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HomeMedia ReleasesNewsWith changes coming from casino, residents get a peek at ideas for Schoolfield district plan
With changes coming from casino, residents get a peek at ideas for Schoolfield district plan
James Adams and his family used to work at Dan River Inc.
The Danville resident is excited about the changes coming to the Schoolfield area, including the Caesars Virginia casino and possible ideas from a district plan being developed by a Pennsylvania firm.
"It's very much needed, if that's what it takes to bring life back to the community," Adams said during an open house on the plan Thursday evening at the former Dan River Inc. Welfare Building in Schoolfield.
WRT, an urban planning and design and architecture firm in Philadelphia, is conducting a district plan that includes a Schoolfield master plan, a Schoolfield neighborhood plan and a Main Street corridor plan.
The first two Schoolfield plans under the district plan umbrella cover the Dan River Inc. historic site and associated properties and the Schoolfield residential neighborhood, or former Mill Village area.
The two Schoolfield plans will focus on how to use existing historic assets next to the upcoming Caesars Virginia casino site, and making improvements to enhance the health and well-being of residents, repair and revitalize existing residential and commercial assets and provide better access to amenities, according to WRT.
As for the Main Street corridor plan, it will cover West Main Street from the North Carolina line all the way through Main Street to the River District, along with the adjacent parcels along the corridor.
"This element will propose strategies to strengthen the linkage between the River District and the Schoolfield District and establish 'gateways' to welcome visitors and residents into the city," according to WRT.
Some of the two dozen ideas for amenities — resulting from a mixture of input from residents and WRT analysis — include a shuttle between the North Carolina line and the River District, a Main Street town square, street art and/or outdoor art gallery, a cultural park, a multimodal boulevard with car, transit, pedestrian and bicycle access, a boutique hotel and museum highlighting Schoolfield, and numerous other features.
Before a casino was proposed at Schoolfield, WRT was conducting a Schoolfield master plan to possibly turn the former industrial site into a mixed-use campus.
But the proposed casino and voter approval of the idea in November 2020 changed that, prompting the firm and city officials to shift the focus outside of the 85-acre Schoolfield site's footprint.
So three elements came to be included in a broader endeavor.
"The whole thing is being combined into a district plan," said Mary Morton, associate urban designer and planner and project manager with WRT.
Thursday evening's event at the Welfare Building included diagrams set up inside and outside the building where residents could take a look at the firm's analysis of the three areas and input on what improvements they would like to see in Schoolfield and along the corridor from the North Carolina line to the River District downtown.
WRT's work identified several themes and goals for the Schoolfield area and Main Street corridor, including:
Character and identity: Preserve and celebrate the history and legacy of Schoolfield and create welcoming gateways into the community;
Ecology and open space: Enhance existing open and natural spaces and find opportunities to create new spaces for recreation, habitat and respite;
Community: Create a community-supported vision for the future that centers equity and inclusion in the process, recommendations and implementation;
Housing and economic development: Combat displacement and identify equitable and inclusive revitalization and development opportunities that meet the needs of existing and future residents;
Mobility and connectivity: Emphasize Main Street as the city's spine and create seamless multi-modal connections to the River District;
Infrastructure: Ensure that infrastructure including water, sewer, stormwater, power, etc. serve community needs and are sustainable.
Other amenities floated as ideas included a Schoolfield nature park and education center, community gardens, greenways connecting to parks and neighborhoods, neighborhood gathering areas include retail shops, outdoor cafes, communal housing, shopping center redevelopment and other features.
At the event Wednesday, residents were invited to leave additional ideas on red sticky notes. They included child care facilities, a homeless shelter, places for kids to play, a senior center and grocery stores.
To engage the community and gather input, WRT and the Danville Office of Economic Development held interactive events related to the district plan throughout last week in the city.
"I've been super impressed with how they connected with the community," said Leslie Mantiply, project engineer with Dewberry in Danville, which is assisting WRT with the district plan. "Plans like this are only successful when you have the community to back it up."
Morton said the purpose of Thursday's event, which included hot dogs and beverages, was to gauge resident reaction to project ideas and get more input.
"This event is to test ideas with the community," Morton said. "We've just been looking at what is possible. We've heard from residents and officials."
WRT has had great conversations with the community about what they want to see for the future, Morton said.
"We're excited about the energy the community has for Schoolfield," she said.
Schoolfield has been deemed a state and federally recognized historic district.
The designation highlights the important role the district played in the community and opens up opportunities for developers to access historic tax credits to pursue redevelopment projects.
The Schoolfield village was founded as an independent company town in 1903 by Dan River Inc., which produced cloth for home and apparel from 1882 to 2006.
The structures built in Schoolfield included homes, stores and industrial properties.
The Caesars Virginia casino being built at the former Dan River Inc. site in Schoolfield along West Main Street is expected to be complete in 2024.
Previously, the master plan emphasized the commercial and industrial area of the site.
With Caesars Virginia expected to build the $500 million casino resort at the site, the master plan expanded from a $374,000 project to nearly $1 million worth of analysis to examine the casino's traffic impact on the West Main Street corridor from the North Carolina line to the site, and from the Schoolfield site to the River District downtown.
Of the plan's $973,500 cost, $360,000 will be covered by Caesars Virginia. The Danville Regional Foundation will provide $25,000. In addition, Caesars Virginia also will pay for a portion of the traffic impact part of the master plan, but the amount has not been determined.
The Danville Industrial Development Authority, the city's land-buying arm, will cover the remaining cost of the master plan. The IDA, which sold the Schoolfield property to Caesars Virginia for $5 million, gets its money from the city of Danville, grants and federal tax credits.
As for James Adams, who worked at Dan River Inc. for a year in the early 1970s, said WRT has the same ideas in mind that he's had. He is also a proponent of the casino.
Changes coming
"I'm for progress," Adams said. "I thought I'd never see the day a casino would be going where the mill used to be."
Linda Kelly, who came with Adams to Thursday's event, said she hopes to work at Caesars Virginia.
"I want to be one of the people who cashes out the winning tickets," Kelly said.
Kelly, who grew up in Java in Pittsylvania County and whose mother used to work at the mill, recalled laying out her mom's clothes at night after completing her homework while she prepared to work third shift.
She said the casino will greatly improve the economy.
"I think it's wonderful because it will be a boost to the economy," Kelly said.
As for the district plan, community meetings were also held in October 2021. WRT had also been on the ground in the area performing site exploration, Morton said.
The next step will be to hold a celebratory event at the end of the summer and then an open house with a draft district plan, Morton said. The plan will be finalized in the fall.
"They're going to synthesize that information and put together some recommendations on how to move forward," said City Manager Ken Larking. "Our goal is that the Schoolfield area and the subject area that goes from U.S. 29 at North Carolina to the River District will experience the same positive transformation that the River District experienced."


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Q: Changing background image with button I am trying to make an application function so that when the user presses one of the images(which are buttons) the background will change. My issue is that when the button is pressed the background will not change to the picture. I have been trying to look for answers but have found nothing. Is anyone able to help? https://i.stack.imgur.com/boEiZ.png <- The image is linked here because stack overflow won't allow me to imbed images.
@IBOutlet weak var background: NSImageView!

let grass = NSImage(named :NSImage.Name(rawValue: "wetgrass"))

override func viewDidLoad() {
    super.viewDidLoad()
    // Do view setup here.
    background.image = grass
}

@IBAction func changeGrass(_ sender: Any) {
    background.image = grass
    }

}

A: Here is a tested answer try this
@IBAction func btnChangeImageClick(_ sender: UIButton) {
        let imageFromButton : UIImage = sender.image(for: UIControlState.normal)!

        imgBG.image = imageFromButton
    }

Note: i make Any to UIButton in action so we can get image from that sender object

A: How to approach solving the problem:

*

*Find out if the assignment upon button press is the problem; isolate image-setting from the button callbacks. You did that already by assigning an image in viewDidLoad ✓

*Find out if the image is broken.

The image loading could fail:
let grass = NSImage(named: NSImage.Name(rawValue: "wetgrass"))

NSImage.init?(named:) produces a NSImage? aka Optional<NSImage> -- that means, loading the image file with that name could fail. Use this initializer when you're positive that ...

*

*either your Bundle contains an image file named "wetgrass.png" that is copies into the app (check Build Settings > Copy Bundle Resources),

*or your Assets asset catalogue contains an entry with the name "wetgrass".

So grass could be nil. And if it is nil, your assignment to background.image will simply remove any previously set image (if there ever was any), resetting the NSImageView to display a boring gray background.
To finally isolate and check if image assignment works, use an image that's guaranteed to exist, like the built-in ones:
let testImage = NSImage(named: .advanced)!

Note I force-unwrap the optional here with confidence since NSImage.Name.advanced is guaranteed to produce an image :)
This should work then:
override func viewDidLoad() {
    super.viewDidLoad()
    // Show initial image:
    background.image = NSImage(named: .advanced)!
}

@IBAction func changeGrass(_ sender: Any) {
    // Show grass or another built-in image:
    background.image = grass ?? NSImage(named: .computer)!
}

So check your grass != nil

A: Try this:
@IBAction func changeGrass(_ sender: Any) {
    if let myButton = sender as? UIButton, let currentImage = myButton.imageView?.image {
        background.image = currentImage

        // Animated
        UIView.transition(with: background,
                          duration: 0.75,
                          options: .transitionCrossDissolve,
                          animations: {
                            self.background.image = currentImage
                            })
    }
}

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http://vietnamnews.vn/politics-laws/346844/pope-francis-welcomes-vietnamese-leaders-visit-to-vatican.html#pur11RWLhjtIZukR.97
US warships make landmark visit to strategic Vietnam port
Two U.S. warships have made their first port call in 21 years at Vietnam's strategic naval base at Cam Ranh Bay, marking an important step in improving military ties between the former enemies
http://www.channelnewsasia.com/news/asiapacific/us-warships-make-landmark-visit-to-strategic-vietnam-port/3179524.html
Why India, Vietnam upgraded their ties
Though it was short – and came relatively late – Narendra Modi's recent one-day stopover in Hanoi, the first official trip to Vietnam by an Indian prime minister since Atal Bihari Vajpayee's 2001 visit, was momentous as it marked a new shift in India-Vietnam relations
http://atimes.com/2016/09/why-india-vietnam-upgraded-their-ties/
Vietnam to strengthen defense ties with India
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi has offered up to 500 million dollars in loans to Vietnam to boost defense cooperation
http://www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/en/news/20160903_22/
http://zeenews.india.com/news/india/pm-modis-vietnam-visit-key-takeaways_1925525.html
Vietnam's Three Strategic Options
In response to Vietnam's deteriorating security situation, it is likely to choose one of three strategies: 1) continue the current strategy of hedging between the U.S., China and Russia; 2) ally with the U.S. against China; or 3) develop Vietnam's military capabilities, including a potential nuclear déterrent
http://www.forbes.com/sites/anderscorr/2016/08/29/vietnams-three-strategic-options/#4e5617322104
What the end of the US arms embargo means for Vietnam
The United States' complete lifting of the decade-long embargo on arms sales to Vietnam marked a historic milestone in US–Vietnam relations, paving the way for a strategic partnership between the two former foes. So what will this mean for Vietnamese security and domestic politics?
http://www.eastasiaforum.org/2016/08/09/what-the-end-of-the-us-arms-embargo-means-for-vietnam/
Vietnam 'moves new rocket launchers' into South China Sea
Vietnam has discreetly fortified several of its islands in the disputed South China Sea with new mobile rocket launchers capable of striking China's runways and military installations across the vital trade route, according to Western officials
http://atimes.com/2016/08/vietnam-moves-new-rocket-launchers-into-disputed-s-china-sea/
http://www.asianews.it/news-en/Hanoi-deploys-defensive-system-on-disputed-islands-in-South-China-Sea-38276.html
Việt Nam, Liberia officially establish diplomatic ties
Việt Nam and Liberia signed a joint communiqué establishing bilateral diplomatic ties during a ceremony in Hà Nội
http://vietnamnews.vn/politics-laws/298790/viet-nam-liberia-officially-establish-diplomatic-ties.html#RJyqVsDsohdIfpX1.97
Obama announces full lifting of Vietnam arms embargo
The United States has fully lifted its ban on weapons sales to Vietnam, President Barack Obama announced on Monday (May 23) during a visit to Hanoi, unpicking a decades-old embargo on the one-time enemy
http://www.channelnewsasia.com/news/asiapacific/obama-announces-full/2808866.html
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-36356695
Obama in Vietnam: Arms and trade deal on agenda as trip begins
U.S. President Barack Obama arrived in Vietnam late Sunday ahead of a three-day trip aimed at sealing the transformation of an old enemy into a new partner to help counter China's growing assertiveness in the region
http://www.channelnewsasia.com/news/asiapacific/obama-arrives-in-vietnam/2807542.html
http://www.scmp.com/news/asia/diplomacy/article/1951031/sandwiched-between-giants-vietnam-seeks-obamas-assurance
http://english.vietnamnet.vn/fms/government/156802/new-mark-in-vietnam-us-comprehensive-partnership.html
Vietnam to get 2 more Russian frigates this year
Russia's Zelenodolsk shipyard will deliver two Gepard-class frigates to Vietnam in August and September this year, Russian news agency TASS has reported.
http://www.thanhniennews.com/politics/vietnam-to-get-2-more-russian-frigates-this-year-62341.html
Vietnam is Russia's bridge to ASEAN
The visit to Russia by Vietnam's newly-appointed Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc hardly drew world attention. Yet, for Hanoi and Moscow, his five-day trip, which started on May 16, assumes great significance
http://atimes.com/2016/05/vietnam-is-russias-bridge-to-asean/
http://www.thanhniennews.com/politics/vietnamese-russian-premiers-discuss-boosting-ties-62242.html
Quietly, Vietnam hosts arms gathering attended by US companies
Vietnam hosts a defense symposium this week attended by top American arms manufacturers, ahead of a visit by U.S. President Barack Obama and as Washington weighs whether to lift an arms embargo on its former enemy.
http://atimes.com/2016/05/quietly-vietnam-hosts-arms-gathering-attended-by-us-companies/
Japanese Maritime SDF destroyers visit port in Vietnam for 1st time
For the first time since the end of World War II, Japanese destroyers dropped anchor at a Vietnamese port, signifying the two nations' defense cooperation
http://www.asahi.com/ajw/articles/AJ201604120043.html
Analyst: 'Vietnam not submitting to China on territorial issues'
Vietnamese authorities have captured a Chinese vessel and its crew for allegedly entering its waters. DW talks to security analyst Bill Hayton about the implications of the incident.
http://www.dw.com/en/analyst-vietnam-not-submitting-to-china-on-territorial-issues/a-19162112
Vietnam seizes Chinese ship for trespassing
Vietnam has seized a Chinese ship and detained its captain and two sailors, accusing the crew of illegally intruding on its waters, state media said
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/apr/04/vietnam-seizes-chinese-vessel-detains-crew
http://blog.vietnam-aujourdhui.info/post/2016/04/03/Vietnam-seizes-chinese-ship%2C-State-media-reports
http://news.asiaone.com/news/asia/vietnam-seizes-chinese-oil-tanker-state-media
Vietnam, China to handle sea dispute 'peaceful, friendly': defence ministers
Defence ministers of Vietnam and China have agreed that the two countries will continue to handle the East Sea dispute through peaceful and friendly dialogues, according to the Vietnam News Agency
http://www.thanhniennews.com/politics/vietnam-china-to-handle-sea-dispute-peaceful-friendly-defence-ministers-60635.html
Vietnam lodges UN complaint against China
Vietnam has lodged a formal complaint to the UN over China's placement of a surface-to-air missile battery on a disputed island in the South China Sea.
http://www.aljazeera.com/news/2016/02/vietnam-lodges-complaint-china-violations-160219101856958.html
Vietnam's China challenge
The General Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong was re-elected to the top post of the Vietnamese regime in late January. But victory in the elections is just the first challenge in Trong's five-year term. The next major challenge for the new leader will be managing the relationship with China.
http://www.eastasiaforum.org/2016/02/18/vietnams-china-challenge-2/
India to build satellite tracking station in Vietnam that offers eye on China
India will set up a satellite tracking and imaging center in southern Vietnam that will give Hanoi access to pictures from Indian earth observation satellites that cover the region, including China and the South China Sea, Indian officials said
http://apdf-magazine.com/india-to-build-satellite-tracking-station-in-vietnam-that-offers-eye-on-china/
Vietnam warns China against rig activity in disputed waters
Vietnam warned China on Tuesday (Jan 19) against drilling in disputed waters in the South China Sea, after Beijing steered an oil rig at the centre of a previous stand-off between the countries into a stretch where jurisdiction is unclear
http://www.channelnewsasia.com/news/asiapacific/vietnam-warns-china/2439218.html
Vietnam's plan to deter China with western warplane purchases
Vietnam is negotiating with American and European manufacturers to purchase new warplanes—including fighters, maritime patrol aircraft and unmanned aircraft. The move comes as part of Hanoi's strategy to lessen its dependence on Russian hardware and to counter China's growing power
http://atimes.com/2016/01/vietnams-plan-to-deter-china-with-western-jets/
US Ambassador to Vietnam Dismayed About Detentions of Dissidents
The U.S. ambassador to Vietnam on Tuesday expressed concern about recent reports of harassment and detentions of human rights advocates, including the recent arrest of a prominent rights advocate in the repressive Southeast Asian country
http://www.rfa.org/english/news/vietnam/us-ambassador-to-vietnam-dismayed-about-detentions-of-dissidents-12292015115930.html
Vietnam is Israel's closest ASEAN partner
Israel's relations with ASEAN countries have not received a great deal of attention. In reality, however, there is an increasing tendency of Israel to benefit from the growing economies of Southeast Asia
http://asiapacific.anu.edu.au/newmandala/2015/12/04/vietnam-israels-closest-asean-partner/
China and Vietnam pledge good ties and maritime peace
China and Vietnam have pledged to be "good neighbours" and agreed to maintain peace in the South China Sea. It comes at the end of a state visit by Chinese President Xi Jinping, the first of its kind for a decade
http://www.scmp.com/news/china/diplomacy-defence/article/1876440/president-xi-jinping-tells-hanoi-parliament-china-and
http://www.thanhniennews.com/politics/china-vietnam-should-maintain-status-quo-in-east-sea-party-chief-trong-tells-president-xi-53336.html
Japan to strengthen defence ties with Vietnam
Japan wishes to strengthen comprehensive ties with Vietnam, particularly in defense, its defense chief said during a meeting with the Vietnamese communist party leader in Hanoi today
http://worldaffairsjournal.org/content/japan-strengthen-defense-ties-vietnam
Vietnam, Philippines to strengthen ties
The foreign ministers of Vietnam and the Philippines have agreed to further strengthen their partnership to maintain peace and stability in the region and secure freedom of navigation.Vietnamese Foreign Minister Pham Binh Minh and Philippine Foreign Secretary Albert del Rosario met in Hanoi on Wednesday
http://www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/english/news/20151022_01.html
Japan pledges maritime security aid to Vietnam
Japan has promised Vietnam ships to strengthen its forces in the South China Sea, with the two nations describing large-scale land reclamation there as a threat to peace — a veiled reference to China
http://www.aljazeera.com/news/2015/09/japan-pledges-maritime-security-aid-vietname-150915125026675.html
David Cameron becomes first British PM to visit Vietnam
Cameron's trip will take in Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City, the former Saigon, almost 40 years after the US ignominiously pulled out in April 1975 and left the country to a form of Communist rule
http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2015/jul/29/david-cameron-first-british-prime-minister-visit-vietnam
http://www.theguardian.com/politics/video/2015/jul/29/david-cameron-vietnam-video
http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2015/jul/29/david-cameron-vietnam-regime-business-diplomatic-game
Vietnam Communist Party leader makes historic US visit
Vietnam's General Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong, has met US President Barack Obama at the White House to discuss defence issues and the running conflict with China over disputed islands in the South China Sea
http://www.aljazeera.com/news/2015/07/vietnam-communist-party-white-house-150708045555640.html
http://www.thanhniennews.com/politics/obama-vietnam-party-chief-discuss-east-sea-in-landmark-meeting-47641.html
http://edition.cnn.com/2015/07/07/politics/obama-vietnam-trans-pacific-partnership-china/index.html
http://www.eastasiaforum.org/2015/07/08/the-geo-politics-of-vietnam-us-rapprochement/#more-46812
Vietnam receives Russian-design missile boats amid maritime tension
Vietnam took delivery of two new missile boats on Tuesday made locally and modelled on Russian vessels, the latest move by its military to strengthen maritime defences as tensions simmer over sovereignty in the South China Sea.
http://www.channelnewsasia.com/news/asiapacific/vietnam-receives-russian/1888578.html
Vietnam Condemns Chinese Ban on Fishing in South China Sea. china-defends-fishing-ban-brushes-vietnams-protest
Vietnam has strongly condemned a temporary Chinese ban on fishing in the South China Sea, calling the move a violation of its sovereignty, as the neighboring countries seek to repair ties damaged by Beijing's deployment of an oil rig to the contested waters a year ago
http://www.rfa.org/english/news/vietnam/ban-05182015140858.html
http://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/05/18/asia-pacific/china-defends-fishing-ban-brushes-vietnams-protest/#.VVpJ1e_GMcB
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drugs. God led her to Unity Fellowship Church of Baltimore (UFCB) where she heard that GOD is Love and Love is for Everyone.
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Who couldn't use a little more storage space? When it comes to storing tools, lawnmowers, snow removing equipment, and other things needed to keep your home in tip-top shape, it seems that areas like attics, basements, and garages quickly become full.
So what's the best way to cut the clutter? A garden shed! Not only are garden sheds a great way to store and organize extra things you need to keep your home in order, they are inexpensive and easy to design and build. Best of all, a good-looking garden shed can actually improve the appearance of your home and yard. Of course, if all you need is a roomy storage shed, this Storage Sheds website has some good information about utility shed selection and construction.
Garden sheds can be purchased from a home center or online retailer as a kit and then assembled at home, can be built using plans, or can be designed and built from scratch.
Your first considerations when building a garden shed should be how you plan to use your shed, as well as how much time and money you are willing to spend on it. Some people need small but simple sheds for storing small tools, while others want to store large machinery such as lawn mowers or tractors. Still other people erect sheds to use as artist studios or playhouses. Once you've determined the primary use of your shed, you'll also want to set a budget. No matter what its use, a shed can range from simple and inexpensive to elaborate and costly.
Once you have determined the shed's main purpose and have set a budget, you'll need to choose a shed size. With the right type of shelving and storage space, a small shed can hold an amazing amount of tools. That being said, a good rule of thumb is to consider the floor space each item will occupy, and then leave enough room to be able to walk around the shed comfortably. Make sure there are at least 12 inches around equipment, and if you are planning to work in your shed, be sure there are at least 36 inches between workspaces. Finally, when determining the size of your shed, make sure its proportion is in harmony with the other structures on your property. Another factor that will have an impact on size is where your shed will be positioned on your property.
After you have determined the size of your shed, it's time to pick an architectural style. There are literally hundreds of shed styles to choose from! So what determines an architectural style? Well, in most cases it's the materials used for roofing and siding. The most important thing to consider is how the shed's architectural style matches that of the other buildings on the property. You can further align your shed with the other buildings on your property by adding embellishments like weather vanes, shutters, and window boxes.
Finally, before building your shed, make sure that you are complying with all local requirements, including setback requirements, covenants, building requirements, and building codes.
The Suncast® line of garden sheds is a good solution for garden tool overflow. Their clean lines, neutral colors and over-all utility fit the outdoor environment and provide an attractive backyard storage solution.
Based in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, this firm offers wood storage sheds, horse barns, gazebos, and playhouses made by Amish craftsmen.
Offers a diverse line of lightweight, portable greenhouses and storage houses for gardeners.


Older Asian Americans (OAAs) represent one of the largest and the fastest growing older minority populations nationwide. The striking growth and intra-group diversity of OAA underline the urgency for an improved understanding of ethnic Asian groups' health care access and service utilization patterns. This dissertation therefore examines health seeking and utilization behaviors among OAAs. It consists of two studies. The first study used secondary data from the 2011-2012 California Health Interview Survey (CHIS) to explore health service utilization (HSU) patterns among OAAs. Bivariate and multivariate regression analyses were conducted to examine the significant factors associated with physician visits, emergency department (ED) visits, and hospitalization, focusing on psychological distress as the key independent variable. The study findings suggest that psychological distress was associated with the utilization of ED services among older Korean and Chinese Americans. Other significant factors associated with HSU included self-reported health, length of residence in the U.S., and English proficiency. ED encounters may therefore represent opportunities to identify older Korean and Chinese Americans with psychological distress and initiate appropriate treatment.
The second study is a qualitative study that examined culturally-informed perceptions of dementia and barriers/facilitators in accessing/providing dementia-related services from the perspectives of older Korean and Chinese immigrants, their family caregivers, and home care providers. In-depth face-to-face interviewers were conducted with 12 older Asian immigrants and 12 family caregivers. Three semi-structured focus group sessions were conducted with home care professionals and ethnic home health aides. Data were analyzed using the conventional content analysis approach. Six themes emerged: perceptions and attributions of dementia, delayed help-seeking, perceived barriers in accessing care, caregiving burdens, barriers in providing care, and service needs. The findings underscore the importance of culture in shaping perceptions of dementia and related help-seeking behaviors. Culturally and linguistically appropriate training and educational programs should be developed to enhance awareness and knowledge of dementia in the Asian community to facilitate timely help-seeking. Culturally and linguistically appropriate social services are imperative to address the emotional and social needs of older Asian immigrants and their family caregivers.
Kong, Dexia, "Health Services Utilization Among Older Asian Americans" (2018). Publicly Accessible Penn Dissertations. 2836.


Know what makes a BookGirl happy? Well, all kinds of book activity throughout the week. For example, earlier in the week, I got a birthday present from my best friend – a Barnes & Noble gift card. Although, that usually sends me into a tailspin because there are so many shiny, lovely books to pick. Then all day at work I thought about how on my way home I'd stop off at the library and pick up the latest David Sedaris book, Dress Your Family in Corduroy. The book is now on my nightstand. And, finally, last night was book group night.
Our group discussed Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress by Dai Sijie. This slim but beautifully crafted novel tells the story of two young men living in China during Mao's Cultural Revolution. Both boys come from educated and prosperous families and are sent to a remote mountain village for re-education. Their lives are filled with arduous work and the ever-present fear of being accused as enemies of the people.
They soon make a discovery of a suitcase filled with books of Western classics in Chinese translation. These banned classics, and a flirtation they begin with a young seamstress helps them survive their grim surroundings.
While the novel has a lot of harsh images of what these boys endured, it is also told with a lot of warmth and humor. Best of all for me, is the true appreciation of literature that is present throughout the book as the boys discover Balzac, Dickens, Kipling, and other writers.
That is just wonderful. Hope you are all being swept away by wonderful books, magazine articles or any other literary pursuits this week.


in this wipe all of our limestone in our area turned into bassalt...we had a WHOLE MOUNTAIN of it.
Terrain wipe, so there must be some changes.
"some" changes were fairly large for us. We picked this area solely for its limestone.
Granite is lighter in color than basalt. The color of the rocks is dependent on the mineral composition of the rocks. Basalt is basic and contains a substantial amount of olivine whereas granite is acidic and is rich in quartz.
Basalt is an intrusive igneous rock with small mineral crystals, formed when magma cools and solidifies rapidly; this is usually on the surface of Earth's crust, especially at incidents of seafloor spreading on the ocean floor as contact with seawater cools the magma rapidly.
Granite is the foundation of the continental crust. Basalt is the foundation of oceanic crust.
Granite is an extrusive igneous rock made from visible mineral crystals, a result of cooling over a longer period of time under the surface of the Earth.
Another difference between basalt and granite include their joints. Basalt splits along columnar planes while granite splits along horizontal planes. This difference is due to the difference in their cooling process.


Episode Four is now live!
Postmortem (Isaac) joins ) Slightly Live (Dani) and DangerousDave (Dave) to talk about Halo: Primordium. Dani espouses bigotry towards cavemen, we tangentally complain about CEA, and wish for the good old days when the Flood really were space zombies.
Sweet! I loved the last one. It's currently downloading on my iPhone as the waypoint modcast! That should get me through my boring nightshift.


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From 2016 the dividend system will be reformed so basic rate taxpayers will pay 7.5% tax on dividends (subject to the £5,000 allowance announced for savings income in the last Budget). Higher and additional rate taxpayers will pay tax at 32.5% and 38.1% respectively. Pension funds and ISAs will continue to receive dividends tax free.
Radical changes were announced and these will be introduced from 2017.
An individual who has been resident in the UK for 15 out of the last 20 years will be taxed on their worldwide income and gains.
Non-domiciled individuals with UK residential property in overseas structures will no longer avoid a UK IHT charge.
Individuals born in the UK to UK parents will no longer be able to claim non-domicile status if they leave the UK but then return and take up residency.
From 2017 an additional £175,000 allowance will be introduced where the family home is passed to children or grandchildren on death. This means that a couple will be able to pass up to £1m to the next generation without an IHT charge.
Interest relief on rental property will be restricted to the basic rate of tax. The restriction will be phased in over four years, starting from April 2017.
From April 2016 the employment allowance will not be available where the director is the only employee in the company. For other businesses the allowance will be increased to £3,000.
Corporation tax will be reduced to 19% in 2017 and further reduced to 18% in 2020.
As we work through the detail we will update our website during the afternoon so keep watching!


For the first time, the Egyptian government has granted unprecedented access to the pyramids at Giza. It is allowing multiple different technological tools to scan, measure and probe the ancient structures in order to create a picture of what exists inside the buildings themselves. Will there be vast ceremonial rooms? Burial sites? Secret chambers? Other mysteries? Find out.


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Arab Spring to the Egyptian Winter? - Raymond Bush
Evaluating the Efficacy of the African Voices Week at Three West Yorkshire Schools - Arthur Rose
A Museum of Colonial History and National Identity: Lokoja and the Nigerian Situation Regarding Preserving the Past - Amirikpa Oyigbenu
Ebola in Sierra Leone - Samuel Kargbo
Resisting decomposition as evidence of bodily strength: funerary practice and psychological well-being in rural Guinea Bissau - Maxwell Cooper and Sarah Cooper
Review of Are South Africans Free? - Arthur Rose
Review of African Art and Agency in the Workshop - William Rea
Review of Anthropology of the Middle East and North Africa - Alice Wilson
Review of African Literatures and Beyond - Kate Haines
Review of A History of Malawi, 1859-1966 - Shane Doyle
Review of Africa and France: Postcolonial Cultures, Migration, and Racism - Thomas P. Murray
Review of Reading Nuruddin Farah - Jane Plastow
Review of Economic and Political Reform in Africa: Anthropological Perspectives - Will Nyerere Plastow
Review of Framing Africa / Trash: African Cinema from Below - David Kerr
Leeds African Studies Bulletin No. 76 (2014/15)	 Thursday 7 August 2014
Review of Economic and Political Reform in Africa: Anthropological Perspectives
By Will Nyerere Plastow (University of Manchester)
Peter D Little
Will Nyerere Plastow
Economic and Political Reform in Africa: Anthropological Perspectives. Peter D Little. Indiana University Press, Bloomington & Indianapolis, 2014. Pp. 240. ISBN 978-0-253-01084-1 (pb). £14.95
Economic and Political Reform in Africa is the culmination of over 30 years of research on development in sub-Saharan Africa on the part of Peter Little and it shows. The book fits in to the contemporary trend of texts attempting to move discussion on from a straightforwardly critical approach to neoliberal development. Working from a firm empirical basis of ethnography, case studies and statistical data, Little takes examples from Somalia, Kenya, Mozambique, Ghana, Gambia and Ethiopia to draw his conclusions concerning the effects and direction of neoliberal policy reform in Sub-Saharan Africa. This type of comparative analysis is notoriously difficult, but Little handles his material excellently showing a capacity similar to that of Tsing (2004) to highlight broader trends through careful attention to the specificity of individual cases.
As suggested above, Little does not investigate neoliberal development policy simply through the assumption that it can be understood as a series of imposed Northern economic models and their subsequent failures. Rather, his case studies focus on the openings-up and foreclosures of strategies of action and political understanding that have become available to the various groups effected by neoliberal reform policies. In this analysis Little is informed, but not blinded, by Foucault's concept of governmentality, Scott's notion of 'legibility' and more recent discussions of globalised networks. The text shows a keen appreciation of some of the (bitter) ironies of much neoliberal development policy. A central line of inquiry developed by Little is his focus on the permeability and artificiality of the conceptual and policy boundaries evoked in many development narratives. Pursuing a vision of pro-corporate market-led development it is argued that NGOs, IFIs and state governments have created a series of conceptual divisions between the state and private sector, formal and informal markets, dependency and growth which bare staggeringly little relation to the lives of most of those who are supposed to be 'developed'. In many cases Little suggests 21st century development policy bolsters the power of the central state and international investors in a manner that is both anti-democratic and anti-open-market. In spite of his fierce exposure of contradictions, the overall tone of the text is surprisingly optimistic, regularly coming back to the resilience and adaptability of many of the groups it engages with.
Barring the introduction and conclusion, each chapter is a case study within which Little draws out different trends in current neoliberal reform policy. Chapter one investigates the impact of joint government and IFI sponsored attempts to grow Non-Traditional-Commodities (NTCs) for export to European markets. Little suggests that price fluctuations and costs relating to regulatory oversight effectively close the NTC market to all but the wealthiest Africans and international investors. Chapter two looks at Mozambican street and market traders' experiences of pro-market reforms, arguing that their increased engagement with informal markets is due to scarcity of alternatives rather than burgeoning entrepreneurial spirit. However the research this chapter is based on is over twenty years old and the author possibly doesn't do enough to demonstrate that his conclusions are still relevant. Chapter three focuses on the issues surrounding neoliberal donor funded conservation programmes in Kenya, arguing that these are often less economically viable than pastoralism and provide a rationale for 'green' land grabs at pastoralists' expense by international investors, NGOs and local elites. Chapter four looks at some of the opportunities opened up by neoliberal development, particularly focusing on the Il Chamus' legal battle with the Kenyan government for legal recognition as a minority. By adopting the discourse of minority rights and making alliances with Northern NGOs Il Chamus were able to win significant legal, if not substantive, victories. Chapter five deconstructs the narrative of food aid dependency using examples from South Wollo, Ethiopia. Little shows that food aid is both too irregular and insufficient for poor farmers to depend on, but that the narrative of fighting dependency has provided a strong rationale for government attempts to enact political strategies of intervention and resettlement in the rural hinterland. Chapters six and seven were for me the most interesting. Chapter six uses Kenyan material to discuss how economic analyses regularly underestimate both the wealth and contribution of pastoralists to national economies. Little suggests this problem of 'legibility' allows states and NGOs to problematise pastoralist communities as in particular need of development. This narrative coincides conveniently with the Kenyan government's desire to sedentarise these groups and seize their lands. Conversely, chapter seven gives a fascinating account of the ways in which Somali businessmen have taken advantage of the opening-up of regional markets to create a lucrative transnational trade network organised around Garissa, Nairobi and Dubai. Here it is the ability of stateless Somalis to deftly negotiate boundaries between formal and informal economies, which has allowed them to take advantage of neoliberal reforms. However the possibility of continued success is argued to be threatened by increasing concern in Europe and America with international terrorism.
Taken as a whole, Economic and Political Reform in Africa is a fascinating and wide ranging treatment of neoliberal development policy in sub-Saharan Africa. This text should be required reading for anybody interested in African development, and would be of significant interest to anybody interested in neoliberal development in post-colonial settings. Whilst more limited in theoretical scope than Scott's Seeing like a State (1998)and Tsing's Friction (2004), Economic and Political Reform in Africa ranks alongside these texts for its excellently researched discussion of neoliberal development as a contemporary grand narrative which must be accommodated with, and is inextricable from, messy local political realities.
Reviewed by: Will Nyerere Plastow, Manchester University
[Published in Leeds African Studies Bulletin 76 (Winter 2014/15), pp. 91-93]


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← Does your device really display 4K?
This morning Freeview announced that Freeview Plus is launching on 2 September, or in fewer than four weeks. At last!
The main thing it will offer is an enhanced electronic program guide with a search facility but, more importantly, which will also act as a portal to catchup TV. Rather than going to ABC iView, SBS On Demand, or any of the commercial TV apps, which may or may not be on your smart TV or PVR, you will simply dial up last week's programs from the EPG and your device will stream them over the Internet. This is an implementation of what's called HbbTV, for Hybrid broadcast broadband TV.
I've got a couple of PVRs here which are awaiting final firmware.
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Netflix Is Breaking Our Hearts In June
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By Christine-Marie Liwag Dixon/May 20, 2020 11:07 am EST
It's hard to believe that it's about to be June already, but another month is almost upon us. If you're looking for something new to watch, you'll soon have a crop of new shows and films to binge on Netflix, since a slew of new titles will be coming to the service in June. The ending of the month also means that you only have a few days left to watch some of these classics that will, unfortunately, be leaving the platform in June.
Start prepping those Netflix watch lists, because next month is going to be brutal in terms of what's leaving the streaming service. While you'll have the first couple weeks of June to catch up since most of the titles leaving Netflix next month won't be gone until the final days of June, some pretty big titles are being pulled early in the month.
Dozens of titles will leave Netflix in June
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The first title to leave will be The King's Speech which will be gone on June 1. Other big titles leaving the platform in the first half of the month are Equilibrium and From Paris with Love, which will be departing on June 7. All seven seasons of the hit show Mad Men will be leaving Netflix on June 9, so if you want to say goodbye to Don Draper and the team, start bingeing now.
Towards the end of the month, more titles start dropping off. On June 22, Tarzan and Tarzan 2 will be swinging off of Netflix, with Avengers: Infinity War leaving two days later. Three Jeopardy! Collections will be pulled on June 27.
Dozens more titles will be leaving Netflix on June 30, including Center Stage, The Duchess, Elizabeth, Julie & Julia, Kate & Leopold, Mansfield Park, and The Polar Express.
Here's everything else leaving Netflix in June
The other shows and films leaving Netflix in June are as follows: God's Not Dead: A Light in Darkness, A Perfect Man, Standoff, Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell: Series 1, Dragonheart, Dragonheart 3: The Sorcerer, Dragonheart: A New Beginning, Dragonheart: Battle for the Heartfire, Cutie and the Boxer, The Stanford Prison Experiment, The Day My Butt Went Psycho!: Season 1-2, 21, The Amityville Horror, The Andy Griffith Show: Season 1-8, Blow, The Boy in the Striped Pajamas, Brooklyn's Finest, Chasing Amy, Cheers: Season 1-11, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, Chloe, Click, Cloverfield, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, Elizabeth: The Golden Age, Ferris Bueller's Day Off, Ghost Rider, Happyish: Season 1, Here Alone, Inception, Instructions Not Included, The Invention of Lying, Kate & Leopold, Kiss the Girls, The Last Samurai, Limitless: Season 1, Little Monsters, The Mask of Zorro, The Matrix, The Matrix Reloaded, The Matrix Revolutions, Minority Report, Patriot Games, Philadelphia, Race to Witch Mountain, The Ring, Scary Movie, Sliver, Stuart Little 2, Tremors, Tremors 2: Aftershocks, Tremors 3: Back to Perfection, Tremors 4: The Legend Begins, Tremors 5: Bloodline, What Lies Beneath, and Yes Man.


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Betfred Mile - The Trends
Betfred Mile – The Trends
The Betfred Mile is a class 2 handicap run over 1 mile at Goodwood and is due off at 3.10pm on Friday, day four of the Glorious Goodwood meeting. Won last year by the Ed Dunlop trained Red Avenger, who is entered to run in this year's renewal, this year's Betfred Mile is a competitive looking affair. The current favourite is the Godolphin owned Basem, winner of his last two races but with both these wins having been on good to firm, the current state of the ground at Goodwood may cause problems.
Some key trends have appeared in the Betfred Mile over the last 10 years and are worth focussing on:
10 out of the last 10 winners had run in the past 35 days
8 out of the last 10 winners finished in first 5 last time out
10 out of the last 10 winners had run 3 to 6 times that season
8 out of the last 10 winners had contested a group or listed race
Favourites have won just 1 of last 10
A number of the expected runners have not run within the past 35 days leaving only 12 horses that fall under that trend. Of these 12, only 6 finished in the first 5 last time out – Big Baz, Basem, The Rectifier, Munaaser, You're Fired and Donchaa. From this 6, only The Rectifier, Munaaser, You're Fired and Donchaa have run on 3 to 6 occasions this season. From these, only You're Fired and The Rectifier have competed in Group or Listed company . You're Fired finished 2nd in a Listed handicap at York in May and a repeat of that performance could see the Karl Burke trained four-year-old go close with the trends pointing to You're Fired running a big race. The Rectifier is now an eight-year-old and has competed at Listed level this season but was well beaten, finishing last of 8 runners at Ascot in April and at the age of eight it's unlikely he has the class to be competitive against younger horses on Friday. Both Donchaa and Munaaser finished placed in Class 2 handicaps last time out, with Donchaa also having winning form at Goodwood.
At present the Andrew Balding trained filly Merry Me is a reserve for the race but if she was to get into the field she also falls under all of the trends. Finishing down the field in the Listed handicap at York that You're Fired finished runner-up in, Merry Me subsequently finished runner-up in the Ivnestec Mile at Epsom on Oaks day and then finished second in a Listed Fillies Stakes at Pontefract. If Merry Me runs, then the trends point to her performing well.


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Константин Захарович Литви́н (3 июля 1907,  — 3 апреля 1994, ) — украинский советский деятель. Министр культуры УССР в 1953/56 годах.

Биография
Родился 3 июля 1907 году в городе Нахичевань-на-Дону тогдашнего Кавказского наместничества, ныне часть города Ростов-на-Дону (Российская Федерация). Рос в семье рабочего. Детские и юношеские годы провел в Донбассе. Трудовую деятельность начал в 1918 году батраком в селе Старомихайловка в Донбассе.

Образование
Окончил в 1933 году Индустриальный педагогический институт им. К.Либкнехта в городе Свердловск, ныне — Екатеринбург. Кандидат исторических наук, доцент.

Деятельность
С 1921 по 1924 — работал болтонарезателем механической мастерской в поселке Рутченково на Донетчине.

С 1922 — член ЛКСМУ.

С 1924 по 1926 — работал на шахте № 32-29 и на шахте № 31 секретарем комсомольской организации на Донетчине.

В 1926 — окончил Сталинскую окружную советскую партийную школу.

С 1926 по 1930 — на пропагандистской работе в Макеевке, на трубном заводе, на шахте «Бурос», заведующий отделов пропаганды в Авдеевском и Амвросиевском районных комитетах КП(б)У на Донетчине.

С 1927 — член ВКП(б).

С 1930 по 1933 учился в Индустриальном педагогическом институте им. К.Либкнехта (м. Москва).

С 1933 — на руководящей партийно-педагогической работе в городах Тула и Калинин РСФСР.

В 1938 — окончил Московский историко-партийный институт красной профессуры.

С 1938 по 1939 — руководитель профгрупи ЦК ВКП(б), лектор Сталинского областного комитета КП(б)У и директор межобластных партийных курсов в Сталинской области.

С 1939 по 1941 — секретарь Сталинского областного комитета КП(б) Украины по пропаганде и агитации.

С 1941 по 1944 — заместитель заведующего Отделом пропаганды и агитации ЦК КП(б) Украины.

06.10.1944 — 10.07.1946 — секретарь ЦК КП(б) Украины по пропаганде и агитации.

10.07.1946 — 25.01.1949 — 3-й секретарь ЦК КП(б) Украины.

10.07.1946 — 15.04.1950 — член Организационного бюро ЦК КП(б) Украины.

28.01.1949 — 15.03.1966 — член ЦК КП(б) — КП Украины.

28.01.1949 — 15.04.1950 — секретарь ЦК КП(б) Украины по пропаганде и агитации.

С 1950 по 1951 — заместитель Председателя СМ Украинской ССР.

С февраля 1951 по 1953 — 2-й секретарь Львовского областного комитета КП(б) — КП Украины.

С 10.04.1953 по 10.07.1956 — министр культуры Украинской ССР.

С 17.07.1956 по 1963 — председатель Президиума Украинского общества дружбы и культурных связей с иностранными государствами.

В 1963—1966 — уполномоченный Совета по делам религиозных культов при СМ Украинской ССР.

В 1966—1974 — уполномоченный Совета по делам религий при СМ СССР по Украинской ССР.

С 01.11.1974 по 1979 — председатель Совета по делам религий при Совете Министров Украинской ССР.

Примечания

Ссылки
 Минкультуры Украины

Выпускники вузов Екатеринбурга
Министры культуры Украинской ССР
Депутаты Верховного Совета СССР 2-го созыва
Члены ЦК КП Украины
Вторые секретари Львовского обкома КП Украины
Депутаты Верховного Совета Украинской ССР 2-го созыва
Депутаты Верховного Совета Украинской ССР 3-го созыва
Депутаты Верховного Совета Украинской ССР 4-го созыва
Депутаты Верховного Совета Украинской ССР 5-го созыва


:"This article is about the International Basketball League formed in 2004. See International Basketball League (1999-2001) for information on the original unrelated International Basketball League."
The International Basketball League is a professional men's spring basketball league featuring teams from the West Coast, Rocky Mountains, Western Canada, and the Midwest. They also feature teams from the People's Republic of China and Japan which will temporarily relocate to the USA for the IBL season. The IBL season runs from the end of March through June with playoffs in July.
*1. The "Immediate Inbound" Rule: After a made basket, the referee will throw the ball to a nearby player, instead of a player throwing in the ball from under the basket, to eliminate wasted time.
*2. Instead of six timeouts as in an NBA game, teams are limited to only a single timeout per quarter.
*3. A 22-second shot clock is used instead of the NBA's 24. A defensive non-shooting foul or kicked ball resets it to 12.
The test games proved popular and resulted in the founding of the IBL in August of 2004. Founded with 8 teams, the league expanded to 17 by the start of the season in April 2005. Each team played approximately 20 regular season games, most of them centered around their home region, with the teams with the two best records playing in a championship game at the end of the season. The Battle Creek Knights won the inaugural title by going undefeated in the regular season and beating the Dayton Jets in the finals.
In the league's first year, the up-tempo rules resulted in the average team scoring 126.9 points per game, nearly 30 points more than the NBA team average in 2004-05, and slightly higher than the NBA record for points per game by a team in a single season, set by the Denver Nuggets in 1981-82.
*Kyle Keyes, point guard for the Snohomish County Explosion, is the son of famous adult film actor Johnny Keyes.


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Kodak Black is definitely in the Christmas spirit, and he's also staying true to his word about donating to more charities.
According to TMZ, the rapper visited Paradise Childcare in Broward County earlier this week and delivered a bunch of toys that will go to 150 children. However, he didn't stop there. He also paid $5,000 for the organization's Christmas party.
Paradise Childcare is a non-profit group that helps parents with childcare and any other needs.
A rep for the organization talked to the site and expressed their gratitude for all that Kodak has done, and said that the toys will be divided between two Paradise locations.
In the spirit of the holidays, Kodak didn't end things there. The site reports Kodak also participated in something called "Gifts of Chai" with Rabbi Scheur Kaplan.


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Includes assembly instructions sheet, a wick, a little pack of seeds and a pouch of dirt.
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Building a web service that makes it possible to process and analyse the results of the Pilot of the Physical Skills Test (PST). This service also makes clear to the employees of DJI what the Physical Skills Test involves based on film clips and an extensive animated film of the course.
An online web service with Flash cartoon, online training programmes and film clip that make use of open source architecture.


I am starting work on the Wikipedia book. One of the central themes will be the ideology of crowds: are they mad, or are they wise? Probably a little bit of both. Wikipedia is good at handling matters of detail. But as I have said before, if Wikipedia tried to write the decline and fall of the Roman empire, which requires assembling the right 'little facts' in the right order, and placing a narrative around these, the result would be very bad. I periodically return to the philosophy article itself, looking for evidence of progress. Here it is at the end of Wikipedia's first year of existence.
The definition of philosophy is a philosophical question in its own right. But for purposes of introducing the concept, we can say that, approximately, it is the study of the meaning and justification of beliefs about the most general, or universal, aspects of things--a study which is carried out not by experimentation or careful observation, but instead typically by formulating problems carefully, offering solutions to them, giving arguments for the solutions, and engaging in dialectic about all of the above. Philosophy studies such concepts as existence, goodness, knowledge, and beauty. It asks questions such as "What is goodness, in general?" and "Is knowledge even possible?" Some famous philosophers include Plato, Aristotle, Rene Descartes, John Locke, and Immanuel Kant.
The article lacks any of the formatting that Wikipedia developed later, and there are no pictures, and it is short. But the definition is as good as you are likely to get for such an abstruse and difficult subject. As it points out " the question "What is philosophy?" is itself, famously, a vexing philosophical question. That was probably the high point of the article, more than ten years ago. It has had some spectacular low points, in particular here, when two rather deranged editors took control of the article ("As a consequence of the collapse of colonialism and imperialism in the twentieth century, philosophy now is classified according to three major geographical regions, Western philosophy, Eastern philosophy, and African philosophy"). The worst degradation is prevented largely because of two academically trained editors who try to take care of it. However it seems to be reaching a low point again. Someone has arranged the article around geographical headings, which makes no sense. As one of the better editors remarks on the talk page.
One of the central themes will be the ideology of crowds: are they mad, or are they wise? Probably a little bit of both.
Have you read Neal Stephenson's science-fiction novel The Diamond Age? "Crowdsourcing" the development of highly sophisticated and abstract information constructs by largely unconscious mass participants is a major plot device. It's worth reading.
>>Have you read Neal Stephenson's science-fiction novel The Diamond Age?
It's a long time since I read a science fiction book, but I will investigate!
Once again: make up a list of philosophy articles that are badly done, and put them in the book. You can post them on a blog but it may not be around in 5 years.
Thank you William. And thank you for the Ockham cartoon. I shall post it some time.
" It is possible that an intentional act may have multiple and hierarchisated purposes, only some of which is primary intentions while the remainder are secondary (or tertiary or more) intentions."
That is really beautiful. That has made my weekend.
I have been neglecting Wikipedia this year, preferring less frustrating pursuits. But thank you for the support from afar. I am afraid, having examined parallel Wikipedia articles on the history of science, that restoring the coherent Western Phil narrative will be a very hard pitch. Someone (possibly I) may have to swallow hard and attempt to tell a semi-coherent story including traditions wholly alien to one another. Or maybe I will simply port the worthwhile work to the "history of western philosophy" article and try to pare the history content in the main phil article to almost nothing, if only to spare casual readers horrific misconceptions such as thinking that Ptahotep has something to do with philosophy.
Good to hear from you in any event.
Bless your patience with this. I just glanced at a philosophy article I spent a lot of time on a few years ago and it had degraded into bilge.


Reported comments from Gary McAllister have suggested that Rangers could yet miss out on signing Liverpool loanee Ryan Kent on a permanent deal this summer.
The Rangers Assistant McAllister didn't completely rule out a move for Kent. But he did suggest any decision rests with Liverpool.
At least according to comments quoted in the Daily Record.
"The fact is, Ryan's still a Liverpool player so it's a decision for Liverpool, isn't it?" said McAllister.
"Will he be here next season? It would be nice because we've seen the benefits of having him here but he's Liverpool's player. We keep asking the question but it's up to them.
McAllister would go on to discuss the progress that Ryan Kent has made since coming to Ibrox. The former Liverpool legend speaks of Kent going from a "shy kid to a man" during his time at Rangers.
He even described the flying winger as having "blossomed" at Ibrox, describing the 22 year old as "a delight to work with". Gary Mac also puts a lot of that down to the Liverpool connection in Rangers' backroom staff.
Ryan Kent's form is a bit of a catch 22 for Rangers. As long as Kenty keeps playing well, it benefits Rangers this season. But it also keeps Liverpool's attention firmly on the player, who's contracted at Anfield until 2022.
That hasn't stopped Kent himself telling The Scotsman back in December that he'd be interested in a move to Ibrox. Or some fans drooling over the prospect of the Englishman joining the club full time.
But from what Gary McAllister has said – there's a long way to go before any deal would be concluded. And Rangers certainly aren't in the driving seat.


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Nusser or Nüsser is a surname. Notable people with this name include:

Josef Mayr-Nusser (1910–1945), Catholic martyr for refusing to become a Nazi soldier
Andrés Nusser, founding member of Astro (Chilean band)
Franz Nusser, Austrian meteorologist, namesake of Nusser Island
James Nusser (1905–1979), actor in Gunsmoke
Josef Nüsser (born 1931), Czech skier and Olympian
Larissa Nusser (born 2000), Dutch handball player
Laura Nusser, victim of serial killer Vincent Johnson
Robert Nusser (1931–2001), Austrian ice hockey player and Olympian
Sarah Nusser (born 1957), American statistician
Stefan Nusser, CEO of Redwood Robotics
Zoltan Nusser, Hungarian physiologist

See also
Nußhardt, a German mountain also sometimes called Nusser


What is expected of me as a Trialee?
As has been said before, we recruit the player, not the character. Hence we love our members to be active, not only in the game, but participate actively in guild chat, in groups and raids or PVP events and be active on the forum. There should be no fear of interacting with other members and we would like to see what person YOU are!
Every Trialee will be appointed a Guardian. This is a Full Member who has good knowledge of the guilds systems, rules and regulations. Should you have a question about the guild or how we run things then you should refer it to your Guardian. Should it be an urgent thing you should direct yourself towards an officer.
The most important thing about being an ORC member is to have fun. We are a mature guild and each and every one of us strives to enjoy the game. This means enjoyment for everyone so guild chat group chat should always be kept in a good spirits. We would expect you to conduct yourself as a respectable member to the rest of the WoW community as well. This means every time you write in 2.Trade or join PuG raids or groups that you are a representative of ORC and would be expected to behave as such. We have a very good reputation and would like to keep it.
Disappearing during your trial, not being active ingame: Should something happen that takes you away from the game, please make a post on the forum so people know you are away. You don't need to post a specific reason if you don't want to but an estimated time of your return.
Spamming guild chat with your damage meter details: Guild chat is meant to be a communal channel for all our members to find help, groups and for random idle chat. This is not the place to broadcast your uberness.
Staying in hiding: Keep your representation of ORC high and your participation in ORC vast. We like to see our members joining in on Groups, Raids, PVP-events and other competitions that are presented throughout the game. Join the fun!
Ignoring the Forum: The forum is here for a reason, this is where we can share details about the game and keep each other up to date about things ingame and out. This should be checked very regularly to be sure you know what is going on with the guild!
This should give you a good idea of how to successfully complete your trial with ORC. Nothing has been said above that we wouldn't expect of our full members, so should you complete your Trial we would expect you to keep that going as long as you are an ORC member.
Common sense is the best way of putting it.


Tim McGraw took to Facebook this week to share the news that his wife Faith Hill has lost her beloved dad.
Wesley "Ted" Perry was 88-years-old and had a huge impact on McGraw's life.
Thoughts go out to the entire family.


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module Sid
  module ClassMethods
    extend ActiveSupport::Concern
    included do
      before_create :set_sid_column
      validates sid_config[:sid_column], :uniqueness => {:scope => sid_config[:scoped_by]}
    end
  end
end

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Hi, everyone, I've got a couple of quick announcements for you all.
1.) I've decided to make art every day again in 2015! I'll be posting in all the usual places: my website, instagram, tumblr, and google+.
3.) If you hate my art, ignore numbers 1 and 2.