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The lottery is an ancient and popular form of gambling in the United States. These days, the most popular game is Mega Millions. It is available almost everywhere. Although the odds of winning it are low, it is not impossible. A single jackpot can surpass a billion dollars.
There are many kinds of lotteries to choose from. Some offer instant games, while others require players to fill out a ticket form. Others allow players to purchase tickets online. This makes it difficult to keep track of all the players at risk. However, if you want to win the lottery, you must be insanely lucky.
Most states run a state-wide lottery. However, Hawaii, Alaska, and Puerto Rico do not. Those who live in these areas can participate in multi-state lottery games. Another popular option is a second chance lottery. By forming a syndicate, a group of players can pool their money and buy lottery tickets.
The Oregon Lottery has been around since 1984. In that time, the money it has raised has helped fund schools, veteran services, and community projects. Currently, it pays 50% of its profits in prizes. Other funds go to natural resources and ecology initiatives. Using a combination of in-house and external games, the lottery has a wide variety of possible prizes.
The Illinois Lottery offers several draw games, including Mega Millions and Powerball. The Illinois Lottery also conducts a Know Your Customer (KYC) check to verify a player's age.
Idaho has a number of in-house lottery games and participates in multi-state lottery games. It is part of the Multi-State Lottery Association. When playing, a player is required to provide his or her name and personal information.
Michigan offers a variety of draw games to its citizens. Players can buy their tickets online, which may allow them to deposit or withdraw funds directly from their bank accounts. If they are unable to withdraw, they can visit a retail location.
Pennsylvania's collection includes Jungle Tumble Jackpots. Each state features their own version of the lottery. Several states have in-house games and are members of the Multi-State Lottery.
Maryland, Illinois, Massachusetts, New Jersey, and New Hampshire each have several draw games to choose from. In addition, these states each have their own instant win games. For example, the single version of Keno has a top prize of $100,000.
Online lotteries tend to use geolocation technology to determine a player's location. Ticket purchases are typically $1 to $20. Larger winnings may require a claim form and/or certified mail service.
Whether you're a lottery newbie or a pro, you should always remember to play the lottery for fun. You should not base your selections on patterns or numbers that have come up recently. Instead, try covering a wide variety of numbers. Be sure to buy more tickets than you think you need. Buying more tickets increases your chances of winning.
Finally, don't forget to research the jackpots. Many of the most popular lotteries have a history of great payouts. Moreover, the jackpots have often risen over time. Even if you're not lucky enough to win the big jackpot, there is usually a consolation prize that you can qualify for.
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Linwood is a village in Butler County, Nebraska, United States. The population was 88 at the 2010 census.

History
An attempt to settle the area was first made in 1857, on the banks of Skull Creek, a half-mile from current-day Linwood. A school was established in 1865, and a postmaster for the settlement, originally named Skull Creek, was appointed in 1868. It was later renamed Linwood for the linden trees growing near the creek. Linwood was incorporated as a village in 1888, shortly after the Fremont, Elkhorn and Missouri Valley Railroad built a line through the settlement. Linwood served as a junction point for branch rail lines going to Superior and Hastings. Those rail lines were abandoned by the early 1960s, leaving Linwood without rail service. A 1963 flood devastated the community.

Geography
Linwood is located at  (41.412892, -96.931312).

According to the United States Census Bureau, the village has a total area of , all land.

Demographics

2010 census
As of the census of 2010, there were 88 people, 38 households, and 21 families residing in the village. The population density was . There were 50 housing units at an average density of . The racial makeup of the village was 94.3% White, 2.3% Native American, and 3.4% from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 5.7% of the population.

There were 38 households, of which 31.6% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 34.2% were married couples living together, 13.2% had a female householder with no husband present, 7.9% had a male householder with no wife present, and 44.7% were non-families. 31.6% of all households were made up of individuals, and 10.5% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.32 and the average family size was 3.00.

The median age in the village was 31.5 years. 29.5% of residents were under the age of 18; 10.3% were between the ages of 18 and 24; 21.6% were from 25 to 44; 26.1% were from 45 to 64; and 12.5% were 65 years of age or older. The gender makeup of the village was 55.7% male and 44.3% female.

2000 census
As of the census of 2000, there were 118 people, 45 households, and 26 families residing in the village. The population density was 324.7 people per square mile (126.6/km2). There were 50 housing units at an average density of 137.6 per square mile (53.6/km2). The racial makeup of the village was 99.15% White, 0.85% from other races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 2.54% of the population.

There were 45 households, out of which 35.6% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 48.9% were married couples living together, 6.7% had a female householder with no husband present, and 42.2% were non-families. 31.1% of all households were made up of individuals, and 13.3% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.62 and the average family size was 3.31.

In the village, the population was spread out, with 33.1% under the age of 18, 5.1% from 18 to 24, 30.5% from 25 to 44, 21.2% from 45 to 64, and 10.2% who were 65 years of age or older. The median age was 34 years. For every 100 females, there were 103.4 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 119.4 males.

As of 2000 the median income for a household in the village was $31,250, and the median income for a family was $40,833. Males had a median income of $31,528 versus $21,250 for females. The per capita income for the village was $13,654. There were 10.7% of families and 9.0% of the population living below the poverty line, including 14.3% of under eighteens and none of those over 64.

References

Villages in Butler County, Nebraska
Villages in Nebraska

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97 Orchard Street, New York
Lower East Side Tenement Museum
Stories of Immigrant Life
by Linda Granfield, Arlene Alda (Photographer)
Publisher: Tundra Books (NY)
Softcover, 55 pages
Current Retail Price: $15.00
Used Price: $5.00 (1 in stock) Condition Policy
Imagine growing up on Orchard Street in 1916. If you were a member of the large Confino family you'd be living in 325 square feet of space. The only fresh air and natural light would come from the two windows in the front room. No heat, no water, no bathtub, no shower. Toilet in the hall.
The Confinos' apartment is only one part of the Lower East Side Tenement Museum, an extraordinary facility in New York City. The Museum has restored 97 Orchard Street to provide us with an opportunity to understand the immigrant experience shared by millions who have come to North America.
In text and with archival photos, Linda Granfield tells the story of four families, including the Confinos, who called 97 Orchard Street home, and provides information about the period, the history of the house, and the neighborhood, bringing to life conditions that were familiar to immigrants in many of North America's big cities. The stories and archival materials are beautifully complemented by Arlene Alda's sensitive photographs that evoke the hardship, the dignity, and the hope encompassed in 97 Orchard Street.
The book includes useful facts, information about the Museum and its efforts to help new immigrants who share similar experiences. Whether or not the reader can visit the Museum itself, this book is a valuable resource in understanding our own histories in North America.
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Andrew and Melody May Monthly Market Update
Firmly into the spring real estate market
A total of Seven hundred and seventy-four properties sold in the Victoria Real Estate Board area this past April. That is almost 13 per cent fewer than the 885 properties that sold in April of last year.
Overall sales are down 18 per cent when compared with 2017, and we are now firmly into the spring real estate market, traditionally one the busiest times for buying and selling homes. May and June were the busiest months of last year, and we are expecting this pattern again. Inventory in our market is still considered low, and good homes in desirable locations are still seeing multiple bids. Of interesting note is the increase in prices, even as we see fewer sales in this market. Part of the reason for this may be the strong pressure we are seeing on lower-priced properties.
There was a total of 2,002 listings available for sale on the VREB Multiple Listing Service at the end of April, that's over 13 per cent more compared to the month of March, and 18.5 per cent more than available for sale at the end of April 2017.
The Benchmark price for a single-family home in the Victoria area in March 2017 was $800,100. Today the benchmark value for the same home has increased by almost 8.5 per cent to $866,700.
Three Steps to Addressing Rental Issues
In a move to address the shortage of rental homes in British Columbia, the provincial government has introduced legislation to give local governments more control in the rental housing market.
If approved by the legislature, the First step would give municipalities two new powers: 1. To zone undeveloped land for the construction of rental units, or decree that a certain percentage of units on that land must be rented out; and 2. Make existing rental units remain rentals after redevelopment. Local governments, of course, would have the option of choosing whether or not they want to use these rental zoning powers.
A Second step was to introduce a bill to amend the Local Government Act. If approved, this new piece of legislation will mandate that local governments must conduct regular housing need assessments and produce reports every five years.
The Third step is to crack down on people who evade taxes while selling condos before they have been built. To address this, the government is recommending changes to the Real Estate Development Marketing Act which would make real estate developers file a report whenever a condo is sold or assigned before it has been built.
The Best of Victoria / Changes
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Corvette Landing is another great affordable housing initiative and will be offering for sale, studio, one, two, and three Bedroom suites for buyers who earn between $68,000 and $72,000 a year. Construction on the 83 unit project is slated for 2019 with completion scheduled one year later.
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Play Report of Descent to Avernus Chapter 1
I wrote a review of Descent into Avernus last fall when it came out, and I don't believe I was kind to it. I recently finished running the first chapter, and my opinion remains unchanged. The first chapter (which covers character levels 1-5) has problems.
It's fair to ask, if I knew it started as a train wreck, why would I run it? Two reasons - player empowerment, and I'm still expecting the epic second half of the campaign, rumbling around hell on Mad Max infernal machines, will pay off as gaming bliss. By empowerment, I gave my Adventurer's League regulars a list of the 5E Campaigns I owned, and they all voted on their top adventure choice - Descent into Avernus was the winner. My players can all go to hell. (That joke never gets old).
So what's egregious in Descent and how do we improve it? The background is that the nearby city of Elturel has completely disappeared, and refugees have swarmed to Baldur's Gate. Chapter 1 starts with a railroad-like press gang forcing the characters into the watch, which launches them into a series of scenes (picture a flow chart) that guides them from site to site until they claim a key MacGuffin (an infernal puzzle box). Along the way, they learn that the city of Elturel has been dragged to hell, and the actions of the players avert a similar disaster happening to Baldur's Gate.
Once the players have the infernal puzzle box, they learn it can be opened by a sage in distant Candlekeep. You have to hope the players are curious about the contents of the box, or make a "pretty please" style request from an NPC authority figure; there's not much "what's in it for me" for the players to go to Candlekeep. The box holds an infernal contract which confirms their suspicions - Elturel is sitting in hell. The sage offers to send the player characters to hell, too, just to check it out. There's no discussion about whether the city can be saved, undoing the curse, or finding a way back to the world. How do we get back? "Good luck with that, maybe you'll find a way while you're in hell".
In hindsight, the player characters need starting motivations that predispose them to care deeply about Baldur's Gate and the missing Duke, Ulder Ravenguard, who was in Elturel when it got dragged under. Knowing what I know now, I'd start a future version of this campaign with a session zero "social contract" conversation. First, let everyone know this is an adventure path, so you're signing up to follow clues so you can experience the author's story - don't go off script, it's not a sandbox. Second, your characters need to have intrinsic motivations - you are either deeply, personally loyal to a beloved noble in the city (the missing Duke Ravenguard), or you are strongly motivated by "doing the right thing at great personal cost". This is a fine adventure for heroes and goodniks. Mercenaries, rogues, and typical power hungry self-interested D&D characters, maybe not so much (but see Snake Plissken, below). Adventure paths can work fine as long as everyone is on the same page at the outset and you set good expectations for the table.
In addition to starting with the right type of party, I'd also provide a stronger clue to the players that the beloved Duke is alive (once they find out he's in hell with the city). Maybe some type of divination, Commune or Contact Other Plane, or similar lore-based magic can indicate the Duke is alive, so a rescue mission is not a blind shot in the dark. The players should also have access to some kind of way back, so they're not undertaking a suicide mission. I'd either give them a Plane Shift scroll, or have the arch mage that took them to hell promise to return them (even if he ditches them in hell, at least they agreed to go with a faint hope of return). Getting back is never addressed in the book. I'm a big fan of Escape from New York, doesn't Escape from Hell sound even better? That's another way to level up your Descent into Avernus chapter one - once you realize it's going to be a "rescue the MacGuffin leader", get your players to channel their inner Snake Plissken:
You better hope I don't make it back.
Despite the plot issues, we did have fun. There are murders happening in Baldur's Gate to start the game; I embellished the murder sites into ritual killings (like the zodiac killings, Manson murders, and Jack the Ripper all mixed together) and gave the players the opportunity to join the watch as deputies in order to find and stop the killers. It was a more indirect way of getting them onto the clue path. There's an opportunity to fight some pirates early on in a tavern; not only did they win the tavern fight, they scouted the pirate ship in the harbor and took it from the other pirates, too. As they continued to follow the chapter 1 path, they fixed up the ship, hired a crew, and turned the ship into an ongoing base; it became a great source of engagement and running jokes. Then when it became time to leave the city and go to Candlekeep, they set sail on their ship instead of leaving the city on foot. Wind in your sails and sea spray off the bow - even a railroad is great fun when you get to blow the whistle, make choo choo sounds, and look out the window.
We're still going (every other Tuesday), I'll be back in a few months with observations on how the chapters in hell are turning out.
Posted by John Arendt at 3:14 PM
Labels: Descent into Avernus, Reviews
Ezra Bloom January 25, 2020 at 8:46 PM
I kinda took the 'dark secrets' section on page 208 to be intended to provide a motive for less do-gooder parties- very much in line with 'Escape from New York' actually!
John Arendt January 26, 2020 at 10:31 AM
The dark secrets could be embellished to create an 'Escape from New York' style pressure. "We know what you did, your only way to avoid the truth coming out is do this quest..." I'd still want the authorities to have information that the Duke is alive and there's a reason to send in Snake Plissken's adventurers and get him out of hell. (Once you're there the Duke redirects the players to find the Sword of Zariel..."
thekelvingreen January 26, 2020 at 9:07 AM
Do you think it would work if you started with the party already in Avernus? My group started playing the campaign and there was zero enthusiasm from any of us -- including the GM! -- once it became clear how linear the path was to the advertised "good bit" of the adventure. If it's being sold as "Mad Max in Hell" then it seems to me that you get there as soon as possible, if you're not starting from that point.
I know some people wouldn't like being told in the first session "you're in hell, you have to get out, and save the city while you're at it" because they would feel like they've been railroaded into it, but I'd prefer that than having to play through the railroad in real time.
The adventure breezes over Elturel in Hell fairly quickly in the second chapter. A referee could start the campaign in Elturel, and the players are in the city when it is sucked down to hell - living through the apocalypse and scrounging to survive instead of arriving for the aftermath. It'd be some work for the referee but would make the entire campaign into "Escape from Hell".
The city is broken in two halves, suspended in the air, and one half could cover levels 1-5, when the characters are powerful enough to assault the bridges connecting to the other half of the city, you can pick up with 'Descent into Avernus' as published.
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Japan's million-dollar biometric immigration screening systems are still no match for a little ingenuity — and some tape. Austin Modine writes that two South Korean women have been arrested on suspicion of bypassing a cutting-edge fingerprint reading machine and illegally entering Japan by using special tape bearing the fingerprints other people.
The women slipped past the immigration process at Tokyo's Haneda airport in May and October 2008, according to the Japan Times . The two had reportedly laid low as nightclub hostesses, but were spotted after both received deportation orders in 2008 for overstaying their visas and had their fingerprints taken again.
Japan's biometric immigration system was installed in thirty airports in 2007 to improve security by keeping terrorists and foreigners with deportation records away. The country spent more than 4 billion yen ($44 million, £27 million) on the devices, which cross-check visitors' fingerprints with a database of fugitives and lawbreakers.
That tape on an index finger can bypass the system first came to light back in early 2009 when another South Korean woman slipped past immigration using the trick. She told authorities that a South Korean broker supplied her with special tape and a fake passport and that the broker used the same method to help many other foreigners illegally enter Japan.


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""" Tests for manage_existing_snapshot TaskFlow."""

# TODO(mdovgal): add tests for other TaskFlow cases

import mock

from cinder import context
from cinder import test
from cinder.tests.unit import fake_constants as fake
from cinder.tests.unit import fake_snapshot
from cinder.tests.unit import fake_volume
from cinder.volume.flows.manager import manage_existing_snapshot as manager

class ManageSnapshotFlowTestCase(test.TestCase):
    def setUp(self):
        super(ManageSnapshotFlowTestCase, self).setUp()
        self.ctxt = context.get_admin_context()

    @mock.patch('cinder.objects.snapshot.Snapshot.get_by_id')
    def test_manage_snapshot_after_volume_extending(self, _get_by_id):
        """Test checks snapshot's volume_size value after it is managed."""
        fake_size = 3
        fake_snap = fake_snapshot.fake_snapshot_obj(self.ctxt,
                                                    volume_size=fake_size)
        fake_snap.save = mock.MagicMock()
        _get_by_id.return_value = fake_snap

        real_size = 1
        mock_db = mock.MagicMock()
        mock_driver = mock.MagicMock()
        mock_manage_existing_ref = mock.MagicMock()
        mock_driver.manage_existing_snapshot.return_value = {}

        task = manager.ManageExistingTask(mock_db, mock_driver)
        result = task.execute(self.ctxt, fake_snap, mock_manage_existing_ref,
                              real_size)
        snap_after_manage = result['snapshot']
        #  assure value is equal that size, that we want
        self.assertEqual(real_size, snap_after_manage['volume_size'])

    @mock.patch('cinder.quota.QuotaEngine.reserve')
    @mock.patch('cinder.db.sqlalchemy.api.volume_type_get')
    @mock.patch('cinder.objects.volume.Volume.get_by_id')
    def test_quota_reservation_task(self, mock_get_vol_by_id, mock_type_get,
                                    mock_quota_reserve):
        fake_size = 1
        fake_snap = fake_snapshot.fake_snapshot_obj(self.ctxt,
                                                    volume_size=fake_size)
        fake_snap.save = mock.MagicMock()
        fake_vol = fake_volume.fake_volume_obj(
            self.ctxt, id=fake.VOLUME_ID, volume_type_id=fake.VOLUME_TYPE_ID)
        mock_get_vol_by_id.return_value = fake_vol
        mock_type_get.return_value = {'name': 'fake_type_name'}

        task = manager.QuotaReserveTask()
        task.execute(self.ctxt, fake_size, fake_snap, {})

        reserve_opts = {'gigabytes': 1, 'snapshots': 1,
                        'gigabytes_fake_type_name': 1,
                        'snapshots_fake_type_name': 1}
        mock_quota_reserve.assert_called_once_with(self.ctxt, **reserve_opts)

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Midwood Elementary School Scrapbook, 1940-1960
The Midwood School Scrapbook has materials dated 1940-1960 and consists primarily of newspaper articles about the school, its teachers and students, and thank you notes. Included in the final pages are a few group photographs of students and staff members.
Plaza Midwood was established c1912 as a streetcar suburb of Charlotte. Originally named Chatham Estates for local developer Paul Chatham, it was one of the first streetcar suburbs, along with the earlier Dilworth, and later Myers Park areas. Central Avenue, originally known as Lawyers Road, ran through Plaza Midwood, and it was also home to the Charlotte Golf Club.
The expansion and growth of Plaza Midwood in the 1930s brought about the need for a school, so Lawyers Road Elementary School was built in 1934. It was built with eight classrooms in the traditional style by local architect M.R. Marsh. The school opened to students in 1935, but approximately eighty children had to be turned away to other schools due to space restrictions.
In 1940, the school was renamed to Midwood Elementary School. As time went by, additions were built onto the school. A 1941 fire damaged several classrooms resulting in heavy repairs and remodeling. Another addition in the late 1940s included three more classrooms and a visual education room. Dr. N.L. Englehardt was the architect and building consultant and Howard Duval was the supervisory construction engineer.
Midwood Elementary was in its prime during the 1950s, reaching a peak enrollment of 1,000 students. By the early 1980s, the school began to decline and served fewer than three hundred students. After its closure in June 1983, the building began to deteriorate, with vandals breaking many of the windows. The school was restored in 1985 when an arson fire at Albemarle Elementary School left several hundred students without a nearby school. Over the course of three days, over seventy workers brought Midwood Elementary School up to code. Children returned to school Tuesday morning.
By the early 2000s, Midwood Elementary was an alternative school for students who had dropped out of traditional schools for academic or personal reasons. Another part of the building had a hot lunch program for the elderly, as well as serving as a home to Teenage Parents Services (TAPS) dedicated to keeping pregnant teenagers in school.
Today the former Midwood Elementary School building serves the Plaza Midwood and Charlotte community as the International House. Founded by the Charlotte Area Clergy Association as the Community College and International Ministry of Charlotte, Inc. in 1981, the organization changed its name to the International House in 1989.
The International House moved into the old Midwood School in 2012 and opened a multicultural campus to host organizations such as the Language Academy, League of Women Voters, and All Ethiopian Community Center, among others. These organizations provide a variety of services, including direct services such as foreign-language conversation hours, cultural events, citizen workshops, and legal services to Charlotte's growing international population.
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Midwood Elementary School was established c1934. Originally called the Lawyers Road School, the school was located at 1817 Central Avenue in what is now known as Plaza Midwood. The building underwent several renovations, and eventually Midwood Elementary School closed. This collection contains a scrapbook dated 1940-1960. Scrapbook contents include photographs, newspaper clippings, letters, and other miscellaneous materials relating to Midwood Elementary School.
Byers, Jeff. Plaza-Midwood Neighborhood of Charlotte. Charleston, SC: Arcadia, 2004 (CALL NUMBER: NCR 975.602 C479 B993p)
Neighborhoods—Plaza Midwood. (CALL NUMBER: NCR VERTICAL FILES)
Rogers, John R. Charlotte, Its Historic Neighborhoods. Dover, NH: Arcadia, 1996. (CALL NUMBER: NCR 975.62 C479 R72c)
Martin, Tracy A. and Mary Dominick. "Survey and Research Report on the Midwood Elementary School (Formerly Known as the Lawyers Road School)," Charlotte-Mecklenburg Historic Landmarks Commission: 2001 and 2009. http://www.cmhpf.org/S&Rs%20Alphabetical%20Order/Surveys&RMidwoodElementarySchool.htm
International House. "Who We Are: History." http://www.ihclt.org/
Hanchett, Thomas W. "Plaza-Midwood." Charlotte-Mecklenburg Historic Landmarks Commission. http://landmarkscommission.org/educationneighhistplazamidwood.htm
Materials are in fair condition. Box smells slightly of vinegar and the binding of the scrapbook is falling apart.
The processing, arrangement, and description of this collection was completed by Sydney Carroll, July 2020.
International House Subject Source: Local sources
Lawyers Road School Subject Source: Local sources
Midwood Elementary School Subject Source: Local sources
Plaza-Midwood (Charlotte, N.C.) Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Scrapbooks Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Sydney Carroll
Midwood Elementary School Scrapbook, 1940-1960. Robinson-Spangler Carolina Room, Charlotte Mecklenburg Library.
Midwood Elementary School Scrapbook, 1940-1960. Robinson-Spangler Carolina Room, Charlotte Mecklenburg Library. https://specialcollections.cmlibrary.org/repositories/2/resources/50 Accessed January 28, 2023.


Error: Cannot open main configuration file '/usr/local/nconf/temp/test/Default_collector.cfg' for reading!
Error processing main config file!
found the issue, i was right nconf wasn't generating the config file because it had now way of getting the info from the database to build the config file with!!!!!!!


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Appeal for community drivers
12 November 2014 by Now Media
Cotswold Journal
IF you have a car and have a little spare time, then you could make a difference to people in the north of the Cotswolds who are struggling to get out.
A community transport charity is hoping to recruit more volunteer drivers to transport people to and from appointments or shopping trips where public transport is not an option.
The Cotswold Volunteer North Community Transport Service has been running fore more than 30 years, but most of the volunteer drivers are based towards the south of the district.
"In the last 12 months the service has driven over 860 people, who live in the north Cotswolds, over 68,000 miles to their doctor and hospital appointments in and outside the county, to get their weekly shopping and see family and friends, attend social clubs and day centres. Unfortunately, nearly a third of these miles have been travelled by drivers from other areas, to pick people up before their journey has started," explained Beth Johnson, the charity's Chief Executive Officer.
Jenny Smith, a volunteer driver of more than 15 years from Lower Slaughter, said it wasn't a problem picking people up from further afield, but the distance to get to them were classed as "dead" miles and the customer had to pay for them.
The areas where volunteers are most needed are places like Broad Campden, Chipping Campden, Ebrington, Charingworth, the Hidcotes, Mickleton, Paxford, Weston and Aston-sub-Edge or Willersey and nearby.
The people the charity drives are unable to use public transport due to lack of availability or poor mobility and frail health, or in some cases their local community transport service does not cover the area they wish to travel to, such as a hospital visit in Cheltenham or Gloucester.
Mrs Smith said it was also beneficial to the volunteers. "I am retired and widowed so it is a life-line to me too. I enjoy meeting people and taking them to different places and I know they appreciate it" she said.
Ron Caswell, from Chipping Campden, who recently celebrated his 80th birthday, said he relied on the scheme to get to appointments at hospitals in Cheltenham, Warwickshire and Gloucester. "I wouldn't manage without the service because there's no one I can call on to take me," he said.
Drivers will receive 50p per mile and additional payments for long waits and parking charges. The charity will provide information, support and training and will pay for any additional insurance costs for using their car for voluntary purposes.
For details about volunteering email [email protected] or ring 01608 651415.


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Antón Rivas Briones, nacido en Madrid en 1918 y fallecido en Villagarcía de Arosa el 22 de mayo de 2004, fue un pintor gallego que también destacó en la xilografía y en la talla.

Biografía
Madrileño de origen, vive desde niño, y hasta su muerte, en Villagarcía de Arosa, por lo que el Ayuntamiento de esta ciudad lo nombró hijo adoptivo.

A los quince años comienza a trabajar como aprendiz de ebanista, gracias a lo cual adquiere un magistral dominio en el trabajo de la madera. Compatibiliza su actividad profesional con la creación artística, campo en el que fue autodidacta, tanto en su faceta de tallista como de xilógrafo.

En la xilografía ha dejado obras de una sugestiva belleza, con un dibujo impecable, alcanzando en esta disciplina cotas de gran perfección, pudiendo considerársele uno de los mejores xilógrafos que ha dado España.

En la década de 1940 es premiado en el Certamen nacional de Educación y Descanso para trabajadores (1943), y es becado para estudios de pintura en dos ocasiones por la Diputación de Pontevedra (1947 y 1948). También por esa época hace tímidas incursiones en el dibujo publicitario en Madrid.

En la década de 1960 su obra, en especial sus xilografías, comienzan a tener éxito entre los coleccionistas de arte gallegos, y su fama llega a trascender hasta EE.UU.

En la década de 1970 es premiado en varias ocasiones en la Bienal de Arte de Pontevedra (1970 plata en grabado; 1973 y 1974 bronce en pintura; 1975 plata en pintura), logrando su máximo galardón en 1978: la medalla de oro en pintura.

Su obra se encuentra dispersa en varios Museos y en colecciones particulares e institucionales.

En 2001 el Ayuntamiento de Villagarcía de Arosa le pone su nombre a la sala de exposiciones municipal, y un año después lo nombra hijo adoptivo de la ciudad.

Muere el 22 de mayo de 2004.

Estilo artístico
Su obra artística se enmarca dentro de la generación gallega de postguerra, que se aleja del academicismo para enlazar con el arte de las vanguardias, aunque posteriormente evoluciona desde el vanguardismo hacia un realismo humanista, donde todas sus composiciones giran en torno a la figura humana.

Rivas es un magnífico dibujante que retrata tipos populares de anatomías poderosas, rostros cotidianos, manos encallecidas y rotundidades absolutas, consiguiendo que la plasticidad de estos personajes armonice con un dibujo de vaga ascendencia cubista, y un intenso colorido.

Posee un sentido mural nato, y sus composiciones -abigarradas, dramáticas y con una concepción barroca de las formas y escorzos violentos- a menudo abordan temas folklóricos, o ensoñaciones de trasfondo mágico, que nos transportan a fantasías goyescas. Su mundo de trasgos y máscaras, de antroidos imposibles, alcanza un intenso dinamismo, siempre dentro del rigor de dibujo que le caracteriza.

En sus grabados prevalecen los tonos oscuros con una temática predominantemente tenebrista de aquelarres, meigas o espectros.

Bibliografía
 AA.VV., (2001), Antón Rivas Briones. Viaxe pola memoria do home. Vilagarcía de Arousa, Concellería de Cultura.
 AA.VV., (1989), 20 años de Arte en Pontevedra. Pontevedra, Diputación.
 Pablos, F. (1981), Plástica Gallega. Vigo, Caixavigo.
 Chamoso Lamas, M. (1976), «Arte», en Galicia. Barcelona, Editorial Noguer.
 Sobrino Manzanares, M.L. (1991), Catálogo del Patrimonio Artístico de la Diputación de A Coruña. A Coruña, Diputación.

Referencias

Enlaces externos
 Ficha de "Rivas Briones" en la colección de arte de Afundación, obra social de ABANCA.
 Artículo "Rivas Briones no Liceo Casino de Vilagarcía de Arousa", publicado el 20 de mayo de 2012, en el Blog "Filgueira Valverde, un sabio na corte do Teucro"

Nacidos en Madrid


Deer hunters are trading in their bows for shotguns and body harnesses for blaze orange vests as the calendar turns to December and the first of Iowa's three main gun seasons begin. And based on reports, it looks like hunting will be good, if the weather cooperates.
First shotgun season is Dec. 1-5, followed by second shotgun season Dec. 8-16. Late muzzleloader season is Dec. 17-Jan. 10, which it shares with the reopening of the bow season.
The bulk of the deer harvest, and hunter participation, occurs during the shotgun seasons. The Iowa DNR expects about 60,000 hunters in each shotgun season, plus 30,000 in the late muzzleloader season. The traditional technique in shotgun season is to drive and post where some members of the group post the end of the timber, while other walk through driving deer towards them.
With all that activity in the timber, Harms advised hunters to keep safety at the top of their hunting plan. The hunting plan identifies where each hunter will be and how the hunt will unfold. The plan should also include checking the blaze orange and replace any that has faded over time. Hunters are required to wear one article of external solid blaze orange clothing: vest, jacket, coat, sweatshirt, sweater, short or coveralls. An orange hat alone doesn't suffice.
"You want to be seen by other hunters so it would be a good idea to wear more than the minimum amount of blaze orange required," Harms said.
Hunters will notice few regulations changes from 2017. The DNR has added a January antlerless season in four counties and new deer management zones near Harpers Ferry, Elkader and Seymour. Unfilled youth deer licenses are now valid for any remaining seasons, but are still mentor licenses and they must follow all other rules specified for each season.
Iowa's overall deer harvest across all seasons last year was 105,578 and the 2018 harvest should be similar.


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Q: Get Comma separated values from sql single column and show the values separately in different columns in sql sql database email_column(1 column) has value : test@gmail.com,test1@gmail.com
I have a stored procedure where i should get the email column values into  2 separate columns(primary_email,secondary_email)
email_column
test@gmail.com,test1@gmail.com
Desired output:
primary_email      secondary_email
test@gmail.com    test1@gmail.com

A: Create a simple helper parsing function that you can use inline in your select statement.
CREATE FUNCTION dbo.udf_Parse(
  @InputString      VARCHAR(1000)
 ,@Separator        CHAR(1)
 ,@PositionInString TINYINT
)
RETURNS VARCHAR(250)
AS
BEGIN

    DECLARE @OutputString VARCHAR(250)

    DECLARE @StringList TABLE (
      ID  INT IDENTITY(1,1)
     ,VAL VARCHAR(250)
    )

    INSERT INTO @StringList (VAL)
    SELECT value
    FROM STRING_SPLIT(@InputString,@Separator)

    SELECT @OutputString = VAL
    FROM @StringList
    WHERE ID=@PositionInString

    RETURN @OutputString
END
GO

Then, you can use it like this:
-- create test data
IF OBJECT_ID('tempdb..#tmpOriginal','U') IS NOT NULL
DROP TABLE #tmpOriginal

CREATE TABLE #tmpOriginal (
  email_column VARCHAR(50)
)

INSERT INTO #tmpOriginal(email_column)
  VALUES ('test@gmail.com,test1@gmail.com')
        ,('foo@email.com,bar@email.com')
-- (end test data)

-- how to use:
-- (you can put this in your stored procedure if you want)

SELECT
  dbo.udf_Parse(email_column,',',1) AS Email1
 ,dbo.udf_Parse(email_column,',',2) AS Email2
 ,dbo.udf_Parse(email_column,',',3) AS Email3
FROM #tmpOriginal

-- cleanup test data
DROP TABLE #tmpOriginal

Produces:
Email1         | Email2          | Email3
-----------------------------------------
test@gmail.com | test1@gmail.com | NULL
foo@email.com  | bar@email.com   | NULL

With all that said, having CSV in a single column is a problematic design.  And, using this parsing function is an expensive process that will be slow on large data-sets.  However, with this function, you can use as is or to parse and migrate into a better schema.

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«Божа тварина» () — радянський художній фільм 1991 року режисера Галини Данелії-Юркової.

У ролях
Пізня радянська епоха. Олексій Сичов (Сергій Шакуров) працює художником-реставратором. У нього є дівчина — Марія (Ірина Шмельова), медсестра. Вирушаючи на її день народження, він заїжджає за нею на роботу в лікарню і бачить, що Марія з колегою заспокоюють пацієнта-хлопчину. Біля входу в палату стоїть модна дівчинка, яка повідомляє йому, що це її брат. Пізніше, коли Олексій садить Марію в свою машину, вона напрошується до них під'їхати «в центр», а потім проникає до них в квартиру через вікно, поводячись при цьому досить вільно і незалежно.

У спробі позбутися цієї настирливої дівчини на ім'я Шура (і прізвисько «Кет»), Олексій збирається їхати на роботу, в монастир, що реставрується, але вона і тут виявляється наполегливою і напрошується їхати разом з ним. По дорозі назад герой зупиняється на узбіччі, щоб купити пиріжки. Повертається і бачить, що Кет зникла, і разом з нею зникла старовинна цінна ікона, яку він взяв з монастиря додому… Олексій розлючений, він відправляється на пошуки ікони, хоча вдома його чекає на своєму дні народження його Марія.

Йому доведеться зіткнутися з неформальною молодіжною тусовкою — рокери, байкери, металісти, потрапити з її вини під безліч неприємних ситуацій. А причиною всьому дівчинка на ім'я Шурочка, злодійка і «шибайголова», якій не вистачає любові і розуміння.

У ролях

  Сергій Шакуров —  Олексій Сичов
 Зоя Александріді —  Кет
  Сергій Челобанов —  Ісус
  Леонід Ярмольник —  господар квартири
 Данечка Кучменко —  Ангел
  Ірина Шмельова —  Маша
 Анна Генісаретська —  Натаха
 Володимир Губанов —  Самсон
 Юрій Звягінцев —  Ісусик
  Григорій Багров —  адвокат Хрякін
  Дельфін — епізод
 Ольга Агєєва — епізод
  Михайло Негін — епізод

Знімальна група
 Автор сценарію: Сергій Дєрнов
 Режисер:  Галина Юркова-Данелія
 Продюсер:  Михайло Литвак
 Оператор:  Сергій Філіппов
 Художник:  Микола Ємельянов

Посилання

Фільми СРСР 1991
Фільми-мелодрами СРСР


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« It's a movement!
Zom-bies, zom-bies, all around the worrrld! »
Price, Corman, Lovecraft, and Poe
HAUNTED PALACE
In 1960, AIP's go-to director for cheap, quickly produced science fiction and horror double bills convinced the powers that be to gamble on letting him make a stand-alone film, in color, with double the production time and more money. Granted that, compared to other studios, this still meant an incredibly lean budget and an incredibly short production schedule. The result was Roger Corman's Fall of the House of Usher, a landmark film in the history of American horror and one of the best Gothic horror films from any country. With the runaway success of House of Usher, Corman found himself free to direct a rapid succession of follow-up films that all relied on the same basic formula. In 1963, flush with success and probably more than entitled to do so, Corman asked if he could do something just a little bit different.
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#1 by lyzard on October 22, 2008 - 6:34 pm
Is it just me, or is Debra Paget one of the loveliest actresses ever? Granted, I'm a sucker for the dark hair, blue eyes thing (and I hated her brief flirtation with blondeness, circa From The Earth To The Moon). And yes, she could act. I really like her in Tales Of Terror, too.
#2 by KeithA on October 23, 2008 - 9:40 am
Your assessment of Debra Paget is indeed right on the money.
#3 by Nathan Shumate on October 23, 2008 - 10:16 am
Although I consider myself a Lovecraft aficionado, it was just this year that I realized I didn't know what a gambrel roof was. I look it up. It's a barn-style roof, the kind with a shallow pitch near the center beam that then changes to a deeper pitch about halfway to the eaves.
In other words, one of the least scary kinds of roofs.
#4 by Chad R. on October 23, 2008 - 10:53 am
The Amityville Horror house had a gambrel roof and that place was pretty creepy. Moreso even than most of the movies it was in.
#5 by KeithA on October 23, 2008 - 11:12 am
So you aren't afraid of gambrel roofs, huh? Well then how about…CYLOPEAN ARCHITECTURE!
And if you aren't afraid of barns, that's because you didn't grow up in farm country. Those things are usually jam packed with wasps, hornets, yellow jackets, mud daubers, jumping spiders, and these things that look like wasps but with two inch long stingers. Also, murderers with burlap sacks over their head.
On the contrary, I grew up rural as rural can be. Got my fair share of stings, as well as those inflamed scratches you get when you go jumping around on the haybales and get hay fragments in your waistband. Didn't have too much trouble with the burlap guys, though; they were always out joyriding on their tractors, loaded to the gills.
#7 by Blake Matthews on October 23, 2008 - 12:27 pm
I lived in the sticks in a NE Brazilian for a few months (the setting of a short story I recently wrote) and our house was routinely visited by tarantulas. That's to say nothing of the iguanas, frogs, tegus, scorpions, tarantula hawks, walking sticks, termites and multi-colored grasshoppers that infested the tall grasses around our house.
#8 by KeithA on October 23, 2008 - 12:48 pm
Ugh. Hay. I used to have to bale it every year. Awful, awful job for which most people now use a machine. But my grandfather decided why buy a machine when you have so many hungry teenagers around?
Actually, I don't even know if the horror barn (as we called it, to differentiate it from the horse barn, which was quite nice and made of metal, and the "murder barn" which was back a ways in the woods, all rotting and abandoned and full of terror) had a gambrel roof. All I knew was that, apart from the many stinging insects and venomous snakes, it's where we hung the tobacco to dry. It would hang up there, in the filtered sunlight seeping through the cracks, all yellow and looking, I swear, like some horrible pod person thing out of Invasion of the Body Snatchers.
And Nathan — it was while flying in and out of SLC that I was looking out at Utah (which I've driven through, but with a different perspective) and realized that, contrary to what I'd been thinking, there is an awful lot of open, uninhabited space left in this country where lurking terror can…uhh…lurk. And then I started dreaming up a remake of Manos: The Hands of Fate with an added layer of Cthulhu mythos, and I began to tremble as a wave of abject terror swept over me…
for I knew then that I had peered into an abyss of pure madness!
#9 by Nathan Shumate on October 23, 2008 - 1:22 pm
The "lurking terrors"? We call 'em "polygamist compounds."
#10 by El Santo on October 23, 2008 - 1:43 pm
"the Hammer films upon which these films were modeled rarely featured female characters of any real note beyond the size of their heaving bosoms."
I quote Marie Devereux (who played one of the crazy-hot vampire girls in The Brides of Dracula): "They always want me in these films because I've got such big boobs, and they like to put them on the posters."
#11 by lyzard on October 23, 2008 - 2:42 pm
our house was routinely visited by tarantulas. That's to say nothing of the iguanas, frogs, tegus, scorpions, tarantula hawks, walking sticks, termites and multi-colored grasshoppers that infested the tall grasses around our house.
And you didn't invite ME!!??
….muttermuttermutter….
#12 by KeithA on October 23, 2008 - 3:51 pm
Says the woman from a country with more poisonous snakes than any other place on earth.
But of course! And spiders, and fish, and jellyfish, and octopodes, and monotremes…..sigh. 🙂
#14 by Nathan Shumate on October 23, 2008 - 9:38 pm
I think that I have never seen
A poem as lovely as a monotreme…
And you never will.
#16 by The Rev. D.D. on October 24, 2008 - 9:36 am
Ah, Australia. So many interesting ways to die…can't wait to visit.
Except for the scorpions, that place in Brazil sounds pretty fun. Tegus…those are lizards, right?
#17 by Blake Matthews on October 24, 2008 - 9:45 am
Yeah. The place also had ants that were nearly two inches long and, according to a biology teacher friend of mine, very venomous. So that was pretty cool, too. It was also in that place that I got bit by a katydid.
Not sure I'm familiar with poisonous ants in South America. You always just hear about the army ants, seems like.
Speaking of ants, aren't there about 3 or 4 species in Australia dangerous to humans? Bulldogs, bullet, and those jumping ones?
I never would've guessed katydids would bite. Huh. I guess it makes sense though; I had a 'hopper nip me once.
"Bulldogs, bullet, and those jumping ones?"
That would be the Jack Jumper Ant (Myrmecia pilosula). They hunt and kill wasps and other insects. Wow.
#20 by Joshua on October 26, 2008 - 7:30 am
Still, it's weird for me to think that there's a whole crop of kids who go to Wal-Mart during the Halloween season, see all those Frankenstein cut-outs, and just see some random, generic monster with no connection to anything from the past.
made me sad.
Alarmers in pyjamas — posted by lyzard on October 10, 2010
Aaaand the cherry on top of my Month of the Living Dead. — posted by Nathan Shumate on October 31, 2007
The doctor will see you now — posted by El Santo on December 5, 2010
The Paul Lynde Halloween Special (1976) — posted by kbegg on October 14, 2007
The Cabal Farm Team is growing! — posted by Nathan Shumate on June 17, 2008


The steelwork was erected in 45 days.
This building served as the headquarters for Minnesota Mutual (now known as Securian) until completion of The 400 Building in 1982.
Originally located in the Pioneer Building a few blocks to the east, the Pioneer Press newspaper is now located in this building.
It is connected by skyway to the University Club St. Paul Downtown Clubhouse, the Degree of Honor Building, and the Victory Parking Ramp.


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Bifurcations of multiple homoclinics in general dynamical systems
Uniqueness and nonuniqueness of solutions to parabolic problems with singular coefficients
August 2011, 30(3): 917-944. doi: 10.3934/dcds.2011.30.917
A spectral gap for transfer operators of piecewise expanding maps
Damien Thomine 1,
45 rue d'Ulm, 75005 Paris, France
Received May 2010 Revised November 2010 Published March 2011
We consider piecewise $\C^{1+\alpha}$ uniformly expanding maps on a Riemannian manifold, and study their invariant physical measures. We study the Perron-Frobenius operator on Sobolev spaces and bounded variation spaces, and prove that it is quasicompact if some conditions on the Lyapunov exponent and the combinatorial complexities are satisfied. Then, we get strong results concerning the existence of physical ergodic measures, and the exponential mixing of smooth observables.
Keywords: Ergodic theory, mixing rate., expanding maps, Perron-Frobenius operators.
Mathematics Subject Classification: Primary: 37A25; Secondary: 47A3.
Citation: Damien Thomine. A spectral gap for transfer operators of piecewise expanding maps. Discrete & Continuous Dynamical Systems, 2011, 30 (3) : 917-944. doi: 10.3934/dcds.2011.30.917
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SMITH, Samuel, soldier, born in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, 27 July, 1752 ; died in Baltimore, Maryland, 22 April, 1839. His father, John, a native of Strabane, Ireland, removed about 1759 to Baltimore, where he was for many years a well-known merchant. In 1763 he was one of the commissioners to raise money by lottery to erect a market-house in Baltimore, and in 1766 was one of the commissioners to lay off an addition to the town. On 14 November, 1769, he was chairman of a meeting of the merchants to prohibit the importation of European goods, and on 31 May, 1774, was appointed a member of the Baltimore committee of correspondence. In 1774 he was also appointed one of the justices of the peace, and in November became one of a committee of observation whose powers extended to the general police and local government of Baltimore town and county, and to the raising of forty companies of "minute-men." The Continental congress having recommended measures for procuring arms and ammunition from abroad, he was appointed on the committee for that purpose from Baltimore. On 5 August, 1776, he was elected a delegate to the convention that was called to frame the first state constitution. In 1781 he was elected to the state senate, and in 1786 was re-elected. Samuel, son of John, spent five years in his father's counting-room in acquiring a commercial education, and sailed for Havre, France, in 1772, as supercargo of one of his father's vessels. He travelled extensively in Europe, and returned home after the battle of Lexington. He offered his services to Maryland and was appointed in 1776 captain of the 6th company of Colonel William Smallwood's regiment of the Maryland' line. In April, 1776, Captain James Barton intercepted on the Chesapeake bay a treasonable correspondence between Governor Robert Eden (q. v.) and Lord George Germaine, and General Charles Lee, who commanded the department, ordered Captain Smith to proceed to Annapolis, seize the person and papers of Governor Eden, and detain him until the will of congress was known. Upon his arrival at Annapolis the council of safety forbade the arrest, claiming that it was an undue assumption of authority. His regiment did eminent service at the battle of Long Island, where it lost one third of its men. He took a creditable part in the battles of Harlem and White Plains, where he was slightly wounded, and in the harassing retreat through New Jersey. He was promoted to the rank of major, 10 December, 1776, and in 1777 to that of lieutenant-colonel of the 4th Maryland regiment, under Colonel James Carvill Hall. He served with credit at the attack on Staten island and at the Brandywine, and, upon the ascent of the British fleet up the Delaware, was detached by Washington to the command of Fort Mifflin. In this naked and exposed work he maintained himself under a continued cannonade from 26 September till 11 November, when he was so severely wounded as to make it necessary to remove him to the Jersey shore. For this gallant defence congress voted him thanks and a sword. When he was not entirely recovered from the effects of his wound, he yet took part in the hardships of Valley Forge. He took an active part in the battle of Monmouth. Being reduced, after a service of three years and a half, from affluence to poverty, he was compelled to resign his commission, but continued to do duty as colonel of the Baltimore militia until the end of the war. In July, 1779, he was challenged to fight a duel with pistols by Colonel Eleazer Oswald, one of the editors of the Maryland "Journal," published at Baltimore. The trouble grew out of the publication in the " Journal " of General Charles Lee's queries, "political and military," which re-fleeted on General Washington, and for which the editors were mobbed. By the advice of friends, Colonel Smith declined the challenge. In 1783 he was appointed one of the port-wardens of Baltimore, and from 1790 to 1792 was a member of the house of delegates. In consequence of the threatened war with Prance and England in 1794, he was appointed brigadier-general of the militia of Baltimore, with the rank of major-general, and commanded the quota of Maryland troops engaged in suppressing the whiskey insurrection in Pennsylvania. In 1793 he was elected a representative in congress, holding the place until 1803, and again from 1816 till 1822. He was a member of the United States senate from 1803 to 1815, and from 1822 to 1833. Under President Jefferson he served without compensation a short time in 1801, as secretary of the navy, though declining the appointment. He was a brigadier-general of militia, and served as major-general of the state troops in the defence of Baltimore in the war of 1812. He was one of the originators of the Bank of Maryland in 1790, and one of the incorporators of the Library company of Baltimore in 1797, and of the Reisterstown turnpike company. He was among the projectors of the Washington monument and the Battle monument at Baltimore. In August, 1835, when he was in his eighty-third year, a committee of his fellow-citizens having called on him to put down a mob that had possession of the city, he at once consented to make the attempt, was successful, and elected mayor of the city, serving until 1838.--His son, John Spear, born in Baltimore, Maryland, about 1790; died there, 17 November, 1866, acted as volunteer aide-de-camp to his father in the defence of Baltimore in 1812-'14. While a young man he prepared, under government auspices, some volumes of valuable research on the commercial relations of the United States. He was appointed secretary of the United States legation at London, and in 1811 was left in charge as charge d'affaires by William Pinkney. He was a member of the Internal improvement convention of Maryland in 1825, and upon the formation of the Maryland historical society in 1844 was made its first president, which post he held until his death. He was at one time judge of the orphans' court, and in 1833 was a presidential elector.--Robert, statesman, brother of General Samuel, born in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, in =November, 1757 ; died in Baltimore, 26 November, 1842, was graduated at Princeton in 1781, and was present at the battle of Brandywine as a volunteer. He then studied law and practised in Baltimore. In 1789 he was one of the presidential electors, and he was the last survivor of that electoral college. In 1793 he was state senator, from 1796 till 1800 served as a member of the house of delegates, and from 1798 till 1801 sat in the first branch of the city council of Baltimore. He was secretary of the navy from 26 January, 1802, till 1805, United States attorney-general from March till December, 1805, and secretary of state from 6 March, 1809, till 25 November, 1811. On 23 January, 1806, he was appointed chancellor of Maryland, and chief judge of the district of Baltimore, but he declined. He resigned the office of secretary of state, 1 April, 1811, and was offered the embassy to Russia, which he declined. He was president of an auxiliary of the American Bible society in 1813, president of the Maryland agricultural society in 1818, and in 1813 succeeded Archbishop John Carroll as provost of the University of Maryland. He was the author of an "Address to the People of the United States " (1811).--His son, Samuel W., born near Baltimore, 14 August, 1800, was educated at Princeton He served in the city council of Baltimore, was president of the Baltimore club and the Maryland club, a director in the Baltimore and Ohio railroad, and a trustee of the Peabody institute and of Washington university.
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To say that the Republican Party's plan to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act has not gone smoothly is an understatement. By taking charge of the Oval Office and both houses of Congress, the GOP initially thought that striking down Obamacare would be a slam dunk. Unfortunately for conservatives, the self-congratulatory mirth of January 20 has quickly waned.
As the GOP has learned, it's much harder to govern than to play the troll. For years, Republicans battered Obamacare at every turn, criticizing its high insurance premiums, difficult subsidies, and limits on which medical providers could be seen by patients. Exasperated, then-president Barack Obama challenged Republicans to craft better healthcare policy.
Tellingly, Republican leaders had no policy-based response. While conservatives actively praised free market principles and spoke about the need for medical patients to have "options" and "control," nobody on the right side of the political spectrum revealed anything resembling a comprehensive health care plan. That was then… and today is little different.
Apparently, there is a Republican healthcare plan out there. The only problem? It's under wraps, and even arch-conservative Rand Paul, the outspoken U.S. Senator (R-KY) and 2016 presidential candidate, can't find it. In a brouhaha that left liberals smiling, Paul went over to the House of Representatives and demanded to see the GOP's Obamacare-replacement bill… and was denied. Paul and many Democrats have publicly criticized House Republicans for working on the bill in secret and refusing to reveal any drafts.
Through leaked drafts, it seems that GOP wonks have still yet to find the "sweet spot" that will appeal to both conservative Republicans and moderate Republicans. Although the Republican Party as a whole does control both the House and Senate, it is almost guaranteed that any Obamacare replacement bill will receive zero Democratic votes, meaning that any Republican defections in either house of Congress could be catastrophic.
With scores of Republican legislators working around the clock in Congress to improve the secretive bill, it seems that president Trump was totally correct in asserting that healthcare reform is complicated.
Time is of the essence, and each week that drags on without an Obamacare replacement bill sees the GOP lose momentum on that key policy pillar. If Republicans cannot advance such a bill, they will be mocked mercilessly in the 2018 midterms for being able to talk the talk, but not walk the walk. Already, Trump's controversial comments about healthcare reform being unexpectedly complex make his party seem naïve and unprepared.
In more than seven years of trash-talking, was no Republican team able to craft a comprehensive substitute for Obamacare? Frankly, Donald Trump's team should have had a repeal-and-replace plan ready to go on day one, distributed to all congressional Republicans via flash drive. While Democrats have held their tongue, obviously waiting to see if the GOP's healthcare plans will implode on their own, the silence won't last long.
With the ongoing Sessions/Russia debacle erasing most of the political gains from Trump's unexpectedly-polished speech to a joint session of Congress, the GOP needs to notch another win quickly. Unfortunately, things aren't looking good: Even before Paul's made-for-TV storming of the House, Republicans in Congress were facing tremendous frustration over the Obamacare repeal.
Constituents in Republican districts have been defending Obamacare with unexpected vigor, and the oft-controversial healthcare law is actually more popular than ever before. Currently, it is very likely that at least a handful of Republicans will refuse to vote for any revealed Obamacare repeal-and-replace bill. They will break with their party to protect their own re-election chances, but they will justify it by referring to any of several excuses depending on their brand of conservatism.
Ardent conservatives will complain that the replacement bill is too liberal, amounting to entitlement spending, while moderate Republicans will claim that the bill provides insufficient coverage for citizens. Such complaints about Obamacare also plagued liberals: Supporters of democratic socialist presidential candidate Bernie Sanders argued that Obamacare provided insufficient support for citizens, while blue dog Democrats initially thought that Obamacare was too socialist.
A replacement has to be thought better than the original in order to pass muster. If the GOP didn't have any comprehensive healthcare plan prior to January, it is almost impossible for them to hope of crafting something that will be considered better than Obamacare within the next few weeks. Time is not on their side, and neither is the general industrialized nation consensus on healthcare policy, which favors single-payer healthcare over privatized.
Republicans are working against the clock and against the conventional wisdom of everyone from Canada to Japan to Australia.
If Donald Trump and his friends in Congress cannot unveil a comprehensive Obamacare repeal-and-replace substitute by Spring Break, look for Democrats to begin breaking their relative silence and insisting that the GOP can't fix what ain't truly broken. A unified voice of opposition, consisting of the most prominent Democrats in Congress and state capitals, could shatter an already-fractured Republican coalition on healthcare reform. For many Republicans, that may be their secret plan: What better way to win the 2020 GOP nomination over an embattled incumbent than by pointing out that he couldn't even get rid of the bumbling failure of Obamacare?


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Ethical conduct review
Venerable Thubten Tsultrim
The text turns to training the mind on the stages of the path of advanced level practitioners. Part of a series of teachings on the Gomchen Lamrim by Gomchen Ngawang Drakpa. Visit Gomchen Lamrim Study Guide for a full list of contemplation points for the series.
Ethics as it relates to the law of karma and its effects
Wrong views in the modern world
Guarding against maliciousness and covetousness
Idle verbal and non-verbal communication as well as harsh speech
The benefits of practicing far-reaching ethical conduct
https://audio.thubtenchodron.org/Gomchen_Lamrim_116_12-08-17_Ethical_Conduct_Review.mp3
Gomchen Lamrim 116: Ethical Conduct Review (download)
Contemplation points
Reflect on the last 5 destructive pathways of action with regard to how they manifest in the world today:
Wrong views: What kinds of wrong views are referred to in this pathway of non-virtue? Consider: Do we as a society have more opportunity to find and cultivate wrong views today than we did at the Buddha's time? What kinds of wrong views do you see in the world today? In your own life (can be past or present)? What are some of the results you've seen from wrong views, both in the world and in your life? What can you do, what antidotes can you apply, to counter wrong views in your life?
Malice: Where do you see malice in the world? Under what conditions do you see it come up in your own mind? What are the disadvantages of malice in your own life? In the world? How can you, as a practitioner, guard yourself against malicious thought?
Covetousness: Where do you see covetousness operate in the world today? Under what conditions do you see it operate in your own life? What are the disadvantages of covetousness in your own life? In the world? What tools does the Buddha provide to counter the mind of covetousness?
Idle Talk: Where do you see idle talk in the world today? Where do you struggle with it in your own life? What harm does idle talk cause in the world? In your life? What can you do to begin to counter idle talk in your own life?
Harsh Speech: What forms of harsh speech do you see in the world today? In your own life? What are the results of harsh speech? What harm do you see in the world and in your life as a result of harsh speech? What can you do to counter harsh speech?
What does keeping good ethical conduct mean? What is far-reaching ethical conduct?
What are some of the benefits of practicing far-reaching ethical conduct?
How does ethical conduct help to establish trust in relationships?
What does it mean to be living in "degenerate times?" Are we living in one or is there more kindness in the world than ever?
What happens when someone tries to legislate their version of ethics? How do we balance our own ethical code with outreach (volunteering, political activism, etc), considering the wide range of religion traditions in society?
Should anyone have the right or moral obligation to censor harsh or divisive speech either in public or on the internet?
How does living an ethical life help you in this life? How does it impact the people with whom you come into contact?
Seeing the disadvantages of non-virtue and the many benefits of keeping good ethical conduct, resolve to abandon negativity and cultivate the actions of body, speech, and mind that create peace and harmony in your life and in the world.
Inspired by Kwan Yin, Chinese expression of the Buddha Compassion, Ven. Thubten Tsultrim began to explore Buddhism in 2009. As she learned that "real people like me" aspired to become awakened like Kwan Yin, she began to explore the potential to becoming a monastic, which led her to Sravasti Abbey. She first visited the Abbey in May, 2011. Ven. Tsultrim took refuge and joined the 2011 Exploring Monastic Life program, which inspired her to remain at Sravasti Abbey where she continues to learn and grow in the Dharma. The future Ven. Tsultrim took anagarika ordination in October of that year. On September 6, 2012, she received both the novice and training ordinations (sramanerika and siksamana) and became Ven. Thubten Tsultrim ("Ethical Conduct of the Buddha's Doctrine"). Ven. Tsultrim was born in New England and spent 20 years in the U.S. Navy. She began her career doing maintenance on aircraft, then worked as an Air Traffic Controller before retiring as a Damage Control Chief Petty Officer. She has also worked as a staff member at a residential treatment center for teenage girls. At the Abbey, she is responsible for maintaining the buildings and provides support for the abundant audio teachings that the Abbey generates and shares.
Science and gender equality
Examples of mutual dependence
Six conditions for serenity
The perfection of fortitude
More on the ten paths of nonvirtue today
The ten paths of nonvirtue today
The perfection of ethical conduct
Offering our bodies to sentient beings
The path to awakening: An overview
Being a friend to yourself
The four great qualities of the lamrim
How to listen to and explain the Dharma teachings
The qualities of spiritual mentors and students
How to rely on spiritual mentors in thought and deed
The six preliminary practices, part 1
What to do during the meditation session and between sessions
The freedoms and fortunes of a precious human rebirth
How to take full advantage of a precious human rebirth
The drawbacks to not remembering death
Antidotes to the eight worldly concerns and the ten innermost jewels
The benefits of remembering death
Gomchen Lamrim review: The teachings, teachers, and students
Nine-point meditation on death
Avoiding rebirth in the lower realms
The qualities of the Three Jewels
How to take refuge in the Three Jewels
Gomchen lamrim review: How to rely on the teachings and teachers
Gomchen Lamrim review: The six preparatory practices
Gomchen Lamrim review: The actual meditation session


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Viv grew up in predominantly white town in northern California. This was never an issue for her and she rarely felt different from her peers. This was largely due to her best friend, Danielle. Danielle's family always made Viv feel welcome and their classmates would often associate them as being best friends with each other. Viv believes Asians are frequently portrayed as the sidekick but for her and Danielle, "We were equals, 50/50 so I didn't feel less than her or like the sidekick." Viv mentions Christina Yang in Grey's Anatomy who was part of the main cast but was only a supporting character to Meredith Grey around whom the show actually revolves. Viv notes, "You always see Asians as not the favorite character but closely associated to the favorite character."
"You always see Asians as not the favorite character but closely associated to the favorite character."
Viv admits her parents were more sensitive about race and culture than she was. Although Viv would often hang out with Danielle and her family, Viv felt it was more difficult for her parents and Danielle to relate, simply due to language barriers. Viv explains, "It was easier for me to connect to her family because I spoke English whereas she was not able to speak Chinese." Viv often questioned why her parents were so strict and why they would not allow her to go to some places her friends were allowed. She says they reminded her, "You have to work harder than your friends because when people look at you, they will automatically think you are not from here. Even if you take the exact same route as them, you may not end up at the same place as them."
"It's empty to be angry without doing something about it."
Thankfully, Viv has rarely experienced situations in which she was disadvantaged or targeted for being Asian. She recalls a rare occurrence when she visited Philadelphia with her boyfriend for a weekend. As they were trying to cross the street, a man screamed out of a passing car and said, "Go back to China!" Viv explains that she was in shock and did not know how to initially react. As she replayed the situation in her head, she became more and more angry and her boyfriend felt compelled to calm her down, which angered her even more. Viv supports, "I think he thought that being angry would not accomplish anything in the moment and I agree. The man drove away and I couldn't do anything about the situation anymore. It's empty to be angry without doing something about it."
Another memorable experience was the first day her company moved to a different building. While adjusting to her new seat, a non-Asian man from a different firm on the same floor introduced himself to her to ask at which firm she worked. He also asked where she was from. In previous conversations, Viv would have challenged the person asking by responding "California" until she finally said Chinese. But she knew the response he sought and immediately answered to him that she was Chinese.
Without warrant, he began to speak to her in Chinese to which she describes, "He kept on asking me questions and I responded in English but he asked follow-up questions in Chinese!" She recognizes that his intentions were genuine and he may have been excited at the opportunity to practice his Chinese. "It would have been more polite if he had asked to speak to me in Chinese. I would have still felt awkward but not as caught off guard. Imagine if I did not even speak Chinese."
"I can't change the fact that I'm Asian or that I'm female."
Viv describes her joy in the shift in representation of Asian females, especially through social media. With the rise of Instagram influencers, more and more Asians have gained popularity through areas such as fashion and beauty. Viv exclaims, "It's great to see people with more similar body types and facial structures as me." We both laughed about our tragic childhood memories of trying to follow make-up tutorials by white bloggers who had different eye shapes and facial undertones than us. Viv says, "I like following Asian influencers and I feel more comfortable about buying the clothes and make-up Asian bloggers buy because I feel more confident that it will look good on me."
Viv believes the importance in surrounding oneself with people who will lift you up and to stray away from people who make you feel less than you are. When dealing with people that fit the latter category, she believes that many Asians will be hesitant to defend themselves. She notes, "I can't change the fact that I'm Asian or that I'm female." So she believes we should not tolerate people who question those parts of our identity and that we should speak up when they do. And I agree, the less we speak up and the more condone these situations, the slower there will be any change for anyone to notice.
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Callao was founded in 1537, It is the main port for Peru, and a port of call and port of entry for Lima and the rest of the country. Callao features colonial mansions, the Plaza Gálvez and Plaza Grau squares and the Iglesia Matriz church.
Callao does contain a few very notable museums, which will suit anyone wanting to learn more about the city's rich military and naval past. Located within the historical fortress of the Fortaleza del Real Felipe is Callao's Military Museum, which is known locally as the Museo Del Ejército and is home to various military and weaponry artefacts chronicling the history of the army of Peru.The maritime history of Callao and Lima can be found within the Museo Naval, the Navy Museum is brimming with war relics, many of which relate to battles with the Spanish and Chilean navies, who attacked this part of Peru on several occasions. A number of small art galleries are located around Callao and Lima, offering a good choice of paintings, and various handicrafts, jewellery and items of clothing are also in abundance.


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