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'Mistresses' US remake to air on ABC
ABC will air a remake of the British drama Mistresses next summer.
By Catriona Wightman
ABC has ordered a remake of the British drama Mistresses.
The network has decided to skip the pilot stage with the project and the show's first season will be aired in summer 2013, Deadline reports.
The original Mistresses, which focused on the complicated love lives of four female friends, aired three seasons in the UK from 2008 to 2010.
The cast included Terra Nova's Shelley Conn and Fringe's Orla Brady alongside Pillars of the Earth's Sarah Parish and Sharon Small, who recently appeared in an episode of Downton Abbey.
The American remake of Mistresses has been written by Gossip Girl writer KJ Steinberg, who previously created The Nine.
Steinberg is already working on ABC's pilot Gilded Lillys, a period drama focused on the first luxury hotel in New York. The project is being executive produced by Grey's Anatomy creator Shonda Rhimes.
Other pilots currently in the works at ABC include Portia de Rossi comedy The Smart One, a new show from the creator of Desperate Housewives and a drama about the crew of a nuclear submarine.
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micron being the dominant variant in DR
That variant micron beat the ground delta and set as variant coronavirus with greater dominance over the national territory.
According to 554 samples sequenced at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), from Atlanta, whose sample was taken between 20 and 29 December 2021, there were 496 variants of concern.
Of these, 83%, about 460 samples may be micron. About 36, 6.5% turned out to be possible delta and the remaining 10%, about 58 tests, with uncertain results.
Director General of Epidemiology, Dr. Ronald crooked, assured that with this result, "micron coincidence is variant currently dominant in the Dominican Republic", with spread almost across the country.
crooked argues that "although the country's figures seem that we are facing a very difficult situation, if we compare what is happening in other parts, our situation remains very favorable", mentioning case such as the United States where yesterday one million infections were reported or the UK and France, where the figure rose to 200 thousand infected in 24 hours. With respect to other islands in the Antilles, "only Jamaica and Cuba have less" case than us".
Based on bulletin 657, in new 5,201 countries case and 19,188 assays were performed, 8,072 of which were PCR and 11116 were antigenic assays.
"It should be noted that so many samples were never processed in one day," said the director of Digepi.
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Doctor crooked He took advantage of weekly meetings with the press to make calls to avoid crowds and maintain the use of masks.
"Let's avoid participating in large events. That micron Don't stand in front of situations like birthdays, parties. to virus he likes places where there are a lot of people gathered together. Avoid crowds. That micron it is transmitted very easily, very fast. Let's take care of our health and that of our neighbors. It is up to us that we can control the situation, as the authority we can give it advice, but it's up to each citizen to follow suit advice and thus can reduce and control this pandemic"He recommended.
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Lilley Hertfordshire
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Lilley, Hertfordshire
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In 1870-72, John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales described Lilley like this:
LILLEY, or LINDLEY, a village and a parish in Hitchin district, Herts. The village stands near the boundary with Beds, 4 miles N NE of Luton r. station, and 5 WSW of Hitchin; and has a post office under Luton. The parish contains also part of the hamlet of Mangrove. Acres, 1,822. Real property, £2,657. ...
Pop. in 1851, 528; in 1861,480. Houses, 100. The property is divided among a few. The manor belonged formerly to the Dockwras family. A park at Putteridge-Bury belongs to George Sowerby, Esq. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Rochester. Value, £500.* Patron, St. John's College, Cambridge. The church is ancient, but good., and consists of nave, chancel, and S porch, with small wooden spire.
Lilley through time
Lilley is now part of North Hertfordshire district. Click here for graphs and data of how North Hertfordshire has changed over two centuries. For statistics about Lilley itself, go to Units and Statistics.
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Client puzzle based on the interval discrete logarithm problem.
Client puzzles are cryptographic problems that are neither easy nor hard to solve. Most puzzles are based on either number theoretic or hash inversions problems. Hash-based puzzles are very efficient but so far have been shown secure only in the random oracle model; number theoretic puzzles, while secure in the standard model, tend to be inefficient. In this paper, we solve the problem of constructing cryptographic puzzles that are secure in the standard model and are very efficient. We present an efficient number theoretic puzzle that satisfies the puzzle security definition of Chen et al. (ASIACRYPT 2009). To prove the security of our puzzle, we introduce a new variant of the interval discrete logarithm assumption which may be of independent interest, and show this new problem to be hard under reasonable assumptions. Our experimental results show that, for 512-bit modulus, the solution verification time of our proposed puzzle can be up to 50x and 89x faster than the Karame-Čapkun puzzle and Rivest et al.'s time-lock puzzle respectively. In particular, the solution verification time of our puzzle is only 1.4x slower than that of Chen et al.'s efficient hash based puzzle.
Lakshmi Kuppusamy, Jothi Rangasamy, Douglas Stebila, Colin Boyd, Juan González Nieto. Practical client puzzles in the standard model. In Proc. 7th ACM Symposium on Information, Computer and Communications Security (ASIACCS) 2012, pp. 42-43. ACM, May 2012. © ACM.


After months of positive and proactive communication between the New York State Department of Health (DOH), the offices of State Sen. Simcha Felder and HamaspikCare, it's official: Any household member of a person getting DOH-approved CDPAS services can serve as an aide.
That now means that members of the "sandwich generation"—people with their own homes and families who are also caring for their own parents—can serve as personal aides to their own parents with home-care needs, even if those parents are living with them in their home. It also means that they can serve as aides to grandparents, siblings or any family member under the same roof.
Under the Consumer Directed Personal Aide Service (CDPAS), a New York State Medicaid program, seniors needing help around the house can be provided with a personal aide.
Personal aides are readily available for qualifying seniors through community home-care agencies like HamaspikCare.
While CDPAS rules allow for children and other relatives to serve as aides for their beloved parents or grandparents, they couldn't do that if they lived with their parents or grandparents.
A joint effort by Sen. Felder and staff and HamaspikCare Downstate Director Mordechai Wolhendler resulted in a late-June clarification from the DOH: Immediate relatives living in the same home as CDPAS beneficiaries may be personal aides for those beneficiaries.
The clarification is effective immediately, Wolhendler tells the Gazette—adding a reminder that personal aides must always be at least 18 years of age.
The clarification is the second improvement to an increasingly responsive state program.
In April of this year, in another breakthrough also championed by Sen. Felder, the DOH allowed for parents to serve as CDPAS aides to their own adult children with special needs who live with them at home—as long at said children with disabilities are age 21 or older.
That successful effort was a response to numerous parents faced with the choice of caring for their children with disabilities at home and not going to work, or going out to work and leaving their adult children at home alone with no help (or outside help).
For more information, please contact HamaspikCare at 718- 408-6700 (Brooklyn), 845-503-0700 (Hudson Valley), or intake@hamaspikcare.org.


About a week or so ago, 3 of the remaining 5 Divas sat down to dinner after long days at work. We are down to 4 because Diva Sarah moved out some time back and into her own place. Diva Jeanne was not home so it was me, mom and my sister Boo. Dinner was beans and rice, mixed with spicy corn, onions…a Diva Den favorite ever since beans & rice week at church.
About 7 years ago my mom was hit with a cancer diagnosis of cancer of the appendix. Yes, I know, who the heck gets that anyway? It didn't even sound real but it was and they removed the appendix and part of her colon, did a chemo wash (super heated chemo fluid in the abdominal cavity for 45 minutes) and we prayed it got it. This cancer is so dang rare they haven't figured out a way to cure it. 3 more times in the past 5 years it came back, same place in the abdominal cavity. Each time mom had surgery, they removed it, and once she actually did chemo but it was too much so she stopped. The medical pros know chemo likely won't do much but it was worth the try.
After beans and rice, mom informed me and my sister that her cancer had returned, there is another tumor. It isn't small and it came on quickly from the last scans. This time, even though they will do some mild chemo, there is nothing left to do. The area is so burned and scarred that there isn't anything left and there are simply no real options with this kind of cancer. Average life expectancy once you are diagnose with this is 5-7 years. We're coming up on that 7 years. In fact the doctor said she has about a year, give or take a few months, an chemo might buy a few months just depends how mom tolerates it.
I cried that night after I let it sink in, and I've had some teary moments since. But over all I'm just comfortably numb. The women in my family generally have to get our ducks in a row when crisis hits before we will allow ourselves to feel and have a melt down. Those ducks haven't been gathered yet. She had to inform family first and we've been kicking ideas around as far as do we keep the Diva Den or not. My sister and I want too, but this house is not inexpensive to maintain. And seriously 3 of us (and eventually 2 of us) rattling around in 2500 square foot of home is kinda nuts.
This morning I was talking to my mom and mentioned that it might be good to down size while she is feeling good. She is retiring soon and we could purge like crazy and find a more manageable house that my sister and I can then easily maintain and sell this one. We love this house but it was kind of a transitional thing. I was getting divorced, Boo was back home with mom along with her girls, and it was time to find a place for all of us. We knew the girls would eventually move out, and mom wasn't going to live forever. We just never imagined she'd be looking at a year. Heck I care for residents who have 20 years on her so I was hoping to have her around that much longer. But it is not to be. So, it looks as if it is time for the next transition as far as find the Diva Den II.
It's funny, I had already realized what a blessing the curse of the divorce had been for me. I hated it, I loved my husband and did not wish to be released to explore new opportunities. But I saw the blessing in that mom's final years would be spent with me and my sister, making great memories and not many adults get this opportunity to spend with their parent. I just had hoped for many more years and memories.
The landscape is changing on me and I'm just not sure where it will go next. I usually like change, but this is one time I'm not looking forward to it one stinking bit.
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Thank you! I know with prayer and leaning on each other we'll get through it.


Just finished my third week's training with Pete Stirling, our skipper on Team Jamaica, and new crew mates. We set off on Tuesday afternoon and, apart from a brief re-stocking visit to Gosport, spent the week at sea on one of the brand new Clipper 70s. We had everything from baking flat calm conditions ( are we moving?) to Force 7 in the black of night. The hardest part was definitely getting used to the 4 hours on 4 off regime which is standard for the race, but also pretty exhausting.
On Friday we had a "Le Mans" race start just outside Portsmouth for the Clipper boats and raced hard for the next 33 hours to a first win for Team Pete. Let's hope that is a sign of things to come.
Next stop is Gosport in mid August to help with the boat prep and then delivery up to London for race start, and no doubt some last minute practice en route. It is suddenly feeling very real with the excitement, anticipation and some trepidation all building up to race start in 35 days time.


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Midnight queues for Harry's book in Britain – Spare released (photos)
As soon as the doors of the bookstores opened, customers were "grabbing" the book even through the bags, since the employees did not have time to fill the display cases.
Shortly after 12 midnight, Prince Harry's acclaimed book "The Spare" (Spare) was released in Britain and hundreds of people queued outside bookshops to be the first to get a copy.
"I really want to hear from the horse's mouth. I want to know why the young man left the country he loved and was ready to die for": Fans queue for midnight release of Prince Harry's book https://t.co/LbXHjs4MUs
— Sky News (@SkyNews) January 10, 2023
One shopper described the Duke of Sussex's decision to write the book and tell his story as "incredibly brave and brave", while another bought his "explosive" memoir because he wanted to "know the story first hand".
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Karmo Tüür. Source: ERR
Russia is playing on the differences between the European Union and the Council of Europe, which has the potential to cause considerable confusion, political scientist Karmo Tüür said on Tuesday, commenting on the decision of the council's parliamentary assembly to readmit Russia.
According to Tüür, the skill with which Russia has played one European institution against the other is very impressive. "Russia has considerable influence on the Council of Europe, starting with money, because member states pay a membership fee, and the whole organization depends on that," Tüür pointed out.
When after the illegal annexation of Crimea in 2014, the Council of Europe suspended Russia's voting rights, the latter opted for a tit-for-tat response—and refused to pay its membership fee of €33 million a year, tearing a hole into the council's budget.
In addition to the council and its officials' proper funding, there have been indications that Russia is influencing people in other ways as well, for example through business and investment schemes involving council and member states' officials across all political levels, Tüür said.
That Russia's voting rights on the council were restored on Tuesday means that its delegation can participate in the vote to elect a new secretary-general for the council. Russia promptly submitted a candidacy of its own in the person of Leonid Slutsky.
Slutsky was among the first Russian officials against which sanctions were imposed following the annexation of Crimea. As such, his candidacy alone has the potential to stir up considerable confusion, Tüür commented.
"Russia very skilfully has been playing on the differences between the Council of Europe and the European Union. As the sanctions [against Russia] were imposed by the EU, forcing its own man on the Council of Europe could cause serious confusion," he added.
According to Tüür, the fact is working in Russia's favor that the council has members as well that aren't in the EU. "The Council of Europe was founded immediately after the war to unite all of Europe's countries. It currently has 47 members, compared to the EU's 27. The EU was founded a good deal later. There are differences in the make-up of the organizations' members, aims, and also procedures," Tüür pointed out.
The two European institutions are completely different organizations. The only thing they have in common is that they both mention Europe in their names, Tüür said.
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In April 2013 NHS England launched Operational Delivery Networks (ODNs) following the publication of the NHS England strategy to sustain and develop clinical networks. Adult Critical Care are one of the first clinical networks to become and ODNs together with Major Trauma, Burns Care and Neonatal Critical Care.
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Arapahoe County District Attorney George Brauchler, a Republican, speaking to the Lincoln Club in Denver earlier this summer.
DENVER — Arapahoe County District Attorney George Brauchler sounded every bit a gubernatorial candidate during a speech Wednesday before a group of Republicans, spending more than 40 minutes harshly criticizing Democratic Gov. John Hickenlooper mostly over his decision earlier this year to grant a reprieve to convicted murderer Nathan Dunlap.
"He's made himself the guardian angel of the worst mass murderer in recent Colorado history," Brauchler told the Lincoln Club over lunch at the Denver Athletic Club.
Brauchler, who is being recruited by some prominent Republicans to enter the GOP gubernatorial primary field, has yet to decide if he'll challenge Hickenlooper next year — mostly because doing so would force him to step away from the prosecution of the high profile death penalty case against Aurora theater shooter James Holmes.
But his speech, a combination of legal argument, sharp one-liners and PowerPoint slides — all building a case against the governor — and his audience, a group of influential Republicans used to being courted by conservatives seeking elected office, made it seem like his campaign is already underway.
The speech was, ostensibly, about the death penalty, which Brauchler strongly supports.
After telling the group that he's not legally able to discuss the Holmes case, he gave a quick overview of capital punishment in Colorado, touching on the cases of two of the state's current death row inmates, Sir Mario Owens and Robert Ray.
But it's the subject of the third of those death row inmates, Nathan Dunlap, and Hickenlooper's decision in May to grant him an indefinite reprieve, that transofrmed Brauchler from a run-of-the-mill politician running through a PowerPoint presentation into a compelling, forceful orator.
"It was a cold, winter's night," he said, beginning to re-tell the story of Dunlap's murder, describing the scene, humanizing the victims, one who was a "single mother of two", painting a picture of Dunlap "psyching himself up in the bathroom" and even verbally reenacting an old interview Dunlap did with former KUSA reporter Paula Woodward in which the killer admitted the cold-blooded killings and showed no remorse for what he'd done.
Brauchler spun the narrative to its familiar climax, describing his May meeting with Hickenlooper and the phone call he got from the governor's lawyer 20 minutes before the reprieve was announced and, finally, the announcement itself in vivid detail.
"He takes to the podium and he's got these props — a priest, a rabbi, Stan Garnett from Boulder — people to make everyone else think what he's doing is normal," Brauchler said, as he rebutted Hickenlooper's explanation for the reprieve almost point by point.
Incidentally, it was Brauchler's strong criticism of Hickenlooper that day on the Capitol's west steps that sparked the first suggestions that he challenge the governor himself.
Wednesday, as he finished his remarks and took a handful of questions, a final slide filled the projector screen with a single word: leadership.
Should Brauchler enter the race, that broad attack on Hickenlooper — that he's a nice guy or, as Brauchler has tweeted, a fine "state bartender", who can't make tough decisions — will be the overarching theme of his campaign, just as Colorado's new gun laws are the primary ammunition source for state Sen. Greg Brophy, R-Wray, who entered the race this month.
Interestingly, Brauchler applauded the lawsuit by a majority of Colorado sheriffs challenging those new gun laws, but said the lawmen should enforce the law as long as it's on the books.
"This isn't as simple as saying 'I disagree so I won't enforce it'," he said, arguing that "democratically-enacted laws must be uniformly enforced", whether the law in question is capital punishment or one that limits the size of magazines.
Former congressman and anti-illegal immigration crusader Tom Tancredo, who challenged Hickenlooper as a third-party candidate in 2010, is also in the race; and Secretary of State Scott Gessler, who has formed an exploratory committee, is likely to fully declare himself a candidate in the coming weeks or months.
But Brauchler is the wild card — the intriguing fresh face, the guy with little political baggage in the way of partisan votes and many think he's the right guy to carry the right message — who better than a former military prosecutor to hit Hickenlooper on leadership?
That said, running for governor less than a year after being elected district attorney and having to walk away from the case he was essentially elected to prosecute carries serious political risk, never mind the tall order of beating a strong incumbent, no matter how increasingly partisan he may appear, in a state with a long history of returning incumbents to office.


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5 Killed, 10 Injured In Weekend Shootings Across Baltimore
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BALTIMORE, MD (WJZ) — Another violent weekend in Baltimore. Five people were killed and 10 were injured in shootings throughout the weekend across the city.
Twelve shootings were reported on Saturday alone. Police Commissioner Michael Harrison called the violence "deeply disturbing" and addressed the public Sunday afternoon.
"Just like we said last week when we made 7 arrests for people wanted for murder, and now we are making sure that they are held accountable, we are continuing to work to do that." said Harrison.
Monday morning, Mayor Jack Young addressed the rash of violence.
"To the credit of the Baltimore City Police Department they have made some arrests on some of the murders, and that's to show the public that we are serious about bringing those responsible for those murders to justice." Mayor Young said.
Three young women were shot in the 700 block of North Patterson Park in East Baltimore early Saturday morning. Police said they believe it started with an argument inside a club. Once the women left, they were stopped at a traffic light when another car started shooting in their direction.
One of the women inside the car later died at the hospital.
The other four deaths happened along Broening Highway, North Hilton Street, Cliftmont Avenue and Bloomingdale Road.
"I've been also working with our patrol division to redeploy our resources to include swat, canine and our traffic unit to the affected areas." Harrison said.
Then three more people were shot on Sunday.
Around 6:21 p.m., officers were called to the 3100 block of West North Avenue where they found a 20-year-old man and a 21-year-old man with gunshot wounds.
The victims were taken to an area hospital for treatment.
At 6:53 p.m., officers were called to an area hospital to investigate a walk-in shooting victim who was seeking treatment. Investigators have not ruled out that the walk-in shooting victim could be connected to the West North Avenue shooting.
Southwest District detectives were called to the scene and assumed control over the investigation.
Anyone with information is urged to contact Southwest District Shooting detectives, at 410-396-2488.
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The trug dates back to 16th century England. It wasn't until the Victorian era that trugs became more popular and were more widely used throughout the British Isles.
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ICONSENSUS is a journey toward mass adoption of blockchain consisting of four key items: the election of P-Reps(Public Representatives) to decentralize the network, the election of C-Reps (Community Representatives) to support interchain communication, ongoing DBPs (DApp Booster Programs) to fund and promote quality decentralized applications, and ongoing EEPs (Ecosystem Expansion Projects) to incentivize activities that grow the ICON Ecosystem. All of this is only possible through the continued support, enthusiasm, and growth of the ICON community.
The election of P-Reps is the first milestone of ICONSENSUS. Pre-registration for ICON P-Rep candidacy starts on January 17th, 2019. We look forward to seeing which members of the ICON community register for a chance to become one of the first P-Reps on the ICON Network.
Decentralization is one of the core principles of ICON's governance, and it can only be achieved with the help of the community. 22 P-Reps elected by all participating ICONists will have the distributed responsibility of preserving the ICON Network, producing and verifying blocks, validating transactions, proposing and voting on network policy changes, and driving the growth of the ICON Ecosystem. As a result of stake delegation from ICONists, P-Reps gain economic benefits and voting weight.
ICONists delegate their stake to P-Reps through voting. Voting for a P-Rep is a critical action all ICONists are strongly encouraged to take. Every P-Rep may propose different policies in regards to transaction fees, decision-making processes, reward amounts, etc., all of which significantly impact the ICON Network. ICONists who vote will be rewarded with the right to a certain portion of block rewards.
ICONSENSUS, driven by the active participation of ICONists, does not end with the P-Rep election. It spreads with various other projects and campaigns pushing toward mass adoption. ICONists will have additional opportunities to help nurture the ICON Ecosystem through voting on 'Ecosystem Expansion Projects' (EEP), which any ICONist can propose for network growth, 'Community Representatives' (C-Rep), who will connect ICON and other heterogeneous blockchain networks, and 'DApp Booster Programs' (DBP), which would allocate a portion of block rewards to a specific decentralized application.
In the spirit of open source and decentralization, the expansion of the blockchain ecosystem comes down to the community that supports it. ICONSENSUS will lead to disruptive innovation through organic ecosystem expansion driven by EEPs, diversified DApp business models and the connection of different blockchain platforms through C-Reps.
ICONists will play a pivotal role in propagating the disruptive potential of blockchain. Vote, Spread, and Disrupt, this is how ICONists can help push the vision of a hyperconnected world. Get involved in ICONSENSUS and be a part of this disruptive innovation.
ICONists participating in this election will be rewarded for delegating their stake to P-Reps. Given the importance of this milestone, ICONists should be rewarded accordingly for participating. Voting for P-Rep candidates that determine and implement the right policy is paramount for the long-term development and success of the ICON network.
ICONists who delegate their stake will receive the 'Representative delegation reward' according to the amount of delegated stake. This reward is paid in the form of I-Score, which is convertible through the Public Treasury for ICX. The exchange rate is fixed at ICX : I-Score = 1 : 1000. When an ICONist claims their ICX, their I-Score is extinguished and the corresponding ICX is paid to their account from the Public Treasury.
Additionally, the representatives receiving delegated stake will receive a Representative reward. For more information, please reference the ICON yellow paper part 3 — IISS.
Since the P-Rep election is run by the community and for the community, the overall process is powered by icon.community, the community-run election website. ICONists can register as a candidate, browse the candidate list by region, enjoy the latest news, and be connected on Telegram, so join icon.community now!
"ICONSENSUS, the Journey Toward Mass Adoption" was originally published in Hello ICON World on Medium, where people are continuing the conversation by highlighting and responding to this story.


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// BpmDetector.cs
//
// Author:
//   Gabriel Burt <gburt@novell.com>
//
// Copyright (C) 2008 Novell, Inc.
//
// Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining
// a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the
// "Software"), to deal in the Software without restriction, including
// without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish,
// distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to
// permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to
// the following conditions:
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// The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be
// included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software.
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// THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND,
// EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF
// MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND
// NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE
// LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION
// OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION
// WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE.
//

using System;
using System.Collections;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Runtime.InteropServices;

using Mono.Unix;

using Hyena;
using Hyena.Data;

using Banshee.Base;
using Banshee.Streaming;
using Banshee.MediaEngine;
using Banshee.ServiceStack;
using Banshee.Configuration;
using Banshee.Preferences;

namespace Banshee.GStreamer
{
    public class BpmDetector : IBpmDetector
    {
        private HandleRef handle;
        private SafeUri current_uri;
        private Dictionary<int, int> bpm_histogram = new Dictionary<int, int> ();

        private BpmDetectorProgressHandler progress_cb;
        private BpmDetectorFinishedHandler finished_cb;
        //private BpmDetectorErrorHandler error_cb;

        public event BpmEventHandler FileFinished;

        public BpmDetector ()
        {
            try {
                handle = new HandleRef (this, bbd_new ());

                progress_cb = new BpmDetectorProgressHandler (OnNativeProgress);
                bbd_set_progress_callback (handle, progress_cb);

                finished_cb = new BpmDetectorFinishedHandler (OnNativeFinished);
                bbd_set_finished_callback (handle, finished_cb);
            } catch (Exception e) {
                throw new ApplicationException (Catalog.GetString ("Could not create BPM detection driver."), e);
            }
        }

        public void Dispose ()
        {
            Reset ();

            bbd_destroy (handle);
            handle = new HandleRef (this, IntPtr.Zero);
        }

        public void Cancel ()
        {
            Dispose ();
        }

        public bool IsDetecting {
            get { return bbd_get_is_detecting (handle); }
        }

        private void Reset ()
        {
            current_uri = null;
            bpm_histogram.Clear ();
        }

        public void ProcessFile (SafeUri uri)
        {
            Reset ();
            current_uri = uri;

            string path = uri.LocalPath;
            IntPtr path_ptr = GLib.Marshaller.StringToPtrGStrdup (path);
            try {
                Log.DebugFormat ("GStreamer running beat detection on {0}", path);
                bbd_process_file (handle, path_ptr);
            } catch (Exception e) {
                Log.Error (e);
            } finally {
                GLib.Marshaller.Free (path_ptr);
            }
        }

        private void OnFileFinished (SafeUri uri, int bpm)
        {
            BpmEventHandler handler = FileFinished;
            if (handler != null) {
                handler (this, new BpmEventArgs (uri, bpm));
            }
        }

        private void OnNativeProgress (double bpm)
        {
            int rounded = (int) Math.Round (bpm);
            if (!bpm_histogram.ContainsKey(rounded)) {
                bpm_histogram[rounded] = 1;
            } else {
                bpm_histogram[rounded]++;
            }
        }

        private void OnNativeFinished ()
        {
            SafeUri uri = current_uri;

            int best_bpm = -1, best_bpm_count = 0;
            foreach (int bpm in bpm_histogram.Keys) {
                int count = bpm_histogram[bpm];
                if (count > best_bpm_count) {
                    best_bpm_count = count;
                    best_bpm = bpm;
                }
            }

            Reset ();
            OnFileFinished (uri, best_bpm);
        }

        /*private void OnNativeError (IntPtr error, IntPtr debug)
        {
            string error_message = GLib.Marshaller.Utf8PtrToString (error);

            if (debug != IntPtr.Zero) {
                string debug_string = GLib.Marshaller.Utf8PtrToString (debug);
                if (!String.IsNullOrEmpty (debug_string)) {
                    error_message = String.Format ("{0}: {1}", error_message, debug_string);
                }
            }

            Log.Debug (error_message);
            SafeUri uri = current_uri;
            Reset ();
            OnFileFinished (uri, 0);
        }*/

        private delegate void BpmDetectorProgressHandler (double bpm);
        private delegate void BpmDetectorFinishedHandler ();
        //private delegate void BpmDetectorErrorHandler (IntPtr error, IntPtr debug);

        [DllImport ("libbanshee.dll")]
        private static extern IntPtr bbd_new ();

        [DllImport ("libbanshee.dll")]
        private static extern void bbd_destroy (HandleRef handle);

        [DllImport ("libbanshee.dll")]
        private static extern bool bbd_get_is_detecting (HandleRef handle);

        [DllImport ("libbanshee.dll")]
        private static extern void bbd_process_file (HandleRef handle, IntPtr path);

        [DllImport ("libbanshee.dll")]
        private static extern void bbd_set_progress_callback (HandleRef handle, BpmDetectorProgressHandler callback);

        [DllImport ("libbanshee.dll")]
        private static extern void bbd_set_finished_callback (HandleRef handle, BpmDetectorFinishedHandler callback);

        //[DllImport ("libbanshee.dll")]
        //private static extern void bbd_set_error_callback (HandleRef handle, BpmDetectorErrorHandler callback);
    }
}


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import (
	"fmt"
	"net/http"
	"io/ioutil"
)

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	response,_ := http.Get("http://www.baidu.com")
	defer response.Body.Close()
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Star Trek Hits 800 TV Episodes & Movies With No Sign Of Slowing Down
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Star Trek has reached a truly monumental mark – a combined total of 800 movies and TV episodes over the course of its 54 year duration. With Star Trek: Discovery, Star Trek: Picard, Star Trek: Short Treks and Star Trek: Lower Decks all currently producing new episodes, and plans for more theatrical films on the way, the franchise is showing no sign of slowing down any time soon. Even so long after the original series first began airing, Star Trek remains a titan of the sci-fi genre.
While always a major force in the world of science fiction, Star Trek saw a bit of a decline at the beginning of the 21st century. The combined popularity of the original series, subsequent films and The Next Generation made the franchise a household name for decades, but the lesser success of Voyager in the late '90s and the relatively poor reception to Enterprise led to a temporary hiatus. That break didn't last long though, as J.J. Abrams's film series relaunched Star Trek for a new generation. Now, as Paramount looks to compete with Disney and Warner Bros. in the branded content space, Star Trek is expanding more rapidly than ever.
That expansion hit a major milestone to cap off 2020 – 800 total combined TV episodes and films to date. Star Trek-centric Twitter account declared the news in a celebratory post, commemorating the franchise's 10 unique TV series and 13 movies. Simply running for over 50 years is an accomplishment in itself, but it's particularly impressive given how much new Star Trek content is currently being created and how much more is planned for the near future.
In addition to the four shows currently on the air, Paramount has announced plans for a number of upcoming projects. These new series include Star Trek: Strange New Worlds, which will follow the original Enterprise through its early adventures under Captain Pike, and Star Trek: Prodigy, an animated series targeted at younger viewers. With so much new material on the way, Star Trek is well on its way to hitting the 1,000 mark before too long.
Right now, the franchise's biggest question mark is its film series. Theatrical Trek projects have been temporarily suspended by Paramount, and while several different rumored pitches have floated around, nothing concrete has been revealed so far. Movies have been a cornerstone of the series since before The Next Generation, and they are sure to return somewhere down the line. For the time being though, new Star Trek shows and Paramount+ seem to be the way forward.
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Erdoğan says Turkey will boycott US electronic products
Keywords:Trump administrationTurkey President Erdogan
Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has said Turkey will boycott electronic products from the US, as he issued another defiant response to the US sanctions imposed in a dispute over the detention of an American evangelical pastor.The US measures have accelerated a currency crisis in Turkey, though the lira rallied slightly on Tuesday, from a low of 7 against the dollar on Monday night to about 6.5 at noon (1000 BST) in Istanbul.
"We will boycott US electronic products," the Turkish president said. "If they have iPhone, the other side has Samsung. In our country there is Venus, Vestel [the Turkish smartphone brands]."Erdoğan also railed against what he called a larger and deeper operation against Turkey. "They do not refrain from using the economy as a weapon against us, as they tried in the areas of diplomacy, military, or efforts for social and political instability," he said.Meanwhile, the American pastor Andrew Brunson, whose continued detention over espionage allegations provoked the latest crisis, said through his lawyer that he was appealing against his house arrest and travel ban.
Brunson was detained in October 2016, three months after a failed coup attempt against the Turkish president, widely believed in Turkey to have been led by the exiled leader of the Gülen political movement, Fethullah Gülen, who has lived in the US state of Pennsylvania for the past two decades.
Turkey's central bank took measures on Monday to improve liquidity but they were seen as insufficient to stem the currency slide. Erdoğan said he believed the lira would soon stabilise at a reasonable rate, but investors believe the structural problems at the root of the crisis have not been resolved.
Erdoğan's defiance indicated that he had little appetite to resolve the diplomatic spat with the US. He has said the judiciary will rule independently on the case, and any move to release Brunson could be seen domestically as caving in to Washington.
Instead he has portrayed his country as under assault by external forces and as having been betrayed by a Nato ally. Late on Monday, Donald Trump signed a defence bill that would block Ankara's access to the stealth F-35 fighter jet, which Turkey has helped build.The US Congress published the text of a bipartisan bill on Tuesday that among other things includes restrictions on investment in new Russian sovereign debt and bans several state-run Russian banks from operating in the US.Russia's foreign minister, Sergei Lavrov, said on Tuesday that US sanctions against Ankara and Moscow were an illegitimate policy and a way for the US to obtain an unfair competitive advantage in global trade. Lavrov was speaking at a joint press conference with his Turkish counterpart, Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu, in Ankara.
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Data Collection Best Practices for Higher Ed
March 29, 2022 | BI Reports, Data, Product
Usage data collection can empower IT teams to make proactive decisions and meet the needs of users and stakeholders across their organization.
How do you sort through endless faculty requests for software and competing budget priorities when managing IT for your university? And then once you make a decision–like expanding a computer lab, reducing software licenses, or upgrading hardware, how do you justify it to the administration?
Position for Accuracy
Accuracy isn't just about collecting usage statistics, it's about filtering and segmenting the data to ensure your results are a true reflection of your environment.
Filter out holidays
Separate remote use from in-person uses
Account for schedules
Consider dual-use spaces
Reallocate hardware that's moved to a new location
Related: Understanding Schedules in LabStats
Monitor Everything by Default
When monitoring hardware, think beyond computer labs and the library. Consider a whole-campus deployment, including classroom machines, public computer labs, kiosks, staff desktops and laptops, podium computers and more. Don't limit insights to a single department or college.
Software should also be monitored at scale. LabStats automatically monitors 200 software applications, and also covers version changes for the most common applications. In addition to the automatically tracked applications, be sure to turn on tracking for any other software that's widely deployed, high cost or that you simply want to understand.
You'd be surprised at how many professors request SPSS licenses for their students, while the students end up using R instead. Consider tracking both Photoshop and GIMP for the same reason. Tracking similar applications (whether paid or free) can reveal a lot about student tendencies and where your budget and teaching should be focused.
Prepare for Compliance
Student and university data is subject to significant regulations. These regulations apply whether you use an outside service or a home-grown solution, and dictate everything from security and encryption to data residency, accessibility and repackaging.
Becoming compliant with all these regulations is hard work and very time consuming. Partnering with a company that works exclusively with higher education, and is familiar with regulations, can be an advantage.
LabStats is compliant with many industry leading best practices and governmental regulations, and has been vetted and accepted by hundreds of IT and security departments at universities around the world. We use a leading cloud provider, Microsoft Azure, for delivering services with the highest compliance and attestation offering. LabStats also actively seeks to maintain GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation) compliance and is willing to help institutions understand their roles and regulations in processing data.
Related: Why Compliance Matters and What it Means for You
Prioritize Efficiency
Data can be collected in a variety of ways, but efficiency matters. If it takes you longer to collect and analyze the data than it's worth, try an automated solution instead.
Mount Royal University used to rely on manual processes to track lab activity. They would typically lose a full-time staff member for 1-2 weeks for number crunching and creating graphs to make data useful. The perception from the manual process was that all the labs were fully utilized.
After rolling out LabStats, they were able to find four labs, of around 25 computers each, that were underutilized. Cutting these labs saved the university $25,000 in hardware costs alone and freed up the rooms to be used for instruction.
Democratize Data
Keeping usage data insights siloed in IT limits its effectiveness. Rather than compiling reports, and having decision makers wait until they have the data, you can give them direct access to LabStats so they can access the data themselves at any time.
Watch the video to see the process in action: LabStats 101: How to Invite Users.
You can also use LabStats' API to export usage data to business intelligence tools such as Power BI, and quickly create dashboards for relevant stakeholders.
Start collecting data as early as possible, and before you think you'll need it. You can pull insights from usage data within a few weeks, but long-term trends can only be identified if you have long-term data.
LabStats provides the data to help university IT teams identify new ways to support faculty, staff and students with the tech they need to thrive, and get ahead of impending challenges.
To start collecting usage data with LabStats, contact us for a free trial.


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Quinn, Falcons not panicking after latest blown lead
By Kevin Patra
Published: Oct. 16, 2017 at 09:37 a.m.
Updated: Oct. 16, 2017 at 10:49 a.m.
Romo: Jason Witten will pick up where he left off
The Atlanta Falcons have held a second-half lead in all five games this season. In the first three, they came within a few whiskers of dropping each only to eke out victories. In the last two games, Dan Quinn's team faltered down the stretch. Sunday's 20-17 loss to the Miami Dolphins saw a 17-0 halftime lead wiped away.
The inability to hold the lead will be the storyline heading into a rematch with the Super Bowl champion New England Patriots next Sunday.
Quinn called the Week 6 loss a "tale of two halves," but said he didn't think the late-game struggles were a "systematic" or "game management" issue.
"I wouldn't say it's a letdown. It's not a case of like a letdown," Quinn said when asked why teams are able to close the game in the second half. "Sometimes, and I'm not saying this is [the case], but you can over-try. I'm trying so hard not to foul up, and you're not playing into your own self. We'll look at everything. We looked at the four games that we had. We liked some closes that we had..."
Sunday's closing was a collapse in all three phases, as the NFC champs saw a 17-point lead wiped away. The Falcons defense allowed a heretofore punchless Miami offense to score on five straight second-half possessions to take the lead. The offense got bulled at the line of scrimmage and didn't score in the second half, with Matt Ryan throwing the game-ending interception in field goal range.
"Hats off to them today. They were the better team," Falcons wide receiver Julio Jones said of the Dolphins, via Vaughn McClure of ESPN.com. "But it's on us. It's a player-led team. We've got to find ways to win games. ... We just have to go out there and finish the game."
Heading into next weekend's matchup with the Patriots, the 28-3 memes are sure to be everywhere as the talk of a Super Bowl hangover looms after another second-half collapse.
"We've got to reset," safety Ricardo Allen said. "It ain't no other way. What you going to do, just lay down? There's s--- else you can do. You've got be a man. You've got to know what we work for when we wake up every morning. What we grind for. What this team stands for. We've got to reset."
Added Vic Beasley: "I feel like we have to have a short-term memory. We've got a big game coming up with New England, the Super Bowl rematch. If we want to go back to where we were last year, we've got to definitely win."
With the Patriots rallying for the win and the Falcons again falling on their face, the narratives are set for a rematch of the most epic Super Bowl comeback in history.


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Love, Simon is a story of a seventeen-year old guy who has yet to tell his family or friends that he's gay and he doesn't actually know the identity of the anonymous classmate he's fallen for online. The movie is a funny and heartfelt coming-of-age story about the thrilling ride of finding yourself and falling in love. This is directed by Greg Berlanti under 20th Century Fox.
Cast: Nick Robinson, Katherine Langford, Alexandra Shipp, Josh Duhamel, Logan Miller, Jorge Lendeborg, Tony Hale, Jennifer Garner, Keiynan Lonsdale, Miles Heizer, Colton Haynes & Joey Pollari
Love, Simon has every formula to be a wonderful coming-of-age film that benefits mostly from its light-hearted plot and humor that is scattered into proportional amounts all throughout the movie. This is a Gay Film to be direct but as the story progresses, the movie will open your eyes to different topics about Family, Friends, Choices in life and somehow talks about life in a whole new perspective. This is a conservative Gay movie that need not to be offensive because of some obscene visuals but rather a film that will capture your hearts and emotions from effective character development and charming characters. With regards to Love, Simon's plot, it is just simple. Simon has a huge ass secret and he is so afraid to come out. He met a mysterious person online undergoing the same dilemma. The beautiful love story started from that point. What I like about the movie is the simplicity of its approach to showcase a typical teenager in a school setting, surrounded with friends and challenged with various circumstances that will test his identity and preference. The Cinematography is good. Musical Scoring was on point. Scenes need not to be complicated to be funny and heartwarming because it comes out naturally from beginning to end. I really loved Nick Robinson here. He was impressive. His acting skill was the film's major strength. He was so effective in portraying a confused teenager and you as audience can almost feel that he is always holding hid breath as if it will explode any moment. You can almost feel his apprehensions. With that, he was effective as an actor. Other contrast of the characters were also a good move to add spice in the movie. Love, Simon is like a rhythm of the falling rain that has one direction and is consistent with its premise. The build up of the mystery from Simon's love interest up to the film's conflict, the director was able to pull-off a good job with the whole execution. The conflict materials was on point. The resolution of the movie also gave justice to the build-up the story demands. Overall, Love, Simon is of the best and most conservative Gay movies I have seen in Hollywood. I highly recommend this movie to everyone.
Well, I was hoping for a longer frame for Nick Robinson/s topless scenes. LOL!
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Posted on 07/17/2009 by Jeff Lineberger, P. E.
Structural failure refers to loss of the load-carrying capacity of a part or member within a structure or of the structure itself. Structural failure is initiated when the material is stressed to its strength limit, thus causing fracture or excessive deformations. The ultimate failure strength of the material, part or system is its greatest load-bearing capacity. When this limit is reached, damage to the material has been done, and its load-bearing capacity is reduced permanently, significantly and quickly. In a well-designed system, a localized failure should not cause immediate or even progressive collapse of the entire structure. Ultimate failure strength is one of the limit states that must be accounted for in structural engineering and structural design.
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On 24 May, 1847 the Dee bridge collapsed as a train passed over it, with the loss of 5 lives. It was designed by Robert Stephenson, using cast iron girders reinforced with wrought iron struts. The bridge collapse was the subject of one of the first formal inquiries into a structural failure. The result of the inquiry was that the design of the structure was fundamentally flawed, as the wrought iron did not reinforce the cast iron at all, and due to repeated flexing it suffered a brittle failure due to fatigue.
First Tay Rail Bridge
The Dee bridge disaster was followed by a number of cast iron bridge collapses, including the collapse of the first Tay Rail Bridge on 28 December 1879. Like the Dee bridge, the Tay collapsed when a train passed over it causing 75 people to lose their lives. The bridge failed because of poorly made cast iron, and the failure of the designer Thomas Bouch to consider wind loading on the bridge. The collapse resulted in cast iron largely being replaced by steel construction, and a complete redesign in 1890 of the Forth Railway Bridge. As a result, the Forth Bridge was the first entirely steel bridge in the world.
First Tacoma Narrows Bridge
The 1940 collapse of Tacoma Narrows Bridge, as the original Tacoma Narrows Bridge is known, is sometimes characterized in physics textbooks as a classical example of resonance; although, this description is misleading. The catastrophic vibrations that destroyed the bridge were not due to simple mechanical resonance, but to a more complicated oscillation between the bridge and winds passing through it, known as aeroelastic flutter. Robert H. Scanlan, father of the field of bridge aerodynamics, wrote an article about this misunderstanding. This collapse, and the research that followed, led to an increased understanding of wind/structure interactions. Several bridges were altered following the collapse to prevent a similar event occurring again. The only fatality was 'Tubby' the dog.
de Havilland Comet
In 1954, two de Havilland Comet C1 airliners, the world's first commercial jet airliner, crashed, killing all passengers. After lengthy investigations and the grounding of all Comet airliners, it was concluded that metal fatigue at the corners of the windows had resulted in the crashes. The square corners had led to stress concentrations which after continual stress cycles from pressurization and depressurization, failed catastrophically in flight. The research into the failures led to significant improvements in understanding of fatigue loading of airframes, and the redesign of the Comet and all subsequent airliners to merge rounded corners to doors and windows.
Ronan Point
On 16 May, 1968 the 22 storey residential tower Ronan Point in the London borough of Newham collapsed when a relatively small gas explosion on the 18th floor caused a structural wall panel to be blown away from the building. The tower was constructed of precast concrete, and the failure of the single panel caused one entire corner of the building to collapse. The panel was able to be blown out because there was insufficient reinforcement steel passing between the panels. This also meant that the loads carried by the panel could not be redistributed to other adjacent panels, because there was no route for the forces to follow. As a result of the collapse, building regulations were overhauled to prevent "disproportionate collapse",[clarification needed] and the understanding of precast concrete detailing was greatly advanced. Many similar buildings were altered or demolished as a result of the collapse.
On 17 July, 1981, two suspended walkways through the lobby of the Hyatt Regency in Kansas City, Missouri, collapsed, killing 114 people at a tea dance. The collapse was due to a late change in design, altering the method in which the rods supporting the walkways were connected to them, and inadvertently doubling the forces on the connection. The failure highlighted the need for good communication between design engineers and contractors, and rigorous checks on designs and especially on contractor proposed design changes. The failure is a standard case study on engineering courses around the world, and is used to teach the importance of ethics in engineering.
On 19 April, 1995, the nine story concrete framed Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma was struck by a huge car bomb causing partial collapse, resulting in the deaths of 168 people. The bomb, though large, caused a significantly disproportionate collapse of the structure. The bomb blew all the glass off the front of the building and completely shattered a ground floor reinforced concrete column (see brisance). At second story level a wider column spacing existed, and loads from upper story columns were transferred into fewer columns below by girders at second floor level. The removal of one of the lower story columns caused neighbouring columns to fail due to the extra load, eventually leading to the complete collapse of the central portion of the building. The bombing was one of the first to highlight the extreme forces that blast loading from terrorism can exert on buildings, and led to increased consideration of terrorism in structural design of buildings.
In the September 11 attacks, two commercial airliners were deliberately crashed into the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center in New York City. The impact and resulting fires caused both towers to collapse within two hours. After the impacts had severed exterior columns and damaged core columns, the loads on these columns were redistributed. The hat trusses at the top of each building played a significant role in this redistribution of the loads in the structure. The impacts dislodged some of the fireproofing from the steel, increasing its exposure to the heat of the fires. Temperatures became high enough to weaken the core columns to the point of creep and plastic deformation under the weight of higher floors. Perimeter columns and floors were also weakened by the heat of the fires, causing the floors to sag and exerting an inward force on exterior walls of the building.
I-35W Bridge Collapse
The I-35W Mississippi River bridge (officially known simply as Bridge 9340) was an eight-lane steel truss arch bridge that carried Interstate 35W across the Mississippi River in Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States. The bridge was completed in 1967, and its maintenance was performed by the Minnesota Department of Transportation. The bridge was Minnesota's fifth–busiest, carrying 140,000 vehicles daily. The bridge catastrophically failed during the evening rush hour on August 1, 2007, collapsing to the river and riverbanks beneath. Thirteen people were killed and 145 were injured.
Following the collapse The Federal Highway Administration (FHWA)advised states to inspect the 700 U.S. bridges of similar construction after a possible design flaw in the bridge was discovered, related to large steel sheets called gusset plates which were used to connect girders together in the truss structure. Officials expressed concern about many other bridges in the United States sharing the same design and raised questions as to why such a flaw would not have been discovered in over 40 years of inspections.
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Attorney Andrew Friedman and his wife Chanie hosted Carolyn Ramsay, candidate for Los Angeles City Council, at their home on Sunday morning for breakfast with leading members of the Jewish and Hungarian communities in attendance.
Ramsay, daughter of famed football coach Jack Ramsay, has served the City of Los Angeles for the past 15 years. Most recently, she was Chief of Staff to current Councilman Tom LaBonge. At the breakfast, former Sheriff Lee Baca voiced support for Carolyn Ramsay.
(L-R) Chanie Friedman, Carolyn Ramsay, Andrew Friedman, Rabbi Rabbi Yoel Gold of Bais Naftoli, and Rabbi Yuval Noiff.


Just before the river Styx is the Fourth Level of Hell. Here, the prodigal and the avaricious suffer their punishment, as they roll weights back and forth against one another. You will share eternal damnation with others who either wasted and lived greedily and insatiably, or who stockpiled their fortunes, hoarding everything and sharing nothing. Plutus, the wolf-like demon of wealth, dwells here.