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Q: File path issue while including a file from other files at various directories File Structure:
app/
 - index.php
 - core -> header.php, setup.php
 - img -> ...
 - lib -> css->stylesheet.css, js->script.js

I have a header.php file that contains link to CSS and JS files.
It looks like this:
<link rel="stylesheet" href="lib/css/stylesheet.css"/>
<script src="lib/js/script.js" type="text/javascript"></script>

I need to include header.php in two other files: index.php and setup.php.
The file loads fine in index.php since app/lib/css/stylesheet.css and app/lib/js/script.js exist.
In case of loading from setup.php, it will look for file inside the directory 'app/core/lib/css ... and js ... '.
I tried solving this problem using absolute path using something like:
$path = realpath($_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT']);

and appending it to link and script tags in header.php
The problem is that windows says cant access local resources.
How do I solve this sort of issue? Thank in advance.

A: Make a config.php file with configurations like
<?php
$webPath = 'http://example.com/';
$jsPath = $webpath . 'lib/js/';
$cssPath = $webPath . 'lib/css/';

Then include config.php in all of your entry points. Entry point here is index.php and setup.php
Once you have that, header.php should have simple code:
<link rel="stylesheet" href="<?= $cssPath ?>stylesheet.css"/>
<script src="<?= $jsPath ?>script.js" type="text/javascript"></script>

A: You should include your files whether .js or .css files using http:// protocol.
You can define constant in your config file as shown below:
define('SITE','http://'.$_SERVER['HTTP_HOST'].'/<project_name>/');

Now you can use SITE constant in your header.php as below:
<link rel="stylesheet" href="<?php echo SITE;?>lib/css/stylesheet.css"/>
<script src="<?php echo SITE;?>lib/js/script.js" type="text/javascript"></script>

Hope it help you. :)

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Q: CardView limited to 9 items I am making a app in which a activity shows some blog post data in card view. Everything Works Fine until if i have only 9 blog posts to show but when tenth post added  then card-view gets messed up like 10 post shows both in 1st cardview item and in last cardview item.
below is the code to fill the Recyclerview Cardview
@Override
protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
    super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
    setContentView(R.layout.activity_transaction);
    LinearLayoutManager lm = new LinearLayoutManager(this);
    lm.setReverseLayout(true);
    lm.setStackFromEnd(true);
    recyclerView =  findViewById(R.id.blog_list);
    recyclerView.setHasFixedSize(true);
    recyclerView.setLayoutManager(lm);
    mref = FirebaseDatabase.getInstance().getReference().child("IHIAUPDATES");

}

public static class bloglistviewholder extends RecyclerView.ViewHolder {
    static View mview;
    public bloglistviewholder(View itemView) {
        super(itemView);
        mview = itemView;
    }
    public static void setTitle(String title){
        TextView post_title = mview.findViewById(R.id.blog_title);
        post_title.setText(title);
    }
    public static void setPosteon(String postedon){
        TextView post_title = mview.findViewById(R.id.blog_postedon);
        post_title.setText(postedon);
    }
    public static void setPostby(String postedby){
        TextView post_title = mview.findViewById(R.id.blog_postedby);
        post_title.setText(postedby);
    }

    public static void setPost(String post){
        TextView post_content = mview.findViewById(R.id.blog_post);
        post_content.setText(post);
    }
    public static void setImageurl(Context ctx, String imageurl){
        ImageView post_image = mview.findViewById(R.id.blog_pic);
        Picasso.with(ctx).load(imageurl).into(post_image)
        ;
    }

}

@Override
protected void onStart() {
    super.onStart();

    FirebaseRecyclerAdapter<blog_list,bloglistviewholder> rAdapter = new FirebaseRecyclerAdapter<blog_list, bloglistviewholder>(

            blog_list.class,
            R.layout.blog_row,
            bloglistviewholder.class,
            mref.orderByKey()
    ) {
        @Override
        protected void populateViewHolder(bloglistviewholder viewHolder, blog_list model, int position) {
            bloglistviewholder.setTitle(model.getTitle());
            bloglistviewholder.setPost(model.getPost());
            bloglistviewholder.setPostby(model.getPostedby());
            bloglistviewholder.setPosteon(model.getPostedon());
            bloglistviewholder.setImageurl(getApplicationContext(),model.getImageurl());
        }
    };
    recyclerView.setAdapter(rAdapter);
}

Xml blog_row
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<LinearLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:orientation="vertical">

<android.support.v7.widget.CardView
    android:layout_width="match_parent"
    android:layout_height="wrap_content"
    android:layout_margin="5dp">

    <RelativeLayout
        android:layout_width="match_parent"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:padding="8dp">

        <ImageView
            android:id="@+id/blog_pic"
            android:layout_width="120dp"
            android:layout_height="90dp"
            android:padding="4dp" />

        <TextView
            android:id="@+id/blog_title"
            android:layout_width="wrap_content"
            android:layout_height="wrap_content"
            android:layout_marginLeft="5dp"
            android:layout_toRightOf="@id/blog_pic"
            android:text="Apple MacBook Air Core i5 5th Gen - (8 GB/128 GB SSD/Mac OS Sierra)"
            android:textAppearance="@style/Base.TextAppearance.AppCompat.Small"
            android:textColor="#000000" />

        <TextView
            android:id="@+id/blog_postedon"
            android:layout_width="wrap_content"
            android:layout_height="wrap_content"
            android:layout_below="@id/blog_title"
            android:layout_marginLeft="5dp"
            android:layout_marginTop="5dp"
            android:layout_toRightOf="@id/blog_pic"
            android:text="13.3 Inch, 256 GB"
            android:textAppearance="@style/Base.TextAppearance.AppCompat.Small" />

        <TextView
            android:id="@+id/blog_postedby"
            android:layout_width="wrap_content"
            android:layout_height="wrap_content"
            android:layout_below="@id/blog_postedon"
            android:layout_marginLeft="5dp"
            android:layout_marginTop="5dp"
            android:layout_toRightOf="@id/blog_pic"
            android:background="@color/colorPrimary"
            android:paddingLeft="15dp"
            android:paddingRight="15dp"
            android:text="4.7"
            android:textAppearance="@style/Base.TextAppearance.AppCompat.Small.Inverse"
            android:textStyle="bold" />

        <TextView
            android:id="@+id/blog_post"
            android:layout_width="wrap_content"
            android:layout_height="wrap_content"
            android:layout_below="@id/blog_postedby"
            android:layout_marginLeft="5dp"
            android:layout_marginTop="5dp"
            android:layout_toRightOf="@id/blog_pic"
            android:text="INR 56990"
            android:textAppearance="@style/TextAppearance.AppCompat" />

    </RelativeLayout>

</android.support.v7.widget.CardView>

</LinearLayout>

what could be wrong?
am i doing something wrong?

A:
what could be wrong?

You have a logic problem where you insert your data into the database, causing the same first item to show up as the 10th item. However, since you haven't shown the code, it's impossible to guess beyond that.
What have you done to debug your code?

am i doing something wrong?

Well, you have a bug ... so ... yes? :P


Two decades after the Supreme Court's Brown v. Board of Education decision, which declared segregated public schools unconstitutional, the race problem has shifted from a question of dual school systems to one of "dual cities," a leading jurist told a crowd of 150 at the Law School last night.
J. Skelly Wright, First Circuit Court of Appeals judge, said that busing of school children to achieve racial balance "can't by itself come close to erasing scars inflicted on all of us by the methodical division of our landscape along race lines."
Wright's speech in the Ames Courtroom introduced the Law School's two-day roundtable, entitled "Two Decades After Brown."
The boundaries of local governments, taxation schemes and public services--as well as school systems--must expand to cover whole metropolitan areas, Wright warned. Otherwise, "we risk making apartheid legitimate and irreversible by force of law," he said.
Wright cited the rapid movement of whites away from central cities as the major roadblock to the ideal of integration set out in the 1954 Brown decision. "Whites bring Jim Crow back by migrating from the city to the suburb," he said.
Wright characterized the 20 years since Brown as the "second Reconstruction," and said that current public debates over racial equality "echo the weariness of 100 years ago."
Although the zeal for racial equality dissipated after the first Reconstruction, Wright expressed confidence that "the future won't see the dismantling of the Second Reconstruction."
Wright quoted results of 1972 public opinion polls that showed 75 per cent of Americans believe race discrimination is morally wrong and 71 per cent favor total desegregation of schools and housing.
He also cited increases in black political and economic opportunity since the mid-60s as progress toward the ideals expressed in Brown.
He added, however, "If anyone finds these figures cause for raucous celebration, he should be gently committed."
Wright said that the movement toward racial equality has come mainly from public pressure and legislation--not from the judicial branch--but said that it has been on a steady decline since 1968. He also attacked the notion that court solutions are the source of the current apathy toward the race issue, specifically public resistance to busing.
"According to that line of thinking, the judiciary overstepped its normal bounds [in the Brown decision] and was run over by a school bus," Wright said.
Wright maintained that the Vietnam War split the coalition of blacks, labor, youth, the churches and congressmen that he cited as the moving force behind integration. "Our egalitarian revolution was run over by a war," he said.


When the restoration of GPO was completed in 1929, the Cumann na nGaedheal government held an inauguration ceremony, the first formal commemoration of the Rising at the GPO. A small number of uniformed soldiers marched to the GPO, the tricolour was raised, and William T Cosgrave, then President of the Executive Council, made a speech. His speech focussed on the building's architecture, on the challenges of the reconstruction, and on recent advances in communications technology. The Rising itself was mentioned just at the end.
Six years later, in 1935, Eamon de Valera presided over a massive Easter pageant at the GPO, which dwarfed both previous commemorations and the Rising itself.
The significance of the 1935 commemoration lay not in any particular anniversary of the Rising itself – it was the 19th anniversary – but in the political context at the time.
De Valera had failed to co-opt the IRA into Fianna Fáil, and they had continued to carry out assassinations. In December 1933, they killed Hugh O'Reilly, and in February 1935, Richard More-O'Farrell. In March 1935, they began targeting de Valera's civic guard.
In response, de Valera moved against the IRA. In 1934, there were 451 prosecutions of IRA members. By 1936, the IRA had been banned. The 1935 commemoration gave de Valera a platform to assume ownership of the Rising's legacy for Fianna Fáil, and to strip the historical memory of the Rising of those elements which did not fit comfortably with Fianna Fáil's conservative Catholic nationalism. The Rising was rebranded as a Catholic and patriarchal pageant.
WF Cullen, who had commanded a contingent at the GPO during the Rising itself, addressed the crowds at the GPO. "Once again a party of armed men are advancing on this position", he announced, as a military parade arrived on O'Connell St. A company of troops at the GPO fired a volley from the roof of the building, and Cullen announced, "the men of 1916 are about to arrive". Then 2,500 veterans arrived at the GPO, led by an armed guard, and assembled under banners labelled "Four Courts", "Liberty Hall" and "Boland's Mills", according to where they had been stationed for the Rising.
Eamon de Valera arrived by car at the GPO, and was greeted with salutes and the national anthem, before giving a speech, and then unveiling a specially commissioned statue of Cuchulainn. There was a trumpet fanfare, another rifle volley, another rendition of the anthem, and air corps planes flew overhead. Then de Valera positioned himself on a platform in front of the building, and a parade of 7,000 soldiers marched past.
De Valera concluded his speech, in Irish, describing the Cuchulainn statue as a "memorial to the men who gave their lives for Ireland", and he also spoke of "the men of Easter Week". He made no mention of the contribution of women to the Rising. According to James Moran, "the women of Cumann na mBan and the Citizen Army played no part in the ceremony other than marching, and the veterans holding the old Mauser guns, the guard of honour, and the soldiers who escorted de Valera into the GPO were all exclusively male". "Whilst de Valera's re-enactment seemed to unite the community in a spontaneous show of support for the Easter Rising, in reality it was carefully contrived to exclude and marginalise those women who had played their part in the rebellion," Moran writes.
Some women joined a counter-demonstration that marched past the GPO after the official commemoration. Maud Gonne had earlier told a meeting that she hoped all true republicans would not participate in the commemoration, as it was being taken over "by all the forces of the State to desecrate the memory of those who died in Easter Week".
While the militant women who had participated in the Rising were excluded, or excluded themselves, de Valera was accompanied at the GPO by two women who had become nationalist figureheads, Padraic Pearse's sister (his mother, Margaret, having then recently died) and Tom Clarke's widow. Eight priests also accompanied de Valera on the platform at the GPO.
The inscription on the Cuchulainn statue consisted of just the third paragraph of the 1916 proclamation, focussing solely on the national struggle against Britain and with no mention of the wider social struggle.
The government was criticised for appropriating the commemoration as a partisan party demonstration. On the day itself, Fianna Fáil held a party fundraising day to coincide with the commemoration. Advertisements for the pageant in the national press were placed in just the Irish Press newspaper, and in the Dáil, Richard Mulcahy, a prominent 1916 veteran and Fine Gael member, asked whether it was "still held that the Government is not making it a party demonstration?"
In 1991, a cultural celebration of 1916 was organised, called 'The Flaming Door'. This mobilised artists, poets and writers to celebrate the 1916 Rising. It began with a bus tour around Dublin, on the morning of Easter Sunday, 31 March 1991, to the sites occupied in the Rising, with readings from poems and memoirs of the event. There was a poetry reading in the GPO in the afternoon and on the Sunday night, a concert was held in Kilmainham Gaol. It was the first time the Gaol was used as a public venue and the musicians used its prison cells as their changing rooms. Artists included members of the Dubliners, the Chieftans and the Hothouse Flowers. It culminated in a 'flaming door' procession at midnight in the yard of the Gaol where the signatories of the 1916 declaration were executed. The event was concieved and organised by John Stephenson as part of Dublin's European City of Culture.
A commemoration took place at the Garden of Remembrance in Dublin, attended by the then Taoiseach John Bruton. Fianna Fáil laid a wreath at graves in Arbour Hill. The IRA placed their largest explosive device up to that time – 30lb – at Hammersmith Bridge in London on the anniversary of the rising. It failed to detonate. In May, President Mary Robinson unveiled a statue of James Connolly in Dublin, one of the executed leaders of the rising and founder of the Labour Party.
The 50th anniversary commemoration, in 1966, followed closely the form of the 1935 celebration, with Eamon de Valera again at its head. The ceremonial features were all repeated – the marching troops, the rifle salutes, the trumpet fanfares, the air corps overflight. Again, the women of 1916 were largely excluded, or erased. As the Irish Independent put it the next day, "Nation honours men of 1916". The Irish Times described "line after line of striding men" sporting banners with mottoes such as "Stand together, Brothers", and reported de Valera saying, "'A Nation of Brothers' was [the] ultimate goal of the seven signatories".
That Easter Tuesday, Eamon de Valera attended the first performance of a pageant at Croke Park, which retold the story of the Rising through a series of tableaux, titled Aiseirí, meaning Resurrection.
By 1966, revisionist historians were questioning the slimmed-down, simplified version of the Rising that had been promulgated in the official commemorations. Francis Shaw, a priest and professor of history, wrote an article saying that Padraic Pearse's equation of the hill of Calvary with the GPO was blasphemous, and calling for a revised appraisal of the role of the constitutional nationalists. The article was suppressed by journal editors, and was subsequently published posthumously in the journal Studies in 1972.
The Ulster Unionist government in Northern Ireland all but sealed the border for fear that the South would invade.
The Easter Rising of 1916 was successful. Successful in its objective: to bring about independence for Ireland within a generation. Had it not been for the Rising, Ireland probably would not have become independent until after the Second World War – if then. The chances are that Ireland would not even have got home rule by then. Even if home rule had materialised, it would hardly have been of any substance – probably no more substantial that the devolution Wales currently "enjoys".
The culture of the time was violent, so we should not be surprised by the violence of the Rising. Hundreds of thousands were being massacred in the course of the Great War that was being waged at the time. Violence was first threatened by loyalists, who had landed an arsenal at Larne and were being organised in the Ulster Volunteer Force. While a small secret society, the IRB, was fixed on insurrection at some stage, it was the example from Ulster and the culture of militarism then prevailing which was the influential backdrop.
At the time of the rebellion, Germany was expected to win the European war. Certainly there was not an expectation then that Germany would be defeated. The general consensus was that the war would be followed by a peace conference at which, the insurrectionists hoped, Ireland would be represented, but only if there had been a signal of a determination to achieve independence. That as the real objective of the Rising.
About 500 people lost their lives, most of them civilians caught in crossfire; about a third the number killed in the War of Independence and one eighth of those killed in the civil war.
The rebellion occurred without a democratic mandate but to most of the insurrectionists that was an irrelevance. The Act of Union had been contrived without a democratic mandate and the British presence in Ireland persisted without a democratic mandate. A clear majority had voted for the Irish Parliamentary Party in the previous election but it was then obvious that the democratically endorsed Home Rule Bill of 1914 was going to be frustrated by Loyalist, British army and Tory opposition.
Arguably, the consequences of the Rising also were to solidify the inevitability of partition and to signal that power came from the barrel of a gun at least as effectively as from the ballot. But another consequence was Irish independence far earlier than would have happened otherwise.
But then, has independence been of such value?
The Easter Rising 1916 was a defining point in Irish history, albeit one engineered by people who had no democratic mandate and in conditions of considerable violence. As argued here, it brought about Irish independence earlier than would have occurred otherwise – indeed had we remained part of the United Kingdom until in the 1950s it is doubtful we would ever have opted for independence because of the loss of huge subsidies that would have entailed.
It made partition inevitable – perhaps that was inevitable anyway. It was seen to legitimise the use of force without a democratic mandate.


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Searching for television shows online can be a chore but a Goizueta alum hopes his company can help users clean up their viewing experience as the Internet becomes a more viable option for everyday television.
Former Ask.com CEO Jim Lanzone (JD/MBA98) told USA Today a soon-to-be 1-year old venture, Clicker, was built to address needs for the future of television.
"We were looking at the next 50 years of television, and how it was merging with the Internet," Lanzone, Clicker's CEO and co-founder told the paper. "How would you navigate all of that? A daily calendar wouldn't cut it anymore, which is what programming guides were in the previous 50 years. … It would need to be a lot more like a search engine."
Clicker goes beyond regular search engines, which do a good enough job finding listings of programs available on the web. Take the hit show, Glee… The service, according to USA Today, lists "prime-time showing, plus the five most recent episodes in rotation on the Hulu website, as well as which Glee episodes are available for viewing via iTunes and Amazon."
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Consumer loan delinquencies fell in Q309 across seven loan categories -- the broadest decline since 2007 -- but continued to rise in housing-related categories, according to the American Bankers Association's (ABA) Consumer Credit Delinquency Bulletin. Delinquencies of 30 days or more fell in auto-related categories, likely as banks write off loans, the ABA said. ABA chief economist James Chessen indicated the news was positive, but the weak economy and job losses continue to weigh on consumers. Housing-related loans continued to show stress. Home equity loan delinquencies hit another record in the quarter, jumping 29 bps to 4.3% of all accounts. Home equity lines of credit rose 20 bps to 2.12% of all accounts. Mobile home delinquencies increased to 3.63% of all accounts, from 3.53% the previous quarter. "Delinquencies may be near their peak as job losses have slowed," Chessen said. "Consumers are working hard to get their financial houses in order by spending less, saving more, and paying down debt. But there's still a bumpy road ahead with many people unemployed and family budgets stretched to their limits." Write to Diana Golobay.


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La gallinella delle Talaud (Amaurornis magnirostris ) è un uccello della famiglia dei Rallidi originario dell'isola di Karakelong.

Descrizione
La gallinella delle Talaud è un Amaurornis grande e robusto, lungo circa 30,5 cm e ricoperto da un piumaggio molto scuro. La grossa testa e le regioni superiori sono di colore marrone scuro, mentre le regioni inferiori e i fianchi sono di un grigio-bluastro molto scuro. Il becco, grosso e forte, è verde chiaro, e le zampe sono gialle, sebbene divengano verde oliva sulla parte posteriore.

L'unico richiamo confermato di questa timida specie è costituito da una serie di forti latrati rauchi, ma è probabile che essa emetta anche i gridi tipici degli altri ralli di macchia.

Distribuzione e habitat
La gallinella delle Talaud, scoperta solo recentemente, vive unicamente su Karakelong, una delle isole Talaud, dove condivide l'areale con la gallinella di Wallace (A. moluccana). La sua popolazione viene stimata sui 2350-9560 esemplari. Potrebbe essere presente anche su alcune isole vicine, come Salebabu e Kabaruang, ma su esse vi sono solo 20 km² di foresta, perlopiù in degrado.

Biologia
È una specie propria della foresta, ma si spinge anche nelle boscaglie e nelle piantagioni rigogliose, fino a 3 km di distanza dal limitare della foresta, nonché su terreni paludosi.

Conservazione
Su Karakelong rimangono circa 350 km² di foresta, all'interno di due aree protette, ma tali zone non sono adeguatamente gestite e sono tuttora minacciate dall'avanzare dell'agricoltura, dall'abbattimento illegale di alberi e dagli incendi. Oltre i confini della foresta, le gallinelle vengono anche cacciate con l'ausilio di trappole. Un'ulteriore minaccia è dovuta alla predazione da parte dei ratti introdotti su Karakelong, probabilmente ratti delle risaie (Rattus argentiventer).

Note

Altri progetti

Collegamenti esterni

Rallidae

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The Slatest
Financial Disclosure Forms Confirm Trump's White House Made Up of Rich Elite
By Daniel Politi
April 01, 20171:59 PM
Trump listening really hard at a "listening session" with truckers in the Cabinet Room at the White House on March 23 in Washington.
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President Trump may sound a populist note in his speeches, but when he goes into the White House he is surrounded by advisers who are extremely wealthy. The true (approximate) extent of their wealth was finally confirmed Friday night, when the White House released financial disclosure forms of almost 200 administration officials. "Together, 27 White House officials had assets worth at least $2.3 billion when they joined the administration," according to a Washington Post analysis of the findings.
One of the biggest stories to come out of the disclosures was what was revealed by Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump, who have assets worth as much as $740 million. More than the money itself though, the disclosure notes that Trump's daughter and son-in-law will continue to benefit from lots of real estate investments while they work inside the White House. And that's after the president's family members tried to do away with many of the most obvious conflicts. Kushner quit from around 260 entities and sold off 58 businesses that could have posed potential conflicts of interest. Still, even if he stepped down from leadership positions in companies, he will still be able to receive a financial benefit from most of the businesses he ran before joining the White House.
As for Ivanka Trump, she is apparently keeping her stake in the Trump International Hotel in Washington, meaning she is giving free publicity to the company she owns whenever she goes to eat at the restaurant there. Like her husband, Ivanka Trump resigned from leadership positions at the Trump Organization and her fashion brand but will continue to get fixed payments from both firms.
Ivanka Trump dances with husband Jared Kurshner at the Liberty Inaugural Ball on January 20, 2017 in Washington, D.C.
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Other interesting revelations from the documents include:
Stephen Bannon's Mercer ties. The president's chief strategist has deep ties to conservative donors Robert and Rebekah Mercer, who were big-time Trump supporters. Bannon made between $1.3 million and $2.3 million last year, including $191,000 in consulting fees from Breitbart News. He also reported $125,333 from data-crunching firm Camridge Analytica and $61,539 from the Government Accountability Institute. The Mercer family holds stakes in the three entities. He also received $167,000 from Glittering Steel, a film production company Bannon co-founded with the Mercers. Bannon has vowed to sell some of his assets, including his Cambridge Analytica and Glittering Steele stakes.
The rich, young journalist. Julia Hahn may not be wealthy by Trump Cabinet standards, but the 25-year-old aide to Bannon made quite a nice living as a journalist before she joined the White House. As a writer for Breitbart, Hahn made a whopping $117,217 last year plus $74,082 for taking part in Laura Ingraham's radio show. Plus she has investments worth as much as $2.5 million.
Goldman Sachs money. Trump's top economic adviser, Gary Cohn, is one of the richest men in the president's inner circle. The former Goldman Sachs executive has assets worth at least $250 million and as much as $611 million. Those assets include lots of stocks in publicly traded companies, many of which he has already vowed to sell.
Free clothes for the reality star. Omarosa Manigault received a wedding dress and other accessories worth a combined $25,000 to appear in TLC's Say Yes to the Dress. And although she's not nearly as rich as some of her colleagues, she's certainly no pauper, considering she's a one-third beneficiary of a trust worth as much as $5 million.
Kellyanne Conway made nearly $850,000 in the past year and has assets worth as much as $39 million.
White House General Counsel Donald F. McGahn left a $2.4 million job last year as a partner at a law firm.
Chief of Staff Reince Priebus earned $1.4 million last year, over half of which came from a law firm where he is a partner and has been on leave since 2011. He also made a $225,000 salary and $100,000 in bonuses from the Republican National Committee last year.
Before the Friday night news dump of financial documents, the White House made clear it had no desire to hide just how wealthy its staff really was. In fact, it compared itself to the Obama administration and was proud to note that while most financial-disclosure forms in the previous administration were either "simple" or "moderate," in the Trump White House there was a much larger share of "extremely complex" filings. (The administration failed to quantify what any of this meant or how it was determined.)
As far as the Trump administration is concerned, Americans should be grateful that so many wealthy people are willing to give up their precious time to work for the government.
"The president has brought a lot of people into this administration, into this White House, in particular, who have been very blessed and very successful by this country and have given up a lot to come into the government by setting aside a lot of assets," press secretary Sean Spicer said.
And I think it speaks volumes to the desire for a lot of these people to fulfill the president's vision and move the agenda forward, that they are willing to list all of their assets, undergo this public scrutiny, but also set aside a lot, because you'll see that people are often told they have to sell an asset or get rid of something to come serve in the government.
Trump Kleptocracy


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package org.tourgune.emocionometro.dao;

import java.io.File;
import java.io.FileOutputStream;
import java.io.IOException;
import java.io.OutputStreamWriter;
import java.io.PrintWriter;
import java.text.SimpleDateFormat;
import java.util.ArrayList;
import java.util.Date;

import org.tourgune.emocionometro.bean.SurveyBean;
import org.tourgune.emocionometro.preferences.PreferencesUtil;

import android.content.ContentValues;
import android.content.Context;
import android.database.Cursor;
import android.database.sqlite.SQLiteDatabase;
import android.os.Environment;
import android.util.Log;

public class SurveyDAO {

//	private String tag = "ENCUESTA DAO";//si se hace algun syste.out
	private static final String DATABASE_NAME = "encuestaDatabase";
	private static final String DATABASE_TABLE = "encuesta";

	// id | title | content | type | read

	// The index (key) column name for use in where clauses.
	public static final String KEY_ID = "id";
	public static final int KEY_ID_COLUMN = 0;
	// The name and column index of each column in your database.
	public static final String USERID = "user";// id de usuario
	public static final int USERID_COLUMN = 1;
	public static final String VALUE_AROUSAL = "valueArousal";// nota obtenida
	public static final int VALUE_AROUSAL_COLUMN = 2;
	public static final String VALUE_PLEASURE = "valuePleasure";// nota obtenida
	public static final int VALUE_PLEASURE_COLUMN = 3;
	public static final String VALUE_DOMINANCE = "valueDominance";// nota obtenida
	public static final int VALUE_DOMINANCE_COLUMN = 4;
	public static final String TIME = "hour"; // timestamp
	public static final int TIME_COLUMN = 5;
	public static final String REACTION_TIME = "reaction"; // tiempo que ha
															// tardado el
															// usuario en
															// contestar
	public static final int REACTION_TIME_COLUMN = 6;

	private SQLiteDatabase myDatabase;

	// SQL Statement to create a new database. integer primary key
	// autoincrement,
	private static final String DATABASE_CREATE_TABLE = "create table IF NOT EXISTS "
			+ DATABASE_TABLE
			+ " ("
			+ KEY_ID
			+ " integer primary key, "
			+ USERID
			+ " integer not null, "
			+ VALUE_AROUSAL
			+ " integer not null, "
			+ VALUE_PLEASURE
			+ " integer not null, "
			+ VALUE_DOMINANCE
			+ " integer not null, "
			+ TIME
			+ " TIMESTAMP, "
			+ REACTION_TIME
			+ " TIMESTAMP);";

	// Context of the application using the database.
	private static Context _context;

	static private SurveyDAO _instance = null;

	protected SurveyDAO() {
		createDatabase();
	}

	static public SurveyDAO instance(Context context) {
		_context = context;
		if (null == _instance) {
			_instance = new SurveyDAO();
		}
		return _instance;
	}

	public void createDatabase() {
		myDatabase = _context.openOrCreateDatabase(DATABASE_NAME,
				Context.MODE_PRIVATE, null);

		// if (myDatabase.isOpen()) {// Borrar si existia
		// dropDatabase();
		// }
		myDatabase.execSQL(DATABASE_CREATE_TABLE);
		System.out.println(DATABASE_CREATE_TABLE);

	}

	public void close() {
		myDatabase.close();
	}

	public void dropDatabase() {
		myDatabase.execSQL("DROP TABLE IF EXISTS " + DATABASE_TABLE);
	}

	public int getLastId() {

		Integer id = -1;

		Cursor cursor = myDatabase.rawQuery("select max(" + KEY_ID + ") from "
				+ DATABASE_TABLE, null);

		if (cursor.moveToFirst()) {
			id = cursor.getInt(0);
			cursor.close();
		}
		cursor.close();

		return id;
	}

	public long insertNewSurvey(int id,int userId, int valueArousal, int valuePleasure, int valueDominance, Long time,
			Long reactTime) {

			ContentValues contentValues = new ContentValues();
			contentValues.put(KEY_ID,id);
			contentValues.put(USERID, userId);
			contentValues.put(VALUE_AROUSAL, valueArousal);
			contentValues.put(VALUE_PLEASURE, valuePleasure);
			contentValues.put(VALUE_DOMINANCE, valueDominance);
			contentValues.put(TIME, Long.toString(time));
			contentValues.put(REACTION_TIME, Long.toString(reactTime));

			return myDatabase.insert(DATABASE_TABLE, null, contentValues);
	}

	public SurveyBean getLastSurvey() {

		Cursor cursor = myDatabase.query(DATABASE_TABLE, new String[] { KEY_ID,
				USERID, VALUE_AROUSAL, VALUE_PLEASURE,VALUE_DOMINANCE, TIME, REACTION_TIME }, KEY_ID + "=="
				+ getLastId(), null, null, null, TIME + " ASC");

		SurveyBean e = new SurveyBean();
		e.setId(0);
		e.setUserId(0);
		e.setValueArousal(0);
		e.setValuePleasure(0);
		e.setValueDominance(0);
		e.setTime(0);
		e.setReactTime(0);

		if (cursor.moveToFirst()) {

			Integer id = cursor.getInt(KEY_ID_COLUMN);
			Integer userId = cursor.getInt(USERID_COLUMN);
			Integer valueArousal = cursor.getInt(VALUE_AROUSAL_COLUMN);
			Integer valuePleasure = cursor.getInt(VALUE_PLEASURE_COLUMN);
			Integer valueDominance = cursor.getInt(VALUE_DOMINANCE_COLUMN);
			String time = cursor.getString(TIME_COLUMN);
			String reactTime = cursor.getString(REACTION_TIME_COLUMN);

			e.setId(id);
			e.setUserId(userId);
			e.setValueArousal(valueArousal);
			e.setValuePleasure(valuePleasure);
			e.setValueDominance(valueDominance);
			e.setTime(Long.parseLong(time));
			e.setReactTime(Long.parseLong(reactTime));

		}

		cursor.close();

		return e;
	}

	public ArrayList<SurveyBean> getSurveyList() {

		ArrayList<SurveyBean> results = new ArrayList<SurveyBean>();

		System.out.println("before get query");
		Cursor cursor = myDatabase.query(DATABASE_TABLE, new String[] { KEY_ID,
				USERID, VALUE_AROUSAL, VALUE_PLEASURE,VALUE_DOMINANCE, TIME, REACTION_TIME }, null, null, null,
				null, TIME + " ASC");

		if (cursor.moveToFirst()) {
			// Iterate over each cursor.
			System.out.println("there are elements in the cursor");
			do {
				Integer id = cursor.getInt(KEY_ID_COLUMN);
				Integer userId = cursor.getInt(USERID_COLUMN);
				Integer valueArousal = cursor.getInt(VALUE_AROUSAL_COLUMN);
				Integer valuePleasure = cursor.getInt(VALUE_PLEASURE_COLUMN);
				Integer valueDominance = cursor.getInt(VALUE_DOMINANCE_COLUMN);
				String time = cursor.getString(TIME_COLUMN);
				String reactTime = cursor.getString(REACTION_TIME_COLUMN);

				SurveyBean e = new SurveyBean();
				e.setId(id);
				e.setUserId(userId);
				e.setValueArousal(valueArousal);
				e.setValuePleasure(valuePleasure);
				e.setValueDominance(valueDominance);
				e.setTime(Long.parseLong(time));
				e.setReactTime(Long.parseLong(reactTime));
				results.add(e);

			} while (cursor.moveToNext());
		}
		cursor.close();

		System.out.println("Returning a total of " + results.size()
				+ " surveys");
		return results;
	}

	//esta función realizará un backup de los datos recogidos en un txt
	//al estar formateado con tabulaciones, este archivo será facilmente importable a excel
	//además recibe como parámetro un posible comentario en el caso de que el experimento haya sido
	//abandonado
	public String backupSurveysToSd(Context context,String comment) {

		FileOutputStream fileOutputStream = null;
		ArrayList<SurveyBean> listEncuesta;
		SurveyBean encuesta;

		Context mContext = context;

		File sd = Environment.getExternalStorageDirectory();

		SimpleDateFormat formatter = new SimpleDateFormat("dd-MM-yyyy");
		String filename = "encuestas_" + formatter.format(new Date()) +"_"+PreferencesUtil.getUserId(context)+ ".xml";

		try {
			File outputFile = new File(sd, filename);
			fileOutputStream = new FileOutputStream(outputFile);

			PrintWriter out = new PrintWriter(fileOutputStream);
			listEncuesta = getSurveyList();

			// /Primero se escribe un encabezado con todas las opciones
			// configuradas
			//out.write(PreferencesUtil.getParameterHeading(mContext));

			//guardaremos los valores obtenidos en distintos Strings, de forma que luego se escriba
			//cada parámetro en una única línea

			/*String id="ID:\t";
			String userId="\n USERID:\t";
			String value="\n VALUE:\t";
			String reactTime="\n REACT TIME:\t";
			String day="\n DAY:\t";
			String hour="\n HOUR:\t";*/
			String xml="<usuario>";

			for (int i = 0; i < listEncuesta.size(); i++) {
 				encuesta = listEncuesta.get(i);

				SimpleDateFormat dayFormatter = new SimpleDateFormat("dd/MM/yyyy");
				SimpleDateFormat hourFormatter = new SimpleDateFormat("HH:mm:ss");

				String dayToPrint = dayFormatter.format(encuesta.getTime());
				String hourToPrint= hourFormatter.format(encuesta.getTime());

				xml = xml + "<encuesta>";

					xml = xml + "<id>" +encuesta.getId() +"</id>";
					xml = xml + "<language>" +PreferencesUtil.getLanguageCode(context) +"</language>";
					xml = xml + "<userId>" +encuesta.getUserId() +"</userId>";
					xml = xml + "<valueArousal>" + encuesta.getValueArousal()+"</valueArousal>";
					xml = xml + "<valuePleasure>" +encuesta.getValuePleasure() +"</valuePleasure>";
					xml = xml + "<valueDominance>" + encuesta.getValueDominance()+"</valueDominance>";
					xml = xml + "<reactTime>"+encuesta.getReactTime()+"</reactTime>";
					xml = xml + "<day>"+dayToPrint+"</day>";
					xml = xml + "<hour>"+hourToPrint+"</hour>";
					xml = xml + "<latitude>"+EgistourDAO.instance(mContext).getLatitude(encuesta.getId())+"</latitude>";
					xml = xml + "<longitude>"+EgistourDAO.instance(mContext).getLongitude(encuesta.getId())+"</longitude>";

				xml = xml + "</encuesta>";
				/*id+=encuesta.getId()+"\t";
				userId+=encuesta.getUserId()+"\t";
				value+=getRealValue(encuesta.getValue())+"\t";
				reactTime+=encuesta.getReactTime()+"\t";
				day+=dayToPrint+"\t";
				hour+=hourToPrint+"\t";*/

				// FORMATO EN EL QUE SE VERÁ EN EL TXT
				/*out.write("ID:\t" + encuesta.getId() + "\n USERID:\t"
						+ encuesta.getUserId() + "\n VALUE:\t"
					+ getRealValue(encuesta.getValue()) + "\n REACT TIME:\t"
						+ encuesta.getReactTime() + "\n DAY:\t" + dayToPrint
						+ "\n HOUR:\t" + hourToPrint+ "\n\n");*/

			}

			xml=xml + "</usuario>";

			if (!comment.equals(""))
				out.write("Experiment abandoned because of:\t"+comment+"\n\n");

			//out.write(id+userId+value+reactTime+day+hour);
			out.println(xml);
			out.flush();
			out.close();
		} catch (IOException e) {

			Log
					.d("",
							"FileNotFoundException in backupEncuestasToSd flushing output writer");
			e.printStackTrace();

			return "Error accesing SD card";
		}

		return "SD/" + filename;
		//return "This function is deprecated";
	}

	public Float getRealValue(int value) {

		float realVal = new Float(value);

		realVal -= 50;
		realVal = realVal / 10;

		return realVal;

	}

}

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Technical Assistance and Capacity Building in International Development
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What are donors doing with regard to providing technical assistance especially in North Africa and what are the key lessons and trends?
This rapid literature review has been commissioned as an update to a previous report on technical assistance produced by the K4D programme in 2018 by Hannah Timmis. This report concentrates on technical assistance or capacity building in North Africa. This review found only one comprehensive study on technical assistance published after Timmis (2018) and a few
recent examples of capacity building in North Africa of the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region. In the international development literature, technical assistance initially entailed short term interventions to provide technical skills or research in developing countries. Technical assistanc was largely donor driven and not adapted to the local context (Wilson, 2007). In the 1990sthere was a shift away from technical assistance towards capacity building. Unlike technical assistance, capacity building focused on sustainability as well as obtaining local support for interventions (Tarp & Rosén, 2012). The following development actors engage in capacity building in North Africa. The EU supports capacity building in the security sector in Libya and sponsors public sector institutional building through twinning instruments in Algeria, Tunisia, Egypt and Morocco (European Commission, 2019). Such twinning instruments involve training and mentoring through partnerships in the civil service between EU member states and countries in North Africa. The EU supports capacity building for environmental protection in Egypt and Morocco. The African Development Bank and the World Bank support capacity building as part of public sector reform in Morocco. Various UN agencies provide capacity building to support post-war reconstruction in Libya (commonpurpose, 2011). UNESCO and the Swedish International Development Agency (SIDA) promote cultural diversity in Tunisia. The literature suggests that countries in the MENA region welcome linkages with the international development community and are supportive of partnerships with the EU and international organisations such as the Chartered Institute of Purchasing and Supply (The World Bank, 2013). Evaluations of capacity building are limited and the literature focuses on the challenges of evaluating these initiatives. Methodological difficulties and time lags are the main difficulties that undermine evaluations of technical assistance and capacity building programmes. The limited evidence suggests that technical assistance has contributed to "islands of excellence" among institutions in recipient countries (Cox & Norrington-Davies, 2019). Thus, there has been
improvement in particular sectors or institutions rather than broad-based gains in capacity.
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Ismail, Z. (2018). Technical Assistance and Capacity Building in International Development. K4D Helpdesk Report. Birmingham UK: University of Birmingham
Public Sector Reform and Capacity Building in Small Island Developing States
Institutional partnerships and twinning between civil service organisations
Donor funded alliances promoting regional cooperation
Capacity building in the Ministry of Interior in fragile and post-conflict countries


Hey there, I had some fun making felt beads this weekend. I have a stash of wool and the supplies for needle felting and I seem to get it out every few months and make a thing or two. This time I decide to make some beads. I wanted to do the technique where you make a big cane and then slice the felt with a knife when it's finished. I also wanted to make a lariat that I could embellish. I was happy with the way the cane beads came out. It was a lot of fun and I set up a little TV tray work station so I could watch some Olympics while I was felting. The lariat didn't turn out so well, but I have seen dogs toys made out of felt so I tied it up in a knot and let Otis have at it. It was hours of enjoyment, as you can see. I think next time I will make more dog toys.


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'use strict';

import type {
  Call,
  RangeBehaviors,
} from 'RelayInternalTypes';

const invariant = require('invariant');
const serializeRelayQueryCall = require('serializeRelayQueryCall');

/**
 * Return the action (prepend/append) to use when adding an item to
 * the range with the specified calls.
 *
 * Ex:
 * rangeBehaviors: `{'orderby(recent)': 'append'}`
 * calls: `[{name: 'orderby', value: 'recent'}]`
 *
 * Returns `'append'`
 */
function getRangeBehavior(
  rangeBehaviors: RangeBehaviors,
  calls: Array<Call>
): ?string {
  if (typeof rangeBehaviors === 'function') {
    const rangeFilterCalls = getObjectFromCalls(calls);
    return rangeBehaviors(rangeFilterCalls);
  } else {
    const rangeBehaviorKey =
      calls.map(serializeRelayQueryCall).sort().join('').slice(1);
    const behavior = rangeBehaviors[rangeBehaviorKey];
    if (behavior == null) {
      return null;
    }
    invariant(
      typeof behavior === 'string',
      'getRangeBehavior(): Expected range behavior for key `%s` to be a ' +
      'string, got `%s`.',
      rangeBehaviorKey,
      behavior
    );
    return behavior;
  }
}

/**
 * Returns an object representation of the rangeFilterCalls that
 * will be passed to config.rangeBehaviors
 *
 * Example:
 * calls: `[{name: 'orderby', value: 'recent'}]`
 *
 * Returns:
 * `{orderby: 'recent'}`
*/
function getObjectFromCalls(
  calls: Array<Call>
): {[argName: string]: string} {
  const behaviors = {};
  calls.forEach(call => {
    const behavior = call.value;
    invariant(
      typeof behavior === 'string',
      'getRangeBehavior(): Expected range behavior for key `%s` to be a ' +
      'string, got `%s`.',
      call.name,
      behavior
    );
    behaviors[call.name] = behavior;
  });
  return behaviors;
}

module.exports = getRangeBehavior;


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On March, the 4th and the 5th we will be at VINEXPO – New York City, joining the Wine Meridian collective stand.
The international Wine and Spirits Fair it's a trade only event that will take place at Hall 3A of the Jacob K Javits Convention Center.
Stand Number 807 | Pavillon, Premier Level.


Each of the alumni below were a part of Tennis while they attended Corcoran . Register if you would like to be listed below.
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The surprise Palme D'Or winner at this year's Cannes Film Festival, Luc and Jean-Pierre Dardenne's Rosetta boasts a piercing clarity of style and purpose that must have appealed to David Cronenberg and his contrarian jury, which also rewarded Bruno Dumont's similarly pure but impenetrable L'Humanite. Though much more severe in its jittery handheld camerawork and commitment to social realism, Rosetta sacrifices some of the rich dimension and heart of the brothers' superior breakthrough, La Promesse. But they do coax a memorably tenacious performance from non-actor Émilie Dequenne, who plays the desperate title character with such single-minded determination, she deflects all the easy sentiment and pity that's usually heaped on the underclass. Scrounging for menial labor in the bleak industrial wasteland of Seraing, Belgium, Dequenne literally fights for survival, assaulting her startled bosses to keep from losing her job. The Dardennes routinize her behavior to such a rigid degree that she's almost like a caged animal, covering the same narrow space between the city and her trailer-park home, where she tends to her helpless, alcoholic mother (Anne Yernaux). A young waffle vendor (Fabrizio Rongione) provides a brief distraction—in the film's best scene, he impresses her with a recording of his hilariously awful drum solos—but romance is the least of her priorities. In its efforts to expose social ills, Rosetta goes to impressive lengths to be as uncontrived and as far from didactic as possible, coming about as close as a fiction film can to being an anthropological study. Fortunately, the Dardennes have found an instinctive and fascinating new screen presence in the wild-eyed, irrepressible Duquenne, who shoulders the film to a poignant conclusion.


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Education key to achieving a "zero waste" Scotland
Guest author, Jamie Mckenzie, writes how official statistics on household waste by the Scottish Environmental Protection Agency (SEPA) continue to reflect the Scottish Government's drive towards achieving Scotland's ambitious waste goals.
Household waste regulation is a critical component of the Scottish Government's Zero Waste Plan. This is a waste policy strategy launched in 2010 with a vision for changing the individual, public and business mind-set towards viewing all municipal waste as a potential resource, not a dormant by-product of our activities.
Jamie Mckenzie
Waste from households contributes only a 14.5% of Scotland's total waste, with the remainder produced by the construction industry (43%) and the industrial and commercial sectors (39.5%).
The figures released by SEPA show that Scotland's local authorities recycled 43.6% of the total household waste they collected between July 2011 and September 2011 – unchanged from the previous quarter for the whole of Scotland.
Scotland remains on track to achieving the municipal recycling and composting target set out in the Zero Waste Plan of 50% by 2013. By 2020, the target is 60%. But the Scottish government's aspirations lie in being able to achieve an overall recycling and composting level of 70% with a maximum of 5% landfill for all Scottish waste by 2025.
The SEPA figures also showed variation occurring between individual authorities with regard to household recycling and composting rates. Some of the more positive cases included Perth & Kinross, (57%) Stirling (57.6%), East Renfrewshire (58.7%), and Fife (57.8%) Clearly, these areas show real promise, indicating that there is a real propensity for individuals in the rest of Scotland to recycle more at home and help Scotland reach its overall municipal waste recycling targets.
The SEPA figures shed some fresh light on the overall need for the Scottish government to stand by its mission set out in the Zero Waste Plan, that is, using education to change attitudes towards viewing waste as a resource rather than a problem by echoing the three step mantra – reduce, reuse, recycle.
Reducing the demand on primary resources will reduce extraction processes and save energy. Reusing products such as books, toys or clothes instead of sending them to landfill helps mitigate climate impacts by reducing the amount of methane emitted. And by recycling, waste materials can be reprocessed in to products or substances, which often requires less energy than creating something new from raw materials. And, of course, organic materials can be composted.
By living up to its individual responsibility to reduce, reuse and recycle, Scotland can help meet the critical targets set out by The Climate Change (Scotland) Act 2009 of reducing greenhouse gas emissions by 42% by 2020 and by 80% by 2050.
In addition, waste unsuitable for reuse or recycling can be broken down through anaerobic digestion and used to supply electricity to the grid in the form of bio-energy. This can help contribute to the SNP's target of generating 100% gross annual electricity consumption from renewable energy by 2020.
Taking those simple steps at home can bring real environmental and economic benefits– and a Zero Waste Scotland will also mean that businesses can reduce costs and operate more efficiently, while turning recovered materials in to high-quality products for market. This would help Scottish businesses and industries gain a competitive advantage and boost sustainable economic growth.
Through Government-funded programmes like Zero Waste Scotland, specific information is being supplied for individuals, communities and businesses on how to lower their environmental footprint. At home for instance, the love food hate waste campaign is a useful initiative that aims to raise awareness of the environmental and economic impact of food waste by providing practical hints and advice about how to reduce it.
The Zero Waste Scotland Volunteer Programme also helps train local volunteers and communities to take action together and make a vital contribution towards achieving the target of reducing waste to landfill to 5% by 2025.
On March 8, it was announced that the headquarters of the UK's Green Investment Bank (GIB) will be based in Edinburgh, bolstering Scotland's role in the UK's transition towards a green economy. In addition to financing Scotland's renewable energy projects, the £3 billion windfall of public money made available by the bank can support programmes like Zero Waste Scotland to educate more individuals and businesses about how to manage waste more usefully as a resource.
The Government must continue to focus on strengthening its efforts on delivering education about how to reduce, reuse and recycle in order to change individual attitudes and behaviours. In addition, integrating this effectively in to schools to give young people the information they need to make decisions on how they can help save the environment is essential.
The household recycling figures released by SEPA show that Scottish people are taking the Scottish governments drive towards a zero waste society seriously – but work must still be done – not just to continue educating individuals but to also ensure that businesses and organizations in the commercial sector are upholding their corporate responsibilities when it comes down to making their business practices sustainable.
If you, like Scotland, want to hit the target of 100% renewable energy for your home or business, you can achieve it well before 2025. Contact Good Energy to find out more.
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You will have noticed that Chelsea's punishment for poaching Lens teenager Gael Kakuta was handed down by FIFA's Dispute Resolution Chamber. It's time that the fine work of this important body gained wider recognition. We have them to thank for intervening in a sticky dispute with the Post Office about overseas mailing a few years ago. A terse call from Sepp Blatter in the middle of the night was all it took. They're firm but fair.
"With reference to the recent WSC article on poor subtitling, last Sunday I was watching Aston Villa v Fulham on Match of the Day 2 with the subtitles on when the commentator mentioned that Dempsey got in front of Agbonlahor to get his header in. The subtitles, however, stated with some authority that 'Dempsey got in front of a pommel horse...'. It's not even a good guess. If you weren't sure you heard 'Agbonlahor', why would you guess the Fulham forward had been jostling for position in the box with a piece of gym equipment? These people are nuts."
As anyone with an old Subbuteo catalogue will know, Palermo were once the only team in Europe to play in pink – excluding those whose white shirts were mistakenly chucked in the wash with a red towel. The club originally wore red and blue halves in imitation of Genoa, the most successful team in the early days of Italian football. But they decided on a change because several other clubs had the same idea; their first set of pink (rosa) shirts were imported from England in 1907. Everton had "salmon" shirts for one season in 1890-91 and brought them back in a change kit with blue stripes in the early 1990s. Portsmouth wore the colour for a decade after being founded in 1898 and have also revived it as a second strip. More recently, Oldham were kitted out in luminous pink for one match, against Leeds in February 2009, as part of a fundraising effort for a local hospital.
Last week's Howl suggested that Robbie Savage's column in the Daily Mirror is the worst by a current or former player. But we were overlooking Neil "Razor" Ruddock's efforts for the free London Paper, tattered copies of which are strewn daily across buses and trains throughout the capital. This is Neil's take on the unsettled David Bentley: "I don't know Bentley personally but maybe he got too cocky for his own good after his £15 million move from Blackburn last year. Harry Redknapp is no mug and wouldn't be letting the player go if he felt he could do the business for him. So something has obviously happened." Yes, that'll be it.
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Building Relationships at the College of New Jersey with Community Policing
The College of New Jersey's police chief explains the benefits of his department's CLEAR unit.
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Community policing is a critical component of college campus law enforcement. When campuses embrace this type of approach, it enables their police departments to develop and maintain relationships with everyone on campus, especially with communities that historically have had challenging experiences with law enforcement.
Because of this, the College of New Jersey has implemented its Community Law Enforcement Affirmative Relations (CLEAR) Unit.
In this interview, I speak with Tim Grant, who is the College of New Jersey's chief of Campus Police Services, as well as one of this year's Campus Safety Director of the Year finalists.
Grant explains that there is a growing need for community policing or CLEAR units on college campuses.
"We're at a place in policing now where we need to build relationships, and New Jersey has the most diverse population in the country," he says. "On college campuses, there is a growing population of non-traditional students, first generation students and we've had a spike in mental health concerns."
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The school's CLEAR Unit helps the campus police department to more effectively communicate and work with with the wide variety of individuals on campus, including members of the African American, Muslim, Sikh, Asian, Latino and LGBTQ+ communities. Grant and his team have also added training on unconscious bias incidents, mental health first aid, suicide, resiliency, de-escalation and more.
Grant says service, respect and dignity are core values of his department.
"We are the community caregivers on campus," he says. "Police officers have a heart for public service. With every applicant that I interview to be a police officer, we ask why they want to be in police work, and they all say the same thing: 'I want to help people.' And my answer is, 'You came to the right place because that's what we do here.'"
In his interview, Grant explains what CLEAR is and the overall results of his school's community policing efforts.
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Robin has been covering the security and campus law enforcement industries since 1998 and is a specialist in school, university and hospital security, public safety and emergency management, as well as emerging technologies and systems integration. She joined CS in 2005 and has authored award-winning editorial on campus law enforcement and security funding, officer recruitment and retention, access control, IP video, network integration, event management, crime trends, the Clery Act, Title IX compliance, sexual assault, dating abuse, emergency communications, incident management software and more. Robin has been featured on national and local media outlets and was formerly associate editor for the trade publication Security Sales & Integration. She obtained her undergraduate degree in history from California State University, Long Beach.
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Let me start off this post by stating that I love my children. I love spending time with them for 359 days out of the year (give or take.) But there was a time when I was not the happiest mom on the planet…far from it! I was cranky, tired and the people around me felt that negativity. Something had to give so one cold February in 2011, my husband was stressed to limit with work and I was a witchy crank so we planned a trip. Just the two of us. WITHOUT KIDS! Scandalous, right? I know, I was feeling a slight pang of guilt when we started to plan this trip and I was worried that the girls would miss us, but we were all VERY pleasantly surprised to see that none of that occurred when the time came around for our vacation.
If you need a retreat where you can recharge your batteries, catch up with your spouse and feel like yourself again instead of whoever it is you feel you turn into when it gets to be too much, then here are some tips to help you plan a vacation to anticipate before and dream about long after you have come back to reality. The picture above and further below are from our first vacation alone together since our children were born. We went to Los Cabos, Mexico.
Don't Tell Mom The Babysitter's Dead- The most important question is: Who will be caring for my children while we are away? This is crucial and for my husband and me, we were fortunate enough to have my mom watch them for six days. It's a 6 hour trek for her to drive from Minnesota to Illinois, but she loves spending time with the girls and vice versa. If one set of grandparents is busy or not able to watch them the whole time, reach out to other family members like your aunts, uncles and cousins. Or even try breaking up the time between relatives so that the kids aren't wearing everybody out while you are gone. If family is not an option, plan your trip way, way out, like a year. Try using a babysitter recommended through friends or neighbors for a few date nights and see how your kids feel about him or her. Work up to an overnight trip to see how things go and then see if you feel comfortable leaving for a long weekend. It may take time, but you will get to a point where you trust them enough for 4-5 days.
Find Someone To Help With The Help– If you have the option of using family, try this idea. I hired a babysitter to come by in the afternoon when things began to get a little whiny, between 3 and 6 so that my mom could get a small break and prepare dinner, if needed. The girls had fun playing games with someone new and were less likely to act up.
Plan, Plan,Plan– This is what moms do best. We think of every possible scenario and the last thing you want to mull over while sipping a cocktail by the pool is whether you left the phone number for your pediatrician in a prominent spot. If the kids are very small and somewhat picky eaters then lay out a menu. (A sample menu will be in my next post.) I left money for things like ordering a pizza or going out for ice cream a few nights too. Have a small first aid kit handy, important phone numbers including your hotel, your flight information and nap and bedtime schedules written down.
Groceries– Get some fun foods for the kids to eat while you're away like mini containers of Edy's ice cream or the small cereal boxes that come in a pack of 10. Our job is to make sure they eat healthy foods most of the time, but the babysitter can have the glory of letting them indulge for a few days.
Souvenir– Of course you can't go somewhere and come home empty-handed so this probably goes without saying that you should pick up one or two small things you think the kids will appreciate.
Call Me, Maybe– My husband and I still have memories of when our own parents took the annual vacations without kids and whenever they called, that's when we realized how much we missed them and the waterworks started. It's not a bad idea to check in once or twice, but we prefer to keep it at that and totally immerse ourselves into our vacation. After all, you are taking it to relax, but if you call and find out that Toby spilled his juice all over the floor or Timmy got a boo-boo, you will be stressing about a sticky floor or lamenting that you are not there to kiss it and make it better. In the grand scheme of things, everyone will survive for 5 days that you are away. Unplug and unwind.
Now my husband and I look forward to planning our own vacation each year. We are closer as a result. Our children see that too and feel more secure knowing that Mom and Dad love each other more than ever. Oh, and cranky Mom? She still shows up sometimes, but it's nothing a good workout or a night out with a few drinks can't fix. Go on and plan your own trip. This is a challenge I am throwing out there to you. Let me know where you end up planning to go.
Another favorite winery that we visited in Napa was Del Dotto.
This winery gave off an entirely different and albeit, wonderful vibe. When we walked in the patrons were mostly young and friendly as were the staff. My husband and I were happy to do a tasting at the bar and sample some cheeses, but eventually went on the cave tour and I am so glad that we did.
I knew then that this wasn't just a general member of the staff, but I suppressed the urge to ask any questions.
We walked into the dimly lit caves and learned that they were built in the late 1800s by Chinese laborers. Our guide pointed out the pick ax marks on the wall that also had some funky moss and tiny stalactites hanging from above. Edgar Allen Poe's The Tell-Tale Heart kept popping into my head.
Another couple joined us and introduced themselves and that's when our guide told us his name, Giovanni. I finally asked if he was related to the Del Dotto's and discovered that he's their son. His sister is also working for the family business. Tada!
The first wines we tried were a 2012 Cabernet. I have heard many times that 2012 was a great year because the weather was superb and created perfect growing conditions for the grapes. The same Cabernet was stored in an American oak barrel and a French oak barrel. You could taste the difference right away; either that or I was growing far too confident as a result of tasting so much wine. I prefer the former. The French oak tasted (to me) like cocoa and coffee. The American oak was like smoked meat. Amazing how different the same wine can taste by storing it in different wooden barrels.
There was an example of what the inside of the barrels looked like on display. I was surprised and fascinated to see that the barrels had rivets running through the inside instead of a smooth surface. More surface area and more opportunity for the wine to take on flavor is my assumption.
To sample the wine, Giovanni used a wine thief. Way better than my term: wine dispenser. My husband and I share a sense of humor that is probably equivalent to a 12-year old so our thoughts went to a bad place very quickly when we saw the wine thief. Giovanni saw our smirks and mentioned it was nothing compared to a bachelorette party he gave a tour to once. I can just imagine.
We went on to sample ten more wines. Some favorites were MO/FO. Stands for Missouri Oak/French Oak. Now you have the dirty mind. See what happens when you hang out with me for too long!? I also found that I loved the Pinot Noir Clone Latache. The Pinots out in Napa are called the Cabernet drinker's Pinot. My husband really liked the Fort Ross-Seaview Sonoma Coast Syrah.
While we finished sampling our wine, Giovanni brought out some cheese and amazing cured meats made (of course) by his family who also happen to have a chartucerie. One last interesting fact that we learned about Del Dotto's wine is that after the grapes are picked, each stem and raisin is discarded leaving nothing but the perfect fruit behind. Also, they never press their grapes. Instead, they allow the grape juices to naturally drain.
Let's not forget the disco ball. The disco ball was actually Giovanni's father's idea. At the end of the workday, they change the music over from classical to pop and the place turns into a private sort of nightclub for the employees to let loose. How awesome does that sound?
Giovanni, thank you for an outstanding tour. When we come back to Napa we will be visiting your winery's other location in St Helena. Until then, we wish you and your family the very best.
My husband and I went to Napa Valley over Valentine's weekend. One of our favorite wineries there was Pride.
Imagine driving up a very narrow, very steep hill that stretches on for miles. Huge, moody foothill pines, coast redwoods and black oaks create a mystical and enchanted forest-like atmosphere as you drive up. Couple that with the mist and cloud cover surrounding the area and you know you're about to experience something amazing.
The mist began to turn into big heavy drops of rain when we reached the Pride sign which welcomed us as we entered the driveway of the vineyard.
The vineyard looked a bit like the Scottish Highlands, except for the vines of course. It was interesting to learn that the vineyard is located in both the Napa and St Helena regions with the property line neatly splitting down a perfectly planted row of vines. Separation is important in the labeling and bottling so that consumers know whether they are buying a Napa wine or a St Helena one. I began to wonder if it really made a difference. Looking at all the wineries with their vineyards planted so closely together, how different could they really all be in taste?
This is where our wine expert, Andy filled me in on the different soils in the area. Apparently, there are over 60 different types of soil in the world and the Napa region contains over 30 of them. These different soil textures, volcanic rock, marine, etc are just one component that have an impact in overall taste during the winemaking process.
We then made our way into the caves where the barrels of wine are stored. Andy let us try a few of the wines in the cave using a handy wine tap. I need one of those in my house!
We ended the tour in a private room reserved for guests allowed to sample more wines paired with cheeses. My husband's eyes lit up when he saw this room because it screams our taste to a tea: wood paneling, buttery leather chairs, rustic wooden tables. Ah, heaven! The picture above does not do the room justice. We will definitely be back with friends to reserve that room. Thank you Pride. See you soon…but not soon enough.


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The Heffing reality: why Michael Hefele will go down as a cult icon at Town for a whole generation of fans
In many ways, some might argue that centre-back Michael Hefele was already a cult hero at Town before he kicked a ball.
After signing for Town from his boyhood club Dynamo Dresden in the summer of 2016, Town fans had already developed an emotional attachment to the player thanks to his antics on a megaphone surrounded by Dresden fans in a now infamous video on YouTube.
Fans immediately connected to the way he interacted with those fans. His chanting within close proximity to the fans demonstrated a genuine passion and a human side we rarely see in our British counterparts, who are often mechanically constructed through rigorous media training that produces banal soundbites and engineers players to show as little emotion and as little of an opinion as possible for fear of rocking the boat. 'The Hef' didn't seem to adhere to those stereotypes.
This laid-back, jovial and mischievous character was later confirmed during a pre-season video where during an interview with then new signing Danny Ward, Hef photobombed the interview, strolling through the background in nothing but a large white dressing gown and some shades on. In that moment I think most fans fell in love.
However, it was not until one fateful Tuesday night at Villa Park towards the beginning of the season where we saw a moment of magic or madness depending on what team you supported on the night. As we were inching towards a hard-fought but unfortunate 1-0 defeat to newly relegated Aston Villa, Midfielder Aaron Mooy punted a hopeful long ball upfield for someone to chase. Having just come on as an auxiliary striker, Hef duly chased it down with 99.9% of fans expecting the keeper to clear the ball and for the game to peter out into disappointment. How wrong we were.
After busting a gut to chase the ball down, Hef jumped and turned away from the ball and the ball duly rebounded off his backside and into the back of the Villa net, sending the traveling fans into delirium. One of the most bizarre goals that Town have ever and will ever score, might just have been the catalyst for the utterly magic promotion winning season we have just had.
Hef also made his mark on several other games with important goals, notably against Rochdale when he came on as a second-half substitute and scored twice to kill off a very spirited Rochdale performance. But his most important contribution and one which elevated him from fans favourite into cult icon was undoubtedly his last minute winner in the local derby against Leeds and his subsequent antics that followed.
In hindsight, this was a crucial goal not only in securing Town's playoff spot but also in derailing Leeds's campaign. To cap it off, in his post-match interview, ever-honest Hef described the moment as a 'Fucking dream'. The shock and amazement at this Freudian slip sent tidal waves across social media with his slip of the tongue becoming the catch-word for our unforgettable season and a cheeky chant to spur the players on in games in times of need, albeit with a family-friendly amendment for related merchandise.
We also easily forget that Hef did not become a regular feature of the team until several months into the season thanks to the excellent performances of Mark Hudson which helped us stay top of the league for several weeks, a period some Town fans all too easily forget. In this time, he never once complained and always publicly backed the team both on the sidelines and in interviews. But when he did break into the side, he was an ever-present alongside Christopher Schindler and they formed a largely imperious defence that was the catalyst for the majority of our victories, which often were earned by one goal margins.
Whilst not as graceful on the ball as human Rolls-Royce Schindler, Hef's footballing qualities are often under-rated by some Town fans. He has shown great calm and composure throughout the season as well as being the starting point for many attacks. Notable examples include the world-class goal that was scored by Nakhi Wells in the away game at Queens Park Rangers which he started as well as performances in the play-off semi-finals against Sheffield Wednesday and final against Reading.
In the playoffs, teams tried to counter our passing game by cutting off the time and space Schindler was afforded and force the Town attacks to be started by Hef. However, he was more than up to the task and acquitted himself excellently. He also gives great balance to the centre of our defence, providing the toughness, visceral strength and organizational skills that are needed to form a strong defensive unit whilst being a clear leader on the field and regularly barking encouragement or orders to players when he needs to.
His performances in the playoffs were imperious and he made several goal-saving tackles, interceptions or blocks with Sky Sports awarding him the Man of the Match for the away leg at Hillsborough.
The most important reason why I and many others, view the Hef as their favourite Town player for many years is his character and the work he has done off the field to support the club. It is very rare you see a professional football player feel so at ease in his own skin and not be afraid to be himself 100%.
If I was a young kid watching Town and seen his antics, that would have had a huge influence on me that I too could be as loud or expressive as I want and be rewarded and praised for it. Young fans are flocking to our club at levels I have never seen before and players like Hef have been massive to achieving that. In a world where players seem to be increasingly being produced in the same robotics factory, this personality trait cannot be overstated.
Maverick is often the phrase people use for players like this but that sometimes has negative connotations with players who spit their dummy out when they are dropped, showboat for the sake of showboating or falling out with managers over wage demands. Champion would be the word I'd use for Hef. He has carried out community work for the Town Foundation, visiting schools who are part of our free breakfast programme, delivered talks to youngsters who might now be inspired to become professional footballers or just to help them become good people and he always has time for fans, even visiting cancer wards at the local hospital for fans whose unfortunate circumstances mean they have not seen him play live in the flesh.
Whilst some fans unfairly seem to think he might not be good enough for the Premier League, what this season should have taught everyone is that this group of players are a very special bunch and deserve the chance to show us what they can do in the 'promised land'.
I for one, cannot wait to see what he can do and a 'Hefele 44' new kit purchase will be one of the first things I do when it's released. Hef showed all of us that there really are no limits for this club of ours and that a Heffing dream, with hard work, determination and heart can become a Heffing reality.
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Gary Eastwood June 24, 2017 at 7:17 pm
This is a great read mate. I try to avoid most on-line stuff about Town (and football in general). Hef is a true legend for all the reasons you rightly state and no journalist would able to understand or articulate it the way you have. I have supported Town all my life and there aren't too many players who have achieved a relationship like his with supporters. His goal against Villa was my favourite of the season, I had bruises on my shins for about three weeks after!


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Iran to Boost Uranium Enrichment After Scientist Assassination
Iranian Defense Ministry via AP
Gabrielle Reyes
Iran's parliament on Tuesday voted for a draft bill that, if adopted, would require the Islamic Republic to boost its nuclear enrichment program, producing "at least 120 kg of 20-percent enriched uranium annually," Iran's state-run Press TV reported.
The draft bill calls for the batch of uranium to be produced by the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran (AEOI) and stored inside the country within two months of the law's adoption.
Press TV quoted Abolfazl Amooei, the spokesman for the Iranian Parliament's National Security and Foreign Policy Committee, as saying that the plan is designed to "open the locks" placed on Iran's nuclear program by the international community and "advance the goals of nuclear martyrs such as Mohsen Fakhrizadeh."
Tehran has accused Israel of using "electronic devices" to remotely kill Fakhrizadeh, a top Iranian nuclear scientist and security official, on November 27.
"The country's nuclear program must proceed according to the needs of our country. When the plan is approved, we expect that it (the nuclear program) will be strengthened and developed, and that this trend will accelerate," Amooei said during Tuesday's open parliamentary session.
The draft bill's proposal aims to make the imposition of sanctions on Iran by the West a "costly" measure, Amooei added.
The law, should it be approved, would also "require the Iranian administration to suspend more commitments under a 2015 multilateral nuclear deal," Press TV reported, referring to the 2015 Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA).
Iran signed the nuclear agreement in 2015 along with the U.S., U.K., France, Germany, Russia, and China. The accord offered Tehran billions of dollars in sanctions relief if it abided by commitments to curb its nuclear proliferation. Since the JCPOA's signing, Iran has repeatedly reneged on commitments it made under the pact. U.S. President Donald Trump's administration exited the JCPOA in 2018 in response to Tehran's violation of the accord's terms. Trump's administration has since reimposed economic sanctions on Iran designed to deter its nuclear proliferation.
The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) revealed on November 11 that Iran has stockpiled an amount of low-enriched uranium twelve times greater than the legal limit allowed under the 2015 JCPOA. According to the IAEA, Iran has continued to enrich uranium to a purity of up to 4.5 percent, which is in violation of the 3.67 percent threshold allowed under the JCPOA.
"As of November 2, the nuclear watchdog said that Iran had a stockpile of 2,442.9kg (5,385.7 pounds) of low-enriched uranium, up from 2,105.4kg (4,641.6 pounds) reported on August 25. The nuclear deal Iran signed in 2015 with world powers allowed it only to keep a stockpile of 202.8kg (447 pounds)," Al Jazeera reported after seeing the IAEA report.
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