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Dancing With the Stars S29E11: Finale
DWTS' Finale Was Full of Delightful Surprises, Except Who Was Crowned Champion
by Kim Krober
And just like that, another sequin-filled season of Dancing with the Stars came to a close. Highlights from the finale included seeing Derek Hough take to the dance floor again, this time solo with a routine set to "Let's Fall in Love for the Night." He is such a delight to watch. He channeled his inner Fred Astaire and Gene Kelly and just cut loose on the costume and props department in the cutest dance I've seen in a while and the most comforting thing about tonight. It was also great to see many of the eliminated contestants return (especially Jeannie Mai looking alive and well) and finalist Nelly perform a medley of his greatest hits while his partner Daniella danced with her husband and fellow pro, Pasha Pashkov. I never realized how cute these two are together.
There were a lot of naysayers boycotting the show because Nelly made it to the finale. If you want my two cents, I wasn't bothered by him being at the finish line. He was entertaining to watch and he worked hard. Just look at last week's breakthrough Jive to the Brian Setzer Orchestra's "Jump Jive And Wail" or his heartfelt Rumba to "Nobody Knows" by the Tony Rich Project. I preferred seeing him here over Kaitlyn. I wish Johnny wasn't eliminated last week, but in a reality competition based upon America's votes and popularity contests, we don't always get what we want. I despise the "Bachelor Nation" and all it stands for, but that being said, I wasn't worried that Kaitlyn would be crowned champion. The others had better odds of winning. I found myself torn between Nev and Justina, as both were deserving of the Mirrorball trophy this season, but ultimately I think I was rooting for Nev's showmanship.
During the first round, each remaining couple was given the chance to redo their favorite dance of the season. And then it was time for the highly anticipated Freestyle round, where anything goes and people really let loose and get fancy-free. Let's take a look at how your favorites did on this final week of competition:
Kaitlyn Bristowe & Artem Chigvintsev, Argentine Tango
To the surprise of no one, Kaitlyn and Artem chose to repeat their Argentine Tango to Britney Spears' "Toxic." It was probably her best dance of the season and she was obviously thrilled to dance to a favorite Britney song. Derek called her a true contender for the Mirrorball. Bruno told her she took his breath away and he was tingling all over. Carrie Ann enjoyed seeing her become an exquisite dancer, calling it one of her top three favorites of all time.
Nelly & Daniella Karagach, Samba
Nelly and Daniella recreated their Samba to DeBarge's "Rhythm of the Night." Bruno complimented his spontaneity and charm. Carrie Ann said his journey on the show was fascinating and that dance is about the joy of life and not just about the steps. Derek also praised him for being a "moment-maker" and making people feel good throughout the competition. Aww, he's auctioning off his specially made dance shoes to benefit teens? What a nice thing to do!
Nev Schulman & Jenna Johnson, Paso Doble
I really enjoyed seeing Nev and Jenna recreate their memorable Paso Doble set to "Black Swan Swan Lake" by District 78. Such dark intensity! Carrie Ann said it was once again perfection with artistry and technical precision. Derek loved the new opening and teased Nev for "catfishing" everyone from week one to now because he's blossomed into such a bona fide dancer. Bruno appreciated more intensity and drama the second time around.
Justina Machado & Sasha Farber, Cha Cha
Justina and Sasha's Cha Cha to Aretha Franklin's "Respect" deserved some respect and an encore performance. Derek admired her exploding charisma and the mic flip in which she sang. Bruno told her she knows how to shake a tail feather, calling her almost too hot to trot. Carrie Ann said she lights the hardwood floors on fire in a way nobody else knows how to do in this competition. Tyra Banks said it was bananas. Um, thanks for the colorful commentary.
Freestyle Round
Nelly & Daniella Karagach, Freestyle
In what was likely another first for the program, Nelly and Daniella's Freestyle brought out music samplings from "Savage" by Megan Thee Stallion and "Hypnotize" by The Notorious B.I.G. I enjoyed the gangsta vibe. Bruno called Nelly the king of swag and the king of bling, bringing hip-hop royalty to the ballroom. Carrie Ann said it was a hopeful hybrid of hip-hop and ballroom, showing what the future could hold for dance. Derek loved the intro and ending move, saying Nelly went out on a high note. It was great to see him finally earn a perfect score!
Kaitlyn Bristowe & Artem Chigvintsev, Freestyle
Kaitlyn and Artem's Freestyle set to "Sparkling Diamonds" from the Moulin Rouge soundtrack had cute costumes and vintage dance moves to class it up, so I didn't hate it. Carrie Ann had high expectations for this freestyle and said luckily they met them. Derek said 10's a girl's best friend, admiring everything about the dance from the swing to the swinging dance moves. Bruno loved the jam-packed content and dazzling showcase of her talents.
Nev Schulman & Jenna Johnson, Freestyle
Nev and Jenna's Freestyle to "Singin' in the Rain" was adorable from start to finish. I loved that it reflected his love for old musicals but jazzed it up with a modern, vibrant feel. Derek called him a leading man, saying he brings out the best in Jenna as much as she brings out the best in him. Bruno said they were aiming high with this Freestyle, but they succeeded. Carrie Ann enjoyed the levels of classy and raunchy, as well as the magical partnership.
Justina Machado & Sasha Farber, Freestyle
Justina and Sasha's Freestyle to "Let's Get Loud" by Jennifer Lopez and "Bamboleo" by The Gypsy Kings was the perfect reflection of her proud Latina heritage. I loved the colorfulness of everything. It felt like a true celebration of the season with lasers, confetti, and pyrotechnics. Bruno called it a celebration of the Latin experience and a zest for life, bubbling about it being a tonic for the soul. Carrie Ann loved the dance and its powerful message of her strength, courage, and culture. Derek couldn't think of a better Freestyle to finish the entire season, saying they crushed it. I would concur.
With five minutes remaining, there was no built-up fanfare as the winners were revealed. It was all very matter-of-fact. The couple in fourth place was Justina & Sasha. The couple in third place was Nelly & Daniella. The couple in second place was Nev & Jenna. And then Kaitlyn & Artem were crowned Dancing with the Stars Champions. I sat angry at my keyboard for about five minutes, letting the knowledge sink in about the winners. I am happy for Artem on his first win as he is a talented dance pro who deserves a spotlight, but I don't feel Kaitlyn was the best dancer in this competition. This season broke my heart many times. What did you think of the finale? Do you think the right couple took home the Mirrorball trophy this season?
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Microsoft is reportedly planning a big redesign to the Surface Pro next year. ZDNet's Mary Jo Foley reports that the Surface Pro 6 (or whatever it will be called) isn't arriving until mid-2019, but will be "heavily redesigned." It's not clear what this design will entail, but Microsoft is also reportedly readying a refresh for this fall with Intel's latest 8th-generation processors. Separately, Thurrott.com reports that the Surface Pro 6 is codenamed Carmel.
ZDNet speculates that a Surface Laptop might arrive this fall with Intel's latest processors, but there's no confirmed reports of the addition of USB-C on the refreshed Surface Pro or Surface Laptop. It would make sense for Microsoft to refresh both devices with USB-C, especially as the company recently introduced its Surface Book 2 with a USB-C port. Microsoft will likely keep its Surface Connector for another generation, though. Microsoft is also reportedly readying a new Surface-branded headset. ZDNet reports that the mystery device is similar to a Jabra Evolve.
The latest Surface rumors follow a Bloomberg report last month that revealed Microsoft is working on $400 Surface tablets to better compete with Chromebooks and iPads in education. The new Surface tablets will reportedly include 10-inch displays, USB-C for charging, and be 20 percent lighter than existing Surface Pro models.


Kouvola is a town and municipality in southeastern Finland. Kick off your visit on the 12th (Mon): delve into the lush surroundings at Niivermaki Nature Conservation Area, then take in the dramatic natural features at Hiidenvuori, and then explore the galleries of World Heritage Site - Verla Groundwood and Board Mill. Keep things going the next day: look for all kinds of wild species at Riverside Park, then wander the streets of Linden Esplanade, and then look for all kinds of wild species at Arboretum Mustila.
To find traveler tips and tourist information, read our Kouvola tour itinerary planner .
Tel Aviv, Israel to Kouvola is an approximately 10.5-hour flight. Traveling from Tel Aviv in August, you will find days in Kouvola are little chillier (24°C), and nights are much colder (13°C). Wrap up your sightseeing on the 13th (Tue) early enough to travel to Mariehamn.
Mariehamn is the capital of Åland, an autonomous territory under Finnish sovereignty. Kick off your visit on the 14th (Wed): see the interesting displays at Museumship Pommern, brush up on your military savvy at Aland Maritime Museum, then examine the collection at Kastelholm Castle, and finally take a leisurely stroll along The Maritime Quarter. Get ready for a full day of sightseeing on the 15th (Thu): see the interesting displays at Aland Hunting & Fishing Museum, then step off the mainland to explore Kobba Klintar, and then explore the historical opulence of Jan Karlsgården Outdoor museum Jan Karlsgården.
To see traveler tips, photos, maps, and more tourist information, refer to the Mariehamn trip planner .
You can do a combination of train and flight from Kouvola to Mariehamn in 4 hours. Alternatively, you can do a combination of car and ferry; or do a combination of train and ferry. Expect a daytime high around 22°C in August, and nighttime lows around 13°C. Finish up your sightseeing early on the 15th (Thu) so you can travel to Turku.
Kick off your visit on the 16th (Fri): gain insight at Turku Cathedral, explore the world behind art at Ett Hem Museum, then examine the collection at Luostarinmaki Handicrafts Museum, and finally brush up on your military savvy at Forum Marinum Maritime Centre. On the 17th (Sat), you'll have a packed day of sightseeing: explore the galleries of Turku Castle and then identify plant and animal life at Vepsa Island.
For maps, more things to do, ratings, and tourist information, you can read our Turku route website .
You can fly from Mariehamn to Turku in 2 hours. Another option is to ride a ferry. In August, plan for daily highs up to 23°C, and evening lows to 12°C. Finish your sightseeing early on the 17th (Sat) to allow enough time to travel to Kuusamo.
Discover out-of-the-way places like Seurasaari Island and Open-Air Museum and Linnanmaki Amusement Park. Let the collections at Sea Fortress Suomenlinna and Vantaa Art Museum capture your imagination. When in Helsinki, make a side trip to see Nuuksio National Park in Espoo, approximately 46 minutes away. Next up on the itinerary: admire the masterpieces at Kansallisgalleria and enjoy the sand and surf at Aurinkolahti Beach.
Traveling by car from Turku to Helsinki takes 2 hours. Alternatively, you can take a train; or fly. In August, daily temperatures in Helsinki can reach 24°C, while at night they dip to 13°C. Wrap up your sightseeing by early afternoon on the 21st (Wed) to allow enough time to travel back home.


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Bodies and MindsPopular FictionsThe Wide, Wide World
For Halloween: On Tam Lin
By Sanjukta Paul
Two years ago around Halloween time, I discovered Tam Lin – the Scottish ballad most famously re-told by the 60's British folk rock band Fairport Convention.[1] I became mildly obsessed. I imagined some kind of mystical affinity with the story, across the ages and the continents. This Halloween, I'm reflecting on what it is that captivated me so about the fairy tale.
Tam Lin tells the story of Janet, a maiden who defies the king's prohibition and travels alone to a haunted wood called Carterhaugh. Once there, she encounters a mysterious figure called Tam Lin, who demands explanation of her unbidden presence. She replies that she will come and go as she pleases, asking no leave of him. Upon her return home, her father –a great lord—speaks up, "meek and mild," noting, "alas," that she appears to be pregnant. Once again, Janet is ready with her reply and resolved in her intention:
Well, if that be so … myself shall bear the blame.
There's not a knight in all your hall, shall get the baby's name.
For if my love were an earthly knight, as he is an elfin gray
I'd not change my own true love, for any knight you have.[2]
Now Janet again rides to Carterhaugh, and –depending upon the version you read— either seeks Tam Lin directly, or searches for an abortificent herb. Either way, Tam Lin again appears, and Janet poses the central question: Who are you? He explains that he was captured by the fairies, imprisoned in the wood. He fears that the fairy queen will soon sacrifice him as a tithe to Hell. Yet there is one, exceedingly challenging way out, and it falls upon Janet to execute it. On the night of Halloween, the entire fairy troop will ride. "Those that would their true love win, at Miles Cross they must hide." Janet's task is to pull Tam Lin from his horse, and then –the heart of the story— hold him, never dropping him, as the fairies turn him from one fearsome creature to another –a lion bold, a serpent, a burning rod of lead– until finally, he is re-born a "naked knight" in her arms.
There's a lot going on here. Janet embarks on a quest that is very much shaped by the social context in which she finds herself – an unmarried woman, an heiress to boot, in a patriarchal feudal society that prizes and polices virginity But the story is more than a document of political realities and a transgressive feminist heroine. Myths and folk tales are deep things. Jung saw them as portals into an inner collective psyche, and the Tam Lin story is veritably brimming with material for such an analysis: forbidden woods; defiance of authoritative father figures; devouring mother figures; the plucking of roses; alchemical personal transformations ending in redemption; the ubiquity of the color green.
When Janet defies the king's prohibition to ride –alone- to the forbidden woods of Carterhaugh, she is traveling to a wild, primal space that is outside – outside both the feudal social order, and outside the collective, masculine, rationalistic principle that rules much of outer public life (and which the king and the feudal order can be taken to symbolize). The woods are a portal to the deep, dark, fertile space of the unconscious. When she plucks the rose that has bloomed out of that fertile soil, Tam Lin, like a dream, also bubbles up from that space. The place of their encounter is a sort of borderland between the conscious world and the unconscious, and there ensues a bit of a border dispute between Janet and Tam Lin, both staking a claim.
That dispute ends in a fruitful, if preliminary and not yet stable, exchange. Janet travels out of the world dominated by the overbearing, collective masculine (the king), who has segmented the world neatly into categories, rules, and status distinctions, into a world in which all those rules and categories are more or less suspended. Her initial trip to the fertile void (the woods) activates her own fertility: she leaves the woods pregnant.
I think one of the most notable things about the story is its layers of reversals. The representative of the regimented, masculine outer world, a lone rider who exercises her free will to come invading the primal space of the woods, is a woman. The place-bound denizen of the dark, mysterious, pre-rational woods is a man. In a way, both individuals are being held captive by larger orders cast in extremes. The feudal order shows the dark side of the drive to reason, to categorize. The faerie world and the woods, meanwhile, are dangerous because they threaten regression, to the absence of distinctions altogether. In their union, Janet and Tam Lin free themselves from both extremes and move toward integration, toward appropriate distinctions, which moderate and manage -without oppressing or killing- the fertile, mysterious void.
But for the story to get to that point, the point of integration, takes heroics on Janet's part. Here, I think, is the real beauty of the story. The most striking thing about Janet is not so much her defiance of authority and convention, her bravery, or her commitment to true love, although all of these are present. Janet's heroism is her particular combination of curiosity and responsibility.
She has beauty, wealth, and status in the feudal order. But she ties her kirtle green and rides to Carterhaugh, a place dangerous as well as forbidden to her, and she does it for no real reason but to follow her curiosity. Janet wants to see and experience the woods; she wants to see and experience Tam Lin. She is fundamentally an explorer, of outer and inner worlds. To be curious and to explore is to not have a fixed goal in mind. It is to embody an openness that outer social orders and hierarchies of all kinds (feudal and otherwise) tend to find threatening. But curiosity is not just the absence of something; it is not mere empty space. Rather, it is spaciousness imbued with love: a caring sort of openness – cura, to care. Why bother to explore the world, after all, if one doesn't care about it, in some way?
From Naomi Bardoff's "Tam Lin"
To be sure, at a certain point in the story, Janet does acquire a goal, and she goes about seeking it in a tenacious and courageous fashion. She has the opportunity to paper over her the consequences of her actions, or to sweep them under the rug, by marrying one of her father's knights, but she refuses. Instead, she chooses a much harder road, fraught with risk – and she stays that course. Tam Lin might have refused her; she might have met some danger along the way; she might not have succeeded in freeing him from the fairies; and even after doing so, she continues to risk the vengeance of the fairy queen. Her ordeal at Miles Cross is a stunning demonstration of her strength and groundedness: she must not only be physically strong, but also strong in her heart, as Tam Lin is transformed into fearsome creature after creature in her arms. She must literally contain him so that the process of transformation can complete.
The deepest lesson of the story, to my mind, is that these moral qualities, curiosity and responsibility, twin aspects of strength, are required not only for our outer quests, but for the inner quest of psychological integration that is the human condition, as well. Janet teaches us that the inner journey really is a hero's quest, requiring old-fashioned virtues of character that are ultimately born of will. Even here, we have choices, and responsibilities. Janet challenges and inspires us to take heart, no matter how fearsome the burning-hot brand of iron in our arms, or inside us, may look.
Sanjukta Paul: Dilettante.
[1] I refer primarily to Child's Ballad 39a, supposedly the earliest recorded version of the song. See http://www.tam-lin.org/front.html.
[2] Fairport version, for brevity (in substance, this verse is very similar to Version A recorded in Child's Ballads).
Sarah Mesle on Facebook October 30, 2012	At	11:16 am
Sanjukta Paul for Avidly's first Halloween! This is completely excellent. Morgan Fahey, Jedediah Purdy, others invested in this story, and what Sanjukta has said over it the last couple of of years ( Elizabeth Hamilton)–check it out!
also, I have never liked this song (blasphemy) but I listened to it about ten times in a row last night while formatting this piece, and am here to say that it is awesome. If you're home today ( Jordan Stein), you might consider doing the same. Also, while I'm just tagging people here, I have been very curious to hear how people like Peter Coviello, Hester Blum, and Caleb Smith feel about the extravagences of Fairport Convention. Because, like, DAMN, right?
Hester Blum on Facebook October 30, 2012	At	12:22 pm
While I like Richard Thompson it is Jonathan Eburne who is the big Fairport Convention fan…
Peter Coviello on Facebook October 30, 2012	At	1:04 pm
Totes my jam: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cMNrVEi54yA
Barbara Mesle on Facebook October 30, 2012	At	4:48 pm
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Q: Casting string value to enumerated value C# I have a class MyClass which has
public enum Days{Mon, Tue, Wed}

and then a field
public Days dayOfWeek;

From another class in my solution I have a string (myString) value of either 0, 1 or 2. I want to set an instance of MyClass's (called myClassInstance) field dayOfWeek equal to myStringvalue such that 0 means Mon, 1 means Tue...
I have tried
myClassInstance.dayOfWeek = Convert.ToInt32(myString)

and
myClassInstance.dayOfWeek = (int) myString

but neither work. I'm sure this is straightforward. Why don't these techniques work?

A: Try
string s = "0";
Days day = (Days)Enum.Parse(typeof(Days), s);

or
string s = "0";
Days day;
if(!Enum.TryParse(s, out day)) {
    // error handling
}

to gracefully handle the case where s can't be parsed to an instance of Days.
This works per the documentation for Enum.Parse which states

Converts the string representation of the name or numeric value of one or more enumerated constants to an equivalent enumerated object.

Additionally, you can check if the instance of string actually represents a value defined by the enum via
string s = "3";
bool defined = Enum.IsDefined(typeof(Days), s);
// defined is false

Enum.Parse will blindly parse s in this case, even though it doesn't represent a value defined by the enum Days and the cast from the result of Enum.Parse to Days will not fail.
Moreover, there is a built-in enum that represents the days of the week. This enum is System.DayOfWeek. I would suggest using this.
Finally, if for some reason you can't use System.DayOfWeek, you should at a minimum rename your enum to Day instead of Days (remove the pluralization). Only enums that represent flags should be pluralized. Note that the variable day above represents a day, and it does not represent days. This is why you should rename the enum to Day. This is consistent with the naming conventions that most C# and .NET programmers use.

A: You just need to cast the int to the Days enum after converting it:
myClassInstance.dayOfWeek = (Days)Convert.ToInt32(myString);

You can also use Enum.TryParse (if you're in .NET 4) or Enum.Parse.  Depending on how much your trust the incoming data, you may also want to call Enum.IsDefined to make sure that the integer is a valid value of Days (otherwise, in all of these cases, you'll have an instance of Days that doesn't correspond to any of your named values).
Days dayOfWeek;
if (!Enum.TryParse(myString, out dayOfWeek)) {
    dayOfWeek = Days.Mon; // or some other default, or throw
}

myClassInstance.dayOfWeek = dayOfWeek;

Or
myClassInstance.dayOfWeek = (Days)Enum.Parse(typeof(Days), myString);

In addition, as others have mentioned, you may want to consider using the built-in DayOfWeek enum instead of your custom version, if it matches what you really want.
Also, as others have mentioned again, even if it doesn't, Day is a better name based on the .NET naming guidelines, since it isn't a Flags enum.

A: Try
myClassInstance.dayOfWeek = (Days)int.Parse(myString);

Do you know there is already an Enum that you can resuse called DayOfWeek (http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.dayofweek.aspx)

A: Try:
Days d = (Days)Enum.Parse(typeof(Days), myString);

A more complete example is here.

A: You need to cast the int to Days:
myClassInstance.dayOfWeek = (Days)Convert.ToInt32(myString);

A: What you want to do is cast the string to an int (or tryparse if you want to do it in a nice way)
Then use the Following code to set the enum value:
(Days)Enum.ToObject(typeof(Days), intValue);

A: This should work
myClassInstance.dayOfWeek = Enum.Parse(typeof(Days), myString);

Enump.Parse

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The existing networks of pedestrian routes will be made more comfortable by installation of covered canopies to provide protection in all weathers. The cost will be covered by them being partly fitted with photovoltaic cells producing an income over thirty years. A similar approach can be taken with cycleways.


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UEFA-ina momčad godine (engl. UEFA Team of the Year) naziv je za UEFA-inu nogometnu nagradu koja predstavlja najbolju europsku nogometnu momčad za tekuću godinu sastavljenu od 11 najboljih europskih nogometaša i jednog trenera prema određenim statističkim kriterijima. Dodjeljuje se od 2001. godine.

Najviše pojavljivanja ima portugalski nogometaš Cristiano Ronaldo, koji je 12 puta bio uvršten u najbolju europsku momčad. Drugi je Argentinac Lionel Messi s devet uvrštavanja. Momčadi s najviše zastupljenih igrača u izborima su španjolski velikani Barcelona (44) i Real Madrid (39), a slijede ih Bayern (20) i Milan (18). Barcelona je 2009. i 2010. imala šest igrača iz svojih redova u izboru.

Od trenera su najzastupljeniji José Mourinho (četiri puta s tri momčadi) i Alex Ferguson.

Jedini hrvatski nogometaš koji je zastupljen u jednoj od izbora najbolje europske momčadi je Luka Modrić (2016. i 2017.)

Izvori

Vanjske poveznice
 Popis najboljih momčadi po godinama na stranicama UEFA-e

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International Translation Day 2019
Every year on the 30 September, language professionals around the world celebrate International Translation Day.
"International Translation Day is meant as an opportunity to pay tribute to the work of language professionals, which plays an important role in bringing nations together, facilitating dialogue, understanding and cooperation, contributing to development and strengthening world peace and security."
For 2019, this theme is Translation and Indigenous Languages in celebration of the UN International Year of Indigenous Languages.
We would like to use today as an opportunity to celebrate the work of language professionals around the country whose work facilitates understanding and cooperation between different cultures.
As a translator or interpreter, you provide a vital service that ensures those with language barriers are provided fair and equal access to participate fully in the community, and engage in health, legal, and government services and programs.
"Transposition of a literary or scientific work, including technical work, from one language into another language, professional translation, including translation proper, interpretation and terminology, is indispensable to preserving clarity, a positive climate and productiveness in international public discourse and interpersonal communication."
However, the work of translators and interpreters is widely misunderstood and often undervalued.
What many people fail to realise is language professionals perform a vital service for Australia's culturally diverse community. They contribute their skills and expertise to ensure those from culturally and linguistically diverse (CALD) backgrounds are given fair access to essential services,
What happens when a language professional should be engaged and isn't?
In health settings, lives may be endangered, and an unnecessary burden may be imposed on the health care system. In a legal context, the effects can be miscarriages of justice, misunderstood community orders or inappropriate jail terms. If language professionals are not properly engaged, it could result in failure to access government programs and services or the documents that underpins them.
What is clear is that translators and interpreters play a key role in maintaining the integrity of the judicial system and ensure access to health and human services to the communities they serve.
Today, Professionals Australia would like to say thank you to all translators and interpreters for their continued hard work and dedication to their profession! Without you, many wouldn't be able to access essential services and fully participate in the community.
As your union, we are committed to improving the working conditions of all language professionals so that they and the communities they serve may have a sustainable future.
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The changing role of the visual arts in public education is examined as an introductory foundation to the field of art education. The significance of art experiences for children of all ages is explored through readings, research, observations and participation. Theories of visual learning and artistic development are observed and analyzed. A 10 hour observation/participation component in the schools is required. Falls.


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Ганьхэ () — правый приток реки Нэньцзян во Внутренней Монголии, в Китае. Её длина составляет 446 км, а площадь бассейна около 20 000 км².

Она берёт начало с восточного склона хребта Большой Хинган и впадает в реку Нэньцзян у города , протекает через Морин-Дава-Даурский и Орочонский автономные хошуны, находящиеся под управлением городского округа Хулун-Буир.

Её сток охватывает площадь более 20 тысяч квадратных километров, покрытые, в основном, холмами и равнинами. Бассейн реки Ганьхэ населяют полукочевые народы — дауры и орочоны.

Примечания

Притоки Нэньцзяна
Реки Внутренней Монголии


In this article we are going to present you a computer generated betting prediction for the match from the championship of National Basketball Association between the teams of Oklahoma and Chicago. The game will be played on 15.3.2015 and the host is Oklahoma Thunder.
Chicago to win with margin of 7,5 with odds of 1,9 is with 60.04% probability and ROI of 14.08 units.
Oklahoma to win with margin of -7,5 with odds of 1,9 is with 39.96% probability and ROI of -24.08 units.
Oklahoma and Chicago to score less than 205 points is with odds of 1,9, 59.66% probability and ROI of 13.35 units.
Oklahoma and Chicago to score more than 205 points is with odds of 1,9, 40.34% probability and ROI of -23.35 units.
Chicago to win the match with odds of 3,7 is 44.19% probable and with ROI of 63.51 units.
Oklahoma to win the match with odds of 1,29 is 55.81% probable and with ROI of -28.01 units.
Chicago to win with margin of 1 with odds of 3,4 is with 45.19% probability and ROI of 53.66 units.
Chicago to win with margin of 1,5 with odds of 3,25 is with 46.41% probability and ROI of 50.83 units.
Chicago to win with margin of 2 with odds of 3,1 is with 47.47% probability and ROI of 47.15 units.
Chicago to win with margin of 2,5 with odds of 2,75 is with 48.64% probability and ROI of 33.76 units.
Chicago to win with margin of 3 with odds of 2,7 is with 49.76% probability and ROI of 34.36 units.
Chicago to win with margin of 3,5 with odds of 2,6 is with 50.89% probability and ROI of 32.32 units.
Chicago to win with margin of 4 with odds of 2,5 is with 52.08% probability and ROI of 30.19 units.
Chicago to win with margin of 4,5 with odds of 2,3 is with 53.17% probability and ROI of 22.28 units.
Chicago to win with margin of 5 with odds of 2,25 is with 54.41% probability and ROI of 22.41 units.
Chicago to win with margin of 5,5 with odds of 2,1 is with 55.44% probability and ROI of 16.43 units.
Chicago to win with margin of 6 with odds of 2,05 is with 56.74% probability and ROI of 16.33 units.
Chicago to win with margin of 6,5 with odds of 2 is with 57.74% probability and ROI of 15.47 units.
Chicago to win with margin of 7 with odds of 1,95 is with 59.10% probability and ROI of 15.25 units.
Chicago to win with margin of 8 with odds of 1,83 is with 61.47% probability and ROI of 12.49 units.
Chicago to win with margin of 8,5 with odds of 1,76 is with 62.36% probability and ROI of 9.75 units.
Chicago to win with margin of 9 with odds of 1,71 is with 63.85% probability and ROI of 9.19 units.
Chicago to win with margin of 9,5 with odds of 1,66 is with 64.70% probability and ROI of 7.40 units.
Chicago to win with margin of 10 with odds of 1,57 is with 66.26% probability and ROI of 4.02 units.
Chicago to win with margin of 10,5 with odds of 1,55 is with 67.05% probability and ROI of 3.92 units.
Chicago to win with margin of 11 with odds of 1,5 is with 68.69% probability and ROI of 3.04 units.
Chicago to win with margin of 11,5 with odds of 1,47 is with 69.44% probability and ROI of 2.08 units.
Chicago to win with margin of 12 with odds of 1,43 is with 71.15% probability and ROI of 1.74 units.
Chicago to win with margin of 12,5 with odds of 1,41 is with 71.84% probability and ROI of 1.30 units.
Chicago to win with margin of 13 with odds of 1,37 is with 73.62% probability and ROI of 0.86 units.
Chicago to win with margin of 13,5 with odds of 1,35 is with 74.26% probability and ROI of 0.25 units.
Chicago to win with margin of 14 with odds of 1,31 is with 76.16% probability and ROI of -0.23 units.
Chicago to win with margin of 14,5 with odds of 1,3 is with 76.76% probability and ROI of -0.21 units.
Chicago to win with margin of 15 with odds of 1,28 is with 78.71% probability and ROI of 0.75 units.
Chicago to win with margin of 15,5 with odds of 1,26 is with 79.23% probability and ROI of -0.16 units.
Oklahoma to win with margin of -15,5 with odds of 3,6 is with 20.77% probability and ROI of -25.25 units.
Oklahoma to win with margin of -15 with odds of 3,45 is with 21.29% probability and ROI of -26.54 units.
Oklahoma to win with margin of -14,5 with odds of 3,3 is with 23.24% probability and ROI of -23.30 units.
Oklahoma to win with margin of -14 with odds of 3,25 is with 23.84% probability and ROI of -22.53 units.
Oklahoma to win with margin of -13,5 with odds of 3,1 is with 25.74% probability and ROI of -20.21 units.
Oklahoma to win with margin of -13 with odds of 2,8 is with 26.38% probability and ROI of -26.14 units.
Oklahoma to win with margin of -12,5 with odds of 2,7 is with 28.16% probability and ROI of -23.97 units.
Oklahoma to win with margin of -12 with odds of 2,62 is with 28.85% probability and ROI of -24.41 units.
Oklahoma to win with margin of -11,5 with odds of 2,55 is with 30.56% probability and ROI of -22.08 units.
Oklahoma to win with margin of -11 with odds of 2,4 is with 31.31% probability and ROI of -24.86 units.
Oklahoma to win with margin of -10,5 with odds of 2,3 is with 32.95% probability and ROI of -24.21 units.
Oklahoma to win with margin of -10 with odds of 2,2 is with 33.74% probability and ROI of -25.76 units.
Oklahoma to win with margin of -9,5 with odds of 2,1 is with 35.30% probability and ROI of -25.87 units.
Oklahoma to win with margin of -9 with odds of 2,05 is with 36.15% probability and ROI of -25.90 units.
Oklahoma to win with margin of -8,5 with odds of 2 is with 37.64% probability and ROI of -24.72 units.
Oklahoma to win with margin of -8 with odds of 1,95 is with 38.53% probability and ROI of -24.86 units.
Oklahoma to win with margin of -7 with odds of 1,83 is with 40.90% probability and ROI of -25.15 units.
Oklahoma to win with margin of -6,5 with odds of 1,71 is with 42.26% probability and ROI of -27.73 units.
Oklahoma to win with margin of -6 with odds of 1,71 is with 43.26% probability and ROI of -26.03 units.
Oklahoma to win with margin of -5,5 with odds of 1,66 is with 44.56% probability and ROI of -26.03 units.
Oklahoma to win with margin of -5 with odds of 1,57 is with 45.59% probability and ROI of -28.42 units.
Oklahoma to win with margin of -4,5 with odds of 1,55 is with 46.83% probability and ROI of -27.41 units.
Oklahoma to win with margin of -4 with odds of 1,5 is with 47.92% probability and ROI of -28.12 units.
Oklahoma to win with margin of -3,5 with odds of 1,47 is with 49.11% probability and ROI of -27.81 units.
Oklahoma to win with margin of -3 with odds of 1,41 is with 50.24% probability and ROI of -29.16 units.
Oklahoma to win with margin of -2,5 with odds of 1,4 is with 51.36% probability and ROI of -28.10 units.
Oklahoma to win with margin of -2 with odds of 1,35 is with 52.53% probability and ROI of -29.08 units.
Oklahoma to win with margin of -1,5 with odds of 1,33 is with 53.59% probability and ROI of -28.72 units.
Oklahoma to win with margin of -1 with odds of 1,3 is with 54.81% probability and ROI of -28.75 units.
Oklahoma and Chicago to score more than 197 points is with odds of 1,4, 60.81% probability and ROI of -14.86 units.
Oklahoma and Chicago to score more than 197,5 points is with odds of 1,43, 59.29% probability and ROI of -15.21 units.
Oklahoma and Chicago to score more than 198 points is with odds of 1,44, 58.27% probability and ROI of -16.09 units.
Oklahoma and Chicago to score more than 198,5 points is with odds of 1,47, 56.85% probability and ROI of -16.43 units.
Oklahoma and Chicago to score more than 199 points is with odds of 1,48, 55.72% probability and ROI of -17.53 units.
Oklahoma and Chicago to score more than 199,5 points is with odds of 1,52, 54.31% probability and ROI of -17.45 units.
Oklahoma and Chicago to score more than 200 points is with odds of 1,54, 53.15% probability and ROI of -18.16 units.
Oklahoma and Chicago to score more than 200,5 points is with odds of 1,57, 51.82% probability and ROI of -18.64 units.
Oklahoma and Chicago to score more than 201 points is with odds of 1,61, 50.55% probability and ROI of -18.61 units.
Oklahoma and Chicago to score more than 201,5 points is with odds of 1,66, 49.26% probability and ROI of -18.23 units.
Oklahoma and Chicago to score more than 202 points is with odds of 1,68, 47.97% probability and ROI of -19.40 units.
Oklahoma and Chicago to score more than 202,5 points is with odds of 1,71, 46.79% probability and ROI of -19.99 units.
Oklahoma and Chicago to score more than 203 points is with odds of 1,74, 45.39% probability and ROI of -21.01 units.
Oklahoma and Chicago to score more than 203,5 points is with odds of 1,76, 44.24% probability and ROI of -22.15 units.
Oklahoma and Chicago to score more than 204 points is with odds of 1,8, 42.86% probability and ROI of -22.86 units.
Oklahoma and Chicago to score more than 204,5 points is with odds of 1,83, 41.82% probability and ROI of -23.46 units.
Oklahoma and Chicago to score more than 205,5 points is with odds of 1,95, 39.34% probability and ROI of -23.29 units.
Oklahoma and Chicago to score more than 206 points is with odds of 1,98, 37.87% probability and ROI of -25.01 units.
Oklahoma and Chicago to score more than 206,5 points is with odds of 2, 36.98% probability and ROI of -26.04 units.
Oklahoma and Chicago to score more than 207 points is with odds of 2,02, 35.43% probability and ROI of -28.42 units.
Oklahoma and Chicago to score more than 207,5 points is with odds of 2,05, 34.58% probability and ROI of -29.10 units.
Oklahoma and Chicago to score more than 208 points is with odds of 2,08, 33.09% probability and ROI of -31.16 units.
Oklahoma and Chicago to score more than 208,5 points is with odds of 2,1, 32.36% probability and ROI of -32.05 units.
Oklahoma and Chicago to score more than 209 points is with odds of 2,2, 30.80% probability and ROI of -32.25 units.
Oklahoma and Chicago to score more than 209,5 points is with odds of 2,25, 30.10% probability and ROI of -32.27 units.
Oklahoma and Chicago to score more than 210 points is with odds of 2,35, 28.60% probability and ROI of -32.78 units.
Oklahoma and Chicago to score more than 210,5 points is with odds of 2,4, 28.00% probability and ROI of -32.79 units.
Oklahoma and Chicago to score more than 211 points is with odds of 2,55, 26.47% probability and ROI of -32.49 units.
Oklahoma and Chicago to score more than 211,5 points is with odds of 2,6, 25.92% probability and ROI of -32.60 units.
Oklahoma and Chicago to score more than 212 points is with odds of 2,62, 24.47% probability and ROI of -35.89 units.
Oklahoma and Chicago to score more than 212,5 points is with odds of 2,65, 24.00% probability and ROI of -36.40 units.
Oklahoma and Chicago to score more than 213 points is with odds of 2,75, 22.51% probability and ROI of -38.10 units.
Oklahoma and Chicago to score less than 197 points is with odds of 2,75, 39.19% probability and ROI of 7.76 units.
Oklahoma and Chicago to score less than 197,5 points is with odds of 2,65, 40.71% probability and ROI of 7.87 units.
Oklahoma and Chicago to score less than 198 points is with odds of 2,62, 41.73% probability and ROI of 9.33 units.
Oklahoma and Chicago to score less than 198,5 points is with odds of 2,6, 43.15% probability and ROI of 12.20 units.
Oklahoma and Chicago to score less than 199 points is with odds of 2,55, 44.28% probability and ROI of 12.90 units.
Oklahoma and Chicago to score less than 199,5 points is with odds of 2,4, 45.69% probability and ROI of 9.65 units.
Oklahoma and Chicago to score less than 200 points is with odds of 2,35, 46.85% probability and ROI of 10.11 units.
Oklahoma and Chicago to score less than 200,5 points is with odds of 2,25, 48.18% probability and ROI of 8.40 units.
Oklahoma and Chicago to score less than 201 points is with odds of 2,2, 49.45% probability and ROI of 8.78 units.
Oklahoma and Chicago to score less than 201,5 points is with odds of 2,1, 50.74% probability and ROI of 6.56 units.
Oklahoma and Chicago to score less than 202 points is with odds of 2,08, 52.03% probability and ROI of 8.22 units.
Oklahoma and Chicago to score less than 202,5 points is with odds of 2,05, 53.21% probability and ROI of 9.08 units.
Oklahoma and Chicago to score less than 203 points is with odds of 2,02, 54.61% probability and ROI of 10.30 units.
Oklahoma and Chicago to score less than 203,5 points is with odds of 2, 55.76% probability and ROI of 11.53 units.
Oklahoma and Chicago to score less than 204 points is with odds of 1,98, 57.14% probability and ROI of 13.14 units.
Oklahoma and Chicago to score less than 204,5 points is with odds of 1,95, 58.18% probability and ROI of 13.44 units.
Oklahoma and Chicago to score less than 205,5 points is with odds of 1,83, 60.66% probability and ROI of 11.01 units.
Oklahoma and Chicago to score less than 206 points is with odds of 1,8, 62.13% probability and ROI of 11.83 units.
Oklahoma and Chicago to score less than 206,5 points is with odds of 1,76, 63.02% probability and ROI of 10.92 units.
Oklahoma and Chicago to score less than 207 points is with odds of 1,74, 64.57% probability and ROI of 12.35 units.
Oklahoma and Chicago to score less than 207,5 points is with odds of 1,71, 65.42% probability and ROI of 11.86 units.
Oklahoma and Chicago to score less than 208 points is with odds of 1,68, 66.91% probability and ROI of 12.40 units.
Oklahoma and Chicago to score less than 208,5 points is with odds of 1,66, 67.64% probability and ROI of 12.29 units.
Oklahoma and Chicago to score less than 209 points is with odds of 1,61, 69.20% probability and ROI of 11.42 units.
Oklahoma and Chicago to score less than 209,5 points is with odds of 1,57, 69.90% probability and ROI of 9.74 units.
Oklahoma and Chicago to score less than 210 points is with odds of 1,54, 71.40% probability and ROI of 9.95 units.
Oklahoma and Chicago to score less than 210,5 points is with odds of 1,52, 72.00% probability and ROI of 9.43 units.
Oklahoma and Chicago to score less than 211 points is with odds of 1,5, 73.53% probability and ROI of 10.29 units.
Oklahoma and Chicago to score less than 211,5 points is with odds of 1,48, 74.08% probability and ROI of 9.63 units.
Oklahoma and Chicago to score less than 212 points is with odds of 1,44, 75.53% probability and ROI of 8.76 units.
Oklahoma and Chicago to score less than 212,5 points is with odds of 1,43, 76.00% probability and ROI of 8.68 units.
Oklahoma and Chicago to score less than 213 points is with odds of 1,4, 77.49% probability and ROI of 8.49 units.
The probability Chicago to win with 1-2 points is with odds of 13 and is 4.40% probable, which leads to ROI of -42.86 units.
The probability Chicago to win with 3-6 points is with odds of 9 and is 8.57%, which leads to ROI of -22.89 units.
The probability Chicago to win with 7-9 points is with odds of 17 and is 6.30%, which leads to ROI of 7.06 units.
The probability Chicago to win with 10-13 points is with odds of 21 and is 8.19%, which leads to ROI of 71.94 units.
The probability Chicago to win with 14-16 points is with odds of 36 and is 5.89%, which leads to ROI of 112.08 units.
The probability Chicago to win with 17-20 points is with odds of 41 and is 6.09%, which leads to ROI of 149.53 units.
The probability Chicago to win with 21+ points is with odds of 66 and is 3.74%, which leads to ROI of 146.53 units.
The probability Oklahoma to win with 1-2 points is with odds of 12 and is 4.45%, which leads to ROI of -46.63 units.
The probability Oklahoma to win with 3-6 points is with odds of 5,5 and is 9.10%, which leads to ROI of -49.97 units.
The probability Oklahoma to win with 7-9 points is with odds of 7,5 and is 6.96%, which leads to ROI of -47.78 units.
The probability Oklahoma to win with 10-13 points is with odds of 6 and is %, which leads to ROI of -42.65 units.
The probability Oklahoma to win with 14-16 points is with odds of 9,5 and is 7.43%, which leads to ROI of -29.38 units.
The probability Oklahoma to win with 17-20 points is with odds of 9 and is 8.48%, which leads to ROI of -23.64 units.
The probability Oklahoma to win with 21+ points is with odds of 5,5 and is 8.27%, which leads to ROI of -54.52 units.
Chicago to win the match with more than 5 points is with odds of 6,5 and 33.35% probability. This gives 33.35% ROI.
Oklahoma to win the match with more than 5 points is with odds of 1,64 and 44.56% probability. This gives -26.93% ROI.
None of the teams to win this match with more than 5 points is 22.09% probable. The odds are 3 which gives ROI of -33.72%.
The probability the winning margin in this match to be between 1 and 5 points is with odds of 3 and is 22.09% probable, which leads to ROI of -33.72 units.
The probability the winning margin in this match to be between 6 and 10 points is with odds of 3,5 and is 22.08% probable, which leads to ROI of -22.71 units.
The probability the winning margin in this match to be between 11 and 15 points is with odds of 4,5 and is 22.31% probable, which leads to ROI of 0.41 units.
The probability the winning margin in this match to be between 16 and 20 points is with odds of 6,5 and is 18.92% probable, which leads to ROI of 22.97 units.
The probability the winning margin in this match to be between 21 and 25 points is with odds of 11 and is 9.13% probable, which leads to ROI of 0.38 units.
The probability the winning margin in this match to be between 26 and 30 points is with odds of 21 and is 3.21% probable, which leads to ROI of -32.64 units.
The probability the winning margin in this match to be more than 30 points is with odds of 26 and is 2.26% probable, which leads to ROI of -41.33 units.
The probability Chicago to win with 1-5 points and odds of 6,5 is 10.85%, which gives ROI of -29.51 units.
The probability Chicago to win with 6-10 points and odds of 11 is 10.48%, which gives ROI of 15.27 units.
The probability Chicago to win with 11-15 points and odds of 19 is 10.13%, which gives ROI of 92.38 units.
The probability Chicago to win with 16-20 points and odds of 31 is 7.98%, which gives ROI of 147.27 units.
The probability Chicago to win with 21-25 points and odds of 81 is 3.38%, which gives ROI of 174.05 units.
The probability Chicago to win with 26+ points and odds of 101 is 1.38%, which gives ROI of 39.78 units.
The probability Oklahoma to win with 1-5 points and odds of 4,75 is 11.25%, which gives ROI of -46.56 units.
The probability Oklahoma to win with 6-10 points and odds of 4,75 is 11.60%, which gives ROI of -44.88 units.
The probability Oklahoma to win with 11-15 points and odds of 5,5 is 12.19%, which gives ROI of -32.97 units.
The probability Oklahoma to win with 16-20 points and odds of 7,5 is 10.94%, which gives ROI of -17.93 units.
The probability Oklahoma to win with 21-25 points and odds of 12 is 5.74%, which gives ROI of -31.09 units.
The probability Oklahoma to win with 26+ points and odds of 11 is 4.08%, which gives ROI of -55.12 units.
Chicago to score first 20 points is with odds of 2,45 and with 47.29% chance to happen. This gives ROI of 15.87 units.
Oklahoma to score first 20 points is with odds of 1,52 and with 52.71% chance to happen. This gives ROI of -19.89 units.


Sankirtana and Japa Aindra Prabhu explains the difference. How can we perform nagar sankirtana more? How to attract people to participate in nagar Sankirtana?
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1099-A From a Lender? STOP Don't Accept it on Face Value!
We see those 1099 forms and think they are official documents. It says right there on the bottom "Department of the Treasury - Internal Revenue Service." The form was NOT generated by the IRS. It was created by the lender and might be wrong.
According to Bill Purdy who teaches about Federal Income Tax at Lincoln Law School, these 1099s are often wrong in stating there is a taxable event as a result of foreclosure. When a non-recourse debt is foreclosed in California no cancellation of debt income occurs. If there is no personal liability on the loan, there can be no improvement to the borrower's balance sheet when the collateral is foreclosed.
Non-recourse debt might be statutorily non-recourse, as the purchase money non-recourse provisions of California law; it may be non-recourse by reason of a bankruptcy; or it may be non-recourse because the collateral was acquired subject to the lien.
Bottom line - if you receive one of these 1099s see a knowledgeable attorney before assuming you'll have a large tax bill to pay.


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About our speaker Dr. Eli Penn
Dr. Eli Penn is an Interventional gastroenterologist at Atrium-Navicent Health System in Macon Georgia and an Associate Professor of Medicine at Mercer University School of Medicine.
He spent the first 10 years of his career pursuing a mastery of new technology in his field, but having been in solo practice he recalls many patients whose symptoms he could not explain.
Disruptive ideas and a passion for helping patients with "invisible" diseases had already been hallmarks of Dr. Penn's practice. About two years ago he began performing gPOEM (or POP) endoscopy pyloromyotomy, which can help patients with gastroparesis.
While searching for patients who he thought could benefit it dawned on him that most patients were young women who shared a variety of seemingly unrelated symptoms outside of the GI tract and many had been labeled with other "diagnoses" that tend to invoke skepticism and consternation among physicians, like fibromyalgia, IBS, and interstitial cystitis. At some point he realized that virtually every one of these patients met Villefranche criteria for hypermobile Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome. And there weren't just a few of them.
Dr. Penn realized that his clinic was "full" of hEDS patients (up to 20% of referrals) and soon suspected that hEDS was in fact much more common than he had been taught, and that patients were being misdiagnosed with more nebulous conditions that are often considered "psychosomatic." He wondered if others had made similar observations and was stunned to find the that reputable institutions Ihad been reporting this for nearly 10 years! He quickly found the world of disenfranchised hEDS patients gathered in cyberspace and his career took on a new purpose.
Dr. Penn now reads constantly about the condition and has learned a great deal about hEDS from his patients. He has become a passionate advocate and spends much of his time trying to enlighten other physicians and healthcare providers while caring for hospitalized hEDS patients, in his clinic and during student lectures. Shocked by a general resistance among his peers, he has recently taken to social media to try to spread the word.
A recent highlight for Dr. Penn was a trip to the Norris Lab in Charleston where the first hEDS gene has been mapped and an objective test is being developed. In caring for his hEDS patients he has learned several ways that he can help patients reduce symptoms, and furthermore he has reason to believe that this uniquely common form of EDS will soon be treatable. Now that objective testing will be available it is only a matter of time before doctors everywhere will have to grapple with the large number of misdiagnosed, and often shunned, hEDS patients.
Dr. Penn joins us today to discuss his experience with hEDS in the GI clinic and what he has learned about the basis for some of the seemingly disparate symptoms. He will also talk about the treatments that have helped his patients, and why he believes that education of all physicians, students and midlevel providers is paramount to bringing about a more rapid paradigm shift than we have seen with other revelations in recent medical history,
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» A bit feedback love for you guys!
A bit feedback love for you guys!
I've only been using XFCE for the last month and a half. Before that, I had been switching back and fourth between Gnome and KDE for the last few years while being intensely unsatisfied with both. I resisted XFCE because I was under the impression that it was more for under-powered machines with alot less features than either of these other two Desktops. I ended up trying XFCE in the desperate search for something different. Something that doesn't crash every 5 minutes the way KDE does and something that isn't as stifling as Gnome shell has become, something that doesn't slice out more and more features from their Desktop with every update.
It seems that my true love was sitting under my nose all these years. I was blown away by the high quality Desktop you guys have made. Everything was designed with alot of thought and consideration towards the users. You manage to offer us more features than KDE while being much faster and much much more stable. Yeas, for the sake of performance, one can't just drag and drop items on panels, yes adding/managing those items can be made more accessible with improved context menu design, yes there is no native expose style window/desktop management or eye candy the way you get in KDE/Gnome Shell but panels only gets setup once and xpose/eye candy can easily be added for those that want them via Skippy XD or xfdashboard for slower machines or Compiz.reloaded for faster ones.
I have never enjoyed using a Linux desktop environment as much as I've enjoyed using XFCE. Thank you for all the wonderful work you're doing.


For the past few years now, I have poured my heart out writing Christian music that spans an eclectic range of tastes. This was by design. Coming from an advertising/marketing background, I was curious to see what form of music would bring the best viewership on YouTube - Mainstream, Alternative or Progressive. I've even dabbled in mixing it up by offering what I call AlternaProg; Alternative music with elements of Prog Rock. What I found was something that had not occurred to me. That is, in this sound byte world of ours, how important a song's title can be! I should have known this from the beginning when I saw videos with such titles as "Mascara Tips for a Sexier You!" were getting half a million views. The same thing apparently goes for song titles. People scan video titles for key words that resonate with them - usually something simple and base or controversial.
Take for example my composition "New Age World". It has by far surpassed all the other videos in views I have ever put on YouTube. I can't say I can explain this phenomenon., but there are two main possibilities. The first is that there are a lot of Christians (or they wouldn't be looking at my "Christian " music lineup to begin with) who are into New Age thinking. The other possibility is that it strikes people as controversial that a supposed Christian songwriter would write about New Age philosophy. The fact that I have labeled the composition AlternaProg doesn't seem to have any bearing on the video's viewership, because there is nothing special about the graphics (simple slideshow of the lyrics) and I have other AlternaProg songs listed that have much lower viewings.
Interestingly, my second highest rated video is also only a slideshow of the lyrics, but is perhaps the most Progressive song I've written to date (excluding my upcoming CD). The title is fairly generic, but it clocks in at over nine minutes, and that may be (in Progger's minds), a mark of a true Progressive song. Its title "The Battle of the Natures" may have some sort of larger -than-life, epic quality to it.
The point I'm getting at is, no matter how great the music you write, you need a hook, even in Progressive circles, to cue your prospective listeners as to what they can expect to hear before they hear it. The new CD I'm working on is a case in point. It is simply titled "God Is" (lyrics available on its page on this web site). The songs are a pretty deep meditation on the character of God - His different divine aspects. The song titles are carefully chosen to compel deeper thinkers to listen. Yes, I am boldly taking the road less traveled with the lyrics and the fact that the music is Christian Progressive - not quite a moneymaking proposition. But I have to be true to my heart. I believe the lyrics were Holy Spirit inspired (you would not believe how the devil has tried everything in the world to block me from doing this project!). In this case, my "hook" is geared to catch the attention of Christians who enjoy and revel in God's wonderful and mysterious ways in which He works in our lives from day to day. Here's to all of you dedicated composers in the shadows of the Big Christian music money-making machine: Be true to God and yourselves! Do all things to the glory of the Father and the Son, and may He provide you with all your needs and protect you from the evil one and his schemes.
Praise the Lord! I had some people at my church pray about the attacks from the enemy every time I try to do something for God. Before I knew it, my Yamaha SY85 Workstation I relied heavily upon that went "dead" last month only needed a battery replacement! It was a tedious, laborious task to be sure, but it is now back in perfect working condition. PRAYER WORKS!


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December 6, 2016 at 6:14 pm EST | by Steve Charing
Baltimore's new mayor an ally like Rawlings-Blake
Catherine Pugh was sworn in as Baltimore mayor on Tuesday. (Washington Blade photo by Steve Charing)
Catherine Pugh was sworn in as Baltimore's 50th mayor on Tuesday succeeding Stephanie Rawlings-Blake, and an abundance of challenges await. For the LGBT community, such thorny matters include the high rates of HIV/AIDS among predominantly African-American same gender loving men, the safety of the transgender population and homelessness among young LGBT people.
While these problems still need to be resolved, some other LGBT issues were addressed during the Rawlings-Blake administration. The former mayor's nearly seven-year tenure was marked by her unwavering support for LGBT rights and her unprecedented engagement with the LGBT community.
Rawlings-Blake took office as mayor in 2010, and prior to that as a City Council member, she endeared herself to LGBT residents in and around Baltimore. From marching in Baltimore's Pride parade each year, to being the first to host a Transgender Day of Remembrance at City Hall, Rawlings-Blake made her mark in the community.
Always comfortable around LGBT people, she traditionally celebrated her birthdays by playing bingo at the Club Hippo, prior to its closing in 2015. The mayor honored the Hippo's owner by re-naming the intersection where the bar was located "Chuck Bowers Way."
Rawlings-Blake was a staunch supporter of marriage equality and spoke openly on its behalf when other elected officials were reticent. She appeared at fundraisers during 2012 to help finance the effort to defeat the ballot initiative that would have overturned the Religious Freedom and Civil Marriage Protection Act signed by Gov. Martin O'Malley in March of that year.
As same-sex marriage ultimately became legal on Jan. 1, 2013, Rawlings-Blake officiated the first such ceremony in Maryland at the stroke of midnight at City Hall where a staffer Jim Scales married his longtime partner Bill Tasker. Several other gay and lesbian couples also tied the knot on that historic night.
"Words cannot express my feelings. I was beyond elated to officiate the city's first official same-sex marriages at midnight on New Year's Day in City Hall," said Rawlings-Blake in an interview in 2013. "It was beautiful, amazing, loving, and gave me a sense of pride knowing that same-sex couples, including one of my staff members and his significant other, were able to be married legally. It was an historic moment in my career that I will always cherish."
During the Pride celebration six months later, Rawlings-Blake performed a mass wedding ceremony at Druid Hill Park in which 20 same-sex couples were married in front of hundreds of cheering witnesses.
"The concept of civil rights for all was instilled in me from a very young age," she said. "It is an innate part of me and has made me the person who I am today. It was and still is, a part of my family's belief system. If any person's rights are being denied based on race, creed, ethnicity, gender identification and expression, sexual orientation, age, disabilities, religious beliefs, or national origins, then it affects all of us."
Advocates of marriage equality appreciated the efforts of Rawlings-Blake during the referendum battle but noted her commitment to the cause was evident even before. "The mayor was an early and unequivocal supporter of marriage equality," Carrie Evans, former executive director of Equality Maryland, told the Blade. "In 2008, as Council president, she helped shepherd through a resolution from the City Council in support of the state bill. The LGBT community is fortunate to have her as a fierce ally."
Additionally, Rawlings-Blake established an LGBT liaison who reported directly to her. The last individual who held that role was a staff member Demetrius Mallisham, a popular figure in Baltimore's LGBT community, who died earlier this year. Six months prior to his death, Mallisham said of Rawlings-Blake, "Working for Madame Mayor is a blessing that I don't take for granted. She makes my job easy by being a true ally to the LGBTQ community."
Another LGBT individual who was highly visible in her administration was Anthony McCarthy. He worked for several mayors and was Rawlings-Blake's director of communications. He will continue in that role for Mayor Pugh.
For LGBT rights advocates there should be reason to be optimistic as Mayor Pugh assumes office. While a state senator, Pugh co-sponsored the Religious Freedom and Civil Marriage Protection Act. Considered an ally, she also led the efforts to include group life insurance policies for domestic partners.
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This is a question that all inhabitants of Neopia should be asking themselves. With the emergence of zombie pets, I'm sure all Neopians have one thing on their minds: what to do when the zombies eventually try and take over Neopia. As scary as it sounds, there is no doubt that this will one day happen. True, there are only a few specimens at this point, but as we all know, zombie numbers can swell to overwhelming proportions in a short time. Preparation is the key to surviving the hordes of zombified pets roaming the land.
Today we will discuss the first step in any zombie plan, the Survival Kit. True, you could buy an overpriced premade kit from one of the specialty stores in Neopia, but premade kits lack the versatility that a homemade kit provides.
To reassure you, making your own kit is the best option; consider the following.
1)	You can personalize it to you and your pets' needs. It doesn't do you much good to buy several kits packed with cookies and chocolates when your pet dislikes sweets. And it can be difficult if not downright impossible to find a premade kit that caters to any special need, if your pet has any allergies, for example.
2)	You can take into account your plan on how to survive the zombie invasion. If you prefer to stay in one place and hide, a large amount of food and water are more important than an easily moved shelter.
3)	You won't be surprised by an item in the kit that you weren't expecting or by the lack of something essential.
4)	If you need to make more than one kit, buying in bulk is often less expensive than single items. And it's simple to quickly put together several kits.
5)	Quality. There is nothing as nice as knowing exactly how good (or cheap) the items in your kit are.
Making your own kit is both easy and inexpensive. The following is a list of all items I would consider necessary for the most basic of kits. It's fine to add more or substitute some items for similar objects depending on personal taste; just remember not to make your kit too heavy. It's not a good idea to be weighed down while being chased by zombies.
Each kit should cover the following areas: drink, food, shelter, protection, and comfort, listed in order of importance.
1)	Bottle of Water selling for an estimated 800 NP. This item is perfect to quench your pets' thirst, keep them hydrated and never spoil. To be safe, you should have at least three bottles for each day you want your kit to last. If you are planning on making multiple kits, buying Two Bottles of Water may be a better deal at only 600 NP each. Try and stay away from any of the canned colas; it's nothing more than sugar water.
2)	A variety of food that can't spoil, such as Dried Apricots (a low 5 NP), Turkey Jerky (1500 NP), Dried Mango (1500 NP), and Stale Bread (100 NP). As well, you might consider keeping a supply of fruit on hand, not in the kit but stocked in your kitchen, which you can grab and add when the need arises. Make sure you take into account the eating habits of your pets and how many extra calories will be burned off while running.
3)	The Tent, selling at a cheap 300 NP, is the easiest shelter to carry with you. With simple instructions, it is a necessity for comfortable sleeping. The Warm Green Blanket, 3000 NP, is not something you would find in a storebought kit. While not strictly necessary to survival, I've found the addition of the blanket makes the nights easier to bear.
4)	Pressurized Water is a good item to keep you safe. The only downfall is the ease in which it can be confused with your bottled water, which is why I would suggest any of the snowballs for protection. Easy to carry and simple to use, they are the most basic form of zombie protection.
5)	Lastly is comfort, small items that will make escaping with your lives just that much easier. Not necessary for survival in the strictest sense, I firmly believe a kit is nothing without a few items that make the horror of running from zombies more endurable. A spare set of clothes is a must. A towel, soap, and other basic bathing items, and candles or a lantern for light should be included as well.
A backpack is the best item to pack everything into. Make sure the bag is clearly marked so your pet doesn't mistake it for a school bag. How foolish would you feel if it was left at school and inaccessible when it was needed most?
These are just the basics. There are many other items that can be added; spare rope, something to start a camp fire, or pens and paper are some examples. Evaluate each item you put in; how would you use it, how often would you use it, is there anything you already have that does the job already? Consider where you live and the weather you are most likely to have. There is no such thing as being too prepared. Avoid things that make loud noises, such as whistles; these will only attract the zombies.
Make sure your pets understand how to use their kit and know how to maintain it. Creating and caring for your survival kit can be a fun family activity. Have a zombie planning party with your neighbors. They may have ideas you didn't think of.
This kit is not only limited to zombie survival; it can be changed slightly to meet your needs. Meepit attack kit or Sloth invasion kit are other alternatives if you have no fear of zombie attacks. A survival kit is useful in any emergency.
I hope this guide to making your own zombie attack kit has proved helpful. Being prepared is the first step between living to breathe another day or becoming one of the mass of undead creatures.
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Casey Donovan Responds After Being Accused Of Stealing A Dog
"I can confirm 100 percent there was no conspiracy, plan, or discussion about stealing a dog."
by Millie Roberts 21 June 2022
Casey Donovan has issued a statement after being accused of dognapping a Pomeranian in Queensland over the weekend.
The Australian Idol winner shared her side of the story after rumours circulated over the weekend that she was involved in the alleged incident.
In a series of now-deleted Facebook posts, a Brisbane man claimed that his dog Donatella Versace had been snatched by Donovan and her friend, wig designer Drew-Elizabeth Johnstone. Versace had only been in the owner's possession for nine days before the incident.
apparently her and a friend stole some guys dog last night https://t.co/Vh1HGVtWPM pic.twitter.com/UNNVvUN9Xd
— T.S Smelliot (@beatnikratbag) June 20, 2022
Footage from the hallway of a unit building shows Johnstone scooping up Versace, and taking the dog into the elevator with Donovan following behind, as revealed to Nine News.
In the statement, Donovan said that on Sunday night, she and a group of colleagues went for a drink after a gig, before winding up at the home of one of Johnstone's mutuals.
"Whilst I was in the bathroom doing an exit wee, I could hear a commotion outside, and the friend came and asked me to come out and settle [Johnstone] down, who was clearly very upset as she had witnessed a small dog yelping having been thrown across the room by a flatmate," she said.
Donovan went on to explain that after being kicked out of the apartment, the pair spotted Versace by the elevator, but said she didn't know how she got there.
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"[Johnstone] still being very upset about what had happened, and with great concern for the dog's welfare, decided to take the dog home so the people who were in the apartment that were heavily intoxicated could sober up and be more responsible with the poor dog".
She said she did not witness the alleged animal abuse firsthand, but stands by Johnstone's account. "I certainly do not condone any type of cruelty or abuse towards an animal whatsoever, and am appalled and in shock".
"I agree [Johnstone] should have not taken the dog, and should have advised the friend immediately that she had, not the next morning, and I can confirm 100 percent there was no conspiracy, plan, or discussion about stealing a dog".
The housemate in question was also reportedly asked to leave the shared property after the incident. "No animal should be in harm's way or treated poorly. I have two adorable cats and a dog at my parent's [sic] place, and am a huge animal welfare advocate."
The owner of the dog has reportedly denied any suggestion of mistreatment.
Photo Credit: Nine News
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Browse: Home / 2015 / May / 09 / Energy Physicist Implores NOAA To Return To Credibility… "Get Out Of Adjusting Business"!
Energy Physicist Implores NOAA To Return To Credibility… "Get Out Of Adjusting Business"!
By P Gosselin on 9. May 2015
Response to NOAA's claim adjustments are improvements
By Mike Brakey
The email from NOAA's Derek Arndt confirms that they conducted a massive rewrite of U.S. data in 2014. He also confirmed that the 1913 Maine climate data was indeed lowered a whopping 40F as noted in my article, Black Swan Climate Theory.
My response is based on actual unadjusted temperature data from the Lewiston-Auburn area of Maine, which I secured from a local source and provided in prior emails. (I have attached that data and links to the websites the data was extracted from). As shown in Chart 1, between 1895 and 1937, the Lewiston-Auburn region (Zone 19 in Chart 2) was typically ¾0F warmer than Maine's overall state average, based on NOAA data I downloaded in 2013.
Chart No. 1 & 2.
This data is the black line on Chart 1. I would expect the Lewiston-Auburn area to be slightly warmer than Maine as a whole because it is in southern Maine. Based on the 2013 data, Maine's average temperatures were about ¾0F colder or less than those for Lewiston-Auburn during the period from 1904 to 1939, and again from 2008 through the present.
The green shaded area shows what the NOAA data would have looked like if that ¾0F difference had remained constant through 2015. Looking at the year 1913, I might agree with Mr. Arndt that they had an error and I would understand a temperature correction of approximately ¾0F, but not 40F.
Contradictory data
I am suspicious of the NOAA data, both the original from 2013 and the revised, between 1940 and 2008 because the Maine average temperatures are so significantly less than those for the Lewiston-Auburn region. The other oddity is that there was a downward trend in temperatures for Lewiston-Auburn starting in 1998. However, both sets of NOAA data show temperatures rising for the state of Maine during that same time period.
As well-intended as I believe most NOAA associates likely are, I implore NOAA to please make available the plain, unexciting, unfiltered temperature data (as typified by the green line in Chart 1 above). If the RAW temperature data is always made available, I would be happy to entertain any theories and projections NOAA or IPCC wishes to make…as long as we all know the true base line (similar to what we have for the green line in Chart 1 with Lewiston-Auburn historical temperature data).
In conclusion, I implore NOAA to return credibility to its website, by getting out of the statistical smoothing and adjusting business and by just providing the scientific community with the basic unfiltered temperature data at all of its site locales. Let's stay away from all the havoc created between Charts 3 and 4.
Watch the entire series of YouTube videos on how I found the NOAA adjustments.
Posted in Cooling/Temperature, Hockey Team | 14 Responses
14 responses to "Energy Physicist Implores NOAA To Return To Credibility… "Get Out Of Adjusting Business"!"
Mikky 9. May 2015 at 6:59 PM | Permalink
I agree that NOAA should provide RAW data, either directly or via links to other sources, if only to provide traceability. Most agencies do that, e.g. the Australian BoM.
But they also need to provide "homogenised" (adjusted) data, to remove non-climatic effects such as station moves or changes in how thermometers were enclosed. A properly radiation-screened thermometer can be several degrees C cooler than one that isn't.
Your graph shows that green and black (unadjusted) are inconsistent, the temperature difference changes too much between 1895 and now. The graph also shows that green and blue (adjusted) ARE consistent, the temperature difference is approx constant. That does not prove though that the blue is correct, but your argument about the average temperature does not prove that the blue is incorrect. There could easily be a 4F difference in temperature between nearby stations, if there are differences in elevation, distance from the sea, topography, vegetation or ground water.
Ron C. 9. May 2015 at 8:04 PM | Permalink
In the quality control process at climate centers, outlying values are flagged and removed, and non-climatic changes such as changes in siting or instrumentation show up as step changes. The problem here is that even when the unadjusted record is clean of step changes, the file is adjusted through altering the values or deleting data submitted by the weather authorities. And the adjusted files typically show increased warming rates, 83% of the time in one sample set of stations.
https://rclutz.wordpress.com/2015/04/26/temperature-data-review-project-my-submission/
There may be valid reasons for large net changes in warming trends due to homogenisation in some areas (e.g. transition from imperfect to near-perfect radiation screening). You have to show clear errors, not just point out large trend changes and say that therefore they must be wrong.
Iceland and Paraguay are (I believe) clear errors, but it is quite striking that many have complained about US adjustments, but no clear errors have yet been identified there.
Harry Dale Huffman 9. May 2015 at 10:59 PM | Permalink
Not errors; clear fraud:
"US Temperatures Have Been Falsely Adjusted According to the Level of Carbon Dioxide in the Atmosphere"
You haven't heard of this in the last 2 and 1/2 years? I'm not surprised; nobody on any side of the debate has learned anything, you all just keep pushing what you think you know–but you don't.
AndyG55 9. May 2015 at 11:10 PM | Permalink
Well aware of it, Harry.
SG showed an R^2 of 0.99 for the correlation between adjustments and the change in atmospheric CO2
Way beyond pure chance. !
Mikky 9. May 2015 at 11:25 PM | Permalink
A thought experiment for you: imagine 2 plots, one your weight versus time, the other the height of trees versus time. Both look very similar (roughly linear trends), does that mean that trees are controlling your weight?
DirkH 10. May 2015 at 1:22 AM | Permalink
Mikky says:
9. May 2015 at 9:20 PM
"You have to show clear errors, not just point out large trend changes and say that therefore they must be wrong."
For years now the trolls are running tireless deflection campaigns for the crooks. This will not help you. The problem is, people store stuff before the government crooks replace it with the latest forgery.
https://stevengoddard.wordpress.com/data-tampering-at-ushcngiss/
It looks like you are detecting step changes by a standalone method, looking only at the time series in question. That method is poor and will either miss many step changes, or have a very high false alarm rate from genuine changes in weather. Much better is to look at differences between nearby stations.
A C Osborn 9. May 2015 at 8:07 PM | Permalink
Why don't you stop making excuses. Have you any idea what kind of "keying error" in a daily data entry it would take to cause a 4.0 degree error in the Annual value. 4 x 365 = 1460 degrees
Do you honestly think that there was no "Quality Control" check done on the keying that looks for totally ridiculous values like that.
This is not the only problem in this area, see this report.
http://junkscience.com/2015/05/08/gordon-fulks-physicist-provides-another-example-of-temp-record-cheating/
I bottom line, is that these so-called adjustments, often based on nothing but suppositions and whims, are responsible for a good 1/2 to 2/3 of the so-called warming.
They are also responsible for the almost complete removal of Tom Wiggly's "inconvenient" 1940 peak which was once present in nearly every NH data set, thus allowing the warming trend from 1940 to 2000 to be massively exaggerated. That peak destroyed the alarmista story, and had to be removed… so they invented methods and passed them through peer-review… the rest is re-written history.
darn.. must have got my html wrong, I only wanted the word "every" in bold. Can it be fixed ?
DirkH 9. May 2015 at 10:53 PM | Permalink
"As well-intended as I believe most NOAA associates likely are"
Oh, I wouldn't go that far given the general state of Western governments at this point. I think they're overgrown with lazy parasites who do anything for their monthly tax money cut.
boyfromtottenham 10. May 2015 at 1:43 AM | Permalink
This reminds me of an old Russian joke "The future is known, it's the past that keeps changing". Who knows, maybe someone at NOAA has a Russian background.
Ron C. 10. May 2015 at 4:14 PM | Permalink
Why can't they accept that oceans make temperature changes?
https://rclutz.wordpress.com/2015/05/10/empirical-evidence-oceans-make-climate/


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Airlines Hike Airfare as Demand Skyrockets
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The domestic Terminals of the Murtala Muhammed International Airport, Lagos have witnessed an upsurge in the number of passengers causing increase in fares ahead of Christmas celebration.
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The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the Federal Government had declared Dec. 25 and 26 and Jan. 1 , 2019 as public holidays to mark the festive period.
NAN correspondents that visited the airport terminals observed an influx of outbound and inbound passengers heading to various destinations.
Many passengers were seen on long queues, waiting to board flights, while others waited patiently to pick up their luggage on arrival.
Several travelers were also seen struggling to get seats on the few available flights to their various destinations across the country which led to increment in air fares.
For instance, an air ticket from Lagos to Kano, which hitherto sold for between N30,500 and 32,000, rose to about N45,000 and N47,000.
Flights from Lagos to Abuja, which normally cost between N27,000 and N32,000, depending on the airline and the time of flight, also went for N45,000 and above.
NAN reports that there were no flight tickets available on the Lagos-Benin and Lagos-Port Harcourt routes as all the seats had been booked since the previous week.
It was also observed that most of the flights that had their fares increased were heading for the northern part of the country.
The Air Peace and Arik Airlines check-in counter had the longest queues of passengers at the General Aviation Terminal, while Dana Air and Max Air also had the longest queues at the MMA2.
A passenger, Miss Tosin Akilla, who was travelling to Abuja with her children, said she had purchased tickets for the flight from Lagos the previous week.
Akilla, however, said that she got to the airport a few minutes after the first boarding call, but was denied access to the plane on the excuse that she was late.
"I was surprised to get here only to learn that I was late. My flight was scheduled for 12:30p.m., and I got here at 10.30 a.m. because of traffic, but the airline's officials did not check me in.
"They said I was very late; I had to run around to raise extra money to pay in order to be able to go with the next available flight.
"I think it is rather unfair, because I should still have been allowed to get on the plane,'' she lamented.
Another passenger, Mr Seun Fijabi, who was heading to Enugu, also decried the way the airlines were operating.
He said, "It is funny how things operate here. This is a time to share and not to exploit your passengers."
According to him, domestic airlines should learn to introduce low cost promotional fares to attract travellers instead of exploiting passengers as a result of the season.
He decried the dearth of government-owned airlines, saying the few ones that were privately-owned were cashing in on the development at the detriment of their customers.
Meanwhile, the Federal Airports Authority of Nigeria (FAAN) said it had put all the necessary measures in place to meet up with the increase of passengers' traffic during the yuletide.
FAAN, in a statement by the General Manager, Corporate Affairs, Mrs Henrietta Yakubu, assured all airport users that Nigerian airports under its management are fully ready to play host to all air travellers.
Yakubu advised the general public and intending travellers to make early preparations to enable them complete their travel requirements in good time.
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The Indians had swept the two previous match-ups against Clinton Jr. College, so most figured that today's game would be a tune-up for Friday's semi-final, that is everyone except USC Salkehatchie head coach Travis Garrett.
"I knew that Clinton would come out swinging, the finished last in the Region and they had nothing to lose. I tried to tell our guys that once tournament time comes, you can throw out all records," said Garrett.
USC Salkehatchie came out in the first half and jumped out to an early 8-0 lead and looked to be cruising but Clinton Jr. College would come roaring back and lead for much of the half.
"We were sluggish, I just was surprised how we played in the first half. I know that we are a good team and could be a great team but we have yet to show it," said Garrett.
Clinton Jr. College would lead the Indians 36-33.
In the second half, the Indians would finally square things up with 15:00 left at 41 a piece.
The Indians would take the lead with 14:33 left but it would not last long. It looked as though the Indians were in trouble late as Clinton Jr. College held a 6-point lead.
Then with 57.7 seconds remaining the Indians would take the lead for good at 70-69, they would go on to defeat Clinton Jr. College 75-69.


Ahahahah, Christmas, what Christmas? There are still leaves and pumpkins on the porch!
You know, I could get into that. Back in my Sunday school teaching days, I tried to get through to family members that Christmas doesn't start until the 25th and goes on for 12 days. It's a season. But I was fighting an entire culture and not up to the task.
But I can see how celebrating from Christmas Eve until Epiphany Sunday could make life calmer and more restful. Longer to prepare and less pressure over making one day into some kind of magical experience. How many times I went to bed Christmas Eve when my kids were little thinking, You failed.


We've just finished another important step: Frank Kretschmann and Nota-X have summarized the outstanding material from the Nordschleife into a first film. In it, I explain why it was so important to us not to simply measure eye tracking in a lab, but at a place where the stakes are high and each glance has to be on target.
The Nordschleife is such a hard test because of the relentless distractions on the human eye. We all know this problem too well when sitting in front of a computer. Literally as I type, an Apple software update is flashing in the menu bar, Skype for Business is blinking with new messages, and when I close my eyes to concentrate, a new email pops up. There is no room for distractions on the Nordschleife; the eye movements there must be correct. But for now, sit back and enjoy the footage of our fabulous day and phenomenal findings.
Read the first part of Business Intelligence on the "Nordschleife".


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	public Jackserver (int port) throws IOException {
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		while (true) {
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	public static void main (String[] args) throws IOException
	{
//		if (args.length !=2) throw new RuntimeException ("Syntax: Jackserver <port> <number of players>");
//		new Jackserver (Integer.parseInt(args[0]), Integer.parseInt(args[1]));
		if (args.length !=1) throw new RuntimeException ("Syntax: Jackserver <port>");
		new Jackserver (Integer.parseInt(args[0]));

	}

}

redpajama_set_name: RedPajamaGithub


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Because of the convenience it affords and the fact that kids nowadays are very tech savvy, parents are now wondering if they SHOULD give their children cellphones.
The truth, however, is that it is not necessary at all. Sure, one often thinks that phones equipped with gps systems will be very handy should your child forget to tell you where he is, or worse, kidnapped. But then not all kids are going to be kidnapped. And there are other things that are already wrong for a child to put himself in a position where he will be lost, kidnapped or run away from home. To be lost essentially that would give rise to a need to be tracked.
Cellphones take a lot away from real communication. Parents and children need to talk about the rules of their daily lives and what their expectations are. Orders to defrost something can just as easily be taped on the fridge door and told before separating in the morning. Reminders to bring lunch boxes home, keep track of pencils, copy homework, etc. are also all best said the night before a school day and in the morning when the kids are dropped off.
And words of love, as well as words of hate, should be spoken face-to-face where verbal cues and tone of voice will also be enlightening and reinforcing.
I am not saying kids shouldn't get cellphones ever. But do consider the added cost (purchasing it, loading it, charging it) and whether the perceived benefits are real, or just hoped for.