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BkiUd-A4eIXh5LWwPG4i | Deepening regional integration within the Southern African Development Community (SADC) will raise potential growth for all member countries. Integrated economies will increase market size, trade opportunities and improve resource allocation across member countries. Key pillars of functioning regional integration are the free circulation of goods and services, mobility of workers and interconnected infrastructure. To boost regional integration, remaining tariff barriers and non-tariffs barriers should be removed. Ensuring greater compliance to agreements by SADC members will also facilitate intra-trade and cross-investments. More co-operation between competition authorities should facilitate harmonisation of competition rules in particular in services and transport-related services which would ease circulation of good and services. The other key pillars of regional integration (industrial policy, infrastructure, investment, financial integration and tax) are also reviewed. | c4 | 4 | 3 | 5 | 4 |
BkiUfC45qhLBeMNHl_ND | The 12 Most Beautiful Places in the West Country, UK
The West Country is full of historic buildings like St Catherines Chapel, a 14th-century church overlooking the Abbotsbury countryside | © Stephen Tattersall / Alamy Stock Photo
Matthew Keyte
The West Country of England is made up of the counties of Cornwall, Devon, Somerset and Dorset. A place of Celtic myth and legend, famous for its unspoilt villages and impressive coastline, the West Country is home to many of the iconic images of picturesque England. Castles, cathedrals, beautiful villages, river valleys and ancient towns can all be found here, and Culture Trip has selected the 12 must-visit places.
Close to the market town of Blandford Forum in Dorset is the picturesque village of Milton Abbas. The village was built in 1780 when landowner and politician Joseph Damer decided the nearby town of Middleton was spoiling his view of the countryside. So he had it destroyed, and the inhabitants moved to the new village of Milton Abbas, out of his line of sight. Today, Milton Abbas is famous for its rows of whitewashed, thatched cottages.
Milton Abbas is known for its rows of whitewashed cottages | © a-plus image bank / Alamy Stock Photo
Clovelly, on the north Devon coast, is a small fishing village with an unspoilt feel, with cobbled streets running past historic buildings. Donkeys and sledges are used to deliver goods to the inhabitants, as cars aren't permitted on the Main Street that runs the length of the village down to the harbour. The whole of Clovelly is privately owned, and has been for over 700 years, passing through the hands of just three families. The great painter JMW Turner painted Clovelly several times in 1811, and Victorian worthies like Kipling and Dickens came here often.
Clovelly is a fishing village on the north Devon coast | © Jonathan Need / Alamy Stock Photo
Down the coast in Cornwall is the village of Tintagel where, on a peninsula jutting out into the sea, stand the ruins of Tintagel Castle. The ruins sit in two halves, connected by a footbridge over a gorge, and can only be accessed by a steep walk along the windswept Cornish coast. Tintagel has long been linked to the legend of King Arthur – Geoffrey of Monmouth wrote in the 12th century that the king was conceived here, while the poets Tennyson and Swinburne set their Arthurian works at Tintagel. Within the village are plenty of handsome historic buildings – the Post Office, for example, dates from the 14th century.
Tintagel Castle is steeped in Arthurian legend | © Tatyana Tomsickova / Alamy Stock Photo
Cadbury Castle
Continuing with the Arthurian theme, we come to the magnificent hill fort known as Cadbury Castle, known in local tradition as Camelot, the home of Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table. Rising above the Somerset countryside north of the town of Sherborne, Cadbury Castle was occupied in the Bronze and Iron Ages and used by Celtic tribespeople to defend against Roman invaders. It was still in use in the 11th century by the Saxons, before being abandoned. You can still see the ramparts of the castle, which draws archaeologists from universities such as Oxford and Bristol. Another great hill fort is Maiden Castle, located outside Dorchester in Dorset.
Cadbury Castle, in the South Somerset countryside, dates back to the Stone Age | © Stephen Spraggon / Alamy Stock Photo
Gold Hill, Shaftesbury
Gold Hill, a steep cobbled street flanked by thatched cottages in the Dorset town of Shaftesbury, has become an emblem of unspoilt, old-fashioned Olde England, used in films and on chocolate boxes, calendars, jigsaws and Christmas cards. Founded by King Alfred in the 9th century, it's perhaps most famous in the UK as the backdrop for a 1973 advert for Hovis bread directed by Ridley Scott before he embarked on his career in feature films.
Gold Hill at Shaftesbury is small-town England at its most picturesque | © nagelestock.com / Alamy Stock Photo
Wells Cathedral
Regarded by many architecture writers as one of the most beautiful cathedrals in Europe, Wells Cathedral is hugely significant as an example of the Early English Gothic style of the 12th century, notable for its grand western front covered in medieval carvings and its golden spires. Inside, you'll find magnificent scissor arches, and one of the finest collections of medieval stained glass still in existence.
With its ornate facade and interior scissor arches, Wells Cathedral is celebrated by architecture enthusiasts | © prestongeorge / iStock / Getty Images
The Devon village of Lynmouth is where the barren moorland of Exmoor meets the Bristol Channel. The famous landscape painter Thomas Gainsborough came here on honeymoon in 1746 and described it as "the most delightful place for a landscape painter this country can boast". The village sits at the confluence of the East and West Lyn rivers and is backed by huge wooded cliffs that tower over the harbour. Lynmouth is connected to the larger village of Lynton at the top of the cliffs by a funicular railway powered by the waters of the West Lyn.
Landscape painter Thomas Gainsborough loved Lynmouth | © nicolamargaret / iStock / Getty Images
In Mount's Bay in Cornwall is a tidal island that can only be reached at low tide. On the island is a fortress and an ancient church, and beneath them a tiny fishing village. Together they form an extraordinarily romantic scene. Originally the church and priory were home to Benedictine monks and were gifted by Edward the Confessor in the 11th century to Mont Saint-Michel in Brittany, another famous tidal island monastery. The castle, begun at least 600 years ago, has been home to the St Aubyn family since the 1650s. The Mount plays an important part in Cornish folklore and Arthurian legend and is today maintained by the National Trust.
Off the coast of Cornwall is St Michael's Mount, capped by a medieval castle | © elmvilla / Getty Images
Overlooked by its splendid castle, the medieval village of Dunster lies on the northern edge of Exmoor in Somerset. Once dominated by the wool and cloth trade, Dunster still retains many of its historic buildings and remains unspoilt by modern developments. The Priory church, the 14th-century Tithe Barn, the Dovecote that once belonged to the Priory and the Yarn Market built in 1609 by the lords of the manor all still stand. Peering over the village is the castle of the Luttrell family, which forms a dramatic silhouette when darkness falls each night.
Dunster is one of Somerset's prettiest villages, with its buildings dating back to medieval times | © Nickos / iStock / Getty Images
Lost Gardens of Heligan
Just inland from Mevagissey on the Cornish coastline are the restored botanical Gardens of Heligan. Created by generations of the Tremayne family from the late 18th to the early 20th century, the Gardens were neglected in the years following World War I, when the family left for Italy and many of the staff had been killed on the battlefield. And then, in the 1990s, the overgrown and bramble-infested Gardens were restored. You can explore extensive flower gardens, Japanese, Italian and herbaceous sections, rhododendrons, summerhouses, walled gardens and a subtropical garden full of palm trees and bamboo.
Acres of beautiful plants and flowers can be found at the Lost Gardens of Heligan in Cornwall | © Kevin Freeborn / Alamy Stock Photo
Torridge Valley
The River Torridge flows through picturesque north Devon to the Bristol Channel at Bideford. The area it runs through isn't as popular as many other parts of the West Country, but is just as worth seeing. The Torridge Valley is famous as the location of the story of Tarka the Otter, the 1927 novel by Henry Williamson. In it, Tarka is born at Beam Weir, where the river passes the village of Great Torrington and where the Georgian Beam Aqueduct carries the Rolle Canal over the Torridge. Along the valley, the river passes wooded gorges and is crossed by medieval arched bridges.
Torridge valley is a pastoral paradise tucked away in North Devon | © pjhpix / iStock / Getty Images
St Catherine's Chapel, Abbotsbury
Despite all the beautiful sites mentioned thus far, perhaps the most striking view in the entire West Country is the isolated St Catherine's Chapel that sits atop a hill and looks out across country to Chesil Beach and the Jurassic Coast of Dorset. The 14th-century chapel was built by the monks of Abbotsbury Abbey as a place of retreat and prayer. The abbey has been in ruins since the Dissolution of the Monasteries, but the chapel still stands. The slopes around it show evidence of medieval field systems and ploughing. Glastonbury Tor in Somerset is another impressive hilltop church site, but you'll find far fewer tourists at Abbotsbury.
The isolated St Catherine's Chapel was built in the 14th century | © thyme / istock / Getty Images | commoncrawl | 5 | 2 | 5 | 1 |
BkiUbFE5qoYDgceeil22 | Abraham Lincoln and Frederick Douglass, A Walk To Respect
Wednesday, February 19 at 7:30pm
Thursday, February 20 at 7:30pm
As part of Honoring and Onward*, in partnership with West Coast Black Theatre Troupe, The Patterson Foundation is proud to announce a staged reading of a new one-act play, Abraham Lincoln and Frederick Douglass, A Walk to Respect.
Black abolitionist leader and former slave, Frederick Douglass and Abraham Lincoln, 16th President of the United States of America clashed in their ideologies regarding race, politics and slavery. Frederick Douglass, a true radical with a fiery spirit, believed in racial equality for everyone. Douglass dedicated his life, writings and career to abolishing slavery everywhere. Abraham Lincoln, cautious and considered, while opposed to slavery, was first and foremost a patriot intent on preserving the Union at all costs. These two self-made men, at a time when our divided nation faced annihilation, faced their differences with courage and compassion, forging a friendship that helped to end the Civil War and reunite our nation. Through their own words, explore the walk of these two great American Leaders from conflict to understanding.
Abraham Lincoln will be portrayed by Michael Krebs. Krebs has portrayed Abraham Lincoln in film and presentations throughout the United States since 1994 offering insight to the 16th President's life and times. Krebs is a native of Freeport, Illinois, and former company member of New American Theater in Rockford, Illinois. He was cast as Abraham Lincoln in 2014 film Field of Lost Shoes. His appearances include the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum, the Gerald Ford Presidential Library, Hoover Presidential Library, Chicago History Museum, Gettysburg, the New Salem, Illinois Historic Site, the Harold Washington Library, and an extended run in Chicago. Krebs presented Abraham Lincoln at Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum during international simultaneous reading of Gettysburg Address in 2009. Past credits include presentation in Library of Congress' Lincoln's Virtual Library in 1998, and live broadcast of the Galesburg Lincoln-Douglas Debate in 1994 on C-SPAN. In 2014, Michael was invited by The Patterson Foundation to participate in the national dedication of Patriot Plaza at Sarasota National Cemetery.
Frederick Douglass will be portrayed by Joel E. King. King is a native of East Saint Louis. Graduating from SIU Edwardsville, Joel attained a B.A. in Studio Arts with a minor in music and theater. King is an entrepreneur, performer, writer, director and producer. His production company, JPEK CreativeWorks was established post college and has had great success in creating quality, courageous, socially driven stage plays. King has received three city proclamations, two cover stories (Riverfront Times and Zoom Magazine) and a groundswell of support for his stage works: Real Life, Issues of Love and Stand Your Ground. King's theatre credits include, Amen Corner, The Color Purple, The Sam Cooke Story and Knock Me a Kiss at Westcoast Black Theatre Troupe, Spunk, Raisin in the Sun, Colored Museum, Immigrant Project, In the Blood, Dutchman, Big River, Damn Yankees, Bubblin Brown Sugar, Real Life Hip Hopera, and Complacency of Silence for which he received a Kevin Kline nomination for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Musical. King has attained leading and supporting roles in independent films and television.
Spoken Word Poet, Cedric Hammed will serve as the narrator. Cedric Hameed is a fierce arts advocate and believes that local, national, and global change can be accomplished through expression. Evidence of his philosophy can be seen in the students and parent voices of Visible Men Academy. A native of Schenectady, N.Y, Cedric grew accustomed to using words as an escape from his harsh realities. He never realized it would be the blueprint to creating a life-changing platform. "Poetry saved my life, literally! I see the world in metaphors and similes. And, when you can see in the abstract you can create. I can see the world we can all create!"
* http://www.thepattersonfoundation.org/honoring-and-onward.html
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BkiUdi45qhLBSMLQwL88 | Chicken Soup for the Dog Lover's Soul
Stories of Canine Companionship, Comedy and Courage
By Jack Canfield, Mark Victor Hansen and Carol Kline
Dog lovers of all ages will appreciate this collection of stories, from playful and hilarious accounts of living with dogs, to heartwarming tales of dog courage, healing and learning. Each touching story celebrates the unique bond we share with our dogs.
Photograph by Derek Smith
Jack Canfield is co-creator of the Chicken Soup for the Soul® series, which includes forty New York Times bestsellers, and coauthor of The Success Principles: How to Get from Where You Are to Where You Want to Be. He is a leader in the field of personal transformation and peak performance and is currently CEO of the Canfield Training Group and Founder and Chairman of the Board of The Foundation for Self-Esteem. An internationally renowned corporate trainer and keynote speaker, he lives in Santa Barbara, California.
Mark Victor Hansen is a co-founder of Chicken Soup for the Soul.
Carol Kline
Carol Kline is a #1 New York Times bestselling author and the coauthor of Happy for No Reason and five books in the Chicken Soup for the Soul series.
Publisher: Backlist, LLC - a unit of Chicken Soup of the Soul Publishing LLC (September 19, 2012)
Self-Help > Motivational
Book Cover Image (jpg): Chicken Soup for the Dog Lover's Soul
Author Photo (jpg): Jack Canfield | commoncrawl | 4 | 1 | 4 | 1 |
BkiUcy7xaKgTt067OxUD | You're plunged deep into the black, frigid waters. Your lungs scream for air. With your last bit of strength, you pull yourself ashore.
You have nothing but the clothes on your back and fallen branches all around. That ship was your last hope, and now it lies in pieces off the shore of this deserted island. Are you the only one who survived the crash?
You're not alone. You don't know how the others survived. You don't know if you can trust them.
You have to rebuild. You have to learn ancient skills long since forgotten by humanity.
This island may be deserted, but with work, innovation and a little help, perhaps you can make it a home.
All you can do is hope that when THEY return, this time you'll be ready. | c4 | 5 | 1 | 5 | 1 |
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Changing the Way the Future Unfolds for Children in Poverty
September 10, 2015 • Carolyn Miles
I remember playing the fortune teller game as a kid. We would take a piece of paper, write cute messages and fortunes on it and then fold it origami-style to predict our future. Of course, our paper game couldn't foretell my future or that of my childhood friends, but with the opportunities that came with growing up in a thriving community in the U.S., the outlook was bright. I had access to a quality education, which led to rewarding work experiences and, ultimately, to my dream job of leading a humanitarian organization helping make this world a better place for children.
Students participate in a counting activity in preschool teacher Sung Thi Kim's preschool class at a Save the Children supported school in northern rural Vietnam. Photo by Jeremy Soulliere/Save the Children.
But for too many kids in America and around the world, their future is all too predictable. Girls and boys who live in poverty, like William, whom I met in South Carolina when he was 18 months old, often miss out on the essential early learning every child needs to succeed – in school and life. This means they're at a much higher risk of starting school behind their peers and never catching up, which can have a devastating effect on their future. Research has shown that when kids fall behind early on, they are more likely to drop out of school, become a teen parent or even end up in prison.
That's why, as the summer is winding down and as kids go back to school, Save the Children is launching an annual campaign called Invest in Childhood: See the Future Unfold, which is focused on the importance of getting an early start on learning. The centerpiece of the campaign is—can you guess?—a digital version of the paper fortune teller! We have dubbed it the Future Teller because it shows how we can transform the way the future unfolds for children when we invest in them early on. Our Future Teller reveals how investments big and small can make a lasting difference: Investing as little as $3 can provide a baby's first book, $5 can send a child to school and $10 can stock a home library.
William is proof that investing time, effort and resources in kids while they are still babies and toddlers—and before their brain is 90 percent developed at age 5—can have a big impact on their future. When I visited him in South Carolina, William was thriving. Rather than falling behind his peers, he was right where he was supposed to be in his development.
All parents want what's best for their child. But many parents, like William's, either don't have the means to pay for preschool or have access to it. That's why William's mom, Jessica, enrolled him in Save the Children's early childhood education program. She and her son have benefitted from having caring experts regularly visit their home, providing parenting support, bringing books and engaging William in play and learning activities to ensure he develops the essential skills he needs to succeed in school, setting him up for a promising future.
: Preschool teacher Sung Thi Kim reads to her class in a Save the Children supported school in northern rural Vietnam. Photo by Jeremy Soulliere/Save the Children.
Save the Children trains teachers and works with kids and parents from America to Vietnam to Mozambique to give them the tools they need to shape the futures of their children. In recognition of the world of difference these preschool teachers are making in their own communities, Save the Children this month is joining with Microsoft and Windows 10 in their #UpgradeYourWorld movement to tell their stories.
Stories of preschool teachers like Sung Thi Kim, who teaches in a remote Vietnamese farming village where most families live without electricity or running water. She goes out of her way—visiting her students at home to help with homework and turning rice and corn into teaching tools when school supplies are scarce—to ensure that children like Mai, 5, don't miss out on early learning opportunities. You can read Ms. Kim's story here.
With the support of amazing individuals like Ms. Kim doing great things in their communities to promote early learning, we can help all children reach their dreams. When we invest in children like William and Mai, we transform the way their future unfolds.
Adapted from a blog that originally ran in the Huffington Post.
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BkiUc7Y5qdmB629MGt3c | Wendy Williams' Lifetime biopic gets drug-filled first trailer
By Francesca Bacardi
December 4, 2020 | 11:07am
Wendy Williams calls ex-husband Kevin Hunter a 'serial cheater'
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She promised to use her talk show to tell it like it is, and now Wendy Williams is doing just that — but with her own life.
Lifetime's new Williams biopic, "Wendy Williams: The Movie," released its first trailer Thursday and absolutely delivered on its promise. The trailer documents Williams' rise from radio host to daytime TV talk show host, as well as her struggles with cocaine (her now-famous Halloween collapse even makes the cut) and marital struggles with now-ex-husband Kevin Hunter.
Williams is executive producing the movie, which may lead fans to assume the dramatic or unflattering parts of Williams' life would be left out, but that doesn't appear to be the case, as the trailer even touches upon Hunter's affair with mistress Sharina Hudson, who welcomed a daughter with Hunter weeks before Williams filed for divorce.
"I haven't seen anything, including what you're about to see, [like this before]," Williams said before debuting the trailer.
Darren Grant, whom Williams described as an "award-winning person in the business," directs the Lifetime biopic, which he said he'd only work on if it didn't get "watered down."
"You were on your grind. You were the talk of the town," he said to Willams on Thursday's episode of "The Wendy Williams Show." "I was like, you know what, that story … I want to be a part of it."
"Wendy Williams: The Movie" premieres Jan. 30.
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BkiUd7E5qoTDtsJtBCqY | 1) Are the Colts finally putting it together?
4) Duke has the top spot until being crowned champs right?
4) C'mon everyone, we're going streaking!
3) Stadium in Oakland for the Raiders?
2) Miami toto Las Vegas?
1) Forde Yard Dash: They got it right?
4) New arena in Arizona?
3) Odd one loss team out?
1) Jamaal Charles on IR is he done in KC?
3) The Rosen one out for the year?
4) First argument of the opening CFP rankings?
1) Why so glum in Gotham?
3) Can Toronto improve on last season? | c4 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 |
BkiUfKM4uzlh_1001THD | Booking.com: Hotels in Bourton on the Water. Book your hotel now!
Oxleigh is located in Bourton on the Water. The property has free WiFi. The vacation home has a TV. Stratford-upon-Avon is 25 miles from the vacation home, while Cheltenham is 15 miles away.
Honeysuckle is located in Bourton on the Water and offers a garden. The property has free WiFi. The vacation home features a TV and 3 bedrooms. Stratford-upon-Avon is 25 miles from the vacation home.
Featuring a spa bath, Foxes Manor with Hot Tub is located in Bourton on the Water. Guests have access to free WiFi. This vacation home features a bathroom with a hot tub and free toiletries.
Located in Bourton on the Water in the Gloucestershire region, Vine House is a 4-star property featuring free WiFi. The property is 29 miles from Oxford. The vacation home features a TV.
In the heart of the Cotswolds, The Dial House Hotel features free WiFi, and free parking on site. It has a peaceful walled garden.
Chestnut Bed and Breakfast is a 300-year-old, grade II listed building in the center of the beautiful Cotswold village of Bourton-on-the-Water. It has a sitting room with free Wi-Fi.
Located in Bourton on the Water in the Gloucestershire region, Newbury Cottage, BOURTON ON THE WATER features a garden. Guests staying at this vacation home can use the fully equipped kitchen.
Japonica Cottage, BOURTON ON THE WATER is located in Bourton on the Water. Offering free WiFi, the property also has a garden.
Shamrock Cottage is located in Lower Slaughter. Guests staying at this vacation home can use the free WiFi. Including 2 bedrooms and 1 bathroom, this vacation home features a TV.
Located in the village of Bourton-on-the-Water in the heart of the picturesque Cotswolds, Bourton Croft Cottage features free WiFi access and free parking at a nearby location.
Located in Bourton on the Water, Duke of Wellington features a terrace and a bar. All rooms have a flat-screen TV with cable channels and a private bathroom.
Forsythia Cottage is located in Bourton on the Water and offers barbecue facilities and a garden. Guests staying at this vacation home can use a fully equipped kitchen.
Church View, BOURTON ON THE WATER is located in Bourton on the Water and offers a garden. Guests staying at this vacation home can use the fully equipped kitchen.
With original features and traditional charm, Old Manse Hotel overlooks the River Windrush. In picturesque Bourton-on-the-Water, the hotel has free parking, a riverside terrace and free Wi-Fi. | c4 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 1 |
BkiUd604uzlh5508BGKp | CLEVELAND (AP) LeBron James will be Mr. Cub for a little while.
To pay off a bet on the World Series he lost to close friend Dwyane Wade, James will wear a Cubs cap, jersey, pants and socks to Friday's game in Chicago before the Cavaliers play the Bulls.
James made a friendly wager on the Series between the Cleveland Indians and Cubs with Wade, his former Miami teammate and Chicago native who returned to play in his hometown this season. The Indians lost in seven games as the Cubs rallied from a 3-1 deficit to win their first championship since 1908.
And that will be quite a sight as the 6-foot-8, 250-pound James isn't built like any baseball player.
It's a bit easier to make good on his bet since he led the Cavs to the NBA title in June, ending Cleveland's 52-year championship drought.
James and Wade played together for four seasons in Miami, leading the Heat to two titles and four straight Finals appearances. James said it will be different to see Wade, who signed with Chicago as a free agent last summer, in another jersey. | c4 | 5 | 1 | 5 | 1 |
BkiUefnxK0wg05VB8i_n | Officials seek opinions on what to do with old Lemoyne Middle School
by: Sarah Gisriel
Posted: Jul 17, 2018 / 02:39 AM EDT / Updated: Jul 17, 2018 / 01:30 PM EDT
Lemoyne Middle School sits in what many call the heart of the borough.
In the summer of 2013, that heart stopped beating when the school shut its doors to cut costs for the West Shore School District, and the community took notice.
"One of the best things about Lemoyne is we have a great sense of community. You know, Lemoyne, the little town that has it all, and we have good people that get involved," said Tom Beene, whose kids went to Lemoyne Middle School.
Involved people showed up at a meeting to let the building's new owners, Real Estate Collaborative LLC, and one of their partners, RGS Associates, know exactly what they should do with the building.
"This is a complete scrap the work that's been done to date, listen to the community's input and desires, and develop a plan going forward based on that feedback," said Mark Hackenburg, principal of RGS Associates.
Residents were broken up into smaller groups where they brainstormed and gave developers a wishlist for the property.
One of the most common requests was to preserve the architecture of the building while finding a way to restore life to the property.
"We want to make sure that the rest of the community doesn't become parking lots, like the Carlisle Pike. We want to make sure that's a green space," said Beene.
Beene says he and many of his neighbors are hopeful that the property will be in good hands.
"I think those folks have the best interest of the community, and I believe the residents do the same, and I believe coming together, we're gonna work on a resolution that's good for everybody," said Beene.
Online surveys will be available until July 27, and then it's up to developers, but they don't seem to be worried.
"We will come to the August 20th meeting with a conceptual plan," said Hackenburg.
There are many directions the developers could pursue for the project, but it's worth noting the front half of the building is zoned as commercial, and the back half is urban residential.
OREM, Utah (AP) — Authorities say a 6-year-old Utah girl has died after her father accidentally hit her with a golf ball.
Police say the ball struck the girl in the back of the head on Monday morning, while the father and daughter were golfing at Sleepy Ridge Golf Course in Orem. | commoncrawl | 4 | 1 | 2 | 1 |
BkiUfRQ5qhLBoKhwrBVa | Social business:: an outward sign of "inner well-being"
In case any aspiring business leaders are still in any doubt about the merits of integrating a social media presence into their Corporate strategy, hopefully, these few words will prompt some further thought. Not because I am trying to sell anything to anyone but because it isn't every firm can afford to offer the TRANSPARENCY that stakeholders increasingly demand: competitors weaknesses can be your strength!
Datamonitor are "flogging" a new report so these words are theirs and (in this instance at least) not mine!
I have been banging on about the need for FS companies to realise the error of their ways and to "open up" so that they can really engage with customers using, in particular, social media. But the obstacle that refuses to go away is the need to embrace TRANSPARENCY!
Is their a more damning indictment of the state of our FS industry? Well YES…it is contained in the "HIGHLIGHTS" section below I have highlighted again so no-one within the industry can claim that they didn't realise!
OK so you can win, even retain customers on price but that isn't sufficient to sustain profitable retention levels when your price rises…even if others are also on the increase. Inertia has, for long enough, been a reliable source for retention too but these are times of austerity and it is a very foolish few who merely accept what they are told.
Then there is that old favourite of banks and credit card issuers…"indebtedness". These guys love it because it is cheaper than earning loyalty through offering fair deals and decent service but, what they should now realise is that these unlucky customers won't be around for too long. They either cannot afford their debts and you both lose (after you have taken a "haircut").
You could "win" by getting back what you are owed BUT lose a customer for life…as well as the custom of anyone who asks them about their experience of dealing with your company. People's practical experience will always trump the outbound sales effort of a spotty youth or a glossy campaign declaring undying love for customers. See below: REMEMBER THEY DON'T TRUST YOU OR LIKE YOU AND YOUR MARKET WILL DISAPPEAR AT THE FIRST OPPORTUNITY OR SIGN OF CREDIBLE COMPETITION.
Consumers in the FS industry look for protection and reassurance from their providers in order to feel a sense of safety. The loss of trust as a result of the global downturn has left consumers feeling uncertain. Trust needs to be rebuilt, not only to offer consumers financial safety but also to increase consumer engagement and build better relationships with customers.
Strengthen customer relationships by driving an increase in consumer engagement.
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BkiUdbU5qX_Bo8oPOg5E | Lydia Ko consolidated her lofty position as No.1 on the Olympic Rankings after capturing the first women's major championship of the 2016 season, the ANA Inspiration, at Rancho Mirage, California. No, this wasn't a mirage, as the New Zealand teenager collected back-to-back victories following the previous week's Kia Classic and in the process became the youngest player to win two major titles in LPGA Tour history at the age of 18 years, 11months and 9 days.
A last-hole birdie landed the k.o. blow by Ko, who finished one shot ahead of England's Charley Hull and In Gee Chun of Korea. Hull climbs from 20th to 15th in the Rankings while Chun moves above her compatriot, Amy Yang, to claim the current fourth spot on the Road to Rio in eighth position as Yang drops out.
Fourth place at the ANA Inspiration elevated Thailand's Ariya Jutanugarn from 25th to 17th while Diana Luna comes into the top 60 in 53rd place at the expense of her fellow Italian, Giulia Molinaro.
"Ever since they announced that golf would be in the 2016 Olympics in Rio, I said I want to get myself to Brazil. That was going to be my ultimate goal, and I can't believe it's already around the corner. It's just been a dream. I feel so fortunate that we're getting this opportunity to be in the Olympics. Golf isn't the most physical sport. It's not the fastest sport, but it takes a lot of skills, a lot of hard work to get here and get to be in this position. So I think it's great that golf is returning to the Olympics." Lydia Ko.
Jim Herman, aged 38 and without a victory on the PGA Tour in his 16-year-career, ended that streak by holding off a group of would-be Olympians to win the Shell Houston Open. The American stood firm despite intense pressure from Henrik Stenson of Sweden, fellow American Dustin Johnston and the in-form Spaniard Rafa Cabrera-Bello to became a winner at long last.
Herman proved that dreams do come true, and the same could be said about the chasing pack who will be dreaming of Olympic gold in Rio de Janeiro in August. Stenson replaces Adam Scott as No.6 on the Olympic Ranking with Johnson up one place from ninth to eighth.
Cabrera-Bello, who finished third in the WGC-Dell Match Play the previous week, followed up with another strong performance to take fourth spot. He has moved ten spots in two weeks from 27th to 17th to chase his compatriot Sergio Garcia, who holds onto 14th position.
With Fiji's double major champion Vijay Singh removing his name from the Olympic Rankings, Siddikur Rahman of Bangladesh comes into the frame in 60th spot.
Andrew Svoboda of the United States was a winner in Brazil 125 days ahead of the Olympic Games commencing in Rio de Janeiro.
A last hole birdie earned Svoboda a one stroke victory in the Brasil Champions presented by Embrase in Sao Paulo. However there were moments of excitement for the home supporters as three Brazilian players made the cut in, in the case of Alexandre Rocha, made the top 15.
Rocha, who was born and lives in Sao Paolo, finished tied 14th with Rafael Becker tied for 57th and Lucas Lee sharing 71st place. Currently, Adilson da Silva is the host country's Olympic representative at No.58 in the Rankings.
"It's nice to go to the Masters. This was the last ticket to Augusta. Packing up and heading right to Augusta. I don't know how we did it. It's over, but it still hasn't sunk in. I knew it wasn't going to be easy. There were so many great players out there. Just very proud of myself the way I hung in there." Jim Herman.
The IGF was founded in 1958 to encourage the international development of the game and to employ golf as a vehicle to foster friendship and sportsmanship. The IGF is comprised of 146 National Federation Members in 141 countries and 22 Professional Members. The IGF serves as the International Olympic Committee's recognized International Federation for golf. | c4 | 5 | 2 | 5 | 1 |
BkiUdJHxK4sA-7sDfBwB | Indonesia's transmigration program is developed in response to what are considered to be the central challenges of economic development in the country: overpopulation on the island of Java, scarcity of fertile land, and low levels of productivity.
The $30 million loan is the first funding approved by the Bank Group in support of Indonesia's preexisting transmigration program. The loan will aid in the migration of settlers from the heavily populated island of Java to other parts of the country. The project consists of the establishment of a new 4,500-family settlement, the upgrade of an existing 12,000-family settlement, and technical support for design and implementation of future programs.
Detail of correspondence from A. Storrar to Dennis Parsons (1166276).
Personal papers of Gloria Davis
The records of Gloria Davis, the first anthropologist hired by the World Bank Group, relate to her work in Southeast Asia and transmigration with a special focus on Indonesia.
https://archivesholdings.worldbank.org/personal-papers-of-gloria-davis
Correspondence from A. Storrar to Dennis Parsons
The letter reports that a "viable transmigration project" has been identified and makes recommendations related to the assemblage of a preparatory mission (1166276).
Memorandum regarding implementation of village construction program
David Shoesmith, project architect and planner, provides estimates for the construction program at Baturaja (30251546).
Interview with Jean Baneth
Interview dates: Dec. 19, 1994, Jan. 12, 1995, and Sept. 11, 1996
The former director of the Bank Group's resident staff in Indonesia (1975-1979) discusses the transmigration project on pages 48-51 of the transcript.
http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/656231468338396207/pdf/891610TSCP0Ora…
Signing of first transmigration loan
Among those present at the signing are His Excellency Roesmin Nurjadin, Ambassador of Indonesia to the United States, and East Asia & Pacific Region VP Bernard Bell (1723754; Credit: The World Bank).
Transmigration and Rural Development Project
http://projects.worldbank.org/P003757/transmigration-project?lang=en
P003757: Approved July 15, 1976
The project profile contains an overview of the project, financial details, and a list of project documents and archival record folders related to the project.
Transmigration and Rural Development Project: Staff Appraisal Report
http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/443991468258568555/Indonesia-Transmig…
The report covers the project's background, formulation, and financing and provides a detailed description of the project.
Transmigration Program: A Review of Five Bank-Supported Projects
Document date: April 26, 1994
The review covers five of the seven Bank-supported projects for the transmigration program in Indonesia, summarizing their audits, evaluation, and outcomes.
Transmigration and Rural Development Project: Project Performance Audit Report | commoncrawl | 4 | 2 | 2 | 1 |
BkiUb5HxK0wg09KOVvSZ | How can I make cheap = tasty?
If we play a little word association game, and I say cheap, what springs to mind?
How would you fill the gap: 'cheap and ……'?
Collocations are two or more words that often 'go together'. The term is used in corpus linguistics to indicate 'a sequence of words or terms that co-occur more often than would be expected by chance'.
According to the Ozdic Collocation Dictionary, the most common collocation phrase for 'cheap and' is 'cheap and nasty'.
Google's predictive search has a slightly nicer suggestion, 'cheap and easy', as in the top recommendation, 'cheap and easy meals'. But even 'cheap and easy' can be a nasty jibe depending on what – or who! – it is directed at.
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BkiUc43xK6EuNCwyu5lf | May 2002 (Volume 11, Number 5)
The Status of the African-American Physicist in the Department of Energy National Laboratories
Keith H. Jackson
The National Society of Black Physicists (NSBP) has been concerned about the small number of African-Americans with career scientific staff appointments at Department of Energy funded national laboratories. NSBP has also been frustrated with the overall lack of participation of Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCU's) in DOE-funded scientific user facilities such as high energy physics and nuclear facilities, Synchrotron Light Sources, and the Spallation Neutron Source. As a result of these concerns, the Technical Executive Officer of NSBP began to collect data, which were placed before the American Physical Society Committee on Minorities (COM). The American Physical Society Committee on Minorities formally took up the issue but first wanted to verify the data provided by NSBP, and to expand the study to include Hispanic physicists. COM enlisted and received the full support of both the National Society of Black Physicists and the National Society of Hispanic Physicists (NSHP).
Our data show that in general African American Ph.D. physicists are less than 0.5% of the Ph.D. physicists employed at the DOE labs. African Americans make up nearly 2% of the physics faculties across the United States, including the faculties of HBCU's. Looking at data compiled by Professor Donna Nelson at University of Oklahoma, we find that the percentage of African-Americans on the faculties of the top 50 physics departments in the U.S. is much smaller (N=60 or 0.6% of total).
What do these numbers mean and what is the connection between the universities and the DOE- funded national laboratories? The DOE labs are government-owned but contractor-operated (GOCO) and the contractor/operators are universities that do not have a single African-American on their physics faculties. The hiring practices and recruiting of the universities are mirrored at the laboratories which they manage. The NSBP has several hypotheses about the reasons:
Many university faculty have joint appointments with the national laboratories and serve on the scientific staff committees responsible for hiring.
Graduate students from the managing university, and post-docs from established collaborators, have first shot at post-docs and staff scientist positions. If you are not part of that informal network there is precious little chance at getting any position at the laboratory.
Many African-American physicists have a natural affinity to the idea of teaching at an HBCU. While this is undoubtedly true, this really leads to a self-fulfilling prophesy, that is in fact motivated by hiring practices at other universities and the DOE labs. That is, academic appointments at these institutions are more available to African-American physicists since appointments in "top-50" departments and at the DOE labs are not available.
The bottom line is that the labs have not been inventive and aggressive in recruiting domestic African-American and Hispanic-American scientific talent. What more important mission could there be for an organization that would claim to be a national laboratory?
Many of our colleagues would assert the "pool" or "external availability" of American-Americans with Ph.D.'s in physics is small, and that they know of no African-American with a Ph.D. in physics who is unemployed. But there is, for example, a top-10 university that has graduated over 34 African-Americans with Ph.D.'s in physics since 1974. This university also manages a DOE-funded laboratory. There is not a single African-American physicist on its physics or applied physics faculty. This may not be surprising, but in addition there is not a single African-American Ph.D.-level physicist on the staff of the national laboratory or on the research staff of the university period! There is a common misconception that African Americans somehow have an "affirmative action advantage" when applying for jobs at the national laboratories. If that were true, the statistics would be much better across the labs.
NSBP has some proposals for immediate action to address the diversity problem at the national labs. The labs should become intimately involved with the NSBP and the NSHP and other minority professional societies. These organizations have annual meetings that consist of technical and business sessions. At these meetings the labs will find serious scientists with whom their scientific staff can form authentic collaborations, partnerships and student exchanges. They will also find many students looking for research opportunities and mentorship.
The national laboratories could also benefit from a site visit by a team composed of members of NSBP, to review and give serious advice on the recruitment, hiring practices, workplace environment, and quality of scientific outreach activities of DOE labs. The members that make up these professional organizations possess considerable scientific expertise, and are well informed about science resources within minority communities.
The national laboratories should aggressively seek out and form research partnerships with faculty at HBCU's, Hispanic Serving Institutions (HSI's) and Tribal Colleges. AIP statistics reveal that 44% of African American students who earn a baccalaureate degree in the sciences do so at Historically Black Colleges and Universities, and most African- American physics professors are at HBCU's. Research partnerships between research-intensive institutions and HBCU's have historically paid great dividends in increasing the number of minority Ph.D. physicists. Each DOE lab should have active collaborations with HBCU's, HSI's and Tribal Colleges that include staff exchanges, i.e., sending lab personnel to the schools as visiting professors, and having professors at the labs as guest scientists, along with their students as fellows. More importantly, national laboratories should pursue joint appointments with HBCU researchers.
The national laboratories should ensure that minorities participate on advisory committees and on annual divisional review committees at all levels. This is particularly true of laboratory divisions that operate publicly financed national user facilities. Diversity of the division staff and facility users also should be a topic to be reviewed. It is difficult to imagine how a review panel with no African-American scientists will ever raise the issue of collaboration with minority scientists. The guidelines of the review should state explicitly that the inclusion of underrepresented minorities in the scientific program is on an equal footing with the proposed science.
Diversity efforts at the national laboratories have to include the actual stakeholders, the senior scientists with actual hiring and program leadership responsibilities. Too often too much is left to the lab diversity officer. In our survey and follow-up research we have found that this is a fundamental disconnect at the national laboratories. Diversity officers often are not scientists and have few informal contacts among working scientists. We found that most of their job is to satisfy contractual obligations which may protect the laboratories from lawsuits but do not help to diversify the lab scientific workforce.
There is also a problem with senior lab personnel somehow equating K-12 science outreach efforts with diversity efforts. The labs will bring in high school children for a day of show and tell, but will not invite serious scientists to serve on review panels and policy boards. The idea is that exposure to science will somehow stimulate these students to major in science when they enter college. However a student of color might quickly come to the conclusion, seeing no people of color in scientific leadership roles, that there are in fact no opportunities to take advantage of and that science is not a viable career path. A student will see it is not a pipeline issue but more of a spigot issue. The lab won't open the spigot to hire a person of color.
The national laboratories need to be committed to programs to improve the distribution of scientific knowledge and high-level scientific and technical skills not only of professors and students from HBCU's, HSI's or Tribal Colleges, but of all US students of science. In many instances the hire of a foreign national in a scientific position at a laboratory is justified on the basis of that foreign national possessing some "special" skill. The national user facilities managed by DOE should play a leading role in providing US citizens with the special skills necessary to compete in the scientific workforce, for example a major investment in summer schools and workshops to train US undergraduate and graduate students in the science and technology embodied in major user facilities such as the national ignition facility, supercomputing, synchrotron light sources, neutron sources, and high energy physics and nuclear facilities. Why do we invest public money in these facilities if we are not going to invest an equal amount in training the next generation of US scientists and engineers in their use?
An example of best practices is the DOE office of Nuclear Engineering. Faced with the declining enrollment of US citizens in nuclear engineering programs , the DOE Office of Nuclear Engineering, Science and Technology moved some of its budget resources to support visiting professorships at HBCU's. This was a quiet effort, and this office should not be confused with the Office of Science, but it provides an example of best practices and education programs appropriate to the DOE mission.
Finally, the Congress must exercise some oversight muscle here. The fact is that the contractors, e.g., University of California, University of Chicago, University of Tennessee, know that they are not about to lose the contract over diversity, and in fact these are sole source contracts which are not competitively bid in the first place. Given the non-competitiveness of these contracts it is very hypothetical of these institutions to talk about so called preferences in hiring of African -Americans. The diversity of the core scientific staff and scientific activity is not a major component of the management contracts. Congress must make sure that diversity performance is strongly and explicitly put into the management contracts, and oversee that performance as only Congress can.
We are dealing with very small numbers that perhaps defy rigorous statistical analysis and control grouping. The DOE laboratories and the academic departments managed by the universities studied by NSBP know what they are doing, or not doing. NSBP calls for congressional action because we are frustrated by commissions, reports, diversity plans and high-level statements. It is time to move directly to things we know will yield results. The Congress ultimately has the oversight responsibility for the national laboratories and we request Congress to turn its attention to this national problem.
Keith H. Jackson, a physicist at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, is President of the National Society of Black Physicists.
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BkiUeDk4eIOjR1Ci-KvA | The Brandeis Hoot has moved. Please visit BrandeisHoot.com
Westboro Baptist Church protests Brandeis Hillel
Ariel Wittenberg
The Brandeis Hoot
Section: Front Page
Friday: Members of the Westboro Baptist Church are filmed as they demonstrate at the entrance to Brandeis University.
PHOTO BY Max Shay/The Hoot
Members of the Westboro Baptist Church protested on South Street outside of Brandeis University today to "send a message to Jews that they have to obey their God and atone for their sins," the Kansas-based church group's leader Shirley Phelps said, while up on the Brandeis campus, students celebrated their diverse campus.
The seven Church protesters, four of who were children under the age of ten, held signs reading "Rabbis rape children," "your Rabbi is a whore" and "America is doomed."
People driving by in cars also heckled the protesters, with one screaming "Go back where you came from, rednecks."
Phelps said her church decided to picket Brandeis University because "I know it has a large Jewish population, but these students are walking in darkness and maybe some among the many can still be saved if they put away their idols."
"This nation's destruction is imminent," she said. "This life is going to be over in the blink of an eye and then eternity starts. So no, I'm not worried about offending anybody."
Because the university is private property, the protesters from the Westboro Church were regulated to protesting on the sidewalk of the university. But though they were off-campus, roughly 100 Brandeis students stood on the sidelines watching the protesters and doing some heckling and holding signs of their own.
One student held an Israeli flag, while another held a sign that read "Happy Hannukah." Brandeis junior Benjamin Gronich held a sign reading "I'm gay for the WBC. Gay as in happy … and I'm into guys."
"I feel like my sign is tasteful, but at the same time it makes my opinions clear," Gronich said.
Gronich said he was told to take down his sign by Celebrate Brandeis student monitors who urged him to have a united front with the celebration on main campus.
"There is a united front up by the campus center, and I understand that they think I'm giving [the Church] what they want, but I'm not holding this sign for them," he said. "I'm holding this sign for me."
Brandeis freshman from Kansas David Handler carried a Kansas flag with him throughout the protest to "remind people not all people from Kansas are inbred hicks."
"We are wholesome state. These few bad apples spoiled the game," he said.
Up on main campus, Brandeis 150 to 200 students gathered on the Great Lawn in an event called "Celebrate Brandeis" to unite and send a message to the church that "an attack on one of us is an attack on all of us," Sahar Massachi, who helped organize the event, said.
Outgoing university President Jehuda Reinharz spoke to students saying that by being at the celebration instead of watching the protesters "we are denying them the oxygen they need—the oxygen of attention."
"This is a day to celebrate Brandeis, to celebrate our values," he said.
Celebrate Brandeis is a day-long event that kicked off with speeches from students and both the university's outgoing and incoming presidents, but which continued throughout the day with face-painting, dreidel spinning and fundraising for Keshet, a Boston-based non-profit organization that helps Jewish youth who identify as gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender.
"There is great symbolism in the fact that hatred is outside of our gates, and pluralism is inside," incoming university President Frederick Lawrence said.
At 9:30 a.m., as the Church's protesters left to picket outside of Harvard University in Cambridge, up on main campus Brandeis students were joined in Hebrew song.
"Od yavo shalom aleinu," they sang, or, in English, "peace will come upon us." | commoncrawl | 4 | 2 | 5 | 1 |
BkiUb_jxK6-gD5TlcV85 | Here's what the National Academy of Sciences has to say about GMOS
This morning, the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) released a consensus report titled "Genetically Engineered (GE) Crops: Experiences & Prospects". You can download the full 400 page report which includes a four page summary here. The public release of the report was accompanied by a webcast including a presentation of the report followed by a question and answer session. My notes on the webcast including screen shots of many of the slides are synthesized below. I apologize for any missing slides or points. None were omitted intentionally. As a scientist, I tended to focus my notes more on human health and the environment and less on social/economic points.
The NAS is a private, non-profit organization that "is charged with providing independent, objective advice to the nation on matters related to science and technology. Scientists are elected by their peers to membership in the NAS for outstanding contributions to research. "
Volunteers for the NAS committee to assemble the consensus report were vetted for potential conflicts of interest. The committee was composed of a very diverse range of scientists and experts from a variety of different topic areas ranging from entomology to science communication. The committee was initially divided, as there were many different views on the prospects and progress of genetically engineered crops. However, all members were required to back their claims with evidence as the discussion progressed, and they ultimately came to a consensus that best reflects the available data.
In analyzing the issue, the committee looked to two decades of scientific literature including nearly 1000 articles. They also listened to input from 80 diverse speakers, and reviewed over 700 public comments. These videos and other materials have all been archived and are publicly available. The study was sponsored by the New Venture Fund, the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation, the Burroughs Wellcome Fund, the U.S. Department of Agriculture, and the National Academy of Sciences. The report had 26 diverse reviewers. The committee had to respond to each of their comments and defend their conclusions with evidence.
The first key message from the committee emphasized the increasing difficulty of differentiating crop improvement technologies that qualify as GE from those that do not (you can read my personal explanation of this issue here). The chair of the committee Dr. Fred Gould likened this to the invention of cell-phones, cameras, and lap-tops which were once all distinct technologies that now have overlapping functions.
For this reason, the committee contends that it is impossible to "make sweeping generalizations about the benefits and risks of GE crops". For the report, they mainly focused on three of the most widely grown GE crops: corn, cotton, and soybeans. The report also focused on the two most commonly utilized traits: insect (BT crops) and herbicide (RoundUp-Ready crops) resistance.
The committee generally concluded that insect resistant crops result in increased yields due to fewer losses from pests. Planting of insect resistant crops also correlates with a decrease in the application of synthetic pesticides and an increase in biodiversity. However, improper management of insect-resistant crops can and has resulted in the evolution of resistant insects.
They also concluded that the planting of herbicide-resistant crops can lead to an increase in yield. Beyond yield, the technology is substantially useful to farmers for several reasons. Herbicide-resistant crops allow farmers to apply a single herbicide where they might before have used many at a time when it is optimally convenient, safe, and physiologically advantageous for their crops.
My screenshot of this slide did not turn out, so I looked it up in the archives
The committee also notes that weeds (like the insects) have evolved resistance to this herbicide creating a huge challenge for farmers who will need to change their management strategies. The committee also made a point to emphasize that comparisons of kilograms of herbicide use before and after herbicide-resistant crops were widely adopted is not meaningful unless the health and environmental impacts of those herbicides are also compared.
The committee's analysis of the environmental impact of GMOs, revealed some evidence of gene flow from GE crops into wild ecotypes, but only under experimental conditions. The committee in general found that there was no evidence of environmental problems caused by growing GE crops. There was also no direct connection between the use of herbicide-resistance crops and no-till practices as farmers had already begun to move away from tilling prior to the advent of GE crops.
In response to the question of whether or not GMO crops are contributing to yield increases, the committee contends that they are. They acknowledge that what's good for one farmer is not good for another, but farmers in general are gaining from the technology.
That said, as these graphs show, there is not a spike in yield increase following the advent of GE crops (indicated by the vertical purple line). This likely demonstrates that changes in management practices and genetics through conventional breeding and other crop genetic improvement methods are equally as important for increasing crop yield. New types of GE crops could potentially contribute to the rate of increase depending on the traits introduced and the socioeconomic/cultural/legal factors that influence the adoption of new GE crops.
To assess the impacts of GE crops on human health, the committee analyzed over 200 existing studies, looked for changes in patterns of human health before and after the adoption of GE foods, and compared the overall health of people in the United States and Canada (where GE crops are widely grown) with the health of people in Europe (where they are not). The committee reported that many of the existing animal studies were not optimally designed.
Reports of long-term health of livestock fed GE diets and studies comparing nutrient and chemical compositions of GE food were more reliable. From these, they did not find any reliable evidence linking GE foods to health concerns. They also did not find any differences in human health that correlated with the adoption of GE crops.
Given the lack of legitimate health concerns associated with GE foods in general, the NAS proposed a new system for regulating future GE foods. The proposed regulatory approach would compare the "omics" (levels of various compounds including nucleic acids, proteins, and metabolites) of new crops with the same levels in existing varieties.
New crops would then be categorized as Tier 1 if there are no differences or Tier 2 if there are differences that have no expected health or environmental effects. Tier 1 or 2 crops would not require any further testing. If the new crops have differences with potential for health or environmental effects or differences that cannot be interpreted, they would be classified as Tier 3 or Tier 4 respectively and would require further testing. Under this system, most new varieties would fall under the category of Tier 1 or Tier 2.
On the issue of labeling, the committee concluded that because there are no health effects associated with GE food, there is no justification for labeling them on the basis of food safety. There are, however, policy reasons for which labels might be instituted such as consumer autonomy. It is outside of the legal authority of the FDA to institute a label for policy/cultural reasons, so labels would need to be mandated at the congressional level.
Read what a handful of other academic scientists had to say about the report here.
Is grass-fed beef better for the environment?
Okay, so what the heck are "omics"?
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BkiUdgs4eIXh58QxsoMg | Q: Java ant script does not show warnings I have a 1.4 java code and I want to compile it with a 1.5 compiler because I would like to see all warning messages. I added the -Xlint option to javac, but it seems there were no changes in the output, but I know there is at least a couple of warnings in the code.
I added these two lines to my ant script's compile target tag:
<compilerarg value="-Xlint:all"/>
<compilerarg line="-Xmaxwarns 10000"/>
Thank you for your answers.
A: You have used value and line attributes at the same time. Compilerarg requires "Exactly one of these", see docs. Try using only line, like: <compilerarg line="-Xlint:all -Xmaxwarns 10000"/>
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BkiUfonxK1yAgXBVHFQ9 | Q: LaTeX3 convert token list to string I want to create a LaTeX class with optional parameters using LaTeX3. But I'm having problems converting the token list holding the parameter value to a string. I would like to know how to do this correctly even if my entire strategy for processing class options is wrong. I am finding learning expl3 very very difficult.
No matter how I try to convert the token list to a string it just seems to return the LaTeX source code. I feel I have tried every permutation of \tl_to_str:n and :V with every permutation of \str_set:Nn and :NV but I probably haven't otherwise I wouldn't need to ask this question.
For the class I am creating, one optional parameter will allow the end user to choose the underlying document class. The default will be article if no class parameter is supplied:
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*use the string constant to seed the parameter value
*use a string to hold the final value once the class options have been processed
Edit: The reason for using a string is that, if I understand correctly, token lists are for stuff that will be typeset and strings (such as LaTeX has them) are for stuff that won't be typeset. Source Token list vs string in LaTeX3
MWE of the broken bit
\str_new:N \l__apple_base_class_str
\str_set:Nn \l__apple_base_class_str { \tl_to_str:n \l__apple_class_tl }
Full MWE
This code is seeded from the accepted answer of how to properly write initialization part with expl3. I assume this is the correct way to specify and process class options.
\NeedsTeXFormat{LaTeX2e}
\RequirePackage{expl3,xparse,l3keys2e}
\ProvidesExplClass{apple}
{2022/06/27} {0.0} {My first class}
\str_const:Nn \c__apple_base_class_str { article }
\keys_define:nn { apple }
{
, class .tl_set:N = \l__apple_class_tl
, class .initial:n = { \c__apple_base_class_str }
, class .value_required:n = true
}
\str_new:N \l__apple_base_class_str
\str_set:Nn \l__apple_base_class_str { \tl_to_str:n \l__apple_class_tl }
\iow_term:x { tl~of~class:~\tl_use:N \l__apple_class_tl }
\iow_term:x { str~of~class:~\str_use:N \l__apple_base_class_str }
\ProcessKeysOptions { apple }
\LoadClass { \str_use:N \l__apple_base_class_str }
Output
Document Class: apple 2022/06/27 v0.0 My first class
tl of class: article
str of class: \tl_to_str:n \l__apple_class_tl
! LaTeX Error: File `\tl_to_str:n \l__apple_class_tl .cls' not found.
Compiling with LuaHBTeX, Version 1.15.0 (MiKTeX 22.3) if that matters.
A: You are overdoing. Store the value in a tl-var and use it.
The following requires a current latex (it has now a built-in key processor so it is not longer needed to load l3keys2e).
\begin{filecontents}{apple.cls}
\NeedsTeXFormat{LaTeX2e}
\ProvidesExplClass{apple}
{2022/06/27} {0.0} {My first class}
\keys_define:nn { apple }
{
, class .tl_set:N = \l__apple_class_tl
, class .initial:n = { article }
, class .value_required:n = true
}
\ProcessKeyOptions
\iow_term:x { tl~of~class:~\tl_use:N \l__apple_class_tl }
\LoadClass { \l__apple_class_tl }
\end{filecontents}
\documentclass[class=book]{apple}
\begin{document}
aaa
\end{document}
A: If you want to use strings, good, but don't mix them with tl variables. You're doing the conversion before \ProcessKeyOptions, so the value of \l__apple_class_tl is still the initial one.
\NeedsTeXFormat{LaTeX2e}
\RequirePackage{expl3,xparse,l3keys2e}
\ProvidesExplClass{apple} {2022/06/27} {0.0} {My first class}
\str_const:Nn \c__apple_base_class_str { article }
\keys_define:nn { apple }
{
class .str_set:N = \l__apple_class_str ,
class .initial:V = \c__apple_base_class_str ,
class .value_required:n = true ,
}
\iow_term:x { tl~of~class:~\str_use:N \l__apple_class_str }
\ProcessKeysOptions { apple }
\LoadClass { \str_use:N \l__apple_class_str }
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BkiUdws5qsNCPYBLwon8 | using System;
using System.Configuration;
using System.IO;
using System.Net;
using System.Net.Http;
using System.Net.Http.Headers;
using System.Threading.Tasks;
using Microsoft.Azure.WebJobs;
using Microsoft.Azure.WebJobs.Extensions.Http;
using Microsoft.Azure.WebJobs.Host;
using DialogAnalyzerFunc.Clients;
using DialogAnalyzerFunc.Models;
namespace DialogAnalyzerFunc
{
public static class AnalyzeDialog
{
private struct RequestBody
{
public Uri ImageUri { get; set; }
}
private static DialogAnalyzerClient client;
private static DialogAnalyzerClient Client
{
get
{
if (client == null)
{
client = new DialogAnalyzerClient(
computerVisionApiRegion: ComputerVisionApiRegion,
computerVisionSubscriptionKey: ComputerVisionSubscriptionKey,
textAnalyticsApiRegion: TextAnalyticsApiRegion,
textAnalyticsSubscriptionKey: TextAnalyticsSubscriptionKey
);
}
return client;
}
}
[FunctionName("AnalyzeDialog")]
public static async Task<HttpResponseMessage> Run([HttpTrigger(AuthorizationLevel.Function, "post", Route = "AnalyzeDialog")]HttpRequestMessage request, TraceWriter log)
{
try
{
MediaTypeHeaderValue contentType = request.Content.Headers.ContentType;
// Check if content type is empty
if (contentType == null)
{
return request.CreateResponse(HttpStatusCode.BadRequest, "Missing content-type from header.");
}
// Check if content type is supported
bool isJson = contentType.MediaType.Contains("application/json") == true;
bool isOctetStream = contentType.MediaType.Contains("application/octet-stream") == true;
if (isJson == false && isOctetStream == false)
{
return request.CreateErrorResponse(HttpStatusCode.UnsupportedMediaType,
string.Format("Request's content type ({0}) is not supported.", string.Join(", ", contentType.MediaType)));
}
// Check if request body is empty
if (request.Content.Headers.ContentLength == 0)
{
return request.CreateResponse(HttpStatusCode.BadRequest, "No content found in the request.");
}
DialogAnalysisResult result;
if (isJson == true)
{
// Read content from request
RequestBody requestBody = await request.Content.ReadAsAsync<RequestBody>();
// Verify content contains a valid image uri
if (requestBody.ImageUri == null || requestBody.ImageUri.IsAbsoluteUri == false)
{
return request.CreateResponse(HttpStatusCode.BadRequest, "Image uri is not initialized or valid in the request content.");
}
result = await Client.AnalyzeDialogAsync(requestBody.ImageUri);
}
else
{
byte[] imageData;
// Convert stream into byte data
using (Stream contentStream = await request.Content.ReadAsStreamAsync())
{
// Set stream position back to 0
contentStream.Position = 0;
// Using memory stream, create byte array
using (MemoryStream memoryStream = new MemoryStream())
{
await contentStream.CopyToAsync(memoryStream);
imageData = memoryStream.ToArray();
}
}
if (imageData == null)
{
return request.CreateResponse(HttpStatusCode.BadRequest, "No binary file is found in the request content.");
}
result = await Client.AnalyzeDialogAsync(imageData);
}
// Return request response
return request.CreateResponse(HttpStatusCode.OK, result);
}
catch (Exception ex)
{
log.Error("Exception hit when analyzing dialog.", ex);
}
return request.CreateErrorResponse(HttpStatusCode.InternalServerError, "Failed to process request.");
}
private static string ComputerVisionApiRegion => ConfigurationManager.AppSettings["COMPUTERVISION_APP_REGION"]?.ToString();
private static string ComputerVisionSubscriptionKey => ConfigurationManager.AppSettings["COMPUTERVISION_SUB_KEY"]?.ToString();
private static string TextAnalyticsApiRegion => ConfigurationManager.AppSettings["TEXTANALYTICS_APP_REGION"]?.ToString();
private static string TextAnalyticsSubscriptionKey => ConfigurationManager.AppSettings["TEXTANALYTICS_SUB_KEY"]?.ToString();
}
}
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Enzo Scognamiglio - President
Enzo and his wife Jill raised their two children in Dana Point where they work together in several business ventures. He holds a degree in Restaurant & Hotel Management from Avellino College in Napoli, Italy. In a challenging 2020 Enzo became the president of the Lantern Village Association in Dana Point. He is dedicated to work closely with the city and the city council to improve this historical core of Dana Point.
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Robbie moved to Dana Point in 2002 and felt like she found home. What's not to love about Dana Point, especially the Lantern Village?
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Soosan Robinett - Secretary
Grant Earl - Director, Technology
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Georgia Theodor - Director at Large
Georgia has lived in Dana Point a little over 20 years but she's spent summers & weekends here since her parents bought a vacation home here in 1963. So she remembers Vic's, Conners Department Store, and Sherri's Bakery. Besides the LVA, Georgia's served on the Board of Directors for the Dana Point Chamber of Commerce & the Dana Point Earth/Ocean Society and also on the Town Center Subcommittee. She thinks Dana Point is a little slice of paradise.
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BkiUbEs5qsJBjdcnytlf | Evolution of a GMBD's Pup!
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BkiUdj85qoYA0D8lK4bj | 9 Reasons to Still Play Classic Monopoly With Your Kids
The "new and improved" versions aren't very fun and they don't teach kids useful skills.
By Geoffrey James@Sales_Source
Hasbro recently announced a crowdsourcing ontest to pick new tokens for the classic Monopoly game. (I vote for "Boaty McBoatFace.")
If Hasbro is just tinkering with the esthetics, that's fine with me, but I hope Hasbro isn't planning on changing the game itself because Hasbro stinks at game design.
For Christmas, my kids (ages 10 and 12) received a couple of spin-offs of Hasbro's Monopoly: the "Ultimate Banking Edition" and "Monopoly Deal."
Both games have joined another spin-off, "Monopoly Empire," at the bottom of the game drawer because, well, they basically stink.
"Ultimate Banking Edition" replaces the paper money with credit cards and a cheap plastic "reader" so that nobody is forced to do any math. It's essentially a simulation of being a convenience store clerk.
"Monopoly Deal" was unplayable because 1) the package (which was supposed to contain 110 cards) only contained 53 cards and 2) the rules were so unclear that they were forced to plead "just try it and you see it's easy to play." Not.
"Monopoly Empire" is a bit like the original except that you collect brands rather than property. It also has cards that let you steal brands from other characters. It bears exactly zero resemblance to real business or branding.
The experience of playing (or attempting to play) this trio of monstrosities reminded me of all the reasons why classic Monopoly is such a great game and why I'll continue to be playing it with my kids.
1. It teaches the financial basics.
Yes, we now live in a world of virtual currency and lightning-quick financial transactions. However, kids can't possibly learn and understand how finances work if they don't first understand the basic concept of cash.
2. It forces kids to do math.
The ability to do quick math is enormously useful in life and in business. Classic Monopoly creates and reinforces addition, subtraction, and even fractional multiplication. The "improved" versions require little or no math.
3. It teaches property ownership.
Buying and developing rental properties is a classic small business strategy that requires neither a pricey education nor a lot of seed capital. Your kids could do whole lot worse, career-wise.
4. It teaches how loans work.
The mortgage rules in classic Monopoly brilliantly illustrate that it costs money to borrow money. In a world where debt can cripple, this is a life lesson that every child should learn early.
5. It develops negotiation skills.
In the "improved" versions, there are no negotiations. You just follow the rules. In classic Monopoly, as in real-life business, you must negotiate with human beings to get what you want.
6. It explains the basics of taxation.
While classic Monopoly only weakly alludes to the advantages of taxation (i.e. sidewalks and road repairs), it correctly identifies and explains the two most common taxes: income and property.
7. It illustrates economic inequality.
While everyone begins with the same amount of money, those who secure monopolies quickly become difficult to beat. This is an illustration of "the rich get richer and the poor get poorer" - an important fact of life.
8. You can make the "world" nicer.
Classic Monopoly (like real-life finance) tends to be cutthroat. However, players are free to add house rules (like "Free Parking" bonuses) that spread the wealth around--an impossibility with "Ultimate" and meaningless in "Empire."
9. It's stood the test of time.
There are only a few board games designed over 100 years ago that remain playable today: Scrabble, Chess, Mancala, Pachesi, Checkers and Monopoly. Why monkey with elegant perfection? | commoncrawl | 5 | 2 | 5 | 3 |
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Bud is the creator of Weller's Wildlife Studio. With his hard work and that of his partners, who happen to be his loving wife and son, they have created one of the finest taxidermy institutions in the world. His "old school" approach is what defines him, and his resilience is what carried the team through the many tough times and challenges that it has faced. He has instilled a hard work ethic in all of our team members and, like it or not, you always know right where he stands. Visiting with clients about their trophies and adventures, and keeping a careful watch over all details, are some of the many things Bud is doing these days. He also is an accomplished hunter and loves his family, business, dog and boat.
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BkiUeNrxK7Tt6CA5H_7u | Eve and Mary will be united forever.
After the Fall, in the moment of Eve's shame and the announcement of the curse she would bear, Eve could not have imagined redemption beyond the curse. God proclaimed that Eve would experience great suffering in childbearing (Genesis 3.15). Adam would be cursed with a different kind of labor—the toil of painful work all his days. This was the moment suffering entered the human family. The next generation would not bring redemption, but further suffering and agony for Adam and Eve. Cain murdered Abel, setting a dreadful course of division and violence within the human family. Where and when would redemption, the removal of the curse, be found?
In a backwater town called Nazareth, that's where. In Nazareth, a teenage girl has no idea she will participate in God's cosmic saga of salvation. Then the angel Gabriel appears proclaiming God's favor over Mary. Mary, a pure virgin, will conceive the Son of God by the Holy Spirit. She will know agony in the childbearing just as her ancient mother, Eve, had known. Her son will know deep and profound agony, too. Yet the birth, life, death, and resurrection of Jesus, the second Adam, will reverse the curse of the first Adam. 'For God did not not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but in order that the world might be saved through him' (John 3.17).
Where Eve suffered a curse through disobedience, Mary has prepared the way for redemption through her obedience. Where Eve became suspicious of the Creator God and his goodness, Mary trusted the faithfulness of God. In Mary's beautiful hymn, the Magnificat, the Virgin Mother sang of the Lord: 'His mercy is on those who fear him, throughout all generations…He, remembering his mercy, has helped his servant Israel, as he promised to our fathers, Abraham and his seed forever.' (Luke 1.43-55, italics mine).
I hear the Virgin Mother singing of mercy for all generations, including the first generation of Israel's parents, Adam and Eve.
As we read these passages on Sunday, holding them together with the story of Mary's visitation by Gabriel and her beautiful Magnificat, we can see how God redeems all things in 'the fullness of time.' In this beautiful image of Mary consoling Eve, we can hear the psalmist's song, 'You have turned for me my mourning into dancing; you have loosed my sackcloth and clothed me with gladness' (Psalm 30.11).
We also hear this story beautifully expressed in a new song, Mary Consoles Eve, composed for this Advent season by Katy Bowser, Flo Paris, and Sandra McCracken. You can listen to this song below. Lyrics are printed below the media player.
And this is the inheritance of all generations who, like Mary, welcome the Lord Jesus to dwell within: joy comes to lift our curse of shame and guilt. Thanks be to God for the wonderful mystery of his salvation story! | c4 | 5 | 2 | 5 | 3 |
BkiUfPnxK7IAGCrm8lOg | Parafia św. Katarzyny PM w Turzy – parafia rzymskokatolicka znajdująca się w diecezji tarnowskiej, w dekanacie ciężkowickim.
Od 2015 proboszczem jest ks. mgr Zenon Macko.
Historia
Parafia w Turzy prawdopodobnie powstała już w 2. poł. XIV w., natomiast pierwsze wzmianki o jej istnieniu pochodzą dopiero z 1470 roku. Pierwszy drewniany kościół według tradycji istniał już w 1333 roku. Kolejne kościoły były również budowane z drewna, a ostatni z nich (z XVI lub XVII w.) przetrwał aż do 1912 roku. Obecny kościół zbudowany został z cegły w latach 1912–1916 według projektu i pod kierunkiem architekta Jana Grabowskiego, a jego konsekracji dokonał biskup tarnowski Leon Wałęga w 1928.
Proboszczowie
ks. Adolf Majewicz - 1907-1948
ks. Józef Kluczyński - 1952-1953
ks. Tadeusz Michalik - 1969–2006
ks. Benedykt Szlęzak - 2006–2011
ks. Bogdan Piekarczyk - 2011–2015
ks. Zenon Macko - 2015-nadal
Przypisy
Dekanat Ciężkowice
Parafie diecezji tarnowskiej
Parafie pod wezwaniem św. Katarzyny
Religia w gminie Rzepiennik Strzyżewski
Turza (województwo małopolskie) | wikipedia | 4 | 1 | 4 | 1 |
BkiUbWPxK7DgtAWey2hh | Thanks to the support of volunteers, Sustainability Partners Uniting Resources (SPUR) had a high-profile presence at the 2011 Labour Day Parade. With SPUR Board members Jeff Couillard, Valerie McCracken, Murray Mitchell and Nicole Tomes at the helm, the group used this opportunity to help raise awareness of sustainability across our community.
This year, several thousand area residents and visitors attended the September 5 event, the largest turnout in the parade's history.
Folks along the Parade route were also encouraged to visit the Cochrane Sustainability Plan website, and to sign on as Citizens of Sustainability. "By working together, we can make a significant difference in Cochrane's future," Jeff adds.
You can also learn more about SPUR's activities and progress towards the targets in the Cochrane Sustainability Plan on Twitter (@CochraneSustain) and Facebook (Cochrane Sustainability). | c4 | 5 | 1 | 4 | 1 |
BkiUbNk5qsBB3Ha6iCHe | Q: How to calculate the following probability? There are $N$ coupons numbered $1,2,\dots,N$ in a box. If $n$ coupons are taken at random, what is the probability that $M$ will be the highest number on a ticket if the drawings are made with replacements?
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*The answer can be $\frac{M^n-(M-1)^n}{N^n}$.
Because, $n$ tickets can be drawn with number at most $M$ is $M^n$. Now subtracting the cases where the number is at most $M-1$, we get the above answer.
*But why isn't the following answer correct? $\frac{(M-1)^{n-1}}{N^n}$
We have to draw ticket no. $M$ necessarily. So now we have to draw the other $n-1$ tickets from the $M-1$ tickets with numbers less than $M$, which is $(M-1)^{n-1}$.
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*Why isn't this answer correct? Where's actually the mistake? This is the place where I'm stuck right now.
A: Your mistake is that implicitely you assume that in the remaining $n-1$ draws, you never get $M$. But you can. This makes the computation more complicated. Idea: compute the number of possibilities where the maximum is AT MOST $M$. If this is $f(M)$, then you are looking for $f(M)-f(M-1)$.
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BkiUamw25V5hcJY56pvS | Former Congress leader Ajit Jogi today formally named his new party as 'Chhattisgarh Janata Congress (Jogi)' even as he slammed the ruling BJP government for "lacking in vision" to take the state forward.
Former Congress leader Ajit Jogi today formally named his new party as 'Chhattisgarh Janata Congress (Jogi)' even as he slammed the ruling BJP government for "lacking in vision" to take the state forward.
The announcement was made by the seasoned politician at Thathapur village in Kawardha district, the home turf of Chief Minister Raman Singh.
"After addressing a public meeting there, he formally launched his new regional party in the state," said Jogi's son Amit Jogi, a sitting MLA from Marwahi constituency in Bilaspur district.
Jogi, who has been in sulk since his son Amit Jogi was expelled by Congress in January after his name figured in alleged fixing of an Assembly bypoll in BJP's favour, resigned from the party last week, days after accusing it of working as the "B team" of ruling BJP.
Congress had dubbed Jogi's exit as a "good riddance".
"After the declaration to float the new party at Kotmi village in Marwahi on June 6 there was a sense of excitement among the people of the state to know the name of this outfit which will be 'Chhattisgarh Janata Congress (Jogi)," Amit said.
The announcement of the new party's name was made in a unique style.
"The party's name was first whispered into ear of a girl who was present at the public meeting and she then wrote the title on a blackboard," he said.
Addressing the gathering, Jogi senior targeted the Raman Singh government, saying the people want change and "it is my responsibility to cherish life of the people of Chhattisgarh".
"The ruling BJP in Chhattisgarh does not have any vision for the state. It is largely dependent on Delhi for taking decisions in the interest of the state. The common man is still lagging behind in this mineral and iron ore-rich state," he said.
Ajit Jogi, the first CM of Chhattisgarh after it was carved out of Madhya Pradesh, said his outfit will transform this system and work for the growth and welfare of each and every section of society.
Meanwhile, Congress also held a division-level public meeting in Marwahi, the home turf of Jogis. | c4 | 4 | 1 | 5 | 1 |
BkiUbsDxK02iP1lCXE9T | What is the Large Envelope/Flat?
One dimension greater than 6 1/8" high OR 11 1/2" long OR 1/4" thick.
No more than 12" high OR 15" long OR 3/4" thick.
Or in other words, "envelope" and "flat" defines most envelope type packages that USPS accepts. | c4 | 4 | 1 | 4 | 1 |
BkiUfog5qhDCTJN_COw2 | An organization cannot satisfy all the needs and wants of all the consumers. Therefore, Market is divided into different segments so an organization can focus on the needs and wants of the specific consumers who share similar needs and demonstrate similar buyer behavior. In the world, there are different types of buyers with their own needs and behavior. Segmentation is the process to match groups of the purchasers with same needs and wants.
The population can be divided into age, gender, income, and family lifecycle amongst other variables.
As people age their needs and wants change, some organizations develop specific products aimed at particular age groups. Gender segmentation is commonly used within the cosmetics, clothing and magazine industry. Income segmentation is another strategy used by many organizations Products and services are also aimed at different lifecycle segments.
For different age groups: Nappies for babies, toys for children, clothes for teenagers and so on.
Introduction of Maxim, (www.maxim-magazine.co.uk)A male lifestyle magazine covering male fashion, films, cars, sports and technology.
Principle Oriented- principles or beliefs rather than feelings, events, or desire for approval.
Status Oriented- status or other people's actions, approval, or opinions.
Action Oriented- action prompted by a desire for social or physical activity, variety, and risk taking.
It is based on variables such as usage rate and patterns, price sensitivity, brand loyalty, and benefits sought. | c4 | 4 | 2 | 4 | 2 |
BkiUdd04eIZjyphZu5qu | Soccer fans reflect on 2022 World Cup
by: Ala Errebhi
ST. LOUIS – It was an exciting World Cup to watch, with a lot of firsts and a lot of countries making history. FOX 2 asked fans here what their thoughts were on the World Cup in Qatar.
From shocking and incredible wins to amazing performances put on by legendary players, this year's World Cup kept everyone on their toes.
"I did get up to watch the Saudi Arabia game, although I am a Messi fan," said fan Nate Gabris. "But that Saudi Arabia game was insane. I woke up at 4:00 a.m. to watch that one."
"I've always been a Ronaldo fan, and this tournament has opened my eyes really to how great Messi really is," Noah Bernstein shared. "And he's just been so electric all tournament, and it's just been a great tournament to watch."
"A lot of new surprises," Angel Garcia expressed. "Teams like Morocco that they brought it to the first stage, but also some disappointments along the way, like Germany and Spain. But it's been great, it's been super exciting."
It's been quite a journey, from the first game on November 20, to the final game. Several fan-favorites did not make it, while other teams re-wrote history.
Some new fans discovered their love of soccer.
"Soccer is the international game, and we've seen that over the last month," Chief Experience Officer with St. Louis City SC Matt Sebek said. "So to have soccer be at the top of conversation in households across not only America, but the world, is special in general."
The U.S. is hosting the next World Cup in 2026 along with Canada and Mexico.
"It is exciting, it's going to be – being a shared world cup is going to be good, it's going to be a great idea," Garcia shared.
"The fact that we get to host that, and I'm hoping that we have one of the earlier matches or a smaller pre-cup game in St. Louis with the new stadium," said Danielle Hibbert.
"Extremely excited, you know, playing a game in Kansas City, obviously we'll be 23 at that point. Will be a perfect day as you go take a road trip and watch. I mean, it's going to be crazy," said Gabris.
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BkiUb_7xaL3SuiVmhMIS | Services for Frank G. "Corky" Hagenbuch Jr., 74, Lawrence, will be at 11 a.m. Monday at Tonganoxie Christian Church. Private burial will be in Memorial Park Cemetery in Lawrence.Mr. Hagenbuch died Wednesday, Aug. 24, 2005, at his home.He was born Nov. 16, 1930, in Lawrence, the son of Dr. Frank G. and Lanore Scrivner Hagenbuch. He attended Lawrence High School, where he was a member of FFA Club and earned the State Farmer Degree Award in 1948. He attended Kansas State and Kansas University.Mr. Hagenbuch served in the U.S. Army from 1951 to 1954. He worked as a farmer and cattleman for Farmland Industries for 32 years and retired in 1990. He was a member of the Jayhawk 4-H Club, Tonganoxie Veterans of Foreign Wars, American Legion Post in Lawrence and Tonganoxie Christian Church. He was a Leavenworth County Club beef leader for many years. He was also a county fair beef superintendent, director on the fair board, the first president of the Leavenworth County Beef Improvement Assn., and vice-chair of the first Kansas Junior Angus Heifer Show.He married Alberta June Wiley on May 17, 1953, in Lawrence. She survives, of the home.Other survivors include two sons, Larry D., Lewistown, Mont., and Lyle E., Baldwin; two daughters, Lori Fink, Manhattan, and Lynn M. Rinkes, Holton; a brother, Ralph D., Pateros, Wash.; and six grandchildren.The family will receive friends from 3 p.m. to 5 p.m. Sunday at Quisenberry Funeral Home in Tonganoxie.The family suggests memorials to the Leavenworth or Douglas County 4-H Foundation, Hospice Care in Douglas County or the church, sent in care of the funeral home, PO Box 993, Tonganoxie 66086. | c4 | 5 | 1 | 5 | 1 |
BkiUbTA5qsMAIxWHCj49 | China City Tours-Essential Shanghai Day Trip | China Escapade Reputed as the economic capital of China, Shanghai has long been considered as the symbol of modernity. But while visiting the Bund, Old French Concession and Yuyuan Garden, you will discover the history and traditional architecture of Shanghai. Besides, the night cruise on Huangpu River offers you eye-opening view.
This morning, your local guide will pick you up at the hotel or the agreed place in Shanghai. Then you will begin your wonderful day trip in Shanghai.
Strolling in the Old French Concession of Shanghai, you may discover some of the most beautiful villas of the pre-war in this area. Pass by Huaihai Street and the hotel Jinjiang, which today represents the heart of this old French Concession. Then, take a stroll around the old town of Shanghai but make sure to stop at the Tianzifang Shikumen. These traditional houses are in Shanghai as the Courtyards in Beijing. Stroll in the middle of shops, the art galleries and cafes in the small and classic alleys of the neighborhood.
Then we will head for the Chenghuangmiao Bazaar. Strolling amid the shops and restaurants, you may find something you like. Then, cross the nine-turn bridge to each the Yuyuan Garden, a peaceful haven in the economic capital and typical example of Chinese private gardens.
On the other side of the Huangpu River, mount in the second highest skyscrapers in China and one of the highest in the world - Shanghai World Financial Center. Its different observation platforms offer a dizzying view of illuminated buildings of the Pudong Area, including the famous Oriental Pearl Tower. You can even see the Huangpu River and the Bund in the distance.
Then, take a nice walk along the Huangpu River on the Bund. Historic buildings in this street combine Gothic, Romanesque and Baroque to the New York of the 1930s and the Sino-Western. As a symbol of Shanghai since the 1920s, the Bund is considered "Chic Avenue of China". With modern skyscrapers on the other side of the river, walking on the Bund, you may discover mixture of old and renewal in a sumptuous setting.
This evening, go for Huangpu River Cruise. Discover the city as the aliens did before 1949. The cruise is indeed along the Bund and its Gothic, Baroque and romantic frontages. On the other side, admire the modern Pudong New Area and its huge skyscrapers. The cruise will makes a U-turn near the Yangpu Bridge and you are provided the most beautiful view on this cable-stayed bridge which is one of the longest in the world.
For more fantastic activitise tonight, you can join in the ERA acrobatic show that is full of exciting and breathtaking spinning movements. Let yourself be mesmerized by the amazing skills of these artists all to the melodious music of an orchestra. | c4 | 4 | 1 | 4 | 1 |
BkiUbLY5qsNCPf8Mv25L | 3-story medical office building on the Texas Health Resources Southwest Fort Worth campus. The project was constructed as a core and shell office and was finished out with subsequent tenant improvement packages. The completed facility has a two-story entry structure, and masonry, stone, and glass cladding. | c4 | 4 | 1 | 5 | 1 |
BkiUa-k4eIXgu1jpCXVe | Q: Electron Login / Register etc I am pretty new to making Electron apps. After asking a question on Stack Overflow (Properly Using Electron) I followed the advice I was given and created a desktop application in Electron.
I have another app created in NodeJS that handles my database
methods.
I am not sure where to start with this problem, as there are hundreds of options online, and I am not sure which ones suit my needs.
Should I:
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*Have a client application made in Electron and a server made in NodeJS that handles the database
OR
*Have a client application and connect to my database from Electron?
If I were to do it all in a client app, I think that would cause major security issues, so I am unsure what to do. The problem is as simple as creating a login/system application, but I have no idea how to incorporate it into Electron.
Where do I start? How do I approach this?
A: If all you need is a login and your server already manages the database I would keep this logic on the server. This is also something the answer to your previous question states.
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*Your client sends a POST request containing the username, password over HTTPS (SSL encryption), this can happen in the renderer process.
*Your Server checks if the password and user are valid.
*Server returns your client if the authentification was valid, via token.
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*Either the main process (Electron-NodeJs) persists the token (File)
*Or the Render process (Electron-Chromium) persists the token (Web Storage)
This is the most simple example which is neglecting advanced security concerns, if you want to make it more secure you definitely should look for general advise about web security like crypto-pbkdf2 and how to handle the tokens. But this is not electron specific.
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BkiUdlU5qoTAsfRCmqSX | Antony Andrewes (12 de junio de 1910 – 13 de junio de 1990) fue un erudito e historiador clásico inglés. Fue profesor de historia antigua de Wykeham en la Universidad de Oxford de 1953 a 1977.
Reseña biográfica
Nació en Tavistock (West Devon), ciudad de Inglaterra, el 12 de junio de 1910. Estudió en el Winchester College de Winchester, de 1923 a 1929, y en el New College de Oxford entre 1929 y 1933.
Carrera
Carrera académica
Andrewes fue miembro del Pembroke College de Oxford, entre 1933 y 1946, y del New College, también en Oxford, entre 1946 y 1953. Fue profesor Wykeham de historia antigua desde 1953 hasta su jubilcación en 1977.
Servicio militar
El 20 de junio de 1941, fue oficial del Intelligence Corps del Ejército Británico, como subteniente. Su número de servicio era 191239.
Honores
El 4 de enero de 1945, Andrewes fue nombrado miembro de la división militar de la Orden del Imperio Británico (MBE) «en reconocimiento de su valiente y distinguido servicio en el campo de batalla». Fue elegido miembro de la Academia Británica en 1957.
Obras
The Greek tyrants (1956).
The Greeks (1967); reeditado como Greek society.
Referencias
The Greeks ((bosquejo biográfico)
Pembroke College, Fellows in the 1930s
Enlaces externos
Militares británicos de la Segunda Guerra Mundial
Alumnado del New College
Académicos de Reino Unido
Miembros de la Orden del Imperio Británico
Miembros de la Academia Británica
Profesores de la Universidad de Oxford
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BkiUeXPxK1Thg9qFeiSh | Community January 4, 2013
New Delhi gang-rape: Why we are the problem
"It appears to be that a rod was inserted into her and it was pulled out with so much force that the act brought out her intestines along. That is probably the only thing that explains such severe damage to her intestines," he said.
I was at work when I read this. I had to leave my desk to go to the bathroom to cry. Through various points in the day, this detail drifted into my consciousness. I couldn't un-read it. Or un-imagine it.
For some context, [a little over two weeks ago], a 23-year-old physiotherapy student was gang-raped in New Delhi, India's capital. She'd gone — with her boyfriend — to watch the Life of Pi at a well-known cinema in an affluent part of the city. Then, she decided to take a bus home. Instead of waiting for a public bus, she and her friend boarded a private chartered bus. The bus had tinted windows. Over the next several hours, several men raped the woman, beat her friend and then left them on the side of a freeway. She was abused so horrifically that her intestines had to be removed. If she survives, she will spend the rest of her life being fed intravenously.
India has erupted in outrage since the incident. There are calls for sweeping policy changes — for capital punishment for rape, for the rapists to be publicly hanged and, more bizarrely, for their castration.
It's easy for Indians to get swept up in the public hysteria — to take to angry Facebook statuses, and furiously talk about it amongst themselves. But as I walked back to my desk from the bathroom, I realized this: This mattered only because that girl reminded me of me.
The 23-year-old was clearly English-educated (she'd gone to watch The Life of Pi), she had a boyfriend who was an engineer, she was a physiotherapist — all markers of an independent, upper middle class, urban identity. This is why [Indians like myself] are collectively angry. It is an affront to India's small English-speaking elite.
[A few days after this gang rape took place], an 8-year-old girl was raped in Bihar, a desperately poor state in central India where one-third of the population lives under the poverty level. Think about that. AN EIGHT-YEAR-OLD. The trauma of any incident of sexual abuse is, of course, impossible to quantify or compare, but the crime against this little child is perhaps just as horrifying as the Delhi rape. And still, I'm writing about this little girl's rape only because that rape in Delhi is legitimizing our conversation about sexual violence against women in India.
At the end, after all the public hand wringing subsides, the question remains: Will anything change? The probable answer is no. Not because of corrupt officials or the lack of political agency — although those are no doubt enormous obstacles to change in India. But because Indian society is corrupt.
As India continues its inexorable march into economic empowerment, its people have refused to look inward. Dissent, criticism, self-reflection are all marginalized as Indians delude themselves of their greatness. To deflect responsibility, the government — and the consistent failure of the public machinery — is the easiest target of the country's collective ire.
[The gang rape] incident is another example of blaming "them" — the drunk, poorly-educated rapists. Which is not to say that they must not be punished or are not part of the problem.
But more significantly, Indians need to ask what secrets of patriarchy [each Indian hides within him or her]. Indians may not all be sexually violent, but they are products of a society that insidiously and systemically promotes the denigration of women. [Indians] abort female fetuses and secretly kill girl children. There are now 914 girls for 1,000 boys in India — the result of decades of murdering newborn baby girls. [Girls are told] that they don't need to study. [Parents] marry them before they're barely adolescents. In more wealthy circles, [their families] marry them just as they reach adulthood and then expect them to spend the rest of their lives being submissive to their husbands. [Parents] don't let them wear jeans. [Society] tells our teenagers to stay out of temples and kitchens when they begin to menstruate.* [Families] tell daughters to cook and encourage our sons to become engineers. [They] teach young women to temper their ambitions and to be suspicious of female sexuality. [The society] is consistently and continuously take away agency from women.
The problem isn't just "them." The problem is [Indian culture at large].
* Some Hindu and Jain families believe in the practice of separating women from the rest of the family during her period since menstruation makes a woman "unclean."
Riddhi Shah is the Associate Editor of Healthy Living at the Huffington Post, where this piece was originally published. Edits appearing in brackets have been added to update the piece for Altmuslimah.
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BkiUdzXxK1yAgWt7-1Rn | A Transpersonal Approach to Office Politics. If work at your office has ever been affected by inside politics, you'll enjoy reading Deborah Gentry's master's degree study introducing transpersonal principles to work out these issues. To read the full text of her report, click here!
Gods and Goddess in Love and Action. Mother Mary, channeled by Elizabeth Brewer, tells us of the Great Love we are capable of extending. Elizabeth channels various Angels and God-loving presences and this page is worth exploring further.
My Mother's Love. Mother Mary, channeled by Susan Sanderford, tells us of her unflinching love for us.
Wake Up to the Fact that Every One of your Choices is Divine. Mother Mary, as channeled by Gillian MacBeth-Louthan, has her say, once more, on how we shape our lives and that of the world. | c4 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 1 |
BkiUe7_xK0wg05VB9BjW | 2018-2019 CBC SCHEDULE OF CONTESTS – DOWNLOAD NOW!
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If you do not already have one, you will need a PayPal account. Link to PayPal.
Download the Entry forms for E-mail. They are Excel files that you may type into. The entry forms for mail are Adobe Reader files that can be printed and written on. You may also write on the Excel entry forms.
Fill out the form and calculate the total due, including the Paypal fee.
Go to Paypal, sign in, and pay by entering the Contest Director's E-mail address from the Parade of Tournaments.
Since this is still pretty new to all of us, please be patient. If you have any questions about this, please contact the contest director.
Special Note: The Excel form can also be used for mailing. The advantage would be that you can type in the information once and save it on your computer. BE SURE TO CHANGE THE COMPETITION NAME AT THE TOP OF THE FORM EACH TIME YOU REUSE IT. | c4 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 1 |
BkiUfPPxK6wB9mn5A_rv | "I contacted IPSEA's Tribunal Helpline after reaching a stalemate with my SEND team regarding Sections B, F and I of my daughter's draft Education, Health and Care plan.
My gut feeling was that the local authority's preferred school would not meet my daughter's needs. I saw an independent supporter whose advice was that the local authority objection to my preferred school (that the school was full) was 'reasonable'. IPSEA however guided me to the relevant case law and gave me confidence to draft my tribunal application.
Following IPSEA's advice, I issued a claim to tribunal, and within three weeks a place at my preferred school had been found! | c4 | 4 | 2 | 5 | 2 |
BkiUbo05qU2Ap1mgSut5 | Ripples in the fabric of the universe may go back to the beginning of all we know
Beatrice Moss January 22, 2023 3 min read
A numerical simulation of neutron stars merging to form a black hole, with their accretion disks interacting to produce electromagnetic waves. Credit: L. Rezolla (AEI) & M. Koppitz (AEI & Zuse-Institut Berlin)
Scientists have made progress in discovering how ripples are used in space-time known as ripples gravitational waves Let's look at the beginning of everything we know. The researchers say they can better understand the state of the universe soon after the great explosion By learning how these ripples in the fabric of the universe flow through planets and intergalactic gas.
"We can't see the early universe directly, but maybe we can see it indirectly if we look at how[{" attribute="">gravitational waves from that time have affected matter and radiation that we can observe today," said Deepen Garg, lead author of a paper reporting the results in the Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics. Garg is a graduate student in the Princeton Program in Plasma Physics, which is based at the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL).
Garg and his advisor Ilya Dodin, who is affiliated with both Princeton University and PPPL, adapted this technique from their research into fusion energy, the process powering the sun and stars that scientists are developing to create electricity on Earth without emitting greenhouse gases or producing long-lived radioactive waste. Fusion scientists calculate how electromagnetic waves move through plasma, the soup of electrons and atomic nuclei that fuels fusion facilities known as tokamaks and stellarators.
It turns out that this process resembles the movement of gravitational waves through matter. "We basically put plasma wave machinery to work on a gravitational wave problem," Garg said.
Gravitational waves, first predicted by Albert Einstein in 1916 as a consequence of his theory of relativity, are disturbances in space-time caused by the movement of very dense objects. They travel at the speed of light and were first detected in 2015 by the Laser Interferometer Gravitational Wave Observatory (LIGO) through detectors in Washington State and Louisiana.
Garg and Dodin created formulas that could theoretically lead gravitational waves to reveal hidden properties about celestial bodies, like stars that are many light years away. As the waves flow through matter, they create light whose characteristics depend on the matter's density.
A physicist could analyze that light and discover properties of a star millions of light years away. This technique could also lead to discoveries about the smashing together of neutron stars and black holes, ultra-dense remnants of star deaths. They could even potentially reveal information about what was happening during the Big Bang and the early moments of our universe.
The research began without any sense of how important it might become. "I thought this would be a small, six-month project for a graduate student that would involve solving something simple," Dodin said. "But once we started digging deeper into the topic, we realized that very little was understood about the problem and we could do some very basic theory work here."
The scientists now plan to use the technique to analyze data in the near future. "We have some formulas now, but getting meaningful results will take more work," Garg said.
Reference: "Gravitational wave modes in matter" by Deepen Garg and I.Y. Dodin, 10 August 2022, Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics.
DOI: 10.1088/1475-7516/2022/08/017
This research was supported by the U.S. National Science Foundation through Princeton University.
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Association of the Month: The Georgia Biomedical Instrumentation Society (GBIS)
Posted By: TechNation Development Teamon: December 01, 2019 In: Association of the Month, Magazine, Spotlight
By K. Richard Douglas
The state of Georgia has a lot to offer, from mountains and vast foliage to oceanfront living. College football is a big deal in the state and peaches can be served in more forms than imaginable. The winters are usually not too bad and there are many opportunities for tourists.
The state's biomed association has been in existence for 34 years. It was incorporated as a 501c3 organization in 1998. The Georgia Biomedical Instrumentation Society (GBIS) serves the HTM community across the state of Georgia.
"The GBIS conducts several educational seminars each year, hosts meetings on a regular basis, has an annual conference, and encourages additional chapters in the parts of the state where there is interest. We also contribute to affiliated charity organizations," according to the organization's website.
Horace Hunter is one of the founding members and holds the position of executive director. Hunter has been in biomed since 1975 and has been involved with associations in Colorado, Florida and Georgia. Hunter is now retired after 35 years at Archbold Medical Center and stays busy with GBIS, his business and helping people. Dr. Mike O'Rear and Emmanuel King, along with Hunter, are the last founders still actively involved with the society.
The Georgia Biomedical Instrumentation Society originated as an amalgamation of several separate organizations.
Hunter says that GBIS started when members from four local societies – Atlanta Biomedical Association, Central Georgia Biomedical Society, South Georgia Biomedical Society, and Savannah Biomedical converged.
"Each group was having problems with individual participation," Hunter says.
He says that back in the 1970s and 1980s there were few schools offering biomedical technology.
"So, the group decided to develop an organization to promote the HTM profession by advancing the knowledge of personnel involved in the selection, development, operation, repair and support of biomedical instrumentation. Georgia Biomedical Instrumentation Society was formed," Hunter says.
Although education is a core element of most biomed associations, there are other projects and commitments that enrich the local biomed community. GBIS has been involved in several initiatives.
"Many of our members promote HTM Week at their hospitals and a picnic for biomeds. GBIS has conducted workshops at schools and hospitals around the state to help promote the HTM career field to students. GBIS has coordinated training classes for biomeds by utilizing corporate members who care about the betterment of HTM. Several of our corporate members have donated equipment to technical schools to help train biomeds for the HTM field. Next year, we plan to have a workshop committee to develop a list of schools throughout the state to participate," Hunter says.
He says that GBIS has also developed internship programs to help institutional members with manpower issues and, in return, help the interns gain employment and experience. Sometimes, GBIS members volunteer to supervise the internship program on-site, as needed.
"GBIS has assisted job recruiters, vendors, manufacturers, students and others with job placement opportunities. We don't post jobs wanted/needed because it is hard to keep up with. What we do is refer to other websites that have jobs posted; like AAMI, other biomed associations and if we can assist, we will send out emails to our member base and others," Hunter says.
The group recently awarded its first GBIS ACI Certification Scholarship. The scholarship went to Bhumika Patel, CBET.
"She received a $400 check to reimburse her for some of the expenses incurred. Visit our website (www.gbisonline.org) to read the full details," Hunter says.
MediMizer sponsored the scholarship.
"GBIS gives to affiliate charities and has helped members in need to participate in HTM events when the budget allows. We like to think of GBIS as a family helping others. Some of our past and present affiliate charities are Boehm Birth Defect Center, Team Motivation, Med Share and the Red Cross," Hunter says.
Biomeds Gather from Across Georgia
As with many HTM statewide organizations, GBIS holds an annual conference to bring together members, vendors and keynote speakers.
"The GBIS Technical Conference & Expo was held August 16-17, 2019. The highlights of the conference were the Meet and Greet event sponsored by Vizzia Technologies. This was held at the Marriott Courtyard with free food and drinks for all. Participants gathered to mingle with others and have a great time," Hunter says.
"GBIS has conducted a conference every year since its beginning. We try to move the conference location across the state of Georgia to give members the opportunity to attend. This year's conference was held at Central Georgia Technical College in Macon, Georgia. We had a little over 100 in attendance and offered several classes for attendees which earned ACI credits. Our guest speaker was Martin J. McLaughlin of AAMI and we have several supportive vendors and sponsors," Hunter says.
In addition to, and concurrent with the conference, the group holds an annual meeting for members at large. "We hold tele and video conference meetings for the board of trustees and directors as needed throughout the year," Hunter says.
"GBIS is very involved with all the technical colleges in Georgia that offer a biomed program. We have several members that are instructors but to start the programs, we had to get state approval," Hunter adds.
Hunter was on the committee that wrote the state standards that the Technical College System of Georgia used to establish the Biomedical Engineering Technology and the Specialization in Biomedical Technology programs.
"Three of our board members teach the biomed program in two of the technical colleges in Georgia. Mr. Glen Stone teaches at the Central Georgia Technical College in Macon, Georgia, and Dr. Mike O'Rear teaches at Chattahoochee Technical College in Acworth, Georgia. Dr. Jeff Smooth is now teaching at Mira Costa Community College, Ocean Side, California. We have several other technical colleges in Georgia we support as the need arises," Hunter says.
In the Peach State, HTM professionals have an established friend and advocate in GBIS.
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BkiUc_rxK7Ehm308qNSJ | There have been dozens and dozens of video game consoles since the very first one was released five decades ago. And as every new console to hit the market, a new controller comes with it. From the early days of the simple joystick, evolving into simple controllers with a D-pad and a few buttons, all the way up to today's 10-button, dual-analog stick, wireless premium gaming pads.
In this quiz, we will show you a small part of a video game controller (but not the whole thing), and you'll have to tell us which console it belongs to. The first few are easy, but they are just the warm up. We really dig out some of the obscure ones at the end. Good luck!
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Your Finale Quiz Score and Stats for Gaming Quiz: Can You Identify These Console Controllers?.. | c4 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 1 |
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How Do You Do! was the first single taken from Roxette's album Tourism and it was released in order to increase the interest for "The Summer Joyrde Tour '92!" which took place in Europe in the summer of 1992.
The single includes a live version of the song Fading Like A Flower (Every Time You Leave) which is not included on the album and is unavailable anywhere else.
How Do You Do! was the last single by Roxette that was made in Sweden, both on vinyl and on CD, as after this all singles were imported to Sweden from The Netherlands.
On the Swedish vinyl single the run-off groove has the following message engraved: "BLIHAFI".
The message has a meaning but Per Gessle wishes it to remain a secret. | commoncrawl | 4 | 2 | 2 | 1 |
BkiUdr05qhLAB70I4IkQ | Darick Williamson teaches cane travel at the Louisiana Center for the Blind, is a member of the National Blindness Professional Certification Board, and an instructor at Louisiana Tech University. When he's not working, he's an intermittent student of history.
On Tuesday, the staff and students from the Louisiana Center for the Blind will travel to Mardi Gras, as we do every year, to practice cane travel through crowds. When I was first learning to teach crowd travel, I was pretty nervous. I wondered how I would keep up with students and keep them together when I couldn't see or hear them when wearing sleep shades, because they would be moving through such large groups of people.
When I used the correct strategies, though, I saw that crowds were not as difficult as they might seem. If you take the time to answer these questions before your next cane travel lesson in a crowded environment, I know that the experience will be more enjoyable for everyone.
1. Have you dismissed the idea that it may be OK for students to travel arm-in-arm with one another?
While students are in training, I discourage them from using sighted guide whenever possible so that they get comfortable using their canes. Sometimes, though, it's helpful to use sighted guide technique with another student as a means of staying together to have a conversation. At those times, I certainly encourage them to keep using their canes; it's important that students remember that they are in charge of their own safety and mobility. Let's consider the case of extremely crowded environments, like sports stadiums or concerts, that are so busy or loud that the students can't keep up with one another verbally. (Indeed, keeping a straight line may be impossible, too!) it might be helpful for the students to work in pairs—still using their canes, of course—but walking arm-in-arm so they don't get separated.
While the arm-in-arm technique looks like sighted guide, neither student is guiding the other; instead, they are working as a team, clearing obstacles individually, and looking for the same pair of seats or concession area. When I am wearing sleep shades myself, or in the event the instructor is blind, he or she can place a hand lightly on the student's back to keep pace with him or her.
2. Are your expectations age appropriate?
A few weeks ago, we were in Washington, D.C. so that students had the opportunity to work through a mass-transit system. At one point, I was working with a 12-year-old girl and another woman in her mid-20s. While both students worked the same route independently, I had different expectations for them. I certainly expected both women to navigate independently and confidently, but I didn't expect that I could drop a 12-year-old off in rush hour and meet her across town. Both ladies are certainly capable of asking directions, but just as I wouldn't expect a sighted pre-teen to wander a big city on her own, I didn't expect that a blind child would either! It's important to note, however, that age appropriate expectations don't mean that I suggest lowering your expectations of blind people; rather, I mean adjusting the routes and tasks to be more in line with what you'd expect your own, sighted children to do on their own.
3. Do you have a game plan for keeping track of your students…and them of you?
When we're at Mardi Gras, we're traveling on some of the most busy and crowded streets that our students may ever encounter. It's easy for anyone to get separated, get swept up in the crowd and unable to stop.
So, we don't worry about keeping students together as we're going down the block. If one student does get separated, though, I tell everyone else to stay put and wait for me. The last thing that I want to do is find one student, only to lose another!
Also, so that we aren't yelling for each other on the street (unattractive but less-than-useful in New Orleans!), we have a more nuanced signal for finding one another. So, I tell students to tap their cane nice and hard three times in a row. If I, or one of their fellow students, hears this signal, then we tap our canes in the same pattern. It's pretty easy then to use echolocation to find each other.
I rarely have to make sure students have their phones with them these days, but I always make sure that they have my number. We also talk about the route and our destination, just in case we get majorly separated.
Whatever your plan may be, it's important to have a game plan. You first plan for ways that you are unlikely to get separated, and then you plan for the worst-case scenario. This will reassure you, give the students confidence, and promote a fun, safe environment.
4. Are you hoping to teach a new, fundamental concept in this lesson?
For one, the noise makes it tough to communicate. Plus, as much as we try to help students feel comfortable exploring in the midst of chaos, it's a stressful time for everyone. Teaching pencil grip in the middle of Mardi Gras is not optimal. I want students to practice and master that technique before we get in a large crowd.
As we'll discuss through the next few questions that cane travel instructors should ask before crowd travel, you can prepare your students for what they're likely to encounter ahead of time.
5. Do you think that the general public can give accurate directions most of the time?
Last fall, we took several students to the Louisiana State Fair. It's not super crowded, though it is tight in a few areas. It is a great place to introduce the idea of crowd travel before the students get into major crowds at Mardi Gras or concerts. The main point of that experience is for students to learn how to deal with the public. We asked them to gather information from vendors' stands and find somewhere to eat in the open-air market. The students quickly learned what questions were most productive and how to clarify the information that they received; the sighted folks don't always give good information.
When it comes to clarifying directions, I always tell students, "Point in the direction that you think the person is telling you to go, and then ask, 'That way?'"The sighted public isn't used to cardinal directions (e.g. north or south), and most people usually confuse their right and left. This way, if students point themselves, the person giving information can correct where the student is pointing. With this technique, you're more likely to get the right information the first time.
6. How will students maintain their orientation in wide-open spaces?
The first time that I traveled in a big, crowded space, I was worried about keeping my orientation and not losing everyone. In a crowd, you focus on your own travel and individual obstacles. If you think only in terms of what is right in front of you, you'll quickly start zigzagging through the space, so I tell students to slow down…almost dramatically so. I suggest that they gather info when they need it and think about what they find in front of them. As they clear the obstacle, I suggest that they work their way back to where they were beforehand and pick up their original direction.
In those spots where we don't have traffic, we remind the students about mental mapping, using the sun as a point of direction, and following the person ahead of them in line by placing the cane lightly on the sole of their shoe. To reiterate question 4, though: we're going through these strategies for the first time at the fairgrounds.
7. Do your students think that they can use the same, textbook-style grip and wide arc?
The number-one complaint that I hear from my students—and from the public about my students—is that their long, rigid canes get in the way. We normally suggest that our students travel with an arc just a little wider than their shoulders and with the cane at a 60 or 70-degree angle. In crowds, though, I tell my students to pull their cane in at almost a 45-degree angle and hold it like a pencil. This "pencil grip" (which can be even more vertical in very tight crowds), combined with walking more slowly, will still give students enough, advance warning of obstacles yet not trip other people passing by.
I always say that it's better to find someone with your cane than your body, but you have to balance that with how many people are going to be crossing in front of you and not see your cane at a distance. When we have students who struggle with this grip, there may be some fine motor skills trouble, but often it just comes down to more practice, the teacher reminding them to "use pencil grip here," or the student being comfortable not clearing as wide of a swath as normal.
8. Do you believe that "accessible" technology will also be intuitive?
So, yes, this technology is accessible, but it certainly is not intuitive or easy. I encourage you teachers to think about what other technology your students will encounter and how they might learn to use it. ATMs are an easy example, but most stores these days have other gadgets that customers use. Some of them (like the touch screens) are completely inaccessible, but there again lies an opportunity for the student to advocate for herself, get assistance, and educate the store managers about a better, more private solution.
9. How are you feeling…really?
On that first trip of mine under sleep shades to New Orleans, I was nervous…until I realized that my teacher didn't seem scared. Arlene Hill, whom many of you know, was calm and collected. So, I was. If she had said the trip would be tough or was worried about keeping us all together, it probably would not have been such a great experience. Our students follow our lead when it comes to the way they feel about traveling in certain situations. As a teacher, you cannot just pretend all is okay; you have to honestly feel confident. You have to accept the fact that you are going to lose track of one another from time to time, meet up with everyone at the next block, and continue from there.
I've enjoyed watching my students' confidence grow. We've taken folks who haven't had the chance to take responsibility for their own orientation and direction before, and we've empowered them to work through their passive and rebellious states to find their own levels of independence. For just about every person with whom I've worked, they celebrate the day when they don't have to ask someone to go with them from point A to point B. Our goal is for them to learn how to pick a route, get information along the way, and have fun reaching their destination. | c4 | 5 | 3 | 5 | 4 |
BkiUbJzxaKgS2MYsNV34 | Nergal On Emo Kids: "We Should Encourage Them To Listen Behemoth"
Behemoth's new album "I Loved You at Your Darkest" was released on October 5, 2018.
Mastermind Nergal spoke about their upcoming album, during the recent interview with Consequence of Sound. He made a very interesting claim about the album, as you can see the headling of this article.
"10 seconds of the new Behemoth album would probably kill 100 emo kids, and then another hundred, and another hundred, so by the end of the record, there'd be no emo kids in the world. So maybe we should encourage them to listen to the record!
Not only did we use the long sentence as album title … I can't think of any other extreme metal band that would include the word 'love' in a title … And then, I can't think of any extreme metal band using a Jesus Christ quote to put on their album title. | c4 | 4 | 1 | 5 | 1 |
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Here, young coconut water refers to WWII when coconut water (in the south pacific) was used as substitution for IV and transfusion in dire situation, as it is reputably almost identical to human plasma.
I recorded the beginning vocal through a Nokia cell phone walking down the streets of Spain.
when we were each others.
in each of our sides.
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It's your genius you're longing to Keep Alive. | c4 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 1 |
BkiUdmo5qsBDFMGks5__ | £1 Million Investment By Kilkeel Seafoods
Kilkeel Seafoods is investing £933,000 and plans to create 33 new jobs with support from Invest Northern Ireland's Jobs Fund. The company, based at Kilkeel Harbour, is expanding its processing operations for whole tail scampi for supply to Whitby Seafoods, its parent company in North Yorkshire, England.
The new jobs will be provided over the next two years. Invest NI has offered support of £99,000 for the 33 new posts through the Jobs Fund.
John Hood, Invest NI Food and Tourism Director, says: "This is a very significant and strategic investment by Whitby which will strengthen the position of Kilkeel Seafoods within the wider business and is being made because of the quality of products processed at the port from scampi sourced from local and Irish trawlers. The consolidation of scampi processing at Kilkeel is, therefore, a very important boost for the local fishing industry and the wider economy of the County Down coastal region, the centre of a fish processing industry in Northern Ireland."
Pictured (left to right): John Hood, Invest NI Food and Tourism Director, and Daniel Whittle, Managing Director of Kilkeel Seafoods.
Kilkeel Seafood currently employs 140 people directly in Northern Ireland's principal fishing port.
Daniel Whittle, managing director of Kilkeel Seafoods, says: "The decision to expand scampi shelling and processing operations in Kilkeel is the outcome of a strategic decision by the group to concentrate resources on supplying existing and potential customers, both retail and foodservice, with scampi sourced from UK and Irish trawlers and processed within our operations, especially here at Kilkeel."
He adds: "The investment being undertaken in our operations in Kilkeel positions us for faster growth within Whitby Seafoods as the group responds to the developing market demand for locally sourced food."
Kilkeel Seafoods was formed in 2011 when Whitby acquired Rockall Seafoods, another local scampi producer. This followed Whitby's earlier acquisition of Middleton Seafoods, in 1997, and made the new company the biggest shelling and processing of whole tail scampi in the UK. Whitby employs 140 people in North Yorkshire.
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BkiUeXbxK7FjYCv2S7tj | While HMD Global is busy in updating its existing Nokia smartphone lineup with the latest Android experience, a protective case of the unannounced Nokia 9 has emerged online. The case, listed on Amazon's UK site, suggests a fragile curved-glass display panel of the upcoming Nokia flagship. Some previous rumours have claimed that the smartphone will feature an OLED display and come in an IP68-certified build.
Amazon has listed the carbon fibre design-featuring Nokia 9 case that shows the entire build of the smartphone. The case highlights the curved glass on the Nokia 9 with rounded edges on the left and right sides. The curved panel appears in the listed renders make the Nokia 9 looks similar to Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge and BlackBerry Priv. Further, the protective case hints a thin-bezel display with 18:9 aspect ratio that is likely to be packed on a metal frame.
Due to its minimal bezels on the front, the Nokia 9 would have a fingerprint scanner on the back – as spotted in the pictures of the listed case. The back of the smartphone also features a dual-camera setup, paired with an LED flash and a secondary microphone.
The bottom view of the Nokia 9 case reveals a USB Type-C port alongside a loudspeaker grill. The handset is also likely to have a 3.5mm audio jack, which is no longer a part of many flagship smartphones nowadays.
Interestingly, Amazon is selling the protective case at a price of GBP 3.88 (approximately Rs. 335), though the Nokia 9 is yet to be announced. The case is available in a list of colour options, including Black, Blue, and Red among others.
This is not the first time when the Nokia 9 has surfaced on the Internet. An early mockup showing the front and back of the new Nokia smartphone spotted online last month. Similarly, a concept video of the handset emerged recently to suggest some of the key areas of advancements by the Finnish company.
Some initial reports suggested that HMD Global will launch the Nokia 9 with a price tag of EUR 750 (roughly Rs. 57,200). Moreover, the listing of its case leads us to presume that the smartphone would be unveiled sometime before the end of this year. | c4 | 5 | 2 | 5 | 1 |
BkiUd5U4ubnjopQibIbP | It's 2017, and if you haven't already learned the hard way, you should know that won't find top tier candidates by simply posting jobs online and praying that you'll get the right applicants. The economy is nearing full employment, business owners contend that there's a death of candidates with the skills they need, and yet the number of openings doesn't seem to be declining.
Simply put, top talent is not posting their resumes on job boards or their profiles on LinkedIn. What's more, the gig economy is playing an increasingly large role in tightening the job market for employers. A lot of people have abandoned corporate life to start their own business or do consulting. It's estimated that 3 in 10 American workers earn some form of income through independent work and gig opportunities.
All this means that candidates have more choice in the terms of jobs, and more and more roles—especially those niche positions—require the sourcing of passive candidates.
To do this well, employers have to be innovative with their approach and need to have the right tools in their toolbox.
MightyRecruiter: Outside of enabling you to post to 20+ job boards in one click, MightyRecruiter offers a slew of features that help you discover qualified candidates and find resumes online. Perhaps most notable is access to the 20-million strong proprietary resume database, which comes complete with easy-to-use search filters and a machine-learning algorithm that matches your job posting to the most relevant candidates. With MightyRecruiter, you can also send personalized email drip campaigns to candidates and market your openings by creating a beautiful careers page with pictures and video which can be embedded on your website.
Tip: You can upload candidates that you find on other sources to MightyRecruiter and then use the tool to create an email drip outreach campaign. They also offer a free trial.
Social Pilot: Social Pilot is social media marketing tool that allows you to market your job openings to passive candidates on social media. You can schedule your post across multiple accounts and plan your social media strategy. It has a chrome extension that you can use and a mobile app. It supports nine of the top social media sites. You can share as many as 500 posts and connect up to 200 social profiles from a single account. Social Pilot is extremely affordable at $9.99 per month.
Tip: Consider doing a paid Facebook campaign or Instagram ad with a marketing video to attract passive candidates to your job.
ContactOut: ContactOut is a chrome extension that provides you with all of the profile info and contact info of candidates you find on social media and want to reach out to. You can create lists and export them to Google Sheets. One thing about the tool that will catch your attention is that it provides multiple sources of information in one screen. There are ton of tools that help you find contact information, but this particular tool seems to deliver an impressive level of quality and accuracy.
Tip: You can create lists of candidates to upload into Mighty Recruiter and then conduct outreach by creating drip campaigns and personalized emails.
Recruit'Em: Tools like Recruit'Em (formerly RecruitIn) help recruiters X-ray search the web to find resumes and candidates without using complex Boolean strings. You can X-ray search over six sites, including StackOverflow and Github – both of which are critical to tech sourcing. The best part of this tool is that is free and no registration is required. You can use it from any browser. For each search, you will get over 100 results, unless it is a very niche search. The site also includes a job ad optimizer that helps with the search engine optimization of your job ad.
Tip: Combine this tool with chrome extensions such as ContactOut and Lusha.co to find contact information once you've identified your candidates.
Sourcin: Sourcin saves you lots of valuable time by automating the sourcing process and scraping the web to find resumes and candidates based on specifics, like location and skills required. Its differentiating factor from similar tools is that it offers only fresh leads – not candidates whose profiles are inactive or outdated. You can then contact leads from the platform or outside the platform.
Tip: I recommend having all of your candidates in one place. It makes it easier to manage. You can run multiple searches at once, which also saves a lot of time.
WhiteTruffle: If you're a corporate recruiter on the hunt for tech talent, WhiteTruffle would be a good tool for you to try. It is a sourcing platform that connects companies with qualified developers, product managers, designers, and other relevant creative professionals using a proprietary matching algorithm.
Tip: They offer a demo and 10-day free trial. Try it out to see if it is a match for you. It gives you an unlimited amount of matches and it is a two-way matching system. Unlike other sourcing tools, you don't have to reach out to the candidate to see if they are interested. You really only have to double check on candidate fit and salary.
Social List: Social List is one of the very few tools that will help you create a candidate list from Meetup, ZoomInfo, Google Plus, and many more sites. The tool was just released in April of 2017. You can create very specific searches based on your criteria with the different sites. Social List is also great for business development. The cost is $49 per month, and you get the ability to export all the data into excel.
Tip: Load your candidates into MightyRecruiter and create an email drip campaign reaching out to them about the opportunity you are recruiting for. The tool is very simple to use and runs multiple searches at one.
There are always a ton of tools that will come into the HR tech space. The key to utilizing your tools effectively is always to have a sourcing plan before beginning any search—and before having that sourcing plan, have an intake meeting with your hiring managers. Having those two things before searching will save you a lot of time and energy. | c4 | 5 | 3 | 4 | 2 |
BkiUan3xK7Ehm4qsyOxV | New Den for Polar
Great Baddow's award winning graphic design company is moving to new offices in the village. Here's a message from it's founder, Lee Sturgess:
3 years ago, Polar was started at a bedroom desk, with nothing more than an Apple Mac and a small budget. From there, Polar snowballed, and after three months, the agency moved to its first office.
Now Polar has the bubble wrap and packing tape out again. Having continued our rapid growth, and with two new interns set to join the team, we're in need of a bigger den.
Our old office served us well, and we made lots of great memories (and designs!) there. But from 15th May we're excited to be taking over the basement level of The Baddow Brewery. This Grade II listed building is home to several businesses, and will give us space to flex our creative muscles and think even bigger than before.
Having undertaken a number of internships as a student, our founder and director, Lee Sturgess, is especially keen to welcome new interns, and we are looking forward to the new energy and ideas they will bring. Our new office space comes complete with our own meeting room, which will provide a great space for us to learn and grow as a team.
We're also gaining new state of the art equipment which will allow us to offer an ever better service to our clients. As well as the most up to date software, our new Apple Macs will enable us to provide live art working sessions where clients can watch us design in real-time.
Our location may be changing, but our values remain the same. It has always been important that we go beyond simple design and development, and instead take the time to understand our clients, their history and, most importantly, their aspirations. Only once we have this understanding can we truly produce something that represents and benefits their organisation.
It has been an exciting time for Polar. Last year Lee was awarded the Young Entrepreneur of the Year award at the South Essex Business Awards, and Polar took gold at the Essex Digital Awards (sponsored by Baddow's SEO company) in the Marketing and Creative category. In February, we launched our fresh new website and introduced our newly evolved visual identity.
We can't wait to unpack our moving boxes, set up our new equipment, and have our first client meeting in our new space. We see it as the start of the next chapter in our history.
If you're walking past The Baddow Brewery, feel free to drop in and say hi.
Our new address is Polar Creative, 47 Church St, Great Baddow, Chelmsford CM2 7JA.
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BkiUc9TxaKgS2Pj736Ym | """
Our City App
Our City App internal apis # noqa: E501
The version of the OpenAPI document: 0.0.1
Generated by: https://openapi-generator.tech
"""
import pprint
import re # noqa: F401
import six
from oca.configuration import Configuration
class HomeScreenContent(object):
"""NOTE: This class is auto generated by OpenAPI Generator.
Ref: https://openapi-generator.tech
Do not edit the class manually.
"""
"""
Attributes:
openapi_types (dict): The key is attribute name
and the value is attribute type.
attribute_map (dict): The key is attribute name
and the value is json key in definition.
"""
openapi_types = {
'type': 'str',
'embedded_app': 'str',
'sections': 'list[dict(str, object)]',
'service_email': 'str'
}
attribute_map = {
'type': 'type',
'embedded_app': 'embedded_app',
'sections': 'sections',
'service_email': 'service_email'
}
def __init__(self, type=None, embedded_app=None, sections=None, service_email=None, local_vars_configuration=None): # noqa: E501
"""HomeScreenContent - a model defined in OpenAPI""" # noqa: E501
if local_vars_configuration is None:
local_vars_configuration = Configuration()
self.local_vars_configuration = local_vars_configuration
self._type = None
self._embedded_app = None
self._sections = None
self._service_email = None
self.discriminator = None
self.type = type
if embedded_app is not None:
self.embedded_app = embedded_app
if sections is not None:
self.sections = sections
if service_email is not None:
self.service_email = service_email
@property
def type(self):
"""Gets the type of this HomeScreenContent. # noqa: E501
:return: The type of this HomeScreenContent. # noqa: E501
:rtype: str
"""
return self._type
@type.setter
def type(self, type):
"""Sets the type of this HomeScreenContent.
:param type: The type of this HomeScreenContent. # noqa: E501
:type: str
"""
if self.local_vars_configuration.client_side_validation and type is None: # noqa: E501
raise ValueError("Invalid value for `type`, must not be `None`") # noqa: E501
allowed_values = ["native", "embedded_app"] # noqa: E501
if self.local_vars_configuration.client_side_validation and type not in allowed_values: # noqa: E501
raise ValueError(
"Invalid value for `type` ({0}), must be one of {1}" # noqa: E501
.format(type, allowed_values)
)
self._type = type
@property
def embedded_app(self):
"""Gets the embedded_app of this HomeScreenContent. # noqa: E501
Only set when 'type' is embedded_app # noqa: E501
:return: The embedded_app of this HomeScreenContent. # noqa: E501
:rtype: str
"""
return self._embedded_app
@embedded_app.setter
def embedded_app(self, embedded_app):
"""Sets the embedded_app of this HomeScreenContent.
Only set when 'type' is embedded_app # noqa: E501
:param embedded_app: The embedded_app of this HomeScreenContent. # noqa: E501
:type: str
"""
self._embedded_app = embedded_app
@property
def sections(self):
"""Gets the sections of this HomeScreenContent. # noqa: E501
:return: The sections of this HomeScreenContent. # noqa: E501
:rtype: str
"""
return self._sections
@sections.setter
def sections(self, sections):
"""Sets the sections of this HomeScreenContent.
:param sections: The sections of this HomeScreenContent. # noqa: E501
:type: str
"""
self._sections = sections
@property
def service_email(self):
"""Gets the service_email of this HomeScreenContent. # noqa: E501
This service will be used as 'context' in the embedded app, to set user data / service data. # noqa: E501
:return: The service_email of this HomeScreenContent. # noqa: E501
:rtype: str
"""
return self._service_email
@service_email.setter
def service_email(self, service_email):
"""Sets the service_email of this HomeScreenContent.
This service will be used as 'context' in the embedded app, to set user data / service data. # noqa: E501
:param service_email: The service_email of this HomeScreenContent. # noqa: E501
:type: str
"""
self._service_email = service_email
def to_dict(self):
"""Returns the model properties as a dict"""
result = {}
for attr, _ in six.iteritems(self.openapi_types):
value = getattr(self, attr)
if isinstance(value, list):
result[attr] = list(map(
lambda x: x.to_dict() if hasattr(x, "to_dict") else x,
value
))
elif hasattr(value, "to_dict"):
result[attr] = value.to_dict()
elif isinstance(value, dict):
result[attr] = dict(map(
lambda item: (item[0], item[1].to_dict())
if hasattr(item[1], "to_dict") else item,
value.items()
))
else:
result[attr] = value
return result
def to_str(self):
"""Returns the string representation of the model"""
return pprint.pformat(self.to_dict())
def __repr__(self):
"""For `print` and `pprint`"""
return self.to_str()
def __eq__(self, other):
"""Returns true if both objects are equal"""
if not isinstance(other, HomeScreenContent):
return False
return self.to_dict() == other.to_dict()
def __ne__(self, other):
"""Returns true if both objects are not equal"""
if not isinstance(other, HomeScreenContent):
return True
return self.to_dict() != other.to_dict()
| github | 5 | 5 | 2 | 1 |
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BkiUbnfxK7FjYEB4T6rd | UK Delegates to the Council of the
Organisation of the Swiss Abroad 2017 – 2021
The 5 UK Delegates for the 2017 – 2021 term
Nathalie Chuard
Languages Spoken: German, English, French, Spanish
Profession: Brand Manager for Cadbury
Interests: TRAVELLING: exploring new countries, understanding different cultures and meeting interesting people.
LONDON LIFE: Making the most out of this fascinating city by browsing food markets, strolling through parks, attending concerts and visiting art exhibitions with friends.
READING: I spend a lot of time commuting to work. Reading a book turns wasted time into a precious moment.
As a proud Swiss with a strong network, solid expertise in branding and the drive to make a difference, I would highly value being an active member of the CSA and strengthen ties with our home country.
I'm a dynamic, politically interested 30y/o Swiss citizen with a positive personality and an international mind set. During my studies at the Uni of St Gallen (HSG) I spent 2 semesters abroad (Argentina, Sweden).
In 2013 I moved to the UK to join the Cadbury Marketing team, for which I've led several campaigns to drive awareness of our heritage brands. This proven ambition would contribute to raise the profile of the OSA, as it would strengthen the expat community and create stronger ties to our home country. My thesis mirrors my interest in nation branding. Together with the Federal Department of Foreign Affairs I measured the effectiveness of the Swiss Pavilion at the Expo in Shanghai.
I have access to a strong network, as I am an active board member of the HSG Alumni Club in London, organizing inspiring events for young professionals. My top priority as a CSA delegate is to implement e-voting, as I believe that this will be an integral step in living direct democracy abroad.
FRANZ MUHEIM
Place of Residence: Edinburgh
Languages Spoken: German, English, French
Profession: Professor of Particle Physics at Edinburgh University
Interests: Politics, science, traveling, I like to go hiking, bicycling and skiing, if I get the chance. I also regularly visit family who live near St.Gallen in Switzerland.
Swiss Member Of: Swiss Club Edinburgh, FOSSUK committee member, Swisscommunity.org
Facebook groups: Swiss in the UK, Auslandschweizer
I am a member of the Council of the Swiss Abroad (CSA) and active on Swiss Abroad Social Media groups. I regularly travel to Geneva, Switzerland, for research at CERN. In these uncertain times, the CSA will play an even more important role for the increasing number of Swiss Abroard. Using my experience and knowledge in politics in Switzerland and in the UK, I would very much like to continue to represent the 34,000 Swiss citizens living in the UK at the CSA.
I am a professor of Physics at Edinburgh University where I teach. My area of research is particle physics with a strong involvement on experiments at the Large Hadron Collider at CERN, Geneva, Switzerland. I regularly travel to Switzerland.
I always had a strong interest in politics and actively follow the current affairs in the UK and in Switzerland. Since 2013 I am a member of the Council of the Swiss Abroad (CSA). I am also regular contributor on "SwissCommunity.org" and the Facebook group "Swiss in the UK".
As a CSA member I have been working to get Swiss politics to pay attention to the issues of the Swiss Abroad, e.g. by lobbying for E-Voting and ensuring that the Law of the Swiss Abroad, which recently came into effect, did not reduce the responsibilities of consulates and the FDFA to support the Swiss Abroad. I am passionate about the education of the young people. At the CSA I pointed out the importance of movement of students between European countries (Erasmus) and that the best research does not stop at borders. I am also chairing a CSA task force to find ways to improve the representation of the Swiss Abroad at the CSA. I regularly write articles in the Swiss Review and have been quoted and interviewed by Swiss media.
With FOSSUK I was an organizer of two of the forums in the last three years: "Further Education in the UK or in Switzerland?" and "Engagement of Youth Abroad in the Swiss Political Process". These successful events attracted ~150 young Swiss living in the UK.
In these uncertain times, the role of the CSA will become even more important for the increasing number of Swiss Abroad. Using my experience and knowledge of politics in Switzerland and in the UK, I would very much like to continue to represent the 34,000 Swiss citizens living in the UK at the CSA.
Alexandre Tissot - resigned - replacement candidate will be announced at the 2019 FOSSUK Congress and AGM on the 18th of May after ratification by OSA
Place Of Residence: UK
Languages Spoken: English and French
Profession: Oracle Sr. Director - Europe, Middle East & Africa
Interests: Swiss Political, Cultural, and Business Affairs. My interests are both local and international.
Swiss Member Of: City Swiss Club London, Unione Ticinese, Swiss Church in London, FOSSUK Vice-President
I would like to continue making a difference for the Swiss Community in the UK.
I have persued re-election as a serving CSA Delegate to continue bringing my political, business and philanthropic experience to engage and build the voice of the UK Swiss Community. Successful at raising sponsorship for events, clubs and communities, your vote will allow me to continue community building at the highest levels.
I am an existing UK Delegatre to the OSA so interested to pursue re-election. I further am Vice- President of FOSSUK with responsibility over Events and Fund Raising. I believe that the annual FOSSUK events all have been successful and our bank account situation is sound.
I am an active member of the Swiss Community in the UK and especially as Trustee of the Swiss Church in London with responsibility over Fund Raising.
As a European banking executive with decades of experience I offer strong organisational skills and an important network of contacts in politics, business, art & culture. I bring these strengths for the benefit of the Swiss Community in the UK.
Vincent Croset
Place Of Residence: Oxford
Languages Spoken: French, English, (German)
Profession: Research Scientist in Neuroscience & Genetics
Interests: Grew up between the cantons of Vaud and Fribourg. Studied biology at the University of Lausanne. In the UK since 2013. Work at the University of Oxford.
Interested in politics since my youngest age with the aim of making a better world for all. Member of the Swiss Socialist Party.
Other interests include science, literature, travels and sports.
Twitter: @VincentCroset
Swiss Member Of: Oxford Swiss Society
Swiss people abroad should be able to remain connected to Switzerland and its political life. I am campaigning to:
increase the representation of the Swiss abroad in the Swiss Parliament and other federal institutions
provide safe online voting to all Swiss people living abroad
In addition, in the lead up to Brexit, Switzerland and the UK will be negotiating new immigration and trade agreements. Swiss people living in the UK will be directly affected and face the prospect of radical changes to their situation. It is crucial that we make our voice heard during these negotiations!
As one of your OSA delegates I am supporting the Swiss government in its "mind the gap" strategy to ensure that the new agreements:
preserve our right to live & work in the UK
facilitate business and collaborative innovation between our two countries
foster stronger relationships across education, scientific research, healthcare, and environment.
It is a great pleasure to be one of your five representatives. Together we are doing our best to listen to your concerns and relay them to the Swiss government. Do not hesitate to contact us!
Loredana Guetg-Wyatt
Place Of Residence: Poole
Languages Spoken: Italian, English and French
Profession: Business Risk Consultant and non Executive Board Member
Interests: My hobbies include organising charitable fundraising events, hiking, horse-riding, skiing, going to concerts, musicals and regularly meeting up with my Swiss friends.
Swiss Member Of: Unione Ticinese, New Helvetic Society (Vice-President) and FOSSUK President
It is important for the Swiss living in the UK to be supported and appropriately represented at the Council of the Swiss Abroad. All facets of the Swiss population in the UK should be heard and acknowledged; from long standing ex-patriates to newly arrived students or workers; from second or third generation of 'Brit-Swiss' to the first generation of Swiss who moved to the UK. They all have different challenges and priorities but all have in common their connection to Switzerland.
Full Profile: My name is Loredana Guetg Wyatt and I was born and educated in Ticino. After graduating from SUPSI in 1998, I joined an international risk consulting firm. I moved to the UK in 2004 in order to found the UK branch of the American Risk Consulting company Protiviti. At Protiviti I lead the internal audit and financial assurance team for ten years. I have now founded my own company and I work as a freelancer specialising in supporting global companies complying with local and international legislations. I am an active member of the Swiss community in the UK and I am currently the Vice-President of the New Helvetic Society and the President of FOSSUK. Last but not least, I am a member of the Unione Ticinese.
I am currently the Chairman of the charity STEPS Worldwide and the Treasurer of Jubilee Gardens Trust and 'In Control' charity. My hobbies include hiking, horse-riding, skiing and of course going to concerts, musicals and plays. I am married to Jonathan and my son, Lawrence, keeps me very busy and active!
THE UK HAS FIVE REPRESENTATIVE DELEGATES TO THE CSA
Elections for the new UK Delegates were run over the past 6 months through social media, the FOSSUK website, Swiss Review UK Pages, e-news bulletins from the Swiss Embassy London and letters to Presidents of our corporate member clubs & societies. The elections process:
30 November 2016: Call for candidates.
10 February 2017: Candidate submissions closed. Candidates' eligibility were verified by the Swiss Embassy London - to stand as a candidate, you have to be a Swiss National resident in the UK and registered to vote in Swiss referenda.
15 March 2017: Candidate profiles published. Call for votes from the UK Swiss Community.
18 April 2017: Voting closed. Valid voting slips were independendently verified by the Swiss Embassy London - to vote, you must be a Swiss national living in the UK and registered as such with the Swiss embassy London. Only original (signed) voting slips, posted to the Embassy were accepted.
21 May 2017: After independent counting by the elections sub-committee and verification by Swiss Embassy staff, the elected UK candidates were announced at the FOSSUK AGM.
UK Election Results for the current term:
164 voting slips received
388 votes received (327 valid votes)
13 candidates stood for election
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BkiUbXnxK0zjCxN_rhB4 | Difficult Arcade Games are Infuriating in the Best Possible Way
Let's not mince words here: Some arcade games are super-duper difficult. In fact, when playing on quarters, extremely extenuating gameplay circumstances can actually become somewhat frustrating.
But what if I told you that high difficulty can be a positive?
This is something I've been mulling over a lot more in the, erm, "COVID-19 era" when indulging in arcade gaming goodness at home has practically become a necessity. Two games in particular have fueled my thought: Crazy Taxi and Time Crisis 3.
With all this time on my hands, I've made it my mission to hone my skills in two of my favorite PlayStation 2 ports to ready myself for the fateful day I can finally play either of these titles in an arcade again.
Time Crisis 3, in typical Time Crisis fashion, has been an absolute delight to the senses, even if pointing and shooting with Dualshock 2 analog stick has resulted in a slightly more cumbersome experience overall. (I'll buy a Guncon 2 someday.)
While I still stand firm in trying to get a kick-butt score, hours upon hours of failed attempts have started to eat away at my patience. I can't tell you how many times I've soft reset the game because of some silly mistake I made within the first 10 minutes of a playthrough.
Even so, I really can't say I'm not having a blast. Whether I'm sucking it up or winning the day, Time Crisis is never a bad time, especially since the home version has juicy extra content for me to sink my teeth into.
I was in for a truly grueling treat when I started chasing high scores in Crazy Taxi. It is far and away one of the twitchiest and unrelenting pieces of interactive entertainment upon which I have ever laid my hands—and yes, I've played Gun.Smoke.
There's truly nothing like going into a run with all the optimism in the world only to have your dreams crushed by a random bus crossing an intersection. "Start, down, cross, up, cross" soon became my go-to button sequence. (For the laypeople among us, that's how you restart.)
The title's main saving grace is its short length. It's a lot easier for me to stomach a 10-minute flop than, say, a 30-minute devastation. As long as I remind myself to be patient, even Crazy Taxi doesn't irk me that badly.
Practicing an arcade game can be a genuinely engaging endeavor, no matter the human cost. That…or I'm just a masochist. (Wow, that looks way worse on paper than it sounded in my head.)
I think it's paramount, though, that developers strike a fine balance between rewardingly challenging and mind-bogglingly punishing. Accessibility is important in any medium, arcade games being no exception.
What I'd most warn against is implementing too many factors outside of the player's control. Random events or, goodness forbid, cheating computers can be a bit upsetting in single-player games.
Fortunately, I think most game designers these days get the picture, which is why we're privy to such compelling quests as the ones I detailed above. Not every game needs to hold my hand—just as long as it doesn't push me into traffic.
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BkiUdS45qX_BkksYXYoy | Admitted killer of Esko man denied release from institution
A former traveling nightclub performer who admitted to murdering an Esko man and three other people in the 1980s was denied release from Wisconsin's Mendota Mental Health Institute on Friday.
Alvin Taylor
Alvin Taylor, 65, has been committed to the facility for the past 25 years and had asked to be released, saying he was no longer a threat to society. But on Friday a Dunn County jury said no. It's the third time Taylor has been denied release.
Taylor admitted to killing Daniel Lundgren, 33, who grew up in Esko, in 1986. He also admitted killing Robert Williams of Eau Claire in 1985; James Severson, 42, of Eau Claire in 1986; and Timothy Hayden, 27, of Menomonie in 1987.
Taylor was arrested at Hayden's funeral and subsequently was found not guilty by reason of mental disease or defect in the four slayings. He's been institutionalized ever since.
The Lundgren case was as bizarre as it was horrific. Lundgren, the manager of the Paradise Village Inn motel and Chinese Restaurant, was found in his crashed car on Nov. 29, 1986, on a rural road near his West Bend home, about 30 miles north of Milwaukee.
Lundgren was treated in three different Wisconsin hospitals, but died 30 hours after he was found. He was buried with everyone involved assuming he had died from injuries suffered in the car accident.
But after Taylor was arrested in 1987 for the Hayden murder, he began talking about other people he had killed, including Lundgren. Lundgren's body was exhumed from the Lakeside Cemetery in Carlton County and officials confirmed that he had three .38 caliber bullets in his head.
Taylor had been Lundgren's roommate at the time and it's believed the two had some sort of fight over Lundgren wanting Taylor to move out. Authorities at the time said Taylor likely shot Lundgren in the car but that Lundgren was able to drive a short distance before losing consciousness.
While medical officials said Lundgren would have died even if doctors and others had noticed the bullet holes, it was never explained how so many medical personnel could have missed the gunshot wounds, including failing to see the three holes that showed up in an X-ray that was taken but apparently never viewed.
Taylor was eventually charged with first-degree murder in the Lundgren case but authorities in Washington County, Wis., did not challenge his mental-disease defense and did not prosecute after Taylor was committed to the Mendota facility.
Lundgren had no immediate family living in the Esko area at the time of his death. He graduated from Esko High School and worked for a time at the Potlatch paper mill in Cloquet and attended UMD before moving to San Francisco where he worked in a hospital. He then served in the U.S. Navy for seven years, leaving the service in 1988 when he moved to West Bend.
In a Dunn County courtroom in Menomonie, Wis., an attorney for Taylor said Thursday that his client is no longer on medication and hasn't had a violent outburst at institute in 25 years. Taylor once portrayed himself as a "soldier of God" who received messages over the radio and TV directing him to kill people.
Defense attorney John Kucinski said Taylor was beaten by his father when he was a boy, leading to his subsequent delusional state, adding that Taylor has used psychotherapy, songwriting and meditation to help heal himself.
But psychologist Deborah Collins of Milwaukee testified Taylor should not be released, noting Taylor has not yet qualified for "least restrictive" status at Mendota, a level given to nonviolent mental hospital residents. She said Taylor has been diagnosed with personality disorder with anti-social and narcissistic behaviors.
"One of the most concerning (issues) about Mr. Taylor is his habit of testing limits in the institution," she said.
Dunn County District Attorney James Peterson said during closing arguments Friday that Taylor is a mass murderer and a serial killer and cannot safely be released, according to the Eau Claire Leader-Telegram.
"He is a very dangerous man," Peterson said. "You should recommit him to Mendota."
Taylor last sought release from Mendota in 2010. Dunn County Judge Bill Stewart rejected that request, ruling that Taylor still posed a risk to himself and others and had a delusional disorder. Taylor also sought release in 2005 before withdrawing that motion.
The Eau Claire Leader-Telegram and the Associated Press contributed to this report.
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BkiUc385qsBC7daIecgn | Shane Bowers Commits to Boston University
By Chris Dilks@ChrisDilks Oct 27, 2016, 6:26pm PDT
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It's rare for their to be big recruiting news in college hockey these days, with so many players committing well before they can drive a car, but this one probably qualifies.
Waterloo(USHL) '99-born forward Shane Bowers announced that he has chosen Boston University for next season:
Excited to play college hockey at Boston University. Looking forward to being a part of the BU tradition! Can't wait to be a Terrier!
— Shane Bowers (@shanebowers15) October 27, 2016
Bowers is considered a potential first round pick in next summer's NHL Draft, receiving an 'A' rating in NHL Central Scouting's Preliminary Rankings. He's averaging a point-per-game with the Blackhawks through nine games so far. He was also one of two NCAA-eligible players to make Canada's Ivan Hlinka Tournament team last summer.
A native of Nova Scotia, Bowers was selected fourth overall in the 2015 QMJHL Draft by Cape Breton, but Bowers instead opted to sign with Waterloo, to keep his NCAA options open. Last spring, Bowers was re-entered into the QMJHL Draft, and his rights were acquired by his hometown Halifax Mooseheads, but Bowers again opted to stay on the NCAA route.
It's another big recruiting win for David Quinn and Boston University, beating out Wisconsin and Boston College as the finalists for Bowers. | commoncrawl | 4 | 2 | 4 | 1 |
BkiUbLM5i7PA9LporxhZ | Wrapping the cod in prosciutto keeps it moist and succulent as it roasts. This tasty, versatile dish can easily be made with haddock if you prefer. The warm lentil salad is equally good served at room temperature and is great for a packed lunch if there are any leftovers.
Rinse the lentils under cold running water to remove any grit then tip into a saucepan and add enough cold water to cover them by a good 3-4cm. Add the bayleaves and shallot and bring up to the boil. Simmer steadily for around 20 minutes until they are tender but not falling apart. Drain and remove the bayleaves and shallots.
Whilst the lentils are cooking make the dressing in a large roomy bowl. Whisk together the oil, balsamic vinegar and garlic. Taste as you go, adding more vinegar as necessary - there should be a good balance of sweet and sharp. Stir through the tomatoes, shallots and basil and season with a little salt and freshly ground black pepper. Add the warm lentils to the dressing and mix well.
Add the washed spinach leaves to a large saucepan. Cover with a tight fitting lid and cook over a medium heat for around 5 minutes by which time they should have wilted down. Drain and squeeze out any excess water then stir through the lentils. Cover with foil to keep warm and set aside for the flavours to infuse whilst you cook the fish.
Spread out the proscuitto slices on a chopping board and top each with a piece of fish. Season with a little salt and freshly ground black pepper and a couple of basil leaves. Drizzle over a little olive oil and wrap the ham around, covering the fish as much as possible. Lay the fish in a roasting tin and drizzle over a little more olive oil. Bake in the oven at 180°C for around 15 minutes or until the fish is opaque and cooked through. The cooking time may vary a little depending on the thickness of your fish.
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BkiUcaw5qhDACtS7gEK9 | Last month, Stephen Hyde invited us to his hotel room in Madison to chat about the personalized designs for the Cannondale SuperX triplets he is riding this year. You can read more about those bikes in the three-in-one profile we posted on Thursday.
Since we had a few extra minutes with Hyde before what was supposed to be his big weekend in Waterloo, we took advantage of the opportunity to ask him some more questions about being the twice-defending champ and racing with the Stars-and-Stripes jersey. We also asked him about his goals for the next few years, and his roommate Spencer Petrov also makes an appearance.
You can watch the full enhanced video interview below. If you want to take it to go, it is also available via our Soundcloud page.
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BkiUeVPxK7IAHXQeONGF | 2017 Movies: Bright (Trailer Song)
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2017 Movies: Bright – Will Smith
Netflix has released a teaser trailer for its upcoming original film Bright, starring Will Smith.
Set in an alternate present-day, where humans, orcs, elves and fairies have been co-existing since forever, the film follows two cops from different backgrounds, Ward (Will Smith) and Jakobi (Joel Edgerton), who encounter, during a routine patrol night, a dark force that changes the world as they know it.
Written by Max Landis and directed by Davis Ayer, Bright stars also Noomi Rapace, Edgar Ramirez, Lucy Fry, Margaret Cho, and Ike Barinholtz, and is scheduled to be launched exclusively on the streaming service, this December.
The teaser, launched with the message "Experience a new world", features Will Smith holding a huge iron sword in his right hand, and saying, in another scene, to his partner, "I'm assuming this doesn't end well". The song playing in the background is "This Land Is Your Land" (one of the United States' most famous folk songs) by American folk singer Woody Guthrie, who wrote the lyrics in 1940, based on the Carter Family tune called "When the World's on Fire", in critical response to Irving Berlin's "God Bless America".
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BkiUf3M241xiRac9uOMU | It Looks Like Netflix Just Had A Change Of Heart About 'Friends'
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It Looks Like Netflix Just Had A Change Of Heart About 'Friends'
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Yesterday, news surfaced that indicated 'Friends' would be removed from Netflix on January 1.
Naturally, that didn't sit well with fans of the show, and they took to social media to voice their displeasure.
Several Twitter users proclaimed they would be canceling their Netflix subscription, but alas, it appears the streaming service has had a change of heart.
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I'm canceling #Netflix if they remove friends
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Netflix is really removing Friends on January 1st and the only reason I have an account is to rewatch the same episodes of the show whenever I'm bored so I guess it's time to cancel my subscription
In a tweet, Netflix shared a photo of the Holiday Armadillo and told customers that their wish had been granted.
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The Holiday Armadillo has granted your wish: "Friends" will still be there for you in the US throughout 2019
In other words, 'Friends' will still be available on the streaming service, at least throughout 2019.
That's definitely comforting news, and gives fans more time to rewatch all of their favorite episodes.
But, if there's one thing we know, it's that all good things must eventually come to an end, so the notion that 'Friends' will remain on Netflix into 2020 seems doubtful.
In truth, the streaming service frequently does away with the old to make room for the new.
While we're thankful that 'Friends' will remain, (for now) eventually we'll have to face reality that the popular sitcom will one day exit the platform.
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BkiUdlXxaKgT1SKe0a01 | KANSAS CITY, MO (March 26, 2018) — Heartland Men's Chorus (HMC), announced Monday their 32nd season continues in June with INDIVISIBLE: SONGS OF RESISTANCE & REMEMBRANCE.
With the prejudice, inequality, bias and discrimination happening in the world around us, Heartland Men's Chorus will present our response in song. Joining forces with the National World War I Memorial and Museum and the men of the United States Army Soldiers' Chorus, "Indivisible" will celebrate the principles of our great nation's founding . . . that ALL are created equal.
The first half of the concert features the World Premiere of a new choral work titled, We, The Unknown (WETU). The WETU project tells the "story" of how the Unknown Soldier of WWI was selected. WETU celebrates the importance and significance of the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier, both as a literal resting place for those unknown who paid the ultimate sacrifice and as a symbol of the nation's sacred honor to remember their service. HMC was inspired to commission this piece because 2018 is the centennial of our nation's involvement in World War I and because Kansas City is home to the National World War I Museum and Memorial. The WETU project has been endorsed by the National World War I Centennial Commission. We are also honored that the men of the United States Army Soldiers' Chorus, an ensemble of the U.S. Army Field Band, will be joining us in performance.
We, The Unknown was conceived by Rob Hill, a Heartland Men's Chorus member and Board member, retired Army Lieutenant Colonel and third-generation soldier whose paternal grandfather served in World War I and retired as a Brigadier General. The idea came to him after hearing how America's Unknown Soldier was selected. Hill wondered, "What if the person selected was gay or African-American or someone who was afraid to go to into battle?" Initially, Hill considered almost every other format possible to tell the story. But when Hill joined Heartland Men's Chorus, he decided that a choral work for men's voices was the best medium to pay tribute not only to the Unknown Soldier but all who have served, many in silence.
"Remembering and honoring the dead is easier when they are known, when their names are spoken aloud. The purpose of the WETU Project is to honor the unknown, not only the unknown soldiers of WWI, but all who—in some way—have served and been forgotten, or serve but are forced to hide their authentic selves, or are missing in action," said Hill.
Rather than use existing music, HMC's artistic director, Dustin S. Cates, recommended a new commission and suggested composer Timothy C. Takach for the job. Takach, who co-created the theatrical production All is Calm: the Christmas Truce of 1914, with Peter Rothstein and sang with Cantus, one of the U.S.'s premier men's vocal ensembles, is quickly becoming among the most sought-after choral composers in the nation.
The first speaks of his fear and trepidation facing battle, but also the comradeship he feels for his fellow Soldiers.
The second, an African-American, speaks of his desire to be seen as equally committed to his country and equally deserving of respect and honor.
The third speaks of his love for another Soldier, hoping to see a better tomorrow for them both.
The fourth, spoken through his mother, representative of Gold Star Mothers (those whose sons have died in battle), conveys a coming-of-age and how, even in war, beauty is still possible.
We, the Unknown, the World Premiere, will take place 8:00 p.m., Saturday, June 9th, in the C. Stephen Metzler Hall at The Folly Theater. It is a theatrical telling of a choral work for men's voices, soloists and chamber ensemble with 12 songs describing the stories of the Unknown. Single tickets available online beginning Monday, March 26.
Uprising of Love| Arr. Pakk Hui – This "anthem" was written by singing/songwriter Melissa Etheridge to support the safety and dignity of all people in the LGBTQIA community.
Man in the Mirror| Arr. Ed Lojeski – The iconic Michael Jackson song that encourages each of us to look inside ourselves to create meaningful change in the world.
Tell My Father| Arr. Andrea Ramsey – An emotional piece about the perils of combat arranged by Kansas City-based composer and friend of HMC, Andrea Ramsey.
This Grass| Jacob Narverud – A world premiere of a piece written by Jacob Narverud, with text by UMKC director of Choral Studies, Dr. Robert Bode, to honor the lives lost in the senseless racially charged events in Charlottesville.
Seven Last Words of the Unarmed| Joel Thompson – A gripping work using the last words of seven unarmed black men who were shot by police officers.
Glory| Arr. Eugene Rogers – This Academy Award and Grammy Award Winning song, originally performed by rapper Common and singer John Legend, was written by Legend for the motion picture, Selma, which portrays the 1965 Selma to Montgomery marches. It will serve as a powerful ending to another incredible season of HMC concerts, spreading love and acceptance in a world of turmoil and hate.
Indivisible will be performed at 8 p.m. Saturday, June 9th and 4 p.m. Sunday, June 10th in the C. Stephen Metzler Hall at the historic Folly Theater, 300 W. 12th Street, in downtown Kansas City, Missouri.
Tickets to both performances are available online at http://hmckc.org/tickets/ or by calling 816-931-3338. Prices range from $18 to $43 with special student pricing at $7. Come as you are, or come in full military uniform. But visit hmckc.org today!
Visit www.hmckc.org for more information about Heartland Men's Chorus 2017-2018 season. High-resolution photos of the 2017-2018 Season can be obtained by contacting the chorus office at 816-816-931-3338. | c4 | 5 | 2 | 4 | 1 |
BkiUdEU5qoTApGm2f4KN | Q: Java - Algorithm - Display all the possibilities of sequence Please help me to find the most efficient solution for below.
int max = 2;
int sequenceLength = 3;
List<Integer> sequence = new ArrayList<Integer>(sequenceLength);
List<List<Integer>> possibilitites = new ArrayList<List<Integer>>();
...solution...
System.out.print(possibilitites);
sequenceLength is the length of each sequence.
Sequence will contain combination of number, between 0 to Max, which is 2.
Each sequence created, will be added to possibilities.
The solution should be able to handle any max and sequenceLength.
Expected result:
(0,0,0),(0,0,1),(0,0,2),(0,1,0),(0,1,1), and so on
A: Plain loop-based implementation of the sequence generator as suggested by @user3386109 in the comments:
static List<List<Integer>> generate(final int max, final int len) {
final int limit = max + 1;
List<List<Integer>> result = new ArrayList<>();
for (int i = 0, n = (int) Math.pow(limit, len); i < n; i++) {
List<Integer> list = new ArrayList<>();
int num = i;
for (int j = 0; j < len; j++) {
list.add(0, num % limit);
num /= limit;
}
result.add(list);
}
return result;
}
Other option is to use String.format and conversion to Integer with specific radix (max + 1):
static List<List<Integer>> generate2(final int max, final int len) {
final int limit = max + 1;
return IntStream
.range(0, (int)Math.pow(limit, len))
.mapToObj(i ->
String.format("%" + len + "s", Integer.toString(i, limit))
.replace(' ', '0')
.chars()
.map(c -> c - '0')
.boxed()
.collect(Collectors.toList())
)
.collect(Collectors.toList());
}
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BkiUdrU5qoTBGz1jzGeW | Ever Given Freed from Suez Canal
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Mark this date down for future decodes. It's March 29th, written 29/3.
This is amidst the Coronavirus pandemic, which has been portrayed as a Plague. It declared a National Emergency on the date leaving 293 days in the year:
J.R.R. Tolkien's The Return of the King was published on the 293rd day of the year. That's also the birthday of current VP Kamala Harris:
SUEZ is ZEUS backwards. Zeus is the father of Mercury, which is associated with Jesus in mythology. See Rambo's work for a wonderful breakdown of that riddle.
Many people believe the true date of Jesus' birth was on September 11th, or 11/9.
September 11th is written as 9/11 in the United States.
The Ever Given got stuck exactly 1019 weeks after the 9/11 terror attacks. Measuring to the date the ship got loose is a span of 7140 days:
The 119th Triangular number is 7140
George Floyd, who was in the headlines today in a very obvious numeric riddle, was killed by the Fraternal Order of Police.
Ever Given…Given birth? The Ever Given was birthed from the canal on the 88th day of the year:
The Wise men are depicted as kneeling before the newborn Savior.
This is the same day they changed the time regarding how long Derek Chauvin's Kneel on Floyd's neck lasted:
Recall it was Colin Kaepernick who began the trend of Kneeling for the national anthem:
The Suez Canal opened in November of 1869, making it 151 years old:
This is an interesting story to happen while the vaccines are rolled out. The most likely theory I've seen is that the mRNA vaccine will cause mass infertility.
In Reduction, Birth canal sums to 43. "The Second coming of Jesus Christ" = 430.
Today, the courts added 43 seconds to the amount of time that officer Derek Chauvin knelt on George Floyd in a ritual connected to the killing of Jesus Christ.
It's taught that the crucifixion occurred on 4/3:
April 3rd is the 93rd day of the year:
It's also taught the crucifixion happened between 9 am and 3 pm:
George Floyd graduated in '93. He died in "Minneapolis, Minnesota" = 93 on the 93rd meridian in a riddle connected to "Martin Luther King Jr." = 93, whose birthday falls 93 days after Floyd's.
Today, Kanye West is in the news because he will be talking about his album Yeezus (Jesus) on the Dissect podcast:
The "Dissect" podcast first aired just three days before Kaepernick's first kneeling incident.
Today is 199 days after 9/11:
The ship originally ran aground on the 82nd day of the year:
Kanye West was born 1,333 days after George Floyd, who would be 17,333 days old today:
Kanye Crucifix Statue
Kanye was born on 6/8/77. "Crucifixion" = 68, "Christ" = 77.
This statue first appeared 179 days after Colin Kaepernick's kneeling for the national anthem first ravaged news headlines:
This statue of Kanye Omari West was in Hollywood, California.
1721 is the 268th Prime number
Kaepernick first knelt on 26/8
Colin is exactly 12200 days old:
A Saros cycle, which allows us to predict eclipses, is 223 lunar phases long. This is the Hebrew value for The Moon, which has a 57° range of declination.
445 is the value of the phrase in Hebrew used for Total Lunar Eclipse.
It was 69 days before his birthday:
Kaepernick's birthday is 11/3
11×3 = 33
"Birth" = 33. It's taught that Jesus was crucified in the year 33 A.D. at the age of 33.
This year's Revelation Eclipse on 5/26/2021 falls on the 146th day of the year, which leaves 219 on the calendar. "Second coming of Christ" = 219:
John 3:16 is the famous Bible verse about God sending his Son:
"Return of Jesus" = 1316. Kanye is exactly 16,000 days old.
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BkiUc8Q25V5iqPl1DHNr | There is this one thing that I saw as of late and that worries me: PHP devs don't utilize capacities.
Presently, that was excessively broad, so let me clear up: PHP engineers who have achieved a specific level of advancement essentially quit utilizing plain capacities?—?rather everything goes all classes and techniques. In any event that is the perception I made when taking a gander at different open-source libraries and structures. The main sort of capacity you'll discover in any of the "superb" libs are unknown capacities. In any case, that is practically it.
In the event that you take a gander at different dialects, the scene is extraordinary. For instance Python code will to a substantial part be class definitions, however there will dependably be ordinary capacities in the middle.
So in PHP capacities are fundamentally utilized in two cases: If the software engineer doesn't yet utilize OOP or if the content does not merit utilizing OOP for. The idea of "aide capacity" or something to that effect does not appear to exist.
This is a little capacity that you can without much of a stretch characterize yourself. Be that as it may, at that point emerges what I believe is the primary issue: Where would it be advisable for you to put it? How would I consolidate it with the autoloader?
PHP to huge parts acquired the Java OOP model and one thing that accompanied it is having a balanced mapping among classes and records. PHP does not implement this, but rather it is an extremely regular tradition. PHP's autoloading help and the PSR-0 standard are stressing this further.
Different dialects like PHP don't have this tradition. For instance in Python it is extremely typical to characterize various related classes and capacities in a single document. In Python a record is somewhat a module, i.e. a gathering of related segments. In such a setup it is clearly considerably less demanding to characterize little capacities in the middle.
Protest situated programming done right for the most part prompts countless classes. This is incredible for code reuse, viability and testing.
In any case, in PHP you need to make another record for each one of those classes. What's more, this is truly getting in my direction. I'd have no issue cluster characterizing ten small classes in a single document. Be that as it may, I have a craving for making ten unmistakable records for them is counterproductive (and hampers viability).
Another extraneously related "standard" practice I feel seriously about is the exorbitant utilization of doccomments. Much of the time phpdoc remarks simply remark the self-evident?—?at the same expanding the code estimate by a factor of a few. I have no issue with doccomments where vital, however as a rule (in any event with all around outlined code) the conduct ought to be clear from the technique and parameter names.
Thus, essentially, what I'm pondering here is as a rule more "minimal": Instead of characterizing a record for each class, put related (littler) classes into one document. Rather than characterizing a class for everything, simply utilize a capacity. Rather than jumbling the code with bunches of futile doccomments, simply forget them except if extremely important.
Be that as it may, it's only an idea ;) Maybe I failed to understand the situation.
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BkiUbbDxK7FjYEB4TuUC | I love this dish because the tangy balsamic reduction lends a splash of brightness to the otherwise heavier cream sauce. The chicken is a lovely addition, but not necessary. You can also add a steamed vegetable like broccoli at the end. This is an easier way to make the cream sauce, as traditionally it is uncooked before it is added to the pasta.
1 cube butter (4 oz) brought to room temp.
Marinate the chicken: place the chicken breasts in a plastic bag or bowl with the garlic and olive oil. Close up and marinate overnight. (If you don't have the time, cut up the breasts, toss with the oil and garlic and allow to marinate for as long as possible.) Keep refrigerated until ready to cook.
Balsamic Reduction: In a small saucepan combine balsamic vinegar, garlic, by leaf and thyme. Simmer until it becomes a thickened syrup. (Be careful not to let it burn.) Remove from heat, and pick out the thyme stems or pour through a strainer. Cool and place into a squeeze bottle or gravy boat.
Cook Chicken: Place chicken breasts on a grill or in a frying pan and sear. Allow this to finish in a 300°F oven until the internal temperature reaches 165°F.
Cream Sauce: To make the sauce, beat the butter and smashed garlic (if using) until it is the consistency of frosting. Drizzle in as much cream as the emulsion will allow (it stays smooth) Sprinkle in ⅔ of the grated Parmesan. Adjust seasonings and set aside.
Cook the Pasta: Boil fresh pasta about 2 minutes, dry pasta about 8 minutes until al-dente. Drain and toss immediately with the sauce.
To Serve: Drizzle the reduction on the bottom of the plate. Top with a serving of pasta, then shingle the chicken breast on that. Top with the remaining Parmesan. You can serve the extra reduction on the side, if desired. | c4 | 4 | 1 | 4 | 1 |
BkiUdXs5qhDBWAzXsR04 | Now before the feast of the Passover, when Jesus knew that his hour had come to depart out of this world to the Father, having loved his own who were in the world, he loved them to the end (Jn 13:1).
When our Lord instituted the Eucharist during the Last Supper, night had already fallen. The world had fallen into darkness, for the old rites, the old signs of God 's infinite mercy to mankind, were going to be brought to fulfillment. The way was opening to a new dawn —the new Passover. The Eucharist was instituted during that night, preparing in advance for the morning of the resurrection.
Jesus has remained in the Eucharist for love ... for you.
He has remained, knowing how men would treat him ... and how you would treat him. He has remained so that you could eat him, and visit him and tell him your concerns; and so that, by your prayer beside the tabernacle and by receiving him sacramentally, you could fall more in love each day, and help other souls, many souls, to follow the same path.
Then you, how could you ever forget that you have him always at your side —yes, Him? How could you forget ...that you can eat him?
Lord, may I never again flutter along close to the ground. Illumined by the rays of the divine Sun —Christ —in the Eucharist, may my flight never be interrupted until I find repose in your Heart. | c4 | 4 | 2 | 5 | 1 |
BkiUdNc5qWTA8JC6SC4d | The Blush Magnolia | a southern lifestyle blog: Weekend Recap (in photos) and Moving Update!
I'm blogging quickly during my lunch break between my practicum and seminar because I have been out of town away from my computer all weekend.
On Friday, I met the movers to load all of my things into the moving truck. Then, off I went to the airport. Only to be delayed four hours due to bad weather. Newark airport was shut down because of a thunderstorm then by the time it reopened, Charlotte shut down because of rain and poor visibility. Seriously...what are the odds?
Saturday we had a wonderful picnic in Central Park then laid out in the sun. I even got a little tan. In the summers I am usually pretty tan for a fair-skinned blonde...but this summer I spend all my time in class!
I don't know that Corey would appreciate me sharing this with the world but he likes his Skinny Girl ritas almost as much as I do!
Sunday we went on a walk in our new neighborhood and had lunch. Take a look at the view!
Look for after photos next month. Corey is currently roughing it in a sea of boxes and unpacking and organizing what he can without my Type A self there to do it.
bahahha i love that he drinks skinny girls! hilarious!
YUM SKINNYGIRL!!!! Excellent choice. May have to start bringing my own bottle in my purse since Virginia does NOT let you BYOalcohol. Love your view too!
I'm not a fan of the Skinny Girl Rita... I think it tastes horrible!!
I've been craving mexican lately. Your post made me want it even more. | c4 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 1 |
BkiUd1TxK7Tt6AlxEWnf | the direct and indirect forms of mercantilism and protectionism.
the simplified Ricardian Trade Model is this.
both countries will experience substantial gains from trade.
theoretical world, trade is a win-win for these nations.
where no one wins at another's expense.
in which the cheating nation gains at the expense of the cheated nation.
create more jobs than would have occurred under free but also fair trade.
GDP growth points relative to the Ricardian ideal.
of China into the World Trade Organization at the turn of the century.
it gained unfettered access to new markets around the world.
fair trade specified by the World Trade Organization.
China would systematically engage in unfair trade practices.
the use of the illegal export subsidies to the theft of intellectual property.
foreign corporations entering the Chinese market.
of 15 or 20, and it makes American cars in China $30,000 instead of 25.
from it's role as a pollution haven.
safety regulations much laxer than many of it's competitors.
Kentucky selling plywood to furniture manufacturers in the United States.
I shut the company down or I move it to China.
in the United States 50% cheaper than I could make it in Bowling Green.
Manipulating the currency was a huge help for me because it kept our prices down.
the most important thing was that I could sell my product at cost.
17% of my exports, and that was my net margin and my profit.
jobs in many other countries and regions around the world.
Mexico, and much of Asia, Latin America and Africa.
are supposed to automatically correct any trade imbalances between nations.
are just two of the topics we will turn to in our next lesson.
let's move on to my absolutely favorite lesson in this entire course. | c4 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 3 |
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NUEVO LAREDO, Mexico (AP) — The round-faced woman from La Ceiba, Honduras, and her 5- and 12-year-old sons arrived in this city across the border from Laredo, Texas, where she had been promised a job and hoped to build a new life. Instead they were met by unidentified men, taken to a hotel, held in a room...
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NEW YORK (AP) — "Hamilton" creator Lin-Manuel Miranda has joined protests in New York demanding the resignation of Puerto Rico's governor. Miranda led about 200 people, many from Puerto Rico, at a rally in Manhattan's Union Square on Wednesday. They waved Puerto Rican flags and followed him to a drumbeat,...
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TUKWILA, Wash. (AP) — An immigrant who has spent the past year inside a Seattle church to avoid being deported to Mexico was detained Wednesday after presenting himself to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials. The arrest prompted protests from a crowd of supporters who had accompanied Jose...
MEXICO CITY (AP) — The Mexican Olympic Committee said Wednesday it will no longer be able to offer food, lodging and medical services at its main sports training complex, the latest casualty in a round of deep budget cuts by President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador. Seldom has a leftist been so obsessively...
Lawyer to be Mexico's first body builder at Pan Am Games
MEXICO CITY (AP) — The sun hasn't even risen and the clang of metal is reverberating through a gym near Mexico City. On a frantic mission to sculpt his body, Carlos Suárez powers through another day of his heavy weight routine. There is not much time left before Suárez will be the first Mexican...
NUEVO LAREDO, Mexico (AP) — Asylum-seekers gathered in Nuevo Laredo, across the border from Texas, grappled to understand what a new U.S. policy that all but eliminates refugee claims by Central Americans and many others meant for their bids to find a better life in America amid a chaos of rumors,...
SANTA FE, Argentina (AP) — Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro urged his South American colleagues Wednesday to borrow a slogan from Donald Trump and focus on making their own nations great rather than emphasizing regional brotherhood. "We don't want a 'Great homeland,'" the far-right Bolsonaro said at a...
Arrested reporter slams conditions at US detention centers
MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) — A Spanish-language reporter who was recently released from immigration custody said Wednesday he was held for 15 months in detention centers that were plagued by insects and he had to bathe with cold water from water hoses. During a news conference, Manuel Duran discussed what he...
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The Facts About Pension Advances
February 15, 2017 January 27, 2017 by Jessica Francese
Pension advances are typically marketed through online ads that most frequently target military and government retirees, and, to a lesser degree, retirees from private-sector companies. Pension advances are also marketed to consumers with low credit scores who may otherwise encounter difficulty obtaining a loan.
This fact sheet describes pension advances, financial transactions in which a company gives a retiree a lump-sum cash payment in return for some or all of the retiree's monthly pension payments for a specified period of time. Pension advances can have extremely high interest rates and threaten the economic security of the retirees who receive them.
Businesses marketing pension advances attempt to avoid state and federal regulation by claiming that pension advances are not loans. However, regulators are examining pension advance transactions to determine if they violate disclosure and interest rate laws. This fact sheet describes the types of pension advances as well as pending litigation and state and federal activity being considered to regulate pension advances.
Types of pension advances
Lump-sum payments: This type of pension advance occurs when a retiree receives a lump-sum payment in exchange for the right to some or all of that retiree's monthly pension payments for a specified period of time. Repayment is expressed as a set number of monthly payments, which effectively hides any fees and charges associated with the transaction. Pension advance contracts commonly do not disclose information on the fees and interest rates associated with the transaction.
Joint bank accounts: In some cases, businesses offering pension advances require a retiree to establish a joint bank account with a company representative and deposit some or all of the retiree's monthly pension benefit into this account. The retiree is prevented from accessing the joint account without permission from the company representative. As a result, the company offering the pension advance business gains control over the retiree's pension income. Such an arrangement is called "assignment of benefits" and can be illegal.
Pension advance investments: Pension advance companies also recruit individuals, often retirees, to "invest" in their business by providing the cash for the lump-sum payments (mentioned above) that are made to other retirees. The "investor" is then promised a share of the returns as the pension advances loans are repaid. These investments are risky because they are based on pension advance transactions which are not regulated securities and may be illegal.
Beware high interest rates
Without proper disclosure of interest rates and fees, individuals who receive pension advances are often unaware of the full cost of repaying the loans. Companies offering pension advances claim that these products are not loans and, as such, these pension advance products do not adhere to the state disclosure rules and interest rate limits that apply to loans. As a result, interest rates associated with pension advances tend to be extremely high and often violate state limits.
A 2014 Government Accountability Office (GAO) report shows that interest rates on pension advances can range from 27 to 46 percent, but they can surpass those levels. For example, GAO found that in 2014 interest rates on pension advances in the state of Washington were as high as 117 percent, violating the state's 25 percent cap on interest rates for loans.
Proceed with caution
Anyone considering any type of pension advance should consider the following:
High interest rates: As noted above, the interest rates associated with pension advances can be extremely high and often violate state interest rate limits.
Limited consumer protections: Pension advances are designed to take advantage of legal loopholes, which means that many of the protections that consumers normally enjoy might not apply in these arrangements.
Threat to long-term retirement security: Pension advances are risky and could result in a loss of much-needed retirement income.
Consumer alerts about pension advances
Several regulatory authorities have issued consumer alerts about pension advance transactions. Below is a brief summary of alerts that have been issued.
Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA) and the Securities Exchange Commission: In May 2013, the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA) and the Securities Exchange Commission (SEC) jointly issued an investor alert, Pension or Settlement Income Streams—What You Need to Know Before Buying or Selling Them. The alert notes that pension advance transactions can be called various names, including pension loans, pension income programs, mirrored pensions, factored structured settlements, or secondary-market annuities.
Federal Trade Commission: The Federal Trade Commission has issued a bulletin on pension advances, Pension Advances: Not So Fast.
Consumer Financial Protection Bureau: The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) has an advisory about pension advances, "Consumer advisory: 3 pension advance traps to avoid."
Statewide consumer alerts: Several states have issued consumer alerts about pension advance transactions, including Arkansas, California, Indiana, Michigan, North Carolina, Texas, and Washington.
Pending litigation
In August 2015 the CFPB and New York Department of Financial Services sued two pension advance companies, Pension Funding LLC and Pension Income LLC. See the CFPB press release about the suit, "CFPB and New York Department of Financial Services Sue Pension Advance Companies for Deceiving Consumers About Loan Costs."
Federal action
Pension advances have drawn attention from Congress, federal agencies, and several states. In October 2015, Representative Matt Cartwright (D-PA) introduced H.R. 3850, the Annuity Safety and Security Under Reasonable Enforcement Act of 2015, which would regulate disclosure rules and interest rates for pension advance loans marketed and sold to military and federal retirees.
In September 2015, the United States Senate Special Committee on Aging held a hearing on pension advances, "Pension Advances: Legitimate Loans or Shady Schemes," with testimony from state and federal experts.
Many states have passed laws that limit interest rates for loans, prohibit the assignment of pension benefits payable to public employees, and regulate sales of securities.
A 2014 Missouri law prohibits pension advance businesses from targeting public-sector employees, such as teachers, police officers, and firefighters. The law gives the Missouri Attorney General enforcement authority and allows victims of pension advances to reclaim any money lost to these schemes.
A 2014 Vermont law classifies pension advances as loans and requires pension lenders to apply for a license.
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Who Invited This T-Rex to My Wedding?
1 year ago Anna Hawk
If you are a future bride, you might want to think twice before telling your bridesmaids and maid of honor to wear what they want. It seems. It seems that Deanna Adams said those words to her sister, her maid of honor.
During Adams' wedding, in the state of Nebraska, her maid of honor, Christina Meador, walked down the aisle in her bridal outfit. An outfit it was! She was dressed in a T-Rex outfit.
Meador said she was told she could wear anything she chose. She also said she regrets nothing. The photo of the wedding party shows the maid of honor towering over other members in the wedding party dressed in her enormous, inflatable costume. The picture has since gone viral, with more than 35,000 views on social media along with 17,000 comments.
Hundreds of people found the outfit to be hilarious. Many praised the bride for her great sense of humor. Others tagged their friends and threatened them that they would also prank them at their wedding.
The bride told FEMAIL it was 'weird' to know her post went viral. She admitted it was not at all a complete shock when she saw her sister arrive at her wedding in the T-Rex outfit.
Meador asked the future bride, about a year ago if she could be her maid of honor. She is not fond of wearing formal dresses. She also did not have a lot of money to buy something extravagant. So her sister reassured her that she could wear what she chose. Meador gave the wedding a lot of thought, as far as what she would wear. She wanted something she could wear more than once. She said she has always wanted a dinosaur costume, and that is when she decided that would be her choice to wear to the wedding.
In the following months, before the wedding, Meador said she sometimes changed her mind and thought of other outfits she could choose. One idea included a Tardis from Doctor Who. However, when all was said and done, she stuck with the T-Rex costume.
Meador said it was difficult to see in the costume. Even so, she said she was surprised that everyone in the audience seemed to try to avoid noticing the T-Rex. Overall it did seem to leave the guests stunned.
Apparently, the bride took it all in stride. She said, "My sister is awesome." She went on to say she was not joking when telling her to wear whatever she chose to wear. It is doubtful the bride anticipated her sister turning the wedding into a
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It was a sweltering day in Nebraska. The T-Rex outfit made Meador very hot. Fortunately, following the wedding, she removed the costume as she was wearing a nice dress underneath. She attended the reception dressed as a "regular person."
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BkiUgAXxK1ThhBMLjEvS | For many years, the rule of thumb on how much income you could withdraw out of your portfolio and still maintain or grow your money has been 4%. This started many years ago when financial advisor, William Bengen, came up with what is now known as the 4% withdrawal rule. The rule states that in the first year of retirement, you can take a 4% withdrawal from your portfolio and then every year after that, you adjust the amount for inflation. Bengen developed the rule as a way for people to feel good about not running out of money over a 30+ year retirement.
As a retired financial advisor of 24 years, I remember using the 4% withdrawal as a starting point for people I was advising. In my experience, it worked for many but not for everyone.
For example, let's say that you have a $400,000 brokerage account invested in growth mutual funds. The 4% withdrawal rule would indicate that you would be able to draw $16,000 ($400,000 x .04) a year from your brokerage account and still be able to maintain or grow your money.
The S&P 500 index is an index comprised of 500 large-cap United States stocks. It has averaged close to 10% a year over the last 80 years. When adjusted for inflation, the real rate of return is around 7%.
So, at first glance, if the S&P 500 has averaged 10% and you are taking out 4% from your portfolio, then you should be okay.
Keep in mind, when we say the S&P 500 has averaged 10% over the last 80 years, it doesn't mean that it does 10% every year.
Your success with the 4% withdrawal rule has a lot to do with timing.
After three years your portfolio is already down 43.1%. Additionally, you're taking out 4% a year and have not adjusted it from your original investment, so you have eaten into your principal by another 12%. The chances are great that you will never recover from this and you run a very real risk of running your portfolio to zero.
On the other hand, let's say you retire on 12/31/2008 and start withdrawing money from your portfolio.
After three years, the S&P 500 is up 43.7% and you have grown your portfolio substantially even with the 4% withdrawals you have taken out. You're off to a great start and the chance of running out of money is very slim.
This is what we call the sequence of return risk. The outcome of your withdrawals over a long period of time is predicated on the sequence in which you get your returns.
If you retired in 1993 and started taking a 4% withdrawal from your portfolio, you are in great shape because the sequence of returns in the first seven years really boosted your portfolio. Even with the last three years giving you terrible returns, you would have built up a great base that would give you success in the future.
Let's reverse the performance numbers and see what happens.
Now you have quite the hole to crawl out of. You're down 43.1% in the first three years and if you haven't adjusted your withdrawals from your original 4%, you're down a good bit more. Because of the returns that come the next seven years, you're going to be able to recover from this initial downturn. But let's say the returns weren't that strong and the market was only up 6% for the next seven years, then your portfolio would be in free fall mode and you'd run the very real risk of running out of money.
The interesting thing is, whether you keep the numbers as they played out or you reverse the numbers, the return you would have received over the ten years was an average of 11.2%. However, how well your portfolio performs in the early years make a world of difference regarding whether your withdrawal plan on your portfolio is going to succeed or not.
So, should you use the 4% withdrawal rule for your own portfolio? Because we can't predict future stock market movements, I'd suggest willingness to be flexible. Many people set up a 4% withdrawal; they "set it and forget it" and, more often than not, it works out for them. However, if you retire and the stock market immediately starts taking a dive, be willing to lower your withdrawal to 3% or less and. when possible, try not to make any withdrawals. If the stock market is booming, your 4% withdrawal is going to be fine. Matter of fact, when the markets are booming, be willing to scrap off some profits to bolster your emergency fund or rebalance your portfolio. You'll never go broke taking a profit. | c4 | 4 | 3 | 5 | 4 |
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BkiUdYg4eIZjw2_KA6E9 | The National Republican Senatorial Committee released its parody ad, mocking President Obama's 2012 reelection campaign, just three days before Obama's real video came out. Yet, as Politico's Ben Smith points out today, nearly 500,000 more viewers have seen the parody than the real deal.
The NRSC is "dedicated to electing Republicans to the U.S. Senate," but took it upon itself to create the ad, juxtaposing the president's campaign promises with images of him vacationing, filling out an NCAA tournament bracket, and dancing on stage with Paul McCartney. This video below, which concludes with Obama riding a unicorn over a rainbow, claims 668,080 viewers as of this afternoon.
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