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Q: Is there a more graceful way to format a form in a table besides this? I have different number rows In the first row, I have four columns. Rows 2-4 I have 2, to help with formatting. Is there a more graceful way to do this in order to avoid the validation warning?
This is just for a school project, nothing intense or anything, but I would like to get it right.

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            <form method="post">

                        First Name:

                            <input name = "fname" type = "text"
                                size = "25" maxlength = "20"
                                required autofocus>

                        Last Name:

                            <input name = "lname" type = "text"
                                size = "25" maxlength = "20">

                        Email Address:

                            <input name = "email" type = "email"
                                placeholder = "e.g., JohnDoe@example.com"
                                size = "25"
                                required title = "Must be a valid email address">

                        Gender:

                            Male
                                <input name = "gender" type = "radio"
                                    value = "Male">
                            Female
                                <input name = "gender" type = "radio"
                                    value = "Female">

                        Age Group:

                            Under 21
                                <input name = "under" type = "checkbox"
                                    value = "under">
                            21 - 40
                                <input name = "to" type = "checkbox"
                                    value = "to">
                            Over 40
                                <input name = "over" type = "checkbox"
                                    value = "over">

            </form>

A: for the rows you have only 2 columns you can use colspan to make a cell span multiple columns so everything lines up.
Ex:

 Email Address:

  <input name = "email" type = "email" placeholder = "e.g., JohnDoe@example.com" size = "25" required title = "Must be a valid email address">


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Luca, 29, who is in his fifth year with CU, has been Buff Club Director since October, 2004. He is responsible for all aspects of annual giving to CU Athletics and its 16 intercollegiate sport programs.
DeLuca came back to the Buffs from the Denver Broncos, where he worked the better part of three years as a premium seat representative, responsible for both club seat and suite sales. He worked for the Broncos during their last season at the old Mile High Stadium and their first year at Invesco Field at Mile High.
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package com.credit.web.index.controller;

import org.springframework.stereotype.Controller;
import org.springframework.web.bind.annotation.RequestMapping;
import org.springframework.web.servlet.ModelAndView;

import com.gvtv.manage.base.controller.BaseController;

@Controller
public class IndexController extends BaseController{
	@RequestMapping(value="/index")
	public ModelAndView index(){
		ModelAndView mv = super.getModelAndView();
		mv.setViewName("index_main");
		return mv;
	}
}

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using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Linq;
using System.Runtime.Remoting.Lifetime;
using System.Text;
using System.Threading.Tasks;

namespace Tumbler.Addin.Core
{
    /// <summary>
    /// 服务代理。用于服务与宿主之间的通信。
    /// </summary>
    public class ServiceProxy : AddinProxy, IService
    {
        #region Fields

        /// <summary>
        /// 与该代理关联的插件。
        /// </summary>
        private readonly IService _target;

        #endregion

        #region Constructors

        /// <summary>
        /// 初始化类型 Tumbler.Addin.Core.ServiceProxy 实例。
        /// </summary>
        /// <param name="target">服务。</param>
        public ServiceProxy(IService target)
            : base(target)
        {
            _target = target;
        }

        #endregion

        #region Methods

        /// <summary>
        /// 是否正在运行中。
        /// </summary>
        public Boolean IsRuning => _target.IsRuning;

        /// <summary>
        /// 启动服务。
        /// </summary>
        /// <returns>成功返回true;否则返回false。</returns>
        public Boolean Start()
        {
            return _target.Start();
        }

        /// <summary>
        /// 停止。
        /// </summary>
        public void Stop()
        {
            _target.Stop();
        }

        #endregion
    }
}


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Mombasa (/mɒmˈbɑːsə/) is a city in the coast of Kenya along the Indian Ocean. It is the country's oldest (circa 900 AD) and second-largest city[2] (after the capital Nairobi), with an estimated population of about 1.5 million people in 2017.[1] Its metropolitan region is the second largest in the country and has a population of approximately 3 million people.[2] Administratively, Mombasa is the county seat of Mombasa County.
Mombasa is a regional cultural and economic hub; it has an extra-large port and an international airport and is an important regional tourism centre. Located on the east coast of Kenya, it also is the home of one of the State House (Kenya), and is considered by some as a second capital in all but name. In Mombasa County and the former Coast Province, Mombasa's situation on the Indian Ocean made it a historical trading centre,[3] and it has been controlled by many countries because of its strategic location.
Beaches are the boundaries of nature which stop the incursion of the ocean to the land. Many people irrespective of the age love the sight of beaches and long to have fun in the sands. Many adventure watersports like Yachting, motorboating, snorkelling have their origins in Man's desire to conquer the sea. Just watching the sunrise and sunset on the beach itself is a view to behold. Book your ticket with us or give a call at our Afriken Travel offices in Nairobi.
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Sightseeing is the key to any Tourist place. Visual sense stimulates the entire industry. Tourism is travel for pleasure or business. In theory and practice, tourism is the business of attracting, accommodating, and entertaining tourists. Tourism may be international or within the traveller's country. The World Tourism Organization defines tourism more generally. It terms tourism as "beyond the common perception of tourism as being limited to holiday activity only". The Sightseeing tourists are the ones "travelling to and staying in places outside their usual environment for leisure".
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In 1836 William Cornwallis Harris led an expedition purely to observe and record wildlife and landscapes by the expedition's members. Harris established the safari style of the journey, starting with a not too strenuous rising at first light. He started it for an energetic day walking, an afternoon rest then concluding with a formal dinner. Later he used to tell stories in the evening over drinks and tobacco. The hunting aspect traditionally associated with the safari is said to have its origins in the early 1800s in the region of Évora, Alentejo. Here villagers got together to hunt wild boar and reclaim land for farming.
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Who has completed this book?
Week one - we were all excited and ready to go; did our reading.
Introduction - read first section of first chapter; Jim Weirich did a kick-off phone call.
Week two - Introduced to atoms and pairs. Reading. Exercises were primarily discussion-based.
Week 7; sets; union, append, add, subtract, compare, etc.
There were no more than two of us on the weekly phone calls and I was falling way behind the other two guys.
I found it relatively unapproachable. Even simple problems were presented in a difficult to consume manner.
Given the tremendous dropout rate, I suspect many others felt as I did.
Little / Seasoned / Reasoned almost too approachable. Can be considered condescending.
50 pages into Little Schemer, I understood the Scheme list structures and their processing.
50 pages into SICP, I had atoms, pairs, and a nagging sense of self-doubt.
Main program is defined in terms of other functions, which are defined in terms of other functions, and so on.
Technically a purely functional application is impossible; with no side-effects, there is no means of providing input or receiving output. If it did exist, nobody would ever know.
Originally intended for data only. M-expressions were supposed to be for methods.
Provides capability for test suites. Will show simple tests.
This is exactly what we expected!
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I'm going to ask you to take a leap of faith with me in the interest of time.
Test drove it just as we did all the other code.


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Comics: Get Your Sex Out Of My Violence
Column by Kelly Thompson	May 24, 2013	7 comments
The header for this post would make you think that mainstream comics are FULL OF SEX, but look more closely (full image below) and you can see the illustration is barely about sex (I had less chaste kisses in elementary school) and much more about violence. The characters are literally covered in ropes of blood (and she's holding a massive knife) while they give each other a closed mouth peck. Course, maybe they just don't want to risk getting any blood in their mouths…but it doesn't seem like they would care.
Unfortunately, this image is pretty standard when it comes to mainstream American comics and their depiction of sex – especially superhero comics. It's not surprising I suppose, as we're known as a puritanical nation that loves our violence like crazy but shuns nudity and sex.
As a feminist comics reader (two things that do not go easily hand in hand) a lot of my critics (which makes me sound way more important than I am) surely think of me as incredibly prudish. It's true that I talk a lot about things not being equal for male and female superheroes – from costumes down to body types – and I tire quickly of stunningly beautiful femme fatales presented over and over again with little to no variation.
But the hard truth is, I'd love to see more sex in my comics.
That doesn't mean I need to see more titillating art and hypersexualization designed for maximum fanboy wank factor. It just means that I like sex, and it's a huge part of life, and I see no reason for that not to be reflected in our comics. It's certainly more a part of life for most Americans than violence is. Especially when the violence we're seeing in comics is epically disturbing and gory.
As a reader, I don't have a problem with sex or violence, but what I fail to understand is why the violence knob is dialed all the way to ten (consistently, especially by DC comics in the last two years—see a fairly random selection of covers above) while the sex knob is dialed all the way back. This limits us to a kind of juvenile titillation that isn't really sex, or anything meaningful or adult or complex. In just the last year, the super popular, critically acclaimed comic book Saga—which has lots of delicious violence—was the subject of controversy primarily for issue #1 having the suggestion of an exposed breast (via a breastfeeding mother) on the cover and for issue #12 showing two (very) small images of graphic gay sex (like postage stamp sized). These were somehow cause for all sorts of handwringing, but violence? Not even a mention.
Contrast some of the covers above with this one on the right — one of the most popular "sex/romance/relationship" images of the last year. Again, like our header image, this is of two characters, fully dressed (and yes, that unfortunately counts as fully dressed for Wonder Woman), engaged in a closed mouth kiss. Where's the heat, man? It's SUPERMAN and WONDER WOMAN (even if I don't care for the pairing, it's naturally hot, except it's not).
And even more common than these chaste romantic visuals is seeing women presented as the most overt sex objects possible, but missing their actual parts – y'know, crazy things like vaginas and nipples and stuff (see left). As if they want to have their cake and also eat it – the illusion of sex and sexuality castrated by "PG-13 levels of acceptable."
In all of this I'm not talking about porn comics, or advocating for porn/explicit sex in mainstream superhero comics. There's a place for actual porn in comics and it's called…well…porn comics…and they're kind of awesome. But this is different. This is about sex and relationships, occurring naturally the way they do in life. It doesn't have to be x-rated (or conversely "girly") to be addressed. Most of us care a great deal about sex and relationships - otherwise we wouldn't be so damn hung up on those things - so why don't we want that reflected in our comics? Why instead do we want to see (or are force fed) the same violence over and over again, but ratcheted up to unheard of gory levels, perhaps in the hopes that we won't get bored of seeing the same thing repeated infinitely?
As I wrote this piece I realized it was turning into more of an essay than an article…and one that reads like a desperate plea for someone to explain things to me, not the other way around. But I've thought long and hard (no pun intended) about this issue and I just don't get it. Do you?
Sure, American comics (and superheroes) are a reflection (or a twisted reflection) of our "American Values," the same way film and television are, but where did those prudish values really come from? And why are they still so prevalent in 2013? We were supposed to have hover boards by now, and be well on our way to flying cars and jet packs (apparently all I care about is cool transportation), but in 2013 we have none of those things and mainstream comics are still slavishly devoted to some puritanical ideals that include stereotypes about sex but not over the top violence? Can we really blame it all on the Christian roots that this country was built up around? The Judeo-Christian revitalization (and "rebranding") of the 1940's? The Christian Fundamentalism that still rules so much of the country, especially around our middle? Why haven't we grown out of this prudishness? We're smart enough and strong enough to have done that by now, right? And if the Judeo-Christian roots and Christian Fundamentalism are to blame, then where does the obsession with violence come from? Jesus wasn't a violent guy…quite the contrary according to my reading of his great adventures.
Why is what's good for the goose, not good for the gander? Why is one a staple and one a rare bird, seemingly on the verge of extinction?
Currently, I can't think of a monthly title I'm reading at the big two (Marvel or DC) that deals with sexuality/sexual situations regularly. Some books are much better than others (hell, some are great), but most just skirt around these things. Which is okay, I guess, but it seems odd since those same big two comics religiously deal with violence on a panel-by-panel basis.
And listen, they're superhero comics, they should be filled with action…*I* LOVE action (seriously, just read my book if you doubt me – editor's note: shameless plug). This isn't a plea for there to be no action in comics, or even less for that matter. But it seems like there should be more of a balance in both the extremeness and frequency of said violence when sexuality is almost shut out.
There's a book from Image out right now and it has explicit sex in it and it's literally called SEX. Because largely, in mainstream comics (or "popular indie," as I would call Image), you have to actually call a book something like SEX if you're going to have sex in it. Yet you certainly don't have to call a book VIOLENCE in order to put characters literally bathing in blood on the cover. But why not?
I guess I'll never understand the disconnect between those two.
Sex #1
X-Force: Sex and Violence (X-Force Volume)
Manufacturer: Marvel
Column by Kelly Thompson
Kelly Thompson is the author of two crowdfunded self-published novels. The Girl Who Would be King (2012), was funded at over $26,000, was an Amazon Best Seller, and has been optioned by fancy Hollywood types. Her second novel, Storykiller (2014), was funded at nearly $58,000 and remains in the Top 10 most funded Kickstarter novels of all time. She also wrote and co-created the graphic novel Heart In A Box (2015) for Dark Horse Comics.
Kelly lives in Portland Oregon and writes the comics A-Force, Hawkeye, Jem & The Holograms, Misfits, and Power Rangers: Pink. She's also the writer and co-creator of Mega Princess, a creator-owned middle grade comic book series. Prior to writing comics Kelly created the column She Has No Head! for Comics Should Be Good.
She's currently managed by Susan Solomon-Shapiro of Circle of Confusion.
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postpomo	from Canada is reading words words words May 24, 2013 - 11:26am
thanks for that - it's true enough - I'm not much one for superhero comics in general (depends on who's writing/drawing them of course), but the lack of decent sexuality amidst the bone-breaking (ahem) is getting old.
Even strong writers manage to drop the ball when it comes to sex.
I guess we're still a revolution or two shy of hitting our stride. Maybe we're still culturally adolescent boys, and have the wrestling with each other all figured out, but not the how to talk to girls part.
jyh	from VA is reading whatever he feels like May 24, 2013 - 10:11pm
The number of people who will have sex but never kill anyone far outweighs the number of people who will kill someone but never have sex. Therefore, fantasy has lots more killing than sex.
postpomo	from Canada is reading words words words May 25, 2013 - 8:03am
jyh - you have a valid point.
maybe all that porn on the Internet has peed in the hot tub of pipe dreams
jyh	from VA is reading whatever he feels like May 25, 2013 - 6:30pm
I imagined a "hot tub of pipe dreams" and got a laugh.
"Fantasy" as a broad genre of fiction and the fantasies purportedly entertained by pornography are two very distinct things. I don't think a sexual revolution has anything to do with it. Look at old pre-Christian or recent non-Christian societies and you'll find that stories (real and fantastic) mostly don't dwell on sex, while they very often feature violence (sometimes quite wanton if not graphically depicted). It is simply not a matter of "puritanism" or "prudishness."
Dwayne	from Cincinnati, Ohio (suburbs) is reading books that rotate to often to keep this updated May 29, 2013 - 6:29am
Double post.
Dwayne	from Cincinnati, Ohio (suburbs) is reading books that rotate to often to keep this updated May 29, 2013 - 4:39pm
EDIT: I think authors might be worried about encouraging various types of bad behavior, and sex is much more common then violence. 50 Shades of Gray inspired a lot more sexual experimentation then Fight Club caused underground boxing kind of thing.
jyh	from VA is reading whatever he feels like May 29, 2013 - 9:44am


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Q: Create Windows 10 USB installation drive with Linux only
By udisk, I mean a 2.5 inch HDD placed in an External Hard Drive Enclosure

I'm quite familiar (not professional, daily use only) with Linux (Arch&Ubuntu) but newbie to Windows. Sometimes I accidentally kill my Windows installation with some silly yet unrecoverable operations, and I have to:

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*Download Windows 10 iso image

*Borrow a PC w/ a working Windows installation from someone.

*Install Ultraiso on that computer.

*Create Windows 10 installation udisk w/ Ultraiso and iso image.

*Boot my computer w/ the udisk.

*Repair/Reinstall my Windows 10.

I'm tired of borrowing computers or preparing extra udisks. Is there any way to create a Windows installation udisk w/o Windows, w/ Linux only?
Unacceptable solution:

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*dd if=[XXX.iso] of=/dev/sdX - There is no way it's ever gonna work

*Install Ultraiso on Windows VM, create a virtual disk, flash iso to virtual disk w/ Ultraiso in VM, then binary dump virtual disk to my udisk - Too much trouble

Possible solution:

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*Manually set up ISOLINUX/GRUB2/etc. on udisk and extract iso (If so,a thorough tutorial is much appreciated)

A: The best way to do that currently is to use woeusb
woeusb  --target-filesystem NTFS --device path/to/windows.iso /dev/sdX

There is also a GUI for those that prefer it.

A: I did some search, and found a perfect script: windows2usb.
Since woeusb doesn't support UEFI, this tool supports BIOS and UEFI(with rufus driver), FAT32 and NTFS.

A: I wonder what makes you think you have to do that ever?
Downloading the iso takes as much time as simply repairing it with an older iso and then redownloading the updates again.
Just put an old 4GB USB Stick with a windows installation somewhere and forget about it, it's not like you would save any time creating it again and again.
You can update when a big update comes out, unless you destroy your windows installation every day.

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Updated: 3:45 PM CST Nov 28, 2012
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Norman officers were called Wednesday afternoon to assist school officials with a fight in the hallway, according to police.The incident occurred at Norman High School.According to the school four female students were in a fight that was quickly broken up, but due to the emotional situation police were called. No one was injured in the fight. Stay with KOCO Eyewitness News 5 for the latest information on breaking news. Crime footer
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Norman officers were called Wednesday afternoon to assist school officials with a fight in the hallway, according to police.
The incident occurred at Norman High School.
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LONDON: Dulux Trade has announced the launch of an innovative point-of-sale (POS) 'Information Centre' for its woodcare range.
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The POS is quick to install and has been specifically designed to take up the minimum of space, so that it can be positioned next to the product range it is referring to.
With the vast array of woodcare solutions now available, choosing the right one can sometimes prove difficult, especially as wood maintenance can be a complicated category to understand. With this in mind, Dulux Trade developed the new Information Centre.
The display, which is mounted on to the shelf, is the perfect support for decorators in making the right product choice. On one side of the unit, wood blocks show the range of ready mixed colours that Dulux Trade translucent woodstains are available in. On another, different types of wood blocks, including a range of pale and dark timbers, demonstrate how the coloured woodstains will look when applied to different substrates.
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Finally, but importantly, the fourth side of the unit is able to hold additional product literature, which the decorators can take away with them.
"Understanding what translucent woodstain colours will actually look like when they are applied to wood is really important because depending on the substrate which a woodstain is applied to, the final shade of colour may be different than expected. The Information Centre is a novel way of displaying this information in an easy way. This, along with the other information provided on the unit, will aid decorators to make the correct product and colour selection every time," said Richard Bradley, marketing manager, Trade Woodcare.


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Rogan sisters tackle Grady together
Molly Haynes, Author|August 27, 2018
Dana Richie
Ms. Rogan actively engaging with her students during her class.
Teaching has always been in the cards for Carolyn Rogan, the newest addition to the English teaching department.
"I've always loved working with kids," Rogan said. "I have been working and helping teach kids since I was a freshman in high school. I helped out middle schoolers when I was in ninth grade, and that's when I first started realizing that I enjoyed it."
Though Rogan is fascinated with her new job at Grady and becoming acquainted with her students, not long ago, she was still learning herself.
"I graduated from Wellesley College in Massachusetts on June 1st of this year, so this is officially my second and a half week of teaching," Rogan said. "I worked as a teaching assistant in a small, public middle school for six months in Boston, but working here is a huge step from helping children. I'm teaching people four to five years younger than me now."
At 22 years old, Rogan is the youngest teacher at Grady. The quick change from college student to high school teacher was overwhelming to the American and British literature instructor, but having some familiar faces around campus, like younger sister, senior Anne Rogan, made the transition easier.
"Seeing Anne in the hallways or in my classroom is definitely weird, but it's a good weird," Rogan said. "I obviously love to see my sister during the day, but it throws me off when she calls me 'Ms. Rogan.'"
While the sisters are very close at home, Rogan was hesitant to infringe on Anne's senior year at Grady, since she believes the school is is "Anne's place."
"Carolyn asked me the moment she got the teaching position at Grady if it would be okay with me for her to take it," Anne said. "I knew that she was looking for a job at APS, I just wasn't expecting it to be Grady since she was looking at Inman for a while. But I decided to think of it as an opportunity for her rather than 'My sister is going to work at my school.'"
Adjusting to Grady has been different from Rogan's expectations. A Paideia graduate, Rogan has never been part of the Grady cluster, Atlanta Public Schools, or a public school, for that matter. Educated in a place with more teacher flexibility, and more relaxed rules, Rogan has to alter the way she teaches to adapt to Grady's environment.
"We are very well-regulated here, and private school just isn't," Rogan said. "The thing that made me realize how important public schools are is that in college, the whole idea of private school is that you get to choose who you get to learn with, and in the real world, that just isn't the case all the time."
Rogan believes that she is not only at Grady to teach 11th and 12th grade literature, but she is also here to learn from the students. As a first-year teacher, Rogan decided to use her experience to help build relationships with her students and leave her a positive mark on the Grady community.
"I felt somewhat worried about my authority as a teacher being overshadowed by the fact that I'm only five years older than most of my students, but I've realized that my students just want to talk and have someone listen, and I love to hear what they have to say," Rogan said.
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I was Carolyn's RA first-year at Wellesley. She was one of the most intelligent, motivated, and sweet people I've ever met. I knew she was going to do good things with her education. She'll be a fantastic addition to Grady's teaching community!
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Mason bees are wonderful pollinators that are native to most of North America. They have been doing a magnificent job of pollinating long before the colonists brought in the honeybees from overseas.
The mason bee is not a hive-dwelling bee, therefore there is no queen. Simply, groups of males and females emerge in late winter and early spring from their cocoons and begin the process of pollinating all your March-May blooming plants, shrubs and flowers.
Our 2015 mason bees were greeted with an usually warm late winter and we saw quite a bit of early activity, with males emerging as early as Feb. 27 and females right on time two weeks later.
The male is easily identified by a small white patch of fuzz on top of its head, while the female is larger and hairier. They are both all black but do exude a bluish tint when the sun shines through their body, thus the other name, blue bee.
They look very similar to a fly, but they have four wings extending back along their body, while the flies have two wings extending out. As they are native to our area, you may see them warming themselves on the east or south side of a shed in your yard or the wall of your home, in mid to late March.
If you are having trouble with getting good fruit production or flowers in your yard, a lack of mason bees may be to blame. The orchard mason bee is the best early pollinator apple, pear, plum and many other plants that bloom in the late winter and early spring. They effectively pollinate 95 percent of the flowers they visit, while visiting upwards to 1,600 flowers a day.
A single honeybee visits upwards of 600-700 flowers a day but is effective only 5 percent of the time in fully pollinating a single flower. Honeybees' success is shown in sheer numbers, with thousands of them converging on an orchard from their hives.
Why is the orchard mason bee female so effective in pollinating? It is because she has a hairy body and when visiting flowers, she packs the pollen into her hair. When she hits the next flower, pollen is transferred to the male/female counterparts of the plants or flowers.
In late winter and early spring, when temperatures stay at or above 55 degrees, you will first see the male bees emerge from their cocoons at the front of your Knox Cellars tube/straw system. They take advantage of early warming from the sun, while the females remain in the back of the tubes and wait for about two weeks before emerging, in most cases, late morning.
The males have been feeding and gaining their strength to carry out the mating process just as the poor female arrives at the end of the straw. She has a sperm sack in her body, where she saves the sperm, necessary at the moment in time when she begins to lay her eggs. The males wait for more females to emerge; after all their effort, they do live on but are not as effective pollinator as the females.
The female then heads out looking for food to get her strength back and find suitable housing for her eggs. When she finds an appropriate hole similar to the Knox Cellars tube system, or 5/16-inch hole size, she will lay a scent or pheromone identity on the hole, differentiating it from her fellow females. Having found her home, she heads out to gather mud, pollen and nectar to provision her first cell.
It takes five to 10 trips to gather mud and lay a wall in the backside of the tube. That is followed by numerous trips gathering pollen and nectar, mixing it against her first mud wall.
The nectar pollen solution is about the size of a pencil eraser. When complete, the female backs in and lays her first egg, pushing it into the nectar solution. If she is deep into a hole, 4-6 inches into the backside of the straws, she knows she can create a female egg, as it will be protected from aggressive predators.
As she releases the first eggs, she also releases sperm from the sperm sack, thus creating the female egg. When farther out into the front, as she releases an egg, she won't release sperm, thus creating a male egg. How fascinating is that, and how specialized she is!
In her season of gathering and pollinating, she can lay 32-36 eggs, unless she is grabbed in flight by a passing swallow. Bees also can drown in a birdbath that may be too close to their flight path, so keep them empty or moved to a better location.
The season for the female lasts about two months, depending on weather. In a normal spring, she will complete all her work by mid-May and die, but the new generation has been born to hatch next year.
The little new egg evolves or hatches after three to four days, revealing the larva. The larva over a period of 28 or so days consumes all the food, followed by several days of rest, and then begins the process of spinning its home or cocoon over a day or two. Then another period of rest, until it turns into a pupa and the final stages of developing its ultimate mason bee look by the mid part of September. Now in its warm, waterproof shelter it sits until late winter or early spring next year; the cycle has gone full circle with the complete metamorphosis.
Why use the Knox Cellars straw system? It affords the opportunity to clean out old debris, unhatched cocoons or underdeveloped pupas. It also allows you to find and eliminate the parasitic krombeini mite. It is found only in otherwise empty cells in a yellow seething mass of loose, granulated food and mites.
The chalcid wasp, or driller wasp, is another danger to the mason bees. It can drill through wood and thinner cardboard tubes, and lay its eggs into the larva/pupa. Thicker Knox Cellars tubes and straws prevent this from happening.
Be careful with any bees that may have been handled too much and bought in nice little boxes, appearing very shiny and clean. Giving them a bleach solution bath is the final stage in this commercial process. "Mother Nature" is not out there in the woods, with a bleach bottle, spraying the bark of Douglas fir trees. The cocoons, as stated by Brian Griffin in his book, "The Orchard Mason Bee," have experienced some damage, such as dissolving the fabric of the cocoon.
Put mason bees and appropriate housing in a sunny location, wind and rain sheltered, in late February to early March.
Provide a nice mud puddle close to the nests.
In late June, bring the bees inside to a cool area like a shed, garage, etc. to protect them from flickers and predatory insects.
In late September, you can harvest the cocoons if you wish and check for mite infestations.
Next year in January or mid-February, transfer bees to refrigerator to prevent early hatching.
Put all bees and appropriate housing out again.


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Values in a 2D array are accessed through two index values.
2D arrays are useful for storing images. In this example, each dot
is colored in relation to its distance from the center of the image.

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From April 1, 2019 privately-insured Australians may find it easier to access mental health services.
The Federal Government says a major focus of the private health insurance overhaul is creating better access to mental health services and drug and alcohol treatments. Some of these changes were initiated last year, while others commenced on 1 April, 2019.
Under the new private health reforms, mental health services will soon be at least partially covered by all private hospital insurance policies, even the lower coverage ones. From 1 April, 2019, insurers will begin classifying their hospital policies into four main tiers of cover: Basic, Bronze, Silver and Gold. Insurers will have until 1 April, 2020 to implement these changes for all products.
As part of the new tiered system, all policy tiers must include hospital psychiatric services as part of their minimum cover. If you have a Basic, Bronze or Silver tier policy, your insurer may offer hospital psychiatric services on a restricted or limited basis.
According to the government, this means you could potentially end up paying some out-of-pocket expenses to access these treatments. On the other hand, Gold tier policies must offer hospital psychiatric services on an unrestricted basis. This means your insurer must cover all the treatments available.
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class SingleThreadTaskRunner;
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namespace net {
class IOBuffer;
}  // namespace net

namespace remoting {

class FakeNetworkDispatcher
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    virtual ~Node() {};

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}  // namespace remoting

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Shadow of the Tomb Raider Review
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After being completely blown away by the original rebooted Tomb Raider of 2013, Rise of the Tomb Raider came along with improved visuals and up-scaled action pieces. Shadow of the Tomb Raider has come along to tie up the trilogy with a veteran Lara croft who has definitely been weathered into a darker and more aggressive version of herself.
There are many ways in which a player can tackle Shadow of the Tomb Raider depending on how you prefer to play. I often opt for a play through mainly focusing on the beaten path to complete the story, before venturing off onto optional side missions and the games Challenge Tombs.
The Lara Croft that you are in control of this time around is obviously more experienced in the world of raiding tombs, which means that she is able to hold her own in significantly dire situations. Shadow of the Tomb Raider definitely meets the brief of a hero living long enough to see herself become the villain. This time around I found that Lara Croft has become a character that has become significantly self involved in her situations where she comes off like a psychopath. As you progress through the game Lara becomes more and more of a killing machine and at one point becomes an absolute terminator, as she mows down enemy after enemy using super heavy weapons. This movement in the story allows for some exciting action sequences, but for a long time fan of the series, it felt like a massive departure from the Lara Croft character that I am used to and it didn't feel quite right. These sequences gave the impression that the creators were going for a 'wow' factor to blow the audience away, rather than trying to stay true to the character.
The third entry in the game series has the task of finishing up the 'Trinity is trying to take over the world' story line and does so in a fashion that almost flat out copies what we've seen in the previous two games. You will find yourself playing through amazing set pieces that would make any top budget movie jealous, solving reasonably easy puzzles, and sitting through cut scenes that you wish you could be actually playing through, until you inevitably end up at a final boss fight that is less impressive than a mini boss fight from other less enthusiastic games.
I found the story side of Shadow of the Tomb Raider to be quite flat and uninspiring through the early stages of the game, to find that the dark undertones and serious action really ramps up towards the middle to the end. Some may argue that this is how most good stories unfold, however the middle section and ending of the game reared its action oriented head way too soon. Playing the game following the story missions only, granted me only 9.5 hours of game play. It's too short. Before I even realised that I was nearing the end of the game, I was prompted by an on screen warning that I was entering the final stage of the game and that fast travel would be deactivated for this time. Sadly, the end was near and it wasn't very good.
Shadow of the Tomb Raider definitely got the new coat of paint that clearly takes advantage of the extra power of the PS4 Pro and Xbox One X. The visuals are beautiful with colours that really show off how beautiful the exotic locations are within the game. Unfortunately, that is where the good impressions ended. The controls were overly sensitive and often resulted in what looked like the movements were in fast-forward for the sake of making Lara more responsive to controller inputs. Animations felt rushed and at times looked as if they had been hand animated, as opposed to being motion captured. On a good note though, I previously complained that Rise of the Tomb Raider removed the hard hitting death animations from the first game, and I guess so did a few other people because they're back in full swing this time. Make a wrong move and Lara is going to find death in some brutal ways including being spiked through the face.
Shadow of the Tomb Raider IS a good game, but it wasn't a GREAT game. It feels like it was taking lead from the game it aspires to be, however it falls short in emulating what we've seen in other high impact action games.
Shadow of the Tomb Raider has introduced a lot of new abilities for Lara to traverse her way through uncharted lands, however they've become so advanced beyond the previous games that they're now coming across a little too far fetched even for a video game. Hanging upside down using two hand held climbing axes and spiked footwear some how gives you the ability to jump horizontally upside down across surfaces you can't climb on. It's like the developers decided to just say "Why can we do this?...Because it's a video game, that's why".
I didn't hate Shadow of the Tomb Raider, but this review almost feels that way. My negative views on this one stem from the way that I generally felt about the game. I expected much more from the game, but my expectations definitely weren't met. The characters that Lara meets through the game feel like they're throw away meetings. I didn't feel that their relationships were forged well enough for me to care whether or not they lived or died. The character development just wasn't there.
Shadow of the Tomb Raider gave me a Lara Croft that I felt was a crazy, psychotic murdering bitch with her head firmly jammed up her own ass. There were some fun set pieces in there but way too few combat sequences. The combat that was there forced the stealth approach way too heavily by simply taking Lara's weapons away from her, leaving her with only a knife.
Shadow of the Tomb Raider felt like it was rushed out the door and was missing so much to the story line and game play. To get your money's worth out of this game, you better spend your time in the Challenge Tombs and take your time exploring the beautifully crafted landscapes. Don't do what I did. You will regret it.
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Олушеобразные  — отряд новонёбных птиц, признанный Международным союзом орнитологов. После недавних свидетельств того, что пеликанообразные в традиционном понимании являются полифилетической группой, их было предложено разделить так, чтобы отразить реальные эволюционные взаимоотношения таксонов.

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Кладограмма, показывающая филогенетические связи внутри отряда, основана на работе Gibb G. C. и коллег (2013):

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The Spanish 'Flu epidemic
The Spanish 'flu actually had its origins in Kansas in the American Midwest
On Nov. 11th, 1918, Red Deer and much of the rest of the western world celebrated the end of the First World War. Tragically, just as that terrible conflict was coming to an end, people were facing one of the worst pandemics in history – the Spanish 'flu epidemic.
Despite its name, the Spanish 'flu actually had its origins in Kansas in the American Midwest.
Young American soldiers going overseas for the First World War carried the illness to Europe. Because of wartime censorship, the first press reports appeared in Spain, a neutral country. Hence the name, 'Spanish 'flu'.
This frightening new form of influenza started off much like the common cold.
Initial symptoms were a cough and stuffy nose. Within a brief period of time, however, a very high fever set in with incredible aches in joints and muscles. Frequently, pneumonia followed, sometimes within a few hours.
All too often, the patient was soon dead.
Tragically, the ones most susceptible to the disease were those in their late teens, 20s and 30s.
In other words, the Spanish 'flu struck the hardest on the same age groups who had suffered terrible losses during the War.
The horrific conditions of the Western Front were ideal conditions for the spread of the disease. Soon, hundreds of thousands of young soldiers were infected. As the War drew to a close in the fall of 1918, the returning soldiers took the disease back home to North America with them.
The first cases in Alberta were recorded on Oct. 3rd when a troop train containing ill soldiers arrived in Calgary. Within five days, there were cases throughout Calgary and soon across the whole province.
The provincial Department of Health imposed stringent restrictions in order to slow the spread of the disease.
The wearing of 'flu masks was made compulsory. For those planning to travel by train, the C.P.R. refused to sell a ticket to anyone without a mask.
The newspapers were soon full of advice on how to keep from catching the 'flu and, if that was unsuccessful, what to do to treat it.
Some of the advice offered was practical; some was useless. People were advised to get lots of rest, eat nourishing food and to follow strict hygiene practices. Drugstores sold antiseptics to kill germs and aspirin which helped to control fevers. The sale of such patent medicines as 'Fruit-a-tives' had no therapeutic value at all.
The first case of the 'flu appeared in Red Deer on Oct. 23rd with a passenger who arrived on the train. Soon, there were several cases in the community.
Schools were quickly closed. Public meetings and church services were cancelled.
Quarantines were imposed at the homes of the sick as well as at such places as St. Joseph Convent and the Red Deer Indian Industrial School.
The old Mounted Police barracks on Victoria (43rd) Ave. were converted into a special isolation hospital to handle the very ill who needed hospitalization.
On Oct. 28th, Red Deer reported its first 'flu-related death. The man was William Werner, a local farmer and the father of 11 children. Soon, there were several more deaths as the disease began to take its rapid toll.
The doctors and all medical personnel worked incredible hours to deal with the sick.
School teachers and many others volunteered to help out. However, many of those who nursed the ill soon became ill themselves. Dr. Richard Parsons' wife, Ella, came down with the 'flu and soon died, leaving him the single parent of four small children.
In early November, the epidemic seemed to ease.
Then, on Nov. 11th, large crowds assembled to celebrate the end of the War. Tragically, this mass outpouring of joy caused a renewed outbreak of the 'flu.
By early December, the great epidemic finally began to abate.
Public meetings were permitted again, although few people were willing to go out to them. The schools reopened after Christmas, but quickly had to be closed again when a number of students fell ill.
The 'flu finally seemed to disappear completely with the onset of spring.
The toll had been a heavy one. Fifty-four 'flu related deaths had been recorded in Red Deer. In Alberta, 4,300 people had died. World-wide, more people died from the 'flu than had been killed in the War.


We know how potentially devastating falls can be – especially as people get older. They can lead to broken bones, dislocations, muscle or ligament damage, of head trauma. Depending on the severity of the fall and where it happened, it can be frightening – even if no other injury occurred, This can lead to a general fear of going outside or having any type of normal activity. Walking – even around the house or yard – and climbing steps is minimized for fear of another episode.
Falls aren't necessarily inevitable but they are extremely hard to totally prevent. We can do our best – both for ourselves and the clients we work with to help fall-proof their homes. Aging in place means being independent at home and being safe in that home. Both ideals are threatened when falls occur.
We know that falls can happen from slipping on loose throw rugs or tripping over electric cords that cross our path of travel. Worn carpeting that has stretched and bunched up can catch a toe or heel as someone walks across it – or a walker leg or wheel. Even plush carpeting can present issues by affecting someone's balance.
Tripping over storage items (boxes or containers), attempting to sidestep suitcases, books, or other items that are setting on the floor or on steps and then slipping, or misjudging a step can lead to falling. Stairs like wooden basement stairs often have an open back ("open-tread") that can allow a person's foot to slide into the opening an trap it – causing a fall backwards.
Attempting to stand on a stool or step ladder can be dangerous if the device slips or tips – or we lean to far and lose our balance.
There just is no shortage of potential ways to fall in and about the home. In the yard, we can trip over garden hoses, toys, balls, sprinklers, and yard tools that may be partially hidden or concealed in the grass. Tree branches – from small twigs to larger limbs can get caught in our gait and cause a fall. There are divots from activities or animal activity (dogs, squirrels, or others). There might be fruit, nuts, or seeds that have fallen to the ground from trees in our yard that can cause us to step improperly when our foot comes in contact with them. And on it goes.
A leading cause of falling – other than just being careless or not paying attention to what we are doing or what might be in our path – is distractions. Just as distractions while driving are discouraged and even regulated in may places (no cell phone use or texting, for instance), distractions can be just as consequential while walking.
We can't legislate against activities that might be done in connection with walking, but (all of us, including our clients) need to be totally focused on just walking while we are doing that – whether it's for exercise or just going to the kitchen to get a snack.
So often while we are walking we are carrying something in our hands that can affect our balance or block our field of view, or we are looking around at the scenery and not looking straight ahead at where we are going or what might be in our path that we could step on. Someone might call out to us and we turn around to acknowledge them – but continue walking forward. We might be talking on the phone or trying to take a photo (with our smartphone or a camera) and not concentrate on where we are walking or what is in front of us.
To remain safe – and upright – we need to be smart about walking. It is serious business – especially when faced with the alternative of being on the ground and risking injury because we were distracted or careless about our walking.


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No. 6 Duke women fall 72-65 to No. 10 Kentucky
LEXINGTON, Ky. – Duke expected to be pressured heavily against Kentucky. What the Blue Devils didn't anticipate was the lift freshman reserve Azia Bishop would provide.
Bishop scored 12 points and had 11 rebounds, and the 10th-ranked Wildcats beat No. 6 Duke 72-65 on Thursday night in front of the largest home crowd for a women's game in Kentucky history.
"I don't think I've seen that too much. A player comes off the bench for a double-double in a game like this, a physical game like this," Duke coach Joanne McCallie said. "I would call her the player of the game."
A'dia Mathies scored 23 points and freshman Bria Goss added 19 as Kentucky (9-0) shook off a slow start with a second-half rally in front of 14,508 fans at Rupp Arena for its 29th straight nonconference home win. The Wildcats used their pressure defense to force the Blue Devils into a season-high 24 turnovers and made several clutch shots during an 8-0 run that sealed the victory.
"They played very good defensively," Duke guard Chelsea Gray said. "I just think we were rushing a lot of our passes. It's a two-way street when you pass the ball, somebody has to come to it. We were just off, and I think we were rushing everything."
Elizabeth Williams scored 17 points for Duke (6-2), but the Blue Devils couldn't counter Kentucky after falling behind by 10 with just under 5 minutes to play.
"We had a lot of turnovers," Williams said. "We weren't really in a good offensive flow."
Kentucky has feasted on lesser opponents, using its pressure to force more than 34 turnovers per game coming in while Duke hadn't committed more than 20 so far this season.
"That's terrible," McCallie said of the mistakes. "Twenty-four is terrible."
The game, featuring two top-10 opponents in Lexington for the first time since 1983, was moved to Rupp Arena instead of cozy, 8,000-seat Memorial Coliseum, and tickets went on sale for a $1. The move paid off with a raucous atmosphere in the 35-year-old facility.
"It's a privilege coming into this arena," Gray said. "I think that was our first time ever against that type of crowd. It's a great atmosphere and you just have to get used to it. Playing on the road isn't easy, we just have to adapt to the environment and do the best we can with it."
With the Wildcats clinging to a two-point lead, Kastine Evans broke a double team in the corner with a pass underneath to Mathies for a layup. Goss followed with a 3-pointer from the left wing and Mathies added another 3 with time running short on the shot clock to give Kentucky a 62-52 lead with 4:54 left.
That was all the Wildcats needed against the two-time reigning ACC champions, who cut it to 64-58 with 1:59 left on two free throws by Gray. They couldn't get any closer until Chloe Wells' layup with 14.5 seconds left made it 70-65.
Haley Peters scored 13 points and Tricia Liston added 11 for Duke.
This was a signature win for coach Matthew Mitchell following a 20-point beating of in-state rival and then-No. 10 Louisville on Sunday. The Wildcats have an even stiffer test ahead. They play Arkansas-Pine Bluff on Sunday before facing No. 3 Notre Dame on the road Dec. 18.
Duke's only previous loss was by two points to Notre Dame, and the Blue Devils have three tuneups left before beginning conference play.
"We play a great schedule, a lot of really good teams," McCallie said. "We have some good lessons to learn."


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Public Policy Advocacy in Your State: Interview with KC Gooding
A special feature of our 2019 conference program was a National Hill Day, which gave NAATP members and treatment professionals the opportunity to meet with Congressional leaders on Capitol Hill to establish constituent relationships and advocate for SUD treatment concerns. To leverage the energy created by the National Hill Day, the NAATP team created educational resources like the NAATP State Advocacy Toolkit. The toolkit is a guide for those eager to bring advocacy initiatives to their home states.
This month, NAATP Membership & Advocacy Officer, Nikki Soda, had a virtual interview with KC Gooding, Director of Business Development for New Method Wellness in San Juan Capistrano, CA. Gooding is the State Lead of the California Alliance for State Advocacy (ASA).
The below interview transcript has been edited for length and clarity.
Nikki Soda: KC, you have been a wonderful advocacy champion and someone I was able to spend time with at the NAATP National Hill Day. I wanted to know if you could share your experience.
KC Gooding: Being in Washington, DC gave us an opportunity to have a Capitol Hill Day and I was intrigued to participate. I was asked to lead the California constituents in making appointments with senators and house representatives. I didn't know a lot about advocacy, but I was eager to learn. I was joined by a group of 11 or 12 other professionals from California, and we went one-by-one through our legislative appointments. We got to know each other and came up with a set of advocacy objectives. We were able to make contact with those legislators and continue to engage with them, so that when any new information came in, we always had a member of that legislative body to connect with. So, the experience for me was really career changing and life changing.
You don't have to be an advocacy expert to get started."
NS: You attended the NAATP webinar that rolled out the State Advocacy Toolkit where we discussed the different roles and responsibilities including the ASA Lead. What led you to step into the California ASA Lead role?
KCG: In the state of California where we have so many addiction professionals and so many programs and behavioral health resources, it was alarming to me that only 11 or 12 people were interested in participating in advocacy, so I really wanted to find a way to unite the community in efforts that would support all providers. The State Advocacy Toolkit offered us a national organization telling us exactly how to do this, what steps we need to take, and what support will get, so it made it very easy. Everybody that participated in the National Hill Day was really looking forward to recreating that locally in Orange County and statewide. I've been really supported by my peers and that made my efforts and responsibilities much more streamlined as a result.
NS: What are the public policies or advocacy issues that you feel are most important to tackle this year?
KCG: When California passed SB 1228, which is the California patient brokering law, in June 2019, it mimicked what had already passed in Florida. We were all relieved because this law was long overdue, but we know that we have a long way to go. Unethical operations have found different ways to work around the law and, therefore, we need to act as a community in creating systems that would provide punitive deterrents. Another law that was really important in California was SP 855, which is a state-level mental health parity law reinforcing MHPAEA. We're certainly looking forward to seeing how this will impact insurers, benefit behavioral health providers, and how we can advocate to strengthen the bill.
It was alarming to me that only 11 or 12 people were interested in participating in advocacy."
NS: You launched the California ASA in November. How have these efforts been received so far?
KCG: Overwhelmingly, very well. We created an organization called Orange County Addiction Professionals; it's a monthly meeting where people can network and join advocacy efforts. We bring people from different areas and organizations together to talk about advocacy issues. At the next meeting, we will adopt a service board and distribute committee responsibilities. I expect that over this next year we will have many providers and professionals locally participating in our meetings and I'm hopeful it will be something that members of our community can look forward to. Additionally, I'm hopeful that other areas of California can adopt these practices so we can create a State Capitol Hill Day.
NS: How has NAATP been helpful in getting Orange County Addiction Professionals off the ground?
KCG: The inspiration definitely came from the NAATP toolkit and staff. When we decided to have our first meeting, we wanted to call in the big guns – some people that have experience in advocacy – and you and Mark Dunn made yourselves available to speak with our group. We also had other NAATP members like Faces & Voices of Recovery join with us and a local Orange County advocacy effort called The Purpose of Recovery. Our members understand how we can utilize the toolkit and know we are 100% supported by NAATP in our advocacy goals and can lean on you for direction as we continue to grow our efforts.
This is a community of individuals working together for a larger purpose."
NS: What advice would you give about how to get involved to those who might be on the fence about starting or joining an ASA?
KCG: First, you don't have to be an advocacy expert to get started. Many of my role models and colleagues are engaged in advocacy, and I wanted to make a change in my community. I didn't know a lot about advocacy before I took on that commitment to make appointments for Capitol Hill Day. Also, you don't have to reinvent the wheel; there are a lot of great organizations locally and nationally involved in advocacy efforts. Every person I've reached out to has been supportive and provided great information on how I can lead others in this work. Lastly, it was very important to make this a collaborative effort. I've been honored and privileged to be able to accept this lead position, but I can't do this all on my own; I need the support of my peers and colleagues, who all have unique skillsets. This is a community of individuals working together for a larger purpose, so inclusion is an important aspect as well.
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