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Odesza live at McDonald Theatre [4.7.15]
Music by Bryan KalbroskyPosted on 04/10/2015
Words by Bryan Kalbrosky • Photos by Brinkley Capriola
Much like the music itself, memories from the Odesza concert at McDonald Theatre on Tuesday are perfectly fragmented into pieces of an unforgettable night.
Together, the experience and the music blend into a colorful quilt in my mind. For those who dig a good electronic music show, this was either an incredible sample size or introduction to the scene. Here's what made this particular concert so special: you didn't need to know every single song to have an incredible time, so long as you were dancing and grooving along. The crowd had a humming noise of enthusiasm and approval all night, and the light show was the single best I'd seen in Eugene.
From the moment the first song dropped, the dance floor was raging with a unique brand of happiness. That's because Odesza, an electronic music duo from Seattle, displayed such an incredible musicianship on stage.
Not only was the night dominated by two incredible producers on stage, but Seattle frontmen Harrison Mills and Clayton Knight were also supported by a multi-instrumental sensation. This included two floor tom drum kits and a light crash cymbal, as well as a horns section, which even had a trombone. Occasionally, two different singers graced the stage as well. Dan Vidmar, the singer from Shy Girls, was belting it and kept energy high on stage.
In addition to a dominant light show and bright lasers that kept the crowd on their toes, the A/V projector displayed erratic scenes including: a gorgeous desert, molecular designs, old black and white horror films, countless Chinese fire lanterns and brilliant cityscapes. The crowd reacted with friendly dance circles, and most seemed content whether or not they were clapping in rhythm and/or dancing with a partner.
Odesza, like similar electronica and chill-wave projects including Chet Faker and Glass Animals, is a band known for their listen-ability. Perhaps my highlight of the evening (and the morning after recap) was when the duo played "IPlayYouListen" from debut album Summer's Gone (2012). This song, which samples "Airplanes" by indie rock band Local Natives, shows the impressive cross-genre nature of a talented producer.
Of course, at a show like this one you often start to wonder about the drug culture of Eugene when you see some of the attitudes and outfits rocked by much of the crowd.
There were the typical "raver" gloves in the crowd; don't mind those, they're just a distraction from a good show on stage. I would, however, like to sincerely thank the wonderful individual who not only briefly lent me their 3D refraction glasses, but also instructed me where I could purchase a pair of my own.
By the time the night was nearing an end, Odesza rewarded the crowd with their biggest treat of the night:
While the show began with a brief hint at the beat from hit single "Say My Name," which also seemed to appear briefly later in the show, the encore included a full-blown rendition of this track far more incredible than anything on the recording. Guest vocalist Zyra from "Say My Name" was an absolute favorite of the crowd. She was a brilliant addition to an already incredible evening.
Perhaps my favorite Tuesday in recent memory ended with the venue PA system blasting my new favorite soul singer: Leon Bridges.
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Home	PoliticsAfrica News	Woman apologises for telling man he was illegally defacing his own home with 'Black Lives Matter' slogan
Woman apologises for telling man he was illegally defacing his own home with 'Black Lives Matter' slogan
by Andrew Naughtie June 16, 2020
written by Andrew Naughtie June 16, 2020
A San Francisco woman who questioned a man writing "Black Lives Matter" on his own home has apologised for assuming he did not live there and calling the police on him.
"I want to apologise directly to Mr Juanillo," Ms Alexander said in a statement. "There are not enough words to describe how truly sorry I am for being disrespectful to him last Tuesday when I made the decision to question him about what he was doing in front of his home. I should have minded my own business."
In the video, shot by James Juanillo on his phone, Ms Alexander is seen asking Mr Juanillo, who is Filipino, whether he lives in the house, saying that he is defacing private property as he uses chalk to write words on his wall.
Mr Juanillo in turn asks the couple whether they know the person who lives in the house, and Ms Alexander claims she does. (The owner of the building, from whom Mr Juanillo rents his residence, has since said he has never met her.)
She tells Mr Juanillo that while the signs themselves are acceptable, "this is not the way to do it," and that he is breaking the law. At the end of their tense exchange, he challenges her to call the police, and she says she will.
As she walks away, Mr Juanillo – who refers to Ms Alexander as "Karen" – says "and that is why Black Lives Matter".
The police were reportedly called, only for the attending officer to leave after recognising Mr Juanillo as a familiar resident.
Speaking to local media, Mr Juanillo described what Ms Alexander did as an everyday variety of racism. "It's polite racism, it's respectable racism – 'respectfully sir, I don't think you belong here at all.'"
Ms Alexander, who is the founder and CEO of a cosmetics company, has seen distributors cut ties with her in the wake of the incident.
In her statement, she said that the time since the video went viral "has taught me that my actions were those of someone who is not aware of the damage being caused by being ignorant and naive to racial inequalities. "When I watch the video I am shocked and sad that I behaved the way I did," she says.
"I am taking a hard look at the meaning behind white privilege and am committed to growing from this experience. I would love to have coffee with Mr Juanillo in our neighbourhood so I can apologise in person and share a dialogue where I can continue to learn and grow and be a better person."
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One obvious difference is the licenses being used because dhtmlx has commercial and enterprise licenses in addition to its GPL license for its stadard edition.  Another is that it is difficult to load ajaxified components with inner JavaScript codes with dhtmlxtabbar.  Other than that, I know nothing else.
So, in what ways is dhtmlxtabbar different from jQuery UI tabs?

A: Biggest thing is you have the jquery community behind you not a support team of a company and tons of other possibilities to use with jquery. I believe telerik, dhtmlx or the other commercial libraries provide limited use-cases compared to open-source ones.
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President Trump's Courageous Decision to Shrink Utah Monuments Places Principle Ahead of Politics
WASHINGTON, D.C., December 7, 2017 -
OP-ED: President Trump's Courageous Decision to Shrink Utah Monuments Places Principle Ahead of Politics
Rep. Rob Bishop
Chairman, House Committee on Natural Resources
President Trump traveled to Utah this week to announce a reduction in the Grand Staircase–Escalante and Bears Ears National Monuments. The historic action demonstrates that the Trump administration is committed to abiding by the law — whether a majority of Americans want him to or not.
The Antiquities Act — under which President Clinton and President Obama designated a combined total of 3.2 million acres in Utah alone — was created to protect antiquities, or objects of historic or scientific interest. To that end, it expressly requires that designations be "limited to the smallest possible area consistent with proper care and management of the objects to be protected." The act is not a landscape-conservation tool, and using it as such is an obvious breach of the plain language of the law.
President Trump's decision to shrink the two Utah monuments, which are bigger than all five of the state's national parks combined, indicates that he is serious about squaring the use of the Antiquities Act with the intent of the Congress that passed it.
Reducing the monuments, then, is the right decision, and a courageous one at that. Activist groups at the national level frequently point to special-interest opinion polls suggesting that most Americans oppose downsizing Bears Ears and Grand Staircase. It may surprise some, but I could concede that point. President Trump may not be doing himself any favors with the national electorate.
Every common-sense person supports the broadly stated principle of conservation, and polling questions, limited by space and perhaps colored by ideological bent, can do little more than frame the question reductively: conservation vs. non-conservation.
Yet there is a more fundamental question that special-interest groups consistently overlook: The majority is not infallible. Indeed, the very structure of our government is built on that timeless truth. The rule of law and federalism — state and local control of state and local affairs — are designed to protect minorities from the majority when it goes too far.
It should not be surprising that people who live in New York City, Washington, D.C., San Francisco, and everywhere in between — except, of course, near Bears Ears and Grand Staircase themselves — support maintaining monuments. They do not have to live with the consequences.
To grasp the full extent of the disconnect, compare the public support for Bears Ears with the virtually unanimous opposition from the people's representatives in Utah and San Juan County: The county commission, the state legislature, the local chapter of the Navajo Nation, the governor, and every member of the state's congressional delegation strenuously opposed the designation.
The disconnect is easily explained. The public at large reaps all the supposed benefits of the monuments without having to live with their deadening economic impact. They do not have to bear the indignity of having one man in Washington dictate their livelihoods, ostensibly to conserve land — a task they had been ably performing themselves for generations.
By contrast, local communities living near Grand Staircase and Bears Ears do have to endure these hardships. As monument sympathizers never tire of pointing out, these communities are a minority. On the national level, they have virtually no political clout, no ability to negotiate for their own interests. The national majority holds all the cards, while the tiny communities that do not want their way of life upended are powerless.
It is for precisely this type of situation that federalism is designed: to protect minorities from short-sighted majorities that might be tempted, for whatever reason, to trample their rights. Those who are directly affected by policy should drive that policy. Federalism is in turn protected by the rule of law, under which those in power must abide by the laws as written, whether their electorate wants them to or not.
President Trump has made the courageous choice. By scaling back Bears Ears and Grand Staircase, he is standing up for local communities and adhering to the fundamental props of American government: federalism and the rule of law. As we will hear repeatedly in the coming weeks, this decision is unpopular with many people, and he can expect strong opposition. Good for him. He is showing a willingness to adhere to principle for the benefit of people, rather than blowing with the political winds.
Rob Bishop represents Utah's first district in the House of Representatives and is Chairman of the House Committee on Natural Resources.
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'Inhumane': Challenge to Home Office's 'no notice' immigration removals
By Jon Robins
7 July 2020 | 8:01 am
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A legal challenge to the Home Office's draconian immigration removal policy under which detainees can receive just 72 hours' notice will be heard today in the Court of Appeal. In an earlier hearing, the Home Office revealed that between 2015 and 2018 it carried out over 40,000 enforced returns and most were served with a 'removal notice window' giving between three and seven days' notice that they will be removed at any time over a three month period. The challenge is brought by Medical Justice represented by Public Law Project, and 'FB', an individual who faced removal under the policy who is represented by Duncan Lewis Solicitors.
Lawyers for Medical Justice argues that the policy is in breach of the European Convention on Human Rights and the Dublin III regulations preventing those being removed from having a fair chance to put their case forward and has led to 'tens of thousands' of deportations . 'This case is about access to justice,' commented Rakesh Singh, solicitor at Public Law Project. 'Under this policy, the notice period can be so short that it is impossible for the individual to exercise their legal right to challenge a removal decision.' To successfully challenge a removal, an individual would need to find and instruct an immigration lawyer, make representations to the Home Office, challenge a refusal and then obtain an injunction to prevent removal if necessary.
According to the Public Law Project, the Home Office was not able to say exactly how many of the 40,000 removals were 'no-notice' removals but it confirmed that 'the majority of returnees' would have been served with a removal notice window.
Emma Ginn, director of Medical Justice, called the consequences of the policy 'devastating for the individuals involved and for their families and loved ones'. 'The Home Office failed to monitor the operation of the policy for years. It cannot truly say how it has used the RNW policy, what impact the policy has had on access to justice or how many people have been affected by it. Tens of thousands may have been affected.'
The Public Law Project have represented a number of individuals deported under the scheme who have subsequently had to be returned by the Home Office and now have leave to remain. But such cases were rare, said Rakesh Singh. 'In most cases if a person is wrongly removed they may never return to the UK,' he added.
One of their clients, who had legitimately lived and worked in the UK for nearly 30 years and was caught up in the Windrush, was given notice under the scheme but was unable to find a lawyer. 'It was by pure luck that he avoided removal,' said Singh. 'His family came across me by chance and since he couldn't find another lawyer I agreed to represent him. But on the same day he was told that he would be put on a plane in less than 48 hours. We applied to the court the day before his removal for an injunction and it was granted.
Alison Thewliss MP, chair of the All Party Group on Immigration Detention, called the policy 'further evidence of the Home Office being intent on making the environment for the likes of asylum seekers, and those in immigration detention, as hostile and challenging as possible'. 'That many cases need to be taken before a court in order for justice – or even some level of compassion – to be borne out illustrates that many Home Office policies continue to be completely inhumane,' she said. 'What's more, a great number of these people are vulnerable, and some have significant mental health difficulties. It seems however that the Home Office are content to turn a blind eye to all of this, despite the further suffering that forced removal at such short notice can bring about.'
Anthony's story: There was no warning at all
I came to the UK from Jamaica in 1988 when I was 22 years old. When the Home Office tried to remove me in 2017, I had lived in the UK for nearly 30 years, I had indefinite leave to remain and a son at University.
It all started when I had to replace a lost passport and I asked the Home Office for a new stamp to show that I had indefinite leave to remain. I was asking them for the exact same stamp that they had put in the previous passport. But the Home Office had lost their records and that obviously triggered something in their system. My immigration status then meant that I couldn't get NHS care, I was let go from a drylining training course that I was doing really well in, and of course I couldn't get any benefits.
The day I was taken to the detention centre was horrendous. There was no warning at all. It was early in the morning. There was a loud hammering at the door. I looked out of the window and there was a van outside with a huge gang of people in their immigration uniforms. I let them in and they all came into the room one by one. My ex-partner Patricia was with me and she was hysterical. We had no idea what was happening.
When I got to the detention centre they took my phone away and gave me another handset to use, but it was useless. It was almost impossible to get a signal. I couldn't contact anybody to help me. I struggle with dyslexia so I couldn't understand what the paperwork was saying and nobody would explain what was going on. I would queue up all day in the detention centre to try and see a lawyer and when I finally got to see an assistant they said straight away that they couldn't help.
I was in detention for about two weeks when they called me in for a meeting and told me that I was going to be put on a plane to Jamaica in 2 days' time.
I spoke to my partner the day before I was being removed and she asked if I wanted her to bring anything for me to take with me like clothes and toiletries. I'll be honest, I told her not to bother as I couldn't see much point in carrying on. I was close to just wanting to end it all.
By chance, my partner Patricia had come across a lawyer at the last minute who said he could try and get an injunction. Thank God, the injunction came just after 5pm the next day. They were going to take me to the plane the next morning as it was leaving just after midday. It was literally down to the line. I don't know how they did it. All that paperwork. They literally had someone rushing to court on a bike that day with all the paperwork.
Once the injunction was in place, that gave us more time to prove my immigration status. The Home Office accepted that I had had indefinite leave to remain since 1990, which meant that they should not have tried to remove me in the first place. They also acknowledged that they had unlawfully detained me.
In the end, the paperwork my solicitor got together to show that I had the right to stay in the UK was over 500 pages covering almost 30 years of my life here. It included Home Office records, tax and NI records, DWP records, GP medical records, local authority records, and DVLA records. There is no way we could have got this together in the removal notice window that I was given.
Author: Jon Robins
Jon is editor of the Justice Gap. He is a freelance journalist. Jon's books include Guilty Until Proven Innocent (Biteback, 2018), The First Miscarriage of Justice (Waterside Press, 2014), The Justice Gap (LAG, 2009) and People Power (Daily Telegraph/LawPack, 2008). Jon is a journalism lecturer at Winchester University and was a visiting senior fellow in access to justice at the University of Lincoln. He is twice winner of the Bar Council's journalism award and won Halsbury Legal's journalism award
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Alongside the fabled Final Fantasy 7 remake, Resident Evil 2 has been one of the most hotly anticipated releases for a while. Originally released in 1998 for the PlayStation and later the N64 and Dreamcast, Resident Evil 2 is often cited as many fans of the series' favourite. For good reason too, it took the formula laid out in the first game and improved upon it in almost every way. You can read our review here.
When this remake of Resident Evil 2 was announced, the gaming world rejoiced. However, considering Capcom's track record the years before Resident Evil 7, you can't blame people for being wary. Thankfully the team behind this release took what was learned from the excellent Resident Evil 7, namely the horror elements and put it to great use.
So the big question is…does Resident Evil 2 live up to the hype?
Yes. Yes it does. In fact Capcom can proudly say that they have accomplished something many would have thought was impossible. The remake of Resident Evil 2 is better than the original. Not just visually but gameplay wise as well. It's an accomplished piece of gaming with only a few minor negative points but we'll get to those later.
For those unaware, Resident Evil 2 picks up some time later after the events that befell the S.T.A.R.S team in the mansion. It is set in Racoon City, a bustling metropolis home to the Umbrella Corporation. A pharmaceutical company, secretly they make bioweapons to sell and the mansion incident was just the beginning.
Leon Kennedy and Claire Redfield (sister of Chris Redfield) both arrive in Raccoon City for different reasons. He is a rookie cop due to start work at the Racoon Police Department and she is there to find her brother who has gone missing.
The pair meet at a gas station (one of many new segments included here) and get attacked by zombies. Here we experience one of the biggest changes in this remake and that is the threat of the zombie. As well as being terrifying, they are very difficult to put down and anymore then one coming at you is a problem.
Capcom have done the impossible and made the zombie something to fear again.
Claire and Leon team up to escape, stealing a police car and driving into the city. Once there, they discover the city has fallen to the walking dead and a loudspeaker broadcast tells them to go to the police station for safety.
The pair are then separated by a tanker crashing and exploding (the driver having been bitten) and forced to make their way separately to the station. Depending on who you choose to play as, you'll be guiding them from this point.
The goal is simple…survive and escape the city. However, it's not just zombies you are going to have to contend with as you explore the police station and surrounding areas. Skinless creatures called Lickers, zombiefied dogs, mutated planet creatures, an over-grown alligator, an ever-chasing Tyrant and something even worse that was once human.
Survival is not an easy task and you'll have to conserve ammo, know when to run and know when to hide to make it out alive.
It's a thrill ride of a game constantly throwing more and more things at you to the point of desperation. The safe rooms were always a blessing but here they feel down right sent from heaven.
You see there are no easy enemies in Resident Evil 2. Everything can kill you and kill you quickly if you're not careful. The feeling of dread that comes from the sound of a Licker in the hall is reminiscent of the clicking noise of a Hunter from the first game. Then there is there is the Tyrant (Mr X as he was commonly known in the original), possibly the most terrifying enemy in the game.
Originally he turned up in the 'B' campaigns of Leon and Claire having been dropped in to 'clean up' Umbrella's problems. Here he shows up in both and will hunt you down constantly. The only respite is to hide in a safe room and wait until he goes away with the sound of his thumping footsteps your only clue to his whereabouts.
Many a gamer will admit that they probably jumped out of their skin when opening a door only to find him on the other side.
He's not the only terror that shows up more than once either. As the G-virus transforms the once brilliant Dr. William Birkin into a grotesque monster. Be prepared for a battle when you have to face off against him.
While you'll find yourself dying more than you might be used to it's not down to anything but your own skill and decisions. The game will give you the tools and it's up to you to use them wisely. Simplified controls that make movements quick and sharp as well as easy switching between weapons will help you survive.
The controls are just another area that has been vastly improved. We have an excellent new map style that is clear and easy to understand and also shows items. A better inventory system that can be upgraded as you go on. Better use of gunpowder and defensive items as well as more useful weapon upgrades. All little touches that when combined show how much effort has been put in by Capcom to ensure this remake was the best it could possibly be.
Almost every part of the game has been improved such as smarter and more logical puzzles (sort of), the layout of the what's locked and what isn't and how you get from one location to another. It makes Racoon City feel like a living and breathing place connected and exposable. It is fairly linear but it never feels like it. Even if you know the original inside and out, this remake brings some nice new surprises. Such as the orphanage in Claire's side of the story.
On Xbox One X, Resident Evil 2 runs perfectly. With minimal loading times, zero crashes or frame rate issues. Graphically it looks stunning and characters look almost real, although Claire's smile is a bit too toothy. The locations, lighting, monsters and more will impress and the detail on the shambling dead is amazing.
The game looks so good it's hard to see where else it could have been improved. Every step of the way you'll be wowed. The detail in a zombie as it lunges for your throat. The wounds spreading across a body as you put bullets into it. The horrid skinless look of a licker or the mutated body of William Birkin. Amazing.
Resident Evil 2 would be a 10/10 game if it wasn't for one hard to ignore issue though. That is the music. For some reason, Capcom dropped the ball here. With the new in-game music barely heard and in no way as iconic as the original. In fact other then a boss fight at the end, you could easily think it didn't have a soundtrack at all. That in itself is disappointing but that you could actually get the original music in-game if you pre-ordered it/pay for it as an in-game purchase says they knew what they were doing here.
A little touch that reminds you of the Capcom of old. Remember Street Fighter skins/character costumes? Or Operation Racoon City's entire other half of the game being DLC?
That aside, this is a near perfect remake and the best one I've ever seen. It's going to thrill old and new players alike.


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Campsie Community benefits - our plans for Campsie
A revised plan for Campsie
We've developed a plan for Campsie that improves the town centre with new shops, jobs and homes and improved pedestrian and cycle links. Have your say.
The Sydenham to Bankstown Corridor Strategy provides a planned approach to growth, with infrastructure delivery and development co-ordinated along the corridor.
The Strategy plans for new homes and jobs over the next 20 years and builds on the Sydney Metro City and Southwest project.
The station precincts are already great places to live, and each has its own unique qualities. This Strategy will enhance the precincts by: valuing neighbourhood character, renewing town centres, providing improved open spaces and community services and facilities.
A community information session was held at Campsie on 3/08/2017. A description of this event can be viewed at the link below:
Exhibition on the revised draft Strategy closed on 3 September. We are now considering the community submissions and working on the Final Strategy. Thank you to everyone who provided feedback.
Planned Precinct
Campsie was announced as a Planned Precinct by the NSW Government as part of a housing affordability package on 1 June 2017. Planning for these Precincts is coordinated by state and local governments, to help ensure infrastructure such as schools, parks, community facilities, public transport and road upgrades is delivered to support community needs.
Master planning for this precinct will start shortly and will:
build on the precinct plans developed as part of the Sydenham to Bankstown Urban Renewal Corridor Strategy
involve more detailed studies and community consultation
result in rezoning of the precinct.
How we're planning for Campsie
Our vision for Campsie is
Promote growth to reinvigorate the centre and support the role of Campsie as a District Centre within the Sydney South District.
Future development is designed well and positively contributes to the public domain.
Beamish Street will be supported and benefit streetscape improvements.
New opportunities for open space and community facilities to support the growing population.
Anzac and Carrington Squares are protected as part of the future growth of Campsie Station Precinct.
Enhance connections between Campsie District Centre and the Cooks River.
A potential new park along the rail line could provide a new and interesting place for leisure and recreation.
What's changed
This map shows the key changes that have been made to the Campsie Station Precinct Plan as a result of your feedback.
The following key actions will be delivered in the next 12 months:
Action Description
Design of GreenWay South West The Department of Planning and Environment (DP&E) is preparing a concept landscape master plan for a shared pedestrian and cycle link and linear park should surplus rail land become available.
Public Domain and Station Access Plan Sydney Metro will prepare a Public Domain and Station Access Plan for improved station design, accessibility and interchange with other modes of transport. The new metro station at Campsie will provide improved pedestrian and bicycle access.
Finalisation of the Strategy and Local Planning Direction DP&E will finalise the Strategy including a local planning direction (a Section 9.1 Direction) to guide future development.
Special Infrastructure Contribution DP&E is preparing a draft Special Infrastructure Contribution plan (SIC) to identify the regional infrastructure improvements required to support growth in the Corridor. The SIC levy will fund a range of community, transport and open space infrastructure.
Planning for Schools The Department of Education will identify locations for new or expanded schools within the corridor based on the growth proposed in the Strategy.
Precinct Support Scheme Funding DP&E will provide funding to Councils through the Precinct Support Scheme to improve amenity and infrastructure within the Corridor.
Canterbury Road Review A review of planning controls along Canterbury Road has commenced and is expected to be concluded this year.
West Campsie Bypass DP&E and City of Canterbury Bankstown are exploring funding options for a west Campsie bypass to manage traffic congestion.
Priority Precinct Rezoning Campsie Station Precinct has been identified as a Priority Precinct. DP&E will work with Council to prepare a master plan to support rezoning of the area.
We will use community feedback to produce the final Strategy. Once finalised, we will continue to work with stakeholders to deliver the Strategy and plans over the coming years including master planning and rezoning of Campsie.
Click here to see the timeline on the summary page.
Previous feedback
We released the initial draft Strategy and precinct plans in October 2015. Over the past 12 months we've also been talking and listening to community feedback to develop the revised draft strategy. You told us:
New, improved and connected cycleways, walkable neighbourhoods increased parks and open space are important to you.
Traffic congestion needs to be addressed, particularly on Wonga Street, Evaline Street, Ninth Avenue, Beamish Street and Brighton Avenue.
Public transport options in Campsie need to be improved.
Strong design principles and sustainable building controls need to guide new development.
Good design of new apartment development is important.
More detailed information on your feedback can be found in the Campsie Station Precinct Plan.


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As part of his consultations with regional stakeholders and members of the Security Council, Special Envoy for Syria Staffan de Mistura visited Beijing today where he met with the Chinese Vice Minister for Foreign Affairs, Mr. Li Baodong, and the Director-General of the Department of International Organizations and Conferences, Mr. Li Junhua. During his meetings in Beijing, the Special Envoy discussed the regional situation and the importance for the Security Council members to reach a common understanding on how to proceed with a political process aimed at operationalizing the Geneva Communiqué.
Prior to Beijing, the Special Envoy went to Cairo especially to have a meeting with the Secretary-General of League of Arab States Mr. Nabil El Araby. On that occasion, Mr. de Mistura had the opportunity of discussing the future meeting at the Security Council on Syria and to exchange views on ways to promote a political solution to the conflict.
While in Cairo, Mr. De Mistura also met with Syrian opposition figures present there.
كجزء من مشاوراته مع الأطراف المعنية الإقليمية وأعضاء مجلس الأمن، زار مبعوث الأمم المتّحدة الخاص إلى سوريا ستيفان دي مستورا بكين اليوم حيث التقى مع نائب وزير الشئون الخارجية الصيني، السيد لي باو دونغ، والمدير العام لشؤون المنظمات والمؤتمرات الدولية، السيد لي جونهوا. خلال لقاءاته في بكين، ناقش المبعوث الخاص الوضع الإقليمي وأهمية أن يتوصّل أعضاء مجلس الأمن إلى تفاهم مشترك حول كيفية المضي قدماً في العملية السياسية التي تهدف إلى تنفيذ بيان جنيف.
وقد توجّه المبعوث الخاص، قبل بيكين، إلى القاهرة بهدف عقد اجتماع مع الأمين العام لجامعة الدول العربية السيد نبيل العربي. واغتنم السيّد دي مستورا الفرصة، في هذه المناسبة، لمناقشة الاجتماع المقبل في مجلس الأمن بشأن سوريا، وتبادل وجهات النظر حول سبل تعزيز التوصل إلى حل سياسي للصراع.
والتقى السيد دي مستورا أيضاً أثناء وجوده في القاهرة، مع شخصيات من المعارضة السورية المتواجدة هناك.
United Nations Special Envoy for Syria Mr. Staffan de Mistura continued his meetings today in the framework of the Geneva Consultations.
He met with the president and members of the political committee of the Syrian National Coalition for Opposition and Revolutionary Forces (SOC) in Istanbul.
Mr. de Mistura listened to the views of his interlocutors regarding the operationalization and implementation of the Geneva Communiqué.
Both parties agreed on the importance and urgency of finding a political solution to the current ongoing conflict.
They also concurred on the urgency of an immediate halt of the killing and targeting of civilians.
"My visit to SOC today demonstrates, once again, that the purpose of these Consultations was and remains to give the chance to all Syrians to share their views of what a future Syria should look like," Mr. de Mistura said.
Meanwhile in Geneva, Deputy Special Envoy Ramzy Ezzeldine Ramzy met with Mr. Samir Aita and Mr. Ziad Tlas who briefed on the deteriorating situation in Syria. Mr. Ramzy also met with a delegation of Japan, led by Ambassador Misako Kaji, who briefed on Japan's support for the United Nations' efforts to ameliorate the humanitarian situation in Syria. They discussed the ongoing initiatives to help Syrians reach a political solution to the conflict.
Mr. Ramzy observed that today's meetings in Geneva once again confirmed the desire of the international community, from far and near, to help resolve the Syrian conflict and mitigate its humanitarian consequences. He also noted that continued inaction to end the conflict is only making the military and security situation in Syria more complex.


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Calydon (; , ) was a Greek city in ancient Aetolia, situated on the west bank of the river Evenus, 7.5 Roman miles (approx. 11 km) from the sea.
Its name is most famous today for the Calydonian boar that had to be overcome by heroes of the Olympian age.

Mythology
According to Greek mythology, Calydon was founded by Aetolus in the land of the Curetes, and was called Calydon, after the name of his son, Calydon. Calydon and the neighbouring town of Pleuron are said by Strabo to have been once the "ornament" of Greece, but by his time (late 1st century BC) had sunk into insignificance. It is frequently mentioned in the Iliad by Homer, who celebrates the fertility of the plain of "lovely" Calydon. In the earliest times the inhabitants of Calydon appear to have been engaged in incessant hostilities with the Curetes, who continued to reside in their ancient capital Pleuron, and who endeavoured to expel the invaders from their country. A vivid account of one of the battles between the Curetes and Calydonians is given in an episode of the Iliad.

The heroes of Calydon are among the most celebrated of the heroic age. It was the residence of Oeneus, father of Tydeus and Meleager, and grandfather of Diomedes. In the time of Oeneus Artemis sent a monstrous boar (the Calydonian Boar) to lay waste the fields of Calydon, which was hunted by Meleager and numerous other heroes. The Calydonians took part in the Trojan War under their king Thoas, the son (not the grandson) of Oeneus.

History
Calydon is not often mentioned in the historical period. In 391 BC, it was recorded as being in the possession of the Achaeans, but the means of possession are unclear; however, it is better documented that Naupactus was given to the Achaeans at the close of the Peloponnesian War, and it was probably the Achaeans settled at Naupactus who gained possession of the town. In the above-mentioned year the Achaeans at Calydon, were so hard pressed by the Acarnanians that they applied to the Lacedaemonians for help; and Agesilaus II in consequence was sent with an army into Aetolia. Calydon remained in the hands of the Achaeans till the overthrow of the Spartan supremacy by the Battle of Leuctra (371 BC), when Epaminondas restored the town to the Aetolians. In the civil war between Julius Caesar and Pompey (in 48 BC) it still appears as a considerable place; but a few years afterwards its inhabitants were removed by Augustus to Nicopolis, which he founded to commemorate his victory at the Battle of Actium in 31 BC. It continues however to be mentioned by the later geographers.

Calydon was the headquarters of the worship of Artemis Laphria, and when the inhabitants of the town were removed to Nicopolis, Augustus gave to Patrae in Achaea the statue of this goddess which had belonged to Calydon. There was also a statue of Dionysus at Patrae which had been removed from Calydon. Near Calydon there was a temple of Apollo Laphrius; and in the neighbourhood of the city there was also a lake celebrated for its fish.

Its site is located north of the modern Evinochori. One of the four tunnels Motorway 5 consists of crosses near the ruins of Calydon and is named the Calydon Tunnel () after it.

Archaeology
Previous and more recent excavations have revealed many buildings including:

 the Hellenistic theatre of an unusual square plan
 the Hellenistic Heroon (palaestra) with a rich tomb underneath the Heroon
 the Artemis Laphria sanctuary with the temple of Artemis, smaller temple of Apollo, and remains of other buildings spanning the Geometric to the Hellenistic period
 the Lower Acropolis where excavations were carried out recently uncovering a house from the 2nd cent BC
 the Lower Town where a peristyle house and kilns were found

Finds
Many finds from the site including ancient terracottas from the temple of Artemis are exhibited in the Archaeological Museum  of Agrinion and in the National Archaeological Museum, Athens.

See also
List of ancient Greek cities
Calydonian Boar
Oeneus
Meleagros

References

Aetolia
Populated places in ancient Aetolia
Cities in ancient Greece
Former populated places in Greece
Ancient Greek archaeological sites in Greece
Populated places disestablished in the 1st century BC
1st-century BC disestablishments in Greece
Locations in the Iliad


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Indian airlines to induct 900 aircraft in 7 years, Indigo to add 448 planes
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New Delhi, Dec 25: Indian airlines are likely to induct more than 900 aircraft in the coming years, with IndiGo alone expected to add 448 planes, according to official data.
India is one of the fastest growing aviation markets in the world and most airlines have ambitious expansion plans, especially to tap the potential on regional routes.
As per data available with the civil aviation ministry, budget airlines IndiGo, SpiceJet, GoAir and AirAsia are set to significantly expand their respective fleet sizes.
Along with other carriers, the total number of aircraft to be inducted by the domestic players would be more than 900.
With an existing fleet of 150 planes, IndiGo is readying to add another 448 aircraft — 399 A320s and 49 ATRs — in the next seven to eight years.
Competitor SpiceJet too is in the process of expanding its current fleet of 57 aircraft. The no-frills airline would be adding 107 B737-800s and 50 Bombardier Q400s during the 2018-2023 period.
Another budget carrier GoAir, which is yet to take off on overseas routes, would induct 119 A320 planes during the period from 2018-2022. At present, its fleet size is 34.
According to the data, which was recently submitted to Parliament as part of a Lok Sabha written reply, AirAsia India would induct 60 planes in the next five years. Currently, the budget carrier has 14 aircraft.
Legacy carrier Jet Airways — which has 107 aircraft — would take 81 B737-8 MAX planes during 2018-2024 period. It would also add five B737-800s this fiscal ending March 2018, as per the data.
Disinvestment-bound Air India would induct three B777- 300ER and 16 A320 planes between December this year and March 2019. The national carrier has 155 aircraft at present.
Among others, full service carrier Vistara would induct five aircraft next year that would expand its current fleet of 17 planes.
TruJet, which now has four planes, would add six aircraft each year from 2018-2022. These would be ATR72-500/600, the ministry data showed. After starting services this year, Zoom Air has placed orders for five CRJ-200 and 14 CRJ-900 planes. At present, it has two planes.
Indian airlines to induct 900 aircraft in 7 years, Indigo to add 448 planes added by Precious Kashmir on 25/12/2017


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Islamabad: Renowned religious scholar Dr. Anis Ahmad has highlighted the importance of national language and imparting Islamic education in educational institutions.
Speaking at the opening ceremony of the International Islamic University (IIU) School in Sector E-11, Dr. Anis Ahmad was of the view that with growth of private institutions in the education sector, the concerned managements should take care of imparting national language and give emphasis on the religious and moral aspect of education.
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It has been 10 years since the verdict was handed down in the Middleton case and with this being the largest verdict in US history, we've been contacted and interviewed by publications shedding light on this case.
SOME BACKGROUND OF THE MIDDLETON CASE
It was Robert "Robbie" Middleton 8th birthday when he was tied to a tree, doused in gasoline, and set on fire. He miraculously survived the attack, but later died after a courageous twelve-year battle with third-degree burns over 99% of his body. We knew justice had to be served for him and the Middleton family and Ken Bigham Jr. partnered with Craig Sico as lead counsel and took this case on pro bono.
Don Wilbur Collins, the attacker, had never been charged with a criminal offense as prosecutors asserted that there was not enough evidence to prosecute. However, on Robbie's death bed he gave a 27-minute video testimonial about his attacker, Collins, which was evident during the trial. Additionally, two of the world's top burn surgeons testified that Robbie's burns were indeed the worst they had seen in their career.
Ultimately, a Fayette County jury reached a verdict of $150 billion which is the largest civil verdict in US history. However, all parties in the case knew that this monetary gain would never be received. The goal was to bring attention to the fact that Collins had never been prosecuted for this horrific crime. After the verdict, the Montgomery County district attorney's office reopened the criminal case and Collins was subsequently convicted of murder by the Galveston county jury.
Robbie was incredibly brave and impacted so many lives with his story.
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Macau is one of the most surprising megalopolises I've ever seen. From the former Portuguese colony, the region inherited narrow European streets with unusual names. Invaders had been the owners of that piece of Chinese ground for more than four hundred years. Only in 1999 Macau was returned to China and got a status of a special administrative region like Hong Kong. But if the latter with its English "basis" was, at least in a very small degree, clear to me, Macau seemed surrealistic due to interwining of incompatible, by all appearances, cultures, languages and traditions. It just blasted my mind how those civilizations, which originally had been in different parts of the globe, could coexist in this warm corner of Southeastern Asia.
About corners, by the way. In one of photo posts, which, for some reason, attracts dozens of spambots every day, there are a lot of photos with views of Macau. Then, I didn't have time for writing a detailed report about that visit. See the post if you missed it. The post was popular not only with search bots.
Tourism is one of the main income items in Macau and amounts to 40% of gross domestic product. At present, Macau is growing by leaps and bounds and is famous mostly for its legal gambling industry. In America, the Indians were presented casinos not to feel hurt with "typhus" presents. In Macau, casinos helped China to keep that newly gained "step-region" administered. Now, multiple "owners of plants and ships" (cited from a children's poem "Mister Twister" by the Soviet poet S.Ya. Marshak) from all parts of the country come here to spend their money. The industry's scale is enormous, almost non-human. Recently, the revenues yielded from only one gaming table in Macau has happened to be five times bigger than from one gaming table in Las-Vegas. The number of hotels in Macau is ten times as many as in Las-Vegas. To create all that industry took mere ten years in contrast to one hundred years in Nevada. Super casino magnate Steve Wynn (Wynn Macau) decided to move his headquarters to Macau in spring of 2010.
It is a usual thing in Asia to see a great contrast between luxury and poverty. In whole, I don't think that in a former Portuguese colony people live in poverty or on the breadline but one can easily meet a fruiterer with a barrow near the entrance of a luminous forty-storeyed building of a casino shaped as a flower-bud's burst. China is China. One of the main problems of the city is overpopulation. To be able to live in the center I had to settle in a "closet" (a room about the size of a broom closet) — imagine a big room divided into smaller rooms by high partitions being not so high as to reach the ceiling. The audibility there is something, I'll tell you that… Narrow streets, which the city got from medieval invaders, are still used far and wide. The main transport vehicle used there is a moped à la Vespa. Bikes are not in fashion for some reason, and cars are stuck in traffic jams.
I spent three days in Macau. I strolled about its suburbs, climbed the hill, walked down to the seafront, ate strange octopuses in a restaurant and almost bought a stupid Chinese dog. I am sure to come back there. By the way, from Russia (from Moscow) one can fly to and fro in mere five hundred Euro (a screenshot). I think it is very cheap. I saw the price in Russian version of Momondo. I really recommend it to you. It is a ticket search engine of high quality and it is customized for Russian air carriers. It works without fees, scans 800+ sites and is so, like, web-two-zero interactive. Now, I more and more often start all my searches on Momondo.
If you start looking for a flight, look for the one to Hong Kong. From there you can easily get to Macau by an express ferry. Just keep in mind that money and visas there are different. At the border, when you are to pay a visa fee you cannot make payments with your credit card, you will need cash. I didn't have it so I had to go to a utility room to "negotiate" the fact with an officer and convert at the wildest rate. From Àomén (it is a Cantonese name of the city) one can go back to Hong Kong or to the "continent" — to China. I went to Nanning by bus to go straight to Vietnam. In a day, I got to bustling and absolutely rural, as compared with Macau, Hanoi.
The post is continued with many pictures and their descriptions, which, at last, have been sorted out and refined. The post is now like old school posts which, once, have used to be more numerous in this journal.
1. The ferry is approaching the northern part of Macau. There is no charge for a ride on a bus to the nearest casino (it is a gigantic building on the background).
2. But when I got to the casino I had to find out about the local transport schedule.
3. We are entering the old part of Àomén on a regular bus. The city can be seen through the wind shield, if you click on the photo.
4. Some buildings are high and odd, and others are even higher and odder.
5. A view of the city center.
6. The central street of the old part of Macau.
7. As you can see, the city stands on hills.
8. A new building in the coastal part of the city.
9. A big building being constructed in an underprivileged district. After having strolled on the hills I walked down and went there to see the contrast between that district and a thoroughly cleaned center.
10. One of the squares of the city. In the foreground, there are Chinese inscriptions, and on the white building aloof – Portuguese ones.
11. A cozy small yard with benches. The best cafes and restaurants are usually located in such secluded corners.
12. Figured balconies with flowers.
13. Winding back streets and THE mopeds.
14. A composition involving a window, a ladder and a tropical plant.
15. A very European piece of China, in my opinion.
16. Walls of many houses are laid with ceramic tile. If you click on the photo you can see it better.
17. An old woman near a small store's entrance. And here I am, in the district that you have seen in the beginning of the post on the photo of a constructed building.
18. A stranger in a red T-shirt is dozing after having dinner in a cook-shop.
19. A small piece of a street art.
21. A Chinese room on the ground floor.
22. Typical dwellers of such Chinese corners.
23. A repair shop for repairing mopeds.
24. A young lad is having a rest in the marshaling yard.
25. Contrasts, contrasts, contrasts… Think of shining glass-concrete buildings in the center and a cosmic tower.
26. Narrow streets, wires and narrowness. This part reminds Hong Kong.
27. 28. Balconies with grates. One can assume that it was done for safety reasons. But in fact, it can be so that it is just done, like, for example, in Vietnam they like to frame roofs with small ornamental balconies.
29. An honours board near a local school. A rainbow and happy faces of children. For some reasons, rice and fish on the ground, being dried by the sun, are left unattended, absolutely by themselves.
30. The school walls are laid with tile. The red cat didn't know how to get down, it was afraid of jumping down and was sadly mewing up there for a long time.
31. Schoolchildren are walking home, the day is drawing to a close.
32. The lights come on in sign boards and shop windows with jewelry. In contrast to Hong Kong, there are not so many charlatans in Macau, who tug at people's sleeves and offer faked Rolexes or electronics.
33. One of cosmic casino buildings.
34. I hope that when you see the photos you will be able to feel all the difference between these magnificent non-human constructions and common proletarian districts. For the umpteenth time, I'd like to remind you that you can purchase any of the photos, of any size: just feel free to write me a letter.
35. A historical building two blocks from Lisboa Casino.
36. You've seen this building in the beginning of the post. It is VERY big. The lower spherical part reflects running images of playing cards, card suits and easy money.
37. 38. Night cafes offer fish from aquariums and simple entertainments. The Chinese like eating at nights.
39. 40. 41. The city center is expensive, luxurious and gigantic.
42. The same picture as in the beginning, only in blue. That's all for today.
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Here, fifty minutes away from Nanchang, next to the river rests an island of a bamboo forest in which the opportunistic Chinese organized something like a rest base. As far as I know, this is part of a national park meant to save rare forests. Hammocks, comfortable bamboo huts, delicious cuisine, simple karaoke, a river in which locals with lights tied to sticks catch lobsters at night and give tourists rides on colourful rafts during the day. This corner has been a favored spot of tourists in Nanchang for a while. These are mostly English teachers in local schools and universities. The sociable owner is not multi-lingual, but this does not stop him from being hospitable and benevolent.
Shanghai is a real City: it engulfs and amazes from all directions. With building size, Victorian architecture and the countering cosmic forms of the business center across the street. In Shanghai, which translates as "on-above the sea," there are, according to different estimates, 16 to 20 million people, the density is, on average, is over 2000 per square kilometer. Managers in extremely expensive suits, vendors of fakes, freaks and beggars who ask for charity all bustle back and forth, above the crowd tower fat American tourists. In the center, where several streets are closed to drivers, people mostly speak English, unlike in China. To sit in an Internet cafe, you must show your passport, they are afraid of the white threat, yep. Only two blocks away from a magnificent flower park with mirror buildings across the street, ground rhinoceros horns and deer hooves are sold from a rag that is spread out on the roadway, and the vendor rather aggressively suggests walking past with photo cameras. This is China: the country of contrasts.


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Zarok TV (Kurdish: Kid TV) is the first Kurdish satellite television station in Turkey for Kurdish children, broadcasting since 21 March 2015, based in Diyarbakır (Amed). The channel broadcasts programs in various Kurdish languages, specifically Kurmanji, being the most widely spoken Kurdish dialect in Turkey, Zazaki and some Sorani.

Accused of "separatist and subversive" activities, it was shut down on 29 September 2016 under the emergency statutory decree issued during the aftermath of 15 July's failed coup d'état, alongside 12 other television and 11 radio stations, when the police raided the television station's headquarters. Zarok TV's director, said there were no warning before the closure.

In November 2016 the TV station was allowed to broadcast again after much criticism for the sudden closure. The European Parliament condemned the Turkish authorities stating "misusing" law in the aftermath of the unsuccessful coup attempt. Owner of Zarok TV and also several other cultural Kurdish TV channels, estimated the company had lost "125-150 thousand dollars" in October due to closures.

About

The director of Zarok TV stated "It is all about children, the culture, ways of life and language of the Kurds." in addition mentioned "Cartoons that are watched everywhere in the world, dubbed into Kurdish.". Zarok means kid/children in Kurdish.

Programming
 Tom & Jerry Kids
 Maya the Bee
 Angelo Rules
 Adventure Time
 Garfield
 Cédric
 The Tom and Jerry Show
 The Road Runner Show
 The Smurfs
 Oscar's Oasis
 Yakari
 The Adventures of Tintin
 Little Hippo
 Chicken Town
 Corneil & Bernie
 Boule et Bill
 My Gym Partner's a Monkey
 64 Zoo Lane
 Uncle Grandpa
 Pablo the Little Red Fox
 Dora Te (Your Turn)
 Hilltop Hospital
 Louie
 Trotro
 Mig Said
 Nîkil&Gewez
 Block 13
 Masî&Kevjal
 Landik
 Morî
 Breadwinners
 The Amazing World of Gumball
 Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends
 Maya the Honey Bee
 SpongeBob SquarePants
 The Angry Beavers
 The Fairly OddParents
 Phineas and Ferb
 Vic The Viking (2013)
 Jurassic World: Camp Cretaceous

See also
 List of Kurdish-language television channels

References

External links
 Official website www.zarok.tv (Also other domains: www.zaroktv.krd or www.zaroktv.com.tr)

 Zarok TV on YouTube
 Zarok TV on Dailymotion

Kurdish-language television stations
2015 establishments in Turkey
Television channels and stations established in 2015
Television channels and stations disestablished in 2016
Mass media shut down in the 2016 Turkish purges
Defunct television channels in Turkey
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The only examination "OJEE MBA" is the entrance test for admission into the Post Graduate course MBA. This examination OJEE MBA is conducted by Odisha Joint Entrance Exam Board at the state level in the beginning of academic session every year.
The aspirants have to fulfil any of the three criteria listed below to take admission into the post graduate course MBA.
•	Completed graduation (in any discipline) of minimum three years' duration from any university or a recognised institute or university outside Odisha but defined by UGC or AICTE. The minimum passing marks in this case must be 50 per cent marks (45 per cent in case of aspirants belonging to SC/ST category) at the qualifying exam.
•	Hold a Bachelor's Degree in Engineering/Technology/Architecture/Pharmacy programmes of four – five years duration from any University of or a recognised institute or university outside Odisha but defined by UGC or AICTE. The minimum passing marks, in this case, must be 50 per cent marks (45 per cent in case of aspirants belonging to SC/ST category) at the qualifying exam.
•	Be in the final year of their graduation to be able to apply for OJEE MBA.
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using System.Linq;
using DataExplorer.Domain.Columns;
using DataExplorer.Domain.Filters;
using DataExplorer.Domain.FilterTrees.BooleanFilterTrees;
using DataExplorer.Domain.Tests.Columns;
using NUnit.Framework;

namespace DataExplorer.Domain.Tests.FilterTrees.BooleanFilterTrees
{
    [TestFixture]
    public class BooleanFilterTreeRootTests
    {
        private Column _column;
        private BooleanFilterTreeRoot _node;

        [SetUp]
        public void SetUp()
        {
            _column = new ColumnBuilder().Build();
            _node = new BooleanFilterTreeRoot("Test", _column);
        }

        [Test]
        public void TestCreateChildrenShouldCreateFalseLeaf()
        {
            var results = _node.CreateChildren().ToList();
            Assert.That(results[0].Name, Is.EqualTo("False"));
        }

        [Test]
        public void TestCreateChildrenShouldCreateTrueLeaf()
        {
            var results = _node.CreateChildren().ToList();
            Assert.That(results[1].Name, Is.EqualTo("True"));
        }

        [Test]
        public void TestCreateChildrenShouldNotCreateNullLeafIfColumnHasNoNulls()
        {
            var results = _node.CreateChildren().ToList();
            Assert.That(results[0].Name, Is.Not.EqualTo("Null"));
        }

        [Test]
        public void TestCreateChildrenShouldCreateNullLeafIfColumnHasNulls()
        {
            var column = new ColumnBuilder().WithNulls().Build();
            var node = new BooleanFilterTreeRoot("Test", column);
            var results = node.CreateChildren().ToList();
            Assert.That(results[0].Name, Is.EqualTo("Null"));
        }

        [Test]
        public void TestCreateFilterShouldReturnFilter()
        {
            var result = (BooleanFilter) _node.CreateFilter();
            Assert.That(result.IncludeTrue, Is.True);
            Assert.That(result.IncludeFalse, Is.True);
        }
    }
}

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Azawad the Country to be but Never Made it
September 1, 2017 By Faro Laz
Here is a story written by Christin Roby @robyreports and published by Devex on 28 August 2017 that is a good recollection of what is happening in the outer edges of the MENA region. In fact, it is in the Sahel region that borders the south of all the North African countries (see map below) from as it were the Atlantic coast to its Indian counterpart coast. The narrated events in this particular story happened to have all occurred in what is called Azawad since time immemorial by the North African Berber populations. These populations are known throughout North Africa as Blue Men or Tuaregs for their nomadic roaming notably in the south-eastern limits of the Sahara. Azawad is the country to be but never made it to go it alone beyond that April day of 2012. Read more in the republished here story of Christen Roby.
Aid groups see rising security risk in Mali even as needs grow
The image above is of a Patrol of the MINUSMA force in the town of Gao, Mali. Photo by: United Nations / CC BY-NC-ND
MOPTI, Mali — Two separate attacks on U.N. peacekeeping bases in Mali earlier this month have escalated security concerns for NGOs and international organizations in the country's northern and central regions. The already-volatile area has seen a rise in incidents against NGOs in recent months, and analysts fear local extremist groups may be forming in the country's central and southern regions in response to limited governance.
The insecurity is wreaking double havoc: It has increased humanitarian needs, as public services deteriorate and livelihoods are compromised. Meanwhile, aid organizations are struggling to operate and address those needs given the complex safety risks.
"In this insecurity and fighting, you have elements who simply don't respect humanitarian organizations and, in fact, they openly target humanitarian organizations," John Ging, director of operations for the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, told Devex. "The influence we have and our ability to negotiate respect for and security for our operation in an environment in central and northern Mali has limitations," he said.
The attacks on U.N. peacekeepers on August 14 took place in Timbuktu, in Mali's north, and Douenza, in the central region. In the former case, armed assailants targeted the United Nations Multidimensional Integrated Stabilization Mission in Mali's headquarters, leaving six dead. One peacekeepers and a Malian soldier died in the second incident.
For aid organizations, the primary threats include thefts, carjacking and kidnappings. In a reminder of the risks, militants released a video of hostages abducted as early as 2011 just ahead of a visit to Mali by French President Emmanuel Macron in early July. Though one of the hostages, South African Stephen McGown, was released a few weeks later, the incident rattled the aid community. Relief groups have developed personalized security protocols to cope with ever-present risks. Security experts also urge the development community to work with and through local partners at all stages of programming and implementation to mitigate risks and build trust.
A backdrop of insecurity
Mali has maintained a high-security risk profile since 2003, when Algeria's militant Salafist Group for Preaching and Combat fled across into the country's northern region. The country today is home to overlapping conflicts, including between roaming pastoralists and farmers, as well as jihadists groups.
Military efforts to establish security have so far had mixed results. Government military forces and working with the U.N. Multidimensional Stabilization Mission in Mali and the French-led Barkhane forces, which have been present in-country since 2013 and 2014, respectively.
Though Islamic militant groups have had no territorial control since the French operation, Vincent Rouget, West Africa analyst at the global risk consultancy firm Control Risks, said they have "proven very mobile, very agile and very capable of evading surveillance and conducting attacks increasingly outside of their stronghold in the desert north."
The crumbling security situation in this landlocked country may pose a threat to neighbouring countries, experts told Devex. The countries making up the Sahel region — Mali, Mauritania, Burkina Faso, Niger and Chad — launched the G5 Sahel Joint Force earlier this summer to combat Islamist militants. Even with large financial support from the European Union, from France and from each country making up the force, Rouget believes that the deployment of more forces will not necessarily be an effective solution to this problem. He said the approach, in some cases, could even exacerbate tensions and lead to more discontent with the presence of expatriates.
The deteriorating security situation is having a devastating impact on the local population, said Ging. "People are really exposed to very dangerous, volatile and difficult situations … and that feeds directly into the escalation in their need and dependency on humanitarian support because they are negatively impacted in their own capacity to cope," he said.
During his visit to the Mopti region in April, Ging found that nearly 300 schools were closed, more than double the amount closed last year. Across the greater central and northern Mali, 507 schools were closed out of 2300 schools total.
Providing desperately needed humanitarian support has also proved a daunting task, often obstructed by the highly uncertain situation, Ging told Devex.
Security risks now extend across the central region of Mali, impacting even the traditionally stable towns of Sevare and Segou. The lack of government presence in these areas has provided fertile ground for Islamic militants and radical discourse to take hold, Rouget explained.
Militants in this area tend to be decentralized, he said. While operating under the Al Qaeda umbrella, they work independently from one another, making them more difficult to root out. Rouget described them as local cells fighting against the state.
Experts working in the Mopti region are divided over whether these groups have specific targets, or whether the insecurity is more generalized. A UNOCHA representative in Mali argued that attacks happen to all types of people, not just aid workers. Whereas, an office manager for an aid relief agency told Devex that the U.N. and NGOs are singled out.
Rouget sees militants targeting those they consider "crusaders," or Western nationals and those working with them, including French soldiers, U.N. peacekeepers, Malian military and gendarmerie and NGOs. In order to gain local support, these groups usually attempt to avoid Muslim casualties, he said. Attacks are often highly targeted, avoiding large scale suicide bombings employed by other jihadist groups such as Boko Haram, for example.
According to the Mali chapter of the International NGO Safety Organisation, incidents against NGOs are on track to be double compared to last year. As of June 2017, the country saw 98 incidents compared to a total of 114 NGO incidents in 2016.
Tomas Musik, INSO section director responsible for operations in Mali, Afghanistan, the Central African Republic and the Democratic Republic of Congo, accounts this significant increase in overall security incidents to a rise in criminality.
"This rise is due in part to the political context which remains unabated between pro-government security forces and opposition groups, which you could qualify as the radical jihadi groups," Musik said.
Carjackings are particularly common, usually impacting NGOs and aid workers, as they tend to be the ones using vehicles. "There is some targeting which is not related to an NGO mandate or lack of acceptance from the community, but which is rather due to lack of exposure and the fact that NGOs remain present very extensively in the field and compared to presence of government or private sector," he said.
Keeping aid workers safe
To increase aid worker safety, experts recommend international organizations work more closely with local populations. No white expatriates currently work in Mali's central region.
"Humanitarian organizations work very much at the basis of community acceptance, so a central part of how humanitarian organizations enhance their own security is direct engagement with community leaders: Seeking support and respect from them for the humanitarian activities whether it's the staff, the locations, or the movement of supplies," Ging told Devex.
Musik stressed the importance of delivering quality work and assistance to communities, involving the local populations to define needs and targeted response plans, and making sure that the community feels represented.
"Groups must have a really sound understanding of geography because the threat varies hugely across regions and across localities," Rouget added. He said it is critical to understand if an imminent threat exists, or if an area only experiences sporadic attacks. For single visits, he said, it is important to consider details such as choice of hotels and restaurants, as well as where one spends time outside the office, since many large attacks in Mali have occurred during weekends.
"As an organization, what you can do is provide your staff who are deployed [in unstable zones] with training and get them properly equipped to face hostile environments, and also more broadly to try to instill a culture of security awareness, which is not necessarily easy to do with NGOs and humanitarian aid workers but really make staff aware of the threat level and make sure they don't take unnecessary risks," Rouget urged.
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Christin Roby@robyreports
Christin Roby is a West Africa correspondent for Devex based in Abidjan, Côte d'Ivoire where she covers global development trends, health, technology and policy-related topics. Before relocating to West Africa, Christin spent several years working in local newsrooms, and earned an MSJ in videography and global affairs reporting from the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University. Her informed insight into the region stems from her diverse coverage of more than a dozen African nations.
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#246 Oct 24, 2002
COLUMBUS: That blast of air felt in the region around Washington, D.C. today was from a collective sigh of relief. They caught the snipers asleep, along I-70 headed west.
One was an Army veteran, John Williams (now John Mohammad), the other a 17-year old, John Malvo, who is in this country illegally.
It was this younger fellow that finally got them caught. Like many teenagers, he simply could not stay off the telephone.
These guys got around. They lived in Tacoma, then went to Alabama and killed a clerk, then to Camden, New Jersey, apparently to get a good deal on a 1990 Chevy Caprice.
Camden is the most curious stop for these two. Local police are checking their records for recent murders. See, in Camden ten murders in a month is kinda routine. Mohammad and Malvo probably figured out, "We can't scare anyone around here with killings, let's try Maryland." So they left, but before they left they mailed in their absentee votes, for Senator Toricelli.
Do you remember my suggestion from October 7? Well, I almost forgot it myself, but here it is. I said, "Putting on a war just to take out one man seems kind of excessive. Maybe they should just find the guy shooting those people in Maryland, and ship him to Baghdad."
I think we've got what negotiators like to call a win-win situation. Our Air Force can drop those two murderers (alleged) into Iraq. If they can knock out Saddam, we pardon them, but leave them there. If Saddam catches them… well, it saves the millions we would otherwise have to spend on their trials.
This idea will offend some of you, and I don't blame you for being upset. But for the last month there's been millions of men, women and children around our nation's capital who have had their whole lives upset, so they would probably vote in favor of the plan.
Johnny Cochran is trying to get in touch with the suspects. I'm not quite sure whether he wants to defend them, or to ask 'em if they are the murderers O. J. has been searching for the last few years.
Well, finally, radio and television broadcasters can get off these snipers and back to what Americans want to hear about. Politics.
Speaking of broadcasters, the past two days I got to meet and listen to two of the best, Walter Cronkite and Sam Donaldson. Mr. Cronkite started off the annual convention of the Ohio Association of Broadcasters, and Sam ended it. They had some other speakers in between that you might not have heard of, but they held their own. Keith Harrell, Chris Lytle, Frank Pacetta and Jones Loflin did a marvelous job of teaching and training and motivating.
You might be interested in some of what Mr. Cronkite told those folks. He said he is disappointed with network news today. They spend too much time on fluff, not enough on the important news. Instead of using scandal and entertainment to attract an audience, what they need is better writing and more thought on the important stories. That's what will make it more interesting and draw an audience. He said we can't afford to have an ignorant nation.
He has known and talked with every man who has served as President from Hoover to George W. He said they are all smart, but the smartest of them all is Jimmy Carter.
He was born in Missouri, and had his first broadcasting job in Oklahoma City. He has worked in journalism more than 60 years and will celebrate his 86th birthday on November 4. If that date seems familiar to you, perhaps it is because another great man who did some broadcasting will be honored on the same day for birthday number 123, Will Rogers.
Tonight I was invited to speak to the Hilliard Kiwanis Club which meets just down the road. They're a fine bunch of men and women, and do some great things for the local community and around the world. This Saturday they are scheduled to paint a giant map of the United States on the asphalt playground at an elementary school. They were picking out colors. I suggested Ohio ought to be red, in reflection of the state budget problems. But about 40 states have the same problem and they can't all be painted the same color. Our kids need all the help they can get with geography.
Gene Autry's Angels are still alive in the World Series, and headed home to Anaheim for two games.
Historical quotes from Will Rogers: (from a speech to Kiwanis International convention, 1933)
"I am here tonight as kind of a peace offering. I have told a lot of jokes about these eating outfits, service clubs, or whatever you want to call them. …I have told a lot of jokes about these service clubs, or eating outfits, because I could not see much sense in them. But they were beneficial to the hotels, because they got rid of a lot of bad food.
All of that was back in the old days. It looks like you have really got a mission to fulfill now; you are doing something. You have reformed and you are going along all right. I know from personal experience that you are getting along fine and doing something worth while."


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                                        void* arg_list,
                                        ThreadInitFlag init_flag,
                                        const char16* description)
    {
        unsigned int flag = 0;

        switch (init_flag)
        {
        case ThreadInitRunImmediately:
            flag = 0;
            break;
        case ThreadInitCreateSuspended:
            flag = CREATE_SUSPENDED;
            break;
        case ThreadInitStackSizeParamIsAReservation:
            flag = STACK_SIZE_PARAM_IS_A_RESERVATION;
            break;
        default:
            Assert(false);
        }

        uintptr_t handle = _beginthreadex(nullptr, stack_size, start_address, arg_list, flag, nullptr);

        if (handle == 0)
        {
            return InvalidHandle;
        }

        if (description != nullptr)
        {
            Kernel32Library::Instance->SetThreadDescription((HANDLE) handle, description);
        }

        return handle;
    }
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For an item to be regarded as part of the land and therefore chargeable to Stamp Duty, as opposed to a chattel which is not, it must be annexed to the property.
The issue will then turn on the degree and purpose of the annexation, with emphasis being placed in many cases to use and/or purpose of the item.
Where a purchaser agrees to buy a property for a price that includes an amount properly attributed to chattels, that amount will not be charged Stamp Duty.
A just and reasonable apportionment is required where a price is paid partly for a land transaction and partly for a non-land transaction such as the purchase of chattels. It does not matter that the parties to a transaction may agree a particular apportionment which is then documented in the contract. The apportionment will not be correct unless it was arrived at on a just and reasonable basis. Just and Reasonable should be considered the price that each chattel might be sold for in the market, taking into account its current condition and age.
The Valuation & Estates Office has the right to make enquiries under section 6 of the Stamp Duty Law (2013 Revision) (PDF, 97 Kb, 28 pages) to request information or records that are necessary or desirable for the purpose of assessing Duty. This includes the request of invoices for the purchase of items, notably those that are newly purchased. It is therefore quite possible that we will undertake enquiries into cases where a deduction has been made for chattels to confirm that those items properly fall within the definition of chattels.
We are unable to provide a comprehensive list of items that are accepted as chattels. This is because each case must be considered on its own merits and because this is an area of the law that continues to evolve.
A deduction for chattels can only be made if the chattels are referred to within the Agreement, or within any attached schedules. The subsequent Transfer for Land must make reference to the deduction and a chattels list must be enclosed for a second time.