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The Hindustan Times – Tax raids on properties of Madhya Pradesh CM Kamal Nath's close aides
In a 3 am raid, the officials searched the house of Praveen Kakkar, OSD to Kamal Nath. The house is located at Indore's posh locality Vijay Nagar.
New Delhi – India, 07 April 2019. The Income Tax department on Sunday conducted raids on residences and offices of Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Kamal Nath's nephew and two close aides.
Those raided were CM's nephew Ratul Puri, officer on special duty (OSD) to Nath, Praveen Kakkar and a close associate R K Miglani.
The raids in Madhya Pradesh that began at about 3 am on Sunday are said to be a part of IT department's nationwide raids on 50 locations, sources said.
Ratul Puri, who is chairman of board of directors of Hindustan Power Projects Pvt Ltd is under scanner for an alleged money laundering case related to Augusta Westland VVIP chopper scam.
The raids were conducted at four properties of Kakkar in Indore and two places in Bhopal of Kakkar and Miglani.
"I am in Chhindwara right now. I don't know about the raids," Miglani said while Kakkar couldn't be reached for comments. Chief minister Kamal Nath too couldn't be reached for his comments.
As per a report by news agency ANI, Ratul Puri had denied his involvement in the money laundering case and has in a written statement said, "I have no connection in the AgustaWestland case or defense. I run an independent business. I have no business dealings with any relative of mine."
The properties raided in Indore include Kakkar's bungalow at Scheme no. 74 at Vijay Nagar, his office at BCM Heights, Jalsa Marriage Garden and another flat.
The Bhopal properties raided include Kakkar's Nadir Colony bungalow, Miglani's residence, an NGO director's residence and a relative of Kakkar.
The IT team that conducted the raids came from Delhi, sources said.
Though the recovery during the raids is yet to be known, BJP national general secretary Kailash Vijayvargiya tweeted, "Black money worth crores has been recovered from the office of KamalNath's personal secretary."
Miglani, who has been associated with Kamal Nath for many years, was appointed an advisor to Kamal Nath when he took over as chief minister of Madhya Pradesh in 2018.
Kakkar has been associated with former union minister and sitting MP of Congress from Ratlam Lok Sabha seat Kantilal Bhurai and was also his OSD.
Miglani resigned from the post of advisor on February 23 this year to help Kamal Nath in the ensuing by-poll to the Chhindwara assembly seat from where Nath is to contest to continue in his chair of CM.
https://www.hindustantimes.com/india-news/income-tax-officials-raid-madhya-pradesh-cm-kamal-nath-s-aide-s-residence/story-zS8A0BjmVqFjti0D2EKhPJ.html
Tags: CM's nephew Ratul Puri, Madhya Pradesh CM Kamal Nath, Praveen Kakkar, R K Miglani., The Hindustan Times
The Tribune – Interpol no to 'Red Corner Notice' against Pannun
Moga – Panjab – India, 05 April 2019. The International Criminal Police Organisation (Interpol) has turned down the Indian government's request to issue international arrest warrants against Gurpatwant Singh Pannun, legal adviser to the Sikhs for Justice (SFJ), who is spearheading Referendum-2020, a secessionist campaign for Khalistan.
The Indian government, on the request of the Punjab government has already banned the organisation. At least 15 persons owing allegiance to the SFJ had already been arrested by Punjab Police during the past one year.
The Indian government has been making efforts for the extradition of Pannun to Punjab and putting him on trial for disturbing peace and persuading the innocent Sikh youths to carry out secessionist activities in the country, particularly, in Punjab.
Meanwhile, reiterating that the Referendum-2020 was a peaceful democratic campaign for the right to self-determination through "ballot not bullet", Pannun in a statement stated, "Our legal team proved to Interpol that the Referendum-2020 is a peaceful campaign and is being managed under the UN Charter."
In December 2018, the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) had filed a request with the Interpol for issuance of "Red Corner Notice" against Pannun, who had been declared a proclaimed offender (PO) in a sedition case registered at Mohali by the Captain Amarinder government.
The CBI has also sent a dossier on Pannun's involvement in anti-India activities and alleged ties with the ISI, Pakistan's intelligence agency indirectly involved in terrorist activities in the country.
https://www.tribuneindia.com/news/punjab/interpol-no-to-red-corner-notice-against-pannun/753867.html
Tags: A secessionist campaign for Khalistan., Moga - Panjab - India, No 'Red Corner Notice' against Gurpatwant Singh Pannun, Referendum 2020, Sikhs for Justice (SFJ), The International Criminal Police Organisation (Interpol), The Tribune
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My London News – A massive colourful Sikh festival is to take place in Southall this Sunday
The event takes place every year and has seen as many as 100,000 attendees
Southall – Greater London – UK, 06 April 2019. You can experience a vast array of cultural events in London, from Chinese New Year to Notting Hill Carnival, but one you may not have heard of is the Nagar Kirtan Sikh street procession – part of Vaisakhi, a festival to celebrate the birth of the Khalsa.
The colourful parade includes weaponry martial-arts displays, free food, hymn singing and drum playing, all led by a five-man sword carrying team and the Sikh scriptural Guru on a giant float.
Tens of thousands of Sikhs are expected to be part of the celebrations in Southall this Sunday, and around 20 more processions are to take place across Britain.
The event is set to start at 10am in Park Avenue, continuing through The Green, King Street, Norwood Road and Norwood Green Road before finishing at Norwood Hall.
What is it all about? [bold]
Sikhs believe that on 14 April 1699 Guru Gobind Singh called all Sikhs to the Indian city of Anandpur Sahib, Punjab.
At the gathering he asked all those in attendance to uphold their faith and preserve the religion.
The Guru is then said to have lifted his sword and asked the crowd who was prepared to die for their faith.
One by one five men stepped forward, and they were all taken into a tent separately. After a short while Guru Gobind Singh reappeared with a bloodied sword, and the five of the men reappeared behind him, they were all dressed in blue garments.
Guru Gobind Singh called the five men the 'Panj Pyare', which means the Five Beloved Ones.
After they reappeared from the tent, the Panj Pyare were baptized. It's thought that once the Guru had finished the rituals, he lent down and asked them to baptize him.
To this day the five men are known as the first members of the Khalsa.
https://www.mylondon.news/news/west-london-news/massive-colourful-sikh-festival-take-16089283
Tags: Chinese New Year - Notting Hill Carnival, Sikh celebration of the birth of the Khalsa, Southall - Greater London - UK, You can experience a vast array of cultural events in London, You might not have heard of the Southall Nagar Kirtan
The Hindu – What are the issues over NaMoTV, a NaMoTV?
Anuradha Raman
New Delhi – India, 06 April 2019. As the identity and ownership of the entity is shrouded in mystery, it violates broadcasting norms and regulations governing the ownership of content providers.
On March 31, NaMo TV made its début on Direct to Home (DTH) platforms, raising several questions about its identity, ownership and content. Opposition parties asked the Election Commission to take action as the channel was launched after the model code of conduct came into effect ahead of the Lok Sabha election.
The Election Commission has sought an explanation from the Information and Broadcasting Ministry.
Why is it problematic?
As the identity and ownership of the entity is shrouded in mystery, it violates broadcasting norms and regulations governing the ownership of content providers. These norms fall under the categories of uplinking and downlinking policies that came into force in 2005 and that have been amended since.
These policies lay the groundwork for channels that wish to uplink content through satellites and later downlink them to television-viewing homes.
In this regard, there are channels that uplink from outside the country, such as the BBC and CNN, and downlink in India, for which permission is sought and licences are given by a clutch of government ministries that include the Ministries of Home and Information and Broadcasting. NaMo TV falls in a grey area.
Well, DTH platforms claim that NaMo is a Value Added Service (VAS) that every DTH operator offers to its subscriber. For example, TATA Sky could offer a series of cookery shows or fitness programmes as add-on services to viewers for subscription. The number of VAS channels on offer varies from one DTH operator to another with as many as 35 VAS services made available.
Can VAS be live?
For want of specific guidelines, VAS can be live. Channels like Astha have often shown their Guru's spiritual discourses live. NaMo TV goes live with Prime Minister Narendra Modi's rallies.
Is VAS paid for?
Technically, the DTH operator is paid by those who wish to show their content on the DTH platform. The carriage fee for content on DTH platforms for VAS is between Rs 1 lakh and Rs 2 lakh and is negotiable.
Why is the Opposition upset?
As it is the platform of the ruling party's leader, it gives an unfair advantage to the BJP. Traditionally, time is allotted for propaganda/advertising on government channels: All India Radio and Doordarshan. There are other issues. If NaMo TV is the BJP mouthpiece, it will have to declare it as an election expenditure to the Election Commission.
https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/what-are-the-issues-over-namotv-a-channel-dedicated-to-prime-minister-narendra-modi/article26757213.ece
Tags: Can VAS be live?, NaMoTV, New Delhi - India, The Hindu, What does that mean?, Why is it problematic? [bold], Why is the Opposition upset?


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Q: How default exception handler work When we try to run the following program then we get the error that  Exception in thread "main" java.lang.ArithmeticException: / by zero
class excp {
  public static void main(String args[]) {
    int x = 0;
    int a = 30/x;
  }
}

but when we ask somebody how these works, then he tell me that this exception is cautch by the default exception handler, So i could't understand how this defualt exception handler works.
Plz elaborate this.

A: Quoting JLS 11 :
30/x - violates the semantic constraint of Java Language - hence the exception will occur.
If no catch clause that can handle an exception can be found,
then the **current thread** (the thread that encountered the exception) is terminated

Before termination - the uncaught exception is handled as per the following rules :
(1) If the current thread has an uncaught exception handler set,
then that handler is executed.

(2) Otherwise, the method uncaughtException is invoked for the ThreadGroup
that is the parent of the current thread.
If the ThreadGroup and its parent ThreadGroups do not override uncaughtException,
then the default handler's **uncaughtException** method is invoked.

In your case :
After the exception it goes into Thread class
     /**
     * Dispatch an uncaught exception to the handler. This method is
     * intended to be called only by the JVM.
     */
    private void dispatchUncaughtException(Throwable e) {
        getUncaughtExceptionHandler().uncaughtException(this, e);
    }

Then it goes to the ThreadGroup uncaugthException as per Rule 2 - Since no exceptionHandler is defined it goes to Else if - and the thread is terminated
public void uncaughtException(Thread t, Throwable e) {
        if (parent != null) {
            parent.uncaughtException(t, e);
        } else {
            Thread.UncaughtExceptionHandler ueh =
                Thread.getDefaultUncaughtExceptionHandler();
            if (ueh != null) {
                ueh.uncaughtException(t, e);
            } **else if (!(e instanceof ThreadDeath)) {
                System.err.print("Exception in thread \""
                                 + t.getName() + "\" ");
                e.printStackTrace(System.err);
            }**
        }
    }

A: Whenever inside a method, if an exception has occurred, the method creates an Object known as Exception Object and hands it off to the run-time system(JVM). The exception object contains exception class name, description of the exception, and stack trace (location of the program where the exception has occurred).
The run-time system starts searching from the method in which exception occurred, proceeds through call stack in the reverse order in which methods were called. If it finds  appropriate handler then it passes the occurred exception to it. If run-time system searches all the methods on call stack and couldn't have found the appropriate handler then run-time system handover the Exception Object to default exception handler, which is part of run-time system. This handler prints exception class name, exception description and stacktrace and terminates program abnormally.

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In February, the Knesset gave initial approval to Levin's proposal to add 15,000 new hotel rooms withn five years, and side-step irksome building regulation to help in the process.
In a setback to bringing down high lodging costs for tourists and business people, a Tourism Ministry tender to build a chain of inexpensive hotels failed to attract a single bid.
The tender, the failure of which was first reported by Army Radio and later confirmed by The Jerusalem Post, would have allowed a company to buy plots of land in Eilat, the Dead Sea, Kiryat Gat, Mitzpe Ramon and Nazareth.
It specifically required that the five new hotels offer inexpensive prices catering to budget tourists seeking two- to threestar accommodations.
The Tourism Ministry said the failure highlighted the need for broader-based reforms, which it said Tourism Minister Yariv Levin was pursuing.
Last month, the ministry also announced plans to reduce regulatory burden on hotels, giving them more leeway in labor laws for staff who work nights.
In February, the Knesset gave initial approval to Levin's proposal to add 15,000 new hotel rooms within five years, and sidestep irksome building regulation to help in the process.
In the previous decade, only 3,000 new rooms were added, even as tourism steadily increased. As a result, overnight accommodation prices soared roughly 70%.
According to Army Radio, the Israel Lands Authority plans to examine what went wrong alongside the Tourism Ministry, and consider how to put forth the failed tender more effectively.


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TheBlueGuerilla: Young Independence Set to Elect New National Executive - If Approved by UKIP NEC.
Young Independence Set to Elect New National Executive - If Approved by UKIP NEC.
YOUNG INDEPENDENCE (YI), the youth wing of UKIP, are set for national elections next week as Chairman Rob Comely departs his post after a year at the helm. Leaked emails seen by TBG reveal the short-sharp UKIP process that YI candidates have to follow.
If past YI elections are anything to go by this years could be a real humdinger of an affair. And even if you are elected to the YI Council, there is no guarantee the UKIP National Executive Committee will approve your democratic selection.
Jack Duffin and Christopher Wood will go head-to-head in the race to become YI National Chairman. UKIP's Jack Duffin is also a candidate for national NUS President.
Vice Chairman candidates are Thomas Hoof & Tory turncoat Robin Hunter-Clarke, who was demoted by his local association last summer.
"Candidates who are opposed now have until Sunday morning at 9am to submit a manifesto. This can be no longer than two pages of A4 and contain one photo."
"Candidates will then be able to start campaigning for your vote from Monday morning at 9am, with polling open from Wednesday until Friday."
"The names of candidates who have been elected unopposed will now be sent to the NEC for approval. You will have the chance to reject all regional chairs during polling if you feel that they will not represent you [sic]."
Why is Cllr Sam Fletcher's soiled trousers not on the ballot paper?
Both Chairman Candidates are of the pretentious career-politico ilk simply trying to jump on the UKIP bandwagon.
Hoof is the only one named who is a 'normal', good guy.


For test purposes I build in my own schema a copy of the SH.SALES table (the one distributed by Oracle with the demo schemas…). On that table I build an index on the TIME_ID column and, at the same time, I trace the execution. The statements I use are the following.
Since the index is built in parallel (DOP=2), 5 processes are used to run the statement: the query coordinator, 2 slaves for reading the table, and 2 slaves for building the index. Based on the data provided by extended SQL trace let's have a look to some information about the execution.
Execution plan (without runtime statistics and query optimizer estimations): both the build of the index and the full table scan are performed in parallel.
Resource usage profile of one of the slaves building the index: direct writes are used to store the index.
Resource usage profile of one of the slaves scanning the table: instead of performing direct reads, "regular" buffered reads are performed (notice the db file scattered read event).
As pointed out by the last resource usage profile no direct reads are performed. Why? In this case it is because the ONLINE option was specified. By the way, I do not know why there is such a limitation… Anway, without this option, for one of the slaves reading the table the following resource usage profile is used (notice the direct path read event). I do not show the other resource usage profiles and the execution plan because they do not change.
In summary, do not expect to always see direct reads when a parallel full table scan is performed.
Maybe because Oracle needs a consistent view of the table at the time the "create index" started? Presumably, there will be updates to the table while the index is being built – these will be gathered and applied at the end, but the application process needs to start with the index "as of" when the gathering started.
Even when direct reads are performed, read consistency must be guaranteed. To do so an object checkpoint is issued before performing the direct reads. As a result the necessary data is stored on disk. Therefore, I do not see why that should be different for an online index creation. IMO to read the data that has been updated since the CREATE INDEX started, another read, based on another SCN, is required.
Another full scan (based on another SCN) seems too big a price to pay for the ONLINE part of an index rebuild. And what about the changes made while this second scan runs? No, I think the apply process must be very quick, so that the table may remain locked while it runs.
I think that the fast object checkpoint trick works for SELECTs which must ignore the changes made while they run; in contrast, an index rebuild must incorporate those changes.
> to pay for the ONLINE part of an index rebuild.
I wrote "another read" not "another full scan". The only way to efficiently perform an online index creation is to know which rows are modified after the initial full scan is started. I.e. they have to use some kind of log to keep the rowids of those rows… and, during the last phase of the build, they access them directly.
Can we consider that a LIO on a block in PGA (resulted of a Direct Path Read) is less resource consumer than other readed from Buffer Cache?
Thanks in advance, your block is fantastic.
Since it doesn't have to go through all the serialization steps…. yes, it can be considered "cheaper".


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'You have a degree, but who do you know?' Why student debt is a racial-justice issue
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Black families are more likely to borrow to pay for college and when they do, they borrow more on average than white families. After college, black borrowers face more challenges repaying their loans.
As a young adult, Kevin Gordon listened to all the messages his parents, community and American society at large were sending him.
"When I was growing up, a lot of my peers, growing up as black people, [and I] were told to go to college because it's the only way that we can get good paying jobs, let alone a good job period," Gordon said.
So Gordon went, attending a state school, Northern Illinois University, an affordable choice compared to other options. After graduating, Gordon decided to follow in his parents' and brother's footsteps, staying on for a master's degree in sports management. "I did want to put myself in a better position to get a job, and to get a higher paying job in the pay scale by having a higher level of education."
Centuries of policies have hindered black families from building wealth, and deprived institutions that educate black students of resources and discrimination in the labor market.
But two years after graduating with his master's degree, Gordon is still searching for a stable job that uses his degrees, like working as an athletic director in a high school or as the head of athletics for a parks department. He also has more than $75,000 in student debt, a sum he recently reckoned with as he scoured his credit report to prepare to buy a car (a purchase he ultimately didn't go through with).
The U.S. higher-education finance system is just one of the many products of the systemic racism embedded in our society that have been the focus of protests over the past few weeks experts say. A combination of centuries of policies that have hindered black families from building wealth, decades of decisions that have deprived institutions that educate black students of resources and discrimination in the labor market have meant that black borrowers struggle more with student debt than their white counterparts.
In his job search, Gordon can feel evidence of such well-documented discrimination black candidates face in the labor market. "You told me to get these degrees to be eligible, but now I'm not eligible because I don't have the experience," he said. "Now we can talk real — it's about, 'Now you have a degree, but who do you know?' It's just a part of this system, it's how it's all set up."
So instead of a full-time job, Gordon cobbles together work as a high-school and college basketball official, substitute teacher and also does some investing in the stock and foreign exchange markets. The challenge of affording college on his family's middle-class income combined with the challenge of finding a job has made Gordon feel as if he doesn't "have that ability to be financially free."
"Even if I made $50,000 a year, I eventually would be able to pay off my debt, and wouldn't have a problem with paying off my debt if that was the case."
Courtesy of Kevin Gordon
Kevin Gordon graduated with his master's degree in 2018.
The systemic racism embedded in college-finance system
According to data from students who entered college during the 2003-2004 academic year analyzed by Judith Scott-Clayton, a professor of economics and education at Columbia University's Teachers College, 21% of black students who graduated with a bachelor's degree defaulted on their student loans 12 years after entering college. Just 18% of white borrowers who dropped out of college defaulted during the same period.
Defaulting on a student loan has devastating consequences — it ruins a borrower's credit, puts their tax refund, Social Security check and even wages at risk of being garnished and prohibits them from taking on more federal student debt to attend college, which could improve their earnings prospects.
21% of black students who graduated with a BA defaulted on their student loans 12 years after entering college. Just 18% of white borrowers who dropped out of college defaulted.
But even looking at those who aren't in that most dire of circumstances there's still a large gap in outcomes between black and white borrowers. Twelve years after starting college, white men have paid off 44% of their student loan balances on average, while black men saw their balances grow by 11%, according to an analysis from Demos, a left-leaning think tank. White women paid down 28% of their balances during the same period, while black women saw their debt loads grow 13%.
Taken together, this data indicates that student debt, a tool that's supposed to help borrowers move up the economic ladder through education, is actually widening the racial wealth gap.
Historically, student debt has been thought of as an individual problem requiring an individual solution. But as balances and the overall debt has grown there's been recognition from both sides of the aisle that the issue is about more than where students decide to go to college or whether they have a job while in school. Nowhere is the systemic challenges to the student-loan system more clear than the disproportionate impact it has on black borrowers.
"This crisis is not the result of choices that black people made," said Victoria Jackson, a senior policy analyst for higher education at the Education Trust, a nonprofit focused on equity in education. "It is the result of choices that policy makers made," she said.
'This crisis is not the result of choices that black people made, it is the result of choices that policy makers made.'
Victoria Jackson, senior policy analyst for higher education at the Education Trust
Some of those choices are particular to higher education. For example, historically black colleges and universities haven't had access to the same financial resources available to predominantly white institutions, making it more difficult for them to provide grants, despite educating large swaths of students with financial need.
In addition, over the past several years many states and schools have shifted towards awarding more scholarship aid based on merit instead of need . Since the criteria used to define merit — such as standardized test scores — privilege white, wealthier students, black students have suffered from change.
Those same dynamics — combined with inequality already present in the kindergarten through 12th grade school system — mean that black students are less likely to get access to the type of wealthy institutions that can afford to provide generous financial aid.
For-profit colleges have been accused of targeting black students
At the same time that black students have limited access to elite and wealthy institutions they're also more likely to be targeted by predatory for-profit colleges. This trend has been well-documented in books like " Lower Ed : The Troubling Rise of For-Profit Colleges in the New Economy," by Tressie McMillan Cottom, a sociologist and professor at University of North Carolina's School of Information.
More recently, a group of students sued Florida Career College (FCC) in April, alleging the school used deceptive practices to lure students into taking on debt for degrees that had little value in the labor market. The school targeted the black community specifically in these efforts, the suit alleges, by advertising on billboards in majority black communities, sending representatives for outreach at majority black high schools and advertising on social media platforms that allow companies to direct advertising according to interests like "African Americans" and/or "African American Culture."
Just as college campuses have become more diverse, state and federal governments have pulled back on funding them.
The majority of students enrolled at FCC campuses (except one) were black in fall 2018, according to court documents, even though the schools are located in majority white or Latino communities. Earnings for students who attended two of the school's campuses between 2014 and 2016 ranged from $12,800 and $24,500, the suit alleges. Among students who left the school in 2013 or 2014, 77% were unable to repay even one dollar of their student loan balance, according to court documents.
FCC did not respond to request for comment.
This alleged pattern is part of a broader dynamic affecting black students in higher education called predatory inclusion, defined by Louise Seamster, a professor at the University of Iowa who studies race and economic inequality, as "a turn from former exclusion of a marginalized group, to inclusion, but on terms that negates the benefits."
Predatory inclusion doesn't just impact the for-profit college landscape, it's also present in the public college system, higher-education commentators add. Just as college campuses have become more diverse, state and federal governments have pulled back on funding them, meaning that students and families have to shoulder more of the financial burden.
"More people need to be thinking about the way that we've created structures and we've created a set of choices that are not great when it comes to financing higher education for black students," said Dominique Baker, a professor of education policy and leadership at Southern Methodist University.
"We have to think carefully about the options that we provide to students and the ways that some think that those options are race-neutral," she added. "Due to the history of our country and the way structures have been set up they very much are not race-neutral options."
Racial wealth gap means that black families tend to borrow more
But it's not just the higher education system that's contributing to the gulf in financial outcomes between black and white students. A history of policies that have prevented black households from building wealth and discrimination in the labor market have meant that black families typically have less wealth to rely in paying for college, so they borrow more, and that black graduates face more obstacles in getting jobs that could help them repay their debt.
Black families typically have less wealth to rely in paying for college, so they borrow more, and that black graduates face more obstacles in getting jobs that could help them repay their debt.
This systemic racism in the credit and wealth-building systems compound the problem, said Ashley Harrington, the federal policy director at the Center for Responsible Lending. For example, in 2012 the Obama administration tightened credit standards for parents to access the PLUS loans, a federal loan program parents can use to pay for their kids' college.
That change meant the government would look at a parent's credit history in the five years leading up to when they planned to borrow for certain adverse events. Those five years overlapped with the subprime mortgage crisis, which disproportionately impacted black families. Tens of thousands of families whose children attended HBCUs were denied loans as a result of the change, putting those students at risk of not being able to attend college.
"All of these things are connected and they matter," Harrington said, "they just continue to build on each other."
Over the past few years advocacy organizations have been trying to get the public and lawmakers to view our nation's student-loan problem and possible solutions, like debt-free college and some measure of student-debt forgiveness, through a lens of racial justice. EdTrust is seeking participants for a national study on student debt held by people of color. CRL released a study with the NAACP last year on the topic.
Right now, the NAACP is in the process of trying to "amplify" the black student-debt experience through a campaign focused on this topic, said Russell Boyd, the national field organizer for the NAACP's Youth and College division. This effort is particularly urgent at a time when black people are bearing the brunt of the coronavirus pandemic and dealing with the trauma that comes with the racial unrest over the past few weeks, Boyd said.
"If black lives did truly matter that would not just be a reactive statement, that would be proactive," Boyd said. "That would mean that black education would matter."
Jillian Berman covers student debt and millennial finance. You can follow her on Twitter @JillianBerman.
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Patrick McGuire · 27 Jun 2018 · 5 minute read
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John SextonPosted at 5:00 pm on January 11, 2021
This started getting attention on Twitter earlier today. A page on the State Department's website, purporting to be a biography of President Trump, stated that his term ended today. The same thing appeared on a biography page for VP Pence:
A similar message is posted on Mike Pence's biography page on the State Department website, stating "Michael R. Pence's term ended 2021-01-11 19:44:22." https://t.co/xApZCu4x82 pic.twitter.com/NDSlu9pyAK
— Brendan Gutenschwager (@BGOnTheScene) January 11, 2021
When people first noticed it, the time listed was still several hours in the future, making people wonder if this was some kind of accidental leak about something that was about to be announced. Others thought it could be a hack or perhaps just someone at the Department pulling a prank. According to Buzzfeed, this was in fact a stunt pulled by an employee at the State Department.
A disgruntled employee at the State Department changed the biographies of President Donald Trump and Vice President Mike Pence to say their term was coming to an end on Monday — nine days before President-elect Joe Biden is to be sworn in — two current-serving diplomats with knowledge of the situation told BuzzFeed News…
One of the diplomats said that Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has ordered an internal investigation into the matter, beginning with interns and employees leaving the State Department this week and next ahead of the transition to the Biden administration.
Actually, it turns out the biographies weren't "changed" they were created. Neither Trump nor Pence had a biography on the State Dept. website prior to today:
Also, the Trump page did not exist before today according to the Wayback Machine:https://t.co/gfpTIR68jW pic.twitter.com/MOw2s4Drhf
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Since this was discovered the page has apparently been taken down. If you click it now you just get a 404 error.
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My co-author, Dan Kennedy, tells of being in the "waiting room" of a professional's office on a fairly busy day and overhearing a conversation among several others waiting to be seen. The entire area was fresh from major remodeling, with new carpet, furniture, several big flat screen TVs playing different daytime shows, and a fancy beverage bar. One person said to the other, "I don't care about any of this. I just wish he'd be on time and that my appointment time meant something." He said it with a few swear words inserted. The person next to him said, "Second that. We wouldn't need TVs to watch if we weren't kept waiting around for a half hour or hour." Soon, several more people joined into this shared frustration conversation. And what do you think the odds are of retaining them? What about getting referrals from them? As a business owner, it's important to know what's really important to your customers.
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I never communicate with my clients just about my products, services, and business. Doing that positions my clients as just customers of and for my business. I want a relationship, so I share my life, my interests, my experiences, my ideas, who I am and what I'm about, so they can find shared interests with me.
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Sharing space in someone's physical world is not a new idea. Walk around your house tonight and look at all the logos and branding that's all around you. My co-author, Dan Kennedy, literally has a bookcase in my house. When he first started making an appearance in my life, he had one spot on my bookshelf. As time went on and he continued to write books, he soon had a whole shelf. Then, as I started receiving newsletters and CDs from him, his space grew. Now I have 20-plus binders filled with his years of newsletters and dozens of sets of course materials. At my office, I have even more of his books in our office library for my team to check out. I even have a Dan Kennedy bobblehead! And finally, in all three of my cars, you can find his CDs. Do you think I listen when he talks? Long before I personally knew Dan, I had a relationship with him, and part of that relationship was developed via his ever-growing presence in my space.
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L shaped sofa is suitable for almost all kinds of house concept and it is also suitable to be located in almost all area of the living room. It can be placed in the corner of the room, in the middle of the room or even slightly a little close to the wall. For family room, you can choose a two-piece L shaped sofa for this place is usually design for your small family only. The not too large size of the sofa will also make you sit close to one another to increase the family bond while watching TV or movies together. The material of the sofa can be various, if you have children, then you would consider using microfiber sofa. This kind of material is also good because it is quite warm and soft. The chaise can be placed in the short wing of the sofa to get the even look of the sofa. Furniture & Furnishing.


Marvels of Minnesota in poster/gift wrap form. This image is offset printed on 19" by 27" paper and is sold rolled and shipped in a tube. It is perfect for framing and even fits into an Ikea Ribba frame ($20) which comes in 3 colors - black, gray and white. It can also be used as gift wrap for that special package.
Minnesota is home to many Marvels and this map describes many of them, from the Spoon and Cherry at the Walker Art Center to the most famous Paul Bunyan and Babe in Bemidji. Minnesota is home to the World's Oldest Rock, the Largest Boot (Red Wing) and the 1st Burma Shave Sign.


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Q: Plotting every variable in a dataframe like facets I have a dataframe, df, with 17 observations of 12 variables. Every observation represents the value assumed by a variable in a year, I have years from 1995 to 2011.
I would like to plot some of those variables having on the x axis always the year, and on the y axis the values of the variables. I would like to have it like facets, in a single graph.
How can I do it? I used ggplot2 to plot one of those variables.
The code I've written:
ggplot(c4ItaGerFinale, aes(Anno,EXPtot)) +
  geom_point(color = "steelblue", size=2) +
  labs(x= "Anno", y= "Milioni di dollari", title = "Settore Tessile, wiod c4") +
  coord_cartesian(ylim=c(0,6000))

Where EXPtot is a variable, Anno is the variable I would like to have always on the x axis, and c4ItaGerFinale is my data.frame.

A: As suggested by user @Richard Telford I used gather to put all my variables in a column, then facet by variable.
dfgraph <- gather(df, Variable, Name, 2:12)

then used ggplot.


Back during my East Coast days, there was a year when a colleague invited me to go to her daughter's play on the 4th of July. I don't like doing that sort of thing all the time, but I do enjoy kids' performances occasionally, so that was fine. The play was around noon, so I figured we'd spend the rest of the day together.
I usually do not cross-post from my Living Single blog. Instead, I write different posts for Psychology Today and All Things Single, with the latter sometimes a bit more personal. In case there are people who read this blog but not my Living Single blog, I wanted to repost about Friendsight: What Friends Know that Others Don't.


The ability to feature content on topic pages is now available. It was deployed to production early last week.
We're keen to see the impact this change will have on bounce rates on topic pages. User research and analytics tell us that users want this thematic route to find content, but the format is not currently meeting that need as successfully as organisation pages do. We've made several changes to address this, the most significant of which is to allow featuring so the currently most important content in each policy area can be showcased to users.
We therefore encourage editors in ministerial departments to now think in terms of having several "homepages" that are their responsibility to curate - not just their organisation page.
Our previous blog post contained a list of which department leads the curation of which topic.
If you're an editor in a ministerial department, these topic pages are yours. You own the topics that your department leads, in the same way as you own your organisation pages.
You don't need to clear with GDS which items you feature on them. We only ask that you avoid creating new topics, changing topic names or editing the agreed summary text without involving us. (And, as with organisation pages, we encourage you to feature content that is most helpful to users, irrespective of its format or age).
Curating certain topics will involve more collaboration between departments than others, but this needn't be onerous - it's just a case of sending a quick email or picking up the phone when you're making a change to what's been featured by someone else.
So today, or the next time you feature something on your organisation's page, please also make sure you consider featuring it on relevant topic pages.
The user journey in publisher is a bit clunky at the moment. We will iterate on it soon. In case you're struggling to find it, go to More > Topics > [Topic X] > Featured documents to add, remove or sort the featured items on a topic.
... and one more... we can't find Case Studies listed in the stuff we can feature. This is sad - and I'm sure an omission. This would be a really nice way to surface them!
I agree that the featuring UI is awkward right now. We will make it better as we keep on iterating.
We deliberately only allow case studies to be listed as links from the things they illustrate, because they are always a study of *something* govt is doing or proposing, and I can't see how they meet a need in isolation. To date this has only meant surfacing them on policies. Happy to revisit that if you have an example of a case study that users need to dive straight into.
I - sadly - take your point about case studies and customer need.
We've featured 2 policies on the Welfare topic page since Monday. Yesterday we updated one of them and today we noticed it had unfeatured itself. We've replicated this bug on the test platform.
Hi Michael - sorry about that. We'll raise this as a bug now & sort it out.
I've only just realised that when featuring on a topic page, the published/updated date of the featured content isn't displayed on the topic page. However, it does display for featured content on org pages.
I wondered if this was a conscious decision?
We want to feature relevant content on our org homepage. In some cases this can be content that is months old. This can make the org homepage feel a bit out of date.


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Released on June 24, VIC-VODER is a new voice synthesizer developed by Richard Melick. It works on the Commodore VIC-20, Commodore 64, and Commodore 128. Last Friday I ordered one for $99.95 US, and it came in the mail today, July 1. Above are pictures of the VIC-VODER.


World recognizes this airport by its name as Dubrovnik Airport and international code name as DBV which is located in the Dubrovnik City in Croatia. You must book our car rental deals at the Dubrovnik Airport as we provide you with great suppliers of this country. You have the choices in pick up locations too. It is also called as the Cilipi Airport.
This airport is well situated at a distance of 15.5 km far away from the center of the city of Dubrovnik. It is situated close to the region of Cilipi. This airport has been ranked as the second largest airport of Croatia.
Take out time for the view of the Old Town which is an ideal historic site for traveling around for nice time. In case you love beach life and water sports, you should experience your time at the Island of Lokrum. Take out time to explore the historic site the Altstadt also called as the Old Town of Dubrovnik.
It is advised to hire a car at Dubrovnik Airport for enjoying all the drives. Also explore the notable features like City Harbor, Franciscan Monastery, Placa Thoroughfare, Mount Srdj Ropeway and Pile Gate.
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Danger è il primo album in studio del rapper italiano Nitro, pubblicato il 16 luglio 2013 dalla Machete Empire Records e distribuito dalla Sony Music e dalla Epic Records.

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Musicisti
 Nitro – voce
 DJ Slait – scratch (eccetto traccia 2)
 DJ Shocca – scratch (traccia 2)

Produzione
 Davide Ice – produzione (traccia 1)
 DJ Shocca – produzione e missaggio beat (traccia 2)
 Stabber – produzione e missaggio beat (traccia 3)
 Squarta – produzione e missaggio beat (traccia 5)
 Salmo – produzione (traccia 6)
 Denny the Cool – produzione (traccia 7)
 Strage – produzione (traccia 8)
 Deleterio – produzione (traccia 9)
 Karma 22 – produzione (traccia 10)
 Belzebass – produzione e missaggio beat (traccia 11)
 Luca "The Night Skinny" Pace – registrazione, missaggio (eccetto tracce 2, 3, 5 e 11), mastering

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It all began in 2005, when I led a group of Australian tourists (only one of them a scientist) on a science History Tour of Europe and the UK. Highlights includes a private tour of the Higgs Boson project at CERN in Geneva, a visit to Louis Pasteur's home laboratory at Arbois in France (where the chicken soup that he sterilized 150 years ago is still sterile!), and a view of Galileo's preserved middle finger in Florence.
The tour was so successful that the same group has requested another one, which took place in September/October 2007, this time covering Eastern Europe and new sites in the U.K. Highlights included a visit to Gregor Mendel's restored garden at the Abbey in Brno where he discovered the principles of inheritance using garden peas, and a visit to the Human Genome project near Cambridge, where modern genetics is being advanced.
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Halle Berry: I Met My Fiance Oliver Martinez on a "S–t Movie"
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Halle Berry and Olivier Martinez attend Variety's 4th Annual Power of Women Event on October 5, 2012 in Beverly Hills, California.
Tell us how you really feel, Halle!
Oscar-winning actress Halle Berry, 46, didn't mince words when she stopped by Chelsea Lately Oct. 30 to chat about her new film, Cloud Atlas, and what she called the Hollywood "crapshoot."
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The star happily talked up her latest project, which co-stars Tom Hanks and is based on a complex epic novel by David Mitchell, but she wasn't as complimentary of other titles on her resume.
"You don't expect it to be as bad as it is sometimes," she told host Chelsea Handler of making a flop. "Then it comes out, and you think, 'F–k. That's what I did?'"
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Handler pointed out, though, that sometimes there's a silver lining. "Even when a movie ends up crappy, other good things can come out of it," she argued. "You met your fiance on a movie."
"On a s–t movie," Berry confirmed, referring to Dark Tide, a $25 million thriller that came out earlier this year and grossed less than $500,000 at the box office. The flick co-starred Olivier Martinez, whom the actress has been dating since filming wrapped in 2010.
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Berry, who has a 4-year-old daughter, Nahla, with ex-boyfriend Gabriel Aubry, has said she had "given up" on marriage prior to meeting the 46-year-old French actor. (She was previously married to baseball player David Justice and R&B singer Eric Benet.) But Martinez won her over. They got engaged in January, and Berry herself confirmed the news in April.
"Who knew? I swore [marriage] off, right?" she joked to Extra. "Never say never, people!"