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Mount Hood, about 60 miles from Portland, is Oregon's highest point and a popular year-round recreation destination. During the winter, the mountain is blanketed with snow, but in the summer months Mount Hood's many lakes offer a wealth of recreation opportunities, including several beaches that are ideal for swimming. The nearest city to the lakes is Government Camp, a mountain village where groceries, gas, restaurants and hotel accommodations can be found. Visitors should note that most of the lakes can be quite cold early in the summer. Parking passes are required at all day use areas for the lakes and are available at Mount Hood National Forest Ranger Stations and on-site.
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The largest lake in the Mount Hood National Forest is Timothy Lake, a 2-square-mile reservoir on the Clackamas River, just 20 miles from Government Camp. The most extensive selection of swimming areas on the mountain can be found at Timothy Lake's four campgrounds, each offering a day use area where grassy beaches and boat docks provide access to the water. Timothy Lake's facilities include tent and RV campsites, vault toilets and potable water. After a swim at the lake, you might also enjoy hiking on the 13-mile lake loop, or going fishing or sailing.
Clear Lake, another of the large lakes in the Mount Hood National Forest, provides ample space for non-motorized boating, sailing, fishing and swimming. Swimmers can access the water from the grassy shoreline or from the dock at the day-use area. Clear Lake is 13 miles from Government Camp and is located at 3,600 feet in elevation where steady breezes and shady tree-lined shores offer a cool summer retreat. The lake's campground features tent and RV sites, vault toilets and potable water for drinking.
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Swimmers will find beaches and docks for swimming at Trillium Lake, just four miles from Government Camp. The lake is located just off Highway 26, the main route to Mount Hood, and is popular throughout the year, for cross-country skiing and snowshoeing in the winter, and canoeing and fishing in the summer. Trillium Lake also offers RV and tent campsites, a day use area, potable water and vault toilets. In addition to being a favorite swimming hole, Trillium Lake receives fame as a popular destination for photographers for its views of Mount Hood.
The closest swimming beaches to Government Camp are just two miles from town, but require a little extra effort, as they can only be accessed via a 1.4-mile trail to Mirror Lake. This small lake is a Mount Hood favorite in summer and winter, offering spectacular views of the mountain and its mirrored image, reflected in the lake's surface. To reach the lake, follow the trail mile until you arrive at bridge on the east shore, where you'll find a picnic area and a grassy beachfront. There are no campgrounds at Mirror Lake, but back-country camping sites are available for overnight hikers taking the 6.2-mile loop trail up to Tom, Dick and Harry Peak.
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Endowments play a key role in the missions of many universities and non-profits. Here's how they work
Choncé Maddox
Universities including Harvard, Yale, and Stanford have some of the largest endowments.
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An endowment is a fund made up of donations that help support the work of universities and non-profit organizations.
Endowments are typically managed so that only the earnings are spent, not the principal, so the money never runs out.
Many colleges and universities pay a 1.4% excise tax on their endowments' net investment earnings.
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An endowment is a pool of money, made up mainly of donations, invested in a way that produces income to support the mission and work of a university or non-profit organization. Endowments grow over time with interest, dividends, and capital appreciation. Some of the earnings can be distributed during the year to help meet the organization's financial needs.
While an endowment can be an excellent way to secure permanent funds for the future, it's not always the best option for non-profits. Donors also need to carefully consider which endowment they choose and be fully aware of how it operates.
How do endowments work?
Endowments are designed as assets that can grow and provide steady funding over time. A university may start an endowment fund to better help serve students and staff by providing programs and ongoing resources. Most endowments exist in perpetuity which means the money is set up to last forever.
Donors can contribute funds to the endowment, which are then put into equities, bonds, and other investments. Most times, the principal balance remains in the endowment to preserve it. Then, each year a fixed portion of the endowment is paid as an annual distribution to fund important expenses for the organization.
"Oftentimes, donors can restrict their financial gift to dedicate it to a specific purpose, like a scholarship fund for example," says Emily Weisgrau, a fundraising communications consultant with more than 25 years of non-profit experience. "As a result, the institution is legally bound to both use it for the intended purpose and ensure that funds will be available for that purpose in perpetuity."
Endowment funds tend to have more conservative investment policies than other funds since they follow a strict set of long-term guidelines for asset allocation in order to yield a targeted return without taking on added risk.
"Every organization has different endowment investment policies but what they have in common is a focus on long-term growth with limited distributions," says Weisgrau. "In this way, endowments are more like retirement accounts than savings accounts."
Types of endowments
There are four main types of endowments:
Restricted endowment
In a restricted endowment, the principal is held in perpetuity and can't be spent. Meanwhile, the earnings from the invested principal can only be used according to the donors' specified purposes. Restricted endowments are also referred to as "true endowments" and have written agreements to restrict the usage of the funds.
Unrestricted endowment
An unrestricted endowment is when the funds can be spent at the discretion of the organization receiving the gift. There are also little to no restrictions as to how the funds can be saved and invested.
Term endowment
Unlike other types of endowments, a term endowment is not designed to last forever. Instead, it is set up for a limited timeframe, such as a fixed number of years or until a specific event takes place. After a term endowment expires, the contributed principal amount can be used to fund the organization's operations in any way.
Quasi-endowment
A quasi-endowment is established and funded by the institution itself, not by donors. This means the principal and income can be used as the organization sees fit. The board of directors is able to decide how to use the funds and can end restrictions at any time.
For example, if it's decided that the organization should fund a project like a new museum, funds can be drawn from a quasi-endowment to complete this project. Whereas with a restricted endowment, there are specific limitations to how the endowments funds can be utilized based on the donor's preferences.
Who creates endowments?
Endowments can be created by any non-profit organization. However, they are most common among colleges and universities, foundations, trusts, and charities. Because most endowments don't allow the principal amount to be spent, the fund continues to grow long-term and some reach billions of dollars.
Universities also have the largest endowments. The value of Harvard's, for example, grew to $53.2 billion in the fiscal year ending in June 2021, according to its annual financial report. Yale said its endowment ended the fiscal year with assets totaling $42.3 billion after earning more than a 40% return.
Quick tip: College and university endowments should publicly release annual reports detailing expenses and what the fund's earnings were used for. This can be a helpful resource if you've donated to a fund and would like to hold the organization accountable, or simply to see the impact your donation has had on its work.
Tax treatment of endowments
Because non-profits are tax-exempt, their endowments are too. However, in 2017, a tax policy change imposed a 1.4% excise tax on net investment earnings of many college and university endowments. The tax applies to colleges and universities with $500,000 or more in endowment funds per student.
"The rationale behind this change was mainly to generate additional federal revenues and promote university endowments to support additional spending on tuition for students," says Hayley A Wood, a Wealth Planner at Signature Estate & Investment Advisors. "Thus, this could help offset the growing national student debt concerns."
Donating money to an endowment can not only make a difference in an organization's work and reach, but it can also qualify you for an income-tax deduction or credit for making a charitable contribution.
Endowment giving appeals to donors because it's a way to ensure an important cause or favorite organization is supported in perpetuity. If you're going to donate money to an endowment, you may want to specify what the funds will be used for in a written agreement if you have preferences. Giving this way can be both a win for you and the organization if you're able to take advantage of charitable tax deductions.
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The Crescents neighborhood is scenically located in Central Regina and borders the River Heights neighborhood to the West, the Cathedral neighborhood to the North, the Lakeview neighborhood to the South and Wascana Centre to the East.
This neighborhood was officially first approved for development in 1912 although some of the homes still standing in the area predate that approval. Most of the construction in the area was completed prior to the 1940's with some in-fills popping up since then. The Crescents neighborhood gets its name due to 3 prominent crescents in the area – Leopold Crescent, Angus Crescent, and Connaught Crescent which all have a central radius on The Crescents School. The school was built and opened in 1929 on a former race track grounds and originally named "Davin School" at that time, however, following modern re-evaluation of the legacy of the school's namesake, Nicholas Flood Davin, the school was renamed in 2018. Wascana Creek runs right through the neighborhood and there are some great pathways around the creek for residents to enjoy when biking, walking or running. The beautiful Kiwanis Park is also found in the South-West corner of the neighborhood and features a majestic sunken waterfall, loads of great picnic spots and the Kiwanis Little League Regina baseball diamonds. The park is hugely popular with both locals and any people visiting the area, and the scenic waterfall area is quite often used as a back drop for graduation and wedding photos. You can read all about the history of the development of Kiwanis park here. There are several other smaller parks in the Crescents neighborhood that also feature great walking paths, basketball courts, and entertaining play structures for the kids.
Here is a link to a free walking tour you can enjoy anytime! The Crescents neighborhood is snuggled serenely into a quaint residential area nestled at the bottom of a majestic urban forest. A long history of doctors, lawyers, and other affluent professional residents, have preserved some of the nicest and best maintained pre-war homes in Regina. The Crescents neighborhood was featured as 1 of 12 best old neighborhoods of Canada in 2011 by This Old House.


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FirstMate is a growing Canadian manufacturer of cat and dog foods. One of their major differentiators is their use of a Vacuum Infusion System (VIS) in the production of their high quality canned and kibble pet food diets. FirstMate needed a way to explain their use of this innovative and specialized machine in a way that was easy for viewers to understand.
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What is the health plan for 2019? What does President Muhammadu Buhari plan to do for health if re-elected?
Some things have dramatically changed. We are going to see new innovations. We are going to see Mr. President flagging off the Basic Healthcare Provision Fund (BHPF), which is unique. The BHPF is in the National Health Act (NHC) but the implementation is unique. The President actually signed the 2018 appropriation N55.1 billion for the BHPF. Minister of Finance has graciously approved 25 per cent of the money to kick-start the process.
But it has not been released?
No. It has been released to us. We have transferred it to the Central Bank account.
No. Not yesterday. It was released about a week ago.
How would you know? You wont know?
But the latest information about 48 hours ago is that it has not been released?
It has been released, 25 per cent of the money.
But there is a differential. In this new 2019 appropriation I heard it is about N50.1 billion less than that of 2018?
No. It is still N55.1 billion. And what is also different in 2019 is that government has also approved N22.8 billion for vaccine production because we signed a commitment to GAVI (global vaccine alliance) that over the next ten years Nigeria will gradually increase the funding allocation to vaccine administration by 10 per cent every year so that in 2028 Nigeria will take full responsibility for immunization of our children. So GAVI extended the transition period, which is normally five years. But for the first time taking into consideration of Mr. President, and the strong performance of the Federal Ministry of Health (FMoH) and our agencies, the National Primary Health Care Development Agency (NPHCDA), GAVI has graciously approved the extension that transition over a ten-year period. So we have N22.8 billion in 2019 for vaccine and N55.1 billion for BHPF.
Is it for just procurement of vaccines or for the local manufacture that the country is planning?
No the local manufacture is a Public Private Initiative (PPI). They have not started so we cannot put money in 2019 budget for them.
What are we going to see in 2019 in terms of reviving the health sector?
What you are going to see in 2019 is that we will now move money directly from central bank to primary health care (PHC) facility. Each PHC will get money for commodity, maintenance and for human resources. This is the first time it has ever happened in this country.
How was it funded before?
Nothing. They were left alone. They were orphans. That was why they collapsed. What we have done is to say we knew what happened in the past. In the past under Ibrahim Badamosi Babangida (IBB) and when Olikoye Ransome Kuti was the Minister of Health, PHC was revitalized across the country but there was no mechanism for keeping them alive. It was like you delivered a baby and you gave them the first food and there was nothing else to keep the baby going, and they collapsed. So two years ago we started with the concept of revitalizing the PHC. Although it is not our responsibility as the Federal Government (FG), it is the responsibility of the Local Government Area (LGA), but if don't do it the health system will not take shape, people will rush to the teaching hospitals and everybody will complain, "We waited there for hours." That is not where they were ought to go. So we are working in partnership with our partners, the state governments, to make sure that the PHC will be okay and that money will go to the PHCs. That will also be the incentive of getting the Governors to make sure that their PHCs are in order. In fact what we are saying if you look at the guideline, the states are supposed to contribute 25 per cent of the money but that money should be used to put their PHCs in good shape. Osun has started, they said they are going to do 332 PHCs in Osun and the Governor is personally taking charge. Kaduna has done 225 and the Governor is in-charge. So things are moving. Working with our partners we have done over 4,000. Many of the state governments are writing to us now that they are ready.
So that means you could not meet the target of 10,000 PHCs?
No. There was not such. The target of refurbishing 10,000 had no deadline. It was a vision. It was even at minimum. Osun has over 900 PHCs. We said no don't go for 900 just make sure your 332 are working because it was a vision of one per political zone. It was a vision that if we can get 10,000 PHCs working, we can deliver basic health care to about 100 million Nigerians. What do we mean by basic care? When they are pregnant they can deliver and then we can also take care of their delivery even if it by operation it will be free. So delivery will become free for Nigerians. We treat them for malaria free. We give them malaria nets especially pregnant women and children. We will give vaccine free. We will give family planning free.
How can that be sustainable?
That is why the BHPF is there. We will also use that to build up the insurance scheme. We are going to say anybody that comes in they will be registered and we are saying the states should also start the state health insurance scheme. So we are going to use that opportunity the BHPF to ram up the provision of basic care to our people, we will use it to revitalize the National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS) so that across the country people do not have to pay for health care when they are in need.
That brings us to the question of the NHIS. Since 2005 when President Olusegun Obasanjo launched it till now we don't have more that four percent of Nigerians on the scheme. Also the scheme has been shrouded in a lot of controversies in recent times. What is the situation now? It is like we are going backwards?
No. I don't think so. I just told you as at the last count, I think about 16 of the states have health insurance scheme. So we are working in partnership with the states and we are also working with the National Assembly particularly the Senate Committee on health. They are working on a bill that will make health insurance compulsory and universal.
But the National Assembly has been on that Bill for almost 10 years?
Well I am not aware of that. This administration has only been there for less than four years. What we have done in four years is remarkable.
May we know what you have done?
We started with the National Health Policy (NHP), the third in this country. We moved on to the National Health Strategic Plan (NHSP) where we calculated what it takes to move the NHP forward. We got the law on Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) passed. We completed the laboratory in Gadua, Abuja so that we will not have problem with health emergencies. There is a functioning lab there and even the monkey pox we had we diagnosed it at the NCDC lab in Gadua, Abuja. We passed the law on the BPP, which was there for 16 years and nobody passed it. We secured extension on GAVI. We paid money passed to Global Fund for AIDS, TB and Malaria for the first time in several years. Nigeria made pledges but it was never paid. It is in our appropriation and it has been released that is $10 million.
My concern is that we are not where we should be on the issue of health insurance?
We recognize our limitations. But when it is compulsory and approved by the National Assembly then companies will have no option but to buy into the scheme.
How about the issue of leadership tussle at the NHIS? The main issue is that it is alleged that the Health Maintenance Organisations (HMOs) are corrupt and are not performing their duties. Also, the former Executive Secretary was accused of corrupt practices. What has gone in to sanitise the system?
I am sure that you are aware that Mr. President actually commissioned a fact-finding panel and that panel submitted its report on Monday. I gave the commitment that government will fully implement the recommendations of the fact-finding panel. As soon as it is studied and sorted out, things will happen.
Consistently, this government has not budgeted more than 4.15 per cent to health despite the Abuja Declaration in 2001 for 15 per cent of yearly national budget should be for health. Why? Generally the funding for health is very poor?
The word poor is rather inappropriate. I will rather say it is not sufficient. But then we have gone through a lot as a nation. We went into recession in 2016. We are just coming out of recession. Even in spite of that, if you look at the quantum of money given to money from 2015 has increased. What has happened is that government borrowed to fund infrastructure because those infrastructure will benefit health. Government is funding water, funding agriculture, funding power and things that will benefit us. Our hospitals cannot function without power. So these are things that we need to factor in whatever we do. In addition, the BHPF has come in, extra money to health sector. The capital allocation to health has increased; initially from N32 billion we have got to N80 billion and N135 billion. When you add all these together you will see.
But the capital budget for health has gone down for 2019?
No. You need to add the BHPF of N55 billion. You need to add the N22.8 billion for immunization to the health budget. I would like to see more money coming to health but I have to be realistic that some money should go into education because when people are enlightened it helps me. I want to see more money in agriculture because when people are well fed it helps me, when there is clean water it helps me. These are things that influence health. I wan to see more money in the environment so that some of those diseases like cholera will become the thing of the past.
But are there plans to increase the budgetary allocation for health?
Yes! Mr. President actually said so that gradually we will focus on education and health- human capital- and you will begin to see changes.
So you are saying that by 2020 budget, if the administration remains in power, we will be talking about 7 per cent for health?
For 2019, what we have done is to put more money into vaccine and into BHPF. We are still working, disbursing $500 million for Save One Million Lives initiative. There is another $225 million for nutrition that was approved to us at the last National Executive Council meeting that is coming to health. People look only on budgetary allocation; they do not look at other money coming in. We are working on another $350 million for malaria, it is all coming to malaria, and it is all coming to health.
But another major issue is that of release of the funds for the programmes. Are there assurances?
Those monies are even with us; there is no issue of release. We have 100 per cent of the monies. The $225 million when it comes is with us fully. The $500 million is with us fully. When you even look at budgetary released for health, it is about 80 per cent. They have done better than many other sectors.
That brings us to the issue of the teaching hospitals. Most of them are ageing, dilapidated and most of the equipment is not working?
I am not aware of that. To be honest with you, I have visited quite a number of them. They are ageing, yes! Some like University Hospital Ibadan (UCH) where constructed about 60 years ago so that is ageing. But the fact you are ageing does not mean non functional. I was in India two weeks ago a hospital established in 1928 is still one of its best, the all Indian Institute of Medical Sciences about the same time as UCH. I think it is like wine, the older it is the better.
I am talking about the infrastructure?
Can you mention one or two that is ageing that you are worried about?
The Lagos University Teaching Hospital (LUTH), Idi-Araba is a typical example?
Oh! They are doing a remarkable job in LUTH. It now has a 24-hour plant; they are refurbishing structures in LUTH. Even the cancer centre is being refurbished.
That means they cannot offer those services now for months?
They decommissioned it to make it better. They are getting two high-energy machines- higher energy and low energy, which by January should be functioning.
But that is not captured in the 2019 budget?
The Sovereign Wealth Investment Fund (SWIF) is handling it. That is the thing. When you talk about money to health you are not capturing that. You should to health because Sovereign Wealth Investment Authority (SWIA) is investing in LUTH, Federal Medical Centre (FMC) Umuahia and Aminu Kano University Teaching Hospital (AKUTH) Kano. And by the time they finish in LUTH you will be shocked by the first class treatment centre that will be in LUTH in a couple of months. We need to commend this administration. Have you been to the National Hospital Abuja? Go and see the cancer centre there. Now that cancer centre can treat up to a 100 people a day. A second machine donated by Shell Nigeria Exploration and Production Company (SNEPCo) is there. Ultra modern and that will be the only centre may be in Africa that has two high-energy linear machine working. Visit LUTH, visit UCH, visit AKUTH where two bunkers are under construction in each and almost ready to also accommodate high-energy linear accelerators.
Almost every year Nigeria has crisis with Cerebro spinal meningitis (CSM). What is being done to contain the imminent outbreak?
We have mounted campaigns there have been campaigns not just with meningitis but Lassa fever. We are telling people that the season is coming. Certain things are seasonal. When the rains come there will be cholera. We are advising people to be careful. The NCDC is one agency that now well positioned. We have repositioned vaccines. We have repositioned drugs. We have trained people. We are deploying surveillance officers across the country.
Let me interrupt you Sir! The main issue the country had last year was lack of vaccine for the new subtype C that caused the epidemic. Do we have the vaccines now?
You see certain vaccines are not routinely available because you do not stockpile them. If you stockpile them and you do not use them it is a waste. So it is like the vaccine for Yellow fever, it is not freely available. It when you have an outbreak you then apply to WHO that there is an outbreak then they will verify and then give you the vaccine. The same thing for meningitis C, it is not freely available, limited quantity but we have procured some from some sources. But when you have an outbreak that far exceeds the vaccines you stocked then you have to shout for WHO to give you more and that was what happened. If you have too much of it, it will waste.
Another major issue is that of inter-professional disharmony. The doctors are being seen by the other professionals in the health sector as playing God. What are you doing to address this?
Let me say first that I am an apostle for inter and intra professional harmony. The health sector is actually meant and can only function when there is teamwork. Nobody can do it alone and that is what we are promoting. But occasionally we are about to have frictions even when you have identical twins they do fight. So we could have discord, we could have disharmony, we could have occasional fight but what we are saying is that this can be handled and I am happy that the Nigerian Medical Association (NMA) has taken some strong positions. They are meeting with other unions and we have recommended to the NMA that we are revising remuneration please carry everybody along so that we do it for everybody. We do not have to negotiate with doctors today, nurses tomorrow and technologists thereafter. We should just look at it holistically. Government has come out with some regulations to maintain professional harmony and industrial peace in the health sector and many other sectors and I believe that the implementation of the recommendations will go a long way to make sure that things remain peaceful in the health sector.
Nigeria is consistently being rated as having one of the worst health care indices especially on maternal and child mortality. Has anything changed?
The last time any health system was assessed was 2001 and so it worries me when even knowledgeable people cite the 2001 ranking of health system by WHO and since then WHO has never done any because many countries challenged that ranking. So they have never ranked any system since 2001 and number two the health indicators you are citing was done in 2013. We are currently doing one in 2018 and it is this one that we tell us exactly where we are. But I can tell you that we are improving in terms of maternal mortality. We are also being proactive in reducing maternal mortality. We are working actively in six of our worst states and we have developed a road map for reducing maternal mortality. We are also working to reduce under-five mortality. So things will change because you need to get things done properly. I can assure you that by the time we are revising our statistics you will notice a change. We have reduced malaria from 42 to 27 per cent. We have improved immunization coverage with about 12 per cent. So things are improving in spite of the constraints, in spite of the reduction in the fiscal space- fall in oil prices. We have shown commitment to health and we will begin to get results.


Today I'm guest posting over at Roo Magazine with an article for parents entitled, "Preparing Your Kid to Be Different."
Being a teenager is tough. Really tough.
In the midst of all that, you as parents are trying to raise them up to be strong, confident, grounded individuals who will make the best choices, the right choices, the hard choices.


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iRacing NASCAR A Open: A New Beginning
February 4th, 2014 by JaimeB
The Rock played host to the Class A season opener.
We are now one week into the 2014 race season. Week 13 gave everyone some much needed down time and an extra week of practice, for arguably the most demanding race track for the Gen 6 car on the NASCAR iRacing.com Class A Series. Rockingham is a track with so much character and so little grip. Described by one driver that it was "like driving a glass car on ice." But, this week it didn't matter. If you we're going to make a run for an iRacing PRO license, then you would have to tough it out and get out there on track.
Robin Williams took the most starts this week, and when you win five of your nine races, who can blame you. He also led over 50% of the laps in the races he ran. This earned him 164 champ points and secured him third place in the current standings. Brad Mahar picked-up where he left off and came out with 176 points, the most amongst all Div-1 sim-racers. He would only race three races, but one win in the SOF race of the week was enough to send him to the top.
The SOF race this week only had nine drivers. Most of this is believed to be the unfortunate combination of an unpopular track and car combo, added to the most server and website malfunctions since healthcare.gov rolled out. iRacing has worked extremely hard, day and night to fix it, and I'm confident they will. But for this week in Season 1, the damage was done.
John Schweickart picked-up exactly where he left off in the points from his finish for 2013 Season 4. P7 may not be the best place, but it's enough – for now. He only made one start, but finished second in one of the most exciting races I happened to catch. Jr Borborema held him off by a margin of .055s in what, IMO, was the best race of the week.
One of my personal favorite drivers from last season is Todd Hendricks and he did a fantastic job again leading 224 laps. I will be very excited to see if he can make PRO. He has the talent, but his eagerness to race is hurting him. If he begins to pick and choose races a little more often, he should be another name in the hat.
Looking ahead, the series now goes to Iowa, which is good news for Robert Hall who earned 225 points there last season. Last season's champion Kyle Crump will also be in the conversation. He had a great week at Iowa last season with 202 points, just short of estimated points per race that a driver needs to earn to make PRO at the end of the season. I have the number at 210 points per race on average, which can fluctuate dramatically from season to season. But in my opinion, anything less than 200 is not going to cut it.
It will be interesting to see how things shake down when the series leaves Iowa in seven days. I believe we will have a much clearer picture of the competition going forward from there without the technical issues that arose this first week. Be sure to check this space in iRacingNews each week to see what's around the next turn in Class A.


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Q: scikit-learn: don't separate hyphenated words while tokenization I am using the CountVectorizer and don't want to separate hyphenated words into different tokens. I have tried passing different pregex patterns into the token_pattern argument, but haven't been able to get the desired result.
Here's what I have tried:
pattern = r''' (?x)         # set flag to allow verbose regexps
([A-Z]\.)+          # abbreviations (e.g. U.S.A.)
| \w+(-\w+)*        # words with optional internal hyphens
| \$?\d+(\.\d+)?%?  # currency & percentages
| \.\.\.            # ellipses '''

text = 'I hate traffic-ridden streets.'
vectorizer = CountVectorizer(stop_words='english',token_pattern=pattern)
analyze = vectorizer.build_analyzer()
analyze(text)

I have also tried to use nltk's regexp_tokenize as suggested in an earlier question but it's behaviour seems to have changed as well.

A: There are a couple things to note. The first is that adding in all of those spaces, line breaks and comments into your pattern string makes all of those characters part of your regular expression. See here:
import re
>>> re.match("[0-9]","3")
<_sre.SRE_Match object at 0x104caa920>
>>> re.match("[0-9] #a","3")
>>> re.match("[0-9] #a","3 #a")
<_sre.SRE_Match object at 0x104caa718>

The second is that you need to escape special sequences when constructing your regex pattern within a string. For example pattern = "\w" really needs to be pattern = "\\w". Once you account for those things you should be able to write the regex for your desired tokenizer. For example if you just wanted to add in hyphens something like this will work:
>>> from sklearn.feature_extraction.text import CountVectorizer
>>> pattern = "(?u)\\b[\\w-]+\\b"
>>>
>>> text = 'I hate traffic-ridden streets.'
>>> vectorizer = CountVectorizer(stop_words='english',token_pattern=pattern)
>>> analyze = vectorizer.build_analyzer()
>>> analyze(text)
[u'hate', u'traffic-ridden', u'streets']

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Q: MAC filtering using iptables/ebtables I'm trying to drop a MAC address on a node in my network. Now, I tried two tools iptables and ebtables, but both attempts failed:

*

*iptables -A INPUT -m mac --mac-source 00:0F:EA:91:04:08 -j DROP resulting in "iptables: No chain/target/match by that name."

*ebtables -A INPUT -s 00:11:22:33:44:55 -j DROP resulting in "FATAL: Module ebtables not found. The kernel doesn't support the ebtables 'filter' table."

I'm working with Kernel version 2.6.32: uname -r results in "2.6.32-042stab049.6.emulab.1"
How can I make (at least one) it work? I've searched about this failures, but not much information is to be found. How do I make the kernel support the ebtables 'filter' table? How come there is "no chain/target/match by that name"?

A: Verify that you can actually list an INPUT chain:
# iptables -L

Hopefully that should something akin to:
Chain INPUT (policy ACCEPT)
target     prot opt source               destination

Chain FORWARD (policy ACCEPT)
target     prot opt source               destination

Chain OUTPUT (policy ACCEPT)
target     prot opt source               destination

As for ebtables, it apparently isn't actually part of your kernel.

A: You need to enable the ebtables options in your Kernel configuration
CONFIG_BRIDGE_NF_EBTABLES=y
CONFIG_BRIDGE_EBT_BROUTE=y
CONFIG_BRIDGE_EBT_T_FILTER=y
CONFIG_BRIDGE_EBT_T_NAT=y
CONFIG_BRIDGE_EBT_802_3=y
CONFIG_BRIDGE_EBT_AMONG=y
CONFIG_BRIDGE_EBT_ARP=y
CONFIG_BRIDGE_EBT_IP=y
CONFIG_BRIDGE_EBT_IP6=y
CONFIG_BRIDGE_EBT_LIMIT=y
CONFIG_BRIDGE_EBT_MARK=y
CONFIG_BRIDGE_EBT_PKTTYPE=y
CONFIG_BRIDGE_EBT_STP=y
CONFIG_BRIDGE_EBT_VLAN=y
CONFIG_BRIDGE_EBT_ARPREPLY=y
CONFIG_BRIDGE_EBT_DNAT=y
CONFIG_BRIDGE_EBT_MARK_T=y
CONFIG_BRIDGE_EBT_REDIRECT=y
CONFIG_BRIDGE_EBT_SNAT=y
CONFIG_BRIDGE_EBT_LOG=y
CONFIG_BRIDGE_EBT_ULOG=y
CONFIG_BRIDGE_EBT_NFLOG=y

then build the kernel and retry. Its also possible that something iptables relates is missing also.


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Q: procedure or function spAddStudent has too many arguments specified I am using visual studio 2010 ultimate with SQL Server 2012, When I click save button first time it works fine, but after changing values it shows above mentioned exception. I m failed to solve this problem. please help me.
Thanks
Abdul Muttalib
    public int AddStudent(StudentManager studentManager)
    {
        try
        {
            sqlCom.Connection = sqlCon;
            sqlCon.Open();
            sqlCom.CommandType = CommandType.StoredProcedure;
            sqlCom.CommandText = "spAddStudent";
            sqlCom.Parameters.AddWithValue("@Name", studentManager.Name);
            sqlCom.Parameters.AddWithValue("@Father", tudentManager.Father);
            sqlCom.Parameters.AddWithValue("@Gender", tudentManager.Gender);
            sqlCom.Parameters.AddWithValue("@Religion", studentManager.Religion);
            sqlCom.Parameters.AddWithValue("@MotherTongue", studentManager.Tongue);
            sqlCom.Parameters.AddWithValue("@BirthDate", studentManager.BrithDate);
            sqlCom.Parameters.AddWithValue("@Class", studentManager.StudentClass);
            sqlCom.Parameters.AddWithValue("@Section", studentManager.Section);
            sqlCom.Parameters.AddWithValue("@Shift", studentManager.Shift);
            sqlCom.Parameters.AddWithValue("@RollNo", studentManager.RollNo);
            sqlCom.Parameters.AddWithValue("@Fee", studentManager.Fee);
            sqlCom.Parameters.AddWithValue("@FatherOccupation", studentManager.FatherOccupation);
            sqlCom.Parameters.AddWithValue("@FatherCNIC", studentManager.Cnic);
            sqlCom.Parameters.AddWithValue("@AddWithValueressRes", studentManager.AddressRes);
            sqlCom.Parameters.AddWithValue("@PhoneRes", studentManager.PhoneRes);
            sqlCom.Parameters.AddWithValue("@PhoneOff", studentManager.PhoneOff);
            sqlCom.Parameters.AddWithValue("@Mobile", studentManager.Mobile);
            sqlCom.Parameters.AddWithValue("@PostalCode", studentManager.PostalCode);
            sqlCom.Parameters.AddWithValue("@Email", studentManager.Email);
            sqlCom.Parameters.AddWithValue("@OtherInfo", studentManager.OtherInfo);
            int i = sqlCom.ExecuteNonQuery();
            sqlCon.Close();
            return i;
        }
        catch (Exception ex)
        {
            throw ex;
        }
    }
}

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A: You could resolve this by calling sqlCom.Parameters.Clear() at the start of AddStudent to prevent accumulating redundant parameters whenever the method is called.
Also, using AddWithValue is easy and common, but it can be problematic.


- I want to talk to you about capacity here for a minute. Different RAM sticks have different capacities in terms of the amount of memory they hold. I've got two DDR sticks in front of me. One holds half a gigabyte, and the other one is one gigabyte, and you can't tell just by looking at them. If you're lucky, it's on the label. And if you're buying RAM, you're telling them ahead of time how much you want, but capacity is very, very important. When you're installing RAM, in general, we'd like to install the same capacity.
You can get away with a couple of things, but in general, you want to install at the same capacity at all times. And RAM is additive. So if I've got two one-gigabyte sticks and I put them into a computer, that computer's gonna have two gigabytes of RAM. Now you might think to yourself, in today's world, I can go and buy great big sticks, 16 gigabytes sticks of DDR3, even if your motherboard's DDR3, that doesn't necessarily mean you can use it. You've got to reference your motherboard book.
And if you don't have a motherboard book, you're gonna have to reference the manufacturer, and they will tell you the largest sticks that you can put in your computer. For example, my system right here can handle eight gigabytes sticks. So even though 16 gigabytes sticks are available, I can't put 'em in this system. So make sure that you reference your motherboard book or online documentation from the manufacturer to make sure you have the capacity that your particular motherboard can handle. And also remember that it's additive. So if you've got two one-gigabyte sticks, you've got two gigabytes of RAM.
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Recent Case Law (Meca-Medina & Majken vs EU Commission)
Judgement of the European Court in Case C-519/04 P (18 July 2006)
1. A quite recent judgement of the European Court comes to cope with purely sports legal matters about one year after the Simutenkov case. Once again the Court has been called to tackle the question of the relationship between lex sportiva and European law, however, this time in the dock was put IOC, the supreme authority of the Olympic Movement and its antidoping regulations!
2. In particular, the Court has been asked to adjudicate a) on the compatibility of certain regulations and practices relating to doping control adopted by the IOC and implemented by FINA with the Community rules on competition and freedom to provide services as well as b) whether the IOC and the 27 laboratories accredited by it, infringe, from the point of view of competition law, the rights which the athletes can assert under Articles 81 EC and 82 EC (restriction of competition, concerted practice and abuse of dominant position).
3. The European Court contrary to the opinion of the Advocate General, P. Lιger, reversed the decision of the Court of First Instance (T-313/2002) and ruled that the mere fact that a regulation is purely sporting in nature does not have the effect of removing from the scope of the Treaty the person engaging in the activity governed by that rule or the body which has laid it down. If the sporting activity in question falls within the scope of the Treaty, the conditions for engaging in it are then subject to all the obligations which result from the various provisions of the Treaty. It follows that the rules which govern that activity must satisfy the requirements of those provisions, which, in particular, seek to ensure freedom of movement for workers, freedom of establishment, freedom to provide services, or competition. Therefore, even if those rules do not constitute restrictions on freedom of movement because they concern questions of purely sporting interest and, as such, have nothing to do with economic activity, that fact means neither that the sporting activity in question necessarily falls outside the scope of Articles 81 EC and 82 EC nor that the rules do not satisfy the specific requirements of those articles.
4. However, although the Court set aside the judgment of the Court of First Instance, it dismissed the action for annulment of the Commission's decision (COMP/38158) judging that not every agreement between undertakings nor every decision of an association of undertakings which restricts the freedom of action of the parties or of one of them necessarily falls within the prohibition laid down in Article 81(1) EC. As regards the overall context in which the rules at issue were adopted, the Commission could rightly take the view that the general objective of the rules was to combat doping in order for competitive sport to be conducted fairly and that it included the need to safeguard equal chances for athletes, athletes' health, the integrity and objectivity of competitive sport and ethical values in sport. In addition, given that penalties are necessary to ensure enforcement of the doping ban, their effect on athletes' freedom of action must be considered to be, in principle, inherent itself in the anti-doping rules. Therefore, even if the anti-doping rules at issue are to be regarded as a decision of an association of undertakings limiting the appellants' freedom of action, they do not, for all that, necessarily constitute a restriction of competition incompatible with the common market, within the meaning of Article 81 EC, since they are justified by a legitimate objective. Such a limitation is inherent in the organisation and proper conduct of competitive sport and its very purpose is to ensure healthy rivalry between athletes.
5. The Court went on ruling that the penal nature of the anti-doping rules at issue and the magnitude of the penalties applicable if they are breached are capable of producing adverse effects on competition because they could, if penalties were ultimately to prove unjustified, result in an athlete's unwarranted exclusion from sporting events, and thus in impairment of the conditions under which the activity at issue is engaged in. It follows that, in order not to be covered by the prohibition laid down in Article 81(1) EC, the restrictions thus imposed by those rules must be limited to what is necessary to ensure the proper conduct of competitive sport. Rules of that kind could indeed prove excessive by virtue of a) the conditions laid down for establishing the dividing line between circumstances which amount to doping in respect of which penalties may be imposed and those which do not, and b) the severity of those penalties. It is only if, having regard to scientific knowledge as it stood when the anti-doping rules at issue were adopted or even when they were applied to punish the appellants, in 1999, the threshold was set at such a low level that it should be regarded as not taking sufficient account of the phenomenon of the endogenously production of this substance, that those rules should be regarded as not justified in light of the objective which they were intended to achieve.
6. Although, the appellants contested that rule, asserting that the threshold adopted is set at an excessively low level which is not founded on any scientifically safe criterion, they do not specify at what level the threshold in question should have been set at the material time. Moreover the Court judging by the documents brought before it found that at the material time it was not established in any event that the risk reported by an expert that merely consuming a limited quantity of boar meat could cause entirely innocent athletes to exceed the threshold in question had been confirmed by the majority of the scientific community. Besides, the results of the studies and the experiments carried out on this point subsequent to the decision at issue had no bearing in any event on the legality of that decision.
Alexandros Rammos
Attorney at law, LLM Public Law
Hellenic Center of Research on Sports Law
Athens, 22/8/2006"


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Please note: these do not fit the Early Access (green) shades from the 2014 Kickstarter as they have a different pin pitch.
Do you have LED Matrix Shades or RGB Shades? Is wearing a bright LED pixel array with scrolling text and animations just too ordinary? With the Shades Audio Sensor, you can make your LED eyewear dance to whatever music or sounds are nearby!
We've updated the design to have a gain switch for high and low sensitivity. This helps a lot in loud places with 100dBA or higher sounds! There is also no solder jumper to select between RGB Shades and LED Shades...there is simply an extra pin that connects to the LED Shades. We've also added better power filtering for the best performance yet!
The Shades Audio Sensor is a small circuit board that can be soldered to either the LED Matrix Shades or the RGB Shades (configured with a solder jumper on the back). It listens to sound through a microphone, analyzes the frequency content, and sends corresponding voltage levels to the RGB Shades or LED Matrix Shades microcontroller. With the right code (which we provide), your Shades will react to music with amazing and eye-catching patterns.
If you're familiar with code (and especially if you're familiar with LED Matrix Shades or RGB Shades code), you'll be able to make your own LED patterns react to the music in endless ways.
While this product is designed to fit the RGB Shades and LED Matrix Shades, it's simply a microphone with preamplification and an MSGEQ7 chip. You can plug this into a breadboard, or solder it to an Arduino or other microcontroller to make your projects respond to sound. Click here for an example of using the Shades Audio Sensor without shades.


To aid business success your HR department must function well. This Human Resources Management course will teach you how to ensure this transpires.
To ensure a business is successful it must have a competent HR department. This Human Resources courses teaches you to make the best use of your employees via a range of activities aiming to help you achieve a thriving business.
This Human Resources Management covers a number of modules that explain the main expectations and responsibility of a Human Resources Manager.
This course is assessed via assignments sent to and marked by your tutor. There are also marked activities to complete throughout your diploma.


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With rental cars scattered in parking lots throughout the city, ZipCar is a COOL company that is redefining how you rent a car. Unlike a rental car company, you phone (or use the web), choose a parking lot in the city, and schedule your car for the hour. It can be a Mini Cooper, BMW, or even a Prius. Walk up to the car, swipe your card, and it's yours... No need to pay for gas, insurance, or parking because it is all included. Wow.
The company claims that 30% of their customers have sold their own cars because ZipCar is so convenient (and SO much cheeper - especially for Yuppies). Zip Cars are located in almost a dozen cities throughout North America... will the trend continue?


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Syrian Refugee Update
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