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Fragen über die Beispielsätze mit, und die Definition und Benutzung von "Circumstance"
Beispielsätze
Die Bedeutung von "Circumstance" in verschiedenen Ausdrücken und Sätzen
Q: Was bedeutet Given the circumstance(s)?
A: "Given the circumstances" means *consider the context*, consider the situation, consider what has happened.
Something has happened recently, resulting in our decision to ask you to resign.
—Example: We no longer have enough money to pay our employees = the circumstance
—Therefore we must ask you to resign.
Q: Was bedeutet extenuating circumstance?
A: Extenuating circumstance: refers to a cause of someone's inability to meet needs or expectations.
She didn't call him because her phone was stolen.
The stealing of the phone was the circumstance that was extenuated. It's used for "cause and effect" excuses. It is also a formal way of blaming an event for your shortcoming.
Q: Was bedeutet circumstance?
A: It means the state or condition of something, or facts about that thing. It is typically used in the plural.
- He wrecked his car.
- What were the circumstances?
- It was raining, and he was going too fast for road conditions.
- I no longer have a job as of today.
- Why? What are the circumstances?
- The company is losing money and decided to lay off 300 employees.
- I think she is always acting like an idiot.
- Well, don't judge her behavior without considering every circumstance.
Q: Was bedeutet "circumstance"?
A: a fact that affects a situation.
A: situation
Beispielsätze die "Circumstance" benutzen
Q: Bitte zeige mir Beispielsätze mit Under no circumstance.
A: Look at the "baby example". I'm telling you "not" to do sth. Don't leave the baby alone. So you must get the negative (don't) sense first. (To make sure you don't make a mistake and leave the baby alone.lol)
So if I say what I want (not leaving the baby) at the beginning of the sentence, I should use the negative form: you should not leave the baby alone
So I used negative here, after that comes a regular(positive): under "any" circumstances.
Again, if I want to use "circumstances" at the beginning, I must show you the negative implication. So I say: under "no" circumstances,
I said the negative implication already, so I continue with the regular(positive): should you leave a baby alone.
Q: Bitte zeige mir Beispielsätze mit under the circumstance.
A: Under these circumstances, I am not free to speak. "Under these circumstances" is a more common way of saying it. "I cannot come under these circumstances."
Q: Bitte zeige mir Beispielsätze mit "circumstance".
A: Under what circumstances would you be willing to rent me the apartment?
The circumstances of his death were very suspicious.
He met her in the dark alley, under highly unusual circumstances.
Don't call me when I'm on vacation unless the circumstances warrant it!
Under no circumstances should you push that red button!
Q: Bitte zeige mir Beispielsätze mit circumstance.
A: *I wish the circumstances were different
*given the circumstances. she could forgive him
*these are special circumstances
*you have to adapt to circumstances
A: Due to the circumstances we cannot hire you.
Do to the circumstances we are not having class today
Ähnliche Wörter wie "Circumstance" und ihre Unterschiede
Q: Was ist der Unterschied zwischen circumstance und situation ?
A: circumstance and situation mean the same thing. although both are considered formal words, circumstance is far more formal than situation. but both can be used no matter the circumstance/situation :)
Q: Was ist der Unterschied zwischen circumstance und environment ?
A: Use "circumstance" to refer to the current states of things around your or to the current situation you are in.
Example: No matter what circumstance you are in, I will support you.
"Environment" can refer to the physical surroundings, culture or even overall "feel" of things.
Example: I grew up in a very supportive environment.
A: @kk77acb "the situation he was in wasnt good."
"under certain circumstances he was in a bad situation."
does this help?
A: A situation is a problem or event that may be happening. A circumstance can be a clause or part of a deal that must be met in order for something else to happen.
Q: Was ist der Unterschied zwischen circumstance und situation und scenario ?
A: Mostly the same.
Circumstance refers to when the setting and the small details are important, like the behaviors on the scene of a crime.
Situation usually refers to a bad setting or detail that hints at a negative outcome.
Scenario usually refers to something made up or told like a story.
Übersetzungen von "Circumstance"
Q: Wie sagt man das auf Englisch (US)? encourage, circumstance, chaos, chouch. record please
A: encourage, circumstance, chaos, couch
Q: Wie sagt man das auf Englisch (US)? How do you say circumstance?
Q: Wie sagt man das auf Englisch (UK)? circumstance
A: вот так (:
Q: Wie sagt man das auf Englisch (US)? circumstance
Andere Fragen zu "Circumstance"
Q: On what circumstance do you use 'BE TO DO SOMETHING'? It seems to have a modal meaning. Like 'will', 'ought to', 'should', 'must' and so force. But how do you acknowledge which it exactly refers to?
A: It has a few modal meanings, but it is quite old-fashioned and very formal.
It's sometimes similar to "supposed to" or "meant to". It can be used to tell people what to do or to talk about something that has been arranged. For example:
"You are to stay here until I get back" ➡ "I am telling you to stay here until I get back"
"The party is to go ahead on Sunday" ➡ "The party has been arranged to go ahead [take place] on Sunday"
"She was to help him with whatever he needed help with" ➡ "She was meant to/supposed to help him with whatever he needed help with"
It can also be used to talk about what should be done, what would be ideal or a good idea, etc. For example:
"What am I to do with all this food?" ➡ "What should I do with all this food?"
"You are to be rewarded if you do well" ➡ "You should be rewarded if you do well (and we intend to reward you)"
We can use it to talk about things that are going to happen, for example:
"The girl who was to marry him" ➡ "The girl who would marry him in the future"
"She is to receive the grand prize" ➡ "She is going to receive the grand prize"
"What is to become of them?" ➡ "What is going to become of [happen to] them?"
Finally, you can use it to talk about what must happen in order for something else to happen, like a conditional. For example:
"If we are to win this competition, we have to work harder" ➡ "For us to win this competition, we have to work harder"
"They must be taller if they are to play basketball professionally" ➡ "They must be taller in order for them to be able to play basketball professionally"
Q: Whether you're succeed or failed, it depends on how quickly you'll adjust its circumstance.
A: How about: Whether you've succeed or failed, it depends on how quickly you'll adjust to the circumstance.
Q: The circumstance of religion in japan is different from any other countries. Generally, one country has national religion and the most of the citizens of the country belong to that religion. But japan do not have that kind of reglions at the moment. Instead you can see the fusion of religion in this country. There are many events regarding various religions, such as Hallowwin christmas barentain obon、oomisoka setubun juugoya sitigosan etc.
You can say that it looks like sukiyaki of religion. Many people pay thier first visit to both shrine and temple .one recent study showed that one in three people could not explain the difference between sintoism and buddism. Most of the japanese people equate sintoism with buddism.However such circumstance has been seen since the nara period. At that time, they mixed up sintoism and buddism. That was said the syncretistic fusion of Shintoism and Buddhism, You can see zinnguzi :a temple which is located in shrine. or sinnzenndokyou:monk read sutra in front of shrine .So histrically speaking, it is not unnatural to see that kinds of phenomenonin japan. But recently such phenomenon has been expanding. Many of the japanese people enjoy a Christian religious celebration named Easter in one amusement park But most of them do not know the drivation of the event. The friend of mine did not know that Ester is a religious event ,which made me surprised.
It may sometimes rude not to know the event adequately when you join such religios events and without knowing the background or derivation of the event, you may not truely enjoy the event .
klingt das natürlich?
A: The circumstance of religion in Japan is different from any other countries. Generally, one country has national religion and the most of the citizens of the country belong to that religion. But Japan does not have that kind of religion at the moment. Instead, you can see the fusion of religion in this country. There are many events regarding various religions, such as Halloween, Christmas, Valentine's Day, Obon, Omisoka, Setsubun, Juugoya, Shichi-Go-San, etc.
You can say that it looks like sukiyaki of religion. Many people pay a visit to both shrines and temples. One recent study showed that one in three people could not explain the difference between Shintoism and Buddhism. Most of the Japanese people equate Shintoism with Buddhism. However, such a circumstance has been seen since the Nara period. At that time, they mixed up Shintoism and Buddhism. That was said the syncretistic fusion of Shintoism and Buddhism, You can see zinnguzi: a temple which is located in shrine. or sinnzenndokyou: monk read sutra in front of shrine. So historically speaking, it is not unnatural to see that kind of phenomenon in japan. But recently, such phenomenon has been expanding. Many of the Japanese people enjoy a Christian religious celebration named Easter in one amusement park, but most of them do not know the derivation of the event. A friend of mine did not know that Easter is a religious event, which made me surprised.
It may sometimes be rude not to know the event adequately when you join such religious events. Without knowing the background or derivation of the event, you may not truely enjoy the event.
Q: I can adapt to the new circumstance fast. is the right phrase?
A: It's correct, but a more natural way of saying it would be "I can adapt to new situations fast."
Q: Under such circumstance, there is a prevalent claim arguing that employees should be allowed to work at home since it would contribute to their working efficiency while others hold the opposite opinion. klingt das natürlich?
A: It's almost perfect! However, there are a few things I might change:
"Under such (a circumstance/circumstances), there is a prevalent claim arguing that employees should be allowed to work at home. Some people believe that it would contribute to their working efficiency while others hold the opposite opinion."
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Ever dreamt of picnicking in a picturesque spot surrounded by nothing but peace and tranquillity, then this activity is meant just for you. Meet your guide the lobby and begin your fun journey towards the Bedugul garden. Munch on a delicious picnic lunch encapsulated with lush greenery along the bank of Lake Bratan. Enjoy the undisturbed view of pristine lake water in the lap of nature and soak in the fresh air of the tropical forest. Your journey will then continue to Tanah Lot to experience the mesmerising sunset and temple. Being the crown jewel of Bali, Tanah Lot sits on the bank of Indian Ocean floating on a rock that makes perfect for spectacular views. Watch as the sky transforms into red hues and enjoy the beautiful sunset. Lastly, hop on your vehicle and head back to the hotel.
Do book your activity a little in advance to ensure that you experience it at your own convenience.


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Salford City -vs- Oldham Athletic, EFL2, Saturday 27/11/21 (3pm) – Information
OLDHAM ATHLETIC AT HOME (Sat 27/11/21) – GENERAL INFORMATION FOR SUPPORTERS
The Latics make a short trip from Oldham for an EFL League Two fixture that gets underway at 3pm.
Home Seating – must be booked in advance.
Home Standing – we recommend buying in advance. Cash admission will be available on the day of the game if capacity allows. Please see the 'For Home Supporters' information below for more details.
Away Seating & Standing – sold out. There will be NO CASH ADMISSION for visiting supporters on the day of the game.
PENINSULA STADIUM GUIDE
View The Peninsula Stadium Guide here.
At present there are no restrictions on supporters entering the Peninsula Stadium for matches. Covid passes are not required and we will not be performing temperature checks.
We have some advice for supporters planning to attend our fixtures:
NHS App – If you are double-jabbed, download the NHS app so you can prove your status, if required
Lateral Flow Test – If you aren't yet double-jabbed, consider taking a lateral flow test prior to attending.
Don't Attend if you – or someone attending with you – displays Covid-19 symptoms, feels generally unwell or is required to self-isolate
Assess the Risk – The club cannot eliminate the risk of contracting Covid-19 – before purchasing a ticket or travelling to the game, decide if it is appropriate for you to attend, giving consideration to your personal circumstances.
Feeling Unwell at the Game? – If you begin to exhibit Covid-19 symptoms at the game, notify the nearest steward and asked to be escorted to the nearest exit.
Plan your Journey – arrive in plenty of time and be sure in advance where you should enter the stadium (see below for details).
Face Coverings – Government guidelines state that members of the public are expected to wear face coverings in any crowded and enclosed spaces, where in close contact with others. Face coverings may be removed when occupying your seated or standing area, but please consider wearing one at all times, and particularly when moving around the stadium.
Refreshments & Toilets: When using the Stadium amenities, such as toilets and food and drink outlets, please avoid queues and follow the instructions of Club staff and stewards.
Courtesy – Please be respectful to supporters and staff in your vicinity, avoid close contact with those not known to you, and take a responsible approach to others, whose circumstances may differ from your own.
Hygiene – Always maintain good hand hygiene around the stadium and avoid touching your face whenever possible.
Moving Around – Please avoid unnecessary movement away from your seat/standing location. Where possible wait until gangways are clear, and always follow signage and/or stewards' instructions.
Stewards – Please be patient when moving around and leaving the stadium, be considerate towards stewards, and listen to their advice in order to help ensure the Stadium event is safely and efficiently managed.
FOR HOME SUPPORTERS
Tickets are available to purchase ONLINE and from the TICKET OFFICE from Tuesday 9th November at 10:30am. Online ticket sales will cease at 1:15pm on the day of the game. Please note that account creation date and postcode restrictions have been placed on ticket sales for home areas of the ground – please email the ticket office if you have any questions.
TICKETS MUST BE PURCHASED IN ADVANCE FOR HOME SEATED AREAS (North Stand and South Stand).
WE WOULD ADVISE PURCHASING TICKETS IN ADVANCE FOR THE WEST STAND (ONLY AVAILABLE TO SUPPORTERS WHO HAD AN ONLINE TICKET ACCOUNT PRIOR TO 9th NOVEMBER).
ALL AWAY TICKETS HAVE BEEN SOLD – THERE WILL BE NO CASH ADMISSION FOR AWAY SUPPORTERS
CASH ADMISSION WILL BE AVAILABLE FOR THE WEST STAND TERRACE ON THE DAY OF THE GAME. THIS IS A STANDING AREA OF THE GROUND RESERVED FOR HOME SUPPORTERS. WE WOULD ADVISE THAT SUPPORTERS PURCHASE TICKETS IN ADVANCE.
SUPPORTERS PAYING FOR ADMISSION TO THE WEST STAND ON THE DAY OF THE GAME SHOULD HAVE PHOTO ID PROOF OF ADDRESS READY TO DISPLAY UPON REQUEST.
SALFORD CITY FOOTBALL CLUB RESERVES THE RIGHT TO REFUSE ADMISSION AT ITS DISCRETION.
AWAY SUPPORTERS WHO ATTEMPT TO GAIN ADMISSION TO THE WEST STAND WILL BE TURNED AWAY.
AWAY SUPPORTERS IDENTIFIED IN HOME AREAS OF THE STADIUM WILL BE EJECTED WITHOUT REFUND. THEY WILL NOT BE RELOCATED TO THE AWAY AREAS.
PLEASE NOTE: WE CANNOT ACCEPT CARD PAYMENT AT THE TURNSTILE.
TO PURCHASE ONLINE TICKETS FOR THIS GAME PLEASE CLICK HERE.
wheelchair user and carer tickets
Tickets for wheelchair users and carers cannot be purchased online.
Purchases can be made from the ticket office during opening hours (see below), or alternatively contact tickets@salfordcityfc.co.uk for further information. Proof of entitlement will be required.
Latest Ticket Office Opening times for tickets sales are below:
The ticket office is on the Nevile Road side of the ground, accessed via the gates next to St. Paul's Primary School. Use postcode M7 3PT for navigation.
Wednesday 24th November: 11am to 4pm
Thursday 25th November: Closed
Friday 26th November: 10am to 4pm
Saturday 27th November: 9am to 11:30am
Further opening times will be announced in due course
Closed on Sundays
Also currently on Sale:
Season Tickets – now available at discounted prices – click HERE for more information
Chesterfield Home (05/12/21, FA Cup, match tickets – click HERE for more information
Barrow Away (08/12/21, EFL2) Coach tickets & Match tickets – click HERE for more information.
Mansfield Town Away (11/12/21, EFL2) Coach tickets & Match tickets – click HERE for more information.
FOR AWAY SUPPORTERS:
Oldham Athletic F.C. have been sent our entire allocation of seating tickets and an allocation of standing and wheelchair user tickets so Cash admission will NOT be available on the day of the game. Away supporters who attempt to gain entry to home areas of the stadium will be turned away. Away supporters identified in home areas of the stadium will be ejected without refund.
HOME GAME TICKET PRICES
Prices apply to seated and standing tickets, in all areas of the ground.
Standard: £15
Under 16s: £5
Under 5s: Admitted free with no ticket required unless a reserved seat is booked (charged at the Under 16 rate).
Concession qualification: Those aged between 16 and 21 inclusive or 60 and over as of the day of the game.
Under 16 qualification: Those aged between 5 and 15 inclusive as of the day of the game.
Online tickets can be printed off and brought to the game (recommended) or displayed on a suitable mobile device.
The online ticket system should be simple to use, but you must log in to an existing account or create a new one to purchase tickets. NOT AVAILABLE FOR OLDHAM ATHLETIC SUPPORTERS.
Online tickets can be purchased until 90 minutes prior to kick off on the day of the game (1:30pm for this fixture).
Seats with obstructed views
There are some South Stand seats affected by an obstructed view.
Front rows of Blocks 'M' and 'N' (obstructed by the dugout).
Seats on the front row of Blocks 'L' and 'P', nearest to the dugouts (principally seats L105 to L108 & P134 to P138).
A £1.20 booking fee will be charged for each ticket purchased online.
TO PURCHASE ONLINE TICKETS FOR THIS GAME PLEASE CLICK HERE (home supporters only).
TICKET DETAILS – where to enter the ground
Below – plan of the stadium, showing turnstile blocks and numbers West Stand – Home terrace – STANDING ONLY – Turnstile Block 'B' (Nevile Road West) turnstiles 4,5 & 6. Admission is by match-ticket, season-ticket or cash at the turnstile (if capacity allows). PLEASE NOTE: THIS AREA OF THE GROUND IS FOR HOME SUPPORTERS ONLY – AWAY FANS WILL BE TURNED AWAY OR EJECTED WITHOUT REFUND.
North Stand Blocks 'A' to 'G' – Home seating – Turnstile Block 'C' (Moor Lane West) turnstiles 7 & 8. Admission is by match-ticket or season-ticket. No cash admission on the day.
South Stand – Home seating & standing – Turnstile Block 'D' (Nevile Road East) turnstiles 9 &10. Admission is by match-ticket or season-ticket. No cash admission on the day. PLEASE NOTE: BLOCK 'N' IS SITUATED IN THE RED ZONE FOR THIS GAME – SEASON TICKET HOLDERS SHOULD USE THEIR ALTERNATIVE SEAT LOCATIONS.
East Stand & North Stand Block 'H' – Away terrace and seats – Turnstile Block 'A' (Moor Lane East) turnstiles 1,2 & 3. Admission is by match-ticket only.
SUPPORTERS USING WHEELCHAIRS
We can offer ground-level viewing areas for supporters using wheelchairs, with adjacent seats for carers. Numbers are limited, so places must be booked in advance – please contact the club (tickets@salfordcityfc.co.uk) to arrange purchase.
PLEASE NOTE: Home supporters who use wheelchairs will be accommodated in the ground-level bay situated in front of the South Stand with admission via the Nevile Road gates next to Turnstile 'D'.
Visiting wheelchair users will be accommodated at ground level in front of the North Stand Block 'B' (see plan above). Alternative accommodation is available upon request, situated in front of away block 'H' wheret the view is likely to be severely obstructed.
Ambulant Disabled Supporters – Please note that the turnstiles for the North Stand lead to a flight of stairs once inside the ground. The turnstiles for the West Stand and South Stand have level approaches and no stairs inside.
For away supporters accessing the East Stand / North Stand away seating – the forecourt for the away turnstiles can be accessed via a small number of steps from Moor Lane. There is also a gently sloping path that leads down to the forecourt – this path begins just to the west of the main doors of the North Stand and is accessible from Moor Lane.
Contact hospitality@salfordcityfc.co.uk for more details.
AWAY SUPPORTER COACHES
Away coaches may drop supporters outside Turnstile 'A' on Moor Lane and one can park there during the match, alongside the team coach. Alternative coach parking is available and our stewards will be happy to assist.
RESERVED SEATS
If you have purchased a ticket for the seated areas of the ground, please occupy the seat shown on your ticket.
CAR-PARKING AND PARK & RIDE SERVICE
Car parking is limited around the ground – please observe the local and matchday restrictions and show consideration for our neighbours. The Park & Ride service will NOT be available for this game – apologies for any inconvenience. We are working on providing a service as soon as possible.
Please note that a resident-only parking scheme operates around the ground for home games. Hours of operation for this game are between 12 Noon and 7pm. The extent of the zone is detailed below, in amber. The area of Moor Lane coloured white is subject to its own restrictions and is not part of the resident-only zone. There are yellow line restrictions on some other local roads.
The club requests that supporters show consideration for our neighbours when choosing a place to park – please do not obstruct driveways and junctions.
North Stand – Situated in the northern section of the fanzone. The '92 Bar will be open for supporters with North Stand tickets before and during the game. After the game it will be open for all supporters, until 6pm.
South Stand – Situated in at the east end of the stand, opposite the turnstile block. Buck's Bar will be open for supporters with South Stand tickets before and during the game, then for all supporters after the game until 6pm.
West Stand – Situated in the southern section of the fanzone.
East Stand (away supporters only) – Situated to the rear of the East Stand. Food, hot & cold drinks and beers will be available.
The '92 bar – situated in the North Stand, will be available for supporters in that stand before the game, during half-time and after the match.
South Stand bar – Open for South Stand ticket holders before and during the game.
In line with EFL policy, Salford City F.C. will take action against any supporter who uses a pyrotechnic device at our matches, or seeks to bring them into the stadium. The club will not hesitate to seek a banning order should a supporter breach this rule.
inappropriate chanting
Salford City Football Club will not tolerate inappropriate chanting during games at The Peninsula Stadium. If identified, perpetrators may be banned from attending fixtures at the stadium and may be reported to the authorities. We want supporters to enjoy their time at the stadium but please show respect to players, match officials & club staff.
CONSUMPTION OF ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGES
Alcoholic beverages cannot be consumed where there is a view of the playing field. The '92 bar and private boxes are also subject to this regulation.
NO SMOKING ZONE
The Peninsula Stadium is a no smoking zone and the use of e-cigarettes is forbidden. Persistent breaches will result in offenders being asked to leave the stadium.
Supporters are not allowed to bring drums or other musical instruments into the ground. Our stewards have been instructed to confiscate such items should an attempt be made to bring them into the ground. They will be returned later.
The terms of our tenancy at the ground forbid the use of instruments as we are situated in a very residential area. Thanks in advance for your co-operation.
pitch incursion
Please note – Supporters are not allowed to encroach onto the playing field before, during or after games at The Peninsula Stadium. Any incursion onto the playing field may be reported by match officials to The FA /EFL, and action may be taken against the club as a result. We will scrutinise footage of any pitch incursion at The Peninsula Stadium and will not hesitate to take appropriate action against those responsible. Supporters apprehended during games will be ejected from the stadium and barred from future attendance. Incursion onto the pitch during the course of a game is a criminal offence and the club will support the prosecution of offender
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It could be a bit of a soggy start to the coming week, with precipitation forecast on & off from Sunday night through till Wednesday at this stage. There could be a wee dusting of snow for a couple of days there (yes we know, after we said Spring was here...) so might still be a chance for a couple of fresh turns before the season is done!
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If you are planning to buy a new imperial jade Singapore Jewelry, make sure you know which jade and other gemstone. When buying jewelry, you should check that it is a jade or gemstone, because the latter is expensive and offers a wide variety of colors.


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Q: Magento - remove block using update XML How do I use a layout xml file to remove an already existing block? Specifically, I want to remove the block named "currency" from the block named "top.switches". It is being inserted in the directory.xml file, like this:
<default>
    <reference name="top.switches">
        <block type="directory/currency" name="currency" before="store_language" template="directory/currency.phtml"/>
    </reference>
    <reference name="head">
        <block type="core/template" name="optional_zip_countries" as="optional_zip_countries" template="directory/js/optional_zip_countries.phtml" />
    </reference>
</default>

A: add file named local.xml in your layout directory . then in local.xml you can remove any block with  "remove" tag . BTW the remove tag should be between "layout" and "default"
then the file should be :
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<layout>
   <default>
     <remove name="BLOCK_NAME" />
  </default>
</layout>

A: There are two methods to remove a block defined in one layout xml file, through another xml file:
<default>
    <reference name="top.switches">
        <action method="unsetChild"><name>currency</name></action>
    </reference>
</default>

And the way you are conventionally expected to do it:
<default>
    <reference name="top.switches">
        <remove name="currency" />
    </reference>
</default>

You can find an explanation of the various layout xml elements here, but it doesn't cover the methods available to the action tag. For that, you need to look at the block class app/code/core/Mage/Core/Block/Abstract.php, which features all sorts of useful functions such as unsetChild, unsetCallChild, insert, sortChildren, etc.

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The 7th Annual North Shore Bike Tour is here! Last year was an incredible success with over 700 riders participating! Come join us and raise awareness for organ donation & transplantation on a beautiful ride down the scenic north fork of Long Island out to Orient point! Cyclists of all levels of experience are encouraged to ride with us and help our efforts to raise awareness for organ donation!
Course: Riders will enjoy a 35 mile (or 17.5 mile) out and back trip starting from Ospreys Dominion Vineyard to Orient point and back with full bike support and facilities along the way. This event was founded by John Acquaro, an avid cyclist and recent heart transplant recipient as a way to honor his donor, raise money and raise awareness for organ donation!
Ample parking at the Vineyard, all racers must be at the start by 8:45 AM.
After the ride there will be free food, live music, giveaways and wine tasting at Ospreys Dominion as well as discounted prices on wine bottles for riders!
Bike support will be provided throughout the course by Suffolk Pro Cycle which can be located at www.suffolkprocycle.com. They are also offering free safety inspections, as well as $30 express tune-ups and $50 complete tune ups at their shop at 1024 Portion Road, Ronkonkoma New York.
Finally, this year we have added a team component, in which you can start your own team with friends and family, as well as our fundraising option to the event. We recommend that you try to raise $100 each with our fundraising system, however FUNDRAISING IS NOT MANDATORY FOR RACE ENTRY! Prizes will be given away to the top fundraisers!


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Small In Size But MIGHTY In Spirit
President Tuminez began her role as President of the largest University in Utah (with over 40,000 students) back in September of 2018 but today was her official inauguration ceremony at UVU and I was blessed to be in attendance with some amazing dignitaries that included the Prophet of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints President Russell M. Nelson, Utah Governor Gary Herbert, Elder Gerrit Gong of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles, Brigham Young University President Kevin Worthen, Utah State University President Noelle Cockett, Most Reverend Oscar A. Solis bishop of the Catholic Diocese of Salt Lake City, Khando Chazotsang the niece of the 14th Dalai Lama, Sister Jane Bingham and Sister Sharon Eubank of the Relief Society General Presidency of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, and the list just goes on and on and on…
All of us had come to celebrate the inauguration of this little 4'10" woman who had grown up in poverty in the Philippines and went on to accomplish truly mighty things. Here is her bio from the UVU website:
"Dr. Astrid S. Tuminez (pronounced too-MEE-nez) was appointed the seventh president of Utah Valley University in 2018, and is the institution's first female president. Tuminez brings to UVU a broad and rich experience in academia, philanthropy, technology, and business. Born in a farming village in the Philippine province of Iloilo, Tuminez moved with her parents and six siblings to the slums of Iloilo City when she was two years old, her parents seeking better educational opportunities for their children.
Her pursuit of education eventually took her to the United States, to Brigham Young University where she graduated summa cum laude in 1986 with a bachelor's degree in international relations and Russian literature. She earned a master's degree from Harvard University in Soviet Studies (1988) and a Ph.D. from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in political science (1996).
Before assuming her current position, President Tuminez was a world leader in the fields of technology and political science, most recently serving as an executive at Microsoft, where she led corporate, external and legal affairs in Southeast Asia. Tuminez is also the former vice dean of research and assistant dean of executive education at the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy, National University of Singapore, the premier school of public policy in Asia. She and her husband, Jeffrey S. Tolk, have three children. In her spare time, she enjoys running, dancing, and martial arts."
President Tuminez may be small in size but she is truly MIGHTY in spirit. She is a fearless leader, a person of integrity, a fabulous cheerleader, a motivator, full of energy and spunk, and an incredible example of how anyone, regardless of what humble or difficult circumstances they come from, can become a MIGHTY force for good in this world.
UVU is blessed to have such an amazing leader at its helm and I am truly blessed to have her as my friend. Here are some fun pics from today:
~Amy Rees Anderson (author of "What AWESOME Looks Like: How To Excel In Business & Life")
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Incarceration Rates in an International Perspective
Marc Mauer
A nation's rate of incarceration is the number of people incarcerated as a proportion of its total population. Internationally, there is broad variation in the degree to which nations incarcerate their citizens, with a nearly 40-fold difference between the highest and lowest rates. The incarceration rate is often interpreted as a measurement of the degree of punitiveness in a society, although it is an imperfect measurement. Factors that may influence these rates include rates of serious crime, law enforcement and prosecutorial decision making, scale of prison admissions, length of time served in prison, and other means of social control in a society. Emerging scholarship is exploring the broader societal factors contributing to a nation's rate of incarceration. These studies explore policy initiatives to prioritize incarceration as a means of crime control, degree of inequality in a society, racial assumptions about crime, and the cultural values of a nation. With the rise of mass incarceration in the United States, a body of research has developed that is assessing the limited public safety benefits and collateral effects of these developments. These counterproductive effects include impacts on family formation and parenting in high-incarceration communities, rates of civic engagement, and the fraying of community bonds and informal social control.
Incarceration Effects on Families
Sara Wakefield and Janet Garcia-Hallett
The rapid rise in the incarceration rate, most notably in the United States over the last four decades, has drawn greater attention to the disabilities imposed by incarceration experiences and the spillover of these complications to the families of inmates. Prisons have always disproportionately drawn upon the disadvantaged, but research today details how imprisonment creates new harms for inmates as well as for those who are connected to them but were never incarcerated. In this contribution, the effects of incarceration on the family are briefly described across several domains. First, the social patterning of incarceration effects are described, for inmates and for their families, showing that imprisonment effects are both widespread and overwhelmingly repressive for some groups. Next, the effects of incarceration on the families of inmates are described, focusing on the partners and children of inmates, and differentiating between maternal and paternal incarceration. Incarceration is broadly harmful for families, but there is a significant gender gap in knowledge—research on paternal incarceration and the romantic partners of male inmates is much more common, rigorous, and uniform in findings. Where findings are mixed, scholarship is reviewed on how examining incarceration and family life has expanded across varying fields that often differ in their research approach, emphasis, and methodology. Finally, the discussion ends with the most pressing challenges for researchers going forward, suggesting that studies interrogating heterogeneity and leveraging new data sources offer the most fruitful path. This review is focused largely on the United States. First, and most practically, much of our knowledge about the effects of incarceration on the family is based on U.S.-based samples. Second, the effects of incarceration on the family have worsened significantly as a result of the prison boom in the United States. It remains to be seen how such effects translate to different contexts; some research suggests similar process at much lower incarceration rates, while others show less harm in other contexts.
Reentry Processes in the United States
James M. Binnall and Maryanne Alderson
Reentry is the process of ending a period of incarceration, leaving jail or prison, and returning to society. Not to be confused with reintegration or recidivism, reentry is not a measure of success or failure. Instead, reentry is a journey, and no two reentries are analogous. The reentry process is individualized and highly dependent on a number of factors including a reentering individual's sentence structure, incarceration experience, and postrelease resources. Depending on these factors, a reentering individual may find his or her return to the free world a relatively smooth transition or a task riddled with seemingly insurmountable obstacles. To navigate such obstacles, most reentering individuals need assistance. Traditionally, reentry assistance was provided by the state, through correctional programming in prison or by parole authorities tasked with monitoring a reentering individual postrelease. In recent years, nonprofit and faith-based organizations have increasingly been a part of innovative reentry initiatives. There has also been a recent expansion of Internet-based reentry resources, such as reentry.net and exoffenders.net, which allow those experiencing reentry to obtain reentry resources online. Reentry initiatives typically take two forms: deficit-based and strengths-based. Deficit-based reentry models use actuarial assessments to identify a reentering individual's criminogenic risks and needs. In theory, deficit-based models then address those risks and needs through measured, tailored responses. Critics of deficit-based models argue that by focusing only on risks and needs, such approaches overlook reentering individuals' talents and skills. Acknowledging these criticisms, many reentry initiatives have shifted away from the traditional deficits-centered model of reentry and toward a strengths-based approach. Rather than focusing on the risks and needs of a reentering individual, strengths-based approaches highlight the attributes of reentering individuals and draw on the experiences of former offenders who have successfully navigated their own reentry and best understand the pitfalls of the process. Recent, albeit limited empirical and experiential evidence supports the strength-based approach to reentry, suggesting that the concerns and insights of those who have been directly impacted by the criminal justice system make the transition from incarceration to freedom a smoother one.
Collateral Sanctions
Alec C. Ewald
Collateral sanctions are legal restrictions on the rights and privileges of people who have experienced contact with the criminal justice system, particularly contact resulting in conviction. Usually placed in civil and regulatory codes, collateral sanctions may limit a person's ability to vote, live in public housing, own a firearm, qualify for an occupational license, serve in the military, receive public benefits, sit on a jury, or borrow money for college, among other activities. Yet, because they are usually defined as "indirect" consequences of a conviction, they may never surface in the criminal justice process, and they frequently extend far beyond the sentence. Such restrictions can deeply compromise the civic status and life chances of Americans with conviction records. But they are far from uniform: some serious restrictions are triggered by criminal justice involvement well short of a conviction, while others mark only some classes of offenders or operate only in some states. Layered into the federal system, multiplying the complications of criminal law and regulatory law, and imposed by civil servants with wide leeway in their interpretation of rules, American collateral sanctions are varied and complex. Their reach and severity in the United States appear to be unique in the democratic world and mark an important respect in which the American carceral state extends beyond mass incarceration.
Mass Incarceration in the United States: From Punishment to Public Health
Ernest Drucker
Mass imprisonment in the United States is an epidemic that has spread across five generations affecting millions of individuals, their families, and hundreds of communities. The United States imprisons more people than any other nation in the world—with over 2 million behind bars and another 5 to 7 million under community supervision on parole and probation. With 5% of the world's population, the United States has 25% of all the world's prisoners. This U.S. system imposes many punitive policies, holding more of its citizens in isolation and solitary confinement than all the other prisons of the world combined and imposing the highest rates of life sentences of any nation. This public health analysis of mass incarceration in the United States (first proposed in Ernest Drucker's 2011 book, A Plague of Prisons: The Epidemiology of Mass Incarceration in America) must therefore also address the high rates of prisoner reentry that accompany it—with over 600,000 U.S. prisoners reentering society each year—with the highest recidivism rate of any nation. This population is disproportionally poor and members of America's large minority populations (African Americans and Latinos). The public health model provides a new tool for ending the American epidemic of mass imprisonment and, of equal importance, healing those who have survived its blows. This stage of the American story of mass incarceration is covered in Drucker's 2018 book, Decarcerating America: From Mass Punishment to Public Health. But releasing people from prisons is not enough—the taint of punishment has a long-lasting and debilitating effect on the millions who return from prison to their home communities—facing social stigma and the many restrictions placed upon them as part of the conditions of parole—including limits of their access to public education, healthcare, and housing—as well as convicted felons' loss of the right to vote. The United States badly needs a paradigm shift that replaces these impediments to successful reentry after prison, creating instead a positive place and normal life for this population in the outside world.
Life Without Parole Sentencing
Christopher Seeds
Life without parole sentencing refers to laws, policies, and practices concerning lifetime prison sentences that also preclude release by parole. While sentences to imprisonment for life without the possibility of parole have existed for more than a century in the United States, over the past four decades the penalty has emerged as a prominent element of U.S. punishment, routinely put to use by penal professionals and featured regularly in public discourse. As use of the death penalty diminishes in the United States, life without parole serves as the ultimate punishment in more and more U.S. jurisdictions. The scope with which states apply life without parole varies, however, and some states have authorized the punishment even for nonviolent offenses. More than a punishment serving purposes of retribution, crime control, and public safety, and beyond the symbolic functions of life without parole sentencing in U.S. culture and politics, life without parole is a lived experience for more than 50,000 prisoners in the United States. Life without parole's increasing significance in the United States points to the need for further research on the subject—including studies that directly focus on how race and racial prejudice factor in life without parole sentencing, studies that investigate the proximate causes of life without parole sentences at the state and local level, and studies that examine the similarities and differences between life without parole, the death penalty, and de facto forms of imprisonment until death.
Racial Inequality in Punishment
Marisa Omori and Oshea Johnson
There have been two major approaches to studying racial and ethnic inequality in punishment: The first approach comes from the sociology of punishment and social inequality literatures, and considers how the carceral state, including criminal justice institutions, create racial inequality through policies and practices broadly, or how racialized narratives are embedded in these policies and practices. This includes how scholarship has been drawn from institutional racism and other race literatures and integrated these ideas into how punishment policies and practices are racialized, as well as how the criminal justice system is both a consequence of and a contributor to increasing racial inequality. In particular, the social inequality literature has also been concerned with the rise of mass incarceration and its consequences for racial inequality in individuals, families, and communities. The second approach is drawn from the criminology literature on courts and sentencing, and generally focuses on the magnitude and location of racial disparities for individuals being processed in the criminal justice system, with a particular attention to sentencing outcomes. There are several complementary frameworks that have been used to frame racial inequalities in punishment outcomes; most of them focus on individual-level decisions and decision-makers, with some considerations of organizational-level factors. Most often, this literature also quantitatively tests racial disparities of court processing and court case outcomes, with a particular focus on sentencing of convicted defendants, including whether a defendant was sentenced to prison or not (the "in/out" decision), and the length of prison sentence. The two perspectives can inform each other; the sociology of punishment focuses on policies and practices that drive racial inequality, and the courts and sentencing literature focuses on the consequences of these factors in case processing outcomes.
Prisoner Experiences
Dawn Moore
The variables impacting how one experiences imprisonment are far ranging. George Jackson (1994), a pivotal character in American penal history, wrote that, "[b]lackmen born in the [United States] and fortunate enough to live past the age of eighteen are conditioned to accept the inevitability of prison" (p. 4). Ruth Wyner (2002), incarcerated 40 years after Jackson under vastly different circumstances, describes a very different sort of bleakness associated with her incarceration: One evening, just before I settled down to try to sleep, I allowed myself to remember my daughter in a way that I usually suppressed: remembering and feeling all the love that I had for her, every bit. A huge chasm grew inside me, dark and raw, and my throat constricted as I felt enveloped by the sadness. This was what was inside of me when I allowed myself to touch it. (p. 156) Such personal experiences of incarceration offer a window into how prisons function, or often more correctly, fail to function, from the point of view of the prisoner. These perspectives are vitally important to a fulsome understanding of incarceration because prisoners and their experiences paint a picture of confinement that is patently different from those described by penal officials and governments. There are numerous issues that shape the experiences of confinement, both historically and in the present day, a list longer than can be adequately addressed in this entry. Still, there are key concerns that recur in the literature and in ongoing debates about incarceration. Included here are human rights abuses, overcrowding, the overuse of solitary confinement, the situation of women prisoners, the incarceration of indigenous peoples, and health, especially mental health concerns.
Politics of Vision in the Carceral State: Legibility and Looking in Hostile Territory
Ashley Hunt
As we begin to think about the United States as a carceral state, this means that the scale of incarceration practices have grown so great within it that they have a determining effect on the shape of the the society as a whole. In addition to the budgets, routines, and technologies used is the culture of that carceral state, where relationships form between elements of its culture and its politics. In terms of its visual culture, that relationship forms a visuality, a culture and politics of vision that both reflects the state's carceral qualities and, in turn, helps to structure and organize the society in a carceral manner. Images, architecture, light, presentation and camouflage, surveillance, and the play of sight between groups of people and the world are all materials through which the ideas of a society are worked out, its politics played out, its technology implemented, its rationality or common sense and identities forming. They also shape the politics of freedom and control, where what might be a free, privileged expression to one person could be a dangerous exposure to another, where invisibility or inscrutability may be a resource. In this article, these questions are asked in relation to the history of prison architecture, from premodern times to the present, while considering the multiple discourses that overlap throughout that history: war, enslavement, civil punishment, and freedom struggle, but also a discourse of agency, where subordinated peoples can or cannot resist, or remain hostile to or in difference from the control placed upon them.
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Just three weeks into the new year and already, New York City has suffered 11 traffic fatalities. Even worse, seven of those fatalities– 64 percent– were pedestrians.
Also, according to the Department of Health and Mental Hygiene, being struck by a car is the leading cause of injury-related death for children younger than 14 and the second leading cause of injury-related death for senior citizens.
On Wednesday, Mayor Bill de Blasio announced "Vision Zero" a broad strategy aimed at reducing traffic fatalities to zero within 10 years.
The mayor charged the New York Police Department, Department of Transportation, Department of Health and Mental Hygiene, and Taxi & Limousine Commission with developing a comprehensive roadmap to eliminate deadly crashes, especially those involving pedestrians.
The working group's report is due February 15 and will be released publicly. It will serve as the blueprint for the Administration's Vision Zero initiative.
"This will be a top-to-bottom effort to take on dangerous streets and dangerous driving. We aren't going to wait and lose a son, a daughter, a parent or a grandparent in another senseless and painful tragedy," said Mayor Bill de Blasio.


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Q: jMonkeyEngine 3 with Maven I've got a problem. I am trying to use jme3 with eclipse and Maven. I am using the m2e plugin (with eclipse Oxygen).
Now, I want to add the jme3 dependencies to my pom.xml. I copied the dependency tags from the maven central, from the bintray repository and even from some custom repos (I also added the repositories to the pom). It won't work.
I worked through the first 2 Google search result pages (actually every link on the first two pages) and consulted the maven pom documentation.
I just cannot get this thing to work.
<dependency>
    <groupId>org.jmonkeyengine</groupId>
    <artifactId>jme3-desktop</artifactId>
    <version>3.1.0-stable</version>
</dependency>

This is what my pom looks like now (I resetted it, cuz nothing will work).
How do I add this (https://mvnrepository.com/repos/jmonkeyengine) repository to the pom (I must not change anything outside my project directory), so that maven can find the dependency?
I'm sure for some of you this is just a job of a few minutes, but I'm working on this for like 2h now, without any results.
A huge thanks in advance
EDIT:
Checked out this solution: JMonkeyEngine in Intellij IDEA
Won't work for (e.g.)
<dependency>
    <groupId>org.jmonkeyengine</groupId>
    <artifactId>jme3-lwjgl-natives</artifactId>
    <version>3.1.0-stable</version>
</dependency>

And many others...

A: Fixed it, but don't know if something I may need is missing.
<properties>
    <project.build.sourceEncoding>UTF-8</project.build.sourceEncoding>
    <jmonkey.version>3.1.0-stable</jmonkey.version>
</properties>

<repositories>
    <repository>
        <id>bintray-jmonkeyengine-org.jmonkeyengine</id>
        <name>bintray</name>
        <url>http://dl.bintray.com/jmonkeyengine/org.jmonkeyengine</url>
    </repository>
    <repository>
        <id>jcenter</id>
        <url>http://jcenter.bintray.com</url>
    </repository>
</repositories>

<dependencies>
    <dependency>
        <groupId>org.jmonkeyengine</groupId>
        <artifactId>jme3-core</artifactId>
        <version>${jmonkey.version}</version>
    </dependency>
    <dependency>
        <groupId>org.jmonkeyengine</groupId>
        <artifactId>jme3-desktop</artifactId>
        <version>${jmonkey.version}</version>
        <scope>runtime</scope>
    </dependency>
    <dependency>
        <groupId>org.jmonkeyengine</groupId>
        <artifactId>jme3-lwjgl</artifactId>
        <version>${jmonkey.version}</version>
    </dependency>
    <dependency>
        <groupId>org.jmonkeyengine</groupId>
        <artifactId>jme3-core</artifactId>
        <version>${jmonkey.version}</version>
        <type>pom</type>
    </dependency>
    <dependency>
        <groupId>org.jmonkeyengine</groupId>
        <artifactId>jme3-lwjgl</artifactId>
        <version>${jmonkey.version}</version>
        <type>pom</type>
    </dependency>
    <dependency>
        <groupId>org.jmonkeyengine</groupId>
        <artifactId>jme3-bullet</artifactId>
        <version>${jmonkey.version}</version>
        <type>pom</type>
    </dependency>
    <dependency>
        <groupId>org.jmonkeyengine</groupId>
        <artifactId>jme3-jbullet</artifactId>
        <version>${jmonkey.version}</version>
        <type>pom</type>
    </dependency>
    <dependency>
        <groupId>org.jmonkeyengine</groupId>
        <artifactId>jme3-jogg</artifactId>
        <version>${jmonkey.version}</version>
        <type>pom</type>
    </dependency>
    <dependency>
        <groupId>org.jmonkeyengine</groupId>
        <artifactId>jme3-niftygui</artifactId>
        <version>${jmonkey.version}</version>
        <type>pom</type>
    </dependency>
<dependency>
        <groupId>junit</groupId>
        <artifactId>junit</artifactId>
        <version>4.12</version>
    </dependency>
</dependencies>

A: According this page of JMonkey docs, there is the most common Maven pom setting for working with JMonkey Engine:
<properties>
    <!-- JMonkey stats -->
    <jme3_g>org.jmonkeyengine</jme3_g>
    <!-- Check the last version -->
    <jme3_v>3.2.0-stable</jme3_v>
</properties>

<repositories>
    <!-- Repository for JMonkey Engine dependences -->
    <repository>
        <id>jcenter</id>
        <url>https://jcenter.bintray.com/</url>
    </repository>
</repositories>

<dependencies>
    <!-- JMonkey Engine dependences  -->
    <dependency>
        <groupId>${jme3_g}</groupId>
        <artifactId>jme3-core</artifactId>
        <version>${jme3_v}</version>
    </dependency>
    <dependency>
        <groupId>${jme3_g}</groupId>
        <artifactId>jme3-desktop</artifactId>
        <version>${jme3_v}</version>
    </dependency>
    <dependency>
        <groupId>${jme3_g}</groupId>
        <artifactId>jme3-lwjgl</artifactId>
        <version>${jme3_v}</version>
    </dependency>
</dependencies>

P.S.

*

*For working with terrain in JMonkeyEngine(for example, if you want to access to com.jme3.terrain package inside your project) you must add the next dependency
<dependency>
    <groupId>${jme3_g}</groupId>
    <artifactId>jme3-terrain</artifactId>
    <version>${jme3_v}</version>
</dependency>

*For working with jme3-test-data sources and accessing appropriate paths from your project(like "Textures/Terrain/splat/grass.jpg"), you can add the next dependency:
<!-- Test data -->
<dependency>
    <groupId>net.sf.sociaal</groupId>
    <artifactId>jME3-testdata</artifactId>
    <version>3.0.0.20130526</version>
</dependency>

You can find all JMonkey Dependencies from the previous link


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"""usage:

curl http://www.hotelworkersrising.org/HotelGuide/results.php > uhg.html
python -m pbg.unitehere.uhg uhg.html
"""
import re
import sys
from optparse import OptionParser

from bs4 import BeautifulSoup
from bs4 import Tag
from microdata import Item
from pyassert import assert_that

CATEGORY_TO_JUDGMENT_TYPE = {
    'Please Patronize': 'Good',
    'Risk of Dispute': 'Mixed',
    'On Strike': 'Bad',
    'Boycott These Properties': 'Bad',
}

CATEGORY_TO_JUDGMENT_NAME = {
    'Boycott These Properties': 'Boycott',
}

CANADA_REGIONS = set(['AB', 'BC', 'MB', 'NB', 'NL', 'NS', 'ON',
                      'PE', 'QC', 'SK', 'NT', 'NU', 'YT'])

ADDRESS_RE = re.compile(
    '^(?P<locality>.*), (?P<region>[A-Z][A-Z])( (?P<postal>.*))?$')

def main():
    _, args = OptionParser().parse_args()
    assert_that(len(args)).equals(1)
    with open(args[0]) as f:
        html = f.read()

    # for some reason, the long ASP comment screws up BeautifulSoup,
    # so skip it
    start_index = html.find('<!DOCTYPE')
    assert_that(start_index).ge(0)

    soup = BeautifulSoup(html[start_index:], 'html5lib')

    h1s = soup.select('h1')
    assert_that(len(h1s)).equals(1)
    name = h1s[0].string

    copyright_ps = soup.select('p.copyright')
    assert_that(len(copyright_ps)).equals(1)
    copyright_strings = list(copyright_ps[0].stripped_strings)
    assert_that(len(copyright_strings)).equals(1)
    the_word_copyright, _, copyrightYear, author_name = (
        copyright_strings[0].split(None, 3))
    assert_that(the_word_copyright).equals('Copyright')
    copyrightYear = int(copyrightYear)
    author = Item('LaborUnion')
    author.set('name', author_name)

    tables = soup.select('table div table')
    assert_that(len(tables)).equals(1)

    trs = tables[0].select('tr')
    assert_that(len(trs)).equals(2)

    tds = trs[0].select('td')
    assert_that(len(tds)).equals(2)

    judgments = []

    for td in tds:
        category = None

        for child in td.children:
            if isinstance(child, Tag):
                if child.name == 'h3':
                    category = child.string.strip()
                elif child.name == 'p':
                    judgments.append(parse_p(child, category))

    guide = Item('BuyersGuide')
    guide.set('name', name)
    guide.set('author', author)
    guide.set('copyrightYear', copyrightYear)
    guide.set('copyrightHolder', author)
    guide.props['judgment'] = judgments

    sys.stdout.write(guide.json())

def parse_p(p, category):
    judgment_type = CATEGORY_TO_JUDGMENT_TYPE[category]
    judgment_name = CATEGORY_TO_JUDGMENT_NAME.get(category) or category

    lines = list(p.stripped_strings)
    assert_that(len(lines)).ge(2).le(4)

    name = lines[0]
    if name.endswith(' - ON STRIKE'):
        name = name[:-12]

    if len(lines) <= 2:
        address = parse_addr(lines[1:2])
    else:
        address = parse_addr(lines[1:3])

    if len(lines) >= 4:
        assert_that(lines[3]).starts_with('Phone: ')
        address.set('telephone', lines[3][7:])

    hotel = Item('Hotel')
    hotel.set('name', name)
    hotel.set('address', address)

    judgment = Item('Judgment')
    judgment.set('judgmentType', judgment_type)
    judgment.set('name', judgment_name)
    judgment.set('target', hotel)

    return judgment

def parse_addr(lines):
    assert_that(len(lines)).ge(1).le(2)

    addr = Item('PostalAddress')

    if len(lines) >= 2:
        addr.set('streetAddress', lines[0])

    m = ADDRESS_RE.match(lines[-1])
    assert_that(m).is_true()

    addr.set('locality', m.group('locality'))
    addr.set('region', m.group('region'))
    addr.set('addressCountry',
        'CA' if m.group('region') in CANADA_REGIONS else 'US')

    if m.group('postal'):
        addr.set('postalCode', m.group('postal'))

    return addr

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    main()

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Als Kasernentransaktion wurde unter Experten und Historikern die im k.k. Wien von 1890 bis etwa 1912 abgewickelte Verlegung von Kasernen des Gemeinsamen Heers Österreich-Ungarns aus zentrumsnahen Standorten in Randlagen der Stadt bezeichnet.

Das Wachstum der kaiserlich-königlichen Haupt- und Residenzstadt mit der Eingemeindung von über 40 Vororten per 1. Jänner 1892 ließ es geraten erscheinen, Kasernen aus beengten Innenstadtlagen in noch locker verbaute Außenbezirke zu verlegen. Der k.k. Finanzminister, damals Emil Steinbach im Kabinett des k.k. Ministerpräsidenten Graf Eduard Taaffe, wurde mit von Kaiser Franz Joseph I. am 10. Juni 1891 unterzeichnetem Gesetz ermächtigt, diverse Kasernen und andere Grundstücke zu verkaufen und den Erlös der k.u.k. Heeresverwaltung für "Ersatzbeschaffung" (Kasernenneubauten) zur Verfügung zu stellen. In späteren Ermächtigungen wurden weitere Grundstücke definiert. Freigemacht wurden daraufhin von 1900 an unter anderem folgende Areale, insgesamt weit über 400.000 m² großteils zentral gelegener Baugrund:

 die Franz-Josephs-Kaserne Wien im 1. Bezirk (57.381 m²)
 die Heumarktkaserne im 3. Bezirk (29.455 m²)
 die Fuhrwesenkaserne im 3. Bezirk (25.282 m²)
 Grundstücke an der Boerhaavegasse im 3. Bezirk (43.009 m²)
 die Holzhofkaserne im 4. Bezirk (7.577 m²)
 die Gumpendorfer Kaserne im 6. Bezirk (21.815 m²)
 die Getreidemarktkaserne im 6. Bezirk
 die Josefstädter Kaserne im 8. Bezirk (52.556 m²; Ersatz: Breitenseer Kaserne)
 das Militärverpflegungsdepot im 8. Bezirk (21.670 m²)
 die Alser Kaserne im 9. Bezirk (26.673 m²)
 ab 1910 Teile des Exerzier- und Paradeplatzes Schmelz, damals im 13., 14. und 15. Bezirk
 Grundstücke auf der Türkenschanze im 19. Bezirk (68.473 m²)
 der Exerzierplatz in Mauer bei Wien (62.754 m²)

Andere zentrumsnahe Kasernen wie die Rennweger Kaserne im 3. Bezirk, die Stiftskaserne im 7. Bezirk und die Rossauer Kaserne im 9. Bezirk blieben erhalten oder wurden, wie die Marokkanerkaserne im 3. Bezirk, neu gebaut. Aus dem Erlös des Grundstücksverkaufs wurde neben Neubauten für das Heer auch ein Teil der Baukosten des neuen, 1913 fertiggestellten k.u.k. Kriegsministeriums finanziert.

Literatur
 Felix Czeike: Historisches Lexikon Wien. Band 3: Ha–La. Kremayr & Scheriau, Wien 1994, ISBN 3-218-00545-0, S. 473–474.

Einzelnachweise

Österreichisch-Ungarische Militärgeschichte
Wiener Militärgeschichte
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Measurements for Levi's Cubano Shirt (Boyer Marshmallow) have not been added yet.
Here we've got the Cubano Shirt from Levi's. Made out of some dangerously crisp poplin fabric, this one's a pretty classy take on the time-honoured Cuban shirt, seen on the backs of many craggy-faced men drinking cervezas and chain-smoking outside shop fronts. Those stripes add a bit of Continental flavour to it as well, which is never a bad thing.


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American Workers' Concert Series is back
By The Staff
Tuesday, May 25, 2010 at 10:00 pm
The American Workers' Concert Series will return to the Evergreen Elks Lodge on May 21.
The producer of the event, local percussionist and voice-over artist Keith Riker, said the turnout of 350-plus locals at last year's show "really gave us the drive to get it going again here for our hometown friends."
The performance includes more than a dozen local musicians, including singer-songwriters performing original songs and covers of music that speaks to the struggling American worker.
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Gustav Altmöller (* 4. Dezember 1704 in Schenklengsfeld; † 13. Juli 1772 ebenda) war ein deutscher Kunstmaler.

Leben

Gustav Altmöller, zuweilen auch "Altmüller" geschrieben, wurde am 4. Dezember 1704 in Schenklengsfeld geboren, sein Pate war Gustav Hosfeld, damals Lehrer in Hilmes. Am Gründonnerstag 1717 wurde Altmöller in Schenklengsfeld konfirmiert. Nach Lehrjahren bei verschiedenen Malern in Hessen arbeitete er für einige Jahre zunächst in Marburg. Am 27. Oktober 1730 heiratete er in Schenklengsfeld Gertrud, die am 25. März 1710 getaufte Tochter des ortsansässigen Ostwald Schneider, wobei er wie immer wieder bis zu seinem Tod "Kunstmahler" genannt wurde. Er starb am 13. Juli 1772 in Schenklengsfeld und wurde am 15. des Monats im Alter von 67 Jahren, sieben Monaten und neun Tagen im Ort begraben. Seine Frau starb in ihrem 76. Lebensjahr am 21. April 1785 im gleichen Ort und wurde am 23. des Monats als des "Kunstmahlers Johann Jacob Altmüllers hinterlassene Wittib" begraben.

Werke

Seit 1725 malte Altmöller zahlreiche Porträts von Adeligen, Bürgern, Pfarrern und deren Familien, u. a. ein repräsentatives Porträt von Wilhelm von Hessen-Philippsthal (1726–1810), heute mhk (Inv. Nr. 1875/1640 a). Bekannt sind bis heute die von Altmöller ausgemalten Kirchen, u. a. jene in Ausbach (1733), Mansbach (1759), Odensachsen (ab 1735) und Sünna (1753 und 1771).

Literatur
 Götz J. Pfeiffer: Leben, Familie und Signaturen des barocken "Kunstmahler" Gustav Altmöller (1704–1772) aus Schenklengsfeld. In: Mein Heimatland. Januar 2021, S. 1–3. (PDF)

Weblinks

Museum Kassel: Gustav Altmöller

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Deutscher
Geboren 1704
Gestorben 1785
Mann
Maler (Hessen)
Person (Schenklengsfeld)


I get the honor of chatting with Overit clients before they become Overit clients. I get introduced in the early conversation stages when they've come to us looking for digital marketing services and, as a team, we work with them to create the most effective marketing plan to meet their needs. It's a fun process. Okay, it's a really fun process and I feel pretty grateful to be part of it.
Over the past six months or so, there's been a common thread in a lot of these meetings. So much so that it may actually be hurting their efforts.
I don't know if you've heard, but content marketing is currently king. Every brand and its brother is being instructed to add more content, more pages, more blog posts, more whitepapers and more words to their website in whatever form they think best to take. As I oversee the content marketing department here at Overit, you may think I am on board cheering this revolution.
But I'm not. Not always, anyway.
I'm here to tell you that more content, all the time, is a lie.
More content will not automatically create a better site.
There are site and brand elements more important than fresh content.
Sometimes investing in content is a waste of your money.
Below are some best practice things to do before you ever considering investing in new branded content.
Some may disagree with this stance, but we put brand before anything else. To our team, your branding and your messaging is what guides everything else we're going to do. That means if you don't have a solid brand, if you don't understand your core brand tenets or if you haven't identified your key messages, then we don't think you're ready to invest in new content just yet and we won't steer you there. You still need to identify what it is you want to say and who it is you're speaking to. Without that, there's no sense throwing more content on your website to speak to an empty room. Or worse yet, the wrong room.
Get your brand messaging down so you know what message you're trying to put out. Then, let's talk about how to amplify it.
If you've ever read my bio on the Overit site (and, I mean, why wouldn't you have done that? ;)) you may know I don't care what it is you do or what you sell (sorry). I want to know why you do it.
What makes you stick out?
Why did you eat your lunch in the bathroom during high school?
That is the good stuff! That's what will get your brand noticed.
If you're not sure of your point of difference or if you even have one, you're not ready for content. Because engaging content is rooted in the intersection of what your customer needs and what makes you weird. Get to know yourself first. We can help hold the mirror, if you need.
If you haven't updated your web presence since the early 2000s, sure, we'll talk about content. But before we do, we need to talk about the condition of your website. We need to stop the bleeding.
Never-one-to-mince-words, Patrick Sexton shared this image not too long ago and it made me laugh.
You don't fix a website by adding more content to it. You fix a website by fixing the website. You do it by addressing the site's functionality, by evaluating how it should handle on different devices, by addressing usability mistakes, and by looking at important search engine optimization (SEO) factors like everything from titles and page descriptions to Authorship and schema markup. That's how you create a more professional, more functional, better-converting website. The content is important, but there's no sense leading a horse to water if the well is caved in and foaming at the mouth.
Despite the experts' pleas to the contrary, your customers probably aren't asking for MORE pages on your website or MORE content for them to download. They're asking for better, more targeted content. Instead of looking to what's shiny, fix what you're already working with. Rewrite those stale product or service pages so that they convert a user and tell the right story. Don't just add a blog for the sake of it, reorganize and redesign the dusty resources already sitting on your website. Get more from what you already have first. Make your home tidy and presentable before inviting people over for more of the same.
Maybe you need fresh content on your site. But maybe you don't. Maybe you need to improve the foundation of your website. Maybe you need stronger messaging. Maybe your strong play is to improve upon what you already have. Take the time to find out.
Great heads-up; especially timely for me, Thank You Lisa!!
This article is just what I needed to help a small company make a splash. Great advice I plan to share with my new clients. More is not always better, (usually less is more in the targeted content game). Thank you.


Currently classification allows drag&drop on another classification. This should not be allowed as the expected result is not clear.
Also it seems to corrupt data and throw exceptions. E.g. because now there are non-root nodes with no taxon attached.
Also D&D from Classifications to TaxonNodes should not be possible for the same reason.
Or we may clearly define what the expected result is. What do we expect to happen with the old classification and the old root node.
seems to be fixed. There is a new related issue #7057.


Enjoy our longstanding favorite Three Orchards Blend Olive Oil which is a perfect blend of our fruity, smooth, green and grassy Spanish Arbequina combined with the mighty three Italian Frantoio, Leccino, and Pendolino olives. We paired this olive oil with one of our newest vinegars - Raspberry Balsamic! Use these together as a salad dressing with a teaspoon of dijon mustard, a tablespoon of maple syrup, and a dash of salt and pepper to taste. Enjoy these separately by using the Three Orchards Blend brushed over brioche bread for the holidays. Try the Raspberry vinegar as a sauce for pork chops and chicken. No matter what, this gift sampler is sure to be foodie lovers' favorite!
Includes two 100ml bottles - Three Orchards Blend Extra Virgin Oil Olive Oil and Raspberry Balsamic Vinegar with a recipe card in a pillow pouch gift box.


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Chinese Film Executive Calls U.S. Lawmakers' Concern About Hollywood Investments "A Joke"
Hollywood Reporter – by Rebecca Sun
The only political concerns among film executives interested in Hollywood-China dealmaking remain questions about China's annual foreign-film quota and its requirements for receiving official co-production status.
What they're not worried about are American Congressional suspicions that increasing Chinese investment in Hollywood is a way for the country's Communist Party to affect the world's most influential film industry.
In September, 16 U.S. representatives penned a joint letter raising their misgivings that recent deals, such as Wanda Group's acquisitions of AMC Entertainment and Legendary, were in the service of "China's efforts to censor topics and exert propaganda controls on American media."
"I've seen those reports, but they're a joke," said Huayi Bros.' president Wang Zhonglei, speaking to THR's Scott Roxborough at the U.S.-China Film & TV Industry Expo at L.A. Live last week. "America has surely experienced this before: About 20 years ago, the Japanese came over to invest in their industries in order to grow their market – not for government reasons. China is the same way. I don't think there's a desire to control American movies."
But unlike with Japanese companies, no deal involving a Chinese company can take place without the express authorization of the Chinese government. When an expo attendee pressed Wang on Washington D.C.'s concerns over a Chinese agenda at the state level, the exec's response drew laughs. "I didn't realize Washington also made movies," he snarked. "It's true that the government approves or encourages industries to go abroad, but there's no way there's an agenda."
Wang's comments were downright forthcoming compared to some of his fellow expo speakers when it came to opining on possible U.S. countermeasures on doing business with China.
When this reporter questioned a panel of top execs from both countries, including Alibaba Pictures president Zhang Wei and Lionsgate co-COO Brian Goldsmith, about how Sino-Hollywood pacts might be affected by Donald Trump's promises to levy trade sanctions against China, only one person spoke up.
"That candidate's not going to win," said producer and Phoenix Pictures chairman and CEO Mike Medavoy, just before the panel's moderator, China Film Co-Production Corp. general manager Miao Xiaotian, hastily drew the session to a close.
http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/chinese-film-executive-calls-us-lawmakers-concern-hollywood-investments-a-joke-944650
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BAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!! RLMAO!!!!! Freakin' hilarious!!!!!
As if they could affect it any MORE ADVERSELY than the stinking jew owners already have.


text:
by Robert Harris
Former British Prime Minister Adam Lang is in temporary exile
in Martha's Vineyard and in the process of turning his
memoirs into a bestseller. The only problem is that his ghostwriter
and long-time associate is found suspiciously drowned. In order to
get his book completed under the publisher's strict deadline,
a new "ghost" must be assigned to finish the job.
So begins the premise of Robert Harris's new thriller, The
Ghost. Harris is a bestselling author (ENIGMA, FATHERLAND),
political commentator for the BBC and newspaper columnist for the
London Sunday Times. He was also once very closely
acquainted with real-life former British Prime Minister Tony Blair.
To say that Lang and Blair share similar backgrounds would be an
understatement. Like Blair, Lang rose to prominence in the British
political arena only after departing from an initial dream of
making it in the music/theatrical field. Lang appears to have been
pulled into politics by his wife Ruth and, like Blair, had no real
party affiliation or desire to one day become P.M.
Harris, like many British citizens, was at one time a strong
supporter of Blair only to feel betrayed by him due to his strong
allegiance to President George W. Bush and the United States in the
post-9/11 war on terror. The author has added another wrinkle to
Lang by making him a key suspect in several war crimes during
Operation Tempest. The timeliness of this portrayal is especially
poignant since we have just witnessed the highly publicized
nomination of Michael Mukasey for U.S Attorney General. This was
surrounded by controversy over the torture technique waterboarding,
which Lang might be guilty of approving during Operation
Tempest.
The job of ghostwriting is a very specialized craft, and each
chapter of THE GHOST opens with a quote from a fictional
ghostwriting handbook. One of the most interesting features of this
novel is that we are never given the name of the new ghostwriter
--- he is simply referred to as "the ghost." The new
"ghost" has been a career ghostwriter, mostly doing
celebrity tell-alls, and has never covered a political figure
before. He is given a mere four weeks to get with Lang in his
Martha's Vineyard location (not far from the infamous
Chappaquiddick) and rewrite the memoirs in Lang's
"voice" while capturing him in a positive light that
will deflect the current war crime allegations that presently
surround him.
As "the ghost" begins to investigate Lang's
memoirs and personal effects, he uncovers potential conspiracies
and associations that not only give credence to the war crime
accusations but may very well be the reason for the first
ghostwriter's demise. Different clues lead the ghost to
meetings with a former college friend of Lang's as well as a
former cabinet member who is now lead investigator into
Lang's war crimes. What follows is a twisting thrill ride
with some serious shockers and an unexpected climax.
I was somewhat frustrated by THE GHOST. To begin with, it is
difficult to have a "hero" who is nameless; it keeps
you from really knowing who that person is. There also is not
enough time in the novel devoted to Lang. The reader is merely
taken along for a ride with the nameless ghost as he uncovers more
and more during his personal investigation, and you are unable to
make a determination as to what Lang may or may not be guilty of. I
also found none of the individuals in the book to be terribly
likable. It is understandable that Harris would have a cynical
approach to the former P.M. character, but they all come off as
suspicious and reprehensible. Even our ghost proves to be disloyal,
as he sleeps with the P.M.'s wife and goes on a date with the
P.M.'s cold-as-ice assistant.
It is a fact that Blair went from being almost as popular as
Winston Churchill early in his career to currently holding the
third-lowest approval rating (26%) of any former P.M. (behind
Margaret Thatcher and current P.M. Gordon Brown). Harris's
feelings toward Blair and the current British government in general
are obviously tainted with his feeling of personal betrayal, a tone
that permeates the entire novel.
The ending does contain shocks and political machinations but wraps
things up a little too neatly. I enjoyed reading the book because
of the complex characters and issues it covers but feel it would be
better suited for a Hollywood script than a bestselling novel. At
the time of this review, I have learned that Roman Polanski has
already signed on to direct the film version in 2008. I look
forward to seeing how THE GHOST translates to the big screen.
Reviewed by Ray Palen on January 22, 2011
Publication Date: August 19, 2008
Genres: Fiction, Thriller


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Sleep Diaries, Naked Edition: Why This Woman Has Sex with a Married Man
And why she's ready to move on.
By Kenrya Rankin
Welcome to Sleep Diaries: Naked Edition. You're already familiar with our Sleep Diaries, where interesting people share a week's worth of late-night habits in hopes of helping you get a better night's rest. In this special eight-part series, we're tapping folks all over the country to share the tea about their sex lives. Why? Because when it comes to other people's bedrooms, that'swhat we all wonder about the most. (Admit it!) You'll pick up some tips to use in your own sex life and, more important, you'll see that there is no such thing as normal when it comes to the ways we share space in our most intimate moments. This week, we talk to Rita, a 37-year-old woman living in New York.
I spent the last three years traveling the world, living everywhere from Thailand to Prague to South Africa to the UK. It was an amazing, life-changing experience, but I was essentially celibate the entire time. I only had sex once a year, usually on my birthday. The other thing I didn't do while I was abroad: See a gynecologist. So when I started having long gaps between periods shortly after I returned to the United States this summer, I finally made an appointment to see a doctor. A preliminary question about whether I have pain during sex led me to experiment with K, a former friend with benefits who lives nearby. It started out as science, but now we're having sex once a week. He's married, but we never bring our outside lives into the bedroom.
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Tuesday: A Little Perspective
I work a part-time job in addition to my full-time job, and I got off at 9 p.m. K lives around the corner from me, so I stopped at home, showered, and pulled on PJs before I rang his doorbell. I walked in just before 11 p.m. and we chit chatted a little about sports; it's our connection point, as I work in sports entertainment and he used to be a professional football player. We were on the couch and I was so tired that I didn't even feel like undressing, so he pulled off my clothes. Then he went down on me for about five minutes. He's honestly just okay at it, though I can feel him improving week by week. Then he kneeled with his penis in my face, like he wanted me to reciprocate. But I wasn't interested; he should please me because he wants to, not because he thinks he's going to get something in return. He said, "I don't ask for much," and I looked at him and said, "You shouldn't ask for anything." He sighed, then proceeded to wear me out for the next 20 minutes! We tried a couple positions, but doggy style is always my favorite with him for two reasons. One, he's very well-endowed and that position puts him in the perfect place. Two, because it feels less intimate given the nature of our relationship; it helps me to maintain some distance and reminds him that it's just sex. Lately, I've had to tell him to keep the affection to himself. Anyway, I had a small orgasm, curled into a ball and fell asleep immediately.
Wednesday: Morning Stretch
As much as I hate mornings, I love morning sex. It gives me an energy boost; in the past, I've planned sleepovers around when I needed to be bright eyed for a morning meeting! On this day, I woke up at 6 a.m. I just laid there for a while, and K came to around 6:30 a.m. I rolled over and rubbed his chest a couple times, then reached for his penis and said, "Are you asleep?" That's all it took: Seconds later, we were going at it in missionary position. About 15 minutes in, he threw my legs to the side; it was very dramatic and my legs are big, so that takes a lot of effort. I thought he was done, but he was like, "No, turn it around." So we did another five minutes of doggy style. I didn't come, but I really enjoyed the journey, you know? I'm not super goal-oriented when it comes to sex, I'm just having a lot of fun. Plus, K is a big dude, and having sex with him is like getting a good stretch—my hips and lower back always feel better after a session with him.
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Thursday: Spot On
My alarm went off at 7:30 a.m. and I wanted to toss my phone. I was still tired, so I figured a quick masturbation session would get me going for the day. I watched a little bit of porn and used my hand and my pajamas to create friction in just the right spot. Eight minutes later, I was good to go. I typically masturbate three times a week, though the closer I get to my period, the more often I want to come. It was a little less often when I was celibate; I had so many other things vying for my attention.
Friday: What's Next?
No sex today, but I did reflect on the current state of my affairs. The reality is, if I could snap my fingers and change one thing about my sex life, it would definitely be my partner. I feel like I procrastinated on being a mother—I procrastinate on everything—and now I'm worried about my reproduction and it feels like mission critical. This guy is not the one, and I will absolutely be out of this situationship by the end of the year. I'm really interested in what's next.
Kenrya Rankin Kenrya Rankin Kenrya is an award-winning author, journalist, and co-host of "The Turn On," a podcast that explores the erotic, from literature to the things most people are afraid to say out loud.
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This year's Blue Jacket. Bright Futures. program received the most applications ever with 764 applications.
Thanks to the generous support of our donors, we were able to award 277 deserving FFA members with a new FFA jacket and tie or scarf. A committee met last Wednesday to review the applications to choose the winners. They found that there are many FFA members that are ready to begin their FFA career by already participating in chapter meetings, contests and community service.
FFA members that applied ranged in age, background and future in FFA. The committee enjoyed reading over the questions that the members answered. Each student answered what FFA means to them, how the jacket will impact them, what they have done and what their FFA future holds.
As you can tell from reading these three application quotes, these members are all passionate about agriculture and deserved FFA jackets.
Thank you to all of our jacket donors, and congratulations to all jacket recipients!