On the 7th July 2017, we woke up to the tragic and devastating news that Janice Farman was robbed and savagely killed in front of her son. The news sent the media into a frenzy of shock, not because it was yet another execution of a Westerner in Mauritius but, because it was Janice, the well-loved and respected Scottish lady who touched everyone she met with her infectious smile and kindness. Within days of her demise, publication in the Mauritian press delved into her life and death, some of which were fallacious. Yet her family kept a dignified silence begging to know what has happened to their daughter. Indeed, her family, friends and colleagues looked on helplessly as the investigation unfolded some disturbing truth about the identity of the murderers and motive of this senseless murder.
Janice came to our island and it was love at first sight. She loved our country and its residents so much so that she proudly called Mauritius "home" and she readily embraced life as an islander. For those who knew her, it was endearing seeing the metamorphosis of a beautiful Scottish lady into a Mauritian lotus. Janice would not think twice before draping herself in a sari to attend a religious ceremony and neither did she shy away from commitments which others would shun. She became powerful in her own right as a spokesperson for the downtrodden in Mauritius. Janice would even pick up stray animals and take them, at her own expense, for treatment to the vet. She did not like to see sufferings. She befriended many local residents and took their plight as her own and fought to for them. It did not matter to Janice whether a person was rich or poor, educated or not, black or white. In her eyes, everyone was nice. In her eyes, everyone was equal. In her eyes, everyone deserved a chance. Janice was a role model, a marvellous woman who loved conviviality. She loved to entertain and her hospitality was second to none. She would entertain anyone who spoke to her and would bond over a glass of wine or her inviting and heart-felt hugs.
Janice lived amongst us as an expat for nearly fourteen years and was generous with her time and money. She was the "dream boss" to have and work with; someone who supported her subordinates and encouraged and championed Mauritian workers. She would lavish gifts to friends and colleagues without hesitation. She was always there to make people feel good and valued. Behind closed doors, Janice was a devoted mother who adopted a child, not to fill a void in her life, but to love and nurture him. She fell in love with baby Gavin and wanted to help his birth mother; help which she duly provided until her death. When Janice became a Mauritian citizen, she tried laboriously to maintain the same living standard for the sake of her child. Yet she downsized and took a humble abode in order to give priority to Gavin's future and made choices which could maintain the life style her boy was used to.
Janice was an ardent fighter for justice. She could empathise with people and knew how to talk to them and gain their confidence. She had lobbied relentlessly for assistance to autistic children and was always at the beck and call of the under-privileged. There was nothing that Janice would not do to help but sadly when it came to her, on that fatal night, there was no one there to help her.
Janice was executed for money and took her last breath in front of her son and this tragedy will be talked about for years to come. Janice has left a legacy to our island in that she will never be forgotten. Indeed, she will always be fondly remembered as jolly Janice, a humanist, a friend and a wonderful person who was killed by people she knew and called friends.
Our thoughts and prayers are with her parents and undeniably Gavin, her beloved son. Her parents wrote an open letter to her friends and well-wishers and it is befitting to include it in this obituary.
We would like to thank all of you for the love you have shown to our daughter, Janice, during her time on your island which was cut short.
Due to serious health issues, we are both unable to travel to Mauritius and we wish to thank all our friends there for assisting us with funeral arrangements for which we are very grateful. We are confident that you will give Janice the send off which she richly deserves.
We feel humbled by the outpouring of love and support we have received from her friends. Thank you and to all those who have spoken openly and candidly about our child and putting a stop to any innuendo in the press following her murder.
To us, Janice was an outstanding daughter, a devoted mother and a fiercely loyal friend. We are sure that she will be remembered by many, both in Scotland and in Mauritius for the love and care which she extended to people and abandoned animals. These memories we will cherish forever.
To outlive our daughter is unbearable but to lose her by being murdered is earth-shattering. It was extremely hard for us to learn of Janice's death on social media. Two weeks later, no Mauritian authority has contacted us and we are depending on the British Consul in London for confirmed information.
The shock and pain of all this will haunt us all our days. We try to cope by remembering all the good deeds she did throughout her life, the love she shared with so many and her jovial fun loving nature. Janice has left a huge void in our life.
We and Janice spoke several times about the fact that we wished to be cremated on our deaths and she always stated that she wished to be cremated as well. Never ever did we think that she would precede us. We hope and pray that her wish to be cremated is carried out with the dignity and respect which she deserves and that the urn containing her ashes is given to her beloved son Gavin, our grandson, which we know, is what she would have wanted.
Once again, we would like to thank everyone for their support and may the love that you have for Janice keep her alive in your hearts as it will for us.


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Q: Access control with CakePHP - Restricting access by database field I have an application that has database records that correspond to a city, or a country.  My User model has the fields city_id and country_id.  If city_id is not zero, the user should just have access to records that correspond to that city.  There are about 8 other models with the foreign key city_id, for example, Post, Advert, Venue, Competition...
I am setting up Acl and I would like to know if there's a good way to deny access to records that don't have the same city_id as the authenticated user, unless the authenticated user has a city_id of 0 (which means they have access to every city).  The same goes to country, I have the field country_id which serves the same purpose.
Guidance would be very much appreciated, before I go and do soemthing really hacky and horrible, thanks.

A: You can do complex authorisation checks in you own function isAuthorized() in your controller or model. You need to set this up on the AuthComponent: $this->Auth->authorize = 'controller';
The CakePHP book has an example on this.

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Fighting in Style: Fashion Helps Us Do the Right Thing
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Fashion has always been a frontline method of communication for me; it's one of the ways I telegraph my mood, my power and my place in the world. And fashion was one of the many weapons used by women during the 2018 Women's March, where marchers were clad in everything from baby booties to jackboots.
Whether they were on foot or on wheels, women's hearts were on their sleeves in open rebuke of all forms of institutional sexism, classism and racism, broadcasting the message loud and clear: Time's up on more sexual abuse, restriction of reproductive rights and gender-based inequities.
In a moving speech at the Los Angeles march, Viola Davis reminded us: "When we don't work, time becomes an ally of the oppressors. We have to use every moment doing right."
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Admittedly, wearing a T-shirt can feel like mere fast-food outrage, a "look at me" attention grab, or a fashion statement used and quickly shed in favor of yet another trendy slogan or style. But when women back up a style statement by sharing our knowledge, and then help one another put that knowledge into action, fashion can become yet another way of using every available moment to do right.
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As I spent time on the internet this weekend, listening to speeches from marches around the country, what struck me most were the dire statistics related to the potential of sexual assault for girls in the foster system—a staggering 68 percent—as well as the sex trafficking of our girls. That revelation, coupled with seeing an image of a young woman named Kevinee on Instagram, prompted me to recommit to the cause of foster kids in America.
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When I reached out to Kevinee for permission to use her picture in this story, I learned that she'd come to New York last year to hear me speak at a Google conference. She had messaged me beforehand—I never saw it—in hopes that we could connect regarding her budding nonprofit, #FosterCare, created to help kids like she once was, who are living in the system. Kevinee is her own poster child, with a powerful image that wastes no time communicating the need to take action on an issue. Because, ladies and gentlemen, sometimes a T-shirt is not just a T-shirt.
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The most important thing we can do right now? Register to vote.
Our rights as women and as the gatekeepers of humanity should not be up for grabs—and neither should anything else on our bodies, for that matter. If you or someone you know is not registered to vote, text P2P to RTVOTE (788-683). Even if you think you're already registered, it never hurts to make sure; just the other day, the estimable Susan Taylor reminded The Glow Up: "Gerrymandering works!"
Personally, every election cycle, I have had some type of issue about the location of my polling site. Last election alone, I was redirected three times on voting day to different places to cast my ballot.
But seeing the stylish battle cry from sisters at the march this year not only got my attention; it also put me back on the path to #BlackGirlsWinning. 2020 will be here before we know it—and the 2018 midterms even sooner—so don't sleep: Check your status and rock the status quo. Rock your style. Rock the midterms. Rock the vote. Women rock the world.

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Mid Bus was a corporation which specialized in manufacturing customized school buses. Formed in 1981 by former employees of Superior Coach Company in Lima, Ohio, it grew from a dozen employees working in a small facility in Lima to become one of the country's largest manufacturers of smaller school buses, moving to a much larger facility a few miles north of Lima in 1995.

The company was acquired by Collins Bus Corporation in 1998. On September 19, 2007, Collins announced plans to close the Mid Bus plant in Ohio and consolidate all manufacturing at the Collins facility in Kansas.

History

In 1980, in the US, there were six major school bus body companies building large school buses, mostly making bodies for chassis from four truck manufacturers, joined by two coach-type school bus builders on the West Coast. Most also made some smaller buses of various types. With the baby boom years which swelled the ranks of school children in the past, the manufacturing industry faced serious over-capacity as companies vied and competed for lower volumes of purchases.

In 1981, when Sheller-Globe Corporation, a diversified industrial conglomerate closed down its large Superior Coach Company bus factory in Lima, Ohio, three former managers created Mid Bus, manufacturing Superior's smallest Type A bus under the new "Superior by Mid Bus" brand name.

Initially, they had a seven other former employees of the large factory, and worked in a small shop. As other small bus products were added, Superior by Mid Bus was shortened to Mid Bus. In the late 1980s, the company acquired the Minuteman product line from AmTran (formerly Ward Body Company) and in the early 1990s, the tooling and product rights to Busette from Wayne Corporation.

After a succession of larger facilities in Lima, around 1995, the company moved to a much larger facility in Bluffton, Ohio. Mid Bus became a subsidiary of Collins Industries, a publicly traded stock company, in 1998. On September 19, 2007, Collins announced plans to close the Mid Bus plant in Ohio and consolidate all manufacturing at the Collins facility in Kansas.

Products
 Guide SRW - Ford E350 or GMC 3500/Chevy 3500 chassis
 Guide DRW - Ford E350 or GMC 3500/Chevy 3500 chassis
 Guide XL - GMC 4500/5500 chassis
 MFSAB - Ford E350 or GMC 3500/Chevy 3500 chassis
 Guide AL - international 3400 chassis

External links

 Mid Bus homepage

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School bus manufacturers
Defunct companies based in Ohio
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Lima, Ohio
Vehicle manufacturing companies established in 1981
Manufacturing companies disestablished in 2008
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According to reports, a Liberian woman has committed suicide on Bankole Street in the Isheri-Oke area of Lagos.
Punch reports that the resident of the area were thrown into confusion when they saw the woman hanging from a tree.
The deceased, was identified simply as Kate, and was said to be a worker in a pure water factory before her death.
Residents told Punch that the woman had been sick for a while but fear of Ebola, which was brought into Nigeria by Liberian, Patrick Sawyer, made people stay away from her.
The incident is said to have been reported to the Isheri Police Division.


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Vladimir Lenin, former leader of the Soviet Union, said, "Give me four years to teach the children, and the seed I have sown will never be uprooted."
He added, "Give us the child for 8 years and it will be a Bolshevik forever."
Vladmir Lenin Believed in the Importance of Children
Lenin required every school to establish "Lenin's corners," or "political shrines" for the display of propaganda about the god-like founder of the Soviet state." Schools conducted marches, songs and pledges of allegiance to Soviet leadership. One of purposes was to instill in children the idea that they are involved in the World revolution, which is more important than any family ties.
Communist thinking on children, schools and youth organizations included such thoughts as, "We must make the young into a generation of Communists. Children, like soft wax, are very malleable and they should be molded into good Communists. We must rescue children from the harmful influence of the family… We must nationalize them. From the earliest days of their little lives, they must find themselves under the beneficent influence of Communist schools… To oblige the mother to give her child to the Soviet state – that is our task."
Those children born after the Bolshevik Revolution were explicitly told that they were to build a utopia of brotherhood and justice and to not be like their parents, but completely Red.
The Hitler Youth Movement
Adolf Hitler made no bones about it. His philosophy was, "He who owns the youth gains the future." He founded what was known as the Hitler Youth Movement, which targeted both boys and girls ten to eighteen years of age.
The Hitler Youth movement was a logical extension of Hitler's belief that the future of Nazi Germany was its children. The Hitler Youth as an organization was seen as being as important to a child as school was. In the early years of the Nazi government, Hitler had made it clear as to what he expected German children to be like: Hitler wanted to occupy the minds of the young in Nazi Germany.
Hitler Youth was created in the 1920's. By 1936, they had 4 million members of children and youth in their organization, primarily because, it became all but compulsory to join the group.
Do I really have to tell you the degree to which Islamists are training and indoctrinating the next generation to take up their cause? The entire culture and society is in on it together, from television programming to the schools, and very cooperative parenting in the homes.
Who Cares? That's Old News!
My intent in relaying this information was not to bore you with a history lesson. Actually, you probably already knew most of this. So why am I bringing it up? It's because it struck me of how clearly the top leaders of "evil empires" understood that their success and their future lie entirely in how well they trained and indoctrinated the youth of their nations, starting at young ages. It was a key, primary strategy to go after the young, pouring time, resources, and energy into "discipling" their children and teens in their "faith."
I couldn't help but compare that to the oft times lackadaisical attitudes of some of us about the children in our ministries. Unfortunately, we don't give them a second thought unless there's a crying baby distracting us. We want to believe that our children's ministries are taking care of them. However, the facts are not too encouraging.
According the George Barna, The Nehemiah Institute, and Answers in Genesis, Ron Luce of Teen Mania, and other Christian research organizations, there's a mass exodus of our kids and teens from the local church, upwards of 70% of them, depending on who you read after. This is now common knowledge. In the past we have thought it was high school and college kids leaving the church. But new research shows, a huge percentage of kids actually leave by Middle School age.
Furthermore these young people tell researchers they have no need and nor intention of going back to church later in life. Of course, they're just kids, right? They'll change their minds when they get older. After all, raise a child in the way he should go, and he'll come back sooner or later–albeit marred, mired, broken, and entrenched in sin.
Researchers claim only one out of every ten born-again kids is absolutely committed to Christianity (Barna). That should give everyone who calls themselves a born-again Christian reason to pause.
What Would Happen If….
What would happen if the key leaders of Christianity across denominational lines and from every stream started focusing on our children and youth with even half the passion Lenin, Stalin, Hitler, and the Islamists have? What if they began mentoring and discipling them at early ages, before they had a chance to decide church was boring? What if they began to shape the entire church culture into a new focus on our children and youth, not to make them the center of attention. But to bring them alongside of us, shoulder to shoulder, and train them and equip them in the things of the Spirit like we do adults? What if Christians started focusing in on the children and youth like the Islamists do? Shouldn't we, like Lenin, also instill in children the idea that they are involved in the World revolution, which is more important than any family ties?
By the way, I am thankful to be friends with several internationally known ministers of large itinerant ministries, who do make kids a focus. They do everything from personally writing cutting edge children's books, producing CDs, and DVDs, fighting the abuse of children, to even insisting on visiting the children's ministries of churches when traveling, and talking to the children about the Lord personally. One woman minister actually takes young people on the road with her occasionally and mentors them, giving them opportunities to speak in her conferences! These men and women are my heroes! I can also tell you these ministers have a huge following of young people.
Obviously the oppressive political groups we spoke of earlier are not anything we as Christians would want to emulate. But consider the principle of what they were doing. They knew (and know) the value of training their children. Let's seek God how, together, we can change the Christian culture to recognize the potential of children as an active part of the Kingdom of God now and not when they turn twenty-one.
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AMEN!!!!!! I have raised two older daughters and now am raising my 12 yr. old son. I realize how much I have failed my older children in their spiritual nurturing as children. I was just a new Christian myself and just didn't know. After walking with Christ for 22 years now I do get it. We must stop playing church and only feeding these precious children baby food. It is time to teach them about Who God really is, about His Kingdom authority, His Glory and so much more. They are created to desire the supernatural and if we don't teach and lead them in God's kingdom, they will search through the darkness and find everything that is not God to fill that void . Holy Spirit, we ask you to grant us the Grace to lead your children and to teach them Your ways. Teach us Your ways and grant us that we too would love You will all our hearts, souls, minds and strength.
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15 per cent of the world's population, or more than 1.2 billion people, lives without electricity. Off-grid solutions can provide an estimated 60 per cent of the additional generation needed to plug that gap and achieve universal access.
Today, 15 per cent of the world's population lives without electricity. In Sub-Saharan Africa, that jumps up to two out of every three people.
A major drive to bring renewable energy to these 'electricity poor' is underway, but despite the progress made so far, under a business-as-usual scenario around 600 million people will still not have access to electricity by 2040, according to the International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA). To avoid this, new partnerships and a need to think big about going small in terms of technical innovations seems to be the key.
Rural electrification and the supply of off-grid power is a big topic. Big in terms of people living without access to electricity (15 per cent of the world's population - more than 1 billion worldwide) and big in terms of the money needed to plug the funding gaps (we're talking billions of dollars, not mere millions).
And yes, it needs big power projects like the large-scale wind projects and solar PV farms we see increasingly coming online around the world. But looming large over the energy access crisis is a big need for small-scale technical innovations in off-grid renewables, backed up with new, innovative financing structures.
As Adnan Z. Amin, Director-General of IRENA, says, if the world is to achieve universal access to energy, "we cannot rely solely on large-scale centralised energy projects". Off-grid renewable energy technologies represent "an opportunity for transformative change in the way we approach electrification", he said at IRENA's Third International Off-Grid Renewable Conference & Exhibition, held in Nairobi, Kenya, (30th September to 1st October 2016).
According to Amin, 15 per cent of the world's population, or more than 1.2 billion people, lives without electricity. Off-grid solutions, he said, can provide an estimated 60 per cent of the additional generation needed to plug that gap and achieve universal access.
The advances in off-grid renewable energy development have been impressive from all standpoints, IRENA points out. Large-scale development of community-based micro-hydro and biomass technologies has a long track record. The technology mix has further diversified with the rise of deployment in small-wind and solar PV-based technologies. Today, solar PV-based solutions have gained prominence as costs have declined. Plus, their inherently modular nature makes them ideal for adaptation to local conditions, ranging from lanterns to household systems to village-powering mini-grids.
According to IRENA, off-grid renewable energy solutions are "no longer a fringe option" for expanding access, and their role within a national strategy to reach universal access in a time-bound manner should be recognised. "The question is not whether universal access will happen through off-grid solutions but rather how do we make it happen quickly enough?" Amin said.
Rachel Kyte, CEO for Sustainable Energy for All (SEforALL) and Special Representative of the UN Secretary-General, agrees. "It's possible to secure sustainable energy for all by 2030. But we are not on track," she says, commenting on the release of the third edition of the SEforALL Global Tracking Framework (GTF) report, which was launched at the Sustainable Energy for All Forum in April. " Many countries are taking action, but the world as a whole is not moving fast enough. We must all go further, faster—together."
This year's GTF report shows the increase of people getting access to electricity is slowing down, and if this trend is not reversed, projections are that the world will only reach 92% electrification by 2030. IRENA's report concurs with these findings, adding that "under a business-as-usual scenario around 600 million people will still not have access to electricity by 2040".
The GTF report acknowledges that investments in renewable energy and energy efficiency globally have each climbed to an estimated $250 billion a year. However, to allow progress to move at the speed and scale needed to reach universal access by 2030, the GTF report estimates renewable energy investment would need to increase by a factor of 2-3 and energy efficiency by a factor of 3-6. It adds that a five-fold investment increase is needed in energy access/electrification projects, noting that 80% of those without access to electricity live in just 20 countries.
"This new [GTF] data is a warning for world leaders to take more focused, urgent action on access to energy and clean cooking, improving efficiency and use of renewables to meet our goals," Kyte said. "While we are making some progress - with many of the technologies we need available and policy roadmaps increasingly clear - it's not enough."
To accelerate the pace of off-grid renewable energy deployment, many different building blocks have to come together. "There are no one-size-fits-all solutions."
Policy makers have a significant role to play, naturally, but as Andrew M. Herscowitz, Coordinator of Power Africa says: "No single actor is going to make [achieving universal energy access] happen. Partnerships will be key to accelerate the pace of energy access."
Run by government agency USAID, Power Africa is a five-year American presidential initiative launched by President Barack Obama in Tanzania during his Africa Tour in July 2013. It's aim is to enable electricity access by adding 60 million new electricity connections and 30 GW of clean power generation. That goal could be well exceeded. The Power Africa Tracking Tool (PATT) - which tracks power projects where information has been made public - shows 430 transactions totaling 33.67 GW are currently progressing through the development pipeline. However, the organisation says that internally it is actually tracking approximately 700 transactions that have the potential to add over 70 GW.
Formed in 2006 with the goal of enabling widespread adoption of renewables through lowest cost clean energy storage technology, Fluidic Energy was named as a 2017 New Energy Pioneer at the annual Bloomberg New Energy Finance Summit in April. The company supplies rechargeable zinc-air batteries – an alternative to lead-acid and lithium-ion for energy storage – and off-grid rural electrification solutions.
To date it has deployed more than 100,000 batteries in 10 countries, impacting nearly four million people and thousands of communities. Installations extend across rural electrification, telecom, critical power and residential and light commercial applications.
Complementary efforts are also needed to build adequate capacity across the value chain (e.g., financing institutions, communities) and identify cross sector-linkages (e.g., productive end-uses such as health care or agriculture) to further enhance the sustainability of interventions. When each of these elements comes together, deployment can be accelerated in a manner that maximises socio-economic benefits.


5 And Jacob rose up from Beer-sheba: and the sons of Israel carried Jacob their father, and their little ones, and their wives, in the wagons which Pharaoh had sent to carry him.
7 His sons, and his sons' sons with him, his daughters, and his sons' daughters, and all his seed brought he with him into Egypt.
8 And these are the names of the children of Israel, which came into Egypt, Jacob and his sons: Reuben, Jacob's firstborn.
15 These be the sons of Leah, which she bare unto Jacob in Padan-aram, with his daughter Dinah: all the souls of his sons and his daughters were thirty and three.
19 The sons of Rachel Jacob's wife; Joseph, and Benjamin.
20 And unto Joseph in the land of Egypt were born Manasseh and Ephraim, which Asenath the daughter of Poti-pherah priest of On bare unto him.
34 That ye shall say, Thy servants' trade hath been about cattle from our youth even until now, both we, and also our fathers: that ye may dwell in the land of Goshen; for every shepherd is an abomination unto the Egyptians.


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Microsoft Tells Its Alternate Yahoo Board Members It Won't Be Needing Them
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Microsoft is taking one of its options off the table in its on-again, off-again pursuit of Yahoo. It has told members of the alternate board of directors it had lined up for a possible hostile proxy battle over Yahoo that it won't be needing their services. The news was delivered to each alternate in a short e-mail this morning from Microsoft's law firm, Sullivan & Cromwell, according to the Wall Street Journal
Yahoo's shares have been rising most of this week, after taking an initial hit on Monday. The relative strength in the shares have been partly fueled by hopes for renewed negotiations between Yahoo and Microsoft.
This action represents an important new data point in the battle of wills between the two companies. Is Microsoft really no longer interested in acquiring Yahoo, or is it just trying to signal that it has lost interest to drive down Yahoo's shares and thus strengthen its negotiating position?


STEP 1. Alrighty then, let's start with the outline. Start with a circle for the head, complete with two curved lines that meet where you want the chin. Also outline where you want the arms, as well as one line to create the center of gravity. STEP 2. Draw the line which will become the outline of Elsa's face. Tip; the nose and chin stick the same distance out, the deepest dip should be between the bottom lip and chin. Also, sketch out a simple little castle. Don't worry too much about detail just yet. STEP 3. Draw the ear on the line through the guide circle (this will be in line with the eyes as well) Add the neck and simple figure as shown. STEP 4. Sketch in the cape; it should mostly follow the figure before fanning out at the bottom. Also draw one piece of hair, which continues to become the part in Elsa's hair. Add detail to the ear and add a slight smile. STEP 5. Add a curl of hair before the ear, then draw a second hairline which stops just past the neck. Draw lips around the smile (sorry not in green). Also draw in the thin arms and bum. (this step got deleted so I had to redo it, sorry for any inconsistencies) STEP 6. Draw in the hair. The part facing away looks like a bunch of bumps, the closer just follows the guide circle before it curls around the line we drew last step. Draw in the part where the cape curves behind Elsa's body. Also sketch in the closer hand (sorry I don't have a whole lot of tips on drawing hands :( try holding an object, then draw from sight) STEP 7. Draw the further hand (again, no tips, sorry) and draw the braid. The braid follows the style of the hair; it just looks like a few bumps with a curl on the end. STEP 8. Finish by moving your pencil in quick loops for the eye (be confident! don't hesitate, otherwise you'll get a line that's shaky and/or too thick) Erase all guidelines and overlaps. STEP 9. Then just color with whatever media you prefer. Please comment on my profile if you try this; I would love love LOVE to see what you guys do with it! Stay creepy ;) ~Sapphiere Step 1. Step 2. Step 3. Step 4. Step 5. Step 6. Step 7. Step 8. Step 9.


For the last few years, I found myself buying my loved ones the same type of thing every year. Bath stuff for mum, sweets for my brother, makeup for my sister and socks for my dad. But this year I wanted to shake things up and buy gifts that they will actually love! Which is why I was so pumped when UncommonGoods.com reached out to me and asked me to work with them! Their website is jam pack full of unique gifts for every person in your life from your significant other to your Grandma. And there is a gift for every occasion, whether you want a sentimental gift, a joke present, or something that is just really personal and thoughtful. UncommonGoods has you covered and they ship internationally.
UncommonGoods is a company that has worked tirelessly over the last few years to create a business that, not only supplies great products but also works sustainably with the planet and minimises its impact on the environment. They work with their artists to use recyclable or sustainable materials wherever possible and they use environmentally friendlier packaging to ship their products. Plus! They offer their customers the opportunity to choose an organization or charity which they then donate $1 from every order. So not only are you purchasing a snazzy gift for your loved one, you're also spreading the love to others.
But, I expect you're wondering what type of things they actually sell! So here is my Christmas gift guide with UnCommonGoods.com.
UnCommonGoods has loads of different gifts which are extremely unique and can be personalised to say I love you in the most thoughtful of ways. My personal favourite is the 'What I love about….' books. These are little notebooks of 112 pages and are filled with little prompts that you can fill in, such as 'I love it when you give me advice about….' They sell different designs, with Mom, Dad, Sister etc on the front. I think this is a really cute idea and is something you can take time filling in and really show that you care.
My next favourite from UnCommonGoods is something I will be purchasing for my brother. If I had a dollar for every time this kid loses his keys I would be able to buy the car! Alas, this is not the case. But what I can get him is a Bluetooth Tracking Tag for his keys. This stylish looking keyring links to an app on your iPhone (sorry android lovers) so that if you lose your keys your phone can find them. AND! It works the other way too, if you've lost your phone, you can use your keys to find it! How cool is that! This is the perfect gift for anyone, but if you're like me and find the teens in your life especially hard to buy for, UncommonGoods has an array of different products like this which make the perfect gifts for teenagers!
I personally don't have kids, but the number of my friends who do seems to be growing by the day! This means I've suddenly got to think about finding gifts for children. But a problem I've found is that I have no idea what these kids have already got? I see a nice train set in ToysRus…does Timmy already have a train set? What about a Barbie for Chloe, which Barbie? Holy Moly, why are there so many Barbies! I never realised how stressful present buying was for children. Thankfully, with the unique products available on UncommonGoods there is a pretty high chance you'll be gifting them something that's special and will make you the best Auntie ever. My personal favourite has to be the personalisable bedtime stories. I would have loved to have had a book like this growing up, where the main character has my name. Suddenly that story is not just a bedtime story, it's their bedtime story which makes it even more special. There are so many stories to choose from, all of which are beautifully illustrated. To see for yourself check out their collection of gifts for kids.
Aside from sentimental gifts, my other favourite present to give is a funny one, a gift that plays on an inside joke between the two of you. For example, my cousin has a beard, its a very small beard but he is very proud of it. I think it looks awful (its ok, he knows this). So for Christmas, I brought him a beard grooming set with a note saying 'Beardcuz You're Worth It'. This backfired on me, as he actually uses the products, but at least his beard is now neatly groomed. But anyway! When it comes to inside jokes, UncommonGood seems to be in on it too, as their range of funny gifts is incredible. There is literally something for everyone, from extravagant gifts to small funny stocking stuffers. The Bathroom Guest Book is one of my favourite finds. This little book is a funny item to keep in your bathroom to make your guests smile when they use the facilities.
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So this was my unique Christmas gift guide! I hope I've inspired you or given you some ideas of what to get your loved ones this Christmas!
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It's a funny thing about expectations. They form so quickly, and often just as quickly, get shattered. Or else you're forced to re-evaluate, and scale down those expectations to something more realistic. And you have to do it all in lightning speed so that, before the actual experience is over, you've salvaged some sort of enjoyment.But then every once in a while, on that rarest of occasions, the opposite happens. You pick up a newspaper, say, and read a glowing review of a young author's first collection of short stories. Then you notice that he's giving a reading in your very town four days later. The day comes and, well, you slink out of work early to get to the reading on time. Those expectations are beginning.You're there at the reading and it goes off smoothly. The story he reads is engaging. Already you're thinking "could they all be this good?". Then during the break you chat with him and guess what – he's gracious and affable – a truly likeable guy. Completely unspoiled.You take your signed book home. Part of your brain is already working double-time to counteract the hype. At the first hint of trouble, it's ready to lower those expectations. Part of your brain is buoyed by the reading and the chat. The rest of your brain is simply confused and, well, a little bit annoyed that you haven't cracked the spine yet.So you do. And as you enter the world of Thai-American author Rattawut Lapcharoensap, as he leads you deftly through the pages of Sightseeing, you begin to realize something. You begin to realize that he's done it. He's given you seven small perfect stories. Each one as transfixing as the last. And yet each one remarkably different from the last. And still yet somehow each one the product of the same, distinctive voice. You realize that he's done it."Farangs" is a story of a half-Thai, half-American teen, working with his mother at a hotel in Thailand, and his courtship of an American tourist. You meet tourists who (as tourists tend to do) behave at their worst, their basest. There's a simmering hostility suggested between the locals and the farangs, and the first-person narration of this story (of all the stories) throws you right in the thick of it. There is an immediacy to the narrative. Very quickly you become part of the characters' day-to-day lives."At The Cafe Lovely", where you meet a Bangkok family and again you're plunged into their domestic life, in the author's powerful and poignant prose you can see, even smell, the place. Kitchens become alive. (Your craving for Thai food will be insatiable while you're reading these stories). You also see youthful rituals played out. And you'll find that the unfamiliar is suddenly not all that unfamiliar."Draft Day" places you in those tense hours leading up to the lottery to decide which young Thai youths will be sent into the army and which ones will be spared. The narrator's family's wealth and status suggests a possible reprieve but his best friend is not as certain of his fate, a brother having already been damaged by his time in the service. And Draft Day turns into a family affair. Domesticity leaves the kitchen and transplants itself in the waiting room."Sightseeing", perhaps at once the most heartbreaking and the most exhilarating of all the stories, finds the narrator and his mother becoming farangs themselves as they travel to a remote part of Thailand."Priscilla the Cambodian" reveals some long-held preconceptions among Thai and Cambodian families, and how these feelings are more entrenched in the older generations than the young. This was the story you heard at the reading even though, five minutes before the end, you became a reader's worst nightmare when you began coughing and wheezing uncontrollably. You tried to contain it. You failed."Don't Let Me Die In This Place." A wheelchair-bound American grandfather's tale of life with his son and Thai daughter-in-law in Thailand, seeing his "mongrel" grandchildren for the first time. Trying to see himself in them. This isn't an exotic story. None of these are. The author places you in the center of their lives. Right into their normalness.And, finally, "Cockfighter," the novella which caps the collection. Again placing you within a drama full of dreams and economic desperation, honor and dignity. A tale of that blurry line between vengeance and justice. You witness, first hand, the arc of a family crisis, all told from the point of view of the daughter in the family.Seven distinct first-person voices. Seven tales of the familiar among the unfamiliar. Seven stories told without a hint of gimmick. Just acutely-observed, slyly powerful storytelling from a literary voice you'll want to hear more of. So then, expect whatever you want from Sightseeing. Rattawut Lapcharoensap will blow your expectations out of the water. Highly recommended.Read "Farangs" here.


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Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell says that if President Donald Trump decides to fire Attorney General Jeff Sessions, his replacement won't be a Senate Republican.
Some of Trump's allies have suggested he will replace Sessions, whom he has repeatedly criticized, after the midterm elections. Sen. Lindsey Graham has been the subject of speculation about the job, but Graham said this week he has no interest.
He cited the Republicans' thin, 51-49 Senate majority.
McConnell wouldn't say whether the Senate would insist that Sessions' replacement would protect special counsel Robert Mueller's Russia investigation.
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell says he's expecting a "relatively lively" lame-duck session of Congress after next month's midterm elections, including a possible partial government shutdown over funding for President Donald Trump's promised border wall.
House Speaker Paul Ryan has promised a "big fight" over the U.S.-Mexico border wall, and McConnell did not shy away from a partisan battle over wall spending.
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell says it's not his job to police President Donald Trump's Twitter habits or his divisive rhetoric at campaign rallies and elsewhere.
In an interview with The Associated Press, the Kentucky Republican cited the Trump administration's "extraordinary" success with the GOP-controlled Congress — including a growing economy, two new Supreme Court justices and congressional action to cut regulations and taxes.
McConnell said he "generally" declines reporters' requests for him to critique "on a daily basis" the president's broadsides of political opponents and the FBI, along with Trump's most incendiary comments about women, immigrants and other groups of Americans.
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell is warning Democrats to think carefully about "presidential harassment" if they win the majority of the House.
The Kentucky Republican told The Associated Press in an interview Wednesday that Democratic threats to investigate President Donald Trump's finances and businesses would "help the president get re-elected" in 2020.
McConnell told The Associated Press on Wednesday the gender gap "clearly is wider than it used to be." But he says the controversy over Kavanaugh could end up helping Republicans by generating more enthusiasm among GOP voters who feel he was mistreated.
McConnell says he thinks the Kavanaugh fight contributed to Republican voters "getting more interested" in the midterm elections.
Beside the gender gap, McConnell says Republicans "also had an enthusiasm gap." He says "the controversy ironically produced an adrenaline shot" among Republicans.
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell has declined to blame Democratic Sen. Dianne Feinstein (FYN'-styn) for the initial public disclosure of a woman's sexual assault accusation against Judge Brett Kavanaugh before he was confirmed to the Supreme Court.
California college professor Christine Blasey (BLAH'-zee) Ford says Kavanaugh assaulted her when they were teenagers, which Kavanaugh denies.
Ford had asked for confidentiality in a letter to Feinstein. Other Republican senators and President Donald Trump have suggested Feinstein's office is responsible for leaking Ford's story.
But McConnell emphasized Wednesday in an interview with The Associated Press he hasn't criticized Feinstein's handling of the matter. Still, the Kentucky Republican says the disclosure was "clearly an example of others using" Ford.
Feinstein has denied leaking Ford's letter.
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell says "nobody's going to beat" Republican Sen. Lisa Murkowski of Alaska despite her opposition to Brett Kavanaugh's Supreme Court nomination.
President Donald Trump has said Alaskans "will never forgive" Murkowski and that she'll "never recover" politically.
McConnell told The Associated Press in an interview Wednesday that "She's certainly going to recover." He pointed out that Murkowski won election as a write-in vote in 2010. "She's about as strong as you can possibly be in Alaska. Nobody's going to beat her," he said.
Murkowski bucked her party and voted against advancing Kavanaugh's nomination. She voted "present" in the actual confirmation vote.


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Q: gcc differences between -O3 vs -Ofast optimizations I was just reading through the gcc manual to find out the difference between -O3 and -Ofast.
For -O3

-O3
Optimize yet more. -O3 turns on all optimizations specified by -O2 and also turns on the following optimization flags:

-fgcse-after-reload
-fipa-cp-clone
-floop-interchange
-floop-unroll-and-jam
-fpeel-loops
-fpredictive-commoning
-fsplit-paths
-ftree-loop-distribute-patterns
-ftree-loop-distribution
-ftree-loop-vectorize
-ftree-partial-pre
-ftree-slp-vectorize
-funswitch-loops
-fvect-cost-model
-fversion-loops-for-strides

While of -Ofast

-Ofast
Disregard strict standards compliance. -Ofast enables all -O3 optimizations. It also enables optimizations that are not valid for
all standard-compliant programs. It turns on -ffast-math,
-fallow-store-data-races and the Fortran-specific -fstack-arrays, unless -fmax-stack-var-size is specified, and -fno-protect-parens

Therefore I was wondering, if maybe -Ofast is for some reason less safe than -O3, and therefore I should stick to -O3 most of the times then.
Can you clarify the "practical difference" when using them? And if -Ofast is actually safe?

A: Ofast enables optimizations which violate requirements of C standard for floating-point semantics. In particular under -Ofast (aka -ffast-math) it'll freely reorder float computations (which is prohibited by default because in general a + (b + c) != (a + b) + c != a + (c + b) for floats).
Whether -Ofast is safe in particular case depends on the algorithm but usually most non-scientific applications work fine with it. For example most game engines are built with -ffast-math.


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Hydrogen's dawn brings huge opportunities
John Hirjee & Jessica Paterson
Executive Director REI & Institutional Graduate, ANZ
The commercialisation of hydrogen, or H2, gives Australia a unique opportunity to develop a valuable export commodity to help in the global push toward net zero carbon.
The fuel has many potential applications across broad sectors of the economy due to its unique properties. For business, the hydrogen opportunity is immense.
"Australia's abundant wind and solar energy resources, as well as land mass, put the country in pole position to play a key role in developing a hydrogen export market to key customers in Asia."
As ANZ outlines in its new report, "The ANZ Hydrogen Handbook – AH2", hydrogen emits no carbon emissions when burned - a standout feature compared with other liquid and gaseous fuels. At a global level, replacing fossil fuel use with carbon-free hydrogen will significantly reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
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Australia's abundant wind and solar energy resources, as well as land mass, put the country in pole position to play a key role in developing a hydrogen export market to key customers in Asia.
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The switch to hydrogen would save up to 68 million tonnes of fuel and almost 200 million tonnes of carbon emissions, significantly reducing energy consumption and greenhouse gas emissions within the transport sector.
Hydrogen also can be used in fuel cells to efficiently generate electricity for an electric vehicle or can be converted into a denser form, such as ammonia, methanol and synthetic fuel, for use in ICEs.
Green hydrogen-based steel manufacturing is another potential alternative to traditional coal-fired blast furnace/basic oxygen furnaces. Steelmaking using coal accounts for around 8 per cent of global greenhouse gas emissions.
The main ways hydrogen can reduce the carbon intensity of steel are by lowering the use of metallurgical coal by replacing it with green hydrogen and the use of renewable energy to power the steelmaking process.
Europe is examining the potential for green steel however thin margins in the steel industry make the decision to adopt green steel a difficult economic one.
While cost-competitive green hydrogen is some years away, global interest is increasing significantly and ANZ estimates green hydrogen could become commercial within the decade.
It is currently very expensive to safely produce, store and transport green hydrogen, particularly when compared with other alternative fuel sources. Electrolysis - the main method of renewable hydrogen production at scale – adds considerable expense.
Hydrogen is also highly flammable and volatile. It has a lower density than gasoline and must be stored at cooler temperatures to maintain its liquid form and effectiveness as a fuel source. The liquefaction and transportation of hydrogen under high pressure also requires significant and expensive storage infrastructure.
However, it remains unclear if renewable power prices will fall fast enough in the near term to produce competitive green hydrogen before 2025.
John Hirjee is Executive Director Resources, Energy and Infrastructure and Jessica Paterson is Graduate at ANZ Institutional
Click here to download The ANZ Hydrogen Handbook – AH2
This article was originally published on ANZ's Institutional Insights website
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Stewart Weldon was arrested after he fled during a traffic stop. A woman in his car told police he had kidnapped and beaten her.
The three dead people found at the home of a kidnapping suspect and former New Jersey resident were women, and two of them had been reported missing, authorities said on Monday.
The women whose bodies were found at Stewart Weldon's Springfield home were identified by Hampden District Attorney Anthony Gulluni as Ernestine Ryans, 47, and America Lyden, 34, both of Springfield, and Kayla Escalante, 27, of Ludlow, a neighboring town.
Records found Weldon used to live in Montclair and East Orange and that he had a criminal record. Records also show Weldon plead guilty to weapons charges in Essex County and sentenced to three years probation and to a robbery charge in Bergen County. He was sentenced to 367 days in jail for the robbery charge.
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Investigators remained at the home, which belongs to Weldon's mother, on Monday. No one has been charged in connection with the discovery of the bodies.
The investigation at Weldon's home began days after he was arrested for fleeing a traffic stop in his car. A woman in the car said she was being held against her will by Weldon, who had sexually assaulted and beaten her.
Weldon did not speak at Monday's arraignment but stood expressionless and nodded slightly when a not guilty plea was entered on his behalf. Bail was set at $1 million on the new charges.
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Q: How do friend classes interact with each other I have two simple class that I made just to understand how friend class works. I am confused as to why this doesn't compile and also would the Linear class have access to the struct inside Queues class?
Linear.h
template<typename k, typename v >
 class Linear
 {
    public:
    //Can I create a instance of Queues here if the code did compile?

    private:
  };

Linear.cpp
#include "Linear.h"

Queues.h
 #include "Linear.h"

 template<typename k, typename v >
 class Linear;

  template<typename x>
  class Queues
  {
    public:

    private:
        struct Nodes{
            int n;
        };
    //Does this mean I am giving Linear class access to all of my Queues class variable or    is it the opposite ?
    friend class Linear<k,v>;
    };

Queues.cpp
  #include"Queues.h"

My errors are
Queues.h:15: error: `k' was not declared in this scope
Queues.h:15: error: `v' was not declared in this scope
Queues.h:15: error: template argument 1 is invalid
Queues.h:15: error: template argument 2 is invalid
Queues.h:15: error: friend declaration does not name a class or function

A: To answer your initial question:
the friend keyword inside a class let the friend function or class access otherwise private field of the class where the friend constraint is declared.
See this page for a thorough explanation of this language feature.
Regarding the compilation errors in your code:
In this line:
friend class Linear<k,v>;

ask yourself, what is k, where is it defined? Same for v.
Basically, a template is not a class, it's a syntactic construct letting you define a "class of class", meaning that for the template:
template <typename T>
class C { /* ... */ };

you don't have yet a class, but something that will let you define class if you provide it a proper typename. Within the template the typename T is defined, and can be used in place as if it were a real type.
In the following code snippets:
template <typename U>
class C2 {
   C<U> x;
   /* ... */
};

you define another template, which when instantiated with a given typename will contain an instance of the template C with the same typename. The typename U in the line C<U> x; of the code above, is defined by the including template. However, in your code, k and v don't have such a definition, either in the template where they are being used, or at the top level.
In the same spirit, the following template:
template <typename U>
class C2 {
   friend class C<U>;
   /* ... */
};

when instantiated, will have the instance of the class template C (again with the same parameter U) as a friend. As far as I know, It is not possible to have class template instances be friend with a given class, for all possible parameters combinations (The C++ language doesn't support existential types yet).
You could, for instance, write something like:
template<typename x>
class Queues
{
  public:

  private:
     struct Nodes{
        int x;
     };

  friend class Linear<x,x>;
};

to restrict the friendliness of Linear to only the instance of that template with x and x, or something like this:
template<typename x,typename k, typename v>
class Queues
{
  public:

  private:
     struct Nodes{
        int x;
     };

  friend class Linear<k,v>;
};

If you want to allow k and v to be defined ad lib.

A: Your problem is with templates not with friend classes in that code.
Friend just means that restrictions against access to private and protected are removed for that class.  As if the word private in the class was public, basically.
Do try to submit code with one problem and which you understand all but one thing.


Scotland is a country with such varied landscapes that you might expect public transport to be a rarity, but you couldn't be more wrong. Scotland's bus network is extensive and served by a multitude of providers, meaning getting from the Kingdom of Fife to Argyll is is not only possible, but relatively easy.
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Welcome to our Big Bears room which is for children from around three years to five years old.
We ensure that all children's needs are catered for and each activity including all areas are adapted to focus on the children's interests, ensuring all children have the enabling environment to play and learn confidently.
There is a warm cosy room where children can relax and read stories with their peers, which also provides an area for children to sleep throughout the day inline with their individual care plan.
At Abacus Nursery we encourage all of our wonderful children to gain life skills and independence to ensure they are ready to take their next big steps as they grow. We understand the vital importance of School Readiness in all children, to help embed this we have registration time twice per day, line up at the 'Red Squirrel', encourage independence throughout the bathroom routines, self-service at meal and snack times to name but a few.


Have you ever fancied running your own country – Prime Minister to President we have them all. Maybe you would focus on Foreign affairs, Science or your countries' military? The world is a dangerous place and we need you to steer your country through the tough times – famine in Africa, missing nuclear materials in Russia and a new deadly Swine Flu outbreak in Australia.
The year is 2020 and we are bumbling along pretty much as we always have, what do we have to look forward to? Well there's the Olympics later in the year…but now would probably be a good time to mention the aliens.
They exist – the powers that be have known about them for years but have been keeping the world's biggest secret. They are visiting more and more, no one is quite certain why, perhaps you should find out more or maybe you can ignore it, your economy isn't too well after all.
Watch the Skies is a megagame – lots of people organised into various teams all with competing ideas and ideals…it's a bit LARP / RPG / Wargame / Free Form Theatre and so much more.


THERE are now two village chiefs in Barangay Mambaling in Cebu City.
This after village chief and lawyer Gines Abellana refused to vacate his post despite a 24-month suspension order issued against him by the Cebu City Council on Wednesday, Jan. 9.
As Abellana contemplates his legal options, his replacement, Barangay Mambaling Councilor Anne Marie Vestil Palomo, already took her oath of office before Cebu City Mayor Tomas Osmeña on Thursday, Jan. 10.
The Cebu City Council ordered Abellana's suspension for not releasing the honorarium of Palomo and three other barangay councilors from July to December last year.
Tensions almost escalated at the barangay hall in Mambaling on Friday, Jan. 11, after Palomo insisted that Abellana should reopen the village treasurer's office after padlocking it for eight days.
In an interview, Abellana said he refused to vacate his post until the Department of the Interior and Local Government (DILG) issues a suspension order against him.
"I won't step down. Even the DILG said I shouldn't step down. She (Palomo) can't do anything about it. She will have to wait for the DILG's decision," Abellana said in Cebuano.
Abellana said even if Palomo took her oath as acting village chief, it does not qualify her for the post.
"Her (Palomo) taking oath as barangay captain does not even qualify her to act as barangay captain. The decision of the City Council to suspend me should be served by the DILG. She (Palomo) should have sought that but she didn't so the suspension against me shouldn't take effect," Abellana added.
Palomo, in a separate interview, said her assumption as acting village chief was a consequence of the suspension order against Abellana.
She denied Abellana's claim that she was power hungry and was after his post.
"I think that statement is misplaced. He (Abellana) committed a wrongdoing and abused his authority by withholding our honoraria. It is only a natural remedy and a right for us to question his action through a disciplinary case. Where is the hunger for power there?" Palomo added.
Separately, DILG Cebu City acting chief Emma Joyevelyn Calvo said they will forward Abellana's case to their legal office to determine if there is anything illegal in the City Council's order to suspend him.
Calvo admitted that they have yet to receive a copy of the suspension order issued by the City Council against Abellana.
She also clarified that it will not be up to their office to implement the suspension order.
"If the suspension order was issued by the City Council, they should implement it and they will only provide us with a copy," Calvo said.
The City or Municipal Council has direct jurisdiction in disciplining barangay officials who commit administrative violations, Calvo added.


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Gudrun Burwitz
Gudrun Margarete Elfriede Emma Anna Burwitz
Gudrun Himmler with her mother at the Nuremberg trials, 1945.
Gudrun Himmler
(1929-08-08) 8 August 1929
Püppi
daughter of Nazi Reichsführer-SS Heinrich Himmler
Wulf Dieter Burwitz
Parent(s)
Heinrich Himmler (father)
Margarete Siegroth (mother)
Gebhard Ludwig Himmler (uncle)
Ernst Hermann Himmler (uncle)
Gudrun Margarete Elfriede Emma Anna Burwitz (born Himmler, 8 August 1929) is the daughter of Heinrich Himmler, Reichsführer-SS, leading member of the Nazi Party (NSDAP), and chief architect of the Final Solution.[1] After the allied victory, she was arrested and made to testify at the Nuremberg trials. Having never renounced Nazi ideology, she has consistently fought to defend her father's reputation, and has become closely involved in Neo-Nazi groups that give support to ex-members of the SS. She married Wulf Dieter Burwitz, an official of the far-right NPD.
Relationship with her father
Heinrich Himmler with his young daughter Gudrun, visiting a concentration camp. Immediately to the right of Himmler, looking at Gudrun, is Karl Wolff.[2]
Gudrun with her parents.
Gudrun Himmler is the daughter of Heinrich Himmler, Reichsführer-SS, Chief of Police and Security forces, and Reich Minister of the Interior in Nazi Germany. She was the only child of Himmler and his wife Margarete Siegroth, née Boden,[3] though her parents later adopted a son. (Himmler also had two children with his secretary, Hedwig Potthast.[4]) Gudrun was born in Munich and baptised a Protestant.
Heinrich Himmler adored his daughter and had her regularly flown to his offices in Berlin from Munich where she lived with her mother.[5] When she was at home he telephoned her most days and wrote to her every week. He continued to call her by her childhood nickname "Püppi" throughout his life.[6] She accompanied her father on some official duties.
She disputed that Heinrich Himmler, who died in British captivity on 23 May 1945, took his own life by breaking a concealed cyanide capsule, claiming that he was murdered.[5] After the Second World War she and her mother were arrested by the Americans and held in various camps in Italy, France and Germany. They were brought to Nuremberg to testify at the trials, and were released in November 1946.[7] Gudrun later bitterly referred to these years as the most difficult of her life, and said that she and her mother were treated as though they had to atone for the sins of her father.[5]
She has never renounced the Nazi ideology and has repeatedly sought to justify the actions of her father, relative to the context of his time. People who know her say that Gudrun has created a "golden image" of her father.[8]
Nazi sympathies
She married the journalist and author Wulf Dieter Burwitz, who would become a party official in the Bavarian section of the far-right NPD,[3] and had two children. She is affiliated with Stille Hilfe, an organization formed to aid former SS members, which assisted Klaus Barbie of the Lyon Gestapo and Martin Sommer, otherwise known as the "Hangman of Buchenwald", and "continues to support a Protestant old people's home in Pullach, near Munich".[9]
For decades Gudrun Burwitz has been a prominent public figure in Stille Hilfe. At various meetings, for instance the annual Ulrichsberg gathering in Austria, she receives the status of both a star and an authority. Oliver Schröm, author of a book about Stille Hilfe, has described her as a "flamboyant Nazi princess" ("schillernde Nazi-Prinzessin").[10]
Gudrun Burwitz has intensified the support for alleged Nazi war criminals in recent years.[8]
↑ Browning, Christopher R. (2004). The Origins of the Final Solution: The Evolution of Nazi Jewish Policy, September 1939 – March 1942. Comprehensive History of the Holocaust. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press. pp. 36–110. ISBN 0-8032-1327-1.
↑ Longerich 2012, p. 467.
1 2 Kelerhoff, Sven Felix; Meyer, Simone; Schuster, Jacques; Schuster, Ulrich (2014-02-01). "Himmlers Nachwuchs". Welt Online (in German). Retrieved 2015-04-30.
↑ Andersen 2007, p. 165.
1 2 3 Helm, Siegfried (1998). "Himmlers Tochter hilft den alten Gefährten". Berliner Morgenpost (in German). Retrieved 5 October 2008.
↑ Katrin Himmler, The Himmler Brothers, Pan Macmillan, 2012, p.275.
1 2 Sanai, Darius (1999). "The sins of my father". The Independent (London). Retrieved 5 October 2008.
↑ Pike 2000, p. 380.
↑ Fabian Leber: Gudrun Burwitz und die "Stille Hilfe": Die schillernde Nazi-Prinzessin; in: Der Tagesspiegel, 10 June 2001 (In German)
Andersen, Dan H. (2007). Nazimyter—blodreligion og dødskult i Det Tredje Rige (in Danish). Aschehoug. ISBN 978-87-11-11847-4.
Lebert, Norbert, and Stephan. Denn Du trägst meinen Namen: das schwere Erbe der prominenten Nazi-Kinder. Goldmann Verlag 2002, ISBN 3-442-15188-0 (in German)
Lebert, Norbert, and Stephan. My Father's Keeper: Children of Nazi Leadership: An Intimate History of Damage and Denial, translated by Julian Evans. New York: Little, Brown, 2001. ISBN 0-316-51929-4
Longerich, Peter (2012). Heinrich Himmler: A Life. Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-959232-6.
Pike, David Wingeate (2000). Spaniards in the Holocaust: Mauthausen, the Horror on the Danube. London: Routledge.
Schröm, Oliver and Andrea Röpke. Stille Hilfe für braune Kameraden. Christoph Links Verlag, Berlin 2001, ISBN 3-86153-231-X (in German)
Reichsführer-SS
Chief of German Police
Minister of the Interior
Himmler's service record
Ideology of the SS
Persönlicher Stab Reichsführer-SS ("Personal Staff of the Reichsführer-SS")
Freundeskreis Reichsführer-SS ("Circle of Friends of the Reichsführer-SS")
Adolf Hitler (Führer und Reichskanzler and Oberste Führer der Schutzstaffel)
Reinhard Heydrich (Chief of the RSHA)
Ernst Kaltenbrunner (successor as Chief of the RSHA)
Karl Wolff (Chief of Personal Staff)
Hedwig Potthast (secretary)
Rudolf Brandt (Personal Administrative Officer to RFSS)
Hermann Gauch (adjutant)
Werner Grothmann (aide-de-camp)
Heinz Macher (second personal assistant)
Walter Schellenberg (personal aide)
Karl Maria Wiligut (occultist)
Schutzstaffel
Lebensborn
Reich Central Office for the Combating of Homosexuality and Abortion
Responsibility for
Porajmos
Crimes against Poles
Crimes against Soviet POWs
Persecution of Slavs in Eastern Europe
Persecution of homosexuals
Action T4
Persecution of Serbs
Suppression of Freemasonry
Persecution of Jehovah's Witnesses
Persecution of black people
Volksliste
Operation Reinhard
Hegewald
Posen speeches
Himmler-Kersten Agreement
Margarete Himmler (wife)
Gudrun Burwitz (daughter)
Hedwig Potthast (mistress)
Helge (son by Hedwig Potthast)
Nanette-Dorothea (daughter by Hedwig Potthast)
Gebhard (father)
Anna (mother)
Gebhard Ludwig (older brother)
Ernst (younger brother)
Katrin Himmler (great-niece)
Heinz Kokott (brother-in-law)
Richard Wendler (brother-in-law)
Töhle (family dog)
Operation Himmler
Army Group Oberrhein
Army Group Vistula
Operation Nordwind
Failed assassins
Philipp von Boeselager
Václav Morávek
Claus von Stauffenberg
Erhard Heiden (predecessor as Reichsführer-SS)
Karl Hanke (successor as Reichsführer-SS)
Falk Zipperer (closest friend)
Karl Gebhardt (personal physician)
Felix Kersten (personal masseur)
Hugo Blaschke (dentist)
Sidney Excell (man who arrested Himmler)


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SMACS J0723.3-7327 est un amas de galaxies dont le redshift est 0,390 ce qui le situe à une distance comobile de 5,12 milliards d'années-lumière, dans la constellation australe du Poisson volant (α/δ = , ).

Il a été observé par le télescope spatial Hubble dans le cadre de l'étude Southern MAssive Cluster Survey (SMACS),  ainsi que par Planck et Chandra. Avec l'observation du télescope Hubble, on a détecté une supernova. Cependant, on ne sait pas encore s'il s'agit d'une supernova dans l'amas ou d'un effet de lentille gravitationnelle.

Sa renommée médiatique a considérablement augmenté le 12 juillet 2022, lors de la conférence de presse de la NASA sur les premiers résultats du télescope spatial James Webb. L'amas était en effet la première image de qualité scientifique dévoilée, photographiée à l'aide de l'instrument NIRCam (caméra proche infrarouge) avec un temps de pose de 12 heures et 30 minutes en utilisant six filtres.

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 Webb de la NASA fournit l'image infrarouge la plus profonde de l'univers à ce jour NASA Press release

Exploration de l'espace en 2022
Constellation du Poisson volant
Amas de galaxies
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Q: find a vector field in $\mathbb{R^3}$ with specific properties Let $α = dz - ydx \in Ω^1 (\mathbb{R}^3)$
Find a vector field Z  in $\mathbb{R^3}$ such that $α(Z) = 1$ and $dα(Z,.) = 0$
What I did:
I computed $d\alpha = dx \wedge dy $.
Then let $Z=a\partial_x + b\partial_y +c\partial_z $ be a vector field in $\mathbb{R}^3$
We have  $α(Z) = 1 \Rightarrow c\partial_z - ya\partial_x = 1 $ (I)
and $dα(Z,.) = 0 \Rightarrow dx \wedge dy (a\partial_x + b\partial_y +c\partial_z\ ,\ .)$.
but we have $ dx \wedge dy (a\partial_x) =  dx(a \partial_x)dy(.) -dx(.)dy(a \partial_x) = ady(.)$
and $ dx \wedge dy (b\partial_y) =  dx(b \partial_y)dy(.) -dx(.)dy(b \partial_y) = -bdx(.)$
and  $ dx \wedge dy (b\partial_y) =  0$
which means finally
$ ady(.) = bdx(.) $ (II)
Could we find a,b and c from the two results (I) and (II)?
Thank you!

A: As noted in the comment by @Dog_69 , the first equation should read as $c-ya=1$. Now you derived (II) correctly (although in a slightly complicated way), but since $dx$ and $dy$ are linearly independent in each point, (II) implies $a=b=0$, so (I) reduces to $c=1$. So you get the solution $Z=\partial_z$ which is readily seen to be correct.


Book 1 in the Wild series.
Tess was hopelessly in love with a doctor, who happened to be her father's boss. But he didn't even realise that she existed ... or did he? Each time something unfortunate happened it was Jacob Hartley who was there to take care of her. obooko.
Tess concentrated on the music, so much so that she didn't hear the screen door open and her father's boss step in and pause while listening. She was always in a world of her own when she played the violin.
Ever since she was old enough to walk she'd had one in her hands. Her mother was a member of the New York Philharmonic Orchestra after she attended Julliard. But she gave it all up when she married her father. Tess smiled thinking of her mother and her gentleness. -No regrets she told Tess one day when she asked her why she did that -I love your father more than my career and I would be happy if he only picked peas for the rest of his life. She'd meant it too, thought Tess remembering the look of tenderness in her mother's beautiful dark brown eyes.
Tess never made it out of Sulphur Springs Montana after she graduated high school. Her mother died three years ago from breast cancer six months prior to her graduation, and she couldn't bring herself to leave her father who was clearly distraught. So she spent her time helping him out. Not that she really wanted to leave. She loved the country, her small town and the people with a passion. Then there was that other reason, who was standing behind her without her knowledge with his attention completely riveted on her. If she were to turn around she would see that his handsome expression didn't give anything away, but his intelligent dark eyes told a different story.
The music flowed from her violin as she let her thoughts and emotions come through in the music. When she paused to turn the sheet she suddenly felt like she wasn't alone and turned to see Jacob standing in the doorway just staring at her. He cast an awesome image with his large frame filling the entrance and the sunlight at his back creating a glowing outline around him.Because of that she really couldn't see his face. However, just his presence alone affected her. Suddenly her throat seemed to close up and she swallowed thickly.
It was hard to admit years ago before he left Sulphur Springs to go to med school that she was in love with him. Of course she was just a child barely coming into womanhood and it was just a silly crush, but when he'd come home during the summer over those following seven years, it grew into something more. Now she was twenty-one and there was no doubt in her mind how she felt. The things that happened to her body when he was around have never happened in the presence of another man and she had absolutely no control over them. The air always seemed thicker when he walked in a room, her heart would start pounding faster and she had difficulty catching her breath, like now.
She watched him shift from one foot to another making him seem a little uncomfortable which surprised her, because the man was usually so self assured that could be comfortable at a hanging. Obviously the intimacy of her playing unsettled him a little and he must've felt like he was intruding. He shouldn't. He owned the house her father and her lived in and they sort of had an unspoken rule about not knocking.
As it was, her father worked as a veterinarian for Jacob, Lance and Colton Hartley who own the Lansdowne Ranch, a world famous producer of thoroughbred racehorses. Although Jacob, the oldest brother was the town physician, he still was the Patriarch of the Hartley boys because their father moved back to Texas after the death of his wife. All of them were raw, brawny and masculine, but Jacob was different. He had this air about him that made him stand out, at least to her. He seemed to have this current around him that jolted her whenever he settled those intelligent light brown eyes on her. He didn't even have to speak for her to be affected, yet when he did, she could hardly think on her own. Even standing there in her house wearing jeans, a blue chambray shirt and a weathered tan Stetson, he was a force to be reckoned with. So much for forgetting to think, she could barely remember to breathe. She thought he looked equally as handsome in his three piece suits when he went to work in his clinic in town. She actually worked for him one summer as a clerk, but being so close to him then affected her too much and it was a struggle to concentrate on the work. Not only that, the man was a magnet for women, who would parade in and out of there all dolled up pretending to have some ailment so they could try and win him. It literally drove her crazy how brazen women could be. She would never go so far to gain his attention. She had more pride than that. Yet, was it in her benefit to not say anything and pine for him at a distance? Probably not.


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Home CORVIAS AND STORMWATER AUTHORITY OF CHESTER SHOWCASE PROGRESS OF GREEN INFRASTRUCTURE AT VETERANS MEMORIAL PARK
Corvias, in partnership with the Stormwater Authority of Chester (SAC), Pa., celebrated new green infrastructure at a ribbon cutting for the Veteran's Memorial Park Green Stormwater Infrastructure Project. Attendees included the Honorable Thaddeus Kirkland, Mayor of Chester, various members of the Chester City Council and functional departments, and representatives from the Delaware Valley Regional Planning Commission and the Shade Tree Commission.
Scheduled for completion in July, the Veterans Memorial Park project will capture and manage stormwater runoff from roughly 1.56 acres of impervious surfaces associated with the local street, parking areas and walking paths.
"A few years ago, no one thought about stormwater and how you manage it," said Thaddeus Kirkland, Mayor of Chester. "We simply watched our communities deteriorated and damaged by stormwater. I'm proud to say the City of Chester is one of the first to step up to the plate to not only manage stormwater, but study it to make sure there is a future for Chester and our young people."
In addition to Mayor Kirkland, remarks were made by Chester City Councilwoman (and SAC Vice Chair) Portia West, SAC Executive Manager Dr. Horace Strand and Corvias Senior Operations Manager Peter Littleton.
"The park serves a vital function from environmental and community perspectives," said Littleton. "Proper management of stormwater runoff is one of the most effective and cost-efficient ways municipalities can fight water pollution. The City of Chester is a leader in stormwater management and Corvias is proud to partner with the city to both keep the water clean and to contribute to the revitalization of the city through the creation of local job and contracting opportunities."
As part of the project, three bioretention basins will be added to the park to help slow and treat stormwater runoff. Trees and planting areas will also be added along the walking path and grass. The plantings will beautify the area while helping to naturally manage stormwater runoff. The total area of the new park is 22 acres and is located at 2401 West 9th Street.
The Stormwater Authority of Chester and Corvias have partnered on this Community Based Public-Private Partnership (CBP3) to implement an integrated water quality program with an initial investment of $50 million of green stormwater infrastructure (GSI) with a 30‐year management term.
Kelly Douglas, Corvias
kelly.douglas@corvias.com
Corvias, a partner to the U.S. military responsible for construction and management of housing for active duty service members, held an Adopt-a-Pet event for residents at Eielson Air Force Base raising about $700 in donations for local North Pole animal shelter, Loving Companions Animal Rescue, Inc (LCAR). The community event took place on Saturday, April 27 and was attended by almost 100 residents and military families. For a small donation, residents could adopt a stuffed animal, the proceeds of which were donated to LCAR. Once a resident selected their stuffed animal to adopt, they received a customized adoption certificate and took their new "pet" home. "Generously giving back to the communities where we live and work is one of our Core Principles," said Kim Zimmerman, operations director at Corvias. "Organizing events like Adopt-A-Pet at Eielson gave us an opportunity to engage with our residents while giving back to an organization that does so much good." Loving Companions, located in North Pole, AK 20 miles north of the Eielson AFB, is a non-profit shelter and sanctuary created to save and care for unwanted, abandoned animals in the State of Alaska. All staff of the shelter are volunteers who receive no pay, work many hours to help the community and promote a better life for animals and offer an alternative to killing pets. "Animals are family and Corvias communities are pet friendly," said Zimmerman. "We are so thankful to our residents and staff who participated in Adopt-A-Pet and helped make our donation to Loving Companions possible." The event was very well received by both attendees and staff. Corvias is planning to hold another day of adoption later in the year. About Corvias As a privately-owned company headquartered in East Greenwich, RI, Corvias partners with higher education and government institutions nationwide to solve their most essential systemic problems and create long-term, sustainable value through our unique approach to partnership. Corvias pursues the kinds of partnerships that materially and sustainably improve the quality of life for the people who call our communities home, purposefully choosing to partner with organizations who share our values and whose mission is to serve as the foundational blocks, or pillars, of our nation. To learn more, please visit: www.corvias.com


ROS - This is a set of tools for recording from and playing back ROS message without relying on the ROS client library.
Fixed the same way as the tf2 fix (with a slightly cleaner regex this time). Thanks for the report.
in the file: bz2_stream.cpp. I think the build needs to get bumped up so that the corresponding updated logging functions are used.
it seems like this is a ROS bug, with a possible workaround described here: https://github.com/ros-gbp/geometry2-release/issues/2 after all instances of logWarn, logError, logInfo have been renamed to CONSOLE_BRIDGE_logWarn and so on.


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Darling mountain cabin located within walking distance of the Sunriver Village. Take a ride anywhere in Sunriver on one of the 3 adult bikes provided.
Downstairs on the main floor is a well stocked kitchen that opens to the living room with flat screen TV, cozy wood stove for those cool Sunriver nights, and a bedroom with 1 Queen bed. The oversized very private loft upstairs serves as the second bedroom with 1 Queen bed and a private bathroom. A daybed with trundle sits at the landing of the stairs.
Need additional sleeping space? A Queen sofa bed is in the living room. Enjoy a soak under the stars in the private hot tub, located on the back deck. This home does back up to railroad tracks but the plus is it gives you a great view of the Deschutes National Forest with more privacy than most homes in Sunriver.
Family reunion? Great! Book this home along with our 1 Coyote, 2 Coyote, 19 Coyote, and 20 Coyote homes and have plenty of room for the whole family.
Super cute condo, nice outside picnic table with built in bench seat was a nice touch, woodstove rocks for the little place.
Great location, kitchen was fully equipped with pots and pans, cooking utensils, etc., and my kids LOVED the trains! We hope to return next year.