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Chick-fil-A Ends Donations to Two Anti-LGBTQ Organizations
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Chick-fil-A announced today that it will no longer donate to the Fellowship of Christian Athletes and The Salvation Army, two organizations that have been criticized by LGBTQ advocates. Back in 2012, CEO Dan Cathy said that the American fast-food company supported "the biblical definition of the family unit," further stating that it was "prideful" and arrogant" for individuals to redefine marriage. While Chick-fil-A stopped donating to other controversial groups that year, it continued to fund specific programs for the Fellowship of Christian Athletes and The Salvation Army.
Both organizations have been accused of being anti-LGBTQ and have taken controversial stands on same-sex marriage. FCA's employee application includes a "Sexual Purity Statement" that reads, "Either heterosexual sex outside of marriage nor any homosexual act constitute an alternative lifestyle acceptable to God," while the Salvation Army has stated that the scripture does not support same-sex marriages.
From now on, Chick-fil-A will cease donations to these organizations, a decision that has spurred both support and backlash. "We made multiyear commitments to both organizations, and we fulfilled those obligations in 2018," a representative told Business Insider. "Moving forward you will see that the Chick-fil-A Foundation will support the three specific initiatives of homelessness, hunger and education."
For 2020, the company is growing its partnerships with Junior Achievement USA and Covenant House International, while donating $25,000 USD to a local food bank after each new Chick-fil-A restaurant is opened. The company has continued to expand in recent years, becoming the third-largest chain in the U.S. by sales, according to the Nation's Restaurant News.
In case you missed it, Kellogg's joined LGBTQ+ media advocacy organization GLAAD's anti-bullying campaign with six "All Together" cereals.
The post Chick-fil-A Ends Donations to Two Anti-LGBTQ Organizations appeared first on Hypebeast.


The Healing Foundation's Youth Advisory Group is comprised of young Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander leaders from across Australia. The Youth Advisory Group was established to guide The Healing Foundation on a range of youth healing initiatives including the development of a national youth healing framework.
Harry Williams is a descendent of the Wiradjuri people from Cowra, NSW. Harry grew up in Canberra where he continues to live and work. Harry is passionate about educating people about the true history of our country. He considers himself fortunate for the opportunities he has had throughout his career in the community and public service sectors. Harry enjoys meeting new people and sharing and gaining knowledge as he travels around Australia.
What does healing mean for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander young people in Australia?
In 2017, The Healing Foundation facilitated the first ever, national, healing forum for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander young people from across Australia. The forum identified the key issues that are causing trauma and impacting on the social and emotional wellbeing of young people. Most importantly, the forum provided an opportunity for young people to develop their own innovative and tailored solutions to those key issues, resulting in a national report titled 'Our Healing, Our Way – Leading and Shaping Our Future'. To support the report's findings, The Healing Foundation established an Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Youth Advisory Group. Youth Advisory Group members will present the key findings of their report, a snapshot of their proposed solutions and speak directly to the audience about what healing personally means to them and their communities.


How can you mobilize 30 million people with 7,000 different diseases?That's the ultimate question that began to form the Rhode Island Rare Disease Foundation. Patty Wetlin started the foundation in 2011 after her daughter was diagnosed with a rare disease and she thought about what other family's journeys might be like. With 30 million people who suffer from rare diseases, not many actually understand what it's really like. Beyond the diagnosis art exhibit focuses on the rare diseases of patients. Artists from all around have donated their time and talent into portraying their rare disease patient. The exhibit travels from medical schools to hospitals and institutes to help educate and inform to look "beyond the diagnosis" to the patient. Parents share photos of their children to the artist to portray them as beautiful human beings. It certainly creates awareness to those who are unfamiliar about rare diseases.


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Q: Potentiostat circuit biased with three independent sources How might a potentiostat circuit be designed such that it is biased with three independent AC sources, the reference electrode is biased at $$\varepsilon = 2sin(\omega t) + 3sin(\omega t) + 4sin(2\omega t)$$
and
$$Rref = 1k\Omega$$
Note: the solution returned for the problem only mentions which electrodes are capped, circled or arrowed: AE, WE, and RE respectively.

A: As i pointed out, you have a whole node floating in your circuit and that wouldn't make much sense (or work), it would be just as completely eliminating all elements V1, V2, V3 and C1 from the schematic.

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The Mugello is a huge valley closed in on the north by the Apennine mountains, on the south by the spur made up by Mount Giovi and Mount Senario which divide it from the valley of Florence, and on the west by Mount Calvana beyond which the city of Prato and its surroundings extend.
The most important towns of the Mugello are Barberino di Mugello, Scarperia e San Piero, Borgo San Lorenzo, Vicchio and Dicomano.
This valley was once extremely rich in game: deer, roe-deer, wild boar, hare, wild duck and geese; the many rivers and streams were well-stocked with barbell, roach, eel, trout and prawns. The Ligurian Magelli, the Etruscans and the Romans had settlements here, and later after the Dark Ages, the medieval families of the Guidi and the Ubaldini made their homes here.
On the plains of the Mugello are to be seen the best and most fruitful of orchards of the County, where the harvest is made twice or thrice a year, and always in abundance. And I learned that on the rich lands of these hillsides there is wheat, fodder, fruit, wine and oil in abundance, and also great quantities of wood and chestnuts and livestock enough to supply a third of Florence.
I learned that great quantities of cheese and lambswool and chickens come from the Mugello and that there are other fowl and game in great abundance.
The Medici family, and, in particular Lorenzo the Magnificent, have left many signs of their dominance in the Mugello, not only with their buildings (notably the VILLA OF CAFAGGIOLO at Barberino, the CASTLE OF THE TREBBIO at San Piero a Sieve, the PALACE OF THE VICARI at Scarperia) but their presence also remains visible in agriculture - the fields and the woods planted with their taste for geometric patterns, and the system of irrigation.
In the fifteenth century the Medici family, on their property situated at PANNA, established a cattle farm, breeding 'Swiss' cows (Alpine browns) to provide both for themselves and also to sell.
beef is sold by a network of local butcher's. Its quality is guaranteed by the well-established Consorzio Carni Mugello.
The annual FIERA AGRICOLA MUGELLANA (Agricultural Fair of the Mugello), continues the tradition of the markets of the Mugello and gives us an overall view of the local agricultural activities with several important zootechnical exhibitions (the national, regional and provincial shows of the Limousine beef cattle and the Frisone milk cow) as well as expositions of other products and machinery.


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Q: Chrome: Link with outline:0, color transition, and :after element flickers and becomes invisible It appears that Chrome has been fixed and this is no longer a problem.
a:hover {
    outline: 0;
}

a {
    position: relative;
    color: blue;
    text-decoration: none;
    transition: color 0.2s ease-in;
}

a:hover {
    color: green;
}

a:after {
    background: green;
    content: '';

    width: 100%;
    height: 2px;

    position: absolute;
    top: 100%;

    left: 0;
}

JSFiddle here.
Using this CSS, hovering over links causes them to flicker and then turn invisible. If you mouse back out, they remain invisible.
Not only that, but any links in the last line of the paragraph still work fine (see the fiddle; it's crazy).
Removing the color transition on the anchor or removing the :after pseudo-element fixes the problem, but obviously that's not going to cut it.
Most interestingly, when I remove outline: 0, everything works as expected. I've since removed the line from my project since I don't need it (I'm using normalize.css and it was in there).
Does anybody know what's going on here? outline:none doesn't suffer from the same problems.


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Salaš är en ort i Tjeckien.   Den ligger i distriktet Okres Uherské Hradiště och regionen Zlín, i den östra delen av landet,  km sydost om huvudstaden Prag. Salaš ligger  meter över havet och antalet invånare är .

Terrängen runt Salaš är huvudsakligen kuperad, men åt sydost är den platt. Den högsta punkten i närheten är  meter över havet,  km sydväst om Salaš. Runt Salaš är det ganska tätbefolkat, med  invånare per kvadratkilometer. Närmaste större samhälle är Kroměříž,  km norr om Salaš. Trakten runt Salaš består till största delen av jordbruksmark.

Trakten ingår i den hemiboreala klimatzonen. Årsmedeltemperaturen i trakten är  °C. Den varmaste månaden är juli, då medeltemperaturen är  °C, och den kallaste är januari, med  °C. Genomsnittlig årsnederbörd är  millimeter. Den regnigaste månaden är juni, med i genomsnitt  mm nederbörd, och den torraste är mars, med  mm nederbörd.

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#include "HttpParserThreadGroup.h"
#include "HttpParserThread.h"
#include "GDImageDraw.h"
#include "ThreadRequestHandler.h"
#include "ThreadRequestContainer.h"
#include "HttpFileHandler.h"
#include "HttpInterfaceFactory.h"
#include "Properties.h"
#include "TCPSocket.h"
#include "NetUtility.h"

HttpParserThreadGroup::
HttpParserThreadGroup( ServerTypes::servertype_t serverType,
                       bool hostnameLookups,
                       const char* httplogFilename,
                       const char* threadGroupName,
                       uint32 minNbrThreads, uint32 maxNbrThreads,
                       uint32 queueFullFactor, uint32 queueOverFullFactor )
      : InterfaceParserThreadGroup( serverType, threadGroupName, minNbrThreads,
                                    maxNbrThreads, queueFullFactor,
                                    queueOverFullFactor ),
        m_hostnameLookups( hostnameLookups )
{
   m_files = new HttpFileHandler();
   m_httpLogfile = NULL;

   if ( httplogFilename != NULL ) {
      m_httpLogFilename = httplogFilename;
   } else {
      m_httpLogFilename = Properties::getProperty( "HTTP_LOG_FILE", "" );
   }

   m_httpLogFilename = StringUtility::trimStartEnd( m_httpLogFilename );

   GDImageDraw::initializeDrawImages();
}

HttpParserThreadGroup::~HttpParserThreadGroup() {
   delete m_files;
   if ( m_httpLogfile != NULL ) {
      fclose( m_httpLogfile );
   }

   GDImageDraw::removeDrawImages();

}

void
HttpParserThreadGroup::handleDoneInterfaceRequest(
   InterfaceRequest* ireply )
{
   static_cast< HttpInterfaceFactory* > ( getFirstInterfaceFactory() )
      ->handleDoneInterfaceRequest( ireply );
}

ParserThreadHandle
HttpParserThreadGroup::spawnThread() {
   return NULL;
//   return ( new HttpParserThread( this ) );
}

MC2String
HttpParserThreadGroup::getDefaultPage() const {
   return "index.html";
}

byte*
HttpParserThreadGroup::getFile(const MC2String* fileString,
                               int& length,
                               struct stat *fStat)
{
   ISABSync sync( m_fileMonitor );
   return m_files->getFile( *fileString, length, fStat );
}

void
HttpParserThreadGroup::httpLog( TCPSocket* sock, uint32 peerIP,
                                uint32 time,
                                const char* startLine, uint32 code,
                                uint32 size,
                                const char* userAgent,
                                const char* rfcname,
                                const char* logname )
{
   if ( m_httpLogFilename.empty() ) {
      return;
   }

   if ( userAgent[0] == '\0' ) {
      userAgent = "-";
   }
   // Check time first to get time as close to the request as possible
   if ( time == 0 ) {
      time = TimeUtility::getRealTime();
   }

   if ( peerIP == 0 ) {
      // Get hostname
      uint16 port = 0;
      sock->getPeerName( peerIP, port );
   }
   MC2String hostName = NetUtility::getHostName( peerIP, m_hostnameLookups );

   // Time format
   char date[30];
   struct tm* tmStruct = NULL;
   struct tm timeresult;
   time_t aTime = time;
   tmStruct = gmtime_r( &aTime, &timeresult );
   strftime( date, 29, "[%d/%b/%Y:%H:%M:%S %z]" , tmStruct );

   const char* referer = "-";
   // Put log entry together
   uint32 length = 0;
   length = hostName.size() + 1 +
      ( rfcname ? strlen( rfcname ) : 1 ) + 1 +
      ( logname ? strlen( logname ) : 1 ) + 1 +
      29 + 1 + // strlen( date ) + 1 +
      strlen( startLine ) + 1 +
      3 + // code
      strlen(referer) + 6 + // "referer" + spaces
      strlen(userAgent) + 6 + // "user agent" + spaces
      10; // size (nbr bytes sent)

   char log[ length + 1 ];
   uint32 logLength = 0;
   logLength = sprintf( log, "%s %s %s %s \"%s\" %d %d \"%s\" \"%s\"\n",
                        hostName.c_str(),
                        rfcname ? rfcname : "-",
                        logname ? logname : "-",
                        date,
                        startLine,
                        code,
                        size,
                        referer,
                        userAgent);

   if ( m_httpLogfile == NULL ) { // Open
      m_httpLogfile = fopen( m_httpLogFilename.c_str(), "a" ); // Append mode
      if ( m_httpLogfile == NULL ) {
         MC2ERROR2( "HttpProcess:: Couldn't open logfile",
                    cerr << log << endl; );
         return;
      }
   }

   int32 retries = 3;
   while ( fwrite( log, sizeof( char ), logLength, m_httpLogfile )
           != logLength && retries > 0 )
   {
      retries--;
      // Reopen file
      fclose( m_httpLogfile );
      m_httpLogfile = fopen( m_httpLogFilename.c_str(), "a" ); // Append mode
      if ( m_httpLogfile == NULL ) {
         MC2ERROR2( "HttpProcess:: Couldn't open logfile",
                    cerr << log << endl; );
         return;
      }
   }
   fflush( m_httpLogfile );
}

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This past Labor Day, I had just finished up a day of yard work and was preparing some burgers while hanging out with my family. I checked my phone between flipping patties on the grill and that's when I saw a new email message from Eric Kaplan, AHEAD's CTO, that read, "Customer engagement closed in London. Start date: September 20." I thought to myself, "Welp! Here goes nothing!" I knew exactly what this meant; two weeks from today I'd need to be in London with my team, ready to design a new Amazon WorkSpaces environment.
This particular client is a leading business intelligence, academic publishing, knowledge and events organization. This company has approximately 6,000 employees worldwide, requiring a Desktop as a Service (DaaS) solution based in the cloud leveraging Amazon WorkSpaces. The use case is sound: offer virtual desktops across several global regions providing a performant user experience.
The AHEAD team was to be facilitating a design workshop for an Amazon WorkSpaces deployment. From our previous discussions with the client, we have several end-user computing decisions requiring consensus in a short time period. AHEAD's mobility team thinks about these scenarios daily and works with dozens of clients on similar requirements, so we welcomed the challenge! The only difference is that this one was 4,000 miles away.
When I got back to the office after the long holiday weekend, I assembled our team, arranged travel logistics, and made arrangements to allow for the six-hour time difference. Before we knew it, we were London bound!
As I flew over the Atlantic during a red-eye flight, I got a very sound 16 minutes of sleep. That sounds good enough, right? The team met at London Heathrow Airport and took the express train into Paddington station. For this project I was joined by my colleagues, Nick Frank and Sean Massey. Here's where the real adventure begins!
We arrived at our hotel, ready to talk WorkSpaces for the week. We were barely settled into our rooms before quickly heading out to explore our surroundings. There's only one word I can use to describe this experience: spectacular. Our hotel was located near Westminster Bridge overlooking the River Thames, London Eye, Parliament, and Big Ben.
On the first day of our workshop, we commuted to the office by walking past Big Ben, Palace of Westminster, and Westminster Abbey before settling into the office space nestled nearby Westminster Cathedral. The sights were absolutely breathtaking. There were people everywhere, but every one of them was terrific. We started to blend in nicely with the locals (or so we thought), except we kept looking the wrong way when crossing the street.
Our Amazon WorkSpaces design workshop started with a deep dive discussion into WorkSpaces VPCs, transit VPCs, and the required security controls to effectively deliver the global service. AHEAD's design workshops provide tremendous value to our customers by understanding business and technical challenges and translating them into a thoughtful, holistic architectural design. Our approach accomplished the same expectations, even across the Atlantic; it's a globally accepted methodology!
During day two of our workshop, we conducted extensive discussions around all of the required components of an Amazon WorkSpaces environment. The operating system is only the start of the conversation. We must consider application delivery, user profiles, monitoring, automation, user experience, and file services… just to scratch the surface. In addition, these services must leverage native cloud services offered by AWS with the appropriate architecture applied. AHEAD's mobility team excels at these discussions, alternatives, and architectures, and this engagement was no exception.
During the evening, we continued to explore the beautiful, historic city. The diversity and energy can be felt from every person we met, location we visited, and observations we made. When does the AHEAD London office open? I volunteer as tribute!
On day three, the focus was on automation. Amazon WorkSpaces offers a rich set of APIs so the services can be deployed using automation techniques. Automation will be critical for our client as they expect every new employee to receive a WorkSpace during onboarding. The same holds true for their off-boarding process; all WorkSpaces and supplementary services must be archived appropriately. Our client is a ServiceNow customer, allowing our team to leverage its rich API platform for all automation and integration. The workshop walked the client through several automation workflows, required variables and outputs in order for a full lifecycle to be developed. Once implemented, the client will offer the automated provisioning of WorkSpaces, as well as eventual self-healing capabilities through its ServiceNow user portal.
At the conclusion of our WorkSpaces design workshop, we accomplished all of our design objectives detailing each service across the required regions, supporting end-user computing services and the automation involved to seamlessly deliver the service.
The AHEAD team decided to stay an extra couple of days in London, because well, it's London. We continued to explore the beautiful city and trekked almost 20 miles over the course of two days. Sites included, but were not limited to, the Tower of London, Tower Bridge, Harrod's, Buckingham Palace, Picadilly Circus, Trafalgar Square, the British Museum, and a tour of Parliament. Below are a few pictures from our journey.
Here is Sean Massey and me overlooking River Thames and Westminster Palace.
Here is Nick Frank and me on Tower Bridge with the Tower of London in the background.
I won $100 bet for getting Sean to wear a Beefeater hat at the gift shop!
All in all, I'd say our time in London, both with the client and in our own adventures, was victorious. Not only did we successfully launch a WorkSpaces engagement for a new client, but we explored a new culture and way of life different from what we're used to.
If you want to learn more about what AHEAD can do for your business utilizing Amazon WorkSpaces or are interested in a client engagement of your own, sign up to meet with our experts in the AHEAD Lab and Briefing Center today. Or, if you're going to be at AWS re:Invent 2016 in Las Vegas, you can arrange a time to meet with us one-on-one to discuss Amazon WorkSpaces. Stay tuned for more posts from our experts about WorkSpaces leading up to the big event!


…but, to be fair, what I usually do is not even camping, as such… I have a portable hotel with lights and a fixed double bed and seats and a kettle and everything…. but the table is diddy, nonetheless. This diddy table phenomenon lead me to thinking about what games are feasibly wondrous to take camping. Obviously small, fit in the pocket Loveletter type games are an obvious choice but I play solo and often want a much bigger gaming experience.
My initial thoughts were…oh I just can't be arsed, it's sunny outside… but I later reconsidered and I have now given second and even some third thoughts to what gaming is actually possible whilst out in the wilds. I originally intended to do a short article about this very topic but it soon became apparent that I would be required to continually add to the article every time I went on holiday. This would demand the compulsory editing of such an article and would not be overly practical for existing readers who wished to re-visit to look at the eddied additions. As such, I decided to make this a whole affair a completely new section on BSoMT.
And so without any a-do I present "In Tents Solo Boardgames". Initially I have broken my camping game experience into three categories but this may see further devision, subdivision and complication.
Pockets bulging, suitcase crammed to bursting, I take to the wilds, equipped for untold hours of gaming in the open air…and by open air I really mean open air that is enclosed by canvas. A tent/awning, no less. Outdoors, yes. But that hater of games; the wind, cannot wreak havoc with my choice of entertainment whilst I remain within my canvas castle.
All too often one can see groups of people, families, even individuals sat about a tiny camping table in the centre of a field with a single deck of traditional playing cards. O.K. this may well provide hours of outdoor entertainment but even from childhood I have had an utter dislike for such ventures. Where is the theme.? The point of the game? The wondrous artwork? No! A deck of cards is just not enough to scratch that gaming itch. So what can we, the soloist do about this? What should we dare take away on holiday…or vacation, if you are of that persuasion, and how can we possibly gauge its suitability for a tent or caravan…or even a suitcase for a hotel/B&B get away?
A recent getaway to Cornwall set me to thinking. I have always stashed away copious quantities of boardgames for any holiday and not just titchy play in the hand card games…big whoppers too. But from a practicality point of view I wondered what boundaries could be pushed to provide us with that so important solo game experience.
(Link coming soon) as the title suggests, here I will be looking at bigger game boxes that, although consume valuable packing space in our cars, bags or cases, but offer enormous gameplay for us, the budding soloist, without requiring a sports hall to layout the components. This is the most interesting group for me as the occupants within offer the biggest logistic challenge but equally offer the largest gaming experience, pushing the boundaries of camping game experience.
So, to conclude my introduction, I hope to provide such useful information as weight, box dimensions, footprint, ease of use camping, potential pitfalls and practicality. Any in-depth game experience reviews will be available via inserted links… This is not a review exercise in the truest sense of the term, but more a suggestion for those wondering what to take away with them when taking a holiday or trip.
I will point out at this juncture that several games I will be including are actually Print & Play versions and in several cases have been printed out at 50% original size. In these cases I will try to relate actual size to help those considering production copies of said games. I also multipack too…where a useless empty box such as most of those offered by Fantasy Flight Games offer valuable accommodation for bagged up components of smaller games.


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Hey Active investors; PROFIT or ROI?
ForumsArrowInvestor Deal DiariesArrowHey Active investors; PROFIT or ROI?
I am curious to know what type of ROI are you looking for on a buy and hold.? And how much profit are you looking for on a fix n flip.?
@Ross Mcghie - I will try to answer your question, but it will be from a midwest perspective. Most guys who do flips on a professional level and have a pipeline process in place will make about 15% net before taxes on average. Sometimes you have a 20%+ deal and sometimes you fall a bit short. That's a lot of flips at median price points to have a good year!
On a buy and hold you can expect a net cash profit of about $200 per door. This will typically increase as your investment matures. Total ROI on a buy and hold is much greater, because you also deleverage the loan and appreciate over time and with rehab. a combined ROI should be at a minimum of 10% on value (unleveraged) or over 30% cash on cash leveraged.
Now, before I get tomatoes thrown at me, yes you can do better than that, but I think it's better to keep the expectations a bit more conservative and if you land a home run later, that's the cherry on top.
If you were to rent the house for 2-3 years, how much you would make in rent?
What does 14% translate to in actual dollars? You would get $30K from the flip, but 14% on renting-14% of what? 14% of $100K is $14K, vs $28K on $200K. You can't compare percentages and dollar, you need to be comparing the same thing ($ vs $).


- invite Sherpa representatives, and any journalists who so wish, to visit our building sites and living quarters in order to inspect working and living conditions first-hand, at their earliest convenience.
VINCI has been a signatory to the United Nations Global Compact since 2003. Under this compact, businesses commit to aligning their operations and strategies with ten universally accepted principles in the areas of human rights, labour, environment and anti-corruption.
French construction group Vinci faces a claim from a campaign group over alleged forced labor involving migrant workers on building projects tied to the 2022 World Cup in Qatar. "Vinci absolutely denies the claims made by Sherpa. The group respects local labor laws and fundamental rights in Qatar as well as in all the countries where it operates," a Vinci spokesman said by telephone. The Sherpa NGO said in a statement it had a submitted a claim in a French court against Vinci Construction Grand Projects and the managers of the Qatari unit QDVC for "forced labor" and "keeping someone in servitude".


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You'll find three colors of wires in the normal single-pole toggle switch: black, white, and eco-friendly. Splice the black wire in two and link them over the terminal screws - one on prime as well as the other around the bottom screw on the swap. The white wire serves to be a resource of uninterrupted ability and is also ordinarily related into a light colored terminal screw (e.g., silver). Connect the inexperienced wire for the ground screw within your switch.
These measures would generally be enough to create a normal switch get the job done with out a trouble. Nevertheless, when you aren't assured that you just can carry out the undertaking appropriately and properly you greater permit the professionals do it rather. Soon after all, there is a purpose why this task is probably the most common electrical wiring questions questioned by a lot of people.
For a few rationale, ways to wire a ceiling fan is also among essentially the most prevalent electrical wiring issues. To simplify this process, you should use one change to get a single ceiling fan. To wire the enthusiast, it's simply a make any difference of connecting the black wire with the ceiling fan to your black wire in the swap. When there is a light-weight, the blue wire must be related to the black wire in the swap too.
You can find reasons why these are definitely essentially the most generally requested electrical wiring issues. One particular, numerous consider it can be simple to do, and two, these are generally the frequent electrical tasks in your own home. But then you definitely must not set your security at risk as part of your purpose to save cash. The stakes could even be a lot larger for those who seek to lower your expenses and do an electrical wiring career devoid of enough understanding or knowledge.


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Will Lasith Malinga's Absence Hurt Sri Lanka?
By Ayush Trivedi 16:06 australia, cricket, cricket world cup, muralitharan, south africa, sri lanka, west indies
No pun intended with the title, obviously. I have suffered a tear in my ankle, after stepping in a pot-hole while playing football no less, and I can inform you it is not a pleasant experience.
The point remains that Lasith Malinga is far more important to the Sri Lankan cricket team than I was to my lunch-time football team. After that devastating spell against the perennial chokers of the cricketing world, teams have started to sit up and take notice of the Cricket World Cup's "equal leading wicket taker".
With tournament statistics of 15 scalps at just over 14, Sri Lanka's competition would be foolish not to design specific plans to counter The Sheep Malinga. However, with the injury expected to take between seven days and a fortnight to heal, the task facing the Lankan's next few opponents has been made significantly easier.
On the difficult pitches of the Caribbean, Lasith Malinga's pace and unorthodox action is just as potent (probably more so if the stats are anything to go by) than Muttiah Muralitharan's hyper-extended elbow. After South Africa's shellacking of the West Indies overnight and depending on whether the English can manage to keep their pants on against Bangladesh, Sri Lanka might yet be fighting for a place in the semis.
In this context, it is vitally important for Sri Lankan's chances that Malinga is able to recover full health, well before the Australian match. He can thank the knob-heads that comprise the ICC's Scheduling Committee for giving plenty of time, and then some.
Let us all pray for The Sheep.

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World's Largest Data Center in Reno?
September 23, 2015 September 24, 2015 DCT User World's Largest Data Center
Switch, the Las Vegas-based data center provider that's building a massive campus in Reno, Nevada, said the first facility there will be the largest data center in the world. The company, known for its huge SuperNap Las Vegas data center campus, with a futuristic interior design and ex-military security personnel, announced plans to build the $1 billion Reno data center earlier this year with eBay as the anchor tenant.
SuperNap Tahoe Reno 1 is only the first phase of development. Switch's future plans call for as many as seven buildings, mostly of comparable size. The campus will neighbor a Tesla battery manufacturing plant currently under construction.
A mega data center hub of sorts is forming in Reno, which has not historically been a major high-tech destination. Right across the highway from the Switch site is a growing Apple data center campus. Rackspace is eyeing the possibility of building a large data center there as well.
Because companies that don't sell data center services tend to keep details about their mission critical sites under wraps, it's nearly impossible to verify with 100-percent certainty that there isn't a bigger data center somewhere in the world. Switch spokesman Adam Kramer said the company used a dedicated internal team of researchers to confirm that the capacity of the future Reno facility will be bigger than any other data center facility out there.
While companies periodically claim that they are building or have built the largest data center in the world, square footage or amount of utility power available at the site don't say much about the data center's actual capacity. What's more important is the ability to supply enough cooling and conditioned, UPS-backed power.
Switch plans to provide 82,000 tons of cooling for its 150-megawatt data center, which will have a 300MVA substation. A power capacity of 150MW converts to about 43,000 tons of refrigeration. In a typical data center, IT loads contribute about 70 percent of the total thermal output, according to a white paper by Schneider Electric's data center infrastructure subsidiary APC. The rest of the cooling capacity is consumed by UPS systems, lighting, power distribution, and personnel.
Bigger of course doesn't necessarily mean better in the data center market, but data center providers and web companies with massive facilities do benefit from economies of scale. Scott Davis, executive VP of operations at DuPont Fabros Technology, said during a presentation at Data Center World in National Harbor, Maryland, this week that the annual cost of operating a 6MW data center would cost about $4 million more than operating 6MW of capacity within DuPont's latest 42MW facility Ashburn, Virginia. It costs about $5.4 million to operate a stand-alone 6MW data center, compared to $1.3 million to provide 6MW of capacity within the 42MW building, he said.
Operators save primarily because a larger data center doesn't mean a larger supporting staff, such as security personnel. "A lot of [the savings] is manpower," Davis said. "Staffing doesn't need to scale with the size of the facility."
Much of the savings achieved gets passed on to the data center provider's customers in the form of lower rates, he said.
Switch's high-speed network loop will interconnect the Reno and Las Vegas campuses and link to connectivity hubs in Los Angeles and San Francisco. Customers will be able to use the connectivity between Reno and Vegas for the "active-active" resiliency topology, where infrastructure and applications are replicated at two sites and stay on around the clock in both locations.
Switch says its Reno-Vegas link will provide latency under seven milliseconds.
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Daniel Ellsberg: Facing Doomsday
Daniel Ellsberg is a renowned American whistleblower who released The Pentagon Papers to the Senate Foreign Relations Committee in 1969.
Ellsberg is also the author of four books: The Doomsday Machine: Confessions of a Nuclear War Planner(2017,), Secrets: A Memoir of Vietnam and the Pentagon Papers (2002,) Risk, Ambiguity and Decision(2001,) and Papers on the War (1971). In December 2006 he was awarded the 2006 Right Livelihood Award, in Stockholm, Sweden, ". . for putting peace and truth first, at considerable personal risk, and dedicating his life to inspiring others to follow his example."
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The Art of Compromise or The Compromise of Art
June 17, 2019 May 16, 2019 by Christine Dente
Gravity and Relativity
Out of the Grey lite. That's what my husband Scott and I call Gravity, our fourth record. Actually, a fan came up to our CD table after a concert one night in 1995 and bestowed that description.
"I love all of your albums up to this point but this new one is more like Out of the Grey lite."
Yikes! He was right.
Before recording Gravity, we'd written our ten songs and were ready to head into the studio. Monday morning, 10 AM downbeat. However, the Thursday before our scheduled session, the record label decided we didn't have enough 'radio-friendly' songs.
Scott and I dug in our heels for a short minute then went with the pressure to play the game. Over that weekend, we scrambled to write a few new songs with more pop appeal. Our producer, Charlie Peacock, helped us win approval by co-writing the songs, "When Love Comes to Life" and "Hope In Sight."
Half of the songs and a lot of the production came out lacking what we thought of as Out of the Grey artistry. We did get some radio play, though.
At the end of the day, did we practice the art of compromise or did we compromise our art?
A Play on a Play
Have you seen the film, Bullets Over Broadway?
You could call it a play on a play. The story examines artistic integrity and how far an artist will go to protect and defend it—or lose it. It poses a question about the sometimes-dirty word compromise, asking if it has its place or if it is always reprehensible.
At the beginning of this 1994 release, David, a young playwright, tries to gather funds and cast members to perform his beloved work of art. Time constraints, human foibles, and money woes assail his stance on artistic integrity. At first, David stands his ground, refusing to give up control over his writing and his role as director. Nevertheless, when an underworld thug with the funds for production materializes and seems a godsend, David compromises. The catch of the money deal is that the gangster's talentless girlfriend must play a small part.
After David softens his stance regarding talent and economics, taking the production money plus the girl, his agent leads him into other small compromises. As the play unfolds and rehearsals progress, David's artistic integrity slips so far that he rewrites dialog at the behest of the manipulative lead actress. However, the playwright's climactic sin is letting the goon who babysits the talentless young actress make changes in lines, scenes, and the plot. David recognizes that this mobster hitman is more talented than he. In the end, David is not an artist who is willing to stand by his original work.
This play about a play never reveals what the playwright's play was actually about. We get the gist, though, that more drama, sex scandals, and realism are what the people want. Are the characters speaking our language? Does the plot mirror our own struggles? Have we left off the lofty and abstract so that the crowd can get the message point blank? Bullets fly at movie's end when the story descends into an action-filled thriller.
The population at large loves what it can enjoy and comprehend without extra effort. As a pop music snob, I pooh-pooh much of the stuff that seems all fluff. I prefer a more complicated theme than, say, "Break Up With Your Girlfriend, I'm Bored." Having said that, I'm aware that other types of music-lovers wouldn't call pop music 'art' at all.
To be sure, inside a fine art gallery, I might lift my eyebrows at the abstract and inaccessible. Impatient and ignorant, I don't take the time to find the deeper meaning, moving further along the wall in search of served-up messages. When it comes to Art, I dig in my heels in relative places, drawing my own particular lines in the sand.
For example, I have written some artistically obscure songs like, "Becoming," not caring whether anyone heard them or at least not worried that some might miss its message. However, I have certainly written songs with radio play in mind. Economic forces drove my compromise in the form of pressure from the record company and the mortgage company. One argument for concession goes something like this: if some of my art compromises its beauty for popularity sake, it will expose my more artistic pieces to a wider audience.
Mass Appeal
Many an Out of the Grey fan found us first on the radio. Before Gravity, our popularity had been growing. A lot of people told us they liked our fresh, left-of-center sound. Record sales were adding up and we wanted to capitalize on the momentum. It's an old story.
The pressure to compromise can sideline even the best of intentions. When something good gets more popular, getting more becomes the modus operandi. For example, in the 1990s, Starbucks was just a cool cafe on the west coast. Scott and I had to mail-order their exotic blends and dark roasts. Nowadays, there's a Starbucks on every corner, the McDonald's of coffee some say. Compromising quality for quantity some complain.
However, mass-appeal has its appeal. It allows me to find a cheap knock-off of the expensive version of something or other I could otherwise not afford to purchase. As Meryl Streep schools Anne Hathaway in The Devil Wears Prada about the origin of the color of her cheap cerulean blue sweater, so I should take a lesson and remember that design is a gift with a steep price.
I am an artistic snob when I care to be and part of the mob when I don't. If I don't sink my toes into certain artistic fields of expression, I am tempted to pass by quickly with a quick judgment. I may think you are crazy if you only buy a carefully curated olive oil while you may drop your jaw at me for spending so much time choosing between "a" or "the" in a song lyric. You may secretly judge my mall clothes as fashion mongrels while I am arguing internally that you can't possibly enjoy the 'music' of Florida Georgia Line.
From Nicholas Sparks and J.K. Rowling to Feodor Dostoevsky and Charles Dickens, with so many in between, who decides what is good art or bad, high quality or low? Certainly, mass appeal isn't a consistent measuring stick because watered-down art proliferates even as the cream rises to the top.
Relative Obscurity
Positively speaking, compromise is a humbled move toward peace. It need not always be an act of artistic cowardice.
What's my point? Humility, I guess. If pride in my fine taste stiffens my stance in one corner of the rug, someone will surely pull it out from under my feet with revelations of what I am missing. More than likely, what appeals to you has merits I haven't investigated. Maybe you love every song and sound on Gravity. I'm glad if you do!
In keeping my knees unlocked and soft, I can walk your way and experience the view from your side of the room. You can show me what I've missed in Picasso and I can point out the genius of Sting. We can meet at Starbucks, maybe stop to shop at the mall, and go from there.
Out of the Grey's fan base fell off sharply after the release of Gravity. Our follow-up, See Inside, never found the listeners we thought it deserved. Scott and I sometimes wonder what would have happened if we'd held our ground on how we wanted to shape our sound. The question will remain: does gravity suck or is it just a natural force that no artist can escape? The answer lies in the ears of the beholder. The rest is left to relative obscurity.
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The Recording Process #4: BGV's Part 2
September 27, 2018 April 25, 2017 by Christine Dente
Singing: BGV's By Definition
In Part 1 of this series about singing background vocals, I described the first 4 items on this list. I have tried to simplify how it all happens in the recording studio with some quick definitions and examples. Read the first part here. Now let's talk about numbers 5, 6, and 7.
Vocal Pads
Counter Melodies
Gang Vocals
You've heard lots of songs that use this cool technique for adding interest and adding other voices to the mix. Usually, the 'call' is the lead singer's part which is answered or echoed by a less- prominent vocal in the background.
Out of the Grey's song, "Shine Like Crazy," on the Rocketown album titled 6.1, is a good example. Monroe Jones produced this project and in this song, he had Scott and me exchanging lines in the verses. In the choruses, you'll notice there is also a call and response in which I sing "shine" and then a responsive pad of voices echoes with their own "shine." Call and response singing sometimes comes close to being a duet. We use this technique a lot in our Out of the Grey music.
I like to weave in countermelodies on some parts of my songs. Maybe my classical training plus that Counterpoint 101 class at Berklee College of Music inspired this in me. (By the way, Scott, who was not my husband at the time, and I were in that class together and he got a passing grade only by a hair, thanks to my help! But that's another blog).
These types of melodies play off of the main melody, maybe going in opposite directions from the original. Or they may add new rhythmic twists.
An example of what I call a counter melody is at the end of the song, "Constant." It's on the See Inside record which Brown Bannister produced. You can hear the lyric, melodic, and rhythmic changes I made to the original part which add interest at the very end of the song.
Also, in "Eyes Wide Open," you'll notice that the second half of the second verse has an interesting counter-melodic BGV happening on the lyric: "I am trying to be wise, I'm watching You to keep me far from dulling lullabies."
I urge you to keep your ears wide open to hear examples of this in other music!
On my solo project, Voyage, my producer, Scott Dente, had a great idea for the out-choruses of the song, It's All About You. He brought in some friends to gather around the microphone and sing along with my lead in the last choruses of the song.
As a group, each singer sang the melody for a few recorded passes. On the next few passes, each person sang a harmony. Scott told them to not worry about precision, let it get a little sloppy.
Then on the final few tracks, he had some of the singers back up from the microphone and get a bit shouty on the next passes. This created the gang vocal effect, all the tracks adding up to quite a large crowd of voices. It brings a lot of energy and interest to the end of the song.
On our son Julian's song, "Father," you can hear the gang vocal in the final choruses where everyone is singing: "Father, won't you listen to me, cos I want to believe, I want to believe you." He had a bunch of his friends come to the studio to be part of the "gang." And he invited me to be in there, too. How cool is that?
Producers use gang vocals a lot. See if you can find some examples of your own.
What Do You Know
Most of what I know about singing has come from my many years of experience on the road and in the studio. I am amazed at how much we learn from just living the lives in which we find ourselves! What expert knowledge do you have to share, just because it's a part of who you are?
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MacLennan decries Desmond tactics
Stephen Brook
Mon 19 Nov 2007 08.09 EST First published on Mon 19 Nov 2007 08.09 EST
The Telegraph Media Group chief executive, Murdoch MacLennan, has attacked "scaremongering stories" about the troubled pension scheme for print workers at the Westferry plant.
MacLennan has responded to claims by Richard Desmond, whose Express Newspapers co-owns the plant, that the Telegraph Group was refusing to pay its half of a £66m pension deficit.
"I hope that this brief update sets your mind at rest and I will continue to ensure you receive up to date and reliable information direct from me rather than press reporting which is plainly not independent or accurate," MacLennan wrote in the letter to workers obtained by MediaGuardian.co.uk.
The Telegraph will pull out of its Westferry joint venture with the Express in 2009 after signing a long-term printing contract with News International. The move has exposed a pensions deficit of about £66m, affecting about 500 workers.
"Although the end of the contract is still nearly two years away, we have already agreed to make an additional contribution of £8m to your scheme this year towards the shortfall," MacLennan wrote.
"We intend to continue to work actively with your trustees and their advisers, and we have been co-operating with the pensions regulator. This will be an ongoing and thorough process to make sure that your interests are protected.
"We have committed to your trustees, and to all staff, that we will honour all our obligations - and I repeat that commitment to you today. We will continue to talk, and to make further proposals until all the issues are resolved."
The chief executive of the Telegraph Media Group emphasised his credentials to ensure that workers' pensions are protected, as he helped to set up the joint venture 20 years ago, and helped to solve pension problems when he was an executive at the Mirror.
In a sideways dig at Desmond, responsible for recent stories that the Telegraph was failing to meet its obligations, MacLennan suggest some people involved in the matter had been "irresponsible".
"It is irresponsible of anyone to cause you concern by suggesting that we are putting your pension at risk. Of course there are issues to deal with - that always happens when a contractual agreement comes to an end - but you have my personal assurance that we will not rest until all issues are resolved."
Robert Sanderson, Express Newspapers' financial director, was quoted last week as saying: "The bottom line is that between us we have to find £66m. That's £33m each. They know the deficit situation. While TMG continually state their intentions to meet their obligations, their actions appear contrary. I think they should be brought to account for it."
Telegraph sources have pointed out that in the past two years Desmond has received wages totalling £66m. Last year he paid himself £40m and is reputedly worth £1.9bn.
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Q: Sorting Filtered Data by Date I have some swiftUI logic that display entries by date and only displays the date if there is a change in date. It works great, thanks to: Display Entry Date with Change in Orientation. The one problem I have is displaying entries by order of date. For example, say someone enters some data that they forgot to enter 3 weeks ago. (My logic allows date entry with any date in the past.) This logic won't place the entry ahead of the entries posted in the last week.
Normally I could do a sort like this:
filteredArray = wdArray.sorted { (user1, user2) -> Bool in
            return user1.points > user2.points
        }

or

filteredArray = wdArray.sorted(by: {$0.points < $1.points})

Here is the start of my class
class Withdrawal: ObservableObject {

    @Published var wdArray: [WdModel] {
        didSet {
            // save withdrawal entries
                if let encoded = try? JSONEncoder().encode(wdArray) { // save withdrawal entries
                UserDefaults.standard.set(encoded, forKey: "wdBank")
            }
        }
    }

Here is the logic that filters the entries by date (no sorting).
// creates a list of unique date entries
    // (goes through all elements, saves them in a set, checks if already in set)
    var uniqueBankDates: [String] {
        var seen: Set<String> = []
        return wdvm.wdArray.filter { seen.insert($0.wdDate.formatted(date: .abbreviated, time: .omitted)).inserted }
            .map {$0.wdDate.formatted(date: .abbreviated, time: .omitted) }
    }

So the bottom line is that I need help modifying uniqueBankDates to filter AND sort the sets by date (oldest entries first).  I would appreciate any help on this.  Thanks

A: You don't need to "save" the elements in a set - you can just:

*

*turn the array into a Set by simply using Set(array), this will remove the duplicates

*turn the Set back to an array by using Array(yourSetHere)

*sort it

*turn the array of dates into an array of strings

Here's what uniqueBankDates should look like (WdModel shall be conform to Hashable):
    var uniqueBankDates: [String] {
        Array(Set(wdvm.wdArray))                // This will remove duplicates, but WdModel needs to be Hashable
            .sorted { $0.wdDate < $1.wdDate }   // Compare dates
            .compactMap {
                $0.wdDate.formatted(date: .abbreviated, time: .omitted)    // Return an array of formatted the dates
            }
    }


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Musk ends 'funding secured' testimony without citing binding Tesla deal
Tesla Inc Chief Executive Elon Musk testified on Tuesday that he expected strong financial support when he tweeted that he would take the electric car maker private in 2018, but admitted he lacked specific commitments from potential backers.
Musk ended three days on the stand defending against claims that he defrauded investors by tweeting on August 7, 2018, that he had "funding secured" to take Tesla private.
The trial in San Francisco federal court is testing whether the world's second-richest person can be held liable for his sometimes impulsive use of Twitter.
Musk told a jury that he could have drawn upon several sources of financing to take Tesla private, from existing shareholders like Oracle Corp co-founder Larry Ellison to Saudi Arabia's sovereign wealth fund or his own fortune.
"Funding was absolutely not an issue," Musk said. "It was quite the opposite."
Musk, however, acknowledged he did not have binding agreements with investors, leaving it to the jury to decide if he misled shareholders.
Musk remained generally subdued and calm during his testimony, which began on Friday. Near the end of nearly nine total hours on the stand, he became more combative, making comments about the class action law firm that brought the case. His comments were struck from the record by US District Judge Edward Chen.
Tesla's stock surged after Musk's 2018 tweet about the $420 per share price, which was a premium of about 23 per cent to the prior day's close, only to fall as it became clear the buyout would not happen. Investors say they lost millions of dollars as a result.
A jury of nine will decide whether the Tesla CEO artificially inflated the company's share price by touting the buyout's prospects, and if so, by how much.
Musk testified on Tuesday in response to questions from his lawyer Alex Spiro that his tweet was intended to inform investors about his interest in taking Tesla private.
Musk said he had already discussed his interest with the Tesla board and Saudi Arabia's sovereign wealth fund, the Public Investment Fund, and he feared it would leak to the media.
"I had no ill motive," he said. "My intent here was to do the right thing for shareholders."
The Saudi fund did not immediately respond to a Reuters request for comment.
Musk told the jury he decided to drop the idea of taking the company private after getting feedback from shareholders.
"After talking to a number of investors, especially the smaller investors, they said they would prefer a Tesla that remained public and I felt it was important to be responsive to their wishes," Musk testified.
The jury was shown notes and documents from a board meeting in the days after the tweet at which Goldman Sachs, which was working with Musk on the proposed deal, had indicated there would be more than enough funding to take the company private.
Goldman Sachs did not immediately reply to a request for comment.
But when questioned by Nicholas Porritt, a lawyer for the investors, Musk said he did not have binding agreements for financing from any interested party.
Musk repeatedly resisted the "yes" or "no" responses sought by Porritt about discussions over funding pledges by the Saudi fund, prompting the judge at one point to help with the questioning.
"Was a specific number discussed, not concepts?" Chen asked.
"Not a specific number," Musk said.
On Monday, Musk said he could have financed the deal by selling his stake in SpaceX, the aerospace company where he is also chief executive officer. He has also said he believed financing had been pledged by Saudi representatives of the Public Investment Fund, before they backpedaled.
The trial is scheduled to continue into next week with testimony by Tesla board members and experts.


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Q: How to update Lagom to latest stable release version I followed the following tutorial: https://www.lagomframework.com/documentation/1.4.x/java/GettingStartedMaven.html
Point 3 mentioned:

Enter the number that corresponds with
  com.lightbend.lagom:maven-archetype-lagom-java (at time of writing,
  the number 1, and the only one available). Maven prompts you for the
  version.

The problem is that Maven did not prompt me for a version, and used 1.1.0-RC1 by default. This version builds properly, although there are also minor errors popping up in the standard out like the one here:

Point 4 mentions:

Enter the number corresponding with the version of Lagom you want to
  use. We recommend using the current stable release).

Current stable release version is 1.4.6.
I've tried modifying my Maven pom.xml manually since I didn't receive the prompt and tried rebuilding:
<properties>
    <project.build.sourceEncoding>UTF-8</project.build.sourceEncoding>

    <lagom.version>1.4.6</lagom.version> <!-- Changed here -->
    <play.version>2.5.4</play.version>
    <conductr.lib.name>lagom10-conductr-bundle-lib_2.11</conductr.lib.name>
</properties>

But building with lagom:runAllresults in error:

1.4.6 should be a stable release. Are there dependencies that also require updates that I have to take care of when using this version?
Thanks!

A: Never mind, I followed the following tutorial and it works fine:
https://www.lagomframework.com/blog/introducing-maven-support.html


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Published 1993 by Turnstone Press in Winnipeg .
Statement Todd Bruce.
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House Democrats unveil $4.5B border measure
by: ANDREW TAYLOR, Associated Press
The Capitol is seen from the roof of the Canadian Embassy in Washington, Thursday, June 20, 2019. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)
WASHINGTON (AP) — House Democrats unveiled a $4.5 billion measure Friday to respond to the growing humanitarian crisis at the southern border and the government's responsibility to care for tens of thousands of migrant refugees seeking safety in the U.S. under its asylum laws.
The measure is scheduled for a floor vote next week as both the House and Senate are scrambling to wrap up action on the must-do measure before agencies caring for the influx of migrants — already stretched to the limit — run out of money.
The measure was unveiled as lawmakers and the administration are increasingly unnerved by the crisis and reports of bad living conditions at government-funded shelters .
At the White House, the government's point man in handling the crisis stressed the need to act and said time is running out.
"We're going to run out of money in July because the numbers are just so high," Health and Human Service Secretary Alex Azar said Friday at the White House.
"This is not about gamesmanship," he said. "This is not about politics. This is not about immigration policy. This is a humanitarian relief package. And it has got to pass. It's got to pass immediately. We are out of money and we are out of capacity."
The House measure provides $2.9 billion for refuge and migrant care and assistance by the Department of Health and Human Services, another $1.3 billion for care provided by Department of Homeland Security agencies, and $60 million to reimburse local governments and non-profits who help shelter migrants.
"There are serious humanitarian needs at the border, and we all recognize the clear need to act," said Appropriations Committee Chairwoman Nita Lowey, D-N.Y. "This legislation would address the humanitarian crisis in a way that balances the needs at the border with the imperative to hold the administration accountable."
The House bill is similar to a Senate measure that won a sweeping bipartisan vote in the Appropriations Committee on Thursday. Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., promised a Senate vote next week.
House liberals insisted on changes such as additional money for legal help for migrants and a denial of funds for overtime and salaries of immigration agents. House Democrats vow to vote before the Senate, but most Republicans are likely to vote against the measure. Many lawmakers expect that the bipartisan Senate version will generally prevail.
"If I had a vehicle that both Democrats and Republicans in the Senate could vote for and the president has said he would sign, that's the vehicle we ought to be using," said Rep. Tom Cole, R-Okla., a senior member of the Appropriations Committee. "Not something they cook up here."
Rep. Joaquin Castro, D-Texas, chairman of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus, praised the House measure for denying funding to the Pentagon for logistical support in handling the crisis. He said Hispanic lawmakers had a positive meeting with Lowey this week and most of them are expected to support the legislation despite not getting all they wanted.


Make the most of your campus visits!
…sure, you deserve a break! Go to the beach. Vacation a little.
If your home all break, sleep in a little.
You can hang out on the couch, playing video games until dinner. Eat, then nap a little more.
But I'm willing to bet it gets a little boring as break goes on.
Well make the most of it!
Make a list of your top 3 colleges. Below is a list of the types of higher education institutions. From your list, make the calls to the school's admissions department to schedule an appointment.
Just tell them you are interested in a campus tour. No formal meeting yet. Unless you are certain that this school is your choice.
But always know that you can never make a good decision, or the right decision unless you have at least 3 things to choose from. The more information you have to make your decision, the better.
It doesn't have to be hard, just more information to choose from.
Below is a list so things to consider and prepare yourself for.
There is no preference of the type, unless it matches with your career interests. Once you selected 3-4 colleges, then you begin the process of visiting and checking them out.
If you are just looking at schools, and not wanting to speak with anyone yet, just plan a CAMPUS VISIT. This allows you to check things out and get a feel for it too. If you are looking at colleges AWAY from home, where you will live, then I suggest you stay at the school overnight to experience its environment for a short time.
These steps below will give you the best and most effective visit for a school. If you follow this list, you will be able to make a more educated decision that will definitely benefit you.
Now, this list is somewhat comprehensive. Some of this might not be necessary for you, depending on the type of school, but make the most of it.
The worst thing you can do is to start attending a college, and wanting to leave after the first semester or year. I would say about 30-40% of college students change their minds with regard to careers and/or college.
…buy a day planner/calendar. Either purchase one at the college bookstore, or purchase one with which you can most comfortably work. You will need to know dates and be aware of due dates, deadlines and everything else through the school year. Remember to purchase an ACADEMIC YEAR, or SCHOOL YEAR calendar. A calendar that starts in July or August and ends in June or July of the following year. This makes it easier for you to follow by the dates, based on your school year start and end dates.
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…you have to start making decisions that will affect you directly. Sure mom and dad can help, but don't make them doo everything.
…what else are you wondering about with regard to colleges in general and college visits. Did I make a complete list? Are you wondering what else there is to find out.
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Q: Confused about the proper way of testing for an improvement or worsening I want to check if a new equipment improves a score compared with the older equipment. My database contains the score with the old equipment, and the scores with each new equipment. I googled, userR'd, checked similar journal articles and saw that one of them used the sign test to assess the improvement in the grading.
EDIT
To make it clear, the journal article which studied a very similar question used the sign test. They and I have data like this one:
               New equipment
Old equipment  1  2  3
            1 33  0  0
            2 37  8  1
            3 12  4  0
            4  2  0  0

This table should be read like this:

*

*Numbers 1-4 are scores for some condition (1 is better, 4 is worst).

*The first row starting with 1 means that the old equipment provided a score of 1 in 33 patients, and the situation did not change with the new equipment.

*The second row starting with 2 means that the old equipment provided a score of 2 in 46 patients (derived from 37+8+1). The new equipment provided a score of 3 in 1 patient, a score of 2 in 8 patients, and a score of 1 in 37 patients. This is a good improvement, but in ~2% of cases, things may get worse.

*The third row starting with 3 means that the old equipment provided a score of 3 in 16 patients (derived from 12+4). The new equipment provided a score of 2 in 4 patients, and a score of 1 in 12 patients. This is a major improvement.

*The fourth row starting with 4 means that the old equipment provided a score of 4 in 2 patients. The new equipment provided a score of 1 in both of these patients. This is a major improvement. However, only 2 out of 97 patients scored 4 with no instrument. Therefore we may conclude that only patients who score high (3 or 4) with no instrument may benefit from using an instrument.
I think that the best option is to test each row separately with wilcoxon test, by comparing the medians of both conditions (old equipment and new equipment). As an example:
score.2 <- subset(original.df, old-equipment %in% 2)
wilcox.test(score.2$old-equipment, score.2$new-equipment, alternative="great")

and repeat this for each score with the old equipment.
I couldn't see a way to use the sign test for this. What is your suggestion to test this condition properly?
EDIT#2
I think the Wilcoxon signed rank test is appropriate to compare the differences of two new methods/instruments over a common old method/instrument. But when it comes to test the significance of the difference of one method over the other, it has a shortcoming. Let me explain with an example:
Lets say, on 4 trials, I could eat 3,4,4,5 peas with a fork. With a spoon, I could eat 4,5,5,6 peas. Since the median of the spoon-trial is higher than the median of the fork-trial, we can conclude that spoon is better for eating peas. It won't differ if the spoon-trial ends up as 6,5,5,4 or 5,5,5,5 or even 1,1,10,10. The spoon-median is higher than the fork-median and the Wilcoxon test will yield a low p-value. But when it comes to grading or notes, or anything that requires consistency, it differs. In my case, I'm working with old and new scoring systems. When a new method/instrument consistently achieves higher scores compared with the old one, it is simply better than the old one. But when it achieves very good scores in half of the trials, and very bad scores in the other half (but still better sum or median than the old one), it is not better. It may score better in some circumstances but it is not reliable. That is the weakness of the Wilcoxon test. It does not take the paired nature of the data into account.
So my exact question is, how can I make the Wilcoxon test see this problem from a "paired samples" aspect. So I have data, where I test each subject with three different instruments and would like to know if it is worth the effort to switch to any of the new instruments.
#dput
structure(list(Mallampati = structure(c(2L, 3L, 3L, 3L, 2L, 2L,
2L, 1L, 3L, 2L, 4L, 1L, 1L, 2L, 1L, 1L, 2L, 1L, 1L, 3L, 1L, 1L,
2L, 1L, 2L, 1L, 2L, 2L, 3L, 2L, 1L, 1L, 2L, 1L, 1L, 1L, 1L, 2L,
1L, 4L), .Label = c("1", "2", "3", "4"), class = "factor"), VL = c(1,
1, 2, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 2, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1,
1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1), DL = c(1,
1, 3, 2, 1, 2, 1, 1, 2, 2, 3, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 2, 3, 1,
1, 2, 1, 1, 2, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 2, 2, 1, 1, 2, 1, 1, 2)), .Names = c("Mallampati",
"VL", "DL"), row.names = c(NA, 40L), class = "data.frame")