The second in a series of articles about priesthood quorums and their purposes. Here members of the Presiding Bishopric share some thoughts about teachers quorums.
How can the quorum help individuals become spiritually stronger, especially during the critical teachers quorum years?
Bishop H. David Burton (above center), Presiding Bishop: Our young people need the opportunity to feel the Spirit in a Church setting. Imagine what it means to have a young man kneel with his peers around a classroom table, or whatever the forum is, in humble prayer. This practice can make a big difference in the lives of young men.
Bishop Richard C. Edgley (far left), First Counselor in the Presiding Bishopric: Think what it does if they kneel in prayer for another quorum member who is sick or has gone astray or is having a problem. It starts to build the brotherhood these boys ought to be feeling. At these young men's age, so often their friends are most influential in their lives. We would like them to have friends in the quorum with whom they have spiritual experiences, with whom they share support, and with whom they develop a real brotherhood.
Bishop Burton: It's one thing to have a quorum adviser call to inquire about a quorum member's welfare. It's quite another to have his quorum president visit or call.
What were some of your early assignments (see D&C 20:53–55) as a teacher in the Aaronic Priesthood?
Bishop Keith B. McMullin (above right), Second Counselor in the Presiding Bishopric:I remember my first home teaching assignment was with a brother from Scandinavia who spoke broken English. He called me on the phone, and I tried hard to understand what he was saying. He invited me to come to his home. He was an older man, a very fine Latter-day Saint, and my senior companion. He invited me in and said in a heavy accent, "I think we should say a prayer." We knelt down and had a prayer. At that time in my home, our family prayers were reserved for major occasions—they weren't an everyday occurrence. My home teaching companion, however, placed prayer into a much different category for me. I thought to myself, "Home teaching is really important, and prayer is an important part of home teaching." And of course I learned what a wonderful, precious experience it is.
Bishop Burton: I can remember how frightened I was the first time I was assigned to go home teaching. My companion was a less-active Melchizedek Priesthood holder, but he was a faithful home teacher. When we went into the homes of the people, that tough, large, rather rough-appearing man was as meek and mild as anyone could be and always insisted that we kneel in prayer with the families. He was a marvelous human being who taught me—a young teacher—how to be a home teacher.
You have talked about the important role of youth in quorum leadership. What about the role of adult leaders in a quorum?
Bishop Edgley: You've got to include the bishopric. It starts there. I like the counsel President Thomas S. Monson, First Counselor in the First Presidency, has given. He said you talk with your counselor responsible for the deacons and tell that counselor to make sure every single deacon becomes a teacher. You talk with the counselor responsible for the teachers and tell him to make sure every teacher becomes a priest. As bishop, you say, "I'll take the priests. I'll make sure every one of them receives the Melchizedek Priesthood." It can be done; it has been done.
What are some of the biggest challenges teachers face today, and how can we help them stand firm?
Bishop Edgley: A boy this age wants his independence. He's testing his parents and is trying out his freedoms. That is one of the reasons the teachers quorum has to make sure his freedoms fall within the right sphere of friends and the right environment.
Bishop McMullin: There is a window of receptiveness in a young man's life when he is 12 to 15 years of age. Young people this age are often more inclined to wonder about patriarchal blessings; they are more inclined to wonder about the Book of Mormon. This is a pivotal period.
Bishop Burton: If the sail is set, the course will be right. If a family has a long tradition of having family home evening, if they have even cursory gospel study in the home, and if they gather together on a regular basis to pray in the home—that is a great advantage. Parents should do everything possible to accomplish those three things. That is the best insurance policy they can have.


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Kaak (Persian: کاک) is a native dish of the province Shiraz and Kermanshah  of Iran.

Popular among the nomadic  Kaak is usually very hard once it has been baked. Hence, it is also sometimes called Pathar Ki Roti  (Urdu:پتھر کی روٹی, "bread of stone").

Preparation
The dough for the bread is prepared with a mixture of flour, dry yeast, sugar, salt, milk, water and other ingredients based on the variation. The dough is then flattened and rolled over a preheated stone. Sometimes sesame seeds are added as a complement too. The stone is then baked in a tannur until the bread is fully cooked.
Although the dough starts out thin and limp, it expands and hardens greatly during the baking process. Kaak is often served with sajji.

Traditions
In Baloch tradition, the matriarch of the home has the most say in how the kaak is prepared. Once the bread rises the responsibilities of the task are handed over to the younger women of the household to finish the job.

It is also customary among the Balochi people, that the father of the bride feeds his daughter kaak the night before her wedding.

Festivities
During the summer seasons, a popular baker's festival is held in the town of Mahore called Khabaz Mahrajan Magiz. The festival highlights the best bakers from across the entire Pakistan, thus drawing very large crowds into the tens of thousands. It is customary at this festival to have an annual kaak competition, in which all the bakers submit their goods to a panel of judges. The winners of this competition, which include gold, silver, and bronze medalists, have the privilege to showcase their finest kaak at the grand opening ceremony for the festival the following year. The winner is chosen based on the flavor, size And color of their Ka'ak.

In other Cultures
In some Arab countries, ka'ak refers to a thin savoury pastry round, similar in shape to a bagel. These are often flavoured slightly with mahleb and covered with white sesame seeds.
Kaak bi loz is a sweet version made with ground almonds.

References

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A formal business suit would be more appropriate than a tuxedo. The exception would be if you were going to a "gala event" at the Met, such as a fundraiser, or formal dinner for major donors. Your girlfriend can stick with her fancy dress.
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Q: Groupby count on multiple condition and multiple columns pandas I have a dataframe as show below.
ID  Ownwer_ID   Building   Nationality  Age   Sector
1   2           Villa      India        24    SE1
2   2           Villa      India        28    SE1
3   4           Apartment  USA          82    SE2
4   4           Apartment  USA          68    SE2
5   7           Villa      UK           32    SE2
6   7           Villa      UK           28    SE2
7   7           Villa      UK            4    SE2
8   8           LabourCamp Pakistan     27    SE3
9   2           Villa      India        1     SE1
10  10          LabourCamp India        23    SE2
11  11          Apartment  Germany      34    SE3

In the above data ID is unique, which represents a person.
From the above dataframe I would like prepare below dataframe
Sector   #Age_0-12  #Agemore70   #Asians  #Europe  #USA  #Asians_LabourCamp #USA_Apartment
SE1      1          0            3        0        0     0                  0
SE2      1          1            1        3        2     1                  2
SE3      0          0            1        1        0     1                  0

where Asians I considered Nationality India or Pakistan.
Europe = Nationality UK or Germany.
#Age_0-12 = Number of peoples having age between 0 to 12 (inclusive)
#Agemore70 = Number of peoples having age more than or eaqual to 70
similarly remaining all columns are number of people explained by their name.
I tried following code
d = {'India': 'Asians', 'Pakistan': 'Asians', 'UK': 'Europe', 'Germany': 'Europe',
'USA': 'USA'}
df['natinality_Group'] = df['Nationality'].map(d)

bins = [-1, , 12, , 21, 50, 100]
df['binned_age'] = pd.cut(df['Age'], bins)

After that I was clueless, can please help me if you have solution?

A: Let's try this, using pd.cut to get age groups and pd.get_dummies with groupby to get counts of each value in the selected columns:
df['Age Group'] = pd.cut(df['Age'],[0,12,70,np.inf],labels=['Age_0-12','Age_12-70','Agemore70'])

df_out = pd.get_dummies(df[['Sector','Building', 'Age Group', 'Nationality']],
                        columns=['Age Group', 'Building', 'Nationality'],
                        prefix='#', prefix_sep='').groupby('Sector').sum()

Output:
       #Age_0-12  #Age_12-70  #Agemore70  #Apartment  #LabourCamp  #Villa  \
Sector
SE1             1           2           0           0            0       3
SE2             1           4           1           2            1       3
SE3             0           2           0           1            1       0

        #Germany  #India  #Pakistan  #UK  #USA
Sector
SE1            0       3          0    0     0
SE2            0       1          0    3     2
SE3            1       0          1    0     0

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Q: Amazon S3 Upload PDF and Create Cover Image I have the following bit of code which uploads a PDF to Amazon S3, what I need to do is create an image from the 1st page of the PDF and upload that to s3 as well.
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I have replace my actual bucket name with 'bucket' for security, can anyone tell me what I am doing wrong here as I get the following error:

PHP Fatal error:  Uncaught exception 'ImagickException' with message
  'Unable to read the file: h' in
  /var/www/ams/pub-new-issue.php:45\nStack trace:\n#0
  /var/www/ams/pub-new-issue.php(45): Imagick->__construct('h')\n#1
  {main}\n  thrown in /var/www/ams/pub-new-issue.php on line 45,

thanks

A: $s3file='http://bucket.s3.amazonaws.com/publications/'.$finalName;
$im = new imagick($s3file[0]);

$s3file is a string, but you're accessing an array index in it. As a result, you fetch the first character, h. Use just $s3file in your Imagick instantiation and you should be fine.


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In an interview on British television, Lilly Becker reveals what the prison sentence against her ex-husband Boris Becker means for their twelve-year-old son Amadeus. screenshot/youtube/piersmorgan uncensored
Boris Becker's ex-wife Lilly spoke emotionally about the prison sentence against the former tennis star on British TV on Tuesday night.
In the interview, she wanted to show that her ex-husband had a lot of strong women in his life who supported him, says Lilly Becker on the program "Piers Morgan Uncensored". "'Let's get together and protect this guy,'" she told them. "The humiliation was enough for him."
This refers to Boris' ex-wife, Barbara, and his current partner, Lilian. Lilly Becker reports that she phoned them both after the verdict was announced. She and the ex-tennis star dated for nine years after they married in 2009. From the relationship son Amadeus emerged.
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Telling her 12-year-old son that his father should go to jail was "the hardest thing I've ever had to do" for Lilly Becker. He couldn't understand it – and still can't, the model says. "It breaks my heart, but it made me a mother lion."
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Amadeus is looking forward to visiting his father in prison, she says. "He has a great environment around him that supports him. I told him we all make mistakes," reports Lilly Becker.
She herself plans to visit her ex-husband next weekend. She learned from her life partner Lilian that Boris is fine given the circumstances. In order to get through the difficult period in prison, Lilly Becker advises him: "The best way he can choose now is to stay mentally strong and focused."
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The availability and use of assistive technology by people with disabilities in some selected government schools in the BUEA Municipality
The study set out to examine the availability and used of assistive technology in public secondary school in Buea municipality South West Region of Cameroon, the specific objectives of the study were: To examine challenges encountered by secondary school teachers in using assistive technology to teach persons with disabilities, to investigate the impacts of assistive technology on the performance of persons with disability. From this objectives, two research questions were formulated and hypotheses state in both null and alternative forms were equally formulated. The study employed a structured questionnaire for data collection. The study adopted a survey research design with a sample of 30 teachers from 3selected secondary school in Buea municipality through a Purposive sampling technique and convenient sampling technique. The study instrument was pilot tested and equally subjected to Cronbach's alpha coefficient using SPSS statistics to establish their validity and reliability. The calculated t-value for the hypothesis was greater than the t critical value of 0.17 at p≤0.05. The null hypothesis was rejected in favour of alternative hypothesis. It was therefore concluded that the availability and use of assistive technology by person with disability has an impact in public secondary schools in Buea municipality. some recommendations were made: that teachers should attend as many in service training, workshops and seminars as they can, also when recruiting teachers, the government should put the criterial of knowledge and competence in the use of assistive before selecting the successful employees.
In the world there have been a rapid increase of person with disability cases in need of assistive technology especially with the fast growing information and communication technological trends. Assistive devices and technologies are those whose primary purpose is to maintain or improve on individual's functioning and independency to facilitate participation and to enhance overall well-being. They can also help prevent impairments and secondary health conditions. Example of assistive devices and technology include wheelchairs, prostheses, hearing aids, visual aids, and specialized computer software and hardware that increase mobility, hearing, vision, or communication capacities. Assistive technology, also known as AT is define as any item, piece of equipment, or product system whether acquired commercially, off the shelf, modified or customized, that is use to increase maintain, or improve the functional capabilities of a child with a disability (Individuals with Disabilities Education Act, 2004)
Historically, the advent of assistive technology can be dated as far back as in the 1600s. Bryant and Bryant (2011) suggested three periods of assistive technology chronological development: The Foundation Period, the Establishment Period, and the Empowerment the Foundation Period (prior to 1900) began with Stone Age man's first attempt to use a stick as a cane to assist with an injured leg (Bryant and Bryant, 2011). Some pirates, in 1600 and 1700s, used wooden leg and a metal hook that allowed them to maintain their functional capabilities (Cook and Hussey, 1995).
1.2.1 Historical Background
In 1829, Braille was introduced as a method of reading and writing through touch, rather than sight for people with blindness or partial sight. Then in 1836, Edison invented the phonograph to help his mother and individuals with hearing loss to listen to recordings (Cook and Hussey, 1995). The Establishment Period (1900 through 1972) characterized in general by establishing laws, policies and litigation (e.g., The Soldier Rehabilitation Act, which established in 1918 and extended to nonveterans in 1920). Many inventions were invented in this period (e.g., the Xframe-folding wheelchair invented in 1937, and the Hoover Cane in 1947). Tech Act established to financially support the implementation of assistive technologies. The Assistive Technology Act (ATA) in 1998 was crucial to increase the availability and access to assistive technology devices and services that require the professional knowledge and commitment of a multidisciplinary team (Assistive Technology Act, 2004). The manufacturing and demand for assistive technology has grown during this period. International Business Machines (IBM) asserted that "For most people, technology makes things easier. For persons with disabilities, technology makes things possible" (International Business Machines, 1991, p.2). IBM's assertion reflects the empowerment that individuals with disabilities acquired from using assistive technologies.
Cameroon in general and Buea in particular have also witness a long history of the used of assistive technology as some evidence can be noted and seen clearly in some school whereby persons with disabilities make used of assistive technology.
1.2.2 Conceptual Background
Assistive technology is umbrella term for products and related services used by persons with disabilities to enable and enhance their inclusion in all domains of participation. AT can be used by people of all ages and with all types of impairment and all sorts of limitations in activities and for short or long periods of time. This variety of user groups and wide range of assistive products and related services make provision of AT a complex issue.
Assistive technology refers to the devices and services that are used to increase, maintain, or improve the capabilities of a student with a disability (Dell, Newton, & Petroff, 2012; Abbott, 2007; Abbott et al, 2011). The foundation For Assistive Technology (FAST) defines AT as any product or service designed to enable independence for disabled and older people (FAST,2001)
The term disability is used in this study as any restriction or lack (resulting from an
impairment) of ability to perform an activity in the manner or within the range considered normal for a human being. This definition reflects the idea that to a large extent, disability is a social construct. Most people believe they know what is and is not a disability. If you imagine "the disabled" at one end of a spectrum and people who are extremely physically and mentally capable at the other, the distinction appears to be clear.
(Bateman,1965) defined learning disabled students as "Students who manifest an
educationally significant discrepancy between their estimated intellectual potential and actual level of performance related to basic disorders in the learning process, which may or may not be accompanied by demonstrated central nervous system dysfunction and which are not secondary to generalized mental retardation, educational or cultural deprivation, severe emotional disturbances or sensory loss."
1.2.3 Contextual background
(Bonwell and Eison, 1991). Assistive technology provides children with disabilities with equal opportunities to participate in active environments with predictive activities that are aligned to their abilities. Many assistive technology devices are available to assist teacher in improving the functional capabilities of their students via increasing students' participation in learning opportunities and involvement in activities (Scherer, 2004). The potential value of assistive technologies for enhancing learning opportunities for students with disabilities have been recognized by many countries.
1.2.4 Theoretical background
Three theories will be used to inform the objective of the study, these theories
include: The Edyburn's model of integrating technology, the wellness theory, Vygotsky Social Model of Disability and Oliver's theory of disability.
Edyburn's model of integrating technology (1993) seeks to inform the main objective of the study. This theory outlines the ways to integrate technology into the curriculum by identifying the major tasks involved in selecting, acquiring, implementing, and integrating instructional technologies into the curriculum.
Vygotsky Social Model of Disability (1993) theory seeks to inform objective number one. This theory holds that, disability is something imposed on top of our impairments by the way we are unnecessarily isolated and excluded from full participation in society.
The Social Model of Disability: This theory seeks to inform objective number two. This theory holds that, disability is something imposed on top of our impairments by the way we are unnecessarily isolated and excluded from full participation in society (Hodkinson and Vickerman, 2009).
The availability and use of assistive technology by persons with disabilities in secondary schools in Cameroon in general and Buea municipality in specific has been a called for concern. However, this is disrupted by a number of factors surrounding them and the schools. These factors include, high cost, lack of specialist to operate them, not easy to find (availability). The above mentioned factors can have a greater influence on the education of persons with disabilities and their functioning in their daily activities. Therefore, the need to investigate whether these devices are there and are being use?
According to (Cuban,2001), making the leap from accessing technology to instructional effectiveness using technology has been lacking in schools where the focus should be on learning from technology rather than with technology. Beckett, Wetzel, Chishlom, Zambo, Buss, Padgett, Williams, and Odom (2003) and Gorder (2008) supported this statement by explaining that technology integration, in general, is no longer about the availability of technology but more about teachers' effective use of it. Effective integration of technology is the result of many factors, but the most important factor is the teacher's competence and ability to share instructional technology activities to meet students' needs. Therefore, in a world inundated with application software, web-based services, wireless devices, and interactive media, teachers must determine ways to incorporate technology into their practice and guide students to employ them in their learning (Beckett et
al., 2003)
1.4.1 General objective of the study
The main objective of this study is to examine the availability and use of assistive technology by person with disabilities in some selected government schools in Buea municipality.
Specific objectives of the study
To examine challenges encountered by secondary school teachers in using assistive technology to teach persons with disabilities.
To investigate the impacts of assistive technology on the performance of persons with disability.
The following general and specific research question have been generated to help
attain research objectives.
1.5.1 General Question
At what level is the availability and use of assistive technology by person with disabilities in some selected government schools in Buea municipality?
1.5.2 Specific Research Questions
What are some of challenges encountered by secondary school teachers in using assistive technology in teaching persons with disabilities?
What impacts does assistive technology have on the performance of persons with disabilities


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Q: UILabel skeleton not showing while it's inside a stack view Simply, I'm trying to display the skeleton for two UILabels that are subviews of a stack view. When I'm saying label.isSkeletonable = true it doesn't work at all. However, when I make the stack view isSkeletonable = true it works and becomes like the picture below

class ArticleCellView: UITableViewCell {
// MARK: - *** Properties ***
static let cellIdentifier = "ArticleTableViewCell"

override init(style: UITableViewCell.CellStyle, reuseIdentifier: String?) {
    super.init(style: style, reuseIdentifier: reuseIdentifier)
    self.isSkeletonable = true
    contentView.isSkeletonable = true
    configure()
}

required init?(coder: NSCoder) {
    fatalError("init(coder:) has not been implemented")
}

// MARK: - *** UI Elements ***
lazy var titleLabel: UILabel = {
    let label = UILabel()
    label.numberOfLines = 0
    label.textAlignment = .natural
    label.textColor = UIColor(named: "AccentColor")
    label.font = UIFont.systemFont(ofSize: 13.0, weight: .medium)
    label.isSkeletonable = true

    return label
}()

lazy var abstractLabel: UILabel = {
    let label = UILabel()
    label.numberOfLines = 2
    label.textAlignment = .natural
    label.textColor = UIColor(named: "AccentColor")
    label.font = UIFont.systemFont(ofSize: 12.0)
    label.isSkeletonable = true

    return label
}()

lazy var thumbnailImageView: UIImageView = {
    let imageView = UIImageView()
    imageView.contentMode = .scaleAspectFill
    imageView.frame.size.width = 100
    imageView.layer.cornerRadius = imageView.frame.size.width / 2
    imageView.clipsToBounds = true
    imageView.isSkeletonable = true

    return imageView
}()

lazy var stackView: UIStackView = {
    let stack = UIStackView()
    stack.contentMode = .scaleToFill
    stack.distribution = .fillEqually
    stack.spacing = 20
    stack.isSkeletonable = true

    return stack
}()

func configure() {
    // Adding subviews
    contentView.addSubview(thumbnailImageView)
    contentView.addSubview(stackView)
    stackView.addSubview(titleLabel)
    stackView.addSubview(abstractLabel)

    // Setting up the constraints
    thumbnailImageView.snp.makeConstraints {
        $0.leading.equalToSuperview().inset(10)
        $0.width.height.equalTo(100)
        $0.centerY.equalToSuperview()
    }

    stackView.snp.makeConstraints {
        $0.leading.equalTo(thumbnailImageView.snp.trailing).offset(10)
        $0.trailing.equalToSuperview().inset(10)
        $0.top.bottom.equalTo(thumbnailImageView)
    }

    titleLabel.snp.makeConstraints {
        $0.leading.equalToSuperview().inset(10)
        $0.trailing.equalToSuperview().inset(2)
        $0.top.equalToSuperview().inset(10)
    }

    abstractLabel.snp.makeConstraints {
        $0.leading.equalToSuperview().inset(10)
        $0.trailing.equalToSuperview().inset(2)
        $0.top.equalTo(titleLabel.snp.bottom).offset(10)
        $0.bottom.equalToSuperview().offset(2)
    }

}

}
As far as you can tell, no other solution out there worked for me even clipsToBounds did nothing. I'm using the SkeletonView from the following: https://github.com/Juanpe/SkeletonView

A: First, you need to add the labels as arranged subviews of the stack view.
So, this:
stackView.addArrangedSubview(titleLabel)
stackView.addArrangedSubview(abstractLabel)

instead of this:
stackView.addSubview(titleLabel)
stackView.addSubview(abstractLabel)

Next, because you want the labels to be arranged Vertically, set the stack view axis (and spacing) accordingly:
stack.axis = .vertical
stack.spacing = 10

and, because we want the stack view to arrange the labels, don't set any constraints on the labels:
//  titleLabel.snp.makeConstraints {
//      $0.leading.equalToSuperview().inset(10)
//      $0.trailing.equalToSuperview().inset(2)
//      $0.top.equalToSuperview().inset(10)
//  }
//
//  abstractLabel.snp.makeConstraints {
//      $0.leading.equalToSuperview().inset(10)
//      $0.trailing.equalToSuperview().inset(2)
//      $0.top.equalTo(titleLabel.snp.bottom).offset(10)
//      $0.bottom.equalToSuperview().offset(2)
//  }

and finally, it is a really good idea to add comments so you understand what your code is trying to do:
// Setting up the constraints
thumbnailImageView.snp.makeConstraints {
    // image view leading is 10-points from superview (contentView) leading
    $0.leading.equalToSuperview().inset(10)
    // 100 x 100
    $0.width.height.equalTo(100)
    // top and bottom constrained to top and bottom of superview (contenView)
    $0.top.bottom.equalToSuperview()
}

stackView.snp.makeConstraints {
    // stackView leading is 10=points from image view trailing
    $0.leading.equalTo(thumbnailImageView.snp.trailing).offset(10)
    // 10-points from superview (contentView) trailing
    $0.trailing.equalToSuperview().inset(10)
    // stackView centered vertically to image view
    $0.centerY.equalTo(thumbnailImageView)
}

Here's the full, modified version of your cell class:
class ArticleCellView: UITableViewCell {
    // MARK: - *** Properties ***
    static let cellIdentifier = "ArticleTableViewCell"

    override init(style: UITableViewCell.CellStyle, reuseIdentifier: String?) {
        super.init(style: style, reuseIdentifier: reuseIdentifier)

        // from the SkeletonView docs:
        //  SkeletonView is recursive, so if you want show the skeleton in all skeletonable views,
        //  you only need to call the show method in the main container view. For example, with UIViewControllers.
        // So, we only need to set it on self
        self.isSkeletonable = true
        configure()
    }

    required init?(coder: NSCoder) {
        fatalError("init(coder:) has not been implemented")
    }

    // MARK: - *** UI Elements ***
    lazy var titleLabel: UILabel = {
        let label = UILabel()
        label.numberOfLines = 0
        label.textAlignment = .natural
        label.textColor = UIColor(named: "AccentColor")
        label.font = UIFont.systemFont(ofSize: 13.0, weight: .medium)

        return label
    }()

    lazy var abstractLabel: UILabel = {
        let label = UILabel()
        label.numberOfLines = 2
        label.textAlignment = .natural
        label.textColor = UIColor(named: "AccentColor")
        label.font = UIFont.systemFont(ofSize: 12.0)

        return label
    }()

    lazy var thumbnailImageView: UIImageView = {
        let imageView = UIImageView()
        imageView.contentMode = .scaleAspectFill
        imageView.frame.size.width = 100
        imageView.layer.cornerRadius = imageView.frame.size.width / 2
        imageView.clipsToBounds = true

        return imageView
    }()

    lazy var stackView: UIStackView = {
        let stack = UIStackView()
        stack.distribution = .fillEqually

        // we want Vertical Stack View
        stack.axis = .vertical
        stack.spacing = 10

        return stack
    }()

    // MARK: - *** Methods ***
    override func prepareForReuse() {
        super.prepareForReuse()
        thumbnailImageView.kf.cancelDownloadTask()
        thumbnailImageView.image = nil
    }

    func configure() {

        // Adding subviews
        contentView.addSubview(thumbnailImageView)
        contentView.addSubview(stackView)
        stackView.addArrangedSubview(titleLabel)
        stackView.addArrangedSubview(abstractLabel)

        // Setting up the constraints
        thumbnailImageView.snp.makeConstraints {
            // leading is 10-points from superview (contentView) leading
            $0.leading.equalToSuperview().inset(10)
            // 100 x 100
            $0.width.height.equalTo(100)
            // top and bottom constrained to top and bottom of superview (contenView)
            $0.top.bottom.equalToSuperview()
        }

        stackView.snp.makeConstraints {
            // stackView leading is 10=points from image view trailing
            $0.leading.equalTo(thumbnailImageView.snp.trailing).offset(10)
            // 10-points from superview (contentView) trailing
            $0.trailing.equalToSuperview().inset(10)
            // stackView centered vertically to image view
            $0.centerY.equalTo(thumbnailImageView)
        }

    }
}


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EXCESS HOLLYWOOD: MAKING LOVE TO LADY DI'S CORPSE
By admin	| October 20, 2003
Those who know me know I'm a big fan of comic books. I even enjoy a few of the comic book movies like Ghost World, Hulk, Daredevil and "The Crow." Marvel Comics, the company responsible for the characters of Wolverine, Spider-Man and the Hulk, has had more than its share of hits with movies based off its properties. What the public may not realize is that Marvel also produces some great comic books, including the incredibly entertaining X-Sta tix. This comic follows the adventures of a group of media savvy mutants who are basically pop stars. The book is edgy (for Marvel), and it is always unpredictable. That's why I was thrilled to hear that X-Statix was going to resurrect Princess Diana for a future storyline.
England's royal family was a little less thrilled. The book got the kind of buzz Hollywood can only dream about. I had friends and family calling me from all over the country telling me about what they had just heard on the news. A lot of them thought Marvel was being pretty tasteless. I, on the other hand, thought it was a wonderful idea. A princess brought back from the dead? That's gold. Marvel was starting to see things differently, however.
The House of Ideas (as it used to be known) got cold feet and pulled the project, removing all mentions and images of Lady Di from the book. I've been bitter about Marvel's business practices for years, but this was the final straw, especially when you think of the film potential of such a project.
The "X-Statix" movie with a Lady Di storyline could've been a great hit, especially with the controversy it would've stirred up with media pundits and royalty a*s-kissers everywhere. Plus, it could've starred Jodie Foster as Lady Di. Now that would be a movie you would just have to hate.
The comic book movies of Marvel's characters have been hit or miss, and few break any new ground. When "Hulk" tried to do that very thing, it was panned by fanboys everywhere, and box office numbers plummeted after the first week. "X-Statix: The Movie" would've been quite a kick in the groin to audiences that think superhero movies are only about strange costumes and cool special effects, though. It would've been subversive and probably a bit disrespectful. Put David Fincher behind the camera, and it would've been spectacular.
Unfortunately, it will never be. What could've been the greatest superhero movie of all time will never appear larger than life on screens across America because Marvel got scared. Like a virgin on prom night, Marvel thought it would get screwed in the end and was terrified of the outcome.
Hollywood does its best to create minor, meaningless controversies. They are easy to deal with, and they manipulate all the right people in all the right directions. The "X-Statix" beast would've been a hard one to tame, though, and it would've made a mint its opening weekend.
An "X-Statix" movie may someday occur, but it probably won't feature the People's Princess. Her corpse is still smoldering in the damp ground of England, and there isn't a comic book publisher or Hollywood studio brave enough to dig it up and dance in the scornful moonlight of public opinion, and that's really not a surprise. When comic books and Hollywood start to merge as they have these past few years, the fact that one should act like the other just seems so damn natural. That said, the future looks bright for all you people who like your movies (and comic books) on the safe side. A "Spider-Man" sequel is on its way. Just don't expect the villain to be Bob Hope.
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Literature We Need
How the GLEAM Ministry Began
Dr. and Mrs. James Garlow were missionaries in Northeast India for 42 years. In 1981, seeking to reduce the number of foreign missionaries, the government of India refused to renew the Garlows' residential permit, and thus forced the Garlows to leave India in January of 1982.
Knowing of the crucial need for good Christian literature in India, they began to recycle Christian Sunday School materials and send them there. Along with the Sunday School materials, they sent Bibles, commentaries, Bible dictionaries, and the like. This ministry was begun in their garage with the help of local Christians.
In 1991, the Lord provided $19,000 through special building offerings. The offering purchased materials to construct the GLEAM building on the property of Maranatha Baptist Church. Members of Maranatha, where the Garlows attended, and a Men for Missions group from First Baptist Church of Butler, PA, donated the labor. Maranatha, in cooperation with Baptist Mid-Missions, began to gradually take over the ministry from the Garlows who retired to Seattle, Washington in May of 1992. Maranatha Baptist Church volunteers now conduct the ministry.
The Lord blessed this effort. Because of the widespread usage of English, we currently are shipping Christian literature to recipients in India, Myanmar, Thailand, Philippines, Kenya and Ghana; and the number continues to grow.
We help Bible schools, colleges, and Christian schools receive reference and textbooks for their libraries. Pastors also receive books for their study libraries. We supply Bibles, Sunday School lessons and VBS materials to many churches that cannot get the material on their own. Through the years GLEAM has supported hundreds of national pastors to reach thousands with the Gospel.
While most of the literature received is donated freely, GLEAM must pay the cost to ship the material using money received from financial donors. Prior to COVID this cost was about $3.99 a pound. Now that cost is significantly higher as explained on the SHIPPING COST page.
Since all GLEAM workers are volunteers, the only costs involved are for shipping and supplies; Maranatha pays for the maintenance of the GLEAM building. GLEAM is a faith ministry, relying on the Lord to move His people to meet the urgent needs of our East Asian brethren.
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Hello everyone! I have been thinking about creating a blog for a long time, and I finally have. I have a lot I want to talk about, but for today I want to just start with who I am, and why I decided to start blogging.
So for starters, my title and blog name. I wanted my blog name to be ducktyping, after one of my favorite features of my new favorite programming language, Ruby, but alas someone beat me to it. The next best thing was an offbeat quote from Fry from my absolute favorite TV show, Futurama. It is from "Roswell That Ends Well" and is from a scene where fry puts a stove-top popcorn package in the microwave, it begins to emanate a blue glow, and Fry sniffs the air and says "Hey, what smells like blue?"
In case you are wondering who I am, well, my name is Mike Stone. I am a programmer, and my interest in computers and programming goes back to when I picked up a book on basic somewhere around the fourth grade. It has been my passion ever since, and I often spend free time reading about programming, thinking about programming, or actually programming. I graduated from Cal Poly San Luis Obispo in 2004 with a BS degree in Computer Science and have been working in the field primarily in C# since then. The first programming language I grew to really love was Java, though I initially approached it freshman year with doubts, seeing it more as a toy language. My classes proved me wrong, and I grew to appreciate what Java offered... a multi-platform managed programming language that made certain types of bugs impossible. I especially enjoyed the documentation, which I have felt has always been easy to find what I need, and easy to decipher how to use the corresponding classes. C# failed to displace Java as my favorite, and really only strengthened a dislike of Microsoft in me that you may learn to discover if you read my future blog posts.
Enter Ruby 3 and a half years out of college. During a Christmas vacation at the end of 2007, I decided to tackle Haskell, but was also itching to try Ruby. I abandoned Haskell before really learning about what Monads were all about... I enjoyed the language, but Ruby was secretly calling to me. When a language like Ruby calls, you listen. Ruby quickly proved why there was so much disdain for Java in the dynamic programming languages camp. I can't describe it as anything else but "fun." I have read many times that the language was DESIGNED to be "fun" and it all made sense once I had taken the leap.
I started blogging because I have been reading blogs from such prominent authors as Jeff Atwood, Steve Yegge, Joel Spolsky, and the hilariously painful articles presented by Alex Papadimoulis. These blogs have inspired me to put out my thoughts, opinions, and observations of programming out in the wild, for better or worse. I am still a young developer (3 and a half years experience), but I have a thirst for more that I sadly don't see in many coworkers (at least at my current job).
What should you expect to see in my blog? Right now I want to talk primarily about my experiences with Ruby and Java, and why you should stop claiming Java is the best language there is and reconsider those dynamic languages you might be bashing at various other blogs or forums. It's tired and repeated over and over from many people, but I think we will see that our collective programming future will move away from the likes of Java and C#, towards the likes of Ruby, and Python.


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Fujairah Terminals receives first vessel call following concession signing between Abu Dhabi Ports and the Port of Fujairah
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The newly established Fujairah Terminals, under the management of Abu Dhabi Ports, welcomed its first container feeder vessel, the Dubai Alliance. This is the first ship to arrive at the terminal, which is wholly owned by Abu Dhabi Ports, the master developer, operator and manager of commercial and community ports within the emirate of Abu Dhabi, Fujairah Port and Khalifa Industrial Zone Abu Dhabi (KIZAD), following the signing of a concession agreement with the Port of Fujairah in June this year.
On the occasion, Captain Mohamed Juma Al Shamisi,CEO of Abu Dhabi Ports commented: "We are marking the beginning of a new era for both Abu Dhabi Ports and the Port of Fujairah under the new management of Fujairah Terminals. The investment in port infrastructure will go a long way to strengthening development and operation of ports and terminals across the UAE and its contribution to the growth of a diversified, knowledge-based economy highlighting Fujairah's strategic role in the UAE's maritime and trade growth, bringing about a marked increase in vessel calls, such as the Dubai Alliance and many more to come."
Dubai Alliance is a vessel under Star Feeders LLC, a specialist short-sea common carrier container feeder service that operates a feeder network between UAE ports. The ship called at Fujairah Terminals to deliver a container for local industries and to receive containers for onward shipments.
Upa Jayalth, General Manager for Operations at Star Feeder LLC and Nirmil Perara, General Manager for Sales and Marketing at Star Feeders LLC met with Fujairah Terminals General Manager, Naser AlBusaeedi to express their support and commitment to working with the newly established Fujairah Terminals.
On the occasion AlBusaeedi said: "Through the planned infrastructure investment and sharing of best practices by Abu Dhabi Ports, we are confident we are embarking on a new journey that will bring about a positive outlook for the port and the emirate of Fujairah as a whole. Using our experience and best practices gained from managing and running major ports like Zayed and Khalifa Ports, we intend to bring these valuable learnings to Fujairah Terminals and use existing commercial and business synergies to increase our value offering to our customers and simultaneously boost efficient trade".
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Under the agreement with the Port of Fujairah, Abu Dhabi Ports is granted the exclusivity to enhance existing infrastructure in addition to managing all Container, General Cargo, RoRo and Cruise Ships in the Port. In addition, the company will retain the exclusive management of Container Business throughout the emirate of Fujairah for Container business.
Further terms of the agreement include enhancing the Ports ability to cater to larger vessels through the deepening of berths and building almost 300,000 sqm yard of storage space, as well as a 1km quay. Abu Dhabi Ports will also invest in new and advanced technological equipment to increase operational efficiencies and services.
Fujairah Terminals is expected to play a complementary role in maritime shipping activities at Khalifa Port and Zayed Port.
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I am looking for dog (Husky or little Pomeranian). Can you deliver those dogs to Marbella and of course what will be the price and if there any chance to see them before decide to take or no?
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The university experience is so important to personal growth
Liam Heitman-Rice
Published: 3:29 PM December 29, 2017
Liam Heitman-Rice with Anisha Jackson. Picture: LIAM HEITMAN-RICE - Credit: Archant
I recently submitted my last assignment of the semester. It was about the emerging influence of print media in the 18th century.
I know, thrilling. But at least it relates to what I'm doing now - writing an article in this newspaper.
The overlap between what I have been exploring in class - the history of journalism - and what I am working towards, the future of journalism, has lead me to think about the importance of the university experience.
It is during this time that we are guided by our interests, where our focus is sharpened by our tutors, where we are moulded by our reading.
At university, one can see and touch a legacy of academia and it is we who inherit the innovations of our forbearers.
By learning from the masters of our chosen fields, university students are enabled to use the threads of history to unite their small patches of achievement into that which later becomes the tapestry of our life and work.
Curious to see how others reflect on their university experiences, I asked two of my close friends what they had so far gained from all of this.
Tom Forte, 20, a third-year film student currently studying a year abroad at University of California, Irvine, said: 'I've learned so much more about myself in the past two-and-a-half years than in the previous seven years of secondary school and sixth form.'
Citing the benefits of the diverse student body within a university campus, Tom believes his 'personal development has stemmed mostly from interacting with people from a wide range of cities and countries, as opposed to just academics.
'These people are friends who have changed the way I perceive others and how I wish to be perceived. University has also given me the opportunity to study abroad in America and further develop my ability to interact with other people in different cultures.'
This new experience of being far from home for such an extended period has also afforded Tom a renewed sense of independence, 'learning to be happy on my own as well as with others.'
Having both grown up in small Devon towns, Tom and I appreciate the expansive sphere of opinions and interests found at university.
After a decade of familiar faces, it is invigorating to leave home and establish new connections with those who share your interests and nourish your creativity.
I have met a lot of people at university who have very quickly become strong friends, because our shared passions forward a connection with uninhibited immediacy.
One such friendship has been with Anisha Jackson, 20, a fellow second-year creative writing student at UEA.
What she loves about university is that: 'The friends you make are the kind that will likely see you at your best and at your worst, and love you for it all regardless. It's daunting.'
Yet she reassures me: 'There's no shortage of opportunity, nor passion.'
While being at university can feel like an existence within one contained universe, Anisha never loses sight of home.
'At university you realise just how much your family mean to you, even more so than before,' she said.
'Your hometown changes when you visit it. It becomes some sort of childhood keepsake box.'
The life of a student occupies two realms - that of childhood and the memories built there and that of the university universe.
Of the latter, Anisha said: 'Catching up with university friends when you're all back from a well-deserved break inspires unforgettable bonding.'
Indeed that has been the most valuable aspect of my time at university - the bonds of friendship that are established, the connections forged with little time and deep emotions.
Every facet of university life is magnified to an intense level — the stress, the fatigue, the diminished bank account, the hangovers - as well as the laughs, the love, the joy, the everlasting photographs and the words scribbled on lined paper, folded between the sheets of a pocket journal.
The university is a palace of memories.


As the Obama administration claims to welcome the peaceful rise of China on the world stage, recent policy shifts toward an American Pacific Century indicate a desire to maintain the capacity to project military force toward the emerging superpower. In addition to maintaining a permanent military presence in Northern Australia, the construction of an expansive military base on South Korea's Jeju Island has indicated growing antagonism towards Beijing. The base maintains the capacity to host up to twenty American and South Korean warships, including submarines, aircraft carriers and destroyers once completed in 2014 – in addition tothe presence of Aegis anti-ballistic systems. In response, Chinese leadership has referred to the increasing militarization in the region as an open provocation.
In a move to counteract Chinese economic ascendancy, Washington is crusading against China's export restrictions on minerals that are crucial components in the production of consumer electronics such as flat-screen televisions, smart phones, laptop batteries, and a host of other products. In a 2010 white paper entitled "Critical Raw Materials for the EU," the European Commission cites the immediate need for reserve supplies of tantalum, cobalt, niobium, and tungsten among others; the US Department of Energy 2010 white paper "Critical Mineral Strategy" also acknowledged the strategic importance of these key components. Coincidentally, the US military is now attempting to increase its presence in what is widely considered the world's most resource rich nation, the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
In East Timor, the site of land grabs of agricultural areas, families have been displaced causing hunger and poverty to escalate. The World Bank has been behind such terroristic measures, along with government interest groups and the UN.
In February of 2012, the Rights and Resources Initiative, a non-governmental organization was supportive of the UN's massive land-grab in Africa which displaced an estimated 500 million citizens from the sub-Sahara as well as targeted 346 billion acres of farmland for the purpose of securitizing food production.
The RRI denies their involvement, however their purpose is to collect data on "forest rights" which assists in the success of a land-grab.
While 300 million Africans do not have access to safe drinking water, scientists have discovered undergroundaquifers of water in Africa that are 100 times the amount found on the surface of the continent.
Researchers for the British Geological Survey (BGS) and the University of London have uncovered this resource; and have written a paper in the Environmental Research Letters journal. The created a detailed map of the underground water.
The researchers have designated many countries as a "water source" with untapped potentials of enormous reserves of underground water.
To quell the locals from interfering with the UN's agendas in Africa, NATO forces were sent into areas like East Timor to "calm" the people. An anonymous UN official describes how after the citizens "realized they were close to pressing the self-destruct button" they gave up their fight.
The creation of East Timor was purely directed by the UN who installed an "independent government" in 2002. The UN quickly stepped in to bring order back to East Timor in 2006 after soldiers defected from the controlled forces of the puppet government and "launched a mutiny". Once the UN was able to establish control over the citizens be threat of force, the East Timor government asked for assistance in rebuilding the country.
East Timor is rife with oil and natural gas reserves which are estimated to be worth more than $11 billion. This natural resource is quite attractive to the globalist Elite.
Turning over the land to the UN, foreign governments and special interest corporations is causing the natives to fight back against the land-grab they are forced to live under.
In 2010, ConocoPhillips begun drilling in the Timor Sea and funding the East Timor government with bribe money that culminates in a $5 billion petroleum fund. Projects to extract the natural resources have been slow to preform and the multi-national corporations involved are feeling their investments are being squandered by the government.
Land-grabs become violent situations when the local people defy the UN's right to steal their land. The mainstream media rebrands them rebels for the sake of public support while masking the true nature of the resistance. In 2011, President Obama sent a reported 100 US troops to Central Africa to look for Joseph Kony, a member of the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA).
On Capitol Hill, House Representatives passed a resolution to support the US military invasion in Africa under the guise of finding Kony when in reality it was to support NATO Forces in securing locals who had risen up against the UN for stealing their land for privatization. The House also introduced are solution to use the mainstream media to coerce Americans into support the witch-hunt for Kony as a distraction from the truth.
Today, the Cambodian military is literally being sold off to corporations now possessing wide swaths of land as mercenary forces to crush any local opposition. Surely displacing millions and selling land out from under people is criminal, and an affront to humanity. But strangely enough, this story goes unreported, the UN remains eerily silent, and in fact, the United States, as of 2010 has begun training many of the most notorious land grabbing military units involved in this atrocity.
Indeed, Operation Angkor Sentinel kicked off in July 2010 as US Army troops trained with the local Cambodian troops. The United States shamelessly defends the exercises claiming that "Our military relationship is about ... working toward effective defense reform, toward encouraging the kind of civil-military relationship that is essential to any healthy political system," according to William Burns, the US undersecretary of state for political affairs.
Like previous stooges in their glory days, such as Saddam Hussein, the Shah of Iran, or even neighboring Thailand's notorious global stooge Thaksin Shinwatra, all can be forgiven, and covered up by the mainstream media, as long as the beneficiaries of atrocities and oppression are the globalists. Hun Sen most certainly is doing well for himself, and the key to his continued success will be back-bending compliance to the globalists and their designs.
So while Robert Amsterdam churns out volumes of "white papers" regarding the Thai government's treatment of armed Marxist rebels, he is strangely silent about his own client's ties to Cambodia's Hun Sen, and his continuing crimes against humanity.


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Robert Reich: Why Obama Should Learn the Lesson of 1936, not 1996
Which lesson will the president learn from the midterm election — that of Clinton in 1996, or FDR in 1936? The choice will determine his strategy over the next two years. Hopefully, he'll find 1936 more relevant.
Obama shouldn't be fooled into thinking Bill Clinton was reelected in 1996 because he moved to the center. I was there. Clinton was reelected because by then the economy had come roaring back to life.
The 1996 election was about little else. Dick Morris, Clinton's pollster and chief political advisor (who effectively took over the White House policymaking apparatus shortly after Newt Gingrich and the Republicans took over Congress in 1995), instructed the president to say only "the economy's booming and you ain't seen anything yet."
President Obama won't have that luxury in 2012. In all likelihood, the economy will still be anemic. It's now growing at the rate of no more than 2 percent a year — far too slow to bring down the jobless rate. Even now, sales are slowing. Business revenues are slowing. Home sales are down. Home prices are down. Foreclosures are increasing.
For the next two years Republicans will try to paint Obama as a big-government liberal out of touch with America, who's responsible for the continuing bad economy.
Obama won't be able to win this argument by moving to the center — seeking to paint himself as a smaller-government moderate. This only confirms the Republican's views that the central issue is size of government, that it's been too large, and the economy can improve only if it's smaller.
On the Republican playing field, Republicans always win.
Obama's best hope of reelection will be to re-frame the debate, making the central issue the power of big businesses and Wall Street to gain economic advantage at the expense of the rest of us. This is the Democratic playing field, and it's more relevant today than at any time since the 1930s.
The top 1 percent of Americans, by income, is now taking home almost a quarter of all income, and accounting for almost 40 percent of all wealth. Meanwhile, large numbers of Americans are losing their homes because banks won't let them reorganize their mortgages under bankruptcy. And corporations continue to lay off (and not rehire) even larger numbers.
With Republicans controlling more of Congress, their pending votes against extended unemployment benefits, jobs bills, and work programs will more sharply reveal whose side they're on. Their attempt to extort extended tax cuts for the wealthy by threatening tax increases on the middle class will offer even more evidence. As will their refusal to disclose their sources of campaign funding.
The relevant political lesson isn't Bill Clinton in 1996. It's Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1936.
By the election of 1936 the Great Depression was entering its eighth year. Roosevelt had already been President for four of them. Yet he won the biggest electoral victory since the start of the two-party system in the 1850s. How?
FDR shifted the debate from what he failed to accomplish to the irresponsibility of his opponents. Again and again he let the public know whose side he was on, and whose side they were on. Republicans stood for "business and financial monopoly, speculation, and reckless banking," he said over and over.
And he made it clear they wanted to prevent him from helping ordinary Americans. "Never before have these forces been so united against one candidate as they stand today," he thundered. "They are unanimous in their hate for me — and I welcome their hatred."
The 2012 economy won't be as bad as the 1936 economy, hopefully. But it won't be nearly as good as the 1996 economy. For a president running in 2012, 1936 is the more relevant.
Robert Reich is the author of Aftershock: The Next Economy and America's Future, now in bookstores. This post originally appeared at RobertReich.org.


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AraCon – The first Aragon Conference - will take place in Berlin, Germany on January 29th-30th 2019.
The conference will bring together people who embody and wish to shape the Aragon community. Those who are building and supporting the pseudonymous, secure, trustless future — the decentralized web. Decentralized governance and DAOs are at the heart of the new Web 3.0. They are key components in moving towards a more fair and open world for everyone.
It will be the place for you to get a great understanding of Web3.0 and Aragon. You will discover the latest developments and glimpses of what's to come from our carefully planned program. Together with concrete lessons on how this technology is being built, the conference will provide you with a great overview of the decentralized web.
We started the Decentralizing Aragon's Development earlier this year (Read Part I, Part II and Part III). The first teams contributing to Aragon's development are Aragon One and Aragon DAC.
Aragon DAC: Total of 700.2 ETH, equivalent of ~€227,354.34.
The next step was announcing Flock, a way for new teams to apply for grants to work on the Aragon project. This same process will be used by the two existing Aragon teams as well.
Introducing the next step in decentralizing Aragon's development.
Flock, funding for Aragon teams.
The Aragon Nest grants program has been tremendously successful and over 10 teams have already been granted funding.
Find out more in the Nest GitHub repository.
Total of 1,326.88 ETH, equivalent of ~€405,696.21 was paid out to Nest teams.
Read more about the evolution of the Nest program.
We donated a total of 37.66 ETH, equivalent of ~€6,015.62 out to two separate open source projects.
You can find more details about the development progress in our Aragon Q3 Development Update blog post.
The developers of @AragonOneTeam and #AragonDAC have been hard at work again.
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Samoa netball coach Marcia Hardcastle believes her players are closing the gap on Pacific rivals Fiji despite an agonising 46-44 defeat in Suva on Wednesday.
The visitors scored the first three goals in the match but finished behind at the end of all four quarters.
Samoa cut the deficit to one heading into the final 15 minutes and leveled the scores at 44-all with two minutes remaining, before Fiji found two crucial goals, and an intercept in the dying moments.
Marcia Hardcastle was pleased with how much her defenders were able to disrupt Fiji's attack with the hosts shooting just 60 percent compared to Samoa's 88 percent.
She says, despite coming up short, progress is still being made.
"The effort was awesome and I think for us it's making sure that we can have a bigger pool to work with. We know what we've got and it's just giving the girls that extra experience at international level. Our fitness is not really there at this stage of the year but at least that's something we've got to work on [and] the girls [will] individually reflect on what they need to do here and now. I guess it opens up for the next trials starting next month.


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I'm not a watch guy. It's not a fashion statement--I've just never enjoyed having anything on my wrists, be it jewelry, watch bands, and especially police restraints. There was a time back in the '90s when I gave pocket watches try, but that was a lamentable artifice. And with the advent of smartphones, whenever I want to know the time, there's already a device in my pocket that will let me know how late I'm running.
England's Premier League is a waving a red card at fans who plan on recording goals and posting the six-second clips to Vine.
Most GPS devices excel at getting you from Point A to Point B. Where they come up short is in telling you about all the stuff in between.
A little more than three years ago, FileMaker had only started to offer a personal database program for Mac users intimidated by the extensive features of FileMaker Pro. Flash forward to 2011, and Bento has not only become a mainstay program for individual users on the Mac, but it's also available in versions for all of Apple's iOS devices.
Apple maintains that complaints about the iPhone 4's antenna design and reception were overblown. But an executive in charge of device hardware engineering has parted ways with Apple, according to media reports.
When it arrives on retail shelves later this year, the next version of Microsoft Office for the Mac will cost between 20 percent to 50 percent less than Office 2008, according to pricing announced by Microsoft on Monday.
Apple CEO Steve Jobs told employees that he will be taking a leave of absence until June to deal with lingering health issues.
LaCie rolled out a new line of LCD monitors aimed at creative professionals who put a premium on colour accuracy. The 700 series of displays comes in 20, 24, and 30-inch models.
I wasn't anywhere near a TV, so I missed the debut of Microsoft's much-ballyhooed ad campaign featuring Bill Gates and Jerry Seinfeld.


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Marco Rubio warns Venezuelan soldiers to let aid enter
U.S. Senator Marco Rubio, R-Fla., greets Venezuelan migrants near the Simon Bolivar International Bridge, which connects Colombia with Venezuela, where one holds up Venezuelan flag in La Parada, near Cucuta, Colombia, Sunday, Feb. 17, 2019. As part of U.S. humanitarian aid to Venezuela, Rubio is visiting the area where the medical supplies, medicine and food aid is stored before it it expected to be taken across the border on Feb. 23. (AP Photo/Fernando Vergara)
CUCUTA, Colombia (AP) — U.S. Sen. Marco Rubio visited a border staging point for U.S. aid to Venezuela on Sunday and warned soldiers loyal to socialist President Nicolas Maduro that it will be a "crime against humanity" if they block entry of the goods that are being channeled through Maduro's rivals.
An enthusiastic throng of Venezuelan migrants, some chanting "Rubio! Liberty," met the Florida Republican as he visited Cucuta and held a news conference in sight of a border bridge that has been flooded in recent months by people fleeing the hardships of Venezuela's hyperinflation and severe shortages of food and medicine.
The U.S. has used military and civilian aircraft to fly in food and personal care aid in an effort meant to undermine Maduro and dramatize his government's inability to overcome shortages of food and medicine. The aid is supposed to be moved into Venezuela on Feb. 23 by supporters of congressional leader Juan Guaido, who is recognized the U.S. and dozens of other countries as Venezuela's legitimate president.
Maduro Is using troops to block the aid from entering, saying it is not needed and is part of a U.S.-orchestrated attempt to overthrow him.
Rubio warned Venezuelan soldiers that blocking aid would be an international "crime against humanity." He said in Spanish that soldiers who keep aid shipments from entering would spend "the rest of their lives hiding from justice."
But those who renounce Maduro have been promised amnesty by Guaido and the opposition-dominated congress, although few soldiers have accepted that promised.
Rubio, who has been an influential voice in advocating U.S measures against Maduro, noted that about 50 nations have declared Guaido the constitutional president of Venezuela, based on arguments that Maduro's re-election last year was fraudulent, and consider other government-stacked institutions such as the supreme court to have no legal authority.
While Russia, China, Turkey and a large number of Asian and African countries still back Maduro, Rubio dismissed them, saying in English: "The countries that support Maduro do not surprise us. All of them are corrupt and none of them is a democracy and many of them are owed billions of dollars that they want to get paid by the corrupt regime."
Rubio said the issue is "a humanitarian crisis, of human beings who have nothing to do with politics."
He said Venezuelans "are being denied medicine, food and aid needed to live while those people who are at the head of that regime are living like multimillionaires."
While Rubio was on the border in Colombia, a delegation of five members of the European Parliament was barred entry into Venezuela after arriving at Caracas' airport Sunday night.
One of the visitors, Esteban Gonzalez Pons of Spain, said in a posted on social media that the group was invited by the National Assembly and was going to be the first foreign mission to meet with congress leader Juan Guaido, who the European Parliament and a majority of the European Union members recognize as Venezuela's rightful leader.
"It is not about not letting us in, but about not letting interim president Juan Guaido see any personality from outside Venezuela," Gonzalez Pons said.
Venezuelan Foreign Minister Jorge Arreaza said Maduro's government had sent word through diplomatic channels several days ago that the European lawmakers would not be allowed into the country to pursue "conspiratorial" purposes.
"The constitutional government of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela will not allow right-wing European extremists to disturb the peace and stability of the country with another one of their nasty interventions," Arreaza wrote on social media.


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Bullpen not to blame for latest skid
By Greg Thurston
Saturday's 4-1 loss in Cleveland was the Astros' 104th of the season and their eighth straight. It is their longest losing streak of a dismal 2013 season. The bullpen has been a constant source of misery for Astros fans all year, but the relievers have actually pitched better during the current tailspin.
Over the last eight games Astros relievers have allowed only eight runs while pitching a total of 30 innings. That calculates out to a 2.40 ERA. The Astros bullpen ERA has actually dipped below 5.00 for the season. At 4.97 the club still has the highest bullpen ERA in the majors — by far. But at least they are moving in the right direction.
With the expanded September roster the appearances have been spread out a little better. That may or may not have something to do with the improvement. Either way, Kevin Chapman, Josh Fields, Chia-Jen Lo, and Josh Zeid have all held their opponents scoreless since the losing streak started on September 14th. Even Lucas Harrell has stepped up his game. Harrell has pitched twice in that stretch, allowing only two runs in 8 & 1/3 innings. Heck, even Philip Humber managed to avoid embarrassment pitching in a mop-up role in Tuesday's 10-0 blowout.
Jeff Luhnow has already stated that he will attempt to upgrade the bullpen this offseason. Many of the young relievers on the current roster have to feel like they are battling to save their big league careers. How many of these guys will still be with the organization next spring? That will be something to keep an eye on over the last week of this season.
Losing eight straight is never fun. But the recent performance of the 'pen gives us a little something to feel good about. The relievers have done a nice job of keeping the Astros in games. The problem has been the offense… and the defense. And the base running. And the starting pitching. Well, I think you get the picture.
Astros reliever Kevin Chapman (Thomas Campbell-USA TODAY Sports)