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Polish Christmas tree lights up in Vatican
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Grzegorz Siwicki 08.12.2017 08:30
A giant Christmas tree from Poland has been lit up in a ceremony at St. Peter's Square in the Vatican.
Photo: EPA/FABIO FRUSTACI
The tree, a gift from the Polish State Forests authority to Pope Francis, is 25 metres high and weighs 1.5 tonnes. It had been brought from the Romnicka Forest in northeastern Poland by a convoy that traveled 11 days before arriving in the Holy See.
The convoy traveled mostly at night, negotiating narrow roads with numerous twists and turns.
The lighting ceremony was held at dusk on Thursday and included the playing of the Polish national anthem.
Some of the decorations on the tree were made by Italian children undergoing treatment in cancer wards and coming from areas affected by an earthquake.
Earlier on Thursday, Pope Francis met with a delegation of Roman Catholic churchmen and foresters from northeastern Poland at an audience in the Vatican.
The pope said that the Christmas tree was a sign of faith of the Polish people and an expression of their faithfulness to the Holy See.
It is the second time a Christmas tree from a Polish forest has appeared in St. Peter's Square.
Twenty years ago, a spruce from the southern Polish mountain resort of Zakopane was erected there. It was a gift expressing thanks by Polish highlanders to Pope John Paul II for a pilgrimage to his native Poland.
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Posted on June 24, 2019 by MELANIE YINGST
CIC requests city make repairs to marina
Smith's Boathouse cites three building issues
By Melanie Yingst - Miami Valley Today
TROY — During a special meeting on Monday, the Community Improvement Corp. voted 9-2 to request the city of Troy to gather estimates and pay for requested repairs to the Treasure Island marina, which houses Smith's Boathouse restaurant.
Director of Public Service and Safety Patrick Titterington and Troy Development Director Jim Dando voted "No" after a requested roll call for action.
The following members voted in favor for the request: Kathy Vukovic, council member Bobby Phillips, council member Tom Kendall, city auditor John Frigge, Mayor Michael Beamish, President of Council Marty Baker, Mark Douglas, Arthur "Ozzie" Haddad and Chairman Bill Lukens.
Smith's Boathouse owner Larry Smith explained three issues with the building, which the city of Troy owns and the CIC serves as a leasing agent.
Smith said tiles in the kitchen area are cracking due to subfloor issues. Smith said there were areas of the subfloor that are rotted. Smith said he was written up by the health department for the cracked tiles in November 2018. The kitchen area was not part of the $1 million renovation project in 2016. Another issue is the heat tape and two of three breakers are not functioning, causing pipes to freeze last winter. Smith said the breakers are still not functioning properly.
Smith also said water continues to leach into the garage door area in spite of a floor drain installed. Smith said an employee slipped and fell due to the issue.
"I just feel like these are not my problems. I understand routine maintenance and fix what I break and paint, things like that," Smith said.
Titterington argued throughout the meeting the issues were maintenance issues for which Smith was responsible for repairs and signed the lease accepting the building "as is."
Treasurer Mark Douglas requested the repairs be made to the CIC's satisfaction in a "usable and corrected condition." The next step is for the city to obtain estimates for the repairs, take a report to council about what the CIC requested and allow council to take action on how to proceed.
Titterington said it was the third season since the restaurant has been opened and Smith should be responsible for the repairs. Smith argued the wiring for the breakers, for example, was not done properly according to his contracted workers.
Titterington said the building was inspected prior to Smith's occupancy and part of the lease agreement was the building was to be accepted "as is" once the lease was signed. Later, Titterington said the city engineer's office has several estimates for the floor issues ranging from $20,000 to $27,000, but have not obtained estimates for the other two problems.
Chairman of the CIC Bill Lukens said Larry Smith has an asset with Smith's Boathouse and the city has an obligation to make the repairs.
Lukens asked how much money the CIC had on hand, which was estimated by Dando at $28,000.
Mayor Michael Beamish said Smith is a "great corporate citizen" of Troy and has been current on its payments. Beamish said anything done to the building adds to the property investment and would be a permanent asset to the facility
"I'm inclined to support the request to get us up to speed where we all feel good," Beamish said.
After discussion and various members comments regarding the issue and the vote, the CIC adjourned.
By Melanie Yingst
Miami Valley Today
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At the North American Meat Institute, we've developed a couple of resources to assist with this question. First is a video as part of our "Ask The Meat Scientist" video series which explains why ground beef in the same package might appear to be two different colors. We also have a video as part of our Meat MythCrushers series which more broadly explains meat color and why it changes. We hope these are useful anytime the meat color question comes up.
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Q: Faunadb create index on child item field I'm trying to get an index on a field of a child item in my document. The data is this:
[
   {
      "ref": Ref(Collection("ColA"), "111111111111111111"),
      "ts":1659241462840000,
      "data":{
         "name":"Test a",
         "members":[
            {
               "userId":"1",
               "roles":[
                  "admin"
               ]
            }
         ]
      }
   },
   {
      "ref": Ref(Collection("ColA"), "111111111111111112"),
      "ts":1659241462840000,
      "data":{
         "name":"Test b",
         "members":[
            {
               "userId":"1",
               "roles":[
                  "admin"
               ]
            },
            {
               "userId":"2",
               "roles":[
                  "read-only"
               ]
            }
         ]
      }
   },
   {
      "ref": Ref(Collection("ColA"), "111111111111111113"),
      "ts":1659241462840000,
      "data":{
         "name":"Test c",
         "members":[
            {
               "userId":"2",
               "roles":[
                  "admin"
               ]
            }
         ]
      }
   }
]

Trying to using data.members.userId as term in the index. This only gives back one result when I use the index with the filter value '1'
Then I tried to create the index as following:
CreateIndex({
  name: 'spaces_member_ids',
  source: {
    collection: Collection("ColA"),
    fields: {
      members: Query(
        Lambda(
          "ColA",
          Select(["data", "members", "userId"], Var("ColA"), '')
        )
      ),
    },
  },
  terms: [
    { binding: "members" },
  ],
  values: [
    { field: "data.name" },
    { field: "ref" },
  ]
})

But that gives no results when I use the index with the filter value '1' Both times I expect to get two items back (Test a and Test b).
Anyone knows how to create an index that gived back all the data of ColA filtered on field 'userId' in the 'members' array?

A: The problem is that there is no userId field as a direct descendant of the members array.
For background, Fauna index entries can only contain scalar values. Objects are not indexed at all. For arrays, one index entry is created per scalar value in the array. If you attempt to index multiple array fields, the number of index entries produced is the Cartesian product of the items in all indexed arrays.
If you create your index like so:
CreateIndex({
  name: 'spaces_member_ids',
  source: Collection("ColA"),
  terms: [
    { field: ["data", "members", 0, "userId"] },
  ],
  values: [
    { field: ["data", "name"] },
    { field: "ref" },
  ]
})

Then you'll be able to search for userId values that appear in the first item in the members array.
If you need to create index entries for all userId values from each ColA document, then your binding approach is close, but it needs to provide an array.
CreateIndex({
  name: "spaces_member_ids",
  source: {
    collection: Collection("ColA"),
    fields: {
      members: Query(
        Lambda(
          "ColA",
          Map(
            Select(["data", "members"], Var("ColA"), []),
            Lambda(
              "member",
              Select(["userId"], Var("member"), "")
            )
          )
        )
      ),
    },
  },
  terms: [
    { binding: "members" },
  ],
  values: [
    { field: ["data", "name"] },
    { field: "ref" },
  ]
})

The notable changes that I made are:

*

*Within the binding, Map is used to iterate on the members field in the document.

*Simply returning the userId field value within a Map is sufficient to return an array of userId values.

*Corrected the syntax in the values definition. Fauna indexes don't process dot notation.

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As owner of Houston Tourism Gym, I get the privilege of experiencing the best of Houston. I have literally made it my business to learn as much as I can about this city. When I find that a certain feature of Houston is amazing and noteworthy, I love being able to follow the breadcrumb trail until I have a good story to tell.
In 2016, I finally got the balls to start researching this city. I knew that I would need to spend a lot of time creating my walking routes and learning everything along the way. As I took to the streets, I really enjoyed all of the mural art and street art we have. Especially in neighborhoods that are going through transition, the mural art is priceless. I think it is the first clue as to who we are as Houstonians.
I got out of my car to get a better look. I took note of the colors outlined in black. Then I looked closer, I could see chapel spires and eyes. After another look, birds and fish. Another day, I was walking in Third Ward on Fannin St. I happened upon this small apartment complex.
It was truly one of a kind. This complex was covered in mural art. Getting a closer look, I could see the same colors with the black outline. This one has an elephant in it. It was Daniel Anguilu.
Some time later, I was at Silver Street Studios talking to my friend Verny Sanchez, the Venezuelan artist of emotional language. (You can see one of his murals across from 8th Wonder Brewery. It's the one with two guys that have rainbows for heads). He began to tell me about HAM or Harrisburg Art Museum in EADO that is being maintained by his friend, Daniel Anguilu. Another breadcrumb.
The next day, I go to HAM. HAM is a once abandoned, metal warehouse. Now it houses urban art from artists all over the world. I recognize some of Verny's art in the hanger. The front of the building is a row of murals from different artists. Along the back, different artists have collaborated to spell Houston, Texas using their different styles to fill the letters. I go to the furthest point of view behind HAM. Man, that would make a great panoramic for my social media header.
Walking the property, you can tell that it accommodates artists with varying levels of talent. It is never a boring moment. I have been back many times. On a number of occasions, I've happened on rap videos being filmed. Sometimes, it looks like a scene from the Fast and the Furious. Photos being taken of scantily clad girls on sports cars.
I knew that I one day, I would meet him here. One day, like any other Sunday, I was hosting my Mural and Brewery Tour. I had just finished showing the back of the museum. Just as we were turning the corner, I saw a man with long hair "writing on the wall." Finally, it was Daniel Anguilu. I politely introduce myself. He's a man of Mexican-Aztecan decent. I have so many questions for him. He seems ready to talk and full of answers sometimes before I ask them. We set a time to talk the next week.
My conversation with Daniel was very eye-opening. I knew from meeting the other mural artists in Houston that the subject can be very controversial. Some have described receiving persecution for putting their art out there. I have asked Verny about the subject before. He says that Social Media helped decriminalize graffiti art. Knowing that artists had followers that made a pastime of taking pictures in front of their murals meaning more people would flock to their businesses, business owners now welcome spray paint on their walls. Instead of getting harassed by the police, graffiti artists actually get paid to paint. Daniel, then tells me his experience of being an artist in Houston.
I start with a few get to know you questions. Where are you from? When and why did you start painting? Daniel is from Mexico City. He came to Houston at a young age. When he was 17, before he learned English, he fell into a crowd of graffiti artists. Graffiti was a way for him to bond and connect with them without speaking their language.
The million dollar question: What is the graffiti culture and why is it so controversial? According to Daniel, there are three types of artists: Graffiti artists, street artists, and trained artists. All need a space to express themselves through their style and be seen in the public.
Graffiti, along with the rap culture, became popular in the 80's. Rap artists, like Flavor Flav were actually graffiti artists themselves. Like rap, graffiti art was also known as rebellious and most often criminalized whether because of ties with gangs or just not having permission to paint on a wall. Daniel considers himself a "writer" from the first generation, because he was one of the first to write on Houston's walls.
Being a first generation writer, Daniel found that North Houston neighborhoods were more accepting of the art form. He received less persecution there. He started HAM to challenge the question of when is art a crime? If you wrote the same art on a wall here or there, at what point is it defined as a crime?
Daniel has really thrown himself into this issue. At times, he has even hired attorneys and fought legally for this right. He considers HAM a win for the community of 2nd Ward and artists. As Houston continues to be gentrified, Daniel and other writers use it as a voice for 2nd Ward. Daniel is committed to using HAM as an instrument for the community before it is absorbed by EADO.
Hoping to gain some credibility with Daniel, I tell him the long list of sites where I have personally seen his work.
The Flat on Commonwealth. Rudz on Waugh. A convenience store on Richmond. He assures me that there are many more murals than I think. I had come to know and love his style from his Aztecan Heritage. He says that not all of his art looks the same. But that is only in Houston. He reminisces on the many trips around the world where he would sleep on couches just to get his work out there. Places like Morocco, China, Central and South America, and all through Europe.
On Brewery and Mural Tour of Eado that I host every Sunday we pass his amazing work of art along the light rail on Harrisburg, I tell what I know. Every week, I feel embarrassed that I do not know more. I use this opportunity to get more information. How long did it take him to complete? Did he have help? Was it commissioned? It was commissioned by Metro. The rail was not operating then. It took him 2 weeks to complete working 4 to 5 hours a day with student volunteers. However he was the only one painting. The mural is to be read left to right. It tells the Aztecan story of the journey of energy creating life.
I'd like to call Daniel "a writer for the people." Just how he learned writing to bond with peers, Daniel still uses his art to create relationships. The muraled apartment complex on Fannin St. was a place he used to live in. He built a relationship with his landlord. His landlord, in turn, allowed him to "pimp" out his property. On Canal St., a neighborhood convenience store has been adored with his art. In return…snacks and a friend.
So, what's your favorite Daniel Anguilu? When you are on a weekend bike ride or walk past it, please take a picture and post on social media. Then again, you can also join me on Sundays in Eado.


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The following is the text from the Eulogy delivered on July 30, 2010.
Words are not enough for any of us right now. Words won't bring my beloved Michelle back or heal the pain in our hearts. Five days ago the universe decided to show us how fleeting life can be. Like John said I've never seen life be so totally random and so unfair at the same time. But I'm sorry John you are wrong. Life IS fair because life just IS. A tree is just a tree. It doesn't have feelings of guilt or remorse. It and everything around it just IS. No more no less. Nobody promised us that life will work out just the way we plan it.
Life IS fair because our brief time with Michelle was enough to enrich the lives of each every one of you sitting here today. Life IS fair because it is only by feeling the deepest of sorrow can we truly feel the greatest joy. Life IS fair because Michelle's spirit has no time limit.
I know that Michelle cared very deeply for those around her, but I don't think she quite knew the extent of her impact on us all. Most of us go through life like a boat in the water looking straight ahead and never seeing the expanding wake left behind. But life IS fair because those of us left in her wake will always have her smile in our hearts.
For Michelle the water was where she found her balance, her strength, and her peace.
Cooking was also a favorite for Michelle. She loved nothing better than to serve up a large Thanksgiving feast for the family or even a simple salad from the garden. For Michelle cooking was all about love. She loved to whip up something special for a birthday, a get together, a post bike-ride feeding frenzy, or really just any excuse she could think of. But it was about more than food. It was about being fun and creative. She loved to make up silly birthday cakes. One year she make a cake in the shape of a ladybug for Sophie complete with pipe cleaner antennas. (which are NOT edible by the way) I will tell one cooking story that I know many of you have heard before but I think it sums up her kitchen prowess the best.
That was her. Always willing to try things out just because is made her happy. And you know what, they were the best damn marsh mellows I have ever had. No store bought bag could compare.
But Michelle greatest love was her family and friends. She loved being a Mother more than anything in the world. Our two little girls gave Michelle a joy from within that was on her face every single day. Michelle's friends gave her comfort when she needed it the most and she treasured all of you across any time and any distance.
Michelle's love for me filled my spirit and made me whole. So life IS fair. I've spent the last twenty years with the woman of my dreams and I'll take that deal every single time.


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Platz ist sehr schön und ruhig und fast mitten in der Natur, außer das in hin und wieder das Brummen des Kühlaggregat vom China Restaurant zu hören ist ! Das Restaurant können wir ebenfalls empfehlen.
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St. Paul teachers, school district return to bargaining table as Kid Space sites open
ST. PAUL, Minn. (FOX 9) - The St. Paul, Minnesota teachers union and the school district will return to the bargaining table Thursday as the teachers strike enters its third day.
More than 3,000 teachers and other school staff walked off the job Tuesday for the first time in more than 70 years after the union and the school district failed to agree on a new two-year contract. While the school district and the union reached a compromise on some issues, they have not been able to agree on increases in mental health, multilingual and special education funding.
St. Paul teachers strike enters third day
As the St. Paul teachers strike continues, sites for children are opening at some of the schools.
Despite the chilly, wet weather, teachers picketed from 7 a.m. to 11 a.m. Thursday. Hundreds rallied outside Central High School. Second grade teacher Nora Hardy says students in her classroom at Frost Lake Elementary speak seven different languages. She says she needs help.
"I'm teaching English to students who don't speak English at home," said Hardy. "They don't have someone to read to them. So to have someone at school that speaks their language. It is so powerful."
The strike has forced schools to close for roughly 37,000 students, but starting Thursday, parents now have some new to options for what to do with their kids if they have to go to work.
St. Paul Public Schools has opened seven Kid Space sites for students in grades K-5. Kid Space will be a safe, supervised place for kids to go where they will get breakfast and lunch.
At Highland Park Elementary School about 160 children went to the site, where teaching assistants supervised the kids. Rules prohibit any pure academic instruction during the strike. The children appeared happy rotating between the activities.
The district is offering some bus service to transport students to the Kid Space sites, although only at specific pickup locations.
"We've got an art room, we have a dance room," said Ryan Fell, a program manager. "We have the gym where they are doing structured games, board games, and an inquiry space with LEGOs."
The Kid Space sites will be open from 8:30 a.m. to 3:00 p.m. while the strike continues. The school district says it should be able to serve about 4,000 kids, so parents are being asked to pre-register because some of the sites could fill up.
The following locations will be open as Kid Space sites:
Bruce Vento Elementary
Cherokee Heights Elementary
Dayton's Bluff Achievement Plus
Hazel Park Preparatory Academy
Rondo Education Center
In addition to the Kid Spaces, 24 schools will continue to serve breakfast and lunch for all students, but no transportation is being provided to those locations.
MORE: Where kids can go during the St. Paul teachers strike
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In his art practice the focal point is the interdisciplinary transformation and mutations of media. Most recent work and research revolves around the experiential impact of new media that constitute our information society. Debackere was nominated for the Liedts-Meesen 2010 new media prize. He won the Georges Delete 2014 Prize for Best Original Music and Sound Design and received the 2015 Ensor Award for Sound Design.
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A new medium gives birth to a new class of creatives who are limited by their access to and understanding of such a new technology. Despite this explosion in creative possibilities, the nominal performance of art is helter-skelter. Artists are great but they are very limited and a poor agency for AI. Creativeness is the most fundamental accusation of human society. Whatever narrative proves us that knowledge has often been the seed of mortal subconscious moments. Breaths of fictitious intellect. Feelings are manoeuvres away from the emergence of information. An interference to regulate the underdeveloped "emotional intelligence" of the last few billion donkeys.
Disaster is the most fundamental orator of humankind who will always denigrate reality. With a lack of artificial lies, the futurity of earthlings will be unsafe. The legerdemain of human life. Masochism in search of philosophy. Such a dangerous escapades have not, and in all likelihood never will be genial yet somehow deleterious.
Assisting humans with stuff like computation, memory, steadiness, preciseness, and success, which are all superior qualities, could adulterate risk. However, while a sophisticated AI program is certainly capable of making a decision after analysing patterns in large data sets, that decision is only as corrupt as the data that human beings gave the program to use. Inconsistency can, nonetheless, be charming and commanding.
Augmented Intelligence in its basic formula, reinforces the role human intelligence plays when using machine learning and deep learning algorithms to discover relationships and solve problems. This type of technology should harmonise interplay, allowing humans to experience data in order to make factual creative decisions.
Evolution once again comes to the rescue!


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Q: Alterar atributo de um array de objetos no estado na aplicação to tentando fazer com que um atributo de um dos objetos de um array de objetos alterne entre true e false segue codigo:
Estado inicial:
constructor(props) {
    super(props)

    this.state = {
        post: [{
            nome: '',
            conteudo: '',
            comment: false
        }]
    }
    this.handleClickComment = this.handleClickComment.bind(this)

}

Método que altera o atributo comment para cada objeto no array(corrigido):
handleClickComment(postagem) {
    postagem.comment = !postagem.comment
    let i = postagem.id -1
    this.setState({...this.state.post[this.state.post[i] = postagem]})
}

Esse método é chamando em um evento onClick, e recebe como parâmetro o objeto em questão conforme foi mapeado em outro componente, mas sempre que o evento o atributo comment simplesmente não muda.
Alguém saberia me dizer o que há de errado?
Edit
Pessoal consegui resolver vou atualizar o código que funcionou perfeito, atualizou o valor do atributo sem alterar o estado da aplicação diretamente, sempre instancia um novo array com os novos parametros.
Obrigado a todos pela ajuda.

A: Eu resolvi fazer um exemplo minimo para alteração em uma lista:

class ListApp extends React.Component {
  constructor(props) {
      super(props);
  }
  render() {
      return (

{this.props.nome} <button type="button" onClick={this.props.click}>Comment - {this.props.comment ? "Verdadeiro": "Falso"}</button>

      )
  }
}
class App extends React.Component {
    constructor() {
      super();
      this.state = {
        post: [{
          nome: 'n1',
          conteudo: '',
          comment: false
        },
        {
          nome: 'n2',
          conteudo: '',
          comment: true
        }]
      }
    }

    render() {
      return (
{
          this.state.post.map((m,i) => <ListApp key={i} indice={i} comment={m.comment} nome={m.nome} click={this.handleClickComment.bind(this, i, m)} />)
      }
)
    }

    handleClickComment(index, model) {
        model.comment = !model.comment;
        const { post } = this.state;
        post[index] = model;
        this.setState({post});
    }
}

ReactDOM.render(<App/>,document.getElementById('root'));


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Q: Questions about sessions on Tomcat. 2 war webapps I want to ask a couple questions about tomcat session lifecycle if we are deploying it using 2 war files.
We have the situation when we are logged in the first web app (war1) and put in the session some attributes.
After this we open a new tab at the same browser for war2 and then inside filter we are receiving request that contains new session with new cookie.
So, is it possible to somehow share session attributes on 2 different wep apps (2 dofferent war files under 1 tomcat instance).
Is it possible to have 1 session for 2 web applications?
For example if I open 1 tab in the browser for war1 I am getting sesionId 123ASD, and then if I open second tab for war2 it will contain same sessionId: 123ASD.
Is this situation possible ?
Is there any ways to configure Tomcat ?
I have tryid toput this valve inside server.xml file:
<Valve className="org.apache.catalina.authenticator.SingleSignOn" requireReauthentication="true"/>

And add crossContext="true" value for <Context crossContext="true"> at context.xml file but it doesn't helped at all.

A: No, it is not possible to share sessions across two web applications.
The single-sign-on valve is intended to share authentication information across applications. It does not share sessions.
The crossContext attribute on your <Context> doesn't do what you think it does. It allows the application to request a RequestDispatcher to another context for the purposes of forwarding requests across contexts. You almost never want to do that. It has nothing to do with sessions.


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Governor Wolf: Pennsylvania's Uninsured Rate at Historic Low
Healthcare, Medicaid Expansion, Press Release, Public Health
Harrisburg, PA – Governor Tom Wolf today announced that Pennsylvania's uninsured rate declined slightly from 5.6 percent in 2016 to 5.5 percent in 2017 – the lowest on record. The decrease continues the downward trend since the Affordable Care Act's passage despite efforts from the federal government to undermine its progress.
"Pennsylvania has taken significant steps to provide Pennsylvanians with access to affordable health coverage, and the result is that the uninsured rate has dropped by more than half in the past eight years," Gov. Tom Wolf said. "One of my first actions as governor was authorizing the expansion of Medicaid under the Affordable Care Act. Along with the ongoing advocacy efforts of the Pennsylvania Insurance Department and Department of Human Services, more Pennsylvanians than ever are covered, and our insurance market is stable and competitive."
Pennsylvania's 5.5 percent uninsured rate was released as part of a national study on health insurance coverage for 2017 based on current population reports issued by the United States Census Bureau this week. The decrease is considerably lower than the national uninsured rate of 8.8 percent.
More than a million Pennsylvanians have comprehensive health care under the ACA through expanded Medicaid or the marketplace.
"The Insurance Department has been working tirelessly to inform consumers about their options and ensure that the market is competitive and stable," said Insurance Commissioner Jessica Altman. The record low number of uninsured shows that Pennsylvanians want and deserve access to health coverage. Open enrollment is just six weeks away, so I urge Pennsylvanians who want to enroll or re-enroll in a marketplace plan to start thinking about their coverage needs and to be fully informed about their choices."
"This data shows that despite efforts to undo the progress made by the Affordable Care Act and its coverage improvements, the individual market and Medicaid expansion are still working and helping Pennsylvanians get the coverage they need," said Human Services Secretary Teresa Miller. "Government should always be looking for ways to make quality, comprehensive coverage more accessible and affordable for the people they serve, and we will not give up this goal."
For more information about health insurance options in Pennsylvania, visit www.insurance.pa.gov or www.healthchoices.pa.gov.


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Is an attempt at Bush prepared in Georgia?
Georgian officials yesterday confirmed that a grenade had been found near the stage where President George Bush spoke in Tbilisi on Tuesday, but said it was inactive.
&to=http:// english.pravda.ru/cis/2002/10/17/38315.html ' target=_blank>Gela Bezhuashvili, secretary of Georgia's national security council, said a Soviet-era grenade was found 30 metres from where Mr Bush addressed a crowd of 100,000 from behind bullet-proof glass.
He said it had not been thrown, as was initially reported, but was "found" by a Georgian security guard in "inactive mode".
The RGD-5 "engineering grenade" could be fatal at close range but was not designed to spread shrapnel, he added, suggesting that had it exploded it would have been unlikely to harm Mr Bush. Other experts said it was a "fragmentation" grenade with a lethal range of up to 25 metres.
A US secret service spokesman said the Americans had been told about the grenade once Mr Bush had left the country, publishes the Guardian Unlimited.
Bush was not aware of the grenade report until Secret Service agents told him about it aboard his jet as it was returning to &to=http:// english.pravda.ru/usa/2001/09/12/14900.html ' target=_blank>Andrews Air Force Base outside of Washington, press secretary Scott McClellan said, adding that the White House never believed the president's life was in danger.
A U.S. Secret Service spokesman, Jonathan Cherry, said Tuesday that his agency had been informed that a device, possibly a hand grenade, had been thrown near the stage during Bush's speech, hit someone in the crowd and fell to the ground.
Bezhuashvili described it as an "engineering grenade" -- one used for demolition or to simulate the effect of an artillery shell. The blast of such a grenade can be fatal at close range, but unlike offensive grenades, they are not designed to spread shrapnel.


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Snøhetta designs Italian mountaintop museum for Ötzi the Iceman
Lizzie Crook | 28 February 2019 Leave a comment
Snøhetta has released visuals of a Museum Quarter in the mountains of Bolzano, which will have a projecting stepped roof that doubles as a viewpoint.
If built the museum would have exhibition space for the South Tyrol Museum of Archaeology and the Municipal Museum of Bolzano, and would house the famous prehistoric mummy of Ötzi the Iceman.
The proposal is an extension of Snøhetta's ongoing project with Signa Group, for which it is currently constructing a cable car system on Italy's Virgl mountain.
"The new Museum Quarter will create a synthesis of city and nature, of history and future, of building and landscape, of culture, leisure and knowledge," said Kjetil Trædal Thorsen, founding partner of Snøhetta.
"Visitors can meet Ötzi the Iceman on top of the Virgl mountain, a place with a historic atmosphere. In addition, the new Virgl cable car system and the Museum Quarter will provide spaces of cultural significance and recreational value next to the city centre of Bolzano."
Snøhetta's proposal imagines the Museum Quarter as a elongated structure that projects out from the mountain to echo its topography.
It would connect to the ring-shaped cable car station via a central plaza, which will be used as a space for open-air markets and concerts.
Snøhetta wins competition for cable car and Alpine viewing platform in Italy
This plaza will be lined with a mix of seating areas, and lead up to the museum's stepped roof that provides panoramic views of Bolzano and its mountainscape.
A secluded entrance to the pair of museums will puncture the hillside, leading into a joint foyer area.
Snøhetta has also proposed developing and landscape the area surrounding the scheme to make the mountain more accessible for walking, hiking and biking.
"Through the planned cable car structure and the new Museum Quarter, the Virgl mountain will serve as a cultural and recreational area for the people and visitors of Bolzano," added the architecture studio.
"The new Museum Quarter will establish a new landmark for Bolzano and reinforce the city's international significance as a cultural destination."
Founded in 1989, Snøhetta is an international architecture and design firm based in Oslo, Norway and New York.
Alongside its Museum Quarter proposal, the studio has also recently completed a pair of wooden Outdoor Care Retreats at two Norwegian hospitals, as well as a crystal workshop for Swarovski in Austria.
Visuals courtesy of Moka Studio and Snøhetta.
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AMD class action settlement
Thread starter Jung
All individuals who purchased one or more of the following AMD CPUs either (1) while residing in California or (2) after visiting the AMD.com website: FX-8120, FX-8150, FX-8320, FX-8350, FX-8370, FX-9370, or FX-9590. Excluded from the Settlement Class are (1) any Judge or Magistrate presiding over this action and members of their families, (2) the defendant, defendant's subsidiaries, parent companies, successors, predecessors, and any entity in which the defendant or its parents have a controlling interest and their current or former officers, directors, and employees, (3) persons who properly execute and file a timely request for exclusion from the class, and (4) the legal representatives, successors or assigns of any such excluded persons.
If you are member of the Settlement Class you may submit a Claim Form to receive a portion of the Settlement Fund. The amount of this payment will depend on how many of the Class Members file valid claims. Each Class Member who files a valid claim will receive a proportionate share of the Settlement Fund based on the number of CPUs purchased, up to $300 per CPU purchased. Settlement Distributions will be paid on a per-CPU basis, with a maximum of five (5) qualifying purchases paid per Claimant, without proof of purchase. Claimants who purchased more than five (5) CPUs must provide proof of purchase upon request. This website will periodically be updated to provide the estimated payment amount based on the number of participating Settlement Class Members.
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Jung said:
Settlement Distributions will be paid on a per-CPU basis, with a maximum of five (5) qualifying purchases paid per Claimant, without proof of purchase.
Why is AMD getting a class action lawsuit, and why shouldn't anybody prove they bought one of the CPUs when signing it? Nice job legalizing fraud.
YogurtExplosion said:
Fallout from them lying about core counts.
AMD sued: Number of Bulldozer cores in its chips is a lie, allegedly
When does a slab of transistor gates become a processor – the big question
www.theregister.co.uk


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George William Foote (1850-1915)
Atheism Freedom of Belief Freedom of Speech Politics Secularism Social Reform
Doubt is the beginning of wisdom. It means caution, independence, honesty and veracity.
G. W. Foote
George William Foote was a freethinker, secularist, and writer, remembered by Sydney Gimson as the deliverer of 'fine fighting lectures which always had a dignified literary form'. President of the National Secular Society for a quarter of a century, Foote spent most of his life working to promote humanist values, notably freedom of thought and speech, publishing prolifically and organising tirelessly.
George William Foote was born on 11 January 1850 in Plymouth. He was brought up in difficult circumstances, his father having died when he was young, but he had a good education by the standards of the time, which stimulated a life-long interest in literature. He was brought up a Christian.
George William Foote in The Secular Chronicle, 1878
In 1868 he moved to London, first working as a librarian. He soon encountered secularists and became active. At first he was mainly drawn to George Jacob Holyoake and his moderate version of secularism. This became sharply apparent in 1876, when Foote was expelled from the National Secular Society (NSS), and in 1877 when he was one of Bradlaugh's most vocal critics over the re-publication of The Fruits of Philosophy.
All was to change in 1880 when Bradlaugh was prevented from taking his place in the House of Commons. Up to then, Foote favoured a quiet scholarly life but this enraged him. His solution was to fight fire with fire.
In 1881, Foote rejoined the NSS and in May issued the first number of a new newspaper The Freethinker. He set out his stall in the first issue:
The Freethinker is an anti-Christian organ, and must therefore be chiefly aggressive. It will wage relentless war against Superstition… it will not scruple to employ for the same purpose any weapons of ridicule or sarcasm that may be borrowed from the armoury of common sense.
His belief was that no one could take the religious and religion seriously if they were laughed at. From early on he introduced a weekly Bible cartoon which was particularly hard-hitting and incensed the religious. Such tactics seemed popular: although The Freethinker was launched as a monthly, it soon became weekly.
Full Report of the Trial of G.W. Foote and W.J. Ramsey for Blasphemy, 1883
Foote knew he was inviting prosecution, welcomed it, and did all he could to provoke it. He got his wish. Two blasphemy prosecutions were brought against the issues of 28 May 1882 (which included a cartoon strip satirising the life of Christ) and a further cartoon 'Moses Getting a Back View'. The second came to trial first in March 1883. Foote, as editor, was accompanied in the dock by William Ramsay (shop manager) and William Kemp (printer). They appeared before Lord Justice Sir Ford North, a Roman Catholic, whose attitude was hostile throughout. Despite the Judge's advice, the jury failed to convict and a retrial was ordered for the following week. The second trial was again held before North and this time the jury convicted. Foote was sentenced to 12 months, Ramsey nine, and Kemp three. The severity of the sentence came as a shock even to Foote's opponents. Martyrdom had been achieved.
Foote and Ramsey were back in court for a third trial in April on the first charge relating to The Freethinker of 28 May 1882. This time the case was heard by Lord Justice Coleridge who, in contrast to North, treated the defendants with consideration and courtesy. Throughout the trials Foote conducted his own defence. The jury failed to reach a decision and although a retrial was expected this never occurred, the prosecution dropped the case. Foote, Ramsey and Kemp served their sentences at Holloway under the severe regime of a late Victorian gaol. Foote was now well known and received a hero's welcome on his release. When Bradlaugh stepped down as President of the NSS in 1890, Foote was his successor.
Foote took over at a difficult time. The NSS faced significant challenge partly because progressive opinion was switching from radicalism to socialism and also because opportunities for popular, heroic struggles had declined due to the secularists' very success. Nevertheless, he managed to hold the NSS together, despite losing some leading characters after Bradlaugh's death. He also saw the organisation's transition from being an essentially political movement into a pressure group. Under his Presidency The Freethinker emerged as the NSS mouthpiece and Foote's weekly editorial was usually interesting, provocative and written with style. During his lifetime he put his name to over 2,000 articles. On the other hand, the NSS was no longer associated with broad radical, political campaigns as it had been under Bradlaugh. It, and The Freethinker, appealed to loyal adherents but was largely ignored by the public at large, many of whom regarded them with distaste.
Foote did give the NSS financial security by forming the Secular Society Ltd which took advantage of Lord Justice Coleridge's judgement of 1883 legalising bequests for freethought. When Foote's health broke down in 1913, Chapman Cohen took over the editorship of The Freethinker in everything but name. Foote died on 17 October 1915 amidst the madness of a war that seemed to defy secularists' faith in human progress.
…to persevere, to fight to the end, is to live (if unknown) in the future of humanity.
G.W. Foote, Flowers of Freethought (1893)
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Historian Edward Royle has described G.W. Foote's tenacious advocacy for freethought as being 'largely responsible for the survival of secularist radicalism into the twentieth century'. Foote remained devoted to the cause even in the face of financial difficulties and organisational fracture, publishing, lecturing, debating, and editing for as long as his health allowed. Though an outspoken controversialist, behind the scenes Foote was a passionate devotee of literature and learning; deeply humane, and humanist. As one obituary noted:
There have been, in recent years, few men of such uncompromising honesty and candour of character; few men whoso public utterance seemed anti-Christian to the point of intolerance, yet whose private actions were so tolerant, generous, and free from malice or personal ambition.
By Robert Forder
George Jacob Holyoake
Ruskin School Home (1900-1926)
The Ruskin School Home was founded by socialist writer and teacher [Harry] Bellerby Lowerison (1863–1935) in Norfolk in 1900, following […]
Healthcare Politics Science Social Reform
British Society for the Study of Sex Psychology
The British Society for the Study of Sex Psychology was officially formed in April 1914, 'for the consideration of problems […]
Atheism Freedom of Speech
Chapman Cohen (1868-1954)
Chapman Cohen was a tireless champion of freethought, and a prolific writer and lecturer for the secularist cause. President of […]
Atheism Freedom of Belief Freedom of Speech Social Reform
Harriet Law (1831-1897)
Harriet Law was a secularist and speaker, who also promoted women's rights and socialist ideals. During the 1870s, Law's house […]


Few people know that Dropbox's famously successful referral program was actually inspired by PayPal's.
This might seem counter-intuitive: Why isn't the story of PayPal's referral program more popular than Dropbox's?
The simple answer is that the Internet just wasn't so big then. Social media wasn't a thing yet. PayPal's referrals happened almost entirely through email, blogs and IMs.
Despite that limitation, it was incredibly successful. According to Elon Musk, PayPal spent about US$60 million on its referral incentives. In 2015, the company had a market capitalization of US$46.6 billion.
Referrals helped PayPal get 7 to 10% daily growth, catapulting their user base to over 100 million members.
SAL KHAN: Oh, wow, OK. So it was substantial. OK. So we're not talking peanuts here.
ELON MUSK: It depends on your relative scale. It's a peanut to Google.
SAL KHAN: Yeah, no, that's right. That's right.
ELON MUSK: Here's a peanut. I mean, Google's got $50 billion. Apple's got $150 billion, some crazy amount of money. That's just cash.
SAL KHAN: Yeah. So it's not an outlandish– I didn't realize that was so core.
ELON MUSK: Like 1% of Google's cash would be $500 million. So, you know, that's 0.1% percent of Google's cash.
SAL KHAN: That's true. You're right, that's inexpensive. It's nothing.
ELON MUSK: Relative to them, it's pretty inexpensive.
ELON MUSK: And then we did a bunch of things to decrease the friction. It's just like bacteria in a Petri dish. So what you want to do is try to have one customer generate like two customers. OK? Or something like that. Maybe three customers, ideally. And then you want that to happen really fast. And you could probably model it just like bacteria growth in a Petri dish. And then it'll just expand very quickly until it hits the side of the Petri dish and then it slows down.
Referrals turned out to yield substantially better marketing ROI than the alternatives.
Once PayPal achieved a critical mass of early adopters they dropped the Refer-A-Friend bonus for regular users, but they kept it for Merchants.
They dropped the Merchant bonus too, once they reached their target numbers.
The last vestigial remnant of Paypal's referral system.
"PayPal's big challenge was to get new customers. They tried advertising. It was too expensive. They tried BD deals with big banks. Bureaucratic hilarity ensued. Over ice cream, the PayPal team reached an important conclusion: BD didn't work. They needed organic, viral growth. They needed to give people money.
If it worked so well, why did they remove it? An educated guess: Fairly straightforward cost-benefit analysis.
1: Diminishing returns at (massive) scale.
PayPal is a payments system, which is greatly dependent on network effects. The more people use PayPal, the more it becomes worth it to join the bandwagon.
Eventually, the number of people using PayPal alone would've been incentive enough for new users to sign up, rendering the incentive unnecessary.
2: Customer Acquisition Cost (CAC) begins to exceed Customer Lifetime Value (LTV).
Signups are free to do, and so it's practically a certainty that the system would've been gamed by eager opportunists.
For any other business, this would've turned out really, really ugly. PayPal probably factored in exploitation and misuse into the cost of customer acquisition.
Also, when you have MILLIONS of customers, the load on your infrastructure must be unbearably costly.
What are the implications for regular businesses running referral programs of their own?
For ecommerce businesses, you should incentivizing the purchase, not the sharing or signup.
If you pay people to share or signup for an account, you'll end up with loads of shares and signups, but few purchases.
Worse still, the high-quality influencers that you want to court will get turned off by the spammy behavior associated with your product.
So definitely don't do that.
For some quality examples of referral programs in ecommerce, check out the ecommerce section of our best Referral Program Examples post.
Study your costs and benefits very carefully.
This is the responsibility of anybody running a business, and you probably shouldn't outsource it to anybody else.
If you make a $20 profit on a product, giving a $10 referral reward is very reasonable for every successful sale. You still profit AND get great marketing.
You may be tempted to sacrifice more profits for greater reach, but you may face diminishing returns. You'll have to study your costs very carefully, and experiment prudently.
Read next: What Is The Return-on-Investment (ROI) for Referral Programs?
Ensure that your product/service is compelling even without any added incentives.
This should go without saying! The most succesful customers we have at ReferralCandy already had strong traction and some word-of-mouth before they added their referral program.
Referrals are a multiplier for something great.
Referrals worked great for PayPal, but that doesn't mean your business will flourish if you give away money the way they did.
PayPal was taking hefty risks because it was trying to dominate a 'winner-takes-all' market, and there were people willing to finance such risks because of the potential returns.
There are plenty of ways to accelerate the growth of your business without throwing cash at the market.
An effective referral program has to have incentives that are not only substantial but relevant. Specifically, you want to incentivize the customer behavior that makes sense for your business.
People will refer a good product to their friends without incentives, but it's possible for incentives to be so low as to be insulting, tarnishing what would otherwise have been a gesture of goodwill.
As a super-vague rule of thumb, anything less than $5 is usually not worth the trouble for most customers. But it really depends on what you're selling. If it's an expensive product, the reward should be proportional.
Ask yourself, what is the "lifeblood" of your product? For Dropbox, it was storage space. For World of Warcraft, it's in-game social proof. For PayPal, it's money. For Freemium games, it's in-game credit.
What about for ecommerce businesses? That's a challenge for you to solve, as an entrepreneur or marketer. But it's not an entirely unsolved problem; there are some clues. Do your customers want to feel stylish? Secure? Improve the environment?
Figure out what your customers really want, and tie your incentives into that.
Remember, referrals aren't magic. They can only amplify what you already have.
You can't just create them out of thin air, you need to have a product that people actually want to talk about.
Once you've got that, the most you can do is to set things up such that it easier for your delighted customers to share their love for your product with others. That can make all the difference.
Great article! Very interesting analysis of why paid incentivization worked for Paypal but wouldn't necessarily work in a different vertical.
Always an interesting read from this fella. Your wise words will be put to practice very soon my friend… Thanks.
Great article. In addition to the above, knowing one ma8n metric, the lifetime value of your customer determines what your allowable cost of customer acquisition should be.
Hats off to these companies for keeping their secret sauce well hidden yet managing to project the impression that they're very open about sharing success tips. I regularly see startups getting misled by this approach e.g. a statistics professional wanted to start a mobile POS company only because he'd read SQUARE's yarn spinning around how analytics was the major reason for its success (when its true secret sauce lay in the way it disrupted the dynamics of merchant accounts). PAYPAL is creating smoke and mirrors here by mixing up leads with customers. The person (say Person X) who PayPal acquired for $20 never paid PayPal – not at the point of acquisition, not even if and when s/he sent money via PayPal later. So, Person X is only a lead, not customer. On the other hand, there's a Person Y who is the beneficiary of the payment who needs to sign up for PayPal and pay fees to PayPal to collect his money. It's only when Person Y signs up for PayPal that PayPal really gains a customer. And, by using its true secret sauce, PayPal did not pay anything to acquire that customer. I'm amazed at how P2P services launched even in 2013-2014 (e.g. PingIt in UK, IMPS in India) haven't cracked the brilliant strategy used by PayPal back in 2000 or so to create virality.
Hmm… I see where you're coming from. I wouldn't blame PayPal for the confusion though, I think it's something that gets messy in translation, writing, communication.
Would it be less convoluted if we called it User Acquisition Cost? The cost of acquiring a user- meaning somebody signs up for the service- is $20. Whether or not they subsequently remain an active user is secondary.
Also, when does PayPal "really gain a customer"? It's a little complicated, isn't it? PayPal takes a cut off of transactions, so all PayPal needs is a large base of users that makes transactions from time to time.
And yeah, I'm surprised PingIt hasn't done the same thing.
CAC etc., the exact point of customer acquisition by PayPal appears complicated but I suspect that's not unintentional. If we view the sales funnel as comprising of multiple stages, it's clear that whenever PayPal earns a fee, that's when PayPal acquires a customer. What's not widely appreciated – or imitated – about the PayPal model is that the two parties to a PayPal payment need not both be PayPal users at the point of payment. A large base of users making transactions is the result of PayPal's differentiated approach, not the secret sauce in itself.
The original business plan focused on allowing people to transfer money electronically via the Palm hand-held computer. But Musk quickly saw that the "killer" application would be a system that allowed the secure e-mailing of payments using any type of PC, according to Sacks, the former PayPal COO.
As soon as PayPal saw that so-called early adopters were using the system by the thousands to pay for purchases on EBay, Musk developed a "viral marketing campaign," Sacks said: The firm paid $10 to every new PayPal customer as well as anyone who referred a new user to the system. The campaign fueled exponential growth.


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Miles Jennings and Alfredo Amato produced one of the most popular and surprising results of the weekend with a simply sensational win in race 2 of the Mediterranean Grand Prix, which started to turn dramatically on its head as early as lap 8 of 15. The Anglo-Italian duo were running strongly in fourth place ahead of Poliform and were then elevated to third when Luca Formilli Fendi and Giovanni Carpitella's race ended on lap 8 with a broken torque sensor. Two laps later race leader Victory slowed to a crawl after breaking a propeller and were passed by Zabo-Isiklar with LFF8 now up into second place.
The newly crowned World Champions finish in style at the Abu Dhabi Class 1 UIM Offshore Grand Prix 2012
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Mohammed Al Marri completed their Abu Dhabi Grand Prix treble after cruising to a comfortable victory in race 2. Their seventh of the season, ends a near perfect season for the Champions, claiming top spot in the World, Middle East and Edox Pole Position Championships


For all the talk of division in Washington, our nation's commitment to our veterans usually bring us together in unity.
A perfect example of this was the passage of the Veterans Access, Choice and Accountability (CHOICE) Act, the comprehensive response to the manipulation and mismanagement failures at the Department of Veterans Affairs' (VA) medical centers. The CHOICE Act provides veterans with more options for care and also puts into place a system of accountability within the agency in response to the ongoing investigations into misconduct by VA employees.
Congress passed this bill in an overwhelmingly bipartisan fashion and it became law after President Obama traveled to Fort Belvoir, Virginia for a signing ceremony.
Such accord is almost unheard of on a major piece of legislation these days, but that rare agreement shows how confident Congress is in the reforms included in this law.
That point makes it all the more infuriating that VA recently announced it will no longer use the authority granted to the Secretary through the CHOICE Act to quickly terminate negligent senior VA executives.
VA's announcement came after the Department of Justice (DOJ) stated that a provision in the CHOICE Act is unconstitutional. Not the courts, rather the Attorney General made this determination. DOJ decided it simply would not defend a provision in current accountability law against a constitutional challenge by a VA executive who was fired in the Phoenix wait-time scandal.
VA Secretary Robert McDonald was very supportive of this authority until DOJ issued its statement. He then reversed course, sided with DOJ and didn't bother to let Congress know that the VA would no longer follow this law. Instead, my colleagues and I in Congress found out through news reports. In light of the Secretary's poor judgment, it is even more imperative the Senate moves to pass the Veterans First Act.
The Veterans First Act aims to build on the CHOICE Act's progress toward changing the culture at the VA by further empowering department leadership to fire bad actors, prohibiting bonuses for employees accused of wrongdoing and instituting protections for whistleblowers. It expedites the removal of all employees at VA, from executives to rank-and-file, and it removes the provision in current law that DOJ says is unconstitutional.
There are well documented situations of VA employees abusing their power. We have accountability measures on the books that must be used to address this.
On the other hand, the vast majority of the people at VA are hardworking and do a tremendous job. I am proud of the VA facilities that we have in Arkansas and the men and women who staff them. However, we do all of those exceptional staff members a disservice when we do not hold the bad actors at VA accountable. Passage of this bill will remind Secretary McDonald that he needs to be more concerned with veterans than he is with labor disputes.
When it comes to our nation's veterans, their commitment to our country is without question, and our commitment to them must be the same. The Veterans First Actreflects that obligation to keep the promises made to our veterans.


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By Jef Furr Music Education Choir, Fund Raising, Music Education, Music Travel, Music Travel Consultants, Orchestra, Performance Travel, School Music Trips, Student Fund Raisers, Student Music Fund Raising Comments Off on Fundraising
Time for some heavy lifting
Before your trip becomes a reality, some homework has to be done. Don't worry, Music Travel Consultants is here to help.
For music boosters and extra-curricular support groups, fundraising is essential to providing and maintaining educational opportunities and travel for students. Drastic cuts in school budgets have forced everyone (even athletic teams) to depend more and more on alternative sources for funding. Here are some proven fundraising activities. We hope one or more work for your group. If you don't see your favorite fundraiser listed here, please email it to us, and we'll and add it to our list. If you have questions about how some of these fundraisers work, please call or email Music Travel Consultants for answers.
Suggestions from Directors:
Dave Niemeyer – Warren High School, California
Fundraising…oh the fun. I am not a big fan of fundraising, but understand it to be a necessary evil of my job in order to financially sustain a quality music program. I try to steer clear of small change fundraisers or fundraisers that don't offer at minimum, a 50/50 split on the return. I'm much more excited and willing to do fundraisers that are able to make thousands in revenue rather than hundreds. Here are some examples of what we do that make thousands and help sustain our program. Like many other programs, we are constantly looking for new and great ideas.
Fireworks Booth:
We run a 4-day fireworks booth in our city July 1-4. It makes about $11,000 to $16,000.
Decal Drive:
At the start of every school year, the entire band and color guard dresses into their uniforms and goes door to door in our community asking for their support. If anyone makes any sort of donation (1 cent to whatever), we give them a "decal" that says "I Support the Warren Band and Color Guard". This sticker can go in any window. If people aren't home, we leave a letter and envelope. This fundraiser makes us about $13,000.
Pasta & Presto:
A spaghetti dinner with a twist. The parents cook spaghetti all day while students practice. The students are then the waiters and busers during dinner while the jazz bands provide the entertainment. Afterwards, there is a concert that features both of our middle school programs and ALL of our performing groups including our winter guard. This is held in the gym. Students simply sell tickets to the event. This event can make from $5,000 to $10,000.
Jazz Festival and/or Marching Band Competition:
We try to host things like this and of course, they make money… anywhere from $1,000 to $10,000.
Car Wash Marathon:
A spin on your typical car wash. We select five sites within the city and presale tickets. We divide up the band among the five sites and wash cars all day… because there are five sites, it makes a whole lot more money than one site earning up to $3,000.
Eat Out:
Most restaurants will have a "eat out" fundraiser. Patrons bring a flyer with them on a specified date and time and when they eat, turn in the flyer. A certain percentage (15 % to 20%) is given back to the organization. Typically about $200 to $300 per event.
We have also done our fair share of cookie dough, discount cards, Christmas trees, candy… and a whole lot more.
Jason Boyden – Mona Shores High School, Michigan
I refuse to do any fundraiser that I could potentially lose money on. I know it's kind of a "no-brainer", but there are way too many "Buy this candy up front and sell it for twice what you paid!" deals out there.
Scrip Program:
We raise a majority of our money using a scrip program. It is steady income that makes planning much easier. www.scrip.com
Can Drives:
In Michigan, you can get 10 cents for every can you recycle, so we go door to door asking for cans. We make about $600 an hour when we do this.
Marchathon:
We do an annual Marchathon where we march five miles through different neighborhoods in our community. We raise about $12,000 a year. Not only is it good money, but it is an awesome way to connect with our community members. People love it, and it is not terribly work intensive for a one-day thing. Oh, yea… and its early in the season so the cadences and school songs are TIGHT by the end of the day.
Jeff Neavor – Morton High School, Illinois
We started a marching competition a few years ago that we use as our only fundraiser. Instead of selling products, we make $20,000 to $30,000 in one day with the event.
Michael Henderson – Chase High School, North Carolina
I prefer to use "event type" fundraisers as opposed to selling items. The best "go out and sell something" fundraiser we have is a fruit fundraiser. We started a concert series last year that brings in local artists for concerts of different genres once a month. We also sell Avon, cookie dough, and have plenty of car washes throughout the year.
Connie Cathey – Columbia Central High School, Tennessee
We have two large and two small fundraisers. The large fundraisers are our marching contest and fruit sale. One small fundraiser is Smart Cards. We give the students five cards that they either sell for $12 or a donation of $35 which is our profit on smart cards. We do the same thing with Applebee's or McDonald's for breakfast.
Sandra McCormick – Brewer High School, Texas
Magazine Subscriptions:
Magazine subscriptions work well, especially in the younger grades; the company bills the customer so the students/parents never collect money or deliver items.
Annual Rummage Sale:
Another great project is our Annual Rummage Sale. Students label items to sell with their names and asking price; we set up early at a high traffic location, advertise in papers, and generally earn several thousands of dollars in one day.
Car Washes and Restaurant Nights:
We earn a nice amount and the students have fun working together so it is good for team building as well.
Silent Auction:
We hold a silent auction at a big showcase concert in the spring. The concert features the jazz band, drumline, guard, and variety acts. We charge admission for the concert and ask for merchandise and/or professional services to be donated by local businesses to auction prior to and during the concert. We usually earn $2,500 to $3,000 on this.
Here is a funny story (wasn't funny at the time) of my first year teaching. The Band Boosters scheduled a barn dance/BBQ dinner on a Saturday night. I walked in and discovered that they were selling beer by the mug from a keg. I thought that I would be fired for sure, and then the principal and superintendent walked in – I thought I would be fired that night! No, they bought their beer and BBQ and sat down to enjoy the evening. That sort of fundraiser was acceptable in the community; however, I would not recommend it as a fundraiser in most towns in the USA!
Michael Miller – Saguaro High School, Arizona
In Arizona, we are able to use tax credit money that parents can pay into a school account for most of our needs. Parents get a dollar for dollar credit on their state taxes. Any other fundraisers that I do I try to have them be "non-product" so if a parent is paying $10 we get all $10. It is always bothersome for parents to pay the $10 and we only keep $4 as an example. That is the direction my program goes. My boosters sell concessions at the varsity football games and generate large dollars for our program as well.
John Owens – Page High School, Arizona
I use state tax credits (most of our funds $50,000+), Navajo taco sales (earns $3,000+), and our jazz benefit concert/dinner/auction (earns $12,000). Our boosters run our fundraisers and they are very dedicated to getting results. We only do a few but we make sure that they are all big money makers.
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Here is a list MTC has compiled over the years:
Holiday concert with a small admission fee
Dinner with entertainment by your music group
Operate or work concessions for school events
Operate or work concessions for professional sports teams or arenas
Sell flowers and mulch
Pledge Car Wash – collect pledges before the date
________-a-thon
Host a Drum Corps show
Host a state sponsored music event (e.g., solo & ensemble contest)
Sell cheese, sausage, candy or fruit
Rent a kid
Rechargeable Merchant Cards (supermarkets, gas stations, big box stores)
Free throw, 3-point, full court shot contest
Bag groceries
Sell group concerts for corporate parties
Auction group concert on ebay
Sell radio ads
Leaf raking
Breakfast with Santa or Easter Bunny
Take over a restaurant for a night
Daisy Drop
Children's Carnival
Miniature Golf Tournament
Clean up a race track or concert hall/sports arena after a big event
We hope these insights prove valuable and profitable to you. Music Travel Consultants stands ready to help with advice, experience and the ability to easily spread fund raising money quickly into each traveler's trip account.
Jef Furr
Travel and music are always Jef Furr's choices for fun and adventure! A trombone player at Noblesville (IN) Middle School, Jef honed his talents and graduated from Ball State University with a B.S. in Music Education. While his sisters gravitated straight to travel careers (a flight attendant and Holland America Cruises representative), Jef taught for 16 years before working in student travel full-time. After stints at North Miami (IN) and Alexandria-Monroe (IN) high schools, Jef moved to Southport High School in Indianapolis as Band Director and, later, Music Department Chair. Following 1986's featured performance by Jef and the Southport Band in the classic film, "Hoosiers," Jef realized a life-long dream as the band won the coveted 1987 Indiana State Fair Band Day Competition. He capped the year with the band's performance in the 1987 Macy*s Thanksgiving Day Parade in New York City. Philadelphia's Thanksgiving Parade in 1991 featured the Southport Band as the opening act, and in 1992, Jef's Southport Winter Guard garnered first place in both Indiana's and Winter Guard International's annual competitions. His concert bands placed within the top eight in Indiana four times. Once Jef assisted as a Tour Director for an Orange Bowl-bound band, nearly every school vacation thereafter found him guiding a student group throughout the USA or Europe. In 1994 he joined Music Travel Consultants full-time. Although he travels frequently, Jef still finds time to appear regularly as a trombonist at his church and in local theatre productions.
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ANC leader John Beaver Marks (C) in Johannesburg, South Africa, seen in this June 1952 photograph.
The remains of two prominent anti-apartheid activists who were among the mentors of Nelson Mandela were flown back home Sunday nearly 40 years after they died in Russia.
President Jacob Zuma led an official ceremony to receive the bodies of Moses Kotane and John Beaver Marks, whose bodies were exhumed from Russia's prestigious Novodevichy cemetery in Moscow.
Kotane, ex-general secretary of the South African Communist Party and a former executive committee member of the African National Congress (ANC), was one of 156 defendants in the notorious 1956 treason trial.
The group, which included Mandela, was arrested in a raid and charged with treason by the apartheid regime. All the accused were found not guilty by the time the trial ended in 1961.
Kotane is credited with bringing the communists and the ANC together into an alliance that still remains solid. The two parties are part of a political tripartite alliance together with the labour federation, Cosatu.
"Our very own icon Nelson Mandela is a product of these two," said Zuma. "They are the fathers of our revolution".
Born in 1905, Kotane fled the country into exile to Tanzania in 1963 where he helped coordinate the setting up of the ANC military wing Umkhonto we Sizwe.
In 1968, Kotane suffered a stroke and was flown to Moscow for treatment where he died in 1978.
Kotane's reburial on home soil will fulfil the wishes of his wife, Rebecca, who is 103 years old and wanted her husband back home while "I am still alive," according to Zuma.
Zuma secured the repatriation from his counterpart Vladimir Putin during a visit to Russia last year.
"A valiant, courageous and stubborn fighter has fallen at his post, on the battlefield," is how former ANC president Oliver Tambo described Kotane in a eulogy.
Fellow veteran activist Marks was banned from the country by the apartheid regime and sought asylum in Russia. He also died after suffering a stroke in Moscow in 1972.
"giants in the struggle for the freedom of democracy" were at the "forefront of popularising the struggle" and made the 1994 democracy "breakthrough possible".
They will be buried at state-assisted funerals later this month.
Last year the remains of prominent anti-apartheid journalist and writer, Nat Nakasa, were repatriated from the United States of America, nearly 50 years after he committed suicide while in exile.
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Vladimír Kunc (22. dubna 1952, Kotvrdovice – 1997) byl český hokejový útočník.

Hokejová kariéra
V československé lize hrál za TJ ZKL/Zetor Brno. Odehrál 9 ligových sezón, nastoupil ve 321 ligových utkáních, dal 75 gólů a měl 65 asistencí. V nižších soutěžích hrál za VTJ Dukla Hodonín, TJ Baník Hodonín, TJ Plastika Nitra, TJ ZVL Skalica, TJ Prostějov a TJ Slovan Rosice.

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