This study uses data from the 2005 Albania Living Standards Measurement Study survey to assess the impact of past migration experience of Albanian households on non-farm business ownership through instrumental variables regression techniques. Considering the differences in earning potentials and opportunities for skill acquisition in different destination countries, we differentiate the impact of past household migration experience by main migrant destinations. The study also explores the heterogeneity of impact based on the timing of migration. The empirical results indicate that past household migration experience exerts a positive impact on the probability of owning a non-farm business. While one additional year in Greece increases the probability of household business ownership by roughly 6 percent, a similar experience in Italy or farther destinations raises the probability by over 25 percent. Although past household migration experience for the period of 1990-2000 is positively associated with the likelihood of owning a household enterprise, a similar association does not exist for the period of 2001-2004.
The war in Bosnia and Herzegovina of the early nineties displaced 1.3 million people. This study uses longitudinal data to document the effects of this displacement on labor market outcomes. To account for endogeneity in displacement, I exploit the fact that the level of violence affected the decision to leave and that pre-war economic performance is orthogonal to local violence levels. I find that displaced Bosnians are less likely to be working relative to the people who stayed. Displaced men experience higher unemployment levels, and displaced women are more likely to drop out of the labor force.
Using two rounds of nationally representative household survey data in this study, we measure the impact on poverty in Nepal of local and international migration for work. We apply an instrumental variables approach to deal with nonrandom selection of migrants and simulate various scenarios for the different levels of migration comparing observed and counterfactual household expenditure distribution. Our results indicate that one-fifth of the poverty reduction in Nepal occurring between 1995 and 2004 can be attributed to higher levels of work-related migration and remittances sent home. We also show that while the increase in international work-related migration was the leading cause of this poverty reduction, domestic migration also played an important role. Our findings demonstrate that strategies for economic growth and poverty reduction in Nepal should consider aspects of the dynamics of domestic and international migration.
How much do migrants stand to gain in income from moving across borders? Answering this question is complicated by non-random selection of migrants from the general population, which makes it hard to obtain an appropriate comparison group of non-migrants. New Zealand allows a quota of Tongans to immigrate each year with a random ballot used to choose among the excess number of applicants. A unique survey conducted by the authors allows experimental estimates of the income gains from migration to be obtained by comparing the incomes of migrants to those who applied to migrate, but whose names were not drawn in the ballot, after allowing for the effect of non-compliance among some of those whose names were drawn. We also conducted a survey of individuals who did not apply for the ballot. Comparing this non-applicant group to the migrants enables assessment of the degree to which non-experimental methods can provide an unbiased estimate of the income gains from migration. We find evidence of migrants being positively selected in terms of both observed and unobserved skills. As a result, non-experimental methods other than instrumental variables are found to overstate the gains from migration by 20-82%, with difference-in-differences and bias-adjusted matching estimators performing best among the alternatives to instrumental variables.
This paper examines the role of migration networks in determining self-selection patterns of Mexico-U.S. migration. A simple theoretical framework shows the impact of networks on migration incentives at different education levels and how this affects the composition of migrant skills. Empirically, we find positive or education-neutral selection in communities with weak migrant networks but negative self-selection in communities with stronger networks. This is consistent with high migration costs driving positive or intermediate self-selection, as advocated by Chiquiar and Hanson (2005), and with negative self-selection being driven by lower returns to education in the United States than in Mexico, as advocated by Borjas (1987).
How Do Pacific Island Households and Communities Cope with Seasonally Absent Members?
Households and communities in the Pacific islands are increasingly likely to have some of their most productive members regularly absent due to growing opportunities for seasonal work abroad. If these absences are costly for the family left behind, the net development benefits of seasonal migration will be less than what they appear from remittances and repatriated foreign earnings, and there might be a role for government policies in host and source countries to mitigate some of the effects of absence. This article provides the first evidence of how Pacific island households and communities are affected by and cope with seasonal absences. We find that Tongan households have succeeded in mitigating many of the potential adverse effects associated with seasonal separation of members, whereas households from Vanuatu with members participating in the RSE appear to have suffered some short-term costs in terms of diet and health.
This paper analyzes the sweeping evolution of Albanian migration since 1990, classifying the phenomenon by destination (toward Greece or other countries) and type (temporary or permanent). Using data from the 2002-3 Living Standards Measurement Study (LSMS) panel data set and the 2001 Housing and Population Census, we show first that the profile of migrants has evolved over time, with the phenomenon spreading to less-educated individuals and to poorer regions of the country. Second, we show that family migration networks and previous personal experience, in conjunction with other individual and household characteristics, are the primary determinants of the decision to migrate. The role of migration networks and personal previous experience varies by type and destination of international migration.
People migrate to improve their well-being. Yet a large literature suggests that migration can be a stressful process, with potentially negative impacts on mental health. However, to truly understand the effect of migration one must compare the mental health of migrants to what their mental health would be had they stayed in their home country. The existing literature is not able to do this. New Zealand allows a quota of Tongans to immigrate each year with a random ballot used to choose amongst the excess number of applicants. Experimental estimates of the mental health effects of migration are obtained by comparing the mental health of migrants who were successful applicants in the random ballot to the mental health of those who applied to migrate under the quota, but whose names were not drawn. Migration is found to lead to improvements in mental health, particularly for women and those with poor mental health.
Recorded remittances to Africa have grown dramatically over the past decade. Yet data limitations still mean relatively little is known about which migrants remit, how much they remit and how their remitting behaviour varies with gender, education, income levels and duration abroad. This paper constructs the most comprehensive remittance database currently available on immigrants in the OECD, containing microdata on more than 12,000 African immigrants. Using this microdata the authors establish several basic facts about the remitting patterns of Africans, and then explore how key characteristics of policy interest relate to remittance behaviour. Africans are found to remit twice as much on average as migrants from other developing countries, and those from poorer African countries are more likely to remit than those from richer African countries. Male migrants remit more than female migrants, particularly among those with a spouse remaining in the home country; more-educated migrants remit more than less educated migrants; and although the amount remitted increases with income earned, the gradient is quite flat over a large range of income. Finally, there is little evidence that the amount remitted decays with time spent abroad, with reductions in the likelihood of remitting offset by increases in the amount remitted conditional on remitting.
This study uses the 2005 Albanian Living Standards Measurement Study Survey and estimates the impact of international migration experience on the occupational mobility of return migrants vis-a-vis working-age Albanian residents that never migrated. Controlling for the non-random nature of international migration and return, the results show that past migration experience increases the likelihood of upward occupational mobility. Since such impact is likely to depend on differences in earning potentials and opportunities for skill acquisition across destination countries, we explore the heterogeneity of impact by host country. The results indicate that the positive effect of past migration experience on upward occupational mobility is driven by past migration experience in Italy and countries further afield, while past migration experience in Greece does not exert any significant impact on mobility outcomes.
The impact of international students in the United States on innovative activity is estimated using a model of idea generation. Results indicate that the presence of foreign graduate students has a significant and positive impact on both future patent applications and future patents awarded to university and non-university institutions. Our central estimates suggest that a 10% increase in the number of foreign graduate students would raise patent applications by 4.5%, university patent grants by 6.8% and non-university patent grants by 5.0%. Thus, reductions in foreign graduate students from visa restrictions could significantly reduce US innovative activity. Increases in skilled immigration also have a positive, but smaller, impact on patenting.
The literature on migration has documented the benefits of sending migrants abroad, but much less attention has been paid to the adverse consequences of international migration on those left behind. In this paper, we examine the role of international migration on the accumulation of human capital in Albania. We ask whether investment in human capital of children growing up in households with international migrants is higher compared with children in households without migrants. We find that, across various model specifications, international migration has a negative effect on education in Albania, with larger negative effects for females in rural areas.
Are Internal Migrants in Albania Leaving for the Better?
Most studies on Albanian migration have focused on international migrants. This paper contributes to filling a gap in the literature by assessing the impact of internal migration on household well-being. The study draws on the Albania Living Standards Measurement Survey of 2005, with a focus on migrant households oversampled in peri-urban Tirana, who are compared with nonmigrant rural households. Various statistical procedures are used, yielding the following results: income improves through migration but consumption does not because of higher living costs. Moreover, migrant households in peri-urban Tirana live in poor dwelling conditions, are employed in irregular and unstable jobs, and experience health problems, especially in the early years of migration.
This article discusses options to facilitate movement of workers between high-income and developing countries within the framework of trade agreements, focusing on the European Union's partnership agreements with neighbouring countries. Existing frameworks for co-operation offer the possibility of expanding temporary rather than longer-term or permanent movement of workers since extant trade agreements provide scope for negotiating specific market access commitments for services, including those delivered through the cross-border movement of natural persons. Even though the potential for such 'embodied' trade in services will not be anywhere near what would be associated with substantial liberalization of migration regimes, furthering the services trade dimension in the European Union's trade agreements offers significant potential Pareto gains. For the partner countries these gains from temporary movement of service providers are both direct--through greater employment and revenue from providing services in the European Union--and indirect--by helping to increase and sustain higher growth at home.
This paper investigates the occupational placement of immigrants in the US labor market using census data. We find striking differences among highly educated immigrants from different countries, even after we control for individuals' age, experience, and level of education. With some exceptions, educated immigrants from Latin American and Eastern European countries are more likely to end up in unskilled jobs than immigrants from Asia and industrial countries. A large part of the variation can be explained by attributes of the country of origin that influence the quality of human capital, such as expenditure on tertiary education and the use of English as a medium of instruction. These findings suggest that "underplaced" migrants suffer primarily from low (or poorly transferable) skills rather than skill underutilization. The selection effects of US immigration policy also play an important role in explaining cross-country variation. The observed under-placement of educated migrants might be alleviated if home and host countries cooperate by sharing information on labor market conditions and work toward the recognition of qualifications.
Access to social protection differs widely amongst international migrants. Using new global data on bilateral migrant stocks, social security law, and bilateral social security agreements, we quantify the status of social protection of international migrants as belonging to one of four different regimes. Results suggest that approximately one quarter of global migrants fall under the most favorable regime, but these are largely north-north migrants. On the other hand, migrants from developing countries, in particular south-south migrants, are in a far less favorable position, having to depend largely on informal networks and self insurance as a way of minimizing risk.
Recorded workers' remittances to developing countries reached $167 billion in 2005, bringing increasing attention to these flows as a potential tool for development. In this paper, we explore the determinants of remittances and their associated transaction costs. We find that recorded remittances depend positively on the stock of migrants and negatively on transfer costs and exchange rate restrictions. In turn, transfer costs are lower when financial systems are more developed and exchange rates less volatile. The negative impact of transactions costs on remittances suggests that migrants either refrain from sending money home or else remit through informal channels when costs are high. We provide evidence from household surveys supportive of a sizeable informal sector.


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Shifting Perceptions in Business
UK's Silicon Valley
By News Staff | Business
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London gets wired up for growth of tech sector
The technology sector aims to transform the profile of East London over the next few years as the city establishes its own Silicon Valley and reduces its dependence on financial services, creating much-needed opportunities for young people in the process.
A notable appointment is the latest sign of how the government is in backing East London's tech hub. Joanna Shields aims to take up the position of chief executive at Tech City Investment Organisation (TCIO)."This will absolutely make a difference. She has a brand. Her background and experience will add a lot of value," says Nasir Zubairi, director of product marketing at The Currency Cloud, which helps companies deliver cross-border payments.
Demand for tech services has seen a major hub develop in and around the Shoreditch area, and the government is on a mission to help Britain compete on the world tech stage. The technology sector accounts for 11 percent of the UK's GDP and this is set to grow, fuelled by trends such as the rise of e-commerce.
The coalition government set out its stall early on with Prime Minister David Cameron, speaking in Shoreditch, outlining his vision for the growth of the UK's technology sector.
Couple of years ago, the government set up TCIO to encourage expansion in the area. Recent initiatives that have helped to raise the profile around the East End include the Tech City Apprenticeship programme, which gives 500 unemployed young people the opportunity to work in high-profile digital companies. The initiative was launched last month by Rohan Silva (Senior Policy Adviser to the PM).
'The Tech City apprenticeship scheme might give hundreds of unemployed young people the chance to work for some of the most exciting digital companies in East London, the fastest growing technology cluster in the world,' Silva says. Other initiatives to support tech companies seeking funds include the Seed Enterprise Investment Scheme. Tech companies are also gaining from trends such as crowd funding through sites like Kickstarter — a New York-based tech company, which launched its UK platform in October, and has already exceeded the £2 million crowd funding mark.
Joanna Shields delivers a speech at the Global Business Summit on ICT at the British Business Embassy. Photo: © Paul Jerram/Demotix/Corbis
Google, Intel and Cisco are among the giants to have possibly already invested in tech companies in the East End hub. It is estimated there are more than 3,000 companies operating in the area, employing about 50,000 people.
However the East End had been attracting firms for years before TCIO and other government moves kicked in. About five years ago, the area offered the perfect combination of proximity to the City — especially important for companies serving the financial world — and relatively affordable rents.
"It really started up around the Hoxton area five or six years ago. It was like an underground sort of revolutionary movement." Zubairi tells The Positive. "There was a need to look for somewhere affordable and alternative. And you wanted to be near companies like yourself to have access to resources and knowledge," he says.
He says that although he was initially sceptical about TCIO that it is now "doing a really good job" in helping bring investment into the sector. The inhabitants of Tech City — while acknowledging that valuing tech companies is a challenging business for investors – remain optimistic.
For those aspiring to an Initial Public Offering (IPO), floating on the exchange, there may be a friendly environment on the horizon. Government proposals to encourage investment include a planned new route to the UK IPO market for high growth companies, which is likely to feature reformed rules on free float and reporting requirements.
David Brown, co-founder and CEO of data processing company Ve Interactive, is among those welcoming such a move. The company has expanded rapidly and he tells The Positive that the proposals "might become important in a couple of years' time" when he is more likely to be considering an IPO.
In regards to TCIO, Brown predicts the government being allowed to use it as a "PR machine" and aiming to claim the credit for the success of an industry that has been built more by the entrepreneurs that have shown innovation and willingness to take chances than by the help of government intervention.
Brown also acknowledges the value of TCIO's work in "getting behind businesses" and providing them with "international validation."
With Shields at the helm, TCIO is poised to shine the global spotlight on London and its ascending technology marketplace. Shields has publicly called for the city to take its place 'as the centre of innovation,' explaining that when it comes to the tech sector, London's time has come.
How might the east end benefit from the Technology movement?
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Q: How do I pull the "At this location" info from the google maps api? for example... 1130 Racquet Club North Drive Indianapolis IN 46260
has both a tennis court and an apartment complex.. tried the places api, but none of them seem to return what I see on the map at that location. Any help would be appreciated.

A: This code example.
I hope this code helps you
let lat;
    let long;
    function getLocation() {
      if (navigator.geolocation) {
        navigator.geolocation.getCurrentPosition(showPosition);
      } else {
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Torres suona il laud, uno strumento tradizionale cubano a 12 corde simile al liuto, tipico del genere musicale guajiro del quale Torres è stato importante rappresentante.

Biografia
Torres ha iniziato la sua carriera professionale nel 1970, all'età di 14 anni, nel gruppo Serenata Yumunina, guidato da Higinio Mullensche, che dovette lasciare quattro anni più tardi per adempiere agli obblighi della leva. Entrato nell'esercito, ebbe l'opportunità di suonare con la banda militare sino a quando terminò la leva, nel 1976 e immediatamente dopo si unì al Siembra Cultural, un gruppo poi rinominato in Grupo Yarabi.

Una volta stabilitosi a L'Avana divenne membro permanente dell'Orquesta Cubana de Cuerdas e partecipò a diverse sessioni con artisti molto conosciuti come Albita, Sierra Maestra, and Elio Reve. Nel 1990 collaborò contemporaneamente sia con Celina Gonzalez ed il suo Grupo Campoalegre, del quale era direttore musicale, che col Grupo Manguare, riuscendo a registrare un tour con entrambi.

Torres rimase con Gonzales fino al 1995, ma già nel 1992 iniziò a percorrere strade differenti che lo portarono infine alla costituzione del suo gruppo, il Piquete Cubano. Tuttavia la promozione più importante per la sua carriera è stata la sua partecipazione a due grandi progetti: l'Afro-Cuban All Stars e il Buena Vista Social Club. Dopo queste esperienze è apparso in diversi album, come solista, tra cui L'Avana Cafe nel 1999 nel quale erano inclusi anche brani di Ibrahim Ferrer, Omara Portuondo e Luis Mirabel.

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Q: Migrate from PCL to .netstandard I'm trying to figure out how to migrate a project from PCL to .netstandard 1.2.
I have a solution where I have a PCL project (portable45-net45+win8+wpa81) and a .Net Standard (netstandard1.2) project which has all it files linked into the PCL project.
Currently we create a nuget package from the PCL project using a nuspec file.
Now what would be the best approach to have both available in 1 nuget package?
I find the use of nuget pack vs dotnet pack and mixing multiple frameworks and project types (csproj) very confusing.
Also appearantly there is a new csproj format for VS2017+ projects, should I convert the PCL project?
Eventually the nuget should only contain the .netstandard1.2 project but we want to take both up the dependency tree during migration.

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what would be the best approach to have both available in 1 nuget package?

You can still use .nuspec file to accomplish this, just need include the dll files from  PCL project and .Net Standard project into different frameworks.
Following is my test .nuspec file, you can check it for details:
<?xml version="1.0"?>
<package >
  <metadata>
    <id>My.Package</id>
    <version>1.0.0</version>
    <authors>Tester</authors>
    <owners>Tester</owners>
    <requireLicenseAcceptance>false</requireLicenseAcceptance>
    <description>Package description</description>
    <releaseNotes>Summary of changes made in this release of the package.</releaseNotes>
    <copyright>Copyright 2018</copyright>
    <tags>Tag1 Tag2</tags>
  </metadata>
    <files>
       <file src="TestPCL\bin\Debug\TestPCL.dll" target="lib\portable-net45+wp8\" />
       <file src="TestStandard\bin\Debug\netstandard1.2\TestStandard.dll" target="lib\netstandard1.2\" />
    </files>
</package>

When you install this package to the PCL project and .Net Standard project, nuget will select the DLL file under the corresponding framework to your project.


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Q: C Arrays Designated Initializer in C# Using an ellipses, ..., as was asked and answered here, allows you to initialize many indices of a C array to the same value.
Obviously this is a very useful shorthand for having all, or specific indices, of an array be a certain value, as the code required to do so is extremely short.
Is there a similar method of doing that in C#?
Let's say that I have a char array named charArray whose length is 50.  If I wanted to have all indices to be 'h', I would have to do something like this, to my knowledge:
char[] charArray = new char[50];
for(int i = 0; i < charArray.Length; i++)
    charArray[i] = 'h';

Can I shorten this code segment any further?
If so, how would I go about doing that?


The national co-ordintors of the Organization for Democracy and Economic Development, GUAM [a regional organization among Georgia, Ukraine, Azerbaijan and Moldova], will gather in Tbilisi in November, Trend reports.
The meeting will contemplate future activities of the organization. The diplomats will work on the implementation of resolutions adopted at the Council of Foreign Ministers of the member-countries of the organization to be held in New York on 24-25 September.
Representatives from all member states are expected to attend the Tbilisi meeting. Araz Azimov, the Deputy Foreign Minister, will be Azerbaijan's representative at the meeting.


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Q: ASP.NET + C# -- Exporting Crystal Report to PDF -- Error + Upgrade Needed? I'm maintaining a multi-project solution in ASP.NET + C#. We've decided to upgrade to .NET Framework 3.5 and ASP.NET 2.0. One of the last issues with the upgrade is with Crystal Reports.
I'm getting the following error:

Method
  'ISCREditableRTFExportFormatOptions_reserved5'
  on type
  'CrystalDecisions.ReportAppServer.ReportDefModel.EditableRTFExportFormatOptionsClass'
  from assembly
  'CrystalDecisions.ReportAppServer.ReportDefModel,
  Version=11.0.3300.0, Culture=neutral,
  PublicKeyToken=692fbea5521e1304' is
  overriding a method that has been
  overridden.

which is described: http://www.trinet.co.uk/support/kb.aspx?kbid=000043
They suggest that I upgrade crystal reports to version R2.
What exactly does this mean? Do I just need to package different DLL's in my bin folders? Or do I need to uninstall and install the new version of Crystal Reports software on the test & production servers?
Thanks in advance for your time.

A: Most likely the update needs to be installed.  There should be instructions that come with the update.

A: http://resources.businessobjects.com/support/additional_downloads/runtime.asp#09
It is necessary to install the Crystal Runtime on developer and deployment servers. The following is the name of the download to use for x86 machines: Crystal Reports Basic for Visual Studio 2008 x86 Redistributable Package (32 bit)


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"The Wolverine" is an Admirable Attempt at Originality
reelchanger / July 28, 2013
If you like nothing else about it, you should at least be impressed with The Wolverine's release date. At this point in the summer, most of us are flat-out sick of cookie-cutter summer blockbusters with the same resume: immeasurably high body counts, indestructible heroes, and half-hearted political commentary. If you feel this way, consider The Wolverine your antidote. A small, self-contained character piece with thoughtful action sequences, The Wolverine might not be the best superhero movie this summer. But given what has come before, it sure feels like it.
The opening segment is a thrilling slice of historical fiction. Logan (Hugh Jackman) is being held prisoner at a POW camp in Nagasaki, Japan in 1945. Moments after the bomb drops, he saves the life of Harada, a young Japanese officer, by protecting him from the blast with his indestructible body. Years later, Harada sends for Logan, now living a simple life of non-violence in the Pacific Northwest, with a mysterious request, and soon the drifter superhero is drawn into a plot involving samurais, the Yakuza (Japanese mafia), and a beautiful mutant villain named The Viper.
The Wolverine is a movie of mixed genres, and your enjoyment of it will depend to some degree on whether you are a fan of samurai movies. By design, it is a mostly humorless affair, with a lot of serious talk about honor and duty. This is certainly not everyone's cup of tea, although it does ensure a robust performance in the all-important Asian market. Still, it's so refreshing to see a superhero movie that explores a genre other than sci-fi and diverges from the formula in such significant ways.
Director James Mangold (Cop Land, Walk the Line) demonstrates a commitment to character that is both admirable and effective. The Wolverine spends forty-five minutes or so getting to know Logan before we even get to the first action, a thrilling sequence set at a public funeral. To make this work, you need a strong, quiet confidence in the lead actor, and Jackman eases into the character like a comfortable coat. Unlike most superheroes now, Jackman owns this role completely; it's impossible to see another actor as Wolverine, and his confidence and comfort allow him to forego big character strokes and let the character's penetrating stare and impressive physicality speak for themselves.
Still, if you come for the claws, you won't be disappointed. Another divergence from the typical summer movie formula, most of the action scenes in The Wolverine involve hand-to-hand combat (or at least claw-to-sword). Each of these scenes is well-staged, competently shot, and visually inventive. For example, The fight-on-a-moving train has been done to death in the movies (look to this summer's The Lone Ranger for just one example), but Mangold, with just a little thought and a desire for originality, creates the summer's most inventive fight scene atop a speeding bullet train.
Unfortunately, that personal touch does not extend to any of the supporting characters. The villains are largely one-note, defined only by greed and lack of honor. After the attack at the funeral, Logan ends up becoming a bodyguard to Mariko, Harada's granddaughter, who stands to take over his company upon the old man's death. Mariko is beautiful and fragile (a little too much of a geisha fantasy), but we are given little window into her soul. A big problem is that the plot, which could have provided some higher stakes for these characters, is mostly indecipherable. Harada has gotten mixed up in a plot with the Yakuza, as well as the Minister of Defense, but I'll be damned if I could follow much of it.
It's a serious and almost fatal flaw for a movie like this. It's admirable to forego the trap of choosing spectacle over story, but to do that, you have to nail the story. Hugh Jackman's well-honed portrayal of the iconic superhero will be enough to keep your interest, but it's a shame that they couldn't get the pieces around him to fit. As it stands The Wolverine is a surprising, original superhero movie that falls significantly short of greatness, although we should all applaud it if we want to see Hollywood continue to take a chance every now and then.
My Rating: Put it on Your Queue
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hCalendar (zkratka z HTML iCalendar) je mikroformát sloužící k sémantickému zápisu dat ve formátu iCalendar do webových stránek pomocí HTML nebo XHTML.

Umožňuje webovým prohlížečům, vyhledávačům a dalším programům snadno extrahovat informace z webových stránek a pracovat s nimi (např. vyexportovat je do kalendářového programu uživatele).

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Q. I was wondering if Mount Holyoke has a subscription to Noodle tools, the MLA bibliography website?
Mount Holyoke does not subscribe to Noodle Tools. We do have a RefWorks subscription that can help with citations and research organization. Feel free to make an appointment with a research librarian to learn more!


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Huckabee: Irony Alert - Sales of Elizabeth Warren's 'Billionaire Tears' Mugs Actually Enrich a Billionaire
Sara D. Davis / Getty ImagesDemocratic presidential candidate, Sen. Elizabeth Warren speaks during a campaign stop at Broughton High School on Nov. 7, 2019 in Raleigh, North Carolina. (Sara D. Davis / Getty Images)
By Mike Huckabee
Elizabeth Warren claims she can pay for "Medicare for All" by taxing billionaires, a claim so ludicrous that even fellow liberals aren't buying it.
But in a sure sign that she's not ready for prime time, Warren is not trying to defend her tax scheme intellectually, or come up with a more plausible alternative. Instead, she's going the childish route by mocking the billionaires she wants to soak for allegedly "crying" over having to pay their "fair share."
Her campaign is even cashing in on its appeal to the worst in people's natures by selling coffee mugs labeled "Billionaire Tears" for $25 (it seems awfully greedy to ask that much for a coffee mug, but I digress.)
Now, I could point out that anyone who can do basic math has warned that her tax proposals can't come close to paying for her massive levels of spending.
I could also note that other nations such as France have recently done stupid things like she's proposing (they even elected a socialist president, then almost immediately regretted it.) They quickly rescinded those taxes after discovering that people don't become rich by sitting around crying about being taxed to death.
Instead, they hide their money in non-job-producing tax shelters or just move out entirely and take their money with them (France's "wealth tax" resulted in the departure of 42,000 millionaires before they finally repealed it.)
But what I really want to call your attention to is a report by The Daily Caller that Warren's anti-billionaire coffee mug sales are actually enriching a billionaire.
She sells her campaign swag through Shopify, an e-commerce site whose founder, Tobias Lutke, is worth $2.8 billion. Records show that so far, her campaign has paid Shopify about $105,000 in 2019. I'll bet that billionaire is laughing, not crying.
I'd also like to note that Lutke is not some trust fund baby or someone who gamed the system for personal advantage (like a certain senator we could all name.) He came from a humble background in Canada. He learned to code by age 12 and began a computer programming apprenticeship at 16.
When he and a friend wanted to sell snowboards online and couldn't find good software, he created it himself, and that's how Shopify was born. In short, he earned his billions by being smart, hard-working and creating a product that benefited countless other people.
So obviously, he deserves to be mocked and hated by Elizabeth Warren and her freebie-craving followers, even though her own campaign is also benefiting from what he created.
If you're seriously thinking of buying one of her "Billionaire Tears" coffee mugs, let me suggest that you instead go to a site like Zazzle.com and have a coffee mug custom-made with this quote on it:
"The spirit of envy can destroy; it can never build." — Margaret Thatcher
Or maybe this:
"Jealousy is the tribute mediocrity pays to genius." — Bishop Fulton J. Sheen
Those thoughts will do you more good, and the mug will cost you nine bucks less.
Mike Huckabee is the host of "Huckabee" on TBN Sat/Sun 8 p.m. Eastern Standard Time, a Fox News contributor, author, former Arkansas governor, bass guitarist and grandfather to six of the cutest kids in world! He's also a special contributor for The Western Journal.
@GovMikeHuckabee
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Tags: 2020 election, Elizabeth Warren, socialism, taxes


QUALIFIED BUYER'S INSPECTION APPOINTMENT THIS SATURDAY 10.30 -11.00 AM, PHONE TO REGISTER BEFORE 5PM FRIDAY 9 MARCH.
Sought after by many but rarely found till now is this fine block of land that has been this current owners piece of heaven for over 20 years is now to the quick and savvy lucky buyer to own this unique acreage that will certainly be admired by all that enter for a very long time. Less than 3 kilometers from the train station of Nambour and even less to all amenities, shops, Schools Private and public and hospital.
As you pass through the stately timber gated entry you will think you have entered a park that you used to visit for family picnics many years back when you had nothing but time. Manicured grounds, maintained brick home. This is a unique and very special place to call home.


The largest and most complex international live-fire cyber defence exercise in the world, Locked Shields 2019, organised by NATO Cooperative Cyber Defence Centre of Excellence (CCDCOE) started today. The exercise includes new critical infrastructure components and integrates the technical and strategic game, enabling participating nations to practise the entire chain of command in solving a large-scale cyber incident.
"Locked Shields exercise enables to practice solving cyber incidents in the most complex and intense playground possible. To build resilience against cyberattacks against our critical infrastructure, such as power supply or telecommunications, we need to understand both the technical and strategic challenges," said Col Jaak Tarien, Director of the NATO-accredited cyber defence hub. "Locked Shields provides the participants the best training environment to get better in defending their nations networks," added Col Tarien in opening the exercise.
The annual real-time network defence exercise is a unique opportunity for national cyber defenders to practise protection of national IT systems and critical infrastructure under the pressure of a severe cyberattack. It is a Red team vs. Blue Team exercise, where the latter are formed by member nations of CCDCOE. The participating Blue Teams play the role of national cyber rapid reaction teams that are deployed to assist a fictional country in handling large-scale cyber incidents and all their multiple implications. In addition to maintaining nearly 4000 virtualised systems while experiencing more than 2500 attacks, the teams must be effective in reporting incidents, executing strategic decisions and solving forensic, legal and media challenges.
Locked Shields 2019 is organised by CCDCOE in cooperation with the Estonian Defence Forces, the Finnish Defence Forces, the United States European Command, National Security Research Institute of the Republic of Korea and TalTech. Industry partners in the exercise include Siemens AG, Elisa, Cybernetica, Cisco, VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland Ltd, Arctic Security, Clarified Security, Iptron, Bytelife, STM, BHC Laboratory, Bolt and many others.
Photo gallery of the exercise Locked Shields.


I love and am very familiar with SQL Server. But, as a consultant, I need to step outside of that box pretty often, and advise people on applications, storage, and networking. I have general knowledge of those topics, gathered from many years in IT, seeing a lot of systems, and always being willing to learn.
But having to work with some things on my own is the hardest part. I've been struggling with virtualization for some months. I have WMware Workstation on my personal laptop – I went and bought a full license because I really needed the full capabilities – and I decided to conquer some of my fears.
I wanted to clone virtual machines, because I thought it would be really nice to install my OS and applications, like SQL, and be able to use the base image again. I thought this was a hard thing to do. It turns out it's this easy: open a virtual machine, go to Manage > Clone, and follow a wizard. The hardest part is deciding if you want a linked clone or a full clone. That's it. No magic, no voodoo, nothing scary. I now have my base image cloned and can use it any time I need it.
I've also been struggling with setting up a virtual machine to have multiple disks, so I can show performance differences between a rotational hard drive and a solid state drive in filegroups presentations. I could not figure this out. I did something I have a hard time with: I asked for help. At SQL Saturday Fargo, I sat and chatted with David Klee (b | t) for a while. David is one of the smartest virtualization people I know (and was awarded as a VMware vExpert for 2013 recently!). I talked over some of the problems I was having with him, and he said he'd be happy to help me. So I emailed him. He replied with screenshots, telling me to add another hard disk to the virtual machine.
I did that, but didn't see the disk added when I started the vm up. Then I remembered things like I have to bring the disk online, and initialize it, and make it a new volume. I did that, all on my own. I remembered to go to permissions and give my SQL service account read and write rights.
Next thing I know, I'm creating databases on multiple disks.
I was excited. No, really, I was! There are some people reading this that are probably thinking, "That was really easy. Why did she have to ask for help?" But this is stuff I don't do every day, or even every week. I am not good at asking for help, but I did it. I called up skills from way back in the day and applied them.
Take some time to step outside your comfort zone, and learn something new today.


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Q: PIR Motion Sensor triggers every hour I have Onyehn PIR Motion Sensor connected to a Raspberry Pi Zero, which detects motion when it actually happens. However, it also detects motion every hour, even when it is sealed in a box. Is there anyway to determine root cause or to stop this?
The RPi is running Raspbian GNU/Linux 10 (buster).
The script uses Python 2.7.16
The python script is:
# all the pre-requisite modules are imported, globals defined and defs work ... not included
MOTION_PIN = 17

GPIO.setup(MOTION_PIN, GPIO.IN, pull_up_down=GPIO.PUD_DOWN)
GPIO.add_event_detect(MOTION_PIN, GPIO.RISING)

def motionTextCallback():
    sendTextMessage('motion detected') # sends text message to my cellphone number

while True:
    time.sleep(3600) # I checked this timer to see if it was triggering motion sensor

Running the following command shows the following occuring just as the Motion Sensor is triggered hh:21:40 on every hour. To me this seems to indicate something in HRNG is triggering the motion sensor.
Any ideas?
Thanks.
Jeff
$ sudo journalctl | grep ":21"
Sep 26 23:21:40 rpiDoorbell rngd[290]: stats: bits received from HRNG source: 380064
Sep 26 23:21:40 rpiDoorbell rngd[290]: stats: bits sent to kernel pool: 334336
Sep 26 23:21:40 rpiDoorbell rngd[290]: stats: entropy added to kernel pool: 334336
Sep 26 23:21:40 rpiDoorbell rngd[290]: stats: FIPS 140-2 successes: 19
Sep 26 23:21:40 rpiDoorbell rngd[290]: stats: FIPS 140-2 failures: 0
Sep 26 23:21:40 rpiDoorbell rngd[290]: stats: FIPS 140-2(2001-10-10) Monobit: 0
Sep 26 23:21:40 rpiDoorbell rngd[290]: stats: FIPS 140-2(2001-10-10) Poker: 0
Sep 26 23:21:40 rpiDoorbell rngd[290]: stats: FIPS 140-2(2001-10-10) Runs: 0
Sep 26 23:21:40 rpiDoorbell rngd[290]: stats: FIPS 140-2(2001-10-10) Long run: 0
Sep 26 23:21:40 rpiDoorbell rngd[290]: stats: FIPS 140-2(2001-10-10) Continuous run: 0
Sep 26 23:21:40 rpiDoorbell rngd[290]: stats: HRNG source speed: (min=74.852; avg=338.275; max=801.282)Kibits/s
Sep 26 23:21:40 rpiDoorbell rngd[290]: stats: FIPS tests speed: (min=5.936; avg=6.198; max=6.231)Mibits/s
Sep 26 23:21:40 rpiDoorbell rngd[290]: stats: Lowest ready-buffers level: 2
Sep 26 23:21:40 rpiDoorbell rngd[290]: stats: Entropy starvations: 0
Sep 26 23:21:40 rpiDoorbell rngd[290]: stats: Time spent starving for entropy: (min=0; avg=0.000; max=0)us

A: I have found that my PIR sensor also triggers every 1 hour (+ 0.5 / + 0.9 seconds).
I use a Raspberry Pi and have idea what causes this.
I have implemented a filter mechanism that logs each 'lone' trigger and if there was one 3600.5 / 3600.9 seconds ago. If so, this trigger is ignored. This makes that I can trigger on the first of a sequence of triggers and still filter these phantom triggers.
Complex, but is works!


The regular monthly meeting of the Board of Trustees of the Village of Unadilla, Nebraska, was held on Wednesday, July 12, 2017, 7:30 p.m. at the Unadilla Community Library. Notice of said meeting and proposed agenda of then known subjects was given by posting in the three following places within the Village: Countryside Bank, Post Office, and Community Center Notice Board; and by serving a copy of said notice to each member of the Board of Trustees more than 5 days prior to said meeting. Trustees present: Dan Crownover, Dale Stoner, Janet Oelke, and Lynn Schomerus. Absent: Scott Hincker.
Chairman Crownover called the meeting to order at 7:30 p.m. He reminded everyone of the location of the Open Meetings Act Poster.
Schomerus made a motion to approve the May 2017 minutes, Oelke seconded, and motion carried 3-0.
Stoner made a motion to approve the May 2017 treasurer's report, Schomerus seconded, motion carried 3-0.
-461,000; YTD: -1,119,000. Water consumed includes the water slide at the BBQ. July 24 a water leak was discovered at Tracy Circle also. Two water samples came back with coliform for the month of June. A report will be filled out and sent to the DHHS. The DHHS would like one operator and one water sampler between Barb and Corinne to be designated before the end of the year. Schomerus made a motion to appoint Corinne as operator and Barb as sampler, seconded by Oelke, motion carried 3-0. The water/sewer mapping project has been completed. An inspection from DHHS was completed and the grant funds should be deposited in July. The sewer pump has been repaired and bill submitted for repairs.
Schoolhouse items: AlarmLink was notified to look at the room the preschool will be occupying and give an estimate on a smoke detector and additional camera for the playground. Stoner made a motion to pay for the smoke detector and labor to install it and any additional equipment needed would be the expense of Vicki Damme, Schomerus seconded, motion carried 3-0. The air conditioning was discussed for the office room and preschool room. Clerk to get 3 estimates.
kitchen, additional picnic tables purchased, gazebo for the existing cement slab, and add additional cement on the east side of the shelter. Zahn and Schomerus will get some estimates.
Oelke made a motion to certify Fire & Rescue personnel for insurance purposes. Schomerus seconded, and motion carried 3-0.
Schomerus made a motion to approve the Annual Catering License for The Bar, seconded by Stoner, and motion carried 3-0.
Stoner made a motion to approve the bill submitted by Sherman Company for the sewer pump repairs, Schomerus seconded, and motion carried 3-0.
Schomerus made a motion to pay claims, Oelke seconded, and motion carried 3-0.
The list of delinquent water and sewer patrons was reviewed. Account #022, 048, 074, & 128.
Correspondence: The Boiler inspection was completed in June. A building permit was issued to Kyle Gress for the property at 880 7th St. and to Jim Walters for the property at 338 9th St. Clerk received her CMC award and is now a certified municipal clerk. Clerk to send letters to nuisance property owners and dog owners for license. The Library Board donated to the Village to purchase additional picnic tables for the park.
The meeting adjourned at 9:20 p.m.
inspection at the Village Office during normal business hours.


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The Future of Hybrid and Electric Vehicle Batteries
Home » The Future of Hybrid and Electric Vehicle Batteries
Electric and hybrid vehicles have changed the way people drive, but too many drivers still shy away from these cars due to the cost of replacement batteries and the time commitment required for a full charge. Fortunately, changes are coming, and newer batteries could provide more power with a fraction of the charging time.
Changes to Battery Structure
A complete overhaul in battery structure may be just around the corner. According to The Wall Street Journal, scientists are working to produce battery components using materials with larger-than-ever storage capacity. Batteries contain an anode and a cathode, and an electrical current is generated when ions travel from the anode to the cathode. Currently, graphite is used in most anodes. Scientists believe that replacing that graphite with silicon would result in as much as a 30 percent increase in battery capacity. These batteries have great potential when it comes to hybrid and electric vehicles. BMW has already released plans for a plug-in vehicle using these batteries, expected to hit the market in five years with a 30 percent increase in range over similar hybrids and electric vehicles.
Instantly Rechargeable Batteries
Researchers at Purdue University have big plans for a membrane-less battery that charges almost instantly. The IF-Battery would allow drivers to fill their vehicles with fluid electrolytes that would re-energize spent battery fluids. Used electrolyte fluid would be dropped off at existing gas stations to be collected for recycling or re-use, and drivers would replace their fluid at the same location. This eliminates two of the most significant problems with electric and hybrid vehicles: the lack of expensive charging infrastructure and the time commitment drivers must make to keep their vehicles fully charged. The new battery design is safer, more affordable, and environmentally friendly, and it could completely change the way we think about hybrid and electric cars.
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By now, you surely know that Zillow has added virtual for-sale signs to its home valuation site.
Also, you must read Greg's bang-on analysis and Galen's take on the new feature set too.
Great idea! Homeowners are going to go mad for it! But wait a tic. Haven't I heard this before?
Finnish site Igglo pioneered the model last year, but wasn't Redfin also pursuing a similar strategy?
So, is Redfin CEO Glenn Kelman steaming at the preemptive move pulled by his cross-town contemporaries today? Does Zillow's move sink Redfin's goal to launch a similar service? My guess is that it does.
More importantly, if Make Me Move takes off in a big way for Zillow, will Redfin's patent application come back to haunt Zillow?


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Q: Some styles work in Lyx's BibTeX Generated Bibliography, others don't Some styles work correctly for Lyx's BibTeX Generated Bibliography, others give errors. For example, if I set the style to IEEEtran, then all is well. However, if I set it to apsrev, I get output like:
Runaway argument?
{{72} (\bibinfo {year}{{2012}}), ISSN \bibinfo {issn}{{0002-9505}}. \par \ETC.
! File ended while scanning use of \@firstofone.
<inserted text>
                \par
l.397 ...Interference-Diffraction_Project_AJP_bib}

I suspect you have forgotten a `}', causing me
to read past where you wanted me to stop.
I'll try to recover; but if the error is serious,
you'd better type `E' or `X' now and fix your file.

Class revtex4 Warning: Endnote numbers changed: rerun LaTeX.

! LaTeX Error: \begin{thebibliography} on input line 1 ended by \end{document}.

See the LaTeX manual or LaTeX Companion for explanation.
Type  H <return>  for immediate help.
 ...

l.399 \end{document}

Your command was ignored.
Type  I <command> <return>  to replace it with another command,
or  <return>  to continue without it.

Any thoughts on what I should do?
Thanks.
EDIT:
Here's a minimal lyx file with the problems. Plain works but the one it's set as doesn't. I'm using the latest version of MacTex; I downloaded it yesterday.
bib file
lyx file

A: Your bib.bib file is a mess. It's not your fault -- you were given those bib entries from websites (e.g. JSTOR). However, you should clean them up. Otherwise certain bibliography styles will have trouble with them. Different bibliography styles react differently because they use different fields and they use those fields in different ways. I tested your .lyx file with a .bib file that only contained a cleaned up version of your first entry:
@article{Young1802,
  title = {An Account of Some Cases of the Production of Colours, not Hitherto Described},
  author = {Young, Thomas},
  journal = {Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London},
  volume = {92},
  number = {},
  pages = {pp. 387-397},
  language = {English},
  year = {1802},
  publisher = {The Royal Society}
}

And it worked fine. So clean up your .bib and add in the new entries one by one to make sure you can figure out which entry is the one that is causing problems.
Also note in the following that the ampersands should probably be escaped (put a backslash before them):
publisher = {Taylor & Francis, Ltd.},
copyright = {Copyright © 2005 Taylor & Francis, Ltd.}


I've never been a "keynote listener" before – it's probably not something that politicians tend to do. So my first experience of it was when I attended the Transition Towns conference and, going table to table to hear what people were discussing, learnt about the movement and what people want me to do in government to help.
I heard how the mission of the Transition Towns movement is not just avoiding disaster but creating a better quality of life and a stronger community. This is an incredibly important message, and if I'm honest, I don't think that those of us who believe in tackling climate change talk about it enough.
The Transition Towns movement shows our message can be about green hope, not green despair: we can help people shift from cars to bicycles and public transport, not by finger-wagging but by making the low-carbon choice the easy choice, such as through improving bike storage at stations. We can make the argument that the transition to renewable power is not just good for climate change but can hold back a rising dependence on gas imports from abroad. We can show that although people's bills will rise slightly in 2020, we can help with insulation and cutting energy waste so that the most vulnerable are protected.
I heard as well that many communities want to know what the UK is doing as a country. They feel they are part of a movement across the country, and they want their government to be leading the way. Two weeks ago, I published our economy-wide roadmap – and inspired by what you do, it is called the "UK Low Carbon Transition Plan".
It shows sector by sector how we will save carbon – some sectors making more savings, some making less where alternatives are harder, but from power to homes to transport, businesses and waste, we now have a detailed plan and know how the total carbon savings will be made. It's the most detailed, comprehensive and ambitious plan yet, and will mean changes in all of our lives.
The hard work is only beginning. Groups like Transition Towns have shifted the centre of gravity in public opinion; but the biggest job of persuasion still lies ahead. Cleaning up our power supply means winning the argument that the greatest threat to the countryside is not the wind farm, but climate change. Cutting energy waste from homes means persuading neighbours and friends that insulation is the smart choice. Getting the breadth of action needed means winning the argument that every town, every company, and every public service now needs a transition plan of its own.
Putting the plan into action, not just in the next year or so but through the decades, can only be done if committed people around the country continue to persuade people of the need for change. Thank you to all the people I met for taking the time to talk to me, and thank you for continuing to be the vanguard of that persuasion.
I must admit, you get a much better response from politicians if you sit down and talk with them constructively, than if you throw green custard in their face. 😉 Hopefully this is the first of many occasions when Transition elicits good responses from politicians!
Great to see, and nice to be name-checked in the national plan, but Ed has so far only engaged in half of the transition vision: no mention of peak oil anywhere here!
You here about positive feedback loops in climate changing emissions. I see this is kind of like a positive feedback loop in TT growth. TT's have earned their current momentum but this kind of recognition will help to bolster the needed continuation of our growth and credibility within our communities.
Has he not been paying bills lately?
When i first read it, i liked the sentence "Groups like Transition Towns have shifted the centre of gravity in public opinion" and just now 10 days later, a specific application of this sentence, has just dawned on me.
The idea was to search out existing examples of projects and solutions that hold within them a glimpse of how a better world would look. However, even with this remit, we found it difficult to fill the events with positive solutions based alternatives, with the majority of people providing content still embedded within a campaign and protest culture. I feel that if we did the same now we do a lot better and i wonder how much TT has contributed to this shift.
The TT movement is not known by the public opinion/average citizen .
The public opinion is struggling to come to terms with global warming, the real impact it will have during their lifetime ( many believe they will never see it happening in their lives), nevermind peak oil.
How many people know that Mr. Miliband attended the Transition Network conference?How many people know there was ever a Transition Network conference?
Ignorance is bliss, even more when the truth will take Paradise ( and your car ) away from you!.
I am not "rubbishing" the importance of Mr. Miliban's attendance, I don't even doubt the sincerity of his words, but I doubt it has even dented the public opinion insensibility/ignorance on the whole peak oil/global warming chapter we are about to face.
We are in the right path, but still far away from the public opinion.
P.D. Apologies. I don't want to upset people, but I felt I had to add my personal view on this reality.


The Beast "Tout and Back Again"!
The Beast is just that, a beast of race. Hosted by Poole AC, this event takes in some of the most spectacular views of Dorset (well in our humble opinion), the 13(ish) mile 'undulating' course starts on Corfe Castle Common before heading out towards Worth Matravers and then on to the coastal path with great views of the sea! The course then heads back towards Corfe with only a few 'minor' hills to get up.
WE REGRET NO DOGS OR BUGGIES WILL BE PERMITTED.
We also regret that the course is unsuitable for wheelchairs.
We have our dedicated followers, with some runners doing more than 20 of the races and 2 volunteers attending every single event, not to mention the year that by invitation 2 runners did the race a week late and still got a T-shirt!
All numbers to be collected on the day from 9.00am.
Trophies for most categories and a unique t-shirt to every finisher.
Please confirm you would like to be added to the The Beast 2019 waiting list.


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5A, 3A boys soccer state semifinals postponed to Thursday; 4A on as scheduled
By Morgan Dzakowic
Goalkeeper Michael Genge during practice at Broomfield High School in this August 2015 file photo. (Paul Aiken, Daily Camera)
The Colorado high school boys soccer state tournament semifinals for Class 5A and 3A originally scheduled for Wednesday have been postponed because there's snow all over the fields CHSAA deemed as "unplayable field conditions."
The 5A semifinals will be Thursday at Sports Authority Stadium, Fairview vs. Mountain Vista at 12 p.m. and Heritage vs. Broomfield at 2 p.m.
3A will be Thursday, Kent Denver vs. Vail Mountain at 12 p.m. and Fountain Valley vs. Coal Ridge at 2 p.m at All-City Stadium.
4A's schedule won't change: Wednesday, Cheyenne Mountain vs. Evergreen at 5 p.m. and Standley Lake vs. The Classical Academy at 7 p.m. at Legacy Stadium.
Here are the full brackets for all three classifications.
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Categories: Boys Soccer, CHSAA, Class 3A, Class 4A, Class 5A
Class 3A Girls Colorado state cross country championships 2014 results
Runners compete during the Girls Class 3A Colorado state cross country championships at Norris-Penrose Event Center on Oct. 25, 2014, in Colorado Springs. (Daniel Petty, The Denver Post)
Here are the results from the Class 3A girls state cross country meet, which took place Saturday at Norris Penrose Event Center in Colorado Springs.
Team results: Alamosa 91, Salida 95, Kent Denver 109, Peak to Peak 128, Moffat County 144, Pagosa Springs 170, Estes Park 179, Colorado Academy 213, Skyview Academy 246, Aspen 250, Brush 294, Jefferson Academy 305, Frontier Academy 310, St. Mary's Academy 328, Eaton 346, Vanguard 373, Lamar 435, Manitou Springs 464, Coal Ridge 500.
Individual results:
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Categories: Class 3A, Girls Cross Country
Colorado AP Media Poll for girls high school basketball has Regis Jesuit atop 5A
By The Denver Post
Jordan Molyneaux blocks out for Regis in game against Monarch in December. (BoCoPreps)
Today we introduce a new feature at The Denver Post and at partner news outlets around Colorado — The Colorado AP Media Poll, with the help of The Associated Press. First up, the girls polls, from Class 5A through 1A. We'll post the boys poll soon.
The poll collects votes from reporters around the state, from Pueblo to Grand Junction to Boulder to Fort Collins to Denver and points in between.
Regis Jesuit, at 6-1, starts atop the 5A poll after receiving eight first-place votes. Highlands Ranch (8-1) is second.
In 4A, No. 1 Broomfield (8-0) got seven first-place votes and No. 2 Mesa Ridge (7-0) got two.
The rest of the polls are below. See anything amiss? What teams should be where? Feel free to go on the record in the comments below.
Categories: Girls Basketball
Tuesday roundup: ThunderRidge girls soccer stuns No. 1 Mountain Vista
By Jon Yunt
GIRLS SOCCER:
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ThunderRidge rallied from a 2-0 halftime deficit against top-ranked Mountain Vista — a team that had yet to surrender a goal this season — to stun the Golden Eagles 3-2.
Coming out of the break, the Grizzlies cut the lead in half just four minutes into the second half when Kayla Hill finally forced Mountain Vista keeper Danielle Cushing to look into her own net. Hill and Riley Welch would score less than a minute apart later in the half.
Marissa Santarella made 10 saves in net for the Grizzlies.
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Categories: Baseball, Girls Golf, Girls Lacrosse, Girls Soccer, Roundup
Cross country state meets on deck (with listing of regional results)
By Neil Devlin
Next up on the state tournament circuit for the fall … boys and girls girls cross country.
On Saturday at the Arapahoe County Fairgrounds in Aurora, four classifications will crown individual and team honors over a 3.1 mile (5k) layout.
This one has all kinds of pageantry and the fact that our kids run at altitude makes it even better.
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Categories: Boys Cross Country, Girls Cross Country
Prep notebook: Coal Ridge football coach Scott Parker cleared to return
Coal Ridge football coach Scott Parker has been reinstated to coach, according to the Glenwood Springs Post Independent.
Parker had been on administrative leave while being investigated by District Re-2 Superintendent Susan Birdsey for "a coaching code of conduct violation," according to the paper.
The issue, according to the Post Independent:
… multiple sources with knowledge of the situation relayed that a hazing incident Parker failed to report was at the center of the matter.
That investigation resulted in a two-game suspension, according to Re-2 spokeswoman Theresa Hamilton. Parker, in his fourth season as coach, missed Coal Ridge's 14-6 loss to Delta last week. He'll also be out for this week's game against Roaring Fork.
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June 3, 2010, 10:22 am
Best moments from the spring prep season
Eaton's Adam Geisick makes a diving catch in center field during the 3A baseball semifinals. (RJ Sangosti, The Denver Post)
Kent Denver won, hands down, the best game of the spring sports season in the boys lacrosse quarterfinals — a 10-9, double-overtime upset of Colorado Academy that ended on a goal by sophomore Matt Florence with 2.1 seconds remaining.
Then Regis Jesuit met defending champion, and top-seeded, Arapahoe in the semifinals.
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Categories: Baseball, Boys Lacrosse, Boys Swimming, Class 2A, Class 4A, Class 5A, Girls Soccer, Girls Tennis, Track & Field
St. Mary's … or, er … Academy — 3A soccer semis play the name game
St. Mary's won the 3A title last season. With five schools sporting similar names, there's a good chance someone with some variation of the word Academy or St. Mary's in its name will be crowned champ this season. (Hyoung Chang, The Denver Post)
Poor, poor Manitou Springs, Peak to Peak and Coal Ridge. The three schools must feel like outsiders looking in on the Class 3A quarterfinals.
They weren't invited to the name game.
In 3A, you've got top-seeded The Classical Academy, which plays Colorado Academy tonight at 7. Further down the bracket, The Academy is hosting St. Mary's Academy. And, of course, there's Coal Ridge's opponent: plain old St. Mary's.
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Categories: Baseball, Boys Lacrosse, Class 3A, Class 4A, Class 5A, Girls Lacrosse, Girls Soccer
Predicting the girls soccer playoff fields
Janine Beckie and Valor Christian are rising — but where do they land in our predicted 3A playoff field? (Diego James Robles, The Denver Post)
The girls soccer regular season comes to a close tonight. Baseball ends tomorrow. Girls lacrosse is over on Monday.
The postseason machine will officially get a kick-start tonight when the first round of the boys lacrosse tournament begins.
In that spirit and because, personally, I love what-if scenarios (even when my contrived scenarios or predictions are blatantly wrong) let's predict the playoff fields for girls soccer:[sidenote][sidenote 2]
The field will be determined by a committee at 9:30 a.m. Sunday. Class 3A, 4A and 5A each qualify 32 teams.
Categories: Baseball, Class 3A, Class 4A, Class 5A, Track & Field
May 6, 2010, 1:08 pm
This week's rankings: Fairview soccer returns to No. 2
Slowly, steadily, Fairview girls soccer has gotten back to where it started.
Yes, the Knights (11-2-0) are once again No. 2 in Class 5A with the release of today's rankings. But perhaps more importantly, they've stopped believing in their own hype.
"It took time to get organized," Fairvew coach Jeremy Pinard said Thursday afternoon. "Yeah, we had a slow start, but we're getting better and better."
Categories: Baseball, Class 1A, Class 2A, Class 3A, Class 4A, Class 5A, Girls Soccer, Rankings
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Cru's first foray into the blues came after leaving the US Navy when he was asked to join a band formed by a former shipmate named Delray Streeter, a bluesman of unlimited bravado and attitude but limited singing and harmonica skills. Streeter was raised in El Dorado, Arkansas and claimed a rich blues heritage from his upbringing. This partnership, though shot-lived, proved to be very influential as Streeter's repertoire tended toward the older and much rawer country blues. Cru's schooling in country blues later served him well and is infused into his original songs along with his Sun Records and rock-blues influences.


Dateline: Mahboula, 1992 – And I Liked It!
For the first time in my life, I am in a diwaniya. And not only visiting, but participating. Thank you, Amer, for opening up your blog for guest contributors, and inviting me to join. I am honored to be here.
Who am I? I'm Global Gal, an American expat living in China. A long time ago I lived in Kuwait in an apartment with ill-fitting windows, pock-marked facade, (presumably from bullets), and, in the right light, Iraqi graffiti under the thinly-coated paint of the interior walls. It was 1992 and I was sixteen. Fresh off the airplane from Texas, the Mahboula (Mad Woman' in Arabic) area might as well have been the moon. Eventually, it was home and all these years later I still miss it. I even miss that hastily thrown together apartment. I can honestly look back on my two years in Kuwait as some of the happiest and most influential of my life. I have never forgotten my Kuwaiti friends and the Kuwaiti experiences that made me who I am today – a traveler, an expat and an admirer of the little country that could.
When I hear about the current state of Kuwait – multitudes of restaurants, Marina Mall, aquariums, etc. and the current state of Mahboula and Fahaheel, where I lived and spent most of my time, I tend to think like that grumpy old man character from 'Saturday Night Live'.
(Cue Grumpy Old Man voice): "Back in my day we didn't have McDonald's and Burger King right across the road. There was no such thing as McDonald's. If we wanted fast food, we walked to the shawarma stand or found an adult to drive us all the way to Fahaheel. And in Fahaheel you could have Wendy's or KFC and that was it. There was no Hungry Bunny. And we liked it.
And we didn't go down to the beach to play in the sand and water. We weren't allowed anywhere near the beach. Everyone was afraid of bombs and mines and booby-trapped Pepsi cans. We spent all our time buying pirated cassette tapes in Salmiya or eating at Chi Chi's. And we liked it.
And I really did like it! I would love to see how Kuwait has changed! Consider this my introductory post. I will be contributing travel stories and anecdotes of my Kuwait expat experience to the diwaniya in the coming weeks. I hope you don't mind a little light-hearted fare! It looks like I need to brush up on Kuwaiti politics as well!
Global Gal writes about her life in China, travel experiences and interesting things she sees and reads at On the Fringe.
Thanks for your contribution, we are looking forward to more pieces, Global Gal – and welcome to the asylum!
Nice to see expats who have had good experiences in Kuwait!
Thanks for the title & photo! I heard about the Mermaid building from intlxpatr. I can't even imagine what it all must look like now. I've only been back with Google Earth!
And Marzouq, I did have a wonderful experience there, my entire family did. My husband and I are even actively looking for opportunities to move to Kuwait or another Gulf country!
I thought I left a comment here this morning, but I must not have sent it. Global Gal, I think of you every time I pass Union Bridge – isn't that where you lived?
I like to drive by The Mermaid at night and see if there is anyone living there yet . . . I think maybe they priced themselves out of the market. There MAY be one occupant, but I think it is largely empty, and I don't think the car elevators are operational, and with all these sandstorms – I hate to think of what that could mean.
The Mermaid is a fascinating building. I enjoyed looking through the link on the post with photos of its construction. What a shame that it is nearly empty! The car elevator seemed a bit over the top, but cool regardless.
I lived in a building very close to Union Bridge. Ours was called Azizan. Union Bridge was where all the Bechtel families lived. You mentioned sandstorms: We didn't have a lot of sandstorms while I was in Kuwait, at least not very big ones, but when the sand did blow, we had interesting streams of sand blowing horizontally through our ill-fitted windows and the window frame. We actually used to watch them as entertainment.
Bu Yousef – Thanks for your comment! As for perfect, I've never found that place, but after living in rural China for three years, I think Kuwait would come pretty darn close!
Incidentally, I recently spoke with a family who lived in our building, also Americans, and they shared the same feeling as me – what a shame it was we all had to leave Kuwait. I don't know if it was the era, but I think post-liberation Kuwait was a pretty special place.
"KUWAIT: Living on unpaved dirt roads seems to be the unaffected reality of residents of Mahboula. Despite the fact that the coastal area is booming with residential towers, it lacks the simplest of elements: paved roads. The residents have to maneuver puddles of water accumulated from last week's rain, slippery mud, piles of bricks and building tools, as well as garbage bags that surround the area.


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Monitors at Arizona ballot drop boxes draw complaints of voter intimidation
KJZZ | By Ben Giles
Published October 26, 2022 at 5:00 AM EDT
Ross D. Franklin
The warehouse at the Maricopa County Elections Department is seen on Sept. 8. The Maricopa sheriff says he's stepped up security around ballot drop boxes after a series of incidents involving people keeping watch on the boxes.
PHOENIX — In May, following a presentation to lawmakers from True The Vote — an organization whose faulty research was behind the debunked "2000 Mules" film — Arizona state Sen. Kelly Townsend had some encouraging words for residents who wanted to act on baseless election fraud claims.
"I have been so pleased to hear of all of you vigilantes out there that want to camp out at these drop boxes, right? So do it. Do it," the Republican said to applause from the audience. "We put the word out today that if you're going to come and be like a mule and stuff ballot boxes this time, you're going to get caught."
With early voting now underway in Arizona, it's clear that many people in this swing state have followed through on such calls to action.
An incident at a drop box in the Phoenix suburbs — where voters were filmed, photographed and followed by car out of a parking lot — was referred to the U.S. Department of Justice by the Arizona secretary of state's office.
A separate complaint was filed last week, after "camo clad people" took pictures of a voter and their vehicle's license plate at Maricopa County election headquarters.
And on Friday, Maricopa County sheriff's deputies responded to two men, armed and dressed in tactical gear, standing watch at a drop box in Mesa.
🧵On Friday, 2 armed individuals dressed in tactical gear were onsite at our Mesa ballot drop box. After @mcsoaz arrived, the individuals left. @MaricopaCounty Chairman Gates & @RecordersOffice Recorder Richer said they condemn these actions. Read more: https://t.co/iHFPCxeLFT pic.twitter.com/o8JCudzVCj
— Maricopa County Elections Department (@MaricopaVote) October 23, 2022
As of Monday, Secretary of State Katie Hobbs had referred a total of six potential voter intimidation complaints near ballot drop boxes to law enforcement.
"Voter harassment may include gathering around ballot drop boxes questioning voters, brandishing weapons, taking pictures of people voting and following or chasing voters who are attempting to drop off their ballots, and it can all be considered voter intimidation," Hobbs said in a statement. "It is unacceptable."
Maricopa County Sheriff Paul Penzone told reporters on Monday that he's had to devote "considerable" resources to monitor those activities at drop boxes, "just to give people confidence that they can cast a vote safely. And that is absurd."
The incidents even caught the attention of U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland, who said Monday that the Justice Department "will not permit voters to be intimidated" during the midterm elections.
Drop box vigilantism isn't limited to Maricopa County in Arizona. For instance, two groups in rural northern Yavapai County had similar plans to monitor drop boxes.
Technically, as long as people stay at least 75 feet away from the drop boxes, there's nothing illegal about filming or monitoring the sites.
At a press conference last week, Maricopa County Recorder Stephen Richer said officials are evaluating what can and cannot be done about drop box observers. "We have not come up with the legal framework by which we are evaluating that yet," he said.
At least some of the drop box watchers have claimed they are with Clean Elections USA, a national organization promoted by former Trump aide Steve Bannon. A federal lawsuit filed Monday seeks an order barring the group's members from following and taking photos or videos of voters at drop boxes.
Election conspiracy theorists like Mark Finchem, the Republican nominee for secretary of state in Arizona, have defended the vigilantism — and accused Secretary of State Hobbs, a Democrat running for governor, and reporters of "intimidating the ballot drop box watchers."
"WATCH ALL DROP BOXES. PERIOD. SAVE THE REPUBLIC," he tweeted last week.
But Maricopa County election officials, having faced flawed reviews and scrutiny since the 2020 election, have seen enough.
"Uninformed vigilantes outside Maricopa County's drop boxes are not increasing election integrity," Richer and Maricopa County Board Chair Bill Gates — both Republicans — said in a joint statement. "Instead they are leading to voter intimidation complaints."
"Although monitoring and transparency in our elections is critical, voter intimidation is unlawful," they added.
Gates noted that it's not just voters who feel harassed and intimidated. Election workers have been photographed outside county headquarters, an issue Gates said occurred back in the August primary, too.
"Regardless of what the intent is of these people who are taking pictures of our election workers, they're harassing people," he said. "They're not helping, you know, further the interests of democracy."
As for Townsend, the GOP state senator who encouraged vigilantism over the summer, she's since distanced herself from the efforts on the ground in Arizona.
"To be clear, I never said to intimidate anyone," Townsend tweeted on Monday.
"I should not have to say this but wearing tactical gear while watching a ballot drop box could be considered voter intimidation," she added. "Don't do it."
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Gains for tech stocks nudge S&P 500 even closer to record
A woman wearing a mask passes a sign for Wall Street during the coronavirus pandemic in June. Stocks are starting another week with modest gains on Wall Street, and the S&P 500 is making its latest run at its record high.
NEW YORK >> Wall Street nudged a bit higher today, and the S&P 500 teased even closer to its record high.
The benchmark index rose 9.14 points, or 0.3%, to 3,381.99. Earlier in the day, it briefly crossed above its record closing level of 3,386.15, which was set on Feb. 19 before the coronavirus pandemic shut down businesses worldwide and created the worst recession in decades. It's the third time in the last four trading days the index has risen above that record, only to fade later in the day.
Most other U.S. stock indexes also made gains. The Nasdaq composite rose 110.42, or 1%, to 11,129.73, and the smaller stocks in the Russell 2000 index gained 7.59, or 0.5%, to 1,585.47.
The Dow Jones Industrial Average was an outlier and slipped 86.11, or 0.3%, to 27,844.91.
"It seems like a nothing day until you realize we're sitting right on an all-time high for the S&P 500," said Mark Hackett, chief of investment research at Nationwide.
The S&P 500 added onto its three-week rally, even though investors are still waiting for Congress to offer more aid to the economy. Investors say it's crucial that the support comes, particularly after $600 in weekly unemployment benefits and other stimulus from the U.S. government expired.
Markets seem to be banking on Democrats and Republicans coming to a deal, even though both sides say they remain far apart. Without the lifeline, analysts say the economy won't be able to make the recovery that investors have been assuming is on the way. And that assumption is a huge reason the stock market is as high as it is.
"Hence, another round of stimulus is the difference between ensuring that the economic recovery continues uninterrupted and a meaningful short-term pullback in growth," Morgan Stanley strategist Michael Zezas wrote in a report.
Investors seem willing to wait for a deal, for now. But if it gets deep into September, and Democrats and Republicans still remain far apart in their negotiations on the size of the deal, Zezas said it may be too close to the election to get one done.
Wall Street was nearly evenly split between stocks rising and falling today, with tech stocks again helping to lead the way. They've been remarkably resilient through the pandemic as investors build up bets they can continue to grow as work-from-home and other trends accelerate.
Tech stocks across the S&P 500 climbed 0.5%, and they alone accounted for about two-thirds of the index's gain. Nvidia jumped 6.7% for one of the biggest gains in the index, and Microsoft added 0.7%.
But losses for financial and energy stocks helped restrain the market's gains. These areas tend to rise and fall with expectations for the economy, and they had been showing a bit more life in recent weeks in an encouraging sign for market watchers.
Smaller stocks and transportation stocks have also been making gains recently, said Nationwide's Hackett, who called it "good news for the sustainability of the rally."
"It's very hard for Microsoft, Amazon and Tesla to continue to do all the heavy lifting," he said. "You're going to need some help from others."
Shares of several banks were under pressure Monday after Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway disclosed that it cut back its investments in them. Wells Fargo slumped 3.3% after the famed value investor trimmed Berkshire Hathaway's ownership stake by about a quarter.
Treasury yields moderated a bit, following the big run for the 10-year yield last week. It dipped to 0.68% from 0.71% late Friday. It had zoomed upward from 0.56% through the week.
Higher yields can be an indication that investors are upgrading their expectations for inflation and the economy. But they can also pull some buyers away from stocks into bonds, hurting stock prices in the process.
European stock markets rose modestly. In Germany, the DAX returned 0.1%, and France's CAC 40 added 0.2%. The FTSE 100 in London rose 0.6%.
In Asia, Japan's Nikkei 225 fell 0.8% after data showed the world's third-largest economy shrank at an annual rate of 27.8% in April-June, the worst contraction on record.
Hong Kong's Hang Seng gained 0.7%, and stocks in Shanghai jumped 2.3% after analysts said actions by China's central bank raised the possibility of more support ahead for the market.
Benchmark U.S. crude oil added 88 cents to settle at $42.89 per barrel. Brent crude, the international standard, rose 57 cents to $45.37 per barrel.
Gold for delivery in December climbed $48.90 to settle at $1,998.70 per ounce.
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Grove Street TV Birr
Artist: Michael Fortune
Title: Grove Street. TV
Location: Grove Street, Crinkle, Birr
Commissioner: Offaly County Council
Carried Out: February - September 2011
Budget: €26,000
Commission Type: Limited Competition - Offaly Per Cent for Art Panel
Michael Fortune has produced a large amount of significant and collaborative public art projects throughout Ireland over the past decade and this project in Offaly is no different . The Grove Street TV project offered the residents of Grove Street, (Crinkill, Birr) both young and old, an opportunity to collectively create home videos, animations and documentaries with the artist who in turn responded to their ideas, interests and aspirations.
The project was undertaken throughout 2011 and involved the artist forming a new series
of relationships among residents from the Grove Street housing development. This was achieved through a variety of means; predominately by conducting weekly workshops with young people and adults in film and digital media. The resulting films were presented on the purposely developed community based website entitled www.grovestreet.tv
In consultation and collaboration with local residents Michael also initiated a series of
traditional calendar based community activities which included erecting and decorating May Bushes and a Halloween film festival held in the local Handball Alley, a venue which is itself reputedly haunted.
To coincide with this, he assisted in the formation of an adult group who were provided with the skills and equipment to carry on producing digital workshops locally as well as being left with the task of updating the www.grovestreet.tv project website. The project also played a part in the establishment of a local community house.
Grove Street TV Articles
Grove Street. TV is the title of a public art project by artist Michael Fortune which was commissioned by Offaly County Council as part of their Per Cent for Art Programme. The Project offered residents of Grove Street, both young and old, an opportunity to collectively explore their creativity by engaging with the artist who in turn responded to their ideas, interests and aspirations.
The project was undertaken throughout 2011 and involved the artist forming a new series of relationships among residents from the Grove Street housing development in the village of Crinkle, Co. Offaly. This was achieved through a variety of means; predominately by conducting weekly workshops with young people and adults in film and digital media. The resulting films were presented on the purposely developed community based website. The films can now be viewed by following this link.
In consultation and collaboration with the local residents Michael also initiated a series of traditional calendar based community activities which included erecting and decorating May Bushes and a Halloween film festival held in the local Handball Alley, a venue which is itself reputedly haunted.
To coincide with this, he assisted in the formation of an adult group who were provided with the skills and equipment to carry on producing digital workshops locally as well as being left with the task of updating the www.grovestree.tv project website.
The project also played a part in the establishment of a local community house. which will open to the residents in the coming months.
Michael Fortune has produced a large amount of significant public art projects throughout Ireland over the past decade. His work borrows from the popular conventions of home video, snap photography and the printed media and his work can be seen as growing out of a tradition of social documentary and anthropological film. His work is presented widely nationally and internationally in a variety of contexts, ranging from gallery and off-site presentations through to single screen presentations in film and video art festivals. Since the beginning of 2007 his work has been presented in over 130 shows in a total of 30 countries spanning from Armenia to Venezuela and from Kilnaboy to Claremorris. For more information please visit www.folklore.ie or www.michaelfortune.ie.