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Indiana State Schools Chief Loses in Upset
By Andrew Ujifusa — November 13, 2012 4 min read
Glenda Ritz, a Democrat, celebrates defeating Indiana's Republican state schools chief, Tony Bennett. A teacher, she drew strong union support.
Michael Conroy/AP
Indiana voters delivered one of the biggest education-related election surprises of Nov. 6 when they picked Democrat Glenda Ritz to be their new superintendent of public instruction over Republican Tony Bennett, an incumbent with a high national profile.
Ms. Ritz's victory, with 53 percent of the vote, came despite her having raised only $327,000 in campaign contributions to Mr. Bennett's $1.3 million.
The win by Ms. Ritz, a teacher in Washington Township schools in Indianapolis, raises the possibility that policy initiatives Mr. Bennett championed could stall or be reversed, ranging from implementation of the Common Core State Standards to school choice.
But just how big her role will be in the state's GOP-dominated political landscape is uncertain.
It is also unclear how she will work with the newly elected governor, Mike Pence, a Republican who currently serves in the U.S. House of Representatives, as well as a state legislature that now has GOP supermajorities in both chambers. Both Mr. Pence and Ms. Ritz take office in January.
At the same time, Ms. Ritz's election represents a significant victory for the 45,000-member Indiana State Teachers Association. The National Education Association affiliate backed her in the campaign and has often been a prominent voice against the policies Mr. Bennett pursued with the help of outgoing Gov. Mitch Daniels, a Republican, and conservative Indiana lawmakers.
"Now Glenda will have to work with Republican leaders who really have the authority to move a legislative agenda, as far as K-12 education policy," said Terry Spradlin, the director for education policy at Indiana University's Center for Evaluation and Education Policy, in Bloomington. He said she will "certainly" move to what he deemed more moderate positions.
"She'll be facing an uphill battle," Mr. Spradlin said.
Common-Core Backlash?
Mr. Bennett is the chairman of Chiefs for Change, a group of state schools chiefs whose policy goals include expanding school choice and increasing accountability for schools and teachers. Other members include Louisiana's John White and New Jersey's Christopher Cerf. The group is affiliated with the Tallahassee, Fla.-based Foundation for Excellence in Education, whose chairman is former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush.
Although observers have called Ms. Ritz's win an upset, Mr. Bennett said he knew during the campaign that the ISTA is a potent force in Indiana and that it would take hard work to defeat its preferred candidate. Ms. Ritz, in turn, said teachers' "grassroots effort" was critical to her win.
"It turned out to be a total nonpartisan race, a referendum on education in Indiana," she said. She added: "The teachers were talking. They were talking to everyone."
But one specific issue—attitudes toward the common core—may have helped his opponent significantly, Mr. Bennett said. So far, 46 states have adopted the English/language arts standards, and 45 have done so in mathematics.
As state chief, Mr. Bennett has been a strong national proponent of the standards, unlike some other Republicans who are suspicious of them or oppose them outright. Mr. Bennett argued that Ms. Ritz used his advocacy of the common standards against him. "She did a very good job of appealing to the strong conservative base who had problems with the common core," he said.
Ms. Ritz, though, said voters were upset about the common standards without any help from her.
"There was no input from parents, education groups. There was no input into the approval of the common core," she said. The Indiana state board of education adopted the common core in 2010.
'Shocking to Everybody'
The low profile of the chief's race may also have made the difference, said David Harris, the founder and chief executive officer of the Mind Trust, a nonprofit organization in Indianapolis that runs an incubator for charter schools.
"I think it was shocking to everybody here," said Mr. Harris, who also served as the charter school director for former Indianapolis Mayor Bart Peterson, a Democrat. "Nobody saw this coming."
Ms. Ritz said reducing the quantity of standardized assessments will be a key part of her agenda. She denied that she would be at loggerheads with Mr. Pence and Republicans in the legislature, and said that she looked forward to working with them on issues such as career and technical education and literacy. But to counter Ms. Ritz, the legislature may begin to prescribe how the state education department implements certain policies more than the lawmakers did with Mr. Bennett, Mr. Thomas said.
One legacy of Mr. Bennett's, the state's school voucher program, will be addressed Nov. 21, when the Indiana Supreme Court is slated to hear oral arguments on whether it is constitutional. Ms. Ritz has been a plaintiff in the case against the voucher program.
"I am a strong proponent of making sure we have public tax dollars going to public schools," she said.
Andrew Ujifusa
Andrew Ujifusa is an assistant editor who covers national education policy and politics.
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Naguib Surur (; born 1 June 1932 - 24 October 1978) was an Egyptian poet, playwright, actor and critic.

Career
One of his most successful folk-themed plays, "Yasin and Bahiyah," was staged by Karam Motawea in 1964 at the Masrah al-Jayb (Pocket Theatre) in Cairo. It incorporated the traditional Egyptian folk story-telling device of the sha'ir al-rababah (poet of the rababa), who plays the simple one-stringed instrument to accompany his tale. The tragic play deals with a class struggle between the oppressed peasant farmers (fellahin) of a Delta village, Bahut, who rise up against the feudal pasha (unnamed) in order variously to protect their land rights (Yasin's father), the honor of his betrothed (Yasin), and their crops from being expropriated by the Pasha's goons (the entire village). The central love story involves young fellah Yasin and his cousin Bahiyah, whose marriage plans are frustrated year after year. Yasin is finally shot and killed, and Bahiyah awaits the return of his spirit in the form of a dove or butterfly, accordingly to the folk tradition.

Selected works
His best-known poem 'Kuss Ummiyyat', written after the 1967 Arab-Israeli war, veered between expletives and lyricism in a savage attack on the corruption of society and state in the Nasser regime. Circulating but never published in his lifetime, it was partly posted on the web by his son, Shodhy Surur, in 2001: arrested and sentenced to one year's imprisonment, Shohdy left the country before his appeal hearing in 2002.

References

Egyptian male poets
Egyptian dramatists and playwrights
Egyptian male stage actors
1932 births
1978 deaths
20th-century Egyptian poets
20th-century dramatists and playwrights
20th-century Egyptian male actors
20th-century male writers
People from Dakahlia Governorate

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Q: Displaying a graphic when audio is playing Trying to find a way to display a small graphic to indicate when an audio clip is playing. Similar to the way in which an icon appears in the tab in Chrome whenever sound is currently playing, but displayed as a gif or similar on the actual page.
This is a simplified version of how the audio clips are displayed:

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Lots of links to files on a page displayed in timelines, when the div is clicked they begin to play. We want a graphic to be displayed when any audio clip begins playing, and then to be hidden when the clip comes to an end.

A: You have to do it with JavaScript.
You can use jQuery to show / hide your graphic :
Let's say your graphic has the id : #sound_playing
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The "Buck Autism" mission is a reflection of how one person's life changed dramatically after getting connected to the bucking bull world. Jayci Mead, a 21-year-old woman, who has autism, is involved in bull ownership through Exclusive Genetics. Her interest in bucking bulls has helped her communicate and express herself in ways that she was unable to do so prior to her connection to bull ownership. Read Jayci's story and see her video at www.BuckAutism.com.
NAA expresses its gratitude to Exclusive Genetics for their generous support in helping to raise awareness about the effects of autism on individuals and their families.
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The Mount Rinjani volcano in Indonesia began a period of eruptions on 25 October 2015; the ash plume became very apparent on Suomi NPP VIIRS true-color Red/Green/Blue (RGB) images from RealEarth on 03 and 04 October (above). The volcanic ash disrupted flights at Denpasar Airport in Bali (the red dot at the southern tip of the island) for several days.
A GOES-R volcanic ash height product (derived using Himawari-8 AHI data) from the SSEC Volcanic Cloud Monitoring site indicated that the plume reached heights of 10 km (dark blue color enhancement) at times during the 03-04 October period (below).
McIDAS-V images of Suomi NPP VIIRS Day/Night Band (0.7 µm), near-IR (1.6 µm), shortwave IR (3.74 µm), and IR (11.45 µm) images (below, courtesy of William Straka, SSEC) showed the hot spot and nighttime glow of the summit of the Rinjani volcano at 1733 UTC on 04 November.
A GOES-13 Visible (0.63 µm) image (above) showed a bank of fog and low stratus (FLS) covering much of the western portion of Lake Superior at 1600 UTC on 03 November 2015. Overlays of Metop ASCAT and Real-Time Mesoscale Analysis (RTMA) surface winds showed the long fetch of northeasterly winds that were moving this FLS feature toward the southwest; this southwestward (and eventual inland) advection could be followed on GOES-13 Visible images (below).
A more detailed view of the FLS deck was provided by a 375-meter resolution Suomi NPP VIIRS Visible (0.64 µm) image at 1848 UTC, with overlays of METAR surface reports, RTMA surface winds, and surface frontal analysis (below).
The GOES-R Low Cloud Thickness product shown below (derived using GOES-13 data) indicated that the maximum depth of the FLS feature was around 2200 feet (yellow color enhancement).
Cyclone Chapala continued its unusual approach towards Yemen on the southwestern edge of the Arabian Peninsula. Early on 2 November, the storm has passed just north of the Island of Socotra and entered the Gulf of Aden. METOP-B overflew the storm at ~0615 UTC on 2 November; Visible and Infrared data, above, show a still-compact storm with an obvious eye ringed by cold cloud tops (the coldest brightness temperatures are near -75º C) tucked into the mouth of the Gulf of Aden. Wind shear in the region is very low and sea-surface temperatures are warm. The morphed microwave imagery, below (taken from this site), indicates that the eyewall brushed the island of Socotra as it passed (a comparison of Meteosat-7 Infrared and DMSP SSMIS microwave images around 15 UTC on 01 November can be seen here).
Subsequent microwave imagery, below, for the 24 hours ending 1200 UTC on 2 November (the image below overlaps the one above) show a decrease in the eyewall structure and intensity.
Satellite-based intensity estimates at around 0000 UTC on 2 November (link) suggest a central mean sea-level pressure around 940 mb with sustained winds near 120 knots. The 0000 UTC Meteosat-7 image is shown below.
Suomi NPP overflew the region shortly after 2100 UTC on 1 November, and the Day/Night Band imagery from VIIRS is shown below, toggled with the 11.45 µm Infrared imagery. The storm is centered just northwest of Socotra; mesovortices are evident within the eye, as are overshooting tops in the eyewall convection; the bright streak seen on the Day/Night Band image is a region of the western eyewall illuminated by intense lightning activity. Zoomed-out versions of the imagery are available here for Day/Night Band and here for 11.45 µm Infrared. (VIIRS Imagery courtesy William Straka, SSEC/CIMSS).
A comparison of Meteosat-7 Infrared and DMSP SSMIS Microwave images around 1530 UTC on 2 November, below, showed the northern edge of the eyewall very near to the coast of Yemen.
At landfall, below, as viewed by Suomi NPP's VIIRS instrument and a timely overpass, the eye of the storm had filled. The change in storm structure prior to landfall was very apparent in this toggle of two METOP Infrared images, at 0558 and 1644 UTC on 2 November. However, Meteosat-7 Infrared images showed that there was a large convective burst that developed as Chapala made landfall. Chapala was the first tropical cyclone on record to make landfall in Yemen while still at hurricane intensity.
A 6-day animation of the storm using VIIRS true-color imagery from RealEarth can be seen here. Cyclone Chapala is also discussed in this blog post.
A 14-day animation of UK Met Office OSTIA Sea Surface Temperature, below, reveals the cold wake of upwelling water (yellow color enhancement) following the passage of Hurricane Chapala.


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During a divorce or separation, it is important to be prepared. At times the process can seem confusing, so it's easy to miss important steps that could cause you more hassle in the future. We have collated a handy checklist that suggests some practical steps to take and we hope gives you a little more clarity during this unsettling time.
If there are children involved, divorce or separation can be a confusing time for them. Follow these initial steps to maintain as smooth a transition as possible.
Inform your children's schools, not only for administration reasons, but to make them aware of your family's change in circumstance. This way they may be able to pay more attention to how the child is coping on a day-to-day basis and support them in extra ways.
Explain the situation as best you can to your children so they are informed of the impending change. The more they know, the better they can learn to adapt.
Do not pass blame onto children for the relationship breakdown, and enforce the fact that both parents, as well as grandparents and other family members, will still be involved in their lives.
Try to stay in contact with your in-laws for your children's benefit as well as your own. They can act as extra support for you and this can help maintain a family unit for your children.
If you can, create a parenting schedule whilst going through a divorce or separation that sets out when and where the children will see you and your ex-partner and stick to it as best you can. This will help them adjust to a new routine.
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In Jordan Spieth's eyes, Tiger Woods does not get enough credit from his fellow golfers, especially the twenty-something players of Spieth's generation.
In a sit-down interview with David Feherty for his Golf Channel show "Feherty" that aired this week, Spieth talked about being grateful to Woods for the attention (and money) that he brought to the game.
"Tiger deserves a million thank you notes and a million cases of nice wine from every golfer that's coming up and wants to play the PGA Tour as well as those that are already on the PGA Tour," he said. "He really doesn't get the credit he deserves from us players. I don't think we stress it enough to other people."
Professional golf was once reserved for the independently wealthy. Post-Tiger, that reality seems like a very distant dream. "Now you can make a living in one week on the PGA Tour. We're just so lucky for that," Spieth said.


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HS athletes are still prescribed opioids. Adults in the room, speak up | Editorial
Opioid death toll highest ever recorded in N.J.
By Star-Ledger Editorial Board
There are 23,000 kids who play high school football in New Jersey. About 2,800 of them were prescribed opioids for pain last season.
Or look at any of the basketball teams playing in the group sectionals Saturday: Odds are that one player from each school has popped a Percocet in the past year.
The chief medical advisor for the NJSIAA, which governs scholastic sports, calls it "absolutely alarming." If 12 percent of male athletes and 9 percent of female athletes are still using these addictive drugs – as federal data indicates — it's time to remind everyone why they must be kept out of the game under ordinary medical circumstances.
"As a primary care sports physician, I would have no reason to prescribe these drugs," says Dr. Jack Kripsak. "Maybe for post-operative treatment, you'd need pain medication for a few days. But the best orthopedic surgeons have successfully changed the way they manage post-operative pain. And they are spreading the word."
The NJSIAA is doing its part, teaming with NJ CARES – the drug policy arm of our Attorney General's office – on an initiative that adds another layer to anti-addiction strategies. They are producing a video on injury treatment and the danger of prescription pain medicine, and it will be mandatory viewing for student-athletes and their parents next fall.
In a state that suffers an agonizing eight drug overdose fatalities each day, every piece helps.
Kripsak has other smart ideas to enhance awareness, which should be considered in each district: He'd like to see opioid education added to the curriculum, perhaps in health class. "If they talk about drunk driving and recreational drugs," he says, "this is certainly something that needs more emphasis."
And every coach and trainer "should get their teams together when the season starts to discuss pain treatment," he suggests, "if only to remind them that these meds can mess them up for the rest of their lives."
The NJSIAA should be applauded for its bold safety initiatives of late, notably the restrictions it has applied to football practice contact, which should greatly reduce concussions or related brain trauma.
But athletes still must be encouraged to speak up about pain, coaches should be part of injury-prevention strategies, and parents need to be better informed about safety. Let's make this a team effort.
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As we get closer to the launch of Nvidia's GTX 1660/1660 Ti video cards, which is rumored to happen in February, we keep finding interesting details about the cards on the internet. The first rumours about new GTX branded graphics cards surfaced last month and by the end of January it was clear that these are not just rumours and the launches will be happening soon.
Now we are near the point where the board partners are all set to stock up and everyone is only waiting for Nvidia to make an official announcement and give the green signal. As first spotted by Video Cardz, a few Russian retailers have already listed the GTX 1660 and 1660 Ti graphics cards by some board partners, namely MSI and Palit.
The MSI board partner listings for the GTX 1660 Ti found are the MSI GTX 1660 Ti GAMING X and MSI GTX 1660 Ti ARMOR OC.
A few designs from Palit have also been found listed, GTX 1660 Ti Storm X, Storm X OC with compact single-fan design and a dual-fan GTX 1660 Ti Gaming Pro card.
The interesting thing to note here is that the retailer who listed the Palit video cards has also mentioned the price for the GTX 1660 Ti cards. The Russian price tag on these cards translates to about $400. Although the US pricing is a little lower when compared to global prices, even then this price simply does not seem fair for the value offered by this graphics card. Considering that the RTX 2060 is already available for $350, the GTX 1660 Ti without Ray-Tracing and other RTX features at $400 doesn't make sense.
The official announcement for the GTX 1660/1660 Ti by Nvidia is rumored to happen anytime soon, so it's best advised to wait until the official US pricing is revealed before making any purchasing decisions.


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Freddie Gibbs Admits Tensions Rose W/ Young Jeezy: "I Was Wasting Time" [Audio]
S. Samuel February 11, 2013
Indiana rapper Freddie Gibbs has stepped up to provide more clarity over his exit from Young Jeezy's Corporate Thugz Entertainment record label late last year.
According to Gibbs, he did not share the same vision as the "Snowman" which ultimately led to their split.
"I can't really say it was amicable. I could just say that we agreed to disagree. We definitely disagreed. The guy moves in a different way that I move, and I just wanted to branch out and do my own thing. I felt like I was wasting time pushing someone else's brand when I could push my own and do my own thing. Because that's was what he was concerned with, pushing Jeezy. So I gotta be concerned with pushing Gibbs." ("The Morning Riot")
Jeezy confirmed Freddie's exit in mid-December despite handfuls of collaborations together.
"Freddie is a talented artist and I decided that it's time to press reset on my career and business ventures," said Jeezy in a statement. "I have no doubt that Freddie will go on to be everything I believe he can be, and I wish him the best in his career." (Rap-Up)
Prior to YJ's comments, Gibbs stepped up to announce his unexpected departure.
"It was a mutual decision," Gibbs revealed in an interview. "It was a number of things [that made me leave], but like I said, at the end of the day it was a good decision for myself and my family. It wasn't nothing against him or none of that. It's just moves that I had to make, personally, and business-wise. Like I said, it's all love — I got a lot going on so it's all good. … I got a new deal in the works, so everything's good for me. As long as nobody diss me, there ain't no diss record coming. As long as I ain't disrespected and I don't feel disrespected in no way, then it's all good." ("The Breakfast Club")
Weeks later, hip-hop artist Scrilla followed in Fred's footsteps by leaving Jeezy's camp.
"I want to take the time to say its been a learning experience working with CTE. no hard feelings but its time for me to do me," he tweeted December 31st. (Scrilla's Twitter)
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In Southwest, a star rises over the high desert
By Abraham McLaughlin Staff writer of The Christian Science Monitor
August 24, 2001 | ALBUQUERQUE, N.M.
Albuquerque has long been the kind of city people tend to blow right by - or blow off completely.
Thousands of tourists flock to its airport every year - only to trundle up to Santa Fe.
Bill Gates founded Microsoft here, but fled before his company hit the big time.
Even Bugs Bunny took a wrong turn here and ended up in the middle of a Mexican bull fight. "I knew I shoulda took that left turn at Albuquerque," he laments.
But things are changing. Increasingly, folks who come tend to like it - and stay.
Albuquerque is one of a handful of smaller Southwest cities whose growing appeal lies in a noticeable lack of smog and long commutes, a low cost of living, and easy access to the great outdoors. Indeed, signs abound that this high-desert jewel is finally finding its luster.
• Its $300 million downtown revitalization effort - the 32nd resurrection plan begun over the years - may actually succeed.
• Its long-stagnant housing prices are on the upswing - along with new worries about sprawl.
• After a decade of high-tech growth spurred by firms like Intel, it's showing up on high-tech A-lists. Along with Santa Fe, for instance, it's on Wired Magazine's list of the world's 46 hottest high-tech regions.
After years of studying Albuquerque's lackluster economy, Larry Waldman is pleasantly surprised at its relative strength: "Albuquerque is growing a lot stronger than we anticipated," says the senior economist at the University of New Mexico's Bureau of Business and Economic Research here. "Downtown is the big thing. There's quite a bit of money down there and a lot of support for the revitalization." He adds, "the housing market has been surprisingly strong."
But the story of a rising Albuquerque is told mostly in the lives of folks who live here - especially the newcomers who largely account for a population leap of 123,000 (a 21 percent jump) in the '90s.
Take Brandi Sanders. She's a corporate executive for Gap Inc., the clothing giant that recently transferred much of its financial operation to Albuquerque.
She moved from the San Francisco Bay Area, where her family of four at one time lived in an 800-square-foot house. Now they have a 2,500-square-foot home overlooking the Sandia Mountains. It was cheap enough that they could afford to send her husband back to school.
"I sit out on my deck in the mornings and look out over the mountains and our large house and think, 'Life is good,' " Ms. Sanders exults.
Albuquerque's average single-family home sold for $130,400 in 2000. By contrast, San Francisco's price was $454,600, and Denver's was $196,800. Other small Southwest cities compare at $120,500 for Tucson, Ariz., and $154,100 for Colorado Springs, Colo.
The average one-bedroom apartment in Albuquerque, meanwhile, goes for $516 a month. But in the past year, apartment rents have gone up 7.5 percent, according to one estimate.
For Ms. Sanders, the small-town touches also count. When the family first moved in, a neighbor brought over a basket of peaches grown in his yard. Every week there's a "flamingo party" - a rotating block party where the hosts put a pink flamingo on their lawn and invite the neighborhood over.
There are troubles, too, in this river city (which straddles the Rio Grande). A recent ranking by Morgan Quitno Press named New Mexico as the most dangerous state in the nation - and Albuquerque as the 49th most dangerous city. As in most cities, though, the crime rate has fallen.
New Mexico public schools also have one of the lowest per-pupil spending rates in the nation. And economic growth is slowing. One thing may help, though: Albuquerque is home to the US government's Sandia National Labs and several military installations. They account for one-fourth of the local economy, making the city less vulnerable to business-cycle swings.
Frank Bellino, whose slicked-back gray hair frames Sinatra eyes, hopes downtown Albuquerque is on the upswing for good. The owner of Sweet Peppers, a Chicago-style deli, boasts, "I make all the food myself." As Mr. Bellino flips through photos of him hand-kneading 200 pounds of sausage, Frank Sinatra croons over the stereo and Chicago's skyline glints out from wall posters. He moved here 13 years ago, choosing it because "Texas was too Texas, and Arizona was too hot." (Albuquerque, at an altitude of 5,000 feet, seldom has more than 10 days a year over 100 degrees.)
Bellino has seen many downtown-rehab efforts, but this time, he says, signs look good. He likes the new street lights and refurbished curbs. A gallery is opening in the empty space next door. There's the hot new sushi restaurant, Raw, and a 14-theater cinema that's part of a one-square-block construction project. "We're waiting to see if it all comes together," he says. "The traffic is great, the weather is great, but we'd just like to make a little more money."
For Nancy Morgan, Albuquerque is all about the outdoors. "I'd never done anything active," says the University of New Mexico researcher. Then she moved to this Mecca for runners (who like the altitude and weather) and skiers (who make good use of 10,378-foot Sandia Peak).
Ms. Morgan figured she could walk a 5-kilometer race. Next came a 10K walk, then a half-marathon that finished downtown. She knew she was hooked on walking - and on Albuquerque - when she came around the final corner and realized she was dead last. But a crowd was still there, cheering her on. The Roadrunners club encouraged her to join - even though she's a walker. "I'm just surprised," she says, "how supportive people are here."
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This might be tough. For the next few minutes of your life, or however long it takes you to finish reading this column, I'm going to request that you refrain from thinking about the addictive madness across the border and focus instead on an event that occurred not so long ago in our own slightly less engrossing political landscape: the 2015 Canadian federal election.
Samara collected information online from 2030 Canadian citizens in 10 provinces across the country, in the weeks after the election. The survey brings to light something far more engrossing, in my view, than simply Justin's hair or life on the job: namely, the stark difference in the way older and younger Canadians talk about voting.
It's fairly common knowledge, for instance, that the 2015 federal election reversed a 20-year decline in voter turnout — which jumped to 68 per cent in 2015 from 61 per cent in 2011. But according to the Samara study, it wasn't famously politically engaged older Canadian voters (a.k.a. baby boomers) who talked most amongst themselves about their voting experiences, but in fact the youngest voting demographic, Canadians aged 18 to 29. The difference was almost double: "53 per cent of young Canadians (reported) talking about their voting experience with people they knew, while only 33 per cent of Canadians aged 56 or older did." I.e., older people didn't talk a lot about voting, while a majority of younger people did.
Well, of course, you might say, that's the answer right there: A "shared social experience." Younger people have far more technological tools they use to talk to each other these days: Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat etc., whereas the 55-plus demo tends to rely on voice-to-voice and face-to-face communication.
Except you'd be wrong. It turns out that the majority of younger voters talked about their experience at the ballot box not on social media at all, but in person or on the phone. Conversely, only 13 per cent of younger voters posted about their experience on Facebook, and only 12 per cent did so via text message.
Not only does this finding fly in the face of the rampant popular stereotype that young people are hyper-connected zombies incapable of carrying on a real-life conversation to save their lives; it flies in the face of the stereotype that they are apathetic.
In fact, Samara's research indicates that millennials are more likely than older Canadians to discuss politics in polite conversation.
Why then, don't politicians seem to want to discuss politics with millennials?
According to Samara, only 52 per cent of younger voters reported that political parties contacted them, compared with 82 per cent in the older cohort (56-plus).
Part of the explanation for the difference has to do with landlines: older people have them and younger people tend not to. Consequently, when parties try to reach younger people through traditional channels — which include not just campaign flyers, but cold phone calls — they connect less frequently. But Jane Hilderman, Samara's executive director, explains that cynicism is at play as well: parties often assume young people won't vote in large numbers and aren't worth mobilizing as a result.
But, she says, "Given the dramatic jump in turnout (in the last election), I think the calculus is shifting." In other words, young people may be worth it after all.
And political parties, fuelled by a combination of cynicism and ignorance, may be doing themselves a large disservice when they choose not to engage with a demographic that isn't merely interested in politics, but actually welcomes direct communication from policy-makers.
And while you're at it, please, please, stop sending those campaign flyers in the mail. No one in the history of time, baby boomer or millennial, has ever read them. And no one ever will.
Emma Teitel is a national affairs columnist.


The heat of summer is a tough time for sports radio, but the Astros' recent success and the addition of "Hard Knocks" to the year-round Texans agenda have contributed to some noteworthy ebbs and flows this year.
Accordingly, here's the monthly rundown on the Nielsen Audio ratings for Houston sports radio, this time covering the period June 18-July 15.
KBME continues to lead in morning drive (6-10 a.m.), but KILT narrowed the gap considerably as football talk and Texans programming began to pick up.
KILT still leads in middays (10 a.m.-3 p.m.), and KFNC (97.5 FM), despite the personnel changeovers on the ESPN national radio shows, pulled into second.
KILT still leads in afternoon drive time (3-7 p.m.), and numbers are starting to inch back up as football approaches.
The Astros continue to give KBME a significant boost from 7 p.m. until midnight weekdays.
Let's now turn to show-by-show comparisons.
Turning to the Houston radio market in general, KODA (99.1 FM) was the top station in June among persons 12-plus with a 7.8 percent audience share from 6 a.m. to midnight Monday through Sunday. Rounding out the top five were KKBQ (92.9 FM) at 6.3, KLTN (102.9 FM) at 6.2, KMJQ (102.1 FM) at 5.9 and KGLK (107.5/106.9 FM) at 5.6, all in the same order as June.
Among sports stations, for comparison purposes, KBME and KILT were at 1.3, KFNC at 0.7 and KGOW at 0.1 for the month.
KLTN led in morning drive among persons 12-plus at 9.6, KODA in middays at 9.9, KODA in afternoon drive at 7.8 and KMJQ at night at 6.8.
In adults 18-plus, it was KODA for the week at 8.0, KLTN in morning drive at 9.7, KODA in middays at 10.1, KODA in afternoon drive at 8.0 and KMJQ at night at 8.3.
Leaders in adults 18-49 were KODA at 7.6 for the week, KLTN in morning drive at 12.3, KKBQ in middays at 9.6, KODA in afternoon drive at 7.5 and KBXX (97.9 FM) evenings at 9.1.
Adults 25-54 leaders were KLTN for the week at 7.4, KLTN in morning drive at 11.8, KODA in middays at 9.1, KODA in afternoon drive at 7.4 and KMJQ at night at 7.9.
Ending where we started with men 25-54, for comparison purposes with the sports stations, KLTN leads for the week at 9.2. KLTN tops morning drive at 13.9, middays at 10.4 and afternoon drive at 7.9. KLOL (101.1 FM) leads evenings at 5.8.


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Culture > Games > Video games > Video game characters > Sonic the Hedgehog characters > Amy Rose
Age 12 (Born 3225)
Place of birth Mercia, Mobius
Fur color Pink
Amy Rose] (2D)
Amy Rose, previously known as Rosy the Rascal, is a pink hedgehog from the Sonic the Hedgehog video games released by Sega. She has chased Sonic for over a decade and has been trying to gain his heart in everything from animated TV shows to comics and games. Like Sonic and Tails, she has her own sidekick, Cream the Rabbit
1.1 Original appearance
1.2 Game Appearances
1.3 Sonic X
1.4 Archie Comics
2.1 Sonic
3 Friendships
3.1 Cream
3.2 Tails
3.3 Knuckles
4 Voice actors
Original appearance[edit]
Amy first appeared in the Sonic the Hedgehog manga published in 1992, as the girlfriend of Sonic, in a design very similar to Nintendo's Princess Peach. After that appearance, Sega took the character, and Kazayuki Hoshino redesigned her for Sonic CD in 1993.
Game Appearances[edit]
In her first game appearance, Sonic CD (1993), Amy was introduced and kidnapped by Metal Sonic, but was rescued when Sonic challenged him to a race to save her.
Amy has also appeared in most of the other Sonic games, such as Sonic Drift, Sonic Drift 2, Sonic the Fighters, Sonic R, Sonic Adventure, Sonic Shuffle, Sonic Adventure 2, Sonic Advance, Sonic Advance 2, Sonic Advance 3, Sonic Heroes, Shadow the Hedgehog and Sonic Riders.
Sonic X[edit]
Amy is one of the main characters in Sonic X, an anime series which is the latest of the Sonic the Hedgehog cartoons. In Sonic X, Amy is Sonic's self proclaimed girlfriend, although her long-term goal is to get him to notice her. Despite his annoyance at her antics, Sonic's feelings are still unclear about her. In some translations, he has given her flowers to tell her he loves her. Amy also has her Piko Piko Hammer which she uses multiple times during Sonic X. The "Piko Piko Hammer" was used in "Cruise Blues" after Sonic tried to use Amy in order to get off the ship. The Piko Piko Hammer is however mainly used to attack Eggman's machines.
Archie Comics[edit]
In the Archie Comics, Amy is the youngest member of the Freedom Fighters, and has a crush on Sonic that he tends to ignore. Amy is the cousin of Rob O' the Hedge (a thinly veiled homage to Robin Hood), who sends her to live with Sonic, where she falls head over heels for Sonic, but remains distant out of respect for Sally Acorn.
Sonic[edit]
The love of Amy's life is Sonic the Hedgehog. Ever since Sonic rescued her in Sonic CD, she has fallen in love with him and been trying to win his heart. Only in the Sonic manga is it clear that she's succeeded in this, because it states she was his girlfriend. [1]
Friendships[edit]
Cream[edit]
Cream has been Amy's sidekick practically every time they appear together. They first teamed up in Sonic Advance 3 as Team Jubilee and played a largely equivalent role to Sonic and Tails' Unbreakable Bond. This has been backed up by their friendship in Sonic X. They also seem be together in many other games, like Sonic Heroes, Sonic Battle, and Shadow the Hedgehog.
Tails[edit]
Miles Tails Prower (Tails) is known to be a younger brother figure towards Amy. They work good together and make a strong team. Tails normally enjoys Amy, except for when she's chasing Sonic.
Knuckles[edit]
Knuckles and Amy Rose tend to have a brother/sister relationship. The two don't always get along in the anime (Sonic X) but both Knuckles and Amy know when to stop fighting and work together.
Voice actors[edit]
Lynn Harris Hynden Walch Jennifer Douillard Lisa Ortiz Cindy Robinson Tabitha St. Germain
↑ Sega.com, Amy's Profile at Sonic Central. URL Accessed March 23, 2006
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The Cave Spring City Council will meet Tuesday to open construction bids on a massive rehabilitation of the city's failing sewer system.
About 60 properties around the county are under review as potential industrial sites that could be purchased with special purpose, local option sales tax funds.
There's a new king of the herd roaming Alan Bowles' pastures not too far off the Coosa River west of Rome.
Cool, breezy weather greeted dozens of Rome residents who gathered outside the Rome City Auditorium Friday for a symbolic walk.
During the most recent evaluation of the church's vision, First Baptist Church of Rome decided to focus on three main community outreach priorities in the coming years: poverty, child abuse and addiction.
WellStar Health System announced a partnership Friday with Northwest Georgia Oncology Centers to enhance community-based cancer care in the northwest Atlanta suburbs.
The PruittHealth-Rome facility adjacent to the Mount Berry Mall property is planning a major addition.
Bishop Nealon Guthrie said more than 400 children are expected Saturday at the community Easter egg hunt set for noon Saturday at Coosa Valley Fairgrounds.
Floyd County commissioners agreed Wednesday to move forward with plans to call a TSPLOST vote this year.
After 16 years of being located between SunTrust Bank and Owen's Hardware on Second Avenue, the Boy Scouts of America have moved to Ansley Park on North Fifth Avenue, where their new headquarters will serve the seven counties in the Northwest Georgia Council.
Rome's Historic Preservation Commission gave the green light to three projects in the downtown historic Between the Rivers District Wednesday. Modifications to a pair of commercial buildings were approved along with an addition to a residential property.
School officials are currently wrapping up the planning phase for Pepperell Middle School as the day to move out and tear down the old building draws closer.
Crews are finishing up the overlay on the secondary runway at Richard B. Russell Regional Airport, and it's expected to reopen Thursday.
The former manager of sweetFrog and youth minister at a Gordon County church was sentenced to serve eight years in prison and 17 years probation Tuesday afternoon following his guilty plea to three charges of sexual misconduct with a minor online.
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Rome-Floyd Parks and Recreation has released its summer guide of events and activities, and registration is now open.
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Floyd County Commissioners will hold a one day planning session Wednesday at FM Global Emergency Response Consultants on Morton Bend Road in Coosa.
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It's been half a century for some Vietnam War-era troops, but age could not weaken the strength of their snappy salutes to the American flag Saturday. Veterans of that war got long overdue recognition and a big "thank you" Saturday in Rome.
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Globally, millions of people like Alika face a challenging path to recovery. But a group of researchers from the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience at King's College London and King's College Hospital, hope the immersive quality of virtual reality could improve traditional treatments by helping those with mental health issues learn to deal with their distress in a safe environment.
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Police to search for remains of Jimmy Hoffa under driveway in Roseville
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Police will be taking soil core samples at a home in Roseville on Friday in search of the remains of missing Teamsters boss Jimmy Hoffa, whose 1975 disappearance sparked one of the 20th century's biggest mysteries.
"We received information from an individual who saw something," Roseville Police Chief James Berlin told the Free Press. "The information seemed credible, so we decided to follow up on it."
Berlin wouldn't say who provided the tip — one of hundreds authorities have pursued in the years since Hoffa vanished from a restaurant parking lot in Oakland County.
But he said the state's Department of Environmental Quality used ground scanning radar last Friday to check out a spot under the driveway and found "an anomaly" that prompted authorities to make plans to return to the site Friday to take a soil sample.
Berlin said it would be sent to a forensic anthropologist at Michigan State University to check for human remains.
"We do not know if this is Jimmy," Berlin said.
The tipster told police Hoffa's body may have been buried under the driveway of the home in the 18700 block of Florida, a residential neighborhood northwest of 12 Mile and Gratiot.
Berlin said the informant "thought it was Jimmy because the same time this happened was the same time Jimmy disappeared," Berlin said.
Berlin said he planned to contact the FBI, which has spearheaded the three-decades-old murder investigation.
"We believe he saw something," Berlin said of the informant. "Whatever he saw was suspicious."
Hoffa, 62, disappeared on the afternoon of July 30, 1975, from the parking lot of what then was the Machus Red Fox restaurant in Bloomfield Township.
He had gone there for a reconciliation meeting with Anthony (Tony Pro) Provenzano, a mob-connected New Jersey Teamster official, and Anthony (Tony Jack) Giacalone, a Detroit mafia captain.
The FBI theorized that Provenzano and Giacalone had Hoffa killed to prevent him from regaining the Teamsters presidency and ending the mob's influence over the union and easy access to Teamster pension funds.
Hoffa had run the union from 1957-71.
At the time of his disappearance, Hoffa had served nearly five years of an 8- to 13-year prison sentence for fraud, conspiracy and jury tampering. Then-President Richard Nixon had commuted Hoffa's sentence in late 1971 on condition that he stay out of union activities until 1980. Hoffa was in the process of challenging the condition.
The FBI theorized that Hoffa climbed into a car driven by Hoffa's long-time protégé, Charles (Chuckie) O'Brien, and was driven a short distance where he was killed. Authorities believed Hoffa's body was shredded or incinerated.
Despite thousands of tips, authorities never found Hoffa's body, and no one has been charged in his disappearance.
A woman who answered the phone at the Roseville home says she is "fully aware of what's going on," but she said she didn't want to be interviewed at this point. She referred questions to the Roseville Police department.
Police said the homeowner, who has owned the house for 10 to 15 years, has been helpful and cooperative.
Daughter not hopeful
Hoffa's daughter, Barbara Crancer, a retired St. Louis administrative judge, said she doesn't hold out much hope the search will produce her father's body or solve the mystery of his disappearance.
"I don't put much credence into it," she said this afternoon. "I don't think the case will ever be solved. Too many people are dead and gone. I believe there are people out there who know what happened, but they're not talking."
"After so many false turns, I'll be surprised if anything comes of it. But as his daughter, I would like to have a body to bury."
Dan Moldea, a Washington, D.C., author who wrote a 1978 book — "The Hoffa Wars" — about Hoffa's disappearance, said he's crossing his fingers.
"After all these years, I have come to believe that the final solution to this case will come very suddenly out of left field from someone who has had no connection to the actual murder. For that reason, I always treat these tipsters with respect. One of these days, one of them might be right."
The Teamsters union in Washington, D.C., said it would have no comment.
The Detroit FBI field office had no comment.
Word spreads
Reporters and TV live trucks have been congregating at the house, lining Kelly near Florida, as word got out of the Hoffa search. Two police cars also are guarding the area.
Some neighbors are outside talking about the news, describing their reactions as surprise.
"When I heard that, I couldn't believe it," said Sue Fero-Hutton, 66. "After all these years."
She said she doesn't think there's any truth to it and has lived in her home near the area in question since 1994.
Fero-Hutton said her father knew Hoffa personally because her father was a union representative.
"When I heard the rumor about Jimmy Hoffa, I said I wish my dad was alive so I could talk to him about it," she said.
Other neighbors said they'll wait and see what is found.
"Every couple of years, they seem to look for him. I'm sure his family probably wants the mystery solved," said Cindy Kacir, 52, who lives across the street from the home.
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Marin Unemployment Remains Lowest In State In November
Marin County's unemployment rate was the lowest in the state for 13 straight months in November, continuing a gradual recovery after the pandemic stalled almost two years ago.
The county's unemployment rate was 2.9%, up from 3.4% in October, according to data released Friday by the California Department of Employment Development.
"For Marin County, this is a fairly stable period and a classic recovery," said Robert Euler, chief economist at the Marin Economic Forum.
Statewide, the unemployment rate fell to 5.4%, while the US unemployment rate fell to 4.2% in November.
Marine's rate is approaching pre-pandemic levels, just half a percent below its 2.3% rate in November 2019.
The second and third places in the state were in San Mateo – 3.1% and Santa Clara – 3.2%. Marin is usually among the top three counties with the lowest unemployment rates. The rate is calculated based on Marina residents who generally have better paying jobs that allow them to afford high housing prices and who have not been affected by the pandemic.
Compared to the labor market volatility at the start of the pandemic, Marin is returning to his typical seasonal changes, according to government research data scientist Jorge Villalobos.
"For the most part, it was on a seasonal schedule," Villalobos said.
But while the unemployment rate is improving, the actual number of jobs in the district is still well below the level that existed before the pandemic. About 6,100 jobs were created between November 2020 and November 2021. However, this is 6,100 fewer jobs than existed in November 2019, with about 3,600, or 59%, of these jobs in retail, hospitality and other service sectors such as salons, according to data from Villalobos.
These industries were hit hardest during the pandemic and it is unclear if they will return to pre-pandemic levels anytime soon.
"If house prices, including rents, continue to be relatively high, then some sectors will simply struggle to retain local workers based on wage profiles," Euler said. "So we should expect this to continue, especially in the leisure and hospitality industry, because we just don't know how many people will come from outside where you need to re-hire to pre-pandemic levels."
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The same goes for jobs across the state. The governor's office said that 1.9 million jobs were restored in California, or about 70%, of the 2.7 million jobs lost in March and April 2020, or about 70%.
"While the state continues a robust recovery, which created almost 22 percent of the nation's jobs in November and saw the largest drop in unemployment since February, there is still more work to be done to get people back to work and support those who most affected by the pandemic, "Governor Gavin Newsom said in a statement.
Economists are watching the reaction to the omicron variant of the coronavirus, which Euler said could affect the willingness of employers to start hiring and shareholders to retain their stakes in the company.
According to Euler, local government jobs have also fallen by 10%, compared with about 4.5% in the state government. While a recession typically affects government revenues through cuts in property taxes, income taxes, and sales taxes, these factors are not considered to play a role in the cuts in government jobs. Instead, according to Euler, early retirement is a major factor.
Meanwhile, other industries such as construction, manufacturing, transportation, professional business, accounting and consulting have returned to pre-pandemic levels or even surpassed in some cases, said Marin Economic Forum chief economist Robert Euler.
Unemployment data
Unemployment rate in November 2021:
Marin County: 2.9%Statewide: 5.4%US: 4.2%
Corte madera: 4.3%Fairfax: 2.4%Inverness: 4.5%Larkspur: 2.1%Mill Valley: 1.8%Novato: 3%Point Reyes Station: 0%San Anselmo: 3.6%San Rafael: 2.6%Sausalito: 2.3%Tamalpais Homestead Valley: 2.5%Tomales: 0%
Source: California Department of Employment Development.
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Q: Animated gif with varying frame rates loading incorrectly using Java I think I've just pinpointed the problem, but I'm still not sure what to do about it.
I've created various animated gifs using Photoshop and I wanted to display them in my java application. Using ImageIcon, some of them display as they should. Those are the ones with frames that have the same frame rate (such as each frame is 1 second long). However, the gifs that have varying frame rates (ex. one frame is 1 second, the other is .5 seconds, the next is .2) doesn't seem to be showing correctly. Once the gif reaches the frames that vary in seconds the image messes up. Some examples include the background briefly changing color and half of the image disappearing, or most of the image disappearing with the gif still animating.
I'm having a difficult time articulating, but do I need to use something else other than ImageIcon to correctly load the gif with varying frame rates? Like something with BufferedImage?
Edit: Added complete code below. Again, it works for the image with equal frame rates, but not for one with varying frame rates.
here is the image that works fine

and here is the image that messes up

import java.awt.*;

import javax.swing.ImageIcon;
import javax.swing.JComponent;
import javax.swing.JLabel;
import javax.swing.JPanel;
import javax.swing.JWindow;

public class Creature extends JWindow {
    public void initCreature() {

        JPanel contentPane = (JPanel) getContentPane();
        ImageIcon idleImage = new ImageIcon(getClass().getResource("img.gif"));

        // Set window properties
        getRootPane().putClientProperty("Window.shadow", false);
        setBackground(new Color(0,0,0,0));
        setAlwaysOnTop(true);
        contentPane.setOpaque(false);

        // Get size of user's screen
        GraphicsEnvironment ge = GraphicsEnvironment.getLocalGraphicsEnvironment();
        GraphicsDevice defaultScreen = ge.getDefaultScreenDevice();
        Rectangle screen = defaultScreen.getDefaultConfiguration().getBounds();
        int taskbarheight = (int) (Toolkit.getDefaultToolkit().getScreenSize().height
        - GraphicsEnvironment.getLocalGraphicsEnvironment().getMaximumWindowBounds().getHeight());

        int x = (int) screen.getMaxX() - idleImage.getIconWidth();
        int y = (int) screen.getMaxY() - idleImage.getIconHeight() - taskbarheight;

        JLabel imageLabel = new JLabel(idleImage);
        setSize(idleImage.getIconWidth(), idleImage.getIconHeight());
        contentPane.add(imageLabel);
        setLocation(x, y);
        setVisible(true);
    }

    public static void main(String[] args) {

        EventQueue.invokeLater(new Runnable() {
            public void run() {
                Creature cr = new Creature();
                cr.initCreature();
            }
        });

    }
}

A: The frame rates seem the same in both versions (one seen in a browser, the other in a JLabel). The actual problem is that the rendering in Java becomes 'clipped' in the areas of the animation that do not change.
At a guess I'd say the problem is that PhotoShop is using an advanced encoding to ensure that only the parts of the frame that change, are updated.  Note that although Java supports a particular file type like GIF, PNG or JPEG, does not mean it correctly understands every encoding type for each file type.
A simpler image that, for every change, changes the entire frame should work better, but also be larger in bytes.  In fact, you can see that working in the other image.  Because the little dragon is hunching down then rising back up, all parts of the visible image need to change, so the animation of that cannot be optimized in the same way as the first image can.

A: The imageLabel doesn't know to repaint when the GIF's frame changes.  You need to tell the ImageIcon to notify the JLabel of frame changes, by passing the JLabel to setImageObserver:
idleImage.setImageObserver(imageLabel);

From that method's documentation:

Set this property if the ImageIcon contains an animated GIF, so the observer is notified to update its display.


Nov. 22, 2018 12:27 PM PT1:27 PM MT2:27 PM CT3:27 PM ET20:27 GMT4:27 1:27 PM MST2:27 PM CST3:27 PM EST2:27 PM CT0:27 UAE (+1)15:27 ETNaN:� - Collins missed practice Friday and Wednesday this week with a foot injury, but he did practice on Thursday. Proceed with caution.
Analysis: Collins may be able to return after missing last week's game against Oakland with the injury, though he looks to have been bypassed by undrafted rookie Gus Edwards on the depth chart. Edwards rushed for 115 yards and a touchdown against Cincinnati in Week 11 and ran for 118 yards last week.
Nov. 18, 2018 12:46 PM PT1:46 PM MT2:46 PM CT3:46 PM ET20:46 GMT4:46 1:46 PM MST2:46 PM CST3:46 PM EST2:46 PM CT0:46 UAE (+1)15:46 ETNaN:� - Alex Collins ran for 18 yards and one touchdown on seven carries Sunday in the Baltimore Ravens' 24-21 win over the Cincinnati Bengals.
Nov. 4, 2018 2:16 PM PT3:16 PM MT4:16 PM CT5:16 PM ET22:16 GMT6:16 3:16 PM MST4:16 PM CST5:16 PM EST4:16 PM CT2:16 UAE (+1)17:16 ETNaN:� - Alex Collins ran for 35 yards and one touchdown on nine carries Sunday in the Baltimore Ravens' 23-16 loss to the Pittsburgh Steelers. He added one reception for four yards.
Oct. 31, 2018 1:35 PM PT2:35 PM MT3:35 PM CT4:35 PM ET20:35 GMT4:35 1:35 PM MST2:35 PM CST3:35 PM EST2:35 PM CT0:35 UAE (+1)16:35 ETNaN:� - Collins (foot) is active for Week 9 after returning to practice Friday.
Analysis: He's still the Ravens' best bet for fantasy production out of the running back position, though that could change depending how Baltimore deploys the just-acquired Ty Montgomery.
Oct. 28, 2018 1:10 PM PT2:10 PM MT3:10 PM CT4:10 PM ET20:10 GMT4:10 1:10 PM MST2:10 PM CST3:10 PM EST2:10 PM CT0:10 UAE (+1)16:10 ETNaN:� - Alex Collins ran for 49 yards and one touchdown on 11 carries Sunday in the Baltimore Ravens' 36-21 loss to the Carolina Panthers. He added two receptions for 14 yards and fumbled once.
Oct. 21, 2018 3:36 PM PT4:36 PM MT5:36 PM CT6:36 PM ET22:36 GMT6:36 3:36 PM MST4:36 PM CST5:36 PM EST5:36 PM CT2:36 UAE (+1)18:36 ETNaN:� - Alex Collins ran for 38 yards on 11 carries Sunday in the Baltimore Ravens' 24-23 loss to the New Orleans Saints. He added three receptions for 10 yards.
Oct. 14, 2018 3:51 PM PT4:51 PM MT5:51 PM CT6:51 PM ET22:51 GMT6:51 3:51 PM MST4:51 PM CST5:51 PM EST5:51 PM CT2:51 UAE (+1)18:51 ETNaN:� - Alex Collins ran for 54 yards and two touchdowns on 19 carries Sunday in the Baltimore Ravens' 21-0 win over the Tennessee Titans.
Oct. 7, 2018 1:48 PM PT2:48 PM MT3:48 PM CT4:48 PM ET20:48 GMT4:48 1:48 PM MST2:48 PM CST3:48 PM EST3:48 PM CT0:48 UAE (+1)16:48 ETNaN:� - Alex Collins ran for 59 yards on 12 carries Sunday in the Baltimore Ravens' 12-9 loss to the Cleveland Browns. He added one reception for seven yards.
Oct. 4, 2018 9:43 AM PT10:43 AM MT11:43 AM CT12:43 PM ET16:43 GMT0:43 9:43 AM MST10:43 AM CST11:43 AM EST11:43 AM CT20:43 UAE12:43 ETNaN:� - Collins returned to practice on Friday after he was a surprising DNP on Thursday.
Analysis: NFL Network reports his Thursday absence as "precautionary." Collins will be ready to go in Sunday's game against the Browns.
Sep. 30, 2018 7:50 PM PT8:50 PM MT9:50 PM CT10:50 PM ET2:50 GMT10:50 7:50 PM MST8:50 PM CST9:50 PM EST9:50 PM CT6:50 UAE (+1)22:50 ETNaN:� - Alex Collins ran for 42 yards on 11 carries Sunday in the Baltimore Ravens' 26-14 win over the Pittsburgh Steelers. He added one reception for three yards and one touchdown, and fumbled once.
Sep. 23, 2018 1:16 PM PT2:16 PM MT3:16 PM CT4:16 PM ET20:16 GMT4:16 1:16 PM MST2:16 PM CST3:16 PM EST3:16 PM CT0:16 UAE (+1)16:16 ETNaN:� - Alex Collins ran for 68 yards and one touchdown on 18 carries Sunday in the Baltimore Ravens' 27-14 win over the Denver Broncos. He added three receptions for six yards.
Sep. 19, 2018 1:51 PM PT2:51 PM MT3:51 PM CT4:51 PM ET20:51 GMT4:51 1:51 PM MST2:51 PM CST3:51 PM EST3:51 PM CT0:51 UAE (+1)16:51 ETNaN:� - Collins is back at practice after sitting out Wednesday's session with an illness.
Analysis: Collins is in no danger of missing Sunday's game against Denver. He remains the Ravens' top running back but is off to a slow start, managing just 48 yards and a touchdown on 16 carries through two games.
Sep. 13, 2018 8:38 PM PT9:38 PM MT10:38 PM CT11:38 PM ET3:38 GMT11:38 8:38 PM MST9:38 PM CST10:38 PM EST10:38 PM CT7:38 UAE (+1)23:38 ETNaN:� - Alex Collins ran for 35 yards on nine carries Thursday in the Baltimore Ravens' 34-23 loss to the Cincinnati Bengals. He added three receptions for 55 yards.
Sep. 9, 2018 1:15 PM PT2:15 PM MT3:15 PM CT4:15 PM ET20:15 GMT4:15 1:15 PM MST2:15 PM CST3:15 PM EST3:15 PM CT0:15 UAE (+1)16:15 ETNaN:� - Alex Collins ran for 13 yards and one touchdown on seven carries Sunday in the Baltimore Ravens' 47-3 win over the Buffalo Bills. He added one reception for six yards and fumbled once.


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Alberta's billion dollar roadways continue to progress
June 10, 2015 By Andrew Macklin
Approximately half of the 240km of the Highway 63 twinning project is to be completed by the end of the 2015 construction season.
As the province of Alberta readied for the 2015 road construction season, they were faced with declining budgets from the economic slowdown caused by the decline in the oil and gas industry. The booming builder of road infrastructure in Canada faced an uncertain future compounded by a change in political direction provincially, and potentially federally, threatening to change spending priorities for infrastructure development.
Amidst the turmoil sits three road construction projects, at varying degrees of completion, with a price tag of over $1 billion. Each of the projects are seen as vital transportation links for easing congestion and providing a stronger flow of goods in and out of major communities.
Anthony Henday Drive
The Anthony Henday Drive will be the first of the province's two multi-billion dollar ring road projects to be completed barring a major catastrophe.
Like its Calgary counterpart, the Edmonton ring road was devised by government officials in the 1970s, with work done to acquire land in the 1980s and 1990s. The first section of the road, the west portion between Yellowhead Trail and Whitemud Drive, was built in the 1990s. The southwest leg followed, completed in October of 2006, although the roadway was not entirely free-flowing until November of 2011. The southeast section of the roadway was then opened in October of 2007, followed by the northern section in November of 2011.
What remains for the Anthony Henday Drive, a roadway that will span 78km upon its completion, is the completion of the northeast section of the roadway. The Northeast Anthony Henday Drive is a 27km stretch of six-and-eight lane divided free-flowing highway that includes seven grade separations, nine service interchanges, two river crossings and 47 bridge structures.
The road represents one of the largest transportation projects ever undertaken by the provincial government, according to Alberta Transportation:
"Provincial spending on Northeast Anthony Henday Drive is projected at $446 million over the next three years, for a total investment of $1.81 billion. This is the single largest highway P3 construction project the province has undertaken. Using a P3 model allows NE Henday to be finished three years earlier than conventional delivery and at a savings of $370 million for taxpayers. Total investment on the Anthony Henday to date is $4.2 billion, including $197 million in federal funding."
With 90 per cent of the Henday already open to traffic, approximately 71km as of the beginning of the 2015 road construction season, the province is hoping that the entire roadway will be completed on schedule in late 2016.
The signing of the historic agreement between the Alberta government and the Tsuu T'ina Nation paved the way for the completion of the 101km Calgary ring road. The agreement, signed in October of 2013, saw Alberta give the Tsuu T'ina over 2,000 hectares of land plus more than $340 million in exchange for the lands needed to complete the desired route for the road.
Planned in the 1970s as a Highway 1 bypass road, the Ring Road provides a solution for circumventing stretches of municipal roadways in order to efficiently get to roadways leading west to Banff, north to Edmonton, east to Medicine Hat, and south to Lethbridge.
Prior to the start of the 2015 road construction season, the northwest, northeast and southeast sections of the ring road have been completed. Those three sections represent approximately 70km of the entire span of the road. The remaining 31km of six-and-eight lane freeway, broken up into southwest and west portions, include 66 bridges, 20 interchanges and two underpasses.
With the expected Land Transfer Agreement (LTA) to move forward this summer, the transfer will trigger a clause in the LTA that requires that this leg (southwest) of the ring road is completed within the next seven years. As a result, construction of the southwest portion of the ring road will begin later this year.
In the budget presented prior to the recent provincial election, the government recommended delaying the start date of the West Calgary Ring Road to 2020-21. The move was made to help Alberta Transportation save $1.4 billion versus the 2014 budget, a move that would save money in the wake of the downturn in the oil and gas sector. The new NDP government has not yet announced formally if that plan will change now that they have taken office.
Officials from Calgary expressed great concern over the decision, forcing the city to change direction on road construction and rehabilitation plans for the next five-to-10 years as a result of the delay, as west-end roads currently taking the bulk of the traffic road were expected to see significant reductions in day-to-day activity. Sacree Trail north of Glenmore Trail and Glenmore Trail west of the city were cited as two roads of immediate concern.
Once the road is complete, the roadway will offer a 101km of free-flow traffic around Calgary. Both the west and southwest leg will be completed using a P3 model. The P3 model has already saved the province approximately $2 billion between both the Calgary and Edmonton ring road projects. The overall cost of the Calgary ring road is expected to be approximately $5 billion
Twinning Highway 63
The 240km twinning of Highway 63 from Grassland (east of Athabasca) north to Fort McMurray will see its most significant progress during the 2015 road construction season. Prior to this year, more than 20 per cent of the twinning work had been completed, but that is expected to rise to approximately 70 per cent by the time winter hits northern Alberta.
The twinning project will double the road capacity of a difficult stretch of highway, allowing for the safer movement of friends and family throughout the oil patch, as well as good and resources in and out of the area.
The twinning has included Alberta's three largest non-P3 transportation contracts, all three of which were awarded in 2013:
$147 million to twin 32 kilometres of Highway 63 between House River and south of Mariana Lake, including three new bridges,
$150 million to build the first phase of the Parson's Creek Highway 63 interchange, and
$130 million to twin 25 kilometres of Highway 63 from south of Horse Creek to north of Hangingstone River.
Scheduled for project completion at the end of the 2016 construction season, Alberta will have spent more than $2 billion on the twinning project, as well as several other improvements to the highway network in the Wood Buffalo region.
Next on the Agenda
One current project, and one forecasted project, are expected to meet the demands for additional highway capacity in areas of demonstrated need.
During the 2015 construction season, the province will begin twinning portions of Highway 19 between Highway 60 and the QEII near the Edmonton International Airport. A 12.3km stretch of twinning with an $80 million price tag, this piece is integral to helping improve the flows of goods and services, as well as residents and visitors, to and from the airport. Also a point of consideration with the expansion of this section of highway is potential re-alignment issues caused by future plans for an additional runway at the airport.
Also in 2015, Alberta Transportation takes a step forward in planning, what could be, the next massive road construction project to move forward. Over the next two years, $6 million will be spent to study the six-lane QEII corridor from Calgary to Edmonton in order to devise a plan for how to address the increased volume forecasted for that route.
Regardless of the outcome of that study, Alberta will continue to provide the funding needed to ensure that the province has the necessary transportation infrastructure for the safe and secure passage of people and goods, as they have demonstrated with the multi-billion dollar projects now close to completion.
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After shooting off several letters to Chief Minister Mulayam Singh Yadav the board has now veered round to the view that the government was against issuing fresh notification clubbing the two cases for political reasons.
Talking to Hindustan Times on Saturday AIMPLB member Zafaryab Jilani said, "neither the government has so far taken any decision nor there is any assurance on the issue". He said even the CBI during the hearing in the apex court last month had pleaded for a fresh notification for speedy trial in the demolition case. But the State Government counsel remained silent on the issue.
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Q: Creating a table for indexing another table We have a table with 350m rows and 12 columns, and around 1m rows adding everyday. We have crappy hardware and we cannot add an index on one of the 12 columns that we really really need to. (severe lack of use case analysis)
We have tried adding an index on a less busy and less crowded (14m rows) table via percona toolkit , but it didn't work either , failing in 12 hours , due to hardware sloppiness. So we are not gonna try it on the 350m table at all.
I guess the only solution left is creating another table , just for indexing the column on the 350m-row table.
Is this convenient ? is there any other solution you may suggest ?
We have this problem with many tables and a solid solution would make my life easier.


Massively popular search engine Google has been diversifying its interests as of late.
Previously known only for its ability to transfer the user to the most relevant websites in a query, Google expanded into the interactive mainstream last year by purchasing YouTube.com for more than a billion dollars. And if that wasn't enough to show the might of the almighty Goo, the company recently released its own "gadget" web tools, designed to offer Internet services similar to Vista's operating system helpers. Now, it appears major tech company IBM wants to use Google's tools for business use.
According to Larry Bowden, IBM's vice president of portals and web interaction, the gadgets will fuse consumer Internet technology and the company's own business programs. Both companies believe the interaction of these two spheres is the future of working within the tech industry.
The coordinated functionality is meant to open a whole new world for IBM customers. One of the key purposes is to allow for custom storage of names, addresses, and other vital information -- all while using Google's gadgets to do so.
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