Patterson was in a good mood even before she met the man of her dreams. She was ecstatic actually: two of her best friends were getting married. It was afterwards at the reception that she'd had the help of some magic in a bottle to amplify her good mood.
I don't know about the rest of you, but I'm still reeling from the season finale. I have so many questions and am still working on figuring out how all the pieces go together. I have no idea where to go next so instead of going forward, I'm going backwards to 3x4: Gunplay Ricochet. I love all the intercuts from Weller and Jane's wedding - especially Patterson's declaration of love for a man she just met: Jonathon Walker Blue.
Patterson was in a good mood even before she met the man of her dreams. She was ecstatic actually: two of her best friends were getting married. She'd gotten herself ordained in between the time Kurt proposed in Italy and the wedding day, and though she'd been unable to keep the big ear-to-ear grin off her face, she'd performed the ceremony and officiated the marriage of her two friends. She'd come to Jane and Weller's wedding perfectly sober even though Tasha had been carrying a flask that she and Reade had been passing less than discretely before the ceremony began. It was afterwards at the reception that she'd had the help of some magic in a bottle to amplify her good mood.
She was beyond being simply buzzed when she passed a shot of whiskey to Eleanor Hirst while the director was recording her congratulatory video message to the bride and groom.
"Shots!" Patterson yelled as she video-bombed Hirst's greeting and handed a full shot glass to her boss. "I met a man named Jonathan Walker Blue, and we are in love!"
She skipped away from the video booth and returned to the bar set up along the far wall.
"Have you see the rest of the wedding party?" Patterson slurred at the bartender, leaning slightly onto the bar. "There's Tasha and Edgar and me. But I know where I am so I don't need to find myself. S'okay. Have you seen them?"
"No," the bartender replied. "Sorry."
"Oh, totally. S'totally okay awesome," Patterson babbled. "But hey! You're the bar guy. Can I get a double of my boyfriend Mr. Jonathan Walker Blue? Neat in a glass. Because how else would you serve it? In a bowl?"
The bartender gave her a polite smile and set about pouring the whisky into a rocks glass. Patterson chuckled to herself as she waited. In a bowl, she giggled silently at her wit and took the glass from the bartender.
"Neat!" She laughed and toasted the bartender. "Oh hey, that works both ways." She took a sip of the amber liquid and turned away from the bar. She scanned the room for Zapata and Reade. She found them on the dance floor and watched them for a few moments before stumbling her way back to the table and sitting down.
A waiter with a tray of Champagne appeared at her elbow and she snagged a flute as he passed. She watched Reade spin Tasha, and she polished off the rest of her Johnnie Walker. The duo looked extremely happy to Patterson's blurred eyes. They were both laughing at something, and Tasha was grinning broadly. Patterson smiled and pulled her phone out, snapping a few pictures of them as they danced. She texted one of the better shots to Tasha as she sipped at her new drink. When the song ended, she held up her glass towards them, and Tasha dragged Reade to their table.
"Where have you been?" Tasha asked, dropping inelegantly into the chair next to Patterson. "You should have danced with us."
"Oh here and there. More there than here but..." she trailed off, seeming to forget what she was talking about. "I made a new friend!" she declared suddenly. "His name is Jonathan Walker Blue. We are going to get married."
Reade laughed. Tipsy Patterson was always lots of fun. "Mazel tov, Patterson. How much have you had to drink?"
Patterson considered the question for a minute. "I had shots, and Champagne of course, and my friend, the bar guy, poured a few of Mr. Blue," she laughed and hit the table with her open hand. "'A few of Mr. Blue.' That rhymes!"
Tasha patted Patterson's hand, and Patterson felt a chill race up her spine. "Yes, it does," she said patiently, arching an eyebrow at Reade. "But how many is 'a few'?"
Patterson twisted her lips and thought again. "More than one and less than four."
Reade slipped the Champagne flute from Patterson's hand and slid it just out of her reach. They'd only been at the reception for a little more than 90 minutes. "Ok, then," he said. "Let's take a break from this for a bit."
"No, Edgar, Ed, Eddie," Patterson said and started to reach for the glass again. "Hey, that's like that cartoon. You know? Do you remember that? Ed, Edd, and Eddy. You're an Eddie!"
Tasha stifled a laugh behind her hand and claimed Patterson's Champagne for herself. She sipped at it in an attempt to get her laughter under control.
"Oh my god, Patterson," she said, and then threw a look at Reade and smirked. "Eddie."
"Ok, let's find you something else to do," Reade said, helping Patterson to her feet. "You okay?"
"Better than ok," Patterson said. "I'm good, Eddie, great."
Tasha laughed again and received an annoyed look from Reade.
"Ok, W-" Reade began before earning a hard warning slap in the arm from Tasha. "Have you recorded your greeting for Weller and Jane yet? I think they need to see this."
Patterson grabbed another Champagne flute from a server's passing tray and dropped onto the bench in the video "booth." She sipped at it before toasting the camera enthusiastically.
"Weller and Jane! It's my turn," she began cheerfully before adopting a more serious and pensive tone. "Okay, so, if life was like Dungeons & Dragons, Jane, you would be an elf paladin; and Weller, you are a dwarf monk. That does make you like four feet tall, but you know what, I just thought you would think wizard is just like a little bit too nerdy. So, okay. What I'm trying to say is, you guys are amazing warriors on your own, but together, you can defeat anything."
Reade and Tasha stood slightly off camera watching as Patterson recorded her greeting. It seemed to go on forever, and Tasha was sure she'd already caught at least three references to D&D already. There were probably others that she'd missed. She glanced at Reade and rolled her eyes dramatically but Reade's attention was elsewhere.
"What are you staring at?" Tasha asked. She elbowed him when he didn't respond. "Reade? Hello?"
He nodded in the direction of a brunette woman standing at the bar looking towards the head table where Jane and Weller sat. "Do you know who that is?"
Tasha followed his gaze to the bar. She shook her head. "Um, I think Weller's cousin Jessica or Jamie or Michelle. Melanie maybe? Something female. Jane told me earlier but I don't remember."
"It's that flask," Reade admonished her. "More powerful than ZIP."
"Oh, like you didn't enjoy the flask, too," Tasha said. She gave him a friendly shove in the shoulder. "So, go meet her if you're so interested."
Reade watched the woman at the bar for another moment and then looked back at Patterson who was still going on, comparing Weller and Jane to RPG characters.
"Go," Tasha insisted. "I've got Patterson."
Reade hesitated for a moment and Tasha shoved him forward. She watched him walk away, straightening his tie as he went. The smile fell from her face as he reached the bar and started a conversation with the woman there. A few seconds later he was leading her away towards the dance floor. She turned around and found Patterson standing next to her.
"You okay?" Patterson asked. She suddenly seemed very lucid.
"Yeah," Tasha said, putting the smile back on. "What about you, the future Mrs. Walker Blue? How are you feeling? Still in your honeymoon phase?"
"I think I should introduce you to my new boyfriend," she said and led Tasha towards the bar.
A row of empty shot glasses lined the bar in front of Tasha and Patterson. Somehow Patterson had convinced Tasha it was a good idea to do a "shot race." She'd had the bartender line up 10 shot glasses filled alternatingly with water and Johnnie Walker Blue. Tasha had started taking shots from one end of the line while Patterson began at the other. The first to finish three shots of whisky and two shots of water "won." Tasha was unclear if there was actually a prize but it sounded like a good idea at the time.
"That's five, and I win," she said as she slammed her fifth shot glass back down onto the bar. The room swam before her eyes, and she gripped the edge of the bar until she regained her balance. "And that was a terrible idea."
"The worst," Patterson agreed, tossing the final shot. She asked the bartender for the largest glass of water he had and drank half of it immediately. "I need to sit."
The two agents made their way back to their table and sat. Tasha looked for Reade. He was sitting at a table across the room with the woman from the bar, the one he'd been dancing with. She scowled at this and grabbed her phone. There was a text message notification.
"When did you text me?" she asked.
"What?" Patterson asked. "I did?"
Tasha held her phone out and showed Patterson the notification.
"Oh, I did." She thought for a second and remembered. "You were making moon eyes dancing with Reade."
"Moon eyes? I was not." Tasha pulled up the text from Patterson and saw the photo of her and Reade dancing. She stared at it for a few minutes. It was a really nice photo of the two of them. She put her phone down with a sign. "Moon eyes."
"Told you," Patterson said, sipping her water.
A wave of anger flooded her. He'd ditched her, even though she'd encouraged him to. She'd pushed him. Literally. He'd been staring at a woman at the bar who, barring complexion and ethnicity and wedding party garb, could have been Tasha's double. He'd gone and talked to her and they danced. Now he was over there laughing at whatever inane and certainly stupid thing she was saying. The room seemed too small suddenly, and she pushed her chair out abruptly.
"I need to get some air," she told Patterson, scooping her phone off the table and heading towards an open door leading to a small garden where Weller and Jane had been taking pictures earlier. She tripped on her heels and stopped to take them off before walking barefoot into the garden.
Patterson watched her go and took a look around. No one else seemed to have noticed Tasha's abrupt departure. She saw Reade sitting across the room flirting with Weller's cousin, and she instantly knew why Tasha had gone outside. It wasn't exactly the best kept secret that Tasha was in love with Reade. Patterson loved Reade. He was like her brother. But the way he and Tasha kept this back-and-forth platonic flirting thing going made her crazy. He'd act like he was interested in Tasha and then throw her away again. Not that Tasha wasn't equally guilty. But it hurt Patterson to see Tasha riding this particular emotional rollercoaster. She deserved to be treated better. She swiped two Champagne flutes from a server and headed out to join Tasha in the garden. Tasha was sitting on a concrete bench, staring out into the garden. Tears glistened on her cheeks.
"Scoot," Patterson said, sitting down and handing her friend a glass.
"Thanks," Tasha mumbled and took a sip of the Champagne.
They let the silence spin out before Patterson spoke again.
"You should just tell him," she said finally.
Tasha turned and levelled her gaze at Patterson. "Tell who what?" She wasn't dumb. She knew what Patterson meant.
"Oh, come on, Tash. I'm super, super drunk, not stupid. I know you're in love with Reade," Patterson said and gestured into the garden with her glass. "I'm pretty sure that rose bush knows you love Reade."
Tasha shook her head. "I don't. Not like that."
"Oh please. Then why are you out here crying?"
"Your fiancé makes me emotional," Tasha replied and wiped at her eyes, smudging her makeup.
Patterson snort-laughed. "He makes me laugh."
Tasha didn't respond for a long minute and drank long from her Champagne flute.
"It's so stupid," she said finally. "I don't want Reade but seeing him with someone else just makes me sick. I want him to be happy. I do. Really. I'm not jealous but I am. He looks at everyone but me. It's like he looks right through me. Like I'm not good enough. And when he did look at me, I freaked out and turned him down. And it's my own damn fault. I tell him to get back out there and meet people. I literally pushed him at Weller's cousin. I don't know, Patterson. I just..."
She looked down at her hands and fell silent. She didn't know what she wanted Patterson to say. There was really nothing to say. She was acting stupid over a man she didn't want while simultaneously marring the memory she would have of Jane and Weller's wedding. She wiped her tears again and turned her gaze out to the garden.
"'S'not stupid," Patterson said finally. She smiled, grabbed her friend's hand, and squeezed. "Maybe you and Reade aren't meant to be. S'okay. Be friends. You're great friends. And there's plenty of people who don't look through you, who think you are good enough, who'd love to be with the Tasha Zapata. Even if she is an emotional drunk."
"You're sweet, Patterson," she said. "But you're a liar. No one thinks that."


Charles McGoldrick got his team off to a great start, as St Muredachs got on the score-sheet first. Colaiste Muire hit back with two scores in quick succession. The sides appeared well matched as Peter Jermyn hit back for Crosshaven to make it 4-4. Cillian Lane and Colin Curran added a basket each for Crosshaven before Rory McGrath hit back for St Muredach's. Crosshaven seemed to have the upper hand defensively and took an 11-6 lead into the second quarter.
The second quarter was a low scoring affair, with both teams contesting fiercely for territory and possession. Still Crosshaven were looking the more likely of the two sides. Jordan Murphy, Colin Curran and Cillian Lane were key in stretching the Cork side's lead out to ten midway through the second quarter. Lane was performing well at both ends of the courts, getting in some timely blocks to frustrate Ballina. Colin Curran added three fine-lay ups in a row as Crosshaven's class began to show. Jermyn added a spectacular three at the buzzer for Colaiste Muire completing what was a miserable second quarter for St Muredach's, who managed just one point in the entire period to leave them trailing (33-7) at half time.
The St Muredach's support was being drowned out by the considerable Crosshaven following in the stand. It was a pattern reflected on the court too, as the magnitude of the occasion appeared to overwhelm the Mayo side.
Ballina returned for the second half with a renewed sense of purpose. Unfortunately for the Mayo side, the damage of the second quarter was irreparable. Frustration was beginning to set in as Joseph Timlin was fouled out of the game and Thomas Murphy was guilty of a technical violation. The game lost, St Muredach's coach Barry Murphy allowed some of his bench to see some action. Rory Tighe was by far the smallest player on-court, yet it did not prevent him from scoring for Ballina within minutes of coming on. In fact, the substitutes seemed to breathe some life into a beleaguered side.
The fourth quarter was more akin to a practise match in truth, as the difference on the score board, allowed Crosshaven to take their foot off the gas. A resounding 51-34 win was a fitting reward for a well drilled and confident performance.


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2012 Pastoral School Graduation
On Saturday June 23 at the Holy Virgin Protection Cathedral, this year's graduates of the DCMA Pastoral School traveled to Chicago to undergo their final examination and present their thesis work. Fr. Thaddeus Hardenbrook, rector of St. Lawrence Orthodox Church (Vicariate For The Palestinian & Jordanian Christian Orthodox Communities In America—GOA) in Felton, CA presented his work entitled "The Parish as Community: A Community of Essence, Will and Activity". Fr. Deacon Nicholas Park who is a deacon in our diocese at the church of St. Nicholas in Dallas presented his work entitled "The Mystery of Repentance: History, Theology and Contemporary Practice". The graduates were presented with their diplomas just before the start of the Vigil service on Saturday evening. The Pastoral School is quite unique in that most of the course work is conducted online. It attracts clerics not only from our diocese but also from other Orthodox jurisdictions and was originally put into place by Fr. Martin Swanson.
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How does John Daly Have a Good Swing?
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The question is, "How does he have such a good golf swing?" It's actually quite simple to answer. Daly teaches his students the fundamentals of the game, including the proper ball position and golf swing. His son also competes in the PNC Father-Son Challenge. Here are some of John Daly tips for improving your swing. And don't be surprised if you notice a difference in your golf game.
Great Technical Player
A great golfer doesn't have to be a great technical player. One of John Daly secrets is the ability to balance his weight. He has a tremendous overswing, yet he holds the club lightly with his fingers rather than his palm. The result is a massive overswing that points the clubface straight down into the target. Daly's swing is incredibly powerful, and it shows.
Stable Lower Body
Although he has a great natural talent, Daly has had a relatively unfulfilled career. Off-course issues held him back for so long, but his supreme talent is still apparent. If you are a careful golfer, you can copy Daly's golf swing. The key to doing so is to be stable in the lower body. But even if you do have a great swing, you still need a stable lower body.
Art of Swing
Watching John Daly in slow motion is a great way to learn the art of the swing. You can see his swing from every angle, and it's impossible not to notice the subtle details. You'll be impressed by the skill and the feeling he has when he plays. You'll soon be able to replicate Daly's swing in your own games. If you're not a professional golfer yet, don't worry. We'll show you how to improve your swing.
Two Major Tournaments
While John Daly's game is far from perfect, it is still one of the best on the Tour. Despite his shortcomings, the American has won two Major tournaments. He was also the first player to win a Major without playing in the Ryder Cup. Daly is a man of many talents. But his swing is the key to his success. In fact, John Daly's golf swing can be compared to that of a champion.
Iconic Golf Swing
John Daly has an iconic golf swing, similar to those of Arnold Palmer and Hogan. He has made an imprint on the game, and his swing is an artistic blend of tempo and voracity.With his incredible length off the tee, Daly has become a popular name in the sport.
Studying & Turned Professional
As a college student, Daly took a break from studying and turned professional. In the summer of 1987, he won the Missouri Open. He then went on to win two events on the Sunshine Tour in South Africa. He also played well in European Tour events. He finished T-14 at the Chattanooga Classic and T-69 at the U.S. Open. After his success on the European Tour, he earned full playing privileges on the Ben Hogan Tour and was awarded full playing privileges.
That same year, he had two top-10 finishes on the PGA Tour and made the cut at the 2002 Masters. He also won two non-PGA events in 2003. He was a part of the winning PGA Tour team in the Wendy's Three-Tour Challenge event in 2002. The event included teams from the LPGA Tour and the Champions Tour.
Aside from golf, John Daly is also a businessman. He is an endorser of LoudMouth Golf Apparel, has a golf course design business, and has released two music albums. He attended Helias High School in Jefferson City, Missouri, and is a member of the Jefferson City Country Club junior golf program. He also played football, and was a letterman. In addition to playing golf, he handled punting and place-kicking duties. He is the 1983 Missouri State HS champion and holds several school kicking records.
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Professional golfer John Patrick Daly is an American who plays on the PGA Tour Champions. He is known for his long drives off the tee and non-country club appearance. He is also known for his inconsistent play and non-country club appearance. Read on to learn more about the man behind the golf ball. Here are some fun facts about the famous golfer:
During his junior years, he cut his own adult set of clubs because he could not get them to go past the parallel on his backswing. In 1991, he won the PGA Championship at Crooked Stick, as the ninth alternate. Daly also records place-kicking records for the Jefferson City Helias High football team. He even learned to play golf by fishing balls out of ponds during a nine-hole municipal course in Dardanelle, Ark., and won by three strokes.
In addition to his golfing exploits, the actor also started a charity foundation called the Heart of a Lion Foundation that promotes holistic well-being for American veterans and children. He also founded the Boys and Girls Club of Arkansas River Valley, which enables American children to achieve their full potential. While on the tour, Daly has earned millions of dollars. He has a clothing line and even ventured into music. But even though he has earned millions of dollars, his financial difficulties should have warned him off from getting involved in such activities.
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Air New Zealand has flown the flag for the nearly 5000 women reaching great heights at the national airline, as well as those placed firmly on the ground.
In a video released on Wednesday to mark International Women's Day on March 8, the airline showed some of the female faces in different roles around the company.
There are those we might see daily like customer service operators and flight attendants, to the ones working behind the scenes, like the digital strategists and flight planners.
Air New Zealand captioned the video with "4,900 remarkable women make us fly every day - this is our thank you. Which woman inspires you? #InternationalWomensDay".
Commenters on Facebook tagged in female friends and family members who work for the airline, giving them their own recognition for their work.
"My wife Duty Operations Control Manager Michelle Shirley with the airline 22 years and started part time on the front line checking people in, well done darling you are our family's inspiration" one commenter wrote.
"The inspirational women of Air New Zealand! Another fantastic video by Clare Louise. An amazingly talented young woman who should have her face in this and not just behind the Camera!!!!!" wrote another.
International Women's Day is also being marked on Facebook, with a 24-hour live event as part of its #shemeansbusiness program. Lizzie Marvelly will launch the global event with a 30 minute Live video from Facebook's Auckland office, before women in different countries around the world will go Live on Facebook throughout the day. The final video will be hosted by Facebook's Chief Operating Officer Sheryl Sandberg at FB HQ in California.


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UN rights body adopts 5 anti-Israel resolutions, urges arms embargo
In a major diplomatic blow to Israel, the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHCR) has adopted five resolutions against Tel Aviv, urging an international ban on arms sales to the regime over its atrocities in the occupied Palestinian territories.
The resolutions were adopted Friday at the end of the UNHCR's 37th session, which lasted for a month in Geneva, slamming the Israeli regime's mistreatment of Palestinians and voicing support for the Palestinians' cause against the regime's occupation of their homeland.
One of the resolutions is called "Ensuring accountability and justice for all violations of international law in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem (al-Quds)."
The document, which was passed by 27 to 4 votes and 15 abstentions, urged the world community to stop selling arms to the regime in Israel.
The resolution called upon "all states to promote compliance under international law" with regard to Israeli actions "by ensuring that their public authorities and private entities do not become involved in internationally unlawful conduct, inter alia the provision of arms to end users known or likely to use the arms in the commission of serious violations of international humanitarian and/or human rights law."
Another of the five resolutions calls for an Israeli withdrawal from the Golan Heights, which the regime seized from Syria during the 1967 Six-Day War. Tel Aviv continues to occupy two-thirds of the Syrian territory ever since, in a move that has never been recognized by the international community.
The UN rights body also approved a resolution that called on Israel to withdraw to the pre-1967 lines as well as one that urged the Tel Aviv regime to halt settlement activity.
The fifth document approved on Friday denounced Israel for human rights abuses against the Palestinians.
US gets angry, says losing 'patience'
Furious over the resolutions, US Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley has slammed the council as "foolish and unworthy of its name," claiming it is biased against Israel.
She also warned that the US would continue to consider its options regarding membership of the UN panel, saying, "Our patience is not unlimited."
"When that happens, as it did today, the Council fails to fulfill its duty to uphold human rights around the world. The United States continues to evaluate our membership in the Human Rights Council. Our patience is not unlimited," Haley said.
The UK also spoke against what it called the council's bias against Tel Aviv.
Britain opposed the resolutions on the Golan Heights and the one on accountability. It, however, voted in favor of the resolutions on human rights and Palestinian self-determination. The country also abstained on the resolution on settlements.
Under US President Donald Trump, the regime in Israel has stepped up its expansionist policies and crimes against Palestinians.
The regime has been further emboldened by a US decision to transfer its capital from Tel Aviv to the occupied city, in a major policy shift which drew global anger and protests late last year.
The city, which is designated as "occupied" under international law since the 1967 Arab War, is sought by Palestinians as the capital of their future state.
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Volunteer divers have recovered the body of a teenager who went missing when he went swimming in the River Thames after police halted their underwater searches due to poor visibility.
Ellis Downes jumped into the water to cool off with friends on Saturday evening, but got into difficulty as he tried to swim back to the riverbank and disappeared from view.
The 16-year-old's family were highly critical of Thames Valley Police after the force said it was awaiting specialist teams to continue the underwater searches.
Ellis' mother Emma thanked the volunteers, saying: "If it wasn't for you our little boy would still be in that river now."
Ellis, from Harwell, Oxfordshire, was pulled under the water by the current near Culham, Abingdon, at around 9pm on Saturday.
His family launched a manhunt to find the teenager and criticised police efforts to locate him, claiming that Thames Valley Police was "useless" and under-resourced.
Ellis's sister, father and a close family friend said the force had failed to get divers to the scene - leaving the family to hire their own speedboat to trawl the waterway and request their own dive team.
The family and local volunteers spent Monday combing the riverbanks and murky waters for signs of life before Surrey-based divers Specialist Group International found the body later that night.
Detectives had said on Monday that they were awaiting specialist dive teams to continue the underwater searches, which had been hampered by poor visibility.
A Metropolitan Police diving team was due to join the search on Tuesday, but volunteer divers got there first after seeing the family's online pleas for help.
Specialist Group International said the team had been searching late on Monday night for the missing teenager, adding: "Our dive team were deployed following the family's request for volunteers.
However, Thames Valley Police said the involvement of an "unauthorised" dive team could "hinder a planned and coordinated police search operation".
Superintendent Rory Freeman had said on Monday: "Our priority is to find Ellis and bring him back to his family.
"The river searches for Ellis have been going on since Saturday involving police officers working with Fire and Rescue Service, Environment Agency and the child's family and friends.
"Poor visibility in the river has hampered the underwater searches, however the riverside searches are continuing. We are seeking support from other forces for a specialist dive team to continue with the search of the river itself."
Darren Downes, Ellis's father, confirmed the news online, writing: "I and my family would like to thank all the members of the village and surrounding areas that have helped in the search, and support in finding Ellis Niall Downes. Our world will never be the same again."
Ellis was a former pupil of St Birinus School, in Didcot, Oxfordshire, and was completing a forestry course at Common Leys near Witney, the horticultural section of Abingdon and Witney College.
His sister Alex, 19, said he was not a strong swimmer and it was out of character for him to have gone into the river. One of his friends leapt into the water to rescue him, but was too late.
She said: "Ellis was not a strong swimmer - he didn't like deep water. The people who were with him said he swam to the other side of the river and then had to lie down on the banks because he couldn't breathe properly.
"Someone said 'I will come round and pick you up in the car', but he said no and started to swim back and half way across he started to struggle."
Mr Freeman, the Local Policing Area Commander for South and Vale, earlier said: "We are absolutely committed to find Ellis and bring him back to his family.
"Since police were first notified, we have deployed our Air Support helicopter, Fire and Rescue water search teams with thermal imaging equipment, Environment Agency boats equipped with sonar, marine support with remotely operated vehicle capability and a specialist dive dog.
"These have been supported by volunteer search teams from across Oxfordshire and Berkshire as well as local police officers and staff.
"A specialist dive team from the Metropolitan Police is joining the search team on Tuesday morning to continue the search for Ellis and it is important to stress that at this stage the involvement of an unauthorised dive team could hinder a planned and coordinated police search operation."
Tributes to Ellis poured in online as friends and loved-ones praised the "thoughtful, cheeky and polite" teenager, who had loved his moped and been looking forward to learning to drive.
Jenny Hawkins said: "Ellis was an absolute credit to you all - a clever, handsome, thoughtful, cheeky and polite young man. His time with you was short but you can be so proud at how incredible he was. Our love goes out to you all."
Jenni Morgan added: "I am so sorry for your loss. He was a lovely, polite boy. It was our pleasure to assist yesterday in the search and I'm so happy you now have your boy home to rest."
Shannon Pryce, from Harwell, Oxon., said Ellis was a "lovely young lad and didn't deserve to be taken this soon," while Paige Brian said Harwell "will not be the same without you riding your bike up and down smiling that cheesy grin."
Joanne Ray said: "There are no words that can convey how sorry we are to hear of your loss. I just hope you feel the arms of the village surrounding you during this desperate time."
A Thames Valley Police spokesman confirmed on Tuesday a body believed to be that of Ellis had been pulled from the River Thames on Monday night.
Officers were not treating his death as suspicious, but "unexplained" and a file was being prepared for the Oxfordshire Coroner.
The spokesman said: "At around 11pm, divers recovered a body from the river. Although formal identification has not yet taken place, it is believed to be that of Ellis Downes, aged 16, from Harwell. His family have been informed."
Mr Freeman added: "Our thoughts are with Ellis' family at this very difficult time."


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On Oct. 7, parents of KatyISD students received a letter notifying them of a possible data breach at a third-party vendor, SunGard K-12.
SunGard K-12 had notified KatyISD that there had been a data breach on Aug. 31, but a full report was not available until Sept. 15. The breach in August exposed information from students who were enrolled in a KatyISD school during the 2013-2014 school year. The data exposed included names, birthdays, e-mail addresses, zip codes, state IDs, and social security numbers.
Maria Corrales, spokeswoman for KatyISD, said that the situation is very low-risk, as the information was not exposed through an attempt of fraud. In fact, those with access to the information were probably unaware of the presence of the files in the application.
"The Katy ISD data was never viewable by end users in their districts and SunGard has no evidence to suggest that the client districts were aware of the presence of the data files," said Corrales.
Corrales stressed that students and parents have no reason to be concerned, as KatyISD has taken steps to prevent such an event from happening once more.
"Katy ISD takes data privacy and security very seriously. We deploy strict security processes for privacy and security. We do not share student and staff information unless it is mandated by law or absolutely required to maintain the essential operation of the district under strict agreements that maintains full compliance with FERPA. Katy ISD terminated the disaster recovery backup service with SunGard," said Corrales.
The Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA) is a federal law that protects the privacy of student education records. As per KatyISD policy, permission must the taken from parents before sharing any student information.
SunGard K-12 is a data manager, specializing in student and employee information. The company partners with school districts to provide data services and secures sensitive student information. SunGard stated that the breach was due to human error within the company. An employee had accidentally copied and uploaded student information onto an application which could be viewed by technology personnel of 29 other school districts.
The parents of students affected by the breach have been offered one year of identity protection service LifeLock by Sungard K-12, which was arranged by the district.
"Although SunGard has no reason to believe that this data was viewed or copied by anyone in these districts, we recommend that you register for the online identity monitoring service and call the hotline (800-861-1753) for assistance has needed," said Co


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Q: Fail to export custom SPList to Excel Im trying to export a SharePoint-List(created from a custom Listdefinition) to Excel by using the "Export to Excel"-button on the ribbon. It works when im trying with other default SharePoint-lists like "Tasks" but not with my three lists created from unique listdefinitions.
The error im presented with is "An unexpected error has occurred. Changes to your data cannot be saved".
The list has less than 50 items so it should not matter.
I have tried from different computers, changing permissions on the list for the user.
Im using Sharepoint 2010 and Office pro x64 Excel.
Would really appreciate someone nudging me in the right direction.

A: Solved the issue myself.
Apparently the custom lists columns was both named "Column name" and had the display name "Column name" in the XML-code. The column name should be "Column_name". Sharepoint fills the blank with %20 and this creates my issue.

A: Have you marked the fields of data that you want SharePoint to export to excel?
You have to create a view 'telling' excel what columns to export, as far as I know and have seen. This answer may be related to the issue here:
export specific field from from sharepoint custom list to excel
What have you tried so far? What view are you using? Have you tried editing in datasheet view then exporting through that view?
I will experiment more when I have time today. I'll follow up with whatever I find, if I find anything.

A: Since yesterday this problem has been resolved for us by using the new drop-down in Sharepoint list, select Export > CSV. The issue was with the workbook export option (that used to be the default on the Export button) that downloads the .iqy, however .iqy has access granted via the cloud account, while some of our employees have a different account for onprem installed apps through SCCM, so the licensing for the apps go to the onprem accounts, thus Sharepoint doesn't detect the correct permissions to open that in the Excel application. However by using the CSV export option that is now available in Sharepoint, the data is read and processed with the cloud account when you press the button, and then translated into the app. This process does not require the user to have the same account both on the cloud and locally (in the apps), since it pastes the content that was already copied with the right permissions. Hope it helps someone!

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You can name all your image pages using the file name of its full-size image. Simply check the Use image file name box. The resulting page file name will have the name of the image file plus the extension you enter into the Extension box. For example: photo1.jpg.html (for the photo1.jpg image file). If you do not want to add the image file extension to the page file name, then clear the Add image extension box and result will be the following: photo1.html (for the photo1.jpg image file).
Another choice is to use the generic file name for all image pages. Simply enter the generic part of the file name into the Generic name edit field, specify how many digits you want in the added number in the Number of digits field and the value of the first added number in the Starting from field. Change the default extension if you want in the Extension field and your new image page file name template is ready.


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Midtown KC Post City council
Forget everything you thought you knew about CPR
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Travis Fenel, a KCFD division chief, demonstrated to the city council how to do CPR without having to blow air into the victim's mouth.
There is an easy way to do CPR but too few people know it and that is costing lives, experts told the city council public safety committee Wednesday.
The city fire department has applied for a $175,000 grant to spread knowledge of the CPR technique to Kansas City citizens and schools.
It involves using fast, hard chest compressions without blowing air into the mouth and studies show it is as effective as the old method.
But a disturbing study published last year in the New England Journal of Medicine showed that too many bystanders do not give any kind of CPR. It also found that people who go into cardiac arrest in poor, black neighborhoods were only half as likely to get CPR from a bystander as those having cardiac arrest in middle-income or wealthier white neighborhood.
The problem seems to be that people don't know what to do or are leery of blowing into the mouth of a dead person.
Overall in Kansas City, only about one in five people who suffer cardiac arrest get CPR from a bystander. Of those who do get it, 40 percent survive compared to about 11 percent for all cardiac arrests in the city.
Dr. Richard Gist, KCFD assistant to the chief, told council members that the grant could help spread knowledge that will save lives. It would pay for training equipment and allow firefighters to teach CPR more in the community and schools. It also would pay for things like an unusual smart phone app: the phone set on the victim's chest would tell you if you are compressing fast enough and hard enough.
Travis Fenel, a KCFD division chief, used a dummy and machine to tell visiting high school students that as they did compressions in front of the council committee.
He introduced a student to the dummy. "This is Fred. Fred drops dead. What do you do?"
The correct answer: if two people are there, one should call 911 while the other starts compressions.
A student started on Fred, the machine beeping with each push. It was not fast enough or hard enough, the machine said, and the student adjusted.
"You're saving a life right now," Fenel said. "You're pump starting Fred's heart."
The study last year also found that people were more likely to get bystander CPR in places like schools, factories or recreation facilities. But most cardiac arrests occurred in homes and victims there were no more likely to get CPR than people who dropped on the streets.
Fenel told another student: "This may be the only chance you get to practice before you use this skill to save someone you know."


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Sometimes quotes can be a source of inspiration and motivation. Sometimes their attempt to be deep just seem dumb. And sometimes, they are flat out silly, and I love that!
I've been kind of down lately, but I'm trying to turn it around. And these silly quotes made me smile (+ watching puppy videos, obviously).
So here you have 15 (+/-, counting is hard) not so inspirational quotes.
And if you can't get enough, here's a post with 11 more.
Listen to your heart. When you hear it stop beating, seek medical attention.
My life is like a romantic comedy, except there's no romance and it's just me laughing at my own jokes.
Success comes only to those who ignore the naysayers and the bloodcurdling screams that they're going the wrong way.
Love it! Some of these are really great — my favorite is "Even if you are on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there." This is so true! Thank you for the laughs!
Hilarious quotes! Thank you for sharing. They made me slow down and laugh out loud.


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Wahhabism: Understanding the Roots and Role Models of Islamic Extremism
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Wahhabis attribute a place and direction to Allah
While accusing the masses of Muslims of being polytheists, Wahhabis themselves have differentiated themselves from other Muslims in their understanding of creed. Due to the Wahhabis' adherence to an unorthodox, grossly flawed literal understanding of God's Attributes, they comfortably believe that Allah has created or human attributes, and then attempt to hide their anthropomorphism by saying that they don't know 'how' Allah has such attributes. For example, Bilal Philips, a Wahhabi author says:
He has neither corporeal body nor is He a formless spirit. He has a form befitting His majesty [italics mine], the like of which no man has ever seen or conceived, and which will only be seen (to the degree of man''s finite limitations) by the people of paradise.
Discussing each part of his statement will shed light into his anthropomorphic mind. Bilal Philips says that "Allah has a form befitting His majesty…" What he confirms in his mind is that Allah definitely has a form. He even specifies the kind of form by saying: "He [Allah] has neither corporeal body…" meaning that Allah has a form that is not like the forms of creation, and then says, "nor is He a formless spirit. Then he says, "He has a form befitting His majesty…". The problem with such statements to a Muslim is that they express blatant anthropomorphism. What Bilal Philips is doing here is foolishly attributing a "form" to God that, in his mind, nobody has ever seen. Therefore, Bilal Philips believes that God has some type of form, or non-corporeal body. No orthodox Sunni Muslim scholar has ever said such a perfidious thing.
Imam Ahmad Ibn Hanbal, one of the greatest mujtahid Sunni imams ever to have lived, refuted such anthropomorphic statements over a thousand years before Bilal Philips was born. The great Sunni Ash`ari scholar, Imam al-Bayhaqi, in his Manaqib Ahmad relates with an authentic chain that Imam Ahmed said:
A person commits an act of disbelief (kufr) if he says Allah is a body, even if he says: Allah is a body but not like other bodies.
Imam Ahmad continues:
The expressions are taken from language and from Islam, and linguists applied 'body' to a thing that has length, width, thickness, form, structure, and components. The expression has not been handed down in Shari'ah. Therefore, it is invalid and cannot be used.
Imam Ahmed is a pious adherer of the time period of the Salaf that was praised by Prophet Muhammad (s). How can Bilal Philips claim to represent the pious forefathers of the Salaf? He not only contradicts them but is vehemently refuted by them. The great pious predecessors had refuted ignoramuses like Bilal Philips in their times long ago.
Blatant anthropomorphism is also illustrated by the Wahhabi Ibn Baz's commentary on the great work of Imam Abu Ja'afar at-Tahawi called "Aqeedah at-Tahawiyyah" (The Creed of Tahawi), a work that has been praised by the orthodox Sunni community as being representative of Sunni orthodoxy. The now deceased Ibn Baz was Saudi Arabia''s grand Mufti.
Article #38 of Imam Tahawi''s work states:
He is beyond having limits placed on Him, or being restricted, or having parts or limbs. Nor is He contained by the six directions as all created entities are.
Ibn Baz, in a footnote, comments:
Allah is beyond limits that we know but has limits He knows.
In another footnote, he says:
By hudood (limits) the author [referring to Imam Tahawi] means [limits] such as known by humans since no one except Allah Almighty knows His limits.
Ibn Baz deceptively attempts to represent the noble Sunni Imam al-Tahawi as an anthropomorphist by putting his own anthropomorphic interpretation of Imam Tahawi''s words in his mouth. It must be emphasized that not a single orthodox Sunni scholar understood Imam Tahawi''s statement as Ibn Baz did.
Ibn Baz' also shows anthropomorphism in a commentary by the great Sunni scholar Ibn Hajar al-`Asqalani. Ibn Baz says:
As for Ahl ul-Sunna –and these are the Companions and those who followed them in excellence –they assert a direction for Allah, and that is the direction of elevation, believing that the Exalted is above the Throne without giving an example and without entering into modality.
Another now deceased Wahhabi scholar, Muhammad Saleh al-Uthaymeen, blatantly expresses his anthropomorphism. He says:
Allah''s establishment on the throne means that He is sitting 'in person' on His Throne.
The great Sunni Hanbali scholar, Ibn al-Jawzi, had refuted anthropomorphists who were saying that Allah''s establishment is 'in person' hundreds of years ago:
Whoever says: He is established on the Throne 'in person' (bi dhatihi), has diverted the sense of the verse to that of sensory perception. Such a person must not neglect that the principle is established by the mind, by which we have come to know Allah, and have attributed pre-eternity to Him decisively. If you said: We read the hadiths and keep quiet, no one would criticize you; it is only your taking them in the external sense which is hideous. Therefore do not bring into the school of this pious man of the Salaf – Imam Ahmad [Ibn Hanbal] – what does not belong in it. You have clothed this madhab [or school of jurisprudence] with an ugly deed, so that it is no longer said 'Hanbali' except in the sense of 'anthropomorphist'.
Sulayman ibn `Abdul Allah ibn Muhammad ibn `Abd al-Wahhab, the grandson of the Wahhabi movement's founder, says:
Whoever believes or says: Allah is in person (bi dhatihi) in every place, or in one place: he is a disbeliever (kafir). It is obligatory to declare that Allah is distinct from His creation, established over His Throne without modality or likeness or exemplarity. Allah was and there was no place, then He created place and He is exalted as He was before He created place.
Just as Bilal Philips affirms a form to Allah in his mind, and Ibn Baz confirms limits to Allah in his mind, al-Uthaymeen confirms that Allah is literally sitting 'in person' on the Throne in his mind. All of them have loyally followed the footsteps of Ibn Taymiyyah and Muhammad ibn `Abdul-Wahhab – the two arch-heretics who were instrumental in causing tribulation (fitna) and division among the Muslim masses because of their reprehensible, unorthodox interpretations of the Islamic sources.
Wahhabi anthropomorphists say: Allah is in a direction, Allah has limits, Allah is literally above the Throne, and that Allah is sitting 'in person' on the Throne. To a Muslim, the fact is that the Throne is located in a particular direction and a certain place. By understanding Allah to be above the Throne literally as the Wahhabis do, they are attributing Allah with created attributes and, as a result, are implying that a part of the creation was eternal with Allah. This opposes what the the Qur'an and the following hadith authentically related by al-Bukhari says:
Allah existed eternally and there was nothing else [italics mine].
Sunni orthodoxy clears Allah of all directions and places. To a Sunni, Allah has always existed without the need of a place, and He did not take a place for Himself after creating it. Orthodox Sunni scholars have said exactly what was understood by Prophet Muhammad (s) and his Companions (ra). Imam Abu Hanifah, the great mujtahid Imam who lived in the time period of the Salaf said: ""Allah has no limits…"," period. And this is what Sunni orthodoxy represents.
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Morgan Wallen's 'Dangerous' was the most popular album of 2021 in the US
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Morgan Wallen's Dangerous: The Double Album, which arrived last January, was the most popular album of 2021 in the U.S., according to MRC Data's 2021 Year-End Report.
It was the top country album for the year and also the top album across all genres, with 3.23 million equivalent album units earned. Late in 2021, Billboard also placed Dangerous at the top of its all-genre year-end Billboard 200 Albums chart.
Morgan's been a controversial figure throughout 2021. In February, TMZ posted doorcam video footage of him yelling a racist slur as he said goodnight to a car full of friends. His music was swiftly removed from country radio stations, and he was disqualified from major awards shows, though the singer's fanbase remained stronger than ever.
While he stayed quiet through much of 2021, the singer's been making moves towards a return to the spotlight. He announced a major tour for 2022, and has begun to release new songs, including a collaboration with rapper Lil Durk called "Broadway Girls."
Earlier this week, Lil Durk affirmed his support for Morgan, according to Variety.
"He ain't no racist, that's my boy," the rapper stated. "We had a long talk, he had his public situation. We ain't behind closed doors."
He went on to say that other rappers "for sure" should work with the country singer, adding "He ain't canceled, I talked to him. When I say you ain't canceled, you ain't canceled."


Virtual Assistants have become quite popular these days because of the monetary benefits that business owners obtain.
Wondering how? Well, it's the technological advances that have helped many companies rationalise their workforce by hiring virtual assistants and still delivering profitable results. And why not, when an individual can complete the administrative functions online, from a remote location, then what's the need of hiring employees for this job.
1. Virtual office candidates require no physical workplace, whereas conventional employees require office space to complete the job.
2. When there is no need of a physical workspace for a virtual assistant, certainly there is no need of furniture, fixtures and fittings – as there is with a conventional office.
3. Hiring virtual assistants means there is no need to pay overtime, sick leave, annual leave or superannuation.
4. Just as an employee handles the entire administrative task, a virtual assistant also does the same job.
5. Hiring virtual assistants helps save on network, power, and telephone charges, whereas an employer needs to invest in these expenses for conventional employees.
So, wouldn't hiring a virtual assistant be beneficial for your business?


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Q: motion detector crashing based on python opencv im making a motion detection program but it crashes every time when i run the code
Here is the error i get
File "C:\Users\ado\Desktop\HACKY\coding\python\UltimateSecurityCam-master\PythonCode\UltimateSecurityCam.py", line 65, in <module>
    image, cnts, hierarchy = cv2.findContours(diff.copy(),
ValueError: not enough values to unpack (expected 3, got 2)
[ WARN:0@5.468] global D:\a\opencv-python\opencv-python\opencv\modules\videoio\src\cap_msmf.cpp (539) `anonymous-namespace'::SourceReaderCB::~SourceReaderCB terminating async callback

This is my code that i use i dont really know opencv much im new like beginner
# coding=utf-8

import cv2
import numpy as np
import pygame
import time, sys, os

#if you get error while importing the google how to install <Package Name> in python 3.6

THRESHOLD = 40
camera = cv2.VideoCapture(0)

es = cv2.getStructuringElement(cv2.MORPH_ELLIPSE, (9,4))
kernel = np.ones((5,5), np.uint8)
background = None

# Write test video
fps = 2 #camera.get(cv2.CAP_PROP_FPS)
pygame.mixer.init()
cameraSound = pygame.mixer.Sound("snapshotsound.ogg")
size = (int(camera.get(cv2.CAP_PROP_FRAME_WIDTH)),
        int(camera.get(cv2.CAP_PROP_FRAME_HEIGHT)))

dir_path = os.path.dirname(os.path.realpath(__file__))

videoWriter = cv2.VideoWriter(os.path.join(str(dir_path),'basic_motion_detection.avi'),
                  cv2.VideoWriter_fourcc('D', 'I', 'V', 'X'),
                  fps, size)

initial = int(time.time())
final = initial + 4

while (final-initial):
    #start timer on the frames
    ret, frame = camera.read()
    Text = "Starting in " + str(final-initial) + "..."
    cv2.putText(frame,Text,(60,30),cv2.FONT_HERSHEY_TRIPLEX,1,(0,100,255),2)
    cv2.imshow("contours",frame)

    if cv2.waitKey(int(45)) &0xff == ord('q'):
        break

    elif int(time.time()) == (initial + 1):
        initial = initial + 1
        print(str(final-initial) + "...")

while (True):
    ret, frame = camera.read()
    # The first frame as the background
    if background is None:
        background = cv2.cvtColor(frame, cv2.COLOR_BGR2GRAY)
        background = cv2.GaussianBlur(background, (21,21), 0)
        continue

    gray_frame = cv2.cvtColor(frame, cv2.COLOR_BGR2GRAY)
    gray_frame = cv2.GaussianBlur(gray_frame, (21,21), 0)

    # Compare the difference between each frame of image and the background
    #print(background.shape, gray_frame.shape)
    diff = cv2.absdiff(background, gray_frame)
    diff = cv2.threshold(diff, THRESHOLD, 255, cv2.THRESH_BINARY)[1]
    diff = cv2.dilate(diff, es, iterations=2)
    # Calculate the outline of the target in the image
    image, cnts, hierarchy = cv2.findContours(diff.copy(),
                          cv2.RETR_EXTERNAL, cv2.CHAIN_APPROX_SIMPLE)
    print ("Detecting " + str(len(cnts)) + " Moving Objects")
    if len(cnts) > 0:
        cameraSound.play()

    for c in cnts:
        if cv2.contourArea(c) < (background.shape[0]*background.shape[1])/204:
            #minimum area to be calculated based on image size and camera megapixels
            continue
        # Calculate the bounding box
        (x, y, w, h) = cv2.boundingRect(c)
        cv2.rectangle(frame, (x,y), (x+w, y+h), (0,255,0), 2)

    cv2.imshow("contours", frame)
    videoWriter.write(frame)
    cv2.imshow("dif", diff)
    # cv2.imwrite('didff.jpg', diff)

    keypress = cv2.waitKey(45)
    if keypress:
        if keypress &0xff == ord('q'):
            break
        elif keypress &0xff == ord('r'):
            #reset the camera
            background = None

cv2.destroyAllWindows()
camera.release()

I dont know this crashesh every time i dont know how to fix this im using Python 3.10.4
and the latest opencv2 i dont know this much


The salary statistics of other construction trades helpers are shown in Table 1. In the next few tables we compare the average salaries of other construction trades helpers within different industry sectors and in the 50 states of the United States. The other construction trades helpers annual salary statistics are from the national compensation survey conducted by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics in 2017 and published in April 2018 .
Table 1 shows the average annual salary for other construction trades helpers. The average annual salary for the 90th percentile (the top 10 percent of the highest paid) other construction trades helpers is $46,930. The median annual salary (50th percentile) is $29,660. The average annual salary for the bottom 10 percent is $20,240. We note that in the United States, the annual salary of the 90th percentile (the top 10 percent of the highest paid) is almost 131% higher than that of the bottom 10 percent.
The table and chart below show the trend of the median salary of other construction trades helpers from 2012 to 2017.
The average salaries of other construction trades helpers in 14 major industry sectors are shown in Table 2. We note that the salaries vary considerably within different industry sectors. The highest paying industry sector for other construction trades helpers occupations is the wholesale trade sector with an annual salary $41,720. The lowest paying sector is the retail trade sector (annual salary $23,620).
From the above tables we note that not only other construction trades helpers salaries vary considerably based on one's education and experience, and the industry sectors, they also change considerably from state to state. In the following table we compare the median salary of other construction trades helpers in all 50 states of the United States. We note that the median annual salaries range from $18,950 to $55,960. The highest paying state for other construction trades helpers is Washington with a median annual salary of $55,960. The lowest paying state is Puerto Rico with a median annual salary of $18,950. For more salary information of other construction trades helpers profession in a specific state, use the links in the table.
 Highest paying industries for other construction trades helpers.


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The 15th century was among the most tumultuous of the millennium for the English monarchy. Much of the latter half of that century was dominated by the fight for the throne that erupted within the house of Plantagenet. Fought between the York and Lancaster branches of the family, the 32-year clash came to be known as the Wars of the Roses, opens a new window, so named because of the symbols of the two family lines: York's white rose and Lancaster's red. The English throne changed hands five times in that 32-year span as the Yorkists and Lancastrians alternately wrested control of the country. King Richard III, a Yorkist, was the final king of the house of Plantagenet.
Richard, opens a new window was born in Northamptonshire on October 2, 1452, and was the younger brother of King Edward IV. Richard had been a loyal supporter of his brother throughout Edward's struggle to claim and keep the throne. Upon Edward's death in April of 1483, Richard assumed the guardianship of Edward's son and heir, Edward V, as well as control of England as the young king's protector. Within a matter of months, however, Richard was named by Parliament as the rightful heir to the throne as Richard III. Richard imprisoned Edward V and his brother in the Tower of London, where they disappeared permanently from public view and died under undetermined circumstances. Popular belief, both at the time and in subsequent centuries, has held that Richard had them murdered, although there is no conclusive proof. Richard was crowned on July 6 of that year.
King Richard III by Unknown artist oil on panel, late 16th century NPG 148 © National Portrait Gallery, London
His roughly two-year reign came to an end in the Battle of Bosworth Field on August 22, 1485, at the hands of Henry, Earl of Richmond. Henry, a Lancastrian, claimed the throne upon Richard's battlefield death, becoming King Henry VII. He married Elizabeth of York the following year, thus uniting the two fighting branches of the house of Plantagenet and giving rise to a new royal dynasty: the house of Tudor.
Richard III's life and controversial ascension to the throne have made him a popular and widely studied figure in English history. Generally, Richard III has been condemned as a ruthless and scheming figure, thanks to negative biographical portrayals including Shakespeare's eponymous play. However, more recent researchers have attempted to clarify the historical record and demonstrate the lack of conclusive evidence and the existence of other viable suspects in the crimes and misdeeds for which Richard has been blamed. Renewed interest in the historically maligned monarch surged in 2012, when the University of Leicester, opens a new window, the Leicester City Council, and members of the Richard III Society conducted an excavation as part of the Looking for Richard Project. The team successfully located and identified the king's remains, which had been buried in the Greyfriars Church in Leicester shortly after his death. The church was demolished during the reign of King Henry VIII; the site was eventually paved over in the creation of a parking lot.
If you are interested in learning more about King Richard III and the Wars of the Roses, or if historical fiction set in those times is of interest to you, be sure to take a look at what the St. Tammany Parish Library has to offer! Below is a list of just some of the resources available in our collections. Additionally, the list includes external resources about Richard III and the search for his remains.
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AP names Hunt deputy bureau chief in Washington
Terence Hunt, a senior editor and former White House correspondent for The Associated Press, has been named deputy bureau chief in Washington for the news cooperative.
The appointment was announced Friday by Washington bureau chief Sally Buzbee. Hunt, a former assistant bureau chief, will help manage AP's largest bureau, with more than 100 reporters and editors working in a central multimedia newsroom and at key locations throughout Washington. The bureau is closely integrated with AP's radio, video and interactive teams and collaborates daily with AP bureaus throughout the United States and the world.
Hunt covered the White House for 25 years, from Ronald Reagan's presidency through George W. Bush's administration, reporting from about 90 countries and every state in the U.S. He covered Cold War summits, Reagan's "tear down this wall" speech at the Berlin Wall, G-8 meetings, political conventions and campaigns, plus the Monica Lewinsky scandal, the impeachment of Bill Clinton, Mideast peacemaking, George H.W. Bush's Gulf War to liberate Kuwait and George W. Bush's wars in Afghanistan and Iraq.
Hunt left the White House for three years in 2001 to become assistant bureau chief and then returned to covering the president.
In a 1999 article that rated the "Best and Worst White House Reporters," Brill's Content called Hunt "one of the smartest and hardest-working reporters on the beat. He's known informally as the dean of the White House press corps."
He has won the Merriman Smith Award for presidential reporting under deadline pressure and in 1999 received AP's Gramling Journalism Award for incisive coverage of the White House.
In late 2008, as the world slipped deeper into recession and the United States was rocked by the worst financial crisis since the Great Depression, Hunt was tapped to oversee coverage of the government's response to the financial meltdown. His responsibilities were expanded later to include the overall news report from Washington.
Hunt joined AP's Washington staff after assignments in Louisville, Ky., and Providence, R.I. A native of Bellevue, Ky., Hunt graduated from the University of Kentucky. He has been inducted into the Kentucky Journalism Hall of Fame and the Society of Professional Journalists' Hall of Fame, DC Pro chapter. Hunt is a past president of the White House Correspondents' Association.


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Vincent Lübeck (* September 1654 in Padingbüttel; † 9. Februar 1740 in Hamburg) war ein deutscher Komponist des Barock. Das Werk Lübecks ist stilistisch verwandt mit dem Werk von Dieterich Buxtehude und gehört zur Norddeutschen Orgelschule. Lübeck komponierte Kantaten und Werke für Orgel und Cembalo.

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Lübecks Vater, der ebenfalls den Namen Vincent trug, war Organist in Norddeutschland. Er gab seinen Sohn zur Lehre nach Flensburg, wo Lübeck unter anderem bei Caspar Förckelrath und mit Andreas Kneller das Orgelspiel erlernte.

1674 wurde er Organist der St.-Cosmae-Kirche in Stade, wo heute ein Gymnasium nach ihm benannt ist, und heiratete Susanne Becker. Seit 1673 besaß St. Cosmae eine Orgel des berühmten Orgelbauers Arp Schnitger, mit dem Lübeck eine lebenslange Freundschaft verband. In Stade erwarb Lübeck eine hohe Reputation als Organist, Komponist und Lehrer, weshalb er 1702 an die Nikolaikirche nach Hamburg berufen wurde. Dort stand ihm Schnitgers größte Orgel zur Verfügung, eine der bedeutendsten und schönsten Orgeln der Welt, die aber im Mai 1842 dem großen Brand von Hamburg zum Opfer fiel.

Seine Söhne Peter Paul Lübeck (1680–1732) und Vincent Lübeck Junior (1684–1755), die er auch im Orgelspiel unterrichtete, wurden ebenfalls Komponisten, erreichten aber nicht den Ruhm des Vaters. Zu seinen bedeutendsten Schülern gehören Christian Heinrich Postel und Michael Johann Friedrich Wiedeburg. Bei einem Besuch in Hamburg hörte Johann Sebastian Bach sowohl Lübecks als auch Johann Adam Reinckens Orgelspiel. Der Einfluss beider auf Bachs frühe Orgelwerke ist gut belegt.

Lübeck blieb, im Alter von seinen Söhnen unterstützt, bis zu seinem Tod Organist in St. Nikolai.

Der am 21. August 1987 entdeckte Asteroid (5108) Lübeck trägt seit Mai 1992 seinen Namen.

Werke (Auswahl)

Vokalmusik
 Willkommen, süßer Bräutigam (Kantate. 2 Stimmen, 2 Violinen, B. c.)
 Gott wie dein Nahme (Kantate. 3 Stimmen, 3 Instrumente, B. c.)
 Es ist ein grosser Gewinn, wer gottselig ist (Kantate. 4 Stimmen, 2 Violinen, 2 Viole da Gamba, 2 Oboen, Fagott, B. c.; 10.–14. November 1693)
 Ich hab hier wenig guter Tag (Kantate. 4 Stimmen, 2 Violinen, 2 Viole da Gamba, 2 Oboen, Fagott, B. c.; 10.–14. November 1693)
 Ich ruf zu dir, Herr Jesu Christ
 Hilff deinem Volck (Kantate. 4 Stimmen, 2 Violinen, 2 Viole da Gamba, B. c.)
 14 weitere Kantaten und eine Passion, Titel und/oder Text bekannt (alle verloren)

Clavierwerke
 Præamb. et Fuga ex Cb V Lübeck, LübWV 6 (Orgel)
 Praamb: ex E#, LübWV 7 (Orgel)
 Præamblum (et Fuga) ex F, LübWV 8 (Orgel)
 Præamblum ex G di Vi Lübeck, LübWV 9 (Orgel)
 Præludium ex C# D. V.L., LübWV 10 (Orgel)
 Præl: dj Vincent Lübeck (ex Db), LübWV 11 (Orgel)
 Præludium ex Gb V. L., LübWV 12 (Orgel)
 Ich ruff zu dir, Herr Jesu Christ à 2 Clav: è ped:, LübWV 13 (Orgel)
 ?, LübWV 14
 Nun Last uns Gott den Herren, LübWV 15 (Orgel)

 Clavier Übung bestehend im Praeludio, Fuga, Allemande, Courante, Sarabande und Gigue als auch einer Zugabe von dem Gesang Lobt Gott ihr Christen allzugleich in einer Chaconne (Hamburg, 1728)
 Præludium et Fuga ex A, LübWV 16/1&2 (Klavier)
 Suite ex Gb, LübWV 17 (Klavier)
 Chaconne. Lobt Gott ihr Christen allzugleich ex F, LübWV 18 (Orgel oder Clavier)
 Præludium ex D und Ciaconne ex Db V. L. le Perre, LübWV 19/1&2 (Orgel oder Clavier)
 Chacon ex A cis, LübWV 20 (Clavier)
 Suite ex A, LübWV 21 (Clavier)
 March et Menuet ex F V. L. le Perre, LübWV 22/1&2 (Clavier)
 Ach wir armen Sünder, LübWV deest

Literatur
 Klaus Beckmann: Die Norddeutsche Schule. Orgelmusik im protestantischen Norddeutschland zwischen 1517 und 1755. Teil II Blütezeit und Verfall 1620–1755. Schott, Mainz 2009
 James P. Fairleigh: The Organ Music of Vincent Lübeck. In: The Diapason 82, 1991, 4, , S. 12–14.
 Harald Richert: Arp Schnitger und Vincent Lübeck in unserer Heimat. In Lichtwark-Heft Nr. 64. Hrsg.: Bezirksamt Bergedorf, Bergedorf, 1999. Siehe jetzt: Verlag HB-Werbung, Hamburg-Bergedorf, .
 Stephen Rose: A Lübeck music auction, 1695. In: Schütz-Jahrbuch 30, 2008, , S. 171–190.
 Paul Rubardt: Vincent Lübeck. Sein Leben, seine Werke, nebst Nachrichten über seine Familie und Beiträge zur Geschichte der Kirchenmusik in Stade und Hamburg im 17. und 18. Jahrhundert. Dissertation, Universität Leipzig 1922.
 Paul Rubardt: Vincent Lübeck. Ein Beitrag zur Geschichte norddeutscher Kirchenmusik im 17. und 18. Jahrhundert. In: Archiv für Musikwissenschaft. 6, 1924, , S. 450–470.

 Wolfram Syré: Vincent Lübeck. Leben und Werk. Lang, Frankfurt am Main u. a. 2000, ISBN 3-631-36423-7 (Europäische Hochschulschriften, Reihe 36: Musikwissenschaft, Band 205; zugleich: Chemnitz, Zwickau, Techn. Univ., Diss., 2000).

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In this new edition Graham Priest expands his discussion to cover the subjects of algorithms and axioms, and proofs in mathematics.
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Names and quantifiers is nothing something?
Descriptions and existencedid the Greeks worship Zeus?
Selfreference what is this chapter about?
Necessity and possibility what will be must be?
Conditionals whats in an if ?
The future and the past is time real?
Identity and change is anything ever the same?
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Let's talk about clinical depression.
Heads up. I'm about to discuss some heavy stuff in this article, namely disability, depression, and suicidal thoughts. I am not at risk of self harm now, but I'm finally ready to discuss my fight with clinical depression. If you would rather not read about that, this is not the article for you.
Did I mention I was diagnosed with major (clinical) depression?
Yep. I can add that to my list of disorders now. I guess I should explain what happened there. It's not something I have written about here yet because it's just so dark and uncomfortable to talk about, but I feel like I'm at the point now where I can be open about it. Mental illness is so stigmatized in society, I suppose I was a little embarrassed to discuss it. I strongly feel that it will remain a taboo topic until people normalize it, so here goes nothing.
I had mentioned before that I was applying for disability. It has been a long and drawn out process, and felt absolutely hopeless at times. I have a good lawyer with a good track record, but he is ruthlessly blunt, and isn't afraid to call out someone who he suspects is trying to cheat the system and get disability when they don't really need it. I completely understand and respect that, but at one point I was on the receiving end of his sharp accusations. About six months or so ago, having been growing bored with my life considering I can't work and there isn't much I can do to busy my hopelessly ambitious mind, I asked him if I would be allowed to take some college classes.
Back in the spring of 2017, I took a social media marketing class. It was just something to do. One of my friends was in the class and invited me to join him, offering to let me carpool there and back with him. My parents pitched in to cover the $600 bill as an epic birthday present, and I passed the class with flying colors. My friend and I became well acquainted with our teacher, and we stayed in touch. She was so impressed with my work ethic and drive to learn, she encouraged me to take her classes on web and video game design. I had confided in her about my health conditions, and she was sympathetic to my struggles, so I wasn't anxious about taking her classes. I knew that if I was struggling, she would accomodate me.
When I talked to my lawyer about it, however, his attitude towards me became suddenly cold and sharp. He told me that I can't take any classes. If I can go to school, the disability office will assume I am able to work. "If you think you can handle going to school, that's great. we can drop your case and you can do that instead." He said, matter-of-factly, in a way that felt like an accusation. "It's a good thing not to be disabled." He added as a second condescending blow. It felt as though he thought I was a fraud, claiming that I am disabled when I can obviously do normal things like getting an education. I explained that I do have health conditions that hold me back, and I knew there was a high chance I would fail the classes because I would inevitably miss some days, but I was bored with my life and I wanted to at least try, for the sake of my mental health.
He suggested that if I were to go ahead and try to go to school, failure would actually help my disability case. I understood his point, but doing that would incur such a large financial burden on me while Justin and I are already struggling to stay above water, and I didn't want to make my disability case drag on for any longer than it was going to already. It's apparent that I am indeed disabled, chasing pipe dreams of successfully completing college without major health repercussions would only be a sick joke with my failure as the punchline. Can you imagine how pathetic that would make me feel? I couldn't bring myself to risk putting us in so much debt so I could have an expensive hobby.
I was faced with a choice; give up on hopes of an education, at least for now, or stay quiet and complacent doing nothing to enrich my bored mind but in doing so ensure financial stability for the rest of my life when my disability case is won.
It was a crushing blow to me. I left his office in tears, telling him that I couldn't take that financial risk and insisting that I was only looking for something to make my life less stagnant and isolated. I did see what I believe to be quiet pain on his face when he realized how much that had broken me, but he didn't have anything comforting to say. I left his office, and told my fiancee, Justin, to take me to a mental health clinic not far from our home.
I wanted to die. I sincerely wanted my life to be over in that moment, and the realization of that terrified me. I was doing my best to keep those thoughts at bay, and went into the clinic with hopes that they would be able to help me. I remember sitting in the lobby, filling out the paperwork to be seen. Justin sat quietly next to me, worried and late for work, but not about to leave my side. A radio played a local top hits station. The music was too upbeat and mainstream, and felt surreal considering the state of mind I was in. After I filled out the paperwork, I sat there, trying to force reassuring smiles at Justin while clutching tissues in my hands and wiping away the tears that wouldn't stop coming, shaking and doing my best not to start ugly crying in the middle of the open lobby. I remember feeling like such a melodramatic idiot, but I knew that going home without taking steps to get help would be dangerous. I didn't want to hurt my family by killing myself, but I felt so worthless and helpless, I knew that I needed help. I was afraid of what I might do if I was left alone in that despair.
My name was called, and I went to meet the therapist who would evaluate me. I was diagnosed with major (clinical) depression, and they scheduled a meeting with my new therapist, Julie. There was something about just having the plan to get help that seemed to alleviate the immediate sense of danger I was feeling. They told me I could go home, so I did. I had gone in fully expecting that I might be checked in for observation, but that wasn't the case. It was a relief, but I remember still being afraid to be alone with my thoughts, so I let myself go straight to bed when I got home, even though it was still early in the day. I was still quite depressed when I woke up, but it wasn't as bad. I felt a lot better after a couple of days went by.
Julie turned out to be pretty awesome. To be honest, I was pretty nervous about meeting with her. I had spoken with therapists in the past, and I never really clicked with any of them. One kept pushing me to apply for more jobs, which only made me feel worse because I had already tried working twice before and my health forced me to have to quit both times. It was pretty clear that I can't obtain gainful employment, and my endocrinologist at the time backed me on that. Julie was different. She was easy to talk to, and seemed to genuinely care about what I was going through. I knew she had a massive caseload of clients like myself, but she never made me feel like I was just another part of her job. She listened actively and helped as much as she knew how, and helped me learn how to work through the tough emotions I had been struggling to sort through on my own.
It was determined that my depression was likely a product of hormonal imbalances as much as emotional trauma from living with a debilitating illness along with grappling with the social stigmas and harsh misjudgments attached to that.
Because my Panhypopituitarism was determined to be the main cause of my depression, they decided against prescribing any psychoactive medications and instead encouraged me to work closely with my endocrinologist to balance my hormone levels properly while seeing my therapist regularly to work through the emotional traumas that made up the other half of my depression.
During this time, I decided that not being allowed to go to college didn't mean I had to stop learning. I decided to take it upon myself to further my beginner's knowledge of Japanese from High School and learn more. I am proud to say that now; 日本語をちょっと話セます。しかし、漢字をよく読めません。でも、勉強するががんばります! I became active on a language sharing app called HelloTalk, and used Duolingo and JapanesePod101 to study. In recent months, I have fallen behind, but I can still speak Japanese well enough that I was able to hold an albeit short and simple conversation with a Japanese family at a cafe a while back!
Back on the topic of my depression; I wasn't cured overnight. I still falter and have dark thoughts on occasion, but thanks to Julie's help, I am able to determine when those thoughts and emotions are irrational and stemming from my hormonal imbalances, and I use that knowledge to tame it by reminding myself that it will eventually pass on its own. When those thoughts come as a result of the self-loathing I have obtained from many negative experiences being misjudged and harassed by ableists who think they know me and abusers who just want to hurt me, I set those thoughts aside for later, knowing I could talk to Julie about it next time I saw her.
My journey out of depression is still at its peak, but it's looking better than it used to. I hope that being open about it and discussing it like any other life affecting topic might take some of the power away from it.
As a matter of fact, I have plans to open the conversation further by hosting weekly group therapy streams on my Twitch channel. Starting next Wednesday, I'll be hosting the group chat live from 3pm until 5pm. We'll spend the first and last half hour chatting in my discord channel and doodling on Flockdraw, and play JackBox games for the rest of the time. All the while, we'll be opening up about what we go though, sharing our experiences while also cracking jokes about it (humor is damn good medicine). Anyone can watch and listen, but only people who I know and trust will be allowed to participate in the voice chat and games.
Add my streaming schedule to your calendar, and please be sure to follow my Twitch channel and allow notifications to be alerted when I go live!
I've got a bigger life update article in the works. Please keep an eye out for that one within the next few days! It has some extra details about my physical health, and some good news as well!


In a remote corner of Pennsylvania's Blue Ridge Mountains, a woman befriends a fugitive from Uzbekistan, setting in motion this suspenseful, atmospheric, politically-charged debut After a freak car accident left her widowed, Kathleen has retreated to Pennsylvania's Blue Ridge Mountains, where she works in an isolated corner of the state park. There she meets a stranger who In a remote corner of Pennsylvania's Blue Ridge Mountains, a woman befriends a fugitive from Uzbekistan, setting in motion this suspenseful, atmospheric, politically-charged debut After a freak car accident left her widowed, Kathleen has retreated to Pennsylvania's Blue Ridge Mountains, where she works in an isolated corner of the state park. There she meets a stranger who seems to be hiding from the authorities in his native Uzbekistan. As the violent secrets of their pasts unfold, the difference between good and evil proves more complicated than we might think . . . and a surprising final twist casts Kathleen in a new light altogether.