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Shannon Elizabeth
175, 1973, Actress, American, Arab, Brunette, CWBT, Lebanese, Model, Slim
Shannon Elizabeth is an American actress and model of Lebanese descent, best known for her role as Nadia in the American Pie film series.
Jennifer Carpenter is an American actress, known for her roles in Dexter and Dexter: New Blood.
Riki Lindhome is an American actress and comedian, known for her roles in Garfunkel and Oates and Under the Silver Lake.
175, 1983, Actress, Athletic, British, Brunette, Indian
Katrina Kaif is a British actress of Indian descent, known for her roles in Bollywood movies.
175, 1982, Actress, Asian, British, Brunette, Marvel, Slim
Gemma Chan is an English actress, known for her roles in Crazy Rich Asians and Marvel's Eternals.
Christen Harper
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Sharon Stone is an American actress, known for her roles in Basic Instinct and Casino.
Nikki Glaser is an American comedian, actress, podcast host, radio host, and television host.
175, 1979, Actress, Brunette, French, International, Model, Slim, Ukrainian
Olga Kurylenko is a French actress and model of Ukrainian descent, known for her roles in Quantum of Solace and Oblivion.
175, 1966, Actress, American, Athletic, Brunette, Model
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Katherine Heigl is an American actress, known for her roles in Grey's Anatomy and The Ugly Truth.
175, 1988, Blonde, British, Curvy, CWBT, International, Singer
Adele is an English singer and songwriter. As of January 2023, she has more than 47 million monthly listeners on Spotify.
175, 1990, Actress, American, Black, Brunette, Slim
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175, 1981, American, Athlete, Athletic, Black, Brunette, CWBT
Serena Williams is an American professional tennis player. She has won 23 Grand Slam singles titles.
175, 1987, American, Blonde, Singer, Slim
Kesha Rose Sebert is an American singer and songwriter. As of January 2023, she has more than 16 million monthly listeners on Spotify.
Maggie Gyllenhaal is an American actress, known for her roles in Donnie Darko and The Deuce.
175, 1987, American, Brunette, Curvy, CWBT, Model
Ashley Graham is an American model and television host. She's a proponent of the body positivity movement.
HoYeon Jung
175, 1994, Actress, Asian, Brunette, International, Korean, Model, Slim
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Rachel Cook
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Maggie Grace is an American actress, known for her roles in LOST and the Taken trilogy.
175, 1970, American, Athletic, Brunette, Indian, Model
Padma Lakshmi is an Indian-American model and television host, known for hosting the cooking competition Top Chef.
175, 2002, Asian, Athlete, Athletic, British, Brunette, Chinese
Emma Raducanu is an English professional tennis player of Chinese descent. She won a Grand Slam at the 2021 US Open.
Kelly Rohrbach
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Rosamund Pike is an English actress, known for her roles in Gone Girl and I Care a Lot.
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Alica Schmidt
175, 1998, Athlete, Athletic, Blonde, German, Influencer, International
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Katie Holmes is an American actress, known for her roles in Dawson's Creek and The Gift.
Rosie Huntington-Whiteley is an English model, actress, and a former Victoria's Secret Angel.
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Bar Refaeli is an Israeli model and television host. She appeared on the cover of the 2009 Sports Illustrated Swimsuit issue.
Alejandra Guilmant
175, 1993, Actress, Athletic, Brunette, CWBT, International, Latina, Mexican, Model
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175, 1996, American, Blonde, Brunette, Influencer, Model, Slim
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Chrissy Teigen is an American model and TV personality, known for Lip Sync Battle and Chrissy's Court.
175, 1992, Athletic, Blonde, Danish, International, Model
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Elsa Hosk is a Swedish model and a former Victoria's Secret Angel.
175, 1972, Actress, American, Blonde, Marvel, Slim
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175, 1983, Australian, Brunette, International, Model, Slim
Miranda Kerr is an Australian model. She was the first Australian model to become a Victoria's Secret Angel.
Brooklyn Decker is an American model and actress, known for her work with Sports Illustrated.
Cameron Diaz is an American actress, known for her roles in Charlie's Angels, Bad Teacher, and Sex Tape.
175, 1973, American, Blonde, CWBT, German, Model, Slim
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175, 1996, American, Athletic, Brunette, Model
Bella Hadid is an American model. She's the sister of Gigi Hadid.
175, 1975, Actress, American, Brunette, Model, Slim, Ukrainian
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Krysten Ritter is an American actress, known for her roles in Breaking Bad and Marvel's Jessica Jones.
Elle Fanning is an American actress, known for her roles in Maleficent and The Great. She's the sister of Dakota Fanning.
175, 1998, Actress, American, Blonde, CWBT, Redhead, Slim
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175, 1982, Actress, Australian, Blonde, Slim
Yvonne Strahovski is an Australian actress, known for her roles in Chuck, Dexter, and The Handmaid's Tale.
175, 1993, Athletic, Brunette, Hungarian, International, Model
Barbara Palvin is a Hungarian model, known for her work with Sports Illustrated and Victoria's Secret.
175, 1996, Actress, Blonde, British, HBO, Redhead, Slim
Sophie Turner is an English actress, known for her roles in HBO's Game of Thrones, Dark Phoenix, and The Staircase.
175, 1990, Actress, American, Athletic, Blonde
Jennifer Lawrence is an American actress, known for her roles in The Hunger Games film series, Silver Linings Playbook, and Don't Look Up.


Do you remember the old saying, "Actions speak louder than words"? For some people, that is particularly true of love. If acts of service is your spouse's primary love language, nothing will speak more deeply to him or her emotionally than simple acts of service.
For people who have "acts of service" as their primary love language, helpful acts are seen as very powerful expressions of love and devotion. Actions like cooking a meal, setting a table, washing dishes, vacuuming, taking out the garbage, mowing the grass, etc. are all acts of service. If done with a positive spirit and without expecting something in return, they are indeed expressions of love.
Within every language, there are many dialects. If you have a significant other with acts of service as his/her primary love language, find out the specific things he/she would like by asking. If you are the person with that specific love language, let your spouse know which actions mean the most to you.
During the cold months, put a towel in the dryer while your spouse is showering so it's all fluffy and warm when he/she gets out.
Men: Be a gentleman and walk on the "dangerous" side of the road so she feels protected.
Fix things that the other can't fix.
Buy or make him/her lunch and bring it to him/her at work, even if (especially if) it's out of your way.
Cook a special meal that you know he/she likes.
Fill up your gas tank without being asked.
Drop your spouse at the door when it is raining.
Men: Open car doors for your wife.
Go to the grocery store and buy items you know he/she loves—without being asked.
Make sure you are helping and giving because you want to; however, don't overextend yourself and feel resentful for doing the lion's share of the giving. Acts of Service lovers don't want people helping them out of obligation. They love a cheerful helper! A happy smile and a helping hand translates to, "You are the best and I love you!" And if your honey does speak the language of Service, he or she will probably be serving you a lot as well. After all, it comes naturally for them!


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A strong storm system means a windy and windy day
By Kelly R. Headley	 Last updated Nov 26, 2021
SALT LAKE CITY (ABC4) – Good Monday Utah! Be prepared for a fairly rainy and gusty day as our very strong storm system continues to move through our area. This will be quite the weather factor as we still have these strong winds overnight for many of our areas in western Utah and eastern Nevada.
The high wind warning remains in effect until 9 p.m. Monday. under the warning, sustained wind speeds will be between 30 and 40 miles per hour with wind gusts of up to 70 miles per hour. We also have many areas across Beehive state that will have wind advisories and most of them start at 3 a.m. and continue until 9 p.m. as well. Sustained wind speeds will also be slightly lower, but no complaints between 25 and 35 miles per hour with wind gusts reaching up to 60 miles per hour.
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Since these winds will last longer, expect damage to trees, power lines, and utility poles. The southerly direction of the winds will also cause problems for roads that run east-west, creating dangerous crosswinds. The I-80 in the western half of the state will be a road of great concern Monday morning.
The temperatures, due to the flow of the south, will be warmer as the day progresses despite the lack of sunshine. Many of us expect to be in the 60s and 70s again. Mainly cloudy skies will be the name of the game throughout the day. This will then lead to heavy rains as all the moisture in the atmospheric river finally gets in and brings us these significant amounts of precipitation. Northern Utah will be one of the hardest hit areas as we expect amounts between 1 ″ and 1.5. In central and southern Utah, rainfall will be between 0.5 and 1 ″ of rain after all is said and done. Another thing to note is that most of the rain will occur during the evening. Considering the heavy rainfall in a short period of time, it means that we may end up encountering problems with flooding and standing water in prone areas such as valleys, streams and urban areas. If you see a flooded road, be sure to "turn around, don't drown" as white water can easily wash away vehicles.
Snowfall in the mountains will not be as severe as in other storm systems, as the moisture moves with the warmer air. Snow levels will be quite high, well above 9,000 feet with this system, so only the highest peaks will see snow. Snow levels also in areas that tend to produce good amounts will see a more humid type of snow.
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In short, Monday will be a very busy day with the weather as we are seeing this incoming system bring very difficult conditions so stay tuned to the weather.
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Q: Is it possible in Azure to restrict deployment of bicep/template files to management groups to certain users? I have a fairly simple initial management group hierarchy set up that looks as follows:
Tenant root group->
  Company Name->
    Application Landing Zones->
      Project A
      Sandbox

Ideally, I'd like to restrict certain users to be able to deploy subscriptions/resource groups/etc. to specific management groups based on the user (or the AD group they belong to). The goal is to make it so that say a new employee could deploy a test project to the Sandbox management group, but not be able to either purposely or inadvertently deploy anything to the Project A management group (under which would contain subscriptions and various environments). Similarly, I'd want to restrict anyone not a member of the Project A team from being able to deploy anything to that management group. I'm using Bicep files for all my infrastructure deployments.
Is this possible and if so, could someone give me pointers as to where to start looking? I don't need a detailed walkthrough posted here (unless it's a trivial solution), I just need to get steered on the right path. I'm not particularly sure where to even look or what keywords to be looking for, which makes trying to search for a solution difficult. I've tried looking up "restrict deployment to management groups" but nothing useful seems to turn up.
It seemed like management group policies were a promising lead but I didn't discover anything in there. Is this perhaps somehow related to RBAC?

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BEIJING — The leaders of China and Taiwan held their first meeting since the end of a civil war that split the Chinese nation more than 60 years ago, pledging Saturday to build closer ties and work to resolve their differences peacefully.
Chinese President Xi Jinping and his Taiwanese counterpart, Ma Ying-jeou, came together on neutral ground in Singapore, walking toward each other in a packed hotel ballroom in front of a plain yellow backdrop flanked by palm trees.
The two men smiled as they shook hands firmly for more than a minute, twisting to each side to pose for photographs, before waving to the cameras. Each wore a tie to represent his party's respective colors: Xi's red for the Communist Party, Ma's blue for his Nationalists.
Then they moved into a meeting room, where they sat opposite each other to make opening remarks before settling down for closed-door talks.
"History will remember this day," Xi said. "There was a time when clouds gathered above the straits; separated by the ocean, families lost contact from each other, countless families were left with unforgettable pains. But the straits cannot cut off kinship and familial love.
In response, Ma said that he was determined to promote peace across the Taiwan Strait and that relations should be based on sincerity, wisdom and patience. He said relations were better than at any time since 1949.
Ma also asked Xi indirectly to respect Taiwan's democracy.
"Both sides should respect each other's values and way of life," he said.
Both men want to go down in history as having helped to end decades of division, mistrust and sometimes armed conflict across the Taiwan Strait. But the meeting was more about symbolism than substance, with experts saying they had heard nothing from either leader that broke from precedent.
Nevertheless, Xi used the meeting to tell Ma that he welcomed Taipei joining the multinational Asian Infrastructure Bank, which Beijing founded this year. China had rejected Taiwan's initial application to join.
Leaders of the two sides have not met since Chiang Kai-shek's Nationalist Party, also known as the Kuomintang (KMT), lost the Chinese civil war to Mao Zedong's Communists and fled to Taiwan in 1949.
The state the Nationalists established there eventually evolved into a proud and vibrant democracy. China, though, still views it as a renegade province and insists that Taiwan will one day be taken back, by force, if necessary.
The meeting comes at a sensitive time, just over nine weeks ahead of presidential and parliamentary elections on the island, and amid considerable distrust of the Chinese government there.
Taiwan's opposition Democratic Progressive Party (DPP), whose candidate enjoys a strong lead in the presidential race, criticized the timing of the meeting. It also blasted Ma for conducting negotiations in secret and arranging the meeting without public consultation.
After so many decades apart, the meeting between the leaders of Communist China and democratic Taiwan has been closely choreographed.
After the roughly 50-minute closed-door meeting, the two sides held separate news conferences before heading to dinner. The leaders sat at a round table — presumably so neither sat at the head — and split the bill, officials said.
Closer ties with China is one of Ma's signature policies, but while trade, investment and tourism have boomed, the benefits have not flowed to ordinary Taiwanese people as had been hoped, with wages stagnant and growth anemic.
Instead, unease about Taiwan's growing dependence on China has grown while a political settlement seems as far off as ever. Last year, university students occupied parliament in Taipei to block ratification of a trade deal that they said would increase China's hold over Taiwan, and tens of thousands of people later joined protests over the pace and lack of transparency of agreements with Beijing.
Before the meeting, Cornell University associate professor Allen Carlson had compared the significance of Saturday's meeting to President Richard M. Nixon's visit to China in 1972, or President Obama's reopening of relations with Cuba.
Nevertheless, he said, the meeting had created an opening for real change. "Given that the U.S.-China relationship is the most important bilateral dynamic in the world, and that Taiwan lies at the center of this great power dyad, this is still rather heady stuff," he wrote in an e-mail.
But in Taiwan, the meeting has been less well-received by many ordinary people, a few hundred of whom staged a protest Saturday in Taipei, under heavy guard from police in riot gear.
Ma will complete eight years in office in January as an unpopular lame duck, and his Nationalist Party is trailing far behind the opposition DPP in the presidential race. Critics said the meeting looked like a last-ditch attempt by Ma and Beijing to bolster the Nationalists' chances in the elections, by suggesting that ties with China would be better under their leadership than with the more independence-minded DPP.
The DPP maintains that Taiwan is an independent, sovereign nation but sees no need to make a formal declaration of independence, something that would dramatically heighten tensions with China. Its candidate in the presidential race, Tsai Ing-wen, has vowed to maintain good relations with Beijing.
At a news conference after the meeting, Zhang Zhijun, the head of China's Taiwan Affairs Office, said Beijing would not interfere in Taiwan's elections, but he added that the past seven years have shown relations were on the "correct path" and should continue on that path. He also took a jab at "independence forces and separatists" in Taiwan, whom he accused of fanning hostility, disrupting stability and obstructing development.
China's nationalist Global Times tabloid put the point across even more directly, arguing in an editorial that the DPP's failure to formally abandon the goal of independence was like a "time bomb for Taiwan," and saying that the Taiwan public should force the DPP's Tsai to publicly back the 1992 consensus.
Shi Yinhong, a professor of international relations at Renmin University of China, said the meeting had been successful and "filled its purpose as a historic event." But he added the emphasis on the 1992 consensus was a "clear message" to the DPP and said further meetings would take place only if Taiwan's future leaders accepted that agreement.
At Saturday's meeting, Taiwan's Ma tried to persuade Xi to ease his island's diplomatic isolation, saying how much it frustrated his people that Taiwanese nongovernmental organizations are blocked from many international meetings, for example.
In response, Xi told Ma that he understood those concerns and said that as long as Taipei's activities did not give the impression there was "one China and one Taiwan," he was open to "consultation and reasonable arrangements" on the issue, Zhang said.
J. Michael Cole, a Taipei-based senior fellow at the University of Nottingham's China Policy Institute, said that remark felt like "a swipe at the United States" at a time of tension over the South China Sea and as Washington and Taipei are also negotiating a possible arms package.
After the meeting, there were also signs of the deep differences between the two sides' political philosophies and systems of government. State-run China Central Television cut away from Ma before he had completed his opening remarks at the meeting and did not broadcast his subsequent news conference.
That prompted some anger on Chinese social media, while other people pointed out that Ma had spoken himself at the news conference that followed the meeting and fielded more than a dozen questions. Xi, in contrast, left it to Zhang to talk to the press after the meeting; the head of China's Taiwan Affairs Office took only three questions from reporters.
"You just called him your brother, and immediately stopped airing brother's remarks," one user complained on the Sina Weibo microblogging site. "Sixty-six years now and we still can't hear Ma's voice," complained another.
"At the press conference, I think Taiwan beats the mainland hands down," said another Weibo user. But others were more enthusiastic. "Hope we can one day reunite with Taiwan!" one person said.
But the news of the meeting did not make the lead item on state-run CCTV's flagship evening news program in Beijing; it was relegated to fifth place. Instead, Xi's state visit to Singapore led the broadcast.
Xu Yangjingjing contributed to this report.


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Inspired by the cosmos, these Cosmic Kefir Doughnuts are covered in an activated charcoal glaze with edible glitter. Using whole wheat flour and coconut sugar, this recipe is a healthier twist on the classic doughnut recipe. These wondrous treats give us the taste of the cosmos without having to travel to the stars.
In a large bowl, sift together the flour, baking powder and baking soda.
In a smaller bowl, cream the sugar with the coconut oil. Add the kefir and the eggs and mix well.
Add the wet mixture to the dry mixture and stir just until mixed (the batter will be thick).
Transfer the batter to a piping bag or a large freezer bag (cut off one corner to make a piping bag). Pipe the batter into a mini doughnut pan.
Bake in the oven for 8-10 minutes, or until golden brown.
Add all dry ingredients into a bowl. Mix in the kefir until you reach a smooth consistency.
Eggs: Crack one whole egg into the wet mixture, crack the second egg and separate the whites from the yolk. This will allow you to have one whole egg and one with just whites.


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S Korea proposes joint march with North at Olympics
January 12 2018 10:25 PM
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South Korea has proposed marching together with North Korea at next month's Winter Olympics opening ceremony and also forming a joint women's ice hockey team, a government minister said yesterday.
The proposal was made during Tuesday's inter-Korean talks, where North Korea confirmed it would attend the Pyeongchang Olympics following months of tensions over its nuclear weapons programme.
"We made various proposals including the fielding of a joint women's ice hockey team and a joint march into the Olympic stadium," South Korea's vice-sports minister Roh Tae-kang said, according to Yonhap news agency. The proposals were not made public at the time, but they heighten a sense of soaring optimism about the Games since the North confirmed its attendance during rare, high-level talks on Tuesday.
Also yesterday, South Korea's unification ministry invited the North to further talks about the Olympics in the truce village of Panmunjom on January 15, a statement said. A joint march at the opening ceremony would be a stunning statement for the "Peace Olympics", which will open about 80km from the heavily fortified Korean border on February 9.
The two Koreas, who are still technically at war, marched together at the opening ceremonies of the 2000 Sydney Olympics, the 2004 Athens Games and the 2006 Winter Olympics in Turin. North Korea boycotted the 1988 Summer Games in Seoul, meaning Pyeongchang will be the first Olympics they have attended in the South.
Yonhap said South Korea has asked the International Olympic Committee (IOC) and the International Hockey Federation for permission to expand the roster of its women's hockey team, to bring in North Korean players. There was no immediate response from North Korea to the proposals. Both sides will also meet at the IOC's Lausanne headquarters on January 20 to discuss details of their participation.
Only two North Korean athletes, figure skating pair RyomTae-ok and Kim Ju-sik, qualified for Pyeongchang, but they subsequently missed a deadline to register. However, the IOC has said it will consider offering wildcards to North Korean athletes. Cross-country skiers and speed skaters are understood to be among those who could benefit.
Although they have marched at previous Olympics opening ceremonies – under the blue and white 'unification flag' – the two Koreas have never fielded a joint team at any multi-sport competition, such as the Olympics or Asian Games. They previously formed unified teams in 1991, at the World Table Tennis Championships and the FIFA World Youth Championship both held that year.
For the Pyeongchang hockey competition, Roh said South Korea wouldn't cut home-grown players from its squad in favour of North Koreans. "Even if we have one Korean team in women's hockey, we'll make sure it will not come at the expense of South Korean players," he said, according to Yonhap.
He added that Seoul was reaching out to other countries in the hockey competition to explain the situation. South Korea are grouped with Sweden, Switzerland and Japan in the women's tournament.
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Explore the north of Argentina and Chile on this 7-day tour from Salta, one of traveler's favorite cities. Tour along the Humahuaca Gorge (a UNESCO Heritage Site) and visit towns such as Purmamarca, Tilcara and Humahuaca. Visit the town of Cafayate, in the heart of Argentina's northern wine region in the Calchaqui Valley. Leaving Argentina, see the best of San Pedro de Atacama, a small town in the driest desert of the world. Little adobe houses and cozy restaurants are the base to explore one of Chile's most spectacular sceneries: The Moon Valley, Salt Mountain Range, El Tatio Geyser, sand dunes, thermal waters and a totally clear sky full of stars.
Enjoy a prestigious and unique experience in Polo Farm. Come and experience the majestic game of polo in the Pampas of Argentina. The farm is located in the province of Buenos Aires, just outside of Balcarce and as it borders Mar del Plata that means that if it's the beaches you fancy one afternoon, they are only 30 mins away. We offers a combination of energy and peace and is famous for its authentic Argentine atmosphere but with the continental luxury greatly appreciated after a hard day in the saddle!


When Snapple decided it was time to offer a polyethylene terephthalate (PET) version of its iconic glass bottle, it was faced with a dilemma: How could the brand give on-the-go consumers the best possible packaging while still maintaining the Snapple look, feel and branding that its fans have come to expect?
The solution? Do something that had never been done before with processes that hadn't been invented yet.
That "something" focused on an important part of the Snapple experience: the satisfying "pop" that customers hear when cracking open a bottle of their favorite flavor. The sound that's made when the tamper indicator releases is a given with each Snapple glass bottle but proved much trickier with its PET counterpart.
The key was getting the vacuum just right. The challenge lay in figuring out how to generate enough of it for the metal lid to safely seal the bottle and provide the "pop," but not so much that it deformed the plastic bottle. Cracking the code on the feature became an obsession for the Dr Pepper Snapple Group (DPS) packaging engineering team.
Much of that work took place at DPS's pilot plant in Irving, Texas, where plant manager Mike Burns was instrumental in completing this testing. The test facility is configured in the same way as one of the production plants, albeit on a smaller scale. It allows the DPS engineering team to give new products and processes a dry run before rolling them out broadly.
Since the Snapple PET bottles are being phased into the marketplace, plants needed to be able to easily handle production of both the traditional glass bottles and the PET bottles. The new bottles also had to be compatible with vending machines.
As if the engineering and production concerns weren't enough, the team faced another challenge: The aesthetic had to be just right. The bottles couldn't just work perfectly; they had to satisfy the discerning eye of the consumer. In keeping with its goal to give customers a consistent Snapple experience.
From the shape to the embossed "S," the PET bottle has the appearance of the familiar glass bottle, but with only 1/5th of the weight.
And that portability was another key consideration for the brand team, according to Noorin Sidi, brand manager for Snapple.


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Harriet Burgess, S.F. conservationist, dies
Justin Berton, Chronicle Staff Writer
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Harriet Burgess, who founded San Francisco's American Land Conservatory and worked to preserve more than 480,000 acres of wildlife habitat and open space, died suddenly April 19 in Marin County. She was 73 and the cause has not been determined.
Mrs. Burgess began her life's work protecting land from private development in the early 1970s as a volunteer in the Sierra Club's Washington, D.C., office, and later worked as a legislative assistant for Rep. Pete Stark, D-Fremont.
Later, as senior vice president of the Trust for Public Land, she was credited with negotiating complex real estate treaties to conserve acreage surrounding Oregon's Columbia River Gorge and California's Hope Valley and Sweeney Ridge.
She had "an amazing ability of getting the impossible done," said Kerry O'Toole, president of the American Land Conservatory. "She understood the politics and could weave her way through these complicated mazes of land transactions and, in the end, be successful."
Mrs. Burgess founded the American Land Conservancy on April 22 to coincide with Earth Day 1990. The group worked to shelter land from development in all parts of the country: Mississippi River Valley, Sierra Nevada, California's Central Coast and Alaska's Kodiak Archipelago, to name a few.
In her final year with the organization before retiring, Mrs. Burgess negotiated what's believed to be the largest conservation agreement in California history, some 82,000 acres surrounding Hearst Ranch. The project opened 18 miles of trails to the public along the coast, O'Toole said.
In her leisure time, Mrs. Burgess enjoyed traveling the globe and rafting with her family along the Colorado River in the Grand Canyon. She was often quoted as saying, "The land we save is our legacy. It's what we give to our children."
"If you looked at her legacy, it goes beyond the acreage she protected," O'Toole said. "There are many practitioners who she inspired and trained and who are now following in her footsteps."
Mrs. Burgess is survived by her husband, Joe, six children and eight grandchildren.
A private memorial is scheduled today for family and colleagues. For those who would like to make a donation to the American Land Conservancy, go to www.alcnet.org.
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Justin Berton joined The Chronicle in 2006 as a trends reporter in the features department, where he covered topics as varied as the rise of dog hotels, the exploits of speed-eating champion Joey Chestnut, and military suicides. A general assignment metro reporter since 2009, he has written about the deadly San Bruno pipeline explosion, the Occupy movement, the flow of illegal guns into California, public safety in Oakland, and the apocalyptic pastor Harold Camping. In 2011, he revealed that corrupt cops and private investigators were setting up Bay Area men for drunken driving arrests known as "Dirty DUIs," a scandal that resulted in the convictions of four former law-enforcement officers.
He has twice won the long-form feature writing award from the Northern California chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists.


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Pedestrian hit by car
COMMUNITY HELP: A crowd-funding campaign has been created for Nathan Dodd, Beth Long and their 9-month-old son Vincent after Mr Dodd was hit by a car on the Pacific Highway on Friday night.
by Rick Koenig
Rick Koenig
30th Jul 2018 10:18 AM
A CROWDFUNDING campaign has been created to help a Cabarita man who was hit by a car on the Pacific Highway near Tweed Heads on Friday night.
Emergency services were called to the Pacific Highway, near the Sleepy Hollow rest area around 9.50pm following reports a male pedestrian had been struck by a vehicle while walking on the road.
The man, Cabarita's Nathan Dodd, was treated by NSW Ambulance paramedics at the scene before he was airlifted to the Gold Coast University Hospital via Westpac Rescue Helicopter in a serious condition.
While at hospital he underwent surgery and his condition is now stable.
The female driver of the vehicle was uninjured and returned a negative result to a roadside breath test.
A Go Fund Me campaign has since been created to help Mr Dodd, his fiance Beth Long and 9-month-old son Vincent.
"It is going to be a long hard road to recovery which will see him out of work for sometime and both of them out of pocket with a pile of medical bills," the campaign says.
"It would be amazing if we could all come together as friends and community to help out his beautiful little family."
The campaign has already raised $3,310 of a $10,000 goal.
To donate visit: www.gofundme.com/lets-help-doddy-and-betty.
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New Haven Road Race contender Brianne Lippoldt getting better with age
Published 5:45 pm EDT, Saturday, September 3, 2016
Many top athletes turn professional out of college (or high school) and end up starting a family later in their careers.
Brianne Lippoldt has done things a bit differently.
"I kind of have the backwards story," Lippoldt joked.
In fact, at 35 and with two daughters (Riley, 7, and Reese, 6), Lippoldt has been doing some of her best running in recent years. She's finished in the top six at the Faxon Law New Haven Road Race three times since 2012, including a personal-best third-place finish last year. And Lippoldt very well may be the favorite heading into this year's race.
"It's funny," she said by phone earlier this week. "You go into some races and think, 'I am so ready, I'm gonna have a great race.' And it's the worst race you've ever run. Then I go into some races where I'm like, 'I'm not gonna do very well,' and I end up winning. So, I just kind of go in with the attitude to get to the starting line healthy."
Whether anyone gets to the starting line at all on Monday is still up in the air. With a tropical storm warning in effect for the Connecticut shoreline, it's possible the conditions may be too severe for the race. As of Saturday afternoon, forecasts had rain and winds around 20 MPH. If that remains the case, the race will go on.
"It will take an extreme weather day (to call it off)," said race director John Bysiewicz.
Brianne Lippoldt has finished in the top six at the Faxon Law New Haven Road Race three times since 2012.
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As long as the race is on, Lippoldt is ready.
"I honestly don't pay too much attention to the weather," she said. "I just try to prepare as best as I can and control what I can control. Weather is not something you can control."
Lippoldt (nee Nelson) has never been your traditional running superstar. She did nearly everything but track or cross country — gymnastics, basketball, diving, soccer — in high school in Illinois, then went off to Fort Lewis College in Colorado not to run, but because of the campus's beautiful scenery. In fact, the school didn't even have a track program.
But after arriving at Fort Lewis, Lippoldt ran some mountain races and fell in love with it. She went out for the cross country team as a sophomore and, a few years later, was a Division 2 All-American.
"Since then, I've just kept going," she said.
Still, she wasn't exactly being wooed by NIKE coming out of college. At 27, while still trying to figure things out, she got pregnant with Riley. Reese was born a little over a year later.
"After both daughters," she reported, "I became a professional athlete and started taking it seriously and making it my job."
Now, she's somewhat of an elder stateswoman, if you will, on the marathon circuit — getting better with age.
"That's how you've got to think as you get older," she said, with a chuckle. "I'm definitely one of the older people out there, but there's quite a few."
Still, the idea of being a role model for some of the younger runners is one Brianne Lippoldt has embraced.
"There are a lot of younger kids coming out of school, jumping onto the circuit in their 20's," she said. "But a lot of older women are still out there and always in that top 10. To have those role models ahead of you and still having phenomenal results – age is just a number, really."


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Lions vs Packers: How to watch live, Vegas odds and why Lions face a must-win
Brett Hundley leads the Packers into action tonight against the Detroit Lions. [Image via NFL/YouTube]
The Detroit Lions are playing the closest thing to a must win situation this week when they face the Packers.
by Joseph Karbousky
November 6, 2017 at 9:10 AM Updated on May 23, 2019 at 6:07 AM
The Detroit Lions will travel to Lambeau Field on Monday night to take on the Green Bay Packers in what is shaping up to be a key NFC North matchup. While the Lions have not had much success at all versus the Packers during the Matt Stafford era, this is a game that Detroit absolutely cannot lose if they have aspirations of winning the division and making the postseason. Yes, this Week 9 regular season game is that important, and here is why.
No Aaron Rodgers, no worries?
Every game in the NFL is a tough battle, no matter what Las Vegas oddsmakers set the point spread at.
Obviously, if every team that was favored to win each game actually won, then why would people ever have to work? Everyone could simply gamble for a living! Unfortunately, that's not how it works. While no game is a give me by any means, Detroit will not have to face one of their biggest arch-nemesis when they face the Packers this evening in Aaron Rodgers. Rogers has owned the Detroit Lions during his time as the starting quarterback of the Green Bay Packers.
The All-Pro Packers QB has compiled a 13-3 record against the Lions throughout his career beating them in almost any way imaginable, including an untimed down hail mary at Ford Field back on December 3, 2015. Oh by the way, just like tonight's game, that was also a nationally televised game as well.
Stafford, offense must take control
So Aaron Rodgers is out, and Brett Hundley is in. The kid looks like he has a future in this league. He is big, strong and far from green when it comes to winning at the high school and college levels, but he is inexperienced, and Detroit has to take advantage of that by controlling the ball when they have possession and confusing him when they are on defense.
Ameer Abdullah, Golden Tate and Matt Stafford are going to have to score touchdowns in the red zone, not field goals. Stafford threw for over 400 yards against Pittsburgh last week, yet the Lions never hit paydirt. That won't work tonight against a tough Green Bay defense.
Both teams are playing well on defense so far in 2017.
The Lions currently rank fifth in the league overall for net yard defense, while the Packers are right behind them at No. 6.
For some reason for Detroit, the mystique of Lambeau Field is real. They just can't win there. If the Lions are a playoff caliber team, they must win tonight, period. Stafford cannot be outdueled by a rookie making his third career start.
A loss tonight would put Detroit at 3-5 on the season, and move them into a tie for last place in the NFC North - three full games behind the first place Minnesota Vikings.
How to watch live
Fans can catch every play of tonight's Lions vs Packers matchup nationally on ESPN. The game will also stream live online through Watch ESPN. Kickoff is scheduled for 8:20 p.m. ET. Las Vegas oddsmakers have the Lions listed as a 2.5 point favorite, with the over/under point total set at 43.
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The thing is I am not going to spend more, as they want. I am going to spend less, I will find a deal. But they won't get more of my money.
Yeah I called them on Saturday and they also gave me 15 GB for $70. How should I get free international calling (I'm assuming it's US only?)? Should I call them again and say my friend is getting that from Telus?
Data is cheap. Telus had a bad quarter in terms of ARPU. This is their desperate attempt to get customers to spend more.
They offered me the same as well. I use close to 10GB pretty often, but I'd rather choose when to pay more, or get more... not being forced to pay more for anything.
Is there anyone that is offering minimum 10 GB for maximum $60?
Was very very dissapointed to recieved an increase paper.
Can anyone confirm they have talked to retentions to stop this or get something else comparable?
I wouldn't mind international calling.
Pic of your account page showing the features??
Yeah got offered the same (if you mean INT SMS). Will stick with this while I see what else is out there.
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Terrible company to deal with.
I'm hoping I can get the extra 5GB, but would also like the Canada-US plan, so I can use my phone in the US. That would justify the $10 increase for me.


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By Dcubed, July 7, 2020 in General Gaming Discussion
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https://game.watch.impress.co.jp/docs/interview/1262702.html
Looks like it'll cost around 12,800 yen, includes 36(!) SEGA arcade games from various arcade platforms and is due for release at end of 2020...
IT HAS FUCKING GOLDEN AXE: REVENGE OF DEATH ADDER!!!!!!!!! (Cue internal screaming at it coming to this and not SEGA AGES Switch)
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I read the title, and thought - it can't be that bad surely?
Oh, "astrocity"...
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Nice to know that I wasn't the only one who came in expecting a @Dcubed hot take on an atrocious attempt by SEGA to jump into the Mini crowd!
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I read it as 'Sega Atrocity Mini' as well... and in a way, that would be more accurate.
It's nice that they are making an Arcade Mini system, but it is an atrocity if a lot of these games then don't make it to the Sega Ages collection on the Switch.
Then again, it depends who is handling the emulation on this thing...
It actually looks pretty cool, I'll definitely pick one up. Interesting to see what the full list of games looks like.
Trailer...
The machine really does look good, just to have on the desk will be pretty cool. I hope with the remaining games there are some more 3D titles. The only game at the moment that I'm a big fan of is Virtua Fighter.
Preorders are available on Amazon Japan. https://www.amazon.co.jp/セガ-(2020年12月発売予定)-アストロシティミニ【Amazon-co-jp限定】アイテム未定-配信/dp/B08CF2KHZB/
It's cool but, if they can do this, then there is no reason surely why they can't make an arcade compilation for the Switch as well.
Even if they split it into two volumes, it would sell.
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The buttons and joystick look a little small to use comfortably.
No M2? Hype deflated
I need to see it compared to the Neo Geo Mini to get some size perspective.
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I have a strong emotional attachment to Sega in the '90s, so was really excited when I saw this. Shinobi (which I assume will be on it), reminds me of holidays past; I used to cycle to my local fish & chip shop (now a Chinese takeaway) just to play Altered Beast, and Golden Axe reminds me of when I got the Mega Drive and my friends encouraged me to get that game for it. To have the true arcade versions of these would have meant a lot to me.
Later on I stumbled into a seaside arcade and found Golden Axe: Revenge of Death Adder. Can't really tell you how excited I was! And another one I absolutely loved was Spider-Man: The Video Game. I would have swapped my entire Saturn collection to have those two coin-ops at home. It's great that Golden Axe is on here, but can Sega work it out with Marvel to allow Spider-Man? If they did, I don't think I could resist this.
As I became a slightly older teenager, I absolutely loved Virtua Fighter. The 2nd one was better as a Saturn game, but if it was arcades we were talking about I couldn't shake my penchant for the angular graphics of the original. The 1990s were just so great.
There are a lot of unknowns about this. Will it run Model 2 games? Will it feature the games with more specialist control schemes, such as OutRun, After Burner and Space Harrier? I don't know if such a small machine is really practical, but I'm tempted.
I've noticed an emerging market for these miniature arcade machines. The My Arcade ones look really cool, but at least some of them are the NES versions. It's great they have the proper artwork on the side, but it has to be the real game too. The Quarter Arcade ones look even better. If they can get Double Dragon, Bad Dudes and Final Fight I may not be able to resist. Arcade games like this represent to so much to those of us of a certain age.
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Replica of the William T. G. Morton Ether Inhaler. This replica of the Inhaler was made from the original description of its physical attributes and of its measurements as furnished by the courtesy of the Massachusetts General Hospital.


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Russian President Vladimir Putin says the accusation that the Syrian government has used chemical weapons against the foreign-backed militants in the country is 'utter nonsense'.
"Syrian government troops are on the offensive and have surrounded the opposition in several regions. In these conditions, to give a trump card to those who are calling for a military intervention is utter nonsense," Putin told the journalists in the eastern city of Vladivostok on Saturday.
He also called on the United States to show proof that Damascus was behind the attack.
"Regarding the position of our American colleagues, who affirm that government troops used … chemical weapons, and say that they have proof; well, let them show it to the United Nations inspectors and the Security Council," Putin added.
The Russian president added that if Washington fails to show the proof, "that means there is none."
The remarks came after US President Barack Obama said on Friday that he is considering military action against Syria based on intelligence reports.
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            expect(() => {_router.addModel("modelId", { },"notSomeOptions"); }).toThrow(new Error('The options argument should be an object'));
            expect(() => {_router.addModel("modelId", { }, { preEventProcessor: {} }); }).toThrow(new Error('preEventProcessor on the options parameter is neither a function nor an object with a process() method'));
            expect(() => {_router.addModel("modelId", { }, { preEventProcessor: "boo" }); }).toThrow(new Error('preEventProcessor on the options parameter is neither a function nor an object with a process() method'));
            expect(() => {_router.addModel("modelId", { }, { postEventProcessor:{}}); }).toThrow(new Error('postEventProcessor on the options parameter is neither a function nor an object with a process() method'));
            expect(() => {_router.addModel("modelId", { }, { postEventProcessor:"boo"}); }).toThrow(new Error('postEventProcessor on the options parameter is neither a function nor an object with a process() method'));
        });

        it('should throw if model already registered', () => {
            _router.addModel('modelId', {});
            expect(() => {_router.addModel('modelId', {}); }).toThrow(new Error('The model with id [modelId] is already registered'));
        });
    });
});

redpajama_set_name: RedPajamaGithub


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WENR, November 2014: Americas
Addis Getahun
University Completion Rates Fall for First Time in a Decade
There was a 5.7 percent drop in the number of Brazilian graduates last year compared with 2012 – the first decline in the number of university leavers since 2003. Some 991,000 students graduated in 2013, a drop of almost 60,000 on 2012, despite the number of students enrolled on programs across the country increasing to 7.3 million.
Among the disciplines to register a decline in graduates were education, health and science, according to this year's Higher Education Census, released by the Ministry of Education in September. The census shows that the fall in graduates in 2013 occurred mostly within 14 institutions, subject to "supervisory" action by the authorities, sometimes enforcing cuts in the number of student places.
Higher education experts questioned whether the decrease was down to financial difficulties among graduates, prompting them to drop out, or whether Brazil had reached the limits of growth after a period of rapid expansion in student numbers.
José Henrique Paim, the education minister, said that guaranteeing the quality of courses was as important as expansion. "[The drop in graduate numbers] is not worrying because there is a greater concern about quality," Mr. Paim said in a statement issued by the Ministry of Education.
– Times Higher Education
Ottawa and Shanghai Medical Schools to Build Joint MD Program
The University of Ottawa's dean of medicine, Dr. Jacques Bradwejn, was in Shanghai in late October to inaugurate a new program at a Shanghai medical school that's an exact copy of the one he runs.
"This program is very exciting because it's the first time it's ever been done in China, and it's for Chinese students, the best that they have, initially 30 students in first year, in English," he says. "This program has received Shanghai district support. It's like provincial support. And two days ago it has received what they call central support from Beijing, which means it is a national program."
The new MD program at Jiao Tong University will also include joint research and exchanges. It's the first agreement of its kind in China, Bradwejn says.
"The health system, especially on the hospital side, is ultramodern and ultraefficient," Bradwejn says. "They're very effective. They've gained experience in many procedures. One advantage they have is they have high volumes of cases, whether it's emergency cases or operating room cases."
The idea is that University of Ottawa doctors and students will go and see a cornucopia of unusual and complex cases in months that they might take years to see in Ottawa. The first group of medical students are to head to Shanghai next summer for a prototype program. On the flip side, China's system for front-line medicine is weak. They can learn from us how to train family doctors and prevent illness, Bradwejn says.
– Ottawa Citizen
Common Ap No longer Requires 'Holistic' Reviews
The Common Application, used by 549 colleges worldwide, will no longer require member institutions to conduct "holistic" reviews of applicants, the organization announced in September. The change in policy will allow institutions that do not require admission essays or recommendations to join the 549 colleges worldwide that use the standardized online admission form, the Chronicle of Higher Education reports.
Officials of the Common Application discussed the change, effective with the 2015-16 admissions cycle, during a session at this year's National Association for College Admission Counseling's conference. The change is based on feedback from admissions officers and high-school counselors eager to increase access and to reducebarriers to university entry.
In short, the announcement marks a significant shift for the Common App, which has long maintained that holistic review and access went hand in hand. Late last year, Scott Anderson, the Common App's senior director for policy, described the organization's philosophy this way: "We fully believe there's a best way to admit students to college, to use holistic review, and we provide a service to make that happen."
In changing its membership criteria, the nonprofit organization essentially has responded to a longstanding criticism: that if the Common App were truly common, it would be open to the many institutions that do not ask applicants for all the things that the nation's most selective colleges do.
– The Chronicle of Higher Education
New, Free English Language Test Enters the Fray
EF Education First, one of the world's largest English language training providers, has announced it will move into standardized testing with the launch of a free online examination that aims to rival established testing brands with its scope and accessibility.
The company has not specified a target number of test-takers it hopes to reach, but Minh Tran, Director of Research and Partnerships, said EF expects that the number of people taking the EFSET "will at least match, if not exceed" those taking the IELTS and TOEFL given it is "of equal accuracy and quality."
Tran added that EF will promote the exam among its own students. "We expect that we'll have millions internally and millions externally."
The test is being delivered online, which Tran says will allow for greater user autonomy, removing the need for traditional test centers and close monitoring.
"We really see this as a shift of power from the test-maker to the test-taker, so the test-taker can now decide when, where, why and how they take the test," said Tran.
Because responsibility is in the hands of the learner, EF said security isn't an issue. "If all that they want to know for themselves is what their English level is, that's what the EFSET is for," said Tran.
However, the company has expanded marketing efforts to target both education institutions and government ministries, especially in countries that may lack the resources to pay high prices for language testing. In these cases institutions using the test for official purposes will control how the exams are administered and regulated the company said.
– The PIE News
SEVP Offers Guidance on Pathway Programs for Foreign Students
The Student and Exchange Visitor Program (SEVP) posted new draft guidance regarding the certification of pathway programs for international students in September. The guidance defines a pathway program as a "postsecondary program of study combining nonremedial and remedial coursework to prepare a student who is unable to meet the requirements for admission into a degree program."
It specifies that SEVP can certify a pathway program only if it consists of at least one nonremedial course per session and if all the student's nonremedial courses are applicable toward graduation requirements. The guidance also stipulates that in pathway programs that consist of an English as a Second Language component, all schools involved in the ESL portion of the program must be in compliance with the Accreditation of English Language Training Programs Act.
SEVP will be accepting public comments on the draft guidance for a 45-day period from the end of September.
– Inside Higher Ed
Confucius Institutes Close
Pennsylvania State University and the University of Chicago announced within a week of each other in September that they would not be continuing their agreements to host a Confucius Institute, a center for Chinese language and cultural training funded by the Chinese government.
In confirming that Penn State will be ending its Confucius Institute agreement at the end of this year (Dec. 31), the dean of Penn State's College of the Liberal Arts cited goals that are inconsistent with those of Hanban, the Chinese government agency that administers the institutes.
Broadly speaking, the Confucius Institutes, which are located at about 90 U.S. universities, have been controversial for reasons related to academic freedom and institutional autonomy. The American Association of University Professors issued a statement this summer urging universities to cease their involvement with Confucius Institutes unless they can renegotiate their contracts to ensure certain terms are met. The AAUP statement said that in hosting the institutes "North American universities permit Confucius Institutes to advance a state agenda in the recruitment and control of academic staff, in the choice of curriculum, and in the restriction of debate."
Study: Type of Awarding Institution Significant Factor in the Hiring Process
A study released in September by the National Bureau of Economic Research suggests that the type of college one attends can have an impact on employment odds.
The study used fictional résumés to measure the chances of getting an interview for various jobs, enabling the comparison of people with identical backgrounds except for the institutions they attended. Those with a bachelor's degree in business from a for-profit online institution were 22 percent less likely to receive a callback from a potential employer than those who had attended non-selective public institutions. The gap disappears, however, for for-profit institutions that have a physical campus and a strong local presence.
– National Bureau of Economic Research
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Merry Christmas to everyone, and a happy new year to come. As usual, we're experiencing wretched excess here. All three daughters are home, everyone is reasonably healthy, and we all get along most of the time. Hope that the same can be said for all 6 of my readers out there.
A lovely ride on the shortest day of the year. Now all three girls are home, and I've put the lights on the tree. Sophie just got up, so soon we'll start hanging ornaments.
Sophie hit an ice patch on Highway C on Tuesday and went down a hill and into this tree. While I wouldn't invoke divine intervention, I am very glad that she was lucky enough not to get hurt. The car, on the other hand, is toast. Sadly, certain idiots (me) didn't make sure that she had comprehensive auto insurance, so it's a total loss. Aargh.
It was so far off the road that the tow truck couldn't get it out. I just went down this morning with Larry Leimbach, who owns the land, and he pulled it up close to the road with his tractor. A very nice guy. On Monday I'm going to get it towed to the junkyard. Sigh.
Nevertheless, she's fine, we're fine, Cabell just got home for Christmas, and Hannah is supposed to get in tomorrow.
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The Palestinian national movement, which has led the decades-long struggle against Israel's takeover of the Palestinians' homeland, has reached the lowest ebb in its history, according to analysts.
But as Palestinians mark this week the 70th anniversary of the Nakba, the "Catastrophe" that followed the dispossession of their homeland and the creation of Israel in its place, there are signs of possible change.
For more than a quarter of a century, the Palestinian movement has been split into two increasingly irreconcilable ideological factions, Fatah and Hamas – now reflected in a profound geographical division between their respective strongholds of the occupied West Bank and Gaza.
Both camps have not only failed to bring about any significant achievements, say analysts, but illegal Jewish settlements have steadily entrenched across the West Bank and a 12-year blockade, bolstered by Israeli military attacks, has choked Gaza into a humanitarian disaster.
There is no tangible regional or international support for the Palestinian cause, and the Trump administration barely bothers to conceal its role now as cheerleader for Israel.
That includes a decision to move its embassy to Jerusalem this week, effectively recognising Israel's claim on a city Palestinians regard as their future capital.
"The Palestinian national movement has moved beyond crisis to the point of bankruptcy," said Ghassan Khatib, a former cabinet minister in the Palestinian Authority (PA), and now a lecturer at Bir Zeit University, near Ramallah.
The dire situation has left observers wondering whether the Palestinian national movement can reinvent itself and find more successful strategies over the coming years and decades.
Both Fatah and Hamas are preparing for major demonstrations, hoping to bring attention to decades of oppressive Israeli rule.
But the events are also likely to underscore how much ground they have lost to Israel – and how the pressure for new thinking is coming from the ground up, not from the leadership.
Recent weeks have seen regular protests at Gaza's perimeter fence attracting tens of thousands of Palestinians, and dominated by young people. The emphasis has been on direct, non-violent mass action, spurning the high-level diplomacy of Fatah and Hamas' traditional commitment to armed resistance.
Although the Gaza protests – under the banner of the Great March of Return – were not initiated by Hamas, it had shown a willingness to support them, noted Diana Buttu, a former legal adviser to the Palestine Liberation Organisation (PLO).
Ahmed Al-Naouq, a youth activist in Gaza, pointed out that the focus of the protests was the demand that the refugees – a large majority of Gaza's population – be allowed to return to the lands, now in Israel, they were expelled from in 1948.
"In Gaza we are more creative and flexible in our thinking because we have no other choice. We want to break out of this prison," he told Al Jazeera.
Nathan Thrall, a local analyst with the International Crisis Group, a conflict resolution organisation based in Washington and Brussels, pointed out that the Gaza protests were returning the Palestinian struggle to its historic roots.
"Even before the founding of the PLO, the central issue in Palestinian nationalism was the refugees – more so than the 1967 issue [of the occupation]," he told Al Jazeera.
The right of the 750,000 Palestinians made refugees by the 1948 war and their descendants to return to their ancestral lands originally lay at the heart of the platforms of all the political parties, he said.
Under the Oslo process launched in 1993, it was widely assumed that the refugees, if they returned at all, would move to a separate and minimal Palestinian state rather than their former towns and villages.
"There was an intentional ambiguity: the leadership talked about the right of return at the same time as it promoted the two-state solution, even though the two principles appear contradictory," said Thrall.
But the Palestinians' historic compromise had turned into a dead-end.
That appears to return Palestinian nationalism to its original vision of a single state, as long propounded by the PLO under its leader Yasser Arafat. He only accepted partition of historic Palestine in the late 1980s, faced with overwhelming western pressure.
"It is significant that there has been a steady increase in support for one state among the Palestinian public, now at around 30 per cent," Buttu said.
Even Hamas, she said, had effectively followed Fatah. It had abandoned its traditional goal of Palestinian-Islamic rule over all of historic Palestine.
"Gradually Hamas has adopted the two-state formula, plus, in its case, a long-term truce with Israel," Buttu said.
In an indication of Hamas' growing desire to compromise, the Israeli media reported this month that "unprecedented strategic distress" had led the movement to offer Israel a truce in return for easing the blockade and allowing it to rebuild Gaza's infrastructure.
What was evident, said Khatib, was a "critical gap" between the national leaderships and Palestinian public opinion, especially among the youth.
The latter was increasingly interested in popular, non-violent struggle as a way to break out of the Palestinians' isolation.
"But there are strong vested interests that will try to maintain the current situation," he said, pointing to the Palestinians' dependence on foreign donors, Israel's control over the transfer of income to the PA, and in turn the vast number of families relying on PA salaries.
But Khatib and others admit that change is likely to happen – some think rapidly – once 82-year-old Palestinian president Mahmoud Abbas departs the scene.
Asad Ghanem, a politics professor at Haifa University, said ending the factionalism, between Fatah and Hamas, was a precondition for turning the different parties into an effective vehicle of national struggle.
"There must be a unified national movement," he told Al Jazeera.
The biggest problem currently facing the Palestinian national movement, said Buttu, was that, despite its various institutions, it was dominated by one person in the figure of Abbas.
She noted that Abbas had all but ignored imprisoned Fatah leader Marwan Barghouti during the Palestinian prisoners' hunger strike last summer.
Barghouti is widely reported to be a student of non-violent strategies of resistance like those of Mahatma Gandhi and Martin Luther King. He is said to have found support among the jailed leaders of Hamas and Islamic Jihad.
"Look at the difference between the way the ANC [in South Africa] kept attention on Nelson Mandela while he was in jail," said Buttu.
"They made sure people knew who he was. But Abbas has done his best to extinguish Barghouti, so young people barely know who he is after so many years behind bars.
With Abbas gone, Thrall thinks Fatah and Hamas may be capable of adapting to new thinking. "But they will do so only if there is a groundswell of popular sentiment that forces them to," he said.
He pointed to the decisions in January of the PLO's Central Council to demand the ending of security cooperation with Israel, which Abbas has previously termed "sacred", and to adopt the anti-apartheid-like struggle of the boycott (BDS) movement, even though it conflicts with Abbas's strategy.
Thrall said the moves reflected pressure, in the case of security cooperation, from the Palestinian public and, in the case of BDS, from civil society organisations in the West Bank and Gaza.
Buttu noted that Palestinians were still conducting popular forms of struggle, despite the lack of institutional support.
"Look to the Ahed Tamimis," she said, referring to the 17-year-old girl arrested and jailed for slapping an Israeli soldier who invaded her home.
"She isn't choosing to be a teenager like her peers around the world. She chooses to resist, she is defiant like the rest of her village of Nabi Saleh. The same is true of those marching in Gaza.
Thrall observed that what happens in occupied East Jerusalem could prove decisive. Israel, he noted, was extremely concerned about large numbers of Palestinians there seeking Israeli citizenship and voting in city elections.
"If a majority starts applying for citizenship that could prove to be a deadly blow to a two-state solution, and it could happen very rapidly," he said.
That might be the point at which other Palestinians were driven into mass protests for equal rights in a single state, along the lines of a civil rights or anti-apartheid struggle.
Buttu agreed that Israel could be gravely mistaken in thinking it has crushed Palestinian nationalism.
"I often wonder what it looked like in Algeria in the 1930s or 40s, or in South Africa in the early 1980s," she said.
This article was posted on Wednesday, May 16th, 2018 at 12:13am and is filed under Apartheid, Gaza, Hamas, Israel, Land Theft, Mahmoud Abbas, Occupation, Palestine, West Bank.


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Q: Calculate Receiving Postfix Mailserver Successful Delivery vs. Failure I'm trying to calculate a rough percentage of how much email my mail server processes for successful delivery vs. how much it drops on the spot as email coming from misconfigured mail servers, spam, etc...
I first ran the following 2 commands in the /var/log/ directory (to catch entries in maillog as well as older maillogs that have been rotated out):
grep "dsn=2.0.0, status=sent (delivered to maildir)" * | wc -l
7814

grep "NOQUEUE: reject: RCPT" * | wc -l
13338

But then I thought that these entries might be picking up duplicates (especially the NOQUEUEs). So I ran the following slightly modified command to see how much of a discrepancy there might be.
grep "dsn=2.0.0, status=sent (250 2.0.0 from MTA(" * | wc -l
8839

Looking at my maillog entries, I'm getting multiple NOQUEUE entries for delivery attempts. But I think that's because the sending mail server(s) sometimes attempt multiple deliveries. For example:
Aug 10 10:48:24 mail postfix/smtpd[7159]: NOQUEUE: reject: RCPT from unknown[112.198.103.178]: 450 4.7.1 Client host rejected: cannot find your reverse hostname, [112.198.103.178]; from=<fqdbscjuvyae@geuzenhuis.be> to=<eddie@mydomain.com> proto=ESMTP helo=<112.198.103.178>
Aug 10 10:48:24 mail postfix/smtpd[7159]: NOQUEUE: reject: RCPT from unknown[112.198.103.178]: 454 4.7.1 <duncan@developco.freeserve.co.uk>: Relay access denied; from=<fqdbscjuvyae@geuzenhuis.be> to=<duncan@developco.freeserve.co.uk> proto=ESMTP helo=<112.198.103.178>
Aug 10 10:48:24 mail postfix/smtpd[7159]: NOQUEUE: reject: RCPT from unknown[112.198.103.178]: 454 4.7.1 <djg@developdeploystrategy.co.uk>: Relay access denied; from=<fqdbscjuvyae@geuzenhuis.be> to=<djg@developdeploystrategy.co.uk> proto=ESMTP helo=<112.198.103.178>
Aug 10 10:48:24 mail postfix/smtpd[7159]: disconnect from unknown[112.198.103.178]

So I have 2 questions:

*

*Should I be worried about catching duplicate entries with a grep of just NOQUEUE: reject: RCPT?

*Is there a better method I should consider when filtering these log entries and coming up with the correct numbers?

*How can I determine a unique line for each successful delivery. Looking at the difference between grep "dsn=2.0.0, status=sent (delivered to maildir)" * | wc -l and grep "dsn=2.0.0, status=sent (250 2.0.0 from MTA(" * | wc -l we can tell there's a difference.

A: *

*Those seem to be separate delivery attempts, so should be counted as such.

*Assuming this sort of thing must have been tackled already, I looked at the munin postfix_mailstats script how it's done there. That is a perl script, so the regexps are perl-compatible:
These are successful deliveries:
/ to=.*, status=sent /

These are rejects:
/postfix\/smtpd.*proxy-reject: \S+ (\S+)/
/postfix\/smtpd.*reject: \S+ \S+ \S+ (\S+)/
/postfix\/cleanup.* reject: (\S+)/

The captured part of the regexp (between brackets) is the reject code which indicates how the message has been rejected.

*delivered to maildir is a local delivery, the 250 .* from MTA is a remote delivery, i.e. two distinct types of delivery; so it's not strange you count different numbers of each.


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Q: Infer return type of function based on type guard I have the following definition:
function foo(arg: number[] | number) {
    if (Array.isArray(arg)) {
        return [1]
    }

    return 0
}

I would expect typescript to figure out automatically what the return type is. Because of the type guard isArray() it knows if arg is an Array and can show the return type as number[]. However, using foo(...) shows its return value as number[] | 0 even when passing an array.
  foo([]).push() // error because push doesnt exist on type 0

Is this a design limitation, a bug, just not implemented yet, or some other issue?

A: I can't point to something definitively saying it's a design limitation, but I've seen experts like jcalz and Titian Cernicova-Dragomir citing various places where type inference is limited sometimes not because it couldn't do what we want, but because it would be too costly to do it (in terms of runtime cost or code complexity in the compiler). I suspect this fits into that category.
You probably know this, but for your specific example, you can use overloads to get the result you want:
function foo(arg: number[]): number[];
function foo(arg: number): number;
function foo(arg: number[] | number) {
    if (Array.isArray(arg)) {
        return arg.map(v => v * 2);
    }

    return arg * 2;
}
foo([]).push(10);

Playground link

A: I think what you're looking for is overloads.
Using overloading as followed would solve your problem:

function foo(arg1: number[]): number[];
function foo(arg1: number): 0;
function foo(arg1: any){
    if(Array.isArray(arg1)){
        return [0]
    }

    return 0
}

A: An alternative are Generics:
function foo<T extends number[] | number>(arg:T):T {
    if (Array.isArray(arg)) { return [1] as T }
    return 0 as T
}

foo([] as number[]).push(10) // works
foo(42).push(10) // error as expected

The consumer of foo gets perfect types. Inside we use a type assertion, as the returned values are not sound. The shape of T is specified by the caller, so we cannot know, what exactly it is.
Imagine, the club of number 42 fetishists owns foo - all other numbers are mehh... :)
Then something like
function foo<T extends number[] | number>(arg:T):T {
    if (Array.isArray(arg)) { return [1]}
    return 1
}
foo(42); // T instantiated as 42

clearly wouldn't be tolerated.
While the example is contrived - the club sounds neat though -, you probably get the point, why first example needs to be type asserted.
A more realistic, sound sample:
function ensureDefined<T extends number[] | number>(initializer: () => T, arg?: T): T {
    if (arg === undefined || Array.isArray(arg) && arg.length === 0) {
        return initializer()
    } else return arg
}

ensureDefined(() => [42], [] as number[]).push(10) // works
ensureDefined(()=> 42, undefined) // error as expected

Here is a Playground.