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World Cup Predictions: Winners
In the finale of our seven-part World Cup prediction series, Matt goes head-to-head with Subash Jayaraman and Dave Siddall in selecting their World Cup winners.
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Matt Wood
As much as the West Indies have (hopefully) crawled out from a decade and a half of shame and the tournament has Bangladesh playing a lot at home, as much as I'd like to pick a smaller nation making the second round, I just don't see it. The minnows will leave early, leaving us with the obvious choices again. India and Sri Lanka are justifiable favourites due to their home-ground advantages, while South Africa's finishing school for cricket talent has no equal. The bet here is the Proteas don't have the attack to really exploit the conditions – Steyn is quality but supporting cast Tsotsobe, Morkel and Parnell aren't favoured by the slower decks. Australia can't be discounted – they've been impressive in swatting away England's One-Day side, a team who seem to lack something that they can't identify. I'm going to bet on Sri Lanka - India is incredibly reliant on the bowling penetration of Zaheer Khan and Harbhajan Singh. Should one of those two break down or play like a honker, India could really struggle to restrict opposition scoring. Sri Lanka have the spin of Murali and Mendis, the pace of Malinga and the all-round talents of Angelo Mathews.
Subash Jayaraman
This is the third time the world cup is being held in the Indian subcontinent. The last two times it was held (1987 and 1996), two subcontinent teams made it to the semis (India and Pakistan in 1987) and (India and Sri Lanka in 1996) with Sri Lanka winning it all in 1996. I am inclined to continue with this theme and expect India and Sri Lanka to get to the semi-finals this time as well. The two other semi-finalists, in my opinion, are going to be Australia and South Africa. (But I am very tempted to include either Pakistan or Bangladesh). I do think however, India and Sri Lanka will get to the finals. Sri Lanka does seem to be the most balanced side in the entire tournament and they are playing in home conditions. However, India beat them fair and square in Sri Lanka the last time they played ODIs. But the finals are going to be played in front of Tendulkar's home crowd in Mumbai. So, I am going to go with my gut, heart and all other internal organs, and hedge my bet on India.
David Siddall
In my honest opinion there are 5 countries that have both the ability and consistency (sorry Pakistan!) to win the 2011 Cricket World Cup. They are Australia, England, India, South Africa and Sri Lanka. Of the 5, it is the perennially underachievers chokers of South Africa and India that have the finest XIs on paper and also the form to be considered the main contenders. In Sehwag and Ghambir, and Smith and Amla, they have the finest opening batting partnerships in the game with one claiming the title for most explosive and the other for most solid. In Kallis and Tendulkar they have two of the greatest ODI batsmen of all time. A further glance down their respective orders and you have batsmen that combine capabilities to play long innings with intimidating levels and varieties of strokeplay.
So what is there to separate these two sides? The answer lies in the bowling department. Dale Steyn and Morne Morkel have formed a devastating partnership capable of tearing through a side. As much as Zaheer Khan stars for India, fans would have to concede that South Africa hold in the edge in terms of the quicks on show. India meanwhile will feel they have the edge in terms of spinners on show. Johan Botha is an accomplished spinner but cannot be considered an attacking option. Unlike Botha, Harbhajan Singh is just that. India are also blessed with numerous spinners in their squad with Ashwin, Pathan, Raina, Yuvraj and Sehwag all providing options in favourable conditions.
The case for both teams is remarkably strong but I favour the side with bigger wicket-taking threat to come out on top. With that in mind, it has to be the biggest chokers of all South Africa to turn the tables on history and win the 2011 Cricket World Cup.
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Q: Rails - Skip Devise Authentication Not Working I'm trying to skip devise authentication for my subscription controller but to no avail.  My registration controller and sessions controller skip_before_filter both work but not the subscriptions controller which I just added recently.  What am I doing wrong?
class V1::SubscriptionsController < ApplicationController
skip_before_filter :authenticate_user!
skip_before_filter :verify_authenticity_token, if: :json_request?

def create

    @subscription = Subscription.new(subscription_params)

    if @subscription.save
        render json: @subscription, status: :created
    else
        render json: @subscription.errors, status: :unprocessable_entity
    end
end

private

def subscription_params
    params.require(:subscription).permit(:subscription_email)
end
end

My application controller
class ApplicationController < ActionController::API
  include CanCan::ControllerAdditions
  include ActionController::RespondWith
  include ActionController::Serialization

  acts_as_token_authentication_handler_for User

  rescue_from CanCan::AccessDenied do |exception|
    respond_to do |format|
      format.json { render nothing: true, status: :forbidden }

    end
  end
end

And my routes
Rails.application.routes.draw do

devise_for :users, skip: [:sessions, :registrations, :passwords]

  api_version(module: "V1", header: { name: "Accept", value: "application/vnd.rolotext.json; version=1" }) do
    devise_scope :user do
      post 'registrations' => 'registrations#create'

      post 'sessions' => 'sessions#create'
      delete 'sessions' => 'sessions#destroy'

      post 'passwords' => 'passwords#create'
      patch 'passwords' => 'passwords#update'
      post   'passwords/check_email' => 'passwords#check_email'
    end

    get '/me' => "users#me"
    patch '/me' => 'users#update'
    delete '/me' => 'users#destroy'

    resources :cards, except: [ :new, :edit]
    patch '/logos' => 'logos#update'
    resources :logos, except: [ :new, :edit, :destroy ]
    resources :uploads
    post '/subscriptions' => "subscriptions#create"

  end
end

Any help would be mucho appreciated

A: I'm usually adding this in my user controller if I want to exclude some pages from auth:
before_filter :authenticate_user!, except: [:sessions, :registrations, :passwords]
It should exclude auth for pages in except..
Hope it helps.

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Words of Wisdom from our Prophet
The Qur'an states:
"And from the evil of the envier when he envies" (113:5)
Allah has created each of us with different features, capabilities, and blessings. He has madesome of us rich over others. He has made some of us more beautiful/handsome than others. He has made some of us more intelligent than others. He has given some beautiful homes, while others do not have them. He has given some of us good parents while orphaned others. He has given some of us good health while others are tested with sickness throughout their lives….. this list goes on. All this is from the wisdom of Allah, and He differentiates among His creation in terms of what He gives them of wealth, provision, intellect, understanding, and other visible and hidden strengths.
Whatever Allah has given, in whatever manner and in whatever proportion He has given, it is from His infinite and perfect Wisdom and Mercy. These blessings should be used to show gratitude to Him and not be the means of arrogance/pride. Whatever He has not given should not result in us becoming envious of others for whom He has given that particular blessing.
Envy is to entertain a feeling of unhappiness at a better fortune and sound quality that Allah has granted to someone else. It sets in when we tend to feel that we should have been given a particular blessing instead of what has been given to someone else. At its worse, it could also lead one to wishfully think that the specific blessing should be removed from that concerned individual. Not nipping this evil in the bud would only result in the mushrooming of green-eyed monsters. Allah's protection is sought!
Envyis an evil trait that Allah hates, so much so that He Himself has taught us to seek His protection from being victims of this evil. If the enormity of this sin is so huge that Allah deemed it fit to teach us to seek His protection from being a victim of such a trait, then what about committing that evil itself?
Imam Qurtubi (rah), a classical commentator of the Qur'an mentions that envy was the first sin committed in heaven and the first sin committed on the earth. When Iblis was commanded to the prostate Adam by Allah, he refused out of envy/jealousy.This got him expelled from the heavens and earned the curse and wrath of Allah till the end of time. Similarly, when the two sons of Adam were commanded to offer their sacrifices to Allah, it was accepted from Habil and was rejected from Qabil. This angered Qabil, and he was overtaken by envy. This poisoned his heart so much that he even did not think twice before committing the first murder on the face of the earth.This ultimately led to the accumulation of a portion of the sin of murder to him every time murder is committed on the face of the earth.
Scholars and righteous predecessors from the past have always held this evil trait to be one of the diseases of the heart. They have worked towards eradicating this immoral and wicked characteristic from themselves from those around them, warning them of the evil consequences it will potentially cause to the cleanliness of the heart. That is because our Prophet (pbuh) warned us when he (pbuh) said: "Avoid envy, for envy devours good deeds just as fire devours wood."(Abu Dawood). What can be a greater loss than to have worked deeds of righteousness in this world, only to find, in the Hereafter, those deeds being eaten away by this negative attribute?
Unlike most other evil traits, this is one wicked quality that may be directed even towards people of the same household. This is precisely why Yaqub (alaihissalam), father of Yusuf (alaihissalam), ordered his son to hide his dreamfrom his brothers, lest it may cause envy in their hearts. Yaqub (alaihissalam) feared that if Yusuf (alaihissalam) narrated his vision to any of his brothers, they would envy him and conspire evil plots against him, thus causing his demise. From this episode, it becomes clear that we should hide the prospects or the coming of a bounty until it comes into existence and becomes known, so that the chances of falling prey to the envious nature of people around us can be best avoided.
Any Muslim who nurtures no ill-feeling towards any other fellow Muslim and specifically shows no envy towards anyone, whom Allah has favoured with a particular bounty, can be hopeful of entry into Jannah through the mercy of Allah in the Hereafter, as the following hadith shows:
Envy, in whatever quantity is present in one's heart, is still forbidden except in two cases as the following hadith explains:"There is to be no envy except for two: A man to whom Allah grants wealth, and he spends from it during the hours of the night and the hours of the day. And a man to whom Allah grants (memorization of) the Quran so he stands with it (in prayer) during the hours of the night and the hours of the day."(Tirmidhi).
Any individual who nurtures envy will not only subject themselves to its evil consequences, but it will also be detrimental to the unity of the Ummah, as well. This is why our Prophet (pbuh) advised us: "Don't sever relations of kinship, don't bear enmity against one another, don't bear aversion against one another and don't feel envy against the other and live as fellow-brothers as Allah has commanded you." (Sahih Muslim). Simliarly worded narrations found in the other canonical books of Ahadith also point to its significance.
These traditions of our Prophet (pbuh) not only highlight the degree of significance Islam attaches to uprooting this evil mindset but also points to its sublime teachings, explicitly concerning the perfection of moral values in human beings.
The practice of our Prophet (pbuh) is clear enough to earn us the Divine protection of Allah throughout the day and night from having this evil trait in our hearts and also to be protected from being victims of this malaise. He (pbuh) advised us to recite Sura Al-Falaq (along with Sura Ikhlas and Sura An-Naas), once after Dhuhr, Asr and Isha and thrice after Fajr and Maghrib, so that Allah will protect us from this evil and its consequences. The fact that these surahs used to be an integral part of morning and evening litany and a part of his remembrances before retiring to bed also shows the importance he (pbuh) attached the subject on hand.
May Allah protect us all from the evil of jealousy and its evil consequences and give us a clean heart worthy of entering Jannah in Aakhirah.
Quran and Hadith 11
AUTHOR: Dr. Yaaseen Masvood


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800-year-old tomb found in northern China
A brick and stone tomb dating back over 800 years has recently been discovered in Yuanqu County, northern China's Shanxi Province.
Credit: Boatou Daily News/Wang Feihang
The tomb was found near a nonferrous metal company office building during a tap water facility renovation project. Researchers, after evaluation, decided it was constructed during the Song and Jin dynasties (960-1234), according to the culture and tourism bureau of Yuanqu.
Some burial items including pots and porcelain bowls were unearthed in the tomb, about three meters underground.
"The tomb is well-preserved without marks of flooding, collapse or robbery," deputy director of the county's culture and tourism bureau Hou Xiaochao said. "It should be a couple's joint tomb built some 800 years ago."
Hou said the discovery is of great value to the study of the burial customs, lifestyle, architecture, clothes and craftsmanship at that time.
Source: Xinhua News Agency [June 27, 2019]
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IOF quells march marking Ibrahimi massacre anniversary in al-Khalil
The Israeli occupation forces (IOF) on Friday violently suppressed a peaceful Palestinian march staged in the central area of al-Khalil city to mark the 26 anniversary of the Ibrahimi Mosque massacre and to condemn Israel's ongoing crimes against the Palestinian people.
According to local sources, Israeli soldiers showered the participants with stun and tear gas canisters and physically assaulted many of them. video video
The protesters marched to al-Shuhada street, which has been closed since the 1994 massacre that was committed by a Jewish terrorist at the Ibrahimi Mosque in the Old City of al-Khalil.
They carried Palestinian flags and placards demanding the Israeli occupation to reopen the street and denouncing the US deal of the century and Israel's crimes and settlement activities in the Old City of al-Khalil.
Remembering the Ibrahimi Mosque Massacre, 26 Years Later
Twenty-six years ago, on February 25, 1994, Jewish settler Baruch Goldstein, an American-Israeli physician, opened fire at hundreds of Muslims who were performing the dawn prayer on a Ramadan day at the Ibrahimi Mosque in southern West Bank city of Hebron (Al-Khalil).
After several minutes of shooting, 29 worshippers were killed and hundreds of others were wounded before people were able to overcome the murderer and end his life. tweet
On that very same day, Israeli soldiers killed an additional 21 Palestinians who took to the streets in the occupied territories to protest the massacre in Hebron. tweet
Instead of taking action against the extremist Jewish settlers living in the occupied Palestinian town of Hebron, particularly in the illegal settlement of Kiryat Arba, where Goldstein used to live, the Israeli authorities punished the Palestinians.
After the massacre, the Israeli military divided the Ibrahimi mosque into two sectors: Jewish settlers and visitors have exclusive access to more than half of the site, including all of the surrounding gardens.
Hebron city center is the site of several illegal Jewish settlements.
According to the Israeli human rights group B'tselem, in Hebron "Palestinians living in the area are subjected to extreme restrictions on their movement by car or on foot – including the closure of main streets – while settlers are free to go where they wish." tweet
Today Marks 26 Years For The Ibrahimi Mosque Massacre
Twenty-six years ago, on February 25, 1994, a Jewish settler named Baruch Goldstein, an Israeli army physician, opened indiscriminate fire from his army-issued automatic rifle at hundreds of Muslims as they were performing the dawn prayer on a Ramadan day at the Ibrahimi Mosque in southern West Bank city of Hebron.
After several minutes of shooting, 29 worshippers were killed and 150 others were wounded before people were able to overcome the murderer and end his life.
As if this was not enough, Israeli soldiers on that day killed an additional 21 Palestinians who took to the streets in the occupied territories to protest the massacre in Hebron.
Instead of taking action against the extremist settlers in Hebron, particularly in the illegal Kiryat Arba settlement in Hebron where Goldstein lives, by removing them from Hebron, the Israeli authorities punished the victims, the Palestinians.
The mosque was closed for six months after the incident to be opened divided between Muslims and Jews when for centuries it was a purely Muslim worship place.
At the same time, Palestinians in areas in the heart of Hebron where settlers had set up illegal bases were restricted in movement and shops were forced to shut down. Entire streets became off to Palestinians where Jewish settlers were allowed to roam them freely and under heavy army protection.
This situation is continuing until today, and it has even become worse.
|Remembering the Ibrahimi Mosque Massacre| International Solidarity Movement (ISM)
Israeli army starts seizing real estate in Old City of al-Khalil
The Israeli occupation army has verbally ordered a Palestinian storeowner to close the doors of his business near the Ibrahimi Mosque in the Old City of al-Khalil as a prelude to carrying out its plan to build a Jewish settler neighborhood in the area.
According to local sources, Israeli soldiers ordered the storeowner to shut down his store permanently as part of a plan to seize scores of homes and stores near the Ibrahimi Mosque and the central wholesale market in al-Shuhada street in order to build a neighborhood for Jewish settlers.
Israeli war minister Naftali Bennett on Sunday announced his intent to build a new Jewish-only settlement in the vicinity of the Ibrahimi Mosque and in the wholesale market street.
The market area is on al-Khalil's once-bustling Shuhada Street, which leads to the Islamic holy site, the Ibrahimi Mosque.
The street is now largely closed off to Palestinians, who have long demanded that it be reopened. The Israeli army closed this street with its homes and stores after one of the extremist Jewish settlers committed a massacre against Muslim worshipers at the Ibrahimi Mosque in 1994.
Israel Plans Additions to Ibrahimi Mosque
The Israeli Channel 7 unveiled an Israeli plan, on Monday, to make additions inside the Ibrahimi Mosque in the center of Hebron, the Palestine News Network reported.
The project, worth approximately 500,000 shekels (NIS), includes designing an elevator among other additions, exclusively for the use of illegal Israeli settlers.
Israel's Coordinator of the Territory Affairs, Kamil Abu Rokon, sent a letter to the Hebron municipality months ago asking them to ratify the work, telling them that the rejection of this project would mean putting the military hand on the area and carry out repair work unilaterally."
The Hebrew channel explained that the responsibility of the area of the Ibrahimi Mosque follows the Islamic endowments in Hebron, based on the Hebron agreement, but that if the municipality rejects the project will be implemented in spite of them.
The occupation authorities are accelerating the pace of annexing large parts of Hebron, especially in the central area where the old city is located.
According to B'Tselem, 700 illegal Israeli settlers live in Israeli controlled H2, among 34,000 Palestinians, while 622,670 settlers live throughout the occupied West Bank.
Israel gov't to honor extremist rabbi calling for killing non-Jews
The Israeli government intends to honor an extremist rabbi who has applauded the killing of non-Jews, especially the Muslims and Palestinians.
According to Haaretz newspaper, education minister Rabbi Rafi Peretz and transportation minister Bezalel Smotrich will honor rabbi Yitzchak Ginsburgh, who praised the 1994 massacre in al-Khalil city and was previously charged with inciting racism.
The ministers will speak at a Thursday event during which a prize will be awarded to Ginsburgh.
The US-born rabbi is known for publishing a pamphlet praising the actions of terrorist Baruch Goldstein, who in 1994 carried out the massacre at the Ibrahimi Mosque, in which he killed 29 Muslims and injured dozens as they were praying.
Ginsburgh is also among the rabbis who endorsed the book "The King's Torah," which discusses circumstances in which Jews may kill non-Jews according to Jewish law.
The prize will be awarded under the auspices of an institution called the "Cathedra for Torah and Wisdom," which receive financial support from the education ministry's department for Jewish culture.
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Founded in 2004, the Center for Research on Culture and Economy (NuCEC) is a space for collective production of knowledge and for student training that brings together researchers interested in the anthropological understanding of contemporary socio-economic life. Based at the Graduate Program in Social Anthropology at the National Museum and at the Graduate Program in Sociology and Anthropology at the Philosophy and Social Sciences Institute (IFCS), both at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, the Center is composed of social scientists from various institutions from Brazil and abroad.
The projects developed by researchers linked to NuCEC comprise a wide variety of topics, unified by a common intellectual sensibility, which gives privilege to ethnographic approaches (long-term observation of situations and social processes and emphasis on native points of view in interpreting interactions, documents and images), to a comparative emphasis (through time, space and between levels of analysis) and to a historical perspective, based on the idea that social life is always situated in time. Apart from large collective projects (such as the "Project Haiti" and the project "Forms of government and ordinary economic practices" - in cooperation with the École Normal Supérieure and the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, Paris), NuCEC currently organizes study groups like GEAF (Anthropology of Finance Study Group - in partnership with the Brazilian Securities and Exchange Commission) and GENE (Nature and Economy Study Group), and is associated to other research centers such as Grupo Casa (Institute of Social and Political Studies, State University of Rio de Janeiro).
In the last few years, the center's research projects are mainly concentrated in some thematic areas such as: (i) the relationship between ordinary economic practices and contemporary forms of government; (ii) relations between the dynamics of the house, familiarity, intimacy and mobility; (iii) regulation of economic practices; (iv) transformation and constitution of markets with the participation of new agents and technologies; (v) the constitutive relations between informality, legalities and illegalities; (vi) relations between people, money and objects; (vii) associations between the notions of person, life, nature and the "real" economy; (viii) the emergency of "new economies" (solidary, ethnic and racial) and new technologies (new forms of money, of conception and management of debts, like new financial apps, etc.); and (ix) the relations between new forms of acting and thinking the economy in both ordinary and expert environments (in everyday life and in the context of so-called crises and emergencies). The studies developed by NuCEC discuss, in accord with the anthropological tradition, the specificity of the economy and of the economic as separate and autonomous spheres, being situated therefore in the frontier with other areas of the discipline, such as the anthropology of family and familiarity, politics, State, bureaucracy and public policies, social movements and rights, mobility, knowledge, STS, among others.
In order to develop individual and collective research projects, NuCEC maintains a permanent seminar in which are discussed ongoing projects, field reports, drafts of articles, preliminary chapters of thesis and dissertations. Apart from that, the center also organizes interdisciplinary scientific events, meetings, workshops and colloquiums, in Brazil or abroad. In 2008 the book series "Culture and Economy" was released, in partnership with the publisher Garamond Universitária, and in 2017 the collection became part of the publisher Papéis Selvagens.
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Improved engine support of GLES3.0 devices
Added new module – DiligentFX, a high-level rendering framework
Reworked light scattering post-processing effect to be ready-to-use component
Diligent Engine is available on GitHub under the Apache 2 open source license. In terms of why you would choose Diligent Engine over other cross platform graphics libraries, here the advantages the framework offers:
Better abstractions (such as one monolithic pipeline state object vs numerous fine-grain states) that map directly to next-generation APIs and reduce run-time overhead
Explicit control of resource state transitions.
Efficient shader resource binding model that takes advantage of descriptor tables in Direct3D12 and descriptor sets in Vulkan.
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Australia records five-wicket win over Zimbabwe in first ODI in Townsville
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Australia records five-wicket overcame Zimbabwe by five wickets in their inaugural ODI in Townsville, with Cameron Green picking up a five-wicket haul and David Warner and Steve Smith also shining with the bat.
On Sunday, after Australian captain Aaron Finch had sent Zimbabwe in, Green was the standout bowler as the visitors were dismissed for 200 runs (5-33 from nine overs).
The all-rounder took out Zimbabwe captain Regis Chakabva (31) and Sikander Raza (5) early on before returning to clean up the back end.
Australia records five-wicket
Green had only previously taken one ODI wicket for Australia, while Raza had scored three hundred in his previous six innings.
For the visitors, Wessly Madhevere scored a career-high 72 points, and Tadiwanashe Marumani added 45.
Madhavere was caught and bowled by Adam Zampa (3-57) with the final delivery of his 10-over stint.
After Finch chopped on in the ninth over for 15, Warner established the tone for the Australian innings with a brilliant 57 from 66 balls.
Smith, who scored an unbroken 48 from 80 balls at number three, provided Warner with strong assistance as Alex Carey (10), Mitch Marsh (2), and Marcus Stoinis (19) all succumbed to cheap spin at the other end.
Ryan Burl (3-60), a leg spinner, took three wickets as Zimbabwe temporarily gained momentum, but Australia easily won because to Glenn Maxwell's hard-hitting 32 from nine deliveries.
Prior to the World Cup in India in 2019, Australia won its first of 17 ODIs thanks to back-to-back sixes from Maxwell.
On Wednesday in Townsville, the second game of the best-of-three series will take place.
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Ангелина, Анчка, Горопенко (рођ Кержан, 1914— ?) је била југословенска гимнастичка репрезентативка.

Резултати

Учествовала је на Летњим олимпијским играма 1936. у Берлину у дисциплини гимнастички вишебој у екипној конкуренцији за жене. Екипу је чинило осам гимнастичарки: Душица Радивојевић, Лидија Рупник, Марта Пустишек, Олга Рајковић, Драгана Ђорђевић, Анчка Горопенко, Катарина Хрибар и Маја Вершеч. На основу збира појединачних резултата у три дисциплине, направљен је пласман у оквиру репрезентације, а шест првопласираних, од осам чланица репрезентације, такмичиле су се у другом кругу односно групној вежби. Сви резултати првог и друго дела су се сабрали и добијен је резултат и пласман екипе Југославије, која је заузела четврто место са 485,60 бодова.

 Појединачни резултати Анчке Горопенко

Овим резултатом 60,75 Анчка Горопенко је била шеста у репрезентацији, па је учествовала у другом кругу - групној вежби, где се репрезентативке освојиле 	115.10 бодова.

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 Југославија на Летњим олимпијским играма 1936.

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 Енциклопедија физичке културе ЈЛЗ Загреб 1977. том 2 стр. 567.

Рођени 1914.
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Гимнастичари на Летњим олимпијским играма 1936.
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This partnership saw SRA ARCHITECTES design the refurbishment of the Logica tower which was originally built in 1971 as the EDF/GDF tower. This major project involved replacing the façades as well as substantial structural modifications. The building's original rectangular configuration bears witness to architectural rationalism inspired by the work of Auguste Perret. As this approach is no longer suited to the current real estate market and changes in technical systems, the structure was redesigned. The revised floor area, which has been divided assymetrically into two more elegantly proportioned, narrower lots that offer an overall greater useable floorspace. The original prefabricated concrete façade was replaced by a new, sophisticated aluminium curtain wall with double glazing, with green-tinted spandrels. Light therefore floods in throughout the building which stands out at night due to its crowning light. This illuminated crown sits atop the roof of the tower, offering a glimpse of the building's mechanical installations through translucent glass panels. The building entrance, like the upper floors, has been enlarged with improved lighting. The original mezzanine has been replaced with a large staircase which leads to a club-restaurant located in the basement.
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Padres acquire Blake Snell from Rays in blockbuster trade
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28 December 2020, 4:21 am ·3-min read
The San Diego Padres have acquired Blake Snell from the Tampa Bay Rays in a blockbuster trade that brings four highly touted prospects back to Tampa. The Athletic's Dennis Lin first reported the details Sunday night, and the deal was announced Tuesday.
The #Padres have acquired Blake Snell from the Tampa Bay Rays.
Details: https://t.co/sLZmWq89IY pic.twitter.com/e3i3gc4DSj
— San Diego Padres (@Padres) December 29, 2020
Snell was last seen dominating the Los Angeles Dodgers in Game 6 of the World Series before being pulled by Rays skipper Kevin Cash in one of the most controversial managerial decisions in recent memory.
He posted a 3.24 ERA across 50 innings in 11 starts in 2020. The 28-year-old lefty was even better in the postseason, pitching to a 3.03 ERA in another 29 2/3 innings as the Rays won their second AL pennant before bowing out to the Dodgers following Snell's early exit in Game 6.
Tampa Bay Rays starter Blake Snell was dominant in their run to the World Series in 2020, and will now join a star-studded Padres roster. (AP Photo/Tony Gutierrez)
Padres are going for it
The 2018 AL Cy Young winner now joins a star-studded Padres team taking aim at title contention under general manager A.J. Preller.
Snell, who signed an extension prior to the 2019 season, has three years remaining on an eminently affordable deal. He's the second big-ticket starting pitcher Preller has traded for this year, after Mike Clevinger came over at the trade deadline only to fall injured. He required Tommy John surgery and will miss the 2021 season.
Snell will join breakout star Dinelson Lamet, who finished fourth in NL Cy Young voting in 2020, atop the San Diego rotation. The lineup is anchored by budding superstar Fernando Tatis Jr. and Manny Machado.
The Padres made the postseason for the first time since 2006, racing back to win the NL wild-card series against the St. Louis Cardinals in dramatic fashion. Injuries decimated their pitching staff and eventually left them overmatched against the Dodgers in the NLDS.
Now, they will try their hand over a full season with even more proven arms, and are set up nicely for a window of contention.
Padres rotation 2021:
Lamet
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Padres rotation 2022
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Which is also to say: San Diego can get even better using its rotation depth to make some other deals.
— Jeff Passan (@JeffPassan) December 28, 2020
Rays reload to defend AL pennant
The Rays continue their near-constant shuffling of pieces. In return for shipping their latest bright, established star out to San Diego, the Rays are getting four promising young players, headlined by potential rotation replacement Luis Patiño.
Coming off their World Series appearance, the Rays are now without two of their three dominant starters, having traded Snell and declined veteran Charlie Morton's option, leaving him to sign with the Atlanta Braves.
The 21-year-old Patiño, however, got his first taste of the big leagues in 2020 and could contribute to Tampa's pitching staff right away. Cole Wilcox, a 6-foot-5 righty who was just drafted in June, is further away from the majors but was already rated highly in the Padres' stacked farm system.
Also going back to the Rays are two young catchers, Francisco Mejia and Blake Hunt. It's the second blockbuster for Mejia, a one-time top prospect who is only 25. He was dealt from Cleveland to San Diego in exchange for closer Brad Hand and reliever Adam Cimber in July 2018.
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Sensys Networks repeaters can be used to provide a two-way relay between the out-of-range sensors and the access point.
In cases where one or more installed Sensys Networks wireless sensors are out of range of the nearest access point, one or more Sensys Networks repeaters can be used to provide a two-way relay between the out-of-range sensors and the access point. As many as two repeaters operating in tandem can be installed between a sensor and the access point. To simplify its deployment, a repeater is battery powered and thus requires no wires or cabling.
Mounted by the roadside on a pole or other structure, the repeater must be positioned so that both the sensors to be supported by the repeater and the communicating repeater or access point are within view and within range.
The access point and repeater antennas each provide a 120° field of view, allowing considerable flexibility. For example, a repeater can be installed approximately 1000 feet (305 meters) meters from the access point, where each device can then support wireless sensors within 75 – 150 feet (23 – 46) meters. Alternatively, a repeater can be mounted on the same pole or mast as the access point, separated by 2 to 4 feet (0.6 to 1.2 meters) to ensure that they can communicate, but pointed in the opposite direction. The access point would then support the sensors and repeaters directly in front of it, while the repeater pointing in the opposite direction would support its own sensors as well as another repeater and its sensors.


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Old food courts in need of refurbishment
By Stories SHEILA SRI PRIYA
Wednesday, 14 Oct 2015
Metro News 23 Nov 2020
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Food court destroyed in morning fire
WE MALAYSIANS love our food and we are fond of socialising while eating.
In the 1990s, food courts in Petaling Jaya that were managed by the local council were mostly located at busy business locations.
Such outlets are in Section 14, Petaling Jaya Old Town, SS3, SS22 and Sungai Way.
As they were also neighbouring residential areas, the food courts became great meeting spots.
Food and beverages sold there were much cheaper compared to those sold at more established eateries.
Some of the stall owners had been in business for over 20 years.
However, over the decades, these food courts have lost their appeal and customers.
Medan Selera in Petaling Jaya Old Town is next to the Jalan Othman wet market
Causal factors associated with this are, among others, poor directional signs to the food court, poor ventilation and lighting, lack of cleanliness of stalls at each food court.
With the current economic uncertainty, many people prefer to have a variety of dining options and reviving food courts would do the public a great service especially for those on a tight budget.
Bakar Kadir, 58, who had operated his stall in the SS3/33 food court since 1998, said the council had to be selective with the business tenants.
When StarMetro visited the SS3 food court, over half of the food stalls were closed.
"Have a variety of food stalls.
"Don't allow the same type of food to be sold within the same premises.
"Customers prefer to go to their regular food operator.
The filthy drains inside the Section 14 council-managed food court. These drains flow inside the food court and emits a foul smell. Traders claim it has never been cleaned by the council.
"A new person will not be able to pull the crowd and be forced to close business," he said.
Bakar expressed his unhappiness over the lack of signage at the SS3/33 food court.
"I am tired of telling the councillors to provide clear signage leading to this place.
"Even the locals do not know this food court," he said.
He added that business owners' suggestions and complaints had fallen on deaf ears.
Bakar highlighted that the space above the food court had been vacant since he started his business about 17 years ago and it should be rented out for recreational purposes.
"If the first floor had some form of activity, it would bring more people to our stalls.
Medan Selera Sukom in Kelana Jaya is unkempt and in need of a new coat of paint.
"Why not open a community library or rent it to some tuition centre," he said.
The Section 14 food court is split into three sections.
The one beside the market and part of the one below the Digital Mall offers Malay food.
The basement under the Digital Mall houses several Chinese and Indian food stalls.
All three sections have poor ventilation and are badly lit.
According to some of the stall owners they would personally change the faulty lights and even mend the fans inside the food court.
They claim it was high time the council beautified the food court.
Traders complained that the drains inside the food court were not cleaned by the council causing it to trap water and become a breeding ground for rats.
Many of the tables and seats at Medan Selera Atria are broken.
"We clean it but it is still filthy," said a stall owner who did not want to be named, adding that she covered the drains with wooden planks but when she removed the planks cockroaches would crawl out.
She added that the drains also emitted a foul smell making it unbearable for people to dine there.
The poor ventilation and bad lighting was a turn-off for office workers.
"The younger customers do not want to come here because they are afraid their clothes will smell due to the poor ventilation and no one likes to dine in the dark," she said.
The food court in SS22 facing the Atria Mall is not bustling with business either.
This humble-looking food court is also a regular meet-up spot for senior citizens.
Retired school headmaster S. Murugesan, 72, said he met up with his peers almost daily.
Although Petaling Jaya was not his hometown, he had made new friends there since he moved to the city to be close to his children.
He and his friends liked the food court because it was their space to socialise.
N.Subramaniam, 68, said the food court did not have sinks to wash their hands.
The senior citizens claimed that they had heard of plans to demolish the food court.
They hoped the place would be retained and beautified with more active food stalls.
The food court at SS8, better known as Komplex Selera Sukom, looks rundown from the outside.
A fresh coat of paint would give the place an instant facelift. The ventilation also looks outdated.
Almost three quarters of the food stalls there are closed.
An old fan at the Jalan Othman food court has yellowed with age and is blackened with dirt.
The Petaling Jaya Old Town market also has a food court located in a separate building beside the Jalan Othman wet market.
Several traders here claimed that the few stalls selling drinks were built in the middle of the food court but had been idle for three years.
Stall owners claimed that they had regular customers but not many new customers knew that the place was open at night.
They want the area surrounding the food court to be better lit as customers feared becoming a victim to thieves.
RM1.7mil for food court facelift
Tags / Keywords: Family & Community , Central Region , pj council food court lack of business and revival plan


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Q: In Powershell, Invoke-expression is not working when entering space in the path I have a query like when I try to execute the expression which contains a path with space, I am getting an error as below.
Code:
$path="E:\Test\My space\Log"
Invoke-Expression $path

E:\Test\My: The term 'E:\test\My' is not recognized as the name of a cmdlet, function, script file, or operable program. Check the spelling of the name, or if a path was included, verify that the path is correct and try again.
At line:1 char:1
+ E:\Test\My space\Log
+ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~
    + CategoryInfo          : ObjectNotFound: (E:\Test\My :String) [], CommandNotFoundException
    + FullyQualifiedErrorId : CommandNotFoundException

Could you please help me to fix this issue.?

A: Use single quotes and a backtick (grave accent) to escape the space:
$path='E:\Test\My` space\Log'
Invoke-Expression $path

Or programmed:
$path="E:\Test\My space\Log"
Invoke-Expression ($path -Replace ' ', '` ')

A: You should be able to just call
& $path

I think Invoke-Expression basically just types your value into the shell at face value.


Beyond Mr. Checkpoint: How Else Can You Avert a Los Angeles DUI Charge?
Rightly or wrongly, many Southlanders may be tempted to use Mr. Checkpoint to avoid police traps. But what other tools/strategies can drivers use to protect themselves from DUI arrests?
Every partygoer knows the rule: when you drink, arrange alternative transportation, such as a designated driver or a taxi cab. That's sound, good advice. But this advice of "plan ahead" should be construed in a broader sense, too: become a student of your habits and proclivities.
When do you make bad decisions? What people influence you badly? When and why do you behave impulsively or recklessly? Understand your own idiosyncrasies. Pay attention to them.
2. Err on the side of caution.
If you have to ask yourself whether you're at risk of driving DUI, just assume that you are. Be conservative. It just makes sense.
Think about it. Let's say you're technically at 0.04% BAC — half the legal limit, as defined by California Vehicle Code 23152. You decide to "ruin your night" and avoid following your friends to the next club. The next morning, you spend $50 to take a cab back to your car. Are those things inconvenient? Sure. But they pale in comparison to what could happen if you actually HAD BEEN over the limit — punishments could include jail time, fines, license suspension, the potential that you could seriously hurt or kill yourself or someone else, the list goes on. You don't have to be a genius actuary to see the risk imbalance there.
3. Come up with simple rules to follow about drinking and partying.
Simple rules are easy to follow and easy to remember. Don't overcomplicate or overthink this.
4. Deal with your current DUI.
If you've been arrested recently for a crime like DUI in Los Angeles, get in touch with an attorney at the Kraut Law Group for sensible, sensitive insight into your case.


The Intellectual Property Laws Amendment Bill 2014, in the legislative pipeline for a while, was finally passed by the Australian Senate on the evening of 9 February 2015.
Schedule 5 removes the requirement for document retention requirements in patent, trade mark and design legislation.
The first two schedules relate to the same matter; implementing the TRIPS Agreement and associated Doha Declaration. The aim is to enable developing countries to have easier access to patented pharmaceuticals, particularly during a health crisis.
The Act will allow compulsory licences to be granted to Australian manufacturers to make generic versions of patented drugs or to use a patented process to manufacture the drugs. The drugs can then be exported to the country in need. The patent holder will also be entitled to financial compensation under the provisions.
Litigation of Plant Breeder's Rights will now be possible at the Federal Circuit Court, in line with other IP rights in Australia. This will be beneficial for the main reason that it will allow owners of the Plant Breeder's Rights cheaper access to courts for enforcing their rights. Previously holders of Plant Breeders Rights had redress only through the Federal Court.
Schedule 4 has two aspects, firstly putting the groundwork in place for a streamlined patent application process in both Australia and New Zealand. This allows for a single application to be filed and examined, taking both countries' laws into consideration. Following successful examination granted patents would result in both Australia and New Zealand.
The other aspect is to create a single trans-Tasman patent attorney regime which will oversee the registration of patent attorneys in both Australia and New Zealand. This will provide consistency between the patent attorney services offered in each country and allow for a single set of qualifications for registration.
Neither of these aspects can be affected until the New Zealand parliament passes parallel legislation. The Bill has a sunset clause relating to these aspects which will mean that if the New Zealanders cannot enact similar legislation these provisions will cease to be operative after a period of 24 months from the Bill receiving Royal Assent.
The 'other amendments' section simply provides for updating of the Patents Act to address minor technical errors from the Raising The Bar reforms. This also removes document retention provisions imposed on IP Australia by the Patents, Trade Marks and the Designs Acts.
Parliament's explanatory memorandum provides more details on how these systems will be put into place (and is easier to read than the Bill itself).


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why we couldn't build chevy chase today
This is a new house for sale. It has four bedrooms, three bathrooms, a one-car garage, and a small but flat yard. It's located in an established community with well-kept homes and top-rated schools that look like something out of a movie. It is affluent, but middle-class by D.C. standards, and it's not very different from other D.C. suburbs with detached houses and lots of cars.
Yet this neighborhood has all the conveniences of a small city. There are two supermarkets within ten blocks. Six blocks to the Metro, bus routes, and a proposed light-rail line. Five blocks to Barnes & Noble, along with two movie theatres, three ice-cream shops, and dozens of restaurants. Four blocks to the high school. Two blocks to a trail leading to the Potomac River and Rock Creek Park.
When you have to drive, the car trips can be short. There are two shopping malls, a major university, premier research facilities, and even national parks within fifteen minutes. The traffic can be bad, but it's not always an issue because everything is so convenient.
Current laws make it nearly impossible for small-scale retail to locate in residential neighborhoods, like this block of shops in Martin's Additions.
The best part is that you have choices. In this community, some people will travel by car, others by foot or bike, and still others by bus or train. Some will live in a detached house or a townhouse or an apartment. Some will shop at chain stores or independently-owned stores. Some will become involved in the community, while others will seek privacy. Some will choose not to live here at all.
But these choices are only available to those who can afford to live in a community like this. It could be North Woodside in Silver Spring, Del Ray in Alexandria, or Clarendon in Arlington. This house happens to be in the Town of Chevy Chase; over the summer, it was selling for two million dollars. There's so little supply of places like this, and so much demand, that they've become a luxury available only to those who can afford it.
But this lifestyle could be more affordable if it was available to more people within Chevy Chase or in White Flint, Wheaton, Langley Park, Gaithersburg or even in Calverton, where I live. We should be talking about the kind of community we want to live in - its built form, character, and lifestyle - and let those things determine how wide the roads are, the number of people or jobs, or the need for schools. Yet much if not all of the discussion I've witnessed on growth and development in Montgomery County over the past four years has done it the other way around.
Urbanism is not a numbers game. It's the collective result of individual choices made over a period of time. The kind of places we cherish in Montgomery County have largely happened by accident. The county's oldest neighborhoods - Takoma Park, Woodside, Kensington, and Chevy Chase - were created by individuals with ideas about how a place should be.
Do we prevent good development from happening by trying to legislate away bad development?
They weren't too different from a new planned community in Clarksburg or redeveloped neighborhood like Bethesda Row. But over time these communities could accommodate changes by other individuals with other ideas, giving them a unique, but unanticipated character.
You can't make that happen with formulas, figures and covenants. Nor can you preserve a great community in amber, as some of our civic leaders have tried. It's no surprise that we can't build Chevy Chase again. But it's disappointing that many people think we can by restricting the number of cars on a road, the number of kids in a school, or even the income of people who live there.
That's not to say that we should ignore the condition of our infrastructure. New development may not always cover the cost of new schools and roads, while existing neighborhoods may need public facilities but can't pay for them. Finding new ways to get the amenities we need while allowing our communities to grow and change - as they inevitably will - is the only way for us to move forward.
It doesn't always cost two million dollars to live in a safe, walkable neighborhood with good schools, convenient shopping and excellent transportation. But these kind of communities are often out of reach for many people in this area. If we can stop relying on numbers and let our communities evolve as they must in order to stay alive, they won't have to be.
Crossposted at Greater Greater Washington.
labels: calverton, food, planning and development, politics, rest of moco, silver spring proper, takoma park, wheaton-kensington, white oak
Unfortunately, the minute anyone proposes to redevelop a neighborhood along the lines you describe (with more density, mixed uses, etc.) the idea is immediately attacked. Critics will argue that this kind of of redevelopment as (1) inevitably resulting in gentrification, because all of the things that make it more livable help to drive up prices; (2) a plot to make developers rich, because it calls for intensifying land use (3) un-American, because it fails to prioritize automobiles, both for residents and for drivers traveling through the area.
I feel lucky to be able to live in Woodside, a neighborhood that enjoys the accessibility to retail, tranportation options, and other benefits you describe. If our land use and tranportation policies favored this kind of development, we could have a lot more neighborhoods that share these qualities -- and they would become more affordable as a result.


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In a landscape photograph, the primary tonal and textural elements in the composition can be considered the bricks that comprise the basics of its construction, however, the relationships that these elements demonstrate with one another are the mortar that bonds them together, giving the image intrinsic visual strength. Much like the inter-relatedness of characters in a novel, the placement and interaction of complimentary and contrasting features, textures and tones in an image contribute massively to its cohesion and balance.
The immensely powerful triumvirate of light, timing and composition are what makes a landscape. Deciding how to manipulate and co-relate all three by working the scene on location and refining your images in post are what will develop your instincts as a landscaper and, as a corollary, maximise the impact of your images.
I have written before about acquiring a sequence of photos in the field and how it is a vital part of the landscaping discipline; considering the light, watching the clouds, changing position, altering the field and point of view, recomposing incrementally, adjusting exposure settings, switching lenses, playing with capture style etc. This kind of methodological and compositional diversity results in increasing the quantity and variety of images you will have when you return home. And, in my experience, the greater the range of photographs in your camera's swag bag, the merrier.
Below are some shots of Bull Point on a section of the South West Coastal Path* in North Devon.
After some fairly cautious and precarious (or cowardly, depending on your point of view...) investigation of the cliff-edge, gingerly shuffling around with the camera and tripod, peering over the side into the scary descent to the rocks below, I fired a sequence of shots from differing positions. Image A above produced a pleasing combination of textures, hues and tones. The horizon light of the twilight moment, just post-sunset, is working nicely because the gold and orange colours in the sky are complimented by similar colours in the cliff-top lichens in the foreground. The relationship of these hues ties the top and bottom of the image together. The textures of the mid-ground rocks clearly defines them from the smooth textures of the water. The clouds, an after-sunset charcoal, contrast against the ochre/grey-blue sky and mirror the shapes of the mid-ground rocks, creating a relationship between their analogous, semi-silhouetted profiles in the image.
...I'm waffling like I organised the sunset and the colours and the weather and everything... But I totally don't want this post to be just about me. It is as much about what Mother Nature presented to me (and I assure you Mother Nature is not always so appropriately obliging after a long hike). This is partly why I love what I do - I never know what I'm going to be given. And like all landscapers, I have to work with whatever is offered up. OK, so I walked three miles to get to the area, but the light and the landscape were gifts; they were the opportunities that experience has taught me to recognise and graciously accept. Obviously, none of this would be possible without the amazing stuff and the magical light in front of me. As a photographer I have added composition into the mix, essentially interpreting the view by combining field of view and point of view - and by including or excluding features to strengthen the final image.
I basically instructed my camera what to see and how to see it.
Anyway, back to the point about relationships and balance. Whilst Image A works in the areas of hue and tone and texture and contrast described above, the overall balance is off. The image is what builders refer to as "out of plonker". It's right-side heavy - and the mid-ground rocks seem to be sliding, unchecked, out of the lower right-hand corner of the frame.
Now, in Image B below, consider the slightly modified composition where I have moved and re-shot the scene.
By recomposing, I have brought the mid-ground rocks to the left slightly, centralising them more. This has improved the balance. The foreground cliff edge, now rising to the right, appears to be cradling the greater part of the mid-ground rocks, halting their slide out of frame that was demonstrated in Image A.
However, to my eye, the image does not derive any benefit from the left side 25%. Other than repetition, it adds nothing visually to the other 75% and, overall, the photo is still out of balance in terms of the left to right compositional weight distribution. Consequently, for my preferred final edit, I have selected the 1:1 crop in Image C below.
I think this cropping decision has, all at once, rationalised, simplified and strengthened the shot. I have maintained focus on the primary elements, retained enough of each to keep the tonal and textural balance described at the start of the post and improved the overall framing by discarding a superfluous area with the unnecessary features and distractions that were in it.
That's it. My final choice of image, process and crop.
Work the scene - maximise the contents of your swag bag of images
Watch the progression of the light, the changes in the weather and the movement of the clouds
Compose carefully and considerately at the right moment
Apply apposite technical and artistic refinements to your work
*The South West Coastal Path is a giant trail of extraordinary beauty. A rugged, rambling, rivetingly beautiful landscape photographers' paradise, with view after view of spectacular and mutable topographical grandeur. Meandering along the British coastline for over six hundred miles - from Minehead in Somerset, across the northern coasts of Devon & Cornwall, around the tip of the country's southernmost mainland point of Land's End, back up and along the south coasts of Cornwall & Devon and on to the Jurassic Coastline of Dorset, finishing at South Haven Point, near Poole.
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"The greatest teacher failure is..." - Yoda
"Be daring, be different, be impractical...
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2017 Landscape Photographer of the Year
Ophelia (drowning in ochre...)
UK LPOTY 2017
Think, move, recompose, shoot, repeat...
Get down!
High tide, low tide
Glorious Goodwood...
My toggery chums
Rona, Doris and me...
Frost and Fog... Fabulous
Priory Park Project
Lucky me...
Shape, form, inclusion and exclusion
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City of Fort Pierce announces public service grant opportunity
January 11, 2021 at 8:00 PM EST - Updated January 11 at 8:00 PM
The City of Fort Pierce announced Monday that a public service grant opportunity program will provide grant awards up to $5,000 to non-profit public service agencies that serve Fort Pierce individuals and families who earn very low, low, or moderate incomes.
The public service grant opportunity opens on Jan. 11 and remains open to accept applications until 3:00 p.m. on Friday, Feb. 5.
Grants will be awarded for many types of projects and programs. The funding comes from the US Housing Department.
To be considered for funding, applications must be received via email.
The 2020-2021 Public Service Grant Guidance and Application can be accessed online here.
For more information call 772-467-3169 or email grantsadminstration@cityoffortpierce.com
Fire near Capitol forces evacuation of inauguration rehearsal
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Local volunteer projects honor Martin Luther King Jr.