Overweight is one of the most common health problems and risk factors for many prenatal illnesses. The proportion of pregnant women with high body mass would be increased by increasing body mass in society. The purpose of this study was to explain the pregnancy experience in women with high body mass index. An interpretive phenomenological approach was used to conduct this study. Participants included ten pregnant women with high body mass index who were interviewed. All interviews were recorded and transcribed after permission from the participants in order to explain the phenomenon under study and the data were analyzed by using the Van Manen method in MAXQDA version-10 software to emerge their themes and their basic patterns. Out of the 857 extracted primary codes, the experience of women with high birth weight was summarized in the main theme of "Pregnancy concurrent with concern". This theme comprised the following subthemes: "sense of risk", "lack of care facilities for mothers with high body mass index", "obesity as a stigma", and "lack of specialized care". This Hermeneutic phenomenology study showed that pregnant women with high body mass are a vulnerable group. Their pregnancy concurrent with more concern requires more care and support. Service providers, in particular midwives, nurses, and doctors, should be aware of their attitudes and behaviors toward this group of clients and avoid any stereotypical and harassing care behaviors.


Hi! I m an English teacher in Brazil and it s been a pleasure to share activities with all of you. Greetings from Brazil!!!
This city guide is nice to introduce vocabulary related to travel and show some popular tourist attractions in LA. Hope you like it!
This worksheet shows the differences between simple past and present perfect including examples as well. There are also exercises with keys included! I hope you like it!!!
Grocery Shopping- Do grocery stores manipulate us or are we our own worst enemies?
This is a multi-task lesson. It�s about going shopping and some tips about what we should and shouldn�t do when going shopping. There is a speaking, listening and reading activities with options for writing as well. I hope you like it!!!
This is worksheet shows the grammar points of the Simple Present tense. Exercises are included! This is similar to the one I�ve made about simple past x present perfect. [http://www.eslprintables.com/printable.asp?id=122336#thetop] Hope you like it!
This worksheet can be used to introduce new vocabulary related to shopping (e.g. rip-off, browse for sth, return policy, etc.). SS have to complete the dialogues with the expressions from the box. Hope you like it!
This is a nice way to talk about going shopping and its idiomatic expressions. There are two exercises that can be used to introduce new vocabulary (e.g. to refund, to exchange, warranty, shopping spree, shopaholic and etc.). It�s also good for practicing conversation with the SS. I hope you like it!
This game can be used to practice should & shouldn�t! I hope you like it!
SS can use these cards to practice conversation as well the first conditional. I hope you like!
This PPT is a version of my worksheet about the same topic. It can be used to have a fun class. Hope you like it!
This is the second part of my homonyms jokes worksheet version. I hope you like it! I couldn�t upload in the same file due to its size!


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NBA's best teams draft well outside of the lottery — and the Sixers have joined the fun
The Sixers' 2020 draft class is looking pretty, pretty, pretty good.
By Joe_Sabatini Nov 9, 2021, 10:30am EST
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It appears the Sixers finally got the memo: If you draft well outside the lottery, you can fill out your roster with cheap talent. If you're really lucky, you may even get more than just a rotation player.
Perhaps that's a bit unfair; Daryl Morey's MO has been to swap players and picks for better ones since he first became GM of the Houston Rockets in 2007. While he never won a championship in Houston, he did get tantalizingly close a couple times.
If you consider some of the NBA's biggest success stories of the last several years — Milwaukee's 2021 title, Golden State's runs in 2015, 2017 and 2018, or (TRIGGER WARNING) Toronto's in 2019 — you'll notice that all three teams hit home runs late in the draft.
Let's start with Milwaukee. We all know about Giannis. This pick was so good that you can forgive them for taking Jabari Parker over Joel Embiid second in 2014. (And we Sixers fans will certainly forgive them for that mistake.)
But Giannis couldn't do it on his own. As a downhill scoring, playmaking big who rebounds the ball and takes it coast-to-coast, who protects the rim, and guards smaller guys on the perimeter (damn, he carries a heavy burden for that team), Giannis needed a guy to shoulder some of this load. In today's NBA, legit title contenders need a shot-making perimeter guard or wing who can shoot threes at a high percentage and make difficult shots — someone who could create something out of nothing, to balance out a modern half-court NBA offense. The Bucks found their Robin, Khris Middleton, whom they acquired as a supplemental piece in the Brandon Jennings trade after a pedestrian rookie campaign with the Pistons. Middleton was drafted in the second round, 39th overall, by Detroit the prior year.
Maybe the Bucks' former GM John Hammond knew Middleton would eventually become an All-Star wing; maybe he got lucky. The Bucks won the title in July, while Detroit held the first pick in the 2021 NBA Draft a week later, so we'll just have to credit Hammond with a stroke of team-building genius. With a 23.6/ 7.1/ 5.6 line during Milwaukee's Finals run, Middleton was the Bucks' second-best offensive player last year.
If we go back to 2019 (sorry, I have to do this to make my point), we see that the Toronto Raptors had several contributing players who were drafted outside the lottery. Pascal Siakam, selected 27th in the 2016 draft, was one of their best players, averaging 19 points and seven rebounds during the playoffs that year. He was an All-Star in the 2019-2020 season, and still had a solid, if unspectacular, 2020 campaign, which was likely affected by a bout of COVID-19 at the start of the year.
A year after drafting Siakam, Raptors' president Masai Ujiri selected OG Anunoby with the 23rd pick. While Anunoby was mostly a 3-and-D guy back then, he is now one of the better two-way players in the game, averaging more than 20 points a game and playing lockdown defense.
But the Raptors' biggest coup is the smallest player I'll mention today, Fred VanVleet, who was undrafted coming out of Wichita State in 2016. Even our Sixers missed out on him, while they were being run by our favorite big collar-wearer, and maestro-level drafter, Brian Colangelo. VanVleet worked his way into the starting lineup by 2019 and was instrumental for the eventual 2019 NBA champions. He can play either guard position, is an excellent playmaker, solid three-point shooter, and tenacious defender.
I have to stop here and direct my ire toward Mr. Colangelo for a moment. In 2016, the Sixers had three first-round picks (thanks, Sam!): first, 24th, and 26th. After taking Ben Simmons first overall (which was the right call), Colangelo proceeded to draft Timothé Luwawu-Cabarrot 24th and Furkan Korkmaz 26th, skipping over both Siakam and VanVleet. While Korkmaz has turned himself into a good rotation player, Siakam has been better up to this point. Luwawu-Cabarrot, now 26, is a fringe rotation player who would be at the end of the bench on this team. VanVleet has been better than both wings drafted by Colangelo, and absolutely would have been a difference-maker for this team in the 2019 and 2021 playoff runs. If you hadn't considered this before, I apologize for ruining your day.
If we're talking about teams who found gems late in the draft, I would be remiss if I didn't mention Golden State's Draymond Green. He's one of the best defensive players of all time and he was a critical part of the best team of the last 10 years, winning three championships, and making two other Finals appearances. He was selected 35th in 2012, certainly one of the best draft picks of all time. He's a good example of why second-round picks are lottery tickets worth playing — and not selling.
So what does this have to do with the Sixers? Everything.
As we all know by now, drafting is difficult work. Morey knows this better than most. According to Michael Lewis, Daryl asks would-be scouts looking for work, "Who did you miss?" Meaning, which prospects were you completely wrong about, who turned out to be great players? If the scouts don't have a good answer, well, they won't be hired by Morey.
With that said, I'm not going to argue that Tyrese Maxey will be better than VanVleet, Isaiah Joe will be Middleton or that BBall Paul (yes, that's his legal name; no, I don't know why he's listed on the Sixers website as Paul Reed) will be the next Draymond, but I will suggest that great teams find good players late in the draft. And so far, the Sixers' 2020 draft class is looking very nice.
But before we look at the new-ish guys, we must face some unpleasant truths about the state of Sixers' drafting between 2015 and 2018. Consider this: The Sixers had top 10 picks from 2015-2018, and all they have to show for those four picks is the perceived market value of Ben Simmons. (Yes, the Ben trade will happen. Yes, it will be for a good player. No, it will not be for Dame, Beal or Zach LaVine. Yes, I will be thrilled if my predictions are proven incorrect.) The Ben Simmons situation, no matter how much Morey tries to stop the bleeding, is one of the worst possible outcomes for a No. 1 overall pick.
Make no mistake: The Sixers had four swings at getting a star player to pair with Embiid and seem to have failed. There's a very real possibility this mismanagement squanders the prime of Jo's career. While Ben was the right pick at the time, it's pretty clear the man is not interested in coming back, leaving a massive hole in their starting lineup. It will be difficult for the Sixers to flip him for a comparable talent. Unless they trade him for Jaylen Brown, which would be awesome on every level.
To be clear, drafting Ben was not a mistake; but how they have developed him, and how they have mismanaged this situation is incredibly frustrating. It's an embarrassing organizational failure that Josh Harris et al. should think about every day. And it's something I'd love to ask Mr. Harris about — very nicely, of course — in the unlikely event I ever have the chance.
When the Sixers failed with their 2015 pick at No.3 (Jahlil Okafor), 2017 at No. 1 (Fultz), and No. 10 in 2018 (Zhaire Smith + a pick that was used to overpay for Tobias Harris), they could have effectively closed their championship window just as it was opening.
Thankfully, this year, the Sixers look to be improved offensively, and much of it has to do with the drafting and development of young players in 2020: Tyrese Maxey (21st pick; first round), Isaiah Joe (49th pick; second round) and BBall Paul 58th pick; second round).
As you know, young Maxey has taken over the point guard duties that Ben Simmons evacuated. So far, the Sixers' offense is one of the top in the NBA, small sample size warnings acknowledged. Maxey is averaging a solid 14.4/ 4.7/ 3.6 line as a first-time point guard, but his contributions go further. He has a very nice 3.1-to-1 assist-to-turnover ratio as of today. He can run the second unit offense well. But most surprisingly, he has been very good defensively. So far, he's played great defense against Trae Young, Damian Lillard and Lonzo Ball.
But Maxey isn't the only player who has taken a leap this year. Isaiah Joe (currently out due to the NBA's health and safety protocols) was also looking like a solid rotation player in his second year, chucking over 11 threes per 100 possessions, according to BasketballReference.com. While his three-point percentage is only 33 percent this year, I'm optimistic he'll be closer to 40 percent by the end of the season. His improvement on defense was also encouraging.
After selecting Joe in the second round, the Sixers nabbed BBall Paul, a rangy big with great hops, lateral quickness, and a "can't stop/ won't stop" motor with one of the last selections in the draft. Though clearly raw, the Sixers felt that Reed had the makings of a modern backup big, able to play the four or five positions, with the ability to both crash the glass and hang on the perimeter against smaller wings.
Furthermore, Paul won the G League MVP last year with an impressive stat line of 22.3/ 11.9/2.3, and averaged two steals and 1.8 blocks a game. He also shot 44 percent from three on 3.6 attempts a game.
Now that the Sixers are a good team, they don't appear to be drafting in the top 10 again any time soon — and that's a good thing. But to remain good and not mediocre, they will need to keep hitting on these late draft picks.
How realistic is a Harden-for-Simmons sign-and-trade next summer? Is it worth the wait? We all know about Daryl Morey's connection to James Harden. Does that make a sign-and-trade for the star guard for Ben Simmons realistic?
Joel Embiid ties career-high with 50 points to power Sixers over Magic 50 points in 27 minutes. Pretty, pretty, good, Joel.

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Zimbabwe's Golix launches $32m ICO, expands further
By Tom Jackson on June 4, 2018 East Africa, Southern Africa, Startups
Zimbabwean cryptocurrency exchange Golix has launched a US$32 million initial coin offering (ICO) as it bids to finance the establishment of cryptocurrency infrastructure across the African continent.
Launched three years ago, Golix has processed transactions worth US$20 million. It has now launched a token sale as it looks to avail its services across Africa, with only three countries on the continent currently having cryptocurrency exchanges.
Golix lead of special projects William Chui said the ICO was aimed at enabling instant remittances and international payments through cryptocurrencies.
"From the onset our main agenda has been to provide financial autonomy in Africa to Africans. The GLX token is going to be used to facilitate and realise this agenda. The GLX token will be used to trade with other altcoins on the exchange, all this will be done at zero transaction fees," he said.
"The GLX token will also be used to facilitate remittances and international payments at lesser fees, compared to current banking methods. This cascades immensely towards the contribution of GDP growth in African countries."
The GLX token, an Ethereum ERC20 token, is available for purchase on the Golix token sale website, with potential buyers able to use bitcoin or ethereum to buy the GLX token, which has been priced at US$0.05612. The sale ends on July 25.
Golix, which expanded to South Africa in April, has also announced that its services are now available in Kenya and Uganda.
"People in Kenya, South Africa and Uganda will be able to start transacting on Golix. This is one of our plans to be the leading cryptocurrency exchange in Africa, inspired by our vision of providing financial autonomy on the continent, " said Golix head of growth Panashe Tapera.
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It goes without saying that the Ford/Kavanaugh hearing, like the Hill/Thomas hearing of which it was a terrifying echo, was not a hearing at all. At least not if "hearing" begins with listening. Jeff Flake did not hear Christine Blasey Ford, and neither, apparently, did Susan Collins. Here are some other people who did not hear her: Orin Hatch, who has a history of not hearing women at hearing; Donald Trump who is unspeakable; the Republican base, who only listen to Fox News; and me.
I chose not to hear Christine Blasey Ford, at least not, as they say "live," because I could not bear to. I chose instead to get in my car and drive to a rented house in Galveston, to a long-planned celebration of a not-yet birthday with feminist friends. If I had stayed in Houston to listen to the hearings, I would have not been able to leave the house. If I had listened on the car radio on the way to the beach, I would have driven the car off the road. When I got to the uncharacteristically splendid beach house we had rented, I noted it was full of TVs. While part of me itched to tune in, I went instead to swim in the Gulf and waited for my friends to join me, many of whom, I knew, would have been braver and would have watched—and listened—to the hearings.
My friends helped me to listen. The TV was mostly on over that long weekend, replaying "highlights" from the event. Sometimes we ignored the TV and listened to the Gulf instead, as the sound of the waves pulled us out onto the rainy beach. Sometimes we huddled in its glow, as if it were a fire pulling us indoors and inward. Some of us stayed up late into the night, for others the sound of Ford's voice, of Kavanaugh's voice, of the voices of talking heads, followed them to bed. On the second night, left alone and awake downstairs, I turned off the sound but not the TV.
I learned the following morning, from an interview, that Nina Totenberg, long the legal reporter for NPR, also sometimes watches with the sound off. Her reasons are, I think, different from mine. Totenberg believes that the truth is more easily revealed through body language. Although muting the TV offered me pictures that would go viral as a montage of stills—Kavanaugh's increasingly empurpled and enraged face, Ford's newly-cut hair tumbling over her face as she nonetheless managed to look her questioners in the eye—I did not silence the hearings in the interest of knowledge. I did it out of refusal and self-protection. Somehow, sounds were more frightening than images.
Judge Brett Kavanaugh responds angrily in his statements before his confirmation hearings to be a Supreme Court justice.
And when I finally did listen, I learned that sound was also the most terrifying sense for Ford. Everyone who watched, listened to, or read about the hearings remembers this: When asked what she remembered best about the night she was assaulted, it was not the sight of Kavanaugh's face (although she will never forget his face). It was not the hand over the mouth to silence her (although she will never forget that either). It was the sound of laughter after the attack as, still in the room where she was assaulted, she listened to the laughter of her attackers, directed at her and towards each other, as they staggered drunkenly down the hall and into a future that erased her.
Listening to Ford about her own listening and her own memories of sound, I found myself listening more closely to myself. What Ford remembered was not simply that her attackers were laughing, but that they were laughing to, speaking to, each other. My own memories offer me two incidents, not forgotten but relegated to different stories, two eerily similar incidents from my childhood and early teen years when much older men—one a priest and one friend of my father's—slid their hands down the back of my skirt, inside my underpants, while carrying on a conversation with another man who did not know what was happening. I do not know what to make of the almost identical form of the assault. These men, my assailants did not know each other, lived in different countries. Sometimes, when I try to explain the fact that multiple men exposed by the #MeToo movement used similar M.O's, forcing, for example, their victims to watch them masturbate, I wonder if there is a guide for abusers somewhere. Are conversations going on to which these men are a party?
For me, looking (and listening) back, the worst violation of those moments lay not in the touching, but in the talking, the carrying on of ordinary conversation as the assault was happening. The conversation, which was not directed at me, nonetheless contained a message for me. The fact that these men were able simultaneously to abuse a young girl and to carry on a perfectly normal conversation was meant to tell me: "This is normal. This is not a big deal. Business as usual. Life goes on." The message was a message about sound and silence. "There is nothing for you to talk about." And, of course, "Don't say anything." It was no coincidence, of course, that the conversations that went on over my head, as the men's hands slipped into my pants and rested there, took place between men. In my own mind, now as the stories merge, the two assailants were also somehow talking to each other across time and space— that aging priest in a car on the way to a slightly illegal ceremony that would make me a godmother at ten years old, and that newspaper man who was always a little drunk and did what he did in a room full of people.
It is the sound of their voices, talking in such ordinary tones—one in Italian and one in English—that makes the two stories one, and that one a story of assault. Until a few months ago, the first was part of a story about how I as a non-Catholic child became the godmother to the illegitimate son of a dressmaker and a Senator. It was a good story. The other, which I almost never told, was part of a story of journalists and alcohol. It was barely a story at all. Bringing those stories in into conversation allows me to hear their voices and my own. And, of course, Christine Blasey Ford's.
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EFAMA has organised several high profile research workshops for members since 2018. During these workshops a renowned professor or researcher presents recent research results relevant for the European investment industry.
"The impact of robo advising on individuals' savings and investment decisions"
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"Household Portfolios and Retirement Saving over the Life Cycle & Retail Financial Innovation and Stock Market Dynamics: The Case of Target Date Funds"
Professor Jonathan A. Parker, the Robert C. Merton (1970) Professor of Finance at MIT's Sloan School of Management
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Professor Laurent Calvet of the EDHEC Business School
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Professor Bettina Fuhrmann of the Vienna University of Economics and Business
"A methodology for risk-mitigation techniques for the pension products"
Pablo Antolin, Elsa Favre-Baron and Stéphanie Payet of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD)
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Professor Sébastien Pouget of the Toulouse School of Economics
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Is #Metoo Movement in Bollywood is political
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Somy Ali was only 16 when she saw Bollywood heartthrob Salman Khan without precedent for the 1989 Sooraj Barjatya coordinated film Maine Pyar Kiya. The Florida young lady knew she needed to discover this man. The adolescent persuaded her mom to enable her to move to Mumbai where she took up demonstrating assignments and furthermore acted in movies. She, at last, met her squash and they started a torrid relationship that kept going around eight years and separated Khan's commitment with performer Sangeeta Bijlani. Be that as it may, the relationship wasn't all daylight and rainbows.
While #MeToo and #TimesUp, two hashtags that lit up web-based life a year ago, are currently being utilized in an Indian setting as innumerable overcomers of sexual maltreatment and provocation are turning out with their accounts, Bollywood's privileged has figured out how to remain generally sound.
That is on the grounds that Bollywood's pedigreed elites are not at all like the nation's government officials. They have figured out how to make a whole framework fixed to support them, one that watchmen them, as well as independent in guaranteeing its very own proceeded with presence. They have the sponsorship of others in their own industry, who move in when one among them is denounced. Indeed, even those not part of these systems stay tight-lipped, as was seen amid a nepotism banter in 2017. This is maybe delineated best by the inquisitive instance of Salman Khan, one of Bollywood's greatest stars and apparently its most ground-breaking figure.
Alok Nath, Subhash Ghai, and Sajid Khan have been blamed for rape, badgering and unfortunate behavior by various ladies. Pictures from News 18.
Known for movies that commend and standardize misogyny, Khan was for quite some time reputed to have sincerely and physically manhandled his lady friends. Bijlani once portrayed their relationship as "the most sincerely awful" experience of her life. Amid his sentiment with Ali, it was accounted for that he once set out a glass of rum on her head in broad daylight. Spectators say their issue additionally clearly started when she was a minor, which brings up legitimate issues.
The two Bijlani and Ali, in any case, never freely said much in regards to their associations with the star and now keep up that he's a liberal individual that they coexist with extremely well. Ali even illuminated the tale about the glass of rum by saying that Khan had poured it on a table since he didn't endorse her drinking or the organization she kept.
Be that as it may, what had basically been unclarified gossipy tidbits turned into a matter of open record when Khan's association with performer Aishwarya Rai turned sour. In episodes affirmed by the star himself, Khan once broke into Rai's level when she wasn't there and harmed her property while, some other time, he destroyed her auto amid the shooting of Kuch Naa Kaho. A different episode occurred on the arrangements of Chalte, where Khan appeared alcoholic and made a noteworthy display.
Rai later said in an open letter to the press that he had been stalking her since their separation. "There were times when Salman got physical with me, fortunately without leaving any imprints. What's more, I would go to function as though nothing had occurred," she composed. Rai once appeared at a honors work with a bruised eye and her arm in a cast, however, she kept up that she'd harmed herself in a fall.
Khan once stood upon the supposed injurious association with Aishwarya. "In the event that you don't battle in a relationship, it implies you don't love one another. For what reason would I quarrel with a man who is an outsider to me?" he told the press.
The second floor of the #MeToo development was started off in India by one of Bollywood's overlooked individuals. Tanushree Dutta's record of the badgering she supposedly looked on the arrangements of Horn OK Pleassss in 2008 opened the conduits. The essential blamed is on-screen character Nana Patekar at the same time, as per Dutta, choreographer Ganesh Acharya was likewise complicit in the badgering.
Before long, there were claims against other men in Bollywood. Dutta herself has claimed that movie producer Vivek Agnihotri carried on improperly with her on the arrangements of Chocolate. Allegations of sexual maltreatment and badgering against executive Vikas Bahl reemerged and have prompted the disintegration of Phantom Films, the generation house in which he was an accomplice. Humshakals chief Sajid Khan has been blamed for inappropriate behavior by three ladies while performing artist producer Rajat Kapoor has likewise met a similar destiny. Performer Alok Nath, as well, has been blamed for assault by screenwriter Vinta Nanda and badgering by on-screen character Sandhya Mridul.
The thing to note is that while probably the most ground-breaking men in stand-up comic drama and news-casting are among the #MeToo blamed, the equivalent can't be said in regards to Bollywood. The on-screen characters and executives being referred to may have had a significant impact over their supposed exploited people and might be notable open figures with some clout in the business, yet they're set genuinely low on Bollywood's capacity pyramid. Truth be told, the most ground-breaking Bollywood figure to be blamed for lewd behavior is maker chief Subhash Ghai, a man whose star has fallen extensively in the new thousand years as his movies have seen progressively unavoidable losses.
A person's place on the political range is by and large seen to be reliant on his or her perspectives of how society ought to be composed. In this way, we see terms like 'moderate' and 'liberal'. Be that as it may, with regards to a few things, for example, the #MeToo development, a more exact gap would be between the individuals who originate from systems of settled in power and the individuals who don't. The previous' wellspring of influence is a whole framework that secures them while for the last mentioned, their own clout is, for the most part, the breaking point of their impact.
Obviously, inferable from the centuries of benefit that straight men have appreciated, it could be contended that they all have a place with the previous gathering. Be that as it may, to comprehend why #MeToo has still not hit Bollywood's center, we should make this refinement by the by.
Salman Khan's culpability with respect to attack and badgering may never have been demonstrated in court, yet it is something he has viably admitted to by affirming the episodes about harming Rai's auto and breaking into her home. But then, weeks after #MeToo hit India, none of the ladies from his past have approached about their encounters notwithstanding numerous reports, both affirmed and unsubstantiated, about the maltreatment he supposedly distributed to them. Every one of these ladies is an open figure who is sensibly protected from him now. On the off chance that even they don't understand happy with talking, one can just envision how troublesome it must be for an obscure individual to portray any maltreatment they may have looked on account of a Bollywood star.
Salman Khan is only a hint of a greater challenge. He's conceivably the main Bollywood star of his stature to be freely blamed for any sort of maltreatment by a lady, in spite of incalculable bits of gossip about wrong and injurious conduct of numerous stars for a considerable length of time. In a blog entry two years prior, on-screen character Raveena Tandon, without naming names, talked about how regular it was for male stars to have illicit relationships with celebrities in the 1990s and after that wreak destruction on their professions if the ladies successfully disappoint them: viably a type of lewd behavior at the working environment. That even now Tandon doesn't feel good revealing names demonstrates that the dread of retaliation from Bollywood's dug in power structures is excessively extraordinary for #MeToo, making it impossible to hit its purebred center.
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People from all over the world are drawn every day to Florida's tourist attractions that include famous theme parks, Spanish historic sites, lively nightlife and glorious beaches. With a booming tourism industry, Florida welcomes its visitors with a plethora of hotels and resorts that are located right on the beach. With amenities like fine restaurants, lively bars, full-service spas, fitness centers, sandy white beaches and water sports, beach resorts in Florida present fun-packed vacations in and of themselves.
Located on the southwestern tip of Marco Island off the coast of Southwest Florida, this world-class resort faces three miles of sandy white beach along the Gulf of Mexico. Housed within two towers, the Marriott Beach Resort offers 732 rooms featuring balconies with ocean views. Amenities include three swimming pools, two 18-hole championship golf courses, a lavish spa, fitness center, tennis courts, a children's camp and eight diverse restaurants. Area recreation includes beach fun, parasailing and watching dolphins and turtles. With Naples and the Everglades within an hour away, guests can opt for sightseeing and shopping excursions.
Less than 10 miles from historic Old Naples, this magnificent Florida beach resort sits right on the beachfront overlooking the Gulf of Mexico. Guests can choose among 450 spacious rooms that feature private balconies, marble bathrooms, iPod docking stations, DVD players, cable television and beds with goose-down pillows and comforters. With amenities such as swimming pools, tennis courts, full-service spa, fitness center, restaurant, and a sushi bar, guests may never want to leave. Additionally, the Ritz-Carlton Naples offers its own attraction, the Nature Wonders Center, which houses 11 aquariums of marine life like lobsters, octopus, sharks, jellyfish and baby alligators.
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Some builders have a distinct style you see in all their bikes, Rob Chappell of Origin8or is not one them, he can take the same two bikes and deliver totally different builds, the one constant however is always quality. Just six weeks ago we featured another Triumph Bobber build by Chappell, a springer wearing, orange flake painted Bonnie that screamed look at me. But this 1968 Triumph Daytona 500 is an example of how less can be more and custom cool can still stay true to classic style.
Like any high end restoration and rebuild of a vintage vehicle, either car or motorcycle, this is a full frame off build with absolutely every part removed and stripped down. To give the classic bobber look Rob fitted the frame up with a The Factory Metal Works 4 inch stretched and 2inch drop hard tail. The frame, suspension components, pedals and the various bits and pieces that keep them all together were sent off to be sandblasted before being treated to some silver powder coat for a durable and clean finish. One of the few matching features to the previous Triumph bobber build is the timeless rear fender, narrow and shortened to display as much rubber as possible.
The engine fitted to Triumph's Daytona is a special little beast, designed to take on the Japanese at the Daytona International Speedway. When Triumph won the 1966 Daytona 200 race with American Buddy Elmore aboard the Daytona name found its home on the Triumph the next year and a race winning average speed of nearly 100mph tells you this little thing can get up and go! The 490cc parallel twin engine featured new heads and twin AMAL Carbs for more top end power, both of which have been rebuilt by Rob. In fact the whole drivetrain has been rebuilt, not a bad decision when it was discovered the previous owner had used what looked like axle grease as their lube of choice for the transmission. Rob was nearly finished piecing together the rebuilt lump when he discovered the "full gasket kit" he'd bought didn't include a head gasket, more than a minor issue. But a few emails and a two hour trip to a vintage bike show at a flea market, turned up just the right item and the rebuild was completed.
An engine this good deserves an exhaust to match and on a bobber the pipes become part of the look. With straight right side pipes on the last build Rob ran the twin pipes on the left side on the Daytona that are bent down and kinked slightly out to clear the oil tank. What makes Chappell such a great builder is his eye for detail, not only are the pipes ceramic coated to avoid pipe burn and an adverse effect on the oil temp the downward bend of the pipes exactly match the lines of the hard tailed frame. The oil tank itself is a TFMW item that has been painted silver, which next to the velocity stacked carbs and polished cases gives the engine an old school minimalist look that I personally could look at and appreciate for hours… imagine how good it sounds!
The "pristine" tank that came with the bike turned out to be a total nightmare, sandblasting revealed a wreck, dings and dints had been filled and one lump of bondo measured four inches deep. For a builder of Chappell's quality there are no cutting corners, so an expensive session on eBay had a much better condition unit on its way. Factory badges and a lightly sparkled silver paint with black stripping over both the tank and fender are understated but enough of a detail to give passers-by a hint that this is no factory restoration.
The bobber seat is from the Chappell brothers company Tuffside, black with white diamond stitch and old school spring struts. There are no ape hangers here; a build of this quality doesn't need anything over the top to the catch attention so Biltwell risers hold some flat track bars with Biltwell kung-fu grips and polished stock controls. Rob always gives his bike a full rewire for flawless operation and a small headlight and side mounted tail light do their job without interfering in the ultra-clean classic lines.
With the Triumph Daytona 500 finished it's no surprise to see Rob sit aboard with a proud, broad smile. Many builders choose a bike and then throw a whole catalogue of parts at it, but Origin8or Cycles and Rob Chappell can make a crazy custom or like this build pay tribute to a classic in a subtle way that screams the sort of understated craftsmanship that makes him one of the best builders around.


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Tersilochus fulvipes ist eine solitäre Schlupfwespe aus der Familie der Ichneumonidae.

Vorkommen
Tersilochus fulvipes ist in Mitteleuropa verbreitet und in Deutschland, Österreich, Frankreich, Ungarn und der Schweiz, sowie in der früheren Tschechoslowakei nachgewiesen.

Lebensweise
Tersilochus fulvipes ist ein Endoparasitoid der Larven des Großen Rapsstängelrüsslers (Ceutorhynchus napi).

In der Lebensweise ähnelt Tersilochus fulvipes stark Tersilochus obscurator.
Ende April/Anfang Mai erfolgt der Schlupf der Schlupfwespen aus den Kokons im Boden der letztjährigen Rapsfelder. Die erwachsenen Schlupfwespen ernähren sich von Nektar. Dabei suchen sie zunächst Frühblüher am Feldrand auf. Mit beginnender Rapsblüte sind sie dann im Rapsfeld zu finden.
Die Weibchen der Schlupfwespen suchen die Larven des Großen Rapsstängelrüsslers (Wirtslarve), die in den Haupttrieben der Rapspflanzen minieren. Dabei lassen sie sich von Duftstoffen der Pflanze, bzw. von den Vibrationen der Wirtslarve leiten.
Sobald eine Larve gefunden ist, durchsticht das Weibchen mit ihrem Ovipositor das Pflanzengewebe und legt in die Wirtslarve ein einzelnes Ei hinein. Dabei wird die Lebensweise des Wirtes zunächst nicht gestört. Aus dem Ei schlüpft die Larve von Tersilochus fulvipes, die zunächst die Lebensweise der Wirtslarve nicht beeinträchtigt. Erst wenn die Wirtslarve im letzten Larvenstudium ist, zeigt die Larve des Parasitoiden eine starke Zunahme im Wachstum. Die Wirtslarve wird getötet, sobald sie sich im Boden in einem Kokon zur Präpuppe gewandelt hat. Die Larve von Tersilochus fulvipes schlüpft dann aus der toten Wirtslarve und spinnt im Kokon der Wirtslarve einen eigenen, seidenen Kokon. Sie überwintert dort als schlupfbereite, erwachsene Schlupfwespe. Es wird nur eine Generation pro Jahr gebildet.
Mehrfachbelegungen der Wirtslarve sind möglich, d. h., es können mehrere Eier durch verschiedene Weibchen der Schlupfwespe in eine Larve gelegt werden (Superparasitierung).

Von Bedeutung für die Parasitierung sind neben den volatilen Duftstoffen auch die Pflanzenarchitektur. Rapssorten mit langen Haupttrieben erschweren das Auffinden der Wirtstiere im Stängel.
Tersichlochus fulvipes wird auch durch gelbe Farbwirkung angelockt, weshalb sie oft in den Gelbschalen zu finden ist. Dabei treten in den Gelbschalen mehr Männchen als Weibchen auf. Die Ursache liegt vermutlich in einer unterschiedlichen Aktivität der Geschlechter.

Synonyme
Tersilochus gibbus Holmgren,
Porizon fulvipes (Gravenhorst),
Thersilochus fulvipes (Gravenhorst) ssp. gallicator Aubert

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Einzelnachweise
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Literatur
 David V. Alford: Biocontrol of Oilseed Rape Pests. Blackwell Publishing, Oxford 2003, ISBN 0-632-05427-1

Schlupfwespen
Ichneumonidae
Parasit bei Wirbellosen

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Located in Chaffee, this home features 2 bedrooms and a full hall bathroom. Kitchen includes all appliances (refrigerator, stove, built-in microwave, dishwasher, washer/dryer) and is open to the living room. Off street parking is located off the alley and has a covered parking area. Storage shed stays. Level backyard is chain link fenced.


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US Senate begins impeachment trial, Democrats make their case against Trump
The United States Senate began the impeachment trial of Donald Trump with impeachment managers from the Democrats-controlled House of Representatives making a strong case against the former president
Former US President Donald Trump
Updated: 11 Feb 2021, 8:46 AM
The United States Senate began the impeachment trial of Donald Trump on Wednesday with impeachment managers from the Democrats-controlled House of Representatives making a strong case against the former president accusing him of inciting insurrection.
Led by Democratic Congressman Jamie Raskin, a battery of his party colleagues from the House of Representatives alleged that Trump incited his supporters for violence on January 6 as they stormed the Capitol Hill wherein Congressmen and Senators were performing their constitutional duty of counting and certification of the November 3rd presidential election results.
Trump lost the elections to Joe Biden, who was sworn in as the 46th president of the United States on January 20. While the House, wherein the Democrats have the majority, impeached him before January 20, when he was still the president, the Senate impeachment trial has begun three weeks after he left office. This is for the first time in American history that a former US president is being impeached. He is also the first president ever to have been impeached twice.
Leading the charge on the Senate floor, Congressman Raskin alleged Trump willfully incited an insurrectionary mob to riot at the Capitol. Several of his Democratic colleagues took the Senate floor to argue that Trump be impeached. They showed some of the rare video footage from the January 6 incident wherein top American lawmakers were seen running for life as rioters stormed the building.
While one of the videos showed the then Vice President Mike Pence and his family rushed from the Senate Chamber, while in others Senators were seen hustling through a hallway.
"The evidence will show you that ex-president trump was no innocent bystander. The evidence will show that he clearly incited the January 6 insurrection. It will show that Donald Trump surrendered his role as commander in chief and became the inciter in chief of a dangerous insurrection, Raskin said.
This was, as one of our colleagues put it so cogently on January 6 itself, the greatest betrayal of the presidential oath in the history of the United States. The evidence will show you that he saw it coming and was not remotely surprised by the violence, he said.
And when the violence inexorably and inevitably came as predicted and overran this body and the House of Representatives with chaos, we will show you that he completely abdicated his duty as commander in chief to stop the violence and protect the government and protect our officers and protect our people. He violated his oath of office to preserve, protect, and defend the constitution, the government, and the people of the united states, he said.
Raskin said that the evidence shows that Trump assembled, inflamed and incited his followers to descend upon the Capitol to "stop the steal", to block Vice President Mike Pence and the Congress from finalising his opponent's election victory over him.
House managers have up to 16 hours to present their case. Raskin said that they would continue with their opening argument on Thursday. Lawyers of Trump would make their presentation after that and they would also have 16 hours to respond to the allegations against Trump.
President Trump put a target on their backs and his mob broke into the Capitol to hunt them down, said Congressman Stacey Plaskett.
Republican Senator Ted Cruz appeared to be unconvinced by the allegations against Trump. They spent a great deal of time focusing on the horrific acts of violence that were played out by the criminals, but the language from the president doesn't come close to meeting the legal standard for incitement, he said.
The Democrats need support of 17 Republican Senators to impeach Trump by two-third of the 100 Senate votes, as required by law. Political pundits described this as a toll order for the Democrats. A day earlier, six Republican Senators had broken ranks and supported the Democratic move during a procedural vote.
People listened. Armed supporters surrounded election officials' homes. The secretary of state for Georgia got death threats. Officials warned the president that his rhetoric was dangerous and it was going to result in deadly violence. He didn't stop it. He didn't condemn the violence. He incited it further, said Congressman Joe Neguse, another impeachment manager.
Published: 11 Feb 2021, 8:44 AM


With almost three decades of port terminal operations and management experience, Mohammed Al Muallem, the Senior Vice President and Managing Director of DP World UAE Region, has led the growth and development of the region's most important port through a period of major expansions, defining and driving its strategic vision.
Jebel Ali Port, the flagship of DP World has developed rapidly under his guidance and counts itself today amongst the top 10 ports in the world. In the last 7 years, the container throughput in UAE Region has doubled from 6.4 million TEUs in 2004 to 13.0 million in 2011.
In 2003, Al Muallem inspired port operations in the region, when he employed the use of the Quad Lift Gantry, a gantry crane capable of lifting four 20 feet containers or two 40 feet containers in one single lift, a concept never before seen in the world.
Al Muallem joined Port Rashid in 1983 and moved rapidly through various operational and management roles, before overseeing the UAE Region of DP World in September 2005. Al Muallem was appointed Chairman of the Executive Merging Team of Dubai Ports Authority, Dubai Customs and the Free Zone in 2000 and in May 2004, Executive Coordinator for the Terminal 2 development at Jebel Ali Port.
Mohammed Al Muallem holds a Bachelor of Science in Industrial Engineering Degree from the University of Portland, Oregon, U.S.A. and has completed extensive training in U.K. at the University of Manchester, Cranfield College and British Airways obtaining qualifications in Cost & Budgetary Control, Planning Maintenance, Computer Systems and Condition Based Maintenance.


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Medieval Manuscript Research Guide (Advanced)
Medieval Manuscript Research Guide (Advanced): Home
Detached Leaves
The Lewis Mumford Collection
New Jersey Collection
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Links to Digitized Worlds
Fine Bindings at MU Library
Book Repair Images
2013 Open House
Resoures for The Story of the Book
Special Collections Reading Room
Monmouth University Library's fine special collections reading room is open to anyone with an interest or passion for rare works. Throughout the semester, presentations and instructional sessions are offered on medieval manuscripts, the hand press period, and the history of the book. To schedule a personal or class visit, contact special collections librarian George Germek at 732-571-4403. Or, alternatively, you can send an email to ggermek@monmouth.edu
GUGGENHEIM MEMORIAL LEAVES
Antiphonals
Breviaries
Graduals
Printed Leaves
Psalters
DIGITAL CODEX REPOSITORIES
British Library Digitized Manuscripts
Digital Medieval Manuscripts at Houghton Library, Harvard
Early Manuscripts at Oxford
University of Leeds Digital Manuscripts
Otto F. Ege Collection at Dennison University
Digital Scriptorium
E-Codicies Virtual Manuscript Library of Switzerland
Free Library of Philadelphia
The Kahn Academy
The British Library Glossary of Medieval Manuscript Terms
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MONMOUTH UNIVERSITY LIBRARY SPECIAL COLLECTIONS
Introduction to Manuscript Leaves
The purpose of this LibGuide is to inform students not only about the collections at Monmouth University's Guggenheim Memorial Library, but also of medieval manuscripts in general.
What is a manuscript? It's a book (or sometimes called a codex) that is written and produced ONLY by hand. "Books," as we know them today, really developed after the invention the printing press. Therefore, what resembled our common"book" format prior to the age of the printing press (15th century) are technically considered codicies (plural) or a codex (singular); medieval manuscripts fall into that description, and are well represented in this guide. Scroll down, or just use the Quick Links to your left.
The Guggenheim Memorial Library contains over 60 detached Medieval leaves that you are welcome to examine in our Special Collections Reading Room. Just call and make an appointment!
An antiphonal, also called antiphoner or antiphonary, contains the sung portions of the DIVINE OFFICE. Such books are often large in format, so that they could be used by a choir, and include DECORATED and HISTORIATED INITIALS, depicting saints and key events of the liturgical year. Hymns are usually contained in a separate volume.
Originally, the antiphonal may have included chants sung in the MASS, but its use became restricted to the DIVINE OFFICE during the CAROLINGIAN period, and the GRADUAL became the principal CHOIR BOOK for the mass. The contents of the antiphonal are generally arranged in accordance with the TEMPORALE, SANCTORALE, and Common of Saints in liturgical order.
(https://www.bl.uk/catalogues/illuminatedmanuscripts/glossary.asp)
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Bible Leaves
A number of Latin versions of books of the Bible, translated from Greek and Hebrew, were used in the EARLY CHRISTIAN Church; these are known as Old Latin versions. To establish a measure of uniformity among these various translations, Saint Jerome, encouraged by Pope Damasus I, undertook a new translation of the whole Bible, working from the Greek and the Hebrew for the Old Testament. The translation he produced, begun about 382 and completed in 404 is known as the Vulgate. The work went through several stages, including three versions of the Psalms (Roman, Gallican, and Hebrew). Throughout the Middle Ages it was common for books of the Bible to be contained in separate volumes (such as the PENTATEUCH, HEXATEUCH, OCTATEUCH, or the Gospels). For liturgical purposes, scriptural texts (or readings from them) were often incorporated into SERVICE BOOKS (such as EVANGELARIES, EPISTOLARIES, and PSALTERS).
Beginning in the fourth century, when Christianity gradually became the official religion of the Roman Empire, luxurious CODICES were produced, among them the Codex Sinaiticus and the Cotton Genesis. During the early Middle Ages, corruptions of the Vulgate and intrusions from Old Latin versions led several scholars to attempt to standardize the biblical texts; Cassiodorus in the sixth century and, in the CAROLINGIAN period, Alcuin of York, Theodulf of Orléans, and Hartmut of St. Gall are the best known of these. As a result of their endeavours, a group of large, luxuriously written and illuminated editions of the complete Bible were produced. Cassiodorus' nine-volume edition influenced Bible manuscripts in ANGLO-SAXON England, such as the Codex Amiatinus, and in the ninth century Alcuin's SCRIPTORIUM at Tours went on to produce a whole series of Bibles for circulation. During the ROMANESQUE period, many of the Bibles produced were large in format. In the late twelfth and thirteenth centuries, a practice arose, stimulated by the universities, of producing small-format Bibles (or parts thereof) with condensed SCRIPT and HISTORIATED INITIALS, often accompanied by GLOSSES. Many of these were made quite cheaply.
Scriptural texts were translated into the VERNACULAR as early as the eighth century (in Anglo-Saxon England), generally as glosses, but many of the major developments in vernacular translation took place from the fourteenth to the sixteenth century, beginning with John Wycliffe, who made the first complete translation of the Bible into English; the German translation made by Martin Luther in the 1520s is still in use today.
A book, also called a primer or horae, for use in private devotions. Its central text, the Little Office of the Blessed Virgin (or Hours of the Virgin), is modelled on the DIVINE OFFICE and represents a shorter version of the devotions performed at the eight canonical hours. The text, known from the tenth century, was originally read only by ecclesiastics; it entered into more popular use by the end of the twelfth century, often being attached to the PSALTER, the book more commonly used for private devotions before the emergence of the book of hours. The private recitation of the Little Office of the Virgin is an expression of the LAY person's desire to imitate the prayer-life of the religious.
The Little Office of the Virgin gradually acquired other elements: a liturgical CALENDAR, a LITANY OF THE SAINTS, SUFFRAGES, the Office of the Dead (which had emerged by the ninth century), the Penitential Psalms (Psalms 6, 31, 37, 50, 101, 129, and 142, which were first included in books of hours in the thirteenth century), the Gradual Psalms (Psalms 119-133), and prayers. Additional offices, such as the Short Office of the Cross, Hours of the Holy Spirit, Hours of the Trinity, and Hours of the Passion, could also form part of a book of hours. The book of hours took its standard form in the thirteenth century and continued in general use until the sixteenth century, enjoying particular popularity in France and Flanders. The texts of books of hours vary slightly in accordance with USE.
Books of hours were medieval best-sellers and have survived in relatively high quantity. They are nearly always illuminated, in a manner commensurate with the PATRON'S budget, and often contain a MINIATURE or set of miniatures for each major textual division. These subjects include scenes from the life of the Virgin, Christ, and King David, depictions of the saints and themes relating to death and judgment. The patron was also sometimes portrayed. Decorated letters as well as images can be found in books of hours.
Breviary
A SERVICE BOOK containing the texts necessary for the celebration of the DIVINE OFFICE. A breviary is often adorned with DECORATED or HISTORIATED INITIALS, and more luxurious copies may contain MINIATURES depicting biblical scenes or the performance of the office.
From the eleventh century on, the various volumes used during the Divine Office (PSALTER, ANTIPHONAL, LECTIONARY, COLLECTAR, MARTYROLOGY, and others) were combined to form the breviary, which was initially only used by monks, but was popularized (in slightly abridged form) by the Dominicans and Franciscans in the thirteenth century. The breviary's contents were divided into TEMPORALE, SANCTORALE, and Common of Saints. All members of monastic orders and the clergy in major orders are committed to the daily recitation of the breviary. The contents vary in detail in accordance with the rite of the religious order or the USE of the geographic area.
A gradual is the response and versicle to the Epistle reading that constitutes one part of the MASS. The name derives from the practice of singing the gradual on the steps of the raised pulpit. More commonly, however, the term refers to the principal CHOIR BOOK used in the mass. Arranged according to the liturgical year (with TEMPORALE, SANCTORALE, and Common of Saints), a gradual contains (in addition to the graduals themselves) introits, tracts, alleluias, offertories, and communions. The introits - the first sung elements of the mass - were often introduced by HISTORIATED INITIALS (Ad te levavi, the introit for the first Sunday in Advent, being the most elaborate). For low mass, the contents of the gradual were included in the MISSAL and performed by the celebrant rather than the choir.
Printed Books of Hours were considered mass-produced originals. Despite their reliance on mechanical reproduction, they were nonetheless personalized objects that required the hand of a scribe or illuminator to be complete, giving each one an individualized quality.
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The psalter is the Book of Psalms. Medieval manuscripts of the Psalms were used in liturgical as well as private devotional contexts and often contained ancillary texts such as a CALENDAR, Canticles, creeds, a LITANY OF THE SAINTS, and prayers.
Psalters designed for use in the performance of the DIVINE OFFICE often contain other relevant texts, such as the Hours of the Virgin. The psalter was the principal book for private devotions before the emergence of the BOOK OF HOURS in the thirteenth century. The Psalms also formed a major part of many medieval PRAYER BOOKS from the ninth century on. In the non-monastic Roman LITURGY of the Middle Ages, all one hundred and fifty Psalms were recited each week, the majority at matins and vespers. The cycle began at matins on Sunday with Psalm 1 and continued at matins on the following days: Psalm 26 was the first recited on Monday, Psalm 38 the first on Tuesday, Psalm 52 the first on Wednesday, Psalm 68 the first on Thursday, Psalm 80 the first on Friday, Psalm 97 the first on Saturday. The cycle for vespers commenced on Sunday with Psalm 109 and continued throughout the week with the remaining Psalms (some Psalms were set aside for other hours). Other divisions of the Psalms are occasionally found, such as the Irish division of the three fifties (beginning at Psalms 1, 51, and 101). Such divisions would often be given prominence within the decorative program.
Depictions of King David, author of many of the Psalms, frequently introduce the psalter (especially as historiated Beatus initials to Psalm 1), and PREFATORY CYCLES were often added, along with an illuminated calendar. BYZANTINE psalter illustration exerted an important influence on the West.
Collections of prayers for private devotional use appeared at least as early as the eighth century in the INSULAR world and shortly thereafter in the CAROLINGIAN Empire. In ninth-century English illuminated manuscripts, prayers began to be collected according to central devotional themes and were often accompanied by passages from the Gospels and the Psalms. Within the Carolingian and OTTONIAN milieux, series of prayers were often appended to PSALTERS, but without a thematic structure. Throughout the Middle Ages, prayer books supplemented the psalter and the BOOK OF HOURS as volumes for devotional use. Prayer books grew in popularity during the later Middle Ages, a number containing fine ILLUMINATIONS having been produced for aristocratic PATRONS (such as Charles the Bold, Duke of Burgundy) in the fifteenth century.
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Lt. Col. William J Webster
Sunday, April 24. 2016
Lt. Colonel William J Webster, age 93, of Barnesville, passed away on the 23 day, April, 2016, at 4:37 p.m. in his home surrounded by his family. Colonel Webster was born on January 1, 1923 in Grand Ridge, Florida, son of the late William Alexander, Jr. and Phoebe Singletary Webster. He was preceded in death by his beloved wife of 70 plus years, Estelle Pharr Webster. William J was a member and deacon of First Baptist Church and retired from General Tire. He was a celebrated veteran of the United States Marine Corp after serving 24 years as an aviator.
Lt. Colonel Webster was a graduate of Gordon Military High School and College. He earned his wings as a pilot in Pensacola, Florida and served in the Korean War, World War II, Cuban Crisis and Viet Nam. He and his family made Barnesville their home after he served at the Pentagon in Washington, DC.
Survivors include his son, John A. Webster (Maureen) of Barnesville; three daughters, Joan Estelle Padgett (Larry) of Beaufort, SC, Nancy Ann Webster of Gainesville, GA, and Wanda Jean Hewitt (Glenn) of Barnesville. "Pop Pop" has 10 grandchildren, Chris Webster (Tasha), Natalie Rischbieter (Mark), Caroline Smith (Stephen), Elizabeth Render (Chris), William Thomas McElhinney III (Esther), James Lewis McElhinney (Laura), Emily Stansell (Jeremy), Blake Hewitt (Catherine), Webster Hewitt (Mandy) and Carter Hewitt; 13 great-grandchildren; and sisters, Sandra and Phoebe.
Funeral services will be held at 11:00 on Wednesday, the 27th of April at the First Baptist Church with Rev. Garth Forster and grandson, Blake Hewitt officiating. Interment will follow in the Greenwood Cemetery with full military honors. The family will receive friends for visitation from 10:00 to 11:00 before the service at the church.
Donations may be made to the First Baptist Church at 200 Zebulon Street, Barnesville, GA 30204 in his memory in lieu of flowers.
Services are being arranged and directed by Breedlove Memorial Chapel, Barnesville, GA. Condolences and memories may be shared at www.breedlovememorialchapel.com


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Q: Choose Layout for JDialog Java I am having a hard time picking the right Layout for my JDialog. I want to have a component in each line, with a label before it.
I tried to set the panel's layout to nulll and then use setBounds, but it's just too confusing(especially for my very first gui code).
I tried the GridLayout too (with the specified dimensions above) but still don't get the intended layout (I get one component in each line, without its label before it).
Here's a sample code of my JDialog and it's parent frame :
public class Test {

private JDialog dialogTest;

private JPanel dialogTestPane;
private JPanel buttonDialogPane;
private JPanel okCancelPane;

private JTextField aTextField;

private JLabel textLabel;
private JLabel buttonLabel;

private JButton buttonTest;
private JButton buttonDialog;
private JButton buttonOk;
private JButton buttonCancel;

private JFrame testFrame;

public Test(){
    createMainFrame();

}

private void createDialog(){
        //Set jdialog
     dialogTest = new JDialog();
     dialogTest.setLayout(new BorderLayout());
     dialogTestPane = new JPanel();
     //dialogTestPane.setLayout(null);
     dialogTestPane.setLayout(new GridLayout(5,5,5,5));

     textLabel = new JLabel("Text:");
     //textLabel.setBounds(10,20,46,16);
     dialogTestPane.add(textLabel);

     aTextField = new JTextField();
    // aTextField.setBounds(70,20,80,45);
     dialogTestPane.add(aTextField);

     buttonLabel = new JLabel("Button:");
    // buttonLabel.setBounds(10,60,46,16);
     dialogTestPane.add(buttonLabel);

     buttonTest = new JButton("Test");
     //buttonTest.setLocation(70,60);
     dialogTestPane.add(buttonTest);

     dialogTest.add(dialogTestPane, BorderLayout.CENTER);

     //Ok,cancel buttons
     okCancelPane = new JPanel(new FlowLayout(FlowLayout.RIGHT));
     buttonOk = new JButton("Ok");
     buttonCancel = new JButton("Cancel");
     okCancelPane.add(buttonOk);
     okCancelPane.add(buttonCancel);

     dialogTest.add(okCancelPane, BorderLayout.SOUTH);
     dialogTest.setVisible(true);

}
private void createMainFrame(){
       //Set frame of buttonTest -> No layout issues here
     testFrame = new JFrame();
     buttonDialogPane = new JPanel(new FlowLayout());
     buttonDialog = new JButton("Get Dialog");
     buttonDialogPane.add(buttonDialog);
     testFrame.add(buttonDialogPane);

     //Showing Dialog

     buttonDialog.addActionListener((ActionEvent ae) -> {
         createDialog();
     });
     testFrame.setVisible(true);
}

}

The Main class :
public class TestMain {

 public static void main(String[] args){
       Test test = new Test();
    }

}
Any help would be appreciated! Thank you !

A: There is many ways to do what you want, so I will present how I like to do it. I'm using GroupLayout, you can read more about it here: How to Use GroupLayout
Implementation
So first you create your components
dialogTestPane = new JPanel();

textLabel = new JLabel("Text:");
aTextField = new JTextField();
buttonLabel = new JLabel("Button:");
buttonTest = new JButton("Test");

then you have to create GroupLayout and set it for your JPanel()
GroupLayout groupLayout = new GroupLayout(dialogTestPane);
groupLayout.setAutoCreateGaps(true);
dialogTestPane.setLayout(groupLayout);

Now you set horizontal group, in your case it means that you create 2 groups, one for Labels and other one for Components.
groupLayout.setHorizontalGroup(groupLayout.createSequentialGroup()
        .addGroup(groupLayout.createParallelGroup(GroupLayout.Alignment.LEADING)
                .addComponent(textLabel)
                .addComponent(buttonLabel))
        .addGroup(groupLayout.createParallelGroup(GroupLayout.Alignment.LEADING)
                .addComponent(aTextField)
                .addComponent(buttonTest)));

Next step is to set Vertical group, it means that you create group for every Label and Component.
groupLayout.setVerticalGroup(groupLayout.createSequentialGroup()
        .addGroup(groupLayout.createParallelGroup(GroupLayout.Alignment.BASELINE)
                .addComponent(textLabel)
                .addComponent(aTextField))
        .addGroup(groupLayout.createParallelGroup(GroupLayout.Alignment.BASELINE)
                .addComponent(buttonLabel)
                .addComponent(buttonTest)));

And finally you have to add your JPanel to superior one
dialogTest.add(dialogTestPane);

And that's it! For bigger number of components i recommend to keep your labels and component in arrays and set group layout in loop to avoid hundreds of lines just for setting layout.
Well, it can be done in other ways, with for example MiGLayout or mixing other layout managers. Useful links:

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*Using Layout Managers

*MiGLayout


During Man's tenure he increased the funding available to schools, improved the preparation and support of teachers, and advocated for compassionate discipline. Mann believed children in public schools should be taught the ethical principles common across Christianity, but not those doctrines about which different sects disagreed. Today Mann is still criticized by both sides. Religious conservatives often blame him for taking the steps that lead to the complete colonization of public school yester.
Liberals sometimes criticize his lack of interest in making public education more comfortable for non-Christians. Man's compromise was possibly the only one that could have both sides satisfied. During one of Man's speeches he claimed that "slavery would abolish education, if it should invade a free state; education would abolish slavery, if it could invade a free state. " In 1848 Horace Mann declared that in America, common, public schools would be "the balance wheel Of the social machinery.
This is what has kept public schools attractive to most of the public in most parts of the country for the past century and a half. Americans have consistently believed that common public schools are necessary to teach common values, common knowledge of the political systems, respect for institutions, respect for property, and other values that are needed to keep a democratic system from flying apart.


Nothing brings us more joy than introducing people to the different flavours and tastes, pairings and pours of all that we have on offer. With the below collection you can see some of the hand-picked variants we currently have on offer through our cellar door and tastings. All of them are Australian and all of them phenomenal – and they can't wait to meet you down here with us.
"Grigio" translates to English as "Grey," but there is nothing grey about this Pinot Grigio wine. As vibrant as a sunny day, and just as much fun to enjoy, grey plays no part in this story - though funnily enough, many a great story has been told with this grey wine in hand.
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Made from grapes grown at Toms Cap Vineyard near Yarram in Victoria, this Sauvignon Blanc has flavours of capsicum, gooseberry, green olive and grass. A fine citrus acidity drives through the wine making it long and fresh and ready for any great, wicked or wild story about to be shared.
A lovely early-drinking style of Pinot Noir. Much like it's name-sake, this Pinot is a little workhorse – as solid and as honest as the day is long.
A well balanced Chardonnay showing elegant fruit, some nice barrel ferment character and good acidity.
A fine example of a cool climate Shiraz with a savoury palate full of flavour, coupled with lighter supple tannins & good acidity.


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Spooky Drabbles and Stories (by BettyHT)
BettyHT Bonanza October 4, 2018 October 4, 2018
Summary: A set of four short pieces all meant to give an eerie sense of dread for the Halloween season.
Giant Eagles
With his rifle in hand, Joe sat with his back to his large campfire looking out into the darkness trying to see into every dark shadow and up at the sky occasionally. He had felt so alone and then remembered that story Adam had told the last time the two of them had been camping up here.
"A wagon train disappeared. Nothing left except broken tools and a crude drawing in charcoal that someone had made of menacing giant eagles."
"So you expect me to believe that the eagles carried off those people and their wagons and belongings?"
"I don't expect you to believe anything, Joe. But those people and wagons were missing and have never been found. Some say that if you listen up here at night, you can hear them calling for help. It's silly, I know, but the wind up here sometimes does sound a bit like people crying out."
Suddenly Joe sensed more than saw a huge shadow cross the moon. He fired his rifle up at it and then smiled for overreacting. He leaned back and fell asleep only to awaken in the morning to find a giant eagle feather laying next to his campfire.
The Ghastly Night Visitor
"I'll take the first shift. You can spell me about one. The windows are locked and shuttered. She can't get in, and that tea Hop Sing got Adam to drink knocked him out. He won't hear her calling to him."
"Hoss, it's eerie. Every year on the anniversary of the day we rescued him from that abandoned house where that woman kept him prisoner, he tries to go back there. Two years ago, he went out the window and it took all three of us had to stop him from leaving."
"Yeah, and last year there was that awful whining and singing outside like some crazy woman singing yet it made all of us want to go out there. We had to put cotton in our ears."
The night passed slowly with all sorts of banging outside with the wind howling until nearly three in the morning when it suddenly stopped. At dawn, Adam awakened, and went down to breakfast with Ben and Hoss. A short time later, Joe came downstairs looking awful.
"Son, what happened?"
"I was hot, so I opened the window a crack. I think she was in my room. I'm so cold I can't get warm."
Don't Invite That Man Into Your House
"Adam, why would you knock again, and where's Pris?'
"Ma'am, I just got here to take Priscilla to the dance."
"My eyes ain't what they were, but I swear you was here a half hour ago. It was funny that you wouldn't come in until Pris invited you in, and you didn't have your silver hatband on and your belt buckle wasn't silver like it is now. She did look kinda in a daze. There was nothing with silver and the inside of your black jacket was red. It was kind of a dandy thing for you to do, but I see your jacket and it's the same as you always wear to a dance. Oh, Adam, who was that man who took my Pris away from here?"
Every word Mrs. Miller said made Adam's stomach roil and his nerves jangle. Racing outside, he fired three shots summoning his brothers who had ridden ahead thinking he would follow with Priscilla. When they returned, a search began and hearing the gunshots, more people came. As they had found women several times in the previous month, Priscilla's pale lifeless body was found behind her house with two puncture wounds in the neck.
Riding around the ranch, Adam began noticing strange stacks of stones, always six stones stacked from largest to smallest carefully balanced so each wouldn't topple. There were more of them in sets of six as fall progressed and he couldn't understand it. He realized eventually that there were three sets of the stones on the Ponderosa. He wondered who was putting the stones in the piles and why. He looked for footprints around the newly stacked stones but each time found that the footprints had been carefully brushed away. He liked to know what was going on in his world and didn't like mysteries. Thinking that eventually he would see some clue as to who was placing these stones, he watched. He even toppled over a few of the stacks only to find them restacked the next time he rode by them. Still he never saw anyone stacking the rocks nor did he ever find a footprint or any other evidence as to who was doing it.
His father couldn't understand what was happening either with Little Joe who was in trouble at school every day. He had made a new friend but was now surly and belligerent at home. The worst infraction was the sneaking out after dark every night or early in the morning to be with his friend in the dark. Adam never mentioned all the rock piles because he thought his father had enough problems with the uncontrollable thirteen-year-old who didn't want to attend church with them saying that he didn't believe in all that hocus pocus. That had earned him a trip to the stable for a necessary talk but even that had done nothing to change his attitude.
Near Halloween, Joe fell ill, and nothing Doctor Martin did made any difference. Joe dropped into a coma and his fever rose. Ben sat at his side, praying and reading from the Bible because he thought God was the only one who could help. In Joe's room, Adam noticed a small pile of pebbles on Joe's bureau stacked like the rock piles he had seen all around the house. Suddenly he knew. Three sets of six. They added up to 666. Racing from the house, he rode out to destroy those rock piles. As he knocked down the last one, lightning flashed again and again in the clear sky and thunder rolled. Out of the darkness, Joe's new friend emerged from the trees. His eyes glowed red. A strong wind blew and there was a horrendous shriek and he was gone. The sky was clear and the air was calm again. Adam rode home hoping he had acted in time.
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2 thoughts on "Spooky Drabbles and Stories (by BettyHT)"
ponderosapines11 says:
What a chillingly delightful story!
BettyHT says:
Thank you so much. I'm having a bit of fun with the Halloween season.


1996-06-15T13:28:46-04:00https://images.c-span.org/defaults/capitol.jpgCommittee members heard testimony from Secretary O'Leary and other Department of Energy officials concerning Department of Energy trade missions to India, China, South Africa and Pakistan. They emphasized that the department was guilty of mismanagement, but that these problems have been corrected and that this trade initiative in the energy industry must continue.
Committee members heard testimony on reorganizing the Energy Department.


Some great evangelists as well as promoters have actually viewed their ministry as saving individuals from the sinking ship of the globe. The boat is going down as well as our work is to conserve as several as we could from going down with it. The world is passing away, yet whoever does the will of God abides permanently.
Some place out that the boat is not going down. They state, the concept that Christian ministry is a rescue procedure is ill-conceived. Life on the watercraft, as well as the boat itself, are going to be entirely reconditioned someday.
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It's true that the ship of the world will never sink and also end up being unliveable. Every person on this ship passes away.
Currently, if they have a faith-in-Jesus life vest when they die and also overdo it, Jesus occurs as well as picks them up in his eternal-life salvation watercraft.
But if they do not have the faith-in-Jesus life jacket, after that they die as well as sink. So the seriousness is not that the boat is sinking, however that the travelers are dying.
It is also true that the ship itself is a vexing combination of stunning craftsmanship from the Ship-Builder, stunning intelligence in the most talented team, inspiring stories of heroic tasks of goodness, and terrible human suffering. A couple of things on the watercraft work perfectly. The majority of points break. Simply when you believe a condition is about to be dominated, a riot kills hundreds of thousands below deck. Someday you really feel pleasant. The next day you are afraid for your life.
It is also real that the Lord Jesus who made the ship, and keeps it afloat will certainly one day board the ship in person as the rightful Leader. When he does, all the skeptics as well as mutineers go overboard. The believers remain, as well as every person who was saved from fatality, with a faith-in-Jesus life vest, will certainly be brought back to their place on the ship. Jesus will certainly recondition the whole vessel as well as make it a best area for eternal delight.


iQapps, the company that developed Trip Journal, has now announced the release of Trip Viewer, their new travel app for the iPad that will allow users to manage their trip by being able to view in a variety of media-rich formats, including photo, video, maps, and notes. This will allow them to enjoy their vacation long after its over and to share their memories with friends and family. The launch of the new app was made at the Mobile App World 2011.
Trip Viewer is very versatile. It allows users to easily import their trips onto their iPad via email or iTunes and there are a number of features that will enhance their stroll down memory lane, including Slideshow capability and geo-location aware Flickr photos. Users can also add multiple trips so that every experience can be enjoyed and shared over and over again. Best of all, this app is FREE in the AppStore.


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Battle over bank fees: padding, or real cost?
By David R. Francis Staff writer of The Christian Science Monitor
Somehow, the fees banks charge can really get the customers' goat. They feel exploited, used.
When activist Bruce Marks led a bunch of fee protesters into FleetBoston's downtown branches last week, after blockading the bank's annual meeting for an hour with a convoy of vans, customers applauded, thrust clenched fists into the air, Mr. Marks says.
"When you talk fees, it is a subject based more on emotion than on logic," says John Hull, a spokesman for the American Bankers Association (ABA).
The banks want to cover the costs of a service, whether it is a personal account or an ATM (automatic teller machine) that is available night and day.
An ATM, Mr. Hull says, costs $15,000 to $50,000 to install, depending on its sophistication and location, and $15,000 to $25,000 each year to maintain. Costs include rent, electricity, telecommunications, and cash replenishment.
"This is really about choice and convenience," Hull says.
There are 227,000 ATMs nationwide, far more than the 70,000 branches of the 10,000 banks and savings institutions.
Still, Jake Lewis, who works with Ralph Nader's Public Interest Research Group (PIRG) in Washington, holds that the banks "cannot make any economic justification" for the fees, that they are "a way to pad the profit line."
Marks uses stronger rhetoric, charging FleetBoston, the nation's eighth-largest bank, with being a "feudal landlord," a predator of its customer "serfs."
One thing for sure, bank fees have become a national issue.
Voters in San Francisco last Nov. 2 approved a proposition banning surcharge fees on ATMs. A month earlier, the Santa Monica (Calif.) City Council approved a law barring ATM surcharges. Agreeing with Bank of America and Wells Fargo, a federal district court judge temporarily suspended enforcement of the San Francisco and Santa Monica actions on the grounds that they violated the National Bank Act, which effectively declaws state and local legistators with respect to the setting of fees by national banks.
An appeal of the injunction, supported by nine states, has recently been remanded to the district court for trial.
The fee issue has also popped up in Connecticut, Iowa, New Jersey, and elsewhere.
What bugs bank customers is that the average annual cost of maintaining a regular checking account now runs about $217, notes PIRG's Ed Mierzwinski. At least 12 million families are unable to afford bank accounts.
The ABA's Hall counters that their surveys find that 61 percent of bank customers pay $3 or less in bank fees per month - and that 49 percent pay nothing.
However, some customers paying nothing must keep high account balances or have linked home-equity loans that earn their banks interest payments.
Hall also says ordinary fees on customers generally account for only 4 or 5 percent of a bank's revenues. Interest charges on loans remain more crucial.
Nonetheless, the handsome quarterly profit gains reported by many banks aren't always reassuring to customers. Examples: Bank of America, up 17 percent in the first quarter; Mellon Financial, up 10 percent; FleetBoston, up 28 percent.
Fleet's fee income in the first quarter accounted for $364 million of $4 billion in total revenues. Fee income has been relatively flat for the past five quarters when the numbers for the newly merged BankBoston and Fleet Bank are pooled.
Bank spokesman James Mahoney says that two-thirds of BankBoston's customers will see no change or a reduction in fees when switched into the Fleet system. One-third will see fees rise. On average, the combined bank's fee income will fall.
That's not how Marks sees it, calling the bank "Fee Bank."
But Mahoney charges Marks with a "theatrical exercise." Marks is chief executive of the nonprofit Neighborhood Assistance Corp., which provides "affordable mortgages" to lower-income families across the country. It seeks $500 million from Fleet for those mortgages.
Under the Community Reinvestment Act, Fleet is obliged to serve minority communities in some way. Marks, says Mahoney, is putting an odd type of "pressure" on Fleet to do some of this service through NACA.
Academics say the biggest winners in bank mergers are executives. Fleet CEO Terrence Murphy made $20 million in salary and stock, ex-Bank Boston head Charles Gifford, $15 million.
(c) Copyright 2000. The Christian Science Publishing Society
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