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Teenage Girlboss Sanskriti Deva on the Future of Asian Women in Tech
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Sanskriti Deva was very young when she realized the power of technology and her own curiosity. Born in India, she lived all over the world before she ended up where she now considers home, North Carolina. Before she was even in the 5th grade she became the radio host for the Voice of India, a radio show that aired every Sunday to thousands of listeners where she promoted Bollywood music and Asian culture. When she was in the 8th grade, she did an award-winning project on time travel in which she proved it was mathematically possible to go into the future, using relativity. She didn't stop there, she then created a trash can that automatically sorts out your recyclable and compost items using image processing. Next, she worked on a biodegradable water bottle, an app that scans your food items and tells you what's in them, and several other products. She was awarded prizes for her computer-based model on how to make nuclear energy completely sustainable by using a beta-decay model and a different uranium isotope. Sanskriti is now also an advocate for women and minorities and has worked with her local city council, mayor, and state house of representatives to spread awareness about public policies. She has gotten the opportunity to go to the White House and talk to national leaders about diversity in technology and she was recognized by her district superintendent at the State of Our Schools event for her many achievements and contributions, and was the youngest person ever to be recognized. Sanskriti has won NC Woman of the Year in Technology in 2018 for all her efforts. She is now a junior at the prestigious North Carolina School of Science and Mathematics where she is continuing to pursue research and her businesses like Eclect Inc. She has recently started a nonprofit called InventSTEM with her classmate to motivate minorities and those who are in rural areas to pursue technology and higher education. We got the chance to talk to this accomplished 17 year old girlboss and ask her about herself, technology, and the future.Q&A
Let's start from the beginning, how did you get into the fields of entrepreneurship and technology?
Ever since I was little, I really liked creating things, and always found myself wondering about how the world works, and how I could make it better. I remember doing things like trying to create outrageous inventions from the different toys I had. I didn't realize then that what I was doing was engineerings and research. As I grew older, I learned more about these fields and learned that they were a passion of mine. Just like I did when I was younger, I started inventing things, but this time they actually worked and weren't just toys. As I started to get patents on inventions, the business side of it came into play, and through experience I learned that I really enjoyed that too. I just followed my interests until now and found myself in the field of entrepreneurship and technology doing something that I really love. I love being able to create things through technology to impact people in a positive way.
What would you tell a little girl somewhere who wants to get into the field of tech like you?
To go for it! As a girl I felt kind of intimidated going into technology because it's such a male dominated field, and I didn't really have someone that looked like me in it, but that's exactly why we need more girls and minorities in technology. I would tell her to follow her passions and not give up. Oftentimes, people will underestimate you because you're a girl, but don't let that get to you, prove them wrong. And also, reach out to other women who are already in the field, you'll find a wonderful community of women who would love to help, including myself. Focus on doing the action, don't worry about success or failure, and just keep trying.
To follow up on that, you've been an avid advocate for diversity in technology, what's the importance of this?
Technology, like any other field, is one that should be diverse because diversity in a field allows for a wider variety of ideas to be created. We're talking about diversity in gender, age, culture, religion, race, socioeconomic background, etc. Technology is a field in which diversity is important because it requires problem solving, and if we don't have a group of diverse professionals with different worldviews and backgrounds a lot of problems will be neglected or solved not to their best extent. For e.g, a group of men probably can't solve a problem that a woman faces everyday just because they simply don't have enough experience with that problem, a group of women would probably do a better job. Different groups of people from different backgrounds offer different perspectives, that lead to different solutions. Representation is important in every field, including technology.
What do you think is the most important thing you've learned in your career?
The most important thing I've learned so far, I think, is to work as hard as you can, but also to not forget to take breaks and take care of yourself. In the beginning I worked nonstop without breaks, handling not just business but also school, extracurriculars, hobbies, and more. I started to burn out and become routinely tired. It's so important to take breaks and relax no matter how stressful life gets. Don't forget to eat healthy, get enough exercise, drink water, and be happy.
How has being an Asian American woman affected your work?
Being an Asian American woman has allowed me to bring a new perspective to the table, allowing me to look at and solve problems in a way that others aren't. My Asian American identity has imbedded into me the importance of hard work and integrity, making me more open to problems and solutions that exist both in the West and the East. It's allowed me to be a more global person and experience different parts of the world starting at a very young age. Being a woman has allowed me to sometimes have a more empathetic perspective and look at the long term impacts of decisions and products, for example not examining things like profit but instead looking at how this product can help the most people. Often times I am the only person in the room who is a woman, or Asian American, or most times both. At first I was intimidated by that fact, but I now know that being an Asian American woman is my strength, and I hope that I can help get more minorities into the field so that no one else has to feel intimidated because of their identity.
Who is your role model? What inspires you to get out of bed every morning and do what you do?
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My role model is my parents. They're the most wonderful people I know. They immigrated with me to this country, and have instilled in me all the traits and values that have made me who I am. Everything I do is to make them proud because they have given up so much to raise me and my brother, Sanskar, who is also amazing. The thing that inspires me to get out of bed every morning is the possibilities. The possibilities of what I can do, new friends I can make, what new knowledge I can learn, etc. Every new day to me is a new chance to do something great, improve myself, and better the world.
Right now I am continuing to scale my businesses and grow, working on new products, and such. I am also doing research at the school I go to, called the North Carolina School of Science and Mathematics (NCSSM). I am doing research on the architecture of neural networks trying to make them faster and am doing another project with my roommate in which I am trying to use deep learning networks to identify new exoplanets in the universe. I have also begun to create a nonprofit with one of my classmates called InventSTEM that aims to provide minorities and students from rural areas with more opportunities. We realized coming from areas with a large minority and rural population that there was a large disparity in academic resources for these students compared to their counterparts. We hope to bridge this gap so that we can have more diversity in the STEM field, especially in our growing state of North Carolina. I am just following my passions right now and trying to make the world a better place one project at a time.
Where do you see yourself in ten years? Where do you see the field of technology going in ten years?
In ten years I'll be 27, I hope that I continue to make the world a better place through technology and still follow my passions. By then, I see myself having larger more impactful tech business working in a larger and more diverse field. In the next 10 years I know that technology will become more imbedded in our lives and the field will grow because of that. I believe we will definitely see more diversity with more Asian American women and other groups front and center, instead of the sidelines like they have been. I feel like technology will be used for positive things like renewable energy. In the future I think technology will become more and more influential to humankind and bettering our lives, and I see myself being a part of that.
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Reading: Balochistan's freedom movement: A key check to Chinese hegemonic designs Written by: Rahim Baloch A
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Balochistan's freedom movement: A key check to Chinese hegemonic designs Written by: Rahim Baloch A
Under the leadership of Xi Jinping, China is rapidly emerging with an ambitious global agenda to enhance its economic and military influence worldwide and thereby reshape the world order. The Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) is a manifestation of China's desire to establish economic and military hegemony over vast resource rich regions in Asia and Africa and dominate the European and American markets.
Though China portrays BRI as a scheme of connectivity and economic partnerships with concerned countries and regions, in reality it is a cover for expanding military presence in those regions through dual use infrastructure.
To achieve economic and military hegemony, China is employing the "debt trap" policy in the most effective way. In December 2017, China got the control of newly built port of Hambantota due to Sri Lanka's inability to repay debt. According to reports, Kenya is also facing a risk of losing control over the port of Mombasa to China under similar circumstances.
China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) is the BRI's flagship project. Gwadar, a city of great geographic importance, is at the heart of this project. The CPEC project not only provides the shortest land route from Kashgar to Gwadar, but it also allows access to important sea routes and connects China with its bases at Djibouti, Hambantota and Mombasa.
China and Pakistan deny military use of the CPEC, but the project actually provides military bases to China at different strategic points of the Baloch coast. This is meant to ensure Chinese military hegemony over the Arabian Sea, Indian Ocean and the most significant sea lane of the Strait of Hormuz. In case, China and Pakistan succeed to build and make operational the roads, railway tracks and military bases under the CPEC, the former will surely be able to reshape the world order, dominate the vast resource rich regions of Balochistan, West Asia, Central Asia, Middle East, Horn of Africa and beyond. China will also be able to encircle India, the largest democracy and a large market. China will use the Gwadar port to overshadow the ports of Dubai and Chabahar.
Land route from Kashgar to the Gwadar port will certainly reduce Chinese dependence on sea routes passing through the waters of countries with disputes with China. In case of any conflict with South China Sea contestants, CPEC will provide an alternative supply route to Chinese. Such an advantageous situation for China will obviously generate enormous threats to regional and world security, peace, prosperity, democratic values, human rights and freedoms because both China and its client state of Pakistan profess anti-democratic ideologies and support authoritarian governments.
Despite the fact that the BRI and the CPEC pose obvious threats to the world and regional peace and order, the world powers seem reluctant to contest it seriously. The only serious opposition to the CPEC is from the Baloch people of Balochistan.
China has entered into agreements with Pakistan over Balochistan, where people see Pakistan as an unlawful occupier and exploiter. These agreements are in violation of the ownership and proprietary rights of the people of Balochistan over their land, sea and natural resources. With Chinese technology, machinery and money, the CPEC will strengthen Pakistan's ability to continue its exploitative rule and plunder natural resources of Balochistan. China-Pakistan are already extracting gold, copper, silver and iron from Saindak and other mines in Balochistan. CPEC will also alter the demography of coastal Balochistan rendering the Baloch people a minority in their own fatherland.
Balochistan's opposition to CPEC is a matter of the people's survival as a nation, their ownership and proprietary rights over their own land, sea and natural resources. Its freedom movement is a key check to Chinese hegemonic designs in the region. For instance, an independent Balochistan would provide a safe corridor of connectivity, trade and transit for South Asia, Middle East, Central Asia and East Africa. It would provide safe access to Afghanistan and Central Asia. An independent, secular and democratic Balochistan will possess the potential to be instrumental in the promotion and augmentation of democratic and secular values in the terrorism-affected regions of South Asia, West Asia, Central Asia and Afghanistan.
With its unique location, huge depots of mineral resources, democratic and secular values Balochistan will become an epicenter of regional cooperation and connectivity, economic development, trade, transit and combating religious extremism and terrorism.
The writer is former Secretary General of Baloch National Movement @BNMovement_. He tweets at @RahimBalochh
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Installing and initial testing of Dave's 3kW home solar power system. With Sunnyboy SMA inverter, 250W LG Mono-X solar panels, and net metering.
why do you have two power meters in the old installation?
ripple control, wth is that for?
How does power get fed back into the grid?
Is it as simple as just generating one more volt than the grid has on it at that particular point in time (e.g. keeping everything in phase, etc.)?
Do you monkey with the phasing of the power you generate in relation to that of the phase of the power on the grid itself (e.g lead or lag an equal pk-pk voltage by x degrees)?
A higher-frequency ripple tone (1050 Hz IIRC) is injected into the mains to mark off-peak hours; that receives the signal and switches a water heater on or off accordingly.
Very nice indeed. I wonder could we modify to increase efficiency of Solar panels. What if we were to put a TEG system along the back of the panels and rails to generate excess DC to feed back into the inverter.? I mean if you harness more of the loses wouldn't that increase your DC feedback to save more money?
Amazing how much you pay and how little you get paid wtf. We pay $0.06-$0.12 and get paid $0.53 in Ontario Canada. Used to get paid $0.80 which was stupid so they stopped doing it. Something about encouraging solar generation investment or some such.
Are you going to design some sort of controller to try to match the load to the supply at all times? I suppose the difficulty of actually doing that depends on the time resolution of the measurements.
Just generate a waveform that is in phase with and slightly higher voltage than the mains. It's very similar to a synchronous motor drive.
When you run a generator feeding a grid you actually have to make the phase angle of the generator lead the grid by marginal amount. The generator will naturally try to synchronize with the grid, and the attempt of the generator to resist being driven out of phase relates to the power you have to feed into the generator to force it into the out of phase situation. The more power you feed into the generator the faster it tries to turn and the more the grid resists it. The generator pushing against the grid is how power gets transferred.
The SMA SB 21-series is fanless. The fan is an option, if you didn't order it you won't find it during a teardown.
Why are there no combined elec/water heating setups? You run pipe along the back of the panels to cool them and you get free hot water. Why is it that when ever I see a solar set up it's always either one but never both?
I don't think you would get much hot water if most of the sun's energy is being converted to electricity. By energy balance you can get hot water or electricity, but not both at the same time. If you did run water cooling you would get low grade heat (lukewarm water only) and then you would need a heat pump to raise the water to a useful temperature. I doubt that the improved efficiency of the cooled panels would generate enough extra power to run the heat pump. Not to mention the considerably increased complexity and capital cost of the installation.
The panels are not that efficient, most of the light is still turning into waste heat and the panels can get to 50+ degrees easily.
If you are already using electric based water heaters you already spend power on the heaters, so giving the heater warm water to start with will save power. Solar water heater installations are often augmented by electrical heaters already. What I'm proposing is free cooling for the panels and free preheating for the heaters.
Yes the inverter generates a sinewave with the same phase but with a higher voltage than the mains and it also has a high output impedance approaching current drive. If there are too many inverters on the grid it can drive the actual mains voltage too high and all inverters have an over voltage limit to shut them down when this happens. They also have a feature called anti-islanding which means that if the grid and mains fails the inverter will shut down thus making the grid safe.
Is "super-synchronous" the word I'm looking for?
If it is, then unless I'm wrong, it appears to me that a purely mechanical solution would be a relative piece of cake compared to designing/programming/using a solid state inverter.
But the problem is, you need to be able to get rid of the heat accumulated by the thermal part of the panel. Solar thermal collectors are often stagnating in the summer, they heat up to the point steam is produced and the collector is actually getting dry as the fluid is pushed out of the collector. Temperatures of 170 degrees celcius and up are possible, this would seriously harm PV cells or at least reduce production significantly.
Your net metering pay back is awful. Here we get paid 12.8 cents/KWH generated. It used to be very poor like that when it was first installed but last year they changed from a net metering to a gross type. I have to pay for whatever I pull from the grid at from 1.8-11.8 cents/KWH but every KWH I generate it's paid at the higher 12.8! Went from a payback of 8 to 9 years to less than 5 for me. In fact I sized my system and have yet to pay for bill since January! As our summer cranks up I suspect I may soon have a bill as the AC is running often.
So your sunny boy communicates via Bluetooth to the PC? My system uses power line communications and a receiver box plugs into the AC line and then an ethernet cable to that. I like the idea of directly to bluetooth. Hopefully you can figure out the communication issue so the data can be seen live. Does Sunnyboy offer a web service to view the data?
Dave download Sunny Explorer from SMA website. Also there is an android app so you can connect to the inverter via Bluetooth.
Why they did not install an import/export meter instead of two meters is beyond me.
Here in Belgium your meter (before solar panels installation) is the same and will turn backward when you generate more than you use. You don't get money if the total is negative.
Just watched your solar install video... very interesting.
I wonder why the installer didn't adjust the height of the rails on the brackets to offset the "undulating" roof structure. I know in the end it doesn't really matter... but the brackets have elongated holes, why not use them to make the rails straight?
I have 3.04 kW (16 x 190W) of ET panels and a SMA SB5000TL-20 inverter. My system was registered with the South Australian distribution company (SA Power Networks) as a 4.94 kW system, I can add another 10 x 190W panels without losing my feed in tariff... IIRC 44c/kWh from the governemnt FIT scheme and 6c/kWh from my energy retailer.
I use software called PV Bean Counter to read solar info from the inverter, this then uploads to www.pvoutput.org in five minute intervals.
The next step is to transfer the Bluetooth read and upload functions to a Raspberry Pi and eliminate the need to keep a power hungry PC running!
Using a netbook at the moment, and it's not live feeding, have to sort that out. But yes, I want to transition to a R.Pi or something.
Or could just let it update once every day instead of live.
Next step is consumption data with a Watts Clever unit.


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File #: 1969-2021 Version: 1
Type: Ordinance Status: Passed
File created: 7/8/2021 In control: Zoning Committee
On agenda: 7/26/2021 Final action: 7/28/2021
Title: To grant a Variance from the provisions of Sections 3332.033, R-2 residential district; 3312.09, Aisle; 3312.21, Landscaping and screening; 3312.25, Maneuvering; 3312.27, Parking setback line; 3312.49, Minimum numbers of parking spaces required; 3321.07, Landscaping; 3332.21, Building lines; 3332.25, Maximum side yards required; and 3332.26, Minimum side yard permitted, of the Columbus City Codes; for the property located at 636 CHASE RD. (43214), to permit a health and wellness studio with reduced development standards in the R-2, Residential District, and to repeal Ordinance #2701-98, passed November 2, 1998 (Council Variance #CV21-051).
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7/28/2021 1 CITY CLERK Attest Action details Meeting details
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Council Variance Application: CV21-051
APPLICANT: Indigo Sun Wellness Studio; c/o David A. Ferris, Atty.; The Ferris Law Group LLC; P.O. Box 940; Worthington, OH 43085.
PROPOSED USE: Health and wellness studio.
CLINTONVILLE AREA COMMISSION RECOMMENDATION: Approval.
CITY DEPARTMENTS' RECOMMENDATION: Approval. The site consists of one parcel zoned in the R-2, Residential District, and is developed with a commercial building previously occupied with a day care center permitted by Council variance #CV98-041 approved on November 2, 1998 (Ordinance #2701-98). The requested Council variance will allow the building to be converted to a health and wellness studio. A variance is necessary because the R-2 district prohibits commercial uses. The request includes variances for a parking space reduction from seven spaces to five spaces, and to conform existing conditions related to landscaping and screening, building and parking setbacks, aisle width, maneuvering, and side yard requirements. The site is located within the boundaries of the Clintonville Area Plan (2009), which recommends single-unit residential land uses at this location. The Plan also states that new investment should ensure the long term economic viability of all neighborhoods and be compatible with the development pattern of the surrounding area. Staff supports the proposed commercial use noting that the commercial building has been long established in the neighborhood, and finds the parking variance supportable due to the site's proximity to public transit and availability of on-street parking. Additionally, Planning Division staff has reviewed landscaping improvement plans for the site, and finds that the site is sufficiently landscaped and screened to minimize the impact on adjacent residential uses.
To grant a Variance from the provisions of Sections 3332.033, R-2 residential district; 3312.09, Aisle; 3312.21, Landscaping and screening; 3312.25, Maneuvering; 3312.27, Parking setback line; 3312.49, Minimum numbers of parking spaces required; 3321.07, Landscaping; 3332.21, Building lines; 3332.25, Maximum side yards required; and 3332.26, Minimum side yard permitted, of the Columbus City Codes; for the property located at 636 CHASE RD. (43214), to permit a health and wellness studio with reduced development standards in the R-2, Residential District, and to repeal Ordinance #2701-98, passed November 2, 1998 (Council Variance #CV21-051).
WHEREAS, by application #CV21-051, the owner of property at 636 CHASE RD. (43214), is requesting a Council Variance to permit a health and wellness studio with reduced development standards in the R-2, Residential District; and
WHEREAS, Section 3332.033 R-2, residential district, prohibits commercial uses in the R-2, Residential District, while the applicant proposes a health and wellness studio; and
WHEREAS, Section 3312.09, Aisle, requires aisle width and maneuvering to be 20 feet for 90 degree parking spaces, while the applicant proposes to maintain a reduced aisle width of 13 feet; and
WHEREAS, Section 3312.21, Landscaping and screening, requires headlight screening of a parking lot along a public street, and requires screening of a parking lot within 80 feet of residentially zoned property to be 4 feet in width and 5 feet in height, while the applicant proposes to eliminate the landscaping requirement to maintain existing conditions along Chase Road, with headlight screening no greater than 2.5 feet in height being provided within the right-of-way of Indianola Avenue, subject to approval by the Department of Public Service; and
WHEREAS, Section 3312.25, Maneuvering, requires parking spaces to have sufficient access and maneuvering area on the lot where the parking spaces are located, while the applicant proposes to permit maneuvering for parking spaces into the right-of-way of Chase Road and Indianola Avenue; and
WHEREAS, Section 3312.27, Parking setback line, requires a parking setback of 25 feet, while the applicant proposes to maintain a parking setback line of 9 feet along Chase Road and 0 feet along Indianola Avenue; and
WHEREAS, Section 3312.49, Minimum numbers of parking spaces required, requires 1 parking space per 250 square feet of studio space, for a total of 7 spaces, while the applicant proposes to provide a total of 5 spaces; and
WHEREAS, Section 3321.07, Landscaping, requires landscaping in the building setback area, while the applicant proposes the use of pavement within the building setback along Chase Road and Indianola Avenue; and
WHEREAS, Section 3332.21, Building lines, requires the building setback line to be 25 feet along Indianola Avenue, while the applicant proposes to maintain a building setback of 0 feet; and
WHEREAS, Section 3332.25, Maximum side yards required, requires the sum of the widths of the side yards to equal or exceed 20 percent of the width of the lot, a requirement of 14.6 feet for a 73 foot wide lot, while the applicant proposes to maintain a maximum side yard of 9 feet, all provided along the west property line; and
WHEREAS, Section 3332.26, Minimum side yard permitted, requires a minimum side yard of 5 feet, while the applicant proposes to conform an existing side yard of 0 feet along the east property line; and
WHEREAS, the Clintonville Area Commission recommends approval; and
WHEREAS, City Departments recommend approval of the requested Council variance because the proposed commercial use within the existing commercial building is consistent with the recommendations of the Clintonville Area Plan, and includes sufficient landscaping and buffering to minimize the impact on adjacent residential uses; and
WHEREAS, said ordinance requires separate submission for all applicable permits and a Certificate of Occupancy for the proposed use; and
WHEREAS, said variance will not adversely affect the surrounding property or surrounding neighborhood; and
WHEREAS, the granting of said variance will not impair an adequate supply of light and air to adjacent properties or unreasonably increase the congestion of public streets, or unreasonably diminish or impair established property values within the surrounding area, or otherwise impair the public health, safety, comfort, morals, or welfare of the inhabitants of the City of Columbus; and
WHEREAS, the granting of said variance will alleviate the difficulties encountered by the owners of the property located at 636 CHASE RD. (43214), in using said property as desired; now, therefore:
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF COLUMBUS:
SECTION 1. That a variance be granted from the provisions of Sections 3332.033, R-2 residential district; 3312.09, Aisle; 3312.21, Landscaping and screening; 3312.25, Maneuvering; 3312.27, Parking setback line; 3312.49, Minimum numbers of parking spaces required; 3321.07, Landscaping; 3332.21, Building lines; 3332.25, Maximum side yards required; and 3332.26, Minimum side yard permitted, of the Columbus City Codes; for the property located at 636 CHASE RD. (43214), insofar as said sections prohibit a health and wellness studio in the R-2, Residential District; with reduced aisle width from 20 feet to 13 feet; no parking lot landscaping along Chase Road and reduced headlight screening provided in the right-of-way of Indianola Avenue, subject to the approval by the Department of Public Service; maneuvering into the right-of-way of Chase Road and Indianola Avenue; a reduced parking setback line from 25 feet to 9 feet along Chase Road and 0 feet along Indianola Avenue; a parking space reduction from 7 required spaces, to 5 provided spaces; no landscaping within the building setback areas along Chase Road and Indianola Avenue; reduced building line from 25 feet along Indianola Avenue to 0 feet; reduced maximum side yard from 14.6 feet to 9 feet; and a reduced minimum side yard from 5 feet to 0 feet along the east property line; said property being more particularly described as follows:
636 CHASE RD. (43214), being 0.21± acres located at the northwest corner of Chase Road and Indianola Avenue, and being more particularly described as follows:
Situated in the State of Ohio, County of Franklin, and in the City of Columbus:
Being Lot Number Five Hundred Ten (510); Lot Number Five Hundred Eleven (511) excepting a triangular section 6.74 feet on the North and 76.31 feet on the East line thereof; and a triangular section of Lot Number Five Hundred Twelve (512) being 5.02 feet on the South line and 57.07 feet on the West line thereof, in CHASELAND, as the same is numbered and delineated upon the recorded plat thereof, of record in Plat Book 7, Page 84, Recorder's Office, Franklin County, Ohio.
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SECTION 2. That this ordinance is conditioned on and shall remain in effect only for so long as said property is used for a health and wellness studio, or those uses permitted the R-2, Residential District.
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SECTION 5. That Ordinance #2701-98, passed November 2, 1998, be and is hereby repealed.
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Q: CMake + Ninja build does not parallelize across libraries We have a (C++) program that's set up as a series of shared libraries with a nested hierarchy. That is, libB.so uses functions from and thus links against libA.so,  libC.so uses functions from and links against both libB.so and libA.so, etc.
For our current CMake+Ninja build system I've noticed that parallel building does not seem to happen across libraries. That is, while Ninja will normally use 12 cores to build, if I've touched a single source file from libA but multiple in libC, ninja will use only a single processor to build just the libA source file until libA.so is linked, at which point it will use 12 processors to compile the libC source files. - And if there's an error in compilation in the libA source, it won't even try to compile the libC files into object files, even if I pass -k to ninja.
Certainly, the linking of libC.so needs to be delayed until libA.so is linked, but the compilation of the source files into object files for the libC sources shouldn't need to be delayed for the linking of libA.
Is there something I'm missing about the optimal way to set up our CMake files to express the dependencies between the libraries? Or is this an insurmountable limitation of how Ninja works?

A: This was asked recently on the CMake mailing list. The response from one of the devs confirms that the behaviour you report is intentional:

This is unfortunately necessary to get correct builds for CMake projects
  in general because we support cases where add_custom_command is used
  in library "foo" to generate a header file that is included during
  compilation in library "bar" that links to "foo", but we have no good
  way to express this dependency besides the ordering dependency of bar
  on foo.

While it may be possible for CMake to be improved to relaxed that constraint in some circumstances, this doesn't appear to have been done yet (as of CMake 3.6). There's an open ticket for this in the Kitware issue tracker already.
Update: This appears to have been fixed in CMake 3.9.0, although that change led to a regression which was then subsequently fixed in 3.12.0, or possibly 3.11.2.

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Q: compare files where 2 columns of csv file do not match I have this awk command that is working as expected.
awk -F';' '          # delimiter
NR==FNR {             # process the stem file
    gsub(/"/,"")      # off with the double quotes
    a[$2]=$1          # hash
    next
}
{
    if($1 in a)       # if corpus entry found in stem
        print "XXX"   # output
    else
        print $1
}' stem.txt corpus.txt

Returns:
this
is
XXX
XXX
as
XXX
XXX

But I want the output to include the word 'test' and the expected results are:
this
is
XXX
XXX
as
test
XXX

This is because "test" is the same in column 1 and column 2 in the stem file.
# cat stem.txt
"test";"tested";"test";"Suffix";"A";"7673";"321: 0 xxx"
"test";"testing";"test";"Suffix";"A";"7673";"322: 0 xxx"
"test";"test";"test";"Suffix";"b";"5942";"001: 0 xxx"
"break";"broke";"break";"Suffix";"b";"5942";"002: 0 xxx"
"break";"broken";"break";"Suffix";"b";"5942";"003: 0 xxx"
"break";"breaks";"break";"Suffix";"c";"5778";"001: 0 xxx"
"tell";"told";"tell";"Suffix";"c";"5778";"002: 0 xx"

Only the records where column1 and column2 do not match will qualify to be compared with corpus file.
# cat corpus.txt
this
is
broken
testing
as
test
told

I tried to modify the if clause, but that does not seem to work
if($1 in a && a[$1] == a[$2])

A: With your shown samples, please try following.
awk '
BEGIN{
  FS=OFS=";"
}
{
  gsub(/"/,"")
}
FNR==NR{
  if($1!=$2){ arr[$2] }
  next
}
{
  print ($0 in arr)?"XXX":$0
}' stem.txt corpus.txt

With shown samples output will be as follows:
this
is
XXX
XXX
as
test
XXX

Explanation: Adding detailed explanation for above.
awk '                            ##Starting awk program from here.
BEGIN{                           ##Starting BEGIN section from here.
  FS=OFS=";"                     ##Setting field and output field separators to ; here.
}
{
  gsub(/"/,"")                   ##Globally substituting ; to NULL here.
}
FNR==NR{                         ##Checking condition which will be TRUE when stem.txt is being read.
  if($1!=$2){ arr[$2] }          ##Checking if 1st and 2nd fields are NOT equal then set arr index as $2.
  next                           ##next will skip all further statements from here.
}
{
  print ($0 in arr)?"XXX":$0     ##Printing XXX is current line present in arr else print current line.
}' stem.txt corpus.txt           ##Mentioning Input_file names here.


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The South Australian Railways Gb Class locomotives were built by Robert Stephenson and Company in 1874 and 1878 for the Glenelg Railway Company, later being acquired by the South Australian Railways (SAR) on 16 December 1899. The engines were sold to the Adelaide Glenelg & Suburban Railway Company as No. 4 and 5, then subsequently sold to the Glenelg Railway Company in November 1881 with the same numbers. When the SAR purchased the Glenelg Railway Company in 1899, they were classed Gb and renumbered 158 and 159. No. 158 was scrapped in December 1904, while No. 159 persisted until 21 February 1916, then ultimately scrapped in 1922.

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Broad gauge locomotives in Australia
Robert Stephenson and Company locomotives
4-4-0T locomotives
Railway locomotives introduced in 1874
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To protect the security and confidentiality of patient records, access to the Health Records Library is restricted to NHS staff with a prior appointment to access medical records for audit & research purposes and Trust staff requiring access to the archive. Patients are only allowed to enter the Library if they have applied for access to their health records and have a prior appointment to attend for an access interview or to collect their records.
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Senate to hear equal pay bill Tuesday
Greg Hilburn
BATON ROUGE — An equal pay bill by state Sen. JP Morrell and supported by Gov. John Bel Edwards designed to narrow the wage gap between men and women in Louisiana has been scheduled for a hearing by the full Senate here Tuesday.
"Up or down, I'm going with it," said Morrell, D-New Orleans.
That measure and another bill that would set a state minimum wage higher than the federal requirement were key planks in Edwards' platform during last year's campaign and emphasized again by the governor when this legislative session began last month.
ANALYSIS: Edwards wants united Democrats in US Senate race
"We're dead last in the nation — 51st when you include Washington, D.C. — with women earning only 65 cents on the dollar compared to men," said Edwards, a Democrat. "We have to fix that."
Senate Bill 254 would require private employers with more than 20 employees to verify male and female employees are paid equally. State workers are already covered.
But powerful business groups like the National Federation for Independent Business and the Louisiana Association of Independent Business are lobbying hard against the measure.
READ MORE: State parks, historic sites could close with budget cuts
Opponents contend existing laws protect against discrimination and requiring equal pay for "comparable" work is vague, leaving it up to the courts to set precedents during disputes and inviting lawsuits.
But Edwards said current laws aren't narrowing the gap.
"Whatever measures we have in place are not adequate," Edwards said. "This is a carefully crafted bill to do some good."
Morrell said he would be amenable to amendments to clarify language if they strengthen the bill.
"There are a lot of ongoing negotiations in regard to terminology," Morrell said. "Amendments are being discussed to put the bill in a better posture for passage."
A rally organized by the American Association of University Women of Louisiana has been scheduled in conjunction with Tuesday vote. Edwards, Morrell and others plan to address the members.
"The pay gap is real, and it hurts Louisiana's women, their families and our economy," said Camille Moran, AAUW of Louisiana public policy chair. "This lobby day is an opportunity for our members and supporters not only to make their voices heard, but to also make an impact."
STATE BUDGET: Bill to curb TOPS spending clears committee
Even if the bill clears the Senate, it's likely to face a tough time in the House Labor Committee, where Republicans concerned with the consequences of the measure outnumber Democrats.
"I'm cautiously optimistic," Morrell said. "I'm a son of a woman who worked diligently in the Orleans Parish School system and the husband of a woman entering the medical field and the father of a 5-year-old girl. The idea that any one of them would not be paid equally bothers the hell out of me."
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Jennifer Lawrence, Andrew Garfield and Other Celebs Who Lost Their Jobs Because They Were Too Beautiful
Leave a Comment / By vpbqr / October 29, 2022 October 29, 2022
For many it was funny that they almost lost their papers because of their physique, for others not so much… These celebrities told their anecdotes.
It is often said that acting is a career for few, in addition to misunderstanding that roles in films and series are only reserved for physically attractive people. Today we bring you the cases of some celebrities considered too good to play a role. We can't imagine how Jennifer Lawrence was told no by Andrew Garfield!
how do you hear it, there was no place for these beauties and for other artists because of their physiquewhich in some cases did not help them achieve their goal.
The Pride and Prejudice protagonist almost didn't get the role of Elizabeth Bennet because of her beauty, and the actress says director Joe Wright initially considered her too pretty for the lead role. : "Then I met and was like, 'Oh no, you're fine!' Said Knightley.
It's no secret that Hugh Grant's face was almost sculpted by the gods. This situation has worked in his favor on many occasions, but not for Four Weddings and a Funeral: "Richard Curtis, after the audition, did everything to prevent me from getting the role," Grant said. an average personality, and I think I had a pretty 'cocky' look," he said.
Impossible to imagine the television series Shameless without Emmy Rossum, but it could be possible thanks to his image: "They didn't want to see me; not even [me dejaron] audition," Rossum said. "They thought my image was too glamorous, that I couldn't not be beautiful," said the actress who clung to the role of the Gallagher's eldest daughter.
The character of Katniss Everdeen in The Hunger Games is known for the face of Jennifer Lawrence. This main role gave the actress international fame, but what few people know is that she was far from not landing the role: "They refused me, then they moved the casting to New York," Jennifer said. "I took the night flight to audition the next day in New York." "So that always helps. Plane flight. Don't shower. No makeup. At the end, they were like, 'Oh, you're right. She's not pretty,'" he joked.
"The original intention wasn't to hire someone that attractive," Gillian Anderson shared of the role Jamie Dornan luckily got in the TV series The Fall. "It had nothing to do with her beauty, although in the process we realized how much it would affect the viewer psychologically," "There was something intriguing about it, definitely," Anderson explained. .
Like Tom Cruise, James McAvoy was not favored by his size when it comes to landing a project: "As I am a short man (1.70 m), I have sometimes been told that I I'm too small for a role," the actor confessed to The Telegraph. This has caused McAvoy to question his physique, to the point of thinking he's not "handsome enough to play a character."
It's inconceivable that Priyanka Chopra was told she had the 'wrong physique' for a character, as you hear it, that's what one of the actress' agents was told once per castings. It also had an impact on Chopra, as she wondered if she should be slimmer or do something to change her appearance: "Do I need to get in shape? Do I need to have abs ?" said the actress. One thing her agents concluded was that they meant "they wanted someone who wasn't brown," Priyanka confessed to InStyle, saying this situation had affected her for a while.
What problems can the protagonist of Superman have in the cinematographic medium? It's a question that many would have answered with "none", but it's not like that…Henry Cavill couldn't be James Bond in the movie 'Casino Royale for his physicality, his muscles were the cause of not matching the character. Who could have said that!
When it's not your destiny, there's no human power to make things happen… That's what happened to Andrew Garfield, the protagonist of one of the Spider-Man episodes when he fought for the role of Prince Caspian in The Chronicles of Narnia, the same one that was awarded to Ben Barnes.
The unique beauty of Mila Kunis was not acceptable for certain film roles or for the French firm Dior. The latter dismissed her for not having an acceptable image in the specifications that the company had. It was almost impossible to think that Jennifer Lawrence, Henry Cavill or Andrew Garfield and other celebrities could have a problem with their physique for being too attractive.


Preparing the Tree Care Days schedule for 2018 required site visits to assess conditions at the various project sites maintained by the Benicia Tree Foundation. The site visits occurred on December 23rd. Here is a quick rundown on what was found.
Semple School  was the first project site visited. 80 trees were planted in 2013 and they have been growing without supplemental irrigation for the last two summers. The trees were last maintained in August and most all were in good shape. Aside from routine maintenance, which consists of weeding, rebuilding water berms and mulching , pruning will also be needed on some of the trees. For example, some of the Canary Island pines are developing co-dominant leader branches (see photo below), which should be removed.
Pruning for dominant leader branch. Branch in red to be removed.
The trees growing at the Capitol Heights  project site were planted two years ago. We removed a couple of tree stakes that were no longer needed, and the tree looked in good shape. One Ginkgo was showing off some great fall color (see photo below). Routine maintenance and watering will be scheduled in 2018.
Fall Color at Capitol Heights Project Site, Riverhill Drive.
Liberty High  was the next site visit where 12 trees were planted during Arbor Week in 2014. The school district recently mulched the site (see photo below). The trees have been growing without supplemental water for two years and need pruning.
Liberty High Project Site was recently mulched.
Staying on the Eastside we stopped at the National Guard Armory  project site that was established in 2013. During the drought, we lost the redwoods and the Crepe myrtles, but twelve remaining trees are well established, no longer requiring supplemental irrigation. The site is very overgrown so it is a major weed abatement project.
Benicia National Guard Armory Site needs weed abatement.
The high school is the site of two projects, one by the ball fields in 2011 and a second project by the upper parking lot in 2015. The school district recently mulched the ballfield site. (see photo below) About twelve oaks need some pruning this summer along Denfield Avenue. The upper parking lot is not a construction zone so it difficult to determine what needs to be done until the fencing is removed (see second photo below).
Benicia High School project site in front of the ballfields has been recently mulched.
Construction fences surrounding the Benicia High upper parking lot project site.
Turner  was planted in 2015. Someone decorated one of the cedars (see photo below). We also lost two cedars from an unknown cause. Routine maintenance is anticipated for the remaining trees in 2018. If we don't get much rain, supplemental water in the summer might be needed.
Someone decorated an Incense cedar tree at Turner Elementary for Christmas.
The Lake Herman Open Space was the last project site visit. Here, 100 tree saplings were planted in 2015. This site was attached by voles during the past year. Many trees were gnawed off at their tap root (see photo below). Voles also attached other restoration sites by the Solano Land Trust and the Solano Resource Conservation District. Their recommendation is the replace our chicken wire cages with cages made of hardware cloth, which has a tighter mesh that will keep out the moles. This will be our biggest maintenance project for 2018.
Tree sapling damaged by voles at Lake Herman Open Space.
These site visits will inform the Benicia Tree Foundation schedule for Second Saturday and Third Thursday Tree Care Days in 2018. That schedule should be published on the BTF website by January 1.


I'm a novice developer who's just started coding about a year ago. I'm currently running Linux Mint 18.1 and I like to keep track of my Laptop's stats via a tmux window with several things open like Htop, Iotop, sensors, etc.
I recently created a battery script with PHP that is successful for viewing what I want but I encountered an error that I'm not sure how to combat. Basically my script outputs battery stats in the terminal window when run and it updates every second. My dilemma is that I put my laptop into hibernate and upon waking I was spammed with out of memory errors while my computer struggled to SIGKILL what I presume to be my rogue script.
I believe it's because of the way my loop works. What would be a better way to execute such a loop?
c++ - Why does the Irrlicht window turn black when opening a QMessageBox?
csv - NiFi - ConvertCSVtoAVRO - how to capture the failed records?
spring - RestTemplate Java fail with "\"
Git : Where are the source files in my working directory?


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Tamil Nadu, India, September 30 (CDN) — Police detained evangelist V.K. Williams and seven other Christians after Hindu extremists disrupted their evangelistic meeting on Sept. 29 in Theni, according to the Global Council of Indian Christians. The extremists filed a complaint against the Christians of "forceful conversion" and pressured police to arrest them, and officers took the eight Christians to the station for questioning. At press time, area Christian leaders were trying to free them.
West Bengal – On Sept. 26 in Purulia, Hindu extremists stopped a worship service and dragged Christians out, saying no more prayer or worship should take place in the village. A source in Kolkata reported that the extremists were threatening to kill the Christians if they did not convert to Hinduism. The Christians reported the matter to the Kenda Police Station. Officers summoned both parties to the police station, but the extremists threatened to kill the Christians if they went.
Karnataka – Hindu extremists belonging to the Bharatiya Janata Party and the Bajrang Dal attacked Gnanodya Church at Yellapura, Karwar district, on Sept. 26. The All India Christian Council reported that the assailants broke into a church worship service after having filed a complaint against Pastor Shiva Ram of "forcible conversions." In the presence of the police, the attackers started to vandalize the church, pulling down calendars and breaking furniture. Church members said their pastor was targeted because of his social service works. Police took the pastor into custody and jailed him.
Karnataka – Karnataka police on Sept. 26 arrested a Pentecostal pastor, Shivanda Siddi, on false charges of "forceful conversions" in Mundgod. The Global Council of Indian Christians (GCIC) reported that at about 11 a.m. five Hindu extremists from the Bajrang Dal stormed the church building while Christians were praying and began arguing with the pastor. They beat him, stripped him of his clothes and took Bibles from those present. The extremists later telephoned police in Yellapur, about three kilometers away (less than two miles), and an inspector arrived and took the pastor, seven women and two young children to the police station. The extremists continued to threaten the Christians in front of police, who watched in silence. With GCIC intervention, police released the women and children without charges, but Pastor Siddi was charged with "defiling a place of worship with intent to insult the religion of any class." He was put in Uttar Kananda's Sirsi prison.
Karnataka – On Sept. 19 in Santhemarnalli, police led by Inspector Madhava Swamy threatened a pastor with harm if he did not stop alleged "forceful conversion" activities. The All India Christian Council reported that police threatened Pastor Mhades of Good Shepherd Community Church after Hindu extremists filed the complaint against him. Police barged into his church, questioned him and told him that they would take action against him if he did not stop trying to convert people. Area Christian leaders claimed that there was no case of forceful conversion, and that Christians were only conducting their regular worship services.
Andhra Pradesh – Police on Sept. 17 arrested a Christian convert from Islam, Sheik Magbool, after Muslim extremists filed a complaint against him of uttering derogatory remarks against the prophet of Islam, Muhammad, in Kurnool. A source reported that Maqbool organized a three-day, open air Christian meeting and distributed some tracts that allegedly contained comparisons between the teachings of Jesus Christ and those of Muhammad. The Muslim extremists accused Maqbool of making derogatory remarks against Muhammad, threatened to kill him and filed a police complaint against him. Area Christian leaders maintained that the tracts did not contain any hateful remarks against Muhammad; they asserted that the Muslim extremists reprinted the tracts after adding some lines insulting to Muhammad in order to fabricate a case against the Christians. Maqbool was put in a jail cell, with the Down Court rejecting his petition for bail on Sept. 21.
Chhattisgarh – On Sept. 15 in Raipur, Hindu extremists misrepresenting themselves as journalists barged into a prayer meeting led by Pastor Kamlakarrao Bokada and accused him of "forceful conversion," verbally abused him and falsely accused him of dishonoring their idols. They ordered the pastor to video-record the prayer meeting, but he refused. The pastor, who visits Christian homes in the Khorpi area, was ordered not to do so again. Police refused to register a complaint by Christians.
Andhra Pradesh – Hindu extremists in Vizianagaram on Sept. 13 attacked a pastor's wife, injuring her head, and told the church leader to leave the area, according to the All India Christian Council. The attack came after Pastor Y. Caleb Raj of Good Shepherd Community Church requested that youths playing loud music before the idol of Ganesh near his church not disturb the Sept. 12 worship service. As the pastor was speaking to organizers of the Ganesh event, Hindu extremists gathered and some tried to manhandle him. They told him to close down the church and leave the village. When Pastor Raj was out on ministry work the next day, the same group of Hindu extremists came and struck his wife with a wooden club. Pastor Raj filed a police complaint, but no arrests had been made at press time.
Chhattisgarh – Hindu extremists in Raigarh on Sept. 12 beat evangelist Robinson Roat and ordered him to stop all Christian activities. The Global Council of Indian Christians reported that about 25 extremists barged into the worship meeting in Roat's home. They told him he would face further harm if he left his house. The Christian did not venture out for two days.
Madhya Pradesh – Hindu extremists in Satna on Sept. 12 accused Pastor V.A. Anthony of "forceful conversion" and of carrying out the funeral of a non-Christian in a local Christian cemetery. Based on the complaint of the Hindu extremists, the inspector general of police summoned Pastor Anthony and a high-level inquiry is pending, reported the Global Council of Indian Christians (GCIC). The son of a local church member had died under mysterious circumstances earlier this year, and the pastor and church members had buried him in the Christian cemetery according to the wishes of his parents and other relatives, according to the GCIC.
Uttar Pradesh – Hindu nationalists from the extremist Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh on Sept. 5 beat a pastor in Sarva village in Babina, Jhansi district. The Global Council of Indian Christians (GCIC) reported that three Hindu extremists led by Surendra Yadav and armed with wooden clubs barged into the church building after Sunday classes and beat Pastor Anil Masih on his back and legs, kicked him and verbally abused him. The assault went on for about 30 minutes. The next day, Masih's father informed Babina police. Masih received hospital treatment for a broken left leg. GCIC sources told Compass that after Masih's discharge from the hospital on Sept. 10, he filed a complaint against the extremists at the Babina police station on Sept. 13. At press time, no arrests had been made.
Karnataka – Police on Sept. 1 stopped a pastors' meeting in Mysore, claiming that they were being trained to "convert people," though conversion and persuading to convert is legal in India. The Global Council of Indian Christians (GCIC) reported that the Mysore Pastors Association organized a two-week pastoral training program with about 50 local church leaders and evangelists in attendance. Police arrived and ordered the organizers to vacate the premises by the next day. Even though such trainings are legally permitted in India, the Christians called off the meeting.
Rajasthan – Hindu extremists attacked two Christian workers, damaged their vehicles and seized evangelistic literature from them on Aug. 26 in Udaipur. The All India Christian Council reported that evangelists Charlie John and V.M. George were distributing gospel tracts when a group of Hindu extremists suddenly came and began objecting. The extremists blocked their vehicle and beat the two Christians, leaving them with serious injuries. Police came to their rescue and suggested they file a complaint against the extremists, but the Christians said they chose to forgive their attackers.
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INDIA: HINDU EXTREMISTS ATTACK PASTORS, MANHANDLE WOMEN
In violation of human rights standards, police arrest Christians for allegedly speaking ill of gods.
MUMBAI, India, Aug. 14 (Compass Direct News) – Hindu nationalist extremists attacked Christians attending teacher training in Dharwad district, Karnataka on Wednesday (Aug. 12), but when one of the attendees escaped and went to police, officers arrested eight pastors on baseless claims of forcible conversion and – in a blow to free speech – for allegedly speaking ill of Hindu gods.
Pastor Moses Bentic, coordinator of the Seva Bharat Mission, told Compass that more than 80 Christians including nine pastors were attending the mission's teacher training, which began Wednesday in Annigere and was supposed to continue through today. At around 11:30 pm on Tuesday (Aug. 11), 30 Hindu extremists from the Sri Ram Sena (Lord Ram's Army) entered the facility where the training was taking place, the Patil Sabha Bhavan, and began beating the pastors.
They repeatedly slapped and kicked the pastors, cursed Christianity using foul language and falsely accused them of forcible conversion. The Hindutva (Hindu nationalist) extremists also manhandled young women at the training, most of whom between the ages of 17 and 23, according to the Global Council of Indian Christians (GCIC).
Pastor Joseph Christopher, who managed to escape from the hall just after midnight, rushed to the Annigere police station to seek help. He told Compass that police were "indifferent" and refused to accept a complaint. Earlier, at about 11:45 p.m., Pastor Christopher had telephoned police but nobody showed up, he added.
"At around 1:30 a.m., two policemen arrived at the Patil Sabha Bhavan and were mute spectators as the extremists collected all the copies of the Bibles and burned them," Pastor Christopher said, adding that police also took mobile phones from the Christians.
Police officials who arrived at the hall around 4:30 a.m. shouted at the Christians, asked why no prior permission had been obtained for the meeting and took eight pastors to the Annigere police station, according to GCIC. Arrested were Vasant Kumar Hanoka, Simon Rathnappa, Basavaraj Rudappa, Madhan Kumar Yamanappa, Prakash Arjun Kagwadar, Jayraj Shiromani, Vijay Mayekar and Kumaraswamy Govindappa. They were charged with unlawful assembly, rioting, criminal conspiracy and "acts intended to outrage religious feelings by insulting religion or religious beliefs."
They were sent to judicial custody until Aug. 25.
Police, meantime, had locked the Christians at the teacher training inside the hall. Pastor Bentic said Francis Swaminathan Kaniya, pastor of an independent church, arrived at the hall at 8:30 a.m. for the meeting and was met by Hindu extremist Gangadhar Hallikeri, who repeatedly punched, slapped and verbally abused him outside the Patil Sabha Bhavan; others along with Hallikeri ransacked his satchel, seized his Bible, tore pages out of it and burned them.
"The police had locked up the hall with the other believers inside up to 12:30 pm," Pastor Bentic said. "After noting down the names and addresses of all the participants, the police escorted the believers in groups to the bus stand and made them leave the place."
Sub-Inspector Kuber Rajame told Compass that he and other officers went to the Patil Sabha Bhavan at 4 a.m. on Wednesday (Aug.12) based on a complaint by Hallikeri, who along with 15 others accused the Christians of forcible conversion and denigrating Hindu gods.
Sub-Inspector Rajame also said that he had sent police officers earlier, in the wee hours of the morning, to investigate the meeting and that they confirmed that the Christians were speaking derogatorily about Hindu gods. Denying that any of the Christians were beaten by Hallikeri and his group, the sub-inspector added that officers seized CDs, cassettes and books relating to Christianity from the place.
The private nature of the meeting notwithstanding, arrests for speaking ill of religions even in public constitute a violation of free speech as stipulated in the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, to which India is a signatory, according to Christian leaders.
Sajan K. George, national president of the GCIC, told Compass that the organization has confirmed the attackers as Sri Ram Sena and Bajrang Dal leaders: Alikere, Palyad Kallur, Mahesh Palyad, Gangadhar Alikere, and Shivkumar Kallur.
"Last year Sri Ram Sena was involved in the attack of over 30 prayer halls in Mangalore city area, Karnataka, and they have the tacit approval of the local administrative machinery," George said. "That emboldens them to carry out attack on Christians."
GCIC has appealed to the Governor of Karnataka, the Home Minister of the government of India and the National Human Rights Commission to look into the matter."
Seva Bharath Mission India has been known for its humanitarian service to northern Karnataka for the past nine years. It provides adult literacy and children's education programs and has been involved in evening tuition classes for street children. The teacher's training program was organized to equip men and women from 11 districts in north Karnataka to teach and be a part of the humanitarian mission.
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I often wonder if I would be better off without a smartphone. When I have it with me and I'm connected to the Internet, which is like... all the time, I just have to look every time I receive a notification. It's annoying but in the same time addictive. Addiction is bad. Smartphones=addiction.
Re: What if you didn't own a smartphone?
I agree, but I personally would prefer the Nokia 3310!
As the legend goes, it is unbreakable, and can also help break other stuff.
So it has multiple purposes like a smartphone, without the problems that arise from one.
Nokia - Opening beers since 3310!
@Steven Brown - yeah, there are other legendary phones, such as the Siemens C55 - I had a friend who threw it in any place possible and then reassemble the pieces just like 3310 and it worked every time! Do you know other phones which held their own like that or some with epic functions that we no longer see in smartphones?


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What a season it was for Coach Drey Trosclair and the Ascension Catholic Bulldogs in 2017. The team finished with a 11-3 overall record and a trip to the Division IV state championship game. Even though the Bulldogs did lose that game to the Lafayette Christian Academy Knights, last year's final result has not affected the team so far in 2018 as the team has an undefeated 6-0 record. Senior defensive end Dillion Davis is one of the many leaders on this football team. He said that the coaching staff and team has done a great job of putting away that loss in the Super Dome behind them.
"After losing the way we did in the Dome, we came into this season looking for revenge," Davis said. "We looked to put last season behind us and look to chase the championship again. We know every week that we are moving closer to our goal, which is winning a state championship."
What really helps the Bulldogs is playing in arguably the most difficult district in Class 1A football with other football programs such as Kentwood High School and Southern Lab High School. In speaking of Southern Lab, that is the next opponent for the Bulldogs. Both the Kittens and Bulldogs are two of the favorites not only in the district but in the select Division IV bracket along with Lafayette Christian Academy. This regular season matchup may decide who wins District this year, but there is a good chance that this will not be the only time these two teams play each other. Ascension Catholic Head Coach Drey Trosclair knows how important tonight's matchup is.
"It is a huge matchup," Trosclair said. "Right now, it is #1 vs. #2 in the power rankings. The winner of this game is in the driver seat for winning the district along with Kentwood. It should be a great atmosphere in Mumford Stadium."
Offensively, having two LSU commits does help the Southern Lab Kittens with offensive guard Kardell Thomas and running back Tyrion Davis, but having a defensive end like Dillion Davis makes things a little bit easier for the Bulldogs in trying to stop the Kittens' bread and butter.
"Dillion Davis is very disruptive for use defensively," Trosclair said. "He can come off the edge and does a really good job of rushing the passer."
Ascension Catholic senior WR Michael "Tre" Medine (Property of LAFM)
At 6-2, 276 pounds, Davis has the size and speed to really be a factor in tonight's game. He has shown to take over in big games like this over his high school career as the Parish's defensive MVP, All-District, and All-Parish selection. Davis is the biggest senior recruit for the Bulldogs after receiving offers from ULL, Tulane, Texas State, Arkansas State, Nicholls State, Southern, and Southeastern. Still, even with all of the recognition including being on the cover of our South edition preview magazine, it does not prevent Davis from continuing to improve his game whether it is working on his skills or watching film on NFL players.
"I am working on my foot speed as well as ways on defeating double teams," Davis said. "I really like watching Cameron Jordan (Cal/New Orleans Saints) and Ed Oliver (Houston). Both players really play with their hands and have a passion for getting to the passer as well as stopping the run."
In order for the Bulldogs to have success, Dillion Davis must do well in both of those areas. In speaking of doing well, the Bulldogs also have a bread and butter running game led by the exciting duo of senior running back Jamar Barber (5-7, 170) and junior running back Jai Williams, who have both rushed for 1,000 yards last season and are looking to repeat that feat this season. With all the success Barber has done on the football field, it seems that the colleges have not paid attention.
"Jamar Barber has received zero offers so far," Trosclair said.
Ascension Catholic senior WR/FS Mason Zeringue (Property of LAFM)
Considering how dominant the running game has been, it is a surprise that the All-District running back has received rarely any interest from colleges. However, the offensive line has been the same way and brings the same hard hat attitude of just doing your job even though their play may not be recognized. The leader for the Bulldogs upfront offensively is senior center Jacob Matirne (6-2, 260).
"I just try to do my best for my team in order to get us to that next level," Matirne said.
Matirne's attitude, high football I.Q., and leadership has been another key component to what the Bulldogs want to do, which is control the line of scrimmage. However, the team can throw the football when they need to. Senior Bulldogs Quarterback John Mire has a big athletic target in Michael "Tre" Medine (6-2, 180).
"Tre is a big receiver for us on the outside," Trosclair said. "He is a guy that we are going to try and throw to in the red zone. He is our guy for us and has really played well."
Another senior that Trosclair has high praise for is senior ATH Rodney Blanchard (5-10, 165).
"Rodney has played multiple positions for us," Trosclair said. "He moved from slot receiver and is now playing some quarterback for us. He is so versatile for us as he is also our kicker and punter as well. He is an all around great athlete that does a lot of different things in order to help us win."
The Bulldogs also are waiting to get senior WR/FS Mason Zeringue (5-9, 175) back in action after he has suffered a knee injury for most of the season. When he is in the lineup, it will be a huge plus for the Bulldogs as he is a two time All-District selection that plays fast and not afraid to be physical at the point of attack. Having players like Zeringue and Barber at 100% will pay dividends for this team that is already talented and has senior leaders on this team. Senior Ascension Catholic players all reflected on how much this game sets up the rest of the season.
"This game is huge for us," Zeringue said. "It can be used as sort of a measuring stick to see exactly where we are at as a team. In order for us to come out with a victory, we need to play Ascension Catholic football, which is play like the hardest, smartest, and most intense people on the field. Also, we need to execute our game plan extremely well in order to come out on top over an extremely talented Southern Lab team."
"We are ready for the game," Matirne said. "I feel we have a really good game plan and now, we just have to go out and execute it."
Regardless of the result in the game, it does not change the goals ahead for the Bulldogs.
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No credibility or consensus: Mars pulls out of Evolved Nutrition Label
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Mars will leave the industry-developed Evolved Nutrition Label, citing a lack of credibility and consensus, and has called on the European Commission to bring in a pan-EU, mandatory label.
The ENL gives a colour based on the individual nutrients such as sugar, fat and salt in a food and drink, meaning a single product could simultaneously have a green and red light. It also gives nutritional information per portion rather than per 100 g.
This has resulted in criticism over its potential to mislead consumers. Ferrero's chocolate and hazelnut-based spread Nutella, for instance, contains 90% sugar and fat but, under the ENL logo, has no red light.
Mars was one of the original six companies that developed the label but will now withdraw, instead calling for a single nutrition label to be used uniformly across Europe.
A spokesperson told FoodNavigator: "After a year of intense engagement with [ENL] stakeholders, we have come to the conclusion that whilst there is support for a pan-European approach and to a lesser degree for interpretative nutrition labelling, the 'per portion' solution explored by ENL does not currently enjoy the credibility and required broad level of consensus among stakeholders to make it a viable option at this point."
The five other ENL companies, Mondelēz , Nestlé, PepsiCo, Coca-Cola and Unilever, said they remained committed to the logo.
'We call on the Commission to develop an EU regulation'
The global manufacturer of M&Ms, Uncle Ben's, Dolmio sauces and Wrigley's chewing gum is calling for binding EU regulation to create a level playing field for manufacturers.
"We cannot risk inertia –we call to move forward with EU-level action," the Mars spokesperson said. "We need a pan-European solution, for all EU consumers to benefit from it and to reduce complexity and cost to businesses."
"Given the diverging stakeholder views on the right approach to nutrition labelling, we call on the European Commission to take stock of the situation and, together with EU member states, consider developing an EU regulation to harmonise interpretative labelling. This would deliver benefits to consumers, ensure a level playing field for businesses and provide legal certainty."
The firm said this would be best achieved by a transparent and inclusive EU-level process, led by the European Commission, bringing together member states, consumer and public health NGOs, academics and industry, to explore which existing scheme or schemes are credible and acceptable to be rolled out across the EU.
Five remaining firms call on others to adopt ENL
A statement given by a Unilever spokesperson on behalf of the remaining ENL companies said they respected Mars' decision. "Moving forward, we welcome Mars' continued support for a consistent Europe-wide approach to interpretative nutrition labelling."
The five remaining companies said they firmly believed that ENL was an important contribution towards identifying a European solution for nutrition labelling and, while recognising the existence of diverging views on the issue, called on other companies to adopt the ENL.
"Through ENL, our aim has always been to address the needs of our consumers, who want simple, easy-to-understand and meaningful nutrition labelling including realistic portion size information. For this reason, we continue our EU and national consultations, while we reiterate our call for the European Commission to define standard portion sizes.
"We firmly believe in the power of collective action and therefore call for an EU-led process that brings together all relevant stakeholders (the European Commission, Member States, consumer groups, NGOs and industry) for constructive engagement toward identifying a solution that will benefit all European consumers."
Mégane Ghorbani, campaign manager at industry watchdog Foodwatch France said Mars' decision was a step in the right direction.
"It proves that a major player in the agri-food industry recognizes the criticism of Foodwatch and many others on a fanciful approach based on unrealistic serving portions carried by some big manufacturers. We now hope that they will all side with reason and abandon their attempt to spread misinformation."
Foodwatch called on the manufacturers to adopt government-backed labelling schemes, such as the UK's traffic light logo that was developed by the Food Standards Agency or France's NutriScore.
Mars in transparency drive
Mars' ENL announcement comes just weeks after it said it was leaving the controversial industry-funded science group, International Life Sciences Institute (ILSI) by the end of the year.
It also published its science policy, (click here to read in full) in which it promises to freely publish research findings regardless of the outcome, fully disclose any potential conflicts of interest and ensure that funding is not linked to achievement of a specific research result.
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San José, Costa Rica—UPF held its first conference for Central America and the Caribbean region, "Building bridges of peace," in San José on June 25, 2015.
UPF's Central America and Caribbean regional office and UPF-Costa Rica co-organized the event in partnership with the Family Federation for World Peace and Unification (FFWPU)- Costa Rica, CARP (Collegiate Association for the Research of Principles)-Costa Rica, Women's Federation for World Peace-Costa Rica, and Telepaz Channel 52. FFWPU International sponsored the conference.
More than 100 delegates, including UPF presidents, and religious and civic leaders, participated in the one-day event. Among them were Mr. Alvaro Jimenez Cruz, mayor of the municipality of Montes de Oro in Costa Rica; Mrs. Lidieth Ramirez Lobo, vice mayor of Montes de Oro; and Mr. José Roberto Rodriguez Quesada, former deputy of Costa Rica's legislative assembly.
Speakers shared the vision of UPF co-founders, Rev. Sun Myung Moon and Dr. Hak Ja Han Moon, and UPF's work around the world.
UPF Central America and the Caribbean regional office president, Rev. Sang Suek Kim, shared with the participants his desire to work together in the region to lift and strengthen a regional network of UPF leaders. "UPF is a bridge to open the pathway, starting from today," he said.
Mr. Cesar Regalado, president of UPF-Dominican Republic; Mr. Gerardo Brenes, president of UPF-Costa Rica; Mr. Quesada and Mr. Cruz also spoke, as well as Mr. Ricardo De Sena, president of UPF-USA, who gave a presentation on UPF's principles of peace.


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 **Helping Hand**

**School** evocation; **Level** cleric 3

**Casting Time** 1 standard action

**Components** V, S, DF

**Range** 5 miles

**Effect** ghostly hand

**Duration** 1 hour/level

**Saving Throw** none; **[Spell Resistance](../glossary#_spell-resistance)** no

You create the ghostly image of a hand, which you can send to find a creature within 5 miles. The hand then beckons to that creature and leads it to you if the creature is willing to follow.

When the spell is cast, you specify a person (or any creature) by physical description, which can include race, gender, and appearance but not ambiguous factors such as level, alignment, or class. When the description is done, the hand streaks off in search of a subject that fits the description. The amount of time it takes to find the subject depends on how far away he is, as detailed on the following table.

| Distance | Time to Locate |
| --- | --- |
| 100 ft. or less | 1 round |
| 1,000 ft. | 1 minute |
| 1 mile | 10 minutes |
| 2 miles | 1 hour |
| 3 miles | 2 hours |
| 4 miles | 3 hours |
| 5 miles | 4 hours |

Once the hand locates the subject, it beckons the creature to follow it. If the subject does so, the hand points in your direction, indicating the most direct, feasible route. The hand hovers 10 feet in front of the subject, moving before it at a speed of as much as 240 feet per round. Once the hand leads the subject back to you, it disappears.

The subject is not compelled to follow the hand or act in any particular way toward you. If the subject chooses not to follow, the hand continues to beckon for the duration of the spell, then disappears. If the spell expires while the subject is en route to you, the hand disappears; the subject must then rely on its own devices to locate you.

If more than one subject in a 5-mile radius meets the description, the hand locates the closest creature. If that creature refuses to follow the hand, the hand does not seek out a second subject.

If, at the end of 4 hours of searching, the hand has found no subject that matches the description within 5 miles, it returns to you, displays an outstretched palm (indicating that no such creature was found), and disappears.

The ghostly hand has no physical form. It is [invisible](../glossary#_invisible) to anyone except you and a potential subject. It cannot engage in combat or execute any other task aside from locating a subject and leading it back to you. The hand can't pass through solid objects but can ooze through small cracks and slits. The hand cannot travel more than 5 miles from the spot it appeared when you cast the spell.

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For more information or to coordinate play with others, please reach out to Stephen Halpert at 203-858-2667.
A paddle sport that utilizes elements of tennis, table tennis and badminton. It is played with a hard racket and ball, similar to a whiffle ball. You can play with two, three or four players. Pickleball is all the rage, get in on the action! Great for all ages.


Each September, our family at First Lutheran gives Good News Bibles to our 3rd graders. These bibles are easy to read and are a great resource for kids and parents! We also present the students with a bookmark and encourage them to read one chapter in the book of Mark each night - that way they will finish one book of the bible in a little over two weeks!


A method is presented for the "exact" nonlinear analysis of reinforced and prestressed concrete slender members subject to biaxial bending. The main feature of the method is the procedure that analyzes the stress-strain state of sections, under given axial force and biaxial moment. The outlined procedure, applied to a number of selected cross sections in the structure, allows an overall iterative procedure to find the solution of the structural problem for given loads. In fact, by integrating the deformabilities, the coefficients for the compatibility equations at the freed end are built up, while the integration of the curvatures yields the deflections, i.e. , the right-hand side of the equations themselves. The analysis of a 165-m bridge pier (prestressed) under earthquake simulating forces is given as an example.