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Everything You've Ever Wanted to Know About Turkeys
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A wild turkey. Photo © Lisa Ballard
Last week, the CGS team sat down for our usual editorial planning meeting. November was just around the corner, and it was time to talk turkeys. Who has an idea for a Thanksgiving story?
Awkward silence ensued.
We realized that CGS has already covered just about everything concerning turkeys. We have stories on the basics of turkey biology, turkey conservation and genetics, turkey diet, and domestic turkeys. And don't forget the weird Mexican turkey, Australian turkey look-alikes, or birds so ugly that they give turkeys a run for their money. Or when turkeys attack.
In short, too many turkeys.
Below you'll find a veritable feast of turkey content from our archives. And if there's some aspect of turkey behaviour, natural history, or conservation that we haven't covered — let us know.
Wild turkeys at the Wichita Mountains Wildlife Refuge. Photo © Larry Smith / Flickr
It's that time of year when attention in the United States turns to the wild turkey: the de facto symbol of Thanksgiving. In addition to the meal, turkey images adorn everything from door decorations to advertisements. And chances are, if you live in the U.S., there's a wild turkey roaming near you.
The wild turkey has become a familiar bird, now scratching even in suburbia. But its familiarity should make it no less fascinating. Here are some essential turkey facts that you can use to dazzle your family and friends at your Thanksgiving feast.
Photo © Jim / Flickr
We all know that chickens, turkeys, cows, sheep, and the like are all domesticated animals, descended from wild relatives yet altered significantly by deliberate human intervention. But what are the wild origins of our domestic turkey? And who did the domesticating?
Joe Smith explains the remarkable story behind the origins of the domestic turkey, which doesn't have anything to do with Pilgrims.
(Spoiler Alert: You might want to toast the Aztecs in thanks for your Thanksgiving feast.)
Osceola Turkey at Disney Wilderness Preserve in Florida.
Photo © David Moynahan
Many of us will soon be eating a delicious turkey dinner (vegetarians excepted). But what do turkeys eat?
Joe Smith expounds on the somewhat strange diet of the wild turkey, and explains how their dietary choices may help us figure out what the future holds for wild turkeys.
Photo © Tim Proffitt-White / Flickr
Imagine a turkey with a bright blue head, a rainbow of iridescent feathers and a tail display that reveals dozens of shimmering blue eyes. This hallucination of a bird is the ocellated turkey.
Found only on the Yucatan Peninsula of Mexico, Guatemala and Belize, the ocellated turkey (Meleagris ocellata) certainly bears a resemblance to the American wild turkey.
Due to overhunting throughout its range, ocellated turkey populations are in steep decline. Unless tourism can help save them.
Photo © Andy Reago & Chrissy McClarren via Wikimedia Commons
Around the Thanksgiving holiday, a lot of decorations and advertisements feature a similar image of a turkey: It's often a big male turkey, all puffed out and in full strut. And we all know that turkey's saying "gobble gobble."
If you were lucky enough to see a turkey in the wild on Thanksgiving Day, there's little chance it would be puffed up and strutting, nor would it be gobbling. Those are primarily the spring breeding displays of male wild turkeys.
In the fall, wild turkeys behave quite differently. So how do wild turkeys spend Thanksgiving Day? Here's a look at their fascinating behavior during autumn.
Australian Brushturkey. Photo © Brisbane City Council / Flickr
If a velociraptor and a turkey had a baby, it would look like the Australian bruskturkey.
With featherless, scarlet heads, knobbly yellow wattles, and massive clawed feet, these birds look like they accidentally wandered off the set of Jurassic Park. Despite the name, the Australian Brushturkey is, in fact, not a turkey at all. Bruskturkeys are megapodes, a family of birds that incubate their eggs in a pile of vegetation, just like alligators and crocodiles.
Check out the amazing story behind this classic Australian bird and their megapode kin.
A wild turkey is released in Wisconsin. Photo © Paul M. Walsh/Flickr under a Creative Commons license.
Wildlife managers have released more than 200,000 wild turkeys in North America since the 1950's to help recover populations that were decimated by overhunting. These reintroductions have been spectacularly successful in restoring the species….. with one problem.
They were also successful in scrambling turkey genetics.
Today, determining turkey subspecies requires the skills of a wildlife CSI team. To understand why, let's take a look at the history of turkey restoration and how it has shuffled the deck for turkey taxonomy.
Friend or foe? Photo © Photo Cindy / Flickr
The three wild turkey gobblers strutted in the middle of the narrow country road, and seemed intent on staying there. I stopped the car, and the turkeys ran over to the driver's side.
I rolled down the window and the large birds immediately began loudly calling and gobbling. They attempted to stick their heads inside the car.
There's a new wild turkey in town: one at home among people. This turkey tears up farm fields and backyards. It is bold and aggressive, strutting down suburban streets without fear.
And sometimes, lately, it even attacks us.
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STEM/STEAM: Science, Technology, Engineering, Math and the Arts
Here you'll find articles and resources for STEM+Arts education, also known as STEAM. Topics include science, technology, engineering, math and arts education and range from research reports to feature articles to profiles of makerspaces to news about new STEAM and STEAM initiatives in schools.
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Five Steps to Creating a Winning Esports Space At Any School
An esports expert shares five key steps to creating a school esports space for an engaged esports team and to ensure your program is successful at instilling social-emotional learning, technical skills and STEM skills in participating students.
By Christina Counts
When Schools Use Online STEM Programs, Everyone Wins
A technology teacher from New York explains how the online STEM instruction platform CoderZ is an accessible method of teaching coding and helps him introduce students to some of the realities of working in IT and prepares his students for success in the workplace.
By Kelvin Hux
This Computer Science Curriculum is Built to Integrate with Existing K–12 Instruction: Ed Tech Chat from ISTE Live 2022
From ISTE Live 2022 this week in New Orleans, take a sneak peek into the Codelicious K–12 computer science curriculum, built to be easily integrated into existing instruction and across subjects — and accessible to all teachers regardless of their familiarity with computer science principles.
How to Start Teaching Coding with No Experience & No Equipment: Ed Tech Chat from ISTE Live 2022
From ISTE Live 2022 this week in New Orleans, Ashlynn Schindler-Kota introduces THE Journal readers to CoderZ's game-based coding education platform that teaches kids ages 8+ coding, STEM, computer science, and critical life skills — and why even teachers with no computer science experience can teach coding using CoderZ.
McGraw Hill, Verizon Launch Free Augmented Reality App for K–12
McGraw Hill and Verizon this week launched a new, free app for K–12 to bring augmented reality to the classroom.
Pear Deck to Offer EiE-Developed STEM Lessons
Pear Deck has announced a collaboration with EiE to offer STEM-focused lessons for K–12. The news was announced today at the ISTELive 22 conference taking place this week in New Orleans.
3 Ways to Interrupt the Vicious 'Math is Too Hard' Cycle with Technology
A STEM education expert from DigitalEd shares advice for teachers on how to help students overcome the "I'm just not good at math" mentality using classroom technology and early interventions.
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STEM Fields are Top Choice for Gen Z Students, New NSHSS Survey Shows
Results from a survey of over 11,000 U.S. high school and college students, conducted by the National Society of High School Scholars in February and early March, offer insights into Gen Z's career choices and show that a majority of respondents are planning for future jobs in STEM fields. | {'redpajama_set_name': 'RedPajamaCommonCrawl'} | 301 |
Start your tour with a stroll along the beach on the Boulevard de la Corniche, a lovely promenade with great views over the Atlantic. If it's a nice day, start at the Morocco Mall – the largest shopping centre in Africa, and give your legs a good stretch. Surrounded by restaurants, upmarket beach clubs, hotels, cinema complexes and swimming pools by the sea, the area is sometimes referred to as the French Riviera of Africa and is always bustling with local families and tourists alike. At night the area really comes alive, with a buzzing party-like atmosphere. | {'redpajama_set_name': 'RedPajamaC4'} | 302 |
We submit to things everyday. We submit to the speed limit. We submit to our boss. We submit to our hunger. We submit to those in authority over us.
But for some reason, when we read "submit to your husband" (Ephesians 5:22) we cringe. Part of it is our human nature, and the results of Genesis 3 - (16) "your desire shall be for your husband, and he shall rule over you." Another reason, especially true for me, is that we have seen men abuse their role as the leader. We've seen men that hold it over their wife's head, and do not treat her in a loving or Biblical way. And it affects the way we see submission. It fuels our already existant desire to rule over our husband.
Right before that verse is Ephesians 5:18b "be filled with the Spirit....(21) submitting to one another out of reverance for Christ." Submitting is emphasized for the wife, because the husband is the head, the leader. Yet the Bible tells both spouses to submit to each other out of reverance for Christ. Although, this submitting is a bit different than the submitting in verse 22. Submitting out of reverance for Christ is putting the needs of another before your own. helping your spouse to be the person God has called them to be, helping to bear burdens. Submitting is asking "how can I best serve or encourage my spouse?" It is not being a victim or a doormat. The reason is, because Biblical submission is not a one way street.
When we submit to each other, we build each other up. When we build our spouse up with the truth of Christ, we end up building ourselves up too. Submitting to each other out of reverance for Christ, is putting your spouse's needs before your own. That is how Jesus lived, focusing on others and not Himself. When we do this, we honor Jesus. Looking at submission this way, it is not downing ourselves, but lifting others up. That's why it must be mutual.
I think the Bible commands both spouses to submit like this, and then adds on that wives are also to submit to their husbands as the leader of the family. Both submit out of reverance for Christ, yet wives submit even more, by respecting your husband and recognizing his role as the head of the family. Yet, the Bible also instructs husbands to love their wife as Christ loved the church. Christ does not take advantage of the church or His position. When husbands love their wives in this way, it is easier for the wife to respect him and submit to him because she respects him.
For me, T has helped me with this. Because I used to cringe at the thought of submitting to a man, because I thought about submission completely wrong. When T takes the initiative, he takes the responsibility, but he also includes me in on what is going on. He leads well because he looks to Christ first. And because he loves me well, I do respect him. I view him as a man whose leadership I want to follow and submit to. He makes it easy for me to respect him, because he is a respectable man.
He makes it easy for me to build him up, and bear his burdens, because he leads well in submitting in this way. He always encourages me and helps me think through things and pushes me towards Christ. He leads by example. When I see him doing this, it makes it easier for me to as well.
p.s. i'm also over at Beka's blog today doing a Q&A! check her out @ Sunshine to the Square Inch!
I definitely needed to hear this! Beautiful words!
Truth. I love how this passage outlines our different needs as husbands and wives. Men, normally, tend to need respect, so wives are commanded to submit. And, women, normally, tend to need love, so husbands are commanded to love. There's a reason why we are called to submit, so we should do it joyfully.
i need to hear it every day! :) thank you, Jenna!!
This is such a healthy perspective. I used to "hate" the idea of submitting to a man as well but Christ has taught us that this is the best and most joyful way to live... in submission to Him.
Robyn, what a great reminder! Thanks for taking the time to explain what so many women today need to know. | {'redpajama_set_name': 'RedPajamaC4'} | 303 |
The company has now gained 32% year to date as investors bet on streamlined operations returning to profitability.
What: Shares of Eastman Kodak (NYSE:KODK) continued their rapid ascent for the year after climbing 20% in June. The company's stock has risen 32% year to date, and 90% since January 19, as investors regain confidence in the turnaround story.
So what: Eastman Kodak reemerged as a publicly traded company in late 2013, but investors were hardly jumping at the opportunity to own shares. After peaking in the mid-$30 per-share range in early 2014, the stock zigged and zagged its way to below $8 per share this January. Although the company is still not profitable, investors were, and are, beginning to have faith that management is getting the business back on track.
Investor confidence was rewarded after first-quarter 2016 earnings showed a major improvement. Net loss for the quarter was just $18 million compared to $58 million from the year-ago period, while EPS improved from a loss of $1.38 in 1Q15 to a loss of $0.43 in 1Q16. Not a bad start to the year.
Things only got better in June. Eastman Kodak announced two strategic partnerships with software companies PerfectPattern and Komori. The partnerships aim to improve print workflow for customers by cutting costs, increasing throughput, and enhancing quality with automated solutions.
At the end of the month, Eastman Kodak presented at drupa, a print-media industry trade fair, and launched an e-commerce company called eApeiron, which was created from former assets owned by the company and with investment from Alibaba Group. Eastman Kodak stands to benefit both directly (from a new R&D partnership) and indirectly (from an equity stake in the upstart) from eApeiron's success.
Now what: It's easy to write-off Eastman Kodak. After all, the world is increasingly digital, so printing shops may appear to have little value. But high-quality printing isn't going anywhere, and will continue to rely on leaders in the field. Of course, although Eastman Kodak is on the right track, it has a long way to go before it reaches profitability, and still carries an enormous amount of debt. | {'redpajama_set_name': 'RedPajamaC4'} | 304 |
A View From The Cave: "Asante Sana Jesu, Asante Sana Jesu"
"Asante Sana Jesu, Asante Sana Jesu"
That is the song that is stuck in my head (thank you Jesus). It has been playing over and over and over all day long. Hearing the same tapes has forced songs such as this into my head. The tune is quite catchy and one of my favorites of the few songs played daily, but I need to get it out of my head.
After worrying all night long, Meowmar came back. We let her out for the day while we were at church. We saw her in the middle of mass as she cried out looking for us and then she disappeared for the remainder of the night. By the time it came for bed, I came to terms with the fact that we had managed to lose our cat in less than a week. I was elated when Phyllis came by with her in her arms. We are keeping a close watch on the cat, but will have to work on making sure she knows to come to our house, not father's.
I was meant to meet with Judi this morning, but an emergency involving one of the clients prevented me from going over the the compound. In the afternoon I washed the dishes and cut my hair. Judi called for me to come by to learn QuickBooks and I hurried over to do some work for two hours. Then back home by about 6 and leftovers for dinner.
Tomorrow I am off to the field with Joy.
When arriving at the boarder of Uganda, there will be men trying to change currency. Go to a bodaboda man and ask to be taken to a exchange shop. If you get a counterfeit bill you can know where to solve the problem. | {'redpajama_set_name': 'RedPajamaC4'} | 305 |
This immunology quiz is designed to assess your basic knowledge in 'Innate immunity'. Choose the best answer from the four options given. When you've finished answering as many of the questions as you can, scroll down to the bottom of the page and check your answers by clicking ' Score'. Percentage score will be displayed along with right answers.
These responses are not directed specifically to the infectious agent.
These responses are not affected by prior exposure to the agent.
These responses are operating constantly to prevent the establishment of any infection.
6. Which of the following is not an example of a nonspecific defense mechanism?
10. Pattern Recognition Receptors (PRR) include which of the following? | {'redpajama_set_name': 'RedPajamaC4'} | 306 |
<?php
namespace Mopa\Bundle\RemoteUpdateBundle\Model;
use Buzz\Browser;
use Symfony\Component\Routing\RouterInterface;
use Symfony\Component\DependencyInjection\ContainerInterface;
class RemoteUpdateService extends AbstractUpdateService{
protected $buzz;
protected $router;
protected $serializer;
public function __construct(ContainerInterface $container, Browser $buzz, RouterInterface $router) {
parent::__construct($container);
$this->buzz = $buzz;
$this->router = $router;
$this->serializer = $this->container->get('serializer');
}
protected function getTargetApiEntryPoint($route, array $parameters) {
return $this->config['url'] . $this->router->generate($route, $parameters);
}
protected function communicate($method, $route, $parameters) {
$path = $this->getTargetApiEntryPoint($route, $parameters);
$response = $this->buzz->$method($path);
if (200 != $response->getStatusCode()) {
if (503 == $response->getStatusCode()) {
throw $this->serializer->deserialize($response->getContent(), 'Mopa\Bundle\RemoteUpdateBundle\Model\Exceptions\HavingJobPendingException', 'json');
}
$error = json_decode($response->getContent());
if ($code = json_last_error()) {
throw new \RuntimeException("Couldnt decode Json for $path: Code $code\n Response:".$response->getContent());
}
throw new Exceptions\RemoteException($error->message . $error->status_text, $error->status_code);
}
return $response;
}
public function check($remote, $count) {
$this->setTarget($remote);
$response = $this->communicate('get', "mopa_update_api_get_updates", array("remote" => $this->target, "count" => $count));
return $this->serializer->deserialize($response->getContent(), 'array<Mopa\Bundle\RemoteUpdateBundle\Entity\UpdateJob>', 'json');
}
public function update($remote) {
$this->setTarget($remote);
$response = $this->communicate('post', "mopa_update_api_post_update", array("remote" => $this->target));
return $this->serializer->deserialize($response->getContent(), 'Mopa\Bundle\RemoteUpdateBundle\Entity\UpdateJob', 'json');
}
} | {'redpajama_set_name': 'RedPajamaGithub'} | 307 |
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Living in a truck SAVED my husband's life!
Adi and her family made a dramatic change... - by April Glover
Here, Adi, 39, tells the story in her own words...
Poring over the papers scattered across the table, I closed my eyes in frustration.
The numbers on invoices, bills and bank statements seemed to blur into a confusing mess.
My husband Logan, 37, and I were struggling to keep on top of our $450,000 mortgage and our landscaping business.
'We can't live like this anymore,' I said.
It was the supposed 'dream life', as we owned a home and were our own bosses.
But the constant 17-hour days juggling our finances and newborn baby girl Mia had taken a toll on us both, Logan especially.
'I'm just miserable, Adi,' he told me.
Three years of constant physical labour had wreaked havoc on his body and he was struggling to move his hands properly, so we visited a doctor.
Logan was diagnosed with paralysis in one hand and calcification of the joints in the other, where calcium is deposited abnormally in soft tissue, causing it to harden.
Because he was the sole labourer for our business, we sought out an osteopath to see how he could keep working.
But he had sinister news.
'If you don't stop, you're going to die,' he told Logan gravely.
He explained the calcification was so bad, he'd be bedridden within a few years if he kept going.
Terrified at the news, we looked at our options.
'Why don't we go to New Zealand?' Logan suggested.
He'd grown up there, but had been living in Australia for 10 years.
'But where will we live?' I asked. 'I can't face another mortgage.'
One night, Logan came home with a cheeky grin.
'What about a motorhome?' he asked me.
Again, I was unconvinced.
I didn't think living as a nomad in a caravan was a practical way of life.
What about Mia? I worried. She was just 18 months old.
But then I started delving into websites and blogs of families who had packed up their lives to live on the road.
They seemed like normal, happy people.
And happy was a feeling I'd long forgotten.
'Let's do it,' I said, excited.
That night, while surfing online for motorhomes, we came across a truck for sale.
'You know, we could live in this...' Logan said.
It was an old Mainfreight, curtainsider truck with an interior of around 16sqm.
When I called the owner in NZ, he was keen to get rid of it and agreed to sell it to us
for $35,000.
It was really happening!
Feeling frantic, we got everything in order to sell our three-bedroom home on the Gold Coast.
I had to clear the house of any belongings we didn't need including clothes, Mia's toys, furniture, books and kitchen appliances.
Three months later, Logan, Mia and I arrived at Auckland airport with a suitcase each and nothing more.
It was a big leap of faith, but it felt like the weight of the world was lifted off our shoulders.
We met the vehicle's owner at the airport, shook his hand and instantly became owners of a house truck!
'I can't believe we're doing this,' I said to Logan, shaking my head in amazement.
Luckily, the truck was equipped with a kitchen, toilet, queen-size bed, a bed for Mia, a dishwasher, freezer, fridge and shower.
A generator provided electricity to our new mobile home so we could park it anywhere.
Mia took to her new life perfectly, loving every minute she spent with us.
First, we visited Logan's family across New Zealand, before setting off on the adventure of a lifetime around the country.
For the first time, we had no mortgage, no repayments and we didn't owe anyone anything!
We parked the truck in gorgeous places overlooking mountain scenery, lakes, beaches, farms and national parks.
Soon after, I fell pregnant with our boy, David, now two.
He was bathed in the sink and slept in a portable cot in the truck.
Not needing too many toys, David and Mia played outside instead.
'He's born and raised on the road!' I laughed.
Now, we've lived in a truck for nearly four years.
We've travelled up and down NZ, especially loving Kaitaia and the South Island.
Logan and I manage to find odd jobs in each destination we park.
On average we spend as little as $645 a month on power, water, camping fees and travelling, plus $200 a week on food.
Packing up our lives and moving into a truck is the best decision we've ever made. Logan and I are much healthier, and he can use both his hands again.
And we argue less, as money is never an issue.
Our family is living proof that this lifestyle is not just for tourists or retirees.
One day we were up to our necks in bills in misery, and the next we were living the dream! The only thing I regret is not doing it sooner!
To learn more, visit www.whatyouhavealwayswantedtodo.com. | {'redpajama_set_name': 'RedPajamaCommonCrawl'} | 308 |
This is a book in Hindi shows that Islam is a comprehensive religion provides people with all they need in this world and the world to come.
This is a book in Hindi tries to present a right image of Islam through some points.
This is a book in Hindi shows the virtues of Islam.
This is a book in Hindi shows that Islam is the religion of mercy and the Prophet Muhammad is a mercy from Allah to this mankind. | {'redpajama_set_name': 'RedPajamaC4'} | 309 |
Q: Dictionary from standard Android keyboard Standard Android keyboard has dictionary for suggestion.
I need access to this dictionary.
How can I take this access?
A: You might be able to access it using the http://developer.android.com/reference/android/provider/UserDictionary.html provider interface: never actually seen the dictionary explicitly accessed by application code, so you may or may not succeed at that.
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New Police IG, Ibrahim Idris orders officers to declare assets
All officers from the rank of Assistant Superintendent of Police (ASP) to Inspector-General of Police, will henceforth declare their assets, the Acting Inspector-General of Police, Mr Ibrahim Idris, has declared.
Idris made the statement on Thursday in Abuja when he paid a courtesy visit to the Minister of Interior, Lt.-Gen. Abdulrahman Dambazau (retd).
He said that the directive was in line with Section 13 cap 15 Code of Conduct Act.
"Every police officer from the rank of Assistant Superintendent of Police to Inspector-General who are commission officers must declare their assets," Idris said.
He added that the directive would guide the conduct of police officers in carrying out their duties.
The police boss promised that under his administration, the integrity of the force would be further enhanced.
"I assure you sir, that we will raise the integrity of the Nigeria Police Force to be more accountable to the people," he said.
The acting I-G added that under his command, the police would operate within the rule of law.
He said that the presence of police officers would be felt in all villages and streets across the country.
Responding, Dambazau urged the acting I-G to focus on the three key issues of corruption, economy and security for the success of this administration.
"You have a lot of challenges as the chief law officer of the country," he said.
The minister urged the new police boss to collaborate with other security agencies to address the issues crimes and post conflict resolution in the North-East.
"The post conflict resolution in the North-East has to be comprehensive and holistic,"he said.
Dambazau advised his guest to carry everybody along and put the right persons in the positions of command commissioners and zonal commanders.
"No matter how smart you think you are, you cannot do it alone without the support of others,"he said, and advised Idris to make the welfare of his officers a priority.
He assured him of the support of the ministry to discharge his mandate.
In his inaugural speech, Idris said that the police under his administration would be guided by the international core values of policing.
Credit: PM News | {'redpajama_set_name': 'RedPajamaCommonCrawl'} | 311 |
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Helping Zoetis to the Top for Diversity and Inclusion - Karen Boykin Towns
Karen Boykin-Towns, a change catalyst, and results-driven leader, recently attended a virtual panel discussion, A Conversation on Gender, Race, and Success hosted by Zoetis. Along with Karen, Kristin Peck and Pattie Sellers were attendees of this discussion as well.
Zoetis is the world's largest producer of medicine and vaccinations for pets and livestock.
One of the topics they discussed was about the steps Zoetis is taking to become a more diverse and inclusive company. As an expert on the matter, Karen shared her insights on what a company and its employees must do to become leaders in the space of diversity.
You can watch that part of Karen's conversation here, or read the excerpt below.
"Zoetis talks about the 4 Cs that they have come forward with. These are Culture, Colleagues, Career, and Community. I like to talk about the 3 Cs — Courage, Commitment, and Conviction.
"What we know, is that this is a window of opportunity where people and leaders are listening. This is where leaders are open to opinions. It's important, no matter where you sit within an organization, to use your voice. Use your voice to speak up because you are in a company that is really wanting to do right and build this amazing culture of diversity, equity, and inclusion. They don't have all the answers, but if everyone pitches in with their input, I think it really will help with the celebration that is going on. Zoetis will not just have one of the best leaders at the helm, but will be a company that can be a leader in this space itself."
Karen Boykin-Towns
Results-Driven Leader
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Q: Counting Cars OpenCV + Python Issue I have been trying to count cars when crossing the line and it works, but the problem is it counts one car many times which is ridiculous because it should only be counted once.
Here is the code I am using:
import cv2
import numpy as np
bgsMOG = cv2.BackgroundSubtractorMOG()
cap = cv2.VideoCapture("traffic.avi")
counter = 0
if cap:
while True:
ret, frame = cap.read()
if ret:
fgmask = bgsMOG.apply(frame, None, 0.01)
cv2.line(frame, (0,60), (160,60), (255,255,0), 1)
# To find the countours of the Cars
contours, hierarchy = cv2.findContours(fgmask,
cv2.RETR_EXTERNAL,cv2.CHAIN_APPROX_SIMPLE)
try:
hierarchy = hierarchy[0]
except:
hierarchy = []
for contour, hier in zip(contours, hierarchy):
(x, y, w, h) = cv2.boundingRect(contour)
if w > 20 and h > 20:
cv2.rectangle(frame, (x,y), (x+w,y+h), (255, 0, 0), 1)
# To find the centroid of the car
x1 = w/2
y1 = h/2
cx = x+x1
cy = y+y1
## print "cy=", cy
## print "cx=", cx
centroid = (cx,cy)
## print "centoid=", centroid
# Draw the circle of Centroid
cv2.circle(frame,(int(cx),int(cy)),2,(0,0,255),-1)
# To make sure the Car crosses the line
## dy = cy-108
## print "dy", dy
if centroid > (27, 38) and centroid < (134, 108):
## if (cx <= 132)and(cx >= 20):
counter +=1
## print "counter=", counter
## if cy > 10 and cy < 160:
cv2.putText(frame, str(counter), (x,y-5),
cv2.FONT_HERSHEY_SIMPLEX,
0.5, (255, 0, 255), 2)
## cv2.namedWindow('Output',cv2.cv.CV_WINDOW_NORMAL)
cv2.imshow('Output', frame)
## cv2.imshow('FGMASK', fgmask)
key = cv2.waitKey(60)
if key == 27:
break
cap.release()
cv2.destroyAllWindows()
And the video is on my GitHub page @ https://github.com/Tes3awy/MATLAB-Tutorials/blob/f24b680f2215c1b1bb96c76f5ba81df533552983/traffic.avi (and it's also a built-in video in Matlab library)
How can make it so that each car is only counted once?
The individual frames of the video look as follows:
A: Preparation
In order to understand what is happening, and eventually solve our problem, we first need to improve the script a little.
I've added logging of the important steps of your algorithm, refactored the code a little, and added saving of the mask and processed images, added ability to run the script using the individual frame images, along with some other modifications.
This is what the script looks like at this point:
import logging
import logging.handlers
import os
import time
import sys
import cv2
import numpy as np
from vehicle_counter import VehicleCounter
# ============================================================================
IMAGE_DIR = "images"
IMAGE_FILENAME_FORMAT = IMAGE_DIR + "/frame_%04d.png"
# Support either video file or individual frames
CAPTURE_FROM_VIDEO = False
if CAPTURE_FROM_VIDEO:
IMAGE_SOURCE = "traffic.avi" # Video file
else:
IMAGE_SOURCE = IMAGE_FILENAME_FORMAT # Image sequence
# Time to wait between frames, 0=forever
WAIT_TIME = 1 # 250 # ms
LOG_TO_FILE = True
# Colours for drawing on processed frames
DIVIDER_COLOUR = (255, 255, 0)
BOUNDING_BOX_COLOUR = (255, 0, 0)
CENTROID_COLOUR = (0, 0, 255)
# ============================================================================
def init_logging():
main_logger = logging.getLogger()
formatter = logging.Formatter(
fmt='%(asctime)s.%(msecs)03d %(levelname)-8s [%(name)s] %(message)s'
, datefmt='%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S')
handler_stream = logging.StreamHandler(sys.stdout)
handler_stream.setFormatter(formatter)
main_logger.addHandler(handler_stream)
if LOG_TO_FILE:
handler_file = logging.handlers.RotatingFileHandler("debug.log"
, maxBytes = 2**24
, backupCount = 10)
handler_file.setFormatter(formatter)
main_logger.addHandler(handler_file)
main_logger.setLevel(logging.DEBUG)
return main_logger
# ============================================================================
def save_frame(file_name_format, frame_number, frame, label_format):
file_name = file_name_format % frame_number
label = label_format % frame_number
log.debug("Saving %s as '%s'", label, file_name)
cv2.imwrite(file_name, frame)
# ============================================================================
def get_centroid(x, y, w, h):
x1 = int(w / 2)
y1 = int(h / 2)
cx = x + x1
cy = y + y1
return (cx, cy)
# ============================================================================
def detect_vehicles(fg_mask):
log = logging.getLogger("detect_vehicles")
MIN_CONTOUR_WIDTH = 21
MIN_CONTOUR_HEIGHT = 21
# Find the contours of any vehicles in the image
contours, hierarchy = cv2.findContours(fg_mask
, cv2.RETR_EXTERNAL
, cv2.CHAIN_APPROX_SIMPLE)
log.debug("Found %d vehicle contours.", len(contours))
matches = []
for (i, contour) in enumerate(contours):
(x, y, w, h) = cv2.boundingRect(contour)
contour_valid = (w >= MIN_CONTOUR_WIDTH) and (h >= MIN_CONTOUR_HEIGHT)
log.debug("Contour #%d: pos=(x=%d, y=%d) size=(w=%d, h=%d) valid=%s"
, i, x, y, w, h, contour_valid)
if not contour_valid:
continue
centroid = get_centroid(x, y, w, h)
matches.append(((x, y, w, h), centroid))
return matches
# ============================================================================
def filter_mask(fg_mask):
kernel = cv2.getStructuringElement(cv2.MORPH_ELLIPSE, (3, 3))
# Fill any small holes
closing = cv2.morphologyEx(fg_mask, cv2.MORPH_CLOSE, kernel)
# Remove noise
opening = cv2.morphologyEx(closing, cv2.MORPH_OPEN, kernel)
# Dilate to merge adjacent blobs
dilation = cv2.dilate(opening, kernel, iterations = 2)
return dilation
# ============================================================================
def process_frame(frame_number, frame, bg_subtractor, car_counter):
log = logging.getLogger("process_frame")
# Create a copy of source frame to draw into
processed = frame.copy()
# Draw dividing line -- we count cars as they cross this line.
cv2.line(processed, (0, car_counter.divider), (frame.shape[1], car_counter.divider), DIVIDER_COLOUR, 1)
# Remove the background
fg_mask = bg_subtractor.apply(frame, None, 0.01)
fg_mask = filter_mask(fg_mask)
save_frame(IMAGE_DIR + "/mask_%04d.png"
, frame_number, fg_mask, "foreground mask for frame #%d")
matches = detect_vehicles(fg_mask)
log.debug("Found %d valid vehicle contours.", len(matches))
for (i, match) in enumerate(matches):
contour, centroid = match
log.debug("Valid vehicle contour #%d: centroid=%s, bounding_box=%s", i, centroid, contour)
x, y, w, h = contour
# Mark the bounding box and the centroid on the processed frame
# NB: Fixed the off-by one in the bottom right corner
cv2.rectangle(processed, (x, y), (x + w - 1, y + h - 1), BOUNDING_BOX_COLOUR, 1)
cv2.circle(processed, centroid, 2, CENTROID_COLOUR, -1)
log.debug("Updating vehicle count...")
car_counter.update_count(matches, processed)
return processed
# ============================================================================
def main():
log = logging.getLogger("main")
log.debug("Creating background subtractor...")
bg_subtractor = cv2.BackgroundSubtractorMOG()
log.debug("Pre-training the background subtractor...")
default_bg = cv2.imread(IMAGE_FILENAME_FORMAT % 119)
bg_subtractor.apply(default_bg, None, 1.0)
car_counter = None # Will be created after first frame is captured
# Set up image source
log.debug("Initializing video capture device #%s...", IMAGE_SOURCE)
cap = cv2.VideoCapture(IMAGE_SOURCE)
frame_width = cap.get(cv2.cv.CV_CAP_PROP_FRAME_WIDTH)
frame_height = cap.get(cv2.cv.CV_CAP_PROP_FRAME_HEIGHT)
log.debug("Video capture frame size=(w=%d, h=%d)", frame_width, frame_height)
log.debug("Starting capture loop...")
frame_number = -1
while True:
frame_number += 1
log.debug("Capturing frame #%d...", frame_number)
ret, frame = cap.read()
if not ret:
log.error("Frame capture failed, stopping...")
break
log.debug("Got frame #%d: shape=%s", frame_number, frame.shape)
if car_counter is None:
# We do this here, so that we can initialize with actual frame size
log.debug("Creating vehicle counter...")
car_counter = VehicleCounter(frame.shape[:2], frame.shape[0] / 2)
# Archive raw frames from video to disk for later inspection/testing
if CAPTURE_FROM_VIDEO:
save_frame(IMAGE_FILENAME_FORMAT
, frame_number, frame, "source frame #%d")
log.debug("Processing frame #%d...", frame_number)
processed = process_frame(frame_number, frame, bg_subtractor, car_counter)
save_frame(IMAGE_DIR + "/processed_%04d.png"
, frame_number, processed, "processed frame #%d")
cv2.imshow('Source Image', frame)
cv2.imshow('Processed Image', processed)
log.debug("Frame #%d processed.", frame_number)
c = cv2.waitKey(WAIT_TIME)
if c == 27:
log.debug("ESC detected, stopping...")
break
log.debug("Closing video capture device...")
cap.release()
cv2.destroyAllWindows()
log.debug("Done.")
# ============================================================================
if __name__ == "__main__":
log = init_logging()
if not os.path.exists(IMAGE_DIR):
log.debug("Creating image directory `%s`...", IMAGE_DIR)
os.makedirs(IMAGE_DIR)
main()
This script is responsible for processing of the stream of images, and identifying all the vehicles in each frame -- I refer to them as matches in the code.
The task of counting the detected vehicles is delegated to class VehicleCounter. The reason why I chose to make this a class will become evident as we progress. I did not implement your vehicle counting algorithm, because it will not work for reasons that will again become evident as we dig into this deeper.
File vehicle_counter.py contains the following code:
import logging
# ============================================================================
class VehicleCounter(object):
def __init__(self, shape, divider):
self.log = logging.getLogger("vehicle_counter")
self.height, self.width = shape
self.divider = divider
self.vehicle_count = 0
def update_count(self, matches, output_image = None):
self.log.debug("Updating count using %d matches...", len(matches))
# ============================================================================
Finally, I wrote a script that will stitch all the generated images together, so it's easier to inspect them:
import cv2
import numpy as np
# ============================================================================
INPUT_WIDTH = 160
INPUT_HEIGHT = 120
OUTPUT_TILE_WIDTH = 10
OUTPUT_TILE_HEIGHT = 12
TILE_COUNT = OUTPUT_TILE_WIDTH * OUTPUT_TILE_HEIGHT
# ============================================================================
def stitch_images(input_format, output_filename):
output_shape = (INPUT_HEIGHT * OUTPUT_TILE_HEIGHT
, INPUT_WIDTH * OUTPUT_TILE_WIDTH
, 3)
output = np.zeros(output_shape, np.uint8)
for i in range(TILE_COUNT):
img = cv2.imread(input_format % i)
cv2.rectangle(img, (0, 0), (INPUT_WIDTH - 1, INPUT_HEIGHT - 1), (0, 0, 255), 1)
# Draw the frame number
cv2.putText(img, str(i), (2, 10)
, cv2.FONT_HERSHEY_PLAIN, 0.7, (255, 255, 255), 1)
x = i % OUTPUT_TILE_WIDTH * INPUT_WIDTH
y = i / OUTPUT_TILE_WIDTH * INPUT_HEIGHT
output[y:y+INPUT_HEIGHT, x:x+INPUT_WIDTH,:] = img
cv2.imwrite(output_filename, output)
# ============================================================================
stitch_images("images/frame_%04d.png", "stitched_frames.png")
stitch_images("images/mask_%04d.png", "stitched_masks.png")
stitch_images("images/processed_%04d.png", "stitched_processed.png")
Analysis
In order to solve this problem, we should have some idea about what results we expect to get. We should also label all the distinct cars in the video, so it's easier to talk about them.
If we run our script, and stitch the images together, we get the a number of useful files to help us analyze the problem:
*
*Image containing a mosaic of input frames
*Image containing a mosaic of foreground masks:
*
*Image containing a mosaic of processed frames
*
*The debug log for the run.
Upon inspecting those, a number of issues become evident:
*
*The foreground masks tend to be noisy. We should do some filtering (erode/dilate?) to get rid of the noise and narrow gaps.
*Sometimes we miss vehicles (grey ones).
*Some vehicles get detected twice in the single frame.
*Vehicles are rarely detected in the upper regions of the frame.
*The same vehicle is often detected in consecutive frames. We need to figure out a way of tracking the same vehicle in consecutive frames, and counting it only once.
Solution
1. Pre-Seeding the Background Subtractor
Our video is quite short, only 120 frames. With learning rate of 0.01, it will take a substantial part of the video for the background detector to stabilize.
Fortunately, the last frame of the video (frame number 119) is completely devoid of vehicles, and therefore we can use it as our initial background image. (Other options of obtaining suitable image are mentioned in notes and comments.)
To use this initial background image, we simply load it, and apply it on the background subtractor with learning factor 1.0:
bg_subtractor = cv2.BackgroundSubtractorMOG()
default_bg = cv2.imread(IMAGE_FILENAME_FORMAT % 119)
bg_subtractor.apply(default_bg, None, 1.0)
When we look at the new mosaic of masks we can see that we get less noise and the vehicle detection works better in the early frames.
2. Cleaning Up the Foreground Mask
A simple approach to improve our foreground mask is to apply a few morphological transformations.
def filter_mask(fg_mask):
kernel = cv2.getStructuringElement(cv2.MORPH_ELLIPSE, (3, 3))
# Fill any small holes
closing = cv2.morphologyEx(fg_mask, cv2.MORPH_CLOSE, kernel)
# Remove noise
opening = cv2.morphologyEx(closing, cv2.MORPH_OPEN, kernel)
# Dilate to merge adjacent blobs
dilation = cv2.dilate(opening, kernel, iterations = 2)
return dilation
Inspecting the masks, processed frames and the log file generated with filtering, we can see that we now detect vehicles more reliably, and have mitigated the issue of different parts of one vehicle being detected as separate objects.
3. Tracking Vehicles Between Frames
At this point, we need to go through our log file, and collect all the centroid coordinates for each vehicle. This will allow us to plot and inspect the path each vehicle traces across the image, and develop an algorithm to do this automatically. To make this process easier, we can create a reduced log by grepping out the relevant entries.
The lists of centroid coordinates:
traces = {
'A': [(112, 36), (112, 45), (112, 52), (112, 54), (112, 63), (111, 73), (111, 86), (111, 91), (111, 97), (110, 105)]
, 'B': [(119, 37), (120, 42), (121, 54), (121, 55), (123, 64), (124, 74), (125, 87), (127, 94), (125, 100), (126, 108)]
, 'C': [(93, 23), (91, 27), (89, 31), (87, 36), (85, 42), (82, 49), (79, 59), (74, 71), (70, 82), (62, 86), (61, 92), (55, 101)]
, 'D': [(118, 30), (124, 83), (125, 90), (116, 101), (122, 100)]
, 'E': [(77, 27), (75, 30), (73, 33), (70, 37), (67, 42), (63, 47), (59, 53), (55, 59), (49, 67), (43, 75), (36, 85), (27, 92), (24, 97), (20, 102)]
, 'F': [(119, 30), (120, 34), (120, 39), (122, 59), (123, 60), (124, 70), (125, 82), (127, 91), (126, 97), (128, 104)]
, 'G': [(88, 37), (87, 41), (85, 48), (82, 55), (79, 63), (76, 74), (72, 87), (67, 92), (65, 98), (60, 106)]
, 'H': [(124, 35), (123, 40), (125, 45), (127, 59), (126, 59), (128, 67), (130, 78), (132, 88), (134, 93), (135, 99), (135, 107)]
, 'I': [(98, 26), (97, 30), (96, 34), (94, 40), (92, 47), (90, 55), (87, 64), (84, 77), (79, 87), (74, 93), (73, 102)]
, 'J': [(123, 60), (125, 63), (125, 81), (127, 93), (126, 98), (125, 100)]
}
Individual vehicle traces plotted on the background:
Combined enlarged image of all the vehicle traces:
Vectors
In order to analyze the movement, we need to work with vectors (i.e. the distance and direction moved). The following diagram shows how the angles correspond to movement of vehicles in the image.
We can use the following function to calculate the vector between two points:
def get_vector(a, b):
"""Calculate vector (distance, angle in degrees) from point a to point b.
Angle ranges from -180 to 180 degrees.
Vector with angle 0 points straight down on the image.
Values increase in clockwise direction.
"""
dx = float(b[0] - a[0])
dy = float(b[1] - a[1])
distance = math.sqrt(dx**2 + dy**2)
if dy > 0:
angle = math.degrees(math.atan(-dx/dy))
elif dy == 0:
if dx < 0:
angle = 90.0
elif dx > 0:
angle = -90.0
else:
angle = 0.0
else:
if dx < 0:
angle = 180 - math.degrees(math.atan(dx/dy))
elif dx > 0:
angle = -180 - math.degrees(math.atan(dx/dy))
else:
angle = 180.0
return distance, angle
Categorization
One way we can look for patterns that could be used to categorize the movements as valid/invalid is to make a scatter plot (angle vs. distance):
*
*Green points represent valid movement, that we determined using the lists of points for each vehicle.
*Red points represent invalid movement - vectors between points in adjacent traffic lanes.
*I plotted two blue curves, which we can use to separate the two types of movements. Any point that lies below either curve can be considered as valid. The curves are:
*
*distance = -0.008 * angle**2 + 0.4 * angle + 25.0
*distance = 10.0
We can use the following function to categorize the movement vectors:
def is_valid_vector(a):
distance, angle = a
threshold_distance = max(10.0, -0.008 * angle**2 + 0.4 * angle + 25.0)
return (distance <= threshold_distance)
NB: There is one outlier, which is occurs due to our loosing track of vehicle D in frames 43..48.
Algorithm
We will use class Vehicle to store information about each tracked vehicle:
*
*Some kind of identifier
*List of positions, most recent at front
*Last-seen counter -- number of frames since we've last seen this vehicle
*Flag to mark whether the vehicle was counted or not
Class VehicleCounter will store a list of currently tracked vehicles and keep track of the total count. On each frame, we will use the list of bounding boxes and positions of identified vehicles (candidate list) to update the state of VehicleCounter:
*
*Update currently tracked Vehicles:
*
*For each vehicle
*
*If there is any valid match for given vehicle, update vehicle position and reset its last-seen counter. Remove the match from the candidate list.
*Otherwise, increase the last-seen counter for that vehicle.
*Create new Vehicles for any remaining matches
*Update vehicle count
*
*For each vehicle
*
*If the vehicle is past divider and has not been counted yet, update the total count and mark the vehicle as counted
*Remove vehicles that are no longer visible
*
*For each vehicle
*
*If the last-seen counter exceeds threshold, remove the vehicle
4. Solution
We can reuse the main script with the final version of vehicle_counter.py, containing the implementation of our counting algorithm:
import logging
import math
import cv2
import numpy as np
# ============================================================================
CAR_COLOURS = [ (0,0,255), (0,106,255), (0,216,255), (0,255,182), (0,255,76)
, (144,255,0), (255,255,0), (255,148,0), (255,0,178), (220,0,255) ]
# ============================================================================
class Vehicle(object):
def __init__(self, id, position):
self.id = id
self.positions = [position]
self.frames_since_seen = 0
self.counted = False
@property
def last_position(self):
return self.positions[-1]
def add_position(self, new_position):
self.positions.append(new_position)
self.frames_since_seen = 0
def draw(self, output_image):
car_colour = CAR_COLOURS[self.id % len(CAR_COLOURS)]
for point in self.positions:
cv2.circle(output_image, point, 2, car_colour, -1)
cv2.polylines(output_image, [np.int32(self.positions)]
, False, car_colour, 1)
# ============================================================================
class VehicleCounter(object):
def __init__(self, shape, divider):
self.log = logging.getLogger("vehicle_counter")
self.height, self.width = shape
self.divider = divider
self.vehicles = []
self.next_vehicle_id = 0
self.vehicle_count = 0
self.max_unseen_frames = 7
@staticmethod
def get_vector(a, b):
"""Calculate vector (distance, angle in degrees) from point a to point b.
Angle ranges from -180 to 180 degrees.
Vector with angle 0 points straight down on the image.
Values increase in clockwise direction.
"""
dx = float(b[0] - a[0])
dy = float(b[1] - a[1])
distance = math.sqrt(dx**2 + dy**2)
if dy > 0:
angle = math.degrees(math.atan(-dx/dy))
elif dy == 0:
if dx < 0:
angle = 90.0
elif dx > 0:
angle = -90.0
else:
angle = 0.0
else:
if dx < 0:
angle = 180 - math.degrees(math.atan(dx/dy))
elif dx > 0:
angle = -180 - math.degrees(math.atan(dx/dy))
else:
angle = 180.0
return distance, angle
@staticmethod
def is_valid_vector(a):
distance, angle = a
threshold_distance = max(10.0, -0.008 * angle**2 + 0.4 * angle + 25.0)
return (distance <= threshold_distance)
def update_vehicle(self, vehicle, matches):
# Find if any of the matches fits this vehicle
for i, match in enumerate(matches):
contour, centroid = match
vector = self.get_vector(vehicle.last_position, centroid)
if self.is_valid_vector(vector):
vehicle.add_position(centroid)
self.log.debug("Added match (%d, %d) to vehicle #%d. vector=(%0.2f,%0.2f)"
, centroid[0], centroid[1], vehicle.id, vector[0], vector[1])
return i
# No matches fit...
vehicle.frames_since_seen += 1
self.log.debug("No match for vehicle #%d. frames_since_seen=%d"
, vehicle.id, vehicle.frames_since_seen)
return None
def update_count(self, matches, output_image = None):
self.log.debug("Updating count using %d matches...", len(matches))
# First update all the existing vehicles
for vehicle in self.vehicles:
i = self.update_vehicle(vehicle, matches)
if i is not None:
del matches[i]
# Add new vehicles based on the remaining matches
for match in matches:
contour, centroid = match
new_vehicle = Vehicle(self.next_vehicle_id, centroid)
self.next_vehicle_id += 1
self.vehicles.append(new_vehicle)
self.log.debug("Created new vehicle #%d from match (%d, %d)."
, new_vehicle.id, centroid[0], centroid[1])
# Count any uncounted vehicles that are past the divider
for vehicle in self.vehicles:
if not vehicle.counted and (vehicle.last_position[1] > self.divider):
self.vehicle_count += 1
vehicle.counted = True
self.log.debug("Counted vehicle #%d (total count=%d)."
, vehicle.id, self.vehicle_count)
# Optionally draw the vehicles on an image
if output_image is not None:
for vehicle in self.vehicles:
vehicle.draw(output_image)
cv2.putText(output_image, ("%02d" % self.vehicle_count), (142, 10)
, cv2.FONT_HERSHEY_PLAIN, 0.7, (127, 255, 255), 1)
# Remove vehicles that have not been seen long enough
removed = [ v.id for v in self.vehicles
if v.frames_since_seen >= self.max_unseen_frames ]
self.vehicles[:] = [ v for v in self.vehicles
if not v.frames_since_seen >= self.max_unseen_frames ]
for id in removed:
self.log.debug("Removed vehicle #%d.", id)
self.log.debug("Count updated, tracking %d vehicles.", len(self.vehicles))
# ============================================================================
The program now draws the historical paths of all currently tracked vehicles into the output image, along with the vehicle count. Each vehicle is assigned 1 of 10 colours.
Notice that vehicle D ends up being tracked twice, however it is counted only once, since we lose track of it before crossing the divider. Ideas on how to resolve this are mentioned in the appendix.
Based on the last processed frame generated by the script
the total vehicle count is 10. This is a correct result.
More details can be found in the output the script generated:
*
*Full debug log
*Filtered out vehicle counter log
*A mosaic of the processed frames:
A. Potential Improvements
*
*Refactor, add unit tests.
*Improve filtering/preprocessing of the foreground mask
*
*Multiple iterations of filtering, fill holes using cv2.drawContours with CV_FILLED?
*Watershed Algorithm?
*Improve categorization of movement vectors
*
*Create a predictor to estimate initial movement angle when vehicles are created (and only one position is known)... in order to be able to
*Use change in direction rather than direction alone (I think this would cluster the angles of valid motion vectors close to zero).
*Improve vehicle tracking
*
*Predict position for frames where vehicle is not seen.
B. Notes
*
*It seems it's not possible to directly extract the current background image from BackgroundSubtractorMOG in Python (at least in OpenCV 2.4.x), but there is a way to do it with a little work.
*As suggested by Henrik, we can obtain a good estimate of the background using median blending.
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Q: Check the User Whether Exist in Azure AD from WPF application I have a WPF application and its authentication is AzureAD. If any new user comes then first we will add that user in Azure AD and after that we will add the same user to our WPF application. While adding that user to WPF we need to verify that user is present in Azure
Steps
1. Network Admin creating a user in Azure AD
2. Our project Admin add that user to our client in Azure
3. Project Admin login to our WPF application using azure authentication and adding this user
4. At that time we need to recheck the new user is present in azureAD.
It means project admin login to WPF application using Azure authentication [His userid, ticket, clientid etc are available] and he trying to check a user present it Azure AD [New users name is available, but password will not know by this Admin].
Please help me to write a c# code for solving this problem.
A: Regarding the issue, please refer the following code
//install Active Directory Authentication Library (ADAL) and Azure Active Directory Graph Client Library
public static ActiveDirectoryClient GetActiveDirectoryClientAsApplication()
{
Uri servicePointUri = new Uri(ResourceId);
Uri serviceRoot = new Uri(servicePointUri,tenant);
ActiveDirectoryClient activeDirectoryClient = new ActiveDirectoryClient(serviceRoot,
async () => await AcquireTokenAsyncForApplication());
return activeDirectoryClient;
}
public static async Task<string> AcquireTokenAsyncForApplication()
{
return await GetTokenForApplication();
}
/// <summary>
/// Get Token for Application.
/// </summary>
/// <returns>Token for application.</returns>
public static async Task<string> GetTokenForApplication()
{
AuthenticationContext authenticationContext = new AuthenticationContext(
authority,
false);
// Configuration for OAuth client credentials
ClientCredential clientCred = new ClientCredential(
clientId,
cred);
AuthenticationResult authenticationResult =
await authenticationContext.AcquireTokenAsync(ResourceId, clientCred);
var TokenForApplication = authenticationResult.AccessToken;
return TokenForApplication;
}
public async Task<object> Getuser()
{
ActiveDirectoryClient client = GetActiveDirectoryClientAsApplication();
var userLookupTask = client.Users.Where(
user => user.UserPrincipalName.Equals(
"", StringComparison.CurrentCultureIgnoreCase)).ExecuteSingleAsync();
User result =(User) await userLookupTask;
return result;
}
public async Task Adduser() {
ActiveDirectoryClient client = GetActiveDirectoryClientAsApplication();
var newUser = new User()
{
// Required settings
DisplayName = "",
UserPrincipalName = "",
PasswordProfile = new PasswordProfile()
{
Password = "H@ckMeNow!",
ForceChangePasswordNextLogin = false
},
MailNickname = "",
AccountEnabled = true,
// Some (not all) optional settings
GivenName = "",
Surname = "",
JobTitle = "",
Department = "",
City = "",
State = "",
Mobile = "",
};
await client.Users.AddUserAsync(newUser);
}
For more details, please refer to https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/aadgraphteam/2014/12/11/announcing-azure-ad-graph-api-client-library-2-0/
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The county magistrate or local magistrate, known by several Chinese names, was the official in charge of the xian ("county"), the lowest level of central government in Imperial and early Republican China. The magistrate was the official who had face-to-face relations with the people and administered all aspects of government on behalf of the emperor.
The emperor appointed magistrates from among those who passed the imperial examinations or had purchased equivalent degrees. Education in the Confucian Classics indoctrinated these officials with a shared ideology that helped to unify the empire, but not with practical training. A magistrate acquired specialized skills only after assuming office. Once in office, the magistrate was caught between the demands of his superiors and the needs and resistance of his often unruly constituents. Promotion depended on the magistrate's ability to maintain peace and lawful order as he supervised tax collection, roads, water control, and the census; handled legal functions as both prosecutor and judge; arranged relief for the poor or afflicted; carried out rituals; encouraged education and schools; and performed any further task the emperor chose to assign. Allowed to serve in any one place for only three years, he was also at the mercy of the local elites for knowledge of the local scene. There was a temptation to postpone difficult problems to the succeeding magistrate's term or to push them into a neighboring magistrate's jurisdiction. The Yongzheng emperor praised the magistrate: "The integrity of one man involves the peace or unhappiness of a myriad." But a recent historian said of the magistrate that "if he had possessed the qualifications for carrying out all his duties, he would have been a genius. Instead, he was an all-around blunderer, a harassed Jack-of-all trades...."
The Republic of China made extensive reforms in county government, but the position of magistrate was retained. Under the People's Republic of China, the office of county magistrate, sometimes translated as "mayor", was no longer the lowest level of the central government, which extended its control directly to the village level.
Names
From the Qin until the end of the Tang dynasty in the 8th century, the chief magistrate of a county was known as a xiànlìng (). In subsequent dynasties, he was called a zhīxiàn (). In 1928, the title was changed to xiànzhǎng (). Because he was expected to rule in a disciplined but caring way and because the people were expected to obey, the county magistrate were informally known as the "mother-and-father" or "parental official" ().
History and changing functions
The county (xian) was established as the basic unit of local government around the year 690 B.C.E., during the Warring States period marked by competition between small-scale states. The Qin empire unified much of China in 221 BCE. and established the jun-xian ("commandery"/"county") system, which divided the realm into jun ("commanderies") and xian ("counties"). Local administrators appointed by the central government replaced the leaders of feudal cities. In spite of many changes, the xian remained the basic unit of local government until the 20th century.
Before the Qin unification in 221 BCE, local officials inherited office, which strengthened great families against the central government. After that unification, no official except the emperor was allowed to inherit or bequeath office. The control of local government then became a contest between the central bureaucracy, which represented the interests of the emperor, and local nobility and elites. Imperial power undercut the local aristocracy by appointing scholar officials chosen by merit through the examination system who were not necessarily of noble descent. The Han dynasty regularized the position, and initiated the "rule of avoidance", which forbade a magistrate to serve in his home county because of the danger of nepotism and favoritism to family or friends.
After the Sui dynasty in the sixth century, the rule of avoidance was strictly enforced; in later dynasties a magistrate could serve only up to four years in any one place before being transferred.
The magistrate was supervised by the prefect (zhifu) or the equivalent, who in turn was ordinarily under the circuit intendant (dao), or perhaps a circuit intendant with such special responsibilities as waterworks, grain, or salt. Above them were the provincial administrators and the governor. Above all of these, of course, was the central government and the emperor. Each of these layers could issue orders to the local magistrate and each required reports and memorials from him.
The county magistrate supervised units of control below the county level. These included village elders, local institutions, and self-rule organizations, especially the township (xiang), which had been made formal under the Han dynasty, and the baojia system, a system of mutual responsibility formally organized by Wang Anshi in the 11th century, during the Song dynasty. Under Mongol rule in the Yuan dynasty, the county magistrates were all Mongol, though their subordinates were Han Chinese. In the Ming and Qing dynasties the growth of the economy and increase in population led magistrates to hire administrative secretaries and to rely on local elite families, or scholar-gentry. These local elites had friends whose influence could counteract the magistrate if he displeased them.
When the People's Republic was founded in 1949, the central government once again appointed local officials who wielded civil, criminal, and bureaucratic power. Some suggest that workers and villagers feel they cannot question the authority of these "father and mother" officials, making corruption easier and dissent harder.
Responsibilities and powers
The magistrate's responsibilities were broad but not clearly defined. The emperors believed that Heaven entrusted their government with relations with the physical universe, cosmic morality, human institutions, and social harmony, and the magistrate was his representative in all these matters.
Yet the magistrate's power was circumscribed, as reflected in the saying "Heaven is high and the emperor far away." The county government bureaucracy was thin in relation to the population, and the official staff of a larger county might consist only of a magistrate, a vice-magistrate, perhaps an assistant magistrate or recorder, and the captain of the militia. As early as the 12th century this small group was expected to supervise a population that could easily be 150,000 in the more densely populated sections of the country. In later dynasties, magistrates took on larger staffs. In the counties of the prosperous Lower Yangzi valley, the total staff of clerks, secretaries, yamen runners, medical examiners, jailers, and other such lesser employees might be some 500 people for a population of 100,000 to 200,000. The eminent historian Kung-chuan Hsiao, however, argued that local government became more despotic and the county magistrate had unlimited powers to control the people.
Tax collection and labor
The county government collected the land tax, grain tribute, and all other taxes except the customs duties and likin, which were introduced in the 19th century. The provincial treasurer prepared the quotas for the land and labor services tax due from each county according to the number of ding (male adults), as well as other taxes, and in theory adjusted the rates every ten years. The magistrate also had responsibility for local infrastructure and communications. Each village was required to contribute free labor, or the corvee, for building and maintaining local roads, canals, and dams under the supervision of the county government.
Taxes on the land were collected in silver, which was brought to the magistrate's court, where it was counted and recorded in his presence. He was allowed to keep a specified amount for local functions such as salaries, stipends for government school students, and relief for the poor, then forward the rest to the provincial treasurer. In later dynasties, the money assigned for local functions was too little, and magistrates imposed further fees and taxes, such as title deed taxes, brokerage tax, pawnshop tax, and many more.
Law and judicial functions
After tax collection, law enforcement and legal disputes occupied the most of the magistrate's time and energy. Social harmony was paramount. The annual review for promotion graded the magistrate on his ability to catch thieves and prosecute robberies. One demerit was given for every five cases in which he arrested fewer than half the offenders and one merit for every five cases in which he arrested more than half.
The magistrate lived, worked, and held court in the yamen, a walled compound which housed the local government. In theory, any commoner could submit a lawsuit, petition, or complaint after striking a large bell at the entrance to the compound. The magistrate administered both judicial and administrative law. Scholars in the West once felt that the magistrate did not often become involved in civil disputes and that citizens were reluctant to bring them to the local courts, but research has shown that in fact local society was extremely litigious and that the local government was involved in all types of disputes.
Legal systems in some parts of the world distinguish civil, criminal, and administrative law, but under the Chinese legal system, the magistrate administered both judicial and administrative law. The magistrate was not allowed arbitrary decisions or to rely on local customary law but was constrained both by imperial edicts, which had the force of law, and the law codes. These dynastic law codes, such as the Tang Code or the Great Qing Code, included both civil law and criminal law. Cases ranged from murder and theft to accusations that a neighbor did not tie his horse or dog or that someone had been kicked or bitten. Litigants also went to the magistrate with disputes over marriage, adoption, inheritance, and land, and these often had consequences for country revenue or taxes and tax collection. The Codes described offenses in detail, but the magistrate was also allowed to make an analogy to an existing provision of the code by using the rule: "Everyone who does that which ought not to be done will receive forty strokes of the light bamboo. If the matter is adjudged to more serious, he will be punished by eighty strokes with the heavy bamboo." Death sentences under the Qing were reviewed by the emperor, and serious cases of any nature could be appealed or reviewed, sometimes even to the emperor himself.
The magistrate, as in the inquisitorial system of continental European law, was both prosecutor and judge. He decided which cases to accept, directed the gathering of evidence and witnesses, then conducted the trial, including the use of torture. The magistrate was the sole judge of guilt or innocence and determined the punishment or compensation. Still, his decisions could be reviewed by higher officials, even up to the emperor in capital cases. Since he could be reprimanded for not investigating thoroughly, for not following correct procedure, or even for writing the wrong character, magistrates in later dynasties hired specialized clerks or secretaries who had expertise in the law and bureaucratic requirements.
Yet law was not simply a matter of codes and procedures. Law was understood to reflect the moral universe, and a criminal or civil offense would throw that universe out of balance in a way that only just punishment could restore. The official Five Punishments (wu xing) prescribed under the Qing Code included beating with the light bamboo, beating with the heavy bamboo, penal servitude, exile, and execution. In calibrating punishment, the magistrate had to take into account not only the nature of the offense but the relation between the guilty party and the victim. An offense by a son against a father was far more serious than one by a father against a son, likewise an offense by a wife or other member of the family.
The magistrate's role in practice faced many other constraints. The runners and yamen officials who were sent to investigate a crime were locals, often in league with the criminals. Magistrates commonly would therefore set a deadline for bringing in the criminals, threatening to take the policeman's family members as hostage if the deadline was not met. When the accused was brought before him, the magistrate could use torture, such as flogging or making the defendant kneel on an iron chain, but there were clear restrictions. The instruments had to be of a standard size and individually approved by the next higher yamen, and some could not be used on women or people over the age of seventy. The magistrate could order the use of the ankle-squeezer, for instance, only in cases of murder and robbery, and its use had to be specifically reported to the higher level. Some officials avoided the use of torture because they feared that it would produce false confessions. The magistrate had to make sure that any confession was recorded accurately, word for word, to prevent the clerk from introducing intentional errors that might prejudice the case. The magistrate himself could be punished if he invoked the wrong law or imposed a sentence that was either too harsh or too lenient.
Schools and moral leadership
The magistrate oversaw and supported but did not administer education. Primary schools were established by families, temples, villages, or clans and were entirely private in their organization and finance. But the curriculum was almost entirely based on the Confucian texts needed to pass the imperial exams. The magistrate under the Qing dynasty conducted the reading of the Sacred Edict and conducted ceremonies and rituals, especially in time of drought, famine, or disaster.
Clerks and secretaries
The magistrate's wide-ranging duties in dealing with larger and larger populations required the help of secretaries, clerks, prison guards, and runners, but there was no budget to pay for this staff. Instead, the magistrate paid his secretaries from his own pocket, which he was expected to refill from local sources, and the other staff were expected to collect fees from those who were unlucky enough to come in contact with them. These fees might be arbitrary and extortionate, and in later dynasties corruption was widespread.
Changes in late imperial China
Local government in the Ming and Qing dynasties accumulated responsibilities without increased resources. As the population grew, the number of counties remained roughly the same, with populations that could grow to perhaps 200,000. Ming rulers tightened the rule of avoidance which prevented magistrates from serving in their home districts, where it was justifiably feared that they would favor their friends and families, and the term of office was generally limited to two or three years. These rules ran the danger of posting magistrates to unfamiliar areas where they could not speak the local dialect and could not accumulate knowledge of local circumstances. The Qing government continued the Ming practice of requiring the magistrate to pay his subordinates from local taxes, not central government revenue; clerks, runners, jailers and such collected "informal fees" from the people. Confucian ideals also held that the state should stay out of the lives of the common people, who were to carry out public security functions on their own. The village head was responsible for tax collection, and the magistrate held him personally responsible for any shortfall.
Under the Qing dynasty (1644–1911), the last dynasty of imperial rule, local government became even more tightly stretched as population and wealth grew but government administrative institutions – and tax revenue – did not. The magistrate was in a difficult situation. His salary had not risen with the long-term inflation. In the 1720s the Yongzheng Emperor allowed the magistrate to deduct "meltage fees" from the land tax he was required to remit, but this did not address the structural problem. The unintended result was that by the early 19th century, major functions of local government had been abandoned by harried and underpaid magistrates and left to the gentry, who mediated disputes, supervised schools and irrigation works, organized local militia, and even collected taxes. Although magistrates were grateful to have this help, the local gentry often used these functions to reward themselves and punish their enemies.
Magistrates in the Qing, however, also became more professional in several respects. They studied administration as a craft rather than something which a cultivated Confucian scholar-bureaucrat was expected to perform on the basis of moral training and knowledge of the Confucian classics. Since the emperor, in order to reward loyalty, increased the quota of those who were allowed to pass the exams without increasing the number of positions, there came to be more degree holders than there were entry level appointments. Many of these unassigned men took positions as secretaries or clerks to county magistrates, forming a virtual sub-profession of experts on various aspects of the law, water-works, taxation, or administration. Others, especially those who held only lower degrees, became tutors or local school teachers with little prestige or adequate income.
Twentieth century and Republican China
The late Qing reforms of the early 20th century made basic changes. With the abolition of the centrally administered examination system, magistrates came to be selected by a local or ad hoc examinations, at least in theory, though recommendation and personal relations were more important in practice. The law of avoidance remained in effect, though it too was no longer enforced rigorously, and the political chaos of the period was reflected in rapid turnover and shorter terms of office. One study found that most magistrates were appointed by the militarists who controlled the area. In the years leading up to the founding of the Nationalist government in 1928, however, there was a noticeable improvement in the education and technical training of the magistrates, particularly in law and administration. The study also concluded that the civilian bureaucracy became more and more militarized.
The County Organic Law, passed by the Nationalist government in 1928, defined the county as the basic level of government, and stipulated that the county magistrate, now called xianzhang, would be appointed by the provincial authorities. The county was supervised also by the Nationalist Party, which operated in parallel with the county government, an arrangement in accordance with the Party's Leninist structure. In addition, the new government organized a larger bureaucracy at the local level.
During the Chinese Civil War, which lasted for several decades starting in 1927, the Communist Party of China built a bureaucratic base in many parts of China using the Soviet Union as a model. After the civil war ended, the ROC retained the magistrate on Taiwan. They became the heads of the county after the central government streamlined all provinces which effectively downsized to non-self-governing bodies in 1998, and in 2019 all provincial governmental organs were formally abolished.
The People's Republic of China
After the Chinese Communist Revolution of 1949, local government took far more control of village life than had ever been possible in Chinese history, but local officials still faced many of the same problems as county magistrates under the empire. One foreign scholar wrote from his observations in 2015 that "grass-roots level civil servants are still seen as paternalistic 'father mother officials,' who are expected to take care of the ordinary people, enjoy a high degree of authority, but at the same time an equally high degree of mistrust."
The magistrate in popular culture and literature
The magistrate was the hero in much popular fiction. The "detective story," for instance, in China took the form of the gong'an, or "court case," in which the protagonist is not a private detective or police officer but the county magistrate, who is investigator, prosecutor, and judge. The magistrate solves a crime which has already been described to the reader, so that the suspense does not come not from discovering the criminal but from seeing how the magistrate solves the crime through clever stratagems. Among these magistrate-detectives were the historical Tang dynasty official Di Renjie, who inspired a series of Judge Dee stories, and the Song dynasty official, Bao Zheng the hero of a set of stories and operas.
Since Chinese popular religion considered the world of life after death to closely resemble this one, the gods were part of a great bureaucracy which had the same structure as the imperial bureaucracy. The process of justice was pictured as being much the same in both worlds. The Magistrates of Hell presided over a court in much the way that the county magistrate did and their offices closely resembled the earthly ones.
The short story "Execution of Mayor Yin" by Chen Ruoxi (in which "xianzhang" is translated as "Mayor") describes the career of Mayor Yin from the early 1950s through the Cultural Revolution and dramatizes the dilemma of an official who is caught between the necessity of serving both his superiors and his constituents.
See also
County (China) and Attached county, the level of administration overseen by these officials
History of the administrative divisions of China
History of the administrative divisions of China before 1912
History of the administrative divisions of China (1912–1949) (Republic of China on the mainland)
History of the administrative divisions of China (1949–present) (People's Republic of China)
History of administrative divisions of Taiwan (1945–present) (Republic of China on Taiwan)
Notes
References
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Further reading
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. Still a useful overview.
. An annotated translation of the most popular of the magistrate's handbooks.
A leading scholar's imaginative reconstruction of a magistrate's career in the Han dynasty.
Government of Imperial China
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Taiwan donates compactor trucks to CITCO
The Belize City Council received a donation of three compactor garbage trucks courtesy of the Taiwanese government. The donation was presented to Mayor Darrell Bradley by new Taiwanese Ambassador to Belize, H.E. Benjamin Ho on Wednesday, August 6.
The donation comes after almost a year since the Mayor of Belize City and Councilor Eric Chang visited Taiwan and the Taiwanese government asked them in what areas they could be of assistance. Sanitation was one area identified and Taiwan offered to donate three trucks. It has been a year since and it is just now that the trucks were able to be shipped to Belize since the cost of shipping was some 30 thousand Belize dollars per truck and the finances could not be identified by the council. It was then that fundraising was done in Taiwan and the funds were able to be secured and finally the shipment was possible.
According to Ambassador Ho, the donation has allowed Taiwan to assist Belize at the Central Government Level, Local Government Level and even the grassroots level. The donation of a compactor truck is not the first to Belize as earlier on they have donated a similar truck and fire engine to the Corozal Free Zone. Ambassador Ho explained that this type of assistance is in keeping with good "across the board relations" in Belize.
In addressing the gathering during the ceremonies, Mayor Darrell Bradley cited that this is not the only donation by Taiwan to Belize City, he noted that in the past it has donated traffic lights, induction lights and more recently is assisting with the urban redevelopment of the downtown area, in particular the House of Culture and the Commercial Center.
According to Mayor Bradley, the trucks will be put to use as early as next week to augment the garbage collection capabilities of the council. | {'redpajama_set_name': 'RedPajamaCommonCrawl'} | 317 |
Q: Prove $\langle x \rangle + \cap P_i = \cap (\langle x \rangle + P_i)$ for monomials ideals. I'm trying to follow the proof of this fact on this book on Gröbner basis. At one point of the proof they use this equality that I do not fully understad. I wonder if it is evident:
Given prime monomial ideals $P_i$ (which are generated by sets of
variables) in $K[X_1,\ldots,X_n]$ and another variable $x$ (that may
or not be a generator in some ideals $P_i$) then I would need to show
that $\langle x \rangle + \cap P_i = \cap (\langle x \rangle + P_i)$
where intersections are finite.
The inclusion $\subseteq$ is clear. For the other one I'm having more problems. The intuition is that each $\cap P_i$ is computed by taking $lcm(X_i,X_j) = X_iX_j$ and therefore consists of monomials. Can you help me to prove the other inclusion?
A: In general, if $J$ is a monomial ideal and $(I_i)_i$ is a family of monomial ideals of $K[x_1,\ldots,x_n]$ then
$$ \bigcap_{i} (J+I_i) = J + \bigcap_i I_i.$$
This is easy to prove. The inclusion $\supseteq$ is clear. Conversely, let $u\in \bigcap_{i} (J+I_i)$ be a monomial. If $u\in J$ then there is nothing to prove. If $u\notin J$, since $u\in J+I_i$, then $u\in I_i$. Hence $u\in \bigcap_i I_i$.
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Photography represents for me a highly creative, never-ending mind game, where novelties are created under flexible rules and flexible objectives. Success or failure within that context is less important than the process itself. On the whole, I consider art making an expression of self-definition, self-fulfillment and freedom to play.
Although creation is a process in flux, the core drivers of my work are the 'anticipation of a discovery' and the 'need for experimental versioning'. Through an urge for discovery, I have adopted modes of working from that of a flâneur to that of a precautions retoucheur, doing everything in postproduction. 'Experimental versioning' is indeed one of the reasons I became an artist. Within this realm, I am allowed to create art, pose peaceful objections to ideas, master narratives, vernacular iconography and position myself in the spatiotemporal coincidence of the here, the now, the future and the everlasting.
I currently work in digital, however the traditions of fine art b/w and color analog photography still inform my practice. My portfolios Seafront Views, Specimens of American Suburbia No Place Architecture, Unmanned and Inanimate and World of Immaterial Objects, I favor finding my subjects in the immediate environment, as opposed to constructing a reality in the studio. Residing in different countries and taking pleasure from wandering suburban areas are the reasons for developing a strong 'sense of place' and for questioning it though my creative processes. In Specimens of American Suburbia, which delves with Place Identity and Photographic Representation, I focus on suburban places and architectural structures, which I encounter by accident. As a matter of fact, I never plan, or hardly ever go back to the same place for a retake.
While shooting in Greece, the US, the UAE, France, or elsewhere, I leave out information that can reveal the place's origin. I intend to show that these areas can exist 'anywhere and nowhere'. Under this condition, their identity becomes fluid, as they are no longer attached to a map, but inhabit a non-geographically designated place. An 'anonymous' place designated by the use of the medium, in the context of post- New Topographics landscape photography. The aggregation of multiple out-of-context places, however, in a portfolio elevates this anywhere/nowhere approach into 'somewhere'. This 'somewhere' is neither urban or suburban nor real or unreal. It is a place, where skies are always blue, where one can find many colorful architectural curiosities. These, in turn, hail the viewer to visually and mentally interact with the work and alter the places into what I like to call 'adversely possessed hyp-urbias'.
There are no people appearing in them, but somehow they do through the traces they leave behind. To push the envelope further on this, by not capturing people I don't mean to create a deadpan view of the world. On the contrary, I intensify human presence, as people subliminally appear not only through remnant material objects, but also through the coincidence of my encounter with this or that place, my will-to-create a version of what I saw, the place itself, and the historical context about the place.
I continue capturing dystopian landscapes; that is ambivalent in terms of place identity and photographic representation. I am looking to elaborate on the notions of photography and place identity by tracing their relation to current western trends of artistic iconography, human geography, psychology, and architecture.
Pingyao 2019
by Lefteyer
Happiness & Efforts
A gathering of master photographers and shutterbugs, the 2019 Pingyao International Photography Festival (PIP) kicked off Thursday in north China's ancient town.
The one-week festival, in its 19th edition, will draw more than 4,000 photographers from 31 countries and regions to Pingyao, which is one of China's best-preserved ancient cities and was inscribed on the UNESCO World Heritage List in 1997.
The one-week festival, in its 19th edition, will draw more than 4,000 photographers from 31 countries and regions to Pingyao, which is one of China's best-preserved ancient cities and was inscribed on the UNESCO World Heritage List in 1997. Because this year is the 180th anniversary of the invention of photography, the event will explore the craft's history and its future development.
Zhang Guotian, artistic director of the festival, noted at the press conference in August that this year marks the 180th anniversary of the invention of photography, and it makes the event more special as photographers around the globe will meet in Pingyao to recall the history of photography and explore its future development. | {'redpajama_set_name': 'RedPajamaCommonCrawl'} | 319 |
THE WHITE TREES RUSHED BACK TO PRINT IN ORDER TO KEEP UP WITH DEMAND
Image Comics is pleased to announce that The White Trees #1 by critically-acclaimed Daredevil writer Chip Zdarsky and Runawaysartists Kris Anka and Matt Wilson will be rushed back to print in order to keep up with increasing customer demand. This second printing features a new cover with artwork by Zdarsky.
In the fantastical world of Blacksand, peace was hard-won, and three unbending warriors carry the scars to prove it. Now, almost twenty years later, their children are missing and war is on the horizon. Can they put aside their memories of the war—and each other—for one last adventure?
The series is comprised of two issues which will tell a complete story. The White Trees #1, second printing (Diamond Code JUL198362) and The White Trees #2(Diamond Code JUL190173) will both be available on Wednesday, September 25.
ABOUT IMAGE COMICS
Image Comics is a comic book and graphic novel publisher founded in 1992 by a collective of bestselling artists. Image has since gone on to become one of the largest comics publishers in the United States. Image currently has six individuals on the Board of Directors: Robert Kirkman, Erik Larsen, Todd McFarlane, Marc Silvestri, Jim Valentino, and Eric Stephenson. It consists of five major houses: Todd McFarlane Productions, Top Cow Productions, Shadowline Comics, Skybound Entertainment, and Image Central. Image publishes comics and graphic novels in nearly every genre, sub-genre, and style imaginable. It offers science fiction, fantasy, romance, horror, crime fiction, historical fiction, humor and more by the finest artists and writers working in the medium today. For more information, visit www.imagecomics.com.
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An elk gets a drink from a BLM watering hole.
A hunter stumbled upon a bizarre sight on a 75,000-acre ranch north of Las Vegas, N.M., on Aug. 27: the remains of more than 100 dead elk. Livestock deaths are not unusual, but so many animals dying off, and doing so in what seems to be under 24 hours, was puzzling to scientists.
Officials with the New Mexico Department of Game and Fish investigated the mysterious elk deaths and ruled out several possible causes for the elk deaths, including poachers, anthrax, lightning strikes, epizootic hemorrhagic disease (an often-fatal virus known to affect deer and other ruminants), botulism, poisonous plants, malicious poisoning and even some sort of industrial or agricultural accident.
"We couldn't find anything [toxic] in their stomachs and no toxic plants on the landscape," said Kerry Mower, a wildlife disease specialist with New Mexico Department of Game and Fish, as quoted by the Santa Fe New Mexican newspaper.
As news spread, some conspiracy-minded folk soon speculated about links to animal mutilations, UFOs or even the dreaded Hispanic vampire el chupacabra.
Benjamin Radford, M. Ed., is deputy editor of "Skeptical Inquirer" science magazine and author of six books including "Scientific Paranormal Investigation: How to Solve Unexplained Mysteries." His Web site is www.BenjaminRadford.com. | {'redpajama_set_name': 'RedPajamaC4'} | 321 |
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October 15, 2014 | Business & Finance
Nigeria: USAID, GuarantCo, Standard Chartered Inject Fresh $90m Into Power Sector
Source: thewillnigeria.com
A loan from Standard Chartered Bank, supported by a partial credit co-guarantee from both USAID's Development Credit Authority and GuarantCo, will provide Nigeria's Zenith Bank $90 million in new capital earmarked for on-lending to the recently privatized distribution and generation companies. The funding will provide much-needed liquidity to the sector and support capital expenditures required by these companies to stem losses and generate revenue.
'This transaction exemplifies the strengths of the Power Africa model, engaging with our development partners and private sector actors to advance meaningful power projects at scale,' said USAID Administrator Rajiv Shah. 'With this support, businesses and individuals will eventually have greater access to power, boosting opportunities for Nigerians and others across Sub-Saharan Africa.'
This facility is expected to contribute to the sustainability of the power sector in Nigeria while creating local jobs in the assembly and installation of power equipment such as meters and switches, and in the installation of equipment in local businesses and homes. Nigeria privatized its power generation and distribution companies in 2013. This project directly addresses the capital needs of those companies while complementing ongoing efforts by the Government of Nigeria to support the sector.
'Reliable access to power is an absolute pre-condition to economic progress and inclusive growth, which unfortunately is not available in Nigeria and many parts of Africa today,' said Peter Sands, Group Chief Executive of Standard Chartered Bank.
'This agreement illustrates how the right partnerships and financing models can address the problem of power distribution in Nigeria. It also demonstrates our commitment to Power Africa, a catalyst that galvanizes partnerships and facilitates the delivery of efficient electricity in Sub-Saharan Africa.'
'GuarantCo is delighted to partner with USAID to co-guarantee this transaction, which we believe will provide a template for how to crowd-in the private sector to enable financing of critical infrastructure in developing countries,' said Dianne Rudo, member of GuarantCo's Board of Directors.
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Q: Search or filter a column in jquery datatable using multi select dropdown with checkbox I am trying to filter or search a column in jquery datatable using multiselect checkbox drop down. Suppose for example if it is a city column, the table should filter or search if I check two cites as per checkbox drop down and display the result for the checked cites in drop down. I tried lot of ways to find solution but, i couldn't crack it upto now. if anyone can help in solving this it is greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance. I am just putting jquery code below for your reference.
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A: You can achieve that with the Search API
It allows you to build a regular expression and then filter the desired column:
$('#table').DataTable().column(col).search(regex, true, true).draw();
I've coded a complete example for future reference:
JSFIDDLE
A: If you use angularjs, you can try Smart table, it's super easy to use!:
<st-select-multiple collection="collection" predicate="education"></st-select-multiple>
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North Texas SC Signs Eduardo "Pollo" Cortes
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Cortes is a former FC Dallas goalkeeper
FRISCO – North Texas Soccer Club has signed former FC Dallas goalkeeper Eduardo "Pollo" Cortes to a one-season contract, pending league and U.S. Soccer Federation approval.
Cortes, 25, played three years at the FC Dallas Academy beginning in 2009 before heading to Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis. He played four seasons for the Jaguars, making 61 appearances and 354 saves. Cortes also had stints with USL's St. Louis FC in 2016 and Indy Eleven of the North American Soccer League.
Cortes signed for FC Dallas in 2017 to become the club's 20th Academy product to sign a professional contract, although he did not make any first team appearances. Cortes trained with North Texas SC in preseason and most recently played for Fort Worth Vaqueros of the National Premier Soccer League.
Transaction: North Texas SC signs goalkeeper Eduardo Cortes to a one-season contract on June 20, 2019
Name: Eduardo "Pollo" Cortes
Pronunciation: Poy-oh
Position: Goalkeeper
Date of Birth: August 31, 1993
Hometown: Dallas, TX
Last Club: Fort Worth Vaqueros
How Acquired: Signed on June 20, 2019.
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The water management production of NORMA Group, an international market leader in advanced joining technology, is at the present not affected by the extensive shutdown of companies in California as a result of the corona pandemic. NDS, a US subsidiary of NORMA Group, has been classified as part of the critical infrastructure in the area of "water and sanitation" in accordance with the criteria of the federal authority Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency. Production therefore continues accordingly at the Fresno and Lindsay plants. The company is taking all measures necessary to protect the health of its employees and to ensure their safety.
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Home Avalanche50 Blog Typical week in the life of Mitch Ryder's great band, Detroit
Typical week in the life of Mitch Ryder's great band, Detroit
Jun 18, 2014Avalanche50 Blog
Johnny Bee was among the best of the older subjects I interviewed for Detroit Rock City. Once he started telling stories, he didn't seem to be able to stop, which is why he was included in quite a bit of the book. You can't deny his greatness and his experience.
I decided to focus on the band Detroit because it represented Ryder's last big chance to make it big. He made a great album and no one seemed to notice.
When I was interviewing Ray Goodman, who played with Mitch for a while, he mentioned he had some outtakes from the Detroit album sessions and we went into the control room of Goodman's home studio. Sure enough, there were versions of songs with Johnny Bee singing, demos, and some covers I'd never heard, including a Sly and the Family Stone tune. I mentioned that it would be great to see that stuff released as a deluxe reissue double lp and connected Goodman up with Bob Ezrin, who produced the album. Maybe someone will have the good sense to organize that some day.
Johnny Badanjek, drummer Mitch Ryder, on Detroit (the band):
We played everywhere, anywhere, all the time. One summer, we played two sets on a Friday night in Detroit and we stayed up all night then headed to Carbondale, Illinois. Go to the hotel, a Howard Johnson's. They put us in back where the pool is and no one can see us. After Carbondale, we drive to St. Louis, play, go to another Howard Johnson's to finally sleep, then catch a 7 a.m. flight to go to Washington DC to play the May Day rally with the Beach Boys. There's like 200,000 people there. We play and Steve Hunter wears his Army uniform. Not a great idea for the time. We play and leave, we're going back to National Airport and the Army comes in and starts giving everyone shit, it got real violent. But we're out of there. We got back to the airport and flew back to St. Louis and drove two more hours back to Carbondale, Illinois, and played two more sets without any sleep. We haven't gone to bed yet since before the May Day show. Then we went back to the hotel with 15 girls and everybody got naked and was using the sauna and swimming. This was how we were living. We had real bikers hanging around us all the time, you know, bikers love Mitch. They all wanted to hear "Devil With a Blue Dress On." We were also playing a lot of Hell's Angels parties and all the outlaw clubs. We'd play and they'd all be fighting. It was like a crazy wedding party or something. We'd play for an hour and a half and we'd take a break and the whole place would break out in a riot. The guy in charge would go, "Play! Get up there and play! Maybe they'll stop." The Outlaws, the Vigilantes, all these biker gangs, they'd have us in to play their parties.
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Kevin Dingle June 19, 2014 at 6:28 pm
was at the May Day rally in DC, saw them play there
MichaelJA June 20, 2014 at 1:04 am
I seem to remember one time while I was in maybe junior high and the afternoon talk shows like Mike Douglas were always on since my folks worked nights. One time, I was grounded from the tv & going outside etc. and my fathers calling me to come out and check out whats on tv, I think if my memory stands Detroit, I think when I came out either Long Neck Goose or maybe Devil With A blue Dress was playing, my memory might be really wrong but I came away from remembering Mitch Ryder's name and the powerful band that backed him.
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Artificial intelligence (AI) is considered as the next natural progression of traditional statistical techniques. Advances in analytical methods and infrastructure enable AI to be applied in health care. While AI applications are relatively common in fields like ophthalmology and cardiology, its use is scarcely reported in nephrology. We present the current status of AI in research toward kidney disease and discuss future pathways for AI. The clinical applications of AI in progression to end‐stage kidney disease and dialysis can be broadly subdivided into three main topics: (a) predicting events in the future such as mortality and hospitalization; (b) providing treatment and decision aids such as automating drug prescription; and (c) identifying patterns such as phenotypical clusters and arteriovenous fistula aneurysm. At present, the use of prediction models in treating patients with kidney disease is still in its infancy and further evidence is needed to identify its relative value. Policies and regulations need to be addressed before implementing AI solutions at the point of care in clinics. AI is not anticipated to replace the nephrologists' medical decision‐making, but instead assist them in providing optimal personalized care for their patients.
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The Australasian Catalogue Awards is held annually and the competition focuses on printed catalogues with awards going to 24 different categories. Into its 25th year, the competition is getting bigger and bigger by the year. With submissions from all design agencies (both international and local), plus inhouse design studios. Stimulus was slotted into the Megalogues Section – Industry Buying Guide and was pitted against Myer Season Of No Regrets 2016 Catalogue by Clemenger BBDO and Myer Emporium Catalogue by The Bauer Group and the Seton Australia Catalogues. | {'redpajama_set_name': 'RedPajamaC4'} | 335 |
Justia Regulation Tracker Department Of Commerce Foreign-trade Zones Board Foreign-Trade Zone (FTZ) 47-Boone County, Kentucky; Notification of Proposed Production Activity; BWF America, Inc. (Textile/Felt Filter Bags and Other Filter Products for Industrial Use), Hebron, Kentucky, 12194-12195 [2019-06215]
Foreign-Trade Zone (FTZ) 47-Boone County, Kentucky; Notification of Proposed Production Activity; BWF America, Inc. (Textile/Felt Filter Bags and Other Filter Products for Industrial Use), Hebron, Kentucky, 12194-12195 [2019-06215]
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Persons interested in the work of this Committee are directed to the Commission's website, https:// www.usccr.gov, or may contact the Regional Programs Unit at the above email or street address. Agenda I. Welcome and Rollcall II. Discussion III. Next Steps IV. Public Comment V. Adjournment Exceptional Circumstance: Pursuant to 41 CFR 102–3.150, the notice for this meeting is given less than 15 calendar days prior to the meeting because of the exceptional circumstance of staffing limitations that require immediate action. Dated: March 26, 2019. David Mussatt, Supervisory Chief, Regional Programs Unit. [FR Doc. 2019–06197 Filed 3–29–19; 8:45 am] BILLING CODE P DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE Foreign-Trade Zones Board [B–18–2019] Foreign-Trade Zone (FTZ) 47—Boone County, Kentucky; Notification of Proposed Production Activity; BWF America, Inc. (Textile/Felt Filter Bags and Other Filter Products for Industrial Use), Hebron, Kentucky The Greater Cincinnati Foreign Trade Zone, Inc., grantee of FTZ 47, submitted E:\FR\FM\01APN1.SGM 01APN1 Federal Register / Vol. 84, No. 62 / Monday, April 1, 2019 / Notices a notification of proposed production activity to the FTZ Board on behalf of BWF America, Inc. (BWF), located in Hebron, Kentucky. The notification conforming to the requirements of the regulations of the FTZ Board (15 CFR 400.22) was received on March 21, 2019. The applicant indicates that it will be submitting a separate application for FTZ designation at the BWF facility under FTZ 47. The facility is used for the production of textile/felt filter bags and other filter products for industrial applications. Pursuant to 15 CFR 400.14(b), FTZ activity would be limited to the specific foreign-status materials and components and specific finished products described in the submitted notification (as described below) and subsequently authorized by the FTZ Board. Production under FTZ procedures could exempt BWF from customs duty payments on the foreign-status components used in export production. On its domestic sales, for the foreignstatus materials/components noted below, BWF would be able to choose the duty rate during customs entry procedures that applies to textile/felt industrial filter bags, press filters, drum filters, press covers, filter belts, and filter discs (duty rate 3.8%). BWF would be able to avoid duty on foreign-status components which become scrap/waste. Customs duties also could possibly be deferred or reduced on foreign-status production equipment. The components and materials sourced from abroad include: Hydrated lime with fluorescent pigment tracing powder; plastic laminated film seam tape; textile rollers/rings (polyester fibers needled together and rolled into circular forms); fiberglass rolled goods (woven textile fiberglass with a polytetrafluorethylene (PTFE) membrane film laminated as a top layer on the material); and, stainless steel wire cages (wire frames used in air filtration to support the filtration bags). Foreign-sourced components also include fiberglass thread and rolled felt of polyester, polyphenylene sulfide, aramid, polyimide, PTFE, and acrylic, each of which can have any one or more combinations of the following coatings/ finishes (for the purposes of product performance—primarily heat and speed of emissions)—mechanical: singe, glaze; chemical: bath treatments, Teflon, acrylic, fluorocarbon, silicone; and, lamination: PTFE and PTFE membrane. The duty rates on components/materials range from duty-free to 10.6%. The request indicates that certain materials/ components are subject to special duties under Section 301 of the Trade Act of VerDate Sep<11>2014 17:22 Mar 29, 2019 Jkt 247001 1974 (Section 301), depending on the country of origin. The applicable Section 301 decisions require subject merchandise to be admitted to FTZs in privileged foreign status (19 CFR 146.41). Public comment is invited from interested parties. Submissions shall be addressed to the Board's Executive Secretary at the address below. The closing period for their receipt is May 13, 2019. A copy of the notification will be available for public inspection at the Office of the Executive Secretary, Foreign-Trade Zones Board, Room 21013, U.S. Department of Commerce, 1401 Constitution Avenue NW, Washington, DC 20230–0002, and in the ''Reading Room'' section of the Board's website, which is accessible via www.trade.gov/ftz. For further information, contact Diane Finver at Diane.Finver@trade.gov or (202) 482–1367. Dated: March 25, 2019. Andrew McGilvray, Executive Secretary. [FR Doc. 2019–06215 Filed 3–29–19; 8:45 am] BILLING CODE 3510–DS–P DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE Bureau of Industry and Security Technical Advisory Committees; Notice of Recruitment of Members The Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS), Department of Commerce is announcing its recruitment of candidates to serve on one of its seven Technical Advisory Committees (''TACs'' or ''Committees''). TAC members advise the Department of Commerce on the technical parameters for export controls applicable to dualuse items (commodities, software, and technology) and on the administration of those controls. The TACs are composed of representatives from industry, academia, and the U.S. Government and reflect diverse points of view on the concerns of the exporting community. Industry representatives are selected from firms producing a broad range of items currently controlled for national security, non-proliferation, foreign policy, and short supply reasons or that are proposed for such controls. Representation from the private sector is balanced to the extent possible among large and small firms. Six TACs are responsible for advising the Department of Commerce on the technical parameters for export controls and the administration of those controls within specified areas: Information SUMMARY: PO 00000 Frm 00006 Fmt 4703 Sfmt 4703 12195 Systems TAC: Control List Categories 3 (electronics), 4 (computers), and 5 (telecommunications and information security); Materials TAC: Control List Category 1 (materials, chemicals, microorganisms, and toxins); Materials Processing Equipment TAC: Control List Category 2 (materials processing); Sensors and Instrumentation TAC: Control List Category 6 (sensors and lasers); Transportation and Related Equipment TAC: Control List Categories 7 (navigation and avionics), 8 (marine), and 9 (propulsion systems, space vehicles, and related equipment); and the Emerging Technology TAC (identification of emerging and foundational technologies that may be developed over a period of five to ten years with potential dual-use applications). The seventh TAC, the Regulations and Procedures TAC, focuses on the Export Administration Regulations (EAR) and procedures for implementing the EAR. TAC members are appointed by the Secretary of Commerce and serve terms of not more than four consecutive years. TAC members must obtain secret-level clearances prior to their appointment. These clearances are necessary so that members may be permitted access to classified information that may be needed to formulate recommendations to the Department of Commerce. Applicants are strongly encouraged to review materials and information on each Committee website, including the Committee's charter, to gain an understanding of each Committee's responsibilities, matters on which the Committee will provide recommendations, and expectations for members. Members of any of the seven TACs may not be registered as foreign agents under the Foreign Agents Registration Act. No TAC member may represent a company that is majority owned or controlled by a foreign government entity (or foreign government entities). TAC members will not be compensated for their services or reimbursed for their travel expenses. If you are interested in becoming a TAC member, please provide the following information: 1. Name of applicant; 2. affirmation of U.S. citizenship; 3. organizational affiliation and title, as appropriate; 4. mailing address; 5. work telephone number; 6. email address; 7. summary of qualifications for membership; 8. an affirmative statement that the candidate will be able to meet the expected commitments of Committee work. Committee work includes: (a) Attending in-person/teleconference Committee meetings roughly four times per year (lasting 1–2 days each); (b) undertaking E:\FR\FM\01APN1.SGM 01APN1
Foreign-Trade Zones Board
[Federal Register Volume 84, Number 62 (Monday, April 1, 2019)]
[B-18-2019]
Foreign-Trade Zone (FTZ) 47--Boone County, Kentucky; Notification
of Proposed Production Activity; BWF America, Inc. (Textile/Felt Filter
Bags and Other Filter Products for Industrial Use), Hebron, Kentucky
The Greater Cincinnati Foreign Trade Zone, Inc., grantee of FTZ 47,
a notification of proposed production activity to the FTZ Board on
behalf of BWF America, Inc. (BWF), located in Hebron, Kentucky. The
notification conforming to the requirements of the regulations of the
FTZ Board (15 CFR 400.22) was received on March 21, 2019.
The applicant indicates that it will be submitting a separate
application for FTZ designation at the BWF facility under FTZ 47. The
facility is used for the production of textile/felt filter bags and
other filter products for industrial applications. Pursuant to 15 CFR
400.14(b), FTZ activity would be limited to the specific foreign-status
materials and components and specific finished products described in
the submitted notification (as described below) and subsequently
authorized by the FTZ Board.
Production under FTZ procedures could exempt BWF from customs duty
payments on the foreign-status components used in export production. On
its domestic sales, for the foreign-status materials/components noted
below, BWF would be able to choose the duty rate during customs entry
procedures that applies to textile/felt industrial filter bags, press
filters, drum filters, press covers, filter belts, and filter discs
(duty rate 3.8%). BWF would be able to avoid duty on foreign-status
components which become scrap/waste. Customs duties also could possibly
be deferred or reduced on foreign-status production equipment.
The components and materials sourced from abroad include: Hydrated
lime with fluorescent pigment tracing powder; plastic laminated film
seam tape; textile rollers/rings (polyester fibers needled together and
rolled into circular forms); fiberglass rolled goods (woven textile
fiberglass with a polytetrafluorethylene (PTFE) membrane film laminated
as a top layer on the material); and, stainless steel wire cages (wire
frames used in air filtration to support the filtration bags). Foreign-
sourced components also include fiberglass thread and rolled felt of
polyester, polyphenylene sulfide, aramid, polyimide, PTFE, and acrylic,
each of which can have any one or more combinations of the following
coatings/finishes (for the purposes of product performance--primarily
heat and speed of emissions)--mechanical: singe, glaze; chemical: bath
treatments, Teflon, acrylic, fluorocarbon, silicone; and, lamination:
PTFE and PTFE membrane. The duty rates on components/materials range
from duty-free to 10.6%. The request indicates that certain materials/
components are subject to special duties under Section 301 of the Trade
Act of 1974 (Section 301), depending on the country of origin. The
applicable Section 301 decisions require subject merchandise to be
admitted to FTZs in privileged foreign status (19 CFR 146.41).
Public comment is invited from interested parties. Submissions
shall be addressed to the Board's Executive Secretary at the address
below. The closing period for their receipt is May 13, 2019.
A copy of the notification will be available for public inspection
at the Office of the Executive Secretary, Foreign-Trade Zones Board,
Room 21013, U.S. Department of Commerce, 1401 Constitution Avenue NW,
Washington, DC 20230-0002, and in the ``Reading Room'' section of the
Board's website, which is accessible via www.trade.gov/ftz.
For further information, contact Diane Finver at
[email protected] or (202) 482-1367.
Dated: March 25, 2019.
Andrew McGilvray,
Executive Secretary.
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/**
* The Scene Transition Wake Event.
*
* This event is dispatched by the Target Scene of a transition, only if that Scene was asleep before
* the transition began. If the Scene was not asleep the [TRANSITION_START]{@linkcode Phaser.Scenes.Events#event:TRANSITION_START} event is dispatched instead.
*
* Listen to it from a Scene using `this.events.on('transitionwake', listener)`.
*
* The Scene Transition event flow is as follows:
*
* 1. [TRANSITION_OUT]{@linkcode Phaser.Scenes.Events#event:TRANSITION_OUT} - the Scene that started the transition will emit this event.
* 2. [TRANSITION_INIT]{@linkcode Phaser.Scenes.Events#event:TRANSITION_INIT} - the Target Scene will emit this event if it has an `init` method.
* 3. [TRANSITION_START]{@linkcode Phaser.Scenes.Events#event:TRANSITION_START} - the Target Scene will emit this event after its `create` method is called, OR ...
* 4. [TRANSITION_WAKE]{@linkcode Phaser.Scenes.Events#event:TRANSITION_WAKE} - the Target Scene will emit this event if it was asleep and has been woken-up to be transitioned to.
* 5. [TRANSITION_COMPLETE]{@linkcode Phaser.Scenes.Events#event:TRANSITION_COMPLETE} - the Target Scene will emit this event when the transition finishes.
*
* @event Phaser.Scenes.Events#TRANSITION_WAKE
* @type {string}
* @since 3.5.0
*
* @param {Phaser.Scene} from - A reference to the Scene that is being transitioned from.
* @param {number} duration - The duration of the transition in ms.
*/
module.exports = 'transitionwake';
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Jim Carr has an impressively diverse background including time as an oboist with the Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra (in his teens), Executive Director of the Manitoba Arts Council, journalist, MLA in the Manitoba Legislature, community leader and President of the Business Council of Manitoba. But it is his new job as Member of Parliament for Winnipeg South Centre and Minister of Natural Resources that he says has him most excited. I had the opportunity to sit down with Minister Carr and discuss his first few months on the job, his mandate, and his thoughts on important energy issues facing Canada. Below is a transcript of that interview.
The Honourable Jim Carr, Minister of Natural Resources (right) and Timothy M. Egan, President and CEO, Canadian Gas Association (left).
Egan: You have held the role of Minister of Natural Resources now for about four months. How are you finding it so far?
Minister Carr: It is exhilarating, intense, satisfying, overwhelming in its complexity, breadth and depth, and I feel privileged to be here. Energy and natural resources are at the convergence of some of the most important issues facing our country – indigenous engagement, economic growth, environmental sustainability, – and all at a time when commodity prices are low and people are hurting with significant job losses particularly in Alberta, Saskatchewan, and Newfoundland and Labrador. We have fiscal instruments to help and some have been announced, but we have also been busy positioning Canada for the medium and longer-term. We signed on to Mission Innovation in Paris at COP21 that sees us doubling our investments in R&D. I also had the pleasure of recently hosting in Winnipeg a joint meeting with U.S. Secretary of Energy Ernest Moniz and Mexico's Secretary of Energy, Pedro Joaquín Coldwell. At this meeting we signed another Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) to facilitate further cooperation on innovation and a number of other areas important to all three countries.
Egan: You talked about commodity prices, what do you think the prospects are for Canada's LNG export projects, given low global natural gas prices.
Minister Carr: It is a tough moment. There is an abundant global supply of natural gas and prices are low. Investors are understandably looking very carefully at the short term, but we are confident in the medium and long-term that Canada's export projects will be competitive. Now, we did get export licenses from the Americans for Pieridae Energy Ltd. and Bear Head LNG and that is great news. It is a significant breakthrough that will yield jobs in Atlantic Canada and it is a great signal. We are very happy to have been able to facilitate those.
Egan: Is your sense from the International Community that, markets aside, they want Canadian natural gas as part of the mix?
Minister Carr: Yes, that is what I'm hearing and I believe they do. And we need to get natural gas to their markets. This is why we are working with all stakeholders – industry leaders, environmentalists, and Indigenous leaders. In fact, we recently held three roundtables bringing together a range of stakeholders to understand all perspectives in order to ensure we go about developing and getting our energy to market in the right way.
Egan: Is your sense from your conversations with Indigenous leaders that there is a willingness to move projects forward in the right circumstances?
Minister Carr: There are as many points of view as there are communities. But if you are asking me to generalize on those values that are important to Indigenous communities it is respect for the natural environment, for the water and the air, and it is jobs and opportunity for young people. We all have a lot to learn about both of those things in the context of those communities. The Prime Minister has said that there is no relationship more important than our relationship with First Nations and that view stretches across our government. In fact, it was at the heart of ministerial mandate letters. The Prime Minister also says that it is the principal responsibility of the Government of Canada to move our natural resources to market sustainably. What does sustainably mean? That means with an eye on environmental consequences which is why upstream GHG emissions and meaningful consultation with indigenous communities are now going to be a part of the principles to be assessed when we look at proposed energy projects. I am very optimistic that this is the appropriate way forward. As you know we have elongated the process with both the Energy East and Kinder Morgan pipeline projects to do further consultations. We will be taking lessons learned to make important permanent changes to environmental assessments in Canada and that is when we will want to have very serious conversations with industry leaders and association leaders on what works and what doesn't. My hope is that we can make this process more credible and that we can marginalize the extremes – those who don't want anything built anywhere anytime for any reasons and those who don't want any regulation and just want to build. There are a lot of people in between those perspectives with whom we can have a serious conversation. And that's why we are here.
Egan: You mentioned the conversations you had with U.S. Secretary of Energy Ernest Moniz and Mexico's Secretary of Energy, Pedro Joaquín Coldwell. How did natural gas factor in to those conversations?
Minister Carr: Natural gas is important to both of those countries. In fact, while we were in Houston, the Americans sent a ship load of LNG to Brazil. There is no question that natural gas is considered to be a major future source of energy for the world.
Egan: Was innovation part of the conversation with Secretary Moniz and Secretary Coldwell?
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Egan: What advice would you recommend to the Canadian natural gas industry?
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Home News NEWS Campaigners Jubilant As Dolphin Centre Seems Set To Close
Former Hisarönü dolphins Tom & Misha, pictured during their rehab prior to their release in 2012
Campaigners Jubilant As Dolphin Centre Seems Set To Close
Steve Parsley
Campaigners have been celebrating this week following news that a dolphin therapy centre in the Turkish holiday resort of Marmaris seems set to close.
The controversial operation kept dolphins in enclosures so they could offer therapeutic session to visitors who paid to swim with them.However, following increasing pressure from environmentalists who wanted the animals set free, it's been reported that owners of the land where the centre is currently based have confirmed its contract will not be renewed.
Prominent campaigner Tracey Özdemir used her Facebook page to welcome the decision, although she also warned rehabilitating the dolphins for a return to the wild could take some time.
"This is a very long process that could take two to three years, a lot of hard work, time and a great deal of money, but the end result will be so worth it," she wrote. "I have not stopped crying tears of joy, I keep pinching myself to check that I am not dreaming.
A small group of us will be flying out to call a meeting to discuss the future of the dolphins.
Our fight does not end here; this is the second time campaigners have made this happen in Turkey and we will continue until we have shut down every dolphin park in Turkey and we persuade the Turkish Government to ban dolphin captivity."
Tom and Misha's plight
The news was also welcomed yesterday by Nichola Chapman, who was a member of the Dolphin Angels group which linked up with the Born Free Foundation to lead an international campaign for the release of two dolphins kept in a swimming pool in the holiday resort of Hisarönü, near Fethiye, in 2012.
Tom & Misha's plight made the national press in the UK and was even featured in National Geographic magazine.
"Obviously, it's great news and – if you also count the one in Kaş – this is the third centre to be closed after pressure from campaigners in Turkey," she said.
Nichola Chapman (centre) and other campaigners who fought Tom & Misha's case during the operation to release them back into the wild in 2012
"All of us involved in protesting against facilities like these will be delighted with the news. It sends a clear message that this sort of thing isn't tolerated by modern society any more. Dolphins and other creatures like them belong in the sea not in enclosures."
Nichola added lessons learned from earlier releases recorded in the evaluation report produced by the Born Free Foundation could be applied to help speed up the rehabilitation process for the dolphins in Marmaris.
"However, undoubtedly, there are likely to be considerable costs involved. All those who have supported the campaign are looking forward to hearing more news about how the rehabilitation will be supported and managed."
Born Free Foundation
Dolphin Centre set to close
Tom and Misha
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Mentors Making a Difference
December 6, 2013 by Bradley Mattes
No parent ever wants to hear that their child has been diagnosed with special needs. At that moment, a mother and father are at their most vulnerable. This critical time will inevitably shape the future of their lives. In cases of a prenatal diagnosis, what happens next can mean the difference between life and death.
Unfortunately, in many situations, the medical establishment does a tragic disservice to families by relaying only grim expectations and worst-case scenarios, leaving parents in a state of fear. More disturbing is how some doctors are willing to offer and even push for the abortion of a "less-than-perfect" child. Consider the fact that 67% of pregnancies with a prenatal diagnosis of Down syndrome end in abortion. Countless children's lives are lost without ever realizing their potential. Is there anything that could change these parents' minds and cause them to choose life for their child?
In the case of Melissa Thomason, her son, 11-month-old Welles, was diagnosed with Down syndrome shortly after birth. In an article from The Charlotte Observer she speaks frankly about feeling overwhelmed by uncertainty and admitted if she had received the diagnosis prenatally, "I would have had serious questions about whether I wanted to continue the pregnancy or not." Almost a year later, she has a different perspective, "I can't imagine making a decision where he wouldn't be in my life. There's a misconception that this is going to end your future, end your child's future, end the way you've always envisioned your life was supposed to go."
Now, Melissa is using her life experience to help others in a mentoring program through the National Down Syndrome Society. The program matches parents who have just learned their baby has a Down syndrome diagnosis with an experienced Down syndrome parent. They're able to ask questions about what to expect, the impact it's had on their family and how they coped with the diagnosis. Mentoring cuts through the medical theory and replaces it with the reality of a family who's actually living through the same situation. It gives hope, rather than fear.
Recently, I had the sheer joy of filming a TV episode for Facing Life Head-On that showcases the wonderful work of an organization called GiGi's Playhouse. GiGi's offers families of children with Down syndrome a community of education, support and encouragement, from diagnosis and birth through adulthood. It's truly breaking down barriers and reveals the amazing potential within these special lives. When founder, Nancy Gianni, learned of her daughter GiGi's diagnosis with Down syndrome, she faced negativity from doctors. They didn't give her much hope for her daughter's future. But Nancy was determined to stay positive. In fact, as a result of her efforts, her doctor now credits Nancy and GiGi with changing the way she sees Down syndrome.
Nancy made it her mission to make sure other Down syndrome parents know they're not alone. She shares, the "abortion rate makes our kids disposable and puts fear into parents. It makes it seem like there is no place for them." Nothing could be further from the truth. "It's like an instant family," explained one mother about the relationships at GiGi's. Connecting with other parents is vital. GiGi's Playhouse creates an environment that fosters optimism by witnessing how other families at various stages are developing and thriving.
Megan Pries, mother of five-month-old Parker, has experienced the positive results, "It gives hope. When you walk through the door, it's such a positive place. There's no more hearing what your child can't do." GiGi's works with the children in several key areas including social development, vocational abilities, physical therapy and motor skills, literacy and life skills. It's designed to give the family everything they need to help their child succeed. Megan says that young Parker is already proving the "naysaying" doctors wrong.
When 23-year-old Ashley Jones was born with Down syndrome, medical professionals advised her parents to have her institutionalized. Instead, her parents, Mike and Paula, persevered to give Ashley a normal life. When you meet Ashley, you'll see a smiling and cheerful young lady who enjoys singing and socializing. She attends GiGi's adult program where she's working on her reading skills with the goal of eventually entering into a college program. Her parents' advice to other parents is, "Learn as much as you can. You must become an extremely strong advocate for your child."
Asked what parents need when facing a Down syndrome diagnosis, Natalie Miro, the mother of an active young boy named Joey, expressed it quite well, "Just take a deep breath. Your child will make up for any fears or issues that you're having. Time is definitely something that helped me. I needed a chance to kind of grieve. And that's okay to grieve, process it and then move on."
When parents face a diagnosis, they can feel alone, fearful and inadequate for the task ahead. Overwhelmed, they may think abortion is their only choice. However, given the opportunity, through mentoring, education and support, those misconceptions can be countered and lives can be saved—resulting in a lifetime of joy and love. I fell in love with these kids in just the few hours we were with them. Imagine the happiness the parents experience.
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9 11 Culture Catastrophe And The Critique Of Singularity
Author: Diana Gonçalves
by Diana Gonçalves, 9 11 Culture Catastrophe And The Critique Of Singularity Books available in PDF, EPUB, Mobi Format. Download 9 11 Culture Catastrophe And The Critique Of Singularity books, Departing from 9/11's spectacularity and aesthetical appeal, its eskatastrophic dimension, this book takes up the task of studying 9/11 as a mnemonic singularity, i.e. a catastrophic event that evokes or mimics, albeit in a renewed situation, the structure of past catastrophes. It investigates how 9/11 has been represented/remediated and how it has reintroduced catastrophic thinking into our conceptual framework.
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Author: Geoff King
Publisher: Intellect Books
Category : Performing Arts
by Geoff King, The Spectacle Of The Real Books available in PDF, EPUB, Mobi Format. Download The Spectacle Of The Real books, Hollywood special effects offer spectacular creations or re-creations that make claims to our attention on the grounds of their 'incredible-seeming reality'. They can appear both 'incredible' and 'real', their appeal based on their ability to 'convince'—to appear real in terms such as detail and texture—and on their status as fabricated spectacle, to be admired as such. At a seemingly very different end of the audio-visual media spectrum, 'reality' television offers the spectacle of, supposedly, the 'real' itself, a 'reality' that ranges from the banality of the quotidian to intense interpersonal engagements (two extremes experienced in Big Brother, for example). The two also overlap, however, nowhere more clearly and jarringly than in the ultimate 'spectacle of the real', the destruction of the World Trade Center in New York, live television coverage of which evoked constant comparison with big-screen fictional images.
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Publisher: Walter de Gruyter
by Daniela Agostinho, Panic And Mourning Books available in PDF, EPUB, Mobi Format. Download Panic And Mourning books, 'Panic' and 'mourning' are two pivotal constructs that often emerge and interplay under circumstances of conflict, violence, crisis, and catastrophe, both natural and man-made. Whereas panic tends to crop up during the experience of violent events, mourning, on the other hand, relates to the aftermath of a brutal disruption and to the way humans try to make sense of it retrospectively. Conversely, violent events can leave a thread of panic in their aftermath, while mourning can be unsettled, interrupted or even refuelled by another catastrophic incident. From an international and inter-disciplinary outlook, this volume wishes to address questions at the interface of panic and mourning and their impact on practices in literature, media, and the arts. Since violent events take place within cultures that will draw from their traditions, memories and systems of beliefs in order to process them, the authors of this book aim precisely at discussing the effects of calamity upon the cultural structure and the way literary, artistic and media practices not only reproduce individual and collective anxieties but also generate knowledge and reshape the cultural formation within which they emerge.
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Author: Gesine Hindemith
Category : Disasters in art
by Gesine Hindemith, Catastrophe Spectacle Books available in PDF, EPUB, Mobi Format. Download Catastrophe Spectacle books, From epidemics in the 17th century, through the Lisbon earthquake in 1755, and to Guernica in World War II, the essays of this volume show how a catastrophic imagination, heavily based on pictorial media and forms of staging, has developed since the early modern period. Thus, the catastrophe in its modern sense seems to be inextricably linked to its spectacular appearance, be it on stage, on screen, or in popular amusement parks. But increasingly, the modern relation between catastrophe and spectacle also confronts us with the unimaginable of invisible catastrophes, such as the Holocaust, and as is now seen to a large extent in the daily catastrophe of refugees suffering shipwrecks while trying in vain to reach European coasts. The essays of this volume touch upon the question of how a spectacular imagination of catastrophe is breaking ground with respect to discourse and media history. In their commentary function, these texts elucidate the images of catastrophes that inspire them. The interaction between the catastrophic scene and the text comments makes it possible to reconsider how the spectacular and the catastrophic are inter-related. Furthermore, the articles not only deal with the spectacularisation of the catastrophic, but also try to present themselves as a type of catastrophe criticism that is derived from the philological readings of the corresponding scenes. There is the underlying ambition for a critical philology of the catastrophe which, in a Benjaminian sense, demonstrates 'small leaps' within the catastrophic continuum and in which the catastrophe is confronted by other figures of thought, such as the disaster according to Maurice Blanchot. [Subject: History, Natural Disasters, Cultural Anthropology]
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Author: Frederik Le Roy
Publisher: Academia Press
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by Rolando V. Garcia, The Constant Catastrophe Books available in PDF, EPUB, Mobi Format. Download The Constant Catastrophe books, The Constant Catastrophe: Malnutrition, Famines, and Drought deals with the 1972 drought, and emphasizes the underlying social conditions that are related to its effects. The book examines the relationship of drought as a meteorological event and the famine that results as a social event. The effects of natural catastrophes become transformed by social structures and political processes in many countries of the world, more than which can be attributable to the physical cause itself. A striking parallelism that emerges in the study is that climatological analysis implies reference to large scale space and time processes. Famine also occurs as anomalies within large-scale processes in society—famine changes nutritional levels in communities. The text proposes a theoretical framework for a methodologically-adequate diagnostic tool that can be used in studying the "factual events" in previous cases of major disasters due to climactic factors. Case studies include those that happened in the Sahel, Ethiopia, India, China, the United Kingdom, and Brazil. Among several recommendations, one which the book proposes in the management of the effects of drought, is to adopt an approach similar to that of the Red Cross. The book is suitable for economists, environmentalists, ecologists, and policy makers involved in crisis management, food production, and rural development.
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Believe it or not, laundry is a pretty hot topic for NYC-dwellers, where an in-home washer/dryer is the golden ticket of apartment living. Meanwhile, those of us not fortunate enough to have one must navigate the communal laundry room and the frenemenies who lurk there.
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Q: Collisions when generating UUIDs in JavaScript This relates to this question. I am using the code below from this answer to generate a UUID in JavaScript:
'xxxxxxxx-xxxx-4xxx-yxxx-xxxxxxxxxxxx'.replace(/[xy]/g, function(c) {
var r = Math.random()*16|0, v = c == 'x' ? r : (r&0x3|0x8);
return v.toString(16);
});
This solution appeared to be working fine, but I am getting collisions. Here's what I have:
*
*A web application running in Google Chrome.
*16 users.
*about 4000 UUIDs have been generated in the past two months by these users.
*I got about 20 collisions - e.g., a new UUID generated today was the same as about two months ago (different user).
What is causing this issue and how can I avoid it?
A: I just ran a rudimentary test of 100,000 iterations in Chrome using the UUID algorithm you posted, and I didn't get any collisions. Here's a code snippet:
var createGUID = function() {
return 'xxxxxxxx-xxxx-4xxx-yxxx-xxxxxxxxxxxx'.replace(/[xy]/g, function(c) {
var r = Math.random()*16|0, v = c == 'x' ? r : (r&0x3|0x8);
return v.toString(16);
});
}
var testGUIDs = function(upperlimit) {
alert('Doing collision test on ' + upperlimit + ' GUID creations.');
var i=0, guids=[];
while (i++<upperlimit) {
var guid=createGUID();
if (guids.indexOf(guid)!=-1) {
alert('Collision with ' + guid + ' after ' + i + ' iterations');
}
guids.push(guid);
}
alert(guids.length + ' iterations completed.');
}
testGUIDs(100000);
A: The answer that originally posted this UUID solution was updated on 2017-06-28:
A good article from Chrome developers discussing the state of Math.random PRNG quality in Chrome, Firefox, and Safari. tl;dr - As of late-2015 it's "pretty good", but not cryptographic quality. To address that issue, here's an updated version of the above solution that uses ES6, the crypto API, and a bit of JS wizardy I can't take credit for:
function uuidv4() {
return ([1e7]+-1e3+-4e3+-8e3+-1e11).replace(/[018]/g, c =>
(c ^ crypto.getRandomValues(new Uint8Array(1))[0] & 15 >> c / 4).toString(16)
)
}
console.log(uuidv4());
A: Indeed there are collisions, but only under Google Chrome. Check out my experience on the topic in Google Chrome random number generator issue
It seems like collisions only happen on the first few calls of Math.random. Because if you just run the createGUID / testGUIDs method above (which obviously was the first thing I tried), it just works without any collisions whatsoever.
So to make a full test one needs to restart Google Chrome, generate 32 byte, restart Chrome, generate, restart, generate, etc.
A: My best guess is that Math.random() is broken on your system for some reason (bizarre as that sounds). This is the first report I've seen of anyone getting collisions.
node-uuid has a test harness that you can use to test the distribution of hex digits in that code. If that looks okay then it's not Math.random(), so then try substituting the UUID implementation you're using into the uuid() method there and see if you still get good results.
[Update: Just saw Veselin's report about the bug with Math.random() at startup. Since the problem is only at startup, the node-uuid test is unlikely to be useful. I'll comment in more detail on the devoluk.com link.]
A: Just so that other folks can be aware of this - I was running into a surprisingly large number of apparent collisions using the UUID generation technique mentioned here. These collisions continued even after I switched to seedrandom for my random number generator. That had me tearing my hair out, as you can imagine.
I eventually figured out that the problem was (almost?) exclusively associated with Google's web crawler bots. As soon as I started ignoring requests with "googlebot" in the user-agent field, the collisions disappeared. I'm guessing that they must cache the results of JS scripts in some semi-intelligent way, with the end result that their spidering browser can't be counted on to behave the way that normal browsers do.
Just an FYI.
A: The answers here deal with "what's causing the issue?" (Chrome Math.random seed issue) but not "how can I avoid it?".
If you are still looking for how to avoid this issue, I wrote this answer a while back as a modified take on Broofa's function to get around this exact problem. It works by offsetting the first 13 hex numbers by a hex portion of the timestamp, meaning that even if Math.random is on the same seed it will still generate a different UUID unless generated at the exact same millisecond.
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York City schedules back-to-school resource fair
York City will be holding the York City United Back to School Resource Fair for students in need of school supplies noon to 6 p.m. Friday, Aug. 17, at Penn Park.
York City schedules back-to-school resource fair York City will be holding the York City United Back to School Resource Fair for students in need of school supplies noon to 6 p.m. Friday, Aug. 17, at Penn Park. Check out this story on yorkdispatch.com: https://www.yorkdispatch.com/story/news/local/2018/07/12/york-city-schedules-back-school-resource-fair/778744002/
Logan Hullinger, York Dispatch Published 12:27 p.m. ET July 12, 2018 | Updated 2:46 p.m. ET July 16, 2018
Eighth-grade learning support teacher Lynda Shearer, left, examines a file cabinet painted by eighth-grade pre-algebra teacher Lauren Nolan as the teachers get their classrooms ready for the new school year at Dover Area Intermediate School in Dover, Thursday, Aug. 4, 2016. Dawn J. Sagert photo(Photo: York Dispatch)
The city hopes to supply at least 1,000 children with backpacks and school supplies for the upcoming school year, according to a Wednesday, July 11, city news release.
Food be available at the fair, and there will be music, the release states. If it rains, the event will move to William Penn Senior High School across the street.
Those interested in donating or setting up a table with activities and resources can contact York City Councilwoman Sandie Walker at walkesan@ycs.k12.pa.us; York City Recreational Specialist Diaz Woodard at dwoodard@yorkcity.org; or Nacole Gaines with York YMCA at ngaines@yorkcoymca.org.
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Cícero Lucas
Luther: The Fallen Sun
A gruesome serial killer is terrorizing London while brilliant but disgraced detective John Luther sits behind bars. Haunted by his failure to capture the cyber psychopath who now taunts him, Luther decides to break out of prison to finish the job by any means necessary.
The illegitimate son of an African slave and a French plantation owner, Bologne rises to improbable heights in French society as a celebrated violinist-composer and fencer, complete with an ill-fated love affair and a falling out with Marie Antoinette and her court. Inspired by the incredible true story of composer Joseph Bologne, Chevalier de Saint-Georges.
Kelvin Harrison Jr.
Ronke Adekoluejo
After dominating the boxing world, Adonis Creed has been thriving in both his career and family life. When a childhood friend and former boxing prodigy, Damien Anderson, resurfaces after serving a long sentence in prison, he is eager to prove that he deserves his shot in the ring. The face-off between former friends is more than just a fight. To settle the score, Adonis must put his future on the line to battle Damien - a fighter who has nothing to lose.
Musical adaptation of Alice Walker's novel about the life-long struggles of an African American woman living in the south during the early 1900s.
David Alan Grier
Deon Cole
When her mother disappears while on vacation in Colombia with her new boyfriend, June's search for answers is hindered by international red tape. Stuck thousands of miles away in Los Angeles, June creatively uses all the latest technology at her fingertips to try and find her before it's too late. But as she digs deeper, her digital sleuthing raises more questions than answers... and when June unravels secrets about her mom, she discovers that the true danger to her family is much closer to h...
A Christmas Fumble
Nicole Barnes gets the toughest assignment of her career when she's asked to handle a breaking scandal for former pro footballer-turned-TV-commentator Jordan Davies, whose network contract isn't going to be renewed because of a violation going back to his college days. However, Nicole fails to disclose that she and Jordan were once boyfriend and girlfriend — a conflict of interest that could end her own hopes of being made partner at her firm. To make matters worse, Nicole's efforts to rehabi...
Eva Marcille
Devale Ellis
Jenny Itwaru
The Holiday Stocking
RJ is a new angel, who is given the chance to address his one regret, that he didn't help his sisters reconcile while he was still alive. Returning to earth as a stranger, he gets each of them to revive The Holiday Stocking, their parent's old tradition to encourage charity at Christmas.
B.J. Britt
Tamala Jones
Mykelti Williamson
A young aspiring writer discovers secrets about her family's past when she finds herself mysteriously being pulled back and forth in time to a 19th century plantation.
Mallori Johnson
Austin Smith
Antoinette Crowe-Legacy
A Wesley Christmas
Adult siblings Chris, Todd, and Cydney Wesley travel to their childhood home to celebrate Christmas with their parents and the entire Wesley family. With everyone together and all their physical and emotional baggage in tow, the annual Wesley family holiday promises to be a festive, hot-mess of a Christmas with life-changing impacts on the whole family.
Dorien Wilson
Jasmine Guy
Terrence C. Carson
Aisha, an undocumented immigrant, lands a job as a nanny for a wealthy Manhattan couple. As she prepares for the arrival of the son she left behind in Senegal, a violent presence begins to invade both her dreams and her reality, threatening to destroy the American Dream she is painstakingly piecing together.
Sinqua Walls
Leslie Uggams
Abandoned by her father, a young woman named Maren embarks on a thousand-mile odyssey through the backroads of America where she meets Lee, a disenfranchised drifter. But despite their best efforts, all roads lead back to their terrifying pasts and to a final stand that will determine whether their love can survive their otherness.
No Black Trauma
On the Come Up
Bri, a young rapper and the daughter of an underground hip hop legend who died just before making it big. Her father's legend makes him a hard act to follow, but between Bri being bullied and watching her mother struggle after losing her job, she pours out her frustration into songs that become big viral hits.
Jamila Gray
A young singer on the brink of a promising career finds herself torn between a domineering family, industry pressures and her love for her girlfriend.
The Lazarus Project
George wakes up to find himself several months in the past before being recruited for the Lazarus Project – a secret organisation that turns back time when the world is at threat of extinction.
Paapa Essiedu
Vinette Robinson
B-Boy Blues
Follows the relationship of 27-year-old journalist Mitchell Crawford and 21-year-old bicycle messenger Raheim Rivers, who meet at a gay bar in Greenwich Village during the summer of 1993.
Thomas Mackie
Timothy Richardson
Brandee Evans
Broderick Hunter
Marquise Vilson
Ledisi
Best friends Sophie and Agatha navigate an enchanted school for young heroes and villains — and find themselves on opposing sides of the battle between good and evil.
Kit Young
Sofia Wylie
Chinenye Ezeudu
Trees of Peace
In April of 1994, four women from different backgrounds and beliefs are trapped and hiding during the Rwandan genocide. Their fight for survival against all odds unites the women in an unbreakable sisterhood.
Charmaine Bingwa
Evan Alex
Elaine Umuhire
Bola Koleosho
Tongayi Chirisa
The true story of Mamie Till Mobley's relentless pursuit of justice for her 14 year old son, Emmett Till, who, in 1955, was lynched while visiting his cousins in Mississippi.
Danielle Deadwyler
Jalyn Hall
Frankie Faison
Tosin Cole
Kevin Carroll
Sean Patrick Thomas
Roger Guenveur Smith
Follows the biopic film about Shirley Chisholm, America's first Black congresswoman.
Amirah Vann
Dorian Missick
Christina Jackson
Black Movies of 2021 to Watch | {'redpajama_set_name': 'RedPajamaCommonCrawl'} | 356 |
Perceval's delinquent angel
... is up to something, but will not reveal that tricksy intention ... it listens for the starting gun in the hands of a distant God.
'Naked Jihad' sacrifices feminism to racism
The phrase 'white men saving brown women from brown men' derides the use of western feminist tropes to further colonial expansion. The anti-Islamic reaction of some feminist activists to the death threats suffered by Tunisian 'naked protestor' Amina Tyler does nothing to promote global solidarity among women.
The Palestinian who would be Jewish
A Rabbi informs Joseph that although he has been circumcised and celebrated his Bah Mitzvah, the revelations about his biological origins mean he must undergo 'cleansing' rituals to be accepted as a Jew. Religious institutions err when they elevate legalism over human need. In this instance the institution is found wanting.
The last talker after Mass
Brendan Ryan
The straggly lines of his arguments follow cow paths ... He laughs as much as he spits. Veins in his cheeks, grey hair testament to frosty mornings, a bull bowling his wife over in the yard ... My father had developed a bad habit of listening.
At the intersection of faith and culture
Adrian Lyons, founding editor of Eureka Street, died last week. In life he strove to go beneath the surface when reflecting on personal and public issues, and to attend to the unnoticed connections between culture and faith, and the surprising places where they come together in public life.
Living in the echo of suicide
I know and love people who struggle with depression. I've lost friends to suicide. Depression was my constant companion at times and suicide an alluring, far country. A recent novel delves into the life of a family reeling from the suicide of a child, and shows that even in the deepest recesses of grief, joy can interrupt.
Rebuilding humanity after workplace horror
Stéphanie loses her legs in a workplace accident. Alain is a single father who becomes her confidante. Their sexual encounters are shown to restore and affirm her dignity; they highlight the physicality of the act, particularly how Stéphanie's confidence in her own changed body flourishes through it.
The everyday courage of carers
Helen Sage
In 1999 my 22-year-old daughter sustained a head injury in a motor vehicle accident. She now contends with the use of only one normally functioning limb amid multiple disabilities. The 'support' provided by family carers is said to save the nation billions of dollars annually. But carers give much more than support.
Invading Australia
Saba Hakim, Ray Carmichael and Ouyang Yu
We have wished to invade Australia like you'd never imagined from where we are based in Pakistan and Afghanistan, countries reduced by hegemony to hell. We ruled the waves till we were in sight of an island that looked from afar like a welcome entity.
Where granny got her stick
Bronwyn Evans
A wooden sturdy poker, it helped on the days when you couldn't feel the floor, but was no substitute for a seat on the tram when you don't look sick or expecting.
Film takes sex abuse guilt to the Vatican
Fr Murphy's atrocities include using the confessional as a lair in which to abuse his deaf students. With the Royal Commission already gathering steam, Silence in the House of God warns what revelations may be to come, and reminds those with high hopes for Pope Francis how much work remains to be done.
Sorry I was high
Peta Edmonds
On the corner, like an unloved spider, if you've got a cigarette, they've got the lighter. They're in love with all the Gods. They get along with their bong. For them the smoke is the Holy Ghost. | {'redpajama_set_name': 'RedPajamaCommonCrawl'} | 357 |
Q: Can I use the multer module as middleware? In my post path handler I currently have this:
const upload = multer();
// response handler for posting to /upload
app.post("/upload", upload.single('file'), function (request: any, response: any, next: any) {
// do stuff
}
That adds a file property on the request.body that contains the uploaded file.
IIUC this approach applies to this specific express post function. But can I have it use as middleware using the use function? Or can I call it manually inline?
// use function
app.use("/upload", upload);
// use it inline
app.post("/upload", function (request: any, response: any, next: any) {
upload.single('file');
// do stuff
}
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Cashmere & Chocolate - a June Cashmere Trunk Show!
Don't Forget! THIS WEEKEND - Cashmere & Chocolate!
Amy Swanson, USA Operations Manager for June Cashmere, is returning to Woolwinders for a Cashmere & Chocolate trunk show. She will be on hand to discuss the production of this wonderful 100% cashmere from small family farms in the mountain communities of Kyrgyzstan. Find out why this cashmere is considered "heirloom quality" unlike your ordinary cashmere.
This weekend, Friday through Sunday, we are having a sale on all bulky and super bulky yarns at both Annapolis and Rockville shops to make room for our new spring yarns! Stop by WoolWinders this weekend to BULK UP YOUR STASH!!
Who: YOU! Stop by this weekend!
*20% off discount applies to in-stock items only and may not be used for online orders, special orders, classes, private lessons, needles, crochet hooks, patterns, shawl pins, or gift cards or other accessories or notions - ONLY on BULKY or SUPER BULKY weight yarns. This sale may not be combined with any other discount - no further discounts on yarns already on sale. No holds on items before the sale. | {'redpajama_set_name': 'RedPajamaC4'} | 359 |
define(["./WebApplicationData",
"storymaps/common/utils/CommonHelper",
"storymaps/tpl/core/Helper",
"dojo/topic",
"esri/arcgis/utils"],
function(
WebApplicationData,
CommonHelper,
Helper,
topic,
arcgisUtils
){
return function Data()
{
// Web map item and item data
var _webmapItem = null;
// Web app item
var _appItem = null;
// A cache for webmap title and sharing in builder mode for Add/Edit dialog
var _webmapsTitleAndSharingCache = {};
// App proxies
var _appProxies = null;
/*
* Template common get/set
*/
this.getWebMap = function()
{
return _webmapItem;
};
this.setWebMap = function(webmapItem)
{
_webmapItem = webmapItem;
};
this.getWebAppItem = function()
{
return _appItem || {};
};
this.setWebAppItem = function(appItem)
{
_appItem = appItem;
};
this.getWebAppData = function()
{
return WebApplicationData;
};
this.updateAfterSave = function()
{
WebApplicationData.updateAfterSave();
};
this.userIsAppOwner = function()
{
var portalUser = app.portal ? app.portal.getPortalUser() : null;
return (portalUser && portalUser.username == this.getWebAppItem().owner)
|| (CommonHelper.getPortalUser() != null && CommonHelper.getPortalUser() == this.getWebAppItem().owner)
// Admin privilege
|| (portalUser && portalUser.privileges && $.inArray("portal:admin:updateItems", portalUser.privileges) > -1 )
|| this.getWebAppItem().itemControl == "admin"
// Group with shared ownership
|| this.getWebAppItem().itemControl == "update";
};
this.checkUserItemPrivileges = function()
{
var portalUser = app.portal ? app.portal.getPortalUser() : null;
return (portalUser && ! portalUser.orgId && ! portalUser.privileges)
|| (portalUser && portalUser.privileges && $.inArray("portal:user:createItem", portalUser.privileges) > -1);
};
this.isOrga = function()
{
if ( ! app.portal || ! app.portal.getPortalUser() )
return false;
return !! app.portal.getPortalUser().orgId;
};
this.getAppProxies = function()
{
return _appProxies;
};
this.setAppProxies = function(appProxies)
{
_appProxies = appProxies;
};
/*
* Map Journal
*/
var _storyStorage = null,
_currentStoryIndex = null;
/*
* Storage type
*/
this.getStoryStorage = function()
{
return _storyStorage;
};
this.setStoryStorage = function(storyStorage)
{
_storyStorage = storyStorage;
};
/*
* Data read
*/
/**
* Get story sections and reverse flag
* {
* sections: [section1, section2, ...],
* reversed: true|false
* }
*
* Section are ordered but not filtered by status
*/
this.getStory = function()
{
if ( _storyStorage == "WEBAPP" )
return WebApplicationData.getStory() || {};
return {};
};
/**
* Get story sections:
* - in user defined order
* - in builder: get all sections
* - in viewer: get only published section with a past publication date
*/
this.getStorySections = function()
{
var allSections = [],
filteredSections = [];
if ( _storyStorage == "WEBAPP" )
allSections = WebApplicationData.getStorySections();
// Apply maximum number of sections limitation
allSections = allSections.slice(0, app.cfg.MAX_NB_SECTIONS);
if ( app.isInBuilder )
return allSections || [];
// Filter by status
$.each(allSections || [], function(i, section){
if ( section.status == "PUBLISHED" && section.pubDate <= Date.now() )
filteredSections.push(section);
});
return filteredSections;
};
this.cleanSectionsNarrativeMarkup = function()
{
$.each(this.getStorySections(), function(i, section) {
this.cleanSectionNarrativeMarkup(section);
}.bind(this));
};
this.cleanSectionNarrativeMarkup = function(section)
{
if (! section) {
return;
}
var result = this.cleanNarrativeMarkup(section.content);
if (! section.contentActions) {
section.contentActions = [];
}
section.content = result.markup;
section.contentActions = section.contentActions.concat(result.actions);
};
this.getUID = function()
{
var s4 = function() {
return Math.floor((1 + Math.random()) * 0x10000)
.toString(16)
.substring(1);
};
return Date.now()
+ '-' + s4()
+ '-' + s4()
+ '-' + s4()
+ '-' + s4()
+ '-' + s4();
};
this.cleanNarrativeMarkup = function(markup)
{
if (! markup) {
return;
}
var cleanMarkup = $('<div>' + markup + '</div>'),
actions = [];
cleanMarkup.find('a[onclick]').each(function(i, el) {
var link = $(el),
attr = link.attr('onclick'),
match = attr.match(/\.publish\([ ]*\'story-navigate-section\'[ ]*,[ ]*([0-9]+)/);
if (match && match.length == 2) {
link.removeAttr('onclick');
link.removeAttr('target');
var uid = 'MJ-ACTION-' + this.getUID(); // Cannot just use Date.now like other Actions to avoid conflict
link.attr('data-storymaps', uid);
link.attr('data-storymaps-type', 'navigate');
actions.push({
id: uid,
type: 'navigate',
index: parseInt(match[1], 10)
});
}
}.bind(this));
cleanMarkup.find('img').each(function(i, imgDiv) {
var $imgDiv = $(imgDiv);
$imgDiv.attr('src', Helper.possiblyAddToken($imgDiv.attr('src')));
});
return {
markup: cleanMarkup.html(),
actions: actions
};
};
this.getStoryLength = function()
{
return this.getStorySections().length;
};
this.getStoryByIndex = function(index)
{
return this.getStorySections()[index];
};
this.getCurrentSection = function()
{
return WebApplicationData.getStorySections()[_currentStoryIndex];
};
/*
* Index
*/
this.getCurrentSectionIndex = function()
{
return _currentStoryIndex;
};
this.setCurrentSectionIndex = function(storyIndex)
{
_currentStoryIndex = storyIndex;
};
/*
* Add
*/
this.addStorySection = function(section)
{
app.data.cleanSectionNarrativeMarkup(section);
if ( _storyStorage == "WEBAPP" ) {
if ( this.getStory().reversed ) {
WebApplicationData.getStorySections().splice(1, 0, section);
this.setCurrentSectionIndex(this.getStoryLength() >= 2 ? 1 : 0);
}
else {
WebApplicationData.setStorySections(this.getStorySections().concat(section));
this.setCurrentSectionIndex(this.getStoryLength() - 1);
}
}
};
/*
* Edit
*/
this.editSection = function(sectionIndex, updatedSection)
{
app.data.cleanSectionNarrativeMarkup(updatedSection);
if ( _storyStorage == "WEBAPP" ) {
var sections = this.getStorySections();
sections[sectionIndex] = updatedSection;
WebApplicationData.setStorySections(sections);
}
};
/*
* Organize
*/
this.organizeStory = function(sections, newSectionIndex, reversed)
{
if ( _storyStorage == "WEBAPP" )
WebApplicationData.setStorySections(sections, reversed);
if ( newSectionIndex == -1 )
newSectionIndex = 0;
this.setCurrentSectionIndex(newSectionIndex);
};
/*
* Utils
*/
/*
* Get an array of webmaps id used in the journal (sections media and actions)
*/
this.getWebmaps = function()
{
// Story Main Stage webmaps
var webmaps = $.map(this.getStorySections(), function(section){
return section.media && section.media.type == "webmap" && section.media.webmap ? section.media.webmap.id : null;
});
// Story actions webmaps
$.each(this.getStorySections(), function(i, section){
if ( section.contentActions ) {
$.each(section.contentActions, function(j, action){
if ( action.type == "media" && action.media.webmap )
webmaps.push(action.media.webmap.id);
});
}
});
// Make the array unique
webmaps = $.grep(webmaps, function(webmap, index) {
if ( ! webmap || webmap.length != 32 )
return false;
return index == $.inArray(webmap, webmaps);
});
return webmaps;
};
/*
* Get extented infos about webmaps used in the journal
* [
* {
* id: 'XYZ',
* title: '' // Webmap title (grabbed from the item)
* sharing: '', // Webmap sharing (grabbed from the item)
* sections: [1,2,3], // Sections index the webmap is used in (computed on request)
* actions: [4,5,6] // Sections index the webmap is used as an actions (computed on request)
* },
* ...
* ]
*
* Properties grabbed from the item on first request may not be present on the first method call
* If the value is null, the value will be emitted through
* topic.subsribe("LOADED_WEBMAP_INFOS", {
* id: '',
* title: '',
* sharing: ''
* });
*/
this.getWebmapsInfo = function()
{
var webmapsInfoArray = [],
webmapsInfoHash = {};
var store = function(id, type, value)
{
if ( webmapsInfoHash[id] ){
if ( webmapsInfoHash[id][type].indexOf(value) == -1 )
webmapsInfoHash[id][type].push(value);
}
else {
webmapsInfoHash[id] = {
sections: [],
actions: []
};
webmapsInfoHash[id][type].push(value);
}
};
$.each(this.getStorySections(), function(i, section){
if ( section.media && section.media.type == "webmap" && section.media.webmap )
store(section.media.webmap.id, "sections", i+1);
if ( section.contentActions ) {
$.each(section.contentActions, function(j, action){
if ( action.type == "media" && action.media.webmap )
store(action.media.webmap.id, "actions", i+1);
});
}
});
// Also add the eventual webmap the application have been published with
// when starting from a webmap in AGOL Map Viewer
// (but only if we're in builder! otherwise, a private webmap could ruin a public app. -als)
if (app.isInBuilder) {
var sourceWebmap = WebApplicationData.getSourceWebmap();
if ( sourceWebmap && ! webmapsInfoHash[sourceWebmap] ) {
webmapsInfoHash[sourceWebmap] = {};
}
}
$.each(Object.keys(webmapsInfoHash), function(i, webmap){
var webmapCache = _webmapsTitleAndSharingCache[webmap];
if ( ! webmapCache ) {
// If webmap already loaded through standard map loading
if ( app.maps[webmap] ) {
_webmapsTitleAndSharingCache[webmap] = {
title: app.maps[webmap].response.itemInfo.item.title,
sharing: app.maps[webmap].response.itemInfo.item.access.toUpperCase()
};
webmapsInfoArray.push({
id: webmap,
title: app.maps[webmap].response.itemInfo.item.title,
sharing: app.maps[webmap].response.itemInfo.item.access.toUpperCase(),
sections: webmapsInfoHash[webmap].sections,
actions: webmapsInfoHash[webmap].actions
});
return;
}
else
requestWebmapInfos(webmap);
}
webmapsInfoArray.push({
id: webmap,
title: webmapCache ? webmapCache.title : null,
sharing: webmapCache ? webmapCache.sharing : null,
sections: webmapsInfoHash[webmap].sections,
actions: webmapsInfoHash[webmap].actions
});
});
return webmapsInfoArray;
};
this.getWebmapTitle = function(id)
{
return _webmapsTitleAndSharingCache[id] ? _webmapsTitleAndSharingCache[id].title : '';
};
this.getWebmapSharing = function(id)
{
return _webmapsTitleAndSharingCache[id] ? _webmapsTitleAndSharingCache[id].sharing : '';
};
function requestWebmapInfos(webmap)
{
arcgisUtils.getItem(webmap).then(function(response){
_webmapsTitleAndSharingCache[webmap] = {
title: response.item.title,
sharing: response.item.access.toUpperCase()
};
topic.publish("LOADED_WEBMAP_INFOS", {
id: webmap,
title: response.item.title,
sharing: response.item.access.toUpperCase()
});
});
}
// TODO those three functions should be refactored
this.getImages = function()
{
// Story Main Stage images
var images = $.map(this.getStorySections(), function(section){
return section.media && section.media.type == "image" && section.media.image ? section.media.image.url : null;
});
// Story actions images
$.each(this.getStorySections(), function(i, section){
if ( section.contentActions ) {
$.each(section.contentActions, function(j, action){
if ( action.type == "media" && action.media.image )
images.push(action.media.image.url);
});
}
});
// Make the array unique
images = $.grep(images, function(image, index) {
return index == $.inArray(image, images);
});
return images;
};
this.getAllImageUrls = function() {
return _.map(this.getImages().concat(this.getSidebarImages().concat([WebApplicationData.getLogoURL()])), this.getNonProtocolNonDoubleSlashUrl);
};
this.getSidebarImages = function() {
var sections = this.getStorySections();
var imgUrls = [];
_.each(sections, function(section) {
var jqSection = $(section.content);
_.each(jqSection.find('img'), function(img) {
imgUrls.push(Helper.possiblyRemoveToken(img.src));
});
});
return imgUrls;
};
this.getNonProtocolNonDoubleSlashUrl = function(url) {
return url.replace(/http[s]?\:\/\//, '').replace('//', '/');
};
// TODO those three functions should be refactored
this.getEmbeds = function()
{
// Story Main Stage embeds
var embeds = $.map(this.getStorySections(), function(section){
if ( ! section || ! section.media || (section.media.type != "video" && section.media.type != "webpage") || ! section.media[section.media.type] )
return null;
return section.media[section.media.type];
});
// Story actions embeds
$.each(this.getStorySections(), function(i, section){
if ( section.contentActions ) {
$.each(section.contentActions, function(j, action){
if ( action.type != "media" || ! action.media.type || (action.media.type != "video" && action.media.type != "webpage") || ! action.media[action.media.type] )
return;
embeds.push(action.media[action.media.type]);
});
}
});
// Make the array unique
embeds = $.grep(embeds, function(embed, index) {
return index == $.inArray(embed, embeds);
});
return embeds;
};
this.getContentActions = function()
{
var actions = [];
$.each(this.getStorySections(), function(i, section){
$.each(section.contentActions, function(j, action){
actions.push(action);
});
});
return actions;
};
this.getCurrentLayoutStaticConfig = function()
{
return this.getLayoutStaticConfig(WebApplicationData.getLayoutId());
};
this.getLayoutStaticConfig = function(layoutId)
{
var layoutCfg = $.grep(app.cfg.LAYOUTS, function(l){ return l.id == layoutId; });
if ( ! layoutCfg || ! layoutCfg.length )
return null;
return layoutCfg[0];
};
this.debug = function()
{
console.table && console.table(app.data.getStorySections());
$.each(app.data.getStorySections(), function(i, section){
console.log("%c%s", "font-weight: bold; font-size: 18px;", '[' + i + '-' + section.title + "]");
console.log("%c%s", "font-weight: bold; font-size: 16px;", "> MEDIA");
console.log(JSON.stringify(section.media, null, '\t'));
console.log("%c%s", "font-weight: bold; font-size: 16px;", "> ACTIONS");
console.log(JSON.stringify(section.contentActions, null, '\t'));
});
};
this.checkTokens = function() {
var sections = this.getStorySections();
_.each(sections, function(section) {
duplicateSectionProcessing(section);
});
var imageUrls = this.getImages().concat([WebApplicationData.getLogoURL()]);
_.each(imageUrls, function(url) {
checkStr(url);
});
};
function duplicateSectionProcessing(section) {
var strToCheck = section.content;
var jqSection = $(section.content);
_.each(jqSection.find('img'), function(img) {
var originalUrl = img.src;
var untokenizedUrl = Helper.possiblyRemoveToken(img.src);
if (originalUrl !== untokenizedUrl) {
var splitOriginal = originalUrl.split('?');
if (strToCheck.match(splitOriginal[0] + '\\?' + splitOriginal[1])) {
strToCheck = strToCheck.replace(splitOriginal[0] + '?' + splitOriginal[1], untokenizedUrl);
} else {
strToCheck = strToCheck.replace(decodeURI(splitOriginal[0]) + '?' + splitOriginal[1], untokenizedUrl);
}
}
checkStr(strToCheck);
});
}
function checkStr(str) {
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The annual 5K For The Kids will take place over Homecoming weekend on Saturday, November 14! This year's Homecoming Donut Run 5K is a new spin on our annual race. In partnership with Hope's Alumni and Family Development Office. Come run, walk and enjoy a new donut every mile while you support the Helen DeVos Children's Hospital — it's all for the kids. Register today!
The Miracle Families join Dream Team, Designated Group Representatives (DGRs) and the Family Relations Committee at Teusink's Pony Farm in Holland for a cook-out, hayride and petting farm to celebrate the fall and get to know one another.
Every December, Miracle Families, Dream Team, DGRs and the Family Relations Committee come together for a Christmas Party. The party includes crafts, conversation, food, pictures and sometimes even a visit from Santa!
In January or February, Miracle Families join Dream Team, DGRs and the Family Relations Committee at the ice rink for a time of fun, fellowship and food.
The annual Miracle Silent Auction at JP's Coffee and Espresso Bar features gift baskets, food, goods, activities, homemade crafts and gift certificates — all donated by our generous local businesses and individuals in the Holland and Zeeland community. All proceeds from the auction go to the Helen DeVos Children's Hospital.
Hope's first Mini-Marathon was started at West Ottawa High School in 2013. West Ottawa's Mini-Marathon is a 6-hour dance-a-thon structured similarly to Hope's 24-hour dance-a-thon. Hope College Dream Team members serve as advisors to the high school mini-marathon leadership team. Since 2013, the Mini-Marathon has grown tremendously in size and has raised over $70,000 in just four years.
Zeeland East High School held their first Mini-Marathon in 2017. Zeeland's Mini-Marathon is also a 6-hour dance-a-thon, with activities and miracle family speakers sprinkled throughout the evening. Students in the Zeeland East Senate work with Hope College Dream Team members to plan and coordinate the event details. In their first year, the students raised over $9,000.
Interested in hosting a mini-marathon for Helen DeVos Children's Hospital at your high school? Contact dmminimarathon@hope.edu.
Blitz Week is the final week of fundraising leading up to Dance Marathon. The week will consist of fundraisers at local restaurants, the semi-annual pasta dinner in the Kletz, final announcements and meetings in preparation for the main event.
This is the main event! This is Hope College's 24-hour dance-a-thon on March 10-11, 2017. Dancers are on their feet for 24 hours as a gesture of solidarity with the children and families they support. Miracle Families, moralers, staff, faculty, alumni and community members all come together to support Helen DeVos Children's Hospital throughout the event. The event consists of continued fundraising, performances, speakers, the Miracle Families sharing their stories, and plenty of dancing and other activities. Sign-up now to be a dancer or moraler!
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As the mercury drops and snow begins to fly in Alberta our thoughts turn from summer activities like hiking, cycling, and camping to winter ones such as skiing. While some may moan and groan throughout the cold season, we simply love being outside in the snow. We're blessed to have some of the best skiing in the world here in Alberta, and living in Calgary gives us easy access to the Rocky Mountains. There isn't much in the way of bad skiing in Alberta, but each resort does bring something a little different. This is our local take on the best ski resorts near Calgary, hopefully we'll inspire you to book a trip to Alberta to explore the slopes this winter!
Philip grew up and learned how to ski on the prairies. Manitoba is clearly not known for it's mountains so we know and appreciate how great the skiing we do have in Alberta is. Thea didn't begin skiing until her late 20s but quickly gained an appreciation for the great skiing near Calgary.
Your guides to the skiing near Calgary. You can trust us, we're totally pro.
Many weekends during the winter you'll find us at one of these ski resorts, either as a day trip or a long weekend adventure. For this post we've set the cap as a five hour drive from Calgary as we think that's a reasonable length for a long weekend ski trip to the mountains. It's about as far as we recommend driving for skiing as you're quite often driving through mountain roads and sometimes in sketchy winter driving conditions. Once you go beyond five hours you're probably better off throwing the skis in the luggage bag and hopping on a plane.
Nakiska opened in 1986 in preparation for Calgary's 1988 Winter Olympics. It is the closest ski resort to Calgary on this list. Admittedly, it is a bit lacking in terrain but it's an excellent hill for beginners and has some really nice, wide open, groomed cruisers. The gladed area off the gold chair is a bit of a gem too, with widely spaced trees that are suitable for those learning to ski through the trees.
Nakiska is popular with families and a great place to go work on your carving. You can expect to see lots of kids, either in lessons or with their families lining up on the Silver chair. Because of their location Nakiska doesn't get as much snow as others on the list so they have to make a lot of snow which can lead to icy conditions.
The Finish Line Lounge at Nakiska has surprisingly half-decent and well-priced food for a ski hill, so it's worth stopping in for lunch or après. If you plan on staying in the Kananaskis area we recommend checking out the restaurants at the Delta. Woody's Taphouse is great spot to stop for a pint and a view of Mount Kidd!
Nakiska makes an easy day trip from Calgary and it's a great place to spend a day with family or work on your skills. While it is unlikely to please true powder hounds, it still features gorgeous Rocky Mountain views and it's convenience from Calgary can't be beat.
If you live in Banff, this is the local's option. Situated minutes from the Banff townsite this is a convenient option to do a couple laps before or after work if you live in the area (someday…). Those of us coming from Calgary have a bit more to trek with about an hour and a half drive to Norquay.
For a small resort, Norquay certainly has charm. The North American chair has some fun terrain that draws a lot of locals from Banff and Canmore, and it was even famously visited by Marilyn Monroe.
Norquay runs a promotion called Toonie Days where Alberta residents can get a lift pass for only $2 and ski for less than a cup of coffee. And it gets better, they collect optional donations to various charities of their choosing, raising over $40,000 at the time of writing this article. Skiing is a ludicrously expensive sport so skiing for pocket change is something special. For non-residents it is still a good option for tourists as it's so close to Banff and lift tickets can be bundled with ones for Lake Louise and Sunshine with the Ski Big Three pass. We're not a huge fan of the food at the hill and would rather head to Banff where there are more options but some say that the restaurant is excellent and good value for your money. Supposedly there is a fancy French chef who cooks there on weekends but we've never tried it so you'll have to check it out and decide for yourself!
Castle Mountain is a hidden gem in Southern Alberta. A rare family-owned hill, what it lacks in infrastructure it makes up for in charm. There is seriously a lady that will not only scan your lift pass, but give you a hug before you get on the chair lift.
Castle has only a few lifts and while they do have names, they're generally referred to by their colour. The green chair is the beginner area , the blue chair is your main lift with (you guessed it), nice blue runs, and the red chair takes you up to Castles famous chutes for some excellent black and double black skiing.
Castle has some excellent terrain, the chutes will be enjoyed by any strong skier. This area is infamous for it's wind so dress warm with lots of layers. Depending how the wind blows you can either have an amazing day or a day best spent in the T-Bar pub. Some days the wind blows all the snow off the mountain making for frustrating, icy ACL-tear-inducing skiing. The red chair (and the best terrain) can be closed for days at a time if the wind is blowing especially hard.
But on the days when the wind is blowing just right, it sifts the snow so that it covers the tracks made in front of you, which makes for endless dry powder skiing. On those special days, the combination of Castle Mountain's incredible terrain and great conditions align for some epic skiing.
Speaking of the T-bar pub, ski pubs don't get much more authentic than this. The walls are lined with old trail signs, the roof is covered with old skis, it has exactly the ambiance you would hope for from a ski hill pub.
Kicking Horse Mountain Resort is located 14km outside of the town of Golden, British Columbia, and is just over a 3 hour drive from Calgary. Kicking Horse has a reputation for gnarly, steep terrain and is favoured among strong skiiers. You often have to hike for your line, but on a good snow day it has some fun terrain.
That said, Kicking Horse lacks for infrastructure, with a single Gondola serving the majority of the mountain. Honestly, it's not a great resort for beginner-intermediate skiers who will be stuck doing continuous laps off the Gondola and may get bored with the terrain and tired of the lineups. Strong skiers will rejoice in the shorter lines and terrain off the Stairway to Heaven chair, and the 75 chutes the mountain boasts.
Another claim to fame for Kicking Horse is fine dining at the highest restaurant in Canada, the Eagle's Eye which sits at 7700 feet (2346m) above sea level.
If you're a strong skier, Kicking Horse is worth the drive but if you're going in a group of mixed abilities or looking for beginner – intermediate runs I would likely recommend heading to another hill on this list.
Sunshine Village is roughly an hour and a half drive from Calgary. It has a wide variety of terrain suitable for beginners to experts. When you arrive at the resort you have to take a Gondola up to 2,164m to get to the chairlifts and because of that elevation, it has some of the best snow near Calgary.
All ranges of skill levels will be satisfied with Sunshine's variety of terrain. Sunshine has vast areas suitable for beginners and a variety of expert runs off of the Goats Eye and Teepee Town chairs. All of Sunshine's lifts are modern and will get you to the top quickly. Sunshine's latest lift, the Teepee Town even has heated seats and a screen you can lower to block the wind.
Experts will certainly want to check out the freeriding zone of Delirium Dive, which has a steep 40 degree slope and wide open bowl that's often filled with fresh powder. It requires an avalanche beacon to get past the gate, and should be accessed only by those that understand Avalanche Rescue techniques and are carrying the proper equipment.
Sunshine also has excellent "sidecountry" skiing that can be accessed off the Wawa chair. Again, anybody accessing this terrain should be trained and prepared in self rescue, have knowledge of how to travel in Avalanche Terrain (through a course such as the AST1), and travel with an avalanche transceiver, probe, and shovel.
Sunshine has a fun pub high up on the mountain that resembles a trapper's cabin. Sometimes the snow is so high it covers the windows entirely. Stopping in for lunch at the Mad Trapper's Grill is always a fun experience. That said, whatever you do, don't eat the day lodge's cafeteria food unless you like your food to taste like cardboard.
Another feather in Sunshine's cap, it typically stays open the latest of all resorts near Calgary. Each season you can ski until the May long weekend and the season is capped off with the Slush Cup which is a rip-roaring good time.
Just over three hours southwest of Calgary, Fernie boasts large snowfalls and epic bowl skiing. On average they receive a staggering 30 feet of snow, have almost 150 named runs, and 5 alpine bowls. Not too bad.
It also is where Hot Tub Time Machine was filmed, so that's another reason to visit. Great white buffalo….
Fernie has varied terrain that will appeal to all ability levels. Beginner and intermediate skiers will be happy on the ample blue runs off each chair and strong skiers will love the alpine bowls, glades, and chutes.
The town is fun and has some delicious dining options and the ski hill's Griz Bar is a good place to enjoy a tasty "mogul smoker" cocktail, a Fernie exclusive!
The only destination in the United States on this list, Whitefish is a bit of a trek at 5 hours from Calgary, but a trip to Whitefish will certainly make you feel like you've gone somewhere. It's a much different culture than Calgary but welcoming of Canadian tourists. The vibe in town oozes ski culture, crossed with rural Montanan charm.
Cozy cabin under the stars outside of Whitefish, MT.
The town has great shopping (think cabin décor), the bars have great beer on tap from the multitude of craft breweries in Whitefish and elsewhere in Montana, and you can gamble in most of the bars which is unique for us Canadians. A trip to Whitefish isn't complete without visiting the Bull Dog Saloon, which accepts Canadian dollars at par….and make sure you make a trip to the facilities. That's all we'll say about that.
The skiing at Whitefish is also great, with a variety of terrain suitable for beginners to advanced skiers. The snow is often deep and fluffy although visibility can be poor, but that gives you an excuse to check out Whitefish's great tree skiing. As you near the top of the ski resort you will also see "Snow Ghosts"; trees encrusted in snow and ice due to the unique conditions of wind, moisture, and temperature on the Big Mountain. In addition to great terrain and snow, there are often inversions meaning the weather on top of the mountain is sunny and warmer than the valley below. It makes for beautiful views of the town below and into Glacier National Park.
Lake Louise is the most iconic resort in Banff National Park, and at about 2 hours from Calgary it is our go-to local hill. It's also less than 45 minutes from Banff, making it a popular destination for those around the world. Lake Louise has great skiing for all abilities with long, wide groomers on the frontside and Larch chair, fun terrain of the Top of the World, and a large variety of challenging terrain for strong skiers off the aptly named Paradise Chair and Summit Platter. The chutes off the pommel lift are steep but especially fun.
On busy days the front side can have long lineups but skiers in the know head to the backside to find shorter lines and wide open runs.
Lake Louise is the first stop on the FIS Alpine Ski World Cup circuit each year, and the only resort in Canada where the race is held.
The restaurants on the hill leave a lot to be desired, so we recommend packing a lunch, buying only drinks, and splurging at one of Banff's many delicious dining options like Nourish or Park.
The views at Lake Louise are simply world class with vistas of Lake Louise, the Plain of Six Glaciers, the Valley of the Ten Peaks, and of Mount Temple. Make sure you take your camera!
Last but certainly not least, Revelstoke ("Revy") is without a doubt, the best skiing near Calgary. A four and half – five hour drive (and often in poor conditions) is a bit of a long haul for a weekend but if Revelstoke was closer to Calgary we'd be there all the time. It's arguably the best skiing in Canada, North America, or maybe even the world. Seriously, Revelstoke is that good.
Stats-wise, Revy boasts the highest vertical drop (1713m) in North America, an unreal 14m of annual snowfall, 13 gladed areas and big, steep terrain. Revelstoke has a large area accessible only by heli-skiing operators and cat skiing. It also hosts the Freeskiing World Tour's Canadian Championship annually, a testament to its big mountain terrain. Views of the Columbia River below on bluebird days are a sight to behold and offer an excuse to take a breather on the long, leg-burning runs.
The drive from Calgary, unfortunately, is a long one and can be a bit treacherous but the tremendous skiing is well worth the effort. Heavy snowfall can lead to the highway closures for avalanche clearing along Rogers Pass which may lead you to get "Revelstuck", but is that really a bad thing?
Food at Revy isn't too bad but we'll typically pack a lunch and instead spead our money at the fun pubs and restaurants in town for some delightful après. We recommend the Village Idiot for their chairs made out of old skis and massive piles of nachos but be prepared to wait for a table.
There isn't a lot of bad skiing near Calgary. We're fortunate to be close enough to day trip to a wide variety of resorts that each offer a slightly different experience. For those that are willing to drive a bit further or aiming for a weekend away, your options expand to some seriously great ski resorts.
People come from all over the world to check out these ski resorts and we're certainly privileged to have them so close. Whether you're looking to cruise the groomers, rip through the trees, or drop into a bowl of champagne powder, these resorts have it all. See you at the bar for some Après-Ski! | {'redpajama_set_name': 'RedPajamaC4'} | 362 |
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Even Little Girls Ask for Less
Maggie Whalen
As early as age 8, girls' negotiation skills start to reflect patterns socially-reinforced for their gender, raising the issue of how these girls will fare when they enter the workplace.
The groundwork for the pay gap so many women workers confront at work may actually be set in motion while they are still in elementary school, recent research at Boston College's Cooperation Lab suggests. By around age 8, kids start to display behaviors socially-reinforced for their gender, including the negotiation skills they will need as they discuss salary requirements with their superiors.
For the study, the first of its kind to identify a gender-driven "negotiation gap" in children so young, 240 children, aged 4-9, were asked to negotiate with male and female evaluators. They were told to complete a task, then were allowed to ask for as many stickers as they wanted as a reward. Evaluators were instructed to push back on requests for more than two stickers.
Between the ages of 4 and 7, the children in the study displayed equal ability to negotiate regardless of gender. By the age of 8, however, girls in the study were observed requesting less than boys when negotiating with a man.
Girls and boys negotiated just as much as one another, with one exception. When girls had to negotiate with a man, they asked for fewer stickers than when attempting to negotiate with a woman.
"We found that — consistent with adult work — girls asked for less than boys when negotiating with a man. We did not see this gender gap when children were negotiating with a woman," lead autho,r Katherine McAuliffe, said in a statement.
Girls requested fewer stickers the older they got when asking from a man, and requested more stickers with age if the evaluator was a woman. Boys' requests remained consistent regardless of the evaluator's gender. The findings bear a striking similarity to similar studies done with adults, the study's authors say.
Given that managerial and executive positions in the workforce skew heavily male, this may spell difficulty down the line for girls negotiating their first salaries and work responsibilities, as well as their general ability to advocate for themselves with the men in their lives.
Similar trends have been seen in the context of school. Studies have found that boys and men tend to over-evaluate their competency in science, while girls underestimate theirs. In kindergarten, boys and girls do equally well in math, but by the second grade (about the same age when the negotiation gap emerges), research has shown that girls' confidence in their number skills, as well as their math performance, starts to decline.
"Learning when these gender differences emerge is imperative for understanding what individual and societal factors lead to these gender differences in adulthood," McAuliffe and study co-author, NYU graduate student Sophie Arnold, write.
More studies are needed determine what role cultural factors may play in the gendered negotiation gap, and whether intervention strategies can be taken early on to bolster girls' negotiation skills. In the meantime, "one thing this tells us is that we should be teaching young girls to advocate for themselves in the context of negotiation from as early as elementary school," McAuliffe said.
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Q: Shading a transitive dependency (guava) with Maven Shading Plugin I am trying to create a library that will be reused by applications that run on a WebServer equivalent.
The library will use Selenium (v3.9.1) which has a dependency on Guava (v23.6-jre), however, the WebServer also has Guava on the classpath and therefore I am getting a dependency conflict. When I include my library in an app and run it I get the following error:
com.google.common.base.Preconditions.checkState(ZLjava/lang/String;Ljava/lang/Object;Ljava/lang/Object;Ljava/lang/Object;)V (java.lang.NoSuchMethodError). (org.mule.api.MessagingException)
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org.openqa.selenium.chrome.ChromeDriverService.createDefaultService(ChromeDriverService.java:88)
org.openqa.selenium.chrome.ChromeDriver.<init>(ChromeDriver.java:157)
As I can't change the dependencies on the server itself, I thought of using the Maven Shading Plugin to create an uber jar and relocating the guava classes - with the plugin configured as follows:
<build>
<plugins>
<plugin>
<groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
<artifactId>maven-shade-plugin</artifactId>
<version>2.3</version>
<configuration>
<artifactSet>
<includes>
<include>com.google.guava</include>
<include>org.seleniumhq.selenium</include>
</includes>
</artifactSet>
<relocations>
<relocation>
<pattern>com.google.common</pattern>
<shadedPattern>shaded.com.google.common</shadedPattern>
</relocation>
</relocations>
</configuration>
<executions>
<execution>
<phase>package</phase>
<goals>
<goal>shade</goal>
</goals>
</execution>
</executions>
</plugin>
</plugins>
</build>
So, I believe this is saying:
*
*Include guava and selenium in my FAT JAR.
*Relocate all references to com.google.common to shaded.com.google.common.
This produces the JAR and if I unzip it, I can see the google libraries are shaded. However, when I run the application, I get the following error:
org.openqa.selenium.remote.service.DriverService$Builder.createArgs()Lshaded/com/google/common/collect/ImmutableList; (java.lang.AbstractMethodError).
Which suggests to me that the Selenium DriverService$Builder class and/or the Abstract method it refers to weren't updated during the relocation.
I can get it to work if I relocate both the google libraries AND the selenium libraries
<relocations>
<relocation>
<pattern>com.google.common</pattern>
<shadedPattern>shaded.com.google.common</shadedPattern>
</relocation>
<relocation>
<pattern>org.openqa.selenium</pattern>
<shadedPattern>shaded.org.openqa.selenium</shadedPattern>
</relocation>
</relocations>
However, this means that in my application (that makes use of the library), I need to refer to the Selenium classes under the "shaded" package. i.e. import shaded.org.openqa.selenium.WebDriver;
Is there anyway I can just shade the Guava dependencies but leave the Selenium libraries alone?
Any help much appreciated,
Iain
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Butch Hiles has trained and competed in combat sports most of his life. However, his true calling has been the instruction and advice he has been able to offer his students and members. Although he has various titles in boxing, kickboxing, jiu-jitsu, and many other martial arts, a series of injuries, which included a torn rotator cuff, multiple knee injuries, and a herniated disc, made sure that his competition window quickly closed. So, he seized the opportunity to help train anyone who was wanting to learn, while still training as often as he could.
Concentrating on training and teaching, Hiles was able to receive multiple black belts in various martial arts, which include Japanese Jujitsu, Reality Fighting, and various other combat martial arts. His training also included extensive boxing and Muay Thai training under Leon Ramsey, who is certified under the legendary Master Toddy and is also widely regarded as the best "stand-up" trainer in WV history. These additional achievements, have helped him broaden the instruction, advice, and training he can offer his students and members.
Even though Hiles has accomplished the rank of black belt in various martial arts, he is probably most known for the belt he currently holds in Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu. Hiles is a first degree black belt in Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu under Marcello Monteiro, who is widely regarded as one of the best Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu coaches around.
Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu is one of the hardest martial arts that there is and it takes years to accomplish the rank of a black belt. It is also widely regarded as the top martial art in the world for it's effectiveness in reality competition, such as mixed martial arts as well as real life confrontations.
Before Marcello Monteiro's instruction, Hiles received his blue and purple belts in Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu from the legendary Royce Gracie of Ultimate Fighting Championship fame.
Butch Hiles' Credentials as a Top Level Instructor
As an instructor, his fighters were very successful and that is, in many respects, much more impressive than anything he could have personally done as a competitor, and something he is more proud of than any other compliment or award he could have ever received. He has had winners, and champions, in every major combat sport during his days as a fight trainer.
He trained the first, and only, National IKF Amateur kickboxing champion, as well as many other kickboxing champions. He trained various boxing champions that have won everything from Golden Glove titles to the Rough n' Rowdy and Toughman. He has trained champions in Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu that have won everything from state, or local tournaments, to national tournaments such as NAGA and the Arnold's. He also trained multiple mixed martial arts, or Ultimate Fighting champions. Hiles has had MMA title holders in every weight class in several organizations, which included a King of the Cage championship title when the King of the Cage was ranked number two in the United States behind the UFC.
Butch Hiles is currently the USA MMA Representative for WV and the ADCC (the Olympics of grappling) representative for WV as well.
Pictured are Some of the Champions Trained by Butch Hiles
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Butch Hiles Hall of Fame Career
Hiles was inducted into the United States Martial Arts Hall of Fame, as an instructor, as well as several other martial arts hall of fame's for his training, competing, and dedication to martial arts as a whole. It should also be noted that he has turned down several nominations but is currently a part of at least a dozen.
Hiles Fought For the Legalization of Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu & Mixed Martial Arts in WV
Hiles also led the fight to keep Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu legal in the state of West Virginia. Due to ignorance of the state athletic commission, and their lack of knowledge in regards to submissions and martial arts, Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu was briefly banned in West Virginia. However, Mr. Hiles was able to win a monumental court case to keep Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu as well as other martial arts such as Japanese jiu-jitsu and randori legal in West Virginia.
Mixed martial arts (MMA) was also banned in WV for nearly 10 years. However, in 2011, with the help of Sam Minardi and Zuffa, LLC they were able to bring MMA back to the state of WV. This was a monumental victory for the sport, the fans , and everyone involved.
Leading the Charge in West Virginia
In order to give back to the community and continue to be a pioneer in the sport of MMA in WV, Butch Hiles continues to bring in top level MMA stars for events, seminars, and appearances. In 2011, Butch Hiles hosted a movie premier and flew in the director, Gregory Bayne, and it's star, former UFC and WEC champion, Jens Pulver. The event brought in underprivileged organizations and youth from around the area and allowed them to watch the movie for free. It was one of the most successful events in WV history.
Some Pictures of Events Led by Butch Hiles or Training with Legends
A Promoter, Referee, Judge, and Pioneer in the Industry
Butch Hiles currently hosts the longest running grappling tournament in West Virginia as well as the WV Games, which is the largest collection or sporting events and athletes in the state, and also features that state Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu championships.
He has promoted MMA events, grappling events, boxing events, and judged and/or refereed in hundreds of competitions in WV and neighboring states.
Butch Hiles is now doing seminars in Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu, MMA, self-defense (corporate and personal), bully-proofing, and much more.
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The woman emerged carrying a crossbow.
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Hugs, intros and congratulations followed as we emerged from the car.
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In a large bowl, combine the rice, romaine, oranges, tomatoes and onion. For dressing, in a small bowl, whisk the orange juice concentrate, vinegar, oil, tarragon, garlic powder, salt and pepper. Set aside 4 teaspoons. Pour remaining dressing over rice mixture and toss to coat. Divide among four plates; top with shrimp. Drizzle with reserved dressing.
1-1/2 cups: 301 calories, 6g fat (1g saturated fat), 166mg cholesterol, 498mg sodium, 41g carbohydrate (15g sugars, 5g fiber), 22g protein. Diabetic Exchanges: 2 lean meat, 1-1/2 starch, 1 vegetable, 1 fruit, 1/2 fat.
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Ford; the Future of the Automobile Industry is the Electric car.
Business, Science, Technology
Electrical cars have gained a lot of traction in the recent past. A few decades ago, electric cars looked so futuristic and a feat whose measuring up to looked a Davidic – Goliath challenge for most gasoline manufacturing companies.
As we are talking today, electric cars are no longer an option for even the maestros in the field. It is now very clear that the future of the industry is electric cars. In an earlier post, I wrote about the race by giant automobile companies such as GM, Toyota, Mercedes, and even Volkswagen to start manufacturing electric cars.
This week on Wednesday, Ford announced its intentions to do serious restructuring in a bid to separate the electric vehicle division from its legendary internal combustion engine. One fact is true. And that is the fact that Ford will have a lot of work to do to catch up with the rest of the industry players.
The two divisions will be operating as distinct businesses with the electric division called Ford Model E whereas the internal combustion engine will be called Ford Blue. In a heroic shot, the company intends to produce over 2 million electric cars per year by the year 2026.
In addition, Ford expects to generate half of its annual sales from the sale of electric cars by the year 2030. To achieve this fete, the company intends to pump 5 billion dollars this year in the electric card division which almost double its investments in the division in the year 2021.
But how much catching up does Ford have to make to compete with the rest of the industry players?
Ford's electric vehicle sales combined with the plug-in hybrid electric vehicles totaled slightly above 100,000 units. Precisely the exact sales were 117,497 with battery electric vehicles totaling about 50,000 units. To achieve its targets by 2026, Ford will have to double up its efforts fivefold.
Tesla, the market leader in the battery electric vehicle division sold almost a million units in 2021. Precisely, they sold 936, 147 units. They were followed closely by the Volkswagen group whose battery electric car sales totaled slightly above 400,000 units.
In combination with the plug-in hybrid electric vehicle, Volkswagen sold a total of 762,850 units. They were followed by BYD who sold a combined total of 597,836. General Motors came in fourth with a total combined of 516, 634.
But then, in the Battery electric vehicles, General Motors came in second as its sales were about 500,000 units. As a matter of fact, in 2021, GM sold very few units of the Plug-in hybrid electric vehicles and if anything, are doing quite great in catching up with Tesla motors which does purely the battery electric vehicles.
Stellants closed in on the 5th position with sales totaling 388,024. Of these, over 200,000 units were battery electric vehicles. The trend seems to point at some skewness where the Plug-in hybrid electric vehicles will be phased out in favor of the battery electric vehicles.
What this means is that every major automobile is in the race towards electric cars. Some have made quite great strides. Ford is just beginning the race. The only disadvantage to Ford is that other automakers have a competitive edge already as far as electric cars manufacturing is concerned.
Yet the solace is that their decision points to the realization that the future of the car is electric. And not to be left behind, they have made a great announcement whose futuristic ultimate stop is an automobile purely in the battery-electric car space.
We are aware that the oil reserves we have the world over may not clock the next 100 years which means one thing for sure, the need to go electric. This is a wake-up call for Africa and the rest of the world who have a lot of work to catch up with the electric car.
Postscript: Is anybody out there seeing the necessity to start specializing in the electric car engineering space here in Africa?
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Here's A Detailed Look At The 2020 Corvette C8's Impressive Engineering
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All images: Chevy (unless otherwise stated)
The 2020 Corvette C8 is here, and by now you've probably seen exterior and interior photos, and read about all the performance figures. That's great, but what you really want is to learn about the hardware, so here's what I got from an interview with a Corvette engineer and through sifting through GM's technical literature.
The Corvette is getting lots of love for its design, cool features, and reasonable starting price tag, and though I obviously haven't driven the car yet, it's probably safe to say that the stylists, product planners, and finance folks really don't deserve nearly as much credit as the engineers do. So let's focus on some engineering attributes of the new Corvette, shall we?
The Body Structure
The new Corvette's main body structure is made of aluminum, and, according to the car's executive chief engineer Tadge Juechter, "makes the most use of high pressure die-casting in General Motors history."
Juechter describes the six largest castings that make up the main structure—castings that GM names the "Bedford Six" after the location where they're built: Bedford, Indiana—as "enormous." Those castings are highlighted below in blue and also shown in orange two images above:
Those big castings, Juechter said during the reveal, were designed to minimize the number of joints in the body, reduce mass, and increase stiffness. "They are the key to making this the stiffest Corvette in history, which in turns contributes to great driving dynamics," he said. According to Chevy, the new body is 10 percent stiffer than that of the outgoing C7.
Another thing Juechter mentioned was the center tunnel, which acts as the car's backbone. Chevy has been using such a design on the Corvette since 1997, Juechter said, and its main job is to keep the car nice and stiff to allow for better ride and handling (since a stiff structure means the precisely-tuned suspension, and not the body, can do all the flexing). The backbone, the chief engineer said, has been completely redesigned on the C8, and the setup allows the vehicle to have low rocker panels.
Chevrolet expounds on this last bit in its press release, saying the low rockers allow for easy ingress and egress. "Unlike some competitors," Chevy says, "there's no need for oversized rocker panels to bear structural and load weights, making it easier to enter and exit the vehicle."
The backbone design, Chevy says, was also key to helping enable the car's transparent or carbon fiber removable roof panel (presumably because it would otherwise have to bear load), to allowing for a right-hand drive variant, and to yielding good interior and front trunk space.
Speaking of the front trunk, Juechter said the tubs for the two storage areas—as well as the dash panel—are made of a special, extra-light moulded fiberglass made with a "proprietary resin." The photo above shows those frunk and trunk tubs.
While we're on the topic of fibers, check out this extremely unimpressive-looking curved carbon fiber rear bumper beam. It's apparently an industry first:
Image: Andrew Collins/Jalopnik
Anyway, that's about all I know about the 3,366 pound (not including fluids) Corvette's body so far, but what you came here to see is hardware, and I'm thrilled to say that my colleagues Andrew Collins and Tahsin Hyder got some great footage of the structure:
Aerodynamics and Powertrain Cooling
I had a chance to speak with Rich Quinn, Cooling System and Thermal Lead Development Engineer, about how the Corvette's cooling system works, and it's quite interesting.
Up front are two large outboard radiators, which send cold liquid coolant in parallel rearward to cool the engine and transmission.
There's no dedicated air-to-water transmission cooler. Instead, as the two radiators send cold coolant rearward toward the engine bay, the fluid tees off to cool three main components: the engine itself, the transmission's oil-to-coolant stack heat exchanger (which is mounted to the trans and shown in a photo later in this story), and the engine's stack oil-to-liquid heat exchanger (which is mounted to the motor).
In the Z51 package, Quinn told me, there's a dedicated heat exchanger behind the passenger's side large side vent. Here's a look at it:
"There's a separate dedicate coolant loop on the Z51 that runs through the third radiator in the rear so that third radiator has a dedicated airflow path, a dedicated cooling fan." he told me. "That adds bulk cooling, but it also cools the coolant that's running into the trans oil liquid-to-liquid heat exchanger."
In other words, this heat exchanger further cools the liquid coming from the radiators up front, and then sends that extra cold water to the transmission. "It's just like an addition to the front two radiators in terms of its total capacity. Since it's cooler coolant coming out of that [rear heat exchanger], we use that, run it directly to the trans cooler stack heat exchanger," Quinn said over the phone.
"It's a really effective way of getting good capacity and also not overcooling in cold weather," he told me about the design, which—like many old-school "in-tank coolers," uses the engine's radiator outlet coolant to keep the transmission cool.
Even though the Z51 package adds a heat exchanger behind the passenger's side vent, the main purpose of those aggressive holes on the side of the vehicle is not to feed heat exchangers to keep the engine cool. "The two rear inlets, their primary function is essentially taking exhaust thermal energy out of the rear compartment," he told me.
The main point, there, is to provide relief to components near the exhaust such as rubber engine mounts and suspension components, which degrade quickly when subjected to high temperatures.
Air enters those side vents, absorbs exhaust heat, and is ducted away through a number of outlets, including the big vents in the rear bumper shown below.
"When you're going down the road, [air] usually translates across the exhaust manifold, over the muffler in the rear, and it exits over the visible vents you see in the rear," he told me, saying that, though there are a number of exit paths, the primary one for the air that has flowed through the engine compartment is actually the metal mesh behind the muffler. Here's a look at that:
But there are more outlets than just those on the very rear of the car. On either side of the rear glass, you'll notice some fairly large vents. Those, Quinn explained, are there to help remove heat from the engine bay when the car is at idle via natural convection (hot air will rise straight up through those vents):
There are, of course, a number of other aerodynamic attributes that are probably worth mentioning, like this "hybrid rear spoiler" which is taller on the outsides, and "touched down" in the center.
I'm looking forward to learning more about this vehicle's aero properties.
The biggest news about the new Corvette is, of course, the fact that it's mid-engine, and according to Chevy, one of the benefits of this setup is the shorter nose, which means a shorter, straighter, and stiffer steering system (which I'm assuming refers mostly to the intermediate shaft). Juechter says the steering system (which, in case you're curious, offers a 15.7:1 ratio) is now 50 percent stiffer than before, going on to say: "That makes the driver's input to the chassis nearly instantaneous."
Another benefit of the mid-engine setup, he says, is that the driver's center of gravity is right above the car's. "The car literally rotates around you in a turn," he says.
He also mentions that the mid-engine setup—and particularly the rear weight bias that it creates—improves straight-line acceleration, and helps improve the steering experience since it reduces the need for steering assist. In addition, Chevy mentions visibility and utility (the car has two trunks) as benefits of the architecture.
Now it's time to look at the suspension, which is markedly revised from the outgoing car's (shown below), with the biggest news being the deletion of the transverse-mounted composite leaf springs at each axle. If you look closely at the image, you'll be able to see the C7's black composite leaf springs that span from lower control arm to lower control arm on each axle:
The C8's design is quite different. Here's a close-up shot of it:
You'll notice the coilovers in the front and rear. The general design is similar to that of the outgoing car, as both used a short/long arm double-wishbone setup with monotube shocks and available Magnetic Selective Ride Control, which you can learn about below:
The C8, though, has a forged aluminum upper control arm in the front and rear, while the C7 used cast upper and lower control arms.
Above you can see the basic suspension setup for the new C8, and here's how the front and rear suspension cradles looked on the outgoing car (the most obvious difference, again, is the lack of coil springs):
Autoweek provides some possible reasoning for the move away from leafs, writing:
The Corvette's familiar CRP leaf springs are effective devices for a lot of reasons, but they're actually more cost-intensive than coil springs, and with the midengine layout the packaging space for transverse leafs has nearly disappeared.
The second term in the "mid-engine" phrase that has everyone so excited refers to a 6.2-liter Small Block V8 that Chevy calls the "LT2." It makes 490 horsepower and 465 lb-ft of torque in standard form, and the performance exhaust that comes with the Z51 package brings those figures up to 495 horsepower and 470 lb-ft.
The biggest change to the motor compared with the outgoing one deals with the lubrication system. "For the first time ever," Chevy says in its release, "the base Stingray will use an engine-mounted dry sump oil system and three scavenge pumps for improved track performance."
The new setup, which includes a reservoir (pointed out in the image at the top of this section) mounted to the front of the engine, allows for a lower center of gravity. "A low profile oil pan reduces mass and lets us mount the whole engine lower in the chassis than we've ever done before," Juechter said in his remarks during the reveal. Indeed, Chevy mentions in the press release that, where it mates with the transaxle, the crankshaft's centerline actually sits an inch lower to the ground. This, in theory, can yield better handling.
Chevy also says in the video that the dry sump setup in advantageous when the vehicle experiences high lateral accelerations, as it prevents oil starvation issues from sloshing or from frothing due to windage. From Chevy's press release:
During serious track driving, oil volume remains high to avoid diminished performance. The new Stingray's lateral capability is greatly improved, so the LT2's dry sump lubrication system had to be redesigned to provide exceptional engine performance even at lateral acceleration levels exceeding 1G in all directions.
Other changes to the motor include a higher oil cooler capacity, and a number of alterations in the aesthetics, since the motor is now visible through the rear glass. Check out the red valve covers and what appears to be a rather aggressively designed, gray airbox:
And here are some graphical depictions of that motor sitting in the vehicle:
Eight-Speed Dual-Clutch Transmission
The new Corvette's 6.2-liter V8 is bolted to a new Tremec eight-speed dual-clutch transmission that Chevy says has a low first gear to yield better launch times, and closely spaced second-through-sixth gears to keep the engine near its peak power operating point on the track. Gears seven and eight, Chevy says, are tall to keep engine speed down to yield fuel economy and lower engine stresses during highway cruising.
The video above shows the dual-clutch setup, with its two clutches—one that actuates even gears, and one that actuates odd ones—arranged on a concentric shaft. Chevy says the new Corvette can snap off shifts in under 0.1 seconds, and can keep 100 percent of torque from the engine applied through the driveline even during the shift.
Notice the stack oil-to-water cooler on top of the transmission.
"During very aggressive launches, we can actually drive torque through both shaft clutches simultaneously." Ed Piatek, the Corvette's Chief Engineer says in the video above. "So you'll be on an upshift engaging third gear but still driving torque through second as you're engaging third."
Chevrolet says its goal for this transmission was to provide the "driving engagement of a manual with the speed and smoothness of an automatic." That seems like a tall order, since there's no clutch pedal, but there are paddle shifters, and there is a "double paddle de-clutch feature," which Chevy says "allows the driver to disconnect the clutch by holding both paddles for more manual control."
I reached out to a Chevy representative to learn more, and found that this just seems like a way to listen to that sweet, sweet V8 sing. "[It is] exactly what it sounds like," he told me. "Pull both [paddles] and it disengages to simulate neutral. Good for some fun revs."
Shifting that transmission into Drive, Reverse, Park, and Neutral involves using an "Electronic Transmission Range Selector," whose P and N switches are buttons and whose D and R buttons are actually pull toggles. They seem pretty interesting; here's a look:
That transmission, along with the 495 horsepower V8, should yield a 0-60 mph time in under three seconds, Chevy claims. That is, when equipped with the Z51 Performance Package we mentioned earlier. The kit adds larger brake rotors, performance tires, a special front splitter and rear spoiler, brake cooling inlets in the front, a performance exhaust, more cooling capacity, and an electronic limited slip differential with a unique gear ratio.
That's all the technical nerdiness I have for the new 'Vette, but I'll keep writing more as I get it, as this is clearly a fascinating machine.
Update July 19, 2019 11:10 P.M. : This article has been updated with an additional awesome photo of the inside of the transmission. I also added the vehicle's dry weight.
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Tammy Feenstra Banks' professional experience spans over 25 years in health-oriented organizations including a large nonprofit Medical Association, a large health system, and a Fortune 500 managed healthcare and insurance company. She has devoted her career leading multi-stakeholder collaborations to align incentives to solve healthcare's administrative and clinical workflow challenges in both the private and public sectors to positively impact all stakeholders.
Currently, Ms. Banks is the Principal/Consultant for ImpactQue LLC, a consulting firm working with start-ups, medical associations and thought leaders. She previously served as the Vice President Medicare Strategy, Value Based Care Programs at Providence St. Joseph Health. Through the identification of key regulatory opportunities for growth and operational performance, she developed and implemented Medicare Value Based Care strategy, program management, and technical advocacy across the system.
Prior to Providence, she served as Vice President, Industry Relations Claims and Payments within Optum 360 and Vice President Interoperability Program Development (Healthcare Simplification) within Optum. She provided internal business leadership and industry advocacy to advance administrative and clinical data interoperability with the goal to make healthcare more automated, affordable, and patient centered. She also built supportive coalitions and successfully championed the addition of enhanced messaging within future administrative standards.
Prior to Optum, she served in three medical associations, including 11 years with the American Medical Association Private Sector Advocacy unit. During her leadership, error rates for private health insurers on paid medical claims dropped from 19.3 percent in 2011 to 9.5 percent in 2012, resulting in an estimated $8 billion in health system savings due to a reduction in unnecessary administrative work to reconcile errors through the "Heal the claims process™" National Health Insurer Report Card campaign. The campaign aimed to reduce physician practice administrative costs to 1% of practice revenue vs. the current 10–14% expense. She also successfully championed the capability for payers to increase transparency of entities performing traditional health plan roles on future eligibility and claims remittance advice standard transactions. This included the identification of the specific fee schedule for the patient.
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This is a master ticket for tasks that can be done after WTF-PAD gets merged, and maybe even after 0.4.0 gets released. They represent tasks that increase code quality and reduce tech debt.
Improve the probability distribution API. Instead of using nameless dist params, instead have the caller instantiate a struct with the right params for each distribution.
The above will also allow callers to specify a genpareto distribution with configurable mu parameter.
Marking this as closed; open new tickets for refactoring in 0.4.1 and later. | {'redpajama_set_name': 'RedPajamaC4'} | 378 |
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Happy Birthday to Mariah Carey! Here are 10 facts about the Grammy winning artist!
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1. Born Mariah Angela Carey on March 27, 1970
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2. Her mother an Irish American was an Opera singer while her father, African-American and Venezuelan was an aeronautical enginer.
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3. In high school she was nicknamed "Mirage" because she used to skip class all the time.
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4. Mariah Carey recieved a star on the Hollywood Walk Of Fame on August 5, 2015
5. When she sings, she has a 5 octave vocal range
6. Together her and Nick Cannon had twins Moroccan & Monroe
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7. She has won a total of 5 Grammy Awards
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8. In 2002, she joined the board of directors on Fresh Air Fund. She supports their career program named Camp Mariah.
9. Her song "All I Want For Christmas Is You" has 409 million views on YouTube since it was uploaded in 2009. | {'redpajama_set_name': 'RedPajamaCommonCrawl'} | 382 |
MORGANTOWN, W. Va. (May 15, 2004) - West Virginia scored single runs in the first, third, sixth and seventh innings and Mountaineer starter Shawn Miller turned in a strong performance as WVU defeated ETSU, 4-0 Saturday afternoon from Hawley Field in Morgantown, W. Va. The Mountaineers (20-28) took the early lead, scoring a run in the bottom of the first. Jake Serfass led off the inning with a single and moved to second as Grant Psomas walked. The two runners advanced on a groundout by Kurtis Clinton and Serfass crossed the plate on a groundout by Stan Posluszny. WVU added a run to their lead in the bottom of the third. Psomas hit a one-out double off of the left field wall and scored later in the inning on an infield single by Clinton. Kyle Matuszek added a run to the Mountaineer lead in the bottom of the sixth with his fourth home run of the season, a solo shot over the right-center field wall. West Virginia ran their lead to 4-0 with a run in the bottom of the seventh. Justin Richards led off the inning with a double to left, then moved to third when Serfass reached on an error. Richards scored on a sacrifice fly by Psomas on a great diving catch in center field by Buccaneer senior Tim Turner (Marietta, Ga.). Turner hit a two-out triple in the top of the eighth, but following a 32-minute rain delay, the Bucs were unable to score him from third. ETSU (26-25) senior starter Josh Kite (Greeneville, Tenn.) took the tough-luck loss (2-3), allowing two runs over five innings. Kite also walked two and struck out five on the afternoon. Miller (5-5) went the distance for the Mountaineers, allowing no runs on five hits, walking two and striking out four. The top five batters in the ETSU batting order, Turner, sophomore right fielder Shane Byrne (Johnson City, Tenn.), junior catcher Caleb Moore (Knoxville, Tenn.), sophomore first baseman Blake Church (Roswell, Ga.) and senior shortstop Andy Howdeshell (Maryville, Tenn.) each had hits on the afternoon. Richards and Psomas both had two hits today for West Virginia. East Tennessee State returns home to conclude the regular season with a five-game homestand next week. The first game of the week will be against Tennessee Tech, Tuesday night at 7 p.m. from Cardinal Park in Johnson City, Tenn. | {'redpajama_set_name': 'RedPajamaC4'} | 383 |
The Han Dynasty Of Ancient China.
A description of one of the great eras of ancient China, telling of the reasons why the Han dynasty was such a success.
The Han Dynasty of ancient China thrived for four centuries, bar one brief usurpation that lasted fourteen years. It is because of this brief overthrowing of the dynasty that it is split into two eras, the Former (Western) Han and the Later (Eastern) Han. It is the Oriental equivalent of the Roman Empire - through innovative, previously unused government practise the Han expanded the Chinese Empire far and wide, whilst ensuring the infrastructure of the realm flourished.
Immediately prior to the arrival of the Han Dynasty was that of the Qin. It was notable because it originally used the governmental system of centralization, which the Han would follow virtually throughout their reign. Also, the Qin emperor was the first emperor; all previous rulers in the area had been kings of smaller regions. So the tone was set for the emperor being the supreme ruler. To bring about this style of leadership, the Qin Dynasty murdered many Confucian scholars who disagreed with their system, burning their books to prevent other possible dissenters arising. In general, they were brutal rulers who used violence to instigate their methods of government. However, the First Emperor was killed after a revolt around 210 BC and a change was just around the corner.
1. The Former (Western) Han
For several years warring factions vied to become supreme ruler of China. In 202 BC a peasant farmer named Lui Pang gained control. He became known as Han Kao-Tsu and was the founder of the Han Dynasty. Reigning for seven years, much of the time he spent it fighting other would be rulers. In that short time though, he was able to instigate several policy changes that would set them apart from the previous Qin dynasty.
First they decided not to rule with an iron fist. Decisions were only made after thorough discussions with a minister and government didn't attempt to manipulate the workings of the market to their own needs (laissez-faire policy). To the West of the Empire they adopted a strategy of centralization, like the Qin before. To the East, they allowed a number of vassal principalities to exist in exchange for their allegiance to the emperor. These policies allowed the culture and economy to thrive.
So it went on for many years until Han Wu-ti came to power in 141 BC. He stripped the nobility of their status, wishing the whole empire to be ruled from a central government. He also expanded the Han Empire to areas of modern day Vietnam and Korea. This meant that borders became larger and thus harder to protect. To remedy this problem the government bribed other countries with gifts and encouraged intermarriage between themselves and neighboring powers. This agreement worked well for both sides, providing security and peace of mind.
The government also became bureaucratic - essential to tracking records of taxes and such like in such a massive realm. The writing and storing of books became almost compulsory. It is hardly surprising then that the most famous historian of the era, Sima Qiam, lived at this time (he produced a huge detailed chronicle of previous years). Confucianism was made the curriculum of university and those who excelled in the study of it became prime candidates for government offices. There became a gulf of wealth between classes, which would eventually cause the downfall of the Western Han.
2. The Hsin (New) Dynasty
It was the court official Wang Mang who toppled the Western Han. After doing so he attempted to re-establish a closer monetary status between the classes. Previously the merchant class had prospered under the former Han, so they were immediately prevented from doing so by the halting of slave trade.
Unfortunately for Wang Mang a series of natural disasters, such as the flooding of the Yellow river, followed, which drastically affected the workings of the Chinese economy. More importantly, the superstitious population believed the catastrophes to be signs from God, warning them that their leader was not looked upon favourably. Subsequently, after a rule lasting fourteen years, in 23 AD, the Hsin dynasty was usurped by the Red Eyebrows. This peasant group also executed Wang Mang to appease their God.
3. The Later (Eastern) Han
Following two years of bitter fighting between rival tribes the Han dynasty was finally restored to power in 25 AD. Laissez faire policy was restored with the emphasis being on family supremacy. Each powerful family that owned a large business would pass it on to his heir. These families also had their own armies and were exempt from paying taxes. At the same time as an increase in military strength came a period of creative reform.
This led to an increase in the popularity of the Buddhist and Taoist religions. In turn rebellions against the Han became commonplace, with groups such as the Yellow Turbans leading the fight. The Great Families' armies developed into autonomous regional battalions, each with a reigning warlord. Generals from the Han armies, sent to sort out regional problems, turned their backs on the dynasty and became warlords themselves! Gradually, the centralised Han kingdom dissolved into many warring regions.
The Later Han dynasty lasted until 220 AD and was followed by four centuries of rule by regional warlords. The whole of the Han dynasty was regarded as one of military excellence and political and cultural expansion. The trade route known as the Silk Road (to Alexandria and Baghdad etc.) was made safe and relationships between distant empires established. It was also a period of scientific and technological breakthroughs with the inventions of paper, tea, and the humble wheelbarrow.
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Kim Looks to Continue Dream Season July 18, 2013 By Andrew Blair
Michael Kim, of Del Mar, Calif., defeated Robby Shelton IV, of Wilmer, Ala., Friday morning to advance to the afternoon semifinals at the 2013 U.S. Amateur Public Links Championship. (USGA/Joel Kowsky)
Michael Kim's languid golf swing sends yet another tee shot perfectly down the center of the fairway and soon, after his opponent hits, he walks off the tee purposefully and intently at a brisk pace. First. Always out ahead. The message seems obvious: Catch me if you can.
These days, the acceleration of Kim's career path on the course would make the Acela Express, which races out of nearby Washington, D.C., each day, envious. A rising junior at the University of California-Berkeley, his most notable moment came at this summer's U.S. Open at Merion Golf Club in Ardmore, Pa., where he finished tied for 17th, the fifth-best showing by an amateur in the past 30 years at the national championship.
Kim claimed numerous accolades as a sophomore at UC-Berkeley, including a pair of player of the year honors: the Fred Haskins Award (voted on by players, coaches and members of the national media) and the Jack Nicklaus Award (from the Golf Coaches Association of America).
But the experience at the U.S. Open is undeniably at the forefront of his memory bank, and not just because it's barely a month old. After all, he was on the first page of the leader board after birdieing four of six holes during the third round.
I was two shots back of Charl Schwartzel after I made birdie at [No.] 15, Kim recalled. I was watching the leader board not to know where I was in the [championship], but it was cool to see my name next to [Luke] Donald, [Phil] Mickelson and Justin Rose. That was awesome.
Nothing can beat the week that I had there.
Kim, of Del Mar, Calif., admits that his showing at the Open has helped prepare him for all other competitive starts.
It definitely makes it easier because I know that I'm not going to be under any more pressure than I was there and I'm not going play on a bigger stage than that one, Kim said. It kind of relaxes me a little bit and it's a lot of pressure off when I come play these events.
Kim has every reason to have high expectations. His rise to prominence on the amateur golf stage has been steady despite modest beginnings. Growing up in Korea, he admittedly had no idea what golf was for the first seven years of his life.
At age 8, it was nearly impossible not to take note of Tiger Woods, who won the 2001 Masters to become the first player to hold all four professional majors simultaneously. Soon thereafter, Kim picked up a club for the first time and continues to idolize Woods as the player who helped bring him to the game. Intentional or otherwise, some of Kim's mannerisms on the course are eerily similar.
As Kim continues to develop, Woods' trademark determination is pinned to his mental corkboard.
He's always striving to get better and better, says Kim, who actually finished ahead of Woods at the U.S. Open. No human being has ever played as well as he did in the year 2000, but he's still trying to get better and better and I think that's something everybody can learn from.
Honing winning habits is seemingly part of Kim's golf pedigree. Stoked by four victories in collegiate events during his sophomore year at UC-Berkeley, he was honored as the 2012-13 Golfweek/Sagarin Player of the Year and the Pac-12 Conference Golfer of the Year. Kim was also instrumental in helping Team USA register a victory over Team Europe in the Palmer Cup.
All this from a kid who was barely recruited out of Torrey Pines High School, despite helping the program to a state title in 2011. Most college golf programs had completed their recruiting and Kim's lanky frame was a concern for some coaches, given today's emphasis on power hitting.
Part of it is because of my size and build. I'm skinny now but I was even skinnier back then, Kim says. I was hitting 235 or 240 and all the other guys were hitting it 280 and 290 yards. That was a big deal.
Kim ultimately signed with Cal-Berkeley and his game and physique continued to take shape during his ascent. At 5-foot-10 and 150 pounds, Kim isn't viewed as a player with eye-popping length. He's hitting it an estimated 280 yards off the tee now, but it matters little to Kim, whose every shot is precisely planned, akin to a surgeon getting ready to operate.
I make up for a lack of distance in accuracy, he says. In all honesty, it doesn't matter how far you hit it as long as you get the ball in the hole as fast as possible.
The game's higher-ups have taken note. Earlier this week, the USGA's International Team Selection Committee named him to the USA Walker Cup Team, considered one of the greatest honors an amateur can attain. The 10-player USA Team will take on their Great Britain and Ireland counterparts at the 44th renewal of the match, set for Sept. 7-8 at the National Golf Links of America in Southampton, N.Y.
It's truly and honor and a blessing. It's been a goal of mine since 2011, says Kim, who turned 20 on July 14. To get that call is a great feeling. It's been a great week.
For Kim, attaining goals in the game means staying resilient, something he needed in ousting Robby Shelton IV, 17, of Wilmer, Ala., 1 up, in Friday morning's APL quarterfinals. Kim three-putted the par-5 15th hole to fall back to all-square, but he holed a 15-yard bunker shot at the par-3 16th to regain a 1-up lead en route to victory.
After watching friend Jordan Spieth win last week's John Deere Classic on the PGA Tour, it was impossible for Kim's mind not to wander. Spieth and Patrick Cantlay are both in his age range – Spieth is 19 and Cantlay, the low amateur at the 2011 U.S. Open, is 21. Kim beat Spieth (and everyone else for that matter) in claiming medalist honors and helping Cal to the team title at the Isleworth Collegiate Invitational last fall.
It motivates you when guys your same age are playing the [U.S.] Open, playing the [PGA] Tour and playing in the Walker Cup [Match], Kim says. Hopefully, one day I can be there and play against the best of the world.
Andrew Blair is director of communications for the Virginia State Golf Association. He is assisting the USGA this week at the APL. | {'redpajama_set_name': 'RedPajamaCommonCrawl'} | 385 |
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The Mike Holmgren era ended on Tuesday in Cleveland, not with a bang but with a bit of a wimper.
Holmgren held his final press conference as team president of the Cleveland Browns and, while he will stay on through the end of the season in a transitional role, his time is definitely up.
The Browns didn't win enough under Holmgren – the team was 10-29 with Holmgren as team president – to satisfy a fan base that is running out of patience after countless rebuilds and restarts.
And he couldn't win with the media, who were cranky that Holmgren would not talk to them whenever they demanded and got their feelings hurt when Holmgren didn't wind up coaching the Browns – despite Holmgren and everyone associated with the Browns saying a number of times that would not happen.
While the final record is not what anyone would have hoped for, only the most obtuse would claim the Browns are not in a better place than they were three years ago. Holmgren rebuilt the football side into an actual NFL structure, with a general manager and a coach who each know their roles (there is now very little chance that coach Pat Shumur locks Tom Heckert in a closet on draft day and makes the picks himself). He made sure that Jim Brown was no longer whispering sweet nothings in Randy Lerner's ear (and all you have to do is look at the Browns record while Brown was "advising" Lerner to realize how important that was). And there is no question that the roster is better.
Now, how much better is certainly open to debate. And while it is great that Heckert and Shumur have clearly defined roles, that doesn't guarantee success (especially on game days; and definitely on fourth-and-one). But as long as the current roster remains mostly intact, the final chapter on Holmgren has yet to be written.
"I think I was asked to and I think we've fixed a number of problems in the organization," Holmgren said. "If we wanted to list some things I could do that and feel good about it. Our won-loss record, which is what football teams exist for, hasn't been good. Say what you want and I think there have been some unusual circumstances, but it hasn't been very good. I would hope that if the current team and what we've built so far now has some success moving forward, I hope people will feel a little bit better about our time. I think it has been a three-year period fixing things. Unfortunately, some of those close games that were mentioned earlier, if we could have won half a dozen of some of those close games it would be a little painful right now.
So that's a wrap on the Big Show in Cleveland.
If he's right – and Browns fans everywhere better hope he is – that the foundation is in place, then hopefully Joe Banner working full time can can finish the job.
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As an Entrepreneur, Which Superhero Do You Most Closely Resemble?
Find the superhero who deals with the kinds of challenges you face and exhibits the kinds of qualities you possess that help you overcome them.
Image credit: Marvel
Author of Superhero Ethics (Templeton Press)
June 22, 2018 7 min read
Entrepreneurs exhibit a variety of admirable qualities that make them positive role models in their communities. People can appreciate the financial acumen, personal traits and interpersonal skills they must acquire in order to see their businesses thrive. These characteristics also contribute to their personal well-being well beyond the bottom line, as well as to the common good of society. Elements within the media and the culture may like to malign the entrepreneurial spirit as if it were inherently unethical, but entrepreneurs themselves, and those who are aware of how much the prosperity of our society depends on their successes, know better.
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Superheroes are ubiquitous in the popular culture today. Portrayed as larger than life, they face threats of unbelievable magnitude and possess powers beyond ordinary human abilities. But, superheroes can and should be interpreted as metaphors for the ways ordinary people can face the challenges of this world bravely and responsibly. From this perspective, it is fair to ask, which superheroes best represent the virtues of entrepreneurs? As an entrepreneur, you can ask yourself: Which superheroes do I most resemble?
For argument's sake, let's rule out Batman and Iron Man, although both are famous for being rich and running colossal corporations. The principal conceit surrounding Bruce Wayne is that he is super-smart at everything, including running the company he inherited. But, we largely have to take his business savvy for granted since we rarely see it in action; he largely leaves the actual handling of his conglomerate's activities to executives. Meanwhile, Tony Stark, another beneficiary of a sizable inheritance, has won and lost his fortune many times despite his tech-savvy know-how. People like Benjamin Franklin or Donald Trump might admire Stark's ability to rebrand and rebuild again and again after every setback, but he simply is not a businessperson who can be relied on.
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Looking instead at the sorts of situations and character types that other superheroes represent, let's ask: Which superhero deals with the kinds of challenges you face and exhibits the kinds of qualities you possess that help you overcome them?
Do you find yourself in competition against a well-established competitor with goodwill to spare, having to prove over and over that your own product or service is as good if not more commendable than theirs? Then you might well think of yourself as being like Supergirl. She cannot help being compared against her cousin, Superman, the first and most famous of superheroes, and someone with an unassailable reputation. Still, lots of comic book readers and television viewers appreciate that Supergirl's stories are often more compelling, and her character is arguably more admirable -- especially for having to prove herself more in the public's eyes.
Are you a second-career entrepreneur? Did the life path you initially embarked upon not pan out? Did you have to overcome a sense of disappointment in yourself, start from scratch, strike out in a new direction, develop new skills, and build new networks -- only to discover greater success and satisfaction? Then consider yourself like Jessica Jones. She attempted a career as a superhero but found herself strictly D-list. She got knocked out of the game in ways for which she was not to blame, but later found success as a private investigator, gained newfound confidence, new friends and partners, and is now universally respected by those who had hardly noticed her existence previously.
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Have you decided to take charge of your life and become your own boss after being at the mercy of others who tried to control your career path, or ruin it, or turn you into someone you're not and didn't want to be? Then there's no better superhero to admire than Captain Marvel. She became a superhero by accident on account of her relationship with another one. She eventually was kidnapped and manipulated (and worse) by another man, had her identity stolen by a villain, was further altered by aliens, turned to alcohol to cope and lost her status as an Avenger. Eventually, she caught a glimpse of how her life could be if she decided to take full responsibility for becoming the very best version of herself. Since then, she has become a premiere superhero, the first woman to get a lead role in a self-titled Marvel movie -- coming to theaters in 2019.
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Are you all about leadership and mentorship? Have you built an indefatigable, loyal team that is ready, day in and day out, to make your company strong? Do your employees take pride in their allegiance to your product or service? Do you labor every day to make your team the best it can be, knowing that together, you're unstoppable? Then Black Panther is your man. King of Wakanda, Black Panther is the model of effective leadership, where the strength of the whole is the product of each team member excelling at their role, where innovation is prized and good counsel is sought from one's subordinates, where a spirit of trust and belonging is cultivated, and where people treat work almost like family.
Related: Marvel's 'Black Panther' Is More Than a Movie, It's a Model for Mentorship
Did you work your way up from a team member -- maybe taken for granted and underestimated -- to a leader in your own right, so that people now listen to you and trust your experience and judgment? Then look no further than the Wasp. She was there at the founding of the Avengers, and always had within her great potential as a motivational personality. She had to manage other capable but flawed persons, like her husband Hank Pym, but she eventually established herself as an independent woman, built an empire in the fashion industry, and took the reins as the first female leader of the Avengers. She remains someone the superhero community looks to for inspiration and good sense. And she knows how to enjoy life and the finer things in it.
Related: Not a Superhero Entrepreneur? You'll Still Need a Sidekick
Do you take pride in your ability to recruit people with overlooked talents and get them to join your team? Do you have the uncanny ability to form collaborative relationships with potential rivals such that everyone ends up profiting? And if they refuse to work with you, are you prepared to fight tooth and claw in order to prevail? Then you'll love Squirrel Girl -- hopefully coming to television soon! The unbeatable Squirrel Girl, with the proportionate powers of a squirrel, including a bushy tail and the ability to speak squirrelese, is underestimated at others' peril. She has formed a scrappy group of friends and heroes with similarly unlikely abilities, such as chipmunk- and fish-based superpowers. But, she would rather solve problems with words than with fisticuffs, and as such, she has befriended some former supervillains, too.
Luke Cage is the original entrepreneurial superhero. He formed Heroes for Hire on the premise that people might pay him to perform jobs that required superheroic abilities. As it would turn out, he almost never got paid. You might say that he ends up learning that virtue is its own reward! OK, maybe he's not the best model of entrepreneurship. He didn't really have a great business plan. Still, he eventually became leader of the Avengers and married Jessica Jones, so that's not all bad.
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Q: i have a code that acts as a journal for the user to make entries in, im having issues with flipping through it cause the entries are in a list So it is a python code and the user makes entries with the attributes date and content and it is automatically sorted by date old to now in a list. i want to be able to flip through the journal so i have one function for opening the journal (just printing list(0) however i cant quite make a function that flips the pages. i want to be able to flip forward by one page and the next time the user flips the page (in the same run) it will flip forward one more and so on. i cant get it to work with a while loop since i dont want all the entries printed at once so im a bit lost. i understand i must simply add 1 to the number within the list index im calling but im not sure how to do that and save it for the next time the user presses flip page. grateful for help
def bläddra_framåt(self):
self.minnes_anteckningar.sort()
antal_sidor = len(self.minnes_anteckningar)
if antal_sidor < 1:
print("du måste skriva något först")
else:
nuvarande_sida = 1
antal_sidor = len(self.minnes_anteckningar) - 1
if nuvarande_sida <= antal_sidor:
sida = self.minnes_anteckningar[nuvarande_sida]
print("detta är nästa sida:")
print(sida)
nuvarande_sida += 1
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The Copy Shop
design • print • finish
Frank Jalbert Founder
In 1972, at the age of 27, Frank Jalbert had an ambition to publish a New Hampshire magazine. Like many entrepreneurs before him, he jumped right in and never looked back. Frank rented out a space on Canal Street in Nashua, New Hampshire, and the first Copy Shop location was born. Frank purchased all of the equipment he needed to create and print the magazine without even knowing how to operate it! He put in countless hours teaching himself all he needed to know. After a few months, he made the decision to branch out and print materials for other companies. By 1988, The Copy Shop grew to 7 locations between New Hampshire and Massachusetts – providing a variety of copying and printing options to our customers. With the support of his family, Frank's dream changed into the very successful company we know today.
Ben Jalbert President
The son of The Copy Shop's founder, Ben grew up in the family business. During the late 80's into the early 90's Ben worked in a division of the company called Ben & Frank's office furniture. Throughout high school, Ben split his time between delivering orders to customers and re-stocking office supplies in the retail stores. After studying at the Whitemore School of Business and Economics at the University of New Hampshire in Durham, he started full time at The Copy Shop in 1995. Today he runs the day-to-day operations but is still involved in some facets of production. Ben feels proud to be a part of his family's company which is celebrating 46 years in business.
Artie Nichols Graphic Designer
Artie began working at The Copy Shop in 2005. He brings professionalism and knowledge in the growing dynamic field of graphic design. Artie holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from The School of Visual Arts in New York City and a Graphic Design diploma from Hesser College in Nashua. Over the past 13 years, Artie has created brilliant unique work for The Copy Shop and our clients. Artie always wanted to find a professional career where he could apply his knowledge and artistic abilities. While working and finishing school he heard of the opening at The Copy Shop. "I like that the shop has many different clients with wide ranging needs. It provides a variety of jobs to work on. One day I could be working on a business card for a painter, and the next I'm designing a catalog for a large machining company." For Artie, working at a family business allows him to get to know co-workers on a more intimate level. This builds a higher level of trust which allows Artie the artistic license needed to create truly one of a kind and magnificent work. Prior to his career with us, Artie used his talent to help animate a skit that appeared on Saturday Night Live.
Jennifer Jalbert Cook Customer Service / Outside Sales
Jennifer has worked at The Copy Shop for over 32 years! She started working summers, helping us fulfill the company's goals. After completing school, Jen chose to start her career with us. The pride and devotion Jen shows in her work runs deeper than that of an employee – she was there at the beginning and she understands the level of commitment it takes to make The Copy Shop the best. Jen loves the face to face interaction and seeing our regular customers. Jen greatly enjoys helping customers work through their projects and she finds immense pleasure in seeing the progression of a project from start to finish. Working in the family business has always meant that Jen works together with everyone as a team to ensure the quality of our work and the success of our business. Jen aslo volunteers her time and holds a position on the Board of Directors of the Souhegan Valley Chamber of Commerce.
Karen Britko Customer Service
Karen joined The Copy Shop team in 1997. 21 years later she continues to bring a love for customer interaction, and the drive to provide excellent service. The Copy Shop's roots as a family business appealed greatly to Karen, who had prior experience in a similar setting. She started from the ground up; working part time, helping out around the store. When the opportunity arose, Karen began working full time at The Copy Shop. Through hands on experience, she quickly became a familiar face when customers entered the store. Karen enjoys seeing all returning customers and always looks forward to getting to know new faces. When asked about how she feels working in a family owned business Karen says, "I feel as though I've become part of the family, I've been here so long and know them all so well."
Dawn Mailloux Customer Relations / Graphic Designer
Dawn remembers visits to the big commercial print shops with her father as a child and how he made everything about printing and the presses sound so enthralling. It made Dawn wonder if she could be part of that one day. Well, ink must run in her veins, because right after high school it was calling her name. Dawn's father, Fred McKenna bought Murroney's Printing in Manchester, NH in 1989 and for 25 years she worked side by side with him in every aspect of the printing business, until he passed away in Nov 2014. Dawn joined the TCS team when Ben purchased Murroney's Printing in June of 2014. Dawn is a self-taught graphic designer with experience and knowledge in prepress, commercial offset printing, digital printing, and finishing. She is driven to make any client walk away satisfied and wanting to come back time after time. After almost 30 years, she is still loving the diversity that the printing industry brings. She embraces it and can't think of doing anything else. "Even though I have just recently joined The Copy Shop family, I feel right at home teaming up with any of them to give our customers exactly what they want and when they want it."
Jim Belanger Pressman
Jim brings over 35 years of experience in the printing industry to TCS. His career began when he was offered an after school job at Spaulding Company in Manchester back in 1980. There, he learned the trade from the ground up, working in the bindery and being taught the basics of running a press. In 1982, he left Spaulding with branch manager Dean Firman to start up Dean Printing. There he became a full time pressman and eventually became Production Manager, a role he has played in a couple of shops. Jim is familiar with most printing processes and has experience with web printing and thermography. Outside the shop, Jim can most likely be found behind his drums with either his band Max Voltage or as a member of the worship team at Manchester Christian Church.
Macy Jalbert Customer Service
When you enter The Copy Shop, more often than not, you will be greeted by our lovable golden doodle. Macy is a 9 year old cross between a miniature poodle and golden retriever; she brings both the love and intelligence of each breed. Her signature move is running up and putting her front paws on the counter, as if to assist customers with their orders. We were very lucky with Macy; she embodies all that The Copy Shop was built around: family, friendliness, and hard work. Plus, she's extremely cute. Come down to The Copy Shop to complete your orders, but also come say hello to Macy.
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USNS Pvt. William H. Thomas
For Actions on July 25, 1956
Gallant Ship Award citation:
"Responding unhesitatingly to an SOS from the sinking Andrea Doria off Nantucket Island in the North Atlantic on the night of July 25, 1956, the Private William H. Thomas raced to the scene of the disaster, arriving there within two hours of receiving the first SOS. Holding a position close to the sinking vessel, Private William H. Thomas launched two lifeboats, which in a series of trips brought back to the ship a total of one hundred and fifty-nine victims of the disaster. All were taken safely aboard, contributing to one of the greatest marine rescues in history.
The courage, resourcefulness, sound seamanship and teamwork of her master, officers and crew in successfully completing an extraordinary rescue operation caused the name of the Private William H. Thomas to be perpetuated as a Gallant ship."
Originally named Alcoa Cruiser, USNS Pvt. William H. Thomas was laid down on August 6, 1941 by Moore Dry Dock Co. in Oakland California. The ship was originally designed to transport bauxite and passengers for the Alcoa Steamship Company. However, after the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941, the U.S. Navy requisitioned the ship and commissioned it as USS Rixey (APH-3), a casualty evacuation ship, on December 30, 1941. After further fitting-out on the West Coast, Rixey was assigned to the South Pacific, where the ship assisted in evacuating injured troops from field hospitals to more permanent facilities in Noumea, New Caledonia, and Auckland and Wellington, New Zealand. On return trips, the vessel also carried service units and replacement troops.
Rixey continued transporting casualties and troops throughout the Pacific until the end of the war. Afterward, the vessel made two round trips between Okinawa and San Francisco, carrying replacement troops east and returning troops west. The Navy decommissioned Rixey on March 27, 1946.
On August 30, 1946, Rixey was transferred to the Army Transportation Service, which renamed the vessel USAT Pvt. William H. Thomas to honor U.S. Army Private William H. Thomas who received the Medal of Honor (posthumously) for his heroic actions on April 22, 1945, while serving with the 149th Infantry Regiment, 38th Infantry Division, in action at Zambales Mountains, Luzon, Philippine Islands. After the Military Sea Transportation Service (MSTS)1 was established in 1949, the vessel was transferred to the MSTS (essentially returning it to the U.S. Navy) on March 1, 1950. USNS Pvt. William H. Thomas retained its army name, but was assigned U.S. Navy hull number, T-AP-185.
On July 25 and 26, 1956, while carrying a full load of returning U.S. troops and military dependents from Europe to New York, Pvt. William H. Thomas responded to one of the worst disasters in modern maritime history. Late in the evening of July 25, the cruise ships SS Andrea Doria and MS Stockholm collided in heavy fog south of Nantucket, Massachusetts. Stockholm's bow struck Andrea Doria's side, tearing a large hole in the Italian ship, which immediately developed a severe list. Within half an hour of impact, the master of Andrea Doria ordered that all abandon ship; however, the list prevented Andrea Doria's crew from accessing the ship's port-side lifeboats. Even the starboard-side lifeboats could not be loaded until they had been lowered into the water, and Andrea Doria put out an urgent call for more lifeboats from any nearby vessels.
Pvt. William H. Thomas was one of several ships that responded to the distress call and one of the first to arrive on scene and assist in the rescue, along with SS Cape Ann, a U.S.-flag break-bulk cargo ship. Although the crew of the troop transport launched its two motor lifeboats and began rescuing survivors, the on-scene ships were overwhelmed until the arrival of SS Ile de France, a large French-flag passenger liner. In total, Pvt. William H. Thomas rescued 159 passengers. The vessel remained on scene to direct radio traffic related to the multi-vessel rescue operation until the U.S. Coast Guard relieved the ship on the morning of July 26.
The Navy struck Pvt. William H. Thomas from the Naval Vessel Register and transferred it to the Maritime Administration (MARAD) on December 27, 1957. MARAD berthed the vessel at its Hudson River Reserve Fleet anchorage off Stony Point, New York, where it remained until the agency sold it for scrap to the Tung Ho Steel Enterprise Co. on August 28, 1970. Pvt. William H. Thomas departed the reserve fleet on January 2, 1971, and was later dismantled in Taiwan.
1. MSTS was a post-World War II combination of four predecessor government agencies that handled similar sealift functions. These included the Navy's Naval Transportation Service and Fleet Support Service, the Army Transport Service, and the War Shipping Administration of the United States Maritime Commission. In 1970, MSTS was renamed the Military Sealift Command.
Updated: Monday, October 29, 2018
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S. 461 (113th)
S. 461 (113th): Filipino Veterans Family Reunification Act of 2013
Compare this bill to another bill:
(Select Bill) H.R. 2116 (112th) Filipino Veterans Family Reunification Act of 2011 (IH) S. 733 (114th) Filipino Veterans Family Reunification Act of 2015 (IS) S. 1220 (115th) Filipino Veterans Family Reunification Act of 2017 (IS) S. 1598 (116th) Filipino Veterans Family Reunification Act of 2019 (IS) H.R. 966 Filipino Veterans Family Reunification Act of 2013 (IH)
Government Publishing Office and Cato Institute Deepbills
The text of the bill below is as of Mar 5, 2013 (Introduced).
IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES
Ms. Hirono(for herself,Mr. Reid,Mrs. Boxer,Mr. Menendez,Mr. Schatz, andMr. Begich) introduced the following bill; which was read twice and referred to theCommittee on the Judiciary
A BILL
To exempt children of certain Filipino World War II veterans from the numerical limitations on immigrant visas and for other purposes.
This Act may be cited as the Filipino Veterans Family Reunification Act of 2013 .
Exemption from immigrant visa limit
Section 201(b)(1) of the Immigration and Nationality Act(8 U.S.C. 1151(b)(1))is amended by adding at the end the following:
Aliens who—
are eligible for a visa underparagraph (1)or(3) of section 203(a); and
have a parent (regardless of whether the parent is living or dead) who was naturalized pursuant to—
section 405 of the Immigration Act of 1990(Public Law 101–649;8 U.S.C. 1440 note); or
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GMS Racing Announces Full-Time Crew Chief and Numbers Assignments for the 2020 Season
13 Dec 2019 Speedway Digest Staff
NASCAR Truck Series News
GMS Racing announced today their crew-chief and number line-up for their four full-time NASCAR Gander RV & Outdoors Truck Series entries for the 2020 season. Chad Norris has been named crew chief for Brett Moffitt and the No. 23 Chevrolet team, Chad Walter will lead Tyler Ankrum and the No. 26 team, Kevin "Bono" Manion will call the shots for Zane Smith who will drive the No. 21 entry, and Jeff Stankiewicz will remain as the crew chief for the No. 2 team piloted by Sheldon Creed.
Norris has been with the Statesville, N.C. based organization for two years. He led GMS Racing to their first NASCAR Xfinity Series win with Spencer Gallagher at Talladega Superspeedway in 2018. The Iowa native has experience in all three NASCAR Series and has called the shots for many successful drivers like Carl Edwards, Matt Kenseth and Mark Martin. Most of his experience came in the Xfinity Series where has called the shots for 23 different drivers and has accumulated four wins, 39 top-fives, 132 top-10s and five poles.
Walter, who served as an engineer for Ankrum last year, will step up to lead the team. Walter is no stranger to the crew chief role, he has served as a crew chief in seven Cup Series and 208 Xfinity Series events since 2005 for Jimmie Johnson, Kyle Busch, Dale Earnhardt Jr. and many others. In 208 Xfinity Series starts he claimed five wins, 42 top-fives, 101 top-10's and eight poles.
Manion has called the shots atop the pit box for many notable top-name NASCAR drivers like Dale Earnhardt Jr., Martin Truex Jr., Kyle Busch and many others. Over all three NASCAR Series, Manion has accumulated five Cup Series wins, 27 top-fives, 65 top-10's, and 10 poles, 15 Xfinity Series wins, 36 top-fives, 53 top-10's, and nine poles, two Xfinity Championships with Martin Truex Jr. in 2004 and 2005 and four Gander Trucks wins, 16 top-fives, 28 top-10's and one pole.
Stankiewicz will remain as crew chief for Sheldon Creed after the team hired him on partway through the 2019 season. The duo accumulated seven starts, two top-fives, four top-10s, and led 36 laps. In 2018, Creed won four races and earned 11 top-five, 12 top-10 finishes and three poles with Stankiewicz atop the pit box en route to the 2018 ARCA championship. Stankiewicz was previously with GMS Racing from 2015 – 2017 and led the team to an ARCA Championship in 2015 with Grant Enfinger.
"All four of our teams have veteran crew chiefs to lead the way and I don't think we could get a better group," said Mike Beam, President of GMS Racing. "All of them have the knowledge and experience to lead each of their teams to success this year and I am excited to see what they can do."
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