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Jaden Smith Wants To Be The Next G-Dragon? Will Smith's Son Eyes K-Pop Career Like BIGBANG Star
4:35 AM EDT 6/14/2017 by Colt, Celebeat Reporter
South Korean superstar G-Dragon's album was released last week and his comeback track called "Untitled, 2014" already hit the 13 million mark on YouTube as of writing. Dubbed as the "King of K-Pop," it only makes sense that his popularity has reached Hollywood celebrities like Will Smith's son, Jaden Smith.
The 18-year-old American actor and rapper recently revealed that he just can't seem to get enough of G-Dragon's (Kwong Ji-yong) new songs. "The Day the Earth Stood Still" actor shared on his Twitter account the that he's been listening to the BIBGANG leader's comeback album.
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— Jaden Smith (@officialjaden) June 11, 2017
Supporting and listening to G-Dragon's latest tracks is not necessarily new for Jaden Smith. "The Pursuit of Happyness" star has previously noted that he wanted to be a K-Pop star and will drop an album of that genre very soon. "And Yes I Will Be Dropping A K Pop Single In The Next 4 Months," he tweeted back in April.
That was definitely not the first time that Jaden Smith showed interest in becoming a K-Pop star. As a matter of fact, Will Smith's son made everyone know that one of his top goals for this year is to break through in the K-Pop industry. "The Karate Kid" actor also shared that G-Dragon is his inspiration and was hoping that he and the BIGBANG star should collaborate in the near future.
Jaden Smith and G-Dragon met back in 2013 when Will Smith and his son visited YG Entertainment while promoting their film, "After Earth," in South Korea. The father-and-son tandem even posed with the K-Pop superstar which the BIGBANG leader shared on his Instagram account.
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While many are mocking Jaden Smith's plan to enter the K-pop world, G-Dragon's comeback album may just very well be the push that the actor needed to pursue his idea. Even though he is mostly known for his acting skills, Jaden has already started a music career but has never really found success compared to his films.
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The Mississippi Gulf Coast Regional Convention & Visitors Bureau has a new chief executive officer.
Milton Segarra will officially take over the CEO position on January 8, 2018.
Many travel insiders know Segarra from his time as the CEO of Meet Puerto Rico, where he led a team of 29 and managed a budget of $6.2 million. During his time with Meet Puerto Rico, he helped re-engineer the brand, established a new business model and implemented a new digital marketing and social media campaign.
Segarra is also a member of the Board of Directors of Destinations International, its Finance Committee and a Certified Destination Management Executive, CDME.
As the CEO of Visit Mississippi Gulf Coast, Segarra will be tasked with promoting tourism within Hancock, Harrison and Jackson counties in Mississippi. Segarra, his wife and daughter will be moving to the coast shortly.


Margaret A. Ahnert is the author of the historical memoir and award winning book "The Knock at the Door." In 1915, Armenian Christians in Turkey were forced to convert to Islam, barred from speaking their language, and often driven out of their homes as the Turkish army embarked on a widespread campaign of intimidation and murder. In this riveting book, Margaret Ajemian Ahnert relates her mother Ester's terrifying experiences as a young woman during this period of hatred and brutality.
At age 15, Ester was separated from her foster family during a forced march away from her birth town of Amasia. Though she faced unspeakable horrors at the hands of many she met on the road, and was forced into an abusive marriage against her will, she never lost her faith, quick wit, or ability to see the good in people. Eventually she escaped and made her way to America.
Ahnert's compelling account of her mother's suffering is framed by an intimate portrait of her relationship with her 98-year-old mother. Ester's inspiring stories, told lovingly by her daughter, will give you a window into the harrowing struggle of Armenians during a terrible period in human history. Visit her official website for more information, on her book.
Edward Odabashian, is the President of Odabashian Imports, Inc. The company was founded in 1885 in Armenia, followed by Mexico in 1921, and in 1979 with a third generation in South Florida. Odabashian Imports travels worldwide to hand select the finest quality rugs designs from all the major weaving countries, such as India, Nepal, Pakistan, and China.
Thanks for visiting the Museum Margaret, Steve and Eddie!


It is simply amazing how a simple inquiry can open doors to new learning: how pulling a single thread can reveal a wonderful tapestry.
In working on Gideon Hawke #4: A Constant Thunder I found myself wanting to learn just a little more about a very specific place and time. While trying to discern British General Howe's intentions in early August, 1777, General George Washington ordered Daniel Morgan's Provisional Rifle Corps to Maidenhead, New Jersey. There the Corps had a few days' respite from marching, before the pivotal order that sent it north to Saratoga and into history.
In weaving the narrative of the Gideon Hawke story it seemed this interlude would be a great opportunity for Gideon and the lads to take care of a few pressing matters, and perhaps to get in touch with their Creator. "Where'" I wondered, "would they go to church?" A little Google magic took me to the website of the Presbyterian Church of Lawrenceville (formerly Maidenhead). The website itself was incredibly informative, but then I had the courage to contact the pastor! A few emails later and I was introduced to a small brick church building that in 1777 stood on the highest point around, along the Princeton-Trenton Road. Even better, I was introduced to Reverend Elihu Spencer: writer, missionary to Native Americans (fluent at least in the Oneida language), veteran of the French and Indian War (Chaplain to the New York Troops), rebuilder of congregations in the Carolinas, and pastor of the flocks in Trenton and Maidenhead during the Revolution. I also learned quite a bit about the toll the 1776, Princeton, and winter forage campaigns had taken on Maidenhead. Wow! Suddenly a fleeting thought had become a haunting reality, thanks to the efforts of a few good-hearted history buffs.
In researching and writing A Constant Thunder I have met some wonderful people: Douglas Bicket, Park Ranger at the Saratoga Battlefield; David Manthey, expert on Mohawk and Hudson River bateaux; and Reverend Jeff Vamos and Bill Schroeder of The Presbyterian Church of Lawrenceville, New Jersey. Not only are these folks truly passionate about their historical interests, but they have been incredibly generous in sharing their knowledge and expertise. Gideon Hawke #4 will be a much better reflection of history thanks to them.
Now, I must admit a bit of trepidation: a truly great writer could weave a beautiful tapestry of words with the kind of input I have received; I'm not sure I can do justice to the material at hand. I am, however, determined to try. My work may fall short of greatness, but if one person reads A Constant Thunder and takes away a better appreciation of the cost of war, and the magnitude of the American victory at Saratoga, it will at least have been a worthwhile effort.
Check for the latest updates on Gideon Hawke #4: A Constant Thunder.


Plastic shrinkage cracks are fine cracks that occur on the surface of concrete before initial set. Although plastic shrinkage cracks may not be structurally detrimental, they are not visually appealing, and will likely impact long term durability of the concrete. Numerous studies [see ACI 305R, ACI 308R, Hover, NRMCA and Uno] have shown that the potential for plastic shrinkage cracking to occur is a function of the ambient weather conditions, particularly the humidity level and the wind speed, as well as the concrete mix design and fresh concrete temperature.
The computer software application here can be used to predict the potential for plastic shrinkage cracks to occur based on the formula discussed by Uno. Formulas for determining concrete temperature as a function of ambient temperature are based on those discussed by Ramey and Carden. Weather data is obtained from the U.S. National Weather Service.
The results provided by the calculator are intended for educational and informational purposes only.
Please direct inquiries about this site to awerner@siue.edu or mgrinte@siue.edu.
ACI 305 Hot Weather Concreting, American Concrete Institute, Farmington Hills, MI, www.concrete.org.
ACI 308 Guide to Curing Concrete, American Concrete Institute, Farmington Hills, MI, www.concrete.org.
NRMCA, Concrete in Practice, CIP 5 – Plastic Shrinkage Cracking, National Ready Mixed Concrete Association, Silver Spring, MD, www.nrmca.org.
Hover, K.C., "Evaporation of Water from Concrete Surfaces," ACI Materials Journal, Sept-Oct 2006, Vol. 103, No. 5., pp. 384 – 389.
Ramey, G.E. and Carden, A.C., "An Assessment of Concrete Bridge Deck Evaporation Rates and Curing Requirement Categories for Alabama," HRC Research Project 2-13746, Feb 1998.
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The Marriage of Philology and Scepticism: Uncertainty and Conjecture in Early Modern Scholarship and Thought
edited by Gian Mario Cao, Anthony Grafton and Jill Kraye
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This volume, containing revised and expanded versions of eight papers originally presented at the workshop The Marriage of Philology and Scepticism: Uncertainty and Conjecture in Early Modern Scholarship and Thought held at the Warburg Institute in June 2012, addresses the question of uncertainty in early modern scholarship and thought. The eight papers confront an array of problems, texts, scholars and intellectual contexts, from introductory assessments of the nature of Greek scepticism, particularly in its relation to ancient grammar and medieval thought, to in-depth analyses of the semantic family of uncertainty, as well as of the notion of divination; from case studies of the textual transmission, and relevant editorial problems, of Seneca and Lucretius, to explorations of larger debates in the area of biblical philology, with special attention paid to key figures such as Patrick Young, Richard Bentley and Anthony Collins.
Sextus Empiricus, Child of the Marriage of Philology and Scepticisms
by Glen Most
Medieval Precedents for Sceptical Philology
by Jan M. Ziolkowski
The Other Philology: Resolving Doubts about Textual Meaning in Early Modern Law and Theology
by Ian Maclean
Divination: Towards the History of a Philological Term
by Anthony Grafton
Coping with Philological Doubt: Sixteenth-Century Approaches to the Text of Seneca
by Jill Kraye
Critical Method in Lambinus's Lucretius: Collation and Interpolation
by David Butterfield
Philology and Scepticism: Early Modern Scholars at Work on the Text of the Bible
by Scott Mandelbrote
Freethinking, New Testament Textual Criticism and Censorship: Anthony Collins, Richard Bentley and the Index librorum prohibitorum
by Gian Mario Cao
"A set of valuable insights about the points of connection and intersection as well as points of divergence between the recovery of ancient texts on the one hand, and the philosophical contents of those texts on the other."
-Bibliotheca Dantesca: Journal of Dante Studies (2021)


DMX is coming home today (Friday).
The Ruff Ryders rapper went to jail in January of last year on a bail violation, after previously pleading guilty to tax evasion in November 2017. And at 9 a.m. today, he'll be a free man. Technically, X is getting out a couple days early — his scheduled release date was this Sunday, but the Federal Bureau of Prisons releases inmates on the weekday before their release date if the date falls on a weekend.
Three years of probation? Give me a break. Just let the guy live his life.
Good to see he's going to hit the ground running. After being cooped up for a year, he's probably itching to get back to the studio.
I've said it before and I'll say it again — X has the potential to have one of the greatest redemption stories in all of music. If he can just keep things together post-release.
I'm taking bets on how long it'll be until X pops up on stage.


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Origen Is Called the Father of Biblical Theology
Origen was an important theologian who managed to slip under the radar for a long time. He wasn't officially declared a heretic until he had been dead for three centuries… but by then it was too late! He was already famous! Origen was heir to both Socrates and Plato and is regarded as the greatest philosopher/theologian of the early church. He also produced its first systematic theology. It is not an exaggeration to call him the Father of Biblical Theology! Many have viewed him as "the greatest genius the early church ever produced."
Origen Became a Heretic 300 Years After He Died!
In order to be deemed an official heretic you just need to disagree with the majority. That is exactly what happened to Origen! He was mostly acceptable in his lifetime but the opinions of church leaders changed in the centuries after he died! Eventually his work fell out of favor with most theologians and there wasn't much he could do about it. His story is interesting because it took the church 300 years after his death to brand him a heretic. There is no doubt Origen had some pretty wild ideas! He never achieved sainthood, and like Tertullian, he wasn't granted the title of church father either. In spite of his tremendous influence Origen never won any official honors! Fortunately, he was already dead by the time he was excommunicated so it probably didn't bother him too much.
Origen Mastered Greek Philosophy
Moderator: Well brethren, it's time to honor another old heretic who achieved a lot in his life but never quite made the grade. He was a notable scholar and at least during his lifetime he seemed like a pretty respectable guy! His epic work On First Principles developed a foundation for the Trinity based on Platonic philosophy. Even his critics acknowledged that he had mastered the Greek philosophical tradition in his interpretation of the Bible! Unfortunately, that wasn't enough to keep him out of trouble. He upset a lot of people by denying the co-equality of "persons" in the Godhead! Eventually, his chances of becoming an official church father went right out the window.
Origen Wrote More Than Anyone
You all know who I'm talking about! It's none other than Origen of Alexandria! We thought long and hard about what kind of award you give to a man who wrote so much that some legends say he kept seven secretaries busy! We created a special Windy Award just for him! It's the Origen of the Trinity Award! How's that for a nifty play on words!
Audience: Groaning and rolling of the eyes.
Moderator: Well sorry about that but it's the best we could come up with! Here to accept his award is Origen of Alexandria!
Audience: How come we keep giving awards to people like Tertullian, Arius and now Origen? None of them agree with our creeds! This is really going to upset Athanasius!
Origen Was Surprised to Be At Caesar's Palace
Origen: Greetings everyone! I am so glad to be at this reunion and I'm as surprised as anyone to be here at all! That seafood buffet is sure better than anything I ever had in my lifetime! It's almost too good to be true. Now that I'm dead I've pretty well decided to give up on asceticism, as long as we're here in Las Vegas anyway. It was just great to be allowed to come here in the first place and then I found out I'm even getting an award!
Can Anyone Think Like Athanasius?
I have to admit I was pretty surprised to learn that I had become a heretic after I died. I was just talking about this very thing with Tertullian and Arius at dinner. Tertullian was surprised when he learned he had become a heretic too! Arius knew his reputation was in the tank after the Nicene Council so he was really surprised to get an award. It's a good thing that the theologians who decide who is approved and who isn't don't speak for God! Athanasius still says that unless you think of the Trinity like his creed says you can't be saved… but can anyone think like Athanasius? I say no one can think like that and Jesus said no one should!
Origen Pioneered Hypostases and Homoousious
Athanasius' insistence on the co-equality of the Father, Son and Holy Spirit was based on just one word! Using homoousious to make that claim still seems a bit over the top to me! After all, I was the first Christian philosopher to ever use the term homoousious! I was also the very first Christian philosopher to use the term hypostases to describe the Father, Son and Holy Spirit! Where did Athanasius ever get the idea that his theories were any better than mine? We had a very nice schematic of God in Platonic philosophy that made a lot of sense to us. I imagined God as a descending triad just like in classic platonic philosophy! The Father is greater than the Son and the Son is greater than the Spirit. What's so bad about that? It sure made sense to us!
Origen's Descending Triad Was a Platonic Theory!
We thought we had a fine theory about God and a lot of people signed on to our ideas. Just because some later theologians disagreed was no reason to start all the name calling! I don't think any of them wrote nearly as much stuff as I did. Besides, without the foundations I laid for the Trinity I don't think Athanasius would have ever hit the big time in the first place!
Origen Gave Thanks to Philo, Plato and Aristotle Too!
In closing I want to thank all the people who helped me win this award. I want to thank my Mom and Dad, Philo, Plato, Socrates and Aristotle too. I would also like to thank the Awards Committee for such a great play on words and naming my Windy Award after me! Finally, I want to thank all the great cooks and staff who put together that incredible buffet! Good night everyone! It has been great to be here!
PS: Some say truth is stranger than fiction and church history is pretty strange. It's also pretty entertaining! (except of course, for all the violence and hatred that resulted from the creeds and dogmas of our fiercest theologians.) Modern Christians should at least know these things. Why don't you help them out and share a link to www.theologyallstars.com with a few of them? Thanks and God Bless.


Meetings are essential in the business world to maintain company moral, cohesiveness, and communication.
Our team at Global Gatherings will work with you to determine the overall message of your meeting, and will integrate that message throughout all aspects of your event. Since we are a "one-stop-shop," we will create symmetry and consistency through every last detail of your meeting, from the pre-trip material through to closing general session to final billing to ROI reporting, and everything in between.
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namespace AnApiOfIceAndFire.Models
{
    public class Endpoints
    {
        /// <summary>
        /// The URL to the Books resource
        /// </summary>
        public string Books { get; }

        /// <summary>
        /// The URL to the Characters resource
        /// </summary>
        public string Characters { get; }

        /// <summary>
        /// The URL to the Houses resource
        /// </summary>
        public string Houses { get; }

        public Endpoints(string booksUrl, string charactersUrl, string housesUrl)
        {
            if (string.IsNullOrEmpty(booksUrl)) throw new ArgumentException(nameof(booksUrl));
            if (string.IsNullOrEmpty(charactersUrl)) throw new ArgumentException(nameof(charactersUrl));
            if (string.IsNullOrEmpty(housesUrl)) throw new ArgumentException(nameof(housesUrl));
            Books = booksUrl;
            Characters = charactersUrl;
            Houses = housesUrl;
        }
    }
}

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Its all visceral, feelings and fear, and things that go bump in the night in the jungle, as the tale injects you into your seat into one day in a Zoo when it all goes horribly wrong and shifts to a nightmarish evening.
Nerd mother, who has super hero references to all things living, has a day where she must play to the stage and be a super hero herself, for her son.
You could sit and think over for a second the most dangerous animal in the zoo, but in this tale its not quite what you would envisage.
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ISTANBUL - Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Sunday accused the United States of maintaining a "silence" on the murder of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi, who killed by a Saudi hit team in the kingdom's Istanbul consulate.
"I cannot understand America's silence. … We want everything to be clarified because there is an atrocity, there is a murder," Erdogan told an interview with state-run TRT television.
Khashoggi, a Washington Post contributor and Saudi regime critic, was murdered at the Saudi Consulate in Istanbul on Oct. 2.
The case has caused strains in the kingdom's ties with Washington.
Turkish officials are seeking answers from Saudi Arabia to a number of questions including who ordered the hit, and the whereabouts of Khashoggi's body.
Unhappy with Riyadh's cooperation in the investigation, Ankara has also called for an international inquiry.
A U.N. judicial expert investigating the murder met last week with Turkish authorities in Ankara and Istanbul and carried out inspections outside the Saudi Consulate.


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Idaho Legislators Study Religious Exemption
Idaho's religious exemption from charges of child abuse, neglect, child injury and manslaughter, passed in the 1970s to accommodate faith-healing groups, came under close scrutiny at a legislative hearing Thursday.
"The religious exemption is the only place in the child protective act that places the parent's right before the child," Mary Jo Beig, an attorney with the Idaho Attorney General's office who has dealt with child protection matters since 1991, told a 10-member legislative panel on faith healing and children at risk.
The lawmakers heard powerful testimony from an array of presenters, from an Ada County prosecutor who told of children suffering needlessly and prosecutors unable to act, to a faith-healing proponent who shared his deeply held beliefs.
"It's a heartfelt community, and that's one of the issues, is how do we do these things and respect our communities?" said Sen. Dan Schmidt, D-Moscow, shortly after the hearing wrapped up with testimony from Followers of Christ member Dan Sevy. "The state, I think, clearly has an obligation to protect children. It's just a question … of how to do that."
Sen. Marv Hagedorn, R-Meridian, said, "This is a complex issue. I learned some things about statutes today that I was unaware of." He said he needs more information about the extent of the problem. "I don't know yet where we're going to go with this," he said.
Sevy, who lives near Marsing, Idaho, said he believes in healing by prayer only, and cited concerns about deaths from medical errors. "The medical profession, I understand, they want to help," he said. "Their intentions are good. But our intentions are good. Life extends beyond this earth."
Sen. Jeff Siddoway, R-Terreton, told Sevy that he, too, is a person of faith, but he believes that medicine is among God's gifts. He asked Sevy why he wouldn't want to make use of it.
Sevy responded, "We believe that pharmaceuticals and medicine is a product from Satan. Proof can be found in one of the lost books of Enoch." He said he equates medicine to "witchcraft and sorcery," and said, "Those who imbibe in those things will not attain a home in heaven. That is our belief. … We do disagree with medicine and believe that it puts our very eternal lives in jeopardy."
He added, "Our goal is eternity, it isn't here." Sevy , 52, who has five children, three of whom survive, and one grandchild, said, "If the statute is changed, I'll not change anything I do."
But Linda Martin, a former member of the Followers of Christ who left the church at age 16, pleaded with lawmakers to remove the religious exemption, saying many in the church will follow the law.
"You will help young people, young couples that have children that will take a child to the doctor – they can say it's the law, we have to," she said. "They won't have to worry about their parents shunning them. They won't have to worry about the church turning on them."
Idaho is one of just seven states with a faith-healing exemption from its manslaughter laws, according to data submitted to the panel by legislative staffers. Many more states have faith-healing exemptions from civil liability for abuse, neglect or failure to report; smaller numbers have exemptions from misdemeanor or felony criminal charges for non-support, neglect or injury to a child. Idaho has exemptions in all four areas. Only one other state, Virginia, has all four exemptions.
Washington has religious exemptions from both civil liability and felony charges of child neglect, but not misdemeanor neglect charges or manslaughter.
Jean Fisher, special crimes unit chief for the Ada County prosecutor's office – a position she's held for more than 20 years – shared three tragic stories with the lawmakers about children denied medical care by their parents on religious grounds. A 16-year-old died; two 8-year-old girls suffered terribly. The parents weren't charged.
"We would like to see this exemption lifted," Fisher told the panel, speaking both on her own behalf as an Ada County prosecutor and on behalf of the Idaho Prosecuting Attorneys Association.
The 10-member joint legislative panel was given a copy of a July 1, 2015 report to Gov. Butch Otter from the Governor's Task Force on Children at Risk, in which task force Chair Kirtlan Naylor reported that the task force had concluded that Idaho should amend its religious exemptions "to exclude them from application where a child's death or severe disability is imminent."
"The Governor's Task Force on Children at Risk has reviewed these matters and is concerned for the well-being and protection of Idaho's children in circumstances where children have no voice in medical choice," Naylor wrote. "Religious freedoms must be protected, but vulnerable children must also be appropriately sheltered from unnecessary harm and death."
He calculated, based on comparisons between Idaho vital statistics and burials at the Peaceful Valley Cemetery in Canyon County, where members of the Followers of Christ are buried, that the group had a child mortality rate of 31 percent from 2002 to 2011, compared to a statewide rate of 3.37 percent, "or about 10 times the Idaho pediatric population as a whole."
This month, another state group, the Idaho Child Fatality Review Team, published its third annual report, this one reviewing child deaths in 2013, and it found that five Idaho children died that year because their parents' religious beliefs prevented them from seeking medical treatment. That brought the total over three years of reviews to 10 Idaho children, although the report noted that not all such deaths are reported.
Gov. Butch Otter asked legislative leaders to form the joint committee, after legislation was proposed unsuccessfully for the past few years to lift or amend Idaho's religious exemptions.
Sen. Dan Johnson, R-Lewiston, co-chair of the committee, said he received numerous emails, calls and visits from people, including other lawmakers, "stating that we should just leave things alone." But he said he thought the panel's first meeting went well.
He met with Sevy and other Followers of Christ members over dinner on July 6. "I told them that we had a job to do, and that it's very important that they be involved in that process," Johnson said. "They agreed to that. We're going to give this a hard look."
The committee likely will hold its next meeting in late August or early September, Johnson said.
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Q: iPad forces portrait mode when touching 'Take Photo or Video' I've built an HTML5 iPad web app in landscape mode, now I'm to the point I need to let the user add an image either from taking an image or choosing one from the camera roll.
Here's the problem:
The iPad is locked in landscape mode, user touches my button: 'Add Photo' Apple menu alerts: 'Take Photo or Video' or 'Choose Existing' User touches 'Take Photo or Video'.
When the Camera slides over and opens up the web app goes into portait mode!, and after the user takes the image or even cancels out of taking an image my web app is stuck in portrait mode and will not go back into landscape until you unlock the iPad, turn to portrait then back to landscape!!
Note: if the user selects 'Choose Existing' and uploads from the camera roll there is no issue.
Is there anything I can do? Is there a way to not provide the 'Take Photo or Video' option and only allow the 'Choose Existing' option?
Thank you in advance!

A: I've run into a similar problem. In my case the camera roll is only showing in portrait mode on my iPad which I'm using in landscape. After looking through the API reference it looks like this is by design:

Important: The UIImagePickerController class supports portrait mode
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But the higher standard deduction — at least $24,000 per couple, up from $13,000 — and the absence or limitation of these other deductions could also lessen the tax benefits of charitable deductions. A more arcane provision in the Senate bill — regarding blocks of stocks bought at different times — could make the benefits of harvesting tax losses, a staple of basic financial planning, harder to accomplish.
"The loss of some of the deductions will go a long way toward tax simplification but not necessarily toward tax savings," said Timothy M. Steffen, director of advanced planning at Baird, a wealth management firm. "It's going to be easier to figure out how much more you're going to have to pay."
For those who would like to take advantage of tax benefits now, here are strategies they can follow.
Pay property taxes early.
Both the House and Senate bills allow for $10,000 in real estate tax deductions, which is high enough for taxpayers in many states.
Nine counties in the United States with populations of 100,000 or more, however, have an average real estate tax that exceeds that amount, according to an analysis by Attom Data Solutions. No. 1 is Westchester County, outside New York City, at $16,500 a year. The other eight are in New Jersey, New York, Northern California and southern Connecticut.
There are 32 additional counties — in Illinois, Virginia and Massachusetts — where the average property tax is $7,000 or more, meaning people who own larger homes in those areas will feel the bite.
Most municipalities set property tax rates in the middle of the year. Homeowners either pay them as part of their mortgage or directly to their town semiannually.
If the latter is the case, advisers say to pay the installment due in early 2018 now. And if the taxes are paid as part of the mortgage payment, they advise checking with the bank to make sure the tax is paid this month and not in January.
Prepay state taxes.
Advisers suggest paying state taxes early, to the extent that is possible, by making an estimated tax payment for what is owed this year. This is something that affects more people, because 41 states tax earned income.
Joseph J. Perry, the tax and business services leader at Marcum, a national accounting firm, said his firm was exploring a novel strategy for clients to prepay New York State tax for the first, second and third quarters of 2018. He said it appeared to be allowed under a mechanism in the state tax code.
But early payment strategies work only if you do not qualify for the alternative minimum tax. Once taxpayers set off the A.M.T., their income is taxed at 28 percent, but they lose these deductions.
High earners with savvy accountants could, however, work the math to accelerate income while qualifying for the A.M.T. this year to pay less in taxes than they might next year, Mr. Perry said.
"If you're at a higher rate next year, you're not going to have that state deduction to bring you down," he said. Therefore, if high earners could receive a bonus this month instead of early next year, they could potentially have that money taxed at the lower rate. (Like all tax strategies, though, this requires running various calculations with an accountant.)
Make large charitable donations.
Calculating the tax value of charitable donations is a little trickier.
The wealthiest will still get a benefit under certain circumstances. For example, if a married couple had a $1 million mortgage with a 4 percent interest rate, it could deduct $40,000 for its mortgage interest plus $10,000 for real estate taxes under the Senate version of the tax bill. This would give the couple $50,000 in deductions, which is above the standard deduction of $24,000, allowing them to claim charitable donations as a deduction.
Under the House proposal, which caps the mortgage that can be used for the deduction at $500,000, they would have $20,000 in mortgage interest and $10,000 for real estate taxes. At $30,000 in deductions, their charitable gifts would still count.
But if that same couple rents instead of owns, it would not have those other deductions to get above the standard amount. So any benefit it gets today from itemizing charitable deductions would be subsumed under the standard deduction.
If the tax math works — and given that the income tax rates are likely to be higher this year than next year — people who can make large charitable deductions this year are likely to get more benefit.
Those who do not want to give outright to a charity can make a donation to a donor-advised fund. In doing so, they get the deduction this year but can make the grants to charities later.
Harvest stock losses.
The Senate bill has a seemingly arcane provision that addresses the adequate identification rule, which has to do with selling blocks of stock. As the rule stands, people who bought blocks of stock at different times can choose which blocks to sell or give away for tax purposes.
Under the proposed changes, an investor would have to sell the oldest stock first — under the premise of first in first out, said Gary M. DuBoff, principal in the tax and accounting department at MBAF, an accounting firm.
The shares with the highest embedded taxes are the ones that people usually donate to charity, but Mr. DuBoff pointed out that this change would have an effect on tax-loss harvesting, a strategy in which an investor sells stocks that have performed poorly to take a capital loss. This still works if someone is selling the entire position, but not if the investor wants to sell more recently purchased blocks, which may have gone down in value while earlier blocks are still up, Mr. DuBoff said.
So this is a good time to make sure your adviser is harvesting losses on blocks within large stock holdings, particularly if earlier blocks have appreciated.
Don't act hastily.
There are risks to acting now without full information. In 2012, Congress and President Barack Obama were locked in a tense debate over tax rates as the United States inched toward what was called the fiscal cliff — meaning that after Dec. 31, taxes would rise automatically if an agreement was not reached.
As the year was nearing an end, a swath of wealthy taxpayers rushed to make taxable gifts, thinking that Mr. Obama would reduce what had been a generous estate and gift tax exemption of $5 million a person.
Instead, the opposite happened. Mr. Obama and the House speaker, John Boehner, reached an agreement to make that exemption permanent and index it to inflation. That exemption essentially eliminated the estate tax for all but a few Americans, but it was bad news for some people who had made irrevocable gifts solely for tax purposes. Their money was gone before it had to be.
Planners say the risk this year is lower, and they predict that any changes to the bills are going to be on the margins.
"People aren't going to get blindsided here," said Jay Messing, senior director of planning for Wells Fargo Private Bank. "Most itemized deductions are going away. If there's a change and it didn't make sense to donate this year, maybe you just gave money to your favorite charity a little early."
It's smart to act now on some strategies, but others should wait until 2018. Thinking through those will be the focus of next week's column.
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The following is a list of clones of Tandy's TRS-80 model I and III home computers:
 Aster CT-80 by Aster b.v.
 DGT-100 and DGT-1000 by Digitus
 D8000, D8001 and D8002 by Dismac
 Komtek I by  Komtek Technologies
 Le Guépard by  HBN Electronic Sa
 LNW-80  by LNW Research
 Max-80 by Lobo Systems
 Meritum by Mera-Elzab
 MTI Mod III Plus by Microcomputer Technology Inc.
 CP-300 and CP-500 by Prológica
 Pentasonic PROF 80
 R1001 by Radionic
 Sysdata Jr by Sysdata Eletrônica Ltda
 Video Genie (also known as the "Dick Smith System-80" or the "PMC-80") by EACA
Misedo 85 by Montex
HT-1080Z School Computer (Híradástechnikai Szövetkezet, Hungary)
SpotLight I (스포트라이트I) by Hanguk Sangyeok (한국상역)

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In the basic tutorial you'll learn how you can integrate simulators and control strategy into the mosaik ecosystem as well as how you create simulation scenarios and execute them.
In the first part, we'll implement the Sim API for a simple example simulator. We'll also create a simulation scenario in which that simulator will send its data to mosaik-hdf5 which will store it in an HDF5 database.
In the second part, we'll also integrate a simple control mechanism into mosaik. We'll then create a scenario in which that control mechanism controls the example simulator from part one.
The Odysseus tutorial you'll learn how to connect the data-stream-management-tool Odysseus to mosaik. The second part shows some examples on how to use Odysseus. This tutorial may also be of some use when you want to connect any other component via ZeroMQ.
The Java API tutorial shows you how to use the Java API. This API is intended to connect simulators written in Java to mosaik. You can use the Java-API also as a RCP-Server if you want to run your Java-simulator on a separate machine.


We all know that the first 300 movie killed all the Spartan warriors that defended their land. Maybe that's why we can't wait to see how they 'd take revenge against the forces of Xerxes or whatever his name was. I'd go ahead and Google it but I'm too damned lazy to do anything. There's a new lady warrior that's commanding one side and I'm actually not sure which one. Anyways, March 2014 is still a long way to go but I'm hoping this'll be the last time they change the release date of this movie. Nothing more to say but just go ahead and check the whole trailer after the break to see what all the fuss is about.


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High Court, Sony Music & Ors v UPC Communications [2015] IECH 317
(1) The plaintiffs, Sony, Universal and Warner Music, sought an injunction to impose upon UPC Communications, the second largest Irish Internet access provider, an obligation to implement a "Graduated Response Strategy" (GRS) against UPC's subscribers allegedly infringing plaintiffs' copyrights online. The injunction sought was pursuant to s.40 (5A) of the Copyright and Related Rights Act, 2000 (as amended) (see above) requiring that the defendant take reasonable steps to prevent its subscribers from using the defendant's internet service for the purpose of breaching the plaintiffs' copyright in the plaintiffs' sound recordings
(2) According to the court, the essential elements of a GRS are that "(i) the owners of the copyright send to the ISP a list of infringements with reference to specific internet protocol addresses; (The copyright owners can only identify the specific IP address. They cannot identify the name and address of the subscriber). However when this information is sent to the defendant, the defendant as the ISP can, using the IP addresses, identify the name and address of its subscribers. (ii) It then writes to its subscribers informing them that these matters have come to its attention. (iii) The second letter is a second reminder or threat of further action. (iv) The third step would be the suspension of the account for a week. (v) The fourth step would be the termination of the account."
(3) The Court granted an injunction as sought by the plaintiff imposing upon UPC an obligation to implement a GRS as the European "directives permit the courts of Member States to impose injunctions on internet service providers , . . . even though ISPs are not regarded as liable in law for the actions of their subscribers," due the availability of a "mere conduit" defense. According to the injuction, the GRS cannot encompass any suspension or termination of users' accounts but only the disclosure of information to make a Norwich Pharmacal order to finally seek an accounts' suspension or termination. The GRS should encompass the following steps:
Step 1 - That the plaintiffs would furnish all relevant infringement information to the defendant and that the plaintiffs would bear the cost of this process.
Step 2 - That the defendant, when it receives a first copyright infringement notification from the plaintiffs, would send its subscribers a letter setting out the infringement and requesting him/her to cease and desist.
Step 3 - That the defendant where it receives a second copyright infringement notification would send a second letter to its subscriber requesting him/her to cease and desist.
Step 4 - That the defendant, where it receives a third copyright infringement in respect of a subscriber from the plaintiffs, would send to the plaintiffs a notification that a subscriber account has been the subject matter of three such notifications.
Step 5 - The plaintiffs, having been informed of a third copyright infringement notification and having been informed of the relevant IP addresses etc, could make a Norwich Pharmacal type application to ascertain the subscriber's identity and address and the plaintiffs could then seek an order under s.40 (5A) for the suspension and/or termination of the subscriber's service. Such applications would not be opposed or consented to by the defendant and the defendant would not seek its costs.
(4) Finally, the Court noted, on the issue of allocation of costs, that "because the defendant is the company which profits - albeit indirectly - because it derives revenue from its subscribers who are engaged in this practice, it is the defendant who should, in my view, be primarily liable for the costs." Therefore, according to the Court, UPC will be required to bear 80% of the costs estimated between €800,000 and €940,000. However, the plaintiffs may only send to UPC up to 2,500 infringment notifications per month.
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Not too long ago, Christians made up about 20% of the Middle East's population. Now it is 5% and falling.
About 100 years ago Christians made up 20% of the population in Turkey. Now they account for about .2%.
Pope Benedict XVI and the Vatican Synod need to understand that the decline of Christianity in the Middle East is largely due to the decline of Christianity in Roman Catholicism (cf. Revelation 2:5). Imagine for a moment if the Apostle Paul or Peter were to ask the question, "What can we do about the persecution of Christians by Nero?" They would not give the kinds of answers some are suggesting: social changes, democratic secular states, interfaith cooperation, etc. And they most certainly would give answers that probably won't be discussed at the Vatican Synod.
1. Preach the Gospel of God's grace alone through faith alone in Jesus Christ alone (Romans 1:16-17; Galatians 1:8-9).
2. Repent for teaching that Muslims adore the same God as Christians (Catechism of the Catholic Church 841).
Muslims reject the doctrine of the Trinity as blasphemous (Qur'an 5:73).
Muslims do not adore the Triune God: Father, Son, and Holy Spirit (James 2:19; 1 John 2:22-23).
3. Repent for kissing the Qur'an which contains the doctrine of antichrist (1 John 2:22-23).
The Qur'an denies both the Father and the Son (cf. Matthew 16:16; 26:63-64).
The Qur'an says belief that Jesus is the Son of God is perverse and accursed (Qur'an 5:17; 9:30; 10:68; 19:88-92).
Pope John Paul II showing reverence for the Qur'an by bowing to and kissing it.
9. We [Muslims and Christians] are united by the faith in one God and by the commandment that says: do good and avoid evil. The words of the Second Vatican Council on the relations with other religions offer the basis for the relationship between the Catholic Church and the Muslims: "The Church regards with esteem also the Muslims. They adore the one God, living and subsisting in Himself; merciful and all- powerful, the Creator of heaven and earth, who has spoken to men" (Nostra aetate 3).


Every once in a while, you get an iconic picture that paints a message worth a thousand words. This is one of them. Respect, love, companionship , brotherhood and so much more. Not much more we can say really. It seems to us the dog is saying to the man "Wanna roll with me bro?".
To the man and the dog in the picture, may you be well and happy and may God bless you both!
This is a message of love. If this message resonates with you, send it out to one of your bros today!


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Amec Foster Wheeler takeover could mean job losses
Job cuts are likely as Amec Foster Wheeler board recommends takeover by rival Wood Group
Julie SpencerReporter
Amec Foster Wheeler is likely to be taken over by a rival
Amec Foster Wheeler looks set to be taken over by rival oil services company Wood Group in a £2.2bn deal.
The announcement on Monday, March 13, pushed Amec Foster Wheeler's (AFW) shares up by 17 per cent but administrative jobs could go in the creation of a "leaner and more competitive" combined business.
Amec Foster Wheeler has offices in 55 countries including its Reading office at Shinfield Park and has been hit hard by the drop in oil prices.
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The takeover by Aberdeen-based Wood Group would result in "significant cost and revenue synergies" of at least £110m a year.
Before the takeover offer was made, Amec had planned to launch a £500m rights issue - an offer to existing shareholders to buy more shares at a special price - to improve its balance sheet.
That offer has been suspended pending a vote on the deal by shareholders but the boards of both companies have recommended it should be approved.
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In a trading update published on Monday, March 13, Amec stated that it expected 2017 "to be another year of oil and gas decline".
Wokingham business developing robots to sell cars and teach children
Commenting on the Wood Group proposal, John Connolly, Amec Foster Wheeler chairman, said the executive management team had been making significant progress towards transforming the business by reducing costs, disposing of noncore assets and a reorganisation of the business.
"However, the board believes that a combination with Wood adds to the standalone prospects of the company."
Ian Marchant, chairman of Wood Group, said: "Delivering significant sustainable synergies will also result in a leaner and more competitive Combined Group, creating value for shareholders.
Former Royals and Reading businesses raise thousands for Launchpad
"Amec Foster Wheeler's shareholders will become shareholders in the combined group, thereby gaining from the enhanced operating capabilities, and benefiting from a share of the synergies, a stronger balance sheet and Wood Group's progressive dividend policy."
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Diana Ross was born and raised in Detroit, Michigan, and joined the R&B trio the Primettes in 1959. At the time the Primettes were made up of Mary Wilson, Florence Ballard, and original member Barbara Martin. After signing to Motown records in 1960, the group changed their name to the Supremes.
Starting in 1964 with "When The Lovelight Starts Shining Through His Eyes," the Supremes scored 33 Top 40 singles, including 12 Number One pop hits. "Someday We'll Be Together" was the group's final Number One, after which Ross left to begin a solo career, which earned her an additional 27 Top 40 hits, including 1970's "Ain't No Mountain High Enough," her first solo Number One.
Ross also reached the top of the charts with "Touch Me In The Morning" (1973), "Theme From Mahogany (Do You Know Where You're Going To)" (1975), "Love Hangover" (1976), "Upside Down" (1980), and "Endless Love" — her 1981 duet with Lionel Richie.
She has also had a career as an actress, earning an Academy Award best actress nomination for her role as singer Billie Holiday in Lady Sings The Blues. Her other films included Mahogany, and The Wiz.
In December 2007 Ross was among the Kennedy Center Honorees, which also included Brian Wilson, Martin Scorsese, Steve Martin, and pianist Leon Fleischer.
Ross' last studio album — 2007's I Love You — peaked at Number 32 on the Billboard 200 charts and featured covers of Queen's "Crazy Little Thing Called Love," Harry Nilsson's "Remember," Bill Withers' "Lovely Day," Heatwave's "Always And Forever," the Drifters' "This Magic Moment," the Beatles' "I Will," Spiral Staircase's "I Love You More Today Than Yesterday," and Joe Cocker's "You Are So Beautiful," among others.


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How to become a Survival Expert
By Paul Pinkerton
Publish Date: Nov 9, 2016
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Here at Outdoor Revival we recognize the importance of being able to look after yourself, after all, we're regularly encouraging people to get out into the wilderness and get on adventures around the world, you've got to be able to look after yourself.
Here's one of our regular survival articles from British survival expert James Manderville. As a Survival instructor with many years experience he's well qualified to help us decide on how best to approach our survival training.
Many people have written to me over the past few months asking how one becomes a survival expert. First of all, it has to be said that the term "survival expert" is a self-styled title. There is no career or profession giving recognized qualifications that enable one to become a survival expert, nor are there (to my knowledge) any jobs advertised for survival experts! The term was coined long before Discovery Channel TV started promoting its survival programs and long before the world heard of documentary actors like Bear Grylls, Ray Mears or Les Stroud etc.
So, how does one become a survival expert? In this article I look at various ways a person can become proficient and then expert in survival:
Military survival training undoubtedly gives an excellent grounding in the subject, coupled with extensive and realistic practical experience.
Various courses have sprung up offering skills training in "Bushcraft."
The third route is to personally study everything available on the subject and practice survival skills in a non-threatening environment.
Military survival training
In the Army I qualified as a survival instructor, (at that time, Bear Grylls was around 10 years old, Les Stroud was 24 and Ray Mears was 21). Instructors were classified as experts in jungle warfare and survival, Arctic warfare and survival, etc. Training in different aspects of warfare in different biomes enabled one to clock up a vast amount of survival knowledge. Training Special Forces personnel in survival provided a unique opportunity to combine all these survival skills to train military personnel who may have to operate in extreme conditions anywhere in the world. It was at this time I first heard the term "survival expert" mentioned. Survival instructors who were multi-disciplined in several areas of survival were termed, "Survival Experts" because of their extensive knowledge and experience.
Closely linked to survival training is Escape and Evasion (E&E) training, the type of training given to aircrews and soldiers who may have to operate behind enemy lines (a sniper, for example). E&E training works on the premise that the person not only has to survive, but also to escape, and in the process gather intelligence on the way.
Military training may also cover survival at sea, which is completely different set of survival kills from survival on land.
People who have been through advanced survival training in the military and then gone on to further develop survival skills, put these into practice in the real world and have years of experience in the area can be rightly called survival experts.
Bushcraft survival training
The term Bushcraft was probably first publicized by Ernest Favenc in his book, The History of Australian Exploration from 1788 to 1888; published in 1888. Bushcraft is about surviving in the wild using ancient skills for catching animals as food and for clothing, foraging, making fire, making tools, weapons and implements from natural materials and making shelter. All the life-skills necessary for everyday survival in the wilderness (as used even today by many aboriginal and native peoples around the world) form the basis of what we term "Bushcraft."
Without doubt, mastering all these bushcraft skills enhances anyone's chances of surviving in the wilderness. Many of bushcraft skills are the same as the skills taught to the military as survival skills.
The difference being that bushcraft enthusiasts often travel out into wilderness areas to deliberately use their skills to live in the wild, whereas, the survival skills taught to the military are more designed for people suddenly cut off from civilization for a short period of time until they can escape or be rescued.
Military survival training often has a covert edge to it. The reasons for needing survival or life-skills are different, but many of the actual survival techniques used are similar.
Anyone who can survive in the wild by hunting, foraging, using natural medicines, making fire and shelter for a protracted time can call themselves a survival expert in my view. A person with bushcraft skills would have an equally good chance of survival as a military trained survival expert if caught up in an unexpected survival situation than meant living off the land in a biome in which they were familiar.
Bushcraft implies wilderness survival; bushcraft training does not usually include survival at sea, in jungle, the Polar Regions or deserts, whereas military survival training does include these biomes.
There are many centers of excellence where bushcraft skills can be learned under the guidance of expert instructors. For example, in the UK, Woodsmoke. If you can recommend other centers based on personal experience, please contact me.
Self-instruction survival training.
Is it possible to learn sufficient about survival techniques to become expert in survival through self study? Well it is, but is must be a hard and long route to follow. The danger in learning about survival by reading up on it, watching videos etc., is that the knowledge is purely passive; it is vitally important to practice survival skills.
Making fire, for example, is not as easy as it looks and this is the sort of skill you need to try out in a variety of weather situations. Making traps requires a lot of practice, as does knapping flint to make stone tools and weapons. Nothing is as easy in a real disaster situation as it is make to look in a book. "Practice makes perfect," and a survival instructor to help you will save hours of wasted time.
What makes a survival expert?
You need the following as a minimum:
The ability to think ahead and anticipate how events may impact on one's current situation;
the ability to think quickly, and together with this, the ability to act decisively and appropriately;
have the will to survive, which means knowing your own psyche and how to deal with it under duress;
owning some basic survival equipment, which requires some forward planning and preparation;
the ability to improvise, which some people are better at than others but it is possible to train oneself to improvise to a certain degree;
the will to live, to start life afresh with all that entails;
A wealth of knowledge and experience about how to survive in the wild in different biomes.
Thanks to James Manderville for this survival tip. Jame is an ex-Army survival instructor and runs the popular survival website site Survival Expert.
He has many years experience in difficult terrain, notably the Amazon, the African bush and climbing in various mountain regions including the Drakensburg Mountains and the Andes


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Tornadoes on the Plains not as bad as feared; threat remains
Associated PressMay 21, 2019
This image made from video provided by KWTV-KOTV shows two funnel clouds formed in Crescent, Okla., Monday, May 20, 2019. An intense storm system that weather forecasters labeled "particularly dangerous" swept through the Southern Plains Monday, spawning a few tornadoes that caused some damage and a deluge of rain but no reports of injuries. (KWTV-KOTV via AP)
OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — An intense storm system moved across the Southern Plains on Monday, spawning tornadoes that caused scattered damage and a deluge of rain but not the "particularly dangerous" twisters that forecasters had feared.
Late Monday, the National Weather Service reduced the severe threat of violent storms to a small area of southern Oklahoma and northern Texas. But it kept an area stretching from Tulsa, Oklahoma, to Wichita Falls, Texas, under tornado watch — the level of threat just below a tornado warning — until 5 a.m. CDT Tuesday morning
The biggest threat overnight appeared to be flash flooding from torrential rains that accompanied the storms, forecasters said.
The National Weather Service had warned that Monday evening could bring perilous weather to a large swath of western Texas, most of Oklahoma and southern Kansas. The storm was expected to move later Monday into western Arkansas.
As predicted, more than a dozen sightings of tornadoes were reported in Oklahoma, Kansas, Texas and Missouri early Monday evening, although they were in sparsely populated areas. Oklahoma residents were particularly nervous Monday because it was the sixth anniversary of a massive tornado in Moore, south of Oklahoma City, that killed 24 people.
A tornado struck western and northern portions of the southwestern Oklahoma town of Mangum on Monday afternoon. Glynadee Edwards, the Greer County emergency management director, says some homes incurred roof damage and the high school's agriculture barn was destroyed, but the livestock survived.
"The pigs are walking around wondering what happened to their house," she said.
Emergency officials reported a tornado near Lucien, in northern Oklahoma, severely damaging a house and destroying a barn. One storm cell near Crescent, 32 miles north of Oklahoma City, spawned twin tornadoes.
National Weather Service meteorologist John Pike in Norman, Oklahoma, said a developing layer of relatively warm air aloft late Monday afternoon and evening over central Oklahoma was capping development of the kind of supercells that spawned tornadoes earlier in the afternoon in western and northern Oklahoma. Storm cells that did develop, however, followed one after the other in what is called "training," leading to scattered reports of flash flooding Monday night.
The Storm Prediction Center website shows the main severe thunderstorm threat Tuesday will be over Missouri and northern Arkansas, with a slight threat in a surrounding area bounded by Dallas; Springfield, Illinois; Garden City, Kansas; and Oklahoma City.
The threat of nasty weather had prompted measures to prepare for the worst. School districts in Oklahoma City, nearby Norman and elsewhere in Oklahoma canceled classes with forecasts of hail and wind gusts of up to 80 mph (128 kph). A flood watch was in effect for the greater Oklahoma City region. Schools in Abilene and elsewhere in West Texas sent students home early.
Tinker Air Force Base near Oklahoma City moved several planes to other military installations in anticipation of storm damage. Meanwhile, state workers in several Oklahoma counties were sent home early.
Oklahoma Gov. Kevin Stitt said in a statement that the state emergency operations center was activated and urged motorists not to drive around barricades or into flooded roadways.
In Oklahoma City, emergency management officials opened the Multi-Agency Coordination Center, an underground bunker on the city's northeast side that serves as a clearinghouse for coordinating information about severe weather events and other major emergencies.
Some flights at Will Rogers World Airport in Oklahoma City were canceled to avoid damage to aircraft and the possibility of extended delays elsewhere.
The Monday storms followed a spate of tornadoes in the Southern Plains on Friday and Saturday, leaving widespread damage and some people injured.