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Miami-Dade gains right to remove FTX name from Heat arena
by Coinwidow January 11, 2023
Miami-Dade County will soon start to remove FTX's advertising brand from the NBA's Miami Heat arena, after granting the right from a United States bankruptcy judge in Delaware on Jan. 11, the Associated Press reports.
County officials negotiated in 2021 a $135 million deal with the crypto exchange for renaming rights to the Miami Heat's arena as FTX Arena until 2040. A number of entrances, the roof of the arena, the basketball court, the security polo shirts, as well as many of the cards employees use to access the facility are branded with FTX logos.
Following FTX's bankruptcy filing, officials in Miami-Dade filed on Nov. 22 a motion to terminate the naming rights agreement. As part of that deal, the Heat were to receive $2 million annually beginning in June 2021. January 1 was the due date for the last payment, which should have been $5.5 million.
Sport sponsorship deals were one of FTX's key marketing strategies. One of the partnerships included a deal with a Mercedes-backed Formula 1 international racing team, the naming rights to Cal Memorial Stadium in Berkeley, California, as well as endorsements from NFL quarterback Tom Brady.
Related: FTX has recovered over $5B in cash and liquid crypto: Report
Professional esports organization Team SoloMid (TSM) also suspended a $210 million deal with FTX, Cointelegraph reported. The partnership took place in June 2021 and resulted in the renaming of TSM to TSM FTX.
In another hearing held by judge John T. Dorsey, an attorney representing the collapsed crypto exchange stated that FTX has "recovered $5 billion in cash and liquid cryptocurrencies.", although its liabilities reach $8.8 billion. Additionally, Judge Dorsey approved a request to keep the names of FTX's clients secret for three months.
Roughly 130 companies in FTX Group — including FTX Trading, FTX US, under West Realm Shires Services, and Alameda Research — filed for bankruptcy in the United States on Nov. 11, following the crypto exchange's "liquidity crunch" and dramatic collapse.
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I see no cropping tool whatsoever in buddypress on the group page and have tried both IE and Firefox.
I don't think it is a permissions thing since the image gets uploaded fine and displays, it's just that it only displays the top corner.
I removed the edit to .htaccess, I don't have any cache plugins enabled. I removed the avatar.php and PNG files, I'm uploading an image that is 488 by 488 pixels as shown in the attachment.
Clicking any of the links takes me to a different domain.
How do you have that site setup?
did you follow the upgrade instruction on buddypress forum?
5. !important - delete wp-content/bp-themes if you are upgrading from older structure to new bp 1.1+ structure.
6. reactivate all plugin - buddypress first.
I have been using a non-buddypress theme quite a bit because the home page looks a lot nicer than the buddy-fun theme for the moment and my client only cares about the look at the moment and less about the functionality.
I'm going to follow the instructions by richie_ks and try to deactivate and reinstall. I'll post again if I need help.
I'm having an issue with the crop tool not working. I think this all began when I tried to implement the avatar plugin which I subsequently removed.
I'm currently flipping back and forth between the BuddyFun theme and the Buddy Magazine theme but both have the issue.
How would I troubleshoot this? Below is some of the page source.
Just disabling plugins might isolate the issue, but I still need my plugins?
If you disable the plugins is the issue resolved?
I guess it's pretty standard troubleshooting - disable all plugins and reactivate one at a time.
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Henderson police are investigating a shooting that left a man in critical condition Thursday night in the 800 block of North Major Avenue.
Henderson police are investigating a shooting that left a man in critical condition Thursday night.
Officers were called at about 8:05 p.m. to the 800 block of North Major Avenue, near East Warm Springs Road and East Lake Mead Parkway, after multiple reports of gunfire, Henderson Police Department spokesman Rod Pena said.
When police arrived they found a man suffering from a gunshot wound, Pena said. He was transported to Sunrise Hospital and Medical Center in critical condition Thursday night.
Police have not identified a suspect in the shooting, Pena said.


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Peter Handford
Title: Peter Handford
Subject: BAFTA Award for Best Sound, Ray West, Christopher Benstead, Darin Knight, Earl Madery
(1919-03-21)21 March 1919
Four Elms, Kent, England
6 November 2007(2007-11-06) (aged 88)
Wickham Skeith, Suffolk, England
Peter Handford (21 March 1919 – 6 November 2007) was an English location sound recordist. He is considered a master and pioneer of this area of sound recording.[1][2]
1 Life and work
2 Transacord
Born into a vicarage family at Four Elms in Kent, England, Handford began work in 1936 with London Films at Denham as a trainee sound recordist.[3] He honed his sound recording skills during the D-Day landings, where he served with the Army Film Unit of the British Expeditionary Force.[4] His first screen credit was on Black Magic (1949) and in the same year he recorded Under Capricorn for Alfred Hitchcock. In 1972, Hitchcock sought him out to work on Frenzy.
Handford pioneered the use of original synchronous sound recording for film director David Lean on Summertime (also known as Summer Madness, 1955) which was shot on location in Venice, and developed the technique during the British New Wave cinema movement, working on films such as Room at the Top (1959), The Entertainer, Saturday Night and Sunday Morning, Sons and Lovers (all 1960), Billy Liar, Tom Jones (both 1963), Oh! What a Lovely War (1969) and on The Go-Between (1971) and other films for Joseph Losey.
He also worked on the 1970s railway-based Murder on the Orient Express (1974) and The Lady Vanishes (1979), on both of which radio microphones were extensively used. Later he went into semi-retirement, working as a freelancer for Anglia Television, but was recalled to the film business by Sydney Pollack for the location sound required on Out of Africa (1985), for which he was awarded the Academy Award for Sound and also a BAFTA. On this film he worked along with Chris Jenkins, Gary Alexander, and Larry Stensvold.[5]
Handford went on to work on Dangerous Liaisons, Gorillas in the Mist[6] (both 1988) and White Hunter Black Heart (1990). His last film was Havana (also 1990).
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Handford was also known for his recordings of Helen Fraser whom he first met on location for Billy Liar. He died 6 November 2007, at Wickham Skeith, Suffolk. He is survived by two daughters from his first marriage.
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^ Jones, Kevin P. "Peter Handford". SteamIndex. Retrieved 2009-03-12.
^ Handford, Peter. "Sound Oscars". Association of Motion Picture Sound Newsletter. Retrieved 2007-12-21.
^ "The 58th Academy Awards (1986) Nominees and Winners". oscars.org. Retrieved 2011-10-16.
^ "The 61st Academy Awards (1989) Nominees and Winners". oscars.org. Retrieved 2011-10-16.
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^ Handford, Peter (1980). Sounds of Railways and their Recording. Newton Abbot: David & Charles.
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Miriam Van Waters (October 4, 1887 – January 17, 1974) was an American prison reformer of the early to mid-20th century whose methods owed much to her upbringing as an Episcopalian involved in the Social Gospel movement. During her career as a penologist, which spanned most of the years from 1914 through 1957, she served as superintendent of three prisons: Frazier Detention Home for boys and girls in Portland, Oregon; Los Angeles County Juvenile Hall for girls, and the Massachusetts Correctional Institution – Framingham, then called the Massachusetts Reformatory for Women. While in California, Van Waters established an experimental reformatory school, El Retiro, for girls age 14 to 19. In each case, Van Waters developed programs that favored education, work, recreation, and a sense of community over unalloyed incarceration and punishment.

Born in Pennsylvania, she grew up in Portland after her father, a clergyman and Social Gospel advocate, accepted a position there as rector of St. David's Episcopalian Church. As the eldest daughter of an ailing mother, she often served as a surrogate mother, as she did later as a supervisor of imprisoned women and children. After graduating from secondary school, Van Waters attended the University of Oregon, majoring at first in philosophy and graduating in 1910 with a master's degree in psychology. Three years later, at Clark University in Worcester, Massachusetts, she completed a doctorate in anthropology.

Van Waters' public-speaking skills, assertive manner, and charisma drew national as well as local attention to her methods, and she was supported financially by philanthropists including Ethel Sturges Dummer, who helped pay for El Retiro and for leaves of absence from her supervisory duties to work on two books, Youth in Conflict (1925) and Parents on Probation (1927). Another wealthy philanthropist, Geraldine Morgan Thompson, supported Van Waters financially and emotionally from the mid-1920s until Thompson's death in 1967. Eleanor Roosevelt, a first lady, and Felix Frankfurter, a Harvard law professor and then a Supreme Court justice, were among Van Waters' many admirers and political supporters, but her methods drew the ire of opponents who viewed them as over-lenient and ineffective. Opposition in Los Angeles led to her departure from California in 1932 and to much-publicized hearings in Massachusetts after she was fired as Framingham superintendent in January 1949. Re-instated in March, she continued running the reformatory until 1957. After retiring, she remained in the town of Framingham, living in a woman-centered household, as she had often done, until her death in 1974.

Early life
Miriam Van Waters was born in 1887 in Greensburg, Pennsylvania. Her parents, George Browne (1865–1934) and Maude Vosburg (1866–1948) Van Waters,  were from middle-class families from Rensselaer Falls, New York, in George's case and Dubois, Pennsylvania, in Maud's. After studying at Oberlin College, George attended Bexley Hall, an Episcopal seminary from which he received a divinity degree in 1883. In 1884 in Dubois, the site of his first posting as a clergyman, George met and married Maud. Their first child, Rachel, was born in 1885, the year the family moved to Greensburg. Rachel died there at age 2 and, in the same year, Miriam was born. In 1891, the family moved again, this time to George's new posting as rector of St. David's Episcopal Church in Portland, Oregon.

Miriam, as the eldest daughter, helped her mother with housekeeping and with the care of younger siblings, of which there were three more—Ruth, Rebekah, and George—by 1896 and another, Ralph, in 1905. Her mother, in failing health, often retreated to the Oregon coast or to her parents' home in Pennsylvania, leaving Miriam in charge of the household. During these growing-up years, Miriam was strongly influenced by her father's love of books and scholarship, his participation in the Social Gospel movement, and his use of the rectory as a kind of settlement house open to everyone. She attended St. Helen's Hall, an Episcopal girls' school, for her secondary education, graduating in 1904. Remaining at St. Helen's for another year as a post-graduate student, she left Portland for the University of Oregon in Eugene in 1905.

University education: 1905–1913
The university, about  south of Portland, had a total enrollment of only about 500. Van Waters excelled academically, majoring in philosophy and focusing on courses related to progressive ideas, feminism, public service, and politics. Her senior thesis was titled "The Relation of Philosophical Materialism to Social Radicalism". She served on student committees, joined the women's debate team, and became chief editor of the Oregon Monthly, a campus literary magazine. As a graduate student, she majored in psychology and was the teaching assistant for one of her professors, Henry D. Sheldon. Her master's thesis focused on philosophical materialism and social progress. In 1910, she was awarded a fellowship at Clark University in Worcester, Massachusetts, to pursue a doctorate in psychology under the guidance of G. Stanley Hall, a specialist in child psychology and education.

Van Waters admired Hall's intellect and use of quantitative data but resisted his focus on genetics as the component of adolescent psychology most worthy of study. She preferred the interventionist approach of social reformers, especially Jane Addams, in the lives of troubled teen-agers. In her third year at Clark, she changed advisors, from Hall to Alexander Chamberlain, an anthropologist who favored cultural rather than genetic explanations for adolescent behavior. Her dissertation, The Adolescent Girl among Primitive People, was influenced by Chamberlain's cross-cultural studies and her personal investigations of juvenile delinquency in Boston and in her home town, Portland. She graduated from Clark in 1913 with a Ph.D. in anthropology.

West Coast career

Portland: 1914–1917
After a brief stint with the Boston Children's Aid Society (BCAS) as a probation officer for girls awaiting trial or sentencing in juvenile court, Van Waters applied for work in Portland. She returned there in 1914 to become superintendent of the Frazer Detention Home, the poor condition of which was of concern to the Multnomah County Juvenile Court. The detention center held boys and girls who, while in custody, were fed a poor diet, received scant medical attention, were given little to do, and were subjected to corporal punishment with straps and rubber hoses. During her short tenure, Van Waters recruited volunteer medical doctors and a volunteer psychologist, hired a resident nurse, improved the children's diet, added a library, put the children to work cleaning, painting, and gardening, and banned corporal punishment. Her stay at Frazer ended abruptly in late 1914, when fatigue followed by a diagnosis of tuberculosis made it impossible for her to continue.

She recuperated over the next three years, first at a property owned by her family near Cannon Beach, Oregon, then as an inpatient and later an outpatient at Pottenger Sanatorium near Pasadena, California. Her attempts during these years to start a second career as a writer of fiction, nonfiction, and poetry did not succeed. Despite health concerns, she took and passed a California civil service exam, then applied for the position of superintendent at the Los Angeles County Juvenile Hall, a detention center for girls. She began work there in August 1917.

Los Angeles: 1917–1931
Assisted by many other women reformers, she worked to modify the detention center to include health care, counseling, psychological assessment, improved diet, recreation, and other social services. In 1919, she founded El Retiro, an experimental school for girls aged 14 to 19 chosen from among those sent to Juvenile Hall. The school, kept unlocked in a rural setting outside Los Angeles, favored education, work, and recreation as opposed to incarceration and punishment as antidotes to juvenile delinquency. According to journalist Adela Rogers St. Johns, El Retiro stood in sharp contrast to many early 20th-century prisons for women and children, where conditions were "foul, fetid and medieval". After meeting social reformer Mary Bartelme at Jane Addam's Hull House in 1921, Van Waters promoted the idea of a Los Angeles halfway house for women who had graduated from El Retiro and needed a safe place to stay while looking for work. Partly funded by Chicago philanthropist Ethel Sturges Dummer, the halfway house opened later in 1921 and over the rest of the decade served several hundred young women, each staying an average of four months. From 1920 through 1929, Van Waters, succeeding Orfa Jean Shontz, served as a court-appointed referee presiding over hearings about cases involving boys and girls younger than 12.

According to historian Estelle Freedman, Van Waters' career advancement in the Los Angeles juvenile justice system of the 1920s depended partly on her personal charisma and public-speaking skills, partly on a network of academic, legal, and social-service professionals, and partly on reform networks exemplified by women's clubs such as the Friday Morning Club. She gave frequent lectures about child welfare and juvenile justice to clubs, parent-teacher associations, and church-affiliated welfare groups, and wrote a series of articles about the juvenile court for the Evening Herald.

Between 1917 and 1927, Van Waters lived with other women in a residential complex known as the Colony. Among the residents during at least some of these years were her sister Rebekah, her long-time friends Sara Fisher and Elizabeth (Bess) Woods, and Shontz,. Philanthropists such as Dummer, social reformers including Grace Abbott, Edith Abbott, and Sophonisba Breckinridge; psychiatrist Adolf Meyer, and prison reformer George W. Kirchwey spent time at the Colony when they visited Los Angeles. Shontz convinced Dummer to award a grant to Van Waters to undertake a national survey of women's penal institutions across the United States; taking a leave of absence from her work in Los Angeles, Van Waters began the survey in late 1920. Results were published in 1922 as "Where Girls Go Right: Some Dynamic Aspects of State Correctional Schools for Girls and Young Women" in The Survey, a leading social service journal. Financed by Dummer, Van Waters took other leaves of absence during the 1920s to widely promote her ideas about child welfare and prison reform, citing El Retiro as a model.

With further help from Dummer, she was able to complete a book, Youth in Conflict (1925), detailing her juvenile-delinquency theories and supporting them with examples from court cases. The well-received and financially successful book helped establish Van Waters' national reputation. In 1926, Felix Frankfurter, a Harvard Law School professor and later a Supreme Court justice, found Van Waters' book impressive and asked her to manage the juvenile delinquency fraction of the Harvard Crime Survey, which sought to determine the causes of crime and the best methods of prevention. In 1928, she completed a second book, Parents on Probation, which repeated her assertions that juvenile delinquency stemmed from families that failed to provide children with adequate attention and positive role models. In 1929, she was elected president of the National Conference of Social Work, the first woman from the western part of the United States to win the organization's top post.

While Van Waters' reputation grew nationally during the 1920s, it declined in Los Angeles County among voters and politicians who preferred methods more punitive than those favored by Van Waters. By 1927, the probation committee, a seven-member group appointed by the county supervisors had become so hostile to Van Waters' methods that it fired Alma Holzschuh, the El Retiro supervisor favored by Van Waters, and replaced her with one more to their liking. Soon thereafter, policemen were used to control the students. Distraught by her loss of control over El Retiro and encouraged by her professional opportunities elsewhere, she planned a permanent move to the northeastern United States. Her parents had by then relocated from Portland to Wellsboro, Pennsylvania; the Harvard Crime Survey, with headquarters in Cambridge, Massachusetts, was unfinished, and in November 1929 Van Waters agreed to direct the juvenile-delinquency division of the Wickersham Commission, formally titled the National Committee on Law Observance and Enforcement, established by President Herbert Hoover. In that same year, she became the legal guardian of seven-year-old Betty Jean Martin, a ward of the juvenile court whom she renamed Sarah Ann Van Waters. After taking a leave of absence in late 1929 to join Hoover's commission in January 1930, Van Waters formally resigned from the Los Angeles juvenile court in late 1930.

During the latter half of the decade, Van Waters entered what was to be a strong, eventually intimate 40-year relationship with another wealthy philanthropist, Geraldine Morgan Thompson, who supported prison reform in her home state of New Jersey and elsewhere. Encouraged by Thompson, Dummer, and Frankfurter, Van Waters relocated to Cambridge in 1931. In that same year, publication of her 175-page Wickersham Commission report, The Child Offender in the Federal System of Justice, enhanced her reputation as an expert on juvenile justice. After declining a job offer from Pennsylvania Governor Gifford Pinchot, as an administrator in the state welfare department, she learned in November that she would soon be offered the position of superintendent at the Massachusetts Reformatory for Women at Framingham, replacing Jessie Donaldson Hodder, who had recently died.

East Coast career

Early years at Framingham: 1932–1948
In March 1932, Van Waters began her new job at Framingham, where she served as superintendent for the next quarter-century. From the time of its opening in 1877, the reformatory had incorporated progressive ideas about how women's prisons should function. Framingham, governed by women, included a resident physician and a resident chaplain, both of whom were women, and a system of day work for inmates who could be trusted outside the prison.  Most of the inmates were serving time for prostitution, extramarital sex, "crimes against chastity", alcoholism, and other offenses known at the time as "crimes against public order", which in some cases included being homeless or being a "stubborn child". She emphasized rehabilitation rather than punishment, referred to the prison population as students rather than inmates or prisoners, relaxed the dress code, encouraged the women to talk to one another and to staff members, brought in guest speakers such as Frankfurter, Thompson, Dummer, Robert Frost, Eleanor Roosevelt, and Margaret Mead, and expanded the women's freedom of movement within the prison and outside its walls. Federal funds made possible the construction in the mid-1930s of  two cottages separate from the main reformry; Hodder Hall housed inmates between the ages of 17 and 21, and Jessie Wilson Sayre Cottage housed up to 30 mothers and their babies. A nursery inside the prison accommodated up to 60 more babies whose mothers lived in the main building rather than in a cottage. A donor base of women philanthropists, including Thompson, provided funding for social welfare workers and internships, psychiatric staff, and individual financial emergencies not covered by government funds.

For eight hours a day, the inmates made clothing and flags at the reformatory for the state or worked in the prison kitchens and its farm unit, and Van Waters supplemented the required work with voluntary educational courses in arts and crafts, literature, theater, singing, journalism, hiking, and how to live after parole. A typical number of course offerings during Van Waters' tenure was 26 or more, according to Dominique T. Chlup, a professor of adult education at Texas A&M University. Van Waters expanded an indenture program that under Hodder had allowed trusted inmates to work outside the prison as household domestics, kitchen helpers, hospital maids, and laundresses before returning to prison at night. To these, Van Waters added positions in local business and industry that needed workers, such as shoemakers, with a variety of skills. These changes displeased members of the state parole board, who viewed indenture as a way to circumvent their authority. Since the parole board members as well as Van Waters' immediate supervisor, the commissioner of corrections, were appointed by the governor, Van Waters' ability to run the reformatory as she wanted depended, as it had at El Retiro, on politics.

From 1932 through 1945, Van Waters' had sufficient political support for her methods, but that support waned after World War II.  After the death of President Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1945, a conservative backlash against New Deal policies was accompanied by campaigns to portray liberals such as Van Waters as subversives who undermined the traditional social order. Van Water's resistance to authority, her use of indenture to place female prisoners in jobs that others might want, and her woman-centered personal life made her vulnerable to such reproach. In 1948, Elliot McDowell, the newly appointed commissioner of corrections, and his deputy, Frank Dwyer, began an investigation that focused on alleged homosexuality at the reformatory. Dwyer, a former state policeman, sought evidence to confirm rumors that a Framingham inmate whose death had been reported as a suicide, had been murdered by a jealous lesbian. Dwyer concluded that the rumors were false, but his interrogations of staff and inmates led to broader charges of lesbian activity at Framingham, and he leaked details about his probe to the tabloid press in Boston. Van Waters, who distinguished between supportive romantic relationships between women and predatory sexual aggression, did not consider herself to be a lesbian. Dwyer made no such distinction, and to prevent him or others from reading her private letters, Van Waters burned most of her 22-year correspondence with Thompson in June 1948.

Crisis: 1948–1949
In response to Dwyer's report, in June 1948 McDowell reduced Van Waters' authority, and the state legislature established an investigative committee to hold hearings on the matter after the 1948 elections in November. During the summer and fall, State Senator Michael Lopresti, Van Waters' most vocal detractor on the committee, likened her methods to those of communist regimes that ruled with an "iron hand", and he denounced her administration as "more damaging to the morals and mental health of young girls" than prostitution. Meanwhile, Van Waters' allies created Friends of the Framingham Reformatory, a committee that raised funds for Van Waters's defense and hired Claude Cross, a Harvard-trained lawyer, as chief counsel. An initial public hearing in November resolved nothing, and in December McDowell announced his intention to fire Van Waters in January, when office-holders, including a new governor, began their terms. This threat led to widespread statements of support for Van Waters by a variety of organizations such as Americans for Democratic Action, the Women's City Club of Boston, the Massachusetts Council of Churches, the Massachusetts Association of Social Hygiene, and individuals such as Eleanor Roosevelt. On January 7, 1949, McDowell, listing 27 charges against her, fired Van Waters effective January 11. Van Waters, denying the charges, cited her legal right to an appeal, which McDowell granted.

The subsequent hearing, for which McDowell was the judge as well as one of the examiners, began on January 13, 1949. Believing that McDowell would rule against her, Van Waters, Cross, and other supporters used the proceedings as a platform to present her to the public as an exemplary person and to promote her methods of penal reform. In both goals, they succeeded. The case drew national attention, and an audience of hundreds of people per session attended what some newspaper reports likened to the Scopes monkey trial. Freedman writes:

The audience so often took an active role in the hearings that McDowell threatened to clear the auditorium if they did not cease their laughter, applause, or derisive sounds. Housewives, off-duty reformatory staff members, college students, workers on their lunch breaks, and friends filled the auditorium each day; those who could not gain entrance weathered the winter cold as they gathered around the windows and doorways to catch a glimpse of the proceedings.

Eighteen days of examinations, cross-examinations, and speeches produced 2,000 pages of testimony, and on February 11, McDowell confirmed his decision to fire Van Waters on most of the charges he had brought against her, particularly her resistance to his authority as commissioner and to state law. Encouraged by broad public support, Van Waters appealed to Massachusetts Governor Paul Dever for a re-hearing. Dever agreed, appointing a three-member panel to hear the case de novo, beginning March 4. The panel members were Caroline Putnam, a Catholic charities worker; Robert Clark, a county district attorney, and Erwin Griswold, then dean of the Harvard Law School and later a U.S. solicitor general.

During the second hearing, Dwyer presented McDowell's side of the case, questioned Van Waters for four days, including one day devoted to homosexuality, and called many other witnesses to testify, while Cross led the defense, calling on sympathetic witnesses, cross-examining McDowell, and rebutting Dwyer. Henry F. Fielding, a lawyer appointed by the state attorney general to represent the prosecution, gave a weak closing argument. On March 11, the three-member panel unanimously reversed McDowell's decision to fire Van Waters, finding no evidence of irregularities or errors of judgment on her part that were not made in good faith. They praised Van Waters's use of indenture and child-placement, dismissed the charges related to homosexuality, and agreed that Van Waters had operated within her legal authority even though she had not always done what McDowell ordered.

Decline (1950–57)
Despite Van Waters' triumph in the hearings, renewed political attacks, changes in prison populations, and changing views about gender, led to new limits on Van Waters' authority. McDowell, until his retirement in 1951, continued to oppose non-domestic indenture and the parole board resisted many of Van Waters' recommendations. One of the board members, Katharine Sullivan, wrote a book, Girls on Parole, in which she claimed that older lesbians in prisons preyed upon younger newcomers and converted them to homosexuality. Accusations about drug use and aggressive homosexuality at the reformatory led Van Waters to recruit a student, Katherine Gabel, from Smith College to pose as an inmate. Gabel discovered that an inmate subculture was importing narcotics in the necks of ketchup bottles, and she saw one woman stab another in a fit of jealousy over a third woman. Van Waters subsequently labeled some inmates as "hard core" and asked to have them transferred to other prisons.

During this era, when accusations about homosexuality were often paired with those about communism, Van Waters became close friends with Helen Bryan, who had been the executive secretary of the Joint Anti-Fascist Refugee Committee (JAFRC). Bryan had served time in prison for contempt of Congress after refusing to give the House Un-American Activities Committee a list of JAFRC members and the refugees from Francisco Franco's Spain that they had helped resettle in the United States. After Van Waters found Bryan a temporary job at the reformatory, anti-communist rhetoric aimed at Bryan induced her to resign and led to a hunt for communists at Framingham. An informant for the Federal Bureau of Investigation, after seeing terms of endearment in communications between Van Waters and Bryan, asserted that they were lesbians. The conservative resistance to Van Waters and her methods continued throughout the McCarthy era and culminated shortly after Van Waters' retirement in 1957 with new rules that emphasized discipline, forbade fraternization between staff and inmates, and eliminated the program that allowed mothers and young babies to stay together at the reformatory.

Roughly coinciding with these difficulties at the prison were personal losses for Van Waters', including a decline in health. Her mother had died in 1948, and in 1953 her daughter was killed in an automobile crash.  In her diaries from the mid-1950s, Van Waters mentioned bouts of viral pneumonia and pleurisy. In 1956, she fell and bruised her head, and later that year she suffered a brain aneurysm that led to surgery and a long recuperation. About 500 people attended her retirement dinner, held in 1957 at the Harvard Club, after which her successor, Betty Cole Smith, became superintendent at Framingham.

Retirement, death, and legacy
During the early years of her retirement, Van Waters moved into a three-bedroom apartment with two former inmates and staff members, Alice May and Irene Jenner, from the reformatory. Working mostly from home via correspondence and letters to the editor, she supported prison reform, civil rights, and the abolition of the death penalty. She joined the Society of the Companions of the Holy Cross, an organization of Episcopalian women that promoted social justice, and she served as president of the local branch of the Muscular Dystrophy Association.

In 1964, after falling and breaking a hip, Van Waters spent several months in a hospital. Recovered, she made her last journey to New Jersey to visit Thompson, with whom she remained close until Thompson's death, at age 95, in 1967. In 1971, Van Waters donated her books to the University of Oregon Library and her correspondence and professional files to the women's history archive at Radcliffe College. She had a stroke in 1972 and died at home in Framingham in 1974.

Freedman says that Van Waters' legacy survived mainly via the interns and other young women for whom she served as mentor. Many of them continued to work for prison reform and pursued careers at women's prisons and reformatories and in some cases, universities, after Van Waters retired. In 1996 Freedman asserted that "...the reform movement of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries seems to have disappeared, and a new vengeance toward prisoners now pervades much of our culture." Chlup in the same year suggested that Van Waters' success with education in prison settings might provide a model for prison reform in the 21st century.

Bibliography
Some of Van Waters' personal papers, titled "Papers of Miriam Van Waters, 1861–1971" (A-71), are housed at the Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America, Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Harvard University. Van Waters, Dorothy Kirchwey Brown, Margaret H. Davis, Ralph Van Waters, and Elizabeth Bode Van Waters donated the correspondence, diaries, case studies, and other materials to the library in 1969–1971, 1974–1975, and 1977. The collection consists of about 22 linear feet (6.7 m) of file boxes, 15 folders of photographs, 14 reels of audiotape, a reel of microfilm, a reel of motion-picture film, and other material.

Others of her personal papers are part of the collection titled "Papers of Anna Spicer Gladding and Miriam Van Waters, 1885–1992" (MC 426) housed at the Schlesinger Library at Harvard. Gladding, hired in 1932 to teach in the nursery at Framingham, served as the organist and choir director for the prison, led study groups, coordinated visitor activities, and became the institution's librarian in 1957. Gladding, Margaret Van Wagenen, Cynthia Thomas, Peter and George Hildebrandt, and Margaret Trapwell donated the correspondence, speeches, diaries, photographs, and other items between 1982 and 1994. The collection consists of  of file boxes and folio folders, 57 folders of photographs, an audiotape, and other materials.

Other papers include Harvard Law School Library's "Papers of Miriam Van Waters," consisting of correspondence, memoranda, reports, interviews, case histories, statistical summaries, printed matter, and other papers, from studies of juvenile delinquency directed by Dr. Van Waters for the National Commission on Law Observance and Enforcement (Wickersham Commission) and for Harvard Law School's Survey of Crime and Criminal Justice in Boston.

Below is a partial list of Van Waters' published work.

Books

Articles

Other

Notes and references

Notes

Citations

Sources

Further reading
Estelle Freedman: Their Sisters Keepers: Female Prison Reform in America: 1830–1930: Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press: 1981:

External links
Papers of Miriam Van Waters, 1861-1971. Schlesinger Library, Radcliffe Institute, Harvard University.

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This Man Was Given Sir Mix-A-Lot's Old Phone Number and Now He Gets the Rapper's Texts
Rapper Sir Mix-a-Lot attends the 5th Annual Streamy Awards at The Hollywood Palladium on September 17, 2015 in Los Angeles, California.
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By Megan McCluskey
When Jonathan Nichols, a law student at Seattle University, switched to a local phone number in preparation for his job search, he picked a combination he thought would be easy to remember. Little did he know that the sequence given to him by Verizon had previously belonged to a man named Anthony Ray, or, as he's better known, Sir Mix-a-Lot.
Nichols soon began receiving an influx of weird texts, such as a message saying, "Check this guy out," with a link to a YouTube video of a stranger dropping a beat, and "raunchy" photos of women in bikinis. He was even getting calls from luxury-car dealerships asking if "Mr. Anthony Ray" would like to come test drive their latest models.
Finally, a text that he received on Aug. 12 (Sir Mix-a-Lot's birthday) made a reference to the hip-hop legend's 1992 hit "Baby Got Back," and with the help of Google, Nichols was able to solve the case of the mysterious number. "That is hilarious," Mix-a-Lot said when the Seattle Times contacted him. "Poor fella."
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The 52-year-old founder of Rhyme Cartel Records then offered up some advice for Nichols: "Don't check any text messages in front of your wife. That would be the first thing. And don't answer any texts by saying 'Yes,' because people take 'Yes' differently with me. And usually you end up opening your wallet."
However, there has been some good to come of the mix-up for Nichols. "When interviewers have asked me, 'What's something interesting that no one else knows?' or when people I meet who are working political campaigns tell me about meeting Bill Clinton, I always say, 'I have Sir Mix-A-Lot's old phone number,'" he said. "It's a total mic drop."
Write to Megan McCluskey at megan.mccluskey@time.com.


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The more specifically you can describe past experience, the better the verbs that pop out.
Details bring out the better verbs. Plus, mentoring, managing, and assisting at one enterprise may be quite different at another. Your specific description shows exactly what part you played at a position.
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Character Secrets
How to Write Great Characters
Character Arcs in "Maleficent"
Q&A: Where to Start When Figuring Out Your Characters?
Q&A: How to Use Character Types to Direct Actors?
Q&A: Do the 9 Character Types Work with the Hero's Journey?
How to Write Character Reaction Patterns
What Is a Story?
9 Stages of a Compelling Character Arc
9 Character Types That Will Improve Your Story
9 Fundamental Fears That Motivate Your Characters
Why We Need Great Characters
Great characters teach us about ourselves and how to survive in the world.
The literary critic Harold Bloom once wrote, "We read deeply for varied reasons, most of them familiar: that we cannot know enough people profoundly enough; that we need to know ourselves better; that we require knowledge, not just of self and others, but of the way things are."
That's what stories do for us.
It's what they've always done.
I'm reminded of the 1997 adventure film The Edge, written by David Mamet and directed by Lee Tamahori. It's about two men, Anthony Hopkins and Alec Baldwin, who survive a plane crash in the Alaskan wilderness. On their journey back to civilization, they discover that a grizzly bear is stalking them.
As Sam Elliott says in The Big Lebowski, "Sometimes you eat the bear, and sometimes he eats you."
In The Edge, our heroes are modern men from the big city. They're soft and weak. They're not trained to survive in the wild, let alone to kill a grizzly bear.
But they do have some matches, and on the cover of the match book is an illustration of a lone Native American killing a grizzly bear with nothing but a spear.
Hopkins plays a self-made billionaire whose personal motto is: "What one man can do, another can do."
That becomes the mantra of both characters.
And the theme of the movie.
What one man can do, another can do.
Because of that Native American on the match book cover, these modern men come to believe that they, too, can kill a grizzly bear with nothing but a spear.
The illustration becomes a story, and the story becomes a lesson, and the lesson is: a man with a spear can kill a savage beast.
It was something about themselves that they had once known but had long since forgotten.
And in their most desperate hour, when all hope seems lost, these characters are inspired to overcome their fears of the natural world, and to finally became the men they are.
They eat the bear.
This is why we need heroes: to teach us about ourselves, and how to survive in this world.
Imagine for a moment that you're a caveman, a Cro-Magnon, sitting with your tribe around a campfire twenty thousand years ago.
You've just had a successful hunt. Everyone is feasting and celebrating.
But one woman refuses to eat.
She's been crying.
Trembling.
When the celebration dies down and bellies are full, the woman finds the courage to speak.
She turns to face the leader of the hunt, and says to him, "What happened to my son?"
And for a long moment no one speaks.
They all knew the boy. They had known and loved his father, who died in a hunt before the boy was born.
But the child grew up to be a trouble-maker. An angry child, and selfish. He was tolerated by the tribe because he was only twelve. But he didn't have any friends. He was mean to the younger children, which angered the adults and embarrassed his mother.
She had hoped his first hunt would change him, that he would grow into a good man. That he might have something to contribute. To his friends, his family, his people.
But she secretly feared that her son would die in the hunt, killed by someone he had once offended.
So now the mother is afraid to know the truth.
But she needs to know, and so she asks again, "What happened to my son?"
And the leader stands up.
And he tells the story of the hunt.
Two hunting parties set out at dawn, one headed for where the sun rises, and the other for where the sun sets. The first hunting party found nothing, and after many days they returned home with no meat. The second hunting party, too, was out for many days, and was just about to turn back.
But then they found fresh antelope tracks.
It was the young boy who spotted them. The troubled kid nobody liked. His father had been a great tracker, and it seemed the boy had the same gift. He noticed things others did not.
So they followed the tracks, and found the antelope, and killed their prey, bringing down two young bucks.
When the killing was done, the hunting party was exhausted. Before they could start back, they needed to sleep.
In the night, the watchman dozed off.
That's when the lions came.
They came to steal the carcasses, and when the predators dragged the meat away, it was the boy who woke first.
He gave a shout, grabbed his spear, and charged at a lioness who was stealing their food.
The boy wounded the lion with a stab to her flank.
But the lion fought back, sinking her fangs deep into the boy's leg.
By the time the other hunters woke and chased away the lions, the boy was nearly dead.
His leg was mangled, and he was losing too much blood. They tried to close the wound with a cloth tied around it, but that couldn't stop the life from leaking out of him.
"Go home without me," the boy said. "You feed the tribe. I'll feed the lions."
Those were his last words. The boy died, and they buried him in a shallow grave by a big tree near a slow-moving stream. They covered the grave with stones to keep the lions out, and they said prayers to send the boy to their gods.
When the leader of the hunt had finished his story, the mother sat back down.
And for the first time in many days, she ate.
Not because she was hungry, but because it was the final gift from her son, from the boy she had sent away, and from the man he had become, a man she would only ever know in a story.
Also listening to the story that night was a young girl. She was only four years old, but she was old enough to understand it, and she had known the boy, and how he was.
The girl lived a good, long life. In a tribe where most members died in childhood, or in the hunt, or giving birth to their sixth or seventh child, this girl grew up to be a woman who could bear no children. But she could take good care of others, and tell good stories. She lived to be more than sixty years old, the oldest living member of their tribe.
And she kept the story alive.
There is another young boy, thousands of years later, who hears the story, or one much like it. He's afraid to go out on his first hunt. Because he knows that he may die. But he loves hearing that story. He doesn't know why he loves that story so much, but he wants to hear it over and over and over again.
In a cave nearby there are images of animals on the wall, left there by some great ancestor, or maybe even by the gods. The boy goes into the cave sometimes with fire in his hand to look at the animals and dream of the hunting boy.
He thinks about that story all the time.
Because he's afraid.
He has a deep, secret fear that he has never told anyone.
Not even himself.
Deep down, this boy is afraid of being unloved.
He needs, more than anything in the world, to be loved.
And he never thinks about it in quite this way, but the boy in the hunting story felt unloved too.
Until the very end.
When everyone loved him and remembered him.
And now that boy is a hero for the ages.
So this young boy wants to be like his hero. And when the time comes for him to go out on his own first hunt, he somehow finds the courage deep inside, right where the fear of being unloved is hidden, and he goes out with the older men, to become a man himself.
And whatever happens to that boy, or to the millions of others just like him down through the ages, it is because of a story, and a hero, that young men continue to face their fears, find their courage, and join the hunt.
And so the tribe, and the human race, survives.
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Constitutional law on hung parliaments
"If she cannot get her Queen's Speech through Parliament at the first attempt – constitutional law makes Jeremy Corbyn the Prime Minister by default, without the need for him to do the same."
In a 2015 article on the law site Head of Legal, Carl Gardiner looked in detail at constitutional law, how it applied in those four examples and how it would apply to a hung Parliament in 2015. For the detailed legal analysis, read the full article – but his examples and key conclusions are:
1924: then-leader Ramsay MacDonald was immediately invited by the king to form a minority Labour government when the Tories – the largest single party – could not pass its King's Speech. MacDonald did not have to seek a coalition or demonstrate a functional majority
1929: MacDonald was again invited to be PM, even though Labour had won only 287 of the then-615 parliamentary seats, after Tory PM Baldwin resigned upon being unable to command a Commons majority. Again, MacDonald did not have to demonstrate a functioning majority
1974: Harold Wilson was invited by the queen to form a government after Edward Heath's attempts to agree a coalition with the Liberals failed. He immediately formed a minority government in spite of stating firmly that he would not seek nor enter any coalition
2010: Then-PM Gordon Brown resigned immediately it became clear that he could not command a Commons majority, even though David Cameron had not yet agreed a coalition with the LibDems' Nick Clegg. The coalition gave Cameron a functioning majority – but before the deal with the LibDems was finalised, he was summoned to the Palace 'as a matter of course'.
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Aneel Kumar: Swami Ji, could you give me the meaning (and explanation) of 10th Shaloka of 1st chapter of Srimad Bhagavad Gita?
(BHEESHAMAABHIRAKSHITUM) protected by Bheesham (TAT) that (ASMAAKUM) our (BALAM) army (APARYAAPTUM) is not capable, (IDAM) this (TU) definitely (BHEEMABHIRAKSHITUM) protected by Bheem (BALUM) army (ETESHAM) their (PARYAAPTUM) capable.
Meaning- The power and strength of our army protected by Bheesham is not enough and is insufficient. However, power of the army of Pandavas is sufficient (quite enough). Their commander being great, brave Bheema.
Aparyaapt and Paryaapt. The meaning respectively is insufficient/less/limited etc., and enormous/excessive/immense etc. Apareemit- enormous, excessive, immense. Pareemit- temperate, moderate, limited.
Kauravas made several serious attempts to murder Pandavas. One was building a house made of 'Lac', which is highly inflammable material with a plan to set it on fire with Pandavas and Kunti later. This was a cowardly act on the part of Kauravas.
In Mahabharat, Sabha Parv, after sending Pandavas to exile, Sanjay asked Dhritrashtra as to why was he sad then. Dhritrashtra answered, "Oh Sanjay! Those who have made enemies with brave Pandavas cannot help from being plunged in sorrow." Hence, word "APARYAAPT" means incapable or insufficient and "PARYAAPT" means capable or sufficient.
Underlying meaning is that his father Dhritrashtra, Duryodhan too considered the strength and power of Pandavas for more than that possessed by him. It is evident from the fact that he resorted to hypocrited deceptive means like setting the house made of lac (where Pandavas along with their mother Kunti were sent to live) on fire and sending Pandavas to exile by defeating them through cheating in gambling. He did not have guts to proclaim war lawfully on Pandavas with the help of Bheeshma Pitamah.
When his deceptive and hypocritic plans did not succeed then he proclaimed war on Pandavas, depending on the strength of other brave warriors like Bheesham, Dronn, Karnna and Kripacharya etc.
It may be noted that at present too, number of Duryodhans have taken birth who control the world of crime, keeping themselves underground. Such culprits are in the country as well as abroad.
Atharvaveda mantra 3/1/2 states even if king commands small troop of army yet it should have the potential to create devastation in the army of enemies and should strategize to annihilate the enemies. (For definition of Dharam see in shloka 1/1).
Vedic principle formula "Yato Dharmaha tato Jayaha" is true i.e., where there is truth (Dharam), there is victory. Duryodhan knew all these facts. Hence, he knew that on one side the Pandavas would fight unitedly with full concentration. On the contrary, religious minded Bheesham, Dronn, Kripacharya and many other brave warriors would bodily support Duryodhan but whole heartedly and with soul, they would favour pandavas/be on Pandavas side.
Hence Duryodhan is kind of afraid. This is the main reason that despite possessing bigger army than Pandavas and more brave warriors like Bheesham etc., as compared to those on the side of Pandavas, Duryodhan considers his army to have less power/strength as compared to that of Pandavas. In Sanskrit language paryaapt means capable/enough/sufficient and Aparyaapt means incapable/not enough/less. This is appropriate meaning.
Shashi: swami ji mujhe batayen jab aatma amar hai to jab mrityu aaye to kya hum apne shareer ki aankhen daan de to kya koi harz hai , aatma to hamare pious deeds per aur kahin janam le legee hai na samjhaiye thanx.
Swami Ramswarup: Ankhein daan deine mein koi harz nahin hoga- upkaar hi hoga. Hum swayam atma hain, hum atma ko parmeshwar ne manushya ka sharer diya hai. Atma alag hai aur sharer alag hai. Shareer chchootne ke baad jab atma achchey burey karmon ke anusaar manushya athwa pashu-pakshi ke sharer mein jayegi to parmeshwar atma ko vaisa hi sharer dey deiga.
Bipin: Pranam, Swamiji. I request to please guide for below queries.
(1) It is stated that after death our soul goes to Sun, moon, air, electricity etc. Is there any specific reason or purpose for this? Though soul is pure and minute but doesn't it get affected by atmosphere or heat of Sun while going there? In your answers 12 things are mentioned at which soul goes after death before taking re-birth on 13 th day. So whether reasons for going at each of these 12 places are stated separately in Vedas? Please guide.
(2) After death if soul gets human body then either it is male or female. But as per Vedas, is there any specific karmas of previous births which differentiates this. I mean which karmas leads to birth as male and which as female as per Vedas. Please guide.
1. When atma goes out of the body, then automatically under the control of Almighty God, it goes to sun, moon electricity etc. The said process is natural i.e., automatic, eternal and everlasting. As also sated in Bhagwad Geeta shloka 2/23 that soul cannot be burnt by agni, wetted by water etc. So, environment or atmosphere does not have its effect on soul. The process of wandering to sun, moon etc., being eternal and everlasting has no reason.
2. Vedas never make difference between a female and male. Fundamentally, the soul is considered in masculine gender. God, in the beginning of every creation creates pair of male and female, which will remain forever. So, to think that to get son or daughter is the result of karmas does not look nice. Yet, healthy man has more chances to get male baby. Secondly, those who have spent his/her period of young life maintaining full Brahamcharya and have studied Vedas, they have some chances to get male/female baby at their own desire.


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        UIImageView * imageIcon = [[UIImageView alloc]initWithFrame:CGRectMake(0,0,GridWidth, 34)];
        imageIcon.contentMode = UIViewContentModeCenter;

        CGPoint center = imageIcon.center;
        center.y = GridWidth/3;
        imageIcon.center = center;

        imageIcon.image = [UIImage imageNamed:customGridModel.image];
        imageIcon.tag = self.int_id;
        imageIcon.backgroundColor = [UIColor clearColor];
        [self addSubview:imageIcon];

        // 标题
        UILabel * title_label = [[UILabel alloc]initWithFrame:CGRectMake(0, CGRectGetMaxY(imageIcon.frame) + PaddingY/2, GridWidth, 20)];
        title_label.text = customGridModel.name;
        title_label.textAlignment = NSTextAlignmentCenter;
        title_label.font = [UIFont systemFontOfSize:14];
        title_label.backgroundColor = [UIColor clearColor];
        title_label.textColor = [UIColor blackColor];
        [self addSubview:title_label];

        //////////
        [self setInt_id:customGridModel.int_id];
        [self setGridIndex:index];
        [self setGridCenterPoint:self.center];

        //判断是否要添加删除图标
        if (isAddDelete) {
            //当长按时添加删除按钮图标
             _deleteBtn = [UIButton buttonWithType:UIButtonTypeCustom];
            [_deleteBtn setFrame:CGRectMake(GridWidth - 20, 5, 15, 15)];
            [_deleteBtn setBackgroundColor:[UIColor clearColor]];
            [_deleteBtn setBackgroundImage:deleteIcon forState:UIControlStateNormal];
            _deleteBtn.userInteractionEnabled = NO;

            [_deleteBtn setHidden:YES];

            if (ISIPHONE5s) {

                [_deleteBtn setFrame:CGRectMake(GridWidth - 18, 5, 13, 13)];

                title_label.font = [UIFont systemFontOfSize:12];
            }

            //添加编辑时的点击手势
            [_deleteBtn setTag:customGridModel.int_id];
            [self addSubview:_deleteBtn];

            //添加长按手势
            UILongPressGestureRecognizer *longPressGesture = [[UILongPressGestureRecognizer alloc] initWithTarget:self action:@selector(gridLongPress:)];
            [self addGestureRecognizer:longPressGesture];
             longPressGesture = nil;

        }
    }
    return self;
}

//响应格子点击事件
- (void)gridClick:(CustomGrid *)clickItem
{

    if (clickItem.int_id == 0|| clickItem.deleteBtn.hidden) {

         [self.delegate gridItemDidClicked:clickItem];

    }else{

         [self.delegate gridItemDidDeleteClicked:clickItem.deleteBtn selectGrid:self];

    }

}

//响应格子删除事件
- (void)deleteGrid:(UIButton *)deleteButton
{
    [self.delegate gridItemDidDeleteClicked:deleteButton selectGrid:self];
}

//响应格子的长安手势事件
- (void)gridLongPress:(UILongPressGestureRecognizer *)longPressGesture
{
    switch (longPressGesture.state) {
        case UIGestureRecognizerStateBegan:
        {
            [self.delegate pressGestureStateBegan:longPressGesture withGridItem:self];
            break;
        }
        case UIGestureRecognizerStateChanged:
        {
            //应用移动后的新坐标
            CGPoint newPoint = [longPressGesture locationInView:longPressGesture.view];
            [self.delegate pressGestureStateChangedWithPoint:newPoint gridItem:self];
            break;
        }
        case UIGestureRecognizerStateEnded:
        {
            [self.delegate pressGestureStateEnded:self];
            break;
        }
        default:
            break;
    }
}

//根据格子的坐标计算格子的索引位置
+ (NSInteger)indexOfPoint:(CGPoint)point
               withButton:(UIButton *)btn
                gridArray:(NSMutableArray *)gridListArray
{
    for (NSInteger i = 0;i< gridListArray.count;i++)
    {
        UIButton *appButton = gridListArray[i];
        if (appButton != btn)
        {
            if (CGRectContainsPoint(appButton.frame, point))
            {
                return i;
            }
        }
    }
    return -1;
}

-(void)setIsShowBorder:(BOOL)isShowBorder{

    if (isShowBorder) {//显示
        [UIView animateWithDuration:0.3  animations:^{

            self.layer.borderWidth = 0.5;
            self.layer.borderColor = RandomColorWithRGB(0xdddddd).CGColor;

        }completion:^(BOOL finish){

        }];

    }else{//不显示

        [UIView animateWithDuration:0.3  animations:^{

            self.layer.borderWidth = 0;
            self.layer.borderColor = RandomColorWithRGB(0xdddddd).CGColor;

        }completion:^(BOOL finish){

        }];

    }

}

-(void)setIs_can_add:(BOOL)is_can_add{

//    NSBundle *currentBundle = [NSBundle bundleForClass:[self class]];

    if (is_can_add) {//能点击

        [_deleteBtn setBackgroundImage:[NSBundle hz_imageNamed:@"app_item_add"] forState:UIControlStateNormal];
        self.userInteractionEnabled = YES;

    }else{//不能点击

        [_deleteBtn setBackgroundImage:[NSBundle hz_imageNamed:@"app_item_no"] forState:UIControlStateNormal];
        self.userInteractionEnabled = NO;

    }

}

-(NSString *)description{

    NSString * string = [NSString stringWithFormat:@"name = %@>",self.name];

    return string;

}

@end

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Mr. Ahmed Haseef Shakil belongs to Islamabad. He was born on July 06, 1996. Ms. Shakil has been a member of local chapter of AIESEC in Islamabad. Mr. Haseef Shakil has done intermediate and going to start undergraduate studies from Lahore this year. Mr. Shakil is a proponent of women empowerment.


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Home Art Get Ready for the 2021-22 Season at Everett's Village Theatre
"Urinetown" was a KIDSTAGE hit at Village Theatre. Photo courtesy: Sam Freeman, Northwest Theatre Press
Courtney L. Becker
This fall has brought on the return to school, warm beverages, cooler days, and the arts at Everett's Village Theatre. Get ready for the reopening of the 2021 classes and 2022 shows because theatre is ready to come back to life. Offering dance, acting, and children's classes, there is something the entire family will love at Village Theatre. For those that want to return to the showroom for live productions, be sure to check out the 2022 lineup of amazing shows making their debut. Whether looking to join in on the fun on stage or simply enjoy an evening showcase, head over to Everett's Village Theatre for a remarkable experience.
Village Theatre is excited to bring back live performances for the 2022 season beginning in January. Photo courtesy: Village Theatre
Enjoy an outing at Everett's Village Theatre, happy to welcome back the magic of live theatre. Producing entertaining, quality productions since 1979, Village Theatre has amassed into one of the area's best-attended theatres, with over 18,000 mainstage season subscribers and nearly 220,000 in total attendance each season. Nationally recognized, Village Theatre has contributed to developing new musicals, supporting the creation of more than 175 new works. Village Theatre is also proud to support tomorrow's audiences through its youth education programs, serving over 56,000 youth and families yearly.
The mission at Village Theatre revolves around promoting excellence in family theatre through top-quality productions, new musical production, training youth in theatre skills for enriched lives and career opportunities and promoting positive values through art. Experience a remarkable time at Village Theatre, with only the best artistic offerings found in the Pacific Northwest.
Capture the heartfelt moment during "The Spitfire Grill" by the Summer Independent Production Team. Photo courtesy: Sam Freeman, Northwest Theatre Press
Renew or purchase a new subscription today to welcome back the 2022 season at Village Theatre. Beginning in January, Village Theatre is excited to announce the return of live performance. Memorable characters, moving musical creations, and transformative productions are right around the corner.
The Welcome Back Season includes performances of "Songs for a New World," "The Book Club Play," "You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown," and "Raisin." Go online for pricing information, payment plan options, and a complete list of performance days and times. Group discounts of ten or more are available with special booking options for an unforgettable experience. Send an email for more information or to book your group visit today.
Village Theatre Classes
Take part in the magic of KIDSTAGE auditions at Village Theatre. Photo courtesy: Sam Freeman, Northwest Theatre Press
Beginning as young as pre-k through young adult (20 years), take part in a magical experience through one of the many classes offered at Village Theatre. There is something unique for all youth age groups to take part in. Embark in dance classes, acting, musical theatre, and more.
Enjoy some of the most unique and creative classes, such as Epic Character Creation, for a take on designing your own fairy tale for grades 3-5. Also, check out Movie Musicals for grades 6-9 for some of the most popular and well-known movie musicals of all time, such as "High School Musical," "The Prom," and more classic favorites.
Head online for a complete schedule of classes offered this fall, as well as year-round choices. Courses happen at various times on Saturdays, with prices starting at $190. Register today for one of these wonderful creative classes aimed at developing and enhancing skills, happening now.
This autumn, be sure to check out KIDSTAGE Classes and Camps, providing opportunities for students of all grade levels throughout the year. Registration is now open for fall. These live, interactive theatre classes are primarily offered in person, but singing-specific classes will remain online for now.
"Urinetown" was a KIDSTAGE hit at Village Theatre. Photo courtesy: Sam Freeman, Northwest Theatre Press
Expect small class sizes with adequate airflow and plenty of room for social distancing and sanitation processes. Masks are required at all times. Additional safety protocols can be found online on the Public Health Update. KIDSTAGE classes are designed to engage and build skills for students of all levels, whether brand new to theatre or with years of experience.
Village Theatre strives to ensure access to participation among all young people regardless of financial circumstances. Payment plans and financial assistance are available for all programs. For a complete list of KIDSTAGE classes happening now, go online for additional information and registration.
Whether looking to enjoy a night out to watch a unique performance or take part in the fun and sign up for a class, Village Theatre has an abundance of options sure to delight. Happy and eager to welcome back live performance, Village Theatre will be resuming live shows in January 2022. Get your subscription today for the opening of live theatre finally back in the showroom. Fall classes are happening now, so be sure to check out the latest offerings for youth. Get ready for the 2021-22 season at Everett's Village Theatre in Snohomish County.
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A Drug that Cures Alcoholism May be the Next Anti-Anxiety Medication
A new study found that disulfiram, a drug used to treat chronic alcoholism, can safely reduce anxiety levels in rodents
Disulfiram is a drug used to treat chronic alcoholism. However, studies suggest that it also inhibits chemokine receptor signaling pathways that are associated with the regulation of anxiety in rodents. Now, a team of researchers from the Tokyo University of Science show that disulfiram can effectively reduce anxiety without causing any of the adverse effects that are linked to other anxiolytic drugs. Thus, disulfiram could potentially become a safe and effective anti-anxiety drug.
Alcoholism, if left untreated, could have dangerous repercussions. Thus, it is no surprise that there are a range of drugs developed to treat this condition. Of these drugs, disulfiram (DSF) is approved by the Food and Drug Agency (FDA) for the treatment of alcoholism. DSF primarily inhibits the enzyme aldehyde dehydrogenase (ALDH), which is responsible for the metabolism of alcohol.
Could the inhibitory effects of DSF extend to signaling molecules as well?
According to recent studies, DSF in fact inhibits a cytoplasmic protein known as FROUNT, which controls the direction in which certain immune cells migrate. DSF blocks FROUNT from interacting with two chemokine receptors known as CCR2 and CCR5, which are involved in important cellular signaling pathways.
A few studies suggest that chemokine receptors may be involved in the regulation of emotional behaviors in rodents. However, there is a lack of data on the exact association between FROUNT-chemokine signaling and DSF. To clarify this link, a team comprising Prof. Akiyoshi Saitoh from Tokyo University of Science and other researchers from institutes across Japan conducted a study examining the pharmacological properties of DSF. The study, which was published online on March 7, 2022 in Frontiers in Pharmacology, describes how the research team used an elevated plus-maze (EPM) test―which is used to screen for anxiolytic drugs―to study the effects of DSF in mice.
The EPM apparatus consists of four arms set in a cross pattern, connected to a central square. Two arms are protected by vertical boundaries, whereas two have unprotected edges. Usually, mice with anxiety prefer to spend time in the closed arms.
In this case, some mice were administered diazepam (a drug commonly used to treat anxiety) and others, DSF. These mice were then placed in the EPM apparatus, and their activity was monitored. To their surprise, the team found that mice treated with DSF spent significantly more time in the open arms of the apparatus, which indicates that they were less anxious. The team also tested the anxiolytic effects of a more potent FROUNT inhibitor, known as DSF-41, and observed similar results.
What's interesting is that these behavioral changes were similar to those observed in mice treated with diazepam. How exactly did DSF achieve this?
The team had previously discovered that increased extracellular glutamate (which is an important amino acid and neurotransmitter) levels are associated with increased anxiety in mice.
"We propose that DSF inhibits FROUNT protein and the chemokine signaling pathways under its influence, which may suppress presynaptic glutamatergic transmission in the brain," says Prof. Saitoh. "This, in turn, attenuates the levels of glutamate in the brain, reducing overall anxiety."
The team was also pleasantly surprised to find that in contrast with diazepam, DSF treatment did not lead to adverse effects such as amnesia, coordination disorders, or sedation.
According to Prof. Saitoh, "These results indicate that DSF can be used safely by elderly patients suffering from anxiety and insomnia and has the potential to become a breakthrough psychotropic drug."
What are the long-term implications of these results? Dr. Saitoh explains, "We plan to further clarify how DSF exerts its pharmaceutical actions. Hopefully, we will also be able to elucidate the exact role of the FROUNT molecule in the central nervous system."
This is one of the first studies to reveal that DSF exhibits anti-anxiety properties comparable to those of existing benzodiazepines without exhibiting any side effects observed with benzodiazepines. Hopefully, DSF's inhibitory activity against FROUNT functioning could be explored for successful anxiolytic drug development.
Title of original paper : Disulfiram Produces Potent Anxiolytic-Like Effects Without Benzodiazepine Anxiolytics-Related Adverse Effects in Mice
Journal : Frontiers in Pharmacology
DOI : 10.3389/fphar.2022.826783
About The Tokyo University of Science
Tokyo University of Science (TUS) is a well-known and respected university, and the largest science-specialized private research university in Japan, with four campuses in central Tokyo and its suburbs and in Hokkaido. Established in 1881, the university has continually contributed to Japan's development in science through inculcating the love for science in researchers, technicians, and educators.
With a mission of "Creating science and technology for the harmonious development of nature, human beings, and society", TUS has undertaken a wide range of research from basic to applied science. TUS has embraced a multidisciplinary approach to research and undertaken intensive study in some of today's most vital fields. TUS is a meritocracy where the best in science is recognized and nurtured. It is the only private university in Japan that has produced a Nobel Prize winner and the only private university in Asia to produce Nobel Prize winners within the natural sciences field.
■Tokyo University of Science(About TUS) : https://www.tus.ac.jp/en/about/
■Research List: https://www.tus.ac.jp/en/news/03/
■Press Releases List: https://www.tus.ac.jp/en/mediarelations/list/
About Professor Akiyoshi Saitoh from Tokyo University of Science
Dr. Akiyoshi Saitoh is a Professor at the Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Tokyo University of Science. He is a senior researcher with more than 20 years of experience in the fields of medicinal pharmacology, behavioral pharmacology, and neuroscience. His research also focuses on the role of the amygdala in the extinction of fear memory in rodents, and the development of a novel opioid delta receptor agonist for antidepressants/anxiolytics. Dr. Saitoh has contributed to more than 100 research publications and is the first author of this study.
https://www.tus.ac.jp/en/fac/p/index.php?7017
https://yakurisaitohlab.jimdofree.com/english/
About Professor Hideyo Takahashi from Tokyo University of Science
https://www.tus.ac.jp/en/fac/p/index.php?6fea
About Professor Kouji Matsushima from Tokyo University of Science
https://www.tus.ac.jp/en/fac/p/index.php?6FA1
https://k-matsushimalab.org/en/
About Junior Associate Professor Yuuya Terashima from Tokyo University of Science
This study was partially supported by the Tsukuba Clinical Research and Development Organization (T-CReDO) from the Japan Agency for Medical Research and Development (AMED).
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Nellie Mae "Nell" Dean Leonard, age 93, died Monday, February 21, 2011 at her home. A native of Granville County, she was the daughter of the late John W. Dean and Jennie Puckett. She was a member of Oxford United Methodist Church and was retired from Lovely Lady Beauty Salon.
Funeral services will be held on Wednesday, Feb 23, 2011 at 2:00 P.M.at Oxford United Methodist Church by Rev. John Yount and Rev. Pat Hawkins. Burial will follow in Elmwood Cemetery.
Surviving is her son, Howard Leonard, Jr. of Putaluma, CA. She was preceded in death by her husband, Howard Leonard, Sr. and a brother, John W. Dean, Jr.; sisters, Verlon D. Watkins, Lillian Norwood, Hazel Dean and Alfreda Tillotson.
The family will receive friends from 1:00 until 2:00 P.M. prior to the service.
Gentry-Newell & Vaughan Funeral Home is assisting the Leonard family. For online condolences go to www.hallwynne.com and select obituaries.
So long Miss Nell. I'll miss helping with the crossword puzzles.
Rest well and try not to worry about your boy. We will do our best to take care of him for you. We miss you.
You were an inspiration and will be missed by all of us here. Your e-cards were the greatest and shared by many here in KC.
Aunt Nell I will always remember your smile and the wonderful cards you used to send me. You will be missed dearly.
To Ms. Leonard's family: I am so sorry for your loss. I remember well the days that she would fix my mother's hair. She was always so sweet and kind. I think about her often when I pass by the shop where she used to work. Always hold on to your wonderful memories and cherish them. She was a great friend to so many.


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Q: What's meaning of the "p" in the name datetime.datetime.strptime()? I'm learning the python's datetime module, and found two useful functions:
datetime.strptime() and datetime.strftime().
I know that the functions meaning, datetime.strftime() could convert a time object to a specified format string, I could understand the strftime as "string from time", the "f" means "from". But what's the meaning of the "p" in strptime()? I understand it's a function as "convert a string to a time object", so it should be strttime() instead of strptime().
Who else also feel confused on this function name?
Thanks in advance no matter you could answer this question or share the same confusion with me.

A: These are the developer doc string says. I guess p stands for parsing datetime from a string type.
In [2]: datetime.datetime.strptime??
Docstring: string, format -> new datetime parsed from a string (like time.strptime()).
Type:      builtin_function_or_method

In [3]: datetime.datetime.strftime??
Docstring: format -> strftime() style string.
Type:      method_descriptor

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Darcy B in Year 5 entered the Country Child Magazine writing competition about a 'Winter' themed story in 400 words.
Well done Darcy we are all so proud of you here at Hazlegrove. Over the next few weeks a parcel from 'Smiggle' will be making its way to you, full of lovely things for you to enjoy.


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Q: Laravel OrderBy Errors with 5.8 Upgrade Having trouble with Laravel 5.8 because the orderBy commands stopped working. How would I rewrite these two areas of a controller so it stops throwing an error?

public function index(Request $request)
{
    $clients = Client::orderBy('identifier', 'name')->paginate(15);
    return view('admin.clients.index')->with('clients', $clients);
}

public function closed()
{
    $sortBy = 'name';
    $query = Client::onlyTrashed()->orderBy($sortBy, $sortBy == 'created_at' ? 'name' : 'asc')
        ->orderBy('created_at', 'name');
    $projects = $query->get();
    return view('admin.clients.index')->with(['clients' => $projects, 'sortBy' => $sortBy]);
}

A:
orderBy(string $column, string $direction = 'asc')

orderBy has two parameters, the second one is direction.
Before version 5.8, if the direction value you passed is not asc, it will automatically set desc as direction value:
$this->{$this->unions ? 'unionOrders' : 'orders'}[] = [
            'column' => $column,
            'direction' => strtolower($direction) == 'asc' ? 'asc' : 'desc',
        ];

After Laravel 5.8+, if the direction value is not asc or desc, it will show the error:
if (! in_array($direction, ['asc', 'desc'], true)) {
            throw new InvalidArgumentException('Order direction must be "asc" or "desc".');
        }

So if you want to order by two column, you can use two orderBy:
$clients = Client::orderBy('identifier')->orderBy('name')->paginate(15);

# Raw SQL:
# select * from clients order by identifier asc, name asc


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El Football Club Swift Hesperange es un equipo de fútbol de Luxemburgo que milita en la Division Nationale, la liga de fútbol más importante del país.

Historia
Fue fundado en el año 1916 en la ciudad de Hesperange, al sur de Luxemburgo. Entre 1940-44, el equipo fue llamado FV Rot-Weiß Hesperingen durante la ocupación alemana durante la Segunda Guerra Mundial. Nunca ha sido campeón de Liga y solamente ha ganado el torneo de Copa en 1 ocasión.

A nivel internacional ha participado en 1 torneo continental, en la Recopa de Europa de Fútbol de 1990/91, en la que fue eliminado en la Primera ronda por el Legia de Varsovia de Polonia.

Palmarés
 Copa de Luxemburgo: 1
 1989/90

Participación en competiciones de la UEFA

Récord Europeo

Entrenadores Desde 1999
  Theo Scholten (1999–01)
  Carlo Weis (2004–05)
  Luc Muller (2004–08)
  Theo Scholten (2008–10)
  Angelo Fiorucci (2010–11)
  Nedzib Selimovic (2011–12)
  Daniel Theis (2012)
  Nedzib Selimovic (2013-)

Jugadores

Equipo 2019/20

Enlaces externos
 Página oficial
 Lista de Copas
 Torneos Continentales
 soccerway.com
 Fundación

Equipos de la División Nacional de Luxemburgo
Equipos de fútbol fundados en 1916


United Way of the Lowcountry would like to remind the public to contact SC 2-1-1 for information concerning Hurricane Florence and referrals for non-emergency assistance. SC 2-1-1 will continue to be operational and take calls during the storm. United Way of the Lowcountry's Helpline, serving Beaufort and Jasper Counties has been turned over to United Way's SC 2-1-1 until further notice.
Residents will receive the latest information regarding Hurricane Florence as well as referrals for non-emergency assistance by calling 211 or 1-866-892-9211. Those with emergencies should call 911.


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Angelic Root impresses with DDD debut 'Motion'
By: Anand Harsh
We've been catching wind of the Angelic Root movement stalking the underground bass scene for almost a year now. Kody Jones has been associated with a number of cutting-edge crews, and showed up in some high profile collabs and remixes along with showcases around the nation, but it's time for this subsonic producer to reveal himself.
Today, Jones releases Motion, a four-track juggernaut on TRUTH's Deep, Dark & Dangerous label. Let me tell you, I am beyond impressed with each selection. Jones has been honing his craft for a while, and we've been watching from the shadows, and I have to say that the quality of these songs far surpasses much of what fans have heard. It's a significant leveling in up in terms of quality, phrasing, and builds. The real standout is the title track, "Motion," which we are featuring today.
Angelic Root heads out on Sub Jutsu tour with another young favorite of ours, Prophet, and the pair have some major damage to deal in February.
Get Deep, Dark & Dangerous with Angelic Root
Tags: Dubstep
TRUTH gives away a ton of remixes for free for XMAS 2019
Wraz. is an 'Alienist' and he's found his subjects
JLEON premieres title track from Boruca Mask EP
TRUTH gives us a glimpse of its 'Creatures'
TRUTH (NZ)


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docker-tomcat
=============
This is a simple docker image file that gives you a repeatable
[Java](http://www.java.com)/[Tomcat](http://tomcat.apache.org)
container running in a [CentOS](http://www.centos.org/) environment.
Laying down your application or any specific configuration details
are beyond the scope of this example.

## Dependencies
You'll obviously need a working version of [Docker](http://docker.io) to follow
this example. You can follow the [documentation](http://docs.docker.io/installation/#installation)
to get it setup or, if you're on an Ubuntu 12.04 machine (my test box), you can simply:
```
curl -s https://get.docker.io/ubuntu/ | sudo sh
```

## Installation
```
$ git clone https://github.com/danielkennedy/docker-tomcat.git
$ cd docker-tomcat
$ wget http://download.oracle.com/otn-pub/java/jdk/7u55-b13/jdk-7u55-linux-x64.tar.gz
$ wget https://www.apache.org/dist/tomcat/tomcat-7/v7.0.53/bin/apache-tomcat-7.0.53.tar.gz
$ sudo docker build -t docker-tomcat .
$ sudo docker run -d -p 8080:8080 docker-tomcat
$ sudo docker ps
```

## Verification
Of course, the quickest way to verify that Tomcat is listening and the port is
exposed is to simply point a browser to [localhost on port 8080](http://localhost:8080). Beyond that, you can:
```
$ sudo netstat -antp | grep 8080
tcp6       0      0 :::8080                 :::*                    LISTEN      629/docker
$ wget localhost:8080
--2014-04-17 12:53:51--  http://localhost:8080/
Resolving localhost (localhost)... 127.0.0.1
Connecting to localhost (localhost)|127.0.0.1|:8080... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: unspecified [text/html]
Saving to: `index.html'

    [ <=>                                                                                ] 11,197      --.-K/s   in 0s

2014-04-17 12:53:51 (137 MB/s) - `index.html' saved [11197]
```

## Next steps
Now you need to deployyour web application. Chef? More Docker? Your choice.


Four wireless network providers—AT&T, Verizon, Sprint, and T-Mobile—were not shown by complaining customers to have conspired to fix the price of pay-per-use (PPU) text messages, the U.S. Court of Appeals in Chicago ruled today. Dismissal of a class action antitrust suit against the providers and their trade association was affirmed (In re: Text Messaging Antitrust Litigation, April 9, 2015, Posner, R.).
gains from fixing prices in the PPU market, which was generating a slight—and shrinking—part of the carriers' overall revenues would be more than offset by the inevitable legal risks and could be negated by increased competition in the carriers' other markets.
Trade association role. The court also was not persuaded that the trade association facilitated a price fixing agreement. While opportunities for senior leaders of the defendants to meet privately at trade association meetings "abounded," there was no basis for an inference that they were using the meetings to plot prices increases. "This evidence would be more compelling if the immediate sequel to any of these meetings had been a simultaneous or near-simultaneous price increase by the defendants. Instead there were substantial lags," the court noted.
The case is No. 14-2301.
Attorneys: Patrick J. Coughlin (Coughlin Stoia Geller Rudman & Robbins LLP) for Aircraft Check Services Co. Aaron Martin Panner (Kellogg, Huber, Hansen, Todd, Evans & Figel, PLLC) for Verizon Wireless. Micah Block (Davis, Polk & Wardwell LLP) and Charles H.R. Peters (Schiff Hardin LLP) for T-Mobile USA, Inc., and Sprint Nextel Corp. Brian A. McAleenan (Sidley Austin LLP) for AT&T Mobility, LLC. Ruth A. Bahe-Jachna (Greenberg Traurig, LLP) for CTIA - The Wireless Assn. Dane H. Butswinkas (Williams & Connolly LLP) and Frederic R. Klein (Goldberg Kohn Ltd.) for Sprint Communications, Inc.
Companies: Aircraft Check Services Co.; Verizon Wireless; T-Mobile USA, Inc.; Sprint Nextel Corp.; AT&T Mobility, LLC; CTIA - The Wireless Assn.; Sprint Communications, Inc.


The following is a guest post by TC2 Senior Consultant Julie Gardner, TC2′s senior Contract Compliance and Optimization practice expert.
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