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The EUR/USD pair is being corrected towards 1.1884. We think, today the price may complete the correction and then start another decline to reach the local target at 1.1740.
The GBP/USD pair is still consolidating in the center of the range without any particular direction. According to the main scenario, the price may continue falling towards the local target at 1.3244.
The USD/CHF pair is still consolidating around 0.9894; this structure may be considered as an upside continuation pattern. The local target is at 0.9940. Later, in our opinion, the market may start another correction to reach 0.9895 and then continue growing with the target at 0.9990.
The USD/JPY pair is moving downwards. Possibly, the price may be corrected towards 112.85. After that, the instrument may start another growth with the target at 113.70.
The AUD/USD pair is moving upwards. Possibly, the price may extend this wave towards 0.7770. Later, in our opinion, the market may break the ascending channel and start trading downwards to reach 0.7475.
The USD/RUB pair has completed the third correctional structure. Possibly, today the price may grow to reach 58.16 and then start the fifth structure with the target at 56.55.
Gold has finished the ascending wave; although the price is still moving upwards, this structure may be considered as a part of another consolidation range. If later the instrument breaks this range to the downside, the market may form a reversal pattern to resume falling inside the downtrend. The first target will be at 1256.
Brent has broken 64.60 and reached the target of another ascending structure at 66.98. We think, today the price may be corrected towards 65.00. After that, the instrument may start another growth with the target at 67.84.


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"Live At The Forum '76"
Genre(s): Rock
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Live At The Forum '76, features 10 songs recorded in the Fall of 1976, just prior to the release of Hotel California. Live At The Forum '76 will be a 2-LP set on 180-gram vinyl. The tracks will be making their vinyl debut, as they were previously only available on CD and digitally as part of 2017's "40th Anniversary Edition" of Hotel California. The live music takes up three LP sides while the final one features an exclusive etching of the artwork.
Live At The Forum '76 was recorded during the band's three-night run at the Los Angeles Forum in October 1976. The show took place as the group was putting the finishing touches on Hotel California, which would be released that December. The concert recording captures some of the very first live performances of "Hotel California" and "New Kid In Town."
During the show, the band also play hits from earlier albums with "Take It Easy" from the band's 1972 self-titled debut; "Already Gone" from 1974's On the Border; and the #1 title track from 1975's One of These Nights. The concert also includes a raucous performance of "Funk #49," a song originally recorded by Walsh's James Gang.
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End Of 'amateur' Landlord Era As 2019 Marks Year When Private Rented Sector Changes
The era of the 'amateur' landlord may be at an end according to Scottish accountants and business advisors French Duncan.
This year will see further erosion of the tax benefits of being a landlord and by 2020 there will be few financial incentives left for landlords.
Many private landlords became because of circumstances i.e. they inherited property, or they were unable to sell their property and decided to rent it out until the market picked up.
These 'amateur' landlords, who are estimated to account for 60 per cent of all landlords, are now faced with an array of financial and regulatory changes which have turned what was once a lucrative hobby into an administrative nightmare which may end up costing them money.
Stephen Oates, tax director with French Duncan LLP, said: "The process of removing tax benefits from landlords began with George Osborne when he started to remove relief on borrowing for landlords. Since then this has been gradually reducing and will only apply at the lowest rate from next year onwards."
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"The aim has been to make it more expensive for landlords to buy a property, more expensive to borrow and run a rented property, and then tax the investment at a higher rate when it is sold. The result is that the whole process of being a landlord has become more complex, costlier, and less attractive for all but professionals and large-scale investors."
Mr Oates continued: "The financial changes include a 3 per cent LBTT surcharge on all new BTL properties (4 per cent from 25th January 2019) valued at £40,000 or more since April 2016 which has considerably softened interest in the market in Scotland. In England the Stamp Duty Land Tax (SDLT) is charged at 3 per cent on the first £125,000 rising to 5 per cent up to £250,00 with further rises beyond. The limiting of landlords Mortgage Interest Tax Relief (MITR) phased in over four years from 2017/18 means that many landlords will face considerably higher tax bills in the future as relief on interest is removed. Equally the loss of relief on wear and tear is a further cost to landlords. This was a 10 per cent deduction based on the level of net rent received. It was allowed even where the landlord didn't incur any repairs or maintenance expenses in the year. It was removed and in its place a claim for expenses incurred is now allowed where it is not capital in nature."
"New underwriting requirements introduced by the Prudential Regulations Authority since January 2017 requiring lenders to maintain conservative underwriting standards and since September 2017 stricter underwriting criteria for borrowers with more than three BTL mortgages. From April 2020, landlords who once owned and lived in their properties but rather than sell decided to rent out, potentially due to the property crash, the availability of capital gains tax lettings relief has all but been removed and will now only to apply where owners share occupancy with the tenant. This could have potential tax effect of increasing the CGT liability by up to £11,200 where a higher rate landlord qualified for the maximum available amount of letting relief. In addition, the final period for private residence relief exemption has been reduced from 18 months to 9 months"
Mr Oates added: "The result of these changes is that many landlords have been exiting the market. They have seen the cost of buying and maintaining property rise and the regulations involved in managing it become more complex. The result is that for many landlords enough is enough and they have decided to leave the market. This year may well be when many more landlords decide to sell up. There will still be financial issues involved in the selling but doing it this year rather than next should save some of the potential tax liabilities which are coming."


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Welcome to AWS Cloud Practitioner Essentials. If you're new to the cloud, whether you're in a technical or non-technical role such as finance, legal, sales, marketing, this course will provide you with an understanding of fundamental AWS Cloud concepts to help you gain confidence to contribute to your organization's cloud initiatives. This course is also the starting point to prepare for your AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner certification whenever it's convenient for you. After you complete the course, you'll understand the benefits of the AWS Cloud and the basics of its global infrastructure. You'll be able to describe and provide an example of the core AWS services, including compute, network, databases, and storage. For the finance-minded, you'll be able to articulate the financial benefits of the AWS Cloud, define core billing and pricing models, and learn how to use pricing tools to make cost-effective choices for AWS services.
Cloud Computing Security, AWS cloud, cloud networking, Cloud Computing, Migration and Innovation
This is a phenomenal course designed by astute teachers who have a knack for simplifying complex Amazon Web Services Cloud solutions for the interested learner. Highly recommend it!
Very good overview of the entire AWS, but also about Cloud business model in general. Some topics are a bit too basic for me, but it does not matter - overview is really good.
Global Infrastructure and Reliability, Networking
In Week 2, you will learn how to summarize the AWS Global Infrastructure benefits, describe Availability Zones, communicate the benefits of Amazon CloudFront and compare methods for provisioning AWS services. Additionally, you'll be able to describe basic networking concepts and the differences between public and private networking resources.
Introduction to Module 41:36
Connectivity to AWS5:08
Subnets and Network Access Control Lists9:50
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Module 4 Summary1:33
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We've been talking a lot about how you interact with your AWS infrastructure, but how do your customers interact with your AWS infrastructure? Well, if you have a website hosted at AWS, then customers usually enter your website into their browser, hit "Enter", some magic happens, and the site opens up. But how does this magic work? Well, just like this magic coin that I have here, you take a bite, and it's back. Not quite like that, but I'm going to take you through two services which would help in the website case. The first one being Route 53. Route 53 is AWS's domain name service or DNS, and it's highly available and scalable. But wait, what is DNS, you say? Think of DNS as a translation service, but instead of translating between languages, it translates website names into IP or internet protocol addresses that computers can read. For example, when we enter a website address into our browser, it contacts Route 53 to obtain the IP address of the site, say 192 dot 1 dot 1 dot 1, then it routes your computer or browser to that address. If we go further, Route 53 can direct traffic to different endpoints using several different routing policies such as latency based routing, geolocation DNS, geoproximity, and weighted round-robin. If we take geolocation DNS, that means we direct traffic based on where the customer is located. So traffic coming from, say, North America is routed to the Oregon region, and traffic in Ireland is routed to the Dublin region, as an example. You can even use Route 53 to register domain names so you can buy and manage your own domain names right on AWS. Speaking of websites, there is another service which can help speed up delivery of website assets to customers, Amazon CloudFront. If you remember, we talked about edge locations earlier in the course. These locations are serving content as close to customers as possible, and one part of that is the content delivery network or CDN. For those who need reminding, a CDN is a network that helps to deliver edge content to users based on their geographic location. If we go back to our North America versus Ireland example, say we have a user in Seattle and they want to access a website. To speed this up, we host the site in Oregon and we deploy our static web assets like images and gifts in CloudFront in North America. This means they get content delivered as close to them as possible, North America in this case, when they access the site. But for our Irish users, it doesn't make sense to deliver those assets out of Oregon as the latency is not favorable. Thus, we deploy those same static assets in CloudFront, but this time in the Dublin region. That means they can access the same content, but from a location closer to them, which in turn improves latency. I hope you're content after learning about these two services. Thanks for following along, and I'm going to disappear just like this red cloth. Ta-da.


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Q: Yii: Innerjoin with 3 tables wanted to get all my friendlikeactivity on my site.
I have 3 tables:

*

*follow_users (user_id, follow_user_id)

*videos (ID, Title, Date, Likes, Views, Active, users_id)

*videos_has_userlikes (id, isLiked, users_id, videos_id)

Now i want to create query to fetch all the Friends Like Activity of the user that is logged in.
Something like this:
$followers = Select * from follow_users where user_id = $MyId;

foreach ($followers as $userFollow) {

Select * from videos innerjoin videos_has_userlikes on videos.ID = videos_has_userlikes.videos_id where videos_has_userlikes.users_id = $userFollow;
}

I tried with a function in Yii, but i wasn't sure how to use an innerjoin with 3 tables..
 public function getFriendsLikeActivity($userId){
        $criteria = new CDbCriteria;
        $criteria->select = '*';
        $criteria->alias = 'videos, videos_has_userlikes, follow_users';
        $criteria->join = 'INNER JOIN videos_has_userlikes ON videos.ID = videos_has_userlikes.videos_id INNER JOIN follow_users ON videos.users_id = follow_users.user_id';
        $criteria->condition = 'follow_users.user_id =:usersID AND videos.users_id = :usersID AND Active=:active AND videos_has_userlikes.isLiked =:liked';
        $criteria->params = array(
            ':usersID' => $userId,
            ':active' => TRUE,
            ':liked' => TRUE,
        );
        $criteria->order = 'videos_has_userlikes.date Desc';

        return Videos::model()->with('users')->findAll($criteria);
    }

Please some help :)
Thanks!
Thanks @deez!
But i only want the like activity of the users that i follow..
Now i'm fetching al the data from the VideosHasUserLikes table, but there isn't a relation to the table followUser. There only a relation between the user table and the followUser table. Is there someway to also join these tables with the $criteria->with() ?
Now i have this code but i got an error because there's no relation to 'followUser' table..
public function getFriendsLikeActivity($userId){
        $criteria = new CDbCriteria;
        $criteria->select = '*';
        $criteria->alias = 'videos_has_userlikes';
        $criteria->condition = 'videos.users_id = :usersID AND Active=:active AND videos_has_userlikes.isLiked =:liked';
        $criteria->params = array(
            ':usersID' => $userId,
            ':active' => TRUE,
            ':liked' => TRUE,
        );
        $criteria->with = array(
            'videos'=>array(
                'together'=>true,
                'select'=>'*',
            ),
            'users'=>array(
                'together'=>true,
                'select'=>'*',
            ),
            'followUser'=>array(
                'together'=>true,
                'select'=>'*',
            ),
        );

        return VideosHasUserLikes::model()->findAll($criteria);
    }

Maybe something like that ?
 public function getFriendsLikeActivity($userId){
            $criteria = new CDbCriteria;
            $criteria->select = '*';
            $criteria->alias = 'videos_has_userlikes';
            $criteria->condition = 'videos.users_id = :usersID AND Active=:active AND videos_has_userlikes.isLiked =:liked';
            $criteria->params = array(
                ':usersID' => $userId,
                ':active' => TRUE,
                ':liked' => TRUE,
            );
            $criteria->with = array(
                'videos'=>array(
                    'together'=>true,
                    'select'=>'*',
                ),
                'users'=>array(
                    'together'=>true,
                    'select'=>'*',
                    'with' => 'followUser'=>array(
                                  'together'=>true,
                                  'select'=>'*'),
            ),

                ),
            );

            return VideosHasUserLikes::model()->findAll($criteria);
        }

Thanks!

A: You should look into using CDbCriteria->with.
$criteria->with = array(
    'videos'=>array(
        'together'=>true,
        'select'=>'field1, field2, field3',
    ),
    'videos.likes'=>array(
        'together'=>true,
        'select'=>'field1, field2, field3',
    ),
);

You can then reference it like $model->videos->field1, or $model->videos->likes->field1.
http://www.yiiframework.com/doc/api/1.1/CDbCriteria#with-detail
EDIT:
You should show your relations for more help, but I think what you want is to set up a HAS_MANY relation from user to user_likes, then include it in the with.

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Major Reset in Federal Vote Share
December 10, 2016 @ 10:00 AM | Filed under: National, Social Issues
Liberals down, Conservatives up, approvals too
TORONTO December 8th – In a random sampling of public opinion taken by the Forum Poll™ among 1304 Canadian voters, the gap between the Liberals and the Conservatives, measured at 23 points last month on the day after Donald Trump's election, narrowed to just 8 points today.
If an election were held today, just more than 4-in-10 would vote Liberal (42%), compared to more than half last month (November 10 - 51%). During the same period, the Conservative vote share has increased from somewhat more than a quarter (28%) to more than a third now (34%), leaving the two parties 8 points apart. No change has occurred with respect to the New Democrat vote (November 10 - 11%, now - 12%). Few will vote Green (6%) or for the Bloc Quebecois (5%) or for another party (1%).
The Liberals no longer lead in every region but Alberta, and they are behind in the prairies and tied in BC. In Atlantic Canada, the Liberals still lead commandingly (66%) compared to the Conservatives (23%). In Quebec, the Liberals lead by less (45%), while the rest of the vote is split between the Conservatives (18%) and Bloquistes (19%). The NDP has a tenth share (13%). In vote-rich Ontario, where elections are won and lost, The Liberals (41%) are virtually tied with the Conservatives (39%), while the NDP has a tenth share again (12%). In the prairies, the Conservatives (43%) lead the Liberals (37%), and the NDP do their best here (16%). In Alberta, the Conservatives still lead convincingly (57%) over the Liberals (32%) and the NDP doesn't contend (8%). In BC, the two parties are tied (Liberals - 36%, Conservatives - 35%).
Smaller Liberal majority seen
If these results are projected up to seats in the House of Commons, the Liberals would take a 10 seat majority of 180 seats, to 135 for the Conservatives, 18 for the NDP, four for the Bloc and one for the Green Party.
Trudeau favourables down, Ambrose up
Justin Trudeau has the approval of one half of Canadians (51%), down from more than this a month ago (November 10 - 58%). His net favourable score (approve minus disapprove) is a positive +12, but is down from last month (November 10 - +26). His approval is strongest among the youngest ((57%), females (59%), in Atlantic Canada (82%) and mothers (66%). He has the approval of virtually all Liberals (90%) and one half of New Democrats (49%).
Rona Ambrose has the approval of more than a third now (36%), up from 3-in-10 last month (November 10 - 30%). Her net score is a favourable +9, up from +3 last month. She has the approval of 6-in-10 Conservatives (59%).
Tom Mulcair is approved of by just more than a third (35%), similar to his approval last month (November 10 - 33%). His net favourable score is a neutral +1, similar to last month's score of 0. Mulcair has the approval of two thirds of his members (67%), and 4-in-10 Liberals (41%).
Justin Trudeau still seen as best Prime Minister
Four-in-ten voters see Justin Trudeau as the best Prime Minister (40%), and the next largest vote is for "none of these" (17%). Tom Mulcair (12%) and Rona Ambrose (14%). are basically tied in third place. Four-in-ten Conservatives see Rona Ambrose as best at the job (43%), half of New Democrats favour their current leader (48%), but virtually all Liberals see Trudeau as the best at the job (83%).
"There is no question that the high flying Liberals have been brought down hard this month. It may be the Trump Effect, it may be the confluence of a number of tough decisions, including pipelines, occurring at once, and some may be attributed to recent missteps on the part of the Prime Minister. Nonetheless, he remains remarkably popular and his party is still in majority territory, for now," said Forum Research President, Dr. Lorne Bozinoff.


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Q: Listing (only) the subfolders within a folder -- Swift 3.0 / iOS 10 I'm attempting to get a list of all subfolders within a folder (the app's Documents directory, in the example below).  The code below successfully finds everything in the folder (files + folders both), and also finds the files with the specified .text extension, but I'm failing to narrow the results to just a list of the subdirectories.
let filemgr = FileManager.default
var dirPaths = filemgr.urls(for: .documentDirectory, in: .userDomainMask)
myDocumentsDirectory = dirPaths[0]

var r = "Directory Listing:\n------------------\n" // r = will be returned (or displayed in this case)

do {
    let directoryContents = try FileManager.default.contentsOfDirectory(at: myDocumentsDirectory, includingPropertiesForKeys: nil, options: [])

    // all files -- works fine
    let allFileNames = directoryContents.map{ $0.deletingPathExtension().lastPathComponent }
    r += "All file names:\n\(allFileNames)\n\n"

    // filtering for text files -- also works fine
    let textFiles = directoryContents.filter{ $0.pathExtension == "text" }
    let textFileNames = textFiles.map{ $0.deletingPathExtension().lastPathComponent }
    r += "text file list:\n\(textFileNames)\n\n"

    // Look for folders within the folder -- fails, nothing returned
    let subdirs = directoryContents.filter{ !$0.isFileURL }
    let subdirNames = subdirs.map{ $0.deletingPathExtension().lastPathComponent }

    r += "Subdirectories:\n\(subdirNames)\n\n"
    textView.text = r

} catch let error as NSError {
    print(error.localizedDescription)

I can pick up all the directories by setting the filter to
$0.pathExtension == ""

but that also picks up any files in the directory with no extension -- i.e. it correctly excludes foo.bar but incorrectly includes the file foo along with the folders, and that isn't what I need -- has to be only the directories & nothing more.
Also, I'm not trying to look deeper into sub-folders within sub-folders -- just the ones "here" is all I'm looking for.
Any suggestions will be much appreciated!

A: You can pass URLResourceKey.isDirectoryKey to the includingPropertiesForKeys parameter in your contentsOfDirectory method call on line 6. This should return that particular attribute for all your returned URLs. Then, you can check the attribute to see if each URL is for a directory or a file ...
If you are wondering how to get at the attributes for the fetched URLs, then take a look at the resourceValues method for the URL class :)

A: Fahim's answer, specifically the resourceValues method for the URL class, is what I needed; for completeness & to help out anybody who finds this question later, here is the final code that gets exactly what I wanted, while keeping the same basic structure:
let filemgr = FileManager.default
var dirPaths = filemgr.urls(for: .documentDirectory, in: .userDomainMask)
myDocumentsDirectory = dirPaths[0]

do {
    let directoryContents = try FileManager.default.contentsOfDirectory(at: myDocumentsDirectory, includingPropertiesForKeys: nil, options: [])

    let onlyFileNames = directoryContents.filter{ !$0.hasDirectoryPath }
    let onlyFileNamesStr = onlyFileNames.map { $0.lastPathComponent }

    let subdirs = directoryContents.filter{ $0.hasDirectoryPath }
    let subdirNamesStr = subdirs.map{ $0.lastPathComponent }

    // now do whatever with the onlyFileNamesStr & subdirNamesStr
} catch let error as NSError {
    print(error.localizedDescription)
}


Visually, the 1G and 2G iPods look the same. Only the scrollwheel and a cover for the FireWire port on the 2G distinguish the two models from each other.
Looking at price, the 2G iPod provides twice the storage capacity of the original at the same price. It uses a 10 GB or 20 GB 1.8″ Microdrive, has FireWire to connect to a Mac or Windows PC, and includes a headphone jack. There is no USB connectivity.
Four buttons surrounded the scroll wheel: menu on the top, play/pause on the bottom, previous track on the left, and next track on the right. The button at the center of the scroll wheel is the select button.
Announced: 2002.07.17 at US$399 (10 GB) and $499 (20 GB). Replaced by 3G iPod in April 2003.
Included accessories: earbuds, AC adapter, FireWire cable, iTunes 3 CD. PC version included 4-pin to 6-pin FireWire cable and Musicmatch Jukebox software.
Display: 2″ 160 x 128 pixel LED-backlit LCD.
Charge time: 3 hours max.
iTunes Versions: iTunes 3.0 and later.
Mac OS Required: Mac OS 9.2.2 or later, OS X 10.2 or later.
A History of the iPod: 2000 to 2004, Tom Hormby, Low End Mac.


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In its original run from 1979 to 1982, "TV Party" was, well, a TV party! It literally was a weekly party that was televised. Every week, the hoi polloi of the Lower East Side got together for an hour of chemically enhanced conversation and hijinks. Filmed with zero money, zero script and zero technical know-how, it's kinda what you would get if you let the art class kids loose in the AV room.
There's a lot of self-conscious acting up, forced fun here. Do you really think your Uncle Vin always wore a lampshade on his head, just because he did it in all your birthday party videos? Sorry kid, he was pimping it for the cameras, and that's what most of the on-camera party-goers here were doing. No one is that ON all the time. There's no doubt that it was fun to be there, but it's a headache to watch.
Grab "TV Party" if you want a glimpse into the "anything goes" atmosphere public access was capable of. Make sure the fast-forward button on your remote is in working order, because it's going to get a work-out.
Bad movie rating: 2 Tors, docked a full Tor for making me buy the entire shows.
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In this course, we will teach you how cryptography , steganography, Password cracking, Game hacking, reverse engineering and privilege escalation based attacks are performed in a simulated/test environment in an ethical way. This course helps the system security professional to mitigate these attacks using the recommended solution at the end of relevant module.
We have designed this course to enable those aspiring to enter the information security field to learn core concepts on system hacking in order to safeguard a system security. By the end of this course, you will be familiar with how various types of system hacks are performed and you will be fully equipped to test and safeguard a system security against various real-time attack vectors.
The course covers ground basics about systems, hence student with no prior knowledge on systems can opt for this course.
This course is perfect for existing system administrators as well as anybody who is passionate about developing their skills in the field of information security.
We have designed this course to enable those aspiring to enter the information security field to learn core concepts on system based hacking.
By the end of this course you will be familiar with how various types of system based hacks are performed and you will be fully equipped to test system based infrastructure against various real time attack vectors.


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Dedicated Programmers
Committees of the CLC
Julia Tipton recently retired after 36 years as a public educator. She taught 25 years for East Noble beginning in Kindergarten in 1983, in this same building that now houses the CLC. She worked as a strong advocate for public education as a teacher, instructional coach, curriculum director and principal. Along with working for East Noble Schools, she had the good fortune to work for Fort Wayne Community Schools and ended her career as a principal with DeKalb Central in 2019. She is excited about the work that is happening at The Community Learning Center and is using her skills to build out programming that meet the needs of the community in the areas of Work Force Development, Health and Wellness and the Arts with a focus on Social and Emotional Support. She and her husband Tracy have been married for 35 years, have 5 children and two granddaughters. They are happy to work, live and play in Kendallville and to call this community their home.
You can contact Julia at clctiption@gmail.com
Adam Taulbee
clctaulbee@gmail.com
Macy Burtch
Programming/Technical Director
clcburtch@gmail.com
The Honorable Judge Robert Probst
Robert C Probst has served for several years as a member of the Board of Directors, the Investment Committee, and the Audit and Finance Committee of the Community Foundation of Noble County. He serves on the Board of Directors of The ARC Noble County Foundations, Inc. which serves physically and mentally handicapped individuals in Noble County, Indiana.
Robert served as the Judge of the Circuit Court of Noble County, Indiana for twenty-four years. He retired on December 31, 1998. He then served, for the following seventeen years, as a Senior Judge by appointment of the Indiana Supreme Court.
He graduated from Kendallville High School, Albion College, Albion, Michigan and received his Law Degree from Valparaiso University School of Law, Valparaiso, Indiana.
CEO of the YMCA, Casey Weimer
Casey is the CEO of the Cole Center Family YMCA where she has served since 2011. Prior
to serving in her current capacity, she was the Human Resources Director for the YMCA of
Greater Fort Wayne where she developed a passion for the work of the YMCA. She received her Bachelor's Degree in Public Policy Management from Indiana
University in Bloomington. She volunteers with Big Brothers Big Sisters and serves on the
Oak Farm Montessori School Board and the Kendallville Library Foundation Board.
The Honorable Mayor Suzanne Handshoe
Mayor W. Suzanne Handshoe was born and raised in Detroit, MI after High School graduation she enlisted in the United States Marine Corps. After completion of boot camp she held a variety of positions and duty stations.
She is a Desert Storm Veteran and retired as a Chief Warrant Officer 4 with 24 years of service at the end of 2003. She was sworn in as Kendallville's first female Mayor in Jan 2004. Mayor Handshoe is the recipient of the ESGR Patriotic Employer Award, 21 Women in Leadership Award, the State of Indiana Sagamore of the Wabash Award and Indiana Federation of Republican Women of the Year 2019.
The Dekko Foundation President, Tom Leedy
Tom Leedy is the president of the Dekko Foundation, a private foundation located in Kendallville, Indiana. The foundation's mission is, "To foster economic freedom through education." The foundation focuses on the developmental needs of young people ages 0-18.
Tom has served his community through board and committee membership on the local and state level. He has engaged at the local level with the chamber of commerce, library foundation, YMCA, Freedom Academy and Convention and Visitors Bureau.
East Noble School Corporation Superintendent, Ann Linson
Ann Linson is currently serving as superintendent of East Noble School Corporation after starting in the district in 2003 as East Noble High School principal and moving on to assistant superintendent in 2008 and the superintendent in 2010. In addition to her experiences with East Noble School Corporation, Ann has also taught high school and post-secondary level business and was the assistant director of Four County Area Vocational Cooperative (Impact Institute).
The Freedom Academy Executive Director, Melissa Carpenter
Melissa Carpenter has been the Executive Director of Freedom Academy since March 2002. Freedom Academy is a not for profit providing workforce training & certifications for individuals, business and industry in the region. In her role she collaborates with the LEDO's (local economic development officers), WorkOne, Reginal Partnership, Administrators of school corporations and Career & Technical Education Organizations to build practical, relevant training programs for the region.
Park Department Director, Dawn McGahen
Dawn graduated from East Noble High School. She followed in her father's footsteps by being a public servant as a police officer for the City of Kendallville. She continued to work in public safety for the City of Fort Wayne for 18 years and then realized she missed her hometown and the closeness of the community. She currently serves at the Recreation Director and Park Director for the Kendallville Park and Recreation Department. She obtained her Associates Degree in Criminal Justice and her Bachelors of Arts from Indiana Purdue Fort Wayne.
Parkview Noble Hospital President, Gary Adkins
Gary Adkins joined Parkview Health as president of Parkview Noble Hospital in 2014. Adkins previously served as CEO of Paulding County Hospital for more than 13 years. Adkins has more than 26 years of healthcare experience, serving in numerous senior administrative positions for more than 18 years, including CEO and CFO at Paulding County Hospital.
Adkins received his bachelor's degree from Defiance College, Defiance, Ohio, and his master's degree from Regis University, Denver, Col.
Oak Farm Montessori Head of School, Candice Holbrook
Candice is the Head of School at Oak Farm Montessori School located in Avilla, Indiana. Candice is a Noble County native, dedicated to the development of youth and has a passion for enhancing Noble County as a desirable place to raise a family, work, and play. Candice obtained her bachelor's degree in education from Purdue University, followed by her master's degree in Educational Leadership. Currently Candice is obtaining her Montessori Leadership credential through Seton Montessori Institute.
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Place : Brussels
Organizer : European Federation of Corrosion (EFC)
Topic : Chemistry; 0
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Cooper Ridge OP Project (Central Appalachia Operation)
66 km N from Knoxville, Tennessee, United States
144 East Market Place Boulevard
Mines & projects in United States
Contour Strip
Mine Life 9.2 years (as of Jan 1, 2017)
Kopper Glo is in the process of permitting the Cooper Ridge surface mine.
Kopper Glo Mining, LLC. (operator) 100 % Direct
Industrial Minerals Group, LLC 100 % Indirect
The proposed mine site is situated within the Cumberland Block. The Cumberland Block is bounded by the Pine Mountain Fault Zone to the west, the Jacksboro Tear Fault to the south, the Cumberland Mountains to the east, and extends north into Kentucky.
Regionally, strata dips to the northwest, away from the Cumberland Mountains. South of Clear Fork Creek there is a northeast trending syncline that extends for about seven miles diagonally across the Eagan quadrangle, which is part of the Middlesboro Syncline. Paralleling this syncline is the Sand Lick Ridge Anticline, which extends for approximately the same distance as the adjacent syncline and is approximately 1.2 miles wide. Southeast of this anticline, along Tackett Creek, is an area of highly disturbed rock with numerous folds and near vertical bedding which is thought to be the surface exposure of a steeply dipping reverse fault. The local dip of the coal seams to be mined is approximately 0.4 degree to the southeast.
The mine site stratigraphy consists of sedimentary units within the Slatestone and Indian Bluff Groups. These units are within the middle Pennsylvanian age rocks and are a relatively flat lying and undisturbed rock group. The Slatestone Formation includes all strata between the top of the Poplar Creek Coal seam and the top of the Jellico (locally known as the Mingo or Mason) Coal seam. Included in this formation are the Poplar Creek, Ant, Coal Creek (locally known as the Kent), Petros, ........
The proposed mine site has been previously affected by pre-law coal mining activities. Approximately 5.1 miles of the pre-existing highwall exposed at numerous locations exists within the proposed permit boundary.
The mine is expected to have an average annual production of approximately 360,000 tons and life-of-mine production of approximately 3.3 million tons.
The Cooper Ridge Mine proposes to utilize the contour surface mining, auger mining, and underground mining methods on the Jellico coal seam at elevations that vary from approximately 1,742 ft. at the western end of the proposed permit area to 1,847 ft. at the eastern end of the proposed permit area. Kopper Glo Mining, LLC will utilize bulldozers, front-end loaders, trucks, and graders for mining and reclamation operations within the proposed permit area.


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Owner: Athens Grill to get new name
By Rachel Young
RACHEL YOUNG PHOTO | John Mantzopoulous, owner and chef of Athens Grill in Riverhead, prepares mediterranean meatballs at a "Rebuild Athens" fundraiser held at the Suffolk Theater Saturday evening to raise money for the eatery's restoration.
It was devastated by a grease fire last month, but Athens Grill in Riverhead will rise from the ashes next year as Mazi, a Greek word meaning "together" — and the restaurant will feature an open layout, coffee bar and enhanced menu, owner and chef John Mantzopoulos announced Saturday evening.
"We wanted to put Athens Grill to rest," Mr. Mantzopoulos said at a "Rebuild Athens" fundraiser hosted by the Suffolk Theater to raise money for the eatery's restoration. "When I was looking for a new name, I came up with the word "mazi." In Greek, it means "together," and I thought it was a very nice name because the restaurant is getting put together by the community, by my friends, and by my neighbors."
Mr. Mantzopoulos said the new restaurant will have an open-concept feel and that the menu will focus on tapas — small plates of food people can enjoy with friends. He also plans to build a full bar as well as a coffee bar.
"We have a lot of new ideas," he said. "We want to get people to come in three times a week instead of having a traditional dinner once every three weeks. It's going to be a restaurant where, if you want to chill with a friend and spend 20 bucks, you can do that."
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World Cup Qatar was a reminder of why football matters
Opinion Op-Eds
It is about winning a match or a tournament but ultimately it is about something bigger
Published: December 21, 2022 14:30 Ramzy Baroud, Special to Gulf News
Lionel Messi's Argentina have been the top draw among fans for the Qatar World Cup. Image Credit: Shutterstock
My friend is not an elitist. To the contrary, he has spent decades of his life fighting social inequality, racism and championing the rights of disadvantaged groups.
Therefore, I was taken aback when he surmised that "football is the opium of the people".
In the Fifa World Cup 2022, held in Doha, Qatar, the viewership is predicted to be over five billion people, according to NBC Sports estimations.
The last summer Olympics held in Tokyo were watched by an equally impressive number: over 3 billion people, according to the International Olympic Committee.
Image Credit: AP
When half of humanity tunes in to follow an event, any event, this will naturally attract the attention of big corporations, especially those who produce consumer products and, of course, politicians.
Indeed, football often unites us beyond class, religion and race, a near impossibility in today's fractious politics everywhere in the world.
Sports arenas as contested spaces
Sports arenas are contested spaces. They are not owned by a government, a company or a famous publication. The latter are all, of course, keen on controlling the meanings, presentations and, if they can, the results as well, of major sports events.
But they cannot, simply because the spectators are always resisting, championing their own meaning of sports, and fighting back to reclaim these spaces in ways that accurately represent their communities and their nations — thus, their own popular aspirations.
This is why we loved Morocco's unprecedented achievements at the World Cup. One would venture to claim that no other team in football history has carried such layers of meanings as Morocco has.
The very choice of words the media used to illustrate Morocco's achievement was itself telling of a bigger story: the First Arab and African country to ever reach the World Cup semi-finals.
Thousands of Moroccans gather in Rabat, Morocco, to celebrate the win over Spain in the FIFA World Cup Qatar 2022 Round of 16 match on December 6, 2022. Morocco won the penalty shootout 3-0 after a goalless draw. Image Credit: AFP
The fact that we chose to highlight these specific indicators, not others, spoke a great deal about the current inequality that exists, not only in sports, but in the world at large.
Then follow the numerous sub-meanings: the fact that the legendary Moroccan goalkeeper, Yassine Bounou, insisted on speaking in his Arabic mother tongue at the press conference following his country's win over Portugal on December 10, even though he speaks several other European languages.
Additionally, the fact that players kneeled down to pray after each game, thus illustrating their Muslim identity, were all significant examples; let alone the emphasis on Arab unity throughout the entire competition, an effort that was championed by millions of ordinary spectators and backed by the players.
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This is only a small part of the story. Every team, from Japan, to Saudi Arabia to Senegal represented something, carrying popular and cultural messages. Not even mainstream media could easily ignore this.
Though other sports can serve as a space for ordinary people to communicate their collective solidarity or aspirations, football is unique in this way. Unlike tennis, golf or gymnastics, for example, football is far more accessible, and does not fall into socioeconomic spaces that are only available to middle or upper classes.
Morocco's Romain Saiss and Achraf Hakimi console each other after being eliminated from the FIFA World Cup Qatar 2022, following the defeat to France in the semifinal at the Al Bayt Stadium in Al Khor, 50km north of Doha, on December 14, 2022. France won 2-0. Image Credit: Reuters
Football is the sport of the poor, whose idols, the likes of Pelé, Maradona and Ronaldo — now Hakimi, Salah and Ziyech — were brought up in struggling, working-class communities.
The fight for ownership over the meaning of football will continue, long after the World Cup is folded, at every stage and in every neighbourhood, from Nairobi to Rabat to Brasilia. Yes, football is about winning a match or a tournament but, ultimately, it is about something bigger — unity, hope, social conflicts and, yes, popular resistance.
Even if, at times, we seem oblivious to these subtle meanings, they will always, always be there.
Ramzy Baroud is a journalist, author and editor. He is the author of six books.
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This package will get citation links from your top 10 Australian listings claimed and optimized and to boost your small website visibility online. So what's in this special package?
Address minor Website technical issues such as NAP+W, and suitable site content etc.
The pricing on this plan has been made as cost effective as possible and has the most impact. I have reduced demands on my time by giving you access to my online service portal. In the portal you can enter all the details I will need to get the work done for you. By you entering details and supplying me with the information I need, it saves me time, and thereore saves you money.
Please note the above pricing may not be suitable for everyone. The pricing model is based on a typical scenario, for a small website at one location, and that prices may changes if the audit and citation report discovers more work involved than anticipated. Changes affecting your fees are discussed prior to any change. Invoices are subject to GST. In order for see if the Top 10 Australian Listing Optimizer package is right for you, please run a scan to see your Local Score.
local SEO pack has been developed owned and operated by Peter Mead. Peter has had many years IT experience and is actively working with and adapting to the latest technical changes on Google. As well as the newest tech advances in online marketing that we can take advantage of.
Fill out the details and do a scan for your Local Score. After you have run a scan, you will get a good indication of where your local presence is at. If you want to go to the next step, we will then contact you to confirm some more details so we can complete the work for you. We will ask for information that will help us identify the health of your site and your presence across a range of citations including your Google listing. From here you will get a much better idea of how it all works and what is involved. Once done you will have a Local Score Check to takeaway, and you haven't needed to pay for anything yet. So if you decide not to go ahead with us, you get the report free.
Enter any business name and post code and see how optimized it is for local search.