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By Lt. Col. Vanessa Saks, Headquarters Air Force Junior ROTC
/ Published October 25, 2019
Todd Taylor (second from left), chief of Program Development, Air Force Junior ROTC, participated in a panel discussion about how the partnership between CSforAll and AFJROTC would benefit cadets and high school students. Leaders representing CSforALL and AFJROTC announced JROTC-CS, an innovative new initiative that could dramatically increase the number of U.S. high school students taking an advanced placement computer science course, particularly among underrepresented populations like minority and female students. The panel was held during the 2019 CSforALL Summit in Salt Lake City, Oct. 21-23, 2019. (Courtesy photo)
Air Force Junior ROTC cadets from Utah Military Academy, Riverdale, Utah, were on hand for the 2019 CSforAll Summit in Salt Lake City, Oct. 21-23, 2019. At the summit, Air Force Junior ROTC and CSforAll announced a partnership on a pilot program to grow and diversify the technology workforce in computer science and cyber education. Through the partnership, students in grades K-12 will be able achieve computer science literacy as an integral part of their educational experience both in and out of school. (Courtesy photo)
Air Force Junior ROTC and CSforAll have teamed up on a pilot program to grow and diversify the technology workforce in computer science and cyber education.
The program is designed to increase Air Force Junior ROTC cadet participation in college preparatory computer science and cybersecurity programs, improve the diversity and size of the national technical talent pool and increase access to computer science and cyber security in U.S. high schools.
"The CSforALL mission is to ensure all students have access to rigorous preparation for the technical jobs of the future," Said Ruthe Farmer, chief evangelist at CSforALL. "This innovative collaboration brings together the extensive Air Force Junior ROTC network of dedicated instructors and cadets with CSforALL's national community of computer science education experts. We are excited to work together to create a model to provide evidence-based computer science and cybersecurity education for all JROTC students nationwide and their schools."
CSforAll is the national hub for the computer science movement that works to enable all students in grades K-12 to achieve computer science literacy as an integral part of their educational experience both in and out of school. CSforALL draws upon the expertise and resources of their membership of more than 500 content providers, education associations, non-profits, researchers and industry supporters to build the capacity of the high schools to provide rigorous, inclusive and sustainable computer science education for all students.
"The initial collaboration will include about 30 high schools that have Air Force Junior ROTC units," said Todd Taylor, chief of Program Development, Air Force Junior ROTC. "We hope to develop a successful model to expand across all of our units and our sister services in the near future."
The program will start off when cadets are freshmen, introducing them to cyber education by participating in the Air Force Association's CyberPatriot, a national competition that puts student teams in the position of newly hired IT professionals tasked with managing the network of a small company. Cadets also get an opportunity to participate in summer CyberCamps, with hands-on learning of cybersecurity principles that are relevant and applicable to everyday life.
In their sophomore year, students are encouraged to enroll in the newly established computer science courses. Although school districts vary across the country, this course would potentially count toward a student's core math or science requirements.
Successfully completing the freshman and sophomore pre-requisites, students would be eligible to apply for an Air Force Junior ROTC Cyber Summer Scholarship. The summer program would be mirrored on the Air Force Junior ROTC Flight Academy Scholarship and would most likely be several weeks on a university campus, provide college credit and end with a capstone event outside the classroom.
The Air Force JROTC Flight Academy, Chief of Staff Private Pilot Scholarship program, is an approximately eight-week summer aviation training program conducted at partnering universities nationwide. Upon successful completion of the program, students are awarded a private pilot's certification. The Flight Academy is intended to inspire and encourage high school youth toward aviation careers.
Though the classes will be open to all high school students, the Cyber Summer Scholarship will only be awarded to cadets enrolled in the JROTC program.
"The scholarship is really the icing on the cake, which incentivizes interested cadets along the cyber pathway," said Farmer. "We at CSforALL are excited about the impact this initiative will have for the youth of the United States. Beyond bringing JROTC cadets into technology career pathways, this initiative has the potential to provide access to advance placement computer science for an additional 2.6 million students that attend JROTC high schools."
This initiative is funded by the JROTC-CS Advisory Consortium of education organizations and industry partners. Confirmed partners in addition to Air Force Junior ROTC and CSforALL are Intel Corporation, Microsoft, Capital One, Lockheed Martin, Snap Inc., the Air Force Association's CyberPatriot and the College Board.
The mission of Air Force Junior ROTC is to develop citizens of character dedicated to serving their nation and community, while instilling values of citizenship, service to the United States, personal responsibility and sense of accomplishment. There are more than 125,000 high school students enrolled in Air Force Junior ROTC at more than 880 high schools in the U.S and overseas.
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Before the Suez Canal opened in 1869, you had to work exceedingly hard to get from London to Bombay. You began by hopping onto a leaky, damp, smelly and crowded wooden ship with no T.V, laundry service, showers or GPS navigation. Fortunately, what your ship lacked for in amenities, it made up for by being armed to the teeth with fearsome cannons and ferocious rats, the latter more feared than the former. Your ship sailed south at walking pace, nudged along by capricious winds past the coasts of France, Portugal and Spain until it arrived at the African continent. You then followed the Western coastline of the Africa, sailing the entire length of the Atlantic Ocean all the way to the Cape of Good Hope! You lived on salted beef, pork and rock hard bread called 'biscuit', drank gallons of rum and occasionally some lime juice, which kept your teeth from falling out. You held your head up high, aided by your very stiff collar and the stick inserted into your posterior at birth, and you slept in a box sized room if you were rich or in hammocks stacked 3 deep if you were poor. You admired the scenery, which tended to be monotonous, read your Bible, which tended to oppressive, and consoled yourself with dreams of civilizing the natives and making your fortune – when you weren't drunk (those who weren't were marginally insane or religious, which is often equivalent). After weeks of this stuff and choking back the vomit from sea sickness, you began to hope that traversing the length of an entire continent by boat may perhaps be enough. But you were wrong. For when you rounded the Cape of Good Hope, your journey was only half done.
You then sailed, still at walking pace, back up the coast of Africa, albeit along the Eastern coast and over a whole new ocean, the Indian. These variations in geography, along with a goodly supply of fresh sea breeze and rum, kept you from throwing yourself overboard and ending it all (unless of course you fell or were pushed by your shipmates). You persisted with the salt pork and biscuit, now fortified with worm, weevil and rat feces, which made for a welcome and flavorful change. By now, you smelt a whole lot worse than both the food and the ship, but that was of little concern as so did everyone else. Oddly however, you never stopped to catch a few fresh fish or put in to a port to purchase some cabbages. Or take a bath. Eventually, you cut your way across the Arabian Sea and alighted at the Gateway to your Empire, where the humidity was 100%, the sun fiery and your dress of wool coat, tie and 3 layers of underwear unaltered. You alighted if you were lucky. The truly blessed survived their ordeal with a semblance of immune system intact. The rest were drowned, smashed to bits by storms, eaten by sharks, sunk by pirates, boarded by the French and Dutch raiders, poisoned by putrid meat or had their entrails shredded by fetid water. After months in perdition, it is not surprising that you took to the subsequent tasks of conquer and rule, trade and convert, with gusto.
There were other routes to the Orient of course. You could have taken the road for one. That is, if you could have talked the French, the Italians, the Austro-Hungarians, the Greeks, the Ottomans, the Arabs, the Persians and hundreds of tribes, chieftains and bandits into letting you pass through their territories unscathed. You might have got away with it if you were a civilian or merchant, but governments, however corrupt, were unwilling to permit the functionaries of a foreign power through. And never mind the deserts, rivers, plateaus, ravines, 20,000 foot mountains and wild animals that you would also have to negotiate. Even today, it would take you months just to sort out all the visa problems, let alone the bus connections and stomach bugs. But if you could somehow have traveled without undue interruption, you would have made it to Bombay in half the time it took by sea, and in substantially better health, if you didn't have your head cut off before you got there. Not that the route was new or unused – merchants had carried black pepper, silk and countless other products over these hazards for centuries. But the cost of goods sold increased with each border crossed and reduced the profits, still fat, to be had. And with Ottomans inconsiderately parked in Constantinople, you were better off in a damp ship, because it was at least your own, and assuming your cannon could outshoot the other fellow's, untaxed from start to finish.
There was a third option. You could have taken a ship to through the Mediterranean to Cairo, journeyed overland over Egypt to the Red Sea, and caught a ship on the other side. Much faster than going via the Cape of Good Hope and virtually no borders to cross – if you could work out the logistics. But if you could, or if your ship could magically get from the Mediterranean to the Red Sea, which in places wasn't really far away, only 75 miles or so at its narrowest, you could cut your travel time in a third and triple your profits! For even more galling than the eternity it took for your soldiers, administrators and preachers to get to their posts was the eternity it took for your pepper and cotton to get from Madras to London and your manufactures from Manchester to Calcutta!
Finally, there was a fourth option. You could have chosen to stay at home and perhaps spared the world the travails of your imperialism. But that is a discussion for another time.
The Suez Canal, when it opened in 1869, was hence, a very big deal.
With the coming of the Canal, a ship with a shallow enough draft (the canal was a mere 28 feet deep when it first opened), could get you to India in a month! You still had to deal with the food and the rats, but at least you went without a bath for only four weeks. And to be fair, by 1869, steam power was also on its way in, salt beef on its way out. Things could only get better for you and did, with the exception of that appalling invention, the necktie, which has remained, and you were forced to wear, in 100 degree weather, no less!

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Murder and manslaughter and provocation
Thursday, July 09 2009
Hannah asked me yesterday what first degree murder was, and I explained that it was US legal terminology that doesn't apply here, where we do things differently and have murder and manslaughter. Both murder and manslaughter are unlawful killing. (Yes, there's lawful killing: for example, soldiers following a lawful order). Murder is distinguished by intent to kill.
We then began to talk about a case that's getting a lot of publicity at the moment, and in discussing it I realised something.
At first I felt that the defence line was frankly scummy, and I thought to myself "he must have given them instructions which they are forced to act on." Now I think it's a bit more complicated than that.
Insanity is a difficult defence to run. In New Zealand, as far as I know, we still follow the M'Naghten rules, which require the defence to show that the defendant suffered from a mental disease that meant they didn't know what they were doing, or didn't understand that it was legally wrong. This is a tall order, and why we usually only see it succeed for people who hear God telling them to do it or were in some sort of fugue state. If you have a severe personality disorder, you may well be mad as a meataxe by anyone's estimation, yet you will still know the nature and quality of the act.
But anyway, I think this explains why we are hearing about narcissistic personality disorder, and why we are seeing a defence of provocation which seems ludicrous to the casual observer. What they are trying to do is effectively get their man a reduced sentence for being a nutjob without actually pleading insanity. They're going to say "sure, a normal person shouldn't have been provoked, but our man here isn't normal."
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Nocturia is the Medical term used to describe excessive urination during the Night, and it's different from Enuresis [Bedwetting], where urine is passed unintentionally during sleep. When you sleep at Night, your body produces less urine that is more concentrated. This means that most people don't need to wake up during the night to urinate and can sleep uninterrupted for six to eight hours.
There are various causes of urinary frequency. More often, this is caused by a problem in the bladder and urethra. The major causes of nocturia can be choice of lifestyle to medical conditions. Nocturia is commonly found among older adults, but it can occur at any age.
Below are 6 reasons why people urinate more frequently at night.
1. Medical Condition
Medical condition can cause nocturia. This is one of the major common causes of nocturia. It is a Urinary Tract Infection [UTI] or bladder infection. These infections cause frequent burning sensations and urgent urination throughout the day and night, and treatment usually requires antibiotics.
2. Overactive Bladder
Sometimes, when your bladder is overactive, it tends to make you urinate more than eight times a day due to sudden urge to urinate even when the bladder is not full.
3. Enlarged Prostate
Enlarged prostate is usually caused when the prostate is pressing on the urethra, which prevents the bladder from emptying completely. However, if you urinate frequently during night time only, then it can be caused by other problems.
4. Diabetes
Having high blood glucose levels can cause the body to excrete excess glucose via the urine. In this instance, more sugar appears in the urine and simulates extra volumes of urine to be produced.
If you regularly have high blood glucose levels, you may increase the risk of picking up a urinary tract infection which can also increase the need to urinate through the night.
5. Sign of Heart disease
When you have a heart disease, urinating so much at night can also be a cause. Frequent urination at night is a sign of heart disease! Usually at night while you sleep, your brain produces anti-diuretic hormones to limit the formation of urine by kidneys so you can get a good night sleep. However, for some people, this is not the case, and the amount of urine still increases at night.
6. What you drink
It could be. If you drink too close to bedtime, you may need to get up in the night. Try drinking less several hours before you go to sleep. Alcohol may help you fall asleep, but tends to wake you up in the night. So don't drink in the evening. Limit alcohol or caffeine later in the day, and make sure you visit the toilet last thing at night.
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Elio Updates: Will We Ever See a Production Vehicle?
In 2009, a man named Paul Elio decided that the automotive industry needed an efficient and affordable vehicle for city drivers who didn't need a full-size vehicle for their lifestyles. With that in mind, he designed a seriously weird yet cool vehicle and started taking deposits from future customers. From there, Elio Motors announced an initial production date of fall 2015, and fans started counting down the days until they could drive their own.
But then, Elio pushed the production date back a few times and people started asking questions. When would the Elio actually go into production? Would it go into production at all? Had people just thrown their deposit money (ranging from $100 to $1,000) away?
Looking for Answers
If you visit Elio's website, you wouldn't think anything was wrong. You can still pay to reserve your vehicle (in fact, at the time of writing, Elio claimed that it had received 65,341 reservations). The website still lists the targeted MSRP of $7,450 and estimated fuel economy of 84 mpg. But there's no mention of the fact that the company is still looking for funding, nor that it recently filed a proposed public offering to the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). In this proposal, Elio pushed the expected production date back yet again, to 2019—a full 10 years after Paul Elio initially founded the company.
There's also no word on the fact that the state of Louisiana fined Elio Motors $545,000 back in July. Elio's production facility is located within a former GM plant in Shreveport, Louisiana. The state claims that Elio needs a manufacturer license in order to receive deposits on its vehicles but—you guessed it—Elio doesn't have one. Jalopnik reported in mid-July that Elio will appeal Louisiana's decision, though there haven't been any updates since then.
A Community Disappointed
Back when Elio claimed a 2015 production date, the company stated that it would bring 1,500 jobs to Shreveport, which lost thousands of jobs when the GM facility closed its doors in 2012. Now, it's looking unlikely that Elio will bring one job, let alone 1,500. A report by local ABC affiliate KTBS goes into detail about the money Elio currently owes—the station reached out to Elio Motors for comment but received no response.
No matter how excited you were about Elio in years past, you have to admit that the chances these vehicles will actually make it to production are pretty slim.
News Sources: SEC.gov, Jalopnik, KTBS
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Throughout my years of growing up and education, I never pictured myself becoming a teacher. I didn't think I had the right qualities. But this past year, I had an epiphany. I recognized my love for yoga deepen during a tough time in my life…and this inspiration was enough to lead me to the teacher training program in San Diego. With each workshop, class observation, class participation, I delve deeper into my inner self and my confidence to share this passion grows substantially.
I've found that it starts with baby steps. Teaching aloud as I do my home practice. Practice teaching with my fellow students and my mentor. Even visualizing myself teaching without actually saying anything aloud. These small scale practice teaches build a foundation of confidence that will help prepare me for my first full class (teacher training final) which I'll teach on December 7th. I've also found myself offering some informal advice to friends and family with physical ailments…e.g. exercises to help strengthen the muscles around the knee or ankle joints. These small words of wisdom that I've learned through teacher training are already resonating within me, and I'm already sharing that wisdom with others.
So, it's not really the question of "how" I can teach today. I've already explored methods without even realizing.
It's the question of: what more can I do to inspire others? And that evolves each and every day 🙂


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Marcel Baaijens (MSc, M.A.A.E., LVB Cert.) is a professional dance teacher, choreographer, art educator, researcher, documentary maker, designer, and artist. He has over 30 years of international experience in dance and art education. He is a Dutch-New Zealander, who works globally.
created sitdance
He was born in The Netherlands in where he studied architecture at the Technical University of Delft (MSc) and trained as an 'international folk dance' teacher with the Landelijk Centrum Volksdans (LVB Cert.) in Amsterdam.
He moved to New Zealand in 1988 where he began working in the community dance sector. In the same year he created sitdance. He has worked with community groups, dance schools, the New Zealand School of Dance, disability groups and the aged care sector. In 2015 he moved to Australia where he produced new Sitdance programmes, and now lives in Enkhuizen, The Netherlands.
trained aged care professionals nation-wide
He introduced sitdance to the rest homes in the Wellington area and trained aged care professionals nation-wide to enable them to implement sitdance independently. Later he studied art education at The School of the Art Institute in Chicago (M.A.A.E.).
He specialised in working with artists with intellectual disabilities and autism. He pioneered art programmes for people with intellectual disabilities in Chicago, U.S.A and Wellington New Zealand at community and tertiary levels. He conducted research into an inclusive tertiary art education methodology and pioneered the first fully inclusive tertiary art education programme in the world.
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He now dedicates himself full-time to sitdance, developing new sitdances, DVD resources, and training.


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An indicator of fluctuations. For example, the S&P 500 is a barometer for stock market movements. Likewise, long-term interest rates are a barometer of inflationary expectations.


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Moving – Migrating WordPress
This information is intended to be supplemental to the official guide to Moving WordPress on the WordPress.org website.
In my professional opinion this is the best way to do it so that you do not loose data or have complications. Also if you can, you should not do a domain name transfer until the new site is working perfectly. You may not be able to do this depending on your situation, but this would allow you to have your existing site as a reference until your new site is working perfectly.
Install the WP-DBManager plugin – make a backup of your current website DB on DreamHost.
Download that DB backup to your computer DB backups are stored in this folder /wp-content/backup-db
Install a clean installation of WordPress on GoDaddy
Install the WP-DBManager plugin on your GoDaddy WordPress site
Upload your backed up DB to your new WordPress site to the /wp-content/backup-db folder
Click on the Manage Backup DB option under WP-DBManager Click Restore to copy your old DB to your new DB
You may need to do some nick knacks stuff to get everything perfect, but by restoring your old DB to your new DB you are effectively transferring all of your old site to your new site – settings, posts, data, etc etc.
You will need to manually download your image files. Uploaded images are not stored in the SQL DB. They are stored in the /wp-content/uploads folder by default. Then you will need to upload your images to your new WordPress website's /wp-content/uploads folder. The image linking information for your images is contained in the DB so the links in your posts to those images will be restored when you do the DB restore. And finally you will either want to download and upload all of your plugins or reinstall them on the new site. And download and upload your Theme or reinstall it. Good luck.
Make a checklist of all your WordPress core code customizations you've done outside of your Themes folder (root, wp-content, wp-includes, wp-admin)
Use the same WordPress username and password from your old WordPress website when you are installing the new WordPress installation
Get the full root path for your website from your new web host control panel. You will need this path later when you are configuring WP-DBManager. It will look something like these:
/home/content/14/89357289/html/ or something like this /vbt/w004/d33/s38/b45698nn/www/
Your webhost path will be different and may not look like either of these example website host root paths.
On your new website host create the folder for your website and install WordPress in that folder. If you just have one website you can just install WordPress in the root folder. You could always just copy your entire WordPress site from your old website host to your new website host, but this method means that you will have to manually create your SQL DB for Wordpess on your new host. When installing WordPress on your new website host you not only get an SQL DB created for you, but this also means you will not need to copy the core WordPress files and folders over to the new host.
If you only have a single WordPress website to migrate to your new website host you should probably install the website at the root. If you have multiple websites on a single host account you should use this naming convention for your folders for all your websites. This is the best naming convention anyway for all the right reasons, but primarily for DNS. You could add the www prefix to the folder name, but I do not recommend it.
A folder name example = mywebsite1.com
Another folder name example = mywebsite2.com
Create an FTP account on your new host so you can upload your downloaded WordPress files from your old web host.
WordPress Preparation on your old web host server
If you have a WordPress cache plugin disable it and delete the cached files. This is not necessary, but probably a good idea just in case there is a problem.
I recommend that you install the WP-DBManager WordPress plugin if you do not have it installed already. It will make your whole WordPress migration easy, fast simple. If you have another DB backup plugin then do the similar steps for your plugin to backup your SQL DB.
– DB backups are stored in /wp-content/backup-db. You will be uploading the backups to the new host later.
– Download your latest backup or as many backups as you want to keep to your local computer.
– You can also export your old WP SQL DB from MySQL PHPadmin just in case. I have had problems with importing SQL DB export .sql files from one host to another via PHPmyadmin. When you restore a database backup with WP DBManager this should correct any problems with your SQL DB..
Downloading your WordPress files from your old website host
Download all of your plugin folders to your computer. You may have to reconfigure some of them with the new web host server path. That is why you hopefully made a checklist first.
Download your WordPress Theme folder – if you want more themes or all of the current themes you have installed then you can download them too.
Download any Google, Yahoo and Bing sitemap verification files in the root.
You do not need to download your XML sitemap – you will be rebuilding it on your new host. Download your uploaded image and other files in your WordPress uploads folder – /wp-content/uploads
Uploading your WordPress files to your new website host
Upload your entire plugin folder
Upload your DB backups
Upload your Theme
Upload Google, Yahoo and Bing sitemap verifications files to the root folder.
DNS change over this is only for websites that are being moved from one paid web host to another paid web host. If you had a free host or WordPress.com as your host you don't have any DNS settings to change.
Change your DNS information on your old website host or registrar to point to your new hosts name servers. The change sometimes occurs in minutes and sometimes takes longer, but it is usually under 30 minutes. Do Ping commands or close and reopen your browser to see exactly when your site is viewable on your new host. You will see the default or classic WordPress theme when the DNS change has occurred – don't panic that's what you are supposed to see until you restore you WordPress SQL DB.
Reactivate WP-DBManager first and restore your last backed up database. Click your Database panel (it is located in your left panels at the bottom), click Manage Backup DB, select the backup you want to restore, click Restore.
This updates the SQL DB on your new host with your latest backup from your old host SQL DB. You will need to add your old .htaccess file to the backup-db folder or you will see this error message: "Your backup folder MIGHT be visible to the public".
CAUTION: the .htaccess used file for the WP-DBManager plugin is different than your root .httaccess file and is located in this folder >>> /backup-db folder .
This is what you should be in your WP-DBManager .htaccess file.
<Files ~ ".*\..*">
order allow,deny
deny from all
Configure WP-DBManager WordPress Plugin
Under your Database Panel click on DB Options. You may get kicked out of your WordPress admin Dashboard. Log back into WordPress. If you logged back in successfully skip down to Back to configuring WP-DBManager.
If you run into problems logging back in if you were using Theme My Login plugin.
If you are using theme my login rename the Theme My Login plugin folder if you have problems logging into your WordPress website. You will need to use the default WordPress login for now. http://www.yourdomainname.com/wp-admin/admin.php use the password reset to send yourself a new password or you can change it in your new WordPress SQL DB if you want.
This WP Login works only if you rename the TML plugin folder http://www.yourdomainname.com/wp-login.php
This link should now get you to your Dashboard http://www.yourdomainname.com/wp-admin/
Back to configuring WP-DBManager
Click on DB Options under your Database Panel again
For Path To mysqldump: just click the auto detect button
For Path To mysql: just click the auto detect button
For Path To Backup
You will need to correct the path for your backup location – you will see your old host website root folder path. You need to enter the new host server root path to your db-backup folder. This is just an example do not use this path: /home/content/14/89357289/html/wp-content/backup-db. Click the Save button. Now to make sure everything is good click on your Dashboard panel button and then click back on Database sub panel.
Click on your Plugins sub panel. If your plugins are not activated then activate all of them now.
Check your website appearance – it should look exactly as it looked on your old host.
You should be using a WordPress SEO plugin. Check that SEO plugin to make sure everything looks correct.
You should also be using an XML Sitemap You will need to manually rebuild your XML sitemap.
Important! If you have multiple WordPress installations in separate folders be careful that your .htaccess files have the correct information. If you use custom Permalinks (every WordPress website should be using custom permalinks) then generate an .htaccess file using update and then add any additional rules you want. The WordPress default .htaccess rules are shown below.
This is what an .htaccess file will look like if your WordPress installation is in the root folder. Notice the RewriteBase is the root / and the RewriteRule is /index.php
# BEGIN WordPress
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule . /index.php [L]
# END WordPress
This is what an .htaccess file will look like if your WordPress installation is in a folder called myblog. Notice the RewriteBase is the folder /myblog/ and the RewriteRule is /myblog/index.php
# BEGIN WordPress
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /myblog/
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule . /myblog/index.php [L]
# END WordPress
That's it your all done.


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Evenko & Mind and Life Institute, July 25, 2017 - The Office of His Holiness the Dalai Lama has announced, with deep regret, that his public address, "Compassion, Ethics and Happiness" at the Bell Centre in Montreal on 20 October 2017 has been cancelled.
Despite his overall good health, given his age, the long travel from India to North America is extremely tiresome and taxing on his body. Having just completed a visit to North America in June, his physicians have advised that undertaking another trip to North America in October would be too much for him.
We share your disappointment and are truly sorry for the difficulties that this cancellation may cause for you.
Please note that ticket holders will receive reimbursement at point of purchase.


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My eyes are hurting. I took up the book at 7 a.m. on Sunday morning and was compelled to put it down when Amit told me it was midnight on Sunday night. I'd begun the book a couple of days earlier, I don't recall exactly when. It would not be incorrect to say that the days have passed in a blur since then, with all time not spent with the book being spent waiting to get back to the book. Husband and kids have been given short shrift.
It's a long, long time since a book had me hooked this way. To put it another way, this is probably one of the best – if not the best – action-thriller books I have ever read. Not that I've read much of this genre in recent years, but there was a time 20-something years ago when I read them faster than they were churned out. In those days, I was very well acquainted with the works of Robert Ludlum, Frederick Forsyth and the rest of their ilk. I recently read and complained at great length about Frederick Forsyth's recent attempt to write a book – The Cobra. At that time, I was wondering if I'd forgotten what this genre was like, or if I was wrong to have a completely different level of expectation from what The Cobra provided. This book proves that I wasn't wrong and I hadn't forgotten.
It has everything that Cobra doesn't. It draws you in quickly. It has a vastly complicated plot with many different aspects, but all the threads are drawn together and tightened and then unraveled in an absolutely masterful way. There are as many or possibly even more characters than in Cobra, but the key characters are well defined and even some of the bit-part players are more memorable and human than the key characters of Cobra. You know, as you read the book, that each character was a person to the author – with a complete history, context, and three-dimensional personality, only a fraction of which is actually specified in the writing. That's something completely lacking in Cobra – each character was just a pawn on a chessboard in an immensely boring and low-skill version of the game.
The book has an incredible pace – 740-odd pages of non-stop – not action, but development. All the time, there's something going on. There's never a dull moment, never a pause. You get to see a piece of everybody's picture, so that often you know things that another actor in the plot doesn't know. It makes you wonder how on earth the author managed to keep it all straight in his mind and get it down on paper without stumbling all over the hundred tangled threads of the plot. What's more, each change in perspective, each shift in scene or setting, is done smoothly, flawlessly. Despite the number of people and perspectives, the reader is rarely confused.
One of the things I found fascinating was the ethical norms implicit in the book. There are the bad guys who should have been the good guys (and thought of themselves as such but kind of got carried away). There are the good guys who are law-enforcement guys and tread very, very carefully, always considering which laws they are over-stepping and why and by how much. There are the good rogue guys – the journalists, who play by completely different rules from the law-enforcement guys, twist and bend a lot of laws, but still attempt to be largely ethical. And then there's the victim – victimized, vengeful, violent, and not afraid to break any law that comes in her way.
I've never read a book with so many women in it, many of them in quite significant roles both in the plot and in their society. And so much openness about matters sexual. There's no explicit sex scene, but sex is treated in such a matter-of-fact way that for me it was completely surprising. Very early in the book, there's reference to a man and his partner – his male partner – which is mentioned so casually I actually had to rub my eyes and check that both people were male. (Their names are confusing.) Later on, a woman takes our hero to bed in a very brazen way (multiple times, I might add) and another woman seems to have an interesting marriage which not only has involved a threesome at least once, but also allows the woman to have a lover on the side that her husband knows and doesn't bother about. Then our victim, who is not at all the passive, helpless kind, propositions a man on one occasion and a woman on another. The man accepts, the woman doesn't, and both of them are only slightly taken aback by it. All this is very strange not just to my not-very-conservative Indian way of thinking, but also in the context of so many other books mostly by American authors, where sex is usually not such an extremely casual matter. One thing that does come out, because of this or regardless of it, is the position of equality and strength of women. It is tempting to say that this is reflective of Swedish society, but, who knows, it might just be this particular author, or this particular work of fiction.
The conversation in the book is fun. A lot of it is very terse and snappy and some parts are breathtakingly rude. Again, I don't know whether this is reflective of Swedish society in general, or just the way people in this particular book talk. Either way, it was enjoyable and subtly added another dimension of racy action to the book.
Unfortunately, without realising it, I picked the third in a set of three books – because this was the title I'd heard most about. I am sure I'm going to read the first two books in the series as well – but I'd better not do it right away or my family will disown me (not that I'd notice it). My greatest regret is that the author, Steig Larsson, unfortunately died unexpectedly after having completed only 3 books – apparently, he intended a series of 10. What a tragedy. But, when they turn this into a movie, as I'm sure they will sooner or later, I'll be standing in line.


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It was an ordinary day at the job. I was running reports, checking emails and checking my Facebook account for the umpteenth time that afternoon. "Ooh, a new friend request," I thought. But when that window popped up and I saw my elementary school bully, Sabrina Jefferson (name changed to protect the guilty), I screeched, "Oh no, The Gooch!"
Sabrina terrorized me from 4th grade until the beginning of 6th grade. The weird thing is that she didn't just bully me; she bullied me and five other girls. How could one wavy hair girl have had that much control over a group of cute, outgoing and smart young girls? She would roll her eyes, boss us around and tease us relentlessly.
I remember sneaking to the candy store in the mornings before school to buy her Now and Later candy. I never knew what to expect from day to day. I was constantly anxious. If Sabrina decided she didn't want to be my friend one day, she would tell all the other girls not to talk to me. And they listened. I listened too, on the days she decided to pick on someone else. While I don't remember her hitting me (she did have a helluva pinch though), my friend recalls her sticking a pencil shaped sharpener into her hand in the girls' bathroom.
No one wanted to deal with the abuse, so Sabrina was always picked first in kickball (think Norbit), won all the dance contests, got invited to all the slumber parties and any boy that she had a crush on was off limits. Why it took two years for the six of us to rally together and perform a coup d'état is beyond me. But we did.
It all started when Samantha (name not changed to applaud the brave) arrived to the school in fifth grade. She never understood why everyone was so scared of Sabrina. "I can remember playing Double Dutch and [Sabrina] always got to jump first, even if she came out late for recess," she recollects. Samantha played along with the insanity for a while, but one day after Sabrina yelled at another friend, Samantha "cursed" her out, yelling that she wasn't afraid of Sabrina and threatening to beat her up. Sabrina recoiled and backed out of the fight. The six of us sat in that classroom with our mouths open. Did someone just stand up to Sabrina and live to tell the story? Maybe Sabrina wasn't so tough after all. From that day, things changed. And Samantha will always be remembered as my modern day Harriet Tubman.
Lakeia Brown is a freelance writer and New York native who recently moved from an overpriced, tiny studio in Queens to a spacious home in Atlanta.


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We'll be posting a ton of content from our set visit to Marvel's Captain America: The Winter Soldier later today, but for now, you can check out a three-minute scene from the sequel before it hits theaters next month. This clip features lots of action from Cap himself (Chris Evans), alongside Black Widow (Scarlett Johansson) and Crossbones (Frank Grillo), as they attempt to apprehend Batroc the Leaper (Georges St-Pierre). It's a great look at the action, humor, and tone of the film, and I just can't wait to see the rest of it!
Also starring Samuel L. Jackson, Robert Redford, Hayley Atwell, Toby Jones, Emily VanCamp, and Maximiliano Hernández, Captain America: The Winter Soldier will open in 2D, 3D, and IMAX 3D on April 4th. Hit the jump to check out the scene.
Watch the scene from Captain America: The Winter Soldier below (via Fandango):
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Official synopsis:
After the cataclysmic events in New York with The Avengers, Marvel's "Captain America: The Winter Soldier" finds Steve Rogers, a.k.a. Captain America, living quietly in Washington, D.C. and trying to adjust to the modern world. But when a S.H.I.E.L.D. colleague comes under attack, Steve becomes embroiled in a web of intrigue that threatens to put the world at risk. Joining forces with the Black Widow, Captain America struggles to expose the ever-widening conspiracy while fighting off professional assassins sent to silence him at every turn. When the full scope of the villainous plot is revealed, Captain America and the Black Widow enlist the help of a new ally, the Falcon. However, they soon find themselves up against an unexpected and formidable enemy—the Winter Soldier.


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Hi, I would like to thanks in advance for someone who help me.
The raw data on my excel file is a list of pilots taking different training courses. I would like to filter in terms of the name of each course (column F - Description), and copy the filtered data to new sheet. Then rename the new sheet created based on the name of the course.
So, if there are 15 courses, there will be 15 new sheets created.
The course number may be increased or decreased in the future.
Is there anyway for a macro to do that?
Here is the sample data
Col1 Col 2 Col3 Col4 Col5 Col6 Col7 Col8
XXX XX 100 XXX XXX Abc XXX XXX
XXX XX 100 XXX XXX Abc XXX XXX
XXX XX 100 XXX XXX Def XXX XXX
XXX XX 100 XXX XXX Gih XXX XXX
Here is a macro which will create new worksheets for each course and will copy the relevant records to the appropriate Course worksheet.
The macro starts with a pop-up asking if you want to run this to just add new data, or to re-run the whole thing from the start - appropriate if you have updated source data that has already been copied to individual course worksheets.
The macro identifies course worksheets by using the word "Course" and adding the text from column F to it.
The Word "Course" allows the macro to identify worksheets that contain Course data.
When the macro has run, it puts the word "Copied" at the end of the data that has been copied.
Add new data to rows following "Copied"
When the data is updated, the word "Copied" will automatically be moved to the end of the data.
I suggest that this macro is attached to a button embedded on the worksheet containing your source data.
You haven't said what version of Excel you use, so I have included instructions for Excel 2003.
Excel 2007 or later is slightly different, in terms of adding the button, and the name of the button inside Visual Basic.
If you have Excel 2007 or Excel 2010 and need more help, please ask.
(Note: VB macros don't work in Excel 2008 for Mac)
On the source data Worksheet, create a command button from the Control Toolbox toolbar.
(If this isn't visible, right click on an existing toolbar and check the Control Toolbox).
Select the button Icon and draw a button
Right-click the button and select Command Button - Edit and change the name to 'Transfer' or something appropriate.
Right-click the button again and select View Code
In the code window that opens enter this:Option Explicit Private Sub CommandButton1_Click() Dim strResp As String Dim wksEach As Worksheet Dim strThisWks As String Dim rngStart As Range Dim rngEnd As Range Dim rngCell As Range Dim strCourse As String Dim rngSearch As Range Dim rngFind As Range On Error GoTo ErrHnd 'ask if this is a regular Add data or a full Update strResp = MsgBox("Click 'Yes' to add new data to existing data" & vbCrLf _ & "Click 'No' to update all data" & vbCrLf _ & "Click 'Cancel' to quit without any update", vbYesNoCancel, _ "Add new data or Update all data") 'stop screen updating to increase speed Application.ScreenUpdating = False 'save the name of this worksheet strThisWks = ActiveSheet.Name 'select options 'if Cancel - quit macro If strResp = vbCancel Then Exit Sub 'if No then delete all 'Course' worksheets If strResp = vbNo Then 'loop through all worksheets For Each wksEach In ActiveWorkbook.Worksheets() 'test name - not this sheet & must start with "Course" If wksEach.Name <> strThisWks And _ Left(wksEach.Name, 6) = "Course" Then 'name meets criteria - so delete it - without warning Application.DisplayAlerts = False wksEach.Delete Application.DisplayAlerts = True End If Next wksEach 'delete row containing 'Copied' (if any) With Worksheets(strThisWks) Set rngSearch = Range("A2:A" & CStr(Application.Rows.Count)) Set rngFind = rngSearch.Find("Copied", LookIn:=xlValues) 'test if 'Copied' found If Not rngFind Is Nothing Then 'delete the row containing 'Copied' rngFind.EntireRow.Delete End If End With End If With Worksheets(strThisWks) 'set start as row after cell with 'Copied' in it 'if 'Copied' not found use A2 i.e., after heading row in column A Set rngSearch = _ Range("A2", . _ Range("A" & CStr(Application.Rows.Count)).End(xlUp)) Set rngFind = rngSearch.Find("Copied", LookIn:=xlValues) If rngFind Is Nothing Then 'Copied not found - so start at A2 Set rngStart = .Range("A2") 'set response string to 'No' strResp = vbNo Else 'Copied found strResp = vbYes 'set start to row after 'Copied' Set rngStart = rngFind.Offset(1, 0) 'if nothing after 'Copied' just quit If rngFind.Offset(1, 0).Value = "" Then 'no new data MsgBox "No new data found" & vbCrLf & "No update performed" Exit Sub End If 'delete the row containing 'Copied' rngFind.EntireRow.Delete End If 'set end - last used row in column A Set rngEnd = .Range("A" & CStr(Application.Rows.Count)).End(xlUp) 'loop through cells in column A For Each rngCell In Range(rngStart, rngEnd) 'Extract Course name to use as Sheet name (from Col. F) strCourse = "Course" & rngCell.Offset(0, 5).Text 'test if tab exists On Error Resume Next If Not Worksheets(strCourse).Name <> "" Then On Error GoTo ErrHnd 'No worksheet of this name - so create one Worksheets.Add After:=Worksheets(Worksheets.Count) Worksheets(Worksheets.Count).Name = strCourse 'copy header .Range("A1").EntireRow.Copy 'paste header data Worksheets(strCourse).Range("A1").PasteSpecial Paste:=xlAll 'paste column widths Worksheets(strCourse).Range("A1").PasteSpecial _ Paste:=xlPasteColumnWidths 'set row height Worksheets(strCourse).Rows(1).RowHeight = .Range("A1").RowHeight 'copy & paste first row of data rngCell.EntireRow.Copy _ Destination:=Worksheets(strCourse).Range("A2") Else On Error GoTo ErrHnd 'worksheet exists 'copy row to end of used range rngCell.EntireRow.Copy Destination:=Worksheets(strCourse). _ Range("A" & CStr(Application.Rows.Count)). _ End(xlUp).Offset(1, 0) End If Next rngCell 'flag end of copied data (in column A) rngEnd.Offset(1, 0).Value = "Copied" End With 'restore screen updating Application.ScreenUpdating = True Exit Sub 'error handler ErrHnd: Err.Clear 'restore screen updating Application.ScreenUpdating = True End Sub
Note that Private Sub CommandButton1_Click() and End sub will already be present, so don't duplicate them. Option Explicit goes before Private Sub CommandButton1_Click().
Some lines of code have been split onto two lines for ease of viewing, using the line continuation character "_". This should work 'as is' just copy and paste, or you could remove the "_" and bring the code back to one line.
Click Save from the Visual Basic Menu.
Alt+f11 takes you back to the main Excel window.
Exit design mode (first icon on the Controls Toolbox toolbar).
As changes made by Macros cannot be undone with the Undo button, test this macro on a copy of your data. Always make a backup of your Workbook before running this macro. This code has only been tested on limited sample data, and it has not been tested in your environment, so test it on copies of your data to ensure that it works 'as expected'
Click the 'Transfer' button to run the macro.


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October 28, 2008
We really like the movie "Lost in Translation." Any foreigner in Korea will easily be able to relate to it (or at least parts of it), and it's got an absolutely killer soundtrack as well. We strongly recommend watching it if you haven't already. Anyhow, the whole point of this Lost in Translation plug is that we keep on wanting to make artsy fartsy movies over its soundtrack. We have our first installment today. We were on Line 2 of the subway the other day, (the same subways from the Spudgy's Car Accident post, in which we show you how Awesome the Subways are here in Korea) and we started shooting the scenery outside. We cut the footage up, shifted it around, and slapped on Brian Reitzell's "On the Subway" from the Lost in Translation soundtrack. It's nothing special, but at least you'll get to see a bit more of Korea. UPDATE: We got nabbed by YouTube for using a song that isn't ours, so we had to replace it with a NIN song. It kinda fits, but not as good as the first one. Sorry!
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When you're in the market for an audio interface, there's one question that should be at the top of your list.
Before you start comparing specs and reviews, features and price points, you need to answer the question: How many inputs do I need?
I know it seems probably too simple, but here's why it's important.
The Too Few Blues
If you don't want to spend a lot of money, you might be tempted to grab one of those $150-200 interfaces with a pair of mic inputs.
If all you ever record is acoustic guitar, and you literally NEVER need more than two inputs, this is a fine option.
But what if 6 months from now you write a super-cool song with your friend, and the two of you want to record it with both of you playing and singing?
Well, that's 4 inputs. Your 2-channel interface won't cut it.
Think long-term. Use the 3-Year Rule. Don't go too small.
Too Big For Your Britches
On the flippidy-flipside, don't get something so big because you might "someday" need all those inputs.
If you only own one microphone, you probably don't need 16 inputs. To utilize those inputs, you would need to buy 15 more mics, 15 more stands, 15 more cables. That can get expensive.
Be realistic.
Another Definition of "Inputs"
We tend to only think of inputs in terms of recording, but what about mixing?
I'm mixing more and more projects through a Presonus StudioLive mixer. I actually recently upgraded from the 16 to the 24-channel version.
Do I need all those inputs for recording? Heavens no.
But I DO want more inputs for mixing.
Anyhoo, whether you need a lot of inputs or only a few, make sure you sit down and think through what you need. Then go find the perfect piece for you.
Oh, and by the way, the best compliment to a new piece of gear? A Home Studio Corner VIP membership.
For 10 smackeroos per month, you get access to:
- Weekly training videos, each designed to help you get better, faster
- Weekly mix critiques – I critique a new mix every week. Very valuable stuff.
- Exclusive discounts – Members get 30% off of my other products, plus special offers that no one else sees.
- Best forum on the internet – The VIP member forum is full of awesome, quirky, helpful folks who are passionate about music and helping each other get better.
Get started right here:
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Solves all dota smurfing/acc selling/boosting problems. Everything from unranked to ranked all pick to ability draft locked behind ID verification. Once it is done it cannot be undone. Would make it impossible to sell/boost or have a secondary account
Only problem is securing the sensitive information on valve's side and expect users to keep their steam account secure enough to not be able to be viewed by third parties. As the whole point of it is if someone shares their details to boosters for example, they can easily see their ID and acc sellers cant sell because their ID would be permanently linked unless the account was asked to be deleted.


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After reading the rave reviews, I traded in Twitter's iPhone App for Tweetbot. It's great – glossy, fast and customizable.
And while I prefer Tweetbot to Twitter's client – it made me realize how challenging / uncomfortable unlearning and relearning certain behaviors are. After using Twitter's application for so long, I struggle each time I want to reply or favorite a tweet. It's different and therefore challenging.
I am not entirely sure what the lesson is for Tweetbot: If the interactions are too alike Twitter's, the value proposition lacks; but if it is too different, it becomes unusable. Ultimately, the burden is on the developers to:
1. create a uniquely compelling product such that it is worth exploring & learning
1A. this is more difficult when operating within an exisiting platform (ala Tweetbot :: Twitter)
2. focus on the first user experience and convey the product's functionality (and intricies) immediately
3. don't over complicate the product. This is the most difficult part: distinguishing the product while still keeping it simple.


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Some of them seemed torn before the meeting began. Others were wearing stony faces, reflecting deep, measured practicality. Either way, the members of City Council all looked pretty glum an hour later.
Councilor Darryl Glenn nervously was sliding his lips from side to side. Councilor Tom Gallagher's eyebrows periodically raised toward his hairline, and froze there for minutes at a time. Later, Councilor Margaret Radford began to cry openly.
For more than three hours on Oct. 30, the public had its say on the proposed 2009 city budget.
The only public hearing was a poignant reminder that budget cuts have a human element. This year's cuts necessitated by a $23 million shortfall to fill and a promise from Council to stop using one-time revenues to meet ongoing expenses brought pain for many.
Win two, lose one
But it could have been worse. Tuesday night, voters turned down state Rep. Douglas Bruce's City Questions 200 and 201. Had they passed, all payments to city enterprises would have become voluntary, and there would have been restrictions on money exchanges between the city and its enterprises. That would have ended the Stormwater Enterprise and cost the city about $3.5 million in 2009 alone, leading to bigger cuts.
"This sends a strong message to Doug Bruce," Mayor Lionel Rivera said on election night.
But voters sent another strong message in rejecting County Question 1A, the initiative to raise the sales tax. That means the cash-strapped county is likely to follow through on a promise to keep for itself around $2 million in city road and bridge funding.
On election night, the mood on the third floor of Phantom Canyon Brewing Co. (where Citizens for Effective Government, the 1A instigators, hosted a party) started subdued and ended dismal, with attending Council members thinking about what promised to be a tougher budget work session Wednesday.
Radford and Councilor Randy Purvis, as well as the mayor, all said police and fire would likely be hurt. Rivera said he'd also like to cap the vendor fee, money paid to businesses for time spent processing sales tax money. The vendor fee doesn't exist in many other communities, and capping it could save the city $1.2 million, the mayor says. But chopping the vendor fee is a perennial idea that never seems to gain enough momentum, largely because many on Council think it would harm certain businesses, like car dealerships.
Purvis thought Council would likely hit the parks department harder possibly decimating community centers, senior centers and recreation programs though the idea brought him no joy.
Radford said the cuts ought to come from public safety, because the failure of 1A was a message that county residents aren't worried about funding emergency workers.
'A death sentence'
Wherever the trims come from, they'll be worsening already painful reductions.
In 2008, for instance, the city spent $368,715 to help fund transportation services provided by Amblicab, Silver Key Senior Services and the Fountain Valley Senior Center. The services help the elderly and those with disabilities function independently. In this year's proposed budget, those services will get no city money. That's a blow to all the services, but particularly Amblicab, which gets the majority of its funding from the city.
Councilors were interested in sparing that funding, but considering the failure of 1A, that was seeming less likely after the election.
Lynn Hopeman, CEO of Pikes Peak Partnership, which runs Amblicab, says the results of discontinuing the service are heartbreaking. She described an elderly female client with one leg. With no other transportation, she uses Amblicab to get to her dialysis appointments.
"It's a death sentence to her if she doesn't have her transportation," Hopeman says.
At the Oct. 30 hearing, which was so packed that it filled Council chambers and an overflow room, many elderly and disabled citizens begged Council to spare Amblicab and Silver Key services, along with bus service, which is set to lose 23,000 hours and see fare hikes.
Many needed assistance to make it to the podium. Some struggled to turn their wheelchairs around in the crowded room. One gray-haired man, clad in overalls, told Council that he thought the cuts, and the way he had been informed of them, were "disrespectful."
Of course, transportation was just the tip of the iceberg. Everyone from roller-derby players to model-airplane enthusiasts came to ask for the City Auditorium to stay open. Others begged to save recreation programs for kids, seniors and military families. Quite a few wanted the Helen Hunt Falls facility to stay open. Representatives from the Colorado Springs Philharmonic wanted to spare the July 4 "Salute to Our Troops" symphony. And adults and children asked for programs at Sertich Ice Center to be preserved.
One little boy in a Junior Tigers hockey jersey, his big eyes heavy with sleep by the time he made it to the podium, told Council, "If you take that ice rink away, all the boys and girls are going to be sad."
Mayor Lionel Rivera smiled at the child and told his mother that perhaps the boy should miss school in the morning. It was past 10 p.m.
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Sunday, 6 September 2015
Bombs Away!
The British forces constituted 2 "bombers" of a Sopwith Camel and Bristol F.2B with a Spad XIII fighter escort. The Germans had a Fokker DR.I, an Albatros D.Va and a couple of trenches defending the objective, a farmhouse in the centre of the table.
A farm house in the centre of the table was the target for the British Bombs. To drop a bomb on target the plane had to finish a movement directly over the aiming spot of the card.
We didn't count up the victory points because everyone had enjoyed the game so much it didn't matter. Just the job!
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I live in Shiloh in the Benjamin Region and sort of suffer from all this hullabaloo.
Unlike other Shiloh residents, like those in Illinois, USA.
Here's their barn problem.
Barn problem?
Yes, a problem with a barn:-
The Shiloh Board of Trustees remains divided on how to move forward with the dilapidated Red Barn that continues to sit at the end of Country Lane. Do they pass the bid opening up to $400,000 to restore the building for a new Cultural Arts Center? Or do they tear it down and construct a new building for the center?
After much deliberation, the board remained split during its Jan. 23 committee at large meeting 3-3. Shiloh Mayor Jim Vernier cast the swing vote to pass moving the bid opening to a $300,000 maximum, and a $400,000 finance proposal for the Red Barn rehabilitation. A final vote is expected to take place next month during the full board meeting at 7 p.m. Monday, Feb. 6.
Village Administrator John Marquart informed the board that the village qualified for a tax exempt note on a loan with Commerce Bank locally for $400,000 to finance the initial improvements.
Trustees Mark Kurtz, Greg O'Neil and Bob Weilmuenster voted in opposition, while Colleen Powers, Tina Warchol and Kurt Burrelsman approved the maximum bid amount be reduced from $400,000 to $300,000.
Just think about that.
And can you imagine me talking about "Greater Shiloh"?


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PAGO PAGO, American Samoa (RNZI, Feb. 12) - The American Samoa House of Representatives has suspended one of its members, Muavaefaatasi Ae junior, after alleging that he was disrespectful.
The representative for PagoPago will be banned form the legislature without pay for the current session of parliament.
All members of the House Rules Committee agreed that Muavaefaatasi should be taught a lesson for his outbursts.
One representative, Tagaloa Letuli, said Muavaefaatasi's behavior has made the House appear as if it was a boxing ring.
But one of Muavaefaatasi's associates, Sua Schuster, said he should not be punished because his bad temper was the result of serving in the Persian Gulf.
February 12, 2003
Radio New Zealand International: www.rnzi.com


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Mosquito and Pest Control
One can't recall the past summers' joys of fishing, campfires and barbecue cookouts without the pesky reminder of the summer itch. That's right, the mosquito! It's unfortunate that just as the weather starts to warm up, mosquitoes return for their blood-thirsty assault on humankind. However, the risk of West Nile Virus makes mosquitoes much more serious than the red, itchy bites that they leave behind. Mosquito and pest control products such as mosquito magnets, bug zappers, ultrasonic devices, mosquito netting and mosquito repellents are just a few of the products available to provide some relief and protection against mosquitoes this summer.
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On Monday, September 21, 2015, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) charged a New York-based investment adviser and its affiliated distributor with misusing mutual funds' assets to pay distribution and marketing expenses outside of an approved Rule 12b-1 plan. These are the first charges brought under the SEC's recent "distribution-in-guise" initiative that seeks to identify improper use of mutual fund assets to pay distribution-related fees. The adviser and distributor have agreed to settle the charges for approximately $40 million and institute remedial action, without admitting or denying the SEC's findings.
Under Rule 12b-1 of the Investment Company Act of 1940 (the 1940 Act), any payment for marketing and distribution made out of a fund's assets must be in accordance with a written Rule 12b-1 plan previously approved by the fund's board of directors and, where applicable, a majority of its shareholders. According to the SEC's order, from January 2008 to March 2014, the adviser and distributor in this case unlawfully caused the affected mutual funds to pay almost $25 million in distribution and marketing expenses beyond what was approved under the funds' Rule 12b-1 plan.
The SEC found that the adviser and distributor had inaccurately represented to the funds' board that these additional distribution payments were sub-transfer agent fees, which are commonly paid out of a fund's assets. Moreover, according to the SEC, the adviser engaged outside counsel to review its practices with respect to payment for sub-transfer agent fees. The adviser shared counsel's report, which concluded the payments were for sub-transfer agent fees, with the board. This, the SEC continued, enabled the adviser and distributor to pay for distribution-related services out of the funds' assets without the board oversight required under Rule 12b-1. Further, the SEC noted that the funds' prospectus disclosures during the relevant time period had stated inaccurately that the adviser and distributor paid all distribution costs outside the funds' Rule 12b-1 plan. The SEC has not charged the funds' board with any violations.
In addition to finding that the adviser and distributor caused violations of Section 12(b) of the 1940 Act and Rule 12b-1 thereunder, the SEC found that the adviser had willfully violated Section 34(b) of the 1940 Act in connection with the inaccurate prospectus disclosures as well as Section 206(2) of the Investment Advisers Act of 1940 (the Advisers Act). Section 206(2) of the Advisers Act prohibits an adviser from engaging in any practice that "operates as a fraud or deceit upon any client." Notably, the SEC pointed out in its order that a finding of simple negligence is sufficient to establish a violation of Section 206(2). These charges highlight the importance of reviewing sub-transfer agent and shareholder servicing expenses and the relevant agreements to ensure that fund assets are not being used, either inadvertently or purposefully, to pay for distribution-related services.
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A bazaar for India's folk arts
Dastkari Haat — a vibrant crafts festival that is world-renowned for its hand-picked artisans is coming to Pune for the first time. Jaya Jaitly founder of Dastkari Haat Samiti, speaks to the guide on why this event should not be missed
Craft connoisseurs of Pune will get an opportunity to witness an exciting and vibrant collection of arts, crafts and textiles from all over the India in the form of the Dastkari Haat, starting this Friday. One can not only meet craftsmen and artisans from all over India but also buy their wares, directly from the artist. In tandem with the folk theme, daily performances of folk culture and puppet shows will also take place.
Small figurines that are made as per local craft techniques
On the highlights of Dastkari Haat, which will be happening for the first time in the city, Jaya Jaitly, founder of the Dastkari Haat Samiti, shares, "Crafts in India are so varied that one can gain new insights every time one visits a genuine crafts bazaar where the makers themselves are present. I hope visitors will see the large amount of innovation and quality improvements that have taken place because they have better access to customers in different cities. Newer crafts have emerged due to income-generation programmes. The artisans have used local materials and skills to create handmade utility products that do not necessarily come under traditional crafts as such."
Various kinds of serveware that belongs to various pottery styles in the country
Jaitly who has been behind the success of the event several times in the past shares that putting such an event together is always a challenge. Her organisation has been organising small and large bazaars exhibitions in different parts of the world for over 20 years. She shares that organising events of varied scales has made her prepared to expect the unexpected — like lots of rain, leaking roofs, late arrival of the artisan's goods, last-minute uninvited arrivals or last-minute cancellations on the artisan's front.
Jaya Jaitly is the founder of the Dastkari Haat Samiti
The Samiti will also have its own stall selling special artistic stationery, maps, and craft books. Speaking on the importance of the Dastkari Haat as an initiative, Jaitly informs, "All crafts need support to stay in demand. They need design input to diversify products and redirect skills in new ways. We tend to notice crafts that have enterprising crafts people behind them. Simple rural artisans tucked away in far off villages or in forest areas hardly know much about the world around them and lack confidence to reach out. Among the poorest are many types of basket makers, textile weavers, (especially women), wood workers and potters. Only the fancy stuff gets seen but that is the tip of the iceberg."
An artisan at work
The exhibition will also have food stalls with lip-smacking delicacies from across the country like Amritsari Keema and Aloo Naan from Punjab. Jaitly concludes by talking about one of her most cherishable experiences of Dastkari Haat, "Whenever we hold a bazaar people come and thank us for bringing crafts to them and creating a happy atmosphere. About Dilli Haat which I created as a permanent marketplace for impermanent people, someone once wrote to a newspaper saying, 'Why can't all of India be like Dilli Haat?' "
The Dastkari Haat Samiti is a national association of crafts people founded in 1986. It has over 1500 members from all states of India in all craft skills.
It has conducted over 100 crafts bazaars all over the country and has been invited to prestigious crafts programs in London, Oxford, Frankfurt, and Addis Ababa in Ethiopia for the second Africa-India Summit. It has conducted cultural and skill exchange projects between artisans of India and Pakistan, Vietnam, Thailand, Sri Lanka, South Africa, Nepal, Afghanistan, Bhutan and Bangladesh.
On: November 7 to 16, 11 am to 8 pm
At: The Monalisa Kalagram, Pingale Farms, Koregaon Park.
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Metropolis Office Requirements – Q1 2015
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9.6m sq ft of demand
The Metropolis team researched over 455 UK company office requirements in Q1 2015, representing 9.6m sq ft of office demand.
5.5m sq ft of this demand was for space in Greater London, 4.3m sq ft of which was demand for central London space. 4.1m sq ft of demand was identified by our team in the rest of the UK.
Demand for City of London space continued to be strong during Q1, with 2.1m sq ft required in over 91 planned office relocations. Four of the top five requirements by size were searches by banks with the other a significant requirement from a major accountancy firm. The top five requirements were moves planned in 2016, 2017 and 2018. EC2 demand made up 42% of the total central London space required.
0.8m sq ft of demand was identified in the West End of London, 0.5m sq ft in London SW1 and 0.3m sq ft in London W1. Two of the top five requirements by size were searches by banking and finance companies. All of the top five largest moves are planned for late 2015 and 2016.
Mid Town office demand was mainly focused on London WC2, with two of the largest requirements centered on this postcode. One of the most significant requirements identified was an 80,000 sq ft HQ search by a TMT company planning a move in 2017.
In London SE1, where 0.3m sq ft of demand was researched, the largest requirement came from a construction group. In E14, a 400,000 sq ft requirement from an investment bank made up 66% of the 0.6m sq ft of total demand for offices in the area.
Banking & Finance sector UK office demand reached 2m sq ft in Q1 2015. The largest searches centered on the City of London and Docklands, although there was a notable search for 175,000 sq ft of space in central Birmingham.
0.8m sq ft of demand was identified from the Technology & Telecoms sector, and similar to banking and finance was largely focused on the City of London. There were however also significant searches for space in Manchester and Newcastle-upon-Tyne.
The largest government requirements were for space outside of central London, the most significant a search for over 400,000 sq ft in Manchester. The largest media sector requirements centered on fringe central London locations and the top three law sector requirements were for space in Birmingham, Manchester and Bristol.
Metropolis is currently tracking over 700 unique searches for space in London and over 400 in the rest of the UK.


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Fortress conservation doesn't just hurt indigenous communities it hurts our planet. The newest Rights Resources Initiative (RRI ) study Cornered By Protected Areas documents how fortress conservation is "hurting people and forests alike." Researchers from around the world, including the Rainforest Foundation's Christine Halvorson document and analyze how public policy and environmental organizations are instituting fortress conservation. This kind of environmental protection doesn't just violate human rights and land rights , it disregards best-practices and the most effective and research based solutions for protecting our forests.
National parks can save forests… Or contribute to their disappearance
A new national park is created in highly biodiverse rainforest. It sounds like a victory, right?
Too many times these parks are created out of the homes of indigenous people. All of a sudden, these communities that face new rules about what they can and cannot do in their ancestral forests. Sometimes they are even kicked out of their forest home–this is known as fortress conservation, and it's happening all around the world.
Indigenous Communities' Track Record – Second to None
It is done to preserve these highly biodiverse areas. Yet, ironically it is the indigenous communities that have safeguarded this biodiversity year after year. It is no coincidence that 80% of our planet's remaining biodiversity is on indigenous lands. This is important because we are destroying life on our planet at an alarming rate. To date humans have caused the loss of 83% of all wild mammals and half of all plant life.
Fortress Conservation Ignores Evidence and Science
People who push fortress conservation believe that creating protected areas where ecosystems function without human interference is the best way to protect the forest. This kind of conservation blames indigenous communities for using natural resources in these environmentally significant areas, instead of seeing the benefits that indigenous communities provide–refusing to recognize that it is these very communities that have ensured the biodiversity and healthy forests the conservationists are trying to protect.
The fortress model excludes indigenous communities who are already sustainably living in the forests conservationists are trying protect; instead fortress conservation relies on park rangers and other government agents to patrol the boundaries and one of their jobs becomes to keep indigenous peoples off of the lands that have sustained them for generations.
At the same time fortress conservation often promotes use of the forest if it is related to tourism, safari hunting, and scientific research–viewing this activities as benign or beneficial to the protected forests.
A Human Rights, Climate, and Biodiversity Crisis
Not surprisingly as indigenous communities find themselves excluded from their ancestral lands, they come into conflict with agents promoting fortress conservation. The RRI study highlights the price indigenous communities are paying as fortress conservation is instituted around the world.
When bulldozers or park rangers force Indigenous Peoples from their homes, it is not only a human rights crisis—it is also a detriment to all humanity. Indigenous Peoples have long stewarded and protected the world's forests, a crucial bulwark against climate change.–Victoria Tauli-Corpuz
Yet fortress conservation isn't the only option, even when designating protected areas and national parks. When indigenous communities are included in conservation planning and decision making and when their land rights are respected, protected areas become powerful ways to protect rainforests. The Rainforest Foundation's work with the two communities of Nuevo Saposoa and Patria Nueva in Peru demonstrated just how effective indigenous communities are in safeguarding the rainforest in conjunction with government agencies and protected areas (in this case rainforest bordering Sierra del Divisor National Park) Indigenous communities have already demonstrated that they are more than allies in the fight to protect our remaining forests they are the leaders.
Worldwide, community lands hold at least a quarter of above ground tropical forest carbon—equal to four times global greenhouse gas emissions for 2014—and likely much more. –Victoria Tauli-Corpuz, UN special rapporteur on the rights of indigenous peoples
In Panama Protected Areas Become an Excuse Reject Land Rights
In Panama, indigenous communities have been fighting for their land rights for centuries. In some cases specific requests for official recognition of land titles have been pending for more than half a century. During this time one thing has remained constant, the lands that indigenous communities inhabit are better protected than other lands. Indeed almost all of Panama's remaining forest in on Indigenous land. Panama's Darien rainforest has been recognized as a UNESCO World Heritage Site because of its biodiversity — the biodiveristy the communities have been safeguarding; yet, ironically its designation as a UNESCO site is used by some conservationists and government as a re
At the moment, the Ministry of Environment has held up titling for over two years, with more than two-thirds of current indigenous land claims pending due to overlaps. The situation has become a major bottleneck in the recognition of indigenous land rights in Panama.
Designated as national parks or protected areas these areas are ostensibly in safe hands, yet frequently the areas are subject to land invasions and illegal logging at rates that are higher than indigenous forests.
This problem is not confined to the Darien; throughout Panama national parks and other protected areas are used to delay recognizing land titles or to deny indigenous communities land titles as well as their Free Informed and Prior Consent (FPIC) of any use of these lands and communities' demand for the legal recognition of their land rights are met with stalling tactics.
The Ministry of Environment has blocked titling in areas apparently covered by the park extension. In meetings, the Ministry has alleged that titling in the park or in the proposed extensions would compromise the park's status as a UNESCO biosphere reserve. Clarification on this from UNESCO has been requested but has not yet been forthcoming.-Christine Halvorson
Beyond Panama and Peru
Learn more about fortress conservation and its effect on indigenous and rainforests around the world. Check out RRI's map and explore how it is being used around the world to strip communities of their rights and putting our biodiversity and climate at risk.


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There was a time several years ago when technologists foretold the day when the then dominant Web browser, Netscape Navigator, would become a full-fledged computer operating system (OS) going head to head with Microsoft's ubiquitous Windows operating system.
That day never came, of course. In fact, Netscape Navigator has all but disappeared. Yet the idea that a Web browser could become the foundation of an OS is very much alive and is set to become a reality in about 12 months—assuming Web search giant and chief Microsoft rival, Google, has its way.
On July 7, the Silicon Valley-based Internet software giant, Google Inc., announced Google Chrome OS, an open source, lightweight operating system that will initially be targeted at netbooks—small laptop-like computers retailing for less than $500. Google Chrome OS will eventually run on desktop computers, offering a realistic and low-cost alternative to Microsoft Windows.
The new OS will be available for consumers in the second half of 2010. The Google Chrome OS project is separate from Google's other operating system Android, which was designed to work across a variety of devices from phones to set-top boxes to netbooks.
Few technologies in history have had the impact on as broad a cross-section of populations around the world as has the Internet and its most ubiquitous feature, the World Wide Web (the Web), invented in the early 1990s by Sir Timothy Berners-Lee, an English computer scientist and MIT professor.
By the formative years of the Web, 1991 through 1995, Microsoft had emerged as the leader in computer software technology, having vanquished all serious competitors who challenged its supremacy. All competitors, that is, except Netscape which by 1994 dominated the Web with its Netscape Navigator Web browser. Microsoft had failed to recognize the significance of the Web and its emerging technologies and had largely neglected to participate in the rise of the Internet.
Scrambling to recover from its strategic blunder, in 1995 Microsoft used a licensed version of Mosaic Web browser as the basis of Internet Explorer 1.0, which Microsoft released as part of its Windows 95 Plus! Pack. In that move, Microsoft engaged Netscape in a battle for Internet supremacy—a battle to Netscape's death as it turned out.
During its struggle with Netscape, Microsoft wielded an almost invincible weapon in that it gave away for free a product that competed with the products that made up the great bulk of Netscape's income: Navigator and its derivatives.
Google Inc. may now be set to turn the tables on Microsoft with Google Chrome OS, which is an open source product and will be free, while Microsoft's Windows is a proprietary (closed) technology costing hundreds of dollars for its most robust versions.
Some analysts point out that the Google Chrome OS is just another Linux distribution, and, in the past decade, Linux has failed to gain much traction in the consumer marketplace. Perhaps, but what seems to be different this time is that this Linux distribution has gained the backing of a big outfit, Google Inc., with deep pockets and office floors filled with brilliant computer scientists and engineers, not to mention a level of credibility with consumers that rivals Microsoft's own.
With the release of Windows 7 set for October 22, Microsoft is sure to be scrambling to adjust its pricing strategies. Currently, a full version of Windows Vista Home Basic retails for US $199.95 and the Ultimate edition costs US $319.95. This profit-rich price structure will not prevail for long if the Google Chrome OS turns out to be a serious product—good news for consumers.
Microsoft already announced that, for a limited time, consumers in the United States, Canada and some other countries will be able to buy an "upgrade" copy of Windows 7 Home Premium for $49 or Windows 7 Professional for $99. The sale began on June 26, and will end on July 11 according to Microsoft. The Ultimate Edition is priced at $219 for the upgrade.
Already we are hearing about a multi-license "family pack" for Windows 7 at US $149.99. At $149.99, the Family Pack would save a buyer US $210 over three separate Home Premium upgrades. Such Windows pricing was unheard of in the pre-Google Chrome OS days when I purchased my retail copy of Windows Vista. Look for more consumer-friendly pricing offers from Microsoft in the next 24 months.
Is Microsoft destined to learn the old adage: live by the sword, die by the sort, i.e., live by the predatory pricing strategy, die by the predatory pricing strategy? I hope so.
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