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Race, Representation and Youth: Teen 'Zine Scream
February 6, 1993 to May 1, 1993
AIE Programming
San Francisco Conservation Corps Youth In Action Program
March 1, 1993 to May 30, 1993
Lead Teaching Artists: Lukas Felzmann, Susan Leibo...
Dublin Fine Arts Foundation
April 12, 1993 to June 30, 1993
AIE artist: Lukas Felman, Susan Leibovitz-Steinman...
A Celebration Of The Environment Through Art
July 6, 1993 to August 27, 1993
Boulevard Of Dreams
August 17, 1993 to August 28, 1993
Core Productions
June 21, 1994 to August 13, 1994
Drawing Connections
McClymonds High School
Race, Representation, and Youth at Balboa High School
July 31, 1996 to August 24, 1996
Mission Voices
Grito de la Mission: '96 Youth Arts Jam'
Mission Voices: Creating Our Future Out of the Beauty of Our Past
May 1, 1999 to May 31, 1999
G.I.R.L. Project: Giving and Inspiring Responsibility in Life
Mission Voices: "Breaking Boundaries"
October 19, 1999 to May 6, 2000
October 30, 1999 to March 4, 2000
MIssion Voices Summer 2000: On Target
September 1, 2000 to December 17, 2000
October 1, 2000 to December 1, 2000
Race, Representation and Youth: Media Literacy
Mission Voices Summer: Dreaming with Open Eyes
January 1, 2002 to May 31, 2002
Race, Representation and Youth at Thurgood Marshall High School, 2002
May 11, 2002 to June 15, 2002
Hidden Noise/PSA Mix
June 3, 2002 to August 5, 2002
An Artists In Education Program
In Our Own Vision
Mission Voices Summer 2002: Building Ourselves
Grito de la Mission: Building Ourselves
February 22, 2003 to March 29, 2003
Artists In Education Exhibition
Acception: No Exception
June 14, 2003 to June 21, 2003
Fresh Bananza!
Mission Voices Summer 2003: Mission Control
October 21, 2003 to November 11, 2003
High...
Jumble Jungle
April 5, 2004 to April 10, 2004
Week Without Walls: Adventures in Video Art
Mission Voices Summer 2004: Mundo Extrano / Strange World
October 18, 2004 to December 16, 2004
McClymonds High School Young Photographers Program
March 4, 2005 to April 9, 2005
Submersion: A Water-Based Performance Video Workshop
Week Without Walls 2005: Adventures in Video Art
Mission Voices Summer 2005: The Living City Lab
Grito De La Mission: The Living City Lab
Boys and Girls Club: Location: 450 Guerrero
November 21, 2005 to March 4, 2006
Living Walls Mural Project: Fall 2005/Spring 2006 Youth Advisory Board
January 16, 2006 to February 6, 2006
Young Artists from Jewish Vocational Services, Int...
Accumulative Rubbings
Mission Voices Summer 2006
Mission Voices Summer 2006: Rise Up! Levantate!
September 11, 2006 to December 11, 2006
Fall 2006 Youth Advisory Board
Street Works
Nomads & Homesteaders: The Mission & Beyond
January 17, 2007 to May 27, 2007
Southern Exposure, the Columbia Park Boys & Gi...
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Spring 2007 Youth Advisory Board
Encountering San Francisco
Spring 2007 Balboa High School Media Program
Power: Connectivity: A Video Series
M.A.P.S. Metaphors As Possible Solutions
October 10, 2007 to June 2, 2008
Piedro Passacantando & Neeftalí Carreira
Scream Print 1 & 2
Mission Voices Summer 2008: INsight OUT
AIE Program
Education Program at Downtown High School
January 14, 2009 to June 5, 2009
Spring 2009 AIE Program at Downtown High School
Print Shop!
October 28, 2009 to May 26, 2010
2009–2010 AIE Program at Downtown High School
Urban Art Laboratory
September 12, 2010 to May 17, 2011
2010-2011 One-On-One Mentorship Program
January 11, 2011 to December 20, 2011
Southern Exposure at the Oakland and San Francisco...
SoEx and the Beat Within, 2011
The Unreal World: Mission Voices Summer 2011
Southern Exposure Youth Internship Program: Fall 2013 Session
October 1, 2013 to May 26, 2014
Assistant Teaching Artist Karen Zinkofsky in the classroom, YAB Spring 2014. Photo by Catherine McElhone.
Youth Internship Program
July 14, 2014 to August 6, 2014
Photo by Catherine McElhone.
2014–2015 One-On-One Mentorship Program
January 27, 2015 to May 7, 2015
Spring 2016 Community Arts Internship Program
January 26, 2016 to June 28, 2016
Radical Art Theory Nights
February 4, 2016 to April 28, 2016
Spring 2016 Contemporary Classrooms
August 25, 2016 to December 15, 2016
Fall 2016 Community Arts Internship Program
January 9, 2017 to April 28, 2017
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Students who compete in the Great Reading Games are three times more likely to excel in reading frequency and 300% more likely to achieve levels of success that ties directly into their academic, emotional, and social behavior.
Learning Ally, an education technology nonprofit, just announced the winning U.S. schools of the 2018 Great Reading Games.
The Great Reading Games is Learning Ally's signature national reading competition. It is uniquely designed to motivate K-12 struggling and non-readers, such as those with a learning disability, like dyslexia or a visual impairment, to read and learn through human-read audiobooks. As students read books, they get excited about reading. Their reading comprehension, fluency, critical thinking and vocabulary skills improve. Their confidence builds.
This year, more than 22,000 students participated from 1200 U.S. schools nationwide and read more than 7 million pages in just seven weeks.
Also recognized is Logan Township Middle School in NJ winning the small school category created during this year's games. Winning schools, teachers, and students receive prizes, including Chromebooks, gift cards, headphones and school recognition. Winners are being notified.
This competition is popular among U.S. teachers and administrators who are curious about using education gamification to unlock students' full learning potential, especially for students who struggle to read and learn in different ways. As students strive to read the most books, they receive points on a digital leaderboard that encourages them to read more often. They strengthen their reading habits and become grade-level achievers and lifelong learners.
Students, of all ages and abilities, download audiobooks directly to their tablets, computers, smartphones, Chromebooks and other devices to read books daily of their choosing in their classroom and on the go, even if they do not have Internet access.
Scoring is based on how many days each student spends reading 20 minutes or longer, how many pages they read, and how many students are reading in each school.
The Great Reading Games concludes on Friday, March 2, 2018 during Read Across America Day with a student webinar by Aidan Colvin. Aidan is the student author of "Looking for Heroes," a book about his journey with dyslexia and the wisdom he received from 100 famous people with the learning disability. U.S. educators and administrators are encouraged to bring the next Great Reading Games to your school. Call 800.221.1098, and visit LearningAlly.org/Educators. Follow @learning_ally on Twitter and #GRG18.


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In-person open events return for prospective students
Northumberland College is welcoming back visitors to its campuses for the re-launch of its exciting in-person open events. Prospective students will be able to tour the college's state-of-the-art facilities and hear first-hand how the college transforms lives and supports young people and adults to achieve their career ambitions.
The technical, vocational and specialist land-based college will host a number of open events at its campuses at Kirkley Hall, Ashington and Berwick for school leavers and adults interested in studying vocational subjects, apprenticeships or part-time and short courses.
The in-person open events will adhere to strict safety measures in order to keep people safe. Visitors are asked to pre-register online prior to the event for a specific time slot so numbers can be restricted, to only bring one other person with them and to wear a face covering. In addition, there will be a one-way system in operation, social distancing in all areas of the college and rooms will be well-ventilated.
The college had previously been delivering its open events virtually, following the government's lockdown restrictions last year, to ensure that prospective students could continue to plan their future.
Nigel Harrett, Principal of Northumberland College, said:
"We are delighted that our open events are returning to our campuses. Prospective students can once again explore everything the college has to offer and our specialist facilities at our wonderful campuses. We have safety measures in place and are looking forward to welcoming visitors in a safe and secure environment."
"We're pleased to be showcasing our new developments and investments, which have supported the college's recent transformational growth and development and significantly enhanced the student experience and learning opportunities."
During the open events, visitors can speak to the college's expert teaching staff, find out about the extensive range of courses on offer, apply for a course and see the college's specialist facilities. There will also be support teams to advise on student finance and bursaries, careers, study support and LGBTQ+ support.
The first in-person open event of the year will take place at the college's land-based campus at Kirkley Hall near Ponteland, Wednesday 28th April from 4.30 until 6.30pm. There will be additional open events at Kirkley Hall on Saturday 15th May starting at 10.00am and on Wednesday 23rd June, starting at 4.30pm. The campus is a specialist centre for animal, land-based (agriculture and horticulture) and outdoor education and training. The 400-acre site is also home to a student training zoo with 200 species of animals.
Open events will take place at the college's Berwick campus on Wednesday 19th May and at its Ashington campus on Wednesday 9th June. Both events will start at 4.30pm and finish at 6.30pm. The career-focused facilities at Ashington include a purpose-built STEM centre, health simulation hub and a wide range of fully equipped workshops, all linked to industry priority areas.
Please pre-register for an in-person open event here.
Investing in your future with outstanding new facilities.
Why choose Northumberland College?
We are the largest further education provider in Northumberland with campuses throughout the county.
Our student transport scheme is available for eligible students to make getting to and from college as easy as possible.
Our extensive re-development programme will create outstanding new facilities.
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Enjoy a very Kirkley Christmas at Northumberland College Zoo
Northumberland College Zoo is offering families the opportunity to get into the festive spirit with festive, fun-filled, family day outs in December
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ISLAMABAD: The sixteen-day international film festival highlighting human rights through cinematography arranged by United Nations Information Center in Islamabad (UNIC) in collaboration with European Union, will conclude on Monday (tomorrow) after screening 27 thematic documentaries and films in various parts of the country.
The event was arranged in celebration of 70 years of Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
The 4th edition of the international film festival screened thematic documentaries in Gujrat, Islamabad, Karachi, Lahore, Multan, Mardan, Peshawar, Quetta, Rawalpindi and Swat.
These documentaries were focused on the universality of human rights and related human stories across the world.
Among the key themes were freedom of expression, minority rights, gender equality, access to justice and death penalty.
Screenings were followed by discussions with film makers, journalists, government and civil society representatives and human rights defenders.
Contributors to the festival were the Delegation of the European Union, diplomatic missions of Argentina, Australia, Austria, Belgium, Brazil, Canada, Czech Republic, France, Germany, the Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland as well as the Forum for Human Rights, Goethe-Institute, Pakistan National Council of Arts, The Centaurus Cineplex, OLOMOPOLO Media and the Pakistan Institute of Parliamentary Services.
The festival offered the participants, including universities and schools' students the opportunity to participate in the discussions related to the core values of the United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
This event marked the United Nations International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women.


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Movie Review: "Burnt" is Too Dry and Over-cooked to Enjoy
Jenn Bacall November 2, 2015 March 5, 2016 Movies, Movies + TV, Reviews
The problems with Burnt reveal themselves in the first scene of the film. Bradley Cooper plays Adam Jones. He's an arrogant, debt addled asshole chef who cons people to get what he wants. In his opening monologue he explains his past and his future goals, where he is and why he's there. If the film were to pause at that second, most savvy film goers would be able to predict the trajectory of the film. Unfortunately, predictability is the least of the film's problems.
The second pillar of problems with the film is believability. Adam Jones has cheated, lied, and manipulated every contact that he had, sometimes to the extent that their restaurants closed and livelihoods were destroyed. We, as viewers are supposed to believe that when Jones returns to Europe years after this destruction these intelligent and successful people will give him exactly what he wants. In one case this includes renaming and taking over a highly rated and valued hotel restaurant. It is kid's television show level contrived.
Sienna Miller is one of the bright spots in the film. She plays Helene, and is almost unrecognizable due to the depth that she dives into her character. She plays a hard-working, single mom who Jones is desperate to work with. We see her as a focused and proud sous chef and employee. All credibility that the audience has to her strength of character is compromised when we are expected to believe that she would fall for Jones even after her leaves her alone at a swanky party.
Emma Thompson plays a therapist who Adam has to go to weekly for blood tests to prove that he is clean. Her role is unnecessary and her character looks, speaks and feels more like a cartoon than a human. Another celebrity add on misfire is Uma Thurman. Her character is that of a well respected food critic yet she has almost no lines of dialog. A waste of talent and opportunity.
Visually, Burnt is a beautiful film. There are stunning scenes of the restaurant being prepared for service, of food being prepped and cooked, and kitchen action as lively as any battle scene. If the story matched the visuals instead of being forgettable, Burnt may have been remarkable.
My Rating: 2.5 of 5 stars
Director: John Wells
Writer: Steven Knight
Starring: Bradley Cooper, Sienna Miller, Uma Thurman, Emma Thompson
Release date: October, 30 2015
MPAA rating: R
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Earlier today I posted Christmas wishes from my family to yours, but in case you missed it, Merry Christmas!
On Monday I had surgery to remove a melanoma from my left check. With an incision from my cheekbone to my jawbone (my hair and a flesh colored bandage are covering it in the picture above), I was instructed not to run or do heavy exercise for a week. The good news is twofold: we caught the melanoma in the earliest stage, and my wound is healing beautifully and with zero pain. My surgeon is very talented and it looks like there will be pretty minimal scarring leaving me amazed at the healing power of the human body. As we await biopsy results to confirm that he got all clear margins, I remain positive that I was in capable hands and the news will be good.
Sitting the week out from most of my exercising gave me plenty of time to put the finishing touches on holiday preparation at a less hectic pace and enjoy the company of my son who insisted on coming home from Chicago a few days early to be there when I got home from my surgery. With both sons joining us on Monday evening, we watched National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation and I tried not to laugh too hard and rip one of my many stitches.
As for my workouts for the week, I planned accordingly and got a really good weight lifting session and yoga routine completed early Monday morning before seeing clients (surgery was in the afternoon). I continued to see clients, and as the week progressed I allowed myself to become a little more active with some stretching and planking. On Friday I did lunges and a few easier exercises that didn't require much straining.
Do you freak out if your doctor tells you not to run or do other exercises? Do you cheat?
Are you in town for the holidays or traveling?
Did you race this weekend? Were there any races near you this weekend?
I'm so sorry to hear you're going through this again! Very glad you have good care and it sounds like it will work out well.
I've had (and will have) some times of instructions not to work out. I always give the doc as much detail as possible about my normal routine, and ask a lot of questions about why I can't do things, for how long, consequences, etc. That's helpful. Generally, I've followed instructions though – usually whatever is causing the restriction is much more important than missing a few runs, much as I hate that.
Hoping for good news for you soon, sending good thoughts.
Thank you! The healing process is under way and I couldn't be happier with how things are going now that the stitches are out. Pathology came back with all clear margins so that's really good news. In another week I'll be able to start treatment on my scar to help it fade.
Sorry to hear that your melanoma came back but sounds like you caught it early again. Hope you are healing well. I am trying really hard to wear more sunscreen and be more careful.
Thanks, Deborah. The first melanoma was on my shin so I wasn't nearly as concerned about the scarring on it… Yes, wear lots of sunscreen while in Aruba!
I'm glad your surgery went well. One week on the sidelines will fly by – in fact you're almost there! I don't like being told not to workout, but it's important to take that advice seriously. Here's to a healthy start to 2017!
That is just too scary about the melanoma. I do have the derm on my "to do" list, along with Gi and the gyne–I'm going to wait until I get this RA thing under control. Man. Glad you are ok.
Thanks, Wendy! Merry Christmas to you as well!
Sorry to hear that your melanoma came back. Glad to hear your in good hand. I haven't had this problem yet, but it's the first thing that comes to mind whenever I slip or turn an ankle.
I am so sorry about your surgery. Praying for a clear report! I had melanoma skin cancer removed from my chest area almost 3 years ago. It was caught in the early stages too and thankfully my surgical oncologist got it all. I've had two basal cell skin cancer surgeries, a scar on my hairline and leg. Those were very painful. I love your schedule for strength training, running, walking, yoga, etc. That is awesome! I'm glad you had a great Christmas and hope you have a happy new year as well!
Thank you, Katie, same to you! Here's hoping we can both stay skin cancer free in 2017!
Sorry to read about the melanoma… sending positive thoughts and vibes from this side of the Atlantic. Glad you got to spend time with your family. Merry Christmas to you !
Thank you; and Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to you and your family, Karen!
Will be praying for you as you await the results of the biopsy! What a great family picture and how sweet of your son to rush home to help you out! I've always said there is a special bond between boys and their Moms! Hang in there!
Teresa recently posted…….all is calm, all is bright!
Such a pretty family pic! Praying for a speedy recovery! I struggle with the non-running thing but know sometimes it's a nice break!


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Multiple threads on the issue of Iran, and whether to attack or not/if Israel should strike them, and all of them make more sense than this one. You need to check if there's already a thread on the issue before you start the topic, and you need to put a lot more effort into starting the thread.


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Well a few days ago something cool happened. A commercial that my friends at Rhino Media Productions created was shown on national television during a White Sox game. That's pretty cool. Another cool fact about that commercial is that I produced the music for it. So my music was heard by a national audience. A national audience of people watching the commercials during a White Sox game during the afternoon on a weekday, but a national audience none the less.


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Q: Calculating stock mutations in sql I want to calculate the outbound = quantity of products which left the warehouse daily.
If I run these queries I can see that sql is counting the quantities somehow double but I don't get why. Anyone who can see the problem? How can I avoid this?
SELECT readYesterday.ArticleCode,
       MAX(readToday.ArticleCode) AS ArticleCodeToday,
       readYesterday.ReportDate,
       SUM(ISNULL(readToday.TotalStock, 0)) AS TotalStockToday,
       SUM(readYesterday.TotalStock) AS TotalStockYesterday,
       SUM(readYesterday.TotalStock - ISNULL(readToday.TotalStock, 0)) AS Outbound
FROM ArticleReads readYesterday
LEFT JOIN ArticleReads readToday ON readToday.ArticleCode = readYesterday.ArticleCode
AND readToday.InboundDossier = readYesterday.InboundDossier
AND readToday.ReportDate = DATEADD(DAY, 1, readYesterday.ReportDate)
WHERE readYesterday.ArticleCode ='ART01234'
  AND readToday.ReportDate <> Convert(date, getdate())
  AND readYesterday.ReportDate = '2018-04-26'
GROUP BY readYesterday.ArticleCode,
         readYesterday.ReportDate
ORDER BY ReportDate ASC

SELECT *
FROM ArticleReads readYesterday
WHERE readYesterday.ArticleCode = 'ART01234'
  AND readYesterday.ReportDate = '2018-04-26'

SELECT *
FROM ArticleReads readYesterday WHERE readYesterday.ArticleCode = 'ART01234'
AND readYesterday.ReportDate = '2018-04-27'

Here you can see the results

A: When joining the yesterday and today tables, you must be sure that you join on the primary key. In your case, you are using articlecode, inbounddossieur, and the reportdate+1; However, as there are 2 lines for each and nothing to distinguish them, the join will return 4 rows! You need to add an join condition which uniquely specifies each row - Location Code maybe?
and readToday.LocationCode=readYesterday.LocationCode

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I have been with TLC Associates for over a year. I started on the phones, began working as a Supervisor in Training, and then became a Supervisor. After changing my career growth plan, I transferred to being an Administrative Assistant where I get to help support all of the employees and the management staff-which is my favorite part of the job! I love working at TLC because everyone receives such great recognition for their hard work and gets the opportunity to grow within the company. I find myself to be a very analytical, driven, and spontaneous person, which is why I would love to someday go back into operations as a Site Director for one of our Iowa locations!


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Mother Nature: Master of Plant Production
By Chuck Markley posted on March 16, 2016 | Posted in Soil Health
Dear No-Till Farmer friends,
This website and its following community is a tremendous source of education for all of us. I so appreciate the articles contributed here and also the reader comments posted. Just read Mark Watson's column, "Soil Health: It's All About Carbon" in the March 10 edition of Dryland No-Tiller.
We all know that no-till management can never be a "one-size-fits-all" entity. No-till is just one tool in our growing toolbox to better manage our soils for crop production. It's certainly one of the best tools, because the master of all plant production — Mother Nature — uses it!
There are other management tools also available — strip-till, minimum-till, ridge-till and vertical tillage — all with their own advantages and disadvantages. While all these "tillage" systems may address soil compaction, they all have one thing in common: macro-aggregate disturbance. Just one pass of ANY kind of tillage implement will damage macro-aggregate stability.
In a southwest Nebraska fine sandy loam soil, for instance, I've found just one tillage pass after 8 years of no-till management (early-spring disced following a rapid thaw — cattle were on corn stalks a little too late) changed the aggregate stability test from all aggregates remaining 80-100% stable after 5 minutes of agitation to 60% or more slaking through the screen in less than one minute, and less than 40% of sample aggregates remaining on the screen for the full 5 minutes.
I hypothesize that the aggregates that remained on the screen for the full 5 minutes weren't disturbed by the disc pass, while those that were moved slaked in the first minute. There were no in-betweens —less than a minute or greater than 5.
Macro-aggregates allow water to infiltrate rapidly (similar to sand and gravel), but macro-aggregates are very fragile. The larger a soil aggregate, the more fragile it is. Macro-aggregates form under native vegetation, no-till, and to a much lesser degree, strip-till. You will not likely find significant macro-aggregates in conventional tillage systems in the Great Plains.
Organic carbon was low here in this example, and your results with higher organic carbon might not be so dramatic — but the point is, the stability of your soil aggregate — the HABITAT of the soil livestock is damaged and soil health is set back for years. This is especially true for the physically larger predatory livestock that eat the bacteria and fungi and release soil nitrogen (N) back into a plant-available form.
In addition, with tillage, soil carbon is rapidly lost from the system in the form of CO2 released back to the atmosphere, and surface evaporation is increased, with a big hit to your water efficiency.
If you have soils that are very wet in spring and early summer and are subject to compaction, choose high-water-use cover crops that grow in the spring and use up some of that excess moisture. Add deep tap-rooted species to your cover crop or rotational mix to punch through the compaction.
No-till will often show slight compaction in concave (receiving) areas of your fields, but this compaction isn't necessarily detrimental if your crop roots are growing down through it without significant horizontal deflation.
Crop roots will follow the tubular paths of previous roots and earthworm channels, because those are the preferential flow paths for infiltrating water and roots will follow this water deep into the profile.
Tillage destroys infiltrating water's access to these preferential flow paths, and if your soil is loam, silt loam or anything with higher clay amounts, your effective precipitation into the lower parts of the soil profile from rainfall and irrigation will be reduced.
Below is an educational video from Washington State University that demonstrates what I am describing with preferential flow paths.
KEYWORDS advantages of tillage systems macro-aggregate stability macro-aggregates in conventional tillage systems organic carbon levels
Research Trials Examine Potential Benefits of Cover Crops in Watermelon Production
Biomass Production of Winter Annual Cover Crops in Corn and Soybean
'Soil Livestock' Open the Tap to Increasing No-Till Production


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Monday will be one of the biggest online shopping days of the year, and also one of the most treacherous.
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This review's roll was #118 (currently Torguard).
Many VPN companies unfortunately rely on the native advertising (paid reviewer) model to generate referrals for their business, but it may be worth noting that Torguard has some of the most out of control affiliates in the industry. Do a search for "Torguard review" and you will struggle to find many that are written by someone without a financial stake (re: conflict of interest) in readers purchasing service using the links in such reviews. One such affiliate of Torguard's, has in the past, stolen my work and put it up on their own website (and yes, I had reached out to them at the time of the incident in question, and no action was ever taken by them against the offending party). I believe this says something about a service when they're content to let their resellers run amok. You'll read later in their terms about the lengths they go to attempting to nail down customer responsibility and absolve themselves of as much as possible. This strikes me as hypocritical when those they partner with are given free reign to steal copyrighted and trademarked work of others. Now that we've established all of this – on with the review!
This is overkill. This could be boiled down to one or two messages with an additional notification in the customer portal of the service in my opinion. A minor annoyance and just something that could use tightening up. The main website also relies on a handful of "as seen in" references, which include a few different paid affiliates. This always bothers me when I see this on VPN site marketing, where the reader is supposed to presume these outlets were writing objectively about the service in question. Of COURSE you're going to be seen on your advertising partners websites.
Configuring the service: The first thing I did once I had my service selected and paid for (and after I deleted the slew of emails I'd just been hit with), I visited the downloads page in the client portal of the site. The portal was quite robust, with a good number of options and methods to choose from including Windows, MacOSX, and not one, but three flavors of Linux. Directly below these "recommended" installations was the "other downloads" section, which included some setup tools and below that, the "OpenVPN config files and scripts". This section was easy to find, and broke down configurations by UDP, TCP, and also platform. This is about as good as it could be, short of using a VPN config file generator a la ZorroVPN or AirVPN. Regardless, the files were easy to find, and easy to download and setup.
Speed & Stability tests: All tests performed at non-peak times using beta.speedtest.net (html5) or the speedtest.net app. Connecting using UDP, Default encryption was Blowfish-128.
Torguard's US servers ranked higher than almost any I've tested in the past, and their international servers came close to achieving broadband speeds, which if you've read my other reviews, is a decently big deal (as most international server bandwidth I've seen on other services varies widely and is usually pretty lackluster). However, the default encryption is Blowfish-128, which is known/suspected to have weaknesses and is not the best for security or privacy. AES-256 (strong, but slower) is apparently available after making some manual tweaks to config files, but this is not ideal. US servers approached broadband speeds, but overall, mobile benchmarks were lacking.
Getting support: Torguard has a live chat feature on their site, but it requires cookies to be enabled in your browser. Many privacy centered configurations have cookies turned off, or highly restricted (as does mine), so this wasn't a valid option. Even after disabling Privacy Badger and uBlock Origin, I was not able to access this function. Torguard also had a phone number on their support page, which I tried calling. I was greeted with a very robotic sounding voice (on the level of Microsoft Sam) which listed a few options. I pressed "1" for support, but got another voice prompt telling me that support was unavailable and that it was sending me to voicemail. Unfortunately, this is what I expected, as I've tried calling several VPN phone support numbers and never found one that actually let me speak to a human being – they will redirect me to voicemail or play back a canned message about checking the site for more information. More options become available when you log into the customer portal including a web form which allowed me to submit a support ticket. I've only seen it once before, but there was a dropdown that allowed me to select low, medium, or high priority for my ticket. I like this idea, although I have to wonder if A) people abuse it and mark theirs high every time, or B) they actually put priority on tickets that are marked high (this is all just speculation however). I submitted a general information request asking about their encryption and port blocking. I received a succinct answer the following morning with the information I had requested. Support by webform/email seemed to be decent based on this.
Getting a refund: I asked for a refund and received one within minutes, possibly the fastest I've ever seen and with absolutely no hassle. Extremely responsive!
Torguard's terms took the crown for longest, most obnoxious labyrinth of red tape and absolution of responsibility I've ever seen. They are so broad in fact, that a rogue term (which I will show below), essentially binds everyone who will may ever or has ever used Torguard to its terms.
So, config files? Installers? What constitutes express, written authorization? I doubt they would really enforce this with parts of the site that contain download and such, but it's a little silly that this term even exists in my opinion.
I get that a lot of them do this, but it always bugs me when companies write themselves a blank check this way.
No. Go back and read that again. All of Torguard's terms and conditions apply to potential visitors of the website. Potential visitors. Ladies and gentlemen, I think we have found the most ill-conceived clause to be written into a VPN service's terms and policies. Are you reading this carefully? Because according to Torguard, YOU, dear reader, who may have never visited the website or used the service, are subject to each and every one of these terms! (Not really). Of course this could never be enforceable, I only include it to show you the extreme lengths Torguard goes to in their terms to wash their hands of all liability and accountability whatsoever.
What constitutes excessive usage? It doesn't say. Buyer beware.
"TorGuard.net reserves the right to close your account at any given time without any prior notice. While TorGuard.net will, in the best interest of our clients, attempt to provide full and complete service, this right is reserved for reasons which may emerge at a later date.
Not sure if a scenario exists that this would actually occur, but apparently they think so enough to include it in their terms.
Final thoughts: Torguard is one of the most marketed and visible services I've seen in this industry. As I describe in my Guide to choosing the best VPN (for you), for me personally, trust and transparency are the biggest things I look for in a VPN service, even before convenience and the features mentioned above. Being able to trust a VPN company, especially when purchased for privacy reasons is of the utmost importance. Torguard is certainly not the only company that uses native advertising to market their product, but they may just be in the running for a VPN company that relies on it the most heavily, allowing their reselling partners to generate referrals by hook and by crook in such volumes as few others can claim. Their terms are also far too complex and broad.
Like some other services, I find Torguard difficult to recommend for any one specific use case. People interested in privacy or security will probably more favorable terms, and a business model that shows a little more ethical intent and trustworthiness. The one use case that comes to mind is maybe Streamers (who are only concerned with streaming while away on vacations, business, etc) may find them useful, as their US servers were quite possibly the fastest I've ever tested. Is wanting a super fast refund a use case? If so, that too.


It is the division of property rights and obligation between spouses during divorce. Something that you might have not known is that all states except for Arizona, California, Idaho, Louisiana, Nevada, New Mexico, Texas, Washington and Wisconsin follow the principles of equitable distribution.
Individuals often have several doubts about how these laws work. Justia, a Law and Legal Information Center, states that these are some of the most frequent questions asked: If my spouse and I agree on how we should divide our property, do we have to rely on equitable distribution laws?
The answer is no. "A court will only engage in equitable distribution if a divorcing couple is unable to negotiate a property settlement". If you and your spouse can derive to an agreement and divide a portion of your estate, but not the entire estate, the court will step in to distribute the undivided portion.
No. Equitable distribution applies only to marital property. Marital property is all property acquired during the marriage. Marital property does not include, however, property obtained during marriage by gift, bequest, devise or descent, or property otherwise provided for in a written agreement. Such property, along with any assets acquired before or after marriage, is considered the separate property of the acquiring spouse. If I hold title to an asset, is that asset my separate property?
Not necessarily. While a court may consider title as evidence of separate property, title in and of itself does not determine whether an asset is separate or marital property. How and when does a court value marital property?
Marital property is typically valued by it's fair market value at the time the marital litigation is filed or commenced. However, because a period of months or years may elapse before a divorce decree becomes final, some states allow the parties to share in the appreciation or depreciation of marital assets between the date of separation and the date of divorce.
Because of the importance of property division and the fact that property division cannot be changed after divorce without proof of disclosure of assets, it is vital to understand Florida divorce laws. Backed by 15 years of experience, Mr. Levine helps clients understand divorce laws and advise them on their best options for their specific legal situation.


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The Disappearing Computer
This is the meeting on Monday September 2, 2002 in Block 3 (14:30 - 16:00) at the Volkshuis.
This is bare text, more material you can find here: http://simsim.rug.ac.be/staff/rob
Disappearing Acts.
Reason for this talk: not immediate action, but neede is a vision on these issues from a non-profit perspective.
We are in a proces of witnessing a move from using mixed media (radio, sms, billboard, television) to create user experiences to designing inclusive experiences by mediatizing the environment.
This is recognized in and fuelled by the latest i3 call The disappearing computer, launched by Future and Emerging Technologies, the European Commission's IST Programme. The European Network for Intelligent Information Interfaceswas created in 1996 in order "to take a human-centred approach to the exploration of new, visionary interactive systems for people in their everyday activities."
The Disappearing Computer is a vision of the future
"in which our everyday world of objects and places become 'infused' and 'augmented' with information processing. In this vision, computing, information processing, and computers disappear into the background, (italics mine) and take on the role more similar to that of electricity (italics mine) today - an invisible, pervasive medium distributed on or real world."
So what will happen when the computer disappears?
When the computer disappears the environment becomes the interface.
So what happens to me in/and my environment?
It becomes : hybrid: a mix of analogue and digital data processes. It becomes: in between:
In a mediated environment it no longer is clear what is being mediated, and what mediates. Such environments - your kitchen, living-room, our shopping malls, streets of old villages, websites, schools, p2p networks, are new beginnings as they reformulate our sense of ourselves in places in spaces in time.
As new beginnings they begin new media.
These new media look extremely familiar. It can be - for example - any Sony audiovisual piece of apparatus that you bought in Japan after 2000. Sony "will put an Internet address into all of its electronic devices to enable them to communicate with each another." How? Through Airboard using "the Internet's addressing scheme". to allow its audio-visual products to talk and exchange data with one another. So your Walkman, has its very own IP address.
Environments are becoming smart and smarter.
Beeld Superbowl, Visiotronics nu Identix, face recognition software. Our cameras were quite dumb, now they are databasedriven.
We might as well start by taking a vacation. This might be noticed, however, by database processes even before you take your flight (the decision to go/no go is still yours..for now):
"Federal aviation authorities and technology companies will soon begin testing a vast air security screening system designed to instantly pull together every passenger's travel history and living arrangements, plus a wealth of other personal and demographic information.
The government's plan is to establish a computer network linking every reservation system in the United States to private and government databases. The network would use data-mining and predictive software to profile passenger activity and intuit obscure clues about potential threats, even before (Italics mine) the scheduled day of flight."
Note the extremities to which the designers will go to script serendipity into their profiling strategy: data-mining and predictive software and intuit obscure clues.
This level of extremity is only reached in the latest craze of data gathering through sensorial agents: smart dust:
"Researchers at the University of California, Berkeley have developed a complete sensor-based communication system that can be integrated into a tiny package. Using MEMS, or micro-electro-mechanical system technology, the battery-powered sensor nodes can independently assess movement or environment, then relay that information between nodes to a sensor board. The sensor nodes, or motes, can be dropped from an airplane and used to track troop movements."
Who is browsed in such a datacloud?
You might want to cough and breath in, breath in smart dust particles up your nose, and hopefully they will all be chucked out, when you finally sneeze.
Still, we have decided to take that vacation and at the airport our luggage is tagged. Airline baggage tracking equipment is made either by Philips Semiconductors EindhovenSCS, San Diego, CA, Texas Instruments, Dallas.
The system operates through radio frequency tags. Why?
Because they have dropped below the penny cost:
"Manufacturers hoping to recoup some of the billions lost every year to theft, counterfeit, and depleted stocks have been closely watching a technology that promises to track the locations of individual products, from perfume bottles to car parts, in real time. At the heart of this scenario is a little device called a "radio frequency identification tag"a silicon chip that boots up and transmits a signal when exposed to the energy field of a nearby reader. "
Naturally, in this scheme there is an ultimate goal:
"The ultimate goal is to put a radio tag on virtually every manufactured item, each tracked by a network of millions of readers in factories, trucks, warehouses and homes, transforming huge supply chains into intelligent, self-managing entities. Dick Cantwell, vice president of global business management at Gillette says that the devices for reading the tags are "going to be a ubiquitous part of construction, whether you're building stores or homes....We see this as a tremendous opportunity and we intend to make full use of the technology as it becomes available."
And what is this like?
Steve Halliday, vice president of technology at AIM, a trade association for manufacturers of tagging technology, says, "If I talk to companies and ask them if they want to replace the bar code with these tags, the answer can't be anything but yes. It's like giving them the opportunity to rule the world."
It's like giving them the opportunity to rule the world.
One slight drawback though:
"The range of a tag seldom exceeds five meters, nor can the tags be read through walls or other thick barriers. What's more, Electronic Product
Codes identify objects, not people."
In which environment?
In hybrid environments there are no more people, no more surroundings, no more props.
Just tags. And sensors. And ambient technology that tries to disguise itself as harmless by using the terms electricity and background. What is electricity but blackboxed technology to its extreme: on/off?
Who's hands are on that switch that does now lite up the world indeed, able as it is to switch off, switch on our very beings.
At the moment these disappearing acts are beyond open sourcing moneywise. We either find the money or we find ways in. If we don't it might be Steve Halliday's hand creeping towards that switcher.
Dus negatief beeld van electricity.
Positief: modes of action:
From power to influence to resonance
What does this data do?:
"A next-generationconfigurable circuit architecture is being proposed by a group of designers at startup Cell Matrix Corp.
The architecture goes beyond basic FPGAs by building arrays of "cells" rather than simply reconfigurable gates. Each cell has a small amount of logic and local memory and communicates with its nearest neighbor.
The novel aspect of the approach is the ability of cells to modify the operation of their neighbors during run-time.
That has allowed Cell Matrix engineers to define an entire circuit by initially configuring two or three cells on the boundary of an array and then allowing the cells to program their neighbors. The process resembles software bootstrapping in conventional computers, but it leads to a hardwired circuit."
"The assembly shall be considered constituted when at least 20 neighbors are present. All who live in the neighborhood may participate with voice and vote," reads a woman, aided by a brand-new megaphone, on a street corner where more than a hundred residents have gathered.
"The executive committee shall meet 15 minutes prior to the assembly to draft the agenda with the proposals provided by the neighbors," she says, handing the word - and the megaphone - over to the "moderator". It is clarified repeatedly that "here, no one is in charge, we are going to take turns."
One of the proposals made during the assembly was to set aside 15 minutes each week on a neighborhood radio program to provide updates about the movement. The proposal was readily accepted.
But when the moderate announced that a television news program has sent a reporter and a camera operator, thereaction is one of absolute rejection, with the neighbors shouting for the media representatives to leave.
The reporter is from a program whose host has supported the government's economic reforms in the past few years and who now is seen as inciting protest with a right-wing discourse.
The neighbors make it clear they do not want anyone to use them to advance a cause they do not agree with.
In fact, in the assemblies and in mass e-mails, Argentines are calling not only for the removal of the career politicians and entrenched union leaders, but also for the rejection of the privatized entities entrusted with public services and of the news media which, they say, are not accurately portraying the population's suffering.
"I am very surprised because there are people participating who otherwise never left their homes. My 70-year-old neighbor had never taken part in anything, but now she has such an extremist stance that it is truly astonishing," said Palermo neighborhood assembly participant Fernndez.
She said one of the slogans repeated in her neighborhood is "the politicians must go because they do not understand a thing." Fernndez explained that this reflects the sentiment that political leaders no longer comprehend, nor can they express, the citizenry's problems because they are too far removed from that reality.
What this data does is making very clear that our categories that once were sufficient, derscriptive and productive: power as a concept, influence as a concept has been outwitted by a process we might call: resonance. Ideas resonate. Action is no longer directed from above, under, it is in between. In between the spaces :
Each cell has a small amount of logic and local memory and communicates with its nearest neighbor.
Each person has a small amount of logic and local memory and communicates with its nearest neighbor.
In Mobile Vulgus Christian Nold reveals the "potential force a crowd of people hold when they act as a cohesive whole."
Music is not dangerous, its the people. Music can be as loud as you like, ok you get blast effects but they cant be worse than explosions, and buildings are designed to withstand explosions. No, its the actual effect that people would be able to cause.
By standing still an average person weighing around 65 kilograms exerts a force of 650 newtons straight down onto the floor. Once mobilised into jumping with both feet that force is multiplied almost seven times. If fifty people jump simultaneously, this force produces 23 tonnes of pressure which is the same weight as thirty-three cars stacked one on top of the other. With every drum beat, these tonnes of pressure piledrive into the ground at the resonant frequency. Seeing, hearing or feeling even the slightest response from the structure initiates a feedback loop between the building and its occupants which increases the feeling of communal action. The amount of force required to cause a full structural collapse is between ten to one hundred timesgreater than that needed to see the first surface cracking. These warning signs are sufficient for our purposes since they force the authorities to close down the structure. Used in this way the tactic should pose no danger to anyone.
Used in this way the tactic should pose no danger to anyone. But we have learned, we have learned along the way.
In terms of ecology:
Sustainability:not only whose? But of what?
The Flow of Natural industrial human AND digital/technological processes.
Overload and supersenses:
SUPERSENSES !!!!!!
Boosting our senses is naturally beneficial in terms of correcting major or minor handicaps (from which most of us suffer in certain situations) but it becomes more dubious when peo- ple can use new aids to learn too much about each other. For example, if someone were to use their supersense to establish the condition of my health, feelings and/or other personal matters. "
"New communication senses will be needed in the future to enable people to absorb the enormous mass of information with which they are confronted," says Martin Rantzer, head of research at Ericsson in Linkping, Sweden, in his report entitled "All senses communication." The basic premise of "All senses communi- cation" is that as a result of rapid technical de- velopment we surround ourselves with insophisticated and complex devices and services. And this trend seems to be accel- erating. Our ability to use technology, however, is not developing at the same rate. We do not see and hear better, understand more quickly, and our motor functions and reaction times have not improved very much over the past one hundred years.
The user interfaces we use today to transmit information to our brains threaten to create a real bottleneck for new broadband services. Broadband for our phones is not enough, we also need it for our brains. Today's mobile users normally use only one sense - hearing. Mobile broadband and video-phones will soon enable us to see the person we are talking to as well as that person's surround- ings. The vision is that we will eventually be able to use all our senses, and truly experience at a distance the same things as the other person. There is a clear trend in our society toward an increased focus on experience, and our senses are the key to all real or virtual experiences. "But it is not simply a matter of using sight, smell and touch at a distance. Even more, this vision aims to improve ourinteraction with technology. We believe that the way in which people com- municate via technology will become increasinglylike ordinary human communication," says Martin Rantzer.
"Adding voice and gestures to interfaces may make them more intuitive, as well as pro- viding more nuances than we can achieve with a mouse-click." We must make use of new communication senses. Apart from sight, hearing and touch, these will include senses that people have nev- er had before - for example, radar vision and heat vision using infrared cameras. Technology can transform our own senses into "super- senses."


The California addiction specialist who sent his son to Minneapolis to meet with Prince is defending his practices on Facebook.
Dr. Howard Kornfeld, the medical director of Recovery Without Walls outpatient addiction clinic, arranged for his son Andrew Kornfeld to discuss treatment options for an addiction to prescription painkillers with Prince at Paisley Park on April 21, the day of the singer's death.
The Kornfeld family attorney William Mauzy said during a Wednesday press conference that Andrew was at Prince's home when the singer was discovered unconscious, and revealed that he had a small dosage of drug Suboxone on his person at the time. Mauzy first told the Minneapolis Star Tribune that Andrew, who is a pre-medical student that works with Recovery Without Walls, never intended to administer the drug to Prince, and was simply transporting it to a Minnesota physician.
The statement said that Dr. Kornfeld is a "nationally recognized expert in the use of buprenorphine," which is an ingredient in Suboxone, the drug Andrew was carrying. Recovery Without Walls explained that buprenorphine is used for opiate detoxification, maintenance therapy and pain management.
Kornfeld, who serves as a Fellow of the American Society of Addiction medicine, will speak further on his program at the American Pain Society 35th Annual Scientific Meeting in Austin, Texas, next Friday, May 13, alongside two other doctors.
The talk, "Using Buprenorphine to Mitigate the Major Hazards of Traditional Opioids," will address medication-assisted treatment, according to Recovery Without Walls' statement.
"We are grateful to participate in this meaningful dialogue," the statement said.
Mauzy said that Kornfeld was contacted by Prince's representatives on April 20. He was unable to immediately travel to Minneapolis, and sent Andrew in his stead.
Andrew arrived at Paisley Park at 9:30 a.m. on April 21, Mauzy said, and was present when Prince's staff found the musician unconscious. He called 911.
Andrew turned over the Suboxone to the Carver County Sheriff's office, and, after an interview, was released. His attorney said that Andrew shouldn't face legal action because Minnesota law says that any person who seeks medical assistance for someone who is overdosing on drugs may not be prosecuted for possession or sharing of controlled substances, in certain cases, according to the Associated Press.


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TURKEY PRESS SCAN ON JAN 28
These are some of the major headlines and their summaries in Turkish press on January 28, 2011. The World Bulletin does not verify these stories and does not vouch for their accuracy.
SPECTACULAR OPENING
25th World Winter Universiad began with Turkish President Abdullah Gul's speech. "Hosting such an organization in Erzurum at the gate of the East, is a major success for Turkey," Gul said. Parliament Speaker Mehmet Ali Sahin and Premier Recep Tayyip Erdogan also attended opening ceremony.
ERDOGAN: PRESIDENTIAL SYSTEM SHOULD BE DISCUSSED
Commenting on the presidential system debates in Turkey, Premier Erdogan said, "My people should know everything."
Erdogan said, "It is practiced in the United States. In some countries, semi-presidential system is practiced. There may be different approaches on this one. It should be discussed."
"What is the Presidential system? Turkish nation should know every detail. Trying to evade national debate on this one is against being a democrat," said Erdogan.
REFORM IN HIGH JURISDICTION TO YIELD POSITIVE RESULTS
Another strong support came from Europe in judicial reform in Turkey. Following the support of Venice Commission, the president of the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) Jean-Paul Costa spoke to daily Zaman and pointed to importance of arrangement that would be made.
Costa said granting right to make individual application to Constitutional Court and arrangement regarding high jurisdiction would have positive results for Turkey.
MAGNIFICENT OPENING IN ERZURUM
Eastern province of Erzurum hosted a giant organization with the biggest investment on sports in Republican history. A magnificent ceremony was held for the 25th Winter Universiade Games on Thursday.
3,000 athletes from 58 countries attended the ceremony which was broadcast live in 80 countries.
President Abdullah Gul started the games which is held under the motto of "Let's meet in the Zenith of Anatolia".
Dance group "Fire of Anatolia" made a show with its 1,500 people group.
HISTORIC HOLOCAUST COMMEMORATION IN NEVE SHALOM
Turkey held an official ceremony for the first time to commemorate the Holocaust Victims, on January 27, the International Holocaust Commemoration day. Istanbul Governor and Istanbul Mayor attended the ceremony at Neve Shalom.
MAGNIFICIENT ERZURUM
The 25th Winter Universiade Games began with a magnificent ceremony, attended by President Abdullah Gul, Parliemant Speaker Mehmet Ali Sahin and Premier Recep Tayyip Erdogan.
Over three thousand athletes from 58 countries will compete at the Winter Universiad until February 6. Performance of Pop singer Kenan Dogulu and the "Anatolian Fire" dance show marked the opening ceremony.
HISTORIC COMMEMORATION
Jews who lost their lives in holocaust were for the first time commemorated in a formal ceremony in Turkey.
Neve Shalom synagogue in Kuledibi in Istanbul made a first in Republican history on Thursday. A ceremony was held in the synagogue for "International Day of Commemoration of Holocaust victims".
Parliament Speaker Mehmet Ali Sahin released a message and said, "Our nation, which has protected oppressed peoples throughout the history, shares the sufferings of our Jewish people."
NIGHT OF PRIDE
The 25th Winter Universiade Games kicked off in Turkey's eastern Erzurum province with a magnificent program. Performance of the Anatolian dance group was like the rehearsal of the Olympic Games.
3,000 athletes from 58 countries attended the opening under snow.
Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan said, "we started with winter games, we will be pursuing winter olmpiad."
MAGNIFICENT OPENING TO WINTER GAMES
President Abdullah Gul, Parliament Speaker Mehmet Ali Sahin and Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan also watched the formal opening of the 25th Winter Universiade Games in eastern province of Erzurum. The dance performance attracted great interest with visual shows.
It started to snow starting as of Thursday evening. 3,000 athletes from 57 countries are attending the games which will continue till February 6.
PRESIDENCY SHOULD BE DISCUSSED
Despite the appositions of President Abdullah Gul and Parliament Speaker Mehmet Ali Sahin, Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan wanted presidency system to be discussed.
Erdogan said people should know about this system. "If this is in effect in the United States today, we should know what this is. There is semi-presidency system in various countries of the world. There may be different approaches. However, refraining from discussing this contradicts democracy.
ERDOGAN:PROTEST IS A RIGHT, I AM ONLY AGAINST THOSE WHO THROW STONES
Premier Recep Tayyip Erdogan who got together with the Heads of the Student Councils of 50 Universities in Erzurum said protest was a democratic right. "We can't say do not protest to anyone. I am only against those who break windows and throw stones at the police," Erdogan said.
KILICRADOGLU EXTENDS SUPPORT TO THE MANIFEST
Republican People's Party Leader Kemal Kilicdaroglu embraced the manifest issued by 10 lawmakers from his party, drawing an analogy between the government and the Nazi rule. "He who can not claim his rights at the court will claim their rights in the streets. Our friends only pointed out this danger," said Kilicdaroglu.
MY PEOPLE SHOULD DISCUSS PRESIDENCY SYSTEM
Prime minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan responded to the questions of reporters in eastern province of Erzurum. Erdogan said, "my people should know what presidency system is. If the United States implements this, we should know what this is. There is also semi-presidential system. There may be different approaches."
DRUBBERS CAN NOT SEE THEIR CHILDREN
Child and Family court made an exemplary decision against violence in family and disfranchised rights of the husband who inflicted violence on his former wife, from seeing his children.
MAGNIFICENT OPENING
The 25th Winter Universiade Games was opened in Turkey's eastern Erzurum province with a ceremony that would not be erased from the memories.
Anatolian Fire dance group bewitched nearly 25,000 audiences in the ceremony in which President Abdullah Gul, Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan, Parliament Speaker Mehmet Sahin, several MPs and ambassadors attended.
The ceremonies were broadcast live in 80 countries.
YOU UNPLUG
Message from Turkey's Chief Negotiator for EU talks Egemen Bagis to European Union (EU): Extreme efforts were exerted to make Turkey give up. We will not be the one who unplug. We will let Europeans enjoy this.
Tone of messages of Turkey to Brussels toughens every passing day.
Message of President Abdullah Gul saying, "the world does not end in the EU" followed the message of Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan which said, "we will not be the obedient country begging at the gate of the EU".
Bagis, currently holding talks in Brussels, openly relayed the message that relations could be broken up if necessary.
FIRE OF YOUTH IN ERZURUM
The Winter Universiade Games which Erzurum is hosting this year, began last night with a magnificent ceremony. The breath taking performance of the "Anatolian Fire" marked the night. President Abdullah Gul, Parliament Speaker Mehmet Ali Sahin, Premier Recep Tayyip Erdogan, ministers and many other officials attended the ceremony. Around 3,000 athletes are competing in the Winter Universiade which is held under the motto of "Let's meet in the Zenith of Anatolia."
Gul who inaugurated the Winter Universiade which began under heavy snow, said hosting such an organization in Erzurum at the gate of the East, was a major success for Turkey.
ELECTRICITY PURCHASE WITH BARGAIN
Electricity subscribers who pay more than 500 Turkish Liras each month, will be allowed to purchase their electricity from any producer they want through bargaining. Energy Market Regulatory Authority, reduced the "free consumer" limit from 100,000 Kws to 30,000 Kws. With this decision, stores, shopping malls or hotels which pay more than 500 TL every month will be able to purchase electricity with a discount. Apartments which use only one utility meter will be able to benefit from the new regulation.


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Q: How to determine if Tomcat is really running in windows I have a situation on my server with Tomcat, where Tomcat is no more running, but in the service list it is still set as a running service.
However, when I restart the service everything is fine.
So, I wish to write a .bat task which should check if Tomcat is in real running.
I tried to check the status in the Service list, but as I mentioned before, even if in the status list Tomcat is running I still have to restart the service.
Is there a way to be really sure the state of Tomcat?
Thanks for any help or suggestion.

A: Use PowerShell to send an http request to Tomcat and see if it responds.
$response = Invoke-WebRequest -uri "http://localhost:8080/"

$response.StatusCode will be 200 if Tomcat is running and the default servlet is configured.


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The Unanswered Letter
One Holocaust Family's Desperate Plea for Help
by Faris Cassell
Dear Madam — You are surely informed about the situation of all Jews in Central Europe and this letter will not astonish you.
In August 1939, just days before World War II broke out in Europe, a Jewish man in Vienna named Alfred Berger mailed a desperate letter to a stranger in America who shared his last name.
By pure chance I got your address . . . I beg you instantly to send for me and my wife...
Decades later, journalist Faris Cassell stumbled upon the stunning letter and became determined to uncover the story behind it. How did the American Bergers respond? Did Alfred and his family escape Nazi Germany? Over a decade-long investigation in which she traveled thousands of miles, explored archives and offices in Austria, Belarus, Czech Republic, and Israel, interviewed descendants, and found letters, photos, and sketches made by family members during the Holocaust, Cassell wrote the devastating true story of The Unanswered Letter.
Published: June, 2021
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France Says will Deliver Rafale Fighter Jets to IAF on Time Despite Covid-19
June 03, 2020 ; By: Hindustan Times
France has said that it will deliver Rafale fighter jets to the Indian Air Force on time despite the challenges posed by the coronavirus disease (Covid-19) pandemic. This was communicated to defence minister Rajnath Singh by his French counterpart Florence Parly during a phone call on Tuesday.
"France reaffirmed its commitment to ensure timely delivery of Rafale aircraft despite the challenges posed by the Covid-19 pandemic," the defence ministry said in a statement after the two ministers spoke.Read More…
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package com.riversoft.core.context;

import java.math.BigDecimal;
import java.util.ArrayList;
import java.util.Date;
import java.util.HashMap;
import java.util.List;
import java.util.Map;
import java.util.Set;

import org.apache.commons.lang3.StringUtils;

import com.riversoft.util.JsonMapper;
import com.riversoft.util.ValueConvertUtils;

/**
 * @author wodenwang
 *
 */
abstract class BaseContext {

	/**
	 * 实际值
	 */
	protected Map<String, Object> values = new HashMap<>();

	protected BaseContext(Map<String, ?> params) {
		values.putAll(params);
	}

	/**
	 * 获取对象
	 *
	 * @param name
	 * @return
	 */
	public Object get(String name) {
		Object value = values.get(name);
		return value;
	}

	/**
	 * 获取字符串
	 *
	 * @param name
	 * @return
	 */
	public String getString(String name) {
		Object obj = get(name);
		String[] values;
		if (obj == null) {
			values = null;
		} else if (obj instanceof String[]) {
			values = (String[]) obj;
		} else {
			values = new String[] { obj.toString() };
		}

		if (values != null && values.length > 0) {
			return values[0];
		} else {
			return null;
		}
	}

	/**
	 * 获取字符串数组
	 *
	 * @param name
	 * @return
	 */
	public String[] getStrings(String name) {
		Object obj = get(name + "[]");
		if (obj == null) {
			obj = get(name);
		}

		if (obj instanceof String[]) {
			return (String[]) obj;
		} else if (obj != null) {
			return new String[] { obj.toString() };
		} else {
			return null;
		}
	}

	/**
	 * 获取长整形值
	 *
	 * @param name
	 * @return
	 */
	public Long getLong(String name) {
		return ValueConvertUtils.convert(getString(name), Long.class);
	}

	/**
	 * 获取长整形数组
	 *
	 * @param name
	 * @return
	 */
	public List<Long> getLongs(String name) {
		return ValueConvertUtils.convertArray(getStrings(name), Long.class);
	}

	/**
	 * 获取浮点值
	 *
	 * @param name
	 * @return
	 */
	public Float getFloat(String name) {
		return ValueConvertUtils.convert(getString(name), Float.class);
	}

	/**
	 * 获取浮点数组
	 *
	 * @param name
	 * @return
	 */
	public List<Float> getFloats(String name) {
		return ValueConvertUtils.convertArray(getStrings(name), Float.class);
	}

	/**
	 * 获取双精度浮点值
	 *
	 * @param name
	 * @return
	 */
	public Double getDouble(String name) {
		return ValueConvertUtils.convert(getString(name), Double.class);
	}

	/**
	 * 获取双精度浮点数组
	 *
	 * @param name
	 * @return
	 */
	public List<Double> getDoubles(String name) {
		return ValueConvertUtils.convertArray(getStrings(name), Double.class);
	}

	/**
	 * 获取大数据值
	 *
	 * @param name
	 * @return
	 */
	public BigDecimal getBigDecimal(String name) {
		return ValueConvertUtils.convert(getString(name), BigDecimal.class);
	}

	/**
	 * 获取大树据数组
	 *
	 * @param name
	 * @return
	 */
	public List<BigDecimal> getBigDecimals(String name) {
		return ValueConvertUtils.convertArray(getStrings(name), BigDecimal.class);
	}

	/**
	 * 获取整形值
	 *
	 * @param name
	 * @return
	 */
	public Integer getInteger(String name) {
		return ValueConvertUtils.convert(getString(name), Integer.class);
	}

	/**
	 * 获取整形数组
	 *
	 * @param name
	 * @return
	 */
	public List<Integer> getIntegers(String name) {
		return ValueConvertUtils.convertArray(getStrings(name), Integer.class);
	}

	/**
	 * 获取时间日期类型
	 *
	 * @param name
	 * @return
	 */
	public Date getDate(String name) {
		return ValueConvertUtils.convert(getString(name), Date.class);
	}

	/**
	 * 获取时间日期数组
	 *
	 * @param name
	 * @return
	 */
	public List<Date> getDates(String name) {
		return ValueConvertUtils.convertArray(getStrings(name), Date.class);
	}

	/**
	 * 获取JSON值
	 *
	 * @param name
	 * @return
	 */
	public HashMap<String, Object> getJson(String name) {
		String value = getString(name);
		return JsonMapper.defaultMapper().json2Map(value);
	}

	/**
	 * 获取JSON数组
	 *
	 * @param name
	 * @return
	 */
	public List<HashMap<String, Object>> getJsons(String name) {
		String[] values = getStrings(name);
		if (values == null || values.length < 1) {
			return null;
		}

		List<HashMap<String, Object>> list = new ArrayList<>();
		for (String value : values) {
			if (StringUtils.isEmpty(value)) {
				continue;
			}

			if (value.startsWith("[")) { // 是数组
				list.addAll(JsonMapper.defaultMapper().fromJson(value, List.class));
			} else {// 单个
				list.add(JsonMapper.defaultMapper().fromJson(value, HashMap.class));
			}
		}

		return list;
	}

	/**
	 * 根据数据类型获取值
	 *
	 * @param name
	 * @param type
	 */
	public <T> T getBean(String name, Class<T> type) {
		return ValueConvertUtils.convert(getString(name), type);
	}

	/**
	 * 根据数据类型获取值
	 *
	 * @param name
	 * @param type
	 * @return
	 */
	public <T> List<T> getBeans(String name, Class<T> type) {
		return ValueConvertUtils.convertArray(getStrings(name), type);
	}

	/**
	 * 获取文件byte[]
	 * @param name
	 * @return
	 */
	public UploadFile getFile(String name) {
		Object obj = get(name);
		if (obj instanceof UploadFile) {
			return (UploadFile) get(name);
		}
		return null;
	}

	/**
	 * 当前键
	 *
	 * @return
	 */
	public Set<String> keySet() {
		return values.keySet();
	}
}


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The Influence of Climate Change on Extreme Environmental Events
Climate change affects global temperature and precipitation patterns. These effects, in turn, influence the intensity and, in some cases, the frequency of extreme environmental events, such as forest fires, hurricanes, heat waves, floods, droughts, and storms.
Boise National Forest Fire
Research shows human-caused climate change has worsened the risk of extreme weather events like the wildfires of the western United States, such as this forest fire in the Boise National Forest, Idaho.
Photograph by David R. Frazier Photolibrary, Inc./Science Source
Background Info
Climate change caused by the emission of greenhouse gases from human activities affects global temperature and precipitation. Records from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change indicate that the global average temperature has increased by at least 0.4 degrees Celsius (0.72 degrees Fahrenheit) since the 1970s, and that by 2100, it could increase to around 4 degrees Celsius (7.2 degrees Fahrenheit) above preindustrial temperatures. While the global effects of climate change may seem too small to be noticed by people living around the world, we have already experienced the effects of climate change through severe weather events, including forest fires, hurricanes, droughts, heat waves, floods, and storms. Computer modelling of real data has shown that the frequency and intensity of these events are influenced by climate change.
There is a distinction that needs to be made when it comes to the relationship between climate change and extreme environmental events: Climate change has not been proven to directly cause individual extreme environmental events, but it has been shown to make these events more destructive, and likely happen more frequently,than they normally would be.
This drastic change is due to the increase in greenhouse gas emissions—primarily through the burning of fossil fuels for transportation, heat, and electricity—in the past 150 years. Greenhouse gases, such as carbon dioxide, methane, and nitrous oxide, trap heat within Earth's atmosphere, making the planet warmer. A warmer atmosphere affects the water cycle because warmer air can hold more water vapor. In fact, the air's capacity to hold water vapor increases by 7 percent with an increase in temperature of 1 degree Celsius (1.8 degrees Fahrenheit). This, along with warmer ocean temperatures, leads to heavier precipitation. Heavy precipitation can cause problems like flooding and landslides—where large amounts of soil or rock slide down a slope.
An increase in intense precipitation comes with an increase in intense dry periods as well. Essentially, climate change causes wet places to become wetter and dry places to become drier by altering large-scale atmospheric circulation patterns. Warmer temperatures on land lead to reduced snowpack, earlier snowmelt, and evaporation of water from freshwater bodies. Extreme heat can lead to more frequent, severe, and prolonged heat waves and droughts and can make forest fires worse. On top of that, wildfires are harder to put out when air temperature is high and soil moisture is low.
The number of heat waves, heavy rain events, and major hurricanes has increased in the United States. Hurricane Katrina of 2005 and Hurricane Sandy of 2012 are two of the most costly hurricanes in the history of the United States. The number of hurricanes that have occurred over recent years has not been linked to climate change, but their intensity has. The wind speed of tropical storms is increased by warmer sea-surface temperatures; by the end of the century, scientists predict maximum wind speed will increase by 2–11 percent. Coastal cities that are vulnerable to hurricanes will also be impacted by the sea level rise of around 0.3–1.2 meters (0.98–3.94 feet) in the next century, which will worsen coastal storms and flooding.
Without preparing for climate change–induced environmental hazards, an increasing number of people worldwide will lose their homes and be forced into poverty. An average of around 22.5 million people have been displaced per year by climate or weather-related events since 2008.
One way to prepare for extreme environmental events is by using current and past data and records to create computer models that show the frequency and intensity of these events. These models can also be used to predict when and where future events will occur and how destructive they will be. With this information, we can prepare for extreme weather events by warning people living in high-risk areas and sending disaster relief. The impact of climate change can also be observed in models by simulating the effects of different concentrations of greenhouse gases on variables, such as wind, rainfall, temperature, and air pressure.
Past models used to prove that there is a relationship between climate change and extreme environmental events were not always reliable. This was due to a lack of data as well as flaws in climate models at the time. However, climate models have become more reliable, and a new field of science has developed to determine how climate change directly impacts extreme weather events: extreme event attribution. Since 2004, scientists have published more than 170 studies on the role of human-induced climate change on 190 extreme weather events. Research has found that climate change has increased the risk of wildfires in the western United States, extreme rainfall in China, and drought in South Africa. Continuous research and improvement in the field of extreme event attribution may help us figure out more precisely how climate change impacts extreme weather events–and how we might change this course.


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package io.flinkspector.datastream.input

import java.util

import io.flinkspector.CoreSpec
import io.flinkspector.core.runtime.SimpleOutputVerifier
import io.flinkspector.datastream.DataStreamTestEnvironment

class SourceBuilderSpec extends CoreSpec {

  class Verifier[T](list: List[T]) extends SimpleOutputVerifier[T] {
    override def verify(output: util.List[T]): Unit =
      output should contain theSameElementsAs list
  }

  "The source builder" should "startWith a working source" in {
    val env = DataStreamTestEnvironment.createTestEnvironment(1)
    val builder = new SourceBuilder[Int](env)

    val source = builder.emit(1)
      .emit(2)
      .emit(3)
      .emit(4)
      .close()

    source.addSink {
      env.createTestSink(new Verifier[Int](List(1, 2, 3, 4)))
    }

    env.executeTest()
  }

}


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COVID-19: Businesses, Organisations Enforce Compulsory Wearing Of Nose Masks
Businesses and organisations across the country have responded to the directive for people to wear masks when they go out in public.
Many businesses, including the Graphic Communications Group Limited (GCGL), have posted 'No Mask, No Entry' notices at the entrances to their premises, while others have also sent text messages to their customers informing them of the directive.
In addition, a number of metropolises, municipalities and districts have responded equally by making it mandatory for everyone in their jurisdictions to wear a nose mask in public.
Ever since President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo encouraged the public to wear masks as part of enhanced protocols to help curb the spread of the virus, many regional coordinating councils (RCC) and local government agencies have made it mandatory for people to wear nose masks in public.
The Ministry of Health has also made it a mandatory requirement in line with section 14 of the Public Health Act, Act 851.
On its rounds yesterday, the Daily Graphic observed that the level of compliance with the directive had improved as many people were seen wearing their nose masks.
Many commercial bus drivers, conductors (mates) and traders had one kind of nose mask or the other on.
In spite of this, the Daily Graphic observed that many people were wearing the nose masks the wrong way, with some having it under their chin and on their mouth, leaving their nose uncovered.
The paper further observed that there was a booming trade in the sale of nose masks as most hawkers at all major street junctions were selling them.
Prices ranged between GH¢2 and GH¢5 for one.
At the GCGL, both clients and staff are now required to wear a nose mask or risk being turned away by the company's security personnel.
Furthermore, all who come to the office will have their temperature taken before they are allowed entry.
Over the past weekend, many commercial banks and telecommunications companies sent out text messages informing their clients to wear nose masks when coming to transact business.
"Please note that from Monday, April 27, we will implement the compulsory wearing of nose/face masks at our branches and offices. This is meant to protect you and our employees against contracting COVID-19 and it is in line with preventive measures issued by the Government," a message from GCB Bank to its customers read.
Another message from a telecommunications company read: "Dear valued customer, please be informed that from Monday, April 27, all retail shops across the country will be open and to ensure compliance with the President's directive on the use of face mask, we have instituted a mandatory wearing of face masks at all our offices.
"We advise you to kindly wear your mask as this directive will be strictly enforced at all our shops and offices. Please be reminded that no mask, no entry".
Kasoa
From Kasoa, Emmanuel Bonney reports that residents have heeded the call by the Awutu Senya East Municipal Assembly (ASEMA), urging all to wear a face mask effective yesterday.
It is now mandatory in the municipality for all persons once in public to wear nose masks.
Invariably, anyone who does not put on a mose mask will be denied entry into all the markets in the municipality
On a visit round the municipality yesterday, the Daily Graphic noticed that people had begun wearing the masks as directed: security personnel, traders, pedestrians, pure water sellers, commercial bus (trotro), taxi drivers and private car owners all had their mask on.
Many were seen in masks made with local fabrics, with others in foreign-made surgical masks.
TMA gives free masks
Meanwhile, the Tema Metropolitan Assembly (TMA) has procured over 20,000 nose masks to be distributed to the vulnerable in the metropolis, Benjamin Xornam Glover reports.
The Metropolitan Chief Executive for Tema, Mr Felix Mensah Nii Anang-La, explained to the Daily Graphic that the move was to ensure that people did not come up with excuses for not wearing a nose mask as directed by the Greater Accra Regional Co-ordinating Council (GARCC) and the Ghana Health Service (GHS) which was also in line with section 14 of the Public Health Act, Act 851.
He said the assembly had already undertaken a programme to sensitise the people to the need to wear a nose mask once in public and had invested money to purchase and distribute nose masks free of charge to the public.
He said after all that the assembly had put in place, anyone found without a mask in public would be arrested by the police and sanctioned as stipulated in Act 851.
In a related development, the TMA last Saturday received an additional support of 10,000 pieces of disposable nose masks from the Sentuo Group in support of the directive on nose masks.
The masks are to be distributed at transport terminals and other public spaces in the metropolis.
A consultant with the Sentuo Group, Mr Emmanuel Ayensu, said his outfit found it necessary to support the assembly with the nose masks, especially now that the partial lockdown of the metropolis had been lifted.
Source: Daily Graphic
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A part of white rock's pier has collapsed. Boats from the nearby marina have broken away and are now battering the side of the pier. Large waves also adding to the fury. There are reports of several people being on the pier when the boats broke away and were then trapped.