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Major Ad Trade Groups Release Joint Letter Outlining Deep Concerns Over Cookie-Handling Functionality of Apple's Safari 11 Browser
Coalition of Major Advertising Trade Associations
Sep 14, 2017, 12:36 ET
WASHINGTON, Sept. 14, 2017 /PRNewswire/ -- Six major advertising trade associations – the 4A's, American Advertising Federation, Association of National Advertisers, Data & Marketing Association, Interactive Advertising Bureau, and Network Advertising Alliance – today released the following open letter outlining their deep concerns over the cookie-handling functionality of Apple's new Safari 11 browser.
An Open Letter from the Digital Advertising Community
The undersigned organizations are leading trade associations for the digital advertising and marketing industries, collectively representing thousands of companies that responsibly participate in and shape today's digital landscape for the millions of consumers they serve.
We are deeply concerned about the Safari 11 browser update that Apple plans to release, as it overrides and replaces existing user-controlled cookie preferences with Apple's own set of opaque and arbitrary standards for cookie handling.
Safari's new "Intelligent Tracking Prevention" would change the rules by which cookies are set and recognized by browsers. In addition to blocking all third-party cookies (i.e. those set by a domain other than the one being visited), as the current version of Safari does, this new functionality would create a set of haphazard rules over the use of first-party cookies (i.e. those set by a domain the user has chosen to visit) that block their functionality or purge them from users' browsers without notice or choice.
The infrastructure of the modern Internet depends on consistent and generally applicable standards for cookies, so digital companies can innovate to build content, services, and advertising that are personalized for users and remember their visits. Apple's Safari move breaks those standards and replaces them with an amorphous set of shifting rules that will hurt the user experience and sabotage the economic model for the Internet.
Apple's unilateral and heavy-handed approach is bad for consumer choice and bad for the ad-supported online content and services consumers love. Blocking cookies in this manner will drive a wedge between brands and their customers, and it will make advertising more generic and less timely and useful. Put simply, machine-driven cookie choices do not represent user choice; they represent browser-manufacturer choice. As organizations devoted to innovation and growth in the consumer economy, we will actively oppose any actions like this by companies that harm consumers by distorting the digital advertising ecosystem and undermining its operations.
We strongly encourage Apple to rethink its plan to impose its own cookie standards and risk disrupting the valuable digital advertising ecosystem that funds much of today's digital content and services.
American Association of Advertising Agencies (4A's)
American Advertising Federation (AAF)
Association of National Advertisers (ANA)
Data & Marketing Association (DMA)
Interactive Advertising Bureau (IAB)
Network Advertising Initiative (NAI)
Andrew Weinstein
176509@email4pr.com
SOURCE Coalition of Major Advertising Trade Associations


Attested in the 1711 混効験集 Konkoukenshuu Okinawan dictionary (p. 14), under the spelling ヤソチ yasochi. Cognate to the historically attested Japanese forms やそ yaso and やそじ yasoji "eighty".
The expected modern Okinawan reflex would be やすち *yasuchi. The Sinitic term はちじゅう hachijuu has, however, replaced it in the common language.


Apple Watch is getting smarter and better than before. With the release of the Apple Watch Series 2, Apple finally turned its smartwatch lineup into a useful item, rather than a luxury wearable on your wrist. Last year, the Cupertino firm debuted the fourth generation Apple Watch after months of anticipation. The new Watch is a significant upgrade over its predecessors with a bigger screen, new hardware, and new Health features.
With the Apple Watch Series 4, Apple retains what we have always loved about its smartwatch lineup while adding tons of new things. One such thing lies in the ability to control your Apple TV. In reality, we have been able to control our Apple TV using iPhone for years. However, with watchOS 5, Apple added a new Apple Watch option.
However, the process may not be straightforward to many users. With that in mind, we are here to help. In this guide, we will show you the steps on how to control your Apple TV using your Apple Watch. Before we proceed, make sure you now have watchOS 5 and tvOS 12 running on your devices.
Besides, your Apple TV and Apple Watch need to be connected to the same Wi-Fi network. To do this, launch Settings on your Apple TV, then select Network and hit Wi-Fi. Assuming that you have met all the above requirements, let's jump into our step-by-step guide.
Step two: Once you are in, enter the passcode you obtained on your Apple TV's display and you should see the Remote interface for controlling your Apple TV.
If nothing works, then make sure your Apple Watch is around your Apple TV and your TV is now turned on. If the problem still persists, then reboot your Apple Watch and set up the whole thing from scratch.
Once everything is ready, you now can control your Apple TV directly on your wrist. You can swipe left, right, up, and down to navigate your content. If you want to go back to the home screen, simply touch and hold Menu at the bottom left.


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Wimbledon 2019 | Aussie World No. 1 Ash Barty crashes out in fourth round boilover
Ash Barty's remarkable winning streak has been broken as the Aussie top seed was ousted in the fourth round at Wimbledon.
James Matthey and Andrew McMurtry
July 9, 2019 - 1:25AM
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World No. 1 Ash Barty has been sensationally knocked out of Wimbledon after a three-set loss to American Alison Riske in their fourth round clash.
The Aussie tennis star's dream of winning back-to-back grand slams was ruined by the world No. 55, who came back from a set down to upset the top seed and bring a shock end to Barty's 15-match unbeaten run.
After Barty breezed through the first set in 32 minutes, Riske showed enormous fight — and no shortage of skill — to run her 23-year-old rival ragged as she found new levels of power in her ground strokes.
The unseeded US star seized on Barty's wavering serve and routinely found the corners of the court to send the Aussie into her first three-setter since the French Open semi-finals in June.
In a thrilling decider, both players slugged it out in long rallies before Riske found the decisive break, then served it out to seal the 3-6 6-2 6-3 victory.
Barty said she didn't execute like she needed to and revealed her biggest problem — the flaw that cost her the most — was her serve. She started in fine fashion but ended up finishing with a first serve percentage of just 51 per cent.
"Tough one. I think I started well. I was sticking to how I wanted to play," Barty said. "Then in the second set, I think my serve let me down. I let Alison get back into the match too many times, having looks at second serves.
"Overall I didn't play a poor match. When I needed to, when the big moments were there, Alison played better today. Tough one to swallow but I lost to a better player.
"Today at times when I really needed to back myself, the execution wasn't quite there.
Australia's still proud of you Ash!
"In the second set, I gave Alison too many looks at second serves. I know that my percentage was down. I wasn't missing serves by too much. They were small margins. A miss is still a miss, and gives her an opportunity to have a look at a second serve.
"Disappointing. That's probably one of the parts of my game today I'm disappointed with the most. But in saying that, it was just a bad serving day at times. Not always. There were times where it was still there, as well. But not to be.
"She (Riske) deserves to be in the quarter-finals. She played a great match today."
Riske was thrilled with the result and said she didn't want the tournament to end despite playing the World's No. 1 player.
"You told me you weren't going to make me cry before we started this," Riske told ESPN's Tom Rinaldi in her post-match interview. "I told my parents I really don't want Wimbledon to end. Even if I got to the finals I wouldn't want it to end."
Barty was all business during week one at the All England Club, steamrolling her way into the fourth round with ease and her ruthless streak was on show to begin Manic Monday — one of the best days of the entire Grand Slam when all the remaining big names come out to play.
The Queenslander started with a bang, sending down four straight aces to take a 1-0 lead and make clear to Riske just what sort of challenge she was in for.
OMG!! #ashbarty starts the match with FOUR ACES IN A ROW!!! @Wimbledon #tennis #Wimbledon @ashbar96
— Magda Szubanski AO (@MagdaSzubanski) July 8, 2019
The highlight of the first set was Barty unleashing a cracking backhand slice winner down the line to give herself two break points, and she converted on the second opportunity to go up 4-1.
There's the backhand slice working to perfection for Ash Barty already 👌#Wimbledon pic.twitter.com/9Pgb94MhWb
— 7Sport (@7Sport) July 8, 2019
A sensational running forehand winner down the line made it 30-30 in the next game but Riske stayed composed and held, then jumped all over Barty's second serve to secure a break of her own only to waste her improved position.
Barty broke straight back when she unfurled a brilliant backhand winner down the line — a conventional two-hander this time rather than her one-handed slice — to make it 5-3 and the Aussie clinically served out the set.
Longer baseline rallies were a feature of the second set but Riske was always willing to come to the net and she broke for a 3-1 lead. The 29-year-old was working her angles brilliantly as she ran Barty all around the court and was brave enough to hit lines — a vast improvement on her opening set showing.
Alison Riske ends the remarkable run of Ashleigh Barty.
Up 4-2, Riske produced lovely sleight of hand to land a delicate drop shot out of Barty's reach and after winning the next point put herself in the frame to take the match to a decider with a 5-2 lead.
Sensing a real chance to upset the world's top ranked player, Riske pounced and broke again to level the match up at 3-6 6-2.
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Barty's serving let her down badly in the second set. In the opener she won 93 per cent of points on her first serve but she wasn't giving herself enough of a chance to capitalise on that when her first serve percentage dropped to 46 per cent heading into the decider.
Compounding that, Riske's return game was on another level as she attacked Barty's serve with serious intent, and the American was enjoying more fortune on longer rallies.
The standard only rose in the third set. Even Barty had to nod her approval when Riske passed her with a punishing backhand winner to take a 2-1 lead and there were no easy points as both players fought like warriors to keep themselves in the contest.
The set stayed on serve, going to 3-3 but Barty would not win another game. Riske's intensity rose to new levels as she bullied Barty, hitting some monstrous ground strokes of both wings to claim one of the biggest wins of her career.
Roger Federer and a shaken Serena Williams have led the despairing reaction to Wimbledon's first cancellation since World War II.
Bernard Tomic's objection to losing his entire prize purse for a listless performance was met with the unholiest of slaps from tennis officials.

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import org.apache.poi.ss.usermodel.Cell;
import org.apache.poi.ss.usermodel.Row;
import org.apache.poi.ss.usermodel.Sheet;

import com.google.inject.Inject;
import com.inepex.ineForm.shared.descriptorext.TableRDesc;
import com.inepex.ineForm.shared.descriptorext.TableRDescBase;
import com.inepex.ineForm.shared.render.TableFieldRenderer;
import com.inepex.ineom.shared.assistedobject.AssistedObject;
import com.inepex.ineom.shared.descriptor.Node;
import com.inepex.ineom.shared.descriptorstore.DescriptorStore;

public class ExcelAssistedObjectTRDRenderer {

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Andre Agassi was the defending champion but lost in the third round to Johan Kriek.

Brad Gilbert won in the final 6–2, 6–2 when Kriek was forced to retire.

Seeds
All sixteen seeds received a bye to the second round.

  Andre Agassi (third round)
  Jimmy Connors (quarterfinals)
  Tim Mayotte (third round)
  Aaron Krickstein (second round)
  Mikael Pernfors (third round)
  Brad Gilbert (champion)
  Kevin Curren (semifinals)
  Andrés Gómez (second round)
  Amos Mansdorf (third round)
  Dan Goldie (second round)
  Michael Chang (semifinals)
  Christo van Rensburg (second round)
  Robert Seguso (second round)
  Paul Annacone (second round)
  Derrick Rostagno (second round)
  Johan Kriek (final)

Draw

Finals

Top half

Section 1

Section 2

Bottom half

Section 3

Section 4

References
 1989 Volvo U.S. National Indoor Draw

1989 Singles
1989 Grand Prix (tennis)

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Beautiful Numbers
Categories Pinched It, Random Rants
While reading the The Da Vinci Code a few years back, I came across this passage:
He felt himself suddenly reeling back to Harvard, standing in front of his "Symbolism in Art" class, writing his favorite number on the chalkboard.
Langdon turned to face his sea of eager students. "Who can tell me what this number is?"
A long-legged math major in back raised his hand. "That's the number PHI." He pronounced it fee.
"Nice job, Stettner," Langdon said. "Everyone, meet PHI."
"Not to be confused with PI," Stettner added, grinning. "As we mathematicians like to say: PHI is one H of a lot cooler than PI!"
Langdon laughed, but nobody else seemed to get the joke.
Stettner slumped.
"This number PHI," Langdon continued, "one-point-six-one-eight, is a very important number in art. Who can tell me why?"
Stettner tried to redeem himself. "Because it's so pretty?"
Everyone laughed.
"Actually," Langdon said, "Stettner's right again. PHI is generally considered the most beautiful number in the universe."
The laughter abruptly stopped, and Stettner gloated.
As Langdon loaded his slide projector, he explained that the number PHI was derived from the Fibonacci sequence – a progression famous not only because the sum of adjacent terms equaled the next term, but because the quotients of adjacent terms possessed the astonishing property of approaching the number 1.618 – PHI!
Despite PHI's seemingly mystical mathematical origins, Langdon explained, the truly mind-boggling aspect of PHI was its role as a fundamental building block in nature. Plants, animals, and even human beings all possessed dimensional properties that adhered with eerie exactitude to the ratio of PHI to 1.
– From the Da Vinci Code, by Dan Brown
That passage set me thinking about other numbers considered pretty or at least very interesting. As an Indian I can point to quite a few numbers that we can be proud of. At the top of the list is Aryabhata's invention of the most famous number of them all – 0, which by helping establish the place value system and the decimal number system made innumerable mathematical and scientific discoveries possible and practical. Just imagine having to write a number like 999,999 in the Roman Numeral system. You would need to write CM XC IX CMXCIX. And if you weren't aware that adding the "overline" multiplies a number by 1000, then you would have to struggle significantly more to represent a number such as 999,999.
As an ex-IIT'ian I have had a fascination for numbers and so have many of my classmates. Both during and after life at IIT I have seen my friends use one particular number quite often – 1729. I myself used 1729 as my page id when I was building my hostel's website back in the days when you needed to sign up for a free web-page at sites like GeoCities. A few years after graduation my friend asked me to unlock his bicycle. The code – 1729. A few more years later another friend sent out an email saying that his previous email id had been handed out to several mailing lists and he was receiving a lot of spam. So he changed his email id to something that had the number 1729 in it. If you are not very mathematically inclined you might think of 1729 as a very weird number to be fascinated with. But there is history behind it. 1729 is in fact called the Hardy-Ramanujan number, following a very famous conversation between G. H. Hardy and Srinivasa Ramanujan.
Hardy used to visit him, as he lay dying in hospital at Putney. It was on one of those visits that there happened the incident of the taxi-cab number. Hardy had gone out to Putney by taxi, as usual his chosen method of conveyance. He went into the room where Ramanujan was lying. Hardy, always inept about introducing a conversation, said, probably without a greeting, and certainly as his first remark: "I thought the number of my taxi-cab was 1729. It seemed to me rather a dull number." To which Ramanujan replied: "No, Hardy! No, Hardy! It is a very interesting number. It is the smallest number expressible as the sum of two cubes in two different ways."
That is the exchange as Hardy recorded it. It must be substantially accurate. He was the most honest of men; and further, no one could possibly have invented it.
– Foreword by C. P. Snow, to G. H. Hardy's "A Mathematician's Apology (Canto)"
For those trying to figure out what Ramanujan meant, 1729 = 123 + 13 = 103 + 93. Not only is this number an Indian favorite (Ramanujan was Indian), but mathematicians worldwide recognize it for the brilliance and simplicity of the discovery. This number is also referred to as a Taxicab number due to the associated incident, though the unique property of this number was actually discovered by Bernard Frénicle de Bessy.
There is another number that piqued my interest, however, when I was preparing for the Indian National Mathematics Olympiad in 1994. I came across a number that was referred to as the Kaprekar Number – 6174. In later years I came to know that the information was inaccurate, because this number was called Kaprekar Constant, and Kaprekar Numbers referred to a separate category of numbers. A Kaprekar Number is a number that is thus defined:
A Kaprekar number for a given base is a non-negative integer, the representation of whose square in that base can be split into two parts that add up to the original number again.
As the Wikipedia article states, 45 is a Kaprekar number because 45 = 20 + 25 and 452 = 2025. These numbers were discovered by another Indian mathematician Dattaraya Ramchandra Kaprekar, who had a penchant for discovering several results in number theory and was very well known as a recreational mathematician. Funny what people come up with during their free time!
But back to the Kaprekar constant – 6174. Again, this falls wholly into the category of an unremarkable-looking number. But there is a lot more to it. Arrange the digits of the number in descending order: 7641. Arrange its digits in ascending order: 1467. Subtract the two: 7641 – 1467 = 6174. This happens to be the only 4-digit number that exhibits this property. If you think that is surprising, there is more. Take any 4 digit number with at least 1 digit different from the rest. Repeat the operation of subtracting the ascending order of digits from the descending order. After a finite number of iterations you will hit 6174!! I was so impressed with this number that I couldn't rest till I had established the proof of this. Yutaka Nishiyama has a well-documented proof, which is much more rigorous than what I came up with (plus I am too lazy to type out my proof in HTML here).
There are other Kaprekar constants when you change the number of digits to 3 (495) or something else.
I am sure there are several other numbers that have even more quirky properties. Having had an affinity towards mathematics in general since a young age and towards number theory in particular since I was 15, I know that I am missing out on such a huge treasure by pursuing a career in something so far removed from mathematics.
Tags 1729, 6174, Aryabhata, Da Vinci Code, Dan Brown, Hardy, Kaprekar, Mathematics, phi, Ramanujan


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Scottish Gins
The Future of Gin
Colin McLean, Head Ginologist at McLean's Gin.
The Future of Gin asks Scotland's gin makers and distillers their thoughts on what the future of Scottish Gin looks like. How important is sustainability, technology, geographical protection and provenance to them?
In this feature we meet Colin McLean, Head Ginologist at McLean's Gin. Now based in rural South Lanarkshire and working from his gin lab, Colin along with his wife Jess, produce a variety of cold compounded gins and just recently launched their first distilled gin to mark their first wedding anniversary.
What's your name and what do you do?
Colin McLean; self-proclaimed Head Ginologist at McLean's Gin. Myself and my wife Jessica take care of all of the day-to-day running of the business, from production to sales, admin, deliveries, finance…you name it!
Some have said we're currently in a gin bubble – would you agree or disagree and why?
I wouldn't use the term "bubble", as that implies that it's likely to burst at some point. Gin certainly has seen a meteoric rise in the past few years and this can't continue forever, but I wouldn't expect sales to suddenly plummet, nor the spirit fade back into obscurity. The gin market at the moment is by all accounts rather saturated, but there are also more people drinking gin – in all of its many forms, from traditional London Drys to more "contemporary" offerings – than ever before. And the "bubble" has yet to even begin in many overseas markets, including the USA!
In my personal view, the producers who continue to push the boundaries, produce great liquids and find a strong USP should see continued success, even after we've theoretically reached "peak gin".
What do you think are the big issues facing Gin and Scottish Gin at the moment?
The 2 issues most often raised are provenance (is it made where the branding insinuates it is?) and authenticity (is it even gin?).
The issue of provenance is beginning to resolve itself; more and more brands are pushing to get production to their specified geographical location, and those who aren't quite there yet are generally much more honest now about their production location and/or plans for the future.
However, the latter issue shows no signs of slowing and, in fact, is probably "worsening" as time goes on. There's no easy solution for this; regulation would only serve to stifle innovation, and the industry does have to thank what many would see as "imitations" or "fake gin" for the recent astronomical growth of the category as a whole. There is definitely a careful balance to be struck here, but achieving it is no easy feat.
Where do you see Scottish Gin in 5 years time?
We're already well renowned for our great whisky, so why shouldn't it be the same for gin? The category has only gone from strength to strength, and Scottish food & drink products in general are known for their quality around the globe. Going forward, #ISGD should be very helpful in increasing the exposure of Scottish Gin on the global stage. However, for the moment I believe Brexit is repelling many producers from exploring this stage.
Gin tourism is likely to increase in turn, so those whose production facilities can/will double as visitor attractions will likely do very well for many years to come.
What do you think is the 'next big thing' in the world of Gin?
That's a difficult question to answer! Pink was all the rage in 2018, so we're personally hoping blue is the new pink…Something Blue (the gin we created to celebrate our wedding this time last year) is our primary focus for the years ahead, as it combines both traditional yet interesting flavour elements with contemporary visuals and branding, and with a strong USP across more than just the craft-gin market.
Consumers are always looking for something more from their gin now, so "experiences", meal-pairings, community involvement, events with a difference etc. are all likely to be areas where we'll see growth and movement.
As the consumer becomes more educated and discerning, it's quite possible that things will go full circle and very traditional, dry gins will return to centre-stage.
What would you like to see more gin makers doing in the future?
Collaborating! Although the tone in the industry is generally friendly, there's very little in the way of collaboration. We could learn a lot from the craft beer crowd – there's no end to the creative collaborations going on there at the moment and it really shows a united front, as well as offering consumers something completely different.
What are the long term plans for McLean's Gin?
They change almost daily, in truth…but first on the agenda is getting production out of the house and into a purpose-built facility (still within the boundaries of our own premises). This way, we can have our own still and experiment a lot more with production techniques that home production doesn't allow for.
We're also keen to start looking at export markets, particularly for Something Blue, which we think could have global appeal. However, we have a few hoops to jump through before we're at this stage.
On the mid-term, we're very keen to establish a visitor centre. Being based on the edge of a thriving, historical market town (Strathaven), within touching distance of Scotland's biggest city means that we're very well situated for this to become an attraction and ultimately an asset to the town.
Do you think technology will play a more important role in the distillation process?
Many producers are going down this route, and it definitely has its advantages. However, for many small producers the biggest obstacle here is the up-front cost. Personally, I think technology should be explored and find it all very interesting, but for McLean's, we know personally that many consumers prefer the traditional "hand-made with love" element…the Scotch Whisky industry is testament to this; by and large they have respected and maintained traditional production processes over more modern variants used in the production of other spirits and the industry's reputation has only benefited from this respect for tradition. However, it's very much "each to their own" and we like to see producers pushing forward with more advanced technology, too.
Can you give an example of innovation in your business?
We started our business with the few quid that we had in our savings account; converting a cupboard just off our living room in our tenement flat into a functioning gin-production facility. I think we'll struggle to top the innovation of the early days, but we're always looking at how we can innovate. We do have a few ideas up our sleeve, but won't give too much away fro the moment!
Would you like to see a Scottish producer making contract NGS?
From a provenance perspective, I think this would be a dream come true for most Scottish gin producers. However, we do all have established relationships with our current neutral suppliers, and so the cost and service would both have to be on point; very difficult when competing with the huge production facilities south of the border who have years of knowledge and experience in the industry. I wouldn't see this happening on a scale that would deliver for the Scottish gin industry as a whole for some time.
Should gin makers have geographical protection for their gin?
As before, regulation can stifle innovation and so should be approached with caution. But yes, in terms of geographical protection I think regulation ultimately needs to be introduced, if for nothing more than protection of the consumer.
What support would you like to see available for the Scottish Distillery and Brewery sector?
There are avenues for support currently available, but the costs associated can stop many small producers (including ourselves) from accessing such services. A funded, opt-in government initiative would be very beneficial to the industry; ultimately revenue will increase if the industry is better supported. However, there would be considerable costs associated in setting this up, and in turbulent economic times I wouldn't expect to see much movement on this in the near future.
Are you finding gin consumers are more aware of provenance and want to know where a gin is made and who made it?
Most definitely! But we're very lucky in that McLean's is 100% home-made and hand-made by us, and that's the way we intend to keep it.
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DC Federal Gun and Weapons Case Process
When someone thinks that they are being investigated in a gun or other weapons case, they should be in contact with an attorney, especially before the first court date. These cases are prosecuted very aggressively and seriously. There is potentially mandatory jail time in certain situations in a gun or weapons case. It is important to get a jump start on investigating these cases.
An experienced weapons defense lawyer will be able to help prepare any potential defenses that can be employed in your DC federal gun and weapons charge.
Types of Possession
Depending on the type of charge in a possession case, the prosecutor must prove that the person actually or constructively possessed the weapon. Actual possession is having physical custody or control of the weapon. For example, a police officer searches a person and they find a gun in the person's pocket or in the person's hand. That is actual possession.
Constructive possession is a bit different. With constructive possession, a person has to have knowledge of and control over a weapon. For example, a police officer pulls a person over for a traffic violation and finds someone in the passenger seat of a car with a gun underneath the passenger's seat. The gun is not physically on the person. If that person is charged, they are charged with constructively possessing that gun.
For constructive possession, the prosecutor must prove that the person charged had knowledge of the gun and had the ability to exercise dominion and control, or power, over that gun. There is much litigation over the factors that determine whether a person has the power to exercise dominion and control over a gun. A lawyer will be able to help employ the proper defense strategy to fight against an individual's DC Federal gun and weapons case.
Severity of the Charge
Prosecutors take gun cases very seriously and pursue these cases very aggressively. People need to understand just how aggressively officers try to obtain a conviction in a gun case.
Prosecutors introduce evidence such as witness testimony from police officers and perhaps video evidence from traffic cameras or body cameras. There might also be photographs, DNA evidence, fingerprint evidence, and things like that. An individual should contact a knowledgeable attorney to help employ effective defense strategies to reduce or dismiss any penalties associated with a DC Federal gun and weapons charge.
The defense strategy in these types of cases is fueled by the investigation because no case is the same. It depends on the facts of each individual case. Sometimes, it becomes apparent, after reviewing the evidence, that the police officers involved were not being truthful. The defense attorney can do a cross-examination to establish that and bring the credibility of the officers into question.
There are a host of constitutional issues that may come up within a gun/weapon trial, particularly Fourth Amendment issues. Many times, gun cases revolve around police officers stopping a vehicle or stopping someone on the street and result in a search by police officers.
Whether or not the officer had a reasonable suspicion or probable cause to do the search that led to the gun being recovered is always a contested issue. There are also constitutional issues that arise concerning searches of specific areas of a vehicle, such as the trunk.
Benefits of a Lawyer
It is incumbent upon a defense lawyer to prepare their client for trial. An attorney will prepare their client during the investigation phase, when interviewing witnesses, reviewing physical or scientific evidence, how to testify, and the defense strategies associated with a DC Federal gun and weapons charge. These types of things are involved in preparing for trial in a gun case.
Someone facing a federal weapons charge in DC should enlist the help of an attorney with experience in dealing with these types of cases. The lawyer should be up to date on the scientific current issues, case law, and different types of investigation related to these issues. Having an attorney who specializes in another area of law may not result in a successful outcome. The individual should enlist the help of a lawyer who has dedicated their practice to this type of law.
In a gun case, a police officer testifies about how the gun was located or recovered. The defense attorney has an opportunity to cross-examine that officer after the prosecutor has finished asking questions of the officer. The defense attorney can ask questions to show that the officer is either not credible or did not do a proper investigation, or to perhaps bring out facts that show there was no constructive possession of the gun.
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At some point in their careers, many OTs contemplate trying out traveling occupational therapy.
Not only does it provide tons of experience and exposure to multiple settings, the pay can be very helpful in paying off loans.
As with any type of practice, there are pros and cons to being a travel OT.
This interview with Emily Butler can help you discern if traveling is the right career move for you. At the end, I will share about my favorite travel advocate, Nomadicare.
Why did you choose travel OT right out of school?
When I graduated from OT school and was considering job options, I was single and didn't feel particularly tied to any specific place to move to and get a permanent job.
My good friend from OT school was looking into traveling, and she asked me to travel with her. At that time, becoming a traveling OT with a friend seemed much less daunting than doing it on my own, and since the traveling contracts typically only last 13 weeks, I knew I could take a permanent job in a few months if traveling was not a good fit for me.
After weighing the pros and cons, I agreed to give it a try with her.
Another major draw to traveling was that with the tax-free stipends I would receive as a "displaced worker." I would make more than I would at traditional occupational therapy jobs. I knew that would enable me to pay off the student loan debt I had accumulated during the three and a half years it took me to get my doctorate.
All in all, traveling made a lot of sense for me.
How did you decide on an agency? What kind of parameters could you set?
While looking into travel companies, I talked with other travelers that I knew from my alma mater and did a lot of research on each of the companies' websites.
I had originally decided to go with another company. They had been slowly building a relationship with the friend I was wanting to travel with. They'd been in touch since our 1st year of OT school! We really liked that company until they gave us some bad advice.
As traveling OTs, we were not eligible for temporary state licensure in any of the states we planned on working in. The traveling recruiter we were working with advised us to get our California and Washington licenses first as soon as we'd passed the NBCOT exam.
The recruiter failed to inform us that the processing time to get state licensers varies greatly state to state. As it happens, California and Washington both require background checks and fingerprinting [which has to be done on their specific fingerprinting form which is mailed to you and then you mail back], and consequently, those states take upwards of three months for the licensure process. As a new grad, I was not interested in waiting to begin working for three months. I needed a paycheck!
While we were stressing about the delay with our West Coast licenses, another company contacted us and was very prompt in answering all of our questions. The recruiter told us she could get us two jobs in a different state with an average state licensure processing time of about a week.
We jumped on it, and ended up staying with that company for two years. In my experience, the recruiter you work with is just as (if not more!) important than the agency. You need a recruiter who is going to stand up for you, be detail oriented (for your contract, time off requests, etc.), and timely.
Travel jobs get posted and filled within 12 hours at times. If your recruiter isn't moving fast enough, you will miss out on jobs you are interested in.
When negotiating travel contracts, my philosophy became, "don't ask, don't get." I had to negotiate for things like getting paid mileage when I was traveling between buildings, and having at least 30 days notice if the facility I was working for found a permanent OT and wanted to replace me (which happened). Don't settle for two weeks notice. It will happen and turn your life on end. Everything is negotiable, and every company will try to lowball you. Stand up for yourself and don't sign a contract you aren't comfortable with.
My biggest fear about traveling is being thrown into situations without support; did you feel this way?
I had similar fears before my first day at my first placement. When I walked in the door that first day as a new grad fresh out of OT school, the first thing I remember happening is the therapy director hugging me and saying, "She's here! Our angel! We've been so excited for you to come."
At that first placement, they had been getting by with PRN staff and were thrilled to have a more stable therapist. They were incredibly supportive and helped me to feel at ease. It also helped that I was traveling with my friend because we could always bounce ideas off each other.
Not every facility has been as supportive as that first one.
I ended up traveling to only skilled nursing facilities. That's where the demand was while I traveled, and I discovered I really loved geriatrics. In my experience, a patient is a patient, no matter which facility I was working in. They all need therapy.
And while I've seen therapy gyms of all shapes and sizes, they all have gait belts and oximeters. When it gets down to it, that's all you really need. Nurses' stations are easy to find. Patients' rooms are numbered. If I wasn't lucky enough to get a tour of the facility or much of an orientation, I found I really didn't need it.
I kept a growing collection of patient handouts and assessments on my clipboard that I made copies of when needed (finding patient handouts in a disorganized therapy gym was often more trouble than it was worth in the first week at a new building).
Also, I traveled to six different sites across the country, and they all used one of the two computerized documentation programs (Casamba and Rehab Optima) I knew.
One building I worked at actually transitioned from all handwritten documentation to computerized while I was there, and I was able to help the other therapists with the transition. Already knowing the computerized documentation system meant that it was easier for me to jump in and see patients, and I ultimately required less and less orientation the longer I was a traveler.
Most importantly, you need to find a travel company (and recruiter) that will provide you with support. If you stay with the same company, as I did, developing a good and trusting relationship with that company will really help with any problems or issues that you run into.
This is personal, but how did traveling affect your social life?
Well, for the first year, I traveled with my friend that I mentioned. Being a traveling pair limits job options because you have to find a placement that needs two OTs with the same start date, however it does make the social aspect a lot more fun.
I met other traveling pairs while I was traveling who made it work, as well. As it happened, my friend ended up falling in love with a farmer from Iowa, and we stopped traveling together. This impacted my social life. Haha!
I did two travel placements on my own, and I chose to travel to large cities. I wasn't interested in living in a tiny town in the middle of nowhere thousands of miles from anyone I knew.
I was in Portland and the Seattle area and explored on my own, as well as with people that I met there. My philosophy was to say, "yes!" to anything someone invited me to do (within reason, naturally). It was fun doing things I wouldn't typically do, and traveling definitely brought me out of my shell.
How did traveling help you grow as a therapist?
Traveling has helped me grow and become an adaptable therapist. I've learned to be flexible and work with a variety of different therapy directors, COTAs with limited experience, and COTAs who have been in the field for 20 years.
I've learned a lot from all of the different therapists I've worked with across the country, and have incorporated both "old school" methods and cutting-edge practices.
I have also had a lot of practice interviewing for jobs, and don't get nearly as nervous as I used to. It has also helped me determine what is important to me when negotiating contracts while I was applying for my permanent position.
Traveling also has turned me into a resourceful and more creative therapist. As I mentioned before, the facilities I worked in varied widely in terms of supplies and space.
The smallest therapy "gym" I've worked out of was one drawer of a filing cabinet in the administration office, and the largest was the size of a ballroom and equipped with everything you could possibly need. I learned to work with what I had and think on my feet.
The biggest challenge for me as a traveler was trying to "plan" things in my personal life. I usually wouldn't know where I was moving until a week or two beforehand, sometimes less. That made it difficult to buy plane tickets, particularly knowing that if a facility found a permanent therapist, they could cut my 13-week rotation short, meaning I would have to either find another placement close by or move.
That part was stressful, especially when trying to travel with another person. Also, depending on where my placement was, finding housing could be stressful. It varied based on tourist season and the part of the country I was in.
I had to be very flexible.
How about the most rewarding moments?
The most rewarding aspect of traveling was something I didn't expect. I felt very appreciated and could tell that the staff was grateful I was there. On my last day, the therapy department and often the nursing staff would give me cards, baked goods, host potlucks and tell me how much they appreciated me and the hard work I put in.
It helped me to realize that people do notice when you put in hard work and care about your job; people who I wasn't sure even knew my name would come give me a hug and make sure they said goodbye.
I still have all the cards.
I'm not saying that the last days were my favorite; saying goodbye is always hard, but my first and last days at each facility definitely stick out in my memory, and the last days were often full of reminiscing and baked goods.
If someone was interested in pursuing work as a traveling therapist, how would you recommend they proceed?
I would advise them to start contacting any travelers they know and see what they think of the companies they have worked with. Often travelers get referral bonuses so they are motivated to help others sign up for their own company. Also, do your research online and contact a few companies you're interested in.
What is the difference in salary offered to a traveling OT with a master's and an OT with a doctorate?
I never compared my salary with an OT with a masters degree. From my experience, I believe traveling salaries are more based on region and years of experience in a particular setting.
Let's say you are offered a 100k annual salary for being a traveling OT. I was wondering if the housing stipend comes out of your paycheck? If I make sure to put my foot down and ask for things such as paid mileage and whatnot, would that ultimately come out of my paycheck too? What costs would I have to expect to pay at the end of it all and what would be left over?
Housing is negotiable. You can choose to have your company find housing for you (which is generally an Extended Stay America long term stay hotel) or you can find your own housing (which takes more work on your end but can save you a lot of money if you find an off season rental home or can live with friends). The housing stipend is calculated based on the cost of living in a region. My housing stipend was a lot larger when I was in California than in Iowa. The other bonus of having the housing stipend as part of your weekly paycheck is that it is tax-free as a displaced worker. Hope that helps!
Where do you start when it comes to looking for companies? Do you simply start researching and contact all of them? What kind of questions would you suggest asking when contacting these companies? Also- do you have to sign a contract for a specific time period? Would we be able to do only one year and then get out of travel?
When it came to looking for companies, my friend and I put together a list of questions we had for each travel company and then we emailed recruiters from all of the companies. We put together a giant spreadsheet to compare each company and then narrowed down our list based on which company was the most helpful/had the benefits we were looking for. Some recruiters gave us long detailed answers, others did not. That helped us get a sense for the company/recruiter right away.
Here is the spreadsheet Emily used! Modify the categories as needed and create your own to aid in finding the right OT traveling position!
Medical coverage: Is this free for every placement? Also, how does medical coverage work between placements? For example, what if I want to take off a week between placements, would I still have medical coverage?
Is there any life insurance offered?
Are meals and incidentals stipend?
As part of the travel expense allowance: is there ever the opportunity for car rental when placements are farther away?
How much is the CEU annual allowance?
Is there any opportunity for student loan repayment?
Are there any opportunities for PTO?
Are there any opportunities for student loan repayment?
The website mentioned completion and renewal bonuses… could you elaborate on this?
Another OT and I are hoping to travel together. Is it always possible to get placements in or near the same place?
For traveling, the companies really want therapists to work for them, so always remember that they are trying to sell their company to you and take what they say with a grain of salt. You don't have to sign a long term contract for traveling. You can do one 13 week rotation, decide it's not for you and take a permanent job. You could even give your 2 weeks notice your first week if you find it's really not a good fit for you. That's one of the positives of traveling, you're never locked into anything and if you want to try a different company or go to a permanent job, you can do so whenever you want.
Did you just get a temporary license in each state? Once you left that state did you ever have to do anything with that license, like recertification? If you wanted to go back to that state did you have to get another temporary license and is there an amount of time you have to wait before applying for another temp license?
From my understanding, traveling therapists do not qualify for a temporary license. I got a standard 2 year license for each state, and then once I left each state I would keep the license until it expired and then either pay to keep it "active" if I planned to return there in the next few years or "inactive" if I didn't plan to return. Being inactive is significantly cheaper. It is also an option to let your licenses just expire if you don't think you will ever return to a state. Each state has it's own regulations and they often require a verification letter from all of the other states that you are licensed in when you apply for a new license.
From what I understand, a temporary license is for new grads who would like to begin working before their official license is processed, and they have to work with an OT who will supervise them. I've talked with other travelers over the years, and they used the same system I did.
There are a few states currently working to have PTs be able to work across state lines without having to be licensed in the 2nd state - i.e. being able to work in Washington under an Oregon license (think of how you use your drivers license). Hopefully OT will follow in PT's footsteps if they are able to get that law passed- ideally nationwide. Talk to your state representatives!
Travel OT provides countless opportunities to grow. Not only can you experience a wide variety of settings and patient populations, you can also work in a number of locations across the country. Traveling and living in new places exposes you to ways of life you might not otherwise know.
In my opinion, travel OT is one of the best ways to grow not just as a clinician, but also as a person.
Ready to start exploring what's out there?
Emily traveled before my favorite OT travel site, Nomadicare, came into existence. Nomadicare was started by Laura Latimer, OTR/L, a travel therapist. Laura vet recruiters using her extensive knowledge and experience.
I highly recommend exploring her services. (And don't worry, the travel companies bear the cost of her work! For travelers getting a match is free!) I am a proud partner of the work Nomadicare is doing to advocate for OTs! !
Through her website, Nomadicare, Laura Latimer, OTR/L will match you with a vetted recruiter.


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Office documents can be hard to manage, especially if they are already taking too much space in your office. With piles of papers taking up the space, it is hard to move around and get any work done.
One of the first thing that you need to do when you are trying to organize your office paperwork is to get rid of documents that you don't need. A lot of companies hoard papers think that they might lose an important contract or document. But this can take up too much space and it can also take time to sort out. This can cause delays and can also stress you out. So take time to look which documents can be categorized for disposal and for keeps. Once you sort it out, you can make more room for more important and new documents.
Once the disposal is done, you can proceed to making sure that your filing system is at its best. When all your papers are properly filed and stored, it is very easy to get any paper you need should you need it. Create a labeling system that is easy to remember and save and be sure to categorize your papers in the same way that you do your business operations.
Document storage is important. One of the most common mistakes companies commit is losing important documents. You need to keep in mind that if these papers landed in the hands of the wrong person, it can be the end of your business. So be sure that you provide a sturdy storage that will safekeep all the papers.
Too much paper can cause confusion inside the office and it can make document sorting a pain. Document storage experts suggest to go digital and paperless. With this setup, it would be easier for you to find the document that you need. Be sure that you get a cloud system that you provide you with the digital storage that you need to go for paperless.
When your business operation is complex, expect that you will get more paperwork to do. To lessen the pile of documents, it would be best to simplify the process. It will make life easier for your admin personnel and your business.
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My Ever Changing Moods is de vijfde single van het Britse soul-jazz-collectief The Style Council. Het nummer is geschreven door zanger-gitarist Paul Weller en werd in februari 1984 uitgegeven door Polydor. De B-kant is Mick's Company, een instrumentaal jazznummer waarin mede-oprichter Mick Talbot op het hammondorgel soleert. Op de 12-inch staat ook Spring Summer, Autumn.

Achtergrond
My Ever Changing Moods is de eerste single van het debuutalbum Café Bleu, dat een maand later uitkwam. Er bestaan drie versies: de reguliere van 4:02, de 12-inch van 5:44 en de albumtrack van 4:02 met alleen pianobegeleiding. In eigen land haalde de single de top 5. In de Amerika haalde het in juni 1984 de 29e plaats (Wellers grootste succes aldaar) en werd het debuutalbum ernaar vernoemd.

In Nederland was de plaat op maandag 26 maart 1984 AVRO's Radio en TV-Tip op Hilversum 3 en werd een radiohit. De plaat bereikte de 30e positie in de Nederlandse Top 40 en 37e positie in de Nationale Hitparade en de TROS Top 50. Deze single was voor de Britse band de eerste van 3 hits in de Nederlandse hitlijsten. In de videoclip zijn het 2 wielrenners over een weg met bomen. Paul draagt het shirt van het Italiaanse team Magniflex-Torpado en Mick die van de succesvolle Nederlandse TI-Raleigh wielerploeg.

Promotie
Ter promotie verscheen The Style Council (Paul Weller, Mick Talbot en de bijna negentienjarige drummer Steve White) in diverse televisieprogramma's. In Nederland waren dat Countdown en Toppop. Laatstgenoemd programma toonde tegelijkertijd de videoclip waarin Weller en Talbot als wielrenners te zien zijn.

My Ever Changing Moods is nog altijd een onderdeel van Wellers solo-optredens.

NPO Radio 2 Top 2000

Single uit 1984
Nummer van The Style Council


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import android.content.Context;

import java.io.IOException;
import java.io.InputStream;
import java.security.GeneralSecurityException;
import java.security.KeyStore;
import java.security.cert.Certificate;
import java.security.cert.CertificateFactory;
import java.util.Arrays;
import java.util.Collection;

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import javax.net.ssl.SSLContext;
import javax.net.ssl.SSLSocketFactory;
import javax.net.ssl.TrustManager;
import javax.net.ssl.TrustManagerFactory;
import javax.net.ssl.X509TrustManager;

import okhttp3.OkHttpClient;

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            InputStream in = null; // By convention, 'null' creates an empty key store.
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Jeremy Corbyn, Our MP
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The Fight of Our Lives
Generations to come will look back at this moment and judge us on the action that we take now. Our response must be bold and it must be decisive…. only collective action led by the government can protect our people and our country.
– Jeremy Corbyn
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"As Western Christianity and the Christian East seek to discover one another again today, small steps have been taken to elucidate the divergent ways in which Orthodox and Western Christians look at the human person and how these different anthropologies touch on the different 'psychologies' of the two populations. Here, in his Guide to Orthodox Psychotherapy, Archbishop Chrysostomos takes a giant leap forward in this endeavor, providing us with a concise study of the person and psyche from an Eastern Orthodox standpoint and a clear understanding of so-called Orthodox psychotherapy. The likelihood of his book broadening the burgeoning study of the nexus between spirituality and religious beliefs and practices and mental health is great. Its contribution to an appreciation of the importance of cultural and religious diversity in this area of research is immense."
What is Orthodox Psychotherapy?
Science and the Relationship Between Religious Practice and Mental Health
Eastern Orthodox Theology and the Nexus Between the Body, Soul, and Spirit
Orthodox Psychotherapy: Hesychasm and the Cleansing of the Mind
The Clinical Applications of Orthodox Psychotherapy
Publication Data: Lanham, MD: University Press of America, Inc., 2007
Number of Pages: xx + 130
ISBN-10: 0‒7618‒3602‒5
ISBN-13: 978‒0‒7618‒3602‒3
St. Olga Cross
Saint Ambrose—Hexameron, Paradise, and Cain and Abel
Translated by John J. Savage
Wider Than Heaven: Eighth-Century Homilies on the Mother of God
Translation and Introduction by Mary B. Cunningham
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Q: How to split after some specific word I have to split word when find ^ and _live in String. I am able to split only match ^ but I have to split when match ^ and _live. The result should be
[ab,cb,db,qw]

How will be done?
String usergroup="ab_live^cb_live^db_live^qw_live";
String[] userGroupParts = usergroup.split("\\^");
List<String> listUserGroupParts = Arrays.asList(userGroupParts);
Set<String> SMGroupDetails = new HashSet<String>(listUserGroupParts);

A: We can say that split separator should be _live^ or just _live at the end of the line.
That's why regular expression must consist of _live and capturing group (\^|$) witch includes two alternatives separated by | (or):
1st alternative \^ matches the character ^ literally (by using escape character before) and 2nd alternative $ asserts position at the end of a line.
String[] userGroupParts = usergroup.split("_live(\\^|$)");

A: This should do it...
public static void main(String[] args) {
    String usergroup = "ab_live^cb_live^db_live^qw_live";
    String[] userGroupParts = usergroup.split("\\^");
    for (int i=0; i<userGroupParts.length; i++) userGroupParts[i] = userGroupParts[i].split("\\_")[0];
    for (String s : userGroupParts) System.out.println(s);
}

i.e. you first split by ^ and then you cycle through the resulting strings splitting on _, retaining only the bit prior to the underscore

A: I would not use method split, of class java.lang.String, but rather regular expressions.
You want to create a list of all the occurrences of the letters that appear after the literal character ^ and before the string _live. The following code achieves this. (Explanations after the code.)
/* Required imports:
 * java.util.ArrayList
 * java.util.List
 * java.util.regex.Matcher
 * java.util.regex.Pattern
 */
String usergroup="ab_live^cb_live^db_live^qw_live";
Pattern pattern = Pattern.compile("\\^?(\\w+)_live");
Matcher matcher = pattern.matcher(usergroup);
List<String> listUserGroupParts = new ArrayList<>();
while (matcher.find()) {
    listUserGroupParts.add(matcher.group(1));
}
System.out.println(listUserGroupParts);

The regular expression, i.e. the argument to method compile in the above code, looks for the following:

*

*the literal character ^, followed by

*at least one word character, followed by

*the literal string _live
Note that part 2 is surrounded by brackets which means it is referred to as a group.
The while loop searches usergroup for the next occurrence of the regular expression and each time it finds an occurrence, it extracts the contents of the group and adds it to the List.
The output when running the above code is:
[ab, cb, db, qw]

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The Rangers will open the season in Prague tomorrow against the Lightning with Chris Drury wearing the captain's "C" and current linemates Scott Gomez and Markus Naslund wearing the associate captains' "A," The Post has learned.
Drury, long renowned for his leadership abilities, was appointed the Blueshirts' 25th captain by head coach Tom Renney, who unveiled his letter-wearing leadership group at tonight's team dinner in Prague.
Drury, who succeeds Jaromir Jagr, becomes the second American-born captain in franchise history. Brian Leetch wore the "C" from 1997-98 through 1999-2000.
Drury, 32, is entering his 10th season in the NHL and second with the Rangers.
Naslund, who signed as a free agent this summer, had been captain of the Canucks since the 2000-01 season. This will mark the first season of Gomez's NHL career in which he has worn a letter.


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Simon Bolivar Buckner, Jr.
United States general
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Simon Bolivar Buckner, Jr., (born July 18, 1886, Mundfordville, Ky., U.S.—died June 18, 1945, Okinawa [now in Japan]), U.S. Army general in World War II who climaxed his career of more than 41 years by leading the successful invasion of the Japanese-held Ryukyu Islands in the Pacific Ocean (1945).
The only son of the Confederate Civil War general of the same name, Buckner was commissioned in the infantry after graduating from the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, N.Y. (1908). Rising in rank, he became a brigadier general in the regular army and from August 1940 to June 1944 was commanding general, Alaska Defense Command, with headquarters at Fort Richardson, Alaska.
Following a short assignment to the central Pacific area, he was appointed (September 1944) commanding general of the 10th Army, holding the rank of lieutenant general. In that post he was charged with the invasion of the strategic Ryukyu Islands, which were still held tenaciously by the Japanese; he fought and won the Pacific front's last great land battle on Okinawa (April–June 1945). He was killed in action while visiting a forward observation post near the southwest tip of the island. The large naval anchorage on the east side of Okinawa, formerly called Nakagusuku Bay, was renamed Buckner Bay in his honour.
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In this study, isoelectric point precipitation method and ultra-filtration purification technique was used to purify the collagen type I extracted from bovine tendon by using acetic acid and pepsin with low temperature. Tannic acidprecipitation and SDS-PAGE gel electrophoresis demonstrated that isoelectric precipitation could effectively remove pepsin; The purified collagen type I had a maximum absorption peak at 235 nm in Ultraviolet spectroscopy; SDS-PAGE spectra showed three characteristic bands of collagen type I; The Kjeldahl method also confirmed that the collagen purity was in line with the standard(YY/T 1511-2017); Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy andcircular dichroism confirmed that the triple helix structure of collagen was completely preserved. The data means the high purity of collagen type I and the integrity of the triple helical structure can be insured by the isoelectric precipitation method combined with ultra-filtration purification technique.


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Q: Validating various radio buttons with jQuery I have 3 different radio button group in jQuery like so:

    Please rate question 1
    Yes<input type="radio" name="question1" value="yes" />
    No<input type="radio" name="question1" value="no" />
    ERROR GOES HERE

    Please rate question 2
    Yes<input type="radio" name="question2" value="yes" />
    No<input type="radio" name="question2" value="no" />
    ERROR GOES HERE

I need that when the user submits the form, it loops through the radio button groups and for every group which doesn't have an option selected, the last td stating the error message is displayed. If both are not selected, both error messages are displayed not just the first one.
Any help?
Many thanks in advance

A: if ($('input[name=question1]:checked').length == 0) {
    // Display an error for question1
}
if ($('input[name=question2]:checked').length == 0) {
    // Display an error for question2
}

If you have a large number of buttons to validate, you might do something like:
var questions = ['question1', 'question2'];
for(var i = 0; i < questions.length; i++) {
    if ($('input[name=' + questions[i] + ']:checked').length == 0) {
        // Display an error for questions[i]
    }
}

As an aside, **PLEASE** use the  tag to properly identify the label for your radio button. Users should be able to click "Yes" and not just the little circle of the radio button itself.
Either:
Yes<input type="radio" name="question1" value="yes" id="question1-yes" />

Or:
Yes<input type="radio" name="question1" value="yes" />

A: I have slightly modified your markup to include class="error"

Please rate question 1
Yes<input type="radio" name="question1" value="yes" />
No<input type="radio" name="question1" value="no" />
ERROR GOES HERE

Please rate question 2
Yes<input type="radio" name="question2" value="yes" />
No<input type="radio" name="question2" value="no" />
ERROR GOES HERE

The below snippet should do what you need.
$('tr').each(function(){
    var currValue = $(':radio:checked', this).val();
    if (currValue!= "yes" || currValue != "no"){
        $(this).find('.error').show();
    }
});


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BGC survey finds a majority against Government-set affordability limits
The Betting and Gaming Council has reported the outcome of a YouGov survey under the heading: "Majority of voters oppose giving politicians the power to limit how much people can spend on betting".
It states as follows:
A majority of voters believe politicians should not set arbitrary limits on the amount they are able to bet, a new poll has revealed.
The YouGov survey was carried out as the Gambling Commission continues its affordability consultation, amid calls for a £100 limit on the amount that punters can lose in a month.
The issue is also expected to be considered as part of the Government's ongoing Gambling Review.
But according to the poll of 1,683 British adults, 51 per cent are opposed to limits set by politicians, compared to just 27 per cent who support them.
Critics have said that setting affordability limits could slash over £60 million pounds from the amount of money horseracing receives from the betting levy.
The YouGov poll – which was commissioned by the Betting and Gaming Council – also found that 59 per cent of UK adults agree that "if there are too many limits placed on people to bet", they will shift to the unlicensed and illegal black market, compared to 10 per cent who disagree.
A report by PwC last month revealed that the number of British punters using black market sites to place bets has increased from 210,000 to 460,000 in the past two years, while the amount staked with unlicensed operators had doubled from £1.4bn to £2.8bn.
Black market sites have none of the safeguards required in the regulated sector, such as ID and age verification checks, the ability to set deposit limits and safer gambling tools.
The BGC also commissioned a series of focus groups, which were mainly held in so-called "Red Wall" seats across the Midlands and the north of England, to find out their views on betting and wider cultural issues.
In all, 20 took place in Long Eaton, Mansfield, Dudley, Walsall, Warrington, Doncaster, Oldham, Grimsby, Scunthorpe, Stoke, London, Richmond-on-Thames, Birmingham, Durham, Wakefield, Blackpool and St Helens between November and February.
Many of these areas were among the 50 seats across the North, Midlands and Wales which switched from Labour to the Conservatives in 2019, helping to hand Boris Johnson an 80-seat majority.
In a rebuke to the anti-gambling lobby, who accuse the industry of "normalising" gambling, they showed that betting is already a normal social and leisure pastime for millions of Brits.
They also found that voters in those seats are wary of post-Covid mission creep, with the state wanting to impose more control on how they live their lives.
Michael Dugher, chief executive of the Betting and Gaming Council, said:
"My view is that limits are good, which is why people betting are now strongly encouraged to set their own limits on how much they spend. Affordability checks are also a good thing. But technology enables betting companies to see where customers are starting to display what we call 'markers of harm'. In this way, potential problem gamblers and others who may be more at risk could be subject to enhanced affordability checks.
Such a move would potentially also have serious ramifications for horseracing in particular, which relies heavily on the money it receives from the betting levy.
I hope politicians will also take heed of the findings and listen to voters in Northern and Midlands marginal seats – who will be key to the result of the next election – who are wary of being told by Westminster how to live their lives, especially in the wake of the Covid pandemic.
The BGC fully supports the Gambling Review and we want to see big changes, but it's important that ministers get those changes right."
UPDATE: Michael Dugher has now expanded his comments on this subject-matter:
in a wide-ranging interview for the Nick Luck Daily podcast that you can listen to here and
in the following article for politicshome.com:
The issue of gambling won't decide the next election, but Red Wall voters will – and politicians should listen to what they have to say
Our recent research further strengthened the Government's stated intention in the Gambling Review to "strike the right balance" between not interfering in the enjoyment of millions, while providing better protections for vulnerable people.
When I first started knocking on doors for Labour, growing up in a pit village outside Doncaster in the rock solid safe seat of Don Valley, they used to say "you could slap a red rosette on a donkey and it'd win round here". Years later, I was out canvassing as the MP for the neighbouring South Yorkshire seat of Barnsley East and I asked one elderly lady if she would be voting for me. She replied reassuringly: "Don't worry, love, I always vote Labour," before adding "even when you're rubbish!"
That changed dramatically at the 2019 general election. It wasn't just that the Conservatives won a landslide majority of 80 or that Labour under Jeremy Corbyn crashed to its lowest number and proportion of seats since 1935, that made the outcome so significant.
It was the fact that the Tories won so many seats in long-held Labour strongholds like Leave-voting Don Valley. Many other so-called 'Red Wall' constituencies, like Barnsley East, stayed stubbornly Labour, in part, because the Brexit Party stood against the Conservatives and split the anti-Labour vote. The truth is the 2019 general election could have been a lot worse for Labour.
So what happens next? Was this a one-off? Simply a great big protest vote based on Brexit or a damning revulsion of Corbyn's left wing Labour? Undoubtedly there is more to it than that. The result was also in part down to Boris Johnson.
Working class voters in places like South Yorkshire didn't vote for the Eton-educated Prime Minister because they thought he was one of them. They voted for him because they thought he wasn't a typical politician. They thought Brexit-supporting Boris better understood them and their culture.
For some time there had been a growing alienation of traditional white working class voters from Labour in many deprived post-industrial areas in the North and the Midlands.
The question today is can Boris hang onto those voters or will they revert back to a seemingly more competent, credible and sensible Labour Party? Nobody knows. Many issues will be in play at the next election and we don't know what impact the Covid pandemic will have, if at all, on voter attitudes.
Given the Government is currently reviewing gambling and has called for evidence, I was keen to find out more about what those living in these key electoral battlegrounds think about betting. So I commissioned focus groups in 20 marginal constituencies, including in Red Wall places like Doncaster, Durham and Dudley. We also asked YouGov to poll across the UK to gauge the wider country's attitude.
Views on gambling are never going to determine the outcome of a general election. But the results of our focus groups do say a lot about the wider attitudes held by these key voters.
Anti-gambling prohibitionists routinely allege the betting industry is trying to "normalise" gambling. But given that betting is something that is enjoyed by 30 million adults – around half the adult population – it was unsurprising to learn that most people regarded it as perfectly normal. Our YouGov poll found that 66 per cent of people say betting has been part of British life and leisure for centuries and 68 per cent believe there's nothing wrong with having a bet now and then.
There was also a strong sense in the focus groups that many Red Wall voters feel that there are some politicians who don't understand their lives, perhaps even look down on what they choose to do, and who seem to want to tell people what they can and cannot do with their lives (and with their own money). Many saw threats to people's enjoyment of betting in the context of a 'culture war'. And all of this has been brought into sharp focus by lockdown. Simple pleasures like having a drink in the pub, going to the match or visiting the local bookies, have been prohibited for much of the past year.
Which leads me to the next major finding. Voters, especially in Red Wall areas, are concerned about 'mission creep' from the Government. The focus groups, which also revealed a growing divide between the north and south, found that the pandemic had left some voters increasingly wary of government intrusion into aspects of their lives, including betting. We tested recent suggestions that punters may have to show their bank statements and pay slips if they wanted to spend more than, say, £100 on betting in a month.
The hostility to this was surprisingly strong. Many expressed genuine horror and disbelief, especially to the notion that somebody else would make a judgement, not simply about whether or not you have the funds available, but whether in their judgement your discretionary spending on betting was too high. Voters thought that help should be targeted at problem gamblers, not the overwhelming majority who bet safely and responsibly.
As one participant in his thirties in Doncaster, said: "It's a slippery slope, isn't it? I'll be told how much I can spend on betting, then I'll get told I can only spend this much on bad food, or alcohol. Am I going to have to show Amazon I can afford what I'm buying on there?"
According to the YouGov poll, 51 per cent believe politicians should not be able to set limits on how much people are allowed to spend on betting, while 59 per cent feared that if there were too many limits, punters will simply move to the unlicensed and illegal online black market, where there are none of the safeguards found in the regulated sector – like strict age and ID checks and safer gambling messages.
My view is that limits are good, which is why people betting online are now strongly encouraged to set their own limits on how much they want to spend. Affordability checks are also a good thing. But technology enables betting companies to see where customers are starting to display what we call 'markers of harm'. In this way, potential problem gamblers and others who may be more at risk can and are subject to enhanced checks and interventions.
One of the challenges for the industry is that the focus groups also showed that people don't realise that the UK betting and gaming industry is already one of the most highly-regulated in the world, with some people even believing that online gambling wasn't regulated at all. This explains why some feel that the Government should take tougher action against our industry. But the groups also pointed to the danger of over-regulation, with a factory worker in Scunthorpe saying: "You can't regulate everything. You've got to take some personal responsibility".
For those that favour reform – me included – our recent polling and focus groups further strengthened the Government's stated intention in the Gambling Review to "strike the right balance" between not interfering in the enjoyment of millions, while providing better protections for vulnerable people.
What made me smile was a comment from another man in Doncaster, who summed up the feelings of so many Red Wall voters when he said: "It's a cultural thing here. I like betting, it's part of my week. I work hard all week and at the end of the week, yeah, I might spend more than I should on drinking and betting, but so what? It's my money and I've paid my taxes on it. They don't understand us, and they think we should all be cycling or whatever instead."
Gambling will not be one of the issues that will determine the outcome of the next general election. But Red Wall voters, including in places like Doncaster, will. Politicians should listen to what they have to say.
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