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Q: How to scrape data from a google map (in flash)? I've contacted the author of this NYC homicide map from the NY Times several times to see if he could send me a spreadsheet of information the data is based off of, but I have not had any response (for a very long time).
Is there anyway I could scrap the data from the google map directly? I downloaded the swf file and converted to xml, but even within there I can not tell where the information is I want. Here is the zipped up file of the converted xml.
I'm hopeing someone with more knowledge of online mapping can quickly tell me if this possible or not (or where I should be looking in the xml file).

A: +1 to @ericoneal's answer, but for the sake of noting an alternative approach, you could also download and install Fiddler. Fiddler routes your port-80 traffic through a proxy and provides you an interface for poking-around in the HTTP responses that follow your web request.
I'll describe the usage. In the screenshot, I just launched Fiddler, then opened your link in IE. All the data starts streaming-in without my doing anything else. Once it's settled, at left, I clicked on one of the returns (map_feed_incidents.txt, as noted by Eric), then at top-right, I select Inspectors. The pane at bottom-right provides several inspection formats. I tried a few, and the screen shows the TextView.
At a glance, the content appears to be line-break and tab-delimited (it's definitely not real XML). The top line specifies the file format, and every other line is an incident record. Here's the top-line and first record from the _incidents file (scroll right and note the id field):
LAT:DOUBLE  LONG:DOUBLE incident_date:STRING    incident_time:STRING    boro:STRING num_victims:INTEGER primary_motive:STRING   id:INTEGER  weapon:STRING   light_dark:STRING   year:INTEGER
40.665626   -73.909699  01/01/08    02:09   Brooklyn    1       7   gun D   2008

The lat/long is obvious. The other two files (_victims and _perpetrators) use the same approach. Here's the top line and first record from the _perps table:
incident_id:INTEGER sex:STRING  race:STRING age:INTEGER
7   M   B   20

The presence of incident_id is useful. Both _victims and _perps have this column, and it relates their data back to the geo-tagged _incidents table using that table's id column.

As an aside.. I have to agree with George and wonder why they included the victim's name. That seems like a major ethical oversight. While it's meaningless as a mapped attribute, I would not be surprised to see the perpetrator's name. But the victim's? At first I thought this may have been an unused element in the data payload, but it's really in the map?!?! That's a very questionable decision, and it leads me to believe nobody is using that map. Otherwise I think some criticism would've emerged from the general public.

A: I don't know if you can get the exact same data from the NYC Open data repository, but here is a link.

A slightly different approach could be to try to gather the data using the New York Times API: http://prototype.nytimes.com/gst/apitool/index.html

A: Quickly glancing at the page in Firebug and looking at the network calls, you can see where they are pulling the data from.  Seems to be a couple of XML files, namely:
http://graphics8.nytimes.com/packages/xml/map_feed_victims.txt?c=2182
and
http://graphics8.nytimes.com/packages/xml/map_feed_incidents.txt?c=2182

A: How about not doing this? Are you sure that using their data for your purposes is allowed by New York Times? Or are you convinced that the data is not copyrightable?
I quickly glanced at the source and the bottom of the page lists it as Copyright to the New York Times.
If you did this to my site then I would be extremely angry.
Update 2012-03-10
The questioner claims that this is legal for two reasons: that the information is data and not subject to copyright; and that they wish to use this for research purposes and thus copyright does not apply to them.
Copyrightability of data
US case law is a little different to many other countries in how far it goes in defining data as not being copyrightable. The leading case in the area is Feist v. Rural. The subject matter was Rural refusing to license its telephone listings to Feist so Feist used them anyway. Rural sued for copyright infringement and lost. Quoting from the case:

The constitutional requirement necessitates independent creation plus
  a modicum of creativity. Since facts do not owe their origin to an act
  of authorship, they are not original, and thus are not copyrightable.
  Although a compilation of facts may possess the requisite originality
  because the author typically chooses which facts to include, in what
  order to place them, and how to arrange the data so that readers may
  use them effectively, copyright protection extends only to those
  components of the work that are original to the author, not to the
  facts themselves. This fact/expression dichotomy severely limits the
  scope of protection in fact-based works.

Canadian law is not relevant to the current question but I'll raise it to compare and contrast. The leading case here is CCH Canadian Ltd vs Law Society of Upper Canada. Quoting Wikipedia's quoting of the judgment:

McLachlin rejects Justice O'Connor's "minimal degree of creativity"
  test but agrees with her assessment of the "sweat of the brow"
  approach and finds it too low a requirement. Instead, McLachlin takes
  the middle ground by requiring "that an original work be the product
  of an exercise of skill and judgment" where "skill" is "the use of
  one's knowledge, developed aptitude or practised ability in producing
  the work" and "judgment" is "the use of one's capacity for discernment
  or ability to form an opinion or evaluation by comparing different
  possible options in producing the work". (para 16) As well, "[t]he
  exercise of skill and judgment required to produce the work must not
  be so trivial that it could be characterized as a purely mechanical
  exercise." (para 16) Importantly, it is required that the work "must
  be more than a mere copy of another work." (para. 16) However,
  "creativity is not required to make a work 'original'." (para. 25)

Use of copyrighted works for research purposes
In copyright law, fair use (US) or fair dealing (common law countries) recognizes that a work shouldn't exist all by itself but becomes part of the culture by being discussed, criticized, referenced, etc.
In US law, "research" is specifically allowed as a reason to for fair use but note that one of the four factors is "the amount and substantiality of the portion used in relation to the copyrighted work as a whole".
One consideration is whether the new work adds something different than the old. Quoting Wikipedia again, "To justify the use as fair, one must demonstrate how it either advances knowledge or the progress of the arts through the addition of something new. A key consideration is the extent to which the use is interpreted as transformative, as opposed to merely derivative."
Indeed, my preparation of this extended answer with lots of quotes comes under fair use (in my opinion). I'm welding a bunch of information together to create a new work.
Legality of site scraping
There was a recent case in the BC Supreme Court, Century 21 v Rogers, which discussed similar issues to what you propose. Quoting Michael Geist's comments,

Century 21's terms prohibited copying or scraping its content. By
  doing so, Zoocasa breached the contract...copying the full length
  property descriptions for several months constituted copyright
  infringement copying truncated, shorter descriptions did not (an
  example the court provides is "212-819 Hamilton St, Vancouver, B.C.
  V6Z 6M2 $285,000 - 1 Bed, 1 Bath - Great Newly Updated Jr 1 Bedroom at
  819 Hamilton. This is a great West facing 1 bedroom suite which has
  lots of great. …") copying photographs of properties constituted
  copyright infringement

Certainly, being a Canadian case (and only a provincial one so far) it's not very persuasive in a US court but I would suggest that a US court probably isn't going to judge things very differently.
Conclusion
Purely in my opinion, and I'm certainly not a lawyer and this is not legal advice, I'd suggest that scraping the data in order to produce a very similar version of the same map, especially for commercial purposes, would probably be copyright infringement.
Using the data for research purposes to create a new work, especially if you don't use all of the data, is probably safe under both the fair use and data doctrines.


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Kamienica Kleinpoldowska (inne nazwy: Kleinpoldtowska, Klekotowska, Szlichtyngowska i Szlichtingowska) – czterokondygnacyjna kamienica znajdująca się po stronie Dekerta na Rynku Starego Miasta 34 w Warszawie.

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Pierwsza wzmianka o budynku znajdującym się w tym miejscu pochodzi z 1449 roku. Od 1452 roku kamienica była własnością warszawskich kuśnierzy Klekotów. W 1504 roku została sprzedana Jerzemu Baryczce, który w 1516 roku przekazał ją swojemu zięciowi Grzegorzowi Bartkemu. W tym okresie, w I poł. XVI wieku, miała miejsce gruntowna przebudowa lub jej odbudowa od fundamentów, na co wskazują m.in. wymiary użytej cegły oraz forma sklepienia na parterze.

W latach 1579–1619 kamienica była w posiadaniu ówczesnego burmistrza Starej Warszawy – Franciszka Szeligi, który w 1619 roku sprzedał dom Gerardowi Kleinpoldtowi, a ten przebudował kamienicę, zmieniając jej układ na trzytraktowy. Ok. 1620 roku została zwolniona z obowiązku udzielania kwater sejmowych.

Kamienica pozostawała własnością Kleinpoldtów do pocz. XVIII wieku. W połowie XVIII wieku stanowiła własność Parusewiczów, a następnie rodziny Lignau. W 1788 roku nastąpiła przebudowa dachu z pogrążonego na kalenicowy, w związku z czym zlikwidowano attykę i zastąpiono ją ścianką osłonową z charakterystycznym łukiem rozporowym.

W latach dwudziestych XX w. kamienica została kupiona przez Polski Klub Literacki i Związek Zawodowy Literatów Polskich. W 1928 roku została ozdobiona polichromią wykonaną przez Zofię Stryjeńską.

W 1937 roku kamienica stała się własnością m.st. Warszawy z przeznaczeniem na Muzeum Dawnej Warszawy. Od 1938 roku trwały w niej prace adaptacyjne i konserwatorskie według projektu Jana Zachwatowicza i Stanisława Hempla. Podczas prac odkryto drewniane stropy polichromowane i wykonano nad nimi ogniotrwałe stropy żelbetowe, co uchroniło budynek przed zniszczeniem w czasie II wojny światowej.

Kamienica była jedną z sześciu kamienic na Starym i Nowym Mieście i jedną z dwóch na Rynku po stronie Dekerta (obok sąsiedniej kamienicy "Pod Murzynkiem", nr 36), które nie zostały spalone w czasie powstania warszawskiego. Zniszczeniu uległo jednak m.in. pokrycie dachu, elewacje, szyby, kraty i drzwi wejściowe.

W 1945 roku Biuro Odbudowy Stolicy urządziło w budynku składnicę przedmiotów wydobywanych z gruzów Starego Miasta. W 1948 weszła w skład kompleksu 11 kamienic przeznaczonych na siedzibę Muzeum Historycznego m.st. Warszawy (obecnie Muzeum Warszawy). Została odbudowana w latach 1950–1953 według projektu Stanisława Żaryna przy współpracy Józefa Zencikiewicza. Prace wykończeniowe we wnętrzach kamienicy trwały do 1957 roku. Nie odtworzono jednak polichromii Zofii Stryjeńskiej. W 1965 roku kamienica została wpisana do rejestru zabytków.

Do najcenniejszych elementów wnętrza należą stropy drewniane z I poł. XVII w. znajdujące się na pierwszym piętrze (kasetonowy z motywami gotyckimi od strony podwórza oraz belkowany z wczesnorenesansowymi i barokowymi od strony Rynku) oraz, także na pierwszym piętrze, wielki komin na sklepieniu przykrywającym sień.

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Chutes & Ladders—Former Novartis oncology head jumps to metabolic startup
by Conor Hale |
Jun 1, 2018 10:10am
Welcome to this week's Chutes and Ladders, our roundup of hirings, firings and retirings throughout the industry. Please send the good word—or the bad—from your shop to Conor Hale, and we will feature it here at the end of each week.
Former Novartis U.S. oncology head jumps to metabolic startup
Axcella Health
Bill Hinshaw took the reins as CEO.
Hinshaw told FierceBiotech: "At this stage of my career, I wanted to join a company as CEO where I could lead and work with the team in shaping a discovery and development program to bring real innovation forward to the market, and thus broader access to patients." The pre-IND company is looking to develop cellular metabolic modulators targeting liver, muscle, CNS and other indications. FierceBiotech article
Axovant poaches Allergan CMO to rebuild its R&D
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Gavin Corcoran, M.D., joins as executive VP of R&D.
Corcoran is stepping down as chief medical officer of Allergan to take up the position, which will see him try to guide Axovant out of the implosion of its Alzheimer's strategy, following the phase 3 failure of the 5-HT6 inhibitor intepirdine this year. The Roivant spinout recently reorganized, cutting 40% of its staff. FierceBiotech article
Biogen brings on Pfizer dealmaker for M&A push
Biogen
Dan Karp was named VP of worldwide business development and head of R&D business development.
According to Biogen, Karp will lead a newly minted "corporate development function," spanning business development and corporate strategy, thought to include dealmaking, mergers and acquisitions. The company touted his track record of licensing and transactions as it looks to broaden its portfolio. FiercePharma article
> Arcturus' board of directors restored its previously ousted CEO, Joseph Payne, as well as former chief scientific officer and chief operating officer Pad Chivukula, Ph.D., following the settlement of months-long litigation and the replacement of four board members. FierceBiotech
> Craig Venter, Ph.D., stepped down as CEO of Human Longevity, the latest in a string of departures at the company he co-founded, to return to research at the J. Craig Venter Institute. Venter had been reappointed as CEO five months earlier, previously moving aside to allow GE Healthcare exec Cynthia Collins to take over. Collins left in December. FierceBiotech
> AzurRx brought on longtime drug developer James Pennington, M.D., as CMO. Pennington has served as a research VP at Bayer and Alpha Therapeutics, and has held CMO roles at Anthera Pharmaceuticals, InterMune and CoTherix. FierceBiotech
> José Iglesias, M.D., joined ResearchPoint Global as medical director for oncology to help develop the CRO's strategy for cancer-focused sponsors. He has held CMO and senior positions at Biothera, Bionomics, Celgene, Abraxis BioScience, Amgen Canada, Eli Lilly and Apobiologix. FierceBiotech
> Parvus Therapeutics named Curtis Ruegg, Ph.D., as CEO and to its board of directors. Ruegg held positions at Revance, Cotherix and InterMune after starting at Dendreon. Release
> According to German media reports, Bayer is said to be reviewing its R&D locations, spurring fears of job cuts across some operations. FierceBiotech
Chutes and Ladders executives job cuts Novartis Pfizer Allergan Biogen Axovant Sciences Arcturus Therapeutics
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Airport information and maps for Manja Airport:
MJA Airport Information:
IATA / ICAO Codes: MJA / FMSJ
Airport Name: Manja Airport
Location: Manja, Menabe, Madagascar
GPS Coordinates: 21°25'0"S by 44°19'0"E
Area Served: Manja
Elevation: 787 feet (240 meters)
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Facts about Manja Airport (MJA):
The closest airport to Manja Airport (MJA) is Morombe Airport (MXM), which is located 65 miles (104 kilometers) WSW of MJA.
The furthest airport from Manja Airport (MJA) is Hilo International Airport (ITO), which is located 11,179 miles (17,992 kilometers) away in Hilo, Hawaii, United States.
Because of Manja Airport's relatively low elevation of 787 feet, planes can take off or land at Manja Airport at a lower air speed than at airports located at a higher elevation. This is because the air density is higher closer to sea level than it would otherwise be at higher elevations.
Map of Nearest Airports from Manja Airport:
List of Nearest Airports from Manja Airport:
1 64.80 miles (104.29 km) WSW Morombe Airport (MXM) Morombe, Madagascar
2 82.51 miles (132.79 km) SW Andavadoaka Airport (DVD) Andavadoaka, Toliara province, Atsimo-Andrefana region, Madagascar
3 120.42 miles (193.79 km) N Belo sur Tsiribihina Airport (BMD) Belo sur Tsiribihina, Madagascar
4 147.63 miles (237.59 km) NNE Miandrivazo Airport (ZVA) Miandrivazo, Madagascar
5 179.77 miles (289.31 km) E Fianarantsoa Airport (WFI) Fianarantsoa, Madagascar
6 191.35 miles (307.95 km) NNE Ankavandra Airport (JVA) Ankavandra, Madagascar
7 215.13 miles (346.21 km) NNE Tsiroanomandidy Airport (WTS) Tsiroanomandidy, Madagascar
8 228.36 miles (367.51 km) S Ampanihy Airport (AMP) Ampanihy, Madagascar
9 233.31 miles (375.47 km) N Maintirano Airport (MXT) Maintirano, Madagascar
10 260.57 miles (419.35 km) E Mananjary Airport (MNJ) Mananjary, Madagascar
11 271.43 miles (436.82 km) NNE Ambatomainty Airport (AMY) Ambatomainty, Madagascar
12 273.18 miles (439.65 km) N Tambohorano Airport (WTA) Tambohorano, Madagascar
13 273.58 miles (440.29 km) NE Ivato International Airport (TNR) Antananarivo, Madagascar
14 301.12 miles (484.60 km) SSE Tôlanaro Airport (FTU) Tôlanaro, Madagascar
15 323.03 miles (519.86 km) N Besalampy Airport (BPY) Besalampy, Madagascar
Map of Furthest Airports from Manja Airport:
List of Furthest Airports from Manja Airport:
1 11,179.43 miles (17,991.51 km) E Hilo International Airport (ITO) Hilo, Hawaii, United States
2 11,142.38 miles (17,931.88 km) E Waimea-Kohala Airport (MUE) Kamuela, Hawaii, United States
5 11,137.67 miles (17,924.29 km) E Pōhakuloa Training Area (BSF) Camp Pohakuloa, Hawaii, United States
7 11,132.40 miles (17,915.82 km) E Upolu Airport (UPP) Hawi, Hawaii, United States
8 11,126.50 miles (17,906.32 km) E Hana Airport (HNM) Hana, Hawaii, United States
10 11,122.14 miles (17,899.31 km) NW Santa Ynez Airport (SQA) Santa Ynez, California, United States
11 11,119.71 miles (17,895.39 km) NW Santa Barbara Airport (SBA) Santa Barbara, California, United States
12 11,117.74 miles (17,892.23 km) NW O'Sullivan Army Heliport (CSL) Camp San Luis Obispo, California, United States
13 11,117.71 miles (17,892.18 km) NW San Luis Obispo County Regional Airport (SBP) San Luis Obispo, California, United States
14 11,115.51 miles (17,888.63 km) E Kona International Airport at Keāhole (KOA) Kailua / Kona, Hawaii, United States


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A Compensa é um bairro de Manaus, capital do estado brasileiro do Amazonas. Localiza-se na Zona Oeste da cidade. Possui uma área de 508,27 quilômetros quadrados e é o quarto bairro mais populoso de Manaus, com .

Integram o bairro: os conjuntos Ipase e Rio Xingu; os loteamentos Parque Aruanã, Promorar Compensa e Oscar Borel; as vilas militares Plácido de Castro (parcialmente) e ASA. E alguns condomínios ali situados.

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Cravings is a family affair, with the lovely Charlynn Odegard heading the project. It all started with a family trip to Italy where they fell in love with Gelato.
Charlynn lovingly hand makes each batch in her home studio. All the ingredients are fresh and as much as possible, locally sourced. Cravings could be found at festivals, farmer's markets and sometimes a special event.
Cravings would like to expand into offering a "Gelato Bar" for your next garden party, wedding, anniversary, fundraiser or other special event.
There are three different "families" to choose from. Sorbettos are water based and therefore safe for people like myself that are lactose intolerant. A velvety treat with fresh, imaginative flavors that everyone can enjoy! The regular gelato line does contain dairy but is simply amazing in texture and taste. The third line is the adult flavors that contain alcohol. These are available in both Sorbetto and Gelato varieties.
So why can't you find this awesome product in a grocery store near you? It's all about freshness. Cravings can't guarantee that the product hasn't been sitting in that grocery store freezer for a month or so. They want you to have the freshest experience possible.
The good news is that they are still doing two markets. The Terwilliger market on Wednesdays and the St. Albert Market on Saturdays. Cravings will be starting both of these markets in mid June.
From the sorbetto trio; the Lemon Ginger. Velvety smooth texture and a wonderful balance between the lemon and the ginger. A very refreshing treat, not heavy like ice cream.
From the regular gelato line; the Guava Coconut. I am simply in love with this flavor! The texture is smooth and it was a flavor explosion to taste.
From the "adult" gelato line, I really enjoyed the Apricot Champagne. It is almost like having a frozen version of an apricot Mimosa. This would be wonderful at any kind of celebration party.


The traditional spring planting of flowers has begun and Uptown is alive with color. The signature flower medians are more than just beautiful to look at; they let visitors know they have arrived in Uptown. To ensure a beautiful area 365 days a year, Uptown works to strategically plant each spring and late summer for a steady succession of blooms and colors. As one species of flower reaches its peak, another is just starting to blossom.


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Home In The News DLF Cyber City Developers operates with a Net Profit Margin of 40%
DLF Cyber City Developers operates with a Net Profit Margin of 40%
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Indian real estate giant DLF Ltd, on Wednesday, announced its exclusivity agreement with Singapore's sovereign wealth fund GIC Pte to buy out 40% of the promoter's stake in DLF Cyber City Developers Ltd, its rental arm. The rental subsidiary has been operating with a Net Profit Margin higher than 40% (even 50%) in some fiscals.
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DLF Cyber City Developers Limited was incorporated in year 2006 and its primary business is 'Rental or leasing services of factories, office buildings, warehouses'. This company is owned 52% by three other companies – SIDHANT HOUSING AND DEVELOPMENT COMPANY, RAJDHANI INVESTMENTS AND AGENCIES PVT LTD and BULAND CONSULTANTS AND INVESTMENTS PRIVATE LIMITED which in turn are fully owned by the DLF group promoter Mr. Kushal Pal Singh and some of his family members. Remaining 48% is held by DLF Limited. This shareholding structure is as on March 31st, 2016 declared by the company in its FY16 Annual Return submitted to the Registrar of Companies.
Financial Performance of DLF Cyber City Developers Limited
The company has reported revenue of INR 1620 crores for the FY ended 31 Mar 2016 along with a Net Profit of whopping INR 654 crores. This translates into a net margin of 40%. The company has been seeing a Net Margin north of 40% and even 50% for most of the recent years. For the FY ended 31 March 2015, the company had reported revenue of INR 1694 crores with a New Profit of INR 742 crores.
Lease rent for constructed properties accounts for about 58% of the total FY16 revenue of the company while the service income accounts for the second highest share with 29%. The former includes the 'base rent, parking income and fit-out rental income' while the service income pertains to the maintenance services provided by the company to its tenants. The Other Income primarily consists of 'Income income on loans to related parties'.
Finance Costs account for the largest chunk of its expenses with a contribution of about 31% followed by the Power & Fuel contributing about 26% of its expenses.
The company had a Net Worth of INR 6,908 crores as on March 31st, 2016 with a Debt of INR 5,678 crores. Its Debt/Equity ratio shot up to 0.81 from 0.39 in the previous year.
Valuation of the company is estimated to be INR 32,000 to INR 36,000 Crores and the stocks sale is expected to fetch more than INR 12,000 for the promoters.
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By Jacqueline Froelich • Jan 22, 2018
In December, Governor Asa Hutchinson issued a memorandum to Col. Bill Bryant, director of Arkansas State Police as well as to state prosecutors declaring that the open carry of a handguns is protected by law and allowed, except for unlawful use and in certain restricted places. The governor wrote that the purpose of his guidance was to resolve confusion regarding the state's gun possession law, amended five years ago.
The statute, as written, however remains open to interpretation.
Embattled Buffalo River Industrial Swine Farm Denied New Operating Permit
This report has been updated to reflect a recent regulatory filing.
The Arkansas Department of Environmental Quality late Wednesday denied a new permit to C&H Hog Farms, the state's largest industrial swine breeding facility to maintain operations in rural Newton County. Opponents of the swine farm constructed in 2013 along Big Creek, a major tributary to the Buffalo National River, claim the farm is gravely polluting the watershed and have fought for five years to shut it down.
C&H Hog Farms owners are appealing ADEQ's decision.
Arkansas Public Media Pellet Mill Industry Report Airs on NPR
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In 2017, Arkansas Public Media began to investigate the proliferation of industrial chip mills across the Deep South, including a newly opened mill in Pine Bluff, Arkansas. The mills are grinding timber stands into millions of tons of wood pellets for export to fuel retrofitted coal fire plants in the European Union and United Kingdom, where biomass is classified and subsidized as clean renewable fuel.
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The Arkansas Department of Health is warning residents about a significant influenza outbreak and how best to prepare.
"In a bad flu year, it's estimated a third of the population gets the flu," says Dr. Dirk Haselow, state epidemiologist who is tracking outbreak response. "In Arkansas that would be a million people."
This influenza season, which began in early December and ends in late March, intensified over the holiday season and is shaping up to be a bad one, Haselow says.
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Springdale Elmdale Elementary Sanctuary for Traumatized Students
By Jacqueline Froelich • Dec 26, 2017
Sending children to the principal's office has long been a traditional punishment for unruly students. But Principal Michelle Hutton at Elmdale Elementary in Springdale offers safe haven where children can talk about what's troubling them, including traumatic events.
Elmdale faculty and staff have partnered with Ozark Guidance, a regional community mental health center, to learn how to assess students struggling with trauma to provide them proper help.
Fayetteville First Public School District to Buckle Up
By Jacqueline Froelich • Nov 30, 2017
When a school bus crashes, upset parents may ask, "Why aren't my children wearing seat belts on the bus?"
Some state lawmakers are listening. California, Florida, Louisiana, New Jersey, New York and Texas have passed mandatory school bus safety restraint statutes. Earlier this year, the Arkansas General Assembly did, too. But Arkansas's new school bus seat belt law is no cinch.
New Arkansas Industrial Wood Pellet Mill Raises Green Stakes
More than 150 wood pellet manufacturing mills operate across the U.S., many supplying the domestic woodstove pellet market with home heating fuel.
More than a quarter are industrial pellet mills, grinding thousands of acres of forest into biomass for overseas export to electrical utilities stoking retrofitted coal-fire furnaces with "densified" wood.
The largest mills, concentrated in the southeastern U.S., claim to sustainably harvest timber, from both hardwood and softwood forests. But a new mill, Highland Pellets in Pine Bluff, which harvests only fast-growing Southern softwood pine may be among the greenest.
Still, the calculated ecological costs and benefits of forest biomass remain hazy.
Approval of New High-Voltage Merchant Clean Power Transmission Line Through Arkansas Still Stalled
By Jacqueline Froelich • Oct 30, 2017
Clean Line Energy Partners, headquartered in Houston, Texas intends to build five long-haul, high-voltage clean power transmission lines across at least 10 states.
Together, the "Clean Lines" could transport more than 15,000 megawatts of new industrial wind energy generated in Kansas, Iowa, Texas and Oklahoma to utility markets across the eastern half of the U.S.
But progress along all the clean lines, including a controversial route through Arkansas, remains tangled by opposition.
Oklahoma Wind Power Project To Be Biggest In Nation, Push Supply To Arkansas, Texas And Louisiana
A public-private partnership is pushing ahead with plans to build the nation's largest wind farm — the second largest in the world — in western Oklahoma.
The Wind Catcher Energy Connection Project is a collaborative venture by Invenergy, a global renewable energy design firm based in Chicago, Public Service Company of Oklahoma (PSO) and Southwestern Electric Power Company (SWEPCO) which serves three states, including western Arkansas.
The wind project, scheduled to go on line in late 2020, will yield low-cost clean power as well as jobs.
State's Legal Fight With City Over LGBT Protections Continues In Fayetteville
By Jacqueline Froelich • Sep 24, 2017
Seven months after the Arkansas Supreme Court ruled Fayetteville's LGBT-inclusive civil rights ordinance did not comport with state law, a lower court must now decide if that law is even constitutional.
In Washington County Circuit Court before Judge Doug Martin, lawyers on both sides argued over discovery motions and the right to stay administration of Fayetteville's civil rights ordinance and enforcement commission. In place for two years, the ordinance was established explicitly to protect LGBT residents and visitors from discrimination -- because state law does not.
During Vietnam, Agent Orange Got Arkansas Trial, Veterans And Locals Still Haunted By Exposure Fears
Vietnam veteran James Kaelin stands on a dirt road staring into an empty scrub forest once part of Fort Chaffee, a U.S. Army Training camp east of Fort Smith, Arkansas.
"They won't even admit to this being a test site to anybody," Kaelin says. "But I have information showing the Army tested Agent Orange, Agent White and Agent Blue on seven different locations on Fort Chaffee in 1966 and 1967 without knowledge to the general public. It was top secret."
New Stricter Regulations Proposed for Arkansas Licensed Midwives
Arkansas Licensed Lay Midwives are regulated by the Arkansas Department of Health. Current rules require mothers to prove they are medically fit to endure a midwife-assisted birth by undergoing two medical assessments with a qualified medical provider or public health clinician. Midwives must relinquish care of any client found to be at risk, or risk losing their license.
Medical Marijuana Physicians Cropping Up in Arkansas
By Jacqueline Froelich • Sep 3, 2017
Inside Dr. Tammy Post's medical clinic lobby on Willow Springs Road in Johnson, a silvery wall fountain trickles; beyond the water feature is a spacious suite of examination rooms. Post, a board certified family and osteopathic medical practitioner says she's interested in alternative medicine but never imagined she would become an advocate for medical marijuana.
"I was one of those doctors that thought marijuana was all the myths we believed about a gateway drug," she says. "I believed it to be illicit and dangerous, like ecstasy and heroin and cocaine."
Over the past two months, Post has certified more than a hundred patients for Arkansas Department of Health medical marijuana registry identification cards. That's roughly one of every eight approved statewide so far.
Marshallese Leader, International Peace and Climate Diplomat Dies
By Jacqueline Froelich • Aug 24, 2017
Tuvala native and noted Republic of the Marshall Islands political leader, Tony de Brum, died Monday in the capital city of Majuro. De Brum is also widely recognized as a global nuclear disarmament and international climate change treaty negotiator.
De Brum often traveled from the Marshall Islands to the Arkansas Ozarks, where an estimated 13,000 Marshallese migrants are now settled, to visit family and friends and take advantage of employment, educational and health care opportunities.
Marshallese are able to freely travel and live anywhere in the U.S. for as long as they wish with only a passport because of de Brum's enduring political efforts.
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Q: odoo.tools.convert.ParseError: "External ID not found in the system: project_manage.view_project_turn_over_action" in Odoo12 there are two xml files,the first one has a button,and another is the form view xml.
It should jump to the form view xml,when I click the button.
But I had a mistake:odoo.tools.convert.ParseError: "External ID not found in the system: project_manage.view_test_project_turn_over_action"
(project_manage is the module name and view_test_project_turn_over_action is the action id,both button xml and form view xml are in the module 'project_manage'.)
the button xml:
<button name="%(view_test_project_turn_over_action)d" string="Turn over" type="action"/>

the form view xml:
    <record model="ir.actions.act_window" id="view_test_project_turn_over_action">
    <field name="name">Turn Over Form</field>
    <field name="type">ir.actions.act_window</field>
    <field name="res_model">test.project.turn.over</field>
    <field name="view_mode">form</field>
    <field name="view_type">form</field>
    <field name="view_id" ref="view_test_project_turn_over_form"/>
    <field name="target">new</field>
    </record>

A: It's because sequence of xml files listed in manifest file.
To avoid sequence problem, you can always use external id with module name.
Like
module_name.xml_id

In your case, it would be
%(project_manage.view_test_project_turn_over_action)d

Or you can change sequence of xml file listing in manifest file.

redpajama_set_name: RedPajamaStackExchange


A poultice is made of a soft, moist substance that is mixed to the consistency of a paste, and then spread on or between layers of cloth. The cloth is then placed on a body surface. Poultices act by increasing blood flow, relaxing tense muscles, soothing inflamed tissues, or drawing toxins from an infected area. Thus, they can be used to relieve the pain and inflammation associated with abscesses; boils; bruises; carbuncles; fibrocystic disease; fractures of bones; enlarged glands in the neck, breast or prostate; leg ulcers; nerve or muscle pain, sprains; sunburn; tumors; and ulcerated eyelids and other ulcers. They are also used to break up congestion, draw out pus from infected wounds, and remove embedded particles and foreign articles from the skin such as splinters.
In times past, poultices were a favorite household remedy, often involving the use of bread or mashed potatoes as a carrying mixture for herbal infusions or oil. Like compresses, hot poultices can be used for swellings, sprains, or to draw pus or splinters, but cold pastes or poultices can also be useful, as in the case of Comfrey Root applied to varicose ulcers.
Powdered herbs can also be used to make poultices. The powder is mixed with a little hot water to form a paste and then spread directly onto the affected area or onto a gauze. If applying poultices directly to the skin, the skin should first be greased with a little vegetable oil to prevent sticking. When using a hot poultice, it should be renewed when it cools.
Selfheal relieves sprains and fractures.
St. John's Wort relieves muscle or nerve pain.
Slippery Elm powder, mixed with Calendula, draws out boils and infected wounds (as does tinctures of these herbs plus a Myrrh Extract Tincture).
Poultices have a similar action as compresses, but involve applying the whole herb, rather than a liquid extract, directly to an affected area. Applying a compress to a stiff joint or strained muscle is a treatment familiar to all of us, and a very basic, ancient one. Wraps and compresses, often enhanced with essential oils or herbs, have played a time-honored role as remedies, not just for muscle and joint pain, but also for infections, such as bronchitis and colds. Tis treatment is also a form of Hydrotherapy (Water Therapy), which was popular in the 19th-century spa culture. Today, compresses are applied either warm or cold or are alternated; wraps are always applied cold. Cold wraps and compresses work by signaling the body to warm itself, boosting circulation and inducing sweating. Using a wrap or compress may seem time-consuming in today's fast-paced world, but often just taking a break may in itself be beneficial to your health.
Depending on your signs and symptoms, you might use a hot compress, a cold wrap or both. A heated compress dilates blood vessels, brings more blood to the skin's surface in the area applied, is relaxing and relieves aching from inflammation. On the other hand, a wrap or cold compress constricts tissues, feels stimulating and reduces swelling, which is why it is initially used to treat sprains and strains. Further, an airtight cold wrap is primarily used for boosting the immune system by removing toxins and increasing circulation.
The word poultice (pole - tis) is derived from the Latin pultes, the plural of puls, meaning a porridge or pottage. A poultice, then, is a thick paste usually of chopped, ground or crushed fresh (or dried but re-moistened) plant material sometimes with bran or flour added for thickening and stability, that is applied directly to the skin. If a cloth is placed over or under it, or both, it is called a compress. If a cloth is soaked in the infused herb and wrung out, it is known as a fomentation. A poultice becomes a plaster when using finely ground herbs or adding ingredients such as cornmeal or wheat flour to assist their cohesiveness. Generally plasters are placed in layers or thin material to protect the skin. Plasters tend to be stronger in nature and should be monitored to avoid skin reactions to strong herbs such as Garlic or Mustard. It is advisable to massage oil over the skin prior to placement of a plaster. Both poultices and plasters are great for their action of drawing out toxins.
An herbal poultice may be made with dried or fresh herbs. The two types of poultices are prepared in slightly different ways. (For information on choosing the best herbal poultice for your condition, as well as cautions regarding the use of specific herbs, see Types of Poultices.
Wraps and compresses can be soaked in herbal teas or dilutions of essential oils, and some may contain whole herbs. They can be applied to arthritic joints, sprained muscles and problem tendons and ligaments to relieve joint and muscle pain, as well as a sore throat, colds, bronchitis, congested chest, cramped abdomen and for boosting immunity and circulation. Hot or cold compresses and wraps should be kept in place for 30 to 45 minutes or until their temperatures have been completely warmed by the body's heat.
The active compounds of essential oils and herbs used with a wrap or compress will be absorbed through the skin and picked up by the bloodstream. Your symptoms determine which herbs or essential oils to include. For joint pain, Cayenne, Turmeric Essential Oil or Turmeric Herb, Nettles and Rosemary Essential Oil can help; Lavender Oil provides an anti-inflammatory effect. Muscle pulls and aches might call for St. John's Wort Oil or Arnica. Onions and Thyme may ease congestion and coughs; Ginger Root can soothe sore throats.
A Little Lore - Use of wraps and compresses was popularized, in part. by the European priest and healer Sebastian Kneipp in the 1800s. After curing himself of tuberculosis by bathing in the cold Danube, he developed other water applications for health.
Take a piece of clean sheeting, gauze, muslin, linen, or cotton and soak in vinegar, Witch Hazel Extract, alcohol or a herbal infusion or decoction, or in a combination of these. Wring it out and place on the affected area of the body, replacing as necessary.
If you are using dried herbs, use a mortar and pestle to grind the herbs to a powder. A coffee grinder can be used for tough roots that are hard to break up with a pestle and mortar. Place the herbs in a clean glass or ceramic (not metal) bowl, and add enough pure distilled or bottled warm water to make a thick paste that can be easily applied. Add the water a teaspoon or so at a time until the mixture is thick, like porridge, but not stiff. Make a quantity sufficient to cover the affected area. The ratio of ground herbs to water will vary according to the herb being used.
Arrange a clean piece of gauze, muslin, linen, or white cotton sheeting on a clean, flat surface. The material should be large enough to cover the affected area completely. Spread the herbal paste over the cloth. Cleanse the affected area to be treated with soap and water, hydrogen peroxide or rubbing alcohol. Gently rub a little oil on the area to prevent sticking and place the poultice over the area, applying the poultice to the skin, spreading thickly. The poultice application and herb should be as hot as can be tolerated. Wrap a towel or plastic wrap around the poultice to prevent the soiling of clothes and sheets or you can bandage into place with gauze, cheesecloth, bandage materials or cotton strips. Use a pin or other fastener to secure the poultice in place. It the area is an open wound, do not put the poultice directly into a wound (except St. John's Wort) since it may aggravate the wound and infect it. Leave for up to 3 hours and reapply, if necessary. A heating pad or water bottle can be used to keep a poultice warm.
Take a handful or two of the herb, about 1 to 2 cups depending on the size of the area to be treated, and add to the blender or food processor with just enough pure water to allow the herb to puree roughly. Use the pulse button, and only in 1 second intervals, as if making pesto. Alternately, crush, chop or pound the herb into a paste. Heat the poultice, if desired to increase circulation and for drawing pus and toxins. Leave cool for sunburn and skin irritations, to decrease inflammation or for use on eyelids. If the paste is too thin, add a little bran or flour to stabilize.
If using fresh herbs for your poultice, place 2 ounces of the whole herb (about 1/2 cup) and 1 cup of water in a small saucepan. Simmer for 2 minutes. Do not drain.
Arrange a clean piece of gauze, muslin, linen, or white cotton sheeting on a clean, flat surface. The material should be large enough to cover the affected area completely. Pour the herbal solution over the cloth. Cleanse the affected area to be treated with soap and water, hydrogen peroxide or rubbing alcohol. Gently rub a little oil on the area to prevent sticking and place the poultice over the area, applying the poultice to the skin, spreading thickly. The poultice application and herb should be as hot as can be tolerated. Wrap a towel or plastic wrap around the poultice to prevent the soiling of clothes and sheets or you can bandage into place with gauze, cheesecloth, bandage materials or cotton strips. Use a pin or other fastener to secure the poultice in place. It the area is an open wound, do not put the poultice directly into a wound (except St. John's Wort) since it may aggravate the wound and infect it. Leave for up to 3 hours and reapply, if necessary. A heating pad or water bottle can be used to keep a poultice warm.
A simpler method, rather than soaking bread or potato in an herbal infusion, for example, is to sweat the herb in a saucepan with very little water, strain it, spread the mixture onto a gauze, and apply to an affected area. The poultice can be held in place with a loose bandage.
Herbal poultices should be kept in place for 1 to 24 hours, as needed. During this period, you may experience a throbbing pain or increased heat as the poultice draws out infection and neutralizes toxins. When the pain subsides or the poultice dries, it is a sign that the poultice has accomplished its task and should be removed. Apply fresh poultices as needed until the desired level of healing has been reached. Wash the skin thoroughly after each poultice is removed. Do not re-use or compost poultices or the herbs used to make them since they contain infectious material.
Poultices, compresses, wraps and fomentations may seem to be old-fashioned and time-honored, but never doubt that they are powerful medicines, with the same properties, cautions and contraindications as herbal capsules, tinctures and prescription medicines.
Never re-use a poultice or poultice material.
Never compost a poultice or its material.
Never use a poultice without consulting your health professional.
Never put an irritating ingredient, such as Mustard, Capsicum, Cinnamon or Arnica directly onto the skin; make a compress instead.
By making your poultice with the appropriate herbs or other substances, you will help ensure that the treatment is effective. Herbs commonly used in poultices are listed below, along with the conditions for which they are appropriate. Note that when the mixture used to make the poultice contains an irritant, such as mustard, it should not come into direct contact with the skin, but should be placed between pieces of cloth.
The simplest poultice are those made with cold used tea bags for styes or eye irritations or infections. The astringent properties of the tea promoted soothing and healing. You can also use a paste of crushed Dandelion and / or Yellow Dock leaves for bee and wasp stings or other insect bites. Meat tenderizer was made into a paste with a little water and applied to mosquito bites. Some herbalists recommend mixing Vinegar, alcohol or Witch Hazel into the herb slurry; about an ounce to a cup of slurry. You may use the plant material left over from an infusion, such as cold tea - it still has healing properties, but most poultices are made from the fresh unprocessed plant or the re-constituted (with a little water, Vinegar or Witch Hazel) dried herb. Simple poultices can be made from a single herb or substance such as Dandelion, used tea leaves or bran. Combination poultices can include various herbs with other elements added, such as flour or bran for thickening and Vinegar or Witch Hazel for astringency.
Sage and Vinegar Poultice: Bruise whole fresh Sage leaves by flattening them with a rolling pin, but do not break or tear them. Put the leaves into a pan and barely cover with vinegar. Simmer gently for five minutes over a very low heat. The vinegar should not boil, but it should steam so that the sage leaves soften and blanch. After five minutes, remove the leaves and lay them on a cloth. Work quickly, but carefully, as the leaves will be very hot. Fold the cloth into a package which will just cover the affected area. Apply as hot as can be tolerated and cover with towels to retain the heat. Leave on for an hour or so until the swelling has subsided. Sage and Vinegar poultices are traditional for treating bruises or sprains. Vinegar brings bruises to the surface, cooling and reducing swelling. When used together, they are unsurpasses for easing sprains.
Vinegar and Brown Paper Poultice: Put five or six sheets of strong brown paper into a pan and cover with Vinegar. Place a lid on the pan and steam over a very low heat for a few minutes. The time will depend on the type of paper used. It should soften and absorb some of the Vinegar without breaking or disintegrating. Remove the paper and wrap it in overlapping layers around the affected part. Apply as hot as possible and build up several layers. Cover with plastic wrap and bandage in place. Leave for four hours and reapply twice a day until the swelling and bruising have subsided.
This is an effective remedy enshrined in the children's rhyme "Jack and Jill" (Jack "went to bed to mend his head with vinegar and brown paper"). It is very supportive and strengthening for bruises and swellings. Vinegar can also be diluted with warm water and used as a fomentation for sprains and bruises. Diluted with cold or ice water, it makes a good compress for hot, swollen joints or hot tension headaches.
Clay Poultice: 4 ounces to one pound (depending on the area to be covered) of pure, Green, Healing Clay and distilled water. Mix the clay with enough water to make a thick paste. Spread with a spoon onto the center of a piece of cloth, as a diaper, an area that corresponds to the affected area of the skin. Apply the clay directly to the area, pressing it into the flesh so that it adheres. Cover with a dry cloth and leave on until the clay pulls away of its own accord. This indicates that the therapy is completed.
Comfrey and/or Plantain Poultice: Fresh comfrey and/or plantain leaves (I like to use both) and Distilled water. Blend the leaves and water together in a blender or bruise the leaves together with a mortar and pestle until a mucilage (a gooey substance) is formed. Place on a gauze pad and apply to the affected area. Wrap with a bandage to hold in place. A little Olive Oil applied to the area first will prevent the poultice from adhering to the wound and prevent any skin irritation that may arise from sensitivities to the plant. Both can be used on deep cuts, scrapes, stings, and burns, as well as to draw out such foreign objects as splinters or glass. Faithful application will eventually see the skin regenerate. (This recipe came in very handy with four very active, adventurous sons while they were growing up).
Chaparral, Dandelion, and Yellow Dock: Can be used to treat skin disorders such as acne, eczema, itchy or dry skin, psoriasis, and rashes. You can use one herb, or combine two or three. The greatest benefit will be obtained from using all three. Use Chaparral only if you grow it yourself or purchase it from a reputable organic grower.
Elderberry: Can relieve pain associated with hemorrhoids.
Fenugreek, Flaxseed, and Slippery Elm: Can be combined to treat inflammation. Slippery Elm can also be used alone for the inflamed gangrenous sores often associated with diabetes, and for leg ulcers. The use of a Slippery Elm poultice upon the appearance of sores and ulcers can help prevent gangrene.
Slippery Elm and Lobelia: Can be used to treat abscesses, blood poisoning and rheumatism.
Goldenseal: Is good for inflammations of all kinds.
Lobelia and Charcoal: Charcoal is available in health food stores. These are combined and used to treat insect bites, bee stings, and almost all wounds.
Lobelia and Slippery Elm: Combined to treat abscesses, blood poisoning, and rheumatism.
Mullein: Is used for inflamed hemorrhoids, lung disorders, mumps, tonsillitis, and sore throat. To make the poultice, mix 4 parts Mullein with 1 part hot Apple Cider Vinegar and 1 part water.
Mustard: This is beneficial for inflammation, lung congestion, and swelling, and can help relax tense muscles. Because mustard is an irritant, place the mixture between 2 pieces of cloth, rather than placing it in direct contact with the skin.
Onion: 3 large fresh, organic onions and distilled water. Slice onions thinly and saut� them in a small amount of distilled water until transparent. Fold half into a diaper so that the finished pack is approximately 8 by 8 inches. To make this poultice, place the finely chopped onion between 2 pieces of cloth, rather than placing it in direct contact with the skin. Apply to the chest as hot as can be tolerated and immediately cover with a towel to hold in the heat. Begin preparing another poultice with the other half of the onions. When the first one is cool, immediately replace it with the second. After treatment, gently dry the chest and tuck the patient into bed to rest.
This is used in cases of deep lung congestion and bronchial inflammation. It will bring penetrating relief from the annoying itch when it hurts too much to cough. It can also be applied over the ear and lymph nodes to treat ear aches, only make the poultice smaller. Is good for treating ear infections, and for boils and sores that have difficulty healing.
Pau d' Arco, Ragweed. and Wood Sage (American Germander; Teucrium canadense) can be combined and used to treat tumors and external cancers. Wood Sage is a wild flower.
Poke Root: Is good for an inflamed or sore breast.
Sage - Like Poke Root, can help relieve breast inflammation and soreness.
Warm Throat Compress: For coughs and sore throats: Make a Ginger tea by bringing 2 cups of water and 1 tablespoon of fresh Ginger root to a simmer. Cover and reduce heat to a very low for 5 minutes. Soak a soft cloth in the tea (make sure it is not too hot for your skin), wring it out and wrap it around your neck. Cover with a dry towel to keep in the heat. Leave the compress on until it cools. You can repeat this many times in succession, several times a day.
Warm Onion Ear Compress: An old home remedy for earaches: Chop a handful of Onions and heat them until just warm. Place them in a cheesecloth square, tie the cloth in a knot, lie down on the unaffected side and lay the cloth on the affected ear. Tie a scarf around your head to secure. Leave the compress on until it cools, or place a hot-water bottle over the compress.
Swollen & Inflamed Joints & Arthritis: Make a compress or poultice of St. John's Wort or Devil's Claw Root, or rub the infused oil into the area and cover with a fomentation wrung out of the infusion.
Skin Irritations, Dry or Aging Skin, Eczema: Using alone or in combination, make a compress or poultice of Chickweed, Calendula, Dandelion and / or Yellow Dock.
Flaky, Irritated Eyes, Styes & Eye Infections: Apply cold used Black Tea or Green Tea bags directly over the closed eyelids, replacing as necessary. Dip the bags in Witch Hazel if desired.
Sprains & Bruises: Use Arnica flowers, but do not apply directly to the skin as it can be irritating. Use as a compress or fomentation.
Inflamed Hemorrhoids, Lung or Bronchial Disorders, Chest Congestion, Mumps, Tonsillitis, & Sore Throat: Use a warm compress of a cup of Mullein with an ounce of hot Apple Cider Vinegar and ounce of pure water.
Chest, Lung or Bronchial Congestion: Use the old time-honored hot mustard plaster. Use commercial dried Mustard. Because Mustard is an irritant and can burn the skin, use a compress rather than a poultice by placing the mixture between 2 pieces of cloth, rather than placing it directly on the skin.
Total Body Wrap: This cold wrap, a treatment promoted by Father Sebastian Kneipp, may at first glance seem to be odd or even damply distasteful - until you try it. It has been found to be very effective for stopping a cold or flu in its tracks if it is done when you feel the first symptoms. It spurs immune responses, lessens lymph congestion and is actually very soothing. First, place a plastic sheet over your bed to protect it. Next, take a hot bath. Rinse with cold water, but do not dry off. wrap yourself in a sheet that has been soaked in cold water and then wrung out (to enhance the healing effects, first add a few drops of Lavender or Rose Essential Oil). Then wrap yourself in a blanket, too. Lie down and cover yourself with at least 1 more blanket. Rest for 30 to 45 minutes. You will feel a relaxing warmth spread over your body. Rinse off.
Cold Chest Wrap: This wrap can ease bronchitis and asthma symptoms. Soak a large, soft cloth in cooled Thyme tea, wring it out and place it over your chest. Cover first with a dry cotton cloth and then a dry woolen blanket. Rest for 45 minutes. Your body heat and the Thyme vapors will open up bronchial tubes and ease breathing.
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Perennial or self seeding annuals. Direct seed in late spring, prefers slight shade with good drainage and sandy soil. Plant closely for best yield and proliferation. Harvest root during dormant period after the first year to make oil. Leaves make a lovely poultice for skin damage.
Herbaceous perennial. Press into surface of soil and keep moist. Prefers cool soils for germ. Plants prefer sun or shade with moist soil; feeding water and compost will help the plaint to attain impressive size. Anti-microbial and anti-inflammatory. Particularly useful as a first-aid poultice and for dental infections.
Simple and unbleached 100% cotton muslin bags with a drawstring. Very useful for brewing large pots of tea, infusing bath herbs, for poultices, food preparation, and a variety of other uses. Two sizes to choose from: small or large.
Skin Poultice Mixer contains Wheat Germ Oil, Honey, and Mineral Water. Make paste of amount needed, mix with poultice powder. Apply paste to skin, cover with unbleached white cotton and plastic wrap. Change when dry. Shake well before using.
Poultice ingredients include Comfrey Leaf, Slippery Elm Bark, Goldenseal Root, Chlorella, & Chickweed. Mixer includes Wheat Germ Oil, Honey, and Mineral Water. Mix poultice herbs with poultice mixer, forming a paste. Apply paste to skin as required, cover with unbleached cotton and plastic wrap. Replace when dry.
Poultice ingredients include Myrrh Gum, Comfrey Leaf, Slippery Elm Bark, & Lobelia Herb. Mixer includes Wheat Germ Oil, Honey, and Mineral Water. Mix poultice herbs with poultice mixer, forming a paste. Apply paste to skin as required, cover with unbleached cotton and plastic wrap. Replace when dry.
Poultice ingredients include Plantain, Comfrey, Slippery Elm Bark, Myrrh, Oat Straw, & Lobelia. Mixer includes Wheat Germ Oil, Honey, and Mineral Water. Mix poultice herbs with poultice mixer, forming a paste. Apply paste to skin as required, cover with unbleached cotton and plastic wrap. Replace when dry.
This is Frontier�s double wall silverfoil pack. Some Frontier packs are double wall wax-lined paper. This is cosmetic grade clay. Light green in color, with medium absorbency, this is a traditional facial clay and good for problem skin types.
This is Starwest's nitrogen-flushed double wall silverfoil pack. This is cosmetic grade clay. Light green in color, with medium absorbency, this is a traditional facial clay and good for problem skin types. Sun dried Green Clay has a record of usage by the Romans, Greeks and Ancient Egyptians to treat a wide variety of ailments. Its application is becoming increasingly widespread, especially in France where its successes have been well documented. It is an excellent substance for combining with essential oils, each having a synergistic effect on the other to enhance their mutual therapeutic properties.
BATHING: Add a handfull of Green Clay to bathwater with your chosen essential oils. The mineral salts can lift energy levels and soften the skin.
POULTICE: To make a soothing, comforting application for muscles and joints, put a good quantity of Powdered Green Clay into a large glass bowl. Add spring water and mix with a wooden spoon. Allow the clay to absorb the water then add up to 6 drops of Lavender, Roman Chamomile, Ginger or Rosemary essential oils. Mix again to a smooth paste. Apply directly onto the affected part or onto a piece of gauze which is then placed onto the body with the gauze uppermost. Secure with a bandage and leave in place for two hours before renewing if necessary - to continue the soothing action of the clay and oils. Never re-use a poultice.
FACIAL: Easy Facial for normal to oily skin 1/4 cup green clay, 1/4 cup water, 2 tablespoons sunflower or other light oil Combine clay and water first, blend, then add oil. Spread on face and neck, avoiding eye area. Rest for 10 minutes. then gently rinse off with warm water.
DEODORIZING FOOT MASK: Take 1/2 cup green clay, 1/2 cup water, few drops tea tree essential oil. Blend clay and water, add essential oil. Slather thickly on feet, and loosely wrap in plastic if desired. After 15 minutes. rinse with cool water, and follow with moisturizer.
GOURMET SPA FACIAL: Take 1/4 cup green clay, 1/4 cup water, 2 tablespoons honey, 1/4 cup mashed banana or avocado. Blend first the clay and water, then add the honey and fruit. Spread on face and neck, avoiding eye area. Rest for 10 minutes. then gently rinse off with warm water.
There are three bases used for a clay facial mask, White Kaolin which has a astringent effect and removes impurities from normal to oily skin; Fullers Earth which has a stimulating effect and removes dead skin cells on normal to oily skins; Green Clay which is the most popular base for the facial mask because it can be used on all types of skin care conditions. It can be used to balance combination skin, normalize oily skin, and revitalize dry skin. It is rich in vitamin and minerals and has antiseptic healing properties that leave the skin feeling silky smooth. See Clay Information & Products.
Amazon: Ragweed Tincture, Heritage Products, 4 fl. oz.
This natural dietary supplement helps maintain normal conditions in the elimination system and provides herbal support during exposure to pollen and dust. The Heritage Stores formula contains ragweed, water and grain alcohol. Adult dosage is 1-2 teaspoonfuls in water taken morning and evening as needed.
Amazon: Ragweed Tincture, Baar Products, 4 fl. oz.
Edgar Cayce formula, digestive support, supports healthy liver function, allergy tonic and works to combat allergens. Formulated to aid the body's response to combat allergens. According to Cayce's recommendations for more than 125 people, Ragweed is effective as a liver care tonic, non-habit forming laxative and ragweed allergy preventive. Formulated to aid the body's digestive system by supporting healthy assimilations and eliminations.


Employee's working in the state of Main can no longer worry about being drugs tested and disciplined for their off work hours cannabis use. The Main Department of Labor has removed THC from the list of substances that employers are allowed to test for.
Though this move seems progressive, its shocking that other medical and recreational states such as Colorado, California, or Washington state haven't follow suite. After all why should you be fired for something that is considered legal to consume according to your states government.
This new bill will prohibit employers from refusing to hire or from disciplining anyone over 21 years old that choses to consume marijuana outside of work but, also allows them to ban marijuana from the work place. It also, provided guidelines for discipline of anyone appeared to be "high" during the work day.


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package com.solacesystems.testtool.jnetpipe.core;

import java.io.IOException;
import java.nio.ByteBuffer;
import java.nio.channels.SelectionKey;
import java.nio.channels.SocketChannel;
import org.apache.log4j.Logger;

public class ChannelController implements SocketWriter {
	public final static int FL_DROP_READS = 1;
	public final static int FL_DROP_WRITES = 2;

	final static int BUF_SZ = 32768;
	final static Logger trace = Logger.getLogger(ChannelController.class);
	final SocketChannel _ch;
	final PipeInstance _parentPipe;
	final String _name;

	volatile int behaviour = 0;
	private ByteBuffer _nextWrite = null;

	public ChannelController(SocketChannel sc, PipeInstance parentPipe, String name) throws IOException {
		_ch = sc;
		_ch.socket().setTcpNoDelay(true);
		_parentPipe = parentPipe;
		_ch.configureBlocking(false);
		_name = name;
	}

	public void registerRead(boolean reg, int flags) {
		trace.debug(String.format("registerRead[%s], %s", this, reg));
		_parentPipe.getIoContext().regRW(SelectionKey.OP_READ, reg, this, flags);
	}

	public void registerWrite(boolean reg, int flags) {
		trace.debug(String.format("registerWrite[%s], %s", this, reg));
		_parentPipe.getIoContext().regRW(SelectionKey.OP_WRITE, reg, this, flags);
	}

	public int getBehaviourFlags() {
		return behaviour;
	}

	public void setBehaviourFlags(int flags) {
		String strdbg = "Setting behaviour flags ";
		strdbg += getBehaviourString();
		trace.info(strdbg);

		behaviour = flags;
	}

	public void close() {
		try {
			_ch.close();
		} catch (IOException e) {
			trace.debug("IOException in channel close.", e);
		}
	}

	/**
	 * Called when ready to read from channel
	 */
	@Override
	public void read() {
		ByteBuffer buf = ByteBuffer.allocate(BUF_SZ);
		try {
			int bytesRead = _ch.read(buf);
			if (bytesRead == -1) {
				// closed
				handleIoException(new IOException("Read EOF"));
			} else if (bytesRead > 0) {
				buf.flip();
				if ((behaviour & FL_DROP_READS) == 0)
					_parentPipe.incomingData(buf, this);
			}
		} catch (IOException ex) {
			handleIoException(ex);
		}
	}

	public void queueWrite(ByteBuffer buf) {
		assert (_nextWrite == null);
		_nextWrite = buf;
		registerWrite(true, 0);
	}

	/**
	 * Called when ready to write
	 */
	@Override
	public void write() {
		final int bytesToWrite = _nextWrite.remaining();
		try {
			// Drop all writes and report complete
			if ((behaviour & FL_DROP_WRITES) != 0) {
				registerWrite(false, 0); // write done!
				_nextWrite = null;
				_parentPipe.writeComplete(this);
				return;
			}

			final int bytesWritten = _ch.write(_nextWrite);
			if (bytesWritten == -1) {
				handleIoException(new IOException("EOF on write"));
			} else if (bytesWritten < bytesToWrite) {
				registerWrite(true, 0); // have more data
			} else if (bytesWritten == bytesToWrite) {
				registerWrite(false, 0); // write done!
				_nextWrite = null;
				_parentPipe.writeComplete(this);
			}
		} catch (IOException ex) {
			handleIoException(ex);
		}
	}

	@Override
	public void handleIoException(IOException ex) {
		_parentPipe.handleIoException(ex);
	}

	@Override
	public SocketChannel channel() {
		return _ch;
	}

	private String getBehaviourString() {
		int flags = getBehaviourFlags();
		String strdbg = String.valueOf(flags) + " ";
		if ((flags & FL_DROP_READS) != 0)
			strdbg += "FL_DROP_READS ";
		if ((flags & FL_DROP_WRITES) != 0)
			strdbg += "FL_DROP_WRITES ";
		if (flags == 0)
			strdbg += "0";
		return strdbg;
	}

	@Override
	public String toString() {
		return String.format("%s (B:%s)", _name, getBehaviourString());
	}

}

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Young geographers map out area's future
PUPILS have been learning about the geographical history of their village while giving their ideas for its future development.
Kelsall Primary School's Year Six class undertook the study to learn more about their environment, and also to give Kelsall Parish Council feedback on what they would like to see in the council's Parish Plan.
After observing Kelsall's characteristics they drew pictures of them on large canvasses and prepared a presentation for parents and Kelsall residents on their findings.
Lewis Bailey, 11, said: 'We found that a lot of Kelsall is on an escarpment, which is a hill going up to a ridge. We didn't know that before, I just knew there are areas sloping upwards but I didn't know what they are called.'
His classmate Anna Molyneux stud-ied the plain, which she defined as 'a large outstretch of land with a couple of houses and scattered trees.'
Anna added: 'I was surprised by how much of Kelsall by the ridge is sandstone, you see it around the village a lot more when you know what it is.'
Headteacher Stephen Williams said he is pleased the children's views will be in the parish plan, which will influence future ventures in the village.
'Kelsall is well-known for its sandstone and hedgerows, through the study we are showing the children the importance of preserving them,' he added.


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Teens become sexually obsessed due to TV screen
Seven in 10 American television shows watched by teens now contain some form of sexual content, while each show contains more sexual references than they did a few years ago, according to a survey released Wednesday.
The study found that American teens, who spend an average of three hours per day watching television, now see an average of six sexual scenes per hour when watching in prime time. That's significantly more than the 4.4 scenes per hour teens saw during the same study in 2002.
In all, the number of sexual scenes contained in about 1,000 shows sampled nearly doubled from 1,930 in 1998 to 3,780 in 2005, the study found. The study included shows on cable and broadcast television.
According to researchers, the study clearly shows that American children and teens are exposed to an increasing level and range of sexual TV content. But the impact of that exposure is still largely unknown.
Still, 750,000 teenagers become pregnant each year, while an estimated 4 million contract sexually transmitted diseases.
The study sampled a wide range of sexual content, including conversational references to sex, implied sex acts, and depicted sexual intercourse.
Researchers found that just 14% of shows depicting sex also contained references to risk or to safe sex. That's down from 15% in 2002 but was still a significant rise from 9% in 1998, according to the study.
Increasing exposure to TV sex and violence has lead to threats from Congress to more strictly regulate TV networks. Those threats often run up against concerns that they might infringe on the First Amendment's guarantee of free speech. But in response, many networks have submitted to voluntary ratings systems while promoting the use of parental control technologies like the V-chip, Fox News reports.


Resurgent regional cryptocurrency Auroracoin debuted Iceland's first-ever cryptocurrency exchange, ISX, allowing the people of Iceland to trade Auroracoin and krona.
This week, the Auroracoin Foundation debuted ISX.is, Iceland's first cryptocurrency exchange. ISX allows the citizens of Iceland to trade króna for cryptocurrency, in this case Auroracoin.
Amid a renewed set of financial scandals in Iceland exposed by the Panama Papers, Auroracoin has made a comeback.
For the last year, the Auroracoin Foundation has made significant adoption pushes including a brand awareness advertising campaign at bus stops around the country.
According to Hermann Finnbjörnsson, board member of the Auroracoin Foundation, the opening of the ISX exchange represents a great success in this greater adoption effort.
During the initial "airdrop" distribution of the Auroracoin, the price experienced a large spike followed by an immediate collapse.
This was due to the currency lacking proper infrastructure to deal with the massive supply inflation, as no proper currency exchange was in place and adequate merchant integration had not been pursued.
Now under the direction of the Auroracoin Foundation, the infrastructure surrounding the cryptocurrency and its adoption is looking much more promising.
Pétur Árnason, head of the Auroracoin Foundation, sees the creation of the ISX exchange as an important first step towards providing financial freedom to the people of Iceland.


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Why Is The Hurt Locker Primed to Win 'Best Picture'?
By John Boot Mar 07, 2010 12:00 AM ET
Why is the Iraq film The Hurt Locker a strong contender to win the Best Picture, Original Screenplay, and Director Oscars at Sunday night's ceremony? Because The Hurt Locker is the first major Iraq movie to be an actual movie — not a celluloid op-ed piece.
Best Actor nominee Jeremy Renner owns The Hurt Locker as a funny, cocky, testosterone-fueled member of the Army's explosive ordnance disposal (EOD) team. Staff Sergeant William James' job is to defuse hidden roadside booby traps before they explode. Marching through the dusty streets in a shock-deflecting suit that looks like something from Apollo 13, Renner somehow makes this uniform look cool.
Kathryn Bigelow, the action-movie vet who directed this film with full-on bravado and a Hitchcockian knack for building suspense, has been applauded by the critics. So that's one strike against it. But if you read the critics very carefully, they're frustrated by exactly the qualities that make the film such an impressive achievement. Writing in the New York Times, for instance, A.O. Scott sniffed that the film is "a little evasive" because it's "not necessarily about the causes and consequences of the Iraq war, mind you" and depicts "men who risk their lives every day on the streets of Baghdad and in the desert beyond" who are "too stressed out, too busy, too preoccupied with the details of survival to reflect on larger questions about what they are doing there."
In other words: too bad this movie couldn't have jammed in a few conversations in which the troops deride Donald Rumsfeld, a sequence that proves that U.S. troops are puppets of Halliburton, or (at very least) a couple of ironic shots of that "Mission Accomplished" banner.
As the documentaries on the Iraq war show, soldiers do occasionally discuss these matters in the field, but mostly in passing. They're not obsessed by them to anywhere near the degree that the media are. Why? Because as experienced combat vets they don't expect things to go perfectly, they're trained to respect the chain of command, and (above all) they overwhelmingly support the cause, support President Bush, and know that the job is far more important than flapping their gums about politics. Soldiers, in other words, are soldiers, and that is exactly what The Hurt Locker depicts them to be.
Is the movie antiwar? In part — can any serious war movie not be a little antiwar? War is gruesome business. In a counterinsurgency campaign such as the one depicted so convincingly and ferociously in The Hurt Locker, you don't know whether "that guy with the cellphone" in the distance is about to detonate an explosive by punching a number. And if you should befriend a little kid selling videos in the markets, you don't know whether that friendship could cost the boy his life.
Yet the movie, dubbed one of the ten best conservative films of the decade ("strikingly patriotic" and "a tribute to the heroism" of soldiers) by blogger Nile Gardiner of Britain's the Telegraph, is also fair about war, making it clear amid the haze and chaos how cowardly and cold-blooded the insurgency is, how disgusting is their use of innocent people such as the boy who befriends Sgt. James.
And the most salient aspect of The Hurt Locker is, despite the nerve-shattering level of tension it portrays, the clear character superiority of life as a soldier. When Sgt. James returns home to an ordinary, gray life, we see it through his eyes as trivial, lacking in challenge, devoid of heroes. Sgt. James doesn't decide to return to the hot zone despite the risk; he returns because of the risk, because he has learned that proximity to danger in the service of a high cause is ennobling. The movie's epigraph about war being a drug is true in a way. But isn't love also a drug? Including love of duty, love of honor, love of country?
I don't see The Hurt Locker as a pro-war picture (and, in interviews, Bigelow has said she hopes that people conclude that the Iraq situation is futile), but it is a resonant one. It's refreshingly devoid of the kinds of grandstanding, make-sure-the-audience-knows-what-to-think writing that has polluted virtually every movie about the war on terror. And in honestly portraying the exhilarating aspects of one complicated soldier's life, it may be the only Iraq film yet that you can imagine inspiring a bored young man vaguely repulsed by the indolence all around him to say, "I get it. I see the insanity, but I also see the glory. I'm going down to the recruiter's office tomorrow."
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Helge Knut Josef Adamsson, född 1 juli 1902 i Västervåla församling, Västmanlands län, död 28 januari 1942 i Stockholm, var en svensk idrottsman (medel- och långdistanslöpare). Han tävlade för IF Linnéa och vann 1927 SM-guld i 10 000 meter lag.

Adamsson var som medlem i IF Linnéas klubblag världsrekordshållare i stafett 4 x 1 500 m åren 1925 till 1926. Han var svensk rekordhållare i grenen 1925 till 1929.

Referenser

Källor

 Dagens Nyheter, 15 februari 1942, sid. 2

Svenska medeldistanslöpare
Svenska långdistanslöpare
Svenska mästare i långdistanslöpning
Svenska mästare i stafettlöpning
Världsrekordhållare på 4 x 1 500 meter löpning
Svenska idrottare under 1900-talet
Personer från Västervåla socken
Födda 1902
Avlidna 1942
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Send your witch and wizard guests home with a bit of magic with these Harry Potter Party Bags. Each gift bag features the Hogwarts' coat of arms and can be filled with enchanting goodies, treats and a slice of birthday cake. The loot bags are ideal for fans of the books and movies and a great end to a Harry Potter themed birthday party.


HONG KONG (AFP) – Standard Chartered on Tuesday said its first-half net profit fell 24 percent, with some of its businesses in emerging Asian markets seeing slower growth.
The London-based, Asia-focused bank said net profit fell to $2.13 billion for the six months to June 30, from $2.81 billion in the same period last year.
Operating income went up four percent to reach $9.75 billion from $9.37 billion in the previous year.
However, the emerging markets-focused bank was hit by a weak performance in Korea with revenue falling five percent in the first half.
The bank posted a goodwill impairment of $1 billion in Korea, representing a lower value of assets in the country.
The bank's performance was also affected by weak numbers in Singapore where profits fell 12 percent, but saw improvements in its African market where profits were up 10 percent for the reported period.
"This year markets like Hong Kong, India and Africa delivered impressive growth, whilst Korea, Singapore and Other Asia Pacific faltered," Group Chief Executive Peter Sands said in a filing to the Hong Kong stock exchange.
Sands said the group will not target a double digit revenue growth for 2013 due to uncertainty and "growing turbulence" in the global economy.
In the same statement, chairman John Peace said bank's business remained "robust" with "strong opportunities" in its global footprint.
"The external environment will remain challenging for the foreseeable future, but we are in the right markets and have the right strategy in place to deliver growth," Peace said.
Shares in the global banking giant HSBC slumped nearly five percent in Hong Kong Tuesday a day after it announced a 22 percent rise in half-year net profits, falling short of analysts' expectations.


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import React from 'react';
import { shallow } from 'enzyme';
import expect from 'expect';
import Form from 'react-form-base';
import { Dialog } from '~/src';
import FlatButton from 'material-ui/FlatButton';

describe('Dialog', function() {
  class TestForm extends Dialog(Form) {
    $render() {
      return
content
;
    }
  }

  it('uses $render method to render content', function() {
    const wrapper = shallow(<TestForm attrs={{}} />);
    expect(wrapper.containsMatchingElement(
content
)).toBe(true);
  });

  it('clears errors when opened', function() {
    const wrapper = shallow(<TestForm attrs={{}} open={false} />);
    wrapper.setState({ errors: { foo: 'invalid' } });
    wrapper.setProps({ open: true });
    expect(wrapper.state('errors')).toEqual({});
  });

  it('accepts title prop and passes it to inner Dialog', function() {
    const wrapper = shallow(<TestForm attrs={{}} title="Dialog" />);
    expect(wrapper.find('Dialog').prop('title')).toEqual('Dialog');
  });

  it('has actions by default', function() {
    const wrapper = shallow(<TestForm attrs={{}} />);
    const actions = wrapper.find('Dialog').prop('actions');
    expect(actions.length).toEqual(2);
    expect(actions[0].type).toEqual(FlatButton);
    expect(actions[0].props.label).toEqual('Cancel');
    expect(actions[1].type).toEqual(FlatButton);
    expect(actions[1].props.label).toEqual('Save');
  });

  it('allows to overload title and actions', function() {
    class TestForm extends Dialog(Form) {
      getTitle() { return 'My Title'; }
      getActions() {
        return [<FlatButton label="Close Me" onTouchTap={this.props.onRequestClose} />];
      }
    }

    const wrapper = shallow(<TestForm attrs={{}} />);
    const actions = wrapper.find('Dialog').prop('actions');
    expect(wrapper.find('Dialog').prop('title')).toEqual('My Title');
    expect(actions.length).toEqual(1);
    expect(actions[0].type).toEqual(FlatButton);
    expect(actions[0].props.label).toEqual('Close Me');
  });
});


The school also needs to combine itself in this process of digital revolution caused by the NTCI, disponibilizando half for which the professors use these mainly techniques in classroom and propitiating this education to the popular layers aiming at to take care of its basic necessities. The objective of the school, in this direction, is to enable the pupil to interact, to interpret and to dominate the technology in reflexiva critical way and at the same time, therefore thus this pupil will participate of the process of social transformation in concrete way. The proposal is to incorporate the new cultural identities, produced in the relations of the citizens with the technologies, in most diverse practical social (Barreto, 2002, P. 81). Integrated in this set of responsible agents for a technological education it is also the government, which from its action becomes an essential element. The implantation of the technologies in the schools, the investment in the formation and qualification of professors to dominate these technologies and the digital inclusion directed mainly to the pupils of the popular layers, is some of the innumerable actions that if wait of a government compromised to one of them pillars of the society: the education. Through the union between government, with investments and actions favorable to the implantation of the NTCI in the educational system; school, for the democratization of an education directed to the attendance of less the most favored; professors, which are mediating agents between medias and pupils, are that the true formation of critical citizens will be established, operating in the technological society. As said, being the professor a basic element for the success of a transforming education, it needs is prepared to deal with the social changes, politics, cultural and technological occured to its redor..
This work has as intention to present a project that can assist in the introduction of people to the world of computer science. Computer science is in almost all the areas of activities of our lives, therefore the intention of a project that can introduce people more early each time to the informatizado world. You may find Mark Bertolini to be a useful source of information. Some research had been made in books, reviewed, in sites of the Internet, with intention to select the importance of computer science in the world of today, and which the best way of introduziz it na life them people whom this knowledge does not have. An archetype of a pedagogical site reveals in this project as a way to introduce children not alfabetizadas, or that they are in alfabetizao process, intending that together with this activity of learning and letramento already if has a contact with the computer becoming it more common and considering its use to this apprentice as introduziz form it in all its knowledge giving it a new form to think about the question of the world. Research had been made also, in the several makes of the cognitivo, motor development, of language, social personality and to facilitate in the development of a possible more extensive project of introduction computer science, enclosing the productive etrias bands to the work market, of efficient and productive form.
When we began to observe and to understand the law of the attraction we realize that our life is full of negative thoughts, which have been deepened in our being, due to this circumstance often is made applying correctly quite difficult the law of the attraction because we thought about the positive during some time, but immediately the downheart, pesimism returns to appear. To break the bad habits of the mind is a difficult task, the negative thoughts is the turn out to pay attention to ideas that does not benefit to us, the problem is that is a plant that we have watered during as much time that well is taken root, so that plants dies is necessary to stop watering it, like what kills the love is the negligence, a negative idea works in the same way, so that the negative thoughts are disappearing of our life is necessary to stop feeding them. Perhaps well, when we began to work with the law of the attraction we ask ourselves, how it is that all those negative ideas have arrived life? They went away inserting little a little, firstly in our families, it says to a famous saying " nobody gives what not tiene" and it is truth, everything what our families transmitted to us was what they themselves were, their profits, beliefs, ideals, fears, Then etc. some beliefs obstacles have transmitted themselves in our family, of we have the influence of the friendly there, mass media, etc. All this is what it has generated in us negative ideas that they prevent to suitably apply the law us of the attraction and to obtain a full life of satisfactions. The law of the attraction is a wonderful tool to be able to change many undesirable aspects in our life, but so that it works it must follow many strategies that assure results.
When I go to take off time pra to study the substances of average education, the substances of the course of Webdesign and to have to work at the same time (pra to be able to have money pra to pay the lodging)? If he was pra to make the two first options, would be easy, but beyond studying the entire day, still having to work? I do not go to ask for money to my parents, after all of accounts they already are paying to my college (average Education) and my course (the Webdesign), and I do not gain monthly allowance, what to make? The solution was to finish the course, and later arranging one ' ' trampo' '. On the other hand, coming back to the 2010, I also had to decide me with regard to the damages that would have with this, if I offered I glide gratis, the customers I could disrespect the paid plans, why the gratuitous one already would have everything, it was then that I decided to calculate the size of the installation system JOOMLA 1,5, if my memory serves me right, it had given 30 MB (I am rounding off), and I thought ' ' What such 50 MB of space? Of this form the user still would have 20 MB pra to use, in case that it installed the JOOMLA, if it did not install, better still, it would have 50 MB to use with the studies, or a site simples' '. It was the alternative that I found, could not have better thinking about something, ah, and already forgetting he went me to speak, expensive reader, the resources, not April hand of none, are all there, the smtp, the Mail Lists, Fantastic, the PHP, the ftp, the Domnios, etc. I placed 3 of each, and in the monthly traffic I placed 100MB.
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Q: Error when compiling flutter app to android device When I am trying to build a flutter app to an android device, I get the following error message:
Could not determine the dependencies of task ':app:compileDebugJavaWithJavac'.

Building it on an IOS simulator works fine.
My pubspec.yaml file looks like this:
name: medical_management_app
description: A new Flutter project.
version: 1.0.0+1

environment:
  sdk: ">=2.1.0 <3.0.0"

dependencies:
  flutter:
    sdk: flutter

  # firebase
  cloud_firestore: 0.13.0+1
  # BLoC
  flutter_bloc: ^3.0.0
  # equatable
  equatable: ^1.0.1
  # ios style icons
  cupertino_icons: ^0.1.2

dev_dependencies:
  flutter_test:
    sdk: flutter

flutter:
  uses-material-design: true

I found that this error has already appeared for android devices earlier this year for apps using firebase.
Does anyone know if this error is caused by an update to the firebase packages? Or is there something I am doing wrong?

A: Please check Step 3 this page;
https://firebase.google.com/docs/android/setup#add_the_sdk
You need to make a little change to the build gradle file for Android.


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Who's the GOP Fighting for on the Cliff?
A newly released poll shows that the 53 percent of Americans would blame Republicans in Congress if a fiscal cliff agreement isn't reached. Obviously, that's more than the 1 Percent they're fighting for.
By Alexander Abad-Santos
A newly released poll from The Washington Post and the Pew Research Center shows that the 53 percent of Americans would blame Republicans in Congress if a fiscal cliff agreement isn't reached. Obviously, that's more than the 1 Percent they're fighting for. The poll and its results including the 53 percent can be found here, and as the WaPo's Chris Cilizza, Aaron Blake, and Sean Sullivan write, "Those numbers are largely unchanged from a Post-Pew survey conducted three weeks ago and suggest that for all of the back and forth in Washington on the fiscal cliff, there has been little movement in public perception." And as President Obama would like to remind you, those numbers aren't all that different from the results of the general election, either.
And it isn't a clear split. Only 27 percent would blame Obama if the country goes over the cliff. Add to that 64 percent who believe the fiscal cliff will have a "major" effect on the US economy, with 60 percent think that effect will be negative.
But let's think about it like this for a second: If the American public wants to blame Republicans for a lack of agreement — and the repercussions therein (credit downgrade, anyone?) — then what, exactly, are Republicans fighting for? Well, it's not for the majority of Americans. As Speaker Boehner has been countering, he's fighting for the "top 2 percent" who he says are actually small business owners: "[R]aising taxes on the so-called top 2 percent—half of those taxpayers are small-business owners that pay their taxes through their personal income tax filing every year... It'll hurt small businesses; it'll hurt our economy," Boehner said on November 28, echoing the all-too-familiar Republican counter to why Obama's plan of raising taxes on those making $250,000 and more is a bad idea.
You'll recall from the presidential and vice presidential debates that this small business talk was a point of contention. And that, yes, hedge funds totally fit into the Republicans' definition of a small business. "A $600-million-a-year hedge fund would indeed qualify as a 'small business' by [Paul] Ryan's misleading definition," reports FactCheck.org. And regardless of the "small business" description, that still puts them in the 1 percent, which is less than the majority of Americans who aren't impressed by the job Republicans are doing.