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After firing of UD softball coach, support on both sides
Jaime Wohlbach's oddly timed dismissal came with one month and at least 15 games to go in the Blue Hens' season, as they fight an uphill battle to make the Colonial Athletic Association playoffs.
After firing of UD softball coach, support on both sides Jaime Wohlbach's oddly timed dismissal came with one month and at least 15 games to go in the Blue Hens' season, as they fight an uphill battle to make the Colonial Athletic Association playoffs. Check out this story on delawareonline.com: http://delonline.us/1ywwu9G
Kevin Tresolini, The News Journal Published 5:42 p.m. ET April 15, 2015 | Updated 12:56 a.m. ET April 16, 2015
UD softball coach Jaime Wohlbach, shown here in 2010, was fired Monday because of what she said UD officials called "a hostile environment."(Photo: FRED COMEGYS/The News Journal)Buy Photo
Parents involved in Delaware's youth softball community were particularly vocal in support of Wohlbach
There also was a chorus of support for UD having made a decision that, some suggested, should have been made years before.
NEWARK – Monday's firing of fifth-year softball coach Jaime Wohlbach by the University of Delaware unleashed a firestorm of opinions, both pro and con, from the First State and well beyond.
Her oddly timed dismissal came with one month and at least 15 games to go in the Blue Hens' season, as they fight an uphill battle to make the Colonial Athletic Association playoffs.
"We were shocked," said Cortney Kondravy, mother of UD freshman starter Mariah Kondravy from Bethlehem, Pennsylvania. "I don't know what happened. I'm sad to see her go. My daughter went to Delaware to play for Jaime.''
Several former players, at both Delaware and Iona, where Wohlbach was coach from 2008-10, praised Wohlbach. Former Delaware pitcher Chenxi Jiao said UD's move was "unbelievable."
Parents involved in Delaware's youth softball community were particularly vocal in support of Wohlbach, whom they'd come to know through her summer camps. Julie Rickansrud, a UD graduate from Bear who has sent daughter Hannah to Wohlbach's camps, called the coach's dismissal "a huge loss" for Delaware.
But there also was a chorus of support for UD having made a decision that, some suggested, should have been made years before.
Much of it was expressed through social media, particularly on Facebook, where parents of players whose experiences weren't so wonderful lauded UD's move. Many of those players had seen their playing time diminish, often because of declining performance. But that wasn't the issue, one father insisted.
"She reduced the playing time of anyone who crossed her," he told The News Journal in an email.
Wohlbach was called into a 4 p.m. Monday meeting at the Carpenter Center with athletic director Eric Ziady and UD chief human resources officer Tom LaPenta and told she was being dismissed because "I run a hostile environment," Wohlbach said.
A subsequent UD announcement shed no light on reasons for Wohlbach's termination or why it occurred now instead of after the season, when her contract expires. Ziady would not comment, UD spokesman Scott Selheimer said. Wohlbach was hired by previous AD Bernard Muir, now at Stanford.
After Wohlbach was told of her dismissal, a female acquaintance angrily confronted UD officials at the Carpenter Center, The News Journal learned. UD Police confirmed such an incident took place and is now under investigation, chief Patrick Ogden said.
Sources have told The News Journal the move came after complaints by players and parents about Wohlbach, who moved items out of her Carpenter Center office Tuesday and was escorted from the building without incident by UD athletics officials.
"I said 'How is this possible that students feel it's a hostile environment if I've never, in the entire year, had any meetings or discussions with my sports administrator [senior associate athletic director Joe Shirley] about any student issues?' " Wohlbach said of Monday's meeting in which she was fired.
Wohlbach said she'd been in regular consultation with UD's human resources office because of what she termed "bullying" by Shirley. She was told not to have any contact with her players, who were not permitted to speak to the media.
"There had been issues that came to light in the last few weeks and it just came to fruition," said Susie Gearhart, mother of UD player Leanna Gearhart from Robbinsville, New Jersey. She wouldn't elaborate on what those issues might have been and said that it was best for UD and the team to handle it internally.
Reading of Wohlbach's dismissal because of a "hostile environment," one of her former Iona players, Nicole Carrabus, wasn't surprised. Carrabus was a freshman catcher at Iona in 2008, which was also Wohlbach's first season at the New Rochelle, New York, college. Only three of the nine freshmen from the team returned the following year.
Carrabus, now 26 and living in Los Angeles, was told after her freshman year, when she batted .118 in 17 at-bats, that her scholarship would not renewed. She described Wohlbach as a "manipulative" coach who abused her power by leveraging it to divide teammates.
On the contrary, said Alyssa Maiese, who came to Iona as a transfer from Indiana in the fall of 2009, when she was pregnant. She gave birth to her daughter late that year and then pitched for Iona in 2010 for Wohlbach and then for two more years after she left for Delaware.
"I think Jaime is an amazing person, coach and role model," said Maiese, now 25 and living in Washington Township, New Jersey. "If she only cared about winning, I wouldn't still be close with her six years later."
Told of Carrabus' complaints, Maiese said, "I know in my heart" Wohlbach isn't the person she described.
"I had four different coaches in my five years of college softball," Maiese said, "so I know what it's like to fight for your spot every single day. Your spot isn't guaranteed.''
NCAA Division I softball teams have a 12-scholarship limit and Delaware awards the maximum, sometimes dividing one up over several players. UD policy has generally been to not take away an athletic scholarship from a student-athlete once it has been awarded.
This year's Delaware team has only one senior – all-time UD hits and runs leader Jessica Grisler – who has been in the program for four years. She was in a freshman class of five, demonstrating the high turnover rate that critics say characterized Wohlbach's teams.
"She just played the best players she could," Chenxi Jiao said. "I don't think it came down to who her favorite players were. I thought she was very nice.''
Fourth-year assistant John Seneca was named interim coach through the end of the season. Delaware will then have a national search for a new coach.
Delaware was 21-15 this season going into Wednesday's home nonconference double-header against Rider. The Blue Hens are 5-6 in the CAA with first-place James Madison visiting this weekend.
Delaware's overall record was 115-137-1 under Wohlbach, who felt she had the program turned around even though the Hens didn't make the CAA Tournament for the first time under her watch last year. Delaware had gone 35-22 in 2013, its best record in 13 years.
A positive sign for the future was that Delaware had received a verbal commitment from Maggie Balint, who was Pennsylvania Gatorade Player of the Year as a sophomore in 2014 pitching for nearby Avon Grove. She was 20-3 with a 0.46 ERA and 350 strikeouts in 165 2/3 innings and batted .405.
"She finally had her team and it felt like they were moving in the right direction, so that's a real concern," said Middletown resident Mark Olivas, who has taken his 12-year-old daughter Madeline to Wohlbach's camps. "Some coaches from this part of the country won't even recruit players from east of the Mississippi River but Jaime always made sure to focus on local players."
While Delaware's 22-player roster in 2015 does have seven players from California, it also is heavily drawn from the Mid-Atlantic area. The Blue Hens' top pitcher is Caravel Academy graduate Carolyn Szymanski from Middletown.
Echoing Rickansrud, Olivas praised Wohlbach's sincerity and personal touch.
"My daughter was 10 when she met Jaime and she just made an instant connection with her," he said. "The kids who come to these camps to learn the game, Jaime gets to know them. Most of these camps at a Division I school, the coach makes a speech when the kids show up the first day and then you don't see her again until he or she shakes hands with the parents when they pick up their kids on the last day. Jaime is there, 100 percent of the time, getting to know every kid.''
Contact Kevin Tresolini at ktresolini@delawareonline.com. Follow on Twitter @kevintresolini
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The prevalence of video products at this year's Enterprise Connect shows that integrating video and unified communications has become a key focus of providers in the UC market.
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… the UC market is not just integrating video and unified communications, it's looking to quickly incorporate UC video as a core collaboration service.
For a conference so steeped in voice and unified communications (UC), the prevalence of video products and services was a clear sign that the UC market is not just integrating video and unified communications, it's looking to quickly incorporate UC video as a core collaboration service. Our research reflects this trend as well.
Gone are the days when "video administrators" built out and managed standalone video conferencing systems. Instead, video has followed a similar path to VoIP, first migrating endpoint connectivity to the IP WAN from dedicated TDM or ISDN services, and now integrating video with other collaborative applications and tools such as presence, instant messaging and Web conferencing.
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Supporting high-definition video can require up to 6 MB per endpoint, depending on the chosen vendor and its ability to support bandwidth-minimizing techniques like H.264 Scalable Video Coding or Polycom's H.264 High Profile. The need for and cost of bandwidth is the greatest limiting factor in widespread UC video deployment, according to our research participants.
Not only do you need a lot of bandwidth, but once you push video out to the desktop, it becomes virtually impossible to predict "where" you need the bandwidth. Whereas telepresence room locations are fixed, desktop sessions can occur from anywhere on the network -- in the conference room, in offices or even in the cafeteria. More than one IT architect has told me that bandwidth concerns have halted desktop video rollouts. "We don't have the bandwidth to support desktop video, so we turned it off on our OCS deployments," says the director of telecom architecture for a global professional services firm.
Once you get past the bandwidth concerns, the next challenge is managing video applications at the desktop. Here network managers often lack insight into desktops, or must face situations whereby a processor-intensive desktop application is adversely impacting video performance. One IT architect told me that his standard advice to his employees is, "Shut everything else down when conducting a desktop video conference."
That may work in some environments, but more than likely, your help desk will get a call about desktop video performance that will require your team to look at CPU processor utilization. It gets worse when virtualization is introduced into the mix. Desktop virtualization doesn't usually support software-based voice and video without a dedicated phone and video camera, so make sure that you are fully aware of virtualization plans before marching down the road to UC/video integration.
Most IT architects are still struggling with the right vendor approach for video-enabled UC. The choice often comes down to whether to utilize the native capabilities in Microsoft or IBM Lotus desktop clients, deploy a standalone desktop video capability or use the capabilities of Polycom or Vidyo desktop clients in conjunction with desktop UC applications. The decision is often based on quality, cost, bandwidth advantages of one approach over the others and the need to interoperate with existing systems.
Finally, video conferencing is rapidly emerging into video collaboration. Give employees video as part of their UC suite and the very next feature they will ask for is the ability to record and share their own video. "We plan to give employees the ability to record their own video and attach polls to video clips to gain user feedback," says a senior architect for a global manufacturing company. Companies delivering these services must address storage, compliance and governance concerns to ensure a successful deployment.
Bottom line: Expect to integrate video into your UC deployment, but make sure you have addressed factors such as bandwidth, network management, end-user client choice and the need to support user-generated video.


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Department of Athletics Doubles Its Full-Time Sport Psychology Staff
COLUMBUS, Ohio – The Ohio State Department of Athletics has doubled its sport psychology area to now include four full-time staff members who will provide increased access to mental health and performance enhancement services to student-athletes competing in all 36 Buckeye varsity sports.
Dr. Candice Williams and Charron Sumler recently joined the department as new counselors. Their arrival reinforces the commitment the department has to enhancing access for its student-athletes to mental health professionals. Williams and Sumler will be joined by a third new professional in September, Dr. Chelsi Day, and all three will work with Dr. Jamey Houle, the lead sport psychologist for Ohio State athletics.
"Increasing the size of our staff is extremely significant in the area of mental health for our student-athletes," Houle, an All-American gymnast for Ohio State and the program's nominee for the 2004 Nissen Emery Award as the top senior in college gymnastics, said. "Our sport psychology and counseling staff will be able to provide more consultation, group work and team presentations, and be more involved in performance team meetings as needed."
It was merely a coincidence that Williams and Sumler were introduced to their first varsity team on the same day that football head coach Ryan Day spoke of the tragedies in Dayton and El Paso and to the importance of mental health awareness. It was also the day that defensive tackle and Dayton native Robert Landers issued a 90-second condolence video encouraging strength to residents of those cities and to those dealing with mental health issues.
Each was an incredibly important moment. Individually for Day, who has partnered with On Our Sleeves to raise awareness and funds for childhood mental illness while Landers has made public his own personal struggles with mental health issues.
Reducing the stigma surrounding mental health issues and seeking help is a goal of increased student-athlete access to the counselors and professionals.
"We are taking a non-traditional approach by asking our psychologists and counselors to proactively build relationships with our student-athletes," Doug Calland, associate athletics director for sports performance, said. "Our specialists are going to be at our various venues … at practices and games, in our training rooms and team meetings, and at meals so that our student-athletes see, get to know and build trust with them. We want these relationships to be as common as those that are built with coaches, performance staff and athletic trainers. Our student-athletes need and deserve to feel comfortable reaching out to any of them at any time."
Fostering relationships through increased access should ease the burden for those feeling the need to consult with a sports psychologist or counselor. Above all else, the last thing anyone dealing with a crisis wants to do is speak to a stranger.
Get to Know: Ohio State's Sport Psychology Services Team
Jamey Houle, Ph.D ABPP
Lead Sport Psychologist
Houle is a former elite-level athlete, so he has a personal understanding of the needs of athletes. He majored in psychology at Ohio State, where he also was a member of the 2001 NCAA champion gymnastics team and back-to-back Big Ten team champions. He has his master's degree from Springfield College and earned his Ph.D in counseling psychology from Auburn University. He is certified in counseling psychology by the American Board of Professional Psychology and he is in his fourth year with Ohio State.
Chelsi Day, Psy.D
Sport Psychologist
Dr. Chelsi Day will join the Ohio State sport psychology services staff in September. She has been the director of counseling and sport psychology at Indiana University for the past three years. Her career resume includes adjunct faculty positions, private practice and the founding of the Columbus Marathon "psyching team" in 2013. She has a doctorate and master's degree in clinical psychology from Antioch University New England, a master's in sport and exercise psychology from the Chicago School of Professional Psychology, and a bachelor's degree in psychology from Miami University, where she also competed as a diver for the two-time MAC champions.
Charron Sumler, LPC NCC
Athletic Counselor
Sumler, who played four years of collegiate basketball, arrives at Ohio State after spending the past two years at the University of Texas, where she coordinated services and resources for university students in crisis situations. She has 10 years of counseling, leadership and case management experience and has a bachelor's degree in psychology from St. Edwards University in Austin, Texas, and a master's in counseling from Texas State University.
Candice Williams, Ph.D LPC NCC
Williams has worked for The Trust (Powered by The NFL Players Association) for the past five years as a program manager in wellness and clinical services. She was a member of the NFLPA Mental Health Crisis Team and provided case management and assistance to retired players in acute mental health distress. Williams has her doctorate in counselor education from Sam Houston State University and a degree in psychology from Texas A&M University.
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Q: Cloning objects For the purposes of making a copy of an object and getting access to its data, what is better and why?
1. Create a new object and initialize it with the data you want to
    clone through the constructor
 HashSet<String> myClone = new HashSet<String>(data);

2. Clone object as is and cast it to the type you believe it to be
 HashSet<String> myClone = (HashSet<String>) data.clone();

A: Definitely use a copy constructor - clone() is really quite broken (at least most people agree so.) See here for details.

A: 'It depends'. Not all classes have copy constructors. Some classes define clone() and others inherit it from Object.
If you are thinking about how to implement copy semantics in your own class, many people recommend against clone, but others recommend for it. A third alternative is a static factory method that does the work.
If you are trying to make a copy of some existing class, you are at the mercy of the existing implementation. Maybe it has a clone() that does what you want, and maybe it doesn't. Maybe it has a copy constructor, maybe it doesn't.

A: Clone doesn't copy the data, it copy the references(Shallow copy). So, if you want to do a deep "copy" and that it became independent from the first one, you'll have to do a "item by item clonning", commonly refered as deep copy (there are several methods to acomplish this).
Also, you might take a look at the clone() method of the class that implements that HashSet. If that class has overriden that method, then it might perform a deep copy. I recommend you this book: http://www.horstmann.com/corejava.html

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Who's Growing What Where
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Striving For Access to Nutritious, Locally Grown Food For All
By Catherine Sherriffs
Growing up in Jamaica, Jacqueline Dwyer and Noel Livingston remember eating like kings and queens. The warm climate allowed them plenty of fresh, nutritious foods year-round; their plates always displayed a rainbow of colors.
"I was just a kid, and I took for granted the access to good and healthy food I had all the time," explains Dwyer. "My grandmother and great grandmothers and other aunts and other older relatives created an oasis around us, a garden of Eden."
When Dwyer was 14-years-old, her mother moved her family to Toronto, Canada, in search of better opportunities for her children.
"I came here and lived in a country that actually goes through the seasons," she says. "I learned about food poverty, food injustices, food insecurity, land ownership, and what that means, and how many people become really poor when they don't have access to the land."
Livingston, on the other hand, left Jamaica for Toronto as an adult. Tired of what he describes as racial oppression and classism in the British colony he grew up in, he was also looking for a better life in Canada. But he found the same systemic injustices were present in North America, only here, he says it's called 'polite racism.'
The city of Toronto currently has more than 30 communities flagged as Neighborhood Improvement Areas (NIAs). These are designated places that need help combating problems of poverty, crime, higher rates of diseases like diabetes, and a lack of access to services.
Many of the people living in these communities are minorities. In the neighborhood of Glenfield-Jane Heights, for example, nearly 60% of the population is immigrant. Over the years, Dwyer has watched a countless number of black business owners being pushed out of NIAs because they can't afford rent, never mind nutritious food.
"It wasn't a shock, but it (…) spurred me to look in another direction of sustainability for myself," she says.
Today, Dwyer and Livingston take care of more than just themselves. Together, they founded a grassroots organization called the Toronto Black Farmers and Growers Collective, which aims to grow 'clean' food and get it into the hands and mouths of the people who can't otherwise afford it. The collective is currently 30 members strong, with many of them coming to the farm throughout the week to help plant, maintain, and harvest the garden. In exchange for their time, the volunteers leave with a box of freshly-picked food for the week.
They grow foods culturally appropriate to their Caribbean and African roots; things like callaloo, okra, sweet potatoes, African spinach, cabbage, and more. People come to the urban farm to shop for tastes of home, something Livingston says helps them connect with the growers, and in the end, enjoy their food more.
"When people see exactly what we do, they appreciate the work," he says. "They appreciate what they're getting. They appreciate the farmer. They appreciate nature."
Beyond feeding the hungry and building the local food economy, the organization aims to educate the population on the importance of building relationships with the things we eat.
"We always tell people that [they] can do it," Dwyer says. "It doesn't matter if they're on their balcony doing container gardening or in a small little plot in a community garden or on their own property.
"If you are willing to put your shoulders to the wheel and work, you can really live off the land sustainably."
Growing with the seasons is undoubtedly challenging in Canada, and the collective receives no funding. Dwyer and Livingston run the farm with money from their own pockets, pointing to systemic racism as the culprit.
"We entered this arena very innocently, and we thought this would be a powerful outlet to activate justice for everyone to have access to good food," Dwyer explains. "But we learned quickly in the game that it wasn't so."
She describes a culture in which money meant to help these communities falls into the wrong hands. Bigger organizations claim to be supporting the people, and yet citizens never reap the benefits.
Still, they view sharing the little they have with people in need as a privilege. Livingston recalls delivering boxes of donated food, eggs, and toys to three NIAs last December.
"I'm a person, not very emotional, but it brought tears to my eyes when I saw, not just children, but adults; when the food came, to see the rush. My God, these people are proud people, used to land and their own homes, and are brought down to this level," he says. "You could see the hurt in their eyes. Many of them don't want to come out because of pride, but they have children to feed."
The 2020 deaths of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, Rayshard Brooks, and countless other black people at the hands of the police have sparked worldwide protests and further ignited the Black Lives Matter movement. Activists are trying to send a clear message: racial inequality exists all around us, even where land and food are concerned.
Food deserts are defined as areas in which affordable and nutritious food is difficult to find. It's not that there isn't any food to be found; there's plenty of it in the form of fast-food chains. Meals found in food deserts are typically easy, cheap, and outrageously unhealthy.
While all of this is undoubtedly true, the Food Empowerment Project says a few details are missing from the widely-used definition. Rather than being just about proximity to fresh food, the organization recognizes that food deserts have a lot to do with structural racism, the cost of living, the cultural appropriateness of available foods, and the people's ability to grow their fruits and vegetables. Furthermore, multiple studies have found that food deserts are often located in black or brown communities.
Savi Horne, executive director of the Land Loss Prevention Project in North Carolina, also takes issue with the term "food desert." She says it's time to start calling it what it is: food apartheid.
"That's shifting away from 'food desert' because that implies that you created the condition," she explains. "When you say food apartheid, you're looking a the structural racism and other structural issues, like racial capitalism that has led to a broken food system that's impacting black folk's health; poor folk's health."
A group of black lawyers formed the Land Loss Prevention Project (LLPP) in 1982 after seeing black farmers losing their land and going out of business at a higher rate than white ones. The LLPP provides legal support to limited-resource farmers and landowners in North Carolina and promotes environmental justice by helping people of color develop sustainable farming practices.
Horne recalls helping a rural farm family that lost a 180-acre property after being subjected to discrimination and unfair treatment by government agencies and programs.
"They were providing access to nutritious vegetables that were culturally appropriate to their African American community," she says. "When they lost their farm, it was a personal loss to them, but it also had ripple effects within the community. It took years to get back to a place where they are now re-engaged, even experimenting with fish protein by growing tilapia."
While the family in question is resilient and is farming again, unfortunately, nearly 40 years after the LLPP was formed, Horne says there has been little progress. The Black Lives Matter movement reminds us that a serious conversation needs to be had about a radical reordering of society.
"We are still dealing with the vestiges of a racialized agriculture system, a social system with its racial atmosphere in which African Americans and low-income people are still dealing with a lack of access to quality education, quality healthcare, and affordable and nutritious food."
Building the local food economy in minority communities is paramount, especially one that caters to specific cultural backgrounds and needs. Horne believes one of the best ways to do that is by providing young black farmers with the security of tenure on their land, which gives them government protection from evictions.
A Greater Calling
At Sankofa Farms, also in North Carolina, Kamal Bell believes that land ownership is critical to controlling one's destiny. He wasn't always planning on being a farmer, but while studying to become a veterinarian at the North Carolina Agricultural and State University in 2009, he realized he needed to answer a question that had been nagging him: how could he really help the African American community?
"When you go to black neighborhoods, primarily those with lower socioeconomic status, what you see is fast food restaurants everywhere," he says. "It's more of a culture thing because people are trying to live day to day; they're not really thinking about long-term decisions and outcomes.
"If I got a farm, we could produce food and help curb the effects of food deserts."
Bell changed his major from animal science to animal industry, which taught him about the production side of agriculture. Shortly after graduation, he took out a loan and bought 12 acres of land in the Durham region.
It has taken years of work, but finally, Bell has cleared enough of his property to start growing fresh food. He has even started an academy for the youth in the area, in which they learn how to grow collards, kale, chard, spinach, and lettuce, and help distribute it to the locals.
There are six students currently enrolled at the Sankofa Farms Agricultural Academy. Bell drives around Durham in an old '94 minivan picking them up for their days at the farm, where they're introduced to STEM learning concepts. Beyond farming and beekeeping, they're also taught hard work, leadership, teamwork, and valuable life skills. Most of all, the program focuses on how black people can help each other and give the students a foundation so they can eventually succeed in other avenues.
At the age of 15, Mikal Ali has been a student at the academy for three years.
"Mr. Bell has taught us about really having ownership and getting away from the dependency mindset that a lot of kids learn to have in the school system, "Ali says. "The main thing Mr. Bell wants us to learn is ownership and helping our community thrive and grow."
Ali hopes to buy a piece of land one day and build something for himself on it. He also dreams about a career in psychology; something he says the critical thinking skills learned on the farm will help him accomplish.
"On the farm, if you see something and ask him what it is, it's not like he just tells us the answer so we can be dependent on him or someone else when we get older," Ali says. "He makes us go and look at the problem and what we can do to solve it."
There's teaching on the farm, but Bell says there's also a steep learning curve in many of the underprivileged communities.
"You just can't go into a community and say, 'Hey! Take this food; it's fresh.' You have to build relationships; you have to actually care. People have to understand that you are there to help them."
He's currently working on his doctorate for agricultural extension education so he can eventually open a full-time alternative school. It's a lot of work, but he wouldn't have it any other way.
You can learn more about Sankofa Farms Agricultural Academy and donate to its efforts at sankofafarmsllc.com.
"Black people in these areas are suffering (…) I think as a duty and as my purpose in life, or our purpose, in general, is that you're supposed to be helping people," he says. "If you see a problem, you help people."
While individual efforts like Bell's and other grassroots activists are very much needed, a radical change must also be encouraged from the top levels of government.
"You need leadership, and we don't have leadership right now," says the LLPP's Horne. "We have a leadership that wants to further victimize and divide people from doing what they see needs to be done."
Still, she says inspiring local food models are continuing to emerge from communities across North America, and that's all part of the battle.
Back in Canada, the Toronto Black Farmers and Growers Collective is currently working on one it hopes to one day share all around the world. The organization is creating a food hub in partnership with the Country Heritage Park in Milton, Ontario, where crops are grown and distributed to the food insecure. The park provides the land and the collective provides the food.
"It's a class structure that we see now," says Livingston. "It doesn't matter what color or ethnicity you are; it's community."
By becoming involved in local food production, we can move forward while nourishing our bodies, minds, and souls. Healthier people lead to healthier communities, making brighter futures a possibility.
"We need more people to speak out, we need more people to stand up, and we need people to come together equitably to share the resources so we can develop our own communal systems," says Dwyer. "If people set their differences aside and decide they want to fix things, it can be done. We don't need to create uproars; we don't need to kill each other. We can be civil, and we can get it done."
So let's get to work, shall we? It's time we all take a stand.
Catherine Sherriffs
Editor at Garden Culture Magazine
Catherine is a Canadian award-winning journalist who worked as a reporter and news anchor in Montreal's radio and television scene for 10 years. A graduate of Concordia University, she left the hustle and bustle of the business after starting a family. Now, she's the editor and a writer for Garden Culture Magazine while also enjoying being a mom to her two young kids. Her interests include great food, gardening, fitness, animals, and anything outdoors.
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Third-party candidate Donald Trump? Why he has his foot on the GOP's neck - FightSaga
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Third-party candidate Donald Trump? Why he has his foot on the GOP's neck
Per Raw Story, former President Donald Trump on Wednesday floated the idea of running as a third-party candidate in 2024 should he not win the Republican Party's nomination for president.
On the Truth Social platform, Trump referenced an article published on a pro-MAGA website whereby the author compared him to Theodore Roosevelt, the 26th president.
Roosevelt, after serving nearly two terms in the Oval Office, relinquished the presidency only to make a political comeback four years later. But, he would lose the Republican presidential nomination to incumbent President William Howard Taft in 1912 and subsequently run as a third-party candidate.
Of course, because the Republican vote was split the election was handed to Democrat Woodrow Wilson who won easily despite receiving less than 42 percent of the popular vote.
So, Donald Trump is essentially telling the Republican Party that if it nominates someone else, he'll screw them by running as a third-party candidate.
He's repeatedly prioritized his party over his country and is now threatening to prioritize his selfish personal desires ahead of the welfare and wishes of his party.
Trump's actions would be akin to Bernie Sanders running for president as an Independent in order to tank President Joe Biden's chances.
What a piece of work… Donald Trump.
The writer of the article Trump referenced seems to concede that if the former president jumped ship and ran as a third-party candidate, Democrats, in 2024, would likely win easily. But, he suggests Trump should consider it because such a tactic would teach the Republican Party a lesson about defying its base.
Teach the party a lesson? But, if Trump losses the nomination, his base will have been outnumbered by a group of Republicans even larger. Nevertheless, win or lose in 2024, Trump's die-hard following will represent a decent chunk of the Republican Party.
And yes, most will vote for him out of spite if he asks them.
"I have no intention of supporting a Republican Party that manifestly contravenes the desires of its voters," the writer of the Trump-referenced article scribed.
"The RNC can pretend Trump isn't loved by the base anymore, that he doesn't have packed rallies everywhere he goes. But I'm not buying it: Talk to Republican voters anywhere outside the Beltway, and it is obvious that he is admired and even loved by those who consider themselves 'ordinary' Americans."
Should Trump run as a third-party candidate in 2024, the Democratic presidential candidate would likely win easily. And there's a more recent reference than the 1912 U.S. President Election to support that theory.
In 1992, Democrat Bill Clinton cruised to victory with just 42 percent of the popular vote thanks, in part, to Independent candidate Ross Perot who was essentially the second Republican in the race. So, while most Democrats were united behind Clinton, many Republicans were split between Perot and incumbent President George H.W. Bush.
And while Perot was certainly successful in luring some Democrats and moderates, his impact was felt most on the Republican end as his economic nationalism, views on crime, and unconventional, unapologetic rhetoric had the most appeal among conservative voters.
Will Trump, with his never-ending freak show of scandals, alleged crimes, and unnerving rants, win the Republican nomination in 2024 or will someone else?
Should Trump lose the nomination, what are the chances he'd run as an Independent or third-party candidate?
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Predominant epithelial localization of type A gamma-aminobutyric acid receptor sites within rat seminal vesicles and prostate glands.
In order to understand the role of the gamma-aminobutyric acid (GABA)-ergic system in the reproductive organs of the male, the biochemical characteristics and the autoradiographic localization of GABA type A (GABAA) receptor sites were studied in sections of the rat epididymis, seminal vesicles and prostate gland (lateral lobe) using 3H-muscimol as a ligand. No specific 3H-muscimol binding occurred in the epididymis. 3H-muscimol was bound to sections of seminal vesicles and prostate glands in a manner consistent with the labeling of specific GABAA receptors. Binding was saturable, reversible, with Kd values of 27.5 +/- 2.0 and 26.0 +/- 1.9 nmol/l and Bmax values of 230 +/- 21 and 160 +/- 13 fmol/mg protein for seminal vesicles and prostate glands, respectively. The rank order of potency of GABAergic drugs in inhibiting 3H-muscimol binding to sections of seminal vesicles and prostate glands was also consistent with the labeling of GABAA receptors. Autoradiography demonstrated the predominant accumulation of silver grains in the epithelium of seminal vesicles and prostatic glandular tissue. These findings further support the suggestion of a possible role of GABA in the male reproductive function. The predominant epithelial localization of GABAA receptors in the seminal vesicles and in the prostate gland allows us to hypothesize that GABA may be involved in the secretory activities of these glands.


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Alumni in the ANU Art Collection: Lani Shea-An
Lani Shea An, Hostel window, dappled light and foamy mountain, 2019. Acrylic, foam and cardboard on wood, 400 x 260 x 75mm. Photo: David Paterson
Apr 24, 2020 | CollectionFeatures
Alumni in the ANU Art Collection series
The Art Collection fills an important role of enriching the creative, cultural and intellectual lives of students and staff on the ANU campus. First established in 1949, it comprises over 2900 paintings, drawings, sculptures, limited editions prints and photographs, ceramics and glass objects by significant artists.
Alumni students and staff from the ANU School of Art and Design (previously Canberra School of Art and ANU School of Art) are numerously represented in the collection through purchases, generous donations by artists and patrons and through the School of Art and Design's Emerging Artists Support Scheme. In this series of posts we introduce a selection of alumni artists and their works in the collection, and give a brief insight into their lives and art practices.
Lani Shea-An graduated from the ANU School of Art and Design with a Bachelor of Visual Arts (Honours) in 2019. Works from her graduating exhibition Hostel window, dappled light and foamy mountain and Layered painting with two figures, were acquired by the ANU Drill Hall Gallery for ANU Art Collection through the Emerging Artists Support Scheme
We invited Lani to provide some insight into her works in the collection, her experience of studying at the ANU and a little about her creative life since graduating:
Lani Shea An, Layered painting with two figures, 2019. Oil, acrylic and cardboard on wood, 400 x 200 x 40mm. Photo: David Paterson
These two paintings (Hostel window, dappled light and foamy mountain and Layered painting with two figures) belong to a series of work about the idea of atmosphere; atmosphere of physical places and mental spaces, and where these might overlap. Atmosphere was the main concern of my Honours project at the ANU School of Art & Design in 2019. My approach to the concept was largely inspired by a lecture-turned-book titled Atmospheres by Peter Zumthor, which led to my curiosity about how built environments affect us emotionally.
Several works, including these, reference places I visited during a semester studying in Kyoto in 2017-18. What I remember most about these places is how a space – such as a garden – would be framed by another structure, with different views from different angles. To describe this experience in painting, I created spatial hierarchies using elements of both abstraction and representation to frame and delineate areas of the composition.
I spent four years (2016-2019) studying painting at the ANU, apart from one semester abroad in Kyoto, Japan. The School of Art was a place where I felt at home – particularly in my 3rd and 4th year studio spaces or when wandering around the painting workshop. I still feel connected to the university through the lecturers and peers whom I often run into at openings or via social media. Additionally, I have benefited greatly from the school's Emerging Artist Support Scheme, where over the last two years I was lucky enough to be awarded two solo exhibitions (as well as these paintings being acquired by the Drill Hall Gallery), one of which I am currently working towards.
I currently work from my home studio space in South Canberra. Repurposed materials continue to form a significant part of my practice, due to their formal qualities as well as a method of reducing waste and consumption. At the moment I am working towards an EASS solo exhibition at Manolo's on Botany in Philip, which was originally planned for early 2020. The show has unfortunately been postponed due to COVID-19 but will go ahead when safe to do so.


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Hudson Yards is a large-scale redevelopment program planned, funded, and constructed under a set of agreements among the State of New York, New York City, and the Metropolitan Transportation Authority, with the aim of expanding New York City's Midtown Manhattan business district westward to the Hudson River. The program includes a major rezoning of the Far West Side; an extension of the New York City Subway's 7 and 7 trains to a new subway station at 34th Street and 11th Avenue. a renovation and expansion of the Javits Center; and a financing plan to fund the various components. The Hudson Yards Financing District is bounded by 29th Street in the south, 43rd Street in the north, the West Side Highway in the west, and Seventh Avenue in the east. The various components are being planned by New York City Department of City Planning and New York City Economic Development Corporation.
The largest of the projects made possible by the rezoning is the 28-acre (11 ha) mixed-use Hudson Yards real estate development by Related Companies and Oxford Properties, which is being built over the West Side Rail Yard. Construction began in 2012 with the groundbreaking for 10 Hudson Yards, and is projected to be completed by 2024. According to its master plan, created by Kohn Pedersen Fox Associates, the Hudson Yards development would include 16 skyscrapers to be constructed in two phases. Architects including Skidmore, Owings, and Merrill, Thomas Heatherwick, Roche-Dinkeloo, and Diller Scofidio + Renfro contributed designs for individual structures. Major office tenants include or will include fashion company Coach, gym chain Equinox Fitness, and financial company BlackRock.
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Riff Redux: Moby Reflects on His Scary Club Days - Riffyou.com
Riff Redux: Moby Reflects on His Scary Club Days
Before Riffyou.com launched, I had the opportunity to speak with a lot of influential and impactful figures within the music industry for other publications. In Riff Redux, I'm going to open up the archives to share some great discussions and perspectives from the past.
In 2008, acclaimed DJ, electronic and one-time hardcore artist, Moby, released Last Night, a concept album wrapped around the idea of going out to clubs on a nightly basis.
During our conversation, Moby shed some interesting light on his decades of club-going and recalls a very frightening era that didn't always allow everyone to go home in one piece…if at all.
AG: How long did you have this idea in your head about musically chronicling nights out?
Moby: "Just when I started working on this record. The first time I went out to a bar or nightclub by myself, I was 15-years-old – by myself, I mean not with my parents or my mom. My mom used to date country western musicians, so when I was really young I spent a lot of time in bars and nightclubs. "But, it doesn't count if you're nine-years-old and you're only in a bar because your mom's dating the pedal steel player.
"I started going out to bars and clubs with my friends when I was 15 and that was almost 30 years ago. So, it's 30 years of going out to bars, going out to nightclubs and drinking and staying out late and having fun. With this record, I thought it would be interesting to make a record that actually reflected my day-to-day, or night-to-night, experience.
"I was working on the music and for some reason while I was making this record, I was being particularly social and going out way too often. I just thought, 'If I'm spending all this time going out, I might as well try and justify being a drunk who stays out too late, by using going out as source material for the record.'"
AG: Are you recognized when you go to these places?
Moby: "I live in lower Manhattan and I tend to go out in my neighbourhood – I've been here for 20 years – so I'm recognized, but at the same time I'm sort of a neighbourhood fixture. I have a feeling that a lot of the people who see me out – because they see me out so often – they almost wish that I'd stay home more often," laughs. "Like, maybe it was exciting for them or interesting for them the first couple of times they saw me out in the bar, but after the fiftieth or the hundredth, I think maybe their attitude is that maybe I should develop some hobbies or move somewhere else for a while."
AG: So you've become the Norm (Peterson, the most regular of the regulars from Cheers) of that area?
Moby: "Yeah, as I said, I'm the neighbourhood fixture."
AG: Having been going to clubs for 30 years, how has that scene changed since you first started going?
Moby: "Um, when I first started going out, I was 15 and I was mainly going to punk rock clubs in New York. But, the thing about the New York club scene in the early '80s is that it was so diverse and so eclectic…you'd go to a club to see a punk rock band, but there'd be a gay disco DJ playing before the punk rock band, and a dub-reggae DJ playing after the punk rock band. As a result, you'd end up getting exposed to so many different types of music.
"The compartmentalization that exists now, didn't really exist back then. Back then, people were just into music and people were into going out and alternative culture. No one really defined themselves by only being into one kind of music. The DJ's would play a hip-hop record into a Clash record, into an old disco record, into an Iggy Pop & The Stooges record, so it was really open and eclectic.
"The people going out were also really eclectic. There'd be straight and gay and black and white and Latino and Asian and this huge, completely benign melting pot. That changed in the late '80s. A lot of that had to do with the spread of HIV and AIDS, and also with the spread of the crack epidemic and with the advent of gangster rap.
"Suddenly, because of crack, you weren't safe walking down the streets, and because of HIV and AIDS, half the club population wasn't safe going home with someone. Because of gangster rap, you were always in danger of getting shot in the club. So, the late '80s/early '90s was a really violent, strange, almost scary, dangerous time. A lot of great music came out of it, but it was a weird time in New York in general and nightlife."
AG: I'm sure you've witnessed some dangerous things.
Moby: "Oh, it got to the point where it was like living in Sarajevo after the war, or during the war. I would show up to work at one of the club's I was playing and you'd hear that the doorman had been shot the night before. But, every time you went to work, there'd be a different story about somebody getting shot or someone being diagnosed with HIV, or someone dying of AIDS or someone getting killed by a crack addict. [Eventually] you become completely inured to the violence where it almost stops registering."
AG: As a performer, is it difficult to take on such environments and be able to focus on what you're doing?
Moby: "The only environment I really hate playing in is an environment where people are utterly disinterested. I found myself doing a couple of corporate events where I'll be the celebrity prop in the background playing records, whereas the people invited for the corporate event are drinking and not paying attention to what's going on…that can be really dispiriting.
"Playing in front of an angry crowd, or a joyful crowd, or a violent crowd – that I can work with," laughs. "And I have a lot of experience with those crowds.
Even a completely antagonistic crowd is more fun to play for than a completely disinterested, apathetic crowd."
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Q: .NET Regex: Get all matched groups I've stuck with regex problem using .NET. For example, I have next regex pattern: (?'group1'A|C)|(?'group2'B|C)|(?'group3'A|B|C)
When I do match of "AXYZ" I receive match object which contains Value and Groups; if I go to Groups I'll see that only one group has success in true - group1 (group3 is in false). If I do match of "BXYZ" I'll receive only group2 with success in true (group3 is in false).
How could I receive in match not only one group but all groups satisfying the match?
For example above it should be: group1 & group3 in "AXYZ" and group2 & group3 in "BXYZ".
All above is only example in real system there are different patterns (3+ letters each) and more complicated input text (1000+ words).

A: The question seems a little abstract, but if you insist on a single regex you can do something like this, using optional lookaheads:
(?=(?'group1'A|C)?)(?=(?'group2'B|C)?)(?=(?'group3'A|B|C)?)

Lookaheads match but don't capture, so your match will be empty in this case, but the groups will be as you expect, and may overlap.
Working example: http://ideone.com/PTtQu

A: The regex you have there will only match single characters; as soon as a match has been found on a character, the regex moves onto the next character in the input string. In your example, 'B' will never be matched by 'group2' or 'group3' as it will always be matched by 'group1'. Similarly, 'A' will never be matched by 'group3' for the same reason.
One way of getting the outcome you require using regexes is to treat each group as a separate regex and use Regex.IsMatch() on each one. For counts, the following C# does what I think you're asking for:
string input = "AXYZ";
int count = 0;

count += Regex.IsMatch(input, "A|B") ? 1 : 0;
count += Regex.IsMatch(input, "B|C") ? 1 : 0;
count += Regex.IsMatch(input, "A|B|D") ? 1 : 0;

Console.WriteLine(count); // returns 2

A: I believe you have to make the regex "greedy". Here is some info on it:
http://blogs.msdn.com/b/ericgu/archive/2005/08/19/453869.aspx

A: The regex engine is eager, which means it will always return the left-most match and stop matching once a match is found. To demonstrate, consider this sample:
string input = "Hello World";
string pattern = "Hello|Hello World";
Console.WriteLine(Regex.Match(input, pattern).Value);
pattern = "Hello World|Hello";
Console.WriteLine(Regex.Match(input, pattern).Value);

In your case group1 is matched first, so all other groups will not match and return false. Also, you claim that "BXYZ" returns group2, but this can't be right. Both "AXYZ" and "BXYZ" get matched by group1: (?'group1'A|B). If you have a need to test each group you'll need to do so using a separate regex.


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Over the years, we've taken some drastic measures to delight our friends and guests. Julie applied to the province of Manitoba to get certified to officially administer a wedding at Big Molly's Bar.
Another time, a dockhand dressed up in a bear costume, hid out by a shorelunch site and imitated a charging bear to prank one guest who obviously travels with practical jokers.
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Paris sets new temperature record at 108 as Europe heat wave continues to sizzle
Paris soared to a record high of 108 degrees as most of Europe sizzled under its second heat wave of the summer.
Germany, Belgium and the Netherlands also set all-time heat records, while London set a record for July of 98.4 degrees.
So far, in France alone, five deaths have reportedly been linked to this heat wave, according to BBC News. Another death was reported in Austria.
In Paris on Thursday, tourists clustered around fountains and canals to cool off. "It's too hot. In Brazil, where I live, we have the beach but here, since there is no beach, we can enjoy this fountain," said Ederson Lista-Vajes, a Brazilian tourist playing with spurts of water across from the Eiffel Tower.
On Thursday afternoon the Paris area hit 108.3 degrees, beating the previous record of 104.8 degrees set in 1947.
"Paris is beautiful but it not at all equipped for this heat," said Michelle Levesque, an American tourist on holiday in Paris. "So far the only A/C found has been in the food stores."
Elsewhere, Germany hit 106.7 degrees, while Belgium soared to 105.1 degrees.
In the Netherlands, temperatures rose to 107.1 degrees, AccuWeather reported. This is the first ever occurrence of a temperature at or above 104 degrees in the country.
In the United Kingdom, temperatures climbed over 100 degrees for only the second time on record when Cambridge reached 100.5 degrees Thursday.
One saving grace, when compared to U.S. heat waves, is that the humidity is low: "Thankfully, the hot air is very dry. Relative humidity 10-20% across much of France. The origin of the air is generally from North Africa," tweeted BAM meteorologist Ryan Maue.
Hot, hotter, hottest:16 striking photos show how record-setting heat is baking Europeans
The heat wave will finally break after Thursday for the U.K., western France and into Spain but will hold for one more day across central Europe from the Netherlands to Austria, Switzerland and eastern France, according to AccuWeather.
This is the second heat wave of the summer in Europe: Just four weeks ago, eight countries set June national heat records, the Weather Channel said.
Climate scientists warn this could become the new normal in many parts of the world as the planet continues to warm.
"There is likely the DNA of climate change in the record-breaking heat that Europe and other parts of the world are experiencing. And it is unfortunately going to continue to worsen," said Marshall Shepherd, professor of meteorology at University of Georgia.
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Sausage Party (Movie Review)
A Unique Meat Feast
Sausage Party is an adult computer-animated comedy film directed by Greg Tiernan and Conrad Vernon (Madagascar 3), writers including Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg (This is the End, The Interview). With the look and feel of a food-esque Toy Story, Sausage Party follows the journey of supermarket foods come to life. All food in supermarkets view humans as Gods, and they want nothing more than shoppers to buy and take them home to what they believe is "The Great Beyond". Once the truth is revealed regarding what really happens to food that is taken home, a sausage named Frank (Seth Rogen) goes on a journey of belief, love and survival to achieve his one goal: to get his meaty form inside his girlfriend, Brenda the hot dog bun. While not the most memorable or captivating adventure to come from Seth Rogen & crew, Sausage Party has some great components based on the unique and saucy ingredients blended into its recipe.
A partially-nutritious cast of characters, with a dash of stereotype.
Starting with what's fun about Sausage Party, it would be its unique setting alone as a new playground for Rogen & Goldberg's standard, laugh-filled adult-themed writing. It's hilarious to see what an R-Rated, over-the-top comedy does when in the setting of inanimate food objects that have come to life. A banana's face gets peeled off; a potato is skinned alive and a jar of peanut butter holds his dead wife: the jar of jam. There's so many sausage-in-bun sex puns that you'll never make eye contact when eating hot dogs ever again. Sausage Party is full of adult humour, and any responsible parents will know not to let their children see it - it pushes its certification to the fullest by throwing uncensored raunchy and violent metaphors in your face until you at least get a few howls of laughter out.
Simply a quest to get that meat in.
Not only does the film have a gorgeous, Pixar-style look but it also has a full box of ammunition aimed at what almost seems like every group of people possible. Sausage Party really slows down during the second act for some necessary discovery and world development but it never stops with its social commentary on beliefs and racial food profiling. From lesbian latina taco shells to standard cultural feuds between western bagels and a middle-eastern lavash (a sexist flatbread with a goatee), Sausage Party is full of edible players that pass tongue-in-cheek banter back and forth at what seems like almost every other line with at least half being humorously effective.
Though it can get cheesy at times (Tehehe).
When saying only at least half of Sausage Party's raunchy banter is effective, it's sadly because you get to a point during its third act where the dynamic almost runs thin. Watching scenes like a bunch of tequilas in the alcohol aisle having a Mexican fiesta certainly does put a smile on your face, but by the time you get to the 122nd innuendo about inserting one thing into another, you almost want nothing more than for the story to progress forward. At least over half of Sausage Party's "inn-your-endo's" are effective, but a fair few of those will also lose their power punch after the first viewing. Nevertheless, as Sausage Party delves a bit deeper into its satirical metaphors, your grin grows even wider as belief systems asking "why are we here?" and "what's our salvation?" are bashed, if not literally sliced open with a steak knife. It's as if you can almost hear Christian parent associations grind their teeth whilst Seth Rogen echoes his signature chuckle into the distance.
Even if you get tired of its innuendos and over-the-top humour three quarters of the way through, the ending takes the heights of what Sausage Party was riding on and soars it into the stratosphere. If anyone hasn't been offended, cringed or simply laughed off their posteriors, you can't help but at least smirk at what you're seeing (even if it is in a feeling of awkward surprise). It's along the same lines as to what you've already seen up until that point but it's such in an unexpected way that it's almost hilariously ridiculous and will probably have you and your mates chuckling whilst randomly bringing it up in a Rogen-Goldberg film discussion a year from now.
Sausage Party won't be winning any Oscars but it excels in not trying to be any more than what a film of its premise is meant be: a good laugh about a bunch of food going on an adventure, with a filling in the form of discovering faith whilst fighting for survival wrapped in a toasted layer of hard-hitting social and sexual-racial satire. Its strength comes from not caring who could get offended, giving it free reign to try and envelop you in as many cackle-worthy and risqué adult jokes as possible. Depending on your own tastes, you may not love every minute of Sausage Party but some of you with a low-brow sense of humour will also laugh uncontrollably at least a few times. Whether you want to give Sausage Party a repeat viewing or not will be about 50/50 odds, but you'll certainly enjoy the ride in the meantime.
Ben Williams ● Thursday, 22 September 2016 Labels: Food, Movies


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Q: Render multimensional array in Twig I have array like this in my controller :
foreach ($entities as $temp) {
    $semesters[]['romanic'] = $data1;
    $semesters[]['grouping'] = data2;
}

I can render it if my array like this $semesters['romanic'][]. But for some reason I can't make it like that. I've try several times like this :
{% for semester in semesters %}
{{ semester['romanic'] }}
{{ semester['grouping'] }}
{% endfor %}

or
{% for key, semester in semesters %}
{{ semesters[key]['romanic'] }}
{{ semesters[key]['grouping'] }}
{% endfor %}

I can render this if using 2 loops :
{% for semester in semesters %}
{% for temp in semester %}
{{ temp }}
{% endfor %}
{% endfor %}

But I need to do this with just 1 loop. Is this possible to do?

A: The first thing you should probably change is creating your array in PHP to:
foreach ($entities as $temp) {
    $c = count($semesters);
    $semesters[$c]['romanic'] = $data1;
    $semesters[$c]['grouping'] = $data2;
}

And in your Twig you can simple use:
{% for item in semesters %}
  {{ item.romanic }} {{ item.grouping }}<br />
{% endfor %}

Here's the sample PHP code to test it:
$semesters = array();

$semesters[0]['romanic'] = 1;
$semesters[0]['grouping'] = 2;
$semesters[1]['romanic'] = 3;
$semesters[1]['grouping'] = 4;
$twig->addGlobal ('semesters', $semesters);
echo $twig->render('index.html.twig');

The result is:
1 2
3 4

as expected


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Tuesday, 18th August, 2020 10.30 am
Agenda reports pack PDF 7 MB
Venue: This meeting is being held remotely; to view the meeting, please click here.
020 8726 6000 x86166 Email: thomas.downs@croydon.gov.uk
Appointment of Chair
To appoint a Chair for the duration of the meeting.
Councillor Karen Jewitt nominated Councillor Pat Clouder as Chair.
Councillor Margaret Bird seconded the motion.
The Sub-Committee RESOLVED to appoint Councillor Clouder as Chair for the duration of the meeting of the Sub-Committee.
Disclosure of Interests
Urgent Business (if any)
To receive notice of any business not on the agenda which in the opinion of the Chair, by reason of special circumstances, be considered as a matter of urgency.
There were no items of urgent business.
Licensing Act 2003 (Hearings) Regulations 2005 Procedures for Licensing Sub-Committee Hearings PDF 138 KB
This Report provides background to the request that the Chair of the Licensing Sub-Committee exercise delegated authority set out in Annex 1 to Part 5F of the Constitution to agree a change to the current Licensing Sub-Committee procedure to take account of remote hearings.
ANNEX 1_Licensing sub-Committee hearings procedure_May 2020(clean) , item 71/20 PDF 207 KB
The Licensing Manager introduced and summarised the report, which contained changes to the protocol for Licensing Sub-Committees in of light of the Coronavirus Act 2020.
The Chair AGREED the recommendations contained in the report.
Licensing Act 2003 - Application for a Premises Licence - 74 Lower Addiscombe Road, Croydon, CR0 6AB PDF 230 KB
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The recording of this item can be viewed by clicking on the link here.
Following the item being heard the Licensing Sub-Committee's decision is as follows:
The Licensing Sub-Committee considered the application for a Premises Licence at 74 Lower Addiscombe Road, Croydon, CR0 6AB along with the representations and additional information received, as contained in the report and appendices of the Executive Director 'Place'.
After considering the information received along with hearing from the Applicant and Licensing Service at the meeting, the Sub-Committee having reference to the licensing objectives under the Licensing Act 2003 ("the Act"), the statutory guidance issued under S.182 of the Act and the Council's Statement of Licensing Policy, RESOLVED to GRANT the premises licence application.
The application has been granted with the following amendments, as the Sub-Committee were satisfied that the Licensing Objectives would not be undermined;
Amendments to the application/conditions, as agreed by the applicant
· Condition 3 within the 'Proposed Conditions' on page 63 of the agenda is amended to read; 'A CCTV system shall be installed and maintained to comply with Home Office Requirements. CCTV will cover all entrances/exits and the internal areas of the premises. Recordings shall be stored for a minimum of 31 days and CCTV images shall be provided to Police or Council Officers on request.'
· Condition 9 within the 'Proposed Conditions' on page 63 of the agenda is amended to read; 'Between Sunday to Thursday the venue will close its doors to the public at midnight and will only operate from the rear of the premises as a 'take-away delivery' outlet until 0200hrs. After midnight on these specified days of the week no members of public will be permitted on the premises.'
Reasons for the decision;
The Sub-Committee, took into account the following reasons, when making their decision:
1. The additional information, as discussed at the meeting, which provided the Sub-Committee with the necessary clarity as to how the premises has operated previously and it's proposed operation and management with regards to providing Late Night Refreshment, particularly in relation to when it will be operating and providing a delivery service only.
2. It was noted that the Police had withdrawn their representation, following discussions and the agreed conditions with the applicant. The Sub-Committee slightly amended condition 3 to ensure the rear of the premises would continue to be covered by CCTV and condition 9 was amended to ensure there was complete clarity as to how the premises would operate from Sunday to Thursday.
3. With regards to operation of the Premises on a Friday and Saturday, Mr Goddard from the Council's Licensing Service clarified that given what had been outlined in the operating schedule (on page 50 of the agenda), the premises will be operating a delivery service only from 01:00 hours. As such the Sub-Committee did not feel they needed to add an additional condition as to same and were satisfied that a condition, as to this effect, will included in any licence issued by the Licensing Service. ... view the full minutes text for item 72/20
Licensing Act 2003 - Application for a Premises Licence - 1447 London Road, Norbury, SW16 4AQ PDF 230 KB
SCR1447LondonRoadAppA , item 73/20 PDF 336 KB
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Councillor Pat Clouder and Councillor Karen Jewitt declared that the objector to this item was known to them from their duties as Ward Councillors; both Councillors stated that this would not prejudice their decision on this application.
The Licensing Sub-Committee considered the application for a Premises Licence at 1447 London Road, Norbury, SW16 4AQ along with the representations and additional information received, as contained in the report and appendices of the Executive Director 'Place'.
After considering the information received along with hearing from the Applicant, Other Person and Licensing Service at the meeting, the Sub-Committee having reference to the licensing objectives under the Licensing Act 2003 ("the Act"), the statutory guidance issued under S.182 of the Act and the Council's Statement of Licensing Policy, RESOLVED to GRANT the premises licence application.
i) Amendment to the application/conditions, as agreed by the applicant
· Condition 8 within the 'Proposed Conditions' on page 113 of the agenda is amended to read 'Food will be available at all times that the sale of alcohol is authorised, which is up to 30 minutes before the premises is to close. All alcohol sales (both on and off) will be ancillary to substantial food and/or a food order, of more than a nominal value, being ordered from the menu.'
ii) Additional condition, as agreed by the applicant
· There shall be no vertical drinking at the premises and any alcohol sales to seated patrons within the premises shall be by table service only
1. The additional information, as discussed at the meeting, which provided the Sub-Committee with the necessary clarity as to how the premises has operated previously and it's proposed operation and management with regard to a café/delicatessen/restaurant.
2. It was noted that the Police and the Council's Food & Safety Team had withdrawn their representation, following discussions and the agreed conditions with the applicant.
3. The Sub-Committee amended condition 8 to ensure the operation of the premises, given the concerns raised by the Other Person, would not undermine licensing objectives and/or negatively impact on the cumulative impact policy.
4. In granting this application, the Sub-Committee felt that the measures that have been and will be put in place by the applicant were appropriate and sufficient in the circumstances and believed that along with type and style of the premises (as in how it will operate), the conditions to be imposed and the hours of operation, the granting of 'off-sales' of alcohol would not add to negative cumulative impact that is currently being experienced in the area.
It is for the reasons, as set-out above, that the Sub-Committee approved the application, with ... view the full minutes text for item 73/20
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Councillor Pat Clouder and Councillor Karen Jewitt declared that the objector to this item was known to them from their duties as Ward Councillors; both Councillors stated that this would not prejudice their decision on this application
· The Opening Hours on Sunday will be until 22:00 hours, with licensable activities ceasing at 21:30 hours.
ii) Additional conditions, as agreed by the applicant
· The rear of the premises is not to be used by patrons at any time.
1. The additional information, as discussed at the meeting, which provided the Sub-Committee with the necessary clarity as to how the premises has operated previously and it's proposed operation and management with regard to a café/restaurant.
2. It was noted that the Police had withdrawn their representation, following discussions and the agreed conditions with the applicant.
3. The Sub-Committee amended the opening hours and licensable activity hours for Sunday, as agreed with the applicant, in line with the planning permission.
4. The Sub-Committee amended condition 8 to ensure the operation of the premises, given the concerns raised by the Other Person, would not undermine the licensing objectives and/or negatively impact on the cumulative impact policy.
5. In granting this application, the Sub-Committee felt that the measures that have been and will be put in place by the applicant were appropriate and sufficient in the circumstances and believed that along with type and style of the premises (as ... view the full minutes text for item 74/20
Exclusion of the Press and Public
The following motion is to be moved and seconded where it is proposed to exclude the press and public from the remainder of a meeting:
"That, under Section 100A(4) of the Local Government Act, 1972, the press and public be excluded from the meeting for the following items of business on the grounds that it involves the likely disclosure of exempt information falling within those paragraphs indicated in Part 1 of Schedule 12A of the Local Government Act 1972, as amended."
This was not required.


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Former North Isles councillor Robert Henderson has gone on trial accused of raping a woman 28 years ago.
Henderson, who stood down at the last council elections, is also said to have sexually abused two young girls in the 1970s in Yell.
The 73-year-old appeared at Aberdeen High Court yesterday to stand trial.
Henderson, who was elected as an independent councillor in Shetland in 2007 and again in 2012, denies the charges.
The two women, who he allegedly sexually abused when they were teenagers, both gave evidence in court yesterday.
The first of these, now in her fifties, claimed the behaviour began when she was in a vehicle with him.
She described to the jury how Henderson had invited her to take the steering wheel while he controlled the pedals.
Describing the moment, she said: "I was sitting in his lap steering and the next thing his hands came up over my breasts and he was holding my breasts. I froze, I felt sick."
She claimed he repeated the behaviour regularly from when she was 11 until she was 16.
Representing Henderson, who lives on Yell, defence counsel David Moggach asked why the woman had been reluctant to speak to the police when first contacted about the issue.
She said: "I did not think I had the courage."
Later yesterday the second of the women, also in her fifties, claimed Henderson had "groped" her "six or eight times" at a "conservative estimate."
Advocate Depute Lisa Gillespie asked her if she remembered the first time it happened.
She replied: "No, it just happened now and again, it happened when we were alone."
She was then asked: "Did you ever say anything to Mr Henderson about what he was doing?"
"I did not, I would now. I was too embarrassed."
The trial, before Lord Kinclaven, continues.
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Two Musicals You Don't Want to Miss!
Move over Spidey. Here's two international shows that will give you a run for your money on the action-adventure geek set:
First, from Down Under:
A musical version of King Kong could be roaring onto a Broadway stage in a few years if its producers get their way. Officials at Global Creatures, the Australian company behind the hit arena show "Walking With Dinosaurs," are hoping their still-unfinished production of the classic ape story can find a theater on the Great White Way as early as 2013....The project, in development for the past two years, will be directed by Daniel Kramer and written by Tony nominee Craig Lucas[!!!] with new music by Grammy Award nominee Marius de Vries. It will feature a cast of more than 40 onstage actors, singers, dancers and puppeteers.
And next, from even farther beyond...
Die-hard "Star Trek" fans may want to dust off their Klingon dictionaries and take a transporter to Europe for the debut of the first opera ever to be completely sung in the invented science fiction language. The opera, called "u," kicks off a three-day run at the Zeebelt Theater today in The Hague, Netherlands. The title "u" is the Klingon word for "universe" or "universal."
At least one has to admire their ambitious P.R.
In April, the show's producers sent a message out into the cosmos inviting the "real" Klingon community to attend the upcoming performances.The invitation was sent by a radio telescope to the Klingon home star, Arcturus.
Match that, Boneau Bryan Brown!
OK. We will be having open auditions for King Kong and I hope anyone with a Klingon passport will come and try for a part. However they should know that they will be expected to perform on all Klingon holidays including QI'lop. It also goes without saying that no disrupters or bat'leths will be allowed in the theatre at any time.
Adrian BB
Thursday, September 16, 2010 3:34:00 PM
Timothy Childs said...
Brilliant (and funny) PR for "u." Such tongue-in-cheek publicity certainly piques my interest in seeing the production..
- Timothy Childs
http://iblogbroadway.com/
Thursday, September 23, 2010 1:04:00 AM


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