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Tinycards is an app from Duolingo that gives you flashcards for hundreds of topics. We really liked Tinycards when it launched on iPhone last year, and now the tool is available on the web.
If you swap between a Western and a non-Latin keyboard layout on your Mac, like Hebrew, Chinese, Kannada, or others, you'd usually need to do so by clicking an option in the menubar. MacWorld points out you can set the Caps Lock key to easily swap between keyboards.
If you're planning on tinkering around with electronics, whether it's on a Raspberry Pi, Arduino, or anything else, you'll need to know at least a little bit of programming. Hackster.io sent out a survey to figure out which three languages people thought were the best to learn.
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Windows: Skype's relatively new translator app that allowed users who speak different languages to video chat together. Now, it's becoming a feature of the regular Skype app.
Android/iOS: Learning to read, write, and speak languages with their own character sets can be challenging to those of us used to roman lettering, but Word Fireworks turns it into a game that's not just easy to get into, but compelling enough to stick with.
Android: Language translation apps are nothing new (which is one of the coolest sentences I've written), but Microsoft's new Translator app offers some neat features. In addition to translating between 48 languages via text or voice, you can even use an Android Wear watch to translate from your wrist.
Android/iOS: If you're a tourist in Paris, you should learn as much French as you can and make an attempt to speak the language. But sometimes, a little respite is nice, and this free app helps you find it. "Yes I speak touriste" helps tourists in Paris find establishments that speak their native tongue.
Windows: Last year, Microsoft announced an app that would allow you to have real-time conversations with people who spoke different languages, built on Skype. While the service was only available to a small group of testers, it's now open to everyone.
The most effective way to learn a foreign language is to immerse yourself as much as possible in it . Readlang is a webapp and Chrome extension that helps you learn by translating web sites and creating flashcards and word lists for you.
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iOS/Android: Last year, Google bought Word Lens, the amazing app that translates signs in real time, and made it free for everyone. Now the company has gone one better and rolled the feature into Google Translate.
Chrome/Web: If you're sending an email that isn't in your native language, your proofreading probably suffers. eAngel uses a real person to correct your spelling and grammar to avoid embarrassing translation mistakes.
When you need to translate an email or a webpage, or just a tweet or Facebook post from a friend abroad, you have several good options for the job. Last week we asked you for your favorites, then looked at the five best language translation tools and put them to a vote. Now it's time to crown the winner.
When you need to translate one language to another, either just to communicate or because you're trying to read something, you have tons of options—they're just not all that great at capturing what the original language really meant without sounding silly. This week we're looking at five of the best, based on your…
When you need to translate one language to another, doing it with a machine or an algorithm is never perfect, but sometimes it's those apps and services are the best tools we have. This week, we want to know which ones you turn to for results that are as accurate and understandable as possible.
We've all probably tried to learn a new language at some point. Foreign films can help you learn those words and accents, but a recent study suggests that subtitles can help a lot.
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3. Psychological – This may be one of their rounds depending on the Airline's recruiting panel and policies. This is generally to test the mental ability of the candidate to adapt to different circumstances and react in challenging situations. This is a round where the candidate has no room to fake it. It has to be ALL REAL.
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In the category of creatures hiding in plain sight, I bring you a few more candidates. Cryptic critters are always fascinating because their "crypticness" (not a real word, but sue me) relies on a combination of coloration and behavior. The best can hide in plain sight; unlike you or I who can hide but only if we envelop ourselves in dead grass or behind something. Unless they are highly toxic, both predatory and prey creatures have to hide for a living. I recently came upon an example of each – accidentally, of course.
Gas stations, as a rule, are always great places to find insects. It makes no difference what the brand or what the price happens to be (however, I do tend to see more insects at lower price gas stations for some reason….hmmmm). They are 24 hour operations with bright lights to attract all manner of nocturnal insect life. One station, near Midland, was the scene of a massive invasion of June Bugs. By June Bugs I mean those caramel brown beetles and not the sometimes-used-name for mayflies. It was early June and there were thousands of them scattered about on the pavement in various states of flatness. Live ones bumbled about in the morning light like hung over party guests while others simply died laying on their backs. The beetles were not hiding, but my first cryptic critter case was at a CITGO Gas station.
Blending in nicely with the gray speckled concrete at the base of the pump island, a large Leopard Moth did his level best to be "at one" with his surroundings. I'm sure it wasn't his choice to spend the day there but he probably had little real say in the matter. The bright city lights were too much of a lure. These are large white moths and you'd think they'd stand out like sore thumbs against such an artificial backdrop. They certainly aren't adapted for this environment. The name of this creature stems from the plethora of circular leopard-like spots covering the wings. These – like the feline spots – serve to disrupt the creature's outline and allow it to blend into any grayish backdrop from old concrete to lichen covered bark.
I opted to take the creature home for some formal portraits since I was highly distracted by the horridly high number appearing on the gas pump window above it. While later setting up his shot I noted another character of this moth. The wings were semi-translucent near the edges (see here). This would be due to a natural thinning of the scales resulting from repeated nights of vigorous flying, but it would serve well to further disrupt his outline. Indeed, when placed on a natural tree bark outline he blended in admirably. A Leopard needn't change his spots to adapt to all manner of situations.
The other example I want to put before you is a predatory beast – a spider, as a matter of fact. Even though spiders are insect eaters, they are also eaten by larger predators and so must hide. While most secret themselves into silken tubes or folded leaves during the day, the Long-jawed Orb Weaver gets long in order to live through the light time. This spider has extremely long legs (and jaws) and they perch with an equal number of appendages pointing forward and back. Because they align themselves parallel to grass stems and sticks, they blend by behavior.
As you can see in the photo, the Long-jawed Orb Weaver that I encountered was not blended to the grass by color, but because it took on the linear lines of the grass stem. It was invisible. Even on close inspection it was hard to make out how the spider was positioned and what part was where. In the detail photo (below) you can make out the eight black eyes and long abdomen. The critter was pointing down.
Just in case you are wondering, apart from the long-jawed thing, the name of this spider refers to the fact that it is indeed an orb web weaver. They are not related to the typical group of orb weavers (garden spiders, shamrocks, and the like) but still make a type of centrally radiating web. Their webs are simpler than those of the real orb weavers (who, by the way, have to sneak into silk shelters to hide).
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Chocolates are my weak point and ohh …Homemade Chocolate is just icing on the cake although now I am avoiding chocolates due to health conscious and diet . I just love the homemade chocolates. When I was in collage day, one of my collage friend used to bring this chocolates made by her mom and shared with all the friends.
I have never thought to make chocolates at home due to its bit complexity for ingredient measurements and time. Actually, I can say right amount of ingredient is the key point of home-made chocolates.
Now-a-days, we are sharing and discussing lots of recipes in office lunch time. I got this simple four step recipe from my office friends. Thanks Vrushali & Poonam !! I will definitely share this chocolates with you.
Here I made Chocolate with exactly 3 ingredients. This chocolate is not completely from scratch but YES!! I can say that you just feel the happiness when you get the complete piece of homemade chocolate after refrigerate for 10 -15 minutes in freeze.
This is the right time to try this chocolates. Diwali is around the corner, just choose the mould and make your homemade chocolates to surprise your friends, family members & bachha company.
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Taste of London 2015 hits the spot
Another year, another five days of London's foodies flocking to Regent's Park to overindulge in their favourite past-time of wining and dining.
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It's one thing to create a menu for the whole restaurant, it's another to pull together a handful of dishes that flow cohesively to form the perfect meal.
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Did Taste of London round two (Winter edition) live up to the standards set in Summer? Certainly. From squirrel terrine to Masterchef cooking tips, the cosy food festival tickled every tastebud.
New Zealand Pinot Noir Tasting at The Providores and Tapa Room
The Romans may have coined the phrase "in vino veritas", but Connie Law takes matters in her own hands and learns all about wines from NZ
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Connie Law heads to Clapham to review both The Dairy as well as her diary
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What happens when you combine French cuisine and American comfort food for leisurely lunchtime frolics? Heaven, of course, but on the streets of London, we call it Le Brunch
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Feeling sentimental about the great Kiwi summer and missing a good old fashioned barbie, Connie Law headed to Meatopia to get her barbeque fix
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Do you remember turning thirteen? It was a big deal. You were starting an exciting phase. In the restaurant world, turning thirteen is just as much of a milestone — minus the social awkwardness.
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With the tagline "World's Greatest Restaurant Festival", I had high expectations. Did Taste of London live up to those? Quite simply, yes. With its mix of mini restaurants, food stalls, and bars, whittling away the evening was really as easy as a walk in the park.
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I call it yum cha, others call it dim sum; I've even described it to people as 'asian tapas'. Whatever the name, it still means the same thing to me — a meal which involves small plates of dumplings, usually some steamed buns, and generally a lot of pork in various forms. What's not to like?
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Piscataway Library eNewsletter Vol 9 Issue 6
Please note: Both branches of Piscataway Library will be closed on Monday, February 19 in observance of Presidents' Day.
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Save the Date! Piscataway Public Library is hosting the 4th annual New Jersey Makers Day. NJMD is a statewide celebration of maker culture, tinkering and creative participation. Join us on Saturday, March 10 at Kennedy Library for a day of making and exploring.
In February read a book by a Black/African American Author
For recommendations, check out our ARC Booklist at any branch or online at piscatawaylibrary.org/readingchallenges.
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What Have I Got and Where Is It? Identity, Attributes and UMA for a Pensions Dashboard
The Pensions Dashboard project is an important and exciting initiative for the UK consumer with an immense social purpose. It has the potential to significantly improve retirement planning, financial inclusion and consumer engagement with the pensions industry. Origo is working with Forgerock and the wider Industry to bring an enabling infrastructure to market. The solution will securely identify the consumer before orchestrating a search of pensions across the Industry. Today we will provide a tour of the project to date. We'll cover the architecture for identity, attribute exchange and resource sharing; bringing this to life with a demonstration.
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Origo's Pension Finder service powers Pensions Dashboards. As a development partner of the HM Treasury's Pensions Dashboard project, Origo is working on behalf of the industry to enable consumers to safely find their pensions and return their information complete with valuations to their dashboard screens.
Thanks to Origo's Options Transfers service, pensions transfer times have dramatically reduced from c.50 working days to 11 calendar days, providing smooth, fast and safer transfers for consumers.
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NOTE TO EDITORS--REPEAT-LAW AMENDMENTS COMMITTEE ----------------------------------------------------------------- The Law Amendments Committee of the House of Assembly will meet today at 7 p.m., Monday, May 13, 1996 in the Red Chamber, Province House. The committee's agenda includes the Adoption Information Act and the Nursing Assistants Act. -30- Contact: Gordon Hebb 902-424-8941 trp May 13, 1996 - 8:40 a.m.


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During the last year or more, thousands of organizations have responded to the economic downturn by slashing budgets and jettisoning employees. Most leaders viewed these reactions as necessary for survival. Those whose organizations did survive and now see the recovery in sight have to face the long-term consequences of their short-term "fixes." Those consequences, ironically, have to do with organizational prospects for long-term survival and success.
There is no doubt that the last year has been tough on workforces everywhere. In addition to people who lost their jobs or a significant part of their income through furloughs, the "surviving" employees have had a difficult time as well. Not only do they have to contend with heavier workloads and the possibility that they could be next, but often they feel guilty because they still have jobs while their co-workers don't.
Yet to be tested is what effect these actions will have on employee retention. That is, when the economy turns around and people have alternatives to their current jobs, will they stay with you or will they move on? A few surveys have indicated that over 50% of current employees plan to jump ship as soon as another one is close enough to board. And when people have alternatives, employers have to work harder to keep their best employees.
If you wait until those other ships are in sight, it will be too late: not only will you lose good employees, but you will be competing with countless other organizations for qualified replacements. Begin NOW to build or fortify a solid foundation of support so that you are able to retain your workers in the months ahead, and attract others as you begin to grow.
What are you doing to make sure your organization passes the recovery "test?"
Pat Lynch, Ph.D., is President of Business Alignment Strategies, Inc., a consulting firm that helps clients optimize business results by aligning people, programs, and processes with organizational goals. You may contact Pat or call (562) 985-0333.
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Portfolio Models:
Do I have to liquidate my existing positions before becoming a CCM client?
Ultimately, that is your call. Many clients prefer to start with a clean slate, allowing the CCM Market Model to make the decisions from day one. If you prefer to keep your existing positions, we will treat them like any other investment option. If your existing positions can earn their keep, we will hold them. If an opportunity cost analysis tells us there are clearly better options for your capital, we will liquidate the less attractive position. More information on this topic can be found in this video clip.


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This round, reversible pendant features a lotus and reads: happiness comes of the capacity to feel deeply, to enjoy simply, to think freely, to risk life to be needed. fear less, hope more, whine less breathe more; talk less, say more; love more, and all good things will be yours.
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Genealogy research by Mark Humphrys,
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"Ard Soluis", Kingswood, was designed and built by Dick Humphreys 1934-35.
SAP Ireland
opened their new Irish headquarters
just S of the house in
This is a branch of SAP, Europe's largest software company.
Address: 1012-1014 Kingswood Ave, Citywest Business Campus, Dublin 24.
The Humphreys family sold
Ard Soluis to the adjoining Citywest think 2001.
Bright Horizons child care centre was built right beside Ard Soluis 2003, just before the entrance (i.e. on the NE side).
Address: 4008-4010 Kingswood Rd, Citywest Business Campus, Dublin 22.
Ard Soluis has been in ruins from about 2001 to date.
There is currently a plan to demolish it and build a housing estate.
It still exists in ruins as at 2014.
Location of Ard Soluis, Kingswood.
View from E.
Ard Soluis is "The Site".
Old Naas Rd is front RHS. New Naas Rd is back RHS.
SAP building under construction to LHS.
See larger and full size.
Ard Soluis on [OSI] map, before SAP building built.
New Naas Rd is on top LHS.
Entrance to Ard Soluis off old Naas Rd.
See fields on 1887 to 1913 map.
Kingswood under construction, 1934. From the front (S side).
Kingswood under construction, 1934. From the back (N side).
Early photo of Kingswood from the road (from the N, back of house visible, avenue curves round to the far side of the building to the front door).
Kingswood, under construction, 1934-5. The W facing porch.
Kingswood from an airplane, from the SW, shortly after it was built, c.1935. Note the old Naas Rd (the old Dublin - SW Ireland road).
The garden wall to the SW side, c.1937.
Laying out the lawn at the front (S side) of the house.
Kingswood. The W facing porch.
Kingswood in ruins.
Photo 2012 from S side (SAP building).
See full size and other shot.
Planning notice proposing demolition of Kingswood.
Photo 2012.
See full size.
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Some research "things to do" are not done for years, because I do not have the money to do them.
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Explore the emerging practice and field of GeoDesign by participating in the 3rd annual GeoDesign Summit in Redlands CA, Jan 5-6 2012. Based on concepts found in Ian McHarg's seminal Design With Nature, GeoDesign integrates geographic science with design, resulting in a systematic methodology for geographic planning and decision-making. GeoDesign brings geographic analysis into any design process, resulting in designs that more closely follow natural systems.
The Summit brings professionals in GIS, design, & tech development from around the world to share the latest in GeoDesign work, along with academic faculty who explore the opportunities for GeoDesign as a professional curriculum in higher education. UW-Madison continues to be a player in both presentations and the academic discussions at these Summits.
Submissions for Papers, Lightning Talks, or the Map Gallery will be accepted until October 10, 2011 via: http://www.geodesignsummit.com/get-involved/index.html
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For those of you just joining us, here at SBMA we're all ramped up about Full Deck: A Short History of Skate Art, which opened in our Warner Gallery two weeks ago. This electrifying exhibit of skateboard art is especially appealing to children and young artists, and we would love to host any school or other groups who would like to see it.
There are many ways in which a viewing "Full Deck" can serve as a platform for learning and meeting curricular standards in nearly all subject areas. This week we would like to offer an engaging science lesson plan that focuses on the physics of skateboarding and would make a fantastic follow-up to a "Full Deck" field trip, hint hint.
If there's one thing that a skateboard will help you remember (four times over), it's that the wheel is a beautiful thing. Therefore, we're not even going to try to reinvent it. Instead, we offer you this link from "Teach Engineering," an outreach of the University of Colorado at Boulder. Entitled "Skateboard Disaster," it promises to be a great success among the middle school crowd. Enjoy!


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Food by Bazza is a new concept in the food and hospitality world, brought to you by Barry Hancox. Barry has developed his passion for all things food and hospitality, together with local collaborators from chefs to unique independent food and drink producers, into a consultancy business in the Cotswolds, in the heart of England. On the Food by Bazza blog Barry loves to share his food life with the world.
Barry Hancox has spent over 40 years in the industry he has loved since he first started working in it. His early days were spent in 5 star hotels in London, learning the trade and quickly working his way up to be House Manager at Duke's Hotel in St James's, before relocating to the Cotswolds nearly 30 years ago as Manager and then General Manager of the world famous Lygon Arms Hotel, then part of the Savoy Group, where he remained for over 15 years.
Since leaving The Lygon, Barry has owned and run two restaurants (one with rooms) from start up, setting everything up from scratch including design, style, service, technology, staffing and menu choices. He has since played an integral role in the successful launch of several delis and food retail outlets in the Cotswolds in his role as a consultant. Barry has an indefatigable passion for everything to do with food, being an excellent cook himself, as well as relentlessly high standards which, along with his local partners, he hopes to share with clients and guests through Food by Bazza.


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|My daughter has two HB with coir liners form last year (?) that are kind of fluffled (hm, I meant fluffed :^)..) Will I need to buy new liners? Or can I just squish them down?
And, planting a non stop begonia in each- she thinks they will be in shade. do these dry out too fast? should I use granules, or an inner liner of plastic bag, or something to reduce the drying?
Thanks for any advice.
..come into the peace of wild things..-Wendell Berry
Life is a buffet (anon)
May 21, 2016 10:06 AM CST
|Hi Sally,
What I do with my coir baskets is place a piece of landscape fabric, to fit basket, on the inside of the container. Then I take one of those cheep clear plastic saucers and put in the bottom of the basket, then fill with soil. Works great for me. The landscape fabric really saves the coir liner and the saucer acts like a little reservoir.
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May 21, 2016 11:04 AM CST
|sounds great thanks!!
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Hyderabad: Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) national President Amit Shah made it clear to the party leaders from Telangana that the party will go alone in the ensuing general elections in the State, he said to the visiting party delegation headed by the BJP state president K Laxman when they called him on Friday at Delhi.
Amit Shah reportedly made it clear that the party will contest all the 119 assembly and 17 Lok Sabha constituencies in Telangana without entering into an alliance with any party. He expressed his satisfaction over the functioning of State BJP unit. He said BJP's position in Telangana was better than the main opposition Congress party.
Amit Shah said that the BJP has strong chances of winning the ensuing elections in the State and asked them to intensify their efforts. The State leaders also complained to Amit Sha that while they were fighting against the Telangana Rashtra Samithi (TRS) government, some Union Ministers have been repeatedly and openly praising the State government schemes.
Party leaders Bandaru Dattatreya, G Kishan Reddy, Ch Ramchandra Reddy, Srinivas, and Chandrashekhar met Amit Shah and briefed him on the latest political situation in the State. Senior leaders including Muralidhar Rao and Ram Madhav were also present.


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By MacDonald Dzirutwe
HARARE (Reuters) - Zimbabwe's stock market plunged on Monday, the first trading day since confirmation of President Robert Mugabe's landslide election victory, as fears spread that his ZANU-PF party might target foreign-owned businesses or scrap the U.S. dollar.
The bourse's Industrial Index fell 11 percent in a clear sign of jitters over ZANU-PF, whose economic policy centers on the "indigenization" of foreign firms - essentially forcing them to cede majority control to local blacks.
Nine of the top-10 shares on the $5 billion bourse were trading in the red and its biggest company, Delta Corporation, the local unit of global brewer SAB Miller, crashed 20 percent to $1.20 a share.
In the run-up to the July 31 election, the index notched up a series of record highs on hopes that Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai might unseat the 89-year-old Mugabe at his third time of trying.
Instead, Mugabe, Africa's oldest head of state, won a crushing 61 percent in the presidential vote and a super-majority in parliament that allows ZANU-PF to change the constitution at will.
Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) leader Tsvangirai has dismissed the poll as a farce and his party is preparing a legal challenge to what it has described as massive vote-rigging, although analysts say a court bid is unlikely to get very far.
There has been no sign yet of the violence that followed the last election in 2008 when 200 MDC supporters were killed.
Even without unrest, investors fear an emboldened ZANU-PF could accelerate its indigenization program by targeting foreign banks that it says are refusing to lend money to black farmers and small businesses.
"These are initial shocks in reaction to the election results. It was going to happen - maybe until there is some certainty on the policy front from the new government," a trader with a local stockbroker said.
Tsvangirai lawyer Selby Hwacha told Reuters his legal team was preparing to challenge the election result before a Friday deadline. Under the terms of a new constitution, the courts must rule on the case with 14 days.
Only after the all-clear can Mugabe be sworn in.
The 14-year-old MDC, the only serious challenge to Mugabe's 33-year stranglehold on the former British colony, is in tatters.
"Of all our experience, nothing could have prepared us for the 2013 election and the systematic and scientific dismembering of the people's wishes," secretary general Tendai Biti, now outgoing finance minister, wrote on his Facebook page.
Biti's exit casts a shadow over a recovery he helped engineer from a decade-long economic crisis marked by bare supermarket shelves, 500 billion percent inflation and tens of thousands fleeing destitution to neighbouring countries.
The rot only stopped when the 15-nation Southern African Development Community (SADC) forced Mugabe and Tsvangirai into a power-sharing government in 2009 that made scrapping the worthless Zimbabwe dollar one of the first things it did.
SADC has given a general thumbs up to the poll, suggesting it is tired of trying to mend Zimbabwe's broken politics and wants to move on.
In the staunchly pro-MDC capital and the second city of Bulawayo, most people went about their business as normal but remained shocked at the size of Mugabe and ZANU-PF's victory.
"I never thought I would consider looking for a job outside Zimbabwe but after the weekend, dusting off my passport has become an option," said Nixon Mkwananzi, a bank teller at a foreign-owned bank in Bulawayo.
Eurasia Group, a political risk consultancy, said the election results "all-but-eviscerate any hopes of a more liberal policy turn".
However, it added that it did not necessarily mean a return to the chaos of the early 2000s, when pro-ZANU-PF militias over-ran white-owned commercial farms and the central bank printed money on an industrial scale.
Besides economic nationalism, many Zimbabweans were alarmed by comments made by Mugabe on the eve of the election about possibly reintroducing the Zimbabwean dollar.
Senior ZANU-PF official Patrick Chinamasa compounded those fears when he told reporters it was a "strategic retreat" to allow the use in 2009 of the U.S. dollar, which he described as "the enemy's currency".
"I hope they don't dare do that. That would be the end for this country," said newspaper vendor Oswald Jani.
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The Somerset Patriots announced fan voting for their September 13th bobblehead giveaway presented by AT&T.
Fans will get to choose between Adam Donachie, Johnny Tucker, and Jon Hunton on who will be featured on the bobblehead. Fans can vote by clicking on this link.
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We compare artificial cigarettes, so you don't have to.
For some reason, gentle reader, no social situation is complete for many of you without at least some form of slender white tube held between your fingers or dangling from the corner of your mouth. But these days those nanny state killjoys won't let you light up anywhere!
And then there's the cancer thing. Who to believe? All those 1950s magazine ads with doctors recommending cigarettes, or those unappetising photos of diseased body parts
that seem to be popping up all over?
Enter the artificial cigarette. Smokeless, cancer-free and perfectly legal pretty much anywhere, the Chinese-invented smokeless cigarette has been on the market since 2005. But is the idea really all that new? Readers of a certain age will recall that for generations, the playground lolly of choice was the curiously named and not particularly tasty Space Man Cigarette. Still available as Space Man Candy Sticks, could these Kiwi classics be a viable alternative to not just real cigarettes but their electronic alternative? We'll let you be the judge.
Cost: $65-$100 for a starter kit
Back story: Invented by Chinese pharmacist Hon Lik in 2003 following an unsuccessful 1963 attempt by Herb Gilbert. Herb's artificial cigarette never made it to market, possibly because no-one at the time saw
a health downside to the real thing. Ha!
Post-coital suitability: Kim Dotcom might get away with it (feel free to picture that if you wish) but you wouldn't.
Choose one if you're a: Smoking hot robot
Unsuitable for: Burning the chests of your gangland opponents
Contains: Propylene glycol, water, glycerin, nicotine.
Fun fact: Propylene glycol was also used as engine coolant in World War II fighters such as the Spitfire and Mustang. Tally ho!
How it works: A battery powered heating element causes the 'smoke juice' to vapourise, delivering anything from odourless nicotine to (and we shit you not) Boston Cream Pie flavoured vapour to the hungry lungs of the user.
Availability as a Mr Vintage T-shirt design: Unlikely
Space Man
Cost: 80 cents for 10
Back story: Candy cigarettes have been around since the early 20th century, with the New Zealand version dating to the early 1970s. Space Man Cigarettes were subsequently renamed Space Man Candy Sticks and had their distinctive red tip removed in 2007. Hoard them if you love them though; cigarette-shaped candy is banned in Finland, Turkey and Norway … could we be next?
Post-coital suitability: Possible hipster applications.
Choose one if you're a: Sweet-toothed astronaut
Unsuitable for: Blowing Casablanca-style smoke rings
Contains: Sugar, corn syrup, gelatin, vegetable oil, tapioca starch, flavor, colour (133) aka 'Brilliant Blue'.
Fun fact: According to Twitter, they're the cigarette-shaped confectionery choice of both mobile phone salesman Rhys Darby and DJ P-Money.
How it works: Chew, swallow, grow slightly fatter
Availability as a Mr Vintage T shirt design:Currently available
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Our restaurant serves a big breakfast with lots of tropical fruits is included in the price. A great selection of food is available from our a la carte lunch and dinner menu, including starters and desserts. We are happy to prepare vegetarian meals if you prefer so. If you get hungry in between we have a little shop with small foods and drinks. Dont worry, we also got a well stocked bar with cocktails, beer, wine and other drinks out in the jungle.
Don't forget to drink our fantastic coconuts directly from the tree. Our chef never rest, right after breakfast he will plan and prepare for lunch & dinner every day. We try to use as much fruits and vegetables as possible from our own garden and when it's not enough we take a trip to the food market in Apia. You are welcome to come along and check it out yourself.
Some days during the week we will show you how to prepare traditional food and actually we need your help to open all these coconuts that
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Thursday, September 4, 2014
Senior Moment
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Man, oh man, Guinness, you sure are milking that senior status. :)ReplyDelete
Hi Guinness, it's great to see you're enjoying summer. Sasha also likes to play the "I can't hear you" game, only hers is "I can hear you, but I'm not coming back!"ReplyDelete
We're in spring now, since 1st Sept, here in Australia, but it's still very cold. We got down to 5 degrees C this morning, which we know you'll laugh at - our human lived in Winnipeg when she was a teensy pup, so she knows it gets colder in other places, but she still feels the cold here! It got up to 20 degrees C on the weekend, so we went for our first beach swim of the season.
We don't mind the cold, though - we sleep on the bed with our human, and the colder it is the closer we snuggle up to her!
Puppy kisses
Sasha & Trixie
Howdy Guinness, when you're a senior you get to do whatever makes you happy. So mum says anyway and she should know hehehe. Take care mate. No worries, and love, Stella and RoryReplyDeleteReplies
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Oh boy, I like standing or sitting too. Maybe that's what happens when we are seniorsReplyDelete
Lily & Edward
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Car buyers put wheels in motion
While the motor trade celebrates record August sales figures, marketers are soberly studying the trends. It seems direct mail advertising scored poorly compared with other media, while TV ads – which tend to feature new models – appealed to do
Six per cent of drivers were expecting to buy a new or secondhand car, or to get one from their company, during August 1996. As NOP calculates that principal drivers make up about half of all adults over 17 years old in Great Britain, this represents more than 1 million cars changing hands last month.
Purchase intention is split equally between people currently owning new and secondhand cars, and between company and private motorists. A further 22 per cent of drivers expect to acquire a car in the next 12 months, another 28 per cent in the next two years.
Sixty-six per cent of company car drivers have cars which were bought new, compared with 24 per cent of private owners; and a third, compared with a fifth of private owners, expect to replace their car in the next 12 months.
Company sales therefore supply a disproportionate number of new cars, passing recent-registration used cars to the private market and supplying the impetus for secondhand car exchange throughout the purchase chain.Twenty-seven per cent of drivers had acquired a new or used car in the past 12 months. The under-35s are more likely than other drivers both to have bought a car in the past year and to be intending to buy in the next 12 months, perhaps because this age group experiences the most rapid change in affluence and lifestyle, prompting change of car.
Advertising awareness
More than 35 car marques were named as advertising during July 1996, nine were named by ten per cent or more drivers and a further 15 by two per cent or more. Forty-five per cent recalled Ford ads, making it the clear leader. Vauxhall with 29 per cent, Renault at 27 per cent and Peugeot at 26 per cent were the only other campaigns remembered by a quarter of the sample. Rover, Citroë, Nissan, BMW and Volvo scored between ten and 19 per cent.
Car ads appear to have more impact on men than women. Men tend to recall more ads and make up the majority of recall for the less prominent marques. The skew is particularly marked for BMW and Daewoo, men being nearly three times more likely than women to remember these ads, and the bias holds across the top ten marques recalled, with the exception of Renault, Peugeot and Citroë.
ABC1 drivers are more conscious of car advertising than C2DEs, perhaps because they are twice as likely to be driving new as opposed to secondhand cars. Of the ten marques with the highest recall levels, only Ford, Nissan and Vauxhall have higher recall levels among down-market than upmarket drivers.
Recall of direct mail
Twenty-seven per cent of drivers remember receiving a direct mailshot promoting a car during the previous month. This rose to 37 per cent of company and new car drivers, although there was no significant increase in recall among people intending to buy in the next year, or who had bought in the past year. A total of 25 marques were named as mailing, but only eight were given by two per cent or more of the sample.
Recall order is very similar to that of advertising awareness, with Ford leading the line-up at nine per cent. BMW is the only marque not to figure in the top ten for both advertising and mailing recall, its place is taken by Honda.
Car purchase activities
All respondents were asked which of a list of activities they had done in the past six months. A third had watched a specialist car programme on television, and a quarter had visited a car showroom or dealer. Sixteen per cent had bought a local newspaper for dealer or classified advertising, compared with nine per cent buying a specialist car magazine. Eight per cent had taken a test drive; five per cent had been to a motor show or requested a brochure.
TV programmes and motor show visits were the only activities which were not more prevalent among recent and current buyers; these obviously fit equally into the general interest or hobby aspect of motoring as into the specific information gathering which leads up to buying a car.
Men are more likely to take a wider interest in the market than women, making up three-quarters of the readers of car magazines and car programme viewers, they are also more likely to have visited a showroom. But women are just as likely as men to have participated in the core selection activities of test driving, brochure request and local media scanning.
People who are driving new or company cars show a different set of interests from the secondhand and private motorists (who are, of course, the majority of drivers). Over a third of new/company car drivers have made dealer visits, and they are twice as likely to have taken a test drive as the private motorist; but local classified or dealer advertising plays a lesser role in their car selection.
Usefulness of ads
NOP asked everyone who was intending to replace their car in the next five years, and had some influence over its choice, to rate six forms of communication as being very, quite, or not very useful, during the purchase process.
Both local press advertising in general and local classified listings were found useful by the majority of active buyers when looking for a car, placing the medium considerably ahead of national press, TV or direct mail. Both forms of local press advertising appeal more strongly to private drivers, who are trying to locate a specific vehicle rather than just finalising their choice. Classified advertising has more appeal in the North than the South and to C2DE drivers, the profile for local press advertising in general shows less bias.
TV and national press ads jostle for third place: TV is rated very useful by slightly more people, but overall, fewer dismiss national press advertising outright.
Television – which tends to feature new models – is stronger among company and new car drivers, but also among downmarket drivers; national press has a more general appeal, and is stronger among ABC1s.
Fewer buyers find classified advertising in national newspapers and magazines as useful as the local equivalent. It is most relevant to company car drivers, who may well be searching for a particular model, and are less tied than private buyers to a convenient sales location.
Direct mail scores poorly compared with other media in the survey, although this may relate to the comparative lack of awareness and presumably exposure shown earlier. However, fewer than 40 per cent of company and new car buyers claim to find mailings useful, maintaining its position at the bottom of the chart for even its most favourable market.
Active buyers gave higher ratings to all the types of advertising. The ranking of usefulness, however, remained unchanged, except perhaps that press advertising scores more highly than TV.
This is because of its information content. National press increased its usefulness by the greatest margin, direct mail showed the smallest increase in usefulness of any of the media.


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How to parse a tricky date string
by Erin Vang on Jul.28, 2010 , under JMP & JSL
Recently on LinkedIn, Asit Rairkar asked about how to parse a tricky date string into a numeric date column in JMP. He has date/time data as character data, but unfortunately it's not formatted in one of the many date formats that JMP supports directly. He wrote:
I have found that informat does not work with all sorts of texted dates. e.g. I have had some tables with date codes as YYMMDDHHMMSS and I have had to manually seperate the 2 digits each and combine them again into YY/mm/dd hh:mm:ss format to feed in. Not sure if there is a better way to deal with this type of input.
Writing JSL to handle this situation is conceptually simple, but getting the JSL just right is tricky. The format JMP supports that comes closest to this format is "yyyy-mm-ddThh:mm:ss," so that's what I decided to work with, but overcoming the little differences between JMP's format and Asit's string takes some work. We have to doctor up the input string so that it matches the format JMP can handle. We'll need to:
- change the two-digit years to four-digit
- add the "-" delimiter between year, month, and day
- add the "T" delimiter between date and time
- add the ":" delimiters between hours, minutes, and seconds
Once we've gotten the input string to match a JMP-supported format, we put that inside
Num() as the
Formula() for a new numeric column. We also have to specify one of the date/time formats for the column, and to keep things simple, I'll just use the "yyyy-mm-ddThh:mm:ss" format again, but you could choose any format.
Here's how it works
Suppose your data table looks like this:
You can generate my example by running this script:
dt = New Table( "tricky times", Add Rows( 4 ), New Column( "event", Character, Nominal, Set Values( {"Erin starts researching Asit's question", "Erin starts this blog post", "Erin wants a beer", "This blog post better be done"} ) ), New Column( "when", Character, Nominal, Set Values( {"100726174324", "100728154315", "1007281730", "110728154315"} ) ) )
So our first programming task is to convert a string like
"100726174324" to a string like
"2010-07-26T17:43:24", by performing the steps listed above. We could probably do this most efficiently with a clever pattern-match or regular expression statement, but both of those strategies present some disadvantages for a casual scripter:
- they're hard to learn, and it's probably too much trouble given how seldom a casual scripter needs to do this sort of thing
- they're hard to read and decipher later—somebody who's got a lot of practice at this kind of thing can write the patterns or regular expressions fairly easily and quickly, but figuring out a pattern or regular expression that someone else wrote (or that you yourself wrote a week ago) is much harder
- they're hard to debug
- they're hard to "borrow from" later on when you encounter a problem that's slightly different
For these reasons, I'd rather solve this problem with a formula that is perhaps inefficient but is easy for me to read and easy for me to adapt later on. It won't run as fast, but the time I really want to save is my own—I don't care so much, in this case, if JMP has to work a little harder. So, let's take it one step at a time.
1. change the two-digit years to four-digit
This is potentially tricky. Are all of the years in this century, e.g. 20-something? Or do we have a mix of centuries? If they're all the same, it's easy. We just
Concat()enate a "20" in front of the two year digits we do have. I like the shorthand
|| operator better than the function
Concat(). We get those two year digits by taking a
Substr()ing of
:when starting on the first character and continuing for two characters:
"20" || Substr( :when, 1, 2 )
If they're a mixture of centuries, we'll need to add some logic for guessing the correct century. Using a transition point is one way to do it. For example, if none of the dates are expected to be in the future or more than a hundred years in the past, we can safely assume that anytime the yy portion of the string is greater than the current year, we should prepend "19" rather than "20." To do that, we need to compare the string's
Substr( mydate, 1, 2 ), against today's
yy. But what's today's
yy? Start by getting today, as a year:
Year( Today() ) is the numeric value
10. Now convert that to a string with
Char() so that we can use
Substr() to grab just the last two characters:
Substr( Char( Year( Today() ) ), 3, 2 )
Now do the comparison inside an
If(), and make the result
"19" when
yy is greater than the current year and
"20" otherwise.
Concat() that result onto the
If( Substr( mydate, 1, 2 ) > Substr( Char( Year( Today() ) ), 3, 2 ), "19", "20" ) || Substr( mydate, 1, 2 )
Whew! Fortunately the next few steps are easy.
2. add the "-" delimiter between year, month, and day
We've already got the
yyyy piece. Now we use
Substr(:when, x, 2) a few more times with
x being the first character of the
mm and
dd pieces. We insert a string
"-" between each piece, sticking it all together with
|| "-" || Substr( :when, 3, 2 ) || "-" || Substr( :when, 5, 2 )
3. add the "T" delimiter between date and time
That's easy:
4. add the ":" delimiters between hours, minutes, and seconds
Same old same old! Just more
Substr() and
|| action.
Substr( :when, 7, 2 ) || ":" || Substr( :when, 9, 2 ) || ":" || Substr( :when, 11, 2 )
Put it all together!
Those four steps have produced a string formatted like
"2010-07-26T17:43:24", and if we put all that inside
Formula( Num( ) ) for a
New Column command, we'll be creating numeric date values.
New Column( "time", Format( "yyyy-mm-ddThh:mm:ss" ), Formula( Num( // convert what you have to something like "2010-07-26T17:43:24" // assume dates only in past, within last 100 years If( Substr( :when, 1, 2 ) > Substr( Char( Year( Today() ) ), 3, 2 ), "19", "20" ) || Substr( :when, 1, 2 ) || "-" || Substr( :when, 3, 2 ) || "-" || Substr( :when, 5, 2 ) || "T" || Substr( :when, 7, 2 ) || ":" || Substr( :when, 9, 2 ) || ":" || Substr( :when, 11, 2 ) ) ) );
Now we have:
Notice that this technique is even forgiving of strings that are too short. I intentionally left off the
ss part of a few of those strings, but since
Substr(:when, 11, 2) just produced an empty string
"", the formula still worked. That's an advantage we'll lose in the next strategy.
Uh-oh! There's a problem in that last row! When I wrote my example time strings, I was thinking of 2011, but our algorithm above assumes that all data are from the current year or earlier, so that date got converted to 1911 instead. My event description needs improvement.
What if the dates are not in a data column?
Suppose the date value strings aren't in a character column of a data table—suppose they're just string values. In that case, we can use the
In Format() function to convert them. The guts of it are still the same, but this time we're parsing a string stored in a global called
mydate instead of rows in a column.
mydate = "100726174324"; mydateNum=Informat( // convert the string to "2010-07-26T17:43:24", // assume dates only in past, within last 100 years If( Substr( mydate, 1, 2 ) > Substr( Char( Year( Today() ) ), 3, 2 ), "19", "20" ) || Substr( mydate, 1, 2 ) || "-" || Substr( mydate, 3, 2 ) || "-" || Substr( mydate, 5, 2 ) || "T" || Substr( mydate, 7, 2 ) || ":" || Substr( mydate, 9, 2 ) || ":" || Substr( mydate, 11, 2 ), "yyyy-mm-ddThh:mm:ss" // or another format );
Running this script returns the numeric value
26Jul2010:17:43:24 and shows that in the log. Notice, however, that when
mydate = "1007281730";, missing the
ss part of the string, it doesn't work, and we get a missing value. Our ugly hand-made parser is actually more forgiving than JMP's
In Format() command. But it's not much better—if we were missing any other part of the string than the part at the end, we'd get mixed-up results.
What pesky date, time, or duration strings have vexed you?
The good folks at JMP keep adding support for more and more date/time/duration formats, but it seems like there's a never-ending supply of crazy formats that analysts encounter. Typically the strings are coming into JMP from other programs and from data-streaming devices, but they might also arrive when peeling data off web pages or dealing with data entry performed by other people.
What are the crazy formats that you've had to crunch into numeric values in JMP?
What are the tricks you've developed for crunching them?
Please share your experiences in the Comments! I'll try to answer any questions you leave there, too.
3 Comments for this entry
Peter Wiebe
August 4th, 2010 on 14:53
Very enjoyable. I am interested to see the regex solution, and I would also like to know if JMP processes it faster.
Michael Hecht
August 11th, 2010 on 12:10
Here's my solution, using Remove From(), which takes a chunk out of a string and returns it. Then I use Eval Insert() to put all the pieces back together the way I want them.
dt = New Table( "tricky times", Add Rows( 4 ), New Column( "event", Character, Nominal, Set Values( {"Erin starts researching Asit's question", "Erin starts this blog post", "Erin wants a beer", "This blog post better be done"} ) ), New Column( "when", Character, Nominal, Set Values( {"100726174324", "100728154315", "1007281730", "110728154315"} ) ), New Column( "time", Format( "yyyy-mm-ddThh:mm:ss" ), Formula( w = :when || "000000000000"; // Add trailing zeroes for short data values // Parse out date components y = Remove From( w, 1, 2 ); m = Remove From( w, 1, 2 ); d = Remove From( w, 1, 2 ); hh = Remove From( w, 1, 2 ); mm = Remove From( w, 1, 2 ); ss = Remove From( w, 1, 2 ); // Expand year to 4 digits using 20 as a cut-off: 20 => 2020, 21 => 1921 y = If( Num( y ) > 20, "19", "20" ) || y; // Combine and return the result Num( Eval Insert( "^y^-^m^-^d^T^hh^:^mm^:^ss^" ) ); ) ) )
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The win really is notable on a few different levels. First, Mark doesn't suck. But beyond that, his portfolio consisted entirely of animated cartoons - a first for a winner and probably the only entry like that. Mark, a former staff cartoonist, is now a go-it-alone freelancer without even a syndicate behind him. He's also what you might call an "altie" in that his humor and visual style seem to be derived from the present day and is not freakishly anachronistic. All in all good news!
Now, my colleague Jen Sorensen believes she had a hand in Mark's win through jinxation. I suppose my Machiavellian ways are so subtle that others can take credit for the win, but I'm here to tell Jen that it is I who created the circumstances for Mark's victory... as this photograph from the AAEC convention proves. For the price of a beer or two, this advice can be yours as well!
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The leaves are falling, the afternoons are getting darker… break out that pumpkin spice latte, because fall is here!
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If you like your apartment at a comfortable 76 degrees, don't have it running at that high temperature all day. Set your thermostat to 68-70 degrees, and adjust it higher when you arrive home. Your heater is more efficient when it runs at a constant temperature, and it takes less time for your room get toasty once you're settling in and lounging in the living room.
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The Box of Crazy
So a friend of mine found this box by the trash, it is full of wonderful, crazy illustrations. Clearly something happened to this guy that was very memorable. It measures roughly 29" by 38" and almost all the drawings are very large.
Click on the first image, and then you can advance through the images by clicking on the right or left side of the image, or by clicking on the thumbnail images below.
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Last night was my first instance run on Delaunay. Or first three I should say. We attacked Sigmar's Crypts and both Warpblade Tunnel dungeons. It's suggested that you go in there with some Lesser Wards of which I had none. Apparently if you know what you're doing you can five-man them both. I think I was just along for the ride as the sixth person and for those rare "uh oh" moments. We had some good times and some great laughs and an almost wipe. Thank you Risn and your shield morale before being clubbed to death (with maybe 20 hit points left?). And thank you Standard resurrection. That's just awesome.
I was excited just to participate. Yeah I was hoping for a piece of gear, but I'm not greedy … often. Turns out, luck was with me. I ended up with 3 Sentinel set pieces. 3! Helm Shoulders Belt
Thanks to Zil, Baror, Jitte, Haymaker, and Risn for waiting until I got home from work to run with you guys. Much love to Ordo Malleus!
After all this I of course had to get it dyed as my ideal color scheme is based off the San Jose Sharks hockey team. I'm not too worried about getting the good dye yet. Then bam! I get the title The Fashionable. Now, I'm all over that since that's pretty much my love away from WAR. Fashion.
So my first adventure into the gear grind isn't quite so grindy as I know it can be. Sigmar's Crypts … how you don't get lost in there I have no clue. I would have wandered in circles forever if I wasn't following the others. Warpblade Tunnels I haven't really made up my mind on but I think I like them. I'm a big instance (dungeon) and raid fan, so I can find good in just about every one of them.
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What is NRPM?
NRPM is spearheaded each year by the National Network for Youth (NN4Y) and National Runaway Safeline (NRS). The goals of NRPM are:
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Why Support NRPM?
Between 1.6 and 2.8 million youth run away in a year. If all of these young people lived in one city, it would be the fifth largest city in the United States. These numbers are unacceptable, particularly when you consider the fact that many of these young people will end up on the streets. These are not bad kids; they are good kids in bad situations. By supporting NRPM, you are showing America's runaway and homeless youth that they are not invisible and they are not alone.
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The theme of NRPM 2017 is "Friends Helping Friends." A friend is there to support, listen and care. They can come in the form of teachers, mentors, peers, or even family members. The National Runaway Safeline is here 24/7 to be a friend and support for youth in crisis. This theme is designed to recognize the role key people play in the lives of at-risk youth. Our goal is to unite all communities together to help support youth as they navigate their world.
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Over the years, members of Congress have taken steps to commemorate National Runaway Prevention Month (NRPM); supporting and recognizing its goals and ideals by introducing both House and Senate Resolutions. Proud sponsors of NRPM resolutions have included Rep. Judy Biggert (R-IL), Rep. Ruben Hinojosa (D-TX), Rep. Jon Porter (R-NV), Rep. Steve Israel (D-NY), Sen. Patty Murray (D-WA), Sen. Susan Collins (R- ME), Sen. Orrin Hatch (R- UT), Sen. Richard Shelby (R-AL) and Sen. Blanche Lincoln (D-AK).
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Map of Darah-ye Saray Velayat Ghowr, Afghanistan
Other Names: Darah-ye Saray,Darah-ye Sarāy,Darrahe Saray,Darreh-ye Saray,Darreh-ye Sarāy,درۀ سرای,Ḏaṟṟahe Saṟāy, Darah-ye Sarāy
Darah-ye Saray
Welcome to the Darah-ye Saray google satellite map! This intermittent stream is situated in Velayat Ghowr, Afghanistan. Original name (with diacritics) of the place is Darah-ye Sarāy. See Darah-ye Saray photos and images from satellite below, explore the aerial photographs of Darah-ye Sarāy area. This placemark was added 1994-03-22.
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- Country: Afghanistan
- Province: Velayat Ghowr
- Category: intermittent stream
- Altitude: 0 m
- Population: 0
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- Local Time: 19:42
- Sunrise: 05:57
- Sunset: 18:02
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