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Virtual Book Tour: Interview with P.I. Alltraine, author of 'Heartbound'
P.I. Alltraine is an award winning poet and author. She has won several international poetry competitions, and her poems have been published in separate anthologies.
She teaches English Language and Literature in London. She earned her degree in BA English from Queen Mary University of London, a Post Graduate Certificate in Education and Master's in Teaching at the UCL Institute of Education, University of London.
Before moving to London, she lived in the Philippines where she was ensconced in the rich culture encrusted with dark myths and enchanted tales. She draws inspiration from these in her writing. Although she has lived indifferent places and experienced different cultures, she always enjoyed the constancy of writing in her life. Her favourite authors include John Milton, Virginia Woolf and James Joyce.
Her latest book is the YA fantasy romance, Heartbound.
Visit P.I. Alltraine's website.
Connect with P.I. on Facebook and Twitter.
Find out more about P.I. at Goodreads.
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Petyr has never found it necessary to consider the humans as anything more than distant, inferior beings–until now. They are the cause of the fatal disease that has plagued his realm, taking the lives of too many of his kind. As a future leader of a realm in peril, Petyr must find a way to resist and cure the affliction. He must enter the unfamiliar realm, appear to be an ordinary eighteen-year-old human, observe, and learn.
However, things don't exactly go according to plan. Instead of embarking single-mindedly on his sober mission, Petyr meets an 18-year-old girl who does things to his emotions that he can't quite fathom or control. Petyr is falling in love, and he almost forgets the gravity his choices have on his entire world. Despite the risk it poses to his life and hers, he wants to know her, and he wants her to know him–and his world.
Heartbound is available at Amazon.
Watch the trailer at YouTube.
Discuss this book at PUYB Virtual Book Club at Goodreads.
Would you call yourself a born writer?
Writing is something I always knew I could do. When I was at school, some of my friends could sing, some could draw… I could write. I was the editor in chief of the school paper so I edited and wrote news articles, I wrote many of the school plays I performed in, I entered poetry writing competitions and performed spoken word poetry, I wrote the speeches I delivered in oratorical competitions, declamation, debates, etc. At the time, I thought I was doing so many different things, but looking back, everything I chose to do involved writing. When I was writing Heartbound, there were times when I didn't agree with my characters' actions, but I couldn't change anything because it wasn't my decision anymore. That's when I realised what being a writer truly meant. Everyone can write a story, but to create a world with a life of its own, that takes a writer.
What was your inspiration for Heartbound?
The story came to me and demanded to be written. I know, I know. That's the most clichéd answer ever, but writers keep saying it for a reason. It's hard to describe the impact of a powerful idea. When it hits a writer, it's no longer a choice. You have to write it, or it will drive you mad. In my case, I was minding my own business, and all of a sudden, there was this image in my head. It hit me so hard that I had to stop what I was doing. I picked up a pen and paper and started to scribble. My husband walked in and found me on the floor with pieces of papers around me. At that point, the outline of Heartbound was completed—chapter by chapter, from beginning to end.
What themes do you like to explore in your writing?
I'm interested in exploring the complexities of what it means to be human, to be alive, to find a resolution between who you're meant to be and who you want to be, to find the courage to go against the tides, refuse to conform, and fight for something that means everything to you but means nothing to everyone else.
How long did it take you to complete the novel?
It took 3 years to complete and edit Heartbound, but since I didn't have any set deadlines at the time, I only wrote when I could. The actual writing time would probably add up to just a few months.
Are you disciplined? Describe a typical writing day.
I'm an English teacher, which is pretty hectic, so I don't always get to write during term times. I get the bulk of my writing done when I'm on my holiday. Otherwise, I take advantage of the silence I find in the early hours of the morning.
What did you find most challenging about writing this book?
Finding the time to write it.
What do you love most about being an author?
There is such delight in creating a whole world.
Did you go with a traditional publisher, small press, or did you self publish? What was the process like and are you happy with your decision?
Heartbound is published by a small press called Soul Mate Publishing, New York. It was a very quick process for me. First, I did some research on credible agents and publishers that would be interested in my genre. I randomly picked one from the list, just to see how the process worked and what a rejection letter looked like. Two weeks later, I got a request for the full manuscript, and two weeks after that I was offered a contract. I had a difficult decision to make because I hadn't really tried anything else at that point. However, from what I heard, querying agents could take months for a reply (even a rejection reply), and even if someone took me on, there was no guarantee they could sell it to a publisher—and I already had a publisher interested. In the end, it made sense to seize the opportunity. I have to say that I made the right choice signing with them. The whole team—from the editors, the cover artists, the authors—have been so accommodating and supportive. I've learned so much from Debby, the chief editor. Most importantly, because SMP is not a big corporate publishing machine, I feel like I've had a voice in the whole process.
Where can we find you on the web?
I'm building a (spoken word) poetry collection that will hopefully be ready for publication next year. There's a video performance available for Unmoving, and a few more from the collection should be up soon: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C2q4JxaN1fw
FACEBOOK: https://www.facebook.com/p.i.alltraine
OFFICIAL WEBSITE: http://pialltraine.com
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Patient advocacy relies heavily on being able to create a narrative, and by extension, sell yourself. The more gripping or devastating the story, the more advantageous it is to use, at least from a marketing perspective. Getting people to empathize with our struggles, allows for the creation of new ideas, treatments, and solutions. What is often not acknowledged is the tremendous emotional effort it takes for someone to share some of their most painful moments. We do this in the hopes that it will change something in the hearts and minds of our audience. Yet, do we ever actually examine the toll it takes on us?
Once, I had someone ask me if I liked writing so much, why I didn't I do it more. The quick answer is because it is exhausting. The longer answer is that it is like a small death each time I put words to paper. While the majority of what I write is cathartic, it is also incredibly painful. I have written countless posts while sobbing. Sometimes, I write them, just to scrap everything and start over again. I have gone too far.
In my case, sharing too much makes me feel like a stone fracturing from the inside or like a small flame barely surviving as its oxygen supply gets cut off. Neither of these are particularly desirable and it is important to realize the importance of self-protection, of caring for oneself first. If we fail in this simple task, we leave ourselves too vulnerable and spent.
The audience is ever-present and always demanding more of our grief, of our energies and insights, and it is up to us to ensure that we take steps to protect ourselves. What this looks like will be different for every advocate. As someone who is extroverted and also expends considerable emotional energy investing in others, here is a brief introduction to some of the things I find helpful. I could easily write entire entries on each of them and probably will, but this is good for a start.
Set Boundaries– I wear many hats, as a wife, mom, public health professional, advocate, friend, patient, and more. Setting boundaries in terms of what I am and am not willing to do, is incredibly important to my well-being. It is a line I will not cross in a relationship, an area in which I will not give too much of myself, for any reason or any one.
Say "No"– I cannot stress this enough. It is so easy to say "yes" to writing one more article, participating in one more chat, or chairing one more working group. It feels like the more we say "yes", the more people we will help. This is ultimately false. What ends up happening is that we end up burned out and helping no one.
Self Care– I know this suggestion is almost overdone at this point, but I would be remiss in leaving it out. I am not talking about spending gobs of money to do self care like they show in the magazines. I am talking about caring for yourself in its most basic form: take your medication as directed, drink water, try to get enough sleep, compliment yourself, do something that makes you smile each day.
Are there any things you find helpful in avoiding burn-out? Feel free to add them below in the comments.
Great post from Rie – all applicable to me at the moment!
Such excellent points, a great reminder. Thanks Claire!


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GetResponse Unveils 2017 'Email Marketing & Beyond: Global Industry Benchmarks 2017' Report
Report highlights the highest open and click-through rates by industry
GDAŃSK, POLAND (May 11, 2017)—GetResponse, the easy-to-use yet advanced online marketing platform with more than 350,000 customers in 182 countries, today announced the release of their "Email Marketing & Beyond: Global Industry Benchmarks 2017" report. The report, created by GetResponse and Holistic Email Marketing, an email marketing consultancy led by CEO & Founder Kath Pay, will help businesses improve the effectiveness of their email marketing, discover benchmarks for specific industries, and help compare and identify where to improve.
The report also includes commentary from GetResponse's research partners—Content Marketing Institute and Smart Insights.
"This report helps email marketers pinpoint areas in need of improvement within their own marketing departments," said Simon Grabowski, GetResponse Founder & CEO. "These findings can be applied to their campaigns and programs to meet and exceed consumer expectations."
For the study, GetResponse and Holistic Email Marketing surveyed over 2,500 email marketers from across the world. The percentage of marketers involved in business-to-business marketing was 19.1%, business-to-consumer marketing was 41.8%, with 39.1% managing both.
In reviewing specific industries/verticals, notable findings include:
Open rates: The top-three industries with the highest open rates were Legal Services (39%), Non-profits (36%), and Health Care (34%). The industries with the lowest open rates were Internet Marketing (13%), Automotive (18%), and Travel (21%).
Click-through rates: Top-three industries with the highest click-through rates were Publishing (7.9%), Non-profits (6.6%), and Arts & Entertainment (6.6%). The bottom three were Automotive (2.2%), Internet Marketing (2.5%), and Travel (3.2%).
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Q: How can I convert value of attribute into a integer using Jquery? I have created a function that is supposed to find the value of attributes and output the average. Right now, this is not working. I believe it has to do with how I am selecting the attribute.
Here is the fiddle - https://jsfiddle.net/carbot3000/0kjLu3h0/7/
I need help identifying what I'm doing wrong. An updated fiddle would also be very helpful.
var total = 0,
valid_labels = 0,
average;

var reviewAverage = $('meta[itemprop="ratingValue"]').attr('content');

$(reviewAverage).each(function () {
var val = parseInt(reviewAverage), 10);
if (val !== 0) {
    valid_labels += 1;
    total += val;
}
});

average = total / valid_labels;
$(".reviewRating").val(average);

A: A snippet of your HTML:
<meta content="5" itemprop="ratingValue">

With this line
var reviewAverage = $('meta[itemprop="ratingValue"]').attr('content');

You're receiving a collection of jQuery objects from $('meta[itemprop="ratingValue"]') and then trying to run a method built for a singular object. Furthermore, your content attribute is a number, so running $(5) isn't going to help either.
You can get all of your ratings to a regular array with $.map - and then run a reduce function:
var reviewRatings = $('meta[itemprop="ratingValue"]').map(function() {
    return $(this).attr("content");
}).get();

var reviewAverages = reviewRatings.reduce(function(total, rating) {
    return total += parseInt(rating, 10);
}, 0) / reviewRatings.length;

A: Like tymeJV said. You try to use the "attr"-method on a collection. This want work the way you want it to. If you wanne stay a little closer to your code and just change 2 lines of your snippet, you could do this:

var numItems = $('div[itemprop="reviewRating"]').length;
$('.reviewCount').html(numItems);

var total = 0,
    valid_labels = 0,
    average;
var reviewAverage = $('meta[itemprop="ratingValue"]');

$(reviewAverage).each(function () {
    var val = parseInt($(this).attr('content'), 10);
    if (val !== 0) {
        valid_labels += 1;
        total += val;
    }
});

average = total / valid_labels;
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"The staff (Elvis and John) who supervised our party at the Norwalk location were great. They were fun (wearing party hats during the party) and were very nice to the children, to us and to our guests. They were enthusiastic and were very accommodating and helpful. They even played air hockey with my son which made him very happy! I highly commend Elvis and John as party hosts. I also commend the staff at the front desk who were very nice and helpful as well."
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Christopher S. "Chris" Murphy, född 3 augusti 1973 i White Plains, New York, är en amerikansk demokratisk politiker. Han representerar delstaten Connecticut i USA:s senat sedan 2013. Han representerade Connecticuts femte distrikt i USA:s representanthus 2007–2013.

Murphy studerade 1994–1995 vid Oxford och spelade i universitetets lag i amerikansk fotboll, Oxford Cavaliers. Han utexaminerades 1996 från Williams College i Massachusetts och avlade 2002 juristexamen vid University of Connecticut School of Law. Han arbetade sedan som advokat i Hartford.

Murphy besegrade sittande kongressledamoten Nancy Johnson i kongressvalet i USA 2006. Han omvaldes två gånger till representanthuset.

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Q: What does it mean to place something "Like a bomb"? I'm currently reading a book called The Book Thief for a school project, and there's a line in the book in which I cannot understand what the author is trying to say. In this scene, a Jew, Max, is hiding in a storage room and his German friend, Walter, is providing Max with some things he might need in the future. Here's some context:

He clicked open the case as quietly as he could and planted the book like a bomb.

This particular book being Mein Kampf, and the quote I'm struggling to understand is "like a bomb." I've asked a few of my friends who have read the book and they have conflicting opinions. One thinks that it means he carefully placed the book in the case with precision and caution so as to not accidentally destroy or damage any part of it. Another one of my friends thinks it means he set the book down quickly and ran just like one would set a bomb and run away from it. I'm tempted to agree with the ladder argument, but I could see how the former argument would make sense as well.
I'm wondering if anyone could tell me exactly what the author means by this line, or is the author simply leaving it open to interpretation?
EDIT: https://www.collinsdictionary.com/us/dictionary/english/like-a-bomb has one meaning that means to do something with great speed. While this may be an unrelated phrase, I wanted to include it in case this phrase is related to the one in the book.

A: Your former theory seems to be the correct one. Rephrased, the line would run something like:

He planted the book with the utmost care, as if it were a bomb.


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Paul Davis was a professor of Art and Chairman of the Department at the Univeristy of Utah. He is an accomplished painter and revered by his former students. He has been featured in publications including Southwest Art Magazine and Utah Painting and Sculpture by Vern Swenson. His work has been shown in New York City, San Francisco, Santa Fe and of course, Torrey. Paul Davis created the lithograph while at the University of Utah.
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Primly accoutred in a royal blue Thatcher suit, the First Minister was somewhat overdressed for the class war.
The Che Guevara of Charlotte Square had stormed the ramparts of Holyrood to decry Philip Hammond's Budget sop to the filthy rich. The capitalist lickspittle had raised the higher income tax threshold to £50,000, feathering the nests of headteachers, senior nurses and other members of the ruling class.
'The reality of Tory government is tax cuts for the wealthiest and cuts for everybody else. This government stands for something very different indeed,' she said, with all the class consciousness of a woman whose grace-and-favour townhouse was just refurbished to the tune of £500,000.
Ruth Davidson was off dandling her bundle of joy, leaving Nicola Sturgeon to defend her tax policies to Jackson Carlaw. Baby Finn could have done a better job with his Fisher Price abacus.
Carlaw forwent his usual G&T effervescence in favour of stronger beer. Which delivered more money for public services — Hammond's Budget or her Growth Commission?
Why, the Growth Commission, of course — after all, Westminster had cut Scotland's budget by £2 billion. The Tories sputtered like Mary Whitehouse encountering her first pre-watershed 'cobblers'. And cobblers is what it was. The First Minister's claim was an exquisite piece of fabulism but she sold it with Oscar-worthy gusto. If we believe it, more fool us. If she believes it, God help us.
'We are helping those at the bottom of the income scale, not those at the top,' Red Nicola boomed. She hates high earners so much she's decided we should have a lot fewer of them. The Conservative stance on tax would drive thousands of nurses out of the NHS, she claimed, though why the Tories would model their revenue plans on her tenure as Health Secretary is not clear.
This clenched-fist populism is the latest incarnation of Sturgeon, a politician who passionately believes in the findings of the last opinion poll she read. Her party has gone from shortbread tin centrism to Caledonian Corbynism in the time it took voters to spot the gap between its £10 rhetoric and 10p record.
After 11 years, and countless U-turns and reverses, the SNP is a clapped-out government, up on bricks, as the First Minister desperately tries to get the engine running again.
None of the latest posturing cut ice with Carlaw. He's a former used car salesman; he knows an old banger when he sees one.
The Tory deputy leader's tone was pungent with contempt. The Growth Commission was an 'evangelical bible of economic misery', the SNP 'focused on finding the cloud in every silver lining', and Scotland lumped with 'a grudge-and-grievance government led by a grudge-and-grievance First Minister'.
He was firing out more spicy numbers than the local curry house and the Tory benches gobbled them up. Derek Mackay was less impressed and bounded up and down in his chair hollering vowel sounds that resembled a cow being milked with a fire hose but might well have made sense in the original Renfrewshire.
Richard Leonard — who would struggle to get recognised in his own bathroom mirror — popped up to remind us all that he's still there. Student debt was his theme this week. It stood, on average, at £6,070 when the Nationalists came to power. Where was it now?
In lieu of an answer, we were treated to a game of Blame Bingo. Sturgeon ventured: 'It is significantly lower than in England–' Bingo! '–significantly lower than in Northern Ireland–' One to go! '–and significantly lower than in Labour-run Wales'. Full house!
The answer was £13,200. That's a pretty penny for a B.A. in Facebook Studies.
Leonard then took nine sentences to ask a question about total debt value.
'There are students who started and finished degrees in the time it took Richard Leonard to ask that question,' Sturgeon sniped.
She seldom has the answers but she does have a PhD in snark.


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Reeve Frosler looks to make his mark at Kaizer Chiefs next season
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The Amakhosi full-back is adamant that he and his teammates will come back stronger next season
Expectations are extremely high as Kaizer Chiefs prepare for the 2019/20 Premier Soccer League (PSL) season and Amakhosi defender Reeve Frosler too has a point to prove.
Chiefs suffered yet another abysmal season, missing out on the op eight, and failing to win any silverware. This led to fans demanding changes, and the technical team have already obliged, releasing several players and making their intentions known by bringing on board Zambian hitman Lazarous Kambole.
However, for Frosler, the new season will bring with it hope, especially as he is yet to cement a permanent spot in the squad after completing his move from Bidvest Wits at the beginning of the year.
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"Next season is my season, I've just got to keep working hard and make my mark at the club. It was very difficult training with the Castle team when I was clubless for months," Frosler told IOL.
"We are building and we are working towards the future. The season has just ended and the focus is on next season. We want to improve as a team.
"We are the players, at the end of the day, we have to do what we have to do on the field and the rewards will come. That's all that matters for us."
Frosler may be seen as one of South African football's brightest prospects and he is taking his own personal setbacks in his stride.
"We will definitely work towards something next season. All I wanted was to play football after spending six months without a club. I now have a chance to play again and that's what I will do," Frosler explained.
"The family support is what helped me. Mom and dad were very supportive to me. My girlfriend also supported me."


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Tuesday 25 April
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London has by far the highest prevalence of female genital mutilation cases - and it's estimated that 170,000 women and girls are living with FGM in the UK today. The London Assembly will publish a report which recommends making London a 'zero cutting city' and sets out how the Mayor can achieve that aim.
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Studies have shown young people who have previously been excluded from school are more likely to be drawn into crime.


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April 15, 2013 was a picture-perfect day for the 117th annual Boston Marathon, held on Patriots Day, which commemorates the first battle of the Revolutionary War. Spectators were gathered on Boylston Street in hopes of seeing top racers and loved ones cross the finish line. But at 2:39 p.m., two bombs detonated 12 seconds apart.
Marathon: The Patriots Day Bombing recounts the dramatic story of the Boston Marathon terrorist attacks through the emotional experiences of individuals whose lives were forever changed by them. Ranging from the events of the day to the death-penalty sentencing of Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, the documentary features surveillance footage, news clips, home movies and exclusive interviews with survivors and their families, as well as first responders, investigators, government officials and reporters from the Boston Globe, which won a Pulitzer Prize for its coverage.
In the wake of a heinous act of terrorism, newlywed couple, Jessica Kensky and Patrick Downes, mother Celeste Corcoran and her daughter Sydney, and the Norden brothers Paul and JP -- all gravely injured by the blast -- face the enormous challenges of physical and emotional recovery, over the course of three years, as they and their families strive to reclaim their lives and community.
Directed by Emmy nominees Ricki Stern and Annie Sundberg (HBO's Burma Soldier), and produced in association with the Boston Globe, this feature documentary goes behind the scenes of the survivors' painful, often-frustrating rehabilitation, juxtaposing these stories with efforts of the police and FBI to identify and hunt down the perpetrators.
Along with the survivors and their families, other interviewees include Boston Globe photographer John Tlumacki, who befriended the Corcorans after apologizing to them for taking graphic photos of the wounded Sydney and Celeste, which were published around the world; FBI Special Agent Kieran Ramsey; former Massachusetts governor Deval Patrick; and Boston Globe reporters Eric Moskowitz, David Filipov, David Abel and Patricia Wen, and columnist Kevin Cullen.
The documentary is dedicated to the memory of those who died in the attacks: eight-year-old Martin Richard, a third-grader; 29-year-old Krystle Campbell, a restaurant manager; 23-year-old Lu Lingzi, a Boston University grad student; and 27-year-old MIT police officer Sean Collier, who was shot to death in his patrol car by the bombers three days later.
Ricki Stern and Annie Sundberg's previous credits include the HBO Documentary Films Burma Soldier and The Trials of Darryl Hunt. Their other films include Joan Rivers: A Piece of Work, The Devil Came on Horseback and Knuckleball!
Marathon: The Patriots Day Bombing was produced in association with the Boston Globe; directed by Ricki Stern & Annie Sundberg; produced by Ricki Stern, Annie Sundberg, Jake Abraham and Jameka Autry; For HBO: executive producer, Sheila Nevins; senior producer, Nancy Abraham; edited by Keiko Deguchi; music by Paul Brill.


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Q: C# WPF - Can't bind list items to gridview columns I'm trying to load a list with multiple properties into a gridview column in a listview. I did setup a model class, pulled network adapters into a list and also wrote down the binding in the xaml code. It's still not working.
I probobaly forgot to implement a step or used the wrong logic. Also I tried to look into other threads, but none of them seemed to fix the issue I have. Thanks for your help.
.xaml
<ListView Grid.Column="0" Grid.ColumnSpan="2" Width="auto" Margin="10" Name="ListView">
  <ListView.View>
    <GridView AllowsColumnReorder="true" x:Name="GridView">
      <GridViewColumn Header="Name" Width="auto" DisplayMemberBinding="{Binding Name}"/>
     <GridViewColumn Header="Interface" Width="auto" DisplayMemberBinding="{Binding Interface}"/>
      <GridViewColumn Header="Status" Width="auto" DisplayMemberBinding="{Binding Status}"/>
    </GridView>
  </ListView.View>
</ListView >

window.xaml.cs
public MainWindow()
{
  InitializeComponent();
  List<Netadapter> adapters = new List<Netadapter>();
  foreach (NetworkInterface netadapter in NetworkInterface.GetAllNetworkInterfaces())
  {
    Netadapter adapter = new Netadapter(netadapter.Name, netadapter.Description, netadapter.OperationalStatus.ToString());
    adapters.Add(adapter);
  }
  this.DataContext = this;
}

Netadapter.cs (model)
public class Netadapter
{
  public string Name { get; set; }
  public string Interface { get; set; }
  public string Status { get; set; }

  public Netadapter(string _name, string _interface, string _status)
  {
    this.Name = _name;
    this.Interface = _interface;
    this.Status = _status;
  }
}

A: Your ListView needs to reference the list of Netadapters.
First of all, make the list of adapters a public property:
public MainWindow()
{
    InitializeComponent();
    Adapters = new ObservableCollection<Netadapter>();
    // Add adapters
    this.DataContext = this;
}

public ObservableCollection<Netadapter> Adapters { get; set; }

Second, bind the public propery to the ListViews ItemsSource:
<ListView Grid.Column="0" Grid.ColumnSpan="2" Width="auto" Margin="10" Name="ListView" ItemsSource="{Binding Adapters}" >


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Royal Sipán Tombs
Lambayeque, Lambayeque, Peru
The Sipan Tomb Museum holds the treasures of the 4th century tomb of the Moche Lord of Sipan.
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About Royal Sipán Tombs
The Sipán Tomb Museum in Peru displays the treasures found at the Royal Sipán Tombs, originally uncovered in the Lambayeque Valley.
History of the Royal Sipán Tombs
The Royal Sipán Tomb was the mausoleum of the Lord of Sipán, a great warrior and a significant figure amongst the Moche people dating back to the fourth century AD. It's believed he was about 1.63m (5″3) tall, and around 40 years old when he died.
A revered warlord, the Lord of Sipán's tomb is said to have rivalled that of Tutankhamen in terms of the amount and grandeur of objects buried with him. When the Sipán Tomb was found, the Lord of Sipán was covered in and surrounded with an abundance of gold, silver and jewels. Two of the necklaces he was wearing had gold and silver shaped into peanuts, representing the earth, as well as being an important food crop for Moche society in general.
However, in addition to this wealth of artefacts, the Lord of Sipán's tomb contained further incredible finds. In fact, the Lord of Sipán was found amongst other skeletons, including those of a dog, a llama and even two young women, possibly his concubines, believed to have been sacrificed upon his death. In total, 451 ceremonial items and offerings were found in his tomb.
It's thought the huaca (or monument above the tomb) was not looted by the Spanish, but in the late 1980s. Disputes over what was found caused the finds to be reported to the police, who raided the site and brought in a team of archaeologists to further investigate findings.
Royal Sipán Tombs today
The Royal Sipán Tombs artefacts, which include jewels, ceramics, gold and silver objects and pieces made of carved wood, are all displayed at the Sipan Tombs Museum, which is even structured to look like the actual tomb.
The Sipán Tomb Museum is very much a labour of love, created by the archaeologists who unearthed and protected these artefacts. It was opened in 2002, and is a truly great museum – well laid out and interestingly displayed.
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Born in Arquata Scrivia (Alessandria) on November 1, 1840, died in Genoa in February 1892. In the study Montecucco, applied himself to painting and sculpture at the same time, making rapid progress. He enrolled at the Academy of Fine Arts in Genoa in 1857, a pupil of the island and the Frascheri. In 1867 he won the board Durres, with which he could go to Rome and perfected. In the capital gained good reputation as a portraitist. Back in Genoa devoted himself mainly to the fresco. Was scrupulous follower of the realist school, avoiding attitudes and academic adhering unconditionally to the school gray Genoese, the renewing of Italian painting of the country and of the figure. Reached special freshness and truth in religious painting and treated with mastery also etching. His paintings are scattered throughout Liguria and Piedmont. They remember mainly those of San Biagio in Val Polcevera, Loano, Finale, Porto Maurizio, Albenga, Varazze, Voltri, San Lorenzo della Costa, Arquata. Among his best works: Portrait of Bingen; portrait of the painter F. Gandolfi, Tirsi Amarilli and Chloris; The Marys at the Tomb; landscape; II Pincio; Romana (studio costume watercolor); Our Lady of the Rosary; Portrait of two children; Old Mohammedan sitting; Amazon; Portrait of the Marquise-Cambiaso Petrano; Catching butterflies; Portrait Archduchess Handcuffs Tanska, dated 1879; The farm Scrivia and various studies of the female nude. He was also a sculptor and in relation lists the crockery: Complacency, Little Mother, Good friends, and a couple of projects for the monument to King Carlo Alberto. He has also the merit of having diligently preserved memories and documents cited on gray Genoese school, active in Liguria from 1860 to 1890 and who had frequent contacts with the movements of the renovators rivariani and Macchiaioli. Genoa dedicated a street (Sampierdarena) and Arquata Scrivia the main square, elevandogli also a monument. His works in the Civic Gallery of Modern Art in Genoa and Savona, and in the collections of the Academy of Genoa and the Ligurian Palace Montecucco-Bertelli Gavi Ligure.


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Q: Looking for a value in a jsonb list of keys/values I have a postgresql table of cities (1 row = 1 city) with a jsonb colum containing the name of the city in different languages (as a list, not an array). For example for Paris(France) I have:
id_city (integer)  = 7444
name_city (text)   = Paris
names_i18n (jsonb) = {"name:fr":"Paris","name:zh":"巴黎","name:it":"Parigi",...}

In reality in my table I have around 20 different languages. So I try to find a city looking for any name:xx's value that could match a parameter given by the user, but I can't find how to query the jsonb column in that way. I've tried something like the request below but it doesn't seem to be the good syntaxe
select * from jsonb_each_text(select names_i18n from CityTable)
where value ilike 'Parigi'

I have also tried the following
select * from CityTable where names_i18n ? 'Parigi';

But it seems to work only for the key part of the jsonb, is there any similar operator for the value part? I also need a way to know what name:XX has been found, not only the city name.
Anyone has a clue?

A: with CityTable (id_city, name_city, names_i18n) as (values(
    7444, 'Paris',
    '{"name:fr":"Paris","name:zh":"巴黎","name:it":"Parigi"}'::jsonb
))
select *
from CityTable, jsonb_each_text(names_i18n) jbet (key, value)
where value ilike 'Parigi'
;
 id_city | name_city |                          names_i18n                          |   key   | value
---------+-----------+--------------------------------------------------------------+---------+--------
    7444 | Paris     | {"name:fr": "Paris", "name:it": "Parigi", "name:zh": "巴黎"} | name:it | Parigi


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Earlier the company had launched the ZTE Small Fresh 4 smartphone in China that was successor of the Small Fresh 3 handset that was launched in November last year. Talking about the ZMax series, ZTE had launched the ZTE ZMax and Zmax2 last year.
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Pampastangara (Embernagra platensis) är en fågel i familjen tangaror inom ordningen tättingar.

Utbredning och systematik
Pampastangaran delas in i två distinkta underarter med följande utbredning:
 E. p. olivascens – sydöstra Bolivia till sydvästra Paraguay och nordvästra Argentina
 E. p. platensis – östra Paraguay sydöstra Brasilien, Uruguay och centrala Argentina

Familjetillhörighet
Liksom andra finkliknande tangaror placerades denna art tidigare i familjen Emberizidae. Genetiska studier visar dock att den är en del av tangarorna.

Status
Arten har ett stort utbredningsområde och beståndet anses vara stabilt. Internationella naturvårdsunionen IUCN listar den därför som livskraftig (LC).

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Pharma's adherence problem often starts before a patient even fills the prescription for the first time. This "first fill" problem has been examined by many over the years including by Harvard Medical School in 2010 when they found 24% of first-time patient prescriptions were never filled by analyzing e-prescription data for over 75,000 patients. In 2017, IQVIA Institute for Human Data Science looked at the impact of cost on first fill abandonment and found that 69% of commercially insured patients did not fill their new prescriptions when they had to pay more than $250 out of pocket compared to just 11% who had an out-of-pocket cost of less than $30. And in 2013, Kaiser Permanente found that 29.5% of women who were prescribed a new bisphosphonate medication failed to pick up their prescription based on the electronic health records (EHR) of 8,454 women ages 55 and over.
DrFirst, a leading provider of e-prescribing and medication management solutions, has been working on a solution, informally called Link, that is able to increase first-fill prescriptions by a baseline of 11%. While DrFirst's solutions have traditionally been geared toward physicians, IDNs, payers, and EHR vendors, they are now taking the technology and features that allow them to track e-prescriptions, determine the cost to patients, and more, and directing them to patients.
"About two and a half years ago, we realized that the tools we're giving to providers could potentially deliver even greater value to patients by making them available in a personalized, real-time, and relevant manner," says Luis Angel, President of DrFirst's Consumer Solutions division. "By working in collaboration with our partners, we rolled out a solution that engages the patient but is delivered on behalf of their provider, in support of the prescribed therapy, which is extremely important."
Patients receive an automatic notification from their providers which gives them access to a personalized toolset providing details on the drugs prescribed, copay pricing, and pharmacy location and contact information. The intent is to alleviate some of the anxiety and confusion patients may experience regarding the cost and necessity of filling their prescriptions.
"Over the last two years, we've added the magic," Angel explains. "And the magic is really made up of delivering the tools we already had in a form accessible to patients. We're helping them overcome the three main barriers that are the underlying causes of the abandonment problem."
Alleviating Prescription Abandonment
In addition to just providing basic information, the solution can now be tailored to address three other areas that typically impact whether a patient fills their prescription:
Clinical Concerns: DrFirst provides education that explains to the patient what the medication is called, how to pronounce it, what it's for, side effects, how to be cautious about starting this new treatment, etc. Currently, the company is able to deliver education for nearly all prescriptions available in the United States.
Procrastination/Forgetfulness: Patients can schedule the pickup of their medication to ensure it is ready when they arrive, which drives commitment and increases the likelihood that they're going to show up at the pharmacy.
Financial Obstacles: The solution offers pricing transparency by revealing the copay the patient will have to pay for the prescription. But it will also help address any financial barriers by providing information on potential copay assistance programs.
So far, about 60% of the patients who are sent a notification, engage within an hour of visiting the doctor. But even those who don't engage are also more likely to fill their prescription.
"The more engagement patients have with the solution — the more they click through, use the tools that are available, look at the coupons, and things like that — then the higher the fill rate," says Paul Rabideau, PhD, Senior Advisor at KMK Consulting Inc., which has examined the effectiveness of the Link solution. "So, there is an 11% increase simply because Link has been provided — even if they don't click through — because they've gotten a reminder. But we've seen another 20% increase in fill rate when they engage fully."
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Starting as a beta rollout in June 2016 to just a few hundred doctors, the solution is now widely available to DrFirst's providers and vendor customers and its implementation is quickly growing. Angel estimates that in the last month they have seen utilization increase by 25% and they expect the number to double by the end of this quarter. One reason for the growth: Provider partners are encouraged by the 97% to 98% patient satisfaction ratings these notifications have received. And now DrFirst wants to also increase its partnerships with pharma companies to help make the library of educational content even more relevant and robust for patients.
DrFirst has already worked with dozens of brand teams who can offer customized educational content for the solution and reach patients in real-time who need access to patient assistance programs. Additionally, DrFirst can help pharma researchers with clinical trial recruitment by identifying appropriate patients for the study who are also in close proximity to where it is being conducted.
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Матрични штампач (или иглични - ) је механички штампач за рачунаре. Штампа помоћу иглица (), које преко траке натопљене бојом () остављају отисак на папиру. Назив је добио управо по отисцима иглица у облику матрице, на основу којих се формирају различити знакови. Спада у групу ударних штампача, заједно са словним штампачем и цртачем (плотером).

Главни делови
Делови матричног штампача су:
 глава за штампање са 9, 18 или 24 иглица и електромагнетима
 корачни мотор за покретање папира
 корачни мотор за покретање главе за штампање
 микропроцесор за управљање радом, са управљачким програмима смештеним у посебну меморију
 РОМ и ЕПРОМ меморија у којој су смештени већ формирани знакови - генератор знакова
 трака натопљена бојом, смештена у пластичној касети

Принцип рада
Глава за штампање постављена је на тачно одређеном одстојању и усмерена ка папиру. Креће се по осовини постављеној под правим углом у односу на кретање папира и помера се водоравно дуж једног штампаног реда. Иглице главе се активирају протицањем струје кроз главу помоћу електромагнета, ударајући у траку са бојом, при чему остављају отисак на папиру. Број иглица у глави одређује максималан број тачака, које глава може отиснути у једном положају. Свака од иглица повезана је са једним погонским електромагнетом, под дејством електричног импулса. Иглице су међусобно независне, односно могу се померати свака за себе. Струја греје главу, што при дуготрајном и непрекидном раду може да оштети иглице. На тај начин квалитет исписа временом слаби, због чега постаје неопходно заменити главу.

Матрични штампач не обрађује документе страну по страну, већ штампа низ Аски знакова, ред по ред и због тога има веома мали меморијски бафер. Отуда се брзина штампања изражава у броју одштампаних знакова у секунди (), која се креће између 50 и 300. Брзина зависи од штампача и квалитета штампе, која се изражава у броју тачака по инчу () , вредности обично око 75. Може да штампа у једној боји, у зависности од постављене траке од чије истрошености такође зависи квалитет отиска.

За опис стране за штампу не користи сложене језике, као што су PCЛ или PostScript, већ једноставне кодове за постављање основних параметара као што су величина стране и квалитет штампе, док се сложенија обрада обавља се на личном рачунару.

Примена
Обично се користи у банкарству, финансијама, књиговодству, фармацији, као и у разним пословним апликацијама, свуда где је неопходно брзо и јефтино штампање, разних претежно знаковних података, са могућношћу исписивања у више копија, или вишеструких образаца, што је омогућено захваљујући физичком контакту између главе штампача и папира. Ово посебно важи за случајеве када има мало графике, односно код докумената као што су формулар, уплатница или рачун, са могућношћу коришћења различитих врста папира. Тако нпр. неки модели користе повезане листове папира, који се воде уз помоћ рупица на ивицама.

Предности и мане

Осамдесетих година прошлог века матрични штампач је био веома популаран, пошто је малих димензија, не превише скуп и веома поуздан. Међутим, због спорости, велике буке, великог коришћења механике, као и ниског квалитета штампања данас се све мање налази у кућној употреби или канцеларијама. Ипак, у неким пословима остао је незамењив, претежно због своје робусности, дуговечности и цене репроматеријала. Цена матричног штампача је слична цени ласерског штампача, али је зато замена траке готово симболична. Главни произвођачи ове врсте штампача данас су Епсон и Окидата.

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The media cycle being what it is, the fact that the St. Louis Rams reached out to Brett Favre earlier this week is already old news - because he flat-out said he is staying retired.
But somewhat lost in the chatter is perhaps the real reason he's not coming back: He fears he's experiencing some pretty heavy effects of concussions.
"I don't remember my daughter playing soccer, playing youth soccer, one summer," Favre told WSPZ in Washington, known as Sports Talk 570, when he made it clear he is staying retired.
"I got a pretty good memory, and I have a tendency like we all do to say, 'Where are my glasses?' and they're on your head. This was pretty shocking to me that I couldn't remember my daughter playing youth soccer, just one summer, I think. I remember her playing basketball, I remember her playing volleyball, so I kind of think maybe she only played a game or two. I think she played eight. So that's a little bit scary to me. For the first time in 44 years, that put a little fear in me. ... I think after 20 years, God only knows the toll."
It's somewhat shocking and also totally inevitable that there would be such a revelation. The spotlight on football and concussions has been growing brighter in recent years, as more players come out talking about their struggles, and a recent Frontline episode highlighted the dangers even further.
Favre was a notorious gamer, playing hurt so often that he set the NFL's record for consecutive starts at 321 from 1992 to 2010.
So, how could we have not seen it coming? This was someone who admitted he had a pretty good pain pill addiction going on there for a good part of his career, and was also referred to so often as a "gunslinger" because he often put himself at risks in all kinds of situations.
And he took many ugly shots in his final years with the Vikings. So much so that in this story from 2009, he admits to talking to Vikings legend (and the man whose consecutive-game record Favre shattered) Jim Marshall about the possible effects.
Pro Football Talk asked him the question: So how many times did he play in a game with a concussion that today would have resulted in Favre sitting out?
Still, it's a pretty sobering thought after all to think that the man who is arguably the greatest quarterback to ever play the game might be on a path to forgetting much about his career.
Rams call on Favre, but there's no way he's returning, right? Right?


I am sure you want to make your customers happy, after all happy customers are customers that hire you more or purchase more from you. One small and quick step you can do to accomplish that goal is to prefill the form as much as you can so they don't have to fill it themselves.
A form that use that service and auto fill the fields.
Now that I have my service I just need to create a form that uses it.
2. – A form that use that service and auto fill the fields.
The first 3 fields will be auto filled.
1. – Remote.Post: This is a standard Smart Forms function that will contact a service URL (in this case the URL is 'ajaxurl' which is explained bellow) and will automatically process the result and will use it in the formula.
2. – Ajaxurl: This is another standard smart forms function, it will always have the URL of your WordPress site.
4. – name: The service that we created will tell us the name, nickname and email of our user. To fill the 'Name' field I just need the 'name' (I don't need the nickname nor the email) so I am telling my formula to use specifically that part.
Having that done, I just need to copy-paste this formula into my other two fields and replace the last part of the formula.
In case you want them you can download the autofill extension and form in the zip below.
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great extension very useful, but if I want to do this same but for mysql database queries ??


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Q: How to find equilibria of a system of ODEs Firstly, I am not asking anyone to solve my equations for me. I am just looking for guidance on how to find the equilibria of my system and point me in the correct direction with analysing stability.
My system is as follows,
\begin{equation}
\frac{dy_i}{dx} = a_i y_i + \sum ^N_{j=1}(b_{ij}-c_{ij})y_i\cdot y_j\qquad i=1,\dots ,N
\end{equation}
Here $N$ can be quite large. $a_i$, $b_{ij}$ and $c_{ij}$ are just positive parameters. I understand that there are in general four types of equilibrium solution.

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*$y_i = 0\qquad$    $\forall i\in N$

*$y_i=y_i*\qquad$     $\forall i\in N$

*$(y_1 = 0, \dots , y_{i-1} =0, y_i=y_i*, y_{i+1}=0,\dots,y_N =0)$

*$(y_1 = 0, \dots , y_{i-1} =0, y_i=y_i*, y_{i+1}=0,\dots, y_{j-1} =0, y_j=y_j*, y_{j+1}=0,\dots,y_N =0)$

Where $y_i*$ is an equilibrium value. To find these we set each $dy_i/dx =0$ and where the nullclines intersect we have an equilibrium point.
So in the case of simply re-arranging the above equation for $y_i$ we find that,
\begin{equation}
y_i* = \frac{a_i - \sum ^N_{j\neq i} (c_{ij} - b_{ij})y_j}{(c_{ii} - b_{ii})}
\end{equation}
However I am a little lost as how to proceed from here! i.e how do I find the other equilibria?

A: Since the sum is taken over $j$, you can factor out $y_i$, and rewrite the equilibrium conditions as
$$\begin{equation}
 y_i(a_i + \sum ^N_{j=1}(b_{ij}-c_{ij})y_j) = 0\qquad i=1,\dots ,N
\end{equation}$$
Now for a non-trivial solutions you only have a system of linear equations.


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Career Programs Atlanta Georgia 30315
If you're a mom of two and working a part-time employment, finding enough time to train for a better spending, a more demanding career can seem near impossible. But career training programs throughout the state are starting to see that providing support solutions which help women and households, like child care and emergency cash assistance, will help them graduate more folks.
That's according to another study by the Institute for Women's Coverage Investigation, which interviewed 168 workforce system administrators in 41 states and additionally the District of Columbia. Most of the participants said problems like childcare, fiscal constraints also as mental health problems lead to keeping pupils from acquiring certifications.
{"Anecdotally in the place, there was definitely a sense that encouraging services are being reported on and desired," says Cynthia Hess, an associate manager of re Investigation in the IWPC. "But perhaps not plenty of research was carried out to see which supports make the greatest difference."
At least, so far. Hess and her co-workers discovered that procuring constant child treatment while investing some time from kids to analyze proved to be a common battle for women who left these plans. Sixty-five percent of system administrators highlighted it, as compared to only 38 % stating that factor led males to fall out of their sorts.
Challenge with the dayjob in addition to other day-to-day scheduling issues also had a better impact on women than men. Fifty-two percent of survey respondents documented that not having enough time to dedicate to training affected girls pupils, as compared to 38 percent reporting the same impact on men.|"Anecdotally in the place, there was certainly a sense that supporting services are being reported on and desired," states Cynthia Hess, an associate manager of re Search in the IWPC. "But perhaps not plenty of research was performed to see which supports make the finest difference."
Organizations that had partnerships this way, or adequate resources to supply these types of solutions on their own, discovered higher student completion rates. Two thirds of the plan administrators seen pupils graduate in a speed of 80-percent, while those who mentioned they weren't matching their students' needs found speeds as low as 30 %.| Organizations that had partnerships like this, or adequate capital to provide these kinds of services alone, discovered higher student completion rates. Two-thirds of the program administrators detected students grad in a speed of 80-per cent, while those who said they weren't fulfilling their students' needs discovered speeds as little as 30 %.
Programs at community and technical colleges were less prone to furnish a wide diversity of support services for their own students, which is possibly why they were also nearly twice as likely to report problems with drop outs than applications at town level.
Hess states it also is due to the level of the plan: "Community and technical colleges technically offer longer programs, along with for some people it could be more challenging to place it it out for two years."
The evidence isn't all conclusive. Only because you've dropped from a training curriculum that didn't additionally offer child care services doesn't suggest you weren't acquiring youngster treatment assist through still another, unaffiliated source. Individuals who are poor or are from disadvantaged backgrounds encounter a milieu of issues that make dedicating to long term responsibilities a hard deal.| The signs isn't all conclusive. Only because you've dropped from a training class that didn't additionally offer childcare providers doesn't suggest you weren't getting kid treatment assist through still another, unaffiliated resource. Individuals who are poor or are from disadvantaged backgrounds fall upon a milieu of issues that make giving to long term obligations a hard bargain.
But because programs that had stronger networks of associates — instead of concentrating their efforts into only one organization, like a university — were more likely to make strong results, more organizations are beginning to go in this way.


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Swimming est un film américain réalisé par Robert J. Siegel, sorti en 2000.

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Fiche technique
 Titre : Swimming
 Réalisation : Robert J. Siegel
 Scénario : Lisa Bazadona, Robert J. Siegel et Grace Woodard
 Production : Linda Moran, Robert J. Siegel, Ciro Silva et Grace Woodard
 Musique : Mark Wike
 Photographie : John Leuba
 Montage : Frank Reynolds et J. Blake Fichera (non crédité)
 Décors : Charlotte Bourke
 Costumes : Laura Sewrey
 Pays d'origine : États-Unis
 Format : Couleurs - 1,85:1 - Stéréo - 35 mm
 Genre : Drame
 Durée : 90 minutes
 Date de sortie :  (festival de Santa Barbara)

Distribution
 Lauren Ambrose : Frankie Wheeler
 Jennifer Dundas : Nicola Jenrette
 Joelle Carter : Josee
 Jamie Harrold : Heath
 James Villemaire : Brad
 Josh Pais : Neil Wheeler
 Sharon Scruggs : Marianne Wheeler
 Joshua Harto : Lance
 Anthony Ruivivar : Kalani
 Russ Ferrari : Nicky Wheeler
 Gage Nettleson : Zack Wheeler
 Joe Roseto : Phil Dunlop
 Jeffrey Ware : Buzz
 Todd A. Kovner : T
 Dennis La White : Jeeper

Autour du film
 Le tournage s'est déroulé à Georgetown et Myrtle Beach, en Caroline du Sud.
 La chanson America est interprétée par Bree Sharp.

Distinctions
 Nomination au Grand prix du jury, lors du Festival du film de Floride en 2000.
 Prix de la meilleure actrice pour Lauren Ambrose, lors du L.A. Outfest en 2000.
 Prix Torchlight, lors du Festival du film de Woodstock en 2000.

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Bisexualité au cinéma
LGBT au cinéma aux États-Unis
Film américain sorti en 2000
Film dramatique américain
Film tourné en Caroline du Sud


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Q: Sharepoint 2010 Deployement Target WebApplication is not working as expected I have developed a feature using sharepont 2010, feature Scope is "Web", feature Deployment Target is "WebApplication"(Deployement Target has been set throw Package->Advanced->Add->Add Assembly from Project Output->Deployment Target as "WebApplication).
In this feature using "SPWebConfigModification" class updating web.config file.
My concern is below:
1)After deploying it should go to particular "web" since its a "WebApplication" deployemnt but this feature is availabe in all the web apllication in the server, even though if we go to Central Admin->System Setting->Manage Farm solution, we can see this .wsp file has been deployed to particular web application not Globally Deployed. I think this looks strange. My requirement is, the feature should be available in one web application not in all web application. Can somebody point me out pls whats wrong in this or how can we do this?

A: This has to do with the property ActivateOnDefault  in the feature manifest file, this property ONLY applies to features scoped at Farm and Web Application levels. Any feature (Farm or WebApplication) with that setting set to True will automatically activate on all web applications when you deploy the WSP solution. This property is set to true by default.
Read more about it here:
http://www.sharepoint.bg/radi/post/Activate-on-Default-confusion-and-features-scoped-at-Web-Application-level.aspx


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Rolling Stone picks the 10 best TV episodes of 2017 – from 'Better Call Saul' to 'Twin Peaks.'
Not all TV episodes are created equal, even within top-notch shows – some stand head and recapped shoulder above the pack. This year, we asked writers to essays on the 10 best TV eps of 2017 – from Twin Peaks' mind-blowing "Part 8" ("Got a light?") to Bojack Horseman's heartbreaking "Time's Arrow." The list is below; you can link to each individual essay within the blurb.
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'Better Call Saul,' "Chicanery"
Better Call Saul has never been a courtroom drama – but it is a show about lawyers, and "Chicanery" smartly exploited the way that TV viewers have become conditioned to expect our legal system to produce just outcomes, whatever the cost. The McGill boys carry their domestic drama into their professional arena – and Michael McKean does what may be his finest work on the show, which is saying something. Noel Murray
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'Better Things,' "Eulogy"
Pamela Adlon's extraordinary FX sadcom does a variation on the Huck-Finn-overhearing-his-own-funeral vignette, when anger over Sam not getting respect from her daughters leads to a mock wake in her honor. A brilliant take on the agonies and ecstasies of parenthood, the show business life and balancing the personal with the professional. It's also proof that this is hands down one of the funniest, deepest shows on TV, period. David Fear
'Bojack Horseman,' "Time's Arrow"
This season's penultimate episode takes us inside Beatrice Horseman's mind and gives viewers a first-hand experience with the progressive effects of Alzheimer's dementia. Identities are washed away or violently obscured; you can almost feel the character fighting through the turbulent waters alongside you, or occasionally trying to pull you away before you've seen too much. The ending offers just a fleeting moment of half-remembered happiness – and even that may be a lie. Sam Adams
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'Girls,' "American Bitch"
Like many of Girls' most acclaimed installments, this one's a bottle episode, isolating writer/fuck-up Hannah Horvath with Chuck Palmer, a beloved novelist (played by Matthew Rhys), who has a habit of propositioning young fans for oral sex under circumstances that are dubious at best and outright non-consensual at worst. It ends with a swerve away from realism: a street filled entirely with faceless, professionally dressed young women, all of them moving toward the maw of the literary superstar's apartment building. Sean T. Collins
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'GLOW,' "Maybe It's All the Disco"
After one of their practices, the G.L.O.W. ladies discover that they're all on the same menstrual cycle. Alison Brie's Ruth, however, realizes that she's not synced; she may, in fact, have a bigger problem on her hands. Thanks to our current political climate, where the fight for a woman's right to choose is likely to become more difficult than it has been in decades, showing that abortion is, fundamentally, a medical procedure that a woman chooses – and that it can be no big deal – feels utterly vital. Amy Plitt
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'The Good Place,' "Dance Dance Resolution"
What was the funniest half-hour of television of 2017? The answer: a clever commentary on the very structure of episodic comedy itself. Forced to reset the Kristen Bell & Co's bespoke "paradise" lost, Michael (Ted Danson) keeps rewriting the scenario and recasting supporting players in slightly different roles. His victims keep figuring it out. It throws the laughs out fast and furious and then adds in a love story to boot. Come for the high-concept comedy; stay for sense of higher-power comfort. Brian Tallerico
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'The Handmaid's Tale,' "Late"
"Late" offers a gut-wrenching view into what happens to those who don't conform in Margaret Atwood's oppressive dystopian future. It's also when we learn just how near this near future is, rewinding back to Offred (Elisabeth Moss) and her friend Moira (Samira Wiley) participating in a protest that looks an awful lot like the Women's March. "In a gradually heating bathtub, you'd be boiled to death before you knew it," Offred says. Viewers awash in the news of the real-world political climate shuddered in recognition. Jenna Scherer
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'I Love Dick,' "A Short History of Weird Girls"
You don't necessarily have to watch the rest of this Amazon series to prep for "A Short History of Weird Girls" – it stands on its own as an inventively exhilarating, abrasively funny 21-minute tour de force. Four women deliver monologues about their sex lives, creative struggles, childhood memories, female desire. Dick doesn't get a word in – he's only there as a muse. As always, Kevin Bacon is only there to give the weird girls a reason to cut footloose. Rob Sheffield
'Master of None,' "Thanksgiving"
A coming-out tale told over seven holiday dinners that spans three decades (hurtling through time rather than space), this stand-out, Emmy-winning episode is a vindication of Master of None's inclusive vision and artistic aspirations. Lena Waithe (who wrote it) has her character Denise go from a kid discovering she's gay to a young woman negotiating her her mother's resistance; Angela Bassett plays her mom. It's also a reminder that no medium feels more homey than television – a coziness that makes a sense of belonging from the shows we watch all the more important. Inkoo Kang
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'Twin Peaks,' "Part 8"
Landing at the exact midpoint of a 16-episode season, Twin Peaks: The Return's eighth installment – titled simply "Part 8" – was one of those rare cultural moments when you'll remember where you were when you watched it. A nuclear bomb explodes in New Mexico, 1945; the story of Laura Palmer and her killer "Bob" appears in an eerie vision of predestination; and when the camera passes through the atomic flame, a photo-negative of American hell awaits on the other side. Then a sooty woodsman asks, "Got a light?" This is what it looks like when Pandora's Box gets cracked wide open. Scott Tobias


May 2018 – Estonian Cuisine. Eesti Toit.
Simple and delicious cake for people, who do not want or like very sweet cakes.
Bitterness of the rye and chocolate , tart rhubarb and crunchy nuts creating wonderful combination.
In the spring forest you will never be thirsty.
And Please. Never. Never. Do not destroy the anthill.
For a country that covers only a little over 45,000 km2, it has an estimated population of 1.3 million and it one of the most sparsely populated countries in Europe, with almost 50% covered by forest.
I like pure clean flavours.
I have had period I used a lot of different spices. I have had period I used a lot of different herbs. Mixed different ingredients and flavours.
all ingenious is simple and all simple is ingenious.
Last year I introduced to you Pletskid- Estonian flat bread from very difficult and poor time. When people had just few potatoes and little bit oil.
Vatskid was baked on oven on the cabbage leaf. Believe, the most complicated in this recipe is to remove leaves from cabbage 🙂 Cabbage leaf helps keep moisture.
But, of course you can bake them on the ordinary way in hot skillet (without oil) or in the oven.
I do not know why I decided this time to use a round shape cake tin. Usually, this cake is baked on a baking tray.
This is one of my favourite cake. I love mellow biscuit and soft bottom. I love a combination of tart rhubarb or apples and sweet dough.
Perfect workday dinner. easy to make and will be complete quickly. If you can, use Rye black bread, not white bread crumbs. Rye Bread gives special delicious bitter-sweet taste.
Perfect workday dinner. Easy to make and will be complete quickly.


The robust applications of a UC system call for a better, more reliable network. The combination of UCaaS and CT Cloud Boost will provide the quality and experience for real-time applications while improving overall network performance for domestic and international organizations.
The secret behind better Internet is simple and it lies within the cloud. Access to the cloud is too important to rely on a single path. You shouldn't have to worry about Internet connections, performance and outages. CT Cloud Boost provides a stress-free way to utilize the multiple providers of your UC systems and enhance your Internet experience.


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Honoring 2017's Bulldogs
In Defense of Liz Cheney
Biden Inauguration Rehearsal Postponed Due to Security Concerns
This Day in Liberal Judicial Activism—January 17
By Michelle Malkin
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Kimberly Corban at CPAC 2017 (Photo: Gage Skidmore)
Citizens and groups who work tirelessly to defend our freedoms as Americans.
There are talkers and doers, sowers of dissatisfaction seeds and agents of lasting change. Much of my column work over the year is dedicated to exposing the worst crapweasels in politics, pop culture, media, and the policy arena. But to ring out 2017, I'm raising a toast to some of my favorite bulldogs — vigilant citizens, independent journalists and bloggers, and dedicated activists who work tirelessly to protect life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.
Angel Moms and Dads: These brave parents of victims of illegal-immigrant crime keep the legacies of their lost loved ones alive by fighting for secure borders and immigration enforcement to prevent more needless suffering. After President Trump spotlighted several members on the campaign trail in 2016, liberal journalists attacked them as a "hate group" — never mind the fact that many are legal immigrants and naturalized citizens themselves. As open-borders lobbyists fight hard this coming year for amnesty, sanctuary cities, and border-wall sabotage, look for the Angel Moms and Dads to step up and speak for the voiceless.
Terri LaPoint: An Alabama-based writer and investigative reporter, Terri runs MedicalKidnap.com for Health Impact News. She exposes the dangerous alliance between child-welfare bureaucrats and elite medical institutions that undermine parental rights and separate sick kids from their families in the name of saving them. While the Justina Pelletier and Charlie Gard cases prompted international outrage, most medical kidnappings go unnoticed and unreported on a chillingly routine basis. LaPoint is the go-to resource for families under siege for defending their medical autonomy.
Luke Rosiak: This prolific investigative reporter for the Daily Caller News Foundation has broken dozens of stories on the Democrats' information-technology scandal, involving what Rosiak calls a "massive cyber breach on Congress and cover-up." For the past year, he has hammered away at House Dems who employed IT aide Imran Awan and his family members to the tune of at least $4 million in taxpayer funds between 2009 and 2017. Thanks to Rosiak's work, we learned that Awan and his brothers were under investigation for equipment theft and accessing congressional computer networks while working for several Democrats who served on committees that handle highly sensitive national-security information. Awan was wiring gobs of cash to Pakistan; his brother Abid ran a used-car lot with no inventory, a fake sales staff, and funding from a "Hezbollah-linked fugitive." While Rosiak collects and connects the shady dots, the rest of the media is still snoozing.
Kimberly Corban: This Colorado mom is a passionate Second Amendment defender who directly challenged President Barack Obama's support of gun control by sharing her experience as a rape survivor in 2006. More than 10 years later, Corban speaks regularly to young women on college campuses and defies the left-wing feminist orthodoxy of rape survivors as perpetual victims. She has weathered death threats and hate attacks online but remains undeterred in her quest to help empower women through armed self-defense.
Obianuju Ekeocha: This Nigerian-born pro-life speaker and organizer is president of Culture of Life Africa. With her megawatt smile and razor-sharp tongue, Ekeocha takes on the abortion ghouls in Hollywood and the BBC and at the U.N., armed with data and backed by African women who uphold the sanctity of life in word and deed. Ekeocha uses Twitter and social media masterfully to unmask left-wing cultural imperialism and build a global culture of life.
Tom Fitton and Judicial Watch have spent decades fighting against government corruption and misconduct by using the Freedom of Information Act and challenging evaders in court.
Brian Bates: An Oklahoma private investigator, Bates's website on the case of former Oklahoma City police officer Daniel Holtzclaw's wrongful convictions (holtzclawtrial.com) is a rare challenge to prosecutorial misconduct and crime-lab incompetence in the Sooner State. If not for his work, I would not have embarked on my own continuing investigative journey into a case that represents the worst miscarriage of justice in the criminal-justice system that I've covered in 25 years. Stay tuned as many more independent experts and advocates weigh in on the case in 2018 while Holtzclaw fights for his exoneration.
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Judicial Watch: The D.C. watchdog foundation is simply the best muckraking giant on the right — shining bright light on the sleazeballs and scam artists in the Beltway swamp. Tom Fitton and his crew have spent decades fighting against government corruption and misconduct by using the Freedom of Information Act and challenging evaders in court.
Michael Morisy & Mitchell Kotler: These transparency advocates founded MuckRock in 2010 to assist journalists filing public-records requests across a complicated landscape of local, state, and federal agencies. MuckRock tracks the process from start to finish, sends follow-up messages to foot-draggers, and helps crowdsource the results. I'm not just a fan of their passion project. I'm a regular user of the site, and you can see my FOIA requests on MuckRock.
Check out all of my Bulldog Award winners at CRTV's Michelle Malkin Investigates, and here's to more effective exposure and hell-raising in 2018. Cheers!
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Michelle Malkin is the host of Michelle Malkin Investigates on CRTV.com. Her email address is MichelleMalkinInvestigates@protonmail.com. @michellemalkin
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Just checking in to see when WestHost will be offering Miva 5. I noticed that at www.miva.com it was available and web hosts are already offering it. It looks AWESOME. The control over the cart looks to be much improved.
Let's hope WestHost gets it upgraded on their servers soon....anyone know?
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I want to make the corners of a button round. Is there an easy way to achieve this in Android?
Apply this as background to button you want make corners round.
It's so simple. Create an XML file like below one. Set it as background for the button. Change the radius attribute to your wish, if you need more curve for the button.
This should give you your desired result.
if you are using vector drawables, then you simply need to specify a <corners> element in your drawable definition. I have covered this in a blog post.
If you are using bitmap / 9-patch drawables then you'll need to create the corners with transparency in the bitmap image.
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