Is it safe to travel to the Maldives right now?
What's happening in the Maldives right now?
President Abdulla Yameen declared a 15-day emergency in the Maldives on Monday. The Parliament as well as 20 constitutional rights have been suspended, throwing the country into a turmoil. As a result, the judiciary was stripped of its immunity. Soldiers barricaded the Supreme Court premises, leaving the judges without food and other essential supplies. Chief Justice Abdulla Saeed, Justice Ali Hameed and administrator Hassan Saeed Hussain were arrested at dawn on Tuesday. Yameen's half-brother and former President Maumoon Abdul Gayoom was arrested along with his son after the security forces broke down their door. The Press has been threatened with closure and cyberattacks, according to Committee to Protect Journalists.
The political crisis started on 1 February, when the Supreme Court overturned terrorism convictions against 9 of the president's political opponents and ordered reinstatement of 12 other legislators. The order, if executed, would give the opposition a majority in the parliament, enough to impeach the current President. The government claimed that release of the prisoners would be illegal and refused to comply citing 'legal and judicial' concerns. Despite protests in Male and international pressure, the President implemented an emergency in the Maldives as desperate last attempt to seize power. Yameen has been under the scanner for corruption, but that hasn't stopped him from arresting or exiling his biggest opponents before the upcoming elections.
So, is it safe to travel to the Maldives?
No. Before the emergency was declared, protests had engulfed the Supreme Court building in Male. Although there have been no reports of disruption in the Maldives, the Indian Ocean archipelago remains tense. A breakdown of constitutional rule gives the President and armed forces uncensored power for the next two weeks. Public meetings and events have been cancelled and it is likely that services like transport will be affected regardless of claims from the Maldives government. Unless crucial, travelling to the Maldives should be avoided until the political crisis eases out.
What are the travel advisories issued?
The United Kingdom has also issued an advisory, asking its citizens to exercise caution. It also states that no violence or disruption was reported from outlying resorts or the International Airport. China, a close ally of the Maldives, advised citizens to stay away from the island country.
Will this affect my hotel booking in the Maldives?
While opposition leaders have been calling for foreign intervention, many governments and organisations have condemned the emergency. United Nations, The European Union, United States, United Kingdom and India have all released statements denouncing Yameen's government. While India has refrained from a strong-worded statement against the emergency in the Maldives, reports from Delhi suggest the Government is considering all its options to deal with the political crisis. In 1988, India had taken direct action to defend Gayoom's government.


Is Venom a legend or a reprobate? Not one or the other? Both? In the event that you scrounge through the Marvel back index where the piranha-toothed "symbiote" was first completely presented in The Amazing Spider-Man #300, he's plainly planning something naughty — at any rate the extent that Peter Parker is concerned. Be that as it may, in Zombieland chief Ruben Fleischer's garish yet tonally scattered new root story, he's painted as a tormented hero, a casualty of an awful Jekyll-and-Hyde break.
Only half a month prior to the film's debut, Sony Pictures discharged an arrangement of new blurbs for Venom that puts a portion of its main star's most vital highlights up front.
Gossipy tidbits initially started flowing in August (through Variety) that Venom presumably wouldn't be Sony's first R-appraised film in light of a Marvel Comics property.
"A few individuals from Sony's mind trust that the film should drive the simple furthest reaches of PG-13 without traverse into a higher rating," expressed the report, which refers to unidentified studio sources.
The gossip machine changed into high gear in January when a Collider have detailed that Tom Holland's Spider-Man — the star of Spider-Man: Homecoming and the Marvel Cinematic Universe's most youthful star — might appear in Venom.
The report was denied by different authority sources in the months that pursued, however the common status of the Spider-Man character — who turned out to be a piece of Marvel's realistic universe through an association with Sony Pictures — shielded the report from being totally expelled. The gossip with respect to a Spider-Man appearance reemerged in August when Venom chief Ruben Fleischer gave an obviously cautious reaction to inquiries regarding the character showing up in the film.
The finish of shooting didn't stop the stream of throwing news, with Luke Cage and This Is Us performing artist Ron Cephas Jones reported as one of the on-screen characters showing up in Venom only a couple of months before the film hits theaters.
Sony affirmed a lot about Venom amid the studio's Comic-Con board in July. Not exclusively did the studio flaunt some new film from the film, yet it additionally affirmed that Venom would go head to head against another outsider symbiote named Riot in the film.
Ahmed's character will supposedly be the human host for Riot, yet that could change, given the outsider's capacity to move between hosts.
The character played by Rogue One on-screen character Riz Ahmed was likewise affirmed — with some new points of interest — amid Sony's Comic-Con board.
Ahmed will depict Dr. Carlton Drake, an extremely rich person innovator and leader of the Life Foundation, who trusts mankind's future lies in space. His enthusiasm for inestimable investigation carries him into contact with the intense outsider symbiotes, and Ahmed affirmed that he would wind up getting to be host to one of the shape-moving animals.
First presented in a 1992 issue of The Amazing Spider-Man, Carnage is a posterity of the Venom symbiote that fortified with Kasady and comes up short on any ethical establishment at all. One of Spider-Man and Venom's most hazardous, erratic enemies, Carnage is a superpowered mental case who employs the majority of indistinguishable forces from Venom and grasps — instead of battles to control — the bloodlust expedited by the outsider symbiote.
Whatever job Harrelson plays in the movie, it will be a gathering for him and Fleischer, who coordinated Harrelson in Zombieland.
It's not formally endorsed by the studio, but rather a video making the rounds online offers a quite unique turn on the second trailer for Venom.
YouTube client Darth Blender posted a remix of the trailer that replaces the no frills film with clasps from the well known 1990s network show Spider-Man: The Animated Series. The outcome is a shockingly all around synchronized adaptation of the trailer that ought to summon some genuine wistfulness for fanatics of the early manifestations of Spider-Man's popular adversary (and incidental partner).


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using System;
using System.Linq.Expressions;
using System.Text.RegularExpressions;
using System.Web.Helpers;
using System.Web.Mvc;
using ExpressionToString;

namespace TestStack.FluentMVCTesting
{
    public class ViewResultTest
    {
        private readonly ViewResultBase _viewResult;
        private readonly Controller _controller;

        public ViewResultTest(ViewResultBase viewResult, Controller controller)
        {
            _viewResult = viewResult;
            _controller = controller;
        }

        public ModelTest<TModel> WithModel<TModel>() where TModel : class
        {
            if (_viewResult.Model == null)
                throw new ViewResultModelAssertionException("Expected view model, but was null.");

            var castedModel = _viewResult.Model as TModel;
            if (castedModel == null)
                throw new ViewResultModelAssertionException(string.Format("Expected view model to be of type '{0}', but it is actually of type '{1}'.", typeof(TModel).Name, _viewResult.Model.GetType().Name));

            return new ModelTest<TModel>(_controller);
        }

        public ModelTest<TModel> WithModel<TModel>(TModel expectedModel) where TModel : class
        {
            var test = WithModel<TModel>();

            var model = _viewResult.Model as TModel;
            if (model != expectedModel)
                throw new ViewResultModelAssertionException("Expected view model to be the given model, but in fact it was a different model.");

            return test;
        }

        public ModelTest<TModel> WithModel<TModel>(Expression<Func<TModel, bool>> predicate) where TModel : class
        {
            var test = WithModel<TModel>();

            var model = _viewResult.Model as TModel;

            var modelLex = Json.Encode(model);
            var predicateLex = ExpressionStringBuilder.ToString(predicate);
            var compiledPredicate = predicate.Compile();

            if (!compiledPredicate(model))
                throw new ViewResultModelAssertionException(string.Format(
                    "Expected view model {0} to pass the given condition ({1}), but it failed.",
                    modelLex,
                    predicateLex));

            return test;
        }

        public ModelTest<TModel> WithModel<TModel>(Action<TModel> assertions) where TModel : class
        {
            var test = WithModel<TModel>();

            var model = _viewResult.Model as TModel;
            assertions(model);

            return test;
        }
    }
}

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Tel: +263 292 888176 - +263 292 888191
Understanding Infertility
We have the Technology & Expertise to
Deliver The Best Results
Welcome to BART CENTRE
Bulawayo Assisted Reproductive Technology Centre is the first fertility centre in the city of Bulawayo and strives in helping people build families.Our goal is simple, that you receive the best medical care and guidance with personal attention. It's at the heart of what we do for you.
Who We Are . . .
BART CENTRE ( Bulawayo Assisted Reproductive Technology Centre ) is the first fertility centre in the city of Bulawayo, Zimbabwe and strives in helping people build families. The founding doctor, Dr Jephat Moyo is a specialist gynaecologist who trained at the University of Zimbabwe and has extensive knowledge in the field of infertility. He did his training in infertility in Dubai (UAE), London (UK) and Singapore.
BART CENTRE opened its doors in December 2016, and since then we have been growing from strength to strength. We are proud to announce that BART and Dr Moyo made history in the city of Bulawayo as the first baby conceived from this treatment was born in August 2017.
At BART CENTRE, our approach to infertility is to provide the most comprehensive infertility services available. Services that start from your initial evaluation to offering the most advanced forms of treatment available, namely, In-vitro fertilization (IVF) and Intracytoplasmic Sperm Injection (ICSI), sperm freezing, Egg freezing and Embyro freezing and basic forms of treatment including Ovulation Induction and Intrauterine insemination(IUI).
We also facilitate and offer Egg and Sperm donation. Coupled with our experience and expertise, we can offer understanding and support as you face your personal challenges of infertility.Our goal is simple, that you receive the best medical care and guidance with personal attention.It's at the heart of what we do for you. Recent studies have revealed that as many as 1 in every 10 couples are considered infertile. That is, they are unable to conceive a child after one year of unprotected intercourse. Infertility may have complicated and sometimes multiple causes and it can also exact an emotional stress. Couples having difficulty conceiving a child can now look to the BART CENTRE for one of the countries most comprehensive and progressive treatment programs.
At BART CENTRE we are committed to providing you, the patient, with the most advanced medical treatment available, offered in an empathetic and caring environment.
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myINTERACT reporting allows for administrators to filter out a particular connections data. Filtering out a connection will also effect the data displayed on the Dashboard.
NOTE: Applying the filter does not mean that tracking will stop completely at the point of activation; the feature behaves as a hide function rather than a stop tracking function.


The question that I was addressing in part 1—and before that in "Whence Fact, Theory, and Path?"—concerned a familiar threefold distinction between evolution as fact, evolution as theory, and evolution as path. The question is easy enough to state: Who thought of it first? But the answer is hard to discover. In part that's because there are so many ways of expressing the point: a writer might talk about the "path" or the "course" or the "route" of evolution on the one hand, or about the "theory" or the "causes" or the "process" of evolution on the other hand. In part that's because so many of those ways could be used not to express the point: a writer who is discussing "the theory of evolution" isn't necessarily restricted to discussing only the causes or the processes of evolution. So far, the earliest articulation of the distinction I've discussed occurs in Principles of Animal Biology (1920), by A. Franklin Shull (above), which might have influenced Winterton Curtis's use of it in his testimony for the Scopes trial in 1925.
Leavitt was referring to a 1907 article by the botanist Dukinfield Henry Scott (1854–1934) in Progressus Rei Botanicae (which I was astonished to find on-line). In it, there's no sustained argument for the thesis that Leavitt disagrees with: Scott begins with the assertion, "Since the publication of the '[On the] Origin of Species' and the consequent general acceptance of the doctrine of evolution, the determination of the course of descent has become the ultimate object of the scientific systematist," but quickly turns to his main purpose, providing a state-of-the-art review of paleobotany. Interestingly, Scott may have heeded Leavitt's criticism. For not long after, in a piece published in a volume to celebrate the centenary of Darwin's birth, Darwin and Modern Science (1909), he writes, "We may consider the fossil record of plants in its bearing: I. on the truth of the doctrine of Evolution; II. on Phylogeny, or the course of Evolution; III. on the theory of Natural Selection," and organizes his remarks accordingly.
Perhaps there are earlier statements of the threefold distinction to be found. I suspect, though, that Shull's Principles of Animal Biology is the earliest source to be influential. In his biography for Shull in the Complete Dictionary of Scientific Biography (2008), Garland Allen writes, "Although a researcher of considerable merit, Shull is perhaps best remembered in American biology for his teaching and writing," adding that his textbooks "introduced countless students to modern, experimental biology and to rigorous concepts in general biology." He is credited with pioneering the "principles" approach to biology, organizing his courses and his textbooks around general themes rather than—as was common—along a march through phylogeny. There were six editions of Principles of Animal Biology, the latest in 1946. Even if Leavitt is granted the priority for drawing the threefold distinction, it is hard to believe that a single paper in a journal would have had the same influence as a textbook studied by generations of undergraduate students.


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What is a Bitcoin Hard Fork?
Carlos Teodoro
Lately it has become very famous the term hard fork. Because of this we are going to explain that it is a hard fork in bitcoin trying to make it as clear as possible.
To start with the most basic, we define a fork as a fork. In programming this refers to the process by which a source code of a program is copied, which in this case would be the bitcoin platform.
Forks can have two intentions; clone the bitcoin code to create a new cryptocurrency from it or update the existing code.
In both cases, since bitcoin is an open source system, anyone can access the code. So basically anyone with advanced blockchain knowledge can execute a bifurcation.
To create a new blockchain project based on bitcoin's open source, there are no impediments, but to update the existing code to implement it definitively requires a prior consensus.
Then, we can define the hard fork as an intentional fork in order to update or redesign the code. This can have different results; from an extension of the size of the blocks to a change in the rules of the system.
Generally, when it comes to a hard fork, the changes are important, which is why the term hard is used to identify it. The software derived from it will be incompatible with the previous versions.
Other types of Fork
Soft Fork
Like a hard fork, a soft fork is a consensual update of bitcoin open source.
The term soft (soft) is used to identify when these changes have no major impact on the system and even the result is compatible with previous versions and can coexist in the same bitcoin network without problems.
This type of updates does not have major repercussions because all the participants of the network should only update their software to enjoy the new functions that are implemented, even keep the previous version.
Rough Fork
A broken fork happens when the system developers make mistakes when performing the desired updates, which is why it is necessary to make a new fork to repair the errors.
As a result of that error a second chain of blocks is created which is based on the new version of the software. That is, the chain of blocks accidentally bifurcates.
The last accident fork occurred in 2013 when a miner created an additional block chain that was not compatible with previous versions of Bitcoin Core software.
To solve this, an agreement had to be reached with the main mining pools to install an old version of the software while developing a new one that would come out days later.
This type of errors can create distrust in the community of bitcoiners and therefore a fall in the price of the asset in the market, so that it could be considered a serious accident.
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What Is NFT Lending And How to get Yields with Them?
How to Act in a Bear Market? Everything You Need to Know
Bitcoin Mixer – What Are They? How Do They Work? Which Ones Are the Best?


According to a Essel press release, Essel Infra projects Ltd and Chinese photovoltaic (PV) material maker Golden Concord Holdings Ltd (GCL) have teamed up to set up 5 GW solar module manufacturing capacity in Andhra Pradesh by 2020.
The companies have formed a consortium to invest USD 2 billion (EUR 1.8bn) in establishing the integrated solar manufacturing hub, Essel Group. The two companies inked a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with the Andhra Pradesh government as part of the Partnership Summit organised by CII.
The press release added that the solar hub is expected to create about 15,000 jobs and will supply both domestic and overseas markets, supporting the Make in India initiative of PM Modi and also help the country achieve its target of installing 100 GW of solar power capacity by 2022.


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Q: Flask stops at OptionParser.parse_args() when running it using docker I am using flask to create a Rest API, and there, it loads a pre-trained model, renders the graphical main page , and then get some input directories to feed data to classification.
when I run the code on my local machine, it all works fine. But when I use docker to run the app.py file(where the API is and loads the trained model), it gets stuck at OptionParser.parse_args(). Is there any way that I can handle this problem and keep using optparse? Here is how my code looks like.
app.py:
from flask import Flask, request, jsonify, render_template, redirect, url_for
import os
import sys

sys.path.insert(0, '/docker_dir_to_project/')
sys.path.insert(0, '/docker_dir_to_project/deploy')

import model_backend

from optparse import OptionParser
app = Flask(__name__)
print('\n\n\n\nopened flask app\n\n\n')

# some initialization, here I just load the config and load the model
class my_app:
    def __init__(self):
        # some directories
        print('init')
        self.deploy_dir = os.path.dirname(os.path.abspath(__file__))
        # it gets stuck in this method:
        self.opt = self._create_options()

        print('2')
        # building the model, optparse is used in this method again.
        self.recognizer = model_backend.classifier(self.opt,self.device)

    # uses option parser, and it gets stuck here
    def _create_options(self):
        parser = OptionParser()
        print('11')  # will be printed
        print('12')  # will be printed
        (opt, args) = parser.parse_args()  # with docker it gets stuck here,
        print('13')  # won't be printed

        opt.some_settings = some_settings

        return opt

# the rest of a normal flask application

print('BEFORE INIT')
recognizer_system_ = my_app()
print('after init')

# the api
@app.route('/', methods=['GET', 'POST'])
def Main_page():
    print('main page')
    return render_template('Main_page.html')

# this file is not run
if __name__ == '__main__':
    print('\n\n\nmain file in app\n\n\n')
    app.run(host='0.0.0.0')

The dockerfile is as followed:
FROM python:3.7

#
RUN apt-get update
ADD all_required_files /all_required_files_on_docker
ENV FLASK_DEBUG=1
WORKDIR /docker_dir_to_project/deploy
CMD [ "flask", "run", "--host=0.0.0.0"]

and the bash file which I run with sudo bash command is as followed:
dockerize.sh:
#!/bin/bash

docker build -f ./deploy/Dockerfile -t sr .
docker run -p 5000:5000 sr

When I run normally on local host (no docker), it works fine. But when I use the dockerize.sh script, it cannot load the main page, and the output on console is as followed:
Usage: flask [options]

flask: error: no such option: --host

opened flask app

BEFORE INIT
init
11
12

Which means, it gets stuck at app.py -> my_app -> _create_options -> (opt, args) = parser.parse_args()
Does anyone have any Idea how to solve it? I use the optparse later in the model to load parameters, and prefer to keep using it if possible. Thank you all in advance for your time.

A: I could fix the problem by using argparse package instead of optparse, and replacing
parser = OptionParser()
(opt, args) = parser.parse_args()

with
parser = argparse.ArgumentParser()
opt, _ = parser.parse_known_args()

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namespace Leak.Networking.Core
{
    /// <summary>
    /// Indicates who is the initiator of the connection.
    /// </summary>
    public enum NetworkDirection
    {
        /// <summary>
        /// The connection was initiated by remote endpoint.
        /// </summary>
        Incoming,

        /// <summary>
        /// The connection was initiated by local endpoint.
        /// </summary>
        Outgoing
    }
}


I recently made the mistake of getting an OCZ Vertex 3 drive for my Asus U36SD laptop. The Vertex 3 is an incredible SSD, one of the fastest in existence. Unfortunately for me, other Vertex 3 owners, and the manufacturers OCZ, it's also got one of the highest failure rates.
Hard Disk Drives (HDDs) have long been the biggest speed bottleneck in modern computer systems. Drive manufacturers have had their replacement, Solid State Drives (SSDs) on the consumer market since about 2006/7, but it was only from 2010 onward that they really become affordable.
SSD's are awesome – the speed increase they can bring to a system has to be seen to be believed. It's not like comparing a Lamborghini with a Toyota, it's like comparing a Lamborghini with a bicycle.
I replaced the HDD in my MacBook Air 1,1 (first generation) with a RunCore SSD. The performance difference was astonishing – boot time was cut in half, and applications like iTunes, Safari and iMovie opened in 1/4 the time. The MacBook Air was given a new lease of life – transformed from an older, no longer useful machine into a very usable system.Unfortunately the down side to SSD is reliability – as it's a relatively new technology AND it's pushing existing technologies right to their limits (SATA) that means there can be problems. I haven't had any problems with the RunCore in the MBA, but the OCZ is a different matter as you can see from the image above – each line is a Blue Screen of Death (BSOD) where Windows crashed and needed reboot because of the SSD – and this list is only about 60% of the total (BSODs on resume from hibernate didn't write dump files).
OCZ can make the case, rightly, that the many problems with their drives are mostly not their fault – it's the SandForce controller that is causing the problem, and other SSD manufacturers using the SandForce controllers on their SSDs are suffering the same problem. They can also point to many systems where their drives are working perfectly – usually non-Asus motherboards by the way. OCZ* fans will frequently point out that they lead the charts in terms of performance – but that comes at a price.
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Custodian REIT Plc
DGAP-UK-Regulatory News vom 17.08.2018
Custodian REIT plc : Issue of equity
Custodian REIT plc (CREI)
Dissemination of a Regulatory Announcement that contains inside information according to REGULATION (EU) No 596/2014 (MAR), transmitted by EQS Group.
("Custodian REIT" or "the Company")
Issue of equity
Custodian REIT (LSE: CREI), the UK commercial real estate investment company, announces that to satisfy continued investor demand, 500,000 new ordinary shares of 1 pence each in the capital of the Company ("the New Shares") were issued today under its ordinary share block listing facility. The New Shares were issued at 120.0 pence per share, raising £600,000 (before costs and expenses).
Following this issue, the Company's issued share capital comprises 390,353,344 ordinary shares.
Custodian Capital Limited
Richard Shepherd-Cross / Nathan Imlach / Ian Mattioli MBE
www.custodiancapital.com
Nathan Brown / Hugh Jonathan
www.numiscorp.com
Camarco
Ed Gascoigne-Pees
www.camarco.co.uk
Custodian REIT plc is a UK real estate investment trust, which listed on the main market of the London Stock Exchange on 26 March 2014. Its portfolio comprises properties predominantly let to institutional grade tenants on long leases throughout the UK and is principally characterised by properties with individual values of less than £10 million at acquisition.
The Company offers investors the opportunity to access a diversified portfolio of UK commercial real estate through a closed-ended fund. By targeting sub £10 million lot size, regional properties, the Company intends to provide investors with an attractive level of income with the potential for capital growth.
Custodian Capital Limited is the discretionary investment manager of the Company.
For more information visit www.custodianreit.com and www.custodiancapital.com.
ISIN: GB00BJFLFT45
Category Code: IOE
TIDM: CREI
OAM Categories: 2.2. Inside information
3.1. Additional regulated information required to be disclosed under the laws of a Member State
Sequence No.: 5889


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360º video in Safari
We have some big news: we have developed software making it possible to watch 360 video in Safari, Apple's default browser, without the need for an app. This confirms their status as a leading company in the field, not only in the Dutch market, but worldwide.
Jeroen Meeter, managing director at Blue Billywig:
Internet giants like YouTube and Facebook have applications that enable users to watch 360 degree video's on iPhone. However, this was still not possible in a web browser like Safari. To my knowledge, Blue Billywig are the only company in the world right now who have developed a solution for this.
360º experience
The relatively new video format has gained a lot of popularity. The experience is especially unique on mobile devices. By moving the mobile device upwards, down or to the side the viewer decides in which direction they wish to look. The viewer can follow movement, making the adventure complete.
View the 360 demo video.
Mobile and desktop support
YouTube and Facebook do have an app allowing users to watch 360 video on mobile devices. What makes Blue Billywig's solution unique, is the use of web techniques, making 360 video available for each individual web page, on both desktop and mobile devices. Allowing for playback directly in the browser means the experience is now more approachable than ever. Mobile users are no longer obligated to download an app, giving companies the opportunity to attract and retain viewers on their website as opposed to navigating them to an app or foreign platform. Additionally, companies don't have to invest in the development of an app.
Interactive 360 video
When using Blue Billywig's player for your 360 video content, all existing functionalities of the platform remain available. For example, you can still choose the style of the player, add subtitles and insert interactivity. Through interactivity, viewers are able to click on buttons, answer questions, give feedback and request extra information, all from within the video. This creates an added layer to 360 video, creating a more unique experience and giving companies the opportunity to create direct conversion and higher engagement.
Read the interview with our developers to learn more about the technique behind their 360 video.


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Pujols, Now an Angel, Gives Back Through Foundation
February 13, 2012; Source: Los Angeles Times | When the St. Louis Cardinals lost first basement Albert Pujols to the Los Angeles Angels through free agency, the Gateway to the West lost more than the National League's best all-around baseball player. Pujols has long been known as a generous philanthropist. The Pujols Family Foundation has two missions.
One is to help families of children with Down syndrome, a mission Pujols cares about deeply. His oldest daughter, Bella, whom he adopted after marrying her mother, Deidre Corona, in 2000, has Down syndrome. This LA Times article notes Pujols' belief that his philanthropy is "part of the responsibility that God has given me." The Pujols Foundation does a huge amount for Down syndrome families, including 63 events in 2011 alone, such as father-son fishing trips, mother-daughter teas, music and dance classes, and the highlight of the year, a tuxedo and formal dress prom for 500 young people. In one of the sweetest possible efforts imaginable, Pujols typically tries to dance with each one of the young people at the prom.
The other mission of the foundation is to help poverty-stricken families in his native Dominican Republic. Pujols lived in the DR until he was sixteen, and he is not the only major leaguer to provide assistance to the isle of Hispaniola. With more players from the Dominican Republic in Major League Baseball than any other country other than the U.S., it shouldn't be surprising that some of them are giving back to their homeland, including Tony Fernandez, Bartolo Colon, Robinson Cano, David Ortiz, Pedro Martinez, and Sammy Sosa (although Sosa's foundation has been the subject of some public criticism for its finances). Among its various activities in the DR, Pujols' foundation works with Compassion International to bring in teams of medical personnel for health clinic events. To get a feel for the foundation's work in the DR, look at the blog postings from 2011 clinic staff.
Pujols was a poor kid when he was drafted in 1999. He signed to a minor league team that paid him $125 a week in his first season. However, winning the National League rookie of the year award in 2001 won him an eight-year, $111 million contract in 2004, launching him into stratospheric sports paydays. His new contract with the Angels is $240 million over 10 years. Now, it seems like Pujols, no longer a poor kid, is hitting home runs not just for his team, but also for charity and philanthropy. –Rick Cohen
Sheila E.: On Creativity and Voice in Social Change
By Cyndi Suarez
Indigenous Canada Online Course Attracts 64,000
Farm Aid 2020 Makes Its Politics Known
Historic Star-Studded Letter to Hollywood Demands End to Anti-Black Content
Jordan's $100M Donation Raises Authenticity & Transparency Concerns
By Alyssa Conrardy
A $100,000 Donation Becomes Priceless on "The Price is Right"


Bead sealer is a rubber product designed to be used around the bead of the tyre and the wheel rim. The product creates an air tight seal on rims that maybe rusted or pitted to help prevent leaks. Comes in 950ml tin with integral brush.


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Site branding
SAMHSA.gov, Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administrations
Solr Header Search
National Training and Technical Assistance Center for Child, Youth, and Family Mental Health
FAQs About the New Practice Guidelines (April 2021)
Submit an Opioid Treatment Exception Request
State Opioid Treatment Authority (SOTA)
National Children's Mental Health Awareness Day
Media Guidelines for Bullying Prevention
OIEA
Solr Mobile Search
SAMHSA is announcing the availability of up to $37.5 million for the Tribal Behavioral Health Grant Program
The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) is accepting applications for the Tribal Behavioral Health Grant Program (Short Title: Native Connections) totaling up to $37.5 million over the next 5 years.
The purpose of this program is to prevent and reduce suicidal behavior and substance use, reduce the impact of trauma, and promote mental health among American Indian/Alaska Native (AI/AN) youth through the age of 24 years.
SAMHSA expects to fund up to 30 grantees with up to $250,000 per year for up to five years. The actual award amount may vary, depending on the availability of funds. The funding opportunity announcement for this grant is available at: https://www.samhsa.gov/grants/grant-announcements/sm-18-017.
WHO CAN APPLY: American Indian/Alaska Native (AI/AN) tribes, tribal organizations, consortia of tribes or tribal organizations, or Urban Indian Organizations.
HOW TO APPLY: All applicants must register with the National Institutes of Health's electronic Research Administration (eRA) Commons in order to submit an application. This process takes up to six weeks. If you believe you are interested in applying for this opportunity, you MUST start the registration process immediately. Do not wait to start this process. If your organization is not registered and you do not have an active eRA Commons PI account by the deadline, the application will not be accepted. Applicants also must register with the System for Award Management at SAM.gov and Grants.gov/.
APPLICATION DUE DATE: June 22, 2018 by 11:59 p.m. (Eastern Time). Applications must be received by the due date and time to be considered for review.
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION: Applicants with questions about program issues should contact Dr. Michelle Carnes at (240) 276-1869 or NativeConnections@samhsa.hhs.gov.
For questions on grants management issues contact Gwendolyn Simpson at (240) 276-1408 or FOACMHS@samhsa.hhs.gov.
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The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) is the agency within the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) that leads public health efforts to advance the behavioral health of the nation. SAMHSA's mission is to reduce the impact of substance abuse and mental illness on America's communities.


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Calling Haringey, Hackney and Islington: SORT OUT FINSBURY PARK
FinsburyUP started this petition to Haringey Council and
Finsbury Park is a diverse and historic hub in the middle of North London straddling the borders of three local authorities. Over the past three years, due to chronic mismanagement of the local area by the three responsible councils, Finsbury Park has become dangerous, dirty and a dumping ground for festivals put on by Haringey Council in the park to make profit from the area.
Local residents and our vulnerable community are now faced with open drug dealing, chronic homelessness, dirty streets strewn with rubbish and a park that has become so dangerous that tragically a woman was murdered there at Christmas and last week a woman was sexually assaulted. It is an outrage that in the last six months since the murder, Haringey have been able to host multiple large scale festivals in the park but they haven't been able to make the park safe for vulnerable residents. Even worse, over the Wireless weekend, there were two separate deaths of festival attendees.
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Invest in a shared service for managing commercial waste and litter collection
Prevent homelessness and support people who are homelesss
Create a designated youth outreach team to work with young people in or at risk of joining gangs
Improve community facilities in the park for local people
Tackle open drug dealing, criminality and anti social behaviour
Reduce the number of events held in the park and invest all profits back into the local area
Residents from all sides of the Finsbury Park area want the area to be safe, thriving and inclusive which requires joined up working from the council far beyond the initiatives in scope with the tri-borough agreement. We call for action and a response now before more people are hurt.
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It allows to configure such that you can remove duplicate tokens occuring at same position (ex:synonyms) or any position.


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Il diabloroter (Diabloroter bolti) è un anfibio estinto, appartenente ai microsauri. Visse nel Carbonifero superiore (circa 310 milioni di anni fa) e i suoi resti fossili sono stati ritrovati in Nordamerica.

Descrizione
Questo animale doveva essere vagamente simile a una salamandra. Era caratterizzato da alcune peculiarità che lo distinguevano da altri animali simili, come la presenza di una mascella allungata, una volta cranica ornamentata da scanalature radiali, piccole fossette circolari sull'osso prefrontale e un muso stretto e smussato. Diabloroter era inoltre insolito per la brevità della colonna vertebrale: erano infatti presenti solo 17 vertebre presacrali; questa condizione potrebbe essere stata un fenomeno di convergenza evolutiva con un altro piccolo anfibio carbonifero, Batropetes. Al contrario di altri animali simili, inoltre, Diabloroter era dotato di una dentatura composta da elementi forniti si una sola cuspide.

Classificazione
Diabloroter bolti venne descritto per la prima volta nel 2019, sulla base di resti fossili ritrovati nel famoso giacimento di Mazon Creek, in Illinois. Secondo un'analisi cladistica, Diabloroter è risultato essere un membro dei brachistelechidi, un gruppo di anfibi appartenenti al clade Recumbirostra dal corpo insolitamente corto. In particolare, Diabloroter è il più antico brachistelechide, in una posizione ancestrale a un clade composto da Carrolla e Batropetes.

Paleoecologia
È possibile che l'animale avesse abitudini fossorie. Alcune caratteristiche della sua anatomia, inoltre, sono state interpretate come stadi evolutivi iniziali verso una dieta a base di alghe.

Bibliografia
Arjan Mann; Hillary C. Maddin (2019). "Diabloroter bolti, a short-bodied recumbirostran 'microsaur' from the Francis Creek Shale, Mazon Creek, Illinois". Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society. in press. doi:10.1093/zoolinnean/zlz025.

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A couple weeks ago I went to London with a few of the girls for a little reunion. Safe to say a lot of food and a lot of drink was involved. Within this food trip, we couldn't not buy some cake in the capital. We found a cute little place called Crumbs and Dollies. It's a lovely cake shop, and if you're ever in London and fancy a quick treat or lovely things to take home, it's a convenient little shop.
Crumbs and Doilies are both located in Chelsea as well as in Carnaby Street. We went to the shop in Carnaby Street. It's quite easy to find with using google maps but otherwise, it is just outside the food court area they have there. The shop pops out as it's a beautiful bright blue. The one in Carnaby street has limited seating so if there's only a couple of you, great, if not you may struggle to sit.
The shop bakes beautiful cupcakes, with some gorgeous brownies thrown in too! Using fresh ingredients, and hand decorating each one, the bakes are a delight. They look the part too, as you will see in the pictures, and are honestly one of the sweetest cakes I have seen! So much so, that they definitely inspire any baker to give cupcakes and decorating a good go. I can imagine results anything close to this would be so satisfying.
The flavours available often depend on the day. When I went the variety was still good. Peanut Butter and Jelly, Chocolate Orange, Nutella, White Chocolate and toasted sesame, Malteaser, the options are almost endless and most certainly tempting. As I said before they do brownies too, in this case, it was a cookie dough one available. My friend had this and definitely rated it highly!
What is even better, is that the shop offers two size- mini cupcakes and large cupcakes. I love this idea! If you're like me, and can never decide what is your favourite or what you want, this mini cupcake option is more than ideal. The mini is £1.80 and large I think was about £3.60. You can have the option of taking these all away too in a lovely box. They also stay put too if you're careful, I managed to get two home in perfect condition in my handbag! This means seconds later on too, or you can take some home for the other half you missed out on this treat!
Now the best bit, the tasting! If you're a buttercream lover these cakes were made for you. The icing is thick, super creamy and comes in a generous portion. In some cakes as well they sometimes have a little in the middle. The Nutella buttercream was honestly to die for! I liked it so much that my next bake is going to be similar cupcakes, as I wanted another one straight away.
The sponge base was so good too. Incredibly moist, tasted fresh, it was springy and the flavour was amazing. The Nutella one had little bits of hazelnut throughout to add to the nutty taste. The Malteser one was something different, I couldn't put my finger on it but it was delicious.
The shop also offers to cater for events and bake larger cakes to order. All of this can be found on their website which by the way is amazing too! If I haven't sold this place to you a quick scroll on their website and at their cakes will definitely do it for you.
Although this is a really quick overview it is still so worth visiting this place. As I said a quick nip in to have something to take home from a trip to London is again, worth it. The cakes look amazing, taste amazing and it's all in a convenient spot right in Soho. All this, for a great price in my eyes! After all, no one goes to London to save money!


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A common misconception associated with AI (Artificial Intelligence) is that it's all about self-driving cars and robots and that you need both a degree in higher maths and hugely powerful computer systems to make it work. However, that's far from the case and in this research paper, we investigate real-world business uses that are, in fact, based on widely available common technologies, tools and services which channel partners already provide, manage and support.
47 per cent of MSPs questioned in exclusive research by CRN, said they were planning for further organic growth in the year ahead, with 18 per cent keen to collaborate with peers over the next 12-24 months. Unsurprisingly, 39 per cent of those same respondents were also convinced Brexit would have the biggest impact on their plans for the coming year.
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How GDPR mega-fines could be a cybersecurity game changer
As both British Airways and Marriott hotel group face mammoth penalties for data breaches, CRN asks how large may change their approach to cybersecurity
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It has taken just over a year for the GDPR to bare its teeth, but this week saw just what companies are facing if they breach the regulation as both British Airways and the Marriott hotel chain each face mammoth fines.
The first to feel the force of the GDPR was British Airways, which faces a £183m penalty from the Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) for the data breach it suffered last year which saw the personal details and addresses of 500,000 users leaked.
The next day the ICO whacked the Marriott group with a £99.2m fine for its own data breach which saw hackers steal the records of 339 million guests.
Those fees dwarf the £44m fine that was lobbed at Google earlier this year by the French regulatory authority CNIL, which was the first big name to fall foul of GDPR.
The intended fines on British Airways and Marriott aren't even the maximum four per cent of turnover they could be facing.
As both companies reel from their bad news, will the channel see an uptick in spending on cybersecurity as other large organisations seek to avoid similar penalties?
Stephen Love, chief security consultant at Computacenter, believes there will "definitely" be increased spending on cybersecurity by large firms, based on customer comments he has heard this week.
"It's a wake-up call for companies," he said.
"The example has been set and it's now for other businesses to stand up and look at case examples and reinvigorate their strategies and policies. Customers are now looking at it with more seriousness and that it's not an idle threat. Without a doubt, it will reprioritise that thought process in people's minds."
However, Dan Bailey, director at cybersecurity MSP Altinet, said that there has already been a significant increase in the amount being spent on cybersecurity as it becomes a key point on the agenda for a growing number of businesses.
"The IT team - from CIO-level down to the IT administrator- understands the need for proper cybersecurity defensive, and they obviously want to have the best technology," he explained.
"But sometimes the spending doesn't get signed-off at board level when it's quite difficult to see if there will be a return on investment from that spending.
"I think now when you look at the potential fines from GDPR, then you see more success when the business case gets to board level and then that gets signed-off because the fines are eye-watering."
The ICO has not yet formalised the penalties for British Airways and Marriott, and both organisations intend to appeal their respective fines.
In the airline's case, it was accused by the ICO of compromising the security of passengers by having "poor" security arrangements in place. The hotel group was penalised for not undertaking due diligence on the Starwood hotel chain's IT security when it acquired it in 2016.
As the fallout from these fines reverberates throughout the corporate world, large organisations may be taking stock of the areas of cybersecurity they are investing in - and increasing it.
Computacenter's Love believes a lot of companies will pile their money into increasing their encryption.
"We'll probably see a lot of knee-jerk reaction on spend on potential technologies that might not be the right fit because you tend to see that immediate reaction [when something like this occurs]" he explained.
"I think one thing that has been apparent over a number of years around legislation and GDPR is encryption. If you encrypt and update then you are protecting yourself in that respect, so I think we will see a lot of encryption services being purchased and solutions deployed because it's the last line of defence and if you have encrypted your data it can't be used once the hackers get to it."
Altinet's Bailey reckons the increasing migration towards the cloud is causing businesses to invest in securing cloud platforms.
"We're seeing a much bigger shift towards public cloud platforms like Office 365," he stated.
"Things like account takeover is definitely one area that we're seeing [an increase in investment] because of how Office 365 has changed, and how easily accessible it is over the internet rather than having an exchange server on-premise with the controls on-premise that are very difficult to get to. And so that kind of office 365 piece is becoming more and more relevant."
The liability dilemma
As more and more MSPs take responsibility for cybersecurity on behalf of large organisations, there could be somewhat of a grey area as to who bears the responsibility should a massive data breach occur.
David Lannin, CTO at Sapphire, had his personal details leaked as part of the British Airways data breach.
He believes that the channel should be reviewing contractual agreements, terms and conditions on the services provided in order to protect themselves against taking the blame.
"If there's a managed service provider that's culpable or that's responsible for not affording the proper protection around an organisation's data, and the customer's outsourced it to the managed service provider, it is their responsibility," he declared.
"You need to be looking at things like where that liability lies, Does it exclude or include data leakage.
"I think it is going to be really dangerous for the channel because you might find that managed service providers are faced with huge financial penalties because of a data breach on a customer's site that has suddenly had the ICO apply the four per cent of global turnover fine to them, and they're trying to pass that back to the channel.
"It could put a lot of managed service providers out of business if those liabilities aren't kept or excluded in agreements."
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The new store, a Walmart Neighborhood Market, is smaller than a supercenter and will have a drive-through pharmacy and a gas station.
The new Walmart will be around 40,000 square feet and should bring about 100 jobs. New Bern�s other Walmart, a supercenter, is located on Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard.
It is one of three new or planned Walmarts in the Lower Neuse River region. Two are planned for Pamlico County.


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Q: Screenshots Don't Save to Mac If I Share Them I've been using Command-Shift-4 to capture screenshots, and then using the share icon on the top right of the screenshot I send them off to Notes or a friend on Messages.
However they are not saving if I share them. If I don't share them, and let the little thumbnail on bottom right of screen slide right off screen, the file will save.
But If I do share it, it won't write to the drive. They are shared and then disappear. Opening the image from Notes or Messages reveals that they are not named "Screenshot" but only Image 12-20-21 or whatever the date is.
How can I get the screenshots to save to file even if I'm sharing them immediately upon capturing them?

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package library.persistance.repository.jdbc

import java.io.File
import java.sql.{Connection, DriverManager, SQLException}
import javax.xml.parsers.{DocumentBuilder, DocumentBuilderFactory}

import org.w3c.dom.{Document, Element}

object DBConnection
{
    private val XML_FILE: String = "database.xml"
    private var instance: DBConnection = null

    def get: DBConnection =
    {
        if (instance == null)
        {
            instance = new DBConnection
        }
        instance
    }
}

class DBConnection private
{
    private var connection: Connection = null
    initConnection()

    def getConnection: Connection =
    {
        try
        {
            if (connection != null && connection.isClosed)
            {
                initConnection()
            }
        }
        catch
        {
            case e: SQLException =>
                println("Error DB " + e)
        }
        connection
    }

    private def initConnection()
    {
        try
        {
            val fXmlFile: File = new File(DBConnection.XML_FILE)
            val dbFactory: DocumentBuilderFactory = DocumentBuilderFactory.newInstance
            val dBuilder: DocumentBuilder = dbFactory.newDocumentBuilder
            val doc: Document = dBuilder.parse(fXmlFile)
            doc.getDocumentElement.normalize()
            val configElement: Element = doc.getDocumentElement
            val driver: String = configElement.getElementsByTagName("driver").item(0).getTextContent
            val username: String = configElement.getElementsByTagName("username").item(0).getTextContent
            val password: String = configElement.getElementsByTagName("password").item(0).getTextContent
            val database: String = configElement.getElementsByTagName("database").item(0).getTextContent
            val url: String = configElement.getElementsByTagName("url").item(0).getTextContent + database
            try
            {
                Class.forName(driver)
                println(String.format("Driver %s loaded", driver))
                connection = DriverManager.getConnection(url, username, password)
            }
            catch
            {
                case e: ClassNotFoundException =>
                    println("Error loading driver " + e)
                case e: SQLException =>
                    println("Error getting connection " + e)
            }
        }
        catch
        {
            case e: Exception => e.printStackTrace()
        }
        if (connection == null)
        {
            throw new RuntimeException("The SQL Connection was not set")
        }
    }
}


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HomeJusticeSupes Choose a Team of Two to Lead L.A. County Probation: Terri McDonald and Sheila Mitchell
Supes Choose a Team of Two to Lead L.A. County Probation: Terri McDonald and Sheila Mitchell
November 3, 2016 Celeste Fremon Justice, Juvenile Justice, Los Angeles, News 1
The Supes Choose A Probation Chief — Or Make That Two Chiefs
The Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors have just announced their selection of not just one brand new Chief of Probation, but two.
Here's the deal: The Supes have chosen a new Chief Probation Officer to lead the county's problem-plagued department — namely former Assistant L.A. County Sheriff Terri McDonald who, up until recently, was in charge of the county's massive jail system, where she has been credited with successfully leading the implementation of the reform recommendations from the Citizens Commission on Jail Violence.
Prior to coming to the Sheriff's Department, McDonald spent 25 years with the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, starting as a corrections officer, and rising through the ranks to the level of Undersecretary of Operations.
In addition, the board has made the unusual move of interviewing and hiring a second-in-command for the nation's largest probation department, who will have the title of Chief Deputy Probation Officer, and who will be in charge of running and reforming the juvenile side of the department.
This new number two is to be Shiela Mitchell, who was the former chief of the Santa Clara Probation Department, where she earned a national reputation for juvenile justice reform. In the past, Mitchell also worked as second-in-command of the Alameda County Probation Department. Prior to Alameda, she served as a Deputy Commissioner for the State of Georgia Department of Juvenile Justice.
At the moment, Mitchell is the CEO for Unity Care, a community-based non-profit that focuses on developing educational and social programs to enrich the lives of at-risk youth.
The Two-Instead-of-One Approach
As the the process to select a new chief went on behind closed doors these past few months, juvenile advocates expressed worry that, in an effort to get a strong figure for the adult side of probation, the board might not choose someone with the necessary experience in juvenile reform.
Yet, Wednesday night's announcement of two names, rather than just one, has produced cautious optimism among many probation watchers.
"Probation has two important and quite different functions in the populations it supervises," said Peter Eliasberg, chief counsel of the ACLU of Southern California. "We think it's important that the department move away from a law enforcement type of supervision on both of those sides. But juveniles are quite different than adults," Eliasberg continued, "and it appears that the problems of youth probation are as significant if not more significant than on the adult side. Therefore we are pleased the board did not take a one-size-fits-all approach, and made sure that there was going to be somebody at the top with a substantial level of experience with youth."
McDonald will receive an annual salary of $316,342, plus $25,000 in relocating expenses.
Mitchell will be paid $250,000 a year plus the same $25,000 in relocating expenses.
McDonald will begin work on January 1, 2017, with Mitchell following on January 14.
Here's the board's memo on the new hires.
For additional information on the background of the Supes' selections, and on the other three finalists originally in the running for the position of chief, check out our earlier story on the final five.
This story originally appeared in WitnessLA. The story was updated on 11/4/16; the original version said Mitchell and McDonald would both take their positions on January 1, 2017.
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Many California Schools Lack Policies for Police Interactions, Report Finds
October 26, 2016 Elizabeth Green Education, Research News Comments Off on Many California Schools Lack Policies for Police Interactions, Report Finds
California's schools are quick to call in police for relatively minor offenses, behavioral issues or classroom disruptions, according to a report released by the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) of California. Because many school districts […]
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Robert L says:
That kind of money for a pair of bureaucrats is crazy, considering that they will be getting retirement checks too in all likelihood.