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Tourism, gaming, agriculture, fishing, manufacturing and small businesses have historically been staples of South Jersey's economy and, to a significant extent, will be keys to the region's short-term recovery and long-term economic growth. However, with the economy continuing to struggle and unemployment rising, it is imperative we look for opportunities to strengthen and expand new and emerging industries that could provide significant revenues and create local high-paying jobs. With deep roots already in South Jersey, the first industry we must look to is aviation.
I have long advocated and worked for substantial federal investment in our region's infrastructure, particularly at the Atlantic City International Airport. According to the South Jersey Transportation Authority (SJTA), ACY currently handles more than a million passengers annually and has an overall economic impact of $464 million. Recognizing that growth of ACY could result in increased tourism to the region and an economic boon to South Jersey, I was proud to recently help secure more than $2.3 million in federal funding to expand the terminal and improve safety operations at the airport. But physical growth and structural improvements are just one part of effort.
Likewise, I support SJTA's active engagement with the airlines and consumers to promote ACY as the attractive alternative to Philadelphia for travel to the region. Not only would increasing flights to ACY reduce the ongoing congestion at this major hub, but it would further link South Jersey communities to the nation's aviation network and provide a needed economic boost to our region. Efforts to attract additional carriers and increase flights, however, must include outreach to and input from local residents and nearby defense facilities.
But ACY is not our only contribution to the aviation industry. Rather, I firmly believe South Jersey's long-term economic prosperity is tied to our region's ongoing efforts to be the nation's premier location for aviation research and development. Critical to those efforts is the FAA Technical Center in Egg Harbor Township and the expansion of its research into the Next Generation Air Transportation System ("NextGen"). The men and women at the FAA Tech Center are diligently working on this critical project that will modernize the nation's antiquated air traffic control system. Currently, Congress is considering legislation that will provide over $13 billion in federal funding to accelerate the implementation of "NextGen".
My position on the House Aviation Subcommittee has allowed me to aggressively promote an increased public investment in the aviation sector in South Jersey. I recently secured a provision in the FAA Authorization Act of 2009 that would establish a formal Center of Excellence in the research and development of "NextGen" in cooperation with the planned Aviation Research & Technology Park in Egg Harbor Township.
The Center will bring together professionals at the FAA Tech Center with experts in the aviation industry and academia to research and develop the new technologies that will power the next generation of air travel in the United States. It also allows the FAA to provide federal funding to support such activities. The Center of Excellence will build on efforts already underway locally by Atlantic County, the Richard Stockton College, the Casino Reinvestment Development Authority, local industry and the FAA Tech Center to build and promote the planned Aviation Research Park.
Clearly, there is an established base for the aviation industry in South Jersey, already employing thousands of residents at the FAA Tech Center and ACY and fostering tens of millions of dollars in economic revenue to the region. Recognizing the significant economic and job creation opportunities that are possible, additional growth of the industry must be encouraged. It is my hope that ACY will continue to expand its facilities and services to meet the region's needs while also serving as a partner for testing and implementing new aviation systems being developed at the FAA Tech Center and future Aviation Research & Technology Park.
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Southampton have the opportunity to move clear at the top, while three teams will be hoping to get their first points on the board.
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Southampton have the opportunity to move clear at the top of the Championship table on Tuesday night, while three teams will be hoping to get their first points on the board.
Of the five sides to have won their opening two games of the season, only Southampton are in action on Tuesday night as Nigel Adkins takes his men to Portman Road to face an Ipswich outfit that has lost twice at home already in all competitions.
Reading produced an impressive display to beat highly-fancied Leicester at the weekend and could move second with an away victory over Portsmouth, who have so far collected just one point.
Unbeaten Middlesbrough will be looking to continue their fine start to the campaign when they travel to Oakwell to lock horns with Barnsley, one of three teams yet to score in the Championship.
Nottingham Forest have not managed to find the target either but Steve McClaren has added Ishmael Miller to his squad since Saturday's 2-0 defeat to Millwall and the striker could be in line for an immediate debut against a Doncaster side that has suffered back-to-back league defeats.
Leeds find themselves in the bottom three after a couple of early losses and will want to get back on track in the Yorkshire derby with Hull City at Elland Road.
West Ham bounced back from the disappointment of losing at home to Cardiff to overcome Doncaster last time out and another away victory against Watford would push them into a strong position.
Coventry, who have suffered 1-0 reversals in each of their opening games, journey to Crystal Palace in the night's final game.

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Julie Cannon has walked the imaginary line. Now, she is ready to set Jennifer Clodfelter free.
Clodfelter is the main character in Cannon's sixth novel, "Twang," which she will debut locally on Sunday at the Oconee County Library in Watkinsville. She will play host to a signing, a reading, and a time to listen to tales told through country music.
In "Twang," Clodfelter is a 23-year-old Southern woman headed to Nashville to take a shot at stardom as a country music singer. Readers experience the character that took over Cannon's vivid imagination.
On Wednesday morning, Cannon was at the desk of her home in Watkinsville jotting down the country songs she intends to play at the library event, which starts at 4 p.m. and includes refreshments and door prizes.
Already she has listed "Your Cheating Heart" by Hank Williams, "Ring of Fire" by Johnny Cash and "Forever and Ever Amen" by Randy Travis.
"The most powerful country songs, like "He Stopped Loving Her Today," are emotional things," she said as she scribbled in a notebook. "Listen to 'Red Solo Cup' and you just want to have a party.
"I read a quote by Conway Twitty that put it together. He said, 'A good country song takes a page out of someone's life and puts it to music.' I believe that's true for a good story."
If she had to pick a country theme song for her own story, Cannon said it would be "Jesus and Mama Always Loved Me" by Confederate Railroad.
In preparation for the novel, Cannon's editor wanted her to visit Nashville. So she went. She toured the sights, including the Grand Ole Opry.
"I heard Josh Turner sing 'Long Black Train.' I about melted in my seat," she said.
When she finished the novel, the editor asked how she felt about rewriting parts to include the flood that washed through Nashville in 2010.
"I didn't want to do it at first, but I started researching the flood to see what happened," she said. "I had walked along the Cumberland (River). There's a lot of power there."
Cannon then saw the potential drama of including the flood into her story.
An Athens native and University of Georgia graduate, Cannon started her career as a novelist in 2001 with the publication of "Truelove & Homegrown Tomatoes," a tale of Imogene Lavender that turned into a trilogy.
At Sunday's reading, she expects to look into the audience and see her parents, Bob and Gloria Lowrey, and her elementary school teacher, Anne Cook of Bogart, who has followed her career since the publication of her first book. And the mysterious novelist Augusta Troubaugh may make an appearance.
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Despite assurances from their employers, radium was not safe for these girls to work with and in some cases ingest. They are mostly poor working class girls that feel like they've hit the proverbial lottery and bask in being known as the "shining girls" until years pass and they all start suffering from terrible illnesses. In the time of World War 1 and the years after that these girls painted watch faces and airplane instruments so that they would glow in the dark. The fact that it took years before anyone connected the fact that radium was indeed dangerous is surprising to me. The story follows two sets of women one in New Jersey and the other group in rural Illinois. Just as the New Jersey girls are getting very sick, you watch the whole story play out again from the beginning in Illinois.
Eventually, some of the surviving girls decided to take the company to court, and this is where the book really took off for me. Like a 1920's Law and Order episode the company and the doctors who worked for them continued to lie and cover up their wrongdoings. These girls were looking for money to pay their medical bills and maybe have some to leave their families as they all realized by that point that they were very sick indeed.
I would recommend this book to seventh and eighth-grade students and high school students and anyone else who hasn't read about these brave woman.
Footnote: It wasn't until 1979 that the courts found the successors of the original Radium Dial Factory liable for the clean-up costs at the old sites.
I received a DRC from the publisher in exchange for an honest review.
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Tesla Motors founder Elon Musk has raised the ante on the rest of the automobile industry, declaring in a recent interview with the Financial Times that his company's self-driving car will be street-ready by 2016.
Google, whose autonomous car has successfully driven more than 500,000 miles and has even accommodated a blind driver, had previously set 2018 as the expected release date for its self-driving car technology. Israeli company Mobileye is the only other to make as bold a claim as Tesla, albeit with a lower-cost system that The New York Times says "does not offer the autonomy achieved by Google's engineers."
Although Musk has a tendency to talk publicly of far-reaching technological concepts, most notably the Hyperloop, he told the Financial Times that this declaration is "not speculation," but rather an educated guess based on the company's internal development.
There is a catch, however. Musk says the car will not be fully autonomous, but will instead offer "a form of auto-pilot' in most situations that would allow the vehicle to take over control," the Financial Times reported.
"My opinion is it's a bridge too far to go to fully autonomous cars," Musk said in the interview. "It's incredibly hard to get the last few percent."
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In that sense, Tesla's plans for driverless cars align more with Mobileye's than Google's. Mobileye can automate driving a vehicle that drives "in a single lane at freeway speeds, as well as identifying traffic lights and automatically slowing, stopping and then returning to highway speeds." Its benefit, compared to Google's driverless car, is that it costs just a few hundred dollars to outfit a car with the cameras that make up the Mobileye system.
The Financial Times also notes that Google has had difficulty finding a manufacturing partner willing to adopt its technology, reportedly out of concern for safety and liability.
"Mr Musk's rejection of the idea of a fully autonomous car, however, was the latest sign that Google has had trouble finding partners among established carmakers to bring its technology to the road," the Financial Times reported.
Despite the increasingly competitive race to put the first driverless car on the road, others are less optimistic. Sheila Brennan, IDC's program manager for product lifecycle strategies, said in March that issues involving handling the implicit data and legal issues involved with autonomous cars will keep them largely off the road until about 2040.
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Heaven in Her Arms is a book that takes us on an adventurous journey into Mary's life. We see her in three different roles throughout this journey: as a young woman, as the mother of Jesus and as God's daughter. The one constant characteristic that we can find in all of these roles is her complete trust and obedience in her God.
The thing that I loved about this book is that the author does such a great job introducing us into Mary's life, with all of the details that shaped her, with her inner thoughts and struggles.
Everything is so greatly brought to surface so that we can understand the incredibly important role that Mary had into shaping Jesus as her child and as the Son of God, the Messiah.
We also get to see what was so special about her that made God chose her, of all the women, to be the one to entrust His most precious Son to.
And even though she does not play a central role in the nativity story, she was the person that faithfully trusted and obeyed. So her role into the nativity story was to rely on God and trust that everything will happen exactly as God had planned it to happen.
I never thought about Mary in such a deep way before, but now that I read the book I can say that her story is one that I believe God is using to teach us, women, some powerful and important lessons that can help us become the women that He crated us to be. Mary teaches us how to fully live that perfect plan that God has for each of us.
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General Chess Openings
With this new, 16 hour course, IM Valeri Lilov sets out to solve one of the biggest problems for club players: how to improve their openings. Instead of presenting a never-ending stream of computer-recommended variations, Valeri describes the strategic aims of each side. Things like where to place each piece, which side of the board to attack on and which exchanges benefit you.
Lilov Chess Institute - #2 - Ideas Behind the Openings - 3 DVDs - IM Valeri Lilov - Over 16 Hours of Content!
What the Chess Openings Look Like
Chess openings are the most important part of every novice's journey and the most fun. The most common and important openings are presented in an easy-to-use format with large, frequent diagrams showing every position along with clear explanations of the goals, objectives, and concepts behind the moves.
51 Chess Openings for Beginners
On this DVD Nigel Davies addresses this issue by demonstrating a simple and easy to learn opening system designed for the busy person.
A Busy Person's Opening System - Nigel Davies
Sharp, Surprising and Forcing Lines for Black and White
In blitz, even more than in 'classical chess', it is important to make the right decisions quickly and almost instinctively. That is why world-famous opening expert Grandmaster Evgeny Sveshnikov and his son, International Master Vladimir Sveshnikov, have created a chess opening repertoire for club players that is forcing, both narrow and deep, and aggressive.
A Chess Opening Repertoire for Blitz and Rapid
This is a combined work, taking five separate books and combining them into one volume, but then re-dividing them into two volumes.
A Complete Chess Course - How to Win at Chess - VOLUME I
A Flexible Repertoire To Take Your Opponents Out Of Their Comfort Zone
In this book, highly experienced chess opening writer Graham Burgess presents a repertoire based on 1 d4 and Nf3 with precisely those aims. Black's possibilities for counterplay - and sharp gambit play - are kept to a minimum. Our aim is to give Black exactly the type of position he doesn't want. If he is seeking blocked positions with pawn-chains, we'll keep the game fluid. If he wants complex strategy, we'll attack him with simple piece-play. Simplifications? No thanks, we'll keep the pieces on and intensify the battle. Gambits? Hardly, as we simply prevent most of them!
A Cunning Chess Opening Repertoire for White
This book is exactly what is claims to be: A handy reference guide to the basic chess openings, yet small enough to be carried around in the pocket.
A Pocket Guide to the Chess openings
Chess University
Nikolai Kalinichenko, an international grandmaster in correspondence player and author of some 40 chess titles, presents here a complete and up-to-date opening repertoire. It is intended for players of positional style, or for use when the competitive situation demands a solid approach. The repertoire is based on 1. e4 as White and the Classical Sicilian and King's Indian Defence as Black.
A Positional Opening Repertoire for the Club Player
In this book, GM Alexei Kornev presents a practical black repertoire with Nf6, g6 and d6 - The English, Reti and Other Defences
A Practical Black Repertoire with Nf6, g6, d6 - English, Pirc, Reti and Other Defences - Vol. 1
In the all new 'ABC of Chess Openings' International Master Andrew Martin explores the diverse possibilities available to everyone in the opening phase of the game.
ABC of the Chess Openings - Andrew Martin - 2nd Edition
The accelerated dragon is the perfect weapon for the competitive chess player. This text provides an objective and detailed analysis of all variations for white and black which should enable the reader to gain a true understanding of this defence while enjoying the scope of original thought.
Accelerated Dragons
Chess University
Nikolai Kalinichenko, an international grandmaster in correspondence player and author of some 40 chess titles, presents here a complete and up-to-date opening repertoire. It is intended for players of attacking style, or for use when the competitive situation demands an aggressive approach. The repertoire is based on 1. e4 as White and the Sicilian Dragon and Leningrad Dutch as Black. Suggestions are also offered against all the opponent's main alternatives.
An Aggressive Opening Repertoire for the Club Player
Presented by GMs Kraii, Kritz and Perelshteyn
Get a thorough introduction to The King's Indian Attack, Benko Gambit, Accelerated Dragon, Trompowski, Berlin Wall, The Old Indian, Nimzo 4.Qc2 Nc6 for Black.
An Introduction to Openings - Chess Lecture - Volume 158
GM Jesse Kraai explains Kasparov's fundamental theorem of chess with which any position can be evaluated. Jesse gives us examples of near perfect games, and analysis tools to evaluate your own game.ECO: C22, C41, A15
Balance of Time, Material and Quality of Position - Chess Lecture - Volume 62
Play Like a Winner from Move One
In his trademark humorous and kid-friendly way, Hertan teaches what you should actually be trying to achieve at the start of a game. Kids will love learning how to avoid The Five Most Common Opening Mistakes.
Basic Chess Openings for Kids
Before the endgame, God created the middlegame, but you will never reach the middlegame if you misplay the opening! 'Catastrophe in the Opening' is a study of how the games of contemporary players go awry the initial stages of the game and as such, will prove instructive at all levels. It's designed to help you avoid disaster in your own games by learning from the typical mistakes of others.
Catastrophe in the Opening - Andrew Martin
Encyclopedia of Chess Openings D includes 1. d4 d5 & 1. d4 Nf6 2. c4 g6 followed by 3... d5, Queen's Gambit (Slav, QG Accepted, Orthodox, Tarrasch, Tartakower, etc.), Gruenfeld, and Queen's Pawn, etc.
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The fourth thoroughly revised and updated edition of the ECO, Volume E, brings additional 144 pages of the brand new material.
CD - Encyclopedia of Chess Openings E
A Century of Chess Evolution
This book is one of the great classics of chess literature. The author, Imre Konig, was an International Master of Chess and a great analyst as well as an entertaining writer. He describes the development of chess opening theory and discusses lines of play no longer in vogue but which remain powerful weapons for the practical tournament player.This book was originally published in 1950 as ''Chess from Morphy to Botwinnik''.
Chess from Morphy to Botvinnik
Volume 1: Chess opening Principles. Demonstrates that you don't need to try to memorize hundreds of openings variations as long as you play the opening by following common basic ideas. You'll learn all about fast development, centralization, mobility, and defense, all of which will help you get a good position which will lead directly into a playable middle game. 20 chapters, 90 minutes.Volume 2: Basic Tactics and Strategy. You'll discover a variety of tactical weapons that you could use over and over to win material and gain an advantage over your opponents. You'll also learn all about chess strategy, plans and formations that will provide you with a lasting edge. 27 chapters, 100 minutes.Volume 3: Endgames. When few pieces are left on the board, knowing the proper procedures can spell the difference between victory and defeat. 22 chapters, 45 minutes + bonus material.
Chess King's Complete Chess Course - ALL 3 VOLUMES
Volume 1: Chess opening Principles. Demonstrates that you don't need to try to memorize hundreds of openings variations as long as you play the opening by following common basic ideas. You'll learn all about fast development, centralization, mobility, and defense, all of which will help you get a good position which will lead directly into a playable middle game. 20 chapters, 90 minutes.
Chess King's Complete Chess Course - Opening Principles
202 Openings Designed to Instruct Players of All Levels, Written by America's Leading Chess Writer
In the first completely instructional book ever written on chess openings, National Master Bruce Pandolfini teaches players how to take charge of the game's crucial opening phase.
Chess Opening - Traps and Zaps - VOLUME 1
A Definitive Study of All Important Openings
Chess Openings Theory and Practice is a remarkable book, unequaled by any book of that era or since. It is not a mere openings book with long columns of moves followed at the end by punctuation marks such as + -- or =. It presents opening ideas and games, often including the first game where each opening was played, plus the history of the opening, the names of famous players who played this opening and the ideas and plans on which the opening is based. It provides ''idea variations''.
Chess Openings - Theory and Practice
For club and intermediate players. Presents the current state of chess openings theory in each major chess opening and the main ideas and plans to follow in each of them.
Chess Openings - What You Need To Know
A Complete Repertoire
Chess Openings for Black, Explained gives you a complete repertoire of carefully selected, interrelated openings. Three-time U.S. champion and master teacher Lev Alburt, along with his grandmaster co-authors, provides everything you need to know to defend with confidence against each and every one of White's first moves.
Chess Openings for Black Explained
Featuring 50 Mighty Opening Systems
For chess-players of all ages and abilities, it is vital to get off to a good start. This simple guide provides all the tips and ideas needed to play purposefully from move one. That's because these 50 Mighty Openings are the very ones used by chess masters and grandmasters to outwit opponents time and again. This book teaches the names and starting moves of all the main chess openings, and explains the basic ideas.
Chess Openings for Kids
Winning with 1. e4 - 2nd Edition
Legendary World Champion Bobby Fischer describing the opening move 1. e4. Three-time US Champion Champion Lev Alburt, famous for his ability to turn aspiring players into masters, teams up with two-time U.S. Champion Roman Dzindzichashvili and young international star Eugene Perelshteyn to give you a complete repertoire of opening play-as well as a review of all openings and an explanation of the principles of playing this crucial stage of the game.
Chess Openings for White Explained
In this video, experienced tournament players and experts in each specific opening will teach you what you absolutely have to know about the King's Indian, Nimzo Indian, Queen's Indian, and Bogo Indian.
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A Challenging Repertoire Versus Five King's Fianchetto Defences
Grivas provides a full and detailed repertoire for White against five important openings: the Grunfeld, King's Indian, Benoni, Benko and Modern. In each case, he has recommended a line in which he has a wealth of experience, and has played a significant personal role in developing over many years. The recommendations are geared towards posing Black unconventional problems: your opponents will not be able to churn out lengthy memorized variations, but will need to solve problems at the board in positions that are somewhat different in character from those normally reached in these openings.
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Do you have a faithful animal companion that you'd like to commemorate with a keepsake that forever captures his distinct personality? Pet portraits can be a treasured gift for yourself or for a special animal lover in your life.
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1. Find the right artist. Is there a local chamber of commerce or art organization who can provide you with a list of local artists? Check the newspaper for a local art festival to browse many artists in one setting. If you already know of an artist whose style you like, do an online search for their name to find their contact information. Whichever method works for you, make sure you find an artist who specializes in pet portraiture; an artist who paints landscapes or human portraits may not be comfortable painting animals. By the same token, make sure you find an artist who uses a technique that appeals to you - whether that's watercolor, oil, or pastels. Every artist has a different style and method of painting, so be sure you find someone whose style appeals to you, or you won't be happy with the finished product.
2. Know what you want. You found the perfect artist! However, before you contact them, you should be prepared with the details of what you want. Find the best pictures of your pet - the photos should be as large as possible, well lit, and in focus. Make a note of which one is your favorite, and decide if you want the artist to change anything about the picture. For example, if your favorite photo shows your pet relaxing on your living room floor, but you'd prefer an outdoor scene for the background, make sure this is clearly communicated.
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If you have no previous knowledge or experience in C++, you will like that the course begins with C++ basics. If you have learned about C++ already in another course and want to improve what you already know, the course has hours of different topics in C++ with one topic per section. Each section is linked to the previous one in terms of utilizing what was already learned. Each topic is supplied with lots of examples which help students in their process of learning. Also, some new features introduced in C++11 standard are explained. This is what makes it interesting for both beginner and advanced students. Even if you already have a lot of experience in programming in C++, this course can help you learn some new information you had missed before. Upon the completion of this course, you should be able to write programs that have real-life applications.
What I think is the best about this course is that you can search questions others have had, post your own questions, and get answers to challenges you are currently facing in learning and using C++. You get paid C++ expert technical support in this course here to answer every single question you ask!
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So far I'm enjoying it, explanation of subjects are easy to understand.
Very clear instruction, easy to understand.
Straight forward. No fluff like some other courses where they take you on tangents about stuff you will probably never encounter.
If you any suggestions you have on topics that have not been covered, you can send them via private message. I will do my best to cover them as soon as possible.
Thank you for reading this. I hope to see you in the course soon and I hope you will enjoy your time learning as much as I have!
Here we will write the smallest possible C++ program which does not have any practical application. This is just to show students what every C++ program must contain, that is, the main function.
Here we will learn about different types of variables that are used in C++, their declaration, initialization, and meaning.
Here we will learn about the auto keyword, which is new in C++11 and is, in essence, a generic type for variables.
Here, we will learn about relational operators such as ==, !=, <, <=, >, and >=.
In this video, we will demonstrate the purpose and the usage of the for loop.
Here, we will learn about the while loop.
In this video, we will learn about the do while loop, which is a variation of the while loop, except the condition is evaluated at the end and the loop is guaranteed to run at least once.
Here, we will learn about the for each loop, which is introduced in C++11 standard.
In this video, we will learn about the break statement, which is used to terminate the loop prematurely.
Nested loops are loops within loops. You can stack pretty much as many as you like.
Pretty much, everything that is declared in C++ will occupy inevitably memory (RAM). Arrays are not an exception to this rule, and so, here, I will show you how the elements of the array occupy memory space.
Like variables, arrays can be initialized. Their initialization differs to the extent that the elements of the array are initialized which the array contains.
In general about functions, their concept and usage.
These are functions that return specific values when invoked.
Lambda functions, or anonymous functions give the ability to the user to declare a function within a function. This is a brand new concept in C++11 that is fairly useful, perhaps not so much for the learning in the beginning stages as much as it is for the advanced level of programming.
These are sets of predefined and standardized exceptions.
Same as with nested loops, you can nest try-catch blocks one within another.
Once an exception is thrown, we can perform a set of operations after which, if we wish, we can propagate the exception onward.
Creating a set of attributes for a structure and the initialization of the same.
Attributes that are shared between the variables of the same structure type.
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Japanese Emperor Akihito is considering his abdication in coming years, broadcaster NHK reported Wednesday, citing unnamed government sources.
The 82-year-old emperor, who is in declining health, has conveyed his intention to the Imperial Household Agency, NHK reported, citing agency officials.
The emperor said he wants to relinquish the Chrysanthemum Throne to Crown Prince Naruhito before coming too frail to carry out his duties fully, NHK said.
The emperor has already informed his family members and the agency is planning an occasion for him to address the public, the report said.
The last succession from a living emperor took place about 200 years ago.
Akihito, who ascended the throne in 1989 after the death of his father, Hirohito, underwent surgery for prostate cancer in 2003 and suffered stress-related health problems in 2008.
In 2011, the emperor was hospitalized for more than two weeks with bronchitis. He underwent heart bypass surgery in 2012.


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Yayiee! Guess what we have found? Another leaked pics of Ranbir Kapoor and Deepika Padukone starrer,Tamasha.
In this leaked picture, you can see Ranbir Kapoor chasing Deepika Padukone and this picture is surely remind us one of the trekking sequences from Yeh Jawaani Hai Deewani. Hai Naa?
Interestingly, both of them are dressed in whites and Ranbir is looking extremely handsome in his full beard avatar, whereas, as always, Deepika is looking so stunning!
Not so long ago, a promotional video of Deepika and Ranbir went viral, when Deepika was taking a dig at Ranbir Kapoor, because of his poor knowledge about social media.
After the huge success of Yeh Jawaani Hai Deewani, all hopes are now set on Imtiaz Ali's upcoming flick Tamasha. Thought the movie was wrapped up last week and all eyes are set on the trailer which would be out in September.
Produced by Sajid Nadiadwala in association with Disney UTV, Tamasha is slated to be released on November 27, 2015.
Check out the leaked stills here!
New Leaked Picture
Ranbir Kapoor and Deepika Padukone can be seen enjoying in a lush green field and this picture surely reminds us of Yeh Jawaani Hai Deewani trekking sequences.
Deepika From The Shoot Location
Deepika Padukone rehearsing a scene for his upcoming flick, Tamasha.
Ranbir-Deepika With Their Fans
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Ranbir On The Sets Of Tamasha
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Munna Singh (40), arrested in connection with a kidnapping case, was allegedly tortured in lock-up and died at the Patna Medical College and Hospital due to internal injuries, police sources said.
The officers in charge of Jamui and Giddhaur police stations have been suspended, Jamui Superintendent of Police Deepak Varnwal said.
Munna Singh's father, Kukeshwar Singh, alleged that his son was mercilessly beaten by police personnel.


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There is often a lot of compromise when you share your home with a house rabbit. You find ways of arranging furnitures in your living space and make room for large penned of areas. The following articles share our experiences of how to help encourage a harmonious environment so you can learn to do things other rabbit lovers have discovered really work.
Sharing your space with a house rabbit can take a few compromises but get these right and you can both enjoy your home stress free
How to discipline your house rabbit
Rabbits have very strong natural urges which can lead them onto trouble. They don't however respond well to discipline like shouting or smacking which can leave them timid. But with a bit of practice voice training is possible and they can learn to take notice when you say no!
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Where has it all gone????
I have been looking for some surplus 7.62x51 NATO ammo and have noticed that all surplus ammo had dissappeared. Less then 6-8 months ago you could find it everywhere.
What had happend to it all??? Anyone??
You can find AR or AK surplus ammo all over yet not one site has battle packs of 7.62 anymore. I have about 3k rds but would like to have some more so I can take out my Cetme, FAL, M1A1, etc and have a good day at the range.
Does anyone know where to look for any?
Might want to check the Social Security Administration, DHS, National Weather Service, and a few others.:(
Some believe that many outlets who sell ammo are cutting back on stores of bullets to 1.keep control of background overhead and 2 drive up costs and sales...the law of supply and demand. Here in my neck of the woods there is no shortage of long gun ammo,but a lot of holes on the shelf at the other end. Make one stop and scratch their head and say "huh"! Dun'nit.
I saw a whole spam can the other day, maybe a few of them. Just can't remember the store.
There you have it! So long as spam can still be had then were good. there is so much nutritional value in that mainstay that mre's are redundant. The fact that the markup on spam is in line with gold means nothing... The only variety thats hard to find is bacon impregnated ... Ps. Reguardless of popular opinion...dont forget to rotate!
Just a few years ago Portugese, South African, DAG (West German, Berdan) and Radway Green (British) were plentiful and very cheap. The European supplies seem to have dried up. I don't know if we finally cleaned them out or if they have just slowed down on export. The South African stuff (primo) has all but disappeared as the UN has embargoed their exports as they were allegedly selling to unstable African areas. I guess the UN now considers exporting to the US just as immoral as to the African countries. Africa is in a perpetual state of flux with the old governments soon to be replaced by the new governments, and on and on. Perhaps the UN has similar expectations for us?
Thats a thought...OR...POTUS is gonna have a special plate dinner for those who love butter, guns...Thats it spammers...
Has anyone tried the Wolf .308 ammo??
I have some South Africian and some of the German battle packs. Just looking for some more.
As for the UN, WHO knows what is going through there minds. Especially when looking at the US. There alot of people out there that would love to see a unarmed US, especially with all the marksmen when have.
I even read on an other forum that the US Government "DHS" is purchasing up all the 7.62 NATO surplus ammo to keep out of our hands. How true that is I do not know. You all know how the internet can be.
Or, rather, fear of an Obama second term.
Phelenwolf, there "could be" some truth to the story as the report was printed up in a fairly reliable mag called "The Week" which gathers up stories from news outlets from around the globe...still the implications are curious. makes one wonder what the government isnt disclosing... Satajet.
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Not having a set schedule and very low pay for what is expected of all employees. They don't always tell the truth to guests and expect employees to cover up the truth. Forget about raises.


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Very slow in opening excel file. Any good suggestions?
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Is it a large or network file? Is excel slow to open other files such as a csv or txt file?
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A few possible causes::
This issue has become common recently with Office 2003 files:
Some people have reported opening Excel files on a network share can be delayed due to updates: KB2541025, KB2502786, KB2509503
On the one I encountered I only had to remove the first update
Slow opening of files, especially Office files, is often related to Windows searching for old links that no longer exist. Finding these can sometimes be a bit time consuming. A few places to look:
-Network places. Look for links/connections that no longer exist.
(I prefer to also turn off "automatically search for network folders and printers". Locate by going to the menu bar of my computer | tools | folder options | View | fist item)
-My computer. Look for mapped drives that are disconnected.
-Start menu "recent Documents". To clear; right click on task bar and choose properties | start menu tab | customize | advanced | clear list
-If the Word or Excel applications are slow opening the files from the menu, clear the recent document list within the application. To do so in Word; open the application | on the menu bar choose tools | options | general | un-check "recently used file list | choose OK to apply | then you can go back in and re-enable. Excel is similar.
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IntelGenx Technologies Corp. (TSX-V:IGX) (OTCQX:IGXT) ("IntelGenx") recently released an announcement that Dr. Horst G Zerbe, its CEO will be holding a conference at 10 O'clock AM EST on July 23. This conference call is proposed in order to discuss important management change issues and also provide updates to the business representatives.
In addition to this conference call, Zerbe will also be supplying a webcast to accompany the conference call. Registration information and conference call details are available on the website, under investor relations at www.intelgenix.
IntelGenx is a delivery company that delivers pharmaceutical products that are orally administered and controlled. IntelGenx consists of a multi-faceted delivery system which provides drugs that are "control released" meaning they have a 0 order in the way that they are metabolized in the gastro-tract. These types of oral drug products are becoming popularly used throughout the world.
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Watch: Rory McIlroy practices for FedEx Cup at the best range in the world
Where do you like to hit golf balls? For most of us, the local practice round is as exotic as it gets - and if the sun's out, we're in paradise.
Where do you like to hit golf balls? For most of us, the local practice round is as exotic as it gets - and if the sun's out, we're in paradise.
Alfie Plant has been named in a 10-strong Great Britain and Ireland team that will attempt to retain the Walker Cup next month.
Northern Irish golf fans have broken yet another record - this time at the recent Northern Ireland Open.
Rory McIlroy is not prepared to go winless for the first time since 2008 and jets off to New York on Sunday hoping to play all four FedEx Cup Playoffs events after all.
Rory McIlroy will try to defend his FedEx Cup title after deciding against sitting out the rest of the season to rest a persistent rib injury.
Graeme McDowell faces a real battle to reach the FedEx Cup play-offs after a one-over-par 71 left him 10 shots off the pace at the Wyndham Championship. Only the top 125 go forward to the play-offs after this week's event and the Portrush man is 131st in the...
Defending champion Anthony Wall recorded his seventh straight victory in the Saltire Energy Paul Lawrie Match Play to reach the second round in Germany.
Three of the top PGA in Ireland professionals will compete for a big prize-fund at the Walled City of Derry Pro Am later this month.
Graeme McDowell and Shane Lowry are among the players needing a good performance in the Wyndham Championship to qualify for the FedEx Cup play-offs.
Irish golfer Leona Maguire has won the Mark H McCormack medal for being the leading women's amateur golfer for the third consecutive year.
Graeme McDowell and Shane Lowry are among the players needing a good performance in the Wyndham Championship to qualify for the FedEx Cup play-offs.
Ireland's Leona Maguire has won the Mark H McCormack Medal for the third consecutive year as the leading women's player in the World Amateur Golf Ranking.
Ireland have headed to Yorkshire with the aim of defending their crown as Moortown hosts this year's Men's Home Internationals, starting today.
The defining factor in Rory McIlroy's return to fitness may not be the player himself, but the man who will devise the plan that will get him back to the top.
Rory McIlroy has revealed that he might not play again until next season - but that hasn't stopped talk about his next caddie.
Rory McIlroy admits he's wrestling with the career-defining choice between the FedEx Cup play-offs and taking the rest of the year off to allow his niggling rib injury heal.
Rory McIlroy might not play again in 2017 as he continues to struggle with the injury which has limited him to 13 events in a winless season, his third in succession without a major title.
They promised thrills and spills and the final day of the Galgorm Resort & Spa Northern Ireland Open presented by Modest! Golf delivered in style.
Rory McIlroy might not play again in 2017 as he continues to struggle with the injury which has limited him to 13 events in a winless season, his third in succession without a major title.
Jordan Spieth missed out on becoming the youngest winner of a career grand slam but still had reason to celebrate as his good friend Justin Thomas claimed a first major title in the US PGA Championship.
Jason Day threw away his chance of a second US PGA title with "one crazy decision" according to six-time major winner Nick Faldo.
One cut down, another one to come at this year's Galgorm Resort & Spa Northern Ireland Open, presented by Modest! Golf.
Ross Kellett and Tom Murray share the halfway lead of the Galgorm Resort & Spa Northern Ireland Open in Ballymena.
Rory McIlroy began his second round with a moment of magic, but even that and a late rally saw him end it needing to make history to win the weather-affected 99th US PGA Championship.
Rory McIlroy insisted he remains firmly in contention for a fifth major title despite a disappointing finish to his first round of the US PGA Championship.
Jordan Spieth and Rory McIlroy carded contrasting opening rounds of 72 as Spieth aims to become the youngest player to complete a career grand slam in the 99th US PGA Championship.
There's a long held maxim in golf that you can't win a tournament on the opening day, but you can shoot yourself out of contention.
Selected tee times from the Second Round of the US PGA Championship at Quail Hollow (USA unless stated, times GMT). Tommy Fleetwood was delighted to overcome "brutal" conditions in the first round of the US PGA Championship and remain in the...
For a start that promised so much, Rory McIlroy faltered after the turn at Quail Hollow in the opening round of the US PGA Championship last night. This year's final Major was the one that was meant to be Rory's comeback, coming into the tournament off...
Rory McIlroy is only two shots off the early lead held by Denmark's Thorbjorn Olesen at the US PGA Championship at Quail Hollow Club, NC after 10 holes of his opening round.
Gary King's seven birdies took him into a share of the Galgorm Resort & Spa Northern Ireland Open, lead as he signed for a five-under-par opening round of 66.
Rory McIlroy showed he is well equipped to overpower any golf course on the practice ground at the US PGA Championship.
The US PGA Championship gets underway at Quail Hollow as Jordan Spieth looks to complete his career Grand Slam.
Some of Northern Ireland's best-known sporting faces switched codes yesterday at Galgorm Castle Golf Course.
The Challenge Tour has returned to Northern Ireland this week at Galgorm Castle with a new format and renewed energy. Innovation is the name of the game as golf's leading tours attempt to encourage new fans.
'Frustrated', 'disheartened' and 'angry' are not words you'd normally associate with Shane Lowry but after slipping out of the world's top 50 the Offaly native plans to move his family to the US next year in an attempt to get his career back on track.
Jordan Spieth insists he is not feeling the pressure of trying to complete the career grand slam because he has no "burning desire" to become the youngest to achieve the feat.
Rory McIlroy might be the red-hot favourite to end his three-year Major drought at the US PGA this week but the World No.4 insists he has nothing to prove to anyone when he steps onto the first tee at Quail Hollow tomorrow.
Niall Horan might sing about Slow Hands but there will be nothing pedestrian when the action gets under way at this week's Galgorm Resort & Spa Northern Ireland Open, presented by his Modest! Golf organisation at Galgorm Castle.
Rory McIlroy insists he has nothing to prove as he looks to avoid a third year in succession without a major title by claiming a third US PGA Championship.
The annual NI Open golf tournament kicks off this week in Co Antrim and there's a whole host of family friendly events and activities in and around the event for everyone to enjoy.
Ballymena's Dermot McElroy is making his mark in the professional game and would like nothing better than a winning performance in front of home crowds at this week's Galgorm Resort & Spa Northern Ireland Open, presented by Modest! Golf at Galgorm Castle.
Rory McIlroy believes he can avoid the first round Major nerves that derailed his chances of winning the US Open and The Open and finally challenge strongly for that elusive fifth Major in the US PGA at Quail Hollow.
Rory McIlroy admits a fifth major title is long overdue as he seeks a third US PGA victory with the added incentive of preventing Jordan Spieth from beating him to a career grand slam.
Cavan girl Leona Maguire's bid to retain the leading amateur accolade in the Ricoh British Women's Open ended in disappointment at Kingsbarns Links yesterday.
Hideki Matsuyama stormed to a remarkable sixth victory in his last 20 events as Rory McIlroy's bid for a second WGC-Bridgestone Invitational title petered out in Akron.
Rory McIlroy declared himself and his game in good shape to mount a serious challenge for this week's US PGA after a joint fifth place finish in the WGC-Bridgestone Invitational at Akron, Ohio last night.
Hideki Matsuyama stormed to a remarkable sixth victory in his last 20 events as Rory McIlroy's bid for a second WGC-Bridgestone Invitational title petered out in Akron.
Two-time major winner Zach Johnson gave playing partner Rory McIlroy a lesson in scoring to claim a share of the lead heading into the final round of the WGC-Bridgestone Invitational in Akron.
Rory McIlroy rediscovered his magic touch yesterday to blast himself into contention to win the WGC-Bridgestone Invitational in Akron.
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Microsoft has completed the development of its first update to Windows 8.1. It's scheduled to be released next month. The company announce the update as a "spring" update, during a press conference at the Mobile World Congress last week.
Most of the changes in the update are geared toward mouse-and-keyboard users. Among the additions are a shutdown button on the start screen, for non-touch machines, the option to show Windows 8 apps on the desktop taskbar, and a new title bar with options to snap, minimize, or close apps.
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Going on a trip should mean getting away from the daily routines of life, but depending on how long you're away and where you go, there's one chore that may follow you on vacation: laundry.
If you're not staying at a place with laundry facilities, then before you leave, locate nearby laundromats. But if you're roughing it in the great outdoors, or doing a family road trip, get ready for "wash anywhere" situations (like when you're on the open road, not a town in sight, and a fudgesicle mishap occurs).
Be Prepared: Your Wash-it-Anywhere Laundry Kit
Before vacation, put together a kit of on-the-go laundry supplies. This will make life easier, and that's what vacation is all about.
Plastic bin/storage tub. Pack all of your supplies in a plastic bin that also doubles as a washing basin.
Travel-size stain remover. Great for treating stains on the go, but don't forget to wash as soon as possible. Some stain removers can bleach a product if left on too long.
Small, mesh laundry bag. These are used in washing machines to keep delicate fabrics together, but they also come in handy when hand washing a few items at a time (like when you're washing in a stream with a current). They're also useful for washing and storing dishes on a camping trip.
Portable, pre-measured laundry detergent pacs. While the packaging dissolves in a washing machine, they can also be torn open for use in hand washing – mini pacs, with less detergent, are especially useful for smaller loads.
Collapsible drying rack. This is ideal for for drying after washing clothes while camping or in a motel room sink, but not especially useful in the back of a minivan after cleaning Johnny's fudgesicle stained white t-shirt.
Clothesline and clothespins. Campers prefer line drying, because it allows more space for larger items, like sleeping bags and towels.
Small, collapsible laundry basket. It's helpful to have a place to store dirty laundry on your trip until you can wash it. And, if you're folding laundry, say, outside on a picnic bench, a basket is handy for clean storage and easier transporting. If you're just going to wait until you get home, then a plastic grocery bag or trash bag would work well.


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Healthy Kids Product Registration Scheme (PRS)
The Healthy Kids Product Registration Scheme (PRS) is the leading food and drink registration program for school canteens. Registered products are listed in the Healthy Kids School Canteen Buyers' Guide, which is highly regarded and used by school canteen managers to assist them choose healthier products for their school canteen menus.
In 2017 we will publish a separate NSW Buyers' Guide which will provide information on products meeting the NSW Healthy School Canteen Strategy food and drink criteria using a voluntary high achievement benchmark. This will be a new strategy in 2017, and all NSW school will be invited to start working towards a minimum benchmark. The NSW Buyers' Guide will list products as 'Everyday' or 'Occasional' using a food and drink criteria based on the Australian Dietary Guidelines and Health Star Rating.
The Buyers' Guide, sent to all other states and territories (limited to 300 schools in WA), will continue to list products as GREEN or AMBER using each of the state/territory food and drink strategies.
Healthy Kids Product Registration offers companies a wide variety of marketing options to reach over 8,000 school canteens across Australia (limited to 300 schools in WA), however the NSW Ministry of Health advised us in November 2016 that there will be no advertising in the NSW Buyers' Guide. We will therefore provide an opportunity for marketing to NSW schools via the Term 1 and Term 3 Healthy Kids Members' Magazines.
Registration for the 2017 Buyers' Guide print catalogue has now closed…
Companies are still able to download the Product Registration Application pack which includes a list of benefits and advertising opportunities. If you'd like to advertise, please contact us.
You can still register products for states using the GREEN, AMBER and RED system. These products will be listed on the online Buyers' Guide.
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An official note from the Healthy School Canteens team at the Department of Education:
"Further to our food industry consultation on 20 October 2016 in Parramatta, we are pleased to advise you that the updated Healthy School Canteen Strategy was released on 28 February 2017. The strategy focuses on increasing the availability of healthy food and drink options in school canteens to make the healthy choice, the easy choice.
"The updated strategy is consistent with the 2013 Australian Dietary Guidelines and includes the use of the Health Star rating for some packaged foods.
"The traffic light system on the former Fresh Tastes @ School strategy has been replaced. The focus of the updated strategy is on increasing 'Everyday' foods and meals to comprise at least ¾ of the menu and reducing 'Occasional' foods to no more than ¼ of the menu. Most 'Occasional' foods are packaged and are required to meet a Health Star Rating of 3.5 or above and also meet portion limits. 'Everyday' foods and drinks are not required to meet a Health Star Rating cut-off.
"Information on how to calculate the Health Star Ratings for products can be found on the Australian Government's Health Star Rating website.
"Schools will transition to the strategy over a three-year period (2017–2019). The transition will be responsive to canteen operating arrangements, product availability, rural and remote locations and community and cultural expectations.
"Food industry representatives will be invited to participate in a face-to-face forum later in March to provide the opportunity to discuss the implementation of the strategy. Further details will be provided shortly.
"For more information about the strategy. visit the new Healthy School Canteens website.
"For any enquiries about the updated Healthy School Canteen Strategy, please email: firstname.lastname@example.com
"Your support for the transition to this important strategy is much appreciated."
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Film-maker David Bond is on a mission to reconnect kids with nature and promote the benefits of outdoor play. Sue Palmer finds out about Project Wild Thing
It started with a vague feeling of unease. His children's lives were so different from his own childhood.
'They have this huge appetite for technology,' says film-maker David Bond. When his daughter was four, he was amazed at her knowledge about electronic media, and her devotion to TV. 'I asked how much she loved it and she said, "One hundred billion."'
But she didn't love playing outdoors, the way Bond had as a child. Did this matter?
Bond's unease soon turned to alarm. The many experts he interviewed were united in their concern about the decline of outdoor play, the screen-based nature of children's lives and their lack of connection with the natural world.
A complex web of social changes, including the hijacking of play by commercial forces and parental fears for their offspring's safety, has transformed children's lifestyles in a generation. No one knows what the long-term consequences will be. 'The extent to which children's culture has been encroached on by adult concerns and anxieties is unprecedented,' says play specialist Tim Gill.
What the experts do know is that play, especially play in the natural world, is vital for children's physical and mental health. It underpins everything from self-confidence and social skills to behaviour control and emotional resilience.
It may be vital for society's future, too. When Bond asked psychology professor Jaak Panksepp what would happen if children didn't play, he replied, 'We'd be left with an adult society that looks like Lord Of The Flies. Everything would be an unstructured mob.' Scary stuff.
Bond was keen to reverse the trend before a generation of children loses touch with the natural world. But he wanted his film to make a positive case for natural play, rather than dwelling on what's gone wrong. He saw no point in 'bashing the brands' or saying 'the world's a disaster and we're all terrible parents'.
So Project Wild Thing accentuates the positive benefits of playing outdoors. Bond appoints himself marketing director for Nature, and sets out to sell outdoor play to a generation of techno-consumers and their parents.
Advised by brand expert Michael Wolf 'to create a Nature brand-file in their brains in which to store happy experiences', Bond enlisted the help of marketers to design a billboard campaign, a Wild Time app and an Out And About pack for new parents. These can all be found on the Project Wild Thing website, along with lots of other helpful advice from nature enthusiasts. And there'll be plenty of other zappy ideas when the film is released.
Project Wild Thing has attracted support from many organisations, including the NHS Sustainable Development Unit, the National Trust, the RSPB and the Eden Project. It's also become something of a rallying point for all those worried experts. Stephen Moss, author of the National Trust's 2011 report on The Natural Child and producer of BBC's Springwatch programmes, is full of admiration. He's also aware of the difficulties in making the film.
'This isn't like Jamie's School Dinners,' he says. 'It's not a one-issue question with a simple solution. It's incredibly complex – health, education, play, human relationships, community values… they're all involved. But it's important to try because the benefits of reconnecting children with nature are so huge and the downside if we get it wrong is so worrying.'
Gill is also impressed by Bond's efforts, and hopes the film will 'galvanise parents and others to get kids out of doors, into the real world, away from screens, without scaring parents witless'.
Play is by nature unpredictable. As Project Wild Thing gathered pace, Bond's own story took another twist. 'The more I struggled and strived to make the marketing messages stick,' he says ruefully, 'the less I took my own children out to play!'
His feelings of unease returned… and we'll have to wait for the film to find out how he dealt with them.
Sue Palmer is the author of Toxic Childhood and one of the experts whom David Bond consulted. Her latest book 21st Century Girls covers the importance of play in raising bright, balanced girls.
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text: NEW YORK ( MainStreet) -- Champagne and beer don't usually enter the same sentence unless someone's trying to mock or sell you a Miller ( TAP) High Life, but a small batch of brews is worth bringing into corked bubbly corners this New Year's.Boston Beer ( SAM) and German brewing partner Weihenstephan unveiled their Infinium collaboration back in November and, in doing so, brought one of brewing's seldom-seen styles closer to the mainstream than it's ever been. Whether it's method champenoise, Biere de Champagne or Biere Brut -- depending on the secondary fermentation and bottling processes that give said beer its trademark carbonation -- the bubbly and sometimes fruity brew is making its way slowly into American craft beer after kicking around Belgium, France, Italy and Canada for years. While decidedly different from the grape-derived sparkling wines they're emulating, these bubbly beers have the carbonation, alcohol content (between 5% and 12% alcohol by volume) and strong flavor profile of their classier vineyard cousins. The main reason Americans haven't seen much of it made domestically is that the style isn't that distinct from several other Belgian varieties. "Barring further cellaring time ... there's not much more to be done to a bottled beer to improve its disposition," says Matt Simpson, owner of The Beer Sommelier, running through a list of improvement techniques used by brewers including blended beers, filtering, reintroduction of yeast and sugar and centuries-old bottle conditioning methods. What it is, however, is a not-so-subtle attempt to take on a wine industry that's booming as the beer sector shrinks. The Wine Institute notes that wine shipments in the U.S. were up 2% last year from 2009, while Beer Marketer's Insights saw a 1% downtick in beer shipments during the same time. Sparkling wine shipments, meanwhile, were up 10% and represented 4.6% of all U.S. wine sales. That seems to make it prime for an attack by the similarly growth-minded craft beer segment, which grew 11% by volume last year but has only a 4.3% share of the overall U.S. beer market. That's a small niche for yet another niche product to chip away at, but craft beer's 22-ounce and 750-milliliter high-alcohol offerings are already making a play for the dessert wine segment that grew from 13.9 million cases in 2000 to 29.1 million just last year. Convincing consumers to swap out a sparkling wine for a similarly sparkly craft beer would give brewers a piece of sparkling wine demand that's grown to 15.4 million cases from 11.4 million cases in a decade. "In my opinion, the method is redundant -- just another way of achieving those results we already do -- but worthy of attempt in our burgeoning craft beer revolution," Simpson says. "In short, why not?" With New Year's Eve just days away and even non-Champagne sparklers such as cava and prosecco in demand, we've put together a sampler of five Champagne-style beers to consider uncorking this holiday:


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It's that time of year to reflect on the past year and plan for the year to come.
For many, 2016 was a year of great transition and change. There was an energy of control vs. surrender swirling about. Some plans failed and others never took off. This left many of us with the feeling of defeat. What started as the best laid plans, began to unravel as the plans were not meant to be.
2016 was a call of resilience and perseverance mixed in with immense joy. In some parts of life it was the best year ever and in others it was a struggle that seemed never-ending. There were beautiful happenings and courageous changes. Many emotions were had and lessons learned. There is beauty in such transitions and we all got through it and celebration is in order.
Winter has set in and new beginnings are on the horizon. It is a time to reflect and plan for a lovely and dynamic 2017.
Before the new year begins, spend some time thinking about what you would like 2017 to look and feel like. Create an intentional awareness by asking the following questions…
- What am I grateful for in 2016?
- What do I want to accomplish in the next 12 months?
- How do I want to feel next year?
- What can I let go of that no longer worked for me?
- What changes do I need to make in order to accomplish my goals?
After you've spent some time answering these questions, you can begin to create intentional goals for the coming year. Instead of creating resolutions that can fall apart as the year continues, setting intentions will take into account what you want to accomplish and how you want to feel. Intentions ask "why" as well as "what" when it comes to goals.
Finally, visualize each goal. See yourself accomplishing and feeling the way you desire. Spend some time each day visualizing each outcome. This is a powerful exercise and sends this desired energy out into the universe.
Remember, what we focus on expands. With a little focus through visualization, our intentions will expand and begin to take shape.
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May your New Year be filled with hope, happiness, health and love!