantage. In all, Crescenta Valley's second string drew seven ejections and gave the Indians three five-meter chances.
But the lead never shrunk below seven goals and Falcons Coach Jan Sakonju was willing to let his reserve unit figure things out for itself.
"I didn't want to pull people for making mistakes," Sakonju said. "I wanted them to be able to get in there and learn from it and fix it and they did a good job of doing that, which made it possible for me to keep them in and then make some more substitutions."
It didn't take long in the early going for the Falcons to assert their speed advantage and defensive muscle, which translated into more possessions and mounting goals.
Wojciechowski, Jack Snyder, Andrew De Jong and Nick Rapose all scored in succession before Dearman reeled off three straight goals within a span of 2:20 bridging the first and second quarters.
Yusef Trad, Johnny Malmrose, Daniel Chang and Blakey all scored second-half goals for the Falcons.
"It was a good team effort," Sakonju said. "Starting with the first quarter, we wanted to make sure that the passes were on, people were communicating and doing all those things that we've been trying to do all season.
"They were able to execute that well and play well together and guys coming in that haven't been playing, they made mistakes, but they were able to adjust and start running our offense and our defense the way we wanted."


ALARMING footage of a driver swerving towards a motorbike rider in East Perth is being investigated by police.
In vision caught on dash cam, it isn't clear exactly what sparked the incident along the Causeway about 12.30pm, Sunday.
After taking off from the lights at the intersection of Adelaide Terrace and Hay Street, the rider travels along before shifting into the left-hand lane.
Rather than simply driving past, the Nissan sedan swerves dangerously close to the vulnerable biker, before driving off.
"Got him. F*****g Jesus," the driver who captured the vision can be heard saying.
The Nissan driver then exits his car to engage the bike rider before realising his handbrake has not been engaged.
He scrambles back inside to stop it bumping the car in front and chooses not to get out again.
A spokesman for WA Police said the incident is being investigated and no charges have been laid.


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Judge Breaks Deadlock Between Unmarried Ex-Couple With Children
When long-term relationships between unmarried couples break down, disentangling their property and financial affairs can be challenging, particularly where children are involved. As one case showed, however, a clean break is often the best option for all concerned.
The case involved a middle-aged couple who had continued to live uncomfortably under the same roof for more than three years after their relationship ended. Their oldest child had grown up and gone to university but their 14-year-old son still lived in the house with them amidst an increasingly fraught atmosphere. The woman largely inhabited an upstairs bedroom. She said that she felt unwelcome elsewhere in the house and was finding her situation increasingly intolerable.
The four-bedroom house, which they had bought together, was worth about £440,000. Although he for a long time disputed the point, the man eventually agreed that they each beneficially owned 50 per cent of the property. The woman, who earned a good living as an accountant, was in a stronger financial position than the man, who had been out of work for five years due to health difficulties.
The woman launched proceedings, seeking an order that the property be sold and the proceeds equally divided so that they could move on with their lives. The man, however, argued that their son's welfare demanded that a sale be put off until he turned 21 or finished his education, whichever was the later.
Ruling on the matter, a judge noted that the boy's school had expressed concern that his very difficult home environment was not conducive to his welfare. He needed stability and security and to be protected from exposure to his parents' disputes. Delaying a sale of the property would also require the woman to continue living for some years in a house where she felt uncomfortable, excluded and unwanted.
Directing that the house be put on the open market as soon as possible, the judge noted that this was not a divorce case in which she had to strive to achieve financial or lifestyle parity between the higher-earning woman and the lower-earning man. His parents had given him generous financial support and had paid the boy's school fees. The boy did not require to live in a four-bedroom house and the couple each had equity in the house of up to £170,000 which should enable them to purchase more modest properties in the area.
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Q: Cannot find my signal on logic analyzer of keil uVision for LPC2148 I am trying to run my PWM program on keil for lpc2148. This has 10% duty cycle. However, I can see the signal on Port0 (P0.21).
Here is my code. I am quite confident it is right.
#include<lpc214x.h>

int main()

{
PINSEL0=0x00000000; // P0.0 to P0.15 pins of PORT0 as GPIO
PINSEL1=0x00000400; // P0.21 Pin of PORT0 as PWM
PINSEL2=0x00000000; // P1.16 to P1.31 pins of PORT1 as GPIO
/*Configure the PLL block and set the CCLK and PCLK at 60 MHz */
PLL0CON=0x01;
PLL0CFG=0x24;
PLL0FEED=0xaa;
PLL0FEED=0x55;
while (!(PLL0STAT & 0x00000400));
PLL0CON=0x03;
PLL0FEED=0xaa;
PLL0FEED=0x55;
VPBDIV=0x01;
/* Setup and initialize the PWM block */
PWMPCR=0x00; // Single Edge PWM Mode
PWMPR=60000-1; // Resolution of PWM is set at 1 mS
PWMMR0=10; // Period of PWM is 10 mS
PWMMR5=1; // Pulse width of PWM5 is 1 mS
PWMMCR= (1<<1); // PWMTC is reset on match with PWMMR0
PWMLER= (1<<5)| (1<<0); // Update Match Registers PWMMR0 and PWMMR5
PWMPCR= (1<<13); // Enable PWM5 output
PWMTCR= (1<<1); // Reset PWM TC and PWM PR
PWMTCR= (1<<0)| (1<<3); // Enable PWM Timer Counters and PWM Mode
//PWMMR5 = 1;
//PWMLER = (1<<5); //Update Latch Enable bit for PWMMR5
}

Please help.

A: The Keil debugger's "logic analyser" tool watches specific global variables via SWO trace.  Your code has no global variables and you have not stated what you are monitoring.
On real hardware only global variables can be monitored.  Peripheral registers and I/O pins can only be monitored in simulation as specified at https://www.keil.com/support/man/docs/uv4/uv4_db_dbg_logicanalyzer_restrictions.htm
To get a trace that follows your PWM, you will need to implement a PWM interrupt handler that either copies the state of the output pin to a global, or (better) reads the PWMIR register and copies that to a global variable and/or sets the global to the state inferred by the PWMIR register.  Then you monitor the global variable rather than the pin directly.
For example:
volatile bool pwmout = 0 ;
volatile bool pwmmatch = 0 ;

__irq void PWM_ISR( void )
{
    pwmmatch = PWMIR  ;

    if( (PWMIR & 0x0001) != 0 )  // MR0 = 1
    {
        pwmout = 1 ;
    }
    else if ( PWMIR & 0x0020 )  // MR5 = 1
    {
        pwmout = 0 ;
    }
    PWMIR = 0 ; // clear interrupt

    VICVectAddr = 0x00000000;
}

And you can then monitor pwmout and/or pwmmatch in the logic analyser.
I am not familiar with your specific microcontroller so the above may need some tweaking.  Obviously you will also need to enable the interrupt handler - something like:
VICVectAddr0 = (unsigned) PWM_ISR; /* PWM ISR Address */
VICVectCntl0 = (0x00000020 | 8); /* Enable PWM IRQ slot */
VICIntEnable = VICIntEnable | 0x00000100; /* Enable PWM interrupt */
VICIntSelect = VICIntSelect | 0x00000000; /* PWM configured as IRQ */

but I am just copying existing examples - no guarantees.
Finally at the end of your main() add an infinite loop to prevent main() from terminating into who knows where:
for(;;)
{
    // do nothing
}

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Mining News Agency - Cobalt 27 Capital's $200-million initial public offering (IPO) on the TSX Venture Exchange on June 23 shows there's a growing appetite among investors for exposure to the booming demand for minerals used in the lithium-ion battery and electric vehicle industries.
Mining News reports; Cobalt 27 issued 22.2 million shares priced at $9 each, with the financing led by underwriters Scotiabank, Canaccord Genuity and TD Securities. Cobalt 27 shares hit an intraday high of $11 during June 26 trading before closing at $9.14 per share on June 26. The company has 24 million shares outstanding for a $216 million market capitalization.
Cobalt 27 will have two areas of focus in the niche cobalt subsector: physical supply procurement, and specialty-metal royalty and stream acquisitions.
"It is really the culmination of a few years of hard work. I started looking at battery metals and electric vehicles, and the first thing we thought of was copper and nickel, but those are big, liquid markets," Cobalt 27 chairman and CEO Anthony Milewski says during an interview.
"We looked at graphite, as sort of a cost-plus model, and then lithium, but we arrived at cobalt. It's obviously a by-product of nickel and copper mining, and there aren't many big projects on the horizon. So when we explored the lithium-ion battery market, the thread that seemed to weave through it all was cobalt. I believe the penetration of electric vehicles, globally, is going to be far swifter and larger than anyone anticipates," he continues.
Milewski also serves as a managing director at Vladimir Iorich's Pala Investments, which ended up with a 19.46% post-IPO equity stake in Cobalt 27.
Cobalt 27 has 2,160 tonnes of physical cobalt warehoused in the United States, which would be valued at the time of writing at US$125 million based on a London Metals Exchange cobalt price of US$26.13 per lb.


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Race it Forward has come and gone and we just wanted to say…THANK YOU!
Cloud & Fire student Julio races toward the finish line, placing 2nd in the 10K race.
Thanks to many of you who participated in "Sponsor a Student Runner" campaign, many of our students were able to run in the race. One of our students, Julio I. Trigueros, signed up for the 10K race and ran it with pride. He placed 2nd without any formal training and impressed the most athletic of participants with his perseverance and sportsmanship.
After a struggle, Bryant hears the cheers and finishes strong!
Friends and family from Reality LA, Refuge LA, and CSUN InterVarsity Matador Christian Fellowship came out to run for our cause! We are so grateful to Children's Hunger Fund for donating water bottles and to all our friends and supporters who made this event the success that it was.
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Today starts my 19th week with SP. I realize that my focus has changed. In the past, it's always been about the weight. Have to lose the weight. How much weight did I lose that week. How much more weight do I have to lose. How much I want to lose by a certain date.
This time I'm concentrating on getting fit, getting in shape. I know the weight will come off, that a lot has come off already. Don't get me wrong, I still want to see a lower number on the scale. But more than that I want to see a slim body with defined muscles. The scale has gone up a few times in the past 4 months but I never let it faze me. Because it's so NOT about the number on the scale.
When I joined SP I set my weight loss goal. Now I realize that I might not reach that number. Because it's about getting in shape and that's the important goal. I might be good weighing a little bit more than that magic number I picked, or I might need to weigh a little bit less. I'm not sure yet. But I'll know when I get there. Fit and healthy!
Getting fit and healthy is part of the process...wishing you the very best on your journey to good health and fit you!!!
WAY TO GO!!! This journey is all about getting to the healthiest you can be!
Funny thing, when I casually speak with thin family members or friends, most of them don't even know what they weigh! Seriously!!
They go by how they fit into their clothes, & if the jeans get a tiny bit snug, they naturally cut back a bit, end of story.
They don't jump up and down and yahoo over every pound lost or get sad if they gain, because they don't even know what they weigh anyhow. I LOVE that!
I have this theory........that we who have become overweight, have lost touch with part of our intuition. Our body knows the truth. I intend to get back to my natural self, and trust my body again. That's my 2 cents. I think I wrote you a blog within your blog LOL!
I've noticed my focus has changed as well. But I still get ticked off when my ticker goes left and not right.
I know exactly what you mean. I don't think I will know if my magic number is my ideal weight untill I get closer to it. Keep on sparking. We will get there.
I couldn't agree more...it is definitely about getting healthy and fit...whatever that "number" is! I think that has been the missing equation in my previous attempts to "lose weight".
Yes, I think that lots of us had the losing weight idea, but the more we are here, the more we realize that it's more than that.
You are doing great and not sweating the small stuff. Good for you!
It's funny you blogged this today. I was just saying to my hubby that I think the number Spark gave me to shoot for is too high! I can see at least 15 more pounds in the mirror but they say I need to only lose 10. Good for you for having the correct focus!
The next thing you know, everyone will be mistaking you and DD for sisters!
I didn't even know I had that goal in the back of my head until reading your blog. Since I've found out that my health is a bit helter-skelter, I've focused on that without really realizing it. When I walk now, it's not to see what the scale says the next morning, it's to see how far I can go without feeling the tightness in my chest and knowing I need to slow down a bit. Each time, hopefully, will be a farther distance or faster.
Thank you and I'm glad you got there too!!
Incredible insight there. You are so right! It is about getting healthy & fit... Too often we get hung up on our magic numbers... Good for you!!!


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SHUBENACADIE, N.S. – Frank Trombino was all smiles after a productive Friday at Atlantic Motorsport Park. The Kleinburg, Ont. ace had set the fastest time in practice for round three of the K&N Performance Filters Pro Sport Bike class and was third quickest in the Mopar Pro Superbike results, tops among those racing 600cc equipment in the big bike class.
"I like this track; it's a lot of fun," said a beaming Trombino, who turned a lap at 1:08.780 in Pro Sport Bike practice and got down to a 1:08.696 in the Superbike session on his Suzuki GSX-R600. "If you can have fun at this track it will work for you. You have to go slow to go fast here – pick your lines, stay clear of the bumps. You just have to get as comfortable as you can."
Trombino comes into the race second in the Pro Sport Bike standings after winning the season opener at Shannonville Motorsport Park and finishing a distant second to Jodi Christie two weeks ago at Autodrome St-Eustache. After a thrilling battle with Christie at SMP, Trombino admits he was not at his best in Quebec.
"I just couldn't get my head into the game there," Trombino admitted on Friday. "James [Collins] had done a great job with the bike, we had a good tire for the race, but something was missing. I just wasn't comfortable. But here I'm feeling good."
Trombino continues to get support from longtime backer Acme Slate for his program, while Dua Bodywork and G Suspension have come on board as well.
The racing veteran is six points behind Christie in the Pro Sport Bike standings coming into the weekend. The Keene, Ont. racer suffered a fall in the afternoon practice and ended the day third overall on his Jodi Christie Racing / Accelerated Technologies Honda CBR600RR. Between the two title rivals was Raphael Archambault aboard the Team Archambault Racing / Picotte Motorsport / G Suspension Suzuki GSX-R600.
Local star Austin Shaw-O'Leary is expected to be the man to beat in the Amateur national ranks this weekend and he didn't disappoint on Friday. The Falmouth, N.S. racer took his Dua Motorsport / GoLo Racing Honda CBR600RR to fastest time in both the Inside Motorcycles Amateur Sport Bike and Bazzaz Amateur Superbike divisions.
Shaw-O'Leary turned a 1:09.639 in Amateur Sport Bike practice to lead the Yamaha YZF-R6 of Will Hornblower and points leader Philippe Masse and his Kawasaki ZX-6R.
In Amateur Superbike the former Honda CBR125R Challenge star was unofficially under the class lap record with a time of 1:09.946. Series leader Trevor Daley was second quickest and Masse third.
Steve Crevier continued to dominate the Deeley Harley-Davidson Canada XR1200 Cup, leading practice on Friday with a time of 1:13.012 on the MotoSport Plus entry. Michael Taylor was second fastest for the Mackie Harley-Davidson team and Ruthless Racing's Darren James placed third.
Stacey Nesbitt was fastest in practice for the Honda CBR250R National Race Series.
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