1. Purchase tickets and attend the Newton Fest Kick Off Party. This 21 and older event on June 7 will feature appetizers and desserts from DMACC's Culinary program as well as a cash bar from Hy-Vee and live music from DSM Dueling Fiddles. Best of all funds from the event will go to future Newton Fests. Tickets are $20 per person and available at the Newton Chamber of Commerce. *A limited number of tickets will be sold to this event.
2. Buy advanced tickets to the Joe's Old Fashioned Fun Carnival. The carnival is going to have some cool rides and inflatables for children, teens and adults during Newton Fest! Tickets are for sale now at a discount and all tickets sold during presale goes to support Newton Fest. Get your tickets at Newton Chamber of Commerce and Newton Public Library Iowa.
3. Register and show off your talents at the Bill Riley Talent Search. Compete in one of two divisions, Sprouts (2 -12) and Seniors (13 -21), for a chance to perform at the Iowa State Fair and win scholarship money. Complete the registration form at www.newtonfest.org and return to show coordinator Ange Sevenbergen at angesevenbergen@yahoo.com or by mail to Newton Fest BRTS, PO Box 844, Newton, Iowa 50208.
4. Form a team to compete in the Community Wellness Games. Taking place at noon on June 9 the Games feature teams of four competing in a variety of activities at the courthouse square. Teams are encouraged to dress in costume and there will be competitions such as Brain Games, Food Facts, Heart Health and Muscle Strength. Return registration form by May 31 to the Jasper County Health Dept: 115 N. 2nd Ave. E., Suite B1 (Annex Building Basement).
5. Register for the Birds and The Bees 5K fundraiser for the Newton Arboretum. The event takes place at 8 a.m. June 10. Prizes will be given out for the top male and female runner, as well as the top runner in each category. The registration fee will be $25 with an Arboretum T-shirt, and $15 without a shirt.
7. Enter the Backyard BBQ Competition. Show Newton your best ribs or chicken wings by entering your team for just $30! Registration deadline is June 2. Setup begins at 7 a.m. with turn in time scheduled for 3 p.m. and 3:30 p.m. June 10.
8. Purchase a 2017 Newton Fest T-shirt that takes a playful dig at Pella. "Newton Fest: Celebrating without flowers since 2015." T-shirts are for sale for $15 at the Chamber of Commerce office beginning May 26.
9. Polish it up and show off you cool car during the Greater Newton Area Chamber of Commerce's Cool Cars Car Show on June 10. There's no entry fee and the event is going to take place at the DMACC Newton Campus parking lots. Register now by calling the Newton Chamber office at 641-792-5545.
10. Spread the Word. Like "Newton Fest" on Facebook, invite your friends and family and rest up. It's going to be a busy and fun weekend.


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 Lijst van rijksmonumenten in Beek (Berg en Dal)
 Lijst van gemeentelijke monumenten in Berg en Dal (gemeente)

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Q: Multiple persistence unit on Wildfly I'm using JPA with Wildfly and I am connecting to multiple databases. Below is the persistence.xml -
<persistence-unit name="ContiegoDS" transaction-type="JTA">
    <jta-data-source>java:jboss/datasources/ContiegoDS</jta-data-source>
    <mapping-file>META-INF/orm.xml</mapping-file>
    <mapping-file>META-INF/orm-legacy.xml</mapping-file>
    <mapping-file>META-INF/queries/native.xml</mapping-file>
    <exclude-unlisted-classes>true</exclude-unlisted-classes>
    <properties>
        <property name="hibernate.dialect" value="org.hibernate.spatial.dialect.mysql.MySQLSpatial56Dialect" />
        <property name="hibernate.globally_quoted_identifiers" value="true"/>
        <property name="hibernate.hbm2ddl.import_files_sql_extractor" value="org.hibernate.tool.hbm2ddl.MultipleLinesSqlCommandExtractor" />
        <property name="hibernate.format_sql" value="true"/>
        <property name="hibernate.show_sql" value="true" />

    </properties>
</persistence-unit>

<persistence-unit name="ContiegoWebsiteDS" transaction-type="JTA">
    <jta-data-source>java:jboss/datasources/ContiegoWebsiteDS</jta-data-source>
    <mapping-file>META-INF/orm-website.xml</mapping-file>
    <exclude-unlisted-classes>true</exclude-unlisted-classes>
    <properties>
        <property name="hibernate.dialect" value="org.hibernate.spatial.dialect.mysql.MySQLSpatial56Dialect" />
        <property name="hibernate.globally_quoted_identifiers" value="true"/>
        <property name="hibernate.hbm2ddl.import_files_sql_extractor" value="org.hibernate.tool.hbm2ddl.MultipleLinesSqlCommandExtractor" />
        <property name="hibernate.format_sql" value="true"/>
        <property name="hibernate.show_sql" value="true" />
    </properties>
</persistence-unit>

I'm calling it this way
public class ContiegoEJB {

   @PersistenceContext(unitName="ContiegoDS")
   protected EntityManager contiegoEntityManager;

   @PersistenceContext(unitName="ContiegoWebsiteDS")
   protected EntityManager contiegoWebsiteEntityManager;

   public ContiegoEJB() {
   }

}

But I'm getting this error

Comparisson between orm and orm-website.xml files

AdminUser and AdminUserPasswordRecovery entities...

Relation many to one from AdminUserPasswordRecoveryRequest to AdminUser

What can I possible doing wrong?

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Whether your garden is oriental, tropical, modernist or simply in need of fascinating greenery, there is one group of plants that fits the bill perfectly – bamboos. These magnificent, fast-growing species have been around for centuries and serve many wonderful uses in the garden, such as privacy screens, hedges or feature plants. But they are also one of the most misunderstood plants in the world, with many novice gardeners shuddering at the thought of growing them. That's because there are two distinct types of bamboo – clumping and running, and the running species can become quite invasive if they aren't well contained. But if you choose the right type and species of bamboo, you will see there is a lot to love about these amazing plants.
How do I grow them?
• Climate Bamboos grow best in tropical, subtropical and warm temperate climates, but they can also thrive in cool to cold climates. However, each species has a different level of cold tolerance, so it's best to check plant labels or ask your nursery to see what species is suitable for your area.
• Aspect Most bamboos will flourish in full sun, but certain black-coloured varieties will benefit from protection from strong afternoon sun. Protect young plants from strong winds.
• Soil These plants thrive in moist, well-drained soil that has been enriched with organic matter prior to planting. However, they are adaptable to most soil types, from sandy to clay, provided they are well drained – they don't like wet feet! If your soil quality is poor, consider growing in raised beds filled with good-quality garden soil. In pots, use a premium potting mix.
• Planting Bamboos can be planted at any time of the year. A few weeks prior to planting, enrich the soil by adding compost or aged manure and fork in well. When you are ready to plant, prepare a hole twice the width and the same depth as the bamboo's root ball, carefully remove the plant from its pot or bag and position in the hole. Backfill with soil and lightly compact. Scatter a controlled-release fertiliser around the base of the plant, then water deeply and mulch well. If planting near or along a fence, consider installing a bamboo root barrier – this will help contain growth to your yard.
• Water After planting, give your plants a deep watering. An addition of a seaweed based plant tonic, such as Seasol or Yates Uplift, every week for the first four weeks will also help strengthen the plant, encourage root development and minimise plant stress. Once established, bamboos are quite drought tolerant, but they will perform better if watered regularly throughout hot, dry periods.
• Fertiliser They are heavy feeders, so they will benefit from an application of a controlled-release, highnitrogen fertiliser at planting time and at the start of the growing season – try Osmocote Total All Purpose. In autumn, scatter wellcomposted chicken manure around plants and top with mulch – this will help condition the soil and nourish your plants.
• Mulching When young, a good layer of organic mulch like sugar cane or pea straw spread around the base of the plant is great to help retain moisture, suppress weeds and enrich the soil. Top it up regularly and take it right up to the stems – unlike trees and shrubs, the culms won't rot. As bamboos age, they become self-mulching.
• Maintenance After a few years, the clump develops and older canes die off. These are usually those that look tired and discoloured. Use a pruning saw or secateurs to remove these at ground level; this will increase airflow in and around the clump and ensure it's happy and healthy. If growing in pots, it's best to re-pot every three to four years to avoid your plants becoming pot-bound. You can re-pot into a larger container or divide the plant into several clumps before replanting.


In Cyprus we drive on the LEFT side of the road. Not the right one.
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Timothy Panek, MD, is a board certified orthopedic surgeon who also holds a subspecialty certification in sports medicine. He has previously served as team physician for a decade at Mahtomedi High School. He maintains an active practice in sports medicine as well as hip and knee replacement surgery and he was previously the medical director of Twin Cities Orthopedics East Metro.
Dr. Panek's outside interests include Viking and Gopher football, skiing, biking, watching his kids participate in sports, and anything else that gives him a chance to spend time with his amazing wife.
My experience with Twin Cities Orthopedics and the EXCEL Program was very good. Dr. Panek is great. My hip replacement surgery went well. I couldn't believe that I was walking the same day. It is amazing how much the new hip has improved my life. I've resumed sailboat racing and despite the pressure that it puts on my leg and hip, I have no pain. I ride my bike, walk miles on trips, ice skate, and participate in other activities. My leg feels so good that I often forget that I have an artificial hip. Sometimes when I go through airport or sporting event screenings, I forget to tell them and set off the alarm.
I had been living with knee pain for years and had visited several Orthopedic Physicians. Once I met Dr. Panek and his team, I immediately felt comfortable that they would handle my issues. Had a knee replacement in June 2018 and I can truly say "why did I wait so long?' Due to the skill of Dr. Panek, I now feel better than I have in years!
While participating in the EXCEL program and with the expertise of Dr. Panek and his team, I have made a successful recovery from knee replacement surgery. I am back to kayaking, bike riding, walking digging in my garden, re-arranging (large) rocks in my garden and living life to the fullest!
I had a total knee replacement in September 2016 by Dr. Panek in the Excel program at TCO in Oakdale. I cannot say enough great things about my experience. Form the first consult, through the surgery and aftercare, the care was exceptional and my surgery and recovery was smooth and swift. Dr. Panek was a great listener and his positive demeanor and skill as a surgeon put me at ease. The Excel program allowed me to stay in this quiet and peaceful setting, with a nurse that was fully available around the clock to assist me in a quick recovery. I was able to go home in two days. I continued my recovery by receiving exceptional personalized physical therapy at TCO's PT clinic in Stillwater. I believe I recovered quicker with this program and I highly recommend Dr. TJ Panek and the Excel program for anyone considering a knee replacement.
See my big smile? Due to the efforts of Dr. Timonthy Panek, and his Twin Cities Orthopedics team, I reached my last goal in my hip rehabilitation: returning for my twenty third year to hike in the Swiss Alps near the town of Grindelwald., Switzerland. My successful recovery came through hard work, setting reachable goals and persistence on my part. Both pre and post-surgery, I set goals, and as I successfully completed one or two easier ones, I added more. I always kept my main goal in mind, returning to the Alps to see for myself once again the pristine Lake Balcupsee surrounded by the majestic Alps just above Grindelwald., It was totally worth the year spent in my rehab effort.
Thanks to TCO for your guidance and patience in helping accomplish this journey.
I can't express enough the satisfaction I have had with all aspects of my surgery, starting with Dr. Panek and all the adjunct caregivers from the hospital stay to his assistant Will. Dr. Panek's expertise, intelligence, kindness and reassuring manner was absolute top notch. The surgery went perfectly, the results are such a relief to my well-being. I was able to regain my strength and flexibility within three to six months of the surgery. I went on a month long trip to Europe at the beginning of the sixth month, that he predicted could happen for me without pain or discomfort. I am forever grateful to my friend for recommending him. Thank you Dr. Panek.
Dr. Panek was the first, after many years of searching and being turned away, to take me in as a patient and do both my knee replacements that were desperately needed. Thanks to his close care I can walk pain free and sit in a chair normally for the first time in twenty years. Dr. Panek just so happens to have also done hip surgery on my grandfather and two total knees on my step father before me. Thanks Doctor, you were literally one in a million for me.
I found out about Lakeview Hospital's orthopedic surgery from advertisements in my local paper. After a little research online and speaking to a few others on the Iron Range who have had work done at Lakeview, I made my first appointment.
I was very impressed with the facility, and the care I got from Dr. Panek was outstanding. He was very informative and caring, and the rest of the hospital staff was wonderful. I'd like to give a big thanks to Dr. Panek and all the others for taking such good care of me.
I am very pleased with my recovery and results. I would recommend Lakeview Hospital to anyone needing orthopedic surgery. I am going to need my other knee done in the future and would like to come back to Lakeview.
Physician Assistant Ron S.had worked with orthopedic patients for more than 30 years. In February 2007, Ron became the orthopedic patient– undergoing a total knee replacement. He says the experience changed his personal and professional life.
Ron's journey to his new JOURNEY knee began 30 years ago, when he fell off a ladder and injured his right knee. Over the years, his knee got progressively worse. Finally, his degenerative arthritis became so bad it was interfering with his sleep, and he couldn't walk more than a few feet without extreme pain. His knee pain was preventing him from doing the things he loved to do; and work was extremely difficult, as he was required to stand for long periods of time during surgeries.
Because Ron has such an in-depth knowledge of orthopedics, he limped around for about a year as he waited for a new prosthetic to hit the market. He had researched prosthetic knees and had his eye on a new prosthetic, JOURNEY, by Smith and Nephew. The design of the JOURNEY prosthetic is geared toward younger patients who want to lead an active life. At age 55, Ron was concerned he would probably need a second knee replacement during his lifetime (because, eventually, artificial knees do wear out). Based on research, SCO surgeon Dr. Timothy Panek said he hoped the unique metal that makes up Ron's JOURNEY prosthetic knee could last 20 years or more, double the life expectancy of other artificial knees. There are also other advantages, too. "This knee looks and acts more like a human knee – and so it acts more like a knee for the patient," said Panek.
Ron volunteered to be the first patient at Woodwinds Hospital in Woodbury to receive a JOURNEY knee. As he prepared for his total knee replacement, he was interviewed by WCCO and Smith and Nephew (who also filmed his surgery).
After surgery, that same night, Ron was already up walking around. He was able to flex his knee 120 degrees post operation; but, most importantly, the deep burning pain of his arthritic knee was gone. Ron went home the next morning, determined to complete his physical therapy on his own and get back the life he wanted to live. Two weeks after surgery, Ron went to Mexico for a work-related seminar. While he was in Mexico, he continued his therapy in the pool and enjoyed being able to walk without pain.
Ron credits Dr. Panek for his successful knee replacement. "He is an excellent surgeon who pays attention to the details," he said.
Ron is very pleased with his new knee and is already busy putting it to the test. He loves waterskiing, deer hunting, biking and walking. Last summer, he went camping with his family and couldn't go hiking with them. This year, Ron says, he'll be leading them up the hiking trails out in front with the grandkids.
Mary Ann has a long career spanning over 17 years at St. Croix Orthopaedics. On January 27, 2007, she went from employee to patient when she fractured her ankle.
Mary Ann was at a neighbor's house for dinner and caught her foot as she walked down the steps. As she waited in the emergency room at Lakeview Hospital, she just wanted to know that everything was going to be okay with her ankle.
Dr. Panek performed surgery on Mary Ann the next day and her recovery process was great. She was nonweightbearing for two weeks, so she had to rely on her daughter to drive her to work. But anyone who knows Mary Ann understands she is not someone who would read or watch TV for weeks. Mary Ann said she went from cast to ankle boot to ankle brace in six weeks.
Mary Ann performed her part in the recovery process. She followed Dr. Panek's post-op instructions and did physical therapy and exercises to strengthen her ankle. Her unfortunate accident did not slow her down as much as she had feared. She's looking forward to getting back to the things she loves to do including walking her dog, gardening, and exercise walking.


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Get your solar panels now! While stockpiled supplies of Chinese panels last!
April 17, 2018 / animalrightschannel	/ Leave a comment
It may never be a better time to get solar panels for your home or business. Net metering has not gone away, and prescient solar installers still have reserves of low-cost Chinese solar panels.
As Trump was signing his tariffs on Chinese solar panels into law, solar installers like ICON, located outside Cincinnati, were deliberately stockpiling the cheaper, foreign panels.
ICON System Designer Jaye Meier says he wouldn't call it "stockpiling."
"I'd call it smart business," Meier says.
ICON estimates that the installed cost of solar panels will rise ten percent, once tariffs affect local distributors and installers.
Despite those tariffs, the immediate future for solar is so bright, we're hearing a term we never thought we would hear: "solar investors." Depending on your state and the amount of sun exposure on your roof, solar panels will actually make a modest return on investment for some purchasers.
Businesses, in particular, can benefit. A tax policy called MACRS (Modified Accelerated Cost Recovery System) allows businesses to depreciate the cost of solar panels directly off their income over five years. Or, if it's beneficial, a business can take one hundred percent of the costs off its one-year income, according to John Vann, a volunteer with Solarize Indiana.
Vann, himself, is getting his first installation of thirty solar panels. According to his calculations, they will pay for themselves over the next ten years. After that, "it's free energy," he says.
With incentives and a discount afforded by Solarize Indiana, his array will cost only $15,000.
You might not think of Ohio, Indiana, and Kentucky as sunshine states, but ICON started up in 2011, serving just those three states, and business has doubled every year.
"We get more sun than Germany where half the energy is from renewable, says Meier, suggesting that going solar in the U.S. is, maybe, more about will than sunshine.
ICON's clientele is diverse. They get their expected share of college professors wanting to do the right thing.
But, "It's not one type of person that I've seen," Meier says. "We've got farmers who hate the utilities, got screwed over by them once or twice."
The Indiana legislature has not incentivized solar power. Instead the state legislature has ruled that it will phase out net metering over the next ten years. Net metering is a system which reimburses solar investors for the excess energy they create at a retail rate.
In Indiana and other states, net metering will be replaced or has already been replaced with "net billing" which reimburses the same investors at wholesale rate. Home owners who take the solar challenge count on net metering to defray the initial outlay for solar power which typically costs something like $20,000 for a full array on an average-size house.
So eliminating net metering hurts the growth of the solar industry. And Trump solar panel tariffs could hurt it some more when stockpiles of Chinese panels run dry.
So why did the use of solar power in Indiana increase twenty percent last year despite politicians at every level legislating against it?
It helps that the cost of solar panels, across the board has fallen eighty percent since 2009, Vann says. And groups like Solarize Indiana are stepping into the breach, securing deep discounts that make solar installations attractive despite disincentives.
"Long term it might be detrimental. But now it might push people into going solar before that [tariffs and loss of net metering] goes into effect," says Meier.
Trump tariffs will further endanger endangered animals
Trump tariffs will further endanger species on the climate change hit list
Americans need to just accept the fact that the Chinese have gotten ahead of us on solar panel manufacture. China saw an opportunity and ran with it. Americans sat around with their thumbs up their butts, claiming that solar power would never work.
Fast forward about twenty years. Now U.S. solar manufacturers want to be protected from competition from China, where manufacturers have figured out how to deliver efficient products for cheap. China's motives may have been entirely rooted in profit, but somehow they have become the world's savior in the fight against climate change.
Instead of crying into our diapers, the U.S. needs to find the next cool, earth-saving technology.
That's the message U.S. President Donald Trump should have sent to American manufacturers. Instead, he has announced that he is going to impose tariffs on Chinese panels. Tariffs have never worked, and tariffs on China are going to backfire in some huge way that we just didn't have the imagination to anticipate.
Around this time, you might be wondering what Trump's tariffs have to do with animals. This is how it works: Trump imposes these tariffs. Fewer people can afford solar panels. Climate change continues apace, destroying many species who simply can't adapt fast enough to weather extremes and, in particular, changes that affect food supply.
The International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN) has compiled a list of the top species that are declining rapidly because of climate change. On this list are coral reefs that are the seas' nurseries. When the coral reefs go, the collapse of the fish industry will only be the beginning. Also on the list are Beluga whales, leatherback sea turtles, koalas, and arctic foxes.
Please sign this petition asking Trump to rescind tariffs on solar energy: https://www.thepetitionsite.com/258/650/626/stop-trumps-war-on-clean-energy-reject-solar-tariffs/
Energy audits are cool
Some people have a hard time connecting their home's energy efficiency with animal rights.
But, it might be the case that the best thing you can do for animals is: Improve your home's energy efficiency. Traditional energy usage causes climate change which leads to the extinction of animals. Animals currently at risk from climate change are polar bears, migratory birds, monarch butterflies, and most frogs, snakes, and other reptiles.
Energy audits typically involve a door blower test that tells you where the cold air is coming into your house. Our energy auditor, Keith Crumes, was the bomb. And we got our energy audit for only $25 through LG&E's energy rebates program.
Unfortunately, Louisville, Kentucky's local energy company, LG&E, is phasing out its energy efficiency incentives. Would you please sign my petition to ask LG&E to continue this extremely worthwhile program? Thank you for your support.
Badass Nuns Assume the Lead on Climate Action
December 17, 2017 December 17, 2017 / animalrightschannel	/ Leave a comment
In the sleepy town of Nazareth, Kentucky, a revolution is brewing. And it's led by a band of women in their eighties.
Nazareth is the headquarters of the Sisters of Charity of Nazareth. Their mission has spread from Kentucky to Belize, Nepal, Botswana, and India where the SCN have established missions, schools, and hospitals.
It will come as no surprise, especially to Catholics, that these sisters have dedicated themselves to the betterment of the poor. What came as a surprise to me was that they now consider the earth to be one of the poor.
You heard right. The Sisters realize the earth is about as desperate as a homeless drug addict. Cataclysmic floods, loss of crops, and loss of endangered species are all predicted outcomes of climate change. Though their average age in the United States is 82, these sisters know climate change is real, and they are taking action.
That's why they have declared their intent to make all their residences, schools, hospitals, and other services, worldwide, carbon neutral in the years to come. Their goals for sustainability put most multi-national corporations to shame.
"They're pretty badass," says Carolyn Comer, the woman hired by the Sisters to be their Director of Ecological Sustainability.
At a recent meeting of the Louisville Sustainability Forum, Comer explained how the Sisters became radicalized.
It started in 1995 when they got together to create a mission statement. Part of that statement was "care for the earth."
In time, that commitment manifested as solar panels on the Nazareth campus, energy efficient windows on their historic buildings, and on-demand water heaters. Having done their research, they are buying electric zero turn motor lawn mowers, which are the lawnmower equivalents of a Tesla.
They are in the process of converting all their lighting, both inside and out, to LED lighting. In India, they practice water capture and sequester cow manure for conversion to biogas, with which they cook their meals. They also harvest and use rainwater. One of their hospitals in India is seventy percent powered by solar energy, captured in batteries.
In July, the sisters got together again. And this time they decided that caring for the earth meant they needed to get to zero green house gas emissions. They plan to get there by 2037 in the United States and Belize, and 2047 in the other countries. Comer notes that this goal is aligned both with United Nations recommendations on addressing climate change and with the Paris Agreement.
In addition to that ambitious goal, the sisters are also going zero waste. And that required an assessment of their trash. "We opened up trash cans and weighed things," said Comer.
They have established recycling stations for eight categories of waste. And they're brainstorming how to establish composting in individual sisters' apartments.
One of the order's resources is its many acres of land, located in missions across five countries. They are sowing native plants, which benefit wildlife, birds, and bees. They are restoring vegetative buffers on their lakes and streams. And they are looking into creating conservation easements to protect natural resources on their land for perpetuity.
"They walk the talk in a way that is really humbling," says Comer.
The SCN's "green team" is a subgroup of nuns particularly passionate about fulfilling their zero emission goals. They engaged the University of Kentucky to teach them how to conduct their own energy audits. Once these audits are complete, the goal is to look at the order's energy consumption and ask "How can we . . . winnow that down?" Comer says.
None of this is pie in the sky. The sisters are well aware that transportation, the leading contributor to climate change, poses an obstacle. They drive an average of 6000 miles a year, each.
That's not a lot of mileage, comparatively, but "there are a lot of them," Comer observes. They've bought one all-electric vehicle and one plug-in hybrid, and they're learning to drive them.
"Really, this is where everyone needs to be," says Comer.
The nuns' revolution, however, depends on a revolution in airplane technology. These are, after all, flying nuns. But not the Sally Field kind. They fly in fossil fuel-consuming jets. They can't realize their goals for mitigating climate change until there is a radical new technology for travel.
I guess this is where the faith comes in. I'm not the only one praying for new technology that will let us travel from coast to coast without sacrificing our morality. I know Ed Begley, Jr. prays for that. So, I assume, do the Sisters of Charity of Nazareth.
Science will need to step up to the plate, too. Come on now, y'all. Don't let eighty year old nuns do all the work of saving the world.

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Nearly 25 years have passed since South Africa returned to the international playing field, but issues as to why they were banned in the first place, remain.
South African athletes of color still find themselves dealing with racial barriers decades after the dismantling of apartheid.
Nkambule is a media professional based in South Africa who also leads research projects for Oxford University Press Southern Africa's marketing team.
The conflict between the race and South African sports is a tumultuous one. Nonetheless, it is a conflict that changed the country's entire sporting dynamic.
"The processes to change the face of sport over the past 20 years have been largely ineffective," Willie Basson, a sports ministry panel member who oversees racial change, told The Guardian.
To understand why this situation continues to defy efforts to eradicate it, one must understand the country's history.
After decades of being banned from international sport, South Africa played host to host a major sporting event: the 1995 Rugby World Cup.
When the South African Springboks won the World Cup at home, South African President, Nelson Mandela, walked onto the field to present the Webb Ellis Cup to the team's captain, François Pienaar.
And in that moment, after decades of racial segregation, thousands of people in Ellis Park rose to their feet and started to chant.
The man who was once a political prisoner and hated by many was being cheered for changing a racist climate and uniting the country through sport. With the display of admiration for the nation's first black president, South Africa's troubling history of race and sport seemed ended.
Racism existed in South Africa for some time. But according to South African History Online, the apartheid system was promoted by South Africa's National Party and into law in 1948.
The goal was to keep South Africa's white minority apart from its non-white majority. Research conducted after apartheid ended shows the white population decreased from 20 percent of the total population to 13 percent from 1946 to 1990, while the black population increased from 68.6 percent to 76 percent.
Many laws helped enforce apartheid policies, such as the Race Classification Act, the Population Registration Act, the Group Areas Act and more.
In response to apartheid, the African National Congress (ANC) protested, and the acts of opposition were led by Mandela. In 1949, the ANC adopted the Program of Action. The Program of Action promoted defiance against racist apartheid laws.
The ANC's protests and constant defiance of governmental policies led to the organization being banned. It also led to the 1964 imprisonment of Nelson Mandela.
As the laws multiplied, the anti-apartheid voices silenced and the policy took hold, people's lives, and that of the nation, changed. Sport was not immune.
In 1958, the Fédération Internationale de Football Association (FIFA), acknowledged the white Football Association of South Africa (FASA), as the only governing body of soccer in the country.
However, attitudes about race and inclusion started to change in the 1960s. South Africa's Sharpeville massacre, along with more African countries gaining independence and using their voices, put pressure on FIFA to take action against South Africa. FIFA suspended FASA in 1961.
During the 1970s and '80s, other international sport organizations followed suit with bans. In 1970, the International Cricket Council banned South Africa from international cricket play because of its refusal to allow men of color to play on the national team.
In 1981, the International Rugby Board banned South Africa from international competition, after South Africa defied the 1977 Commonwealth Gleneagles Agreement. The agreement discouraged sport contact with South Africa until the nation ended apartheid. However, the South African Springbok rugby team participated in the 1981 tour of New Zealand, defying the agreement.
The first sports policy was instituted by the South African government in 1956. The policy stated that whites and blacks were not allowed to play sports together, and only whites could represent the country in international competition. As a result, black athletes formed the South African Sports Association (SASA) in 1959. The goal of SASA was to promote the recognition of black and brown South African athletes and their ability to represent the country.
SASA's first item on its agenda was to eliminate the South African National Olympic Committee. SASA reached out to the International Olympic Committee (IOC) to address the racist policies within the South African National Olympic Committee. The IOC pressured South Africa, stating that if the policies were not changed, South Africa would be banned from the Olympic Games.
Early in 1964, South Africa held separate Olympic trials for blacks and whites. With the trials, black South Africans were finally allowed to represent the country. However, the South African government did not want black athletes to fly in the same plane or live in the same Olympic headquarters as the white athletes.
Those restrictions angered the IOC. As a result, the IOC withdrew South Africa's invitation to participate in the 1964 Tokyo Olympic Games.
When apartheid sports laws persisted throughout the rest of the 60s, the South African Olympic Committee was expelled from the IOC in 1970.
The decades of segregation and unrest were slowly killing the country. As cultural and racial views changed globally, South Africa found itself losing allies.
The chaos in the country led to government changes. In 1989, President F.W de Klerk lifted the 1960 ban on the ANC and other anti-apartheid parties. He ended numerous apartheid restrictions and freed Mandela, along with other political prisoners, in 1990.
Mandela continued to fight against apartheid, but peacefully. In 1993 Klerk held South Africa's first all-race democratic election. In 1994, Mandela was elected president and a new South African government of national unity was formed.
Since the end of apartheid, which legally segregated sport, inclusivity has started to take root in sport, but change has come slowly.
"We're certainly a lot further than what we were in '94, but there's certainly still some challenges," said Nkambule.
"Cricket and rugby are the problems, because they still have a lot of black players who are left out, and they are competent and talented, but they're just never selected," Nkambule said.
Rugby and cricket are seen as the main sport for the country's white minority.
In 2015, the South African national rugby team was accused of favoring white players and discriminating against black players, according to the Globe and Mail. Many black South Africans believed South African rugby officials didn't recruit many black rugby players.
"Almost snow-white," is what South African journalist, Mondli Makhanya, called the team.
Another accusation made by critics of the sport alleged that the black players who are recruited do not get as much playing time as their white teammates.
Jacques du Toit, a University of Cape Town scholar, studied the playing times of black rugby players and white rugby players, between 2007 and 2012. He discovered white players had much more playing time than black players.
As a result of the controversy, the team's coach, Heyneke Meyer, chose eight mixed raced or black players for the final World Cup squad, which consisted of 31 players. Many were satisfied with the decision, while others remained upset.
The representation of black South African players in cricket is very small. According to the Economist, in 2014 to 2015, black South Africans accounted for 10 percent of international appearances.
"Complacent," is what the chief executive of Cricket South Africa, Haroon Lorgat, calls the organization's efforts to develop black South African cricket talent.
Economics can be the reason for the lack of inclusion in cricket and rugby.
"These are all sports that are more expensive to play and prepare for," Nkambule said.
Nkambule explained the beauty of soccer is that you can create a ball out of anything. However, with equipment costs and player fees, rugby and cricket are on the costly side. Because of this, many mixed raced and black South Africans simply cannot afford to play those games.
Therefore, by the time that black players start playing and training, they are already behind.
"The social, political and economic situation impacts everything, and in sport this impact is in development: not having access to opportunity, not having training and so on," Nkambule said.
The past and current climate of South African sports opens provides a road map, and cautionary tales, for the future.


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Q: Unable to build ANN with neuralnet I tried building an artificial neural network using neuralnet, but got following error message:
nn <- neuralnet(Classs ~ . , s23, hidden=10, threshold=0.01)

Error in terms.formula(formula) : '.' in formula and no 'data' argument

Could someone explain this error message to me? This is my code:
library(neuralnet)
s23<-read.csv("E:/Research/SEM6/classification/breastcancer.csv")
s23
nn <- neuralnet(Classs ~ . , s23, hidden=10, threshold=0.01)
names(nn)
nn$result.matrix
plot(nn)


Sounds about right. You'll be able to sell any of the left over. Or wiser to hold onto it.
Alright y'all after I get the taxes back I'm going to do one last big mod for a while since we will be moving into our new apt and money will be tighter. I'm thinking either a 2 body lift and wheel spacers or a snorkle.
Bl and spacers pros: more clearance and wider stance. Also making the x higher up will make it look agressive. I also love the look of a nice wide stance.
Cons:I have to cut my fender. Costs more to do.
piratex wrote: Alright y'all after I get the taxes back I'm going to do one last big mod for a while since we will be moving into our new apt and money will be tighter. I'm thinking either a 2 body lift and wheel spacers or a snorkle.
Of course id call first. I don't even know where u live.
I would say the body lift. Snokles are good and all but u can make one. Plus to really go as deep in the water as a snorkel can go you electronics would be shot. You can make something that will raise ur intake point and still get better air.


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Chapter 1: Beginnings
Cynthia is sitting at her desk in the police station, trying to ignore her oncoming migraine. It seemed unfair that she should be miserable when it was such a warm, sunny day outside. Her office was small, more like a closet, but the fact that she had her dream job, and an office, was good enough for her. Suddenly, Cynthia's cell phone rings, breaking any chance of calming the pain.
"Cynthia Allen," she answers, holding her throbbing head.
"Cynthia, it's Joe. Have you seen your brother today? He is supposed to be at my crime scene right now," the voice on the other end asks.
"Hey. Yeah, he left to meet you there, but late as usual," Cynthia replies to her adoptive father.
"We have got to figure out a way to get that boy on time," Joe sighs. She can hear his frustration.
Cynthia moaned in pain, resting her forehead against the cool desktop, "Yeah good luck with that."
"Are you having another migraine? Take something for it okay," Joe suggests to her.
"Yeah, okay. Just let Barry use me as part of his excuse this time okay?" Cynthia gives in.
"Will do. I have to go, but I will probably see you later in the office," Joe remarks.
"Bye Joe," Cynthia finishes and hangs up the phone. She reaches into her desk and pulls out some prescription migraine pills. Taking one, she drinks half a bottle of water with it before going back to work. Later that day, after getting some work done, Cynthia goes upstairs to find her older brother. Walking into Barry's lab, Cynthia sees it's in its normal organized chaos.
"How you find anything in this place I will never figure out," she says.
Barry looks up at her and smiles, making him seem younger, "Like you're any better?"
Coming up next to him, Cynthia starts, "Well it is one of the…"
"Allen family traits," they both say together. Barry is taller and leaner than Cynthia, but they have the same colored hair and eyes, but other than that they don't look like siblings. Of course, they do share some traits: Like the need to help people.
"Hey, thanks for covering for me today Cindy," Barry says. Barry is the only one who can call her Cindy: It's always been that way.
"No problem. What excuse did you use this time?" Cynthia inquires. She thinks she should know in case someone else brings it up.
"I was picking up your migraine prescription. That seemed to shut them up quickly since they remembered when you were out," Barry tells her. Cynthia smiles, remembering that incident. She had run out of pills and a particularly strong one had come on during a busy work day. Captain Singh had come to ask her for a report and she had yelled at him, putting him in his place for how he ordered her around: She was surprised she hadn't gotten fired for that one. Even more surprising: Since then Singh has treated her with more respect than anyone else in the station.
"Okay I am ready to see this atom smasher smashing thingy," Iris announces as she walks into the room.
"Hey Iris," Cynthia greets her adoptive sister. Iris was, in terms of height, in between Cynthia and Barry. She was also black and the most fashionable one.
"Hey Cynthia," she returns the greeting.
"There was a shooting today: Your dad needs me to process some evidence, which means I don't know if we're going to make it to STAR Labs," Barry explains, getting back to work.
"Seeing this thing turned on is like your dream, your sad, nerdy dream. Besides, I canceled a date for this," Iris responds, taking one of Barry's fries.
"Hands off my fries," Barry complains and takes the cup of fries away from her. Fortunately for Cynthia that means the fries are closer to her. She smiles at Iris and takes a few of Barry's fries, stuffing them in her mouth. Barry turns to her,
"Unbelievable," he says as he shakes his head and puts the cup of fries back down and walks over to another table in the lab.
"I'm stress-eating over my dissertation. We started selling cronuts at Jitters, I ate two today. If I don't graduate soon, I'm gonna be more muffin-top than woman," Iris complains.
Barry glances up at her and comments, "You look amazing."
"What's so important about this particle accelerator thing anyway?" Iris wonders as she picks up a science magazine where the cover story is about whether the particle accelerator is safe.
Barry gets a smile on his face, "Harrison Wells' work in quantum theory is light-years ahead of anything they're doing at CERN."
"He's doing that thing where he isn't speaking English isn't he?" Iris asks Cynthia without looking away from Barry.
"Yeah," Cynthia agrees.
Barry walks over to a big, rolling, clear dry erase board and starts to explain, "Okay, just imagine that this dot is everything that the human race has learned up to this point."
"Does that include twerking?" Iris questions as Barry makes a dot on the board. Cynthia chuckles at Iris's comment as Barry continues.
"This is everything we could learn from the particle accelerator. It's a whole new way of looking at physics. It will literally change the way we think about everything," Barry finishes as he draws a large circle around the dot.
"We have got to get you a girlfriend," Cynthia comments jokingly. She knows that Barry is in love with Iris and has been for a very long time. Although she loves Iris dearly, Cynthia just doesn't think they would work out in the end. In theory, they are perfect for each other, but if Iris hasn't realized that Barry has a crush on her after all these years, then Cynthia just doesn't feel like Iris is right for him. However, Cynthia will let Barry work it out, and be there if her brother needs her: She has always tried to be there for him.
"Hey, leave him alone. He's working," Joe interrupts.
"Hey Dad," Iris says. Joe was a big man and the same color as his daughter. At that moment, a beeping sound comes from the computer making everyone in the room turn to it.
"Sounds like your test is done," Cynthia announces. Barry strolls over and starts clicking away.
Then he turns to Joe and reports, "I think that the Mardon brothers are hiding on a farm. The fecal material I found on the street was cow manures that contain trace of an antibiotic. Only four farms around Central City still use it in their feed." Barry hands a sheet of paper to Joe that contains the locations of all four farms. "I bet you'll find a sweet Shelby parked at one of them," Barry finishes. Iris goes over to her dad and pats him on the shoulder.
"Dad, seeing as Barry solved your poop problem, how about letting us go to STAR Labs," Iris proposes. Joe skeptically glances up from the paper at Barry.
"Fine go ahead," Joe reluctantly gives permission.
"Yes!" Barry and Iris celebrate.
"Do you want to come with us Cynthia?" Iris inquires.
Not wanting to be a third wheel, Cynthia politely tells them, "No thanks. You guys go ahead."
Barry grabs his coat, and as they run out of the lab he remarks, "Thanks Joe. Goodbye Cindy." Since Cynthia has finished her work for the day, she decides to go back to her apartment. She is cleaning and about to go do some laundry when she gets a text from Iris about Barry being beaten up.
Immediately concerned for her brother Cynthia calls him.
"Hey Cynthia," Iris answers Barry's phone.
"What happened?" Cynthia requests sternly.
"We were at STAR Labs and someone took my laptop. Barry ran after the thief and he hit him with my laptop a couple times," Iris tells Cynthia calmly.
"Is he alright? Do I need to come over there?" Cynthia wonders, getting more frantic and worried.
"No," she hears Barry in the background.
"He's fine. Don't worry, you don't have to come," Iris relays.
Cynthia sighs in frustration but agrees, "Alright let me know if anything else happens."
"Will do. Talk to you soon," Iris concludes and hangs up. Suddenly, from the apartment above her loud music starts to play. Cynthia looks up at the ceiling and takes a deep breath.
"Another party. Oh joy," she complains sarcastically. The apartment above her was constantly having parties. She could move, but she had gotten such a sweet deal on the apartment that it was just too good to pass up or give up. Cynthia completes a load of laundry and starts the second load when it starts coming on. The music combined with the loud clanging of the old washing machine has brought on another migraine. It is raining outside so she can't open the window to have the cool night air help with the pain. Cynthia walks over to the window where she can see some of the city. Out of nowhere, the sound of an explosion comes from the direction of STAR Labs, and a wave of something reverberates through the city. The wave hits Cynthia and she falls down, passing out. Cynthia is woken up to the very loud and extremely annoying ringing of her cell phone. She gets up off the floor and grabs her phone. "Yes, Hello," she groggily answers.
"Where the hell have you been? I've been trying to contact you for hours?" Joe demands.
"Sorry Joe I got another migraine so I tried to sleep it off," Cynthia lies because she isn't sure what happened.
"Barry's been struck by lightning," Joe informs her. She is immediately more alert and starts running around her apartment.
"I'm on my way," Cynthia replies. Joe tells her which hospital and room number and then hangs up. Cynthia changes her clothes and gets to the hospital as fast as she can.
When she gets to Central City General, Cynthia almost runs to the room number Joe had told her. When she gets there, Joe and Iris are standing by Barry's bed. Barry is unconscious and hooked up to many different machines. Cynthia walks over to the side of the bed opposite Joe and Iris. Nobody said anything as they just watched Barry, hoping he would get better soon. The next three weeks were miserably spent by Barry's bedside. Cynthia had reluctantly visited her dad and told him what had happened, it was horrible to see her father so concerned yet not able to do anything. Lastly she made some other phone calls, including one to Starling City.
She has encouraged Joe and Iris to go home, shower, sleep, and eat every once in a while, even though it makes her a hypocrite since she barely leaves the hospital herself. When she feels up to it Cynthia works from her laptop. Since she is just a forensic profiler and Central City isn't as crime ridden, as say Gotham City, she can do most of her work from her there. Right now, Cynthia is trying not to fall asleep while reading a report when Iris and Joe come into the room.
"Cynthia it's been three weeks. You barely eat. You barely sleep. You need to go home," Iris pleads.
"No, I'm alright," she responds, sounding anything but alright. Suddenly, Barry starts seizing and his heart rate plummets to zero. All three of them jump up: Joe runs to the door and yells for a doctor.
"Oh my God!" Iris cries.
"They said he was stable," Cynthia almost shouts, a tear falling from her eye.
The doctors and nurses come in and push them out of the room so they can work. Iris runs away down the hall. Cynthia starts to run after her but gives up, not having the energy. As she walks back to the room she hears Joe talking to someone. When she gets closer she discovers it is Dr. Wells, the man who built the particle accelerator which had exploded: He is trying to convince Joe to let him treat Barry.
Cynthia interrupts as she turns the corner, "But that's not his decision." The men watch her as she goes to the door and looks through the window, and watches the doctors work on Barry. Turning to Dr. Wells, Cynthia straightens up. "As his sister and only blood relative, I am the only one who is in a position to make decisions for Barry, so it's me you have to convince, " she argues.
"Well then Ms. Allen, I am not going to promise you some miracle cure, but the technology at my lab will help Barry have a future," Dr. Wells proclaims. Cynthia really looks at Dr. Wells now. She has seen pictures of him before, and he looks slightly different now. It's not just the fact that he is in a wheelchair: She can tell that the particle accelerator explosion had affected him in ways other than his reputation. Cynthia stares into Dr. Wells' eyes and tries to read him. There is mostly determination in his eyes but also something else, something she can't quite define just yet. Cynthia breaks her gaze with the doctor and looks at Barry one more time.
"You can take him to STAR Labs, but I am coming as well," she finally declares.
"Alright then," Dr. Wells agrees with a nod and a somewhat trepidatious smile.
Cynthia turns to Joe, "I'm going to go home so I can shower and eat. Will you stay with Barry until I get back?" Cynthia knows she needs to clean herself up.
"Of course, " Joe says. Cynthia is so tired; her movements are zombie-like as she ambles off down the hall to the elevator so she can go back to her apartment.
After a warm shower and a change of clothes, Cynthia eats a couple of sandwiches and a bag of chips: She is just cleaning her mess from her impromptu meal when she gets a text from Joe saying Barry had been moved to STAR Labs. She makes her way there, getting more tired by the minute. After finding her way around the massive structure, Cynthia finally finds the room where they are keeping Barry.
As she looks around the room, Cynthia thinks it was probably the main control area back before the explosion. There is a large table filled with multiple computers and screens in the middle of the room. Off to the sides there are two different lab areas: Barry is in the area at the back of the room. He is stable and looks better without the breathing and feeding tubes in his mouth. Everything looks very expensive and high tech. There are two people Cynthia doesn't know standing around Barry.
"Ah there you are Ms. Allen. Welcome to STAR Labs," Dr. Wells welcomes her as he wheels into the room. "Joe got an important call from the police station so he had to leave but assured me that you were on your way," he informs her. The two people had turned to look at them when Dr. Wells entered the room. He goes over to them and turns to face Cynthia, "Let me introduce you to my team. Dr. Caitlin Snow and Cisco Ramon, " Wells introduces the others. The man, Cisco, smiles at her and the women, Caitlin, nods. Cynthia's manners kick in and she goes and shakes hands with both of them, "Caitlin, Cisco, this is Mr. Allen's sister," Wells finishes.
"Cynthia, please. We don't need to be formal," Cynthia insists.
"Well, Barry is stable," Caitlin informs them.
"That's what they said at the hospital," Cynthia says acerbically.
"Yeah, they did, but trust us. Our technology is far superior to theirs," Cisco reassures her. Cynthia nods with a sigh and finds a chair which she puts next to the bed and sits down: Waking up after sleeping awkwardly in a chair is something Cynthia has gotten used to lately. However, when she wakes up at STAR Labs it takes her a minute to remember everything, and her muscles complain about the position she slept in. As she stretches, she notices that a blanket was around her. She could go cross-eyed staring at the monitors all the time, but seeing them with fresh eyes, she sees they are unchanged from when she went to sleep. Cynthia is just going to get out her laptop to do some work when a cup of coffee appears in front of her. She looks up and sees Cisco holding it out to her.
"Thank you, Cisco," Cynthia says gratefully as she takes it.
"You are a very devoted sister," he comments.
"He's my only family. I mean Joe and Iris are our adoptive family, but our mother is dead and our father…isn't around," Cynthia explains. She doesn't know why she is telling him any of this, but he does seem to be a least mildly interested. Cisco just nods.
Cynthia takes a couple of gulps of coffee before asking, "Did you give me this blanket?"
"Yeah that was me," he answers with a smile.
Cynthia smiles a little in return and says, "Thank you again."
"Your smile brightens the room. You should smile more," Cisco compliments. Usually Cynthia would just think that was a cheesy pick up line, but when she looks up at Cisco she can see how genuine he is and that he is a bit nervous talking to her. A warmth fills her and she genuinely smiles for the first time in more than three weeks.
"You're sweet Cisco," Cynthia responds. They start talking and getting to know each other and she starts to feel a little less sad.
Author's Note: So much happens in this first episode that I felt I needed to split it up into two chapters. What do you think? Please leave a comment. This story is not beta'd. If you would like to beta it, please contact me. I don't own The Flash.
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Starting a new job can be stressful. Between taking on new responsibilities, learning the company culture and navigating new policies, your to-do list may feel as if it is a mile long. Setting up your 401(k) retirement account, if your new employer offers one – and deciding what to do with one from your former employer – probably aren't at the top of your list. But they should be.
According to a recent Bloomberg article, U.S. Census bureau researchers estimate that about 79 percent of Americans have access to a workplace 401(k) or equivalent plan, but only 32 percent of employed Americans are investing in them. This is troubling considering individuals are increasingly responsible for funding their own retirement. On top of that, people are generally living longer, so there is a need to fund longer retirements.
The good news is that in your long list of new job to-dos, setting up your 401(k) and reviewing your old accounts can be relatively simple.
1. Leave the Money in your Former Employer's Plan.
If permitted by your former employer's plan, this option allows your assets to remain invested tax-deferred, but can result in having multiple 401(k) accounts, which may make it more difficult to track performance and progress. If you leave money in a former employer's plan, make sure that this is an active decision. "People generally don't like change, which can lead some to allow multiple accounts to sit with various employers," says Ramassini. Carefully consider investment options and the provisions of each plan. If your former employer's plan truly fits your goals better, then consider sticking with it. However, you should review all plans each time you change jobs to determine which investment options better meet your needs.
2. Roll the Money into your New Employer's Plan.
3. Roll the Money into an Individual Retirement Account (IRA).
Choosing to "cash out" your retirement accounts gives you access to a lump sum of money, but also means you will have to pay taxes on the amount you withdraw. You should discuss potential federal and state tax implications with a tax professional. If you're younger than 59 ½, the distribution also may be subject to a 10 percent early withdrawal penalty.
Source: Standard & Poor's. For illustrative purposes only. Example is hypothetical in nature and is not indicative of any particular investment. Past performance is not indicative of future results. There is no guarantee that any investment will earn the hypothetical rate of return, net of fees, inflation and expenses or that the investment will not lose value.
No matter what route you take, be sure to talk to your former employer about any specific plan rules or deadlines. Then, carefully evaluate each option and consider consulting a financial professional who can help you determine the best option for your situation.
Estimated future value of $25,000, based on 8% average annual rate of return.
Rich Ramassini says when changing employers and evaluating retirement plan options, it's important to look at long-term goals and remember why you started investing.
If you have a 401(k) from a former job, you may have several options to consider, each may have different costs, payment options and other features. Consult your legal or tax adviser for more information.


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Sean Scully. Estampes 1983-1999, Musee des Beaux-Arts de Caen, Caen, France, June 30 – Sept 11, 2000 (c)
Sean Scully. Photographies, Galerie de l'ancien college, Ecole municipale d'Arts plastiques, Chatellerault, France, May 20 – June 29, 2000
Sean Scully, Galeria Carles Taché, Barcelona, Spain, Mar 16 , 2000 (c)
Sean Scully. Graphics, A+A Galleria D'Arte, Venice, Italy, Feb 26,2000
Sean Scully. Prints 1994 – 1998, Alan Cristea Gallery, London, UK, Feb 8 – Mar 11,2000
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Sean Scully, Kerlin Gallery, Dublin, Ireland, Oct 15 – Nov 15, 1999 (c)
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Sean Scully New Paintings and Works on Paper, Danese Gallery and Galerie Lelong, New York, NY, Apr 29 – June 11, 1999 (c)
Sean Scully. Prints 1968 – 1999, Graphische Sammlung Albertina, Vienna, Austria, Apr 16 – May 30, 1999; Musee du Dessin et de l'Estampe Originale, Gravelines, Gravelines, France, July 4 – Oct 3, 1999 (catalogue raisonne)
Sean Scully. Monotypes and Color Woodcuts 1987 – 1993 from the Garner Tullis Workshop, New York, Galerie Kornfeld, Zürich, Switzerland, Mar 14 – Apr 24, 1999
Sean Scully, Galerie Lelong Paris, Paris, France, Mar 4 - Apr 17, 1999 (c)
Sean Scully. Pastels, Watercolors, Prints and Photos, Galerie Le Triangle Blue Art Contemporain, Stavelot, Belgium, Dec 13, 1998 – Jan 31, 1999
Sean Scully, Galeria Antonia Puyo, Zaragoza, Spain, Nov 1998 (c)
Sean Scully. New Paintings and Works on Paper, Galleri Weinberger, Copenhagen, Denmark, Oct 9 – Nov 14, 1998


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Q: Get QImage pixel coordinates I currently draw a QImage to a QWidget with the following code:
QPainter c(this);
const QRect& cw = c.window();

c.setRenderHint(QPainter::SmoothPixmapTransform, cw.width() < scale);
c.drawImage(cw, image);

The issue is now that the image has been properly scaled to fit in the QWidget, I would like to get the pixel coordinates on the QImage based on the QWidget coordinates. Without scaling this would be fairly trivial, as widget pixels correspond directly to QImage coordinates. Ultimately, a way to translate which pixel on the QWidget corresponds to the pixel in the QImage when scaled is ideal. Any advice is much appreciated!

A: What you have implemented is an escalation, to recover a coordinate we can use QTransform as I show below:
QTransform tr;
tr.scale(image.width()*1.0/cw.width(), image.height()*1.0/cw.height());
QPoint imagePoint = tr.map(widgetPoint);


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The stadium became the first venue to host two Rugby World Cup finals. In 2011, the venue hosted a rugby league match between the Vodafone Warriors and the Parramatta Eels. 38,000 people attended the game, which became a record home attendance for the Warriors, the first rugby league club from New Zealand with 100,000 followers on their main social media page. Later that year, the stadium hosted its first A-League game. 20,000 people showed up for the match between the Wellington Phoenix from New Zealand and Adelaide United from Australia.


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Theatre of Tomorrow Program (TOT) – High School program
Centaur Theatre has offered discount tickets for High School Students for over 50 years.
Please note Centaur is not offering plays for schools at this time due to COVID.
Educational materials include discussion exercises, improvisation, and background information about the play to help prepare students for their experience. Downloadable workbooks are available.
Talk Back Sessions
Following each TOT performance is a moderated talkback session. This gives students the opportunity to meet the cast, voice their comments and ask questions about the play.
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2. Authorize the Mayor to execute the attached Joint Ordinance and ETJ Release Agreement.
Halff Associates, Inc., representing George Beggs Trust and Boswell Interests, Ltd., contacted staff and requested a meeting between the City of Fort Worth and the City of Willow Park to discuss the release of certain extraterritorial boundaries between the two cities to facilitate the development of the trust properties. The property is located west of FM 3325 and Walsh Ranch, north of IH-30 and east of Willow Park city limits. The property owner is proposing a single family development that will be in Willow Park's extraterritorial jurisdiction (ETJ), once the boundary adjustment is approved. The 74.89 acres shown as Tract 1, Exhibit A, will be released from Fort Worth's ETJ and accepted into Willow Park's ETJ. The 74.89 acres shown as Tracts 2 and 3, Exhibit A, will be released from Willow Park's ETJ and accepted into Fort Worth's ETJ.
The request is running concurrently with a request to authorize the execution of uniform wholesale water contracts with the Cities of Willow Park and Hudson Oaks. Other than providing wholesale water to Willow Park, Fort Worth will not be responsible for municipal services or infrastructure for the proposed residential subdivision. Access for the subdivision will be through the City of Willow Park and its ETJ.
Section 42.023 of the Texas Local Government Code allows a municipality to release extraterritorial jurisdiction of the municipality if the municipality gives its written consent by ordinance. The purpose of these changes in the ETJ boundaries is to promote orderly development, public safety and effective delivery of municipal services. If the City Council approves the proposed ETJ release, the ordinance will be executed between the Cities of Fort Worth and Willow Park.
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This contract will be with a governmental entity, state agency or public institution of higher education: City of Willow Park.
The Director of Finance certifies that this action will have no material effect on City funds.


So today is Doodle Friday! Yesterday I decided to sketch right on my iPad 2 in Adobe Ideas. I haven only done 1 or 2 sketches on the iPad 2 and used the Sketch book Pro app so this was my first time sketching in adobe ideas. So I had this fun idea to have an owl roasting marshmallows and sharing them with his little birdie friend! I had a little trouble sketching for it is a lot different than sketching on paper, but I think I started to get the hang of it. I decided to add some quick color for fun! Let me know what you think of this fun doodle sketch!
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Chinese esports organisation Suning Gaming has announced a partnership with smartphone manufacturer OnePlus.
The partnership commenced on the opening day of League of Legends Pro League's (LPL) 2021 Spring Split last Saturday, with Suning's player jerseys featuring OnePlus' logo.
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In addition, OnePlus revealed that the company has become the 'designated phone brand' for Suning as part of the deal. Financial details surrounding the partnership are yet to be disclosed.
No major activations have yet to be announced, however, OnePlus has already begun offering Suning-related giveaways to Chinese fans on social media.
This is not the first time that OnePlus has collaborated with an esports organisation, as the manufacturer also teamed up with European organisation Fnatic. The partnership — first announced in 2019 — was OnePlus' esports debut, with Fnatic prominently featuring the manufacturer's logo along with collaborating in various activations.
Alongside OnePlus' logo being featured, Suning's partnership with Chinese electrical brand Skyworth will also be showcased on player jerseys. The company's logo has been placed above the smartphone manufacturer's.
Prior to the League of Legends 2020 World Championships Finals, the Chinese esports organisation also teamed up with global fast-food chain KFC. The partnership included a range of fan engagement opportunities throughout 2020, with more activations expected in 2021.
Suning's other partnerships include Logitech G, live streaming platform Huya and Suning.com.
Esports Insider says: Following Suning's incredible League of Legends World Championship performance, it is no surprise to see the organisation acquire a huge brand such as OnePlus. Moreover, the partnership also highlights the smartphone manufacturer's continued support of esports, with the firm particularly looking at China's growing competitive gaming ecosystem.
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Q: How to execute function on specific interval of time in angular I want to execute function in angular on a specific time interval and how can we stop that too. Please give me solution for that.

A: Your question seems to be about JavaScript in general, not specifically Angular.
You could use setInterval and clearInterval to execute a function on a fixed interval:
// Will print each second
let interval = setInterval(() => console.log("I am a text"), 1000)

// Stops the interval
clearInterval(interval)

Documentation: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/WindowOrWorkerGlobalScope/setInterval


To be appealing or pleasant to someone; to be intriguing or of interest to someone. A: "Do you want to go to a movie later on?" B: "I don't know, there's nothing that really catches my fancy in theaters right now." I'm not going to declare my major until I've had a couple years in college to see what ends up catching my fancy.
(informal) please or attract somebody: Mary seems afraid some other girl will catch Alan's fancy. ♢ She saw that the picture had taken my fancy and insisted on giving it to me as a present.
Collins's pretty friend had moreover caught his fancy very much.
Uncle Henry decided that he would first take a bath and then dress himself in a blue satin suit that had caught his fancy.
And as he delivered his instructions to those within, a silent listener crouched without his tent, waiting for the time when he might enter in safety and prosecute his search for the missing pouch and the pretty pebbles that had caught his fancy.
Several weeks went by, during which Martin Eden studied his grammar, reviewed the books on etiquette, and read voraciously the books that caught his fancy.
All of these he examined, but the pictures caught his fancy most, though the strange little bugs which covered the pages where there were no pictures excited his wonder and deepest thought.
Once I had to use actual force to prevent him from buying a phaeton at a price of seven hundred francs, after a vehicle had caught his fancy in the Palais Royal as seeming to be a desirable present for Blanche.
Karan Johar, who was invited to Shah Rukh Khan's Eid party, heard a song at the event that caught his fancy, which he decided would be featured in an upcoming film he was producing.
They applaud his Champagne habits, 48-hour-long parties and the time he spent pounds 30,000 on a chandelier that caught his fancy in the luxurious Four Seasons hotel in Paris, then dismantled it to decorate his Christmas tree.
18 (ANI): Believe it or not, new USPGA champion Ye Yang was headed towards becoming a bodybuilder before golf caught his fancy.
It's really as if he was walking or driving through quiet streets and saw something - a dog or someone walking down the street who caught his fancy - and he photographed them, but they're all very incidental as opposed to Winogrand's and Arbus','' says Judith Keller, curator of the exhibit.
I discussed this idea with him, it caught his fancy, and he gave me some data that reinforced my initial impression.
Luckily, hockey caught his fancy at roughly the same time.
The fact that the strings can be plucked or stroked with a bow also caught his fancy, as did the performing styles of noted violinists he has studied, he said.
In 1994, Lucas said that he made no conscious decision to give up directing and would return to it if and when a particular project caught his fancy.


Sites like Expensify.com, and Zoho.com make it easy for anyone to create invoices, but does anyone have any other recommendations? There's a lot of premium software out there, but I'm curious what makes them worth it?
Preferred by me, Freshbooks as it's quick and easy. Preferred by my CPA, Quickbooks. It's easier to go with what's best for the accountant to simplify your life.
Personally, I've a preference based on cloud platform because it offers more integrated business application. So business processes move forward in a correct manner. My suggestion is Apptivo, it is ideal for everyone to take care entire invoicing activities through this single platform.
Randi Miller said: It's easier to go with what's best for the accountant to simplify your life.
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I use Zoho invoice. It's pretty simple to use and you can run your entire business using Zoho.


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Suspending mark-to-market is for zombies
By wpcomimportuser1 Oct. 01, 2008
The politicians in Washington, especially the Republicans in Washington, are all fired up at the moment about the scourge that is mark-to-market accounting. The bailout legislation approved by the Senate Wednesday night to be considered by the Senate tonight merely tells the SEC chairman that he has the authority to suspend mark-to-market, and commissions a study on the matter. But prominent Republicans such as Newt Gingrich and Grover Norquist have been calling on the Bush Administration to strongarm SEC Chairman Chris Cox into rescinding mark-to-market now.
For readers who haven't been following all this, a quick recap: Mark-to-market accounting means valuing the financial instruments on a bank's (or any company's) balance sheet at what they would fetch on the open market today, as opposed to at their historical cost, which is the way things used to be done. It's also often called fair-value accounting, and it's been the law of the land–or, more accurately, the GAAP of the land–since the early 1990s, although Statement of Financial Accounting Standards No. 157, which went into effect last year, tightened up the rules a bit.
The big complaint at the moment is that markets for some mortgage-related securities have so totally broken down that marking them to market dramatically understates their value and makes banks' finances look much shakier than they really are. The SEC and the Financial Accounting Standards Board put out a joint statement Tuesday clarifying that if the market for a particular kind of financial instrument really was dysfunctional, it would be okay to not to rely totally on current broker quotes or recent distressed sales of such instruments in determining their value. This wasn't so much a change in policy as an attempt to point out that mark-to-market rules do allow for some amount of flexibility. "It's mostly common sense," Credit Suisse accounting analyst David Zion said in a report to clients Tuesday.
But what the most outspoken critics of mark-to-market seem to be calling for is a much bigger change–a move away from the direction accounting has been headed in for almost half a century. Mark-to-market had its roots in the efficient-market revolution in finance in the 1960s–whose adherents believed that the prices prevailing in the stock market and other financial markets were near-perfect reflections of economic reality. Such thinking soon prevailed in academic accounting circles as well, and the accounting professors began pushing for accounting standards that fit with their new worldview.
The savings and loan mess of the 1980s, which became such a big mess in large part because S&Ls didn't mark their assets and liabilities to market, provided real-world impetus for such a shift. Most S&Ls became insolvent in the early 1980s because of the mismatch between the double-digit interest rates they had to pay to borrow money and the 5% to 6% a year they were earning on the 30-year-fixed mortgages that made up the bulk of their assets. But the accounting standards of the day obscured this grim reality. Some S&Ls–like Washington Mutual–took advantage of the reprieve to trim down, shape up and get themselves out of trouble. Many others became what's known as zombie banks, lurching across the landscape running up ever bigger losses until taxpayers had to put up several hundred billion dollars to shut them down and pay off insured depositors.
So in December 1991, the FASB decreed (pdf!) that there should be fair-value accounting for financial instruments. And lo there was fair value accounting for financial instruments! While there have been lots of debates through the years over the particulars of how to implement it, the basic idea had in recent years ceased to be very controversial. The lack of fair-value accounting in Japan and the resulting scourge of zombie companies were often cited, in fact, as key causes of the country's economic stagnation in the 1990s. (By the way, Japanese accounting authorities finally began moving toward mark-to-market last year.)
Earlier this year, though, complaints that mark-to-market was worsening the financial crisis began to surface. Blackstone's Steve Schwarzman was among the most prominent critics. And while much of this talk was self-interested hooey (why wasn't Schwarzman complaining about mark-to-market in 2006?), there was also an important intellectual shift at work.
The efficient market hypothesis, which had helped launch fair-value accounting, was no more–at least not in the sense it was understood and believed in the 1960s through 1990s. (Self-promotion alert! You can read all about this in my book The Myth of the Rational Market! Coming out next spring/summer! Really!) Hardly anybody believes any more that market prices are necessarily right in any fundamental sense. But most finance and accounting scholars do still believe that it's really hard to determine a price that's more right than the market price.
So where does that leave mark-to-market accounting? On Tuesday I let my friend Paul B.W. Miller, a prominent mark-to-market advocate, go to town on this subject. A sample:
[R]eports that are truthful are more useful than those that are not; reports based on assumptions and predictions are not as reliable as reports based on observations; mark-to-market reports are based on observations; other methods of accounting are based on assumptions or untimely measures of investments (e.g., cost); ergo, MTM accounting is superior to other forms.
But today I was talking to Gene Flood, a former Stanford finance professor who now runs the fixed-income money manager Smith Breeden Associates, and he surprised me by saying that he is no longer quite the fervent believer in mark-to-market that he once was. "The credit crisis has caused such a liquidity crunch that market prices are not a good reflection of true economic value," he said. "If you are forced to mark everything to market, then you are not getting a good economic picture of the economic health of the institution."
Flood doesn't want to suspend mark-to-market accounting. He just agrees with the new FASB/SEC directions for companies to pay less heed to prices coming out of clearly distressed markets. Paul Miller doesn't have a big problem with this guidance either.
Which leads me to the following conclusions.
First, as commenter That Anonymous Dude puts it, "MTM is the worst form of accounting, except for all those other forms that have been tried from time to time."
Second, investors and regulators and reporters and corporate executives need to learn not to take any financial reporting numbers, whether marked-to-market or not, at face value. The health of a bank or any corporation can never be adequately measured by a single bottom-line number. Understanding the assumptions and uncertainties inherent in accounting numbers is crucial to understanding how to use them.
Third, Congress really ought to stay out of this. The last time the people on Capitol Hill seriously messed with accounting standards was with stock options in 1994. In the process they ruined America. As some guy wrote in Fortune a few years ago:
[W]hat it came down to in 1994 was that the powers that be in American economic life decided that dishonesty in the service of prosperity was no vice. In doing so, they may have paved the path for the outrages that followed. "Once CEOs demonstrated their political power to, in effect, roll the FASB and the SEC, they may have felt empowered to do a lot of other things too," says Warren Buffett, a lonely voice in opposition to the options steamroller back then.
Fourth, if Republican opinion-makers like Gingrich and Norquist really do believe that financial market prices are so horribly wrong, maybe they need to do some reexamining of their core economic beliefs.


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2009 was a big year for celebrity comebacks, with Mickey Rourke, Whitney Houston, Britney Spears and Courtney Cox steppin' back into the proverbial spotlight. But something tells me that 2010 is going to be even better.
One comeback that has me extremely giddy: Mayim Bialik, aka "Blossom," aka the girl who inspired me to wear hats and sew my very own tie skirt. Mayim disappeared off the pop culture radar screen for a while, and headed to UCLA to get a Ph.D. in neuroscience and start a family (she now has two children). Last year, she miraculously reappeared on an episode of "What Not To Wear." And now, she's making a run for a full-fledged comeback, with guest-starring spots on "The Secret Life of the American Teenager" and "Til Death."
Mayim said, "I am trying to see if the industry would like to see me as an adult actress and not as a teenager … When I do personal appearances at colleges, I have to sort of backtrack and say, 'In case you didn't know, I was on after 'The Fresh Prince' for five years.'"
Oh, but that is just the beginning. Really. Here other soon-to-be comebacks that we're very excited about.
Jaleel White. Did somebody say "cheese"? You probably know Jaleel as Steve Urkel — or Stefan, if you watched "Family Matters" in later seasons. We're very excited that he is back, starring in a new Web series called "Road to the Altar." The concept: Jaleel and his Jewish fiancée make their wedding into a reality show to fund their honeymoon. Let's hope there's a polka scene at the wedding, for Urkel's sake.
Tiffany. If you were anywhere near a mall in the mid-'80s, you were no doubt a big fan of Tiffany, who made me want red hair and a jean jacket, big time. Now that she's 37, Tiffany is ready for a second act — she says she wants to record a country album this year. "I've had success after 20 years, and my fans have really been supportive of my new music, but my heart is in country music," she says. "It's a new pursuit for me, and I have some songs under my belt."
Julie Andrews. The hills are alive, with the sound of Juuuuu-lie. She hasn't been onstage in 30 years, but the original Mary Poppins is set for a comeback concert in May at the 02 Arena in London.
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Pavement. In the '90s, there was one CD I played to the point where it was scratched beyond recognition — Pavement's "Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain." No one was sadder when the band disbanded in 1999. Luckily, 2010 is their reunion year. Not only is Pavement playing Coachella in April and New York's SummerStage in September, but tickets sold out in 10 minutes, a year in advance. And the band also is curating the ATP festival in the U.K.
Pepa and Chili. These gorgeous, kick-butt ladies are both thirds of uber-successful female musical groups. Pepa talked about sex in Salt-N-Pepa, and Chili chased waterfalls and rejected scrubs with TLC. Now VH1 is giving each of them a reality series about their lives as single women. Spicy! Sorry, I couldn't resist that pun.
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Little Richard. His hair might be intact, but his hip is not. Last month, Little Richard checked into the hospital for surgery on it. But on his way, he promised to be "rocking like the old days" soon with a comeback concert.
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Tiffani Thiessen. For years, Tiffani (Amber) Thiessen was better known as the sweet-as-pie volleyball player/cheerleader Kelly Kapowski on "Saved by the Bell." She gave herself a second act in the '90s when she joined the cast of "Beverly Hills, 90210" for the college years and stirred up serious trouble. Now she's coming back again, with a role on the USA series "White Collar," which is actually supposed to be pretty good. Go Bayside!
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