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Liverpool Football Club are an English professional association football club based in Liverpool, Merseyside, who currently play in the Premier League. They have played at their current home ground, Anfield, since their foundation in 1892. Liverpool joined the Football League in 1894, and were founding members of the Premier League in 1992.

This list encompasses the major honours won by Liverpool, records set by the club, their managers and their players.  The player records section includes details of the club's leading goalscorers and those who have made most appearances in first-team competitions. It also records notable achievements by Liverpool players on the international stage, and the highest transfer fees paid and received by the club. Attendance records at Anfield are also included in the list.

The club have won 19 top-flight titles, and also hold the record for the most European Cup victories by an English team, winning the competition six times. The club's record appearance maker is Ian Callaghan, who made 857 appearances between 1958 and 1978. Ian Rush is the club's record goalscorer, scoring 346 goals in total.

All statistics are correct as of 21 February 2023.

Honours

Liverpool have won honours both domestically and in European cup competitions. They have won the English top league 19 times and the League Cup a record nine times. In their first season, 1892–93, they won the Lancashire League title and the Liverpool District Cup, and their most recent success came in 2022, when they won their eighth FA Cup title.

Player records

Appearances
Most appearances in all competitions: Ian Callaghan, 857.
Most league appearances: Ian Callaghan, 640.
Most FA Cup appearances: Ian Callaghan, 79.
Most League Cup appearances: Ian Rush, 78.
Most continental appearances: Jamie Carragher, 150.
Youngest first-team player: Jerome Sinclair, 16 years and 6 days (against West Bromwich Albion, 26 September 2012).
Youngest player to start a first-team match: Harvey Elliott, 16 years and 174 days (against Milton Keynes Dons, 25 September 2019).
Oldest first-team player: Ned Doig, 41 years and 165 days (against Newcastle United, 11 April 1908).
Oldest debutant: Ned Doig, 37 years and 307 days (against Burton United, 1 September 1904).
Most consecutive appearances: Phil Neal, 417 (from 23 October 1976 to 24 September 1983).
Most seasons playing every minute of every league and cup game: Phil Neal, 9 (from 1976–77 to 1983–84).
Longest-serving player: Elisha Scott, 21 years and 52 days (from 1913 to 1934).
Most red cards while playing for Liverpool: Steven Gerrard, 7.

Most appearances
Competitive, professional matches only, appearances as substitute in brackets.

Goalscorers

Most goals in all competitions: Ian Rush, 346.
Most league goals: Roger Hunt, 244.
Most Premier League goals:  Mohamed Salah, 129 goals
Most FA Cup goals: Ian Rush, 39.
Most League Cup goals: Ian Rush, 48.
Most Continental goals: Mohamed Salah, 42.
First player to score for Liverpool: Malcolm McVean (against Rotherham Town, 1 September 1892).
Most goals in a season: Ian Rush, 47 (during the 1983–84 season).
Most goals in a debut season: Mohamed Salah, 44 (during the 2017–18 season).
Most league goals in a season: Roger Hunt, 41 (during the 1961–62 season).
Most goals in a season by a Liverpool player in the Premier League era: Mohamed Salah, 44 (during the 2017–18 season).
Most top-flight league goals in a season: Gordon Hodgson, 36 (during the 1930–31 season)
Most continental goals in a season: Mohamed Salah and Roberto Firmino, 11 (during the 2017–18 season).
Most hat-tricks in a season: Roger Hunt, 5 (during the 1961–62 season).
Most games scored in during a single campaign: Mohamed Salah, 34 (during the 2017–18 season).
Most different goalscorers in a season: 22 (during the 2015–16 season).
Most hat-tricks: Gordon Hodgson, 17.
Most consecutive games where a player has scored: Mohamed Salah, 10 (28 August 2021 to 24 October 2021).
Fastest goal scored in a match: Paul Walsh, 14 seconds, (against West Ham United, 27 August, 1984).
Fastest hat-trick: Robbie Fowler, 4 minutes, 33 seconds, (against Arsenal, 28 August 1994).
Highest-scoring substitute: David Fairclough, 18.
Most penalties scored: Steven Gerrard, 47.
Most games without scoring for an outfield player: Ephraim Longworth, 371.
Youngest goalscorer: Ben Woodburn, 17 years, 45 days (against Leeds United, 29 November 2016).
Oldest goalscorer: Billy Liddell, 38 years, 55 days (against Stoke City, 5 March 1960).

Top goalscorers
Competitive, professional matches only. Matches played (including as a substitute) appear in brackets.

International
First capped player: Frank Becton, for England on 29 March 1897.
Most international caps while a Liverpool player: Steven Gerrard, 114 for England.
Most international goals while a Liverpool player:
Michael Owen, 26 for England.
Ian Rush, 26 for Wales.

World Cup
First Liverpool player to appear at a World Cup: Laurie Hughes for England, at 1950 FIFA World Cup.
Most World Cup appearances while a Liverpool player: Steven Gerrard, 12 for England in 2006, 2010 and 2014.
Most World Cup goals while a Liverpool player: Michael Owen, 4 for England in 1998 and 2002.
First World Cup winners: Roger Hunt, Ian Callaghan and Gerry Byrne, in 1966 with England.
First non-British player to appear in a World Cup final: Dietmar Hamann, Germany, in 2002.
First non-British World Cup winners: Fernando Torres and Pepe Reina, Spain in 2010.

Transfers
For consistency, fees in the record transfer tables below are all sourced from BBC Sport's contemporary reports of each transfer.

Record transfer fees paid

Record transfer fees received

Managerial records

 First managers: William Edward Barclay and John McKenna, from 15 February 1892 to 16 August 1896.
 Longest-serving manager by time: Tom Watson, from 17 August 1896 to 6 May 1915 (18 years, 262 days).
 Longest-serving manager by matches: Bill Shankly managed the club for 783 matches over a period of 14 years and seven months, from December 1959 to July 1974.
 Most matches managed: 783, Bill Shankly.
 Most matches won as manager: 407, Bill Shankly.
 Most matches lost as a manager: 272, Tom Watson.
 Most goals scored under a manager: 1,307, Bill Shankly.
 Most goals conceded under a manager: 1,056, Tom Watson.

Club records

Matches

Firsts
 First match: Liverpool 7–1 Rotherham Town, a friendly match, 1 September 1892.
 First Lancashire League match: Liverpool 8–0 Higher Walton, 3 September 1892.
 First Football League match: Liverpool 2–0 Middlesbrough Ironopolis, Second Division, 2 September 1893.
 First FA Cup match: Liverpool 4–0 Nantwich Town, first qualifying round, 15 October 1892.
 First League Cup match: Liverpool 1–1 Luton Town, second round, 19 October 1960.
 First European match: Liverpool 5–0 KR Reykjavik, European Cup, first round, 17 August 1964.

Wins
 Record win: 11–0 against Strømsgodset in the European Cup Winners' Cup, 17 September 1974.
 Record league wins: 10–1 against Rotherham Town in Second Division, 18 February 1896, 9–0 against Crystal Palace in First Division, 12 September 1989 and 9–0 against Bournemouth in Premier League, 27 August 2022.

 Record home league win: 9–0 against Crystal Palace in First Division, 12 September 1989 and 9–0 against Bournemouth in Premier League, 27 August 2022.
 Record away league win: 0–7 against Crystal Palace in Premier League, 19 December 2020.
 Record FA Cup win: 9–0 against Newtown in second qualifying round, 29 October 1892.
 Record League Cup win: 10–0 against Fulham in second round, first-leg, 23 September 1986.
 Most league wins in a season:
 38 games: 32 wins (during the 2019–20 season).
 42 games: 30 wins (during the 1978–79 season).
 Fewest league wins in a season: 2 wins from 30 games (during the 1891–92 season).
 Most home wins in a season (all competitions): 22 (during the 2000–01, 2018–19 and 2019–20 seasons.
 Most wins away from home in a season: 14 (during the 2019–20 season).

Defeats
 Record defeat: 1–9 against Birmingham City in Second Division, 11 December 1954.
 Record defeat at Anfield: 0–6 against Sunderland in First Division, 19 April 1930.
 Record-scoring defeat: 2–9 against Newcastle United in First Division, 1 January 1934.
 Record Premier League defeat: 1–6 against Stoke City, 24 May 2015, 0–5 against Manchester City, 9 September 2017, 2–7 against Aston Villa, 4 October 2020.
 Record FA Cup defeat: 0–5 against Bolton Wanderers in fourth round, first leg, 26 January 1946.
 Record League Cup defeat: 0–5 against Aston Villa in quarter-finals, 17 December 2019.
 Most league defeats in a season: 23 defeats from 42 games (during the 1953–54 season).
 Fewest defeats in a season: Unbeaten during the 28-game 1893–94 season.

Record consecutive results
 Record consecutive wins: 11 (from 18 February 1989 to 11 April 1989 and 15 March 2006 to 7 May 2006.).
 Record consecutive league wins: 18 (from 27 October 2019 to 24 February 2020).
 Record consecutive league wins from start of season: 8 (during the 1990–91 and 2019–20 seasons).
 Record consecutive defeats: 9 (from 29 April 1899 to 14 October 1899).
 Record consecutive league matches without a defeat: 44 (from 12 January 2019 to 24 February 2020).
 Record consecutive home league wins: 24 (from 9 February 2019 to 5 July 2020).
 Record consecutive draws: 6 (from 19 February 1975 to 19 March 1975).
 Record consecutive home matches without defeat: 85 (from 7 February 1978 to 31 January 1981).
 Record consecutive home league matches without defeat: 68 (from 7 May 2017 to 17 January 2021).
 Record consecutive matches in which Liverpool have scored a goal: 34 (from 19 April 2021 to 22 December 2021).
 Record consecutive matches without conceding a goal: 11 (from 29 October 2005 to 18 December 2005).
Record consecutive home league defeats: 6 (from 21 January 2021 to 7 March 2021).

Goals
 Most league goals scored in a season: 106 in 30 games (during the 1895–96 season, Second Division).
 Most top flight goals scored in a season: 101 in 38 games (during the 2013–14 season, Premier League).
 Fewest league goals scored in a season: 42 in 34 and 42 games (during the 1901–02 and 1970–71 seasons, First Division).
 Most league goals conceded in a season: 97 in 42 games (during the 1953–54 season, First Division).
 Fewest league goals conceded in a season: 16 in 42 games (during the 1978–79 season, First Division).
 Most consecutive league matches with a Liverpool goal: 36 (from 10 March 2019 to 24 February 2020).
 Most consecutive league matches with a Liverpool goal since the start of a season: 27 (during the 2019–20 season).

Points
 Most points in a season:
 Two points for a win: 68 (in 42 games in 1978–79, First Division).
 Three points for a win: 99 points in 38 games in 2019–20, Premier League).

 Fewest points in a season:
 Two points for a win: 22 (in 30 games in 1894–95, First Division).
 Three points for a win: 52 (in 38 games in 2011–12, Premier League).

Attendances
 Record highest home attendance: 61,905 (against Wolverhampton Wanderers in the 1951–52 FA Cup).
 Highest league home attendance: 58,757 (against Chelsea, First Division in the 1949–50 season).
 Highest League Cup home attendance: 52,694 (against Tottenham Hotspur, in the 2016–17 season).
 Highest European home attendance: 55,104 (against Barcelona, in the 1975–76 season).
 Record lowest home attendance: 1,000 (against Loughborough, Second Division in the 1895–96 season).
 Lowest FA Cup home attendance: 4,000 (against Newtown, in the 1892–93 season).
 Lowest League Cup home attendance: 9,902 (against Brentford in the 1983–84 season).
 Lowest European home attendance: 12,021 (against Dundalk in the 1982–83 season).

Liverpool recorded a 95,446 attendance against Melbourne Victory in a pre-season friendly in July 2013 at the Melbourne Cricket Ground, Australia; the largest ever crowd for a football match in Victoria at the time, as well as the highest in Liverpool's history. In July 2018, Liverpool bested this attendance with a 101,254 strong crowd at Michigan Stadium in a game against Manchester United during the 2018 International Champions Cup.

European statistics

Footnotes

References
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Training Magazine Names Keller Williams No. 1 Training Organization
Austin, TX | February 10, 2015
World's largest real estate franchise recognized as world's leading training provider
AUSTIN, TEXAS (February 10, 2015)– On the same day that Keller Williams announced it was the largest real estate franchise by agent count in the world, Training Magazine named the real estate giant the world's No. 1 training organization across all industries. At a Feb. 9 awards ceremony in Atlanta to honor the Training 125, Keller Williams was recognized for the growth, productivity and profitability gains resulting from its world-class education and training programs.
"Training fuels all of our success," said KW MAPS Coaching CEO Dianna Kokoszka.
Providing education to associates is a core belief of Keller Williams that drives the success of the company and its associates. Last year, the company set a goal to increase agent count by 14 percent. It finished 2014 with an 18 percent increase to more than 112,000 associates. The company's agents also increased their sales by 17 percent to $185 billion, which resulted in a 16 percent increase in commissions earned.
To ensure that the most effective models and systems are included in training materials, Keller Williams constantly renews its training programs. Information compiled from the proven models and systems of top agents and leaders in the field are incorporated into training programs.
"Because of our focus on training, we attract more new agents than any othe real estate franchise," President John Davis said. "As a commissioned-based industry, our challenge is to guide thousands of new associates through our training programs so they can get into production quickly and build their businesses. This creates more opportunities for them and more opportunities for their families."
Through "market of the moment" training, associates are empowered to establish themselves as the expert in their local markets. Keller Williams offers training programs and courses to associates at all levels in their careers. Whether an associate is new to the real estate industry or leading a high-producing team, the wide selection of courses allows associates to select the training and coaching that will help them grow in their personal and professional lives.
"Our associates are the driving force behind the programming and training we produce," CEO Chris Heller said. "We're in business with agents who independently devote two to three weeks each year to participating in extensive training to build more productive and profitable businesses."
Training Magazine highlights the Top 5 honorees in its January-February 2015 issue and applauded Keller Williams for several programs and initiatives, including:
Mega Agent Expansion – Mega Agent Expansion is a revolutionary new growth concept launched in 2014. The course teaches associates proven models and successful systems for retaining a core team, or shared administrative hub, while launching businesses into new regions. In 2004, Gary Keller's bestselling book, The Millionaire Real Estate Agent, showed agents how to leverage exisiting models to earn $1 million annually and become "mega agents." A decade later, top Keller Williams agents who have mastered the MREA process are searching for what's next. Keller Williams' wants to ensure that "next" happens within Keller Williams, so the company can continue to attract top talent."We're the first real estate franchise to offer a formal training program to train top agents on how and when to expand into additional markets," Kokoszka said. "This is a revolutionary concept in real estate that provides associates with unprecedented opportunities to grow their businesses. It also challenges us to develop training on a whole new level."
BOLD (Business Objective: Life by Design) – BOLD is a pivotal program and a significant driver of financial success for associates. Agents enrolled in the 7-week long course see commissions rise 16 percent, and through this program, 98 percent of KW offices make a profit for the year. BOLD accerlerates productivity by priming agents with mindset exercises, language techniques and "real-play" lead generation lessons.The program is known for its live lead generation tactics where students call customers and produce real business with instructor guidance and support. This high-energy and fast moving course is taught by BOLD facilitators, seasoned top agents who undergo a rigorous certification process to become instructors. Students are organized into 10-person teams for support and are held accountable through public, weekly postings of individual production results. According to the National Association of REALTORS?, the average agent completes 12 transactions in a year and generates $60,000 in commissions. During BOLD alone, agents complete 14 transactions which is equivalent to $70,000 in commissions."That translates to half a million dollars in annual gross commission income ? more than eight times the national average," Kokoszka said. "We know BOLD participants outperform agents who have not taken BOLD by 169 percent. Moreover, the financial impact compounds as 70 percent of agents take the course repeatedly to master the techniques and boost their productivity."
Keller Williams developed an entire department focused solely on the creation of competitive real estate and business courses. This dedication to fostering agent success and continued learning has contributed to Keller Williams becoming the largest real estate franchise in the world.
"We are honored to be named as the top training organization in business," Heller said. "As Keller Williams continues to expand, we will bring our training programs to new regions. At our core, we're an education-based, technology-driven company. And we're committed to providing our associates with the best training programs to help them grow their individual businesses."
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Mayor Diane Marlin prepares for her second term
Julie McClure April 12, 2021 - 6:00am January 24, 2022 - 12:04pm
Diane Marlin is beginning her second term as mayor of Urbana, after winning a contested primary in February, and running unopposed in the recent consolidated election. I reached out to Marlin for her thoughts on her first term, and her plans for the next one.
Smile Politely: Since most of your first term was pre-COVID, let's start there. Prior to COVID, what are some accomplishments are you most proud of?
Diane Marlin: We restored financial stability to the City; modernized internal systems to make them more efficient and secure; rewrote the Liquor Code; re-organized several departments; and completed three longoverdue studies that will serve as the basis for increased investment in public infrastructure. We launched the multi-year Comprehensive Planning process and completed a visioning process for the 16-acre Lincoln Square site as well as the feasibility study for extending the Kickapoo Rail Trail through downtown Urbana.
We strengthened relationships with major employers and investors, which resulted in the first new residential construction in downtown Urbana in 15 years as well as a number of other multifamily, commercial, and industrial projects. We signed a development agreement for a $15 million renovation of the Landmark Hotel into a Hilton Tapestry boutique hotel. We helped transition the Stone Creek Golf Course to become the home of the University of Illinois men and women's golf teams while preserving the tax base of the subdivision. We partnered with Habitat for Humanity, the Housing Authority of Champaign County and private developers to build or renovate about 170 units of affordable housing.
The newly-completed MCORE reconstruction on Green Street between Lincoln Avenue and
Lincoln Square is the best example in the city of a "multi-modal complete street" that serves people of all ages and abilities. We also took specific steps to preserve most of the mature trees in the public right-of-way (That's why the new sidewalks curve in and out in this corridor.). We began to re-envision public safety and policing in Urbana. We adopted the Ten Shared Principles for community policing, joined the Government Alliance on Racial Equity (GARE), and adopted resolutions to end structural racism, and prioritize de-escalation in the Urbana Police Department's Use of Force Policy. We are working with the ACLU and the NAACP to rewrite our Use of Force policy. The UPD changed its traffic stop policy effective January 1 with the goal of eliminating racial disparities in traffic stops.
We expanded the Public Arts Program to become the Public Arts and Culture Program to celebrate our multicultural community. We established the "Nourish Urbana" farm to restore soil on a plot of city-owned cropland in rural north Urbana and convert it to food production; installed a solar farm on the former landfill; promoted residential solar installation and pesticide-free yard maintenance; renewed our status as a Gold Level Bicycle Friendly Community; adopted Vision Zero for eliminating traffic deaths and injuries and updated the Bicycle and Pedestrian Master Plan. I served on the Mahomet Aquifer Protection Task Force charged by the Illinois General Assembly to develop recommendations for protecting the quality and quantity of our sole fresh-water resource.
SP: Can you talk a bit about being a mayor during this public health and economic crisis? What has been most challenging? How prepared do you feel the city was for something like this?
Marlin: The past 12 months of COVID-19 have been the most difficult of my life, but I've never been more proud in my professional career than I am of our community's response to the first year of the pandemic. Everything we did to strengthen the city's economy and internal infrastructure during our first three years helped us navigate through the uncertainty, fear, and financial unpredictability of the last year. Following advice from public health officials and scientists, we set several goals at the outset and stayed true to them. These included reducing spread of the disease, protecting the capacity of the local health care system, protecting the health of our residents and employees, maintaining core city services, and supporting local businesses.
This required city staff to shoulder an enormous amount of extra work in a very short period of time because the COVID response came in addition to their other duties. And, like everyone else, city staff were impacted by COVID-related isolation, quarantine, illness, and caregiving. The overall response fromour many partners in government, social services, emergency response, health care, the educationalsystem and business community is unparalleled anywhere in the country! Going forward, we mustencourage the public to get vaccinated and we will continue to help people and our economy reset and recover. The latter will take years.
SP: Racial justice and policing has been in the national and Urbana spotlights this year. The city council passed a resolution to end structural racism last month. How do you see this playing out in terms of policy? In what ways can Urbana improve?
Marlin: I believe communities must view all policies and practices through a lens of racial equity in order to move forward. The City Council's resolution to end structural racism provides the context and framework for this work as we re-envision public safety and policing accountability. Our revised Use of Force Policy now explicitly prioritizes de-escalation. We will add a civilian member to the Urbana Police Department's internal Use of Force Review committee.
We are planning a co-responder approach with the City of Champaign by pairing mental health experts with law-enforcement personnel in response to calls for service for persons experiencing a behavioral health crisis. This is a more compassionate and effective way to help our citizens. Over the next four years, we will re-imagine policing and public safety by 1) categorizing the 25,000 calls for service received annually by the Urbana Police Department and 2) determining which situations require a traditional law enforcement response and which could be more effectively addressed by a different entity. This would help us allocate resources appropriately, meet the needs of the public, build trust and accountability, reduce demands on police officers, and provide longterm solutions to recurring issues.
SP: What's happening with the Landmark Hotel?
Marlin: The City of Urbana signed an agreement in 2019 with Marksons Affiliates, LLC for a $15 million renovation of the Landmark Hotel into a Hilton Tapestry boutique property. Due to the pandemic, start of construction was moved from July 1, 2020 to July 1, 2021. The developers recently indicated that they expect construction to begin on schedule this summer. The hotel will open under a new name and identity and I believe it will bring new vitality and spark investment in our downtown.
SP: Urbana is currently working on a comprehensive plan, beginning with input gathering from the community. What is YOUR vision for the future of Urbana, and what goals do you have for your second term?
Marlin: Looking ahead, I want to grow a healthy, resilient, and more equitable Urbana. My priorities for next term: Work with City Council members, city staff, community partners and the public to support pandemic recovery for residents and businesses, invest more in public infrastructure, redefine public safety and well-being, incorporate climate resilience and racial equity into city policy and infrastructure, enhance housing security, and promote economic development and job growth on a foundation of sound financial management.
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Holding Up the Word of Truth
It didn't take long for the new church to have to wrestle with what to do with the various different practices that those new believers brought to their faith. Not only did different believers bring with them "baggage" from their previous faiths, but they also did not have a single Bible from which to read and understand their faith.
It's hard to picture what it must have been like. Jesus had just ascended into Heaven, the Holy Spirit had appeared as tongues of fire and was bringing all things into remembrance of what Christ said. Many that had been with Him probably expected a soon return, and others were piecing together what would become the four Gospels.
The apostles were tasked with coming up with how to worship Yaweh in the context of Jesus' work on the cross, fending off heresy as well as dealing with the work of ministering to widows and orphans. It's no wonder that they appointed deacons at this time to help them!
Doctrine, Commands or Preference?
Very quickly in the book of Acts we see that the Apostles had to deal with what would be the doctrine for a believer compared to the Jewish faith. There were many that believed that Gentiles should become Jewish in order to believe in Jesus. The Apostles ruled that a very narrow set of requirements would be enforced on the new converts:
Abstain from fornication
Abstain from meat offered to idols
Paul actually campaigned against the latter one in his letter to the Romans, arguing that there is no such idol if one does not worship it. In this letter he introduced the two categories of things, Doctrine, Commands and Preference.
Much of the Epistles have warnings about false doctrines. Paul pronounces anathemas on those that would teach any other gospel than the one that he preaches. He tells believers to mark those that cause division because of doctrine and avoid them. In 1 Corinthians 13, he lays out exactly what the Gospel is in terms of what must be believed– Christ's birth, death and resurrection.
There's further discussion of the heresy of the Gnostics and the Judiazers who would seek to define the nature of Jesus as something other than all God and all Man or enforce Jewish custom on new believers; however, the areas of doctrine are firm and unquestioned.
Paul deals with preference in Romans 14. He states that some people may wish to honor certain days, and that's fine as long as the person does it unto the Lord. Days could be the feast days of the Old Testament, or other holidays on the calendar. Paul also tackles meat offered to idols– something forbade by the other Apostles in the Jerusalem council– by stating that idols really are nothing, and as long as the person eating is thanking God for the food, it's fine… with one exception.
Paul introduces the concept of respect to a brother who may believe that an activity is sinful, but would compromise his beliefs if you exercised your liberty in front of him. So a believer that believes that meat is fine should not eat it IF another believer who believes that it is not would be tempted to eat because you do. The test then is that a person should only do as he believes is right before God in good conscience, considering one another.
At this point, you would think that we could call it a day– two areas, one where no compromise could be had and one where we had true liberty to worship God with a clear conscience, but it's this last category that throws in the monkey wrench, and makes a muddle of the whole.
You see, Paul didn't just say that there was doctrine and then freedom in Christ, he also gave a huge number of commands about many different things in the Christian life. Everything from who could be an overseer to what women should wear came under different commands from Paul.
And I believe that's where we find ourselves in many of the Pastoral Epistles– churches that were living out their new faith not knowing what to do and pulling things from all different traditions trying to live this new life.
So in Corinth we have believers rejoicing that they were tolerant of a man that had his father's wife and were taking each other to court, while they argued over which of the traditions were the one that they should follow– Paul, Apollos, or Jesus. The other churches needing tweaks in various areas, and Pastors needing to know how to choose leaders in the churches.
So Paul gives commands, in fact, there are over 1000 commands in the New Testament!
What to do with the Commands of the New Testament?
So here's the problem, what are we to do with the commands of the New Testament? Are they relevant for today?
The problem during the New Testament time is our problem today. American Christianity comes from a Middle Ages tradition and continues to follow that tradition today– we have church buildings, a minister who is qualified by his education, tradition and ordination. We build huge congregations and focus our spiritual energy on the first day of the week and large scale ministries. In some places we create satellite campuses and mega churches focused on the ministry of a personality.
But where do these traditions fall? Doctrine, Command or Preference? Maybe parts of all three? How do you begin to evaluate if you've fallen afield of what followers of Christ should be?
Many argue over music styles in the church– something that the passages on how to hold a church service are almost silent on. 1 Corinthians 14 speaks to everyone having a word to say, a tongue and a hymn, but other than that, what music glorifies God or how worship should look other than it should be in order– silence.
And then there's arguing over a woman's (particularly a wife's) place in the church– teacher? preacher? silent? covering her head?
The reason that these are issues is that we do not know how to place things into the correct area: Doctrine, Command or Preference. We're pretty good at the Doctrine section, but we are constantly moving items from preference into command and vice versa.
Hence what is old is new, and many of the items from the Epistles seem like they were written for the current time– and we are playing our part in rejecting commands and elevating preferences to the point where I am beginning to long for a consistent application of the text of Scripture where things aren't bent into a pretzel simply because they're inconvenient and aren't en vogue.
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Can Scheer's dad body trump Trudeau's yoga body ?
May 1, 2018 12:01pm
While politicians are best judged by their work, you cannot ignore the way they choose to present themselves to the world, the narratives they make about themselves, the stories and images they wish will remain forever etched in our minds.
Take Prime Minister Justin Trudeau. He has offered for our view and judgements not concrete nation building policies but fashion spreads, endless selfies, and most recently the garish garbs of a Bollywood extra.
He is getting the flak now for overdoing it, but not long ago you'd be accused of being a killjoy if you didn't revel in the fashionable antics of this charming politician worthy of a fawning Rolling Stone cover. Who can forget the adulation heaped on him when images appeared of him doing the famous Mayurasana yoga pose, the peacock symbolising love and immortality.
The talk of the town then was his core strength, which impressed reporters and yoga instructors alike. Our national broadcaster wondered where the Prime Minister could have learned this particular move, from his father who pulled a similar feat or from his wife, a certified yoga instructor, while reminding us it should only be tried by seasoned yoga experts. While even the intellectuals and the media feasted on a seemingly non-stop supply of Trudeau's chiselled yoga body images, many believed sooner or later the country would see a man who would call his bluff.
As his anti-thesis, Andre Scheer seems to be the man who embodies everything Trudeau is not. Less image-conscious, his stolid demeanor and his persona is a far cry from Trudeau's entitled narcissism. Scheer's dad bod stands in stark contrast to Trudeau's yoga-bod, a difference he emphasized at the Conservative Party leadership campaign. "The budget doesn't get balanced and the economy doesn't get looked after by selfies and photo-ops. I can make you one promise: I will not be taking my shirt off as often as Justin Trudeau does. He may have a yoga body, I've got a dad body," Scheer said.
What Scheer said jokingly at the race actually carries a lot of symbolic meaning. Self-absorbed narcissism, he promises, isn't what you would expect from him. He will keep the shirt on. The dad body, urban dictionary tells us, is a male body type that is best described as a "softly round" and the term is built around the theory that once a man has found a mate and fathered a child, he doesn't need to worry about maintaining a sculpted physique. But that is only one way of looking at it. The dad body isn't merely the end of a desire to look attractive for prospective mates. It's more than that. It's the rejection of the self in service of family. The dad body is, in fact, the most visible symbol of sacrifice. The dad-body man is one who prefers to bother less about his own looks and more about his kids and his family.
He would rather slog more in his office than the yoga studio. He would rather spend more time with family than pumping iron at the gym. The yoga body yearns for applause, the dad body ignores it. If appearance is any guide, then Scheer suggests a man who is far less interested in his own image. His dad body dressed in plain vanilla suits, Scheer seems more focused on policy he feels will ensure prosperity and well-being for Canada. He rarely plays up his youth and even his website carries an unflattering side pose.
Scheer may have shunned the camera but a lot of Canadians may just be in favour of letting the dad-bod run the country. Policy and platform may have a higher appeal than just persona. The latest Angus Reid poll suggests Canadians are losing faith in Trudeau, a sentiment that has been simmering for a while but may just have bubbled up to the surface after a disastrous trip to India widely criticized for Trudeau's over-the-top garb and an invitation to a suspected terrorist. A failed foreign policy trip combined with a simmering unease among the voters over the federal government's deficit spending has, for the first time, driven Trudeau's disapproval rating north of 50 per cent, Angus Reid survey finds.
If the data generated by Angus Reid is to be believed, Trudeau at this point is about as popular as Donald Trump. The polling analysis from the Angus Reid Institute shows that if an election were held tomorrow, the Conservative Part of Canada, led by Andrew Scheer, would be capable of forming a majority government. This assessment of the voter's mood isn't just on voting intentions, but also on perception of leadership. If the election were held tomorrow, four in ten Canadians say they would vote for a Conservative candidate in their riding, and for the fourth consecutive quarter, as many as 51 per cent of Canadians say it's time for a change in government.
When Canadians were asked which party is best suited to form a government, the Liberals trail the Conservatives by nine points, the survey finds. For the fourth consecutive quarter the number of Canadians saying it is 'time for a change in government' has risen. The percentage of respondents holding that view is now up to 51 per cent, although Trudeau still holds an advantage over his counterpart Scheer on the question of who would make the best Prime Minister.
Not turning the lens on himself but rather the economy has helped Scheer gradually narrow the gap between him and Trudeau. Government spending and a ballooning deficit have emerged as important issues and Scheer is seen as the leader best suited to steward the economy. With simple suits that make him look like an insurance salesman he once was, he keeps the focus away from himself—and increasingly on the economy.
His recent trip to England is in such stark contract to Trudeau's India road show that it almost feels like it was planned to draw comparisons. Except a photograph of him standing next to a London telephone booth, there is little that suggests Scheer took the trip to put himself on lurid display that seems to come naturally to Trudeau. Instead, his statements suggest an assured, hard-working prime minister-in-the-making who wants to get the ball rolling on trade and the economy.
With Britain poised for Brexit, and an America turning inwards with protectionist policy on trade and imports, Scheer has projected himself as a leader who is willing to negotiate the best trade deal for Canadians. Negotiating a deal with UK as it moves out of EU has in fact been a key part of Scheer's platform, and it only adds to his appeal when he says he is convinced US protectionism isn't the best way to move forward. He held meetings with British cabinet minister, including foreign minister and has promised that establishing a free-trade agreement would be a priority. He has also pitted his free trade talks in the UK with Justin Trudeau's failed free talk deal with China, where Scheer likes to point out that Trudeau couldn't negotiate a photo op or a joint press release.
While he has projected himself as a pragmatist who is keen to negotiate trade to Canada's advantage that reduces dependency on the US, he also seems to be quietly working to consolidate his base while making a foray into new territories—all with 2019 in sight.
With Trudeau faltering and the Bloc Québécois MPs deserting the party, Scheer has sensed an opportunity to bring Quebec voters into the Conservative fold. In an open letter published in a Quebec newspaper, Scheer invited people in the province to join his party, appealing to federalists as well as nationalists. He has also vowed to give due importance to the unique identity of the province and consider an open discussion on how to best give credence to that distinct identify. While he has reached out to Quebecers, he hasn't forgotten his core base, as is evident from his disapproving position on payment to Omar Khadr and a supportive stance on Jerusalem, which he says he will recognise as Israel's capital if his party forms a government.
He has vowed to repeal the carbon tax and has sharply criticised the changes to Canada's summer jobs program, which could cancel funding for some religious organisations. Despite some bold decisions, Scheer has comes across as someone who is silent and mostly absent from the spotlight. One commentator recently said people wouldn't recognise him if he sat right next to them in a bus. That assessment may be a tad exaggerated, but there it's possible the lack of flashiness is a strategy. He may just be hoping voters will warm up to his low-profile persona and pick him up over his more flamboyant competitors.
If voters indeed fall for this subdued persona, it could give him advantage over both Jagmeet and Justin who are all playing to the same gallery of voters. It may appear so but it's hardly a tripartite contest as Jagmeet's controversial stances may just push Sikh conservatives firmly into Scheer's tent while those fed up of Trudeau's showy style may vote for Scheer seeking substance. Still, the Angus Reid survey finds support among millennials for Trudeau, and the Liberal party remains either in lead or competitive in vote-rich urban areas. But if the self-strikes of Trudeau and Jagmeet continue, it is possible Scheer ends up as the silent, surprise. In 18 months from now, the dad bod may just trump the yoga bods.
 By Gagandeep Ghuman


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Trying to predict when travel will return feels like a bit of a fool's errand.
There are simply too many variables in play to get a good sense of when we'll see meaningful turnaround. That said, if we zoom out and connect some dots based on what we've experienced in previous downturns and what we've seen in the hospitality industry at large over the past year, a picture starts to become clearer.
Moving into the new year, we can start to make some educated forecasts about behaviors and practices that are likely to emerge.
Staffing will be slow to return
While most staffing is based on occupancy, what no one is talking about are the efficiencies gained by having to cut staffing so dramatically earlier in 2020. Hotels have been able to operate for nearly a year on a reduced workforce. Departments have closed and probably won't return anytime soon (especially if it never made any money) and people have left the industry, making it harder to find talent. Ok, that last one won't be a direct cause for slow staffing return, but it is a major consequence of the downturn. If you had trouble finding staff for open positions before the downturn, it's likely to be orders of magnitude more difficult when you need to staff up again.
More hotel companies will enter the vacation rental space
The one segment that has performed "well" throughout 2020 is the vacation rental space – and you can bet that there are hotel companies out there that are trying to figure out how to get a piece of the action. Marriott has been pushing the Homes and Villas product as has Accor with their newly launched Homes and Villas product. As hotel construction slows and expansion opportunities dwindle, this is a market ripe for takeover.
Reviews will be more important than ever
About 70 percent of guests leave reviews if they are asked (most aren't), but fewer guests in 2020 has meant far fewer online reviews. If there is one truth in hotels it's that when occupancy drops, mistakes start to happen. The frenetic pace of a consistently busy hotel almost ensures that eyes and hands are everywhere, and everyone is on their game. With everything that the past year has brought, it's completely expected (and normal) that a handful of basics have fallen off but as occupancy starts to pick up and basics aren't brought back in line quickly, your hotel could start to see more negative reviews than normal; and since overall reviews are down, it could be much harder to dig out of a slew of negative reviews, pushing you down the list and making it harder to grow our occupancy as the same (or better) rate than the market.
New fees start to be introduced
Before the downturn, we were starting to see the proliferation of amenity and resort fees. This adoption obviously slowed but as hotels need to look for new sources of revenue and boost profit, and pent-up demand has guests more willing to open their wallets, we can expect to see this move to new fees return.
Preventative maintenance / room refreshes will drive up expenses in the middle of the P&L
All PM has largely been put on hold. Rooms may have gone weeks between guests. Similarly, staffing may have been reduced to the point where performing regular maintenance and deep cleaning hasn't happened for a long time. This causes two issues – the first is that it takes longer to refresh a room. The second is that it results in a larger that typical expense to get back on track and do work that has been postponed. Getting ahead of the curve now, while occupancy is low could help you avoid a litany of problems and consequences down the road.
What do you think we'll see in the new year that hotels should prepare for?
Questions? Have I missed any points? Need to brainstorm a topic? Share below in the comments — I'd love to hear them and help!
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Originally located north of Anna, the cabin was moved to McKinney for the Republic of Texas Centennial in 1935.
The Collin McKinney Cabin
THE COLLIN McKINNEY CABIN WAS BUILT IN
1846 AND MOVED FROM ANNA, TEXAS TO FINCH PARK
IN 1937 WHERE IT WAS DESIGNATED A NATIONAL
HISTORICAL BUILDING. IT WAS DESTROYED BY FIRE
ON DECEMBER 10, 1980. THE ADJACENT PLAQUE WAS
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PORTION OF TWO WOODEN HAND HEWN BEAMS,
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THAT REMAINS OF THE CABIN.
These monuments and other improvements to Finch Park were made in 1982 by the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department and the City of McKinney.
Texas Historical Marker
[The adjacent plaque was for Collin McKinney.]
Collin McKinney moved to the Collin County area in 1846 from around Clarksville, TX. He was active in the Republic of Texas Constitutional Convention and helped draft parts of the Texas Declaration of Independence. He served in the House of Representatives of the Republic of Texas. Because of his efforts in forming the government of the State of Texas, the county where he lived was named for him. Later when Collin County was establishing its county seat within three miles of the center of the county, as was required by state law, the new county seat was also named for him.
Collin McKinney's home was north of present-day Anna, within a few miles of the Grayson County line. Lumber was hauled from Jefferson, TX, and cut on site to build the cabin. Collin McKinney died in 1861. By 1900, the cabin was abandoned and was being used by family members to store grain.
When Texas was planning to celebrate its Centennial in 1936 with an Exposition at Fair Park in Dallas, the McKinney family gave the cabin to Collin County to be used as a Visitor Center. It was moved on a flat bed truck to the north side of McKinney where Hwy 5 (It was 75 in those days.) entered the city at that time, around Tennessee Street today. In two-month period over 10,000 people from all over the United States and from around the world signed the guest register at the Visitor Center.
The cabin served as a Visitor Center for one year before being moved to Finch Park in McKinney. It was used to educate school children about pioneer life. It was damaged in the 1948 tornado that hit the southern part of McKinney and was restored by the McKinney Garden Club.
In 1978 the cabin was listed on the National Register of Historic Places. In 1980 the cabin burned. All that is left of the cabin is a wood beam. The cabin has a Texas Historical Marker.
Collin County Historical Marker 2011


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As witnesses recount the horrific crime at Sandy Hook Elementary, one constant is emerging: Even more children would have been killed had it not been for the actions of teachers, a custodian and even the students themselves.
"A lot of children are alive today because of actions the teachers took," School Superintendent Janet Robinson told NBC's TODAY show on Saturday, a day after a gunman killed 20 children and six adults at the K-4th grade school in Newtown, Conn.
Principal Dawn Hochsprung and school psychologist Mary Sherlach, both among those killed, were said to have run toward the gunfire as it broke out, with Hochsprung lunging at the gunman, according to town officials.
Hochsprung was coming out of a meeting when she confronted the shooter, Board of Education chairwoman Debbie Liedlien said Saturday.
Jeff Capeci, chairman of Newtown's Legislative Council, said Hochsprung's actions were nothing short of heroic. "From what we know, it's hard to classify her as anything else," he added.
Mary Ann Jacob, a school library aide, told reporters Saturday that she was with 18 fourth-graders when she heard "popping sounds" and realized shots had been fired.
"I shouted 'Lockdown!' and I ran across the hall and told the other class," Jacob said.
Sandy Hook Elementary School library clerk Mary Ann Jacob speaks to the press in Newtown, Conn., on Saturday.
Music teacher Maryrose Kristopik also took her students to a classroom closet.
"We stayed quiet, we held hands, we hugged," Kristopik told the New York Daily News. "I tried to talk to them calmly."
First-grade teacher Vicki Leigh Soto, 27, lost her life as she "huddled with her children," her cousin Jim Wiltsie told the Wall Street Journal.
She had tried to hide them in a closet, he added, and "in doing so, she put herself between the kids and the gunman's bullets ... She was a hero for what she did."
Wiltsie did not know if her students were among the dead.
Another unidentified teacher grabbed 8-year-old Bear Nikitchyuk from a hallway and into a classroom as bullets whizzed by, NBCNewYork.com reported.
A custodian warned of the gunman by running through the halls, said 4th-grade teacher Theodore Varga.
Even some students were able to muster up courage as shots were fired around them.
One student claimed to know karate, The Associated Press reported. "It's OK. I'll lead the way out," the student said.
School Superintendent Janet Robinson talks about the heroism of teachers and says the shooter's mother was not a full-time teacher at Sandy Hook.


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Jon Gauthier, staff Sunday, Oct. 11th, 2020
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Many Vancouver Islanders would like to see rail service return to the island.
That's the latest results of a survey conducted by the Island Corridor Foundation.
The organization reported that while support is strongest in the two major population centres, Victoria and Nanaimo, there is a high level of support across the Island for the restoration of rail service.
Overall, 80 percent of the 3533 people surveyed believe that the Federal and Provincial governments should fund a modern and revitalized rail system for Vancouver Island, with 81 percent of respondents saying the service should receive a subsidy to support ongoing operations.
Larry Stevenson, CEO of the Island Corridor Foundation says the results speak for themselves.
"We appreciate the time Islanders took to provide their views on the restoration of rail service. The tremendous response underscores the importance of this issue for our communities. The results should leave no doubt in anyone's mind that the people of Vancouver Island want to see rail service restored."
The survey ran from September 18th to September 26th and included 3533 responses, with 2979 of those living next to the rail corridor.
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use std::collections::HashMap;
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pub struct Server {
    middleware_stack: MiddlewareStack,
    templates: response::TemplateCache
}

// FIXME: Any better coherence solutions?
struct ArcServer(Arc<Server>);

impl Handler for ArcServer {
    fn handle<'a, 'k>(&'a self, req: Request<'a, 'k>, res: Response<'a>) {
        let nickel_req = request::Request::from_internal(req);
        let nickel_res = response::Response::from_internal(res, &self.0.templates);

        self.0.middleware_stack.invoke(nickel_req, nickel_res);
    }
}

impl Server {
    pub fn new(middleware_stack: MiddlewareStack) -> Server {
        Server {
            middleware_stack: middleware_stack,
            templates: RwLock::new(HashMap::new())
        }
    }

    pub fn serve<T: ToSocketAddrs>(self, addr: T) -> HttpResult<Listening> {
        let arc = ArcServer(Arc::new(self));
        let server = try!(HyperServer::http(addr));
        server.handle(arc)
    }
}

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Q: Why does deleting this element with a non-unique ID delete the one I want? Pardon the bad title, it's hard to explain. If you know how to phrase it better, please comment and I will update as soon as I can.
So, I was messing around with a random generator site (perchance.org) and writing my own HTML/Javascript to make my generator work. It has a behavior that is what I want, but that shouldn't be happening according to my knowledge of HTML.
Let me explain with a minimal example.
The example code here is to produce a simple page that has a button.
This button should generate <input>s with <button>s next to them, attached with similar ID's.
The button, when clicked, deletes the <input> and <button>.
Here is a snippet to show you the code/let you reproduce the results:

  <button onclick="add_input()">Add</button>

When you add two inputs, then delete the first, and add one more, it leaves you with two inputs using the same ID. It also leaves you with two buttons with the same ID. And yet, both buttons delete their intended target.
Why?

A: You really should delegate - here I wrap in a div that can be removed in one go
You can rename each input to have incremented IDs but just letting the cnt run, gives you unique IDs

let cnt = 0;
function add_input() {
  var list = document.getElementById("list");
  var div = document.createElement("div");

  var input = document.createElement("input");
  var delete_button = document.createElement("button");
  var br = document.createElement("br");

  input.id = "input_" + (cnt++)// list.querySelectorAll("div").length
  input.value = input.id;

  delete_button.textContent = "Delete";
  delete_button.classList.add("delete")

  div.appendChild(input);
  div.appendChild(delete_button);
  div.appendChild(br);

  list.appendChild(div);
}

window.addEventListener("load", function() {
  document.getElementById("list").addEventListener("click", function(e) {
    const tgt = e.target;
    if (tgt.classList.contains("delete")) tgt.closest("div").remove();
  })
})

<button onclick="add_input()">Add</button>

A: I changed your code to be more effective.
I'm not using IDs as they aren't adding any benefit instead making it more complex.
Instead I target the element via the event handler and an argument.
I also wrap each set of inputs/buttons in a div so I can just remove that div and it will remove all of the children.

function add_input() {
  var list = document.getElementById("list");

  var input = document.createElement("input");
  var delete_button = document.createElement("button");
  var br = document.createElement("br");
  delete_button.textContent = "Delete";

  delete_button.onclick = function(e) {
    e.target.parentNode.remove();
  }

  var div = document.createElement("div");

  div.appendChild(input);
  div.appendChild(delete_button);
  div.appendChild(br);

  list.appendChild(div)
}

<button onclick="add_input()">Add</button>

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Q: Hide the activity from the toolbox Is there any way that can hide the activity i created from appearing in the Visual Studio toolbox.
I know the attribute"ToolbosItem(false)" that hide the custom control appearing in the toolbox, and i tried that is not working for the WF4.
Beside that I found the link ,that Will asked on 2011 and Ron replied that will be an enhancement. I wonder is that enhancement been applied right now?
FYI: I am using visual studio 2010 , .NET 4 /WF4.


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Q: extract dates from a string in excel and copied over to a new row How can I extract dates from String in Microsoft excel cell? I have the following information on Cell A
In Cell A2 I have: 360485
In Cell B2 I have (Note: Its wrap text in a single cell):

  10/7 - comment 1
  5/3/16 - comment 2
  3/21/16 comment 3
  1/26/16 - comment 4"

I want to to get something like this

Col A    Col B      Col C
360485  10/7/16   - comment 1
360485  5/3/16    - comment 2
360485  3/21/16     comment 3
360485  1/26/16   - comment 4"

@JNevill,
Data in Col A: 600537L
Data in Col B
6/21/17 - text comment 1
951396-LH/RH-951554
10/27 - text comment 2
normal text
2/5/16 - text comment 3"

Result
 Col A    Col B                      Col C
600537L 6/21/2017             - text comment 1
600537L 951396-LH/RH-951554
600537L 27-Oct               - text comment 2
600537L normal               text
600537L 2/5/2016             - text comment 3

A: Something like the following will get you in the ballpark:
Sub test()
    'get that ugly b2 value into an array split by line
    Dim b2Array As Variant
    b2Array = Split(Sheet1.Range("B2"), Chr(10))

    'grab the value in a2
    Dim a2Value As String
    a2Value = Sheet1.Range("A2").Value

    'loop through the array (each line in B2 and output. Making use of more `split` here to grab values
    Dim writeRow As Integer: writeRow = 1
    For Each element In b2Array
        Sheet2.Cells(writeRow, 1).Value = a2Value
        Sheet2.Cells(writeRow, 2).Value = Trim(Split(Trim(element), " ")(0))
        Sheet2.Cells(writeRow, 3).Value = Trim(Replace(element, Split(Trim(element), " ")(0), ""))
        writeRow = writeRow + 1
    Next
End Sub

That's assuming this is on Sheet1 and you are wanting to output to Sheet2.

A: In Excel 2010 or later, you can do this using Power Query (aka Get&Transform), and then refresh the query if you add more rows.

*

*Split Column 2 by linefeed character into Rows

*Trim Column 2 to remove leading and trailing spaces

*Split by space into columns, but only the left-most space

Here is the M-Code
let
    Source = Excel.CurrentWorkbook(){[Name="Table1"]}[Content],

    #"Split Column by Delimiter" = Table.ExpandListColumn(Table.TransformColumns
            (Source, {{"Column2", Splitter.SplitTextByDelimiter("#(lf)", QuoteStyle.Csv),
            let itemType = (type nullable text) meta [Serialized.Text = true] in type {itemType}}}), "Column2"),

    #"Changed Type1" = Table.TransformColumnTypes(#"Split Column by Delimiter",{{"Column2", type text}}),

    #"Added Custom" = Table.AddColumn(#"Changed Type1", "Trim", each Text.Trim([Column2])),

    #"Removed Columns" = Table.RemoveColumns(#"Added Custom",{"Column2"}),

    #"Split Column by Delimiter1" = Table.SplitColumn(#"Removed Columns",
            "Trim", Splitter.SplitTextByEachDelimiter({" "}, QuoteStyle.Csv, false), {"Trim.1", "Trim.2"})
in
    #"Split Column by Delimiter1"

Original data

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US to release emergency aid for Ukraine energy infrastructure
30 November, 2022 12:00 AM
BUCHAREST: The United States is expected to announce "substantial" financial aid to Ukraine on Tuesday to help it deal with the damage caused by Russian attacks on its energy infrastructure, senior US officials said.
The aid, which will be detailed by Secretary of State Antony Blinken on the sidelines of a NATO meeting in the Romanian capital Bucharest, "is substantial and it is not the end", one senior official told journalists Monday, speaking on condition of anonymity and without giving further details, reports AFP.
However, he noted that the Biden administration had budgeted $1.1 billion for energy spending in Ukraine and Moldova.
It comes ahead of an international donors' conference on support for the Ukrainian civil resistance to be held December 13 in France, he pointed out.
A Russian campaign of missile strikes targeting Ukraine's energy infrastructure has damaged between 25 and 30 percent of the grid, according to figures cited by Kyiv.
"What the Russians have been doing is targeting these large transformer stations. They are high-voltage transformer stations", not just power plants, the US official said, a move aimed at disrupting the entire energy network from production to distribution.
NATO foreign ministers are meeting Tuesday and Wednesday in Bucharest where the alliance's support for Ukraine since the Russian invasion will be discussed.
Germany, which currently chairs the G7, has convened a meeting Tuesday afternoon on the sidelines of the NATO gathering to discuss the energy crisis caused by the war in Ukraine.
The United States will call on the other member countries to strengthen their aid in this area, according to the US official.
It will also be an opportunity to highlight the "remarkable cohesion and unity that is still there among all the allies" since the start of the war, assistant secretary of state for European and Eurasian affairs Karen Donfried told reporters on Monday.
Romania, as well as neighboring Moldova, has been hard hit by the war, and around two million people fleeing Ukraine have passed through the country.
Bucharest currently hosts nearly 80,000 refugees, according to figures cited by Washington.
Besides the war in Ukraine, the NATO ministers will take stock of progress in the accession of Finland and Sweden, already ratified by 28 of the 30 member countries but which remains suspended awaiting the green light from Turkey and Hungary.
They will also discuss the growing threat posed by China. This discussion, initiated at the NATO summit in June in Madrid, "is not about NATO going to China; it is reflecting the challenges really of the PRC having come to Europe", said Donfried, citing the technological challenge in particular.


Panda Recovery Story - Thin Content Improved or Removed.
Here is a great story on Search Engine Journal, of how a webmaster recovered from a Panda algorithm hit.
The website was quite popular in the past but experienced a dramatic drop in traffic that coincided with a Google Panda Update.
Even though there was some great content on the site in the past, the site owner became complacent and began to produce very thin content.
This thin content contained only a few sentences on a page and didn't help searchers who would land on the site.
The site was flagged by Google during a Panda update and as such, search traffic dropped dramatically.
In order to recover, the site owner reviewed every piece of content on their site and decided whether to rewrite it to be more substantial or to completely get rid of it. You can read the full article for more information on how that was done.


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Q: Lazy getter doesn't work in classes class a {
    get b() {
        delete this.b;
        return this.b = 1;
    }
}

var c = {
    get b() {
        delete this.b;
        return this.b = 1;
    }
}

console.log(c.b); // works as expected
console.log((new a()).b); // throws error

The above code should work fine but the last line throws.

Uncaught TypeError: Cannot set property b of # which has only a getter(…)

Clearly the getter is not being deleted in class whereas it works fine in object. I am on latest stable chrome.
Lazy Getter MDN Entry

A: The getter of the class sits on the .prototype object, not on this, that's why your attempt to delete it fails (and, as Jeremy points out, it is not deletable).
You can however simply create an own property on the instance that shadows the getter:
class a {
    get b() {
        Object.defineProperty(this, "b", { value: 1, writable: false, configurable: true })
        return this.b;
    }
}

var c = new a;
console.log(c.b); // 1

We have to use Object.defineProperty() as a simple assignment would find the inherited property that has no setter and throws.

A: By design, class properties are not deletable -- reference: https://github.com/jeffmo/es-class-fields-and-static-properties
Instance Field Initialization Process
The process for executing a field initializer happens at class instantiation time. The following describes the process for initializing each class field initializer (intended to run once for each field in the order they are declared):

*

*Let instance be the object being instantiated.

*Let fieldName be the name for the current field (as stored in the slot on the constructor function).

*Let fieldInitializerExpression be the thunked initializer expression for the current field (as stored in the slot on the constructor function).

*Let initializerResult be the result of evaluating fieldInitializerExpression with this equal to instance.

*Let propertyDescriptor be PropertyDescriptor{[[Value]]: initializerResult, [[Writable]]: true, [[Enumerable]]: true, [[Configurable]]: false}.
Call instance.[[DefineOwnProperty]](fieldName, propertyDescriptor).

A: Well obviously this is about constructors. When you neglect the constructor the property you define with the getter gets created at the constructors prototype hence the correct way of doing the job probably should be like as follows;
class a {
    get b() {
        delete this.constructor.prototype.b;
        return this.constructor.prototype.b = 1;
    }
}
z = new a();
z.b; // 1


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Home › › Australian Antarctic Magazine › 2011-2015 › Issue 22: Mawson Centenary Special, 2012 › Polar shipping
Australian Antarctic Magazine - Issue 22: Mawson Centenary Special, 2012
Dundee Steam Whalers such as the Aurora, pictured here off Queen Mary Land in 1912, were made of wood with strong internal framing. This allowed the ship to withstand the pressures of the ice when steaming through or when beset. (Photo: Frank Hurley)
In the 100 years between 1911 and 2011, there have been vast technological changes in the naval architecture of polar shipping.
The first polar ships relied solely on the wind for propulsion. They had no advantage over the sea ice, which was also propelled by the wind, thus entering the ice was an extremely risky undertaking, if attempted at all. The Scottish developed the first true ships that could navigate in ice, having been involved in the Arctic whaling ventures from 1750. This Arctic whale fishery was mainly centred on the port of Dundee where, in 1857, a steam engine was trialled in a whale ship. The success of this saw Dundee become the leading Arctic whaling port, and the rise of a new breed of ship design known as a Dundee Whaler. The ships looked much the same as their sailing counterparts, the only external addition being a tall, slim funnel indicating the presence of an engine.
The Dundee steam whalers were, for the era, the best ships for ice navigation. As the only real polar vessels available, they became the leading technology that allowed the 'heroic era' of Antarctic exploration to commence.
The Aurora, built at Dundee in 1876, spent her first 10 years as one of the Dundee whaling fleet. Like all Arctic whalers she was made of wood, which allowed the ship to withstand the pressures of the ice when steaming through or when beset. This was very clearly demonstrated in January 1915 when the Aurora, under the command of Joseph Stenhouse, was beset and drifted with the ice for 312 days, after landing the Ross Sea party of Shackleton's Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition.
Steel and iron ships as were available in 1911 were not ice–strengthened. Before welding of steel plates became common-place, the plates were held together by rivets. These rivets could be broken by the action of the ice on the ship if they were not flush enough with the plating. The plates also buckled under ice pressure and the subsequent leaks were unrepairable at sea. The steel ship would therefore literally come apart, so the early heroic era explorers made do with wood.
The Aurora was built of oak and the heavy hull frames were braced and stiffened by two tiers of horizontal oak beams, on which were built the tween deck and main deck. The engines and boiler were situated aft. Wooden ships such as the Aurora also had timber sheathing over the hull planking to above the water line. This extra skin protected the hull from ice damage and could be later removed and replaced with new sheathing in dry dock. The Aurora's sheathing was tough greenheart (Lignum vitae) lined with fur in between the hull planking and the sheathing. Originally rigged as a barque, John King Davis had Aurora re-rigged as a barquentine, which allowed the vessel to be worked by a smaller crew. Another advantage of the Dundee Whaler was that as a commercial vessel it had a large hold for cargo; an important requirement for delivering the shore parties of Antarctic expeditions. On her first voyage south the Aurora had every available space taken up with timber for the living huts and an air tractor in a crate on top of it all.
Despite being 40 years old Aurora was well adapted for the job in hand, and under John King Davis' management she was refitted and upgraded with a steamship-style bridge deck and steering. This gave better visibility for the helmsman and the communication of orders. The Aurora was fitted with a compound steam engine, rated at 98 nominal horsepower, which gave her a speed of six knots. Despite the all-important engine for ice navigation, the Aurora was in essence sailing ship, and one that could sail well, as she demonstrated on her passage from the United Kingdom to Hobart in 1911.
The last wooden ship to be used by an Australian expedition was the Antarctic veteran HMAS Wyatt Earp, in 1947, for the first Australian National Antarctic Research Expedition (ANARE) season. Although this vessel had served the American explorer adventurer Lincoln Ellsworth well on his four Antarctic expeditions, she had very limited ice capability for the emerging needs of modern exploration.
With the sale of the Wyatt Earp, new Australian Antarctic Division Director Phil Law was hampered in his quest to establish a permanent base on the Antarctic continent by the lack of a suitable ship. However, in 1952 he learnt of a new type of vessel built by the J. Lauritzen Line.
The 'Dan' ships, as they were called, consisted of the Kista Dan, Magga Dan, Thala Dan and the Nella Dan. They came with their strong, ice-strengthened, all-welded, smooth hulls, built to Ice Class 1 standard. This standard meant stronger structural integrity and protection for the rudder. These ships also had a fully enclosed crow's nest containing all the navigation instruments; a major asset in navigating the sea ice, giving the ice pilot a bird's eye view of the ice conditions. They also had heli-decks for helicopter capability added over the stern area. For for the first time, information on ice conditions could be obtained well ahead of the vessel, and there was greater ship to shore capability.
Kista Dan's successful pioneering voyage of 1953 saw the establishment of the first permanent base on the Antarctic continent – Mawson station. Thus began a new era in Antarctic exploration and the era of the all welded, smooth-hulled steel ships of the J. Lauritzen Line.
In 1989 the multi-purpose Antarctic research and resupply ship, the RSV Aurora Australis, was launched. Her closely–framed, ice-strengthened hull has an ice clearing shape, and the power to push the ship up on to the ice, whereby the weight of the ship cracks the ice. The shape of the hull is designed to direct the broken ice around or under the ship, so that the ship can proceed forward. This is a much more effective method than in Mawson's day with the old Aurora, which had perhaps a twentieth of the power thundering away as it charged at the ice, ramming it with its heavily reinforced bow. It required much skill on the part of Captain Davis to identify the best parts of the ice to ram for success.
Despite the increase in size, the manoeuvrability of today's ships would astound those of Mawson's era. The Aurora was 165 feet in length with a single rudder hung on the sternpost. To turn the Aurora around would probably take an arc five times the ship's length. Today the Aurora Australis has, in addition to her rudder, a transverse bow-thruster and two retractable azimuth stern-thrusters. Not only can she turn almost in her own length, but with the use of her azimuth thrusters she can maintain a station at sea – an important capability in modern marine science and oceanographic operations.
Oceanography and marine science are a significant part of the work of the Aurora Australis. To undertake science at sea the vessel is equipped with eight laboratory spaces, a wet lab for sorting marine specimens, meteorological room, scientific freezers and culture cabinets. The trawl deck is equipped with trawl winches and net equipment, making biological sampling at sea possible. To acquire oceanographic data, the ship is fitted with a multi-functional instrument winch, which generally deploys the Conductivity-Temperature-Depth rosette.
The Aurora Australis' suite of sonar data echo sounders, transducers and net surveillance sonars are ready at the push of a button for bathymetry logging, fish detection and bottom-type assessment; a far cry from how it was done onboard the Aurora in 1912. According to Captain Davis it took just over an hour to sound 2600 fathoms in fair weather with the Lucas machine. This machine was mechanical and used a lead weighted wire cable on a large drum. A geared, clock-like scale measured off the depths.
Every era of exploration has the best technology of the day at hand. However, Douglas Mawson's and John King Davis's own lifetimes bridged the change from the 'old' heroic era to the modern mechanical age – the change from wood to steel, steam to diesel, and from relatively small ships to large cargo capacity icebreaking ships. We have seen the role of ships change from a means of getting to Antarctica, to full research support; but one thing that has not changed is that ships are still the most vital component of Antarctic logistics.
JONOTHAN DAVIS
Built in 1876 by Alexander Stephen & Sons, Dundee, Scotland. Auxiliary screw steamship, three-masted barque rig.
Owners: Douglas Mawson; registered Liverpool (sold to Sir Ernest Shackleton for Ross Sea party, 1914).
Gross tonnage: 551.67 t
Net tonnage: 367 t
Length: 50 m
Beam: 9.3 m
Draught: 5.72 m
Engines: Compound steam, 98 nhp made by Cunliffe & Dunlop, Port Glasgow. Single boiler, two-bladed propeller.
Fate: Sailed from Newcastle NSW for Peru with coal on 20 June 1917 but failed to arrive.
Launched 13 June 1961. Her intended name was Jetta Dan but it was changed before launching in honour of Nel Law, wife of Australian Antarctic Division Director Phillip Law.
Builder: Aalborg Værft A/S. Aalborg, Denmark
Owners: Rederiet Ocean A/S (one of the J. Lauritzen Line companies), Copenhagen.
Length: 75.5 m
Beam: 14.3 m
Draft fully loaded 6.268 m
Speed: 12.5 knots.
Fate: Sank off Macquarie Island, 24 December 1987, after drifting on to rocks during a storm.
Aurora Australis
Launched 18 September 1989.
Owner: P&O Maritime Services
Designer: Wartsila Marine Industries Inc.
Builder: Carrington Slipways Pty Ltd, Newcastle Australia.
Deadweight: 3893 t
Length: 94.91 m
Beam: 20.30 m
Draft (maximum): 7.9 m
Endurance: 90 days or 25 000 nautical miles
Maximum speed: 16 knots
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The Extend your Radius Project was a multisensory dinner, which took place on 13th of June in FHNW Highrise Building, concerning the topic of the Symposium «Poetry of the Real-Imagination-Friction-Transformation».
The main idea of the dinner relies on the potential of the «extended» people's radius when it happens to overlap with others. With the term radius, the students of the Master Studio Scenography and Exhibition Design attempted to figure out the multiple character of the Dreispitz Area. The format of the dinner was structured in such a way, where moments of «constructive» friction among the 60 guests would arise, no matter if that means collaboration or conflict. The construction of the table and the «mono-zeug» cutlery set, provided by the Mono manufacture, helped the guests to collaborate in order to share the food creating fields of discussions and new experiences.
In between the courses there were projections and a sound performance by Dominick Boyle, introducing the topic of the radius enclosing different aspects of the dinner such as the radius of the food, of Dreispitz and the guests' radius, as one of the most important one. The main idea of that dinner was to bring different radii together, triggering discussions, questions and conclusions on a food table.


Are you prepared for surges in your ED patient volumes?
In addition, the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA) is expected to result in a surge in patient volume, and there is no way to determine those numbers. Millions of people are expected to enroll in a health insurance plan, many for the first time. Most healthcare professionals anticipate an increased demand on triage, as some of these individuals will assume the "magic" insurance card will cover ED visits for every health issue.
The unpredictable impact on and future of ED/Urgent Care Services as a result of ACA will inevitably place a burden on organizations that are already striving for improved door to physician times to affect better outcomes and patient satisfaction ratings; the increased patient flow has the potential to derail the advances made to date.
The Journal of Health Affairs estimates that more than 30% of physicians will be unwilling to accept the 17 million new Medicare patients, leaving these patients no choice but to access care through the ED or urgent care. The ObamaCare Survival Guide even refers to the ED setting as "back up" for both the newly insured as well as those uninsured by choice.
When was the last time you validated triage competency in the nursing staff?
Do you have a surge plan in writing that is supported by the administrative team?
Where are the gaps in triage education, particularly those related to orientation?
Are staff trained in rapid triage?
Are your standing orders for triage in compliance with CMS regulations?
Healthcare professionals need to be realistic and base patient volume surge predictions on historical data about how patients seek emergency care. Despite the fact that the newly insured patients will have access to community health centers and primary care services, it is inevitable that many of them - millions of them - will seek care in emergency departments or urgent care settings.
A proactive stance will mitigate the challenges - prepare for increasing volumes by providing triage staff with the tools, resources and education required to meet the predicted shift in patient demographics and increased volume.
Cohen, Shelley. Triage Trainer Update. Hohenwald, TN. Health Resources Unlimited. 2013.
Marco, Catherine, et al. The Ethics of Health Care Reform. Impact on Emergency Medicine. AEM. 19 94;, pages 461-466. 2012.
Tate, Nick. ObamaCare Survival Guide. West Palm Beach. Humanix Books. 2012.