Prosoft Engineering's Drive Genius (DG for short) is the latest entry in the drive maintenance and repair field. Drive Genius joins Alsoft's Disk Warrior, and Micromat's TechTool 4.
Let's see what DG has to offer, and how well it works.
DG comes on a bootable CD. New OS versions generally require an updated CD. This is true of all drive repair products that allow booting off the CD.
Extensive volume management tools. DG says it can resize volumes on the fly. Prosoft defines "on the fly" as meaning no disk formatting is required. Obviously, reformatting means the entire disk must be erased, so a complete backup is required to avoid total data loss. DG can also move volumes from one location on the physical disk to another.
DG can clone drives, creating bootable copies that are the exact duplicate of the original.
DG can repair damaged disk structures, rebuild disk directories, including Volume Headers and bit maps.
Drive Genius's ability to repartition disks on the fly is the most significant capability DG has over the competition. Both Disk Warrior and Tech Tool have directory repair abilities, and Tech Tool has a slew of other capabilities as well. But neither Disk Warrior nor Tech Tool has any partition or volume management capabilities.
So, let's look at DG's partition and volume management tools.
A hard disk is a physical device. It's the spinning platters that contain your data. If it's not been partitioned, the physical drive appears as one disk icon on the Macintosh desktop.
A hard drive can be divided into logical volumes when partitioned. Partitioning is the process of dividing the single physical disk into several logical disks. The term "logical" is used, as the new volume is not really a physical drive: it has been created with software. Each logical volume will appear to the Mac OS as a real physical disk, with its own desktop icon, but it's not a physical disk.
So, your hard drive can be formatted a single volume, and appear on your desktop as a single icon, or it can be partitioned into multiple "logical volumes" each having its own icon, and acting just like a physical disk.
Plenty of formatting tools have the ability to create partitions, including Apple's own Disk Utility. The hitch is that they have to erase and reformat the drive to do so. That means you need to backup everything to avoid losing data when the drive is formatted.
Drive Genius is able to create new partitions, or resize existing partitions without having to reformat. It's important to note that DG cannot create or adjust partitions on the volume on which DG is running. Since all Macs ship with a single hard drive with a single partition, if you wish to redo your partitioning, you'll need to boot from the Drive Genius CD. If you have more than one bootable drive, you can boot off the second drive, run DG from it, and adjust the partitioning of your regular boot drive.
My dual 2.0 GHz Power Mac has two internal drives, each with only one partition, so to test DG's partitioning tools, I ran DG off the main drive to create and adjust partitions on the second drive.
When DG starts up, it runs a SMART diagnostic check to verify the health of your drive's hardware. While SMART checking is not foolproof, it's still a worthwhile check, if your drive begins failing SMART tests, it's time to make SURE you have current backups, as its days are numbered. Start shopping for a new drive, while you're at it.
More on S.M.A.R.T. here and here.
Once DG is running, creating a second partition on a single partition drive involves several steps.
First, click "Device" then select the desired device (physical drive) from the list of all devices. The row of icons underneath the list of drives that shows what operations are available will dynamically change to show what you can do with devices. This is a nice user interface touch!
Choose "Repartition". A new window will open, displaying another set of icons that control various functions. Here's where I began to dislike DG's user interface.
A new window appeared, with a slider allowing me to resize the (single) partition. I tried to move the slider to the halfway position (80 GB), but it wouldn't go past 99 GB. Extra points to Prosoft, as I had 99 GB of data on the drive. It makes no sense to make the partition smaller than the amount of data it already contained. I chose 100 GB, to allow some free space on the partition, and clicked Start. After several seconds, I was back at the DG main window.
Hey! Where was my new partition? It didn't show on the desktop, nor in the DG main window I thought I'd made a new partition, but that was not the case. The DG partitioning window showed that I now had a 100 GB partition, and LOTS of free space on the disk. Free space in this context means disk space not allocated to -any- partition.
The mental light bulb went on at this point. To create a second partition on a single partition drive, you first have to shrink the existing partition, which makes free space. You have to look carefully at the list of partitions to see that you now have something called "Apple_Free." Only then will you be able to make a new partition from the large chunk of free space. Select Apple_Free, and a new Add button appears in the icon row, which will let you create a new partition from the free space.
You'll be prompted to choose from a selection of very snazzy disk icons, but you can't name the partition. It'll be born with a name like "/dev/disk03", which you can rename in the Finder. Why can't we name the partition before it's created?
If your new partition did not use all the free space, Apple_Free will hold the remaining unallocated space.
Is this process obvious? No! Does it work? Yes.
I'm not impressed at this counter-intuitive procedure. While it perhaps makes sense after thinking about for a while, that won't help the average user who has no clue about how disks and volumes work.
DG would be much easier to use if it assumed the user wants to allocate ALL the space on the drive when creating partitions, and not leave unallocated free space in Apple_Free. In other words, simply shrink the existing partition by the amount required create the new partition. Don't require the user to shrink the existing partition, and then create the new partition from the mysterious Apple_Free. The user should never need to know about geeky things like Apple_Free.
One primary use of DG will be to repair damaged disks. Currently, Alsoft's Disk Warrior is the 800 lb. gorilla in the disk repair arena, especially since Norton SystemWorks is no longer being actively developed. Disk Warrior is a "one-trick pony"; all it does is rebuild damaged directories. In contrast, Drive Genius has a far more comprehensive feature set.
Well -of course- the boot volume cannot be unmounted! Apple Disk Utility is more user friendly than Drive Genius by simply making its repair feature unselectable when the boot volume is selected. Drive Genius' error message leads naïve users to think something is wrong with their disk, when the program should be telling it cannot repair the boot volume.
Another problem reared its ugly head when I used the Repair Permission feature on the boot volume, immediately after the failed Repair attempt. I watched the same progress messages that I saw when I was using the Repair feature ( Analyzing an HFS Plus volume…). Puzzled, I ran Repair Permissions again, and this time it ran correctly. I was able to duplicate this bug, and I let Prosoft know about it.
Most operations require unmounting the drive being worked on. While mounting and unmounting drives, DG displays a window that refers to drives by their device number; /dev/disk0, /dev/disk01. While these numbers are listed in the DG main window along with the Finder name of the drive, it would require far less concentration from the user if they did not have to remember what drive had what number. Why can't DG always use the Finder name?
DG lets you duplicate drives via "device copy" to get an exact bit-for-bit clone. Device copy is not the file-by-file- copy that utilities such as Carbon Copy Cloner employ. DG's method is faster, but requires both source and target to be unmounted. This means you can't duplicate your main drive to a backup without booting off either the Drive Genius CD or a bootable third drive. This nullifies the advantages of the faster device copy.
Many operations require booting off the Drive Genius CD. To prevent piracy, booting from the CD requires entering the DG registration number each time. The registration number is on the CD case, so make sure to write it down or email it to yourself if you don't keep the CD case handy. Without the registration, you can't boot off the CD to work on boot drives/volumes. It's irksome that you can't copy and paste the registration number into the registration window. The registration number is just short of 1.29 million characters, and it's easy to make a mistake entering it manually. OK, it's not really 1.29 million characters long, but it is one of the longest serial numbers I've seen.
Drive Genius incorporates basic drive benchmarking tools. DG can compare disk reads and writes of varying sizes to show how your Mac's disk performance compares to various other Macintosh models. Data is displayed using your choice of a bar graph, line graph, or the raw read/write data. Unfortunately, the graph has no legend indicating which dataset belongs to your Mac or the comparison model. I had to compare my 2 GHz Power Mac to a much slower model to be sure which dataset was mine.
If you ever plan to sell your Mac, or any hard drive, it's a good idea to erase the data from the drive. Formatting alone is not enough, as numerous data recovery applications can restore a formatted drive. The Department of Defense has specific requirements for wiping drives, and Prosoft has incorporated them into the DG "Shred" feature. Drive Genius's Shredder function conforms to the U.S. Department of Defense standard for drive sanitization (DoD5220.22 M). Once DG has shredded your drive, the data is gone, and gone for good. Rumor has it that the National Security Agency geeks can recover data from DOD-spec shredded drives, but I doubt that the NSA is interested in my credit card numbers; they can get those with a phone call, and not have to do their black magic on my shredded drive.
Drive Genius is a collection of disk tools that allows you to do most anything you need to keep Macintosh hard drives healthy and well managed. But it's not quite ready for prime time, in my opinion. DG's user interface for partitioning and resizing drives and volumes is too complex for the average user, even after reading the manual. Repairing permissions does not always work properly, as DG sometimes runs the Verify utility instead. The user interface allows you to select operations on the boot drive or volume that produces error messages, when in reality the operation can't be done on the boot drive/volume. Rebuild features do work as advertised. The Benchmarking tool is nice to have, but the results can be bit confusing to interpret.
If Prosoft can simplify the process of partitioning and resizing, and clean up the glitches in other areas, then Drive Genius will be worth a second look. Until then, I'd recommend sticking with a combination of Disk Warrior, Apple Disk Utility, and a maintenance utility such as Cocktail, Macaroni, or Onyx.


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Teen found dead after shooting in Marietta, police say
Ellen Eldridge, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
A 17-year-old was found dead Sunday after police responded to a report of shots fired in Marietta about 5:48 a.m.
The shooting was reported at 790 Wilson Circle, Marietta police spokesman Officer Chuck McPhilamy said. The victim was identified as Miles Sanders.
The handgun used was taken by investigators as evidence, McPhilamy said.
Neighbors told Channel 2 Action News the teenager killed wanted to become an engineer and had enrolled in college prep classes this year.
"I was just crying when I heard about it, I was heartbroken," Stephanie Wilson said.
Wilson said she didn't think Saturday night would be the last time she would see him alive.
"He was a very intelligent young man, and he's just like a son to me, and I'm going to miss very, very, very much," Wilson said.
Neighbors said they will rally behind the teenager's grieving loved ones.
"His mom, his sister and his girlfriend, everybody trying to keep strong and keep the faith that's all," Wilson said.
Detectives are continuing their investigation and anyone with information related to this incident is urged to contact the Marietta Police Department tip line (770) 794-6990.
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Kojamo Plc: Kojamo plc's Interim Report 1 January – 31 March 2019
9.5.2019 | Stock exchange releases
Kojamo Plc Stock Exchange Release, 9 May 2019 at 8:00 a.m. EEST
Kojamo plc's Interim Report 1 January – 31 March 2019
Total revenue, net rental income and FFO increased
This is a summary of the Interim Report January–March 2019, which is in its entirety attached to this release and can be downloaded from the company's website at www.kojamo.fi/en. Unless otherwise stated, the comparison figures in brackets refer to the corresponding period of the previous year. The figures in this Interim Report have not been audited.
Summary of January–March 2019
Total revenue increased by 3.7 per cent to EUR 91.5 (88.2) million
Net rental income increased by 5.7 per cent, totalling EUR 50.8 (48.1) million. Net rental income represented 55.6 (54.5) per cent of revenue
Profit before taxes was EUR 38.9 (48.9) million. The profit includes EUR 10.4 (20.7) million in net gain on the valuation of investment properties at fair value and EUR 0.0 (0.6) million in profit on sale of investment properties. Earnings per share was EUR 0.13 (0.17)
Funds From Operations (FFO) increased by 20.3 per cent and amounted to EUR 26.3 (21.9) million
The fair value of investment properties was EUR 5.2 (4.9) billion at the end of the review period, including EUR 0.0 (96.4) million in investment properties held for sale
The financial occupancy rate improved, standing at 96.9 (96.3) per cent during the review period
Gross investments totalled EUR 38.0 (203.7) million, representing 41.5 (230.9) per cent of total revenue
Equity per share was EUR 9.32 (8.87) and return on equity was 5.5 (7.6) per cent. Return on investment was 4.3 (5.4) per cent
EPRA NAV per share (net asset value) was EUR 11.55 (11.08)
There were 1,280 (1,251) apartments under construction at the end of the review period
Kojamo specifies its outlook regarding Funds From Operations (FFO)
Kojamo owned 34,792 (35,697) rental apartments at the end of the review period. Since March of the previous year, 84 (981) apartments have been acquired, 836 (1,291) have been completed, 1,786 (345) have been sold and 39 (73) have been demolished or altered.
1–3/2019 1–3/2018 Change % 2018
Total revenue, M€ 91.5 88.2 3.7 358.8
Net rental income, M€ *) 50.8 48.1 5.7 234.0
Net rental income margin % *) 55.6 54.5 65.2
Profit before taxes, M€ *) 38.9 48.9 -20.4 277.3
EBITDA, M€ *) 52.3 60.6 -13.7 325.1
EBITDA margin, % *) 57.2 68.7 90.6
Adjusted EBITDA, M€ *) 42.0 39.3 6.8 196.5
Adjusted EBITDA margin, % *) 45.9 44.6 54.8
Funds From Operations (FFO), M€ *) 26.3 21.9 20.3 116.4
FFO margin, % *) 28.8 24.8 32.4
FFO excluding one-off items, M€ *) 26.3 21.9 20.3 117.3
Investment properties, M€ 1) 5,201.8 4,930.8 5.5 5,093.2
Financial occupancy rate, % 96.9 96.3 97.0
Interest-bearing liabilities, M€ 2) *) 2,634.7 2,734.7 -3.7 2,485.5
Return on equity, % (ROE) *) 5.5 7.6 10.1
Return on investment, % (ROI) *) 4.3 5.4 7.2
Equity ratio, % *) 40.7 37.4 43.0
Loan to Value (LTV), % 2) 3) *) 46.7 49.2 45.9
EPRA NAV, M€ 2,854.8 2,543.7 12.2 2,889.1
Gross investments, M€ *) 38.0 203.7 -81.3 365.2
Number of personnel, end of period 299 319 298
Key figures per share, € 4) 1–3/2019 1–3/2018 Change % 2018
FFO per share *) 0.11 0.10 10.0 0.49
Earnings per share 0.13 0.17 -23.5 0.93
EPRA NAV per share 11.55 11.08 4.2 11.69
Equity per share 9.32 8.87 5.1 9.54
*) In accordance with the guidelines issued by the European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA), Kojamo provides an account of the Alternative Performance Measures used by the Group in the Key Figures section of the interim report.
1) Including items held for sale.
2) Excluding items held for sale.
3) The transition to IFRS 16 had an effect of 0.6 percentage points on this key figure during the review period.
4) Key figures per share have been adjusted to reflect the impact of the decision by the Extraordinary General Meeting of Shareholders on 25 May 2018 regarding the share split. In the share split the shareholders received 30 new shares per each existing share.
Outlook for Kojamo in 2019 (specified)
Kojamo estimates that in 2019, the Group's total revenue will increase by 2–7 per cent year-on-year. In addition, the company estimates that the Group's FFO for 2019 will amount to between EUR 130–143 million, excluding one-off items (previously EUR 126–141 million). Investments in new development and housing stock acquisitions are forecast to exceed EUR 300 million.
The outlook takes into account the effects of the completed housing divestments and acquisitions, the estimated occupancy rate and rises in rents, as well as the number of apartments to be completed. The outlook is based on the management's assessment of total revenue, net rental income, administrative expenses, financial expenses, taxes to be paid and new development to be completed, as well as the management's view on future developments in the operating environment.
Additionally, the outlook is based on strong demand sustained by migration, which will increase like-for-like rental income. The management can influence total revenue and FFO through the company's business operations. In contrast, the management has no influence over market trends, the regulatory environment or the competitive landscape.
CEO's review
The year began in line with our expectations. Our success was reflected in our key performance indicators. Our total revenue and net rental income increased, and our Funds From Operations (FFO) figure improved by as much as 20 per cent year-on-year. The fair value of properties rose to EUR 5.2 billion. The financial occupancy rate increased to 96.9 per cent. The Lumo webstore reached the milestone of 10,000 tenancy agreements in late March, which is evidence of the webstore having established its position in the rental apartment market.
Our financial position was strong at the end of the review period and we are in a good position to invest when suitable opportunities are identified. We are making good progress towards our target of increasing the value of our investment properties to EUR 6 billion by the end of 2021. We started construction on 277 new apartments during the first quarter and we currently have nearly 1,300 apartments under construction.
We want to be a frontrunner in our industry, also by developing new and effective methods for identifying suitable investments. During the review period, we started a reverse tendering process in which we requested construction companies to prepare proposals on investment initiatives of approximately EUR 100 million. It is an approach that we have used previously with good results. Based on the investment initiatives obtained through the process, we can subsequently make actual investment decisions as necessary. In addition to competitive tendering, we are also actively surveying other investment opportunities.
We made a significant leap forward in our service development by making the My Lumo application, originally introduced last autumn, available to all of our tenants at the end of March. The service was well received and more than 7,000 of our tenants started using it immediately. The application currently allows users to, for example, pay rent, send fault reports and monitor the progress of resolving the issues in real time. We intend to further expand and develop the application's features in the future. My Lumo is a great example of Kojamo's service platform, which provides our tenants and partners with a platform for developing and piloting new services. We strongly believe that our ability to serve our customers conveniently on their terms is essential for our success.
We are celebrating our 50th anniversary at Kojamo this year. Kojamo's success and our ability to execute our strategy are driven by our highly competent and enthusiastic personnel. In February, Kojamo was again recognised as one of "Finland's most inspiring workplaces", reflecting the dedi-cation of our personnel and success in personnel surveys. I want to take this opportunity to thank our personnel for their commitment to our shared goal of creating better urban housing.
Jani Nieminen
Kojamo will hold a news conference for institutional investors, analysts and media on 9 May 2019 at 10:00 a.m. at the company's head office at Mannerheimintie 168a, Helsinki. The event will be held in English. Members of the media will also have the opportunity to ask questions in Finnish after the event.
The event can also be streamed as a live webcast. A recording of the webcast will be available later on the company website at https://kojamo.fi/en/investors/releases-and-publications/financial-reports/
The press conference can be streamed online at https://kojamo.videosync.fi/2019-q1-results
FI: +358 9 8171 0310
SE: +46 8566 42651
UK: +44 3333 000 804
US: +1 6319 131 422
Erik Hjelt, CFO, Kojamo plc, +358 20 508 3225
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Kojamo Interim Report January-March 2019 presentation
Kojamo Interim Report January-March 2019


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Quick Hits: Rays, Franco, Gibbons, Phillies, Harper, Storen
By TC Zencka | May 2, 2020 at 8:56am CDT
Wander Franco has apparently heard some of the positive chatter around his game. MLB Insider Hector Gomez tweets that Franco fully expects to have $300MM in front of him within four years. Of course, baseball economics make that a somewhat suspect goal, as there's a decent chance Franco will not be arbitration eligible yet in that timespan, and even if he were, the largest contract given out by the Rays is the six-year, $100MM deal given to Evan Longoria. It's hard to imagine them tripling that high overnight. And yet, if there were a guy to prompt such spending, Franco might be the one. The Rays' 19-year-old shortstop has a hit tool that scouts are raving about in no uncertain terms. The youngster hit an absurd .318/.390/.506 in Single A last season against competition an average of more than 3 years his elder. Franco's on-field performance thus far certainly merits bawdy talk, and in an open market, there's no telling how much Franco might earn today. While Franco's stock continues to appreciate, let's check in elsewhere around the league…
Former Blue Jays manager John Gibbons has been vocal about his desire to get back into a major league clubhouse. He hasn't gotten much traction, however, despite efforts on his part to dispel certain assumptions about his managerial style. Gibbons doesn't agree with his reputation around the league, which considers him an old-school type, non-adept with analytics and better-suited to a veteran clubhouse. He had reached out to a number of teams with openings this offseason, but couldn't even secure himself an interview. Not until the Astros' position became available, writes The Star's Gregor Chisholm. The role ultimately went to Dusty Baker, returning Gibbons to his current role as a scout for the Braves. Gibbons will continue to reach out to clubs with managerial openings.
Drew Storen has been through a lot in his baseball life, from an undefeated high school season alongside teammate Lance Lynn, to anchoring the bullpen on early Nats contenders that featured a young Bryce Harper, to Tommy John surgery in 2017 that stuck his career in the mud, writes Jim Salisbury of NBC Sports Philadelphia. While in camp with the Phillies this spring, Storen had a couple of major takeaways. First was how much he enjoyed playing the game. Second was how much Harper has grown as a leader since his early days with the Nats. And third was that Storen actually had a pretty decent chance of making the team. Being released by the Royals last June lit a fire for Storen, reminding him the type of urgency and intention it would take to return to the big leagues. He went to work at Driveline in an effort to build his arm enough to make a major league bullpen. Storen looked good this spring, with a 3.60 ERA over 5 innings with 5 strikeouts and zero walks.
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Red Sox Name Ron Roenicke Interim Manager
By Steve Adams | February 11, 2020 at 3:05pm CDT
3:05pm: The Red Sox have now officially named Roenicke their interim manager, issuing a press release to announce the move. Speier tweets that the "interim" label will likely be shed as soon as MLB finishes its investigation into the 2018 Red Sox.
FEBRUARY 11, 12:32pm: The Red Sox are preparing to name Roenicke to the interim manager, Alex Speier of the Boston Globe reports on Twitter.
FEBRUARY 7, 10:57am: Adding another layer of intrigue, Ken Rosenthal of The Athletic tweets that the Red Sox also interviewed former Blue Jays manager John Gibbons earlier this week. Gibbons interviewed with the Astros before they hired Dusty Baker as well.
10:47am: The Red Sox issued the following statement in response to the report regarding Roenicke (Twitter link via MassLive.com's Chris Cotillo): "Our managerial search is not yet completed. We will comment at the completion of the search."
That, of course, doesn't mean that Roenicke won't ultimately be named manager, although it's nevertheless notable that the team felt compelled to issue a statement without being prompted.
9:38am: The Red Sox are planning to name bench coach Ron Roenicke as manager, replacing the recently fired Alex Cora, the Boston Globe's Peter Abraham reports (via Twitter). The Boston organization is waiting for the commissioner's office to conclude its investigation into the team's 2018 sign-stealing allegations before making a formal announcement, however.
That the Red Sox are planning to promote him seemingly suggests that the organization doesn't believe Roenicke played a significant role in the club's 2018 transgressions and won't face discipline from the league; Roenicke was Cora's bench coach that season — his first year on the job in Boston.
Roenicke, 63, played in parts of eight big league seasons from 1981-88 and also has 18 seasons as a Major League coach and five as a Major League manager on his resume. He served as the Brewers' manager from 2011-15, although he was dismissed from that post just 25 games into his final season at the helm. (Milwaukee hired current skipper Craig Counsell to replace him.) Despite that ousting, it's worth noting that Roenicke's Brewers posted a winning record in three of his four full seasons as manager, including a 96-win effort in 2011 that saw the club last until Game 6 of the National League Championship Series.
With the league expected to formally conclude its investigation in the near future, an announcement on Roenicke may not be too far off. The dugout veteran will be stepping up into a delicate and tumultuous situation, so it's not especially surprising to see the Red Sox opt for someone who both knows the players in the clubhouse and has experience working as a big league manager in the past. The Sox also reportedly interviewed Athletics quality control coach Mark Kotsay, D-backs bench coach Luis Urueta and their own third base coach Carlos Febles, but Roenicke is the lone known candidate who has previously run a Major League team at the field level. He'll no doubt face some tough questions if and when he's formally promoted, although the exact timing on conclusion of the league's investigation obviously can't be known.
The managerial change will be the latest step in what would've been an unfathomable shakeup just 16 months ago. The Red Sox, of course, won the 2018 World Series in Cora's first season as a big league manager and in now-former president Dave Dombrowski's third full year running the club's baseball operations outfit. With a talented core of veterans and several key young talents emerging at the MLB level — Rafael Devers and Andrew Benintendi among them — the Sox appeared poised for another lengthy run as one of the game's premier teams. Barely a year later, both Dombrowski and Cora are out, however, and the team is in the process of trading arguably its best player of the current generation in a poorly veiled ploy to duck under the luxury tax barrier. Former Rays senior vice president Chaim Bloom was brought in as the club's chief baseball officer, and he'll now work with Roenicke — at least for the 2020 season — in an effort to steer the Sox out of what has become one of the rockiest years in the franchise's storied history.
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Latest On Mets' Managerial Search
By Connor Byrne | January 20, 2020 at 10:21pm CDT
Longtime major league managers Buck Showalter, Dusty Baker and John Gibbons have been mentioned as speculative fits for the Mets since Carlos Beltran stepped down last week. However, as of now, none of them are candidates to take over in New York, Jon Heyman of MLB Network suggests. Something would have to "drastically" change for any of the three to emerge as a possibility for the Mets' job, according to Heyman.
To this point, almost no known Beltran successors have come to the fore since he left the organization Thursday as a result of the Astros' 2017 sign-stealing fiasco. The lone reported name is Mets quality control coach Luis Rojas, whom they almost hired before making the ill-fated decision to tab Beltran back in the fall.
Now, it seems Mets bigwigs aren't fully sure how to proceed in the wake of Beltran's sudden exit. There's "some level of paralysis" from their front office on where to turn, according to the New York Post's Mike Puma, who notes an eventual ownership change is part of the issue.
While minority owner Steve Cohen won't grab the reins from Fred Wilpon and Jeff Wilpon as the Mets' control person until 2025, his eventual takeover has slowed down the club as it seeks its next skipper. GM Brodie Van Wagenen & Co. fear they'll "look bad to Cohen" if they hire a manager whom they didn't consider in their previous search, Puma writes. So, with that in mind, it appears Rojas is the front-runner to land the position after coming up short in his bid for it just a couple months ago.
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Latest On Astros Managerial, GM Vacancies
By TC Zencka | January 18, 2020 at 9:16pm CDT
There hasn't been much scuttlebutt in terms of the Astros' GM vacancy – but a number of names have been floated for their next manager. USA Today's Bob Nightengale observes that the current known pool of candidates leans heavily toward veteran, respected leaders (Dusty Baker, Buck Showalter, John Gibbons), while MLB Network insider Jon Heyman succinctly recaps what makes this hiring situation so very unique. The front office executives left behind in Houston would likely lean towards a more contemporary approach, given their heavily analytical approach, but with spring training not that far off, owner Jim Crane made the decision to hire his next field manager personally. Bringing in a field manager before the next general manager is not the ideal process, writes The Athletic's Jake Kaplan, but little about the Astros' current situation is.
Cubs third base coach Will Venable is the exception to Nightengale's observation. When asked today at the Cubs Convention if he'd be leaving, Venable said plainly, "No, I'm not." This, per Gordon Wittenmyer of the Chicago Sun Times (via Twitter) and many others in attendance – though Venable did walk back the absolute denial a little bit later in the day (covered in depth by The Athletic's Sahadev Sharma here). Sitting bench coach Joe Espada has also been speculated about, though given the circumstances, an outside hire seems like the prohibitive favorite. For what it's worth, MLBTR readers settled this issue just two days ago, electing Buck Showalter as the best choice with 34% of the vote.
Now a few days removed from the release of the Commissioner's verdict on the sign-stealing scandal, most Houston Astros players have avoided public comment. Jose Altuve and Alex Bregman did speak to the media today, expressing empathy for A.J. Hinch and Jeff Luhnow, while denying any use of wearable tech, per MLB.com's Brian McTaggart. The Commissioner's report found no evidence of wearable tech utilized by Astros players in 2019. Still, The Athletic's Jake Kaplan writes, the organizational response (or lack thereof) from players on the whole misses an appropriate measure of contrition. As players participated in the Astros' FanFest today, Kaplan describes a couple of scenes wherein the organization's PR staff attempted to mollify any discussion of the scandal by pairing stars of the team under fire – Bregman and Altuve, namely – with youngsters like Kyle Tucker, Yordan Alvarez, and Abraham Toro, who were not yet with the club in 2017.
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Astros To Interview John Gibbons
The Astros have lined up their first reported interview as they search for a new manager. They'll meet with veteran skipper John Gibbons on Thursday, according to Mark Berman of Fox 26.
The Texas-raised Gibbons is one of many experienced possibilities to reportedly land on the Astros' radar early in their quest to replace A.J. Hinch. Gibbons has nearly 1,600 games on his resume, all of which have come with the Blue Jays. The 57-year-old had two separate stints as Toronto's manager (one from 2004-08, the next from 2013-18), combining for 11 years, a 793-789 regular-season record and a pair of playoff berths. The Blue Jays advanced to the ALCS in each of those two seasons.
After the Blue Jays parted with him, Gibbons spent last season out of coaching. Gibbons made it known back in the fall that he was hoping to get back into managing, but he didn't receive any reported interviews before now.
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John Gibbons Hopes To Interview For Managerial Vacancies
By TC Zencka | October 5, 2019 at 12:04pm CDT
Former Toronto Blue Jays manager John Gibbons is throwing his hat in the ring for the many managerial openings across Major League Baseball, per MLB Network's Jon Morosi (via Twitter).
Gibbons last managed a major league team in 2018 when he led the Toronto Blue Jays to a record of 73-89. It was the final season of a 6-year stint in Toronto during which the Blue Jays went 488-484, winning the AL East with a 93-win season in 2015. Toronto came within two wins of reaching the World Series, falling in six games to the eventual World Series champion Kansas City Royals in the ALCS.
They made the playoffs twice in Gibbons' tenure, also capturing the Wild Card in 2016. The Blue Jays won that WC game in thrilling fashion when Edwin Encarnacion walked off Ubaldo Jimenez in the bottom of the 11th with a 3-run home run. That game is more famous for the decisions made in the opposing dugout, as Buck Showalter never got uber-closer Zack Britton into the ballgame, despite owning a 0.54 ERA across 69 games on the season. Showalter's decision certainly played a role in the expansion of the fireman concept in contemporary bullpens, as teams are far less likely these days to save someone like Britton for a save situation that may never come.
Gibbons' teams performed well in the postseason, winning not just the WC game but also sweeping the Rangers in the ALDS. Losing two straight seasons in the ALCS won't etch Gibbons name anywhere in Cooperstown, but it was an achievement nonetheless. He helped end a 22-year postseason drought that extended from their World Series victory in 1993 until the division title in 2015.
Of course, Gibbons was well aware of the drought, as his first and only other managerial experience came with the Blue Jays from August 2004 until June of 2008. Those Blue Jays teams were always competitive, despite never reaching the postseason. His entire Blue Jays tenure ended with a record of 793-789, a .501 winning percentage.
There are a number of managerial vacancies around the MLB at present, including high profile offices in New York and Chicago. The Royals, Padres, Pirates, Giants and Angels are the other clubs hunting a new field manager. For what it's worth, Gibbons began his professional coaching career with the Mets in 1990. He also served as a bench coach in Kansas City, and Double-A manager in the Padres system for the 2012 season.
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Managerial Rumors: Angels, Maddon, Giants, Ibanez, Farrell, Gibbons
By Connor Byrne | October 1, 2019 at 11:15pm CDT
Joe Maddon is reportedly a leading candidate to take over as the Angels' next manager, but he's not the lone possibility to replace Brad Ausmus. General manager Billy Eppler stated Tuesday that the Angels "plan on sitting down with a number of candidates" to discuss the job, per Maria Torres of the Los Angeles Times. Maddon's a highly accomplished manager who earlier spent three decades with the Angels organization in several different roles, which seems to make him a slam-dunk choice for the position. However, it's worth noting that Ken Rosenthal of The Athletic reported last week that the Angels might be hesitant to meet Maddon's asking price. Maddon made $6MM this year with the Cubs, who moved on from him after they fell way short of expectations in 2019.
The Giants, who are seeking a successor to Bruce Bochy, are interested in ex-major league outfielder Raul Ibanez, Jon Morosi of MLB.com reports. Ibanez has been working as a special assistant to Dodgers president of baseball operations Andrew Friedman since 2016, giving him familiarity with the Giants' Farhan Zaidi. Before Zaidi took the reins as San Francisco's president of baseball ops last offseason, he worked as the Dodgers' general manager.
Former big league skipper John Farrell remains interested in a third go-around as a manager, Rosenthal tweets. The 57-year-old last managed in 2017, when he oversaw a Red Sox team that finished 93-69 and earned an AL East title. Farrell managed three division winners and a World Series champion (2013) in Boston over five years, though he also guided two last-place clubs during his uneven reign. Prior to that, he managed the Blue Jays to a 154-170 record from 2011-12. Farrell has served as a scout and a pitching consultant in Cincinnati since 2018, and he interviewed for the Phillies' and Reds' managerial openings during the previous two offseasons.
Fellow ex-Jays manager John Gibbons also could be a possibility for clubs, Mark Feinsand of MLB.com relays. The 57-year-old wants to manage again or at least serve as a bench coach, according to Feinsand. Gibbons lost his job in Toronto after 2018, ending a two-stint, 11-year run with the franchise. He led the club to a 793-789 record with a pair of playoff berths.
Astros first base coach Don Kelly is a candidate to draw managerial interest in the coming weeks, Morosi hears. The 39-year-old Kelly, best known for his run as a major league utlityman for the Pirates, Tigers and Marlins from 2007-16, is only in his first season as a coach. He spent the previous two seasons in a pro scouting role with Detroit.
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Blue Jays' Managerial Search Enters Second Round
By TC Zencka and Jeff Todd | October 23, 2018 at 5:50pm CDT
Since announcing the departure of manager John Gibbons, the Blue Jays have begun their search for a new skipper as they look to return to contention for the first time since back-to-back playoff appearances in 2015 and 2016. The search is now well underway, with the Jays narrowing a broad list of candidates to a smaller group that warrants closer consideration.
As of Oct. 18, the Blue Jays were "believed to be down to five candidates," per Shi Davidi of Sportsnet.ca. He cited Astros bench coach Joe Espada, Rays field coordinator Rocco Baldelli, Cubs bench coach Brandon Hyde and Giants director of player development David Bell as finalists, though Bell's name is obviously no longer in play since he's been hired by the Reds as their new manager. Here's where things presently stand…
Latest Update – October 23
Rays bench coach Charlie Montoyo interviewed with the Jays today, per Fancred's Jon Heyman (Twitter link). It's not clear if it was a second interview and Montoyo had already emerged as one of the reported finalists or if the Jays set up additional interviews after the Reds hired Bell (a reported Jays finalist) away. That brings the Blue Jays to 15 or more candidates interviewed for the managerial vacancy.
Full summation of the Blue Jays' managerial search below:
First-Round Candidates
Except where otherwise noted, Shi Davidi of Sportsnet.ca reported the initial interest:
Ed Sprague, coordinator of instruction, Athletics: The former Blue Jays third baseman interviewed for the position, reports Bob Elliott of the Canadian Baseball Network (Twitter link). Sprague hasn't managed at the big league level, and it's not clear if he's seen as a finalist or was merely one of many first-round interviews.
Sandy Alomar Jr., first base coach, Indians: Over the years, Alomar has often been cited as a possible skipper but has yet to be given the opportunity to run a dugout.
Joe Girardi, former Yankees and Marlins manager: Girardi spent the 2018 season as an MLB Network analyst after wrapping up his tenure in New York.
Mike Matheny, former Cardinals manager: Matheny was cut loose during the 2018 season, his seventh year in that role.
Eduardo Perez, broadcaster/analyst: In addition to his TV and radio duties, the former MLB corner infielder/outfielder has worked as a hitting coach, bench coach, and winter league manager since wrapping up his playing career.
Joe Espada, bench coach, Astros: Though he's only in his first season on the Houston staff, he could follow Alex Cora in parlaying his time under skipper A.J. Hinch into a managerial job of his own.
Rocco Baldelli, field coordinator, Rays: The 37-year-old has been on the Tampa Bay MLB coaching staff for the past four years. He's also drawing wide interest in this hiring round.
Rob Thompson, bench coach, Phillies: The veteran MLB coach just wrapped up his first season as the bench coach in Philadelphia after a ten-year run on the Yankees' coaching staff.
John McDonald, defensive coordinator, player development field staff, Indians: The long-time MLB defensive stalwart has worked in the Cleveland player development department for the past several seasons. He's short on directly relevant experience, but is a widely respected player with ties to the Toronto org.
Stubby Clapp, Triple-A manager, Cardinals: Though he only briefly touched the majors as a player and hasn't made it back as a coach, Clapp has drawn attention for his success with the Cards' top affiliate.
DeMarlo Hale, bench coach, Blue Jays: The long-time minor-league manager and MLB coach has previously featured as a top candidate for the Jays managerial job.
Bobby Meacham, Triple-A manager, Blue Jays: The long-time minor-league skipper and MLB coach has been with the Jays organization since 2013.
John Schneider, Double-A manager, Blue Jays: Schneider, 38, has worked his way up the coaching/managerial ladder in the Toronto farm system since his playing career was cut short.
Brandon Hyde, bench coach, Cubs: A candidate who has received consideration from multiple other teams, Hyde has logged five campaigns apiece as a minor-league skipper and MLB coach. MLB.com's Jon Morosi tweeted that he's a candidate.
Potential Candidates
Previous names linked to the opening by The Athletic's Ken Rosenthal include former Cleveland skipper Eric Wedge and MLB Network analyst Dave Valle (twitter links). It is not certain at this time whether they have received real consideration during the search process.
Not Under Consideration
Sam Fuld has also impressed the Toronto front office, per Ken Rosenthal of The Athletic (via Twitter). But the former big league outfielder, who has been with the Phillies as "Major League player information coordinator" for one year, does not seem to be in the competition for the Jays job. Per Jerry Crasnick, via Twitter, Fuld has withdrawn from the search.
Though he was previously tabbed as a name under some consideration, Dodgers third base coach Chris Woodward is not considered a candidate at this time, per Arash Madani of Sportsnet.ca (via Twitter).
David Bell, formerly the VP of player development for the Giants, interviewed for the Jays' position but was recently hired as the new manager of the Reds.
Brandon Hyde Charlie Montoyo Chris Woodward Ed Sprague Eduardo Perez Joe Espada Joe Girardi John Gibbons John McDonald Mike Matheny Rocco Baldelli Ross Atkins Sam Fuld Sandy Alomar Jr. Toronto Blue Jays
Blue Jays Announce They Will Not Retain Manager John Gibbons
By Jeff Todd | September 26, 2018 at 12:03pm CDT
12:03pm: GM Ross Atkins announced in a joint press conference with Gibbons that the latter will not return to his position.
9:06am: The Blue Jays will announce today that they will not retain manager John Gibbons for the 2019 season, according to Steve Phillips of MLB Network Radio (via Twitter). As Shi Davidi of Sportsnet.ca explains in reporting the same, this news represents a formal acknowledgement of an outcome that was more or less already decided.
Gibbons, 56, has run the dugout for the past six seasons in his second stint with the organization. He originally took over the team in the middle of the 2004 season but was let go in the midst of a disappointing 2008 campaign. After a few years in the Royals and Padres organizations, Gibbons returned for the 2013 season after the Jays allowed John Farrell to move to the division-rival Red Sox.
Most recently, Gibbons signed an extension that included a guarantee for the 2019 campaign. Accordingly, he'll be paid under that deal regardless of where he ends up. As Davidi writes, Gibbons says he'd prefer to continue managing. Whether that'll come to pass in the near term isn't clear, but it seems to suggest that he'll continue to look for opportunities on major or minor-league staffs.
In his return effort with Toronto, Gibbons guided the club to memorable campaigns in 2015 and 2016, including an AL East title in the first of those years. While the Jays were unable to break through to the World Series, suffering consecutive ALCS defeats, the period represented a return to prominence for what had been a dormant organization.
Things have turned south since, of course, though it's tough to lay the malaise at the feet of Gibbons. In the aggregate, he carries a 791-787 record as the Blue Jays manager. As Davidi notes, that places Gibbon second only to the legendary Cito Gaston in games managed and wins in franchise history.
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Managerial/Coaching Notes: Gibbons, Riggleman, Rangers
By Steve Adams | September 6, 2018 at 11:41am CDT
Just weeks after Ken Rosenthal wrote that the Blue Jays "seem destined" for a managerial change this offseason, Fancred's Jon Heyman offers a similar take, reporting that a changing of the guard is a virtual certainty. Per Heyman, it's "99.9 percent" that the Jays will move on from skipper John Gibbons, who is still signed through the 2019 season. Gibbons tells Heyman the plan is to sit down with the Jays after the season and "see what direction we're going to go, myself included," though he's previously suggested that he may not be the man to oversee a rebuilding effort. Whether the Jays go that route remains to be seen, though Heyman indicates that president Mark Shapiro and GM Ross Atkins are leaning toward a younger manager with an eye toward contending in 2020-21.
More rumors pertaining to the managerial and coaching staffs throughout the league…
Jim Riggleman hasn't spoken to the Reds' front office yet about shedding the interim label from his job title, John Fay of the Cincinnati Enquirer recently wrote. Though Cincinnati has performed better under Riggleman than under Bryan Price earlier this season, Riggleman told Fay he still expects to be one of many candidates. "When the change was made, Dick [Williams] was the GM," said Riggleman."He basically said we're going to interview a lot of people and have a long list. … My understanding is that's what's going to happen." Fay notes that Riggleman is a favorite of team owner Bob Castellini, suggesting that if the Reds go with a more "old school" approach in the dugout, Riggleman is the favorite to stay with the Reds on a more permanent basis. The organization has become more analytical under the current front office regime, though, and it's not clear what style of manager they'd prefer.
It's been an ugly season for the Rangers for the most part, though Drew Davison of the Fort Worth Star-Telegram writes that GM Jon Daniels and his staff are drawing some positives from the manner in which their coaching staff has helped a few younger players move forward. Rougned Odor's rebound season was one positive highlighted by Daniels, who also listed Jose Leclerc, Isiah Kiner-Falefa, Ronald Guzman and Jurickson Profar as some players who've taken positive strides in an otherwise disappointing season. Davison notes that "signs seemingly point to job security for manager Jeff Banister," who is currently signed only through next year after a 2019 club option was exercised last offseason. It's not clear whether the Rangers front office has its sights set on a new deal for Banister or whether he could potentially head into next year's season with the dreaded "lame duck" status.
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package routing

import (
	"testing"
)

func Test_sendServerNoticeRequest_validate(t *testing.T) {
	type fields struct {
		UserID  string `json:"user_id,omitempty"`
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		name   string
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			name:   "empty request",
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			name: "msgtype empty",
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			name: "type empty",
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	}
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		t.Run(tt.name, func(t *testing.T) {
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			}
			if gotOk := r.valid(); gotOk != tt.wantOk {
				t.Errorf("valid() = %v, want %v", gotOk, tt.wantOk)
			}
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	}
}

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text:
require 'resque'

module Resque
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      def after_enqueue_class_stats(*args)
        Resque.redis.hincrby("class_stats:#{queue_name}", self.to_s, 1)
      end

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          Resque.redis.hincrby("class_stats:#{queue_name}", self.to_s, -1)
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    end
  end
end


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Haliburton artist Shelley Beach wins gold at TWS's spring show
Submitted by Tayce Wakefield
Haliburton artist Shelley Beach was awarded the Toronto Watercolour Society's Gold Level of Distinction for being juried into 35 shows, and was awarded a gold medal for Juror's Choice for Best in Show for her painting "Journey to Dreamer's Rock" at the TWS' Aquavision Spring Show at the Neilson Park Creative Centre in Etobicoke.
Only 10 other artists have achieved the Gold Level of Distinction (and only four have achieved the Platinum Distinction for being juried into 50 or more shows), so this puts the artist into an elite group, as noted by TWS Awards chair woman and director, Carolyne Pascoe.
This is the first time Beach has won a gold medal with the TWS. Her painting, "Journey to Dreamer's Rock" was inspired by Beach's trip last fall to Manitoulin Island. She also had another painting, "Shield Series 1" accepted into the TWS Aquavision Spring Show.
About 150 paintings were submitted, of which approximately 90 were accepted by the jurors – and only one is awarded the gold medal.
Beach said, "As a visual artist, I try to push my limits into the unknown. I love to experiment and be guided by my intuition. I enter quite a few juried exhibitions as a personal challenge. Putting my work up for judging against my accomplished peers sets me up for many disappointments as well as opportunities for success.
"I have worked pretty hard and one of my proudest moments was returning to art school as a mature student and graduating with honours," she added.
Pascoe said, "TWS has established the Gold Level of Distinction (along with Signature, Bronze, Silver and Platinum levels) to encourage artists to consistently enter juried shows over time. It is difficult to be accepted into juried shows because jurors look for a high level of technical competence, originality and creativity in selecting which pieces will be included. To have been juried into 35 shows is truly an exceptional achievement, and winning the gold medal in this show is also exceptional – it's almost a once-in-a-lifetime experience and a major goal for many artists. "
In awarding the gold medal to "Journey to Dreamer's Rock," the jurors (Carol Westcott, an award-winning artist and Christina Kostoff, owner of the Yellow House Gallery, Toronto) noted "The subtle gradation and control of colour are outstanding. It's a fine composition, with simplicity in the use of line. Detail is added only where needed."
Shelley Beach lives full time on Kennisis Lake and the beauty of the Highlands is a constant source of inspiration for her. She has taught classes at Fleming College's Haliburton School of Art and Design for seven years, and is a well-known watercolour and acrylic instructor throughout the Durham Region.
She is an honour graduate of Ontario College of Art and Design (2004) and an elected member of the Society of Canadian Artists, as well as a signature member of TWS. Her paintings hang in numerous corporate and private collections. She is represented by the Ethel Curry Gallery in Haliburton.
The Toronto Watercolour Society (TWS) is a non-profit organization that began in 1985. It is dedicated to promoting the interests of painters in watercolour in Toronto. It held its first annual Fall Juried Show in October 1984 and has mounted spring and fall juried shows each year since then.
Membership is now more than 275 artists. TWS has earned a reputation throughout Ontario for its continued commitment to its mandate, the quality of its shows and exhibitions, the excellent work of its member artists, and its weekend workshops and guest lectures by knowledgeable professional artists. The Aquavision Spring Show runs from April 4 to 24 at Neilson Park Creative Centre, 56 Neilson Dr. in Etobicoke.
Beach's work can be viewed by appointment at her studio on Kennisis Lake (www.theshelleybeach.com) and she will be participating in the KLCOA's Art on the Dock studio tour on July 9 and 10.


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Ве́рхние Осельки́ () — деревня во Всеволожском районе Ленинградской области. Административный центр Лесколовского сельского поселения.

Название
Название финское, происходит от слова uusiselkä, что означает новая гряда. Известно, что по Карельскому перешейку прошёл ледник, который оставил после себя гряды, озы, камы, сохранившиеся до сих пор.

История
На карте Санкт-Петербургской губернии Ф. Ф. Шуберта 1834 года, обозначены две деревни Оселки — будущие Верхние и Нижние Осельки.

ОСЕЛЬКИ — деревня при мызе Габсары, принадлежит Ивану и супруге его Екатерине Чивилевым, чиновнику 5 класса, жителей по ревизии 7 м. п., 7 ж. п. (1838 год)

На этнографической карте Санкт-Петербургской губернии П. И. Кёппена 1849 года, упомянута деревня «Osselki», населённая ингерманландцами-эурямёйсет.

В пояснительном тексте к этнографической карте указаны две деревни Osselki (Осельки), одна из них Лемболовского прихода, количество её жителей на 1848 год: ингерманландцев-эурямёйсет — 17 м. п., 19 ж. п., а также ижоры 2 м. п., 3 ж. п. и финнов-суоми — 6 м. п., 5 ж. п., всего 52 человека.

ОСЕЛЬКИ — деревня чиновника 5 класса Чивилева, по просёлкам, 4 двора, 14 душ м. п. (1856 год)

Согласно «Топографической карте частей Санкт-Петербургской и Выборгской губерний» в 1860 году, самая северная деревня Оселки (современные Верхние Осельки) насчитывала 4 крестьянских двора, в ней располагалась мыза Чевелева и Сергеевка. Расположенные южнее и по смежеству Оселки (современные Нижние Осельки) состояли из 22 дворов, с ними соседствовала дача капитана Стооларме-Таваста. Ещё южнее находились (ныне не существующие) усадьбы Господина Гаммера и Помещика Кецлера, близ них располагались кабак и больница.

ОСЕЛЬКИ — деревня владельческая, при колодцах; 4 двора, жителей 16 м. п., 17 ж. п.; (1862 год)

В 1869 году на окраине Верхних Осельков в имении Бурениных «Мыза Америка», была возведена деревянная церковь во имя святой равноапостольной царицы Елены.

В 1882 году временнообязанные крестьяне деревни выкупили свои земельные наделы у М. Д. Княжевича и стали собственниками земли.

Согласно материалам по статистике народного хозяйства Санкт-Петербургского уезда 1891 года имение Америка площадью 358 десятин принадлежало действительному статскому советнику М. Д. Княжевичу, имение было приобретено до 1868 года.

ОСЕЛЬКИ — деревня, Куйвозовского сельского общества, при Куйвозовской (Гарболовской) земской дороге 9 дворов, 32 м. п., 35 ж. п. — всего 67 чел. 2 кузницы. (1896 год)

В XIX — начале XX века деревня Осельки административно относилась к Куйвозовской волости 4-го стана Санкт-Петербургского уезда Санкт-Петербургской губернии.

ОСЕЛЬКИ — селение Куйвозовского сельского общества Куйвозовской волости, число домохозяев — 6, наличных душ: 14 м. п., 23 ж. п.; Количество надельной земли — 40/2172 (десятин/саженей), лесного надела нет. (1905 год)

В 1908 году в деревне Осельки Куйвозовской волости проживали 39 человек из них 9 детей школьного возраста (от 8 до 11 лет).

С 1917 по 1927 год деревня входила в состав Лесколовского сельсовета Куйвозовской волости Ленинградского уезда.

С 1927 года, в составе Куйвозовского района.

С 1928 года, в составе Лесколовского сельсовета.

ОССЕЛЬКИ — деревня Лесколовского сельсовета Куйвозовской волости, 32 хозяйства, 145 душ.
Из них: русских — 24 хозяйства, 101 душа; финнов-ингерманландцев — 7 хозяйств, 41 душа; финнов-суоми — 1 хозяйство, 3 души. (1926 год)

Церковь закрыта в 1931 году, здание не сохранилось.

По административным данным 1933 года близлежащие деревни Осельки были переименованы в Верхние Осельки и Нижние Осельки. Деревня Верхние Осельки относилась к Лесколовскому сельсовету Куйвозовского финского национального района.

С 1936 года, в составе Токсовского района.

С 1939 года, в составе Парголовского района.

ВЕРХНИЕ ОСЕЛЬКИ — деревня Лесколовского сельсовета, 183 чел. (1939 год)

В 1940 году деревня насчитывала 26 дворов.

До 1942 года — место компактного проживания ингерманландских финнов.

С 1954 года, в составе Всеволожского района.

В 1958 году население деревни составляло 1003 человека.

По данным 1966 года деревня Верние Осельки входила в состав Лесколовского сельсовета.

По данным 1973 года деревня Верние Осельки являлась административным центром Лесколовского сельсовета.

По данным 1990 года в деревне Верние Осельки проживали 1072 человека. Деревня также являлась административным центром Лесколовского сельсовета в который входили 12 населённых пунктов: деревни Аньялово, Верние Осельки, Гапсары, Кискелово, Лесколово, Лехтуси, Нижние Осельки, Рохма, Хиттолово; посёлок Осельки; посёлки при станции Осельки и Пери, общей численностью населения 7557 человек.

В 1997 году в деревне проживали 978 человек, в 2002 году — 1009 человек (русских — 44%, цыган — 49%), в 2007 году — 1094, в 2010 году — 1474 человека.

Современность
На вершине гряды расположились Верхние Осельки в отличие от Нижних Осельков, находящихся чуть ниже по склону.
Верхние Осельки практически слились с расположенными по соседству дачными массивами, существующими на протяжении нескольких десятилетий, имеющими собственную систему улиц. Часть застройки вдоль Приозерской линии железной дороги называется посёлком при станции Пери.

Значительную часть населения Верхних Осельков составляют цыгане. В посёлке проживает одна из крупнейших цыганских общин Ленинградской области. Цыгане живут изолированно от остального посёлка.
По данным администрации МО «Лесколовское сельское поселение» на 01.01.2013 года: «в деревне проживают 938 человек официально зарегистрированных граждан цыганской национальности. Барон цыганского табора — Михай Валерий Григорьевич».

География
Деревня расположена в северной части района на автодороге  (Скотное — Приозерск).

Расстояние до районного центра — 44 км.

Через деревню проходит железная дорога Приозерского направления. Расстояние до ближайшей железнодорожной станции Пери — 0,5 км.

Через деревню протекает Осельский ручей.

Демография

Достопримечательности
В списке ценных природных объектов, подлежащих охране во Всеволожском районе, утверждённом решением Всеволожского городского Совета народных депутатов от 8 апреля 1993 года, за № 31 значится: парк «Дубки», 10 га, деревня Верхние Осельки.

Фото

Улицы
3-я Линия, 4-я Линия, 5-я Линия, 6-я Линия, Берёзовая Аллея, Дачная, Дом-Кардон, Дубковская, Железнодорожная, Казарма 38 км, Ключевая, Комсомола, Космонавтов, Красноармейская, Ленинградская, Лесной переулок, Луговая, Медицинская, Нагорная, Новая, Октябрьский переулок, Ольховая, Парковая, Привокзальная, Рябиновая, Садовая, Садовый переулок, Советская, Цветочная.

Примечания

Ссылки
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Населённые пункты Всеволожского района

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Resecurity discovered 0-day RCE vulnerability in Internet Explorer
Nov 12 / 19
What is the Vulnerability?
Resecurity discovered a critical zero-day vulnerability in the Jscript Garbage Collection mechanism within Internet Explorer, which allows an attacker to execute arbitrary code.
From Microsoft Security Response Center (MSRC):
A remote code execution vulnerability exists in the way that the scripting engine handles objects in memory in Internet Explorer. The vulnerability could corrupt memory in such a way that an attacker could execute arbitrary code in the context of the current user. An attacker who successfully exploited the vulnerability could gain the same user rights as the current user. If the current user is logged on with administrative user rights, an attacker who successfully exploited the vulnerability could take control of an affected system. An attacker could then install programs; view, change, or delete data; or create new accounts with full user rights.
In a web-based attack scenario, an attacker could host a specially crafted website that is designed to exploit the vulnerability through Internet Explorer and then convince a user to view the website. An attacker could also embed an ActiveX control marked "safe for initialization" in an application or Microsoft Office document that hosts the IE rendering engine. The attacker could also take advantage of compromised websites and websites that accept or host user-provided content or advertisements. These websites could contain specially crafted content that could exploit the vulnerability.
What does it allow a hacker to do?
Successful exploitation of this vulnerability could allow an attacker to execute arbitrary code in the context of the browser.
Remote Code Execution (RCE) vulnerabilities are actively used by threat actors to distribute malware. From the date of reporting – the vulnerability had 0-day status. Cyberespionage groups and state actors are using the vulnerabilities for targeted attacks and APT campaigns.
What is the resolution?
Resecurity reported this vulnerability previously to Microsoft on October 20th 2019. Resecurity® HUNTER, a security R&D unit, has provided detailed description of the vulnerability, along with Proof-of-Concept POC. As of November 12th, we are pleased to report that Microsoft has released a patch, as (after CVE-2019-1429)for all versions.
The developed Proof-of-Concept supports Internet Explorer 6, Internet Explorer 7, Internet Explorer 8, Internet Explorer 9, Internet Explorer 10, including the latest version of Internet Explorer 11.
Affected platforms - Windows XP, Windows Vista, Windows 7, Windows 8, Windows 8.1, Windows 10, Windows Server 2003, Windows Server 2008, Windows Server 2008 R2, Windows Server 2012, Windows Server 2012 R2, Windows Server 2016
In July Resecurity has reported another 0-day vulnerability to Microsoft leading to Local Privileges Escalation (LPE) (https://portal.msrc.microsoft.com/en-US/security-guidance/advisory/CVE-2019-0880). A local elevation of privilege vulnerability existed in how splwow64.exe handles certain calls. An attacker who successfully exploited the vulnerability could elevate privileges on an affected system from low-integrity to medium-integrity.
This vulnerability by itself does not allow arbitrary code execution; however, it could allow arbitrary code to be run if the attacker uses it in combination with another vulnerability (such as a remote code execution vulnerability or another elevation of privilege vulnerability) that is capable of leveraging the elevated privileges when code execution is attempted.
"We assume both identified 0-day vulnerabilities are related to the tradecraft of the same cyberespionage group focused on APT campaigns against defense, federal and financial sector. The geography of their end targets (victims) is extremely broad and include Middle East, APAC, USA and European Union. Previously, the group was leveraging possible "false flag" attack – that's why attribution at this moment is fuzzy. We continue to monitor the activity of the group and update our customers and intelligence community about the new previously unknown threats and zero-day vulnerabilities" – says Gene Yoo, Chief Executive Officer of Resecurity.
Gene Yoo added:
"We see a huge demand on these kinds of vulnerabilities on both – "blackmarket" and cyberwarfare market with solid players in face of governments and advanced cyberespionage groups. Privilege escalation vulnerabilities are required to persist on the victim's machine and typically integrated into the malicious payload. Remote Code Execution is needed to deliver malicious payload on the victim's machine. Combination of such 0-day vulnerabilities allow to bypass existing security controls and evade detection".
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Loki cooks up an Indian inspired dish for the immunity challenge. These savoury pancakes are perfectly served with Coconut and Prune Chutney.
For the Dosa, place rice flour, semolina, bi carb soda, sour cream, lemon juice, crushed fenugreek seeds, and salt in a bowl and stir to combine. Add 120ml water, while whisking, until a smooth batter. Set aside to rest for 25 minutes.
To cook, heat a large non stick frypan over medium heat. Add 1 teaspoon oil to pan then ¼ cup batter. Spread batter with the back of a spoon to form a 15cm pancake. Spoon another teaspoon oil around edge of pancake. Sprinkle with chopped coriander and cook until crisp. Flip pancake over and cook until crisp. Remove from frypan and set aside until serving. Repeat with remaining batter, adding more oil as necessary.
For the Prune Chutney, place all ingredients and 1 cup water in a saucepan and set over medium heat. Bring to a boil, reduce heat and allow to simmer until water evaporates. Remove from heat and mash prunes with a spoon. Divide between 4 small serving ramekins. Set aside until serving.
For the Coriander and Coconut Chutney, place coconut, coriander, dried red chilli, macadamia nuts, cumin seeds, and 2 whole garlic cloves into a blender and blend to a smooth paste.
Place a small frypan on medium heat. Add oil and when hot, add finely chopped garlic and curry leaves. Cook until fragrant then add to the paste and stir to combine. Divide between 4 small serving ramekins. Set aside until serving.
To serve, place 2 Dosa onto each serving plate and add ramekins of Coconut, Coriander Chutney and Prune Chutney on the side.


In a world where laptops, smartphones, and tablets are everywhere, it's easy to take the amazing technology we have today for granted. What if I had had to write type this entry blog post on with a typewriter? I would have had to get it right the first time, or type the entire thing over again. All those little mistakes would have cost a lot of extra time — typing and retyping for every single edit.
Xerox changed all this when it entered the document creation field in October, 1974 with the 800 Electronic Typing System. Xerox's first word processing product eliminated the need to completely retype documents that needed corrections. Instead, the revolutionary system saved the first copy of the document on a magnetic card. The typist could then hit a "revise" button and retype only the portion needing to be fixed rather than the whole thing.
After those edits were made, a blank sheet of stationery paper could be placed into the system, and with the press of one "playback" button, the machine would retype the corrected document at a speed of up to 350 words per minute in one of seventeen different typefaces. This product was given the name "world's most talented typewriter," and it's easy to see why.
So next time you're using your laptop to type a document or your smartphone to send an email, try to remember how many advances and new developments had to happen to get us to where we are today.
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The funny part of it was that though the 800 was a productive and innovative device, it is amazing how hard it was to convince office workers to give up their typewriters and embrace new technology. Some things never change.
Actually the Xerox 800 ETS didn't use a mag card; it stored data on one of two high speed (for its time) cassette drives. The Xerox 850 DTS which succeeded it used 8 inch floppy disks.
….and then came the 860ips the Star Workstation etc. I'm curious to know if the Xerox 640, 645 Memorywriter's software was based on XBravo (Alto)?
I used a Xerox 800 for several years! I loved it. I typed technical documentation and being able to revise was a godsend! It used two magnetic tapes.


B12 is a water-soluble vitamin that is found in many foods such as meat and dairy products, and is necessary to maintain good health. A deficiency of B12 could result from a lack of consumption of these foods due to dieting, which can be replaced by receiving a shot.
The human body needs B12 for the overall health of nerve and red blood cells, and also to aid in digestion. Since the body does not manufacture it, the only way to get it is through diet and/or supplementation. When dieting, a B12 deficiency can occur due to the limiting of consumption of foods that are high in B12, such as red meet.
One indication that there may not be enough B12 present in the body if one begins to feel fatigue and dizziness, especially when dieting. An individual also may experience diarrhea or constipation, and become disoriented or confused. There could be a tingling sensation in the extremities, and even chest pains.
Taking shots of B12 can give a boost to the body by providing the energy that is normally supplied through proper eating. From a dieting standpoint, it can also help reduce the craving for food. In older people, it can help alleviate the vitamin deficiency that can result from a lack of variety in diet, and can also help maintain energy levels and maintain memory function.
Patients on b12 report more energy and less stress and are there for more motivated to continue their diets and exercise more than not taking b12 injections. You can recieve b12 injections every 5 days to every 7 days.


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I Tolita fanns en gång en ICA-butik vid namn "Tolita Lanthandel", från början ägd av Värmlandsprofilen Nils Åkerberg, men den är numera nedlagd.

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Student Loans Are Coming Due, Graduates. Here's How to Survive Them.
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CSU Super Sunday kicks off this weekend in Fresno. The event encourages youth of color to pursue college. (Fresno State Photo)
Fresno State Strives to Reach Youth of Color With 'Super Sunday'
In an effort to inspire black youth to consider college, Fresno State President Joseph Castro will kick off CSU Super Sunday this weekend at Image Church New Generation in southwest Fresno.
"I am excited about this unique opportunity to connect with prospective students and their families, as well as community members who play a critical role in supporting our talented youth in obtaining a college education," Castro said.
"I am excited about this unique opportunity to connect with prospective students and their families, as well as community members who play a critical role in supporting our talented youth in obtaining a college education." — Joseph Castro, Fresno State president
What Is CSU Super Sunday?
Launched in 2005, CSU Super Sunday is an annual event held each February during Black History Month. Leaders from all 23 CSU campuses and more than 100,000 congregants California participate each year, said Lisa Boyles, the public information officer for Fresno State.
In addition to Castro, who will talk during the 10:45 a.m. service, several other Fresno State representatives will speak at seven local black churches this month.
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Event Much Needed In African American Communities
African Americans make up less than 3 percent of Fresno State's enrollment, and they have some of the lowest retention and graduation rates. Thus spreading the word about the opportunities at Fresno State is paramount.
"Super Sunday is a way to not only engage prospective students but the community about what Fresno State has to offer African American students," said Wendy Nelson, Fresno State's African American Initiative coordinator.
Rev. Paul Binion II hopes CSU Super Sunday will help improve the low enrollment and graduation rates of African Americans at Fresno State and other colleges across the nation.
"We want to see that tide turned and see African Americans enroll and make college a priority," said Binion, the senior pastor at Westside Church of God.
For every student to walk away with a feeling that college is attainable is the main goal for Saints Community Church, said church secretary Tina McClain-Watkins.
"We've had several of our young people here go to Fresno State or other colleges so I think it definitely helps because it is another avenue that they have available to them," McClain-Watkins said.
"Super Sunday is a way to not only engage prospective students but the community about what Fresno State has to offer the African American students." — Wendy Nelson, Fresno State's African American Initiative coordinator
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Parents and students will have an opportunity after the services to meet with university outreach counselors to ask questions and receive CSU resources.
The resources include information on all aspects of preparing for college. Their purpose is to help students and families foster a college-going culture at home.
Rev. Lawrence Clinkscales said CSU Super Sunday has inspired Second Baptist Church to be more educationally minded.
The veteran pastor said the church will unveil two new education labs this Sunday. The church designed the labs so students in the community have a safe place to study and complete schoolwork.
"We also plan to host informative workshops to assist families with the paperwork involved in being admitted to college," Clinkscales said.
Mattie Williams said CSU Super Sunday is so helpful that she wishes it was around when she was growing up.
"Back in the day when we were coming up, it would have been a lot of help for a lot of us that wanted to go to college," said Williams, a member of Fellowship Baptist Church.
Williams said she does her best to ensure that youth in the church don't miss out on the opportunity.
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Essential Tips for Making a Design Startup Look Like a Real–Big–Firm
Core 77 offers some tips for faking it until you make it.
By Cliff Kuang 2 minute Read
Industrial-design supersite Core 77 recently unveiled a new feature, Hack 2 Work, in which a slew of eminent designers and writers offer tips and tricks for running a smooth design operation–from getting your way with clients, to psychoanalyzing your clients based on their table manners, to crafting meals out of vending machine junk food. But one subject, well-trodden by any moderately successful designer working today, caught our eye: How to make your business look bigger than it actually is. Allan Chochinov, a design educator and Core 77's editor in chief, writes:
There is just something so lame about Allan Chochinov Design. Instead,
consider adding "The" before your surname and "Group" after it: The
Chochinov Group. Not too much better, and this trick is pretty much
past its expiration date, but it sure beats the too-easy-to-suss
Chochinov & Associates. (Are you really the kind of person who
wants "Associates"?)
Answering Machine:
The cellphone-area-coded "office number" is beyond a dead giveaway, so
for clients who care, you'll want to use a service (or console) that
allows you to have an extension number. Have someone else to make the
recording, of course, and you'll get that "For your name here, press 101." Tempted to gild the lily? "For accounts receivable, press 105."
Bonus tip: Put people on hold. "Can I put you on hold for a second? I'm so sorry but
I'm the only one in the office right now." Booya!
The Direct Question:
At a certain point there will be no avoiding it. Your potential client will ask, "So how many people are you
at your firm?" Chin up, chest out, and in one sentence: "We staff up
when we need to–bringing in the best people at the right time…akin to
making a movie." Don't blink. "Right now we're really lean of course,
given the economy, but I'm using a great bullpen of freelancers."
Blink. (Notice the switch from "we" to "I" in there? You're leveling
with them, you're honest, and you're ready to work.)
Movie-making? Bullpen? What an asshole.
The entire list is worth a read. And I'll beat every single start-up in the country knows a thing or two about these techniques–from borrowing offices at other companies, to make your operation look more professional, to having a friend act like a secretary. There should be mini-seminars at business schools and design schools alike, outlining all the tricks of the trade–I mean, this is essential stuff.
Anyone out there have other, dastardly gambits that worked for them? Or, for that matter, got you caught red handed?
Cliff was director of product innovation at Fast Company, founding editor of Co.Design, and former design editor at both Fast Company and Wired.


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Obama Caves in to Agribusiness
by Kathy Ozer and Marcia Ishii-Eiteman
Food Safety,
"Lobbyists won't find a job in my White House." President Obama assured us with this claim upon inauguration. And yet he just nominated to two key posts "Big Ag" industry power brokers, who come straight from the chemical pesticide and biotechnology sectors. While they may not be registered as lobbyists, both men come from organizations representing powerful agribusiness interests, which every year spend millions of dollars in lobbying to advance their companies' chemical and transgenic products.
Islam Siddiqui, currently the VP of Science and Regulatory Affairs at CropLife USA, has been nominated to the post of Chief Agricultural Negotiator for the U.S. Trade Representative's office. Why the president would nominate someone from the group that infamously chided the First Lady for refusing to use pesticides on the White House garden is a bit of a mystery, but perhaps it has something to do with all the money and work as a fundraiser that Siddiqui put into Obama's campaign. This critical position is designed to use free trade agreements to open up foreign markets for U.S. agriculture goods -- mostly to promote chemical-intensive, genetically modified products that undermine local food cultures in developing countries.
It's crucial that the Senate Finance Committee hears from public witnesses while investigating his past roles. At CropLife International, Siddiqui led an initiative to weaken restrictions against fertilizers and pesticides, as part of the World Trade Organization's Doha Round of negotiations. He also served as the senior agricultural trade adviser during the Clinton administration, and pressed for getting genetically modified crops and seeds approved for commercial use in the United States.
Now the United States will continue its efforts to export the worst aspects of U.S. agriculture to other countries, many of which are deeply wary of genetically modified seeds and the impacts of toxic pesticides on their communities. Mirroring those concerns, a landmark comprehensive United Nations and World Bank- sponsored International Assessment of Agricultural Knowledge, Science, and Technology for Development (IAASTD) has said that one of the best ways to feed the world is to increase investments in agro-ecological science and farming.
We don't need more genetically modified seeds. What we need is enforcement of antitrust laws to break up monopoly control of the global food system, and fairer -- not "freer" -- trade arrangements to overcome poverty and hunger around the world.
The Obama administration has made tremendous strides towards encouraging the growth of the local food movement, and its connections to human health and ecological impacts. The White House organic garden and the farmers market spearheaded by Michelle Obama are important symbolic gestures, as is the USDA's new "Know Your Farmer, Know Your Food" initiative. However, these latest appointments of industry insiders to two of the most influential offices that will shape U.S. food and agricultural policy at home and abroad call into question just how committed the Obama administration is to promoting sustainable agriculture and reducing hunger in the developing world.
We must also question how prepared the president is to break with past administrations' track record of coddling special interests.
Kathy Ozer is the executive director of the National Family Farm Coalition, and Marcia Ishii-Eiteman, PhD, is the senior scientist at the Pesticide Action Network North America and a lead author on the UN-sponsored International Assessment of Agricultural Knowledge, Science, and Technology for Development (IAASTD). The National Family Farm Coalition (NFFC) is a national link for grassroots organizations working on family farm issues. www.nffc.net. Pesticide Action Network North America works to replace the use of hazardous pesticides with ecologically sound and socially just alternatives. http://www.panna.org
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The electoral districts of Lower Canada were territorial subdivisions of the British North American Province of Lower Canada serving as the basis of the representation of the population in the Legislative Assembly of Lower Canada, the lower house of the Provincial Parliament of Lower Canada. This house was the first legislative assembly in the history of Quebec. The districts were used between 1792 and 1838, date at which the constitution of the country was suspended as a consequence of the Rebellions of 1837.

The Constitutional Act of 1791 provided for the creation of a House of Assembly or Legislative Assembly, made up of at least 50 elected members. Lieutenant governor Alured Clarke divided the territory of the province into 27 districts each returning one or two Members to the Provincial Parliament. 23 districts were returning two MPPs and 4 were returning a single one. The rural districts were called  counties (French: comtés), while the urban ones were called cities (cités) or bouroughs (bourgs). 16 out of 27, bore typically English names, while the others bore French or Indigenous names.

In 1828, governor James Kempt, who was in good terms with the elected House of Assembly, favoured the redrawing of the electoral map: five new districts were created, in total electing 8 new MPPs, in the newly settled Eastern Townships. These elected their first representatives to Parliament in 1829. The following year, the old districts were subdivided into smaller ones, which for the most part were given French names. A last district was created in 1832 and a second seat was added to existing ones, so that when the constitution was suspended in 1838, there were 46 electoral districts in Lower Canada and they were returning 90 MPPs in total. 29 of these bore French names, 11 Indigenous names and 6 English names.

1792 to 1829

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 Reports of Commissioners on Grievances Complained of in Lower Canada. Ordered by the House of Commons to be printed, 20th February, 1837, in Parliamentary Papers, 1837, XXIV, 3-416. (online)
Lacoursière, Jacques (1996). Histoire populaire du Québec, tome 2,  Sillery: Septentrion (preview)


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Women Need More Specific Care Following A Miscarriage, According To Researchers
One in six women experiences long-term post-traumatic stress following a miscarriage or ectopic pregnancy, according to a new study.
by Kate Demolder
More sensitive and specific care is needed after miscarriages or ectopic pregnancies, according to researchers who took part in a recent UK study.
In the study of 650 women – the largest of its kind on the matter – by Imperial College London and KU Leuven in Belgium, 29% showed symptoms of post-traumatic stress one month after pregnancy loss, declining to 18% after nine months.
Most had been through an early miscarriage before 12 weeks - while the rest had had an ectopic pregnancy.
One month following their loss, 24% had symptoms of anxiety and 11% of depression. This reduced to 17% and 6% after nine months, the study found.
The team behind the research, funded by the Imperial Health Charity and the Imperial National Institute of Health Research Biomedical Research Centre, call for immediate improvements in the care women receive following an early-stage pregnancy loss.
Miscarriage is defined as the spontaneous end of a pregnancy before 20 weeks of gestation.
About one in every five pregnancies in Ireland ends in miscarriage, which means there are approximately 50 miscarriages a day on average. Approximately 14,000 women in Ireland each year have a miscarriage.
Dr Jessica Farren, specialist registrar and clinical fellow at Imperial College London said miscarriage could be a very traumatic experience.
"For some women, it's the first time they have experienced anything beyond their control. These can be profound events which stay with you."
An earlier, smaller study from 2016 found that early pregnancy loss could trigger symptoms of post-traumatic stress.
"For too long, women have not received the care they need following a miscarriage and this research shows the scale of the problem," says Jane Brewin, chief executive of miscarriage and stillbirth charity Tommy's.
"Miscarriage services need to be changed to ensure they are available to everyone and women are followed up to assess their mental wellbeing with support being offered to those who need it, and advice is routinely given to prepare for a subsequent pregnancy."
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Orrville es una ciudad ubicada en el condado de Wayne en el estado estadounidense de Ohio. En el Censo de 2010 tenía una población de 8380 habitantes y una densidad poblacional de 562,41 personas por km².

Geografía
Orrville se encuentra ubicada en las coordenadas . Según la Oficina del Censo de los Estados Unidos, Orrville tiene una superficie total de 14.9 km², de la cual 14.87 km² corresponden a tierra firme y (0.23%) 0.03 km² es agua.

Demografía
Según el censo de 2010, había 8380 personas residiendo en Orrville. La densidad de población era de 562,41 hab./km². De los 8380 habitantes, Orrville estaba compuesto por el 89.7% blancos, el 4.87% eran afroamericanos, el 0.13% eran amerindios, el 1.28% eran asiáticos, el 0.04% eran isleños del Pacífico, el 1.35% eran de otras razas y el 2.64% pertenecían a dos o más razas. Del total de la población el 3.48% eran hispanos o latinos de cualquier raza.

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Ciudades de Ohio
Localidades del condado de Wayne (Ohio)