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Snakes, turtles from China among live animal imports that Indonesia will soon ban
Jakarta / Thu, February 6, 2020 / 03:26 pm
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The government will soon suspend live animal imports from China, including snakes and turtles, amid concerns about the deadly coronavirus spreading to Indonesia.
Trade Minister Agus Suparmanto said on Wednesday that the ministry was in the process of preparing the regulation to suspend the live animal trade between Indonesia and China, as the virus was believed to have originated among wild animals.
"We are preparing the ministerial regulation in accordance with the decision made in the meeting," he said, referring to a meeting with President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo at the State Palace.
Agus went on to say that the ministry would create a list of the live animals that would be barred from being imported in the regulation, among which he said were reptiles such as "snakes and turtles".
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Live reptiles made up the majority of 19.4 tons of live animal imports from China to Indonesia last year, according to Statistics Indonesia (BPS).
BPS data show that Indonesia imported 18.2 tons of live reptiles -- including snakes and turtles -- worth nearly US$216,000, dominating the total of live animal imports valued at $314,295 from China in 2019.
Other than importing live reptiles, Indonesia also imported 1.2 tons of live mammals worth $98,327 last year.
Agus said the government would follow the temporary import ban with monthly evaluations. "If the conditions return to normal, we will [allow imports]," he said.
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Experts have previously warned Indonesia to apply stronger measures against the cross-border wildlife trade especially as scientists believe that the novel coronavirus may have originated in wild animals such as bats and snakes.
Chinese authorities have linked a market selling wild animals in the city of Wuhan to the coronavirus, which as of Thursday had killed 563 people and infected more than 28,000 people on the mainland and spread to more than 20 countries, AFP reported.
In light of the outbreak, Tomohon administration in North Sulawesi has also instructed sellers at "extreme" animal markets in the region to stop selling bats and snakes famously known as local delicacies in the region.
"We've met with the sellers to tell them about the dangers of the coronavirus and instructed them to stop selling bats and snakes," Tomohon Health Agency head Isye Liuw said on Thursday as quoted by tempo.co.
She added that the sellers were also instructed to stop selling other wild animals such as wild boars, cats, dogs and mice in the market, but still permitted the sales of pigs. (ris)


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Home » Black and Brown Unity Is The Formula For Change
Abraham Marquez
March to end police brutality against Black people
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On March 13, police broke into Breonna Taylor's house in Louisville, Kentucky and poured eight bullets into her body. On June 2nd in Vallejo, California, a police officer killed Sean Monterrosa who was on his knees. On June 6th, California Highway Patrol fired over 40 rounds in a residential neighborhood in Oakland and killed Erik Salgado. On June 18th, in Gardena, California, Andrés Guardado was shot in the back and murdered by Los Angeles Sheriffs.
For five centuries, we have survived and resisted police brutality and systemic racism. Now with cell phones, the system can no longer deny the mistreatment, brutality and lives lost.
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Following the murder of George Floyd, no one can sweep our experience under the rug any longer. A historic upsurge has brought different peoples together in the fight against systemic racism.
This alliance between Black and brown communities are a legacy of the maroons who fought against slavery, and the rebellious 1960s and 1970s when we again fought against our common enemy.
The Underground Railroad to México
Former president of Mexico, Vicente Guerrero, who was of mixed descent that included African heritage, abolished slavery in 1829. Tejanos, or Mexicans that resided in Texas, were also known as "conductores" because they helped safeguard slaves into Mexico.
Underground Railroad to Mexico
This included various forms of escaping, such as the Underground Railroad, sneaking aboard ferries that were headed to Mexico, liberating horses and risking everything on foot.
We shouldn't over-glorify Mexico at the time because there was still a colonial-imposed system of indentured servitude.
However, for up to 10,000 kidnapped Africans, Mexico did represent a new life.
Slave owning states in the south pushed the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850 through Congress, forcing northern states to return "maroons" and "escapees." The U.S. attempted to get Mexico to sign the treaty, but Mexico refused, insisting that all enslaved people who set foot in Mexico were free.
Some U.S. slave owners sent their own slave catchers to illegally re-kidnap escapees in Mexico. However, it didn't always work because people in Mexico often helped "runaways" stay clear of any slave catchers.
The Rainbow Coalition
Throughout the country in the 1960s and 1970s, the social conditions that marginalized people experienced sparked various political responses, rebellions and alliances.
The Black Liberation Movement forged strategic revolutionary political alliances with the American Indian Movement (AIM), the Young Lords, The Young Patriots from the Appalachian Mountains and the Brown Berets. And the Black nation stood alongside all marginalized people in their struggle for justice.
Black Liberation Movement
These organizations embraced the Black Panther Party's (BPP) basic demands for employment, housing, education and community control of the police.
As Jose "Cha Cha" Jimenez, founder of the "Young Lords" said: "In late 1968, Chairman Fred Hampton and I, the Black Panthers and Young Lords, were already working together on building Black and brown Unity."
In 1969, Chairman Fred Hampton founded the Rainbow Coalition along with William "Preacherman" Fesperman of the Young Patriots Organization, the Young Lords, the Lincoln Park Poor People's Coalition, Students for a Democratic Society, the Brown Berets, the Red Guard Party, and the American Indian Movement.
A pillar of their work was the fight against police brutality, which also affected brown and poor communities.
It was the FBI's Counterintelligence Program that infiltrated, fragmented, and destroyed these movements and organizations. Yet despite police and FBI repression, Black, brown and poor white organizers built a foundation for the movements of today.
BLM and Solidarity Today
The Black Lives Matter movement was born from the acquittal of George Zimmerman after he murdered 17-year-old Trayvon Martin in February 2012. Since then there have been a number of uprisings in the Black community that were a direct result of police brutality in Ferguson, Baltimore, and beyond.
The BLM movement has worked in solidarity with other movements since its creation. For example, in 2016 BLM joined the fight against deportations as former president Barack Obama deported more people than any president.
The same year, BLM joined the indigenous movement and fought alongside the Dakota Access Pipeline protesters. Activists linked the history of stolen land and genocide with the history of stolen labor in America. In 2017, BLM joined the nationwide labor movement in the Fight For $15.
In June 2018, BLM joined the immigrant rights movement in San Diego at the border to demand just and humane treatment of immigrants and refugees seeking asylum. Today, the immigrant rights movement and the indigenous movement stand with the Black freedom movement.
These uprisings radicalized our youth in Black and brown communities.
Chairman Fred Hampton of the Chicago BPP said: "you don't fight racism with racism. We're gonna fight racism with solidarity."
We're not only protesting but building alliances and coalitions to work with each other for future struggles. Over 60 countries, from Palestine to Mexico have taken the streets to bring awareness of systemic racism.
The message is clear, the white supremacist knee on George Floyd's neck is the same knee choking Mexico since 1848.
Together We Can Win
Malcolm X said, "You can't have capitalism without racism." Racism is a tool used by the system to keep us divided and conquered. It is how it justifies the over-policing and incarceration of our communities.
The system shuts down any social movements that will keep us from uniting and winning systemic change and power.
Now, people are realizing what is needed in our communities is organization unity, dignified jobs and a relevant education not more police.
Like previous generations, we Black and brown people have to continue to work together with poor and progressive whites and all oppressed people. Until we're all free.
Abraham Marquez is a freelance writer from Inglewood. Focusing on sports, politics, culture and social movements.

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PR76 - Effect of Simulated Intraosseous Sinusoidal Pressure on NaOCl Extrusion
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Marcus Miller, D.D.S.
Endodontic Resident
Dental College of Georgia at Augusta University
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Brian Bergeron, D.M.D.
Georgia Regents University College of Dental Medicine
Objective: To examine the effects of irrigant delivery flow rate and simulated intraosseous sinusoidal pressure on the rate of NaOCl apical extrusion from a simulated root canal (19 mm long, 30/.04). Methods: A closed-system apparatus was designed to oppose irrigant extrusion by simulating 30 mmHg of intraosseous pressure. Two groups were tested: atmospheric pressure only (control; "ATM") and atmospheric + 30 mmHg (sinusoidal; "ATM+30"). Using five irrigant delivery rates (15.6, 8.0, 4.0, 3.4, or 3.0 mL/min) from a 30-gauge side-vented needle placed 1 mm short of working length, the extrusion rates of 2% NaOCl from the faux apex were measured in each group (n=16). Data were analyzed with two-factor ANOVA and pairwise comparisons (α= 0.05). Correlation between delivery rates and apical extrusion rates in both groups were analyzed with the Pearson product-moment procedure. Results: Irrespective of the opposing pressure, extrusion rates were positively correlated with irrigant flow rates. Significant differences in extrusion were identified among all flow rates (p<0.05), except for the pairwise comparison between 3.4 and 4.0 mL/min for ATM. For all irrigant flow rates, the extrusion rate was significantly lower at ATM+30 than that obtained at ATM (p<0.05). Further, no apical extrusion was observed at ATM+30 using a delivery rate of 3.0 mL/min. Conclusions: In the presence of a simulated 30 mmHg intraosseous pressure, an irrigation flow rate of less than 3.0 mL/min prevented NaOCl extrusion when delivered by a side-vented needle placed 1 mm short of working length.
Graduated from the University of Minnesota School of Dentistry in 2012; general dentist in private practice for four years in Seattle, WA; now in second year of endodontic residency at the Dental College of Georgia.
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Brian E. Bergeron, DMD serves as Associate Professor and Endodontics Residency Program Director at the Dental College of Georgia at Augusta University. He received his DMD from the University of Florida and completed a General Practice Residency at Offutt AFB, NE and a Residency in Endodontics at Wilford Hall Medical Center, Lackland AFB, San Antonio, TX. He served 23 years in the USAF Dental Corps, to include his final assignment as Endodontics Residency Director for the USAF program at Keesler AFB in Biloxi, MS. He is a Diplomate of the American Board of Endodontics and a Fellow in the International College of Dentists. He serves nationally on the ADA Dental Quality Alliance, the Scientific Advisory Board for the Journal of Endodontics, and as a Review Committee member for the Commission on Dental Accreditation.
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Professor Mehrdad Kia Weighs in on Russian Invasion of Ukraine
Peter Christian Published: February 24, 2022
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Popular University of Montana history professor Dr. Mehrdad Kia hosts a monthly program called 'Global Hot Spots' on KGVO.
A perfect example presented itself on Thursday, as Russia invaded the Ukraine with thousands of troops flooding over the Russia-Ukraine border.
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Kia opened by referring to Russian Premiere Vladimir Putin as 'a bully'.
"A bully has invaded a sovereign and independent country under false claims," began Professor Kia. "Ukraine, a former Soviet republic, which gained its independence after the collapse of Soviet Union, with 44 million people, has been invaded on three sides."
Kia pointed out that Ukraine is not a member of NATO (The North Atlantic Treaty Organization).
"Ukraine is not a NATO country, so there is no defense pact to defend it," he said. "In addition, I do not foresee the United States sending troops to help Ukraine in any shape or form because that would ignite a direct confrontation between the United States and NATO against Putin's Russia."
Kia pointed out that Ukraine was once part of the old Soviet Union, and that Putin is attempting to rebuild the old Russian empire.
"He doesn't think he's invading a sovereign country," he said. "He thinks that he's invading a country which should be rightfully Russia's. It should have never gained its independence. It should have never been allowed to separate itself from the Soviet Union. It was always part of Russia. It was then part of the Soviet Union and it should remain part of the Russian Empire."
Kia was adamant that NATO countries and the United States must strongly respond to Russia's actions, not just to stop the Russian invasion, but also to forestall an invasion of Taiwan by mainland China.
"We have to respond assertively and set devastating economic and financial sanctions against Putin himself; against Russian banking, and against the Russian economy." He said. "If we do not do this, and I have seen this now, just yesterday, you will have the same kind of approach being applied to Taiwan by China, that is any sign of weakness would result in the bullies basically adopting very aggressive policies toward more vulnerable states."
Kia, who is Persian, offers insights on world events every month on his 'Global Hot Spots' program, often accompanied by fellow history professor Dr. Michael Mayer.
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Every year Gabriel and I go away for a weekend to do something outdoors-y with his brother, Alan, and his wife Clara. Last year we chose 'The Drunken Duck' in the Lake District. This year they chose 'The Charles Bathurst Inn' in the Yorkshire Dales.
The weekend did not get off to a flying start. As we crawled past signs to the Lake District, listening to traffic reports advising people to avoid the M6, I wondered why on earth we'd said we'd go to the Yorkshire Dales in the first place.
legs wobbly and unkeen to support our bodies after maintaining the stuck-in-a-car position for six hours. The weather and my mood were as one. Damp. Miserable.
But we had come to walk. And walk we did.
Thirsty, hungry, rain dripping off the tip of my nose, I couldn't wait to get to 'The Charles Bathurst Inn', with its promise of warmth, comfort, and sustenance. As I walked past a few campsites I breathed a sigh of relief that my camping days were behind me.
The walk finished, we now fell, enthusiastically this time, back in to the car, and then drove to the Inn – over moors, up and down dales, over hump-back bridges and along miles and miles of grey drystone walls, and field after field full of lambs. At last our destination was in sight.
The setting was dramatic and wild, made even more brooding by the low mist which hung in the air. With the Stang one side and Arkengarthdale the other, The Charles Bathurst Inn nestled between the two, the grey winding road meandering on by.
From the outside, The Charles Bathurst Inn, also known affectionately as the CB Inn, looked pleasant enough.
Yet as we stumbled into the bar, the interior was bright, modern, all the while radiating a warmth and a welcome that instantly made the hellish journey along the M6 a dim and distant memory. As for the rain, when inside this cosy inn, it seemed positively essential, all the better to enjoy the contrast of within and without.
We checked in at the bar, then were shown to our rooms on the first floor. My legs were so heavy ( due to the car journey or walk, I couldn't really say), that I had difficulty lifting them up the stripey stairs. Even more alarming was my inability to push open the very heavy door. The room. I was almost in the room. I just wanted to get inside the room. I used my entire bodyweight to push open the door. I tumbled in.
And then I saw and felt it. The bed – so very comfortable; the sheets – so soft and fresh; the air – so comfortingly warm.
Gabriel and I made ourselves a cup of tea and devoured the homemade shortbread biscuits appreciatively, starting to relax. But then we realised that we only had thirty minutes before dinner. Hell! No time to even lay my head on the plump pillow. I just about managed to be amazed by the view from the window before I had to throw myself into the shower.
and at 7.30, we, (me – Izzy, Gabriel – my husband, Alan – Gabriel's brother, Alan's wife – Clara, Gabriel and Alan's cousin – Rona, and Rona's special friend – Stefan) were in the bar, choosing food from the mirror menu . As the focus of my gaze ricocheted between the words and the objects reflected in the mirror, I had to turn away.
I remembered seeing the words 'scallops' and 'Chicken Kiev' so went with them.
The scallops looked good and tasted better.
I eyed the other plates with envy.
But having crunched, then munched, my way through two plates of food, I couldn't face pud.
But the others could. And did.
And very pretty they looked too.
However, I couldn't help but join the others when they chose to finish the meal, not with a coffee, but with a local ale, before retiring, and sinking into a wonderfully deep sleep, between cotton-crisp sheets, in a cosily warm room.
Time for breakfast! Always a shock, but pleasantly civilised at the Bathurst Inn in not starting before 8.30 and going on until 10.
Still feeling slightly radioactive after the Kiev, I wasn't really hungry. But then I was presented with the breakfast menu.
There was a selection of cereals, fruit and yogurt to which I could help myself, as well as juices. Obviously there was tea, coffee, toast and home-made preserves.
Then there was the cooked breakfast menu. Clearly I didn't have to order from this menu at all. But I did.
Gabriel's brother promised us a 'good' walk, and so I justified my gluttonous indulgence in the name of fuelling up. I told myself that I might not get another chance for quite some time. Little did I realise how prophetic that was to be.
The breakfast menu had everything you might expect from such a lovely place – full English, smoked salmon and scrambled eggs, champagne. And, surprisingly, given how full I still was from the night before, I opted for the full English with fried eggs. I managed to eat every morsel.
And then we were off, following our leader, Alan, into the unknown. He'd plotted a walk starting from the Inn and going up into the hills on the other side of the main road. And we walked along empty roads, up hills, down dales, over grouse moors, past mines, along rivers, into towns, past fields and fields of sheep, over rivers… and then back to the Bathurst Inn – fifteen miles and seven and a half hours later.
As we collapsed into the Bathurst, I downed a pint as if my life depended on it, and sat appreciatively next to the glowing fire. The restorative powers of the lime soda soon took effect, enabling me to wobble and hobble back to my room for a shower before dinner. At seven thirty.
This time our table was at the very back of the building, down some steps, in the furthest corner of a large, airy, dining area. It had a high ceiling and attractive wooden beams, and the most wonderful views of the fields and hills.
The menu was very similar to the previous evening's, with the telling omission of the Chicken Kiev…Wise move. We were all ravenous, unsurprisingly.
I opted for the fillet steak – by far the most expensive dish on the menu. But I justified this by having neither starter nor dessert.
It was absolutely delicious. The over-used phrase, 'melts in your mouth' comes to mind, and I feel ashamed that I can't think of a better one, as the steak merits some fine wordy praise. Even the stack of vegetables teetering on the top of it was heavenly. It was the perfect reward for having finished my longest ever walk.
It must be something to do with extreme fatigue but, senses heightened, I even savoured the grenache. Makes a change from not touching the sides.
but the fillet steak was all I needed.
As for the staff, they were tested to the full, one way or another, by our little band of merry walkers. Yet they emerged radiant, calm, cheery, and unfailingly polite.
As the car headed for home the next morning, I couldn't help but wish I could have stayed at the Charles Bathurst Inn just a little longer… as well as working out how soon I could return.
The accommodation is excellent – luxuriously comfortable.
The CB Inn has 19 rooms (14 doubles and 5 twins) all en-suite with TV, central heating, tea and coffee making facilities, phone and wi-fi. There is also a guests' lounge where you can relax away from the bar area.
Price – not cheap, but good value for the standard of food and accommodation on offer.
The CB Inn can get booked up, so you might want to look at its sister establishment, the nearby Punch Bowl Inn, which offers similar facilities and is run by the same people.


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Во́лпи — деревня в Большеврудском сельском поселении Волосовского района Ленинградской области.

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Деревня Волпи обозначена на карте Ингерманландии А. Ростовцева 1727 года.

Упомянута на карте Санкт-Петербургской губернии Я. Ф. Шмита 1770 года, как мыза Валпи .

На карте Санкт-Петербургской губернии Ф. Ф. Шуберта 1834 года обозначена, как деревня Волпи, состоящая из 33 крестьянских дворов.

ВОЛПИ — деревня принадлежит статской советнице Порюс-Визапурской, число жителей по ревизии: 77 м. п., 97 ж. п. (1838 год)

Упоминается на карте Ф. Ф. Шуберта 1844 года, как деревня Волпи, насчитывающая 33 двора.

На этнографической карте Санкт-Петербургской губернии П. И. Кёппена 1849 года, упомянута как деревня «Wolpi», населённая ингерманландцами-савакотами.

В пояснительном тексте к этнографической карте она записана, как деревня Wolpi (Волпи) и указано количество её жителей на 1848 год: ингерманландцев-савакотов — 33 м. п., 56 ж. п., всего 89 человек; русских — «меньшее количество».

ВОЛПИ — деревня владельческая при колодце, по правую сторону 2-й Самерской дороги, число дворов — 20, число жителей: 54 м. п., 66 ж. п. (1862 год)

По данным Первой переписи населения Российской империи 1897 года, в Морозовском сельском обществе числилась деревня Волпи — 30 дворов, 56 душ, без надела 1 душа.

В XIX — начале XX века деревня административно относилась к Яблоницкой волости 1-го стана Ямбургского уезда Санкт-Петербургской губернии.

В 1904 году на хуторах близ деревни проживали 79 эстонских переселенцев.

В 1917 году деревня входила в состав Яблоницкой волости Ямбургского уезда.

С 1917 по 1924 год деревня Волпи входила в состав Волпинского сельсовета Молосковицкой волости Кингисеппского уезда.

С 1924 года, в составе Сумского сельсовета.

С 1927 года, в составе Молосковицкого района.

С 1928 года, в составе Морозовского сельсовета. В 1928 году население деревни Волпи составляло 109 человек.

С 1931 года, в составе Волосовского района.

C 1 августа 1941 года по 31 января 1944 года деревня находилась в оккупации.

С 1954 года, в составе Курского сельсовета.

С 1963 года, в составе Кингисеппского района.

С 1965 года, вновь в составе Волосовского района. В 1965 году население деревни Волпи составляло 557 человек.

По данным 1966 года деревня Волпи находилась в составе Курского сельсовета Волосовского района.

По данным 1973 и 1990 годов деревня Волпи входила в состав Остроговицкого сельсовета.

В 1997 году в деревне Волпи проживали 10 человек, деревня входила в состав Остроговицкой волости, в 2002 году — 32 человека (русские — 97 %).

В 2007 году — 7 человек, в 2010 году — 15, в 2013 году — 9 человек.

В мае 2019 года деревня вошла в состав Большеврудского сельского поселения.

География
Деревня расположена в западной части района на автодороге  (Толмачёво — автодорога «Нарва»).

Расстояние до административного центра поселения — 11 км.

Расстояние до ближайшей железнодорожной станции Молосковицы — 20 км.

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Примечания

Населённые пункты Волосовского района
Мызы Ингрии

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David Byrd and his family are working hard this winter to continue a long and proud legacy of racing at the Indianapolis 500.
The experienced team owner has been actively pursuing opportunities behind the scenes to bring Australian open-wheel veteran James Davison back to the Greatest Spectacle in Racing next May. While Byrd doesn't have anything in place just yet, he notes that clarity will come once the remaining full-time seats are filled this offseason.
Even though he and other one-off teams are currently stuck in a holding pattern, Byrd is optimistic about his hopes to team up with an existing organization next spring and bring Davison with them.
"I think we'll have something in place by Christmas for Indy for next year, so that would be nice because we didn't have anything in place until mid-March last year," Byrd shared. He later alluded to his desire in locking down a program as soon as possible, as opposed to the late-emerging nature of this year's deal.
"That was a real frustration for me. I just don't like working that way… I like making long-range plans and having things in place well in advance," Byrd said.
"When we first returned to Indy in 2015, we had that deal done in May 2014. When we went to the 2016 "500" we had that deal in place in November 2015, so waiting until March was a big struggle for me and didn't end up turning out the way we hoped of course.
Last May, Jonathan Byrd's Racing teamed up with A.J. Foyt Racing, Belardi Auto Racing and Hollinger Motor Sport. At the time of its announcement, the multi-team effort was the last of the 35 entries confirmed for the 2018 Indianapolis 500.
David Byrd (far right) was part of a three-team partnership to bring James Davison to the 2018 Indianapolis 500. Here is is joined (from left) by Brian Belardi, Davison, and Larry Foyt (Chris Jones/INDYCAR).
The man tasked with driving the No. 33 Chevrolet was James Davison, attempting to make his fourth Indianapolis 500. Byrd's connection with Davison was strengthened after watching the Aussie's fill-in performance for Dale Coyne Racing in 2017.
"Knowing what he faced and seeing how well he did in spite of the odds he was facing, I went to James after the race that day and said 'hey, I'd like to work with you at Indy,'" Byrd recalled.
This past May, Davison and company squeaked into the big show by being the 33rd and final qualifier on Bump Day, later improving their starting position to 19th on the second day of qualifying. Those events occurred only after a crash on Fast Friday that forced the team to work through the night in order to have a chance at making the field.
In 2019, Byrd aims to construct a more unified effort in which his team supplies much of the personnel and controls its own destiny through the month of May.
"(Our deal) will be in partnership with an existing team, but really be kind of an independent program as much as possible in terms of having our own team manager, and we will have own personnel," says Byrd.


From September 5th to 9th I came to Corato with eighteen pilgrims from Emilia Romagna and Lombardy to take part in a retreat on the steps of Luisa Piccarreta. I was struck by the emotion and tears of some women in our group when they knelt on the tomb of the Little Daughter of the Divine Will for the first time. An atmosphere of fraternity and joy was immediately established among the pilgrims who knew each other only in small groups. I myself knew only two girls and the couple who organized the retreat.
We prayed a lot in those days, with the Liturgy of the Hours, the Holy Rosary, the Hours of the Passion and the Rounds in the Divine Will. For the Holy Mass, we joined the Community of St. Mary the Greek. The parish priest, don Sergio welcomed us exquisitely. He nourished us with Jesus in the Eucharist and with brief but intense homilies that combined the Gospel with our life and that of Luisa.
The greatest merit goes to Don Marco Cannavò. He guided us through the places of Luisa and through the morning and afternoon meditations on Luisa's writings, in particular from Volume XI. He gave us a kind of identikit of the soul that wishes to live in the Divine Will through a sure itinerary in the heart of the Church, drawing from the healthy deposit of the Word of God, of the Catholic Magisterium and of the Tradition of the Saints.
There was no lack of relaxing moments like the late evening visits to Molfetta, Bisceglie and Corato with the inevitable ice cream ... However, the rhythm of those holy days was tight and full of many gifts of the good God, many friends that we knew or met again in this land of the Sun.
We also thank the Association of Luisa, the Daughters of Divine Zeal, Sister Assunta along with all the mystical mothers, the people of the Oasis of Nazareth who hosted us. Thanks to Pasqua and Nicola who organized the retreat with patience and sympathy. I will never forget the impromptu "street evangelisations" in front of a bakery and a pharmacy, with the Christian music that came out of the boxes of our minibus and the clear joy of those who danced and sang a new life in the risen Jesus and took their first steps in the Kingdom of the Divine Will.


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Soludo appointed national leader of APGA
Chukwuma Soludo, governor of Anambra State, has been named the national leader of the All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA). Soludo was appointed national leader during the party's national executive committee (NEC) meeting on Friday in Awka, Anambra state capital. Charles Aburime, chief press secretary to Soludo, in a statement on Saturday, said the governor was […]
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Normally my Fridays are reserved for books or music, but I HAD to share this. In May I asked for prayer for a young, pregnant mom who'd had a stroke. Her family attends my church, and I wrote a post praising God in advance for what He was going to do. That post was written May 23rd, here.
Well, not only has Amanda continued to improve, but yesterday she had her little boy! God is so, so good!! And as many of you prayed for Amanda - many who'd never even met her or her family - I wanted to share this praise and the adorable pictures with you.
for Baby Boy to make his way here.
That's Amanda with her newest child - Ezekial Ippel!
God is faithful!! And if you want to keep tabs on Amanda, follow her at her blog: Spilled Milk and Wet Kisses.
This made my Friday--woo-hoo!! God is great!!


"Global Voices has sent a two-person team to Port-au-Prince in the wake of the Haiti earthquake, to help support citizen media activity. Georgia Popplewell and Alice Backer are also contributing firsthand reporting to our coverage of recovery efforts. Find out more about their assignment here."
Alice Backer, on assignment for Global Voices in Port-au-Prince, interviews Régine Zamor, a Haitian-American who travelled to Haiti after the 12 January earthquake and has helped dozens of people as an independent volunteer.
the people here are amazing. these people who live in poverty are going out of their way to help us with transportation, interpreters, etc... the degree of crime reported in the mainstream media is mostly hype. we feel totally safe here and have even before we joined up with the 82nd. speaking of transportation, jet blue is comping us for all of our airtravel. they have my business in the future.
Israel21 interview/ with Dr. Ian Miskin, doctor with the Israeli delegation.
The mission worked in less-than-ideal conditions. "The scary part was the first days - we had almost nothing to eat, no shower, no way to sleep properly. We slept in pup tents, but it was so hot and humid, so damp. Everything you left outside was soaked... our electricians set up satellite telephone lines to Israel so that we could call home, but because of the work load, we often didn't have five free minutes to call home."
Captain Dominic DeScisciolo, Fleet Forces Command Blog, "Operation Unified Resonse Update 1" Captain Dominic DeScisciolo is CO of USS BUNKER HILL (CG-52). ADM J.C. Harvey, Jr. writes "Dom's email is a great representation of "a day in the life" of our ships and what is being accomplished everyday by our Sailors."
My Ops Boss arranges for a helo flight and takes picture after picture of potential communities in need, ingress and egress points, distribution areas, landing zones, places to access via RHIB and where to moor on the shore. Myself, my XO, CMC, DH's, Chaps, and HMC huddle up that evening and review the photos Ops took that day. We practice the art of the possible in determining where we will put folks ashore and what we could potentially accomplish based on the size of the town, location, natural features, whether there are NGO contacts (like our Fr. Roosevelt from the first town) we could exploit to our advantage, etc.
The next morning I position the ship as close to shore as possible. Due to the lack of sufficient charts in this area, we're being forced to get close to the beach in support of RHIB ops by sight, feel, and fathometer – which can get pretty sporty. Cheng then leads my two RHIBs ashore for a detailed eyes-on survey of the town, scouts out the most suitable LZ, and establishes a security perimeter manned by my Weapons Officer and his team. We then work with the town 'elders' through a combination of translators and our Chaplain, to set up the food and water distribution points. My HMC and his assistants go right to work in the town "clinic" (usually a thatch-roofed affair under a palm tree). The worst medical cases we arrange for medevac. They usually include the IDP's that have sought refuge here on La Gonave from Port-Au-Prince. By around noontime food, water and medicine start flowing in from the ship via RHIB and helo (if avail; we don't have our own embarked helo det – we've been begging helos each day from air ops on the CSG staff) and gets handed out like an assembly line. We can usually get about 2,000 individual meals and about 1,000 gal of water in to the beach each day before we have to wrap up near sunset. We have been averaging 1-2 days per town to try to bring them up to a 'pre-earthquake condition' in terms of food, water, and medical care. We are beginning to see a decline in injuries directly attributed to the quake or its aftermath. We are now seeing more injuries and illnesses that are in keeping with the generally low standard of living, malnutrition, and poverty that prevails in this country.
Anyway – just wanted to give you a glimpse of our day-to-day existence since my last e-mail. No end in sight just yet. But morale is SKY-HIGH and we're happy to keep perfecting our "system" for the time being.
The little town we provided relief for today (Picmi, on the southeast coast of La Gonave) had actually written "SOS" in the sand (picture attached). Ops had flagged down a helo and gone up for her daily 'aerial recon' the other day and thought she saw the letters while she was taking pictures. When she got back and we looked at the photos – sure enough, it was there! We sent in our survey team this morning and found nearly 2,000 residents with no food or water. Plus we were the FIRST assistance they'd seen since the earthquake 17 days ago.
Upon arriving in Haiti, Fardales reports the following, "We arrived at a field hospital located in the central courtyard of a place Haitians call the El Anexo, a facility within the Military Hospital facilities.
"There, under a big tent, Cuban surgeons tirelessly treat every patient that comes in, injured or mutilated; although the line of people waiting for assistance seems to stretch on forever.
"As I write this, our medical staff has already treated more than a thousand patients in little more than 24 hours, and dozens of them have undergone emergency life-saving surgery.
I find it telling that the military jargon of overwhelming use of acronyms exemplifies their dehumanizing treatment and implicit racism in this situation. They address a humanitarian need as an occupying army, with their first priority as 'security perimeters'. If all the 'aid' was as efficacious as the Cuban medical mission, and less concerned with propping up a corrupt puppet regime, there would not have been the number of fatalities due to the US obstruction of relief efforts on the ground in Haiti. The real reason that the US has sent 20,000 troops to Haiti is not humanitarian, but purely to reinforce a US beachhead to claim the vast wealth of Haitian (and Santa Dominican) oil and mineral deposits. This was also the real reason behind the US coup d'etat of the Aristide government and Fanmi Lavalas party,who was planning to use the profits of resource development to leverage Haiti out of it's (externally contrived) economic ghettoization, and provide general economic relief to the Haitian population at large. This is also in large part, the reason the US military is establishing a presence in Haiti; to prevent the popular reinstatement of Aristide and Fanmi Lavalas to power.


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Q: how to mitigate storage has grown to 10TB in GCP instance I have GCP instance.
My Database size was 300GB.
but the instance size was growing to 10TB.
where my remaining size going?
I have running ongoing replication from AWS DMS to GCP .
Please help me.
Thanks

A: Probably your bin logs/wal logs have grown a lot without you noticing it, you can check for this at metrics explorer and check for the detailed storage of your instance. There is no way in GCP to shrink the disk on your own so you will have to either migrate your instance into a new one with an smaller disk or open a ticket to Cloud Support and ask them to shrink your disk once you configure your instance properly

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Catalonia is at a crossroads. In the next election, Catalans have the opportunity to choose between two paths. One is the path of those who say they will proclaim independence in two years. It's a path disguised by epic tones but which can be very dangerous. The other path is that of the realistic reform that we want to lead. It has been hard for all of us to build the contemporary Spain that we have today, a space for plurality, liberty and progress. It has been hard to overcome the economic crisis.


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Q: Sides of a Right-angled Triangle $$(2n + 1)^2 + (2n^2 + 2n)^2 = (2n^2 +2n +1)^2$$
It can be used to generate infinitely many sides of right-angled triangles with integer lengths by putting values of $n = 1, 2, 3, ... $
I wanted to know that how we came to this equation. How do we know that putting n = 1, 2, 3, … into this we'll get all the sides of a right-angled triangle. I'm trying to find more about this on the internet, if you can help me what should I find about.

A: If you start with the sequence of square numbers, and take all the differences between consecutive terms, you get all the odd numbers in sequence. For instance,
$$
2^2 - 1^2 = 3\\
3^2 - 2^2 = 5\\
4^2-3^3 = 7
$$
Some times, that odd number happens to be a square itself. For instance, we have
$$
5^2 - 4^2 = 9 = 3^2\\
13^2 - 12^2 = 25 = 5^2
$$
Rearranging these, we get Pythagorean triples:
$$
3^2 + 4^2 = 5^2\\
5^2 + 12^2 = 13^2
$$
If we want to describe all the different Pythagorean triples that appear this way, we end up with exactly your expression.

A: Your formula notes that often Pythagorean Triples are of the form $(t_1, t_2, t_2+1)$. It attempts to see when this is the case and this formula generates that, we have:
$$(2n^2+2n+1)^2-(2n^2+2n)^2=4n^2+4n+1=(2n+1)^2$$
Since the difference here is just a square, it's a valid triple. However, this misses many triples, particularly multiples of existing triples, but an example is $(8,15,17)$. I prefer the usage of:
$$(p^2-q^2)^2+(2pq)^2=(p^2+q^2)^2$$
This is most notable for its link to complex numbers, it is $$\Re(z^2)+\Im(z^2)=|z^2|$$ and this can be used to generate them. Set your calculator to Complex mode and use $(1000\text{Ran#}+\text{1000Ran#}i)^2=$ and every result will be the base and height of a Pythagoras triangle.
(Ran# is my calculators random number generator, it might be different to yours. Also it generates from $0.001$ to $1$, max $3$dp, hence my multiplying by $1000$)

A: Consider the Primitive Pythagorean triple $(a, b, c)$. Consider $b=4T_n$ where $T_n$ is the $n^{\text{th}}$ triangular number. Notice that if this is so, then the value of $c$ is $4T_n+1$.
Note that the formula for the $n^{\text{th}}$ triangular number is given by $\frac{n(n+1)}{2}$. All that we are left to do is solve for $a$ from the following equation: $a^2+[4T_n]^2=[4T_n+1]^2$. Solving this gives the value of $a$ as $2n+1$. Hence, $(a, b, c)=(2n+1, 4T_n, 4T_n+1)$ is a Pythagorean triple.

A: Your formula (I call it "yours" in reference to the post) is a special case of a formula I developed in 2009 and have occasionally posted here in answer to questions about Pythagorean triples.
\begin{equation}\qquad
  A=(2n-1)^2+2(2n-1)k\qquad B=2(2n-1)k+2k^2\qquad C=(2n-1)^2+2(2n-1)k+2k^2
\end{equation}
It generates the subset of triples where $GCD(A,B,C)$ is an odd square. The table below shows these sets where $n$ is the set number and $k$ is the "count" or member number within the set.
\begin{array}{c|c|c|c|c|c|c|}
n & k=1 & k=2 & k=3 & k=4 & k=5   &  k=6  \\ \hline
Set_1 & 3,4,5 & 5,12,13& 7,24,25& 9,40,41& 11,60,61 & 13,84,85 \\ \hline
Set_2 & 15,8,17 & 21,20,29 &27,36,45 &33,56,65 & 39,80,89 & 45,108,117 \\ \hline
Set_3 & 35,12,37 & 45,28,53 &55,48,73 &65,72,97 &  75,100,125 & 85,132,157 \\ \hline
Set_{4} &63,16,65 &77,36,85 &91,60,109 &105,88,137 &119,120,169 & 133,156,205 \\ \hline
Set_{5} &99,20,101 &117,44,125 &135,72,153 &153,104,185 &171,140,221 & 189,180,261 \\ \hline
\end{array}
If we let $n=1$, my formula becomes
$\quad A=(2k + 1)^2\quad B=(2k^2 + 2k)^2\quad C=(2k^2 +2k +1)^2\quad$ which matches yours exactly and generates the sub-subset $(Set_1)$ in the table above.
How developed? Notice that the difference $(d)=(C-B)=(2n-1)^2$ and the increment $(i)$ between values of $A$ is $2(2n-1)$. Now notice that $A$ is the sum of $(d)$ plus the increment $(i)$ times a multiplier $(k)$. From here, the B-function and C-function follow by substituting the now-known expressions for $A$ and $(C-B)$ into the Pythagorean theorem.


Born on Dec 1, 1928, Vince became a Lion in 1960 with the Vancouver South Lions and raised and supported that community for years. In 1992 he was awarded a Melvin Jones fellow award that he was proud to receive.
He was one of the founders of the Christmas tree lot as we used to sell trees at the old garage on Main Street before the site moved the the current location on the corner of 41st and Fraser.
After the family moved to Richmond Vince and his son Dale joined the Richmond Lions club where he served to the end.
Vince and his enthusiasm for being a Lion will be sorely missed.
Born October 28, 1932 in Clones, Ireland. It is with heavy hearts and profound sadness that we announce Mel's passing on January 2, 2015. Mel was lucky to have two special women in his life: Predeceased by first wife Dolores and lovingly remembered and dearly missed by his wife Irene. Also missing him are his children Bart (Cathy) Frith, Michele (Marty) Stoltz, Debbie (Jim) Nedelak, stepfamily Rob (Trudy) Howard, Roxanne Greer, grandchildren Brayden (Koral), Hayley, Melanie (Brent), Jenna, Jody (Miki), Jay (Annie), Audrey and his great-grandchild Mason as well as his beloved sisters Pat Stamnes and Olive Demidoff and families.
We would like to thank Dr. Nasir, the Oncologists, nursing staff and care workers on T12 in the Jim Pattison Building at VGH. Please join the family for a Celebration of Mel's Life on Saturday, January 17, 2015 from 2-4 p.m. at Mayfair Lakes Golf & Country Club, 5460 No. 7 Road, Richmond, BC, 604-276-0585.In lieu of flowers, the family requests that a donation be made in Mel's name to: The Cancer Clinic at Richmond Hospital Foundation, 7000 Westminster Highway, Richmond, BC, V6X 1A2, 604-244-5252.
Lion Mel will be missed in our club as he collected over 6200 pairs of used eye glass, sold hundreds & hundreds of Christmas cakes, came to all the work parties his health would let him and was a big voice in the club. He introduced lots of new members and was proud to be a Lion.
It is with great sadness that we announce the passing of beloved husband, father, grandfather and friend. After a short battle with cancer, he past away peacefully at the Nanaimo Hospital Palliative Care Unit. Brian is survived by his loving wife of 40 years Penny, brother Dean (Marj), daughters Dawn (Jarl), Dorie (Jim), Deanna (Korek), 10 grandchildren. A celebration of his life will be held Sunday February 17th @ 2pm at the Lantzville Hall 7227 Lantzville Rd. In lieu of flowers, memorial donations may be made to Palliative Care at the Nanaimo Hospital.
Lion Brian was the voice of reason and a fountain of knowledge for all things Lion. His guidance, camaraderie and wisdom are greatly missed. Oh yeah! Those fabulous New Years breakfast, those are fondly missed too!


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In Japan, KFC a big part Christmas tradition!
Despite the oft-repeated myth, Coca-Cola did not in fact invent the modern image of a fat, jolly, red-and-white-clad Santa Claus.
Taste 2022 the right way
New Year's is Japan's biggest and longest holiday. People take Dec. 29 to Jan. 3 off from work to celebrate the first three days of the year praying at temples and shrines for the coming year.
VIDEO| Speakin' Japanese: Congratulations to children on 7-5-3 Day
Did you see children in beautiful traditional attire visiting with their proud parents to a Shinto shrine or Buddhist temple?
Don't be fooled by fall's evil trickery
Every year at this time, a cozy crispness infuses the cooling air with the scent of fallen leaves and wood- burning fires. Our ears prick at the sound of blown whistles and distant marching bands.
Silver Week continues in Japan with Higan on Sept. 23
Silver Week in Japan is what marks the start of fall. The week is comprised of two holidays— Respect for the Aged Day and the Autumnal Equinox.
Amateur hour in Japan: For many, the baseball focus shifts from pro to high school
Undeniably one of the most popular sports in Japan, baseball dominates when it comes to summer in The Land of the Rising Sun.
What are these veggie creatures used for Japan's Obon holiday?
Every August, families in Japan prepare for the return of their ancestors spirits with elaborate altars, displays and even dance festivals called Bon Odori.
Around this time grocery stores prepare many festive foods used for offerings as well as special decorations. But, what are Shoryo Uma and why are they made of cucumbers and eggplants?
Video| Speakin' Japanese lesson: How are you going to spend Obon?
Obon is a traditional festive period to honor and entertain our ancestors' souls and most regions in Japan observe it from August 13 through Aug. 16.
During this time, you'll notice families visiting cemeteries and setting up festival altars to welcome the souls of their relatives. Bon Odori dances during this time are also a popular way to...
Setsubun celebrates 'change of seasons'
For those of you venturing out in town on Feb. 2, be sure to watch out for flying beans and fleeing ogres. The Japanese celebrate Setsubun, which literally means "change of seasons," on this day to kick off the preparation for the upcoming planting season.
Did you know?: Coming-of-Age Day in Japan
Becoming an adult is an important milestone in most cultures, and in Japan, it is celebrated on Seijin-no-Hi, or Coming-of-Age Day.
Taste of Okinawa: Why taco rice became a favorite dish
Nothing says fast food in the south of Japan like "tako-raisu!" And 2021 marks the 37th birthday of this signature Okinawan dish, according to local lore.
Taste of Japan: 8 Japanese foods even picky eaters will love
Japanese food is absolutely amazing, but it's also completely different in taste, presentation, and texture from dishes in many Western countries.
Speakin' Japanese: Delicious dinner discussion
Sushi, tempura, savory 'okonomiyaki' pancakes – there are so many yummy edibles in Japan that you shouldn't miss during your stay. Sample some of this lingo the next time you're at a local restaurant to experience some of these specialties.
Why Japanese people slurp noodles
Japan is a country which has many unique cultures within it, and slurping is one of the most unusual characteristics! This can be a huge surprise when you come across it for the first time as it often is considered as a bad behavior at meal in many other countries
Egyptian Kitchen: Delicious, nutritious Koshary Bowls
What is Koshary you ask? It's Egypt's national dish. It's Egyptian street food. It's Egyptian comfort food.
Baking with the family: Homemade zucchini apple bread
Preheat oven to 350, combine zucchini apple ingredients in a large bowl. Spray 2 standard loaf baking containers with non-stick grease and pour the mixture.


Media Planning refers to a series of decisions required in an effort to deliver the ad message to a large target audience in an effective manner at low cost.
Media simply refers to a vehicle or means of message delivery system to carry an ad message to a targeted audience.
Media planning involves setting certain media objectives and strategies to accomplish the pre-determine business or advertising objectives. The goal is to formulate a particular combination of media that would enable the advertiser to communicate the message effectively to a large audience at lowest cost.
Some common terms associated with media planning are Reach, Frequency and Coverage.
Reach refers to the number of different people who are exposed at least once to an advertising medium in a given period of time.
Frequency refers to the number of times an audience is exposed to an advertising medium in a given period of time.
Coverage refers to the potential audience that may get exposed to an advertising medium in a given period of time.
(1) Conducting Situation analysis – It involves defining the marketing problem and conducting SWOT analysis of the company as well as the competitors.
(4) Setting media objectives – This step involves setting media objectives in terms of coverage, reach and frequency of advertisements.
(5) Determining media strategy – It involves the task of selecting the best alternative or strategy to effectively achieve the advertising objective and setting guidelines for media.
(6) Selection of media – It involves comparison and selection of media. The media selected may be Broadcast media, Print Media, Outdoor Media or Support Media or a combination of these mediums.


You already know that allergy season has arrived when you start sneezing frequently. A new study has found that allergy season has worsened because of increased pollen count and changing the climate.
It's not just the warmer temperatures adding to our misery. Plants love some carbon dioxide, and when there is more of it in the atmosphere due to the greenhouse gases causing climate change, they flourish.
To prevent pollen to enter inside, leave your footwear at the door. Change your clothes if you've been outside for a long duration. Tidy the pets that have to go out. "Hair works a bit like a mop, collecting pollen that's floating in the air," Waldron said.


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Q: Скрыть div по id На странице есть несколько блоков div с классами trading__buy-nav и каждый блок имеет уникальный id. Если один этих дивов активен, то к нему добавляется класс acive, получается trading__buy-nav active Как можно сделать, чтобы если какой-то определенный див активен(определенность определяет его id), то скрываются другие блоки, с другим классом и тоже с уникальным айди. Т.е есть 2 блока

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Если активен первый блок с id CoinVal_1, то нужно скрыть 2 блока

Если же активен 2ой блок, то скрыть таких же 2 блока, но с другими id

A: Есть необходимость логически все связать и описать зависимость имен id и связанных с ними групп элементов. Так же надо выбрать алгоритм скрытия/отображения. Вот что-то вроде базового варианта.
Управление
У вас есть управляющие элементы от которых вы берете состояние и на которые весите прослушивание событий. Если два верхних элемента в вашем примере чекбоксы (тег div у чекбокса заменить на input) то состояние лучше взять через checked.
Отображение
Есть элементы для отображения информации - показывать/скрывать их удобно через класс active. В CSS прописываете соответствующие свойства (display block/none иди visibility hidden/visible). Элемент с классом 'active' - показываем, без класса скрываем.
По событию onClick на чекбоксе по выбранному алгоритму на элементы отображения функция добавляет класс 'active' или убирает его. Для этого можно использовать:
element.classList.add('active')
element.classList.remove('active')
element.classList.toggle('active')

В примеры скрытия/отображения добавил чекбоксы: https://codepen.io/ilya-lokalin/pen/qBBgWjB
Алгоритм
Вам необходимо решить что будет происходить по событию и сделать набросок последовательности возможных событий:

- событие onClick скрывает/показывает логически связанные элементы (как на рисунке выше) - каждый чекбокс работает как переключатель для своей группы элементов;

- одна группа скрывается, другая отображается - тут подойдет настройка инпутов как радиокнопок. Во включенном состоянии может быть только одна группа элементов.

Важно.
Теперь, чтобы более конкретно ответить на ваш вопрос, необходимо знать предполагаемый вами алгоритм и зависимость элементов отображения от управляющих элементов. Берете вы уже готовый проект, с организованной структурой или делаете новый.
И если есть возможность избежать использование ID, лучше их не использовать. События можно повесить на классы, отображать тоже по состоянию классов.


Everybread is a micro-bakery in Ashton-Under-Lyne, bringing the choice of honest, decent, slow-made, hand-crafted bread to more people in Manchester and encouraging them to make their own. Iain's Introduction to Bread-making course takes place with a maximum of four people in his domestic kitchen, showing you what you can do in yours. The four hours or so spent together are designed to help you take the first steps in learning to make bread: mixing, kneading, shaping, resting and proving. You will come away with a bagful of lovely bread and confidence. Price: ùœ75.00 per person.
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Companio Bakery offers €Ÿéhands-on€Ÿë bread-making courses for complete beginners and those with some experience of making bread. Under the guidance of trained and experienced artisan baker, Russell Goodwin, these practical courses will teach you the fundamentals of the art, craft and science of bread-making. The aim is to help you explore and develop your skills and knowledge of bread-making in a fun and informal environment. You will be making all your own breads which you get to take home to enjoy and share with your family and friends.
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Data Reply is the Reply group company specialized in Big Data, Data Science and Artificial Intelligence. Our experience covers 4 main business areas: Sales and Marketing Intelligence, Big Data Engineering & Security Intelligence, Enterprise Intelligence, IoT & Industry4.0 Intelligence. We count more than 40 projects in production involving Datalakes, both on-premise and in Cloud, and ML & AI algorithm development. The algorithms are boosted by the Quantum Computing innovative approaches and we also offer Data Science and Deep Learning Education programs.
Customers are not all equal: each one is unique and has specific needs. That's the reason why managing all the customers with the same strategy could lead to failing results. Big Data are used to implement customized processes beyond the generalist advertising.
Sales & Marketing Intelligence designs and delivers Data Solutions to support all the process of sales and marketing. With Price Optimization it is possible to identify the correct price at product level to maximize profits and sales. Stock optimization avoid overstock or stock shortage. Build ad-hoc historical data repository allows to develop ML&AI algorithms which are able to predict behaviours, churn risk and suggest the next best action or offer for each customer. In this way a true one-to-one marketing mechanism is created.
Traditional IT Architectures are not viable anymore because of the amount of data that the modern market requires. Solutions based on Data Warehouse are not always scalable and can reach a breaking point. That's why it is crucial to adopt new solutions that can merge traditional Business Analytics and Big Data in a modern Big Data Platform.
Big Data Engineers & Security Intelligence have a 360 degrees' approach to IT architecture, with its contribution in the migration and union between Data Warehouse and Data Lake. Innovation is a fundamental part in the process; eyes and hands on emerging techs like GPU and Quantum Computing are crucial to anticipate the market. The development of ML and AI algorithms, focused on the IT Security, enables a complete monitoring of the business. The solution, whether it is architectural or algorithmic, is built around the client with tailor-made implementations, both On-Prem and in Cloud.
How to correctly manage data? Since the foundation of modern Computer Science the cycle of Data Governance has been important, but only due to the recent UE normative being compliant has become crucial.
The experience of Enterprise Intelligence is focused on two cores: on one hand there is the Data Governance and the introduction of AI & ML to simplify and automate internal processes. When the complexity of the enterprise processes arise, having a good governance and quality of underlying data can make the difference. Custom AI for Robotic Process automation, automated image analytics of CV and documents with optical Character Recognition and Natural Language Process can be used to reduce the internal costs.
Everything is connected, or is going to be: black box on vehicles, Smart Manufactory Machinery, connected devices. IoT sensors register huge amount of raw data every day. In the right hands, these data can be processed, providing useful insights for both business and production.
IoT & Industry 4.0 Intelligence aims at gathering those Data, understanding how they are generated, and starting from a Root Cause analysis, developing predictive AI algorithms. KPIs can be monitored and predicted in real or near-real time, making possible to optimize and refine industrial processes, boosting the efficiency for the company.
Analyse product data feeds to optimize product performance (both in terms of sales and replenishment) during the whole life-cycle.
Analyse customer behaviour to have useful insights that can both drive key business decision and predict customer preferences to adopt a one-to one approach.
Identify real time anomalies that lead to potential threats or frauds through geo data and video analysis.
Automatically identify anomalous usage of machines to reduce costs via log analysis and test automation.
Improve internal process efficiency by analyzing unstructured data, using OCR and Deep Learning algorithms for images, NLP techniques for text.
Collect and analyse huge amount of data to produce insights that can increase the quality, the safety and the efficiency of connected-products.
Enhance the production line by means of predictive and analytics and machine learning algorithms, to identify potential failure points, monitor the products quality and optimise the composition and the selection of the workforce.
Our education programs enable the skills necessary to analyse data. We provide custom workshops and training in Data Science and Deep Learning for our clients. Our trainers are certified to train in Data Incubator format.
The adoption of a Cloud solution enables a scalable Big Data platform to collect and centralize all the data, build and train machine learning algorithm on top of them, and develop application to make use of them.
Data Governance enables control & compliance to the data used in an enterprise. In particular, it manages availability, usability, integrity and security of data.
The use of hardware with massive parallelization capabilities as Graphics Processing Units (GPUs) and Tensor Processing units (TPUs) enables an engine with high computational performances. It also facilitates process-intensive operations such as deep learning as well as boosts machine learning algorithms by using "quantum inspired approaches" such as the QUBO formulation.


Teamwork and collaboration are critical for organizations in two ways. Internally, you won't get much done without it. Externally, you need partnerships with like-minded firms that advance your strategy, whether it's developing new products or breaking into emerging markets. But fostering teamwork is not easy. In a recent CCL study, 97 percent of senior executives told us collaboration is a key factor in organizational success. But just 47 percent believed the leaders in their organizations are skilled collaborators.
Managing change. In our work at CCL, we have found a few key principles for tackling change. First, view it positively and, of course, with a sense of urgency. There's no point in fearing change since it's inevitable and we can't control it. Second, focus on adapting plans as necessary to external pressures. We all had our strategic plans before the recent recession hit. Some organizations stubbornly stuck with them, believing things would return to normal quickly. Others saw a sea change in the marketplace and adjusted their plans accordingly. Third, it's important to manage the resistance to change you are bound to see in your colleagues. It's your role and responsibility to help them understand what's going on externally and why your organization needs to adapt. Be sure to involve others in the design and implementation of major change initiatives, whether it's a workforce restructuring or a new product development process.
Communication. As an executive with a demanding schedule, it's easy to be cut off from the rest of the organization. We can all learn a lesson from A.G. Lafley, the retired CEO of Procter & Gamble. He was a great listener, often visiting consumers in their homes or joining them for trips to the store. In addition to being P&G's CEO, Lafley also established himself as the company's Chief Listening Officer. He knew that getting good ideas required asking people for input and listening to it very carefully. We should all be Chief Listening Officers in our own organizations.
Learning agility. To succeed in a world where our work is always changing, where challenges are unpredictable and competition abounds, we need to be agile learners. We need to apply our new knowledge. Perhaps most of all, we need to believe we can rise to the challenge. There's a growing body of neuroscience research that says we can learn new behaviors and modify deep-set behaviors at any age. It takes hard work and real focus, but all of us really can learn new and effective behaviors — and help take our organizations to new levels of performance.
Judgment is at the core of leadership. Fundamentally, it's about getting the most important calls right — when it comes to both people and strategy. Without good people judgment, you won't have a strong team. Without a strong team, your strategy will not be executed effectively. Look first of all for men and women who have demonstrated strong performance, integrity and the desire to assume higher levels of responsibility. Watch out for candidates who treat others insensitively and abrasively and put their self-interests above the company good.Strategy judgment calls require leaders to find new paths. Success depends on asking the right questions, experimenting and constantly adjusting your approach. It hinges even more on your level of humility. Are you too confident in your own judgment? Do you believe too strongly in your old ways of doing business? Do you think that because something has worked many times before, it will work again now? Do you have the humility to understand that even with great collaboration you will not get everything right, and that you can't know everything yourself?


ComBtas is a leading provider of travel expense management solutions designed for corporations and small & medium enterprises (SMEs). ComBtas offers corporate customers an efficient and comprehensive travel management solution with all of the needed features in one easy-to-use platform. Businesses benefit from real-time control and supervision of all travel and expense activity for increased cost-effectiveness.


Interested in getting started with Interactive Fiction?
If so, this primer by Andrew Plotkin will give you an introduction. The handy-dandy reference card is especially helpful.
Progress on the Historical Williamsburg Living Narrative continues. Three plot-level releases are planned: a walk-through version focused on the Williamsburg physical layout, an exploratory version including interaction and discovery with historical characters, and narrative version that is constructed around the removal of the gunpowder supply from the magazine.
The following two screenshots represent what the player will first encounter regardless of the version of the game being played. First is the pre-game opening screen that appears before the player provides any input. As you can see, it sets up a little bit of the story framework by providing some background on the player character and context on how he comes to be in Williamsburg.
The second screenshot depicts the description the player gets the second time this location is visited. (The first version of the description has some additional information and is displayed as soon as the player presses the Space bar at the intro screen.) As you can see, the command "see" was entered after the text description. The way the HWLN game is being implemented, graphic images will be provided at many locations; however, in order to display the images, the player must enter the "see" command at the prompt. The images themselves are based on my actual photography of Williamsburg.
While I'm doing Glulxe testing, I thought I'd take one more screen shot of the game, this one all text. This is right after the game intro screen comes up, and the player presses the space bar to get into the game proper.
You'll notice the first command issued by the player is followed by more descriptive text. "More" is a custom command I've added to the system that displays more detailed information about the location surroundings. Ultimately, it's all to help the player make sense of the game.
It's quite easy to release Inform 7 games for the Glulxe interpreter, which in turn makes it easy to test. So that's what I did to get this screen shot with the Capitol, and there's a portion of descriptive text on the screen as well.


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NBA Power Rankings: The Lakers are on top, the Cavs are out of the cellar
By Kurt HelinMar 7, 2011, 2:37 PM EDT
Changes at the top and bottom of the roster, and we wonder who can coach Kwame Brown?
1. Lakers (45-19, LW #4). It's not the seven wins in a row that vault them to the top (well, it was in part). It wasn't just wins over Boston and the Spurs recently. It's the defense with Andrew Bynum as the anchor. When the Lakers are focused on that end they are a ridiculous matchup.
2. Celtics (46-15, LW #3). No Shaq, no Kendrick Perkins, trying to integrate Jeff Green into the offense, it's nice to have a soft spot in the schedule to do that. They have won five in a row.
3. Mavericks (45-17, LW #2). They are still hot, but the loss Sunday to the Grizzlies makes you wonder how they will deal with long front lines in the playoffs. The battle between them and the Lakers for the two seed in the West is on, and the teams face off Saturday in Dallas. Big game.
4. Spurs (51-12, Last Week #1). They beat the Heat like a drum, but then get the exact same thing done to them by the Lakers. It doesn't mean the Spurs are bad, but the Lakers are a brutal matchup for them.
5. Bulls (43-18, LW #5). They beat Miami this week, but everybody is doing that now. They beat the Magic, too. I've still got questions about if they have enough offense come the playoffs, but they are a contender now, make no mistake. And Tom Thibodeau is the coach of the year. (Sorry Pops.)
6. Magic (40-23, LW #7). The Magic are kind of locking themselves in as the four seed in the East. Which means a second round matchup against Boston (we're assuming they get out of the first round). That will be interesting.
7. Thunder (38-22, LW #8). They are waiting on Kendrick Perkins and Nate Robinson to get healthy. Mostly Perkins. They are pretty locked in at the four seed in the West, which would mean the Spurs in the second round. As we said with the Magic, that will be interesting.
8. Heat (43-20, LW #6). The blown lead to Orlando, the inability to close out in big games, four game losing streak. I don't care if they cried or not, I care a lot more about seeing some kind of consistent execution. On both ends.
9. Grizzlies (34-29, LW #11). That was a big win in Dallas Sunday, with Zach Randolph hitting the dramatic shot shot. This is a good team folks that is 7-3 in their last 10. And we take it all back, Mike Conley is a good NBA point guard.
10. Blazers (35-27, LW #9). Brandon Roy isn't really the story, the Blazers defense of late is. They dominated what's left of Charlotte and are 7-3 in their last 10, with a tough stretch ahead of them.
11. Sixers (32-30, LW #13). They have won 8 of their last 10 and now you've got Evan Turner going off for 20 and Andre Iguodala with back-to-back triple doubles. Doug Collins is in my top three for coach of the year (with Thibodeau and Popovich).
12. Nuggets (37-27), LW #14). This is like a complexly different team after the trade — all defense and inconsistent offense. But it's working, they are 5-2 since the deal.
13. Hornets (37-28, LW #10). We're just glad Chris Paul is going to be alright. We'll forgive him for missing Monday's showdown against Derrick Rose.
14. Knicks (32-29, LW #15). Since he's come over, Carmelo Anthony is averaging 24.7 points per game on 42.1 percent shooting and 30 percent from three. At the end of games, they still should have Stoudemire option No. 1.
15. Hawks (37-26, LW #12). Nice win against the Bulls, then they get smacked by the Knicks. And that is the Hawks in a nutshell.
16. Suns (32-29, LW #16). They are 1.5 games out of the playoffs, 3.5 out of the five seed. But does anyone not named Nash think they can catch either the Grizzlies, Trail Blazers, Hornets or Nuggets?
17. Rockets (32-32, LW #18). Another scrappy team that is just going to have a hard time catching any of the more talented scrappy teams ahead of them in the playoff chase.
18. Jazz (33-30, LW #17). They are about to head out on a tough road trip, but that might not be all bad as they have lost 7 in a row at home.
19. Pacers (27-35, LW #19). The Frank Vogel offensive boost has flamed out and the Pacers have been dreadful on offense again. Yet, they remain your eight seed in the East. Charlotte should concern them, except they may be playing worse.
20. Warriors (27-35, LW #21). In the last 10 Warrior games, Monta Ellis is putting up an inefficient 24.2 points a game shooting 43.7 percent overall and 26.9 from three. In that same stretch Stephen Curry is putting up 17.9 shooting 50.8 percent overall and 45.5 percent from three. David Lee is averaging a double-double in that stretch.
21. Bobcats (26-36, LW #20). Paul Silas trying to be the fourth coach to lead a team with Kwame Brown on it to the playoffs. The other three: Eddie Jordan, Phil Jackson (twice) and Michael Curry.
22. Clippers (23-40, LW #24). Without Eric Gordon this team struggles to find offensive balance, to see him go down with another wrist injury takes some of the fun out of watching this team. Not all of it, just some.
23. Bucks (23-38, LW #22). How different would they be if Brandon Jennings and Andrew Bogut were 100 percent healthy all season?
24. Nets (19-43, LW #26). They are the best NBA team ever to play in England.
25. Pistons (23-41, LW #23). John Kuester freed Rip Hamilton and he has shot 31.6 percent in three games.
26. Timberwolves (15-49, LW #25). Kevin Love will break the double-double record Monday night with his 51st consecutive. He has four 20-20 games in his last five.
27. Raptors (17-46, LW #27). The worst NBA team ever to play in England.
28. Kings (15-45, LW #28). Marcus Thornton is really fitting in there, once again getting a green light to shoot and taking advantage of it (averaging 21.2 points per game in his last 5).
29. Cavaliers (12-50, LW #30). They are 4-6 in their last 10 — and that gets them moved out of the cellar. They keep playing as they have and they'll pass a couple more teams.
30. Wizards (16-46, LW #29). They have been dreadful since the All-Star break, going 1-7. But Trevor Booker can sure dunk. So there's that.
Tags: Cleveland Cavaliers, Kwame Brown, Los Angeles Lakers, NBA Power Rankings


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