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Сти́рка — физико-химический процесс очистки текстильных изделий (одежда, постельное бельё, занавески и т. д.), использующий водные растворы детергентов: поверхностно-активных веществ (ПАВ), энзимов, пигментов, отбеливателей и т. д. Традиционно основным назначением стирки было удаление различных загрязнений. Стирка может сочетаться с отбеливанием.

В последнее время, в связи с повсеместным применением в тканях синтетических электризующихся волокон к назначению стирки относится и нанесение на ткани специальных веществ антистатиков с помощью так называемых кондиционеров.

Способы стирки

 Ручная; применялась с незапамятных времён; прачка ( портомоя) — профессионально занимающийся стиркой человек, чаще женщина, но в начале XX века существовали так называемые «китайские прачечные», где преимущественно работали мужчины; прачечная — предприятие, оказывающее услуги стирки, глажки и мелкого ремонта белья.
 Машинная — с использованием стиральной машины. Наиболее современный и эффективный способ стирки, механизирующий, а сейчас и автоматизирующий все или почти все стадии стирки.
 Ультразвуковая — с использованием ультразвука. Потенциально перспективный способ стирки, однако существующее оборудование для ультразвуковой стирки имеет, к сожалению, сравнительно невысокую эффективность.

Стадии стирки
 Замачивание — выдержка текстиля в растворе детергентов и/или отбеливателя для набухания, частичного растворения и химического разложения загрязнений.
 Удаление загрязнений — исторически производилось путем прополаскивания или выколачивания ткани, смоченной раствором мыла, сапонинов или омыляющего агента, например, карбоната натрия («стиральной соды») руками, либо с помощью рубеля и/или стиральной доски. В настоящее время производится химическим путем с помощью детергентов.
 Кипячение — нагрев замоченного в растворе ПАВ или отбеливателя текстиля до температуры кипения с целью термического разложения некоторых видов загрязнений и дезинфекции.
 Отжим — удаление большей части стирального раствора путём выкручивания или центрифугирования.
 Полоскание — прополаскивание текстиля в чистой воде для удаления детергентов и эмульгированных загрязнений. Цикл «полоскание/отжим» может быть повторён несколько раз, до полного удаления остатка детергентов и загрязнений.
 Кондиционирование — прополаскивание текстиля в растворе кондиционера, улучшающего те или иные параметры ткани (смягчители, крахмал, синька, оптические отбеливатели, антистатики, ароматизаторы).
 Сушка — удаление воды из текстиля путём испарения.
 Глаженье — обычно не включается непосредственно как стадия в процесс стирки, но, как правило, замыкает технологический процесс очистки текстильных изделий и подготовки их к использованию.

Замачивание, кипячение и кондиционирование являются необязательными стадиями стирки.

Реактивы для стирки

Поверхностно-активные вещества (ПАВ)

Эмульгируют загрязнения и понижают поверхностное натяжение стирального раствора, что способствует его проникновению меж волокон ткани. Может быть следующих видов:

По происхождению разделяются на:
 Натуральные: сапонины — поверхностно-активные вещества растительного происхождения.
 Искусственные: мыло — наиболее древний вид искусственных ПАВ, известный уже несколько тысячелетий. Для стирки обычно используют хозяйственное мыло.
 Синтетические, являющиеся основным компонентом стиральных порошков: например лаурилсульфат натрия.

По химическому составу поверхностно-активные вещества делятся на:
 Анионные ПАВ — обычно линейные алкилбензолсульфонаты или сульфаты спиртов, а также натриевые и калиевые соли жирных кислот (мыла́). Их основная функция в удалении загрязнений с тканей и суспендировании их в моющем растворе. Используются в порошковых и жидких моющих средствах для стирки.
 Неионогенные ПАВ — обычно этоксилированные спирты. Природные сапонины также относятся к этому классу веществ. Обладают более низким пенообразованием, чем анионные ПАВ. Они проявляют отличную способность к удалению масляных загрязнений (особенно с синтетических тканей). Используются в порошковых и жидких моющих средствах для стирки.
 Катионные ПАВ — обычно четвертичные аммонийные соединения (например диалкил (С12-С18) диметиламмоний сульфат). Используются для умягчения тканей и придания им антистатических свойств (кондиционеры для белья).

Щелочные соли
Омыляют жиры, облегчая их удаление, а также уменьшают жёсткость воды.
 Карбонат натрия (кальцинированная сода) — эта добавка нежелательна при ручной стирке, так как вредно действует на кожу.
 Фосфат натрия (тринатрий-фосфат) — эта добавка неблагоприятно действует на окружающую среду, вызывая эвтрофикацию водоёмов.

Энзимы
Ферменты биологического происхождения, разлагающие те или иные органические загрязнения. Энзимы обычно теряют активность при слишком высокой температуре стирки. Наиболее часто применяются следующие энзимы:
 Протеаза — разлагает белки, облегчая удаление белковых загрязнений (пища, пот, слизь, плесень и т. п.). Неприменима при стирке белковых тканей (шерсть, натуральный шёлк), поскольку разрушает их. Также может постепенно разрушать полиамиды (нейлон, капрон).
 Кератиназа — разлагает кератин (роговое вещество), из которого состоят чешуйки кожи и мелкие волоски. Разрушает шерсть и натуральный шёлк. Также может постепенно разрушать полиамиды (нейлон, капрон).
 Амилаза — разлагает крахмал, облегчая удаление остатков пищи.
 Целлюлаза — разрушает тонкие волокна целлюлозы, что освежает цвет тканей растительного происхождения (хлопок, лён, конопля, джут). При слишком интенсивном использовании разрушает сами ткани.
 Липаза — разлагает жиры.

Химические отбеливатели
Являясь окислителями, отбеливатели химически разлагают и обесцвечивают загрязнения, обладающие интенсивным цветом (например, пятна от вина или травы), а также способствуют дезинфекции. Отбеливатели делятся на хлорсодержащие и пероксидные.

Пигменты
Применяются для улучшения цвета белых текстильных изделий. Синька применяется для коррекции жёлтого оттенка застиранного белья, а оптический отбеливатель («оптическая синька») является флуоресцентным веществом, преобразующим ультрафиолетовое излучение в синий свет, что устраняет желтизну и повышает альбедо.

Крахмал
Добавление крахмала (подкрахмаливание) применяется для повышения механической жёсткости текстильных изделий после глажки, что позволяет им лучше держать форму при дальнейшем использовании.

Вспомогательные вещества
К ним относятся:
 Умягчители воды, например трилон Б, цеолиты.
 Пенообразователи — увеличивают образование пены, что способствует очищению тканей при ручной стирке.
 Пеногасители, необходимы для предотвращения образования избыточной пены при машинной стирке.
 Антиресорбенты, предотвращающие оседание эмульгированных частиц загрязнений обратно на ткань, например карбоксиметилцеллюлоза.
 Солевой балласт, облегчающий растворение и регулирующий pH раствора, например сульфат натрия.
 Ароматизаторы (отдушки).
 Глицерин — позволяет избежать усадки тканей, обеспечивает мягкость и пушистость, имеется в составе кондиционера для белья.

Как часто нужно стирать вещи
В зависимости от типа одежды, производители рекомендуют разную частоту стирок.

 Нижнее белье и носки – 1 раз;
 Спортивная одежда для тренировок, купальник – 1 раз;
 Футболки с коротким рукавом – 1-2 раза;
 Платье – 1-3 раза;
 Бюстгальтеры и топы – 2-3 раза;
 Пижамы и ночные рубашки – 3-4 раза;
 Кофта, джемпер, водолазка – 5-6 раз. Если на светлой водолазке или гольфе испачкался воротник, то можно застирать только его;
 Юбка – 5-7 раз;
 Шапка – 3-4 раза за сезон;
 Пальто, куртка – 1-2 стирки за сезон. Если вещь светлая, и на рукавах и других местах заметны загрязнения, зачистите их локально.

Правила стирки

Символы стирки на ярлыках текстильных изделий

На ярлыках текстильных изделий указываются символы, регламентирующие правила их обработки. Для стирки это знак в виде тазика с водой.

Число на символе означает предельно допустимую температуру воды для стирки.

Одна горизонтальная черта внизу символа означает щадящие условия стирки. Количество белья в стиральной машине не должно превышать примерно 2/3 от максимально допустимого значения, сила механического воздействия (кручения) машины должна быть уменьшена. Отжимать в машине на уменьшенных количестве оборотов в минуту и продолжительности отжима. Вручную отжимать аккуратно.
Две горизонтальных черты внизу символа означают особо щадящие условия стирки. Количество белья в машине не должно превышать примерно 1/3 от максимально допустимого значения, сила механического воздействия (кручения) машины должна быть значительно снижена. Отжимать в машине на значительно уменьшенных количестве оборотов в минуту и продолжительности отжима. Вручную отжимать очень аккуратно, без перекручивания, либо не отжимать.

Подготовка
Прежде всего вещи для стирки нужно подготовить.
 Вынуть всё из карманов одежды (ключи, деньги, записки и т. д.).
 Вывернуть наизнанку постельное бельё и удалить накопившийся в углах сор.
 Распрямить манжеты на рукавах рубашек.
 Брюки, юбки, трикотаж, носки, колготки, чулки вывернуть наизнанку. Так они дольше сохраняют свой цвет.
 Расстегнуть пуговицы.
 Молнии, кнопки и крючки застегнуть.
 Связать шнурки и тесёмки.
 Пятна при необходимости обработать пятновыводителем.

Сортировка
Вещи рассортировать по составу и виду используемой ткани, а также по цвету.

Для начала следует обратить внимание на этикетки с маркировкой и на состав ткани. Одежду, требующую более деликатной стирки с особыми требованиями по температуре и/или реагентам, откладываем отдельно, к ней можно добавить слабо загрязнённые вещи из более грубых тканей, совместимые по цвету и условиям стирки. Синтетику нельзя стирать вместе с хлопком.

Во избежание окрашивания одних тканей другими вследствие линьки белые вещи следует стирать отдельно, светлые отдельно, тёмные отдельно. Допустимо закладывать совместно белое с цветным не линяющим и светлым. Отдельно также рекомендуется стирать сильно линяющую и сильно загрязнённую одежду (впрочем, для освежения цвета можно простирать тёмную сильно линяющую вещь вместе с другими изделиями того же цвета). Цветные вещи не рекомендуется стирать при слишком высокой температуре.

Сильно загрязнённые изделия из не слишком деликатных тканей лучше стирать с замачиванием.

Вещи, требующие кипячения (или машинной стирки при 95) с целью дезинфекции, также стираем отдельно.

Требования к стирке для разных тканей
По условиям для стирки ткани можно разбить на следующие группы:
 Натуральные растительные ткани: хлопок, лён, конопля, джут. Можно стирать практически при любой температуре и практически с любыми реагентами.
 Натуральные ткани животного происхождения: шерсть, шёлк, а также полиамиды: нейлон, капрон. Такие ткани нужно стирать бережно, при температуре не выше 50-60. Их нельзя стирать с энзимами, разлагающими белки (протеаза, кератиназа), нельзя применять химические отбеливатели, щелочные соли.
 Искусственные волокна (вискоза). Стирать при температуре не выше 30, отжимать бережно, без перекручивания.
 Полиэфиры: лавсан (терилен); полиакрилаты: акрил; полиуретаны: лайкра. Стирать при температуре не выше 50-60. Категорически нельзя стирать с щелочными солями, в том числе даже хозяйственным мылом (оно содержит карбонат натрия), нельзя применять отбеливатели на основе хлора.
 Смешанные ткани (лавсан + шерсть, лавсан + хлопок, нейлон + лайкра и т. д.). Логическое произведение ограничений, соответствующих каждому из типов волокон.

Самые распространенные ошибки при стирке
Перебор со стиральным средством, отбеливателем или кондиционером является наиболее распространенной ошибкой при стирке в домашних условиях. Во время стирки важно, чтобы не было избытка стирального средства, ведь это создает большое количество пены, которое во время автоматического цикла стирки не удалится из волокон в полном объеме. В результате ткань покроется белыми пятнами. Избыточная пена также задерживает грязь в волокнах и ухудшает качество стирки.

Использование любого химического отбеливателя со временем сказывается на качестве ткани. Из-за его избытка волокна теряют упругость и прочность, а побочным эффектом хлора является пожелтение.

Большое количество добавленного ополаскивателя при стирке вещей из мембраны, пуховиков, термобелья, подушек и одеял с натуральными наполнителями значительно ухудшает теплоизоляционные свойства и адсорбционную способность ткани.

Оборудование для стирки

Ручная стирка

Ручная стирка обычно производится в той или иной ёмкости (таз, ведро, корыто, ванна). Для интенсификации процесса очищения тканей при стирке может быть использована стиральная доска, а также щётка. Полоскание может также производиться в природном водоёме (река, озеро), в прохладном климате зимой для этого приходится делать прорубь.

Машинная стирка

Машинной стиркой называется стирка, осуществляемая с помощью специального полуавтоматического или автоматического устройства — стиральной машины. В настоящий момент это наиболее удобный способ стирки, распространённый в странах с высоким и средним уровнем жизни.

Загрузка стиральной машины
Согласно рекомендациям производителей, наиболее оптимальной считается загрузка барабана стиральной машины-автомат на 2/3 для тканей из хлопка и льна, а для деликатных и тонких тканей – 1/2. В перегруженном барабане уменьшается качество стирки, вещи испытывают сильное механическое повреждение вследствии трения, а срок службы стиральной машины значительно сокращается.

Ультразвуковая стирка

Производится в ультразвуковой ванне, в качестве которой может быть использована любая ёмкость, с применением источника ультразвука.
Пьезокерамический излучатель возбуждает ультразвуковые колебания, обладающие хорошей проникающей способностью в жидкой среде и создающие на поверхности загрязненных волокон текстильных изделий особые микровоздействия, которые нарушают сцепление микрочастиц загрязнений с волокнами изделий и облегчают их удаление поверхностно активными веществами моющего раствора стирального порошка или мыла. Таким образом, очищение волокон ткани происходит изнутри, что в теории позволяет достичь высокой эффективности стирки. Однако, доступные рядовому потребителю приборы для ультразвуковой стирки, к сожалению, малоэффективны.

Сушка

Осуществляется либо естественным образом (путём развешивания выстиранного текстиля на свежем воздухе, в помещении или на батарее центрального отопления), либо с помощью сушилки или тепловентилятора, создающих поток горячего воздуха. В гостиницах, общежитиях, казармах и т. п. иногда устраиваются специальные помещения — сушильные комнаты, в которых благодаря большому количеству отопительных батарей поддерживается повышенная температура, что ускоряет сушку.

Существуют также стиральные машины с функцией сушки.

Во избежание пожара запрещается производить сушку белья в неприспособленных для этого местах: на батареях электрообогревателя, над кухонной плитой и т. п.

См. также
 Химчистка
 Аквачистка

Примечания

Ссылки

 ГОСТ Р ИСО 3758-2007 Изделия текстильные. Маркировка символами по уходу
Тематический сайт о стирке stirochka.com.ua


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Disney may forego bonuses to workers after all
by Hennig Ruiz Law Firm | Apr 27, 2018 | Blog
When the Trump administration's business-friendly new tax form bill was signed into law at the end of 2017, The Walt Disney Company was quick to join the chorus of other massive companies – including Walmart, Boeing, AT&T and Comcast – in announcing that they would be sharing some of the resulting wealth of their lowered corporate tax rate with many of their employees in the form of a one time bonus. Unfortunately for some of those employees, that promise may turn out to be too good to be true.
Proposed perks for park employees
The initial announcement made by Disney in January 2018 detailed two substantially beneficial initiatives, totaling a reported $175 million, meant to serve as a reinvestment into their employee base. One of these investments comes in the form of a $50 million employee education program, which would make the option of pursuing either vocational training or qualifying higher education courses more accessible to their hourly employees.
The other $125 million, Disney announced, would be dispensed as one-time bonuses in the amount of $1,000, which would be distributed to any full-time or part-time employees who had been working for the company since before January 1. The bonus was scheduled to be paid in two installments, with the first coming in March and the second in September. Disney, like many other large companies who announced bonuses and other employee benefit programs at the start of 2018, credited the recent tax reform law, which decreased the corporate tax rate from 35 percent down to 21 percent, with their decision to give back to their employees. Disney alone has reportedly gained a significant $1.6 billion financial bump which they have attributed to the new tax rate.
Financial uncertainty for union employees
Though the initial announcement failed to specify the exclusion of any employees aside from those who work for the company on an executive level, around 38,000 Disney workers who are part of a union now find themselves caught in a mouse trap. New contract negotiations with unionized employees, which were begun back in November, prior to the signing of the new tax law and the announcement of employee bonuses was made, are currently at something of a stalemate – and The Walt Disney Company appears to be using the bonuses as leverage in their negotiations with the Service Trades Council Union.
After the company's offer of two subsequent 50-cent raises, one to begin in the present year and one to go into effect in the following year, as well as a $200 signing bonus in November 2017, which was rejected by the union members, Disney has responded with a threat to withdraw the offer of the additional one-time $1,000 tax cut bonus if unionized employees fail to approve their most recent wage proposal by the deadline of August 31, 2018.
The legality of this tactic has now been officially called into question, with members of the Services Trades Council Union filing a federal unfair labor practices complaint against the company with the National Labor Relations Board. In the meantime, Disney has already approved the bonuses for some employees who do not belong to the union, which could lend some legal weight to the STCU's claim that union employees are facing a form of discrimination in this matter, but an official response to the complaint is still pending.
This is not the first time that Disney has found themselves accused of questionable employee treatment and because they are a company of considerable size, with a lengthy roster of employees, it's unlikely it will be the last.
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MN Cockroach Inspection
by EcoTech Pest Control | Dec 6, 2010 | Minnesota pest removal, Roach Removal |
Cockroach Inspection
There are four kinds of cockroaches that can infest homes in Minnesota, including German cockroach, brownbanded cockroach, American cockroach, and Oriental cockroach. These four species can be major pests in restaurants, hospitals, warehouses, offices and buildings with food-handling areas. A fifth kind, the Pennsylvania wood cockroach, may enter buildings accidentally but become only a temporary nuisance.
Cockroaches are one of the most commonly encountered household pests. Homeowners can learn about ways to eliminate these insects and the conditions that encourage their infestation.
Cockroaches have a broad, flattened body and a relatively small head that covers their mandibles and other mouthparts. They have six legs, large ocelli (simple eyes), and a pair of long, flexible antennae. Although winged, they are not adept fliers. The best-known varieties are the American cockroach (1.2 inches long), the German and Asian cockroaches (0.59 inches long), the Oriental cockroach (0.98 inches long), and the brown-banded cockroach (0.55 inches long).
Cockroach Identification
Facts About Cockroaches
The world's heaviest cockroach is the Australian giant burrowing cockroach, which can weigh more than 30 grams and reach 3½ inches in length.
While cockroaches could withstand six to 15 times as much radiation exposure as humans, the popular belief that they will "inherit the Earth" in the wake of nuclear war is largely undeserved; other insects, such as fruit flies, have even better resistance against radiation than cockroaches.
While it has been known for some time that cockroaches and termites are related, it wasn't until 2007 that it was proven that termites are a kind of "social cockroach," having actually evolved from cockroaches. Similarities include specialized casings that enclose their eggs, perforations in the internal parts of their heads, and similarities among their young. There are significant differences between these pests, however; termites pose a greater danger to wood, and they form huge, complex societies, while cockroaches are solitary, generalized insects with few special adaptations.
Some species of cockroaches can survive for months without food and subsist on nothing but the glue on the back of a postage stamp, and even their own feces. Experiments have revealed that they can go without air for 45 minutes and recover after being submerged under water for half an hour.
Cockroaches are prolific breeders and can produce several thousand offspring in a year, once they become established in a home. They are normally introduced on clothing, shopping bags and furniture, and they can also simply wander in from the outdoors.
Cockroaches are known to spread diseases such as salmonella, food poisoning and dysentery, primarily through contact with their feces and defensive secretions. They also transport dangerous microbes, a particular problem in hospitals. Their skin, which is discarded through periodic molting, can become airborne and trigger severe asthmatic reactions in prone individuals. Incredibly, cockroaches have even been found to be second only to house dust as the worst allergen affecting people. Besides these physical ailments, cockroaches emit an unpleasant odor during swarming and mating, and they can keep a building's occupants awake at night with their incessant hissing and, in the case of some cockroach species, chirping.
Tips For Minnesota Homeowners:
Place boric acid in areas of cockroach activity. Boric acid can maintain an infestation once under control, but pyrethrin should be used first and the whole structure bug-bombed.
Pyrethrin should be used first, and after the population is under control place boric acid wherever needed.
Place bait stations containing hydramethylnon or fipronil in areas of termite activity. At night, homeowners can sneak into the kitchen and turn on the lights. If cockroaches scurry for cover, observe where they run and position traps accordingly.
Keep all food in sealed containers, use trashcans that have tight-fitting lids, and do not leave pet food out overnight.
Clean the kitchen regularly, and wipe moisture from the kitchen sink before going to bed at night.
Vacuum frequently.
Repair dripping taps and leaky pipes, broken roof tiles, and any other condition that might allow moisture to enter areas where cockroaches can establish harborage.
Seal off all entry points into the house, such as cracks around baseboards, pipes, windows, cabinets, doors and crevices in bathrooms with copper mesh or steel wool and caulk or putty.
Keep lights on at night. Although it will consume additional electricity, cockroaches will avoid lit areas. For the same reason, restaurant owners sometimes leave lights on around dumpsters.
If cockroach infestation persists, contact a qualified exterminator.


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NC United for Survival & Beyond
We are a coalition of organizations that have co-created 10 demands of the NC General Assembly and Governor to respond to the most vulnerable communities during COVID-19… and beyond.
Sign OnOur Platform
Tell Sen Berger, Speaker Moore & Gov Cooper:
Protect NC workers & communities from COVID-19!
COVID-19 is exposing the social, economic, and political crisis our communities have been bearing for decades and more. While this reality is distressing, we're also no strangers to organizing ourselves and our loved ones to make sure none of us get left behind.
We, a broad coalition directly impacted people and organizations, are launching the North Carolina People's Platform for Social and Economic Survival and Beyond. We call on the Governor and the North Carolina General Assembly to take action.
North Carolina's People's Platform for Social and Economic Survival and Beyond
We are in the midst of a global pandemic, witnessing the devastating consequences of COVID-19 on countries and communities across the world. This health crisis is exposing, in no uncertain terms, the social, economic, and political crisis that our communities have been bearing for decades and more. Our response to this moment, and the grave injustices that are now amplifying its consequences, offers us the opportunity to move toward a North Carolina where all people can thrive. At this point, it is impossible to extract the crisis caused by COVID-19 from the massive social and economic inequality that laid the groundwork for the disproportionate spread of devastation we can anticipate in our state. Our way forward, therefore, must prioritize solutions that rectify both.
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The up/download data rates are available as 2-line items (with a half-height font). Neat. Thanks Hadogen.
And the alias name of a bluetooth devices is used instead of the device name if the user chose one.
And an embarassing bug: the midnight alarm was only scheduled one (as consequence of the fact that Android does not allow repeating alarm events that are exact). Sorry, Rick.
fixed crash if "Show airplane mode icon" is selected, but the READ_PHONE_STATE permission not given. Thank you, Aaron!
Dual SIM: option to display an "inactive" SIM card – this allows to monitor the signal strength of the second SIM and to evaluate whether switching the SIM would improve the data connection quality.
internal version with Picture-in-Picture display in car mode, but it is not meant for that kind of usage and gets confused. Perhaps I will try later, it looks nice. Anyway, I don't need the system's implementation for that, so I can also skip the Oreo code and do some DIY job. At first, it looked like it could do the job, and I like to try new technologies.
when the phone's display was off when the Wifi disconnected, there was still some code running that checked the Wifi data rate even if it was not connected any more using Wifi… nothing serious, but CPU waste.
todo: the "which also cares that the device does not start to sleep" of the car overlay does not work as expected, need to find a different way.
YACO did crash when a device without GPS was used (who would have expected someone would install it on a TV? ;)) Thank you, Jaromír, for the report! I apologize for 2 updates on the same day, but I like the users to be happy with as little problems as possible!
refactored the inner workings from intents to interfaces that clients can hook to, resulting in much, much cleaner code. Found several bugs in the meantime, and unfortunately I'm sure I added new… the fate of software developers.
known bug: Oreo causes the YACO overlay to be gone in the morning, most likely due to some DOZE effects. Oh well. Not found the cause yet.
1.7.0: large update… the switch to Oreo caused a lot of bugs, sorry. Refactored some internal code to simplify it.
new notification icon and app icon – I hope you like it!
for Oreo: the SYSTEM overlay does not work any more (see Android O is Breaking Apps that Overlay on top of the Status Bar), there's a new option to place YACO below the status bar. Sigh. This change breaks a lot of applications.
while I was at it: fixed problem of slider painting over itself (actually, two sliders on top of each other) – a customer reported the problem in 'Personal Sunrise', and now I was able to reproduce it in the Oreo Emulation Machine. Thanks, Walter!
fixed Notification Channels for Oreo. As I do not have an Oreo device (just the emulators), I am very thankful for any report about strange behavior or improvement suggestions!
fixed Oreo at all… ;( Too many "innocent" changes. Also, YACO placing on top not puts it below the standard icons of Oreo, thus the text is not readable any more. Time for a new Smartphone operating system that is less restrictive.
workaround for Nexus 7 bug displaying "NOT CHARGING" arrow instead of DISCHARGING.
removed test code for weather provider – it makes no sense as displaying a weather forecast in 5 icons it not very informative. Saves 500 MB of code.
… and proguard in combination with code and resource shrinking does cause crashes on startup due to missing resources. Sigh sigh.
an issue of the Android Developer Studio could have caused devices with Android < 5 (Lollipop) to crash. Sigh.
Displays active devices on Always-on-Screen (Samsung) – very valuable as I think. Only those devices are shown that are switched on in the "active devices" section of the standard item group.
A blue filter ("red filter"?) for relaxing in the evening, fixed with sunrise/sundown times of your location. Not as good as the built-in ones (cannot be, unfortunately), but Samsung (S8 at least) it is more than imperfect as it needs an enabled GPS for the sunrise/set times – it DOES NOT remember the location!
used the profiler a bit and improved CPU load – less battery usage!
… and a few more bugfixes.
Never allow Google to suggest a new Development Environment version: 1.6.1 crashed when the colors could have been chosen as the whole build process and some libraries did change unexpectedly.
added fixed unit dimension for data rate – easy to miss it's MB instead of GB. So a single unit can now be selected.
Finished Connection data, added global data consumption and other goodies, tethering and VPN detection, … The work is worth it!
Added an action (vibration and/or LED lighting if the device is connected or disconnected). Sounds superfluous, but when the QI wireless station is small and it happens that the device is not 100% correct on top of it that it it not being loaded. Now I feel when it's correct.
Mobile: Type of Connection (EDGE, HSDPA, …), Roaming State, Provider Name. As I own a DualSim device, this is also supported (Android >= 22).
while sitting in a plane flying home (thanks EasyJet ;)), I missed permanent GPS information, so I added a line with optional GPS information (height, speed, satellites used in fix, and climb/sink rate).Unfortunately now YACO needs GPS access permission, but this only really disturbs when installing on pre-Android 6-devices, otherwise it is queried when one of the new options is activated, and does not irritate the user when he wants to install YACO.
fixed layout problems if the character count or widths changed (from 9 to 10 o'clock or such) – thank you, K, for your patience finding that problem!
battery load state is now an arrow instead of a '+' or '-'.
detects (user) changes in time format, time zone, time value – immediately reflects the changed option.
fixed time format error when the time format was a 12-hour time format and YACO was started at an 12-hour value < 10: result was missing space to the battery symbol (or non-centered text) when the 12-hour value of the hour became >= 10. Thanks Kota for the bug report!
added an option to disable the launcher menu. This is not as easy as it sounds due to Android's activity stack… Suggestion of Roman, thank you.
… and updated the starter "menu" to FloatingActionButtons, which is more international (no texts) and fits much better to material style (and the app's colors) than buttons. Should be self-explaining.
Internal: updated to Build SDK 25 (Android 7) – cross your fingers! One of the advantages: the needed permanent, but unnecessary icon in the notification bar is not visible any more.
You can use the Intents "com.chk.permanentclock.DUCK_DISABLE" and "com.chk.permanentclock.DUCK_ENABLE" to show/hide the overlay without changing the active state permanently. These are the same intents used internally for the ducking if a permission dialog pops.
Popup menu from launcher shortcut to call the Settings or switch the overlay on or off (permanently) – thank you, Bill, for the idea!
Added dummy activities to (temporarily = "duck") the overlay from external applications (i.e. launcher) without changing the mode, that is, YACO stays active (see 'ducking' intents in 1.1.4)!


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Siasat.com/Technology/Fake social media accounts set up in Raghuram Rajan's name
Fake social media accounts set up in Raghuram Rajan's name
| Published: 30th May 2019 11:46 am IST
New York: Former Reserve Bank of India (RBI) Governor Raghuram Rajan is not on social media, except for a LinkedIn account, but fake Twitter accounts have been set up with his name, according to a spokesperson for his current academic institution, the Chicago University's Booth School of Business.
Asked about some political statements attributed to him on social media, Sandra Jones, the school's senior associate director for media relations, replied in an email to IANS: "There are some false Twitter accounts with his name, but they are not him."
During the election campaign in India and afterward, social media was rife with statements falsely attributed to him, many of them critical of Prime Minister Narendra Modi and supportive of Congress Party President Rahul Gandhi.
"They are fake," Jones said of social media accounts claiming to be that of Rajan, who became the school's Katherine Dusak Miller Distinguished Service Professor of Finance after leaving the RBI in 2016.
"His only social media activity is on LinkedIn," Jones wrote with a link to his latest authentic comments on India posted on that media.
When asked by the media about what the new Modi government should do, Rajan wrote on LinkedIn: "I can do no better than refer to a book that a group of us economists published recently entitled 'What the Economy Needs Now'."
He also posted an op-ed he and Massachusetts Institute of Technology Economics Professor Abhijit Banerjee wrote for The Times of India, which he said highlighted the recommendations.
Among the recommendations were a push for decentralization using a "cooperative federalism" model for the state and Centre to work together; attention to the three distressed sectors — agriculture, power and banking; creating a better business environment, and focusing on education.
In an interview videocast earlier this month on GZERO World, Rajan stressed the need to improve the education sector and said his advice would be to "put your smartest minister, your best minister in charge of education".
Asked by the interviewer, Ian Bremmer, a New York University professor and president of Eurasia, an international political consultancy, if he would take the job, Rajan said: "I am happy where I am, but if the opportunity arises to do something meaningful, I will always take it up."
During the interview, he differentiated the Congress party's promise of guaranteed minimum income from the Western concept of universal basic income, which he said is "an income sufficient for a middle-class person to sort of life without a job".
But the Congress' proposal is more of "a targeted poverty alleviation scheme", he said.
There are several programmes like subsidized food for the very poor, around 250 million people or about a quarter of the population, he said.
"Can we give direct (cash) transfer to those households at the bottom" so that they can not only avoid hunger, but also overcome malnutrition and disease, and get a decent education to contribute to the workforce, he asked.
"I think both sets of parties have been going towards this idea of direct income transfers, of course, facilitated by the Aadhar unique ID," he said, adding this would give the poor have "money power" and be "a way of empowering them",
"The Congress, of course, has the larger scheme than the BJP has, but the principle is essentially the same," he told Bremmer.
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Fake Raghuram Rajan Social Media
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Q: SQLite software to use db with iOS Hi i'm starting to test data persistance for iOS and i want to use some databases, i tried few project with the command line but i would love to start using a software that will speed up the process.
I read already a post on here where an user listed few software from a website.
Here i copy the link he shared,
http://www.sqlite.org/cvstrac/wiki?p=ManagementTools
i would love to know if any of you tested those software, and which one you raccomand.
On many books i read they use a firefox plugin, but i find firefox already too slow to add such a powerful plugin.
Please if you find this question stupid, don't flag or downvote. I looked for a similar topic and i didn't find the answer i wanted. Thank you

A: I've always used SQLite Database Browser. It's free, easy to use and gets the job done.
http://sqlitebrowser.sourceforge.net/

A: I have used Base: available on the MAC App Store:
https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/base/id402383384?mt=12

A: I've used Arango Db. It's free http://www.arangodb.org

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You are here: Home / Latest News / Korea eyes democratic Myanmar
Korea eyes democratic Myanmar
There's no doubt that Myanmar is a country in transition. Even its harshest critics admit that many game-changing political reforms have been implemented since the country's first civilian government took office in April 2011.
Aung San Suu Kyi's National League for Democracy party participated in elections in April 2012, restrictions on the media began to be removed, hundreds of political prisoners were freed and travel restrictions eased and, more recently, a slew of cease-fire agreements were brokered with ethnic armed groups that could lead to a lasting peace agreement.
The question on the minds of international observers now is whether the general-cum-civilian president, Thein Sein, can continue to press democratic reforms while at the same time liberalizing the economy.
For that to happen, foreign direct investment is a crucial factor. Since 2011, South Korea has emerged as Myanmar's sixth-largest investment and trade partner, pouring in $2.1 billion in accumaltive FDI as of the first half of this year alone.
Myanmar's deputy minister of National Planning and Economic Development came here earlier this month to assure investors that the country is on track with economic and political reforms and also to nurture those burgeoning trade and investment relationships.
"We made a series of reforms that are increasing foreign investment and trade, and are stimulating the economy. Indeed, there are bodies representing their constituencies in the parliament that can solve problems of peoples of their constituencies effectively. We can change from an authoritarian system to a democratic system," said Deputy Minister of the MNPED Lei Lei Thein in a closed door interview with The Korea Herald and one other media outlet.
Thein led a small delegation here for the Investment and Business Environment Seminar on Myanmar, which was co-organized by the ASEAN-Korea Center, in Seoul on Sept. 2.
Thein rattled off a litany of reforms, such as passing an anticorruption law and revising legislation aimed at attracting foreign investment, and new rules to bring Myanmar's currency exchange rate in line with the currency's real international value.
In some ways, Thein herself represents a possible new Myanmar as one of just a handful of women in senior government positions there. Women top the education and social welfare ministries and a half dozen deputy minister positions, she said.
A veteran bureaucrat with nearly 30 years of experience, Thein could also engage in fluent English with the two reporters interviewing her, while flipping through her Samsung tablet to pull up charts, figures and other data. She made a strong case for her country.
In another sign of the country's opening up to the world ― and the growing South Korea-Myanmar relationship ― she said she bought the device not in wealthy South Korea but in developing Myanmar.
"You know that in previous years (Myanmar) had closed the door (to the outside world). We had many restrictions and barriers up until 2011," she said.
"The National League for Democracy party, led by Aung San Suu Kyi, was allowed to enter into the by-elections in April 2012. A national human rights commission has been established. Amnesty was granted to more than 200 political prisoners. During these three years we made many reforms when the new elected government came into office in 2011. And, the government entered into negotiations with the Karen for a cease-fire," she said.
Myanmar's central government is in talks with 17 groups, pressing for a formal peace treaty to end decades of fighting by the end of 2015, when the country will attempt its first civilian transfer of power.
For decades, Yangon fought with a byzantine array of armed groups representing various ethnic minorities ― as many 135 tribes and ethnic and linguistic minorities ― including the Shan, Mon and Karen peoples, the latter of whom claim a homeland in the south and southeastern parts of the country bordering Thailand.
The government signed a nationwide cease-fire agreement with the 17 groups that are currently involved in a peace process with Yangon.
The groups most recently met in June and President Thein Sein has repeatedly indicted he wants a peace treaty completed before Myanmar's presidential election.
Essentially, the ethnic groups want a federal system, but the former military government saw such local autonomy as tantamount to separatism. Decentralizing power from areas of Myanmar that are home to some of the country's largest minorities would likely require amending the constitution. Solving these ethnic conflicts could be crucial to Myanmar's democratic transition.
What is more, extending a share in the country's economic development could go a long way in ensuring the groups' stake in Myanmar's future.
More than 70 percent of FDI goes to the energy sector, for developing the oil and gas industry and power generation.
"Our country is an agricultural country. Some of the investment will go there. In terms of volume, however, the oil and gas sector receives the most FDI," Thein explained.
"Yes, Naypyidaw is the administrative center of our country, but Yangon and Mandalay are the economic centers, similar to the roles New York and Washington play in the United States.
"We are implementing a 20-year, long-term economic development plan encompassing 2011 to 2031, called the Comprehensive Economic Development Plan."
Along with the flood of FDI, Myanmar was rewarded this year by ASEAN for embarking on peace and democratization. For the first time since it joined the Southeast Asian regional group 17 years ago, it has taken up the chairmanship of ASEAN.
Thein said Myanmar wants to focus on small and medium-sized enterprises while it is chair of ASEAN.
"We will strengthen regional cooperation on SMEs, because this area is very important for CLMV countries (Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar and Vietnam). We need to help them survive after the regional economic area goes into effect next year," Thein said.
The ASEAN Economic Community 2015 goes into effect on Dec. 31, 2015, when import tariffs will drop to zero.
Source: THE KOREA HERALD
Filed Under: Latest News Tagged With: asean, democratic system, Deputy Minister of the MNPED, economic, Foreign Direct Investment, korea, Lei Lei Thin, Myanmar, political reforms, SMEs, Trade, transition


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import java.awt.*;
import javax.swing.*;
import javax.swing.plaf.*;

import com.jtattoo.plaf.*;

/**
 * @author Michael Hagen
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public class BernsteinButtonUI extends BaseButtonUI {

    public static ComponentUI createUI(JComponent c) {
        return new BernsteinButtonUI();
    }

    protected void paintBackground(Graphics g, AbstractButton b) {
        if (b.isContentAreaFilled() && !(b.getParent() instanceof JMenuBar)) {
            int width = b.getWidth();
            int height = b.getHeight();
            Color colors[] = null;
            ButtonModel model = b.getModel();
            if (b.isEnabled()) {
                if (b.getBackground() instanceof ColorUIResource) {
                    if (model.isPressed() && model.isArmed()) {
                        colors = BernsteinLookAndFeel.getTheme().getPressedColors();
                    } else if (model.isRollover()) {
                        colors = BernsteinLookAndFeel.getTheme().getRolloverColors();
                    } else {
                        if (JTattooUtilities.isFrameActive(b)) {
                            if (b.equals(b.getRootPane().getDefaultButton())) {
                                colors = BernsteinLookAndFeel.getTheme().getSelectedColors();
                            } else {
                                colors = BernsteinLookAndFeel.getTheme().getButtonColors();
                            }
                        } else {
                            colors = BernsteinLookAndFeel.getTheme().getInActiveColors();
                        }
                    }
                } else {
                    if (model.isPressed() && model.isArmed()) {
                        colors = ColorHelper.createColorArr(b.getBackground(), ColorHelper.darker(b.getBackground(), 50), 20);
                    } else {
                        if (model.isRollover()) {
                            colors = ColorHelper.createColorArr(ColorHelper.brighter(b.getBackground(), 80), ColorHelper.brighter(b.getBackground(), 20), 20);
                        } else {
                            colors = ColorHelper.createColorArr(ColorHelper.brighter(b.getBackground(), 40), ColorHelper.darker(b.getBackground(), 20), 20);
                        }
                    }
                }
            } else {
                colors = BernsteinLookAndFeel.getTheme().getDisabledColors();
            }
            JTattooUtilities.fillHorGradient(g, colors, 0, 0, width, height);
        }
    }
}

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Epic sword and sorcery adventure is on offer in Dungeons & Dragons Treasures of the Icewind Dale, the third video slot created by developer IGT in the Dungeons and Dragons franchise. The treasures on offer in this 5 reel, 30 payline game come via the Dynamic Stacks and free spins feature with added wilds. Start your quest from between 30p and £600 per spin.
As you'd expect given the theme, the visuals in Dungeons & Dragons Treasures of the Icewind Dale have a strong comic book feel. Set against a snowy, forest backdrop, the reels include 5 different weapon symbols as well as a quartet of warrior characters – Drizzt, Wulfgar, Catti-brie and Bruenor.
On each spin, 1 of the symbols will become a Dynamic Stack – this means it can land fully stacked on any of the 5 reels. Look out too for the extra-large character symbols which can land at random on any spin.
The D&D logo is the wild, appearing on reels 2, 3, 4 and 5 only and replacing everything apart from the gold Bonus symbol. When the Bonus symbol hits on reels 2, 3 and 4 on the same spin, you'll be awarded a payout of 3 times your total stake as well as triggering the Free Spins Bonus feature and with it 15 free spins.
You'll notice a series of meters below the reels during the feature – when the wild lands on reel 5, it will fill 1 of the meter positions next to a symbol. When all 3 meter positions are filled, the symbol next to it will become wild. This is in addition to the standard wild. It's possible to turn multiple symbols wild here which can lead to some spectacular results. Land 3 Bonus symbols during the feature and another 15 free spins will be added to your tally – there's up to 225 free spins to be won!
Dungeons and Dragons Treasures of the Icewind Dale is a fairly volatile offering – expect lean spells when your quest for treasure will come to very little. Trigger the free spins and combine multiple wilds with the Dynamic Stack symbols and some massive results are certainly possible.
It may not be the best looking video slot you'll see but Dungeons & Dragons Treasures of the Icewind Dale offers the chance to hit it big in the feature. If you have the bankroll to cope with the ups and downs, this is probably the pick of the Dungeons and Dragons themed video slots. If you like the fantasy theme, Microgaming's Game of Thrones is recommended.


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Erlanger Health affiliates with Vanderbilt University Medical Center
Maria Castellucci
Chattanooga, Tenn.-based Erlanger Health System announced it has entered a strategic affiliation agreement with Vanderbilt University Medical Center in Nashville and will join Vanderbilt's physician-led network.
Under the terms of the affiliation agreement, Erlanger will collaborate with Vanderbilt to improve quality of care in multiple service lines, including cardiac surgery, trauma services and stroke care, said Dr. C. Wright Pinson, CEO of Vanderbilt Health System.
Erlanger has also joined the Vanderbilt Health Affiliated Network, a physician-led organization that includes 56 hospitals and about 4,000 participating physicians and clinicians. The main goals of the network are to improve population health and reduce costs of care.
The affiliation will expand Vanderbilt's network further into southeastern Tennessee.
Pinson said the network members share best practices and data to improve quality and access to care.
Vanderbilt's network is the Tennessee region's largest physician-led organization. Vanderbilt Health System is a four-hospital system with more than 100 clinics.
Erlanger is southeastern Tennessee's only academic medical center and is affiliated with the University of Tennessee College of Medicine. The health system serves 500,000 patients annually.
Providence/Hoag separation sparks possible rating downgrade
Wisconsin system unlikely to prevail in suit to prevent workers from leaving for Ascension
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The 8Gb's of RAM are really VM friendly. The guest operating systems are really flying now. I'm running Windows Vista x64 and to me it feels much better than the 32 bit variant (I don't know why, but the 8Gb RAM has probably got something to do with it).
One small catastrophe happened the very next morning: the motherboard of my old PC died on me. Talking about bad luck, huh? I spent quite some time transferring data from the old disks to my new rig. Of course, needless to say that I didn't have any back-ups so this took me reasonable amount of time.
One more major bummer was the fact that I couldn't find a 64 bit driver for my WinTV PVR 350 card. I sent an e-mail to Hauppauge support asking for, ... well, ... support! Some douche bag answered me that they didn't have a 64 bit driver and that they don't have any plans for providing one in the near future either. Come on! I mean, this TV-card isn't even that old. I bought it last year fresh from the store.
Besides some quirks, running a 64 bit system is great although I noticed that there isn't much 64 bit software available just yet. I hope that this will improve in the next decade or so?
Anyway, I'm leaving the country tomorrow to enjoy a week of peace, rest and happiness in one of the most beautiful countries in the world named Italy. Hopefully I will catch up with some reading. Till next week.


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Q: Power off Android device with system signed application I am developing an Android application and we need to power off the device under certain circumstances.
I have read in many places that you need a rooted phone in order to do so. Then, you can issue the "reboot" command by using Java's API:
try {
    Process proc = Runtime.getRuntime()
                .exec(new String[]{ "su", "-c", "reboot -p" });
    proc.waitFor();
} catch (Exception ex) {
    ex.printStackTrace();
}

I have actually tried this in a Cyanogenmod 10 device (Samsung Galaxy S3), and it works. However, we do not want a rooted device in order to power it off, since the end user will then be able to do unintended things which are not allowed by our company.
On the other hand, our application is signed by the manufacturer's certificate, in this case Cyanogen's. I have read that by signing your application with the manufacturer's certificate, you should be able to issue privileged commands (as if root). However, even if I install my app as a system app signed with the manufacturer's certificate, the above code does not work:

*

*If I leave the "su" part of the command, the "Superuser Request" screen is displayed, but that's something we are trying to avoid.

*If I remove the "su" part (just leaving "reboot -p"), the command is silently ignored.
As a result, we are not being able to poweroff our device with our system app, which is signed with the manifacturer's certificate. So my question is, how am I supposed to do that?
EDITED
And, by the way, just in case someone is not sure about it: the application is properly signed and installed as a system application, because we can actually access some restricted APIs, such as PowerManager.goToSleep()

A: If you want the device to reboot (power off and on), then try PowerManager.reboot()
PowerManager powerManager = (PowerManager)getSystemService(Context.POWER_SERVICE);
powerManager.reboot(null);

android.os.PowerManager:
/**
 * Reboot the device.  Will not return if the reboot is successful.
 * <p>
 * Requires the {@link android.Manifest.permission#REBOOT} permission.
 * </p>
 *
 * @param reason code to pass to the kernel (e.g., "recovery") to
 *               request special boot modes, or null.
 */
public void reboot(String reason) {
    try {
        mService.reboot(false, reason, true);
    } catch (RemoteException e) {
    }
}

UPDATE
If you want the device to completely turn off, use PowerManagerService.shutdown():
IPowerManager powerManager = IPowerManager.Stub.asInterface(
        ServiceManager.getService(Context.POWER_SERVICE));
try {
    powerManager.shutdown(false, false);
} catch (RemoteException e) {
}

com.android.server.power.PowerManagerService:
/**
 * Shuts down the device.
 *
 * @param confirm If true, shows a shutdown confirmation dialog.
 * @param wait If true, this call waits for the shutdown to complete and does not return.
 */
@Override // Binder call
public void shutdown(boolean confirm, boolean wait) {
    mContext.enforceCallingOrSelfPermission(android.Manifest.permission.REBOOT, null);

    final long ident = Binder.clearCallingIdentity();
    try {
        shutdownOrRebootInternal(true, confirm, null, wait);
    } finally {
        Binder.restoreCallingIdentity(ident);
    }
}

A: This was working fine for me:
startActivity(new Intent("android.intent.action.ACTION_REQUEST_SHUTDOWN"));

you need this permission ( depends on being system-app ):
 <uses-permission android:name="android.permission.SHUTDOWN"/>

source:
https://github.com/sas101/shutdown-android-app/wiki

A: OK, my mistake.
As I performed some tests, I did not realize that I had removed "android:sharedUserId="android.uid.system" from the manifest.
Once the sharedUserId is included, the following code works without prompting the user to confirm root access:
try {
    Process proc = Runtime.getRuntime()
            .exec(new String[]{ "su", "-c", "reboot -p" });
    proc.waitFor();
} catch (Exception ex) {
    ex.printStackTrace();
}

I tried to remove "su" (because the system may not provide such a command), but in that case it does not work. Surprisingly, the file system is remounted in read-only mode, so I must remount it again with write permissions.

A: this is for kotlin
(requireContext().getSystemService(Context.POWER_SERVICE) as PowerManager)
                        .reboot("reason")


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namespace Sonata\BlockBundle\Model;

use Sonata\CoreBundle\Model\ManagerInterface;
use Sonata\CoreBundle\Model\PageableManagerInterface;

interface BlockManagerInterface extends ManagerInterface, PageableManagerInterface
{
}


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PROWL presents to Tynwald
Thursday, November 22nd, 2007 9:03pm
The organiser of 'Public Rights of Way Langness', or PROWL, is hoping for action from the Council of Ministers, after the organisation made a presentation to Tynwald this week.
Ian Costain says the aim was to explain to politicians why Langness matters to them, to show the paths have perfect credentials for being given 'right of way' status and how Manx law can be applied to achieve that end.
Trails around the peninsula have been the subject of a long-running dispute between PROWL and Top Gear presenter Jeremy Clarkson. He who owns the old lighthouse cottages and the surrounding land, which some of the trails run into.
Mr Costain says things may now be moving in the right direction as far as his organisation is concerned (audio file attached):
(Picture: Members of PROWL at Langness).


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'Human error' results in dozens of Gloucester staff at construction giants Kier not being paid
Over 50 members of staff at the Kier Group have not been paid on time or the correct amount
Kim HortonSenior Reporter
New houses being built (Image: Library image)
Employees are furious after being informed they will not be getting their correct wages until next week.
Staff at the Gloucester and Worcester branches of the Kier construction group have been told that they will not be getting their correct wages this week, as they would normally, due to an administrative error.
This, staff say, has resulted in them being taxed a higher amount until the situation is resolved next week and they haven't had overtime payment as they had expected.
Kier, which employs 20,000 people and posted revenues of £4.48billion in 2018, admitted that the administrative mistake was in fact a human error and that 57 members of staff from Gloucester and Worcester have been affected.
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A member of staff that works for the group who wants to remain anonymous said: "I have been told that apparently now they have got the issue sorted.
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"The problem was that we all have had no money since the week before Christmas.
"The wages department said that all the money that we have earned in overtime and that would have been paid to us by January 9.
Dyslexic man 'almost lost home' because he couldn't fill in Universal Credit form
"I hope that the money goes into the account today as promised. We are generally paid on the Wednesday evening so it actually in the bank by Thursday morning."
The company has also said that if the employees have incurred costs of charges as a result of the payments being made late then they will seek to help those that have been affected.
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A Kier spokesperson said: "We apologise for the salary payment delay that has affected employees at our Gloucester and Worcester offices.
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"This administrative error falls short of our usual high standards and we have worked hard to resolve the situation and keep those affected informed.
"We can confirm that all payments will be in accounts no later than January 11, this includes normal working hours and overtime payments over the Christmas period, and any charges incurred as a result of this late payment will be reimbursed in full."


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typedef extensions::TestManagementPolicyProvider TestProvider;
using extensions::Extension;

class ManagementPolicyTest : public testing::Test {
 public:
  void SetUp() override {
    allow_all_.SetProhibitedActions(TestProvider::ALLOW_ALL);
    no_modify_status_.SetProhibitedActions(
        TestProvider::PROHIBIT_MODIFY_STATUS);
    no_load_.SetProhibitedActions(TestProvider::PROHIBIT_LOAD);
    must_remain_enabled_.SetProhibitedActions(
        TestProvider::MUST_REMAIN_ENABLED);
    must_remain_disabled_.SetProhibitedActions(
        TestProvider::MUST_REMAIN_DISABLED);
    must_remain_disabled_.SetDisableReason(
        extensions::disable_reason::DISABLE_SIDELOAD_WIPEOUT);
    must_remain_installed_.SetProhibitedActions(
        TestProvider::MUST_REMAIN_INSTALLED);
    restrict_all_.SetProhibitedActions(TestProvider::PROHIBIT_MODIFY_STATUS |
                                       TestProvider::PROHIBIT_LOAD |
                                       TestProvider::MUST_REMAIN_ENABLED);
  }

 protected:
  extensions::ManagementPolicy policy_;

  TestProvider allow_all_;
  TestProvider no_modify_status_;
  TestProvider no_load_;
  TestProvider must_remain_enabled_;
  TestProvider must_remain_disabled_;
  TestProvider must_remain_installed_;
  TestProvider restrict_all_;
};

TEST_F(ManagementPolicyTest, RegisterAndUnregister) {
  EXPECT_EQ(0, policy_.GetNumProviders());
  policy_.RegisterProvider(&allow_all_);
  EXPECT_EQ(1, policy_.GetNumProviders());
  policy_.RegisterProvider(&allow_all_);
  EXPECT_EQ(1, policy_.GetNumProviders());

  policy_.RegisterProvider(&no_modify_status_);
  EXPECT_EQ(2, policy_.GetNumProviders());
  policy_.UnregisterProvider(&allow_all_);
  EXPECT_EQ(1, policy_.GetNumProviders());
  policy_.UnregisterProvider(&allow_all_);
  EXPECT_EQ(1, policy_.GetNumProviders());
  policy_.UnregisterProvider(&no_modify_status_);
  EXPECT_EQ(0, policy_.GetNumProviders());

  policy_.RegisterProvider(&allow_all_);
  policy_.RegisterProvider(&no_modify_status_);
  EXPECT_EQ(2, policy_.GetNumProviders());
  policy_.UnregisterAllProviders();
  EXPECT_EQ(0, policy_.GetNumProviders());
}

TEST_F(ManagementPolicyTest, UserMayLoad) {
  // No providers registered.
  std::u16string error;
  // The extension and location are irrelevant to the
  // TestManagementPolicyProviders.
  EXPECT_TRUE(policy_.UserMayLoad(NULL, &error));
  EXPECT_TRUE(error.empty());

  // One provider, no relevant restriction.
  policy_.RegisterProvider(&no_modify_status_);
  EXPECT_TRUE(policy_.UserMayLoad(NULL, &error));
  EXPECT_TRUE(error.empty());

  // Two providers, no relevant restrictions.
  policy_.RegisterProvider(&must_remain_enabled_);
  EXPECT_TRUE(policy_.UserMayLoad(NULL, &error));
  EXPECT_TRUE(error.empty());

  // Three providers, one with a relevant restriction.
  policy_.RegisterProvider(&no_load_);
  EXPECT_FALSE(policy_.UserMayLoad(NULL, &error));
  EXPECT_FALSE(error.empty());

  // Remove the restriction.
  policy_.UnregisterProvider(&no_load_);
  error.clear();
  EXPECT_TRUE(policy_.UserMayLoad(NULL, &error));
  EXPECT_TRUE(error.empty());
}
TEST_F(ManagementPolicyTest, UserMayModifySettings) {
  // No providers registered.
  std::u16string error;
  EXPECT_TRUE(policy_.UserMayModifySettings(NULL, &error));
  EXPECT_TRUE(error.empty());

  // One provider, no relevant restriction.
  policy_.RegisterProvider(&allow_all_);
  EXPECT_TRUE(policy_.UserMayModifySettings(NULL, &error));
  EXPECT_TRUE(error.empty());

  // Two providers, no relevant restrictions.
  policy_.RegisterProvider(&no_load_);
  EXPECT_TRUE(policy_.UserMayModifySettings(NULL, &error));
  EXPECT_TRUE(error.empty());

  // Three providers, one with a relevant restriction.
  policy_.RegisterProvider(&no_modify_status_);
  EXPECT_FALSE(policy_.UserMayModifySettings(NULL, &error));
  EXPECT_FALSE(error.empty());

  // Remove the restriction.
  policy_.UnregisterProvider(&no_modify_status_);
  error.clear();
  EXPECT_TRUE(policy_.UserMayModifySettings(NULL, &error));
  EXPECT_TRUE(error.empty());
}

TEST_F(ManagementPolicyTest, MustRemainEnabled) {
  // No providers registered.
  std::u16string error;
  EXPECT_FALSE(policy_.MustRemainEnabled(NULL, &error));
  EXPECT_TRUE(error.empty());

  // One provider, no relevant restriction.
  policy_.RegisterProvider(&allow_all_);
  EXPECT_FALSE(policy_.MustRemainEnabled(NULL, &error));
  EXPECT_TRUE(error.empty());

  // Two providers, no relevant restrictions.
  policy_.RegisterProvider(&no_modify_status_);
  EXPECT_FALSE(policy_.MustRemainEnabled(NULL, &error));
  EXPECT_TRUE(error.empty());

  // Three providers, one with a relevant restriction.
  policy_.RegisterProvider(&must_remain_enabled_);
  EXPECT_TRUE(policy_.MustRemainEnabled(NULL, &error));
  EXPECT_FALSE(error.empty());

  // Remove the restriction.
  policy_.UnregisterProvider(&must_remain_enabled_);
  error.clear();
  EXPECT_FALSE(policy_.MustRemainEnabled(NULL, &error));
  EXPECT_TRUE(error.empty());
}

TEST_F(ManagementPolicyTest, MustRemainDisabled) {
  // No providers registered.
  std::u16string error;
  EXPECT_FALSE(policy_.MustRemainDisabled(NULL, NULL, &error));
  EXPECT_TRUE(error.empty());

  // One provider, no relevant restriction.
  policy_.RegisterProvider(&allow_all_);
  EXPECT_FALSE(policy_.MustRemainDisabled(NULL, NULL, &error));
  EXPECT_TRUE(error.empty());

  // Two providers, no relevant restrictions.
  policy_.RegisterProvider(&no_modify_status_);
  EXPECT_FALSE(policy_.MustRemainDisabled(NULL, NULL, &error));
  EXPECT_TRUE(error.empty());

  // Three providers, one with a relevant restriction.
  extensions::disable_reason::DisableReason reason =
      extensions::disable_reason::DISABLE_NONE;
  policy_.RegisterProvider(&must_remain_disabled_);
  EXPECT_TRUE(policy_.MustRemainDisabled(NULL, &reason, &error));
  EXPECT_FALSE(error.empty());
  EXPECT_EQ(extensions::disable_reason::DISABLE_SIDELOAD_WIPEOUT, reason);

  // Remove the restriction.
  policy_.UnregisterProvider(&must_remain_disabled_);
  error.clear();
  EXPECT_FALSE(policy_.MustRemainDisabled(NULL, NULL, &error));
  EXPECT_TRUE(error.empty());
}

TEST_F(ManagementPolicyTest, MustRemainInstalled) {
  // No providers registered.
  std::u16string error;
  EXPECT_FALSE(policy_.MustRemainInstalled(NULL, &error));
  EXPECT_TRUE(error.empty());

  // One provider, no relevant restriction.
  policy_.RegisterProvider(&allow_all_);
  EXPECT_FALSE(policy_.MustRemainInstalled(NULL, &error));
  EXPECT_TRUE(error.empty());

  // Two providers, no relevant restrictions.
  policy_.RegisterProvider(&no_modify_status_);
  EXPECT_FALSE(policy_.MustRemainInstalled(NULL, &error));
  EXPECT_TRUE(error.empty());

  // Three providers, one with a relevant restriction.
  policy_.RegisterProvider(&must_remain_installed_);
  EXPECT_TRUE(policy_.MustRemainInstalled(NULL, &error));
  EXPECT_FALSE(error.empty());

  // Remove the restriction.
  policy_.UnregisterProvider(&must_remain_installed_);
  error.clear();
  EXPECT_FALSE(policy_.MustRemainInstalled(NULL, &error));
  EXPECT_TRUE(error.empty());
}

// Tests error handling in the ManagementPolicy.
TEST_F(ManagementPolicyTest, ErrorHandling) {
  // The error parameter should be unchanged if no restriction was found.
  std::string original_error = "Ceci est en effet une erreur.";
  std::u16string original_error16 = base::UTF8ToUTF16(original_error);
  std::u16string error = original_error16;
  EXPECT_TRUE(policy_.UserMayLoad(NULL, &error));
  EXPECT_EQ(original_error, base::UTF16ToUTF8(error));
  EXPECT_TRUE(policy_.UserMayModifySettings(NULL, &error));
  EXPECT_EQ(original_error, base::UTF16ToUTF8(error));
  EXPECT_FALSE(policy_.MustRemainEnabled(NULL, &error));
  EXPECT_EQ(original_error, base::UTF16ToUTF8(error));

  // Ensure no crashes if no error message was requested.
  EXPECT_TRUE(policy_.UserMayLoad(NULL, NULL));
  EXPECT_TRUE(policy_.UserMayModifySettings(NULL, NULL));
  EXPECT_FALSE(policy_.MustRemainEnabled(NULL, NULL));
  policy_.RegisterProvider(&restrict_all_);
  EXPECT_FALSE(policy_.UserMayLoad(NULL, NULL));
  EXPECT_FALSE(policy_.UserMayModifySettings(NULL, NULL));
  EXPECT_TRUE(policy_.MustRemainEnabled(NULL, NULL));

  // Make sure returned error is correct.
  error = original_error16;
  EXPECT_FALSE(policy_.UserMayLoad(NULL, &error));
  EXPECT_EQ(base::UTF8ToUTF16(TestProvider::expected_error()), error);
  error = original_error16;
  EXPECT_FALSE(policy_.UserMayModifySettings(NULL, &error));
  EXPECT_EQ(base::UTF8ToUTF16(TestProvider::expected_error()), error);
  error = original_error16;
  EXPECT_TRUE(policy_.MustRemainEnabled(NULL, &error));
  EXPECT_EQ(base::UTF8ToUTF16(TestProvider::expected_error()), error);
}


Welcome to the 2018 Edition of the Vulcan Run!
This is the 44th running of this Birmingham classic 10k. What started as the Bicentennial Run in November 1975 with 221 runners has grown into one of the most popular road races in the Southeast with more than1500 runners in recent years. Join the Birmingham Track Club as we host the Vulcan Run 10k. This year's 10k event is again the RRCA Alabama State 10k Championship Race. Click through the links under the Race Info menu for more information about the race.
This race is a part of the 2018 BTC Race Series. The BTC Race Series is a package registration offering for members of the Birmingham Track Club. Members can register for all four BTC races at once and receive a significant discount from the cost registering for the individual events. As an added bonus, register for the BTC Race Series and we'll automatically copy your registration to each of the four races - it doesn't get much easier! It's well worth the dues to join the BTC if you are not already a member. Click the links below for more information.
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Yo do we have to use sugar free marshmellows?? Because doesn't the sugar take the tch out?
Almost didn't watch the video after that botched bong hit in the intro ?
How many mg are in each?
Trying to make profit for myself. Thanks!
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Part of this summer I have spent learning some new ways to make art. Recent viewing of DVD workshops by Anne Bagby and Carla O'Connor led to some of my new work, pictured in process here. I have appreciated Anne Bagby's work, and even own 3 tiny works of hers. Her highly patterned, intuitive process matches and inspires my heart for layering materials and mixing patterns to create interesting surfaces. It's akin to some of the work I did in fabric as a costume designer.
Carla's instruction is interesting to me, and watching her go through the process of a painting has encouraged me to let go of some ill conceived wish for perfection…I know better, but it creeps in. Carla works in gouache, and I work in acrylic and collage, but many concepts and processes apply.
This entry was posted in Artworks, Creative Process and tagged abstract, acrylic, costume design, painting on July 14, 2013 by Lynette Hensley.


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As you likely know, our second RallyFwd Virtual Conference is looming on the near horizon! You can register to join us on December 5 – and even if you can't make the date we'll send you the sessions afterward.
To get revved up for our Small Effort, Big Impact in 2019 themed conference, and to help you plan out which sessions to attend, we're doing a lightning round with some of our amazing speakers to find out what they have in store for us during their sessions.
Here is the inside scoop on Kelley Kaezyk, Recruitment Marketing Manager at MedExpress. We'll overview her background, what she'll cover at RallyFwd, and tips for executing on a stand-out EVP project.
Hi Kelley, can you tell us how you got into Recruitment Marketing?
Definitely! My background is in consumer marketing, initially on the agency side and then with corporate roles at Walmart and GNC.
In my brand role at Walmart, I partnered with our corporate recruiting team to help them bring the brand to life for potential candidates through both traditional advertising and on the careers site. This was my first time working in the recruiting space and I really enjoyed applying brand/marketing practices to sell a culture that I truly believed in.
When the MedExpress opportunity came up, I was able to use that experience to position myself as the right person for the role (vs. someone with a traditional recruiting or solely marketing background).
I'll be explaining how we were able to use our EVP work to create and distribute content that is relevant to our candidate pool. This content really illustrates what it's like to work at MedExpress and highlights all of the incredible benefits that you can't necessarily glean from a job posting. Our EVP activation work also positions MedExpress as a thought leader in healthcare employment.
Right now, it is so important to be able to tell an authentic story. Everyone says they're the best place to work, but in the end we all offer similar benefits. How you differentiate yourself is where you'll be able to win the quality candidates your organization needs to succeed. Leveraging real and unique employee stories is the most effective way to do that.
What are some challenges that might exist in the space between uncovering your EVP and activating your EVP?
Internal education is the biggest challenge we've encountered. It's an ongoing process to inform leadership that our EVP is a living, breathing entity that we need to support and nurture – it's not a "one and done" endeavor.
How did you overcome this challenges?
To counter this, we build in an employer brand initiative into our annual strategy each year. This helps us evolve and grow our approach to finding and communicating the stories within our organization.
Utilizing an annual event calendar to celebrate and recognize specific roles, like National Doctors' Day or Nurse Practitioner Week with actual employee stories.
Any fast tips for companies looking to start activating their EVPs in 2019?
Working on your EVP will be a really different project depending on how your organization is structured. But at its core the foundation for your EVP work includes the following questions: Why do people come to work here? And why do they stay here?
When developing our EVP, I had the support of my supervisor and budget to engage a third-party partner to help me. But there is a lot you can do on your own! A good approach is to schedule interviews with leadership, hiring managers, and employees. These interviews can be as simple as a conversation over coffee to begin to compile your data and look for the commonality in everyone's responses.
To get buy-in from leaders in other departments, like operations and marketing, I used business insights that drew a direct correlation to a strong employer brand and the bottom line success of an organization. This really helped me sell the project to leadership groups that didn't necessarily have a prior understanding of how talent acquisition works.
Want to hear more from Kelley? You can take a look at the summary of her session What Comes Next: Activating Your Employer Value Proposition With Content That Tells Your "Why" for more info – and don't forget to register for RallyFwd to hear the full session!


The hit parenting series AMERICA'S SUPERNANNY is currently casting.
This season they're looking for families (with children from toddler to teens) with ordinary and extraordinary circumstances; parents with mean girls or bullying boys, blended families where both sides are seeking help, and parents of multiples. Producers want families from every type of background who are ready for the opportunity of a lifetime.
Interested moms and dads should email REBECCA at rgreenberg@shedmediaus.comwith their name, contact info, city/state, reason why they need help, and a recent family photo.
Wouldn't you love to have the Lion King cast sing Circle of Life the next time you're boarding a plane?


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Clint Worthington January 4, 2019 TV
TV Review: The Orville Explores Alien Marriage, Porn Addiction with "Primal Urges"
THE ORVILLE: L-R: Penny Johnson Jerald, Peter Macon, Adrianne Palicki and Seth MacFarlane in the ÒPrimal UrgesÓ time period premiere episode of THE ORVILLE airing Thursday, Jan. 3 (9:00-10:00 PM ET/PT) on FOX. ©2018 Fox Broadcasting Co. Cr: Michael Becker/FOX
Bortus' marriage is on the rocks and a civilization is endangered by a supernova in a solid, surprisingly poignant return to form for The Orville.
This piece was originally posted on Alcohollywood
The Orville has never been shy about its "Star Trek with the serial numbers filed off" pretensions, right down to characters like Peter Macon's stoic reptilian third officer Bortus – a Worf clone if ever there was one. A lot of the underlying joke behind Bortus leans on his species' single-gender nature, which puts such an intense, warlike alien in a stable, comparative normal same-sex marriage with his mate Klyden (Chad L. Coleman). As part of the show's starship-as-workplace gimmick, "Primal Urges" centers on a Bortus-heavy story about holodeck porn addiction and how it affects their marriage, and manages to put a pin on one of the first season's most controversial episodes.
Bortus and Klyden's marriage has hit a bit of a rough patch – Klyden hates the long hours Bortus works, which prevents him from being in the mood for "the sexual event." What he doesn't know, however, is that Bortus has developed quite the porn addiction, taking off early from work to spend hours in the simulator acting out all manner of inventive fantasies involving other sexy Moclans ("I cannot," Bortus says to a solicitous Moclan prison guard in one fantasy. "I am a virgin in that way"). Even before his addiction is found out, however, Klyden expresses his desire for a Moclan "divorce" by doing what their species' custom demands: stabbing him in the chest. Cue Dr. Finn (Penny Johnson Jerald) taking the two of them through Moclan couples counseling, and a virus from one of Bortus' more experimentally commissioned fantasies wreaking havoc on the ship's systems.
Much of "Primal Urges" involves taking the premise of "what happens when a marriage between two Worfs goes on the rocks?" to its furthest conclusion, and your enjoyment of the episode (and of the series, to be honest) hinges on how much patience you have for that joke. Macon and Coleman are still doing riffs on the Michael Dorn thing, but their particular brand of dry intensity works as a droll backdrop for regular Seth MacFarlane contributor Wellesley Wild's script.
The best Orville gags are subtle, the kind of tiny riffs on interpersonal relationship dramas set against the backdrop of the cosmos. Arguments about being late from work, demanding more time for each other, and the slow escalation of Bortus' porn addiction are ripped from the Lifetime Original Movie playbook, but they shine in this deeply weird context. Wild and director Kevin Hooks play the drama straight, which is the best possible tactic for this kind of show, making for one of The Orville's best hours.
Of course, hanging over the heads of the Bortus/Klyden family is the fate of little Topa, who was introduced in the show's third episode "About a Girl", an hour that drew some heat for some perceived insensitivity in its allegory about sex reassignment and cultural norms around gender. While that early hour could have handled those issues with greater care, "Primal Urges" weaves that story elegantly back into the Moclans' own problems. During couples counseling, the real source of Bortus' tension is revealed: he has come to resent Klyden for urging Topa's reassignment and has felt distanced from him ever since. A more complicated, sophisticated show would turn this into more of the story's central thrust, but the fact that it's mentioned at all is laudable – it shows some real growth and complexity to a character whose one-note stoicism has long been part of his central gag.
What's most surprising about "Primal Urges" is the extent to which the episode's B-plot, which appears at first glance to be a bit of throwaway Star Trek-y business to keep the rest of the cast busy, ties into Bortus' family melodrama in surprisingly poignant ways. As the Orville orbits an expanding red supergiant, the crew discovers a subterranean civilization living below the surface of a planet about to be swallowed by the star. They only have time to save 30 of the 75 people living there, and the star's radiation makes Bortus one of the only crew members who can man the rescue mission. The situation provides more than its share of pathos for an episode that also centers around Klingon porn, with family members separating from children, reminding Bortus of the value he must place on his own family.
Overall, "Primal Urges" is a fine return to form for The Orville, effortlessly blending a lighter, more casual approach to space travel with a much greater eye towards fleshing out their one-note joke characters into real, complicated people (albeit ones with comically bumpy foreheads). It's clear the second season is leaning into a far more understated strain of humor than the sitcom-y nature of the show's first few episodes; if shows like "Primal Urges" are the result, it's the right course to set. If they keep it up, the show might just end up being the proper successor to TNG MacFarlane so clearly hopes it to be.
Clint Worthington
Founder, Editor-in-Chief at The Spool
Clint Worthington is the founder and editor-in-chief of The Spool, as well as one of the founders of the website/podcast Alcohollywood in 2011. He is also a Senior Writer at Consequence of Sound, as well as the co-host/producer of Travolta/Cage. You can also find his freelance work at IndieWire, UPROXX, Syfy Wire, The Takeout, and Crooked Marquee.
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Would you let Yankees pitcher CC Sabathia stay in to chase a no-hitter?
Updated Jan 18, 2019; Posted Apr 11, 2010
By Marc Carig/The Star-Ledger
Kim Klement/US PresswireCC Sabathia took a no-hit bid into the eighth inning against the Rays on Saturday.
ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. -- So you're the manager of the New York Yankees. It's the fifth game of the season. Your ace pitcher, the one with a $161 million contract, is on the brink of throwing a no-hitter.
To protect the bid, you've watched two elite players, Alex Rodriguez and Mark Teixeira, make two of the best defensive plays you'll see this season. Problem is, your ace pitcher is up over 100 pitches, and completing a no-hit could take him at least 20 more. To protect his arm, you want to keep his pitch count reasonable, especially early in the year.
So, with a no-hitter still in play, do you let the pitcher finish what he started? Or do you pull him?
When Rays catcher Kelly Shoppach broke up CC Sabathia's no-hitter with two outs left in the eighth inning, the potentially tricky decision facing Joe Girardi was relegated to the land of the hypothetical. Probably, to his relief.
But had Shoppach instead made an out to end the eighth, bringing Sabathia within three outs of making history, the decision for Girardi would have been both very uncomfortable and very real.
After the game, Girardi said he'd decided that Shoppach would have been Sabathia's last hitter, no matter what. Already at 111 pitches, Girardi said he couldn't justify keeping Sabathia in the game for more than 115 pitches, especially so early in the season.
"Big picture," said Girardi, who insisted that the pitcher would have been done even if he had put up another zero in the hit column.
Of course, whether that's the entire truth, or simply the best answer to give for a situation that never actually presented itself, it's impossible to tell. (It is worth noting that Chan Ho Park warmed an inning earlier and David Robertson was ready to go. Both were told to get ready even with no hits on the board).
So, we (sort of) know what Girardi would have done.
What about you? What do you do?