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An amazing piece of clarity, from Newsweek of all places: The Pornification Of A Generation:
And then, says Scott, an English professor at a small college in Georgia, "I realized porn culture and I were in a death match for my daughter's soul."This would be one front of the "culture war" that many scoff at.
In a market that sells high heels for babies and thongs for tweens, it doesn't take a genius to see that sex, if not porn, has invaded our lives.
... the influence of porn on mainstream culture is affecting our self perceptions and behavior—in everything from fashion to body image to how we conceptualize our sexuality.
It's too early to know exactly how kids who grow up in this hypersexualized environment will be affected in the long term. But Scott and his coauthor say it's not too soon—or too prudish—to sound the alarm, and to look critically at the sexualized culture we're exposed to every day. ...
... porn themes have gone from adult entertainment to prime time, seeping into nearly every aspect of popular culture. Sarracino and Scott define "porning" as the way advertising and society in general have borrowed from the ideas and characteristics central to most American pornography: sex as commodity, sexuality as overt, narrow views of women and male-female relationships, bad girls and dirty boys, domination and submission.
In music, for instance, the progression is the same. First it's subtly sung between the lines, then more overtly, then with a smirk, then the pretense is dropped altogether, and we celebrate our "liberation." And when we we're dropping the pretense about one thing, we're starting the next down that same path. (Sex, promiscuity, sexual exploitation, sexual abuse, and now prostitution.)
The prevalence or porn leaves today's children with a lot of conflicting ideas and misconceptions, says Lyn Mikel Brown, the coauthor of "Packaging Girlhood," about marketers' influence on teen girls. "All this sex gives a misinformed notion of what it means to be grown-up." ... Kids are less likely to know when and how to express themselves sexually—or what behavior crosses the border into sexual harassment.
No kidding.
Last year, the American Psychological Association put out a compelling report that described the sexualization of young girls: a process that entails being stripped of all value except the sexual use to which they might be put. Once they subscribe to that belief, say some psychologists, those girls begin to self-objectify—with consequences ranging from cognitive problems to depression and eating disorders.
... Today, terms like slut and whore are commonplace among teens. ...
It's the porn ideal of sex as commodity in a competitive market—and to see rapper Nelly swipe a credit card through a young girl's backside in a music video only reaffirms that notion. It's artificiality as a replacement for authenticity ...
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I found some interesting stuff from the eighties on Youtube
Zappa on Crossfire
Zappa at the PMRC hearings.
A real time capsule, and all this is pre South park and pre Gangsta rap..
Interesting video. Just watched part of the first. He claims it's all about just "words" even though they played clips which had images too. (But those are "just" images.)
Every form of verbal abuse is "just words" -- but words have consequences. Back to the article: "girls begin to self-objectify—with consequences ranging from cognitive problems to depression and eating disorders."
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In mid-May, immigration attorney Lori Chesser, and government relations attorneys Tim Coonan and Sydney Gangestad joined the Greater Des Moines Partnership on the 40th annual DM/DC trip to advocate for central Iowa with our members of Congress and their staff in Washington D.C.
The trip brings together about 180 Iowans to travel to D.C. for three days packed full of meetings with legislators, policy staffers, educational workshops about issues impacting Iowans, and some tourism.
All three attorneys praised the work of the Partnership for putting together an amazing agenda and organizing such a complicated trip.
Whether watching Senator McConnell from the Senate Gallery, following the venerable Joseph Jones, Director of the Harkin Institute, on a nighttime walking tour of the national monuments, or watching Iowa's full congressional delegation unite on issues important to our state including flood recovery, the trip provides great opportunities for connections and advocacy.
"For me, the trip is a great opportunity to grow professionally and to make connections with other Iowans as well as the congressional delegation and staffers. The highlight was the address by Joni Ernst and Kirsten Gillibrand. When introducing Gillibrand, Senator Ernst discussed the true bi-partisan nature of their work, and the friendship they have formed. Through the constant buzz about the polarization of our nation's leaders, it was refreshing to see that senators from different parties and different geographic areas can find common ground and a true friendship." - Sydney Gangestad
"I always appreciate the Iowa Reception. The Partnership invites all Iowans living in D.C. and working in politics to join us at the reception and it is such an impressive showing of how many Iowans are impacting us from their work in D.C." -Tim Coonan
Some of Davis Brown's government relations clients have offices in D.C. or have national lobbyists working on issues at the nation's Capital, so Tim and Sydney took the opportunity to meet with clients. They also were able to discuss with legislators and their staffers issues important to clients. Lori Chesser did the same, leading a delegation of attendees and foreign physicians, to meet with the congressional delegation to discuss the importance of immigration to public health, especially in rural Iowa and the proposed Physician Access Reauthorization Act.
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POLAND: Metro Warszawskie has selected contractors to build two extensions of metro Line 2 in the capital.
Gülermak is to undertake work on a 3·5 km western extension with three stations for 1·15bn złoty. A 3·1 km eastern extension, also with three stations, is to be built by Astaldi for 1·07bn złoty.
All stations would be built using the cut-and-cover method, with running tunnels bored using tunnel boring machines. The project is 85% EU co-financed and both extensions should be completed in 2019.
A consortium that included the two companies built the first phase of Line 2, which runs for 6·5 km between Rondo Daszyńskiego in the west and Warszawa Wileńska in the east.
Future plans envisage further extensions at either end of the line with a combined length of 5·6 km; these would add three more stations at the eastern end and two more in the west. If the second phase of the extensions is realised, additional rolling stock will be required, and with it a new stabling facility. The purchase of 30 to 35 trainsets is envisaged, in addition to a second depot at the western end of the line.


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Technology Changes Are Creating Significant Challenges for Higher Education
The education sector is undergoing significant change. National enrollment for higher education has declined 3 percent across the United States since 2015, according to the 2017 National Student Clearinghouse Research Center annual study. Decreased student enrollment is affecting many Higher education institutions and resulting in increased competition, student demands for more cutting-edge facilities, and shrinking profit margins, even as course fees reach all-time highs.
Technology is being implemented to overcome the issue. However, that technology is introducing additional problems in the areas of: security, performance, network availability, and mean time to repair. This makes it harder for IT personnel to keep the network running at optimum performance and deliver the quality of experience that the student population demands.
For instance, new technology trends are creating the following network and data monitoring challenges for IT:
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- Blended data center strategies require extensive monitoring solutions
- Enhanced distance learning feeds require improved performance analysis
- Bandwidth monitoring is required due to expanding application usage
- Geographically distributed components are increasing troubleshooting time
As an example, one effort to respond to decreased admissions centers around a focus on a student-centered experience. For example, in addition to traditional classrooms, distance learning and mobile device support are being introduced to attract more millennials and older students. According to the 2017 Education infographic by Livestream, 77 percent of colleges offer online courses and 55 percent of college presidents predict that by 2022, all students will take at least some of their classes online.
However, implementing this new digital technology is not enough. Colleges and universities also need to ensure appropriate network and application performance for their remote distance learning feeds. Since live stream and on-demand video feeds are critically important, performance issues cannot be tolerated. This is a prime concern for both universities and K-12 institutions.
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- Identify and document your network latency, on a per segment (as needed) basis – A proactive monitoring solution can be used to characterize your network. By actively testing between probes placed throughout your network, you can identify the latency, throughput, and quality of service across your whole network or just parts of it. This further allows you to understand performance issues and pinpoint where they occur.
- Perform root cause analysis and debugging of performance issues – Once the taps and a packet brokers are installed, network data can be captured and sent to application performance monitoring (APM) tools for performance problem correlation and analysis to make sure that you maintain student quality of experience (QOE).
- Remove cloud blind spots – Just as with the on-premises blind spot situation, cloud-based online education feeds can have issues as well. In this situation, a cloud visibility solution can be installed to collect packet-based data for those cloud apps and then the data can be passed on to an APM tool for analysis and QOE optimization.
- Actively test network performance – When new applications are added to the network, this can affect network performance. A synthetic traffic generator allows you to respond to complaints about application or network slowness by actively testing different segments within your network to isolate and remediate problems faster. It can also be used to test software updates before they go live.
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The Bank of Canada recently published a study on "cryptoassets" that contains a subtle but significant error. In this post I explain what went wrong and why the Bank, which has previously released high-quality scholarship on this topic, should prioritize a more nuanced understanding of the roles that digital money like bitcoin can play in the banking system.
The authors pose the question, "How much electricity would be needed to have all Canadian payments settled on a proof-of-work blockchain?" In the appendix, they calculate that settling every Canadian retail transaction on a bitcoin-like blockchain would entail astronomical energy costs, and conclude: "changes to the bitcoin technology and usage need to be substantial before it could be used as a retail payment method."
This approach is based on a faulty premise about bitcoin and its blockchain that is emblematic of a broader misconception.
The problem:
At its essence, the appendix conflates payment with settlement, and then determines that every retail transaction would be settled on the bitcoin blockchain, despite no such requirement at a technological or conceptual level.
Even putting aside the appendix's use of widely–debunked energy estimates or its dismissal of bitcoin-integrated payment technologies, central banks should be conceptualizing of bitcoin as a money and the bitcoin blockchain as a high-security form of settlement. The bitcoin blockchain is not and was not designed to be a method of payment for every retail transaction in the world.
To analogize this distinction, imagine a payment between parties on an app like Venmo. If Alice keeps $100 in her Venmo account and sends $30 to Bob, the payment is merely numbers moved internally on Venmo servers. Only when either party decides to "cash out" — withdrawing funds from Venmo to their bank account, for dollars — might the transaction be considered settled:
Like Canadian Dollars or Euros or USD, bitcoin-based payments can be made available via Venmo/Cash App, credit cards, checks, ACH, Paypal, and other layered payment systems. In other words, retail payments could retain existing payment infrastructure and still be denominated in bitcoin, and not necessitate settlement to a bitcoin-like blockchain.
We do not even need to address major recent developments in bitcoin payments technology, such as the Lightning Network and other "Layer 2" development," to understand that no changes to bitcoin's technology need to take place before it can be used in Canada's payment landscape. Bitcoin is not VISA or Venmo — it's closer to money those companies move around.
To be charitable, perhaps the authors intended only to demonstrate what we discuss here: the futility of broadcasting all retail payments on bitcoin's energy-intensive blockchain. If so, on this we agree. We do not mean to advocate that all Canadian retail payments should be conducted with or denominated in bitcoin. For many reasons, including familiarity, security, and price stability, Canadian customers and retailers may prefer to transact in CAD. Still, the conclusion that "changes to the bitcoin technology" are required is simply not true.
Moreover, the bitcoin blockchain's proof-of-work electricity consumption is not an accidental byproduct: it is the means by which transactions are made all-but-irreversible a short time after they are added to the ledger and repeatedly confirmed by network consensus. In other words, the electricity and consensus confirmations offer a level of final settlement better-suited for high-value transfers (e.g., between banks) than for retail payments. If the intent here was to highlight the absurdity of using the bitcoin blockchain for retail payments, without acknowledging the utility of its blockchain for high-value settlement between institutions like central banks, then the authors should make that clear. As Hal Finney, the first person to ever receive a bitcoin transaction, predicted in 2010:
"I believe this will be the ultimate fate of Bitcoin, to be the 'high-powered money' that serves as a reserve currency for banks that issue their own digital cash. Most Bitcoin transactions will occur between banks, to settle net transfers."
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Bitcoin has a variety of pros and cons, uses and misuses. What it does not have is a centralized research department to create these sorts of reports, nor a communications department to publicize and distill its applications and policy implications for lawmakers and central bankers. Such are the consequences of decentralization.
Still, it would be a shame if policymakers do not realize that the questions here go beyond retail payments, and carry global, potentially historic implications. For example: when nations with their own currencies trade with each other, which money should they use for settlement? Former Federal Reserve Chairman Paul Volcker recently lamented the lack of a "common numeraire" in our international trade system. A numeraire, he describes, would act as the monetary unit in international settlement, and free central banks from reliance on the unpredictable supply of a third nation's currency, most recently the U.S. dollar.
It is worth considering whether a digital money like bitcoin — with predictable and verifiable supply, as well as Internet-native design tailor-fit for digital banking — could fulfill the role of "numeraire" and establish a "metric unit" for international exchange. If that possibility seems outlandish, fair enough. So too at one point was the possibility of agreement on the mass of the kilogram or the length of the meter, but the measurements enabled trust and coordination, and rapidly became integral for global advancement in science and trade.
The Bank of Canada's study shows that it is still all too easy to misunderstand what bitcoin is. This is especially true when communications from bankers and bitcoiners alike present strawman caricatures of each other. But this also means that if we are to get serious about the complex and overlapping realms of central banking, retail payments, and digital money, we all ought to be a bit more rigorous and critical. Especially when we read third party research, like this study here, that narrow and misconstrue the discussion of what bitcoin is, and could be.


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After Romulus took Wolverine's unborn son, cutting him from his mother's womb, he left the baby on the doorstep of Akihira and his wife, Natsumi, a wealthy, young and traditional Japanese couple. They took the child's arrival as an answer to their prayers and raised him as their own. Though he was named Akihiro by his father,[1] the servants and other families of Miyagi Prefecture secretly referred to the boy as Daken (駄犬, "bastard dog"), a slur on his obvious mixed heritage. As Akihiro grew up, he was often teased by the other boys of Sendai. His harsh treatment over the years caused Akihiro to develop a very cold persona to all except his father.
One night, Natsumi confessed to Akihira that she didn't love their adopted son and that, after long years of trying, she was pregnant. Akihiro overheard this and began plotting. Within a year, sometime in 1957 after the birth of the baby, Junichiro, Akihiro confronted his mother, telling her that he had killed her son. Akihira was furious and disowned Akihiro, who furiously responded that "Akihiro" was not his true name. Natsumi suddenly appeared, trying to run Daken through with a rifle's bayonet, triggering the onset of Daken's mutant powers. With a wave of his arm, he accidentally slashed Natsumi with the bone claws that had sprung from his hands. Unable to force himself to harm his son, Akihara instead committed suicide with the discarded rifle. Romulus then appeared to the boy for the first time, telling Daken that he was what the boy would someday become.[1]
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LiveLand - LiveLand: Predicting, Monitoring and Alerting of Landslides and Subsidence Affecting Transport InfrastructureStatus date: 20 February 2018
Transport operators across the UK face significant challenges in monitoring and detecting landslides and subsidence across their networks. LiveLand supports asset owners and operators to assess and monitor high-risk areas of their transport network providing improved geological hazard information at regional, network and local levels using integrated data from Earth observation satellites and GNSS.
RailSATStatus date: 29 June 2017
The objective of the RailSAT project is to assess both the technical feasibility and commercial viability of sustainable operational services that enhance the current practices of monitoring railway track geometry and the surrounding environment by using satellite data. Earth observation, Interferometric Synthetic Aperture Radar (InSAR) and satellite navigation data are used to achieve this objective.
MATISTStatus date: 09 April 2014
The MATIST services provide ground motion information to operators of alpine transportation infrastructures such as railway companies, institutes representing the national roads and companies from the energy sector.
SPACE FOR RAIL PRIZEStatus date: 10 February 2014
This prize competition seeks outline proposals to develop solutions for the UK rail industry, involving the integration of two or more satellite-based systems (communications, navigation and remote sensing) with conventional (non-space) ones.
Live LandStatus date: 29 November 2013
The objective of Live Land is to provide users with a suite of services that enables the management of hazards and the exposure of national transport infrastructure assets to landslide and subsidence events. During the feasibility stage, the Live Land consortium assessed the viability of developing a suite of services driven by the needs and requirements of end user organisations. Live Land proposed a 'catalogue' concept, to incorporate a suite of enabling technologies (including Space-borne, in-situ and geological datasets) that could improve the forecasting, monitoring and alerting of landslides and subsidence.


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More than sixty young Greeks will meet in Thessaloniki on Friday and Saturday to discuss and decide on a declaration for a brighter future for Greece. The "1st Liberal Youth Convention" coincides with the Young Leaders Meeting of the European Liberal Youth (LYMEC), which also takes place in this year's European Youth Capital.
The reform-oriented young delegates will meet in the city hall of Thessaloniki, where Mayor Yannis Boutaris will inaugurate the congress. Afterwards, the President of LYMEC, Vedrana Gujić, will deliver a keynote speech and encourage the liberal-minded youth of Greece to continue their quest for a country that is more open towards reforms and the needs of the upcoming generation.
On Saturday, the delegates will draft and discuss the content in several working groups before the declaration will be put to a final vote by the plenary. The final declaration will be communicated to policy makers and may serve as a cornerstone for a successful cooperation among several reform-oriented grassroots efforts. The "1st Liberal Youth Convention" is facilitated by the Friedrich Naumann Foundation for Freedom (FNF).
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Pheasants Forever Hires New Iowa State Coordinator
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Pheasants Forever (PF) announces Tom Fuller, formerly Pheasants Forever's Regional Representative in eastern Iowa, as the organization's new Iowa State Coordinator. In his new position, Fuller will be responsible for the long-term strategic implementation of Pheasants Forever's conservation mission in Iowa.
"Tom brings a skill set and local knowledge to a new position within Iowa that is designed to lead the Pheasants Forever team to even greater accomplishments for Iowa pheasants, quail and other wildlife," says Rick Young, Pheasants Forever Vice President of Field Operations, "This position will open new opportunities for Pheasants Forever as we implement a structure that allows us to better pursue new and expanded partnerships, habitat programs, development opportunities and team growth."
"In my new role as State Coordinator, I plan to capitalize on the incredible chapter and partner support Pheasants Forever and our quail division, Quail Forever, have in Iowa and leverage dollars towards specific results for Iowa's wildlife and landscape," said Tom Fuller, "We cannot have a haphazard approach to Iowa's conservation future if we are to increase our wildlife populations. To see major results, we will need a direct and focused plan. I know that with our unbelievable chapter support, this goal is possible, and I hope all Iowans support us in keeping Iowa's outdoors wild and landscape healthy."
A native of Springville, Iowa, Fuller grew up in an upland hunting family. His father, Roy Fuller, was a champion dog trainer, which accounts for Fuller's own passion for bird dogs. Since 2001, he has owned and operated Covey Rise Kennels, which specializes in breeding and training American Brittanys. Fuller began his employment with Pheasants Forever in August 2006 as a Regional Representative for eastern Iowa. Since that time, he has been a leader on Pheasants Forever and Quail Forever's field team with innovative ideas, a passion for the organization's mission and an unlimited vision for how to improve future conservation efforts.
"As an Iowan, I am proud of the welcoming outdoor culture our state is known for," said Fuller, "In a time when doors are being closed off to hunters, Iowa landowners still accept those people who knock on their doors, looking for somewhere to experience the outdoors. We treasure our wildlife and miss the bird numbers that we once had, and collectively, we are working hard to get back to where we once were. That is what fuels my passion for implementing Pheasants Forever's mission in Iowa."
Iowa is home to 20,000 Pheasants Forever and Quail Forever members and 104 combined PF/QF chapters. Fuller lives in rural Oxford, Iowa, with his wife, Jennifer, and their three children, McKenzie, Taylor, and Ty. For more information on "The Habitat Organization" in Iowa, please contact Tom Fuller at (319) 321-9775 or Email Tom.


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You asked: What does a heart attack feel like?
While this may seem like there should be a simple answer that everyone should be very familiar with, the truth is that heart attacks come in all shapes and sizes. To start, it's important to know what's actually going on in the heart when a heart attack happens, then to know the typical symptoms, and then go over some of the symptoms that might not be as classic, but are equally as important for certain groups of people.
Simply put, a heart attack is what we call it when part of the heart's muscle isn't getting the blood flow it needs to function and survive properly. This is typically when one of the 3 main arteries of the heart becomes blocked by cholesterol, inflammation, and clotting blood. When this happens, the heart muscle can't function properly and begins to die if blood flow is not restored. This lack of sufficient blood supply is what can result in symptoms. This is crucial for people to recognize early because as the saying goes in Cardiology, "time is muscle."
Most people broadly know the classic symptom of a heart attack: chest pain. If you've seen any movies or TV shows of someone having a heart attack, it's a good image to keep in mind. People can classically have left sided chest pain that is a pressure-like sensation radiating to the left shoulder and jaw, also associated with sweating. It's true that a good number of people do present like this. Also interesting to know is that most heart attacks happen during the winter months in the early morning hours when our natural stress hormones are at their peak levels each day.
Equally as important to know is that many people don't have these typical symptoms. In certain groups of people, such as people over 65, women, people with diabetes, and people with prior heart attacks. Many research studies that looked at what types of symptoms people have before they're diagnosed with a heart attack have shown that as many as about 40% of these specific groups of people will be having a heart attack and have no chest pain! Furthermore, some people may not even have any symptoms at all of a heart attack, but rather just present to medical attention days to weeks later with symptoms of their heart not functioning properly, or congestive heart failure. This is a scenario we call silent myocardial infarction, or a heart attack that occurs without symptoms.
People who don't have chest pain, but do have symptoms may report feeling nausea, dizziness, lightheadedness, flu-like symptoms, abdominal discomfort, fatigue, or just general malaise. It becomes tricky because these atypical symptoms, as they're called, can also be caused by many things other than a heart attack. So how do you know how to take them seriously?
It's always important to talk to your doctor and understand your risk factors for heart disease. Feeling great is not the same as being low risk and not knowing is not the same as being healthy. Need help? Heartbeat's always here for you.
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No Trunk or Treat 2017
Why we aren't doing Trunk or Treat this year.
A few people recently asked us if we are doing Trunk or Treat this year, so we wanted to make sure you all know what's going on. Here at First Free Rockford we are constantly trying to up our involvement in the community, and that always starts with building good relationships. In an effort to be an active and loving part of our community, we are encouraging our congregation to be home and engaged with the families of their neighborhoods this year rather than hosting Trunk or Treat. It's our hope that the city of Rockford would experience God's love in their own neighborhoods this year from the people of First Free Rockford. For those of you that have been so faithful to come out to the Trunk or Treat event each year, stay tuned because we will be announcing the details of our Christmas Traditions Event very soon, and we think you're going to really enjoy it! If you are looking for ideas on how to be a light in your neighborhood during Halloween this year, be sure to check out this great e-book!


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Amendments proposed to the Town Planning and Land Codes of the Russian Federation and the Federal Law on gardening, horticulture and suburban non-profit associations of citizens. "
Related article: Tax explained the rules of payment of land taxIn particular, the bill proposes to amend the concept of a garden, garden and dacha land:
"Garden plot - plot of land intended for growing fruits, berries, vegetables or other crops, which can be placed economic buildings and structures not intended for the residence of citizens;
garden plot - plot of land intended for growing berries, vegetables or other crops, which can be placed household (secondary) structures, not intended for the residence of citizens;
suburban land - the land intended for growing fruits, berries, vegetables or other crops, which may be located separate dwelling, and are not intended to stay farm buildings and structures. "
Thus, the construction of a house is only possible at their summer cottage, and the garden and the garden can be built only auxiliary buildings, in which living people is not possible.
Also, the bill specifies where the land can be placed gardening, horticulture and chalet-for-profit association of citizens.
For example, suburban land may be located only within the boundaries of settlements, while horticultural land - on agricultural lands.
The document stipulated: "In the territorial zone, involving the use of land as garden, vegetable garden and dacha plots should not be included: particularly valuable lands, lands of specially protected areas, land reserved for public use, land with developed karst, landslide , debris and other harmful effects caused by land degradation.
In addition, the bill established that the purpose of garden farms are allowed to provide plots of land reserved for public use, regardless of their assigned permitted use, subject to the provision of such sites in the lease for a term not exceeding the period of reservation lands.
However, the bill specifies that the "garden plots that are within the boundaries of settlements, and that host individual houses or by their construction, must be attributed to the dacha land and included in the residential zones in accordance with the provisions of the Town Planning Code of the Russian Federation. "
In the case of adoption of the bill granting the garden, kitchen garden and dacha plots will be in accordance with its terms on January 1, 2011. At the same time, "until January 1, 2015 issuance of a building permit is not required in respect of individual dwellings, construction of which began before the entry into force of this Federal Law."


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Has anyone used the alarm/alerts on this DVR.
I want to connect a PIR motion, and A voice dialer. I have a system install the customer wanted to use a camera to alert when
someone pulled in the driveway. As you likely know the false alerts are out of hand using the camera.
I would like to use the PIR to monitor the drive, and have the Dialer then make notification to a phone after hours.
I understand how the email notifications work and that will not do the job in this setting.
I called support, and seemed they did not have much info or detail on if this can be done or what products have been used..
I know it can be done, just wondering if anyone has tried it and had much success?
Possible equipment:
USP Voice Pager Model AD-2001 ( has N/O N/C output terminals)
Optex HX-40 PIR Motion ( has N/O N/C output terminals)
Why would you need to interface the recorder with these two devices. I would use the PIR with the Voice Dialer directly. Are you looking to just have these devices work at a certain time frame only?
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Now that I've had a few months to absorb all the layers of U2's new album Songs of Innocence and test its weight upon different stages of day-to-day life, I've found new treasures in these songs, and this article will look at one in particular.
But to understand this treasure, we must first make a brief stop at Oxford, England — though not in the present. We'll need to travel back in time several decades and pay a visit to C.S. Lewis in his rooms on the second floor of Magdalen (pronounced Maudlin) College and get his take on the subject of joy.
C.S. Lewis, the author of The Chronicles of Narnia series and many other beloved books, observed something startling in his autobiography: Joy is different than Happiness or Pleasure.
In fact, Joy (in the sense that Lewis defines it) has more in common with grief. This mysterious Joy stabs us, it pierces our hearts at unexpected moments, and it uses ordinary things from our daily lives to trigger it — perhaps the way the sky looks at a particular moment or a passage in a book that strikes you a certain way or the chord in a song.
Lewis writes this about Joy: "[It is] an unsatisfied desire which is itself more desirable than any other satisfaction…before I knew what I desired, the desire itself was gone, the whole glimpse withdrawn, the world turned commonplace again, or only stirred by a longing for the longing that had just ceased" (21).*
Joy stabs us and causes an inconsolable longing to swell in our chests, and it draws our eyes away from tasks at hand to look great distances beyond this world.
It sends us on great quests to find something that we can't even name or describe. All we know is that we yearn for something grand — even larger than our own lives — and it makes us restless.
This restlessness makes itself known in many ways: maybe it's what drives us to suddenly switch careers, to go on some trip to the far reaches of the earth, or to start a business or a non-profit in our local community — or maybe nothing so dramatic as that; perhaps it merely manifests itself in the way we're constantly looking up at the sky when we go outside or in the way we always stop to watch the sunset on our way home from work.
Whatever it is, when Joy pricks our hearts it is a strange, other-worldly ache, something that we want to experience again. We long for the longing.
The music of the Irish band U2 (coincidentally, C.S. Lewis was born in Ireland) is all about this inconsolable longing — and its new release Songs of Innocence is no exception.
One song has been sticking out to me in particular: "Iris (Hold Me Close)" — track five on the album.
It's about Bono's mother who passed away unexpectedly when he was 14: "The ache in my heart is so much a part of who I am" — Bono sings.
Grief, of course, diffuses into our lives like that — like white noise behind everything. The sorrow never really leaves.
Lewis compared grief to amputation. Not only is it something you don't get over, but it's an absence that now becomes a part of your identity, and that reality shapes the rest of your life. You don't "get over" it. You transform into something else. You form a new life through adapting and finding strength in other ways that build around the ever-present absence.
Joy, in a similar way, stabs our hearts and points us to some unspecified world, some quest that leads "behind the sunrise" — as a Narnia line says — and we never get over it. We become aware of the Great Something — unnamed and undefined, but still haunting us with longing — and it pierces our hearts like the way the light of a distant star pierces the singer's heart in "Iris (Hold Me Close)." Joy transforms us as we work and live around it just as we do with grief.
Both stabbings — stabs of joy and wounds of grief — create longing and ache, and the Holy Spirit moves in both experiences to nudge us down that path that leads behind the sunrise. This is certainly where Lewis and U2 would agree: the joy and grief that we experience in this life are used by a resourceful Hand to lead us to something — Someone — bigger than our lives on this earth.
And our hearts won't stop their restlessness until we find Him.
*Works Cited: Lewis, C. S. (1966-03-23). Surprised by Joy: The Shape of My Early Life. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. Kindle Edition.


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Alison Saunders
University of California, Berkeley
Alison Saunders already was sought after, even as she finished her doctoral degree at the University of California, Berkeley.
Saunders, a Department of Energy National Nuclear Security Administration Stewardship Science Graduate Fellowship (DOE NNSA SSGF) recipient, spent two days in February 2018 at the University of Rochester's Omega Laser Facility. One day she assisted a Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory team as it imploded copper-doped plastic spheres the size of peppercorns. The next she helped Massachusetts Institute of Technology researchers for whom she had developed a platform to measure the spectra of X-rays as they scattered off a target.
"I had to totally switch gears and switch instruments for the second day, but somehow I survived," she laughs.
Saunders is wanted partly because her research with Roger Falcone and Livermore's Tilo Doeppner concentrates on X-ray Thomson scattering (XRTS), a technique to gather data on warm dense matter and other exotic material. Warm dense matter is important in inertial confinement fusion experiments that attempt to capture the process powering the stars and in other physics domains.
After earning her bachelor's degree in physics from Oregon's Reed College, Saunders worked as an accelerator operator, helping oversee the electron beam that generates X-rays at the SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory near Stanford University. "It was a steep and exciting learning curve, but the downside was once you get over that, it becomes a bit routine," Saunders says. She chose to pursue a doctorate after deciding the physicists conducting the experiments had more fun than the operators they directed.
In an XRTS experiment, X-rays are fired into warm dense matter, a plasma of circulating electrons and ions. The rays interact with electrons and scatter. Spectrometers measure how the emerging X-rays' frequencies changed, providing information about the energy they deposited into the sample. That, in turn, offers details about the sample's initial state, including its electron temperature, a key factor in understanding how materials change under various pressures and temperatures.
XRTS is based on known physics of photon-electron interaction, giving it an advantage over other diagnostics, but it's a tough measurement to make, Saunders says. The probability of a photon scattering off an electron at a given angle is low, so it's often difficult to collect enough signal data. In addition, laser facilities where experiments are conducted don't have powerful X-ray sources, so researchers must shine lasers on foils comprised of metal, such as brass or zinc, to produce bright X-rays.
"The problem is, plasma from that foil starts squirting everywhere," Saunders says. Experimenters only want to see X-rays scattering from the sample, so they add shielding to block the instrument's direct view of the foil. "Then it's a game of making sure you have a bright enough X-ray source close to your sample so enough photons scatter, while still ensuring your instrument doesn't see the X-ray source directly."
XRTS measurements of plasma at high temperatures and densities help benchmark computational models that attempt to predict properties of matter under these extreme conditions. For example, it provides data on ionization - how many electrons are tightly bound to an atom compared to how many are free - under extreme matter densities.
Another example is stopping power, the subject of MIT's Omega experiment: Researchers fire protons into warm dense matter and calculate how much energy they lose. XRTS offers detailed insights into these tests.
Her thesis research focused on experiments, but Saunders turned to theory for her 2017 Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory practicum. She wanted to consider the conditions under which XRTS is the most appropriate X-ray diagnostic rather than other techniques like X-ray fluorescence. Her project with physicist Howard Scott exposed her to the principles behind these other instruments.
Scott has written Cretin, an experiment design code that calculates complex transport processes that occur when atoms generate radiation faster than they absorb it. Cretin solves the advanced equations required to capture how these processes affect ionization and other phenomena.
After learning the physics and mathematics behind Cretin, Saunders modeled a photo-pumped X-ray laser experiment for a Livermore collaboration with the United Kingdom's Atomic Weapons Establishment. As in XRTS, a laser zaps a foil - but in this case it strikes both sides and the foil is comprised of two layers of different materials. Because the substances have identical atomic transition energy thresholds, the technique amplifies their X-ray emission spectra.
Since the practicum, Saunders has worked on writing a Cretin user's guide but set the project aside to finish her thesis. She hopes to work at a national laboratory after graduating in spring 2018.
Image caption: X-ray images of a laser-driven implosion of a copper-doped plastic sphere just 500 microns in diameter over a span of 1.5 nanoseconds. From left to right, top to bottom, the first images show the laser compressing the sphere, causing the surface to glow. As the shock wave reaches the center, it becomes hot enough to glow and compresses in the center, causing a single shining hot spot. In the later images, glowing jets on the surface are copper-doped plastic ablating outward. Credit: Alison Saunders.


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Four people accused of engaging in a serious fight at a local Applebee's on Long Island are now facing charges. New York authorities in the area arrested four men all between the ages of 24 and 28 after an altercation turned violent, leaving one of the suspects with a punctured lung. All four now face assault charges, with several other charges filed against two individuals. Each of them must now focus on preparing a criminal defense.
According to the report filed by police, a 28-year-old man and a 27-year-old man became involved in an altercation with two 24-year-old men inside the Applebee's at Green Acres Mall around midnight on the night of March 16. The 28-year-old left to use the bathroom, where the two 24-year-olds supposedly followed him in and assaulted him. Police say the fight continued some time later near the exit of the establishment, where one of the 24-year-olds was reportedly stabbed.
Police say they took all four men into custody when they arrived, and also that they found two knives at the scene. The stabbed man was hospitalized with a punctured lung, while the eldest man suffered a mouth injury. Police believe he may have been under the influence of cocaine at the time of the assaults.
In a situation where no clear antagonist is identified, charges can be filed against all involved, as is the case here. However, New York authorities will have to come up with an accurate timeline of events leading up to the alleged assaults to determine which of the men can be convicted on the charges filed against them. Their criminal defense attorneys will also carefully review the timeline in an effort to protect the innocence of their respective clients.


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Icarus Played a Fender Stratocaster
I walked into my uncle's room. This was two years before he died of a heroin overdose.
Usually his door was locked but that day it had been left ajar.
Inside, he was lying face up on the bed. The curtains were drawn but there was some half-light seeping through the cracks and it meant that I could have a good look and see what was left of him.
There wasn't much left of him.
His skin, once a deep hue of golden brown, had by that point faded to a sickly and brittle yellow. His cheekbones, as sharp as razors, were on the brink of stabbing their way out of his ever-shrinking flesh in a morbid bid for freedom.
He was only twenty-five, and yet to look at him. Jesus. It was like looking upon the face of an Egyptian mummy. Fresh out of the sarcophagus after three thousand years, unwrapped for all to see.
And the smell. Rotting flesh and rotten food, intermingled to become one terrible super-scent.
I was ten years old.
His lunch tray sat on the floor beside the bed, cold and untouched. Chilli Con Carne with extra beans and for dessert, a small mountain of pancakes topped with peanut butter and syrup. Commander-in-chief downstairs – aka my grandmother, his mother – was busy at work in the kitchen, supplying protein bombs and carb rockets three times a day. Her mission? To reclaim the spirit of her youngest son. It was Apocalypse Now, junkie style, and Granny was Captain Willard sailing downriver to terminate (with extreme prejudice) the Colonel Kurtz living in her son's head.
I said hello. My uncle said nothing. I said hello again.
Like something out of a horror movie, his eyes rolled back in his head and all of a sudden he was looking at me. For a split second, his eyes lit up as if he recognised me. But it was no more than a moment's glance, an involuntary reaction perhaps, muscle memory, and then it was gone and I was a stranger again.
He tried to talk, but the words got stuck in his throat and he sounded like a lizard-man gargling violently with mouthwash. He kept trying to say something, to force it out, but it only led to another one of those violent coughing fits. Dear God. Ever since my uncle had taken refuge in Granny's house, those spontaneous coughing fits had become the stuff of legend.
Teacher says every time a bell rings, an angel gets its wings. Well I say that every time a junkie coughs, a demonic motherfucker gets its wings.
Can someone die from coughing? 'Cos that's what it looked like was about to happen. His face blew up and turned purple. I was scared. So scared that I turned around and ran out of the room and just left him there, all alone.
Even now, I can't handle the sound of coughing.
He's not a bad man, is he? I said this to my dad that night. No son, Dad said. He's your uncle, and he's just sick is all.
His was a beautiful funeral.
It took place in an old church surrounded by acres of green pastures and rolling hills. That morning, our car pulled up outside the church gate and as it did so, I peered through the window at the tall grass of the churchyard, swaying in the breeze to the piper's lament.
We – the family – stepped out of the stretch limo. There were crowds lining up everywhere on all sides of the little road that ran alongside the church grounds. My uncle's most devoted fans had come from all corners of the earth to say goodbye. There were thousands of them. It was like watching an alien invasion on a bright summer's morning. Aliens dressed in black, with long hair and tattoos with uncle's lyrics inscribed upon their skin, the message passed on with the intent to forever.
Dad told me to wave back to the fans to show our appreciation. And when we waved, the crowds burst into a spontaneous round of applause, holding their banners aloft, banners that that read 'The King is Dead', 'The Day The Music Died', and many others like that.
And they were singing his songs too. Always, there was the singing.
The fans kept a respectful distance throughout, unlike the majority of press photographers who on several occasions had to be dragged back from the church door by security.
We – the family – were hurriedly escorted from the car into the church, with the television and press cameras bearing down on us. Man, it was surreal but for a few seconds there I had a glimpse of how my uncle had lived the last ten years of his life. And it was exhausting, I can tell you. Just ten seconds of it was enough for me.
The eulogies were fitting. He was a great singer, musician, and songwriter. He was the spokesman of a generation. The next Jimi Hendrix, they'd called him as a teenager, said dad with a heartbroken smile.
Dying at twenty-seven, he got that bit right. Now he'd joined a club that not only included Hendrix, but also Jim Morrison, Janis Joplin, Brian Jones, Kurt Cobain, and Amy Winehouse.
That's how it was. Friends and colleagues took to the pulpit and told happy stories about my junkie uncle. Bullshit, every last word of it. But that's how we do it. We'd rather build a mythology over a rotten corpse than tell the truth. So instead, they talked about the musical legacy and the multiple Grammy wins. They called him Icarus and said that in life, he'd flown on melting wings.
Nobody spoke about heroin or the fact that we were celebrating a wasted life.
None of those people had smelled the air after one of his coughing fits.
But I had.


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text: Our College celebrated the 25 years of service along with the first International Conference held on Jan 23-24, 2009. This Conference was organized in cooperation with Association for Computing Machinery(ACM). Conference was inaugurated with the keynote speech from Mr. M. VidyaSagar, Executive Vice President Tata Consultancy Services and Dr.D.H. Rao, Gogte Institute Of Technology Balgaom. In this Conference, over 300 technical papers were received which went through a rigorous review process of three reviews per paper by members from the International Programme Committee.Finally, 134 papers were selected. These papers were presented over two days in three parallel tracks. All papers were uploaded in the ACM Digital library.


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1. You want to give your form items consistent font, color and pattern properties. What object would you use?
• Object Group
• Record Group
• Parameter
• Visual Attribute
• Alert
2. You have created multiple timers in your application. How will you come to know which is the most recently expired timer?
• You cannot have multiple timers
• A reference is passed to the when-timer-expired trigger which indicates the name of the timer that has expired
• By using the get_timer_name built in
• By using the get_application_property built in
• By using the get_recent_timer built in
3. A restricted procedure is one which:
• Is only accessible by special users
• Can be used only if the privileges are granted by the DBA
• Can only be used in specific types of triggers and not in all triggers
• Restricts its usage to only one data block
• Can be used only if the data is accessed directly from a table
4. Unrestricted built-ins can be used with which type of trigger?
• All types of triggers
• Pre
• Post
• On
• Pre and Post
5. How many content canvases can be displayed in a window at a given time?
• 1
• 2
• 3
• 4
• No limit
6. Which trigger will fire first when the form is run?
• On-Logon
• Pre-Logon
• When-New-Form-Instance
• When-New-Block-Instance
• When-New-Item-Instance
7. Which built-in is used to exit from the application?
• Quit
• Terminate
• Exit_form
• Exit
• Quit_form
8. A programmer wants that for a specific block, when the last item loses focus, the focus should go to the next block automatically. What should be done to enforce the above navigation style?
• Use a go_block built-in in the post-text-item trigger
• Use a go_block built-in in the post-block trigger
• Use a go_item built-in in the post-text-item trigger
• Set the next navigation data block property of the data block
• It cannot be done
9. Which of the following is not a unit of the real co-ordinate system used by form builder?
• Point
• Centimetre
• Inch
• Pixel
• Character
10. You want to allow the users to enter their passwords. Which item type would you use?
• Text Item
• Text Item with conceal data property set to yes
• Text Item with multi-line property set to yes
• Text Item with wrap style property set to none
• Text Item with keep cursor position property set to yes
11. Which of the following statements is not true about foreign functions?
• These are subprograms written in a 3GL programming language
• Foreign functions that you can invoke from a PL/SQL interface must be contained in a dynamic library
• Foreign functions are often used to enhance performance or provide additional functionality to form builder
• They can be accessed directly in PL/SQL
• Foreign functions are invoked from a PL/SQL interface
12. What will happen if the same trigger exists at both the item and block level?
• The block level trigger will fire
• The item level trigger will fire
• First the block level trigger, then the item level trigger will fire
• First the item level trigger, then the block level trigger will fire
• The item level trigger will fire by default, but setting the execution style property of the trigger can change the sequence
13. Which can be a data source for a data block?
• Table
• View
• Procedure
• From Query
• All of the above can be sources for a data block
14. The window style property can have which of the two values?
• Document or Dialog
• Modal or Non-Modal
• MDI or SDI
• Parent or Child
• Response or Popup
15. The synchronize with item property is used:
• To verify the values entered in a text item
• To create more than one item in a block that display the same database column value
• To show both the value in the database and the new value
• To display the time in a text item
• To automatically skip to the next navigable item once the last character in the text field has been fully entered
16. Which built-in is not related to a record group?
• Create_Group
• Create_Group_From_Query
• Delete_Group
• Delete_Group_Row
• Create_Record
17. Which is the default canvas?
• Content
• Stacked
• Tab
• Vertical Toolbar
• Horizontal Toolbar
18. The object from which another object can inherit property settings is:
• Property Group
• Property Cluster
• Object Property
• Property Class
• Property Library
19. The When-Validate-Item trigger is available at which level?
• Form
• Block and form
• Item and form
• Item and block
• Item, block and form
20. You want a text item to display the current date and time. What will be the initial value of the item?
• date
• datetime
• $datetime$
• $$datetime$$
• $$date$$
21. Which system variable gives information about the current block?
• System.current_block
• System.cursor_block
• System.trigger_block
• a and b
• a, b and c
22. Which system variable represents the name of the last window that was affected by an action that caused one of the window event triggers to fire?
• System.Window
• System.Event_Window
• system.trigger_window
• system.action_window
• system.window_affected
23. You want to know if you are at the first record in a block. What technique or variable would you use?
• System.first_record system variable
• System.cursor_record system variable
• The get_block_property built-in
• The get_record_property built-in
• Either b or c
24. In which of the following type of triggers is the default functionality replaced if you write some code?
• Pre
• Post and pre
• Key
• On
• On and key
25. The PR format mask for numeric values:
• Displays leading zeros
• Prefixes the value with a dollar sign
• Displays a "-" after a negative value
• Displays a negative in
• Displays the value in scientific notation
26. What is the maximum number of windows you can create in a form?
• 5
• 10
• 20
• 50
• No limit
27. Foreign functions are:
• Functions written in a separate PL/SQL library and used through attached libraries
• Functions written to access a data source other than Oracle
• Subprograms written in a 3GL programming language
• Functions written to access data sources other than Oracle
• Not supported in Developer 2000
28. Window related triggers are available at which level?
• Form
• Block
• Both form and block
• Form and item
• Item, block and form
29. The user wants that whenever he comes to a specific text item the LOV should be displayed automatically. What property of the LOV would the programmer have to set?
• Auto Refresh
• Automatic position
• Automatic display
• Auto popup
• Auto appear
30. The automatic skip property of an item:
• Automatically moves the cursor to the next block
• Moves the cursor to the next navigable item when adding or changing data in the last character of the current item
• Automatically terminates the application
• Automatically moves the focus to the next window
• Automatically moves the focus to the next canvas
31. System.mouse_button_shift_state variable indicates:
• Whether the mouse is moving
• Whether the mouse is still
• The key that was pressed during the click, such as SHIFT, ALT, or CONTROL
• The canvas over which the mouse is being moved
• The window over which the mouse is being moved
32. Which of the following is not a module?
• Form
• Menu
• PL/SQL Library
• Object Library
• Popup Menu
33. You want the list item to display multiple values at one time. What style should the list item have?
• Poplist
• T list
• Combo Box
• Dropdown
• Multi List
34. Which of the following things will you not do with the Post-Query trigger?
• Populate control items or items in other blocks
• Calculate statistics about the records retrieved by a query
• Calculate a running total
• Insert records into a table
• To select non-base table values into control items
35. Which of the following is not a valid find trigger?
• Find_Timer
• Find_Block
• Find_Canvas
• Find_Form
• Find_Trigger
36. How many content canvases can be attached to a window?
• 1
• 2
• 3
• 4
• No limit
37. Which of the following statements is true if there is a summary item in a block?
• The block's precompute summaries and query all records properties are to be set to true
• There is no need to set the above properties to true
• Either precompute summaries or query all records property is to be set to true
• There can only be one summary item in a block
• There can be at the most five summary items in a block
38. Which of the following is not a property of the LOV?
• Validate from list
• Auto display
• Automatic column width
• Filter before display
• Automatic position
39. You want to display custom messages whenever an error occurs. Which trigger will you use?
• Key-Error
• On-Error
• Pre-Error
• Post-Error
• When-Error
40. A popup menu can be attached to which of the following objects?
• Canvas
• Block
• Window and Block
• Item
• Canvas and Item
41. Which of the following is not a type of canvas?
• Content
• Stacked
• Popup
• Tab
• Vertical/horizontal toolbar
42. Which built-in displays a list of values (LOV) window at the given co-ordinates, and returns TRUE if the operator selects a value from the list, and FALSE if the operator cancels and dismisses the list?
• Show_Lov
• Open_Lov
• Display_Lov
• Prompt_Lov
• Lov_Show
43. Which of the following is not true with respect to Timers?
• More than one Timer can be created
• The interval is specified in milliseconds
• Timers cannot be destroyed
• Interval can be changed at run time
• When-Timer-Expired trigger is used to write code when a Timer expires
44. You want to pass certain values from forms to reports on the basis of which the report will execute. Which object will you create to enable passing of the value?
• Object Group
• Parameter List
• Record Group
• Visual Attribute
• Attached Library
45. What is the maximum number of buttons an Alert can have?
• 1
• 2
• 3
• 4
• 5
46. Which of the following is not a valid format mask for character strings?
• 9
• !
47. Which trigger is fired when an operator double-clicks on an element in a list item that is displayed as a T-list ?
• When-List-Clicked
• When-List-Activated
• When-List-Changed
• When-Mouse-Down
• When-List-Doubleclick
48. You do not want to enforce the default functionality of a LOV upon pressing the F9 key but want to modify the action. What trigger would you use?
• On-Lov
• Key-Lov
• Key-Listval
• Key-Listofvalues
• Key-Pressed
49. You have code in PL/SQL libraries that you want to use in your form. What object will you create to be able to use the code?
• Attached Library
• Object Group
• Object Library
• Alert
• Property Class
50. Given the following triggers, arrange them in the correct order of execution:
1 Pre-Logon
2 Pre-Form
3 When-New-Form-Instance
4 Post-Logout
• 1,2,3,4
• 2,1,4,3
• 2,1,3,4
• 3,1,2,4
• 3,1,4,2
51. Which of the following mouse triggers is not supported?
• When-Mouse-Click
• When-Mouse-Dragover
• When-Mouse-Leave
• When-Mouse-Up
• When-Mouse-Move
52. Which trigger can you use to modify the example record that determines which rows will be identified by the query?
• Pre-Select
• Pre-Fetch
• Pre-Query
• On-Query
• Post-Query
53. Which object is automatically created upon creating a form?
• Block
• Canvas
• Window
• Alert
• Menu
54. Procedures and functions to be used within the form can be written by creating which object?
• Object Group
• Property Class
• Record Group
• Program Unit
• Visual Attribute
55. System.record_status variable cannot have which of the following values?
• Changed
• Insert
• New
• Query
• Empty
56. You want to display a custom screen for logging on to the application. What trigger would you use?
• When-New-Form-Instance
• Pre-Logon
• Post-Logon
• On-Logon
• When-New-Block-Instance
57. Which of the following is not a window related trigger?
• When-Window-Activated
• When-Window-Deactivated
• When-Window-Resized
• When-Window-Closed
• When-Window-Opened
58. Identify the incorrect statement regarding alerts:
• An alert at the most can have 3 buttons
• An alert can have three styles
• At runtime, it is not possible to change the label of the buttons
• At runtime, it is possible to change the title of the alert
• At runtime, it is possible to change the message of the alert
59. Which of the following is not true with respect to forms, windows and canvases?
• A form can have many windows
• A window can display many canvases
• The same canvas can be displayed in more than one window
• The same canvas cannot be displayed in more than one window
• A window can be of either type: document or dialog
60. Whenever the user moves the mouse over an item, you want to provide him with a brief description of the item. What property would you use?
• Prompt
• Hint
• Bevel
• ToolTip
• Rendered
61. The default value for the DML array size property of a block is:
• 1
• 2
• 5
• 10
• 50
62. You do not want the lov to be refreshed every time it is displayed. Which property would you set to no?
• Automatic Skip
• Automatic Select
• Automatic Display
• Automatic Refresh
• Automatic Position


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Carolyn Crawford and fellow Detroiter Willie Jones have been announced as the headline acts for the 2019 6T's Cleethorpes Rare & Modern Soul Weekender. With Jr. Walkers All Star Band performing on Friday night. Live music on Friday is a first for the Cleethorpes Weekender.
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We celebrated Ashlyne's birthday today with a party. Five is a big birthday in our family because you get to have a "kid party." So Ashlyne's party was held at our church gym. She wanted a Cars theme- no girly girl here. We invited some children from our church and some friends of the family as well as our whole big clan. The kids had lots of fun playing in the gym and out on the playground. Enjoy the slideshow:
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Wren hasn't had much luck with women. She always seems to attract the weird sort. When her latest date maintained she was from another planet, Wren had been glad she was going to Ashland.
Goatherd and cheese maker, Sophie Ward met Wren while she was in town selling her cheese. The two women hit it off right away and spend the night making wild passionate love. Wren was in heaven, she thought at last she had found the perfect woman. Sophie left the next morning though without leaving her phone number.
What happens next can only be described by me as a complete fun filled book, full of misunderstandings, mistaken identities, love and laughter. A true comedy of errors.
When the villain of the story, John Batard decides to find and unmask Eno Threlkeld, he bites off more than he can chew. What will happen next?
Amidst all the hilarity and on a more serious note, will Wren and Sophie ever find the truth and get past the total misunderstandings to find the love they both deserve?
An excellent, well written, laugh out loud book. I have to admit, when I saw Shakespeare being quoted, I thought, 'oh no, not my scene'. But I couldn't have been more wrong. There is much more to this book than Shakespeare. Although I'm British and I don't always 'get' the American sense of humor, I found the book so funny and the story just flows along. This is so very different to anything Robbi has written before. The one thing that is the same though, is the quality of the writing and the excellence of the story telling. The characters are superb. The whole book reminded me of going to the theater and watching a play. I could almost smell the goats and taste the cheese.
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Running is a great form of exercise and an excellent way to rejuvenate your body and mind. People who run report having more energy during the day and sleep better at night. It is an excellent way to stay in shape, but is it safe to do while pregnant?
If running is already a part of your routine, you're probably wondering if you have to give it up once you become pregnant. The good news is that you don't necessarily have to retire your running shoes for nine months. But you also shouldn't continue without speaking with your physician first.
Once you conceive, it's important to speak with a health care professional before continuing or starting any exercise program so you can avoid over exerting yourself and confirm you are clear of any medical condition that could put you or your baby in harm's way. Medical conditions that may deter you from running include pregnancy-induced high blood pressure, gestational diabetes, history of pre-term labour or miscarriage.
If no potential hazards are found, running while pregnant is quite safe and beneficial. Running while pregnant can:
- Prevent excess weight gain
- Reduce pregnancy related hypertension
- Increase energy levels
- Decrease anxiety levels
- Increase blood circulation and placental efficiency
While the benefits are plenty, there are some things you should keep in mind. Stretching, for instance, should be done cautiously because your ligaments are much softer now. Other things you should keep in mind when running pregnant include:
Increase water intake. It's important to stay hydrated to avoid excess water retention, decrease fatigue, keep headaches at bay and most importantly keep your body from overheating (which is especially dangerous while pregnant).
Pace yourself. This is no time to push yourself to new limits. Continue running for health and wellness purposes only. In other words, that marathon you wanted to sign up for will just have to wait until after the baby's born. Stop when your body says stop and take breaks as you need to.
Take the easy route. As your belly expands, your balance will dwindle. It's therefore not a great idea to take your regular route through the woods or up and down hills. In fact, once you reach the second trimester, you may want to consider sticking to the treadmill at the gym.
Get the right gear. When you're pregnant, it's not just your abdomen that grows. Your feet grow and so do your breasts. You therefore may have to go up a running shoe size and get fitted for a new sports bra so you have the proper support.
Especially in the last trimester, you may feel out of breath more often due to the diaphragm not having as much room to move around and the heart having to pump harder due to increased blood circulation. It's therefore important to listen to your body and slow down when you need to.
Running is an excellent form of exercise and many women are able to continue throughout their entire pregnancy. But, while there are many benefits, it is important to know the facts and to consult a physician before continuing in order to protect yourself and your baby.


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Jacqui Melhuish - November 2017
Our planned speaker had to cancel her visit but a local illustrator and ceramicist kindly agreed to step in and talk to us at our November meeting.
Jacqui Melhuish has her own workshop and gallery with other artists in Wagon's Yard, Marlborough. Jacqui started by explaining that drawing had been her favourite subject at school and she subsequently went on to become an illustrator. With a young family she enrolled on a foundation course at Swindon College and subsequently took a BA Hon in Illustration. Jacqui started incorporating illustrations in her ceramics and went on to teach pottery at Swindon and Marlborough Colleges.
Inspiration for her work comes from a happy family upbringing and Jacqui uses childhood memories and sayings of relations, holidays and books to illustrate her work. There is no doubt Jacqui is a very talented lady being accomplished as an illustrator and ceramicist but she told us she prefers to work with clay now and her favourite piece is what she calls an ancestry totem.
It was interesting for us as textile artists to hear how Jacqui collects her clay direct from the supplier and loves to make large scale upright vessels. She explained how she constructs a frame out of cardboard tubes and the like, onto which she can rest the slabs of clay and allow them to dry rather than using the coil pot method. Just look at the pieces of old lace which Jacqui has pressed into the clay before firing.
Jacqui's enthusiasm for her subject became apparent when she explained that every new idea had to be practised and she really enjoyed the challenges of working with clay and the surprise results when doing raku firing. Exhibiting at Open Studios she was fortunate to sell a lot of her work but with her teaching commitments she finds time for her own creations limited. Hopefully in the new year after her Christmas Exhibition she will be able to restock her cupboards.
Report and some photos by Ros.
Some photos thanks to Jacqui
Jacqui's website is: http://jacquimelhuish.co.uk/
Gallery website: https://www.wagonyardartists.co.uk/
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The FINANCIAL -- Switzerland's central bank swung to a loss in the first three months of the year as its decision to stop capping the franc cut sharply into the value of its euro reserves, according to Nasdaq.
On April 30, the Swiss National Bank said it posted a loss of 30.0 billion Swiss francs ($31.9 billion) in the first quarter, compared with a year-earlier profit of 4.4 billion francs. The quarterly loss was the bank's largest since the second quarter of 2013.
The loss was almost entirely caused by the erosion of its huge foreign-currency positions, which are dominated by the euro, and which amounted to 29.3 billion francs. The bank also recorded a 1 billion franc loss on its gold holdings, which are denominated in dollars.
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Dereham Blues Festival set to be 'better than ever'
PUBLISHED: 11:49 02 July 2018 | UPDATED: 11:49 02 July 2018
Guitars have been re-stringed, set lists prepared, and pub cellars restocked, as a mid Norfolk market town prepares to come alive with the sound of the blues.
Dereham has played host to the popular mid summer music festival since 2013.
And this year the town is once again preparing to welcome more than 40 acts and several thousand attendees, as festival organisers have said the show is set to be 'better than ever'.
The opening numbers will be played on Thursday, July 12 and the festival runs until Sunday, July 15, with acts performing in 12 town centre venues, and 45 bands, trios, duos and solo performers to entertain the blues enthusiasts expected to descend on Dereham.
The opening gig on July 12 features jazz and blues icon Georgie Fame at the Dereham Memorial Hall, with refreshments available before the show.
The musical legend has released more than 20 albums and 14 hit singles, including several number ones, and collaborated with artists including Muddy Waters and Eric Clapton.
And over the following four days town will come alive with a top line-up of local, regional and UK blues acts filling the venues.
Entry to all the gigs apart from the opening night is free throughout the festival.
Mr Collins said: "This year's Dereham Blues Festival is going to be better than ever.
"So come on down and join the crowd in the town.
"You will be most welcome and you will have a fantastic time."
This year's festival will also see several jam sessions held on the Sunday afternoon, with all welcome to take part at The Cherry Tree, The George, the Gemini and The King's Head Hotel beer garden.
Five years ago the festival attracted 500 people, and by 2017 had 50 acts performing, a third of which were home grown talent from Norfolk and East Anglia, with the rest travelling to the festival from around the UK.
And organisers expect around 2,000 blues fans to attend this year's event.
Dereham Blues Festival is run by an volunteer group of eight Norfolk blues enthusiasts and is supported by the Norfolk Blues Society.
For an up-to-date program of the four day festival visit the website.
Printed programmes will be available in local venues.
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