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require 'erubis'
require 'trails/file_model'

module Trails
  class Controller
    include Trails::Model
    def initialize(env)
       @env = env
    end

    def env
      @env
    end

    def render(view_name, locals = {})
      filename = File.join "app", "views", controller_name, "#{view_name}.html.erb"
      template = File.read filename
      eruby = Erubis::Eruby.new(template)
      klass = self.class
      klass.instance_variable_set(:@req_start_time, Time.now)
      eruby.result locals.merge(:env => env, :start_time => klass.instance_variable_get(:@req_start_time))
    end

    def controller_name
      klass = self.class
      klass = klass.to_s.gsub /Controller$/, ""
      Trails.to_underscore klass
    end
  end
end


Thanks Bro Rab! Too bad no train came.
Haha – Yes – I had thought of adding a train!
Nice shot Michael, good to see you back on your blog, it's been a while.
Thanks Brian – Was just takin' a break from posting weird photos. Lol! And wondering – What's the point after all?
Don't stop! you have a great talent for photography that is worth sharing.
Haha – Thanks for the encouragement Brian – same goes for you! I have re-affirmed that I still enjoy the challenge of discovering, recording, composing, and editing a wide variety of images. And enjoy sharing them with and viewing images from a few other good photographers such as yourself!
Thanks Andrew. Johnny Cash helped me out.


Who Wants Art and Books During Football Season?
Downtown Huntsville offered a Bonus Friday Night Art Walk to vendors last night, but traffic around the square was decidedly light compared to summer events. Kids were back in school, which meant Friday night football games were the priority for parents and students alike. I was a lonely bookseller on my corner with only a couple jewelry makers in view on the street behind me.
To pass the time, I resorted to people-watching and spinning stories. A woman passed me carrying a large vase of red roses, and her expression wasn't happy. Were those roses a plea for forgiveness from some suitor? Breakup roses? Anniversary roses on the wrong day? Or maybe her frown had nothing to do with the roses, but she'd just been yelled at by her boss.
On the steps of the museum across the street, a beautiful lady posed in a gold dress while the setting sunlight bounced off her face, and a photographer instructed her to pose. After some time, she changed into a glamorous pink and red dress and made her way toward me for further pictures on the steps on the courthouse, then on one of the benches beside my table. People blew their horns as they drove by, and she waved. Was she famous? Was she an important person? It was hard to avoid staring as she moved down the sidewalk and posed under streetlights, beside trees, and next to buildings.
Back on the museum steps, another couple lined up between the white columns to pose for a picture. They held a big sign that said "We're Engaged." I imagined this photo shoot would soon go viral on their social media network. Why weren't they posting pictures of an engagement ring? You didn't need a sign if you did that. A diamond told the whole story without any words at all. Maybe there wasn't a ring. But why?
A few people stopped and talked to me about my books, but they weren't "my people." My readers were somewhere else last night. I don't know if they were watching high school football or just hanging out at home with friends, but they weren't downtown at the art stroll.
There was, however, a shirtless skateboarder. And a very confident man wearing salmon-colored corduroy pants. While both of them looked like Avant guard artsy-types, neither seemed to be the target audience for YA novels about troubled teens turning corners.
So until next spring, football wins the day.


It is that time of the year again where the dead become undead and walk out of their peaceful graves right into the human abode. Whether you are a devout believer of all things paranormal or simply brush the spooky aside with a smirk of science, there are several more chilling things that take place in our lives. The chills of witnessing such horrors are much stronger than simply watching a jump-scare video or the best of Halloween horror movie re-runs.
These horrors are more spine-chilling than just being unprepared for your Halloween costume of the year or running out of dip at your Halloween shindig. Our career path post an MBA is no short of an adventure-filled horror movie.
For those making a transition into a managerial role to finally build and run the ideal business fuelled by hopes and dreams, there are certain scary realities that come with managing a group of employees which they must come to terms with. There are unexpected roadblocks accompanied with a number of other difficulties that a manager must deal with, sooner or later.
Scary truth #1: Your actions will have consequences!
As a manager you are supposed to lead by example. While you may not know this, but your daily actions, reactions and simple professional habits are being noticed and judged by your team on a daily basis.
You cannot simply ask for your employees to be successful without modelling the ideal yourself. Our advice to you would be to practice transparency about your expectations and live up to them on your own as well.
Scary truth #2: Not everybody will like what you say!
Managing a team of workers is no easy feat and the best weapon to equip yourself with as a manager is humble confidence that will help you to overcome roadblocks. You must realize the scary truth that not all employees will be completely enthralled with what you have to offer, be it the daily projects or tasks, simple advice or even your sharp-tongued feedback. So, you must learn to grow a thicker skin. You will not always have the chances of being nice and winning the hearts of all your employees in every turn.
Scary truth #3: A manager never shuts his door!
Having continuous communication and feedback are essential to the success of your employees and form a key aspect of your managerial duties. Shutting out those who matter the most could put your business in jeopardy. So, have an open-door policy to make sure you remain accessible to your employees. They should be able to come to you with their concerns at any point of time and feel free to dish out feedback on a regular basis to help your employees get better for the greater good.
Scary truth #4: Bid goodbye to perfectionism!
Managers should never let their inner perfectionists come in the way of delegation. If that happens, then you will end up losing valuable amount of time on irrelevant fine-tuning when it comes to the main work. Moreover, not only will this take longer than usual to actually get things done, it may also inhibit your company employees from accomplishing their goals.
Perfectionist bosses are the least favourite of employees and also seldom respected, as they are usually impossible to please.
Scary truth #5: Expectations must be lowered!
Good things need time. One cannot expect their employees to be the best of shining stars right from the get-go. It will take meticulous leadership, delegations and a little bit of trial and error to build your dream team. To inspire and engage your employees, you will need careful thinking with prompt actions that do not go against your ethicality as a manager.
Being the boss is scarier than it may seem, but despite all the unnecessary roadblocks, the thrilling adventures, bone-chilling negotiations, nerve-wracking meetings and close encounters to almost touching your most cherished dreams while having to let go of some… it is still a joyride worth making a leap of faith for.
So, this Halloween give yourself a good scare, with assuming the role of a mock manager; who knows may be you could turn your horrible boss nightmares into a horrifying reality!


When the former British colony of Singapore became a country nearly 50 years ago, its people were sustained by a multiethnic street food culture that would make the island-nation a global food mecca.
This was long before the arrival of celebrity chefs, Michelin-starred restaurants, eye-popping restaurant tabs, and the rise of Singapore as one of most expensive places in the world to live.
Back in the day, food hawkers generally had just one specialty dish, usually served from a rickshaw on the street — often on "opeh," or banana leaves instead of paper plates.
In the 1970s and '80s, prompted by concerns over sanitation and unlicensed food sellers, Singapore moved street food vendors off the streets and into open-air pavilions called hawker centers, with running water and electricity.
Hawker centers thrived, but today Singapore's venerable street food culture is threatened by its growing wealth and changing tastes. As elderly hawkers hang up their woks, there are far fewer young people willing to carry on the tradition. Nor would many status-conscious Singaporean parents want them to.
Lucky food hawkers have children who help out like Brendon Yip, who works for an IT firm during the week but spends weekends ladling out silky smooth Cantonese-style porridge at his parent's Hwa Yuen Porridge stall at the Tiong Bahru hawker center.
The 27-year-old doesn't plan on taking over when his parents, now in their 60s, decide to retire. Nor do his two brothers, who also have corporate jobs.
"No one knows what's going to happen," he says.
Foodies, bargain lovers, and even the Singaporean government worry about the fate of humble yet beloved artisanal and traditional foods. Efforts, including a government pilot program, are underway to preserve the endangered street food culture.
Singaporeans take their food extremely seriously. Demanding palates and a wide variety of dishes make eating one of two national pastimes (the other is shopping). The food selection reflects Singapore's cultural and ethnic mix of Chinese, Malays, South Indians, and Peranakans (descendants from British Malaya of Chinese, European, and Malay families).
A well-prepared and satisfying meal from a food hawker can cost as little as S$3 (or US$2.22). The fear is that traditional street fare will become pricier — and grow out of fashion — in a city that is frequently named the world's most expensive to live in.
As traditional street food hawkers retire and the availability of good, cheap food becomes a concern, chain franchises and fast-food outlets continue to grow.
There are increasingly ubiquitous indoor food courts, which have "air-con," as it is called in Singapore, along with a new mix of available options including Western food outlets such as McDonald's and Subway, as well as pricier options that are increasingly affordable to wealthy Singaporeans.
Meanwhile, Singapore's growing wealth has summoned the arrival of restaurants branded by celebrity chefs such as Wolfgang Puck and Mario Batali.
The implications are economic, and not just for moderate-income Singaporeans who rely on the easy availability of cheap, good food. Food tourism is a big draw in this widely acknowledged food paradise, with organized food trails offering deep-pocketed tourists a glimpse into Singapore's rich cultural history and diversity.
Singaporean street food can mean many things to many people. It can mean chicken rice, a deceptively simple dish of plump and tender chicken served on a bed of rice made moist and fragrant with broth and ginger. Or carrot cake, a fried radish cake. Or "popiah," spring rolls filled with finely grated fresh vegetables. Other basic hawker fare includes "laksa" (a spicy noodle soup combining Chinese and Malay elements), "bak kut teh" (a peppery pork rib soup), and "rojak" (a fruit and vegetable mix that is part of a Javanese ceremony for first-pregnancies).
More unusual dishes include black-skinned chicken (believed to have medicinal qualities), pig organ soup, fish head curry, and frog leg porridge. On the somewhat pricier side of hawker fare are chili crab, black pepper crab, and barbecued stingray.
Food blogger Leslie Tay, author of "The End of Char Kway Teow and Other Hawker Mysteries," says hawker center prices are too low to draw enough young people into the hawker profession. He also sees the tradition of highly skilled hawkers specializing in a single dish — such as "char kway teow," a popular noodle stir-fry — giving way to a trend toward mass-produced fare and today's wider choice of international foods.
Hawker center food prices are slowly creeping upward. A survey released last fall by the Consumers Association of Singapore found that hawker food prices increased by 10 to 20 percent for most food items over a two-year period.
Preserving Singapore's hawker heritage is the goal of a recent government program that pairs up young apprentices with experienced hawkers. But the take-up has been low.
Wayne Tan, 28, who serves the Chinese Hakka dish thunder tea rice, is doubtful about efforts to attract fellow young hawkers.


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Known as the Spice Island, the beautiful island of Zanzibar on Africa's east coast is bursting with culture and history, seemingly at odds with its idyllic geography of white-sand beaches with palms swaying lazily in the sea breeze. Together this makes Zanzibar a fabulous place to explore as well as a dream to relax and unwind.
Zanzibar is the semi-autonomous part of Tanzania in East Africa. It is composed of the Zanzibar Archipelago in the Indian Ocean, off the coast of the mainland, and consists of many small islands and two large ones: Unguja (the main island, referred to informally as Zanzibar) and Pemba. The capital is Zanzibar City, located on the island of Unguja. Its historic centre is Stone Town, which is a World Heritage Site.
Today, many of the winding streets and high townhouses of old Stone Town remain unchanged and visitors can walk between the sultan's palace, the House of Wonders, the Portuguese fort and gardens, the merchants' houses, and the Turkish baths of the old city. Day-long spice tours to working plantations offer visitors the chance to observe the cultivation of cloves, vanilla, nutmeg, cinnamon, and other spices that have made the island famous.
— Spend the day in Stone Town
— Head to Jozani Forest
— Catch some sun at Nungwi beach
— Visit Prison Island
— Eat at Forodhani market
— Visit the Palace Museum
— Go on a Spice Tour
— Visit The Old Fort
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Sun Conures are colorful neotropical parrots. The adults typically measure 30 cm in length and can weigh between 100 and 123 g. They have medium sized bodies and long, pointed tails. They are bright yellow in coloration with red markings on the side of their head and red-orange color on their forehead, lower abdomen, lower back, and rump. The under feathers of the tail are green and yellow. An immature conure will be duller in color and have more green on the head, throat and body. The juveniles do not usually attain the coloration of an adult until 18 months- 2 years of age. Male and female conures look very similar and are difficult to distinguish solely on their appearance. However, the males can sometimes be brighter in color, especially around their face and abdomen. This is not always the case because conures can vary in color from bird to bird.
Habitat and Range: Sun conures are only found in tropical habitats, and prefer to live on open savannahs or within dry savanna woodlands. They can be found throughout South America. They have been recorded mostly in Brazil, north of the Amazon River. They are commonly found in scrublands along the Amazon riverbank, and forested valleys. They tend to inhabit palm groves and anywhere where trees or bushes are fruiting profusely. They may require post-fire habitats and are sensitive to human activity such as cattle grazing. These birds have not been widely studied in the wild because they only reside in largely undeveloped parts of the country that are difficult to access.
Diet in the Wild: Diet in the wild includes seeds, nuts, fruits, berries, vegetation and insects.
Diet in the Zoo: Mixed diet of pellets, nuts, fruits, and vegetables, fed daily.
Predators: Predators will include birds of prey, snakes, and terrestrial mammals that can attack the young nestlings or fledglings.
Life Cycle and Social Structure: Monogamous. There is not much known about the sun conures reproduction and nesting in the wild. There is no known courtship behavior. Paired birds have been observed feeding one another and will intensely groom each other before breeding. After a pair breeds they will become very affectionate towards one another and can be aggressive towards others.
Sun conures are cavity nesters, making their nest inside trees or in cavities in palm trees. The females will continuously clean the nest until the eggs are laid. The average clutch size is 3-4 eggs. They lay one egg at a time a 2 to 3 day intervals. The incubation period lasts from 23 to 27 days. The young fledges 7-8 weeks after hatching and become independent after 9-10 weeks.
Sun conures will typically only breed once a year and the breeding season usually begins in February. They reach reproductive maturity at 2 years of age.
They have the ability to use their foot like a hand to hold, examine, or eat items.
Conservation Message: They are endangered. Due to the pet trade much of their wild population has become rare or absent in much or their range. These birds are easily captured using seed bait and whole flocks can be extirpated very easily.
The Sun conure is all threatened by habitat loss due to agriculture and live stock overgrazing.
What You Can Do: When becoming a pet owner, do your research. Select animals that have been bred in captivity and not removed from the wild for use in the pet trade. Also remember to choose your pets wisely. You need to make sure any animal you decide to care for fits into your lifestyle. Do not get a pet unless you can adequately provide for their physical and mental well being for as long as they live.
Supporting rainforest products that are sustainably grown can help to decrease the amount of deforestation being seen in the African gray parrot's natural home range.


There's no doubt that Wolverine is the world's most famous mutant, but in the fan-favorite hero's third film feature—and may I add, the best X-Men film I've seen—Logan is a stranger to the audience.
Sure we still see his scruff and arrogant exterior, but complex themes are explored in the film—with impermanence, purpose, legacy, and family, among them—making Logan more human than he is mutant.
The film is intensely intimate and primal compared to the numerous X-Men films that came before it. Even with the thrills and excitement over grotesque scenes, the emotional magnitude that surface from the character relationships are neither diluted nor overshadowed by the superhero action.
It's about damn time we stop censoring who Wolverine is and what he is fully capable of doing. "Logan" is unapologetically brutal with an equally unapologetically amused audience.
The movie's saturation of violence is very much welcome, especially when we finally see Wolverine decapitating enemy heads and bashing skulls with those adamantium claws.
The movie may be keen on capitalizing on the capalities of Wolverine's claws in most action scenes, but this isn't what the movie is about. From the way the film has been named already says a lot—the focus is on the human aspect of Wolverine, and it is the first one to explore it.
In the process of immortalizing his longtime screen alterego, Jackman, along with James Goldman, reconnect the hero to his humanity, creating a newfound familiarity of the character among its audience.
The story draws you into each cinematic frame. Whether it's experiencing the seismic shocks of Charles' seizure, or clenching your teeth as mutants fight tooth and nail for survival, moviegoers ultimately feel the emotional gravity of each scene as if they themselves are part of it. The movie feels like a road trip, the settings are textured and convincingly real. Good job, James Mangold.
Yes, I just borrowed a term from Marvel's competitor, DC. But the biggest plot twist in this movie was the revelation that adamantium was slowly poisoning Logan's body. What ironically made Wolverine the most indestructible mutant (and ideal weapon), apart from his ability to regenerate, had always been his adamantium-infused built and claws, was now a threat to his immortality.
Logan is without a doubt Charles' prodigal son. The movie shows us numerous tender moments between the two, and how they still look out for and depend on the other til the very end.
The fascination of weaponizing Wolverine's mutation never ends. In the movie, what they described as the "soulless" experiment turns out to be a replica of Wolverine. Known as the ultimate weapon, X-24 had the similar viciousness and cruelty of Sabretooth. "Logan" is another film that makes Wolverine face his inner demons, and his fears are always in motion, haunting him when it gets the chance.
Marvel comic books actually exist in the Marvel universe? That's so meta! The vintage comics, although are not based on any real published ones, are drawn by former Marvel editor-in-chief Joe Quesada. I loved the idea that blurred what was considered as fiction and (cinematic) reality, basing the coordinates (and even the existence) of "Eden," on the comic book.
When Laura shifted the position of the cross, the grave marker to Logan's body, to form an "X," something inside me died. It was a split-second moment that leaves a lasting impression. Here's a new line of mutants who refuse to become jaded despite the exhausting witch hunt they endure. Here's a new line of mutants that we will grow to root for, all because our old heroes fought to keep them alive.
Photos courtesy of 20th Century Fox. Logan is showing in theatres nationwide.
Nationwide midnight screenings are also available for the latest Marvel film.


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2417 Mission St, the location Doc's Clock would like to move into. (Photo: Google Maps)
Planning Commission to review Doc's Clock's relocation plans
Nuala Sawyer
Nov. 26, 2016 12:00 a.m.
The future of longtime Mission Street bar Doc's Clock is in the Planning Commission's hands on Dec 1, when a Conditional Use Authorization will be reviewed for the bar's relocation.
Doc's Clock has sat at 2575 Mission St. for the past 65 years, but its current lease will expire next year. After securing Legacy Business status, the bar is now working on moving to a new location down the street, at 2417 Mission St.
"Our new landlord loves Doc's, wants us there, wants the sign and has given us a long lease," owner Carey Suckow told Broke Ass Stuart earlier this year. "We are hoping to be able to move by the time our current lease is up in July 2017 but that is all in the hands of the Planning Department and their permitting processes."
The Planning Commission will review the plans to move the bar to 2417 Mission St. on Dec 1, which include the transference of the existing liquor license, the relocation and installation of a vintage sign, and the change of use from a vacant retail spot to a bar.
Editor's Note: This story has been updated from its original version.
SSF police officer struck in head with skateboard remains in serious condition
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My wife is having heart surgery this morning, and there was lots of preparation in advance of the procedure, so this is a short blog today.
'Came across an interesting site called FreeSound.
Freesound aims to create a huge collaborative database of audio snippets, samples, recordings, bleeps, … released under Creative Commons licenses that allow their reuse.
Check it out. 'Pretty interesting concept.
I'll let you know how the surgery goes. Prayers appreciated for Victoria.


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Transport - 06.06.2003
European Public transport awards : Italian, British and Turkish winners
The Emilia-Romagna region and the city of Bologna, Cambridgeshire County Council and Bursa metropolitan city are the winners of CEMR's 5th European Public transport awards.
This year's theme was 'how to ensure citizen's support for difficult, unpopular measures aimed at improving mobility while reducing pollution?".
EC Environment Commissioner Margot Wallström congratulated the winners at the award ceremony on 5 June.
The joint winners are the Emilia-Romagna region and the city of Bologna for their 'liberiamo l'aria" project. 9 provinces and 81 local authorities were involved in the project. One of the main ideas was to close the city centre to private traffic, others aimed at reducing traffic congestion by encouraging the use of public transport, reducing gas emissions and giving citizens full information about the measures. The jury was appreciative of the 'partnership" spirit of the project that involved all spheres of government (local, regional and national).
'To win the first prize is extremely important, said Emilia-Romagna transport Minister Alfredo Peri. It is important to motivate the local institutions that took part in this this project. It is also important for the citizens : this prize rewards everybody, all the actors".
Franco Pellizzer, on behalf of Bologna added that the prize 'will give the project stronger roots while being a jumping board for future measures".
(Web address to the project : www.liberiamolaria.it)
Cambridgeshire County Council won the second prize for their project entitled 'A radical approach to tackling traffic congestion in an historic city centre"
The scheme consisted of closing streets that led to the historic city centre. The main challenge was to get the support of the majority of Cambridge citizens.
This was achieved by consulting and involving them in the project.
'This prize will help us get the support of the residents for the 3d stage of the project due to be launched next August" said Cambridge City Council Network Manager Robert menzies.
(Web address to the project : www.cambridgeshire.gov.uk)
The third prize went to Bursa metropolitan City in Turkey. City authorities created an integrated transport system linking the West of the city and the city centre through a 16.5km metro-bus line. This link gives suburbs residents a fast and reliable transport means to the centre.
Mayor of Bursa, Erdogan Bilenser, said that the prize constitutes a reward for measures that are in favour of the citizens".
(Infos : merguzel@bursa-bld.gov.tr)
The jury gave a special distinction to the Dutch town of Dordrecht for its innovative scheme (the waterbus system) that offers an alternative public transport modality along the canals and rivers, and to the Werfenweg city (Austria) for its 'Holiday without my car" scheme.
Georgina Mombo Rasero
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Widow of murdered tells court "I thought I'd be next"
The murder trial for Harry Edward Charles McKenna continued in Fredericton today.
McKenna has been charged with second-degree murder in the Court of Queen's Bench in connection with the death of Kirk Blair, 61. The trial began yesterday and is scheduled for eight days.
This morning, the victim's wife, Johanna Blair, took the stand.
She testified that on the evening of April 30, 2013, she and her husband settled in for the night in their mobile home in Geary, N.B. They sat on opposite ends of the room in their respective La-Z-Boys. Johanna was in her pajamas.
They were watching a hockey game when they heard a knock at the door.
"Isn't kind of late?" Johanna Blair said to her husband as he put down the foot rest of his chair. Kirk Blair got up, turned on the outside light and opened the only door to the residence.
That's when Johanna Blair heard a 'bang.'
She put down her footrest, put on her Crocs and walked over to the door. She told the court she saw her husband on the ground, and McKenna and David John Doucette standing in her kitchen. Doucette is the boyfriend of McKenna's daughter.
McKenna asked Johanna for Kirk's pin number, but she didn't know it. The accused told Johanna to ask Kirk for his pin. She was given an envelope and asked to write it down.
Kirk didn't respond, but eventually rolled towards the sound of Johanna's voice and gasped out the pin number. She wrote it on the envelope and passed it over to McKenna and Doucette.
Johanna Blair told the court Doucette whispered, grabbed McKenna's arm and gestured for the door.
Johanna then hit McKenna on the back of the head with a Teflon frying pan and forced him from her home.
She dialed 911 then heard two 'smashes' and another 'bang.' She dropped the receiver before speaking to anyone.
McKenna entered the kitchen alone, still holding the gun. Johanna Blair's bowels released. She went to her bedroom to clean up and change her underwear. McKenna followed her and stood in the doorway, talking about how her husband said he would sell McKenna a motor and four tires.
The two then went back into the hallway.
"I saw Kirk there laying in blood," Johanna Blair told the court. "My heart tightened and I couldn't breathe."
Johanna went outside to sit on the porch, smoke a cigarette and drink a bottle of water. McKenna told her they were going to his place – another
trailer, three-feet away, on the same property. She objected, saying his dogs make her stuffy.
McKenna took her to his residence anyway, a place she had only entered three or four times before. He sat her on the couch and sat on the couch across from her, still holding the gun. He spoke to her, but Blair had difficulty recalling the conversation for the court.
At some point, lights shone in the window of McKenna's trailer and a police car pulled in the driveway. McKenna stashed his gun under the couch cushions and went to look out the window.
Johanna told the court she got up and ran out of the house towards the lone officer who had arrived in the police car.
"I said to her, 'he shot my husband,' and I kept running and hid behind the cruiser. I thought to myself, 'I hope she knows what she's doing.'"
She watched as the officer put handcuffs on McKenna, and put him in the back of the police car.
Johanna Blair told the court McKenna repeatedly threatened her while holding his gun.
"I thought I was gonna be next," she said.
The Blairs moved to Geary from Ontario in the fall of 2012, so Kirk could retire from his job as a mason-carpenter and fish. They'd been married for 36 years.
Johanna Blair owned the property both trailers were located on. Her husband transferred it to her last November.
During the cross examination by the Defence, Johanna told the court she had first met McKenna about two years earlier when the couple was living in Ontario. She said her husband and McKenna were friends with a working relationship. She never saw them fight.
When asked why the Geary property was put in her name, Johanna Blair told the court she didn't know, and wasn't involved with her husband's finances or his work affairs.
She testified seeing McKenna and Doucette leave and bring alcohol back to the residence twice, on the day of the murder. She said she never saw them drinking.
"I know he [McKenna] was drinking, but he was walkin' fine, he was talkin' fine," said Johanna Blair.
She said he didn't seem angry.
"His tone of voice never changed that night," she told the court. "He wasn't yelling or screaming or nothing. It was just normal talk."
Johanna doesn't remember the conversation in McKenna's living room, nor small details like whether or not the TV was on. She told the court in the pauses between her sobs how stressed she was after seeing McKenna shoot her husband.
"Charlie [McKenna] was Kirk's friend, at least I thought," said Johanna.
The trial continues this afternoon.


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Q: What exactly does it mean when $_FILES is empty? I am working on a PHP upload script and when testing my error checks, I attempted to upload a 17MB TIFF file. When I do this the $_FILES array is empty. The script works fine for what I need it to do, which is to upload JPEG files. My solution is to test if $_FILES is empty or not before continuing with the upload script.
Can anybody explain why $_FILES is empty when a TIFF is attempted to be uploaded? Is my solution, to check if $_FILES is empty or not, an okay one?
Does this have something to do with settings in php.ini?
Just to clarify
I was checking that $_FILES was empty using the following:
if(empty($_FILES))
{
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}

A: Yes, upload_max_filesize controls max upload size, which the TIFF file most likely exceeded.  The default is 2M.  You can test with:
echo ini_get("upload_max_filesize");

EDIT: Actually, the exact cause is more likely  post_max_size, which is always >= upload_max_filesize:   "If the size of post data is greater than post_max_size, the $_POST and $_FILES  superglobals  are empty."

A: You should check to see if $_FILES['file']['error'] is equal to 0. This indicates a "success".
If your files array is empty, it might be due to some other problem, like not including the enctype.
Try doing var_dump($_FILES) and viewing the contents...
EDIT: I know you can set the max filesize in the php.ini file, but I am not sure if that will give you an empty files array. I think you will just get an error.

A: As posted already, it's empty because if failed. Also check for a form element like this:
<input type="hidden" name="MAX_FILE_SIZE" value="-maxsizegoeshereinbytes-" />

To be extra sure (once you actually have an array - adding to the 'check the error key' post, btw) , you can also check the size
if( $_FILES['file']['size'] > 0 ) {

}

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package com.github.agourlay.cornichon.dsl

import cats.scalatest.EitherMatchers
import io.circe.Json
import org.scalatest.{ Matchers, OptionValues, WordSpec }
import com.github.agourlay.cornichon.json.CornichonJson.parseDataTable
import cats.syntax.either._

class DataTableSpec extends WordSpec
  with Matchers
  with OptionValues
  with EitherMatchers {

  def referenceParser(input: String) =
    io.circe.parser.parse(input).fold(e ⇒ throw e, identity)

  "DataTable parser" must {

    "report malformed JSON" in {
      val input = """
                    |   Name  |   Age   |
                    |  "John" |   5a    |
                  """

      parseDataTable(input) should be(left)
    }

    "process a single line with 1 value without new line on first" in {
      val input = """ |   Name   |
                      |  "John"  |
                  """

      parseDataTable(input) should beRight(
        List(Json.obj("Name" → Json.fromString("John")).asObject.value))
    }

    "process a single line with 1 value" in {
      val input = """
        |   Name   |
        |  "John"  |
        """

      parseDataTable(input) should beRight(
        List(Json.obj("Name" → Json.fromString("John")).asObject.value))
    }

    "process a single line with 2 values" in {
      val input = """
        |   Name  |   Age   |
        |  "John" |   50    |
      """

      parseDataTable(input) should beRight(
        List(Json.obj(
          "Name" → Json.fromString("John"),
          "Age" → Json.fromInt(50)
        ).asObject.value))
    }

    "process string values nd headers with unicode characters and escaping" in {
      val input =
        """
          | Name                  |   Größe \u00DF " \| test |
          | "öÖß \u00DF \" test " |   50                     |
        """

      parseDataTable(input) should beRight(
        List(Json.obj(
          "Name" → Json.fromString("öÖß \u00DF \" test "),
          "Größe \u00DF \" | test" → Json.fromInt(50)
        ).asObject.value))
    }

    "process multiline string" in {
      val input = """
        |  Name  |   Age  |
        | "John" |   50   |
        | "Bob"  |   11   |
      """

      parseDataTable(input) should beRight(
        List(
          Json.obj(
            "Name" → Json.fromString("John"),
            "Age" → Json.fromInt(50)
          ).asObject.value,
          Json.obj(
            "Name" → Json.fromString("Bob"),
            "Age" → Json.fromInt(11)
          ).asObject.value))
    }

    "notify malformed table" in {
      val input = """
        |  Name   |   Age  |
        | "John"  |   50   | "blah" |
      """

      parseDataTable(input) match {
        case Right(t) ⇒ fail(s"should have failed but got $t")
        case Left(e)  ⇒ e.renderedMessage should include("requirement failed: Datatable is malformed, all rows must have the same number of elements")
      }
    }

    "produce valid Json Array" in {
      val input =
        """
          |  Name  |   Age  | 2LettersName |
          | "John" |   50   |    false     |
          | "Bob"  |   11   |    true      |
        """

      val expected = """
        [{
          "Name":"John",
          "Age":50,
          "2LettersName": false
        },
        {
          "Name":"Bob",
          "Age":11,
          "2LettersName": true
        }]
        """

      val objects = parseDataTable(input).map(l ⇒ l.map(Json.fromJsonObject)).map(Json.fromValues)
      objects should beRight(referenceParser(expected))
    }
  }
}

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Жозе́ф Артю́р де Гобіно́ (;  14 липня 1816— †13 жовтня 1882) — французький аристократ, письменник, дипломат, автор расової теорії, історичних і філологічних праць.

Погляди

У своїй головній роботі — «Нарис про нерівність людських рас» (1853—1855) — де Гобіно висунув теорію, згідно з якою соціальна нерівність між народами пов'язана з їхніми біологічними особливостями або якостями. Рід homo sapiens де Гобіно розділив на три великі раси: білу, жовту і чорну — серед котрих найбільш пристосованою у соціальному і культурному плані була визначена біла раса (після неї — жовта).

Центром усіх виниклих цивілізацій де Гобіно вважав аріїв — аристократичну білу підрасу (індоєвропейців). За теорією де Гобіно арії (індоєвропейці), приходячи під час міграцій в інші країни, підкоряли місцеве населення і для управління ним, утворювали перші державні інститути (таким чином виникали цивілізації). Занепад цивілізацій де Гобіно пояснював порушенням арійської аристократією законів євгеніки й змішування аріїв з місцевим населенням.

Жозеф Артюр де Гобіно вважається основоположником расистських теорій, тому що вперше дав обґрунтування ідеї нерівності людей через різницю вроджених біологічно-расових особливостей.

Слов'яни
Згідно з Гобіно, слов'яни, бувши колись в давнину білим арійським народом, «пішли на північний схід нашого континенту і там вступили в руйнівне сусідство з фінами»; «слов'янська мова, що має загальні родові ознаки арійських мов, зазнала сильного фінського впливу. А щодо зовнішніх ознак, вони також наблизилися до фінського типу». Гобіно приписував слов'янам пасивність «в результаті великої пропорції жовтої крові», і порівнював слов'янські народи з семітськими:

Вплив Гобіно на теорії націонал-соціалізму

Роботи Гобіно залишались у Франції довгий час поза увагою науковців і політиків. Щойно після його смерті у Німеччині з'явилась зацікавленість у расистських теоріях Гобіно. У 1894 році у Німеччині за ініціативи перекладача праць Гобіно німецькою мовою Людвіга Шеманна було засноване «Товариство Гобіно». У 1914 році кількість членів цього товариства вже сягнула 360 осіб. У 1903 році Національна бібліотека Страсбурзького університету придбала праці й папери Жозефа Гобіно і відкрила постійну експозицію присвячену його творчості. Праці Гобіно мали певний вплив на низку німецьких науковців, які розвивали і вдосконалювали його теорію. Виклавши у своїй книзі «Моя боротьба» ідею націонал-соціалізму Адольф Гітлер також посилався на теорії Гобіно.

Примітки

Посилання
 Біографія Жозефа Артюра де Гобіно на peoples.su

Література
 В. Головченко. Ґобіно Жозеф Артюр де // Політична енциклопедія. Редкол.: Ю. Левенець (голова), Ю. Шаповал (заст. голови) та ін. — К.: Парламентське видавництво, 2011. — с.175 ISBN 978-966-611-818-2
 Beasley, Edward (2010). The Victorian Reinvention of Race: New Racisms and the Problem of Grouping in the Human Sciences, Taylor & Francis.
 Biddiss, Michael D. (1970). Father of Racist Ideology: The Social and Political Thought of Count Gobineau, Weybright & Talley.

Уродженці Віль-д'Авре
Расизм
Французькі письменники
Дипломати Франції
Французькі історики
Французькі соціологи
Посли Франції в Греції
Дипломати XIX століття

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Sam Bankman-Fried Charged on 8 Counts, Begins U.S. Extradition Process
SBF will arrive in New York City as soon as Wednesday evening.
Photos: FTX
Sam Bankman-Fried (SBF), the founder of the cryptocurrency exchange FTX, will be extradited to New York City, New York as soon as Wednesday after he was arrested and charged in an eight-count indictment by the Southern District of New York (SDNY) on December 12th. SBF was charged with conspiracy to commit wire fraud, wire fraud, conspiracy to commit commodities fraud, conspiracy to commit securities fraud, conspiracy to commit money laundering, and conspiracy to defraud the Federal Election Commission and commit campaign finance violations.
Bankman-Fried has been held at Fox Hill prison, the only prison in the Bahamas, since his arrest on December 12th, with his official SDNY indictment released on the 13th.
Bankman-Fried has been held at Fox Hill prison, the only prison in the Bahamas, since his arrest on December 12th, with his official SDNY indictment released on the 13th. pic.twitter.com/XrHPMJPZOw
— Addy Adds (@OneAddyAdds) December 21, 2022
Matthew Russell Lee, editor-in-chief of InnerCityPress, observed the discrepancy between rumors of a possible bail deal between the SDNY and SBF and the routine frequency in which the SDNY remands low-level criminals pre-trial.
"The question is this: What message does it send that if you steal a billion dollars, more [in fact], and then set up outside of the country, that to come back you can negotiate and get a bail deal while low-level drug dealers, some of them quite young, are remanded?" Lee asked.
VLOG: Sam Bankman-Fried bail talks while young low level drug dealers get pre-trial remand @SDNYLIVE; UN @AntonioGuterres' double game on #Ukraine https://t.co/X3PsFn04sA pic.twitter.com/LT9LWYeGGe
— Inner City Press (@innercitypress) December 21, 2022
United States Attorney for the SDNY, Damian Williams, United States Attorney General (AG) Merrick Garland, and Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) Assistant Director Michael J. Driscoll announced the charges.
"One month ago, FTX collapsed, causing billions of dollars in losses to its customers, lenders, and investors. Now, a federal grand jury in New York has indicted the former founder and chief executive officer of FTX and charged him with crimes related to the phenomenal downfall of that one-time cryptocurrency exchange, including fraud on customers, investors, lenders, and our campaign finance system. As today's charges make clear, this was not a case of mismanagement or poor oversight, but of intentional fraud, plain and simple," Williams said in the official indictment.
"The Justice Department has filed charges alleging that Samuel Bankman-Fried perpetrated a range of offenses in a global scheme to deceive and defraud customers and lenders of FTX and Alameda, the defendant's crypto hedge fund, as well as a conspiracy to defraud the United States government," Garland said. "We will continue to work to ensure U.S. capital markets operate honestly and with the integrity that investors, lenders, and the American people are entitled to."
"If you deceive and defraud your customers, the FBI will be persistent in our efforts to bring you to justice," FBI Assistant Director Driscoll added.
Tags: Campaign FinanceFTXSam Bankman-FriedSBFSDNY


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On the Lent of life.
On why I brush my teeth in the morning.
On peace with us.
By River Adams in Biblical Commentary, State of the World, The Big Picture: theological, cosmological, and mystical
"The Last Together" by B. Downs
We are uncertain. Much of the time we are afraid. We endure pain and grieve, mourning for lives unlived. We huddle in rooms that feel safe with our loved ones, and there we thread through our fingers the most precious of our memories and the most fragile of questions. Sometimes we are desperate, sometimes hopeful. We come out of our rooms for duty or for passion: to journey home, to bury friends, to look for a miracle. Year after year, we call this "life," and we don't always think how contained our lives are in the brief narrative of Easter. One dark day and a few blindingly bright moments in the lives of the disciples of one Yeshua of Nazareth.
This year's Easter wasn't that long ago. I was listening to the Passion of the four Gospels and thinking about us. How we are them, all of them: Mary Magdalene, Peter, John, Cleopas, Thomas…
I missed half of the Holy Week this year lying in a hospital bed. I just made it back for Easter Vigil – and in a funny twist, that was the rehearsal I had missed lying in the hospital the week before. I think I've mentioned in my last post that it's been a hard fall, a hard winter, and now a hard spring for me between my mother's health and mine deteriorating so quickly, mounting caregiver stress, mourning a religious life that never happened, and a new and brutal mystery ailment that's been tossing me in and out of the hospital. And yet…something is keeping me sane, something is keeping me together.
They were afraid, the disciples. They were grieving and desperate and hopeless, and they were huddled together in a room, holding on to precious memories and throwing up to the heavens, maybe, some silent and unsure questions. How could this be? Was this all meaningless? And they were afraid for their lives, and for their families, and for their fragile, thinning sanities. He was gone, and their world had collapsed and gone with him, and they felt so very alone. That's why they were afraid. They didn't know.
And then he came and stood in their midst. One after another, one by one and all together, they encountered the meaning of life they thought they'd lost, and didn't know what they were seeing. He came to Mary by the tomb; he came to Cleopas on the road to Emmaus; he came to them in their little huddling room, and he said, "Shalom." I love it that in Hebrew—and in Aramaic that Jesus and the apostles spoke every day—the word of greeting means "peace." Our Bibles translate it as "Peace be upon you," a phrase that in our 21st-century English-speaking world feels so lofty, so resurrection-worthy! But really, it wasn't. It was just a word of everyday greeting. On the worst day of their lives, when they thought they were doomed and damned and abandoned by God, suddenly there was his voice, and it said, "Hi there."
I often feel a particular affinity with Mary Magdalene. As an adult convert who came to Christianity through a profoundly mystical encounter with Jesus, I perceive him more as a beloved betrothed than any other human relationship. Mary's story—her suffering, privilege, and faith—speak to me. In John's Gospel she becomes the apostle to the apostles, the first to see the risen Lord—and yet she too is looking straight into his face and doesn't understand what's happening until he calls her by name.
I came to believe some years ago now that the disciples' story of Easter is the everyday story of our lives. We are uncertain and afraid, aggrieved and desperate, and whether we know it or not, we treasure in our hearts the love we've felt and learned from the Lord Himself. But many days, many times, many minutes in an hour we lose that love, and whether we know it or not, we mourn for it, and, huddled in the rooms inside and outside us, we feel alone in the universe and separate from it. Abandoned by God. We do not realize that He is there with us, always there all along, and we are looking straight into His face and don't know what's happening. So lost and so scared we are and so mournful for the treasure of the past and future that we need Him to call us by name each time, to call out and reach out and shake us and stick our hands into His wounds before we realize: He's been in our midst all this time.
This discovery is conversion. We have big ones and small ones—at least I do. One really big one, but time after time I keep discovering Him there where I almost lost Him. Right where I am. In my midst. He calls me by name, and then I know, and I know that I already knew, I just didn't know I knew. Just like Mary, and Cleopas, and the disciples—I'm sure they knew, they just didn't know it.
I believe, if you think about it, that this is part of the deeper nature of faith. From one angle, faith really is allowing ourselves to know what we already know at the core of our hearts. Daring to believe. Bringing to consciousness a truth which animates our underlying being. Realizing, as we are looking at a familiar face—familiar world—that we've been looking at the Lord, who knows all these things and smiles anyway, our Love Eternal, and we have never been alone. He calls us by name and says, "Hi there."
Or perhaps you think of it in entirely different terms—different images, different mythos. That's no matter for faith, and the story of Easter says that to me, too. Because it says that there isn't a single face or a single name you must recognize to find yourself in the presence of the risen Lord. In a grave-digger or in a roadside passerby, our Love Eternal is with us: it's the encounter that matters, the finding ourselves in the presence, the seeing of meaning in what's already here. In other words, the moment when God calls us by name and says, "Hi there."
It is then that we find Him in our midst. And peace…well, peace then comes with the territory.
afraid, conversion, disciples, Easter, Jesus, Mary Magdalene, name, peace, risen Lord
Permanent link to this article: http://onmounthoreb.com/on-peace-with-us/
Len Swidler on April 19, 2015 at 10:22
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Q: Undefined object from Angular HttpGet request from .net core IAction Result I want to get the Message from the IActionResult of a HTTPGET Request, I haven't managed to get it working.  The response comes back, but I can't map it properly in Angular 12.
Angular Http Service:
      finishCycle(): Observable<any> {
        return from(
          this.authService.getAccessToken()
          .then(token => {
            const headers = new HttpHeaders().set("Authorization", `Bearer ${token}`);
            this.http.get(this.createCompleteRoute("api/Cycle/FinishCycle", this.envUrl.urlAddress),
              { headers: headers, withCredentials: true }).toPromise();
          }));
      }

Angular Component Method:
      finishCycle() {
        this.spinner.show();

        var success;

        this.service.finishCycle().subscribe(res => {
          success = res;
          console.log(success);
          this.disableStart = false;
          this.spinner.hide();
        });
      }

C# Controller
       [HttpGet("/api/Cycle/FinishCycle")]
        public async Task<IActionResult> FinishCycle()
        {
            this._finishCycle = new Thread(() => { this._waterCycleService.FinishCycle(); });

            this._finishCycle.Start();

            return this.Ok(new { Message = "Finished" });
        }

What I'm trying to achieve is to lock the screen with a spinner until my process finishes, then on confirmation, enable the screen again.  It's not fully hooked up yet, but I do already know that the spinners, authentication etc.. all work, it's just my mapping that is off.


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"A Salute to the Music of PRINCE!" *LIVE!* and direct from Minneapolis Minnesota. The place where it all began! The World's Premier and Minnesota's only, 12-Year Resident.
Chase- Vocals, Guitar
Johnny Holiday- Guitar, Vocals
Vicki Black- Keyboards, Vocals
Ace Mack- Bass, Vocals
Brian "Snowman" Powers – Saxophone
Andre Robinson- Drums
Ryan Cahill, Percussion
Jenna Anderson- Dancer
THE WORLD'S PREMIER *LIVE!* PRINCE MUSIC TRIBUTE!
CHASE AND OVATION·SUNDAY, JUNE 23, 2019
From Minneapolis Minnesota, the place where it all began!. "A SALUTE TO THE MUSIC OF *PRINCE!* LIVE!" (with Chase & Ovation) is the World's Premier Prince Tribute Show based out of Prince's beloved hometown of Minneapolis, MN. The only one of its kind, Chase & Ovation has been performing exclusively the music of Prince (live in concert) for the past 12 years as the ONLY Resident Tribute to the Music of Prince in and from Minneapolis. With Prince himself in attendance for the opening night of this show in 2006 at the historic 'First Avenue' in downtown Minneapolis, home of the iconic film 'Purple Rain', and giving Chase & Ovation his personal 'two thumbs up', this one of a kind tribute show has continued its monthly celebration of Love.. Life.. And the Music of Prince in the heart of the Purple City ever since! Fans of the show include even some of Prince's former band mates and family members who give Chase & Ovation the highest remarks for reproducing Prince's music 'the way it is meant to be played, heard, and felt'. This high-energy, "Spot On", audio and visually captivating production brings you the very best of Prince throughout his expansive career in this one of a kind arena-caliber concert experience. Performing hits from the 70's, 80's, 90's, and beyond, Chase & Ovation delivers one of the greatest live music performances and shows to represent a generation of music… of all time!
Here is what some of the members of the Prince Music Family have to say about it;
– "AMAZING! You won't believe your eyes and ears!" ~Bobby Z. (Drummer) Prince and the Revolution
– "Spot on exactly how we played it!" ~Matt ("Doctor") Fink, (Keyboardist) Prince and the Revolution
– "…Arena caliber show!" ~Brown Mark, (Bass Guitarist) Prince and The Revolution
– "I was blown away by their sound, their show and their true professionalism!" – Tyka Nelson, Prince's sister
We look forward to seeing you soon in Minneapolis or elsewhere around the world, as we continue together, our global celebration of Love.. Life.. And the Music of *PRINCE!* LIVE! #SALUTE!
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Artificial Intelligence (AI) and personalised mental health interventions (Oyono Vlijter, eMEN project leader)
In many countries there is a clear need to improve access to treatment services. There are not enough clinicians to frequently monitor patients with clinical interviews, necessary to avoid costly emergency care and other crisis events. In addition, clinicians have limited time for each patient and patients do not always live in a short distance from their mental health service providers. Although Artificial Intelligence (AI) cannot simulate emotional intelligence and perception - a unique aspect of psychiatry - it could be an effective way to breach the gap between limited access and treatment time. It could also provide faster and more accurate diagnoses and enables clinicians to monitor their patients remotely and thus alert them on issues which arise between appointments and improve treatment plans.
AI is already integrated in a small number of mental health apps, such as Woebot. Woebot, is a mood tracker and chatbot and combines IA and principles of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT). It teaches users how to process emotions. Woebot, now used in 130 countries, was presented at the eMEN seminar on October 9th 2018 in Dublin. Another e-mental health company, Silvercloud Health is also developing AI, in cooperation with Microsoft, to improve its CBT based programs. AI could accelerate their understanding of personalized mental health interventions as it deepens understanding of different types of engagement behaviours.
However, experts estimate that it will probably take 5-10 years before AI technology is routinely used in clinics. In a Time magazine interview, Dr. John Torous, director of digital psychiatry at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Centre in Boston, cautions that "artificial intelligence is only as strong as the data it's trained on and mental health diagnostics have not been quantified well enough to program an algorithm". Not everyone shares this opinion. In the same interview Dr. Henry Nasrallah, a psychiatrist at the University of Cincinnati Medical Centre, explains that speech and mental health are closely linked, "Talking in a monotone can be a sign of depression; fast speech can point to mania; and disjointed word choice can be connected to schizophrenia". He emphasis that IA is not meant to replace human psychiatrist but that it can provide data and insights that will streamline treatment.
The eMEN project is following developments in the field of AI as this technology will be integrated in future (e)-mental health services. It will be crucial to also monitor the potential risks associated with the use of AI; these include possible:
patient injury or other health care problems resulting from AI errors – if AI systems become widespread, an error in one AI system might injure thousands of patients
risk of error due to fragmentation of health data across many different systems – training AI systems requires large amounts of data; fragmentation decreases the comprehensiveness of datasets
privacy violations as AI creates incentives for developers to create large datasets from many patients – the algorithm can also predict, as is often the goal, private information about patients without ever receiving that information
bias and inequality; for example, if most data comes from academic medical centres, AI systems will know less about patients that do not visit these centres; fewer resources could be allocated to patients which are considered less profitable for health systems
decrease of human knowledge and capacity over time, which will make it difficult to find and correct AI errors and improve medical knowledge; some medical specialities, such as radiology, are likely to become fully automated.
It is therefore important to develop good government oversight of AI system quality in order to mitigate the risks mentioned above. This is one of the reasons that the eMEN project has developed a policy recommendation for the implementation of e-mental health.
https://time.com/5727535/artificial-intelligence-psychiatry/
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/blog/microsoft-collaborates-with-silvercloud-health-to-develop-ai-for-improved-mental-health/
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/project/project-talia/
https://www.healtheuropa.eu/ai-in-psychiatry-detecting-mental-illness-with-artificial-intelligence/95028/
https://ps.psychiatryonline.org/doi/10.1176/appi.ps.201900464
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do to prevent this from re-occuring this year?
Convert to a VF pond.
What is a VF pond?
plastic line or is it a drop in with hose?
filter the water? Where is the filter?
and no fine mesh has solved that problem entirely.
We have a 5 gal bucket around our immersed pump.
The water rises through 55 gal barrels that grab big junk in strapping tape.
The barrels are drained each year via 2" pipes in the bottom.
Pools collect muck and are drained each spring.
We have never had a clog.
with plants. The roots of the plants do the filtration.
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To the traditional way of Chinese thinking this is as incomprehensible as an electric, current without both positive and negative poles, for polarity is the principle that + and north and south, are different aspects of one and the same system, and that the disappearance of either one of them would be the disappearance of the system.
People who have been brought up in the aura of Christian and Hebrew aspirations find this frustrating, because it seems to deny any possibility of progress, an ideal which flows from their linear (as distinct from cyclic) view of time and history. Indeed, the whole enterprise of Western technology is "to make the world a better place" – to have pleasure without pain, wealth without poverty, and health without sickness. But, as is now becoming obvious, our violent efforts to achieve this ideal with such weapons as DDT, penicillin, nuclear energy, automotive transportation, computers, industrial farming, damming, and compelling everyone, by law, to be superficially "good and healthy" are creating more problems than they solve. We have been interfering with a complex system of relationships which we do not understand, and the more we study its details, the more it eludes -us by revealing still more details to study. As we try to comprehend and control the world it runs away -from us. Instead of chafing at this situation, a Taoist would ask what it means. What is that which always retreats when pursued? Answer: yourself. Idealists (in the moral sense of the word) regard the universe as different and separate from themselves-that is, as a system of external objects which needs to be subjugated. Taoists view the universe as the same as, or inseparable from, themselves so that Lao-tzu could say, "Without leaving my house, I know the whole universe." This implies that the art of life is more like navigation than warfare, for what is important is to understand the winds, the tides, the currents, the seasons, and the principles of growth and decay, so that one's actions may use them and not fight them. In this sense, the Taoist attitude is not opposed to technology per se. Indeed, the Chuang-tzu writings are full of references to crafts and skills perfected by this very principle of "going with the grain." The point is therefore that technology is destructive only in the hands of people who do not realize that they are one and the same process as the universe. Our overspecialization in conscious attention and linear thinking has led to neglect, or ignore-ance, of the basic principles and rhythms of this process, of which the foremost is polarity.
The yang and the yin are principles, not men and women, so that there can be no true relationship between the affectedly tough male and the affectedly flimsy female.
They are thus like the different, but inseparable, sides of a coin, the poles of a magnet, or pulse and interval in any vibration. There is never the ultimate possibility that either one will win over the other, for they are more like lovers wrestling than enemies fighting. It is difficult in our logic to see that being and non-being are mutually generative and mutually supportive, for it is the great and imaginary terror of Western man that nothingness will be the permanent universe. We do not easily grasp the point that the void is creative, and that being comes from nonbeing as sound from silence and and light from space.
The study of electricity to-day comprehends a vast range of phenomena, in all of which we are brought back ultimately to the fundamental conceptions of electric charge and of electric and magnetic fields. These conceptions are at present ultimates, not explained in terms of others. In the past there have been various attempts to explain them in terms of electric fluids and ethers having the properties of material bodies known to us by the study of mechanics. To-day, however, we find that the phenomena of electricity cannot be so explained, and the tendency is to explain all other phenomena in terms of electricity, taken as a fundamental thing. The question, "What is electricity?" is therefore essentially unanswerable, if by it is sought an explanation of the nature of electricity in terms of material bodies.
That, from a scientist, is pure metaphysics. Change a few words, and it would be Saint Thomas Aquinas writing about God.
Thus the yin-yang principle is that the somethings and the nothings, the ons and the offs, the solids and the spaces, as well as the wakings and the sleepings and the alternations of existing and not existing, are mutually necessary. How, one might ask, would you know that you are alive unless you had once been dead? How can one speak of reality or is-ness except in the context of the polar apprehension of void?
Yang and yin are in some ways parallel to the (later) Buddhist view of form, se, and emptiness, k'ung-of which the Hridaya Sutra says, "That which is form is just that which is emptiness and that which is emptiness is just that which is form." This seeming paradox is at once intelligible in terms of the idea of clarity, ch'ing, for we think of clarity at once as translucent and unobstructed space, and as form articulate in every detail-as what photographers, using finely polished lenses, call "high resolution"~-and this takes us back to what Lao-tzu said of the usefulness of doors and windows. Through perfect nothing we see perfect something. In much the same way, philosophers of the Yin-Yang School (-3rd century) saw the positive – and negative – – as aspects of fai chi, the Great Ultimate, initially represented as an empty circle, as wu chi, although chi seems to have had the original meaning of a ridgepole upon which, of course, the two sides of a roof, yang and yin, would lean.
The yin-yang principle is not, therefore, what we would ordinarily call a dualism, but rather an explicit duality expressing an implicit unity. The two principles are, as I have suggested, not opposed like the Zoroastrian Ahura Mazda and Ahriman, but in love, and it is curious that their traditional emblem is that double helix which is at once the pattern of sexual communication and of the spiral galaxies.
One yin and one yang is called the Tao-. The passionate union of yin and yang and the copulation of husband and wife is the eternal pattern of the universe. If heaven and earth did not mingle, whence would everything receive life?
Thus, those who say that they would have right without its correlate, wrong, or good government without its correlate, misrule, do not apprehend the great principles of the universe, nor the nature of all creation. One might as well talk of the existence of Heaven without that of Earth, or of the negative principle without the – positive, which is clearly impossible. Yet people keep on discussing it without stop; such people must be either fools or knaves.
Both Lao-tzu (once, in ch. 42) and Chuang-tzu (many times) mention the yin-yang polarity, but there is no reference to the I Ching, or Book of Changes, in which the permutations and combinations of the two forces (liang yi) are worked out in detail, in terms of the sixty-four hexagrams of yin and yang lines. Yet the I Ching is supposed to have been the most ancient of all the Chinese classics, dating from as far back as the -2nd or even -3rd millennium, and thus to exhibit the basic patterns of Chinese thought and culture. But in that neither Lao-tzu nor Chuang-tzu mentions it, quotes it, nor uses its characteristic terminology, the.hoary antiquity and authority of this text must be called in question.10 On the other hand, since at least the -3rd century Chinese savants have commented on this work in such a way as to perfume it with their thoughts and thus to give it a philosophical profundity. Readers of the great Wilhelm translation, and especially those who use it for divination, should be aware that he has interspersed the earliest forms of the text with passages from the "Wings," or Appendices, most of which are certainly later than -250. In other words, the Wilhelm translation gives us a true picture of the I Ching as used and understood in China in relatively modem times. But my guess is that in the -5th and -4th centuries it was circulating as an orally transmitted folk wisdom, of indeterminable antiquity, comparable to the art of reading tea-leaves or the lines on the palm of the hand. There might have been written versions of it, but they would have been of the status of the Farmer's Almanac or popular guides to the meaning of dreams.
Thus the I Ching, as a specific text, does not appear to have influenced Taoism until after the days of Lao-tzu and Chuang tzu. Nevertheless, there is a common element in the rationale of the I Ching and early Taoist philosophy. Briefly, this element is the recognition that opposites are polar, or interdependent, and that there is something in us-which Groddeck, Freud, and Jung called "the Unconscious" – Which may be called upon for a higher wisdom than can be figured out by logic. In more up-to-date terms one might say that the labyrinth of the nervous system can integrate more variables than the scanning process of conscious attention, though this way of putting it is still a concession to the mechanistic assumptions of +19th-century science. But one uses such language mainly to stay in communication with colleagues who have not outgrown it.
The comment is invariably oracular, vague, and ambivalent, but a person taking it seriously will use it. like a Rorschach blot and project into it, from his "unconscious," whatever there is in him to find in it. This is surely a way of allowing oneself to think without keeping a tight guard on one's thoughts, whether logical or moral. The same sort of process is at work in the psychoanalytic interpretation of dreams and in eidetic vision, whereby we descry faces, forms, and pictures in the grain of wood or marble, or in the shapes of clouds. In this connection I must quote some anecdotes about Ch'an (Zen) painters of the +13th century.
About the year 1215, a Zen priest called MU Ch'i came to Hangchow, where he rebuilt a ruined monastery. By rapid swirls of ink he attempted, with undeniable success, to capture the moments of exaltation and set down the fleeting visions which he obtained from the frenzy of wine, the stupor of tea, or the vacancy of inanition. Ch'en J~Mg, about the same time, was noted for the simplicity of his life and the competence with which he fulfilled his duties as a magistrate…. Finally, he was admired for his habits of a confirmed drunkard. "He made clouds by splashing ink on his pictures. For mists he spat out water. When wrought up by wine he uttered a great shout and, seizing his hat, used it as a brush, roughly smearing his drawing; after which he finished his work with a ~ proper brush." One of the first painters of the sect, Wang Hsia, who lived in the' early ninth century, would perform when he was drunk real tours de force, going so far as to plunge his head into a bucket of ink and flop it over a piece of silk on which there appeared, as if by magic, lakes, trees, enchanted mountains. But none seems to have carried emancipation further, among these priests, than Ying Yu-Chien, secretary of the famous temple Ching-Tzu Si, who would take a cat-like pleasure in spattering and lacerating the sheet.
The remarks about Ch'en Jung, in particular, suggest thai these gentlemen, having spattered the silk with ink, would contemplate the mess until they could project the shapes and outlines of landscape. Thereafter they would take "the proper brush" and with a few touches bring it out for all to see.
Cases of this use of the creative un-, sub-, or superconscious are so numerous among painters (including Leonardo), physicists, mathematicians, writers, and musicians that we need not go into further examples. I am sure that the I Ching oracles are used in the same way as these painters used splashes of ink-as forms to be contemplated empty-mindedly until the hidden meaning reveals itself, in accordance with one's own unconscious tendencies. As with astrology, the rituals and calculations of consulting the I Ching are a kind of doodling which quiets the repressive anxieties of consciousness and, with luck, allows useful insights to emerge from one's deeper centers.
The book, therefore, is not entirely superstitious. Consider that when we are about to make decisions we usually collect as much information as we can; but often it is so ambivalent that we are reduced to tossing a coin which can say either "Yes" or "No," "Do" or "Don't." Would there be some advantage to having, as it were, a coin with sixty-four sides? The hexagram, drawn above might be saying, "No, yes, no; yes, no, yes." Also it should be noted as a curious characteristic of the I Ching that there are no absolutely good or bad hexagrams in its cyclic series.
The yin-yang view of the world is serenely cyclic. Fortune and misfortune, life and death, whether on small scale or vast, come and go everlastingly without beginning or end, and the whole system is protected from monotony by the by the fact that, in just the same way, remembering alternates with forgetting. This is the Good of good-and-bad.


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Ant-Man and The Wasp (film) In the aftermath of Captain America: Civil War, Scott Lang grapples with the consequences of his choices as both a Super Hero and a father. As he struggles to rebalance his home life with his responsibilities as Ant-Man, he's confronted by Hope van Dyne and Dr. Hank Pym with an urgent new mission. Scott must once again put on the suit and learn to fight alongside The Wasp as the team works together to uncover secrets from their past. Released on July 6, 2018 also in 3D and IMAX, after a July 4 release in Sweden, South Korea, and other countries. Directed by Peyton Reed. Stars Paul Rudd (Scott Lang/Ant-Man), Evangeline Lilly (Hope van Dyne/The Wasp), Michael Douglas (Dr. Hank Pym), Laurence Fishburne (Dr. Bill Foster), Michelle Pfeiffer (Janet van Dyne), Walton Goggins (Sonny Burch), Abby Ryder Fortson (Cassie Lang). 118 min. Filmed in widescreen format.


Last January, on occasion of the Salon International de la Haute Horlogerie held in Geneva, Laurent Ferrier presented the Galet Micro Rotor "Montre Ecole", a new model inspired to the first timepiece created by the master watchmaker in his school years, a pocket watch characterised by lines and finish typical of the 19th century tradition.
Laurent Ferrier is now presenting a second model with the same case, the Galet Micro-Rotor Montre Ecole Regulateur. As typical in a regulator watch, the three indicators are displayed separately: the large, centrally-positioned hand for the minutes, the sub-dial at 12 o'clock for the hours and below, at 6 o'clock, for the seconds.
The watch is powered by the FBN Calibre 228.01, an automatic manufacture movement equipped with micro-rotor winding system fixed between the main plate and the micro-rotor bridge, a silicon escapement with double direct impulse on the balance, and a silent block shock protection system for the micro-rotor. Visible through the sapphire crystal caseback and beautifully finished, the movement beats at a frequency of 3 Hz (21,600 vph) with a power reserve of 72 hours.
Available in stainless steel case or in white gold, the 40 mm three-piece case is water resistant to 30 metres / 100 feet.
The silver toned dial has a vertical satin-brushed finish with the minute and seconds counters recessed and contracted with a nickel snailed finish.
The small hours dial bears Roman numerals in black, while the minutes are shown on a "railway track" ring in slate grey with blue painted Arabic numerals at 15, 30, 45 and 60 minutes.
The hands for the three functions include a "leaf-shaped" hand for the hours, an "assegai-shaped" (from the spear used by the Zulu) hand for the minutes and a baton-shaped hand for the seconds. All three hands are in white gold 18K/210Pd with a black ruthenium treatment.
Laurent Ferrier is now presenting a second model with the same case, the Galet Micro-Rotor Montre Ecole Regulateur. As typical in a regulator watch, the three indicators are displayed separately: the large, centrally-positioned hand for the minutes, the sub-dial at 12 o'clock for the hours and below, at 6 o'clock, for the seconds. The Laurent Ferrier Galet Micro-Rotor Montre Ecole Regulateur will be available from July with a price of Euro 34,900 in stainless steel or Euro 44,300 in white gold.


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Modern shipping is all about change. New vessel shapes, designs, and capabilities are evolving like never before. In our Crewtoo construction series, we look at those technical changes…this time around, everything you ever wanted to know about decks, but were afraid to ask.
WHAT IS A DECK
Ships deck
A deck is a permanent covering over a compartment or a hull of a ship. On a boat or ship, the primary or upper deck is the horizontal structure that forms the "roof" of the hull, strengthening it and serving as the primary working surface.
Vessels often have more than one level both within the hull and in the superstructure above the primary deck, like the floors of a multi-story building, that are also referred to as decks, as are certain compartments and decks built over specific areas of the superstructure. Decks for some purposes have specific names.
The main purpose of the upper or primary deck is structural, and only secondarily to provide weather-tightness and support people and equipment. The deck serves as the lid to the complex box girder which is the hull. It resists tension, compression, and racking forces.
On ships with more than one level, deck refers to the level itself. The actual floor surface is called the sole, the term deck refers to a structural member tying the ships frames or ribs together over the keel.
ALL HAND ON DECK
All hands-on deck, as they say in the movies. What though is the definition of a "deck" and how have they emerged and evolved over the millennia of vessel design changes and development?
When ships only traded relatively locally, they didn't tend to have decks. They were merely "empty vessels" (literally), into which cargo was loaded. It wasn't until the Greeks and Romans began to range further around the Mediterranean and beyond, that they needed a covering over the hold and hull.
With Roman galleys often being powered by slaves rowing, it was necessary to keep them protected from the elements – and also contained to stop them escaping. So, a deck allowed both of these things. While also providing more space for people onboard and for fighting men.
The Greeks and Romans were also great maritime trading civilisations, so they were loading their vessels with cargo. This mean they needed not only the space for their people, but protected areas to keep their good protected.
BUILDING IT UP
Viking longboat
Not all renowned seafarers embraced the deck idea. Think of a Viking longship – these were always open to the environment. This was partly due to the fact that they drew such a shallow draft, which allowed the Vikings to head up shallow rivers and strike their victims deep into their own territory.
For the Vikings, the idea of building an extra deck and structure would have made their vessels unstable, and lost them a major tactical advantage. Also, as they were only trading relatively locally, then they made a cost-benefit analysis, and the ship design without a deck won out.
This is an important issue, as the design without a deck, ultimately meant that the Viking longships could never really grow beyond certain sizes. The stresses and strains on the ships, as they weren't "tied together", meant that anything over around 30m began to bend too much.
Also, the lack of a deck meant that the crew were exposed to the elements. So, despite them being incredibly hardy, they must have faced incredibly sapping conditions. Especially when we find that they may well have ranged as far as North America. Without a deck, they were seemingly making life harder for themselves, and were compromising the evolution of their vessel designs.
So, as we can see, the vessel types which embraced the deck design, were able to conquer the world through trade. While the Vikings needed smaller, tactical vessels – the great trading civilisations needed cargo space and protection, and they needed to be able to grow.
Weather decks evolved from having structures fore (forward or front) and aft (rear) of the ship mostly clear; in the 19th century, pilothouses/wheelhouses and deckhouses began to appear, eventually developing into the superstructure of modern ships.
A deck is vital to the rigidity of the vessel, and makes perfect sense in ensuring a ship is rigid enough, can deal with water breaking over the bow, or even with precipitation. The deck becomes both a platform for operations, and a surface to bolt machinery to. Equipment mounted on deck, such as the ship's wheel, binnacle, fife rails, and so forth, may be collectively referred to as deck furniture.
It has become a means of protection, and a fundamental strength member to create the design of a box girder, which we recognise today. With a means of closing all openings, and a sheer which draws water away – the deck provides the perfect solution in naval architecture and ship design. It is an elegant solution, one which is multifunctional and vital.
NAMING PROTOCOLS
Crew Cabins on board ship
When one hears the expression "below decks", this often referred to the crew or perhaps even lower-class passengers. These were forced to exist in fairly grim conditions in the hull of the ship.
Even as improvements were made in ship design, and the standards of welfare for those at sea. The concept of cabins below the deck line has persisted, more especially on cruise ships.
In modern ships, the interior decks are usually numbered from the primary deck, which is #1, downward and upward. So, the first deck below the primary deck will be #2, and the first above the primary deck will be #A2 or #S2 (for "Above" or "Superstructure").
Some merchant ships may alternatively designate decks below the primary deck, usually machinery spaces, by numbers, and those above it, in the accommodation block, by letters. Ships may also call decks by names, common deck names on a cruise ship would be the "Lido deck", which is the swimming pool level, and the "Promenade", which is a deck to walk/stroll. A particular cruise line will usually have fleet wide terms. Most Princess ships have a Caribe deck, Plaza deck, etc., and Celebrity ships all have similar deck names (Panorama, Entertainment, Resort).
What are your thoughts on decks and their developments? What about the future? Will modern ships do things differently? We would love to hear your what you think…
Will Autonomous Ships Ever Happen?
We recently looked at the issue of autonomous shipping and of how advances in technology could change shipping and seafaring. Since then we have lots of feedback on what could go right, but more importantly wrong! RECAP ON AUTONOMY
Going into the Unknown – Why So Many Seafarers Keep Dying
There is a problem at sea, and it will not go away. Every year seafarers are being killed by being in the wrong place, at the wrong time…and doing the wrong things. So how can we stop enclosed space deaths?
Abandonment: Curse of Crews
None payment of wages and the abandonment of seafarers are issues which still plagues the maritime industry. There are shipowners out there who ignore their responsibilities and simply leave seafarers adrift in impossible circumstances. Trapped far from home, and without
Getting to Know: Seafarer Welfare Charities
You have headed off to sea, and you hope your company is looking out for you. In an ideal world, you'll have internet access, gym equipment, good food and a host of things going on onboard to relax you, to
The Team Building Challenge at Sea
The issue of seafarers and their lives at sea is always an important topic. Over the past few years, there has been increased concern that the sense of community onboard is declining. So, what can be done to bring people


So September has rolled up on us once again! That means fall is upon us, back to school for some of us – thankfully not me – back to work after Labour Day Weekend. There's all kinds of Going Backs happening. That can be exciting and dreadful for a lot of people.
I was going back in my blog's archives and I saw another Happy September post I wrote three years ago.
It's funny to look at now because this is the part where I get to ask myself what I was able to accomplish since then.
It's awesome to see Fate of Flames's journey from figment to draft to submission to published book on the shelves. Now I can make another writing goal for myself! I finally have an idea for an mg that I want to move ahead with, so once I submit Book 3, I'll be pouring everything into that. You all remember when we talked about the difference between mg and ya in terms of how one tends to get bashed and that all has to do with sexism. And someone mentioned (Kate maybe?) that princess mgs get no respect. So now I want to write one lmao.
I'm not sure what'll happen but hopefully by next September I'll be writing with good news! Fingers crossed!


Manufacturers of products with Zone 1 ATEX/IECEx certification often attempt to sell in the United States thinking that the ATEX/IECEx certification can be used for compliance, only to find out they need a Class I Division 1 certification for the same installation and use. In addition to needing a US-"UL" Certification (see whitepaper #66), a Zone 1 Certification will only allow the product to be installed in a Class I Division 2 area.
Although the Zone marking scheme is accepted in the US, the problem is that many installations are still classified using a Division scheme. Since areas classified as Division 1 can include the harshest environments, only products certified for Zone 0 use can be considered for equivalency. This equivalency means that Zone 1 compliance will only permit use in Class I Division 2 areas.
Some Zone 1 protection methods can also be used for Zone 0 protection, however this increase comes with much stricter safety requirements. For example, Intrinsic Safety (Type 'i') can be used for either Zone 1 (Type 'ib') or Zone 0 (Type 'ia'). For Zone 1, only a single fault in the circuit is required to be assessed. Whereas for Zone 0, simultaneous double faults within the circuit must be assessed.
If the product cannot comply with the stricter safety requirements, either a costly redesign is necessary, or the installation will require the use of explosion-proof or pressurized enclosures – solutions which are not possible for all applications.
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