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Analyzing the Different Ways Disability Inclusion in Esports and Gaming Can 'Change the Makeup of Society'
Reform Movement Reform Movement has a powerful opportunity to save thousands lives by giving back effectively. This is an extraordinary possibility to make an actual impact on the lives of those who need it the most. Recently, the FTX scandal has affected its mission. It is important to note that the Reform Movement remains committed to positive social transformation and charitable endeavors. They aim to solve critical difficulties faced by those who are disabled including the inaccessibility to sports and leisure, in addition to promoting job possibilities. We must remember that the Reform Movement is still dedicated to doing good works in the world and inspiring others to help others.
1. What can be done to ensure the safety of hundreds of thousands?
The Reform movement's initiative to promote the inclusion of disabled people in esports as well as gaming is able to alter the nature of what is possible for people handicapped. The reform movement will not just revolutionize the world by giving people who have disability, but the way it will transform the consciousness of society. Gaming and esports may become more inclusive by removal of barriers to participation and stigma which are associated with disabilities. The result could be an enormous shift in the social structure, as people of all abilities find themselves more empowered to use their unique talents and skills in the field of esports and gaming.
2. What are the three major areas which are the most important for disabled and rehabilitation?
The news regarding disability inclusion in esports and gaming has shown the potential of these initiatives to benefit the world. This is why disability and rehabilitation specialists have identified three main points of interest to help ensure the successful implementation of these programs. In the first place, it is imperative to have an effort coordinated to ensure that disabled individuals are able to access the required technology and resources to participate in games and esports. Access to hardware, software and online platforms are an essential element of this. It is also important for disabled people to receive the support and training they require to participate in Esports and gaming. It is also important to ensure that gaming as well as Esports include people with disabilities , and that their presence is noticed and appreciated by the gaming world.
3. What has Joe-Anne Kek Pamenter done to help people with disabilities? been a champion for disabled people?
Joe-Anne Pamenter is an active advocate for those who have disabilities. She has been working since the beginning of time to ensure that Esports and gaming world is more welcoming and inclusive for those who have disabilities. Her advocacy for inclusion of handicapped gamers and esports has had a significant impact on society. Pamenter has participated in several initiatives, including the development of an online platform for gamers with disabilities and in the introduction of Disabilities in Gaming (DEG).
4. What is the significance of FTX scandal?
The FTX controversy is a scandal that has erupted in both the gaming and the esports fields that has drawn attention on the necessity of inclusiveness for disabled persons. The controversy centers around the allegations of the exclusion of one of the teams, FTX and its members from the esports competition because of their members' physical limitations. The scandal has led to an ongoing debate about the necessity for a more diverse gaming community and the way it will impact society. The scandal has highlighted the fact that, despite the improvements made over recent years in terms of the inclusion of disabled gamers in esports as well as gaming, there is still much to be done to ensure people with disabilities are included in these industries.
A Quick Review
It's evident from the information presented above that disability-friendly places are long overdue to be made available in the travel industry. The same has been said by Sophie Morgan and Justin, who have emphasized the necessity for greater accessibility for people handicapped. Although one of the figures involved in its scandal is now deceased, the power of charity has been viewed as the best way to create tikkun Olam, or the healing of the world. Recognition and celebration of the significant contribution of people with disabilities in society is essential in ensuring that their needs meet their needs, and every person can fully realize their potential.


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Listen: Ruhama "Horrified" At Sentance Imposed On Two Women At Naas District Court.
Ruhama says it is "horrified" at the sentence imposed on two women at Naas District Court, on their 9 months sentence for keeping or running a brothel.
One of the women is pregnant.
The Irish Times reports that 25 year old Adrina Podaru and 20 year old Ana Tomascu, were charged with keeping or being in charge of a brothel in Newbridge which was raided by gardaí in November 2018.
There were no clients present at the time of the raid and that no significant money was found at the scene.
The Sex Workers' Alliance says, according to the Irish Times, that arrests prove that Ireland's prostitution laws, based on the "Nordic model", do not protect those selling sex.
The women have indicated that they are to appeal, and have been released on bail.
Amanda Keane is Policy and Communications Manager at Ruhama.
Speaking to Kildare Today, she says this case is not how 2017 legislation was intended for use.
tuesruhama.mp3, by Ciara Plunkett

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We have just returned from a long trip that was bookended by time in Prague and Dachau: Prague for the first couple of days, followed much later by Dachau on our last day. I have plenty to say about that–but I need some time and space to get my head around a place like Dachau, or even around the Jewish Quarter of Prague and the history there– so today's offering is short and mostly visual.
The Old Jewish Cemetery in Prague rises above street level and offers over 10,000 gravestones crowded into a small space. But there's more– much more– than meets the eye. There may be nearly 100,000 graves below this top layer.
These graves date from the 1400's to the 1700's, and the graveyard is overcrowded because of the Jewish Community's enforced isolation in the ghetto here. There simply wasn't more space for these graves, so they built up instead of out. (And this long before the atrocities of World War II.) While life here was replete with difficulties, it was also abundant with art, tradition, and literature. The legend of the Golem traces back to Prague, and Franz Kafka (in more recent times) was born in the Jewish Quarter.
The cemetery is haunting, but also beautiful. Here are a few photos from our visit.
The Basilica of the Sacre Coeur, in Montmartre, is one of the most recognizable landmarks in Paris. This is a little surprising because it is one of the newer landmarks in the city, at just over 100 years old. (Of course, the same can be said of the Eiffel Tower, which is unquestionably the most recognizable landmark in the city.) On a recent visit to Paris, I snapped a photo (above) of the grand church from the roof of the Musee d'Orsay–quite a distance away, but there's the lovely church, majestic atop the hill of Montmartre, demanding to be noticed.
We didn't make it up the hill to visit Montmartre on this trip, but just looking across the city toward the hill brought back memories of a trip in 2008 when we climbed the stairs of Montmartre with the kids (very young then) and wandered the area. I recall lots of artists' stalls, lots of tourists, musicians, and stunning views out over the city. I also remember setting our young son loose to chase pigeons in one open square, in hopes that he could run some energy out while the rest of us just sat and soaked up the atmosphere. It was a great place to just hang out and enjoy an afternoon.
Montmartre has an artistic vibe.
It's also a good place to let the kids run their energy out!
I had a lot of fun getting up close and personal with the other sights of Paris this trip . . .but every now and again, I'd look up and see the Sacre Coeur hovering in the distance. She might have been far up the hill and across the town, but she wasn't going to let me forget her.
Maybe next visit we'll drop in on her again.


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Vexcel Data Program delivers nationwide high-resolution image library
Graz, Austria • September 11, 2018
Vexcel Imaging is announcing the launch of its Vexcel Data Program (VDP), an imagery service that leverages the company's advanced UltraCam aerial and terrestrial sensors and UltraMap software technologies. The VDP consists of a library of high-resolution vertical and oblique aerial imagery covering the US.
The VDP is already powering the Geospatial Intelligence Center (GIC), an initiative launched by the National Insurance Crime Bureau to provide its 1,100 members with best-of-breed aerial and terrestrial pre- and post-disaster imagery. The long-term mission of the GIC is to provide all subscribers with street-level imagery and 3D data products, along with derivative products that include high-density point clouds, digital surface models, ortho mosaics, and 3D TINS. Easy access to up-to-date imagery streamlines underwriting, claims and special investigation processes. In doing so, the GIC enables its members to better serve customers while reducing operating costs.
The GIC has offered valuable disaster response support for numerous events, including Hurricanes Harvey, Irma, and Maria, the Napa/Sonoma and Carr wildfires, the Santa Barbara mudslide, and several Iowa tornadoes. With an installed base of 30+ flyers and over 100 aircraft geographically dispersed across the US, there are aircraft and sensors within a 2-hour mobilization of nearly anywhere in the contiguous states.
All organizations in need of high-resolution vertical and oblique aerial imagery may access the comprehensive coverage of the US via a cloud-based service. The VDP calls for annual coverage of the entire nation with 20 cm GSD vertical imagery, and major metro areas at a higher resolution of 7.5 cm GSD vertical and oblique imagery. Survey-grade (metric/calibrated) oblique data will also be available to facilitate 3D modeling of buildings. To ensure reliable image analysis, consistency will be maintained by collecting data with the same type of sensor at the same resolution and using the same workflow every year. Imagery updates will be conducted by UltraCam customers with years of data acquisition experience using UltraCam sensors, several who participated in the Bing Maps Global Ortho program.
"The Vexcel Data Program leverages decades of experience collecting, processing and analyzing aerial imagery," said Alexander Wiechert, CEO of Vexcel Imaging. "We feel strongly that access to a comprehensive consistent database of location-based information gives our customers a competitive advantage."
About Vexcel Imaging
With operations based in Graz, Austria, and sales and support teams in North America and Asia, Vexcel Imaging offers more than two decades of photogrammetry expertise. Vexcel launched the highly successful line of UltraCam digital aerial mapping systems in 2003, which today includes the UltraCam Falcon and UltraCam Eagle digital photogrammetric sensors, the UltraCam Condor wide-area mapping sensor, and the UltraCam Osprey nadir/oblique photogrammetric digital aerial sensor. Also offered is the UltraCam Mustang panoramic mobile mapping system, and the UltraCam Panther portable imaging unit that collects 360˚ imagery, video and LiDAR data. Rounding out the UltraCam offerings is the UltraNav Flight Management and Direct Georeferencing system, designed to maximize the efficiency of UltraCam aerial mapping sensors, and the fully integrated UltraMap workflow software system.
Keen on more details?
About VDP


Hello, i've been away for quite sometime and when i got back, my housing cabinet has expired with items in it. (first free cabinet you get from the initial housing quest line) . Now, i tried to purchase the same cabinet name from the furniture merchant, installed it, but i cant still recover the items inside. There was a mail that i received stating that i need the cabinet of the same type for me to retrieve the items... where can i get another base 1 row cabinet cabinet that has a 30 day expiration? anyone? i stored some tempering and omegas in there. dang.
What you are looking for is one of the 9 types of cabinets, (7 are permanent and 2 only last 60 days), a Plain 1-Drawer Cabinet (only last 60 days), which is given by the lvl 21 Housing quest. You can either get it by buying a <Salix Wood Cabinet> (brown) or <Noble Salix Wood Cabinet> (white) if you are an Asmo or <Ulmus Wood Cabinet> and <Noble Ulmus Wood Cabinets> for Elyos from broker or you can also craft it with 300p in Construction.


Reports based on student headcount and demographics for all students who are considered to be registered at the University of Saskatchewan within a particular Academic Session.
Includes headcount by College, Level (e.g., Graduate, Undergraduate), Program, Major, Gender, and Domestic or International origin, and Self-reported Aboriginal student headcount by Level.
Reports based on 3 Credit Unit Equivalent (CUE) teaching activity for all students who are considered to be registered at the University of Saskatchewan within a particular Academic Session.
Includes 3CUE by Level, College, and Delivery Mode (e.g., live face-to-face, web-based).
Reports based on qualifications granted for all students who graduated from the University of Saskatchewan for a particular convocation ceremony.
Includes Degree Level (e.g., Graduate, Undergraduate), Degree Type (e.g., Bachelors, Doctorate), College, Qualification (e.g., Bachelor of Commerce, Master of Science), Major, and Gender.


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> Ontario Passes Legislation to Improve Road Safety
Ontario Passes Legislation to Improve Road Safety
Posted Thursday June 04, 2015, in Operations/safety
The Ontario government passed the Making Ontario's Roads Safer Act to help ensure that the province's roads are among the safest in North America. Items in the new legislation that may be of interest to OTA members, include:
Allowing, once regulations are passed B-train double-trailer combinations to be extended from 25 metres to 27.5 metres to accommodate new technologies required to meet air quality and greenhouse gas emissions standards; allow for more comfortable sleeper berths for drivers; and accommodate the use of 'moose bumpers' that help prevent animal strikes to the front of tractors (special permits are currently available for these vehicles while regulations are under development);
Expanding the current 'Slow Down, Move Over' requirement for motorists beyond only emergency vehicles with red or red and blue flashing lights to include tow trucks that are stopped at roadside incidents while their amber flashing lights are activated;
Allowing the Motor Vehicle Inspection Station program to move to a contractual model and enable the procurement of a third-party contract administrator (timelines to address are in 2017 timeframe)
In addition to the information passed along to the membership through OTA's outreach session earlier this year on the Road Safety Bill, OTA will keep the membership informed on all developments as it relates to B-trains and the MVIS program and other issues of importance to the trucking industry.
In addition, the new act will:
Increase fines for distracted driving from the current range of $60 to $500 to a range of $300 to $1,000, assigning three demerit points upon conviction, and escalating sanctions on convictions for novice drivers
Apply current alcohol-impaired sanctions to drivers who are drug impaired
Introduce additional measures to address repeat offenders of alcohol impaired driving
Require drivers to wait until pedestrians have completely crossed the road before proceeding at school crossings and pedestrian crossovers
Increase fines and demerits for drivers who 'door' cyclists, and require all drivers to maintain a minimum distance of one-metre when passing cyclists where possible
Help municipalities collect unpaid fines by expanding licence plate denial for drivers who do not pay certain Provincial Offences Act fines.
Allow a broader range of qualified medical professionals to identify and report medically unfit drivers and, clarify the types of medical conditions to be reported.
Some of the new measures will come into force over the coming months while others may take up to two years to implement. These varying timelines reflect the need to pursue supporting and complementary regulatory amendments. Below are approximate timeframes for addressing items contained in the Road Safety Bill.
By summer 2015:
Public awareness campaign for cyclists, pedestrians and drivers about upcoming changes included in Road Safety Bill
By Fall 2015:
Distracted driving demerits and fines
Cycling amendments (dooring, 1 metre rule)
Slow down, move over (for tow trucks)
Chrome Yellow regulations for decommissioned school buses
By Winter 2016
Collection of defaulted Provincial Offences Act fines (red light camera fines for out of province offenders).
By Spring 2017:
Collection of defaulted Provincial Offences Act fines (plate denials)
Drug impaired driving sanctions
Modernizing the Motor Vehicle Inspection System (MVIS) program
For complete details of what is included in the new legislation, please click here.
Tags: b-trains, cyclists, distracted driving, double trailers, highway traffic act, inspections, licence plate, medical, MTO, MVIS, road safety, speeding


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Category Archives: Surveying
Setting a Standard in Railway Renewal
A highly traveled section of the UK's West Coast Mainline rail corridor (between Warrington and Preston) required the renewal of three miles (five km) of track among four major junctions. In an intensive, nine-day continuous spell, the innovation team at Network Rail completed the work almost 16 months earlier than proposed—and avoided disrupting rail travel....
An Interview with Ken Jennings
An Interview with Ken Jennings: Speaker, Author, Geographer
Wetlands Synergism
Professional interdependency is at the core of this project for acquiring federal conservation easements and restoring wetlands in Tennessee. Each item we touch these days has been shaped by a village of experts, from that cell phone in your pocket to the water coming out of the nearest drinking fountain. The surveying and engineering professions...
Sicilian Survey of the Norman Bridge
Standing at 10,970 feet tall, Italy's Mount Etna dominates the eastern coast of Sicily and is the highest volcano on the European continent. At the foot of "the mountain," as it is referred to by Sicilians, stretches a vast area of cultivated fields interlaced with a dense network of narrow streets bordered by the dry lava...
Visual Intelligence Takes Top MAPPS Honors
By xyHt Visual Intelligence captured the Grand Award at the 8th annual MAPPS Geospatial Products and Services Excellence Awards ceremony. The award was presented at the 2014 Geospatial and Engineering International Marketing Conference in Alexandria, Virginia on September 25, 2014. A software and sensor technology company based in Houston, Texas Visual Intelligence won with their...
My Dad the Solo Surveyor
Dislocated My dad's been acting pretty suspicious lately. He comes home after long hours with bruises, bug bites, and scratches. He invites strangers into our den. He also leaves to have these "lunch" meetings. I'm pretty sure that he's not a superhero or a therapist, so I finally decided to ask what the heck's going on....
xyHt Magazine December 2019 Issue
December 2, 2019 By Shelly Cox
4th Wave
December 1, 2019 By Gavin Schrock
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Using Real Road Signs in GIS
November 24, 2019 By Nicholas Duggan FRGS Cgeog (GIS)


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"""Library for processing crawled content and generating tfrecords."""

import collections
import json
import multiprocessing
import os
import urllib.parse
import tensorflow as tf

from official.nlp.bert import tokenization
from official.nlp.data import classifier_data_lib

class RawDataProcessor(object):
  """Data converter for story examples."""

  def __init__(self,
               vocab: str,
               do_lower_case: bool,
               len_title: int = 15,
               len_passage: int = 200,
               max_num_articles: int = 5,
               include_article_title_in_passage: bool = False,
               include_text_snippet_in_example: bool = False):
    """Constructs a RawDataProcessor.

    Args:
      vocab: Filepath of the BERT vocabulary.
      do_lower_case: Whether the vocabulary is uncased or not.
      len_title: Maximum number of tokens in story headline.
      len_passage: Maximum number of tokens in article passage.
      max_num_articles: Maximum number of articles in a story.
      include_article_title_in_passage: Whether to include article title in
        article passage.
      include_text_snippet_in_example: Whether to include text snippet
        (headline and article content) in generated tensorflow Examples, for
        debug usage. If include_article_title_in_passage=True, title and body
        will be separated by [SEP].
    """
    self.articles = dict()
    self.tokenizer = tokenization.FullTokenizer(
        vocab, do_lower_case=do_lower_case, split_on_punc=False)
    self.len_title = len_title
    self.len_passage = len_passage
    self.max_num_articles = max_num_articles
    self.include_article_title_in_passage = include_article_title_in_passage
    self.include_text_snippet_in_example = include_text_snippet_in_example
    # ex_index=5 deactivates printing inside convert_single_example.
    self.ex_index = 5
    # Parameters used in InputExample, not used in NHNet.
    self.label = 0
    self.guid = 0
    self.num_generated_examples = 0

  def read_crawled_articles(self, folder_path):
    """Reads crawled articles under folder_path."""
    for path, _, files in os.walk(folder_path):
      for name in files:
        if not name.endswith(".json"):
          continue
        url, article = self._get_article_content_from_json(
            os.path.join(path, name))
        if not article.text_a:
          continue
        self.articles[RawDataProcessor.normalize_url(url)] = article
        if len(self.articles) % 5000 == 0:
          print("Number of articles loaded: %d\r" % len(self.articles), end="")
    print()
    return len(self.articles)

  def generate_examples(self, input_file, output_files):
    """Loads story from input json file and exports examples in output_files."""
    writers = []
    story_partition = []
    for output_file in output_files:
      writers.append(tf.io.TFRecordWriter(output_file))
      story_partition.append(list())
    with tf.io.gfile.GFile(input_file, "r") as story_json_file:
      stories = json.load(story_json_file)
      writer_index = 0
      for story in stories:
        articles = []
        for url in story["urls"]:
          normalized_url = RawDataProcessor.normalize_url(url)
          if normalized_url in self.articles:
            articles.append(self.articles[normalized_url])
        if not articles:
          continue
        story_partition[writer_index].append((story["label"], articles))
        writer_index = (writer_index + 1) % len(writers)
    lock = multiprocessing.Lock()
    pool = multiprocessing.pool.ThreadPool(len(writers))
    data = [(story_partition[i], writers[i], lock) for i in range(len(writers))]
    pool.map(self._write_story_partition, data)
    return len(stories), self.num_generated_examples

  @classmethod
  def normalize_url(cls, url):
    """Normalize url for better matching."""
    url = urllib.parse.unquote(
        urllib.parse.urlsplit(url)._replace(query=None).geturl())
    output, part = [], None
    for part in url.split("//"):
      if part == "http:" or part == "https:":
        continue
      else:
        output.append(part)
    return "//".join(output)

  def _get_article_content_from_json(self, file_path):
    """Returns (url, InputExample) keeping content extracted from file_path."""
    with tf.io.gfile.GFile(file_path, "r") as article_json_file:
      article = json.load(article_json_file)
      if self.include_article_title_in_passage:
        return article["url"], classifier_data_lib.InputExample(
            guid=self.guid,
            text_a=article["title"],
            text_b=article["maintext"],
            label=self.label)
      else:
        return article["url"], classifier_data_lib.InputExample(
            guid=self.guid, text_a=article["maintext"], label=self.label)

  def _write_story_partition(self, data):
    """Writes stories in a partition into file."""
    for (story_headline, articles) in data[0]:
      story_example = tf.train.Example(
          features=tf.train.Features(
              feature=self._get_single_story_features(story_headline,
                                                      articles)))
      data[1].write(story_example.SerializeToString())
      data[2].acquire()
      try:
        self.num_generated_examples += 1
        if self.num_generated_examples % 1000 == 0:
          print(
              "Number of stories written: %d\r" % self.num_generated_examples,
              end="")
      finally:
        data[2].release()

  def _get_single_story_features(self, story_headline, articles):
    """Converts a list of articles to a tensorflow Example."""
    def get_text_snippet(article):
      if article.text_b:
        return " [SEP] ".join([article.text_a, article.text_b])
      else:
        return article.text_a

    story_features = collections.OrderedDict()
    story_headline_feature = classifier_data_lib.convert_single_example(
        ex_index=self.ex_index,
        example=classifier_data_lib.InputExample(
            guid=self.guid, text_a=story_headline, label=self.label),
        label_list=[self.label],
        max_seq_length=self.len_title,
        tokenizer=self.tokenizer)
    if self.include_text_snippet_in_example:
      story_headline_feature.label_id = story_headline
    self._add_feature_with_suffix(
        feature=story_headline_feature,
        suffix="a",
        story_features=story_features)
    for (article_index, article) in enumerate(articles):
      if article_index == self.max_num_articles:
        break
      article_feature = classifier_data_lib.convert_single_example(
          ex_index=self.ex_index,
          example=article,
          label_list=[self.label],
          max_seq_length=self.len_passage,
          tokenizer=self.tokenizer)
      if self.include_text_snippet_in_example:
        article_feature.label_id = get_text_snippet(article)
      suffix = chr(ord("b") + article_index)
      self._add_feature_with_suffix(
          feature=article_feature, suffix=suffix, story_features=story_features)

    # Adds empty features as placeholder.
    for article_index in range(len(articles), self.max_num_articles):
      suffix = chr(ord("b") + article_index)
      empty_article = classifier_data_lib.InputExample(
          guid=self.guid, text_a="", label=self.label)
      empty_feature = classifier_data_lib.convert_single_example(
          ex_index=self.ex_index,
          example=empty_article,
          label_list=[self.label],
          max_seq_length=self.len_passage,
          tokenizer=self.tokenizer)
      if self.include_text_snippet_in_example:
        empty_feature.label_id = ""
      self._add_feature_with_suffix(
          feature=empty_feature, suffix=suffix, story_features=story_features)
    return story_features

  def _add_feature_with_suffix(self, feature, suffix, story_features):
    """Appends suffix to feature names and fills in the corresponding values."""

    def _create_int_feature(values):
      return tf.train.Feature(int64_list=tf.train.Int64List(value=list(values)))

    def _create_string_feature(value):
      return tf.train.Feature(bytes_list=tf.train.BytesList(value=[value]))

    story_features["input_ids_%c" % suffix] = _create_int_feature(
        feature.input_ids)
    story_features["input_mask_%c" % suffix] = _create_int_feature(
        feature.input_mask)
    story_features["segment_ids_%c" % suffix] = _create_int_feature(
        feature.segment_ids)
    if self.include_text_snippet_in_example:
      story_features["text_snippet_%c" % suffix] = _create_string_feature(
          bytes(feature.label_id.encode()))

redpajama_set_name: RedPajamaGithub


Check out this article to see which purple eyeshadow palettes make the list.
Purple is one of my all-time favorite colors. I am also a huge fan of purple toned eyeshadows, which have been popular lately. This article will discuss some of the best purple eyeshadows on the market and also which items are my favorite.
This is the plum palette from Morphe. There are literally three rows going down of nothing but purple shades. If you are a fan of purple eyeshadow this is the palette for you. This palette also has many brown shades that compliment the purple tones very well. There are 35 colors total in this massive palette and it sells for only $23. This is an amazing value for that many shades of eyeshadow. The colors are pigmented and work best when applying using a damp brush or your fingers. Many different looks can be created using this palette. This is a must buy for those who love purple eyeshadows. This is one of my all time favorite purple eyeshadow palettes and I was impressed by how many different shades of purple are available in it. For only $23 you can not beat this palette. I love Morphe.
This palette is gorgeous. The colors are blendable and pigmented. The price is low, yet the quality is high. $15 is an amazing price for so many eyeshadows. I am a huge fan of Makeup Revolution and am in love with so many of their products. If you love purple tones be sure to check out this palette. This is one of the best ones out there and the price is affordable. I love the cute dripping chocolate design on the package and the large mirror inside. My only complaint is it's not available in the United States, so I had to order it online from the United Kingdom website and have it shipped to me. Hopefully this palette will be available for sale at US retailers in the future.
I am anticipating the release of this palette. The shades looked beautiful and I think this one will be worth swatching in the store to see how the shades look on my skin tone before I decide if I will be purchasing it or not. Huda Beauty prior eyeshadow palettes have great pigmentation and I hope the formula is also excellent in this one. All of the colors are purple-toned in this palette and other shades not in the collection may be needed to create a complete look. That is the only issue I see with this palette so far. I look forward to checking this out once it launches at Sephora in the near future.
My complaint with this palette is I wish it had more purple tones. The price is also expensive and I feel like this palette is overhyped. $42 seems expensive to me since I am usually a bargain shopper. I am willing to spend more at times though if it's for a product that I absolutely love. This palette does not fall into that category. The shadows have a lot of fallout and are very powdery and though the colors are pretty there are much better quality palettes out there for less money. I also do not like how the palette is arranged. Maybe its the OCD in me talking but it literally drives me nutty and I want to rearrange the shadows so tones that are similar are closer together. This one I would pass on. The outside packaging is a soft purple velvet which I am in love with but the shadows inside I was disappointed in. For the $42 price point, this palette is not worth the money.
I hope you enjoyed this article about purple eyeshadows. Be sure to check out my other articles.


Leaders for tech firms including note-synching apps creator Evernote, augmented reality provider Layar, and social marketing specialist Hearsay Social are among a cast of 70 speakers who will take the stage at the Real Estate Connect conference in New York City, which will run from Jan. 11-13, 2012, at the Marriott Marquis hotel in Times Square.
The annual event will feature 40 breakout sessions, including "Social SEO: How Social is Affecting the Way Agents are Ranked Online," and "Dissecting the Data," where the chief economists of CoreLogic, Zillow and Trulia will discuss in a panel format how to understand, use, and avoid being duped by the plethora of real estate trends out there.
The theme for this year's conference is "Leading the Way: Innovation in Action." Accordingly, this Big Apple conference will focus on the cutting-edge social and mobile technologies like Google Plus, Facebook Timeline, the iPad and the iPhone 4S that are fast reshaping the real estate world.
A day before the Connect conference, and at the same hotel site, Inman News is offering the first in a series of 2012 Agent Reboot events. Agent Reboot events offer a one-day agent-focused immersion into real estate technologies and trends.
Like previous Connect conferences, there will be ample opportunities to engage in networking and hands-on learning. The event unites technologists and real estate professionals, from innovators to executives and industry thought leaders.
Clara Shih, CEO of Hearsay Social and author of bestseller "The Facebook Era"
New York University Journalism School professor and "What Would Google Do?" author Jeff Jarvis, who will participate in a fireside chat with a conference emcee.
After the general sessions for the first two days, conference attendees will choose from one of four concurrent afternoon sessions. Workshops on Wednesday include The Broker Summit, ConnectTech, Brand Management, and MLS (multiple listing service); on Thursday the innovation tracks will include Brokerage 3.0, Consumer Insights, Digital Marketing, and Mastering Video.
Matthew Daimier, founder and CEO of Buyfolio.com, a company dedicated to streamling buying and selling a home in New York City; among many others.
For the first time this year, Real Estate Connect will transform its New Kids on the Block segment, which features a panel of tech startup entrepreneurs, into a live demonstration of the five real estate tech startup entrepreneur winners. Each winner, not unveiled until the conference, will provide a five-minute live demonstration of their new technology onstage.
The high-energy conference is designed to highlight important new trends at the intersection of technology and real estate, provide an opportunity to network with industry experts, and empower attendees to excel in 2012.


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Mark Emmert may be open to student-athletes earning money off their likeness, but fails to recognize the urgency
Emmert is still not completely on board with the idea, but is starting to understand the reality of his situation
By Dennis Dodd
Apr 5, 2019 at 10:42 am ET 6 min read
MINNEAPOLIS -- The NCAA does nothing to change its hallowed "collegiate model" -- aka amateurism -- without pressure.
Pressure from the courts, pressure from lawyers, pressure from potential lawsuits.
That cost of attendance stipend that essentially is "pay for play" has been around since 2015. That evolved out of the NCAA being found guilty of violating federal anti-trust laws in the O'Bannon case.
The celebrated transfer portal was a begrudging change to a half-century old rule that allowed schools and coaches to block athletes from transferring to the school of their choice.
If neither rule was passed, the NCAA would likely face further legal battles. And that's just a conversation starter.
That's why it was refreshing to hear NCAA president Mark Emmert open the door just a bit on players owning their name, image and likeness.
Novel concept, I know. Athletes taking control of their own human essence. Judging from what we heard Thursday at the Final Four, this is the latest legal hill the NCAA is not going to die on.
The legal pressure on that issue is a bill introduced by a North Carolina representative that would allow athletes to profit off what is lawfully theirs.
A similar bill is being introduced in California.
"Signing on with a university, if you're a student-athlete, should not be [a] moratorium on your rights as an individual," North Carolina Rep. Mark Walker said last month.
That was essentially the core of the O'Bannon suit. The former UCLA star sued when he realized his image on the cover of a video game was being used to move product.
The NCAA lost the case, but compensation to the athletes was capped on appeal.
When asked about Walker's bill Thursday, Emmert seemed open to considering some form of athletes capitalizing on their name, image and likeness.
"We've talked to the congressman and tried to understand his position," Emmert said in his annual state of the union address at the Final Four. "There is very likely to be in the coming months even more discussion about the whole notion of name, image and likeness [and] how it fits into the current legal framework.
"Similarly, there needs to be a lot of conversation about how, if it was possible, how it would be practical. Is there a way to make that work? Nobody has been able up with a resolution of that yet."
What you didn't hear is Emmert dismissing the concept out of hand. He's too smart for that now. The NCAA has been found guilty twice in the last five years of violating federal anti-trust laws. It's not even worth debating whether the NCAA is a monopoly.
It's now just a case of who has better lawyers. It should be considered significant that the NCAA has elevated its top legal officer, Donald Remy, to Chief Operating Officer (COO).
"It's mostly just a codification of how we operate," Emmert told me. "I wouldn't read too much into it. "
Except that at most major companies, the COO, at some level, develops strategy, initiatives and philosophy.
Emmert has learned a lot since 2013. That was the year he was upset at my evaluation of his job performance -- I had called for his firing -- and said, "I know you're disappointed, but I'm still here."
In the subsequent years, Emmert has been coached up on how to interact with the media. He's more measured, not inclined to say much of substance.
Even though Emmert wields little more than a bully pulpit, he understands how his views reflect on the NCAA. So he's gone pro on corporate speak.
I asked him about the biggest indictment of that collegiate model I can remember. It came from Judge Claudia Wilken in the Alston case.
It was the latest case to seek removal of the cap on athlete compensation beyond room, board, books, tuition and cost of attendance.
In issuing her injunction, Wilken cited Olympic stipends, bowl gifts and cost of attendance as essentially elements that mark "pay for play," -- a phrase the NCAA loathes.
She said NCAA rules that "limit or forbid student-athlete compensation do not follow any coherent definition of amateurism."
The only difference, she said, is the NCAA has decided to allow its version of compensation and still call it amateurism.
That brings us back to name, image and likeness. Allowing players to profit off their talents is just, fair and should be allowed.
Depending on how much the NCAA wants to partner with the players, we could be talking a joint-licensing agreement for apparel sales. Zion Williamson could make a few bucks off his autograph.
Nobody gets hurt.
But the NCAA's default court argument is that if athletes are compensated beyond current limits, interest will shrink, attendance will fall and locker rooms will be divided.
That's been proven in the last year to be more than false. We just experienced the highest-paid athlete in the history of college sports. Oklahoma's Kyler Murray signed a $4.6 million bonus with the Oakland A's. (Since returned when he pursued football.)
That didn't divide the locker room. Jealousies didn't fester. Murray won the Heisman Trophy and brought fame to his school, himself and his teammates.
There may have been higher-paid athletes but they have been rewarded on the black market created by the NCAA limiting compensation. See: The FBI investigation into college basketball.
"Whatever understanding humans have of amateurism, they enjoy watching the sports played by these athletes who receive these benefits," Wilken wrote.
No matter how big those benefits are.
I asked Emmert about Wilken's assertion that the NCAA itself already participates in "pay for play" -- Wilken's words in the injunction -- by allowing those bowl gifts, free insurance premiums and monthly stipends.
"I've been really clear we like virtually all of the rulings that have been made clear that college athletics is about college students playing other college students, not employees playing employees," Emmert said. "We've had a number of rulings from the federal courts … that have reinforced that and agreed with that notion."
That didn't come close to answering the question. It wasn't supposed to. More corporate speak.
That leaves the future open to interpretation. The Alston case allows compensation to athletes if it is, "tethered to education." Let it be known that conferences are freaking out trying to figure what that really means.
Left to their own interpretation, a conference could offer a car to an athlete who has no other way of getting to class. Hey, it would be "tethered" to education.
It's not surprising then that Wilken has stayed in the case as a sort of referee to adjudicate such matters.
That doesn't quite address the core issue: Because [more of] the money can't be spent on athletes, it goes to seven-figure coaches. It goes to gilded facilities.
And the process becomes downright silly when the pool of unregulated cash is spent on a commissioner who gets a $20 million bonus (the Big Ten's Jim Delany) and a conference (Pac-12) trying to raise a $750 million equity stake.
Meanwhile, the average athlete spends 50 hours a week on his/her sport. That's what a Pac-12 study concluded a few years ago. No wonder there are bills being introduced in North Carolina and California. The world is beginning to find out.
Emmert is a reasonable man. But he is a bit like the captain of a ship springing multiple leaks. He can order repairs, deny the obvious. But sooner or later, the boat is going to sink.
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This week on the Gamekast Bronson, Anthony, and Thomas discuss No Man's Sky being super boring, all the great and terrible announcements coming out of Gamescom, and the future of game consoles.
I found it kinda nice, even though it lacks the conventional story.
It is like dungeons and dragons..
Except there are no other players, and there is no GM.
No Man's Sky is a glorified screen saver. Player is essentially walking around a scenery and that it is.
I think a lot of people enjoy No Man's Sky for what it is – an exploration game. But the issue is with the general hype that surrounds every single cool looking game.
They thought it would be an do everything in space kinda game, but it is just a little niche game where you visit nice places and move on. Cool for 15 minutes a day to relax, but not an engaging game in any way.
Yeah, I enjoyed it when it came out, but it got boring quickly afterwards.
It's just real predictable, same old elements shifting around on every planet. Now with DLCs they might develop the game further and make it interesting.
Oh I bet they will release plenty of DLCs, only issue is they will cost more than the game..
I hope they don't do that. They would lose so many gamers by going down that route, and theirgame is not so mainstream to appeal to the audience that is used to buying DLCs for games.


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Landmark court case seeks to stop over-charging by creditors
Posted 13 August 2018 Written by Ciaran Ryan
Category Banking
Court papers filed in the Western Cape High Court last week by University of Stellenbosch's Law Clinic and Summit Financial Partners make for disturbing reading. They are asking the court to stop creditors from loading unlawful costs onto the accounts of distressed debtors, which they reckon has cost debtors R1 billion in unlawful fees, says Moneyweb.
The so-called in duplum ('double') rule was written into the National Credit Act (NCA) in 2007, and means that once a borrower is in default, the outstanding amount payable can never be more than double the outstanding debt at the time of default. If you borrow R1 000, repay R400 of this and then default, the outstanding amount is R600. Under law, you are not obliged to pay more than double this amount (ie. R1 200) no matter how much interest supposedly accumulates, as long as you remain in default.
Some creditors saw what looks like a loophole in the NCA, and added service, administration and legal fees, claiming these fell outside the Act.
Take the example of Edgar Arnolds of Somerset West, one of the applicants in the case. He borrowed R12 000 from Bayport Financial Services in April 2011 at an interest rate of 34.4% a year for 36 months. This meant he had to repay R745 for 36 months, coming to a total of R26 837.
He defaulted later in 2011 and Bayport secured an emolument attachment order (EAO), also known as a garnishee order, against his salary. Arnolds' employer was ordered to deduct R732 a month until the outstanding debt of R11 685, plus costs, was extinguished. As an aside, the garnishee order was obtained in the Randburg Magistrates Court, in Johannesburg, even though Arnolds lives in the Cape. This is unlawful, as garnishee orders must be obtained in the jurisdiction in which the borrower lives or works.
Six years later, in 2017, Arnolds wondered why his employer was still deducting R732 a month from his salary. Bayport informed him that he still owed more than R7 400. Arnolds discovered that after six years of dutifully paying his monthly debit, he still owed more than half the original amount borrowed. He asked Bayport for a reckoning, which it duly supplied.
In addition to the interest charges of R21 019, Bayport had loaded services, legal and other charges of nearly R6 500 onto his account. Had he paid this outstanding amount, he would have forked out R33 000, nearly three times the amount he borrowed. Another applicant in the case ended up repaying R5 100 on an initial debt of R600.
This is when the Law Clinic and Summit Financial Partners decided to step in on behalf of Arnolds and nine other clients with similar stories. It wants the court to rule that the services, legal and other fees should form part of the in duplum definition – in other words, the defaulting client should never have to pay more than double the outstanding debt at the time of default, even after accounting for all costs.
"The problem that debtors are facing is one of inconsistent judgments around the interpretation of the National Credit Act," says Stephan van der Merwe, senior attorney at the Law Clinic. "We are not asking for a change in the law. The law, in our view, is clear enough. You cannot load these unlawful charges onto a client's account as a way of side-stepping the in duplum rule.
"We need a healthy credit industry in SA, and we support those who abide by the rules. This case is aimed at those who do not."
Dr Theo Broodryk, head of the Law Clinic, adds: "The fact that 49 respondents, including all the main banks and major lending institutions, have been joined to the application, is indicative of the impact that this case could have on the South African credit market."
This is not the first time the Law Clinic has taken on what it sees as abusive practices by lenders. In 2016 the University of Stellenbosch Law Clinic took on the micro-lenders on behalf of 15 low income clients whose salaries were being siphoned off by garnishee orders. The Western Cape High Court and Constitutional Court found in favour of the Law Clinic.
In that case, lenders were found to be skirting the law by having garnishee orders stamped by a clerk of the court, rather than a magistrate, and often in courts far away from where the borrower lived. These practices were declared unconstitutional.
"Two years on, the applicants have approached the court regarding what they identify as the unilateral, unregulated manner in which creditors and collection agents add costs, including legal fees, to debtors' accounts both before and after judgment," says the Law Clinic in a statement.
In an affidavit before the court, van der Merwe says section 103(5) of the NCA places a limit on the costs a creditor can claim in enforcing its agreement. "Consumers are no longer at the mercy of credit providers, who often have unlimited resources to pay legal fees to recover their debts which costs are the simply passed onto the consumer."
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Q: GSAP scroll animation in responsive layout I'm making an animation for a computer image with GSAP
When it works, it looks like this
But once I change the width of the window, everything in the layout is totally responsive but the animation.
This is when it doesn't work
Below is a simple example
  https://codepen.io/littlecodingloser/pen/bGopwBv
How to make the animation responsive?
12/8 update
I add some method into start and end properties, and the problem is solved!

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Learning to read a stock chart is one of the first steps in becoming my next millionaire trading challenge student as price action is key for traders. Charts are full of useful information and provide many of the necessary data points to determine trends and make inferences about future price movements, but also please see this free penny stock guide for more indicators to use.
As always, there is more than meets the eye and history doesn't always guarantee the future, so it's important to understand stock charts, their strengths and limitations.
I created this infographic to demonstrate the parts and uses of stock charts.
Stock charts provide us with a visual understanding of price movements over daily, weekly, monthly and yearly periods. Building a foundation of knowledge is important before you invest. Developing your understanding of stock charts is an excellent first step. Remember that investing always involves risk and past price movements do not necessarily dictate the future.
I think this is third time I'm seeing this. Always helpful to be reminded.
Can I buy more crap?
Is there a way to become your student without having to pay $6000?
Thank you Tim for taking the time out of your life to help those who are looking. Im fascinated by the world of trading, now that i have some guidance.


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Also as part of VIDF, tickets are selling fast for Company 605 March 17-19. Vital Few is a new work that has taken two years in the making, with twelve dance artists involved at various points throughout the process. The company says about the piece: "Born out of a desire to redefine our way of co-existing, this process began by questioning what we needed from each other in order to feel as one… It is about acknowledging the effort and personal sacrifice it takes to make togetherness work, and how as individuals, we cannot help but be transformed in some way through this experience, no matter how brief. … Through our experiments we searched to find moments that sparked something in us, as makers and as humans, and we arrived at a place where dancing together feels somewhere new." At the Roundhouse Performance Centre, 8pm. Talkback Thursday show. Tix.
~ by DanceHouse on March 11, 2016.


Stephen Colbert did his civic duty when he declared his candidature for the US Presidency. His tongue-in-cheek foray into politics was not taken too seriously given his comedic nature. Apparently the polling numbers were quite high, which can be explained by the attraction of celebrity and his "truthiness". Other examples have been Ronald Reagan, Arnold Schwarzenegger as governor and even Clint Eastwood who became mayor of Carmel, California for a time.
In the municipal elections taking place on May 12, 2008 in New Brunswick, you don't have to be a superstar to take part. But being a candidate is a tough act. Those running have a belief that they possess a unique quality that is required by their fellow citizens – some might call this a really big ego. Many good candidates will be publicly dumped on Election Day, humiliated for having lost in a popularity contest, the equivalent of not being picked for a team at school.
Yet we continue to have candidates, so the rewards must be of considerable significance to subject themselves to this process. It can't be money, as the salary of a councillor is fairly modest. The real reward is contributing, and being a part of shaping public policy for the betterment of other citizens.
For many years, I've avoided the temptation to put my name in the ring for city council. First, I'm not sure my ego is big enough, although being elected might augment its size. It's true that my average sized brain slipped past its peak effectiveness ten years ago. Writing this column on energy and politics might be seen by the public as part of the necessary qualifications.
Many of you perceive that the world, as we have known it, is changing and not necessarily for the better. The price of commodities such as oil, uranium, wheat, corn among others are rising rapidly, salaries are not keeping pace and we suspect that the economic system is a "ponzi" or pyramid scheme that requires constant growth. Given a world with limited resources and 6.6 billion people means that a considerable adjustment will eventually happen. The question is when and that time is not of our choosing.
The different levels of government each have a responsibility area. The municipality is the closest to the average citizen and can play an important role in building a sustainable society. Consider the city of Freiburg, Germany where cycling is part of the culture, where subdivisions are being designed on a sustainable basis, where building codes mandate a low level of energy use in the design stage. Active and passive solar is part of the heating systems.
Here in Canada, some thought is being given to the eco-footprint of our cities and our personal lifestyles. Firstly, if we're using too many units of energy per person or per square kilometer, then we can work on bringing structural changes or efficiencies into play. For example, some communities are encouraging people to forgo ownership of a car by better public transport and the use of car-shares, where groups "borrow" a car when they require one. Example – Zipcar operates in many US cities with 2500 cars, 90,000 registered drivers with one vehicle replacing 15 privately owned vehicles. Other examples are Cooperative Carsharing of Edmonton, Autoshare of Toronto, CommunAuto of Montreal, among others.
Secondly, we have to look at the quality of energy that we are using. For example, when cities mandate that electric power used within their boundaries is generated by sustainable means, a clear message is sent to other levels of government that action is required. Too often, municipalities do not take a leadership role and assume that appropriate decisions will be made on their behalf.
There are two basic ways to proceed with saving energy, our planet and our own lives. One is to let the individual make all the choices to conserve. Human nature tends to let the decision go until it is too late. General Motors will continue to market the Tahoe hybrid as the green car of the year. Corporations just love to divide and conquer the consumer.
A different approach is to build a structure of society that permits and encourages good energy choices. The use of building codes and zoning to encourage high density and low energy consumption, the design of a society around people's needs and not the needs of cars would reduce consumption without difficulty by citizens.
We have tried the competitive society and it has led us to near disaster environmentally and in the use of resources to their depletion. Should we wait until gas is $2, $3 or $4 a litre before we try a co-operative planned approach to city design.
There, I've convinced myself to run for councillor. Now, I have until April 11 to find 10 people who won't fall down laughing when I tell them what I'm doing. Do I care whether I win or lose? Yes, I want to win, but the possibility of losing won't stop me from trying.
Can we transform our cities? Yes we can! If you are reading this column, you may have the vision to lead your community or support someone who will. Think about it. Act. Let's build a tidal wave of change that is an inspiration for other provinces. Time is running out.
I wholeheartedly agree with your opinions on the issue of energy future and intend to vote for you. I however wonder what a city council can do about it.
The only role I can think is building permits. Simple things like solar hot water can make a big difference if they are made into law. Do you think this can happen in Moncton?


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package uk.ac.shef.wit.simmetrics.similaritymetrics;

import junit.framework.TestCase;

/**
 * Performs a unit test upon the JaroWinkler string metric.
 *
 * @author Sam Chapman Website, Email.
 */
public class JaroWinklerTest extends TestCase {

    //private method to hold metric test cases
    private AbstractStringMetric metric;

    /**
     * Sets up the test fixture.
     *
     * Called before every test case method.
     */
    protected void setUp() {
        metric = new JaroWinkler();
    }

    /**
     * Tears down the test fixture.
     *
     * Called after every test case method.
     */
    protected void tearDown() {
        // release objects under test here, if necessary
    }

    /**
     * Tests emptying the cart.
     */
    public void testGetSimilarity() {

        float result = metric.getSimilarity("Test String1", "Test String2");

        assertEquals(0.9777778f, result);
    }
}


It was a ridiculously emotional moment for me when my daughter bobbed her gorgeous, long hair last month. But as my son so thoughtfully pointed out: "But mom, you get emotional about everything." I couldn't really argue with that as the last time the daughter cut a large chunk out of her hair, aged four, I cried on and off for three days every time I looked at her. She on the other hand was not entirely sure what the fuss was about. We took her to the hairdresser, who gave her a bob with a fringe that framed her cross, little face – she seemed to have a permanent frown at that age and if you tried to help her with anything, would growl "I can do it".
This is the child who had a Spiderman party for her second birthday, who would launch herself into the pool with no armbands - half-drowning herself in the process - because she wanted to be like the older kids. She was the one who insisted on lighting her own birthday candles (I can do it) at her nursery school and when she started at prep school, we were not allowed to walk her to her classroom.
Her independence upset her big brother.
He was about six and she was three when they were in the garden and he told her not to pick up a bumble bee, and carefully enclosed it in the magic circle of a hula hoop. As soon as he turned away, she picked it up and yes, it did sting her. He was beside himself and yelled at her through his tears. She roared with pain for a few moments but to be honest, he probably cried more than she did. A few months later she got into the lift at a Sun City hotel and pressed the button to close the door before anyone else could get in, her brother thought she would be lost forever and was inconsolable. She, on the other hand, was very pleased with her solo adventure.
About six years ago I decided that I wanted to go grey, as I was fed up with the skunk stripe and the mind-numbing boredom of having to get my hair dyed every six weeks. Not to mention the expense of it. I had also had a photo taken with my daughter after we'd both had our hair straightened. Hers was a gorgeous, glossy chestnut, mine was a sort of flat brown with an orange undertone (not unlike the Trump's face) from having been dyed too often. My hairdresser needed extensive counselling to get used to the idea of me going grey but eventually acquiesced. I had it chopped into a very short pixie cut which I thought looked great. The children did not agree. They were in the pool when I got home, I went to say 'hello' to them and was met with open mouths and a stony silence. My daughter did not speak to me for three days. They told me that I no longer looked like me – my daughter was also put out because our hair no longer matched.
Now she is a teenager; quirky, artistic, a talented musician and a very good swimmer who spends hours in the pool every day. But those hours in the pool also meant hours spent washing and drying her waist length hair. Such beautiful hair. I would constantly encourage her to wear it down, she would roll her eyes and immediately twist it into a bun. It was part of our morning ritual for me to plait it every day before school and to dry it at night for her after swimming training. I agreed that she could get it cut at the end of grade seven, but I could see that she was tired of it and finally gave in and made an appointment at the hairdresser. I plaited it for the last time and our lovely hairdresser, Storm snipped it off.
I had a quiet weep afterwards, not because we no longer match (my hair is long now) but because she's growing up. And I know from my experience with her brother that high school goes by in the blink of an eye and my time with her is limited. I don't mean that she will leave home and we will never see each other again. I mean that every-day-being-involved-in-her-life kind of time. Where each day when she gets back from school, she comes and lies on the bed in my office and tells me about her day and I give her advice and she says, 'oh, mom' and ignores it. Where she just sits down at the piano and teaches herself a song she's heard on the radio, and her brother looks up from his computer and casually harmonises with her. Oh, how I will miss that.
But even though this new haircut signals the passing of time, her growing up and eventual moving out of home, it has to be said that she does look gorgeous.
And that plait that was chopped off will be donated to the Cansa Association. It will go to make a wig for a child who has lost her own beautiful hair and that makes me happy.


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Q: Angular 9 and rxjs - wait for message event after postMessage I am new to rxjs and not sure how to implement the follow logic. Any suggestion will be appreciated.
Background
I am going to implement the communication between host website and an iframe in it with postMessage. Since postMessage is one-way only, I would like to implement the logic to wait for 'response' by myself when a message is sent from host website to iframe.
I have a sync function called send(message) to invoke the postMessage to send message to iframe. Then I would like to have another function with the follow logic.
public async sendAndWait(message): Promise<responseObj> {
    // 1. create an observable to wait to message event with timeout

    // my first thought is as follow but I feel like it does not work
    // fromEvent(window, 'message')
    //  .pipe(timeout(timeoutInMs))
    //  .subscribe(event => {
    //    console.info(event);
    //  });

    // 2. run `send(message)` function

    // 3. do not finish this function until timeout or receive event in the previous subscription.
}

When I use the function, I would like to have
let response = await sendAndWait(message);

Not sure if it is possible to implement? Thank you

A: You cannot stop code execution in JS (using Async-Await, a Promise object is returned behind the scenes. so that the code is never waiting)
Consider implementing it in the following way:
let response: responseObj;

function main(): void {
  sendAndWait(MESSAGE_OBJECT).subscribe(x =>  response = x)
}

function sendAndWait(message): Observable<responseObj> {
  send(message)
  return fromEvent(window, 'message')
    .pipe(
      timeout(timeoutInMs),
      first()
    )
}

Or optionally returning Promise:
async function sendAndWait(message): Promise<void> {
  send(message)
  const response = await fromEvent(window, 'message')
    .pipe(
      timeout(timeoutInMs),
      first(),
      toPromise()
    )
}


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The Javid Nama (), or Book of Eternity, is a Persian book of poetry written by Muhammad Iqbal and published in 1932. It is considered to be one of the masterpieces of Iqbal. It is inspired by Dante Alighieri's Divine Comedy, and just as Dante's guide was Virgil, Iqbal is guided by Maulana Rumi. Both of them visit different spheres in the heavens coming across different people. Iqbal uses the pseudonym Zinda Rud for himself in this book.

It was translated into English by Arthur John Arberry and into German as Dschavidnma: Das Buch der Ewigkeit by Annemarie Schimmel and in Italian as Il poema Celeste by Alessandro Bausani. Schimmel also prepared a Turkish translation, Cevidname, based on her German edition.

Introduction

"Man, in this world of seven hues, lute-like is ever afire with lamentation; yearning for a kindred spirit burns him inwardly", Iqbal opens.

As he prays, he begins reciting Rumi's Persian verses in which Rumi is pleading his Shaykh to reveals a true Human Being to him. As Iqbal finishes these verses, Rumi appears to him. Iqbal now depicts himself as Zinda Rud (a stream, full of life) guided by Rumi the master, through various heavens and spheres and has the honour of approaching Divinity and coming in contact with divine illuminations and historical figures including Jamāl al-Dīn al-Afghānī, Said Halim Pasha, Mansur al-Hallaj, Mirza Ghalib and Nietzsche.

Several problems of life are discussed and philosophical answers are provided to them. It is an exceedingly enlivening study. Iqbal heavily criticized figures in Indian history such as Mir Jafar from Bengal and Mir Sadiq from the Deccan, who were instrumental in the defeat and death of Nawab Siraj-Ud-Daulah of Bengal and Tipu Sultan of Mysore respectively by betraying them to the East India Company, leading to India to fall under colonial rule. At the end, by addressing his son Javid Iqbal, he speaks to the young people at large and provides guidance to the "new generation."

Contents

Prayer
Prelude in Heaven
On the first day of creation Heaven rebukes Earth
Song of the Angels
Prelude on Earth
The Spirit of Rumi appears and explains the mystery of the Ascension
Zarvan: the Spirit of Time and Space, conducts the Traveler on his journey to the Supernatural World
Chant of the Stars
The Sphere of the Moon
An Indian ascetic, known to the people of India as Jahan-Dost
Nine sayings of the Indian sage
Epiphany of Sarosh
The Song of Sarosh
Departure for the Valley of Yarghamid, called by the Angels the Valley of Tawasin
Tasin Of Gautama
Tasin Of Zoroaster
Tasin Of Christ
Tasin Of Muhammad
The Sphere of Mercury
Visitation to the Spirits of Jamal al-Din al-Afghani and Sa'id Halim Pasha
Religion and Country
Communism and Capitalism
East and West
The Foundations Of The Koranic World
Man, God's Vicegerent
Divine Government
The Earth Is The Lord's
Wisdom Is A Great Good
Afghani's Message to the Russian People
The Song Of Zinda-Rud
The Sphere of Venus
The assembly of the gods of the ancient peoples
Song of Baal
We plunge into the Sea of Venus and behold the spirits of Pharaoh and Kitchener
The Sudanese Dervish appear

The Sphere of Mars
The Martians
The Martian astronomer comes out of the observatory
Tour of the city of Marghadin
The Martian damsel who claimed to be a prophetess
Admonition of the Martian Prophetess
The Sphere of Jupiter
The noble spirits of Hallaj, Ghalib, and Qurrat al-Ain Tahira who disdained to dwell in Paradise, preferring to wander for ever
The Song of Hallaj
The Song of Ghalib
The Song of Tahira
Zinda-Rud propounds his problems to the great spirits
Iblis, Leader of the People of Separation, appears
Satan's Lament
The Sphere of Saturn
The vile spirits which have betrayed the nation and have been rejected by Hell
The Sea of Blood
The Spirit of India appears
The Spirit of India laments
The lament of one of the skiff-riders of the Sea of Blood
Beyond the Spheres
The station of the German philosopher Nietzsche
Departure for the Garden of Paradise
The Palace of Sharaf al-Nisa
Visitation to His Highness Mir Sayyid Ali Hamadani and Mulla Tahir Ghani of Kashmir
In the presence of Shah-i Hamadan
Meeting with the Indian poet Bartari-Hari
Departure to the palace of the kings of the East, Nadir, Abdali, the Martyr - King
The spirit of Nasir-i Khusrau Alavi appears, sings an impassioned ghazal, and vanishes
Message of the Martyr-King to the River Cauvery
Zinda-Rud departs from Paradise: the Houris' request
Ghazal of Zinda-Rud
The Divine Presence

See also
 Index of Muhammad Iqbal–related articles
 Payam-i-Mashriq
 Zabur-i-Ajam
 Pas Chih Bayad Kard ay Aqwam-i-Sharq
 Bang-e-Dara
 Bal-e-Jibril
 Asrar-i-Khudi
 Rumuz-e-Bekhudi
 Zarb-i-Kalim
 Armaghan-i-Hijaz

Notes

External links
Read online

Related Websites
 Official Website of Allama Iqbal
 Iqbal Cyber Library, Online Library
 The collection of Urdu poems: Columbia University
 Encyclopedia Britannica.
 Allama Iqbal Urdu Poetry Collection
 Allama Iqbal Searchable Books (iqbal.wiki)

 E-Books of Allama Iqbal on Rekhta
Social Media Pages
 Facebook Page of Allama Iqbal
 Twitter Account of Allama Iqbal
YouTube Channel
 YouTube Channel of Allama Iqbal

1932 poetry books
Persian poems
Islamic philosophical poetry books
Poetry by Muhammad Iqbal
Poetry collections
Books by Muhammad Iqbal
Persian-language books

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Last week I attended the inaugral meeting of Hampshire Skeptics in the Pub (Hants SitP) I must admit I turned up a little concerned that everything would be far too intellectual for me, so I went under the guise of a photographer in case I needed to bale out. Handily Dave Hughes who, together with Crispian Jago, organised the evening had asked me to take photo's anyhow so subterfuge was kept to a minimum.
The venue was the Roebuck Inn Winchester, which has a well proportioned dining room re-configured for the night. However it wasn't long before the dining room was full and the bar annexed also, exceeding all expectations.
MC for the evening was Skepchick Rebecca Watson and guest speaker was Simon Singh who kept us rivetted by the English libel system and the need for its reform. Other notables were Sid Rodrigues (Rebeccas hubby and driving force behind London SitP) and the rather enigmatic Jack of Kent who dislikes having his photo taken but appears in one by accident, although you have to squint and use your imagination to make him out! He's been described as " Hobbit like" but I would say more Womble like, if you could imagine Bernard Cribbins with a Brummie accent. A very nice chap.
So, I was made to feel most welcome, I was entertained, informed and came away feeling I had made some new friends. I couldn't have wished for more. Well done Crispian and Dave I'm looking forward to the next one!


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Nagaland govt notifies Online Skill Games Rules, to issue LOIs very soon [Exclusive]
Jay Sayta
Exclusive The Nagaland government has notified the Nagaland Prohibition of Gambling and Promotion and Regulation of Online Games of Skill Rules, 2016 ("Online Games of Skill Rules"). As per information received by Glaws.in, the Rules were notified and published in the official gazette on 12th May, 2016.
Further, sources have indicated that the government has initiated the process of accepting applications and is slated to issue Letters of Intents (LOIs) to at least four companies as per the Rules. Following are the salient features of the Rules and guidelines issued by the state government for obtaining the license:
Any person, firm or company desirous of obtaining a license has to apply to the Nagaland government in a prescribed format along with an application fee of fifty thousand rupees.
Only persons or companies who do not have a criminal record or those that have not indulged in gambling are eligible to apply for the license.
The controlling stake and executive decisions of the applicant have to be made within India.
The state government has to forward the application forms for the license to empanelled firms, i.e. law firms, chartered accountants, financial experts and IT firms of repute to scrutinise and certify the application and simultaneously grant an LOI to the applicant.
In case of refusal of the empanelled firm to give certification to the applicant, he/she can approach an expert committee constituted by the Nagaland government comprising of government officials and external persons to reconsider the decision. An ad-hoc committee of 3 persons (one government official, one online gaming professional and one person associated with sports in Nagaland) is contemplated to perform the functions of the expert committee, until it is notified and constituted.
The Licensing Authority (i.e. the Finance Commissioner or any other designated government authority) is not bound by the recommendations of the empanelled firms or expert committee.
Licensing fees and taxes
The fees for the license is Rs. 10 lakhs per game per annum or Rs. 25 lakhs per annum if a applicant wants to offer a bouquet or variety of games. The license is valid for five years and a provision has been made to double the license fee after the first three years, i.e. Rs. 20 lakhs per game per annum or Rs. 50 lakhs per annum for a bouquet of games.
In addition to the recurring license fee, the license-holder also has to pay a gaming tax/royalty of 0.5% of the gross revenue generated, minus any service tax, bonuses, cashbacks, payment gateway charges etc.
Dispute resolution and other conditions
The procedure for resolving any disputes between the expert committee and licensing authority or any aggrieved applicant is through a single arbitrator appointed in accordance with the Rules and Arbitration and Conciliation Act, 1996.
Certain guidelines such as non-acceptance of minor players, ensuring compliance with Know Your Customer (KYC) and Anti-Money Laundering Norms, non-acceptance of foreign deposits etc. have been inserted to ensure protection of consumers.
Additionally, the license holders have to deposit monies generated from the online skill games website into a designated account mandated by the Nagaland government. The license holder is also expected to provide a statement of accounts to the government. It is unclear whether the state government can access the accounts operated by the license holder.
Given the stringent conditions imposed by the Nagaland government, including comparatively high rate of fees and taxes as well as some ambiguity surrounding the process of awarding licenses, many in the gaming industry remain sceptical of the desirability of obtaining the license.
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Jay has researched extensively on gaming laws and has been cited by various media houses and journals as an expert. He has helped leading newspapers in their stories on gaming laws. Jay completed his B.A. LL.B. (Hons.) degree from NUJS, Kolkata in 2015 and is currently based out of Mumbai.
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This is Good initiative
According to us
You dont need any license or recognition once the Supreme Court has clarified
That skill Game is out of the Jurisdiction of
So long you can prove
In case of dispute
Your game is a skilled Game
It's constitutional like doing any other business
The entire process of Licensing by the State of Nagaland is Unconstitutional and Illegal
No one should apply for any license in any state
Once it's Skilled Game
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Watch The Perfect Storm
"The storm is coming."
The Perfect Storm is a dramatic film that was released in 2000. It is based on a true story. The film centers around the captain and crew of the ship, Andrea Gail. The ship is a sword fishing boat that has been down on its luck a lot recently and has been unable to turn a profitable catch. The Captain of the ship is so anxious to make money he begs the crew to join him on one last expedition. The crew manages to sail out and have some good luck catching fish. They decide that in order to turn an adequate profit on their catch, they need to head back to shore immediately and sell it, before it turns rotten.
The crew soon discovers that there is an immense storm brewing between their ship and their home port of Gloucester. They debate over whether or not to remain where they are and wait until the storm passes or to make a run for shore. Concerned with losing even more money, the Captain and his crew decide to make a break for it and see if they can beat the storm.
The ship soon becomes trapped in the storm and the crew is in great danger. An Air Natural Guard helicopter is one of the first things to respond to the crew's calls for mayday. However, the storm at this point is so powerful that the helicopter crashes. Two members of the Andrea Gail are thrown overboard by the huge waves that are hitting the boat. The crew desperately tries to escape the storm and the Captain orders that the ship make a u-turn at full power. This desperate move does not save the ship however. As the ship is performing this maneuver, a huge waves hit it and the ship is flipped over.
It begins to sink to the bottom of the ocean. At this point the Captain declares that he will go down with the ship. Bobby, one of the newest crew members on the ship, tries to save himself too but he also drowns. The movie ends with the memorial service to the men. The movie is based loosely on the actual ship Andrea Gail and her crew members who were lost at sea in 1991. The men and that ship were never found so much of the crew's final moments are speculative. The Perfect Storm is historical fiction and is rated PG-13.
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Rocky Kramer's Rock & Roll Tuesdays Presents "Lights, Camera, Action!" On Tuesday January 24th, 2023 7 PM PT on Twitch
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Rocky Kramer will be hosting "Lights, Camera, Action!" on this week's episode of Rocky Kramer's Rock & Roll Tuesdays on Twitch. Tune into Twitch on Tuesday, January 24th, at 7 PM PT for this amazing show.
Rocky Kramer is a guitar virtuoso, often being compared to the greatest guitar players in the world. Rocky has performed on shows with some of the greatest musicians on the planet including Ozzy Osbourne, John Lodge, Steve Vai, Leland Sklar, Kenny Aronoff, Tommy James, Verdeen White, Ten Years After, BuckCherry, Rick Wakeman and more.
Rocky's first studio album, "Firestorm" is now available worldwide through Allied Artists Music Group, together with an epic music video of his #1 Global DRT Chart topper single, "Rock Star", that also picked up a Best Rock Performance nod at the 2019 Hollywood Music In Media Awards ("HMMA").
Rocky Kramer was just cast in The Mutt Productions/ Allied Artists rock n' roll time travel comedy adventure "Rockin' In Time" where he will play the film's lead character, Lars Olsen. The film is being directed by Aaron Lee Lopez (of the "Teenage Girl" franchise) and is being produced by multi-platinum and six-time Grammy Award winning musician turned motion picture producer, Kurt Wipfli.
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SSC Combined Graduate Level Mains Exam (Tier - 2) Paper 1 and 2 is a comprehensive book for candidates appearing for the Staff Selection Commission Recruitment Examination. The book comprises of chapters on arithmetical ability, English language and reading comprehension. In addition, the book consists of previous years' solved papers and sample papers for thorough revision and final practice. This book is essential for graduates aspiring to get selected in various Group 'B' and Group 'C' posts in various ministries, departments and government organizations.
Arihant Publications is one of the leading publishers of India. They publish a plethora of books ranging from academic books to books for competitive and entrance exam preparation like SSC Combined Graduate Level (CGL) Tier - 1 Exam Master Guide, UPSC Portal Current Affairs: IAS / PCS / Bank PO & Clerk / SSC / LIC / CDS / NDA / CLAT / MAT / CAT and all Other Examination (2012-13), etc.
Book is having almost one error per two pages. In each practice section you will find error or miss print for at least one equation. We can not trust the content if so many errors are there.
Good book.Explanations given to solved questions are also satisfactory and more useful.But the English portions are not completely covered. Overall, Arithmetic portions are satisfactory, but English portions are not upto the expectation.


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Formal advanced training in cattle production medicine can help expand the skills and knowledge base of the cattle production medicine practitioner. In the spirit of supporting the development of future bovine practitioners, the AABP offers the Education Grants. The Education Grant program will provide grants of $1000 that will be available for incoming senior students and new graduates (those who have graduated in the previous six months). These grants will be awarded to students attending an accredited veterinary college advanced education program or another AABP approved continuing education endeavor.
Applicants must be a member or student member of the AABP. Applicants may apply for membership at the time they apply for this grant.
A completed AABP Education Grant application form, including a letter of intent outlining the applicant's career goals (students) or current job description (recent graduates), prior experience with food animal production medicine, and goals for the advanced education program. Education Grant applications must be made online via the AABP website. Applications can be edited once submitted up to the deadline date.
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A letter of recommendation from a faculty member (who is also an AABP member) of the veterinary school the applicant graduated from or is currently enrolled in.
A signed hold harmless agreement release form must be emailed to the AABP office at aabphq@aabp.org .
Following completion of the advanced training, successful applicants will be required to submit an evaluation form detailing their experience.
Funds will be distributed directly to the university or program the student will participate in.
Applications for support of educational opportunities commencing between May 1, 2019 and April 30, 2020 must be received by April 15, 2019. Due to the number of applications we anticipate, this is a firm deadline. Notification will come in early May, 2019.