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SAVE SHARP PARK
Sharp Park - Why We Fight Jack Fleming's 1932 Preview of The "New" Sharp Park "Sharparkology" 101
Sharp Park TPC Harding Park Lincoln Park Gleneagles Golden Gate
In Memorium: Barbara Tatum October 7, 1924 - February 4, 2017
The San Francisco golf community lost a great friend and supporter.
New Year… New Challenges. A letter from the Founders of the San Francisco Public Golf Alliance.
A look back on our progress and forward to the challenges ahead. 2016 was another very good year for San Francisco public golf and in particular for our historic Alister MacKenzie muni masterpiece at Sharp Park. 2017 will bring new challenges.
SF Recreation & Park and Planning Commissions Approve Natural Areas Management Final Environmental Impact Report and Sharp Park Plan
By a combined 11-1 vote, the San Francisco Planning and Recreation & Park Commissions approved the RECPARK Natural Areas Management Plan including a Sharp Park Restoration Plan to retain Alister MacKenzie's historic 18-hole golf course.
Community Unites to Save Sharp Park at 5th Annual Alister MacKenzie Tournament
To the Players, Sponsors, Donors, Volunteers, and other friends of the 2016 Alister MacKenzie Tournament: Thank you for helping to Save Sharp Park!
UPDATE: Silent Auction to Save Sharp Park Ended! Thanks to all who contributed!
The benefit auction to Save Sharp Park featured some great golf courses.
Executive Women's Golf Day a Big Hit at Swinging Skirts Tournament
The Executive Women's Golf Day at the Swinging Skirts LPGA Classic exemplify the future of the game.
Register For Executive Women's Day at Swinging Skirts Tournament
San Francisco Mayor's Women's Golf Council presents the Swinging Skirts Executive Women's Day on Wednesday, April 20, 2016. This inaugural event will be held at Lake Merced Golf Club and will bring together influential women from the Bay Area to engage in topics focused on personal and professional development.
The Fifth Annual Alister MacKenzie Benefit Tournament To Save Sharp Park
Sign-ups are now open for Sponsors, Teams, and Players in the 2016 Alister MacKenzie Tournament, June 4 at Sharp Park. All proceeds go toward the ongoing campaign to save and renovate this seaside public golf gem.
Photo Essay - Annual Alister MacKenzie Tournament to Save Sharp Park - May, 2015
Planning for the 5th Annual Annual Alister MacKenzie Benefit Tournament to Save Sharp Park is underway. First, a look back at the fun and fantastic support we enjoyed at last year's event.
Seaside Links and Alister MacKenzie top Golf Digest's Rankings of the World's 100 Greatest Courses
The world's greatest golf courses are seaside links, the world's greatest golf architect is Alister MacKenzie, and Sharp Park is the world's only Seaside Municipal Golf Course designed by Alister MacKenzie.
How To Promote San Francisco As A Golf Destination In 1933 (or 2016)
by - Mike Wallach
It was the golden age of golf course design. San Francisco was eager to show off its magnificent new courses. A full page ad from the December,1933 edition of the Saturday Evening Post featured San Francisco golf.
Happy Holidays! We have much to be thankful for in 2015
As we give thanks and enjoy this holiday season with friends and family, we look back on an eventful 2015 with gratitude and appreciation to the members, supporters and volunteers who support the mission of the San Francisco Public Golf Alliance.
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Q: Tomcat8 start failure with Primefaces JSF App I have a JSF2.2 application running fine on Tomcat7. I now have to move it to Tomcat8 and the application is not starting anymore.
The error is:
03-Jul-2019 15:41:47.655 INFO [localhost-startStop-1] org.primefaces.webapp.PostConstructApplicationEventListener.processEvent Running on PrimeFaces 5.1
03-Jul-2019 15:41:47.655 INFO [localhost-startStop-1] org.primefaces.webapp.PostConstructApplicationEventListener.processEvent Running on PrimeFaces 5.1
03-Jul-2019 15:41:47.655 SEVERE [localhost-startStop-1] org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext.startInternal One or more listeners failed to start. Full details will be found in the appropriate container log file
03-Jul-2019 15:41:47.659 SEVERE [localhost-startStop-1] org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext.startInternal Context [/NPSAdmin] startup failed due to previous errors
03-Jul-2019 15:41:47.662 SEVERE [localhost-startStop-1] javax.faces.FactoryFinder$FactoryManager.getFactory Application was not properly initialized at startup, could not find Factory: javax.faces.application.ApplicationFactory. Attempting to find backup.
03-Jul-2019 15:41:47.663 SEVERE [localhost-startStop-1] com.sun.faces.config.ConfigureListener.contextDestroyed Unexpected exception when attempting to tear down the Mojarra runtime
 java.lang.IllegalStateException: Could not find backup for factory javax.faces.application.ApplicationFactory.
    at javax.faces.FactoryFinder$FactoryManager.getFactory(FactoryFinder.java:1135)
    at javax.faces.FactoryFinder.getFactory(FactoryFinder.java:379)
    at com.sun.faces.config.InitFacesContext.getApplication(InitFacesContext.java:140)
    at com.sun.faces.config.ConfigureListener.contextDestroyed(ConfigureListener.java:310)
    at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext.listenerStop(StandardContext.java:4817)
    at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext.stopInternal(StandardContext.java:5474)
    at org.apache.catalina.util.LifecycleBase.stop(LifecycleBase.java:226)
    at org.apache.catalina.util.LifecycleBase.start(LifecycleBase.java:154)
    at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.addChildInternal(ContainerBase.java:754)
    at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.addChild(ContainerBase.java:730)
    at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHost.addChild(StandardHost.java:734)
    at org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig.deployWAR(HostConfig.java:980)
    at org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig$DeployWar.run(HostConfig.java:1851)
    at java.util.concurrent.Executors$RunnableAdapter.call(Executors.java:511)
    at java.util.concurrent.FutureTask.run(FutureTask.java:266)
    at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:1142)
    at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:617)
    at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:745)

I have been searching for similar issues and could not solve it. In my tomcat lib I have the servlet-api.jar, but no other jsf related file.
    In my webapp I have:
    jsf-api-2.2.2.jar
    jsf-impl-2.2.2.jar
    primefaces-5.1.jar
    No other jar like javax.faces have been found in the lib directories
We can also see from the logs that primefaces is found and activated:
org.primefaces.webapp.PostConstructApplicationEventListener.processEvent Running on PrimeFaces 5.1

So my feeling is that it is not a classpatch issue explaining why the Factory was not found.
I searched the tomcat logs, but there is nothing in it
I am running this issue with Tomcat8 on mac osX and on ubuntu
My web.xml is like this:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<web-app xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee" xsi:schemaLocation="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee/web-app_3_0.xsd" version="3.0">
  <display-name>NPSAdmin</display-name>
  <servlet>
    <servlet-name>Faces Servlet</servlet-name>
    <servlet-class>javax.faces.webapp.FacesServlet</servlet-class>
    <load-on-startup>1</load-on-startup>
  </servlet>
  <servlet-mapping>
    <servlet-name>Faces Servlet</servlet-name>
    <url-pattern>/faces/*</url-pattern>
  </servlet-mapping>
  <servlet-mapping>
    <servlet-name>Faces Servlet</servlet-name>
    <url-pattern>*.xhtml</url-pattern>
  </servlet-mapping>

  <context-param>
    <description>State saving method: 'client' or 'server' (=default). See JSF Specification 2.5.2</description>
    <param-name>javax.faces.STATE_SAVING_METHOD</param-name>
    <param-value>client</param-value>
  </context-param>
  <context-param>
    <param-name>javax.servlet.jsp.jstl.fmt.localizationContext</param-name>
    <param-value>resources.application</param-value>
  </context-param>
  <context-param>
    <param-name>javax.faces.FACELETS_LIBRARIES</param-name>
    <param-value>/WEB-INF/springsecurity.taglib.xml</param-value>
  </context-param>
  <context-param>
    <param-name>contextConfigLocation</param-name>
    <param-value>
            /WEB-INF/applicationContext.xml
            /WEB-INF/securityContext.xml
        </param-value>
  </context-param>
<context-param>
    <param-name>primefaces.THEME</param-name>
    <param-value>npsadmin</param-value>
</context-param>
  <listener>
    <listener-class>org.springframework.web.context.ContextLoaderListener</listener-class>
  </listener>
  <listener>
    <listener-class>
            org.springframework.web.context.request.RequestContextListener
        </listener-class>
  </listener>
  <filter>
    <filter-name>springSecurityFilterChain</filter-name>
    <filter-class>org.springframework.web.filter.DelegatingFilterProxy</filter-class>
  </filter>
  <filter-mapping>
    <filter-name>springSecurityFilterChain</filter-name>
    <url-pattern>/*</url-pattern>
  </filter-mapping>
  <listener>
    <listener-class>com.sun.faces.config.ConfigureListener</listener-class>
  </listener>

    <!-- JNDI DB Connection -->
    <resource-ref>
        <description>DB Connection</description>
        <res-ref-name>jdbc/AnonymDB</res-ref-name>
        <res-type>javax.sql.DataSource</res-type>
        <res-auth>Container</res-auth>
    </resource-ref>
</web-app>

A: Thank you for your comments. I had also tried to remove com.sun.faces.config.ConfigureListener entry in web.xml.
This did not change.
The reason was simple: a spring component could not start because of a configuration issue. This is where the issue was. The error message was misleading.
I corrected the the configuration and it works.
Please be aware that this error message can be misleading

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BA (Hons) Game Arts and Design is a new and exciting course that focuses both on the creative and technical side of gaming. Working with experienced game developers and researchers you will look at designing characters, environments and gameplay. Spend some of your time studying alongside illustration students where you can hone your character and environment skills.
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Your assessments are 100 per cent coursework – no exams.
Be inspired by lecturers who are experts in their field, with backgrounds in both industry and research. The exciting work going on in our research groups, i-DAT and Planetary Collegium, feeds back into the teaching on this course.
Get ready for work - take an optional additional year and secure a paid placement with a games company.
Broaden your horizons with great enrichment activities including overseas field trips. Previous locations have included Berlin, Helsinki and New York.
Get exclusive insights with talks from guest speakers from the creative arts and technology industries.
Get a grounding in key techniques and gain a critical understanding of the theories behind game development. You are introduced to character development, interaction technologies and approaches to immersion, along with the coding skills and creative design strategies that underpin them.
This module introduces issues and techniques involved in designing and developing immersive experiences. This module takes a user-centred approach to the production of virtual and blended reality environments (including a wide range of different styles and types of game. The key to this module is the combination and integration of sensory stimuli to produce an engaging and compelling, whilst at the same time coherent user experience.
You will explore interactive storytelling and animation / sequence creation within your work via a range of traditional and digital media and formats. Storytelling, narrative pacing, creative writing and animation are features of this module. Critical reflective writing underpins practical work.
Students create character and environment concepts as digital paintings, and realise their designs as detailed 3D models. Drawing and painting skills are developed, exploring figure, proportion, lighting, colour and value. Students learn advanced modelling and texturing skills using state-of-the-art software platforms, rigging their characters for animation and exporting them to game engines. In addition, students develop presentation skills and showcase their work in a digital portfolio.
You are introduced to advanced design and programming techniques, helping you develop your individual creative practice. Professional collaborations with industry give you insights into the benefits of both individual and group ways of working.
This module builds on the game programming skills developed to this point, and applies them to working with a range of different game genres. Students explore first-person shooters, 3rd-person adventures, driving games, 2D platformers and arcade shoot `em ups. Working individually, they choose two of these genres and produce games that demonstrates the application of animation, physics, trigonometry, artificial intelligence, user interface, and game state management.
This module focuses on designing virtual environments and game levels. Students will consider the ludic and narrative role of level design and apply these to the production of an interactive game environment. Students will be presented with a variety of theoretical frameworks that will help them better understand human cognitive processes and thus aid them in designing and creating more engaging game levels. Automated procedural generation will also be explored.
Individual research identifies, analyses, and communicates an investigation into the work of an individual or a group of practitioners in illustration or an allied practice. Lectures and research run concurrently throughout the module, to support the writing of an essay. Preparation for dissertation is undertaken. Drawing skills develop along with knowledge of the value of drawing within your illustrative practice.
An optional paid 48-week work placement offers invaluable practical work experience. We recommend it because it enhances your final year of study and you are also more likely to receive project sponsorship and immediate employment with your placement company after you graduate.
Focus on your own particular areas of interest by selecting from a range of optional modules and a significant final year project. These allow you to develop skills relevant to industry and enhance your employability.
Applicants must share a portfolio with us.
computer-based and online work: algorithmic artworks, web pages, games, blogs etc.- media: video, photographs, sound pieces, music.
BA (Hons) Game Arts and Design is part of the digital art and technology group at the University of Plymouth, a multidisciplinary collective of coders, artists, designers and hackers who work with data visualisation, games, virtual reality, kinects, robotics, interactive installations, sound design and everything else digital.
All of our lecturers are practising games designers, coders and digital artists. Our courses combine creative and technical skills with cultural and new media theory - producing graduates who are highly employable while also seeing the world in a new way.
Our Digital Media Design course has resulted in a number of startups including Mutant Labs games company, Play Nicely digital design and TruVision VR who are currently making waves with virtual reality models for architects.
We aim to future-proof our students, to prepare them for an ever-changing world, where technologies evolve, but smart thinking is always in demand.
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Smith-Lawrence buddy flick continues apace
For the fourth consecutive weekend, Bad Boys for Life took the No. 1 spot at the U.S. box office with another $17.7 million in sales, upping the flick's 24-day domestic sales total to just under $143 million.
Look for Bad Boys for Life to top the $300 million mark in worldwide sales next week, making it the first major hit of 2020. It's good to see Martin Lawrence, one of the funniest people of the 1990s, getting a chance at a proper second act.
Also at the Box
Sam Mendes' 1917 continued to strengthen its case for Best Picture frontrunner at this year's upcoming Oscars ceremony, taking the No. 2 spot at last weekend's domestic box with another $9.7 million, upping the artsy war film's worldwide sales so far to about $250 million. If 1917 hits the $300 million mark by next weekend, I get the feeling it'll also win the Best Picture trophy. People are really loving this film.
Kiddie comedy (and one of the worst reviewed films of recent memory) Doolittle continued to bring the kids out to the theater, taking the No. 3 spot at last weekend's box office with another $7.7 million in sales, upping the film's 17-day total to about $55 million. Not what the studio expected when they were planning the film, but probably much more than they thought they'd get once the reviews started rolling in.
The completely unnecessary Gretel & Hansel opened weak, taking the No. 4 spot at the box with just over $6 million in sales over its first three days of release.
Meanwhile, Guy Ritchie's The Gentlemen, a movie that's getting great word-of-mouth, rounded out the weekend's domestic Top 5 with another $6 million in sales, bringing the film's 10-day worldwide sales total to just under $50 million.
Also of note
Greta Gerwig's Little Women continued to sell tickets, crossing the $160 million worldwide sales mark this past weekend. I knew back when I was obsessing over mumblecore flicks like Hannah Takes the Stairs, Nights and Weekends, and Baghead that Gerwig was special, but I never saw this coming.
This weekend will see just one new wide release, Cathy Yan's Birds of Prey: And the Fantabulous Emancipation of One Harley Quinn, featuring Margot Robbie as Harley Quinn, Mary Elizabeth Winstead as Huntress, and Ewan McGregor as Roman Sionis. Chris Messina, Rosie Perez, and Ali Wong co-star in this comic book film that appears poised to make Robbie the most in-demand actress in Hollywood. This movie looks really bad to me, but I'm ready for Margot to take over. She's incredible.
Also out in limited release is horror flick The Lodge, starring Riley Keogh, Alicia Silverstone, and Richard Armitage. I could see this one doing well in a few weeks when it hits streaming services and home video.
Beautiful acting, imagery in adaptation of Macbeth
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Q: How to create custom widgets for Qt I am trying my hands on Qt custom widget. I am working on this example http://doc.trolltech.com/4.5/designer-customwidgetplugin.html
I have changed nothing as mentioned in the example. I am able to generate a .so file in the designer folder, but then nothing happens after that. I am not able to see the plugin in my Qt editor. When I check the Tools-> Forms editor->About Qt Designer plugins, I find just one plugin QtWebView which was a default plugin.
Where am I going wrong. Where do I find the Qt plugins?
Regards

A: Designer plugins go to the plugins/designer subdirectory of your Qt installation. Alternatively, you can set QT_PLUGIN_PATH. For example, add mybuilddir/plugins to QT_PLUGIN_PATH if your plugin is in mybuilddir/plugins/designer.


There can't be many people left who doubt that Neil deGrasse Tyson is science's greatest celebrity. His day job as director of New York's spectacular Hayden Planetarium made him prominent enough, but he's parlayed that position into frequent appearances on the Colbert Report, the Daily Show, Real Time with Bill Maher and plenty of other high-profile programs. He hosted NOVA Science Now on PBS for half a decade. He has 1.67 million followers on Twitter. He attracts crowds wherever he goes: tickets for a talk he'll be giving in Toronto later this month reportedly sold out in well under a minute.
One crucial difference between the old and the new, of course, is that the science has come a long way in three decades. Carl Sagan couldn't tell us about dark energy, or the discovery of exoplanets, or the sequencing of the human genome or string theory or the discovery of the Higgs boson because they hadn't happened yet. If you want to experience the greatest hits of 21st century science, this is the place.
What made the original series so compelling wasn't the science alone, however. Sagan, along with his wife, Ann Druyan and their collaborator, astrophysicist Steven Soter, also helped viewers gain a perspective on humanity's place in the universe, in both space and time—something Tyson does as well.
It's hard to argue with his reasoning on that score, although Tyson's own commanding yet quirky personality could have carried Cosmos almost on its own. At one point, he takes us via some sort of magic spaceship to witness the Big Bang, the moment when our entire universe was born in an unimaginably bright burst of energy. Just before it happens, he coolly slips on a pair of shades.
Take a look at Cosmos this weekend, and you'll see that it's true. Sagan's Cosmos was hugely popular in its time, thanks largely to its low-keyed host's genius for communication. Tyson isn't exactly low-key—but one way or another, he's inherited Sagan's genius.


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Q: Windows 10 - Set updates download time would it be possible to change scheduled time of download in Windows 10?
Every day one of my Windows 10 machines start to download updates that saturate my bandwidth. I want to teach them to download only at night.

A: No, not yet. There is a feature request running for that one (but its 6 months old+)
If you got a proxy or a firewall that you can add rule with timeset, you could block them that way to make a temporary solution.


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Concealed Carry Weapon
Subject: Ridgecrest Police Department Concealed Carry Weapons (CCW) Permit – Applicant Information
To summarize the policy and procedures for issuing, revoking, and amending permits to carry concealed weapons
The Chief of Police of the Ridgecrest Police Department of Kern County may issue a CCW permit pursuant to Section 12050(a) (1) (13) and (C) of the California Penal Code. Such issuance is discretionary – the Chief of Police is not required to issue a CCW permit, nor does the applicant have a right to such a permit. Certain criteria must be examined prior to the Chief of Police issuing a CCW permit. This Department attempts to issue CCW permits in a fair and equitable manner to the public while at the same time insuring that the public is not endangered by careless proliferation of needless permits.
Eligibility - Adult Citizens, who:
Reside in Ridgecrest;
Demonstrate good moral character,
Demonstrate good cause for carrying a concealed weapon, and,
Have successfully completed an acceptable course of training are eligible for a CCW permit
For a city or county to be considered an applicant's principal place of employment or business, the applicant must be physically present in it during a substantial part of his/her working hours for purposes of that employment or business.
Persons appointed by the Chief of Police as a reserve peace officer are eligible for permit issued by the Chief of Police, provided:
They demonstrate good moral character, and
Good cause exists for the issuance of a permit
Good Cause: Both Penal Code Section 12050(a)(1) and the Police Department's responsibility for the public's safety dictate that good cause be established prior to the Chief of Police issuing a CCW permit. In evaluating good cause and determining whether it has been established, the Chief of Police will give careful consideration to the reason(s) for requesting the permit that is/are documented on the application. Personal convenience alone will not constitute good cause for the issuance of a permit. Job position, classification, or an asserted need for personal protection will not alone establish good cause, but they may weigh significantly in determining good cause
Acceptable Course of Training: This course is not to exceed 16 hours in length. However, this department may optionally require all applicants to complete a community college course certified by the Commission on Peace Officer Standards and Training, not to exceed 24 hours. Training is required uniformly of all permit applicants without exception and will include instruction on firearm safety and the law regarding the permissible use of a firearm. Permit renewal applicants are required to take a similar course that is at least 4 hours in duration. Course certificates are subject to review by the Ridgecrest Police Department for acceptance.
Local: This Department will collect $20.00 of its total fee for the actual costs of processing the application at the time of filing. The remainder will be collected at the time a permit is issued. This department's total fee is currently set at $100.00 and does not include any fingerprinting or training costs that are paid to others. This department will charge for the original application and $10 for an amended permit and an additional fee of up to $25 for renewal processing. These local fees will increase at the same rate the California Consumer Index increases. This Department may waive fees for processing the application for a peace officer appointed pursuant to subdivision (a) or (b) of Penal Code Section 830.7. All local fees will be transmitted to the appropriate local treasury.
Psychological Testing: An applicant may be charged up to $150 for the cost of psychological testing, if such testing is required and conducted. The psychologist used shall be the same used by this department in testing of its own employees. An applicant can be charged up to $150 a second time for further psychological testing, but only if there is compelling evidence that such testing is necessary.
Department of Justice: The Department of Justice can charge to the applicant the costs of processing the applicant's background check. This fee is currently set at $95. This fee will increase per the legislatively approved annual cost-of-living adjustments for the Department of Justice's budget.
"Except as authorized pursuant to subdivisions (a), (b), and (c), no requirement, change, assessment, fee, or condition that requires the payment of any additional funds by the applicant may be imposed by any licensing authority as a condition of the application for a license." Penal Code Section 12054(d).
Exposed weapon permit: (if the population of Kern County is less than 200,000 according to the last federal census) The Chief of Police may, at his/her discretion, issue a permit to carry an exposed weapon
Restrictions: An issued permit may include any reasonable restrictions or conditions that the Chief of Police deems warranted, including restrictions as to the time, place, manner and circumstances under which the permit holder may carry a concealed weapon. Any such restrictions will be indicated on the permit itself.
A CCW permit does not allow a permit holder to picket with a concealed weapon. This act is prohibited by Penal Code Section 12590.
The permit holder must notify this department in writing within ten (10) days of any change in place of residence.
Expiration: A CCW permit is valid for up to two (2) years, with some exceptions:
A permit issued to one of the following individuals is valid for up to three years; a judge of a California court of record, a full-time court commissioner of a California court of record, a judge of a federal court, or a magistrate of a federal court.
If the permit holder moves from the county of issuance and his residence in that county was the basis for issuance, the permit would expire ninety days after moving.
A permit issued to a reserve peace officer is valid for up to four years, or up to the conclusion of that officer's appointment, whichever comes first.
If the permit is for an exposed weapon and the holder moves to another county, the permit expires immediately.
Records and Reports: This department is responsible for:
An annual submission to the Attorney General of the total number of permits granted to peace officers (including reserve peace officers) and judges.
Keeping a record of and notifying the Department of Justice whenever a permit is issued, amended or revoked, or an application or amendment is denied.
Publishing and making available a written policy summarizing the provisions of Penal Code sections 12050(a)(1)(A) and (B).
Criteria Towards Approval or Denial
The Chief of Police may consider the following criteria in deciding whether good cause and/or good moral character has been demonstrated:
Criteria that favor approval:
Applicant is a retired or off-duty law enforcement officer, prosecutor, or judge.
Applicant satisfactorily demonstrates a danger to his/her life or of great bodily harm to self, spouse, or dependent children, which cannot be reasonably avoided by alternative measures, and which would be significantly mitigated by the applicant's carrying of a concealed weapon.
Criteria that favor denial:
Renunciation of United States citizenship.
A history of recent substance or alcohol abuse.
A punitive discharge from the military service.
Previous denial for cause of a CCW permit.
Automatic denial: If the Department of Justice determines that the applicant falls within a prohibited class described in Penal Code Section 12021 or 12021.1 or Welfare and Institutions Code Section 8100 or 8103, the Chief of Police will automatically deny the application.
The Chief of Police may also consider any other available information related to good cause or moral character.
The applicant must complete the current California Department of Justice Standard Application for License to Carry a Concealed Weapon (CCW) Form. In completing the application form the applicant will be required to state his/her name, occupation, residence and business address, age, height, weight, color of eyes and hair, and reason for desiring a permit. The applicant will be required to sign the application.
The applicant will attest to the truthfulness of statements contained in the application. S/he will be advised that knowingly making false statements is punishable as a misdemeanor, and knowingly making false statements regarding any of the following is punishable as a felony:
Denial or revocation of a permit, or denial of an amendment to a permit.
A criminal conviction.
A finding of not guilty by reason of insanity.
The use of a controlled substance.
A dishonorable discharge from military service.
A commitment to a mental institution.
A renunciation of United States citizenship.
Applicants will return the completed application along with proof of passing the approved training course and will not be required to provide any other information, with the exception of any information necessary to clarify the information given on the form. However, applicants may be required to submit to psychological testing if the Chief of Police deems such testing necessary. If this department requires psychological testing, the applicant will be referred to a licensed psychologist used by this department to test its own employees.
The fingerprints of each applicant will be taken by livescan and will be forwarded to the Department of Justice, along with the fee the Department of Justice requires for processing the application and issuing a report to the Chief of Police. The Department will then furnish the Chief of Police a report of all data and information it may have that pertains to the applicant, including information as to whether the person is prohibited under Penal Code section 12021 or 12021.1 or Welfare and Institutions Code section 8100 or 8103 from possessing, receiving, owning or purchasing a firearm. However, if the applicant already has a permit or has previously applied for one, and information has previously been forwarded to the Department of Justice, no application form or fingerprints will be required.
Upon receipt of the report of the Department of Justice, the Chief of Police will either accept or deny the application.
If the Chief of Police accepts the application, the applicant will be notified in writing within 90 days of filing the application for a new permit or permit renewal, or 30 days after receipt of the applicant's criminal background check from the Department of Justice, whichever is later. The applicant will be required to remit the remainder of the local fee charged for processing.
An issued permit will contain, in addition to the information the applicant is required to state on the application, a description of the weapon(s) authorized to be carried, including the name of the manufacture, the serial number, and the caliber. An issued permit will be laminated.
If the Chief of Police denies the application, the applicant will be notified in the manner prescribed above.
Automatic: The Chief of Police will revoke a permit if s/he determine, or is notified by the Department of Justice, that the permit holder is within a prohibited class described in Penal Code section 12021 or 12021.1 or Welfare and Institutions Code section 8100 or 8103.
Discretionary: The Chief of Police may also revoke a permit if s/he is given reason to believe that allowing the applicant to carry a concealed weapon would no longer be in the best interest of public safety. Instances that may lead to such a conclusion include, but are not limited to, the following:
Permit holder fails to comply with the requirements of the Penal Code or any rule, regulation, or other applicable law that must be compiled with in all particulars.
Permit holder fails to carry permit on his or her person at all times while carrying a concealed weapon, and/or fails to submit permit and/or weapon for inspection on demand of a peace officer or other proper public employee.
Permit holder fails to give strict attention to the safety and rights of the public while carrying a firearm.
Permit holder fails to maintain his/her weapon in good working order.
Permit holder suffers an emotional or nervous disorder which interferes with the ability to safely use or operate a firearm.
Permit holder is committed either voluntarily, to a hospital, mental institution, or other facility for treatment of a mental or emotional disorder or for the abuse of alcohol or illegal drugs.
Permit holder becomes intoxicated while carrying a firearm.
Procedure: Upon revocation the Chief of Police will immediately notify the Department of Justice and the permit holder in writing. The permit holder is not entitled to a hearing prior to revocation if his/her livelihood is not dependent on the permit and the permit is of a restrictive nature. The Chief of Police will not make public the reason for revocation, so as to avoid liability for damaging a permit holder's reputation.
Reason(s): A person with a CCW permit may apply for an amendment to the permit to do one or more of the following:
Add or delete authority to carry a particular concealable weapon.
Change any restrictions or conditions on the permit, including restrictions on the time, place, manner and circumstances under which the permit holder may carry a concealable weapon.
Authorize the permit holder to carry a concealable weapon.
(if the county population is less than 200,000 according to the latest federal census) Authorize the permit holder to carry an exposed weapon.
Processing: Applications for amendments to permits must be filed in writing and signed by the applicant, and must state what type of amendment from the above list is sought and why it is sought.
A permit cannot be amended to extend its original expiration date. An application for an amendment is not the same as an application for a renewal.
If the permit holder changes his/her address, a new permit will be issued reflecting the change.
An applicant wishing to appeal the denial of an application for a permit or an amendment to a permit, or of a revocation of a permit may do so by contacting the Commander of Support Services and scheduling a date and time for a hearing.
Automatic denial: During this hearing the Chief of Police or his/her designee will uphold the denial or revocation if it is determined that the applicant or permit holder is a member of a class that is disallowed by law from carrying a weapon, per Penal Code section 12021 or 12021.1 or Welfare and Institutions Code section 8100 or 8103.
Discretionary review: Criteria that might favor upholding the denial or revocation include, but are not limited to:
Circumstances consistent with those of applicants who have been denied permits in the past.
A recommendation by the City Attorney that the denial or revocation be upheld.
Further appeal: If this department upholds the denial or revocation, the appealer can appeal to the Attorney General in writing.
Confidentiality Ruling
Pursuant to the California Supreme Court Case CBS versus Block, information contained on this application may be released to the general public and/or media, except as otherwise provided by law


In June of 2009, Oak Cliff Bible Fellowship's Next Level hosted, "Fight of My Life". X-Factor (a group of world-class athletes who spread the gospel and inspire others) offered words of encouragement and inspiration, while performing feats of strength in front of hundreds of youth. This event was positively received by all in attendance.


Here at Ableworld we pride ourselves on going the extra mile for our customers, and we love to be able to shout about it. Our 34 stores work tirelessly to ensure we help as many customers as possible finding the right mobility aid for their needs and ensuring they can continue to enjoy their life.
2017 was a great year for Ableworld and we have our fantastic customers to thank for that up and down the UK. We wanted to take the opportunity to share with you the bits that we loved the most.
We launched 3 new stores last year; in Bournemouth, on the South coast of England, Stockport on the outskirts of Manchester and Southport in Merseyside. All of these stores got off to a great start thanks to all of our lovely customers helping to support our launch, and understanding that our staff really do care about their needs. We get a great satisfaction knowing that we are helping people on a daily basis, whether that be with free advice, mobility aids at affordable prices, or just going the extra mile to help someone in need, we love being able to help.
Not only did we launch three new stores, we also undertook an amazing transformation of our Newport store. Extending the store and the range we can offer our customers in the Newport, Telford and Shropshire areas.
We strengthened our brand with the addition of being dedicated to becoming Which Trusted Traders for all of our stores. We received the endorsement at the end of 2016 and have loved being able to shout about such a great achievement so far in 2017. We are endorsed as an Approved Service for the installation, repair and service of the mobility aids we provide, ensuring our customers have the peace of mind that all of our engineers are here to help get the most out of your mobility aids by fixing broken parts, offering free advice, or providing value for money solutions for any replacements you may need.
We have been able to attend and organise many events throughout 2017 all of which have been well loved by our customers and staff. We introduced Reconnecting Generations this year, bringing together younger and older generations to share moments and make memories together. These events have been amazing, and so satisfying watching these two generations interact together. We love being able to put a smile on the faces of people living in care homes, or children visiting from a local nursery by sharing music, snacks and stories about what they enjoy doing in their own time. Many of the older residents commented that it made them feel younger, and they loved being able to join in with their new friends.
We also hosted more of our scooter proficiency events, giving people the confidence to use their mobility equipment safely in a secure environment, providing them with information including a free highway code and little tips ensuring they love using their mobility equipment as often as they need to in the future.
At Christmas we were able to support a local hospital with their shoeboxes for the elderly appeal. We asked customers and staff to support the initiative by making up shoeboxes of gifts including puzzle books, pens, chocolates and gifts to show anyone who was spending Christmas in hospital, and possibly alone, that someone does still care about them and we loved being part of such a great success, donating over 50 shoeboxes.
All of our staff love being able to come up with ideas of how we can help customers on a daily basis and this year we have been inundated with images of happy customers around our stores and amazing reviews about how our staff have helped customers. We love to hear these stories and see the pictures of how we have helped someone regain their independence.
One of the most rewarding initiatives that we continue to run is surprising our un-suspecting customers with gifts, good gestures or giving them their money back in our amazing prize draws and this year we have been able to provide more of these great moments back to our customers than ever before. We have lucky winners who won back the price of their road scooters, including customers from Rhyl in North Wales, and Stockport. We have also surprised customers with their money back for their new stairlift purchase including customers from Darlington in the North East, Broxburn near Edinburgh and Cardiff in Wales – we love seeing their faces when we surprise them with their money back.
Our dedicated staff in our stores, head office teams and directors have all enjoyed going the extra mile for our customers and local charities in 2017. Including one of our Directors climbing Mount Kilimanjaro and raising over £2500 for his nominated charities. Ableworld supported, and helped to deliver a colour run for a local school raising around £2000 for the school and a local prostate cancer charity. Stores and head office have also taken part in many bake off challenges, Christmas jumper days and sponsored events for a variety of charities including the Alzheimer's Society, Save the Children and local charities.
We cannot thank you our customers enough for supporting us over the past year, whether you have shopped with us, attended an event, followed us on social media or picked up the phone and asked us a question, we really wouldn't have been able to do any of these great things without you!


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Though hardly "free" it may soon be get out of "jail" day for two actual and would be presidential assassins. The forgetful and sloppy press coverage of the liberations proposed for Sirhan Sirhan and John Hinckley, Jr. is a profound disservice to the American public. The cases are being analyzed and reported as very similar. They were not and are not.
Jodie Foster & John Hinckley, Jr.
The important differences involve basic principles and goals of criminal justice. Starting there, and contrary to what right and left fielders tell us – criminal justice aims to deter, punish and rehabilitate. Not just one or two of those three.
Hinckley was not only not found guilty of the attempted murder of actual President Ronald Reagan, he was found "not guilty" by reason of insanity. That's not a technicality and not "mere" or modified by other falsely minimizing adjectives. It is very tough to sustain the insanity complete legal defense to a criminal charge and was especially difficult in Hinckley's extraordinarily unsympathetic case. The man who initially planned to kill Jimmy Carter and later Jodie Foster and/or himself to prove his love for her/she/hers has been incarcerated for more than 40 years, though barely so recently. Not as punishment, but to protect others and him from another violent manifestation of his mental illness.
Neither we, nor the Ronald Reagan Foundation and Institute, that opposes Hinckley's complete release, is qualified to dispute the exhaustive clinical findings about Hinckley's current state of health. And though as we've said, the jury's verdict of no guilt takes his case out of an inquiry into whether the three rationales for criminal justice are being served, its rehabilitation objective is roughly analogous to the remediation goal in the treatment of all human illness, physical and mental. On that score the judge has ruled that the doctors all agree that after four decades of treatment Hinckley poses no significant risk to harm others or himself.
Sirhan Sirhan
Sirhan, who was convicted for the actual murder of Robert F. Kennedy, a man who in 1968 would be King, was initially sentenced to death. As a result of both judicial and legislative actions at the federal and state levels that sentence was commuted to life in prison. The entirely apposite examination of criminal justice's three objectives is required here.
Has Sirhan's punishment deterred others? Certainly not Hinckley nor "Squeaky" but possibly some.[1] And if so whether death or life in prison is a greater and better deterrent is a debate we will defer. What seems clear is if punishment really deters future crime, the knowledge that no crime however heinous (we consider Sirhan's extremely so) eliminates all chance of future freedom and of getting to die in one's own bed, undercuts that deterrence.
Lynette Alice "Squeaky" Fromme
Has Sirhan been adequately punished? Not to the extent nor in the manner intended by a jury of his peers. Let's not get stuck on the death penalty but proceed to the substituted sentence of life. Sirhan's parole is not his right nor his due, but a discretionary act of clemency.[2] RFK's widow and most of his children oppose parole while others support it. Their positions, though far far more relevant than the Reagan Foundation's on Hinckley, should not be dispositive. Each of us, and especially those who lived with Attorney General and Senator and likely President Robert Kennedy should consider this.
Has Sirhan been rehabilitated? After a very long string of unequivocal and detailed confessions of guilt and of malice of forethought, both documented in his diaries and on the Robert Frost show, Sirhan's most recent pertinent statement was "It's all vague now. I'm sure you all have it in your records. I can't deny it or confirm it. I just wish this whole thing had never taken place."
Rory Kennedy
That didn't show sufficient contrition or rehabilitation to Rory Kennedy, the youngest child of Robert and Ethel Kennedy, born after his murder. Whatever this tells you about Sirhan's recognition, remorse and rehabilitation relative to his crime, that case and Governor Gavin Newsom's ultimate determination of the plea for parole and clemency have virtually nothing in common with the issues raised in the pending proceeding involving John Hinckley, Jr.
[1] Lynette Alice "Squeaky" Fromme, a member of the "Manson Family" was sentenced to life in prison for the attempted assassination of President Gerald Ford in 1975. She was sentenced to life in prison, served 34 years and was paroled in 2009.
[2] We served on New York State's four-member Executive Clemency Committee, which is the last stop before the governor makes final decisions on such requests for parole, pardon, clemency and commutation – similar to the final decision that California's governor will make in Sirhan's case. In one case where our New York Clemency Committee unanimously recommended the governor allow a terminally ill woman who had murdered her husband and served more than 20 years, to die at home, our recommendation was rejected by the governor.
September 25th, 2021|1 Comment
Beth Farmer October 3, 2021 at 4:32 pm - Reply
The law in DC at the time required the prosecution to prove a defendant making an insanity claim was sane, by proof beyond a reasonable doubt. Not easy to show by any means.
Rhonda Singer October 1, 2021 at 2:39 pm - Reply
You're right.


After a 30-year career in the police force, Petal Police Department Chief Leonard Fuller is officially starting a new chapter - one that involves a little less work and a lot more recreational and family time.
The Petal Board of Aldermen voted unanimously Tuesday evening to accept the resignation/retirement of Fuller, who has served as the department's chief for the past nine and a half years. Fuller will be succeeded by current Assistant Chief Matthew Hiatt, who will officially take over as chief on Jan. 1.
"It's been my honor and privilege to serve the city of Petal," Fuller said at the board meeting. "I thank the board of aldermen - each and every one of you - and I thank the mayor for standing up and helping us in every way that we've asked for.
Along with the acceptance of Fuller's retirement, board members also voted to authorize Fuller to purchase his duty weapon from the city for a cost of $1, as allowed by state law.
"Ever since (I met Fuller), he's always been professional and a great representative of our police department," Mayor Hal Marx said. "I was proud to nominate him three times … and he'll be sorely missed.
Fuller said he decided it was time to pursue other options.
"I don't have anything major planned," he said in a previous story. "I'm going to cut grass, get a part-time job doing something and stay busy.
Before becoming chief in Petal, Fuller worked for 10 years in the Hattiesburg Police Department and served as a state officer in the Florida Park Service. He attended the University of Southern Mississippi, where he graduated with a degree in Parks and Recreation.
"I've got two kids in college, so I'm just going to enjoy spending some time with the family," he said. "As a police officer, I've missed a lot of birthday parties, a lot of dance recitals and band competitions.
Hiatt said he's learned a lot from Fuller during their time working together, and is looking forward to taking over the department.
In other action Tuesday, aldermen also voted to adopt an order appointing Zach Vaughn as Municipal Court Judge pro tem at an annual salary of $6,000, as well as to appoint David Myers as City Prosecutor at an annual salary of $11,000.


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2-7 triple draw is a popular lowball draw poker variant in which the player with the lowest hand wins. 2-7 triple draw has recently become a popular alternative to Texas hold'em in some areas.
How to Play 2-7 Triple Draw
2-7 Triple Draw Hand Rankings
Deuce to seven triple draw
Lowball Draw Poker
Card rank
(highest
to lowest)
2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 J Q K A
Deuce to seven triple draw, commonly known as 2-7 triple draw, is a popular lowball draw poker variant in which the player with the lowest hand wins. Lowball is also known as deuce to seven. 2-7 triple draw has recently become a popular alternative to Texas hold'em in some areas.
The Blinds
Like Texas Holdem and Omaha, blinds are forced bets in draw poker games. The small blind is the player to the left of the dealer; they pay the smaller of the forced bets. The large blind is the player to the left of the small blind. The big blind pays for larger forced bet. Small blinds are usually half the size of large blinds. Both bets, however, are less than a minimum bet. The game may also be played with an ante, which is a small, forced stake that each active player must put.
Dealing and Betting
After the blinds are posted, the dealer will deal five cards to each player, one at a time, beginning with the player with the small blind.
Following the dealing of cards to all players, the first betting round starts with the player to the left of the big blind (UTG).
In fixed increments, players may fold, call, or raise. The game then continues around the table until all bets are finalized.
The First Drawing Round
After the first betting round, the first active player to the left of the dealer button has the option to draw cards to improve their hand. The player may also "stand pat" and retain his or her hand as is. Each player is given the same number of chances to draw cards in turn.
This is followed by another round of betting, which starts with the first remaining active player to the left of the button (exactly as in Holdem). This is also for the subsequent betting rounds.
The Second Drawing Round
Following the first drawing round, there is another round of betting, beginning with the first player to the left of the dealer button. After all bets have been called, players may choose to draw again or stand pat.
The Final Drawing Round
In a fixed-limit game, the minimum bet doubles after the second drawing round. The remaining players draw a third time, followed by a final round of betting. The remaining players will then engage in a showdown.
If there aren't enough cards in the deck for all players to get new ones at any time during the drawing round, the dealer will pick cards from the muck, re-shuffle them, and use these discards to finish the drawing round.
The Showdown
They will proceed to the showdown if there are still two or more active players in the hand following the last betting round.
The winner will be determined using the 2-7 Triple Draw hand rankings, and players who have the same winning hand will split the pot equally.
Straights and flushes count against you since you're trying to make the lowest possible hand.
In 2-7 poker, aces count as high, hence they are bad cards.
When you count backwards from the highest card rather than up from the lowest, it's much easier to figure out your hand.
Below are the top 10 best 2-7 Triple Draw hands:
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Overfinch Range Rover LWB revealed
11 Oct 2014 Isaac Bober
The Overfinch Range Rover LWB is the brand's most expensive and exclusive Range Rover build ever – it can be yours from $370,000.
FOR ALMOST 40 YEARS British tuning company, Overfinch, has been "redefining the legendary range rover, setting new standards of luxury, performance and styling," or so the company's vision statement goes… but the company has done just that with the Range Rover Long Wheelbase, reimagining it to become its most expensive build ever – £200,000, or about $370,000.
Revealed at the recent Salon Privé – the British Supercar Show and Concours d'Elégance 2014, Overfinch says its Overfinch Range Rover LWB isn't designed for drivers, rather for those who like to be driven…
As such, it features a raft of elements aimed at appealing to just such a buyer, like an automated, sliding floor space in the boot, as well as bespoke interior and exterior touches.
"The unique loadspace floor brings the owner's luggage forward for collection once the tailgate is opened. The power sliding floor is finished in Bridge of Weir leather and aluminium runners, replacing traditional carpets," a statement read.
"For the launch vehicle, veneers handcrafted in Piano Black with Mother-of-Pearl inserts are the dominant feature of a refined and elegant cabin.
"Selection of the Mother-of-Pearl inserts is a rigorous process involving skilled craftsmen eye matching every piece with the natural beauty remaining untouched, to create a striking impression evoking different reflections depending on the light."
Painted in Santorini Black, the Overfinch Range Rover LWB package includes hand-laid carbon fibre to the front and rear bumpers and roof spoiler, and an all-new grille. It sits on 22-inch Equus forged-alloy wheels.
Beyond the cosmetic, a new stainless steel exhaust system creates a "sophisticated, characteristic engine note". Butterfly flaps can be opened in the exhaust system by touching a Bluetooth-controlled button to let the thing growl louder.
Overfinch Chairman, Kevin Sloane, said: "For the first time, the larger Range Rover is being used as a chauffeuring vehicle and our interpretation sets a new benchmark of exclusivity.
"The Overfinch LWB is in direct response to growing demand aimed specifically at global, ultra-high net worth customers and is the most expensive we have ever produced.
"We've given careful consideration and perfectly executed additional high value features to significantly increase comfort levels.
"The power sliding loadspace floor is a prime example of the extra touch of refinement that chauffeured individuals will enjoy." Oh to be rich, eh.
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Q: Python to_json function not converting DataFrame to Json in proper format for Date Field I am facing a problem in receiving correct date formatted data from the CSV using to_json function of pandas.
import pandas as pd
import json

df = pd.read_csv("C:\\Users\\shubham\\Desktop\\Output\\MasterData.csv")
df1 = df.to_json(orient='records')
print(df1)

Current Output:-
[{"invoiceDate":"18\/08\/2019","amount":1140.87}]

I am expecting Output:- "invoiceDate":"18/08/2019"
I already tried to_json arguments:- date_format = "iso" double_precision = 10, force_ascii = True, date_unit = "ms", default_handler = None), and replace is also not working (df.replace("/","")).

A: Create dictionary and write to file with json.dump:
df = pd.DataFrame([{"invoiceDate":"18/08/2019","amount":1140.87}])
print (df)
  invoiceDate   amount
0  18/08/2019  1140.87

import json
with open('data.json', 'w') as f:
    json.dump(df.to_dict(orient='records'), f)

#[{"invoiceDate": "18/08/2019", "amount": 1140.87}]

A: I used the replace function in the data-frame to replace forward slash as per my need.
The following code helped me to archive my desire output.
df1 = df.to_json(orient='records',lines=True).replace('\\r\\n', " ")


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Wael Ghonim ( born December 23, 1980 in Cairo ) is an Internet activist from Egypt. He was known from the 7th February 2011 at the course of the revolution in Egypt in 2011 worldwide.
2011 marked the American Time magazine Wael Ghonim in the Time 100 list of the most influential personality in the world.
Ghonim studied in Cairo computer science, finance and marketing. In 2005 he founded the now leading in Arab states finance portal mubasher.info. In 2008 he was an employee at Google Inc. for the Middle East based in Dubai.
Role in the revolution
Ghonim founded in June 2010 under the pseudonym El Shaheed ( " Martyr " ), a Facebook page titled "We are all Khaled Said". He wanted to remind you of an Egyptian blogger who had arrested the two Egyptian secret police and killed after his question about the legal basis for this by blows.
The Facebook page quickly found the support of many, especially younger Egyptians. This called Ghonim 2010/2011 in the network to a planned for 25 January 2011 the first demonstration against the regime of Hosni Mubarak in the wake of the successful revolution in Tunisia. Many of the signatories of his call now formed groups to organizational support to an analog Egyptian revolution.
After tens of thousands had followed the demonstration only took plainclothes police Ghonim as about 1,500 other Egyptians on 28 January in a further protest rally near the central Tahrir Square in Cairo firmly. They blindfolded him and took him to an unknown state prison. The arrest was filmed by protesters with a mobile phone camera and the network spread so that a variety of Egyptian protesters and media representatives tried to Ghonims release. The company Google introduced a telephone number for witnesses. Other protest groups appointed the missing Ghonim symbolically their spokesman.
Ghonim was released on February 7; were about the same Internet sites, including Facebook, reopened in Egypt, the Egyptian state authorities had shut down by then. In an interview with Newsweek magazine Ghonim confirmed on the same day that he was the founder of the Facebook page for Khalid. In the Egyptian private channel Dream TV, he talked about his detention and rejected allegations that he and his supporters were traitors. He had not been tortured in prison, but I know nothing of the events, the authorities have also informed none of his relatives of his detention. He was asked to resign, among others, Hussam Badrawi, the Secretary General of the National Democratic Party of Egypt, were questioned after the conclusion of the protest and have him then. He was not a hero but those who have risked their lives on the road, were heroes. When he heard about some people who had been killed during the protests, he wept and asked the families of the victims for forgiveness: His group is blameless, who, who held their power would have to be responsible for these acts.
On February 8, he was greeted on another central protest rally in Tahrir Square of hundreds of thousands of protesters and called on them to demonstrate to the satisfaction of their claims on. A new Facebook page under the title " I instruct Wael Ghonim on behalf of the Egyptian Revolutionary speaking " found within 24 hours 130,000 supporters. International media now reported Ghonim and suspected that he could be the spokesman of the young, not organized in political parties independent Egyptian regime opponents.
On February 10, Ghonim called for in the adoption of an imminent resignation of President Mubarak on the demonstrators to go home. On the following day he responded to criticism of it: He gave the interview before Mubarak's evening speech in which he refused his resignation, and it was published prematurely against his intentions. He wanted to be a spokesman of the people. At the same time he published a list of demands to the Egyptian army, including the demand to release all political prisoners.
On 18 February 2011 Ghonim was of followers of a representative of the Muslim Brotherhood, Yusuf al -Qaradawi, prevented from speaking to the demonstrators in Tahrir Square.
After Mubarak's resignation on 11 February 2011 Ghonim said in a telephone interview with the U.S. journalist Katie Couric, the continuous reports of foreign journalists from Cairo would have saved thousands of Egyptians life and are therefore part of the successful revolution. A leadership role for the democracy movement, he refused again.
Ghomin called the events in Egypt Revolution 2.0, which had gone out of Facebook. He emphasized the positive role of social media to organize and acceleration of democratic movements: Wool is a people liberate from a dictatorship, then one must give him access to the Internet today. He wanted to thank Mark Zuckerberg the founder of Facebook, one day in person. There, one could also inform that dictatorship in the Middle East could be toppled next. However, just as the Egyptian blogger Noha Atef he put the focus of the revolution to the people they realized. You are the true heroes.
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In turbulent times, people get tired of established parties and prefer "new faces".
But how can you know, if the new candidate is really new? We can use our knowledge of textiles and mathematics.
If a candidate wears stripes on TV, he or she will look horrible due to Moiré patterns, interference of fabric stripes and raster resolution of the camera. You can enjoy it in full motion on this youtube video.
We have greatly improved over our previous results.
On the left, you see a tapestry weave colored in yarn colors, and on the right, you see just the black and white weave card (black – warp up, white – weft up). Tapestry weave is very big, 11492×4662, and we wish to make a precise and accurate fabric simulation, zoomed out 16 times.
On the left, you have our previous simulation, full of unwanted Moiré patterns, and on the right, the new one.
Fabric courtesy of Pure Country Weavers.
Now we can use ArahWeave to generate very accurate fabric simulations for use in catalogs or e-commerce web sites, based on production data (jacquard card file), not on product photos.
How can we apply our expertise in Moiré patterns on politics?
If your preferred political candidate appears perfect, speaks smoothly, just what you want to hear, and never wears stripes for TV confrontation, don't trust that person. He or she has been planted by the "old forces", trained by spin doctors and fashion advisers. They will show their true colors, once elected.


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Q: Get running and queued tasks from ThreadPoolExecutor? I need to display all running tasks to the user. Every task is associated with a specific id. To execute tasks I use a ThreadPoolExecutor. Each thread has the same name as the id.
So I just have to get list of all running and and waiting in queue threads. And then get there names and display them.
How can I do this?

A: Subclass the executor, override execute, beforeExecute and afterExecute to keep an administration of the scheduled and running tasks.


NEW DELHI: Beverage and snacks maker PepsiCo India is gunning for the bottom-of-the-pyramid consumer for the first time in the country, as its chairman, Manu Anand , drives the New York-based $60 billion parent's target to reach the 'next one billion' consumers in the value segment.
In his first media interaction since he succeeded Sanjeev Chadha in January this year, Anand tells ET that PepsiCo is creating verticals to cater to different segments of consumers, across functions like sales, operations, distribution and marketing.
PepsiCo's low-priced products will be aimed at 330 million consumers graduating from the bottom-of-pyramid to the socio-economic B and C classes.
The move is in line with global chairman Indra Nooyi's target to generate $30 billion in revenues from 'healthier' products-internally called better-for-you and good-for-you products-by 2020, up from the existing $10 billion. India will be the first country in the PepsiCo system to target the value segment with multiple products.


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Q: Applying a hamming window before FFT I am currently detecting frequencies using FFT. I am aware that I need to apply a window before doing the FFT but I am unsure how to do this.
What exactly should be done to apply a window.
I malloc is using
float * hammingWindow = (float *) malloc(sizeof(float) * numberOfFrames);
vDSP_hamm_window(hammingWindow, n, 0);

but I am not sure how to proceed from here.
When I call vmul with my args
vDSP_vmul((COMPLEX*)outputBuffer, 1, hammingWindow, 1, (COMPLEX*)outputBuffer, 1, n);
I get an error that vDSP_vmul does not exist even though I am calling other vDSP methods.
I call this after my FFT function
vDSP_zvmags((COMPLEX *)outputBuffer, 1, (COMPLEX *)outputBuffer, 1, bufferCapacity);

and I get the same issue - No matching function for call to vDSP_zvmags
What am I doing wrong? Are my arguments incorrect. It looks like (COMPLEX *)outputBuffer should not be passed in for two of the args.


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Manchester United can discover the next Daniel James in January
Ole Gunnar Solskjaer is pondering whether Man Utd should delve into the January transfer market in the New Year.
Dominic Booth
Daniel James during United's clash with Burnley (Image: Robbie Jay Barratt - AMA/Getty Images)
Perhaps it says more about the standard of Manchester United's transfer business since 2010 than their more recent prowess in the market, but plenty of supporters are legitimately touting Daniel James as the club's best signing of the decade.
You certainly wouldn't argue against it, after James again showed he had the stomach for the fight in the Premier League with a brave and enterprising display at Burnley recently. He notched his sixth assist of the campaign when he played through Marcus Rashford's for United's breakaway second goal. No combination has been deadlier in the league this season, for any club.
James' goals might have dried up since he struck three in his first four United appearances, but he's been well worth the £15million transfer fee already and has visibly developed the rest of his game while at Old Trafford.
He looked overawed and jittery when he made his first United start on the right wing, at Wolves back in August, but will be a completely different prospect if he lines up against Nuno Espirito Santo's side in the FA Cup third round clash at Molineux in the New Year. He's come a long way in a short space of time, adapting to playing on both flanks and turning his hand to defensive work. Four assists in his last seven games show that maturity has been added to his game. Ole Gunnar Solskjaer called him "the best defensive winger in the world". What a find.
The one signing Manchester United need to become a top four team again
Daniel James is about to face his first Manchester United challenge
The turn of the year brings the opening of the January transfer window and it's surely signings like James that United should be looking to repeat as often as possible.
With Erling Haaland already in the clutches of Borussia Dortmund and other transfer targets like Jadon Sancho and James Maddison hugely unlikely to move clubs mid-season, United must again be imaginative — as they were with the surprise capture of James in July, who six months earlier had been holding a Leeds United shirt on January deadline day.
The Championship offers an untapped market, where players with hidden potential can be found. James was the prime example and he should act as a blueprint to United's recruitment team..
Who could be next?
Jarrod Bowen and Ollie Watkins could be Premier League stars soon
Take Hull City's Jarrod Bowen, for example: 51 goals in 108 league starts yet still only 23 years old. Or Brentford starlet Ollie Watkins, who was 23 until yesterday and who has matched Bowen's tally of 15 goals for the season so far. Neither are traditional No.9s, but can play in various positions across the front line and are quick, technical forward players.
If Solskjaer is eager to add more depth to his battery of forwards, he need not look much further. One of Bowen or Watkins could provide back-up to Rashford, Anthony Martial and company.
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But with midfield also a key priority for United, Leeds' anchor Kalvin Phillips (24) could be a solid bet, highly rated as he is by Argentinian boss Marcelo Bielsa. Younger still is Birmingham teenager Jude Bellingham (16) who has already been linked with United by some media outlets and looks a prodigious talent for his age.
The bottom line is the plethora of talent that's available for relatively low amounts of money — from a United perspective. As it's been proven with James, there is a huge amount to gain and very little to lose.
January doesn't always bring clubs what they truly desire and in United's case, they're likely to wait until the summer to land their elite targets. They must, however, continue to think laterally and finding the next Daniel James is a distinct possibility.
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Rovers Talk (18/6/16)
June 18, 2016 Rovers TalkRKS
Round 11 of the Football and Netball competitions got underway today with the Rovers taking on Blighty at Memorial Park.
A Grade came into todays game aiming to avoid a repeat of the Round 2 loss against Blighty and today they won by a big margin, This result gives the Rovers four wins and a draw from the last five matches showing that the side is in great form at this present time.
B Grade have continued on their winning streak after recording a 45 to 38 win over their Blighty opponents today.
C Grade has won two matches in a row after defeating their Blighty opponents 49 to 30, this win improves the sides record to 8 wins and 2 losses.
C Reserve's six game winning streak came to an end today against a strong Blighty opponent, Blighty won todays game 35 to 23.
The Junior sides played very well against their Blighty opponents and below is the results of their games.
The Under 17's have won their game against their Blighty opponents in convincing fashion with the scores at full time reading Rovers 83 to Blighty 7.
The Under 15's have won three in a row for the first time this season after defeating their Blighty opponents 19 to 15.
The Under 13's have continued with their winning streak by defeating their Blighty opponents 37 to 16.
Rovers Football sides were in action against their Blighty opponents with success finding most of the Rovers teams.
The Seniors fell to Blighty today ending their six match winning streak, The Rovers lead by four points at Quarter Time before Blighty took the lead in the second quarter to lead at Half Time by four before extending their lead to 19 and 24 at Three Quarter Time and Full Time.
Finals scores read Blighty 9.11 – 65 to Rovers 6.5 – 41.
T. Lumbar kicked four for the Rovers whilst A. Bond and J. Gilligan kicked a goal in the loss
The Reserves had to work hard to defeat Blighty in their match after Blighty lead by 18 at Quarter Time, 10 at Half Time and two at Three Quarter Time.
The Reserves won by keeping Blighty scoreless after Half Time whilst adding 4.3 themselves to win 6.6 – 42 to 4.1 – 25.
D. Kirby kicked 3 goals, B. Ezard kicked 2 and L. Fleming kicked one goal in the win.
The Thirds have continued on with their undefeated start to the season by defeating their Blighty opponents by 81 points.
The Thirds raced to a 47 point lead at Quarter Time and the result was never in doubt from there as they extended their lead in every quarter of the game with the last quarter the closest with the Rovers winning that one 2.4 to 2.1.
R. Norris kicked 5, R. Murray kicked 4 goals, B. Sartore kicked 3 goals whilst R. Gazzara, D. Kirby, J. Caniglia and J. Allitt all kicked one goal apiece in the win.
The Fourths have made it three wins in a row by keeping their Blighty opponents scoreless in the match to record a 5.6 – 36 to 0.0 – o win.
The winning streak of three is the second time the side has achieved a hat trick of wins this season.
B. Thomson, R. Murphy, T. McDonnell, J. Liu and B. East all kicked one goal apiece for the Rovers in the win.
Good results overall for the Rovers with the majority of its Football and Netball sides winning today.
Blighty are always known for having competitive sides and today was no exception with Blighty making the Rovers work hard for their wins and taking valuable lessons from their losses.
Next week will see the Rovers taking on Picola United and it will be another challenging round of matches for both sides.
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At St. Peter's we encourage our children to be as active as possible, involving them in Active Lunchtime sessions, after school clubs, friendly and competitive matches against other schools as well as weekly curriculum PE and Outdoor Games lessons.
For our younger children (Foundation and KS1), the majority of sporting activities available are held within school as after school clubs although there are some opportunities for KS1 children to take part in friendly events with other schools throughout the year.
As children move into KS2, we offer a wide range of recreational, friendly and competitive sports, for both individuals teams, including rugby, basketball, netball, dance, hockey, football, tennis, curling, gymnastics, judo, fencing, athletics, golf, cricket, cross country, boccia and swimming.
For friendly competitions, all children in the relevant age group are invited to register their interest and places are allocated to ensure that everyone who expresses an interest in taking part is given an opportunity to do so throughout the year. Where matches are competitive and schools are required to select their best players, teachers and sports apprentices hold open trials at break or lunch time, allowing all pupils in the relevant age group to express their interest in becoming part of the team; from these trials the requisite number of competitors is selected. Where possible, these trials are completed as part of curricular PE sessions to ensure that as many pupils as possible are part of the selection process.


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Owl enclosures open at British Wildlife Centre in Lingfield
PUBLISHED: 12:02 08 October 2014
Photos by Matt Binstead
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Home to over 40 different native species, the British Wildlife Centre in Lingfield has recently opened its new owl enclosures. Here, information officer Liza Lipscombe brings us the low-down on the occupants
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Britain is blessed with seven species of owl, from the diminutive and aptly-named little owl right up to the stately and imposing European eagle owl. These include native and introduced species, as well as seasonal visitors from afar.
Here at The British Wildlife Centre, near Lingfield, we are home to all seven species, which can be viewed in the centre's beautiful new aviaries. Each enclosure has been carefully landscaped and planted to reflect the habitats in which the different owl species can typically be found. The owls are now happily settled in their new home and on public open days they can be seen in flight at the afternoon owl display.
Owls are highly skilled hunters equipped with extraordinary hearing and sight, and a stealthy, silent flight. The nocturnal species have such superb night vision that, along with the ability to locate and interpret sounds, they can target prey with deadly accuracy, even in total darkness.
Here's our special guide to 'whoo-whoo' to spot where!
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The barn owl is one of the world's most widespread birds and Britain is the northernmost tip of its range. Barn owls prefer open country with trees to provide cover, farmland with hedges and rough grassland. They hunt along field margins and woodland edges and roost in barns and abandoned farm buildings. Usually active at dusk, they can be seen flying low over the ground in a slow, wavering flight with occasional short glides.
Short-eared owls
(Asio flammeus)
Short-eared owls have a wide global distribution, and in the UK numbers are boosted by winter migrants from northern Europe and Russia. They thrive in open spaces: moorland, meadows, heathland, wetland and salt marshes, which provide cover for ground nesting. The short-eared owl hunts by day (diurnal), by night (nocturnal) and at dawn and dusk (crepuscular), flying slowly and low to the ground.
European eagle owls
(Bubo bubo)
The largest species of owl in the world, the European eagle owl is easily five times the size of a tawny or barn owl. It lives all over mainland Europe and is able to thrive in a range of environments, from forests to mountains and farmland, but is usually found in rocky habitats. Eagle owls hunt by night in open areas and in forests. Today, a few pairs are known to breed in Britain, but some people believe they have not bred naturally here since the end of the last Ice Age.
Long-eared owls
(Asio otus)
The secretive, nocturnal long-eared owl is one of our least known British owls. Long-eared only in name, their upright appendages are actually decorative tufts. Also found in North America, the Middle East, Asia, Europe and parts of Africa, winter migrants join resident long-eared owls in large communal roosts – the only owl species to adopt this behaviour. They prefer woodland or dense vegetation near open grassland or shrubland and hunt at woodland edges and over open ground.
(Strix aluco)
Tawny owls are found in woodland and coniferous forests, but can also be seen in parks and leafy suburbs. It is the tawny owl that emits the soft t'whit-t'whoo that is for many of us the most familiar owl hoot. The tawny is Europe's most common and widespread owl, found throughout Britain. It is, for the most part, nocturnal, roosting by day in a hollow tree, up against a tree trunk or in a thick bush.
(Bubo scandiacus)
Snowy owls are at home in the Arctic tundra, where their white plumage provides excellent camouflage. They are a rare winter visitor to northern Scotland and the islands, favouring open moorland and grassland. Snowy owls are active during the day, hunting over open land. Thanks to Harry Potter, they have become celebrity A-listers and Hedwig (named after Harry's feathered friend) is a favourite at the British Wildlife Centre.
(Athene noctua)
The little owl is the most commonly seen owl in Britain, but is actually a recent arrival, introduced into southern England by the Victorians. Little owls frequent farmland and open country with sheltered places to nest and hide such as hedges, stone walls and old buildings. Little owls may be spotted hunting at dawn and dusk, looking out from perches such as posts or telegraph poles. In flight, they can be seen low to the ground following a gently undulating path.
The British Wildlife Centre is located on Eastbourne Road (A22) at Newchapel, near Lingfield RH7 6LF, just 10 minutes from the M25, junction 6. Open every weekend and public holiday (excluding Dec 25/26) and daily during state school holidays. Visit the website for more detailed opening dates and keeper talk times. Tel: 01342 834658. Web: britishwildlifecentre.co.uk
FURTHER WILDLIFE READING
• Surrey Wildlife Trust has a monthly column in Surrey Life magazine
• British Wildlife Centre, near Lingfield - a wild day out in Surrey
• The new WWF headquarters in Woking: one of the UK's greenest buildings and a new Surrey attraction
• Actress Virginia McKenna on Born Free, life in Coldharbour and her memoirs, The Life in My Years
• Nicholas Owen meets Wildlife Aid's Simon Cowell
• Discover how the Shalford-based David Shepherd Wildlife Foundation is helping to protect the world's endangered species


The 60th installment of the GRAMMYs have arrived. And for the first time since 2003, it's all going down in NYC.
Hip-Hop is represented well, too, with JAY-Z and Kendrick Lamar securing the most nominations. Hov, who will receive the Salute To Industry Icons Award, leads all with eight, including nods for Album of the Year, Record of the Year, Song of the Year and Best Rap Album. Kendrick Lamar follows the living legend with seven, including Album of the Year, Record of the Year, Best Rap Album and Rap Performance of the Year. But will they actually win?
We've also gotta give a shout out to SZA, who, in her first year of eligibility, scored five nominations and is the most-nominated female of the year.
Things kick off at 8pm EST on CBS. We've included the categories we actually care about below and will be updating the post as each winner is revealed—including Kendrick, who already won three with "Humble" winning Best Music Video, Best Rap Song and Best Rap Performance before the show even aired (because, of course).