Why is it that so many articles discuss the need for more women on boards, but very few discuss what those women should do once they get there? In this article I hope to empower women to become more effective at navigating the rough waters of serving on a board or team when you're the only woman, or are a woman in a male dominated industry. Actually anyone who has ever felt that they are in the minority will benefit from reading this.
The spark of inspiration for this article came from an interesting conversation I had with some executives at a high-end lunch event I attended recently. A male executive at our table was telling me how he was passed up for a board position because they "needed to have a woman". The woman executive sitting next to him agreed that they did the right thing and should have quotas for women and minorities. "Oh here we go" I thought to myself. Then I looked up and said that I didn't want to be on a board as the "token woman" or even worse the "token brown woman" (check off two HR boxes for the price of one!). That I would rather be selected based on MERIT. The woman looked shocked and the man looked amused. Not the best way to start networking event I admit, but I just couldn't help myself and sometimes I like to ruffle a few feathers. So what do you think? Who would you agree with?
These tips are distilled from years of board meetings and executive coaching sessions with my clients. I've divided them in two halves. First we'll look at how to survive and then how to change gears and thrive.
STAGE 1. Learn to Survive.
If you're the only woman in an all male arena or in the minority in any situation, then you have achieved something significant. Take the time in private to reflect and appreciate the significant role you now play. You do have a responsibility to others and they will expect you to lead by example.
I'm sure you've heard the statistics before, but anywhere from 55% to 93% of all communication is non-verbal. People make their mind about who you are and whether or not they should listen to you before you've said anything, actually before you've even sat down. So be aware of your posture, your attire, your gestures, your eye contact and even how you sit. Every detail counts and makes an impact on how people perceive you.
It's particularly important that you dress professionally. It's not the best time to be overly flamboyant or try something out you just saw in a fashion magazine on one of those unhealthy skinny models. If you're an executive in a creative field or in a female dominated environment then you'll have much more flexibility here.
This applies to anyone of either gender who joins a team or board for the first time. Talk less and listen more. Listen to understand, not only the important issues, but also for the politics in the room. Actively listen by turning your head and making eye contact with them. Clear your mind of all extraneous thoughts and focus on only what they are saying. Listen to understand not to reply.
Build Relationships and Create Boundaries.
Get to know the other people in the room. You don't need to be best friends. Your aim should be a relationship based on mutual respect and cooperation, where you see each other's strengths and support each other's initiatives. That's the best outcome. Having said that, don't try to be 'one of the guys', maintain some distance and clearly mark your boundaries. Never allow someone to undermine your confidence or make you feel small. You deserve to be there. Don't let the insecure bullies of this world tell you otherwise.
STAGE 2: How to Thrive.
Stimulate Conversation and Disagree With Tact.
One of the best ways to disagree with someone is by stimulating conversation or discussion around a topic rather than disagreeing with them directly. It's also less abrasive and confrontational. A little tact can go a long way when you disagree with someone.
Do Your Share of Chest Thumping.
For some reason many amazing women who I know have a real problem taking ownership in front of other people of their achievements or those of their team. This is something powerful men often do quite well, so watch, learn and emulate.
Focus On Collaboration Not Competition.
Strong women collaborate with each other rather than compete with each other. That means in a room full of alpha males you can be the voice of reason and cooperation. You can become the glue that holds everything together. Show the overly emotional alpha males in the room that women can be logical and calm under pressure. Let your intellect shine a light on the solution.
Bring a Woman's Perspective to Key Issues.
Often when I'm in an all male meetings or board meetings, I try to bring the female perspective to the issue being discussed (but only if I feel it could benefit from it). Many men don't realize that as a woman life feels different; we have different obstacles, concerns and even priorities. Again if you do it with tact it can put you in a powerful position and you increase the size of your impact.
Be a Champion of Diversity.
The truth is you shouldn't be the only woman or one of the only women there. So lift others up as you climb the ladder of success. You've been given an opportunity that many people haven't, so why not use it? After all you and I both know what it's like to be in the minority.
The last piece of wisdom I want to share is to manage your expectations. I've learnt this one the hard way through the University of Life. You might go in to this new position full of energy and optimism, which is awesome. But remember organizations take time to change and adopt new ideas. It's easy to become disillusioned and lose hope. You are playing a vital role. Keep going, don't give up and eventually you will make a powerful impact.


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Republic of Ireland Soccer Team
Ireland still feeling the hangover of Robbie Keane's retirement, says Kevin Kilbane
"You'd bank on Robbie to score the goals"
Alex Dunne
BASEL, SWITZERLAND - SEPTEMBER 8: Stephen Carr;Kevin Kilbane;Roy Keane;Damian Duff,Robbie Keane line up during the FIFA World Cup 2006 Group Four qualifying match between Switzerland and Republic of Ireland at The St. Jakob Stadium on September 8, 2004 in Basel, Switzerland. (Photo by Michael Steele/Getty Images) *** Local Caption *** Stephen Carr;Kevin Kilbane;Roy Keane;Damian Duff;Robbie Keane
Kevin Kilbane believes Ireland have nobody in the current international squad capable of replacing Robbie Keane as the country's marquee goalscorer.
Ireland boss Martin O'Neill named his squad for the games against Georgia and Serbia, including frontmen Shane Long, Daryl Murphy, David McGoldrick, and captain Jonathan Walters.
But Kilbane, speaking at a TV3 event in the Conrad Hotel, thinks the national setup will soon be forced into turning to a new line-leader to replace the goals the Tallaght man brought.
Ireland's Robbie Keane celebrates scoring against Georgie in 2013 (Image: INPHO/Ryan Byrne)
Eight Dublin players named in Republic of Ireland provisional squad for games against Georgia and Serbia
When asked if Shane Long can plug the gap, Kilbane said: "Physically, you wouldn't see a pure athlete, a natural athlete like him.
"He's got attributes to probably go and score more goals, but he's not a natural finisher.
"He has never been a natural finisher, he's not a goalscorer, it doesn't come to him naturally like a Robbie Keane.
"You'd bank on Robbie to score the goals."
The former Ireland winger believes there is little hope of a mercurial goalscoring figure emerging in the current squad.
And he believes the next great goal-getter in green may be outside the current setup.
Aston Villa's Scott Hogan and Preston's Sean Maguire are both uncapped players who could be the answer, according to the former Everton and Sunderland man.
"People are all looking at Sean Maguire, but it didn't surprise me that Martin O'Neill left him out due to his lack of experience", he said.,
"Looking at it now, I'm thinking we have to look at a Scott Hogan or a Sean Maguire.
"We don't have a 20-goal a season Premier League striker now, that's a fact.
"He [Long] is an 8-12 goals a season man. He's not going to go and score 20 a season.
"We don't have anyone in the squad that can do that."
With Chelsea, Tottenham, Man City, Man United, Liverpool and Celtic all battling it out in the UEFA Champions League Group Stage, Tuesday nights will be bigger than ever. TV3 will have the pick of Tuesday's live game as well as comprehensive highlights and analysis.
Ireland assistant boss Roy Keane defends Glenn Whelan from unfair criticism
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Ariana Grande donates Atlanta concert proceeds to Planned Parenthood
Ariana Grande has made a monetary protest of the recent wave of anti-abortion laws passed in several states.
Grande donated the proceeds from her Saturday concert in Atlanta to Planned Parenthood. The donation totaled around $250,000, People magazine reported.
Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp signed a "heartbeat" bill into law May 7. The measure, set to go into effect January 1, would ban abortions after a fetal heartbeat can be detected, which can be as early as six weeks into pregnancy.
Hollywood has been protesting the controversial law and threatening to pull productions of movie and television shows that have been lucrative business for the Southeastern state.
But some stars have vowed instead to offer support to those battling the new law.
Filmmakers J.J. Abrams and Jordan Peele promised to donate 100% of their episodic fees for their new show, "Lovecraft Country," which is filmed in the state, to the American Civil Liberties Union of Georgia and Fair Fight Action, an election reform organization.
Other states including Louisiana, Mississippi and Kentucky have also recently passed anti-abortion legislation.
Dr. Leana Wen, president of the Planned Parenthood Federation of America and the Planned Parenthood Action Fund, said in a statement provided to CNN that "Ariana Grande's generous donation comes at a critical time — in Georgia and across the country, anti-women's health politicians are trying to ban all safe, legal abortion."
"This is not what the American people want, nor is it something they'll stand for," Wen said. "Thanks to inspiring support like hers, Planned Parenthood can continue to fight back — in the courts, in Congress, in state houses, and in the streets — against these dangerous attacks on people's health and lives."
Grande responded Sunday to a fan who had tweeted video of an anti-gay pride protester outside Atlanta's State Farm Arena before the singer's stop on her Sweetener World Tour.
In the video, a man with a public address system is seen debating with two women and saying things like "Satan is your God" and "God didn't make you who you are today."
Grande tweeted, "Man… saddened but not surprised by this one bit. i'm so sorry any of my fans had to encounter this.
"We will do our best to ensure this doesn't happen again. proud of u all for not fighting / engaging violently," she continued. "Never worth it. wishing him peace & a healed heart cause girl yikes."
CNN has reached out to Grande for comment.
McALLEN, Texas (Border Report) -- In one of his first official actions as president, Joe Biden halted the construction of the border wall by rescinding an emergency order imposed by Donald Trump along the Southwest border.
Biden's executive order, which was signed around 5:40 p.m. EST on Wednesday, dissolved a proclamation issued in 2019 by Trump that had declared an emergency at the U.S.-Mexico border. Proclamation 9844, which Trump issued on Feb. 15, 2019, was "to deal with the border security and humanitarian crisis" at the border, and it allowed the president to access military funds for border security measures.
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Q: How to automatically create a string with 1s in Java I am wondering if there is a shorter way in Java to create a String with a number of 1s. I would like to create a string like 111, or 1111 or 11111 without using loops or recursive calls.
For example, in Perl code, something like '0b' . ('1' x $numberOf1s) would return 11 (if numberOf1s) is 2 and 111 (if numberOf1s) is 3
Thanks

A: StringUtils provided by Apache commons jar has many static methods which can be used.For example,StringUtils has a method repeat(String str,int repeat).Example
String str = StringUtils.repeat("1",5);

See the doc here StringUtils's repeat method

A: If you have a maximum number of 1s that you would want to generate, you can do this:
private static final String ALL_ONES = "11111111111111111111111111"; // max # of 1s

public String getNOnes(int n) {
    // perhaps should do some error checking here
    return ALL_ONES.substring(0, n);
}

If you have no maximum in mind, you could use @f1sh's answer:
public String getNOnes(int n) {
    char [] ones = new char[n];
    Arrays.fill(ones, '1');
    return new String(ones);
}

But the entire problem seems to have ridiculous requirements.

A: In short: no.
You can use something like Arrays.fill(char[] arr, char value) to fill up a whole char array and then make a String out of it, but internally it uses a for loop anyways.
Also: what requirement would disallow a for loop?

A: You can try with something like
new String(new char[5]).replace('\0','1')

but replace iterates over all characters in char[] which are by default set to '\0'.

A: (Any power of two) - 1 converted to binary is a string of all 1s.
For Example
4-1 = 3 = binary 11
8-1 = 7 = binary 111
16-1= 15 = binary 1111 and so on.

I used this fact to write the following code...
BigInteger will produce any size of string but will be a bit slow. If you need a string of size below 64 you can use long in the same logic.
private static String stringOf1s(int size)
{
   BigInteger powerOfTwo =  BigInteger.TWO.pow(size);
   return powerOfTwo.subtract(BigInteger.ONE).toString(2);
}

private static String stringOfOnes(int size)
{
    long powerOfTwo = (long) Math.pow(2,size);

    return Long.toBinaryString(powerOfTwo-1);
}

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Anime Milwaukee 2014 is an anime convention held on February 14-16, 2014. It happens at the Hyatt Regency Milwaukee / Delta Center in Milwaukee, WI.
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We did something a little crazy....and we did not tell very many people ahead of time, because, honestly, this wasn't something we needed any "opinions" on. Back and forth, for months we debated. Should we, or shouldn't we? Is this really what we want to do? Before you start thinking we did something really nuts, I will relieve your minds--we chopped off Mckenna's hair! She has been contemplating it for a long time--wanting to donate her beautiful tresses to Locks of Love--and made up her mind to just do it.
Being the amazing girl she is, Mckenna is handling her new look so well. No tears, even, and I did expect a few. I, on the other hand, nearly cried at the first cut. It's not that I don't want her to do it, I was even the one who first suggested the idea, I simply think of my girl with her beautiful long hair--it is part of her identity to me. But, what I have discovered, is that her even more beautiful face is more visible with her short hair, and that is a good thing. I imagine she will grow it out again, but for now we are enjoying our adorable princess, with short hair!
She looks absolutely BEAUTIFUL! Her sweet smile shines even more! I love keeping up with your kiddos this way. Thank you for all the pictures and updates!


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El torneo The Hague Open 2017 fue un torneo profesional de tenis. Perteneció al ATP Challenger Series 2017. Se disputó en su 25ª edición sobre superficie tierra batida, en Scheveningen, Países Bajos entre el 17 al el 23 de julio de 2017.

Jugadores participantes del cuadro de individuales

 1 Se ha tomado en cuenta el ranking del 3 de julio de 2017.

Otros participantes
Los siguientes jugadores recibieron una invitación (wild card), por lo tanto ingresan directamente al cuadro principal (WC):
  Thiemo de Bakker
  Michiel de Krom
  Robin Haase
  Botic van de Zandschulp

Los siguientes jugadores ingresan al cuadro principal tras disputar el cuadro clasificatorio (Q):
  Juan Ignacio Londero
  Marko Tepavac
  Sem Verbeek
  George von Massow

Campeones

Individual Masculino

  Guillermo García López derrotó en la final a  Ruben Bemelmans, 6–1, 6–7(3), 6–2

Dobles Masculino

  Sander Gillé /  Joran Vliegen derrotaron en la final a  Jozef Kovalík /  Stefanos Tsitsipas, 6–2, 4–6, [12–10]

Referencias

Enlaces externos
Sitio oficial

Challenger de Scheveningen 2017

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Q: Postpone installation in WiX I would like to create WiX installer that behaves like following:
- if it finds out that instance of program is already installed and currently running it should postpone installation till next reboot.

How can this be achieved with WiX?
After research that I have done i see following possibility:
- create custom action and use MoveFileEx with option MOVEFILE_DELAY_UNTIL_REBOOT if instance of program is running

Is this a good approach or maybe another solution should be used?
Update 1
Additional info that is a small problem. Function ::MoveFileEx' requires permission to access registry to store value.

If the dwFlags parameter specifies MOVEFILE_DELAY_UNTIL_REBOOT, MoveFileEx fails if it cannot access the registry. The function stores the locations of the files to be renamed at restart in the following registry value:

A: You may be trying to solve a problem that Windows has already solved.
(MoveFile seems irrelevant because Windows is installing these files, not you. In any case, Windows applies version rules and will not replace the existing version with a lower version (or the same file hash if unversioned) so you're already not following standard install rules. )
If you install the setup AND it needs to replace that file or any others then several things are possible:

*

*It will show a files-in-use dialog. You can tell people to ignore it until they've finished with the program, then close it down by clicking "Retry" and they continue the install, no reboot required. The install is effectively suspended until they've finished with the program.

*It will show a files-in-use dialog that you tell them to click Ignore on, so the install will continue, and at the end may ask for a reboot. The user postpones the reboot until they've finished with the program.

*Suppress the files-in-use dialog and if a reboot is needed it will ask for one at the end, no files-in-use dialog shown, just a request for a reboot that the user does when they're ready.
The issue with you postponing something until the next reboot is that this typically requires an entry in the registry's RunOnce key or Program Menus Startup folder, and Windows doesn't want to run elevated programs automatically like that. Some AV software doesn't like writes to those locations either. So there may be issues with any solution requiring automatic running of elevated programs at reboot time.
Having said that, if you want to invent your own solution, I don't think it's really anything to do with WiX or Windows Installer. You write a program that checks to see if that other program is running. You start the install by running your program. If that other program isn't running, start your install and you're done. If that other program IS running you get your program in the Start menu's Startup folder or the RunOnce registry location, then it will restart after a reboot, then you again see if the program is running, and if not then start your install, and delete your Startup/RunOnce entry.


In the wake of the Dreyfus Affair, the murder of two Jews in Nancy reveals the darker side of human nature.
In the wake of the Vernet murders in Aix-en-Provence, magistrate Bernard Martin moves to the town of Nancy in Lorraine, France, along with his pregnant wife Clarie, who is as fervent about Republican ideals as her husband. They are not in Nancy long when an infant boy is found dead, his tiny body mutilated. The wet nurse and mother say that this was a case of "ritual sacrifice" by a "wandering tinker," or Jew.
Yet as Bernard delves deeper into the different personalities surrounding the case, he struggles to reconcile his Republican beliefs with the subtle nuances of Nancy's Jewish Diaspora, all while balancing the racial tensions and politics within the courthouse. Meanwhile his beloved Clarie, now reeling from the death of her own child, seems to be falling prey to the propaganda being spewed throughout town, forcing Bernard to acknowledge the frailties of the human psyche. Fearing a vigilante mob sparked by the church, Bernard must unveil the murderers before Nancy experiences her own pogrom.
Barbara Corrado Pope is a historian and the founding director of Women's and Gender Studies at the University of Oregon. She is the author of the novels Cézanne's Quarry and The Blood of Lorraine. Barbara lives in Eugene, Oregon, with her husband.


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No injuries in shooting incidents; two schools locked down
Austin L. Miller @almillerosb
Editor's Note: This clarifies that two schools, not three, were impacted.
No one was injured in two separate shootings in Marion County on Tuesday, during which three schools were placed on lock-down.
Deputies said they received a call at 1:44 p.m. about shots fired in the 3800 block of Southeast 95th Street. When they arrived, they were told there was an incident between a homeowner and some people who came on his property and gunfire was exchanged.
Belleview Middle and Belleview High were placed on lock-down, according to Kevin Christian, the county's school spokesman.
Then, at 3:49 p.m., deputies responded to Southeast 67th Avenue and 68th Court and 52nd Place about shots fired in the area. They were told that a person or persons had fired shots at two homes.
Authorities said it was not known if the shootings were connected.


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My Favorite Sports Blogs
Hansen Ratings
Division III Football Ratings
Preseason Ratings
One of the main reasons I decided to do a rating system specific to DIII Football was to develop preseason (and early season) ratings that do a good job of projecting how teams will finish the season. When I look at other rating systems' pre-season ratings, I never felt like the Top 25 or Top 10 passed the eye test, and often results on the field seemed to validate my hunch more than it would their predictions.
While my method for determining pre-season ratings doesn't really differ in too meaningful of a way from other rating systems, I believe that my general method for rating teams in-season does a much better job of preventing some of the flaws that other systems (and my old one) are subject to. Division III football is very different from other levels of football in terms of parity, size, and the amount of overlap between mutual opponents. With some conferences only playing one or two non-conference games every year, and with so many of those games coming against the same conferences, a DIII rating system that doesn't strongly consider the long-term trends of a team's ( or conference's) strength is subject to poor pre-season ratings, and then poor predictions in the playoffs.
For example, the ten-team UMAC plays a nine-game conference schedule, meaning that the conference as a whole only plays eleven non-conference games (including their conference champ's game in the playoffs). A vast majority of those games come against teams in the NACC, MWC, or Maranatha Baptist. Those eleven games are the only benchmark we have to compare them to other conferences, and a model that solves a system of equations to determine the conference's relative strength would be prone to overfitting their results.
My preseason rating is derived from a combination of the team's end-of-year ratings over the previous four seasons, with a very slight regression to the mean. Because the quality of the best versus the worst teams in DIII is so large, my method produces better results by regressing toward each team's own long-term mean than it does by regressing toward the national average.
Another factor taken into consideration is the amount of returning starters each team has on offense and defense (punters and kickers are ignored). My original intent was to use teams' number of returning All-Conference players to better gauge the quality of returning players, but it became immediately clear to me that the variability in amounts and criteria with which each conference selected their All-Conference teams would make a nationwide comparison nearly impossible. In its final form, teams average just under seven returning starters on each side of the ball. For every starter over or under that average, a team is rewarded with (or deducted, depending if they're over/under and on offense/defense) 1.15 on their preseason AdjO/AdjD.
As of this writing, I have data on returning starters going back to the 2013 season (via D3Football.com's Kickoff Coverage). Before 2013 the ratings are based solely on results from previous seasons.
The last thing to consider was how to handle the preseason ratings for first-year programs and teams just joining NCAA DIII (because my system is a closed loop among DIII teams, I do not have data on previous season for teams moving over from NAIA or other divisions). For teams moving to Division III from the NAIA or another Division of the NCAA, I use a 4-year regression of their offensive & defensive ratings from Massey. For teams moving up from the Junior College ranks, they are given an offensive & defensive rating 12 ppg below average. Startup programs are given ratings 15 ppg below average (which is the average rating for JUCO's & startups over the 17 season I have data for).
The standard error between my preseason AdjO & AdjD ratings and the end-of-season AdjO & AdjD ratings is only about 5.75, which mean that about two-thirds of teams will finish the season within at least 6 points of their preseason rating, 95% of teams will finish within 12 points, and maybe one team per year will finish more than 18 points different from their preseason rating. In the one season for which I have tracked this information on other sites, my system significantly outperforms all other publicly available computer ratings.
To develop the preseason ratings for the 1998 season, I used the same methodology as for teams joining DIII from other divisions--a four year regression of Massey Ratings. Kenneth Massey has ratings going back significantly further than 1998, but his schedules & scores are not "official," so they're not publicly available.


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The Renascence summer program is dedicated to transforming students into great leaders, and giving them tools they will need to make an impact in the 21st century. As a part of our program this year, Codespeak Labs introduces computer programming for students grades PK – 8. The curriculum includes Google's Blockly, MIT's Scratch, robotics (Lego Mindstorms), HTML/CSS (web development),as well as skill-building in entrepreneurship, communication, and design.
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How strict are the schools in enforcing the rules for admission? For instance, when they require you to have completed a certain class that falls outside the "normal" pre-med pre-reqs that everyone does. I'm going to complete two secondaries, but one school wants "Molecular Biology" or equivalent and the other wants calculus. I'm already a podiatrist and I've taken dozens of advanced science courses, but neither of those.
It varies from school to school. Call and ask.
With the large number of applicants that each school is looking at, they are pretty strict about such requirements. However, they might accept you before they realize you missed some required courses. Doctora Foxy had to make Biochem over the summer in order to get into her top choice, even though they had already accepted her by the time they figured out she hadn't taken biochem. But other schools may use their required courses as a way of paring down the applicant pool -- why bother consider someone who doesn't meet the schools requirements?
This isn't like dating, where a guy who normally likes blondes will see a brunette from time to time because he finds her attractive anyway. This is med school admissions -- they take their requirements pretty seriously.


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We all have moments that define us. For the comically clueless Wilbur, his moment happened on the first day of middle school, when someone shared his private letter with the entire student body. It revealed some of Wilbur's innermost embarrassing thoughts that no one else should ever know.
Now it's the start of ninth grade and Wilbur hasn't been able to escape that major humiliation. His good friend Alex stuck by him, but Alex doesn't have as much time since he started dating Fabrizio. Luckily, Wil can confide in his best
friend: his elderly neighbor Sal. Also, Wil's in the school band, where he plays the triangle. They're doing an exchange program with students from Paris, and Wilbur's billet, Charlie, a tall, chic young woman who plays the ukulele and burps with abandon, captures his heart. Charlie likes him, but only as a friend. So Alex, Fabrizio and Sal host a Queer Eye-style intervention to get Wil in shape and to build his confidence so he can impress Charlie when their band visits Paris, and just maybe replace humiliation with true romance in the City of Love.
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SUSIN NIELSEN got her start feeding cast and crew on the popular television series Degrassi Junior High. They hated her food, but they saw a spark in her writing. Nielsen went on to pen sixteen episodes of the hit TV show. Since then, she has written for many Canadian TV series. Nielsen is currently the showrunner on an upcoming TV series called Family Law. Nielsen's first two young adult novels, Word Nerd and Dear George Clooney: Please Marry My Mom, won critical acclaim and multiple young readers' choice awards. The Reluctant Journal of Henry K. Larsen won the prestigious Governor General's Literary Award and the Canadian Library Association's Children's Book of the Year. We Are All Made of Molecules was shortlisted for the Governor General's Literary Award, longlisted for the Carnegie Medal and nominated for the Canadian Library Association's Children's Book of the Year. Optimists Die First has received four starred reviews. Her most recent novel, No Fixed Address, won the Red Maple Award, the Violet Downey Book Award and the Sheila A. Egoff Children's Literature Prize. In 2019, Nielsen received the prestigious Vicky Metcalf Award for her body of work. She lives in Vancouver with her family and two extremely destructive cats. Visit her at
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Sarah Hyland is firing back at online haters who have continued to criticize her for asking for help for the family of her young cousin who died in a car accident last week. The Modern Family star was recently bashed after posting a Go Fund Me link and vowed to take a break from social media. After a one-week absence from Twitter, Hyland had some words for one particularly pesky troll who just wouldn't back down when she returned to the social media site.
On Monday, Sarah Hyland took to Twitter to respond to a now-deleted tweet, telling her hater that she has gone too far.
The negative user appears to have deactivated her Twitter account, so it appears that Hyland finally got her to back off.
As previously shared by the Inquisitr, last week, Sarah Hyland was driven from Twitter after she posted that her 14-year-old cousin, Trevor Canady, was killed in a car accident with a drunk driver. After posting the tragic news on her Instagram stories, Hyland received backlash for directing fans to a Go Fund Me link to help with the family's funeral costs and additional surgeries for her uncle, the boy's father.
Hyland's Modern Family co-stars Ariel Winter and Nolan Gould also shared the link, as did the actress's boyfriend, Bachelor in Paradise alum Wells Adams. But the backlash was immediate as angry social media users questioned why the wealthy actress was asking for money for her family when she is reportedly worth an estimated $9 million.
Sarah Hyland later tweeted that her critics don't know the details before admitting the trolls had finally "broken" her and that she planned to stay offline for a while as she mourns the death of her young cousin.
Hyland's boyfriend of one year shared a message of support for her over the weekend, reminding the Modern Family beauty that while she has had a "tough couple of weeks," that there is light at the end of the darkness.
Wells Adams has been known to defend his girlfriend against online haters, although it looks like Sarah Hyland is doing a good job of it herself after this latest round. In October, Page Six reported that Adams clapped back at a troll that made fun of the glasses Hyland wore in a photo taken on date night. Adams also blasted body shamers who cruelly slammed a bikini selfie that Hyland posted, which showed a surgery scar on her stomach.


Does Driving in the Rain Increase the Risk of an Accident?
Weather is considered one of the most common causes of an auto accident. Whether its ice and snow up north or surging rain in South Florida, weather can impact vehicle maneuvering and increase your risk of an accident.
Despite being known as the Sunshine State, Florida's rainy season, between June and August, leads to almost daily rainfall.
Even if you are a skilled and experienced driver, rain can impact your visibility and cause the roads to become slippery, which is a combination that can lead to a disaster. According to the Federal Highway Administration, approximately 22% of crashes in the U.S. are weather-related. The vast majority are due to wet pavement and during rainfall. About 73% of weather-related accidents occurred during rainfall.
Of the accidents reported throughout Florida in 2016, about 8.5% occurred during rainy road conditions. In 2015, rain was responsible for nearly 9% of all accidents that led to accident injuries.
During the first few minutes of a rain shower or storm is when the roads are the most slippery. Due to the oils on the road being brought to the surface from the rain, drivers are more likely to lose control and spin out. Another big danger is hydroplaning.
Hydroplaning can occur due to defects in the road and poor drainage. Hydroplaning occurs when the water in the front of the tires builds up quicker than the tire can move it out of the way. The thin layer of water separates the vehicle's tires from the road, which can prevent the vehicle from braking and turning properly. If you begin to hydroplane, you should not suddenly brake or turn as it can throw your vehicle into a skid until the tires regain traction.
As a Florida resident or visitor, eventually, you will end up driving in the rain. Consider the following tips in order to avoid being injured in an accident.
While it is Florida law to have your headlights on when it is raining, you should not be driving with your hazard lights on – it could actually put you and other drivers in danger.
If you are hurt in a car accident caused by bad weather conditions, you may be entitled to up to $10,000 in medical benefits. Get the treatment you need for your injuries by contacting an experienced chiropractor at ChiroCare of Florida.
With eleven locations throughout South Florida, you can find a convenient location to get the medical attention you need after a car accident.


Along with maintaining the ability to easily access all of the Nexus 7's ports the case also allows for sound to still be heard crisply and cleanly by means of the holes on the back of the case. This works great for when you want to turn the case into a flip stand to display presentations, play music, or watch videos.
To help save battery, the case acts as a smart cover by automatically turning of the display when the case is completely shut. There's also a built in hand strap for those times you'd like to demonstrate something on the display of your tablet to someone. Lastly, a Velcro strap and elastic band ensure that the Nexus save will never accidentally fall out of the case.
You can make sure you get your Moko Slim Cover Case right here. Ordinarily the case would cost you a $50, which isn't surprising considering all of the features as well as it's high quality design. If you order one right now you certainly won't pay nearly that much and, if you're one of the fortunate ones as I was, it'll be delivered to you within two days. Make sure you get yours today because the last time I checked, the price had gone up since I purchase mine. Whether you use your Nexus 7 tablet for causal things, business purposes, or in a professional setting, this case is in a class above the rest.
I'll post it soon. I had to wait until YouTube uploaded the video and I was out during that time.
Yup! It's going up in price too so you should get this case (I just checked).
Great case for anyone who is looking to get one for their Nexus 7. Has an even better price too!
When are you going to upload the video with getting google search from jelly bean on ICS?
lol the thing on the back is to set it up as a stand…..
To be honest, you should just re-record if you mess up like that. It makes it seem like you're making stuff up, and when you say "it stays up really well" And you can easily press it down because you have it set up wrong, it just makes you look like an idiot. Just redo it and make a quality video. Not to mention your intro and outro are painfully loud.
Thanks Logan, I will keep those tips in mind.
I won't have time to do it this week so it'll probably be next week instead.
Hopefully they don't update the app between now and then haha.
Do I need root for it though?
Yeah, you need root for it since you have to modify some files in the system.
where is the link !!
Thanks! Even to this day I forget to turn the case upside down to make the tab work correctly haha.


Lane Cove Council is responsible for providing residents with safe, convenient and connected pedestrian routes. Every local council puts together a Pedestrian Access and Mobility Plan (PAMP). This plan helps identify areas which need to be improved to make walking easier for residents.
infrastructure suitable for wheelchairs, walking aids, mobility scooters, guide dogs, prams and bicycles.
A draft PAMP was commissioned and nine (9) pedestrian routes throughout Lane Cove were audited.
Interestingly there is no mention of the Pedestrian Crossing at Longueville Road and how this impacts traffic flow. The report is aimed at pedestrian access, however this pedestrian crossing is a problem. Drivers become impatient waiting for pedestrians to cross in dribs and drabs or a driver starts to accelerate and someone darts out to cross the road.
2. The intersection (corner) near the TAB and post office investigate inclusion of bus turning zone marked on the road approaching both sides of the pedestrian crossing or other options.
Even though this pedestrian crossing is not mentioned in the PAMP, feel free to raise this as an issue.
To have your say on the Draft Plan you can use an Interactive Map to show the exact location of your concerns or suggested improvements.
Watch Councillor Andrew Zbik show you how to use the interactive map.
Submissions close on Sunday, 15 July 2018.


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Confederate Flag 'Looking' Tiles To Be Removed From Subway
Everyone has lost their ever-loving minds.
The Associated Press reports that MTA officials "have decided to alter subway tiles at a Manhattan station that have a cross-like design similar to that of the Confederate flag."
Yes, you read that correctly. It's not a Confederate flag, nor is it even a depiction of one. It's a mosaic that merely looks like an "X."
Metropolitan Transportation Authority Kevin Ortiz said Friday the agency is modifying the tiles at the 40th Street entrance to the Times Square subway stop to make it "crystal clear" that they don't depict the flag. He said the red, white and blue design installed decades ago was meant to reflect Times Square's status as the "Crossroads of the World."
The decision comes in the wake of the deadly rally over a Robert E. Lee statue in Charlottesville, Virginia, which has caused communities across the nation to remove Confederate memorials and symbols.
The MTA did not indicate how it proposes to "modify" the tiles or when the process will begin. Amazing. This nation has lost its collective mind. Perhaps we should just take a sledgehammer to anything and everything that pre-dates 2008, or any other year deemed pure enough by the zombified thought-police.
Aside from the utter lunacy of tearing down every shred that harkens back to a different period in our history, we think New Yorkers have a lot more to worry about when riding the subway than the way certain tiles look.
On a daily basis, New Yorkers traverse this decrepit subway system, where they risk being slashed, pushed off platforms, spat on, urinated on, or at best stuck in one of the antiquated broken-down subway cars for minutes or hours at a time. But yes, can we please talk about the racist mosaics?
ESPN is Still Crying Over Indian Mascots


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// This file contains the tests for class VisitorBase.

#include "core/cross/class_manager.h"
#include "core/cross/object_manager.h"
#include "core/cross/service_locator.h"
#include "core/cross/visitor_base.h"
#include "tests/common/win/testing_common.h"

namespace o3d {

class TestClass : public ObjectBase {
 public:
  explicit TestClass(ServiceLocator* service_locator)
      : ObjectBase(service_locator) {
  }
  static ObjectBase::Ref Create(ServiceLocator* service_locator) {
    return ObjectBase::Ref(new TestClass(service_locator));
  }
  O3D_DECL_CLASS(TestClass, ObjectBase);
};
O3D_DEFN_CLASS(TestClass, ObjectBase);

class TestVisitor : public VisitorBase<TestVisitor> {
 public:
  TestVisitor()
      : visit_object_base_calls_(0),
        visit_object_base_param_(NULL),
        visit_test_class_calls_(0),
        visit_test_class_param_(NULL) {
  }

  void VisitObjectBase(ObjectBase* param) {
    ++visit_object_base_calls_;
    visit_object_base_param_ = param;
  }

  void VisitTestClass(TestClass* param) {
    ++visit_test_class_calls_;
    visit_test_class_param_ = param;
  }

  int visit_object_base_calls_;
  ObjectBase* visit_object_base_param_;

  int visit_test_class_calls_;
  TestClass* visit_test_class_param_;
};

class VisitorBaseTest : public testing::Test {
 protected:
  virtual void SetUp() {
    service_locator_ = new ServiceLocator;
    class_manager_ = new ClassManager(service_locator_);
    class_manager_->AddTypedClass<TestClass>();
    object_manager_ = new ObjectManager(service_locator_);
  }

  virtual void TearDown() {
    delete object_manager_;
    delete class_manager_;
    delete service_locator_;
  }

  ServiceLocator* service_locator_;
  ObjectManager* object_manager_;
  ClassManager* class_manager_;
  Pack* pack_;
  TestVisitor visitor_;
};

TEST_F(VisitorBaseTest, AcceptShouldForwardToRegisteredFunction) {
  visitor_.Enable(&TestVisitor::VisitTestClass);
  ObjectBase::Ref object(class_manager_->CreateObjectByClass(
      TestClass::GetApparentClass()));
  visitor_.Accept(object);
  EXPECT_EQ(1, visitor_.visit_test_class_calls_);
  EXPECT_EQ(object.Get(), visitor_.visit_test_class_param_);
  EXPECT_EQ(0, visitor_.visit_object_base_calls_);
}

TEST_F(VisitorBaseTest, AcceptShouldDoNothingIfNoFunctionIsRegisteredForClass) {
  ObjectBase::Ref object(class_manager_->CreateObjectByClass(
      TestClass::GetApparentClass()));
  visitor_.Accept(object);
  EXPECT_EQ(0, visitor_.visit_test_class_calls_);
  EXPECT_EQ(0, visitor_.visit_object_base_calls_);
}

TEST_F(VisitorBaseTest,
    AcceptShouldForwardToRegisteredFunctionForParentIfClassNotRegistered) {
  visitor_.Enable(&TestVisitor::VisitObjectBase);
  ObjectBase::Ref object(class_manager_->CreateObjectByClass(
      TestClass::GetApparentClass()));
  visitor_.Accept(object);
  EXPECT_EQ(1, visitor_.visit_object_base_calls_);
  EXPECT_EQ(object.Get(), visitor_.visit_object_base_param_);
  EXPECT_EQ(0, visitor_.visit_test_class_calls_);
}

TEST_F(VisitorBaseTest, AcceptShouldDoNothingForNull) {
  visitor_.Accept(NULL);
  EXPECT_EQ(0, visitor_.visit_test_class_calls_);
  EXPECT_EQ(0, visitor_.visit_object_base_calls_);
}

TEST_F(VisitorBaseTest,
    VisitorBaseAcceptShouldForwardToRegisteredFunctionOnceForEachAccept) {
  visitor_.Enable(&TestVisitor::VisitTestClass);
  ObjectBase::Ref object(class_manager_->CreateObjectByClass(
      TestClass::GetApparentClass()));
  visitor_.Accept(object);
  visitor_.Accept(object);
  EXPECT_EQ(2, visitor_.visit_test_class_calls_);
  EXPECT_EQ(object.Get(), visitor_.visit_test_class_param_);
  EXPECT_EQ(0, visitor_.visit_object_base_calls_);
}

TEST_F(VisitorBaseTest, IsHandledReturnsTrueIfAFunctionIsRegistered) {
  visitor_.Enable(&TestVisitor::VisitTestClass);
  EXPECT_TRUE(visitor_.IsHandled(TestClass::GetApparentClass()));
}

TEST_F(VisitorBaseTest,
    IsHandledReturnsTrueIfAFunctionIsRegisteredForABaseClass) {
  visitor_.Enable(&TestVisitor::VisitObjectBase);
  EXPECT_TRUE(visitor_.IsHandled(TestClass::GetApparentClass()));
}

TEST_F(VisitorBaseTest, IsHandledReturnsFalseIfNoFunctionIsRegistered) {
  EXPECT_FALSE(visitor_.IsHandled(TestClass::GetApparentClass()));
}

}  // namespace o3d


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MainAll NewsDefense/Middle EastArab Municipality Deigns to Clean Jewish Holy Site
Arab Municipality Deigns to Clean Jewish Holy Site
The City of Shechem agreed to clean vandalized Joseph's Tomb, as Breslover Hassidim continue visits to the holy site, with&without army permission.
Hillel Fendel, 11/11/07 13:15
Burnt-out Joseph's Tomb
Following many requests by the army and MK Meir Porush (United Torah Judaism), the Palestinian Authority governor of Shechem (Nablus) in the Shomron gave the order last week to clean up the holy site of the Tomb of the Biblical Joseph.
The holy site had become a burnt-out, vandalized, exclusively PA-controlled garbage dump in recent years - despite the Oslo Accords assurance that Israel would control it. Frequent visits by religious Hassidim of the Breslov movement and neighboring Jewish residents, however, have kept Joseph's Tomb in the army's eye. An IDF lookout reported in the past few days seeing Shechem municipal workers enter the site, followed by truckloads of garbage leaving it. A Breslover Hassid, who wishes to be known only as Y, says he has photos of the site looking cleaner than it has been in years.
A resident of the Jewish town of Yitzhar said the credit for the sudden Arab cooperation belongs to the Breslovers. "We, ourselves, are more interested in restoring Israeli control to the site," he told Arutz-7, "while the Breslovers are actually visiting the site; they simply want to pray there. And their way is keeping things alive and producing results."
Y, for his part, says modestly, "It's not just us; the people from the Jewish towns around here also visit frequently..." He said he appreciates the efforts by the army, MK Porush, and even the Shechem Municipality. However, he has no illusions as to the future: "They have not refurbished the site, and there is no guarantee that the site will remain clean or that it will not be vandalized again. In addition, our visits have still not been regulated... We currently visit almost nightly, and soon we hope to visit even more frequently."
The Breslovers' visits are sometimes coordinated with the army, but more often are not. They generally enter PA-controlled Shechem with motorcycles or speeding cars, and are not armed.
Joseph's Tomb, just 30 years ago, was located in a field outside the city, but is now surrounded on all sides by streets and houses. The Oslo Agreement stipulates that it is to remain under Israeli control, and in fact, the Od Yosef Chai [Joseph Still Lives] Yeshiva was located there. However, access to the site was never free; it remained a closed military zone, and visits to the yeshiva had to be coordinated in advance with the army.
On the traditional anniversary of Joseph's death, for instance - the 27th day of the Hebrew month Tammuz - hundreds of Jews would arrive at the site to commemorate the day. In September 1996, a full-scale battle broke out there, and six IDF soldiers were killed. The Israeli forces were reportedly not prepared for hostilities on such a scale. The holy site remained under Israeli control following the battle only in the merit of a courageous decision by Central Region Commander Uzi Dayan. Dayan had been given a green light by then-Defense Minister Yitzchak Mordechai to decide whether or not to evacuate, but he decided that an IDF retreat under those circumstances would lead to additional PA attacks in other places.
For the next four years, access to the site continued to be limited. In June 1997, for instance, just before the Shavuot holiday, the yeshiva students were ordered by the local military commander to remove the mattresses they had brought in for the holiday. He threatened that if the mattresses were not removed immediately, he would revoke their permission to spend the holiday in the Yeshiva.
In October 2000, at the beginning of what became known as the Oslo War, Palestinian Authority terrorists overran Joseph's Tomb and routed the Israeli forces from the city. IDF soldier Madhat Yusuf bled to death when the Israeli commanders did not rescue him, but rather relied on PA promises that they would tend to him.
Then-Prime Minister Ehud Barak refused to order the IDF to rescue the bleeding soldier from Joseph's tomb for fear that many Arabs would be killed in the operation. In the wake of a public outcry at abandoning the soldier in enemy territory, the "We Don't Abandon Soldiers" and the "We Care" movements were formed and began promoting the value of fighting to rescue soldiers. In 2004, a Knesset sub-committee determined that the decision to rely on the PA was faulty due to previous experience with similar PA promises.
Israeli forces have not returned to the site since then, and the Arabs of Shechem turned the former yeshiva into a burnt-out hull.


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Obituary - Patrick Festy
@INED
We are sad to announce that Patrick Festy passed away on 8 December 2022.
Patrick Festy was the director of INED from 1995 to 1998. Under his leadership as editor-in-chief of the journal Population (1989–1995), Population embarked on its transformation into an international journal in terms of its authors and readership.
Patrick Festy was a remarkable researcher. In the 1970s, when studies were focused on exploring the individual determinants of demographic behaviour, he turned his attention to the contextual factors of this behaviour, and more specifically, the effect of law on family behaviour. His study of divorce in Russia and young people's transition to adulthood in Albania led him to examine the effect of social protection systems and private solidarity on living conditions. This new direction was best illustrated through two European projects on the care of future older adults, FELICIE and MAGGIE, which he coordinated in the 2000s with Joëlle Gaymu. Attentive to data quality and harmonization, he conducted research on the operating methods of major international fertility and family survey programmes and then coordinated the evaluation of microdata from European censuses. More recently, he supervised the development of the contextual database of the European Generations and Gender programme.
All those who knew Patrick Festy also appreciated his sense of humour, kindness, and humility.
By Aline Desesquelles (INED).


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Final push
Manuel L. Quezon III May 10, 2007 29 Comments on Final push
The President has transferred the Philippine Charity Sweepstakes Office back to the supervision of the Department of Health.
I found this news item, on a slum community that spontaneously protested on behalf of the armed forces, very interesting:
"We don't want them to leave," 41-year-old mother Nene said, saying the number of robberies and brawls dwindled since the soldiers arrived in their area.
The residents said the soldiers' night patrol kept the neighborhood safe. They were also thankful for the multipurpose center the soldiers renovated, the day care center and public toilets they built and the medical missions they conducted.
"They have been helping us. Only drug addicts and criminals would want to drive them away," said 42-year-old Peter, who has been staying at the area in the last two decades.
Protest organizers tried to explain that soldiers should be deployed in combat areas in the provinces, but not in the metropolis. The jeers of the residents prevailed, however.
This only goes to show the vast potential of "winning hearts and minds," when the armed forces does it without liquidating people or having their presence in a community inaugurate a series of disappearances. When news first began trickling in, of military operations in Central Luzon and provinces like Bulacan, I heard many stories of how brutal the soldiers could be; but I also heard stories of how, in some areas at least, the public came to welcome the military's presence because incidents of hooliganism, drug-dealing, even public drunkenness, diminished significantly. The fear of the public in such areas became: now that it's all sorted out, what happens when the military leaves?
And again, imagine what a difference it could make to law and order, not to mention rural development, if institutionally, the armed forces didn't have to struggle with a debased and discredited officer corps, one which turned a blind eye to human rights abuses?
Someone once asked me, what sort of military operations I would support. I said, if our AFP went to the areas of the country that are basically a no-man's land, built roads, set up rural electrification, and prevented rebels from blowing up vital infrastructure; if, furthermore, they did so not by means of frightening the public, but welcoming public scrutiny of their actions, without beating anyone up, then their not only respecting the population, but tangibly improving rural lives would crush the insurgency. On the whole, that's how the Huks were crushed in the 50s.
I don't remember where, exactly, I read it, but there's something like a shortage of 8 million toilets in Metro Manila. The police do not have the capacity to build them; only the armed forces, with its engineering battalions, does. On that basis alone, sending soldiers to slum areas makes sense, as would having them build roads, clean esteros, and imagine the effect if they invented a practical, prefabricated home they could easily build for the poor? Imagine further if the police could swoop in and mop up petty criminal syndicates. But neither the police nor the military can do so, properly, because their leadership is compromised: for example, if the army had conducted its operations prior to, and not during, the election season, that's one cause for skepticism that wouldn't even have arisen.
Even as thousands of overseas Filipino voter ballots end up returned to the Comelec, and the head of the CBCP has had to wade in to patch up a quarrel between electoral watchdog groups (they seem headed toward a spectacular flop this coming election; and for all their concern, I don't know what foreign observers will really accomplish, concerned though they may be), the focus today is on the surveys.
To be precise, the latest SWS-Inquirer survey on senatorial preferences. This leaves the interesting analysis of Philippine Commentary slightly outdated.
The polling firm has declared ten candidates in the "safe" zone: Legarda, Villar, Escudero, Pangilinan, Lacson, Aquino, Recto, Cayetano, Zubiri and Honasan. Which means much of the excitement in the canvassing will focus on the prospects of Edgardo Angara, Joker Arroyo, and Vicente Sotto III. Those who come after them in the rankings seem to face insurmountable odds: no candidate, SWS says, in the past three elections, has been able to overcome a "statistically significant" lead by their closest opponent. Which I suppose means that only candidates who have scores plus or minus three points compared to Joker Arroyo, in 12th place in the survey, are still in the fight.
This brings up something else: the question of machinery and command votes. SWS seems to suggest they can can only take a candidate so far. And in Teddy's World, here's an interesting observation:
In our city in the province, we have two leading mayoralty candidates. One is from Kampi and the other is from Lakas CMD. Campaign managers from the 2 parties are openly campaigning for the GO (Genuine Opposition) candidates. Their sample ballots have either Lakas or Kampi bets from gubernatorial posts to city councilors, but the senatorial posts are left blank. This must be the command votes the wise politicians of Malacañang are talking about.
Even if we assume a command vote situation, the dilemma the administration provincial forces will be facing is: of the bottom three, Joker, Angara, and Sotto, all are administration candidates but one will end up losing. What makes it tougher is that as the campaign comes to an end, all three were proving droopy in the surveys, Joker particularly so (recall the scuttlebutt I heard during the taping of GMA7's "Isang Tanong"? Joker had decided not to show up, because they sensed the coming survey results and decided to have an emergency meeting, instead, because of concerns he'd now be a ripe target for "junking," precisely by the administration machinery). For example, it might be a better investment all around to junk Joker and attempt to pull off an electoral miracle by squeezing in Defensor (it could be passed off as divine providence, courtesy of El Shaddai and the Iglesia).
Jove Francisco says the Palace has been into survey-taking, too, commissioning one a week to track the senate results. He also provides scuttlebutt on the importance of survey rankings for candidates (some want to come out number one, others fear it), the questions arising from Palace people (how will they pull off electoral miracles?). A great read.
Eleksyon 2007 Survey Says has some nice charts covering the recent surveys, to track the progress of various candidates. See their Team Unity charts, Part 1 and Part 2; their Genuine Opposition charts, Part 1 and Part 2; and their chart for the top 5 Independents. Here's my own version, based on the same SWS data, of the leading candidates:
You can also look at the Top 24 candidates based on Pulse Asia or SWS data, or compare them to each other. Or track how individual candidates have done, from the disastrous slide of John O., to the impressive gains of Trillanes and Zubiri (when he stopped relying on that noontime show jingle, and started talking seriously, his campaign took off, it seems).
And take a look, too, at how students are making their choices, in Get Involved (see the various mock elections held in college campuses).
In the punditocracy, my column for today is Paying the piper. The bills are going to be coming in after the elections, and government will be hard-pressed to honor them.
Billy Esposo says Bro. Mike Velarde is a political has-been. Alex Magno disputes certain assumptions about what the party-list (and its nominees) should represent.
The Inquirer editorial says the large number of uncontested positions is a cause for democratic concern.
In the blogosphere, in Inquirer Current the question I tackle is: why vote? Some interesting explanations of why, can be found in the blogs. And the agonizing continues: see big mango, for example; though Lonely Vampire Chronicles faces an altogether different kind of angst: he's all set to vote, but has discovered he may not be able to!
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Resty O. says:
Esposo's piece is so dripping with bile for Velarde. Velarde may have been tempted to flex some political muscle, but as a lay spiritual leader, he is the genuine article. He's no slick, oily charlatan as in that Steve Martin movie (The Evangelist?). Try to listen to his 'sermons' (exhortations, actually), and you'll see my point. I do hope Velarde won't fall into the trap of pride. I'd like to think that El Shaddai members, poor and simple folks though they may be, know enough when to distinguish when their spiritual leader is drawing the attention to himself and no longer to God or not. El Shaddai folks are genuine in their faith. I think Esposo must first go through the whole shebang first before writing all that, which is welling up not just with venom, but with envy.
DJB says:
MLQ3,
I'm afraid that the SWS/Pulse Asia standard surveys are too coarse to call the Magic 12 reliably. Moreover, towards election day, the race near the bottom of the Senate Race tightens up as people make up their minds on the last few candidates they will vote for. Biazon won by only 6000 votes out of 30 million in 2004!
I don't see how anyone can call even just ten of the senate slots as "safe." In fact, even the exit polls won't be accurate enough to call an election like 2004.
benj says:
I agree with the Zubiri analysis. The song was no longer that 'hot' to the masses when Zubiri used it to campaign. I think much of his gains is due to his aggressive ads that feature his good-looking wife and several actors that the youth could relate to.
manuelbuencamino says:
I have a feeling someone from TU will be junked in favor of Honasan.
Alex Magno is dysfunctional;
great article MLQ.
Who's going to pay the piper?
One thing is certain. Gloria ain't gonna be the one when the bills come due.
The Ca t says:
djb, hope you'll explain further.
janie says:
in response to why vote:
in high school, there was an instance where the difference between a candidate's votes and the candidate second to her, is just a significant one. as part of the election committee, we had to recheck and double check to make sure we are right.
in my last year in college, the same thing occurred, for the presidency of our organization.
there are two common things.
1. the one vote difference.
2. a lot of people were regretful of their decision not to vote.
this maybe a shallow experience, but still, a proof that one vote can make all the difference.
vic says:
The yet unborn Pinoys sure do. With accumultated deficit in trillions of pesos, foreign loans eating up a huge portion of tax revenues, pity the coming generations of Pilipinos, saddled with debts, before being conceived.
This is how the OPS press release on the OFW who was recently released from a Saudi prison begins…
"Out of the dark and into the arms of one who has championed their cause since the start, freed domestic helper Sarah Jane Dematera couldn't help but let go of her tears as she gave President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo a grateful embrace when they met this morning in Malacanang.
It was the first time the two saw each other. But as she broke down in front of the very person who made possible her release from 15 years of ordeal in a Saudi Arabian jail, Sarah was profuse with gratitude.
"Maraming-maraming salamat po," she told the President who in turn told her that everything would be all right from now on…."
supremo says:
Joker Arroyo must be banging his head on the wall. He should have run as an independent or at least change his name. Name recall didn't do him any good. Joker na Arroyo pa.
naku says:
Soldiers needing to play Policemen and provide social services? I think that says a lot about the breakdown of law and order and social services in this country.
Those are tasks that should have been performed by the proper entities. Obvoiusly, they weren't.
Why do you need soldiers or policemen to provide social services? You don't need the government to build toilets. The need to take a crap everyday should be enough to force people to build one. Common sense should be taught in Philippine schools.
tbl says:
I think Pilipinos have common sense. What we need is the "will power". We endured the destruction of RP for more thatn 20 years before we acted on it. Now, what do we have? What are the Pilipinos doing about it? Will they act now at least during this coming election? I hope they do!
realist says:
Even if the military become saints, it still does not have any business poking its nose in metro areas.
Jon Mariano says:
Idealism is good (not allowing the military to do good projects in the metro), but can you offer something different?
What's the difference with this and when the military does its "good" deeds in the boondocks?
If it works, let it be.
territorialregimen says:
There is nothing wrong with sending engineering batallions to the slum areas in the metropolis to do some menial labor, or perhaps, infantry batallions to resolve domestic violence and petty crimes, or marines corps to combat serious threats to law and order, backup by the Philippine SEALS (Marines Special Warfare Group's, [SWAG] main unit) in case of contingency (i.e., mobs trying to overrun baranggay leadership).
In the same way, there is nothing wrong by trying to kill a fly with a sledge-hammer.
But the QUESTION is: is it cost-effective?
ricelander says:
Angara, Joker, and Sotto are probably headed for junking to accommodate Pichay and Defensor, GMAs ever loyal lapdogs. The pragmatist in GMA would see that they were just free riders anyway, like herself, amoral practitioners of realpolitik. Just wonder how the pragmatic trio would respond when the ruthless knife of political reality turns its blades on them. Ahh, pragmatists devouring each other.
hvrds says:
The BSP is intending to take away the punch bowl before GMA starts to dip her hands into the punch bowl after the elections.
The savings glut phenomenon in the world is affecting the country and the low interest rates the government is paying is worrying the BSP. They want to sanitize most especially surplus GOCC funds to prevent these from being used for 'other investment vehicles' euphemism for speculative ventures for crony capitalists. The BSP borrowing rate or repo rate is almost double the short term borrowing rate of the government. (Too much cash in the system.) The BSP is wanting to remove this excess from the market by introducing a new SDA product from the BSP. This is to prevent a debt bubble from forming. Cheap money creates an environment for people to forget risk tolerances. Too much money will lower still interest rates and bond prices will rise and keep on rising. For people with peso assets it is time to sell going forward.
http://www.mb.com.ph/BSNS2007051193712.html
They also want to prevent the drastic slide of the dollar vs the peso.
The Fourth Branch of Government doing its job. So much for free markets.
Weird, but my first post did not include my reaction to this statement.
This is not your feeling. This had been floated in the media.
One more TU will enter the magic circle.
who might be the unfortunate guy? hmmm…
Wait, how can it be in Honasan's favor again? Hehe. Honasan needs to go to get another TU person in without hurting their current numbers.
Mita says:
MU ni Honasan with TU? arrgh…not Honasan again..he's like a bad dream that keeps coming back to haunt us. damn i can't vote in this one!
Alex Magno's 5/11 report in his column in the Philippine Star is very interesting indeed. It seems that a caravan of party list leftists, surprised by the hostility of its residents, was driven out of a "poor" community in Tondo. The leftists, apparently trying to foment anger upon the soldiers doing beneficial community action there, fled with their tails between their legs, red-faced (pun intended)in humiliation.
Glad to hear that the "masses" are beginning to see who their real friends are, and who are the enemies. The days of the clenched fist and of hideous slogans and hateful red flags are numbered. Get them out of the government that they are trying to destroy.
I wonder how Trillanes or Gringo can serve as senator, granting they're elected, if they are confined in jail and charged with non-bailable offense?
It's unlikely that they'll be allowed bail (I don't know of any precedent). And, if they won't be allowed bail, how can they attend session? Or, vote? Or, argue?
Hmmm… should we not be answering this questions first before we cast our vote for them?
Please enlighten me fellow voters..
UPn student says:
to territorialregimen: tele-commute.
I am sure Gringo's sponsors or Trillanes' sponsors will foot the bill for the equipment. Put video-conferencing equipment in the jailcell.
UPn student:
Seeking to find answer to my own question, I came about this case of Romeo Jalosjos. The Supreme Court cited in an obiter dictum the following:
"The accused-appellant avers that his constituents in the First District of Zamboanga del Norte want their voices to be heard and that since he is treated as bona fide member of the House of Representatives, the latter urges a co-equal branch of government to respect his mandate. He also claims that the concept of temporary detention does not necessarily curtail his duty to discharge his mandate and that he has always complied with the conditions/restrictions when he is allowed to leave jail.
"We remain unpersuaded.
"No less than accused-appellant himself admits that like any other member of the House of Representatives "[h]e is provided with a congressional office situated at Room N-214, North Wing Building, House of Representatives Complex, Batasan Hills, Quezon City, manned by a full complement of staff paid for by Congress. Through [an] inter-department coordination, he is also provided with an office at the Administration Building, New Bilibid Prison, Muntinlupa City, where he attends to his constituents." Accused-appellant further admits that while under detention, he has filed several bills and resolutions. It also appears that he has been receiving his salaries and other monetary benefits. Succinctly stated, accused-appellant has been discharging his mandate as a member of the House of Representative consistent with the restraints upon one who is presently under detention.
"Being a detainee, accused-appellant SHOULD NOT EVEN HAVE BEEN ALLOWED by the prison authorities at the National Pentientiary to perform these acts (emphasis supplied). [Pp. v. Jalosjos, 2000]
bro martin francisco, pj says:
Regarding the militarization of a certain area in central luzon if the civilian are willing to accept them or not is depending to the influence and propaganda of the other side armed group or the NPA.
i witnessed here in bulacan even during the time of Gen. palparan that some were afraid and others were more than willing since illegal loggers, criminals had difficulties to move.
Unless the head of the battalion commander of certain unit is morally upright then we will not have problem with human rights violation. If not then we have to contend to have constand dialogue with the military so that they will respect our civil liberties.
I can speak about this since I saw it with my own eyes. I just pray that people may come to know the truth and depend human life.Thanks
bro martin
Sagip Sierra Madre Environmental Society Inc


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Q: Postgresql загрузка json с вложенным массивом в 2 таблицы Есть 2 таблицы в Postgresql
CREATE TABLE flats(
id INTEGER PRIMARY KEY GENERATED BY DEFAULT AS IDENTITY,
flat_no VARCHAR(10) NOT NULL,
flat_square NUMERIC(8,2));

CREATE TABLE owners(
id BIGINT PRIMARY KEY GENERATED BY DEFAULT AS IDENTITY,
flat_id INTEGER NOT NULL REFERENCES flats ON DELETE CASCADE ON UPDATE CASCADE,
last_name VARCHAR(100) NOT NULL,
first_name VARCHAR(100) NOT NULL,
second_name VARCHAR(100));

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{"flats": [
    {"flat_no": 1,
     "flat_square": 23.4,
     "owners": [
         {"last_name": "Иванов", "first_name": "Иван", "second_name": "Иванович"},
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     "owners": [
         {"last_name": "Петров", "first_name": "Петр", "second_name": "Петрович"}
      ]
     }
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}

Нужно массив flats вставить в таблицу flats и на основании полученных id вставить данные в таблицу owners
Во flats вставляю через WITH inserted_rows as (INSERT INTO flats SELECT * FROM jsonb_populate_recordset(NULL::flats, ...) RETURNING *), а вот как вытащить flat_no у каждого человека и по нему получить id из inserted_rows для вставки в owners что-то никак не пойму.


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Q: Ruby, Files, Tab Characters I am parsing a csv file and the file has "\t" characters after every column. Why is it that when I print out the individual lines in terminal or open the file in my text editor that the tab spacing between each of the columns is different?

A: Do you mean something like
1   1
12345678    1

as a result of
puts "1\t1"
puts "12345678\t1"

A tab jumps to the next position in 8-space steps (8 spaces is a common distance, but it depends on settings of your editor. For ruby often is 2-space distance is used).
If the previous text is longer then 8 characters, then you jump to the next position and you have the impression of different tab spacing.

A: When you use tab, you're essentially moving to the next tab location, not moving over a specific distance. To see the difference, try using 4 spaces instead of tab. Or, alternatively, run the following code, and I think it may become clear to you.
puts "Hel\tlo world!"
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puts "Hell\to world!"

Hope that helps.


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Ше́рбрук () — місто у провінції Квебек (Канада), у регіоні Естрі (). Розташоване у місці, де зливаються річки Магог () та Сен-Франсуа ().

Історія

Місто існує з 1802 року. Його другою датою народження є 1 січня 2002, коли старий Шербрук було об'єднано з муніципалітетами Аскот (Ascot), Бромптонвіль (Bromptonville), Довіль (Deauville), Фльорімон (Fleurimont), Ленноксвіль (Lennoxville), Рок Форест (Rock Forest) та Сент-Елі-д'Орфор (Saint-Élie-d'Orford).

Місто було засноване американськими лоялістами, що переселилися до Квебеку після проголошення незалежності Сполученими Штатами. Назване на честь Сера Джона Шебрука () — губернатора британських колоній у Північній Америці у 1816—1818 роках.

Населення

Більшість населення міста — корінні квебекуа. Також помітною є англомовна громада, яка живе переважно у колишньому муніципалітеті Ленноксвіль.

Шербрук — університетське місто. Щороку тисячі студентів приїжджають сюди зі всього Квебеку, а також з інших провінцій Канади і з-за кордону.

Освіта

У Шербруку — два університети:

 Шербрукський університет () — франкомовний;

 Університет Бішопс () — англомовний.

Шербрукський університет було визнано найкращим франкомовним університетом Північної Америки.

Посилання

 Офіційний сайт міста Шербрук
 Туристичний сайт про Шербрук та околиці
 "La Tribune" - міська газета

Міста Квебеку
Естрі
Міста, названі на честь людей
Населені пункти, засновані 1802


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Wisconsin Expands Ability to Activate Powers of Attorney for Health Care
by Attorney Katherine A. Young | Jun 28, 2021 | Article, Estate Planning
Wisconsin is facing a shortage of primary care doctors, particularly in rural areas. According to a report by the Wisconsin Council on Medical Education and Workforce, there is expected to be a shortfall of 745 primary care doctors by 2035, in large part due to upcoming retirements. While the medical field may seem separate and distinct from the legal field, this looming shortage is already impacting certain laws.
The Wisconsin legislature enacted 2019 Wisconsin Act 90 on February 5, 2020. The Act expands the provider types that can determine whether a person is incapacitated for purposes of activating a power of attorney for health care, declare that a patient has a terminal illness or is in a persistent vegetative state for purposes of invoking a living will.
Under prior law, an incapacity determination could only be made by two physicians, or by one physician and one licensed psychologist. Under the new law, an incapacity determination may be made by two physicians, or by one physician and one of the following individuals: i) a licensed psychologist; ii) a registered nurse who is currently certified as a nurse practitioner by a national certifying body approved by the Board of Nursing; or iii) a licensed physician assistant (PA) who a physician responsible for overseeing the PA's practice affirms is competent to conduct evaluations of the capacity of patients to manage health care decisions. The new law does not affect the other applicable criteria for determining that a person is incapacitated, including that the providers must still personally examine the patient and cannot be a relative or have a claim to a portion of the person's estate.
According to State Representative Patrick Snyder, who helped introduce the legislation, several communities in Wisconsin depend solely on advanced practice clinicians, like PAs and registered nurses, for their care because the closest physicians are many miles away and, for these communities, and others that rely heavily on advanced practice clinicians, the Act will allow for a continuity of care that was prohibited under prior law.
If you previously signed a power of attorney for health care or living will under the prior law, you may consider having your document reviewed and potentially updated if you wish to take advantage of this recent law change.
Attorney Katherine A. Young
Katie practices in the areas of estate planning and business law. While attending law school, Katherine was actively involved in the Elder Law & Estate Planning Society and served as president of the student organization. She also worked for the Elder Law Center where she extensively researched issues concerning guardianships, advance directives and benefits.


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This package includes 12 elective hours of CE required for broker active license renewals.
This 12 hour electives package includes the latest and most comprehensive information available for agents focused on commercial real estate.
In a race, you don't finish unless you cross the finish line. A real estate transaction can be similar. All the hard work, the showings, the negotiations, the contracts, and the communications are all part of the race. The final step, finish line, comes at the closing. The signing of all the documents and transferring of ownership from one person to another comes at the finish line.
The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) acquires thousands of homes every year through foreclosure on properties that had Federal Housing Administration (FHA) insured mortgages. This course explains the processes and procedures involved in listing and selling HUD homes, including how the properties are awarded to individual brokers for listing, how brokers and agents are compensated for these sales, and how they are listed and marketed.
This course covers the Code of Ethics and Standards of Practices established by the National Association of Realtors (NAR). The Articles of the Code are supplemented with a definition of terms, examples of ethical and unethical practices, scenarios, and decision making exercises. Violations and sanctions are also addressed. THIS COURSE MEETS 3 of the MANDATORY 12 HOURS OF ETHICS.
All of the various forms of residential real estate financing; including conventional, FHA, VA Loans, loan assumptions, purchase money mortgages, alternative financing are explained in this course. Also covers legislation relating to financing.
Presents methods and principles for pricing property. Covers pricing compared to appraisal, basic concepts of pricing property, principles of value, approaches to pricing property, and application of the market data and replacement cost methods.
Course covers types of tax benefits for homeowners and how to calculate the taxes that will impact the purchase of a home.