The ISP10160 host bus adapter is a SCSA-compliant nexus driver that supports Qlogic ISP10160 SCSI chips on the PCI bus. The ISP10160 is an intelligent SCSI host bus adapter chip that reduces the amount of CPU overhead used in a SCSI transfer.
The qus driver supports the standard functions provided by the SCSA interface. The driver supports tagged and untagged queuing, fast, fast-20, fast-40, fast-80, and auto request sense, but does not support linked commands.
You configure the qus driver by defining properties in qus.conf which override the global SCSI settings. Supported properties are scsi-options, target<n>-scsi-options, scsi-reset-delay, scsi-watchdog-tick, scsi-tag-age-limit, scsi- initiator-id, and scsi-selection-timeout.
target<n>-scsi-options overrides the scsi-options property value for target<n>.<n> is a hex value that can vary from 0 to f. Refer to scsi_hba_attach(9F) for details.
The default initiator ID in OBP is 7 and that the change to ID 6 occurs at attach time. You might prefer to change the initiator ID in OBP.
Example 1 sets scsi-options for target 3 to 0x58 and all other targets on this SCSI bus to 0x178.
The qus driver exports properties indicating (per target) the negotiated transfer speed (target<n>-sync-speed), whether tagged queuing has been enabled (target<n>-TQ), and whether the wide data transfer has been negotiated (target<n>-wide). The sync-speed property value is the data transfer rate in KB/sec. The target-TQ and target-wide properties have no value. The existence of these properties indicate that tagged queuing or wide transfer is enabled. Refer to prtconf(1M) (verbose option) for information on qus properties.
To determine the physical pathname of the parent, use the /devices tree or follow the link of the logical deiice name.
All devices of this specific disk type have scsi-options set to 0x58.
scsi-options specified per target ID has the highest precedence, followed by scsi-options per device type. Global (for all qus instances) scsi-options per bus has the lowest precedence.
You must reboot your system for the specified scsi-options to take effect.
To enable some driver features, the target driver must set capabilities in the qus driver. The target driver can query and modify the following capabilities: synchronous, tagged-qing, wide-xfer, auto-rqsense, qfull-retries, qfull-retry-interval. All other capabilities are query only.
By default, tagged-qing, auto-rqsense, and wide-xfer capabilities are disabled, while disconnect, synchronous, and untagged-qing are enabled. These capabilities can have binary values (0 or 1) only. The default value for both qfull-retries and qfull-retry-interval is 10. The qfull-retries capability is a uchar_t (0 to 255), while qfull-retry-interval is a ushort_t (0 to 65535).
The target driver must enable tagged-qing and wide-xfer explicitly. The untagged-qing capability is always enabled and its value cannot be modified due to the qus driver's ability to queue commands even when tagged-qing is disabled.
When a conflict occurs between the value of scsi-options and a capability, the value set in scsi-options prevails. Only whom != 0 is supported in the scsi_ifsetcap(9F) call.
Refer to scsi_ifsetcap(9F) and scsi_ifgetcap(9F) for details.
In addition to being logged, the following messages can appear on the system console.
The first set of messages shown below can be displayed while the qus driver is first trying to attach. All messages in the first set indicate that the qus driver was unable to attach. Each message is preceded by "qus<number>)", where "<number>" is the instance number of the JASPER Host Bus Adapter.
The SBus device has been placed in a slave-only slot and are not accessible; move to non- slave-only SBus slot.
The device was configured with an interrupt level that cannot be used with the qus driver. Check the device.
Driver is unable to allocate space for the internal state structure. Driver did not attach to device; SCSI devices are inaccessible.
Driver requested an invalid internal state structure. Driver did not attach to device; SCSI devices are inaccessible.
Driver is unable to reload firmware; check for bad hardware. Driver did not attach to device; SCSI devices are inaccessible.
Driver is unable to reset the hardware. Driver did not attach to device; SCSI devices are inaccessible.
Driver is unable to find PCI device-id. Driver did not attach to device; SCSI devices are inaccessible.
Driver is unable to support the ISP chip, which is in the interface. Driver did not attach to device; SCSI devices are inaccessible.
Driver is unable to map device registers. Check for bad hardware. Driver did not attach to device. SCSI devices are inaccessible.
Driver is unable to attach to the hardware. Driver did not attach to device; SCSI devices are inaccessible.
The following messages can be displayed at any time and are printed with the full device pathname followed by the shorter form described above.
These messages indicate a firmware download failure and possible corruption of the firmware. Check the ISP driver.
ISP chip failed to reset in the time allocated. Potential hardware problem.
The ISP Firmware rejected the packet, indicating that the packet was set up incorrectly. As a result, the qus driver calls the target completion routine with the reason of CMD_TRAN_ERR set in the scsi_pkt. To correctly set up the packet, check the target driver.
The ISP Firmware rejected the packet because the packet was set up incorrectly. As a result, the qus driver calls the target completion routine with the reason of CMD_TRAN_ERR set in the scsi_pkt. To correctly set up the packet, check the target driver.
These messages indicate that the target is reducing its transfer rate. Reboot the system to obtain the maximum transfer rate.
These messages indicate a possible ISP chip failure. Driver attempts to recover from this condition by reloading and restarting the firmware.
Although all driver recovery procedure are completed, the interface did not come online and might need replacement.
The SCSI cable is faulty or is connected improperly.
The ISP chip encountered a firmware error that is probably due to a faulty SCSI cable or improper cable connection. As a result, the qus driver attempts to do error recovery by resetting the chip.
The ISP chip received an unexpected SCSI Reset and has initiated its own internal error recovery, which returns scsi_pkt with reason set to CMD_RESET.
The qus driver is performing error recovery. As a result, all outstanding commands that have been transported to the qus driver is completed by way of the scsi_pkt completion routine in the target driver with reason of CMD_RESET and status of STAT_BUS_RESET set in scsi_pkt.
Possible SCSI cable failure. Driver might still be able to communicate with the target and continue sending commands. Leaving the system in the same state triggers this message once per hour. System I/O throughput might be reduced. The SCSI might need to be replaced.
These messages indicate a possible cable failure. Outstanding commands are returned with CMD_RESET or CMD_TRAN_ERR set in scsi_pkt.


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tags: Occupy Wall Street, Police brutality, police state
by Jeff Smith (GRIID)
This article by Tom Engelhardt is re-posted from TomsDispatch.org.
These last weeks, there have been two "occupations" in lower Manhattan, one of which has been getting almost all the coverage — that of the demonstrators camping out in Zuccotti Park. The other, in the shadows, has been hardly less massive, sustained, or in its own way impressive — the police occupation of the Wall Street area.
On a recent visit to the park, I found the streets around the Stock Exchange barricaded and blocked off to traffic, and police everywhere in every form (in and out of uniform) — on foot, on scooters, on motorcycles, in squad cars with lights flashing, on horses, in paddy wagons or minivans, you name it. At the park's edge, there is a police observation tower capable of being raised and lowered hydraulically and literally hundreds of police are stationed in the vicinity. I counted more than 50 of them on just one of its sides at a moment when next to nothing was going on — and many more can be seen almost anywhere in the Wall Street area, lolling in doorways, idling in the subway, ambling on the plazas of banks, and chatting in the middle of traffic-less streets.
This might be seen as massive overkill. After all, the New York police have already shelled out an extra $1.9 million, largely in overtime pay at a budget-cutting moment in the city. When, as on Thursday, 100 to 150 marchers suddenly headed out from Zuccotti Park to circle Chase Bank several blocks away, close to the same number of police — some with ominous clumps of flexi-cuffs dangling from their belts — calved off with them. It's as if the Occupy Wall Street movement has an eternal dark shadow that follows it everywhere.
At one level, this is all mystifying. The daily crowds in the park remain remarkably, even startlingly, peaceable. (Any violence has generally been the product of police action.) On an everyday basis, a squad of 10 or 15 friendly police officers could easily handle the situation. There is, of course, another possibility suggested to me by one of the policemen loitering at the Park's edge doing nothing in particular: "Maybe they're peaceable because we're here." And here's a second possibility: as my friend Steve Fraser, author of Wall Street: America's Dream Palace, said to me, "This is the most important piece of real estate on the planet and they're scared. Look how amazed we are. Imagine how they feel, especially after so many decades of seeing nothing like it."
And then there's a third possibility: that two quite separate universes are simply located in the vicinity of each other and of what, since September 12, 2001, we've been calling Ground Zero. Think of it as Ground Zero Doubled, or think of it as the militarized recent American past and the unknown, potentially inspiring American future occupying something like the same space. (You can, of course, come up with your own pairings, some far less optimistic.) In their present state, New York's finest represent a local version of the way this country has been militarized to its bones in these last years and, since 9/11, transformed into a full-scale surveillance-intelligence-homeland-security state.
Their stakeout in Zuccotti Park is geared to extreme acts, suicide bombers, and terrorism, as well as to a conception of protest and opposition as alien and enemy-like. They are trying to herd, lock in, and possibly strangle a phenomenon that bears no relation to any of this. They are, that is, policing the wrong thing, which is why every act of pepper spraying or swing of the truncheon, every aggressive act (as in the recent eviction threat to "clean" the park) blows back on them and only increases the size and coverage of the movement.
Though much of the time they are just a few feet apart, the armed state backing that famed 1%, or Wall Street, and the unarmed protesters claiming the other 99% might as well be in two different times in two different universes connected by a Star-Trekkian wormhole and meeting only where pepper spray hits eyes.
Which means anyone visiting the Occupy Wall Street site is also watching a strange dance of phantoms. Still, we do know one thing. This massive semi-militarized force we continue to call "the police" will, in the coming years, only grow more so. After all, they know but one way to operate.
Right now, for instance, over crowds of protesters the police hover in helicopters with high-tech cameras and sensors, but in the future there can be little question that in the skies of cities like New York, the police will be operating advanced drone aircraft. Already, as Nick Turse indicates in a groundbreaking report "America's Secret Empire of Drone Bases," the U.S. military and the CIA are filling the global skies with missile-armed drones and the clamor for domestic drones is growing. The first attack on an American neighborhood, not one in Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Somalia, Yemen, or Libya, surely lurks somewhere in our future. Empires, after all, have a way of coming home to roost.
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We've all heard it before: "No pain, no gain!" What does that even mean, anyway? Do I actually have to hurt myself if I want to see results in the gym?
Growing up playing sports, including collegiate volleyball, and now as a fitness professional, I have no doubt heard it all. As great as it is to be on the receiving end of fitness advice and well-intended motivation, it's clichés like, "No pain no gain" that often turn people away from the exercise room.
As is the case with most experiences in life, support from friends, family, and loved ones is crucial in your fitness journey. Without it, people often fall off track before they really get started. It has to go further than your inner circle, too. Find the right gym, fitness program, training partner and coaches to help keep you motivated.
5. Routine is the enemy.
Falling into a routine and being consistent are two different things. Yes, you must stay consistent with regard to your time in the gym and your willingness to make it a part of your lifestyle. But it's what you do with that time in the gym that will make or break your fitness success story. Avoid doing the same workout every day. If you need to, find a gym that will program workouts for you. At CrossFit Omaha, we keep our workouts constantly varied. Not only does this help us achieve a more balanced level of fitness, it also keeps us from getting bored.
You can make the most of your time and efforts in the gym by recovering properly. This doesn't mean that once a week, you go to the nearest smoothie stand and order an extra large bodybuilder shake. Sure, you can incorporate a quality protein shake into your post-workout diet, but it has to go beyond that. The rest of your day must include balanced meals made up of whole foods and a lot of water. Equally as important is the amount of sleep you get. You will not see the results you want if you are up partying all night and eating junk food all day. You have to take your recovery seriously.
3. Nutrition is the hardest part.
Working out is the easy part. It's eating healthy that often throws people for a loop. Clean up your diet by incorporating real, whole foods. I would recommend finding a gym that facilitates nutrition challenges on a regular basis to help you get started and learn more about healthy eating. Eating healthy does not mean restricting the amount of food we eat, but rather the types of food we eat. You can also consider using natural bodybuilding supplements (check out a product list) to perform better in the gym.
At the end of the day, it's all about having fun, right? And often what makes fitness fun is committing ourselves to change and then seeing results. If you follow the other pieces of advice listed here and set attainable goals, you will find success and have a whole lot of fun in the process!
1. Use it or lose it.
Seriously sister! Why go through all that effort if you're just going to let it go? If you never stop being active, than you never lose it. Aside from an unexpected illnesses or injury, this really does ring true. Let your fitness carry you through your lifetime and keep you active, functional, and healthy.


Alex Kingston on being Doctor Who's secret weapon and getting the closure she richly deserves.
The following post contains spoilers for the latest Doctor Who Christmas special titled "The Husbands of River Song." But it also contains some great insight from River herself, Alex Kingston. So make sure you've watched the episode (go ahead, we'll wait) and then come back and read what she has to say about Dr. Song's first ride in the TARDIS alongside Peter Capaldi.
Everybody needs a secret weapon. For the most recent versions of the Doctor, it's the sonic screwdriver. But for Doctor Who show-runner Steven Moffat, it's the character River Song played by the fantastic Alex Kingston. The actress may have just taken her final ride in the TARDIS for the latest Christmas Special and spoke with Vanity Fair about how she became the most powerful weapon in Moffat's arsenal and why she was grateful her character got such a loving goodbye.
Moffat wrote his first River episode before he was given the reins for the series and that two-parter—Silence in the Library/Forest of the Dead—saw Dr. Song interact memorably with David Tennant's Tenth Doctor before (sort of) dying. Kingston thought she would never return and if this were most any other show, that would be it for Dr. Song. But this is Doctor Who, a time-traveling series that needs only shrug and mutter "wibbly-wobbly timey-wimey" in order to bring River back for more. And that's exactly what we got during Matt Smith's three seasons. Much, much more. In fact, it was Alex Kingston who Moffat called on to make sure his first episodes in the position of show-runner with a brand new Doctor (Smith) and companion (Karen Gillan) went off without a hitch.
When asked how she felt about being Moffat's secret weapon, Kingston joked, "Bring Alex in! I know. I should hope that I'm a little bit more than that!" But Kingston's character is in the rare position of having been special to three versions of the Doctor; an honor only Elisabeth Sladen's Sarah Jane Smith can also claim. But she's also a character that, while hugely popular, reflected some problems of the Moffat/Smith era.
First of all there was the tangled web of River/Melody and her whole mythology. Moffat grew a little dependent, for awhile, on creating female characters who were puzzles for the Doctor to solve. But, more frustratingly, River never truly got her romantic due as the Doctor's wife. David Tennant's Doctor greeted her mostly with suspicion (and, ultimately, sympathy) having never met her before and Matt Smith's treatment of her was often combative or exasperated. "It's stupid. You embarrass me. Why do you have to be this?" he famously flung at her just before an uncomfortable wedding scene that many consider to be the pinnacle of a dysfunctional relationship.
Dysfunctional relationships became a little de rigueur for Moffat both on Doctor Who and his version of Sherlock starring Benedict Cumberbatch. Eleven's iciness towards River is similar to Sherlock's iciness towards, well, everyone. It's an unfortunate narrative tick that Moffat seems to have shaken off during Capaldi's most recent season. Then Capaldi and Moffat doubled down on the warmth for the Christmas Special.
When River tearfully explained to a room full of enemies that her feelings for the Doctor were entirely unrequited, it felt like a catharsis for the audience as much as it was for the characters. And when Capaldi's Doctor looked at her with dawning horror as to what he had put her through and, then, complete tenderness, it went a long way to heal years of a love story that sometimes felt one-sided and rarely felt particularly loving.
Whether or not we can thank the tweets, it seems Moffat decided River deserved a proper goodbye. So how do you say goodbye to someone who has already had her death scene? It's always tricky to map out the interactions between River and the Doctor. (As Capaldi's Doctor meta-joked in the Christmas Special, most people need a flow chart to figure out the love story of two time travelers.) But as River makes it very clear in this episode, she's never met Capaldi's version of the Doctor before. So that rules out any pre-existing adventures between the two. The episode ends with River and the Doctor enjoying a dinner date at the Singing Towers of Darillium something that, the episode takes care to remind you, immediately precedes River's deathly adventures in the library. (We weren't kidding about that flow chart.) So since there are no more options for adventures with the 10th, 11th, or 12th Doctors and since River never met the first nine incarnations, this is probably it for her. Peter Capaldi got the honor of taking River out for one last ride.
If Matt Smith had his way, though, he never would have had to share Kingston with another Doctor. "I said this to Steven [Moffat]. I was like, 'Listen, just don't! Just not Alex. Anyone else, but don't give [Capaldi] River... I am really proud of the fact that Alex was part of number Eleven's life. My wife!" Smith told a Comic-Con audience in 2014. "I was very conscious of it potentially not being easy for Matt," Kingston says.
But, as it turns out, it may be Steven Moffat who is the most possessive of the Doctor's wife. "He knows my character really well and he's the only one who writes for her," Kingston says. And by tying up her story in a neat bow, Moffat ensured he will stay the only Doctor Who writer to tale the story of River Song. Then again, the nights are long on Darillium and who knows what wibbly-wobbly antics a time-travelling archeologist might get up to? But, to quote River Song, "When you run with the Doctor, it feels like it'll never end. But however hard you try you can't run forever." It was a hell of a run.


John Mackey has yet to offer an explanation for his withdrawal from an organization run by Marc Gafni, accused of several incidents of sexual improprieties.
Disgraced spiritual guru Marc Gafni has suffered another black eye with the resignation of Whole Foods co-founder and CEO John Mackey from his vaunted think tank, The Forward has learned.
Mackey so far has issued no statement on his reason for stepping down from the Center for Integral Wisdom, but his departure comes as Gafni continues to be dogged by allegations of sexual improprieties stretching back years.
The Forward in January published an essay by Sara Kabakov, who alleged that Gafni molested her repeatedly, beginning when she was 13.
Gafni, who is now in his mid-50s, was 19 when the alleged abuse started, Kabakov said. The once-promising Jewish leader said the relationship with her was consensual.
Pressure mounted on Mackey and his Conscious Capitalism for the Whole Foods boss to abandon CIW as the firestorm erupted.
Rabbi David Ingber, an influential Renewal rabbi in New York who once studied with Gafni but has long since severed ties, organized a petition of denouncement, which included he names of around 100 other Jewish leaders.
Nancy Levine, a Gafni critic near his Bay Area base in California, called on Mackey to denounce Gafni and break his silence in a note to The Forward.
"Exposure and speaking up are the remedies for changing the culture," she wrote.


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18th October 2018 by Expat Living 5 Min Read
We chat to a British couple about their IT support company that can help to streamline your home or office.
If you've ever sat at your computer looking at all the beautiful photos you've taken and wondered how on earth to store them properly, or you've had your Wi-Fi installed at home only to realise you can't access it in the bedroom, you need the services provided by Tekkie Help. Set up by Bo and Sarah Pinel six years ago, the company has gone from strength to strength. We find out what they do, and how they can help.
Bo and Sarah Pinel
What brought you to Singapore in 2010?
Bo: We were living in Jersey; I was working for a telecommunications company and we had just had our first son, Arthur. Having worked in the corporate world for over 30 years, I felt the need for a new challenge, and I thought Asia would be the place to take that on.
Sarah: Our family and friends thought we were crazy – packing up our home and coming to Singapore with three suitcases, a one-year-old and no job. That somewhat reckless decision has paid off though!
Why did you start Tekkie Help?
Bo: At first, I thought it would be fairly easy to get a job here, but in reality telecoms companies have plenty of local talent. I ended up finding a job working for a conference company, a while before setting up Tekkie Help.
Sarah: Bo realised early on that there was a gap in the market for the kind of IT support services he could offer, from helping people set up their computers at home after purchase, to phone set-up, and more, so we started offering a home technology support service.
Bo: Most expats start off here without the kind of network of family and friends they have at home, so they can't rely on asking others to help out with tech issues. Then there's the confidence to go to somewhere like Sim Lim Square and know what to ask for, and not worry about being ripped off! We found customers initially just through networking and then recommendations, and it's grown from there.
How easy was it to set up the company?
Bo: It was really quite easy, and using Money Matters for business support certainly helped. We've been going for six years now, starting out working from our small apartment and then the spare room in our house. Two years ago, we expanded into our East Coast office.
Sarah: With a rapidly expanding team, there wasn't enough room at home anymore so we knew we had to get the office space. It was also hard having two young boys running around the workplace! Our office is close to home and so really convenient for us.
What plans do you have for the future?
Bo: Taking the office space has enabled us to undertake more computer repairs, as we now have a workshop. We've also evolved into helping small and medium-sized businesses support their IT needs. These types of business usually don't have their own IT department, so we can help with everything from supply of equipment and set-up of systems to ongoing support.
Sarah: We're taking active steps to grow the business side of things, and we want to move into training as well. Technology is becoming so complex. There are courses on how to take good photos, but do you know what to do with them after that? What's fascinating for us is that Tekkie Help has grown so organically. We're both from marketing backgrounds and we created an initial marketing strategy, but we didn't need to do much advertising; it just evolved.
What do you like about living and working in the East?
Sarah: Access to the beach, sea and park; it just feels less congested than other areas. I love the architecture of the shophouses, and it feels more Singaporean. There are some great coffee shops in our area, too, and the Vietnamese restaurant near the office, Long Phung, is really popular and very good.
What are your top three most requested services?
Bo: Sorting out Wi-Fi in apartments, getting things to synchronise, and computer repairs – especially hard drive failures, which happens much more frequently here due to the heat.
What's been your most unusual request?
Bo: A while ago, we were asked to extract the data from an old 1980s organiser, which was interesting. We try and do anything we're asked, and if we think we can't do it initially, we will eventually find a way!
What pearl of wisdom would you pass on to a newcomer to Singapore?
Bo: Look for data points or telephone points in your new home before you sign the contract, because these are vital for ensuring Wi-Fi throughout the house. The concrete used in condos here in Singapore makes it very hard to provide connectivity through the home. If you don't have these points, make sure you discuss this as part of the negotiations.
What advice do you wish you'd been given when you were relocating?
Sarah: Carefully consider costs here, including schools, cars and accommodation, because they are so much higher than most other countries. When we came over, there were very few groups like there are now on Facebook, so it's great you can now rely on them for advice.
Which apps do you find useful?
Bo: We like WeatherLah – it gives you a radar view of the incoming weather so you know what to expect. We also love MoBike – it's great as sometimes Sarah has the car to go into the office, so I just jump on a bike and cycle in.
Sarah: TransferWise is also really useful for bringing money into Singapore
Tekkie Help promises a transparent pricing policy, with an hourly rate of $90. To find out more, call 8113 8682 or go to tekkiehelp.com.
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A New York teacher from Long Island has been arrested this week after allegedly injecting a teenager with a Covid-19 vaccine without parental consent.
Laura Parker Russo, a science teacher from Herricks High School, was arrested on New Year's Eve after police were informed that she administered a Covid vaccine on her son's friend inside her home.
According to the Nassau County Police Department's press release, the 17-year-old boy informed his mother of what happened when he went home. The mother did not give her consent to have her son vaccinated and called the police.
The police conducted an investigation which revealed that Russo is not medical personnel or authorized to administer vaccines. Russo was then placed under arrest but was later


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GSM collapse: another for-profit education provider hits the rocks
A London-based private university has gone bust, leaving students and staff in the lurch.
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GSM London was one of a wave of private providers cashing in on the new market in higher education.
One of the largest providers of private education in Britain has gone into administration. GSM London (formerly known as Greenwich School of Management) will stop teaching at the end of this academic year, leaving a total of 274 staff at risk of redundancy and several thousand students in the lurch mid-way through their studies. (Private college GSM London goes bust and will stop teaching by Sean Coughlan, BBC News, 31 July 2019)
GSM, which used to offer undergraduate and postgraduate business courses validated by the University of Plymouth at its campuses in Greenwich and Greenford, has told its students that all tuition, classes and exams will stop at the end of September.
The private university had lost more than 2,000 students over the past year. The higher education watchdog, the Office for Students (OfS), said that in 2017-18 the college had 5,440 students, while the latest figures show just 3,500. The for-profit college said it had been unable to recruit and retain sufficient student numbers to remain afloat in what it described as "highly challenging market conditions", and could no longer remain financially viable, being unable to find a buyer to ensure its longer-term future.
The demise of GSM, owned by Clipper Group Ltd, which in turn is owned by a fund belonging to Sovereign Capital (a private equity firm with a series of holdings in privatised education), is a blow to the government's aim of the complete marketisation of higher education.
Three other for-profit education providers have also run into difficulty recently, and have been stripped of their access to student loans owing to concerns about poor quality degrees. The Bloomsbury Institute, run by a for-profit company and offering degrees in business, accountancy and law, had its registration application refused by the OfS last month, along with ABI College Limited and Waltham Forest College.
A higher education provider must register with the OfS in order to receive public funds, recruit international students, award degrees and call itself a university.
The University and College Union (UCU), which represents higher education workers, has called on the government to reassess its approach.
The union's acting general secretary, Paul Cottrell, said: "UCU has repeatedly highlighted concerns about the marketisation of education and the rapid increase in poorly regulated private providers.
"We hope that the government will now look again at the funding free-for-all among private providers.
"These private providers enjoy a competitive advantage in being under-regulated, but always put profit before education."
Collectively, these failures of for-profit education should raise the question in the minds of all students and workers as to why the government is so committed to taking us down this path. The answer is, of course, to provide another avenue for profit-taking to the rich, who see the hundreds of thousands of people entering higher education every year as a potential goldmine.
What do communists say?
At our party's eighth congress in September 2018, a motion on education demanded:
1. The expulsion of all private interests in education, including the abolition of academies and their return to the state school system, and the end of private provision of goods and services to educational institutions, with all staff brought in-house with realistic wages and full employment rights.
2. The abolition of private, religious and ethnically-divided schools.
3. The abolition of tuition fees in all institutions at all levels of education.
4. The provision of maintenance grants to cover living expenses of working-class students and their families, from creche and kindergarten through nursery, to school, undergraduate and higher-degree level.
5. Changes in the syllabuses and teaching methods should reflect the scientific, historical and artistic needs and interests of working-class people, including the teaching of materialist philosophy, science and working-class history and politics."
Education should be a right for all workers, not a privilege for those who can afford to pay. It should be free, high quality, lifelong, and designed to meet the needs of working-class people, helping them to develop their abilities and enabling them to make a useful contribution to society while fulfilling their individual potential.
The CPGB-ML believes that the welfare of workers can only be safeguarded by a socialist system of economy, controlled and administered by the working people themselves.
Let the capitalists' ministers try and show us otherwise; let them start by meeting this list of simple demands.
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Workers will never find courage in their own strength until they have learned to see through the exploiters' lies about socialism.
The reactionary nightmare of 'gender fluidity'
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HomeHeather DeYoung
Heather DeYoung
In 1980 Heather began her dance training at Barbara's Conservatory of Dance. She has trained
in various dance forms including ballet, pointe, jazz, modern, lyrical, pas de deux and tap.
Heather spent many years dancing as a company member of Ballet Midwest. Some of her
favorite roles include Spanish and American Beauty Rose from Nutcracker and Stepsister and
Stepmother from Cinderella. Heather continued her dance training at the University of Kansas
where she trained under Jerel Hilding and Patrick Suzeau.
After many years as a studio assistant, Heather began teaching classes at Barbara's in 1991. In
1995 she also became the Assistant Artistic Director for Ballet Midwest where she helped Miss
Barbara stage and choreograph many Nutcrackers and spring ballets. In 2002, when Heather's
family moved to the Kansas City area she continued sharing her love of dance. She has taught
at several studios in the Kansas City area including DanceWorks Conservatory, A Fairytale
Ballet and Kansas City Dance Expressions, where she was the director of the ballet program for
two years. Heather has also conducted dance workshops for area Girl Scout troops and
schools.
In 2008 Heather began working as a paraprofessional at Shawnee Mission West High School in
Overland Park. This will be her fourth year as the school's Job Coach. She loves helping
students find things they are passionate about and helping them succeed at work in the
Heather has two amazing kids both of whom spent time dancing at the studio. Now, her son
Owen works as a carpenter with Rau Construction and her daughter Sierra is a professional
dancer dancing with Ballet Quad Cities this season.
Heather is happy to be returning to share her love of dance with everyone at the studio this fall.


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"""
Test for DMPNN Featurizer class.
"""

from deepchem.feat.molecule_featurizers.dmpnn_featurizer import DMPNNFeaturizer, GraphConvConstants
import numpy as np
import pytest

edge_index_orignal_ordering = {
    "C1=CC=NC=C1":
        np.asarray([[0, 1, 1, 2, 2, 3, 3, 4, 4, 5, 5, 0],
                    [1, 0, 2, 1, 3, 2, 4, 3, 5, 4, 0, 5]]),
    "CC(=O)C":
        np.asarray([[0, 1, 1, 2, 1, 3], [1, 0, 2, 1, 3, 1]]),
    "C":
        np.empty((2, 0), dtype=int)
}

# Set up tests.
smiles = ["C1=CC=NC=C1", "CC(=O)C", "C"]
edge_index_orignal_order = list(edge_index_orignal_ordering.values())

# Set up testing parameters.
Test1_params = {
    'features_generators': None,
    'is_adding_hs': False,
    'use_original_atom_ranks': False
}
Test2_params = {
    'features_generators': None,
    'is_adding_hs': False,
    'use_original_atom_ranks': True
}
Test3_params = {
    'features_generators': None,
    'is_adding_hs': True,
    'use_original_atom_ranks': False
}
Test4_params = {
    'features_generators': ['morgan'],
    'is_adding_hs': False,
    'use_original_atom_ranks': False
}
Test5_params = {
    'features_generators': ['morgan'],
    'is_adding_hs': True,
    'use_original_atom_ranks': False
}

@pytest.mark.parametrize(
    'test_parameters',
    [Test1_params, Test2_params, Test3_params, Test4_params, Test5_params])
def test_featurizer_ring(test_parameters):
  """
  Test for featurization of "C1=CC=NC=C1" using `DMPNNFeaturizer` class.
  """
  features_generators, is_adding_hs, use_original_atom_ranks = test_parameters.values(
  )
  featurizer = DMPNNFeaturizer(features_generators=features_generators,
                               is_adding_hs=is_adding_hs,
                               use_original_atom_ranks=use_original_atom_ranks)
  graph_feat = featurizer.featurize(smiles)
  assert len(graph_feat) == 3

  if is_adding_hs:
    assert graph_feat[0].num_nodes == 11
    assert graph_feat[0].num_node_features == GraphConvConstants.ATOM_FDIM
    assert graph_feat[0].node_features.shape == (11,
                                                 GraphConvConstants.ATOM_FDIM)
    assert graph_feat[0].num_edges == 22
    assert graph_feat[0].num_edge_features == GraphConvConstants.BOND_FDIM
    assert graph_feat[0].edge_features.shape == (22,
                                                 GraphConvConstants.BOND_FDIM)
  else:
    assert graph_feat[0].num_nodes == 6
    assert graph_feat[0].num_node_features == GraphConvConstants.ATOM_FDIM
    assert graph_feat[0].node_features.shape == (6,
                                                 GraphConvConstants.ATOM_FDIM)
    assert graph_feat[0].num_edges == 12
    assert graph_feat[0].num_edge_features == GraphConvConstants.BOND_FDIM
    assert graph_feat[0].edge_features.shape == (12,
                                                 GraphConvConstants.BOND_FDIM)

  if features_generators:
    assert len(graph_feat[0].global_features
              ) == 2048  # for `morgan` features generator
    nonzero_features_indicies = graph_feat[0].global_features.nonzero()[0]
    if is_adding_hs:
      assert len(nonzero_features_indicies) == 10
    else:
      assert len(nonzero_features_indicies) == 9
  else:
    assert graph_feat[0].global_features.size == 0

  if use_original_atom_ranks:
    assert (graph_feat[0].edge_index == edge_index_orignal_order[0]).all()
  else:
    if graph_feat[0].edge_index.shape == edge_index_orignal_order[0]:
      assert (graph_feat[0].edge_index != edge_index_orignal_order[0]).any()

@pytest.mark.parametrize(
    'test_parameters',
    [Test1_params, Test2_params, Test3_params, Test4_params, Test5_params])
def test_featurizer_general_case(test_parameters):
  """
  Test for featurization of "CC(=O)C" using `DMPNNFeaturizer` class.
  """
  features_generators, is_adding_hs, use_original_atom_ranks = test_parameters.values(
  )
  featurizer = DMPNNFeaturizer(features_generators=features_generators,
                               is_adding_hs=is_adding_hs,
                               use_original_atom_ranks=use_original_atom_ranks)
  graph_feat = featurizer.featurize(smiles)
  assert len(graph_feat) == 3

  if is_adding_hs:
    assert graph_feat[1].num_nodes == 10
    assert graph_feat[1].num_node_features == GraphConvConstants.ATOM_FDIM
    assert graph_feat[1].node_features.shape == (10,
                                                 GraphConvConstants.ATOM_FDIM)
    assert graph_feat[1].num_edges == 18
    assert graph_feat[1].num_edge_features == GraphConvConstants.BOND_FDIM
    assert graph_feat[1].edge_features.shape == (18,
                                                 GraphConvConstants.BOND_FDIM)

  else:
    assert graph_feat[1].num_nodes == 4
    assert graph_feat[1].num_node_features == GraphConvConstants.ATOM_FDIM
    assert graph_feat[1].node_features.shape == (4,
                                                 GraphConvConstants.ATOM_FDIM)
    assert graph_feat[1].num_edges == 6
    assert graph_feat[1].num_edge_features == GraphConvConstants.BOND_FDIM
    assert graph_feat[1].edge_features.shape == (6,
                                                 GraphConvConstants.BOND_FDIM)

  if features_generators:
    assert len(graph_feat[1].global_features
              ) == 2048  # for `morgan` features generator
    nonzero_features_indicies = graph_feat[1].global_features.nonzero()[0]
    if is_adding_hs:
      assert len(nonzero_features_indicies) == 10
    else:
      assert len(nonzero_features_indicies) == 6
  else:
    assert graph_feat[1].global_features.size == 0

  if use_original_atom_ranks:
    assert (graph_feat[1].edge_index == edge_index_orignal_order[1]).all()
  else:
    if graph_feat[1].edge_index.shape == edge_index_orignal_order[1]:
      assert (graph_feat[1].edge_index != edge_index_orignal_order[1]).any()

@pytest.mark.parametrize(
    'test_parameters',
    [Test1_params, Test2_params, Test3_params, Test4_params, Test5_params])
def test_featurizer_single_atom(test_parameters):
  """
  Test for featurization of "C" using `DMPNNFeaturizer` class.
  """
  features_generators, is_adding_hs, use_original_atom_ranks = test_parameters.values(
  )
  featurizer = DMPNNFeaturizer(features_generators=features_generators,
                               is_adding_hs=is_adding_hs,
                               use_original_atom_ranks=use_original_atom_ranks)
  graph_feat = featurizer.featurize(smiles)
  assert len(graph_feat) == 3

  if is_adding_hs:
    assert graph_feat[2].num_nodes == 5
    assert graph_feat[2].num_node_features == GraphConvConstants.ATOM_FDIM
    assert graph_feat[2].node_features.shape == (5,
                                                 GraphConvConstants.ATOM_FDIM)
    assert graph_feat[2].num_edges == 8
    assert graph_feat[2].num_edge_features == GraphConvConstants.BOND_FDIM
    assert graph_feat[2].edge_features.shape == (8,
                                                 GraphConvConstants.BOND_FDIM)
  else:
    assert graph_feat[2].num_nodes == 1
    assert graph_feat[2].num_node_features == GraphConvConstants.ATOM_FDIM
    assert graph_feat[2].node_features.shape == (1,
                                                 GraphConvConstants.ATOM_FDIM)
    assert graph_feat[2].num_edges == 0
    assert graph_feat[2].num_edge_features == GraphConvConstants.BOND_FDIM
    assert graph_feat[2].edge_features.shape == (0,
                                                 GraphConvConstants.BOND_FDIM)

  if features_generators:
    assert len(graph_feat[2].global_features
              ) == 2048  # for `morgan` features generator
    nonzero_features_indicies = graph_feat[2].global_features.nonzero()[0]
    if is_adding_hs:
      assert len(nonzero_features_indicies) == 4
    else:
      assert len(nonzero_features_indicies) == 1
  else:
    assert graph_feat[2].global_features.size == 0

  if use_original_atom_ranks:
    assert (graph_feat[2].edge_index == edge_index_orignal_order[2]).all()
  else:
    if graph_feat[2].edge_index.shape == edge_index_orignal_order[2]:
      # the atom order for 'C' is same in case of canonical and original ordering
      assert (graph_feat[2].edge_index == edge_index_orignal_order[2]).all()

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Do Chickens Fly? Can They? Here's the Truth!
Chickens are known to jump and flap their wings around, but that doesn't mean they can fly, right? However, most flightless birds can't use their wings to lift themselves off the ground, so can chickens fly?
Chickens are not flightless; they can fly in short bursts (to escape danger or reach a perch) but cannot fly long distances. Chickens are short-burst fliers due to their size, wing muscles, and weight. Some chickens can fly over 12-foot tall fences, though most struggle to get over a 3-foot fence.
Despite this, chickens are often considered to be flightless. The question remains – why can't chickens fly? Were they always like this? Can they at least glide? Read on to learn to get answers.
Can Chickens Fly?
Most domestic chickens cannot fly long distances, but lighter species can fly over short distances. The size of the chicken impacts its flight ability, with heavier birds being less able to fly in any direction compared to lighter birds.
We have all seen chickens attempt to fly at least once, right? And it seems they can move in the air to a certain degree but is that flying?
While chickens are mostly considered flightless birds, smaller species can cover short distances. However, flying isn't their preferred method of movement, as we're about to explore it in great detail.
Do Chickens Jump or Fly?
Large chickens primarily run and jump, while smaller chickens can fly in short bursts. Chickens instinctively flap their wings while running or jumping. Flapping may prolong their time in the air, speeding them up or helping them get a little higher and further.
However, chickens can't hover or ascend very far. So even the lighter birds, who can fly, can't stay in the air like other birds. And their flight capabilities are severely limited compared to other bird species.
So, large chickens jump, and while attempting to fly, they can't go far. What they can do, however, is to jump from one spot to the other, which is how they gain ground. Flapping can help them jump a little farther than they could get without the wing assist, but it's not a ton.
Lighter chickens (there are varieties within the species) can fly across short distances. These birds will jump off a platform but ascend by flapping their wings.
I've seen smaller chickens, whether lighter individuals of a heavier breed or smaller breeds, take flight across a yard. Some of my family members have chickens who, as members of lighter chicken breeds, can fly their 12-foot tall perimeter fence.
Cutting flight feathers (in a humane method) will help keep the chickens even more flightless to keep them inside a fence, but it will only last until the next set of feathers comes in after molting. You'll have to trim the flight feathers again when that happens or fatten the bird up.
Can Wild Chickens Fly?
Feral or wild chickens have no more developed flight abilities than domestic chickens. These species only fly to reach their roosting areas and to avoid predators.
They can use this ability to gain some ground, but they can't fly away like other birds.
How Far Can Chickens Fly?
That depends on the height from which the chicken jumps. Jumping off the ground will allow the chicken to fly for a few feet. However, if a chicken jumps from a great height – 10 feet, for example – it can cover at least 20 to 30 feet in distance.
Since their wings slow their descent, the chicken doesn't hurt itself by jumping from such a height.
The world record for the longest chicken flight is 13 seconds, while the greatest covered distance is 301.5 feet (source). However, this extreme example shouldn't be taken as the norm.
Do Roosters Fly?
Like chickens, roosters can fly short distances, but they are incapable of long-distance flight. Their bodies are too large, and their wings are too undeveloped to fly for more than a few feet at a time.
Some chicken breeds are better fliers than our run-of-the-mill domesticated chickens. These chickens are primarily European and were selectively bred to have enhanced flying abilities. However, not even these chickens can achieve long-distance flight.
Catalan, Andalusian, black Spanish, and Ancona chickens are better at flying than most domesticated chickens.
Do Chickens Glide?
Chickens cannot glide like other birds, but they do something similar. They will flap their wings and slow down their descent when they jump. While that does not count at gliding, it grants them minimal control over their descent.
Even though that doesn't compare with avian flying abilities, it's more than other animals can do midair.
Breeds of Chickens That Can Fly
Not a single chicken breed (domesticated or wild) is capable of long-distance flight. Chickens' wings are too weak to lift their weight from the ground for sustained flight, though they can still use their wings and minor flight capabilities to generate speed or height to escape danger.
Chickens have been selectively bred to be short and heavy, and with generations, they haven't needed to fly long distances – not since they trained humans to take care of them!
However, farmers started breeding chickens with no set plan, and by giving them this freedom, some cross-breeds started regaining their natural flight abilities. You can watch this YouTube video as an example.
The chickens in this video are a cross of Friesian and Wyandotte hens, with the former known to be very light. Because of this, these birds have more advanced flying abilities than most regular domesticated chickens.
They can take off almost vertically, ascend, and turn – prolonging their flight. Despite this, they still can't achieve long-distance flight.
The birds are still too heavy to stay in the air for a long time – they have to flap their wings very quickly with a lot of strength to achieve the things they do in the video (which is amazing on its own).
To achieve long-distance flight, chickens would either have to grow massive wings or shrink their bodies (without shrinking their wings).
Why Do Chickens Not Fly?
Chickens are too heavy, and their wings are too small to achieve long-distance flight. Their flight muscles are too heavy to stay in the air for a long time. However, they can do short bursts of flight to escape danger or to reach a perch.
Red junglefowl, essentially a wild, undomesticated chicken – is also incapable of flying long distances. Chickens are direct descendants of these birds – people domesticated chickens 8,000 years ago, and we turned them into heavier birds with weaker wings through selective breeding.
These birds are more physically developed than chickens – they're not as low-bodied and heavy, and their wings are more powerful. Despite this, they still can't fly. This gives us an insight into the history of chicken.
The purpose of the chicken's wings, it seems, was never to fly over long distances. They have powerful wing muscles so they can explode into flight, launching themselves away from predators.
If you have ever tried to catch a chicken, you know exactly what we're talking about.
So, it's technically untrue that chickens can't fly. They utilize a different form of flight than what we think of when we think of birds flying. Chickens are short-burst fliers, not long-distance fliers.
Long-distance fliers have lighter wing muscles and larger wings (in comparison to their bodies), which is why they can swing their wings so much without getting tired.
This is why chickens have more edible meat than most wild bird species – they have more muscle.
For a bird to fly, it needs "one square inch of wing space per 0.6 ounces of body mass," (source) and chickens don't fall in this ratio.
Are Chickens Flightless Birds?
By definition, chickens are not flightless birds. Flightless birds are birds that completely lost the ability to fly through evolution. Chickens still have some flying abilities, just not long-distance flying.
Penguins, ostriches, emus, and cassowaries are the most famous flightless birds.
Do Chickens Fly Away?
Chickens cannot fly away in a single flight, but they can certainly escape in a few short bursts. A chicken can jump and fly 20 feet away, land, and jump again. That is how they avoid predators in the wild.
They also fly up, landing on a branch, perch, or platform where predators can't reach them. However, chickens aren't very bright, and they don't have much stamina, so it should be easy to catch one if it gets away.
Can Chickens Fly Over Fences
Chickens can fly over a fence, especially if the fence is low. Tall fences can't be flown over as easily, but a chicken can pull it off if it has a platform to launch itself off of, especially if that perch is partway up the fence.
Flying chicken breeds, the ones we mentioned before, can fly over a fence.
We have several chicken breeds (Buff Orpingtons, Americaunas, and Rhode Island Reds), and they can all get over our 3-foot-tall chainlink fence. They jump up to the top of the fence, perch on the horizontal support that holds it up, and then back down.
Only one of our 12 chickens can make it to the top of the 6-foot tall privacy vinyl fence around our yard, and she could only do it a few times. She quit trying once she realized all the treats were only in our yard. We trimmed her flight feathers the first year, which also helped her learn to stay in our yard.
We also have a 3-foot-tall temporary fence made of chicken wire. None of the chickens can get over that, as there's no horizontal support for them to rest on between getting up and over the other side. To get over that fence, they jump up and onto the gate we installed so we could use it!
Earlier in the article, I mentioned that we have family members who have a breed of chicken that has jumped a 12-foot-tall fence. In case you're wondering, it's a Sebright hen. It's a cutie!
Key Takeaway: Chickens Can Fly
As we learned, chickens can fly; they can't achieve long-distance flight. Their bodies and wing muscles are too heavy, while the wings aren't large enough to keep them in the air.
Wild chickens are no different from domesticated chickens – they can't fly either. However, some breeds have greater flight capabilities than others, can fly over fences, and have a decent vertical lift-off. Time will tell if they'll evolve greater flying abilities.
Even then within some breeds, individual birds perform better and worse than the other birds.
Chickens can fly, and they can also get into mischief (even with their food); here are some examples of what to do in these how-tos:
10 Ways to Keep Chickens Out of Flower Beds and Gardens
10 Clever Ways to Keep Chickens from Wasting Food
Plants Chickens Won't Eat: The Complete Guide
How to Stop Chickens From Pecking Each Other: 10 Tips That Help
Chicken Channel. "Chickens Flying in the Yard." YouTube, 4 Apr. 2018, www.youtube.com/watch?v=yRpgnMDr7Ms.
Geggel, Laura. "Forget About the Road. Why Are Chickens so Bad at Flying?" livescience.com, 8 Dec. 2016, www.livescience.com/57139-why-chickens-cannot-fly.html.
"The Wild Species Genome Ancestry of Domestic Chickens." NIH, 12 Feb. 2020, www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7014787.
What Is a Chicken? – Incubation and Embryology – University of Illinois Extension. web.extension.illinois.edu/eggs/res08-whatis.html.
"What Is the Longest Recorded Flight of a Chicken?" Reference.com, 13 Apr. 2020, www.reference.com/pets-animals/longest-recorded-flight-chicken-5abd0ed8b465850f.


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Q: Parser error in mvc3 razor code I'm getting this error in my cshtml file   near this code
@{
    var options = new OpenIdSelector();
    options.TextBox.LogOnText = "Log On";
}

Parser Error

Description: An error occurred during the parsing of a resource required to service this request. Please review the following specific parse error details and modify your source file appropriately.
Parser Error Message: Unexpected "{" after "@" character. Once inside the body of a code block (@if {}, @{}, etc.) you do not need to use "@{" to switch to code.

@using DotNetOpenAuth.Mvc
@using DotNetOpenAuth.OpenId.RelyingParty
@{
 ViewBag.Title = "Log On";
}

via 3rd Party (recommended)

        @{ Html.RenderPartial("LogOnContent");}

OR

using a account

    @using (Html.BeginForm())
    {

                Username:
                @(Html.TextBox("username"))
                @(Html.ValidationMessage("username", "*"))

                Password:
                @(Html.Password("password"))
                @(Html.ValidationMessage("password", "*"))

                @(Html.CheckBox("rememberMe")) Remember me?

                <input class="classiclogon" type="submit" value="Log On" />

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Vietnam Embassy in the UAE celebrating Lunar Hare welcome spring
August 10, 2018	0	By Vietnam Embassy UAE
Evening February 12, 2015, the Embassy of Vietnam in the UAE organized Community Festival cozy and imbued with national identity Ất celebrate Spring Hare at the Embassy headquarters. Attend Community Tet Vietnam Ambassador in UAE Pham Binh Dam and his wife, all officials, embassy staff, with nearly 300 overseas Vietnamese, labor represents more than 8,000 community Vietnam live, study and work in the UAE.
Speaking at a community meeting, Ambassador Pham Binh Dam confirmed Embassy will always be the home of Vietnamese people living, working and studying in the UAE, always supporting and protecting the legitimate rights of her children. Ambassador wishes sent to relatives on the occasion of the first health and hope the Vietnamese community in the block will stay in unity, unity of the homeland, to join hands in building the country prosperous Vietnam, simultaneously affirmed the consistent policy of the Party and State consider compatriots residing abroad are integral parts of the community of the people of Vietnam.
Ambassador reviewed the highlights of bilateral relations Vietnam-UAE 2014, confirmed the commitment of the two governments to constantly nurture and develop good bilateral relations. Ambassador highly appreciated the contribution of the community in the UAE Vietnam for the development of the country as well as friendship bridge for relations between Vietnam and the UAE, particularly through the visit of Deputy Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc to UAE and Vietnam days event at the 2014 UAE recently.
Tet community took place in a cozy atmosphere, petal solidarity. Community out of the exuberance, optimism on the threshold of a new spring, at the prospect of the country and bilateral relations, trust see, closer to the missions and engage more in the community.


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On The Million-Dollar Trail Of A Mystery SuperPAC Donor
By Robert Smith
The superPACs raising money to support presidential candidates have few restrictions. They can accept checks for any amount.
One rule they do have: They have to reveal who donated money.
Go down the list of people who have given a million dollars to a superPAC, and you realize many of them are not shy about their wealth.
"They're happy to give. They're proud to give. They want public recognition for having given," says Paul Seamus Ryan, a lawyer with the nonpartisan Campaign Legal Center.
But there are some donors who hide from public scrutiny.
On the list of million-dollar donors, there is a strange name. It looks like the kind of slang you'd see in a teenager's text message: "F8."
That's the donor's name — maybe pronounced "Fate"?
"I had no idea who the entity was," Ryan says.
And yet F8 in Provo, Utah, had given $1 million to Restore Our Future, the superPAC supporting Mitt Romney. And right next to it was another name unknown to our campaign expert: Eli Publishing — also a $1 million donor, and also located in Provo, Utah.
: Who's behind the donations?
Now, this doesn't necessarily mean that something is fishy. Corporations are allowed to donate to superPACs. Perhaps a couple of rich Utah companies wanted to support Romney.
But it turns out that even Utahans didn't recognize these companies.
"I had never heard of either," says Max Roth, the political reporter for Fox 13 News in Salt Lake City. "A publisher that has the kind of margins to give a million dollars to a political campaign and a publisher that is located in Utah — you think that you would have heard of this company."
So Roth started to do a little research. Neither company appears to sell anything. The publisher has no books on Amazon. Both companies had the same address. They were both based in Suite #420 in a generic office building in Provo.
Roth drove there. There was no mention of the companies in the lobby; no evidence of a Suite #420.
"We went up to the fourth floor and we walked around the hallway, and there's ... nothing with either name," Roth says. "There's nothing with that suite number."
The office taking the mail for the missing suite and the mysterious companies had no idea what they were.
This is when the Campaign Legal Center got really interested in these donations. You can't funnel money through someone else's name. You couldn't, for example, give a million dollars to a toddler and make him give it to a superPAC.
Ryan says F8 and Eli Publishing may be a corporate version of that clueless child.
"If a corporation makes a million-dollar contribution, and that corporation seemingly has no business activity — no way to generate a million dollars in revenue — then it immediately raises the question: Where'd the money come from? And is this corporate entity being used as an illegal straw donor to hide the identity of the true source of the funds?"
The Campaign Legal Center filed a complaint against the companies with the Federal Election Commission.
Eli Publishing lists Steven Lund as its contact name. F8 is registered to his son-in-law. Both men have connections to a corporation called Nu Skin, a multilevel marketing company a little like Amway that sells anti-aging creams and vitamin supplements.
Lund, one of the company's founders, is a multimillionaire. He keeps a low profile, except when it comes to his charitable work: feeding children in Africa. On a video from a Nu Skin convention, you can see him strumming a guitar and playing a song he wrote about a trip to Malawi.
Lund is prominent in the Mormon church, and it seems that his relationship with Romney goes way back. Lund was an executive at Nu Skin when it sponsored the Winter Olympics in 2002. Romney ran those games.
Lund did not respond to requests for an interview about the donations. But he did call up Roth, the Fox 13 reporter, after Roth visited the office building. Lund told Roth that it was his money, and that he wasn't hiding anything.
"His explanation was more about not wanting to be real public about being a part of the campaign," Roth says.
Yet by using a mysterious publishing company with no actual books, he attracted even more attention.
"His voice sounded a little sheepish as he was talking about that," Roth says, "because clearly it did have the opposite effect."
Robert Smith is a host for NPR's Planet Money where he tells stories about how the global economy is affecting our lives.
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Any ideas why?
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Update 1 YourKit also provides accurate results, so this is clearly related to JProfiler.

A: By default, JProfiler shows time in the runnable thread state, not elapsed times. If you want to see elapsed times, adjust the thread state selector in the upper right corner to "All states".
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Garment rack can be used anywhere in the house, from the lobbies and corridors at the entrance to the bedrooms and bathrooms. This rack can be very useful. The racks are also very practical for children's room: he hangs on toys like the rope and hula hoops. In the bathroom it is very useful for hanging towels and a corridor can be used to hang bags, coats and caps.
When you buy a garment rack is important to consider the size of the room where you're going to get. Height, on the other hand, determines the height of the users, and has to consider whether the peg will use it children or adults. If you have little space you can opt for a rack that can be installed on the wall.


All photography courtesy of Justin Jay on Facebook.
In the summer of 2016, Justin Jay (real name Justin Chernick) was taking the DJ world by force — he was discovered by Claude VonStroke, joined DirtyBird Records and was about to go on a massive DJing tour all over the country to show people his catchy tech/deep house music. But then something happened — all the pressures of his agents, managers, touring and lack of time put into his personal life all caught up with him. He canceled several shows, including his Denver stop, and took some time and space to reflect upon his true musical desires. Now Chernick is back and even more focused and determined than before, with his new album Home. Chernick is set to perform at Bar Standard this Wednesday, November 8. 303 Magazine caught up with the musician to learn more about his inspiration for his new album and venturing into the singer-songwriter music scene.
303 Magazine: I love the current curly afro — what inspired you to grow it out?
Justin Chernick: It's pretty funny. In college it was kind of like everyone had short hair so I felt like I had to do that. But my senior year, I stopped caring and embraced how silly my 'fro was. I got over the awkward phase so then it turned into a long sort of mess. Everyone kept on saying nice things about my hair. It's at my shoulders now. I use so much conditioner, my hair gets really tangled. I got a 'Wet Brush' — huge revelation.
303: Tell me about your new album Home.
JC: [In summer of 2016] I was touring non-stop and got super burnt out. I was pushing myself too hard, not really sleeping, feeling a lot of pressure. All of the things in my life that I had been neglecting by focusing so much on music, they all started surfacing and it was very overwhelming. I was feeling unable to explore things musically because of pressure from outside sources like agents and managers and things like that… I wanted to try writing songs and singing myself and I hadn't really put in the time. Here all these people who just wanted to help me were talking about all these big shows. There was so much pressure, and I ended up pulling the plug on a bunch of festivals, canceling a big tour, doing all these things to pump the breaks and a lot of that was really hard because I was letting down my homies.
After I canceled all these shows, I decided to go back to school again to learn about music theory and really apply myself. I finally had the time to try writing songs and I had a lot of feelings that I could express. It was kind of crazy — I didn't cancel all these shows to write an album, I just had to do it because I was just so overwhelmed. And honestly, a lot of the songwriting stuff helped me get through all the things I was grappling with. The song off the album called "Can't Hang" really epitomizes how I was feeling when I was super overwhelmed. But it felt good putting the words on paper and playing them at the piano at my parent's house felt really good for me… I was really lucky to have that affirmation from my homies. It was a vulnerable, scary thing writing songs and singing and not being an experienced singer but I found the process so enjoyable and nourishing so I kept on doing it and about a year later I had an album and here we are.
303: Tell me about your history with DirtyBird.
JC: I think what was incredible was the culture of DirtyBird — there's a really awesome community around the label and within the label, too. All the artists are awesome and unpretentious and really cool, and the people who come to the shows are awesome and silly and also really cool. It was a dream come true being in that crew… It's been so surreal.
Now I've begun exploring things that don't fit in with DirtyBird, like with singing and the piano and the guitar, more emotional singer-songwriter stuff… Sometimes my music isn't a good fit for DirtyBird, so I've been putting out music through other labels, too. It's very chill though — when it works it works and when it doesn't, no worries. I'm playing DirtyBird Campout Festival on the east coast in February and that will be really fun… They're a huge part of my music identity for sure, and everything that I'm exploring now is really dope, too.
303: What do you want people to know about your new album and tour?
JC: I'm excited to show people the live show because it's super fun. It's cool because I feel like house music is made for people to dance to but with the live band, it feels different. Most of the guys in DirtyBird, I don't know how many of them play with a band — it's a little different and really fun. I still love DJing and I will continue to DJ, as well. I think the intersection between dancing and DJing but then also live music and playing with a band is super interesting and I'm excited to show people what me and my friends have been working on.
303: How will you transform your album into a set with a live band?
JC: I have a fair number of tricks up my sleeve, and it's all a big part of the show. It's going to be really fun.
303: Why are you excited to perform in Denver?
JC: Denver is so special because of the sense of community I feel when I stop by. Brennan Bryarly (option4) and the scene built around the music. I'm from California where people are laid back, and Denver reminds me of home where everyone is cool and friendly and wants to have a good time. People are real and down to earth, they're not concerned about trying to be cool. It's a great city, I love Denver. There's a genuine appreciation of music.
You can find more information and tickets about Justin Jay's Bar Standard show on Wednesday, November 8 here.


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Hampshire Cricket offer a number of coaching courses, for all ages and abilities, from youngsters starting out to experienced club players looking to improve a specific area of their already accomplished game.
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Highly qualified, experienced coaches conduct our courses and party offerings so anyone partaking can be assured of receiving the highest possible level of tutelage.
Please pass my thanks to the coaches for Charlotte's amazing experience, she completely loved it!
I think we may be getting her a bat soon!
And whilst the majority of our courses will take place against the backdrop of our newly refurbished Indoor School, we also have provision to run courses from a number of satellite venues across the county, including one of the few facilities that rivals our own Indoor School, the Eversley Indoor Cricket Centre.


Speaking of Indonesian food, "Satay", which grilled chicken meat with charcoal, is famous, but some of you may have tried it and felt that it is not so delicious.
Chicken satay is generally eaten with sweet peanut sauce, so it may not be suitable for people who like salty grilled chicken.
But you may not even know the delicious sate. Please try a sate using a cow called "Sate Padang".
This time, I will introduce the "overwhelmingly the most delicious sate padang seller in Jakarta" among ever I ate.
3 It's spicy but it has a good taste, and it's also delicious to eat with beer.
Do you know the commercial facility Pasar Santa? Pasar (market) located on the south side of the Senopati area in central Jakarta.
Originally it was an ordinary Pasar, but at some point after a while, it started to be a place for young people to start small businesses (although it may not be a bit lively recently).
Pasar Santa itself is quite a fun place, but what I want to write today is another shop.
A stall is always open before the entrance to Pasar Santa. The name is Sate Padang Ajo Ramon.
Satay is all the same taste! ... well, please don't say that.
Although satay is known as one of the representative dishes of Indonesia, I think that there are not many people who actually eat it and feel it is delicious!
Many of the Satays found in Jakarta are made from chicken meat, which is cut into small pieces of Indonesian lean chicken and eaten with charcoal.
The sauce used for chicken Satay is a sweet sauce made from peanuts.
I, Japanese people, felt that "Japanese yakitori is better suited to beer".
But now I can say that Indonesia's Satay goes well with beer.
Because I already know Sate Padang Ajo Ramon. .
It's spicy but it has a good taste, and it's also delicious to eat with beer.
Satese Padang is a dish of the Padang region and uses cows instead of chickens. It features spicy seasoning.
In addition, I think that the source of this shop is taking stock with beef slowly. You can feel the beef taste like beef soup.
He is the founder, Mr. Ajoramon (photo is from the official site).
I feel that he likes to cook beef.
Unfortunately the founder, Mr. Ajo Ramón had passed away several years ago. I send my prayer.
However, the momentum of the restaurant which he left is unstoppable, and the place which can be eaten in the city is increasing.
A little spice is strong, but the taste is also acceptable to foreigners.
The only disappointing thing is that the restaurant is completely made for local use, so naturally there is no beer.
If you eat with beer, it will double in taste.
In addition, as it is Warun (stands), the first person may be discouraged by the atmosphere. My stomach is safe until now because it is heated firmly.
Also, there are no victims among the Japanese peopAMle I took. However, I can not guarantee the security, please eat under personal responsibility.
You can also eat inside the food court of the shopping mall "PASARAYA" in the Block M area.
This is a very beautiful shop.


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We are honoured that the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, Rt Hon Boris Johnson MP has given his support to the annual Emergency Services Day. We thank the Prime Minister for his support.
Rt Hon Boris Johnson MP, Prime Minister
"It takes a very special kind of person to put your life on the line for a complete stranger. Yet that is what we see day in, day out from the remarkable men and women of our emergency services. You protect us from harm, deliver us from danger, and tend to us in our hours of need. And you do so without hesitation or complaint – if we dial 999, we know you will be there for us.
"I know the dedicated men and women of the Emergency services did not get into this line of work for the accolades or applause. You are heroes of British life, doing what you do not for the plaudits but out of a sheer sense of duty and a determination to serve the public.
"All of us in this country owe each of you a debt of gratitude. So it is only right that, on Emergency Services Day, we celebrate your work and, as a nation, say a huge "thank you" for doing so much for so many."
First Ministerial Support for 999 Day
"Our emergency services perform some of the most demanding and vital work in order to protect us all. It is entirely right that the extraordinary commitment, courage and selfless dedication they demonstrate should be honoured. I am pleased to give my support to this National Emergency Services Memorial and 999 day." FIRST MINISTER OF SCOTLAND, Rt Hon Nicola Sturgeon MSP
"I am honoured to give my support to the National Emergency Services Memorial in hosting the Annual Emergency Services Festival of Thanksgiving and the National 999 Day. With the ever-present threat of major incidents, we need to be increasingly mindful of, and indebted to, the bravery and courage of emergency services personnel who put their own lives on the line every day to protect the safety of the public." FIRST MINISTER OF WALES, Rt Hon Mark Drakeford AM
"We are indebted to our emergency services who daily endanger their lives to ensure our health, safety and well-being. Sadly, there have been many from our Fire, Police, Ambulance, Health and Coastguard emergency services who have died whilst on the call of duty. It is important we remember their sacrifice and dedication to their profession. Particularly during our darkest days in Northern Ireland when men and women left their families never to return from duty. I support the campaign for the National Emergency Services Memorial – the first combined memorial of its kind in the UK. We owe a gratitude to the brave men and women who have worked in our emergency services and I hope this memorial will act as a national symbol of remembrance."
FIRST MINISTER OF NORTHERN IRELAND, Rt Hon Arlene Foster MLA