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<?php

namespace ZendTest\Math;

use Zend\Math\Rand;

/**
 * @category   Zend
 * @package    Zend_Math
 * @subpackage UnitTests
 * @group      Zend_Math
 */
class RandTest extends \PHPUnit_Framework_TestCase
{
    public static function provideRandInt()
    {
        return array(
            array(2, 1, 10000, 100, 0.9, 1.1, false),
            array(2, 1, 10000, 100, 0.8, 1.2, true)
        );
    }

    public function testRandBytes()
    {
        for ($length = 1; $length < 4096; $length++) {
            $rand = Rand::getBytes($length);
            $this->assertTrue($rand !== false);
            $this->assertEquals($length, strlen($rand));
        }
    }

    public function testRandBoolean()
    {
        for ($length = 1; $length < 512; $length++) {
            $rand = Rand::getBoolean();
            $this->assertTrue(is_bool($rand));
        }
    }

    /**
     * A Monte Carlo test that generates $cycles numbers from 0 to $tot
     * and test if the numbers are above or below the line y=x with a
     * frequency range of [$min, $max]
     *
     * Note: this code is inspired by the random number generator test
     * included in the PHP-CryptLib project of Anthony Ferrara
     * @see https://github.com/ircmaxell/PHP-CryptLib
     *
     * @dataProvider provideRandInt
     */
    public function testRandInteger($num, $valid, $cycles, $tot, $min, $max, $strong)
    {
        try {
            $test = Rand::getBytes(1, $strong);
        } catch (\Zend\Math\Exception\RuntimeException $e) {
            $this->markTestSkipped($e->getMessage());
        }

        $i     = 0;
        $count = 0;
        do {
            $up   = 0;
            $down = 0;
            for ($i = 0; $i < $cycles; $i++) {
                $x = Rand::getInteger(0, $tot, $strong);
                $y = Rand::getInteger(0, $tot, $strong);
                if ($x > $y) {
                    $up++;
                } elseif ($x < $y) {
                    $down++;
                }
            }
            $this->assertGreaterThan(0, $up);
            $this->assertGreaterThan(0, $down);
            $ratio = $up / $down;
            if ($ratio > $min && $ratio < $max) {
                $count++;
            }
            $i++;
        } while ($i < $num && $count < $valid);

        if ($count < $valid) {
            $this->fail('The random number generator failed the Monte Carlo test');
        }
    }

    public function testIntegerRangeFail()
    {
        $this->setExpectedException(
            'Zend\Math\Exception\DomainException',
            'min parameter must be lower than max parameter'
        );
        $rand = Rand::getInteger(100, 0);
    }

    public function testRandFloat()
    {
        for ($length = 1; $length < 512; $length++) {
            $rand = Rand::getFloat();
            $this->assertTrue(is_float($rand));
            $this->assertTrue(($rand >= 0 && $rand <= 1));
        }
    }

    public function testGetString()
    {
        for ($length = 1; $length < 512; $length++) {
            $rand = Rand::getString($length, '0123456789abcdef');
            $this->assertEquals(strlen($rand), $length);
            $this->assertTrue(preg_match('#^[0-9a-f]+$#', $rand) === 1);
        }
    }

    public function testGetStringBase64()
    {
        for ($length = 1; $length < 512; $length++) {
            $rand = Rand::getString($length);
            $this->assertEquals(strlen($rand), $length);
            $this->assertTrue(preg_match('#^[0-9a-zA-Z+/]+$#', $rand) === 1);
        }
    }
}

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Politics & Economy
JPII tops list of Poland's most popular personalities
jmr/st 30.07.2018, 19:37
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According to a recent survey published by the CBOS polling institute, Pope John Paul II still tops the list of Poland's most admired personalities of the 20th century a full 10 years after the original poll was published in 2008, with Poland's acclaimed statesman Józef Piłsudski and the legendary church leader Stefan Wyszyński taking the second and third spots respectively.
This year's poll differed from the last by having a greater number of options available. Participants of the survey could now state their opinion on Poland's late President Lech Kaczyński, killed in the 2010 Smoleńsk plane crash, Poland's ex-president Aleksander Kwaśniewski who ushered Poland into the EU and NATO, the acclaimed pre-war pianist and political leader Ignacy Paderewski as well as the Polish People's party leader Wincenty Witos.
Pope John Paul II during his 1979 visit to Poland. Photo: Keystone/Hulton Archive/Getty Images
Remembering Pope John Paul II
Much like 10 years ago, the vast majority of Poles gave the thumbs up to Poland's beloved pope, John Paul II, whose passing away on April 2, 2005 at the age of 84 was considered the end of an era for many. Elected by the papal conclave back in 1978 as the first non-Italian pope in more than 400 years, the pope is now considered to have played a vital role in toppling communist rule in Central and Eastern Europe, making him one of the most illustrious characters in 20th century history. He is also remembered for the thoroughly human dimension of his pontificate, for his kindness, compassion as well as his long and defiant struggle against his declining health.
Marshal Jozef Pilsudski leading troops through the streets of Paris in 1921. (Photo: Kadel & Herbert News Service/Hulton Archive/Getty Images
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With Pope John Paul II topping the list with a 97 percent approval rating, the second place fell to Józef Piłsudski, the great Polish leader who played a pivotal role in the country's restoration of independence in 1918 after more than 100 years in geo-political limbo. 83 percent of respondents agreed that Piłsudski, leader of the Polish Socialist Party who then rose to power after Poland reappeared on the map of Europe, was a personality deserving of the highest praise. Among his greatest lifetime achievements was saving Poland and the rest of Europe from the Soviet invasion in 1920. It is perhaps due to the controversies associated with his subsequent position in national politics after the 1926 coup d'état that he has not garnered more universal acclaim in this year's survey.
Cardinal Stefan Wyszyński (L) and Pope John Paul II (R). Photo: Keystone/Hulton Archive/Getty Images
The third spot was taken by cardinal Stefan Wyszyński, often referred to as the Primate of the Millennium – Poland's unbreakable church leader whose defiance in the face of communist oppression proved to be an inspiration for many. Further down the list, the pianist and political leader Ignacy Paderwski shared the fourth spot with communist-era dissident Jacek Kuroń, with the fifth and sixth spots taken by Poland's first post-1989 Prime Minister Tadeusz Mazowiecki and the late President Lech Kaczyński respectively.
Unsurprisingly, the communist general Wojciech Jaruzelski proved to be one of the most unpopular among notable historical figures of the 20th century. Photo: Keystone/Getty Images
At the other end of the list, communist leaders reign supreme, with Poland's first post-war president and Stalinist apparatchik Bolesław Bierut taking the top spot with a 42 percent disapproval rating and only 12 percent approval, followed closely by 1960's communist party chairman Władysław Gomułka and the iron-fisted general Wojciech Jaruzelski who introduced martial law in Poland in 1981.
Poland's former presidents: Lech Wałęsa (L), Aleksander Kwaśniewski (C) and Lech Kaczyński (R). Photo: McCormack/Getty Images for BFI // Mark Renders/Getty Images // Jemal Countess/Getty Images
According to the survey, Poles remain split as to political leaders from the not-so-distant past. Although generally enjoying high approval ratings, all three of the country's ex-presidents included in the survey (Lech Wałęsa, Aleksander Kwaśniewski and Lech Kaczyński) also had at least a dozen percent of disapproving votes. The legendary Solidarity leader Wałęsa reportedly lost the most of his former approval in the last ten years as he fell from 76 to 61 percent, while the number of negative responses jumped from 12 to 20 percent – a likely reaction to his modern-day political activity. Still, all three presidents are still remembered fondly compared to Poland's post-communist era economic reformer Leszek Balcerowicz, whose 35 percent approval rating is just five percent above the number of his critics, who tend to blame him for the acute transformation woes of the early 1990s.

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Personally I feel that to be a best friend, you need to be a true friend. A true friend is someone that sticks besides you no matter what you do, how bad or how good. A true friend is someone that will stand up for you when they know that you are right about something but ain't afraid to put you in your place when they know that you are wrong. A true friend is someone that will stand besides you through all of your battles and never leaves you alone when you are down. A true friend is someone that will laugh when you are laughing, cry when you are crying, and feel what you are feeling. A true friend is someone that will understand you no matter how messed up your way of thinking is and someone that will never hurt you. A true friend is someone that is not afraid to say sorry when they know that they were wrong. A true friend is the one that will take care of you when you are sick or down and out and never leaves your side. A true friend is someone that even when you are miles apart, you know that in your heart they are still right there by your side. That is what I feel about what a true friend is and that is how I would describe my best friends and soulmates: Karen (in the Philippines), Ayen (in the U.S.A.) & Mymy (in New Zeland) and Me (in China).


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"Determination Leads to Success" – Inna's Story
Inna, a Ukrainian guest in the UK, began working with Employability Services when she was referred by Job Centre Plus in July.
Despite having to leave her home in Ukraine and start a new life in the UK, Inna remained focused, hopeful and had an overall determination to succeed.
Initially, she supported Care Plus Group Employability Services on a Ukrainian guest event as a translator. She supported fellow guests with communication barriers and ensuring they were able to communicate with various organisations, to receive the help and support they needed.
Inna also registered with Employability Services herself and with support and guidance explored various career avenues.
Inna quickly realised, due to her having personal experiences of the barriers and difficulties Ukrainian refugees may encounter when arriving in the UK, that she wanted to help and support others, as she was able to relate to and identify their potential needs.
Inna was successful in gaining a post with NELC as a Refugee Integration Support Officer. Subsequently, Inna has truly flourished and gains a great deal of job satisfaction in the knowledge that she is making a significant difference to people's lives.
Helen, Refugee Employability Support Officer said:
"It has been a pleasure to support and guide Inna through her journey. It is so rewarding to see how Inna has progressed and developed both personally and within her career".
Inna has recently contacted Helen via email. In the email she said:
"Thank you very very much for your support and help in my journey Helen. I really appreciate it."
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Council finalizes proposed indoor facility location at Balment Park
City to offer space between BMX track and curling centre as affected parties work out compromises
Trevor Crawley
The ongoing saga of a proposed indoor sports facility at Balment Park took another turn in council chambers on Monday night.
Coun. Ron Popoff authored a two-part motion to rescind an earlier council decision that placed the indoor facility on the footprint of the existing BMX track and brought forward a formerly debated location between the track and the curling centre.
At the last council meeting three weeks ago, council passed a motion sponsored by Mayor Lee Pratt to reconsider a decision made on March 25th that placed the indoor facility on the existing BMX track, citing 'new information'.
The proposed facility is envisioned to be 2,600 square metres of indoor heated floor space on artificial turf that can cater to a number of different sports besides soccer, such as baseball, lacrosse and football.
While fundraising efforts have been spearheaded by volunteers associated with the Kootenay East Youth Soccer Association (KEYSA), other organizations such as the Rocky Mountain Bandits baseball program and the Rocky Mountain Rams football program, among others, are in support of the project.
However, proposed locations for the facility at Balment Park have raised some concerns by groups such as the Cranbrook Bike Skills Society and the Sam Steele Society, who were worried about the facility's encroachment to the BMX track and the loss of green space for community events.
"We've now since learned that we're pretty confident that Option 6 is where the parties are satisfied with," said Popoff. "There is some give-and-take by all parties, not just those two, but I think we've landed there.
"By putting this motion forward and approving it today, it now gives staff the time, which is a critical window of time, to get the Letter of Intent and License of Occupancy in place so KEYSA can meet their time deadline to order the design that they need to order."
Popoff's motion passed by a vote of 5-1, with Pratt opposed due to his concerns that the location in between the track and the curling centre could still potentially impact some affected user groups.
The second motion was slightly amended by Pratt, who successfully led a vote to remove a clause from the second motion stating that no work should be done at the site until after Sept. 1 and the BMX season.
City staff also added that construction wasn't likely to begin until after September regardless, given some of the pre-construction work that needs to occur beforehand.
The process now moves to signing a Letter of Intent and a License of Occupation with KEYSA, which will come back to council for final approval.
While all user groups within Balment Park don't get everything they want out of the proposed location between the BMX track and the curling centre, staff noted that compromises between major parties were made.
"The preference from the KEYSA perspective and the BMX perspective is, they wanted to do whatever they could do to remain at that location," said Chris New, the Director of Community Services, "so the compromises, in their opinion, were acceptable to stay at the location preferred."
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Hope you all enjoy the holiday with family/friends. With the end of the Arizona Fall League and the lack of M's players in the Australian Baseball League, the opportunities to watch live games involving M's/M's prospects are few and far between. But that doesn't mean there aren't things to talk about.
1: I wanted to follow up a bit on my last post. There were a number of thoughtful replies on Twitter, and I wanted to respond in large part to clarify my own thinking.
IMO massive, massive injuries to the pitching staff have significantly contributed to the issue you wrote about – a lot more than I think you assign weight to in the article.
This is fair; I may be understating the impact of the wave of injuries the M's suffered through. But the M's injury woes weren't exactly unprecedented – other teams – including divisional rivals – lost more players to the DL and/or more games to injury. Kyle's argument is that the way the M's were constructed made them *especially* vulnerable to a wave of injuries. My response is that I think we may be arguing the same thing: the M's lack of development, something he notes in the 2nd reply, is the primary problem here. It's not the injuries that have led us here, it's the lack of development.
And that's why I'm frustrated with the approach of churning through the back of the roster; this is an opportunity for development that the M's are not taking advantage of. Churning through Costco-packs of Tyler Cloyds/Nick Rumbelows/Ryan Gartons *means* you aren't building the depth you need if injuries hit. At the very, very least, trading a Zack Littell/JP Sears/Ryan Yarbrough, or pick-your-cast-off-of-choice, seems to show a disconnect between the pro and amateur scouting groups.
As readers like PNW Vagabond noted, the M's aren't trading blue-chip prospects here, so the costs aren't likely to be too onerous (I'm talking about lower-level trades than the Luiz Gohara and Alex Jackson deals, which are going to huuuurt). If the M's were using this strategy to get better, that'd be one thing – but there's very little evidence that that's happening.
To be clear: this is not strictly about trading a low-minors statistical wonder like Sears for an already-debuted, MLB-ready arm. That sort of thing isn't necessarily bad. The problem is that the M's have gone the other way on deals like this (Jose Ramirez, who's been decent for the Braves for 2 years, was traded for Ryne Harper); the problem isn't an attempt to jump-start development by trading for guys further along their developmental path. The problem is giving *anything* up for the privilege of cycling through guys at the back of the 40-man roster. As I said before, I don't see any evidence that it's made the big league team more resilient or more effective.
Why would WAR do this? Is this an error? This gets to a very fundamental disagreement over what individual player statistics are supposed to be doing, or as our erstwhile leader here Dave Cameron would say, what question they're trying to answer. One of the fundamental tenets of sabermetrics, one shown so brilliantly by James himself, is that when we want to compare players, we need to figure out what context we want to include, and what we need to exclude. Team wins are the result of the contributions of many, many players, and they are ALSO the result of luck and chance. James is right that the luck and chance stuff can get lost in WAR – the Yankees runs scored/allowed don't match up to their actual record, so *10 wins* or so of bad luck just melts away. The converse is to assign it to players based on playing time or whatever, knowing that they may not have had anything to do with it. If your runs (based on linear weights, or some team-specific runs-to-wins converter) MUST align with actual wins, you don't have a choice.
WAR is trying to answer the question: "About how valuable was this player, assuming he played for an average team in average circumstances?" James is trying to answer this one: "Given that a team won X games, how much credit do each of their players get?" I think many baseball fans are more interested in the latter question, though I don't know all of them have thought this position through: are we *really* saying that, if Mike Trout's team was horrible, that he was a lesser player? I disagree with that, but then, I've been focused on the first question, not the second. The second really starts to sound a lot like the traditional sportswriting stuff that James made his name arguing against.
Contra James, I don't think this is diminishing the games themselves at all. Felix – and M's fans – were punished enough by the actual results of the games in 2010 – he shouldn't have been punished again by voters. It's actual results that matter for the playoffs, not pythagorean record (an imputed win percentage based solely on runs scored/runs allowed, and invented by James). But bringing those results into a WAR-type metric fundamentally changes what that metric is for, and not for the better. WAR can always be improved, and I'm not saying it's foolproof at all. I think a Jamesian measure can have value, and if he wants to argue that Altuve was the deserving MVP, he'll get no argument from me. But personally, I'm glad WAR is not attempting to bring sequencing and luck into this.
This discussion's led to some good posts, my favorite of which was Jonathan Judge's over at BP. Dave's post at Fangraphs led to a segment on Brian Kenny's show on MLBNetwork that talked through some of these issues as well. There's a typically interesting discussion at Tom Tango's blog where the one person most associates with WAR sets out where he agrees/disagrees with James, noting that James hinted at many of these "issues" with WAR (though stated them much less stridently) a few years ago. Of note is the discussion about WPA. You can create a version of WAR that uses win probability-added and not pure, context-free batting runs. But "Guy" notes in comments that it doesn't seem fair to only use the WPA values from before an at-bat; after all, at-bats that seemed meaningless at the time can take on more significance later, if a team comes back from a big deficit or if relievers blow a huge lead. Good, nerdy stuff if you're interested in this debate at all.
3: Game on – Shohei Ohtani will be posted. In recent days, MLB, MLBPA and the NPB were struggling to negotiate a posting process for this year. MLB and NPB had an agreement at one point, but the MLB Players union wouldn't approve it. Finally, on Monday night, all parties agreed to essentially extend the current process for another year. The negotiation period in which an MLB team tries to sign Ohtani has been cut from 30 to 21 days, but it's still the same basic system.
That means that the first hurdle to clear to negotiate with Otani is a laughable one: each team puts up a posting fee with a maximum of $20 million, and then Otani decides which team to negotiate a contract with. If he signs one, his old NPB team gets the posting fee from the MLB team. That is, every team pledges $20 million, and only have to pay IF they land Otani. Every team will post $20 million.
After the bizarre posting process, it gets more complicated, as teams negotiating power is constrained by the international bonus pools and the fact that MLB won't let teams offer more than the standard minor league contract. Teams have every incentive in the world to find loopholes/push the envelope on secret deals or pledges to offer a contract extension if he so much as pitches a solid inning in spring training, but MLB rules prohibit such side deals. Showing clubs that they mean business may be why the league just banned former Braves GM John Coppolella for life and voided the Braves signing of 17 international free agents, including consensus top prospect Kevin Maitan. For years, teams have been cutting side deals with trainers, and punishments for these deals have been sporadic. The Braves seemed to be flagrant about their deals (reportedly signing a 14-year old to a handshake agreement), but the timing here seems important: MLB is watching how teams deal with Ohtani. This means that Ohtani will sign an absolutely absurdly below-market agreement, and MLB will be closely watching to see if teams court him by offering something slightly *less* team friendly. This is the strangest process yet, and now we know we'll get to see it play out 'till the end.
* International soccer is much more used to players moving from club to club and country to country, so it's not surprising that some want baseball to adopt FIFA rules giving 'solidarity' payments to teams that train players who eventually sign with huge international clubs. Essentially, this would mean earmarking a percentage of a players posting fees to each team that developed him. But as we've seen with local star Deandre Yedlin, differences between HS and FIFA laws can make this hard to enforce.
I think a problem with the latter metric is that it already lines up with a lot of fans' intuitions, and thus doesn't add much value. Fans who follow their team closely remember the big plays that drive context-dependent value, and local media coverage tends to center on this narrative as well. On the other hand, fans like to speculate about potential roster moves and trades, and that's where a context-neutral metric shines, because it's the only way to objectively compare players.
Even if Ohtani wasn't part of the discussion – baseball's current rules regarding international signings stink at so many levels.
MLB's rules regarding international players in general seem to invite devious behavior or sell someone short.
I don't know what the answers are, but maybe an international draft for true amateurs (teenagers who haven't played in a professional league) would make some sense; do away with the bonus pools all together and introduce slots similar to the Rule 4.
Treating players under 25 who have had signigicant professional experience at a top level, which would suggest they're past the general development stage (for the most part, anyway), as professionals and introducing a higher flat fee in addition to a percentage of a MLB contract, would seem to make some sense as well.
The key here would be major league contracts, rather than amateur contracts. There would be more risk for MLB teams, but it could invoke more postings of players under 25. Let's say you set the bar for recognition as a professional at 4 years experience minimum. That would cover your Ohtani's and Fujinami's.
A draft and spending limits are artificial mechanisms to deprive amateur players of leverage. MLBPA and Ownership cooperate to enforce this on amateurs because it both enriches owners and current major leaguers at the expense of a group that's unrepresented.
No, but if he's really that good, you're underestimating how bad the rest of the team was.
The posting system rules are a bit of a mystery wrapped within a riddle, but if the Mariners end up with Ohtani I will like whatever they are.
And if he turns out to be as good as advertised, he will sign a huge deal/extension soon enough.


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Vĩnh Châu is a county-level town (thị xã) of Sóc Trăng province in the Mekong Delta region of Vietnam. On August 25, 2011, Vĩnh Châu became a town and had a population of 163,918. The town covers an area of 473 km2.

Administrative divisions

 4 phường (wards):
Phường 1
Phường 2
Khánh Hoà
Vĩnh Phước
 6 xã (communes):
 Hoà Đông
 Lạc Hoà
 Lai Hoà
 Vĩnh Hải
 Vĩnh Hiệp
 Vĩnh Tân

References

Districts of Sóc Trăng province
County-level towns in Vietnam

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SHED26
About Shed 26
What's being said
Image above from cover of: PORT ADELAIDE RENEWAL PROJECT Waterfront Redevelopment Community Engagement, Engagement Report, 2016
For more than 18 years the Port Adelaide community has, in one form or another, been involved in genuine consultation with the government to work out the best possible outcomes for the re-development of the Inner Harbour. This has included LMC community consultations where a large group of representatives from the community met once a month with government reps to discuss the redevelopment and its progress, later, a Cabinet appointed Steering Committee for the Port's redevelopment was established where a selected group of community representatives, from all walks of life and representing a broad spectrum of the community, were consulted on our expectations and our vision. The results of the consultations initiated public displays and open days, the first in 2012 where 4,500+ members of the community attended and responded to concept plans for the redevelopment of the Port and the second in 2016 where more than 300+ members of the public turned up to again validate the direction the development was taking. The outcomes of the first public open day included 1500+ written comments and the production of the Port Adelaide Precinct Plan. An outcome of the most recent community engagement which allowed our community to assess Cedar Wood's development proposal, the Port Adelaide Renewal Project - Waterfront Redevelopment Community Engagement Report, was that 158 people left comments at an open day about this area of the redevelopment (115 with pinned notes on the day and 43 came in via a website). It's of interest that the equal highest concerns regarding Cedar Wood's redevelopment proposal were Design and Heritage, sharing exactly 50% of the community's concerns about the proposal.
"25% of comments indicated concern about design elements of the proposal including that buildings of up to 5 storeys were too high; that the design should respond more effectively to the heritage values of its setting; and that the proposal was too 'bold and contemporary'.
25% of comments raised heritage issues, including that instead of being knocked down, existing buildings should be retained and re-used." Let's just say that again, "....instead of being knocked down, existing buildings should be retained and re-used."
In all the time that the community has been engaged, the community has maintained that Shed 26, one of the last two wharf sheds left in the Inner Harbour (Shed 1 has now been approved for demolition so that will leave Shed 26 as the last surviving shed) should be retained in one form or another. The shed has so much potential, at one end of the spectrum it could be creatively adaptively re-used, at the other end, the steel frame of the shed could be retained to be incorporated into a development where innovative contemporary architecture could be inserted into the framework, so that a visible reminder of the Port's history can be acknowledged simply through it's sculptural form while allowing edgy, contemporary design to come to the fore. Adelaide's multi award winning Tonsley Park is an obvious local example of this.
Artist's impressions of Cedar Woods's proposed development of North West and Fletcher's Slip in Port Adelaide. Source: Our PortNewsPort Adelaide to be transformed with more than $280m of private developments, July 2016.
Up until a week ago, our community had understood that the developers were producing concepts that respected and were well on the way to meeting the community's expectations. Concept renderings had been published in July 2016 (above). With so many examples in Australia of how Adaptive Reuse has invigorated waterfront communities, it felt like a given that this would be the outcome that everyone was aiming for. But no. On Friday the 23rd of November 2018, the chosen developer, Cedar Woods, came out in the media to say that Shed 26 was to be demolished, doing anything else was just all too hard. So it appears now that, when the primary school across the road closes for summer recess in mid December, the developers intend to remove the Shed from the fabric of the Port.
Given that the developers really didn't want the community to find out until the demolition was underway, wouldn't it be great if the Government could negotiate with the developer for a stay of execution so that we, the community, can come up with viable alternatives that would benefit both the developer and the community.
This is what doesn't constitute consultation
Since the July 2016 display at Hart's Mill which showed the shed as being still part of the overall site plan, the community had no consultations with Cedar Woods. In January 2019 after CW came out and said they would revisit the idea of Adaptive Re-Use, the Shed 26 Alliance managed to organise a meeting with Cedar Woods, a representative from RenewalSA to discuss potential Adaptive Re-Use of the building. Following the meeting we had concerns that Cedar Woods would regard the meeting as fulfilling their community consultation obligations, so a letter was sent to the Cedar Woods representatives after the meeting outlining our concerns with the meeting and how it DIDN'T represent, in any way, their view that it was community consultation.
Just a reminder that one of the principal project objectives from the 2015 "Request for Proposal" for the Port Adelaide Waterfront North West Precinct, that Cedar Woods responded to with their illustrated concept plans as shown above, was to; "Engage the community in the delivery and leverage the strong community support for the revitalization of the area."
save_shed_26_followup_w_cedar_woods_060219.pdf
SOME QUOTES FROM CEDAR WOODS AND RENEWAL SA
"Cedar Woods is very pleased to be selected as preferred proponent to develop Port Adelaide's North West and Fletcher's Slip precincts. These precincts have the hallmarks of a truly great Cedar Woods' development including over 1 km of Port River frontage with a public promenade and heritage buildings to be retained."
Patrick Archer, Development Director of Cedar Woods, News, Our Port, July 25, 2016
"PLANNED DELIVERY OUTCOMES FROM THE PORT ADELAIDE PRECINCT PLAN INCLUDE:
Respect our heritage by celebrating and restoring historic buildings, ensure a strong connection between the old and the new, retain heritage wharf areas and activate the water for recreation."
Port Adelaide Precinct Plan - Our Port, January 2014
Key themes that have emerged from the various studies and investigations of the Port Adelaide Centre and waterfront precincts over the past decade include:
• the need to ensure that community values and objectives are at the heart of regeneration and that a shared vision for the waterfront has a sense of community ownership;
• renewal should capitalise on the maritime heritage and the uniqueness and character of the Port should be preserved and enhanced;
Page 4, Port Adelaide Precinct Plan, 2014
... AND ONE FROM RONALD BROWN ON FACEBOOK
My father was a welder in the ship yard 1966-72. I attended many ship launches through that time. What annoys me is the lack of historical appreciation for this building, as it stands as a reminder for all the ship builders and their families who helped shape the direction of Port Adelaide's future with their skills and to some their lives.


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Apple's iOS 10 Arrives With a Host of New Improvements
Do even more with your iPhone and iPad
Apple's Software
That day is here. Apple's latest software for your iPhone and iPad, iOS 10, is now available to download by the general public.
There are two different ways to update your iOS device. First, you can do it over-the-air directly on your iPhone or iPad. Head to Settings, General, Software Update and then follow the instructions. You can also do it directly from iTunes on a Mac or PC.
Just to note, make sure to backup your iOS device before upgrading. That can be done through iCloud, or more preferably through iTunes.
The update is compatible with the following iOS devices:
iPhone 6s, iPhone 6s Plus, iPhone 6, iPhone 6 Plus, iPhone SE, iPhone 5s, iPhone 5c, iPhone 5
iPad Pro 12.9-inch, iPad Pro 9.7-inch, iPad Air 2, iPad Air, iPad 4th generation, iPad mini 4, iPad mini 3, iPad mini 2
Here are some of the top new features.
Welcome to a new Home screen
The home screen has received a number of updates.
Exclusive to the newer iPhone models including the iPhone 7/7 Plus, iPhone 6s/6, and iPhone SE, the Raise to Wake feature makes it easy to quickly view the notifications on your lock screen. The gesture is much like the Apple Watch feature that turns on the screen with a raise of the wrist.
It also solves an issue with those newer iPhone models. The second-generation Touch ID sensor on those handsets was so fast to recognize a fingerprint that many times users weren't able to view their notifications before the device unlocked.
Speaking of unlocking, one of the most iconic iPhone gestures – Swipe to Unlock – is officially being retired with the latest version of iOS. Taking its place is Press Home to Open. That's a significant change, especially for anyone without a Touch ID-enabled device.
If your device has Touch ID, just place your finger on the Home button to authenticate. You'll need to press one more time head to the homescreen. It may throw some users for a loop, but the features added to the lock screen easily make up for that hassle.
One of the features I've really enjoyed so far are the rich notifications on the lock screen. For example, if you receive a Message, just 3D Touch it to bring up the entire thread. You can quickly and easily respond without needing to fully unlock the device. Users can also view photos and videos.
A general notification bubble has also been redesigned and now stands out more on the lock screen.
Quick access to your Camera has also changed. Instead of a swipe up, you'll need to swipe to the left.
A right swipe will bring up the a new widget screen. It shows all of the widgets housed in your Notification Center.
Swiping down from the lock screen will show you any missed notifications. With a 3D Touch, you can finally clear all notifications with one button push.
That deserves one huge "finally" as I can't tell you how much time I previously wasted clearing notifications from each and every app individually.
From the lock screen, you can swipe up to view Control Center. There are three different and distinct tiles to swipe through – the main screen you're used to, a Now Playing tile, and a window dedicated to the Home app and your smart home accessories.
Anyone with a 3D Touch-enabled iPhone can touch the Flashlight, Timer, Calculator, and Camera icon for some additional features. My favorite is the ability to select a low, medium, or high intensity beam from the flashlight.
I'm still disappointed Apple doesn't allow users a way to further customize what appears on the Control Center, but the additional features are welcomed.
Stickers and more.
One of the most used parts of iOS – Messages – is getting a great makeover with a huge number of new features. My colleague Sandy Stachowiak has the complete lowdown here.
Say hello to Siri, once again
Ride time.
Apple's capable virtual assistant Siri is also learning a bag of new tricks – thanks to developers.
With iOS 10, the Siri API has been opened up to certain types of third-party apps. It will work with six different types of apps including ride booking (like Uber), photo search, messaging, starting a workout, VoIP calling, and sending/receiving cash.
For example, users will be able to request an Uber, send money with Square Cash, and more with a simple voice command.
The built-in Home app may finally take HomeKit devices into the mainstream.
After opening up the new Home app, you'll be taken directly to the home screen that shows your favorite accessories and scenes. Selecting the "+" sign on the top right corner will bring up options to add a new HomeKit accessory or scene.
Selecting the scenes will toggle each on and off. When you select an accessory, a quick tap will turn it on or off. A longer hold, or 3D Touch on newer iPhones will bring up a fullscreen controller.
With compatible lights, there's a full brightness slider. Choosing the Color button will bring up a number of different selections. Select the Edit button to hone the presets to your liking.
The next major part of the app can be found under the Rooms tab. Here, you can further organize the accessories by creating a number of rooms. Each Room screen will show any accessories and scenes.
Using Automation, users can customize different accessories to perform actions based on certain criteria like your current location or the time of day. For example, you can create an automation that will turn certain lights on at sunset and off at sunrise.
The Home app is also available on an iPad. But more importantly, the tablet has taken on an interesting new role.
Previously, users needed an Apple TV to act as a hub and operate accessories when you were away from a home Wi-Fi network. Now, as long as an iPad is using iOS 10, connected to Wi-Fi, and plugged in, it will take care of the duties. That's an important addition, and should allow more users to take advantage of HomeKit.
Not surprisingly, the Home app is also available on the Apple Watch with watchOS 3.0. The app on the wearable device is mainly relegated to acting as a remote control for your different smart home devices or different scenes. Users can turn their lights or other devices on and off along with controlling brightness.
You'll also be able to select from a number of preset colors for Hue bulbs. Anything more complicated will require using Siri.
Smarter Photos
You can search for specific people or things in a photo.
Apple has also made the Photos app even better with a big dose of machine learning. The biggest new feature is the Memories tab. It will automatically show you some cherished events and help you create a movie with them in just a few clicks.
Along with facial recognition to help categorize photos, you'll be able to search for people or things in the photo. Want to see all the pictures you've ever taken on a merry-go-round? Now you can. There are thousands of other objects you can search for like a football game, dog, dolphin, and many, many more – 4,432 to be exact.
Apple does 11 billion computation per photo to detect what is in each. And unlike other services, all of the work is done on your phone so there's no need to worry about privacy.
Music, Maps, and News
Apple Music's "For You" feature is getting even better.
And Apple hasn't forgotten about other parts of iOS like Apple Music, Maps, and News.
Maps now includes traffic incidents on your route and intelligent suggestions. Apple is also opening up Maps for use to developers.
News has also gotten a fresh coat of paint with an improved design. It also automatically creates topics based on what you've previously read. Two other additions include subscriptions and breaking news notifications on your lock screen.
In Apple Music, you'll also notice a new design and additional features including an update "For You" section. During last week's keynote, Apple announced that the subscription music service now has more than 17 million subscribers.
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Bug? - Auto created account when sharing pw with 'new' user.
Funny things happen when you show people how to share passwords.
When you share a password with antoher person who hasn't got Lastpass, somehow lastpass creates an account for that person, and doesn't share the password. After this, there is no possible option to login for this user. Password recovery doens't work, and creating a new account is impossible due the the email address that is already is use. This seems like a pretty bad bug, or at least a missing feature.
Is there any way to solve this? It's looks pretty dumb when you demo a prety nice tool like lastpass, and this isn't working.


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Fluorescent jellyfish gene sheds light in 'fitness landscape'
By studying more than 50,000 variants of a jellyfish gene, researchers at the Centre for Genomic Regulation in Barcelona (Spain) have drawn a detailed picture of how changes in that gene affect its function.
Center for Genomic Regulation
IMAGE: This is CRG junior group leader Fyodor Kondrashov. view more
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Made up of a four-letter DNA code*, genes are the 'recipes' cells use to make molecules such as proteins, which are the building blocks of life. Changes in a gene can affect the characteristics of an organism. For example, genetic variations linked to pigmentation genes affect eye or hair colour in humans, while other changes can cause diseases such as cystic fibrosis or cancer. On a grander scale, genetic changes are the fuel for evolution, leading to big and small differences between species over time.
Until now, researchers have tended to only study single 'letter' changes (mutations) in a gene, observing the effect of the alteration on the resulting protein. But in real life, organisms have many DNA changes and variations scattered throughout their genes, which can all interact together to affect the outcome.
Now Fyodor Kondrashov, ICREA research professor and leader of the Evolutionary Genomics lab at the Centre for Genomic Regulation (CRG), and his team have scanned through thousands of different versions of a jellyfish gene encoding a Green Fluorescent Protein (GFP)**, analysing the effect of one, two or multiple mutations on the fluorescence levels of the resulting proteins. Their results are published online today (11th May 2016) and on 19th May in the print issue of Nature.
Rather than having to examine thousands of jellyfish, the researchers made mutations in a version of the GFP gene that had been transferred into lab bacteria called E. coli, which produce the altered fluorescent protein as they grow. Some changes don't affect the level of fluorescence of the protein, while others make it dimmer or get rid of the glow altogether.
Thanks to advances in DNA sequencing - the technology that allows scientists to 'read' the genetic code - Kondrashov and his team were able to find out exactly what changes had been made within every altered version of the GFP gene and link that back to any changes in fluorescence of the protein. Surprisingly, they found that some combinations of mutations had a more pronounced effect on the fluorescence than might have been predicted from the effect of each single change by itself.
Finally, using computer modelling, the researchers were able to construct a 'fitness landscape', mapping how multiple combinations of changes in the GFP gene interact to affect the brightness of the resulting protein (see accompanying video***). The genetic changes in the 'peak' still produce brightly fluorescent GFP, while those around the edges do not.
"The fitness landscape is an abstract concept that simplifies our thinking of how the characteristics of an organism come from its underlying genetic makeup, Kondrashov explains. "This is the first time anyone has been able to generate real data to graphically represent this concept, looking at combinations of genetic changes rather than just single mutations."
Postdoctoral researcher Karen Sarkisyan, first author on the paper, says, "We were really surprised when we finally had a chance to look at exactly how the interactions between mutations occur. We also did not expect that almost all the mutations that are only slightly damaging on their own can destroy fluorescence completely when combined together."
Kondrashov believes this a first step towards understanding how changes in the DNA (genotype) of an organism combine together to affect its traits, characteristics and even diseases (phenotype). He says, "Our research takes us some way towards being able to predict the effects of different combinations of mutations. If we can understand and draw fitness landscapes for genes, cells and even one day for whole organisms, we would know so much more about biology - what combination of mutations causes cancer or other diseases, or the evolutionary changes that make a characteristic like the trunk of an elephant."
Laia Cendros
laia.cendros@crg.eu
@CRGenomica
http://www.crg.es
HHMI International Early Career Scientist Program, EMBO Young Investigator Programme, Spanish Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness MINECO, Centro de Excelencia Severo Ochoa
Fyodor Kondrashov, Center for Genomic Regulation (IMAGE)
http://www.crg.eu/en/news/fluorescent-jellyfish-gene-sheds-light-fitness-landscape


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Q: Android facebook Action intents I'm curious what happens when you create an Intent chooser and the user doesn't have any apps that can do what you're specifying.
For example if I try to open up a facebook profile via an Intent and the user has neither the facebook app or any browser on their phone.
How would you check to see if the user has an app to open your Intent with before they actually open it?

A: You can do this with the help of PackageManager
    final PackageManager packageManager = this.getPackageManager();
    final Intent intent = new Intent(action);
    List<ResolveInfo> list =
            packageManager.queryIntentActivities(intent,
                    PackageManager.MATCH_DEFAULT_ONLY);
    if(list.size() > 0)
    // there is some app that will handle this intent
    else
    // there is no app to handle this intent

queryIntentActivities look for the activities that have registered for the intent you are querying and return the number of activities that can handle that intent.
You can find detailed discussion on this link http://android-developers.blogspot.ca/2009/01/can-i-use-this-intent.html

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How to Attach a Veil to a Tiara. Your wedding day is an amazing opportunity to dress up and carry yourself with an air of royalty, as all eyes will be on you. A bridal tiara is one of the most popular ways to complete your wedding attire for a modern day, fairy tale atmosphere. You may also want to wear a veil with your tiara. The combination of...... One of the best things about the side tiara are the number of different styles available. There are designs to suit every hair style and wedding theme, from intricate floral pieces to showstopping Art Deco creations, in sizes ranging from minimal to statement.
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Home Science Environmental news Ghana aims to remove 25 million tonnes of CO2 through GSLERP
Ghana aims to remove 25 million tonnes of CO2 through GSLERP
Analysis Of Ghanas Carbon Footprint
Ghana is commencing a 20 year initiative to decrease global Carbon Dioxide (CO2) in the atmosphere by 25.24 million tonnes to curb global warming and the changing weather patterns.
The initiative christened "Ghana Shea Landscape Emission Reductions Project" (GSLERP) is hoping to reduce CO2 concentration by some 6.139 million tonnes over the first seven years.
This will be done through the growing of 3.5 million trees including Shea and other species in her Northern Savannah Zone (NSZ).
Dr Shaibu Baanni Azumah, Director, Action for Shea Parkland at the Global Shea Alliance, who disclosed this to the Ghana News Agency, said the country was already experiencing the negative impact of climate change, which was manifesting in temperature rise and erratic rainfall.
He stated that the GSLERP would build resilience of millions of rural folks in the Northern Savannah Zone of Ghana.
"Trees absorb carbon dioxide and give off oxygen. There is a huge carbon dioxide concentration in the atmosphere mainly due to industrialization and human factors, this has resulted in climate change. So, one critical aim of the project is to grow trees, which have the ability to sequester carbon dioxide to make the world habitable," he said.
The project is being funded by the Green Climate Fund and will leverage on private sector contribution to bring the desired change.
The Implementation of GSLERP is led by Forestry Commission with the technical support from the Global Shea Alliance (GSA) and the United Nations Development Programme, and alongside multiple national and local governing institutions, civil society representatives and private sector actors.
Dr. Azumah mentioned that the seven year project was in line with Ghana's recently approved update of Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs) that had some 47 adaptation and mitigation measures on climate change.
The NDCs are climate plans required of countries who are parties to the Paris Agreement and UN Framework Convention on Climate Change in order to keep the temperature below 1.5 degree Celsius.
The GSLERP, Dr. Azumah indicated, aside from growing trees, the project would offer a unique opportunity to actors engaged in forest commodity, shea and its by-products, which were important income generating activity for over 600,000 women in the country.
On the specific activities of GSA, an implementing partner, he explained would focus on restoring degraded shea parklands through the setting up nurseries, tree planting, undertaking parkland management training activities and establishing cooperatives and conducting quality control trainings that seek to improve livelihoods.
"These will result in planting activities including 3.5 million shea seedlings and 480,000 additional non-shea species, training of 70 additional women cooperatives in grafting and 300 in shea restoration, while providing them with business skills development," he said.
Dr. Asumah noted that the project would set up an integrated monitoring system as a key component, and complete national REDD+ architecture for safeguarding, forest monitoring and reporting systems.
He stated that Ghana's Forest Reference Level indicated that the 9.7 million hectares of forests ecosystems of NSZ, with a population of over five million people, were facing a great threat with total forest cover declining by over 50 per cent in the last two decades, with a conversion of some 1,058,492 million hectares of woodland to grasslands and degraded forests.
"This loss can be said to be the cause of greenhouse gas emissions of about 3.568 mtCO2e per annum. Loss and degradation of woodlands and forests also present significant environmental, social and economic risk in NSZ where we have evidence of poverty among the locals," he said.
At the national level, the impacts of environmental degradation are being increasingly recognised and costing Ghana some US$ 850 million or 10 per cent of Gross Domestic Product.
Observed events corroborated with both national and international studies had shown that Ghana, especially the NSZ had witnessed unpredictable rainfall patterns, long dry-spells, flash floods and shortening of the rainy season.
Last year alone available statistics at the Food and Agriculture Ministry indicate that due to prolonged dry spells, productivity of Ghana's maize and soyabean dipped in last year's cropping season-from 3.8 metric tonnes to 3.3 metric tonnes.
25 million tonnes
Albert Oppong-Ansah
Carbon Reduction
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Joey Porter Signs with Miami & Gets 20 million in guarantees
The Miami Dolphins have signed former Pittsburgh Steelers linebacker Joey Porter to a 5 year deal worth 32 million. The deal is worth 20 million in guarantees and it's not to surprising to see Porter get this kind of money considering the money owners have been throwing around the past two seasons. The minute he became a free agent, his phone was ringing. Porter had enough offers to visit most of the teams that run a 3-4 defense and few, including Cincinnati, that run a 4-3. He chose to play for Dom Capers' 3-4 unit in Miami.
Regardless of what people say, the Steelers are going to hard pressed to replace Joey Porter.
James Harrison is not the answer. The guy cannot stay healthy for more than a couple games in a row and once your a backup for most of your career you become entrenched into that backup role. Same can be said Chucky Okobi.


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How to detach a white garment?
Neutral color par excellence, white is a must in our wardrobe. How to maintain it so that it retains its brightness of the first day? What are the tips for dealing with stubborn stains? Thanks to our advice, your clothes will shine with an immaculate white!
– Sodium percarbonate, miracle product!
Prolonged exposure to the sun ends up covering your white clothes with an unsightly yellow veil. Often, these yellow spots are not evenly distributed, which further enhances the neglected aspect of your outfit. To overcome the problem, nothing more simple! Pour cold water into a basin.For each liter of water poured, add the juice of 3 squeezed lemons. Soak your yellow-white clothing for about 1 hour, then rinse thoroughly with clear water. Thanks to the acidifying power of the lemon, the yellow veil will disappear miraculously. This is an effective and inexpensive grandmother's tip to detach a white garment!
Method 1: Dilute 3 tablespoons of baking soda in one liter of hot water. Use a sponge to dab the stubborn stains with your baking solution. And let it sit at least 30 minutes, in the open air.
Method 2: In a basin, pour 2 liters of hot water and add the equivalent of 6 tablespoons of baking soda. Soak your white garment for about an hour to allow the product time to work.
This method is particularly indicated to make its shine to a tarnished fabric over the years.
In both cases, it will be appropriate to wash your white garment in the machine, using your usual program.
4. Sodium percarbonate, miracle product!
Sodium percarbonate is a cleaning and whitening agent that can work miracles for the maintenance of your laundry! Although its properties are close to baking soda, it still deserves to be prominent in your arsenal anti-stains. It is particularly marvelous face traces of wine or grass, which are reputed among the toughest. Its use is very simple. Just pour hot water into a basin, and incorporate the percarbonate, according to the instructions on the package.The soaking time depends on the nature of the spots, and can vary between 1 and 2 hours. Once washed in the machine, your white garment will appear as new!
Hydrogen peroxide: It attacks dark spots, such as those caused by coal or dust. Apply it locally with a sponge.
70 ° alcohol: It is applied in the same way as hydrogen peroxide and is very effective in dissolving paint stains.
Bleach: Diluted in warm water, it will give your white clothes all their brilliance and brilliance. The ideal is to use the method of soaking in a basin for about an hour.
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DMP provide the analysis for regular cosmeceutical trials conducted by a UK-based trials unit – the end clients for these trials being many well-known cosmetics & pharmaceutical companies. The analyses provided ultimately display a product's effectiveness or innocuousness.
Is my new product effective in producing effect A?
Does my product produce its claimed benefits?
Is our potential replacement for an existing product similarly innocuous in terms of skin irritation?
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The data are the result of human trials, where dryness, redness, irritation, hydration are quantified under differing product applications. Perceptions of effects may also be recorded. The data typically represent measurements over multiple body locations, taken repeatedly on many subjects over several hours or days.
The data are not necessarily continuous measurements of well-known magnitude e.g. high, medium or low. Data of this type must also be treated carefully to ensure valid results. DMP use Generalized methods to account for this common categorical-ordinal data type – specifically multinomial models.
DMP provide comprehensive reports with analysis results and method details. The practical consequences of the analyses are given in plain language as well as the supporting technical outputs.
Product A gives 10-20% greater hydration than competitor product B.
The data types from cosmeceutical studies are deceptively difficult and frequently analysed incorrectly. The repeated measurements on subjects and categorical-ordinal nature of the data will give rise to incorrect conclusions if treated naively. In short, we treat cosmeceutical trials with the same rigour required of regulated clinical trials.
DMP have the latest accepted methods for the analysis of cosmeceutical data – methods that conform to that required of true pharmaceuticals. Notably there are calls for cosmeceuticals to be bound by pharmaceutical-like regulations, given their claims of pharmaceutical-like properties. DMP are also researchers in statistics methods, so can produce novel method development for difficult cases.


"Poss cairn some 7m dia built around natural outcrop may be natural feature (CPAT site visit, 1978). Area now afforested site unlocated - prob destroyed (OS, 1981)....Site is now occupied by a modern clearance cairn. Probably an ancient site reused (Gibson, A M , 1998 , Prehistoric Funerary & Ritual Sites: Upper Severn Valley)."


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James McAuley, until recently the Paris correspondent for the Washington Post, has received glowing coverage of his book "The House of Fragile Things: Jewish Art Collectors and the Fall of France" in both the London Review of Books and the New York Review of Books. In their respective reviews, both Julian Barnes and David A. Bell explore how a book purportedly about objects is, in fact, a profound meditation on identity and antisemitism.
How have debates over history come to be so central to American politics? What is at stake in the conflict between those who trace America's founding to 1619 vs. those who trace it to 1776? In a masterful essay for Harper's Magazine, Matt Karp traces the genealogy of this turn in public discourse and illuminates the significance of our recurrent, if very different, claims to history.
In the New Yorker, Benjamin Wallace-Wells traces the emergence of critical race theory as the conservative political issue of the moment. Interestingly, both Christopher Rufo, the conservative activist behind this emergence, and Kimberlé Crenshaw, one of the critical race theorist Rufo and his followers love to attack, agree at least in part. While they agree there is something wrong with some corporate trainings on racial awareness, their interpretations of what is at stake could not be more different.
Tucker Carlson is a scourge of liberal media in the United States. As it turns out, he is also one of their most vital sources. Writing in the New York Times, Ben Smith gets a handful of major journalists in left-of-center media to admit on the record that during the Trump Presidency they turned to Carlson for juicy gossip on the White House. Many more acknowledged the same off the record.
In a sign of the strange place of the media in our current politics (Trump, after all, was a reality TV star and master of Twitter), Carlson is often touted as a potential Presidential candidate in 2024 or 2028. In France, there are parallels. Eric Zemmour has built a media machine that could potentially rival Marine le Pen for far right votes, should he choose to use it.
Tags: Social media, Fox News, Anti-semitism, Uses of History


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Perfectly Imperfect – Animal Models with Disabilities
Our world is changing. Plus sized models, models with disabilities, and people of all creeds and colours are rightfully coming to the forefront of the modelling industry. There is an expectation to see real people with real bodies, as well as people that represent every aspect of our diversified society.
Basically, inclusive casting has become so much more important.
This new way of thinking also applies to the world of animal talent. We have seen partner organisations request animal models with disabilities more and more, and they expect talent agencies to have such models on their books.
We are determined to treat all animals equally so we created our 'Perfectly Imperfect' range. We may not be able to represent a diverse spectrum of race, sexuality, or gender, but we are proud to think that our disabled talent may normalise or empower people with disabilities everywhere.
What is 'Perfectly Imperfect'?
Froggy and Newt
'Perfectly Imperfect' features any and all of our animal models with disabilities. These disabilities are usually physical and require the animal to use a wheelchair or some other medical device for support.
We at Urban Paws UK feel that just because an animal has a disability, that doesn't mean it can't have the same opportunities as its fellow models. We look to take on any species of animal models with disabilities but – as with the majority of our models – most are dogs and cats.
Urban Paws UK is the first and only talent agency in the country to hire animals with disabilities.
Related: Urban Paws Rabbits Star in Primark Cruelty Free Campaign
Why use animal models with disabilities?
From a business point of view, 'Perfectly Imperfect' animal models can be effective at creating customer empathy. They tend to be primarily used in charity campaigns, though any brand can benefit from hiring our models.
Moreover, hiring these models demonstrates to the consumer that a company is willing to give an animal with a disability a chance. The world today is becoming a more accepting place and people generally appreciate seeing diverse and inclusive marketing campaigns, even in the world of animal talent.
Most importantly, seeing animals with disabilities helps to normalise disability in people. In the same way that casting diverse human models of different races and genders helps to make regular people feel accepted, we hope that seeing an animal in a wheelchair star in a high-profile marketing campaign can do a small part to make people with similar disabilities feel accepted.
Get in touch today to find out more about Perfectly Imperfect, or browse our whole range of models.
Note: At Urban Paws UK we are committed to treating every animal in an ethical and responsible way. Please get in touch for more information on how we put pet care first.


For information about applying a maintenance release, see Installing SQL Anywhere maintenance releases in a database mirroring system.
For information about applying an EBF, see Applying SQL Anywhere EBFs in a database mirroring system.
For information about upgrading or rebuilding the database file, see Upgrading databases in a database mirroring system.
All database servers in a database mirroring system must use the same maintenance release of SQL Anywhere. If you use the following procedure to apply a SQL Anywhere maintenance release, the only time the database is not available is during steps 3 and 4.
Shut down the mirror server by issuing a dbstop command.
Install the new version of SQL Anywhere on the mirror server.
Shut down the primary and arbiter servers by issuing a dbstop command for each server.
Install the new version of SQL Anywhere on the primary server.
Restart the primary and mirror servers.
Install the new version of the software on the arbiter.
The only downtime occurs during the failover caused by shutting down the primary server.
There are two procedures you can use to upgrade or rebuild a database that is participating in a database mirroring system. The first process is simpler, but it has a longer database downtime than the second procedure.
Shut down the mirror server.
Shut down the primary server.
Upgrade or rebuild the database using the copy on the primary server. See Upgrading version 10 and later databases, or Rebuilding version 10 and later databases.
Copy the upgraded or rebuilt database and transaction log to the mirror server.
Any renamed transaction log files should be moved because they are incompatible with the new database. An initial transaction log file is required on both servers for mirroring to start. You can create a transaction log file by executing a dbping command against the database.
Make a backup of the database and rename the transaction log.
Upgrade or rebuild the backup copy of the database on a different computer. See Upgrading version 10 and later databases or Rebuilding version 10 and later databases.
Shut down both the primary and mirror servers.
Save the current copy of the transaction log on the primary database.
Use the dbtran utility to translate the transaction log saved in step 4.
This transaction log contains any changes made to the database since the backup in step 1.
Start the rebuilt database using a local database server.
Apply the translated transaction log using the READ statement from Interactive SQL.
Copy the upgraded or rebuilt database and its transaction log to the primary and mirror servers.
To apply an EBF in a read-only scale-out system, you shut down the database for the node and install the EBF. You do not have to install the EBF at the root node first.
This procedure describes how to upgrade a database being used in a scale-out system, including when scale-out is being used with database mirroring.
Stop the database servers for all of the copy nodes in the system.
Shut down the root server. If you are using database mirroring in conjunction with scale-out, you must shut down both the primary and mirror servers.
Copy the upgraded or rebuilt database and its transaction log to the root database server.
Copy the upgraded database and an empty transaction log files to each copy server.
Start the root database server. If you are using database mirroring with scale-out, you must start both the primary and the mirror servers.


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He's a SUP Pup, a Surf pup and all round 'water dog'. Sevin loves his water-sports, not that he gets much exercise sitting on surf or SUP boards, but he's having a blast. Enjoying the rush of the board over the waves, the salt spray in his fur - just look at his stance on the board. He's definitely in his element - and what's next? Breakfast!
The joy and love and aloha of Maui Hawaii in art and photographs.


Welcome to the New Millennium Learners (NML) pages! The emergence of digital native learners has major potential implications for education. The objective of the NML is to analyse this new generation of learners and understand their expectations and attitudes. The impact of digital technologies on cognitive skills and on learning expectations, and the evolution of social values and lifestyles are important issues.
Initially, the project is intended to focus on the demand side of the NML, thus looking at the main areas of concern resulting from the impact of a continuous use of digital devices and services. In the later stage, the project will deal with the supply side, reviewing what educational institutions have done to accommodate or to struggle with NML characteristics, expectations and needs. The New Millennium Learners project also includes an activity on ICT and Initial Teacher Training.
Publication: Connected Minds - In all OECD countries, digital media and connectedness are integral to the lives of today's learners. This book contributes to the debate about the effects of technology attachment and connectedness on today's learners, and their expectations about teaching.
Blog: Hooked to be connected! Concerned parents are becoming more and more anxious as they watch their bright children getting completely absorbed by and attached to new mobile devices. Young people's attachment to digital media and connectivity will shortly reach a level of almost universal saturation. But it's not all bad news!
This report highlights key issues to facilitate understanding of how a systemic approach to technology-based school innovations can contribute to quality education for all while promoting a more equal and effective education system. It focuses on the novel concept of systemic innovation, as well as presenting the emerging opportunities to generate innovations that stem from Web 2.0 and the important investments and efforts that have gone into the development and promotion of digital resources.
Publication: Are the New Millennium Learners Making the Grade?
One of the most striking findings of this study is that the digital divide in education goes beyond the issue of access to technology. A new second form of digital divide has been identified: the one existing between those who have the right competencies to benefit from computer use, and those who do not.


The loss of Rotorua's rescue helicopter doesn't make sense, a reader says.
I heartily agree with Rotorua MP Todd McClay (News, October 6), taking the rescue helicopter away from Rotorua is not something that makes any sense.
Rotorua is strategically placed for the siting of a rescue helicopter, and with all the lakes and rivers we have here a rescue copter is paramount.
It was inevitable that Labour would make mistakes, perhaps if there were a stronger Opposition, then they would not get away with it.
We need now a massive campaign to have it reinstated, and who better to lead this than Todd McClay? I would think that a concerted effort from all of us may just do the trick. I feel sure that most of the community would support this effort.
Had this Rotorua Lakes Council not wasted, or planned to waste so much money, much could go towards helping us keep the rescue helicopter.
Firstly, trout have been in New Zealand for more than 150 years, and are deemed to be a desirable "naturalised" introduced species protected by law.
As to his point that trout are an introduced pest and have devastated the native fresh-water fish, he would be well aware that there have been many other reasons as to the decline in native fisheries, most of them as a result of human activity.
It is common knowledge for example that over the centuries Māori consumed vast quantities of koura and inanga at hui and tangi. Then, in more recent years we have the ramifications of intensive agricultural land use downstream.
On the other hand, one must ask as to the benefits of trout fishing. Other than the obvious economic benefit, which the last national survey revealed a figure of $400 million in 1991, fishing provides relaxation and exercise for people from all walks of life.
Fish & Game, which has managed the trout stocks nationally for over 50 years now, advise that it issues over 130,000 trout fishing licences each year. Income from these licences has in the past been used to fight for clean water and protect the environment.
What is a pity in this case of the Government discreetly proposing an amendment to the Conservation Act, is that Fish and Game, which has been the guardians of trout stocks, has not even been consulted. Interestingly enough, it is evident that iwi have been involved as the new bill will allow Treaty settlements to "override several important elements of the management regime".


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Q: Xcode post to mysql via php works from simulator but not from device I thought I had cracked my code while working on the train today as everything worked on the simulator, but when I got home to test my code on a device it doesn't work.
I use the following code to post into mysql database:
NSString *urlString = [NSString stringWithFormat:@"http://mywebsite/loginToApp.php?email=%@&password=%@", email.text, password.text];
NSData *dataURL = [NSData dataWithContentsOfURL:[NSURL URLWithString:urlString]];
NSString *returnedString = [[NSString alloc] initWithData:dataURL encoding:NSUTF8StringEncoding];
NSLog(@"urlString %@", urlString);
NSLog(@"dataURL %@", dataURL);
NSLog(@"%@", returnedString);

Which works great from the simulator and logs:
2015-06-24 02:22:55.489 AppName[7339:1140365] urlString http://mywebsite/loginToApp.php?email=test&password=pass
2015-06-24 02:22:55.489 AppName[7339:1140365] dataURL <436f7272 65637420 70617373 776f7264>
2015-06-24 02:22:55.489 AppName[7339:1140365] Correct password
However, when I run this on a device it logs:
2015-06-24 02:22:55.489 AppName[7339:1140365] urlString http://mywebsite/loginToApp.php?email=test&password=pass
2015-06-24 02:28:15.654 AppName[739:122099] dataURL (null)
I have no idea why this isn't working and any help is greatly appreciated :)