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Q: Can you change the textcolor of all the tools in your project? can you change the text color of all your text inside your project? I mean not by binding or what, just by setting the default color or do I really need to change the property of each label/entry/button etc...?

A: In Xamarin you can create a global style.
From the documentation:

Styles can be made available globally by adding them to the application's resource dictionary. This helps to avoid duplication of styles across pages or controls.

A: Like TheTanic answer.
For example:
In App.xaml a Style for Label with the name BLabel.
<Style x:Key="BLabel" TargetType="Label">
    <Setter Property="TextColor"  Value="#A7ADB1" />
    <Setter Property="HorizontalOptions" Value="Start" />
    <Setter Property="VerticalOptions" Value="Center" />
</Style>

You can use it like this , in MainPage.xaml.
 <Label
   Grid.Row="4"
   Grid.Column="1"
   Style="{StaticResource BLabel}"
   Text="BB 3" />

But there is more you can add to this like:
 <Setter Property="WidthRequest" Value="150" />
    <Setter Property="HeightRequest" Value="40" />
    <Setter Property="FontSize" Value="Small" />
    <Setter Property="BorderWidth" Value="1" />
    <Setter Property="BackgroundColor" Value="Red" />
    <Setter Property="HorizontalOptions" Value="Center" />
    <Setter Property="TextTransform" Value="None" />

and more ....
Not only for labels but Buttons etc.
This is an example for StaticResource but you can also use DynamicResource to change color's etc.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Se0yF5JXk70&ab_channel=JamesMontemagno

A: One way is to use the style and target to the label/entry/button etc.
<Style TargetType="Label">
<Setter Property="TextColor" Value="Black" />
</Style>

For more details, refer to: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/xamarin/xamarin-forms/user-interface/styles/xaml/
Another way is to set the color as resource.
Set the resource:
 <Application.Resources>
    <!-- Colors -->
    <Color x:Key="NormalTextColor">Black</Color>
</Application.Resources>

Usage:
   <Label Text="Hello"
                   TextColor="{StaticResource NormalTextColor}"
                   FontAttributes="Bold" />

For more details, refer to: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/xamarin/xamarin-forms/xaml/resource-dictionaries

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Q: Is there a way to stop company users from creating their own Azure DevOps Organizations separate from the main Organization? We're having a lot of developers just sign up for Azure DevOps, create their own Org, and use the five free licenses. This creates big problems if they were to leave. Is there a way to stop this or at least be notified when this happens?

A: There's no way to prevent it that I'm aware of. You should definitely ensure that everyone is using organization accounts ("work or school" as opposed to "personal" accounts) and that your Azure DevOps organization is backed by Azure Active Directory, so that at the very least you can retain access to any accounts created by others.
However, there's nothing wrong with creating an account to use as a sandbox. In fact, it's very common, as it can be useful to have an unrestricted place to try out features.
If people are creating additional accounts and then using them for real work on an ongoing basis, it sounds like you have a "people problem" in your organization that needs to be addressed, not a tooling problem.

*

*Are people not being given appropriate access to the place they should be working in a timely fashion? This points to a problem with on-boarding.

*Are people unaware of where they should be working? This is a training/documentation problem.

*How are they working in a personal account without other collaborators (such as managers, teammates, or business users who are managing the backlog) being aware of it? If their manager/technical lead is aware of it, why is their manager/technical lead not redirecting them to an appropriate location? This represents a communication problem (specifically, lack of communication).


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Q: Help me in finding all possible cases for Facebook Posts' privacy options For a little application of mine,
I am looking for all the possible cases for Facebook Posts' privacy options,
so that I can classify a particular Video update in the corresponding category.
I am able to find the following until now:
NO_PRIVACY            :: Visible to everyone, regardless of Privacy Settings
SELF                  :: Set to Privacy: Only Me = SELF
EVERYONE              :: Set to Privacy: Everyone = EVERYONE
FRIENDS_OF_FRIENDS    :: Set to Privacy: Friends of Friends = FRIENDS_OF_FRIENDS + EVERYONE + CUSTOM::FRIENDS_OF_FRIENDS
NETWORKS_FRIENDS      :: Set to Privacy: Networks and Friends = EVERYONE + NETWORKS_FRIENDS
ALL_FRIENDS           :: Set to Privacy: Friends Only = EVERYONE + ALL_FRIENDS + FRIENDS_OF_FRIENDS + NETWORKS_FRIENDS + CUSTOM::ALL_FRIENDS + CUSTOM::FRIENDS_OF_FRIENDS
ONLY_NETWORKS         :: Set to Privacy: All Networks, No Friends = EVERYONE + NETWORK_FRIENDS + DESCRIPTION::NETWORKS
NETWORK FOR           :: Set to Privacy: A particular Network
SOME_FRIENDS FOR      :: Set to Privacy: Visible to particular friend

Can you add a case I've missed to these privacy settings, or maybe I've arranged some privacy wrongly??
Additionally, though not required, can some one help me list all the Facebook Connections, which does possess a stream of their own, e.g. photos, videos, links, events, etc. Each of them can have a stream of their own. I am looking for all such possible values, where the updates in a user's account can be divided into smaller components/streams.. The streams can be very obvious like Statuses, or something unusual like relationships...

A: For privacy options i dont think you have left anyone.
And list of connections is very long so consider looking here:  http://developers.facebook.com/docs/reference/api/user/

A: How you were able to find them? they are clearly stated in the documentation. Am I missing the question here?


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New York Times Notable Book, 2011.


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Q: If 4+7+2 = 281435, 7+3+9 = 212781, 6+2+7 = 121456, and 2+8+5 = 164036, then what would 8+4+6 equal? I wanna check my answer that it's Right or wrong? as there is no answer given for this question.
According to me:
8+4+6= 32 24 72 <- is the correct Answer.
This is the way how I found my answer:
To get initial 4 digits of all mathematical statements, if have to multiply middle digit by first initial digit to get the 1st and 2nd digits of our answer and then by multiplying middle digit to the last digit to get the 3rd and 4th digits.
Now, the Last two digits (5th and 6th) follows specific rules and properties:
How ?
Now let me explain each case one by one.
1st : 4+7+2 = 281435
How here 35 comes:
If we multiply the middle digit 7 by the initial digit 4 and by last digit 2 and add their products and then subtract it by middle digit 7 we get = 35.
We should apply this way of getting last two digits in this priority order if:

*

*Middle digit is greater than initial and last digits.

*Middle digit is the odd digit.
Now,
2nd : 7+3+9=212781
Here how 81 comes:
Multiply the middle digit 3 by rest initial digit 7 and by last digit 9 and then again add their product.
We get 48.
Now reverse this no, it becomes (84) and subtracts it by middle no. (3) we get = 81
Now this way of getting last two digits follows this priority order:

*

*All digits must be odd.

*The middle digit must be smaller than initial and last digits.
Now, for
3rd : 6+2+7 = 121456
Now, how 56 comes up:
If we multiply the last 7 digit by initial digit 6 and by middle digit 2 and add their products we get = 56.
Now this way of getting last two digits follows these priority order of rules:

*

*Initial and last digit must be greater than the middle digit.

*Middle digit must be even.
Now the last case,
4th : 2+8+5 = 1640 36
How 36 comes up:
Multiply the middle digit 8 by initial digit 2 and last digit 5 and then add their product we get 56.
Now, increment the value of initial digit(2) till it becomes 1 less than the last digit.(5)
Now, our initial digit 2 becomes 4 which is one less than last digit 5.
Now, multiply the updated initial digit(4) by 5.
And subtract their product by 56 we get = 36.
Now this way of getting last two digits follows these rules:

*

*The initial digit and last digit must be smaller than the middle one.

*The middle digit must even.
Now, here comes our question :
8+4+6 = ?
Observe this question now.
1.The initial digit and last digit is greater than the middle one.
We came to know that this question satisfies case 2nd and 3rd.
Now, we have to apply one more case rule to select the right one.
Now in our question, the middle digit(4) is even.
So, among these two cases.
Our question follows Case 3rd.
Therefore, by applying the way of getting last two digits of case 3rd:
Multiply the last digit 6 by initial digit 8 and by the middle digit 4 and then add their products we get our answer which is = 72.
So, finally
8+4+6 = 3224 72 is the correct answer.
Now, I wanna check that the way of getting this answer is wrong or right? As I don't have any reference to check my answer.
If anybody knows this, please give your answer on this. I will be Thankful to you :)


My friend Jackie is an awesome gift giver. A few years back for my birthday, she handed me a tupperware of homemade french onion soup, grated gruyere cheese, and a loaf of french bread. Seriously thoughtful gift for a food lover.
As you may know from my wine basket post, I was asked to be in Jackie's bridal party – her wedding was this past weekend – the weather was 85 and clear, the vineyard was gorgeous and the food was out of this world. We had a blast!
Each guest got their own dessert sampler plate – if you didn't guess, Jackie and Rich are Italian.
As a thank you for being her bridesmaid, I was given a beautiful basket filled with many items. Relating to food, I received an adorable apron and matching oven mitt, wine (of course), and most impressive, a funky "P" wine glass.
I had broke my original "P" glass a while back – to much wine. Mamma Maria gave it to me for my 30th and I was pretty bummed for awhile that I carelessly broke it. Jackie knew of this and thought to replace my goblet. Coincidentally the glass matches a new bathing suit I just bought! I CAN NOT wait to prance around the roof deck with my new "P" wine glass and matching bathing outfit. Thanks again Jackie!!
Adorable apron that matches my kitchen!


The charges pertain to the 1997 murder of a Polish businessman.
The General Prosecutor's Office has confirmed the detention of Ján Kán, former right-hand man of mafia boss Mikuláš Černák.
Kán faces charges in connection with the murder of Grzegorz Szymanek back in 1997. As the respective authorities are still processing the documents linked with the case, they will decide on the next steps later, spokesperson for the General Prosecutor's Office Andrea Predajňová told the TASR newswire.
The information was later confirmed also by the police, which did not provide more details.
Members of the National Criminal Agency in Banská Bystrica detained Kán in the morning hours of November 28. He is accused of participating in the abduction and murder of the Polish businessman Szymanek, the TVnoviny.sk website reported.
Kán was already arrested in April. The investigator charged him at the time with murdering Tibor Kohulák, through whom they allegedly were to receive money from selling sheet metal. The General Prosecutor's Office however dropped the charges due to the lack of evidence and Kán was released, TASR wrote.


"Agency project used to provide security approvals on non-Agency personnel and facilities.....to discuss proposed projects, activities, and possible relationships."
Project QKENCHANT's participants included such notables as E. Howard Hunt, Peter and Robert Maheu, and figures associated with Clay Shaw. The crypt has been of particular interest to many because of the Clay Shaw connection, written about in Bill Davy's "Let Justice Be Done."
See http://www.foia.cia.gov/sites/default/files/document_conversions/89801/DOC_0000904662.pdf for the definition of QKENCHANT quoted above (page 5). The document on page 2 elaborates: "QKENCHANT was a project for obtaining clearances, that is, Provisional Covert Security Approvals (PCSA), with the Office of Security in connection with the acquisition of [REDACTED]. Regarding Clay Shaw, this document states that "he received a 'five-agency' clearance on 23 March 1949. Our records indicate the QKENCHANT project did not begin until sometime in 1952, therefore, Shaw in all probability was not cleared by the QKENCHANT program."
This Garrison-era memo comments on J. Monroe Sullivan, Clay Shaw's superior at the International Trade Mart and his "alibi" for 11/22/63: "Subject was granted a Provisional Security Approval for use under Project QKENCHANT on an unwitting basis on 10 December 1962." It elaborates: "At the time of the clearance Subject was Executive Director, World Trade Center Authority, Ferry Bldg., San Francisco, California.....Subject's utilization was primarily and strictly as a source of information to identify individuals and/or firms in the state of California that have the potential to support cover requirements."
This document has been cited to show Clay Shaw's approval under QKENCHANT, but it is actually at best ambiguous. It states: "...J. Monroe Sullivan, #280207, was granted a covert security approval on 10 December 1962 so that he could be used in Project QKENCHANT. SHAW has #402897-A." It does not specifically state that Shaw was cleared for QKENCHANT, and the 402897-A number is a general file number for Shaw (search for 402897 on this website to see many references re: Shaw).
Legendary CIA officer and Watergate burglar E. Howard Hunt was cleared for QKENCHANT after he left official employment with the Agency. This document requests QKENCHANT approval as it was necessary for him to become witting of the relationship between CIA and Hunt's new employer, the Robert Mullen publishing company; the CIA FOIA document first referenced states outright: "Hunt was cleared for QKENCHANT."
This document notes that "5 February 1969 Central Cover Staff has requested an expedite QKENCHANT clearance for Peter Maheu.....son of Robert A. Maheu." The father, Robert, was the initial contact in the so-called CIA-Mafia plots to assassinate Fidel Castro. This document also notes a request for QKENCHANT clearance of another employee of Robert Maheu (name redacted). Robert Maheu himself is not specifically noted one way or the other as having QKENCHANT clearance, though it does state that in 1954 he was similarly cleared for a project named LPHIDDEN.
The Central Cover Staff in 1969 "evidenced interest in Mr. McDonald under Project QKENCHANT", but "Office of Security files do not reflect the outcome...". Hugh McDonald in 1975 published the book "Appointment in Dallas."
Guy Persac Johnson, one of Clay Shaw's attorneys, was possibly the nephew of a Guy Johnson who was cleared for QKENCHANT in 1954, according to this document.
Use RIF search page to find there further documents related to individuals and QKENCHANT: 104-10109-10027 (Leo Cherne), 104-10435-10002 (Benjamin Sonnenberg).


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Capcom's Ghosts N Goblins series of 2-D platformers have gained quite a reputation for being super difficult and brutal, but they also have quite a following, too. Which is strange considering they haven't made a new game in the series in ages. But if you've got an urge to play a Ghosts N Goblins style game, Battle Princess Madelyn may scratch that itch. It really almost looks like something Capcom would've made for the Super Nintendo back in the 16-bit days. Which is both an honor and a blessing, but also a curse as well. It's available to download for nearly all current game consoles and PC, but reviewed on PS4 here.
The game has two main modes: Arcade Mode and Story Mode. In the story, a grandfather is reading a story to his sick granddaughter, and you play the part as the main character in the story. When a demon zaps the royal family and their pet, Princess Madelyn dons armor and weapons to fight back. Her dog joins her, too, as a ghost, and helps her collect MP, attack enemies, and solve puzzles, although they don't explain how that works in the game very well. The story mode is less linear and has characters to talk to and areas to backtrack to so you can collect different weapons, armor, and other goodies. The difficulty is a bit more forgiving in this mode, but not by much. Which is unfortunate because the goals and objectives are oftentimes unclear and even early on it's hard to know where to go and what to do sometimes.
They certainly got the feel of a 16-bit game right, though. It feels like something I would've rented back in the day. If you enjoy super hard 2-D platformers and Ghosts N Goblins games, you'll definitely enjoy this. But the extreme difficulty and lack of clear goals and instructions kept me from getting into it myself.
Battle Princess Madelyn is rated E for Everyone with an ESRB descriptor of Mild Fantasy Violence. When you hit enemies, they explode into pixelly pieces. When you get hit, you just get knocked back a bit and fall on your back. And the story mode shows Princess Madelyn's dog getting zapped. Younger gamers and less experienced players may find the game too difficult, though.
I have to admit, I'm interested in this.


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The territory represented by the continental United States had, of course, been discovered, perhaps several times, before the voyages of Christopher Columbus. When Columbus arrived, he found the New World inhabited by peoples who in all likelihood had originally come from the continent of Asia. Probably these first inhabitants had arrived 20,000 to 35,000 years before in a series of migrations from Asia to North America by way of the Bering Strait. By the time the first Europeans appeared, the indigenous people (commonly referred to as Indians) had spread and occupied all portions of the New World.
The foods and other resources available in each physiographic region largely determined the type of culture prevailing there. Fish and sea mammals, for example, contributed the bulk of the food supply of coastal peoples, although the acorn was a staple for California Indians; plant life and wild game (especially the American bison, or buffalo) were sources for the Plains Indians; and small-game hunting and fishing (depending again on local resources) provided for Midwestern and Eastern American Indian groups. These foods were supplemented by corn (maize), which was a staple food for the Indians of the Southwest. The procurement of these foods called for the employment of fishing, hunting, plant and berry gathering, and farming techniques, the application of which depended, in turn, upon the food resources utilized in given areas.
Foods and other raw materials likewise conditioned the material culture of the respective regional groups. All Indians transported goods by human carrier; the use of dogs to pull sleds or travois was widespread; and rafts, boats, and canoes were used where water facilities were available. The horse, imported by the Spanish in the early 16th century, was quickly adopted by the Indians once it had made its appearance. Notably, it came to be used widely by the buffalo-hunting Indians of the Great Plains.
American Indian culture groups were distinguished, among other ways, by house types. Dome-shaped ice houses (igloos) were developed by the Eskimos (called Inuit in Canada) in what would become Alaska; rectangular plank houses were produced by the Northwest Coast Indians; earth and skin lodges and tepees, by plains and prairie tribes; flat-roofed and often multistoried houses, by some of the Pueblo Indians of the Southwest; and barrel houses, by the Northeast Indians. Clothing, or the lack of it, likewise varied with native groups, as did crafts, weapons, and tribal economic, social, and religious customs.
At the time of Columbus's arrival there were probably roughly 1.5 million American Indians in what is now the continental United States, although estimates vary greatly. In order to assess the role and the impact of the American Indian upon the subsequent history of the United States in any meaningful way, one must understand the differentiating factors between Native American peoples, such as those mentioned above. Generally speaking, it may be said, however, that the American Indians as a whole exercised an important influence upon the civilization transplanted from Europe to the New World. Indian foods and herbs, articles of manufacture, methods of raising some crops, war techniques, words, a rich folklore, and ethnic infusions are among the more obvious general contributions of the Indians to their European conquerors. The protracted and brutal westward-moving conflict caused by "white" expansionism and Indian resistance constitutes one of the most tragic chapters in the history of the United States.
The English colonization of North America was but one chapter in the larger story of European expansion throughout the globe. The Portuguese, beginning with a voyage to Porto Santo off the coast of West Africa in 1418, were the first Europeans to promote overseas exploration and colonization. By 1487 the Portuguese had traveled all the way to the southern tip of Africa, establishing trading stations at Arguin, Sierra Leone, and El Mina. In 1497 Vasco da Gama rounded the Cape of Good Hope and sailed up the eastern coast of Africa, laying the groundwork for Portugal's later commercial control of India. By 1500, when Pedro Álvares Cabral stumbled across the coast of Brazil en route to India, Portuguese influence had expanded to the New World as well.
Though initially lagging behind the Portuguese in the arts of navigation and exploration, the Spanish quickly closed that gap in the decades following Columbus's voyages to America. First in the Caribbean and then in spectacular conquests of New Spain and Peru, they captured the imagination, and the envy, of the European world.
France, occupied with wars in Europe to preserve its own territorial integrity, was not able to devote as much time or effort to overseas expansion as did Spain and Portugal. Beginning in the early 16th century, however, French fishermen established an outpost in Newfoundland, and in 1534 Jacques Cartier began exploring the Gulf of St. Lawrence. By 1543 the French had ceased their efforts to colonize the northeast portion of the New World. In the last half of the 16th century, France attempted to found colonies in Florida and Brazil, but each of these efforts failed, and by the end of the century Spain and Portugal remained the only two European nations to have established successful colonies in America.
Cartier, JacquesThis map details the first two voyages of Jacques Cartier. Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc.
The English, although eager to duplicate the Spanish and Portuguese successes, nevertheless lagged far behind in their colonization efforts. The English possessed a theoretical claim to the North American mainland by dint of the 1497 voyage of John Cabot off the coast of Nova Scotia, but in fact they had neither the means nor the desire to back up that claim during the 16th century. Thus it was that England relied instead on private trading companies, which were interested principally in commercial rather than territorial expansion, to defend its interests in the expanding European world. The first of these commercial ventures began with the formation of the Muscovy Company in 1554. In 1576–78 the English mariner Martin Frobisher undertook three voyages in search of a Northwest Passage to the Far East. In 1577 Sir Francis Drake made his famous voyage around the world, plundering the western coast of South America en route. A year later Sir Humphrey Gilbert, one of the most dedicated of Elizabethan imperialists, began a series of ventures aimed at establishing permanent colonies in North America. All his efforts met with what was, at best, limited success. Finally, in September 1583, Gilbert, with five vessels and 260 men, disappeared in the North Atlantic. With the failure of Gilbert's voyage, the English turned to a new man, Sir Walter Raleigh, and a new strategy—a southern rather than a northern route to North America—to advance England's fortunes in the New World. Although Raleigh's efforts to found a permanent colony off the coast of Virginia did finally fail with the mysterious destruction of the Roanoke Island colony in 1587, they awakened popular interest in a permanent colonizing venture.
During the years separating the failure of the Roanoke attempt and the establishment in 1607 of Jamestown colony, English propagandists worked hard to convince the public that a settlement in America would yield instant and easily exploitable wealth. Even men such as the English geographer Richard Hakluyt were not certain that the Spanish colonization experience could or should be imitated but hoped nevertheless that the English colonies in the New World would prove to be a source of immediate commercial gain. There were, of course, other motives for colonization. Some hoped to discover the much-sought-after route to the Orient (East Asia) in North America. English imperialists thought it necessary to settle in the New World in order to limit Spanish expansion. Once it was proved that America was a suitable place for settlement, some Englishmen would travel to those particular colonies that promised to free them from religious persecution. There were also Englishmen, primarily of lower- and middle-class origin, who hoped the New World would provide them with increased economic opportunity in the form of free or inexpensive land. These last two motives, while they have been given considerable attention by historians, appear not to have been so much original motives for English colonization as they were shifts of attitude once colonization had begun.
The leaders of the Virginia Company, a joint-stock company in charge of the Jamestown enterprise, were for the most part wealthy and wellborn commercial and military adventurers eager to find new outlets for investment. During the first two years of its existence, the Virginia colony, under the charter of 1607, proved an extraordinarily bad investment. This was principally due to the unwillingness of the early colonizers to do the necessary work of providing for themselves and to the chronic shortage of capital to supply the venture.
English colonies in 17th-century North AmericaEnglish colonies in 17th-century North America. Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc.
A new charter in 1609 significantly broadened membership in the Virginia Company, thereby temporarily increasing the supply of capital at the disposal of its directors, but most of the settlers continued to act as though they expected the Indians to provide for their existence, a notion that the Indians fiercely rejected. As a result, the enterprise still failed to yield any profits, and the number of investors again declined.
The crown issued a third charter in 1612, authorizing the company to institute a lottery to raise more capital for the floundering enterprise. In that same year, John Rolfe harvested the first crop of a high-grade and therefore potentially profitable strain of tobacco. At about the same time, with the arrival of Sir Thomas Dale in the colony as governor in 1611, the settlers gradually began to practice the discipline necessary for their survival, though at an enormous personal cost.
Dale carried with him the "Laws Divine, Morall, and Martial," which were intended to supervise nearly every aspect of the settlers' lives. Each person in Virginia, including women and children, was given a military rank, with duties spelled out in minute detail. Penalties imposed for violating these rules were severe: those who failed to obey the work regulations were to be forced to lie with neck and heels together all night for the first offense, whipped for the second, and sent to a year's service in English galleys (convict ships) for the third. The settlers could hardly protest the harshness of the code, for that might be deemed slander against the company—an offense punishable by service in the galleys or by death.
Dale's code brought order to the Virginia experiment, but it hardly served to attract new settlers. To increase incentive the company, beginning in 1618, offered 50 acres (about 20 hectares) of land to those settlers who could pay their transportation to Virginia and a promise of 50 acres after seven years of service to those who could not pay their passage. Concurrently, the new governor of Virginia, Sir George Yeardley, issued a call for the election of representatives to a House of Burgesses, which was to convene in Jamestown in July 1619. In its original form the House of Burgesses was little more than an agency of the governing board of the Virginia Company, but it would later expand its powers and prerogatives and become an important force for colonial self-government.
Despite the introduction of these reforms, the years from 1619 to 1624 proved fatal to the future of the Virginia Company. Epidemics, constant warfare with the Indians, and internal disputes took a heavy toll on the colony. In 1624 the crown finally revoked the charter of the company and placed the colony under royal control. The introduction of royal government into Virginia, while it was to have important long-range consequences, did not produce an immediate change in the character of the colony. The economic and political life of the colony continued as it had in the past. The House of Burgesses, though its future under the royal commission of 1624 was uncertain, continued to meet on an informal basis; by 1629 it had been officially reestablished. The crown also grudgingly acquiesced to the decision of the Virginia settlers to continue to direct most of their energies to the growth and exportation of tobacco. By 1630 the Virginia colony, while not prosperous, at least was showing signs that it was capable of surviving without royal subsidy.
Maryland, Virginia's neighbour to the north, was the first English colony to be controlled by a single proprietor rather than by a joint-stock company. Lord Baltimore (George Calvert) had been an investor in a number of colonizing schemes before being given a grant of land from the crown in 1632. Baltimore was given a sizable grant of power to go along with his grant of land; he had control over the trade and political system of the colony so long as he did nothing to deviate from the laws of England. Baltimore's son Cecilius Calvert took over the project at his father's death and promoted a settlement at St. Mary's on the Potomac. Supplied in part by Virginia, the Maryland colonists managed to sustain their settlement in modest fashion from the beginning. As in Virginia, however, the early 17th-century settlement in Maryland was often unstable and unrefined; composed overwhelmingly of young single males—many of them indentured servants—it lacked the stabilizing force of a strong family structure to temper the rigours of life in the wilderness.
The colony was intended to serve at least two purposes. Baltimore, a Roman Catholic, was eager to found a colony where Catholics could live in peace, but he was also eager to see his colony yield him as large a profit as possible. From the outset, Protestants outnumbered Catholics, although a few prominent Catholics tended to own an inordinate share of the land in the colony. Despite this favouritism in the area of land policy, Baltimore was for the most part a good and fair administrator.
Map of Maryland colony. Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
Following the accession of William III and Mary II to the English throne, however, control of the colony was taken away from the Calvert family and entrusted to the royal government. Shortly thereafter, the crown decreed that Anglicanism would be the established religion of the colony. In 1715, after the Calvert family had renounced Catholicism and embraced Anglicanism, the colony reverted back to a proprietary form of government.


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Q: Pass an Excel worksheet as an argument to another script Is it possible to open an Excel worksheet in one Powershell script and then pass the worksheet instance to another script?
What I have tried:
Script 1 (main script)
$Excel = New-Object -comobject Excel.Application
$Workbook = $Excel.Workbooks.Open("$PSScriptRoot\MyExcelFile.xlsx")
$WorksheetMagic = $Workbook.worksheets | Where-Object {$_.Name -eq "MY TAB NAME"}

& .\$DynamicScriptNr2 -OptionalParam $WorksheetMagic

Script 2
param (
    [Worksheet] $WorksheetMagic
)

When this is run, the following error is reported:
Unable to find type [Worksheet].

I've also tried other types, such as Excel.Worksheet, Excel.Application.Worksheet and Object. None of these work - well, Object kind of works, until I try to use the parameter variable, then it fails.
Can this been done?
The only other option I see is that I would need to save and close the Excel in the first script before calling the second script and then opening it there. I would like to avoid this, as when the scripts are completed there will be MANY calls made and opening and closing it all the time would be slow.
Solution
Playing around with the solution provided by t1meless, I have now discovered that the variables in the first script are available in the second script, without having to pass any parameters at all ... not the behaviour I expected.

A: Try not specifying the type at all. This works for me:
Script 1:
$Excel = New-Object -ComObject Excel.Application
$Workbook = $Excel.Workbooks.Open("$PSScriptRoot\MyExcelFile.xlsx")
$WorksheetMagic = $WorkBook.Sheets.Item("MY TAB NAME")
& .\$DynamicScriptNr2 -WorksheetMagic $WorksheetMagic

Script 2:
param (
    $WorksheetMagic
)

$WorksheetMagic.Range("A1").Text


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L.A. Aims To Expand Services for Homeless Pregnant Women
By City News Service Oct 30, 2019
LOS ANGELES (CNS) - The Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors voted today to seek funding to expand services to homeless pregnant women.
Supervisor Hilda Solis recommended finding ways to provide more resources to help mothers and their babies during pregnancy and with parenting after birth.
``Intervening during pregnancy and infancy to support vulnerable mothers can promote a child's well-being in the long run,'' Solis said. ``We must support mothers and their infants by investing in services that help them in those critical first three years of a child's early development. These efforts are necessary to lift families out of hardship and set them on course to self-reliance.''
The county has the capacity to serve about 24,500 pregnant women and families annually based on available federal and state funding, Solis said, which includes offering help to about 9,500 high-risk families. Another 4,000 women countywide are served by other programs, but Solis' motion estimates there are 32,300 high-risk women who could benefit from intensive services.
Studies show that home visits lead to lower rates of domestic violence, smoking during pregnancy and a drop in pre-term, low-weight births. In addition to prenatal care, women are given access to parenting resources.
But the county lacks the means to reach pregnant women in homeless shelters, Solis said. Last year, Department of Public Health workers assisted 112 women who were homeless at some point during their pregnancy. The Los Angeles Homeless Services Authority does not track pregnancy in its count of homeless individuals.
One advocate said women who are pregnant and living on the street or in a shelter may not reach out for help.
``A lot of these women will not come forward. They have a lot of shame, a lot of embarrassment,'' said Ethel Gardner, found of the Kennedy Austin Foundation, a family crisis intervention center in Pomona.
The board directed mental health, medical and child welfare workers to coordinate with First 5 LA to assess the need and develop recommendations to enhance outreach and referrals. The group will also explore funding sources.
A report is expected back in 180 days.

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Winning Isn't Everything: Corruption in Sumo Wrestling
46 Pages Posted: 19 Jul 2000 Last revised: 16 Sep 2001
See all articles by Mark Duggan
Mark Duggan
University of Maryland - Department of Economics; National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER)
University of Chicago; National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER); American Bar Foundation
Although the theoretical literature on corruption is well developed, empirical work in this area has lagged because it has proven difficult to isolate corrupt behavior in the data. In this paper, we look for evidence of corruption in an unlikely place: the highest echelons of Japanese sumo wrestling. This paper provides strong statistical evidence documenting match rigging in sumo wrestling. A non-linearity in the incentive structure of promotion leads to gains from trade between wrestlers on the margin for achieving a winning record and their opponents. We show that wrestlers win a disproportionate share of the matches when they are on the margin. Increased effort can not explain the findings. Winning on the bubble is more frequent when the two competitors have met often in the past. Success on the bubble tends to rise over the course of a wrestler's career, but declines in his last year, consistent with the game theoretic predictions. Wrestlers who are victorious when on the bubble lose more frequently than would be expected the next time they meet that opponent, suggesting that part of the payment for throwing a match is future payment in kind. Systematic differences across wrestling stables suggest that the stables play a role in facilitating the corruption. In times of increased media scrutiny, the match rigging disappears.
Duggan, Mark G. and Levitt, Steven D., Winning Isn't Everything: Corruption in Sumo Wrestling (July 2000). NBER Working Paper No. w7798. Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=236552
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As matter of fact, all "we" humans have lots of experiences, bitter and friendly experiences and events that we have seen in our lives make and lead us toward answering a poem or text in better way.
Especially the words die, room, stillness, and air, so these words gave and provided me more ideas to interpret the poems better It is because my personal feelings and experience which I had in the past led me answering it in a good way to the text. That was when; once I was very sick I had a severe headache and fever I was trembling because of cold weather that time there wasn't anyone, I was alone only I could hear sound of the clock in my room and the air was cold and besides my room was quiet. That time I was thinking I am going to die and this is my last warm breath which I am exhaling I pondered, so it was a very bad experience because of sickness I have ever had and on reading the poem answered it perfectly for the sake, I could remember my past experience and relate them to this poem by considering the words in poem. In short, I found that personal feelings and experiences of a reader can help her to analysis, interpret, and answer to a text better therefore I do agree in idea of Rosenblatt about a text.


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Q: zero map of hermitian forms $n \times n$ matrix $A$ with complex entries is called Hermitian if $A^{*}=A,$ where $A^{*}=\bar{A}^{T}$
$$
H(\Bbb{C}):=\left\{A \in M_{2}(\Bbb{C}) \mid A^{*}=A\right\}
$$
$H(\Bbb{C})$ consists of 2 by 2 the matrices $$
A=\left(\begin{array}{ll}
a & b \\
\bar{b} & d
\end{array}\right)
$$
where $a, d \in \Bbb{R}$ and $b \in \Bbb{C}$. If $A \in H(\Bbb{C})$ then the associated binary Hermitian form is the semi quadratic map
$$
Q: \mathbb{C} \times \mathbb{C} \rightarrow \Bbb{R}
$$
defined by
$$
Q(X, Z)=(X, Z)\left(\begin{array}{c}
a & b \\
\bar{b} & d
\end{array}\right)(X, Z)^{*}=a|X|^2+b X Z+\bar{b} \bar{X} Z+d|Z|^2
$$
Let  $H^{+}(\mathbb{C})$ denote the set of positive definite binary quadratic hermitian forms and
$\Delta(Q):=\operatorname{det}(Q)=a d-|b|^{2}$
Definition: Let $\mathcal{H}_3=\Bbb{C}\times (0,\infty)$ be the upper half space. The map $\xi: H^{+}(\mathbb{C}) \rightarrow \mathcal{H}_{3}$ defined by
$$
\xi\begin{pmatrix}a & b \\
\overline{b} & d \end{pmatrix}=\frac{b}{a}+\frac{\sqrt{\Delta(Q)}}{a} \cdot j
$$
is called the "zero map" for binary quadratic Hermitian forms.
My question: Why is it called zero map? I expect that $Q(X,1)=a|X|^2+bX+\overline{bX}+d$ admits $\frac{b}{a}+\frac{\sqrt{\Delta(Q)}}{a} j$ as a zero since the zero of an positive definite binary quadratic form $f(x,y)=ax^2+bxy+cy^2$ is defined as $\frac{-b+\sqrt{\Delta}}{2a}$, which is really a zero of $f(x,1)$.   But when I set $X=\frac{b}{a}+\frac{\sqrt{\Delta(Q)}}{a} j$, I get  $Q(X,1)=\frac{a^2+b^2+\overline{b^2}+d^2}{d}$ using the algebraic properties of quaternions. Do I have wrong expectation?

A: No, it isn't a quaternionic zero of  $H(X,1)=0$.  For instance (and I think you can reduce to this case with a linear change of variable) consider $H(X,Z)=|X|^2+|Z|^2$.   Clearly $|X|^2=-1$ has no solutions in $\mathbb{H}$.
More important is the equivariance of the $PSL(2,\mathbb{C})$-action on forms/zero sets.  Take a look at Elstrodt, Grunewald, Mennicke, Groups Acting on Hyperbolic Space for more on the subject.


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By Lenie Lectura – December 4, 2017
PETROGREEN Energy Corp. (PGEC), the renewable-energy (RE) arm of publicly listed PetroEnergy Resources Corp. (Perc), has already generated 1-billion kilowatt-hour (kWh) of electricity over the weekend.
Perc announced on Monday that PGEC reached the 1-billion generation mark on December 2, earlier than expected.
"The early achievement of this generation milestone, despite the relatively short period of the plants' commercial operation and their modest capacities, owe to the efficient operation by our teams and the good availability of the units to the grid," PERC President Milagros V. Reyes said.
"We are delighted by this milestone not only for our shareholders and Pgec partners but also for their contribution in reducing wholesale electricity spot market [Wesm] prices, as their must-dispatch character displaces more expensive fossil-fired plants in the Wesm dispatch order," Reyes added.
PGEC's power production comes from three RE plants: the 20-megawatt (MW) Maibarara-1 geothermal plant in Santo Tomas, Batangas; the 36-MW Nabas-1 wind project in Aklan; and the 50-MW DC Tarlac-1 solar facility in Tarlac City.
Beginning from their respective commercial operation date—February 8, 2014, for the Maibarara geothermal, June 10, 2015, for the Nabas wind and February 10, 2016, for Tarlac-1—these three facilities contributed 62.52 percent, 23.78 percent, and 13.70 percent, respectively, to the aggregate 1-billion-kWh output reached on December 2.
In Maibarara PGEC (65 percent) is in partnership with Phinma Energy (25 percent) and PNOC Renewables Corp. (10 percent), through the joint-venture firm Maibarara Geothermal Inc. (MGI). In Nabas it holds 40-percent equity in operator PetroWind Energy Inc. (PWEI) with EEI Power (20 percent) and Thailand-based BCPG (40 percent). PetroSolar Corp. (PSC), owner and operator of Tarlac-1 solar, is jointly owned by PGEC (56 percent) and EEI Power (44 percent).
PGEC currently supplies 8.4 percent of wind power and 5.94 percent of solar capacities in the country. MGI's expected commissioning of the 12-MW Maibarara-2 unit this December will bring the field's total gross capacity to 32 MW. PGEC plans to develop an additional 400 MW of renewable-energy capacity in the next five years.
PERC Assistant Vice President Maria Victoria Olivar said that the company's oil operations also achieved a milestone.
"Total oil production in the Etame Marin block in offshore Gabon, West Africa, reached 100 million barrels on June 10, 2017, from the start of commercial oil extraction in 2002. Crude-oil production from 12 wells continues unabated in the block's four oil fields—Etame, Avouma, Ebouri and North Tchibala."
At end-September this year, Perc posted a 103-percent increase in its total consolidated income amounting to $7.71 million, compared to $3.81 million during the same period in 2016. The net income attributed to PetroEnergy equity holders increased by 227 percent, from $1.28 million in 2016 to $4.18 million in 2017.
The increases in net income and income attributed to equity holders of PERC were mainly driven by the efficient operation of PERC's three RE projects.
The efficient operations resulted to an increase in the net income of the operating companies: 58 percent for MGI, 25 percent for PSC and 8 percent for PWEI compared to the similar period in 2016.
Slightly higher average crude-oil prices also contributed to the profit increase, with average price reaching $50.35 per barrel for the third quarter compared to $38.08 in the same period last year.


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Historically speaking, Stamford is a wealth area, but that does not mean Stamford is without its fair share of low income and working class families. These families often try to limit their expense anyway they can, and too often that means making the choice to remain uninsured. The logic behind this reasoning is that scarce resources are best spent purchasing goods or services that can be of immediate use to the family. Long-term health risks are taken into account, but more immediate needs such as providing food and shelter for the family are deemed more important than health insurance. Dental insurance is usually the first to go. This has raised concern about the dental health of Americans in the medical profession. Dentists in Stamford CT are particularly concerned that treatable conditions will be left unchecked due to prohibitive health care costs. These conditions, when allowed to fester and deteriorate without the proper treatment, can result in more expensive and time consuming procedures down the road. Ultimately, corrective dental procedures prove to be more expensive than preventable care. Dentists in Stamford CT realized this, and immediately. Many respected dentists in Stamford CT volunteer at free community health clinics, and spend their Saturdays and Sundays helping the poorer residents of Stamford get some basic dental needs taken care of. Some dentists in Stamford CT also volunteer in a different manner by going around to area schools and teaching students about the necessity of proper health care. This is to promote preventative rather than corrective dental health care. The dentists in Stamford CT bring slides showing decayed teeth and unhealthy gums in an attempt to scare kids straight. They tell the kids that most common dental problems can be avoided through proper brushing and flossing on a daily basis. These scare tactics can be a little unsettling, but they are in the best interests of the community at large.


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package com.tevinjeffrey.vapor.utils;

import java.util.concurrent.TimeUnit;

import rx.Observable;
import rx.Subscription;
import rx.android.schedulers.AndroidSchedulers;
import rx.functions.Func1;
import rx.schedulers.Schedulers;
import rx.subscriptions.CompositeSubscription;
import timber.log.Timber;

public class RxUtils {

    public static void unsubscribeIfNotNull(Subscription subscription) {
        if (subscription != null) {
            subscription.unsubscribe();
        }
    }

    public static CompositeSubscription getNewCompositeSubIfUnsubscribed(CompositeSubscription subscription) {
        if (subscription == null || subscription.isUnsubscribed()) {
            return new CompositeSubscription();
        }

        return subscription;
    }

    //https://github.com/kaushikgopal/RxJava-Android-Samples/blob/master/app/src/main/java/com/morihacky/android/rxjava/ExponentialBackoffFragment.java
    @SuppressWarnings("ValueOfIncrementOrDecrementUsed")
    public static class RetryWithDelay
            implements Func1<Observable<? extends Throwable>, Observable<?>> {
        private final int _maxRetries;
        private final int _retryDelayMillis;
        private int _retryCount;

        public RetryWithDelay(final int maxRetries, final int retryDelayMillis) {
            _maxRetries = maxRetries;
            _retryDelayMillis = retryDelayMillis;
            _retryCount = 0;
        }

        @Override
        public Observable<?> call(Observable<? extends Throwable> attempts) {
            return attempts.flatMap(new Func1<Throwable, Observable<?>>() {
                @Override
                public Observable<?> call(Throwable throwable) {
                    if (++_retryCount < _maxRetries) {
                        // When this Observable calls onNext, the original
                        // Observable will be retried (i.e. re-subscribed).
                        Timber.d("Retry %d", _retryCount);
                        Timber.d("Retrying in %d ms", _retryCount * _retryDelayMillis);
                        return Observable.timer(_retryCount * _retryDelayMillis,
                                TimeUnit.MILLISECONDS);
                    }
                    // Max retries hit. Just pass the error along.
                    return Observable.error(throwable);
                }
            });
        }

        @Override
        public String toString() {
            return "RetryWithDelay{" +
                    "_maxRetries=" + _maxRetries +
                    ", _retryDelayMillis=" + _retryDelayMillis +
                    ", _retryCount=" + _retryCount +
                    '}';
        }
    }

    public interface SchedulerTransformer<T> extends Observable.Transformer<T, T> {
    }

    public static class AndroidSchedulerTransformer<T> implements SchedulerTransformer<T> {

        @Override public Observable<T> call(Observable<T> observable) {
            return observable.subscribeOn(Schedulers.io()).observeOn(AndroidSchedulers.mainThread());
        }
    }

}

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The fact is for many people all around the globe cricket is nearly like a faith, every week fans and players go to training and watch matches, dedicated to the sport we cricketers all love. Within the meantime England head off to the sub continent for what are bound to be carefully fought matches towards India and Pakistan this winter. The size of time matches take, and the huge possibility of draws, means that a ranking system is the one method to produce a 'world primary staff', whereas 50 overs-a-aspect lends itself to definite ends in the finite time of a tournament.
Man has all the time been fascinated by crickets. Wicketkeeper-batsman Adam Gilchrist is capable of destroying potent assaults, Brett Lee has matured right into a devastating one-day bowler, and Michael Hussey has built a popularity as a clinical finisher. So it's farewell to the great Australian bowlers Glen McGrath and Shane Warne who won't play Take a look at cricket in England again, but neither of them rule out enjoying in the return collection at the end of 2006, and as long as their our bodies hold up, the English expect to see these outdated foes facing them again next yr. Now you not only can wager on the person matches, but in addition sequence wins, scores for individual gamers, bowling figures and lots of different so-known as proposition bets which might be too many to listing. Now those that have played the sport of cricket know that a quick bowler appears on the batsman a fraction of a second after delivering the ball. The very fact is for many people all world wide cricket is almost like a faith, every week fans and players go to coaching and watch matches, dedicated to the sport we cricketers all love.
Right this moment the ICC fully controls world cricket and the sport's new energy base is arguably India; a rustic of one billion inhabitants the place cricket is the only nationwide sport, but progress is global; Sri Lanka, Zimbabwe and Bangladesh have all gained check status in the past quarter of a century and South Africa have been reinstated in 1991. The workforce profitable the toss gets to determine whether or not to bat first or to subject first. Cricket is played in additional than one hundred countries and is widespread especially in India, U.K., Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, Sri Lanka, Pakistan, and the West Indian nations. The sport of cricket, mockingly, is going through a stiff competitors from its varied versions like One Day Cricket is Threatening Check Matches whereas Twenty20 is threatening them all. The long-haired wicketkeeper is also a punishing middle-order batsman as he proved in both Sri Lanka and Pakistan in 2005. Subject crickets trigger much injury to area crops. The fielding side also has the opportunity to dismiss a batsman if they hit the wicket with the ball whereas the 2 batsmen are working on the center of the pitch.
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The word cricket sounds exciting to the fans. If the batsman manages to hit the ball strong enough so that it reaches the boundary of the field, it's counted as four runs. The pressure of captaining a weak Zimbabwe cricket crew took a toll on Streak's efficiency on the field. In the meantime England head off to the sub continent for what are certain to be closely fought matches towards India and Pakistan this winter. If the wicket is struck by the ball or the the ball is caught by a fielder (with out first touching the ground), then the batsman is 'out' ie he has been dismissed and might be replaced by the subsequent batsman in the team. There are various species of crickets: house crickets, field crickets, floor crickets, cave crickets, mole crickets, snowy tree cricket and the northern mole crickets. One may accumulate desired data by browsing by various cricket websites, as these websites comprise A to Z details about cricket, cricket matches and gamers. There are additionally different classes of cricket; first-class cricket technically includes test cricket, however generally simply refers to the highest stage of home matches in any nation.
Cricket is a highly regarded game in many nations. With super love for the game of cricket, it seems that cricket fans have made this recreation an much more needed game. So that you don't miss out on any of the actions, these cricket portals or moderately on-line websites give out the live scores and actions of the cricket match. If Indians really recognize the game then there must be ample public within the local membership degree matches and the usual of those video games would also be larger. You in all probability do not have an area cricket group broadcasting video games on TELEVISION, so you're just going to need to study by way of satellite tv for pc TV. There may be an entire bundle dedicated to the noble sport, cleverly called the CricketTicket (just like the idea of the NFL Sunday Ticket). As we speak you could have many corporate houses venturing into the sphere of providing the most recent cricket scores to followers. Some cricket commentators have opined that this incident affected Simmons' effectiveness as a gap batsman. The satellite TELEVISION bundle mostly broadcasts take a look at cricket – the highest level of international matches.
It is played between two groups, each consisting of 9 players, who play on a diamond-shaped discipline and use gloves for throwing and catching a ball, and bats for hitting it. There are various leagues in baseball, including Little League and Minor League. Gestures by the rival gamers, verbal exchanges between them – oh – nothing can cease them from additional fuelling the ingredient of leisure to the crowd as well as these watching it on tv, no matter the place the match is played and no matter what fan is doing it the nick of the moment. The sport is performed on a area normally an oval form and measuring wherever between 90 and a hundred and fifty metres in diameter, and in the centre, will be the pitch. These mediums embrace cricket news on the internet or fairly online web sites which are devoted to cricket, tv news and cell network providers who assist cricket fans to remain updated by sending these cricket fanatics fixed quick message services or sms on their cellphones.
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Postpartum Depression group planned in March
Agnesian HealthCare's Behavioral Health Services is offering free education and support sessions for women who are experiencing or are at risk for postpartum depression.
Postpartum Depression group planned in March Agnesian HealthCare's Behavioral Health Services is offering free education and support sessions for women who are experiencing or are at risk for postpartum depression. Check out this story on fdlreporter.com: https://fondul.ac/1TER68z
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Agnesian HealthCare's Behavioral Health Services is offering free education and support sessions for women who are experiencing or are at risk for postpartum depression. This group is also open to women who are struggling emotionally after childbirth and need to connect with others.
Facilitated by Colleen Zietlow, St. Agnes Hospital Behavioral Health Services psychotherapist, participants will learn about adjusting to the new role as a parent, bonding with their newborn, expectations vs. reality, boundaries, social support, adjusting to relationship changes, physical demands of the newborn, emotional effects of pregnancy, childbirth and the role of hormones.
This group will also give mothers the opportunity to talk, listen and share their experiences with other women experiencing similar feelings.
Agnesian HealthCare's Postpartum Depression group is scheduled for Wednesdays, March 2 and 16. from 1 to 2 p.m. in Agnesian HealthCare Journeys: a health resource center, 430 E. Division St.This group will continue to be offered the first and third Wednesday of each month.
For more information or to register for this free program, call Journeys: a health resource center at 920-926-4960 or visit agnesian.com/programs.
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Fact and fiction swirl like smoke in the past accounts about the fires that affected Washington's childhood homes.
It happened sometime in the late 1730s. The family was all at home—Mary sitting in the shade of the piazza and five-year-old George playing in the garden. All of a sudden, a cry went up as a terrifying sheet of flame began swallowing up the roof. The family and the enslaved Africans panicked, but little George knew just what to do. No sooner had his mother called his name than he was running up and down a ladder, splashing water onto the flames using a gourd. Finally, an old man showed up and presented George with a wooden shoe to carry the water. That did the trick, and soon the flames were extinguished, even though the damage was extensive and Mount Vernon would need a new roof.
Careful students of Mount Vernon's architectural history are probably asking a few questions right about now: "Piazza? In the 1730s? But that was a much later addition." Then there are the other peculiarities, which require no special study to question: Convenient ladders? Old men with wooden shoes? Five-year-olds battling blazes? Something seems odd, to say the least!
That's because the whole story is a fabrication from the fertile imagination of Mason Locke "Parson" Weems, the early 19th-century preacher/biographer/fiddler/self-promoter best known for his other young-George tale—you know: the one costarring Augustine Washington and a cherry tree. That story became an American icon, excerpted in schoolhouse readers for more than 100 years. Weems related the story of the Mount Vernon fire as having been a dream that Mary Washington shared with her neighbors, who, in time, told Weems. That makes the whole thing a sort of fiction about a fiction. On top of that, Weems meant the story to be an allegory for the American Revolution—the old man was Franklin, the wooden shoe the French alliance, and so on. Weems must have known how strained his allusion was, since he followed his retelling with a full explanation of what it was supposed to mean.
Weems's fire story was an obvious fiction—but hardly a simple one. In 1741, Augustine Washington received a letter condoling him for the "late calamity" that he "suffered by fire," making at least some conflagration in Washington's youth a historical fact. Further, Washington himself commented cryptically that his "father's house burned" but offered little more to help later sleuths figure out which house or when! In a 1795 letter to the then president, the writer remembered—with some questionable accuracy—a fire on Christmas Eve of an unspecified year.
Recent archaeological excavations at Ferry Farm, Washington's childhood home on the Rappahannock, showed evidence of a small but damaging fire dating to the early 1740s. That find ended a long discussion of just where and what exactly amounted to Augustine's "calamity" by fire. But for close to 200 years, biographers of varying skill—and frequently with limited access to sources—spun a wide array of fire stories and then respun one another's tales. Amid all of that artistry, Weems snuck back into the mix—and the door was most open at Pope's Creek, the site of Washington's birth.
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No single Washington home has had a fire serve so prominently as part of its story. Unlike Mount Vernon, the Pope's Creek home did not outlive the 18th century. That meant that locating the exact spot where Washington first drew breath was a tricky affair. Preparations for the 1932 celebration of Washington's 200th birthday meant finding his actual birth home was a big deal. A fire story that emerged at the end of the 1800s, though, offered something concrete that could bolster the claim for one buried set of ruins over another. The story took a few forms. The least embellished came from a single 1880s letter that referenced a story from Sarah Tayloe Washington, recalling that the Birth Home had burned during the Revolution, but some of its furniture had been saved. A decade or so later, neighbor and the land's former owner, John E. Wilson, recalled hearing that the home had burned on Christmas Eve of 1779, when sparks blew into an open window in a garret, landed on some cottonseed stored there, and set the roof on fire. In 1903, a biographer named Mrs. Roger A. Pryor told her readers that Mary Washington was burning leaves near the house and accidentally set the roof alight. Her story included the saved furniture, but there was no mention of Christmas. Lastly, Washington family descendant William Lanier Washington came forward in 1926, claiming to know a family story that set the fire on Christmas Day of 1780. William Lanier added considerable details of his own and echoed the very un-Virginia-like detail of the cottonseed, although in his version, the magically wind-resistant seed was laid out for drying on the roof.
Each of these stories had advocates, and each was treated in its day as a serious and truthful memory of the past. What no one seemed to notice at the time, though, was that all of these were also garbled versions of Weems's fake fire. It is all but impossible to untangle the mess and figure out who was spinning what and which details preceded others. What is clear is that no one who lived before the time when Weems was widely read knew any of these details and cared to share them. Anything they tell us came down through a long chain of memory.
And therein is the key word: memory. In earlier days, people were likely to attribute any similarities to all of these stories sharing a root—and that shared root had to be true. In that line of thought, the variations were not problems—they were confirmations.
Today we are less wide-eyed. When we see these sorts of swirling interchangeable details, alarm bells go off. There is a difference between history—a source-based study of the past—and memory—the things we have heard but have never subjected to critique and study. Memory is emotional, often powerfully tied to the connection we share with the people who told us our cherished tales.
It was the workings of memory that allowed Weems to slip into history when no one was looking. Augustine's "calamity" can be duly verified, and there is no reason the Washington Birth Home could not have burned—in fact, there is good evidence to suggest it did. But as for the dates and details that emerged through turn-of-the-century storytelling, a large dose of salt is recommended.
Still, the stories offer a useful lesson. As much as we would like to equate memory and history with oil and water, the truth is that they tend to flow into one another in unsettling ways.
A member of the Washington Library's 2016 class of research fellows, Philip Levy is a professor of history at the University of South Florida. He was part of the team that discovered Washington's childhood home and is working with the National Park Service to reanalyze Washington's birthplace in Westmoreland, Virginia. He is the author of Where the Cherry Tree Grew: The Story of Ferry Farm, George Washington's Boyhood Home (2013) and George Washington Written Upon the Land: Nature, Memory, Myth, and Landscape (2015).
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The internet is rife with all manner of paleo resources – the good, the bad, the delicious and the downright ridiculously devilish (Clean Eating with a Dirty Mind, I'm looking at you).
Even though the guidelines of paleo eating may sound restrictive, there's so much you can do beyond a slab of meat & a pile of steamed greens. I thought I'd put together this little slideshow of some of our paleo meals from the last few weeks to stoke the fires of creativity & point out some great paleo websites I've discovered along the way.
One more thing we crack on, I've read a lot around the traps about this way of eating being known for an over-reliance on meat. Long before starting to align our eating with paleo, we had enjoyed a tradition of a weekly "Meat Free Monday" dinner where vegetarian food was the no-excuses order of the evening. Interestingly given this criticism of paleo, we've continued this tradition without too much of a battle and I've included a few of these meals below.
While I was looking for dinner inspiration, this recipe for Gluten-Free Chocolate Muffins quite obviously distracted me. Definitely one to print off & try!
Along with a leopard-print blouse, lilac nail polish & a $39 glass of Veuve, today I purchased lunch at Sydney's 3-hatted Est. restaurant: workplace of my chef brother Josh (@mrniland on the Twit).
Needless to say, after eating the majority of Sydney's seafood quota for lunch, I was ridiculously full & could only manage 2 of the 5 delish petit fors served with my dear-lord-please-help-me-digest-this-feast peppermint tea.
A Chinese feast, a bottle of Sangiovese rose & one of the best gigs I've seen in a long time add up to one fabulous Monday night!
Damn straight I'm awesome in the kitchen. Ima gonna make me a good wife someday!
When it comes to comfort food, I've found that the best benefit comes from eating tasty goodness that has some nutritional qualities; ie, not plastic cheese-coated pasta.
Did you know brown rice is loaded with magnesium, a mineral which does wonders for ones mental health & anxiety levels? Or what about raising a sweat, upping your metabolism & getting some vitamin-boosting veggies into you with a chilli-laden stirfry?
If cheesy carbs assist you like nothing else to lift your mood or enable momentary wallowing though, try mashing potato (bonus points for using sweet potato!) with a whack of minced garlic, a good sprinkling of salt & pepper and a spoonful of ricotta – slightly cheesy goodtimes with a lot less regret than that which comes with 30 pounds of mac & cheese.
Honestly. Is that some kind of record? That's a preschooler!
*Anchorman reference. You really should've known that already though. If you didn't, get thee to blockbuster, stat.


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Compôs a música do filme Nunca aos Domingos e por ela foi premiado com o Oscar de melhor canção original.

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The boy screwed up his face at me over his dented pint mug. Unlined pewter, I noted. "You an alchemist, guv?
"That's admittedly true," I said, without proper forethought. Mistake. The boy's heavy eyebrows bunched as he peered at me.
I reached into my cloak and removed a small object, placing it upon the pocked and uneven wood of the bar. It twinkled in the dim pub light.
"It's a silver framework surrounding a collection of polished opals," I said.
The boy lodged himself in thought like a splinter lodging into a wound. "There is this thing," he said.
The boy stood away from the bar, clasped his hands behind his back, and extended his arms downward far enough that his elbows touched each other at the level of his lower back.
"Acknowledged," I said. "Well, this has been exceptionally interesting. For your trouble and for indulging me, let me pay for your drink." I unlocked the little cage of opals and tossed him one. He caught it, mid-air, which was a good sign. Reflexes are always important for someone in his position.
Before he could reply, I breezed out of the pub and headed out into the border forest. Once sufficiently obscured by vegetation, I knocked a couple times on a tree trunk large enough to permit the passage of my body, and in a flash, I was back aboard the Chronotopic Operations Base.
"How are you planning on composing a rhyme that works with that?" asked Phinea, looking up from her eternal messing with the calibration of the matter reactor.
"If we even do a number eight," muttered Phinea.
"You're a little horrible," said Phinea.
Yeah, that was the plan, which is why I quit a monthly posting schedule here–I felt like it was rendering some hard work on my part immediately unable to be published right out of the gate.