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NTG Clarity Provides its Second Default Status Update
- March 12, 2014 /MarketersMEDIA/ —
Toronto, ON / March 11, 2014 / NTG Clarity Networks Inc. (TSX.V:NCI) is providing this bi-weekly Default Status Report in accordance with National Policy 12-203 - Cease Trade Orders for Continuous Disclosure Defaults ("NP 12-203"). On February 4, 2014, the Company announced that, following a review by staff of the Ontario Securities Commission (the "OSC") in connection with the filing of the Company's annual consolidated financial statements, notes and related Management's Discussion and Analysis for the year ended December 31, 2012 (the "Financial Statements") and the interim consolidated financial statements, notes and related Management's Discussion and Analysis (the "Financial Statements") for the period ending June 30, 2013, the OSC determined that Company was in default of its continuous disclosure requirements under the Securities Act (Ontario) (the "Default").
As a result of this default, on February 14, 2014, the OSC, issued a management cease trade order (the "MCTO"), which imposed restrictions on all trading in securities of the Company by the Chief Executive Officer and the Chief Financial Officer until the Company re-files the above Financial Statements and the OSC makes an order revoking the MCTO. All other parties are permitted to freely trade the Company's securities.
The Company will be making the necessary updates and anticipates that revised Financial Statements will be re-filed by March 28, 2014 in order to remedy the Default.
These changes have no effect on figures previously reported in the 2012 financial statements (the Audited Consolidated Statement of Financial Position, the Audited Consolidated Statements of Changes in Shareholders' Equity, the Audited Statement of Comprehensive Income, or the Audited Consolidated Statement of Cash Flows) or on figures previously reported in the Interim Q2 2013 (the Condensed Consolidated Interim Statement of Financial Position, the Condensed Consolidated Interim Statement of Comprehensive Income, or the Condensed Consolidated Interim Statement of Changes in Shareholders' Equity). For Q2 2013 Cash Flow; Net Cash From Operations changes to $202,578 from $85,911 (3 months and $615,558 from $474,892 (for 6 months); Cash From Financing changes to $12,667 from $129,334 (3 months and ($71,031) from ($69,634) (for 6 months); Cash From Investing changes to ($453,227) from ($69,634) (for 6 months).
The Company confirms that since the issuance of the MCTO, there has not been any material change concerning the affairs of the Company that has not been disclosed as of the date of this news release.


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Cameron is trying to rewrite the constitution to become a Downing Street Squatter
Mark Ferguson
In 2010, the Sun printed a piece attacking a man "squatting in a luxury home near the Houses of Parliament". They went on to say that the "squatter" was "refusing to budge from the Georgian townhouse in Downing Street".
That man was Gordon Brown.
Yet on Friday, David Cameron is preparing to try and rewrite the constitution to do exactly the same – if not worse.
As I wrote at the weekend, all that anyone needs to do come May 8th is learn how to count. If David Cameron is the leader of the largest party (by no means a foregone conclusion), he'll have to prove that he can put together a governing majority in the Commons, or it is his constitutional obligation to resign and allow the person next best placed person to form a government – Ed Miliband – to become Prime Minister.
The Cabinet Manual – as close as Britain comes to a set of constitutional guidelines in this situation, is very clear on this:
Para 2.12 Parliaments with no overall majority in the House of Commons
Where an election does not result in an overall majority for a single party, the incumbent government remains in office unless and until the Prime minister tenders his or her resignation and the Government's resignation to the Sovereign. An incumbent government is entitled to wait until the new Parliament has met to see if it can command the confidence of the House of Commons, but is expected to resign if it becomes clear that it is unlikely to be able to command that confidence and there is a clear alternative. (emphasis mine)
But Cameron is trying to rewrite the constitution on the fly. Osborne was on ITV last night claiming that the Tories would cling on in Downing Street until it was proven that another government could be formed. That might mean the Tories – if they lack a workable majority – putting down a Queen's Speech with no expectation of passing it. Even though that's clearly contrary to the rules set out by the cabinet manual.
The aim would be to put the Labour Party and any other party that might support them on the rack for the best part of a month (whilst a largely Tory-supporting media backs them to the hilt) in the hope that one of them cracks under pressure and then fails to vote down a Tory Queen's speech. That's a forlorn hope – Labour have united, tribally and unambiguously, behind Miliband. The Labour Party will take its opportunity to remove the Tories by a Commons vote if necessary. But if Cameron lacks the numbers he's planning to literally squat in Downing Street, desperately praying that something – anything – comes along to keep him in power. His target of spite and scorn will be the Labour Party, but the victims will be the British people and the British economy, hit by a month of seeming uncertainty – but with one inevitable conclusion.
And that'd before we get into the weeds by asking how on earth some sort of Tory/Lib Dem/UKIP/DUP alliance could actually work.
When The Sun called Gordon Brown a "squatter" he was fulfilling his obligations to the nation – as a statesman – to stay in power until it was impossible for Labour to form a majority. When that was no longer possible – as per the Cabinet manual – Gordon Brown went. He left in the daylight, defeated but with his head held high. If Cameron ends up similarly able to command a majority, he'll seek to be dragged out of Downing Street in the dead of night – after losing a Queen's Speech vote – his fingernails scraping their way down Whitehall as he goes.
And that would be the end of a "career defining" election for Cameron.
Tags: David Cameron / Constitution / Commons / Downing Street / Majority / Cabinet Manual /
Mark Ferguson is the editor of LabourList
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Will US target Venezuelan oil?
In its battle against the rule of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro, the United States has been trying to cripple the government's ability to secure funds and run the country – with sanctions that target officials, some sectors of the economy and its official cryptocurrency.
But so far it has not yet used what many call "the nuclear option" – a full oil embargo, targeting the industry that is responsible for 90% of the government's revenues.
Despite the rhetoric between Nicolás Maduro and President Donald Trump, refineries in the US are still buying Venezuelan petroleum. Venezuela's state company PDVSA even owns refineries in Texas through a subsidiary called CITGO.
But with the crisis escalating after Washington backed opposition leader Juan Guaidó's claim to the presidency last week, a new round of sanctions is expected in the coming days.
What's behind Venezuela's political crisis?
On Saturday, US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo failed to secure backing from the United Nations Security Council against Venezuela, as China and Russia are close Maduro allies.
President Maduro backed down from his demand that US diplomats leave the country and said both countries now have a 30-day window to negotiate the new terms of their relationship.
Markets are watching now for what the US will do next. Despite its failure in the Security Council, the Trump administration has support from big regional players such as Brazil, Argentina and Colombia.
If it does finally move against Venezuelan oil, could that be the nail in the coffin of the country's oil industry, which has been in a crisis of its own for years? And what effect could that have for the rest of the world?
A boom in US shale production has helped slash crude prices over the past four years, although they have recovered slightly.
But 2019 is shaping up to be a very challenging year for the commodity, and there is no clear indication on which way prices will move.
Oil is never a predictable affair, however, and there are many situations that could cause prices to spike. Production is very volatile in Nigeria and Libya. Iran is under a heavy US embargo. Russia and Saudi Arabia are cutting production.
Finally there are fears of a global slowdown in the economy which could see prices fall due to a drop in demand.
The crisis in Venezuela is another scenario watched closely by oil analysts.
There is a general sense in markets that Nicolás Maduro will not be removed from power in the near future and that tensions will keep on rising. Also most analysts discard the full "nuclear option", as that would have a devastating impact on the people of Venezuela, instead of just hitting the government.
One of the most likely scenarios discussed is a partial restriction of how much oil the US can buy from Venezuela.
That would hurt consumers in America and in the rest of the world. Prices would rise as refineries would have to buy their share of oil from more expensive sources. American refineries that buy from Venezuela would also be negatively affected.
But US restrictions would benefit Saudi Arabia, Mexico and Iraq – countries that also produce the same variety of heavy crude oil (Canada also produces heavy crude but it does not have logistic capability to increase its exports). These countries have been eating into Venezuela's market share for years.
Venezuela would be the biggest loser of all, of course.
The country has the world's largest proven oil reserves – even bigger than Saudi Arabia – but it is rapidly running out of money to prospect for crude and pump it out of the ground.
In the late 1990s, Venezuela was producing more than three million barrels of oil per day. Output today is hovering above the one million mark, according to experts.
Even without any international sanctions Venezuela's oil production will decline dramatically this year because of the lack of investment.
The rate of decline in production has been more intense in recent months.
Helima Croft, from RBC Capital Markets, forecasts that output this year will drop by 300,000 to 500,000 barrels per day without any sanctions.
Restrictions from Washington would accelerate the decline. Venezuela would be able to re-route part of its production to other buying nations, like China, but it wouldn't be able to pass on all of its excess oil to markets not aligned with the US.
Venezuela is still seen as an oil powerhouse, especially because it is a producer of heavy crude, which is a variety not widely available in the world.
But the severity of its economic crisis may be changing that.
"It will require billions in investment to repair the infrastructure and kick start a recovery. The talented technocrats that once made PDVSA one of the premier national oil companies continue to flee in droves," she told the BBC.
"Even if a reformist government comes to power, the international community will have to launch a major reconstruction and rehabilitation effort to get the country back up on its feet."
The IMF now publishes separate indicators for Venezuela in its Latin American analysis. The economy there has become such an outlier that it makes no sense to compare it to other countries.
This year Venezuela's GDP is expected to reach a new low: the economy will be half the size of what it was in 2013.
Last year the government tried again to use oil to solve its economic woes. It ended subsidies, raised the price of fuel domestically and ramped up its campaign to use a cryptocurrency allegedly pegged to barrels of oil.
Still it failed to contain inflation, which is thought to have crossed the million per cent mark, and did not end its shortages of food and medicine.
It's hard to imagine life getting any harder for people in Venezuela. Now with fresh sanctions on the cards, it just may.


Can drinking several cups of green tea a day keep the doctor away? This certainly seems so, given the popularity of this practice in East Asian culture and the increased interest in green tea in the Western world. Several epidemiological studies have shown beneficial effects of green tea in cancer, cardiovascular, and neurological diseases. The health benefits associated with green tea consumption have also been corroborated in animal studies of cancer chemoprevention, hypercholesterolemia, artherosclerosis, Parkinson's disease, Alzheimer's disease, and other aging-related disorders. However, the use of green tea as a cancer chemopreventive or for other health benefits has been confounded by the low oral bioavailability of its active polyphenolic catechins, particularly epigallocatechin-3-gallate (EGCG), the most active catechin. This review summarizes the purported beneficial effects of green tea and EGCG in various animal models of human diseases. Dose-related differences in the effects of EGCG in cancer versus neurodegenerative and cardiovascular diseases, as well as discrepancies between doses used in in vitro studies and achievable plasma understanding of the in vivo effects of green tea catechins in humans, before the use of green tea is widely adopted as health-promoting measure.


I was at the Island Bay Butchers earlier this week and purchased this new product. Took them home and cooked them for tea. They were served with oven roasted cauliflower, leeks and blue cheese. We also had baby peas.
As the butcher said, it is all beef banger, including the casing. It is also gluten free. But the big question is - what does it taste like? It is good, very dense and gives the mandibles a good work out. It is a pleasant meaty sausage that lets the meat give the flavour. In comparison to other meat sausages I have reviewed this is ok, without being great. I would buy this sausage again.
The other dishes that accompanied the sausages were a roasted leek and cauliflower with blue cheese. This is a very pleasant dish which all the family really enjoys. See the link for the recipe. This was also served with some baby peas, courtesy of Mr Wattie. What would a family do without Mr Wattie?


Although the recent WND report of al-Qaida terrorists allegedly baking a young boy and serving him as a meal to his relatives was too horrific for some to believe, a major Christian ministry is citing another example – and also claims such a practice has its roots in the historical stories of Islam.
Yon, who has earned widespread respect as an independent journalist, reported that Iraqi officials told him about al-Qaida terrorists baking children and serving them to their families.
He confirmed independently to WND that an Iraqi official had recounted for him instances in which the terrorists would bake a young boy, then invite his family to have lunch, with the baked child as the main course.
Officials with the Barnabas Fund, an international Christian group working to help persecuted Christians, particularly those in Muslim-majority contexts, then confirmed Yon's report aligns with one of their own reports about such an atrocity.
And a researcher for the Barnabas Fund cites what he says is the foundation for such barbarism.
The researcher said the story is common to history books that include the story of Mohammed ibn Abu Bekre, a contemporary of Muhammad. The connections are these: Mohammad ibn Abu Bekre was the son of Abu Bekre, the first adult male to believe in Muhammad. Mohammad ibn Abu Bekre also is the brother of Aisha, Muhammad's 9-year-old wife.
However, after five months, a rival Caliph army invaded Egypt to take it back from Ali, and they killed Mohammed ibn Abu Bekre, the history books say.
The researcher said this specific information comes from Ibn Kathir's history book, "al Bidayah wa-Nihaya," but the story is common to Islamic history books if they include a reference to Mohammed ibn Abu Bekre.
Robert Spencer of JihadWatch told WND the account is from Islamic tradition.
"A few sites on the web not only openly doubted it, but also published statements saying that we surely invented it for purposes of fundraising and/or because of Islamophobia," the group continued.
A spokesman for the organization, Marshall Sana, told WND the Barnabas Fund works directly with local Christian leaders wherever it can reach them throughout Iraq, and its report came from two different parties.
The report from Yon came while he was covering the war – and al-Qaida's involvement – in Baqubah, and he was listening to statements from an Iraqi official who asked that his name not be reported.
"At first, he said, they would only target Shia, but over time the new al-Qaida directed attacks against Sunni, and then anyone who thought differently. The official reported that on a couple of occasions in Baqubah, al-Qaida invited to lunch families they wanted to convert to their way of thinking. In each instance, the family had a boy, he said, who was about 11 years old," Yon continued.
One of the groups that has far more knowledge about torture and atrocities than it would prefer is International Christian Concern.
"I'm just thinking of a report about two Muslims who approached a Christian boy at a work at a mechanic's shop. They said, 'Are you a Christian.' He said, "Yes.' And they beheaded him on the spot," he said.
As WND reported, Tilman Geske, a German citizen, and two Turkish Christians were martyred – allegedly by five Muslims who met the three victims at a Christian publishing company for a Bible study, according to Voice of the Martyrs.
Yon told WND he reported what he was told – no more or less. "Perhaps it's urban legend. I have no idea. But my reporting was spot on. … I quoted someone and offered zero opinion," he said.
But he, also, said he'd witnessed the results of atrocities, such as the unearthing of the heads of decapitated children, that convinced him al-Qaida certainly was capable of such a heinous crime.
"Al-Qaida: the organization that gleefully bragged about murdering roughly 3,000 people by smashing jets full of civilians into buildings and earth. Al-Qaida in Iraq: who proudly broadcast their penchant for sawing off the heads of living breathing people, and in such a manner as to ensure lots of spurting blood and gurgles of final pain, in some cases with the added flourish of the executioner raising up the severed head and squealing excitedly," he said.
"People at home might find it incredible, improbable, even impossible. Yet here in combat with al-Qaida, the idea is no more improbable-sounding than someone saying 'The chicken crossed the road.' Maybe the chicken crossed the road. Maybe not. The veterans I've been talking with here have no difficulty imagining the chicken crossing the road, or al-Qaida roasting kids. Sickening, yes. Improbable, no," he said.
The Catholic Encyclopedia notes that the concept of "passing children through fire" dates back to the Old Testament, when the god Moloch appeared.
"The chief feature of Moloch's worship among the Jews seems to have been the sacrifice of children, and the usual expression for describing that sacrifice was 'to pass through the fire', a rite carried out after the victims had been put to death," the reference says.
The Barnabas Fund was set up in 1993 to provide practical help to Christians in Muslim environments. It works to channel money from Christians to Christians, and it partners with local leaders in the persecuted church.


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Manager of Oakland 'rave cave' was a negligent father and drug addict
By Chris Perez
December 5, 2016 | 7:07pm | Updated December 7, 2016 | 9:34pm
Derick Ion Almena AP
The man who ran the illegal "Ghost Ship" artist enclave in Oakland — where at least 36 people died in a fire on Friday night — was a deadbeat dad who neglected his kids to hold drug-fueled sex parties inside the warehouse, according to family and friends.
A pair of caregivers for Derick Ion Almena's three children told the Daily Mail that the free-spirited 46-year-old would often leave the youngsters with them for up to five days at a time while he got strung out with his wife, Micah Allison, and gallivanted in Bali and other places.
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"They were crazy. I remember having conversations with Micah. She would say, 'Oh, we danced under the moon, it was this transcendent experience,'" recalled Mariah Benavides, who was just 16 years old when she started watching Almena's three kids, who now are ages 14, 8 and 5.
"I wouldn't say they'd disappear without contact. They'd say, 'We're going to go and have fun' and they were going to be gone a bit longer," Benavides added.
Danielle Boudreaux, a longtime friend of the couple who was also looking after the kids, told the Daily Mail and the Associated Press that Almena and Allison had been raising them like animals.
"It went on for a certain amount of time with me constantly picking the kids up from school, bringing them home to my place, bathing them, feeding them," Boudreaux remembered. "They all had lice repeatedly. I was picking lice out of their hair. They'd missed 50 days of the first 100 days of school.
"I was confronting him on a regular basis," she said, noting how "meth was the primary drug of choice" for people who hung out at Ghost Ship.
"I grew up among drug addicts, I knew what was going on," Boudreaux said. "I have a hard time with people saying they were just doing art."
According to Benavides, at least seven or eight people who lived at Ghost Ship were staying downstairs and "had trailers like RVs in the building."
"It was a terrifying place for children, it was a terrifying place for me and I was 18 at the time," she said.
Danielle Boudreaux, who knows Derick Ion Almena and his children, cries at a sidewalk memorial near the burned warehouse.Reuters
Just hours after the fire erupted inside his 10,000-square-foot warehouse, where a party was being held Friday, Almena sparked widespread outrage by penning a Facebook post in which he griped about losing everything he "worked so hard for" — without noting the tragic loss of life.
Countless social media users felt he ultimately had no right to say anything about the blaze, especially since his building was the subject a city code enforcement probe at the time, with officials citing complaints about health and safety issues, including a lack of fire sprinklers and a staircase made of wooden pallets.
Many have called the warehouse a "death trap" and said Almena's negligence — combined with his careless drug use and partying — likely played a role in the fire.
"I don't think it has anything to do with the people who were at the party or even some of the people who lived there," Benavides said. "I just think he's just selfish and negligent. He's always, 'Me, me, me, all I care about is myself.' He neglected to take any action as far as the safety of the building while having people in there, that's just total neglect. I think he deserves to go to jail."
Almena's father-in-law, Michael Allison, agreed — saying he wanted the self-described "thriller love child of Manson, Pol Pot and Hitler" to be punished to the fullest extent.
"[Almena] needs to be sent away to prison for a long time because he's a menace, he's an absolute menace — a plague, a danger," the dad told the Daily Mail. "He's crazy, I mean the guy's completely crazy."
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According to Allison's dad, the couple had their three children taken away from them last year because of their drug problems. He told the Associated Press that Almena wasn't a good father, mainly because he was selfish.
"Honestly, I don't think he is capable of feeling any kind of remorse or guilt," Michael said. "I've never seen him ever really care about anyone else."
Almena posted on Facebook in May 2015 that he and his wife had been "unable to see the kids for one month as we have been working and looking for the right lawyer as well as fighting extreme depression and an overwhelming longing for our children."
But they were eventually able to regain custody in July this year following a court hearing in LA, the Mail reports.
"Someone obviously dropped the ball between LA Child Protective Services and the Oakland one," Allison's father said. "They were clearly not communicating, there was no follow-up, apparently."
Michael claimed one of the biggest reasons he wanted his daughter and his three grandchildren out of Ghost Ship was the fact that Almena frequently transformed the two-story art studio into a drug-filled sex den.
"I have heard stories of sex parties from several different people … used condoms on the floor," the dad said.
Boudreaux recalled how Allison's sister one time witnessed a truly horrifying sight following a "huge orgy on the second floor," involving one of Almena's kids.
"She found the youngest [of Almena's children], who was 3, chewing on a used condom," Boudreaux told the Mail. "She put it in the CPS (Child Protective Services) report."
A view of the warehouse after it caught fire Friday night.Getty Images
The couple was also known to ditch their kids for days on end as they tended to their marijuana plants in NoCal, Michael said.
"They were growing pot for a while in Mendocino," he said. "They would make a stash of cash and then they would go to Bali. They would stay in Bali for a few months and have somebody watch their kids. And then I heard from friends that they mainly just did drugs the whole time."
Family and friends told the Daily Mail that Almena's children were ecstatic to get out of the Ghost Ship warehouse when child services took them away.
"When the kids were removed and were with family, I had called them on several occasions to check on them," Boudreaux said. "The little boy, who wasn't even 4, said, 'Thank you for helping us get out of the scary warehouse.'"
Allison's father told the AP that Almena was in complete control of the building — as well as the vagrants who were living inside.
"He was able to cast a spell on someone in a weird way that I just do not understand," Michael said, recalling how Almena practically brainwashed his daughter and even talked her out of leaving rehab on numerous occasions.
"[He] surrounds himself with people who are going to treat him like he's some sort of guru," Boudreaux told the AP. "He enjoyed having minions around to do his tasks for him and help build this great — he thinks he's building this artistic empire."
Almena's father-in-law said his main concern is now for the welfare of his three grandchildren.
"I am very worried about my grandchildren," he said. "I assume what's going to happen is they will be taken again, I hope they will go back to Derick's sister. She's a completely reasonable person, and Derick's mom is also down there and she's a good person. Neither one of them want anything to do with Derick, they are the ones who took the kids before, so I'm hoping they will be okay."
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Forward thinking space solutions and coworking specialist, The Workspace, and leading insurance company, MiWay, have joined forces to launch an entrepreneurial hub and business development programme at the newly developed Village Road premises in Selby in Johannesburg's central business district.
MiWay's presence at Village Road will afford The Workspace members the convenience of having business insurance and a host of other requirements fulfilled at their place of work whenever it suits them.
MiWay is the first corporate member at Village Road, the latest premises in The Workspace's portfolio of upmarket coworking spaces.. The partnership will see MiWay consulting on site to The Workspace's members, which include entrepreneurs and small business owners.
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Despite Million Who Will Die, White House Embraces Herd Immunity To End COVID Lockdowns
The White House is doubling down on its push to reopen the economy, now openly embracing a herd immunity strategy at the urging of some health experts.
Two senior advisers told media outlets on Monday, October 12, 2020, that the Trump administration supports the Great Barrington Declaration, a controversial document that argues against lockdowns and calls for a reopening of schools, businesses, and other entities while protecting people deemed vulnerable to the virus because of age or other risk factors.
"I think Americans should be cautiously optimistic about what's going on here," one of the officials said.
The officials were not authorized to speak on-the-record about the matter, but both defended the decision to move toward a broad-scale reopening, even though at least 5,900 people in the United States died with COVID-19 last week.
The coronavirus has contributed to the deaths of more than 214,000 people in the U.S. since the pandemic began earlier this year.
Experts have argued that approaching "herd immunity"—essentially allowing more people to contract COVID-19 in the hopes that they would quickly recover and create a mass immunity—would likely result in many more deaths and illnesses.
According to the latest projections from the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation, the U.S. death toll is on track to reach 392,460 by January 31, with current protections in place. If restrictions are eased, IHME projects that 497,034 Americans will have died by that date, more than 100,000 additional deaths.
World Health Organization director-general Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus told reporters during a virtual press briefing on Monday that such an approach would be "unethical."
"Herd immunity is achieved by protecting people from a virus, not by exposing them to it," he said.
President Donald Trump has mentioned the idea in the past, mistakenly referring to it as "herd mentality," and the idea has been pushed by some of the president's favorite conservative personalities, including Fox News' Laura Ingraham.
The Great Barrington Document, released last week, was authored by Sunetra Gupta of the University of Oxford, Jay Bhattacharya of Stanford University, and Martin Kulldorff of Harvard University. Thousands of additional scientists have signed onto the open petition, though media outlets have reported some fake names on the list.
"As infectious disease epidemiologists and public health scientists, we have grave concerns about the damaging physical and mental health impacts of the prevailing COVID-19 policies and recommend an approach we call Focused Protection," the open letter reads. "Current lockdown policies are producing devastating effects on short and long-term public health."
Trump, who has said that he believes a COVID-19 vaccine will be developed by the end of the year, revealed in the early morning hours of October 2 that he had tested positive for COVID-19. He was briefly hospitalized but the White House physician has since cleared him for public activities. He is scheduled to hold a rally in Florida on Monday, followed by rallies in Pennsylvania on Tuesday and Iowa on Wednesday.
The White House official described the Great Barrington Declaration as focusing on "aggressive protection of the vulnerable, opening all schools, opening businesses in society and ending the prolonged lockdowns."
"We've learned a lot about the virus—this isn't April," the official said, defending the push to fully restore business and social activity. "It's very clear who is high risk and who are not high risk."
One official noted that thousands of college students have returned to campuses this fall, resulting in several hundred positive cases but few hospitalizations and no known deaths.
The official blamed the high number of cases on colleges mandating testing, even among students who show no COVID-19 symptoms.
"The goal is to make sure that we can do everything we can to protect the high-risk people while understanding that healthy people can get back to work," the official argued.
The official said the White House would continue to support other public mitigation efforts, including social distancing, aggressive hand-washing and cleaning and mask-wearing, when appropriate.
"The virus is dangerous, but it's dangerous for a certain subset of the population," the official added.
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A FEW YEARS AGO, when John Casey turned seventy, he marked his birthday by logging that number in self-powered kilometers. Setting out on a pasted-together ramble through neighborhoods near his home in Virginia, Casey's journey consisted of cycling, rowing on an erg machine, ice-skating, rollerblading, and a final lap around the block walking his dog. Back at home, he sat in his dinning room with a calculator and found that he had cleared the figure with about five kilometers to spare.
In the annals of real-life adventure stories, this feat may not rate particularly highly: Casey's travels didn't take him far afield, and he wagered neither life nor loot. A reader might simply note the achievement as comforting evidence that an older man can remain fit and able. Yet this idiosyncratic minor expedition distills the immense charm of Room for Improvement, a slim volume of essays about "a dozen lifelong sports"—among them stories about running a marathon, cross-country skiing in Vermont, canoeing among big industrial ships in Philadelphia Harbor—which is dedicated to the rather humble but, it turns out, welcome and necessary goal of giving outdoor recreation a good name.
The shadow of Thoreau casts itself over many Americans who write about the natural world, and although Casey works here on a vastly different scale, the values of simple living and hard-earned liberty extend to these pages. In his introduction, Casey points to a different version of Thoreau, noting that in addition to having a fierce meditative streak, he was a great wanderer—sometimes as a gentle "sojourner in nature," but other times covering considerable distances on Cape Cod or hiking Mt. Katahdin in Maine. Insights into nature do not always require stillness. There is value in "pushing hard enough to see and feel the earth's surface differently." Thoreau was no boorish weekend-warrior, of course; and Casey has never been interested in diving off cliffs or much else about the extreme-sports movement. "He wasn't looking for near-death trips and neither am I," he writes.
The centerpiece of this collection—and its most adventuresome tale—concerns joining a twenty-six-day Outward Bound expedition near Hurricane Island in Maine, a beautiful but unforgiving place even in summer, cursed, unaccountably, as Casey writes, with "cold and bugs together." The program is known for its challenging "solos," normally conducted over several days, when a person is left mostly to his own devices alone on an uninhabited island. But Casey's best observations do not spring from that solitude. They are the fruit of living among the other students, travelling here and there in a "thirty-foot open boat" under oars, often in rough seas.
I love the flare and curve from bow to waist, the curve and tuck from waist to stern. On calm water I like to hear the rustling of the wake, the sound of the oar blades chinking in. In swells I love the way she lifts and settles, fitting herself to the water.
But despite some common themes with his fiction, this is not a writer's memoir. At one point Casey takes a narrow rowing shell out for a first spin on a dammed section of the Rivanna River in Virginia. He tips the boat over and goes spilling into to the water. It is, Casey tells us, especially difficult to get back into a shell once you've been bucked, and as he struggles to flop in over the side, another rower glides past and says, "That's one." "One what?" Casey asks. The first of three times that he will flip a shell, the man says—but after the third, he will have the form and balance down. As in the many instances of minor failure or setback that Casey records in his book, here would seem a perfect time to draw a connection between sport and writing, to apply the same rule of three, say, to the life of the novelist. Yet Casey, to his credit and the collection's betterment, resists the urge. Perhaps he never even considered drawing the connection. He puts writing adjacent to sport just once, noting reasonably that a brisk five-mile run can help erase the static failure of a bad day at the desk.
Casey is also not much interested in appearing wise or giving advice. He writes with a light touch that spans several registers, such as when he dispenses with a low moment of despair in his biography with a quick phrase: "Lacrimae rerum—the tears of things, or a big boo-hoo about everything." Most of his forays into nature involve some goofy element that will be familiar to anyone who risks making themselves absurd with sweaty exertion. The best image comes from Casey's participation in the JFK Memorial Fifty-Mile Run in Maryland. Kennedy, Casey explains, "had once said that every U.S. Marine should be able to march fifty miles in one day." Off he goes. It starts to rain, and his running partner drops out. Along the route, he grabs an umbrella and continues on under that rather dainty cover.
I began to run, easily but with an astonishingly powerful spring. Air came into my lungs not only through my mouth but directly through the skin of my chest. It was like slaking a deep thirst. I came to a hill. I feared that would be the end of the magic, but the new power just coiled up tighter. It made me laugh. I breasted the hill and kept on, absorbing the silver air and discharging energy downward through my calves and forward from my brow and eyes.
Thoreau would not have had much patience for joggers. His phrase "sojourners in nature" comes from a passage in Walden in which he laments man's descent from the wild to the domestic: "We now no longer camp as for a night, but have settled down on earth and forgotten heaven." He regrets our lesser station. Casey, meanwhile, seems perfectly happy with our current lot, free if we are willing, to do new things with our bodies, and occasionally, if we are dogged and fortunate, to do them with skill and grace.
Ian Crouch is a writer living in Boston.


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Q: Why is the this JMenu being displayed on this JPanel? This illustrates my problem
Im trying to copy a paint like program but whenever I click on the screen the menu bar is displayed in the panel area.  It doesn't do it unless I click on the screen (to draw).  The menu bar is added before the panel, any help would be much appreciated.
public class Main {
public static Frame frame;
public static Panel panel;
public static MenuBar menubar;
public static void main(String[] args) {
    frame = new Frame();
    panel = new Panel();
    menubar = new MenuBar();
    frame.setJMenuBar(menubar);
    frame.addMouseMotionListener(panel);
    frame.add(panel);
    frame.setVisible(true);
}

}
public class Frame extends JFrame {
public Frame() {
    setTitle("Paint");
    setDefaultCloseOperation(JFrame.EXIT_ON_CLOSE);
    setExtendedState(JFrame.MAXIMIZED_BOTH);
}

}
public class Panel extends JPanel implements MouseMotionListener {

public boolean isMouseDown = false;
public int x1,y1, x2, y2;
public Color colour = Color.BLACK;
public int size = 3;

public void paintComponent(Graphics g) {
    Graphics2D g2 = (Graphics2D) g;
    g2.setColor(colour);
    g2.setStroke(new BasicStroke(size));
    g2.drawLine(x1 - 10, y1 - 80, x2 - 10, y2 - 80);
}

public void mouseDragged(MouseEvent arg0) {
    x1 = x2;
    y1 = y2;
    x2 = arg0.getX();
    y2 = arg0.getY();
    repaint();
}

public void mouseMoved(MouseEvent arg0) {
    x1 = x2;
    y1 = y2;
    x2 = arg0.getX();
    y2 = arg0.getY();
}

public void mouseClicked(MouseEvent arg0) {}

public void mouseEntered(MouseEvent arg0) {}

public void mouseExited(MouseEvent arg0) {}

}
public class MenuBar extends JMenuBar {

JMenu file = new JMenu("File");
JMenu brush = new JMenu("Pen");
JMenu colour = new JMenu("Colour");
Font font = new Font("Times New Romans", Font.PLAIN, 18);

public MenuBar() {
   //JMenuBar Code here, left black as very long
}

}

A: One problems: You need to call super.paintComponent(g); within your paintComponent method. Else the JPanel cannot do its house-keeping painting of its own self.
If you want the drawings to persist, then either create an ArrayList of lines that are then drawn within paintComponent in a for loop, or better, paint onto a BufferedImage which is then displayed within the paintComponent method.
e.g.,
import java.awt.BasicStroke;
import java.awt.Color;
import java.awt.Dimension;
import java.awt.Graphics;
import java.awt.Graphics2D;
import java.awt.Point;
import java.awt.Stroke;
import java.awt.event.ActionEvent;
import java.awt.event.MouseAdapter;
import java.awt.event.MouseEvent;
import java.awt.image.BufferedImage;
import javax.swing.*;

public class MyMain {
    public static void main(String[] args) {
        SwingUtilities.invokeLater(() -> createAndShowGui());
    }

    private static void createAndShowGui() {
        MyPainting mainPanel = new MyPainting();
        MenuCreator menuCreator = new MenuCreator(mainPanel);

        JFrame frame = new JFrame("MyPainting");
        frame.setDefaultCloseOperation(JFrame.DISPOSE_ON_CLOSE);
        frame.add(mainPanel);
        frame.setJMenuBar(menuCreator.getMenubar());
        frame.pack();
        frame.setLocationByPlatform(true);
        frame.setVisible(true);
    }
}

@SuppressWarnings("serial")
class MyPainting extends JPanel {
    private static final int IMG_W = 600;
    private static final int IMG_H = 450;
    private static final int STROKE_W = 3;
    private static final Stroke STROKE = new BasicStroke(STROKE_W);
    private BufferedImage img = new BufferedImage(IMG_W, IMG_H, BufferedImage.TYPE_INT_ARGB);
    private Color drawColor = Color.BLACK;

    public MyPainting() {
        setPreferredSize(new Dimension(IMG_W, IMG_H));
        MyMouse myMouse = new MyMouse();
        addMouseListener(myMouse);
        addMouseMotionListener(myMouse);
    }

    @Override
    protected void paintComponent(Graphics g) {
        super.paintComponent(g);
        if (img != null) {
            g.drawImage(img, 0, 0, this);
        }
    }

    private class MyMouse extends MouseAdapter {
        private Graphics2D g2 = null;
        private Point p0;

        @Override
        public void mousePressed(MouseEvent e) {
            if (img == null) {
                return;
            }
            g2 = img.createGraphics();
            g2.setStroke(STROKE);
            g2.setColor(drawColor);
            p0 = e.getPoint();
        }

        @Override
        public void mouseDragged(MouseEvent e) {
            if (p0 == null) {
                return;
            }
            drawLine(e);

        }

        @Override
        public void mouseReleased(MouseEvent e) {
            if (p0 == null) {
                return;
            }
            drawLine(e);
            g2.dispose();
            p0 = null;
        }

        private void drawLine(MouseEvent e) {
            Point p1 = e.getPoint();
            g2.drawLine(p0.x, p0.y, p1.x, p1.y);
            repaint();
            p0 = p1;
        }

    }

    public void setDrawColor(Color drawColor) {
        this.drawColor = drawColor;
    }

    public void clear() {
        img = new BufferedImage(IMG_W, IMG_H, BufferedImage.TYPE_INT_ARGB);
        repaint();
    }
}

class MenuCreator {
    private JMenuBar menubar = new JMenuBar();
    private MyPainting myPainting;

    public MenuCreator(MyPainting myPainting) {
        JMenuItem clearDrawing = new JMenuItem(new AbstractAction("Clear Drawing") {

            @Override
            public void actionPerformed(ActionEvent arg0) {
                if (myPainting != null) {
                    myPainting.clear();
                }
            }
        });
        JMenu fileMenu = new JMenu("File");
        fileMenu.add(clearDrawing);

        JMenu colourMenu = new JMenu("Colour");
        for (MyColor myColor : MyColor.values()) {
            colourMenu.add(new JMenuItem(new ColorAction(myColor)));
        }

        menubar.add(fileMenu);
        menubar.add(new JMenu("Pen"));
        menubar.add(colourMenu);
        this.myPainting = myPainting;
    }

    public JMenuBar getMenubar() {
        return menubar;
    }

    private class ColorAction extends AbstractAction {
        private MyColor myColor;

        public ColorAction(MyColor myColor) {
            super(myColor.getText());
            this.myColor = myColor;
        }

        @Override
        public void actionPerformed(ActionEvent e) {
            if (myPainting != null) {
                myPainting.setDrawColor(myColor.getColor());
            }
        }
    }
}

enum MyColor {
    BLACK("Black", Color.BLACK), RED("Red", Color.RED), ORANGE("Orange", Color.ORANGE), BLUE("Blue", Color.BLUE);

    private String text;
    private Color color;
    private MyColor(String text, Color color) {
        this.text = text;
        this.color = color;
    }

    public String getText() {
        return text;
    }

    public Color getColor() {
        return color;
    }

}

A: You failed to honour the requirements of the paint chain...
public void paintComponent(Graphics g) {
    Graphics2D g2 = (Graphics2D) g;
    g2.setColor(colour);
    g2.setStroke(new BasicStroke(size));
    g2.drawLine(x1 - 10, y1 - 80, x2 - 10, y2 - 80);
}

Apart from not needing to be public, one of the jobs of paintComponent is to prepare the Graphics context for painting. So, one of the first things you should do is call super.paintComponent before you do any custom painting.
protected void paintComponent(Graphics g) {
    super. paintComponent(g);
    Graphics2D g2 = (Graphics2D) g;
    g2.setColor(colour);
    g2.setStroke(new BasicStroke(size));
    g2.drawLine(x1 - 10, y1 - 80, x2 - 10, y2 - 80);
}

Graphics is a shared context, it is shared amongst the other components which need to be painted, so it is very important that you ensure that it's properly prepared before you paint to it.
It's also important that any significant modifications you make to the context (like transformations or rendering hints) are reversed before the method exists
I would recommend taking a look at Performing Custom Painting and Painting in Swing to gain a better understanding into how the painting system actually works

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Hollywood Foreign Press Association adds new television acting categories for 2023 Golden Globes
The Hollywood Foreign Press Association has added new supporting acting TV categories for the 2023 Golden Globe Awards. The HFPA also announced the timeline for the 2023 show, with submissions due on Nov. 7.
The new categories are: best supporting actor in a television series/musical-comedy or drama, best supporting actress in a television series/ musical-comedy or drama, best supporting actor in a limited series/anthology or motion picture made for television and best supporting actress in a limited series/anthology or motion picture made for television.
Previously, the Golden Globes had TV categories for best supporting actor – series, miniseries or motion picture made for television and best supporting actress – series, miniseries or motion picture made for television. The new change splits the supporting actor categories into two separate categories: musical comedy or drama as well as limited or anthology series.
The 2023 Golden Globe Awards will take place on Jan. 10, 2023 at the Beverly Hilton Hotel in Beverly Hills, Calif.
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Washington, D.C. – The Direct Selling Association (DSA) today announced that new consumer and salesforce protection standards approved by its Board of Directors in 2015 have gone into effect as of January 1.
The most recent amendments to the DSA Code of Ethics expand upon the previous requirement that all earnings representations be based upon documented facts by setting forth the specific types of substantiation that is required and clarifying exactly what constitutes an earnings representation. Similarly, more specific requirements for substantiation of product representations now go into full force and effect.
DSA's independent Code of Ethics Administrator, empowered by DSA's Board of Directors to adjudicate suspected violations, also gains more authority under the new standards to require members to repurchase inventory. This guaranteed buyback policy greatly diminishes the financial risk of becoming involved in direct selling.
Complaint handling and resolution will now be made public as well. "It is vital that members of the public, DSA members, their salesforces and public policy makers understand and have confidence in the vitality and efficacy of how the Association and its Code are resolving consumer and salesforce problems that may arise. With this new commitment to publicize the specifics of Code complaints, I am confident that everyone will understand and use this important consumer protection process," Mariano continued.
DSA's Code of Ethics was first established in 1970 and has been modified on multiple occasions to ensure its consumer and salesforce protections meet or exceed constantly changing stakeholder expectations.
To learn more about DSA's Code of Ethics, visit dsa.org/consumerprotection.
The Direct Selling Association (DSA) is the national trade association for companies that sell products and services directly to consumers through an independent, entrepreneurial salesforce. More than 18 million Americans are involved in direct selling in every state, congressional district and community in the United States. In 2014, direct selling generated more than $34 billion in estimated retail sales. For more information, visit www.dsa.org.
For more information, contact Paul Skowronek, DSA's Senior Vice President, Public Affairs, at (202) 416-6404.


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Kevin Barry's stories find their place in the Irish canon
By Steven BeattieSpecial to the Star
Sun., Jan. 10, 2021timer3 min. read
Few imaginative writers signal their process or intent as blatantly as Kevin Barry in his third collection of short fiction. "The central philosophy underpinning all of my work to date," Barry's narrator says in the story "Old Stock," "was that places exerted their own feelings."
Over the course of three novels and as many collections of short stories, it is place — most especially the rugged, wind-tossed region of County Sligo in northwestern Ireland — that informs Barry's literary sensibility. "Perhaps the austerity of south Sligo had been the saving of me," thinks the narrator of "Old Stock" at one point, "looking out at endless rain and reed fields, you are not inclined towards a curlicued or ornamental style."
Like that of his protagonist, Barry's writing has never tended toward the rococo: the influence of his iconic literary forebear, James Joyce, is felt more often than not in the inclusion of low jokes and gleeful vulgarities. By contrast, Barry's prose tends more toward the Protestant parsimony of Samuel Beckett, with a strong strain of Flann O'Brien's insouciant wordplay thrown in for good measure.
Here, for example, is how he introduces his narrator in "Old Stock": "The wind that came across the lake still had winter's bite and the house was wearing its age and ached loudly in the wind, as though poorly, and I was myself sick in the bowel, the gut, and the gums. Or the nerves, in other words. Or the soul." The anthropomorphic house; the pain the narrator suffers (the reference to his gums is a particularly nice touch) that is both physical and existential; the pathetic fallacy of the late-season wind — all attest to an author made positively giddy by the potential of language embedded in the specificity of a particular, locatable place.
"A great deal of the Southern writer's work is done for him before he begins," wrote Flannery O'Connor, who should know, "because our history lives in our talk." O'Connor's Georgia and Barry's County Sligo have much in common: a colourful dialect married to an oral history rich in verve and élan. This is what lies behind Barry's pitch-perfect mini character study "Who's-Dead McCarthy," about a Limerick man who can be found "in the bone evil of winter" walking the streets and apprising his fellow denizens of the complete histories of townspeople recently deceased. Or the garrulous mother and son duo in "Toronto and the State of Grace," getting steadily sloshed in a hole-in-the wall pub, oblivious to the barman's increasingly urgent desire to close up and go home. (Barry is a perennial favourite for his appearances at the Toronto International Festival of Authors; in the story, he chooses the city as the place where the son was conceived back in 1953.)
That story begins and ends with cold, and sure the winter wind blows harsh and mean across these narratives and these characters. Though for every piece like the title story, in which a pregnant 17-year-old waits anxiously for the return of her boyfriend, who has gone off to rob the local gas station, there's a story like "Deer Season," about a young woman's awakening to her sexual power, or "Roma Kid," about a young runaway who finds companionship and a kind of independence in a trailer with an old man who adopts her.
Only the Cormac McCarthy-inflected "Ox Mountain Death Song" and the closer, "Rothke in the Bughouse," feel somewhat out of place in this new collection. Though that last story, which recounts a point during the American poet's travels in Ireland when he suffered a nervous breakdown and was incarcerated in an institution for the mentally ill, circles back once again on the subject of language and its peculiar ties to location. "Do you believe that towns have their own emotions?" the poet's attending doctor asks. "It's clear to me," Rothke responds. To which the doctor says, "I'm interested in this." So is Kevin Barry. So are we.
Steven W. Beattie is Reviews editor at Quill & Quire magazine.


Description: Basic pullover woman raglan sweater in stockinette stitch with 2x2 ribbing along neck, sleeve and lower body edges. I knitted ribbing in this pattern not so tight because I wanted it to be loose and straight. If you like ribbing that hugs to your body, you can knit 90% less number of stitches than the body. I could have just skip the ribbing part and do a few rows of garter st instead. But I like the ribbing look and I had to include it here in this pattern.
I used 100% pure new wool by Patons for this raglan sweater. It's a medium weight (#4) yarn and it really keeps me warm in the morning during when I go out and walk my dog. I've been wearing it almost everyday since I finished it last week! It a perfect time to have a warm wool to wear. I just love the colors and the feel of it.
1. Approximately 1033 ( 1186, 1347 ) yards of Medium worsted weigh wool or yarn of your choice.
Note: The 1st numbers before parentheses refers to smallest size (34) and the two numbers in parentheses refer to the larger and the largest size (38 and 42) respectively. It's a good idea to circle all those numbers that belong to your size to minimize confusion.
Row 1(right side): K1, P2 *K2 , P2. Repeat from *. End K1.
Row 2 (wrong side): K the k sts and p the p sts.
Repeat row 1 and 2 . Work ribbing for 2 (2.5, 2.5) inches. ending with the right side row.
With larger needle, work in stockinette stitch (k on right side and p on wrong side) until piece measures 14 (15, 15.5) inches.
Note: When decreasing, I like to do it on the 3rd st instead of the first stitch because it looks better when putting the seams together. I do this by k 2, ssk, k to last 4 sts, k2tog, k2.
Bind off 10 sts each side. Decrease 1 st each side, every 2nd row 24 (27, 33 ) times. Decrease 1 st each side, every 4th row 2 (2, 0 ) times. Bind off rem 26 (30, 32) sts.
Work to center 10 (14, 16) sts, attach another ball of yarn, bind off center 10 (14,16)sts, complete row. Work both sides at once. Bind off 2 sts at each neck edge 2 (2, 2)times. Dec 1 st at each neck edge, every other row 4 (4, 4) times.
End off. (cut yarn and pull it through the last stitch to secure).
With smaller needles, cast on 42 (46, 50) sts. Work same as body rib for 2 ( 2.5, 2.5 ) inches ending with the right side row. Increase 0 (2, 0) sts evenly on the next row.
Increase 1 st on each side every 4th row 1,(0, 2) times. Inc 1 st on each side every 6th row 14 (12, 14) times, then every 8th row 0 (2, 0) times.
Continue in stockinette st. until piece measures 17 (17.5, 18 ) inches.
dec 1 st each side every 2nd rw 16 (18, 21) times. Dec 1 st each side every 4th rw 6 (6, 6 ) times. Bind off 6 (6, 6 ) sts.
With right sides together, seam sleeves to yoke. Seam sleeves and sides. Weave in all end.
edge. Increase or decrease as necessary on the first row to balance pattern. Work in rib pattern for 1" or desired length. Bind off loosely. If you prefer rolled neck edge, knit all row until desire length.
Click Here to Download Woman Raglan Sweater in PDF.
stockinette st = knit on right side and purl on wrong side.
ssk = slip slip knit (slip next 2 sts knitwise and one at the time, then insert left hand needle through the front loops of both sts and knit with the right hand needle. The end result is a left slanted decrease st.


The number of felony and misdemeanor drug arrests per 1,000 residents.
Drug use, sale and other illegal drug-related activity can have immediate as well as long-term negative health, social and economic consequences, both for individuals and for neighborhoods and communities.
In Essex County, over 1,000 people were arrested for drug-related crimes in 2017 - a rate of about 1.3 arrests per 1,000 residents. This is higher than the statewide figure of 1.1. Salisbury (4.5), Methuen (4.4) and Haverhill (2.6) had the highest rates in Essex County in 2017. The rate of arrests for drug-related crimes has been declining since the peak in 2007 of 2.0.
Essex County had a higher rate compared to Middlesex, MA at 0.6, however was much lower than Westchester, NY whose rate was 2.4 per 1,000 residents in 2017.
Comparable national data was not available. The City of Lawrence does not report comparable data. Comparable data for Lake, IL was not available for 2017. Differences in rates may reflect a variety of factors, including differences in laws and law enforcement priorities, in addition the severity of drug activity in an area.


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using System.Runtime.Serialization;
using System.Web.Script.Serialization;

namespace NuGetGallery.AsyncFileUpload
{
    [DataContract]
    public class AsyncFileUploadProgress
    {
        internal AsyncFileUploadProgress(int contentLength)
        {
            ContentLength = contentLength;
        }

        [ScriptIgnore]
        [DataMember]
        public int ContentLength
        {
            get;
            set;
        }

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Lafayette Parks and Recreation is excited to host Aqua Zumba classes this summer! Join instructor Janey Vanliew for a low-impact, high-energy aquatic workout. Most classes will be held at Tropicanoe Cove (unless otherwise noted on the calendar). Classes cost just $7 per person per class. Get ready to get wet, get fit, and have fun!


After the York Enduro Rally it only made sense to stay on in the Lowveld and participate in the Isuzu 3 Towers stage race which started a mere 4 days after York. The event was held at Mankele Mountain Bike Park, situated adjacent to the Sudwala Caves only 35km from Nelspruit.
Back in 2010 I got my first taste of the ISUZU Three Towers race and ever since then I simply can't get enough of the event. Fortunately I've been able to attend the race every year since then and it was with huge excitement that I lined up for Isuzu Three Towers 2015!
The attitude of the organisers has a lot to do with the success and enjoyment of this event. It's incredible to witness the effect of a positive approach on a project when the entire family (non-blood related members included) work together to create something extraordinary.
During the event we get to race on remarkable trails, pick up weight thanks to the delicious food (more gravity for the downhills), and sleep in comfortable tents every night. The campground atmosphere is very pleasant with family members welcome to camp at Mankele alongside the racers.
The 2015 edition revealed a changed route on day one and a modified version of stage 3's course to keep things interesting. This offered riders more single track sections along with picturesque riding next to the Houtbosloop River. Over the 3 days of racing we covered a total distance of 184km, which might not sound too challenging until you note the 4400m of ascending it included. Well I guess life is not all downhill but during 3 Towers at least your climbing efforts are always rewarded with fun trails through the surrounding tree plantations or the event's famous bush tunnels.
For this year's edition I teamed up with Namibian Vera Adrian. I've seen and raced against Vera a handful of times and was looking forward to finally get to know her better as a racer and as a person.
Despite the fledgling partnership our rapport quickly flourished and it turned out that Vera and I shared similar strength and weaknesses on the bike. From the start of day one until the end of day three we were on the same page. There was no discussion of tactics before any of the stages or much communication during the race, even when stage victory on day two was only decided in the last 10km. Somehow we stayed synced without having to say too much. And, yes we did manage to take the victory on stage two J along with stage victories on day 1&3.
Isuzu three towers has always been a favourite race of mine and winning the overall title in the ladies category alongside a great teammate is truly the icing on the cake.
Thanks to the organisers for putting together such a unique event and may your race only keep on growing!
This entry was posted in Uncategorized on October 7, 2015 by yolliedutoit@yahoo.com.


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City Manager Scott Wynja explained that recently a private investment group had approached the city about plans to start a new gymnastics program and build a new facility.
"Our gymnastic program had been somewhat bursting at the seams in recent years," Wynja said, adding that the existing facility size and other factors meant the waiting list to get into the program was growing.
The council's action will allow the new Rise Gymnastics group to take over the gymnastics programming in Sioux Center.
"Hopefully going forward this is a great opportunity for them to expand their services, grow the program, and even draw from a wider area," Wynja said.
The new group is building a facility just west of Sioux Center on B-40. Until that facility is complete, which is anticipated this fall, Rise Gymnastics will continue to rent Dordt's facility to host the gymnastics program there.


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Television: The Spinoff's TV Week – Hackers, Hairpieces and Hefty New Drama
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Bringing together the TV moments on the week, including 3 News' SCOUT leader, Mr Robot's arrival and TVNZ's new season launch. Contributions by Alex Casey and Calum Henderson.
Mr Robot Hacks Into New Zealand
Mr Robot is one of the buzzed-about shows of 2015, a cinematic cyber thriller that grips the viewer right in the codes and will get a lot of people rethinking their Facebook pages. This week, the series arrived in New Zealand exclusively on Lightbox in its entirety (click here to watch all 10 episodes). With a creeping Clockwork Orange score, the anarchic nihilism of Fight Club and the Orwellian paranoia of Brazil, it's one of the most original shows to come to television this year. We interviewed a man who used to run the internet in New Zealand, and he confirmed that the internet security issues represented are chillingly real (click here for the full interview). Watch it, but know that everybody's watching you. / AC
The News: Brought to You By Scout
TV3 got a new lead-in to the 6 o'clock news bulletin this week with the arrival of SCOUT TV's SCOUT in Sixty at 5:59pm. The spiritual successor to Allyson Gofton's popular 'Food in a Minute' segment will deliver viewers a breathless dose of gossip and entertainment news over a throbbing EDM soundtrack every night. It's snackable content, kind of like eating a whole box of Nerds right before dinner. (Click here for power rankings of the stories from Scout's launch). / CH
Garner Catches a Big One on Story
Garner has been chopping security bracelets on Story like some sort of crazed Mayor at a mall opening. On Wednesday, the story became more real than ever before. The headline of the press release shrieked like a banshee "DUNCAN GARNER CONVINCES VIOLENT OFFENDER TO RETURN TO POLICE CUSTODY". There would be more, of course, on Story that night. The Spinoff's Don Rowe tuned in:
"'They broke their agreement,' he said, 'so I'm breaking mine.' You don't exactly make an agreement to wear a monitoring anklet, it's a legal sanction imposed by a judge, but it's clear Cowan felt slighted. The tone of the thing was weird. There was real distress on Cowan's face. A sad fire in his eyes." (click here to read his full response) / AC
TVNZ's New Season Launch
TVNZ launched their 2016 season on Wednesday, offering a tantalising glimpse into their programming department's HD crystal ball. The big draws for the coming year include the multi-night, 20-episode local drama extravaganza Filthy Rich, which ambitiously promises a cliffhanger in every episode, and a beautifully-shot six-part miniseries about the life and times of Sir Edmund Hillary called, in classic no-nonsense Sir Ed fashion, Hillary. Perhaps most exciting is the return of intensely nerdy quiz show Mastermind, which will be hosted by one of the only TVNZ presenters who was kicking around the last time it screened here, Peter Williams. (Click here for Alex Casey's extensive run-down of the season launch). / CH
Trump Interviews Himself on Fallon
You know how sometimes the whole world feels like a huge, never ending joke? Watching Donald Trump on The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon was one of those moments. The Republican frontrunner for the presidential race graced the late night talk show, and subsequently gave them the highest ratings in 18 months. I tuned in on Prime, and was bizarrely entranced by Trump's aggressive improvisation and grumpy mouth like something that has only ever lived deep under the sea. He appeared in a sketch with Jimmy Fallon playing his reflection, and then did a straight interview where he talked about The Apprentice at any given opportunity. It ended with Trump nodding along to the song 'All I Do Is Win', which was a scary slice of a future that I do not want to be a part of. (Click here for a full recap of Trump's appearance) / AC
Watch: Bones, Friday 8.30pm on Prime – It's the 206th episode this week, so the team at Bones are celebrating by naming every one of the 206 bones in the human body during the episode.
Movie: Jaws 2, 8.30pm on FOUR – Following Free Willy 2, this feels like either some sensational scheduling, or some real ocean-shaming. Either way, get an EVEN BIGGER boat this weekend.
Binge: Mr Robot on Lightbox (click here to watch) – Turn of your phone, put some tape over your webcam and settle into this perfectly paranoid and incredibly stylish thriller.
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When I was doing the 7 lake hike in Rila National Park I saw a few things that I found… curious.
The first one was a book, discoloured by the sun and languishing under the counter of a souvenir shop or roadside café near the chair lift that provides access to the lakes. Its title was Esoteric Guide To The Sacred Rila Lakes, and I must confess that seeing it gave the already impressive mountains an added air of mystery. You can find the book in Amazon, by the way.
The second were a group of people standing in circles by Babreka lake and performing some kind of meditation or dance. From the next lake, higher in the mountain, a series of big concentric circles could be seen on the grass where they were, making it clear that what they were doing was not a one-time thing.
The third was the people hiking in the area. Not all of them, obviously, most were tourists like me, visiting the lakes, but if you paid attention there was an unusually high number of people who were not dressed as you would expect to tackle a hike up the mountains – most of the wore loose robes, a lot of them white, the kind of clothes one would take to a meditation session.
Finally, on the way back to the chair lift, hundreds of tents could be seen scattered around a mountain hut by lake Ribnoto Ezera, and a lot of people kept coming up from the lift in the direction of the improvised camp even though it was already getting late.
So, what was that all about? Well, it turns out that we missed quite a big event by just two days. The Paneurhythmy is a ritual dance that takes place every year on August the 19th in which followers of the Universal White Brotherhood meet to celebrate their new year.
You can find a detailed explanation of each principle on their website. The movement was founded in 1897 by a Bulgarian theologian called Peter Deunov, known to followers of the brotherhood as Master Beinsa Duono, who began taking people to Rila lakes to perform the dance in the 30s. Today people of all nationalities converge in the same spot.
Dancers dressed in white and barefoot form concentric circles, with a choir and an orchestra in the centre. The circles are marked with white stones, and the participants dance to music composed by Deunov, with lyrics in a language he invented.
Followers of the Universal White Brotherhood are known as Deunovists, and the movement is registered as a religion, although it was not always the case. At the beginning of communist rule in Bulgaria, the movement was relatively undisturbed thanks to its founder's friendship with Georgi Dimitrov, the country's first communist leader, but after his death in 1949 they had to become clandestine to escape the party's purges. It was not until 1989 that they were legally registered as a religion.
Today the movement also has followers outside Bulgaria – in France, Belgium, Switzerland, USA, Canada, Mexico and even the Democratic Republic of Congo.
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By Patrick O'Mahony — February 23, 2018
I am often asked, "What is the next big thing?" or "We want to do something that has never been seen before". The knee jerk reaction is to look to the digital world and whilst it is something I love to embrace, I don't believe that this ever-growing landscape is the only route forward. In fact in my mind, backing away from the obvious digital approach and looking at reimagining the physical world achieves some of the best results.
The industry has been wowed for many years with the developments and scale that projection mapping has brought us, the ability for it to cover huge expanses of stadium with high quality animated content. There is no doubt that the results can be breathtaking, and I don't mean the now overused crumbling building effect – are there any more icons of the world that can collapse? – but more the scenes we saw during the Sochi Opening Ceremony. It continues to amaze audiences around the world and has pushed aside the conventional ground sheets and large extensive prop build on many an occasion and to great effect.
However I believe there is still a strong argument for the emotional connection you can make with audiences when the physical world is manipulated and delivered in a different way. I am by no means looking to "consciously uncouple" from our projection friends but instead find a meaningful way to co-exit. From hard backed printed presentations v digital decks to physical puppets or large scale props, can the analogue world still be seen as the "next big thing"? Can it now start to push back and regain ground within the production budget of the bigger shows? Can the physical be the vinyl record of the show world?
It takes a brave Artistic Director to the embrace the analogue world but in my mind this pays dividends. In the recent European Games in Baku we witnessed one of the most analogue productions I have seen in many years, yet with a technological back end that was unparalleled. Ceremonies companies like Five Currents should be congratulated for delivering productions like this as it enables the likes of ourselves, Stage One, Show Canada and Tait Towers, to mention but a few, to sharpen our pencils and reimagine deliverable solutions. From large rotating revolves, to lakes filling the scenic bed, giant flying pomegranates and in our case a meadow of indigenous wild flowers growing through the stage deck, they were all out in force in this show.
The Grass Path we created for the European Games Opening Ceremony is a very good example of a physical world creative response. It could have been done with mapping and doubtless there are those that would argue that it should have been. Within this show we created 2,500 individually controllable and individually unique clusters of wild grass and flowers, as the leading lady walked across the stage the wild meadow of grew in her wake. By purposely executing this is in an analogue form we achieved an emotional connection that I think would have been missing done digitally.
It was a moment that we were incredibly proud of and the creative process we went through with Dimitris Papaioannou was a real joy. It was a bold move and one Dimitris was insistent upon as he wanted the physical sense of growth within the show, something the audience could almost touch and feel as the grass danced in the wind. There is no doubt that he could have created a similar effect through projection, over a bigger area but would it have generated the same reaction amongst the global audience that watched at home? I would argue not but you decide.
I think the digital world is something to be embraced but its application is what I would like to challenge. The next big thing is not always pixel led and we don't always have to project the landscape our performers inhabit; instead we should be brave and embrace the physical world.
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With the public ever more interested in keeping track of information on healthy living and health care, there is a greater demand for online resources which provides up to date information which helps people to make well informed decisions about their health and about health care. New Website, MeTheDoctor.com, gives readers resources they need to take charge of health care decisions.
MeTheDoctor.com was launched to offer consumers a one-stop resource which can answer some of the common; as well as many less commonly asked questions about their health and medical issues which affect them as people and as consumers.
People have always been concerned with their health; although the advent of the World Wide Web has fueled interest in taking more of an active role in one's own health care by offering access to a wide variety of information on health and medical science. In addition to being conscious about our diets and exercise regimens, the average consumer is now very much engaged in keeping informed about health and wellness issues.
With the public ever more interested in keeping track of information on healthy living and health care, there is a greater demand for online resources which provides up to date information which helps people to make well informed decisions about their health and about health care.
While no website can ever substitute for the expertise of a physician, it's important for consumers to be as well informed about their health care choices as it is for them to know all of the issues involved when making any other important decisions.
In response to this greater demand for health and wellness information, the website MeTheDoctor.com was launched to offer consumers a one-stop resource which can answer some of the common; as well as many less commonly asked questions about their health and medical issues which affect them as people and as consumers.
In a world where everyone is concerned with keeping themselves healthy, this site comes as a welcome addition to the World Wide Web and according to sources at MeTheDoctor.com, response to the site has been overwhelming, with the site staff fielding a large number of queries from readers daily. Staff are rapidly adding new content to the site, making this a resource which anyone who's concerned with their health may want to visit and bookmark for future reference.


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require 'spec_helper'

describe LL::Message do
  describe '#initialize' do
    before do
      @source_line = source_line('')
      @message     = described_class.new(:error, 'Foobar', @source_line)
    end

    it 'sets the message type' do
      @message.type.should == :error
    end

    it 'sets the message' do
      @message.message.should == 'Foobar'
    end

    it 'sets the source line' do
      @message.source_line.should == @source_line
    end
  end

  describe '#to_s' do
    it 'returns an ANSI colored string' do
      path    = File.expand_path(__FILE__)
      type    = ANSI.ansi('error', :red, :bold)
      line    = source_line('foo = bar;', 1, 7, path)
      message = described_class.new(:error, 'Foobar!', line)

      expected = <<-EOF.strip
#{ANSI.ansi('spec/ll/message_spec.rb:1:7', :white, :bold)}:#{type}: Foobar!
foo = bar;
      #{ANSI.ansi('^', :magenta, :bold)}
      EOF

      message.to_s.should == expected
    end
  end

  describe '#inspect' do
    it 'returns the inspect output' do
      line    = source_line('')
      message = described_class.new(:error, 'foo', line)

      message.inspect.should == 'Message(type: :error, message: "foo", '\
        'file: "(ruby)", line: 1, column: 1)'
    end
  end

  describe '#determine_path' do
    it 'returns the raw path when it is a default path' do
      line    = source_line('')
      message = described_class.new(:error, 'foo', line)

      message.determine_path.should == line.file
    end

    it 'returns a path relative to the current working directory' do
      line    = source_line('', 1, 1, File.expand_path(__FILE__))
      message = described_class.new(:error, 'foo', line)

      message.determine_path.should == 'spec/ll/message_spec.rb'
    end

    it 'returns an absolute path for paths outside of the working directory' do
      line    = source_line('', 1, 1, '/tmp/foo.rb')
      message = described_class.new(:error, 'foo', line)

      message.determine_path.should == '/tmp/foo.rb'
    end
  end

  describe '#line' do
    it 'returns the line' do
      message = described_class.new(:error, 'foo', source_line(''))

      message.line.should == 1
    end
  end

  describe '#column' do
    it 'returns the column' do
      message = described_class.new(:error, 'foo', source_line(''))

      message.column.should == 1
    end
  end
end


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Denzel Washington Stuns With Violence And Beauty In Macbeth Trailer
By Douglas Helm | 11 seconds ago
What did you get when you mix Denzel Washington, Frances McDormand, director and writer Joel Coen, indie film powerhouse A24, and the prose of William Shakespeare? Apparently, you get an incredibly artful and violent adaptation of the timeless play Macbeth which, judging by the trailer, could be an absolute masterpiece of a film.
The trailer (and the whole movie presumably) is shot in striking black and white. The score and intensity ratchet up throughout the trailer as we get glimpses of both Denzel Washington as the title character and Frances McDormand as his wife, Lady Macbeth. If you've somehow managed to avoid reading Shakespeare's classic play in your English classes, it tells the tale of the Scottish general Macbeth. He is told by three witches that he will one day be King of Scotland. Macbeth seeks to achieve this goal through deceit, murder, and the help of his wife Lady Macbeth. Check out Denzel Washington the trailer below:
The Tragedy of Macbeth is far from the only adaptation of the centuries-old source material. In fact, there was a straightforward movie retelling of the tale less than a decade ago when Michael Fassbender played the title character in 2015's Macbeth. But, when you have a timeless tale that's been around for as long as this, it's sure to inspire many creative minds to make their own spin on it. As always, it looks like Denzel Washington and Frances McDormand are more than up to the task of delivering the flowery dialogue and intense performances that a Shakespeare adaptation requires.
Denzel Washington is fresh off the release of 2021's Michael B. Jordan-starring A Journal for Jordan (currently in theatres), the first film Washington has directed since 2016's Fences. Frances McDormand was last seen very recently, in the 2021Wes Anderson-directed The French Dispatch. Joel Coen hasn't had a directorial effort since the Netflix anthology The Ballad of Buster Scruggs which was released in 2018. For that film, he was joined in the director role by his long-time collaborator and brother Ethan Coen. The Tragedy of Macbeth, however, will be a solo effort from Joel. It has already garnered significant critical acclaim, sitting at 94% on Rotten Tomatoes through more than 170 reviews.
One thing is for certain, Denzel Washington and Frances McDormand don't often make bad movies, and their performances are almost always a highlight of the movies they're in. The Coen Brothers, and Joel Coen by extension, rarely direct a movie that isn't amazing. To top it all off, A24 is on as a producer, the entertainment studio known for modern classics like Uncut Gems, The Lighthouse, Ex Machina, Minari, The Green Knight, Mid90s, Moonlight, and many more. With this team behind it, it's hard to imagine that The Tragedy of Macbeth isn't a classic in the making.
Along with Denzel Washington and Frances McDormand, the film stars Corey Hawkins, Brendan Gleeson, Harry Melling, Bertie Carvel, and Alex Hassell. The Tragedy of Macbeth is currently doing a limited theatrical release which began on December 25, 2021. If it's not playing in a theatre near you, you can stream it on Apple TV+ starting on January 14, 2022.
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