Are you looking for excellent gifts for the holidays, or just a little light and warmth to cozy up your home?
Together in Education (TIE) and students at SDMS are selling Yankee Candles to benefit programs at SDMH/S. You can shop online at www.yankeecandlefundraising.com - just enter our school code, 990059865, or ask your friendly 6th, 7th or 8th grader to show you their catalogue!
A good portion of each sale provides money directly to programs requested specifically by the faculty and students. Enrichment programming, field trip support, art and school supplies and technology equipment are all examples of projects requested and funded by TIE to support the students and staff of SDMHS.
Online orders will be shipped directly to your home, and catalog orders will be delivered to the student seller for distribution. Order by 11/7/16 to guarantee delivery by Christmas! If you have any questions, please contact Rachel Kneeland at Kneelands4@hotmail.com.


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Inspiration Centre is helping to send several students to school this term through our sponsorship program.
Ann Wamboi. Dr. Mwenje High School
Ann is 19years old and lives with her aunt in Dandora with her other siblings. Ann is in her final year in high school and has been in the program for more than 5years. She wants to join college in the future and become a social worker. She likes singing, dancing and socializing.
Lawrence Musimbi. Intern at Inspiration Kerosene business
Lawrence is 20years old and lives with his single mother in Huruma with other siblings. He lost his father when he was about 10years old. Lawrence graduated from high in 2011 and currently works as an intern at Inspiration Centre Kerosene. He likes dancing, drama and singing. He wants to study business when he joins college.
Fridah Murugi. Kamahuha Girls High School
Fridah is 16years old and lives with her single mother in Mathare. She is in her third year in high school. During the 2007/2008 post-election violence in Kenya, Fridah's family was evicted by a vigilante gang in Mathare but her family was not harmed. She wants to become an architect or a lawyer in the future. She likes singing, reciting poems, spoken word, dancing, modeling and drama.
Godfrey Chogo. Kibera Film School
Godfrey is 24years old. He is studying Film at Kibera Film School (Hotsun Foundation). He delayed joining high school for 4 years due to school fees problems. Godfrey comes from a polygamous family. He likes poetry, singing, dancing and playing drums. He wants to become a music/video producer when he finishes college. He lost his father when he was still in primary school but now he lives with his mother in Mathare.
Marybeth Atieno. Kaliluni Girls High School
Marybeth is 19years old and is in her final year in High School. She lives with her mother and her other siblings in Mathare. She wants to become a lawyer in the future. She likes singing and dancing.
Sarah Omwando. Kinyui Girls High School
Sarah is 18years old and is in her final year in High School. She lives with her single mother with her siblings in Mathare. She likes singing, reciting poems, spoken word, dancing and drama. She is in her first year in high school. She wants to become a musician or an engineer in the future.
Molly Atieno. Valley View Academy
Molly is 15 years old and lives with her aunt in Mathare. Molly delayed joining school for 2years but since she joined the program, she has continued to dominate her class academically. Her first year in school was amazing because she emerged top in her class. She was promoted to the next class before the year was over (unusual) and the results were the same. She is now in class 8 and has continued to emerge top in her class. She wants to become a lawyer or a nun in the near future. Molly likes public speaking, poetry and drama
Mary Aluso. Valley View Academy
Mary is 11 years old and lives with her single mother and other siblings in Madoya. She delayed joining school for two years. Her father is an alcoholic and doesn't live with them. She is in class 5. She wants to become a teacher when she grows up. She likes drama and singing.
Peter Okonji. St. Teresa's Boys
Peter is 21years old and is in his final year in high school. He lives in Huruma with his single mother and his other siblings. He delayed joining high school for almost three years due to school fees problem. He wants to become a musician/producer in the future. Peter likes writing and reciting poems, singing, playing drums and keyboard.
Collins Sande. Friends School Kaimosi Boys
Collins is 17years old and lives with his single mother and siblings in Mathare. He aspires to join a prestigious college abroad and study journalism. He is in his second year in High School. Collins likes writing, reading and dancing.
Esther Akinyi – Ogango Girls Secondary School
Esther lives with her mother in Mathare. Her mother works as a casual cleaner in Nairobi. She is the second born in a family of 5 children and is in her third year in High School. She wants to become a musician when she finishes school.
Sophia Mrunde – Masinga Girls
Sophia lives with her single mother who works as a maid. She is the first born in a family of two. She is in her third year in High School. Sophia wants to become a newscaster when she finishes school.
Fanis Okwisa – Masinga Girls
Fanis lives with her single mother who works as a cleaner in Nairobi. She is the last born of a family of 8. She is in her first year in High school. She wants to become an engineer in the future.
Irene Ayako, Pumwani School of Midwifery
Irene is the third born in a family of six. She lives with her unemployed mother and her father, who both work as a casual laborers. She likes singing and helping with house chores. She is studying to be a mid-wife and will be graduating in 2013 as a mid-wife. She hopes to prevent infant mortality in Mathare when she finishes college. Her dream is to open up a maternity hospital in Mathare.
Sabina Ndinda: Valley View Academy
Sabina is a first born of three children headed by a Single mother and live in Mathare. She is in Class 3 and hopes of becoming a nurse.
Yvonne Adembi: Busara Primary School
Yvonne is the fifth child in a family of 6. She is in Class 8 and hopes to be a lawyer or a musician.
Diana Awuor: Mathare Community Outreach
Diana is the first born in a family of four. She is in Class 8 and hopes to be a teacher.
Kevin Kilonzo: St. Teresa Boys High School
Kevin is a third born in a family of three with unemployed mother and father. He hopes of becoming a businessman when he is finished with school.
Samuel Momanyi: Ruraka High School
Samuel is a first born in his family and lives with both of his unemployed parents. He loves music and hopes to be a musician in the future. He is in form 1.
Agnes Wanjiru – Masinga Girls High School
Agnes is 15years old and lives with her single mother in Mathare. She is in her first year in High School and dreams of becoming a surgeon in the future. In 2012, Agnes underwent a surgery where she lost one of her failed kidneys.
Laurine Awino – Valley View Academy
Meet Laurine who is the fourth child in a family of five. Her mother works as a casual cleaner in Nairobi. Laurine is in class 4, loves arts and hopes to be a lawyer some days.
Esther Wanjiku – Valley View Academy
Meet Esther, our youngest scholar and 5 years old. Esther lives with her single mother in Mathare and dreams of becoming a model.
Eric Likoko: Butula Boys High School
Eric is a fourth born in a family of 6 and is in Form 4. He likes cooking and helping our in house chores. He is looking forward to defend the poor against injustice by studying law.
Nicholas Mutie: Kangundo Boys High School
Meet Nicholas a second year in high school. He lives with his elder sister in Mathare and hopes of becoming an engineer in the future.
Lydia Atieno: Ngara Girls high School
Lydia is in Form 3 and hopes to be a teacher in the future
Davin Eshiboko: Ruiru Central High School
Davin leaves with his unemployed mother and a drunk father. He just joined form 1 and hopes of becoming a mechanic
Michael Okonji: Furaha Community Centre
Michael lives with his single mother and is in Class 8. He hopes of studying journalism in college
Loyd Ochieng: Valley View Academy
Loyd is our second youngest scholar in class 1 and hopes to be a lawyer.
Pascal Akoya: Essaba Secondary School
Pascal lives with his grandfather in rural Kenya and this is his first year in high school. He hopes to be a teacher in the future.
Kelly Madada: Valley View Academy
Kelly is our third youngest scholar in class 3 and hopes to be a pilot.
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DRBA works with partners to develop master plans for local government, property owners and businesses who want to develop trails, greenways, river access points, blueways and blue trails.
We follow a four-phase planning format which is flexible and can be designed to meet the needs of the project.
The Master Planning process can take between 3 - 18 months to complete and planning costs can range between $5,000 - $500,000 depending on the scope of the project.


We crossed the Equator at 3 in the morning of the 3rd of December and opened a can of gulaab jamun.
A little while later we were ambushed by a bad squall, which was normal given my affinity for rains. The southern hemisphere officially began and hopefully the boat should do some better speed because its downslope all the way from here. Things might be upside down from now on and I might have to hold on to things to stop myself from falling off the boat.
The Equatorial sun is harsh. It has begun to leave a mess of rashes and boils on my body. The heat makes it impossible to keep awake during the day and dehydration adds to the nausea.
I look forward to the evenings which bring in beautiful sunsets and nights that bring about the phenomena of stars. A cursory look upwards at night and you are bound to be mesmerised by the billions of stars that people the night sky. There are so many constellations one can make out even if you are not a habitual stargazer, for the mind is inventive and imaginative. One of the crew discovered the constellation of the eye and another that of the umbrella.
When my turn came, I tried to look for one that signified accommodation for single officers in the navy. Needless to say, I failed. It has also become difficult to sleep on the deck because starlight impinges on my eyes even when they are closed and plays with my dreams.


Matthias Pintscher conducted the New World Symphony Saturday night in a program of contemporary German music.
Saturday's "Sounds of the Times" concert at New World Center presented complex music by three of today's top German composers, conducted by the youngest of them, Matthias Pintscher. In a tribute to his teacher Hans Werner Henze, who died last October, Pintscher put the New World Symphony through its paces for the adventurous audience.
First up was Wolfgang Rihm's Will Sound, written for the American ensemble The Alarm Will Sound in 2006. Pintscher's strong gestures and concise cuing conveyed a physicality echoed in Rihm's punchy, pointillistic work. With bright splashes of kaleidoscopic colors over slower-moving harmonic swells in the brass, ferocious energy and concentration from the chamber group delivered a tight concert opener.
The most traditional work on the program, Henze's programmatic Symphony No. 8 (1992) takes its inspiration from Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream. The Allegro Moderato captures Puck's worldwide flight seeking a magic flower. Opening filigrees in winds, harp, percussion, and brass morphed rapidly and substantially into dense orchestration. Henze uses instrumental families to delineate his polyphony, but the constant layering of additional material quickly led to maximum saturation, undercutting the idea of wind and speed.
The "Ballabile," based on Queen Titania's infatuation with the donkey-headed Bottom was a lurching, macabre dance with cleaner lines that goes on too long. The scherzo featured singing string lines and bravura passagework from trombonist Santiago Novoa and tubist Joshua Lee.
The Adagio, based on Puck's closing speech, purports to seek calm. Opening with gentle strings, it devolved much too quickly into a swirl of moods. Among the highlights were melodic exchanges between winds and strings, and winds and harp. However, many impressive solos were covered in the thick texture, which needed more clarity and definition from Pintscher. While every moment was shaped, there was a lack of the overall trajectory required to make a stronger impact.
The finest and most progressive work on the program was Pintscher's own Reflections on Narcissus. Cast in five continuous movements for cello and orchestra, the work is a 2005 retooling of a cello and chamber ensemble piece he composed at age 20 for Henze.
From the percolating opening for percussion, the work evolved in consistently inventive timbral structures, with attacks and decays spread between instruments for a trick-of-the-ear effect. Young soloist Joshua Roman's sweet intonation in the extreme high register of the cello was impressive, but as the texture grew, Roman was too often buried, emerging only here and there.
Roman's aggressive launches in the second movement resonated in chain reactions throughout the orchestra, building into a frenzy. In the more transparent third movement, Roman's lyrical lines traversed the entire cello range, with a show-stopping melody in artificial harmonics, answered by wavering winds and pulsing strings.
Roman's masterful timbral shading was fully revealed in the unaccompanied opening cadenza of the fourth movement. Sudden shifts from aggressive sawing to sustained harmonics and understated ripples of sound culminated in a blistering run off the edge of the fingerboard, answered by tutti color bursts edged with percussion.
The fifth movement was the most inspired, featuring Pintscher's trademark delicacy in quiet passages that suspended time. An elegiac character was poetically conveyed as Roman's languorous solo echoed throughout sections of the orchestra, most poignantly with New World cellist Maaike Harding.


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November 15, 2017 report
Brain implant tested in human patients found to improve memory recall
by Bob Yirka , Medical Xpress
(Medical Xpress)—A team of researchers with the University of Southern California and the Wake Forest School of Medicine has conducted experiments involving implanting electrodes into the brains of human volunteers to see if doing so might improve memory recall. The group gave a presentation at this year's Society for Neuroscience meeting recently outlining the study and what they found.
Prior research has shown that inserting electrodes into the brains of animals can improve memory recall—in this new effort, the researchers discovered the same is true for humans.
To test the idea that sending tiny electrical pulses to parts of the brain involved in memory recall might improve memory, the researchers worked with doctors treating epilepsy patients—each of the patients was scheduled to have a brain electrode implanted as a treatment option. The researchers got 20 of the patients to agree to having another similar electrode implanted into their brains at the same time.
The experiment consisted of two parts. The first was to use the implant to listen for and record electrical activity in the brain while the volunteers engaged in memory exercises. The second part involved mimicking the signals that had been recorded in the first part—sending tiny pulses of electricity to parts of the brain involved in memory retention and retrieval. The experiments sought to measure two kinds of memory, short-term and working memory. The first, as the name implies, is the ability to remember something that happened recently. Working memory, on the other hand, is used to keep track of things as they are happening.
In looking at all the data from all of the patients, the researchers reported that they found brain stimulation via implants led to an average 15 percent improvement in short-term memory and a 25 percent improvement in working memory across all the volunteers—similar to the results found in test animals. They noted that applying random bursts of electrical stimulation, on the other hand, tended to make memory recall worse.
While the experiments were conducted to learn more about memory retention and recall in general, the research is aimed specifically at helping people with memory loss due to ailments such as dementia and Alzheimer's disease.
Neuroscientists improve human memory by electrically stimulating brain
More information: Abstract: 168.18 / SS45 - Fixing broken memory: Facilitation of delayed match to sample working memory in human subjects via a neural prosthetic for human memory, www.abstractsonline.com/pp8/in … 6/presentation/11106
Development of a neural prosthetic for human memory requires intervention to correct dysfunctional hippocampal circuitry - i.e. the interconnected neuronal ensembles which organize the CA1 and CA3 subfields into hierarchical networks to process sensory inputs into working memory. Prior investigations by the WFBMC-USC DARPA RAM project team have demonstrated that correct recall of information within a delayed-match-to-sample (DMS) task is contingent upon the robustness of initial encoding of the task stimuli within hippocampus. These studies have yielded a prosthetic system that restored DMS task-related memory in rodents and nonhuman primates, and is now extended to successful memory facilitation in humans.
Human subjects undergoing Phase II invasive monitoring for intractable epilepsy were implanted with macro-micro depth electrodes targeting the hippocampal CA1 and CA3 cell layers. In the initial (training) session, subjects performed a visual DMS memory task in which they remembered screen images during Sample presentation, then recalled those images in the subsequent Match phase of the task after an interposed delay of 1 to 75 sec. Neural recordings from the training session were modeled via a multi-input/multi-output (MIMO) sparse nonlinear model of CA3 and CA1 neuron firing predicted activation of likely connected CA3-to-CA1 cells during Correct Trial performance. During a second (stim test) session, subjects received MIMO model-driven microelectrical stimulation of the CA1 cell layer during the encoding (Sample) phase for approximately 30% of trials within the DMS task. Cognitive task performance on MIMO stimulated trials was compared with non-stimulated and random pattern-stimulated trials. MIMO stimulation resulted in a 15-25% improvement in DMS task performance in five patients, demonstrating successful implementation of a new neural prosthetic system for the restoration of damaged human memory.
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Citation: Brain implant tested in human patients found to improve memory recall (2017, November 15) retrieved 21 January 2020 from https://medicalxpress.com/news/2017-11-brain-implant-human-patients-memory.html
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AIM: To recognise commonly produced words or phrases in their reduced form.
I could have done that, you should have said something.
I 'coulda' done that, you 'shoulda' said something.
'Have' is replaced by a neutral vowel (called 'schwa'). Words that are present for grammatical structure but don't carry much meaning (these are called function words) are often reduced (such as the, have, of, to) and there is less emphasis given to them in spoken English. Commonly reduced function words in English are a, an, the, and, are, as, because, can, for, from, had, has, have, of, or, than, that, to, was.
Note that while reduction happens very commonly in spoken English, it is not appropriate in written English – the written forms are given here as a representation only and should not be used in writing.
INSTRUCTIONS: Select the form the speaker says in each of the following recordings.
Reduction is extremely common in connected speech in English and practicing will help you to understand the rhythm of spoken English.


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It is a shared responsibility.
Some pedestrians and cyclists alike refuse to abide by the regulations.
You know, you could just make weed illegal in Nova Scotia, regardless of what the federal government has put in place! If I learnt anything living in Canada for 24 years, every province is practically its own little country with it's own laws and regulations.
Moving from one province to another, you have to change everything except one aspect of your life. Your SIN! Everything else about you has to change, including your career designation because no province recognizes that of another!
So, don't accept weed legalization if you disapprove of it that much. Make up your own laws and ban weed in your jurisdiction. Problem solved!
This way you can't complain about the clean up costs when you bring them back to the way things were, the illegal trade!
Halloween is not a holiday! We don't get the day off for Halloween!
Unfortunately you can't solve the world's problems.
You should read more and do some research to understand the bigger picture.
OMG I can't believe comment left by Resting Bitchface is getting dislikes!!
What hole did you people crawl out of?!
As long as you don't have any personal information in there, you should be fine.
If you do on the other hand, not really sure what smart person would do what you do?!


1873 : Rebound without Covers in exceptional condition.
This Wisden is bound in dark brown with gilt to the spine, this book is in exceptional condition, very clean pages and hardly a mark inside, one that would be hard to beat. Close trimming to just pages 11-14.


A top lane main who mostly plays Jax. I play other stuff from time to time as well but Jax will always be my favorite champion. I also sometimes stream when my internet is working fine. Anyways you can find out more about me and the champs I play in my guides. Hope you enjoy and find them useful!


Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue is undertaking his fourth "Back to Our Roots" tour this week as the House attempts to take up the farm bill and a Thursday deadline looms for the U.S., Canadian and Mexican negotiators to complete a rewrite of the North American Free Trade Agreement if congress is going to consider it this year.
Perdue will make stops in New Mexico today and continue on to Colorado, Wyoming, and Nebraska through Thursday.
The House Rules Committee is scheduled to write a rule on general debate for the farm bill on Tuesday at 5 p.m. and to consider how to handle amendments on the bill on Wednesday at 3 p.m.
House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., said Friday that the House would take up the farm bill beginning Wednesday. The House is scheduled to be in session until 3 p.m. on Friday.
The House Rules Committee website lists 103 farm bill amendments that have been filed.
House Speaker Paul Ryan, R-Wis., said last week that Congress must have "the paper — not just an agreement, we have to have the paper — from USTR by May 17 for us to vote on it this year, in December, in the lame duck."
But prospects do not look good for achieving an agreement by that deadline.
On Friday, President Donald Trump again called NAFTA a "horrible, horrible disaster," adding that Canada and Mexico "don't like to lose the golden goose. But NAFTA has been a horrible, horrible disaster for this country. And we'll see if we can make it reasonable."
Canadian Foreign Affairs Minister Chrystia Freeland told reporters Friday that she and Mexican Economy Minister Ildefonso Guajardo will be "on call" and ready to return to Washington if it looks like an agreement is nearing, Washington Trade Daily reported.


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Q: User defined type guards without passing a parameter Let's say I have these classes:
export abstract class AbstractSubjectChild<T extends Subject>
{
    protected parent: T | undefined;

    public hasParent()
    {
        return this.parent != null;
    }

    public setParent(parent: T): void
    {
        this.parent = parent;
    }

    public getParent(): T | undefined
    {
        return this.parent;
    }
}

class Child extends AbstractSubjectChild<Post>
{
}

And I want to do something like this:
const child = new Child();

if (child.hasParent()) {
    const post: Post = child.getParent();
}

Is there a way to tell TS compiler to infer the type based on hasParent() result without having to explicitly use as Post everywhere?

A: export abstract class AbstractSubjectChild<T extends Subject>
{
    protected _parent?: T;

    public set parent(parent: T): void
    {
        this._parent = parent;
    }

    public get parent(): T | undefined
    {
        return this._parent;
    }
}

write your class that way and you can do:
if (child.parent) {
  const post = child.parent;
  // everywhere in this block scope is now aware of the type of post
}

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Fucked Up - High Rise - 7"
Fucked Up celebrates Dreamsday with the release of this limited 2 song 45, including a cover of the classic ?High Rise? by The Train Spotters.
"Be not inhospitable to strangers lest they be angels in disguise?


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Florența Mihai (; 2 September 1955 – 14 October 2015) was a professional tennis player from Romania.

She was the runner-up in two events at the 1977 French Open. She lost in the singles final to Mima Jaušovec in three sets, and partnered with Iván Molina, lost in the mixed doubles final to John McEnroe and Mary Carillo in straight sets.

Together with Virginia Ruzici, Mihai won three consecutive gold medals in the doubles at Summer Universiades in 1977, 1979 and 1981.

Grand Slam finals

Singles: 1 (0–1)

Mixed doubles: 1 (0–1)

WTA finals

Singles (1–1)

Doubles (1–4)

ITF finals

Singles (5–8)

Doubles (11–7)

Grand Slam singles tournament timeline

Note: The Australian Open was held twice in 1977, in January and December.

See also
 Performance timelines for all female tennis players who reached at least one Grand Slam final

References

External links

Romanian female tennis players
Universiade medalists in tennis
1955 births
2015 deaths
Universiade gold medalists for Romania

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Tue, 5 Nov 19
Jagran Parakashan
05-Nov-2019 of Dainik Jagran
Download PDF @ ₹ 25.00 +GST
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Dainik Jag...
Tue, 05 Nov 19
By Jagran Parakashan
About Dainik Jagran Dainik Jagran was founded by Puranchandra Gupta in Jhansi in 1942. In 1947 Dainik Jagran shifted its headquarters to Kanpur, where it launched its second edition on 21 September 1947. The Rewa and Bhopal editions were added in 1953 and 1956. In 1975, publication of Gorakhpur edition started, followed by Varanasi, Allahabad and Lucknow in 1979. In 1984, Meerut edition was launched, followed by Agra in 1986, Bareilly in 1989 and Delhi in 1990. Between 1997 and 2006, eighteen new editions were added, and through 2007-08, six new editions were launched.


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Oracle plans to give Hurd $950,000 annual salary
By Associated Press |
Oracle Corp. plans to pay newly appointed co-President Mark Hurd a base salary of $950,000 annually and said the ousted Hewlett-Packard Co. CEO is eligible for a target bonus of $5 million in the current fiscal year.
Oracle released the details of Hurd's pay package in a filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission on Wednesday.
Hurd's pay package includes stock options totaling 10 million shares. The company said Hurd's options will carry an exercise price equal to the market value of the shares on the date they are granted, which the filing did not specify. If he stays with the company, Hurd will be awarded options to buy another 5 million shares each year for the next five years.
Oracle said Hurd's bonus for fiscal 2011, which ends in May, is targeted at $5 million but could reach $10 million. The company did not specify the conditions under which the bonuses would be awarded.
The new package will come on top of a severance payment from HP that could end up topping $40 million.
Hurd resigned as HP's CEO last month following an investigation that uncovered inaccurate expense reports related to Hurd's outings with an HP contractor who claimed that her work at HP dried up after she rebuffed Hurd's advances. Hurd has denied making any advances on the woman and has insisted he didn't prepare his own expense reports.
Oracle named Hurd as its co-president on Monday, but HP sued Hurd a day later to block him from joining Oracle. HP is worried Hurd will use his knowledge of the company to give Oracle an unfair advantage. Lawsuits of that kind often end with a court ordering an executive to avoid certain parts of their employers' businesses. The lawsuit could also delay when Hurd can actually start work at Oracle.
Hurd's move to Oracle has injected new friction into Oracle's relationship with HP. The two companies have cooperated for years, with HP selling corporate servers and Oracle providing the software that helps organize the information stored on them. But Oracle, which is based in Redwood City, moved into direct competition with HP in the hardware business when it bought Sun Microsystems for $7.4 billion last year.
On Wednesday, HP interim CEO Cathie Lesjak said her company's quarter-century alliance with Oracle has been "strained" by the dispute over Hurd's hiring. A day earlier, Oracle CEO Larry Ellison called HP's lawsuit "vindictive" and said HP's board is "making it virtually impossible for Oracle and HP to continue to cooperate and work together."
Oracle has not been shy about handing out big salaries and bonuses.
In the fiscal year that ended in May, the company awarded its other co-president, Safra Catz, a salary of $800,000, a performance-related bonus of $3.9 million and stock options valued at $31.7 million.
Founder and CEO Larry Ellison, among the world's richest people, drew a pay package worth roughly $70 million, according to an Associated Press analysis of Oracle's securities filings. It consisted of a base salary of $250,000, a performance-based bonus of $6.5 million, stock options valued at $61.9 million and other perks totaling $1.5 million.
Hurd's pay at HP did not quite reach that magnitude. During HP's most recent fiscal year, Hurd was awarded a pay package as CEO valued at $24.2 million, according to an AP analysis. His base pay came to $1.3 million, with bonuses totaling $15.8 million and restricted stock valued at $6.6 million.
The Associated Press formula is designed to isolate the value the company's board placed on the executive's total compensation package during the last fiscal year. It includes salary, bonus, performance-related bonuses, perks, above-market returns on deferred compensation and the estimated value of stock options and awards granted during the year.
The calculations don't include changes in the present value of pension benefits, and they sometimes differ from the totals companies list in the summary compensation table of proxy statements filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission, which reflect the size of the accounting charge taken for the executive's compensation in the previous fiscal year.
Bay Area counties win $305 million settlement in lead paint case
Sherwin-Williams and other companies must pay to address hazards related to lead paint.
Mr. Roadshow's Q&A chat, live at noon
Gary Richards, Mr. Roadshow, takes questions on Bay Area roads and traffic during a live online chat most Wednesdays.
ACLU asks judge to block Trump asylum policy during appeal
U.S. asylum law allows refugees to request asylum when they arrive regardless of how they did so, but there is an exception for those who have come through a country considered to be "safe."


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Our Letter of Opposition to the Chemicals in Commerce Act
Yesterday, Breast Cancer Action submitted a letter into the public record, in advance of tomorrow's House of Representatives hearing on the Chemicals in Commerce Act. We believe that the Chemicals in Commerce Act represents a step in the wrong direction for the ongoing effort to update and reform U.S. chemical safety regulations. Take Action and let your Representatives know that the Chemicals in Commerce Act falls far short of what is needed to protect all of us from hazardous chemicals linked to many diseases and disorders, including breast cancer.
-Annie
Representative John Shimkus, Chair
Representative Paul Tonko, Ranking Member
House Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Environment and the Economy
Rayburn House Office Building
Dear Representatives Shimkus and Tonko,
I am writing to express serious concerns about the discussion draft of the Chemicals in Commerce Act which was released in advance of the Subcommittee hearing scheduled for Wednesday, March 12, 2014 and to call upon the committee not to introduce this discussion draft formally as a bill.
Breast Cancer Action (BCAction) is a national, feminist, grassroots education and advocacy organization that works to address and end the breast cancer epidemic. We are committed to reducing involuntary exposure to toxins that are linked to increased risk of breast cancer.
BCAction recognizes that the current Congressional interest in reforming the Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA) represents an important opportunity to pass landmark cancer prevention legislation. After years of work for strong regulation of toxic chemicals, alongside many partners, we are heartened to see widespread agreement that TSCA reform is a priority for the current Congress.
However, we believe that the Chemicals in Commerce Act, as it is currently written, falls far short of the reforms that are needed to protect public health and help stop breast cancer before it starts. This bill in its current form not only lacks key requirements to protect people from hazardous chemicals, but if implemented, could actually weaken the few strong toxic chemical regulations that currently exist.
It is imperative that strong, meaningful TSCA reform legislation achieve Congressional approval. Such legislation must include the following key principles to protect public health:
Precautionary Principle: chemicals must be proven safe before they enter the marketplace.
Burden of Proof: the burden of proof for chemical safety must be placed squarely on the shoulders of industry rather than on government regulators and private researchers.
Expedited Action on the Worst Chemicals: existing chemical regulation requires unnecessary red tape before the EPA can phase out a chemical identified as dangerous. Instead of creating obstacles for regulators to protect the public, strong chemical reform must allow for expedited action for the worst chemicals.
Establish Deadlines and Timetables: chemical regulation should have a realistic implementation schedule that requires compliance and gives the EPA the necessary incentives and resources to implement changes necessitated by the new law.
Protection for Heavily Impacted Communities: central to any proposed chemical regulation must be a special focus to reduce toxic chemicals for "hot spot" communities who are heavily impacted by chemical exposures.
No Preemption of Stronger Laws: federal chemical regulation should not be allowed to override existing or future state or regional laws that protect people from toxic chemicals.
Last fall, over 30,000 people from across the United States signed Breast Cancer Action's Toxic Time Is Up petition to demand strong, comprehensive TSCA reform based on these principles. Public interest in chemical safety is growing and more and more people are calling on elected officials to enact strong chemical safety regulation that will reduce a range of devastating diseases and disorders, including breast cancer.
As you consider the future of TSCA, I call on you to pass the strongest bill that will protect all of us from hazardous chemicals in our daily lives and put public health first. We remain optimistic that by enacting strong, common sense TSCA reform, this Congress can deliver landmark cancer prevention legislation that will serve the public and protect our health.
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Advocates fear Trump's rhetoric harms kids from immigrant families
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By Ruben Castaneda
This article was produced as a project for the Dennis A. Hunt Fund for Health Journalism, a program of the USC Annenberg Center for Health Journalism. It's the fifth in a series of stories exploring how the Trump administration's immigration policies are affecting the physical, mental and emotional health of the kids of undocumented immigrants and health providers and educators who work with them.
Immigrant kids protective of their parents face anxiety, substance misuse
Health care workers deploy creative strategies to calm terrified immigrant patients
DACA recipients cope with health challenges in face of uncertainty
Trump stokes anxiety among U.S. citizen kids of undocumented parents
Children from immigrant families and their parents can face many daunting emotional and mental challenges. (Getty Images)
Youngsters are at-risk for depression, anxiety and PTSD.
The question, from one of the girls in teacher Cindy Herrera's fourth grade class at Dolores Mission School in East Los Angeles, was direct, plaintive – and heart-rending. "Why does Trump hate Mexicans?" Sylvia asked. (Sylvia is a pseudonym. U.S. News is not identifying the girl by her real name to protect her and her mother). "Why does he hate us?" Sylvia – whose parents are Mexican immigrants – had never met President Donald Trump, or even been in his presence and had no reason to believe the president personally hates her. But she was well-aware of his numerous remarks about immigrants, particularly those from Mexico, Herrera says.
The girl's parents are in the country without documentation, though she is a U.S. citizen by virtue of being born in the country. The girl and many of her fellow students are fully American – but don't always feel that way. "This is where they were born and raised, this is what they know," Herrera says. But because of Trump's angry and threatening words, the teacher says, many of her students feel uncertain in their identities as U.S. citizens. Some check out during class time. "It's heartbreaking to see a child not present, and to have them carry this added stress of, 'Oh, my president doesn't like me,'" she says.
When he announced he was entering the race for the Republican nomination for president in June 2015, Trump declared, "When Mexico sends its people, they're not sending their best. They're not sending you. They're sending people that have lots of problems, and they're bringing those problems with us. They're bringing drugs. They're bringing crime. They're rapists. And some, I assume, are good people." On the campaign trail, Trump promised to build an impenetrable wall along the southern border to stop illegal immigration from Mexico. In an interview in June 2016, Trump claimed that U.S. District Judge Gonzalo Curiel, who was born in Indiana and is of Mexican descent, was not fit to preside over the class-action civil case against Trump University because of his heritage. Curiel had an "absolute conflict" and should not be allowed to preside over the court case because of his "Mexican heritage," Trump said. The then-candidate said Curiel's background should disqualify him: "I'm building a wall. It's an inherent conflict of interest."
This accusatory and threatening rhetoric from the highest elected official in the country is taking a toll on many young kids and teenagers of immigrants, experts say. "These statements come from a person with great authority, and as such, they [the statements] are extremely impactful. I would therefore expect to see short- and long-term effects on these kids' identities," says Cecilia Menjivar, professor of sociology at the University of Kansas and co-leader of the school's Center for Migration Research. "Among the short-term [effects] would be learning to negatively associate their identity and perhaps distancing themselves from it. Among the long-term consequences I would imagine kids will not only learn they are not valued but will wonder whether they have a place in this society, whether they belong. This can have many unforeseen consequences down the road."
Under the best of circumstances, kids from immigrant families and their parents face an array of daunting emotional and mental challenges, says Lyn Yonack, a psychoanalyst and psychotherapist based in Great Barrington, Massachusetts. Dealing with incendiary rhetoric from the nation's political leader complicates matters, she says. "Like all children, immigrant children depend on the adults in their lives – parents, teachers, clergy and leaders – to help them find in their environment a sense of security, stability and belonging," she says. "This, in turn, lays the foundation that supports them as they develop into adults capable of living productive, loving, engaged lives. Rhetoric that uses a broad brush to reduce an entire group to stereotypes and negative caricatures works to undermine the confidence, security and sense of belonging for members of that group, young and old alike. These patterns and expressions of prejudice wreak havoc on a child's psychological well-being, both directly and indirectly."
For youngsters, exposure to negative rhetoric about their family and community can lead to anxiety, depression and symptoms of PTSD, such as shame, jumpiness, restlessness, poor sleep and nightmares; social withdrawal and decreased interest in fun and engaging activities; detachment from friends and family, anger and tantrums, she says. In very young children, signs of PTSD could include becoming uncharacteristically clingy with parents, babysitters, grandparents and teachers; wetting the bed after being toilet-trained; and losing the ability to talk, she says.
It isn't just Trump's rhetoric but his policies that are affecting the health and wellness of many immigrant families, according to health care workers who serve immigrant patients, some educators who work with immigrant students and parents and immigrants' rights advocates. Under Trump, between January 21 and September 30 agents with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement have detained about 40 percent more suspected undocumented immigrants than they did during the same time frame the previous year, under the administration of President Barack Obama. Obama's policy emphasized targeting undocumented people believed to pose a public safety threat, such as individuals convicted of serious felonies. Under Trump, ICE is arresting many people who are not charged with a serious crime and not suspected of any infraction, other than being in the country without documentation. The White House press office did not respond to email requests for comment.
Fear of ICE is creating anxiety, hypervigilance and stress among immigrant families, conditions which can lead to a raft of short- and long-term health consequences, research suggests. For instance, a study of 91 Latino U.S.-born children ages 6 to 12 who have at least one undocumented parent suggests that PTSD symptoms as reported by the parents were "significantly higher for children of detained and deported parents compared to citizen children whose parents were either permanent legal residents or undocumented without prior contact with immigration enforcement." The study was published in 2017 in Psychological Trauma: Theory, Research, Practice and Policy. Conversely, protection from ICE enforcement leads to improved health for immigrants, research suggests. For example, children with mothers eligible for the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals Program, the-Obama era initiative that shields from deportation hundreds of thousands of young people who came to the U.S. without documentation, typically when they were young kids, suffer from lower rates of anxiety and adjustment disorders than kids with mothers not eligible for DACA, according to a 2017 study by the Stanford Immigration Policy Lab.
Many of the kids enduring fear and anxiety over Trump's rhetoric and immigration policies are American citizens; about 4.7 million U.S. citizen children have at least one parent who's undocumented, according to 2014 estimates (the latest available) by the Pew Research Center. Research suggests that immigration policies can affect the way kids from immigrant backgrounds – including kids born in the U.S. – view their American identity. A meta-analysis published in 2017 in the journal Ethnic and Racial Studies said that previous research into the effects of a controversial 2010 Arizona law that required local police to verify the immigration status of any person they reasonably suspect of being in the country without proper documentation found that "adolescents who reported higher awareness of [the law] also reported a weaker sense of American identity, which in turn was associated with lower self-esteem." This applied not just to first-generation immigrant youths, but to subsequent generations, which would include people who were born in the U.S. and are therefore American citizens.
Trump's policies are also causing great anxiety among about 670,000 young people who were protected from ICE detention and deportation during the Obama presidency. In September, the Trump administration announced it was ending DACA. Unless Congress enacts a remedy, the program will end in March, officials have said. Since the announcement, many DACA recipients have been dealing with nightmares and increased stress, according to interviews with DACA recipients, health care workers and educators. DACA recipients worry whether they'll be able to stay in the country in which they were raised.
In Los Angeles, Herrera does what she can to provide her students a counter-narrative to Trump's negative assessments of immigrants and people from immigrant backgrounds. During some classes, she has students read articles about people of color making positive contributions to society, such as excelling in academics. Daily "reflection time" is usually led by students, but lately Herrera's been taking the lead, making sure to reassure the kids that "regardless of what's going on [in the world], you're all beautiful people who are meant to be on this earth."
Every Friday, Herrera asks her students to verbally give a positive affirmation to a classmate, for things such as being a good friend or for sharing their lunch. While Trump talks of building a wall along the southern border to seal off immigrants, Herrera has set up in her classroom an Affirmation Wall, featuring brightly-colored envelopes with each student's name. Herrera encourages students to leave notes of affirmation in the envelopes for their classmates. Whenever a pupil asks about attacks on immigrants, she responds, "You need to be proud of where you're from. Embrace it, don't let anyone put you down, you're all human."
[This story was originally published by U.S. News.]


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For most of Once Upon A Time's first three seasons, the former Evil Queen Regina and Savior Emma Swan were pretty much sworn enemies. While they shared one important element in common — their son Henry, of course — their relationship was strained at best and downright nasty at worst. Eventually, Regina chose to return to goodness in an effort not only to preserve and deepen her relationship with Henry, but also to give herself a chance to discover forgiveness and true happiness in her life. This change of heart has been a great development for Regina, and has allowed her and Emma to find a new rapport. Now, they join forces for good, not evil — though given how things are going in Storybrooke and beyond lately, that might not last for long.
We already know that Gold plans to turn Emma evil, and in recent weeks, she's shown that darker side she's always had the potential for. As for Regina, she's tried to remain the positive influence that keeps Emma on the right track, but given her own recent trials and tribulations, that might not last for much longer. With only one week left in Season 4, it's anyone's guess as to what lies ahead for two of OUAT's biggest characters, but I wouldn't be surprised if they went down a dark path. After all, both Emma and Regina have plenty of reason to turn to evil, don't you think?
Robin Hood was Regina's soulmate all along, but they only recently found each other... only to face the return of Miriam, who actually turned out to be Regina's evil sister Zelena, who's now ruined Regina and Robin's chances at happiness by becoming pregnant with Robin's baby. Scorned again?
I know, I know, Regina has earned her redemption story, but as she constantly reminds everyone, turning away from darkness is not always easy. What is easy is falling back into old habits, and it could very well happen to our Evil Queen.
I'm not saying that once you kill one person, it becomes easier to kill another, but, well... I guess that is what I'm saying when it comes to Once Upon A Time. Emma has justified killing Cruella because she was protecting Henry, so will she justify everything else she does that's wrong if it means that she's doing it for the "right reasons"?
If Gold get his own way and his own happy ending, that likely spells disaster for Emma for sure, and probably Regina, too. If the Author writes it, that's what'll happen and there won't be any way to stop it.
Lily and Emma have known each other since they were kids but only just learned why they were brought together. While Emma escaped the darkness she should have been born with (or so we think), Lily hasn't, and now that they're reunited again, this could spell bad news.
You know I'm right. An Evil Emma/Regina combo? Now that, I can't wait to see.


Spectacular mountain scenery, picturesque villages and diverse culture, together with a network of superb trekking trails is what makes Nepal so irresistible and keeps people coming back year after year. Travel guide LYN TAYLOR, shares why every woman needs to take time out to undertake the adventure of their lifetime.
The city of Kathmandu offers travellers a cultural diversity experience like no other. It's a melting post of exploration. Navigating your way through the maze of vendors, vehicles, and people shoving items and themselves into vehicles is like walking through a herd of elephants on wheels - except the elephants would pay more attention and belch less smoke.
It's an extremely interesting and engaging country in which until recent years not much English was spoken. Only today is English starting to become a common tongue. However, when it comes to signage most directions and bus routes etc. are still displayed in Nepali, so it's best to learn the language, or join a guided trip.
For safety purposes many women do prefer to visit as part of a guided tour group from Australia. This way they are accompanied by someone who speaks both English and the local language. A guide will also be well versed on the cultural code and accustomed to getting them the best information and deals in Nepal.
Travelling with on a guided tour also ensures that you live the life of a local and that you don't miss out on the gems that Kathmandu's alleyways conceal. Every day thousands of visitors, expats and Nepali's alike walk on by oblivious to what lies beyond the doorways… unmarked and low, they appear to go into someone's home, but further down another doorway, and then another. With a guide you get the opportunities to take a peek and plunge into the hidden world of mystery that most travellers do not dare to explore. Therein lays a world that is both private and public, each courtyard holding its own history and story, some that go back well into the 15th century.
Whilst travelling through Kathmandu and surrounding areas you can't help by notice the colour. It's everywhere as you wander along any street in Thamel. You'll see many shops selling felted crafts and goods which are made locally and exported to many countries all over the world.
The felt production industry is driven by Nepali women as a means to supporting their families. Felt making, is a job that the women of Nepal, who often lack a formal education, can perform with ease. You will be amazed to see their entrepreneurial skills in motion.
Most of the felt factories across Nepal hire women who create with love, purpose and passion using the workspace to connect with other women in their community.
To experience the true essence of the Nepali way of life you can't miss visiting the various villages dotted throughout this beautiful country. It is in these villages that you will engage with locals and experience the beating heart of the Nepali people and their culture.
The destination of Nepal offers the Australian traveller a place where they can be themselves - a sabbatical far away from the constant pressure of adhering to the rigid rules of the society in which we live.
• Trekking alone is not recommended. Even in the cities, walking out alone at night can be dangerous. Do not stay in bars and pubs till late night or respond to anyone who makes advances in bars.
•Never look at maps in public. Try to memorise them in advance, if you can. In many cities you can buy credit card-size street and transportation maps — which you can discretely glance at inside your purse.
• Keep your passport with you at all times. You do not have to store it with the hotel owners, no matter what they say. Make photocopies of your passport in advance, and hand over one of those.
•Walk like you know where you're going. Studies show that if you exude confidence and strength, people are less likely to try to take advantage of you.
By embarking on a quality tailored holiday adventure to Nepal, that is well-priced and fully guided you will not only experience new sights and cultures, you'll also push the boundaries of your everyday life.
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Sunday Night's Supermoon Was Incredible — But Deadly For These Animals
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Sunday's wondrous supermoon - seen across the world as a remarkable, historical red lunar eclipse - was actually a deadly force for iconic wildlife in Africa.
"Full moon periods are known as the dreaded 'poachers' moon,' said Simon Bloch, a freelance journalist in South Africa, who recently reported on a white rhino killing spree that left eight rhinos dead in one regional park.
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The threatened animals were slaughtered between Friday and Monday morning inside the KwaZulu-Natal's flagship Hluhluwe-Imfolozi wildlife reserve, Bloch told The Dodo. He said at least six of those killings took place over the exact period of the supermoon lunar eclipse, which lasted from sunset on Sunday to sunrise on Monday.
At least six of the rhinos had their horns hacked out of their faces. Four died from lethal chemical darting; two others were shot by a rifle.
In his story for South Africa's Times newspaper, Bloch said 86 rhinos have been slaughtered in that area in 2015 already. Ninety-nine rhinos were killed in all of 2014 in the same region.
Bloch noted that massacres are often heightened during full moons and brightened skies, because it allows for high visibility, "thus eliminating the need for unnatural light sources such as flashlights in the bush, which could give their positions away to watchful eyes - it makes it easier to see one's quarry/target."
Some of the carcasses were found less than one mile from the memorial entrance to Hlhuluwe. Bloch says that despite the park's efforts to combat poaching, it's a losing battle on many levels: "There are some exceptionally dedicated and skilled anti-poaching rangers," he says. "However, insufficient man-power and budget expenditure makes it difficult to keep rhinos safe from criminal syndicates that operate with inside information, and have the bush-craft skills and weaponry to infiltrate the expansive reserves, which are protected wilderness areas."
According to Oxpeckers, an investigative environmental journalism project, from 2010 to 2015, 4,714 rhino deaths have been reported in South Africa.
In a slight sliver of respite in lunar eclipse killing, one wounded adult rhino was found with his horn cut off but still alive. "The animal had been chemically darted, but perhaps the dart fell off, or he was not hit with a lethal dose," said Bloch.
The rhino is expected to make a full recovery.
Unfortunately, the winter cold is leaving, and longer days are ahead: "We are now going into summer months, where it gets light at 4:30 a.m. and only dark after 7:30 p.m. now to January," explained rhino conservationist Dex Kotze, founder of Youth 4 African Wildlife and one of the strategists for Global March for Elephants, Rhinos and Lions in Johannesburg, which is taking place around the world this weekend.
"The extra light really assists the poachers," Kotze told The Dodo. "There is just so much more time for poachers to be in out in the veld/bush with weather conditions playing in their favour."


Officers responded around 2:50 a.m. to a report of a shooting near the intersection of Locust and Humboldt streets in San Jose, according to Sgt. Jason Dwyer.
Police arriving on the scene located the victim, a man suffering from at least one gunshot wound. He was taken to Valley Medical Center, where he was pronounced dead around 5:25 a.m., Dwyer said.
Investigators have learned that the victim was walking around Locust and Humboldt streets early this morning when he was approached by unknown suspects. One or more suspects opened fire, striking the victim at least once, then fled the scene.
Police had not located the suspects as of 6 a.m. and the motive for the shooting remains unclear, Dwyer said.
The shooting marks San Jose's 39th homicide this year.


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Some google search pointed to this being a PlugY error and said about reinstalling D2, and I did. I tried HU again, and everything was fine until I realized I forgot to add Wn Xp SP2 compatibility in the shortcut...so I saved and quit, did that and went back to it to the same error. Not sure if this makes any difference but when I installed the mod on top of the new installation I used the same character I was playing in my previous run. Any ideas?


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The Guelph Silvercreeks Baseball Club, charter members of the Junior Inter-county Baseball League, requested entry and were accepted into C.O.B.A. at a league Board meeting on Monday November 28.
Guelph becomes the ninth team, in a league that includes teams from Brampton, Mississauga, Oakville, Burlington, Dundas and Halton Hills.


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Exclusive: Giuliani pushed Trump administration to grant a visa to a Ukrainian official promising dirt on Democrats
By Manu Raju, Michael Warren, Kylie Atwood, Lauren Fox and Jeremy Herb, CNN
CNN — Career diplomat George Kent told congressional investigators in his closed-door testimony this week that Rudy Giuliani asked the State Department and the White House to grant a visa to the former Ukrainian official who Joe Biden had pushed to have removed when he was vice president, according to four people familiar with Kent's testimony.
Kent, the deputy assistant secretary of state for European and Eurasian affairs, testified that around January 2019 Giuliani requested a visa for former Ukrainian prosecutor-general Viktor Shokin to travel to the United States. Shokin had been pushed out of his position as Ukraine's top prosecutor in 2016 after pressure from Western leaders, including Biden, over concerns that he was not pursuing corruption cases.
Giuliani has previously told CNN he wanted to interview Shokin in person because the Ukrainian promised to reveal dirt on Democrats.
Kent told congressional investigators the State Department had objected to the request, and State did not grant the visa. Giuliani, Kent said, then appealed to the White House to have State reverse its decision. Shokin's visa was never granted, although Giuliani eventually spoke with Shokin over Skype.
The incident reveals how Giuliani's work to dig up dirt on Democrats went much further than previously understood -- and included an attempt to directly influence the actions of the federal government. Concerns that Giuliani was inappropriately involved in shaping and driving the administration's Ukraine policy form a significant part of the intelligence community whistleblower's complaint, which prompted the ongoing impeachment investigation into President Donald Trump.
Giuliani did not reply Friday to questions from CNN. The White House did not respond to request for comment. Kent's lawyer declined to comment for this story.
When asked about the matter, a State Department said that visa records are confidential under US law and the department does not discuss the specifics of individual cases.
Generally, visa applicants are required by US law to be interviewed by a consular officer at a US diplomatic mission. A visa application can be denied for a number of reasons, including if the reviewed information falls "within the scope of one of the inadmissibility or ineligibility grounds of the law," the State Department's website says.
In their January 23 Skype interview, Shokin provided information, Giuliani has told CNN, about supposed coordination between Democrats and people in Ukraine, as well as claims about Biden's son Hunter Biden, who had sat on the board of a Ukrainian energy company, Burisma Holdings. Shokin's successor as prosecutor general, Yuriy Lutsenko, did travel to the US and spoke with Giuliani about these claims later.
Details from those interviews were included in a cache of documents Giuliani delivered to the State Department earlier this year, in hopes that the administration would investigate those claims. The State Department inspector general eventually turned the documents over to congressional investigators.
According to a write-up of his interview with Shokin included in the documents, Giuliani claimed that Shokin "believes the current Ambassador Marie L. Yovanovitch denied his visa" and noted that Yovanovitch was "close to Mr. Biden." In her recent testimony to the House Intelligence Committee, Yovanovitch said she has met Biden "several times over the course of our many years in government, neither he nor the previous Administration ever, directly or directly, raised the issue of either Burisma or Hunter Biden with me."
Giuliani's efforts to push a smear campaign against Yovanovitch ultimately led to her removal from her post in May.
But Shokin also had a damaged reputation among plenty of US and European diplomats. Dogged by criticism he had not pursued corruption aggressively enough, Shokin was forced to resign as Ukraine's top prosecutor in 2016 after both internal pressure and pressure from Western governments and financial institutions.
Among the leading advocates for Shokin's resignation was Biden, who at the time led the Obama administration's anti-corruption efforts in Ukraine.
Shokin has claimed, Giuliani has told CNN, that Biden pushed for his removal in order to stop an investigation into Burisma. There has been no evidence the Obama administration's push to remove Shokin was linked to stopping this investigation, which had been dormant for two years before the time of Shokin's resignation.


The addice hath its blade made thin and somewhat arching. As the axe hath its edge parallel to its handle, so the addice hath its edge athwart the handle, and is ground to a basil on its inside to its outer edge. Moxon's Mechanical Exercises.
Cite this page: Johnson, Samuel. "Addice." A Dictionary of the English Language: A Digital Edition of the 1755 Classic by Samuel Johnson. Edited by Brandi Besalke. Last modified: April 29, 2014. https://johnsonsdictionaryonline.com/addice/.


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-{Nephelomys levipes}- је врста глодара из породице хрчкова (лат. -{Cricetidae}-).

Распрострањење
Врста има станиште у Боливији и Перуу.

Станиште
Врста -{Nephelomys levipes}- има станиште на копну.

Угроженост
Ова врста није угрожена, и наведена је као последња брига јер има широко распрострањење.

Популациони тренд
Популација ове врсте се смањује, судећи по расположивим подацима.

Референце

Литература
 -{IUCN}- црвена листа угрожених врста, детаљнији подаци о врсти

Спољашње везе

Nephelomys


text:
namespace {

using ::testing::_;
using ::testing::AnyNumber;
using ::testing::IsEmpty;
using ::testing::NiceMock;
using ::testing::Not;
using ::testing::Return;
using ::testing::SaveArg;
using ::testing::StrEq;
using ::testing::StrictMock;

// A callback that matches the signature of the StringPiece variant of
// base::WriteFile().
using WriteCallback =
    base::RepeatingCallback<bool(const base::FilePath&, base::StringPiece)>;
using DeleteCallback =
    password_manager::PasswordManagerExporter::DeleteCallback;
using SetPosixFilePermissionsCallback =
    password_manager::PasswordManagerExporter::SetPosixFilePermissionsCallback;

#if defined(OS_WIN)
const base::FilePath::CharType kNullFileName[] = FILE_PATH_LITERAL("/nul");
#else
const base::FilePath::CharType kNullFileName[] = FILE_PATH_LITERAL("/dev/null");
#endif

// Provides a predetermined set of credentials
class FakeCredentialProvider
    : public password_manager::CredentialProviderInterface {
 public:
  FakeCredentialProvider() {}

  void SetPasswordList(
      const std::vector<std::unique_ptr<autofill::PasswordForm>>&
          password_list) {
    password_list_.clear();
    for (const auto& form : password_list) {
      password_list_.push_back(std::make_unique<autofill::PasswordForm>(*form));
    }
  }

  // password_manager::CredentialProviderInterface:
  std::vector<std::unique_ptr<autofill::PasswordForm>> GetAllPasswords()
      override {
    std::vector<std::unique_ptr<autofill::PasswordForm>> ret_val;
    for (const auto& form : password_list_) {
      ret_val.push_back(std::make_unique<autofill::PasswordForm>(*form));
    }
    return ret_val;
  }

 private:
  std::vector<std::unique_ptr<autofill::PasswordForm>> password_list_;

  DISALLOW_COPY_AND_ASSIGN(FakeCredentialProvider);
};

// Creates a hardcoded set of credentials for tests.
std::vector<std::unique_ptr<autofill::PasswordForm>> CreatePasswordList() {
  auto password_form = std::make_unique<autofill::PasswordForm>();
  password_form->origin = GURL("http://accounts.google.com/a/LoginAuth");
  password_form->username_value = base::ASCIIToUTF16("test@gmail.com");
  password_form->password_value = base::ASCIIToUTF16("test1");

  std::vector<std::unique_ptr<autofill::PasswordForm>> password_forms;
  password_forms.push_back(std::move(password_form));
  return password_forms;
}

class PasswordManagerExporterTest : public testing::Test {
 public:
  PasswordManagerExporterTest()
      : task_environment_(base::test::TaskEnvironment::MainThreadType::UI),
        exporter_(&fake_credential_provider_, mock_on_progress_.Get()),
        destination_path_(kNullFileName) {
    exporter_.SetWriteForTesting(mock_write_file_.Get());
    exporter_.SetDeleteForTesting(mock_delete_file_.Get());
    exporter_.SetSetPosixFilePermissionsForTesting(
        mock_set_posix_file_permissions_.Get());
    password_list_ = CreatePasswordList();
    fake_credential_provider_.SetPasswordList(password_list_);
  }

  ~PasswordManagerExporterTest() override = default;

 protected:
  base::test::TaskEnvironment task_environment_;
  std::vector<std::unique_ptr<autofill::PasswordForm>> password_list_;
  FakeCredentialProvider fake_credential_provider_;
  base::MockCallback<base::RepeatingCallback<
      void(password_manager::ExportProgressStatus, const std::string&)>>
      mock_on_progress_;
  password_manager::PasswordManagerExporter exporter_;
  StrictMock<base::MockCallback<WriteCallback>> mock_write_file_;
  StrictMock<base::MockCallback<DeleteCallback>> mock_delete_file_;
  NiceMock<base::MockCallback<SetPosixFilePermissionsCallback>>
      mock_set_posix_file_permissions_;
  base::FilePath destination_path_;
  base::HistogramTester histogram_tester_;

 private:
  DISALLOW_COPY_AND_ASSIGN(PasswordManagerExporterTest);
};

TEST_F(PasswordManagerExporterTest, PasswordExportSetPasswordListFirst) {
  const std::string serialised(
      password_manager::PasswordCSVWriter::SerializePasswords(password_list_));

  EXPECT_CALL(mock_write_file_, Run(destination_path_, StrEq(serialised)))
      .WillOnce(Return(true));
  EXPECT_CALL(
      mock_on_progress_,
      Run(password_manager::ExportProgressStatus::IN_PROGRESS, IsEmpty()));
  EXPECT_CALL(
      mock_on_progress_,
      Run(password_manager::ExportProgressStatus::SUCCEEDED, IsEmpty()));

  exporter_.PreparePasswordsForExport();
  exporter_.SetDestination(destination_path_);

  task_environment_.RunUntilIdle();
}

// When writing fails, we should notify the UI of the failure and try to cleanup
// a possibly partial passwords file.
TEST_F(PasswordManagerExporterTest, WriteFileFailed) {
  const std::string destination_folder_name(
      destination_path_.DirName().BaseName().AsUTF8Unsafe());

  EXPECT_CALL(mock_write_file_, Run(_, _)).WillOnce(Return(false));
  EXPECT_CALL(mock_delete_file_, Run(destination_path_, false));
  EXPECT_CALL(
      mock_on_progress_,
      Run(password_manager::ExportProgressStatus::IN_PROGRESS, IsEmpty()));
  EXPECT_CALL(mock_on_progress_,
              Run(password_manager::ExportProgressStatus::FAILED_WRITE_FAILED,
                  StrEq(destination_folder_name)));

  exporter_.PreparePasswordsForExport();
  exporter_.SetDestination(destination_path_);

  task_environment_.RunUntilIdle();
}

// Test that GetProgressStatus() returns the last ExportProgressStatus sent
// to the callback.
TEST_F(PasswordManagerExporterTest, GetProgressReturnsLastCallbackStatus) {
  const std::string serialised(
      password_manager::PasswordCSVWriter::SerializePasswords(password_list_));
  const std::string destination_folder_name(
      destination_path_.DirName().BaseName().AsUTF8Unsafe());

  // The last status seen in the callback.
  password_manager::ExportProgressStatus status =
      password_manager::ExportProgressStatus::NOT_STARTED;

  EXPECT_CALL(mock_write_file_, Run(_, _)).WillOnce(Return(true));
  EXPECT_CALL(mock_on_progress_, Run(_, _)).WillRepeatedly(SaveArg<0>(&status));

  ASSERT_EQ(exporter_.GetProgressStatus(), status);
  exporter_.PreparePasswordsForExport();
  exporter_.SetDestination(destination_path_);
  ASSERT_EQ(exporter_.GetProgressStatus(), status);

  task_environment_.RunUntilIdle();
  ASSERT_EQ(exporter_.GetProgressStatus(), status);
}

TEST_F(PasswordManagerExporterTest, DontExportWithOnlyDestination) {
  EXPECT_CALL(mock_write_file_, Run(_, _)).Times(0);
  EXPECT_CALL(
      mock_on_progress_,
      Run(password_manager::ExportProgressStatus::IN_PROGRESS, IsEmpty()));

  exporter_.SetDestination(destination_path_);

  task_environment_.RunUntilIdle();
}

TEST_F(PasswordManagerExporterTest, CancelAfterPasswords) {
  EXPECT_CALL(mock_write_file_, Run(_, _)).Times(0);
  EXPECT_CALL(
      mock_on_progress_,
      Run(password_manager::ExportProgressStatus::FAILED_CANCELLED, IsEmpty()));

  exporter_.PreparePasswordsForExport();
  exporter_.Cancel();

  task_environment_.RunUntilIdle();
}

TEST_F(PasswordManagerExporterTest, CancelWhileExporting) {
  EXPECT_CALL(mock_write_file_, Run(_, _)).Times(0);
  EXPECT_CALL(mock_delete_file_, Run(destination_path_, false));
  EXPECT_CALL(
      mock_on_progress_,
      Run(password_manager::ExportProgressStatus::IN_PROGRESS, IsEmpty()));
  EXPECT_CALL(
      mock_on_progress_,
      Run(password_manager::ExportProgressStatus::FAILED_CANCELLED, IsEmpty()));

  exporter_.PreparePasswordsForExport();
  exporter_.SetDestination(destination_path_);
  exporter_.Cancel();

  task_environment_.RunUntilIdle();
}

// The "Cancel" button may still be visible on the UI after we've completed
// exporting. If they choose to cancel, we should clear the file.
TEST_F(PasswordManagerExporterTest, CancelAfterExporting) {
  EXPECT_CALL(mock_write_file_, Run(_, _)).WillOnce(Return(true));
  EXPECT_CALL(mock_delete_file_, Run(destination_path_, false));
  EXPECT_CALL(
      mock_on_progress_,
      Run(password_manager::ExportProgressStatus::IN_PROGRESS, IsEmpty()));
  EXPECT_CALL(
      mock_on_progress_,
      Run(password_manager::ExportProgressStatus::SUCCEEDED, IsEmpty()));
  EXPECT_CALL(
      mock_on_progress_,
      Run(password_manager::ExportProgressStatus::FAILED_CANCELLED, IsEmpty()));

  exporter_.PreparePasswordsForExport();
  exporter_.SetDestination(destination_path_);

  task_environment_.RunUntilIdle();
  exporter_.Cancel();

  task_environment_.RunUntilIdle();
}

#if defined(OS_POSIX)
// Chrome creates files using the broadest permissions allowed. Passwords are
// sensitive and should be explicitly limited to the owner.
TEST_F(PasswordManagerExporterTest, OutputHasRestrictedPermissions) {
  EXPECT_CALL(mock_write_file_, Run(_, _)).WillOnce(Return(true));
  EXPECT_CALL(mock_set_posix_file_permissions_, Run(destination_path_, 0600))
      .WillOnce(Return(true));
  EXPECT_CALL(mock_on_progress_, Run(_, _)).Times(AnyNumber());

  exporter_.PreparePasswordsForExport();
  exporter_.SetDestination(destination_path_);

  task_environment_.RunUntilIdle();
}
#endif

}  // namespace


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Local musicians, particularly those who do original compositions, are encouraged to apply to the Discovery Coast Music Festival (DCMF) Directors who are planning this summer's 12th annual festival July 23 and 24 in Bella Coola.
Mar. 3, 2011 3:00 p.m.
The lineup is still developing, but attendees can look forward to award-winning music. Lyrical and avant-garde folk singing, Arabic/French fusion, Plains Cree hip hop, old-timey string band, and Afro/jazz fusion are some of the styles that are promised.
DCMF dedicates one festival slot to showcase a local musician. To apply, artists need to fill out a simple application, available at the Valley's Career Centre, and mail it along with a recent demo and any promotional materials to: Artistic Director, DCMF, Box 858, Bella Coola, BC, V0T 1C0. Submissions must be received by April 15, 2011.
This is a competitive process and all decisions will be made by the artistic director, with preference given to artists playing original material. The festival encourages repeat submissions.
Some festival ticket prices are going to increase in 2011, but children 12 and under will be free. Adult tickets will be $25 per day, students (13-18) and seniors (65+), $20. Advance tickets, available until July 16, will be $20 for adults and $15 for students and seniors. A weekend pass will be available at the gate for $45.
These changes will bring DCMF ticket prices more in line with similarly sized festivals.
If you want to get involved to help bring to life one of Bella Coola's signature community events, contact Susan O'Neill at 250-799-5618. For details about the performers and the festival schedule, watch for articles in the Gazette or check out the DCMF web site—bellacoolamusic.org and their event page on FaceBook.