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A customer system has stopped sending data from the shop floor devices to MII via PCo 2.2. When accessing the Management Console, the Source Systems box, Destination Systems box, and Agent Instances box are all blank. There is a record in the log of the installation earlier this year, so no one has reloaded the software. It looks like someone has erased everything. Is there a way to determine whether the configuration data is still stored somewhere (other than an exported file)? It would be a shame to have to rebuild everything if there's a way to restore it.
It is Windows - have they tried rebooting? Assumedly the embedded database would have the persisted values, but if something truly wiped the records then I don't know what your recovery options might be.
It would also make sense to log a support ticket (if you haven't already done so) - perhaps there is a deeper issue at hand and they could guide you through some recovery, and/or provide a bug fix for PCo if needed.


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(Wilkes-Barre, PA) - Partner Andy Faust of Sweet, Stevens, Katz & Williams will participate as a session presenter in the 2017 Conference of the Pennsylvania Association for Gifted Education (PAGE), scheduled for November 16-17 at the Mohegan Sun Convention Center.
Faust is a widely-recognized authority in the areas of special education, student services and child accounting, and student civil rights. He has represented school districts and intermediate units at every level of the federal and state judicial and administrative systems, lectured widely to audiences of educators and attorneys, and testified as an expert witness in court proceedings and before state and federal agencies.
PAGE is a nonprofit advocacy organization dedicated to working with parents, teachers and administrators to help gifted learners in the commonwealth reach their full potential. Offerings include a free helpline, local affiliate groups, conferences/education and advocacy. PAGE, working with state legislators and members of the Pennsylvania Department of Education fostered the passage of Chapter 16 in the Pennsylvania School Code, "Special Education for the Gifted," which the association calls one of the strongest guidelines of its kind in the nation.
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Sweet, Stevens, Katz & Williams, LLP was formed in 1995 by nine experienced education lawyers who created the first private law practice in Pennsylvania dedicated entirely to Education Law. Since then, the firm has grown to 16 attorneys who represent over 290 school and municipal entities as Solicitors or as Special Counsel in more than 50 counties throughout Pennsylvania.


Windows XP Mode (formally Virtual XP) is a new feature in Windows 7. It's a licensed, virtualized copy of Windows XP Service Pack 3 running inside Microsoft's own Virtual PC framework. Windows XP Mode is specifically designed to help small businesses move to Windows 7. Windows XP Mode provides you with the flexibility to run many older productivity applications on a Windows 7 based PC.
When I heard about this feature I thought "what's new in this? We can install other OS using MS Virtual PC or VM ware". But now I understand why this is a new feature.
The core of XPM are Virtual PC 7 (VPC) and the Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) protocol. All you need to do is to install suitable applications directly in Windows XP Mode which is a virtual Windows XP environment running under Windows Virtual PC. The applications will be published to the Windows 7 desktop and then you can run them directly from Windows 7.
Client virtualization software, like Windows Virtual PC is a pre-requisite to use Windows XP Mode. So first I installed a Windows update – Windows Virtual PC (Beta)(KB958559) : Windows Virtual PC (Beta) is the latest Microsoft virtualization technology that allows you to run many productivity applications on a virtual Windows environment, with a single click, directly from a Windows 7-based PC.
After rebooting my system, I installed Windows XP Mode Beta . It's a single executable file, 445MB of size. Installation was straight forward, need to set only few setting like where you want to install, password etc. If anybody tried installing XP or any other operating system using MS Virtual PC or VMWare or any other virtual achine in any other operating system, you know that that installation is just like normal OS installation, have to set all those settings, need normal installation time etc etc. Also after installationn you need to allocate a good amount of RAM and other system resources for the virtual machine, which degrades overall system performance. But Windows XP Mode surprised me.
Installation took only few minutes and launched XP. It is so fast, and taking only very less system resource, just like a normal medium windows application. Since it uses Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) protocol, the interface is little different from previous Virtual Machine mode, it's like lognined into an XP machine using Windows Rremote Desktop application.


There is nothing quite like a good cry. You know what I mean. Sometimes the only thing that helps is letting the tears flow. A good cry eases the tightness that grabs hold of our hearts and the squeeze that stress and worry wrap around our souls. Tears don't usually change our circumstances, but having a chance to release those emotions clears our perspective, allowing us to take a deep breath and gather up the courage to take the next step. Contrary to what the world often tells us, a good cry, especially with a friend, is an act of grace.
My Jesus Resolution today is to have a good cry and a good laugh. God gives us time for both. I'm going to cry when I need to, knowing that He bottles my tears and understands my pain. I am also going to laugh…hard. We know that our society tells us to take things seriously, get down to business, and work harder so that we will be successful. Perhaps, however, we would be better served if we laughed longer, smiled more, chuckled louder, and giggled faster. Our souls might be more luminous if we took the time to laugh every day.
Amen. Thank you for your talent!


Having flown in via London we started our vacation in Barcelona. One of the most beautiful cities in the world. Especially architecture. JP and I took tons of pictures while AM just enjoyed the vacation. Here is a sampling.
Barcelona is the city of Gaudi. It has many examples of his eccentric architecture.
"My client has all the time in the world"
and it still is a construction site.
AM and JP in front of Sagrada Familia.
Another trip to Barcelona was after our ski vacation in Flims. Stephan had a conference in Valencia. As we were already in Europe having been in London for one conference and then skiing in Switzerland we had decided to stay and spend the extra week in between visiting Spain.
We flew to Barcelona from Munich. The brand new airport was very attractive and clean. We picked our car and drove to the city. Our hotel was also excellent. We settled in our suite and decided to walk around the city.
El Palace - formerly Ritz - was renovated in 2009. The Caelis, a Michelin Star Restaurant in the hotel, was hard to get in but the financially enriched concierge found us room at the very early hour of 8:00 p.m. We were the first ones in the restaurant and it got full by 9:30. After all this is Spain, right? The food was nouvelle cuisine and very attractive, it also tasted great.
Our first walk through the city took as to Placa de Catalunya and then Pesseig de Gràcia. We walked up the street and visited Casa Milà. Walked up to the roof and then the apartment on the top floor.
Stephan enjoying the amazing Gaudi and the Gaudi masterpiece Sagrada Familia at a distance - Casa Milà Roof.
The Large Square - Partially it sits over the Market Place columns carved out of the hill.
Gaudi House in the park.
Ceramics on the garden walls of the house and the interior of the house.
The Giant Lobster above and Roy Liechtenstein's The Head of Barcelona, or El Cap de Barcelona in Catalan below. It is a surrealist sculpture created for the 1992 Summer Olympics.
After lunch that day we walked to the Picasso Museum and were thrilled to see his earlier works.
Finally, on our last day, having done online reservations we got to go and see the progress of the construction of Sagrada Familia.


APIP members won the following scholarship awards, worth around $12,000.00, for a total of around $24,000 for the year.
forward them to anyone with training needs.
priority for classes. Remaining unfilled classes will be open to all qualified companies.
• Community based job training (CBJT) grant funded NDT classes commenced in October at San Jacinto College.
• A Houston Galveston Area Community Grant (HGAC) funded training program will commence in March 2010.
APIP member companies will be notified, followed by detailed announcements and postings on the APIP website.
BOARD OF DIRECTORS MEETING – February 10, 2010.
Establish a Marketing and Communications Committee with representatives from local Associations and Businesses.


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Applebaum's way may keep Measure QS away
Lauren Applebaum, 16, Larry Applebaum, Audrey Hanson, and Bill Abbey hold No on Measure QS signs inside Burbank City Hall before the latest Burbank Unified board meeting. Larry Applebaum authored the voter guide argument against Measure QS co-sponsored by Hanson and Abbey.
(Tim Berger / Burbank Leader)
By Andrew J. CampaStaff Writer
Oct. 26, 2018 2:20 PM PT
Every introduction is nearly the same during every meeting, nearly every other week.
Former Burbank Unified board president Larry Applebaum states during the public-comment section of board meetings that he's a 58-year resident of the school district that educates his daughter, Lauren, a Burbank High junior.
Applebaum served as a Burbank Unified board member for 12 years until 2017 and has helped the district in other capacities.
A strong Burbank Unified advocate, Applebaum is on the opposite side held by many friends and former colleagues.
The man perhaps most responsible for passage of Measure S, a 2013 bond sometimes referred to as "Larry's Bond" that raised $110 million for upgrades to district facilities, is opposing the district's latest funding effort.
Applebaum is urging residents to vote "no" on Measure QS, saying it's fatally flawed. The measure is a 10-cents-per-square-foot annual parcel tax expected to cost average city residents about $170 per year and raise roughly $9 million annually.
He even authored the main argument against Measure QS, co-sponsored by former board members Audrey Hanson and William Abbey, in the voter guide.
"My former colleagues are not too happy with me," Applebaum said on Oct. 17, the day before he spoke at the latest district meeting. "But, there are a lot of people in the community who are happy with me because at least I'm standing up and speaking about what I believe needs to be said."
Applebaum has, at times, stood alone against a purple sea of Measure QS supporters.
He doesn't like that the parcel tax has ties to salaries and doesn't address the district's pension problem, while the measure has no sunset clause and would require a voter repeal to end it.
Applebaum said he also thinks key benefactors may reduce their giving levels to Burbank Unified. He cited the new 456,000-square-foot IKEA store as an example. Applebaum said he expects the store will scale back its usual grants and donations totaling around $60,000 a year to the district because the company will have to pay a $46,000 annual tax.
"I'm not against the parcel tax. I'm against how they're using it and how they're saying they're going to use it," he said. "Once they use it for salary, all the things that they're saying and the goal sheets, salary will overwhelm all of that and there won't be any of that."
The parcel tax is supposed to address several needs, such as buying new band uniforms and helping lower classroom sizes, along with giving teachers and staff a one-time 3% salary raise, in addition to a 2% hike that was recently approved.
"This measure is being marketed in a way that is not honest because it's going for salaries and 3% is already guaranteed," he said. "It doesn't take somebody with a brilliant mind to extrapolate that next year when the [unions] go to the bargaining table, they're going to see $5.7 million of additional revenue and they're going to want to bargain."
Applebaum contends that a 3% salary hike translates into roughly $3.3 million of the annual $9-million Measure QS pot.
"When I left in 2017, every percent of a salary increase equaled about a $1.1-million increase, so that's where I'm getting that number from," he said. "So this year, it will be 3%. If the district gives another 2% the following year, then 2% again and 2% again, then in five years, guess what? There's no money left."
Burbank Supt. Matt Hill countered that claim.
Measure QS opponent Larry Applebaum sits behind a group of Measure QS supporters at the Burbank Unified board meeting in council chambers at Burbank City Hall on Oct. 18. Public comment during the meeting focused on the Measure QS issue.
(Tim Berger/Staff Photographer)
"That's just his assumption," Hill said. "There's nothing in the parcel tax language or contract agreement that would say that."
Applebaum said that parcel-tax money should have been directed toward fixing the pension problem, which he contends is the real issue.
Currently, 88% of the district's operating cost is tied to employee compensation, with pension costs expected to be around $16.5 million for the 2018-19 school year. Five years earlier, the district paid a little over $7 million.
While he's fond of Hill, Applebaum said he thinks the former Los Angeles Unified administrator is avoiding making tough decisions.
"He's in year four," Applebaum said of Hill. "He's never had to cut as a superintendent. I had to cut several years as a board member. It's not fun, but you do what you have to do."
Applebaum said the school district should relax its student-teacher ratio as a way to help offset spending, noting his daughter went from a second grade class with a 20-to-1 ratio to 28-to-1 the following year and "she's doing just fine" now in 11th grade.
He pointed to the district cutting $2 million in 2000 during the dot-com bubble, which was done, in part, by slashing discretionary positions.
"They did what they had to do," Applebaum said. "And guess what? When good times came back, class sizes were lowered again, and some people were hired back. We can do that again."
andrew.campa@latimes.com
Twitter @campadresports
Andrew J. Campa
Andrew J. Campa covers the Eastside, Boyle Heights, Echo Park, parts of the San Gabriel Valley and the Southeast Corridor for the Los Angeles Times. He previously worked at the Glendale News-Press, Burbank Leader, Whittier Daily News and Pasadena Star-News. Campa is a Cal State Fullerton and Pasadena City College alumnus.

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/* global describe, it, expect, jasmine */
const MessageConnector = require( '../src/message-connector' )
const expect = require('chai').expect
const sinon = require( 'sinon' )
const sinonChai = require("sinon-chai")
require('chai').use(sinonChai)
const EventEmitter = require( 'events' ).EventEmitter
const settings = {
}
const MESSAGE_TIME = 500

describe( 'Messages are sent between multiple instances', () => {
  var connectorA,
    connectorB,
    connectorC,
    callback_A1 = sinon.spy(),
    callback_B1 = sinon.spy(),
    callback_C1 = sinon.spy()

  it( 'creates connectorA', ( done ) => {
    connectorA = new MessageConnector( settings )
    expect( connectorA.isReady ).to.equal( false )
    connectorA.on( 'ready', done )
    connectorA.on( 'error', ( e ) => { throw e })
  })

  it( 'creates connectorB', ( done ) => {
    connectorB = new MessageConnector( settings )
    expect( connectorB.isReady ).to.equal( false )
    connectorB.on( 'ready', done )
  })

  it( 'creates connectorC', ( done ) => {
    connectorC = new MessageConnector( settings )
    expect( connectorC.isReady ).to.equal( false )
    connectorC.on( 'ready', done )
  })

  it( 'subscribes to a topic', ( done ) => {
    connectorA.subscribe( 'topic1', callback_A1 )
    connectorB.subscribe( 'topic1', callback_B1 )
    connectorC.subscribe( 'topic1', callback_C1 )
    expect( callback_A1.callCount ).to.equal( 0 )
    setTimeout( done, MESSAGE_TIME )
  })

  it( 'connectorB sends a message', ( done ) => {
    connectorB.publish( 'topic1', { some: 'data' } )
    setTimeout( done, MESSAGE_TIME )
  })

  it( 'connectorA and connectorC have received the message', () => {
    expect(callback_A1).to.have.been.calledWith({ some: 'data' })
    expect(callback_B1).to.not.have.been.called
    expect(callback_C1).to.have.been.calledWith({ some: 'data' })
  })

  it( 'connectorC sends a message', ( done ) => {
    connectorC.publish( 'topic1', { other: 'value' } )
    setTimeout( done, MESSAGE_TIME )
  })

  it( 'connectorA and connectorB have received the message', () => {
    expect(callback_A1).to.have.been.calledWith({ other: 'value' })
    expect(callback_B1).to.have.been.calledWith({ other: 'value' })
    expect(callback_C1).to.have.been.calledWith({ some: 'data' })
  })

  it( 'connectorA and connectorC send messages at the same time', ( done ) => {
    connectorA.publish( 'topic1', { val: 'x' } )
    connectorC.publish( 'topic1', { val: 'y' } )
    setTimeout( done, MESSAGE_TIME )
  })

  it( 'connectorA and connectorB have received the message', () => {
    expect(callback_A1).to.have.been.calledWith({ val: 'y' })
    expect(callback_B1).to.have.been.calledWith({ val: 'x' })
    expect(callback_B1).to.have.been.calledWith({ val: 'y' })
    expect(callback_C1).to.have.been.calledWith({ val: 'x' })
  })

  it( 'connectorB unsubscribes', () => {
    connectorB.unsubscribe( 'topic1', callback_B1 )
  })

  it( 'connectorA sends a message', ( done ) => {
    connectorA.publish( 'topic1', { notFor: 'B' } )
    setTimeout( done, MESSAGE_TIME )
  })

  it( 'only connector c has received the message', () => {
    expect(callback_A1).to.not.have.been.calledWith({ notFor: 'B' })
    expect(callback_B1).to.not.have.been.calledWith({ notFor: 'B' })
    expect(callback_C1).to.have.been.calledWith({ notFor: 'B' })
  })
})

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Q: how do use a foreach loop with a datalist in html I'm trying to create a drop down datalist in html, but instead of hardcoding all the different option tags, I want the drop down menu to display the contents of an array.  when I run the code, its just an empty box.  I'm a beginner learning from whatever resources I can find, any help is appreciated.

select a car model

<form action="/action_page.php" method="get">
<?php
$cars = [1 => 'supra', 'skyline', 'GTO', 'corvette', '370z'];

 echo' Choose your car:';
  echo '<input list="cars" name="car" id="car"> ';
 echo ' <datalist id="cars">';
 foreach($cars as $key => $value){
     echo '<option value=\"$key\">$value</option>\n';
 }

  echo '</datalist>';
 echo  '<input type="submit">';
  ?>
</form>

what am I doing wrong?

A: You have a mistake in the code

select a car model

    <form action="/action_page.php" method="get">
    <?php
    $cars = [1 => 'supra', 'skyline', 'GTO', 'corvette', '370z'];

    echo' Choose your car:';
    echo '<input list="cars" name="car" id="car"> ';
    echo ' <datalist id="cars">';
    foreach($cars as $key => $value){
        //some bug fix here
        echo "<option value='${key}'>$value</option>\n";
    }

    echo '</datalist>';
    echo  '<input type="submit">';
    ?>
    </form>

and which js library you used for the drop down list

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The governor of Ceylon was the representative in Ceylon of the British Crown from 1795 to 1948. In this capacity, the governor was president of the Executive Council and Commander-in-Chief of the British Forces in Ceylon. The governor was the head of the British colonial administration in Ceylon, reporting to the Colonial Office.

With Ceylon gaining self-rule and dominion status with the creation of Dominion of Ceylon in 1948, this office was replaced by the Governor-General, who represented the British monarch as the head of state. The office of Governor-General was itself abolished in 1972 and replaced by the post of President when Sri Lanka became a republic.

Appointment
The governor, appointed by the British monarch (on the advice of the prime minister and the secretary of state for the colonies), maintained executive power in Ceylon throughout British rule.

Powers and functions
The governor was the head of the executive administration in the island. Initially limited to the coastal regions, the authority of the governor was extended to the provinces of the Kingdom of Kandy following the Kandyan Convention in 1815. The governor had absolute power in the island deriving it from the traditional powers of the Dutch governors and the king of Kandy and reporting to the secretary of state for the colonies. it was in the Colebrooke Reforms which first defined the role of the governor as "the representative of the Sovereign the Monarch who rules over the Parliament of the United Kingdom". These reforms introduced the first legislator which was expanded over the next century in the reforms that took place. Upon independence in 1948, the office of the Governor was abolished and replaced with that of the Governor-General as the representative of the sovereign.

The governor was the commander-in-chief of British Forces in Ceylon, except only during World War II, when Admiral Sir Geoffrey Layton was appointed Commander-in-Chief, Ceylon with power exceeding that of the governor.

Ceremonial
In November each year, the governor would receive the annual tribute from the sultan of Maldives. The governor was the ex-officio Chancellor of the University of Ceylon and patron of the Royal College Colombo.

Council

Following the Colebrooke Reforms the Executive Council of Ceylon and the Legislative Council of Ceylon was established with the Governor chairing both these councils. In 1931, the Legislative Council was replaced by the State Council of Ceylon with limited self-government.

Style and title
The title of the position was "Governor of Ceylon" and was styled Excellency and enjoyed precedence over all other government officials in Ceylon. He was referred to as 'His Excellency' and addressed as 'Your Excellency'. This practice as constituted to the office of President.

Privileges

Residence
The governor's main residence and office was the King's House in Colombo and secondary residence was the King's Pavilion in Kandy. The vacationing residence of the governor, Queen's Cottage, was located in the hill station of Nuwara Eliya.

Guard
The Governor's Bodyguard was a mounted guard that functioned as a ceremonial guard for the governor when attending state functions. An ceremonial native regiment of Lascoreens was maintained by the office of the governor to provide a ceremonial guard on special occasions such as the Maldivian Tribute or royal visits.

Staff
The governor's office was housed at King's House and had a permanent staff. It consisted of the secretary to the governor, a private secretary, an aide-de-camp, the maha mudaliyar, an office assistant and support staff.

List of governors

See also
Dutch governors of Zeylan
Governor-General of Ceylon
History of Sri Lanka

References
 Governors of Ceylon
 CONSTITUTIONAL HISTORY, Ministry Constitutional Change and National Integration

Specific

Ceylon
Ceylon, British governors
Ceylon

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Home » Boswell, PA Coal Mine Explosion And Cave-In, Jan 1909
Boswell, PA Coal Mine Explosion And Cave-In, Jan 1909
Pennsylvania |
Mining Explosions and Accidents |
MEN ENTOMBED IN BOSWELL MINE.
TWENTY-TWO MINERS CAUGHT IN EXPLOSION AND ONLY SEVEN ESCAPE ALIVE.
SUPERINTENDENT LOGAN DEAD.
FOURTEEN PERSONS, ONE RESCUER INCLUDED, STILL IMPRISONED AND FATE IS UNKNOWN.
Special to the Mirror.
Boswell, Pa., Jan. 26. -- As the result of a terrific mine explosion which occurred in the mines of the United Coal Company here last evening about 7:30 o'clock, fourteen miners are entombed, many of whom are thought to be dead.
Among the known dead are J. G. LOGAN, superintendent of the mines, who died a few minutes after his body was brought to the surface, and a foreigner, ANDREW STULOCK.
GEORGE MORRIS, assistant superintendent, and JOHN COLE, night foreman, are two of the other prominent officials who are yet entombed in the darkness of the underground cavern and their fate is unknown. Also trapped is ANDREW STULOCK'S son, JOHN STULOCK.
(Transcriber's note: The above names are the only five fatalities in this explosion)
The explosion occurred far in the workings and was undoubtedly caused by the ignition of a pocket of gas which had been released by some of the shots fired before the day shift left the mine.
At 3 o'clock this morning, nine of the twenty-two who had been imprisoned had been taken from the mine, and all of them were overcome with the afterdamp, which followed the explosion. All are reported as having a chance of recovery, except LOGAN, the superintendent, who died shortly after being brought to the surface and the foreigner who also died.
The fate of the fourteen men still in the mine is unknown, although it is feared that all have perished, since every minute in the deadly after-damp lessens the hope of their revival.
The unrecovered men in addition to the mine officials mentioned, includes one of a rescuing party who went into the mine soon after the explosion occurred and whose body has not yet been recovered. Of the twenty-two men who were imprisoned, aside from the seven who escaped alive, the bodies of LOGAN and the foreigner were the only ones recovered up until a late hour this forenoon. The thirteen other miners and the member of the rescuing party were still entombed.
Hundreds of people have remained at the mouth of the mine all night, anxious to hear the news from relatives or friends in the mine. Three physicians have been in constant attendance, ready to do all in their power for those who are brought out.
The explosion is the first of the kind in the Somerset Field, and that the harvest of death was not more terrible is due entirely to the small number of men who were in the mine.
No explanation is given as to why the superintendent and foreman were both in the mine at that hour, although it is supposed that some indication of trouble had occurred and that they had gone in to investigate. It may be possible that the explosion occurred before the officials entered the mine, but this is denied by the people at Boswell who ought to know.
It is the custom among bituminous miners, especially in mines where the ventilation is not of the best, to "shoot down" their coal just before they leave the mine in the evening, in order that the smokemay have a chance to clear out of the
"rooms" before they begin loading the coal on the cars. Where this is done there are a large number of places in a big mine where the coal is blasted down at one time, and it seems likely that in one of these blasts a pocket of gas was tapped, which later became ignited and caused the explosion.
So far as could be learned, no one was hurt in the actual explosion, and all of the victims were overcome by the after-damp which is simply carbonic acid gas, or air from which all of the oxygen has been burned and its place taken by the gas formed in combustion. This gas is so deadly that a few minutes in it is usually sufficient to overcome the strongest man.
The mine was known as one of the best ventilated and dquipped in that part of the country, and was therefore considered entirely safe.
The mine where the accident occurred is what is known as a "slope," that is, it is driven into the side of a hill on a down grade in order to reach the seam, which is at a lower level than the surface. The operation had been driven about a mile, or between 5,000 and 6,000 feet, while headings have been driven from both sides of the main heading about half that distance.
The mine was opened by the Merchants' coal company, but was some time ago sold, with other operations, to the United coal company of Pittsburg. It is equipped with electric haulage, but not with electric lights. It has employed from 250 to 300 miners on the day shift, but this shift was over at 4 o'clock, and most of the miners were out at the time the explosion occurred.
The territory is not regarded as gaseous, although has has been found in rare instances. The practice has been to not require the use of safety lamps except in cases where the fire boss has detected signs of gas, when they were used in all cases.
Boswell lies eighteen miles south of Johnstown, and has a population of 1,500, many of whom are foreigners.
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Challenge #02541-F351: Labels and Assumptions
27 December 2019 on Instant Story, Just Add Prompt, Amalgam Universe, Humans are Insane, Cultural Baggage
Several humans were starting to get more than just a little annoyed at constantly being called insane. Even at school, when their kids would goof off during breaks or if the kids were in the park playing, others treated them as though they were mind-damaged. When they joined the Galactic Alliance, they thought they would be treated like equals, but instead, they find that they tend to be treated like savages even by other Deathworlders. Sometimes the view that, simply because they were human that they were automatically deranged and dangerous, was hindering them finding good jobs or having the lives they'd hoped for when they left the harsh, pollution-choked, worlds they'd come from. But would anyone listen to their complaints? And, more important, would anyone even try to help? Or, as one man put it as he angrily spoke with another who, like so many, told him he was nuts, "Humans are NOT insane! We're just different!" -- Anon Guest
[AN: Actually, there's nothing preventing Humans from finding the jobs that fit them best in my pet universe, and being a little bit off the wall isn't necessarily a bad thing. I say as much over here More on that philosophy here, I should think.]
There's two ways to go when the world around you keeps telling you that you're bad. You can be everything they expect you to be, playing into every trope, or you can fight your whole life against it, breaking your heart and soul in the process. Plenty of Humans had tried both. Sometimes, it's easier to surrender and agree with everything they say about you until you believe it yourself. On this day, Human Sal had just... had enough of it.
"We're not insane," he protested, apropos of nothing in the middle of the Valiant Star's mess hall. "We're different. Why does everyone think we're going to just fly off the handle and hurt everyone and everything around us?"
The rest of the crew stopped what they were doing. Some put potentially dangerous tools down or at least rendered them safe for the interim. Companion Ulla gently put hir hand on Sal's and said, "Why do you think we think that?"
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Groups seek home-delivered water to all Flint homes amid lead crisis
Residents, pastors and activists ask a federal judge to force the city and state to deliver safe drinking water.
Groups seek home-delivered water to all Flint homes amid lead crisis Residents, pastors and activists ask a federal judge to force the city and state to deliver safe drinking water. Check out this story on Freep.com: https://on.freep.com/1Moc49v
Matt Helms, Detroit Free Press Published 4:45 p.m. ET March 24, 2016 | Updated 8:28 p.m. ET March 24, 2016
Flint residents pick up cases of bottled water at the Flint Fire Station 3 in Flint, MI on Tuesday, January 26, 2016.(Photo: Romain Blanquart, Detroit Free Press)
Flint residents and activists are seeking a federal court order to force bottled-water delivery to every household in the city.
Flint's Concerned Pastors for Social Action, resident Melissa Mays, the Natural Resources Defense Council and the ACLU of Michigan said today that the groups filed a motion for preliminary injunction in the Eastern District of Michigan. The motion is part of a Jan. 27 lawsuit alleging violations of the federal Safe Drinking Water Act and asking the federal court to intervene and secure safe drinking water.
"Despite public pressure and media attention, there are Flint residents who cannot reliably access safe drinking water," Dimple Chaudhary, a senior attorney with the defense council, said in a statement. "We are asking the court to order the City of Flint and Michigan state officials to provide every household with bottled-water delivery, to ensure all Flint residents have safe water for the duration of this crisis."
The organizations said Flint and state officials must respond to their request in court in April. The city and state have filed motions to have the lawsuit dismissed, but the court hasn't ruled on that issue.
Flint's lead-contaminated municipal water supply remains unsafe to drink if unfiltered — health officials recommend that children and pregnant women drink only bottled water — and could remain so for months. The organizations said they are asking the court to direct the delivery of bottled water to people's homes because many residents in the high-poverty city don't have access to a car or other reliable transportation.
Pastor Alfred Harris of Saints of God Church in Flint said morale among residents is low.
"It is tiring and draining to rely on bottled water day in and day out, and there is no end in sight," said Harris, who is president of the pastors group. "I'm not sure that people in Flint will ever have full confidence again that our water is safe to drink. At a minimum, and until a permanent fix is in place, we want Flint and state officials to provide sufficient bottled water to everyone in Flint who needs it, so that Concerned Pastors and other volunteer organizations are not spending our limited resources trying to fill the gaps in water services that still exist today."
The groups said many Flint residents don't have easy access to distribution centers such as city fire houses where bottled water is handed out for free. According to the group, nearly 18% of Flint residents do not have access to cars, and the city's bus system is unreliable. Other residents are physically unable to carry cases of water from distribution centers using the bus system.
With families limited to one free case of bottled water per day, the groups said, many are buying more water even as they pay water bills for tap water they can't ingest. What's more, elderly and home-bound residents rely on volunteers to deliver water, and some immigrant residents are afraid to pick up water because National Guard and law-enforcement officers distribute it.
"We have no choice but to take this action because, despite the government's promises and efforts thus far, large numbers of Flint residents still lack acceptable access to adequate supplies of clean, safe drinking water," the ACLU of Michigan's legal director, Michael Steinberg, said in a statement. "Furthermore, despite the official apologies and vows to fix this crisis, our government officials still have a long way to go to ensure that clean water begins flowing to Flint homes as quickly as possible."
Gov. Rick Snyder's office late Thursday said the state is "committed to helping the people of Flint recover from this crisis and to move forward as quickly and safely as possible with restoring quality water service to their homes."
Spokesman Ari Adler said in a statement the state has distributed more than 540,000 cases of water, more than 110,00 water filters and more than 42,000 water testing kits, and denied that there's a limit to how much bottled water a family may take at distribution sites. He said no one is asked for an ID at the sites, and no questions are asked.
Adler said anyone who is home-bound or unable to get water on their own can call the United Way 211 phone line to be placed on a list for home-delivered water.
Contact Matt Helms: 313-222-1450, mhelms@freepress.com or on Twitter@matthelms
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Q: How to go to a subdirectory in CMD? How can I go to a subdirectory without specifying its whole path?
So when I am in
C:/users/USERNAME/desktop/project/build/

How can I then navigate to
C:/users/USERNAME/desktop/project/build/directory 1/

I tried
cd /directory 1

But this results in

The system cannot find the path specified.

I want to use something as simple as the .. command, which goes one directory back without specifying its whole path. Is there something similar to change to a subdirectory?

A: On Windows the directory separator is \ ... the backslash character. The slash character / is used on Windows for parameters/options of a command/executable/script.
For compatibility reasons like #include instructions in C/C++/C# with a relative path using / as directory separator Windows accepts also paths with / and automatically convert them to \ when a string is interpreted as file/folder name with a path. That is done by the file IO functions used by Windows executables on accessing the file system of a storage device.
A path starting with a backslash is a path relative to root of current drive.
For that reasons cd /Directory 1 is executed as cd /D irectory 1 which means with interpreting /D at beginning of the directory argument string as optional option /D by command CD to change also the drive and the rest of the directory argument string not enclosed in double quotes as name of the subdirectory to change current directory to. The subdirectory irectory 1 does not exist on your machine.
If the directory name starts with any other character than letter D and using / instead of \ at beginning of the directory argument string like on using cd /Folder 1, there would be executed cd "C:\Folder 1" with drive C: being the current drive.
There are three types of relative paths:

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*Path is relative to current directory if path starts with .\ or with directory name.

*Path is relative to parent directory of current directory if path starts with ..\.

*Path is relative to root of current drive if path starts with \.

.\ and ..\ can be also used anywhere inside a path after a directory separator multiple times and Windows automatically resolves the path to an absolute path.
So correct would be using cd "Directory 1", or not recommended cd Directory 1.
The help of command CD output on running cd /? explains that the command CD does not require enclosing a path with one or more spaces in double quotes as usually required because a space is usually interpreted as separator between arguments to pass to a command, executable, or script.
It is nevertheless best practice to always enclose the path in double quotes because of some other characters require path being enclosed in double quotes to interpret (nearly) all characters in path as literal characters.
For example a directory has the name Test & Doc. With cd Test & Doc the Windows command processor executes cd Test and next tries to find an executable or script with Doc and Doc.* having a file extension listed in environment variable PATHEXT in current directory or any directory listed in environment variable PATH because of the ampersand is interpreted as unconditional AND operator for execution of multiple commands on a single command line. But on using cd "Test & Doc" the entire double quoted string is interpreted as name of a directory to change to by the Windows command processor.
BTW: All internal (included in cmd.exe ... the Windows command processor) and external commands (executables installed by default in %SystemRoot%\System32) can be started with the parameter /? in a command prompt window to get displayed the help for this command.

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*cd /?

*cmd /?

*pushd /?

*popd /?
More details on Windows commands can be found at

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*Microsoft's command-line reference

*SS64.com - A-Z index of the Windows CMD command line

*Single line with multiple commands using Windows batch file
The Microsoft documentation about Naming Files, Paths, and Namespaces offers even more details about file names and how paths are interpreted by Windows kernel. Everybody writing program or script code for applications or scripts executed on Windows should have read this documentation page at least once from top to bottom.


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Jammu and Kashmir prepares for Big Butterfly Month : India 2020
Last Updated on : 2 Sep,2020 | Source : Universal News Timeline
Bhaderwah:
The union territory of Jammu and Kashmir is all set to be the part of nationwide campaign, the first of its kind to understand the importance of butterflies, their distribution and ecology through a series of events slated for the fortnight beginning from September 05-20, 2020. More than fifty organizations working on butterflies all over India including the big organizations like National Centre for Biological Sciences and Bombay Natural History Society are getting involved in this maiden endevaour. The event named 'Big Butterfly Month: India 2020' aims to bring together the butterfly enthusiasts, hobbyists and scientists from across different states and union territories of the country. Dr. Shakha Sharma, the regional head for UT of Jammu and Kashmir highlighted the series of activities being organized at national and regional level. This includes webinars, expert talks and group discussions besides several competitions. Individual entries are being invited for butterfly photography, videography, life cycle, journal writing and butterfly drawing at national level and butterfly painting/sketching, poetry, collage/craft and rangoli making at the regional level. This is fetching very encouraging results, she added. A massive citizen science initiative, the big butterfly count is being run from September 14-20, wherein the interested butterfly enthusiasts are encouraged to record the butterflies around and upload them on the online repositories like Butterflies of India, Indian Biodiversity Portal and INaturalist. The data so generated will be helpful in understanding the distribution pattern and population dynamics over space and time, she added.
The Union territory of Jammu and Kashmir is actively partnering with other states and UTs in this national endevaour, she impressed. The butterfly enthusiasts, hobbyists and researchers mostly the students, are linked to each other through social media. The regional head coordinates with the district coordinators for the dissemination of information and necessary feedback from time to time. The interest and enthusiasm of the participants has been phenomenal, she said. Webinars and group chats have been organized from time to time to acquaint the participants about the basics of butterfly identification, counting and online uploading at regional level. We will continue to hold such events in future too including the organization of butterfly festival at regional level in collaboration with our partner, Dr Neeraj Sharma, Head Institute of Mountain Environment, University of Jammu next summer. This would definitely bring the hitherto butterfly rich but under-represented union territory of Jammu and Kashmir to limelight in the north western Himalayas, she maintained.
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Congratulations to this weekend's brides!
Congratulations to this week's brides!!
Congrats to this weekend's brides!
Congrats to this weekend's Brides!!!!
Bachelorette Party tonight and a little bit of a vent.
Congrats to this Weekend's Brides!!


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Blue Blaze - Dance Suite
Joanna Lee ()
Blue Blaze - Dance Suite 2017
oboe, clarinet, bassoon and horn
Orchestra of the Swan
'Blue Blaze - Dance Suite' is a Concertante piece for oboe, clarinet, bassoon and horn soloists with string orchestra. The piece consists of four movements inspired by four different dance or movement styles - ballet, hip-hop, dirge and rumpus. Each movement is dedicated to a location and/or person who has impacted on my life.
'Blue Blaze Ballet' is inspired by daybreak at Aldeburgh beach in Suffolk, with its glistening blue sea and sky. It is a dedication to the composing time I have spent in Aldeburgh and Anthony Payne and Jane Manning.
'Hockley Hip-hop' is dedicated to Joe Cutler, who I studied composition with at Birmingham Conservatoire, my accommodation at the time being in Hockley. The movement references Cutler's work 'Sal's Sax' and also my own piece, 'Jimmie's got a goil' from 'Chansons Innocentes', which was my first commission for the Orchestra of the Swan in 2008.
'Dunwich Dirge' pays reference to my childhood in Suffolk with many visits to the small village of Dunwich. Dunwich has a sad past, with much of the once large town lost to sea by storms. With its close vicinity to Aldeburgh, the movement is dedicated to Benjamin Britten and specifically, his Serenade for Tenor, Horn and Strings.
'Rugrat Rumpus' is inspired by the movement and unpredictable behaviour of my two-year old daughter. It is dedicated to Oliver Knussen, my mentor, and specifically 'The Wild Rumpus' from his fantasy opera 'Where The Wild Things Are'. The movement pays reference again to my piece for the Orchestra of the Swan , 'Hist whist' from 'Chansons Innocentes'.
Joanna Lee
14.2.17 Stratford Artshouse, Stratford-upon-Avon: Orchestra of the Swan / David Curtis
22.2.17 Town Hall, Birmingham: Orchestra of the Swan / David Curtis


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Robert Morgan Fisher
Surfing YouTube at work, late of a Tuesday morning, posting retro vids of obscure songs and groups from my childhood on Facebook. Remember this one? I press enter, sit back, refresh the screen as responses begin to appear, happy to lead the nostalgia charge. I glory in an encyclopedic knowledge of radio hits. My youth, particularly the years that imprint musical taste—middle school more or less—took place at the absolute high-water mark for popular music. Those songs mattered for a lot of reasons, not the least of which was the war.
My father: Navy fighter pilot. Five tours in 'Nam. We moved around. Dad deployed overseas for weeks and months. There was a year-long tour of the Mediterranean in the early sixties where it was decided that relocating the family to Naples, was just too expensive. Mother and I languished in a state of suspended animation, passing a summer, fall, winter and most of a spring alone at Quonset Point, Rhode Island. Shortly after returning from his odyssey, Dad spent several months in Florida on the front lines of the Cuban Missile Crisis. Then, the bright shining lie of Vietnam.
After college, when life began to unravel in confounding ways—drinking, firings—I put in several years with a psychotherapist and assorted 12-step gatherings. It was determined that Dad's prolonged absences had wounded me so deeply that I could expect to be viewing the rest of my life through the matchless prism of abandonment. No use wallowing in self-pity from that point on. Learning the source of my discontent set in motion a healing of sorts. I mended fences with my parents and two younger sisters. I forgave my father not just for the actual absences but for other frictions: his overcompensating every time he returned, reasserting authority with too heavy a hand. I'm a parent of two toddlers now and better understand where Dad was coming from. For his part, my father expressed sincere regret for his well-intentioned excesses. I figured it was all pretty much behind us.
But then along come these homecoming videos on YouTube. The first title that catches my eye—Soldier dad surprises son!—lodges in my throat like a cube of steak. Even before I hit play, my eyes involuntarily well with tears. Before viewing, I note the commentary:
Hanky time. Orphan2871nb 2 hours ago 14 
The boy sprints to daddy, arms wide, launching himself like a missile, face already contorted with crushing emotion. There's a poignant song underneath; something folky, acoustic and manipulative.
I pause the vid with the boy in mid-flight. I'm already sniffling, video viewed through the proverbial veil. After several replays, I'm drained. I lock my office door—quickly devouring the menu of related videos, watching all, until I've exhausted the entire thread. I have forsaken the day's workload and lunch. I take a long, guilt-free nap on my office couch.
When I was eight, father again overseas, Mom signed me up for Pop Warner Football—another "character-building exercise." I had no idea what I was in for—grueling two-a-days in 100-degree heat, calisthenics, endless running. I couldn't hack it. My feet had been badly burned as a baby (electrical short, flaming curtain falling into the crib—horrible) and neither parent seemed willing to admit that I was, for all practical purposes, crippled. On the third day, after miles of laps in which I finished dead last, I suffered a complete nervous breakdown. The coach gathered the entire team around, as if to make an example of me. But he did not shame, as expected. Coach Tullis—a hulking black man, career Air Force—merely rested a hand on my sob-convulsed shoulders and declared:
"If it hurts, it's okay to cry, men."
When I quit the team that day, Mom ordered me to explain things to Dad via the monthly tapes we recorded on a 3M Wollensak reel-to-reel. Quite a morale-builder, that was. It's just … not my thing, I mumbled, crappy microphone in hand, younger sisters eavesdropping. Dad didn't mention my failed initiative in his next tape. But he did include a terse, frowning sort of acknowledgement in a letter. Was disappointed to hear your news … I carried the searing humiliation through adolescence, hobbling several halfhearted jockstrapping attempts to earn Dad's approval in middle and high school.
When my own kids began organized athletics, I was determined to protect them from similar trauma, urgently—preemptively—explaining: "It's okay to cry if it hurts!" But they stared at me in confused amusement. They were far less damaged, tougher. I settled for just being there, if needed.
Weeks pass. I devote more and more time to what I call The Pornography of Relief. That's what it is, I decide, the reactions of these unsuspecting military dependents—pure catharsis. I know the feeling. It's creepy; catching people—kids mostly—in an utterly naked emotional moment. No one asks if they mind having their souls splashed across the Internet and digitized into perpetuity. It is exploitative, yet irresistible to watch.
In my day, it was a private, family thing. There was respect.
Even as these words form in my head, I know this isn't entirely true. There's a picture in a family scrapbook of Dad returning from the Mediterranean Cruise. I clearly remember that homecoming: Dad and another pilot wore fezzes they'd picked up in Saudi Arabia or someplace as a joke. In the black and white 8 x 10 (a gift from a squadron PR wonk), I'm four, looking up at my father with a gap-toothed grin, shaking hands. Mom's not in the picture. I hugged my father in the dignified way of those days, pressing my face into Dad's flight suit that smelled just a tiny bit like skunk, for the ways of a warrior are wild.
So how to explain the unchecked emotion? Are all homecomings like this nowadays? They can't be. The YouTube scenes seem cherry-picked for maximum sentimentality.
I consult my shrink, who cites the obvious: envy, sadness, loss. He suggests that, during the war of adolescence, I perhaps wished Dad wouldn't come home. It is true that kids whose fathers were KIA seemed to be taken care of, sanctified even: hagiography with the sterling sheen of martyrdom. They achieved Instant Closure. Then I'd watch those same families slowly unravel; assorted misbehaviors, missteps, failed initiative. The absence of paternal presence inevitably caught up with them. MIA families had it even worse. I came to realize I was incredibly lucky to have a living father.
But when my littlest sister, four years old, got run over by a car and spent three months in the hospital—where was Dad? Somehow the injuries got downplayed in back and forth channels of communication to where it seemed … unnecessary for Dad to take emergency leave. We were at war, after all. The accident left obvious physical marks, but the deeper scar remained hidden from view, surfacing years later when she entered into that doomed marriage with a college professor 22 years her senior.
Several times I come close to forwarding one of these homecoming videos to my father, but I stop myself. What for? What am I trying to say or provoke? What's the point? But the more of these videos I watch, the more my heart feels squeezed. The urge to blurt out some ancient confession takes hold. I share them with my sisters, but they never respond.
I begin to identify moments with my son and daughter, compare them to my own childhood. I isolate and identify traumas, nipping them in the bud with the power of my mere presence. Bullies, confusing social situations, shamings—the all-consuming inadequacies that dog us into adulthood like a lost limb. There is no substitute for a loving father, this I know too well. I take unreasonable pride in the seemingly well-adjusted arc of their progress.
Dad is not oblivious to this achievement. He even sends me a Father's Day card addressed to: The Best Father I Know. Still, there's unfinished business. But it's not just love—it's protection. It was popular in those days to adopt a sink-or-swim attitude with the kids; they were often "around" or "in the other room." They'll be okay. As a small boy, I was allowed astonishing freedom to wander from dawn to dusk, sometimes into early evening, covering dozens of miles—crazy by today's standards. I recently saw a story about how they finally solved the mysterious disappearance of a boy from a military town where I'd once lived. A serial killer on death row confessed he'd buried the boy's body at a nearby freeway construction site. Now they're dismantling an overpass in a festivity of forensics.
I have a flimsy survivor's pride that's difficult enjoy or sustain. These videos remind me of my fraudulence; they lay me low in unexpected ways while at the same time flooding my eyes with almost unbearable, inexpressible joy. Sometimes on my way to work, I imagine myself buried beneath the freeway.
I swear off the videos for a while, but soon I'm back at it, searching for something unnamable. I know it's there. Coworkers notice my red eyes. Allergies, I tell them.
One day, after months of daily, almost hourly surfing, I find it:
Son flees in terror from returning soldier dad!
It starts out normal enough; high-and-tight-haircut Marine father waiting in the wings while his son sits in the front row of a preschool assembly looking bored. An all-too common setup, actually. I've noticed a lack of surprise among what I now call "the marks"; I sometimes suspect they've been tipped off, or intuited what was about to happen.
This preschooler, however, is caught completely unawares.
Offstage and hidden from view, the USMC First Lieutenant stands, grinning, utility cover of his camo uniform wedged under his left armpit. He's got hawkish eyes, an earnest snaggle-tooth grin, his right arm clutching a misty-eyed Semper Fi wife. She's Corp issue, all the way: honey-blonde, skin like a Vogue model. Wives of Marines are often stunning.
The boy has daddy's hawk eyes, mother's hair. It's a small room, cafeteria maybe. A woman teacher steps up and says they have "a special guest today who's going to talk about the job of a soldier." First Lieutenant puts on his camo cap, stands erect and strides out from behind the curtain to face his kid—who shoots up vertically, like a bobcat, twists around with a screech and hits the ground running, making straight for the door. The First Lieutenant stands there, dumbstruck. Then everyone, including the audience gives chase. The camera keeps rolling; for a time it's just jiggling linoleum tiles. The camera suddenly lifts, revealing a playground. The boy sprints like a champion, screams like a horror movie queen. He takes them around the playground; between swings, over play structures and slides, through crawl tubes. It's an adrenaline-powered ballet of Parkour evasion. At first, people giggle with sincere hilarity. Then nervous snickers. Then they stop laughing. He's wearing them out. They're getting grumpy. Occasional shots of the father, thin-lipped with embarrassment—yet his eyes … what is that? Hurt? Yes—and worry. Still, the boy does not slow down—if anything he speeds up. He's heading for the field! someone shouts. We can trap him by the fence! The person with the camera pants. It's exhausting to watch. They close in. The boy's screams increase; it hurts my heart. He runs to one fence, tries to scale it, then tries the other. Now he's in a corner. Arms raised. Surrendering. Crying.
The father is wrecked, perplexed; the mission a complete failure. The boy has his arms locked around dad's head, face deep into the buzz cut, eyes clenched. The sobs are so loud it takes me a minute to realize they're my own. It is the most satisfying video I've ever seen, almost orgasmic. It's a build: amused chuckles, followed by belly laughs, ending with something like a little tragic death. My door is closed, of course, but I'm sure everyone is wondering what's wrong with me. The answer? Nothing.
This is the one I will email to my father. I just have to get myself together.
Subject header: Watch this.
Text below: Now.
I'll send it. Then call him. Or maybe he'll call me first. Even though he's old and everything is hard for him, maybe he'll get on a plane and come to me. I'll drive to the airport, wait for him at the gate. When we see each other, we'll embrace. I'll take in the fragrance of my father: that sour, sweet musk of travel and stale cologne. We'll have lunch. We'll talk.
Or maybe he'll just call. Maybe he'll call and ask me to come to him. Once I send the email, he'll call for sure. Unless he doesn't.
Isnel Othello - January 30, 2014
Well done Antioch alumni!
Paul Smith - April 7, 2014
This was fascinating & terrifying. My earliest memory is of my dad coming home from World War II. I remember playing with a ty train on a bare floor. When dad came through the door, I recognized him instantly (I think). Maybe my memory is playing tricks on me.
In Robert Fisher's case, and in mine, the presence or absence of a father is really important. I enjoyed this story for the real emotion it displays.
Robert Morgan Fisher - May 21, 2014
Thanks for the comments, everyone. This story happened very organically for me–I saw the vids on YouTube, felt ambivalent but also touched. There's a lot of me in this story and, to quote Pan Conroy: The children of warriors in our country learn the grace and caution that come from a permanent sense of estrangement.


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Pressbox (Press Release) - Dubai, UAE: With Intersec 2019, the world's largest trade and networking event for safety, security and fire protection around the corner, one of the key focal points of the 3-day mega event continues to be Commercial Security - which will form the largest section when doors open in Dubai.
More than 500 exhibitors from across the world have already confirmed their presence at Intersec 2019, including 2/3rds of the world's Top 50 security providers, as global security brands continue to make a beeline for the mega safety and security event, to tap into and harness the enormous growth potential of the wider regional market.
Recent market figures released by Knowledge Partner 6W Research estimates that the Middle East market for Commercial Security will reach US$ 7.4 billion by 2024, achieving a sustained CAGR of 16.6%. The research indicated that demand for IP-based video surveillance systems, access control and intrusion detectors would continue to drive the market, which is fuelled by increased government spending on infrastructure projects and the imposition of stringent regulatory policies, creating increased opportunities for global security brands.
Upcoming mega events in the region, such as the Expo 2020 in Dubai and the expected influx of millions of additional visitors are also expected to create demand for the latest in video surveillance systems and intelligent monitoring apparatus.
Access control systems continue to remain in high demand in the Middle East, registering a market revenue of $300 million in 2017. Increasing awareness of security threats and a growth in IT spending will keep the market driving ahead. Meanwhile the demand for biometric access controlled systems has surged across the Middle East with the growing adaption of fingerprint and eye scanners across the region. The largest share of deployment of such systems in the region remains in the commercial sector.
According to 6W Research, the market for intelligent video analytic software and systems is also on the rise across the entire region and are expected to create huge growth opportunities for manufacturers, vendors and distributors.
"Commercial Security continues to be one of the chief driving sectors of Intersec as companies across the region continue to invest in cutting-edge intelligent security systems to protect their investments and facilities in an increasingly complex security scenario," said Intersec Show Director, Andreas Rex. "As the most influential and significant international trade platform for safety, security and fire protection in the wider region, Intersec 2019 will showcase a wide spectrum of the latest developments in the Commercial Security sector."
Leading international security solutions provider CP Plus will be front and centre at Intersec 2019 with their latest range of intelligent surveillance products. Director, Gaurav Khemka said: "Indeed, we've had a long association with Intersec, and we look forward to it each year with renewed enthusiasm. Video surveillance has evolved manifold over the years and as a market leader we have always strived to stay ahead of the competition. The new age surveillance is all about automation, intelligence, and resource efficiency.
"This year we are focused on showcasing our Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Internet of Things (IoT) based technologies - IP surveillance solutions; Network PoE switches; 4K analog HD solutions with H.265+ CODEC; Law & Enforcement solutions such as Bodyworn cameras and Mobile DVRs; Command and Control Room solutions including Integrated VMS and Health Monitoring systems; Time & Attendance solutions with Cloud management; and Multi-apartment Video Door Phone systems."
Meanwhile, Fernando Cajal, International Sales Manager of GESAB, leading security solutions provider said: "Attending an event like Intersec allows us to get in touch with the main decision makers of security and defence projects. We can show our solutions directly to our target and meet new customers, as well as new developments in the sector. GESAB will showcase the own custom design and manufacture full range of technical furniture including control consoles, meeting & conference room plus our Dynamic IP Based KVM system DeskWall. We are introducing the GESAB Dynamic KVM System DeskWall with the new remote desktop capability and our audio visual solutions with the new DataWall in the region for the first time."
The Middle East is considered a very significant market by Videotec, who use the show's trans-regional reach to meet and interact with a large pool of potential buyers and partners across the region. Marketing and Communications Director, Alessandro Francini said: "The Middle east is one our most important business area, besides at Intersec is possible to meet visitors from all over the world not only from Middle East. We will showcase our housing, PTZ camera and ex-proof products. At Intersec this year Videotec will present several brand new products, for example: the Ulisse Radical range, which are the pinnacle of PTZ camera technology and we will also present some other new ex-proof products too."
Intersec 2019, which will run from January 20-22, 2019 at the Dubai International Convention and Exhibition Centre, is expected to draw in more than 1,300 exhibitors from 59 countries. The annual three-day event, organised by Messe Frankfurt Middle East, will encompass the seven sections of Commercial Security; Fire & Rescue; Perimeter & Physical Security; Safety & Health; Homeland Security & Policing; Information Security; and Smart Home & Building Automation.
Intersec 2019 will also have a number of extra features including the Future Security Summit which will address key issues such as: AI, security Integration, emergency preparedness and response, data protection, IoT and much more.


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Dubai South recently visited the Rashid Centre for the Determined Ones and announced that it is granting 11 students of the Centre to benefit from full scholarship for the academic year 2018-2019 as part of its corporate social responsibility initiative of promoting inclusive education and financial accessibility to all. The initiative is also in line with Dubai South's commemoration of the 'Year of Zayed', who embodied humanitarian values of giving and equality.
Senior officials and the management team of Dubai South interacted with the students during the visit and expressed their support to the learning activities of the students, which are taught through a multidisciplinary approach to special education, including speech therapy and occupational therapy. The scholarship aims to enable the people of determination students to enhance their skills and not be hindered by financial concerns.
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Roads and Maritime Services and Transport for NSW have introduced several changes to parking restrictions and tow-away areas during light rail construction.
If you need to bring your car into central Sydney there are a number of parking options available.
Please be aware that special event clearways may be in place.
The City operates 2 car parks in central Sydney and Kings Cross and there are a number of off-street car parks also available in the local area.
Around a quarter of the City's on-street parking is metered pay parking that accept coins, credit cards and mobile phone payments. Rates vary depending on the location and time of day or night.
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Xperia Z5, Z5 Premium and Z5 Compact receive Android 6.0 Marshmallow OTA update in Japan
By Adam Kreller -
It is true that Sony has been quite slow when it comes to pushing updates for their devices, however, it looks like the company is trying to get rid of that image and is working hard to push the software updates. Recently, the Japanese tech company has started rolling out the Marshmallow software for the Sony Xperia Z5 series handsets in Japan.
According to reports that were published by International Business Times, Sony Mobile has released the Android 6.0 Marshmallow OTA update for the owners of Sony Xperia Z5, Xperia Z5 Compact and Xperia Z5 Premium in Japan. It was also rumored that other Sony Xperia Z5 owners – as well as other Xperia Z series devices – are nearly all set to obtain the Android 6.0 software upgrade.
Before updating their devices, though, there are a couple of precautions that users should take. Even if the data is going to be safe as the update is an incremental one, still making a backup is advised. Also, before installing the update make sure that your device is charged to at least 60 percent of charge. Do keep in mind that once you update, you can't downgrade the software.
Here is a brief overview of the specs of the Sony Xperia Z5, Xperia Z5 Compact, and Z5 Premium.
Starting with the Z5 it features a 5.2-inches wide display with a resolution of 1080 x 1920 pixels (~428 ppi pixel density). It is powered by a Qualcomm MSM8994 Snapdragon 810 processor along with 3GB of RAM and 32GB of internal memory. In the camera department, it packs a 23MP rear camera and a 5.1MP front one. The device is supported by a 2,900mAh battery.
Starting with the Z5 Compact it features a 4.6 inches wide display with a resolution of 720 x 1280 pixels (~323 ppi pixel density). It is powered by a Qualcomm MSM8994 Snapdragon 810 processor along with 2GB of RAM and 32GB of internal memory. In the camera department it sports a 23MP rear camera and a 5.1MP front camera. The device is supported by a 2,700mAh battery.
Starting with the Z5 it features a 5.5 inches wide display with a resolution of 2160 x 3840 pixels (~806 ppi pixel density). It is powered by a Qualcomm MSM8994 Snapdragon 810 processor along with 3GB of RAM and 32GB of internal memory. In the camera department, it comes with a 23MP rear camera and a 5.1MP front camera. The device is supported by a 3,430mAh battery.
Did your Xperia Z5 receive the Android 6.0 Marshmallow update treatment? Let us know in the comments below.
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Police find another stolen Buddha image in Chiang Mai
TNA, April 1, 2005
CHIANG MAI, Thailand -- The scandal of a former temple abbot accused of stealing ancient Buddha images to fund his betting habit deepened yesterday when the police announced the capture of a second 600 year-old image.
Stolen from Jetiyanusorn temple in Chiang Mai?s Doi Saket district three months ago, the image seized yesterday had been sold on to a Bangkok businessperson. The 7 inch high bronze image is thought to be over 600 years old.
Yesterday?s capture follows the seizure of another stolen image last week, and Pol. Lt. Gen. Kanuphong Singhara Na Ayutthaya, commander of the 5th Regional Police Division, indicated that the police were aware of the whereabouts of a third image from the temple.
The person accused of stealing the images is Mr. Charawuthi Kaewyon, 34, the former abbot of the temple, who is said to have sold the images to a market in Chiang Mai. The images, which were then sold on to a chain of several other purchasers, were then replaced by fake ones. Mr. Charawuthi, who was still abbot of the temple at the time of the thefts, is thought to have used the proceeds from the sale of the images to make football bets.


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Tom Hanks in the face of recession in "A HOLOGRAM FOR THE KING"
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Award-winning actor and filmmaker Tom Hanks stars in "A Hologram for the King" set in recession-ravaged 2010 as an American businessman named Alan Clay adapted from the book of the same title by acclaimed author Dave Eggers.
Hanks' role in the movie is a broke, depressed and freshly divorced man who arrives in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia to close what he hopes will be the deal of a lifetime. His mission: sell a state-of-the-art holographic teleconferencing system to the Saudi government. Adrift and alone in an unfamiliar land, Alan befriends taxi driver Yousef (Alexander Black), who chauffeurs him through the desert to the "King's Metropolis of Economy and Trade," a surreal ghost town of vacant skyscrapers and half-completed construction projects. Baffled by the bureaucratic reception he gets at the so-called "Welcome Center," Alan struggles to figure out why his small IT support team is being forced to spend its days in a sweltering tent as it preps for the big presentation. Worse, because of the Saudi way of doing business, he's unclear if the king will ever show up for the long-scheduled meeting.
Clay arrives in Saudi Arabia without any prior knowledge of the place, other than his own cartoonish, stereotypical concept, according to Hanks. "Though he's not a happy guy, when Alan tries to sell the upbeat nature of the 3-D hologram and rally his team, he becomes this other guy, the former Alan Clay, a man with energy and vibrancy. That's where the comedy comes from."
In addition to emphasizing the book's humor, Tykwer bolstered the romantic elements as he translated Eggers' story from page to screen. "The longer I worked on the script, the more profound the love story became because it connects to this whole third-act decision where the movie becomes a more optimistic tale," Tykwer says. Alan is coaxed out of his funk by Zahra Hakem, an alluring, talented surgeon portrayed by London-born Sarita Choudhury. In her role as CIA Division Chief Saul Berenson's long-suffering wife Mira on the Emmy-winning series "Homeland," the half-Indian, half-English actress developed an avid following that included Hanks himself. "I remember seeing Sarita for the first time on 'Homeland' and thinking, 'Alright, I don't know who she is, but that woman is riveting. I don't know where she comes from but I can't take my eyes off her."
In Hollywood's finest black-comedy tradition, "A Hologram for the King delivers laughs spiked with bittersweet undertones. "We've made a crisis comedy that points the finger at the fact that our economic structure is falling apart and the apocalypse seems to be looming just around the corner," Tykwer says. "We use comedy as a tool to embrace tragedy like a balloon you stick with a needle so it explodes and the energy that comes out is cheerful. Despite all of Alan's problems, I hope this movie cheers people up."
For Hanks, who's earned iconic status and five Academy Award® nominations by playing regular, good-hearted Americans who triumph overhard luck circumstances, A Hologram for the King is the story of a man who stumbles upon an emotional and spiritual oasis after wandering in the desert. "Why make a movie about a guy where nothing ever works out for him? That might work fantastically as a piece of literature but as far as the cinema goes, the story requires this other thing — for want of a better word, let's just call it hope."
"A Hologram for the King" now open in cinemas from OctoArts Films International.
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