RECLUSIVE singer Enya, once the victim of a stalker, is turning her fairytale castle home into a mini-fortress.
The millionaire musician has received planning permission to raise the old stone walls of her Ayesha Castle hideaway in Killiney - for the second time in two years.
An extra 3ft are to be added to the fortress-like walls at the front of her luxury mansion.
Another section of the wall is to be topped with 4ft pointed railings.
A castle-like turret will be added to the gates, making it one of the most secure homes in Dublin.
The planning application says it's all meant to "provide a level of privacy and security".
A wrought-iron entrance gate is to be replaced with a heavy hardwood door which would take a battering ram to break down.
The 6ft 6in walls in front of the sprawling grounds on the slopes of Killiney Hill will rise to 9ft.
Dun Laoghaire-Rathdown County Council has granted the publicity-shy singer full planning permission.
Architects Sheehan and Barry put in the plans in December and there were no objections.
The planning submission said: "Our client is very conscious of the architectural character of the building and the design reflects this.
"It is the intention to source stone to match the existing in both colour and texture to minimise the visual effect."
The plan is to upgrade over 45 metres of the wall along Vico Road in what is known as millionaire's row.
In 1998, Enya shelled out pounds 250,000 to increase security around her castle which is a grade-A listed building.
According to the plans, the ESB will erect a new sub-station and this, too, will be fortified with heavy wooden doors.
Enya bought the six- bedroomed coastal fortress for £2.5 million in 1997, outbidding Lord of the Dance star Michael Flatley.
But, with its 3.5 acres of immaculate grounds, the former Clannad singer is concerned Ayesha is too open to prying eyes and could attract prowlers.
Enya is beefing up her security at a time when celebrity stalkers have been hitting the headlines. David and Victoria Beckham received death threats to baby Brooklyn, ex-Beatle George Harrison was stabbed at his fortress home by an intruder two months ago and former Spice Girl Geri Halliwell has been plagued by an obsessed fan.
Friends say Enya is terrified of being subjected again to the stalking hell she suffered three years ago. She was hounded by a love-crazed fan from Italy who trailed her for more than a year and even stabbed himself when thrown out of her parents' Donegal pub.
He bombarded her with love letters, recorded an album of love songs dedicated to her and walked around Dublin with a framed picture of her hanging from his neck. In one letter, he wrote: "My adored Enya, I desire with all my heart to become your faithful and loyal husband, the man who shall be eternally at one with you on an endless honeymoon."
The dark-haired singer - one of the richest women in Ireland - has always been a very private person. She is rarely seen in public and hasn't got a boyfriend.
It was not the first time the 37-year-old millionairess had fallen victim to unwanted attention.
Her brother, Bartley Brennan, said: "Last year, a German tried to get into dad's house. He was convinced Enya was being held there and was fighting with dad.
"We even get mail for Enya addressed to 'My future father-in-law' or 'My future brother-in-law'. It's scary how many nutters are out there."
Note: A Day Without Rain, Amarantine... is it just me, or does it seem like every new Enya release is presaged by red code security alert at The Castle? C'mon, she has to be really over this by now!


What do you get if you mix amazing music, delicious food and 40 tonnes of cider? The answer can be found in a small field just off the A46 in Witcombe this weekend as Gloucestershire's biggest cider festival gets underway.
The three day festival begins on Friday with a special session from Judge Jules with Wiley and Example heading to the event over the weekend.
Festival founders Danny, left, and Joe Pointon with Ciderologist Gabe Cook, looking forward to Witcombe Cider Festival.
New this year are guided cider talks from Gloucestershire's own Ciderologist Gabe Cook.
He said: "You've got probably the finest selection of awesome traditional ciders and perrys put together for any festival in the region or maybe even ever before. We really do have the cream of some brilliant Gloucestershire producers and Herefordshire and Wales.
"I will be giving tutored tasting sessions throughout the day on Saturday and Sunday as well as Friday night so if you want to know a bit more about the different types and tastes of ciders come along."
The Festival has continued to grow since starting in 2012 with 200 cider and music fans at Witcombe Cricket Club.
Ciderologist Gabe Cook, left, with festival founders Joe and Danny Pointon, right, Percy the dog, and carpenter Nathan Young, 2nd right, who made the WITCOMBE sign, ready for Witcombe Cider Festival.
Fast forward six years and the team are looking forward to this year's event being better than ever.
Joe and Danny Pointon festival founders said: "Witcombe Cider Festival is a family-run event with a simple ambition to provide a good time for everyone. It's about getting the mixture of music, entertainment, festival facilities, family, friends and fun.


Today, President Obama delivered a much-anticipated speech to the American Medical Association (AMA) about his comprehensive plan to reform the country's health care system. For those of us who care deeply about the rights of those injured by preventable medical errors, articles like this on the front page of today's New York Times had us bracing for the worst—and unfortunately, Obama's speech didn't exactly cushion the blow.
But even before the speech, a coalition of 64 courageous malpractice survivors from 21 states sent a letter to President Obama demanding to meet with him, and expressing extreme concern over his apparent willingness to "bargain" away their constitutional right to a jury trial.
"Patients deserve to have an unbiased judge and jury, which have heard all the facts and weighed all the evidence, decide if care is negligent and what the compensation for their loss should be. That decision should not be made by political officials or biased medical societies," the survivors' wrote.


In this episode I am back co-hosting the Train Station Fitness show on 96.7fm the Ticket with my good friends George Digianni and Dr. Jeremy Webster. On this show we are discussing 9 behaviors/habits/factors that cause us to eat more. In this episode you will learn how hormones, social settings, and even boredom can, and often will, cause you to unconsciously eat more. Take a listen and then I encourage you to "take inventory" of your own behaviors that cause you to eat when you really aren't hungry. Click here to listen or download on iTunes.
If you have any questions or comments please feel free to leave them below.


Water testing and analysis entails several and varied types of tests carried out to measure various attributes of water to determine its utility in various industries. Properties of water such as its radioactivity, turbidity, conductivity, dissolved gas content, and pH are examined in water testing and analysis. Water testing and analysis is primarily performed to determine the usability of water in industries such as chemicals, food and beverage, pharmaceuticals, electronics, power, and wastewater treatment. These industries have different requirements from water testing and analysis services, leading to the availability of a diverse range of water testing and analysis services in the global market.
The report studies the key segments and driving and restraining factors acting upon the global water testing and analysis market. The impact of each influential factor is examined and the hierarchy of the market by each criterion is provided in the report. The competitive dynamics of the global water testing and analysis market are also described in the report, with major players operating in the market profiled with respect to their business and financial details.
The global water testing and analysis market is driven primarily by the rising demand for water of the appropriate grade in the industries mentioned above. The increasing awareness about the quality of water in industries that directly influence human health, such as food and beverage and pharmaceuticals, is a major factor driving the global water testing and analysis services market. Rising regulatory support for maintaining high standards in water quality in the industries mentioned above is also a beneficial factor boosting the global water testing and analysis market, as is the rising attention being paid to the effects of disposed wastewater on human, animal, and overall ecological health in the surroundings of the disposal site.
The major opportunities for companies operating in the global water testing and analysis market arise in the form of the high unmet needs in the industries mentioned above, particularly in emerging economies. Despite the widespread water testing infrastructure and strict regulations put in place in developed countries, significant gaps still exist. The unmet need is even higher in developing countries, where regulatory support is often lacking in practice or sometimes even in theory. Capitalizing on these unmet needs remains a major opportunity for players operating in the global water testing and analysis market.
Developed regions such as North America and Europe dominate the demand from the global water testing and analysis services market. The stringent water quality standards in these regions have forced players in several industry verticals to utilize water testing and analysis services, providing a strong boost to the market. North America is expected to remain the largest regional segment of the global water testing and analysis market, followed by Europe, during the forecast period.
Currently, developed countries are also major exporters of water testing and analysis technology to developing economies in regions such as Asia Pacific and the Middle East. In the near future, these regions are likely to become increasingly self-sufficient in matters of water testing and analysis. Aided by increasing government support, the market for water testing and analysis in Asia Pacific and Rest of the World is estimated to exhibit a strong CAGR in the near future.


Waterblocks simply replace the aircoolers you normally have installed and for this build there are two. For the CPU we are installing a Thermaltake Pacific W2 waterblock. This is a swiftech design and features a poly top and copper base. Two hose barbs are located on top and a LED is located between them.
Be sure to check out the review on Hardware Asylum.
The fittings are the Thermaltake Pacific G14 PETG 16mm OD Compression fittings. They work on all 16mm sized tubes and feature three o-rings. There is one compression ring at the top and two more inside the fitting. The extra o-rings won't prevent leaks but go a long way to keep the tubes in place and provide even more sealing surfaces.
Our second waterblock is an EK video card block for the Gigabyte GTX 970 G1 Gaming. It will replace the popular Windforce cooler and will reduce the overall card length enough so that the pump/res combo can be installed.
Along with the photos there is video proof that you can install a video card waterblock in around 20minutes including the random joke and witty banter.


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WEB EXTRA: Travel writer offers advice to aspiring authors
By Paloma Ellis Feb 16, 2006 12:00 AM
To be successful, aspiring travel writers need to be determined and must develop their experiential writing skills, a GW alumnus who has been successful in the field told about 70 people in the Marvin Center Monday.
Douglas E. Morris offered some secrets to success in the world of travel writing to mostly students in the latest of the "How Do I Become A ." series sponsored by Class Council, the Career Center and the alumni office. Past speakers include an astronaut and an investigative reporter.
Delivering tips, suggestions and encouragement, Morris explained how students can go from writing in their blogs to getting published – the transition from "fun to profit," as he described it.
"It's growing massively, all over the world," Morris said in reference to the genre of travel writing. Morris, who does most of his writing on Italy, has spent 10 years as a travel writer and has had six books published; he will have two more coming out within the next year.
Some students at Monday evening's event seemed attracted to Morris' profession.
"Sounds like a really great opportunity to make money from something that's great anyway," said senior Rajani Prasad. The feeling was mutual for students such as senior Petra Zdenkova. "It seems like fun job. Not your typical 9 to 5," she said.
Morris graduated from the University with a master's degree in business administration in 1985.
Placing emphasis on developing writing skills, Morris explained the need to create a track record and grow as a writer.
"If you want to be a travel writer and you don't write, it's like wanting to be a basketball player and not playing basketball. It's not going to happen," he said.
Morris, however, didn't make the career path seem easy. His anecdotal speech addressed the difficulties of a career in writing.
"You're going to get rejected over and over again," he said. "It'll take you a while to get there."
Morris urged students to "keep plugging away (and) keep writing," even when the work doesn't get published.
"You're not going to get paid for it," he said laughingly, "but you're going to build a track record."

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Shrewsbury, Mass. - In a shootout that lived up to all the pregame hype, St. John's (Shrewsbury) topped rival Shrewsbury, 42-34, Saturday afternoon on its newly renovated Pioneer Field.
For video highlights of all the game's biggest plays, continue below for some clips from our Matt Siegel.


It seems Oppo is now all set to unveil the next gen Selfie Expert devices. Today in an official message company confirmed the launch date of Oppo F3 and F3 plus. Both the devices as you can see in the depicted picture teased to come with dual selfie camera setup (16MP + 8MP) and will be available across five markets on March 23.
As per the report suggest the Oppo F3 plus will flaunt a 6″ fullHD display screen and will power Snapdragon 653 processor coupled with 4GB of RAM and 64GB of internal storage. Camera section will include a 13MP sensor on the rear side and as we mentioned above a 16MP + 8MP dual camera setup on the front side. The device will be backed by a 4,000mAh battery and will weight around 185g.
Both Oppo F3 and F3 plus will go official in five key markets simultaneously including – Philippines, Myanmar, Vietnam, Indonesia and India.


You will have patients you grow close to or don't even know die while under your care. Some will be traumatic. Some will be peaceful and quiet. These experiences will change and affect you, and there are several coping mechanisms you will employ while processing these experiences over time. Literature, to us, is a powerful tool in helping you cope with patient deaths. With physician suicides near 400 per year in the US, and substance abuse and dependence among medical students and residents above 10%, we wanted to offer more resources to help you in your process of coping with death.
Because so much about what you learn in having death and dying discussions comes from mentors, we asked physicians what books stood out to them most in dealing with patients dying. The most common responses are listed below.
One of the most important psychological studies of the late twentieth century, On Death and Dying grew out of Dr. Elisabeth Kübler-Ross's famous interdisciplinary seminar on death, life, and transition. In this remarkable book, Dr. Kübler-Ross first explored the now-famous five stages of death: denial and isolation, anger, bargaining, depression, and acceptance. Through sample interviews and conversations, she gives readers a better understanding of how imminent death affects the patient, the professionals who serve that patient, and the patient's family, bringing hope to all who are involved.
Palliative medicine is one of the greatest gifts we have to offer folks at the end of their life or during the chronic phases of illness. Patrick J. Macmillan, MD, conveys that message loud and clear in this book featuring sixteen poignant stories of patients who found themselves at the end of life. Chaplains, nurses, social workers, and others play an important role in each tale. You'll meet Grace, who wanted to keep fighting even though she had pancreatic cancer. Her family wanted her to keep battling as much as she did, but eventually she had to tell them that she didn't want any more interventions. While doctors were unable to save her life in the conventional sense, they helped her spend her final days at home with loved ones. She is just one of many brave souls who have fought the good fight but eventually realized that surrendering to death offered their best hope at living with dignity.
This book looks squarely at how patients can make crucial decisions and take charge of the end of their lives. This book is a resource for anyone who fears unnecessary suffering and excessive medical intervention at that point. It helps readers think through and then complete advance directives, and also to take a more active role when they or a family member becomes terminally ill. Through real-life stories and his own experience, Dr. Quill explores what measures a patient can choose to prolong life and how to forgo such measures if they begin to extend a painful death, choosing instead approaches such as comfort care which emphasize quality more than quantity of life. Finally, Dr. Quill speaks out on physician-assisted suicide and why he helped a long-term patient of his, stricken with leukemia, to take her life when her suffering became intolerable. He asks for regulation, rather than denial, knowing that many patients and doctors often face this question at times of crisis.
There is an unspoken dark side of American medicine–keeping patients alive at any price. Two thirds of Americans die in healthcare institutions, tethered to machines and tubes at bankrupting costs, even though research shows that most prefer to die at home in comfort, surrounded by loved ones.
Dr. Angelo E. Volandes believes that a life well lived deserves a good ending. Through the stories of seven patients and seven very different end-of-life experiences, he demonstrates that what people with a serious illness, who are approaching the end of their lives, need most is not new technologies but one simple thing: The Conversation. He argues for a radical re-envisioning of the patient-doctor relationship and offers ways for patients and their families to talk about this difficult issue to ensure that patients will be at the center and in charge of their medical care.
As in all medicine that we study, the sources used when researching a topic can be valid even if it's not in an academic journal. Just as NEJM and JAMA have their place in providing information, places like Wikipedia do just as well when we need a reminder of what some receptor we haven't studied since Step 1 does.
Dr. Tom Townsend, MD is a Family Medicine physician who specializes in Geriatrics, and has over 40 years of clinical experience. He has helped found 3 hospice houses in rural underserved Appalachia, taught hundreds of medical students and residents, been on several national coalitions and committees for advancing ethics and humanities education into medicine, and established and teaches an end of life care ethics and humanities course for medical students and residents.
In the Academic section, you'll find published journal articles Dr. Townsend uses as teaching tools from his end of life care course. In the Media section, you'll find articles from places like the New York Times, Huffington Post, The New Yorker, etc. that he has specifically selected for their utility in opening discussions about death and dying in our changing culture. You will find his comments and article descriptions useful in delineating the specific information you need, whether academic or personal. Some will help in your coping with losing patients, while others will educate and empower you in the process of dealing with death and dying.


You want to walk where Jesus walked. You want to see what Jesus saw. Is it a good use of your time and resources to visit the Holy Land? I was asked the question and took a crack at an answer.
Today I want to take on a question that was sent to me by someone who's seen one of my videos, and here's the context. She's arranging a holy land trip and she was wondering, is it really worth seeing the holy land? Not only that but is it a justifiable expenditure? When there's so much to do in the world, is that a good way to spend money? She's concerned as a Christian that it may not be. So, I want to take on both parts of that question, I'll do that in just a moment.
The question today revolves around visiting the holy land or visiting Israel. I had the opportunity to go there just about a year ago now and rather enjoyed it. I guess there's a couple of things we need to talk about. The first thing is the actual expense of doing a holiday, doing a vacation like that, going on a trip like that. And I know the person who wrote in to me was concerned, is this a justifiable expenditure? We're Christians, we're on a mission in the world, we've got so many things we could give money to. Can we possibly justify something that's just plain fun or something that just is interesting to us? And it will be fairly expensive. I think we can. Now, I don't think the Bible is extremely detailed on how we're to spend our money. What is a worthy expenditure and what's not? It does tell us we need to be generous, it does tell us that we are responsible for every bit of money that's given to us. Or, money is given us as stewards, not as owners. So we use our money on God's behalf. Can that include justifiably doing something like going to Israel? I think it can. And I think that's something each one of us has to answer on our own, according to our own conscience and even just in our own situation. So, yes.
The problem with seeing it the other way is that if we can't do things that are fun, things that just revolve around an interest, really we can't do anything because there's always better ways we could use our money. We could grind down to the tiniest penny. We can't live like that. So, and I don't think the Lord calls us to. We are allowed to enjoy His world. We are allowed to enjoy His history.
So, justifiable, yes. Now, in terms of actually visiting Israel, my first thing would be, don't go and visit the holy land. There is no holy land. We, as Christians, the church, we are God's holy land, we are God's holy people. There was a time when God related uniquely to the nation of Israel, a time when God dwelled uniquely there. That's not the case anymore. God now dwells uniquely in us and through us, His people. So there's no holy land to visit. But there is a nation that is fascinating, a nation where some key historical events happened. So, absolutely, I think it's good to visit. Absolutely, I think it's good to walk where Jesus walked, walk where Abraham walked, right. So much of what we read in the Bible happens right there. The bulk of what we read about in the Bible happens there, centered around Jerusalem, sort of spreading out from there. So I think it can be very moving, very touching, very helpful to see that land.
I would caution though against buying into the superstition. You encounter some odd things as you go there. You hear about people who have decided, I'm going to be baptized again because now I can be baptized in the river Jordan. That's silly. There's no reason to be re-baptized. There's no such thing as re-baptism in that sense. So don't buy into the superstition, as in, a baptism in Israel, in the Jordan river is somehow more effective than one in a swimming pool in Toronto.
The other thing is, when you visit some of the sites, you'll see people really behaving superstitiously as if there's grace to be had simply by being there. Like God is more especially present there. So, I remember outside the garden tomb, there was a man who set up a tripod and mounted a video camera on it. And then he walked in front of the tomb and he knelt down and prayed, and he started glancing up to make sure the camera was capturing him. Come on now, like, we don't need to be doing stuff like that, right. We can go and we can explore and we can just see this land where so much happened, but we've got to be careful that we're not relating to it as if God is somehow more especially present there, as if there's grace to be had by being there. So be very careful not to buy into the superstition.
On the other hand, I really do think you feel something there, you just feel like you're in this land that you've read so much about. You're around this culture, in these key locations that are so important to the history of our faith. So in that way, don't relate superstitiously, but relate historically, and enjoy a really unique place, a really unique culture. And, a place that is key to the history of Christianity, the key to our self-understanding as Christians.
So, is it worth a trip? Absolutely. Is it necessary? Absolutely not. Hopefully, that helps a little bit. I hope you're able to go on that trip and enjoy.


Fall Cleaning! Where to Start.
Autumn is right around the corner, meaning it's just about time to "fall," into gear and get our homes prepared for the season! Before you know it, family will be coming in from out of town for the holidays. Maybe it's finally time for them to see your newly decorated dining area, or new appliances (that don't look very new anymore). We'll show you how to spruce up your flooring and get your kitchen ready for the turkey, the pie, the spooky cookies, whatever your tradition is!
If you have hardwood floor in our dining area, light the chandelier and take a gander at its condition! Notice any scratches, discoloration? It's normal for flooring to suffer wear and tear, especially in high traffic areas. If you have children, you eat here often. If you have pets, they're in here just as often (begging for your table scraps, right?). Consider contacting a professional to have your hardwood flooring refinished before the family comes in!
Sinks, stove tops, tile and grout. Our mothers always seem to spot their filth! Fortunately, you can use a steam cleaner to take care of all of these areas. This will have your kitchen looking like new, and it won't require any harsh chemicals that could potentially be harmful to your children or pets.
This may also be a convenient time to consider having your carpets professionally cleaned. Start by vacuuming them thoroughly, and maybe dust the baseboards while you're at it. Steam cleaning the carpet will work wonders on removing stains (new or old) and unwanted odors. Not to mention, With cooler weather approaching, we might be able to open our windows to help the carpet dry out quicker. Go ahead… light that pumpkin spice candle!
For help preparing your home for the holidays, call The Steam Team! We have the skill and technique you need for your home to look fantastic this fall!


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Q: Slow parsing of dynamic JTextPane using HTMLEditorKit I have the following issue, that I am using a JTextPane with a HTMLEditorKit, and dynamically adding content to the pane. The content can be over several lines, also containing lots of images (small icons). The problem now is, if I insert for example a bunch of text with icons, via:
editorKit.insertHTML(doc, doc.getLength(), htmlCode, 0, 0, null);

The result is, that the images in the html code taking a long time to appear on the screen (~1second):

Question: Is there a way, to buffer the images shown in the pane if it's html code via:
imgsrc = "file:/" + imgSRCOnHDD;
imgsrc = imgsrc.replace("\\", "/");
imgSub = "";

I cant use pane.insertIcon because of the HTMLEditor. Is there maybe to have some sort of container setting it to invisible, adding the content to the pane, and afterwards setting the container visible?

A: Comment by @StanislavL led to me solving the problem, though not the link he provided, it didnt work and I couldnt find out why, the URLs were correct I double checked, but after setting the Cache, the Pane always would show "broken link" picture for every image. So I found this post, with the knowledge of the cache mechanism of HTMLEditorKit:
https://stackoverflow.com/a/27669916/7377320
The mentioned code:
public class ImageCache extends Hashtable {

    public Object get(Object key) {

        Object result = super.get(key);

        if (result == null){

            result = Toolkit.getDefaultToolkit().createImage((URL) key);
            put(key, result);
        }

        return result;
    }
}

...
Dictionary cache = (Dictionary) pane.getDocument().getProperty("imageCache");

if (cache == null) {

    cache = new ImageCache();
    pane.getDocument().putProperty("imageCache", cache);
}

Worked flawless, and it is working now. I also made this change to ImageView for the HTMLEditorKit:
public class MyImageView extends ImageView {

    public MyImageView(Element elem) {
        super(elem);
    }

    @Override
    public Icon getNoImageIcon() {
        return null;
    }

    @Override
    public Icon getLoadingImageIcon() {
        return null;
    }
}

This wont show any broken link pictures anymore in the pane, also no "pre loading" broken link picture too.
HTMLEditorKit:
public class MyHTMLEditorKit extends HTMLEditorKit {

    @Override
    public ViewFactory getViewFactory() {

        return new HTMLEditorKit.HTMLFactory() {

            public View create(Element e) {

                View v = super.create(e);

                Object o = e.getAttributes().getAttribute(StyleConstants.NameAttribute);

                if (o instanceof HTML.Tag) {

                    HTML.Tag kind = (HTML.Tag) o;

                    if (kind == HTML.Tag.IMG) {
                        return new MyImageView(e);
                    }
                }

                if (v instanceof InlineView) {

                    return new InlineView(e) {

                        public int getBreakWeight(int axis, float pos, float len) {
                            return View.GoodBreakWeight;
                        }

                        public View breakView(int axis, int p0, float pos, float len) {

                            if (axis == View.X_AXIS) {

                                checkPainter();

                                int p1 = getGlyphPainter().getBoundedPosition(this, p0, pos, len);
                                if (p0 == getStartOffset() && p1 == getEndOffset()) {
                                    return this;
                                }

                                return createFragment(p0, p1);
                            }

                            return this;
                        }
                    };
                } else if (v instanceof ParagraphView) {

                    return new ParagraphView(e) {

                        protected javax.swing.SizeRequirements calculateMinorAxisRequirements(int axis, javax.swing.SizeRequirements r) {

                            if (r == null) {
                                r = new javax.swing.SizeRequirements();
                            }

                            float pref = layoutPool.getPreferredSpan(axis);
                            float min = layoutPool.getMinimumSpan(axis);

                            // Don't include insets, Box.getXXXSpan will include them.
                            r.minimum = (int) min;
                            r.preferred = Math.max(r.minimum, (int) pref);
                            r.maximum = Integer.MAX_VALUE;
                            r.alignment = 0.5f;

                            return r;
                        }

                    };
                }

                return v;
            }
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Mary Jane Maillet Brownscombe (left) and Marina James, SheDay organizers, at the women leaders event at the RBC Conference Centre in Winnipeg on Thursday.
Winnipeggers love to shout out every little claim to fame, whether it's the Slurpee capital of the world, home to Neil Young's first band, the longest river ice rink, the windiest corner or whatever it might be.
It may be because the city might not have the most glamorous cosmopolitan reputation, but at the same time people understand it is a great place to live and that it is a community that is inclusive with people who are generally open minded.
Maybe one day people will talk about Winnipeg being an especially open and inclusive place for women to participate in every aspect of leadership in society.
On Thursday, the fifth annual SHEday event was held with about 1,700 people, mostly women, spending a stress-free day filled with presentations about courage, achievement and mutual support from the likes of underwater explorer Jill Heinerth, chairwoman of the RBC board Kathleen Taylor and movie and TV producer Lisa Meeches.
The co-founders of SHEday, Marina James and Mary Jane Maillet Brownscombe, are veteran leaders in the business community and the focus of the event is business oriented with little to no emphasis on the harder-edged rhetoric of political feminism.
While there are some very serious and complex issues of gender balance and equality that society at large is dealing with these days, the SHEday venue is framed to be accessible. Certainly there is an inspirational element to it all, and maybe even some instruction, but mostly it's just about the reality that women can and should be in the thick of things.
"The idea is to bring women together to support women's inclusion in the economy and to talk about their leadership journey," said Marina James, the current CEO of Winnipeg Realtors Association and chairwoman of Manitoba Hydro.
The event has quadrupled in attendance from the 400 who attended the first one in 2015, with big-time corporate sponsorship from the likes of RBC, Great-West Life, Wawanesa Insurance, Rogers and CN.
The founders talk about holding similar events in other cities and Maryam Monsef, the federal minister of status of women who attended Thursday, wants to meet with James and Brownscombe in Ottawa to share ideas.
James and Brownscombe formed an entity called SheAccelerator Inc. to establish an on-going presence. And even though it's not hard to imagine how SHEday could become a lucrative commercial franchise, tickets for the event are $75 for the day (breakfast and lunch included) and the idea is to break even.
SHEday has a welcoming but sober tone — fitting for a city that may not have many female corporate CEOs, but has lots of women like Diane Gray, Mariette Mulaire, Dayna Spiring, Tracey Maconachie and Kathy Knight running important business organizations.
SHEday is evolutionary not revolutionary.
"We like to bring women (to speak) who have succeeded through struggle and can demonstrate the whole journey," said Brownscombe, who recently stepped down from a lengthy career in senior management with IBM.
"Coming and creating a stir is not what we are about. There is room for everyone in the marketplace. There is a need for women to express their voices. Some will march. Marina and I tend to focus on how to tease out the success and help women through the journey."
More and more women — and men and corporate entities — have figured it out but there's plenty more evolution required.
Brownscombe said SHEday is addressing the reality of "a society that has been founded on the premise of a masculine gender business, government, societal base in leadership. We need to help unravel that to be able to show the power of inclusion with women."
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Q: playing images sequentially in ios Suppose i have  multiple frames from a video . I would like to play these frames  in a movie player . These frames can change at any point of time . So it should be like a callback that should request each frame and program provides the frame to player as a response to call back.
Is it possible in IOS?
Please guide me in right direction in order to achieve this.
Thanks in advance
mia.

A: You are not going to be able to implement that type of approach using the built-in movie player. But, if you are just going to loop through video frames stored in PNG files in a directory, that would not be too hard to implement. You could take a look at this code as a starting point. This source code is completely free and does what you need.
PNGAnimatorDemo.zip
If you want to do some more advanced stuff, take a look at the AVImageFrameDecoder class in the AVAnimator (google it to find out more).


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USGS Home Contact USGS Search USGS
Scientific Investigations Report 2009–5149
>> Pubs Warehouse > SIR 2009–5149
Prepared in cooperation with the North Carolina Department of Environment and Natural Resources, Division of Water Quality, Aquifer Protection Section
Characterization of Groundwater Quality Based on Regional Geologic Setting in the Piedmont and Blue Ridge Physiographic Provinces, North Carolina
By Stephen L. Harden, Melinda J. Chapman, and Douglas A. Harned
A compilation of groundwater-quality data collected as part of two U.S. Geological Survey studies provides a basis for understanding the ambient geochemistry related to geologic setting in the Piedmont and Blue Ridge Physiographic Provinces (hereafter referred to as Piedmont and Mountains Provinces) of North Carolina. Although the geology is complex, a grouping of the sampled wells into assemblages of geologic units described as "geozones" provides a basis for comparison across the region. Analyses of these two data sets provide a description of water-quality conditions in bedrock aquifers of the Piedmont and Mountains Provinces of North Carolina. Analyzed data were collected between 1997 and 2008 from a network of 79 wells representing 8 regional geozones distributed throughout the Piedmont and Mountains Provinces. This area has experienced high rates of population growth and an increased demand for water resources. Groundwater was used by about 34 percent of the population in the 65 counties of this region in 2005. An improved understanding of the quality and quantity of available groundwater resources is needed to plan effectively for future growth and development. The use of regional geologic setting to characterize groundwater-quality conditions in the Piedmont and Mountains Provinces is the focus of this investigation.
Data evaluation included an examination of selected properties and the ionic composition of groundwater in the geozones. No major differences in overall ionic chemistry of groundwater among the geozones were evident with the data examined. Variability in the cationic and anionic composition of groundwater within a particular geozone appeared to reflect local differences in lithologic setting, hydrologic and geochemical conditions, and(or) land-use effects. The most common exceedances of the drinking-water criteria (in accordance with Federal and State water-quality standards) occurred for radon, pH, manganese, iron, and zinc. Radon had the most exceedances, with groundwater from 61 of the 69 sampled wells having activities higher than the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's proposed maximum contaminant level of 300 picocuries per liter. Overall, the Milton and the Raleigh and Charlotte geozones had the greatest number, eight each, of water-quality properties or constituents that exceeded applicable drinking-water criteria in at least one well. The Eastern Blue Ridge and Felsic intrusive geozones each had seven properties or constituents that exceeded criteria, and the Carolina slate geozone had six.
Based on limited data, initial results of statistical comparison tests identified statistically significant differences in concentrations of some groundwater constituents among the geozones. Statistically significant differences in median values of specific conductance and median concentrations of calcium, potassium, sodium, bicarbonate, chloride, silica, ammonia, aluminum, antimony, cadmium, and uranium were identified between one or more geozone pairs. Overall, the groundwater constituents appear to be influenced most significantly by the Inner Piedmont, Carolina slate, and Felsic intrusive geozones. The study data indicate that grouping and evaluating analytical data on the basis of regional geozone setting can be useful for characterizing water-quality conditions in bedrock aquifers of the Piedmont and Blue Ridge Provinces of North Carolina.
First posted July 17, 2009
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Suggested citation:
Harden, S.L., Chapman, M.J., and Harned, D.A., 2009, Characterization of groundwater quality based on regional geologic setting in the Piedmont and Blue Ridge Physiographic Provinces, North Carolina: U.S. Geological Survey Scientific Investigations Report 2009–5149, 32 p.
Bedrock Groundwater Quality within Regional Geozones
Comparison of Bedrock Groundwater-Quality Characteristics by Regional Geozone
Appendix 1. USGS and NC DWQ analytical results of samples collected from PMREP wells and NAWQA wells
Appendix 2. Data set used for geozone statistical comparisons
Appendix 3. Percentile data displayed in box plots
URL: http://pubs.usgs.gov/sir/2009/5149/index.html
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Notonomus wentworthi is a species of ground beetle in the subfamily Pterostichinae. It was described by Thomas Sloane in 1913.

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Q: Apply Kolmogorov's $0-1$-law. Let $\{X_n\}_{n=1}^\infty$ an i.i.d. sequence of random variables. Assume that $\limsup_{n \to \infty} |\sum_{i=1}^n X_i|/\sqrt{n \log \log n} < \infty$ almost surely.
My book claims that by Kolmogorov's $0-1$-law, there is a positive constant $K $ such that
$$\limsup_{n \to \infty} \frac{|\sum_{i=1}^n X_i|}{\sqrt{n \log\log n}} \leq K < \infty \quad a.s.$$
I'm not sure how to apply this $0-1$ law here.
Put $$Z := \limsup_{n\to \infty} \frac{|\sum_{i=1}^n X_i|}{\sqrt{n \log\log n}}$$
and define the tail-sigma algebra$$\mathcal{T}:= \bigcap_{m=1}^\infty \sigma\{X_m, X_{m+1}, \dots\}$$
I want that $Z$ is $\mathcal{T}$-measurable (or at least that the events $\{Z \leq K\}$ are in the tail-sigma-algebra, but why is this the case?

A: You should have defined $Z := \limsup_{n \to \infty} \frac{|\sum_{i=1}^n X_i|}{\sqrt{n \log \log n}}$. For any $K$, the event $\{Z \le K\}$ lies in $\mathcal{T}$ because $Z$ does not depend on any finite subset of the $X_i$.

Explicitly, let us show $\{Z \le K\} \in \sigma\{X_m, X_{m+1}, \ldots\}$.
Note that for $n > m$,
$$
\frac{|\sum_{i=m}^n X_i|}{\sqrt{n \log \log n}}
- \frac{|\sum_{i=1}^{m-1} X_i|}{\sqrt{n \log \log n}}
\le \frac{|\sum_{i=1}^n X_i|}{\sqrt{n \log \log n}}
\le \frac{|\sum_{i=m}^n X_i|}{\sqrt{n \log \log n}}
+ \frac{|\sum_{i=1}^{m-1} X_i|}{\sqrt{n \log \log n}}$$
Since $\frac{|\sum_{i=1}^{m-1} X_i|}{\sqrt{n \log \log n}} \to 0$ almost surely as $n \to \infty$,
$$\limsup_{n \to \infty} \frac{|\sum_{i=1}^n X_i|}{\sqrt{n \log \log n}}
= \limsup_{n\to \infty} \frac{|\sum_{i=m}^n X_i|}{\sqrt{n \log \log n}}$$
almost surely.


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6 Behind-The-Scenes Movie Pranks That Were Total Madness
JM McNab ·
For most people, screwing around at work just means opening a new tab in your browser and reading, well, this. On the other hand, when the cast and crews of big-budget movies need to let off steam on the set, the results are a lot more interesting. And luckily for us, there are always tons of cameras around. Here's photographic evidence that the people making our favorite movies and TV shows are some goofy motherflippers.
Harry Potter Gets Whoopee-Cushioned By Dumbledore And Snape
It's probably not surprising that there was some goofing around on the set of the Harry Potter movies, since the franchise basically served as middle school, high school, and community college for much of the cast. What is surprising is that the most juvenile of these jokes came not from the hordes of adolescent pretend-wizards, but from the franchise's respected British thespians. Yeah, you can stick the word "Sir" in front of someone's name, but that doesn't necessarily mean they won't act like a jackass when given the opportunity.
During the filming of a scene in which all the Hogwarts students, male and female, camp out in sleeping bags together in the classic third movie, Harry Potter And The Sea Of Awkward Boners, Potter actor Daniel Radcliffe asked the director to have his sleeping bag put next to a girl he "fancied" -- kind of an adorable PG version of the sort of sleazy demands grown-up movie stars make.
Warner Bros. PicturesThe rest of the kids merely asked to be put as far away from Ron as possible (he slept in the woods).
What Radcliffe didn't know was that Michael Gambon and Alan Rickman, the actors playing Dumbledore and Snape, had a trick up their ridiculously oversized sleeves. Using the magic of deceit, the pair hid an electronic whoopee cushion in his sleeping bag, making it seem as though Radcliffe was ruining takes with his giant farts.
Harry Prrrt.
Radcliffe first thought it was "one of the other kids fucking around," but nope, it was two acting legends with a combined age of over a hundred. So he may not have learned how to do magic in all those years in Hogwarts, but he did learn about pranking people -- a power he later put to good use against the paparazzi.
Get Ready For Bruce Springsteen's 'Harry Potter' Song
Here's Walt From Breaking Bad In A Diaper
Bryan Cranston's portrayal of meth-cooking cancer patient Walter White is one of the most intense performances in the history of television. And yet, anyone who's seen him on Malcolm In The Middle or Seinfeld knows that he can also be goofy as hell. Behind the scenes, this confluence of silliness and extreme drama sometimes collided like two airplanes over Albuquerque.
While filming one of the many tense scenes between Walt and his wife Skyler, the tension was undercut just a tad by Cranston entering the scene dressed as a giant baby. A literal one. As opposed to most screen stars, who are merely metaphorical giant babies.
Sony Pictures TelevisionThis is probably the closest we'll ever get to a gritty drug-filled reboot of Cabbage Patch Kids.
The actress playing Skyler, Anna Gunn, seems confused at first, but soon joins the fun. This quickly goes from "tense confrontation" to "roleplaying night at the White household."
Sony Pictures TelevisionThat's as far as we can show you.
Similarly upending a dead serious moment with his wacky hijinks, Cranston turned a key scene in which Walt gives Jesse a gun and asks him to commit a murder into more juvenile shenanigans. Instead of producing a revolver and asking Jesse to take a life, Cranston produces a pink dildo. His co-star, Aaron Paul, keeps his cool for admirably long, until Cranston goes and squirts him in the face with water. (Or we hope it's water.)
Sony Pictures TelevisionBukkakin' Bad
The weird thing is, we could totally see a storyline wherein Walt has to kill a rival drug lord who operates out of a sex shop and rigs a dildo to shoot acid.
Well Everybody, There's A 'Breaking Bad' Movie Coming
Behold The Predator Dance Party
A lot of key elements factored into the Predators' role as the greatest hunters in the Universe: brute strength, the power of invisibility, and of course, how they rarely ever leave themselves vulnerable by spontaneously breaking into elaborate dance routines. That wasn't the case behind the scenes, though. While filming Predator 2 (the one where Predator gets all snarled up in an LA gang war), a gaggle of dreadlocked space monsters apparently got the urge to boogie, and couldn't stop their pelvises and limbs from rhythmically gyrating to whatever sick beats the 1990s had to offer.
20th Century FoxWe're pretty sure that's the Macarena.
Yup, during their downtime, the crew somehow mustered the energy to fill the Predators' ship full of dry ice and shoot an amateur music video. It turns out that one of the actors in those Predator suits was Lionel Douglas -- who, in addition to being Big Bird, was a professional dancer. He was the one who choreographed the whole thing, and who taught the other Predators these sick moves.
Vanilla Ice hitched his wagon to the wrong early '90s monster suit franchise.
Danny Glover even shows up at the end! And if you ever wondered what it would look like if Detective Murtaugh had a Bar Mitzvah onboard a creepy spaceship attended by only a handful of vagina-dentata-mouthed Rastafarian alien thrill-seekers, well, look no further.
20th Century FoxGlover woke up the next morning with a headache and 15 Predator eggs hatching in his sphincter.
Behold, The Freakiest Moment In Sesame Street History
Witness That Time Barbra Streisand Whipped Indiana Jones
The world of cinema is full of bizarre urban legends -- just ask Richard Gere's butt. For instance, for years, there were rumors that Barbra Streisand showed up on the set of Indiana Jones And The Temple Of Doom dressed as a dominatrix and started whipping Indy. That sounds like the sort of thing we'd hear from our buddy whose uncle works at Nintendo.
We all assumed that any footage of this incident, if it even exists, would be sealed off in some kind of crate full of face-melting Bible ghosts for all eternity. Well, to the delight of movie fans and authors of Indy/Yentl erotic fanfiction alike, a tape of this most sought-after outtake eventually surfaced. It all went down during the scene in which Harrison Ford is being whipped by a decidedly un-sexy, not remotely dominatrix-like temple guard. To Ford's surprise, Spielberg got Streisand to take the guard's place. Unfortunately, the quality of the leaked tape looks like the Zapruder film viewed through a jug of moonshine, but you can tell from the audio that it's either Barbra or a very good impersonator.
LucasfilmLooks like there's a bit of a "Streisand effect" going on in Ford's pants right now.
As Streisand whips, she says it's for all the crappy movies Ford starred in, adding: "This is for all the money you're going to make on Return Of The Jedi." Of course, if she could have foreseen Hollywood Homicide and Cowboys & Aliens, Ford may not have survived the prank. Furthering the fever-dream-ness of this odd stunt, Carrie Fisher and Empire Strikes Back director Irvin Kershner show up ... meaning Disney probably owns all this shit now.
LucasfilmWe're surprised there isn't a "Dominatrix Streisand with karate chop action" action figure yet.
Fisher (who also appears to be in some sort of disguise) kisses Ford, and then Kershner starts directing Spielberg to inflict more pain on the actor, saying "You call that shouting? You call that pain?" It's probably a good thing this tape didn't come out sooner, because it ends with this unfortunate quip:
Harrison Ford: "Really hit me! Really hit me this time!"
Barbra Streisand: "OK."
Harrison Ford: "Don't do it with such ... really hit me!"
Barbra Streisand: "I feel like a faggot ..."
Kind of biting the fanbase that feeds you there, Barbra.
A Video Game Turned 'Indiana Jones' Into A Czech Protest Hero
And Now, Marty McFly As Cheech (From Cheech And Chong)
Between filming harrowing scenes of dodging incest and attempted rape (among other disturbing shit), the cast of Back To The Future somehow managed to find the time for a bit of light fun. While scrounging through the movie's outtakes for any lingering evidence of Eric Stoltz, you might notice a particularly silly alternate take in which Michael J. Fox plays Marty with the voice, and fashion sense, of Cheech Marin's pothead Cheech And Chong character. Why? Because repeating the same lines over and over gets old after a while, and boredom is a strange muse.
Universal PicturesAt least we're assuming this is a funny joke, and not Fox's original, woefully misguided take on the character.
Smoking, swearing, and validating every crappy thing Principal Strickland said about him, Marty strolls the halls smoking a cigarette, which ... hey, was probably totally cool in 1955. In a scene that was ultimately cut from the movie, Marty notices that his mom is cheating on a test, leading to some unsavory language:
Universal Pictures"There she is, man, there's the bitch!"
Universal Pictures"Son of a bitch, she's cheatin', man!"
Universal Pictures"Hey, bitch!"
Universal PicturesSo yeah, they're basically Bizarro Universe Rick and Morty.
This wasn't the only bit of tomfoolery going on during production. In the scene where Marty slugs back some booze while hitting on his mom, the props department replaced the fake stuff with real alcohol, and made sure to capture the actor's reaction:
Universal PicturesSadly, there are no outtakes where they tried the same joke with the truck full of horse shit.
Reminder: Marty McFly Was Absolutely Going to Assault His Mom
And Finally, Game Of Thrones's King's Landing Dance-O-Rama
Game Of Thrones is probably a huge pain in the ass to film. Think about it: When you aren't getting pretend-stabbed, you're awkwardly straddling a nude co-worker or marveling at the awe and majesty of a goddamn tennis ball which is supposed to be a dragon. But apparently, the cast has found ways to perk things up a bit.
While filming the dour business of Tyrion going on trial for a crime he didn't commit, the actors took a surprisingly festive turn. Either because they craved the showmanship of a grand Mariah-Carey-like entrance, or maybe because they felt bad for the extras who had to sit around for hours for a scene with no beheadings or nudity, the Lannisters danced their way into the Great Hall. It's as if HBO thought people might enjoy the show more if actors entered rooms the same way guests come out on Ellen.
The extras get into the spirit clapping along while Tyrion dances like it's last call at a wedding -- you know, one of those weddings that doesn't end in slit throats and pregnant ladies getting stabbed, presumably.
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Ebola Part 3: The Outlook in West Africa
Africa, Culture, Development, Expanding Community, Health, Kyle Chatterson, Society September 9, 2014September 9, 2014 Kyle Chatterson
Health Care workers disinfect a victim of Ebola. Courtesy of Asia Pacific Daily.
As covered in the previous articles, despite the media sensationalism, the developed world is well protected and prepared for any cases of Ebola that show up within its borders. Awareness is so high and health workers in possible landing zones are so well versed in diagnostic and containment practices that any potential cases are identified quickly, contained, and treated or cleared as needed. As of now, no cases have made landfall in the western world aside from the three that were intentionally transferred for treatment. While that may offer reassurance to those living outside of Africa, the epidemic is still raging out of control in Sierra Leone, Guinea, Liberia, and a handful of cases are active in Nigeria. Aside from Nigeria, none of these countries has been able to stem the spread of the virus, and more extreme measures are being forced.
Nigeria has been able to control the spread so far, and all of the cases in the country can be linked to one patient, Patrick Sawyer, who urinated on his care staff upon learning his diagnosis. Thus far sixteen people have contracted Ebola in Nigeria, and the first two cases that didn't have direct contact with Sawyer were reported on August 20. Both new cases are spouses of health care providers who worked on Sawyer. Of those sixteen, five have died, and five have recovered, with the remainder being treated in isolation in Lagos.
The damage is much more severe in the other affected nations. Sierra Leone has had 804 lab confirmed cases, over 900 expected cases, and 392 deaths as of August 24. All 12 districts within the country have reported cases, and international observers believe the number of cases significantly exceeds the official reported figure. The fear and disbelief of Ebola has caused many people to hide relatives, or themselves from officials if they fear they are sick. This has grown to be such a problem that the government of Sierra Leona has made hiding cases of Ebola punishable by up to two years in prison.
Flights out of the country have also been suspended by both countries, and airlines. Aid can still be brought in by air, but all neighboring countries have barred flights from Sierra Leone. With that being said, the spread of Ebola within Sierra Leone has seemingly slowed, and with the draconian measures in place, the country seems to have stemmed the outbreak.
Similarly, Guinea has stopped the rampant spread of it within the country, and is working towards isolation and treatment of infected patients. This outbreak of Ebola started in Guinea, propagating in small villages before spreading into Conakry, and disseminating from there into most other regions of the country. As the disease has been controlled, several of these regions are now infection free, and the area of the country impacted is slowly shrinking.
The CDC's Ebola affected regions map, updated September 6 2014.
This has not stopped neighbouring nations from imposing travel restrictions, or closing their borders completely, as Senegal and Cote D'Ivoire have. The UN has cautioned that restrictions hamper the ability to fight the disease and provide relief to the affected nations. Fear from the outbreak has also had economic effects on countries, as businesses have closed to stop the spread of the virus. The full extent of the damage won't be known for some time though. Additionally, schooling which was scheduled to start at the beginning of September has been indefinitely postponed while the outbreak is active.
Sudan has had a handful of cases appear in the last week, and what appears to be a second strain of Ebola in some of them. This would mean a second unlinked appearance of the disease, although this one is considerably less deadly than the Zaire strain responsible for the current outbreak. Testing is still underway for these cases, but thus far it appears very limited in Sudan.
The final part of this series will discuss Liberia, the country hardest hit by this outbreak.
About Kyle Chatterson
Kyle is a program editor at NATO Council of Canada, and holds a B.Commerce (Hons) from University of Manitoba, with a double major in International Business and Supply Chain Management. While in school he volunteered for the International Association of Students in Economic and Commercial Sciences(AIESEC) in Corporate Communication and Development. He has travelled through Asia, Europe and the Middle East and has participated in business exchanges in Frankfurt, Tel Aviv and Singapore, focusing on global market integration. His main areas of interest are new and emerging technology, social media integration and developing markets. Prior to this, he has run several small businesses and holds a Diplome de Cuisine from Le Cordon Bleu. You can follow him on Twitter @kychatt.	View all posts by Kyle Chatterson →
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