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St Andrew's Day undoubtedly was one of the main celebrations in the annual events calendar of the Scots abroad. On equal footing stood, however, the celebration of Burns Night in honour of Scotland's national bard, Robert Burns. Burns societies and clubs were formed all around the world to organise events, and it was their activities that contributed to making Robert Burns a central Scottish Diaspora icon.
Burns celebrations have their origin in early nineteenth century Scotland. The years when the Burns cult first developed in Scotland were a time of great change. Early nineteenth-century Scottish society was a society in upheaval: industrialisation and the associated modernisation processes brought major dislocation. As a result, many people tried to hold on to their accustomed ways of life and familiar traditions, with strenuous efforts being made to protect Scottish society from corruption. Such attempts partly explain why early and mid-nineteenth century Scotland was characterised by what Finlay has described as 'Highlandism and tartanry, the romanticisation of the Scottish past, the sentimentalisation of rural life'. Although such romantic notions of Scottishness have been critically discussed, they clearly fulfilled an important function in maintaining some level of continuity and distinctiveness, an important component in the making of a nation and national consciousness. Burns was crucial because he represented, both in his work and as a person, traditional Scottish virtues and a pure and uncompromised version of Scotland and its rural past. The poet, in fact, practically safeguarded aspects of Scottish life. If placed within this context, Burns was more than Scotland's national poet, a literary presence who had to be celebrated; he became a symbol of Scottish national identity and helped to secure it. This important point explains why celebrations of Burns developed relatively quickly after his death, and then spread so quickly throughout the Scottish Diaspora. So let's explore the nature of Burns anniversary celebrations among the Scots abroad.
Burns dinners in the Scottish Diaspora followed the traditional core patterns that had been established after Burns's death in Scotland, the evening being organised around various toasts and the actual dinner. Scottish songs would be sung between the toasts, with 'Auld Land Syne' to conclude the proceedings. The central element of all Burns anniversary celebrations was the toast to the immortal memory of Robert Burns, which commonly described the poet to sufficiently 'warm the heart of every Scotchmen'; he was the poet of 'Scottish feeling and sentiment'. The view of Burns as a patriot had been fostered by Burns's own commitment to Scotland, a devotion that shines through in his poems and letters. Scots, Simpson argues, 'have found in Burns a compensation for the loss of nationhood'. Invoking the memory of Burns could be a means of compensation and explains why 'Scotchmen paid such homage to the memory of Burns'. He became a symbol and connector who, with his poems, 'was able to knit the hearts of Scottish people together'. This notion is underscored by the fact that Burns was considered to 'comprise in himself every variety of the Scottish character'. Accordingly, as one speaker at a dinner argued, to 'do honour to the memory of Burns … [is to] do honour to the land of our birth, which the poet has rendered classic … And well may we Scotchmen be proud of Burns, for he loved Scotland'. In his function as a connector, Burns was primarily used, as the Secretary of the Dunedin Burns Club reveals in a letter to the Secretary of the Highland Society of New South Wales reveals,
[t]o popularise our grand Scottish music and songs, and in helping to instil in children of Scotsmen a love for the land of their fathers, its splendid traditions, and a pride in their Scottish blood. [Burns] taught Scottish men and women to glory in their nationality, taught them to believe in the Brotherhood of man and he has taught millions who have never seen Scotland's hills and glens. . . the best feelings of our humanity.
The idea that Burns represented Scotland made him a potent symbolic marker of ethnic distinctiveness.
The bill of fare on most occasions included traditional Scottish dishes such as neeps and tatties, shortbread or haggis. As a reporter from the Otago Witness noted, '[t]he national dishes of Scotland were not forgotten, and at each end of the table a noble haggis maintained its pride of place, the dish immortalised by the great poet, by his address to it as the Great chieftain o' the puddin' race. The sheepshead, too, smoked on the board, with other dishes solid and savoury.' The haggis was popular and 'greatly in request', specifically chosen with a range of other dishes to reflect the Scottish traditional, the national, cuisine. The partaking of a typical Scottish dish, preferably 'washed down by a liquid equally Scottish', was a communal activity that not only demonstrated 'the love with which the Scotch in this country [New Zealand] clung to the memory of the Old Country', but also helped to foster a spirit of solidarity. If it is acknowledged that national dishes are not simply food items, but in fact bearers of national culture, their semi-ritual consumption adds another dimension. Foodways are important for the production of ethnic identity and a locus for memory. They served as another distinct marker of ethnicity and communal glue, further providing continuity with the past.
As a result, many Burns anniversary guests saw themselves as united in their longings for the old homeland. As a Mr Hibbard observed in 1870, '… [t]hough many years absent from my native land, I am heart and soul a Scotchman. Scotland is to me the bright spot in the distance'. The distance from Scotland, both physical and temporal, seems to have had no particular relevance for those attending the dinners. As a Mr Church observed at the same dinner:
Whatever others may feel, I feel it an honour to take part in an event that appeals so directly to our sentiments of patriotism, and that recalls so vividly to our mind the scenes and associations of the land of our birth. I do not look upon this festival to the memory of Burns as an idle and useless ceremony as some do, but as a re-union at which some of the finest sensibilities of our nature may be aroused and quickened. Amongst these I give a high place to the love of our native country, a sentiment that has proved the root of much that is noble and excellent in the history of the nations of the earth.
Mr Church was proud of his Scottishness, going on to note the important contributions Scots had made all over the world, where Burns Night celebrations continue to be held to this day.
Tanja Bueltmann, '"The Image of Scotland which We Cherish in Our Hearts": Burns Anniversary Celebrations in Colonial Otago', Immigrants & Minorities, 30:1 (2012), pp. 78-97.
Finlay & Simpson chapters in K. Simpson (ed.), Love and Liberty: Robert Burns – A Bicentenary Celebration (East Linton: Tuckwell Press, 1997).
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When PM Lee Hsien Loong made his speech during the National Rally Day last year, he touched on the need to switch to cashless payments. Going cashless will mean not needing to carry too much cash or having to provide exact change.
There are several cashless options offered that cover almost every possible need you have. Have a look at some of the choices open to you. Take the plunge towards "conveniently cashless".
It started in 1985 and is possibly the oldest system out there. It is the most widely accepted form of cashless payments. You simply swipe your card for your purchases at a merchant and the money is automatically debited from your account.
Now you can forget your wallet at home and not have to worry. Why? Because the NETSPay mobile application allows you to, essentially, carry every card you own with you. Make payments using POSB, DBS, or UOB NETS bank cards.
All you have to do is download the app, register NETS bank cards, and you're good to go! Scan QR codes or simply tap your phone at payment terminals, it's as simple as that!
These contactless cards offered by Mastercard or Visa are convenient and easy to use. You don't need a PIN or a signature to transact. If your card/device is contactless-enabled, simply tap it on the machine, wait for the green light, and we're in business!
You will be able to use contactless devices or cards at a wide range of outlets, such as, grocery stores, retail stores, and fast food restaurants. You can even use this service for taxis and some vending machines.
This is your go-to service for using public transport. Again, like the contactless cards, you simply have to keep your card sufficiently recharged and you just tap and go. Besides making your travel on buses and trains smoother, these cards can also be used at retail outlets, government services, or dining.
If you drive, you probably know that the NETS CashCard is the most widely accepted payment at car parks. You can also use the card at retail outlets, however, its use is somewhat limited here.
A more modern take on the NETS CashCard is NETS FlashPay. You can use this service to pay for public buses, MRT, LRT, or the SMRT taxi. You could even make purchases at supermarkets, food courts, and some hawker centres.
Introduced on 10 July 2017, this fund transfer system makes life easy for retail customers. It allows you to both receive and send funds (Singapore dollars) instantly using your mobile device. If you are sending money to someone, you don't need to know their bank or account details. PayNow is available 24/7, throughout the year.
You can use this online service to digitally transfer funds while making an online purchase or using your mobile device to physically purchase stuff. To enable your mobile device, you simply link your credit or debit card to the app. Some popular e-wallets include, Android Pay, Samsung Pay, and Apple Pay.
While there are several cashless options, perhaps one of the most popular one these days is your good old mobile phone. The number of services that are either aligned with your mobile device or can work through your mobile device is vast and growing.
You can connect your phone to your bank account, mobile wallet, credit or debit card, or an app that offers a payment service. And doing this means no hassle of carrying change, no worries about counterfeit currency, you won't have to carry large amounts of cash! The list is almost endless.
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Summary: Harry is resorted into Slytherin House and as a result, his formed best friend turns on him. With the support of his new house-mates, Hermione Granger, and a certain Potions Master, Harry decides to pursue a career in the education of your wizards. Along the way, he learns more about himself and the people around him than he ever believed.
Summary: The Marauders travel through time to Harry's present day, only to discover that he is romantically involved with the one person they all hate.
Summary: Finally sorted into the correct house, Harry finds himself feeling at home in the Dungeons.
Summary: Following the abrupt exit of one Harry Potter, Professor Snape finds himself standing alone in his office, reeling from all that he has learned.


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Twitter erupts as detective Nathan West's days in Port Charles come to a close
Ryan says goodbye to 'General Hospital.' (Image via GH fans/YouTube screencap).
Spoilers say Ryan Paevey is experiencing backlash because he chose to leave 'General Hospital.'
January 30, 2018 at 4:56 PM Tue 30 Jan 2018 04:56:46 PM EST
Ryan Paevey has already moved on to greener pastures after "General Hospital." - Video
Spoiler alerts from Celeb Dirty Laundry indicate that some "General Hospital" fans are taking the departure of Ryan Paevey personally. They are attacking him on Twitter but the actor has been quick to counter the disparaging comments. His days as Detective Nathan West are coming to a close and some viewers are protesting way too much and allowing their claws to show. He is taking it all in stride because his last episodes have been taped.
At the end of Tuesday's episode, Maxie watched her husband flatline which may possibly indicate that for those who are faithfully watching, this may be the end of the line.
Paevey has already moved on to greener pastures
Ryan Paevey has been moonlighting by taking roles in Hallmark Channel movies for quite some time. He is rumored to be leaving "General Hospital" to pursue his career in other areas and he is not the first soap star to do so.
It's natural for soap fans to feel some kind of way when a favorite actor decides to leave, but Twitter erupting with such negativity indicates how people will type and tweet things they would not say to someone's face.
On Tuesday, as his wife was by his side, Nathan came out of the coma long enough to say "I love you, Maxie," and then he flatlined. Whatever happens on air, Ryan Paevey did not renew his contract and his character's days in Port Charles are over.
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Spoilers say it's possible that he will not die and may be taken somewhere to protect him from his crazy father. CDL also teased that Nathan could fake his own death and send for his wife and child later. One thing is certain, however, and that is the fact that spoilers say Paevey has already moved on to greener pastures.
Don't close the door on Detective Nathan West
One reason that Nathan's death is resounding so hard, is because of the way his character was developed.
Initially, he was just a guy who showed up at Maxie's front door and later became her lover. Later, there was uncertainty as to whether or not Ms. Jones would choose Detective West or go back to Spinelli. Next, there was the issue of finding out that Liesl was his mother and Nina his cousin rather than his sister. Through all of these changes, we saw a bromance develop in Port Charles with Nathan and Dante Falconeri.
Unfortunately, twice when Kirsten Storms was on hiatus from "General Hospital," her TV husband had to work with two different actresses who filled in for her. The third time Maxie was away, his character was involved in the very unpopular "Ask Man Landers" storyline. For some fans, it may seem that just as Nathan was given meatier work, and just as he found out that Faison is his father, he decided to leave, but that's show business.
Fans should not close the door on Detective Nathan West just yet because Celeb Dirty Laundry suggests that there could be a recast, or that Ryan may return down the road.
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It is the second time that it happens.
You already solved this issue some time ago, but now, I have another time the same problem with captcha in contact form.
I noted that in the html source page, the src tag points to helper folder in almera-child folder, instead almera, and there it doesn't exist.
The htaccess file has a redirect, I think written by you, about captcha folder path, but captcha doesn't work the same.
I also copied the helper folder in almera-child folder, but nothing to do.
I think the problem is that path is generated using active theme name, in this case the child theme, and not by main.
This topic was modified 1 year, 10 months ago by agnese68.
yes I know my support period is expired, and I will not hesitate to renew it if I will have other issues in the feature.


My members or our staff are not receiving email – Help From the Hive!
With Membee's Email Log, it provides you a list of the system emails that were sent out to your member. You can check the log to check that the email was sent out to the member and also which email address it was sent to.
An SPF record is a type of Domain Name Service (DNS) record that identifies which mail servers are permitted to send email on behalf of your domain. The purpose of an SPF record is to prevent spammers from sending messages with forged From addresses at your domain. Recipients email systems can refer to the SPF record to determine whether a message purporting to be from your domain comes from an authorized mail server.
For example, when you send out an email from Membee, such as a New Invoice notification, Membee's servers send the email on your behalf. If you were to look at all the detailed information that is in an email you would see Membee's email server as the sender, but the "From" as your email address. Without the addition of Membee's email server to your SPF record your receiver's email system can't verify that the email is from an authorized source and may block it. However, if you include Membee's mail server in your SPF record it identifies Membee's mail server as an authorized sender your recipient's email system can very that it is a valid message and this will help ensure it is received by your member.
3) To help ensure that your staff receive email from Membee Have mail.membee.com and our IP "whitelisted"
This simple change insures that all of the communication designed to help your members get the most out of their investment with you gets to them quickly and reliably.
Please note that your member's email system may "filter" email before it reaches their Outlook email application so it is best that they consult with their IT professional to determine where the best location is to white list Membee's email domains.


As this blog is highly ranked by Google (try searching on "Australian Small Business") I get a lot of blog spam.
Recently,most of the business owner published their product through internet,sometimes from social media and some of them are through blogging or commenting.
Simply put - It is Lazy Marketing!
We can all understand the frustration through the numerous spam e-mails we receive.
It simply wastes everyone's time.
The intention of expert Blogs, such as The Australian Small Business Blog, is to get an insight and advice from the specialist hosting the Blog as well as the professional input and feedback from others contributing to the blog.
Your Blog posting is a small reality check to ensure we all market ourselves in a reasonable and professional manner and to make a postive, worthwhile contribution.
Vague, near useless and ill conceived contributions serve no purpose, but to simply frustrate those with greater care over their marketing strategies.
Lets not abuse the technology and media we have.
Blog spam is actually why a lot of people now are wary about just leaving the commenting system of their sites without any kind of anti-spam protection or moderation plug-in. While I can understand the need of other marketers to hire people to do their blog commenting for them, they should know better than to get those who leave spammy comments however.
But, if you really want to build up your brand or social media presence through blog commenting, doing it yourself would really help. You would not only get the backlinks you wanted, you would form relationships with so much more people who are willing to spread the word around about you. I think this is better than having someone spread blog spam that will end up hurting you anyway.
A good post. I share your frustration.
I get a large number of spam comments every day and it makes me tear my hair out. Thankfully I use a good plug-in that filters a large proportion of this.
Commenting on blogs and social media should be about generating conversations, not just dumping a link. Those organisations who use irrelevant, low cost comment spam techniques in the hope of getting an increase in web traffic are doing themselves are huge disservice.
Good points. And speaking as somebody who does a bit of SEO, the greater irony is that Google and major search engines do not even count the back-links generated from comments in blogs. Major blogging services all insert a bit of code in their blog comment sections which makes sure that Search Engine crawlers no longer follow them.
The blog spammers you're talking about will offer their too good to be true services to businesses. Something like a full staff of six people in India working on your Search Engine Rankings for just $18 AUD per hour (yes, that's $3AUD per hour for each staff). Because SEO is such a murky discipline, most business owners will never bother to penetrate the veil and know which firms are offering legitimate services and which firms conduct so called "grey/black hat" techniques.
A general good rule to small business owners is: if it's too good to be true, it probably isn't. Your best bet for SEO is still a combination of web marketing and PR professionals who honestly optimize back-end code and generate great content to drive search engine rankings. The quality is proportional to the cost.
I hate blog spam, too, Greg and I agree that it is a lazy way of trying to get more backlinks. A recent one amused me though - they were insulting me in their spam as if that would get me to approve their gibberish!
Spammers is one thing, but I find the blogs that have allowed that sort of garbage in their comments to be unappealing, too. In fact, it kills their credibility and I generally will leave once I realise that's what they allow as comments.


Credentials: B.S. (Baby Sitter) Age 4, Bella was the first 'child' in Jessica's married life. However, Bella instinctively became attached to the first human child. Long before the baby's birth, Bella guarded the nursery and cuddled with the baby toys. Bella and her 20 month old toddler are now inseparable.
Credentials: M.S. (Master Sun-Goddess) Age 6, Allie and her brother were abandoned on DausMountain as young pups. Adopted by Jessica's husband, she has excelled at retrieving and will even bring her food bowl to you at feeding time. Loving the outdoors she makes sure everything is neat and tidy around the yard.
Credentials: A.S.C.(Active Super Cat) Age 2, BingBo is the most active of the household and has been diagnosed with A.D.D. The hyper activity is put to good use since BingBo is also loving and loves to play with the her human toddler.


Additionally, Jones et al. (2004, pp. 36-37) propose that assignment essays can be used to assess student learning mid-course and so provide them with helpful feedback before they are subjected to the exam experience. Exams only provide students with a mark rather than specific feedback on their progress. Therefore, setting assignment essays for a substantial part of student assessment is a much fairer approach than one-off examination testing.
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Yes, there was one at the event.
At YCS Pittsburgh, there was a Structure Deck Tournament event. 8 Players could enter the event and first place got a Structure Deck themed mat. Of course with this there were two: Machine Reactor & Dinosmasher's Fury.


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Soviet-Born Star Regina Spektor Returns to Moscow
By Sergei Chernov
Jul. 12 2012 00:00
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For MTSpektor left the Soviet Union with her parents in 1989 at the age of 9.
ST. PETERSBURG — Regina Spektor, the Moscow-born, New York-based singer songwriter, has returned to Russia for the first time since she emigrated to perform in St. Petersburg and Moscow.
"I'm really, really happy to be coming, I'm very excited," the 32-year-old Spektor said of her upcoming Russian concerts in a recent phone interview from New York.
Now on tour in support of her sixth album, "What We Saw from the Cheap Seats," Spektor sounded unsure about her fame in her country of birth.
"I don't know for sure if there are people who know about me or not," she said.
"It seems some people know of me. But I don't know if it's true, I have no idea, because I know that they don't play me on the radio or show me on television."
In anticipation of her visit to Russia, Spektor released a Russian-language version of "Don't Leave Me (Ne Me Quitte Pas)," her second single from the new album, which she introduced on her Facebook page as a gift to her fans in Russia, signing the message "Reginka" — the Russian diminutive version of her first name.
Born in Moscow in 1980 into a musical Russian Jewish family, Spektor learned to play classical piano before she left the Soviet Union with her family in 1989 during perestroika.
"I have a lot of memories: I was almost ten, so I remember very many things," Spektor said.
"I loved my life there, I had a very good childhood. I've always been very close to Russian culture and remain close. My parents brought a large number of Russian books and records with them, communicated in Russian at home, and Russian humor, food and everything remained a large part of my life. So it stayed with me. You could say my childhood was more connected to being in Russia with my parents than to American food, for example.
"Of course it was a difficult change for me, but if you have good parents and you're with them, you're fine everywhere and everything is interesting. They made everything interesting for me. ... They made everything really good for me. I've always felt a lot of love and attention, and that's the most important thing for a child. Everything else is secondary."
Spektor said her exposure to Soviet ideology was minimal as she was so young when she emigrated. When Soviet collectivism was mentioned during the interview, she asked what it was.
"We planted a vegetable garden when I was in kindergarten," the singer said.
"I didn't even finish second grade [in Russia], that's why I don't remember ... I do remember that we learned poems about Uncle Lenin and stuff like that, but in my family we paid more attention to poets, classical music, Pushkin and culture than Komsomol [Young Communist Union], the party or things like that."
On the cover of "Soviet Kitsch" — which featured classic Spektor songs such as "Ode to Divorce," "Us" and "Ghost of Corporate Future" — she was pictured in a Soviet naval cap drinking from a bottle against a backdrop of Russian nesting dolls.
"I came up with this title because it's true that when you're growing up, especially when you're a teenager in New York, you always feel that you're a little different, especially if you're an immigrant," she said.
"It's true for any immigrant; you feel the same whether you're from Mexico, Puerto Rico or Spain. But what was especially interesting with being from Russia was that we had had the Cold War between us and America. And just as there was propaganda in the Soviet Union, there was a lot of propaganda on the other side as well. And people were really scared of Russia, and there were all kinds of stereotypes. And when I came into this culture, I didn't know where all that came from. But it came from exactly where it came from [in the Soviet Union] — from propaganda."
Spektor said that with the cover and the album title, she wanted to confront those stereotypes.
"When I grew up and people found out that I was from Russia, they would immediately start saying certain things," she said.
"Not everybody, but the average, not very educated person would start saying something about vodka and Communism and things like that. And I got so tired of it when I was growing up, because it always seemed a little bit funny and a little bit sad."
"On the whole, I feel that a large part of my personality stems from the fact that I am from Russia, that I am an immigrant, that I understand the language and can write literature in the original as well as the fact that I grew up listening to [Russian] singer-songwriters. Of course, that's a huge part of me. And it has had a great influence on me, just as my music is influenced by the fact that I grew up in New York, in the Bronx, just as my music is influenced by the fact that I studied classical piano, and didn't just teach myself to play. When you play Chopin, Mozart and Bach that much, the music enters you and simply becomes part of you.
"And of course the fact that I am Jewish has also entered my music in a big way. I am sort of a mixture, a mongrel; I took a little from everywhere, mixed it up and am trying to express myself somehow."
Regina Spektor will perform Sunday. 7 p.m. Crocus City Hall. 65-66 Kilometers Moscow Ring Road. Metro. Myakinino. Tel. (495) 550-0055. www.crocus-hall.ru
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Kodak Recognizes Frank Romano with Print Ambassador Lifetime Achievement Award at drupa 2012
Kodak presented the Print Ambassador Lifetime Achievement Award to Frank Romano in a ceremony at its stand at drupa 2012 today. Romano is the third recipient of the award, which was established as a way to honor those individuals who demonstrate a passion for advocacy and education in the printing industry.
Active in the print industry for more than 50 years, Romano has worked for industry suppliers, written dozens of books and articles, served as a professor in the field, addressed professional groups around the world, and consulted with most of the major suppliers in the industry.
In presenting the award, Kodak's Chief Executive Officer Antonio M. Perez noted, "Frank has played a key role in helping us all understand the dramatic shifts in technology that have occurred over the last few decades. He has a unique gift for helping us see how the past is influencing the future, and why that future is so exciting."
Romano is recognized as a leading authority on graphic arts technology and trends, and in 1977 foundedTypeWorld (later Electronic Publishing), one of the industry's leading trade publications throughout the desktop and digital printing revolution. He went on to launch other magazines, wrote the first report on on-demand digital printing in 1980, and ran the first conference on the subject in 1985.
He has been quoted in the The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Times of London, USA Today,Business Week, Forbes, and many other newspapers and publications, as well as on TV and radio. As Professor Emeritus, he continues to teach courses at RIT and other universities and works with students on unique research projects.
"The term 'Print Ambassador' certainly fits when talking about Frank, and reflects his personal and professional commitment to advancing the medium of print," concluded Perez.
Previous recipients of Kodak's Print Ambassador Lifetime Achievement Award include Rance Crain, President of Crain Communications, and The Rt. Hon. the Lord Heseltine CH, Chairman, Haymarket Group Limited.
For more information about Kodak at drupa, visit www.kodak.com/go/drupa.
Published by Will Farrel on Sunday, May 06, 2012
Category: # Awards # DRUPA # More about Kodak


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Q: Override notification templates and put them on classpath We need to customize for example the standard mail invitation template by changing the text a bit. I know this can be done by editing the freemarker template for the invitation that is stored in the data dictionary. This is however not optimal when it comes to application packaging. Is it somehow possible to extend the templates in the manner that they could be put on the extension classpath like the regular extension mechanism?
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Found out that the inviation template for emails are hardcoded in the InviteSender java-class. :(
So I guess we will have to extend that class (and a lot of others) to do this.
Another solution I can think of would be to write a patch that replaces the ftl-files in the data dictionary with our edited ones at install time. Any other ideas?

A: It has been done and has been written in this blog.
In short No there is no out of the box solution for it.
Yes you could bootstrap your files and Patch Alfresco's (that's the most common used way).
You should also consider the fact that changing a template without to have access to the server where Alfresco is installed is a nice feature. With this functional guys who manage/operate/use Alfresco can change templates to their needs.

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MIRACULOUS MULE HOST HACKNEY HOEDOWN!
MIRACULOUS MULE return next week with a special garage-blues extravaganza in East London.
The trio's most recent album Two Tonne Testimony was a standout release of 2017, making Vive Le Rock's Top 10 albums of the year, and they recently tore the roof of the legendary 100 Club while opening for BOG BOY BLOATER.
The band are already plotting their follow-up release with new material being broken in at live shows during the year. The first of these is set to take place at hip clothes shop-cum-venue, Paper Dress Vintage, Hackney Central, on Friday 9 March.
Check out 'Shave 'Em Dry'.
Joining Miraculous Mule on the night are long-serving South Coast punk rock blues practitioners MUDLOW, who are preparing for the release of their restrospective compilation Waiting For The Tide To Rise, due out in April.
Check out 'Mad Mary Lou'.
Opening the night are happening duo J.D. HANGOVER - featuring members of legendary Italian punk-blues maestros STIV CANTARELLI & THE SILENT STRANGERS - whose harsh Delta blues channels SUICIDE by way of an ancient Bentley Rhythm Ace drum machine.
Check out 'Mr Williamson'.
Throughout the night and afterwards, DJs from Stag-o-Lee Records will be manning the decks.
"We're hoping to get our next album recorded before the end of the year and we're using upcoming London shows to try out new songs," says Miraculous Mule's Michael J Sheehy. "It always adds a little spice as does having a great opening band and we've got two at Paper Dress. Too often we've found ourselves playing with bands with egos and bad attitudes which far outweigh their ability, passion or tunes, Mudlow and JD Hangover are exceptional, both bands know how to bring it and will light a fire under Miraculous Mule's arse so expect a night of full on mutated rocking fiery garage blues!"
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Tough road ahead: The Pistons' opponents over their final 10 games are a combined 90 games over .500.
The opportunity and the urgency of the Detroit Pistons' playoff push probably is a lot harder on Stan Van Gundy than it is on the Pistons or their fans.
Most of the players haven't completed their fifth season in the league, their 26th year on the planet or both, so they know no better. The fans who still show up at The Palace of Auburn Hills have been grounded by six consecutive seasons on the outside looking in. It's been seven years and five coaches since Detroit snagged a playoff berth, and when the Pistons reached the Eastern Conference finals for the sixth and (so far) final time in 2008, current franchise anchor Andre Drummond was 14 years old.
Van Gundy, though, is a grown man with more skin in this game than anyone. His dual role as Pistons president of basketball operations and head coach makes this a Stanley Production as surely as if his last name were Kubrick. And he's used to fairly rapid improvement.
In Van Gundy's second season as Miami's head coach (2004-05), the Heat improved from 42 victories to 59 and went from two postseason rounds to three. When he took over in Orlando in 2007, he helped bump up the Magic from 40 the season before he arrived to 52, then to 59 and a trip to the Finals.
His latest team wasn't close to playoff ready upon Van Gundy's arrival as coach/POBO. It took heavy lifting and a roster overhaul to eke out three additional victories from 2013-14 (29-53) to 32-50 last season. This year's climb to 37-34 with 11 games left -- from .390 to .521 in winning percentage so far -- has thrust Detroit into the chase for the East's final postseason berth, but has guaranteed them nothing.
The site fivethirtyeight.com, as of Wednesday morning, was giving the Pistons a 38 percent shot at making the playoffs compared to Washington's 40 percent and Chicago's 34 percent, and projecting that all three teams would finish 42-40. If that happened, tiebreakers would kick in and ultimately determine whether a 10-victory improvement would be viewed as a success or a disappointment in Detroit.
Our guys know every game is important.
Consider how precarious the Pistons' position is right now, three weeks from the regular season's finale. Facing Orlando Wednesday night (7:30 p.m. ET, League Pass), they are at the midpoint of the longest homestand -- nine games -- in franchise history. So far, they're 3-1 thanks to a parade of visiting struggling squads (Sacramento, Brooklyn, Milwaukee). They have just four road games remaining, period.
But things get more challenging after Van Gundy's old Magic team exits the Palace. Detroit's opponents over its final 10 games are a combined 90 games over .500 and include the likes of Atlanta, Oklahoma City, Dallas, Miami (twice) and Cleveland. The Bulls and the Wizards provide face-to-face fate-determining one time each.
The Pistons are 9-10 so far against their remaining opponents and 19-21 overall against teams at or over .500. So a 5-6 finish to 42-40 seems about right, with a whole lot of uncertainty as to whether that will be good enough.
"Our guys know every game is important," Van Gundy said the other day. "I don't think it's a matter of our guys understanding -- or not understanding -- the importance of games... It's a matter of playing well and getting the job done."
Achievement is different from activity, as John Wooden used to say, and while it hasn't paid off in anything particularly tangible yet, Van Gundy has definitely owned the latter. He and GM Jeff Bower have made eight trades in the past 17 months and it would have been nine if Detroit hadn't voided its deadline deal with Houston for forward Donatas Motiejunas over a failed physical.
Two other roster moves were arguably even bigger -- dumping Josh Smith last season despite hefty money left on his contract when the team reached its 5-23 low point and the decision to let free-agent big man Greg Monroe leave for nothing in return.
At this point, only Drummond and guard Kentavious Caldwell-Pope remain from the roster Van Gundy and Bower inherited from Joe Dumars' regime. And Drummond, who has seen Detroit's locker room turn over two or three times since his arrival as a 2012 lottery pick, still is just 22 years old.
All of which makes it feel like the Pistons are ahead of and behind schedule all at once. The playoff drought, the 27-27 results after Smith was waived and Van Gundy's personal timeline will cast anything short of an eighth-place finish as a disappointment. But if you're going by the building blocks necessary for any perennial loser to hoist itself into the playoffs, well, some of the pieces aren't quite there.
Defensively, as rattled as Van Gundy was after a recent six-game stretch in which Detroit gave up an average of 113.7 points, it actually has cleaned up its rating from 21st in the NBA last season (104.2 points per 100 possessions) to 14th (103.5). Offensively, the Pistons rank 17th, same as they did after last season despite a small tick up in production (from 102.3 to 103.0).
The Orlando blueprint that Van Gundy has applied -- four out, one in, with shooters spotted around the perimeter while Drummond dominates the paint -- remains a work in progress, as does Drummond himself. The Pistons ranks 10th in 3-point field goals attempted but 22nd in accuracy. They also rank last in free-throw shooting, dragged down by Drummond's 35.7 percent. If the big fella shot even 50 percent, Detroit would go from having outscored opponents by 48 points in 71 games (0.6 per) to 124 (1.7 per).
Drummond also isn't quite where he needs to be, or where Van Gundy envisions him, as his Dwight Howard surrogate defensively. His rebounding and shot-blocking numbers aren't far off Howard's first four seasons, but his fundamentals (help and rim protection) still need work.
Reggie Jackson has brought talent and potency at point guard -- he has scored 30 or more seven times this season in his James Harden-like liberation from OKC -- but his decision-making isn't any more mature at this stage than most of the roster. These are players in the making: Caldwell-Pope, Stanley Johnson and Tobias Harris, to whom the Pistons still are adjusting after giving up stretch-four Ersan Ilyasova (though they're 10-5 with Harris as a starter).
"It's a good excuse," Van Gundy said last week, "to be able to say, 'Oh, you're young,' which basically means you're not mature enough or tough enough to play well every night. If I were the guys and that was being said as an excuse, I'd be embarrassed. They've all played the game since they were five or six years old. Get yourself ready to play and play. The young excuse, yeah, there may be some situations on the floor you don't react to as quickly, things like that. As far as coming out and playing hard with energy and being ready to play, that has absolutely nothing to do with anything. Nothing."
Detroit is not ready to contend for anything beyond a low seed, but it is ready to learn what it doesn't know yet about playoff basketball. It would be a shame for the Pistons and their fans, if not the Bulls or the Wizards, if that process has to wait another year.


UPDATE: This post is outdated, as of July 2013, I'm was at 58 flags.
Some would say Flagging is a shallow practice, but it's hard to help when you're on the road.
Some guys want 50 flags, some want to go around the world in 80 girls, but I'm a little hesitate to set flagging goals. My goal is to VISIT EVERY COUNTRY in the world (preferably before 35), whatever flags I pick along the way are a big bonus. I may not have an end number in mind, but I will admit – I'm definitely a slave to the flag.
Impressive set of flags, For me reaching the 80 is my goal, preferably with quality girls. i could of gotten a few flags more if i started learning about game earlier in my trip and had grown some bigger balls before, haha.
Thz for mentoining my link, let me know if your up for link exchange, i put yours on my site a few months ago because i love your work.
Hopefully next year we can both add Mexico, Belize, Honduras, Nicaragua, Guatemala, el Salvador, Costa Rica and Panama….
Naughty, you're averaging better than most of us, capturing about 1 flag per 2 countries visited. with just over 193 captureable flags out there, you're on track to have about 100 flags once you've completed your goal of visiting every country in the world! keep up the good work.
I don't really care for counting flags but I want to travel and bang exotic women throughout the world!
Nice blog, love your write-ups.
Btw, you mention the age difference from 16 to 38. Whats the most striking difference between banging girls of so different age?
Question to NN – If you sleep with a girl who either has two passports or is say half spanish half american…does that count as two flags?
Everyone these days seems to be mixed!
One girl = one flag.
Ten girls from the same country = one flag.
do you you have any problem with the greeks !!!!!!!!!


Dear Ladies and Misters, i am member nr. 1891 and i have been to malaysia in the years 1992 / 1994. i remember MS Nayagam playing chess with me with the words come on, lets move the woods.
Since 1994 i still have a balance in the club of about 50 or 100 malaysian ringgit., and i remember the tennis area, where i started playing tennis and the beautifull swimming pool.
I have lost my membership card in a fire, 3 years ago.
Can you send me a temporary membership card to my adress in Germany.
As follows, Bertram Mattes Renchtalstrasse 14 77871 Renchen Germany And i remember the Golf Course which was between My House and the Puttmann company.
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Cuckoos have declined by 49% since 1995.
The migration of millions of birds across the face of the planet is one of nature's greatest annual events. Every spring some species move north, while every autumn those same species move south, very often linking continents.
Although these migration patterns are as regular as the seasons, monitoring is revealing that, for some species, fewer birds are making the journey each season as the populations of these birds, including species nesting in the UK, are declining rapidly.
The latest in the annual series of State of the UK's Birds report includes a migratory birds section, including trends for 29 migrant species which nest in the UK in summer and spend the winter around the Mediterranean, or in Africa south of the Sahara Desert. For the first time the recent population trends for these migratory species have been combined into an indicator revealing some marked differences between species that winter in different areas.
Species, such as whinchat, nightingale, tree pipit and spotted flycatcher, which winter in the humid zone of Africa – stretching across the continent from southern Senegal to Nigeria and beyond - show the most dramatic declines: the indicator for this group of species has dropped by just over 70 per cent since the late 1980s. This contrasts with species, such as sand martin, whitethroat and sedge warbler, wintering in the arid zone (just below the Sahara desert). These species have fluctuated considerably since 1970, but show a less than 20 per cent decline overall.
One of the most dramatic declines is that of the turtle dove with a decline of 88 per cent since 1995. The following species have also declined over the same period: wood warbler, 66 per cent; pied flycatcher, 53 per cent; spotted flycatcher, 49 per cent; cuckoo, 49 per cent; nightingale, 43 per cent; and yellow wagtail, 43 per cent.
Concern about migratory bird species is growing and future editions of the State of the UK's Birds report will contain a regular update to the migratory birds indicator. To understand the changing status of the UK's migratory birds, researchers need to understand more about what's driving these declines. Evidence is currently being gathered from a variety of sources including tracking studies and on-the-ground surveys.
Alan Law, Director of Biodiversity Delivery at Natural England said: "It is self-evident that effective conservation of a migratory species requires appropriate measures to be in place at each step of the migratory cycle. For some species, there is growing evidence of pressure on breeding success here in England. Our focus therefore is to ensure that well-managed habitats are available in this country so that migratory species can breed here successfully; this work involves close collaboration with land managers both on designated conservation sites and across the wider farmed countryside".
The State of the UK's Birds report also covers the UK's Overseas Territories. The latest evidence reveals mixed fortunes for two important albatross populations in the UK's Overseas Territories. Seventy per cent of the world's black-browed albatrosses nest in the Falkland Islands. A population increase here has allowed researchers to downgrade the extinction threat of this species from Endangered to Near Threatened. Sadly, the fortunes of the grey-headed albatross have deteriorated as declines have been reported in nesting colonies on South Georgia, which hosts half the world's population.
The State of the UK's Birds report is published by a partnership of eight organisations: RSPB; British Trust for Ornithology; Wildfowl & Wetlands Trust; Natural Resources Wales; Natural England; Northern Ireland Environment Agency; Scottish Natural Heritage; and the Joint Nature Conservation Committee.


Tens of thousands of Yemenis have staged a demonstration against the Saudi-led war against Yemen, calling for unity among all the factions in the country. People took to the streets of the capital city of Sana'a on Tuesday, calling for an end to the devastating Saudi-led war against the impoverished nation. The demonstrators called for dialogue among all the warring sides in Yemen in an attempt to counter the existing plots against the country. More than 12,000 people have been killed since the onset of Saudi Arabia's deadly campaign against Yemen in March 2015. Much of the Arabian Peninsula country's infrastructure, including hospitals, schools and factories, has been reduced to rubble due to the war. According to the UN, the country is experiencing "the worst humanitarian crisis on the planet." A member of Yemen's Ansarullah movement who was addressing the gathering pointed to the recent conflicts in the country which led to the killing of the former Yemeni president, Ali Abdullah Saleh, and said that the movement does not seek revenge for any of its members killed during the conflict. He said that Ansarullah movement has a series of documents which prove that Saudi Arabia and the UAE have been hatching plots against Yemen and warned that the movement will reveal those documents if Riyadh and Abu Dhabi continue their hostile policies against the Yemeni nation.Saleh was killed on Monday while attempting to escape Sana'a to Ma'arab Province. This came shortly after he broke ranks with the Houthi Ansarullah movement in favor of the Saudi-led military coalition, which has been pounding Yemen to reinstall its former Riyadh-allied government. According to Yemen's Interior Ministry, Yemeni forces, backed by fighters from the popular Ansarullah Houthi movement, are in full control of all positions previously held by Saleh's militias in Sana'a. Earlier on Monday, Saudi Arabia unleashed a fresh wave of aerial bombardments against targets in Yemen's capital in an apparent effort to support forces loyal to Saleh. According to the UN, the capital city came under at least 25 airstrikes overnight. The International Committee of the Red Cross said on Tuesday that as many as 234 people have been killed and another 400 injured during the clashes between Ansarullah fighters and supporters of Saleh's General People's Congress (GPC) in Sana'a over the past month. Since November 29, armed clashes sparked by forces loyal to Saleh, have continued against Houthi forces that are at the forefront of a retaliatory war against the Saudi-led military coalition. Saleh loyalists accused the Houthi fighters of raiding their bases across Sana'a and beyond, an allegation that Ansarullah Leader Abdul-Malik al-Huthi has strongly denied.Saleh stepped down following a 2011 uprising after being in power for 33 years. His resignation in 2012 paved the way for Abd Rabbuh Mansur Hadi to assume power as Yemen's president. Hadi, however, resigned in 2014 and fled the country to Saudi Arabia. The Houthi movement assumed responsibility for running state affairs after Hadi's escape threw Yemen into a state of uncertainty and threatened a total security breakdown in the country, where an al-Qaeda affiliate was present. Later on, Saleh joined forces with the Houthis and the Yemeni army to defend the country against the brutal Saudi aggression, which started in March 2015. On Saturday, however, Saleh officially announced the end of his alliance with Houthis, claiming that the movement had imposed hunger on the country and worked as an ally of Iran.


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The large selection of fiction and non-fiction books, the largest private collection in Lahore, are cataloged on our new user-friendly electronic database managed under Follett Destiny Library Manager. The library subscribes to three major Pakistani English language newspapers. The MRC houses over 40 general interest and professional periodicals that are available for all patrons.
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NADEC Group and GEA signed a contract for the most modern olive oil production in Asia. (Photo NADEC)
GEA received the order from The National Agricultural Development Company (NADEC) in March 2019 to build and supply the industrial equipment for a large olive oil mill located in Saudi Arabia.
This important contract comes in at more than three million euro. NADEC is one of the largest agricultural and food-processing companies in the Middle East and North Africa. The scope of the project, located in the region of Al-Jouf, is expected to encompass 5 million olive trees from a single farm of 3,000 hectares.
The order is the second phase of an ongoing project and will enlarge the existing olive oil plant – successfully built in 2016. The contract is a result of a long cooperation and relationship between NADEC Group and the technology group GEA in food processing, and more particularly in the dairy products sector as well as the success achieved in the first phase of the project. The second phase will involve civil engineering, automation engineering, processes and all the necessary industrial equipment to manage the olive oil plant successfully. The project, led by GEA, accommodates the combined efforts of several Spanish machine manufacturers, which in the end will be configured as an integrated solution – practically a "turnkey" Olive Oil mill. "We were able to offer NADEC a differentiated and integrated solution from the hands of a single supplier," explains Rafael Cárdenas, Head of the Center of Excellence for Olive Oil of GEA in Úbeda (Spain). Once the construction process is completed, this facility will be largest and most modern olive oil mill in Asia.
"The cooperative relationship between NADEC and GEA's Olive Oil Center of Excellence began in 2014. This project is a very good example of GEA's ability to deliver large projects anywhere in the world and provide high added value to customers since not only the equipment but also the knowledge of the process is key" says Alvaro Martinez Regional Head Western Europe, Middle East and Africa. The signing of the new contract marks the culmination of work, a process in which the GEA office in Saudi Arabia and the company's Olive Oil Center of Excellence in Spain have collaborated very intensely. Over the last four years GEA has restructured itself to provide a much more homogenous service to its customers worldwide.
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Well, I'm lost for words. Amber and Paul's wedding just blew us away. The amount of specialness (it's a real word, I checked) that they bought to the wedding by designing everything themselves, choosing a unique location up in the forest and even Paul's emotion as Amber arrived (that she never got to see), was truly amazing.
The boys were super relaxed before hand managing to fit in a little time for some back yard cricket and practice throwing the basket ball around. All boys as tall as Paul seem to play basketball. Amber and the bridesmaids were getting ready at a friends place in Mosgiel which was a stunning location in it's own right. I don't know how Amber survived walking around Grandview because that dress weighed a tonne!
Logistically, a wedding in the forest wasn't going to be as straight foward as a wedding on the lawn, but with the help from a couple of vans and trusty 4WD's everybody made it to what was decorated to be a very special place. They had really thought this through, even sweeping an isle on the forest floor from the fallen pine needles, the little touches made all the difference. Enjoy!


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A Day in First Grade | Let's talk about writing…..
Alright… Let's talk about writing….
I don't know about you but I am seeing a rapid decline in fine motor skills in kids. I have been teaching for 9 years now and every year their handwriting skills get worse and worse.
When I started my teaching career, kids had a much better grasp on how to hold a pencil, use scissors and manipulate small objects.
I'm blaming the "technology." Maybe you'll disagree with me. Maybe you won't like what I have to say but my 6 year olds have more iPad, iPod, and computer skills then they do fine motor skills!!
I can't tell you how many times during the day I hear, "Miss Smith, how do you make the letter e?", "Miss Smith, this is hard!", "Miss Smith, my hand hurts!" And trust me, we are not writing for more than 15 minutes!!
However, give this same kid and iAnything and they can rock it for a long time.
Sometimes it feels as if I'm fighting a losing battle. However, I come with a glimmer of hope. I come from the place where I will not let my students stay in this "it's too hard to use a pencil" place.
The first week of school, we began writing for 2 minutes at a time. And by golly we are starting to have successes. We can now start a sentence with a capital letter. We are trying to use punctuation marks. AND *might I say this is my favorite* we are TRYING to sound out and spell words.
We are no where near perfect.
We are 5 weeks into school and getting better every day.
Last Friday we culminated our weather unit with a full fledge weather day. We read a few more weather books, put the finishing touches on our wind socks, made our dear friend Roy G. Biv, made water cycle crowns, and wrote some rainbow sentences.
Red is like a apple.
Blue is like the sky.
Yellow is like the sun.
Green is like the grass.
Blue is like the water.
First graders hard at work.
Okay. So what are we working on? What are the goals and how are we going to get there?!
Well, right now, in my class my kiddos need help with a few KEY concepts. They need help with knowing where to write on a piece of paper (look above at the huge spaces to the left of his rainbow words.) They need help with phonics sounds. They need help with copying words. They also need help with spacing.
So…. what am I doing to help them? Well, everyday we have journal time. Depending on the day we will either have a prompt or the students will be able to free write. (They also write during Daily 5) I give mini lessons every day on these concepts that we are working on.
And by golly, it's getting easier.
Like I said, we are getting better!!
We practice sounding out the words that we do not know and write down the sounds that we hear! Along with that, we are learning our phonics dance hunk and chunks! This is helping us write words with the "sh", "ch" and "oo" and "ow" sounds. As we add more sounds, the students will get to be better and better spellers.
It seems like a long road ahead of us but I am encouraged to see how much progress they have made in just 5 short weeks. Considering we started with "smng" I'm rather psyched at our progress.
On top of ALL of these things I have been encouraging my students to have 5 star handwriting. Students can get up to 5 stars.
You can get your "I Can" here!
So the point of this post?? You can do it. You will get there! Keep on trying, teaching and loving on your little blessings every day and be thankful for the little victories!!
This is a huge problem. I'm seeing the same thing. Love your crafts.
I'm seeing it, too! Ugh! I love your rainbow poetry…I'm going to have to pin it! My Owlets had to trace and cut out their hands to make a rainbow last week…You'd think I had announced the worst torture practice to date! They did it, but I've got to say…YIKES! We will be doing a lot of cutting to build those skills!
AGREE!! Sad, but true! I adore your pictures! Thanks for always sharing your cute ideas!


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Tackle the world of 'Aussie Rules' football with our exciting cross-curricular Footy Fever program.
Follow the 2019 Australian Rules season with our fun and challenging 48 page workbook full of activities (especially for young West Coast and Fremantle fans).
Students will use the Sports section and the Pre-Game and The Game lift-outs in The West Australian to analyse, predict and investigate our national obsession round by round in real time.
This program motivates student learning through engagement with real life content as the season unfolds. Their predictions will be confirmed or unravelled, controversies will be revealed and dissected and excitement will increase or wane with the highs and lows of the season.
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select a stop_position for a trolleybus.
The editor suggests that it should be trolley_bus wich is not correct.
the editor suggests trolley_bus wich is not correct.


In Brazilian São Paulo, as a result of a violent fire, a 26-story residential building collapsed, Metro reports.
Eyewitnesses say that the first ten floors were completely burnt out, the constructions could not stand, and the building was formed by raising a pillar of fire and ash. Witnesses said they heard screams for help.
In a semi-abandoned apartment building 50 families were registered, homeless people could spend the night in empty apartments. So far nothing has been reported about the victims and victims, but the authorities are afraid that their number can be very large.


As you become more and more familiar with Photoshop, you start to move through the menus very quickly. While many of the fastest combinations of activities will involve keyboard shortcuts, there may still be a lot of things that you do to your images that are more comfortable through the menus.
But you might find that you are often clicking the wrong menu item by accident, which is slowing down your productivity. Even worse is when the item that you are clicking is something that takes a while to load, or isn't an option that you ever need to change. Our guide below will show you how to remove a menu item in Photoshop so that you don't need to worry about it clicking it anymore.
The steps in this article were performed on the Windows version of Photoshop CC. If you elect to hide one of the menu items using the steps below, you can always return to this menu in the future to unhide that option.
Step 3: Choose Menus at the bottom of this menu.
Step 4: Click the top-level menu item containing the option you wish to hide.
Step 5: Click the eye icon next to the menu item to hide it. Once you've finished hiding menu items, click OK at the top-right of the window.
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Dessert from Earnest Ice Cream's scoop shop on Fraser Street in East Vancouver on September 5, 2013. Published in Vancouver Is Awesome.
To close out summer and welcome rainy season, I got around to stopping by Earnest's brand new ice cream parlour for a cone of the good stuff for myself. Owners and dessert aficionados Ben Earnst and Erica Bernardi have been (not so) quietly hawking their locally sourced artisan flavours (made with quality ingredients) at nearby markets and shops (like here) before opening their own scoop shop.
After so many recommendations, I had to try their whiskey hazelnut flavour full of boozy goodness and nut pieces. It was certainly refreshing and flavourful. Salted caramel is their most popular choice with all its creaminess. Vegan chocolate peanut butter was another interesting, tasty, and inventive flavour.
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Q: Spark reduce by I have streaming data coming as follows
id, date, value
i1, 12-01-2016, 10
i2, 12-02-2016, 20
i1, 12-01-2016, 30
i2, 12-05-2016, 40

Want to reduce by id to get aggregate value info by date like
output required from rdd is for a given id and list(days 365)
I have to put the value in the list position based on day of year like 12-01-2016 is 336 and as there are two instances for device i1 with same date they should be aggregated
id, List [0|1|2|3|...              |336|  337|  |340|  |365]
i1,                                |10+30|        - this goes to 336 position

i2,                                       20     40 -- this goes to 337 and 340 position

Please guide the reduce or group by transformation to do this.

A: I'll provide you the basic code snippet with few assumptions as you haven't specified about the language, data source or data format.
JavaDStream<String> lineStream = //Your data source for stream
JavaPairDStream<String, Long> firstReduce = lineStream.mapToPair(line -> {
    String[] fields = line.split(",");
    String idDate = fields[0] + fields[1];
    Long value = Long.valueOf(fields[2]);
    return new Tuple2<String, Long>(idDate, value);
}).reduceByKey((v1, v2) -> {
    return (v1+v2);
});
firstReduce.map(idDateValueTuple -> {
    String idDate = idDateValueTuple._1();
    Long valueSum = idDateValueTuple._2();
    String id = idDate.split(",")[0];
    String date = idDate.split(",")[];
    //TODO parse date and put the sumValue in array as you wish
}

A: Can only reach this far. Am not sure how to add each element of an array in the final step. Hope this helps!!!If you get the last step or any alternate way,appreciate if you post it here!!
def getDateDifference(dateStr:String):Int = {
val startDate = "01-01-2016"
val formatter = DateTimeFormatter.ofPattern("MM-dd-yyyy")
val oldDate = LocalDate.parse(startDate, formatter)
val currentDate = dateStr
val newDate = LocalDate.parse(currentDate, formatter)
return newDate.toEpochDay().toInt - oldDate.toEpochDay().toInt
}
def getArray(numberofDays:Int,data:Int):Iterable[Int] = {
val daysArray = new Array[Int](366)
daysArray(numberofDays) = data
return daysArray
}
val idRDD = <read from stream>
val idRDDMap = idRDD.map { rec => ((rec.split(",")(0),rec.split(",")(1)),
        (getDateDifference(rec.split(",")(1)),rec.split(",")(2).toInt))}
val idRDDconsiceMap = idRDDMap.map { rec => (rec._1._1,getArray(rec._2._1, rec._2._2)) }
val finalRDD = idRDDconsiceMap.reduceByKey((acc,value)=>(???add each element of the arrays????))


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The strange comfort of symptoms
Mat Little
Faced with mushrooming problems of mental ill-health, our societies have masked the problem by reclassifying symptoms as diseases with neurological causes. The task of understanding of how the organisation of society is at the root of many mental problems should be part of a wider effort to connect social malaises with their socio-economic cause. We should not exhaust ourselves in a ceaseless attempt to deal with symptoms.
The pervasiveness of mental distress in developed capitalist countries inspires two contrasting explanations from those sceptical of the somnambulistic reassurances of our corporate media. One is to assert that the pharmaceutical industry, having comprehensively infiltrated the medical and psychiatric professions, is now manufacturing diseases to match the drugs available. What used to be ordinary sadness has been rebranded as depression, an illness that can conveniently be combated by the dispensing of billions of pills to correct a chemical imbalance in the brain; a ceaseless process that coincidentally makes fantastic profits for big pharma.
The other reaction is to contend that neoliberal capitalism is indeed generating a "mental health plague". The kind of capitalism, initially incubated by Anglo-American societies, but now spreading around the globe, is causing an acute intensification of emotional distress, depression, anxiety and personality disorder. Inequality, consumerism and an inescapable obsession with work are combining to produce an epidemic of mental ill-health. Pharma companies are merely cashing in on the ensuing wreckage.
But perhaps these two perspectives are not as far apart as they first appear.
According to the Belgian psychoanalyst Paul Verhaeghe, what has happened to the understanding of mental distress in recent years is that symptoms have started being reclassified as diseases.
One example is attention deficit and hyperactivity disorder. Because a child is hyperactive and has difficulty concentrating, they obviously have ADHD. The inference is always that because a disease has been diagnosed, the source of the problem must be neurological or genetic, and can be treated by drugs.
Verhaeghe says we are trapped inside circular arguments and pseudo-explanations: a person has ADHD because they have difficulty concentrating and are hyperactive and they have difficulty concentrating and are hyperactive because they suffer from ADHD. Breaking out involves accepting, in common with the British Psychological Society and the World Health Organization, that mental disorders are primarily caused by social factors.
This would lead into subversive areas. Can autism or schizophrenia really be seen as social disorders? There would be enormous resistance to this, not only from the psychiatric profession, but also from mental health patients themselves. In the UK, as in many countries, people with mental health problems have to fight to prove there is something medically wrong with them in order to receive welfare benefits. It would be a short step from emphasising the underlying social cause of many mental problems to affixing responsibility for the problem to the person suffering from it, or even denying there is anything fundamentally wrong with them.
Yet, because a disorder is classified a symptom, rather than a disease, a social rather than a genetic problem, does not make it any less real, or any easier to cure. Nor does it mean some people are not more genetically prone to suffer from it than others. A changed social environment will ameliorate mental health problems for some people. For others it will make no difference. But that is not the point. What this acknowledgement what do is allow the integral role of society in generating mental health or illness to be accepted. Then, the onus would firmly be placed on changing society, not altering brain chemistry or patterns of behaviour.
Contemporary blindness
Every society, says Verhaeghe, generates mental illness as well as mental health. Historically, we are quite open to this idea. The Victorian age, with its strict moral codes and repressive sexual morality, produced hysteria in some women and obsessive-compulsive disorder in some men. Our current society generates disorders such as depression and anxiety among adults and ADHD and autism in children. But while we are quite able to look back with clarity on the deficiencies of past epochs, says Verhaeghe,"we are blind to what goes on in our own day and age."
This is compounded by the neo-liberal insistence on the effects of mental distress, never the reasons behind it. "Sociological research has shown a clear link between the current socio-economic system and severe psychological and social problems," writes Verhaeghe in his 2012 book, What About Me?, "The dominant neo-liberal mindset ignores this fact and, instead of tackling the causes, focuses entirely on the consequences: namely, the deviant, disturbed, and dangerous others – psychiatric patients, junkies, young people, the unemployed and ethnic minorities."
The reason why western politics seems so immovably stuck on this and other issues, is that even enlightened critics who want to change society's attitude towards mental illness cannot extricate themselves from this "dominant neo-liberal mindset".
For "better mental health"
Consider the UK charity, Mind, which has as its tagline "for better mental health". The charity aims to ensure everyone experiencing a mental health problem gets help and support and is a member of Time for Change, a coalition of charities that campaigns against mental health discrimination and stigma.
There is nothing wrong with any of this and Mind does important work trying to make sure people with mental health problems are not unfairly affected by the Work Capability Assessment and other benefit atrocities. But if you really want to achieve "better mental health" you have to extend your gaze immeasurably. You have to examine how the current organisation of work generates mental distress rather than mental health, how the claustrophobic inescapability of work coupled with ever-present disposability is a cause of both mental and physical illness, how inequality generates distress, and how the erratic quality of early childhood relationships incubates mental problems that emerge later in life.
And, in these times, you have to confront how the onslaughts of austerity are exacerbating or creating mental distress.
In other words, you would have to delve - as the twentieth century German psychoanalyst Erich Fromm did – into what brings about a 'sane society' and what causes its opposite. This would inevitably take you into controversial and difficult issues, such as how success in contemporary society is dependent upon the fostering of certain characteristics, such as (in Verhaehge's words) "flexibility, speed, efficiency, result-orientedness and articulateness in the sense of being able to sell yourself." And how the lack of these skills leads to self-blame.
But Mind and other mental health charities wouldn't dare approach any of these issues. To do so would take you away from symptoms, which can always be ameliorated or looked upon in a different way, into the dangerously "political" waters of root causes. But because they are controversial and political is precisely the reason we need to go there.
As Verhaeghe readily admits, "finding evidence for the connection between a particular type of society and mental disorders is no simple matter". He suggests that the spectacular rise of ADHD is connected to constant exposure to "information nuggets" such as text messages, tweets and keywords. There is no time to practice the art of concentration. This sounds plausible. But accepting this hypothesis then begs the question of why our work and free time is filled with so many distractions, why we are, in the words of David Harvey, "totally absorbed either in the pseudo busy-work of much of contemporary production or in the pursuit of alien consumerism."
"Always connect", said the early twentieth century novelist EM Forster. But most of the organisations that surround us are myopic when what is required is 20:20 vision. This narrow focus on symptoms is not limited to mental illness. When our political culture can bear to accept the reality of global warming, it becomes fixated on technological fixes that will give a spurt to economic growth. The root cause of the financial crisis becomes lost in attempts to eradicate symptoms such as unemployment or government debt.
Possibly, a compulsive need to always be occupied partly explains the compulsive attention on symptoms, because the symptoms will never go away unless you address the underlying disease. Maybe we want to permanently exhaust ourselves in trying to solve never-ending symptoms. I think Erich Fromm called it the fear of freedom.
Mind Control or Social Control
Will the Disordered Always Rule Us?
Eco-cide in Women's Bodies
Reality-Mongering Gets us Nowhere
Must we be slaves to GDP?


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Lucimar Sacre de Campos (Avaré, 12 de março de 1954), mais conhecida como Lucimar Campos, é uma empresária e política brasileira filiada ao União Brasil. Foi primeira dama de Várzea Grande e de Mato Grosso na gestão do esposo Jayme Campos.
Reconhecida pelo trabalho social, candidatou-se a prefeita de Várzea Grande em 2012 e exercendo o cargo entre os anos de 2015 a 2020, tornando-se a segunda mulher a exercer a função pública na história da cidade, depois de Sarita Baracat.

Biografia

Lucimar nasceu em 12 de março de 1954 no município de Avaré no estado de São Paulo, sendo filha de Nair Lopes Sacre e Zeid Sacre. Seu pai, Zeid Sacre foi um comerciante de postos de gasolina e no mercado financeiro. Cursou o 1.º e o 2.º grau no Instituto Mackenzie na cidade de São Paulo e em 1972 mudou-se para Cuiabá onde cursou Letras pela Universidade Federal de Mato Grosso.

Em 1976 Lucimar casa-se com o político Jayme Campos, nascido em 1951 e proveniente da família Campos, tradicional família política e mudou-se para Várzea Grande.

Em 1982 torna-se primeira-dama do município com a eleição de Jayme Campos. Neste período deu apoio à Secretaria de Promoção e Assistência Social  implantando o empreendedorismo social em Várzea Grande e dando prioridades às famílias através de programas de valorização da mulher através de diversas atividades sociais. Nesse período exerceu a coordenação do Pronav – Programa Nacional de Voluntários – LBA e a Presidência da Creche São Domingos Sávio. Em 1984 promoveu eventos e ações na Casa de Arte e Cultura do município para benefício dos artesãos da região e assim ampliando o trabalho social. Em 1989 fundou o "Lar Dona Bebé" – Lar Isabel de Almeida e Silva, para o atendimento a idosos que se encontravam desamparados pela família.

Entre os anos de 1990 a 1994 exerceu a função de primeira-dama de Mato Grosso.  E entre suas ações foram, a ampliação de suas responsabilidades e objetivos aos demais municípios do estado, implantou o programa LAAL (Liga Assistencial Amigas de Lucimar) tendo como foco, ação coordenada com as primeiras damas municipais e voluntários, entre os beneficiados com esse programa estavam mulheres da zona rural, com cursos de primeiros socorros, hortas de ervas medicinais e encontros culturais. A artesãs teve sua profissão valorizada com o auxílio da Casa do Artesão do Estado. As gestantes teve atenção especial com a promoção de cursos com médicos e enfermeiras ensinando mãe a cuidar dos bebês e doação do enxoval confeccionado pelas voluntarias desse programa. A mulher urbana foi beneficiada com cursos profissionalizantes nos bairros.

Entre os anos de 1997 a 2004 exerceu pela segunda e terceira vez o posto de primeira dama do município de Várzea Grande, dando continuidade a seu trabalho social, desenvolvendo vários projetos que beneficiavam a mulher tais como, padarias comunitárias, beneficiamento de soja para produção de leite direcionada à alimentação das crianças nos bairros carentes.

No ano de 2007, fundou o Instituto Jaime Veríssimo de Campos Junior popularmente conhecido como "Instituto Jaiminho", instituição criada em caráter filantrópico e sem fins lucrativo com a finalidade de apoiar e desenvolver ações para defesa, prevenção e proteção de crianças e jovens na faixa etária de 10 a 17 anos no município.

Em 2012 disputou a eleição para o cargo de prefeita de Várzea Grande pelo Democratas, tendo sido a segunda mais votado com 44.653 votos no primeiro turno sendo derrotada por 47.105 votos de Walace Guimarães do PMDB e superior a 41.168 votos de Tião da Zaeli do PSD.

Experiência política

Prefeita de Várzea Grande

Lucimar Campos assumiu o mandato na prefeitura de Várzea Grande em 7 de maio de 2015, após a cassação de Walace Guimarães e o vice Wilton Coelho do PR, onde tiveram os mandatos cassados pela Justiça Eleitoral durante a campanha eleitoral de 2012. A decisão foi proferida pelo juiz José Luiz Lindote, da 58ª Zona Eleitoral de Várzea Grande, na sua decisão foram apurados R$ 1,4 milhão de reais não contabilizados.

Durante sua gestão iniciou conversações com o Governo Federal, onde iniciou tratativas para destravar os recursos do Programa de Aceleração do Crescimento que dispõe de tratamento de água e esgoto na cidade, investiu no recapeamento de vias e entregou a primeira Unidade de Pronto Atendimento no Jardim Aeroporto. Candidatou-se pela reeleição em 2016 e no primeiro turno, ocorrido no dia 7 de outubro de 2016, Lucimar obteve 95.634 votos (76,16%) dos votos válidos contra  20.662 votos (16,46%) de Coronel Taborelli, 8.523 votos (6,79%) do Alan da Top Gás do PV e  747 votos (0,59%) de Milton Dantas do PSOL.

Segundo Mandato
Em 1° de janeiro de 2017 em cerimônia realizada no Hits Convention Center em Várzea Grande, Lucimar toma posse do seu segundo mandato. Com a presença de autoridades como o governador Pedro Taques, o então secretário da Casa Civil do Estado Paulo Taques e membros do Ministério Público, Tribunal de Justiça, Tribunal de Contas e um público de 3 mil pessoas, houve a posse dos 21 vereadores do município e do secretariado entre eles o esposo Jayme Campos, como Secretário de Assuntos Estratégicos. Na época a então candidata havia prometido um Mercado Municipal, Shopping Popular e praças públicas, mais entre suas ações do segundo mandato esteve a duplicação da Avenida Felinto Müller, revitalização do Ginásio Fiotão além do seguimento as obras do PAC na cidade.
Cassação
No dia 19 de junho de 2017 foi dado o início ao processo de cassação de Lucimar Campos e do vice-prefeito José Anderson Hazama. A decisão foi proferida pelo juiz da 20° zona eleitoral de Várzea Grande, Carlos Rondon Luz, que havia sido constatado gastos ilícitos com publicidade institucional durante o ano de 2016, o autor da ação foi a coligação "Mudança com Segurança" do candidato derrotado Coronel Taborelli, que alegava que a coligação de Lucimar havia gasto  R$ 1, 209 milhões de reais, sendo que no mesmo ano a prefeitura do município apontou gasto de R$ 620 mil reais, ou seja, somados os orçamento da área dos anos de 2013, 2014 e 2015 numa divisão por 3, regra matemática usada pela  Justiça Eleitoral, foram gastos R$ 206 mil reais em média com propaganda em período eleitoral.

No dia 19 de junho de 2018 em julgamento no  Tribunal Regional Eleitoral de Mato Grosso em Cuiabá, houve a decisão de reversão do processo de cassação do mandato de Lucimar e seu vice, teve o placar de 4 votos a 3. Na ação foram mantidos as multas aplicadas a Lucimar, seu secretário de comunicação Pedro Lemos em R$ 15 mil reais e ao vice-prefeito José Anderson Hazama em R$ 5 mil reais, sob a alegação de valores, o advogado de defesa, Ronimarcio Naves afirmou que "Várzea Grande foi a cidade que menos gastou com comunicação por habitante. Ela fez uma comunicação com impessoalidade, moralidade, legalidade. Foi publicidade objetivando entregar um bem público, seja na saúde ou nas finanças, com a campanha do IPTU".

Vida Pessoal

Casada com o ex-governador de Mato Grosso e ex-prefeito de Várzea Grande Jayme Campos, Lucimar é mãe de 4 filho (sendo 1 falecido). Falecido no ano de 2004 em  decorrência de um acidente automobilístico, Jaime Veríssimo de Campos Junior, o popular "Jaiminho" estava na avenida Monte Líbano em  Cuiabá por volta das 02:28 da manhã do dia 23 de maio, quando havia saído  do casamento de sua irmã Gisela Sacre de Campos e estando acompanhado de sua noiva Larissa Neves. O casal foi levado ao Hospital Santa Rosa, mais Jaime Veríssimo de Campos Junior veio a falecer 40 minutos após a entrada.

O corpo de Jaiminho foi velado em sua residência e o velório foi acompanhado por 5 mil pessoas e enterrado no cemitério central de Várzea Grande.

Prefeitos de Várzea Grande (Mato Grosso)
Naturais de Avaré
Mulheres de Mato Grosso na política
Primeiras-damas do estado de Mato Grosso
Alunos da Universidade Federal de Mato Grosso
Membros do Democratas (Brasil)
Membros do União Brasil
Família Campos

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