Guiding Question: Can we decide a suitable and eco-friendly solution for a commonly manufactured commodity?
Problem: Our problem is that we have to make a piece of furniture out of cardboard. It must be eco-friendly, and has to be able to serve the same function that a piece of the same furniture out of a different material would.
There are three main kinds of cardboard: graphic cardboard, corrugated cardboard, and solid cardboard. Graphic cardboard is made by pressing layer after layer of kraft paper together. Glue is spread in between each layer, and more and more layers are added until the cardboard has reached the wanted thickness. Graphic cardboard is used to create binder covers, hardcover book covers, and puzzles. Solid cardboard, or carton board is a very thin kind of cardboard that is made with one side created very smooth. The smooth side can be printed on, and it is easy to glue things onto it. Solid cardboard is used to package items like hair cosmetics, breakfast cereal, and other foods. Lastly, Corrugated cardboard is a much thicker kind of cardboard that is made by pressing solid cardboard against a corrugated surface in order to make it curvy, and then sticking it in between two other pieces of board. Different kinds of corrugated cardboard are made by how many layers of waved board the cardboard has. Some have one layer of flat, one of waved, another of flat, another of waved, and then the final flat layer of cardboard. Others follow the same structure, just with more layers of waved and flat board. Corrugated cardboard is used to transport big, heavy objects, and is generally the kind of cardboard you think of when someone says "cardboard".
I think that the best kind of cardboard that would suit our needs would be corrugated cardboard. It is the thickest and most sturdy, as both graphic and solid cardboard are relatively thin. Furniture needs to have the maximum amount of strength possible in order for it to withstand all the stress that it will be subject to. Neither graphic nor solid cardboard will give the strength needed for furniture. However, several layers of corrugated board probably will. We could use solid cardboard to decorate the furniture, because its smooth side will be easier to paint and draw on than the sides of corrugated board.
As you can see, there are many more advantages to using cardboard as opposed to disadvantages. One thing that is important to think about is that one of the disadvantages about cardboard is that it is not water-proof. However, because we will be making cardboard furniture for the classroom, this is unimportant as it will never have to go outside. This leaves one major problem of making furniture out of cardboard: how fa5st it wears out. Furniture is generally used a lot, whether it is a table, chair, or shelf. The cardboard must be durable enough to serve its purpose for an extended period of time. A way we could solve this problem would be to reinforce it with other stronger materials, or to just add as many layers of cardboard as possible, to make it thicker and stronger.
Furniture is a very important part of peoples' daily lives. We sit in chairs, we write on desks, we take books off shelves. Ergonomics focuses on how to make a piece of furniture comfortable for about 95% of the people who will use it. The desk height cannot be too tall, but neither should it be too short. The dip in the chair should not be too deep, but nor should it be nonexistent. The shelving should not be up too high on the wall, but nor should it be too low. Many workers have to sit in chairs at their desk for many hours a day. Each aspect of the chair must be able to accommodate this. Arm rests must not obstruct the movement of a chair, but they have to be big enough to support the arms of the user. Backrests should be able to support the whole back of the person. The base of the chair must be strong and have the ability to support weight for a long period of time, and the seat pan should be wide enough for the different sizes of people.
Anthropometrics is very closely linked with ergonomics. It is the study of the human body and body measurements that allows ergonomics to work. It works with the proportions of the body. Anthropometrics is important to ergonomics, because it provides the data needed to make the measurements for furniture. How wide a seat pan for a chair should be depends on how wide the average hip is. How tall a shelf should be depends on how tall the average person is. The height of a desk is decided by how long the average legs are. However, Anthropometrics is not only about the average person - it is about 95% of the population, as a good piece of furniture will accommodate 95% of the people who will use it.
According to the Merriam Webster Dictionary, "aesthetic" means "pleasing in appearance". When relating to furniture, aesthetic means making a piece of furniture pleasing to the eye - basically making furniture look good. No one wants to sit on a chair that looks like a box. People like pretty things. Furniture should be reasonably nice to the eye, as well as safe and comfortable to the body. An example of a building that is aesthetic would be Gaudi's Casa Bayou in Barcelona. The difference between an aesthetic piece of furniture and an ugly piece of furniture can really make a difference in the atmosphere created around the furniture. Even if the two pieces of furniture are equally comfortable and equally functional, the one that is aesthetic will be much more popular over the ugly one.
Would you rather have this over your street... Or this?
Function is what something was made to do. A chair is made to hold someone sitting on it. A box is made to store objects. A lamp is made to provide light. The whole reason why a piece of furniture is made is to serve its function. Something that does not serve its function is useless. For example, if you have a flashlight that is broken, it can no longer serve its function, which is to provide light. This makes the flashlight completely useless. In order for a piece of furniture to be considered "good", it must be comfortable and safe, it must be pleasing to the eye, and it has to serve its function, and serve it well.
Tension is when something is stretched. For example, when something is pulled along a length of string, the string is full of tension, because both sides of the strings are being pulled: the side of the string with the object on the end, and the side of the string that is being pulled result in tension throughout the string.
Compression is the opposite of tension. Instead of something being stretched, it is pushed back on itself. In simpler terms, compression means the object is being squished.
In a piece of furniture, compression and tension happen when force is applied to it. An example of this would be in a chair. Force is applied to the top seat of the chair when someone sits down. The chair bends a little downward, which is compression. However, as the top part of the seat bends downward, the bottom part of the seat is stretched, which creates tension.
There are many different pieces of furniture we can make for this project. There are some limitations, however. The furniture has to be useful in the classroom. It cannot be so big that it does not fit in the room, but neither can it be a miniature piece of furniture that won't do anything but look cute. The furniture has to serve the same purpose that one exactly the same as it would serve if made out of regular material. These limitations mean that my group cannot build a doll house, or a car, or a tree out of cardboard. We have to build a piece of furniture that can be used in the classroom.
I think that all of the objects listed above are constructable, except for the plant pot. Plants need water, and cardboard is not waterproof. The cardboard will not be strong enough to withstand daily or weekly plant watering for a long period of time. A coat rack may also be difficult to make, as I am unsure whether or not we would be allowed to hammer anything into the walls. An umbrella stand could work, except that it would never be used for umbrellas, as this is a classroom, and students rarely bring umbrellas into class. However, a container, desk, chair, set of drawers, or shelf would work just fine, as long as none of the other groups have any objections to any of the ones we want to make.
What: We want to build furniture out of cardboard. This furniture must be sturdy, comfortable, aesthetic, and it has to serve its function.
Why: To see if we can make an eco-friendly alternative to furniture that would have been made in a factory.
Who: My two partners and I will design and build the furniture.
How: We will collaborate to design and build the furniture using materials provided by our Design Technology teacher.
Design Specification: We need to create a piece of furniture out of cardboard. It must be sturdy, comfortable, aesthetic, and it must serve its function. It must be classroom-appropriate, and has to be able to last a long time. It must be useful.
How to Test it: We will test our furniture's sturdiness by applying force on it. We will start out with applying only a little bit of force, and then increase it. If the furniture does not break, we will proceed to apply a large amount of force to it at once. If it does not break after that, we will have different people use it and interview them to see if it is comfortable. Since furniture should be comfortable to 95% of the population, we will test it on 95% of the class. We will then have 95% of the class evaluate it for aesthetic purposes. If they all say that it is ugly, then we have failed, but if they agree that it is pleasing to the eye, then we have successfully made a piece of furniture that fits with our design specification.
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Although it is hard to see, I drew several designs for chairs, drawers, and tables. I first tried to be aesthetic with the big drawer in the middle. It has funny curves and lines that I believed would look nice. However, it ended up looking like a very bad piece of furniture from "Beauty and the Beast,"(see right) and I decided that only professionals could pull off furniture like that. My next chest of drawers that I attempted was square and normal-looking in appearance, but then I tried to make it look aesthetic by drawing curvy lines on the side. Those ended up making it look really bad. For some reason, I was finding it hard to stay away from curvy lines. I then took a break from drawing drawers, and tried some tables. The results were not very impressive. Both tables ended up looking like they would be functional, but I doubted they would be considered very aesthetic, as they looked like normal classroom desks. My last hope was in making chairs. I started out with a regular chair, but then looked up cardboard chairs on the internet and saw more comfortable-looking curvy chairs. I drew what one might look like, and decided I really like it. In the picture to the left, it is labelled as "Chair 2". This kind of chair is the chair I decided to really design.
I pers0nally really like this chair, because I think that if we are able to make it, it will be very comfortable, and, once we paint it, it will also be aesthetically pleasing.
I think that this chair fits pretty well with the Design Specifications. It will be made out of almost 100% cardboard; it will be furniture that is suitable for MS students, as the measurements I used to design the chair were based on the measurements of an average MS student's body; it will be visually pleasing once we paint it; it has very accurate measurements (though we will only be able to really tell how accurate they are until we build them); they will demonstrate good hands-on skills, as we will have to make the cardboard bend; and it may or may not be able to withstand a lot of weight. The weight specification is the only one that could be a problem, but I think that if we fortify the edges of the cardboard, it will work out well.
d the best out of all the options we have to make, as it will be able to be hung on the wall, and will not take up space and clutter up the floor.
As you can see, his shelf will be in the shape of the "FALLEN" logo (see right). We decided that in order to make the shelf aesthetic, we could either give it a "hippy" look, or an "old/cool" look. The way we would give it the "hippy" look would be by painting the whole shelf white and then splattering it with colored paint. We would make the shelf "old/cool" by painting it all black, and then splattering it with white paint. This fits the design specifications, because it will be made almost entirely out of cardboard (except for paint and glue); it will be suitable for MS students, as they will think it is "cool", and they will be able to use it for holding pens/pencils, etc; it will be aesthetic, once we paint it, and it will also be able to hold a lot of weight, since we will fortify it with extra cardboard; and it will demonstrate good hands-on skills once we start building, as we will have to figure out how to bend the cardboard the way we need it to bend.
, so it will be hard for us to come back from this long break and remember what we are trying to do with this project.
1.) We cut out pieces of cardboard based on the sizes and shapes from our 3D sketches of the shelf. Just like in the plan. Except that we had to change some of the dimensions to more appropriate sizes once we realized what the shelf would really look like.
2.) We stuck the cardboard pieces together based on our 3D sketches (just like our plan) to form the shelves we needed in order to complete the one big shelf we had in mind. We did this with a hot glue gun and nails.
3.) We waited for the glue to dry before we continued.
5.) We tried to build the centerpiece for our whole shelf, but we ended up without enough cardboard, so we had to make do with connecting two shelves to each other with cardboard rolls stuffed with soft cardboard.
6.) We used paper tape to smooth over some of the edges of the shelves.
8.) We took the whole shelf outside and splattered it with purple, red, orange, and yellow paint.
We have not attached the whole shelf to the wall yet, because we don't have the nails we need. However, we will hang it up as soon as possible.
The other half of the project looks almost exactly the same as this one, except that the paint splatter are different, and the diagonal sides are facing right instead of left. So four shelves are not connected by one centerpiece like we planned for it to be, but they are connected to make two pairs of shelves that compliment each other.
Although we mostly followed our plan for the building part of our project, we were unable to complete it according to our timeline. We got started later than we should have, and it took us more time than we anticipated for us to actually build the shelves. In fact, we ended up finishing the whole project on February 12, rather than January 25. We could have benefited from even more time if we'd gone more slowly and carefully, paying more attention to detail. However, even though we did not finish building the big shelf according to our timeline, we still managed to create a piece of furniture that we are proud of.
Our project is definitely made out of at least 98% cardboard. Every part of our project was made out of cardboard except for the paper tape, the paint, and the glue, and not very much of the project is tape, paint, and glue. So I believe that our shelf fits that design specification very well. Our shelf is also definitely furniture - it is a shelf, and it will function as a shelf. I am pretty sure that the shelf is suitable for Middle School students. We have not asked any MS students what they think of our project yet, but it is furniture and it is colorful, functional, and interesting to look at. I think that these make it appropriate for middle schoolers. I hope that our shelf is usable. We have not had the chance to test it yet, but it seems pretty strong to me. However, we will see if it is usable once we have set it up on the wall. I believe that our shelf is definitely visually pleasing. It is not very ugly, and it has a modern look with its colorful splashes of paint. Its colors are fun to look at, and the structure is unique. However, its edges are slightly frayed. Our shelf has accurate measurements because we measured each part of it before we cut out the pieces in order to glue them together, and it also demonstrates good hands-on skills, because we had to sketch each piece on cardboard, then cut each one out, and then glue them together. Every single part of making this shelf required hands-on skills - even the painting part! Again, we have been unable to test the sturdiness of our shelf, so we do not know yet if it will withstand a lot of weight. However, we have really tried hard to make sure that the shelf will withstand a lot of weight by using plenty of glue, reinforcing the cardboard where it was necessary for reinforcement, and inserting extra-support pieces of cardboard between the top and bottom of each of the shelves to make sure that they do not collapse. When we test it, we will see what happens. Lastly, I am sure that our shelf appropriately fits in with the classroom environment. It is kid-friendly, nice to look at, and functions as a shelf - something many classrooms need.
We ended up making a shelf that looks a lot different from how we planned for it to be. First of all, we ran out of cardboard. We'd made the four shelves that make up the Fallen logo that we were planning to model our shelf after, and we wanted to make the center piece, but there was not enough cardboard for us to use. In the end, we had to stick two cardboard rolls in between the small shelves and the big shelves to make two double-shelves. We never got to connect them.
As you can probably tell from the image, it was a horrible feeling. So then we had to make a whole new shelf, which we did, and we also strengthened the other shelves by adding more cardboard to them. It ended up turning out ok. After that, our teacher told us that the project would look better and be more neat if we used paper tape to cover the fraying cardboard edges of our shelf. We were tired and we just wanted to get it done, however, so we rushed through the taping part and only taped the worst sections of our shelves. This means that a lot of frayed shelf ends are still showing now, and we can't do it over because we already painted everything. However, at the time, we did not care and we just wanted to finish, so we rushed and didn't do everything as carefully as we should have.
This piece of furniture is very eco-friendly. It is made up of almost 98% cardboard, which is recycling the cardboard and putting it to use when it would probably have been thrown away. So much cardboard trash has been saved by our project, and even more would have been saved if we'd had enough cardboard to build the centerpiece. This piece of furniture is also an example and inspiration to younger children. Seeing this cardboard shelf on the wall every day will remind people that there are more things to do with cardboard then throwing it away, and maybe provide the spark for them to start their own cardboard-saving, eco-friendly projects. Also, it promotes saving the Earth and "reducing, reusing, and recycling", because this shelf is reusing cardboard and shows others that the school is trying to save the planet. Because of this shelf, people will be constantly reminded of being eco-friendly, and it may linger on their minds when they throw things out. They might then save some of the bottles they are throwing out to recycle, or turn them into something new. This would then have a good impact on the environment, because more people would reduce, reuse, and recycle, based on what they have seen us doing in DT class.
For this part of the Design Cycle, I think that I did pretty well. I conducted in-depth research about cardboard as a material, its advantages and disadvantages, ergonomics, anthropometrics, tension, compression, and more. I made sure that I had a full understand about cardboard and all the other aspects of building with cardboard before I started to design and plan the furniture. I also cited my sources using the MLA citation style, which is the appropriate way to cite sources here at ISB. For my investigation, I would give myself a 6/6, because I worked very hard on it, I included many images, and I believe that I fulfilled the requirements for how an Investigation for this project should be.
I think I did ok for the Design part of this project. After brainstorming several ideas, I eventually ended up picking a chair as my best design. I made several different sketches of the chair, including how it would look from the front, back, and side; a sketch with all the dimensions of the cardboard; and a sketch with the chair split up into the different pieces of cardboard that would be needed to be cut out in order to build it. I evaluated my design against the design specifications, and explained why we would end up choosing my partner's design for our group to build rather than mine. I would give myself a 5/6 for the Design part of this project, because I believe that I could have gone more in-depth, and my sketches could have been made with more detail.
In my plan, I listed the materials we needed, my group made a timeline, and we created a step-by-step process for us to follow as we were building in order to help us in the construction of our furniture. I did not really write anything else, but I do not believe that more information was necessary. I would give myself a 5/6 for the Plan part of this project, because I could have explained the timeline and the jobs more. Also, to assign people jobs like "gluer" and "cutter" was not smart, because all members of my group were needed for multiple things. Roles like "gluer" and "builder" just were not what you can give to people in a group project like this one.
For the most part, I believe that I did pretty well in the Create part of this project. I worked hard and did my best to help my group members where I was needed. For the most part, I tried to keep myself and my group members on task, although that did not work all the time. However, we ended up with a finished piece of furniture that I am happy with, and that I think we did a good job on. I would give myself a 5/6 on the Create portion of this project, because, although I did my best and worked hard most of the time, there were some moments when I gave up trying to keep my group on task.
All in all, I think that my group performed pretty well. In the beginning, there were some instances where only two group members would be working and the other would be doing I don't know what, and there were some times when we lost focus in the job at hand, but by the end of the project, we had pulled together to work as a team and produce a piece of cardboard furniture. I would give my group a 5/6 for group performance, because I believe that we did a pretty good job of working together, even though sometimes we messed up a little bit. It is difficult to work with the same people for an extended period of time - especially if you maybe do not get along with every single one of your group members. In my opinion, we did a good job working as a group.


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Q: Get variable from Broadcast Receiver I want to access the variable boolean is_connected; in Broadcast Receiver from my main_activity. How do I make this happen?
public class MyStartServiceReceiver extends BroadcastReceiver {
boolean is_connected;
MediaPlayer media;

@Override
public void onReceive(Context context, Intent intent) {
    String action = intent.getAction();
    if (action.equals(Intent.ACTION_POWER_CONNECTED)) {
        Toast.makeText(context, "1", Toast.LENGTH_LONG).show();
    } else if (action.equals(Intent.ACTION_POWER_DISCONNECTED)) {
        media=MediaPlayer.create(context,R.raw.battery);
        media.start();
        Toast.makeText(context, "2", Toast.LENGTH_LONG).show();
        is_connected=false;

    }
}

}

A: You have two options. One, you can put MyServiceStartReceiver in MyActivity and create the variable as a class variable in MainActivity. (See how I have implemented that receiver that will receive your custom intent broadcast below).
Or you can keep your MyServiceStartReceiver separate, allowing you to use it across your application, and send out a broadcast when it is done with it's onReceive function and needs to send out it's boolean result.
STEPS
In your MyServiceStartReceiver class create the variable
public static final String CONNECTED_KEY = "connected";

Then at the end of onReceive() when you are ready to let your Activity know what the boolean is
Intent broadcast = new Intent();
broadcast.setAction(MainActivity.CONNECTION_BROADCAST_ACTION);
broadcast.putExtra(CONNECTED_KEY, is_connected);
sendBroadcast(broadcast);

In MainActivity, you can create a custom broadcast receiver. That receiver can be something like this
public class MainActivity extends Activity{
    public static final String CONNECTION_BROADCAST_ACTION = "my.package.name.CONNECTION_BROADCAST";
    protected boolean isConnected = false;
    private ConnectionStatusReceiver statusReceiver;

    // Your MainActivity stuff you have now and add

    @Override
    public void onResume(){
        super.onResume();
        if(statusReceiver == null)
            statusReceiver = new ConnectionStatusReceiver();
        registerReceiver(statusReceiver, new IntentFilter(CONNECTION_BROADCAST_ACTION));
    }

    @Override
    public void onPause(){
        super.onPause();
        unregisterReceiver(statusReceiver);
    }

    public class ConnectionStatusReceiver extends BroadcastReceiver{

        // override the onReceive method and in it
        isConnected = intent.getBooleanExtra(BroadcastingClass.CONNECTED_KEY, false);
        // do what you want with it
    }
}

Haven't tested it, but if you have any issues let me know.

A: From my understanding, you simply want to react (in your activity) to changes to the power state. My suggestion is to declare a subclass of BroadcastReceiver as an inner class in your activity:
public class MyActivity extends Activity {
  private MyReceiver mReceiver = new MyReceiver();
  private class MyReceiver extends BroadcastReceiver {
    public void onReceive (Context context, Intent intent)     {
      String action = intent.getAction();
      if (action.equals(Intent.ACTION_POWER_CONNECTED)) {
        // do stuff
      } else if (action.equals(Intent.ACTION_POWER_DISCONNECTED)) {
        // do other stuff
      }
    }
  }
}

Also, remember to register and remove the receiver in onResume and onPause, respectively.
As Intent.ACTION_BATTERY_CHANGED is a sticky broadcast, you will receive (through the return value of the register call) the most recent intent when you register your receiver. This is helpful if you want to init your activity according to this value (this would be in your onResume implementation).
Also, be aware that you should not be able to use your current strategy (i.e. using a standalone receiver registered in the manifest) for this type of broadcast. See the documentation for the broadcast action here.

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The Scorecard Wrap-UP
Well, I didn't get it all right in my guess of how the State of the Union Address would go. It was far more low-key than I expected, though I think got a few things correct. But it was largely done is far more subtle way. The president did go into his achievements during his seven years, as I expected, but didn't trumpet them with klieg lights. Tossed off mentions of the Affordable Care Act, the nuclear deal with Iran, the Climate Change Accord, a brief word about tracking down Osama bin Laden, and more. But all largely interwoven into other points. His subtlest work was in discussing his vision for the next five year. It was statesmanlike, but really was setting the agenda for the next president -- all of which was a very pointed, but understated dig at Donald Trump.
What I thought he'd do more of, but he didn't, was lay out his plans for the coming year. And I thought he'd be more aggressively blunt. But in the end, that isn't who he is. And the next presidency was clearly much more important to him than making specific proposals tonight, which would get in the way of his larger, more substantive message.

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A warm friendly welcome to all, no experience required. . We meet very informally, in a relaxed atmosphere, we are flexible. have a brew, have a go at a craft and have a chat.Once a month there will be a craft you can have a go at or sit and watch and encourage others, The other session you can bring your own.
If you would like to bring some of your own work to finish off or just need a little help to complete your project, there may be someone within the group who is able to share their variety of knowledge, help and encouragement with you. We could also come together again for another joint project for the Chapel. Also look at suitable craft items to make for the spring effort.
The Group will be part of outreach to the local community, meet up and have fellowship and to encourage and learn from each other in various crafts.
It was suggested to maybe make a new banner to mark the special occasion of the Bi-centenary in August 2016. So with much discussion, ideas, drawings a group came together in February 2016.
We could not have done it without each other, we all have our strengths and weaknesses and we give thanks to the Lord for bringing us together on such a special project. The Banner was made and now hangs in the Chapel.
The Lord has helped this Chapel for over 200 years to stick firmly to faithfully preaching the Gospel, outreach, and stay open when so many churches are closing their doors. May the Lord continue to guide and bless this place now and in years to come that it will remain faithful to preaching the Gospel, hearing His word and sharing our faith.


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It was the most wonderful time of the year… holiday party time!
Everyone is out and about and looking for fun things to do, and this rings especially true for families. But it's a double-edged sword: with so much to do, how do you get people to come to your event?
Waverly, a shopping and residential plaza in south Charlotte, looks to capitalize on this each year with their Winter Wednesday events. The goal is to get more people into Waverly for the first time, and then have them come back in the future.
By holding the event several times throughout December, families are able to pick a date that works best for them with their already crazy holiday schedule. If you're thinking of hosting an event during a busy time, having several dates available can really make a difference in the number of people you're looking to reach.
With this annual set of events, we're trying to increase the plaza's visibility in the area since it's relatively new - the grand opening was in 2017, after all.
The event is simple: Every Wednesday in December, we set up in The Terrace of Waverly which is located in the middle of several shops and restaurants. We work with different vendors in Waverly to offer free samples or coupons or general info on their store. There's always a Santa there to take present requests from kids, usually, a holiday character, like Olaf from Frozen, dressed up and Christmas music to really set the mood.
We also work with a different local baker each week to hand out free desserts and have giveaway prizes. This is to encourage people to stop by a registration table and give us their email so they can obtain a ticket for these things.
The winter fun starts at 5 P.M., once most families are finished with work for the day and out and about with their kiddos, and ends after a few hours.
We had a few simple goals for the event this year: Get more people to come each week than we had the previous year, collect email addresses of attendees for future marketing purposes and show off Waverly vendors to drum up interest and future business.
I made a few adjustments to the event this year: first, we decided to end 30 minutes earlier this year than we did in 2017. Doing this seemed to fit better with our attendees' schedules and saved Waverly some money: a win-win.
We also added a new attraction this year: snow machines. And, well, WOW! These things were a hit with kids, who couldn't get enough. If you're holding an outdoor event in the south during the holidays, this is a relatively cheap option that is sure to be a hit. I'll definitely be bringing them back next year, and will be looking for larger ones to increase the fun.
Additionally, we added a toy drive through a partnership with the Kids First Project and a photo booth with TapSnap so families could get a nice, holiday portrait done while they were out! We added a tent with heaters this year so families had an opportunity to escape the colder days - I think everyone was thankful for this addition.
The event was marketed on Facebook and Instagram, as well as banners that were hung in the Waverly center. This means some of those who attended may already be consistent patrons of Waverly shops and businesses, but hosting free events like these keeps them coming back.
They really speak for themselves with this event: every single week we had over 300 attendees, and some weeks we reached over 350. This means approximately 900 email addresses collected for Waverly's future marketing purposes and interacted with Waverly vendors - different ones each week - who they may not have before.
This is a definite increase from last year. I can't help but point out our success from last year may have had something to do with it - the best marketing is often word of mouth, and I'm sure we had excited attendees last year encouraging others to try it this year with them.
But I truly believe the fact we had such a fun and free event that families and couples could attend more than once or on the day that worked best for them has a lot to do with the continued success of Waverly's Winter Wednesdays. When you make the event easy for your attendees, the impact can help with your overall visibility, popularity, and future marketing.
First, I cannot stress this enough - turn to snow machines for your winter events! These were such a hit and were a relatively cheap option that really helped take the event to a whole new level from last year.
Free events don't have to mean you'll lose money. Even though this entire event was free for attendees, we saw them going into shops and restaurants after for a quick bite to eat or see what they were. We also expect many who didn't have time to check out the plaza that night to come back now that they know what is offered.
Even for those who have been to the Waverly shops before, this event allowed them the opportunity to interact with businesses they might not have before. Having local vendors participate only increased the popularity, as many of them gave things away as well.
Finally, having the same event held several times during the holidays is advisable. Every single week we had at least 300 people attend and did not see a major dip as the event continued. Rather than hold one event that reached 300 people, we held 3, reached over 900, and fully expect this number will increase next year as we continue to learn and as past attendees come back and bring others.


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Q: Why can't I define (and save) Tkinter fonts inside a function? Defining a font inside a function and in the main body of the script seems to behave differently, and I can't seem to figure out how it's supposed to work.
For example, the Label in this example ends up being in a larger font, as expected:
from Tkinter import *
from ttk import *

import tkFont

root = Tk()

default = tkFont.Font(root=root, name="TkTextFont", exists=True)
large = default.copy()
large.config(size=36)

style = Style(root)
style.configure("Large.TLabel", font=large)

root.title("Font Test")

main_frame = Frame(root)
Label(main_frame, text="Large Font", style="Large.TLabel").pack()

main_frame.pack()
root.mainloop()

However, if I try to define styles inside a function, it seems like the font gets deleted or garbage collected and is not available by the time the widget needs to use it:
from Tkinter import *
from ttk import *

import tkFont

def define_styles(root):
    default = tkFont.Font(root=root, name="TkTextFont", exists=True)

    large = default.copy()
    large.config(size=36)

    style = Style(root)
    style.configure("Large.TLabel", font=large)

root = Tk()

root.title("Font Test")

define_styles(root)

main_frame = Frame(root)
Label(main_frame, text="Large Font", style="Large.TLabel").grid(row=0, column=0)

main_frame.pack()
root.mainloop()

Printing out tkFont.names() in the first version just before the main_frame.pack() lists the custom font as font<id>, but printing the same in the second version does not list the custom font outside the define_styles function. Do I have to do something special to save them?
Why can't I put that code in a function? Am I fundamentally misunderstanding something about how Fonts are supposed to be used? tkFont seems to have some kind of font registry, why aren't mine sticking around?

A: I have no evidence to back this up, but I believe that your large Font object is being garbage collected by Python once define_styles ends. This is because no pure Python objects have any references to it, even though the underlying Tcl implementation is still using it. This is a problem that afflicts Tkinter's PhotoImage class, as well.
The workaround is to keep the object alive by making a long-lived reference to it. Just assign it to any old attribute on the root object, for example.
def define_styles(root):
    default = tkFont.Font(root=root, name="TkTextFont", exists=True)

    large = default.copy()
    large.config(size=36)

    style = Style(root)
    style.configure("Large.TLabel", font=large)
    root.myfont = large

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Though Cultural Diplomacy has been an official tool of some national governments for over a century, and has been practiced by civil society practitioners for much longer, opportunities to study the field at the graduate and post-graduate levels, did not exist until 2011.
Starting in 2011, the Academy for Cultural Diplomacy has successfully developed MA & PhD graduate programs offered to students from around the world, in partnership with European Universities. These programs are the first academic programs to ever be offered in the world in the field of cultural diplomacy. Since 2011 more and more universities around the world started to offer degrees in cultural diplomacy.
One of the primary goals of the ICD has been to raise awareness of cultural diplomacy and soft power: what these concepts mean, the different contexts within which they can be used, and how they can strengthen intercultural relations. To further this goal we have held many Weeklong Seminars and international conferences, each hosting a diverse group of participants from across the world and leading speakers from politics, diplomacy, academia, and the arts. The lectures and discussions at these events have not only raised awareness of these subjects amongst the participants, but have also been published online in full, thereby reaching a much larger audience.
ICD conferences and seminars are designed not only with the participants in mind, but are also intended to influence the speakers taking part. By including in the programs interactive panel discussions and debates amongst speakers, by holding lengthy question and answer sessions with the audience, and by providing an opportunity for participants to present their own papers, the ICD and our program participants have ensured information and opinions flow both to and from the politicians and decision-makers taking part.
The ICD aims not only to promote cultural diplomacy, but also to practice it. Since 2003 our Young Leaders Forums and out global internship project have brought together thousands of young people, from all four corners of the globe, in sustainable international networks. These networks help to strengthen a diverse range of bi- and multi-lateral relationships and, through their leadership initiatives, the young leaders have spread the principles of cultural diplomacy much farther and wider than any one organization could.
Since our establishment the ICD has worked hard to encourage academic research into the field of cultural diplomacy and related areas. We have done this by highlighting important issues that require research and analysis, by editing and publishing research conducted by our program participants and speakers, and by conducting our own independent research. The result of this combined effort is a large archive of publically-available material including audio visual interviews and speeches, academic papers, academic presentations, and a broad range of case studies in cultural diplomacy. It remains one of the ICD's key priorities to continue expanding this work.


Costa Rica is home to diverse habitats with incredible variety of plants and animal species. Over 880 bird species, 90000 recorded species of plants, 200 mammals, 2000 butterflies as well as 50 species of hummingbirds and 150 species of amphibians and more. There are 12 distinctive ecological zones from dry forest to mangroves to tropical rainforests and many of these species reside in the cloud forests of Monteverde and San Gerardo de Dota, a must for those looking for a birding holiday to Costa Rica.
A nocturnal nature tour is a magical experience that opens the door to a completely different appreciation of the forest environment. The sights, sounds and smells are very different to those during the day and accompanying guides will expertly draw attention to snakes, tree frogs, porcupines, agoutis, blue-crowned mot mots and hole-dwelling tarantulas, among other creatures of the night.
Preservation of the remarkable forest of Monteverde is largely thanks to a community of Quakers who left the USA to avoid military conscription in the 1950s and settled in this highlands area of Costa Rica. They very soon realised that conserving the forest was crucial to the protection of the area's watershed. The Monteverde Cloud Forest Reserve was officially established in 1972. Despite the effort needed to reach Monteverde (a long drive, poor roads) it has become a leading destination for eco–tourism and bird watchers flock there between February and April in hope to see the resplendent quetzal.
For those looking for something more low key, San Gerardo de Dota is a great alternative. Of course where there are no crowds, variety of accommodation can be limited, but located in the highlands of the Talamanca Mountains San Gerardo de Dota is referred to as the emerald valley, and is one of Costa Rica's best kept secrets. San Gerardo de Dota is at a high altitude, approximately 2,200 metres above sea level, and therefore the climate is much cooler and wetter with daytime temperatures reaching around 20 Celsius. The small town was founded in 1952 as a small agricultural settlement, growing cubano beans and fruits such as apples and peaches. The picturesque terrain is ideal for nature hikes, well-maintained trails fan out from most lodges, offering leisurely hikes through meadows of wildflowers.
It's not just the cloud forest that Monteverde is known for. It is also home to one of the best cheese companies in Costa Rica, the Monteverde Cheese Factory. The cloud forest of San Gerardo de Dota is considered the best location to see quetzals.
Monteverde is best visited during the dry season (January to April) when bird watching is at its best and you can probably stay dry for most of the activities. However, this is an area of cloud forest and you should always be prepared for wet conditions. San Gerardo de Dota is best visited between December and April. Days are warm, but due to the altitude, nights can be cool.


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Reading Anglo-Indian business links boosted by meeting with Deputy High Commissioner
More than 40 people attended the meeting hosted by Reading West MP Alok Sharma
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Reading West MP Alok Sharma with Indian Deputy High Commissioner Dr Virander Paul and members of the business community
Anglo-Indian relationships were further strengthened when businessmen and women in Reading met the Indian Deputy High Commissioner.
They attended a meeting hosted by Reading West MP Alok Sharma to provide an opportunity to meet His Excellency Dr Virander Paul.
More than 40 people attended the meeting, during which Dr Paul spoke about change in India following the outcome of the general election and the policies of the new Indian government, to produce economic growth and improve transparency and accountability.
The Deputy High Commissioner spoke about the importance of India's relationship with the UK in achieving all of these goals.
Dr Paul also answered questions about measures to boost bilateral trade and investment, such as obtaining Indian visas and helping Reading-based businesses build relations with Indian companies.
He agreed to provide introductions for businesspeople based in Reading to Indian companies.
Mr Sharma also joined Dr Paul for a visit to Reading Hindu Temple to attend a Diwali programme as part of the High Commission's agenda to extend its engagement with the British Indian community.
Dr Paul was the first senior member of the High Commission to visit Reading Hindu Temple.
Mr Sharma said: "I was delighted to welcome Deputy High Commissioner Paul to Reading to meet local business people and individuals who were able to raise issues related to bilateral trade, consular matters and cultural exchanges between India and the UK.
"India is a huge market with fantastic prospects for future growth and I am therefore particularly pleased that the Deputy High Commissioner has agreed to introduce local businesses to senior officials to help facilitate trade and investment and also host business meetings at the High Commission in London."


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Anti-Bullying Week is here again and it is a fantastic opportunity for organisations and schools all over the country to examine their anti-bullying policies.
Bullying is a regular form of deliberate behaviour that causes the target physical or emotional distress and can be carried out by an individual or a group over a period of time. In all cases of bullying, somebody suffers physical or emotional distress due to the actions of an individual or a group and the harmful behaviour continues over a period of weeks, months or even years.
Bullying is rarely out of the news — whether it is school bullying or bullying in the workplace. However, it is a difficult area to study because, in many ways, it is a secret activity. The target of bullying will often refuse to discuss the situation either out of fear of reprisal or because they do not want to be seen as telling tales. They may also feel that nothing will be done about their situation, or the bullying will get worse if they report it.
Someone who witnesses bullying, known as a bystander, may keep silent for the same reasons. However, by turning away and doing nothing, they are allowing the bullying to continue which causes more distress to the person being bullied. It is important that all incidences of bullying are reported as soon as possible.
To most people, a bully is a powerful person who inflicts physical violence on a weaker person. But bullying does not always involve physical assault and a person who is being bullied does not necessarily have cuts and bruises to prove it. In most cases the target suffers from verbal abuse which covers a variety of situations including name calling, taunting, verbal threats, demanding money and other forms of intimidation. Another method of bullying is exclusion — the target is totally ignored and not included in activities with classmates or work colleagues. This can be extremely distressing for the excluded person as they can feel completely cut off.
In our technology-driven world, cyberbullying is fast becoming the bullying method of choice. Cyberbullying takes place via text messages, emails, instant messages, online forums, chat rooms, social networks etc. It is becoming more and more common and, because of the anonymous nature of this type of bullying, it can be difficult to trace the person or persons behind it.
Anti-Bullying Week is a chance for all of us to make a stand against bullying and cyberbullying — and in fact any form of verbal and physical violence and hatred.
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Why presidential debates have turned into must-watch TV
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The surprise breakout hit of this television season isn't some Kardashian spinoff or another cheesy competition among aspiring songsters.
Republican presidential candidates Ben Carson, left, and Donald Trump share a light moment during the GOP debate at the Reagan Library in Simi Valley, Calif., on Sept. 16.
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It's the prime-time presidential debates, which have attracted huge national audiences and shaped and reshaped the 2016 race long before the calendar turns, or any real votes have been cast.
Much of that can be credited to Republican Donald Trump, a singular personality when it comes to getting noticed, and to Bernie Sanders, the charismatically cantankerous Vermont senator, who is Hillary Rodham Clinton's chief Democratic rival and the year's other political phenomenon.
In a sense, the two are cast members, along with the rest of the presidential candidates, in a wonky form of reality TV. "We can't wait to see who's going to do what onstage, and how they respond to one another," said Marty Kaplan, a former Democratic campaign strategist who teaches in the communications school at the University of Southern California.
Entertaining, educational
The next installment came Wednesday, when Republicans held their third face-to-face meeting at the University of Colorado in Boulder.
There are, of course, substantive reasons for voters to tune in. Amid the scripted sound bites and pre-rehearsed zingers, candidates do reveal pieces of their personalities, offer their political philosophies and even answer specific questions about issues and what they would hope to achieve in the Oval Office.
Kathleen Hall Jamieson, a University of Pennsylvania expert on political communication, notes that debate viewership traditionally rises in economically anxious times such as these, especially when a race is perceived to be as competitive as the wide-open 2016 contest. "Just because it's entertaining doesn't mean you're not going to learn things," Jamieson said.
Presidential primary debates used to be the province of high-minded civic types, playing to an audience of campaign insiders and other political obsessives watching from a handful of early-voting states. There were plenty of memorable and politically significant moments.
In 1980, Ronald Reagan assumed command of the GOP race by taking control of a New Hampshire debate after the moderator tried shutting him down in a dispute over who was allowed to participate. "I am paying for this microphone!" Reagan, who financed the session, famously bellowed.
In 1984, Democrat Walter Mondale deflated Gary Hart's "new ideas" campaign by seizing on a fast-food slogan, demanding, "Where's the beef?"
But it is only in recent campaigns that debates have played such a major role sorting the field at such an early stage, overriding the influence of big donors and the political establishment by elevating the likes of Ben Carson — and Michele Bachmann and Herman Cain in 2012 — and diminishing favorites such as Scott Walker and Florida ex-Gov. Jeb Bush.
Instantaneous evaluations
Carson, a former neurosurgeon with no campaign experience, surged to the fore of the GOP field after a well-regarded performance in his first debate and now leads the race in Iowa, the first state to vote next year.
Wisconsin Gov. Walker, who once topped the polls in Iowa and was considered a front-runner nationally for the Republican nomination, dropped out after largely sleepwalking through his two times onstage.
On the Democratic side, former Sens. Jim Webb of Virginia and Lincoln Chafee of Rhode Island dropped out last week after their widely panned performances in the party's Oct. 13 debate.
It is arguable whether the skills of a good debater are required to be a good president. But there is no doubt that they are more important than ever for anyone hoping to win the White House.
"You've got so many millions of people watching and so many instantaneous evaluations of their performance, any candidate that doesn't measure up, it gets magnified in a way that wasn't true before," said Alan Schroeder, a journalism professor at Northeastern University who wrote a book covering half a century of presidential debate history.
How they've changed
The nature of primary debates, and the audience they attract, started changing when the cable TV networks took over. Instead of the Nashua Telegraph hosting the contestants in a high school gym, and a candidate footing the bill the way Reagan did, the debates turned into nationally broadcast spectacles — and much-hyped branding opportunities — featuring celebrity journalists roaming razzle-dazzle soundstages.
When it comes to grabbing voters' attention, nothing else comes close.
Fox News attracted 24 million viewers for the first Republican session in August — three times the expected audience — making it the most-watched presidential primary debate in history. The second GOP debate on CNN drew nearly 23 million viewers, and the Democrats' first debate, also on CNN, drew an audience of more than 15 million viewers.
From the candidates' perspective, must-watch TV has turned the debates into must-be-there events.
In today's fragmented media environment, no presidential hopeful can afford to pass up a chance to address such a massive audience, even if it means precious time away from fundraising and one-on-one campaigning in Iowa, New Hampshire and other crucial early-voting states.
"Campaigns need to stimulate interest and create demand," said Kevin Madden, a Republican communications strategist who worked on both of Mitt Romney's presidential races. "If you give away that opportunity, somebody else will take it and run with it."
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What's clean about cow manure?
Absolutely nothing, unless researchers from Michigan State University get their hands on it. Sounds gross, but they would be doing so to convert it into clean water. Once the manure runs through the McLanahan Nutrient Separation System, the result is water clean enough for livestock to drink.
"If you have 1,000 cows on your operation, they produce about 10 million gallons of manure a year," Steve Safferman, an associate professor of biosystems and agricultural engineering who is involved in the project, said in news release. "About 90 percent of the manure is water but it contains large amounts of nutrients, carbon and pathogens that can have an environmental impact if not properly managed."
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The system uses an anaerobic digester to produce energy from the cow waste and combines it with an ultrafiltration, air stripping and a reverse osmosis system. The extracted nutrients can be used as fertilizer.
"Here in Michigan we have a tendency to take water for granted," Safferman said. "But out west, for example, where drought remains an issue, the accessibility of clean water could make the difference between a farm remaining viable or going out of business."
That's why the researchers are trying to get it commercialized sooner than later with the help of McLanahan Corp., which employs Jim Wallace, a former MSU student who earned his doctorate under the direction of Safferman. They also believe that it could add to the long-term viability of farms all over by converting elements that would otherwise hurt the environment.
"For example, we're able to capture a large percentage of the ammonia that would otherwise be lost in the atmosphere," Wallace said. "Ammonia is a negative from an air-quality standpoint."
Wallace and Safferman also worked with William Bickert, former professor of agricultural engineering. Work on the project began a decade ago, so the duo can see the finish line.
"It's a success story of a university project starting with a concept and moving all the way, hopefully, to commercial fruition," Safferman said.
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Bollywood actor Aamir Khan is reportedly not working on the sequel to Ashutosh Gowariker's 2001 film Lagaan. Aamir had reportedly started working on the second instalment of the film.
"It is completely false news (Aamir working on the sequel). It is not true at all," sources said. Lagaan revolved around a small village where the locals oppressed by high tax rates, found themselves in an extraordinary situation.
Thereafter, an arrogant officer challenges them to a game of cricket as a wager to avoid taxes. Lagaan also featured Gracy Singh, Suhasini Mulay and Kulbhushan Kharbanda.
The grapevine also suggests that I, Me Aur Main actress Prachi Desai was finalised to play the female lead in the sequel. Meanwhile, Aamir is busy filming Nitesh Tiwari's Dangal.
The actor will appear in the role of legendary wrestler Mahavir Singh Phogat in the movie.


Short-range antiferromagnetic correlations are known to open a spin gap in the repulsive Hubbard model on ladders with $M$ legs, when $M$ is even. We show that the spin gap originates from the formation of correlated pairs of electrons with opposite spin, captured by the hidden ordering of a spin-parity operator. Since both spin gap and parity vanish in the two-dimensional limit, we introduce the fractional generalization of spin parity and prove that it remains finite in the thermodynamic limit. Our results are based upon variational wave functions and Monte Carlo calculations: performing a finite size-scaling analysis with growing $M$, we show that the doping region where the parity is finite coincides with the range in which superconductivity is observed in two spatial dimensions. Our observations support the idea that superconductivity emerges out of spin gapped phases on ladders, driven by a spin-pairing mechanism, in which the ordering is conveniently captured by the finiteness of the fractional spin-parity operator.
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Home All Articles BBC faces criticism over cutting crucial parts of HardTalk interviews
BBC faces criticism over cutting crucial parts of HardTalk interviews
BBC show HardTalk under heavy criticism after omitting crucial parts from interviews with Gulnur Aybet, Senior Advisor to Turkey's President and Pakistan's Finance Minister Asad Umar.
The BBC talk show HardTalk is under heavy scrutiny after omitting crucial parts from two recent interviews where the senior advisor to Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, Professor Gulnur Aybet and Pakistan's Finance Minister Asad Umar were guests on the show.
A range of topics were discussed in the hard-hitting interview on Monday with President Erdogan's Senior Advisor Aybet, from the killing of dissident Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi to press freedom in Turkey.
But it's what was not aired on HardTalk that is raising questions and quickly becoming the talking point in Turkey.
Parts of the interview which you cannot see on the clip currently running on BBC's website is the UK terror laws in which "encouragement of terrorism" is punishable by up to 7 years in prison following the Terrorism Act of 2006.
This is not the first time that HardTalk has come under fire. The show received immense criticism after airing a TV interview on December 13 with Pakistan's Finance Minister Asad Umar in which BBC omitted Umar's mention of Indian spy Kulbhushan Jadhav.
Asfandyar Bhittani
✔@BhittaniKhannnn
· Dec 13, 2018
Replying to @BBCHARDtalk
Bbc Hard Talk is even less convincing than Hameed Haroon.
This is what was censored from BBC TV. And this explaination is laughable. You guys had enough time to air murder of Saudi citizen in Turkey, but not Indian state terrorist in Balochistan? Why ask question if you gonna play with the answers like this?
https://twitter.com/BhittaniKhannnn/status/1073271319356162049 ….
So this is what finance minister Asad Umar said on BBC Hard Talk vs what was actually shown. Mention of Indian state terrorist, Commander Kulbhushan Jadhav completely censored from TV version. Audio from BBC radio. #HardTalk
5:52 PM – Dec 13, 2018
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Following the backlash BBC defended its action, saying omission was "not an act of censorship" and it was done due to the programme being too long to be broadcast on TV and went on to add that confusion had been caused, and it would restore the omitted section and air the programme.
BBC HARDtalk
✔@BBCHARDtalk
The reason Kulbhushan Jadhav's name was deleted from the TV version of the HARDtalk interview with Asad Umar has a simple technical explanation.
The recorded interview was too long for our broadcast slot and so had to be edited. This was done separately for radio and TV. 1/2
BBC's explanation was not well received by Pakistan's Minister for Human Rights Shireen Mazari or the social media, with the minister describing it as "pathetic" and adding BBC "bias has always been there."
Following the criticism, BBC once again omitted crucial parts of an interview just a few days later.
Host Stephen Sackur put Presidential Advisor Gulnur Aybet on the hot seat for 23 minutes amidst a flurry of allegations and accusations regarding jailed journalists and academics in Turkey.
The HardTalk host claimed that organisations like Amnesty and The Committee to Protect Journalists allege that there are hundreds of journalists and academics jailed in Turkey, but Aybet rebuked these figures saying, "I have seen a lot of figures from some different organisations including Amnesty and the numbers actually contradict each other."
"When a person is arrested in Turkey, they have to fill out a form, and they put under profession, whatever their profession is. Now there are people who have written in that form that their profession is journalism, but they are not necessarily journalists."
"Also in those numbers, we've found out that they have included people who were arrested way back in the 90s for ordinary crimes such as domestic violence and they are included in the numbers as well," Aybet said.
"Turkey has not convicted anyone for what they have written or what they have done as journalists," Aybet added.
What Aybet is referring to is that out of 242 'journalists' jailed in Turkey only 69 were registered as journalists, according to an official report.
Out of 242 journalists 128 are accused of being members of the Fethullah Gulen Terror Organisation (FETO).
Thirty-four of the imprisoned are accused of being associated with the PKK terror organisation, while 12 are accused of having links to the extreme left-wing DHKP-C terror group.
Aybet also pointed out that these academics had openly encouraged terrorism at a time of heightened security in Turkey following a string of terror attacks by PKK and Daesh terror organisations and under the country's law these people can be prosecuted and put in jail for these crimes.
"In fact, this is also the law here in the UK as well. You go to jail for up to seven years if you glorify terrorism," Aybet said.
TRT World reached out to HardTalk through email to inquire as to why this specific portion had been cut-Aybet's comments regarding the laws-but the BBC has not responded up until the time of publishing this article.
The law that Ms Aybet was referring to could also apply to Michael Segalov, who was labelled an extremist by the British police even though he has no criminal record and has never been charged or arrested. His crime? to report and comment on politics for a living.
According to Aybet, those cited as journalists and academics jailed in Turkey, many of them have substantial ties to the PKK and Fetullah Terror Organisation (FETO,) the latter being behind the failed coup attempt in 2016 which left 251 people dead and thousands injured.
The parallels that Aybet draws in the portion of the HardTalk interview that wasn't aired makes the point that the British have similar laws to Turkey, and the judicial process is taking its due course. The British parliament is working on a new, far more extensive, Counter-Terrorism and Border Security Bill, which is making its way through the Parliament. The bill would potentially include restricting online activity, which could undermine the freedom of expression.
The Joint Committee on Human Rights has said the new bill "strikes the wrong balance between security and liberty."
UN Special Rapporteur Professor Joe Cannataci has also accused the British government of gradually straying towards "thought crime."
Viewing of "terrorist material" three or more times will be considered a "breach of the right to receive information" and may end up with lengthy prison sentences, whether you looked at the material in disgust, horror or curiosity.
But the British government has dismissed the warnings from human rights groups as "misplaced and wrong."
Source: TRT World
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Coronavirus: UK travel quarantine rules 'not worth it', says Theresa Villiers
By Sebastien Ash & Daniel Kraemer
BBC Political Research Unit
UK airports have seen a sharp fall in custom
Quarantine for new arrivals in the UK has not been worth it, an ex-transport minister has said, after details of how few fines had been issued emerged.
So far, no UK police force has confirmed issuing any fines for people breaking the rules - and the UK Border Force has handed out two penalties.
The Home Office says it is seeing "a high level of compliance".
But Tory MP Theresa Villiers said the travel industry had been "damaged" without cutting the Covid-19 risk.
It comes as government sources say that dozens of countries will be exempt from the UK's travel quarantine from Monday - possibly as many as 75, according to sources.
But some of the countries on the list, likely to be published by the end of the week, still have restrictions on people travelling in from the UK. High-risk countries, such as the United States, could be categorised as red and travellers from these destinations will have to quarantine.
Dozens of countries to be exempt from quarantine
How will the UK's air bridges work and where can I go?
Who's exempt from the quarantine rules?
Since 8 June, most people arriving in the UK from abroad have had to quarantine at an agreed address for 14 days.
Flouting rules
Those arriving from the Republic of Ireland, part of the Common Travel Area with the UK, are exempted, unless they have left the country in the last fortnight.
Arrivals are expected to fill out a passenger locator form, listing the address where they will quarantine.
If they don't, then they are liable to be fined £100.
Theresa Villiers says quarantine 'hasn't been worth it'
Public Health England and police forces have joint responsibility for making sure new arrivals abide by the quarantine.
If someone is thought to be flouting the rules police can issue a £1,000 fine.
Press reports last week suggested no UK police forces had issued fines for breaking the rules.
No enforcement action
The BBC contacted all 43 forces in England and Wales to find out how many fines they had issued.
So far, 12 forces have replied, including Greater Manchester, West Midlands and Kent - areas with major ports and airports. The forces say they have not handed out any fines, with some adding that there had been no enforcement action whatsoever.
No fines have been issued under the international quarantine law by the police in Scotland or Northern Ireland either.
The UK Border Force issued its first two fines under the regulations last weekend at the Eurotunnel terminal in France.
Theresa Villiers, the former environment and Northern Ireland secretary, who was transport minister in the Tory/Lib Dem coalition, said the quarantine policy "hasn't been worth it".
"So far this policy has caused damage to the travel industry, and inconvenience for holiday-makers, without any evidence of it working effectively to cut Covid risk," she told BBC News.
Having been one of the MPs urging Home Secretary Priti Patel to delay the restrictions when they were introduced a month ago, she added: "Air bridges needed to be in place from the start to deliver a risk-based approach which imposed quarantine only on flights from places with high rates of infection."
'Do the right thing'
The National Police Chiefs' Council is expected to publish full figures for forces in England and Wales in the coming weeks.
In a statement the NPCC said: "The overwhelming majority of people will do the right thing and follow the rules, which are helping to protect the NHS and save lives.
"As the government has made clear, it will not be the role of police to conduct spot checks on those who should be isolating.
"Only if public health authorities suspect someone is not following the restrictions will police become involved."
A spokesperson for the Home Office said: "The quarantine system is informed by science, backed by the public and designed to keep us all safe.
"We are seeing a high level of compliance and we expect this to continue as the vast majority of people will play their part to help stop the spread of this disease."
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Project Graduation is an extraordinary event that keeps our seniors safe after graduation. It is an all night, chaperoned, alcohol and drug free celebration held at Dave & Buster's following the graduation ceremony. We are proud to be the only high school in the PVUSD, and one of the only public high schools in Arizona to offer this event free of charge to our seniors.
Please help us keep the Class of 2019 safe! If you would like to be a part of this magical night, please volunteer if you can.
There will be a mandatory meeting at Dave & Busters on Tuesday, May 21st at 6:30pm for all volunteers. You will meet your lead person and be given instructions on what you will be doing that night.
If you are unable to volunteer, but would like to help out financially, please follow the links below.
CHAPERONE - This position is for ALL night.
Rick and I are in for the over-nighter!!
PURSE/BAG CHECK - This position is for ALL night.
We will begin setting up at 11am on the 23rd. We should be done around 1pm.
Cakes must be dropped off at Dave & Busters by 11am on the 23rd at the Front Desk.
All board games need to be double checked to make sure all pieces are in each game and dropped off at Dave & Busters by 11am on the 23rd.
Bathroom necessities baskets need to be put together and dropped off at Dave & Busters by 11am on the 23rd.
Keeping the Donor Lists up to date with Donor names in the weeks leading up to Project Grad. Also communicate with the POP Social Media Volunteers so they can keep that up to date as well.
There are 4 Prize Boards for Project Grad. Each board identifies what is given away during the hourly drawings throughout the night. This is all done ahead of time, not the night of. Boards will need to be dropped off by 11am on the 23rd.
**At Pinnacle - We will be stuffing envelopes with everything the Seniors will need for Check-In at Project Grad, on the morning of May 21st at the school. It will begin at 9am and we should be done by 11am.


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Mwimbi Papy Abedi (Kinshasa,  é um lutador sueco-congolês de artes marciais mistas,

Biografia
Abedi nasceu em Kinshasa, Zaire (atual República Democrática do Congo), onde ele cresceu. Ele ganhou o apelido de "Makambo" pelos anciões, que em lingala (língua oficial) significa "problema", porque sempre que havia uma briga ou problemas, ele era o primeiro na cena do crime. Mais tarde, ele mudou-se para França e Bélgica, antes de se mudar para a Suécia em 1997.

Ele começou a treinar judô aos 7 anos de idade.

Carreira no MMA

Ultimate Fighting Championship
Em Junho de 2011, Papy fez um contrato de quatro lutas com o Ultimate Fighting Championship, para competir na divisão dos Penas.

Abedi fez sua estréia no UFC contra Thiago Alves em 5 de Novembro de 2011 no UFC 138. Abedi foi gravemente ferido com um soco de direita de Alves que o derrubou no meio do primeiro round e após uma enxurrada de socos e cotoveladas que abriram um corte em Abedi, Alves pegou as costas de Abedi e acabou com a luta por Finalização com um mata leão, dando à Abedi sua primeira derrota profissional.

Abedi enfrentou James Head em 14 de Abril de 2012 no UFC on Fuel TV: Gustafsson vs. Silva. No fim do primeiro round, Head atordoou Abedi com uma cotovelada no clinch seguida por uma enxurrada de socos de derrubaram Abedi, Head venceu por Finalização com um mata leão.

Abedi era esperado para enfrentar Rick Story em 22 de Junho de 2012 no UFC on FX: Maynard vs. Guida, substituindo o lesionado Rich Attonito. Porém, Abedi foi obrigado a se retirar da luta com uma lesão e foi substituído pelo estreante na promoção Brock Jardine.

Abedi enfrentou Besam Yousef em 6 de Abril de 2013 no UFC on Fuel TV: Mousasi vs. Latifi. e venceu por Decisão Dividida.

Abedi enfrentou Dylan Andrews em 28 de Agosto de 2013 no UFC Fight Night: Condit vs. Kampmann II e perdeu por nocaute no terceiro round, após dominar o primeiro e o segundo. Após a derrota, Abedi foi demitido do UFC.

Pós UFC
Sua primeira luta após deixar o UFC seria contra Daniel Acácio em 3 de Maio de 2014 no SC X: Helsingborg. Porém, uma lesão fez Abedi sair do card, sendo substituído por Alan Carlos.

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| Derrota
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| James Head
|Finalização (mata leão)
|UFC on Fuel TV: Gustafsson vs. Silva
|14/04/2012
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| Estocolmo, Suécia
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| Derrota
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| Thiago Alves
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| Birmingham, Inglaterra
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| Nathan Schouteren
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| Estocolmo, Suécia
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|Vitória
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| Bohumil Lungrik
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| Estocolmo, Suécia
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|Vitória
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|Timur Akbulut
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