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Clean Energy / Green Economy / New Development Strategy
The Sun, the Wind, and the Promise of Ohio's Clean Energy Development
by Keith Schneider June 29, 2009 January 26, 2012
TOLEDO -This worn Lake Erie city is an unlikely launching point for Ohio's new clean energy economy. Dark storefronts and empty homes in Toledo, like the missing teeth of a tired grin, scar the shrinking city of 295,000 that once declared itself the auto parts capital of the world. Tall grass grows in the cracked asphalt of empty parking lots by closed factories that once made steel and glass and manufactured parts that kept America behind the wheel.
But it is along Toledo's west side avenues, and in the industrial parks of nearby suburbs like Perrysburg, that the cold lonely winter of Ohio's industrial decline is gradually turning into a new season of economic opportunity fostered by the sun, wind, geothermal, fuel cells, next generation batteries, and the electric vehicles that use them.
An example is the Xunlight Corporation, which two years ago moved into a 122,000 square foot research and production facility on Nebraska Avenue in Toledo to make thin-film photovoltaic cells to produce electricity. The seven-year-old company employs more than 80 technicians, tool and die craftsmen, and line workers. Last month, Xunlight announced that it had developed a state of the art manufacturing process that attaches its silicon cells to flexible sheets of stainless steel three feet wide and up to a mile long. Commercial production is expected to start later this year.
In January, 2010, Xunlight Coroporation received a $34.5 million Advanced Energy Manufacturing tax credit to expand its capacity to manufacture its flexible and lightweight photovoltaic solar energy modules. The Advanced Energy Manufacturing tax credit program, also known as 48c for its place in the Internal Revenue Code, was funded by the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, and was awarded to qualifying advanced energy projects to support new, expanded, or retooled domestic manufacturing facilities. Awards totaled $2.3 billion and went to 183 projects in 43 states. The funding will create tens of thousands of high quality clean energy jobs and support the domestic manufacturing of advanced clean energy technologies including solar, wind, and efficiency and energy management technologies.
Xunming Deng, the Chinese born physicist and University of Toledo solar researcher who founded the company, predicts that Xunlight's sales could grow to $400 million a year and support 5,000 jobs in the region.
"Basically, for every 100 megawatts we can create over 1,000 jobs," Deng said in an interview earlier this year with Sramana Mitra, a California-based technology consultant. "We would like to grow to around 500 megawatts. That would allow us to create about 5,000 jobs. There will be a lot of new jobs with vendors. My estimate of 5,000 jobs includes the entire supply chain. In our plant we would probably have 750 jobs."
New Development Strategy for Ohio
Xunlight's business plan reflects a deliberate economic development strategy that the Toledo region and the state have pursued since early in this decade to encourage entrepreneurs and existing companies to build parts and equipment for the clean energy sector.
The state, through various public and private financing mechanisms, has built an interlocking network of research universities, state agencies, public and private economic development organizations, and business incubators – all designed to encourage entrepreneurs and existing companies to jump into the growing market for clean energy components, products, and systems. The ultimate goal: rebuilding Ohio's prosperity through its traditional strength in manufacturing, which employs one of every five Ohio workers.
While still in its earliest stages, the development of a clean energy manufacturing sector in Ohio nevertheless shows enough promise that successive governors of both parties have called it the most potentially significant economic transition since the internal combustion engine replaced the horse and buggy.
In March, Environment Ohio published Growing Ohio's Green Energy Economy, an economic assessment that found 60,000 workers and 502 companies already involved in wind, solar, biomass, geothermal, and fuel cell development in the state. "Ohio has the resources right here at home to leverage its strengths and grow its economy through clean energy," said the report's authors.
Supporting Reports
In June, the Pew Charitable Trusts published a national survey of clean energy and green-collar job development that found Ohio ranked fourth among states in the number of green-collar workers and sixth in the number of clean energy companies.
Also in June, Policy Matters Ohio published a study that identified more than 3,000 Ohio facilities – employing 250,000 workers – that could easily retool to manufacture components for the clean energy sector. In order to support retooling in Ohio and other manufacturing states, the Apollo Alliance joined Ohio Senator Sherrod Brown in introducing the "Investments for Manufacturing Progress and Clean Technology Act (IMPACT) Act of 2009."
The measure, which was also introduced and approved on June 26, 2009 in the House version of the new national energy policy now making its way through Congress, would establish a $30 billion revolving loan fund to help small and mid-sized manufacturers invest in energy efficiency and retooling to expand into the clean energy supply chain.
Senator Brown based his proposal on the Apollo Alliance's Green Manufacturing Action Plan, which was introduced in April and lays out aggressive steps to scale up production of American-made clean energy systems and components while making U.S. factories more energy efficient.
The recovery bill signed by President Obama in February, the appropriations bill enacted in March, and the budget agreement approved in April commit more than $300 billion to clean energy investment and green-collar job generation. These investments will create vast new markets for clean energy, but "without a program to support our own domestic manufacturers, policies that create new demand for clean energy will just lead to more imports," said Phil Angelides, chairman of the Apollo Alliance.
Sen. Brown Introduces Manufacturing Legislation
Apollo estimated that Sen. Brown's IMPACT legislation, if approved, will create at least 680,000 direct manufacturing jobs nationally and 1,972,000 indirect jobs over the next five years. "The domestic manufacturing industry helped build our nation's middle class and is critical to national security," said Sen. Brown. "It accounts for 12 percent – $1.6 trillion – of the U.S. gross domestic product and almost three-fourths of the nation's research and development. Despite this, the U.S. manufacturing industry has contracted for 16 consecutive months."
Here in Toledo, the transition from the flagging auto industry to the new clean energy sector was fostered by administrators and researchers at the University of Toledo; a number of timely state and federal investments; and by a group of pioneering industrialists led by Harold McMaster, a noted inventor and glass industry executive who in 1987, helped found the first of Toledo's four solar energy manufacturers, Solar Cells Inc., which as it grew became First Solar.
First Solar, expected to produce $1.2 billion in revenue this year from sales of thin-film solar cells, operates a state-of-the-art manufacturing plant in nearby Perrysburg that employs 700 people. The company is building a 500,000 square-foot addition that will employ 135 more people when it opens next year.
Indeed, the city over the last two years has emerged as one of the important solar energy manufacturing centers in the United States.
Last year, Willard & Kelsey Solar Group LLC spent $7 million to buy a 262,000 square-foot former television component manufacturing plant in Perrysburg to manufacture thin-film solar panels. In March, CEO William R. Mitchell told the Toledo Blade he planned to hire 400 people at an average wage of $21 an hour by the end of the year. And nearly two years ago, Q Cells, a German company, purchased Toledo-based Solar Fields, joining the Ohio solar research company to its Calyxo brand thin-film solar photovoltaic panel production division. Q Cells' Toledo office employs about 25 people.
A Growth Sector in Sun
In all, nearly 1,000 people now work in the four Toledo-based high-tech solar companies, producing photovoltaic cells to generate electricity, and perfecting manufacturing techniques to reduce costs and compete worldwide. According to the Regional Growth Partnership, Toledo's primary economic development agency, roughly 5,000 more people in the area, including a team of researchers and economic development specialists at the University of Toledo, support the growing solar sector here.
"We're building on the strengths that we have, and that is knowing how to build things," said Megan Reichert-Kral, the director of incubation at the Office of Research Development, a division of the University of Toledo, which has fostered the research and helped to attract the financing that led to the solar sector's development. "We have the people that know how to put complicated things together the right way. We have the universities that are producing the new ideas. We have manufacturers that are willing to stay in the game over the long term."
Ohio has a storied history of linking research, public investment, and entrepreneurial industrialists to produce new economic eras. After all, the nation's seventh largest state is the birthplace of Thomas Edison, the Wright Brothers, and John Glenn.
But rarely has a Midwestern state so effectively aligned its politics and policymakers, its state agencies, research institutions, and sizable pools of public and private capital to support the development of a new industrial sector.
Bipartisan Support
In 2002, former Governor Robert Taft Jr., a Republican, successfully campaigned to launch the 10-year, $1.6 billion Third Frontier Fund to finance promising research and technical development in new Ohio industries. The fund has proved pivotal to building the statewide interlocking network of research groups, economic development organizations, technical support firms, and capital accounts that has been crucial to the early development of Ohio's clean energy startups, among them the Xunlight Corporation.
Current Democratic Governor Ted Strickland, who asserted the need to develop Ohio's renewable energy and energy efficiency sectors as a central feature of his 2006 campaign, is now making the development of these sectors a centerpiece of his economic policy. Last year alone, Ohio approved a $1.57 billion stimulus program that directed significant resources to clean energy development and green-collar job creation. Gov. Strickland also signed a renewable energy standard on May 1, 2008, requiring utilities to produce 12.5 percent of their electricity from renewable sources such as wind, hydropower, geothermal, and biomass. Of that amount, 0.5 percent must be generated from solar energy. The law also requires electric utilities to achieve energy savings of 22.5 percent by the end of 2025 through energy efficiency programs.
The new statutes are providing financing and a large built-in market for Ohio manufacturers to produce the parts, equipment, and processes to meet the new standard.
"While our energy bill is expanding the market for advanced energy in Ohio, our jobs stimulus bill is building on that commitment by investing in Ohio companies that can supply the component parts, install the hardware, and harvest the power of advanced energy," said Strickland earlier this year in the annual State of the State address. "Ohio is key to meeting the energy needs of the nation and the world – and we are already seeing promising results. Over the last three years, Ohio has led the nation with 350 new or expanded facility projects in the renewable energy sector."
Wendy Patton, a senior associate at Policy Matters Ohio, noted in an interview that two historic trends have merged in Ohio to produce opportunity for clean energy companies.
First, she said, is the enormous urgency that is leading lawmakers, banks, business executives, and workers to embrace a strategy that will help reverse the steady decline of Ohio's manufacturing sector. Since 2000, Ohio has lost 550,000 jobs, more than half of them in manufacturing, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. The median income is slipping, and 300,000 people migrated out of Ohio in the last eight years.
Second is the clear consensus that has developed in the business and political communities of Ohio, Michigan, and other Heartland states that the energy markets of the 21st century will favor clean sources, and that supplying those markets with globally competitive products is a blockbuster economic opportunity that no state should miss.
"Clean and green is happening in the industrial base across the state," said Patton. "You can see it. It's making progress because we have a huge manufacturing base, and companies want to get involved. It is clear that the strong public policy direction of the state has sparked the development of new companies. I think what is less apparent is the extent to which existing companies are quietly adding clean energy to their portfolios as well."
A Network Statewide to Support Clean Energy Entrepreneurs
Economic development specialists have a different take, asserting that state and regional guidance, university incubators, technical assistance, and funding have made it possible for new companies to start and older companies to change their product lines and practices.
Xunming Deng's success so far with Xunlight is a case in point. The basic research for developing the company's thin-film solar technology was supported by federal, state, and regional grants. The business plan also was developed with the help of experts at the Wright Center for Photovoltaic Innovation and Commercialization, a technical advisor and business incubation program at the University of Toledo that was launched in 2006 with an $18.6 million Third Frontier Fund grant.
Various regional and state economic development executives also have assisted Dr. Deng in securing $20 million in government loans, and $40 million more in private venture capital. The University of Toledo retains rights to licensing fees and royalties, and has a small ownership stake in Xunlight.
"They were happy because of all the grants coming in," said Dr. Deng, referring to the University of Toledo. "When you have a spinoff company, everyone wins. That is the type of situation that worked out perfectly for the state because it can invest in emerging technology."
Still, Toledo's solar sector is just one measure of Ohio's steady emergence as a base of American clean energy manufacturing. Ohio also is developing other regional centers of clean energy innovation and manufacturing.
Akron is becoming a center of fuel cell development. Researchers and economic specialists in Dayton are focusing on technology developments to help Ohio's existing manufacturers convert their production lines to build the specialty equipment and parts to supply the clean energy sector.
In Cleveland, Case Western Reserve University and Cleveland State are anchoring new startups in wind and battery technology. Cleveland-based Parker Hannifin, for instance, a world leader in hydraulic systems and motion control, is developing a more durable and easier-to-operate hydraulic pump to replace the conventional gearbox in a utility-scale windmill.
Another Cleveland company, Stratum Technologies, is developing a more efficient manufacturing process for polymer lithium-ion batteries in an automated, state-of-the art production facility. In nearby Shaker Heights, Contained Energy is developing direct carbon fuel cells with 30 times the energy density of lithium-ion batteries, making them useful in storing energy from wind and solar, and for powering next generation vehicles.
Still, no region of Ohio has matched Toledo's clean energy development. In March, Willard & Kelsey Solar Group LLC, the newest solar energy manufacturer in the region, invited Gov. Strickland to tour its new plant in Perrysburg. The company plans to start annual production of 2 million solar panels and has been assisted by a $5 million state economic development loan and a $500,000 grant.
In his remarks, Strickland scanned the dark economic landscape left in Ohio by the old economy and also saw something new and fresh and possible. "When you look at the challenges facing us, when you look at the way the economy is changing, the fact that we have a new company like this with a new, highly technical, highly efficient product to create energy. It's very exciting," he said. "Our economy is in a state of transition. Everyone knows that. As this company grows, a lot of auto workers that may have lost their jobs in the auto industry will be able to find employment with this company."
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Milan (/ma.ln/) is the second largest city after Humboldt in Gibson County, Tennessee, and the largest entirely within the county. It is home to the Milan Army Ammunition Plant, the West Tennessee Agricultural Museum and several historical sites listed on the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP). The city was the first in Tennessee to begin no-till farming and to flouridate its drinking water. The Milan Endowment for Growth in Academics (MEGA) was the first private community financial endowment for public schools in Tennessee.


St Nicholas at Ash was probably built around 1190 AD on the site of an early Saxon building. It was altered in the 14th century, and the central tower was added in the 15th century. The highly visible tower and steeple were once used as navigation aids. They now house a ring of 10 bells. There is a collection of medieval monumental effigies inside, and amongst the brasses there is one to Jane Kerriel (c 1455) which reveals a unique horse-shoe head-dress.
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To read more about the history of Ash and its churches click HERE.
To read more about the bells of St Nicholas Church click HERE.
To hear the bells of St Nicholas Church click HERE (50 seconds).
Parish registers, which contain baptisms, marriages and burials, have been transferred to Canterbury Cathedral Archives; to visit their website please click HERE.
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Sample Literature Essays On Religion and Sexuality
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Homework Question on Religion and Sexuality
Crawford, European Sexualities, Chapter 3, pp. 55-73
Answer the following:
What rules did ancient Greeks and Romans impose on sexuality?
What did the early "Church Fathers" have to say?
What did the medieval period add to these rules?
Homework Answer on Religion and Sexuality
The Greeks and Romans celebrated worldly accomplishments through sex. The sexual inequality along the age and the gender lines supported the status of the privileged at the expense of those who were disadvantaged (Crawford, 2007, p. 55). In Greek, the inequality in sexual relations marked the Greek homosexuality and heterosexual relations in both the Greek and the Roman society. In Greece, age symmetry was more tied to sex and power.
The older men introduced the younger who were not knowledgeable on political rights to sexual pleasure and public life. Older active partners were expected to be moderate and restrained in their desires, while the beloved or the eromenos were expected to have no sexual desire (Crawford, 2007, p. 55). It was imperative for the eromenos to have gratitude towards their lovers for the purpose of attention and assistance.
Relationships were not expected to be pecuniary; they were supposed to teach the young men to become good aristocrats. Male homosexuality was prominent in Greek life; the act of sex was highly gendered. Adult men that preferred to be penetrated were thought to be deficient in their masculinity (Sissa, 2008, p. 43).Early church fathers referred to above acts as sexual sins. Paul contended that no fornicator, adulterer, or people who were guilty of homosexual possession could posses the kingdom of God (Crawford, 2007)

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SUBMISSIONS FOR SEE FF 2020 ARE OPEN
 The call for submissions is open until 8 February 2020.
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South-East European Film Festival 2020
SEE FF - BERLIN - PARIS
"SEE FILM FESTIVAL" is established by Association SEE a Paris, a non-profit organization whose responsibilities include, among others, the selection of the Festival line-up and the films in competition. The Festival will take place in Berlin, Germany, from 28 to 31 May 2020, and in Paris, France from 2 to 5 June 2020.
The Festivals in Berlin and Paris are open to all films (feature, documentary, fiction and animation) whose directors and/or producers originate from the following countries: Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Greece, Hungary, Kosovo, Macedonia, Moldova, Montenegro, Romania, Serbia, Slovenia and Turkey.
The festival has officially opened its call for entries and accepts submissions of short, medium, and long films for the Main Competition.
All shooting formats are accepted.
The duration of the short films must not exceed 15 minutes.
There's no time limit for feature, documentary and animation films.
The deadline for submission is 8 February 2020.
There is no submission fee.
We prefer online submission through the web platforms FilmFreeway.
You can, however, still apply directly to the Festival. In this case, it is mandatory that applicants send a download link or link to online screener of their film, along with a filled and signed ENTRY FORM on the mail info@seeaparis.com. For any other form of submission, please contact us by mail.
For more information about the application please read the REGULATIONS.
The selected applicants shall be informed about the selection of their film by the 1 March 2020.
The Festival line-up shall be announced after 15 March 2020 on the Festival website.
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Remerciement spécial au
Ministère de culture de Monténégro,
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Meet Our Congregational Leadership Team 2018 – 2024
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Sisters In Revolution
Published on 01/04/2016 - Last modified on 21/03/2019
This is a year of remembering in Ireland as the 1916 Rising, a pivotal moment in Irish independence, is celebrated. This story tells of family links some of our Sisters have with this great event.
Easter Rising 1916, Mercy Connections in Galway
Anyone walking or driving through Eyre Square in Galway can immediately be impressed by the statue of Liam Mellows which now graces the esplanade at the top of the Square. Each year a special mass is celebrated in St. Patrick's church with readings and prayers in Irish, afterwards a battalion of old IRA march to the statue, pray the rosary and an orator delivers a speech, which keeps the romance of a patriotic idea alive for a big number of Galwegians.
Statue of Liam Mellows in Eyre Square, Galway
The barracks in Renmore is also called Dún Uí Maoileasa in honour of this man, so it behoves us to consider who he was and why is he honoured in Galway. He was born in Lancashire of Irish parents and reared in Castletown, Co. Wexford, but later became very associated with Galway.
The first branch of the Irish Volunteers was formed in Galway on 12th December, 1913 and a year or so later there were three thousand men in thirty branches in the county. In this centenary year we are considering the local area round Athenry as it was there at Easter 1916 that as well as Liam Mellows near relatives of some of our Sisters fought bravely, endured hardship, some even gave their lives and others were imprisoned but lived to fight another day.
The first of those was Fr. Harry Feeney, beloved uncle of Sr. Maria Goretti (1930 – 1989) and Sr. Raymond (1931 – 1989) both sadly now ar shlí na Fírinne (sadly have passed away). Like the sisters, Fr. Harry was born in Two Mile Ditch, Castlegar on 4th March, 1889, but at the time of the rising he was a Curate in Clarinbridge. He became deeply involved with Liam Mellows in training the volunteers at Killeeneen. So involved did he become and so committed was he that he wrote a letter to his parish priest – April 25th, 1916: "Dear Fr. Tully, I am going as a chaplain to the Volunteer force. Kindly attend to sick calls in my absence. I shall let you know in time if I can be back for Sunday's mass." Yours very sincerely, H. Feeney. This he did and he advised all volunteers to go to confession on Holy Saturday and to go to communion on Easter Sunday.
Liam Mellows had overseen the landing of the Asgard and ensured that some guns from it reached Athenry and they had hopes of 3,000 more from the Aud but of course their hopes were in vain. Mellows arrived in Athenry early in Holy Week and Margaret Browne (later Mrs Sean McEntee) arrived by train on Holy Thursday with the message that the insurrection was to begin on Easter Sunday.
Looking back over one hundred years, we can ask who exactly were members of the volunteers and we can safely know who some of them were as both parents of Srs. Assumpta and Máire Cahill i.e. William and Mary Cahill were very involved; as were their first cousins: Michael and Catherine Forde – parents of Sr. Lily of happy memory. The latter named were grandparents of Sr. Geraldine Larkin.
Sr. Greta Cummins's father – Patrick took an active part in all volunteer movements. All these Sisters are justifiably proud of the actions of their parents during those times when they risked their lives. It was not only the men who were involved but the women were also active members of Cumann na mBan (Women's movement). Some of the volunteers were farm boys who never shot at anything more than a weasel in a hen-house but a number of the Athenry brigade were highly trained and were anxious to get artillery even if it were only pikes or hayforks.
Sisters Teresa Delaney (author of the piece), Gretta Cummins, Máire Cahill, Assumpta Cahill and Geraldine Larkin
As regards Liam Mellows we quote an abridged version from Sr. de Lourdes Fahy's book – "Near Quiet Waters": "Kinvara convent was in the news for a different reason. On 4th June, 1916 members of the R.I.C. (Royal Irish Constabulary) conducted a search of the convent. When the parish priest heard this he wrote in outrage to General Sir John Maxwell and sent a copy of his letter to the Connacht Tribune and others. General Maxwell replied that the sergeant had received an anonymous letter stating that two rebels – Liam Mellows and John Feeney – were hiding in the convent. The story was false but it is interesting to note that Liam Mellows actually made his escape from Ireland a few months later, disguised as a nun. Fr. John O'Meehan, Curate was one of those who planned the escape."
In case anyone should say that the habit was from Gort or Kinvara, we are reliably informed that it was from Ennis convent. It is sad to relate that on the 7th December, 1922 as a reprisal for the shooting of two anti-treaty soldiers, four republican leaders who had been captured in the Four Courts were shot at dawn. They were Richard Barrett, Joseph McKelvey, Rory O'Connor and Liam Mellows.
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Welcome to the website of the Sisters of Mercy – as we say in Irish 'Céad Míle Fáilte'.
The following pen pictures describe how different members of our Congregation are living and working out of our Mission Statement.
The Congregational leadership of the Sisters of Mercy is a registered Charity
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Trustees: Marie Louise White, Anna Burke, Bernie Ryan, Cáit O'Dwyer, Helena O'Donoghue
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Jeez, these girls are making me feel slightly inadequate. I want one! I'm sure their shots were a bit better than my Iphone pics of Djokovic systematically taking apart the doggett Mr. Hewitt.
Shot Luke Saville (2011 Wimbleton Jr.Champ) the other week for Tennis Australia. Lovely bloke, but he nailed me a couple of times with that forearm, and I can tell you it bloody well hurt! Like getting hit with an orange shot out of a cannon.
Had to save this magnificent fellow from the neighbors cat. I'm pretty sure it's not cool if I let my dog out to roam the neighborhood and ravage the local wildlife!
Warm water, decent swell, the promise of an offshore tomorrow!
The inner camera nerd in me is coming out and I feel compelled to show the magnificent sunset from last night, sans tequila!
It was a strange walk back from the pub last night. The teenagers kept crapping on about Hari Krishna Ninja Zombies… and then we stumbled upon this!
God I love summer! Is there anything in the world better than beach cricket!


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Q: Save data received from view through ajax in rails On abort in controller, this is the format for javascript object I'm getting from the Ajax call:
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A: In your example charge is a Hash. You can access its values using square brackets:
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Q: WORDPRESS ERROR: Uncaught TypeError: Cannot read property 'replace' of undefined I was editing my wordpress page and I didn't do anything unusual, but suddenly my HomePage lost background color (Now borders are white but the middle of the page is how it should be).
My console keeps throwing me this:
Uncaught TypeError: Cannot read property 'replace' of undefined
at HTMLButtonElement. (ajax-filter-posts.js?ver=1:57)
at HTMLDivElement.dispatch (jquery.js?ver=1.12.4:3)
at HTMLDivElement.r.handle (jquery.js?ver=1.12.4:3)
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what to do? My ajax-filter-posts.js?ver=1:57 looks like this:
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    container.each(function() {
        var $movie_tab_id = $(this).attr('id'),
            $movie_tab = "#" + $movie_tab_id,
            $content = $($movie_tab).find('.category-content.flw');
        function get_posts($params) {
            $.ajax({
                type: 'POST',
                url: blockter.ajax_url,
                data: {
                    action: 'do_filter_posts',
                    nonce: blockter.nonce,
                    params: $params
                },
                dataType: 'json',
                success: function(data, textStatus, XMLHttpRequest) {
                    if (data.status === 200) {
                        $content.html(data.content);
                    }
                    else if (data.status === 201) {
                        $content.html(data.message);
                    }
                },
                error: function(MLHttpRequest, textStatus, errorThrown) {

                },
                complete: function(data, textStatus) {

                    msg = textStatus;

                    if (textStatus === 'success') {
                        msg = data.responseJSON.found;
                    }

                    $content.removeClass('loading');
                }
            });
        }

        $($movie_tab).on('click', 'button[data-filter], .category-pagination li a', function(event) {
            if(event.preventDefault) { event.preventDefault(); }
            var $this = $(this),
                $mediaType = null;
            /*Set filter active*/
            if ($this.data('filter')) {
                $this.addClass('active').siblings().removeClass('active');
                $page = $this.data('page');
                $mediaType = $this.data('media');
                $postin = $this.data('postin');
            }
            else {
                /*Pagination*/
                $page = parseInt(($this.attr('href').replace(/\D/g,''));
                $mediaType = $this.parent().data('media');
                $postin = $this.parent().data('postin');
                $this = $('.category-filter button.active');
            }
            $content.addClass('loading');
            $content.append('

');
            $params = {
                'page' : $page,
                'tax'  : $this.data('filter'),
                'term' : $this.data('term'),
                'qty'  : $this.closest($($movie_tab)).data('paged'),
                'media': $mediaType,
                'postin': $this.data('postin'),
            };

            /*Run query*/
            get_posts($params);
        });
        $('button[data-term="all-terms"]').trigger('click');
    });

    var $movie_tab_id = $('.container-async').attr('id'),
    $movie_tab = "#" + $movie_tab_id,
    $content = $($movie_tab).find('.category-content.flw'),
    $contents = $($movie_tab).find('.category-content.specific');

    $($movie_tab).on('click', 'button[data-filter], .category-pagination li a', function(event) {
        $.ajax({
            type: 'POST',
            url: blockter.ajax_url,
            data: {
                action: 'do_filter_posts',
                nonce: blockter.nonce,
                params: $params
            },
            dataType: 'json',
            success: function(data, textStatus, XMLHttpRequest) {
                if (data.status === 200) {
                    $content.html(data.content);
                    $contents.html(data.content);
                }
                else if (data.status === 201) {
                    $content.html(data.message);
                    $contents.html(data.message);
                }
            },
            error: function(MLHttpRequest, textStatus, errorThrown) {

            },
            complete: function(data, textStatus) {

                msg = textStatus;

                if (textStatus === 'success') {
                    msg = data.responseJSON.found;
                }

                $content.removeClass('loading');
                $contents.removeClass('loading');
            }
        });
        $contents.addClass('loading');
        $contents.append('

');

    });
});
})(jQuery);

my $movie_tab.php looks like this:

<?php
$atts = vc_map_get_attributes( $this->getShortcode(), $atts );
extract( $atts );

$class_to_filter = '';
$class_to_filter .= vc_shortcode_custom_css_class( $inline_css, ' ' ) . $this->getExtraClass( $class ) . $this->getCSSAnimation( $css_animation );
$all_class = apply_filters( VC_SHORTCODE_CUSTOM_CSS_FILTER_TAG, $class_to_filter, $this->settings['base'], $atts );

/*set columns*/
global $post;
$args = array(
    'post_type' => 'ht_movie',
);

$query = new WP_Query();
$query->query( $args );
if ( ! $query ) {
    return;
}
?>
<?php if( $query->have_posts() ): ?>
    <?php
    switch ($data) {
        case 'collections':
            $a = array(
                'tax'      => 'mv_collection', // Taxonomy
                'terms'    => $data_collections, // Get specific taxonomy terms only
                'active'   => false, // Set active term by ID
                'per_page' => $movie_per_tab // How many posts per page
            );
            break;
        case 'casts':
            $a = array(
                'tax'      => 'mv_actor', // Taxonomy
                'terms'    => $data_casts, // Get specific taxonomy terms only
                'active'   => false, // Set active term by ID
                'per_page' => $movie_per_tab // How many posts per page
            );
            break;
        default:
            $a = array(
                'tax'      => 'mv_genre', // Taxonomy
                'terms'    => $data_generes, // Get specific taxonomy terms only
                'active'   => false, // Set active term by ID
                'per_page' => $movie_per_tab // How many posts per page
            );
    }
    ?>

    <?php
        $tab_id = uniqid('tabid-');
        $drop_id = uniqid('dropid-');
    ?>

    <div class="flw container-async" id="<?php echo esc_attr( $tab_id ); ?>" data-paged="<?php echo esc_attr($a['per_page']); ?>">
        <?php  $terms  = get_terms($a['tax']);
                $term_curr = $a['terms'];
                $items = explode(',',$term_curr);
        ?>
        <?php if($term_curr == ''): ?>

                <button data-filter="<?php echo esc_attr($terms[0]->taxonomy); ?>" data-term="all-terms" data-page="1" data-media="movie" class="active"><?php esc_html_e('All', 'blockter'); ?></button>
                <?php foreach ($terms as $term) : ?>
                <button data-filter="<?php echo esc_attr($term->taxonomy); ?>" data-term="<?php echo esc_attr($term->slug); ?>" data-page="1" data-media="movie"><?php echo esc_html($term->name); ?></button>
                <?php endforeach; ?>

            <div class="filter-cate-mobile" id="<?php echo esc_attr($drop_id);?>">

      <button class="dropbtn"  data-page="1"><?php echo esc_html__("SORT BY", 'blockter'); ?></button>

<button data-filter="<?php echo esc_attr($terms[0]->taxonomy); ?>" data-term="all-terms" data-page="1" data-media="movie"><?php esc_html_e('All', 'blockter'); ?></button>

       <?php foreach ($terms as $term) : ?>

<button data-filter="<?php echo esc_attr($term->taxonomy); ?>" data-term="<?php echo esc_attr($term->slug); ?>" data-page="1" data-media="movie"><?php echo esc_html($term->name); ?></button>

       <?php endforeach; ?>

        <?php else: ?>

                <button data-filter="<?php echo esc_attr($terms[0]->taxonomy); ?>" data-term="all-terms" data-page="1" data-media="movie" class="active"><?php esc_html_e('All', 'blockter'); ?></button>
                <?php foreach ($items as $item) : ?>
                    <?php if($data == 'generes'): ?>
                        <button  data-filter="<?php echo esc_attr('mv_genre'); ?>" data-term="<?php echo esc_attr($item); ?>" data-media="movie"><?php echo esc_html($item); ?></button>
                    <?php elseif($data == 'collections'): ?>
                        <button  data-filter="<?php echo esc_attr('mv_collection'); ?>" data-term="<?php echo esc_attr($item); ?>" data-media="movie"><?php echo esc_html($item); ?></button>
                    <?php else: ?>
                        <button  data-filter="<?php echo esc_attr('mv_actor'); ?>" data-term="<?php echo esc_attr($item); ?>" data-media="movie"><?php echo esc_html($item); ?></button>
                    <?php endif; ?>
                <?php endforeach; ?>

   <div class="filter-cate-mobile" id="<?php echo esc_attr($drop_id);?>" >

      <button class="dropbtn" data-page="1"><?php echo esc_html__("SORT BY", 'blockter'); ?></button>

<button data-filter="<?php echo esc_attr($terms[0]->taxonomy); ?>" data-term="all-terms" data-page="1" data-media="movie"><?php esc_html_e('All', 'blockter'); ?></button>

       <?php foreach ($items as $item) : ?>
                                <?php if($data == 'generes'): ?>

<button data-filter="<?php echo esc_attr('mv_genre'); ?>" data-term="<?php echo esc_attr($item); ?>" data-media="movie"><?php echo esc_html($item); ?></button>

                                <?php elseif($data == 'collections'): ?>

<button data-filter="<?php echo esc_attr('mv_collection'); ?>" data-term="<?php echo esc_attr($item); ?>" data-media="movie"><?php echo esc_html($item); ?></button>

                            <?php else: ?>

<button data-filter="<?php echo esc_attr('mv_actor'); ?>" data-term="<?php echo esc_attr($item); ?>" data-media="movie"><?php echo esc_html($item); ?></button>

                                <?php endif; ?>
       <?php endforeach; ?>

        <?php endif; ?>

<?php
    endif;
?>


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Q: Sitecore webforms for marketers save action For a webshop i'm using Sitecore Webforms For Marketers. There is a multiple server configuration with 2 Content Delivery Server(CDS) and 1 Content Management Server(CMS). On the CDS servers is no possibility to write data, so i have configured a webservice to forward the form data from the CDS to the CMS server.
What's the goal? There are 2 forms where a user can:

*

*Post a review for a product at the products detail page

*Post a review for a product and select the product in a dropdownlist at a global
page

The problem is that i have less experience with Sitecore Webforms For Marketers. It's important that the review's parent item the right product is. I have read the developer manual and figured out there are several save actions, but not the one i prefer. Do I need to create a custom save action or is there a simple workaroud (e.g. with workflows)?
Thanks a lot!
Jordy

A: Create a save action that calls your web service and submits the data to your CM instance.


The structural-elite's stooges in the main-stream media, and Pig Pharma 'research' labs, are still choosing to remain willfully-ignorant of the scientific evidence, which reveals Zika as a virus that, in all but a few cases, causes mild flu-like symptoms; it does not cause birth defects, nor is it sexually transmitted.
As with the global warming hoax, Zika is being pandered to the multitude of suckers (educated and uneducated) who still blindly believe anything a Pig Pharma or Weather Channel PhD panders as 'scientific fact'. Some of these folks are highly educated people who warn us not to watch television, nor believe anything we hear from the main-stream media. And yet these folks buy into the global warming hoax, and many of these virus psyops as well, which are all pandered by the main-stream media, 24/7/365.
I guess one way to explain this would be, we are all existing in a retrograde inverted world!
he long established entirely benign Zika virus turned suddenly deadly by Western mainstream media in 2015 has been morphing in its alleged characteristics at ISIS-like speeds. The virus suddenly was claimed to cause microcephaly in Brazil in 2015. And when that was debunked by doctors in Brazil who exposed the pesticide-newborn malformation connection the media, the WHO, the UN and the politicians involved in this psychological operation decided to ignore the reality and the evidence and falsely continued to claim that Zika virus causes microcephaly when they know damn well it does not and never has.
Not letting facts, reason and logic get in the way, the Zika virus apparently took matters into its own hands and then magically started doing more things it had never done; it became a "sexually transmitted" disease before our eyes and packed its bags and started conveniently traveling the world like a seasoned traveler on vacation recently arriving in Florida and now triggering what will soon be an avalanche of profits for the pharmaceutical industry as their "researchers" work overtime to get the money flow going.
Incidentally, notice there seems to be a pattern between WHERE the virus travels and the desired profit-based "solution" outcome. For example, if Zika had only parked itself in a remote country or island not heard by most then the profits would not have been that easy to come by. It knew to get on a plane and (like ISIS) arrive in none other than the United States where the propaganda can be easily ratcheted up and converted to instant profits.
That said, the time to celebrate the money flow is much closer according to mainstream media who is now reporting that a team of researchers "inch closer to Zika treatment." Is anyone who is aware of the ruling elite's Hegelian Dialectic model for implementing mass "solutions" (which always involve mass profits and mass completion of their agendas, in this case depopulation as well) surprised by any of this?
And with that the urgency is artificially created to create the "solution" to the non-problem to quickly pack the big pharmaceutical industry bank accounts with lots of money as soon as possible. No clear-cut scientifically and medically verifiable stories and images of people dying from Zika virus is required here. No concrete medical records, no evidence-based independent studies required or a true explanation of how a simple Arbovirus could suddenly completely alter its known characteristics (its benign characteristics clearly outlined in medical text books worldwide until recently) and suddenly transmit and infect humans in a vastly different way without any medical-scientific explanation.
The deep medical reality that everyone has to see here is that if Zika virus causes "sexually transmitted microcephaly" now, then it would have done so not only in 1947 when it was officially patented (by the Rockefeller Foundation) and eventually identified but it would have done so hundreds even thousands of years ago when it was around then, too, even if the cause was not confirmed. As I've stated before, this idea that viruses suddenly transmit from one vector to a brand new vector it has never used before is far more fictional and inconsistent with nature than most readers can appreciate.


Tribe - A collection of families descending from one ancestor. The "twelve tribes" of the Hebrews were the twelve collections of families which sprang from the sons of Jacob. In Matt. 24:30 the word has a wider significance. The tribes of Israel are referred to as types of the spiritual family of God.
Judah held its ground against Assyria for one hundred and twenty-three years, and became the rallying-point of the dispersed of every tribe, and eventually gave its name to the whole race. Those of the people who in the last struggle escaped into the territories of Judah or other neighbouring countries naturally looked to Judah as the head and home of their race. And when Judah itself was carried off to Babylon, many of the exiled Israelites joined them from Assyria, and swelled that immense population which made Babylonia a second Palestine.


Song or not to Song !!
Re: Song or not to Song !!
1st how did you find that , also the Apple pie on the bonnet ?
Love the it's a 16 hundred and it does naryf go ?
Also my dad has a 2.8 and he says it's good as you can't go wrong the parts are cheap .
Does mention sheep at the end so over to Andrew ?
Now 12.45am and iam just on a few more cogs and nicks got me on you tube with a cup of tea ?
Your spot on Paul I could have gone out this morning for a drive .


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If the projection holds, the surplus would rise above ¥20 trillion for the first time in three years.
The services trade deficit is expected to shrink thanks to a rise in inbound tourism on the back of the 2020 Tokyo Olympics and Paralympics, the council said. Also, exports of electronic components are seen hitting bottom and recovering.
The council expects the trade deficit to fall by half to ¥1.4 trillion from ¥3.03 trillion.
A slump in demand for information technology-related materials will likely bottom out, the council said. High value-added goods made in Japan are expected to attract further demand, possibly leading to growth in machinery exports, according to the outlook.
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Japanese Student Ayumi Saito, bagged top rank in BSMS in Santhigiri Siddha College
Sathish Kumar December 01, 2014 0
A Japanese student who came to Kerala in search of the secrets of the ancient medical system of Siddha, has bagged the top rank in the Bachelor of Siddha Medicine and Surgery (BSMS) in Kerala University.
Twenty-five-year-old Ayumi Saito, a student of Santhigiri Siddha Medical College, run by Santhigiri Ashram was conferred the degree at a function at the college campus.
Medical college authorities said Saito secured the top rank in the varsity for BSMS in 2013-14 and the degree was conferred along with 34 other students after completing their one-year house surgency.
A native of Yokohama in Japan, Saito came to Kerala after reading about the Siddha medical system in the internet. "She was really enthusiastic to know more about Siddha. The barriers of language and culture were not hurdles for her to pursue the course and go into the depths of the healing system, considered to be one of the oldest in the world," a college official told.
Though she hails from a business family, Saito chose to follow the paths of Siddha after learning about the ancient system in depth. Though she did not have any prior knowledge in Tamil, in which most of the Siddha texts are available, she learnt the language quickly and secured top marks in it also, which is one of the papers in the BSMS course.
She was now planning to go back to her native country and continue practice there.
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	public function territory() {
		return new TerritoryUg;
	}
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Q: C# Get type of my form to check if it is open I am trying to create a generic method to check if a form is open.
But I can not make the OfType work, I tried to use a get type of my parameter variable.
    private void OpenForm(Form myForm)
    {

        if (!Application.OpenForms.OfType<GetType??>().Any())
        {
            myForm.MdiParent = this;
            myForm.WindowState = FormWindowState.Maximized;
            myForm.Show();
        }
    }

How can I get the type of the parameter and used in the OfType?

A: Declare your method with type parameters to make it generic.
private void OpenForm<T>(T myForm) where T : Form
{
    if (!Application.OpenForms.OfType<T>().Any())
    {
        myForm.MdiParent = this;
        myForm.WindowState = FormWindowState.Maximized;
        myForm.Show();
    }
}

For more information about generic methods, consult MSDN at http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/twcad0zb.aspx


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Record Book – Ireland v South Africa in ODIs
Posted on Jul 9, 2021 Jul 10, 2021 by Rustom Deboo
South Africa will be playing men's ODIs in Ireland for the first time in 14 years when they take on the hosts in the Super League series at Malahide from 11th July. Back in 2007, the Proteas had played three matches against India at Belfast, following a one-off match with Ireland. Overall, Ireland have faced the African powerhouse only five times in this format so far. Here is a look back at those instances.
Calm Kallis guides the Proteas – World Cup Super Eight Stage, Providence, 2006-07
Ireland had given South Africa a scare in a warm-up match before embarking upon their dream inaugural World Cup campaign, during which they beat Pakistan and Bangladesh and tied with Zimbabwe. But the Proteas dictated terms in this Super Eight encounter in Guyana.
Ireland were restricted to 152/8 in the rain-reduced 35 overs. Boyd Rankin scalped AB de Villiers for a duck in the first over, before Jacques Kallis came in and went on to score a solid 66*. South Africa achieved their D/L target of 160 in the 32nd over with seven wickets intact.
Cusack and Philander impress on debut – Only ODI, Belfast, 2007
Less than three months after their first meeting in the Caribbean, the two green-clad outfits were involved in another rain-hit ODI. This time it was a 31-over tussle at the Civil Service Cricket Club in Stormont. The South African top order flourished, carrying the total to 173/4.
Debutant Alex Cusack, later named Man of the Match, was the standout bowler. The seam-bowling all-rounder came on as fifth-change and collected 3/15. He also top-scored with 36* as Ireland caved in for 131 in the 31st over. Vernon Philander, another debutant, bagged 4/12.
South Africa's Hashim Amla in action during his match-winning 159 in the 2015 World Cup group match against Ireland at Canberra (source – AP)
Duminy makes the difference – World Cup Group Stage, Kolkata, 2010-11
A couple of weeks earlier, Ireland had provided the most sensational result of the tournament by stunning England at Bangalore. They gave the South Africans a glimpse of their giant-killing ability as well, reducing them to a wobbly 117/5 in the 27th over at the Eden Gardens.
Hashim Amla, captain Graeme Smith, and Kallis were all back in the hut, and Ireland had a great chance to turn the screws. However, JP Duminy swung the game around, smashing 99 from 103 balls to boost South Africa to 272/7. Ireland were bowled out for just 141 in reply.
Amla's career-best leads a rout – World Cup Group Stage, Canberra, 2014-15
Amla put on 247 with Faf du Plessis (109) for the second wicket on his way to a career-best 159 in 128 balls, before skipper de Villiers (24 in nine balls), David Miller (46 in 23) and Rilee Rossouw (61 in 30) upped the ante to send the scoreboard galloping towards a massive 411/4.
Further misery was in store for Ireland, as Dale Steyn and Kyle Abbott (4/21) had them reeling at 48/5. Andrew Balbirnie (58) and Kevin O'Brien (48) ensured that they reached 210, but this big defeat would cost them a potential quarterfinal spot by virtue of net run rate.
A hundred on debut for Bavuma – Only ODI, Benoni, 2016
Prior to an ODI series with Australia that they would go on to sweep 5-0, South Africa continued their dominance against Ireland with another thumping win, the highlight of which was Temba Bavuma becoming the second South African to register a hundred on ODI debut.
Quinton de Kock (82) and Bavuma (113) added 159 for the opening wicket in 24 overs, after which Duminy (52) and Farhaan Behardien (50* in just 22 balls) helped swell the total to 354/5. Duminy also claimed 4/16 with his off-spin, hastening Ireland's slide to 148 in the 31st over.
Tags: Alex Cusack, Hashim Amla, History, Ireland, Jacques Kallis, Jean-Paul Duminy, ODI Cricket, South Africa, Temba Bavuma, Vernon PhilanderCategories: Record Book
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A team of U15 players from Cobra Rugby Club will be embarking on their very own Italian job later this week.
In fact, the talented crop of youngsters will be taking part in two tournaments on the continent, and also enjoy a trip to Venice in between.
First up is an invitation to the Carwyn James Under 16 Trophy to be held in the Pieve de Cento Stadium in Ferrara on April 18, in conjunction with the Italian Rugby Federation.
Cobra will join five Italian teams following an invitation to U15s Head Coach, Alun Pryce, from Carwyn's nephew, Llyr, who organises a rugby tournament in his uncle's memory every year and invites a Welsh team to take part.
Carwyn was a Welsh international who went on to coach Llanelli RFC and the British Lions in 1971, which is still the only Lions team to have won a series over the All Blacks.
In 1972, whilst coaching at Llanelli, his side had the infamous win over the All Blacks. He then went on to coach teams in Northern Italy in the late 70's and early 80's and is a rugby legend there too.
Two days later, there is a second tournament called the Montgomery Cup in Oderzo, near Venice, in conjunction with the Italian Rugby Federation.
This tournament is in memory of Kenneth Montgomery, a World War I pilot shot down in the town in 1918 and a former pupil of Rugby School in Warwickshire. Cobra will join three Italian teams plus teams from Bucharest, Romania, and Prague, Czech Republic.
The lads will fly out as a squad of 23, accompanied by 25 supporters, and will be based in the coastal town of Chioggia Sotomarina. In between the two tournaments, there is a rest day when the tourists will take a day trip to Venice by boat.
"The Cobra players, coaches and families wish to thank their sponsors Alan Jukes Steel Framed Buildings, Cambrian Training, Morgans Newtown and Gwyn Jones Meifod for supporting them and making this wonderful experience possible," said a Cobra statement.


First stop, London. A city close to our hearts. Here, the Maurice & King edit for the best spots to hit while you're in the heart of the Motherland.
Ottolenghi in Islington for breakfast/brunch. For a Mediterranean feast that will warm the cockles of your heart try Aphrodite Taverna, in Bayswater. Moro, at Exmouth Markets, for a sublime Moorish dinner. Dishoom, in Covent Garden, for fabulous Indian - Tapas style! The Wolseley, Piccadilly, for High Tea. If you want something a little more cutting-edge (with cocktails after!), book dinner at Yauatcha, Soho, or for Michelin Star "wow" in humble settings try the seasonal degustation menu at Morgan M. in Islington. If you're looking for a great Gastropub - a London specialty - we love The Engineer in Primrose Hill.
Ledbury Road and surrounding Westbourne Grove are favourites with stand-out boutiques Emma Hope, Twenty8Twelve, Nicole Farhi and Anya Hindmarch. Diptyque, Aesop and Smythson also have beautiful boutiques here. And of course, when in London, Burberry, Stella McCartney, Alexander McQueen and Vivienne Westwood. Neal's Yard Remedies for sublime organic skincare and homeopathy. For fabulous one-stop shopping hit Liberty - quite simply, they have the very best of everything. Liberty Flowers by Paula Pryke, the florist at Liberty's Great Marylebone Street entrance, is also worth a look.
SCP, on Westbourne Grove, and twentytwentyone, on Upper Street, both have a fabulous selection of contemporary furniture, lighting and accessories by some of the leading names in British Design. Labour And Wait, Heal's and ARIA for an eclectic range of home accessories. Treacle World, a kitschy bakery/homewares store on Columbia Rd, has everything from tea towels and oven mits to retro blenders, cake stands and '50s dressers. The Cross, in Holland Park, is a new favourite of ours, offering a fabulous edit of fashion, homewares and accessories - a must-visit.
Be transported to gastronomic heaven at Borough Market. Columbia Road flower market for the London of yesteryear, and some hidden gems in the shops/cafes behind the market stalls. Spitalfields Market for great fashion and furniture finds from emerging designers.
Hang with the cool kids in Shoreditch for the best nightlife the city has to offer. Favela Chic, on Old Street, for Mojitos and dancing till the wee hours. Kick Cafe, on Shoreditch High St, is a favourite also for afternoon drinks, foosball and shootin' the breeze.
There are so many outstanding galleries to choose from, but you can't go wrong at the National Portrait Gallery or a walk along the Millennium Bridge to the Tate Modern.
Walk through Green Park, past Buckingham Palace and into St James's Park. Perfect.
Burlington Arcade, Mayfair, has everything from cashmere to bespoke leather to fine jewellers selling estate jewellery on behalf of dowager duchesses. Globe-Trotter, the chic luggage makers, are also here, making suitcases fit for Paddington Bear. Tom's Deli, on Westbourne Grove, is yet another gem from Tom Conran, with fabulous food and groceries in a suitably retro setting. Melrose & Morgan, in beautiful Primrose Hill, is a wonderful fine grocery shop and seasonal kitchen - a foodies delight! The Wallace Collection, hiding behind Baker Street, is an absolute treasure trove, including 25 galleries filled with 18th century French paintings, porcelain and furniture that belonged to Marie-Antoinette - a must-see.


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The Goods: Ranking Wes Anderson's Feature Films
By Reel Georgia on	 December 31, 2014 News, Reel Georgia
We love Wes Anderson. You love Wes Anderson. The whole world does, really. This man has made some of the funniest, most adorable, most colorful, most uniquely singular films ever and in doing so, he has created a distinct style that is often imitated, but never duplicated. His brand is so built into our culture, even parodies are mostly just homages. His frequent collaborators—Jason Schwartzman, Bill Murray, Luke Wilson, Owen Wilson, Adrien Brody, Anjelica Huston and Tilda Swinton, to name a few—feel like family members to us.
Released early in 2014, "The Grand Budapest Hotel" has remained one of the year's best films as well as a bright spot on Anderson's already sterling résumé. As we gear up for end-of-the-year superlatives and Oscar nominations, we've ranked all of the films in Wes Anderson's glorious filmography. Where does his first feature, "Bottle Rocket," fit in? How about his latest, "The Grand Budapest Hotel?" Find out after the jump!
8. "Bottle Rocket"
It was six years ago that I first saw "Bottle Rocket," and really, really did not like it. Really. For me, it was uninspired and entirely forgettable. And last night, in hopes of writing some thoughtful blurb about this film, I watched "Bottle Rocket" again. And, this time, it had the complete opposite effect on me. It was delightful and funny and thoughtful and is a film, quite honestly, I'd highly recommend. Though I think, of all of Anderson's films, "Bottle Rocket" does belong at the bottom of the list, it's a very noteworthy film. It's not quite as stylized and Andersonian as his other films, but that's only because it's his first feature. And that's obvious here; there a bunch of great ideas all mashed up into this one thing, and there are some tonal shifts that create this strange mood. That being said, "Bottle Rocket" wonderfully evidences a very strong and promising talent for a man who has turned out to be a pretty remarkable filmmaker.
—Ali Coad
7. "The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou"
"The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou" is Anderson's fourth film and was the highly anticipated follow-up to "The Royal Tenenbaums," a film that garnered him his first Oscar nomination (with Owen Wilson) and remained his highest grossing film for thirteen years until it was surpassed in 2014 by "The Grand Budapest Hotel." All of this to say, the stakes were raised and the hopes were high for "The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou." Many critics and fans were a bit let down with the film, coming off a Tenenbaum-high. It was argued that Anderson's style had fallen out of vogue and that the melancholy was a bit too thick for the action and comedic elements of the film to really shine. I found many, many things to appreciate, however. Anderson took an opportunity to make "The Life Aquatic" his weirdest film yet, infusing it with the most vibrant colors, acoustic Portuguese David Bowie covers by cast-member Seu Jorge and brilliant stop-motion animation that served to foreshadow his knack for the art form that was fully realized a few years later in "Fantastic Mr. Fox." I shouldn't even have to talk about how great the cast is—but I will—since it featured faithful members of the Anderson film family like Bill Murray, Owen Wilson and Anjelica Huston and served as the first appearances for family members such as Willem Dafoe, Jeff Goldblum, Waris Ahluwalia and Michael Gambon. Cate Blanchett also stars, playing one of the most non-typical Anderson characters of an Anderson film to date. She should really be part of the fun more often, don't you think, Wes?
—Cameron McAllister
6. "Rushmore"
Setting the stage for the rest of his films to follow, Wes Anderson quite literally draws the curtain to reveal "Rushmore:" a filmic, play-like universe where Jason Schwartzman (Max Fischer) and Bill Murray (Herman Blume) become the veins that will be forever pumping within the Wes Anderson aesthetic. Following Anderson's first feature "Bottle Rocket," this 1998 film projects Max donning a red beret (militant yet très chic), featuring birds-eye-views of hand-drawn plans (an Anderson signature) and a diegesis overflowing with sentiment. After inhaling a puff of his cigarette and in the same breath throwing back a whiskey over ice, Herman cannonballs into the family pool whilst silent birthday party-goers look on. While Mike Nichol's "The Graduate" had an undeniable influence on a young Anderson, this scene ultimately reveals a character you can still catch whiffs of in the Anderson films that follow. The case is the same for malleable Max who was morphed and contorted into dozens of characters. While "Bottle Rocket" is very relevant, what we see in Max is the birth of dozens of Anderson characters who had yet to be created.
—Christina Humphrey
5. "The Darjeeling Limited"
Anderson's fifth feature, "The Darjeeling Limited," is equal parts road trip comedy and touching character study. Owen Wilson, Adrien Brody and Jason Schwartzman star as three disconnected brothers in search of their mother, who now resides in India. The siblings, all carrying their own literal and figurative baggage, have different objectives, clashing personalities, and varying degrees of interest in the task at hand. The film shows off the best of what Anderson has to offer visually. While still managing to be wacky and eccentric, "The Darjeeling Limited," at its core, is rooted in grief and mourning. With a relatively small cast for an Anderson movie, the three leads carry each scene thanks to wonderfully layered performances and a magnificent script. The film also benefits from multiple viewings, as much of its more philosophical efforts are overshadowed by its goofy off-kilter tone.
—Christo Stevens
No one makes an animated film like Wes Anderson. Based on the children's novel by Roald Dahl, "Fantastic Mr. Fox" was Anderson's first complete foray into stop-motion animation (after he teased us in "The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou"), and if rumors are true, it won't be his last (Anderson recently stated that his next project might also be stop-motion). George Clooney and Meryl Streep join several of the Anderson film family members to lend their voices in creating some of the most spectacular animated characters ever. The color pallet takes its biggest cues from the fantastic oranges of fox fur, and this film is as vibrant beautiful as it gets—every set, every animal, every detail aglow with hand-crafted design and careful forethought. Alexander Desplat's work mixed with the perfect soundtrack selections gives these visuals the perfect rhythm for anything from digging in the ground to a supermarket dance party. Wes Anderson puts a lot of charm in each of his films, but for me, "Fantastic Mr. Fox" tops them all.
3. "The Grand Budapest Hotel"
Drenched, saturated, and gleaming in vibrant colors and patterns, "The Grand Budapest Hotel" comfortably rests in its own snow globe of nostalgia. While it's never rare for one of Anderson's films to be labeled nostalgic, "The Grand Budapest Hotel" breathes a different type of nostalgia, a universal one, if you will. Gone are the plastic, retro toys from "The Royal Tenenbaums" or the cookie cutter boy scout uniform paired with a coonskin hat that screams America in "Moonrise Kingdom." What nostalgia emerges here, in the fictional Republic of Zubrowka, is epitomized in Gustave H (Ralph Fiennes). Giving what some could argue is the performance of his colorful career, Fiennes captures (beautifully!) a character that is an absolute walking contradiction seemingly wrapped up in his own charming Mendel's box to be opened and consumed by women and men alike. A man who is capable of moving a tattooed and hardened incarcerated man that—what seemed like 10 minutes before in the film—he punched upon meeting. The film is nostalgic for a time when handcrafted, heavily detailed work was the norm, when manners prevailed—yet, everyone is still capable of being a bit ornery when need be. If "The Grand Budapest Hotel" fails to garner accolades when Oscar nominations are announced next month, it will simply be because our culture is still much more comfortable getting into bed with violence and machismo than experiencing and accepting something cinematically lovely.
2. "Moonrise Kingdom"
Anderson's hilarious and heartfelt script for "Moonrise Kingdom" paints such a uniquely whimsical portrait of young love. The two leads at the center of the film, Jared Gilman and Kara Hayward, are magnificent. Wildly naïve, yet wise beyond their years, little Sam and Suzy navigate their way across a rainy New England island in an effort to escape their complicated home lives. The world Anderson creates here is intimate and nostalgic. With gorgeous browns and yellows flooding in every intricately choreographed shot, the Anderson-aesthetic is in full swing. Tilda Swinton, Bruce Willis and Edward Norton are all welcome new-comers to the Anderson universe.
1. "The Royal Tenenbaums"
It's hard for me to talk about this film without gushing, because I love "The Royal Tenenbaums." I mean, I really, really love it. It's a wonderful piece of filmmaking. It's a tenderhearted piece that masterfully teeters the line between comedic and melancholic, and it is here that Anderson fully hones what has become his characteristic style. The true beauty of "The Royal Tenenbaums" lies in its relateability; how on any given day you can see yourself in Margot or Richie or Eli, or that on a different day, you may sympathize or empathize or better understand your parents through Royal or Etheline or even Henry. It's always a beautiful thing when a piece of art can change, even slightly, the way the way you see the world or yourself or your family or the way you fit and function within all of those things. That's what "The Royal Tenenbaums" does for me. Also, this film is very much inspired by J.D. Salinger, who happens to be, in a very honest and unpretentious way, one of my favorite writers… so this film has that going for it, too.
And a quick sidenote: I don't think it's quite fair to discuss Wes Anderson without even mentioning Owen Wilson. Wilson, too, proves to be a remarkable storyteller, penning three of the films on this list with Anderson. Because that's what all this comes down to, really: good, strong, heart-filled stories. And, arguably, Anderson (and Wilson) do this to perfection.


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Northern Kentucky's transit agency works to link workers with growing employers
Posted: 9:45 PM, Feb 28, 2017
HEBRON, Ky. -- Shannon Owens is a gate agent at the Cincinnati/Northern Kentucky International Airport, in Boone County.
Owens lives in Westwood, in Cincinnati.
She doesn't drive to her job: She takes the bus, which means she has a nearly 2-hour commute each way, every day.
With thousands of new jobs coming to Northern Kentucky , the region's transit authority will be key to connecting many people with employment.
The Transit Authority of Northern Kentucky is working closely with area employers to make sure there's connectivity between people, jobs and buses -- all for the economic vitality of the entire region.
"I depend on TANK 100 percent to get me to work," Owens said.
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While TANK has 3.6 million rides each year, reverse commutes, like Owens', are making up a bigger percentage.
"Part of TANK's mission is economic development, and if we can't do our job of getting as many people to work as want to work, then our whole economy suffers," TANK General Manager Andrew Aiello said.
Aiello works closely with Frank Busofsky, TANK's planning manager, make sure the right routes go to the right companies.
"It does add to the cost, but it's what we have to do as a transit system," Busofsky said.
The Kentucky Career Center also is a partner, helping to find qualified applicants for open positions. The center handles 1,500 clients a month, according to center director Barbara Stewart.
"This is going to change the environment here in a very, very positive way," she said. "The opportunities are terrific."
So is the need to counsel people on job skills -- "things like showing up for work on time, work ethic, behaving appropriately, coming back after lunch," Stewart said.
But transportation is just as vital for people seeking jobs. Michael Tucker, of Latonia, knows how much: He has a car, he said, but it's not always reliable. So he takes TANK to better himself, like others do.
"If they have access to a bus, and TANK is actually getting them to where they need to go to get a job, it kind or takes away the excuse of 'I can't get there so I'm not going,'" he said.
TANK isn't going solo in this effort. It's also partnering with the Southwest Ohio Regional Transit Authority , operator of Metro, to make sure there's a seamless, regional transportation plan in place.


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Founded in 1957 by Ludmilla Chiriaeff, Les Grands Ballets Canadiens made its U.S. debut at Jacob's Pillow just two years later, and has returned many times since under subsequent directors. The performance seen here was the company's third and final Pillow appearance under the direction of Macedonian-born Gradimir Pankov, who took the reins in 2000. Pankov continued the company's dedication to the development of ballet in all its forms, bringing works such as Nacho Duato's Without Words into the repertory. Mauro Bigonzetti's Four Seasons was commissioned especially for the dancers of Les Grands, as was the same choreographer's Cantata in 2001, and the two works comprised an all-Bigonzetti program at the Pillow.
Antonio Vivaldi, "Spring" from "The Four Seasons"


In June 2012, AHA and ASHE reported that the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) was considering relocation of the Wireless Medical Telemetry Service (WMTS) from TV Channel 37 (608-614 MHz). This FCC evaluation was part of a much larger effort to reallocate portions of the UHF-TV bands for provision of new wireless broadband services. Earlier this month, the FCC issued a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM) to establish rules for this effort. We are pleased that, according to the NPRM, the FCC has tentatively concluded that WMTS systems will not be required to relocate to a different band. WMTS systems will not be required to relocate to a different band.
In reaching the tentative conclusion announced in the NPRM, the FCC used data from the WMTS database managed by the American Society for Healthcare Engineering (ASHE). ASHE has demonstrated that more than 2,700 health care facilities have deployed nearly 104,000 WMTS devices in Channel 37. ASHE estimates it would require replacement costs of $0.7 – $1.4 billion for equipment and installation alone if these systems were rendered unusable by reallocation of Channel 37. In addition, through discussions with WMTS manufacturers, ASHE has learned that the actual installed base of WMTS devices is much higher, as many of the installed WMTS systems are operating without the protection afforded by licensing in the WMTS.
Despite the cost to health care facilities if they have to move WMTS devices to another band, the FCC's proposal is subject to modification based on evaluation of comments from other interested parties who respond to the FCC's proposed band plan. In fact, in the NPRM the FCC has asked whether WMTS could be accommodated in other bands and, if so, at what cost and in what timeframe. In addition, the FCC seeks comment on whether Channel 37 could also accommodate other unlicensed devices, including wireless microphones and, if so, how WMTS might be protected from interference from such uses.
ASHE has already met with medical device manufacturers, hospital users, and other parties interested in developing a series of positions that will support the FCC's initial analysis and serve the health care community's interests by demonstrating that it would not be in the public interest to require relocation of WMTS devices to another band.
To provide the strongest arguments in favor of retaining Channel 37 for WMTS, it is critical for ASHE and its allies to have an accurate count of the number and location of all WMTS systems. An accurate count will also help demonstrate that the FCC would be ill-advised to open up this band to uses by other low-powered devices. To that end, it is critical that the WMTS database reflect all operating WMTS systems.
Registration with ASHE before operating a WMTS system in this band (and in the upper bands of 1395-1400 MHz and 1427-1432 MHz) is a requirement of the FCC regulations. If your WMTS system is not registered with ASHE, the FCC does not treat it as a licensed system. Moreover, if you have not registered your medical telemetry system with ASHE, you may not be eligible to receive compensation if relocation from Channel 37 is necessary. It is therefore critical for your institution's self-interest, as well as the interest of the WMTS community as a whole, that all operating WMTS systems be registered as soon as possible!
Will I have to move my medical telemetry system? How soon and how much will it cost?
In the NPRM, the FCC does not propose reallocation of Channel 37 or relocation of any WMTS licensees. Therefore, it is not yet known whether facilities will have to move their WMTS systems to another band. Until a final decision has been made, there is no reason for any hospital to take precipitous action in moving or avoiding Channel 37.
ASHE's ability to provide convincing arguments, based on solid data, will be the key to preserving Channel 37 as it currently exists. We remain confident that such arguments can be developed and will prevail when the FCC makes a final decision, but we need the WMTS community's support, through timely registration, to assure that result. ASHE and AHA will keep members informed as the process continues.
The most important action you can take now is to review your medical telemetry systems and verify that all WMTS equipment is registered with ASHE, the designated WMTS frequency coordinator. Registration is a requirement of the FCC rules for all systems installed in this band, and registration is the only way the system can be protected from interference from other systems operating in the band. It is critical for those fighting to retain the WMTS allocation in Channel 37 to have the most accurate information on how many systems already reside in this band. Thus, if you have not already done so, please register your WMTS equipment through the ASHE website today.
Registration is quick and easy. To learn more, visit ashe.org/wmts.
ASHE will continue to provide information as it becomes available to the WMTS community regarding any FCC proposals that may affect the use of the spectrum between 608 and 614 MHz. If ASHE and other members of a coalition of interested parties believe it will be helpful for the FCC to hear from interested hospitals, we will not hesitate to assist hospitals in contacting the FCC with an appropriate message of support for the coalition's efforts. Please let ASHE know if you would like to know more about supporting or joining the coalition of interested parties.
For more information, contact ASHE Engineering & Compliance Director John Collins at jcollins@aha.org or 312-422-3805.
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Bitcoin Alliance Launches in Canada
Dec 2, 2013 at 12:00 UTC Updated Dec 3, 2013 at 15:39 UTC
Danny Bradbury
The Bitcoin Alliance of Canada will launch today, aiming to assist users and promote the currency nationwide.
Based in Toronto, the Bitcoin Alliance was founded by Anthony Di Iorio, a bitcoin entrepreneur who sold the online gambling site Satoshi Circle in August. The Bitcoin Alliance of Canada (BAC), designed to unite bitcoin businesses and users across Canada, will provide resources and outreach services for bitcoin members.
Di Iorio conceived the Alliance when the price of the cryptocurrency skyrocketed back in April, although he had been organising bitcoin events long before that. The entrepreneur said:
"I got the concept for the Alliance when I realised that representation for bitcoin was lacking."
The BAC has made some public statements in the interim, like announcing its board in July, but today sees the official launch of its website and membership structure.
The Alliance will offer free memberships alongside a paid two-tier model. Free members will get a 10% discount on bitcoin events, as well as access to educational resources.
There will be two other membership tiers; premium, at the BTC equivalent of CA$25 per year; and a lifetime membership, for CA$125 in BTC.
Premium members will get a 15% discount on events, and will be able to participate in forums and Q&A sessions with the board. Lifetime members will receive a 25% discount, plus the other benefits and surprise promotions. All paid members are eligible for voting rights.
Bitcoin Expo 2014
One of the first events in the BAC's calendar will be Bitcoin Expo 2014, a conference running from 11th – 13th April in Toronto.
Users can register in January to see a number of speakers, including; Cody Wilson, a DarkWallet developer and the founder of 3D weapon printing advocacy group Defense Distributed; Charles Hoskinson, founder of the Bitcoin Education Project; David Bailey of YBitcoin; and CoinKite's Rodolpho Novak.
The Alliance is taking pro bono legal counsel through its general counsel Stuart Hoegner, and it hopes to reach regulators to cement bitcoin's position in Canada, Di Iorio said.
The Alliance was developed at arm's length from the Bitcoin Foundation, which has been busy setting up international chapters.
Di Iorio had originally discussed becoming a chapter of the Foundation, but negotiations fell through. The Foundation sent through an agreement that would have required the Alliance to merge its membership with the Foundation's own. Di Iorio said:
"The board unanimously decided not to go forward with that agreement. When we got it, we were really disappointed with it. We had to push ahead with our membership structure, but still left the door open for some kind of working relationship with them."
"We are looking forward to working with them in a friendship role, in a way that we retain our independence," he added.
The Alliance's next step is to reach out to groups in other countries and collaborate with them in a spirit of decentralised cooperation.
Board members for the Alliance are; entrepreneurs Eric Spano, Howard Patosh and Curtis Albrecht; telecoms investigator Michael Perklin; community technology advocate Jeff Coleman; and Reed Holmes, the business development manager for incumbent Canadian bitcoin exchange Virtex.
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