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A tenement is a type of building shared by multiple dwellings, typically with flats or apartments on each floor and with shared entrance stairway access. They are common on the British Isles, particularly in Scotland. In the medieval Old Town, in Edinburgh, tenements were developed with each apartment treated as a separate house, built on top of each other (such as Gladstone's Land). Over hundreds of years, custom grew to become law concerning maintenance and repairs, as first formally discussed in Stair's 1681 writings on Scots property law. In Scotland, these are now governed by the Tenements Act, which replaced the old Law of the Tenement and created a new system of common ownership and procedures concerning repairs and maintenance of tenements. Tenements with one or two room flats provided popular rented accommodation for workers, but in some inner-city areas, overcrowding and maintenance problems led to shanty towns, which have been cleared and redeveloped. In more affluent areas, tenement flats form spacious privately owned houses, some with up to six bedrooms, which continue to be desirable properties.

In the United States, the term tenement initially meant a large building with multiple small spaces to rent. As cities grew in the nineteenth century, there was increasing separation between rich and poor. With rapid urban growth and immigration, overcrowded houses with poor sanitation gave tenements a reputation as shanty towns.
The expression "tenement house" was used to designate a building subdivided to provide cheap rental accommodation, which was initially a subdivision of a large house. Beginning in the 1850s, purpose-built tenements of up to six stories held several households on each floor. Various names were introduced for better dwellings, and eventually modern apartments predominated in American urban living.

In parts of England, especially Devon and Cornwall, the word refers to an outshot, or additional projecting part at the back of a terraced house, normally with its own roof.

History

The term tenement originally referred to tenancy and therefore to any rented accommodation. The New York State legislature defined it in the Tenement House Act of 1867 in terms of rental occupancy by multiple households, as

In Scotland, it continues to be the most common word for a multiple-occupancy building, but elsewhere it is used as a pejorative in contrast to apartment building or block of flats.  Tenement houses were either adapted or built for the working class as cities industrialized, and came to be contrasted with middle-class apartment houses, which started to become fashionable later in the 19th century. Late-19th-century social reformers in the US were hostile to both tenements (for fostering disease, and immorality in the young) and apartment houses (for fostering "sexual immorality, sloth, and divorce").

Specific places

New York

As the United States industrialized during the 19th century, immigrants and workers from the countryside were housed in former middle-class houses and other buildings, such as warehouses, which were bought up and divided into small dwellings. Beginning as early as the 1830s in New York City's Lower East Side or possibly the 1820s on Mott Street, three- and four-story buildings were converted into "railroad flats," so called because the rooms were linked together like the cars of a train, with windowless internal rooms. The adapted buildings were also known as "rookeries," and these were a particular concern, as they were prone to collapse and fire. Mulberry Bend and Five Points were the sites of notorious rookeries that the city worked for decades to clear. In both rookeries and purpose-built tenements, communal water taps and water closets (either privies or "school sinks," which opened into a vault that often became clogged) were squeezed into the small open spaces between buildings. In parts of the Lower East Side, buildings were older and had courtyards, generally occupied by machine shops, stables, and other businesses.

Such tenements were particularly prevalent in New York, where in 1865 a report stated that 500,000 people lived in unhealthy tenements, whereas in Boston in 1845, less than a quarter of workers were housed in tenements. One reason New York had so many tenements was the large number of immigrants; another was that the grid plan on which streets were laid out, and the economic practice of building on individual 25- by 100-foot lots, combined to produce high land coverage. Prior to 1867, tenements often covered more than 90 percent of the lot, were five or six stories high, and had 18 rooms per floor, of which only two received direct sunlight. Yards were a few feet wide and often filled with privies. Interior rooms were unventilated.

Early in the 19th century, many of the poor were housed in cellars, which became even less sanitary after the Croton Aqueduct brought running water to wealthier New Yorkers: the reduction in well use caused the water table to rise, and the cellar dwellings flooded. Early housing reformers urged the construction of tenements to replace cellars, and beginning in 1859 the number of people living in cellars began to decline.

The Tenement House Act of 1866, the state legislature's first comprehensive legislation on housing conditions, prohibited cellar apartments unless the ceiling was 1 foot above street level; required one water closet per 20 residents and the provision of fire escapes; and paid some attention to space between buildings. This was amended by the Tenement House Act of 1879, known as the Old Law, which required lot coverage of no more than 65 percent. As of 1869, New York State law defined a "tenement house" as "any house or building, or portion thereof, which is rented, leased let or hired out, to be occupied, or is occupied as the home or residence of three families or more living independently of each other, and doing their cooking upon the premises, or by more than two families upon any floor, so living and cooking, but having a right in the halls, stairways, yards, water-closets or privies, or some of them." L 1867, ch 908. The New York City Board of Health was empowered to enforce these regulations, but it declined to do so. As a compromise, the "Old Law tenement" became the standard: this had a "dumbbell" shape, with air and light shafts on either side in the center (usually fitted to the shafts in the adjacent buildings), and it typically covered 80 percent of the lot. James E. Ware is credited with the design; he had won a contest the previous year held by Plumber and Sanitary Engineer Magazine to find the most practical improved tenement design, in which profitability was the most important factor to the jury.

Public concern about New York tenements was stirred by publication in 1890 of Jacob Riis's How the Other Half Lives , and in 1892 by Riis's The Children of the Poor.  The New York State Assembly Tenement House Committee report of 1894 surveyed 8,000 buildings with approximately 255,000 residents and found New York to be the most densely populated city in the world, at an average of 143 people per acre, with part of the Lower East Side having 800 residents per acre, denser than Bombay. It used both charts and photographs, the first such official use of photographs. Together with the publication in 1895 by the US Department of Labor of a special report on housing conditions and solutions elsewhere in the world, The Housing of Working People, it ultimately led to the passage of the Tenement House Act of 1901, known as the New Law, which implemented the Tenement House Committee's recommendation of a maximum of 70 percent lot coverage and mandated strict enforcement, specified a minimum of 12 feet for a rear yard and 6 feet for an air and light shaft at the lot line or 12 feet in the middle of the building (all of these being increased for taller buildings), and required running water and water closets in every apartment and a window in every room. There were also fire-safety requirements. These rules are still the basis of New York City law on low-rise buildings, and they have made single-lot development uneconomical.

Most of the purpose-built tenements in New York were not slums, although they were not pleasant to be inside, especially in hot weather, so people congregated outside, made heavy use of the fire escapes, and slept in summer on fire escapes, roofs, and sidewalks.

The Lower East Side Tenement Museum, a five-story brick former tenement building in Manhattan that is a National Historic Site, is a museum devoted to tenements in the Lower East Side.

Other famous tenements in the US include tenement housing in Chicago,  in which various housing areas were built to the same affect as tenements in New York.

Edinburgh and Glasgow

Tenements make up a large percentage of the housing stock of Edinburgh and Glasgow in Scotland. Glasgow tenements were built to provide high-density housing for the large number of people immigrating to the city in the 19th and early 20th century as a result of the Industrial Revolution, when the city's population boomed to more than 1 million people. Edinburgh's tenements are much older, dating from the 17th century onwards, and some were up to 15 storeys high when first built, which made them among the tallest houses in the world at that time. Glasgow tenements were generally built no taller than the width of the street on which they were located; therefore, most are about 3–5 storeys high. Virtually all Glasgow tenements were constructed using red or blonde sandstone, which has become distinctive.

In Edinburgh, residential dwellings in the UNESCO World Heritage Sites of the medieval Old Town and Georgian New Town (as well as the Victorian city centre districts immediately surrounding them) are almost exclusively tenements.
The Tenement House historic house museum in the Garnethill area of Glasgow preserves the interior, fittings and equipment of a well-kept, upper middle-class tenement from the late 19th century.

Many tenements in Glasgow were demolished in the 1960s and 1970s because of slum conditions, overcrowding and poor maintenance of the buildings. Perhaps the most striking case of this is seen in the Gorbals, where virtually all the tenements were demolished to make way for tower blocks, many of which have in turn have been demolished and replaced with newer structures. The Gorbals is an area of approximately 1 km2 and at one time had an estimated 90,000 people living in its tenements, leading to very poor living conditions. The population now is roughly 10,000.

Tenement demolition was to a significantly lesser extent in Edinburgh, thus making its later World Heritage designations in 1985 possible. Largely, such clearances were limited to pre-Victorian buildings outwith the New Town area and were precipitated by the so-called "Penny Tenement" incident of 1959 in which a tenement collapsed.

Apartments in tenement buildings in both cities are now often highly sought after, due to their locations, often large rooms, high ceilings, ornamentation and period features.

Berlin

In German, the term corresponding to tenement is Mietskaserne, "rental barracks", and the city especially known for them is Berlin. In 1930, Werner Hegemann's polemic Das steinerne Berlin (Stony Berlin) referred to the city in its subtitle as "the largest tenement city in the world." They were built during a period of great increases in population between 1860 and 1914, particularly after German unification in 1871, in a broad ring enclosing the old city center, sometimes called the Wilhelmian or Wilhelmine Ring. The buildings are almost always five stories high because of the mandated maximum height. The blocks are large because the streets were required to be able to handle heavy traffic, and the lots are therefore also large: required to have courtyards large enough for a fire truck to turn around, the buildings have front, rear, and cross buildings enclosing several courtyards. Buildings within the courtyards were the location of much of Berlin's industry until the 1920s, and noise and other nuisances affected the apartments, only the best of which had windows facing the street.

One notorious Berlin Mietskaserne was  in Gesundbrunnen, which at times housed 2,000 people and required its own police officer to keep order.

Between 1901 and 1920, a Berlin clinic investigated and documented in photographs the living conditions of its patients, revealing that many lived in damp basements and garrets, spaces under stairs, and apartments where the windows were blocked by courtyard businesses.

Many apartments in the Wilhelmian Ring were very small, only one room and a kitchen. Also, apartments were laid out with their rooms reached via a common internal corridor, which even the Berlin Architects' Association recognized was unhealthy and detrimental to family life. Sanitation was inadequate: in a survey of one area in 1962, only 15 percent of apartments had both a toilet and a bath or shower; 19 percent had only a toilet, and 66 percent shared staircase toilets. Heating was provided by stoves burning charcoal briquettes.

Dublin

By the 19th and early 20th century, Dublin's tenements () were infamous, often described as the worst in Europe. Many tenement buildings were originally the Georgian townhouses of upper-class families, neglected and subdivided over the centuries to house dozens of Dublin's poor. Henrietta Street's fifteen buildings housed 835 people. In 1911 nearly 26,000 families lived in inner-city tenements, and 20,000 of these families lived in a single room. Disease was common, with death rates of 22.3 per thousand (compared with 15.6 for London at the same time).

The collapse of 65–66 Church Street in 1913, which killed seven residents, led to inquiries into housing. A housing committee report of 1914 said,

Tenement life often appeared in fiction, such as the "Dublin trilogy" of plays by Seán O'Casey, Oliver St. John Gogarty's play Blight, and James Plunkett's novel Strumpet City (adapted for television in 1980). 14 Henrietta Street serves as a museum of Dublin tenement life.

The last tenements were closed in the 1970s, families being rehoused in new suburbs such as Ballymun.

Buenos Aires

In Buenos Aires the tenements, called conventillos, developed from subdividing one- or two-story houses built around courtyards for well-off families. These were long and narrow, three to six times as long as they were wide, and the size of the patios was reduced until as many as 350 people could be living on a lot that had originally housed 25. Purpose-built tenements copied their form. By 1907 there were some 2,500 conventillos, with 150,000 occupants. El conventillo de la Paloma was particularly famous and is the title of a play by Alberto Vaccarezza.

Mumbai

"Chawls" are found in India. They are typically four to five story buildings with 10 to 20 kholis (tenements) on each floor, kholis literally meaning 'rooms'. Many chawl buildings can be found in Mumbai, where chawls were constructed by the thousands to house people migrating to the large city because of its booming cotton mills and overall strong economy.

A typical chawl tenement consists of one all-purpose room, which functions both as a living and sleeping space, and a kitchen which also serves as a dining room. A frequent practice is for the kitchen to also serve as a bedroom for a newly married couple in order to give them some degree of privacy.

Poland

Kamienica (plural kamienice) is a Polish term describing a type of residential tenement building made of brick or stone, with at least two floors. There are two basic types: one designed as a single-family residence, which existed until the 1800s (a burgher house), and the other designed as multi-family housing, which emerged in the 19th century and was the basic type of housing in cities. From the architectural point of view, the word is usually used to describe a building that abuts other similar buildings forming the street frontage, in the manner of a terraced house. The ground floor often consists of shops and other businesses, while the upper floors are apartments, oftentimes spanning the entire floor. Kamienice have large windows in the front, but not in the side walls, since the buildings are close together.

The first type of kamienica is most prevalent especially in centers of historical cities such as Kraków, Poznań, Wrocław, and Toruń, whereas the second type is most prominent in Łódź. The name derives from the Polish word kamień (stone) and dates from the 15th century. Late 19th century and early 20th century kamienice often took form of city palaces with ornamental facades, high floors and spacious, representative and heavily decorated interiors.

Later in the 20th century, especially after the Second World War, large apartments would be divided into several smaller flats due to general lack of habitable space caused by vast destruction of cities, thus lowering the generally high standard of living in so-called grand city tenements (). Examples of kamienice include Korniakt Palace and Black Kamienica in Lviv. Some kamienice in some areas have a reputation for being inhabited by poor people and families that depend on government money and welfare programs to support them; kamienice are often used as public housing. Those areas are often considered dangerous. The buildings are often neglected, in bad shape (both the exteriors and the interiors), in need of general renovations, sometimes without access to heating or hot water.

See also

 Cortiço, tenements in Portuguese-speaking countries
 NIMBY
 Urban decay

References

Notes

Bibliography
Bauman, John F. "Introduction: The Eternal War on the Slums," From Tenements to the Taylor Homes: In Search of an Urban Housing Policy in Twentieth-Century America, ed. John F. Bauman, Roger Biles, and Kristin M. Szylvian, University Park: Pennsylvania State University, 2000, , pp. 1–17.
Elkins, T. H. with Hofmeister, B. Berlin: The Spatial Structure of a Divided City, London/New York: Methuen, 1988,
Girouard, Mark. Cities and People: A Social and Architectural History, New Haven, Connecticut/London: Yale University, 1985,
Plunz, Richard A. "On the Uses and Abuses of Air: Perfecting the New York Tenement, 1850–1901," Berlin/New York: Like and Unlike: Essays on Architecture and Art from 1870 to the Present, ed. Josef Paul Kleihues and Christina Rathgeber, New York: Rizzoli, 1993, , pp. 159–79.
Riis, Jacob. The Children of the Poor: A Child Welfare Classic, Pittsburgh: TCB Classics, 2018 [1892],
Worbs, Dietrich. "The Berlin Mietskaserne and Its Reforms," Berlin/New York, pp. 144–57.

Further reading
 Huchzermeyer, Marie. Tenement cities: from 19th century Berlin to 21st century Nairobi, Trenton, New Jersey: Africa World Press, 2011, .
 Kearns, Kevin C. Dublin Tenement Life: An Oral History of the Dublin Slums, Dublin: Gill & Macmillan, 1994, repr. 2006, .
 Lubove, Roy. The Progressives and the Slums: Tenement House Reform in New York City, 1890–1917, Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1963, .
 Worsdall, Frank. The Tenement: A Way of Life: A Social, Historical and Architectural Study of Housing in Glasgow, Glasgow: W. and R. Chambers, 1979, .

Historiography
 Polland, Annie. "Ivory Towers and Tenements: American Jewish History, Scholars and the Public," American Jewish History 98 (2014) 41-47: how museums interpret the tenements in New York City.
 Steinberg, Adam. "What we talk about when we talk about food: Using food to teach history at the Tenement Museum," Public Historian 34.2 (2012) 79-89.

External links

Kamienice category at Polish Wikipedia

Urban design
House types
Progressive Era in the United States

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Q: How to move up and down in quick fix suggestions in visual studio code without using arrow keys? Whenever there is some missing or needs correction in code, visual studio code shows a yellow bulb to show some quick fixes suggestions.

Is there any way or shortcut by which we can navigate up and down suggestion options shown as in screenshot above without using the arrow keys?

A: In vscode v1.71 there are three new commands you can use for navigating in the QuickFix menu to go to previous or next source code actions.
selectNextCodeAction  // to focus the nextcode action
selectPrevCodeAction  // to focus the previous code action
acceptSelectedCodeAction  // to run the focused/selected code action

You can see the default keybindings below that have been removed. Note the - before the command name in two of the keybindings, that removes those keybindings.
You can make these keybindings (in your keybindings.json):
  {
    "key": "alt+u",              // whatever you want here
    "command": "selectPrevCodeAction",  // for v1.71
    "when": "CodeActionMenuVisible"
  },
  {
    "key": "up",                 // default removed
    "command": "-selectPrevCodeAction",  // for v1.71
    "when": "CodeActionMenuVisible"
  },
  {
    "key": "alt+d",          // whatever you want here
    "command": "selectNextCodeAction",   // for v1.71
    "when": "CodeActionMenuVisible"
  },
  {
    "key": "down",             // default removed
    "command": "-selectNextCodeAction",   // for v1.71
    "when": "CodeActionMenuVisible"
  }

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There is also an extension presented as a fix:
Keyboard QuickFix, but it shouldn't be necessary anymore.

A: Go to "Keyboard shortcuts" and search for selectNextSuggestion.
You can rebind this command to any shortcut you like.
Same goes for selectPrevSuggestion.
I use cmd + j for up and cmd cmd + k for down ^^

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KDH APPEALS FOR RETURN TO 'TRADITIONAL' VALUES
"Gimme that Ol' Time Religion"
Over the past few weeks, top representatives of the right-wing Christian Democratic Party (KDH) have taken a stand against what they say are "immoral" and "family-degrading" influences on Slovak society. Emboldened by an August 16 treaty approved by the government between the Vatican and the Slovak Republic - a treaty which the KDH demanded the government make a priority - the party has attacked homosexuals, and pledged to combat prostitution and pornography.
The KDH says that its often controversial stances of late are in line with their traditional agenda, an agenda which had been abandoned for the last two years while the KDH was forced to deal with ruling coalition squabbles and the demise of the Slovak Democratic Coalition [SDK], of which they are a member party.
Christian Democrat leader Ján Čarnogurský is appealing to conservative and nationalist voter sentiment in an attempt to rebuild his party's support.
photo: TASR
Analysts, however, said the party was trying to increase its voter support - which currently stands at around 5%, down from 13% before the 1998 elections - by preaching conservative and populist ideals.
"It's only two years until the next elections," said Ľuboš Kubín, a political analyst with the Slovak Academy of Sciences. "It's only natural that now that the SDK has collapsed, its individual member parties are trying to define themselves anew for the public."
But few believe the KDH have taken the right approach to rebuilding voter support and political identity. Ján Bunčák, a sociologist at Bratislava's Comenius University, said that although the KDH were trying to appeal to what they saw as the country's deep-rooted belief in traditional, Catholic values, they were misreading the population, which was actually far less religious than it appeared.
"According to statistics, about 60% of Slovaks claim the Catholic faith, so when politicians sees that high a figure, they want to appeal to that group," Bunčák said. "But politicians are often naive. Whatever the figures say, perhaps only 30% of people are devout church-going types. The situation in Slovakia is actually very dynamic."
Popular reactions appear to support Bunčák's theory. With the country facing several burning racial and economic problems, some citizens are wondering whether the KDH has its priorities straight.
"I don't think homosexuals are any worse or less moral than any other Slovak," said 25-year old Ivona Halimovičová of central Slovakia's Brezno. "I have to say I don't understand why the KDH thinks that this is the most important thing to be solved today. They should care more about the catastrophic state of the educational system or healthcare, for example. There are so many other things that need to be fixed."
That voters like Halimovičová are befuddled by the KDH's recently strong opinions is bad news for the party; KDH representatives themselves said that they were targeting voters in small towns similar to Brezno. Analysts said that the KDH was focusing on these voters because urban-dwelling university-educated citizens were rejecting the party's strictly conservative agenda, instead favouring that of the more liberal Slovak Democratic Christian Union (SDKÚ), led by Prime Minister Mikuláš Dzurinda.
"The KDH voter profile is similiar to that of the [opposition] Movement for a Democratic Slovakia [led by former Prime Minister Vladimír Mečiar]," Kubín said, explaining that such voters tended to be older residents of small towns. "They [the KDH] are losing the modern and the urban voter to the more liberal SDKÚ, and are therefore trying to appeal to those who are more isolationist in their views concerning minorities and what they call 'abnormal trends' in society."
Grigorij Mesežnikov, head of the Institute for Public Affairs think tank in Bratislava, agreed, but added that KDH voters had traditionally tended to be more educated than HZDS supporters.
But Ján Čarnogurský, Slovak Justice Minister and KDH head, told The Slovak Spectator on September 5 that voter support had little to do with his party's politics. The party's latest appeals - that homosexual 'partnerships' not be given rights equal to heterosexual marriages, that city streets be freed of prostitutes, that pornography be kept below newsstand counters, and that Internet pornography be controlled - represented a simple return to the KDH's political roots.
"Family and respect for moral values connected to the basic social unit have always been the KDH's priorities," he said.
Čarnogurský's party mates echoed their leader, saying that they were returning to their core values, but added that they also expected to gain voters in the process.
"I'm sure that by presenting our clear positions on these topics we will gradually not only regain our lost voters, but also appeal to other groups," said KDH member Pavol Hrušovský, who has been given Čarnogurský's blessing as the party's next leader at a congress this fall. Čarnogurský has said that one of the new groups targeted would be the working class.
The KDH's Peter Muránsky added: "Only clear, unambiguous parties can be successful, not those who talk about everything and anything. We want to preserve traditional conservative principles and we want to protect our citizens from decadent social trends like prostitution, homosexual behaviour and the extensive availability of pornography."
This party line, for Mesežnikov, means the KDH is hoping to woo nationalist voters as well, such as many of those who support Mečiar's HZDS. He again drew a distinction, however, between the KDH and the HZDS, by saying that the HZDS was more "authoritarian" in its governing style.
"Although there are similarities between the two parties, the KDH is more aware of its limited power. They just aim to strengthen conservative politics in the Slovak government," said Mesežnikov.
The Christian Democrats, for their part, said that they were confident voters would respond favourably to their new - and old - political agenda.
"Slovak citizens don't want homosexuals to be placed on an equal level with the traditional family, and they are against moral evils like prostitution and pornography," said Muránsky. "I'm optimistic, it's just a matter of time until those [former KDH supporters] who left for the liberal SDKÚ will return to us, and to their own principal beliefs."
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The concrete foundations have been completed. Steel erection is forecasted to be complete by the end of the week, with decking and detailing progressing as well. Slab on deck placements are well underway with three quarters of the third floor placed. Half of the second floor pours are completed. We have begun standing wood wall panels on the third floor for sequences one through three. Trusses have arrived on site and will start to be set in place at the end of the week. Fireproofing of structural steel in the parking garage areas is underway, while mechanical trades are proceeding behind with the installation of the MEPs.


The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) in 2012 reported that over 700 million passengers use buses annually. While the vast majority of these individuals traveled without incident, 250 passengers were killed in 2009 and 20,000 were injured in bus accident that same year. Between 2000 and 2007, the NTSB reported that bus accidents were to blame for 1,315 fatalities and nearly 3,500 injuries (these numbers included passengers on the bus as well as pedestrians and other motorists).
The Journal of Safety Research in 2012 conducted a study noting that young bus drivers increase the risk that a bus crash will be severe as does a driver of the age of 55 years. A bus driver who is 65 years of age or older has the highest risk of being involved in a severe accident. The study also found that in over 80% of bus accidents the bus driver was not engaged in risky driving behaviors and that below 5% of bus drivers involved in accidents are charged with driving under the influence, reckless driving, or other serious offenses.
The NTSB conducted a study in 2011, which found that, during 2009, the bus occupant fatality rate equaled 45 deaths per 100,000 accidents. This is far less than the rate for passenger car occupants: 251 deaths per 100,000 accidents. Between 2005 and 2010, there was an average annual total of 1,003 bus accidents: 32 of these were fatal and resulted in 44 deaths. Five hundred and five of these were nonfatal accidents that resulted in injury only and 467 accidents only involved damage to property.
Bus accidents are to blame for a number of deaths and injuries not only to bus passengers but also others that use the roadways.
At Zinda Law Group, we cannot say that these statistics surprise us all that much. We have been helping injury victims who were involved in bus accidents for years and know how serious these events can be. We dedicate ourselves to zealously and aggressively representing our clients' interests after they have been involved in a bus crash. We take the time to properly investigate a case and collect evidence to support our clients' claims. Learn what we can do for you and your bus accident case by calling (800) 863-5312 to set up your free initial consultation.


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What' the best way to see and hear new exciting music? Go to a club! Reeperbahn Festival will put on an international showcase night at Zebulon, LA on Nov 01, 2018 featuring up to six up-and-coming bands and artists from Germany, the US, and other countries.
1. November 2018, 20 Uhr, Zebulon / LA
Entrance is free.
Findlay (GB)
Joining the festival in this stateside satellite, Findlay's reputation precedes her as one of Manchester's most inspiring acts in recent memory. Harkening back to the city's greats, Findlay has carved out her own space with her sharp flair. With a voice that cuts like a razor and burns with a nuclear heat, she has defied the mold for what a young female artist can aspire to be. Patching together a wide range of influences, her debut "Forgotten Pleasures" demonstrates a range few young artists of any era can claim. The jangle and grit incendiary grunge guitar underscore a poetic voice rooted in the magical fantastic.
Her different styles may seem to exist in separate worlds. But when absorbed as a whole, these pieces complement each other masterfully, forming a beautiful, personal narrative. Post-punk epics bleed into psych-rock anthems morph into new-wave throwback with a hip-hop bravado and an infectious pop streak. Her list of collaborators is as long as it is distinguished, calling on Flood (Depeche Mode, Nick Cave), Jake Gosling (Ed Sheeran), Carl Barat (The Libertines) to name just a few. Her quick and explosive rise also includes the founding of her own label Mint Records, catapulting her into her own orbit. Having made her name in the Western UK, she looks to light up the West Coast of the USA with her signature fire.
>Band Website: https://www.facebook.com/FindlayMusic/
>Facebook Event: https://www.facebook.com/events/1992797931010569/
Giant Rooks (GER)
One of the most exciting and fearless new bands out of Europe is making its way to Los Angeles for this year's satellite festival. The five members of Giant Rooks have been able to create a dynamic sound, mature in its finesse, but youthful in its spirit. At their most epic unique, gritty pop melodies soar above foundations of driving guitar and groovy bass patterns. At other times Frederik Rabes' gruff, yet velvety voice and classic songwriting chops provide room for spacious guitar and piano interplay, only to swell again with an exuberant gesture. They evoke rich textures like that of Wild Nothing or Arcade Fire, and the fun and sometimes experimental arrangements and instrumentations of bands like Spoon and Alt-J.
Their second release, 2017's New Estate is further proof that this group is already establishing an impressive catalog with no signs of stopping. "Mia & Keira (Days to Come)" is an infectious power-pop tune that is both ghostly and heartwarming, a view of bottled up nostalgia in the face of loneliness. They have developed a reputation on the road for powerful, energetic shows and festival gigs all over Europe, making them an ideal crossover as Reeperbahn looks to make a splash in the USA.
>Band Website: www.giant-rooks.com/
Linafornia (US)
Representing the host city, Linafornia presides over the Los Angeles stop on the Sequencer Tour. Her sound was formed in the ether of warm, sunburst skylines, and the cool whoof of speakers in some of Angeles most harrowed underground haunts. Ever since she staked her claim on the scene with YUNG (Dome of Doom) in 2016, she has been a mainstay of the beat scene. She embodies the new generation of producers, always stepping forward, still staying true to her roots, to the sounds that originally inspired her. The embodiment was manifested when she was given a residency for the final month of Low End Theory's epic tenure at the Airliner.
To put it in her own words, "the act of repurposing defines her creative vision." Adeptly, she bounces between the warmth of classic soul, with the crispness and snap of 90's hip-hop. Swirling samples dash across expertly sliced percussion, resulting in a style that's as timeless and soulful, as it is tough and gritty. Shunning the laptop, her live sets are captivating displays of expert execution and musicianship on classic Roland SP samplers. Linafornia is more than ready to make her Reeperbahn debut, on her own home court.
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Mavi Phoenix (AT)
Mavi Phoenix has always brought ferocity and tenacity to the mic and to the stage, and now she brings her international flare to Reeperbahn in Los Angeles. From a young age, Mavi has worked to develop a voice and a sound that would take her around the world. Along the way, she's drawn from a global web of influences including hip-hop, baile funk, r&b, chill-wave, and reggaeton. She uses her strong female voice to fuel her distinctive songwriting style, always underscored by tasty grooves and thumping drums of her own devising. Her singing weaves in and out of the lush beds of dreamy synth, while her raps compliment and radiate within an infectious percussive groundwork.
2017's Young Prophet established her as one of the most exciting young artists out of Austria. At the age of 22, she's already planning to follow up her 2017 breakthrough with a sequel Young Prophet II. But a recent string of singles only seems to be pushing her to an even higher plane. Her hit 'Ibiza' strikes the perfect end of summer vibe, a bittersweet ode to a love that could never be. The tune strikes an excellent balance between lo-fi Toro y Moi tunes, and the crooners of the original auto-tune movement. With a full summer of festivals under her belt, Mavi Phoenix is ready to make a splash on the West coast.
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This day and a half course will cover a wide variety of topics associated with oilseed processing plant operations. The goal is to present the tools and information needed to improve operations by increasing efficiency and optimizing human and plant assets.
1022 S. Shady Grove Rd.
Registration fee for the workshop is $150.
You will be required to register and pay online at http://perdc.tamu.edu. Because of the heavy demand for the limited short course spaces, registration fees are not refundable. However, participating organizations will be allowed to send substitute personnel.
Sessions will be of an informal nature, and it is recommended all participants wear casual clothes. The course is entirely for the benefit of the registrants. Questions and comments will be welcome at the end of each speaker's presentation. The right to substitute speakers and change the schedule as necessary to expedite the course is reserved. Emergency calls may be made to the participants at (901.684.1777) during class hours.
A block of rooms has been reserved at The Embassy Suites Memphis for short course participants. Room rates are $149+tax and RESERVATIONS MUST BE MADE BY March 17, 2019. Please mention the Oil Mill Operators Course or Process Engineering to receive the block rate.
Contact Rich Clough (rclough@tamu.edu or 979.862.2262) or Cyndi Casanova, Short Course Coordinator (shortcourse@tamu.edu or 979-845-2741) for additional course information or if you need assistance with registration.


The Nationals are over for another year and the results are in.
Shiver is of course by Uno, who will arrive in Australia later this year.
Whilst the lovely Turner is by Valedictorian a son of Cambridge, who is the sire of my Sophie.
BISS Grd Ch Solange Valedictorian(Sage) is sired by BISS Grd Ch PaRay's Cambridge ROM this dog had a very successful Nationals.
Sage won the Top Twenty competition, the stud dog class and was an Award of Merit recipient.
Sage sired the Winners Dog Silverado Coastal Mocca. Turner as we mentioned above, 3 class winners, 2 second placements and one third placement. His winners represented some quality kennels such as Laureate, Lynphil, Solange and MacLaren.
Needless to say I am excited that bloodlines that I have recently been fortunate enough to obtain for LochWind, are flying the flag so strongly. It is great to be in a position to offer these lines to the fancy here in Australia.


Unfortunately we no longer have coaching for our chess program, but Drop-in Chess is still going on! This is an informal program for children and families. There is no instruction but you can stop in on Tuesday evenings between 5-7 PM to play just for fun. Other board games may also be available.
Weekdays: 9 a.m. - 7:45 p.m.
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Microsoft recently announced that W10 would be a free upgrade even for computers without genuine copies of Windows. But, even though they'll let you install Windows 10, you'll just end up with a non-genuine copy of Windows 10 that continues to nag at you.
Windows 7 softened things even further, and they stayed softened in Windows 8 and 8.1. When you're using a non-genuine copy of Windows, you'll see a notification once every hour. The notification informs you it's non-genuine and that you need to activate. Your desktop background will become black every hour — even if you change it, it'll change back.
There's a permanent notice that you're using a non-genuine copy of Windows on your screen, too. You can't get optional updates from Windows Update, and other optional downloads like Microsoft Security Essentials won't function. Windows 8 limits some other personalization settings, including preventing you from changing your Start screen background. Microsoft also won't offer you phone support and other help for Windows if you haven't paid them for your copy.
Something to note too. I had my MOBO crater on me and bought and fitted a new one. I had to activate my legal windows 7 and my legal Office 2013 programs. When I tried to do it online I was informed that the keys had been used too many times. I called Msoft and asked them WTH they are talking about? My software was legal and should have no caps on how many times I install them. I used to often play with my computer setups and end up reinstalling windows all the time. The lady I spoke to was helpful and activated everything for me in one go. But it was a 15 minute phone call!


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It's time to get ready for "Carry on Dubbin", which will be returning to the Moat Lane Showground in Warrington on Friday 25th May – Monday 28th May. That's 3 nights and 4 days with the family having a relaxed weekend full of fun, live music and plenty of entertainment..
This amazing event happens once a year and provides a fun time for the whole family. The theme this year is "Carry on England" so fancy dress is either Army or anything to do with England. There is so much more going on throughout the weekend for everyone to enjoy, such as; children's entertainers, face painting, bouncy castle, auto jumble, live music, an onsite VW bar, hot food stalls and a fantastic compere! There isn't just a fancy dress competition there's custom wagon competition, Show n Shine and a dog show!
This weekend event draws in a lot of camping fans every year and is popular with VW Campervan fanatics and those that just love spending time with their family. There is no better or comfier way to camp than in a VW California Campervan, because if you like feeling at home on the move then our VW campers are perfect for you.
You can pick a campervan up from one of our nearby depots in Blackburn, Preston and Wigan. Once you have picked up your campervan it's only a 50 minute drive to get you to Warrington.


4 months later, I feel much more comfortable at Kang Chiao.
It's extremely gratifying seeing how I've progressed as a teacher over the past four months, and see the challenges I've overcome. Owning the classroom is so important. As a teacher, classroom is my arena. I set the pace and everything else that goes with it. I am in charge. Of course I need to mindful about empathy, consistency, relationship, authenticity and all that good stuff. But without feeling and being in control, everything else falls apart. I suppose the same wisdom can be applied in life.
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South Side defense swarms Gibson Co.
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DYER — The South Side Lady Hawks made the most of their solo appearance in the Gibson County Point Guard Classic defeating the host Gibson County Lady Pioneers 59-46 Friday night with a stifling full-court pressure defense and 25 points from sophomore guard Quanardra Miller.
Miller's 10 first quarter points and the Lady Hawks' full-court, hustling defense allowed them to jump out early 14-9 before the Lady Pioneers tied the game at 16-16 late in the first quarter when the Lady Hawks got into some early foul trouble.
But South Side's bench pushed the lead to seven at the half 31-24, and the Lady Hawks were up 11 starting the fourth quarter.
South Side coach Brent McNeal said complimented the defense.
"They really got after them," McNeal said. "That's kinda been our mantra ever since I have been at South Side. Play defense and the offense will come off of that.
"I think we did a really good job of getting into their guards, forcing them into some turnovers and it got us into some easy transition baskets."
McNeal added praise for his deep bench.
"The four girls that came in off the bench – one's a senior, one's a junior, one's a sophomore and the freshman – it's a next man step up," McNeal said. "They battle every day in practice. They compete really hard against each other. We tell them they are just an ankle injury away from having to play so they have to be ready."
Miller's 25 points paced the Lady Hawks, and sophomore Makaya Transou added 10 points. Senior point guard Cheyenne Cunningham shined, delivering 10 assists, including several on no-look passes and added four points for South Side (3-0).
McNeal said Cunningham is a smart player.
"She understands the floor and has a high basketball IQ, but you expect that out of a senior," McNeal said. "She has been doing this for four years now. We threw her into the fire when she was a freshman, and she probably wasn't ready. Now though, she sees the floor really well.
"We knew coming in that Gibson County was replacing 3,600 points in the two studs from last year (Erin Lannom and Briana Fields), but their girls are going to get better. I am glad we got them now while they are still learning."
Justyce White led Gibson County (3-2) with 17 points, and Alaina Hunt and Allie Smithson each added eight points.
"We've got a lot of young ladies that are playing in different spots, but I thought they did some growing up tonight," said Gibson County coach Mitch Wilkins. "I think right now South Side is one of probably the top teams – if not the best team in West Tennessee.
"They've got athletes at every position. We had some turnovers that we really couldn't afford in stretches. We had a lot of kids that hadn't been in that kind of game or seen pressure like that. Even our seniors that are back are playing different roles. They are learning what they need to do for our team to be successful."
Today, at 3:30 p.m. Obion Central plays Humboldt, at 5 p.m. University School of Jackson plays Chester County and in the 6:30 nightcap Gibson County hosts Dyersburg. Due to Houston County dropping out of the tournament, South Side does not play again until Friday when it travels to Brownsville to play Haywood.


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Morgan Ryder is proud to be supporting Merseyrail whilst they embark on a new and exciting journey that represents significant investment across the regions rail network. This part of our website has been set up to provide talented individuals with key contacts and a source information supporting our recruitment activity.
A £700m deal to replace Merseyside's rail fleet with 52 new trains has been signed by Swiss-based firm Stadler.
The current Merseytravel fleet is one of the oldest in the UK, with an average age of almost 40 years. This contract will entirely replace the existing fleet, making it one of the most modern in the country and transforming the passenger experience. The trains will be able to carry 60% more passengers, while retaining the same number of seats, and will cut journey times by up to 10%.
The new four-car trains will all be in service by 2021, with the first unit arriving for testing by the middle of 2019. The value of the manufacture and maintenance contracts for the 52 trains is up to £700m and Merseytravel also has the option to trigger the manufacture of a further 60 vehicles.
The trains will have lower floors, only 960 mm above rail level, and will be entirely walk-through, increasing their capacity to 486 people (182 seated, 302 standing, and two wheelchair users). Strong but lightweight carriages, built from aluminium extrusions, mean they will be safer and more energy efficient.
The new trains will bring a significant boost to the local economy of around £70m a year and will lead to the creation of 1,000 jobs as existing and new businesses and organisations take advantage of trains that can carry more people more quickly.
While procurement laws mean that we can't stipulate what can be built or made locally in relation to the project itself, we are doing all we can to encourage the use of local suppliers and other expertise. There will be the opportunities to bid for work, for example in the construction of the new maintenance depots and in servicing support. Bam Nuttall's Warrington office has won this contract.
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13 Conspiracy Theories On The Internet That Will Blow Your Mind
By Jessica Booth
It's safe to say that there is almost never a time when a conspiracy theory doesn't seem completely out there. Even if there's something about one that sort of makes sense, it's hard to wrap your head around the fact that it could, possibly, be real - or that anyone could fully believe it is real. That said, there are definitely some that are more strange than others, and it shouldn't surprise you to hear that many of the wildest conspiracy theories originated on the internet.
There's something about these theories that makes them hard to ignore. Once you hear an interesting one and you start looking into it even deeper, you often begin to become a bit obsessed. Suddenly, what sounded completely insane before starts to sound a little more logical. This is especially true for the theories that are backed up with lots of "evidence" and "proof" online, the ones that have tons of supporters pushing the idea. It's a little intense.
Research has shown that nearly 50 percent of Americans believe conspiracy theories. Studies have found that mere exposure to a popular theory can "make you less pro-social — and less likely to accept established scientific principles." Basically, just watching a video about a theory or reading an article about one can make you more likely to believe it - that's kind of disturbing when you think about it.
Below are just a few of the wildest conspiracy theories on the internet, from weird ideas about celebrities to insistences that entire countries don't exist. Get ready for an interesting ride:
1. Nicholas Cage Is A Vampire
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Is Nicholas Cage an actor... or an immortal vampire? According to some, he's definitely a vampire. This theory began when eBay seller Jack Mord put up a black and white picture from 1870 that looked almost exactly like Cage. Mord asked for £800,000 for the picture, because he said it was proof that Cage is an immortal vampire. From there, it got out of hand, and Cage even had to address it during an appearance on the Late Show with David Letterman.
2. The Beatles Never Existed
There is an entire website dedicated to the conspiracy theory that The Beatles never actually existed (the site URL is simply thebeatlesneverexisted.com). The research began in 2011, and pointed out every little detail. While they had supporters, they have since announced it's "time to move on." Probably for the best.
3. Jay-Z Is A Vampire Who Can Travel Through Time
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Apparently Nicholas Cage isn't the only immortal vampire out there. There are tons of people online who believe Jay-Z is also a vampire who can travel through time (that doesn't even touch on the amount of people who think he's part of the Illuminati). A photo taken in New York in 1939 seems to be "proof" that he can travel through time.
4. Saved By The Bell Was Really An Illuminati Message
Saved By The Bell might seem like an innocent show about teens, but it's actually full of hidden messages that endorse Satanism... at least, according to a theory on the internet. An entire website is devoted to exposing the intentions of the show's creators and stars. There are lots of examples there.
5. Finland Is Not A Real Country
There is actually an entire section of the internet who believe that Finland isn't a real country. A Reddit thread from 2015 by user "Raregans" claims that the country is actually just a fabricated landmass created by the Japanese and Soviet Union during the Cold War to secure fishing rights in the Baltic Sea. This user claims that the citizens actually belong to Sweden, Estonia, and Russia.
6. Katy Perry Is Actually JonBenét Ramsy
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There are tons of theories out there about what really happened to JonBenét Ramsey, the six-year-old beauty queen who died in an unsolved murder in 1996, but the wildest one has to be the one that says she never actually died, but grew up to become Katy Perry. This was first introduced to us by Dave Johnson in a 2014 YouTube video. The theory is that Ramsey's death as a hoax so that she could grow up to become a pop star under the pseudonym Katy Perry. There isn't a lot of evidence there except that the families looks similar. Despite that, it went very viral.
7. Louis Tomlinson's Baby Is Fake
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When Louis Tomlinson and his partner Briana Jungwirth had a son in January 2016, One Direction fans immediately went to work with a conspiracy theory that the baby was fake. They mainly believe this because they think it's a cover so that Tomlinson's relationship with Harry Styles doesn't get out. There's a lot of "evidence" to get sucked into with this one.
8. Avril Lavigne Died And Was Replaced By A Doppelganger
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One of the best internet conspiracy theories out there is the one that suggests Avril Lavigne died and was replaced by someone who looks exactly like her. The theory, which is very deep, says things like, "As we all know, it is a popularly believed that Canadian pop singer Avril Lavigne took her own life in 2003 shortly after her parents divorce and was replaced by a doppelgänger who left several clues about the death of the original Avril Lavigne in the lyrics of her follow-up album."
9. Melania Trump Has A Doppleganger Who Does Most Of Her Appearances
Lavigne isn't the only one who has been replaced by a doppelganger, according to the internet: conspiracy theorists believe Melania Trump has also been replaced by a look-alike. The theory begin during a televised White House press conference in October 2017, when some people started tweeting about how "Melania" looked nothing like herself. The theory took off and continues today.
10. J.K. Rowling Doesn't Exist
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This theory is just... wow. In 2005, Norwegian filmmaker Nina Grünfeld claimed that the Harry Potter series was created by an entire industry of writers, and J.K. Rowling is just a front. She believes Rowling is just a pen name for a group of writers. This barely makes sense, and still has believers.
11. Adele and Sam Smith Are The Same Person
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There is a theory out there that Adele and Sam Smith are, in fact, the same person... and there is lots of "evidence" to "prove" it. Theorists say that if you lower the pitch of an Adele song and raise the pitch of a Sam Smith song, they sound exactly the same. There is also the fact that they look quite similar and there are no photos of them together.
12. NASA Is Hiding A Second Sun
According to one theorist, there is more than one sun out there, NASA just doesn't want us to know about it. In 2016, NASA reported the discover of Planet 9, but an astronomer named Paul Cox says it's actually a second sun, and NASA didn't want anyone to know. There are videos and lots of thoughts dedicated to the theory.
13. The Israeli Government Has GPS-Equipped Sharks
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In 2010, after a string of deadly shark attacks off the coast of Egypt, theories spread that Israel owned evil, GPS-equipped sharks they use as a weapon to kill people. There's no other word for this but wild.


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Video makes communications with residents easier and more convenient. TV and online streaming video offers transparency to government by engaging citizens and increasing awareness of Wake County services and programs. View the latest WakeGOV TV episodes online.
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House report finds lax federal oversight of Trump's DC hotel
by: BERNARD CONDON, Associated Press
FILE – A passerby takes a look at the front of The Trump International Hotel on March 4, 2021, in Washington. A federal agency overseeing Donald Trump's Washington hotel let possible constitution violations go unchecked by failing to track millions of dollars from foreign governments that patronized the property. (AP Photo/Julio Cortez, File)
NEW YORK (AP) — The federal agency overseeing the lease of the luxury hotel that Donald Trump's family company runs in the nation's capital failed to carry out its basic responsibilities because it never tracked the millions of dollars from foreign governments patronizing the hotel or examined the origins of a $75 million loan that helped keep its doors open, according to a congressional report Thursday.
The General Services Administration "washed its hands of responsibility" to review how much the Trump International Hotel was profiting during his presidency from foreign government payments in possible violation of the Constitution's emoluments clause, according to the report by the Democratic-led House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee. That provision bars presidents from receiving gifts or payments from foreign governments.
The committee said the GSA "ignored critical ethical and constitutional issues involving then-President Trump's financial interest in the hotel."
Neither the agency nor the Trump Organization responded to requests for comment.
In 2019, the agency's internal watchdog had criticized the GSA for failing in crucial oversight of the property.
The committee, led by Rep. Peter DeFazio of Oregon, also said the GSA did not monitor spending at the hotel by state and local public officials that could have violated a separate constitutional provision barring domestic government payments.
The report also faulted the agency for not investigating the origins of a $75 million loan to the hotel, a possible source of conflict between Trump's private financial interests and his public role as president. The loan, according to the report, came from the Trump family.
A separate report by the House Oversight and Reform Committee in October said Trump had misled the public on the hotel's finances. The committee released financial statements showing the hotel had lost more than $70 million while he was president.
Ethics lawyers who have criticized Trump's decision to not divest himself of the Washington hotel and other financial interests before becoming president in January 2017 have repeatedly faulted the GSA for not canceling the family's hotel lease despite language in the contract barring government officials from profiting from the property. The hotel occupies the government-owned Old Post Office building. A federal lease with the Trump family runs nearly 100 years, with extensions.
The GSA has said that its review showed Trump was in "full compliance" of the lease because profits from the hotel were not going directly to Trump while he was president. Trump put his assets in a trust controlled by his two adults sons and a longtime executive before his term began.
Separately, the GSA confirmed this week that the Trump Organization had given formal notice that it had reached agreement to sell the hotel lease for $375 million to CGI Merchant Group, a Miami-based real estate investment firm. The GSA needs to sign off on any purchase.
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Human smugglers are using a scheme to bypass Texas border agents with migrant families distraction. Officials say the plan is meant to overwhelm US Border Patrol and get adults in to avoid getting arrested while agents are preoccupied elsewhere. Smugglers do this by flooding a portion of the Texas-Mexico border with Central American families and unaccompanied children.
Agents positioned at the McAllen Station in the Rio Grande Valley Sector of southern Texas encountered a group of 170 people early morning Tuesday that was composed of all families or children traveling without their parents.
According to the U.S. Customs and Border Protection, the group operates by seeking the first Border Patrol agents they can find to turn themselves in.
It proved to be a sly move as massive apprehension efforts forced the sector to pull agents from other parts of the valley to reinforce efforts to process and detain everyone in the group.
A Border Patrol official revealed on Thursday that the 170-person group was deliberately trying to get themselves apprehended and exploit the current federal rules. Under present rules, they will not be deported or prosecuted for illegal entry.
The smugglers seem to be emboldened by the Flores settlement agreement and Trafficking Victims Protection Reauthorization Act which mandates both families and unaccompanied minors from countries other than Mexico and Canada cannot be turned away or arrested.
A U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement official testified before the Senate this week that the majority of families and children apprehended are released from federal custody and told to appear for immigration hearings on their asylum requests but do not show and disappear into the country.
Just last Wednesday, the CBP reported a similar incident in which two caravans of families and kids, comprised of 193 people, were taken into custody. The past recent weeks also saw groups of 100 to 200 illegal immigrants being found at various points of the border. Everyone in this group was established to be from El Salvador, Guatemala, and Honduras.


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At the Fargo Basketball Academy, we have several instructors with combined decades of playing and coaching experience at all levels of the game. From team dynamics to position-based skills, our instructors understand every aspect of the game. No matter the player's age, our coaches can help them build the fundamentals and become a more complete, more confident player.
Josh Johnson is the director of the Fargo Basketball Academy. With more that 30 years of playing and coaching experience, Josh understands every aspect of the game and how to help developing players improve their skills.
Josh grew up in rural Washington state, where he played college basketball and first got into coaching. Josh moved to Fargo in 2005 and established Dakota Prep Basketball, which specialized in organizing local youth basketball tournaments.
Josh's background in education has aided his ability to teach basketball to young players. As director, he's committed to ensuring the Fargo Basketball Academy will remain an enjoyable and effective outlet for players to learn fundamentals and grow their passion for the game.
Rory White
A native of Tuskegee, Alabama, Rory played college basketball at the University of South Alabama from 1977-1982. He was named the Sun Belt Player of the Year in 1979 and earned All Conference honors his sophomore, junior and senior seasons. In 1983, White was honored when South Alabama retired his jersey.
After college, Rory enjoyed a successful playing career in the NBA during which he averaged 7.4 points, 2.3 rebounds and 16.7 minutes per game. Rory played for the Phoenix Suns, LA Clippers and the Milwaukee Bucks.
Rory's coaching career began when he arrived as head coach of the IBA's Fargo Beez from 1995-1998, leading them to two league championships during that stretch. In 1998 he was named assistant coach for the Idaho Stampede (CBA), remaining in that role until he was promoted to head coach of the Stampede during the 2000 campaign. The following season saw White post a league high .708 winning percentage, earning CBA Coach of the Month honors in December and January.
White left Idaho in 2001 to serve as head coach for the Fargo-Moorhead Beez, leading them to the National Conference Playoffs and the second best record in the league(25-15). White returned to the helm of the Stampede prior to the start of the 2002 season. In the 2003 season he arrived in Los Angeles as an assistant coach for the LA Clippers. He would coach there until the 2009 season was over. He then was promoted to the head coach position of the Dakota Wizards of the National Basketball Development League. He was head coach there for the next two years.
Most recently White spent time in China as an assistant coach for the Shanghai Sharks of the Chinese Basketball Association. Having played and coached internationally for decades, Rory's experience is invaluable to his sessions at the Fargo Basketball Academy.
Vinnie Shahid
A native of Hopkins, Minnesota, Vinnie was an all-state performer on the Hopkins High School 2016 state championship team. Currently he is a captain point guard for North Dakota State University, where he led the team in scoring, assists and steals during the 2018-19 season. After transferring from Western Nebraska Community College, his dynamic play, athleticism and leadership skills recently earned him the Summit League Newcomer of the Year honor. Although most of his time is spent on the court and in the weight room, you may spot him out shoe shopping in his spare time. (He has already accumulated over 100 pairs!)
Matt Petersen
Matt Petersen grew up in Roseau, Minnesota. After high school, he attended Itasca Community College where he played basketball from 2007-2009 and was a team captain his sophomore season. He graduated from Concordia College in 2012 with a degree in exercise science. He then spent five seasons as the top assistant coach/recruiting coordinator for Concordia's men's basketball program under head coach Rich Glas. Over the past four seasons, Matt has also coached AAU for North Dakota's ECI Basketball Program. He has served as an instructor at the Fargo Basketball Academy for several years and has trained young men and women that have went on to play at a variety of college programs including Nebraska, Illinois State, Boise State, NDSU, Moorhead State, St. Cloud State, Southwest MN State, Minnesota Crookston, University of Mary, Minot State, Jamestown University, Mayville State, Valley City State, Concordia College, and Lake Region State College.
Katie Johnson
Katie Johnson, a Fargo native, spent countless hours in the gym playing volleyball for Fargo North. After graduating from Augustana College with a degree in Education, she spent seven years as a middle and high school math teacher and volleyball coach. She has two sons and enjoys sharing her love of sports with them.
Kyle Johnson
Kyle has spent his whole life around the game of basketball. His dad was the head coach of the girls' team at Wenatchee Valley College. Kyle was the captain of his high school basketball team. After graduating from Eastern Washington University, Kyle moved to Fargo. He enjoys using his experience to help kids grow their skills and seeing the happiness they get from improvement.
Gabe Wilbersheid
Gabe Wilbershield grew up around basketball and knows the game inside and out. He has hundreds of hours of experience coaching classes and clinics at the Fargo Basketball Academy. In his free time, Gabe likes to stay active with outdoor sports, snowboarding in the winter and wake boarding in the summer.
Jimmy Slagle
Jimmy Slagle, a Fargo native, has always had a passion for basketball. He attended Oak Grove Lutheran High School where he played four years of varisty basketball and served as team captain. Currently, he is a sophomore at NDSU. In his free time, Jimmy enjoys working out, spending time at the lake and cheering on the Gophers.
Logan Selisker
Originally from West Fargo, Logan Selisker attended Oak Grove High School where she played basketball and volleyball. She went on to play volleyball at Concordia College and graduated in 2015 with a degree in Elementary Education. She enjoys staying active and spending time with her family.
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BOH has been at the heart of communities in Malaysia for decades. As we strive to satisfy the palates of our customers with our beloved teas, it is this satisfaction, along with that of our employees that drives us forward. We actively invest in programs and initiatives, with both our public and private partners, to collaborate on specific issues supporting communities in which we serve. We support employees through a range of incentive and reward schemes, and endeavour to make BOH a wonderful and safe place to work.
named after one of BOH's flagship brands—BOH Cameronian Gold Blend. A blend for the discerning tea drinker, it is a brew considered as the art of tea perfected and supports the essence of the Awards to recognise and nurture talent in the performing arts scene. In its inaugural year, the awards honoured the year's most outstanding contributions in the areas of dance, theatre, music and musical theatre. Every aspect of the performance was given due attention from the talents of the performers and their art to behind-the-scenes work such as set, lighting and sound design. The Cammies, as it is affectionately known, has grown to be recognised for its role in raising the profile of the performing arts.
At BOH, we take pride in cultivating a merit-based culture and employing an equality policy as part of our core values, because we believe in not only enhancing the lives and wellbeing of our consumers, but our employees as well. We actively strive to provide a safer and healthier work environment for our staff, while ensuring their livelihood and job security.
Some of our employee initiatives are outlined below.
An internal corporate responsibility programme called The Quality of Life (QLF) was established, aimed at improving the welfare of our estate workers and their families. The fund rewards our workers' children for their academic excellence, upgrading facilities such as community halls, religious buildings, sport facilities and introducing a free bus service to the towns on market days. The QLF also supports projects amongst the indigenous (Orang Asli) communities in neighbouring estates.
The Matching Gifts Scheme was developed as an extended corporate responsibility programme to empower employees with the decision as to which charities the Company will support and enables them to improve people's lives and well-being in line with the core purpose of the company/brand. BOH matches ringgit for ringgit, any donation made by an employee to a registered Malaysian charity.


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Rachel Talbot Ross is an American politician and activist. A Democrat from Portland, Talbot has been the Speaker of the Maine House of Representatives since December 2022. When she was first elected to the Maine House of Representatives in 2016, Talbot Ross became the first Black woman to serve in the Maine Legislature. Talbot Ross represents District 40, consisting of the Parkside, Bayside, East Bayside, and Oakdale neighborhoods of Portland as well as the University of Southern Maine campus. She became Maine's first African-American House Speaker, and the highest-ranking African-American politician in Maine history, when she was elected speaker on December 7, 2022.

Early life and education
Talbot Ross grew up in Portland with her father, Gerald Talbot, her mother Anita, and three sisters. Her father, who also served as a Maine lawmaker and civil rights leader, was the first person of color ever elected to the Maine Legislature, and Talbot Ross describes her family as being consistently involved in public service and civic action. She is a ninth-generation Maine resident.

Talbot Ross attended Wesleyan University and American University and worked as the Director of Equal Opportunity and Multicultural Affairs for the City of Portland for 21 years. She resigned in 2015 following a leave of absence.

She also served as the president of the Portland branch of the NAACP. The branch disbanded in 2013, but as of February 2021 Talbot Ross was working with other area leaders to reinstate the chapter. She also helped direct the Maine Freedom Trails project, the first part of which opened in 2006, and co-founded the Martin Luther King Jr. Fellows program with Portland city councilor Pious Ali, a youth-led racial justice program for high school students of color in Portland.

Talbot Ross considers herself a prison abolitionist and has advocated for incarcerated individuals in Maine over the course of fifteen years.

Political career

Talbot Ross was first elected to represent Maine House District 40 in 2016. She defeated Democrats Herbert Adams and Anna Kellar in the Democratic primary, and after Republican opponent Carol Taylor dropped out of the race in late September, Talbot Ross received 100% of the votes in the general election.

In 2018, Talbot Ross was challenged in the House District 40 Democratic primary by former state representative Herb Adams, but defeated him 75%-25%. She faced no opponent in the general election and was therefore seated for a second term.

Talbot Ross faced no opponents in either the primary or general elections in 2020. On November 3, 2020, she won her third consecutive term representing House District 40. Later that month, the House Democrats unanimously elected Talbot Ross to be the House assistant majority leader, making her the first Black person in a legislative leadership position in Maine history.

Talbot Ross has served on the Judiciary, Health & Human Services, and Criminal Justice & Public Safety committees, as well as the Maine State Advisory Committee for the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights. She is the chair of the Permanent Commission on the Status of Racial, Indigenous and Maine Tribal Population, which she helped write legislation to create in 2019, and is currently a member of the Legislative Council.

The 130th Maine legislature took up a bill proposed by Talbot Ross, "LD #2: An Act To Require the Inclusion of Racial Impact Statements in the Legislative Process," early in the regular session. It passed both the House and Senate on March 12, 2021, and on March 17,  Governor Janet Mills signed it into law. The bill requires that new legislation in Maine be reviewed for its potential impact on traditionally marginalized populations. With the law's enactment, Maine became the eighth U.S. state with such a requirement.

With incumbent Speaker Ryan Fecteau term-limited, the Maine Democrats nominated Talbot Ross as Speaker on November 18, 2022. When the new legislature was sworn in on December 7, she was elected Speaker.

Awards and honors
2006 EqualityMaine Bayard Rustin award for collaborative movement-building
2009 Roger Baldwin award, Maine Civil Liberties Union
2014 Deborah Morton Award, University of New England
2020 Gerda Haas award from the Holocaust and Human Rights Center of Maine for work on human rights reforms
2020 Emerge Maine Woman of the Year

Electoral history

Notes

References

External links

Rep. Talbot Ross on Facebook
Rep. Talbot Ross on Twitter
June 3 speech, "Your statement of support is not enough", given at a protest in Portland, ME on June 3, 2020
March 2019 Maine Public panel interview about hate, prejudice and discrimination in Maine

1961 births
Living people
21st-century African-American women
21st-century African-American politicians
African-American state legislators in Maine
African-American women in politics
Women state legislators in Maine
Politicians from Portland, Maine
Activists from Portland, Maine
Maine Democrats
NAACP activists
21st-century American politicians
21st-century American women politicians
Prison abolitionists
20th-century African-American politicians
20th-century American politicians
20th-century African-American women


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Q: Using regex with react hooks I am basically trying to save the phone number entered by the user without braces, spaces or dashes but I somehow fail to do that. I am calling the regex after submitting the form in handleSubmit function through the setting of state and it prints out (and renders) without any change. Any idea what went wrong?
import React, { useContext, useState, useEffect } from "react";
import DataContext from "../store/data-context";

function Form() {
  const [name, setName] = useState("");
  const [secName, setSecName] = useState("");
  const [tel, setTel] = useState("");
  const [note, setNote] = useState("");
  const [state, setState] = useState({
    name: "",
    secName: "",
    tel: "",
    note: "",
  });

  const { dispatchDataState } = useContext(DataContext);

  const handleSubmit = (e) => {
    e.preventDefault();
    setTel((tel)=>tel.replace(/[^+\d]+/g, ""))
    console.log(name);
    dispatchDataState({ type: "ADD_DATA", payload: state });
    setState(
      {
        name: "",
        secName: "",
        tel: "",
        note: "",
      }
    )
    console.log(state);
  };
  return (
    <div>
      <form onSubmit={handleSubmit}>
        <label>
          Jméno
          <input
            type="text"
            required
            value={state.name}
            onChange={(e) => setState({ ... state, name: e.target.value })}
          />
        </label>
        <label>
          Příjmení
          <input
            type="text"
            required
            value={state.secName}
            onChange={(e) => setState({ ... state, secName: e.target.value })}
          />
        </label>
        <label>
          Telefonní číslo
          <input
            type="text"
            required
            value={state.tel}
            onChange={(e) => setState({ ... state, tel: e.target.value })}

          />
        </label>
        <label>
          Poznámka
          <input
            type="text"
            value={state.note}
            onChange={(e) => setState({ ... state, note: e.target.value })}
          />
        </label>
        <input type="submit" value="Odeslat" />
      </form>
    </div>
  );
}

export default Form;


Looks like our neighbor's had an invisible fence put in today. Nice, but one unfortunate side-effect was that the installer cut my cable. Miss Dig (the service to call to notify underground facilities of excavation) did a great job of marking their cables but neglected to mark ours. Comcast won't be out until tomorrow morning. Good thing they're neighbors we like. See you tomorrow (I hope).
Notable First: The MISS DIG System was the first statewide one-call center in the U.S.


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Consolidation and Continuation:
The Beginnings of An Indo-Islamic Culture
The Qutb was the first monumental stamp of Islamic architecture in India and was the start of a long relationship between indigenous craftsmen and their Mamluk masters. The grandiosity of its concept encouraged several rulers to continue adding to the structure and adding further stages.
The Arhai-din-ka Jhompra
Shams-ud-Din Iltutmish (A.D. 1211-1236), succeeding to the throne after Qutb-ud-Din's death in a freak polo accident, was an energetic builder. The first of his notable works was the addition of a facade to the Arhai-din ka Jhompra (literally, hut of two-and-a-half days) mosque built by his predecessor at the military encampment of Ajmer in Rajasthan.
Built on the same principles as the Quwwatu'l Islam at Delhi, this mosque at Ajmer is larger. The façade is similar to the one at the Qutb, but here the similarity ends. The central arch at Ajmer is straighter - Tudor Gothic - and the side arches are multifoil and cusped, a common feature in other Islamic work outside India. The main stylistic difference is evident in the It was not long, however, before several other additions and alterations were made on the same site.
The first of these was by Iltutmish, who doubled the size of the original enclosure of the Quwwatu'l Islam mosque, and added another screen of five arches to define the qibla (the axis towards Mecca). This screen, though superficially the same as in the original mosque, has better stood the ravages of time. The main differences are in the detail, with the carving using a purer Islamic vocabulary, though here too, in the sinous curves, the hand of the indigenous craftsman is seen. The floriform low relief at the Qutb gives way to a far more geometric, rigid style. This is by no means an advance over the Qutb mosque. The arches seem almost a regression to a purer, stricter form of Islam with their monolithic and sombre appearance. Two broken minarets over the main arch resemble the Qutb in their flutings.
The Tombs of Iltutmish and Sultan Ghari
With these two works, there appeared for the first time in India a strange and novel way of laying the dead to eternal rest - burying them with a tomb as a monumental cenotaph.
Iltutmish constructed his own tomb as well as that of his son Nasir-ud-din Mohammed - the so-called Sultan Ghari or 'Sultan of the Cave'. This is probably due to the subterranean tomb chamber. The octagonal platform above was probably intended to support a pillared pavilion, the whole of which has disappeared or was never built. This platform was surrounded by a square masonry arcade on a high plinth, and according to Percy Brown, it has "such a grim and martial appearance that one of its more remote purposes may have been to serve as some kind of advanced outwork to the main fortress of the capital" *
The second main contribution of Iltutmish was his own tomb, a little to the north-west of the enlarged mosque at the Qutb, built a little before A.D. 1235.
A square 42 feet in side and with a height of almost 30 feet, its plain and unadorned exteriors belie its interior - the whole of which is covered from top to bottom on all four sides by rich carvings almost rivaling Hindu temple sculpture on the sandstone-clad walls. The cenotaph and the three arches of the mehrab towards the west(marking the direction of Mecca) are both in marble, again a riot of inscriptions from the Quran.
Architecturally speaking, Iltutmish's tomb is interesting as it reveals quite clearly the first attempt in India to solve the 'dome on a square' problem - or in other words, how do you support a circular shape on a square base? In this case, a 'squinch' was employed - a half-arch/dome spanning across the corners of the square base and making the square an octagon.
This can be repeated to transform the octagon into a sixteen-sided figure on which the base of the dome may rest. That the dome, if ever fully built, subsequently collapsed was a testimony to the fact that the it was imperfectly constructed - however an important start had been made and future attempts in this direction were to grow ever more confident.
Balban's Tomb
After the death of Iltutmish, there is little to be seen architecturally from the early years of the Delhi Sultanate. The main reason for this were the squabbling successors of the Sultan ruling for too short a time for any effective architectural patronage. There was thus an interregnum of 60 years - with one exception. This is the tomb of Sultan Balban of the extremely short-lived 'House of Balban' (A.D. 1266-1287). Now a ruined and totally unremarkable structure in the extreme south of Delhi, this tomb is notable because it introduced for the first time in India the principle of the true arch with radiating voussoirs.
This is not only a significant structural advance, but also a socio-cultural one. For it indicated that slowly but surely the Muslim rulers were ceasing to regard North India as invaded territory. Delhi was becoming a city of repute attracting men of art and learning, craftsmen, poets and historians. The early steps of creating a distinct Indo-Islamic culture were being taken.
* Brown, Percy Indian Architecture (Islamic Period) D.B. Taraporevala Sons and Co. Pvt. Ltd. Bombay, 1975.
Images of Arhai-din-ka-Jhompra by Bourne and Shepherd, 1880's*


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What comes to mind when someone says "scary spider"? Chances are, you're thinking of a huge hairy 8-legged creature. What you're thinking of is a tarantula, and believe it or not, they're really not that harmful (at least not if you're human). Surprising isn't it?
Commonly known as Tarantulas, the scientific name of these spiders is The raphosidae, and they are part of a family of spiders called Hairy Mygalomorphs. Scientists believe that they've been around for millions of years and have not changed much in that time! There are around 700 kinds, or species, of Tarantulas.
They are dark, hairy spiders with orange or red rings on the joints of their legs. Their average size is around 4.75 in (12 cm), and their average leg span is up to 10 in (28 cm). That's almost as big as a tea cup!
The life expectancy of a female tarantula is up to 30 years in the wild, and around 20 in captivity. Males, on the other hand, barely make it to 10 years.
They're typically found in tropical, sub-tropical rain forests and also arid regions and usually live in burrows underground. Unlike spiders they do not use their weaving abilities to ensnare their prey. Instead, they use it to make comfy homes for themselves, be it underground or on trees. Oh, and they also spin fancy trip wires to alert them to intruders approaching their burrows.
Tarantulas are night time hunters who generally prey on small insects. Some larger species of tarantulas also prey on rats, lizards, and even snakes and small birds! They trap their prey with their legs, paralyze them with their venom, and later dispatch the victims with their fangs. And they also secrete digestive enzymes to liquefy their victims' bodies before ingesting them! That's some serious arsenal they pack! After a big meal, they can go for a month without eating.
The hairy arachnids periodically shed their external skeletons in a process called molting. In this process, they also replace their internal organs, such as female genitalia and the lining of the stomach. They also have the ability to regrow lost appendages!
Tarantulas have a very interesting defence mechanism. Their abdomen is covered with sharp little barb like hairs. When threatened, they rub these hairs with their legs and shoot them at their predators.
The worst enemy of a tarantula is the spider wasp, which would paralyze a tarantula and lay an egg inside it. The larva would then feed on the tarantula as it hatches. Other predators of the tarantula include hawks, snakes, skunks, and humans. Believe it or not, there are people who eat tarantulas! Tarantulas, on the other hand, are rather docile when it comes to humans, and rarely bite us! And even if they do, their venom isn't poisonous to us. The bite would still hurt though.
The next time you come across a tarantula, play nice, and maybe it will, too.