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Man seeks neighbor's help after stabbing but later dies
Police are searching for a suspect
Grand Island Police are investigating a fatal stabbing that happened Saturday evening. Police said Christian Peterson, 59, died after being stabbed several times at his home. After the stabbing, Peterson sought help from neighbors before collapsing near Jefferson Elementary School about a block away from his home. Neighbors called police, and officers arrived shortly after. No arrests had been announced in the case as of Sunday evening.
GRAND ISLAND, Neb. —
Grand Island Police are investigating a fatal stabbing that happened Saturday evening.
Police said Christian Peterson, 59, died after being stabbed several times at his home.
After the stabbing, Peterson sought help from neighbors before collapsing near Jefferson Elementary School about a block away from his home.
Neighbors called police, and officers arrived shortly after.
No arrests had been announced in the case as of Sunday evening.


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package com.creatubbles.api.repository;

import android.support.annotation.NonNull;

import com.creatubbles.api.di.components.ApiComponent;
import com.creatubbles.api.di.modules.ApiModule;
import com.creatubbles.api.model.auth.AccessToken;
import com.creatubbles.api.service.ActivityService;
import com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.ObjectMapper;

import javax.inject.Inject;

/**
 * @author Pawel Szymanski
 */
public class ActivityRepositoryBuilder {

    @Inject
    ActivityService activityService;

    @Inject
    ObjectMapper objectMapper;

    private final AccessToken accessToken;

    /**
     * Access Restrictions:
     *

     *
With an application only access token you'll retrieve public activity.

     *
With an user access token you'll retrieve activity geared towards this user.

     *

     */
    public ActivityRepositoryBuilder(@NonNull AccessToken accessToken) {
        if (accessToken == null) {
            throw new NullPointerException("accessToken can't be null");
        }
        this.accessToken = accessToken;
    }

    @NonNull
    public ActivityRepository build() {
        ApiComponent.getInstance(ApiModule.getInstance(accessToken))
                .inject(this);
        return new ActivityRepositoryImpl(objectMapper, activityService);
    }
}

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Kingston Foreshore's latest opening, Molto Italian, describes itself as a "modern seaside trattoria featuring sleek modern interiors". Headed by Carlo Tosolini, of the now-closed Tosolini's Italian Restaurant, the new kitchen team will focus on the best locally and internationally sourced produce to create a simple yet satisfying menu showcasing classic Italian cuisine.
The Food Avenue contributor Housh Fallah went to the official opening to check out Molto Italian.
Let me say it straight up, Molto Italian gets the thumbs up from me. I hadn't written it off without trying, but initially I wasn't overly enthused because I once went to Tosolini's and was quite underwhelmed with the food.
That's now crossed off with my first experience at Molto Italian.
I was happy to keep eating at the opening party - pizza, zucchini flowers, swordfish with pomegranate, cheese fresh from the wheel, salami. You know, that Italian fare that we like.
I'll definitely be up for a date night there or an evening out with friends to check out what's on the menu.
Housh attended the launch party as a guest of Molto Italian. All photography taken by Housh Fallah.
Address: 37 Eastlake Parade, Kingston, Canberra.
Open Monday through to Wednesday Lunch (12- 3pm) and Dinner (6pm - 10pm), Thursday through to Sunday, Lunch (12pm) through to late (11pm).
Have you been to Molto Italian? What did you think of it?


San Francisco Review of Books: Interview: What did Edgar Cayce -- "the sleeping prophet" -- really devote his life's work to?
Interview: What did Edgar Cayce -- "the sleeping prophet" -- really devote his life's work to?
Joseph Ford Cotto: Edgar Cayce was a very complicated man, about whom much has been written and said. Above all else, what did he devote his life's work to?
Alison Ray: He truly had one ideal or guiding mission in this lifetime: He wanted to help people. Many people are surprised to learn that Edgar Cayce was a devoted churchgoer and Sunday school teacher. At a young age, Cayce vowed to read the Bible for every year of his life, and at the time of his death in 1945, he had accomplished this task. He believed that a spiritual connection exists between every individual and God; and that the same spiritual connection exists between all people. By bringing the experience of oneness into our own consciousness (thru prayer, meditation, and service), it can profoundly help someone else experience oneness, attunement, and healing.
Cotto: People often use the word 'psychic' when referring to those who claim visions of the future or past. Do you believe this term correctly describes what Cayce did?
Ray: Edgar Cayce had the ability to put himself into a sleep-like trance state by lying down on a couch, closing his eyes, and folding his hands over his stomach. In this state of relaxation and meditation, he was able to place his mind in contact with all time and space—the universal consciousness, also known as the super-conscious mind and respond to questions. A stenographer would take down his every word and the responses came to be called "readings." When the readings were transcribed and typed, a copy was given to the individual and a copy was saved for the file. When the readings were released to the public (A.R.E. Members have access to a searchable database on EdgarCayce.org), a number was used rather than name to protect the privacy of the individual receiving the reading.
According to Wikipedia, "a psychic is a person who claims to use extrasensory perception (ESP) to identify information hidden from the normal senses. The word is also used as an adjective to describe such abilities." The word which comes from the Greek word "psychikos" meaning "of the mind, mental, or soul." It is similar to the words seer, prophet, and clairvoyant. Edgar Cayce considered himself psychic based on the definition provided in the readings: that "psychic is of the soul." Rather than something unusual, the reading suggested that "in EVERY individual…psychic forces…lie dormant…and await only that awakening…or the developing…" (Reading 5752-1) Perhaps the readings said it best, when asked how to become psychic, the answer was to become more spiritual.


Learn the tips, tricks, and techniques that allowed large sites such as My Yahoo! and the Yahoo! homepage to continue to grow, scale, and change over time without throwing away previous work.
(O'Reilly, 2010), and Professional Ajax (Wrox, 2007). Nicholas is a strong advocate for development best practices including progressive enhancement, accessibility, performance, scalability, and maintainability. He blogs regularly at www.nczonline.net and can be found on Twitter via @slicknet.


This February, ROWONTARIO brought twenty athletes, two coxswains from seven different clubs to Elberton, Georgia for a week-long development camp. The goal of this trip was not only to soak up some much needed sunshine, but more importantly to develop skills that will be necessary for Team Ontario in the upcoming Canada Summer Games.
The week began with the men training in singles, while the women trained in assorted pairs, larger boats; including doubles, pairs and a quad. They then switched for the latter half of the week with the women in singles, and the men in crew boats. A couple practices in eights allowed the athletes to take the technique they learned individually and apply it to a setting which requires greater synchronization. Each day the athletes focused on a different part of the stroke, beginning with the release, and working through the stroke to the final acceleration into the finish.
The camp included more than just the physical practice of rowing. The athletes attended core and mobility sessions to learn how they can improve both areas individually. Seminars on goal setting and the categories of intensity also informed athletes on self-regulation. Video review aided athletes to visualize their mistakes and understand how to correct them.
The week ended with a team potluck and bonfire before packing everything up and heading back to snowy Ontario.
This program is supported by the Government of Ontario through the Ministry of Tourism, Culture, and Sport.


June 27, 2018 by Dannie S.
U-City Family Church in St. Louis faced a common dilemma of rapidly growing churches: how can they be stewards of their time and resources while offering full-time benefits for their growing staff?
Choosing and administering a group plan is time consuming, and funding a traditional group plan costs a fortune. With staff members and their families having a range of needs, from new babies, to singles, to empty nesters, U-City Family Church wanted to find a solution that would work for everyone while staying within a manageable budget. We had a great conversation with Carol Cloud, director of HR for U-City Family Church, to hear more about their experience with Take Command Health and what they think of their new QSEHRA.
Carol started doing her research and discovered a QSEHRA: Qualified Small Employer Health Reimbursement Arrangement. Similar to an HRA at a large business, a QSEHRA allows small business, or in this case, a non-profit, to set aside tax free money that allows employees to purchase health care plans or use on medical expenses throughout the year. This sounded like exactly what Carol was looking to implement at U-City.
The level of hands-on customer service and personal touch were things she had not experienced during her search for health care help.
Take Command Health walked Carol through the options she could implement at her church and helped streamline the process for the staff to individually submit their reimbursements. Carol was able to share the new information with the pastor of the church who also had peace of mind they were in good hands with Take Command Health and the guidance they'd given.
Carol was also thrilled to know that if the staff didn't use their allotted share amounts they could accrue them over the following months. Some months, her employees would use the entire amount, while others wouldn't have needs at all. What's great about QSEHRA is that if multiple reimbursements came up, they could submit all of them at one time.
She also appreciated the level of flexibility the QSEHRA platform had. "As we grow," explains Carol, "it can grow with us." It's easy to add another person to the platform. It's easy to change contribution amounts.
Carol shared with us that her most important need was making sure the church found something that worked for everyone while staying on budget. With implementing a QSEHRA, and with the help of our team, she was able to accomplish both.


To combine two styles at once for a home is not an easy task. Here we will talk about the middle century style that is combined with the modern style. Decorating a home will not far from the appropriate furniture to strenghten the style impression. In this case, you might mix and match furniture to create the middle century modern home. Here, furniture and household accessories are developed to complement the structure of the normal mid century modern home to produce more space and generate a harmonious appearance.
Furnishing your home may be tricky and become a daunting task especially if you've got many mid century modern furniture items to handle at the exact same moment. There are some furniture materials,but if you have a middle century modern home, it means that you'll have lot of wooden furniture with the modern designs. Ensure that you select the great high quality wood, so that it lasts for quite a long time. For the arrangement, to make it easier for you, here we will serve you with some middle century modern decorations to give you ideas and inspiration. Hope you like it!


Located just a few hours from Metro Manila, the region of CALABARZON, which is made up of the provinces of Cavite, Laguna, Batangas, Rizal, and Quezon, is a popular weekend getaway for most cityfolk. The region is characterized by its vast natural attractions, which range from beaches to mountains and from waterfalls to lakes.
The region has also had its brushes with history. Calamba City in Laguna, for example, is the hometown of national hero Jose Rizal. His childhood home, which has been converted into a museum called the Rizal Shrine, stands here as does the second tallest Rizal monument in the country.
Another place of historic significance is the Aguinaldo Shrine in Kawit, Cavite. It was here where the Philippines first proclaimed her independence on June 12, 1898.
There's also Corregidor Island in Cavite, which served as the country's main line of defense during World War II. The island now serves as a memorial for those who lost their lives serving their country.
The region is also dotted with a number of heritage houses, churches, and monuments, all dating back to the country's time under the Spaniards.
But CALABARZON is perhaps best known for its natural attractions. The province of Laguna is filled with all kinds of lakes and waterfalls, like the beautiful Seven Lakes of San Pablo and the magnificent Pagsanjan Falls. There's also Taal Lake in Batangas province, which houses the country's smallest active volcano in its center.
There are also a number of hiking trails within the province, thanks to its mountainous terrain. The most famous would be Mount Makiling in Los Baños, Laguna, which attributes its name to a local legend. Other ones in the region would be Mount Banahaw in Quezon and Mount Batulao in Batangas.
If hiking isn't your thing, the province of Batangas is also home to a couple of beaches and diving spots. You can find in Nasugbu and Calatagan a number of beach resorts, while Matabungkay is a popular spot for divers and snorkelers, thanks to its diverse marine life.
CALABARZON is also home to the country's version of Disneyland: Enchanted Kingdom in Santa Rosa, Laguna.
Don't worry if you need something to bring back to your family and friends, the region has plenty of pasalubong to choose from. There's buko (young coconut) pie, espasol (rice cake dusted with coconut powder), bibingka (rice cake topped with butter and shredded coconut), and cassava cake, all of which you can get at roadside stalls from any province in the region.
So if you're looking for a quick escape from the city, grab your car and drive yourself over to CALABARZON.


LONG BEFORE Hollywood Boulevard had its Walk of Fame, it had the Musso & Frank Grill. Or, as it was originally called, "Frank's Café"—the brainchild of entrepreneur Frank Toulet. He opened the joint in 1919, just as Hollywood was completing its metamorphosis from rural backwater to the movie capital of the world. With the nearest eateries still miles away, Toulet figured film workers might appreciate a convenient place to dine.
By the early '20s, when Toulet joined with restaurateur Joseph Musso and renamed the place "Musso & Frank's Grill," it was already the center of the Tinseltown universe. (The apostrophe 's' vanished sometime later.) Charlie Chaplin was a regular. Soon, the owners upscaled the décor to what became the dominant style for the first generation of Hollywood power-lunch spots: all dark wood and deep leather banquettes. Movie deals were made over the "Continental cuisine" of French-born chef Jean Rue—from lobster Newberg to the perennial Thursday special, chicken pot pie.
THIS ICON'S current home, established incrementally between 1934 and 1955, occupies two large rooms in the building next to the original space. But the "new" venue is as dark, quiet and womblike as the old. Everything from the wallpaper to the coat racks hails from the restaurant's midcentury heyday. Chefs still sear chops on the original "exhibition grill" behind the lunch counter, the mahogany bar is the same one at which Raymond Chandler allegedly sat and wrote a chapter or two of "The Big Sleep." Even the wait staff, in their red jackets and black ties, seem timeless. Some have worked here for decades.
Bartender Ron Sheriff with one of Musso & Frank's prize offerings, a dry martini, stirred.
1919: Frank Toulet opens Frank's Café at 6669 Hollywood Boulevard. The Hollywood sign hasn't been built yet.
Circa 1922: Toulet teams up with restaurateur Joseph Musso, renaming the joint "Musso & Frank's Grill." Jean Rue comes aboard as head chef.
1927: Two Italian immigrants buy the restaurant from Toulet and Musso. Their names are Joseph Carissimi and—amusingly—John Mosso. Mosso's descendants run the restaurant to this day.
1930s: The Stanley Rose bookstore opens next door. Then the Screen Writers Guild opens its headquarters across the street. Both attract literati like Ernest Hemingway and Dorothy Parker. When they need a drink, which is often, they hit Musso's.
1934: Part of Musso's original space becomes a bar nicknamed "The Back Room." The main dining room moves next door, to 6667 Hollywood Boulevard.
1955: The Back Room closes. Its mahogany bar finds a new home next door.
1967: Ruben Rueda starts working behind the bar. He remains on the payroll today, as Musso and Frank's longest-serving bartender.
1976: After 54 years, chef Jean Rue decides to take some time off from work. He dies two weeks later. Musso & Frank has had just three head chefs in 100 years.
2009: For the first time, Musso & Frank installs a sound system.
2018: "The Kominsky Method" Netflix series debuts. In it, an aging Hollywood actor and his even older agent meet regularly to ruminate on life and showbiz. Their lunch spot of choice: Musso & Frank.
The classic cuisine that fueled Hollywood's Golden Age is still on offer at Musso & Frank, like time machines on a plate—or in a cocktail glass.
Medallions of filet mignon sauteed in oil and butter, served atop gravy and—just in case it wasn't rich enough—drizzled with béarnaise sauce.
A stainless steel gratin dish laden with tangy cheese fondue. Dip the supplied toast points deep into the cheese to unearth hidden treasure: strips of bacon.
For many customers, really the only necessary item on the menu. Always stirred, and always served with a 'sidecar' refill in a tiny carafe on ice, for maximum elegance.


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"""
Commonly used conditions.

.. currentmodule:: curious.commands.conditions
"""

from curious.commands import Context, condition

def is_owner():
    """
    A :func:`.condition` that ensures the author of the message is the owner of the bot.

    The owner is checked automatically by using the application info of the bot.

    Example::

        @command()
        @is_owner()
        async def kill(ctx: Context):
            await ctx.bot.kill()
    """

    def _condition(ctx: Context):
        # If the application info request has not been completed
        # yet we cannot guarantee the command could be ran.
        if ctx.bot.application_info is None:
            return False

        owner = ctx.bot.application_info.owner
        return ctx.message.author_id == owner.id

    return condition(_condition)

def author_has_permissions(bypass_owner: bool = True, **permissions):
    """
    A :func:`.condition` that ensures the author of the
    message has all of the specified permissions.

    Example::

        @command()
        @author_has_permissions(kick_members=True)
        async def kick(ctx: Context, member: Member):
            await member.kick()
            await ctx.channel.messages.send(':wave:')

    :param bypass_owner:
        Determines if the owner of the bot can run the command
        regardless of if the condition failed or not.
    :param permissions: A mapping of permissions to check.
    """

    def _condition(ctx: Context):
        perms = ctx.channel.effective_permissions(ctx.author)
        return all(getattr(perms, name, None) is value
                   for name, value in permissions.items())

    return condition(_condition, bypass_owner=bypass_owner)

def bot_has_permissions(bypass_owner: bool = False, **permissions):
    """
    A :func:`.condition` that ensures the bot
    has all of the specified permissions.

    Example::

        @command()
        @bot_has_permissions(send_messages=True)
        async def test(ctx: Context):
            await ctx.channel.messages.send('The bot can send messages.')

    :param bypass_owner:
        Determines if the owner of the bot can run the command
        regardless of if the condition failed or not.
    :param permissions: A mapping of permissions to check.
    """

    def _condition(ctx: Context):
        perms = ctx.channel.me_permissions
        return all(getattr(perms, name, None) is value
                   for name, value in permissions.items())

    return condition(_condition, bypass_owner=bypass_owner)

author_has_perms = author_has_permissions
bot_has_perms = bot_has_permissions

def author_has_roles(*roles: str, bypass_owner: bool = True):
    """
    A :func:`.condition` that ensures the author of the message has all of the specified roles.

    The role names must all be exact matches.

    Example::

        @command()
        @author_has_roles('Cool')
        async def cool(ctx: Context):
            await ctx.channel.messages.send('You are cool.')

    :param roles: A collection of role names.
    :param bypass_owner:
        Determines if the owner of the bot can run the command
        regardless of if the condition failed or not.
    """

    def _condition(ctx: Context):
        if ctx.guild is None:
            return False

        author_roles = {role.name for role in ctx.author.roles}
        return all(role in author_roles for role in roles)

    return condition(_condition, bypass_owner=bypass_owner)

def bot_has_roles(*roles: str, bypass_owner: bool = False):
    """
    A :func:`.condition` that ensures the bot has all of the specified roles.

    The role names must all be exact matches.

    Example::

        @command()
        @bot_has_roles('Cool')
        async def cool(ctx: Context):
            await ctx.channel.messages.send('The bot is cool.')

    :param roles: A collection of role names.
    :param bypass_owner:
        Determines if the owner of the bot can run the command
        regardless of if the condition failed or not.
    """

    def _condition(ctx: Context):
        if ctx.guild is None:
            return False

        bot_roles = {role.name for role in ctx.guild.me.roles}
        return all(role in bot_roles for role in roles)

    return condition(_condition, bypass_owner=bypass_owner)

def is_guild_owner(bypass_owner: bool = True):
    """
    A :func:`.condition` that ensures the author of the message is also the owner of the guild.

    Example::

        @command()
        @is_guild_owner()
        async def test(ctx: Context):
            await ctx.channel.messages.send('You are the owner of this guild.')

    :param bypass_owner:
        Determines if the owner of the bot can run the command
        regardless of if the condition failed or not.
    """

    def _condition(ctx: Context):
        if ctx.guild is None:
            return False

        return ctx.message.author_id == ctx.guild.owner_id

    return condition(_condition, bypass_owner=bypass_owner)


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In Mexico, Brad Will probe sparks concern
By Carlos Lauria/Senior Program Coordinator on October 24, 2008 3:43 PM EDT
Monday, October 27, marks the second anniversary of the killing in Mexico of Bradley Roland Will, a U.S. documentary filmmaker. Will was shot while covering clashes between anti-government protesters and government supporters in the southern state of Oaxaca. The investigation into the killing has become a source of great concern.
This month, the federal attorney general's office charged three anti-government protesters in the killing, apparently disregarding considerable evidence indicating that armed government supporters were involved. CPJ sent a letter today to Attorney General Eduardo Medina Mora expressing concern about the direction of the case. In our own 2007 investigation, "A Killing in Mexico," CPJ found that witness statements, forensic evidence, and photographic documentation all pointed to pro-government gunmen.
The Will family has expressed dismay about the federal investigation. We are continuing to monitor the case closely to see that justice is served. More than 30 journalists have been killed and or have disappeared in Mexico since 2000.
Carlos Lauría, CPJ's program director and senior program coordinator for the Americas, is a widely published journalist. A native of Buenos Aires, he has written extensively for Noticias, the leading Spanish-language newsmagazine. Follow him on Facebook @ CPJ en Español.
Bradley Will

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Today I had an opportunity to walk around the South Lake Union neighborhood (which is interesting because almost exactly a year ago – see the photo from yesterday, I was also walking around the neighborhood – totally unplanned) and take some photos while for an event that I was participating to start.
I came upon these two buildings that from this angle looks almost like one building and the contrast between a really old brick structure with the new shiny glass covered building was too much to resist. Looking back I probably should have moved a little more to the left to align the arch better. I converted part of the photo to sephia just to highlight the contrast between the old and new.


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A government sign urging people to wear a mask on a shopping center door. Source: Siim Lõvi /ERR
As of Tuesday morning, 231 coronavirus patients are being treated in hospitals across Estonia and 862 new cases were recorded in the last day, data from the Health Board shows. There were five deaths.
There are 177 patients hospitalized in Estonia for a serious case of the coronavirus, of which 141 (79.7 percent) are unvaccinated and 36 (20.3 percent) are vaccinated. A total of 231 hospitalized patients have been diagnosed with the coronavirus, 54 are being treated for other illnesses. There are 23 patients in intensive care, 20 patients are under ventilators.
In total, 7,584 tests were analyzed with the positive test share at 11.4 percent. Of the 862 new cases, 500 (58 percent) were unvaccinated and 362 (42 percent) had finished the vaccination process.
In total, 837,563 people have been vaccinated against COVID-19 in Estonia, with 810,360 of them having already received their second dose.
6,297 vaccine doses were administered since Monday morning. There have been 254,911 booster doses administered in Estonia. 60.9 percent of the Estonian population have completed their vaccination process.
Estonia's rate of infections per 100,000 inhabitants over the past 14 days now stands at 566.9, data from the Health Board shows.
There were five deaths, involving a 69-year old man, a 69-year old woman, a 77-year old woman, an 82-year old woman and an 87-year old woman. The coronavirus has claimed the lives of 1,893 people in Estonia.
How can the spread of coronavirus be stopped?
Keep your distance in public places.
Wear a mask in crowded places.
Wash your hands frequently with soap and warm water.
Cover your mouth and nose when you sneeze or cough.
If you develop symptoms stay at home and contact a family doctor.
You can also get vaccinated against coronavirus.
You can find more data about coronavirus in Estonia on the Health Board's website or at koroonakaart. Both websites are in Estonian, Russian and English.
health boardinfectioncoronaviruscovid-19
Booster doses could be administered 2-3 months after previous dose
Ministry: Parents cannot be asked for Covid certificate at school events
Companies organizing Christmas parties despite spread of Omicron strain
Tartu city government asks schools to head to Christmas break early
Lutsar: Omicron infection comes with symptoms of simple cold
Health Board: Omicron variant spreading in Estonia
Where can I find information about coronavirus in Estonia?


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EXHIBITED ARTISTS
BODGER'S HOVEL
Thursday 8th September - Sunday 9th October 2022
Thomas Langley
SHOW INFO HIDE INFO
FOLD is pleased to present Bodger's Hovel, a solo show by Thomas Langley, his first with the gallery.
As a grandson of basket makers, Thomas Langley has a personal attachment to ancient and modern craft-based industries. He explores the raw materials, such as willow, that surrounded him in his youth. Willow has become a key component within his image making, not in the form of basketry, but in its altered state as charcoal.
Langley is deeply concerned with the bare mechanics of image making through a rhythmic approach to creating pulsating compositions. Undulating fields of gestural and observational mark-making, based on botanical studies, are rendered in monochromatic swathes of charcoal and paint. These stripped-back couplings between raw material and subject, create a visual conversation between abstraction and representation.
In Langley's new body of work, the 'monochrome' and the 'drawn' are predominant.
'The line undulates freely through the canvas, enjoying its raw existence and suggestive floral or botanic motives. This new body of work, though, seems to be more about the art praxis itself, the process, its plasticity and occupation of the planar space, than about a figurative attempt of any kind.
The physicality of the hand and the body exudes from each stroke: charcoal over canvas, playing with the potential and intensity of drawing, scratching, sketching, smudging, seeking compositions that share some similarities with the urban language.
The clarity over the image and the language-in-construction, however, are never compromised — nor is the more than clear relation between positive and negative, full and empty, line and smudge. It is here the starting point of an image.' – José Pardal Pina
Thomas Langley, b.1986, London, UK. Lives and works between London and Lisbon. He graduated from Royal Academy Schools, London, in 2018. His current work explores the intersection between painting and drawing, creating medium to large format monochromatic works derived from observing plant life that result in a loose botanical abstraction.
158 New Cavendish St
London W1W 6YW
12 - 6pm
(or by appointment)
info@foldgallery.com
Designed by Ben Carruthers Ltd.


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Finance - Banking - Money Investments
Labour Shortage A Major Challenge For Investors
22/08/2013 22/08/2013 J&C Admin 1236 Views
Both local and foreign investors operating businesses in Laos have been encountering problems stemming from the chronic labour shortage.
"We are experiencing an annual shortfall of labourers in excess of 31,000 people," said a senior advisor to the Lao National Chamber of Commerce and Industry.
Mr Onesy Boudsivongsakd made the observation at the 8th Lao Business Forum held in Vientiane on Tuesday, aiming to highlight the labour problems to the government and find appropriate solutions.
"This figure does not include the workers required by the two sugar companies operating in Savannakhet province or those needed to harvest latex from rubber plantations around the country, which amounts to several thousand more," Mr Onesy said.
The 31,000 workers in question are required for the garment industry, processing industry, tourism, steel rod production, furniture production association, construction groups, KP industry group, and the Nikon and Essiloz companies in the Savannakhet economic zone.
These sectors have a current labour pool of 187,750 people, according to a handout distributed at the forum.
Mr Onesy said the garment industry employs 31,000 workers but requires an additional 9,930 people each year. At present, however, only 650 labourers are available.
The industrial processing sector has a labour pool of 20,000 people but requires an additional 300 employees, while the tourism sector currently employs 28,100 people and needs an additional 2,400 each year.
The steel rod production group employs 1,150 people but needs an additional 600 people per annum, and the furniture production association employs 6,000 people but needs an additional 5,000.
The construction sector employs 100,000 people but needs an extra 5,500 workers, while the KP industry group has a labour pool of 1,500 but needs 2,900 more. In addition, Nikon needs about 1,500 people and Essiloz is seeking another 3,000 employees.
Mr Onesy said that in the midst of this labour shortage, some 100,000 people are crossing the border to seek work in other countries, and there are no controls in place to stop this exodus. Many areas in the central and southern provinces have no young people to work in the rice fields since most prefer to work in other countries, leaving the job of subsistence farming to the older folk.
In Vientiane, the shortage of manpower is creating disputes between companies. The problem is exacerbated by poor discipline in the workplace, inefficiency, and complacent workers, Mr Onesy said. "More often than not, some people don't show up for work for two or three days after receiving their salaries."
"We are well aware that in 2015 Laos will become part of the Asean Economic Community (AEC). If we allow the current situation to continue, how can we expect to produce quality or competitive goods and commodities for sale within the AEC market?"
The labour shortage and high turnover of employees is a ma jor challenge both for existing investors and those just setting up business in Laos. Even though the Ministry of Labour and Social Welfare has created 15 employment agencies, there is still a serious labour shortfal l.
There are also problems in granting permits to investors and business groups to collaborate with local authorities to recruit labourers in local areas independently, since they come under the legal authority of the employment agencies.
In Savannakhet province, a foreign employment agency uses buses to pick up workers and take them across the border to their place of work.
In Luang Prabang province, foreign employment agencies, in cooperation with Lao recruitment agencies, have arranged for locals to work across the border. More than 700 people in Luang Prabang have been interviewed for employment in other countries.
"I think it's time for us to retain our young workers so that we can build up and develop the country," Mr Onesy said.
Source: Vientiane Times
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Appeal of JUDITH McCLURE HESSNEY from action of the Board of Education of the Union Free School District of the Tarrytowns and Donald R. Kusel, Superintendent, relating to a preferred eligible list.
James R. Sandner, Esq., attorney for petitioner, John H. Jurgens, Esq., of counsel
Plunkett & Jaffe, P.C., attorneys for respondents
MILLS, Commissioner.--Petitioner challenges respondents' refusal to hire her for a computer teaching position while she was on a preferred eligible list. The appeal must be dismissed.
Petitioner gained tenure as a business education teacher in respondent district in 1982. In 1990, the district abolished one business education position and terminated petitioner's services effective July 1, 1990. Petitioner's name was placed on a preferred eligible list for appointment to future vacancies in the district consistent with Education Law ""2510(3) and 3013(3). On July 1, 1993, a vacancy occurred within the district for a computer teacher position; the district filled that position by hiring Olivia Wiener effective September 1, 1993. On November 19, 1993, petitioner made a formal claim to the computer teacher position, alleging that the board had filled that position in violation of her rights under Education Law ""2510(3) and 3013(3).
On or about December 21, 1993, petitioner commenced an Article 78 proceeding in Supreme Court, Westchester County, against the board of education and the superintendent, but neither named nor served Olivia Wiener, who then occupied the position claimed by petitioner. Petitioner demanded:
. . . . that an order and judgment be entered declaring the actions of the respondents Board of Education of the Public Schools of the Tarrytowns and Dr. Donald R. Kusel, as Superintendent of Schools, in appointing Olivia Wiener to a Computer Teacher position effective on or about September 1, 1993, and the failure to recall petitioner from the preferred eligibility list as illegal, arbitrary and capricious, and ordering respondents to recall and reinstate petitioner to the Computer Teacher position nuncprotunc to September 1, 1993, together with back pay, seniority and all other emoluments of employment together with costs and disbursements of this proceeding and for such other and further relief as to this Court may seem just and proper.
Respondents moved to dismiss the Article 78 proceeding on or about March 31, 1994, on the grounds that petitioner had failed to join a necessary party, i.e., Olivia Wiener, pursuant to CPLR "1001(a), and had failed to exhaust available administrative remedies. By an order dated January 13, 1995, the Article 78 proceeding was dismissed for failure to exhaust. Petitioner duly appealed to the Appellate Division, Second Department, which transferred the matter to the Appellate Division, Third Department, which affirmed on June 20, 1996. Petitioner sought leave to appeal to the Court of Appeals, but leave was denied by an order dated November 19, 1996. Petitioner then commenced this appeal pursuant to Education Law "310 on December 12, 1996.
The petition in this appeal is essentially a recitation of the procedural history of this matter. The petition attaches and incorporates the record on appeal presented to the Appellate Division, Second Department, which includes the original Article 78 petition dated December 21, 1993. All of the operative allegations of wrongdoing on the part of respondents and demand for relief are contained in that December 21, 1993, Article 78 petition. In that petition, petitioner claims that the filling of the computer teacher position by Olivia Wiener was in violation of her rights under Education Law "3013(3), and demands that she be placed in that position retroactive to September 1, 1993.
Respondent disputes petitioner's claim that the computer teacher position filled by Olivia Wiener was "similar" to the position formerly held by petitioner, within the meaning of Education Law "3013(3). Respondent further alleges that Olivia Wiener, as the occupant of the computer teacher position, was and is a necessary party to this proceeding, and that petitioner has failed to make her a party either to the Article 78 proceeding or to this continuation of that proceeding before me. Respondents further claim that the appeal is untimely because Commissioner's Regulation 275.16 requires that an appeal be commenced within 30 days of the making of the decision or the performance of the act complained of; respondents do not claim that this appeal is untimely as to them, but that it is now untimely as against Olivia Wiener, a necessary party, and that the appeal must therefore be dismissed.
The appeal must be dismissed. It is clear that the rights and interests of all persons and parties became fixed as of September 1, 1993, the effective date of Olivia Wiener's appointment, and that when the Article 78 proceeding was commenced in 1993, Ms. Wiener occupied the position claimed by petitioner. At that time, Ms. Wiener's rights were in jeopardy, and if petitioner had succeeded in that proceeding, Ms. Wiener's rights would have been inequitably affected within the meaning of CPLR 1001(a). If this appeal had originally been commenced before me in 1993, there is no question that Olivia Wiener was a necessary party, and that the appeal would have been subject to dismissal for failure to join her. This has long been the rule, both before and after this matter arose. Appeal of DiStefano, 36 Ed Dept Rep 217; Appeal of Healy, 34 id. 611; Appeal of Marcoccia, 34 id. 418; Appeal of Bonanno, 33 id. 610; Appeal of Chaney, 33 id. 12; Appeal of Como, 30 id. 214; Appeal of Giglia, 27 id. 453. Indeed, if this matter had been commenced before me in 1993 without Olivia Wiener as a party, and petitioner had sought to join her more than 30 days after the act complained of, there is authority that such an attempt would have been untimely (Appeal of Giglia, supra, p.455).
Had this matter been pursued as a "310 appeal in 1993, petitioner would have had until October 1, 1993, i.e., 30 days after the effective date of the appointment of Olivia Wiener to the disputed position, to commence an appeal against both the school district respondents and Ms. Wiener (8 NYCRR "275.16). Because petitioner chose to proceed instead pursuant to Article 78, as she was entitled to, she had until January 1, 1994, i.e., four months after September 1, 1993, to proceed against the school district respondents and Ms. Wiener (CPLR 217). Both 8 NYCRR "275.16 and CPLR 217 are "statutes of repose," i.e., their purpose is to fix a time beyond which rights are no longer in jeopardy.
In circumstances similar to this appeal, where a petitioner has first gone to the courts but been dismissed on some basis not involving the merits, the date of dismissal is generally regarded as the equivalent of the date of the "making of the decision or the performance of the act complained of" in "275.16. Previous decisions have allowed an appeal to the Commissioner within 30 days after such dismissal (Matter of Buffalo Teachers Federation, Inc., 23 Ed Dept Rep 230; Matter of Van Druff, 21 id. 635; Matter of Barnes, 21 id. 594; Matter of Lortz, 7 id. 3).
In the present matter, it is clear that petitioner knew that Olivia Wiener had been awarded the contested position no later than December 21, 1993, because Ms. Wiener is identified by name in the notice of petition for the Article 78 proceeding initiated on that day. Petitioner also knew that respondent claimed that Ms. Wiener was a necessary party no later than March 31, 1994, when respondents moved to dismiss the Article 78 proceeding. Petitioner continued to know of respondent's claim when leave to appeal to the Court of Appeals was denied on November 19, 1996. Nevertheless, petitioner commenced this appeal on December 12, 1996, and again failed to name or serve Ms. Wiener. Respondents again asserted that Ms. Wiener was a necessary party in their answer. The record in this matter indicates that petitioner's reply to respondents' answer was due early in February 1997, but that petitioner's attorney on three separate occasions contacted my Office of Counsel to obtain extensions. Petitioner finally served her reply on May 22, 1997, and only at that point requested permission to join and serve Ms. Wiener.
It is clear that Olivia Wiener was a necessary party to the original Article 78 proceeding, and that after January 1, 1994, Supreme Court, Westchester County, was without authority to add her as a party (see, Matter of Mount Pleasant Cottage School Union Free School District v. Sobol, 163 Ad2d 715, aff'd 78 NY2d 935). It is equally clear that Ms. Wiener would have been a necessary party to a "310 appeal commenced in 1993, and that she is also a necessary party to this appeal. I reject any notion that Ms. Wiener and respondents are united in interest. At any time throughout the litigation of this matter, the school district respondents could have abandoned the defense of this case or sought some accommodation with petitioner that would have been detrimental to Ms. Wiener's interests. By failing to join Ms. Wiener as a party, petitioner deprived her of any opportunity to defend her rights independently, without relying on the good will and adversarial skills of respondents and their attorneys.
Petitioner has offered no reason either in the petition or in the reply as to why petitioner could not have joined and served Ms. Wiener within 30 days after the matter was dismissed by the Court of Appeals, or why she delayed more than five months after the commencement of this appeal to request joinder. I find petitioner's request, made more than three and a half years after Ms. Wiener's appointment to the contested position, to be unreasonable. Petitioner in effect asks me to correct not one but two failures to join Ms. Wiener, who had every right to believe that her rights had become secure as of January 1, 1994, since no proceeding had been commenced against her at that time. Beyond that point, even the Supreme Court could not have done what she now asks me to do (Matter of Mount Pleasant Cottage School Union Free School District v. Sobol, supra).
In view of the foregoing, to order the joinder of Ms. Wiener at this extremely late date would be inequitable and I decline to do so. I will not consider the other claims or contentions of the parties.


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using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.ComponentModel;
using System.Linq;
using System.Reflection;
using System.Threading;
using ServiceStack.Text.Support;
using System.Linq.Expressions;
using System.Runtime.CompilerServices;
using System.Runtime.Serialization;

using ServiceStack.Text;

namespace ServiceStack
{
    public delegate EmptyCtorDelegate EmptyCtorFactoryDelegate(Type type);
    public delegate object EmptyCtorDelegate();

    public static class ReflectionExtensions
    {
        public static TypeCode GetTypeCode(this Type type)
        {
            return Type.GetTypeCode(type);
        }

        public static bool IsInstanceOf(this Type type, Type thisOrBaseType)
        {
            while (type != null)
            {
                if (type == thisOrBaseType)
                    return true;

                type = type.BaseType;
            }

            return false;
        }

        public static bool HasGenericType(this Type type)
        {
            while (type != null)
            {
                if (type.IsGenericType)
                    return true;

                type = type.BaseType;
            }
            return false;
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        public static Type FirstGenericType(this Type type)
        {
            while (type != null)
            {
                if (type.IsGenericType)
                    return type;

                type = type.BaseType;
            }
            return null;
        }

        public static Type GetTypeWithGenericTypeDefinitionOfAny(this Type type, params Type[] genericTypeDefinitions)
        {
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            {
                var genericType = type.GetTypeWithGenericTypeDefinitionOf(genericTypeDefinition);
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                {
                    genericType = type;
                }

                if (genericType != null)
                    return genericType;
            }
            return null;
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        public static bool IsOrHasGenericInterfaceTypeOf(this Type type, Type genericTypeDefinition)
        {
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        public static Type GetTypeWithGenericTypeDefinitionOf(this Type type, Type genericTypeDefinition)
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            {
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                {
                    return t;
                }
            }

            var genericType = type.FirstGenericType();
            if (genericType != null && genericType.GetGenericTypeDefinition() == genericTypeDefinition)
            {
                return genericType;
            }

            return null;
        }

        public static Type GetTypeWithInterfaceOf(this Type type, Type interfaceType)
        {
            if (type == interfaceType) return interfaceType;

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            {
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                    return t;
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                case TypeCode.Single:
                case TypeCode.UInt16:
                case TypeCode.UInt32:
                case TypeCode.UInt64:
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                        return JsConfig.TreatEnumAsInteger || type.IsEnumFlags();
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                case TypeCode.Int16:
                case TypeCode.Int32:
                case TypeCode.Int64:
                case TypeCode.SByte:
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                case TypeCode.UInt64:
                    return true;

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                case TypeCode.Double:
                case TypeCode.Single:
                    return true;

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            {
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                    return t;
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            if (!type.IsGenericType) return null;

            var genericType = type.FirstGenericType();
            return genericType.GetGenericTypeDefinition() == genericInterfaceType
                    ? genericType
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            foreach (var thisGenericType in theseGenericTypes)
            {
                if (genericTypeDefinition == thisGenericType)
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            return false;
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            var typeAGenericArgs = typeAInterface.GetGenericArguments();
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            if (typeAGenericArgs.Length != typeBGenericArgs.Length) return null;

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            {
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                {
                    return null;
                }
            }

            return typeAGenericArgs;
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        public static TypePair GetGenericArgumentsIfBothHaveConvertibleGenericDefinitionTypeAndArguments(
            this Type assignableFromType, Type typeA, Type typeB)
        {
            var typeAInterface = typeA.GetTypeWithGenericInterfaceOf(assignableFromType);
            if (typeAInterface == null) return null;

            var typeBInterface = typeB.GetTypeWithGenericInterfaceOf(assignableFromType);
            if (typeBInterface == null) return null;

            var typeAGenericArgs = typeAInterface.GetGenericArguments();
            var typeBGenericArgs = typeBInterface.GetGenericArguments();

            if (typeAGenericArgs.Length != typeBGenericArgs.Length) return null;

            for (var i = 0; i < typeBGenericArgs.Length; i++)
            {
                if (!AreAllStringOrValueTypes(typeAGenericArgs[i], typeBGenericArgs[i]))
                {
                    return null;
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            return new TypePair(typeAGenericArgs, typeBGenericArgs);
        }

        public static bool AreAllStringOrValueTypes(params Type[] types)
        {
            foreach (var type in types)
            {
                if (!(type == typeof(string) || type.IsValueType)) return false;
            }
            return true;
        }

        static Dictionary<Type, EmptyCtorDelegate> ConstructorMethods = new Dictionary<Type, EmptyCtorDelegate>();
        public static EmptyCtorDelegate GetConstructorMethod(Type type)
        {
            if (ConstructorMethods.TryGetValue(type, out var emptyCtorFn))
                return emptyCtorFn;

            emptyCtorFn = GetConstructorMethodToCache(type);

            Dictionary<Type, EmptyCtorDelegate> snapshot, newCache;
            do
            {
                snapshot = ConstructorMethods;
                newCache = new Dictionary<Type, EmptyCtorDelegate>(ConstructorMethods);
                newCache[type] = emptyCtorFn;

            } while (!ReferenceEquals(
                Interlocked.CompareExchange(ref ConstructorMethods, newCache, snapshot), snapshot));

            return emptyCtorFn;
        }

        static Dictionary<string, EmptyCtorDelegate> TypeNamesMap = new Dictionary<string, EmptyCtorDelegate>();
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        {
            if (TypeNamesMap.TryGetValue(typeName, out var emptyCtorFn))
                return emptyCtorFn;

            var type = JsConfig.TypeFinder(typeName);
            if (type == null) return null;
            emptyCtorFn = GetConstructorMethodToCache(type);

            Dictionary<string, EmptyCtorDelegate> snapshot, newCache;
            do
            {
                snapshot = TypeNamesMap;
                newCache = new Dictionary<string, EmptyCtorDelegate>(TypeNamesMap) {
                    [typeName] = emptyCtorFn
                };

            } while (!ReferenceEquals(
                Interlocked.CompareExchange(ref TypeNamesMap, newCache, snapshot), snapshot));

            return emptyCtorFn;
        }

        public static EmptyCtorDelegate GetConstructorMethodToCache(Type type)
        {
            if (type == typeof(string))
                return () => string.Empty;

            if (type.IsInterface)
            {
                if (type.HasGenericType())
                {
                    var genericType = type.GetTypeWithGenericTypeDefinitionOfAny(
                        typeof(IDictionary<,>));

                    if (genericType != null)
                    {
                        var keyType = genericType.GetGenericArguments()[0];
                        var valueType = genericType.GetGenericArguments()[1];
                        return GetConstructorMethodToCache(typeof(Dictionary<,>).MakeGenericType(keyType, valueType));
                    }

                    genericType = type.GetTypeWithGenericTypeDefinitionOfAny(
                        typeof(IEnumerable<>),
                        typeof(ICollection<>),
                        typeof(IList<>));

                    if (genericType != null)
                    {
                        var elementType = genericType.GetGenericArguments()[0];
                        return GetConstructorMethodToCache(typeof(List<>).MakeGenericType(elementType));
                    }
                }
            }
            else if (type.IsArray)
            {
                return () => Array.CreateInstance(type.GetElementType(), 0);
            }
            else if (type.IsGenericTypeDefinition)
            {
                var genericArgs = type.GetGenericArguments();
                var typeArgs = new Type[genericArgs.Length];
                for (var i = 0; i < genericArgs.Length; i++)
                    typeArgs[i] = typeof(object);

                var realizedType = type.MakeGenericType(typeArgs);

                return realizedType.CreateInstance;
            }

            return ReflectionOptimizer.Instance.CreateConstructor(type);
        }

        private static class TypeMeta<T>
        {
            public static readonly EmptyCtorDelegate EmptyCtorFn;
            static TypeMeta()
            {
                EmptyCtorFn = GetConstructorMethodToCache(typeof(T));
            }
        }

        [MethodImpl(MethodImplOptions.AggressiveInlining)]
        public static object CreateInstance<T>()
        {
            return TypeMeta<T>.EmptyCtorFn();
        }

        /// <summary>
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        /// First looks at JsConfig.ModelFactory before falling back to CreateInstance
        /// </summary>
        public static T New<T>(this Type type)
        {
            var factoryFn = JsConfig.ModelFactory(type)
                ?? GetConstructorMethod(type);
            return (T)factoryFn();
        }

        /// <summary>
        /// Creates a new instance of type.
        /// First looks at JsConfig.ModelFactory before falling back to CreateInstance
        /// </summary>
        public static object New(this Type type)
        {
            var factoryFn = JsConfig.ModelFactory(type)
                ?? GetConstructorMethod(type);
            return factoryFn();
        }

        /// <summary>
        /// Creates a new instance from the default constructor of type
        /// </summary>
        [MethodImpl(MethodImplOptions.AggressiveInlining)]
        public static object CreateInstance(this Type type)
        {
            if (type == null)
                return null;

            var ctorFn = GetConstructorMethod(type);
            return ctorFn();
        }

        [MethodImpl(MethodImplOptions.AggressiveInlining)]
        public static T CreateInstance<T>(this Type type)
        {
            if (type == null)
                return default(T);

            var ctorFn = GetConstructorMethod(type);
            return (T)ctorFn();
        }

        [MethodImpl(MethodImplOptions.AggressiveInlining)]
        public static object CreateInstance(string typeName)
        {
            if (typeName == null)
                return null;

            var ctorFn = GetConstructorMethod(typeName);
            return ctorFn();
        }

        [MethodImpl(MethodImplOptions.AggressiveInlining)]
        public static Module GetModule(this Type type)
        {
            if (type == null)
                return null;

            return type.Module;
        }

        public static PropertyInfo[] GetAllProperties(this Type type)
        {
            if (type.IsInterface)
            {
                var propertyInfos = new List<PropertyInfo>();

                var considered = new List<Type>();
                var queue = new Queue<Type>();
                considered.Add(type);
                queue.Enqueue(type);

                while (queue.Count > 0)
                {
                    var subType = queue.Dequeue();
                    foreach (var subInterface in subType.GetInterfaces())
                    {
                        if (considered.Contains(subInterface)) continue;

                        considered.Add(subInterface);
                        queue.Enqueue(subInterface);
                    }

                    var typeProperties = subType.GetTypesProperties();

                    var newPropertyInfos = typeProperties
                        .Where(x => !propertyInfos.Contains(x));

                    propertyInfos.InsertRange(0, newPropertyInfos);
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                return propertyInfos.ToArray();
            }

            return type.GetTypesProperties()
                .Where(t => t.GetIndexParameters().Length == 0) // ignore indexed properties
                .ToArray();
        }

        public static PropertyInfo[] GetPublicProperties(this Type type)
        {
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            {
                var propertyInfos = new List<PropertyInfo>();

                var considered = new List<Type>();
                var queue = new Queue<Type>();
                considered.Add(type);
                queue.Enqueue(type);

                while (queue.Count > 0)
                {
                    var subType = queue.Dequeue();
                    foreach (var subInterface in subType.GetInterfaces())
                    {
                        if (considered.Contains(subInterface)) continue;

                        considered.Add(subInterface);
                        queue.Enqueue(subInterface);
                    }

                    var typeProperties = subType.GetTypesPublicProperties();

                    var newPropertyInfos = typeProperties
                        .Where(x => !propertyInfos.Contains(x));

                    propertyInfos.InsertRange(0, newPropertyInfos);
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                .Where(t => t.GetIndexParameters().Length == 0) // ignore indexed properties
                .ToArray();
        }

        public const string DataMember = "DataMemberAttribute";

        internal static string[] IgnoreAttributesNamed = new[] {
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            "JsonIgnoreAttribute"
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        internal static void Reset()
        {
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                "IgnoreDataMemberAttribute",
                "JsonIgnoreAttribute"
            };

            try
            {
                JsConfig<Type>.SerializeFn = x => x?.ToString();
                JsConfig<MethodInfo>.SerializeFn = x => x?.ToString();
                JsConfig<PropertyInfo>.SerializeFn = x => x?.ToString();
                JsConfig<FieldInfo>.SerializeFn = x => x?.ToString();
                JsConfig<MemberInfo>.SerializeFn = x => x?.ToString();
                JsConfig<ParameterInfo>.SerializeFn = x => x?.ToString();
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            catch (Exception e)
            {
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        public static PropertyInfo[] GetSerializableProperties(this Type type)
        {
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                ? type.GetAllProperties()
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            return properties.OnlySerializableProperties(type);
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            return dataContract;
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        public static DataMemberAttribute GetDataMember(this PropertyInfo pi)
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CHICAGO PD 4×05 "A War Zone" Photos
By Jennifer Griffin on October 13, 2016
A WAR ZONE
AFTER THE BODY OF A COLLEGE STUDENT AND A BACKPACK FILLED WITH DEADLY FENTANYL WASH UP IN THE LAKE, INTELLIGENCE IS UNDER PRESSURE TO UNCOVER THE SOURCE OF THE DEADLY DRUG OPERATION
Intelligence is tasked with tracking down the dealers of fentanyl – a drug that has been linked to multiple overdoses around the city.
As they investigate possible sources, the team uncovers a series of dealers in a college smuggling ring.
Meanwhile, Tay (guest star Li Jun Li) and Burgess (Marina Squerciati) come across a bloodied child who exposes a dark and twisted secret about his home life with his parents. Additionally, Mouse (guest star Samuel Hunt) causes tension as he looks to reenlist in the army, and Platt (Amy Morton) tells Tay (guest star Li Jun Li) that she has been reassigned to her original post.
Also starring Jason Beghe, Jon Seda, Jesse Lee Soffer, Sophia Bush, Patrick Flueger, Elias Koteas, and LaRoyce Hawkins.
Guest starring Yuri Sardarov, Nick Gehlfuss and Brendan Dooling. TV-14 D, L
Air Date: Wednesday 10/26/2016 (10:00PM – 11:00PM) on NBC.
CHICAGO P.D. -- "A War Zone"
CHICAGO P.D. -- "A War Zone" Episode 404 -- Pictured: (l-r) Sophia Bush as Erin Lindsay, Jesse Lee Soffer as Jay Halstead -- (Photo by: Elizabeth Sisson/NBC)
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With their last full scheduled day at Union Glacier there was a lot going on today. Some of the team relaxed while others when on hikes and/or drives.
Today's activities included a hike up a non-technical hill for some and for the others the day started with a lecture about British polar explorer Robert Falcon Scott.
With a good night's rest behind them and being off the high polar plateau (where at the South Pole it feels like you are at 12,000 feet) everyone was ready for more adventure today.
After a great time at the South Pole our team has returned to the more pleasant latitude of Union Glacier where on a nice calm day it can feel down right balmy.
All day we kept waiting to hear from our team and we could only guess that the lack of contact meant that they were very busy having a good time, and we were right!
Game on! Our South Pole Flight team flew made the flight today from Punta Arenas to the Union Glacier Basecamp in Antarctica. A little over four hours after take off the Ilyushin-76 aircraft landed on Union Glacier's ice runway (at around 2:30 PM local time).
Our 2016 South Pole Flight team is in Punta Arenas and all are very excited for their flight to Antarctica and onwards to the South Pole.
Welcome to the 2016 South Pole Flight Blog!
Our 2016 South Pole Flight is just around the corner! Team members are packing their kit and preparing to head to Antarctica for this spectacular adventure. We are excited to share their journey with you via this blog. Check back again on January 1 for the official start to this blog! You'll find audio dispatches and updates about the expedition's daily activities.


Q: Recently, violent armed conflicts erupted in the capital of Libya, causing a large number of casualties. What is your comment?
A: The Chinese side calls upon all relevant parties in Libya to immediately stop clashes, resolve differences through dialogue and negotiation, continue to move forward the political settlement process and realize reconciliation and stability at an early date.
Q: A Chinese citizen was arrested in the US. He was later released pending investigation. Do you have any comment on that?
A: I have seen relevant reports. The Chinese Consulate-General in Chicago is closely following the relevant news, trying to find out more about the case and verify the relevant situation with the competent authorities in the United States.
Q: In a few days, the DPRK will mark its 70th anniversary as a nation. Which Chinese leader will visit the DPRK and attend relevant activities?
A: With regard to which Chinese leader will visit the DPRK and attend the National Day's celebrations there, I have no information to offer to you at this point.
Q: The ABC website has been inaccessible in China for the best part of the past two weeks. Can the Foreign Ministry provide any clarification as to the exact reason for that?
A: I have seen your relevant report and also noted that your report said you have asked China's cyberspace administration authority. What's more, your report has cited the response from the relevant authority in details, so I believe you are quite clear about this question.
Q: I wonder if you have any comment on Myanmar's government sentencing of two Reuters journalists to seven years in prison for independent reporting?
A: I am not aware of the situation mentioned by you. You may ask the competent authority of Myanmar.
Q: Sudan's President Omar al-Bashir is currently in China. He has met with President Xi Jinping. He is wanted by the International Criminal Court. What is your comment?
A: I think you raised this question at an inopportune time. China is not a contracting party to the Rome Statute. The Chinese side holds reservations about the International Criminal Court's indictment against Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir. We hope that the International Criminal Court can handle the relevant issue in a prudent manner.
China and Sudan enjoy good friendship. We support the efforts made by Sudan to uphold national sovereignty, security and stability. We are willing to work with Sudan to continue to make positive contributions to achieving peace and stability in South Sudan.
Q: According to reports, on August 30, the California State Legislature passed a bill that actively supports cooperation with China in economy, trade, education, culture and people-to-people exchanges, and urges the President and Congress of the United States to support actions that further strengthen economic links between the United States, including California, and China. What is your comment?
A: We have seen relevant reports. This bill reflects the aspiration of all sectors in California to maintain steady development of China-US ties, which we believe is also what the vast majority of the US people want and agree with.
Subnational exchanges and cooperation is an important component of China-US ties. In recent years, subnational cooperation between the two countries have been thriving, delivering rich outcomes in the fields of economy, trade, culture and people-to-people exchanges and tangible benefits to the people of the two sides. Quite a few US governors have made trips to China to express their willingness to expand and deepen all-around cooperation with China. When subnational exchanges between the two sides get more frequent, bilateral cooperation more fruitful and people-to-people exchanges closer, the common interests shared by the two sides will be expanded and the overall development of the China-US relations be driven forward.
We hope that China and the US could work together to consolidate agreement on subnational cooperation, tap into the complementary subnational strength, and expand two-way trade and investment so that China-US subnational exchanges could bring more opportunities and dividends to the two peoples.


SUGAR CITY — Alan Dunn pulled his white Lincoln sedan onto Center Street in Sugar City.
A quarter mile of mostly quintessential, Main Street America rolled into view.
The post office to the left. The gas station from the 1950s to the right. The mom-and-pop hardware store in operation since World War I further up the street.
But the 6-foot-4-inch superintendent of the Sugar-Salem School District wasn't driving around the small town surrounded by a sea of potato fields just to take in the view.
Sugar City's bout to attract and retain businesses runs a deep thread in the heavily Mormon, Eastern Idaho farming community. It's a decades-long struggle that has found Dunn wincing at Sugar-Salem's recurring place at the bottom of statewide property tax valuations.
Average daily student attendance remains the main yardstick used to carve up the state's portion of K-12 funding. Still, taxes levied on local businesses and housing account for a growing amount of money school districts use to increase teacher salaries, build infrastructure and supplement other budgets — even as the state picks up a greater share of K-12 funding. As a result, school administrators are often the first to know when local business is good or bad, or when communities are growing or stagnating.
But wide gaps in market values enable some school districts to tap into much more substantial tax bases. And disparities in funding, per-pupil expenditures and teacher salaries sometimes show for it. As a result, Dunn said his district's plight for local dollars has created a hodgepodge of problems, from troubled labor negotiations to crumbling and aging buildings to hiring uncertified staff members.
In the 2017 "People's Perspective," a public opinion poll conducted by Idaho Education News, most Idahoans said they want more equity in their schools. Of the 1,004 Idahoans surveyed, 75 percent said it's the state's responsibility to make up the differences between poorer and wealthier districts.
Dunn praised lawmakers for recent upticks in statewide K-12 funding, but said Idaho is a long way from leveling the playing field.
"The gap between rich and poor districts really has a lot do with where your school district is located," Dunn said.
A walk out the front doors of Sugar-Salem's Kershaw Intermediate School provides a glimpse into Sugar City's hulking industrial past. Across the street from the school, in a field now teeming with weeds, lies the town's namesake sugar factory — or what's left of it.
Built in 1904, the factory was once central to the birth and rise of Sugar City. A portion of it still stands as a looming reminder of what once was.
"At the time, it was the largest sugar factory in the U.S.," reads a weathered wooden monument in front of what's left of the original structure — a yellowish, 250-foot-long vacant sugar storage holding.
During its nearly four decades of operation, the factory brought hundreds of residents into Sugar City and pumped out some 405,000 tons of sweetness, extracted from millions of sugar beets pulled from surrounding fields.
But technological advancements in sugar extraction and area farmers' growing bent toward potatoes forced the factory's closure in 1942.
"We sort of just fell off the face of the earth when that factory closed," said Sugar-Salem Junior High principal Kevin Schultz.
Sugar City never regained its place as an industrial hotbed in Eastern Idaho, but today the town touts a variety of local businesses: a nearby Wal-Mart, downtown hardware store, service station, car wash, restaurant, detail shop, beauty salon, dentist's office, dance studio and two potato processors. Over the years, growth in nearby and booming Rexburg has also buoyed Sugar-Salem's population and property values.
To put that number into perspective, the similarly sized West Bonner County district has a market value almost 10 times that of Sugar-Salem's.
McCall-Donnelly (1,053 students): $2,899,242 per student.
West Bonner County (1,044 students): $1,625,607 per student.
Bear Lake County (1,125 students): $727,747 per student.
Filer (1,572 students): $304,148 per student.
Payette (1,451 students): $259,439 per student.
Sugar-Salem (1,536 students): $173,706 per student.
State average: $808,517 per student.
Sugar-Salem: State, 92.4 percent; local, 5.1 percent; federal, 2.5 percent.
West Bonner County: State, 62 percent; local, 31.6 percent; federal, 6.4 percent.
West Bonner County: $3.1 million.
Local revenues affect district spending. West Bonner County's overall per-pupil expenditures for 2015-16 were $8,846, compared to Sugar-Salem's $5,847.
And while several factors, including experience, can affect teacher salaries, the comparison between Sugar-Salem and West Bonner County illustrates a teacher pay gap. Sugar-Salem's average 2016-17 teacher salary is $40,039, compared to West Bonner's $45,806. The statewide average comes in at $46,439.
While 93 school districts have a supplemental levy on the books, some choose not to seek help from local taxpayers.
Dietrich's ADA-based market value is $231,095 — higher than Sugar-Salem, but ranked No. 104 among Idaho's 115 school districts.
From Bruneau-Grand View and Glenns Ferry to Wilder and Lapwai, some poorer districts have seen levies fall short of the majority needed to pass.
Sugar-Salem is mindful of its tax burden on patrons, Dunn said. Partly in response to state funding increases, the district decided to cut back on the supplemental levy it will seek in Tuesday's election. The district is asking for $400,000 over two years, down from a $450,000-a-year levy.
Sugar-Salem's current levy helps the district bolster parts of its budget, said Rep. Wendy Horman, R-Idaho Falls.
Dunn said the funding disparity still takes its toll, especially when it comes to salaries. Last year, a contract negotiations deadlock dragged into October. Eight of Sugar-Salem's 80 certified employees are working on a provisional certified basis. One employee does not even possess a college degree.
But a $400,000 miscalculation on the district's part also contributed to the 2016-17 negotiations deadlock. And $25,000 in pay raises for administrators — including an 8.84 percent bump for Dunn himself — had some teachers questioning the severity of the district's purported financial hardships mid-negotiations.
A small tax base also makes it difficult to upgrade and build new infrastructure to keep up with a growing student body. Dunn pointed to an old automotive shop across the street from the district office in downtown Sugar City.
"I get nervous having any of our people even go in there," Dunn said.
The district shop, built around 1900, houses a variety of equipment, from mowers to maintenance trucks. But the wall on the west side of the building has buckled slightly near the top — a telltale sign of pending collapse. The building's disrepair last year prompted one local business, ProPEAT, to donate two acres for the district to build a new storage shop. The district took advantage of the offer, budgeting $100,000 for a new shop. But those funds dried up before the building was finished, Dunn said, so the district stalled construction early.
"What school district has to build a shop and then stop before lights and electricity are added?" Dunn said. The shop has sat vacant and unused for months.
School construction is also done on a piecemeal basis in Sugar-Salem, Dunn said, because the district cannot bond for new facilities in one swipe. Idaho law caps school bond measures at 5 percent of a district's total market value. In Sugar-Salem's case, the number settles at just over $13 million. To avoid a property tax hike, the district floated a $5.5 million bond issue in 2012, which received a supermajority of support from patrons. The district hopes to pass a nearly identical bond issue on May 16 in order to begin funding construction of a new junior high school — over 15 to 20 years.
The district has $526,000 in its capital projects fund. Out of that amount, said business manager Becky Bates, $162,000 is slated for projects this summer — including, perhaps, adding electricity and lights to the vacant shop. Trustees will be able to use the remaining $364,000 on other projects, she said.
Sugar-Salem isn't the only district that's struggled to upgrade infrastructure. In 2013, the state swooped in to bankroll $3.6 million in repairs to two aging schools in the Salmon School District, after local voters rejected building bond issues nine times over eight years.
Horman acknowledged that one district's tax base can generate "much more" revenue than another district's base, but stopped short of calling the funding gaps inequitable.
Horman pointed to Idaho's bond-levy equalization fund, which uses state dollars to help relieve school districts of their interest payments on school bonds. This fund should cover around 29 percent of Sugar-Salem's current $5.5 million bond issue, Bates said.
"The court identified three areas as constituting 'thorough' — school facilities, instructional programs and transportation," she added.
Horman, a member of the Legislature's Joint Finance-Appropriations Committee, also cited recent increases in statewide K-12 spending. Districts' ability to levy local taxes is the "ultimate local control," she said, which gives them a chance to access more funds if and when they need it.
Like Horman, Sen. Janie Ward-Engelking sits on JFAC and a legislative committee charged with revamping Idaho's complicated school funding formula. Ward-Engelking, D-Boise, said she's all for more local control, but districts shouldn't have to rely on local taxpayers.
"Forcing districts to rely on supplemental levies creates a system of haves and have-nots," she said.
The burden of scrounging for local funds falls heaviest on rural districts such as Sugar-Salem, where farmers ride the ups and downs of markets and harvests.
"I think we are moving in the right direction with school funding overall, but the state needs to be doing more on its part," she said.


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