I love the academy. I love having smart conversations with my colleagues and students. I love seeing young people's eyes opened to new ideas and a critical perspective on all manner of topics and issues. I love seeing older students who return to school and find a new or refreshed love of learning. I am a vocal proponent of the enduring value of higher education for all who choose to pursue it.
But I am also a strong advocate, particularly for traditional students, our emerging adults, that they need to spend time outside the ivory tower to gain skills and wisdom they can't get in the classroom. For many young people, this comes in the form of the internship.
As the internship coordinator for our journalism program, I get to witness regularly the maturity and professional development that students gain through good internships. (And, of course, not all internships are created equal.) When students have a boss, not just a professor, to report to, something changes.
Through internships, students who previously thought I—or their other journalism professors—were unreasonable for insisting on firm deadlines soon realize that their editors in the newsroom have even less tolerance for late stories. Our young journalists who in the classroom saw their stories as having an audience of one—the teacher—awaken to the fact that their work can have a much broader impact on a much wider range of readers, viewers or listeners. For better or worse.
There is just something about the applied, experiential learning in a "real-life" job setting that you can't get in the classroom. I can lecture until I'm blue in the face, telling students, "When you get out there on the job …" But until they're there, until they experience it for themselves, it doesn't click.
Good internships do more than just teach rookies the hard facts of work in the real world. They also give them the validation of genuine professional accomplishment. I love sharing in my students' excitement when they send me their latest clip that gets published. One of the great rewards of being a professor is that you get to brag on your students when they succeed.
And I love it when these young people surprise the seasoned pros, too. Recently, there's been a lot of mention in the journalism world about Ting Shen, a 27-year-old intern at The Dallas Morning News who took the powerful photo of a black male police officer consoling a white (plain-clothes) female officer at the hospital in the immediate aftermath of the sniper attacks in Dallas earlier this month. The photo went viral and ran in newspapers and on websites across the United States.
It's good for the old guard to see the contributions and potential of the new guard coming up. And it's good for the greenhorns to learn from the veterans.
So it makes me think: What about me? What about in the church? Is there someone who needs a spiritual mentor? Is there someone who needs some words of encouragement or caution from those of us who have been on this walk for a while?
I'm me. Maybe there is some young Christian out there who could learn as much from my weaknesses as they could from my strengths. Maybe they can relate to my challenges and be inspired by my accomplishments.
You see, my journalism students don't need a Pulitzer Prize winner to show them the ropes. They just need someone who has been grinding it out for longer than they have, who maybe has had a few big stories and a lot of smaller ones. They need someone to tell them how embarrassing it is to get a fact wrong, and how great it feels when you get it right. They need someone who can give them some advice on how to get a source to talk or how to use public records. Thankfully, there are good journalists like this all over the world.
And there are genuine Christians in churches everywhere that have more to offer their younger brothers and sisters than they realize. If this is you, pray about who God would have you to mentor. If you're a young Christian, pray and seek out someone more seasoned in the faith who can invest in your life, share some wisdom, and help you avoid the common pitfalls of this journey.
We don't just need to share our faith with nonbelievers; we need to share it with one another, too. Sunday morning services make for great classroom learning, but it's the on-the-job training every other day of the week where you discover how the real work gets done.
Jeff Neely is an assistant professor of journalism at The University of Tampa, where he teaches courses in newswriting, feature writing, multimedia journalism and literary journalism. His research has examined the role narrative and literary journalism can play in broadening our understanding of various issues and experiences life brings our way, from identity formation to environmental ethics. He has also studied how youth journalism programs, where young people tell their own stories and those of their peers, can help strengthen local communities. He is currently working with local non-profit outreach organizations to build a youth journalism program called Tampa Youth Voice. Prior to entering academe, Jeff worked as a writer and editor for various publications in and around the Tampa Bay area, as well as a case manager and resource development specialist for the Florida foster care system.


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All hail the new WNBA assists leader, Sue Bird
Posted on : September 1, 2017 By Abraham DeWeese
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Seattle Storm living legend, Sue Bird is the heart, the soul and the face of the Storm franchise. Today, she just passed Ticha Penicherio for the most assists in WNBA history with 2,610. With 13 assists on Friday in an overtime loss to Washington, Bird is still running strong.
"She said, 'When you're off the court, I can tell there's a difference. It's not the same,' " Bird said. "Especially coming from a fellow point guard, that was really nice. Because when you're on the court, you want to have a presence. To make your teammates feel at ease, more than anything."
Bird is responsible for 2 championships and this record. Bird represents perfection at the point guard position. With the record in All-Star appearances, Bird shows that in her 15th year she is still the gold standard.
A look at HISTORY! 👀 @S10Bird is the @WNBA's ALL-TIME assist leader. 💯😀 pic.twitter.com/JZAZs1ZR5B
— Seattle Storm (@seattlestorm) September 1, 2017
"Her personality is perfect for being a great point guard," said the Sparks' Brian Agler, who coached Bird for seven seasons in Seattle. "Sometimes things work out perfectly: personality, skill, mentality. That's Sue playing that position."
Sue may be a bit underrepresented in this town, however, we at Seattle Sports Union salute her and recognize her in the pantheon of great Seattle basketball players like Gary Payton and Shawn Kemp! Next stop for Sue, Hall of Fame.
The greatest. Congrats @S10Bird!
WNBA All-Time Assists Leader. pic.twitter.com/itPAcu2ZMI
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Daisy Miller by Henry James: Americans are gross, but also maybe not?
Henry James is one of the most maddeningly frustrating authors I've ever encountered. I also keep coming back to his writing, so I'm inclined to think there's something there that I'm just missing. I have read and not really enjoyed or understood the following:
Daisy Miller
The Ambassadors
The Golden Bowl (half of it -- found my freshman year copy with "Abandon hope, all ye who enter here" scrawled on the title page)
The Turn of the Screw
I feel like that's a pretty good representation of his works, although I'm willing to try The Golden Bowl again, because I was 14 when I tried it and it's entirely possible my brain was pretty garbagey then.
this is another possibility
My main issue with James is that he decides what he's going to say in his book, and then he shrouds it in a fog of vagueness and ambiguity. His BFF was Edith Wharton, who did not do this. Her books were also far more successful than his. COINCIDENCE?
But then you get into a reasonable debate: Are Wharton's books better because they're more easily accessible? Intellectual prigs would automatically say no, and that question's even phrased in a leading way, so let's put it differently: Should a good author be able to clearly communicate their point, or should they make the reader work for it? Are both an option, or is there one that people should err on the side of?
As I'm getting older, I'm appreciating James more -- partially because he doesn't just give you the answer. He's still maddeningly frustrating, and his sentences can give you almost nothing to work with, but it's not "HERE IS MY POINT, JUST TO MAKE SURE YOU GET IT."
Cue Daisy Miller. Daisy Miller is a 90 page novella published in 1878, which is pretty early for him, and it's almost astonishingly accessible at first glance. Washington Square, another early James that's good if you want to ease into him, was published two years later. The intro to the 1929 edition of Daisy Miller basically says "Daisy Miller? Yeah, it's popular. You can like it. I mean, I guess. You're probably just not a Real James Fan, that's all. No no, totally fine. Totally. You go ahead and like it and its easy easiness. Noo one's gonna judge you. Except for all the aforementioned Real James Fans, a group of which you are not a part."
Henry James fans when you say
you think Daisy Miller's great
James was an American expatriate and spent a ridic amount of time in Europe, so most of his books are set there. In Daisy Miller, a young man named Winterbourne is visiting his aunt in Switzerland and comes across a young American girl named Daisy Miller (like the title!). The main thrust of this book is that Daisy doesn't pay enough attention to what American Society Abroad wants her to do. She goes out alone with men all the time, her mother doesn't seem to mind it, she won't listen to warnings from others, BUT she also projects a complete air of innocence regarding her behavior, so maybe it's ok, except probably not.
The whole book is spent with Winterbourne wondering if she's really innocent or not, and also kind of whether he can hit that.
Hopefully with something as smooth as this, although good luck, sir
Apparently the novella caused something of a kerfuffle when published, as people debated whether American girls were really like Daisy Miller or not. Since the United States lives with a centuries-old inferiority complex regarding Europe, I'm fairly sure they wanted to say most American girls were not, which echoes the sentiments of the American expatriates in the novel, who rushed to tell their European friends that she was not an accurate representation of their country.
Resonance of this sentiment lingers on! Imagine being in some European metropolis, trying to look like you fit in, and all of a sudden you see some Americans being, as comedian Maria Bamford tactfully puts it, "loud and charming."
You'd totally want to disassociate yourself from those loud gross people who are not even trying to fit in. "ACCEPT ME, DO NOT ACCEPT THEM" you would cry while sitting at a cafe in Paris, your beret tipped at a jaunty angle, smoking a cigarette and holding a baguette under your arm.
#blending
Is Daisy Miller representative of ladies in America! Should you go with what feels right to you in accordance with your own values, or should you bow to society! Who do you identify with in the book? Is it censorious but well-intentioned Mrs. Walker?
"My dear young friend," said Mrs. Walker, taking her hand, pleadingly, "don't walk off to the Pincio at this unhealthy hour to meet a beautiful Italian"
Randolph Miller, who just wants some good candy and is eternally thwarted because all of Europe has none?
"Can you get candy there?" Randolph loudly inquired."I hope not," said his sister. "I guess you have had enough candy, and mother thinks so too.""I haven't had any for ever so long—for a hundred weeks!" cried the boy, still jumping about.
Winterbourne, even though he views Daisy through a kind of manic pixie dream girl lens?
Daisy, on this occasion, continued to present herself as an inscrutable combination of audacity and innocence.
And why does Winterbourne think sitting in the Colosseum will give you "Roman fever"? (I have googled this and can answer that question)
Daisy Miller and Daisy Miller, you are both mysteries to me. But I'm inclined to feel that there was more going on with you than could be seen through the lens of this 20something young man.
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Grayscale have released a video for 'What's On Your Mind', from their new reworked EP
Grayscale have released a video for 'What's On Your Mind', from their new reworked EP.
Their 'Live From The Barber Shop Studios' EP is out today, Wednesday 29th July, via Fearless Records, featuring reimagines of three songs from recent album 'Nella Vita'.
"Every single member of the band grew up with an incredibly wide musical palette," explains guitarist Dallas Molster, who produced the EP. "We were drawn to everything from jazz, classic rock, hip-hop and anything in between. We saw this as an opportunity to rearrange our songs in totally different styles and to tap into some different musical influences than usual."
Give the new clip a watch below.


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Nuance Communications has released a new infographic, The Mobile Advantage, sharing the results of their own mobile consumer preference research. Designed by InfoNewt, this infographic design tells the story of how important mobile apps are to brands.
If you're a consumer-facing organization hoping to use mobile to build a strong, long-lasting relationship with your customers, there's some good news! A new survey shows that smartphone owners are increasingly downloading not just games but customer service apps - especially from their mobile carrier, bank and favorite retailers. In fact, 84% of consumers surveyed generally prefer to use a company's mobile app for routine inquiries (checking balance, check flight status, etc.) rather than calling the company on the phone.
As a B2B communication tool, this infographic does a great job sharing the key findings from the research statistics. Since Nuance performed the research behind how apps form positive customer service experiences for customers, the infographic is a good tool to share that unique knowledge with their customers.
Broken into a three-part story, the design starts with some basic information about the growth of mobile devices. The center section focuses on the huge impact on the customers' view of a company when they have a customer service app. And finally, the last section explores what customers would like to see in a customer service app.
Thanks to the team at Nuance for being outstanding to work with!


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Grover Beach seeking applicants for City Council
By KAREN VELIE
The Grover Beach City Council is seeking applicants for a seat on the council which was vacated when Karen Bright won the mayoral race.
"Are you looking for a meaningful way to serve your community?" the city announced Thursday. "Residents of Grover Beach have an opportunity to serve their community as part of the City Council. Interested residents who live in District 4 are encouraged to submit an application on the city's website by Dec. 30."
On Jan. 9, the City Council plans to review applications and conduct interviews with those residents who apply from District 4. Following the interviews, the council will make an appointment.
Residents can find which district they live in at the city's interactive map.
"I encourage any interested residents from District 4 to apply for the council seat and step into this role during this exciting time for our city," Mayor Bright said. "We look forward to working with another resident who has a passion for public service. We will be identifying our council goals in the next few weeks, giving the new council member an opportunity to have an immediate impact in Grover Beach."
Councilmembers are expected to attend two regular council meetings per month on the second and fourth Mondays, with special meetings or workshops as needed. Additionally, they must serve on regional boards, commissions and subcommittees that typically meet once a month.
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Governments should require those running for another office to step down from their current one so that an election for that seat can be held at the time, accomplishing two things saving the taxpayers from a possible special election or if the vacated seat is to fill by the current board that takes the voters out of the selection, holding an election at the same time solves both these issues.
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That's the equivalent of telling people that they are not allowed to apply for a new job unless they quit their current one first. Ain't gonna happen. Besides, it would discourage highly accomplished and experienced politicians from moving onto higher office. Having duly elected representatives make appointments is consistent with representative democracy and has long been a standard operating procedure in our republic.


Food company General Mills has appointed Coca-Cola vice-president, strategic marketing Ivan Pollard as its new global chief marketing officer.
Pollard will report to chief executive Jeff Harmening and take responsibility for establishing the company's first global marketing and media planning function. He starts on 10 July.
The role was announced last year as part of a shakeup in the business. Ann Simonds, previously chief marketing officer for General Mills' US business, left last December.
Pollard has been at Coca-Cola since January 2011. Before that, he spent five years as group partner at Naked Communications, the latest in a string of agency roles that began in 1987 at Boase Massimi Pollitt, the agency that later became DDB London. He also worked for Wieden & Kennedy, Unity and The Ingram Partnership.
During his time at Coca-Cola, Pollard was responsible for finding ways to deploy the drinks giant's $2bn (£1.6bn) global media spend more effectively. In North America, he introduced new data-driven approaches to areas including media, sponsorships, and content creation.
Harmening said: "Ivan's diverse global experience brings us a fresh perspective on our brands and a deep understanding of how to operationalise integrated, modern marketing in the digital age.
"We have tremendous opportunities to unlock global growth by improving the effectiveness of our marketing efforts and our teams are eager to build on the work they have started."
Pollard said he had chosen to join General Mills because of "the good I see them doing in the world and the untapped opportunities I see for business growth".


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Louisiana Unlikely to Join Romney Parade
Santorum Expected to Win Again in South, but DeMint Nudges Rival Candidates to Unify Behind GOP Front-Runner
By Cameron McWhirter and Siobhan Hughes
MARRERO, La.—Republican leaders are increasingly closing ranks behind Mitt Romney as their party's presidential nominee. But when this state goes to the polls on Saturday, expectations are high that it will register a note of dissent.
Rick Santorum, center, is joined by Pastor Dennis E. Terry Sr., left, and Christian conservative Tony Perkins, right, in Greenwell Springs, La., this week.
This is likely to be Rick Santorum territory, a state where household income is relatively low and the share of conservative voters is high, similar to other states where the former Pennsylvania senator has claimed victories, such as Mississippi, Alabama, Tennessee and Oklahoma.
Voters here know that a vote for Mr. Santorum will come at a moment when Mr. Romney's recent wins have given him an all but insurmountable lead in the delegate chase. More GOP leaders have called for the party to unite behind Mr. Romney, among them former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush, a prominent conservative, on Wednesday.
Sen. Jim DeMint (R., S.C.), considered a godfather of the tea-party movement, on Thursday called former Massachusetts Gov. Romney the likely nominee and nudged his rivals to do "a little self-reflection'' so that the party could unify. While stopping short of an endorsement, Mr. DeMint said on CNN: "I'm not only comfortable with Romney, I'm excited about the possibility of him possibly being our nominee.''
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In Louisiana, however, many voters are looking for the most conservative candidate and are attracted to Mr. Santorum's emphasis on issues such as abortion. Mr. Santorum is likely to draw strong support from the state's numerous evangelical Christians, who have voted disproportionately for him in Illinois, Ohio, Tennessee and elsewhere.
While Mr. Romney won the largest share of Catholic voters in many states, those in Louisiana are considered more conservative and more open to Mr. Santorum's message. Catholics accounted for 35% of the electorate in the 2008 Republican presidential primary.
Roger Byers, who does construction-related work offshore, said Thursday that he would vote for Mr. Santorum. "Seems like he is the most conservative,'' said Mr. Byers, 59 years old, as he shopped for groceries here.
Monica and John Koeppel, who saw Mr. Santorum speak this week at a rally in Mandeville, La., on the north shore of Lake Pontchartrain, both decided to vote for him after earlier leaning toward former House Speaker Newt Gingrich. Mr. Santorum "truly stands for American values," said Mrs. Koeppel, 47.
In a March 19 poll of more than 2,000 likely Louisiana primary voters by Magellan Strategies BR, 37% supported Mr. Santorum, while 24% backed Mr. Romney. Mr. Gingrich had support from 21%, while Texas Rep. Ron Paul had 3%. The poll's margin of error was plus or minus 2.2 percentage points.
Some of Mr. Santorum's rivals have signaled low expectations for the state. Mr. Gingrich has been campaigning here, but he is scheduled to be in Pennsylvania when the voting occurs, a sign that he doesn't expect to be celebrating the results.
"I don't think Romney has worked Louisiana very hard," said Donald "Boysie" Bollinger, a Republican operative and finance co-chairman of Mr. Romney's Louisiana campaign. He said the reason was that relatively few delegates are up for grabs on Saturday—though Mr. Romney made a visit to Puerto Rico earlier this month, where 23 delegates were at stake, nearly the same as Louisiana's 20 delegates. Mr. Romney is scheduled to campaign in Louisiana on Friday.
Some Louisiana Republicans say Mr. Romney could leave conservative voters deflated, and that could hurt him in swing states, but not in Louisiana, which is certain to back whoever becomes the GOP nominee against President Barack Obama in the November election.
Mr. Santorum is exciting voters in Louisiana, but Mr. Romney isn't, said Tony Perkins, president of the Washington-based Family Research Council, a conservative Christian lobbying group.
Mr. Perkins hasn't endorsed any candidate.
"It's an enthusiasm issue," said Mr. Perkins, who served in the Louisiana legislature for eight years and lives in Pride, La. "The question isn't will conservatives get out and vote for the Republican candidate—the question is how hard will they work for him?"
Saturday's vote likely will have little impact on the delegate equation now heavily in Mr. Romney's favor. Louisiana is sending 46 delegates to the Republican convention this summer, but only 20 at most will be allocated on Saturday, according to Jason Dore, spokesman for the state GOP.
A number of other delegates will be chosen in late April at statewide caucuses, Mr. Dore said.
Write to Cameron McWhirter at cameron.mcwhirter@wsj.com and Siobhan Hughes at siobhan.hughes@dowjones.com


Ronald D. Harmon Jr. is a member of the Council of Twelve Apostles, the lead missionary quorum of Community of Christ. He is assigned to the West USA Mission Field. Functional Assignments include: Pacific Southwest International Mission Center President, USA Team lead, and Leading Congregations in Mission.
His past assignments include the North East USA Mission Field, East Central USA Mission Field and Director of Leadership Development Ministries, Spectacular and International Youth Forum (IYF), Urban Ministries, and president of the Kentucky-Indiana USA Mission Center.
Ron attended Graceland University, Lamoni, Iowa, and then transferred to Bowling Green State University in Ohio, where he received a bachelor of science in business administration. He received a master of arts in organizational management from the University of Phoenix. He has also pursued advanced studies in leadership and management through Bellarmine University. Ron received a master of arts in religion through Community of Christ Seminary.
Ron served in several executive human resources and operations positions in healthcare, consulting, financial services, and with Graceland University as vice president for administrative services.


Is Our Employee Assistance Plan Subject to COBRA and ERISA?
Questions: Our company just began offering an employee assistance plan (EAP) that provides counseling services to employees. Is the plan subject to the Consolidated Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act (COBRA)? What about the Employment Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA)? Are there special issues we should consider?
Answer: An employee assistance plan that provides counseling benefits will likely be subject to COBRA and ERISA.
The critical issue is whether the EAP provides medical care. If your EAP is staffed with trained counselors (whether internally or through an outside service provider) who actually provide the counseling, the EAP will most likely be considered a group health plan and will be subject to COBRA.
In contrast, if your EAP is staffed with non-trained persons who simply provide referrals to employees in need of counseling or medical treatment, then the EAP may not be subject to COBRA. COBRA EAP compliance can be frustrating and complex.
First, EAPs typically cover all employees, so complying with COBRA means sending initial and election notices to a broad population.
Second, EAPs often provide non-health care benefits (such as financial or job counseling); the non-health care benefits should be carved out when determining the COBRA premium and coverage.
Third, you must determine what other health benefits must be offered at open enrollment to a qualified beneficiary whose only coverage at the time of the qualifying event was the EAP. If a qualified beneficiary wasn't eligible for other group health plan coverage at the time of the qualifying event, presumably only the EAP need be offered at open enrollment. But if the employee was eligible for (but not enrolled in) other group health plan coverage at the time of the qualifying event, then he or she must be given the opportunity to elect such coverage at open enrollment.
Some employers avoid administrative complexity by arranging with EAP carriers to extend coverage for 36 months beyond the qualifying event occurrence. In this way, there is no loss of coverage during the maximum COBRA continuation period and COBRA compliance is greatly simplified. Other employers limit EAP eligibility to employees who are eligible for the group health plan and wrap the EAP into the COBRA election for the group health plan.
Neither approach is ideal. In the first, the employer is providing continued EAP coverage to individuals with a very tenuous relationship to the employer, and in the second, the employer is depriving non-benefit eligible employees access to the EAP when this group may most benefit from access.
If your employee assistance program provides medical benefits, it's likely to be considered a welfare benefit plan subject to ERISA. Moreover, it would generally be considered a group health plan subject to several other laws, possibly including health care reform. The extent of your EAP's compliance obligations depends on how it's structured and the benefits it provides.
EAPs typically offer a wide-ranging set of benefits to address circumstances that might otherwise adversely affect employees' work and health. Benefits may include short-term mental health or substance abuse counseling or referral services, as well as financial counseling and legal services.
An EAP is subject to ERISA if it offers a benefit listed in the law and meets the other ERISA criteria (generally, if it is a plan, fund or program established or maintained by an employer to provide benefits to employees). The category of ERISA-listed benefits most likely to be provided by an EAP is medical care or benefits.
Mental health counseling, whether for substance abuse, stress or other issues, is considered medical care. Accordingly, an EAP providing mental health counseling will be considered an ERISA plan, while an EAP that purely provides referrals and general information and is not staffed by trained counselors likely is not an ERISA plan.
If an EAP primarily provides referrals to additional resources (rather than direct counseling), it still may be considered to provide medical benefits if the individuals handling initial phone consultations and making referrals are trained in an applicable field, such as psychology or social work.
If the EAP provides any benefit subject to ERISA, then the EAP as a whole is subject to ERISA, even if it also provides non-ERISA benefits.
If you determine that your EAP is subject to ERISA, then it should be evaluated for compliance with ERISA's numerous provisions, such as plan document and summary plan description requirements, fiduciary duties, claims procedures and Form 5500 filings.
An EAP, which is a group health plan, will also be subject to certain other group health plan mandates, including mental health parity.
You should also consider whether your EAP is subject to health care reform. Most EAPs, by design, will not comply with health care reform but may qualify for an exemption if they do not provide "significant benefits in the nature of medical care" and satisfy certain other criteria. In addition, EAPs that receive medical information from participants — even if they only make referrals and do not provide medical care — should analyze compliance with HIPAA's privacy and security rules.


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Q: ggplot2 facet_grid: how to fix different spacing between columns in geom_col I have the dataset with values for different keys for three independent groups and I would like to create a bar plot with these values for 3 different groups using facet_grid. This is what I did so far, however I can not find the way to fix spacing between the bars (it is clearly observed form the picture that they are different). I tried changing arguments width and position for geom_col, but it did not help. How can I fix it?
library(ggplot2)
# Loading

groups = c(rep("q", 8), rep("w", 8), rep("e", 8))
keys = c(c(1:8), c(1:8), c(1:8))
values = c(rep(8, 8), rep(8, 8), rep(8, 8))
data = data.frame(groups, values, keys)

ggplot(data, aes(x = keys, y = values)) +
  geom_col(width=0.9375) +
  facet_grid(~groups)

A: Try this:
ggplot(data) +
  geom_bar(aes(x = keys, y = values), stat = "identity") +
  facet_grid(~groups)

A: My guess is that it is an issue with the size/resolution of the image. If the size/resolution is small, you may get this result. Your image is 614 x 362 and @Leonardo is 1362x699. My guess is that this is what is causing this weird spacing.
g <- ggplot(data, aes(x = keys, y = values)) +
  geom_col() + facet_grid(~groups)

png(filename = "Rplotsmall.png", width=614, height = 362)
print(g)
dev.off()

png(filename = "Rplotlarge.png", width=1362, height = 699)
print(g)
dev.off()

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Gabriel Dumont (The Canadians Series)
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Category: The Canadians Series.
by George Woodcock
Born in St Boniface in 1837 of French and Indian parentage, Gabriel Dumont's childhood was spent in the Saskatchewan country, where he grew accustomed to the semi-nomadic existence of the Metis. These were the proud days of the Metis nation, when its people roamed freely throughout the Prairies. The most stable social institution was the annual buffalo hunt with its rules. When Gabriel Dumont became head of the Great Saskatchewan Hunt in 1862 the end of the nomadic lifestyle was already in sight.
As the buffalo herds dwindled, the Metis began to form more permanent settlements, but were alarmed when their pleas for recognition of their land rights were ignored by Sir John A Macdonald's government. Dumont appealed to Louis Riel, leader of the Red River Rebellion.
Riel spoke up for the Saskatchewan Metis, but their petitions were ignored. In 1885, the Metis took up arms against the government forces. Dumont spurred the outnumbered rebels to several victories. After the Metis defeat, Dumont fled to the United States where he spent time with Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show until an amnesty was declared and he was able to return to his home.
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The Roncalli Cavaliers scored a touchdown with only nine seconds left in the game to rally past the Britton-Hecla Braves by a score of 15-9 in tonight's opening round of the Class 11B football playoffs at Swisher Field in the Hub City. Find the rest of the story, including photos and statistics, exclusively in Wednesday's edition of your hometown newspaper, the American News.
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// (C) Copyright 2015 Martin Dougiamas
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// you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
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// distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
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// See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
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import { Component, Optional } from '@angular/core';
import { IonicPage, NavParams, NavController } from 'ionic-angular';
import { CoreUserProvider } from '../../providers/user';
import { CoreUserHelperProvider } from '../../providers/helper';
import { CoreDomUtilsProvider } from '@providers/utils/dom';
import { TranslateService } from '@ngx-translate/core';
import { CoreCoursesProvider } from '@core/courses/providers/courses';
import { CoreEventsProvider } from '@providers/events';
import { CoreSitesProvider } from '@providers/sites';
import { CoreMimetypeUtilsProvider } from '@providers/utils/mimetype';
import { CoreFileUploaderHelperProvider } from '@core/fileuploader/providers/helper';
import { CoreUserDelegate, CoreUserProfileHandlerData } from '../../providers/user-delegate';
import { CoreSplitViewComponent } from '@components/split-view/split-view';

/**
 * Page that displays an user profile page.
 */
@IonicPage({ segment: 'core-user-profile' })
@Component({
    selector: 'page-core-user-profile',
    templateUrl: 'profile.html',
})
export class CoreUserProfilePage {
    protected courseId: number;
    protected userId: number;
    protected site;
    protected obsProfileRefreshed: any;
    protected subscription;

    userLoaded = false;
    isLoadingHandlers = false;
    user: any;
    title: string;
    isDeleted = false;
    canChangeProfilePicture = false;
    actionHandlers: CoreUserProfileHandlerData[] = [];
    newPageHandlers: CoreUserProfileHandlerData[] = [];
    communicationHandlers: CoreUserProfileHandlerData[] = [];

    constructor(navParams: NavParams, private userProvider: CoreUserProvider, private userHelper: CoreUserHelperProvider,
            private domUtils: CoreDomUtilsProvider, private translate: TranslateService, private eventsProvider: CoreEventsProvider,
            private coursesProvider: CoreCoursesProvider, private sitesProvider: CoreSitesProvider,
            private mimetypeUtils: CoreMimetypeUtilsProvider, private fileUploaderHelper: CoreFileUploaderHelperProvider,
            private userDelegate: CoreUserDelegate, private navCtrl: NavController,
            @Optional() private svComponent: CoreSplitViewComponent) {
        this.userId = navParams.get('userId');
        this.courseId = navParams.get('courseId');

        this.site = this.sitesProvider.getCurrentSite();

        // Allow to change the profile image only in the app profile page.
        this.canChangeProfilePicture =
            (!this.courseId || this.courseId == this.site.getSiteHomeId()) &&
            this.userId == this.site.getUserId() &&
            this.site.canUploadFiles() &&
            this.site.wsAvailable('core_user_update_picture') &&
            !this.userProvider.isUpdatePictureDisabledInSite(this.site);

        this.obsProfileRefreshed = eventsProvider.on(CoreUserProvider.PROFILE_REFRESHED, (data) => {
            if (this.user && typeof data.user != 'undefined') {
                this.user.email = data.user.email;
                this.user.address = this.userHelper.formatAddress('', data.user.city, data.user.country);
            }
        }, sitesProvider.getCurrentSiteId());
    }

    /**
     * View loaded.
     */
    ionViewDidLoad(): void {
        this.fetchUser().then(() => {
            return this.userProvider.logView(this.userId, this.courseId).catch((error) => {
                this.isDeleted = error.errorcode === 'userdeleted';
            });
        }).finally(() => {
            this.userLoaded = true;
        });
    }

    /**
     * Fetches the user and updates the view.
     */
    fetchUser(): Promise<any> {
        return this.userProvider.getProfile(this.userId, this.courseId).then((user) => {

            user.address = this.userHelper.formatAddress('', user.city, user.country);
            user.roles = this.userHelper.formatRoleList(user.roles);

            this.user = user;
            this.title = user.fullname;

            this.subscription = this.userDelegate.getProfileHandlersFor(user, this.courseId).subscribe((handlers) => {
                this.actionHandlers = [];
                this.newPageHandlers = [];
                this.communicationHandlers = [];
                handlers.forEach((handler) => {
                    switch (handler.type) {
                        case CoreUserDelegate.TYPE_COMMUNICATION:
                            this.communicationHandlers.push(handler.data);
                            break;
                        case CoreUserDelegate.TYPE_ACTION:
                            this.actionHandlers.push(handler.data);
                            break;
                        case CoreUserDelegate.TYPE_NEW_PAGE:
                        default:
                            this.newPageHandlers.push(handler.data);
                            break;
                    }
                });

                this.isLoadingHandlers = !this.userDelegate.areHandlersLoaded(user.id);
            });

        }).catch((error) => {
            // Error is null for deleted users, do not show the modal.
            if (error) {
                this.domUtils.showErrorModal(error);
            }
        });
    }

    /**
     * Opens dialog to change profile picture.
     */
    changeProfilePicture(): Promise<any> {
        const maxSize = -1,
            title = this.translate.instant('core.user.newpicture'),
            mimetypes = this.mimetypeUtils.getGroupMimeInfo('image', 'mimetypes');

        return this.fileUploaderHelper.selectAndUploadFile(maxSize, title, mimetypes).then((result) => {
            const modal = this.domUtils.showModalLoading('core.sending', true);

            return this.userProvider.changeProfilePicture(result.itemid, this.userId).then((profileImageURL) => {
                this.eventsProvider.trigger(CoreUserProvider.PROFILE_PICTURE_UPDATED, {
                    userId: this.userId,
                    picture: profileImageURL
                });
                this.sitesProvider.updateSiteInfo(this.site.getId());
                this.refreshUser();
            }).finally(() => {
                modal.dismiss();
            });
        }).catch((message) => {
            if (message) {
                this.domUtils.showErrorModal(message);
            }
        });
    }

    /**
     * Refresh the user.
     *
     * @param {any} refresher Refresher.
     */
    refreshUser(refresher?: any): void {
        const promises = [];

        promises.push(this.userProvider.invalidateUserCache(this.userId));
        promises.push(this.coursesProvider.invalidateUserNavigationOptions());
        promises.push(this.coursesProvider.invalidateUserAdministrationOptions());

        Promise.all(promises).finally(() => {
            this.fetchUser().finally(() => {
                this.eventsProvider.trigger(CoreUserProvider.PROFILE_REFRESHED, {
                    courseId: this.courseId,
                    userId: this.userId,
                    user: this.user
                }, this.site.getId());
                refresher && refresher.complete();
            });
        });
    }

    /**
     * Open the page with the user details.
     */
    openUserDetails(): void {
        // Decide which navCtrl to use. If this page is inside a split view, use the split view's master nav.
        const navCtrl = this.svComponent ? this.svComponent.getMasterNav() : this.navCtrl;
        navCtrl.push('CoreUserAboutPage', {courseId: this.courseId, userId: this.userId});
    }

    /**
     * A handler was clicked.
     *
     * @param {Event} event Click event.
     * @param {CoreUserProfileHandlerData} handler Handler that was clicked.
     */
    handlerClicked(event: Event, handler: CoreUserProfileHandlerData): void {
        // Decide which navCtrl to use. If this page is inside a split view, use the split view's master nav.
        const navCtrl = this.svComponent ? this.svComponent.getMasterNav() : this.navCtrl;
        handler.action(event, navCtrl, this.user, this.courseId);
    }

    /**
     * Page destroyed.
     */
    ngOnDestroy(): void {
        this.subscription && this.subscription.unsubscribe();
        this.obsProfileRefreshed && this.obsProfileRefreshed.off();
    }
}


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Reading: Our Country: Chef Michael Bonacini's favourite place in Canada
Our Country: Chef Michael Bonacini's favourite place in Canada
The celebrity chef and MasterChef Canada judge reminisces about escaping to rural living in Caledon, Ont.
I have a country home in the bucolic hills of Caledon, Ont., about 60 kilometres northwest of Toronto. I really connect with the beauty here and what it has to offer, like the quirky and wonderful people I've made friends with. It really is a great part of the world. I love coming up, as do my wife and son. Going there is really about getting back into the countryside, where things move at a slightly slower pace and the air seems fresher, the trees greener, the wildlife more plentiful.
I've never been the kind of guy to sit for too long on the back deck with a beer or a book. I always have a job going. And here it's the kind of jobs I can't do in the city. Cutting the grass, planting trees, building a stone wall, tidying up the barn. Just these outdoor jobs that I love to do. Splitting firewood, stacking firewood and making a fire when it starts to get chilly … there is nothing more satisfying and gratifying. They're all sort of rituals that I don't find chores. I actually look forward to them.
I also have wonderful neighbours. A neighbour farmer friend taught me how to plow. I have a local beekeeper who comes to see me. I hike with a group of guys weekly. I feel very much a part of this community and I feel welcome here. The group of friends we hang out with in Caledon have a favourite little cidery down the road and a coffee shop in the village, a bakery we stop at when we're on our cycling tours, a friendly neighbourhood pub. It's unique little destinations like these that make it extra special. I never tire of coming here.
— As told to Aaron Kylie
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Smother Nature: The struggle to protect Banff National Park
In Banff National Park, Alberta, as in protected areas across the country, managers find it difficult to balance the desire of people to experience wilderness with an imperative to conserve it
Canada's first national urban park
It's an ambitious plan: take the traditional Parks Canada wilderness concept and plunk it in the country's largest city. But can Toronto's Rouge National Urban Park help balance city life with wildlife?
Canada's dirty secret
Canada leads the developed world in per capita production of garbage. What's behind our nation's wasteful ways?
Renaming places: how Canada is reexamining the map
The history behind the Dundas name change and how Canadians are reckoning with place name changes across the country — from streets to provinces


I was three years old when father bought a charming colonial style two-storey villa on No. 14 Nahmani Street, in Tel Aviv. It had the traditional, symmetrically laid out garden. In each part of the neatly divided area, a baby palm tree spread its wide fan-shaped branches shading the oval flower bed in which it stood.
It was a peaceful street in the 'thirties, in small and peaceful Tel-Aviv. At night you could hear the jackals howling.
My parents awakened me one night and carried me to the living room balcony to witness a Zeppelin airship flying over our house.
There was shouting and screaming from the house next door one day. A neighbour has had too much to drink.
There were street cries. A bilingual Arab dressed in the traditional Sirwal, selling "sand" with which we cleaned our pots and pans. Zaand! Yala ya Zand! In Yiddish and in Arabic. … There was a little old man buying and selling bottles – Fleschlach, fleschlach!! And the old clothes man, the Alte Sachen man dressed in the shabby old clothes he was selling. Alte Sachen, alte Schich, alter Rok, alte Behttt…!!!
Sunday was the day the shoemaker came to Nahmani Street, announcing his arrival in Hebrew and in Yiddish: Mettaken Nalayim, farechten schich !
My sister Racheli and I always looked out for him. Once you missed him, you had to wait till next week. The moment we heard him coming, we rushed downstairs, across the garden and again down the garden steps to have our sandals repaired.
He seemed quite comfortable seated on the cool pavement in front of the house, as he hammered nails into the soles of our sandals. He always wore the same old clothes and dirty old cap and that is how I remember him.
And there was the beggar, 'der Zwei mil Mann" father called him. He arrived regularly every Monday to collect his weekly allowance of two Mils. By the kitchen entrance, of course. He came, collected his money and left without a word.
Down the street at No. 4, a loud brass band disturbed the silence on Fridays.
From a neighbouring house, a woman could be heard calling her children: Jacquou!! Giselle!!
Then there were the lovers walking up Nahmani Street in the morning and down again in the late afternoon.
Facing our house, on the other side of Nahmani Street stood a handbag and luggage workshop. At lunchtime, they all came out for sandwiches and a stroll along Nahmani Street. It was then that I must have fallen in love for the first time. I was, seven years old. He was, I suppose, a handbag maker and his hair was black and curly. I recall waiting to see him on his sidewalk lunch break.
The building housing the handbag workshop still stands… but all the rest is gone. Kreisler's pharmacy, the villa with the large garden and the lawn where we played croquet, Kikayon the grocer whose son was kidnapped one morning… There was little Nimrod who wore his velvet suit and lace collar on the Sabbath, but that was almost eighty years ago.


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The Catalogue of Life, 3rd January 2011

#### Published in
Mycotheca universalis no. 434 (1876)

#### Original name
Amphisphaeria rehmii Thüm., 1876

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IHOP Free Pancake Day is March 12, 2019 this year, and we are going to partake! Here's a post from when we did Free Pancake Day in 2016.
March 12, 2018 was a very sad day in my household (a miscarriage and my husband being hit by a car on his bicycle). This year we choose to be thankful for what we do have (5 healthy kids and a husband who is alive and well) and HAPPILY EAT PANCAKES!
"On IHOP Free Pancake Day, visit any IHOP restaurant and get a FREE short stack of our Original Buttermilk Pancakes. Then donate to help children battling critical illnesses. Each stack served on IHOP Free Pancake Day helps us flip it forward for kids in need. Doing good never tasted so good."
Click here for more details on IHOP Free Pancake Day 2019 and to see stories of kids you'll be helping out, and also check out their menu to plan your entire meal! We love to order bacon and OJ with our short stacks (coffee for Mommy!).


Our Merlot is full-bodied, warm, slightly tannic with a very smooth aftertaste. It has a highly intense bouquet with notes of blackberry and other wild berries.
Ideal with strong-flavored pasta and rice dishes, charcuterie, and all kinds of meat dishes.
Serve at a temperature of 64 °F – 68 °F in a large, long-stemmed wine glass.
The Merlot grapes are hand-picked during the first ten days of October. First they are pressed, then they undergo a crushing process for 7 days in order to extract the color, aromas, and noble tannins. Fining takes place partly in steel and partly in oak barrels to give the wine a soft yet elegant hint of vanilla.
Far from the hectic city life, the Estate vineyards are cradled in the remote Venetian countryside, in proximity of the historic town of Annone Veneto. Our selected Polvaro Tenuta grapes are grown in the Lison Classico D.O.C.G. zone, the oldest and most genuine area in the whole Lison region. This area, which spans less than 10 miles (16 km) from east to west and occupies the very western edge of the wider Lison area, is one of the most suitable areas of Veneto for grapevine cultivation.


Weave Your Own Antler Basket — Use my patterns!
Now that deer hunting season is over, you might be able to snag some not-so-perfect antlers from hubby or his friends and make some terrific home-made woven antler baskets out of them!
Give the gift that will live on forever and can be used in a variety of home, cabin or business decor situations. Perfect for an engagement or wedding present, housewarming gift, birthday present or holiday gift.
Just click on over to the Antler Basket Patterns page of WickerWoman.com where you will find a selection of basket patterns for the Intermediate to Advanced basketmaker.
Here is a list of the more simple and easiest antler basket patterns geared for the intermediate basketweaver with prior rib basket experience: Destination, Coin Catcher, Nesting Quietly, and Safe Keeping.
Patterns can be purchased on the site using PayPal, the most reliable and easy payment system.
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The Giant Panda is a bear native to central-western and south western China. It is easily recognized by its large, distinctive black patches around the eyes, over the ears, and across its round body. Though it belongs to the order Carnivora, the Giant Panda's diet is 99% bamboo. Other parts of its diet include honey, eggs, fish, yams, shrub leaves, oranges, and bananas when available.
speculate that the bold coloring provides effective camouflage into its shade-dappled snowy and rocky surroundings. The Giant Panda's thick, wooly coat keeps it warm in the cool forests of its habitat. The Giant Panda has large molar teeth and strong jaw muscles for crushing tough bamboo.
In most encyclopedic sources, the name "panda" or "common panda" originally referred to the lesser-known Red Panda, thus necessitated the inclusion of "giant" and "lesser/red" prefixes in front of the names. Even now, Encyclopædia Britannica still uses "giant panda" or "panda bear" for the bear and simply "panda" for the Ailuridae, despite the popular usage of the word "panda" today.
Pandas have been kept in zoos as early as the Western Han Dynasty in China, where the writer Sima Xiangru notes that the panda was the most treasured animal in the emperor's garden of exotic animals in Xi'an. Not until the 1950s were pandas again recorded to have been exhibited in China's zoos.


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What Is a Brain Aneurysm?
A cerebral (brain) aneurysm is a weak spot in the wall of an artery in the brain that causes an outward bulging or "ballooning." Brain aneurysms affect approximately 1 out of every 15 people in the United States. There are nearly 500,000 deaths worldwide each year caused by brain aneurysms.
What Are the Types of Brain Aneurysms?
Saccular: This is the most common type of aneurysm, accounting for 80 to 90 percent of all brain aneurysms. It is shaped like a berry and is more likely to rupture if not treated.
Fusiform: This type of aneurysm is less common and seldom ruptures.
Mycotic: This type is rare and results from infection. The infection weakens and damages the blood vessel, which increases the risk of rupturing.
What Causes Brain Aneurysms?
Causes of brain aneurysms include:
Family history of aneurysms
Age: They are most prevalent in people ages 50 to 60.
Gender: Brain aneurysms are more commonly found in women than men.
Traumatic head injury
Drug use, particularly cocaine
What Are the Symptoms of Brain Aneurysms?
Common symptoms include:
Pain above and behind the eye
Weakness and/or numbness
If an aneurysm ruptures, blood can leak into the subarachnoid space around the brain. This is called a subarachnoid hemorrhage (SAH).
A ruptured aneurysm may quickly become life-threatening. If you are experiencing any of the symptoms above, please seek medical attention immediately.
How Is a Brain Aneurysm Diagnosed?
There are several methods that doctors use to detect aneurysms. They include:
Cerebral angiography: An angiogram is often used to determine the degree of narrowing of an artery and to detect the location and size of aneurysms and vascular malformations. A catheter is inserted into a major artery in the groin, dye is injected, and X-rays are taken.
Computed tomographic angiography (CTA): This test uses a combination of injected contrast material and CT scanning to help diagnose and evaluate aneurysms.
Computed tomography (CAT scan): This uses X-rays to develop 3-D images of the brain, and can capture images in slices from many different angles.
Transcranial Doppler ultrasound: A test that measures cerebrovascular function.
Magnetic resonance angiogram (MRA): A test that evaluates blood vessels without ionizing radiation, using a powerful magnetic field and radio waves.
How Are Brain Aneurysms Treated?
If you have a brain aneurysm that needs to be surgically treated, Raleigh Neurosurgical Clinic can help. We offer the two most commonly used surgical treatments for cerebral aneurysms.
Surgical clipping: An incision is made on the skin on the top of the head. The surgeon then places a small metallic clip, or multiple clips, along the aneurysm. This prevents blood from entering the aneurysm sac in order to prevent future bleeding.
Endovascular coiling: This surgery uses the bloodstream to diagnose and treat brain aneurysms. The surgeon seals off the aneurysm and stops further bleeding from entering, which could increase the risk of it rupturing.
Our neurosurgeons at Raleigh Neurosurgical Clinic are skilled and experienced at treating brain aneurysms. To meet with one of our brain tumor specialists, make an appointment today.
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The dining area chairs consist of two originals by Maison Leleu, from Maison Gerard, as nicely as reproductions, all covered in a nubuck from Cortina Leathers the resin-prime table is a custom style, the painting is by Christian Clower Modern Dining Table By Orren Ellis Marclay, and 5 Italian pendants kind a single light fixture. Gracelin wardrobe functions a hanging closet rod, concealed storage Clower Modern Dining Table By Orren Ellis behind 3 door and 1 drawer. Espresso finish with nickel handles. Dimensions: 71H Clower Modern Dining Table By Orren Ellis x 31.25W x 20.5D.
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The Clower Modern Dining Table By Orren Ellis is beautiful and solid. It required some time to place it along, and the instructions were good. My simply complaint about the table is the piece on underneath of the table - you cannot make use of a typical umbrella base. There is not enough space for a umbrella bottom. Now we are trying to find a flat base, which is difficult to find. EASILY new this information, I would of picked a diverse table.
I ordered 3 stools plus they arrived 2 days afterwards. I took a risk and ordered the red afteroses reading other opinions that the colour was unique of how it appeared in the online photos. I think the colour is perfect and matches the web photos pretty close. These were very easy to assemble. I did smell the gasoline smell that other persons commented about, but it was the plastic material wrap/packaging, not the stools themselves.
Super top quality, very serious wood, simple to install, beautiful accent to a white colored decoration house; I really like it, and for the price it is no brainer' I recommend it 100% ?
Delivery was directly on, actually early. The arranged arrived in perfect state. Assembly went well with step-by-step instructions. Took about 1-1/2 hours. Very pleased with quality and appears of arranged. Just as shown in picture. The light set was precisely what I necessary for my home with gray seats. My 1st purchase, but not at all my last.


If some one offered you the opitunity to have any job in the world you wanted what would it be?
For me it would be junior/assitant system administrator of some sort for a network some where or at a ISP using BSD systems. + paid to devote proper time to get a better education on the systems most inernal guts. As well as proper chance to learn much and many more things related to the job I can only work on between work time & [SAS].
Go do it then. Hound down some local companies and do it.
Don't get worked up about what type of system they have, because you'll be learning mostly the same stuff whatever OS they use.
I'd want a job as a racing driver. Now THAT's a proper job!
Well I guess this is as good a time as any.
I'm planning on switching careers, and the job you ask us to name is the job that I am going to pursue: my dream job.
After a few more years here in California, once I have the cash, I am going to enlist in the Army. Hopefully once I can get my contract to go through and talk to my recruiter about my intended Military Occupational Specialty (18X), then I will have a big enough bankroll to live comfortably for a while should the opportunity fail me. I am going to join the Army Special Forces, more commonly refered to as the Green Berets, or maybe as an Army Ranger. Of either choice I have not yet decided.
PS: My dad would probably agree with you Adze.
Off topic but so see my PM.
Edited as soon as ma would let me back to my console.
Being a director for both video game development and book based RPG's.


An approach using a genetic algorithm to optimize the scheduling of domestic electric loads, according to technical and user-defined constraints and input signals, is presented and illustrative results are shown. The aim is minimizing the end-user's electricity bill according to his/her preferences, while accounting for the quality of the energy services provided. The constraints include the contracted power level, end-users' preferences concerning the admissible and/or preferable time periods for operation of each load, and the amount of available usable power in each period of time to account for variations in the (non-manageable) base load. The load scheduling is done for the next 36 hours assuming that a dynamic pricing structure is known in advance. The results obtained present a noticeable decrease of the electricity bill when compared to a reference case in which there is no automated scheduling.


We had to get a battery operated bubble maker – "PaPa"'s lung capacity is way too little for making this many….
No argument here – not that you should expect one from me….hahaha.
And he so loves to do the bubbles…thanks!
The world through rose colored…bubbles! Precious!


Songs of Faith and Devotion, Depeche Mode'un beşinci stüdyo albümü. 22 Mart 1993'da Mute Records etiketiyle yayımlandı.
1. In the track "Judas" David Gahan with Andrew Fletcher are playing the dudes, Martin Gore with Alan Wilder and Andrew Fletcher are singing, and Alan Wilder is playing the drums.
2. In the tracks "I Feel You", "Walking in My Shoes", "Condemnation" and "Mercy in You" Alan Wilder is playing the piano.
4. In the alomst tracks (without "One Caress") Alan Wilder is playing the drums.
5. In the original version of track "In Your Room" Martin Gore is playing the bass guitar, David Gahan is singing and playing the electric guitar, Alan Wilder is playing the drums and Andrew Fletcher is playing the keyboards. In the single version of "In Your Room" (mixed by Butch Vig), David Gahan is playing the piano and singing, Andrew Fletcher is playing the keyboard, Martin Gore is playing the bass guitar and Alan Wilder is playing the drums.
6. Single version of "Condemnation" (mixed by Steve Lyon and Depeche Mode) differs from the original version of track.
7. All singles from this album are the first singles that they haven't 12" versions.
8. "One Caress" was singing alone by Martin Gore.
9. "Rush" and "One Caress" were released as a promotional singles.
10. "Mercy in You", "Judas", "One Caress" and "Higher Love" are very dark tracks from this album.
11. "Songs of Faith and Devotion" is the last studio album, which the band recorded with Alan Wilder. Alan Wilder left the band in the time of Devotional Tour, in 1995.
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Open Sud de France 2016 byl tenisový turnaj pořádaný jako součást mužského okruhu ATP World Tour, který se hrál v montpellierské aréně na krytých dvorcích s tvrdým povrchem. Konal se mezi 1. až 7. únorem 2016 ve francouzském městě Montpellier jako dvacátý devátý ročník turnaje.

Událost s rozpočtem 520 070 eur patřila do kategorie ATP World Tour 250. Nejvýše nasazeným ve dvouhře byl devátý hráč světa a obhájce titulu Richard Gasquet z Francie. Posledním přímým účastníkem v hlavní singlové soutěži se stal 115. německý hráč žebříčku Michael Berrer. Singlovou soutěž opět vyhrál Gasquet a čtyřhru opanovala dvojice Mate Pavić a Michael Venus, která tak získala druhou trofej v sezóně.

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Rozdělení bodů

Mužská dvouhra

Nasazení

Jiné formy účasti
Následující hráči obdrželi divokou kartu do hlavní soutěže:
  Marcos Baghdatis
  Julien Benneteau
  Quentin Halys

Následující hráči postoupili z kvalifikace:
  Dustin Brown
  Kenny de Schepper
  Édouard Roger-Vasselin
  Elias Ymer

Odhlášení
před zahájením turnaje
  Ivan Dodig → nahradil jej Ruben Bemelmans
  Jerzy Janowicz → nahradil jej Lukáš Lacko
  Andrej Kuzněcov → nahradil jej Jan-Lennard Struff
  Tommy Robredo → nahradil jej Michael Berrer

Mužská čtyřhra

Nasazení

Jiné formy účasti
Následující páry obdržely divokou kartu do hlavní soutěže:
  Paul-Henri Mathieu /  Vincent Millot
  Alexander Zverev /  Mischa Zverev

Přehled finále

Mužská dvouhra

  Richard Gasquet vs.  Paul-Henri Mathieu 7–5, 6–4

Mužská čtyřhra

  Mate Pavić /  Michael Venus vs.  Alexander Zverev /  Mischa Zverev 7–5, 7–6(7–4)

Reference

Open Sud de France
Tenis ve Francii v roce 2016
ATP World Tour 2016

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Three police officials nabbed for R5m extortion attempt from Ekurhuleni MMC
13 June 2019 12:58 PM
A joint operation between the South African Police Service and the Ekurhuleni Metro Police Department on Wednesday saw the arrest of three police officials.
The three are accused of allegedly attempting to extort R5m from the City of Ekurhuleni human settlement MMC Lesiba Mpya.
The accused claimed they were in possession of a dossier containing evidence of alleged corruption and malfeasance committed by Mpya and executive mayor Mzwandile Masina.
Read: Ekurhuleni mayor announces plans to build a university
To discuss these arrests, Nickolaus Bauer on the Xolani Gwala Show chats to Masina spokesperson Phakamile Mbengashe.
It is quite frightening that people would be so brazen to try and extort the head of the city and some of his mayoral committee members. What we are pleased to be announcing is that the police did a collaborative effort in finding out who those are and ultimately nabbing them.
— Phakamile Mbengashe, Spokesperson - Executive mayor of Ekurhuleni Mzwandile Masina
He says the alleged dossier is a false story as the first reaction to any form of corruption is to go to the police and lay a charge of corruption.
This is quite a protracted story. In March there was a string of messages that went viral in the city about accusations against the mayor and some senior officials, we released a statement and clarified prescripts of the law about corruption and the implications of not reporting it.
Listen below to the full interview:
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7 January 2020 12:58 PM
Wits University mathematics lecturer Dr Jacques du Plessis says teachers are racing against time in the classroom.
Home Affairs gazettes new tougher laws for refugees and and asylum seekers
Minister Aaron Motsoaledi says those who commit fraud face expulsion for destroying the sovereignty of the country.
Former Reserve Bank deputy governor Daniel Mminele appointed Absa CEO
Absa head of corporate communications Songezo Zibi says Mminele has pedigree both in terms of policy and commercial banking.
Eskom says system still constrained but load shedding unlikely for the week
Spokesperson Dikatso Mothae confirms that CEO André de Ruyter has officially started work at the power utility.
Ekurhuleni mayor announces plans to build a university
28 March 2019 7:31 AM
Mayor of Ekurhuleni, Mzwandile Masina unpacks his State of the City address which he delivered on Wednesday.
City of Ekurhuleni Mayor Mzwandile Masina delivers State of the City Address
Themed "building a local economy that grows in the hands of the people" Masina delivered his state of the city address in Ekurhuleni today.


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Bradley Berger
Sony has announced that the PS Plus Free Games for August 2021. "Hunter's Arena: Legends," "Plants vs. Zombies: Battle for Neighborville," and "Tennis World Tour 2" will be free throughout August for PlayStation Plus members.
This month, PlayStation Plus subscribers will be able to add the games of this month to their PlayStation game Library for free until September 7 and will be able to play these games as long as their PS Plus subscription continues.
Hunter's Arena Legends PS Plus Free Games For August 2021
Hunter's Arena Legends
Hunter's Arena is a PvP and PvE combat-based battle royal game that supports up to 30 players. Henter's Arena Legends is set in ancient Asia, where humanity battles each other as well as a growing legion of demons that have been unleashed upon the world.
You will have to fight with your sharp weapons and skills as you have no one to trust around you. Let's see if you can survive in the deadly world of Hunter's Arena.
During PS Plus Free Games for August 2021 campaign, Hunter's Arena Legends will be free for PS4 and PS5 owners, while other games will be for only PS4 owners.
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Plants vs. Zombies: Battle for Neighborville
Electronic Art's Plant vs. Zombies: Battle for Neighborville is a third-person shooter game. It will bring chaos environment to your neighborhood.
Battle against the PvE army or other online players, either in co-op (split-screen support) or as a team with your friends. You can choose from 20 fully customizable characters and win new victories in this very unusual shooter game.
You can also get this game, which is included in the EA Play subscription, for your PS Plus subscription too. Let's remind you that you have time until the 7th of September to play this game, which has a regular price of over $35, for free during your PS Plus subscription.
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Fifa's soccer games, NBA's basketball games, and many other sports such as NFC and NFL's games are quite popular. Here is the Tennis World Tour 2 is an excellent game for those who are wondering if there is a game of tennis that almost everyone enjoys watching.
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Fitness facilities in some states are preparing for new laws that require them to have automated external defibrillators (AEDs) on hand, but concerns still exist around liability for clubs in those states. This summer, legislatures in Illinois, Louisiana, New York and Rhode Island passed laws pertaining to health clubs and AEDs.
The International Health, Racquet and Sportsclub Association (IHRSA) worked with state legislatures to try to get Good Samaritan coverage written into the laws, said Kevin Buckley, deputy director of government relations for IHRSA.
"Through intense lobbying efforts, we were able to get language in a majority of these bills that were passed to provide meaningful liability protection. In New York, our amendments were not accepted, but we have a year to comply so we have a year to get that protection in place," Buckley said.
IHRSA is urging state legislatures who are considering AED laws to provide "meaningful liability protection for all businesses wishing to deploy AEDs in their facilities."
The urging is necessary because AED laws won't be limited to these four states, Buckley said. New Jersey, Pennsylvania and Michigan are some of the states and municipalities working on similar laws.
Health club owners that Buckley has spoken with have been divided about the desire to have AEDs in their facilities, mostly due to liabililty concerns. However, he said, "The one thing that seems universal is that they don't believe the government should be mandating the devices."
IHRSA's official position is that there is no legal standard of care that requires that AEDs be in all fitness centers especially since 85 percent of sudden cardiac arrests occur in the home or at the hospital. Instead, IHRSA has urged that state and local governments increase the number of mobile AEDs in their area by equipping all first responder units with the devices.
Regardless of concerns from the industry, club owners must be aware of the effective dates in their states and go ahead and comply, said Buckley.
"I know states are having a difficult time figuring out the rules to implement the placement of AEDs," he said. "But I don't recommend that they wait for the state because the effective dates don't seem to be changing. So start researching AED companies to see which works for you."
The AED devices run from $2,000 to $3,500.
So far, each law requires just one AED in a facility. Since the devices are portable, Buckley suggests keeping them in a central location.
States in Which AED Laws Have Passed
Date Passed
Illinois 1/1/2006 8/12/2004
Louisiana 1/1/2005 7/12/2004
New York 7/1/2005 7/20/2004
Rhode Island 1/1/2005 7/07/2004
Weston, FL 180 days after passage 9/15/2004
States in Which AED Laws Are Pending
New Jersey One year after becomes law
Pennsylvania 60 days after becomes law
Michigan One year after becomes law
Montgomery County 1/1/2005
Suffolk County (unclear what will happen)
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Sep 23, 2020Personal reflections
The extraordinary story of a set of Shabbat songs that travelled continents, traversed generations, healed hearts... and brought inexpressible joy.
In ancient times, the Tribe of Levi was assigned the sacred task of singing and playing music in the Temple – work that was considered an integral part of the holy service. Even today, it seems many Levites have a natural affinity for music – an ear for melody and a voice for expressing it.
My father, Tzvi Hersh, of blessed memory, was the last Levite in his line. He was his father's only son, and his father was an only son, and my father had no sons and four daughters. I am the eldest of them.
My father's parents were young when their peddler fathers likely arranged their marriage. My bubbe was raised in Sochaczew, Poland, and was the only child of six in her family to grow up to have children of her own. Her brother had been denied entrance into North America and died of tuberculosis, alone in England, where he was sent. My zaide was a Rizhiner Hasid from Ukraine. My grandmother was actually five years older than him, a family secret. Around the time of World War I, a fraught time for the Jews of Europe, my grandparents sailed for Chicago, one of the American Jewish centres.
Both of my father's parents had beautiful voices and loved to sing on Shabbat. My bubbe had a special niggun, or tune, for the ancient zemira [Shabbat song], Yah Ribon, that had been passed through her family for generations. My zeide brought home a special niggun for Asader L'Seudasa, a kabbalistic song also sung by Lubavitcher Hasidim. My grandparents' marriage lasted only about 20 years, but my father always said the best time of the week was when the family sat together at the Shabbat table and sang zemirot.
So that was my father's family. My mother, Sheindel, whose parents hailed from Warsaw, had a much less observant upbringing. All of her Jewish experiences centered on the local JCC in the small town of Gloversville, New York, where her father had his own glove-making business, continuing a trade he and many others had practiced in Poland before the war. His own father had been so religious that he put his 14-year old son in charge of the family income, while he would study Torah day and night. He died when my mother was 15.
My own parents married young. Like my father's parents, both my parents had beautiful voices. When my father would sing at the Shabbos table, my mother would ask, "What do these songs mean?" He would reply that you were just supposed to sing them, even if you didn't understand them. He himself didn't understand every word. Eventually, she left him, taking my sister and me with her. This, understandably, upset my father a lot.
Several years later, my sister and I went back to live with our father, and with our stepmother and their two daughters. I will never forget the joy that radiated from my father's face as he sang Mizmor l'David [a poignant zemira traditionally sung at the third meal as Shabbat ebbs away]. I can still hear his beautiful voice ringing out. I felt he was expressing his love and gratitude to G-d for bringing his children back. We used to sing for a full hour and a half on Friday nights, and another hour and a half on Shabbat afternoons.
My father knew that these songs, these zemirot, were holy, because they honoured Shabbat, which he said was G-d's greatest gift to humankind.
My father taught us all of his special zemirot and wonderful tunes. In turn, I have passed them to the next generation, teaching them to my daughter, who recently graduated from medical school and began a residency in Minneapolis.
But the irony is that the story of these zemirot has come full circle. It has borne out what I believe in my heart to be true – something I experienced personally all those years ago, sitting with my sisters at our father's Shabbat table, his face radiant with unadulterated joy and love – that these zemirot are blessed with Divine powers of healing.
I am now a primary caretaker for my mother, who turned 91 the day that Rosh Hashanah began this year. And we have a regular routine for Shabbat: together, we sing those same zemirot she complained about so many years ago.
She sings them all: U'vayom – an old zemira that my zaide used to sing in; Mipi El – one of my father's old favourites, about which he would say, "Simple is best"; Yom Zeh M'chubad – "Honoured of Days", a wonderful song traditionally sung at Shabbat lunch; and of course, Mizmor l'David – which we sing together in Hebrew, after which she leads me in reciting it in English.
After leaving my father, my mother wanted to stop being a Jew, something she now denies ever happened. These beautiful, holy songs are slowly restoring her identity, and for a little girl – me – devastated by my parents' split, they are a balm for heart and soul.
This is the thread of music, like birdsong, binding generations of Jews together; an ongoing dialogue between the World Above and the world below. And it is something we sample uniquely on Shabbat – a taste of heaven.
Michele Gelboin
Michele Ida Gelboin is a teacher and single mother who lives in San Diego.


In an industry that has been bogged down with federal regulations, fishing representatives are hoping for a big silver lining with President-Elect Donald Trump.
While many across the country have expressed concern with Trump's stance on social issues, Jim Kendall of New Bedford Seafood Consulting is more concerned with Trump's knowledge and understanding of business to put the fishing industry on the upswing. Kendall tells WBSM News he hopes the Trump administration will be open to hearing from Massachusetts fishermen. "Of course, we have a republican governor who basically disavowed the president[elect], so I'm hoping that won't be an impediment. But, we just want to take it one step at a time and see if we can get to the administration and let them hear our cries on this," said Kendall.
Kendall says he has more faith in Trump than he would have had if Hillary Clinton had been elected instead. He cited his view that the Obama administration let the industry down, considering many, if not most fishermen and industry workers vote democrat. "The trouble is is that this time they took advantage of that, I believe. I'm really sorry it broke up the party line, but looking at it from a business perspective I'm hoping that this makes more sense than Hillary Clinton being elected as President."
Kendall says aside from relaxing catch limits, he hopes President-Elect Trump will reverse President Obama's executive order that established a national marine monument off the coast of Massachusetts, effectively closing nearly 5,000 square miles of ocean to commercial fishing.


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The potential value of biochar in the mitigation of gaseous emission of nitrogen
Ramya Thangarajan, Nanthi S. Bolan, Anitha Kunhikrishnan, Hasintha Wijesekara, Yilu Xu, Daniel C.W. Tsang, Hocheol Song, Yong Sik Ok, Deyi Hou
Division of Environmental Science and Ecological Engineering
* Highly Cited Researcher
Nitrogen (N) losses through gaseous emission of ammonia (NH3) and nitrous oxide (N2O) can contribute to both economic loss and environmental degradation. This study examined the effect of biochar and a chemical nitrification inhibitor, dicyandiamide (DCD), on N transformation and N losses via gaseous emission of NH3 and N2O from agricultural soils treated with a range of organic and inorganic N sources. The addition of DCD reduced N2O emission from both organic and inorganic N sources treated soils by 75%, but increased ammonium (NH4+) concentration and subsequently induced high NH3 emission from the soils. In contrast, the addition of biochar reduced both N2O and NH3 emissions from organic and inorganic N sources treated soils by 23% and 43%, respectively. The effectiveness of biochar and DCD in reducing NH3 volatilization and N2O emission depends on the nature of the N sources and their initial mineral N concentration. The study demonstrated that biochar can be used to mitigate N losses resulting from NH3 volatilization and N2O emission.
Science of the Total Environment
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2017.08.242
Gaseous emission
Nitrification inhibitors
Nitrogen transformations
Soil organic amendments
10.1016/j.scitotenv.2017.08.242
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biochar Earth & Environmental Sciences 100%
Gas emissions Engineering & Materials Science 95%
Nitrogen Engineering & Materials Science 86%
Soil Chemical Compounds 79%
Soils Engineering & Materials Science 73%
mitigation Earth & Environmental Sciences 72%
nitrogen Earth & Environmental Sciences 56%
Vaporization Engineering & Materials Science 53%
Thangarajan, R., Bolan, N. S., Kunhikrishnan, A., Wijesekara, H., Xu, Y., Tsang, D. C. W., Song, H., Ok, Y. S., & Hou, D. (2018). The potential value of biochar in the mitigation of gaseous emission of nitrogen. Science of the Total Environment, 612, 257-268. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2017.08.242
The potential value of biochar in the mitigation of gaseous emission of nitrogen. / Thangarajan, Ramya; Bolan, Nanthi S.; Kunhikrishnan, Anitha; Wijesekara, Hasintha; Xu, Yilu; Tsang, Daniel C.W.; Song, Hocheol; Ok, Yong Sik; Hou, Deyi.
In: Science of the Total Environment, Vol. 612, 15.01.2018, p. 257-268.
Thangarajan, R, Bolan, NS, Kunhikrishnan, A, Wijesekara, H, Xu, Y, Tsang, DCW, Song, H, Ok, YS & Hou, D 2018, 'The potential value of biochar in the mitigation of gaseous emission of nitrogen', Science of the Total Environment, vol. 612, pp. 257-268. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2017.08.242
Thangarajan R, Bolan NS, Kunhikrishnan A, Wijesekara H, Xu Y, Tsang DCW et al. The potential value of biochar in the mitigation of gaseous emission of nitrogen. Science of the Total Environment. 2018 Jan 15;612:257-268. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2017.08.242
Thangarajan, Ramya ; Bolan, Nanthi S. ; Kunhikrishnan, Anitha ; Wijesekara, Hasintha ; Xu, Yilu ; Tsang, Daniel C.W. ; Song, Hocheol ; Ok, Yong Sik ; Hou, Deyi. / The potential value of biochar in the mitigation of gaseous emission of nitrogen. In: Science of the Total Environment. 2018 ; Vol. 612. pp. 257-268.
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