Just as teenagers, cats may get acne. Of course, not to the extent of humans, however, acne in cats may cause their good source of aesthetic problems.
Typically, cat acne will appear on the cat's chin and will appear as tiny black dots resembling black heads. In some cases, the cat may develop red unsightly bumps and swollen chins. It is most common in young cats and it may develop once the cat is about 1 year old.
Simply clean the cat's chin area with a gentle soap using a clean wash cloth. Try to scrub in a bit. This helps remove some harmful bacteria. However, you do not want to scrub to hard to aggravate the area. Then remove the soap with some warm water and with the cloth still warm from the water, place it on the cat's chin for about 5 minutes.
In some cases, Aloe Vera gel may give relief. Simply smear a small amount and massage into the skin on the chin. You can get aloe gel straight from the plant or you may purchase some at your local pharmacy. Make sure the gel contains only aloe gel and that it is not combined with other products which may be harmful.
Soaking the area with Epsom salts may help promote drainage to the area. -Shampoo and Tea Scrubbing gently with a nail brush some watered down Selsun Blue shampoo may be helpful in some cases. The area then may be rinsed with some green tea. Ensure the shampoo does not get licked off and that it does not get anywhere near the eyes.
If your cat uses plastic or ceramic bowls to eat or drink these may be the culprit. Many cats develop an intolerance to them and develop that unsightly acne in the chin. The reason behind this is the fact that both these materials have a porous structure that tends to trap harmful bacteria. Try to switch to metal bowls.
Most cases of cat acne will eventually go away after a few days. However, some may linger longer if they are due to chronic exposure to chemicals, detergents or pesticides found in the cat's environment or if the acne is due to hormones.
As much as one would like to treat a case of feline acne at home, there some instances that require veterinary attention. If the area does not appear to heal or if the cat appears to be particularly bothered by it, the cat may require veterinary attention. In some cases, a course of antibiotics may be required.


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WASHINGTON, D.C., Dec. 29, 2015 — What can mathematical modeling teach us about the micrometeorology of the southern Amazonian "transitional" forest? Quite a lot, it turns out. This particular forest is located between the rain forest of the Amazon Basin and the tropical Brazilian Savanna, so it plays a crucial role in both regional and global biogeochemical cycling.Tropical forests and savannas exchange vast amounts of energy and matter with their surroundings and, as such, contribute to the local and global climate. They can accumulate large quantities of carbon, for example, which helps partially offset anthropogenic carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions.
Tropical forests and savannas exchange vast amounts of energy and matter with their surroundings and, as such, contribute to the local and global climate. They can accumulate large quantities of carbon, for example, which helps partially offset anthropogenic carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions.
Researchers from the Université libre de Bruxelles (ULB) in Belgium and the Federal University of Mato Grosso (UFMT) in Brazil teamed up to delve into how the transitional forest ensures a connection between the rain forest and the savanna. They report their findings in the journal Chaos, from AIP Publishing.
The transitional forest studied by the researches happens to lie within an "arc of deforestation," which has experienced very rapid deforestation during the past three decades.
"To predict the effects this type of deforestation has on the relationship between rain forest and the savanna — and on the local and global climate — it's necessary to understand how the transitional forest evolves in time and reacts to disturbances," explained Yannick De Decker, associate professor at the Center for Nonlinear Phenomena and Complex Systems, as well as the Nonlinear Physical Chemistry Unit at ULB.
The group's work is based on micrometeorologically relevant measurements collected during more than five years by UFMT researchers in Sinop, Mato Grosso, Brazil. Special equipment mounted atop a 42-meter-high tower was used to record air temperature and solar radiation measurements, as well as concentrations of CO2 and water vapor, etc.
So, what did the group's analysis reveal? The dynamics of the transitional forest "are characterized by robust, regular oscillations that belong to the dynamical class of 'limit cycles.' These oscillations can be reproduced via mathematical models using only three variables," De Decker said.
Some disturbances, however, are notably different. "Sometimes the measurement shows sudden breaks whose origin has nothing to do with meteorology," he added. "Battery failure or lightning hitting the tower can cause such breaks. But some interruptions can be traced directly to the interference of 'wild locals' such as birds or monkeys." So the group is trying to figure out how to roll animal interference into their mathematical model.
In terms of applications for the group's work, the micrometeorology of the transitional forest can be modeled via a three-variable mathematical approach — possibly including noise. "Our study also suggests air temperature is potentially the most important variable," noted De Decker.


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With our dear Editor-in-Chief leaving Baseball Prospectus for his next chapter, we wanted to highlight some of our favorite chapters of his career here. There's an incredible number of timeless Sam Miller articles to choose from, but we whittled it down enough to not break the internet. This article originally ran on October 30, 2015.
The danger in doing this annual feature is that the author will lean too heavily on the mass-produced stereotypes that inform his view of a particular region's inhabitants. That he would treat all San Francisco fans as techies, hippies and grizzled old miners, or that he would treat all Kansas Citians as unassuming folks who adopt alien babies that land in their yard one night. That he will treat New Yorkers as, you know, New Yorkers. Like you know how New Yorkers are.
So this danger is kept in mind. But there is one stereotype of New York, perhaps the very best stereotype of New York, that can't be ignored and that we will acknowledge immediately: New York is a place where every type of person is welcome. As you watch the Mets host the Royals this weekend, you'll see various types of people, who we'll get to in a minute. But in a broad and large sense, you'll see various types of people. All kinds. All kinds welcome. Nobody goes unloved and nobody gets shut out in New York. That means you might see a literal giant hunched in his tiny, tiny seat
or you might see a literal elf, craning to see the action,
or you might, if you aren't careful, even see a terrifying bald-headed Medusa, seen here only (thank goodness) from behind,
the mere accidental sight of whom might turn you into a block of screaming stone:
It's a great crowd. And here are some of the less magical people you'll see in that crowd:
1. The extremely nervous fan who reacts to every pitch as though she just walked into a spiderweb in the dark.
Sometimes baseballs get fouled back to the screen, and you're reminded that not everybody is a scout:
A bunch of people flinch, even that dude way on the right, who covers by clapping fanatically at a foul ball, when, truthfully dude way on the right, it looks weirder to be the only guy in the park clapping than to be one of 12 or so flinching. (The literal elf, we'll note, doesn't flinch.) But we want to focus more on the woman in the center of the screen, four rows back, long blonde hair under a Mets beanie. She flinches, which merely confirms her geographic location on this planet (directly behind home plate at an active baseball game). Her reactions to other pitches will confirm her psychological state, her emotional temperament, her perhaps purgatorial imbalance between joy and suicide.
For here she is flinching at a foul ball that goes nowhere near her
and here she is flinching at a foul ball that goes nowhere near any human
and here she is praising Jesus for a 324-foot flyball to straightaway center field
and here she is reacting to a close 2-2 pitch the way a 4-year-old reacts to finding out chicken comes from chickens
and, finally, here she is seeing Kelly Johnson swing and miss for strike two, and seemingly giving up on this entire sport, as though she has just now realized what a ludicrous game it is that the batter is paid to hit the ball but the other team won't even let him.
One might make this about a single fan, living in some sort of imagined catastatis that severely impacts her ability to moderate response time and severity, but she's like some kind of stand-in for the entire Mets race, which, brother, let me tell you, is ampppped up. I've never seen a more jittery, jumpy crowd than the Mets crowds in this postseason. Consider just one example: This Daniel Murphy swing in the eighth inning of NLDS Game Four:
and, three frames later,
Admire the many shades of ecstasy in this latter frame: The fist shot aloft, the boyfriend/girlfriend arm squeeze, the young boy jumping onto his seat, the satisfied besuited man on the left who stares out toward heaven, watching history sail in a spectacular parabola, perfectly content, as much as anything happy for you, happy that you're happy.
and then like 15 frames later,
2. The superhero half-asses
One of the Mets pitchers is nicknamed Thor, and one is nicknamed the Dark Knight or something, and I think Steven Matz is nicknamed Matzter Fantastic (or maybe Mr. FantMatztic) so when those guys pitch the cameras will find all the superfans who came dressed up as those superheroes. But watch skeptically, because the fans who do this are the most half-assed costume wearers ever.
Here's how you can tell, scientifically, that these costumes are half-assed: They include only one item (or, at most, in one case, two items). "Gonna be Thor." Oh, what's the plan? "A hat." Great. "Also, I cooked you dinner." Oh, what is it? "Apple."
This, too:
Heavens, dude, at least try to mimic a font or something. Now, as noted in An Illustrated Guide To The People Of Kauffman Stadium, Royals fans are not half-assed when it comes to their silly costumes, nor their signs. And I think what I love about this is that I can say these two things:
Mets fans are way too cool to spend a bunch of time on costumes to wear to the baseball game
Royals fans aren't too cool to spend a bunch of time on costumes to wear to the baseball game
And I think both cities will take it as a compliment.
3. This guy who sees that Bill Murray is on television and decides to point at Bill Murray and then do a Fantastic Voyage dance.
There are three stages of awareness to celebrity:
The Most-of-America stage, or Being Impressed: Ooooooooooooooooh my gosh, is that—no, it can't be. It looks just like him. I think it's him. Should we ask for his autograph? Oh, I'll kick myself if I don't. Okay, come with me, I can't do this alone. Oh my gosh, I can't believe we're doing this. Stay calm. Oh my god, okay, lets—uh, excuse me? I'm sorry to bother you, but I'm a huuuuuge fan of Jungle Book 2, can I get your autograph Mr. Joel Osment?
The SoCal stage, or Being Self-Consciously Unimpressed: Hey, be cool, don't look, but I'm pretty sure the Pope just walked in. Yeah, I know, super awkward—he still owes me money from our Vegas trip.
The NYC stage, or Being In A City Where Nobody Gives A Shit About You No Matter Whether You're Famous or Carrying A Live Rat In Your Mouth: Well if it isn't Bill Murray. Hey Bill: Wooooodoooooooddoooooobooooooooogooooooooo. Think you're so big-time, but woooooodooooooooddooooooobooooooooogooooooo, dude, wooooooodooooooooddoooooooobooooooogoooooooo.
4. This butt
You won't always see it on the screen, or at just that angle, but while you're watching the games this weekend remember that that guy's butt is always somewhere.
5. Willie Mays
Is it? Man, I think it is. If only some dude was pointing and doing a stupid dance behind him so I'd know for sure.
6. The guy who spent $17,553 for a World Series ticket.
Two people sitting behind home plate tonight will have spent $17,553 each, according to CNN. They probably won't be this guy—this guy went to Game Three of the NLDS, and we have no idea what (if anything) he paid for the tickets—
but this is definitely a game you can play, trying to identify the two people who spent $35,000 to go to the game and appear on your screen. If it is turns out that it is that guy—well, that guy's fun, too. Check out that guy, faced with the overwhelming peer pressure to stand up and cheer for the baseball game:
At times while watching the Mets play in New York you will be confronted with many, many extremely rich people wearing Wall St. uniforms under their crisp new Mets sweatshirts—or, screw the sweatshirt, just arriving straight to the ballpark in their suits, this being after 6 and these folks being not farmers. Now, it's perfectly natural to resent the superrich. You can do it for all sorts of reasons, whether out of petty jealousy or a deep sense of the systemic injustice of income inequality or because you are a partisan in a centuries-old struggle between capital and labor or because some fat cat banker repo'd your mom's house after some fat cat insurance exec wouldn't pay for her operation or just because you don't like the way we've become a winner-take-all society unconcerned with the welfare of the many, and you need some symbol to stand in for the unwinding of America's social safety net. That's all fine and natural, except that anything that turns humans into symbols strips them of their humanity, and then you start to look at these symbols in an uncaring way that you can only maintain if you've ceased to see the person as, fundamentally, just as human as you are, as a former infant, as a future somebody who will die lonesome and unfulfilled just like you and I and we all will. Once you strip these symbols of their humanity, you can tell yourself any hateful thing about them, even that their unwillingness to stand at this emotional moment of a baseball game means they don't care about baseball, that they don't really deserve those tickets, that they only bought them so that you couldn't have them, taunting you with their monied aloofness.
But not one of us is a symbol of the unwinding of America's social safety net. We are people, together, and when we love, we love in exactly the same way: With a cute-as-pie little left-handed fist pump, perhaps accompanied by a high-pitched yaw.
7. The random groups of people who look funnier if you imagine them being in a tough-guy New York street gang.
Not exclusive to the Mets fans. This is just sort of a thing that I've been fixated on lately and that always makes me laugh. Like check out this crew
And look, they're about to throw down against their rivals, This Ol' Crew:
The guy in the front left is probably my favorite Mets fan of all. He is, in this very scene, at the end of a long decision tree in his brain, which started with the title So You're Upset At A Baseball Game, What Do You Do Now? and, after he answered yes to a few questions ("it's a baseball game? You're sure it's a baseball game and not church or school?" and "do you have a mouth?" and "are you from New York?") he was finally ready to act with total certainty:
Looooove that guy. Love Mets fans, actually. In fact, in conclusion,
8. All of them, they're all the best
It's silly to criticize any fan base. We all need to admit that we are consumers of an entertainment product, and complaining that somebody isn't sufficiently entertained—that they don't want to pay closer attention, or spend more money and time consuming it—is a terrible case of blaming the fruit for the vine. So if somebody wants to text instead of watch a game—well, should have made a baseball game more interesting than this text, suit. That said: We all judge fan bases, and the Mets' fan base as a group is just flat fun to watch. Like, look at this tiny sliver of the stadium:
I watch a lot of fans watching not the baseball. Kids, in particular, never watch the baseball, even when they're sitting in seats like this. This sort of engagement is almost too good not to have been airbrushed.
What do you see? A dude on his phone. A dude. (Maaaybe two. Maaaaaybe three.) When I did this two years ago for the fans at AT&T,
The Mets fans jump. That's more than anything what strikes you about the Mets fans: They jump, up and down, like in seventh grade when House of Pain came on at the dance. They jump while holding nacho helmets,
and they form almost little mosh pits, like at the top-right of the post-pan shot here:
Is this significant? Is it, perhaps, that New Yorkers are so used to being around large groups, or being body-conscious and not body self-conscious when they're crammed together in tight spaces, that they can be free to leap in the middle of a crowd, practiced as they are at moving gracefully and confident as they are that if they bump somebody then that somebody's sure been bumped plenty of times before and will survive? I think it is. I think New Yorkers are more compelling in crowds because they're professional crowders.
But probably my favorite moment of Mets fans was here:
This is the same group that overreacted to Daniel Murphy's shallow flyball. In fact, this is that same pitch, before it was delivered. They're tense, obviously, and we've seen a million tense-crowd shots in our life: A girl with her head in her hands, a man with his hands together in prayer, a kid near tears, a woman holding a rally towel tight on her head, and it always looks miserable, like they're holding on tight while the doctor takes out a kidney without using anesthesia. But that's not this tense-crowd shot. These guys are all smiling. They're enjoying the baseball. It's really something. That's my favorite thing about watching Citi Field.
Oh, wait. No. My favorite thing about watching Citi Field is that the on-screen graphic blocks Marlins Man's seats.
Yeahhhhh. So I guess Go Mets.
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Q: Keep SVG proportions whilst reducing window (or container) size I have an SVG graphic that is the child element of a container.
If I want it to fit the full width of this container I normally do preserveAspectRatio="none" and set the width to 100% (with an optional height value if I want to add some extra height to the SVG).
However, I would like to have it so the SVG fits the container, but when I drag the window to a smaller size the wedge shape (i.e. diagonal angle of the SVG), stays at the same angle, whilst also still filling the container.
In the sample code I've kept the preserveAspectRatio=none code to show the general effect I would like (the difference being of course I would like the angle of the wedge to stay the same as the window is reduced in size).
Is this possible? I'm struggling to think of a way to get this to work.
Here is a Codepen: https://codepen.io/emilychews/pen/pGbPby

body {
  margin: 0;
  padding: 0;
  display: flex;
  width: 100%;
  height: 100vh;
  justify-content: center;
  align-items: center;
}

.container {
  width: 80%;
  height: 10rem;
  background: lightblue;
  position: relative;
}

.wedge {
  width: 100%;
  left: 0;
  bottom: 0;
  height: 4rem;
  position: absolute
}

  <svg class="wedge" preserveAspectRatio="none" aria-hidden="true" viewBox="0 0 376.9 122.7">
    <polyline fill="#000" points="376.9 122.69 0 122.35 376.55 0 376.9 122.69"/>
  </svg>

A: If you want the SVG to keep its aspect ratio, and not stretch, then don't use preserveAspectRatio="none". Use a different preserveAspectRatio value. For example "xMinYMax slice".

body {
  margin: 0;
  padding: 0;
  display: flex;
  width: 100%;
  height: 100vh;
  justify-content: center;
  align-items: center;
}

.container {
  width: 80%;
  height: 10rem;
  background: lightblue;
  position: relative;
}

.wedge {
  width: 100%;
  left: 0;
  bottom: 0;
  height: 4rem;
  position: absolute
}

  <svg class="wedge" preserveAspectRatio="xMinYMax slice" aria-hidden="true" viewBox="0 0 376.9 122.7">
    <polyline fill="#000" points="376.9 122.69 0 122.35 376.55 0 376.9 122.69"/>
  </svg>

However you are obviously going to have to decide what you want to happen if the page gets wide enough that the wedge gets so tall that the top gets clipped off.  For example in your example (and in my example above) you have limited the height of the SVG to 4em. So you are only seeing the bottom of the wedge.
If I change the SVG height to 100%, you see more of it.

body {
  margin: 0;
  padding: 0;
  display: flex;
  width: 100%;
  height: 100vh;
  justify-content: center;
  align-items: center;
}

.container {
  width: 80%;
  height: 10rem;
  background: lightblue;
  position: relative;
}

.wedge {
  width: 100%;
  left: 0;
  bottom: 0;
  height: 100%;
  position: absolute
}

  <svg class="wedge" preserveAspectRatio="xMinYMax slice" aria-hidden="true" viewBox="0 0 376.9 122.7">
    <polyline fill="#000" points="376.9 122.69 0 122.35 376.55 0 376.9 122.69"/>
  </svg>

Of course, you may also want to reduce the angle of the wedge.

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Plaka is a beautiful small harbour in the Argolic Gulf. It is a very peaceful spot, with a long pebble beach and a harbour with crystal clear waters. The area is also famous for Aubergine; ook for the news about the Aubergine festival around the 3rd week of August. It is a stop hard not to love. A great place to relax and unwind. It is also possible to visit the beautiful Elona Monastery set high up in the cliff side, a 30 minute drive away.
Plaka is very small with only one mini market, several tavernas that line the quay and a couple of beach bars.
Moor: the harbour is fairly deep, it is hard to pull up stern anchors, so it is best to go stern-to on the quay. It is also possible to moor on the old hydrofoil quay; because it is not very sheltered is best to moor side-to.


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Yearly, the Zoning Board of Adjustment shall organize by selecting from among its regular members a Chairman and a Vice Chairman. The Board shall also select a Secretary who may or may not be a member of the Board or a municipal employee.
The governing body shall make provisions in its budget and appropriate funds for the expenses of the Zoning Board of Adjustment.
The office of Zoning Board of Adjustment Attorney is created. The Board of Adjustment may annually appoint to such office and fix the compensation or rate of compensation of an attorney at law of New Jersey other than the Municipal Attorney.
The Zoning Board of Adjustment may also employ or contract for and fix the compensation of such experts and other staff services as it may deem necessary. The Board, however, shall not authorize expenditures which exceed, exclusive of gifts or grants, the amount appropriated by the governing body for its use.
Where, in an application or appeal relating to a specific piece of property, the purpose of this chapter set forth in § 142-3 and the Municipal Land Use Law (N.J.S.A. 40:55D-1 et seq.) would be advanced by deviation from the Zoning Ordinance requirements and the benefits of the deviation would substantially outweigh any detriment, grant a variance to allow the departure from zoning regulations; provided, however, that no variance from those departures enumerated in § 142-66A(4) shall be granted under this subsection; and provided, further, that the proposed development does not require approval by the Planning Board of a subdivision, site plan or conditional use in conjunction with which the Planning Board has power to review a request for a variance pursuant to § 142-69G(1).
An increase in the permitted density as defined in § 142-7 except as applied to the required lot area for a lot or lots for detached one- or two-dwelling-unit buildings, which lot or lots are either an isolated undersized lot or lots resulting from a minor subdivision. A variance under this subsection shall be granted only by the affirmative vote of at least five members.
No variance or other relief may be granted under the terms of this section unless such variance or other relief can be granted without substantial detriment to the public good and will not impair the intent and purpose of the zone plan and Zoning Ordinance.
Direct issuance of a building permit for the construction of a building or structure within the bed of a mapped street or public drainageway, flood control basin or public areas as shown on a duly adopted Official Map of the municipality whenever one or more parcels of land within the bed cannot yield a reasonable return to the owner unless a building permit is granted. The Board may grant such relief only by an affirmative vote of a majority of the full authorized membership of the Zoning Board of Adjustment, ensuring that such relief will tend to cause a minimum change of the Official Map and will not significantly add to the cost of opening any proposed street. The Board shall impose reasonable requirements as a condition of granting the building permit so as to promote the health, morals, safety and general welfare of the public.
Direct issuance of a building permit for the construction of a building or structure on a lot not abutting a street which is shown on a duly adopted Official Map of the municipality; or which is an existing state, county or municipal street or highway; or a street shown upon a plat approved by the municipal Planning Board; or a street on a plat duly filed in the office of the county recording officer. The Board may grant such relief only where the enforcement of the statute requirement that a building lot abut a street would entail practical difficulty or unnecessary hardship or where the circumstances of the case do not require the building or structure to abut a street. The Board shall impose requirements or conditions that will provide adequate access for fire-fighting equipment, ambulances and other emergency vehicles necessary for the protection of the health and safety and will protect any future street layout shown on the Official Map or on the general circulation plan element of the municipal Master Plan.
The Zoning Board of Adjustment shall have the power to grant, to the same extent and subject to the same restrictions as the Planning Board, subdivision, site plan or conditional use approval whenever the proposed development requires approval by the Zoning Board of Adjustment of a variance pursuant to Subsection A(4) of this section. The developer may elect to submit subsequent application for any required approval of a subdivision, site plan or conditional use. The separate approval of the variance shall be conditioned upon the grant of all required subsequent approvals by the Zoning Board of Adjustment. No such subsequent approval shall be granted unless such approval can be granted without substantial detriment to the public good and without substantial impairment of the intent and purpose of the zone plan and the zoning provisions of this chapter. The number of votes of Board members required to grant any such subsequent approval shall be as otherwise provided in this chapter for the approval in question, and the special vote pursuant to Subsection A(4) of this section shall not be required.
Appeals to the Zoning Board of Adjustment may be taken by an interested party affected by any decision of a municipal official of the municipality based on or made in the enforcement of the zoning provisions of this chapter or a duly adopted Official Map. Such appeal shall be taken within 20 days by filing a notice of appeal with the official from whom the appeal is taken specifying the grounds of such appeal. The official from whom the appeal is taken shall immediately transmit to the Board all the papers constituting the record upon which the action appealed from was taken.
A developer may file an application for development with the Zoning Board of Adjustment for action under any of its provisions without prior application to the administrative officer. However, the administrative officer shall be the person who shall receive all applications on behalf of the Board of Adjustment.
Whenever an application for development requests relief pursuant to § 142-66C(3) of this chapter, the Zoning Board of Adjustment shall grant or deny approval of the application within 120 days after submission by a developer of a complete application to the administrative officer or within such further time as may be consented to by the applicant. In the event that the developer elects to submit separate consecutive applications, the aforesaid provision shall apply to the application for approval of the variance. The period for granting or denying any subsequent approval shall be as otherwise provided in this chapter. Failure of the Zoning Board of Adjustment to act within the period prescribed shall constitute approval of the application, and a certificate of the administrative officer as to the failure of the Zoning Board of Adjustment to act shall be issued on request of the applicant, and it shall be sufficient in lieu of the written endorsement or other evidence of approval herein required and shall be so accepted by the county recording officer for purposes of filing subdivision plats.
Class II: one of the officials of the municipality, other than a member of the governing body, to be appointed by the Mayor, provided that, if there is an Environmental Commission, the member of the Environmental Commission who is also a member of the Planning Board as required by N.J.S.A. 40:56A-1 shall be deemed to be the Class II Planning Board member if there is both a member of the Zoning Board of Adjustment and a member of the Board of Education among the Class IV regular or alternate members.
Editor's Note: For information on the composition and powers of the Environmental Commission, see Ch. 9, Art. II, Environmental Commission.
Class III: a member of the governing body to be appointed by it when the governing body is composed of five members.
Class IV regular members: six other citizens of the municipality to be appointed by the Mayor. The members of Class IV shall hold no other municipal office, except that one member may be a member of the Zoning Board of Adjustment, and one may be a member of the Board of Education. A member of the Environmental Commission who is also a member of the Planning Board as required by N.J.S.A. 40:56A shall be a Class IV Planning Board member unless there are among the Class IV regular or alternate members of the Planning Board both a member of the Zoning Board of Adjustment and a member of the Board of Education, in which case the member of the Environmental Commission shall be deemed to be the Class II member of the Planning Board.
Class IV alternate members: two other citizens of the municipality to be appointed by the governing body. Alternate members shall meet the qualifications of Class IV regular members and shall be designated by the governing body at the time of their appointment as "Alternate No. 1" and "Alternate No. 2."
The term of the member composing Class I shall correspond with his official tenure. The terms of the members composing Class II and Class III shall be for one year or terminate at the completion of their respective terms of office, whichever occurs first, except for a Class II member who is also a member of the Environmental Commission. The term of a Class II or Class IV member who is also a member of the Environmental Commission shall be for three years or terminate at the completion of term of office as a member of the Environmental Commission, whichever comes first.
The term of a Class IV member who is also a member of the Zoning Board of Adjustment or the Board of Education shall terminate whenever he is no longer a member of such other body or at the completion of his Class IV term, whichever comes first.
The terms of Class IV regular members first appointed pursuant to this chapter shall be so determined that to the greatest practicable extent the expiration of such term shall be evenly distributed over the first four years after their appointment, provided that the initial term shall not exceed four years. Thereafter, the term of each Class IV regular member shall be four years.
The terms of the Class IV alternate members shall be two years, except that the terms of the alternate members shall be such that the term of not more than one alternate member shall expire in any one year; provided, however, that in no instance shall the terms of the alternate members first appointed exceed two years.
Alternate members may participate in discussions of the proceedings but may not vote, except in the absence or disqualification of a regular member of any class. A vote shall not be delayed in order that a regular member may vote instead of an alternate member. In the event that a choice must be made as to which alternate member is to vote, Alternate No. 1 shall vote.
If a vacancy of any class shall occur otherwise than by expiration of term, it shall be filled by appointment as above provided for the unexpired term. Any member other than a Class I member may be removed by the governing body for cause, but only after public hearing and other requested procedural due process protection.
Yearly, the Planning Board shall organize by selecting from among its Class IV regular members a Chairman and a Vice Chairman. The Board shall also select a Secretary who may or may not be a member of the Board or a municipal employee.
The governing body shall make provisions in its budget and appropriate funds for the expenses of the Planning Board.
The office of Planning Board Attorney is created. The Planning Board may annually appoint to such office and fix compensation or rate of compensation of an attorney at law of New Jersey other than the Municipal Attorney.
The Planning Board may also employ or contract for and fix the compensation of such experts and other staff and services as it may deem necessary. The Board, however, shall not authorize expenditures which exceed, exclusive of gifts or grants, the amount appropriated by the governing body for its use.
Make, adopt and from time to time amend a Master Plan for the physical development of the Township, including any areas outside its boundaries which, in the Board's judgment, bear essential relation to the planning of the Township.
Review and either approve or deny subdivision and site plan and conditional use applications.
Participate in the preparation and review of programs or plans required by state or federal law or regulation.
Assemble data on a continuing basis as part of a continuous planning process.
Annually, prepare a program of municipal capital improvements projects projected over a term of six years and amendments thereto and recommend same to the governing body.
Consider and make report to the governing body within 35 days after referral as to any proposed development regulations submitted to it and also pass upon other matters specifically referred to the Planning Board by the governing body.
Whenever the proposed development requires approval of a subdivision, site plan or conditional use, but not a use variance, the Planning Board, in lieu of the Board of Adjustment and to the same extent and subject to the same restrictions as such Board, shall receive, review and act upon applications for hardship variances and applications for special permits. The developer may elect to submit a separate application requesting approval of the hardship variance or special permit and a subsequent application for any required approval of a subdivision, site plan or conditional use. The separate approval of the hardship variance or special permit shall be conditioned upon grant of all required subsequent approvals by the Planning Board. No such separate approval shall be granted unless the approval can be granted without substantial detriment to the public good and without substantial impairment of the intent and purpose of the zone plan and Zoning Ordinance.
Variances pursuant to § 142-66C of this chapter.
Direction pursuant to § 142-66C(1) of this chapter for issuance of a permit for a building or structure in the bed of a mapped street or public drainageway, flood control basin or public area.
Direction pursuant to § 142-66C(2) of this chapter for issuance of a permit for a building or structure on a lot not abutting a street.
Conflicts of interest. No member of the Planning Board or Zoning Board of Adjustment shall act on any matter in which he has either directly or indirectly any personal or financial interest. Whenever any such member shall disqualify himself from acting on a particular matter, he shall not continue to sit with the Board on the hearing of such matter nor participate in any discussion or decision relating thereto.
Meetings of both the Planning Board and Zoning Board of Adjustment shall be scheduled no less often than once a month, and any meeting so scheduled shall be held as scheduled unless canceled for lack of applications for development to process.
Special meetings may be provided for at the call of the Chairman or on the request of any two Board members, which meetings shall be held on notice to the Board's members and the public in accordance with all applicable legal requirements.
No action except adjournments shall be taken at any meeting without a quorum being present. All actions shall be taken by a majority of members present at such meeting, except as otherwise provided in this chapter. Failure of a motion to receive the number of votes required to approve an application for development pursuant to the exceptional vote requirements of § 142-66A(4) or C(1) shall be deemed an action denying the application.
All actions shall be taken by majority vote of the members of the Board at the meeting except as otherwise required by a provision of N.J.S.A. 40:55D-1 et seq. A member of the Board who was absent for one or more of the meetings at which a hearing was held shall be eligible to vote on the matter upon which the hearing was conducted, notwithstanding his absence from one or more of the meetings; provided, however, that such Board member has available to him the transcript of all the hearings from which he was absent and certifies in writing to the Board that he has read such transcript or listened to such recording.
All meetings shall be open to the public. Notice of all such meetings shall be given in accordance with the requirements of the Open Public Meetings Act, Chapter 231 of the Laws of New Jersey 1975.
Minutes of every regular or special meeting shall be kept and shall include the names of the persons appearing and addressing the Planning Board or the Zoning Board of Adjustment and of the persons appearing by attorney, the action taken by the Planning or Zoning Board, the findings, if any, made by it and reasons therefor. The minutes shall thereafter be made available for public inspection during the normal business hours at the office of the Municipal Clerk. Any interested party shall have the right to compel production of the minutes for use as evidence in any legal proceedings concerning the subject matter of such minutes.
A verbatim recording shall be made of every hearing. The recording of the proceedings shall be made either by stenographer or mechanical or electronic means. The municipality shall furnish a transcript or duplicate recording in lieu thereof on request to any interested party at his expense. In the case of an application for a use variance, a court reporter must also be provided by the applicant. If a transcript of the proceedings is made, a copy of such transcript shall be furnished to the municipality at no cost.
The Planning Board or Zoning Board of Adjustment, as the case may be, shall hold a hearing on each application for development. Each Board shall make the rules governing such hearings.
Any maps and documents for which approval is sought at a hearing shall be on file and available for public inspection at least 10 days before the date of the hearing during normal business hours in the office of the Municipal Clerk. The applicant may produce other documents, records or testimony at the hearing to substantiate or clarify or supplement the previously filed maps and documents.
The officer presiding at the hearing, or such person as he may designate, shall have power to administer oaths and issue subpoenas to compel the attendance of witnesses and the production of relevant evidence, including witnesses and documents presented by the parties, and the provisions of the County and Municipal Investigations Law, P.L. 1953, c. 38 (N.J.S.A. 2A:67A-1 et seq.) shall apply.
The testimony of all witnesses relating to an application for development shall be taken under oath or affirmation by the presiding officer, and the right of cross-examination shall be permitted to all interested parties through their attorneys, if represented, or directly, if not represented, subject to the discretion of the presiding officer and to reasonable limitations as to time and number of witnesses.
Technical rules of evidence shall not be applicable to the hearing, but the Board may exclude irrelevant, immaterial or unduly repetitious evidence.
Any corporation whose application is the subject of a hearing shall be represented by an attorney at law of New Jersey.
Public notice of a hearing.
Any request for a variance.
Any request for conditional use approval.
Any request for the issuance of a permit to build within the bed of a mapped street or public drainageway or on a lot not abutting a street. See § 142-66C(1) and (2).
Any request for site plan approval involving one or more of the aforesaid elements.
Any request for preliminary subdivision approval.
By publication in the official newspaper of the municipality, if there is one, or in a newspaper of general circulation in the municipality.
To all owners of real property, as shown on the current tax duplicate, located in the state and within 200 feet in all directions of the property which is the subject of the hearing, provided that this requirement shall be deemed satisfied by notice to the condominium association, in the case of any unit owner whose unit has a unit above or below it, or the horizontal property regime, in the case of any co-owner whose apartment has an apartment above or below it. Notice shall be given by serving a copy on the property owner, as shown on the current tax duplicate, or his agent in charge of the property, or by mailing a copy thereof to the property owner at his address as shown on the current tax duplicate. It is not required that a return receipt be obtained. Notice is deemed complete upon mailing (N.J.S.A. 40:55D-14).
Notice to a partnership owner may be made by service upon any partner; notice to a corporate owner may be made by service upon its president, vice president, secretary or other person authorized by appointment or by law to accept service on behalf of the corporation. Notice to a condominium association, horizontal property regime, community trust or homeowners' association, because of its ownership of common elements or areas located within 200 feet of the property which is subject of the hearing, may be made in the same manner as to a corporation without further notice to unit owners, co-owners or homeowners on account of such common elements or areas.
To the Clerk of any adjoining municipality or municipalities when the property involved is located within 200 feet of the adjoining municipality or municipalities, which notice shall be given by personal service or certified mail.
To the County Planning Board when the application for development involves property adjacent to an existing county road or proposed road shown on the County Official Map or the County Master Plan or adjoins other county land.
To the Commissioner of Transportation of the State of New Jersey when the property abuts a state highway.
To the Director of the Division of State and Regional Planning in the Department of Community Affairs when the hearing involves an application or development of property which exceeds 150 acres or 500 dwelling units, in which case the notice shall include a copy of any maps or documents required to be on file with the Municipal Clerk.
To any other agency granted statutory authority to review development applications and proposals, including but not limited to the Delaware and Raritan Canal Commission.
Upon the written request of an applicant, the administrative officer shall, within seven days, make and certify a list from current tax duplicates of names and addresses of owners within the Township to whom the applicant is required to give notice. The applicant shall be charged $0.25 per name or $10, whichever amount is greater, for the list and shall be entitled to rely upon the information contained in such list, and failure to give notice to any owner not on the list shall not invalidate any hearing or proceeding. Additionally, the applicant shall be responsible for giving proper notice to all property owners, pursuant to Subsection E(2)(b) above, who do not reside within the Township.
The applicant shall file an affidavit or proof of service or publication with the Planning Board or Zoning Board of Adjustment, as the case may be.
The notice shall state the date, time and place of the hearing; the nature of the matters to be considered; an identification of the property proposed for development by street address, if any, or by reference to lot and block numbers as shown on the current tax duplicate in the Municipal Tax Assessor's office; and the location and times at which any maps or documents for which approval is sought are available for inspection.
A memorializing resolution adopted at a meeting held not later than 45 days after the date of the meeting at which the municipal agency voted to grant or deny approval. Only the members of the municipal agency who voted for the action taken may vote on the memorializing resolution, and the vote of a majority of such members present at the meeting at which the resolution is presented for adoption shall be sufficient to adopt the resolution. An action resulting from the failure of a motion to approve an application pursuant to § 142-66A(1) shall be memorialized by resolution as provided above, with those members previously voting for and against the motion for approval being the members eligible to vote on the memorializing resolution. The vote on any such resolution shall be deemed to be a memorialization of the action of the municipal agency and not to be an action of the municipal agency; however, the date of the adoption of the resolution shall constitute the date of the decision for the purpose of the mailings, filings and publications required by § 142-72.
Any interested party may appeal to the governing body any final decision of the Board of Adjustment approving an application for a use variance.
Such appeal shall be made within 10 days after the date of publication of the decision pursuant to § 142-72 by serving upon the Municipal Clerk personally or by certified mail a notice of appeal specifying the grounds thereof and the name and address of the appellant and, if represented, his attorney. A copy of such notice shall also be filed by the appellant with the Board of Adjustment. The notice served upon the Municipal Clerk shall be accompanied by a payment to the municipality of a fee of $50.
An appeal to the governing body shall stay all proceedings in furtherance of the action in respect to which the decision appealed from was made unless the Board of Adjustment certifies to the governing body, after the notice of appeal has been filed with such board, that by reason of facts stated in the certificate a stay would, in the Board's opinion, cause imminent peril to life or property; and in such a case, proceedings shall not be stayed other than by order of the superior court on application upon notice to such board and on good cause shown.
An appeal shall be decided by the governing body only upon the record established before the Board of Adjustment.
The appellant shall, within five days of service of the notice of appeal pursuant to Subsection B, arrange for and provide payment for a transcript pursuant to § 142-70C for use by the governing body or, within 35 days of service of the notice of appeal, submit a transcript as otherwise arranged to the Municipal Clerk; otherwise, the governing body, on its own motion or on motion of any person entitled to notice of the Board of Adjustment's decision pursuant to § 142-72, after hearing upon at least 10 days' written notice to the appellant by the moving party, may dismiss the appeal.
Notice of the meeting to review the record below shall be given by the governing body by personal service or certified mail to the appellant, to those entitled to notice of the Board of Adjustment's decision pursuant to § 142-72 and to the Board of Adjustment, at least 10 days prior to the date of the meeting.
The governing body may affirm with or without the imposition of conditions, reverse or remand the final decision appealed from, and the affirmative vote of a majority of the full authorized membership of the governing body shall be necessary to reverse, remand or affirm, with or without conditions, the same.
A copy of the decision shall be mailed to the applicant or appellant, or, if represented, then to his attorney, without charge and, for a reasonable charge, to any interested party who has requested it, not later than 10 days after the date of the decision.
A brief notice of every final decision shall be published in the official newspaper of the Township. Such publications shall be arranged by the administrative officer without separate charge to the applicant. The notice shall be sent to the official newspaper for publication within 10 days of the date of any such decision.
A copy of the decision and all submitted documents of record shall be filed with the Municipal Clerk.


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'Fred' Movie Update: Which 'Cameo Name' is Playing Dad?
A little off topic, but the concept of a whole 90-minute feature of Fred Figglehorn in the works is still sinking in. That, and apparently it was quite the hot topic lately. For those that missed it, we broke the news last month that there is in fact a Fred movie in the works starring none other than Lucas Cruikshank as the titular high-pitched YouTube star.
According to the latest casting notices, Cruikshank is indeed attached, though the rest of the roles appear to be wide open. With shooting beginning November 20, they are looking to lock these up soon. For some reason they are looking for "cameo names only" to play Fred's father. We're thinking Jim Carrey.
[FRED'S DAD] Fred's father, he's a wildly eccentric character who encourages his son to follow his bliss and go after the girl of his dreams. Seemingly unfazed by his nightmarish marriage to a real mess of a woman, he's relentlessly upbeat at all times…LEAD (11) Please submit cameo names only.
They are also casting a 6 year-old version of Fred, which already is making us shutter. Wait, isn't Fred already a fictional 6-year old? Anyway it looks like he doesn't actually have any lines, as that would probably break the speakers.


Over the years there have been initiatives and incentives to introduce Scottish youngsters to their Celtic Heritage even here in Dunoon there have been many events to give "awareness" in all aspects of the Celtic Heritage and before it closed for refurbishment the Dunoon Burgh Hall had been involved through many events and workshops to promote Celtic Heritage through music, dance, drama workshops and performance with youth participation.
One of Scotland's best kept secrets in educating and promoting Celtic Culture is the Celtic Connections Educational Programme which will for Celtic Connections 2017 bring over 11, 000 children from across Scotland to take part in Celtic Connections 2017 Education Programme with Free morning concerts for schools by leading Scottish and international musicians, and workshops in schools led by Celtic artists, giving pupils invaluable opportunities to learn about, take part in and enjoy traditional music a very important part of Scottish culture.
Since it began in 1998 the annual Celtic Connections Education Programme has reached more than 200,000 children across the country.
During this time school parties have travelled to Glasgow from throughout Scotland to attend schools concerts, including Argyll and Bute, Dumfries and Galloway and Fife and for many of the children this is their first experience of live music in a professional venue.


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A change has gone into effect regarding the viewability of free agent bids.
The "Claim Free Agent" page...the page where you enter a bid on a free agent...will no longer display the bid amounts for other teams. The only bid amount you are able to see is your own team's.
As an example, if you are one of 3 teams that have placed a bid on a player, those three teams will be listed on the player's "Claim Free Agent" page in alphabetical order. But the only team that will have a bid amount displayed is your own.
If there are any questions, please post them in the forum chat board, or reach out to a community manager.
Thanks and enjoy the game.
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Township 13S, Range 27E, Section 1.
Residential property owned by CRUZ JOSE JR + JOSE CRUZ SR +.
Residential property owned by BROCKINGTON VERNOLA.
Residential property owned by WILSON CHRISTINE.
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Miscellaneous property owned by WELDON BILLY R + SHINDA L H/W.
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How much would it actually cost to get in Formula One these days? We all see the reports of how much some drivers, allegedly, bring as backing once they're on the verge of becoming a Formula One driver.
And for some we see a number alongside their name for the rest of their career. But what's hardly ever talked about is how much they've already spent before making it to their dream destination.
We, the armchair or keyboard warriors, are quick to start arguments for and against drivers because we like or dislike them, but the fact is that we don't see half the struggles they had to overcome. It starts in the lowest of the race classes. In the various karting series costs quickly total $1 million to do it properly! If you can advance to the next levels, Formula 4, Formula BMW or Formula Renault, one single season costs about $365,000.
Most of the talented guys out there can advance through these classes in their first year, but once in Formula 3 they come up against drivers who are as good or better than them, perhaps for the first time. So the first season costs around $680,000. Let's say, in a pretty ideal life, you only need two seasons in F3. Bringing the F3 total to $1.36 million. That's a total of $2.77 million already! And you have to be an exceptional talent for that. Let's say most will need $3 to $3.5 million to advance to the same stage. And the higher classes of racing still have to come.
If you "graduate" to GP2 or the world series, it is even more expensive. GP2 is easily $1.5 million for one season. So let's say you are that talent that comes in and wins the trophy, making F1 teams interested in you, you're already down $5 million. And, as we established by now, F1 teams want some dough too. We'll be leaving the Maldonado and Stroll figures out of this, because they're the exception not the rule.
That's where the bigger teams come in. Or at least their training schemes, which have various names. Ferrari has its Young Driver Academy, Red Bull does it under the name of Red Bull Junior team and McLaren calls it the McLaren Performance Academy. And it's said that Mercedes is looking to restart its youth programme from the late 80's and early 90's. Of course it's not that Mercedes doesn't have its ways of getting youth to where they want them: look at Werhlein and Ocon as an example.
And here's the thing, the support doesn't come from the main team alone. No, many young drivers have commented that even when they were offered a place in an academy, or when they already were committed to one, they had to bring in money. Whether it is family money like Daniel Ricciardo, who's dad is Joe Ricciardo, founder 'Ricciardo Earthmoving'. And Carlos Sainz Jr, who's dad we all know. Or Sebastian Vettel, who comes from a family which wasn't considered rich and had to find sponsors for their racing son in order to be able to give him an opportunity. How else would you call it if a 13 year old drives around with a Wodka brand on his overalls? Or Räikkönen's dad working multiple shifts in order to let his two sons race, instead of building a bathroom inside(!) the family home.
An other example is Sergio Perez, considered by most as a good driver. But what's more important is that he is a good driver who also brings $15 million to the table. Besides that he has something more to offer, something which can be of a greater value to some of the teams: namely the Mexican market. I believe this was a big reason why McLaren decided to give him a drive and not Nico Hülkenberg. I know that there are many who consider Perez to be much better than the Hulk, but I'm not one of them. I'm a Hülkenberg fan, I've got to be honest about that. His Le Mans win alone deserves massive respect, but I'm not here to discuss that. This is about F1, so I'll be talking about those numbers.
So why did Perez get a drive at McLaren? And why is Perez a member of the Ferrari young driver academy? Does his ($15 million) backing have something to do with it? Does the possibility he brings to advertise in Mexico give him the upper hand? Of course there is the fact that the Hulk is a giant, in terms of height, something designers and teams don't like (remember Gavin from part one?). But is that the only thing that stops top teams from hiring him? We now know that Renault have hired Nico, but they're not a top team at this moment. And after the shock retirement of the other Nico, we had reports suggesting Mercedes tried to buy his contract from Renault. So he might have missed a chance there, (story of his F1 life?) but that was impossible to foresee. A friend suggested he might be another Chris Amon.
So is the fight of the pay-drivers v. the fans a justified one? As I see it it all comes down to the struggle of teams trying to survive. Because that's what it is. Money is a good servant but a bad master. And while I do find the main problem lies with F1 itself and the way it distributes money to it's contenders, it doesn't make the problem go away. I can think of it what I will, and so can you, but the fact remains; teams need money!
Figures suggest a corporation like Red Bull Racing had a budget, in 2015, of $490 million. And that number doesn't guarantee them a thing. Most of us remember how Toyota came in to the sport, out-spending everyone, even buying Schumacher! -The wrong one of course but hey, can't expect everyone to research everything properly.- They went on throwing big bucks at the whole project for a couple of years only to realise that doesn't guarantee success.
But then there are teams like Manor today. A budget of $87 million, if they're lucky, and really struggling to survive.-Sadly today the news came that Manor won't be able to keep competing in F1. But I'll keep all of this in because it only gives more strength to my argument.- Of course they'll welcome a driver who brings a massive bundle of cash with him. If a Maldonado can bring half of their budget the choice is obvious! In essence that's what we saw them do when they agreed to let Rio Haryanto drive for them, after a deal had been made for $16.35 million. The only reason Pastor Maldonado isn't driving for them is that it seems he lost his big-shot backers, or at least the ones who made him king of the pay-drivers. Plus there is the incidental cost he brought with him when he drove under his alter ego "Crashtor".
For some teams paydrivers equal survival. It's as simple as that.
If you missed part one go check it out!
Stay tuned, this will come to a conclusion tomorrow!
As I wrote in the first part – I'll comment when all three parts have been posted. There is however one huge error I will point out. Ferrari's total revenue that you quote at $438M. That number is pretty much correct for their listed sponsors and partners.It doesn't include Philip Morris who as an unlisted sponsor shellout over $100M a year to be associated with Ferrari. Ferrari's real revenue is probably in the $550M range.
I based myself on Business Book GP'S list.
Where do you fit frijns in this story?
Red Bull comes in part 3. But I have to say I didn't use frijns example. It completely slipped my mind.


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Report of the Commission on the Status of People with Disabilities
A Strategy for Equality
The 1996 Report of the Commission on the Status of People with Disabilities, entitled A Strategy for Equality, was a milestone. The Commission's Report was the outcome of a major consultative process involving people with disabilities. Among other results, the Commission's report let to the Government policy, announced in 2000, and given legal effect in the 2005 Disability Act, to oblige mainstream public services to include people with disabilities.
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Q: Listing Files On Directory On a TListView I'm building a program that needs to on Form_Create, populate a TListView called FileList, the directory that I want to populate is where the compiled program is + \Files, as I never used a TListView I want to know how to do this?

A: If you drop a TImagelist on the form with two images in (one fore files and on for directories), then assign the TImagelist to the TListviews LargeImages property, you can use the below code.
procedure TForm2.Button1Click(Sender: TObject);
    var li:TListItem;
    SR: TSearchRec;
begin
    FileList.Items.BeginUpdate;
    try
        FileList.Items.Clear;

        FindFirst(ExtractFilePath(Application.ExeName) +'*.*', faAnyFile, SR);
        try
            repeat
                li :=  FileList.Items.Add;
                li.Caption := SR.Name;

                if ((SR.Attr and faDirectory) <> 0)  then li.ImageIndex := 1
                else li.ImageIndex := 0;

            until (FindNext(SR) <> 0);
        finally
            FindClose(SR);
        end;
    finally
        FileList.Items.EndUpdate;
    end;
end;

You can then build on this by adding different images to the TImageList for different file types, and using ExtractFileExt(SR.Name) to get the files extension
if ((SR.Attr and faDirectory) <> 0)  then li.ImageIndex := 1
else if lowercase(ExtractFileExt(SR.Name)) = '.png' then li.ImageIndex := 2
else if lowercase(ExtractFileExt(SR.Name)) = '.pdf' then li.ImageIndex := 3
else li.ImageIndex := 0;

A: There are multiple parts to your question. I'll provide an overview here. If you need help on any particular step, please post a more specific follow-up question.

*

*Determine what "where the compiled program is" refers to.
To get the full path of the EXE file, call ParamStr(0). To remove the EXE file name from that string, so you have just the directory portion, call ExtractFilePath. Make sure it ends with a backslash (IncludeTrailingPathDelimiter) and then append your "Files" directory.

*Get a list of files.
Use FindFirst and FindNext to make a loop that looks at all the files. The names will include the "." and ".." relative directory names, so you may wish to exclude them. Beware that the files are not enumerated in any particular order. If you need them sorted alphabetically, for instance, you'll need to do that yourself. (They may appear to be in alphabetical order in your tests, but that won't always be true.)
var
  Rec: TSearchRec;
begin
  if FindFirst(path + '\*', faAnyFile, Rec) = 0 then try
    repeat
      if (Rec.Name = '.') or (Rec.Name = '..') then
        continue;
      if (Rec.Attr and faVolumeID) = faVolumeID then
        continue; // nothing useful to do with volume IDs
      if (Rec.Attr and faHidden) = faHidden then
        continue; // honor the OS "hidden" setting
      if (Rec.Attr and faDirectory) = faDirectory then
        ; // This is a directory. Might want to do something special.
      DoSomethingWithFile(Rec.Name);
    until FindNext(Rec) <> 0;
  finally
    SysUtils.FindClose(Rec);
  end;
end;

*Add nodes to the control to represent the files.
You might wish to do this in the hypothetical DoSomethingWithFile function I mentioned above. Use the list view's Items property to do things with the items, such as add new ones.
var
  Item: TListItem;
begin
  Item := ListView.Items.Add;
  Item.Caption := FileName;
end;

TListItem has additional properties; check the documentation for details. The SubItems property is useful if you're showing the list view in "report" mode, where there can be multiple columns for a single node.

*Associate images with the items.
Nodes' images in a list view come from the associated image lists, LargeImages and SmallImages. They refer to one or more TImageList components on your form. Put your icon images there, and then assign the items' ImageIndex properties to the corresponding numbers.
Depending on how elaborate you want your program to be, you may wish to use Delphi's TShellListView control instead of doing all the above work yourself.

A: You'll need to show the images when drawing the rows.
This should give you an idea:
http://www.delphidabbler.com/articles?article=16
http://delphi.about.com/od/delphitips2008/qt/lv_checkbox_bmp.htm
The only difference is that you'll draw an icon/image.
Here you learn how to do it in a grid: http://delphi.about.com/library/weekly/aa032205a.htm
So from both you can get the idea.


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Q: How can access the list of contacts of yahoo mail through Java program?
Possible Duplicate:
Taking contact list from hotmail gmail yahoo in java?

I want to access the list of all contact of yahoo mail id through java program.
if you have any idea then plz give me your suggestion for that.
thanks
Shailendra singh

A: You want the Yahoo! Contacts API for that.  Yahoo don't provide specific Java examples for the Contacts API, but they have a Java Developer Center with lots of Java/Yahoo resources.


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Q: How do I enforce a global column-type using excel_sheet? I am importing several datasets that needs to be bind_rows() afterwards. For this reason, I would like set a global column type for every column of the tbl_df that results from running excel_sheet() function.
The reason is that different column types retrieve errors when I bind_rows() them.
I was trying read_excel("myExcel.xlsx", sheet=1, col_types = 'text') assuming that text would have been recycled, but I got an error message saying read_excel("survey.xlsx", sheet=1, col_types = 'text').

A: My solution has been to mutate after import:
res.df <- import.df %>% mutate(col.name = as.character(col.name))

Its not the most elegant, as it uses a second operation after the import. But it has worked for me.


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Q&A with Rachel Devlin
Rachel Devlin is the author of the new book A Girl Stands at the Door: The Generation of Young Women Who Desegregated America's Schools. She also has written the book Relative Intimacy. She is an associate professor of history at Rutgers University, and she lives in Brooklyn.
Q: In your book, you ask, "Why, then, did so many young women and girls file school desegregation lawsuits and volunteer to desegregate schools?" Why do you think that was the case?
A: There's the moment in which you volunteer, and then there's following through. I thought about this for many years. First, you have to have the commitment, to see yourself in a white school and believe that being in a white school has meaning.
Girls believed this pretty much uniformly. Young men saw the desegregation of public spaces, of voting, of pools, of libraries, as important, and there were some young men in the '60s who desegregated schools, but as a group, they were less sure this was the next step.
What helped girls and young women to see that was they could imagine themselves in these spaces. You can expect hostility, but it's a mysterious process. Girls had developed skills for dealing with white people—on the streets where there was a great deal of scrutiny. They were familiar with that.
And there was the [experience] of going to work with their mothers inside white homes. In the mid-century South it was very hard to find anybody who didn't spend time in a white home.
They watched their mothers being verbally combative in social spaces. There was a long history back to the 19th century of verbal conflict between black women and white women, and a sense of, I can confront this hostility and know how to respond.
The other component is the adults expected them to do this work. They had trained their daughters to be personable and pleasant. Some middle-class girls knew how to act in polite company—a lot of them saw what they were doing as a form of acting. All African Americans knew what to do in a dangerous situation with whites, but with a girl it was a matter of degree.
Q: How did you research this book, and what did you find that especially surprised you?
A: The book project started when I was working on my first book, about white adolescent girls in the 1950s. I wanted to compare the way they were treated in the press with the way black girls were treated in the black press…
I kept finding, when I was looking at desegregation attempts, that all the stories were about girls. I wondered is this an editorial choice, or does it reflect a reality no one's talked about?
I went to the Library of Congress and spent about a year going through the litigation about schools. After World War II people were very active with pickets, and suits were being filed right and left.
I found in the late 1940s over a dozen desegregation cases filed where parents and daughters, junior high and high school students, were attempting to enroll in white schools, and then were filing lawsuits.
I was surprised that none of these cases had been written about. That's what got me started. For a while, I thought somebody must have written about this.
The final thing getting the project going was that I called Marguerite Carr, who filed a desegregation lawsuit in D.C. in 1947, and no one had interviewed her. I thought, no one has talked to these women.
Q: In your acknowledgments, you note that cold-calling people for interviews was difficult for you. In general, how did people respond to your questions, and were they usually willing to speak with you about their experiences?
A: Because I was living in New Orleans at the time, and most of the people were living in the South, I offered to go to them. I was reaching out to women who had desegregated, from 1947 to 1965. These were highly successful people, and a lot of them were really busy. Finding time to talk to me was difficult.
They [initially] didn't know who I was, even though I was a college professor calling from Tulane. Ultimately, these women were very willing to talk. They shared generously; they were very frank.
Interviewing them was the must humbling and astonishing experience of my life. I'd stumble out of their homes and sit in my car trying to absorb [what they'd said]—the violence [they encountered], the sacrifices they made were so profound for young people.
Shockingly few were hostile and hung up on me. One made a date with me and cancelled, saying, I can't think about this. Overall, most hadn't been interviewed and wanted to get their story on the record.
Q: How would you describe the legacy of these young women today?
A: I've just scratched the surface. I made it a national story on purpose—I wanted to make connections across localities that spoke to gender. All the women I spoke to went on to have very successful careers, as the "first" [to accomplish something].
I would say that many of those who tore down walls in professions had desegregated first in the 1960s. Many desegregated neighborhoods as one of the first black families living in white neighborhoods. These women continued to insist on their place in the broader society.
After these firsts went into these schools, the makeup of the student body has grown—their effect is incalculable. What was seen as impossible to achieve is now seen as central to the mission of the school.
A: My next project is on interracial rape and the adoption of biracial children. Recently Danielle McGuire has rewritten the history of rape in the civil rights era in her book At the Dark End of the Street. McGuire details how black women organized and protested against sexual violence, and how these experiences shaped the civil rights movement.
In the interviews I did for my book, histories of rape came up fairly often, but usually in the context of long held secrets and quiet adoptions.
I will be looking at the painful histories of interracial rape that were often long buried in family histories--only to reemerge when a white family member showed up, or the truth of a child's background suddenly emerged. I will be thinking about how families both keep--and divulge--secrets about sexual violence.
This is difficult stuff and, needless to say, it will take a lot of research, time and thought to think through this kind of evidence.
A: The children who filed desegregation lawsuits with their parents really had a lot of agency. Too often, people think of children as being pawns, and this isn't the case. Look at the teen activists from Florida—it helps us understand how important their work was. So many did that [work] against the wishes of their parents. Teenagers are historical actors.
It became clear to me that there is a standard way most history professors teach a big survey course—they teach the civil rights movement through charismatic male leaders. I want desegregation to be taught where you see black women's names.
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My husband's uncle just celebrated a milestone, his 60th birthday. He is a poet and asked everyone to share their favorite poem. At first I thought, no problem, I can do this... but then I remembered, I don't read poetry. I don't have any favorite poems. The closest I come is quotes from Pinterest or poems by Shel Silverstein from my childhood. My sister sometimes would recite, "One Sister for Sale" as we were walking through VERY public places. This trip down memory lane reminded me that I, in fact, have written a couple poems. Mainly when I was a teenager, and filled with angst. But one snuck out unexpectedly a few years ago when I was in Kenya. So I read that one. I read it with clammy hands and a heart that nearly beat out of my chest.
Let me set the scene. I went to Kenya in September of 2015 to work alongside the grass roots community based organization Jitokeze Wamama Wafrika that seeks to improve food and income security.
The first week we were in Kapenguria where the sewing school is located. Our days were long, very busy, and filled with human interaction. The three of us who went suffered from major jet lag and culture shock, but we were lucky the weather was mild!
This little cutie is Nicole and she is wearing one of the patterns the wonen learned while we were there.
The second week we went into the low lands of Lomut where we visited the farms Jitokeze is working with.
We weren't so lucky with the weather. It was dry and hot. Being cooped up with the same people was beginning to wear on me. There was no alone time, I couldn't sleep because it was too hot, and to top it off, I started my period.
I am not a poet, I'm not even a writer, and yet I have a blog and I have written a poem. It's a good reminder not to let ourselves get boxed into what we think we are or are not, can or can't do.
Beautiful and inspiring. Thank you for sharing your vulnerability!


HELLO…………. R – a – n – d – o – m ……………ReAdErS !!!
1. We finally took our daughter to the ZOO. After two years of promising…WE FINALLY DID IT!! Her birthday is Aug 24 so we figured what better than to have an early birthday/last weekend before school ZOO VISIT!!
HAPPY AND WORE OUT KIDS!
3. Took some good pics of my little mister this past week too…Here is one of my fav's (and if you didn't see click here — Snapshot Saturday for mine and click the link at the top for Vicki's trust me YOU WILL want to see hers!!) I did do a part two of Saturday Snapshot.
4. Did you know that Envy is a BAD four letter word!!
6. My husband makes the best manwich….he puts steak and puts it in the meat grinder after he has smoked it on the grill!!!!!! YUMMO!!!
7. My mom is coming to town on Thurs. I am very excited …she makes the best food ever!!! AND she will be here for Sarah's birthday!!
~ lol..I think that quote is funny!!!
or will you let it pass?
That's it for this week…Have a great Tuesday!!
Cute, cute pics! :0) You always post the "best" quotes!
Yes, school is here again….and I am not looking forward to getting up early!! ugh.
And my baby starts kindergarten…..
Where, oh where, has the time gone….


Lay the sliced of bread on a baking sheet. (I lined my baking sheet with foil for easy clean up).
Brush each side of each slice with a little bit of melted butter.
Once the oven is preheated, toast the sliced of bread in the oven for about 2 minutes. Flip the bread and toast the other side for about 2 minutes. Watch the bread and make sure it doesn\'t burn.
Remove the bread from the oven and lay out three of the slices. Top them with a layer of mustard, 2 slices of cheese, ham, another 2 slices of cheese and a top slice of bread.
Cut each sandwich into 4 pieces.
Place the pieces back onto the baking sheet.
In a sauce pan, melt 2 tablespoons of butter. Add the flour and whisk until smooth and golden colored.
Slowly whisk in the milk and raise the heat just a little and whisk until the sauce starts to thicken.
Once it starts to thicken, remove it from the heat and add the Parmesan cheese. Whisk until the cheese melts.
Put the tray into the oven for about 6 minutes. Turn the broiler on and broil the tops for about 4 minutes or until the cheese it hot and bubbly. Don\'t let the bread burn!


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Lorne Michaels pressed 'Saturday Night Live' writers to go easy on Trump, says Taran Killam
Russia isn't the only one responsible for helping Donald Trump get elected.
By Adam Rosenberg on October 10, 2018
Former Saturday Night Live performer Taran Killam Credit: Emma McIntyre/Getty Images For dcp
> Entertainment > TV Shows
Today in "the media helped propel Donald Trump's rise to power," an anecdote from the Saturday Night Live stage.
Series creator Lorne Michaels apparently pressed SNL writers to soften their handling of then-candidate Trump during his presidential run. The revelation comes from Taran Killam, a six-season veteran of the show who left in 2016.
SEE ALSO: Pete Davidson dissects Kanye West's nonsensical 'SNL' rant
"Lorne was being so specific about what we could and couldn't say about him," Killam said during a recent appearance on the I Was There Too podcast(Opens in a new tab).
"Lorne's like, 'It'll be too old news by then, and you know, you don't want to vilify him… I know him, I've seen him around at parties for years and years, and he just says whatever it is he's thinking, and that's his thing. But… you have to find a way in that makes him likable.'"
According to Killam, Michaels exerted pressure because he wanted to book the future U.S. president as a guest host. That did end up happening, in November 2015, just a few months after Trump formally announced his candidacy.
That's all changed in the years since, of course. SNL (in)famously skewers Trump and his administration/the entire broken GOP establishment for their boneheadedness. The series is an on-again/off-again favorite target of Trump's bully pulpit on Twitter.
So there's a fun anecdote to chew on as the countdown to 2018's midterm elections ticks below the one-month mark! GET REGISTERED(Opens in a new tab) AND GO VOTE(Opens in a new tab).
[h/t TV Line(Opens in a new tab)]
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Adam Rosenberg
Adam Rosenberg is a Senior Games Reporter for Mashable, where he plays all the games. Every single one. From AAA blockbusters to indie darlings to mobile favorites and browser-based oddities, he consumes as much as he can, whenever he can.Adam brings more than a decade of experience working in the space to the Mashable Games team. He previously headed up all games coverage at Digital Trends, and prior to that was a long-time, full-time freelancer, writing for a diverse lineup of outlets that includes Rolling Stone, MTV, G4, Joystiq, IGN, Official Xbox Magazine, EGM, 1UP, UGO and others.Born and raised in the beautiful suburbs of New York, Adam has spent his life in and around the city. He's a New York University graduate with a double major in Journalism and Cinema Studios. He's also a certified audio engineer. Currently, Adam resides in Crown Heights with his dog and his partner's two cats. He's a lover of fine food, adorable animals, video games, all things geeky and shiny gadgets.