Bioware is working on a new Dragon Age game and gave fans a little taste of what to expect from their new game in the series. Blink and you would have missed it. The short minute-long video doesn't show gameplay but rather gives fans a look at a stunning piece of art with a bit of voice-over.
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Executive Producer at Bioware, Mark Darrah provided some answers, well not much but still.
You can watch the full teaser below.
While the next Dragon Age game remains a huge mystery, it sounds like it will be a sequel to Inquisition. Whether or not you'll play as the Inquisitor is up in the air. Hopefully, all our questions will be answered soon. We don't want to keep the Dread Wolf waiting.


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Q: How to do nested iterations in jade? ul
    li
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This is what I'm trying to achieve, instead of writing the above jade code I want to be able to generate it using loops.
I tried the jade documentation, the examples show only one level of loop. For eg. I could try this
-var menus = [ 'menu1', 'menu2', 'menu3' ];
ul
    each menu in menus
        li
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But this is not enough. if I try this
-var submenus = [ 'sub-menu1', 'sub-menu2', 'sub-menu3' ];
ul
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this might work if each menu item had equal number of submenu items.
But in my case number of submenu item differs for each menu item.
How do i go around this?
How to do nested iterations in jade?

A: you need a object for this structure, for instance:
locals:
{
  menus: {
    m1: ['a', 'b', 'c', 'd'],
    m2: ['x', 'y', 'z'],
    m3: ['i', 'ii']
  }
}

then you can use this template:
ul
  each menuKey in Object.keys(menus)
    - menu = menus[menuKey]
    li
      a(href='')=menuKey
        ul
          each submenu in menu
            li
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you can try this on this site: http://jade-lang.com/demo/
copy paste the template to the top left, and the locals to the top right textarea.

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By Amira Zubairi Canadian Startup News March 19, 2019
How Harley Finkelstein went from lawyer to COO of Shopify
Last week, the University of Ottawa law faculty's All Sorts of Torts club and the Telfer School of Management's Entrepreneur's Club invited Harley Finkelstein to discuss how he transitioned from being a lawyer to leading one of the world's fastest growing tech companies – Shopify.
Speaking to a room full of MBA and law students, Finkelstein, COO of Shopify, described how his drive for entrepreneurship, since he was seven-years-old, led him to join the Shopify team in 2010.
"I got this weird confidence when I was really young that entrepreneurship was something I could do."
"I realized that I liked the idea of starting businesses," said Finkelstein. "My dad would make me business cards for every silly idea I had. I got this weird confidence when I was really young that entrepreneurship was something I could do. Entrepreneurship, being this incredible way to solve problems, was what I wanted to spend my life doing."
Throughout his teenage years and into his undergraduate studies, Finkelstein explored entrepreneurship through launching his own businesses. At 13-years-old, Finkelstein was DJ'ing at special events and Bar Mitzvahs, and at 17, he founded a T-shirt company while attending McGill University. When Finkelstein realized that he wouldn't always have a competitive advantage with his T-shirt business, he took the advice of his mentor, Ottawa lawyer, Philip Rimer, and decided to attend law school.
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"Phil hinted at the idea that I should consider going to law school because it might help provide me with a better platform for entrepreneurship. I could write better, think better, negotiate better, and be more articulate," said Finkelstein.
Building Shopify at a coffee shop
It was while he was attending law school in Ottawa that Finkelstein met Tobias Lütke, current CEO and co-founder of Shopify. The two met at a coffee shop, where they would get together with other engineers and creative minds to discuss entrepreneurial ideas, such as the software that ended up becoming Shopify.
"People like myself wanted to use Tobi's software to sell products like T-shirts. I ended up becoming one of Shopify's first customers," said Finkelstein.
While Finkelstein initially took the traditional pathway of a law student, working a summer job at Ottawa-based law firm, LaBarge Weinstein, and articling for 10 months at a Toronto law firm, he knew this wasn't for him. What he really wanted was to pursue entrepreneurship by "creating much with nothing" and "doing a lot with little."
"I'm doing my life's work. I don't necessarily regret any steps I took to get to this point now."
After finishing his articling program, Finkelstein reached out to Lütke to see whether he could help build a business around Lütke's online ecommerce software. Eventually, Finkelstein joined the company in a hybrid role where he was both general counsel and looked after the business side of Shopify.
"I'm doing my life's work. I don't necessarily regret any steps I took to get to this point now," said Finkelstein, adding how excited he was to work with "brilliant minds" building an incredible piece of software.
"My job was to add a lot of value. Part of any good startup story is you wear a lot of different hats. I tried to protect those geniuses from stuff that wasn't going to be value-add," he said. "People get caught up in title and salary, and the problem with doing that is pulling future gains at a discount. What I brought to Shopify was that I was relentless. I was loud."
During his talk, Finkelstein described to the audience the successes of Shopify to date, including that the company has 800,000 stores on its platform; how seven percent of all products sold on Black Friday were sold through Shopify; and that the company currently has about 4,500 employees across 12 offices around the world.
He also noted how Shopify's $100 million Series C funding round led by OMERS Ventures in 2013 helped take the company to the next level, eventually leading Shopify to announce its public filing in 2015.
"That changed things. The Series A was $7 million. The Series B was $15 million. Those are big numbers but it didn't necessarily give us the money we needed to really build what we thought could be Canada's next great company. But by the Series C, it was like, let's go hire a CFO, let's hire a CMO. Let's hire people that know what they're doing as opposed to just being scrappy all the time."
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Today, Finkelstein said Shopify strives to continuously bring in experts to help the company's executive team broaden its skill set with the aim of scaling Shopify.
"We agree that we have a growth mindset. We all believe we have to requalify for our jobs. We serve at the honour of Shopify," he explained.
"The common thread [is that] every year we re-qualify for our job. I think that if you just have that mentality that everyone, Tobi included, has to requalify for their job on an annual basis, it forces you to get really good or really comfortable with being uncomfortable," Finkelstein said, adding that Shopify currently has 15 coaches that help the executive team improve.
Advice for future entrepreneurs
For people who are looking to become entrepreneurs or don't plan on taking traditional education or career paths, Finkelstein wrapped up his talk with a few pieces of advice.
Finkelstein expressed that being relentless can lead to success, and it's crucial for startups to embrace their differences.
"The best companies I've encountered and invested in, if you look at their leadership team, they would not be friends in high school. I was class president. Tobi was playing video games," said Finkelstein. "I think what I brought was a unique perspective they didn't have and this unrelenting push. Once we realized that we have the best product in the world, I felt it was my job to monetize it. It's on me to make sure people use and pay for it."
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Finkelstein also addressed how valuable mentorship can be for personal and professional growth. He noted that the best way to secure strong mentors is by reaching out to people who inspire you, and telling them there's a lot you can learn from them.
"Mentorship is something no one teaches us and it's one of the most important life skills to acquire."
"I try to acquire different mentors and people that I look up to and respect. Someone's not your mentor just because you sent them an e-mail. It's a commitment," said Finkelstein. "Send a modest, humble e-mail saying 'Can I buy you coffee for 10 minutes?' and the good ones will respond. Mentorship is something that no one teaches us and it's one of the most important life skills to acquire."
Finkelstein wrapped up his advice by suggesting letting go of ego and striving to learn from, and work with, people who are smarter than you.
"I've learned to hire people better than me. I struggled with this in the early days because I thought if I hire people better than me, I'll put myself out of a job. But the more people I hire [that are] better than me, the better I become."
Overall, Finkelstein stressed that traditional educational pathways may not be for everyone, but pursuing different forms of education can certainly equip aspiring entrepreneurs with the skills needed to disrupt industries and build tech giants like Shopify.
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Amira Zubairi is a staff writer and content creator at BetaKit with a strong interest in Canadian startup, business, and legal tech news. In her free time, Amira indulges in baking desserts, working out, and watching legal shows.
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Battles of the War of the Spanish Succession
Battles involving the Netherlands
Battles involving Flanders
Battles involving Great Britain
Battles involving France
Conflicts in 1708
18th century in the Southern Netherlands
1708 in France
Battle of Oudenarde
Part of the War of the Spanish Succession
The Duke of Marlborough at the Battle of Oudenaarde (1708)
near Oudenaarde, present-day Belgium
Grand Alliance victory[2]
Belligerents
Kingdom of Great Britain
Prussia Kingdom of France[1]
Commanders and leaders
Duke of Marlborough
Prince Eugene of Savoy
Henry de Nassau, Lord Overkirk Louis, duc de Bourgogne
Duc de Vendôme
Casualties and losses
War of the Spanish
Succession:
Flemish and Rhine campaigns
1st Landau
Friedlingen
Ekeren
Höchstädt
Speyerbach
Elixheim
Oudenarde
Lizard Point
Wijnendale
2nd Landau
Italian campaigns
Nice (fr)
Cesana
Spanish and Portuguese campaigns
Vigo Bay
Cap de la Roque
1st Gibraltar
Ceuta (es)
2nd Gibraltar
Cabrita Point
Montjuïc
1st Barcelona
2nd Barcelona
Murcia (es)
El Albujón
Xàtiva (fr)
Tortosa (ca)
La Gudina
3rd Barcelona
The Battle of Oudenarde (or Oudenaarde) was a key battle in the War of the Spanish Succession fought on 11 July 1708 between the forces of Great Britain, the Dutch Republic and the Holy Roman Empire on the one side and those of France on the other. It took place at Oudenaarde (now in Belgium) and was a decisive victory for the allies.
1 Prelude
2 Battle
3 Allied flanking manoeuvre
4 Aftermath
Prelude[]
Great Britain, the Netherlands, and the Holy Roman Empire were horrified at the thought of a union between Spain and France which caused them to ally against France, beginning the War of the Spanish Succession. The commander of the allied armies was John Churchill, 1st Duke of Marlborough, whose chief deputy was the commander of the Empire's army Prince Eugène of Savoy, who was his close friend.
Meanwhile, the two French army commanders were very quarrelsome. Louis Joseph, duc de Vendôme was a seasoned, experienced soldier. The Duke of Burgundy had considerably less experience and owed his position to the fact he was the grandson of the King, Louis XIV of France.
Marlborough's army consisted of about 90,000 men (112 infantry battalions and 197 cavalry squadrons) just south of Brussels. Eugène's forces were assembled at Coblenz, in modern Germany. These two areas were somewhat far apart, while the French army's 100,000 soldiers (130 battalions and 216 squadrons) were concentrated near Mons, in modern Belgium.
At this time, the French commanders began quarrelling. Vendôme wanted to attack the city of Huy, which could draw Marlborough in pursuit. The eventual plan adopted, however, (under orders from Louis XIV) was to attack Flanders. The army moved eastward, until they reached the city of Braine-l'Alleud, which was about 25 km south of Brussels, and also threatened the nearby city of Leuven. Marlborough placed his forces a few miles south of Leuven, in order to cover both threatened cities.
The French army then remained inactive for more than a month. This apparently allowed the extremely behind schedule Eugène to bring his army from the Rhine River. On 5 July, however, the French unexpectedly moved west, taking the cities of Bruges and Ghent (although about 300 British soldiers held out in Ghent for a few days). This extremely demoralized Marlborough and his army, and he did not recover until Eugène was at his side.
The French army had the entire length of the Scheldt River from the French border to the newly taken city of Ghent. Only one British fortress remained: Oudenaarde. If they took that city, Marlborough's army would be cut off from the coast, causing them to lose communications with England.
Marlborough detected this objective, and also correctly guessed the method by which the French troops would attempt to take it. They would march down the east bank of the Scheldt (closer to Marlborough's troops), while leaving a large covering force between the two opposing armies. The French army marched on 8 July, toward the city of Lessines. However, Marlborough made one of the most inspired forced marches in history, taking the city on 10 July. This forced the French commanders to attempt simply to march across the Scheldt and thereby take the city of Oudenaarde.
Again Marlborough ordered a forced march. This time, though, he ordered 11,000 troops to hold the main crossing point across the Scheldt, under the command of his Quartermaster General, William Cadogan. Cadogan's force built 5 additional pontoon bridges to allow Marlborough to get his 100,000-strong army across the river, until French foragers discovered the allied presence around 09:00 AM.
Battle[]
Map of the Battle of Oudenaarde
Cadogan, a superb Irish cavalry commander, ordered some dragoons, under Danish General Jørgen Rantzau, to take prisoners from the French advance guard. Many of those troops escaped and alerted Lieutenant General Charles-Armand de Gontaut, duc de Biron, who commanded the vanguard, of the presence of Allied troops on the west bank.
When de Biron advanced, he was disagreeably surprised by the large number of Allied cavalry already across the river, along with the approaching Allied infantry. Although he was ordered to attack by Vendôme, he hesitated upon seeing the reinforced line of 20 battalions (including the four that had been left to guard the pontoon bridges). Biron's own forces comprised only 7 battalions and 20 squadrons. He had been given reliable advice that cavalry could not negotiate the marshy terrain in the area, and therefore decided not to attempt a crossing. At this time, Eugène, along with 20 squadrons of Prussian cavalry, moved across the river, and occupied crucial positions.
While Biron's troops were manoeuvring, the leading British infantry brigade had arrived, under the inexperienced but gifted John Campbell, 2nd Duke of Argyll. Cadogan, with authority from Marlborough, attacked Biron's 7 battalions (of Swiss mercenaries) with his soldiers (mainly cavalry). The isolated Swiss mercenaries were immediately pushed back, and the Allied force destroyed Biron's squadrons, until they reached a large mass of French cavalry, at which point they were forced to retire, outnumbered. The force which performed this action was Rantzau's cavalry, with the future King George II of England among them.
Burgundy, making another critical mistake, decided to attack (over protests by Vendôme). The French right wing began to attack the Allied positions near Eine, while the left wing (for an unknown reason) remained stationary near Huise. Meanwhile, a very strong position was held by the Allied left wing. 28 cavalry squadrons protected the right flank of Cadogan's infantry, which would receive the attack (which proceeded at about 4 pm).
Burgundy ordered the assault, which landed on Prussian cavalry squadrons under Dubislav Gneomar von Natzmer. Although hard fighting ensued, the attack was dispersed. Then, Vendôme made a dubious decision. He personally led an attack of twelve regiments, fighting hand-to-hand with a half-pike. This meant that while one commander (Burgundy) was in his headquarters, with no view of the battle, the other was fighting personally, with no possibility of control.
Most historians agree that the weakened Allied right flank would have been destroyed, had the French left wing attacked. Vendôme realized this, asking Burgundy for permission to attack with the left wing. Burgundy sent a messenger with a negative reply; however, this messenger failed to deliver the message. Therefore, the situation worsened with Vendôme believing that an attack would support his hard-fighting troops. His troops were lengthening their line, threatening to envelop the Allied left flank. As Argyll's regiments approached, they lengthened the Allied line; however, this was not done quickly enough, nor to a great enough extent, to prevent the French from threatening such an envelopment.
Allied flanking manoeuvre[]
Marlborough moved his headquarters to the left flank, giving Eugène command of the right flank (which still checked the left wing of the French army). While the right was under pressure, Marlborough made a brilliant command decision: he placed 18 newly arrived Hessian and Hanoverian battalions in the left flank, while replacing 20 of Prussian General Carl von Lottum's battalions, moving them to Eugène's support. This moved fresh troops to the critical left, while reinforcing the right flank (and resting Lottum's troops).
The Duke of Marlborough at the Battle of Oudenaarde (John Wootton)
Marlborough then began formulating a new plan of double encirclement. He had the entire Dutch Army, under Field Marshal Count Hendrik Overkirk, an experienced military officer. His force was unable to cross the collapsed pontoon bridges near Oudenaarde, forcing him to use the stone bridges in the city, delaying him for an hour. Marlborough went ahead with his plan, having Eugène's cavalry charge. It made for Burgundy's headquarters. The French Household Cavalry, the Maison du Roi, were able to turn them back, and Marlborough, with only the 18 Hessian and Hanoverian battalions, was unable to do much other than keep the French right in check.
At about 20:30, Overkirk's troops, who had finally arrived, flanked the French right wing. This was in conjunction with a dual attack by Marlborough and Eugène. Overkirk's manoeuvre was completely successful, with much of the French army being routed and/or captured. However, there was not enough daylight to complete the manoeuvre.
Aftermath[]
The French army retired to Ghent, with its commanders furiously quarreling. It can be said that only darkness and a few broken pontoon bridges saved the army from total destruction.[3]
For unknown reasons, about half of the French army was kept in reserve, without participating at all. There was a great mass of French cavalry and infantry in some raised ground north of the Norken River, and many of Burgundy's troops remained inactive. There were many bad decisions in the French army. The cavalry had remained in reserve, mainly because of the advice that the ground was impassable. The entire left wing (the troops under Burgundy and the large mass north of the Norken) was kept in reserve. They could easily have destroyed the rather weak right wing of the Allied army. Had a concerted attack been carried out, with Vendôme attacking with his main body to envelop the Allied right, while Burgundy attacked with the left (before Overkirk and the rest of Argyll's troops arrived), the French army could have easily won.
The French army lost about 15,000 soldiers (about 8,000 of whom were prisoners) and 25 guns, while the Allies lost fewer than 3,000.[4]
↑ George Ripley, Charles Anderson Dana, The American Cyclopaedia, New York, 1874, p. 250, "...the standard of France was white, sprinkled with golden fleur de lis...". *[1] The original Banner of France was strewn with fleurs-de-lis. *[2]:on the reverse of this plate it says: "Le pavillon royal était véritablement le drapeau national au dix-huitième siecle...Vue du chateau d'arrière d'un vaisseau de guerre de haut rang portant le pavillon royal (blanc, avec les armes de France)."[3] from the 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica: "The oriflamme and the Chape de St Martin were succeeded at the end of the 16th century, when Henry III., the last of the house of Valois, came to the throne, by the white standard powdered with fleurs-de-lis. This in turn gave place to the famous tricolour."
↑ Brendan Simms (9 December 2008). Three Victories and a Defeat: The Rise and Fall of the First British Empire, 1714-1783. Basic Books. p. 56. ISBN 978-0-7867-2722-3. http://books.google.com/books?id=izhwqC3W23UC&pg=PA56. Retrieved 6 February 2013.
↑ W.H. Davenport Adams, England at War, London, 1886, p.142, "Night alone saved their army...".
↑ W.H. Davenport Adams, England at War, London, 1886, p.144, gives 6,000 French killed and wounded, 9,000 prisoners, 98 colours; the allies 3,000 killed and wounded.
Christopher Scott. Oudenarde 1708. Partizan Press 2008
commemoration of the battle in July 2008
Battle of Oudenaarde at BritishBattles.com
A map and timeline of the battle
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Prize-winning novelist Ross King was born in Estevan, Saskatchewan in 1962. After completing a Ph.D. at York University, he went on to do postdoctoral work at University College in London, England.
King's career as an author of creative non-fiction began while he was researching the Renaissance artist, Filippo Brunelleschi. Amidst a wealth of information, King found that the true story behind the Dome of the Cathedral del Fiore was as interesting as any proposed fictionalized account and he published Brunelleschi's Dome. This genre of creating factually accurate narratives seemed to be a good fit with King's passion for research.
He went on to publish Michelangelo and The Pope's Ceiling and Leonardo and The Last Supper, in which he provides an intriguing look into the back stories of these great works and the artists who created them. King received Governor General Awards for each of these works.
His focus then returned to his Canadian roots and he directed his energies toward the exploration of Canadian Art. The extensive Notes and Personal Acknowledgements section in this work reveals the effort and energy he directed toward the research and compilation of Defiant Spirits: The Modernist Revolution of the Group of Seven. Here he produced an account of the symbiotic relationships that existed between members of the group, the times they worked in, and the journey they took to express a truly "Canadian twang" within their work.
King's last book Mad Enchantment and the Painting of the Water Lilies won him the 2017 RBC Taylor Prize. Here he captures the unexpected personality behind the serene paintings that were considered the "anti-depressant" of a society.


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using System.Data.Entity.ModelConfiguration;
using Advertise.DomainClasses.Entities.Products;

namespace Advertise.DomainClasses.Configurations.Products
{
    /// <summary>
    /// </summary>
    public class ProductLikeConfig : EntityTypeConfiguration<ProductLike>
    {
        /// <summary>
        /// </summary>
        public ProductLikeConfig()
        {
            Property(like => like.RowVersion).IsRowVersion();
        }
    }
}

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Davelaar won the 15th edition of the VanEps Kunneman VanDoorne Thesis Prize for her thesis entitled "Statutory settlement according to the new law of succession: a solution for vacant houses in Curacao?".
In her thesis, Davelaar explains that there are many vacant houses in Curacao, for example because the owner passed away and the heirs are unknown. She describes a clear solution for this problem by having the court appoint a legal administrator of the estate to which the house belongs under the new law of succession introduced in 2012.


Arthur Smith was 18 when he signed up for the Navy in 1942 and was assigned as a crew member on ML 567, a lightweight motor launch ship that carried out mine-sweeping missions and submarine patrols in the seas of Europe.
The ship was part of a flotilla that docked at Ischia in May 1944 after helping free the island from the grasp of the German Navy.
Little did Arthur know as he stepped off the boat all those years ago and was greeted by a nine-year-old boy named Pippo that this was to be the start of a friendship that would last for the next 68 years.
"When we docked at Ischia I was greeted by smiling young children who treated us like heroes. I got to know one of them really well," says Arthur. "His name was Pippo Conte and I quickly struck up a close friendship with his family.
Arthur, who was born in Kent but moved to Northern Ireland to be close to his family in 2005, has never forgotten the generosity shown to him by the Contes. During the war he carried out missions in Malta, Gibraltar, across Italy, Algiers and Yugoslavia, but it is his time on Ischia that remains closest to his heart.
He has returned to see his old friends on several occasions, and Pippo and his wife even came over to the UK when Arthur and Freda celebrated their golden wedding anniversary a few years ago.
But his Heroes Return-funded visit proved particularly poignant as he knew it would probably be his last. "I look back with pride to have served my country on that ship alongside some of the best pals I've ever known," he says.
"I have such fond memories of Ischia. It's very moving to go back there and see those children grown up and doing so well. There's only two of us left now from the ship, but I know that all the lads would be so happy to see how the island is thriving.


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B5PLUS, government cut sod for steel factory at Ningo Prampram
L-R Deputy Minister of Lands and Natural Resources, Barbara Oteng Gyasi, Deputy Minister of Trade and Industry, Carlos Kingsley Ahenkora, and Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of B5 Plus Limited, Mukesh Thakwani cutting the sod
A foreign steel manufacturing and distribution company, B5Plus Limited, in collaboration with the Ministry of Trade has cut sod for the construction of a steel company in the Ningo Prampram District in the Greater Accra Region. The project which is fully funded by B5Plus Limited will employ about 3000 workers when completed.
Speaking at the ceremony, Mr. Mike Thakwani, Chief Executive Officer of B5PLUS Limited, said the company currently works with more than 3,000 Ghanaians and would add another 3,000 more upon completion of the facility.
Budget for the construction of the steel factory has been estimated at about $80 million for the factory expected that is expected to produce about 15,000 metric tonnes of steel monthly.
Currently B5PLUS supplies to about 1000 companies who he also described as business partners as it provides them with credit facilities to help them grow.
Deputy Minister of Trade and Industry, Mr. Carlos Ahenkorah, who performed the sod cutting ceremony said Ghana currently imports between 200,000 to 300,000 metric tonnes of steel every year and when completed would save the country huge sums on the import cost.
He disclosed that local financial institutions had proposed a GH¢2.5 billion support for the project, adding that foreign financial institutions including Indian Exim Bank and United States' Exim Bank have also shown interest.
On behalf of the ministry, Mr Ahenkorah appealed to the district assemblies and traditional councils to embrace factories proposed by private and foreign entities to boost the 'One District, One Factory' project.
Mr. Thakwani said as part of the company's corporate social responsibility the company has established the Delhi Public International School in the country to augment government's efforts to educate the populace believing that the school will offer both Ghanaians and non-Ghanaians good but affordable education.
The High Commissioner of India to Ghana, Mr. Brender Singh Yadav in his speech said the project was expected to enhance livelihoods and create jobs for the youth.
"I am very happy that an Indian company has availed itself to partner Ghana and contribute to the development of the youth," he said.
"India is currently the third biggest steel manufacturer in the world and it was prudent to share the achievement with other countries, of which Ghana was no exception".
Mr. Jonathan Teye Doku, the District Chief Executive of Ningo Prampram, expressed the assembly's delight at the project and appealed to management of the steelmaker to give the youth of the area priority when recruiting staff.
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Max Verstappen Delighted With "great" Pole Position After 2021 Dutch GP Qualifying
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Red Bull's Max Verstappen is delighted to have claimed pole position after a "great" Qualifying session for 2021 Dutch Grand Prix.
Having won in his birth country last weekend following a farcical washed-out Belgian Grand Prix, Verstappen came into this race with a three-point deficit over Championship leader, Lewis Hamilton yet blitzed Saturday's action to claim pole position in front of his home fans for the first Dutch GP since 1985.
Reflecting on what it felt like to claim pole position in front of a home crowd after opting to race under Dutch license rather than Belgium, Verstappen said: "It feels great to be on pole position and of course it makes it even more satisfying when it's at one of your home races."
The Dutchman also praised Red Bull for improving the car despite noting how "tricky" Qualifying was with two red flags after spins for both Williams cars of George Russell and Nicholas Latifi in Q2.
Zandvoort though has undergone various changes since he last raced at the Dutch track in 2014 Zandvoort Masters, which he won on that occasion for Motopark.
Verstappen though was impressed at how "just incredible" it is to drive around the modern layout, especially when on low fuel through the second sector and various banked corners whilst electric atmosphere amongst home fans add to the "nice sensation" of the "enjoyable" circuit.
The 23 year-old also noted that Zandvoort reminds him of Suzuka, adding: "It's an old school track that is flowing and fast like Suzuka where you really feel the grip of a Formula One car, it's challenging an I enjoy tracks like this."
Looking ahead to Sunday's race, Verstappen admitted that he believes that the start is likely to prove "key" to his race, due to the overtaking difficulty whilst also needing to look after his tyres due to the likelihood for a Safety Car at any moment following six red flags so far this weekend.
Team Principal, Christian Horner echoed Verstappen's thoughts, commenting: "Looking at the start, we have the two Mercedes directly behind Max so they'll be able to split their options so it's important we just get our heads down and focus on our own race."
As for the strategic threat of Mercedes as Hamilton lines up second and Valtteri Bottas starts third on the grid, Verstappen believes that they will be "strong" and make the race less "straightforward as it seems."
Verstappen will also have to make do without teammate, Sergio Perez at the front to distract the Mercedes pair, after a disastrous Q1 saw the Mexican qualify 16th on the grid as he missed the line to start his final flier ahead of the checkered flag due to slow cars building gaps for their own flying laps.
Speaking on his "unlucky" misfortunes in Qualifying post-session, Perez said: "I'm really disappointed today because we had such a fantastic car going into Qualifying.
"We were making great progress and could have had two cars up there tomorrow, possibly locking out the front row and so we really didn't expect to be in this position."
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Growing up in California, I was raised with a substantial Hollywood influence, but the Hollywood that was part of my development comprised of musicals such as Mary Poppins, The Sound of Music, and Disney films filled with song and dance. With Oscar season here, I've spent a lot of time wondering whether Bollywood is gaining power compared to Hollywood.
Looking at income generation, Bollywood sold a total of 3.6 billion tickets and earned revenues of $1.3 billion, whereas Hollywood films sold 2.6 billion tickets, but generated revenues of $51 billion. The industries vary greatly in what it costs to make a film, though the average Bollywood film is budgeted at $1.3 million, Hollywood has an average $13.6 million.
To gain a better understanding of Bollywood and Hollywood from someone on the ground and in the industry, I spoke with director of Desires of the Heart, James Kicklighter.
Is Slumdog Millionaire a Bollywood film? As the New York Times wrote, "despite the director's strenuous denials, it could well be a Bollywood film." The film uses the homegrown version ofWho Wants to Be a Millionaire, an American game show adapted for an Indian audience.
Kicklighter's most recent film, Desires of the Heart explores facets of two cultures. It is the story of Dr. Kris Sharma (portrayed by Val Lauren), a psychiatrist from India practicing in Savannah, Ga., where he meets Madeline (Alicia Minshew), a local artist with a mysterious past. But as their relationship begins to blossom in America, Kris is summoned home by his brother, Pradeep (Gulshan Grover) to marry the woman chosen by his parents.
Kicklighter believes that as the world continues to grow closer, it is the homogenization of culture that is the most negative aspect of globalization.
What may be more pervasive are the retail malls which echo a global influence of American power, and thus, as Kicklighter sees it, "the power of Hollywood." The question may not be one of Bollywood mimicking Hollywood, but a global cinema usurping the local.
This entry was posted on February 22, 2013 by Lakshmi Sarah in Policy Mic.


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Obama's parting UN shot at Israel a long time coming
Israel dodged a UN bullet today thanks to Trump, but there are 27 days left in Obama's presidency.
Posted by William A. Jacobson Thursday, December 22, 2016 at 09:15pm 20 Comments
Back in February 2012, I wrote that I expected that in his second term Obama would force his vision of a "peace" deal on the Israelis.
We've had several close calls, with the John Kerry negotiation fiasco and flirtation with various European and Arab initiatives through the UN. The mechanism would be a failure to veto a Security Council resolution setting the terms of a deal.
Part of it is Obama hatred of Bibi Netanyahu, dating back to the beginning of Obama's presidency. The snubs and dislike was palpable long before Netanyahu's address to Congress opposing the Iran nuclear deal.
Aside from the personal, ideologically Obama at least implicitly signs onto the view that Jews living beyond the 1949 armistice line is an act of illegitimacy at best, illegality at worst, and the heart of the problem.
(We have refuted those claims both factually and legally many times.)
To put it in perspective, taking the position that Jews can't legally live and Israel could exercise no sovereignty beyond the 1949 armistice line, means that the Jewish Quarter of the Old City, ethnically cleansed of Jews and ransacked by the Jordanians, would forever remain Jew-free.
Just a couple of months ago, there was written about how an Obama move was expected after the election. For example, on October 6, 2016, The Times of Israel reported:
An Israel official on Thursday deepened the latest dispute with the Obama administration over settlement-building by charging that "disproportionate criticism" from Washington over the latest construction plans is "an alibi" to cover plans by President Barack Obama to take anti-Israel actions in the final weeks of his presidency.
The NY Post Editorial Board wrote on October 12, 2016, Why Israel fears Obama's last days:
Israel faces a unique window of danger from Nov. 9 to Jan. 20: What might President Obama do in his final days in office to slam the Jewish state?
Start with Secretary of State John Kerry's recent flat refusal to promise a US veto on any upcoming anti-Israel resolution in the UN Security Council.
On Saturday, Haaretz reports, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told Kerry he's counting on Washington to stick to its policy of nixing anti-Israel resolutions. Kerry's reply: The administration has yet to make a decision on the matter.
For Kerry to leave any doubt that America would shield Israel at the United Nations is bad enough. But concerns about what Team Obama might do go far beyond that.
In a recent Bloomberg column, Eli Lake reports on the threat of "a last-minute [Obama] speech, an executive order or UN action" at Israel's expense.
On October 27, Charles Krauthammer predicted the same, Is Obama Preparing a Parting Shot at Israel?:
And what to make of the White House's correction to a news release about last month's funeral of Shimon Peres? The original release identified the location as "Mount Herzl, Jerusalem, Israel." The correction crossed out the country identifier — "Israel."
Well, where else is Jerusalem? Sri Lanka? Moreover, Mount Herzl isn't even in disputed East Jerusalem. It's in West Jerusalem, within the boundaries of pre-1967 Israel. If that's not Israel, what is?
But such cowardly gestures are mere pinpricks compared to the damage Israel faces in the final days of the Obama presidency. As John Hannah of the Foundation for Defense of Democracies recently wrote (in Foreign Policy), there have been indications for months that President Obama might go to the U.N. and unveil his own final status parameters of a two-state solution….
The result would be not just perpetual war but incalculable damage to Israel. And irreversible, too, because the resolution would be protected from alteration by the Russian and/or Chinese veto.
As for the damage, consider but one example: the Jewish Quarter of Jerusalem, destroyed and ethnically cleansed of Jews by its Arab conquerors in the war of 1948-1949. It was rebuilt by Israel after 1967. It would now be open to the absurd judicial charge that the Jewish state's possession of the Jewish Quarter constitutes a criminal occupation of another country.
Today, Obama's plan almost was realized, and would have been but for the intervention of Donald Trump.
In a surprise move, Egypt announced on almost no notice that it would put to a Security Council vote a resolution that would have declared any and all Jewish presence beyond the 1949 armistice line illegal, the impediment to peace, and subject to further enforcement action. One provision in the resolution, demanding that nations distinguish between Israel and "occupied Palestinian territories" would be a boost for the emerging European labeling and boycott of items produced in the "West Bank."
The resolution is not a mere expression of continued support for a two-state solution, it is imposing a solution based on a distortion of history.
But then Israel went into overdrive, and Donald Trump came to the rescue.
Haaretz reports on Israeli suspicions the Egyptian move was coordinated with the Obama administration, How Israel Blocked the UN Vote on Settlements:
After a 15-hour political drama Thursday, Israel succeeded in deflecting, if only temporarily, a United Nations Security Council vote on a draft resolution against the settlements.
Pressure from the Prime Minister's Bureau on Cairo, which proposed the resolution, requests for assistance and coordination from President-elect Donald Trump and contacts at the UN and in several world capitals caused Egypt to retract its request for a snap vote.
Nevertheless it was made clear to the participants in a meeting of the security-diplomatic cabinet last night that the crisis is ongoing and the possibility remains that a vote will still be held in the next few days….
The senior official said that the deep concern in Jerusalem was that Egypt was acting in full coordination with the White House. The assumption in Israel, he added was – and is – that Obama did not intend to veto the resolution but to abstain – thus allowing it to pass.
That concern grew when information arrived in Jerusalem on Thursday morning that U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry had already prepared a speech on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict which he intended giving a few hours before the Security Council session…
Another channel operated by Israel was with President-elect Trump.
Israel's Ambassador to the U.S. Ron Dermer, and other Israelis, approached Trumps' senior advisers, asking them to publish a statement against the Egyptian move. Trump subsequently tweeted, calling on Obama to cast a veto against the resolution. If the resolution was adopted by the Security Council, Trump said, it would be "unfair toward Israelis and will place Israel at a disadvantage in future negotiations." ….
On Thursday afternoon, Netanyahu announced a special meeting of the security cabinet. Before the cabinet could meet however, Egypt announced that they would ask for the resolution to be postponed by at least a day in order to confer with the foreign ministers of the Arab League.
The immediate result of the announcement was the cancellation of Kerry's planned speech, which the State Department spokesman said concerned Kerry's vision regarding the conflict. The speech would be given at another time, he said.
The Jerusalem Post reports that the Israelis expect more Obama administration moves against Israel at the U.N.:
Israeli officials believed the Obama administration had planned its abstention for some time, and was angered by Egypt's decision to suddenly change course. The goal of the White House, according to the Israeli government's assessment, was to let off a parting shot at a prime minister with whom it has fought for years and to bind the incoming administration with new international language.
As its suspicions grew, the government warned the Obama administration that it would ask the president-elect for help.
According to Reuters, four Security Council members are now warning Egypt that if it does not put its resolution up for a vote, then they reserve the right to do so.
State Department officials declined to comment on whether Trump's aides had reached out ahead of time, and would not confirm that the US had plans to abstain.
The Times of Israel also reports on Israel's belief this was a targeted strike by Obama and how Trump saved the day:
The effort to push through an anti-settlements resolution at the United Nations Security Council on Thursday constituted a diplomatic "hit" by US President Barack Obama against Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and the settlement enterprise, according to a senior source in Jerusalem quoted by Israeli television on Thursday night….
According to Israel's Channel 2, Egypt agreed to withdraw the resolution after President Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi was sent "messages" by President-elect Donald Trump's transition team urging him to do so.
An Egyptian diplomatic source told Reuters that Cairo may have withdrawn the resolution in order to maintain positive ties with the incoming Trump administration. "We [Arab states] are all looking for a way to ensure constructive relations with this new administration. It's not clear if this (resolution) helps that, or if it might even hinder," the unnamed diplomat said.
That Obama pulled this move on almost no notice to the Israelis and right before the Christmas holiday is typical of his passive-aggressive style.
He will impose his vision on Israel by letting others do the dirty work, and simply letting it happen.
The Israelis are desperately counting down the days until Obama leaves office, just like the rest of us.
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fwiffo | December 22, 2016 at 9:55 pm
As was mentioned on another site, this is all a kabuki theater. Muslim countries make such resolutions. European countries express support for them. US vetoes them. Everyone has role to play, and they can play and get away with those roles because they know there is a point where US stops them. That lets people do things to appeal to their local anti-Israel factions, but not really upset status quo.
Well, this time it looks like US might not veto. And, when learning about that:
"Egypt requested the vote's delay to permit them to conduct an additional meeting of the Arab League's foreign ministers to work on the resolution's wording," Haaretz reported, citing Western diplomats. But the vote might be postponed "indefinitely," according to the report"
This is interesting part, that it was Egypt who requested this. Egypt requested the delay and change in resolution wording, even though they are the ones who introduced it.
And this tells me Trump has zero to do with it. What it is really is realization that if they play the same play that they played before, they may not arrive at same ending that they expected and really wanted to arrive at, because of Obama being lame duck potential wrecking ball. Because of his hatred of Netanyahu, Obama might refuse to play his role – and that means nobody else can play their role either.
Don't take me wrong: Trump will be much better for Israel than Obama. Most everyone would. Just that he had nothing to do with this play
clintack in reply to fwiffo. | December 22, 2016 at 10:12 pm
Interesting take.
Seems like the only way President-Elect Trump *could* have played a role behind the scenes is if he got word to the Egyptian government that the huge "foreign aid" payoff we've been sending them every year since the Camp David Accords wouldn't be arriving next year if this resolution passed.
But I agree — the other actors in the kabuki didn't really want this resolution to pass.
Barry in reply to fwiffo. | December 22, 2016 at 10:52 pm
"And this tells me" that you gone off the deep end.
Chuck Skinner in reply to fwiffo. | December 23, 2016 at 3:22 am
Unlikely.
Far more likely is that the shadow-government communications behind the scenes have set this up between the State Department, the current UN Ambassador from the Obama Administration and Egypt to float this UN resolution, with Sec. Kerry having a "grand vision" speech ready to go at the last second.
The point behind this would be for the Obama Administration to be able to claim it "laid the groundwork for peace" by failing to veto the resolution and hobbling the Israelis at the UN, and making Israel subject to ongoing "enforcement" actions by the Arabs and Persians. The Leftist Progressives will try to write the next generation of history textbooks to claim Obama's actions created the conditions for peace. It's all about context and the narrative for at least the next 4 years.
The Obama administration knows that the incoming Trup administration is GOING to change the equation from the "Arab First" proposition that has been put forth for the last 8 years (the Bush 43 administration was at least neutral, Obama has had his foot on the scale actively against Israel). The selections for Sec. Def. and Israeli Ambassador alone prove that.
More likely what happened is that the Trump team got wind of what was about to happen, and placed a well-timed phone call from one high-level back channel connection to another, with an explicit threat that if this resolution wasn't withdrawn that Egyptian aid would END on January 20th. Now the Egyptians are talking to the other Arab states to see if the aid package they will get for taking this hit is going to be made up by the Saudis and the UAE. My guess is they will get a resounding "NO. You're on your own."
The problem is with the resolution floating out there, now any OTHER Council member can force it to a vote, which is likely to happen. IF that occurs, Trump's team needs to be out there front and center with an offer to build some military alliance structure in the post-49 lands to make it unquestionably Israeli controlled and signal that any "enforcement" action against Israel on those lands will result in a swift rebuke from the US.
Actually, what I hope is that Israel finally ends the Wakf, tells the King of Jordan to take a hike, and takes control of the Temple Mount and al-Haram ash-Sharif security. War has been simmering for too long, and the Israelis have been too tolerant of the rioting Muslim rabble. Place heavily armed military personnel on the Mount escorting groups of Jewish worshipers. Let the Jews pray. Let them visit the foundation stone. Muslims that riot or are in any way violent are to be shot on sight, the bodies taken to a public square and left to rot for not less than 3 days before being cremated.
Give the Arabs a choice: be polite or die and meet Allah right now. If the Arabs attempt to barricade anywhere in the al-Haram ash-Sharif: Siege them and starve them out. No food, no water, cut off utilities. Free passage out under military escort for those that peaceably lay down their weapons and agree to leave and never return. No "humanitarian aid," no quarter, no mercy. If they riot and fight, then they leave or they die where they are.
Short term though, the Trump team needs to keep the pressure up to prevent this from slipping through during the transition period. Then they need to tell Ambassador Haley to go to the UN and start kicking down doors until everybody there is on notice that BS like this will not be tolerated.
casualobserver in reply to fwiffo. | December 23, 2016 at 11:16 am
I'm not disputing your conclusion that this is primarily an act (sole?) by Egypt without much if any influence from Trump's proposed administration. But the part you don't analyze is to answer the question about the objective. To what ends? For what purpose right now?
There are a lot of hypothetical possibilities. But the timing should add a unique twist to this. If they were serious and hoping to find a weakened US position because of the transition of power, why stall? That scenario could be argued as finding a willing Obama on his way out or finding a situation where neither Obama or Trump were going to get too deep into it. The delay is the curious part. Why? Perhaps this was an effort to quell some internal forces or regional forces. But the delay isn't explained.
Barry in reply to casualobserver. | December 23, 2016 at 3:54 pm
As has been shown today, it was an ignorant conclusion, ignorant on many levels, but the worst one, pretending it is all some game to the players involved. It's not a game.
It would appear to me that Egypt decided they did not want to be first in line in the retribution column. Might have been something else, hard to say.
Just another anti-Israeli act perpetrated by the anti-American president.
(((Boogs))) | December 22, 2016 at 9:59 pm
Obama was about to take his Parthian Shot at the Jews.
But Obama retired months ago. POTUS Trump the fixed it. He probably told Sisi some version of, "Did somebody hit you with a stupid bat? You know what time it is?'"
And that was that. Obama's given Egypt the high hat since his beloved Mo Morsi got tossed. I suspect Sisi knows that Trump is a man who knows how to return a favor.
Leslie Eastman | December 23, 2016 at 12:59 am
27 more days, as I post this comment.
JOHN B in reply to Leslie Eastman. | December 23, 2016 at 8:15 am
There is only one nation on Earth that Obama hates more than israel – the United States of America.
That hatred will not stop after he is out of the White House. He will continue to do whatever he can to hurt the two most essential nations in the world.
Milhouse in reply to Leslie Eastman. | December 23, 2016 at 10:33 am
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Milhouse in reply to Milhouse. | December 23, 2016 at 3:55 pm
You know what, whoever's down-dinging every d*mn thing I post, why don't you drop dead. Whoever you are, you are a worthless piece of filth, and don't deserve to breathe. Die a long, painful and lingering death.
Henry Hawkins in reply to Milhouse. | December 24, 2016 at 9:33 am
It's probably that guy who speaks loudly on buses.
myiq2xu | December 23, 2016 at 1:37 am
Ironically, they claim that Donald Trump is antisemitic.
Mannie in reply to myiq2xu. | December 23, 2016 at 9:42 am
This is a typical case of Liberal Projection. Liberals believe everyone is as evil as they are, and in the same ways. So they assume that we feel as they do. Whenever a Libturd accuses you of some evil, you can safely assume that they are engaged in that evil.
Liberalism is a cult of hate and violence.
DouglasJBender | December 23, 2016 at 1:45 am
Obama will probably be disappointed that he was not allowed to be the Antichrist.


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Q: Yii2 populate update form with values stored in array I have created a form with the following fields and use json encode before saving to a single database field.
Now I need to populate the fields when using the update form however I am unsure as i can't find any yii2 example.
<?= $form->field( $model, 'seo_information[field1]' )
          ->textInput( [ 'maxlength' => 255 ] )
          ->label('Array Field 1) ?>

<?= $form->field( $model, 'seo_information[field2]' )
         ->textInput( [ 'maxlength' => 255 ] )
         ->label('Array Field 2') ?>

<?= $form->field( $model, 'seo_information[field3]' )
         ->textInput( [ 'maxlength' => 255 ] )
         ->label('Array Field 3') ?>

Controller Create Code
public function actionCreate()
{
    $model = new Article();
    $model->user_id = Yii::$app->user->id;

    if ($model->load(Yii::$app->request->post()))
    {
        $seo_information = $_POST['Article']['seo_information'];
        $model->seo_information = json_encode($seo_information);
        $model->save();
        return $this->redirect(['view', 'id' => $model->id]);
    }
    else
    {
        return $this->render('create', [
            'model' => $model,
        ]);
    }
}

A: This should do it:
else
{
     $model->seo_information = json_decode($model->seo_information, true);
     return $this->render('create', [
         'model' => $model,
     ]);
}

This works also if the value in the db is NULL.


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Updated 1/24/2018 9:34 AM
Tammy Duckworth, who will be Senate's first new mom, has record of blazing trails
Sen. Tammy Duckworth, D-Ill., waves while arriving on stage during the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia on July 28, 2016. Bloomberg photo by David Paul Morris.
Sen. Tammy Duckworth, D-Ill., during a news conference following a Senate Democratic luncheon in Washington on May 16, 2017. Bloomberg photo by Zach Gibson.
Kyle Swenson
WASHINGTON -- Sen. Tammy Duckworth's life has been marked with momentous firsts, the most dramatic of which arrived about 120 combat hours into a tour as a battle captain with the Illinois National Guard in war-rocked Iraq.
It was November 2004. Duckworth, D-Ill., was in the pilot seat of a Black Hawk helicopter. Along with the three other members of her flight crew, she was bouncing between Baghdad and U.S. military bases on routine supply and transport runs -- "taxi service," she would later say. Then, as the aircraft thumped 15 feet above a thicket of date palms near the Tigris River, a rocket-propelled grenade screamed up from below, tearing into the Black Hawk.
"We had started taking some small-arms fire, and I turned to my co-pilot and said we could be in for some trouble. As the words left my mouth, there was a big fireball at my knees," Duckworth told Stars and Stripes in 2005. She attempted to stay in control of the aircraft, working the Black Hawk's gears and pedals. "I found out later the pedals were gone, and so were my legs."
The co-pilot safely landed the Black Hawk in a clearing. Duckworth, then 36, slipped into unconsciousness -- nearly half her body's blood supply was escaping from her wounds. Military doctors would later amputate her right leg just below her hip bone and her left leg below the knee. Her right arm was also seriously damaged.
Duckworth was the first female double amputee in the war, HuffPost reported.
But that grim distinction did nothing to slow Duckworth down as she shifted from a career in the military to stateside public service. Rather, Duckworth has achieved one milestone after the next.
"This didn't change who I am," she explained to Stars and Stripes a year after her injuries. "I'm not about to let some guy who got lucky with an RPG decide how to live my life."
She would go on to be the first female amputee elected to Congress; the first Asian-American to represent Illinois in Washington; the first member of Congress born in Thailand. And this week, Duckworth announced she and her husband, Bryan Bowlsbey, were expecting their second child in April. That will make Duckworth the first U.S. senator to give birth while in office.
While Duckworth may be the Senate's first expectant mother, she will not be the last. The upper house currently has a record 22 women senators serving. Internationally, ideas about mothers in public service are changing. Last week, New Zealand's Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern announced she was pregnant, a development the world leader said confidently would have no impact on her abilities in office.
And Duckworth -- who also emerged in recent weeks as a vocal critic of President Donald Trump's saber-rattling rhetoric with North Korea -- says motherhood will not blunt her impact on Capitol Hill. "Parenthood isn't just a women's issue, it's an economic issue and an issue that affects all parents -- men and women alike," she said in a statement. "As tough as juggling the demands of motherhood and being a Senator can be, I'm hardly alone or unique as a working parent."
Duckworth's father, Franklin, was captain in the U.S. Army who served in World War II. He met her his future wife in Thailand, and Duckworth was born in Bangkok in 1968. The family bounced around Asia as Franklin worked with the United Nations. Duckworth completed her political science undergraduate degree at the University of Hawaii and moved on to graduate school at George Washington University. There she enlisted in the ROTC.
She gravitated to helicopter piloting because it was one of the few combat jobs open to women. As Duckworth explained to Mother Jones in 2012, she "wanted to be -- pardon my language -- a swinging dick, just like everyone else."
While recovering from her war wounds at Walter Reed Army Medical Center, Duckworth was awarded a Purple Heart at her bedside. She also caught the attention of her home state senator, Dick Durbin, D-Ill., who invited the injured war veteran to be a guest at George W. Bush's 2005 State of the Union address. At the hospital, Duckworth also struck up a friendship with retired Sen. Bob Dole, R-Kan., who was a patient at Walter Reed at the time, following a fall. Dole, a World War II veteran who was seriously injured in combat, served as an example for her next step: political office.
"I felt just so inspired by Senator Dole's life, and he was sitting on a hospital bed next to everyone else going through therapy, and so I think for me that was the clincher," Duckworth told Chicago Magazine in 2012. "I saw in him a path. At the time I couldn't use my right arm at all. I had the one arm that I could work and I'm learning to walk and trying to figure out what to do with my life."
Dole would later dedicate his book "One Soldier's Story" to Duckworth, among others.
Duckworth initially lost a race bid for a U.S. House seat for Illinois's 6th congressional district in 2006. But pulling on the same deep wells of grit and personality that had helped her recover from her injuries, she quickly bounced back in 2012 for with a bid for Illinois's 8th congressional seat. The matchup put the Democrat against Joe Walsh, a fiery Tea Party conservative who once referred to President Barack Obama as a "tyrant."
On the campaign trail, Walsh initially paid respectful lip service to the Duckworth's sacrifice in uniform, but then began openly trashing his opponent as the race tightened. "What else has she done? Female, wounded veteran ... She is nothing more than a hand-picked Washington bureaucrat," Walsh said. "I'm running against a woman who, my God, that's all she talks about," the candidate commented later. "Our true heroes, it's the last thing in the world they talk about."
Duckworth stuck to the issues. "My strength is in finding ways to make the government work for the people," she told Mother Jones. "finding waste, or money that is not being properly used ... or finding opportunities that are out there and making them work for the community."
She beat Walsh with 54 percent of the vote, then was reelected in November 2014. That same month, Duckworth gave birth to her first daughter, Abigail. The couple conceived with in vitro fertilization, Duckworth told the Chicago Sun-Times.
They planned to try again for a second child, but in 2016 Duckworth suffered a miscarriage, just as she was campaigning for a U.S. Senate seat. She would go on to beat incumbent Republican Mark Kirk with 54 percent of the vote. She became the second woman to represent Illinois in the Senate.
"I've had multiple IVR cycles and a miscarriage trying to conceive again, so we're very grateful," Duckworth told the Sun-Times this week after announcing she and her husband were expecting another girl this April, just weeks before turning 50.
"As tough as it's been to juggle motherhood and the demands of being in the House and now the Senate, it's made me more committed to doing this job."
Duckworth to become first U.S. Senator to give birth
A soldier's story of undying valor
The day Capt. Tammy Duckworth was shot down
10 years after losing her legs, Duckworth returns to flying
How two helicopter crews got Duckworth out of Iraq


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The premise behind Operation Christmas Child is to give gift-filled shoe boxes to children in the neediest parts of the world.
"As (it is) a Christian effort, the children are also told about the Love of Jesus," she said. "Many of these children have never before received a new gift, so for them to open these shoe box gifts and find so many new items is a joy like no other."
She said the parents and other family members of the gift recipients are also blessed as they see their children happy with the gifts.
Participants will distribute the shoe box gifts at several locations in Guyana, from the capital of Georgetown to a remote village that will require they travel by plane.
The project to fill shoe boxes begins each year in November when gift items are collected stateside and in 11 other countries.
Karen Smith-McNeese, media coordinator for Operation Christmas Child, said the Rowley family's longtime involvement in the program has extended to local church youth groups, Girls Scouts and Boy Scouts and other civic groups that meet at their "Christmas room" in the basement to pack shoe boxes.
"Both Lauren and her brother grew up around many packing parties and were involved with their church and school at their packing parties," Smith-McNeese said.
The shoe boxes — filled with school supplies, hygiene items, toys, hard candy and clothing — go to children in more than 130 countries. Rowley also will get to take a special box she has packed herself to give to a child she meets in Guyana.
Each child also receives a book in their own language called "The Greatest Journey," Smith-McNeese said. "This (the book) is a 12-week program taught by trained volunteers in their countries. When children complete the course, they graduate and receive a diploma. Many times they take the gospel home to their families."
"My husband and I have tried to show our kids that when we give to others, we ourselves are blessed beyond anything we could imagine," Heather Rowley said. "We as a family have seen this project to be a perfect way to teach young children the value and benefit of giving to the less fortunate.
"It is unlike any other effort that I know in that it is one specific child reaching out to another specific child a world away," she said.


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Trump To Nominate Robert Lighthizer As US Trade Representative
By Caitlin Mac Neal
January 3, 2017 6:54 a.m.
Donald Trump on Tuesday morning announced that he will nominate Robert Lighthizer to be the United States trade representative.
"Ambassador Lighthizer is going to do an outstanding job representing the United States as we fight for good trade deals that put the American worker first," Trump said in a statement. "He has extensive experience striking agreements that protect some of the most important sectors of our economy, and has repeatedly fought in the private sector to prevent bad deals from hurting Americans. He will do an amazing job helping turn around the failed trade policies which have robbed so many Americans of prosperity."
Lighthizer supports Trump's trade agenda and was an early supporter of the President-elect. He served as deputy U.S. trade representative under President Ronald Reagan in the 1980s.
Caitlin Mac Neal (@caitlinmacneal) is TPM's special projects editor, based in Washington, D.C. She first came to TPM as a newswriter, and has written for HuffPost, the Sunlight Foundation and Slate.
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Previous research has demonstrated that the risk of developing certain kinds of cancer may be reduced through healthy eating and physical activity. The American Institute for Cancer Research ("AICR"), the sponsor of the Program, has developed a web based weight loss program to assist in applying such principles.
Once you have completed your online Challenge Sign-Up Questionnaire, you will receive in your email the weekly NAP nutrition and physical activity challenges. Each of the twelve challenges will have visual cues, background information, tips/action steps and website links for additional information.
During the Challenge period, you will have your own page with your personal blog, the ability to track your own weight, and access to a forum to discuss progress and obstacles with other participants. You will also be encouraged to share photos of your plate and physical activity. AICR dietitians will also provide general, educational feedback and encouragement on the sharing forum, as appropriate.
You may benefit from participation in this Program if the tools you receive and information you learn help you to maintain a more healthy diet and improved level of exercise. It will not, however, be possible to determine whether or not participation in the Program will actually decrease your risk of developing any particular cancer.
You understand that the Program will include physical activity challenges, which potentially could result in injury. By admitting you as a participant in the Program, AICR is not making any medical judgment about your physical ability to complete the NAP nutrition and physical activity challenges. If you have any dietary or physical restrictions, or any other concerns about your participation in the Program, you should discuss your concerns and potential participation in the Program with your primary physician. You, together with your physician, should make an independent determination of whether it is appropriate and advisable for you to participate in the Program.
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'A young boy with phenomenal talent' - Tony Mowbray knows he's got a future star in Cian Harries
Welsh U-19 international is highly regarded at the Sky Blues but he's yet to make his debut
Alan Poole
Cian Harries
Tony Mowbray won't pitch Cian Harries into his injury-hit back four – even though he thinks the Welsh teenager is a Sky Blues star in the making.
The 18-year-old centre-back has been on the bench a number of times since signing a three-year contract in July but has yet to make his first-team debut.
And Mowbray is determined not to rush him, explaining: "There's plenty of evidence in the past of the danger of throwing players in too soon and the area of the pitch in which Cian plays is just a bit too critical – the spine of the team."
Story link: Sky Blues centre-back search continues
Injuries to Reda Johnson and Jordan Willis have seen Mowbray step up his search for a new centre-back this week but he wants Harries to continue his impressive progress in the Under-21s.
"He's a young boy with a phenomenal talent," said the manager; "on the technical side there's nobody better than this lad in our division.
"But he needs the time to develop, get some bulk in his body, add the qualities that will help him as a footballer.
"Because of those things he's lacking at the moment it's unlikely he's going to get a loan in League Two because the physicality there is in front of your eyes.
"We have to be patient with him because in a year, maybe two years, when he bulks up, develops a man's mentality, and understands the competitive world he's in, then we'll have a footballer that will be a huge asset for this club."


Northwestern will upgrade wireless systems in five South Campus residence halls before Spring Quarter begins.
Residential Services and Northwestern University Information Technology will update the Wi-Fi in Jones Residential College, Communications Residential College, International Studies Residential College and North and South Mid-Quads Halls.
Paul Riel, executive director of Residential Services, said the University's goal is to upgrade Wi-Fi in all residence halls by Fall Quarter 2014.
Nine residence halls already have Wi-Fi updates, said Timothy Heneghan, associate director of housing. Bobb Hall, McCulloch Hall, Elder Hall, Willard Residential College, Shepard Residential College, 1835 Hinman, Chapin Hall, Hobart House and part of Slivka Residential College have already received updates.
Wendy Woodward, NUIT director of technology support services, said the University decided the wireless network needed an update about a year ago.
"The reason that we're doing this is that as students bring more devices to campus, the wireless networks that had been installed were installed many years ago and need to be reconfigured to handle more usage," Woodward said.
Additionally, Riel said a faster network would help support possible new online entertainment packages for students. The University started piloting Hulu Plus accounts for residential students late last month.
Riel and Woodward said contractors will install Wi-Fi over Spring Break to cause the least intrusion for students, as some access points will be in students' rooms and the construction could possibly cause network interruptions.
Some minor preparations for the upgrade, such as installation of overhead pipes, are in progress in these buildings. This work will stop before the Reading Period and Finals Week.
Communication freshman Erin Reininga, who lives in Jones, said the installation work was a little loud but mostly not distracting.


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Q: Type conversion of identical types from different versions of same assembly I've run into an issue which I'm not sure if I can get round or not.  My library and another library both provide an API for a particular type of data and I've now written an interop library that can sit between the two libraries and convert data freely between them which works great.
BUT I've now tried to write a small demo app of accessing data via my API using a third library which relies on the other API and here's where I hit issues.  The third library references a merged version of the other API and some associated DLLs which to boot is an old version of the other API while my API references the latest version of the other API in it's standalone form.  So to start with I have to use an external alias to even write code with the 3 libraries together as otherwise types clash and it won't compile.
So now when I try and write an app which takes data from my API, runs it through the interop layer so it's transformed into the other API and then uses the third library on this data things fall apart as .Net won't convert between the types as it considers them different.  Is there any way to force .Net to do this or am I out of luck?
As I understand it the author of the third library plans to move his library to be based on the latest version (1.0.6.4) of the other API in the future so I may just have to wait until then?
using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Linq;
using VDS.RDF;
using VDS.RDF.Interop;
using VDS.RDF.Parsing;
using VDS.RDF.Storage;
using SemWeb;
using LinqToRdf;

namespace RdfMusic
{
    public class Program
    {
        public static void Main(string[] args)
        {
            try
            {
                //Get the Talis Connection
                TalisPlatformConnector talis = new TalisPlatformConnector("store", "user", "password");
                NativeStoreSource source = new NativeStoreSource(talis);

                //Load the Data
                Graph g = new Graph();
                FileLoader.Load(g, "data.ttl");

                //Ensure the data is in Talis
                talis.SaveGraph(g);

                //Now do a LinqToRdf query
                //BUG: This cast fails since it's trying to cast to StatementSource in
                //the SemWeb library (version 1.0.5.0 as referenced by LinqToRdf) from
                //a StatementSource in the SemWeb library (version 1.0.6.4 as referenced by dotNetRDF)
                StatementSource stmtSource = (StatementSource)source;
                LinqToRdf.TripleStore ts = new LinqToRdf.TripleStore(new Store(stmtSource));
                ts.QueryType = QueryType.LocalN3StoreInMemory;

                IEnumerable<Track> tracks = from t in new MusicDataContext(ts).ForType<Track>()
                                            where t.Year == "2006"
                                            select t;

                foreach (Track t in tracks)
                {
                    Console.Write(t.Title + " by " + t.ArtistName);
                }
            }
            catch (Exception ex)
            {
                Console.WriteLine(ex.Message);
                Console.WriteLine(ex.StackTrace);
                Exception innerEx = ex.InnerException;
                while (innerEx != null)
                {
                    Console.WriteLine();
                    Console.WriteLine(innerEx.Message);
                    Console.WriteLine(innerEx.StackTrace);
                    innerEx = innerEx.InnerException;
                }
            }

            Console.WriteLine();
            Console.WriteLine("Press Enter to exit");
            Console.ReadLine();
        }
    }
}

A: Yes, you're out of luck. From CLR point of view, a type name is assembly name + optional module name + type name (this includes namespaces and outer classes), and the system is nominal, not structural - different name means different type. The best you can do is convert manually, insofar as you can given accessibility of members (or just work around it using reflection).

A: You can use Automapper to simplify mapping between types in such situations.