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1914 births, 2016 deaths, American centenarians,
American football guards
Carnegie Mellon Tartans football coaches
Manhattan Jaspers football coaches
Nebraska Cornhuskers football coaches
New Hampshire Wildcats football coaches
Pittsburgh Panthers football players
Yale Bulldogs football coaches
People from Lancaster, Ohio
American naval personnel of World War II
Bill Glassford
File:Bill Glassford.jpg
Glassford from 1951 Cornhusker
Sport(s)
(1914-03-08)March 8, 1914
September 19, 2016(2016-09-19) (aged 102)
University of Pittsburgh (1936)
Fullback, guard
Head coaching record
Accomplishments and honors
1 New England Conference (1946)
2 Yankee Conference (1947, 1948)
James William Glassford (March 8, 1914 – September 19, 2016) was an American football player and coach. He attended the University of Pittsburgh where he played football earning first-team All-American status at guard. Born in Lancaster, Ohio,[1] he was a member of Phi Delta Theta Fraternity and graduated in 1936. He played for the Cincinnati Bengals of the second American Football League in 1937.[2] During World War II, Glassford served in the United States Navy.[3]
From 1946 to 1948, Glassford coached at the University of New Hampshire, where he compiled a 19–5–1 record. This includes an 8–1 record in 1947. From 1949 to 1955, he coached at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln, where he compiled a 31–35–3 record. In 1949 his team went 4–5, 6–2–1 in 1950, 2–8 in 1951, 5–4–1 in 1952, 3–6–1 in 1953, 6–5 in 1954, and 5–5 in 1955. His three winning seasons were the only winning seasons the school had between 1941 and 1961. He also coached three All-Americans in Tom Novak (1949), Bobby Reynolds (1950), and Jerry Minnick (1952). He led the school to its first ever Orange Bowl in 1955, where they lost to Duke, 34–7. He retired after the 1955 season and went into private business in Arizona. He was inducted into the Nebraska Football Hall of Fame in 2002[4] and turned 100 in 2014.[5] Glassford died in Scottsdale, Arizona at the age of 102, and was at that time the oldest still-living former pro player, and one of only seven total to have lived a century.[6][7]
Head coaching record Edit
Bowl/playoffs
Coaches#
AP°
New Hampshire Wildcats (New England Conference) (1946)
1946 New Hampshire 6–1–1 3–0–1 1st
New Hampshire Wildcats (Yankee Conference) (1947–1948)
1947 New Hampshire 8–1 4–0 1st
New Hampshire: 19–5–1 10–1–1
Nebraska Cornhuskers (Big Seven Conference) (1949–1955)
1949 Nebraska 4–5 3–3 T–3rd
1950 Nebraska 6–2–1 4–2 2nd 20 17
1951 Nebraska 2–8 2–4 T–4th
1952 Nebraska 5–4–1 3–2–1 3rd
1953 Nebraska 3–6–1 2–4 T–4th
1954 Nebraska 6–5 4–2 2nd L Orange
1955 Nebraska 5-5 5–1 2nd
Nebraska: 31–35–3 23–18–1
National championship Conference title Conference division title
†Indicates BCS bowl, Bowl Alliance or Bowl Coalition game. #Rankings from final Coaches' Poll.
°Rankings from final AP Poll.
↑ http://triblive.com/sports/college/pitt/5703294-74/glassford-pitt-football#axzz2vbhDjjgR
↑ "James William 'Bill' Glassford". oldestlivingprofootball.com. http://www.oldestlivingprofootball.com/jwilliambillglassford.htm. Retrieved December 3, 2014.
↑ http://www.huskers.com/ViewArticle.dbml?DB_OEM_ID=100&ATCLID=211181847
↑ DeLassus, David. "J. William "Bill" Glassford Records by Year". College Football Data Warehouse. http://www.cfbdatawarehouse.com/data/coaching/alltime_coach_year_by_year.php?coachid=876. Retrieved November 30, 2010.
↑ http://bleacherreport.com/articles/1991075-pitts-oldest-known-living-football-letterman-turns-100
↑ http://www.omaha.com/huskers/mckewon-now-former-husker-football-coach-bill-glassford-still-keeps/article_152041f3-59b3-5474-8972-703175131f07.html
↑ "James William 'Bill' Glassford". oldestlivingprofootball.com. http://www.oldestlivingprofootball.com/jwilliambillglassford.htm. Retrieved May 28, 2016.
Nebraska profile
v · d · eNew Hampshire Wildcats head football coaches
John Scannell (1902–1903)
G. B. Ward (1904)
Edward Herr (1905–1907)
Charles O. Gill (1908)
Willard Gildersleeve (1909)
Ray B. Thomas (1910–1911)
Tod Eberle (1912–1913)
T. D. Sheppard (1914)
Butch Cowell (1915–1917)
No team (1918)
George Sauer (1937–1941)
Charles Justice (1942)
Bill Glassford (1946–1948)
Clarence Boston (1949–1964)
Andy Mooradian (1965)
Joe Yukica (1966–1967)
Jim Root (1968–1971)
Bill Bowes (1972–1998)
Sean McDonnell (1999–)
v · d · eNebraska Cornhuskers head football coaches
Langdon Frothingham (1890) • T. U. Lyman (1891) • J. S. Williams (1892) • Frank Crawford (1893–1894) • Charles Thomas (1895) • Eddie N. Robinson (1896–1897) • Fielding H. Yost (1898) • Alonzo Edwin Branch (1899) • Walter C. Booth (1900–1905) • Amos Foster (1906) • King Cole (1907–1910) • Ewald O. Stiehm (1911–1915) • E. J. Stewart (1916–1917) • William G. Kline (1918) • Henry Schulte (1919–1920) • Fred Dawson (1921–1924) • Ernest Bearg (1925–1928) • Dana X. Bible (1929–1936) • Biff Jones (1937–1941) • Glenn Presnell (1942) • Adolph J. Lewandowski (1943–1944) • George Clark (1945) • Bernie Masterson (1946–1947) • George Clark (1948) • Bill Glassford (1949–1955) • Pete Elliott (1956) • Bill Jennings (1957–1961) • Bob Devaney (1962–1972) • Tom Osborne (1973–1997) • Frank Solich (1998–2003) • Bo Pelini # (2003) • Bill Callahan (2004–2007) • Bo Pelini (2008– )
Pound sign (#) denotes interim coach.
Template:1936 Pittsburgh Panthers football navbox
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American centenarians

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The region's premier receiving venue, The Alhambra Theatre, contains some of the most unusual spaces for events from 4 to 1400 people including Restaurant 1914 which is located on the Upper Circle level.
The Studio Theatre is a flexible venue, easily transformed into many different settings for dinners, parties and meetings.
King's Hall and Winter Garden at Ilkley are available for hire for many functions including Weddings and Corporate events. Click here for full details.
There's so much more to enhance your theatre-going experience at Bradford Theatres.
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Please contact a member of our Hospitality Team to discuss your ideas: 01274 431052. With a one-to-one contact liaison, you will receive the highest level of continuity and support throughout.
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Q: flutter : connection failed mqtt broker i'm using Naver IoT Core.
I am trying to connect to the MQTT broker using the certificate provided by Naver.
But I can't access it.
Future connect() async{

  final context = SecurityContext.defaultContext;
  final rootCA = await rootBundle.load('key/rootCaCert.pem');
  final fullChain = await rootBundle.load('key/fullCertChain.pem');
  final privateKey = await rootBundle.load('key/06d53a.private.pem');

  context.setClientAuthoritiesBytes(rootCA.buffer.asUint8List());
  context.useCertificateChainBytes(fullChain.buffer.asUint8List());
  context.usePrivateKeyBytes(privateKey.buffer.asUint8List());

  client.securityContext = context;
  client.secure = true;
  // client.setProtocolV31();
  // client.port = 8883;
  client.logging(on: true);
  client.onConnected = onConnected;
  client.onDisconnected = onDisconnected;
  // client.onUnsubscribed = onUnsubscribed;
  client.onSubscribed = onSubscribed;
  client.onSubscribeFail = onSubscribeFail;
  client.pongCallback = pong;
  client.autoReconnect = false;
  print('mqtt init done');
  try {
   print('try');
   await client.connect();
  } catch (e) {
  print('Exception: $e');
   client.disconnect();
  }
 }

RESULT----------------------------------------------------------------
I/flutter ( 6911): 1-2022-03-17 06:32:58.112228 -- MqttClient::connect - keep alive is disabled
I/flutter ( 6911): 1-2022-03-17 06:32:58.128454 -- MqttConnectionHandlerBase::connect - server msg01.cloudiot.ntruss.com, port 8883
I/flutter ( 6911): 1-2022-03-17 06:32:58.132994 -- SynchronousMqttServerConnectionHandler::internalConnect entered
I/flutter ( 6911): 1-2022-03-17 06:32:58.133512 -- SynchronousMqttServerConnectionHandler::internalConnect - initiating connection try 0, auto reconnect in progress false
I/flutter ( 6911): 1-2022-03-17 06:32:58.134688 -- SynchronousMqttServerConnectionHandler::internalConnect - secure selected
I/flutter ( 6911): 1-2022-03-17 06:32:58.136003 -- SynchronousMqttServerConnectionHandler::internalConnect - calling connect
I/flutter ( 6911): 1-2022-03-17 06:32:58.137806 -- MqttSecureConnection::connect - entered
I/flutter ( 6911): 1-2022-03-17 06:32:58.300101 -- MqttConnectionBase::_onError - calling disconnected callback
I/flutter ( 6911): Exception: HandshakeException: Handshake error in client (OS Error:
I/flutter ( 6911): CERTIFICATE_VERIFY_FAILED: self signed certificate in certificate chain(handshake.cc:393))
I/flutter ( 6911): 1-2022-03-17 06:32:58.306955 -- MqttConnectionHandlerBase::disconnect - entered
I/flutter ( 6911): 1-2022-03-17 06:32:58.307622 -- MqttConnectionHandlerBase::_performConnectionDisconnect entered

Why does Exception occur?

A: It seems that you are using a self signed certificate, which is not trusted by the OS. You can set it as trusted following these steps:
Create a class that overrides HttpOverrides in the following way:
class MyHttpOverrides extends HttpOverrides {
  @override
  HttpClient createHttpClient(SecurityContext context) {
    return super.createHttpClient(context)
          ..badCertificateCallback = (X509Certificate cert, String host, int port) {
            //add your certificate verification logic here
            return true;
          };
  }
}

Then, in your main method, instance your class and set it as the global HttpOverride:
HttpOverrides.global = new DevHttpOverrides();

If badCertificateCallback returns true it will accept all bad certificates; if returns false it will reject a bad certificate.

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Q: Converting pdf to png with htlatex and format controlling problem -resolved I am using miktex on windows system. I try to convert .tex file to html and then copy it to word.  The challenge comes from .pdf figure
Converting process can be achieved by the previous post converting .pdf figure to .png figure that html can recognize, the import point here is to change gs to mgs for unix system.
However the converted figure has some format problems,
1 the converted figure is doubled size, right blank part is extra due to the convert code.
2 the size of the figure in html is way too large, it holds many times of the page width.

To control the figure size, i try some code from below, width="\expandafter\the\csname Gin@req@width\endcsname" align=center border=0 onerror="this.src='missing.png'"  after using the code, the figure becomes too small.
\Preamble{xhtml}
  \Configure{graphics*}
         {pdf}
         {\Needs{"convert '\csname Gin@base\endcsname.pdf'
                               '\csname Gin@base\endcsname.png'"}%
          \Picture[pict]{\csname Gin@base\endcsname.png width="\expandafter\the\csname Gin@req@width\endcsname" align=center border=0 onerror="this.src='missing.png'"}%
          \special{t4ht+@File: \csname Gin@base\endcsname.png}
         }
\DeclareGraphicsExtensions{.pdf,.png,.jpg,.eps}
\begin{document}
\EndPreamble

Is there some more setting needs to define the pdfconvert and also more setting on the figure style?
1 the blank white margin has been removed by adding a switch in the pdf converting commands as below
\Preamble{xhtml}
\makeatletter
\Configure{PdfConvert}{png}{"mgs -q -dNOPAUSE -dBATCH -sDEVICE=pngalpha -dUseCropBox  -r300 \ifx\Gin@page\@empty\else -dFirstPage="\Gin@page"  -dLastPage="\Gin@page"\fi\space -sOutputFile="\Gin@base-\Gin@page.png" "\Gin@base.pdf" "}
\makeatother
\begin{document}
\EndPreamble

With the switch -dusecropbox, the resolution could be set as high as 300 or higher.   However, you will need an extra styl formatting file to define the format.
the style file  code are below. basically the two .cfg figure files can not be merged easily to have same figures format as from 2 separate files.
\Preamble{xhtml}

\Configure{@HEAD}{\HCode{<link href="basic.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" />\Hnewline}}
\DeclareGraphicsRule{.png}{bmp}{.xbb}{}

\ConfigureEnv{table}
   {\ifvmode\IgnorePar\fi\EndP\HCode{
}%
    \bgroup \Configure{float}{\ShowPar}{}{}%
   }
   {\egroup
    \ifvmode\IgnorePar\fi\EndP\HCode{
}\ShowPar
\par}
{}{}

\ConfigureEnv{figure}
   {\ifvmode\IgnorePar\fi\EndP\HCode{
}%
    \bgroup \Configure{float}{\ShowPar}{}{}%
   }
   {\egroup
    \ifvmode\IgnorePar\fi\EndP\HCode{
}\ShowPar
\par}
{}{}

\ConfigureEnv{subfigure}
{\ifvmode\IgnorePar\fi\EndP\HCode{
}}
{\ifvmode\IgnorePar\fi\EndP\HCode{
}}{}{}
\Css{.subfigure{display: inline-block;}}
\Css{.subfigure img{display:block;}}

\Css{div.caption {text-align:left;font-size:83\%;text-indent:0em; margin-left:2em; margin-right:2em; }}
%%%font-variant has 4 values, 1 normal 2 small-caps 3 initial 4 inherit
\Css{div.caption span.id{font-variant: initial; white-space: nowrap; }}
%\Css{div.caption span.id{font-variant: small-caps; white-space: nowrap; }} %%originial
%%%font-variant has 4 values, 1 normal 2 small-caps 3 initial 4 inherit
\Css{.figure div.caption{text-align: center;}}
\Css{.subfigure div.caption{text-align: center;}}
\Css{div.figure{text-align:center;clear:both;overflow:auto;width:100\%;margin-bottom:1em;}}

%%%%% for table
%\Css{div.caption{text-align:center;}}
%\Configure{float}{\csname par\endcsname\ShowPar}
%{\ifvmode\IgnorePar\fi\EndP\HCode{
}}
%{\ifvmode\IgnorePar\fi\EndP\HCode{
}\ShowPar}
%%%%%for table

\begin{document}

\makeatletter
% Various helper functions
% default font size
\newcommand\emwidth{16}
\let\emwidth\f@size
% convert pt to rem
\newcommand\CalcRem[1]{\strip@pt\dimexpr(#1)/\emwidth}

%%%%%%convert pdf to png and set the figure size %%%%%%%%%%
  \Configure{graphics*}
         {pdf}
       {\Needs{"convert '\csname Gin@base\endcsname.pdf'
                               '\csname Gin@base\endcsname.png'"}%

          \Picture[pict]{\csname Gin@base\endcsname.png width="\expandafter\the\csname Gin@req@width\endcsname" align=center border=0 onerror="this.src='missing.png'"}%
          \special{t4ht+@File: \csname Gin@base\endcsname.png}
         }

%%%%%convert pdf to png and another method to set figure size%%%%%%%%
%% you must add the file extension with

%  \Configure{graphics*}
%         {pdf}
%         {\Needs{"convert '\csname Gin@base\endcsname.pdf'
%                               '\csname Gin@base\endcsname.png'"}%
%          \Picture[pict]{\csname Gin@base\endcsname.png
%           \space style="width:\CalcRem{\Gin@req@width}em;"}%
%          \special{t4ht+@File: \csname Gin@base\endcsname.png}
%
%         }

\Configure{graphics*}
{png}
{% we must add the image to the list of output files
  \special{t4ht+@File: \csname Gin@base\endcsname.png}
  \Picture[pict]{\csname Gin@base\endcsname\PictExt
  \space style="width:\CalcRem{\Gin@req@width}em;"
  }%
}
\makeatother

\EndPreamble

A: The current tex4ht code contains special configuration that holds the shell command for the PDF conversion:
 \Configure{PdfConvert}{output file format}{command}

It is possible to provide a different command for various output formats, like svg or png. The command is executed only if the converted file doesn't exist, thus saving some compilation time.
The following configuration can be used to convert PDF to PNG:
\Preamble{xhtml}
\makeatletter
\Configure{PdfConvert}{png}{"mgs -q -dNOPAUSE -dBATCH -sDEVICE=pngalpha -r120 \ifx\Gin@page\@empty\else -dFirstPage="\Gin@page"  -dLastPage="\Gin@page"\fi\space -sOutputFile="\Gin@base-\Gin@page.png" "\Gin@base.pdf" "}
\makeatother
\begin{document}
\EndPreamble

The important parameter for image dimension is  -r120, it is the image resolution. The default resolution is -r300, which is maybe too much.
Edit:
Here is an updated configuration based on the OP's configuration file. It specifies parameters for the PDF conversion directly in the configuration of the PDF inclusion:
\Preamble{xhtml}

\Configure{@HEAD}{\HCode{<link href="basic.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" />\Hnewline}}
\DeclareGraphicsRule{.png}{bmp}{.xbb}{}

\ConfigureEnv{table}
   {\ifvmode\IgnorePar\fi\EndP\HCode{
}%
    \bgroup \Configure{float}{\ShowPar}{}{}%
   }
   {\egroup
    \ifvmode\IgnorePar\fi\EndP\HCode{
}\ShowPar
\par}
{}{}

\ConfigureEnv{figure}
   {\ifvmode\IgnorePar\fi\EndP\HCode{
}%
    \bgroup \Configure{float}{\ShowPar}{}{}%
   }
   {\egroup
    \ifvmode\IgnorePar\fi\EndP\HCode{
}\ShowPar
\par}
{}{}

\ConfigureEnv{subfigure}
{\ifvmode\IgnorePar\fi\EndP\HCode{
}}
{\ifvmode\IgnorePar\fi\EndP\HCode{
}}{}{}
\Css{.subfigure{display: inline-block;}}
\Css{.subfigure img{display:block;}}

\Css{div.caption {text-align:left;font-size:83\%;text-indent:0em; margin-left:2em; margin-right:2em; }}
%%%font-variant has 4 values, 1 normal 2 small-caps 3 initial 4 inherit
\Css{div.caption span.id{font-variant: initial; white-space: nowrap; }}
%\Css{div.caption span.id{font-variant: small-caps; white-space: nowrap; }} %%originial
%%%font-variant has 4 values, 1 normal 2 small-caps 3 initial 4 inherit
\Css{.figure div.caption{text-align: center;}}
\Css{.subfigure div.caption{text-align: center;}}
\Css{div.figure{text-align:center;clear:both;overflow:auto;width:100\%;margin-bottom:1em;}}

%%%%% for table
%\Css{div.caption{text-align:center;}}
%\Configure{float}{\csname par\endcsname\ShowPar}
%{\ifvmode\IgnorePar\fi\EndP\HCode{
}}
%{\ifvmode\IgnorePar\fi\EndP\HCode{
}\ShowPar}
%%%%%for table

\begin{document}

\makeatletter
% Various helper functions
% default font size
\newcommand\emwidth{16}
\let\emwidth\f@size
% convert pt to rem
\newcommand\CalcRem[1]{\strip@pt\dimexpr(#1)/\emwidth}

%%%%%%convert pdf to png and set the figure size %%%%%%%%%%
\makeatletter
  \Configure{graphics*}
         {pdf}
       {%
   \ifdefined\Gin@page\else\def\Gin@page{1}\fi%
     \edef\svg@filename{\Gin@base-\Gin@page\PictExt}%
     % test for existence of the converted file
     \openin15=\svg@filename\relax
      \ifeof15
      \Needs{"gs -q -dNOPAUSE -dBATCH -dusecropbox -sDEVICE=pngalpha -r120 \ifx\Gin@page\@empty\else -dFirstPage="\Gin@page"  -dLastPage="\Gin@page"\fi\space -sOutputFile="\Gin@base-\Gin@page.png" "\Gin@base.pdf" "}%
      \fi
      \closein15
          \Picture[pict]{\svg@filename\space width="\expandafter\the\csname Gin@req@width\endcsname" align=center border=0 onerror="this.src='missing.png'"}%
          \special{t4ht+@File: \svg@filename}
         }

\makeatother

%%%%%convert pdf to png and another method to set figure size%%%%%%%%
%% you must add the file extension with

%  \Configure{graphics*}
%         {pdf}
%         {\Needs{"convert '\csname Gin@base\endcsname.pdf'
%                               '\csname Gin@base\endcsname.png'"}%
%          \Picture[pict]{\csname Gin@base\endcsname.png
%           \space style="width:\CalcRem{\Gin@req@width}em;"}%
%          \special{t4ht+@File: \csname Gin@base\endcsname.png}
%
%         }

\Configure{graphics*}
{png}
{% we must add the image to the list of output files
  \special{t4ht+@File: \csname Gin@base\endcsname.png}
  \Picture[pict]{\csname Gin@base\endcsname\PictExt
  \space style="width:\CalcRem{\Gin@req@width}em;"
  }%
}
\makeatother

\EndPreamble


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The Bad news: You failed almost every level A point.
commitment, or explaining what you are actually doing.
Richard, if you are the future QA Moderator, I'll be happy to help you.
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Q: Search Javascript function is not defined The search function keeps giving me
Uncaught ReferenceError: finddesiredspot is not definedonclick @ (index):268
I tried everything even shifted the script around from head to body nothing works. Any idea?
Here's the javascript
var panos = [
              {% for group in project.panoGroups %}{% for pano in group.panos %}
        { id:"{{pano.tourId}}" , name:"{{pano.description.name}}", description:"{{pano.description.description|striphtmltags}}", thumb:"./{{dataDirectory}}/{{pano.thumbnailPath}}" },
              {% endfor %}{% endfor %}
            ];
            function resetsearch() {
                document.getElementById('resultDiv').style.display = "none";
                document.getElementById('texttosearch').innerHTML = "";
            }
function finddesiredspot() {
                if (texttosearch.value == "")
                {
                    alert("Empty string");
                    return;
                }
                var found = false;
                var foundpanos = [];
                for (i = 0; i < panos.length; i++) {
                        if (kindofsearch.value == "name")
                        {
                            if (panos[i].name.toLowerCase().indexOf(texttosearch.value.toLowerCase()) > -1)
                            {
                                found = true;
                                foundpanos.push(panos[i]);
                            }
                        }
                        if (kindofsearch.value == "description")
                        {
                            if (panos[i].description.toLowerCase().indexOf(texttosearch.value.toLowerCase()) > -1)
                            {
                                found = true;
                                foundpanos.push(panos[i]);
                            }
                        }
                }
                if (found)
                {
                    if (foundpanos.length == 1)
                    {
                        document.getElementById('resultDiv').style.display = "none";

                        var callstr = "mainloadscene(" + foundpanos[0].id + ")";
                        getTemplateTourPlayer().call(callstr);
                        callstr = "looktohotspot(" + foundpanos[0].id + ")";
                        getTemplateTourPlayer().call(callstr);
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St. Martha's Convent, Rottingdean
(by Douglas d'Enno)
In 1903, there were just two Catholic families in Rottingdean village. The nearest church (St John the Baptist, Kemp Town) was a few miles away and involved a major trek for worshippers.
A handful of nuns of the Order of St Martha from the Dordogne acquired a substantial property near Rottingdean Gap in that year and opened a small chapel, then a school, on the premises. For the first few years, until the Catholic population grew, their existence was precarious but their chapel came to serve an essential need and the school flourished.
After the First World War expansion of the fledgling parish took place in the form of a lease on a tin building at the bottom of Nevill Road, formerly the 'Rottingdean Sanitary Laundry', which was converted to a chapel. In 1925, the Sisters opened the substantial Convent of St Martha much further up the High Street, facing The Green. These are the premises we are familiar with today.
The school they opened served the needs of many local children, a significant proportion of them non-Catholic, for the next 40 years. Then, however, changing educational requirements and rising fees for lay teachers meant the nuns could no longer continue. Yet their tradition was maintained when in 1969 the present, highly successful, Aided RC Primary School of Our Lady of Lourdes arose on part of their land. Some of their buildings were even taken over.
Until the church of Our Lady of Lourdes was built in the village in 1957, the Convent chapel remained the centre of worship for Catholics from miles around. Mass is still said there two or three times a week. Sadly, only four Sisters remain on the premises today compared with, for example, eleven in a group picture taken in the 1970s. However, one of the Sisters in that photograph, Sr Cécile, returned from France to Rottingdean in October 2004 and is a link between the two phases of the Convent's development.
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The centenary of the Sister's presence in the village was the subject of a feature in the diocesan paper, the A & B News, in December 2003 by Douglas d'Enno. For a detailed history of the Convent until 2001, see his book The Church in a Garden published in that year.


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Victor Bodiu (born 27 March 1971) is a Moldovan economist. Since 2001 he was working with Austrian Raiffeisen banking group for more than 8 years.

Biography

Victor Bodiu was born on 27 March 1971 in Chişinău. He holds a degree in Banking and Finance and a degree in Physics and Engineering.

Since September 2001 till September 2009, he was employed with Raiffeisen, having worked in different locations - Austria, Romania, and Moldova.
Until late 2005 Victor Bodiu has been involved in multiple transnational deals involving investment promotion activities in East-European Countries (Austria, Poland, Romania, Moldova). His major task, however, involved the management of Raiffeisen Investment activities in Romania and Moldova.
Assisting strategic partners in their investment activities in Moldova, Romania, Poland in form of Direct Investment, Mergers and Acquisitions, privatizations, partnership and relationship building.
Major sectors covered: infrastructure, pharmaceuticals, food&beverages, heavy industry, telecom, energy, financial services, retail. With a team of 25 highly qualified specialists, Victor Bodiu managed over 20 projects with a combined portfolio of more than 800 mil. EUR.
Till this date, he was also in charge of planning the Raiffeisen Group entry to the Moldovan market; further planning and strategy development.
As of January 2006 Victor Bodiu is full-time based in Moldova, as Managing Director of Raiffeisen Leasing Moldova (officially founded in December 2007). In two years the company became number three in overall local leasing market, number two as corporate financing and number one in equipment financing, with a turnover of more than 50 mio MDL. As of 2009 Raiffeisen Leasing built a portfolio of 90 mio MDL, with a strong client base of almost 200 corporate and private clients. Raiffeisen Leasing portfolio is also the healthiest portfolio among other market players, with a Non Performance Loans rate of less than 5% (very important in the crisis period).
Since September 2009 until December 2014 he was Secretary General of the Government of Moldova / Head of State Chancellery of the Moldovan Government.

His early career involved multiple local and international consulting assignments with PriceWaterhouse LLP, Carana Corporation (USA) and IBTCI (USA consulting firm) for the Governments of Ukraine and Moldova on privatization issues, development of securities markets, stock exchange procedures, portfolio management, capital rising, financial markets, licensing procedures and taxation, export promotion and investment attraction.

External links
 Victor Bodiu's intervention at the United Nations - Millennium Development Goals Summit, September 2010
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Nottingham to be decorated with new neon artwork and YOU can help pick it
Three pieces have been shortlisted
Rachel GormanFeatures Writer
Sneinton Market will be home to bespoke neon artwork
Sneinton Market will soon be home to a new piece of bespoke neon artwork - and locals are being asked to help pick it.
Regeneration charity The Renewal Trust is asking the public to vote for the phrase they want to see immortalised in the city.
People can choose between Be Free, Be Truly Loved ♥, or Be Remarkable, with the winner unveiled on February 23 as part of Light Night in Nottingham.
You can see those three entries here.
The closing date for voting is January 24 and the winning phrase will be announced on January 25 at the launch of Place, The Renewal Trust's new community art hub at 25 Avenue C, in Sneinton Market.
Place will bring a whole range of new art and culture projects to the area, with the neon artwork being one of the first.
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The idea behind the installation is to "create a piece of public art that literally captures the voice of local people".
It's the result of a project ran by the charity over the summer, inspired by a global public art project by Candy Chang that's featured in over 70 countries.
The project gave local people the chance to share their aspirations on a chalkboard wall at Sneinton Market, as they responded to the question "Before I die I want to…".
Suzannah Bedford, creative director at The Renewal Trust says: "There have been over 3,000 'Before I Die' walls around the world so we really wanted to share the opportunity here in Sneinton.
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"All kinds of people stopped to write on the wall and read others' answers and we had some amazing responses as our shortlist shows.
"We wanted to find a way of turning the wall into a lasting piece of public art that would be relevant to local people, which is why we came up with the idea of asking the public to choose their favourite response, and use it to create a permanent neon artwork.
"Nottingham is proud to call itself 'city of stories' – famed for its writers and artists, but we wanted to give local people the chance to create their own words and art.
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"This project has allowed the whole community to get involved, from sharing their aspirations on the chalkboard wall, to choosing their favourite phrase, to walking past the neon artwork as they go about their day-to-day lives.
"We're very excited to see which phrase the public votes for."
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Major side-channel discovery wins NSA contest
The winning paper broke open a new area of investigation in hardware-based data leaks.
A major breakthrough in the field of side-channel attacks has been recognized by the National Security Agency (NSA) as the winner of the 2020 Best Scientific Cybersecurity Paper competition. The winning paper, describing an exploit called Spectre, broke open a new area of investigation in hardware-based data leaks. Prof. Daniel Genkin worked on the paper with collaborators from around the world.
Spectre abuses a widespread function of modern processors called speculative execution. The result of a series of innovations that help a CPU process instructions faster, this practice involves accessing data before it's needed by a program ("speculatively"). Unfortunately, this technique circumvents standard steps meant to ensure sensitive data is accessed properly.
This industry standard practice is now mired in controversy thanks to the Spectre discovery. From 2013 to the present, Genkin has helped discover a slew of so-called side-channel attacks. These rely on the non-traditional byproducts of code's execution, like a computer's power usage or the time it takes for a memory access, to gain access to off-limits data. Spectre is one of the most famous of these side-channel discoveries, and demonstrated how speculative execution could be abused to allow one application to steal data from another. The vulnerability impacted every microprocessor designed since the 90s, and is present in nearly every computer / phone we use today.
Solutions for solving these so-called transient execution attacks range from fundamentally changing how instructions are executed (which would mean a big hit for performance) to simply patching specific exploitation techniques through hardware and firmware as they become public. To this point, the latter approach has been preferred.
"The first attack variants were all using the processor's cache to leak information, so then you started seeing research papers proposing a redesign of the cache to make it impossible to leak information that way," says Ofir Weisse, a PhD alum who worked on related projects. He and the team say that this approach doesn't address the fundamental problem, since the cache is only one of many ways to transmit a secret.
"The fundamental problem is that attackers can speculatively access secrets, and then can try to transmit them in numerous ways."
In fact, Genkin's continued work on the problem in 2020 identified that the specific patches adopted to address these side channel issues were themselves prone to exploitation – it turns out that by simply "flushing" data out of the cache, it could be just as readily leaked elsewhere. It was a matter of identifying the initial pattern, says Genkin, and then finding the weak points in system after system.
"It got to a point where we would spend a train ride or a flight reading some code or a CPU manual, and by the end of the train ride we knew what we needed to do to break it," Genkin says. "It was a devastating game of whack-a-mole."
Presently Genkin and other researchers in CSE are still burrowing deeper into the rabbithole, in search of both more vulnerabilities and viable defenses.
Recently, Genkin's lab was awarded several million in grants by DARPA, NSF and the US Air Force to expand their side-channel investigations in new directions, including examining the risk posed by side-channels to fundamental cryptographic measures and protocols. They plan to build a toolset to mount side-channel attacks and apply them to explore new sources of data leaks, testing all existing side-channel countermeasures along the way.
"We expect this project to contribute to the security of every computer manufactured in the past decades," the team writes in their proposal. Ultimately, the group seeks to take a more systematic approach to this growing field of research, resulting in computer designs that are more resilient to hardware-based hacks and data leaks.
Previously, Spectre was also recognized with the best paper award in IEEE Security and Privacy for 2019. The related exploit, Meltdown, received honorable mention in NSA's 2018 contest.
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KBC employees race to the moon and collect 500 000 euros for charities
KBC employees together achieve 770 867 km for their fourth Team Blue challenge.
Friday, October 26, 2018 — 'Aim for the moon' was the challenge that Johan Thijs, KBC's group CEO, handed to Team Blue, a group-wide initiative within KBC to strengthen the bond between all KBC employees in the various countries where KBC is active. Team Blue had to achieve at least 384 000 kilometres (the distance to the moon) by organising sports activities with staff members, friends and family. The kilometres covered were converted into donations for various charities. In total, 770 867 kilometres were covered by exercising together, equal to the distance to and from the moon, and yielding 500 000 euros for a series of charities in the various countries where KBC is active. In Belgium, KBC is donating 175 000 euros to 'De Warmste Week'.
The initiative, which included the participation of non-staff members, took place from 1 September to 25 October.
Johan Thijs, CEO of KBC Group, is proud of 'his' Team Blue's performance: 'Within KBC, we place a strong emphasis on cooperation, including across borders. The cohesion between the various entities of our group is not only achieved via our PEARL values, but also via our logo and colour. And because that colour is blue, we call ourselves 'Team Blue'.
We encourage exchanges of knowledge, best practices, experience, products and services among all the different divisions, countries and business functions. We urge our people to collaborate intensively and develop shared creative solutions aimed at providing our customers with faster, improved service.
In order to experience this group-wide co-creation and our collective commitment ever more intensively, we have been proposing creative challenges to our more than 42 000 Team Blue members. The first three challenges strengthened the internal group dynamics. The fourth challenge bridges the gap between Team Blue and society. By covering the distance 'to the moon and back' via sports, our employees were able to donate 500 000 euros to charities in Belgium, Hungary, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Bulgaria and Ireland. In doing so, Team Blue is actively contributing to a better society. In Belgium, the proceeds will go to Studio Brussel's 'De Warmste Week', as well as to several initiatives proposed by KBC employees.'
'Aim for the moon – and back'
The distance from Earth to the moon is 384 000 kilometres. More than 42 000 Team Blue members were challenged to cover at least that distance via all kinds of sports activities. With each kilometre covered, they collected money for charity. After a few weeks, it became clear that the goal would effectively be achieved, so KBC doubled its ambition by extending the distance to 'there and back'. Team Blue accepted the challenge without blinking an eye.
From 1 September to 25 October 2018, KBC employees were encouraged to take part in group-wide or self-organised sports activities together with colleagues, family, friends and customers. Everyone could participate, either as an athlete or by providing financial support. A total of 500 000 euros was collected. KBC Belgium's contribution will be apportioned by the King Baudouin Foundation between Studio Brussel's 'De Warmste Week' and a group of charities selected after consultation with the employees.
The other core countries of KBC Group selected local charities that were closest to their own community work. Ireland opted to commit to the Alzheimer Foundation. Slovakia and Hungary raised money for their own existing foundations which in turn transfer funds to various charities. In the Czech Republic, about thirty charities were chosen. Bulgaria selected five charities, including the Because Foundation. KBC employees donated funds to a total of 557 charities across the group, all under the 'Aim for the moon - and back' banner.
With every Team Blue challenge, the bar is raised a bit higher
For the first challenge, our staff had to take 1 000 selfies; 3 258 were taken in total.
The next challenge entailed staff decking out their workplace or office in the Team's blue colour scheme during the 2017 Christmas period. Throughout the KBC group, KBC employees ensured that 650 bank branches and insurance agencies and dozens of areas at the head offices would be suffused in a bright blue glow.
For the third challenge, KBC organised the world's largest online quiz on 31 May 2018. With 1 129 simultaneous participants in six countries, the world record for participating in an online quiz was broken under the watchful eye of Guinness World Records. 7 695 employees applied as candidates to take part in the quiz.
The fourth challenge, Aim for the moon (and back), enabled Team Blue to exercise together to cover 770 867 kilometres, so that 500 000 euros could be donated to various charities.
In a few months, Team Blue can expect to face another new challenge, which will involve everyone's creativity and imagination. It is already clear that this will not be easy. But that's what makes the challenge all the more attractive.
Stef Leunens KBC Groep NV
stef.leunens@kbc.be
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Q: Blockchain: What if no users are online to verify new transactions? Alright so I'm trying wrap my head around this whole big topic, including smart contracts.
What I don't understand is, with Blockchain technology we rely on others doing the verification of my proposed transactions (my new block). This means that if I were to tamper with some blocks and attempt to rewrite the history, it would be detected immediately by other nodes.
Here's where my issue with it kicks in. People say that small businesses could implement the blockchain aswell, but doesn't this whole blockchain fall flat if at times only 1 user is online? Or even nobody? In those cases, there would be no entity to prevent the changes in the history, making it vulnerable?
Is there any possibility to continue the verification for those nodes? From my understanding there seems to be no way.
Additional question: Does anyone know resources on blockchain being used for proof of deletion, meaning an evidence of some deletion of records, data, etc.? Thanks in advance

A: It would depend on the policy on how the consensus is reached. The consensus is reached differently in different blockchains. If all the nodes responsible for verification go down, the new blocks will not be added to the blockchain. Therefore, no further transaction will go through.
Regarding small businesses using blockchain, You don't need to be the part of the verification process (consensus step) to be the part of the blockchain. Small businesses can use public blockchains where the verification is handled by the network or the permissioned blockchain where it is assumed that participants taking part in consensus trust each other to some extent.
To use blockchain as a proof of deletion, you just go through the previous transactions and verify the state variables. Blockchain is tamper-proof, so the records aren't deleted as such but the state is changed that provides the audit-trail and serves as evidence of deletion of records or data.


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Located between the Caribbean Sea and the Atlantic Ocean, Cuba is the largest country in the Caribbean. With its favorably warm climate, steady winds, unique natural beauty, and open-minded, friendly people, Cuba goes beyond any vacationer's dreams. When Christopher Columbus discovered the island in 1492, he said: "This is the most beautiful land one has ever seen."
The westernmost island of the Greater Antilles, Cuba is located just 90 miles from Key West, Florida. The island has a reliable nautical infrastructure, which is receiving well-aimed support from the government and makes a Cuban getaway easy for all sailors. About 20 marinas and nautical centers all around Cuba gladly welcome yachts under all flags and offer a multitude of services.
The gorgeous Cuban coast and off-lying islands are fully accessible and ripe for exploration. Cuban cities such as Trinidad, and particularly its capital, Havana, are renowned for their architectural richness and scenic beauty.
Hundreds of yachts that have been sailing from the United States to Cuba since September 2015, when the U.S. Department of the Treasury issued a new set of regulations approved by the former Obama administration that opened the door to passenger transportation to the island by sea.
This article by ABEL FERNÁNDEZ in the Miami Herald January 30, 2017 gives you an idea what has changed. US regulations are softening chartering is destined to expand.
Yachting to Cuba — a 'beautiful' exception to the embargo
The 107-foot mega yacht has four cabins with private bathrooms, a jacuzzi, two jet skis, two auxiliary boats and a crew of four, including a chef.
With all those amenities, the flamboyant vessel named Motor Yacht REFLECTIONS recently departed from Key West to Havana, its second voyage to the island in less than a year.
REFLECTIONS is just one of hundreds of yachts that have been sailing from the United States to Cuba since September 2015, when the U.S. Department of the Treasury issued a new set of regulations approved by the former Obama administration that opened the door to passenger transportation to the island by sea.
Those in the industry say the number of yacht excursions is multiplying quickly even as passenger cruise ships, which operate under the same regulations, have gotten the most attention.
"Since Dec. 17, 2014, almost nothing has happened in Cuba except tourism, and much if not most of the tourism is illegal," said Coral Gables attorney Michael T. Moore, referring to the reestablishment of U.S.-Cuba relations. "By this I mean that it does not comply with the embargo exceptions," he said. "But there's one exception, and it's beautiful: yacht trips."
Although Americans who visit the island can't go simply as tourists, which is prohibited under the still intact embargo, luxury trips like what Reflections offers are legal — at least for now. It is not yet known if President Donald Trump will reverse the relaxed measures imposed by the Obama administration.
American travelers to Cuba, by sea or air, are required to comply with one of 12 categories approved by the Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC), which oversees embargo regulations over Cuba. Moore's firm has facilitated more than 100 yacht trips to Cuba.
"Of the 12 exceptions for Americans to travel to the island, we focus on the environment," Moore said.
During their stay, passengers partake in a busy itinerary, including classic car rides accompanied by a guide, dinners at restaurants known as paladares and visits to several keys where they can dive, interact with Cuban scientists who do research and collaborate with the International Society of Seakeepers, a nonprofit organization that supports educational programs and marine studies.
"The Seakeepers organization is a scientific community that works together with the yacht community," said Moore, who is a member of the board. "Scientists do not act alone, they need a sponsor. We do not donate money, but we provide the yacht."
Moore said that Seakeepers is not tied to the Cuban government: "It's an effort to establish relationships with the Cuban people."
Moore said that most of the customers interested in traveling by boat to Cuba contact his firm, Moore & Co. "They tell us 'we want to go to Cuba', and we guide them in the process. We take them by the hand," he said.
Last year, Moore & Co. handled the permit process for 55 U.S. yachts that participated in the Ernest Hemingway Fishing Tournament, an event that has been taking place since 1950, but for decades did not include U.S.-based vessels.
Moore's firm also handles permits and insurance for mega yachts — vessels more than 79 feet with a crew — traveling to Cuba. But customers usually contract a concierge to charter the yacht, prepare the itinerary and handle the logistics in Cuba, such as land transportation, guided tours and other details.
María Romeu, a Cuban American who for decades worked on cultural exchange events that brought Cuban artists to perform in the United States, now serves as a yacht concierge. Romeu, who worked as a yacht crew member for years, said she had been preparing for the time when sailing to the island would be allowed.
"We all had the idea that door was going to open. The conditions were already there," Romeu said.
Cuba has about a dozen marinas run by the state-owned company MARLIN S.A and at least one from the Gaviota group, which belongs to the military. Seven of the marinas serve as international port entries.
Following the 2015 regulations, the U.S. Coast Guard inspected the island's marinas and gave the OK for U.S. vessels to make the trip.
"It all opened up like a faucet," Romeu said. In October 2015, she launched VIP Yachts, a branch of Cuba Tours & Travel, a California-based travel agency that has been organizing trips to Cuba since 1999.
In June 2016, Romeu organized the company's first trip to Cuba aboard a 157-foot mega yacht that sailed along the perimeter of the island — from Cayo Largo del Sur on the south central coast to Havana.
"Since then, it has been one after another. We have been very successful," said Romeu, who also organized the recent trip out of Key West on Reflections, which accommodated eight passengers.
Romeu already has 65 yacht reservations booked for this year, all of which will include scientific exploration.
In the Canarreos Archipelago, along the southwest coast of mainland Cuba, "there is a conservation program in each key," Romeu said. "There, the clients get involved, they dive with the scientists, and they keep everything within the law."
As part of her work, Romeu is responsible for making sure that everything goes as planned: guided tours, drivers, classic cars, restaurants, diving expeditions and other logistics. Seakeepers deals with the nautical part of the trip.
"Logistics are complicated in Cuba," Romeu said. "There are a lot of things that can't be found on the island, so you have to take everything needed for the trip."
Romeu said her customers "are very wealthy people, those within the 1 or 2 percent of the population," who expect exclusive service of the highest quality. Many have private jets and prefer to fly to the island and board the yacht there.
"Very few hotels in Cuba could accommodate the level of luxury demanded by this type of customer, so yachts also serve as a hotel," Romeu said.
A trip to Cuba on a luxury yacht can cost from $50,000 to $1 million, depending on the yacht, the stay and other factors, Romeu said. Just refueling a yacht like Reflections can cost about $20,000, she said.
Some customers own their own yachts, and according to current regulations, they can take more passengers than the 12 passenger limit for chartered trips.
In January, Romeu made an exploratory trip to Cuba with a delegation of 24 people from the International Yacht Brokers Association to show them the Cuban marinas. She also is handling the logistics for 25 yachts from the Ocean Reef Club, in Key Largo, that have a trip planned for April.
Gerald Berton of Cuba Seas, an organization that offers yacht charter services to Cuba, has organized 85 trips to the island since September 2015. His company offers insurance for boats, submits all the required paperwork and ensures that OFAC regulations are complied with. "People want to know first that everything is authorized," Berton said.
According to Berton, docking fees on Cuban marinas, although cheap compared to the price of U.S. marinas, provide a a good revenue for Cuba. The berth price per foot is about $1.60 at Havana's Hemingway Marina, compared to $7.50 in Miami. So a 79-foot yacht would pay at least $126 per day. Unlike other countries, Cuba does not charge entry fees for yachts, Berton said.
Berton said he had prepared for 10 years for the opportunity to travel to Cuba by yacht.
"It seemed natural that one day the restrictions would be lifted," he said. "We're only 90 miles away"
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Just a quick tip for those out there that keep doing "Clear Browser Cookies, Cache, Everything…" you can turn it off completely in Firefox while your doing development and testing.
I add Here's how to disable FireFox's browser cache completely.
Type 'cache' in the search bar, and look for network.http.use-cache, and double click it to set it to false. Double clicking it again will set it to true and re-enable the cache …and then you're done.
To forcibly reload a page and all its dependencies, direct from source, ignoring local and proxy caches hold the shift key and hit reload.
This applies not only to FireFox but also IE6/7 and Safari (maybe others too). I have a feeling this may be a ratified standard.
Firefox also has a memory cache, but disabling the memory cache isn't recommended and can cause problems.
If you run in Private Browsing – Browse the web without saving information about the sites you visit mode then also the disk cache is disabled but also other features like permanent cookies and history are disabled.


their 2018 Winter Bowling League!
Cost: $28.00 per bowler (covers rental of ball, lane, shoes, and the cost of two games each day for 4 weeks. Limited to the first 32 bowlers who register.
Payment: Checks can be made payable to 'Beaver Vu Bowl'.
Deadline: Registration and payment must be received by Friday, January 5th.
Send them with attention to Megan Goettemoeller, 245 N. Valley Road, Xenia, OH 45385.
Individuals are responsible for their own transportation to and from bowling. Please be prompt in arriving at the bowling alley for bowling and for pick up. If a participant needs assistance of any kind, they MUST have someone (family member, staff, etc.) there to assist them due to liability issues.
This form will also serve as our emergency contact information, so please fill out the form in its entirety. You may register multiple bowlers by listing each person's name on the back of the registration form. Once you have completed the required information, detach the Bowling Registration Form and submit it no later than Friday, January 5, 2018.
GCBDD will provide pizza on the last day (January 27th) after bowling is done! Please bring money for beverages.Each bowler will be given a medal and a certificate after bowling is completed on January 27th.
To see flyer, and registration form, click here.


One of the top recruiters out there. Has established Xavier as a legitimate top 20 national program year in and out. If a good Big East Job opens, he is your guy!
Many doubted his abilities, but he has proven that he was a good choice as his father's successor. Now 22-3. Look for him to make the 1 year jump like Stan Heath did a few years back. Who could blame him?
The seasoned veteran of the group. Has built St Mary's as the best mid-major program out West besides Gonzaga. Oregon State is his job to loose, and if Cal opens, he's the main target.


safe and informed when you get there.
NOTE: Hi there! In 2015, we discontinued posting new content to Girl Goin' Gone. But, the City Guides still contain relevant information, as do the safety tips for women traveling solo. We hope to re-publish or relaunch in the future, so stay tuned with my Twitter updates. See you soon and travel safely!
This spring I discovered a substantially less-expensive airfare option from New York to London outside of the usual suspects: British Airways, Delta, Virgin Atlantic and American Airlines.


It is so hot outside right now! On days like today, one of the only things that helps beat the heat is a cool refreshing drink. Wouldn't it be even better if that drink was not only refreshing but it was also healthy?
Well guess what, I have the drink for you. I developed this recipe for a segment I did on Utah's KSL Studio 5. What I love so much about this drink is that it is made with only a few ingredients. The ingredients are watermelon, the juice from a few lemons, and a little bit of sugar.
The amount of sugar you add is entirely up to you. If your watermelon is a really ripe and sweet, you won't have to add as much sugar. You can leave the sugar out completely for a sugar free drink.
Have you ever bought a watermelon at the store and then brought it home and cut it up only to discover that instead of read and juicy, it is pink, grainy and tastes like nothing? Instead of throwing it away and wasting your money, make this Watermelon Lemonade. It is the perfect solution for those not so ripe and tasteless watermelons.
A 12 to 14 lb. watermelon will make about 1 gallon of lemonade. So next time you have a backyard barbecue, make this watermelon lemonade and instantly become the hostess of the year!
1. Mix all the ingredients and stir until the sugar is completely dissolved.
1. Blend 2 cups of watermelon with 1/2 cup of water. Strain the liquid through a strainer. Continue this process with the remaining watermelon. Stir in the lemon and lime juice and sugar until sugar is dissolved.


The longest running international festival in the region, the Singapore International Film Festival (SGIFF) is back in its the 27thedition to offer a 'feast for the senses,' with films that narrate unique stories from the region. This was announced by the Festival at a media conference held at the National Museum of Singapore on 27th October, 2016. This year, SGIFF will screen 161 feature and short films from 52 countries, with 16 world premieres, 9 international premieres and 18 Asian premieres.
SGIFF Executive Director, Ms Yuni Hadi said that the SGIFF continues to be a discovery ground and platform to connect independent films in Asia and beyond. As the leading international film platform in Southeast Asia, the festival strives to foster the understanding of regional cinema by giving a voice to individuals through stories and dialogue. SGIFF is part of the annual Singapore Media Festival (SMF) that brings together a rich mix of independent filmmaking talent to showcase the region's stories through film, throughout Asia and beyond. SGIFF also allows established and emerging filmmakers and industry players to interact and exchange ideas, in order to contribute to the growth of cinema in the region.


Early on in my racing life, I thought I had found the secret. My friend, who decimated us every week at the races, revealed to me his training weapon. Each day he commuted 20 to 30 minutes from his house, which sat on top of the toughest climb in the area. So I ditched the car and started riding everywhere. Unfortunately, what I hadn't considered was the years of base miles he had in his legs, the long rides he did on the weekends, and the fact that he barely pedaled during his ride to work, which was all downhill. My poorly planned commute was a big reason why by April he was still decimating us and I was simply decimated.
There are several reasons why many of us buy panniers and turn the bike into more than a training tool. Some of us commute because time is limited and it's a great way to get a few extra hours in. Some want to drive less, or sit in traffic less. Others have no choice.
Before she retired in 2016, former U.S. national road champion Mara Abbott did it for all of those reasons. Cycling was her job, but since she didn't own a car, it was also how she did her grocery shopping and got around town. (In fact, it still is.) She admits that sometimes her coach gave her a hard time, but he worked it into her plan.
Commuting by bike can be your secret weapon for a dominant season — or it can be a season-killer. It's just a matter of knowing how to make it a beneficial part of your training and, more importantly, to know the pitfalls.
Dean Golich, a premier coach at Carmichael Training Systems who has worked with many top pros, including Abbott, said there are two issues with using a commute for training. The first, and most important, is recovery.
The second is endurance work. Even a 20-minute commute helps the weekly volume, but if you're looking for an endurance ride, a commute doesn't really count. The fact is, two 90-minute rides in a day are not equivalent to one three-hour ride.
That's because there are physiological adaptations that only occur during longer sustained training. One is a slow depletion of your muscle glycogen reserves over time, which causes you to "recruit fiber that isn't normally recruited because of fatigue or fuel source," Golich said. For any accomplished cyclist, that adaptation doesn't happen during a 90-minute ride.
Another important adaptation is an increase in our natural antioxidant levels to handle the greater oxidative stress of training. In a study at Wilfrid Laurier University, where participants trained no more than 35 minutes per day for eight weeks, their fitness and oxidative stress both increased, but their natural antioxidants didn't compensate.
Finally, it's important to remember that our aerobic energy systems are very slow to kick into gear. It can take 10 to 15 minutes before the aerobic pathway is fully activated. This means that in a 20-minute commute, you may only get five to 10 minutes of quality training.
And while a commute may not be conducive to endurance training, Golich was quick to point out that it can be used very effectively when you are focusing on threshold or VO2 work.
According to Abbott, treating your training plan and commute as two separate things is a mistake. "You look at your week and you say, 'What are the workouts that I need to do?'" Then plan your commute accordingly. That 45-minute trip between work and home could be a great opportunity to throw on the shoes and bibs and get in your planned intervals.
There's nothing to say that you have to do the same amount of riding at the same intensity on both ends of your day. "The strategy we've used in the past is to try to make the morning commute as easy as possible," Golich said. Then, he suggests you add time to the trip home to make it two or even three hours.
Getting that endurance ride is the hard part of commuting, said Golich. One way is to add time to one end of the commute, but you can also take advantage of the commute to do your shorter interval work so you can free up your weekend for the long ride.
"If you've got a recovery day," Abbott said, "commuting is perfect." She would often run errands by bike for her recovery rides.
"To be honest," Golich said, "sometimes you've just got to not do it." The issue is still recovery, and if it's meant to be a rest day, you may just have to hop in the carpool. If you have absolutely no choice, Abbott recommends simply riding as slowly as possible.
If your commute is short — under 15 minutes — and you can't add time to it, then Golich recommends keeping it very easy and not counting it in your training.
To mimic the effects of endurance rides, you can cheat a little by riding 10 to 15 watts harder than normal. It's going to deplete your glycogen reserves faster and "recruit muscle fibers that are predominantly for power, and train them to be a little more fatigue resistant," Golich said.
Another strategy to mimic endurance rides is to do the morning commute on no food, so glycogen reserves are already depleted. Golich recommends keeping the intensity up to get more bang for the buck. There is some recent research to back this strategy, but Golich still sees it as a risky technique.
Abbott commuted on a 'cross bike. "I had it set up to the exact same measurements as my road bike," she said. You can do intervals and quality work on even the cheapest commuter, as long as it is setup like your race bike.


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To castrate or not to castrate…
Appropos Khushwant Singh's column " Rapists deserve castration" ( May 14), I am also tempted to suggest my own prescriptions since all Indians are, after all, doctors. A large number of sex offenders begin as 'Peeping Toms' before committing even more serious crimes like rape. The rapist is also known to be retaliating for the perceived wrongs that he feels were inflicted on him by women, who could be mother, teacher, wife or a girl friend.
Their motive is often revenge and punishment and many rapists also kill their victims. But though punishment degrades and brutalises those who punish and those who are punished, punishment does not seem to deter criminals. In the United States, a vast majority of offenders in prisons and reformatories are frequent visitors as they repeat their crime. Few, if ever, are known to have been reformed. If castration is preferred to sending rapists to mental hospitals, should one also prescribe then the sterilisation of all serious psychiatric patients ?
— Aditya Narain Chopra Kurukshetra
I fully agree with the views of Khushwant Singh. The Union Government should not delay this matter and enact necessary legislation at the earliest to prescribe castration as punishment for rapists. There needs to be a deterrent which will prevent the rapist from repeating the crime. Otherwise the only punishment left will be Capital Punishment.
— Subhash Taneja Rohtak
One is shocked at the observation made by such a forward looking writer like Khushwant Singh. The barbaric punishment he prescribes for rapists was given in medieval times and is in line with chopping of hands for theft. The aim of punishment ought to be to reform the criminal and not to make him permanently disabled. The punishment will also be unfair because the rich and the powerful will escape conviction by hiring good lawyers while the poorer offenders will not be able to even put up a credible defence. I am reminded of emperor Shahjehan's daughter, Jahanara, who wrote, " Man has no right to deprive an individual what is given to him by God; castration is a sin before man and God." The very idea of castration is repugnant to all norms of justice and equity.
— V.P. Mehta Chandigarh
I fully endorse Khushwant Singh's view that rapists, once their offence is proved, ought to be castrated. It will also act as a deterrent because men dread being robbed of their manhood, virility and masculinity.
The fact is that the prevailing laws and punishment have failed to work. The incidence of rape is by all accounts rising . The laws provide a long and time-consuming trial and, more often than not, the culprits succeed in dodging the long arm of the law. The punishment accorded, in the rare cases where the prosecution succeeds in securing conviction, is also disproportionately inadequate. Exemplary punishment like castration appears to have become imperative.
— Tarsem S. Bumrah Batala
Growing old gracefully
Appropos " A relationship to cherish" ( April 9 ), in 1951 Britain had three hundred people aged over 100 years—-by 2031, it will have 34,000. Officially, the elderly are said to be those who are above the age of 65 and such people constitute 3.4% of the population in India and 14.5% in England. The elderly need to remain busy and " add life to years and not merely years to life". As a doctor, I keep prescribing a good night's sleep for longevity. Contrary to popular belief, the need for sleep is not reduced with age. The elderly must feel that they are wanted, needed by others and are useful to society. They also need to remember the lives of people like Nirad Chaudhry, who lived for over a 100 years in UK, Bernard Shaw, Annie Besant and many others who lived a full and busy life beyond the age of 100. There is no reason why more people in our own country cannot live beyond a century.
— Dr Avtar Narain Chopra Kurukshetra


I think you told me, some time ago, that you had a coat of my father's, and possibly something else. Will you be kind enough to let the State Treasurer, A. W. Harman, Jr.,1 have the coat, &c, for the use of the "Lee Monument Board." I am very sorry that the work was not given to you, and hoped up to the last moment that this would be done.
1. Asher Waterman Harman, Jr., (1850-1917), who was State Treasurer of Virginia for 31 years.


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The Epic of Humanity
Bahá'u'lláh taught that human history throughout its entire length was an intelligible and connected whole, centring round a single theme and developing a common purpose.
In this essay, first published in The Bahá'í World Volume VI (1934-1936), George Townshend describes how, from the beginning of history to the present day and beyond the present to the cycle's distant end, one master-scheme is disclosed by set degrees.
Bahá'u'lláh revealed a sublime vision of human history as an epic written by the finger of God and proceeding along an ordered course to a climax, the nature of which was exactly defined before the story opened and the appearance of which at the date ordained by the Author no human misunderstanding nor opposition could prevent or postpone.
He taught that human history throughout its entire length was an intelligible and connected whole, centring round a single theme and developing a common purpose. From the beginning of the cycle to the present day and beyond the present to the cycle's distant end, one master-scheme is by set degrees disclosed. The stage upon which the action moves forward is the entire globe, with all its continents and all its seas; and there is no race nor nation nor tribe nor even individual who has not a designated place in the unfolding of the Grand Design of God.
This doctrine of the unity of world-history held in the revelation of Bahá'u'lláh a position of cardinal importance. He was far from being the first among the Messengers of God to reveal it. Those "prophets which have been since the beginning of the world" and lesser seers as well as they have given glimpses of it to mankind, or have referred to it in symbol and in parable. It is indeed involved in all the historic faiths of the human race, and there is no world-religion extant which can be fully understood without a knowledge of its truth. But Bahá'u'lláh was the first to lay on it so great an emphasis and to expound it at large and in plain terms. On it depends the significance of his own advent and the timeliness of his humanitarian reforms; and on it turns his teaching as to the aims and methods of Providence in its dealings with mankind.
This scheme is carried out by the power of God's will and it has its origin in his desire for the well-being of his creatures. Its aim is the training of the peoples of the world to live and to work together in harmony, and to establish by God's particular assistance a universal civilisation in which all the human faculties shall find at last adequate and complete expression. The attainment of this goal is in the Divine Author's eyes the opening of the main movement of human history. All previous and earlier events are in the nature of an introduction. They are steps up a long ascent, causes of a desired result. However important they be, their meaning lies not wholly in themselves, but in the fact that they look and lead forward to a transcendent issue save for which they themselves would never have been called into existence.
Secular schools of thought cannot be said to have applied nor adopted any such broad conception of the integral unity of all human history. In past times, truths so large did not find easy entrance into the minds of men. So long as accurate knowledge of distant peoples was as hard to gain as accurate knowledge of past events, such doctrines would remain for scholars disembodied and unsubstantiated ideas. Today, histories of mankind on a comprehensive scale have become numerous; yet those of them which present the complete story as having an organic plot like a well-constructed epic, are probably few indeed.
In the sphere of religion, however, the case is different. The idea that the course of human events is directed by a stronger will and a clearer eye than man's to a predetermined end is found in more revelations than one. It is said to have been mentioned by the founders of all the world-religions. Though it has not been in any past age of such critical interest as it is today and has not before been treated so fully as now by Bahá'u'lláh, yet it has never been kept wholly concealed from man. There are references to it in scripture or tradition which are clear enough to show that this truth is part of the common religious knowledge of mankind while slight enough to prove that it did not hold in any High Prophet's teaching the same importance as in that of Bahá'u'lláh.
The general fact that God ordains human events long ages before they take shape on this earth (somewhat as a dramatist will complete his play before it is embodied in action on the stage), was alluded to by Jesus when He said of the righteous in the Last Day, "Enter into the joy prepared for you by the Father before the beginning of the world"; and again on many occasions by the Apostle Paul, as, "He chose us in him before the foundation of the world" (Eph. i. 4), and by Peter who speaks in a similar connection of "the foreknowledge of God the Father" (I Peter i. 2).
Muhammad bore the same witness when he revealed that the first thing which God created was a pen and that he said to it, "Write." It said to him, "What shall I write?" and God said, "Write down the quantity of every separate thing to be created." And it wrote all that was and all that will be to eternity.
More specifically, Zarathustra taught the gradual perfecting of mankind under divine law and the God-guided progress of history towards a distant but certain culmination.
At some unknown date the Hebrew allegory of the creation of the world in seven days made a cryptic allusion to the procession of world-religions and to the final consummation of God's full purpose in the Seventh Day, the day of maturity, completion and rest. The seers of the Hebrew people, lifted by inspiration into the eternal realm, would descry some sign or feature of the far-off Day of God, the foreordained climacteric of world-history, and in a mood of exaltation would give utterance to their predictive vision without fully comprehending what they saw or measuring the interval which separated them from its fulfilment.
Isaiah cries:
"It shall come to pass in the last days that the Mountain of the Lord's House shall be established in the top of the mountains . . . and all nations shall flow to it. They shall beat their swords into ploughshares and their spears into pruning hooks; nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more" (i. 2, 4).
Or Zechariah:
"The Day of the Lord cometh. . . . And the Lord shall be king over all the earth; in that day shall there be one Lord and His name one" (Zech. xiv. 1, 9).
Or again Joel:
"The Day of the Lord cometh . . . there hath not been ever the like, neither shall there be any more after it even to the years of many generations. . . . Ye shall eat in plenty and be satisfied and praise the name of the Lord that hath dealt wondrously with you . . . ! I will pour out my spirit and your sons and your daughters shall prophesy . . . your old men shall dream dreams . . . your young men shall see visions. And also upon the servants and the handmaids in those days will I pour out my spirit. And I will show wonders in the heaven and on the earth. The sun shall be turned into darkness and the moon into blood before the great and the terrible Day of the Lord come. And whosoever shall call on the name of the Lord shall be saved" (Joel ch. 2).
Confucius, more than five centuries before Christ, outlined in his book, Spring and Autumn, the ordained Plan of History in brief but plain terms.
He divided history into three stages. In the first, which he called the Stage of Disorder, the social mind was very crude; there was a sharp distinction between one's own country and other countries, and hence attention was paid more to conditions at home than abroad. In the second stage, the Advancement of Peace, there was a distinction between civilized countries on the one side and those uncivilized on the other; the range of civilization extended and friendship between nations became closer. The smaller people could make their voices heard. In the third and final stage, the Supreme Peace, there was no distinction at all among the nations of the world. All became civilized and met upon the level. Righteousness prevailed and the world was unified.
Jesus spoke much of the Last Day (the Kingdom of God as He usually called it) and of its near approach. "The Kingdom of Heaven is at hand." He did not stress, as Confucius had done, the historical aspect of the coming climacteric, but taking up the warnings of the Hebrew prophets He spoke of the unexpectedness of its advent and of the terrible jeopardy into which it would bring mankind. Even in an age so late in history as His, a full account of the development and destiny of the race would have been premature. He kept the fullness of this truth among those things which He had to say to His disciples, but which at that stage they could not yet bear.
But now a new occasion has arisen. New opportunities, new problems, new perils, confront mankind; and with these new conditions has come the need of a new knowledge. He who, before the human race began, fixed the date at which that yet untreated race would reach the apex of its course and attain the maturity of its powers, has now declared that the Date has come. He who, in dim and distant ages long past, solemnly ratified with His people a Covenant and made to them a faithful promise that He would bring them all to His Kingdom in His own good time, has now in this epoch kept His ancient promise and fulfilled the Covenant in its completeness.
This present time is God's Good time. This present time is the Era of which since the beginning of the world prophets have chanted and seers have sung. Suddenly – unexpectedly—unawares—without observation (exactly as Jesus said) the fullness of the Glory of God has irradiated the globe from the east to the farthest west. The Day of the Lord has dawned. Keeping his pledge, God has thrown open to men a new domain of life and activity, has conferred on them new powers, laid on them new responsibilities; and he demands that they enter as quickly as may he into this new order of existence and fit themselves to these higher conditions.
The nature of those charges which in the Day of God are to be laid upon mankind can be gathered from a sympathetic reading of the prophets of Israel. Those seers wrote – as a great poet might write – with their minds turned towards God and their hearts lighted and warmed by ardent faith. They could not control the vision that was vouchsafed them: they could not complete it nor set it in its own environment and perspective, nor plumb its meanings nor yet count the years which should elapse before it descended from the realm in which they saw it to the realm of actuality. When the prophets are read in this spirit as Jesus and the evangelists read them, there rises into view a clear and boldly sketched outline of those world-developments which from the creation have been laid up to await the present hour.
The picture is one which has puzzled, fascinated and awed the Christian mind. The impression made by the vision upon the seer-prophets was profound. They write or chant in a strain of exaltation which finds its answer across the years in the rapturous faith of the Apocalypse and the controlled but not less deep emotion of the Christ telling of his second Advent. The strange scenes and deeds and wonders that appear in the picture are hardly more startling than the violent contrast of the colors in which they are painted. Here Hell seems to reach out to the gates of Paradise; delusion and enlightenment, despair and victory, the unlighted Pit and the sunshine of God's own presence seem all to have a place here, and through some purgation of Phlegethonian misery man hardly comes alive to inherit the promise of all ages.
The Event which the Hebrew prophets foresaw was not to be an isolated occurrence; it was one of a series of events; it was the Last Day of many days. But it so transcended all before it as to be outstanding and paramount. Its splendour outshone all previous splendours, and its blessings were so far above all previous experience and precedent that men would live in a new world and would not even remember the former things that had passed so utterly away. So full will be the Revelation vouchsafed by God in the Last Day, so glorious the effulgence of this supreme Theophany that darkness and error will not be able to withstand the impact of its might. They will flee and perish. The radiance will sweep across the entire globe from the east to the west. It will settle and abide in every land. Mankind will become one, and will be organised round a single central authority which it will recognise as divinely appointed. One law will run throughout the whole earth. National distinctions will not be obliterated; the various nations will meet upon a common level but will retain their separate identity. All peoples and races will share a common relation to one another. A Universal religion will unite the hearts of all. Mankind will form a single congregation, their God being recognised everywhere as one and the same God endowed with the same attributes and known by the same Name. The Glory of the Most High in its depth and in its height will be poured forth over the earth; and spiritual gifts, once the privilege of a gifted few, will be possessed by the many. War will be abandoned. The skill of those who made weapons of destruction will be turned to beneficent uses. All the world over, men will be able to enjoy their homes and their prosperity in security and peace.
(See, for instance, Isaiah ii. 2-4; xv. 17- 25; Zech. ix. 10; xiv. 9; viii, 20 ff.; Zeph. iii. 9; Micah iv. 1-5, etc.)
Such is the prophets' picture of the world conditions of the Last Day; such—believe the Bahá'ís — are the changes which man in this hour is called upon to make.
Prescient of the crisis and the difficulties that lay ahead, Bahá'u'1láh, half a century ago, with timely forethought, offered to mankind the knowledge that would enable them to shoulder the new responsibility about to be imposed upon them. He not only outlined a large plan of reform, but he explained, with an emphasis, a fullness, and a precision not used before, the brotherhood of mankind and the unity of their development from the infancy of the race to the present time.
History, he taught, is in its length and breadth one and single. It is one in its structure. It is one in its movement. From the beginning of time the whole human race has been subject to one law of development; and it has advanced age after age in accordance with one and the same principle and by the application of one and the same method. Its whole movement has one source and one cause, and is directed towards one goal. The unification of the world, instead of being an afterthought, or of needing an improvised miracle for its completion, is the normal conclusion of a process that has been going on since the race began. Each of the world-religions has its own set place within this vast economy. Each is mediated through a Master Prophet from God by one and the same principle and bears witness to some phase of one indivisible Truth. No religion has been exhaustive or final. Every one admits of development and invites it. If all were under God thus developed, each along the line of its own implicit truth, they would not move farther and farther apart, but on the contrary would approach one another till at last they merged and became one. The ultimate ideal of them all, while not the same as any one of those from which it grew, will yet be consistent with the essence of each of them. It is the universal religion: the fruit and the perfection of all that preceded it. He who accepts it on its appearance will not deny the ancient Faith of his forefathers; he will reassert it, and at the same time will accept all the other revealed faiths of mankind.
When all men know the certainty of their common history and their organic unity, then, said Bahá'u'lláh, on that knowledge will be built the temple of peace and the fabric of future civilisation.
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