A very pretty story appeared in Scattered Seed recently which ran as follows. A bonny little fellow had golden curls clustering round his head, and these were the pride of a fond mother. One day this little boy determined to make himself like other boys, so, securing a pair of scissors and finding a quiet corner hidden from his mother's vigilant eye, he cut through the golden locks until not one of them remained. The family in order to punish him agreed to pretend not to know him, so that when he spoke to his father at dinner-time, his father asked, "Who is this strange boy?" And his brother said that he did not know him, and his mother turned her head away. At first the wee culprit thought this was a very funny joke, but as it continued, his face grew long and serious, and at length he burst into tears and cried, "Well, if you don't know me, God does, and I wish some of you did."
That was the story. Now let me give it an application. Shorn locks! And a very changed appearance! Are we reminded of anything by these? Well, yes, there was Samson, poor Samson! He dallied with temptation and his locks were shorn and he was made to grind in the mills of the enemies of God, an object of mockery to the scorners and of grief to the faithful. Poor Samson! But that took place three thousand years ago. We must come nearer home than that. Does anyone know a Christian who through cowardice, or fear of being thought singular, has made himself like his work-mates or associates who do not know the Lord, and who in consequence has lost the beauty of his Nazariteship, the brightness of his early love for his Saviour?
There is a moving lament in an Old Testament Book. It runs thus, "Her Nazarites were purer than snow, they were whiter than milk, they were more ruddy in body than rubies, their polishing was of sapphires; their visage is blacker than coal; they are not known in the streets; their skin cleaveth to their bones; it is withered, it is become like a stick."
What a change! Beauty, freshness, youth gone; zeal, devotion to the Lord, and joy in Him all lost, and instead distortion, drought, and moral and spiritual death. Such is the divinely inspired description of the backslider. Notice, "they are not known in the street." No longer do people say of such an one, "Well, if ever there was a Christian, he is one." Some perhaps say scornfully, "There's a Christian for you!" Those who once rejoiced in that early promise now pass the backslider by with averted eyes and sorrowful hearts; he is no longer known for the bright Christian he once was.
Do we know such an one, any of us? Or do we know any one who is on the road to such open backsliding, one who is a backslider in heart? Let us pause and think.
Ah, my friend, backslider, there's a grief in your heart, and your sighing is more real than your singing. Sometimes you are indignant that the Christians, your friends of other days, do not know you as once they did, but your conscience tell you that they are right. You are not known — not known! Stay, there is One who knows you still, One who never forgets, the One who said, "I know my sheep."
"I know Ephraim, and Israel is not hid from Me," said the Lord of old, when His people went far from Him: and again "I remember thee, the kindness of thy youth, the love of thine espousals." Yes, the Lord does not forget, and He wants you to remember. He says, "But call to remembrance the former days," and, "Remember from whence thou art fallen." You may take up the cry of the little boy of our story and say, "The Lord knows me." Thank God He does, and with words of love He would draw you from your backslidings and make you sing as of old. He will fill you with self-distrust and with confidence in Himself, and turn your very backsliding into your blessing. Let it be so without delay.


There is no doubt that windows can make a difference in a house, but factors like the weather, the time, the presence of kids and pets can contribute to damaged windows. For this reason, homeowners should consider replacing their house's windows when necessary. Despite offering protection, ventilation and a large variety of other benefits, energy efficient windows can save you a lot of money by effectively decreasing the cost of the energy bills. It doesn't matter the reason for the replacement, you should have in mind that contracting a professional will ensure that the service is done without problems. Replacement Windows Illinois can help you replace your windows with a fair price.
The average cost for this type of service is around $250 to $700 per window, considering a few aspects that influence the price. Accordingly, this value comprises situations when the replacement window is going into an already existing frame. The initial cost per window can be increased in case the homeowner wishes to replace all windows of the building.
For a three-bedroom house, replacing all windows might cost around $2500 to $7000. In addition, you should bear in mind that the company hired for the project can increase or decrease that price. If you're around the Naperville area, consider calling Replacement Windows Illinois today for a quote.
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Imagine that your count on an already existing frame, it certainly influences the cost of the replacement, as there is no need for the construction of a brand new frame. The type of the window is also taken into consideration, as double glazed and triple glazed windows have different prices. Additionally, the location of the building, along with exterior dressings such as decorative aspects, time demands, structural issues and insulation aspects can influence the total cost.
This alternative costs around $250 to $750 per window when they need to be replaced. The model that opens like a door is often found in basements and ceilings as it provides ventilation in a very efficient way.
The average cost to replace windows of this type is something around $300 and $750. Double hung windows are great options to increase air circulation and ventilation in the environment, as both the lower and upper sashes are able to move.
The cost to replace these windows is relatively low compared to the other types, as it is something around $150 to $375 per window. The old-fashioned classic style gives a vintage air to the building, which is elegant and inspiring.
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NEW YORK, Dec. 06, 2018 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — via NEWMEDIAWIRE — Power Clouds Inc. (www.powercloudsinc.com) (OTC Pink: PWCL) today announces that on November 29, 2018, FINRA approved of the Company's corporate action request changing its name to Alternus Energy Inc. FINRA also approved a change of its ticker symbol to "ALTN" with an effective date at the open of the market on November 29, 2018.
"Over the past 3 years we have been building the foundation for a sustainable and substantial long-term global business in alternative energy. With growth capital now in place due to our uni-tranche $20 million debt facility with InMost Partners LLC and the signing of an exclusive framework agreement with a leading developer in Germany to acquire at least 200MWs of solar projects it develops over the next 3 years, along with other similar relationships pending in the Netherlands, we now have the execution and funding relationships in place to significantly scale from our current base," said ALTN Chairman and CEO Vincent Browne.
"Given this inflection point in the business, along with our actions underway to pursue an up-listing of the Company to a US National Exchange (market conditions depending), we felt that now was the time to change the identity of the Company to one that better reflects our focus on alternative energy over the long term – not just in solar as it is today, but all forms of alternative energy projects and technologies that we can address in the future. We also wanted a corporate name that is understood in all corners of the world and can last for decades as we build a global brand. Alternus is the latin word for Alternative, and so what better name to address these requirements," continued Mr. Browne.


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Lifestyle Lifestyle News Royal Baby News Confirmed, Kate's Pregnant!
Royal Baby News Confirmed, Kate's Pregnant!
Hours ago, Kate Middleton, The Duchess of Cambridge was admitted to the hospital. It was said that she had a rare condition, hyperemesis gravidarum, which results in severe vomiting in which if not taken care of, can lead to dehydration, weight loss, and a build-up of toxins in blood or urine called ketosis.
Otherwise known as acute morning sickness.
Yes. It's true. The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge, Prince William and Kate Middleton are expecting a baby!
The royal baby will be born third in line to the throne, after Prince Charles and Prince William. He or she will one day be head of the armed forces, supreme governor of the Church of England and subsequently head of state of the UK and, subject to approval by the Commonwealth, 15 other countries.
St James's Palace issued a statement announcing the pregnancy which states:
Their Royal Highnesses the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge are very pleased to announce that the Duchess of Cambridge is expecting a baby. The Queen, the Duke of Edinburgh, the Prince of Wales, the Duchess of Cornwall and Prince Harry and members of both families are delighted with the news.
The Duchess was admitted this afternoon to King Edward VII hospital in central London with Hyperemesis Gravidarum. As the pregnancy is in its very early stages, her royal highness is expected to stay in hospital for several days and will require a period of rest thereafter.
Hyperemesis gravidarum often happens in very slim women who become pregnant and the demands of the pregnancy are overwhelming to the point of vomiting. The condition affects 2.5 per 1,000 pregnant women and can cause women to vomit blood. It usually passes after the first 16 weeks of pregnancy, but may also last longer. And thus, extra hydration and nutrients are needed to ensure the wellbeing of the mother and child.
Take care, Kate! We're all rooting for you.
The Duchess of Cambridge may have let slip and accidentally revealed the sex of the royal baby she's carrying while she was visiting the seaport of Grimsby today. She apparently said, "Thank you, I'll take that for my d…" before cutting herself off abruptly after being given a teddy bear.
67-year-old Sandra Cook, who was standing next to the expectant royal in the crowd replied her by asking, "You were going to say daughter, weren't you?". To which Kate said, "No, I don't know" and Prince William replied, "We're not telling".
No, William, you sure are not. But it slipped! Is the cat out of the bag? Prince William and Kate Middleton are going to have a daughter? Gosh!
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Vallejo city officials say water is clean after sediment found in reservoir water
VALLEJO, Calif. (BCN) - Update 2:30 p.m: Vallejo city officials say crews have flushed the system that was affected by sediment in the Swanzy Reservoir.
Residents are advised to run cold water for 5 to 10 minutes. Officials say if you see sediment or dirt, run until the water is clear.
You can call 707-648-4313 if the issue persists.
Vallejo city officials are telling some residents to only use water "if absolutely necessary" because sediment has gotten into water from the Swanzy Reservoir, affecting about 1,000 households.
The affected households are along Lemon Street to Interstate Highway 780 to Laurel Street and south to Pueblo Way, west to Porter Street and north back to Lemon Street.
While city officials said the water is safe to drink, despite debris and discoloration, residents should limit usage.
Residents may experience no or low water pressure and may see discolored water and sediment coming from their faucets.
City officials said the problem arose when the sensor in the Swanzy Reservoir's closed system gave a false reading, causing sediment to be sucked from the bottom into the system.
City crews are working to remove the dirt from the lines.
Swanzy Reservoir is located in south Vallejo, in the hills of the Glen Cove neighborhood near the state Highway 80 Al Zampa Memorial Bridge, which connects Vallejo and Crockett on westbound 80.
The reservoir is one of the oldest reservoirs in the city, dating back to the early 1900s, city officials said. Vallejo has an estimated population of 121,299, according to the 2016 U.S. Census.


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UK legislator charged with 2 sexual assaults against women
Posted: Jul 22, 2019 / 07:33 AM EDT / Updated: Jul 22, 2019 / 10:04 AM EDT
LONDON (AP) — A Conservative Party legislator in Britain has been charged with sexually assaulting two women.
The Crown Prosecution Service said Monday that Charlie Elphicke was charged with three counts of sexual assault.
Prosecutors say the first charge stems from an alleged attack in 2007 and the other two charges relate to two alleged attacks in 2016.
Elphicke's lawyer, Ellen Peart, said he will "defend himself vigorously" and is confident that he will clear his name.
The 48-year-old legislator is scheduled to appear in Westminster Magistrates' Court on Sept. 6.
Prosecutors said the decision to charge Elphicke was made after a review of evidence provided by London's Metropolitan Police.
The legislator had been suspended from the Conservative Party in November 2017 following "serious allegations," but was controversially restored by Prime Minister Theresa May 13 months later.
Boy charged with murder in stabbing of fellow East Tenn. 12-year-old
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It was Jankowski's second steal of home this month.
Jankowski's steal came with two outs in the eighth.
Travis Jankowski and the San Diego Padres are turning the straight steal of home into a trademark this season. "Dreaming of the first win, dreaming of playing up here, playing in front of the home fans...that was a pretty special moment for me".
With Ryan Vogelsong (1-2) on the mound, the Pirates committed two errors in the second inning.
Taillon's eight-inning outing matched the longest of his still-short career; he gave up only two hits over eight innings in beating the New York Mets 4-0 on June 14, in his second career start.
Ryan Buchter and Brandon Maurer completed the two-hitter with one ideal inning each.
Freese hit an RBI double in the third and scored on a single by Gregory Polanco. However, Jackson then made quick work of the Pirates, as he struck out Matt Joyce and got Josh Harrison and Starling Marte to ground out.
Pirates: C Francisco Cervelli did not play after leaving Wednesday's game with left wrist discomfort. The Pirates held out 1B John Jaso, who bruised and blackened an eye during a collision at the plate Tuesday. Pirates RHP Tyler Glasnow (shoulder) will complete a side session Thursday at PNC Park before throwing 65 or 70 pitches during a rehabilitation start Sunday at Altoona. Noonan was batting.321 with El Paso.
Padres: LHP Christian Friedrich (4-7, 4.76 ERA) will start Thursday in the finale of the three-game series and look to end his five-game losing streak that covers seven starts since June 23. He has not pitched more than five innings in any appearance this season.


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module Sass
  # SassScript is code that's embedded in Sass documents
  # to allow for property values to be computed from variables.
  #
  # This module contains code that handles the parsing and evaluation of SassScript.
  module Script
    # The regular expression used to parse variables.
    MATCH = /^\$(#{Sass::SCSS::RX::IDENT})\s*:\s*(.+?)
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    # The regular expression used to validate variables without matching.
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    # Parses a string of SassScript
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    # @param value [String] The SassScript
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      :Interpolation => Sass::Script::Tree::Interpolation,
      :Operation => Sass::Script::Tree::Operation,
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PRS Foundation has today announced the 19 new works, of various genres and scale, selected for the New Music Biennial 2019: a unique snapshot of UK contemporary music across two major festivals, on air and online.
Absolutely Cultured is proud to be producing the Hull festival (12 – 14 July) and to be a partner in this PRS Foundation initiative alongside London's Southbank Centre, BBC Radio 3 and NMC Recordings.
As part of the programme Absolutely Cultured is producing an ambitious outdoor piece by award-winning composer Dan Jones.
Following its success in Hull as part of the UK City of Culture year, PRS Foundation's New Music Biennial is returning to the city and London's Southbank Centre this summer with an incredible line up of artists and new commissions, as the sound of new music pops up in the most unusual locations.
A unique snapshot of UK contemporary music across two major festivals, on air and online, PRS Foundation has today announced the 19 new works selected for the New Music Biennial 2019. The programme includes an ambitious outdoor piece produced by Absolutely Cultured, as well as appearances from renowned artists such as playwright, poet and novelist Kate Tempest, composer and turntablist Shiva Feshareki, Forest Swords and BAFTA award-winning composer Jessica Curry.
Many of the new commissions explore the complexity of modern identities and all of the New Music Biennial commissions share an inspiring sense of experiment.
The Hull festival is being produced by Absolutely Cultured and features work by local musicians including Numb Mob, alongside new commissions from local partners Opera North, Freedom Festival Arts Trust and J-Night.
The sound of new music will be heard across the city of Hull in an array of unconventional and unusual venues, as audiences are invited into places they might not have been before.
As part of the programme Absolutely Cultured is working with Dan Jones, to create an ambitious piece for Hull; part of its continued effort to create outdoor works which transform the urban environment for large audiences. The BAFTA and Ivor Novello winning composer is returning to the city after acting as the supervising sound designer for the UK City of Culture 2017 opening event, Made In Hull. More details about this exciting piece will be announced soon.
The winning compositions were selected by a panel of judges, Chaired by BBC Radio 3 Controller Alan Davey and including Vanessa Reed (CEO, PRS Foundation), Gillian Moore CBE (Director of Music, Southbank Centre), Katy Fuller (Director, Absolutely Cultured) and radio presenters Kevin Le Gendre and Elizabeth Alker..
In addition to the pieces below, Absolutely Cultured in Hull will be commissioning a site specific piece, continuing its focus on outdoor works which transform the urban environment for large audiences. More details to be announced.
Kate Tempest is an English poet, musical artist, novelist and playwright. In 2013, she won the Ted Hughes Award for her work Brand New Ancients and her illustrious writing career has seen her win many awards since, often combining paper releases with music and performances. Her albums Everybody Down and Let Them Eat Chaos have both been nominated for the Mercury Music Prize and she was nominated for Best Female Solo Performer at the 2018 Brit Awards. She was Artistic Director of the 2017 Brighton Festival; Kate Tempest comes to the New Music Biennial with an impressive reputation for interdisciplinary work and this collaboration with the BBC Concert Orchestra will be a rare opportunity to see her hard-hitting work performed by a symphony orchestra.
Better known to some as a baritone soloist, Roderick Williams' reputation as a composer is growing steadily. His Advent antiphon O Adonai has become something of a favourite for choirs on both sides of the Atlantic and his Ave Verum Corpus Re-imagined was awarded the BASCA prize for Choral Composition in 2016. The new commission, which will be performed at further festivals next summer, will be a new significant work for Chineke!'s jazz-inspired programme.
New Metamorphosen is a commissioned work by British composer Edmund Finnis, written for Manchester Collective. Finnis' work is a response to Richard Strauss' masterpiece for string ensemble, Metamorphosen – like its namesake, it will be composed for 23 solo string players. In this starkly original new work, Edmund Finnis has painted something beautiful and strange, a music of close whispers and myriad reflections. New Metamorphosen will receive its premiere at the New Music Biennial, and will be taken on tour by Manchester Collective the same year to venues including the Invisible Wind Factory (Liverpool), The White Hotel (Salford), Leeds Town Hall, and Bridgewater Hall (Manchester). Following the tour, both works will be recorded and distributed, digitally, and on vinyl.
Rehearsal will be a new 15 minute ballet piece with live audio-visual elements. This piece will be an extension of elements from Care, the musical Klein presented at ICA in February 2018. The project will be scored, casted and directed by Klein, with dance choreographed by Samuel Kennedy and Scout Creswick. The cast will consist of teenage boys with no prior experience of ballet or dance performance. The result will be a live dance piece with original music performed by Klein, and live visuals created by Josiane Pozi.
9Bach will make an original composition which will contain words sung in the Welsh language. Woven purposefully in to the sound, the audience will hear a spoken word piece performed in English which will voice an interpretation (or feel) of the song's meaning . 9Bach's six musicians will play the music, and they will add analogue synthesisers, to augment the sonic range . They will also commission a creative writer to compose the English interpretation, and an actor / artist to perform it. The piece will beautifully share music and the two languages with audiences.
"Where to Build in Stone" is inspired by the shapes and sounds of the city of Hull, originally commissioned by J-Night for Hull Jazz Festival 2017. Performed with a variety of electronic and acoustic instruments, the piece is a vivid soundscape embroidered with evocative melodies that evoke a mysterious and oddly beautiful side of the city. The visual counterpart explores Hull over the course of a day, telling the story of the city through the things that are everywhere and overlooked; the familiar seen from an unfamiliar perspective. Music by Numb Mob, film by Joseph Bird.


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As a music student at Bristol University in 1992 I heard, and recorded from the radio, a fantastic concert by given by comedian and Hollywood actor Dudley Moore at the Royal Albert Hall. I had seen Dudley playing jazz on the classic BBC comedy TV show 'Not Only But Also' with Peter Cook from the 1960s but I was bowled over by this concert.
He played jazz standards and one original piece with his trio (with Peter Morgan on bass and Chris Karan on drums), conducted and performed his own music with the BBC Concert Orchestra from films he also starred in, played other piano compositions and some of his well know parodies of famous composers. As if that wasn't enough he also played Gershwin's Rhapsody In Blue and the slow movement "Elvira Madigan" from Mozart's Piano Concerto No.21 in C. This was all done with apparent ease and interspersed with funny commentary and anecdotes.
I was particularly moved by his compositions. They struck a connection with me. I was blown away with the musicality of his jazz playing.
Dudley was firstly a musician. He was an organ scholar at Magdalene College Oxford in the 1950s. He was a fine classical pianist, composer and sight reader but became better known for his jazz playing and comedy. His musical personality was as distinct as his comedic voice. It was amazing that he found time to do all these things brilliantly and give happiness to millions of people in so many different ways.
In 1998 I read that Dudley was not well. There were many rumours in the press and I wasn't sure what was true. I felt compelled to write and let him know how much his music was appreciated. I made and dedicated a piano transcription of the music from the film Bedazzled which he played at the 1992 concert and sent it to his agent Louis Pitt. I also dedicated a song 'It isn't even if' from my opera Heaven On Earth which contained a nod at the influence his music had on me.
A year later he phoned me out of the blue and asked if I could meet him in London during a visit to his first wife Suzy Kendall. I was very excited to do so but was sad to have recently learnt that tragically Dudley had been diagnosed with a rare, progressive and incurable brain disease called Progressive Supranuclearpalsy. This affected his movement, speech and coordination which meant he could no longer play the piano. I was shocked to see how it affected him but somehow Dudley had not lost his magnetic charisma, charm and generosity of spirit. I was so glad to have the chance to tell him how great I thought his music is.
I also met the distinguished pianist and writer Rena Fruchter who, with her musician Brian Dallow – also a musician – were friends of Dudley and had selflessly taken him into their home to look after him during his final illness.
I had not realised how deeply Dudley felt about his album Songs Without Words. Had I have realised (he was listening to the album when he died in 2002) I would have transcribed it sooner. Songs Without Words is a collection of beautiful and sophisticated jazz influenced piano compositions with subtle synth backings (with two guest solos by saxophonist Kenny G). Some are taken from film music, others are themes or improvisations Dudley had not written down.
Following Dudley's death Rena asked me to transcribe two pieces from the album for a memorial service I attended in Magdalene College in 2002. Following this I transcribed the whole album. I did the most meticulous I could for Dudley it was published by Faber in 2010.
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The skies turned dark over parts of Punjab and Haryana on Monday morning with some areas experiencing light to moderate rain accompanied by strong winds.
Darkness descended over Chandigarh and adjoining towns of Panchkula and Mohali, in Haryana and Punjab, respectively, around 8 am. The weather continued like this for nearly two hours.
The sudden change in weather since Sunday night have farmers worried in both agrarian states as the standing wheat crop in the agriculture fields is ready for harvest.
While wheat harvesting has begun in some parts of Punjab and Haryana, the bulk of the crop will be harvested within April.
"The strong winds and rainfall are not good for the wheat crop as the moisture content will go up and the crop can be flattened by the wind," farmer Balkar Singh of Mohali district said.
"The weather has turned very pleasant. This is a big relief from the rising temperatures. People would have enjoyed this change in weather more had it happened yesterday (on Sunday). Today is a working day," university student Amanpreet Kaur said.


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Q: Migration in rails turns varchar with 1 character to boolean I have an oracle database. In the database there are no booleans. But after I migrated to rails, the VARCHARS with 1 character became boolean. How do I turn it to varchar again? Btw my database is oracle 10g and I'm using the latest version of ruby and rails.
 Name                                      Null?    Type
 ----------------------------------------- -------- ----------------------------
 INTM_NO                                   NOT NULL NUMBER(12)
 INTM_NAME                                 NOT NULL VARCHAR2(240)
 CO_INTM_TYPE                              NOT NULL VARCHAR2(5)
 INTM_TYPE                                 NOT NULL VARCHAR2(2)
 TIN                                       NOT NULL VARCHAR2(20)
 CORP_TAG                                  NOT NULL VARCHAR2(1)
 SPECIAL_RATE                              NOT NULL VARCHAR2(1)
 LIC_TAG                                   NOT NULL VARCHAR2(1)
 MAIL_ADDR1                                NOT NULL VARCHAR2(50)
 MAIL_ADDR2                                         VARCHAR2(50)
 MAIL_ADDR3                                         VARCHAR2(50)
 BILL_ADDR1                                NOT NULL VARCHAR2(50)
 BILL_ADDR2                                         VARCHAR2(50)
 BILL_ADDR3                                         VARCHAR2(50)
 ISS_CD                                             VARCHAR2(2)
 PHONE_NO                                           VARCHAR2(40)
 BIRTHDATE                                          DATE
 CONTACT_PERS                                       VARCHAR2(50)
 DESIGNATION                                        VARCHAR2(5)
 PARENT_INTM_NO                                     NUMBER(12)
 CA_NO                                              VARCHAR2(15)
 LF_TAG                                             VARCHAR2(1)
 CO_INTM_NO                                         NUMBER(12)
 REF_INTM_CD                                        VARCHAR2(10)
 PAYT_TERMS                                         VARCHAR2(3)
 EFF_DATE                                           DATE
 EXPIRY_DATE                                        DATE
 USER_ID                                   NOT NULL VARCHAR2(8)
 LAST_UPDATE                               NOT NULL DATE
 REMARKS                                            VARCHAR2(4000)
 CPI_REC_NO                                         NUMBER(12)
 CPI_BRANCH_CD                                      VARCHAR2(2)
 WTAX_RATE                                          NUMBER(5,3)
 ACTIVE_TAG                                NOT NULL VARCHAR2(1)
 WHTAX_ID                                           NUMBER(5)
 INPUT_VAT_RATE                                     NUMBER(5,3)
 PRNT_INTM_TIN_SW                          NOT NULL VARCHAR2(1)
 OLD_INTM_NO                                        NUMBER(12)
 CA_DATE                                            DATE
 NICKNAME                                           VARCHAR2(40)
 CP_NO                                              VARCHAR2(40)
 EMAIL_ADD                                          VARCHAR2(50)
 FAX_NO                                             VARCHAR2(40)
 HOME_ADD                                           VARCHAR2(150)
 MASTER_INTM_NO                                     NUMBER(12)
 SUN_NO                                             VARCHAR2(40)
 SMART_NO                                           VARCHAR2(40)
 GLOBE_NO                                           VARCHAR2(40)
 PIN_CODE                                           VARCHAR2(6)

this is the table in the schema
create_table "giis_intermediary", comment: "Intermediary (agent) information", primary_key: "intm_no", force: :cascade do |t|
    t.string  "intm_name",        limit: 240,                           null: false
    t.string  "co_intm_type",     limit: 5,                             null: false
    t.string  "intm_type",        limit: 2,                             null: false
    t.string  "tin",              limit: 20,                            null: false
    t.boolean "corp_tag",                                               null: false
    t.boolean "special_rate",                                           null: false
    t.boolean "lic_tag",                                                null: false
    t.string  "mail_addr1",       limit: 50,                            null: false
    t.string  "mail_addr2",       limit: 50,
    t.string  "mail_addr3",       limit: 50,
    t.string  "bill_addr1",       limit: 50,                            null: false
    t.string  "bill_addr2",       limit: 50,
    t.string  "bill_addr3",       limit: 50,
    t.string  "iss_cd",           limit: 2,
    t.string  "phone_no",         limit: 40,
    t.date    "birthdate",
    t.string  "contact_pers",     limit: 50,
    t.string  "designation",      limit: 5
    t.integer "parent_intm_no",   limit: 12,   precision: 12,
    t.string  "ca_no",            limit: 15
    t.boolean "lf_tag"
    t.integer "co_intm_no",       limit: 12,   precision: 12
    t.string  "ref_intm_cd",      limit: 10
    t.string  "payt_terms",       limit: 3
    t.date    "eff_date"
    t.date    "expiry_date"
    t.string  "user_id",          limit: 8,                             null: false
    t.date    "last_update",                                            null: false
    t.string  "remarks",          limit: 4000
    t.integer "cpi_rec_no",       limit: 12,   precision: 12
    t.string  "cpi_branch_cd",    limit: 2
    t.decimal "wtax_rate",                     precision: 5,  scale: 3
    t.boolean "active_tag",                                             null: false
    t.integer "whtax_id",         limit: 5,    precision: 5
    t.decimal "input_vat_rate",                precision: 5,  scale: 3
    t.boolean "prnt_intm_tin_sw",                                       null: false
    t.integer "old_intm_no",      limit: 12,   precision: 12
    t.date    "ca_date"
    t.string  "nickname",         limit: 40
    t.string  "cp_no",            limit: 40
    t.string  "email_add",        limit: 50
    t.string  "fax_no",           limit: 40
    t.string  "home_add",         limit: 150
    t.integer "master_intm_no",   limit: 12,   precision: 12
    t.string  "sun_no",           limit: 40
    t.string  "smart_no",         limit: 40
    t.string  "globe_no",         limit: 40
    t.string  "pin_code",         limit: 6
  end

update: I looked at the oracle enhanced adapter gem at github and found these
# if emulate_booleans_from_strings then store booleans in VARCHAR2
      NATIVE_DATABASE_TYPES_BOOLEAN_STRINGS = NATIVE_DATABASE_TYPES.dup.merge(
        boolean: { name: "VARCHAR2", limit: 1 }
      )

Oracle enhanced adapter has a default to change a varchar that have only 1 character to a boolean.

A: The issue you are having is with the adapter.
As Oracle does not have a native boolean datatype, the activerecord-oracle_enhanced-adapter will, by default, attempt to convert certain values in specific fields to boolean. Fields ending _yn, for example, are automatically converted to boolean. Additionally, VARCHARS with a limit of one are treated as boolean.
You can fix this by changing the settings in config/initializers/oracle.rb:
ActiveSupport.on_load(:active_record) do
  ActiveRecord::ConnectionAdapters::OracleEnhancedAdapter.class_eval do
   self.emulate_booleans_from_strings = false
  end
end

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Anthony Edwards on Jimmy Butler going chest-to-chest with him: "That s*** be fake"
Kurt Helin
Late in the third quarter of the Timberwolves win over the Heat Wednesday night, Jimmy Butler and Anthony Edwards got chest to chest in a typical NBA scene: Two players squaring off as if they were going to fight with no actual intention of fighting. It happens so much around the league it basically goes unnoticed.
Except after the game, ANT called it for what it is. From Jon Krawczynski of The Athletic:
"He ain't finna fight nobody out there," Edwards said. "All that walking up on each other, that's stuff for the birds, man. I ain't about to fight. I don't get into all that. That s*** be fake."
Anthony Edwards and Jimmy Butler exchanging some words.
Heat lead the Timberwolves 89-88 in the 4th 👀pic.twitter.com/gZBMGR1q9M
Butler may not like it, but Edwards is right. That was never going to be a fight. It was a lot of machismo for show, but nobody was going to risk a technical. Nobody wanted to go (only Isaiah Steward recently wanted to really fight).
Edwards calls it like he sees it; he's not a veteran trying to keep a low profile. He's blunt. We could use more of that around the league.
Butler needs to be looking ahead, the Heat have an interesting early-season showdown against the surprising Bulls on Saturday night.
Check out more on the Heat
NBA Power Rankings: Warriors remain on top but Nets climbing fast Kyle Lowry on return to Toronto: 'I'm a man's man, but I know I'm... Wizards beat Heat 103-100 to split home-and-home series
Anthony Edwards on Jimmy Butler going chest-to-chest with him: "That s*** be fake" originally appeared on NBCSports.com


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Q: How can I generate exe from QT project? I have a project and I plan to send any human , I want to she/he can use anything only installing my exe. How can I do this?

A: use an installer, these allow you to select all needed dependencies and package them into a single archive and extract it into a designated folder.
To find these dependencies there is the dependency walker
I personally use nsis for this.


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QANTAS AND THE MAN WITH THE DRAGON TATOO … and his 'Uncle'
August 7, 2019 / caa4nsw
Qantas inked a freight deal with alleged associates of Chinese Triads in 2017. The airline clearly didn't check the bona fides of its business partners, which they could have googled in one-minute flat. …
Qantas and the Man with the Dragon Tattoo … and his "Uncle"
Aug 4, 2019 | Featured, Finance, Markets
image: Dean
Qantas inked a freight deal with alleged associates of Chinese Triads in 2017. The airline clearly didn't check the bona fides of its business partners, which they could have googled in one-minute flat. Michael Sainsbury and Michael West report on Reuben Milne, the man behind the deal.
Reuben Milne's life journey took him from a quiet childhood in suburban Auckland to the cockpit of a Sikorsky S-76 executive helicopter as personal pilot for one of Asia's most powerful billionaires, the Macau casino tsar, Stanley Ho.
The New Zealand-Australian dual national spent 13 years as chief pilot of Ho's fleet of executive helicopters, ferrying Ho, his immediate family members and a host of international dignitaries, celebrities and high rollers to the world's biggest gambling mecca, the peninsula of Macau.
Milne was clearing almost triple the money he could have expected to make as a helicopter pilot in Australia. He was paid around $US200,000 a year with an effective tax rate of around 10 per cent. On top of his salary, he enjoyed a generous expat living allowance. But it appears that wasn't enough.
Sydney Airport, October 2017, Qantas and JetFast Macau executives with their freshly minted $14.7 million charter agreement. (Left to Right) Nick McGlynn (Qantas Freight COO), Reuben Milne (JetFast CEO and founder), Peter Cheng (JetFast Director), Paul Jones (Qantas Freight EGM)
The 50-year old former pilot wanted to be a big player in the booming gambling hub, so he came up with the idea to build an air freight empire under the banner of JetFast Macau.
The plan was to run a weekly air cargo service between Sydney and Macau sending Australian produce to Macau's five star hotels and casinos, and bringing Chinese e-commerce goods back to Australia on the return leg.
He convinced a handful of private investors and Australia's flagship airline, an apparently unwitting Qantas, to sign a deal that would reputedly cost both parties a collective $18 million. We say "unwittingly" because it soon emerged that there appears to have been Triad money behind the deal.
The pilot vanishes
Milne now seems to be on the run, although he lists his parent's home in the exclusive Sydney eastern suburb of Bellevue Hill as his main residence, he has not been seen or heard of since December of 2018. Calls and emails to Milne's parents failed to shakeout any contact details.
A few days before Christmas last year, he deleted all of his social media accounts, those of his Hong Kong-born wife Mei Mei and his two daughters. This included their Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn and WhatsApp accounts as well as the Chinese messaging app WeChat. His previous Australian mobile number has been disconnected.
Prior to his disappearance he was living in Sydney with a long-time friend, Marcus Rubenstein, who does freelance promotional work for Chinese events in Australia.
Reuben Milne, then Flight Operations manager for Crown Melco Macau, in Italy taking delivery of an AgustaWestland AW139 executive helicopter on behalf of the the then James Packer/Lawrence Ho-controlled casino venture.
"Milne literally walked out the door, said I'll call you later and I thought nothing of it. That afternoon I walked past his room, everything was gone and it was the last I ever heard from him. This is someone I'd known for 32 years," Rubenstein says.
At 11:34pm on Christmas night, Rubenstein received a text message from one of Milne's Macau business associates, asking him if he knew Milne's whereabouts. Suspicious, he responded 'no', which was true.
In the first week of January the same Macau associate, who Rubenstein will not identify, rang alleging Milne had fled Macau having lost his associates $HK30 million on his failed deal to launch JetFast and its plan for weekly flights with Qantas freight division to and from Macau.
They left no doubt that they wanted him found. Milne had returned to Australia in August 2018 and despite telling Rubenstein he would be staying in Sydney his apartment for just two weeks, he ended up staying nearly four months.
"It was immediately obvious", says Rubenstein, "that he was not looking for a job as he'd told me, there were no interviews, no meetings, no phone calls".
The mark of the Triad
"Then one day he walked into the living room with his shirt off and I was shocked to see a dragon tattooed across his back. It's a common mark of Triad gang members and it dawned on me his story about his business funding coming from legitimate sources was almost certainly a lie."
The realisation came too late for Rubenstein, who'd also lost money thanks to Milne. In April 2018, he wired $12,000 to Milne's wife Mei Mei in Hong Kong, to help pay the family's living expenses. In addition, he says he'd given Milne cash loans totalling another $20,000, including the payment of his children's private school fees.
Some months earlier, in March 2018, Milne asked Rubenstein to consult on the marketing of JetFast. Its flights with Qantas had begun and the two companies were planning a launch in Macau on March 28. It would never happen and, as Rubenstein later discovered, at the very same time Milne was getting him to work on the project, he was also briefing lawyers in Macau – asking them if JetFast could walk away from a $14.7 million Qantas charter deal the company had signed five months earlier. Rubenstein was never paid.
A dissolute life turned around
Early in his adolescence Reuben James Milne appeared to be going off the rails. His family moved to Sydney's eastern suburbs from Auckland in 1983 and enrolled their son in Vaucluse High School, where it took them months to discover he never actually showed up.
As a teenager he was arrested and appeared in Sydney's Waverley Local Court, where he was found guilty on petty theft charges. Around the same time, he was caught by the Department of Social Security claiming unemployment benefits under three different names. He paid back the money he'd falsely claimed, in order to avoid a criminal prosecution.
JetFast Macau executive team on Sydney Airport tarmac, Lai Pak Leng aka Parry Lai (second from left), Reuben Milne (second from right), Richard Milne (far right).
In 1990 Milne turned his life around, enrolling in TAFE to complete the theoretical course to become a helicopter pilot. He joined well-regarded Australian company, Professional Helicopter Services in Melbourne, as a pilot flying charter work. In 1996 he began flying the Sikorsky S-76 helicopter, taking offshore oil rig crews from Sale in Victoria to the Bass Straight.
By chance, the following year Stanley Ho's company, which then had a monopoly licence for Macau's casinos, had brought the first Sikorsky helicopters to Macau and had no pilots rated to fly them.
Milne was among the first pilots the group hired. A good, hard-working pilot, with an unblemished flying record, he gained the trust of Stanley Ho, who had Milne fly all his immediate family members and VIP guests. Milne also came to know all of Ho's children.
When Stanley Ho's oldest son Lawrence Ho who had founded the Melco casino group in 2004 was looking for a pilot he personally brought Milne. He become the group's Flight Operations Manager for its private jets and VIP helicopters. Milne became a division head within the Crown Melco group – a joint venture between Ho's Melco and James Packer's Australian listed company then known as Crown Casinos – now Crown Resorts.
He organised the delivery of an Italian-built AW319 executive helicopter, which was used to ferry VIP gamblers and the bosses of the Packer-Ho casino empire.
The man called Uncle
Along the way, Milne had squandered much of the money he earned. He opened a retail shop selling French kitchenware; a convenience store and another selling antiques and collectibles. All of these businesses failed.
There was nothing in Milne's past to suggest he had the skills to run a business of any size, let alone an international airfreight company. There was another, darker, side to Milne's life in Macau.
The family of his wife Mei Mei Yeung whose uncle is a casino junket operator – a business that specialises in getting high roller gamblers for major casinos, wining dining and entertaining them so they will spend the maximum amount of money in the company's exclusive high roller gambling rooms.
(Left to Right) Reuben Milne (JetFast CEO and founder), Peter Cheng (JetFast Director), Paul Jones (Qantas Freight EGM) sign the $14.7 million charter agreement between Qantas and, the failed Macau airfreight business, JetFast.
A range of studies have shown than junket operators have links to Hong Kong and Macau Triads and recent revelations by the Nine media group have alleged that junkets who bring players to Crown Resorts have those same links. "He (Milne) was always very flippant about his wife's family, headed up by a man he only ever referred to as "Uncle".
"He dismissed Uncle as someone who organised group visits to casinos and was involved in small time loan sharking," says Rubenstein. "Now I believe his business is somewhat more sinister."
The man known as Uncle lives in a part of Macau known as Taipa, in a small enclave along the Estrada Nordeste da Taipa which reputedly is home to a number of Triad bosses. His luxury apartment is several stories below the penthouse of Milne's JetFast business partner, Lai Pak Lang, whose father Lai Tong Sang is reputedly one of Macau's biggest Triad kingpins.
For years until his business failed, Milne lived across the road in the Pearl On The Lough building, where one of his neighbours was the convicted Triad boss Wan Kuok "Broken Tooth" Koi, the most feared of all Macau's organised crime bosses in the 1990s.
Now it appears as though only Milne's immediate family members know his exact whereabouts but Michaelwest.com.au has learned that he has touted a resume around aviation circles in the past months, listing his address as Howick in suburban Auckland.
While he details his work with Stanley Ho and Crown Melco, notably there is no mention of JetFast or Qantas on his current resume. It's something Milne would be keen to forget but not likely forgotten by those who lost millions on a deal for which he was the principal architect.
Editor's Note: from an aviation and security perspective the interesting thing about this story is not that Qantas would do a deal with an entrepreneur, it is that Qantas would do a deal – an international freight deal – without checking out the background of its partners, their connections and the provence of their capital. In responding to questions, the airline chose its words carefully. This week, in a follow-up to the story below, we examine the deal.
Revealed: Qantas venture with Triads skids off runway
Qantas has an unblemished record when it comes to safety. Unfortunately the same can't be said when it comes to doing deals with international crime gangs. Michael Sainsbury reports.Michael West
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SOURCE: https://www.michaelwest.com.au/qantas-and-the-man-with-the-dragon-tattoo-and-his-uncle/
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Liam Neeson has slammed New York Mayor Bill de Blasio for his announcement that he will publish a bill aimed at driving the horse and carriage operators out of Central Park.
The Irish-born "Taken" star has been a longtime supporter of the carriage industry which is heavily Irish with an estimated 60 of the 300 drivers from Irish backgrounds.
Neeson stated: "The Central Park carriage drivers woke up Monday morning to learn that the Mayor decided to take away their jobs and make them cab drivers without ever consulting with them or so much as step into a stable.
"New York City's historic and beloved horse carriage industry—overwhelmingly supported by New Yorkers and tourists alike should be celebrated, not destroyed.
Neeson who lives near the park has a long term relationship with the drivers. He had previously called on de Blasio to meet him and the drivers but the mayor refused.


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The 2014 Sherwood State School Fete is over for another year.
What a success it was!! We had such great community support this year!
We would like to thank the hard-working Stall Convenors and their helpers on fete day that made the day such a success. At this stage, early estimates of profit from the fete are $50,000. This is a huge effort! WELL DONE!!
Thank you to the families and businesses who donated goods & services and those who supplied shopping items each week. Thanks also go to the group of Sherwood Parents who came and helped at the various working bees.
Well done to our creative and talented students for their wonderful performances on fete day. A big thank you! To Ms Rebecca Starr, for her dedicated patience and hard work with our junior school performances.
Many thanks to the Sherwood State School teachers, teacher aides, ground staff & office staff that all assist in making this day so successful. Special thanks go to Dr Greg Nelson.
And finally heartfelt thanks to the Fete Committee – Joanna Allen, Yasmin Went, Katrina Partridge, Murray Adams, Kim Crane, Lisa Bellamywells, Margie Loveday and K-le Gomez-Cabrera for making this fete day become a reality!


Loughton School currently teaches mathematics in mixed ability classes using a 'mastery' approach. We have additional small booster groups in each year group of children who require the curriculum to be taught at a slower or faster pace than the majority of their peers.
In line with the 'mastery' approach to the National Curriculum, it is important that the correct mathematical language is being used to support children's learning. The NCETM has developed a thorough glossary of terms to support understanding and shows by which point in their learning (either KS1 or KS2) they should be familiar with these terms.
"Using correct mathematical language is crucial for thinking, learning and communicating mathematically. Children may build knowledge through remembering information that they hear, but it is only when they put these ideas into their own words that it becomes clear whether concepts have been learned effectively.
We need to encourage children to explain what they are doing and why they are doing it. We must offer them opportunities to use mathematical language frequently, for example by participating in paired activities, group discussions and games as well as other dialogues. This will help children to learn new vocabulary, to use words they already know more accurately, and to express new ideas and new thinking.
For children to participate effectively in mathematics lessons, they must acquire the appropriate vocabulary to enable them to explain their thinking and make progress in different areas of mathematical knowledge."
At Loughton we believe every child is a mathematician. The National Curriculum requires children to master the skills of mental calculation as well as efficient written methods (+, -, x, ÷). These are essential tools to effective problem solving, reasoning and mathematical explanation. In order for parents to support their children's learning, the four short videos below explain how we teach written methods. We start with expanded methods so that the children understand what is happening with the numbers and how they are being manipulated. Eventually, when they are confident we move the children on to the shorter, more traditional methods. Written methods are taught alongside a growing awareness of and confidence using place value and the number system.


This area is at the centre of some fantastic mountain biking, from serious black runs to fun greens and family friendly forest trails.
A number of family friendly bike rides are available at Halfway in the Crychan forest, about 15 minutes drive from Llandovery, this area has an extensive network of paths and bike ride routes which will keep you occupied all day.
Cwm Rhaeadr is a quick and fun red run which only takes and hour but will have you shouting for joy by the end of it. The village of Cilycwm has a great little pub, the Nueadd Fawr which does good food.
Brechfa forest offers some wonderful mountain bike rides, from a very challenging black run, a wild red run which does get the adrenalin pumping to a fun blue and green run. The pub in the village of Abergorlech offers a great welcome to mountain bikers.
Coed Trallwn is a privately owned mountain bike trail, with cafe which is open during the summer months. It offers a fun mix of black, red and blue runs and the homemade cakes and soups are great.
Usk Reservoir offers a gentle biking and walking opportunity, this green trail follows the edge of the reservoir with undulating tracks.
Further away is the Afan valley – this area offers extensive and challenging mountain bike rides for the more serious rider.


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The museum opened its doors in 1992, and in 1993 the Spanish state acquired the Thyssen-Bornemisza collection from Baron Hans Heinrich Thyssen-Bornemisza. The museum also holds the collection of Baroness Carmen Thyssen-Bornemisza. These two collections contain approximately one thousand works of art that range from the thirteenth to the late twentieth century, and is considered the largest private art collection in the world.
The collection, along with those from El Prado and the Reina Sofía form the world's largest group of paintings. The Thyssen Museum features pieces that complement the other two museums' collections in terms of style and movements.
The Thyssen Museum features styles such as early Italian and Dutch, German Renaissance, seventeenth-century Dutch, Impressionism and German Expressionism, Russian Constructivism, Geometric Abstraction and Pop, and a sample of nineteenth-century American paintings, virtually unknown in Europe, but here occupying two rooms in the museum.
With over one thousand works on display, the collection enables visitors to contemplate the major periods and schools of painting in Western art and the Renaissance, Mannerism, Baroque, Rococo, Romanticism, and the art of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
Among its most representative masters on display are works by Rubens, Dali, Degas, Van Gogh, Chagall, Canaletto, Monet, Gauguin, Bacon, and Picasso, among others.
From Tuesday to Sunday From 10h to 19h.
December 24th and 31st open From 10h to 15h
From March 12t on, the museum opens From 11h to night
Closed on Mondays and December 25st and January 1st


I am between poses, loitering at the centre of the circle of easels as everyone swaps over to new sheets of paper and passes round the masking tape, chatting.
Out of the blue Evelyn asks – so what made you and your girlfriend split up then?
Her voice is bell-like. Who can hear us? I stop myself from looking around. There is hubbub. Maybe nobody. I didn't realize I had divulged so much about myself. I have spoken more to Evelyn than other students, I suppose because she has spoken more to me. She's a bit more mature. And she does have the most gorgeous body in the room.
16. How old we look, or how old we feel?
Click on the above to moan about getting old. Or not. After all, don't we need maturity to create our greatest work?
2. Bel, my photographer / creative collaborator on THE LIFE ROOM (click on the link on her site to view our completed 3-minute pieces), was about to get rid of all her Afghanistan sweaters from her former intrepid international career in photo-journalism (apparently the nights were very cold). I discovered them in her charity-shop bag and have distributed them to the needy: Feisty Fraulein J, Feisty's Significant Other Calm Nick, Bel's assistant Mike Kilyon, and my ex, Ilka, in Sweden. I turned a fifth sweater into a tea-cosy for Bel's birthday, thus avoiding having to spend money on her. See the five sweaters – and their wearers – and Feisty's guinea-pig – HERE.
RALPH LINNEY attends Bingley's Aire Valley life-drawing group organised by artist Jane Fielder, which has at last moved to an excellent home in the basement of Jane's 'Bingley Gallery' (Yorkshire, UK). No more do I have to cycle up an almost-vertical road for four miles to model for this group.


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Anthony David Lema was een Amerikaanse golfer. Twee jaar nadat hij het Brits Open won, verongelukte hij met zijn vrouw toen hun gehuurde vliegtuigje geen brandstof meer had en in een waterhasard bij de 17de green van de Lincolnshire Country Club in Illinois neerstorte.

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Tony Lema verloor zijn vader toen hij pas drie jaar was, waarna zijn moeder van een bijstandsuitkering leefde. Er waren nog drie kinderen in het gezin. Toen hij 17 jaar was, ging hij bij de Marine, die hem naar Korea stuurde.

Golfcarrière
In 1955 werd hij assistent-pro op de San Francisco Golf Club. Hij vond een sponsor: Eddie Lowery uit Portland (Oregon). Lowery zou hem $.200 per week geven. Dit moest terugbetaald worden, plus dat Lema een derde van zijn prijzengeld aan Lowery moest afstaan.

Zijn eerste overwinning op de PGA Tour was onverwacht. Hij had al drie drankjes op toen iemand hem kwam vertellen dat hij in de play-off zat met Paul Harney. Hij versloeg Harney op de tweede extra hole. Daarna gingen de resultaten bergafwaarts en in 1962 was zijn schuld aan Lowery opgelopen tot £.11.000. In oktober speelde hij de Orange County Open Invitational. Hij had gezegd dat hij de pers op champagne zou trakteren als hij dat toernooi won. Vanaf die zondag werd hij Champagne Tony genoemd. Het bleek een ommekeer in zijn leven. In totaal won hij 12 toernooien en eindigde hij  elf keer als runner-up. In 1963 en 1965 speelde hij de Ryder Cup.

Lema had op de PGA Tour al acht toernooien gewonnen toen hij in 1964 het Brits Open speelde op de Old Course van St Andrews. Hij had de caddie van Arnold Palmer geleend en daarmee slechts een oefenronde van negen holes gespeeld. Tip Anderson, die week zijn caddie, was de zoon van Jamie Anderson, hij was op St Andrews opgegroeid en kende de baan dus goed. Het was de achtste keer dat Lema een Major speelde en de enige keer dat hij het won. Zijn totale score was 279, slechts één slag verwijderd van het record op St Andrews. Jack Nicklaus eindigde met een ronde van 66 (gelijk aan het baanrecord) en eindigde op de tweede plaats.

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 PGA Tour

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 1957: Imperial Valley Open
 1958: Idaho Open
 1961: Hesperia Invitational Open, Mexican Open
 1962: Mexican Open, Northern California Open, Northern California PGA Championship
 1963: Northern California PGA Championship
 1964: World Series of Golf, Northern California PGA Championship

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 Ryder Cup: 1963 (winnaars), 1965 (winnaars)
 Canada Cup: 1965

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This week's teaser is from Trigger Warning: Short Fictions and Disturbances by Neil Gaiman which is really good so far. This teaser is a actually a snippet from the introduction by the author.
He's right about us all wearing masks and how letting down those walls and taking off those masks makes us vulnerable. What do you think?
Speaking of Neil Gaiman, I found this site via his, All Hallow's Read and I really like the idea of giving someone a scary book on Halloween. And on another note I had no idea Gaiman was from the U.K. I was surprised to hear the accent on the clip on the Hallow's Read site. I like it!
I haven't tried his collection of short fictions yet so I'll be curious to see how you end up liking it. I agree with what he says about people and the masks they wear.
I love that quote you shared. Neil Gaiman seems like such an insightful person. He's one of those authors I would love to meet in person someday. I hope you are enjoying his stories!
Hi Wendy. Yes I agree, meeting him in person would be awesome, he seems down to earth. Happy reading!
Personally, I don't really enjoy Neil's writing, or rather I should say genre choice, as he is clearly an author of great repute.
However, the quote you featured from the introduction to the book, had me re-reading it several times, to fully appreciate its complexity and insightfulness.
Hi Yvonne, that quote grabbed my attention when I began reading the introduction. Glad you enjoyed it as well, have a great week!
The idea of people wearing masks has been explored in literature for a very long time. Shakespeare did it so well. It is such a universal idea that writers are still grappling with it.
Hi Brian. Shakespeare is a great example. Enjoy your week!
Greetings, Naidia! I, too, enjoyed the (thoughtful and thought-provoking) quotation from the intro. I'd like to read Neil Gaiman's work in the near future.
Hi Susan! He's very good. Hope you had a wonderful birthday!


One of the things that many people most dislike about dentistry is having a local anaesthetic- the medication delivered by injection that numbs the part of the mouth that is about to receive treatment. Even though the benefits of having this available are very welcome (that is, we don't have to experience having dentistry performed on non-anaesthetised teeth), there's still something about the process- about having a needle- that causes most people's heart rate to increase, even if just a little bit.
If you've had more than one dentist taking care of you during your lifetime, you've probably noticed that there are a lot of different words they use to describe an injection of local anaesthetic. Similarly, people who are not dentists themselves will use a variety of words to describe the process from their point of view.
We trawled the internet looking to see whether there was already a glossary of terms describing local anaesthetic injections. Finding none, we thought it would be interesting to create our own!
The correct term for the type of anaesthesia that is obtained via direct injection is a "Local Anaesthetic" (as opposed to a General Anaesthetic, which renders a person completely unconscious). In dentistry, the needle tip is guided through the tissues of the mouth to a location where the nerves that provide sensation to the area to be worked upon are located. By placing the dose of local anaesthetic drug in this location, all the tissues innervated by those nerves become anaesthetised or numbed.
Dentists target the nerves that provide sensation rather than those that provide movement to the area. It might feel difficult to move your mouth after an injection, but that's because of the numb sensation- you do actually retain the ability to move.
We provide some end notes to this article, under the list of words used to describe a local anaesthetic. Some of these notes will describe the process of giving a local anaesthetic injection in more detail. If you'd rather not know the details, it might be best to avoid reading those notes!
There are several different local anaesthetic drugs used in dentistry in Australia, and many more different brand names.
Does it sometimes seem that your dentist and dental assistant are communicating telepathically? Some dental teams have worked together for long enough that the assistant will be able to anticipate the dentist's every request. This means that it only takes a nod, a lift of the eyebrow or the tiniest hand signal for the dental assistant to know that it's time to administer the local anaesthetic.
In a future article, we'll explore the process of giving a local anaesthetic injection from the dentist's point of view, and what tricks they have up their sleeve to make the procedure as comfortable as possible.
In Australia, there are guidelines around using drug names in advertising, including on websites, which is why we haven't listed any names in this article.
In dental school, dentists learn a lot of jargon and often adopt a shorthand method of communicating between themselves and other members of the dental team.
So dentists will often abbreviate the term "Local Anaesthetic" to its initials, 'L.A' or will just use the term 'Local".
You might have noticed this yourself if you've had a few dental procedures done: if you are having work done on the lower jaw towards the back of your mouth it often feels like a large portion of your face has been numbed: half of the lower lip, the chin and the tongue become profoundly numb. On the other hand, if you are having an upper back tooth worked on, the injection seems to numb far less- sometimes it's quite difficult to discern the numbed area.
This is because of the anatomy of the jaw- where the nerves that innervate the teeth are located and what other parts of the mouth they supply.
The type of injection that is used to numb an upper tooth or a lower front tooth is called an "Infiltration": the local anaesthetic medication is delivered on the outside of the jawbone, near where the tips of the roots are located. The anaesthetic seeps through the bone and reaches the nerves encased inside. Because the local anaesthetic solution reaches the nerves near their end-point, the feeling of numbness is really centred onto the tooth that's being worked on a tooth or two either side.
The type of injection used to numb a lower molar is called a "Mandibular Block". The bone of the mandible is very thick, and an infiltration won't usually work because the local anaesthetic can't penetrate the bone and get to the nerves before they enter the roots of the teeth. In this case, the local anaesthetic needs to be delivered to a location further back, just before the location where the main trunk of the nerve enters the mandible or lower jaw.
From this point, the nerve trunk feeds all of the teeth on that side of the jaw, half the lower lip and half the chin. So when the anaesthetic is delivered, everything goes numb!
The dentist needs to use a longer needle tip to reach this location. They won't usually ask for a 'long' because this might make the patient feel a little nervous (long needle? long time to give the injection? long acting? yikes!), but they may ask for a 'short', which sounds a lot better!
Most dentists are the masters of euphemisms- using pleasant words to describe something that people might find unpleasant or scary. There are probably hundreds of euphemisms used in Australia- this might be an interesting list to develop further!
Since dentists prefer euphemisms, they are less likely to use these types of terms, particularly 'a shot' or 'a jab', as these sound aggressive, and deaden just doesn't sound at all pleasant.
Our research tells us that the term 'freeze it' is commonly used in Canada: this one is a little gentler, so your dentist may well use this term.
Dentists usually won't even use the term "A needle', because so many people have a fear of the needle.
There are no doubt other words and phrases that deserve a place on this list, and we will keep adding to it as they come to mind. If you can think of anything, please let a member of the Corinna Dental team know and we'll add it to the list.
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Have Anything to Ask Us?
In the following sections, you will find some of the most frequently asked questions sent by our pre-alpha testers.
When will it be available?
The Complete retail version of Alan Sharp will be available in summer 2021 worldwide.
On which platforms will the game be available?
Alan Sharp will officially be available on Desktop platforms(Windows,Linux and Mac)
Will there be a playable demo?
Yes, there will be a playable demo. However, our demo represents a part of the Chapter 0: prequel story to the original storyline.
It will be available on Steam Summer Festival which is running from 09/06/2020 – 14/06/2020.
In which perspective is the game played in?
Alan Sharp is played in First Person perspective.
What are the differences between the Demo and the final release?
Having the final release will grant you the full experience of what Alan Sharp has to offer, including:
– Overall polishing and redesign with new visuals, puzzles, collectibles, NPCs and a much bigger open-world environment, including free, interesting activities non-related to the main story of the game.
– More voiceovers and progression of the story
– Improved gameplay mechanics and performance optimizations
– More horror and danger! 🙂
Are there any plans to bring Alan Sharp to mobile, VR or any other platforms?
There aren't any plans at the moment, however, we are much enthusiastic and willing to make our game available to other platforms, including VR, sometime after the release.
What's your policy on filming and monetizing Let's play videos, streaming, etc.?
Enjoy, solve and feel free to share Alan Sharp with all of the world without restrictions. We are 100% on board with all of it!
I'm having technical difficulties. Who do I contact for support?
Feel free to send an e-mail through our official website contact form at anytime if you're experiencing bugs or running into crashes and our team would gladly assist you as soon as humanly possible.
Where can I purchase Alan Sharp for Windows, Mac and/or Linux?
The full release of Alan Sharp will be available through Steam on all desktop platforms.
If I purchase the game on one supported desktop platform, will I have access to all supported desktop platforms?
Of course, purchasing Alan Sharp will grant you access to the Windows, Mac and Linux versions of the game.
What languages are supported on desktop platforms?
Alan Sharp on desktops supports English text and audio, with possibility for multiple languages in near future.
What are the system requirements to play Alan Sharp?
Can you reveal some of the features or gameplay experience?
Definitely. Like we mentioned before, Alan Sharp will be an open-world where a player will be able to roam the streets of Beggers Hole, a forest, shore, and countryside. The folk of Beggers Hole will have a random daily routine which will change as the day turns to night and vice-versa. You will be able to interact with most of them, so listen to their conversations carefully, they might reveal the next clue. Being a mystery game, there will be a lot of puzzles that need to be solved to reveal what truly happened.
Also, one of our most promising features is the survival aspect of our game. You might be chased down and killed by an entity you know nothing about when you least expect it.
Where can i report a problem or Bug in the game?
If you are unable to find solution in the Frequently Asked Questions, feel free to contact us
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"We Are All Buddha's"
October 20, 2013 by Jason Sharp
We are all Buddha's; this inner truth is one of the wonderful realizations we derive from regular meditation practice. We – all human beings are blessed with deep inner wisdom and compassion. Our own personal meditation practice enables us to access that wisdom and compassion so that we can experience the peace and joy that it engenders. So that we can share it with others. The following zen story helps to convey the profound realization that we are in fact "All Buddha's".
It had been announced by an old and wise teacher that the Buddha would be arriving at the monastery this particular day to deliver a special message on the topic of enlightenment.
Like rivulets of water into a thirsty garden, devotees from far and wide began streaming into the temple grounds from all directions.
It was early morning when the air was still cool that they first started showing up and
by noon as the sun burned off that mornings chill the monasteries public grounds had become filled with hundreds of truth seeking monks.
From a distance they appeared like a sea of flowing orange coloured robes, all waiting for the enlightened one to surface. The large group of monks seemed indistinguishable from one another. Men and woman alike seated with intention yet in stillness, with shaven heads all slightly bowed in silent meditation.
By early evening, all who desired to attend were there. The tranquil silence and peace that pervaded from the monk's meditation covered the grounds like a warm blanket as their meditation grew deeper as the day progressed into early evening. Their bodies like vehicles of peace, emanated throughout the surrounding world a state of pure rest and repose.
It was then, in the midst of this ocean of stillness that it suddenly occurred – a young monk sitting in the centre of this calm quiet pool of humanity abruptly arose, as if he were a wave stirred up from the the oceans depths and with pure joy and the sincerest intention announced to all in attendance – "I HAVE ARRIVED"!!
Story by D F Micallef (2011)


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Home Sports Mastering the Basics: hitting and fighting in hockey
Mastering the Basics: hitting and fighting in hockey
What roles do fighting and hitting play in progressing the game of hockey?
Defenseman Matt Brown takes a hit to make a pass to his teammate, a common but selfless play. Jake Friedrich / SFU Hockey
By: Greg Makarov, Sports Writer
The role of hitting and fighting in sports has been debated for many years, especially in hockey where contact is frequent. Players move at high speeds to hit an opponent off the puck or use their body to gain position. Although the game has evolved over the years for player safety, the competitiveness of throwing punches has been left relatively untouched.
Hitting — Another Ambiguity
Interestingly, the NHL does not provide an official definition for a hit apart from a safety video released some years back. This only adds more questions for the hit statistic that is commonly seen on game summaries, especially for players who might have a bonus hit incentive.
What counts as a hit? How is it initiated?
The general understanding is a hit is a harder check, incorporating three basic conditions.
The player receiving contact must have the puck or gotten rid of the puck within three seconds. Otherwise, the hit is considered late and may be eligible for a two-minute penalty or game misconduct (10 minutes).
The player initiating the contact "must impede the opposing player in some manner" directly. If not, the player initiating contact must have used their stick or hands. This may be eligible for a tripping, hooking, or holding penalty.
The contact must be "intentional and legal" (only shoulder to shoulder contact).
Seems simple, however, the game moves at an astounding pace and no play is ever identical, including the times when a player may get hit high on their body while bent down. This increases the difficulties of properly assessing penalties. Usually, most hits take place at the boards with one player checking another into the glass. On occasion, there are open-ice hits that tend to be powerful as both players travel at their respective speeds.
These unclear understandings sometimes lead to a disconnect between reality and what's reflected on the statistics sheet. However, they do provide us with information on team play styles; some teams rely on possessing the puck and never throwing hits, while others use hitting to force the other team to turn over the puck.
Fighting — Risky Business
Fighting, on the other hand, has always been clear cut. One player has a gripe with another. Usually, it is due to a hard check, something that was said (referred to as a chirp), or to defend a teammate. Fights have stayed in the game from the beginning; the only difference is their frequency and intensity.
Fighting in the early hockey eras was more visceral and less controlled, as players had little to no protective padding and heavy solid wooden sticks. In 1922, a new rule implemented a five-minute major penalty for fighting. It wasn't until the late 70s–80s that fighting evolved to become entertainment for fans. Players called "enforcers" would be employed exclusively to protect star players or simply for intimidation. These players are usually less skilled and are big in stature. This style of play was also encouraged by a lack of penalties called and less interference by linesmen, who are tasked with breaking up scrums.
Hitting continues to be an effective tool in hockey. While fighting has decreased by about 0.37% since 2001, it's still used to resolve issues between players or protect goalies/star players. Although the league's five-minute major effectively decreased fighting, it exacerbated hitting and the need to have a physical presence on a team. Without any clear distinctions, hitting teeters a dangerous line between career-ending and career-defining.
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Pelicia Hall
Senior Vice President, ViaPath Technologies
Former Commissioner, Mississippi Department of Corrections
Pelicia Hall serves as the Senior Vice President for ViaPath Technologies, formerly Global Tel-Link (GTL), an innovation leader in correctional technology. In this role, Hall heads up the corporation's Government Affairs Division with responsibility for ViaPath's legislative, regulatory, and policy goals. She works with state, local, and federal governments as well as key internal and external stakeholders.
Hall, honored in 2017 as a Legal Trailblazer in Jackson, MI, was Mississippi's first female Commissioner of Corrections, having been appointed by Gov. Phil Bryant in March 2017. She served Mississippi in that role until January 2020. She also served in numerous government positions as legal counsel. These include Chief of Staff at the Mississippi Department of Corrections, Lead Counsel for the Mississippi Bureau of Narcotics, and Special Assistant Attorney General with the Office of the Mississippi Attorney General.
Hall began her government career after six years of private sector practice with the Jackson law firm of Page, Kruger & Holland, where she litigated cases involving personal injury claims, employment discrimination, contract disputes, products liability, premises liability, insurance coverage, and general tort litigation. Overall, she has nearly 20 years of legal experience in both government and the private sector in a wide variety of disciplines and is admitted to practice in both state and federal courts. Before litigating cases on both the state and federal levels, she was a law clerk for the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Southern District of Mississippi and Hinds County Circuit Court.
Hall is a member of the Mississippi Bar Association, the National Bar Association, the Magnolia Bar Association, the Capital Area Bar Association, the Mississippi Women Lawyers Association, the American Bar Association, the American Correctional Association, the Correctional Leaders Association, and the Association of Women Executives in Corrections, where she currently serves as President-Elect. Hall also serves as Chair of the Legislative Affairs Committee for the Alcorn National Alumni Association and is a member of the Rotary Club of Jackson.
Hall earned a Juris Doctor degree from Mississippi College School of Law and a Bachelor of Arts degree from Alcorn State University. She is a proud native of Shubuta, MS.