I didn't eat cucumber much before coming to France. Now it's become a staple- and I usually have part of one hanging around somewhere in the fridge.
After farmers' market on Sunday, I came home with an especially nice-looking, organic one that I mixed into a refreshing salad. Since cucumber doesn't have a very strong taste on its own, I figured I could add whatever I wanted to my salad- and decided to try a savory-sweet combination. The sweet apples added a subtle, tart punch to the other ingredients and combined extremely well with the bit of red wine vinegar I drizzled over everything.
I also added some extra kick by throwing in a combination of freshly ground spices: black, white, green and pink peppercorns, plus dried coriander fruits and allspice (also known as Jamaican pepper). Pink peppercorns, by the way, are not really pepper, but dried fruits from the Baies rose plant (as it is often called). Suggestion: put all the un-ground spices together in a pepper mill and use to flavor dishes (instead of just plain pepper). If you're in France, you can cheat and purchase them already mixed together!
I topped it all off with some of the lemon thyme we're growing in the window. Like common thyme, it's nice for cooking and never overpowers the other spices. Unlike common thyme, this one really does smell like lemons.
Hint: Add the vinegar a little at a time, until it compliments the other ingredients- it shouldn't be too strong, but abundant enough to create a nice contrast with the apples.
1. Dice all fruits and vegetables and place them in a salad bowl.
2. Add the remaining ingredients to taste and toss with salad forks.


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Do you know the maximum number of users each of your terminal servers can host with acceptable performance? You may have found out the hard way how many are too many – but how many are just right? Farm sizing and server capacity planning are typical tasks for consultants who often have a hard time fighting the peculiarities of perfmon and logman trying to get the data they need for their calculations. It can be so much easier at no additional cost. The 60 day Enterprise Trial version of Splunk in conjunction with an evaluation license of uberAgent give all the information you need in much less time. Here is how.
The Trial version of Splunk allows you to index 500 MB per day. That is enough to have uberAgent collect data from at least six XenApp or RDS servers. Six servers is a large enough number to make the data statistically relevant in most environments.
Although installing Splunk is simple and straightforward, be sure to follow our instructions closely. When choosing a server for Splunk keep in mind that it needs enough hard disk capacity to store 14 x 500 MB x compression = around 1 GB. By default Splunk stores its data where you install it so the easiest way to have Splunk store data on a partition different than C: is to install Splunk where you want the data to be.
If you create a virtual machine for Splunk configure at least 2 vCPUs and 8 GB RAM – of course, more is always better. In this case it will make the searches run faster.
All in all it should not take longer than 30 minutes to install Splunk.
Following our instructions you should have uberAgent up and running in no time. Please note that if you use PVS or another imaging method you need to prepare Splunk's Universal Forwarder for that. Details are in the instructions.
After installation uberAgent will display a splash screen during logon as an enticement to get a license. Contact us, we are happy to provide time-limited evaluation licenses.
Log on with a test user to one of the monitored servers. Wait one minute and then refresh the dashboard. You should now see some data.
There is not much to say about this except that you probably should not pick the holiday season for your data collection. You want two typical weeks.
Depending on your situation it may be feasible to analyze the data using the customer's Splunk installation. You are more flexible, though, if you transfer it to a different analysis machine which can be off-premises. A typical consultant's laptop would be suitable. You need to ask permission, of course.
This value is, just like all the other values calculated here, rounded – to be on the safe side.
Use the dashboard Session 0 to find the CPU usage of all system services combined. In this example let us assume it is 4 %.
Use the dashboard Session 0 to find the RAM usage of all system services combined. In this example let us assume it is 1,500 MB.
Looking at the CPU only, each server supports 137 sessions. Looking at RAM only that number drops to 40. For the disk it is 45. Obviously these servers have too much CPU capacity. They are limited by RAM and disk equally. It might make sense to increase the RAM a little bit. Increasing the hard disk performance in terms of IOPS is typically not easily possible.
Go do your own capacity reports!


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1. The Mayans Enhanced Their Children's Features
The Maya desired some unnatural physical characteristics for their children. For instance, at a very young age boards were pressed on babies' foreheads to create a flattened surface. This process was widespread among the upper class. Another practice was to cross babies' eyes. To do this, objects were dangled in front of a newborn's eyes, until the newborn's eyes were completely and permanently crossed. The Maya filed their teeth to make them pointy and created holes that they filled with jade. Another interesting fact about Mayan children is that most were named according to the day they were born. Every day of the year had a specific name for both boys and girls and parents were expected to follow that practice.
2. The Mayans had Excellent Medical Techniques
Health and medicine among the ancient Maya was a complex blend of mind, body, religion, ritual, and science. Important to all, medicine was practiced only by a select few who were given an excellent education. These men, called shamans, act as a medium between the physical world and spirit world. They practice sorcery for the purpose of healing, foresight, and control over natural events. Since medicine was so closely related to religion and sorcery, it was essential that Maya shamans had vast medical knowledge and skill. It is known that the Maya sutured wounds with human hair, reduced fractures, and were even skilled dental surgeons, making prostheses from jade and turquoise and filling teeth with iron pyrite.
3. Maya Blue or Azul Maya Still a Mystery
Maya Blue or azul maya has been seen at several architectural locations from the ancient Mayan civilization including the archaeological site of Cacaxtla on the Mural de la batalla. Cacaxtla is a large palace with many vibrant colored murals in Mayan style. As one of the highlights of the ancient Mayan civilization this very gorgeous turquoise blue color only survived to be seen because of the chemical characteristics that made it possible and the composition is still unknown.
4. Mayans Played Sophisticated Deadly Ball Games
The ancient Maya ballgame was played for thousands of years throughout Mesoamerica, and had great religious significance.Contact with the ball was limited. Any body part, except the hands and feet, was allowed; The abdomen, thighs, upper arms and back were used. Maybe even the head. Kicking or throwing the ball was forbidden. In addition, the ball was not allowed to touch the ground. Slightly larger than basketball hoops, the rings were positioned on opposite walls, about 25 feet above the playing field. The ball had to be bounced off the wall in order to enter a ring. The ball was made of rubber and weighed about eight pounds! This made severe injury a definite possibility. Ballplayers wore protective gear, including wide padding around their hips called "yokes." They also wore pads on their forearms and knees so they could fall to the ground in a kneeling position and hit the ball with one hip. Game play itself is thought to have been incredibly violent. Players would ram into each other at top speed so as to cause serious injury or death to an opponent, and this was actively encouraged by the referees. The game ended when the first goal was scored.
5. The Mayans Used Saunas
An important purification element to the ancient Maya was the sweat bath, or zumpul-ché. Similar to a modern day sauna, sweat baths were constructed of stone walls and ceilings, with a small opening in the top of the ceiling. Water poured onto the hot rocks in the room created steam, offering a setting in which to sweat out impurities. Sweat baths were used for a range of conditions and situations. New mothers who had recently conceived a child would seek revitalization in them, while individuals who were sick could find healing power in sweating. Maya kings made a habit out of visiting the sweat baths as well because it left them feeling refreshed and, as they believed, cleaner.
6. The Mayan Used Hallucinogenics and Painkillers
The Mayan peoples regularly used hallucinogenic drugs (taken from the natural world) in their religious rituals, but they also used them in day to day life as painkillers. Flora such as peyote, the morning glory, certain mushrooms, tobacco, and plants used to make alcoholic substances, were commonly used. In addition, as depicted in Maya pottery and carvings, ritual enemas were used for a more rapid absorption and effect of the substance. Above is a statue of a Mayan enjoying their enema.
7. The Mayan Still Practice Blood Sacrifices
Mayan civilization and its people practiced and promoted blood sacrificed to their gods; especially of little children. Their sacrifices usually would take place on the first appearance of the Planet Venus or simply to appease the Sun. Unfortunately the sacrifice of little children existed in almost all ancient cultures as they believe that offering the pure soul of the children to the "gods" can somehow bring them prosperity and avoid adversity. More specifically the Mayas sacrificed human beings for medical and religious reasons. This practice cannot be seen among the present Mayans descendants; however, they still use cattle and chicken blood instead of human blood.
8. The Last Mayan Kingdom Existed Until 1697
The island city of Tayasal is considered as the last independent Mayan Kingdom and it existed until 1696. Finally it was submitted to the Spanish rule, after which the existence of all original ancient Mayas were mysteriously eradicated and no one knows exactly why. Many theories have been put to the table, one of which is that the Spanish carried a virus that Mayas never faced before and it basically irradiated them.
9. Dec 21, 2012 Mayans Marks Rare Cosmic Event
This end-date of the Long Count Calendar December 21, 2012 marks the coming of a truly rare cosmic event that will occur when this procession of the equinoxes positions our solar system in the very center of our galaxy when Earth will cross the ecliptic path of the sun.The world is talking about what will happen on this date, however, not everyone is looking forward to it with the same set of expectations. For some, 2012 hints at a coming apocalypse but more optimistic views believe that, as the Maya claimed, we would begin to experience some form of spiritual awakening, perhaps initiated by some cosmic event or compelling miracle. But, we have no way of knowing for sure what effects these cosmic events will have on Earth, as the last time an alignment like this took place was over 150,000 years ago!
10. The Mayan Had Advanced Writing Skills
The Maya had fairly advanced writing skills, like the Egyptians their written language was in hieroglyphs. They were capable of writing full sentences and communicating stories. Most Maya could read some basic hieroglyphs carved in stone but it would have been the nobles and priests that understood the entire language. They covered their cities and building in hieroglyphs and were adept at writing books made out of soft inner bark of fig trees. They wrote using quills made from turkey feathers.
11. The Mayan Were Fond Of Jewelry
The Mayan culture was extremely fond of different forms of jewelry, the two most common were jade and gold. Families of the Royals and priests wore more jewelry of a much more sophisticated nature. The Jade was worn in beads, bracelets, earrings and ear spools. Jade was one of the items most commonly traded by the Mayans.
12. The Collapse of Mayan Culture Still a Mystery
For reasons that are still debated, the Maya centers of the southern lowlands went into decline during the 8th and 9th centuries and were abandoned shortly thereafter. This decline was coupled with a cessation of monumental inscriptions and large-scale architectural construction. Non-ecological theories of Maya decline are divided into several subcategories, such as overpopulation, foreign invasion, peasant revolt, and the collapse of key trade routes. Ecological hypotheses include environmental disaster, epidemic disease, and climate change. There is evidence that the Maya population exceeded carrying capacity of the environment including exhaustion of agricultural potential and over-hunting of megafauna. Some scholars have recently theorized that an intense 200 year drought led to the collapse of Maya civilization.
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Camponotus sansabeanus is a species of ant in the family Formicidae.

References

Further reading

 Arnett, Ross H. (2000). American Insects: A Handbook of the Insects of America North of Mexico. CRC Press.

External links

 NCBI Taxonomy Browser, Camponotus sansabeanus

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Insects described in 1866

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Q: Rust language,I opened a file and wrote something,successes,then read from it,but nothing got,why? Rust language,I opened a file and wrote something,succeeded,then read from it,but nothing got,why?
use std::fs::File;
use std::io::{Read, Write};
use std::path::Path;

fn main() {
    let path = Path::new("./main.log");

    let mut file = if path.exists() && path.is_file() {
        File::options().read(true).write(true).append(true).open(path).unwrap()
    } else {
        File::create(path).unwrap()
    };

    let stdin = std::io::stdin();

    println!("===================== 要开始写东西啦 =====================");

    loop {
        let mut line = String::new();
        stdin.read_line(&mut line).unwrap();

        if ".exit\n" == line {
            break;
        }

        file.write(line.as_bytes()).unwrap();
    }

    println!("===================== 要开始输出啦 =====================");
    let mut contents = String::new();
    let file_size = file.read_to_string(&mut contents).unwrap();
    println!("File size: {}\nFile contents: {}", file_size, contents);
}

If after wrote,I opened again the file, the contents will got read.

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        private EventSubscription eventSubscriptionValue;

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Every year, we are delighted to see DLD students achieve places to read undergraduate degrees at the London School of Economics (LSE). At DLD College London, our students benefit from being in very close proximity to the LSE campus and we actively encourage students to attend events in the LSE's fantastic public lecture programme.
Sarah Mullen, Student Recruitment Coordinator at LSE, visited DLD on 4th October 2017 to talk to some of our students about making successful applications to the LSE and other world class universities.
The talk offered our students a detailed overview on the history of the university, the types of courses available and – perhaps most importantly – what is required from a successful applicant.
With LSE ranked as Europe's number 1 university for Social Science courses, it was fitting for DLD's Faculty of Social Science to host this event.
Adam Linert, an Alpha Scholar in the Lower Sixth attended the event and commented, "It's great that we not only share a city with LSE but also get access to the same exciting learning opportunities that top class university students have".


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Even in a redrawn electoral map, I'm (sort of) disenfranchised – updated
Posted on November 2, 2008 by revtony
I've moved from Massachusetts to Texas in the last few months and nothing's changed as far as my vote is concerned. My home has changed, but this year as in 2004 and 2000, my home state still hasn't gotten so much as a sniff of Presidential campaign appearance. That's because when I lived in Massachusetts, the Bay State's electoral college's votes were a lock for the Democratic Party's candidate and now that I live in Texas, the Lone Star State's electoral votes are a lock for the Republican Party's candidate. When I lived in Massachusetts, I tended to vote Green anyway, in an effort to build not a third party, but a viable SECOND party in what amounts to one-party Democratically run Massachusetts. The need for such has been brought home by the ethics scandals rocking the democratically controlled state house there this fall.
Now, here I am in Texas, having switched my voter registration to unenrolled back in January in MA again here in Texas in August to support Barack Obama, for reasons that are as much pastoral as political (my freind Eric points to as good an explanation as I can offer here). And yet the overwhelming vote here in Texas is probably, although I hope not, going to be for McCain.
dailyKos today points to an informative, although by no means revolutionary post from Nate Silver at 538.com that reminds us that this election, like every other Presidential election is really 50 elections because of the electoral college. And this year it comes down to this:
This is beginning to look like a five-state election. Those states are Virginia, Colorado, Pennsylvania, Ohio and Nevada. Essentially all relevant electoral scenarios involve some combination of these five states…
The victory conditions for Obama involving these five states proceed something as follows:
Win Pennsylvania and ANY ONE of Colorado, Virginia, Ohio, or Nevada*
Win Ohio and EITHER Colorado OR Virginia.
Win Colorado AND Virginia AND Nevada.
(* Nevada produces a 269-269 tie, which would probably be resolved for Obama in the House of Represenatives.)
Now, suppose you think that Colorado is already in the bag for Obama because of his large edge in early voting there. We can then simplify the victory conditions as follows:
Win Pennsylvania
Win Ohio
Win Virginia AND Nevada
This graphic from Pollster.com (again a hat tip to dailyKos) puts the race in a linear perspective, sort of an slide rule. Obama needs to grab a light blue state and McCain all the yellow toss up swing states and a bunch of light blue Obama leaning light blue states.
It's really time to do away with the electoral college once and for all. In spite of Obama's efforts to make this a 50 state campaign, he's doing it out of electoral strategy and a mandate to govern, not out an electoral philosphy that argues the POUS should be popularly elected by the people. Popular election of the President requires a constitutional amendment. I stand corrected (see the comments) One way around it is a state law that pledges all the states electoral votes to the popular vote winner. See National Popular Vote for more information on their plan. I'd still rather have a Constitutional amendment (such as the one that supplied popular direct election of senators), but I'd settle for their plan in the interim.
UPDATE – In the Nov. 2 edition of the New York Times, Sarah K. Cowan points out that:
This system (the electoral college), along with the winner-take-all practice used to allocate most states' electoral votes, creates the potential for an absurd outcome. In the unlikely event that all 213 million eligible voters cast ballots, either John McCain or Barack Obama could win enough states to capture the White House with only 47.8 million strategically located votes. The presidency could be won with just 22 percent of the electorate's support, only 16 percent of the entire population's.
With direct election you get the President the most people want. I also want Rank choice voting, also called Instant Run Off Voting (let the muppets explain it to you) so I can vote for my actual policy preferences without the fear of putting my least favorite candidate like Bush or McCain in the White House.
Until then candidate have to have an electoral strategy and I have to have a voting strategy and that's not what democracy should look like.
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The major shortcoming of the current system of electing the President is that presidential candidates concentrate their attention on a handful of closely divided "battleground" states. In 2004 two-thirds of the visits and money were focused in just six states; 88% on 9 states, and 99% of the money went to just 16 states. Two-thirds of the states and people were merely spectators to the presidential election. Candidates have no reason to poll, visit, advertise, organize, campaign, or worry about the voter concerns in states where they are safely ahead or hopelessly behind. The reason for this is the winner-take-all rule enacted by 48 states, under which all of a state's electoral votes are awarded to the candidate who gets the most votes in each separate state.
Another shortcoming of the current system is that a candidate can win the Presidency without winning the most popular votes nationwide. This has occurred in one of every 14 presidential elections.
In the past six decades, there have been six presidential elections in which a shift of a relatively small number of votes in one or two states would have elected (and, of course, in 2000, did elect) a presidential candidate who lost the popular vote nationwide.
The National Popular Vote bill would guarantee the Presidency to the candidate who receives the most popular votes in all 50 states (and DC).
Every vote would be politically relevant and equal in presidential elections.
The bill would take effect only when enacted, in identical form, by states possessing a majority of the electoral votes—that is, enough electoral votes to elect a President (270 of 538). When the bill comes into effect, all the electoral votes from those states would be awarded to the presidential candidate who receives the most popular votes in all 50 states (and DC).
The bill is currently endorsed by 1,181 state legislators — 439 sponsors (in 47 states) and an additional 742 legislators who have cast recorded votes in favor of the bill.
The National Popular Vote bill has passed 21 state legislative chambers, including one house in Arkansas, Colorado, Maine, North Carolina, and Washington, and both houses in California, Hawaii, Illinois, New Jersey, Maryland, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, and Vermont. The bill has been enacted by Hawaii, Illinois, New Jersey, and Maryland. These four states possess 50 electoral votes — 19% of the 270 necessary to bring the law into effect.
See http://www.NationalPopularVote.com
The "normal way" of changing the method of electing the President is not a federal constitutional amendment, but changes in state law. The U.S. Constitution gives "exclusive" and "plenary" control to the states over the appointment of presidential electors.
Historically, virtually all of the previous major changes in the method of electing the President have come about by state legislative action. For example, the people had no vote for President in most states in the nation's first election in 1789. However, nowadays, as a result of changes in the state laws governing the appointment of presidential electors, the people have the right to vote for presidential electors in 100% of the states.
In 1789, only 3 states used the winner-take-all rule (awarding all of a state's electoral vote to the candidate who gets the most votes in the state). However, as a result of changes in state laws, the winner-take-all rule is now currently used by 48 of the 50 states.
In other words, neither of the two most important features of the current system of electing the President (namely, that the voters may vote and the winner-take-all rule) are in the U.S. Constitution. Neither was the choice of the Founders when they went back to their states to organize the nation's first presidential election.
In 1789, it was necessary to own a substantial amount of property in order to vote; however, as a result of changes in state laws, there are now no property requirements for voting in any state .
The "normal process" of effecting change in the method of electing the President is specified the U.S. Constitution, namely action by the state legislatures. This is how the current system was created, and this is the built-in method that the Constitution provides for making changes. The abnormal process is to go outside the Constitution, and amend it.
What the current U.S. Constitution says is "Each State shall appoint, in such Manner as the Legislature thereof may direct, a Number of Electors . . ." The U.S. Supreme Court has repeatedly characterized the authority of the state legislatures over the manner of awarding their electoral votes as "plenary" and "exclusive."
revtony says:
You were correct initially. The comment regarding state change doesn't consider popular election of the president. It describes a way of running around the electoral college. A federal constitutional amendment to abolish the electoral college and repeal the 12th Amendment would actually provide popular election.


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Circus Smirkus & Stratton School had an amazing week together!
Plastic Bag & Film Recycling: Last Day!
Thanks to the Stratton Green Team for leading this initiative and thanks to everyone who made our world a little greener by recycling grocery bags, bread & produce bags, bubble wrap and plastic film this winter. After Tuesday, please bring your plastics to Whole Foods or Stop and Shop for recycling!
Stratton's Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Group (SDEIG), will be supporting the Arlington Eats Community Meal on Thursday, April 11th. Volunteers are needed in various roles, from set-up, prepping the meal, serving and clean-up. We are asking volunteers to arrive at the Thompson Elementary School Cafeteria between 4:00-8: 00 pm. Please email strattondeig@gmail.com.
Our students will meet the author of Ish, Dot, and Say Something at our annual author visit.
The PTO needs a Co-VP of Fundraising. Love the online auction? Want to run the behind-the-scenes action of putting it all together? Our very own Christina Falcone will be happy to show a new recruit all there is to know about the auction, from finding vendors to donate their wares to setting up the auction site. Much of this work can be done from home. This is the perfect role for someone who is detail-oriented and excited about fundraising. Join us as we look to offer even more fun ways for the Stratton community to support our PTO. Please email Kelly at kmountain72@gmail.com.
Do you love to coordinate social events? Are you detail-oriented and good at gathering volunteers and delegating the many, many tasks necessary to pull off fun events like the Ice Cream Social, End-of-Year Social and the Halloween Party? If so, please consider joining the PTO as the Community Chair. Please email Kelly at kmountain72@gmail.com.
Stratton is hosting the Town Meeting Bake Sale on April 29. Sign up to bake or sell here: https://www.signupgenius.com/go/30e0c4fafa928a3ff2-town.
The Cause and Event 5K is scheduled for May 12. Have you registered yet? Just pick Stratton Elementary as your team and designate the Stratton PTO as your charity to help benefit the PTO. On race day you will see lots of familiar Stratton faces along the course! Register now and help us regain largest team bragging rights (and an extra $250!). Register here: https://racewire.com/register.php?id=10188. This event is 85% full, so sign up today!
Stratton's 10th annual Science and Engineering Night will take place on Friday, May 3, 2019, 6:30-8:30 pm in the Stratton Cafeteria (180 Mountain Ave, Arlington, MA) and Gym. Join us for this exciting educational night. New stations this year include a mini-robot-building station and an astronomy table/demo by the Amateur Telescope Makers of Boston.
With many parent-led experiments and educational stations, we'll need many hands to staff the evening. There will be information for volunteers both before and at the event, so no scientific background is necessary to help. Contact Chandreyee Das (chandreyee@gmail.com) with any questions. Thank you!
Congratulations to Mrs. Meller's Third Grade Class – Box Top Champs!
Thank you to everyone who clipped Box Tops — these are now becoming field trips, author visits, teacher support, and community events! Please keep saving for next school year! Every top makes a difference.


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New mothers could be missing out on thousands of pounds worth of state pension.
New figures, released by mutual insurance company Royal London, show that a high percentage of new mothers are not claiming Child Benefit, resulting in £5,000 worth of pension rights being lost.
The figures show that a large percentage of Child Benefit claims are not being made due to the introduction of the High Income Child Benefit Tax Charge in 2013, which taxes a parent who earns more than £60,000 a year, at a rate which wipes out the Child Benefit rate of £20.70 a week (eldest child only, correct as of December 2016).
Child Benefit gives not only extra income to families but also National Insurance Credits to the claimant (usually the mother) so that any time off work does not impact on state pension entitlement.
The study by Royal London states that mothers who fall under the Child Benefit tax charge are not bothering to claim Child Benefit because of the high tax charge they incur, costing them thousands of pounds in state pension rights in the process.
"Being one year short at the end of your working life could cost nearly £5,000 in missing state pension rights through the course of a typical retirement," said the report, entitled The Mother's Missing out on Millions.
"Looking at lost pension rights in 2014/15 and 2015/16 combined, we estimate that around £278 million in state pension rights have potentially been lost.
"We also estimate that around 125,000 mothers were missing out during 2015/16.
"As the policy has not changed since then, there is no reason to suppose that the problem has not continued to grow.
"We therefore estimate that by the end of the current financial year more than half a billion pounds in state pension rights could be at stake," it added.
Peter Way-Rider, Tax Manager at Ellis & Co Chartered Accountants said: "It is important that all new mothers apply for Child Benefit, regardless of income.
"As can be seen from these figures, thousands of pounds in state pension rights are being lost.
"Child Benefit forms are given to all new mothers before leaving hospital after having a baby, the form is included in a Bounty pack, which includes numerous vouchers and free samples.
The report concluded: "Whilst efforts have been made to ensure that mothers are aware of the impact of missing out on child benefit, the system is clearly not working.


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The Schützenfest (, marksmen's festival) held annually in Adelaide, the capital of South Australia, is a German cultural festival. Schützenfests  are held in Germany and also around the world. The Adelaide festival has been reputed to be the second largest Schützenfest in the world.

Soon after the British colonisation of South Australia, with settlers arriving from 1836, a large migration of Germans occurred, especially after 1838. The Adelaide German Club was founded on 15 July 1854, and in the same year, the first Schützenfest was held. The German Shooting Society founded in Adelaide in January 1861 was the first recorded in the colony.

The festivals continued to be held in country towns, notably Hahndorf, Lobethal and the Barossa Valley. The first public Schützenfest held in Adelaide was organised by the Adelaide German Club in 1865 in the suburb of  St Peters, which drew a crowd of more than 5,000 people (when the total city population was only 27,000).  The first event run by the South Australian German Association (founded 1886) was held in the suburb of Walkerville on 30 December 1889.

It was not held again until 1964, when it started being held annually at Hahndorf, and in 1994 the event was moved to Adelaide, where it was held in Bonython Park in the  western parklands over a weekend. The event included activities for children (such as Humphrey B. Bear and singer Peter Combe), music, dancing, food and drink. For some years the event took place in the height of summer, sometimes resulting in people suffering heatstroke, such as in the middle of a heatwave in January 2001. In 2010 the festival took place at Ellis Park/ Tampawardli, after being moved by Adelaide City Council from Bonython Park owing to roadworks. By 2015 it was back in Bonython Park.

In April 2021 the first Schützenfest was held over two days at the German Club's new home in the western suburb of Brooklyn Park.

See also
German Australian
German settlement in Australia

References

Further reading

Festivals in Adelaide
Beer festivals in Australia
German-Australian culture
Shooting sports in Australia
Annual events in Australia
Summer events in Australia


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"And why beholdest thou the mote that is in thy brother's eye, but considerest not the beam that is in thine own eye?" Matthew 7:3
Blind spots are the greatest generator of tragedies in human experience. Violence to self and others almost always occurs in a state of eclipse by one or more blind spots. This card challenges you to locate your own blind spots and those of people close to you. If you don't think you have blind spots, then that is the first blind spot you need to recognize. Even psychologists who specialize in blind spots find themselves frequently succumbing to blind spots.
Captain Jacob Van Zanten was one of the most accomplished and experienced pilots in the world with a spotless record. He was the head of KLM's safety program. Nevertheless, during a day of acute frustrations, he made the impulsive decision to take off in a foggy, unfamiliar airport without tower clearance and plowed into another jet resulting in the death of 584 people. Captain Van Zanten was motivated by one of the most classic blind spots known as "loss aversion." Many studies show that people are far more motivated by preventing losses than they are by achieving comparable gains. It is loss aversion that keeps someone at the casino table trying to recoup losses until their life savings are gone. Captain Van Zanten had an excellent on time record that was being undermined by a series of mishaps that day, and he couldn't stand the thought of the loss of his good record. His co-pilot, who warned him that he did not have tower clearance to take off, went along with the impulsive decision because of another classic blind spot — the tendency to override your own better judgment out of deference to a person of authority.
Here are some of the other most classic blind spots:
Planning Fallacy —- The tendency to underestimate task-completion times.
Need for Closure — Studies show that creative people are better able to live with ambiguity, but many cannot bear it. To overcome ambiguity, doubt and uncertainty people reach premature closure on important decisions, convincing themselves they have reached the correct verdict. Time and/or social pressure increase this tendency. People who surrender to fundamentalisms and absolutisms are often trying to permanently immunize themselves from the threat of ambiguity.
Post-Purchase Rationalization — The tendency to persuade oneself that a purchase was a good value. This tendency may derive from loss aversion — we don't like to admit that we didn't get a good deal.
Wishful Thinking — The formation of beliefs and the making of decisions according to what is pleasing to imagine rather than through evidence or reasoned consideration.
Halo Effect — The first traits we recognize in others influence our interpretations and perceptions of later ones because of our expectations. For example, good-looking people are judged as having better personalities and skills than those of average appearance. Celebrity endorsements improve sales of products that the celebrity knows nothing about.
Illusion of Asymmetric Insight— People perceive their knowledge of their peers to surpass their peers' knowledge of them.
Illusion of Transparency — People overestimate others' ability to know them, and they also overestimate their ability to know others.
Outgroup Homgeneity Bias — Individuals see members of their own group as being relatively more varied than members of other groups.
My-Side Bias — Our own perspectives seem much more obvious and strong in our minds than those of others.
Negativity Bias — It takes 5 compliments to make up for one negative remark in a relationship.
Instant Gratification — A quick, pleasurable payoff outweighs long-term consequences.
The following are classic blind spots for which I've made up names:
Other Guy Fallacy — Tragic consequences only happen to the other guy. Young males are particularly prone to this, and take extreme risks.
Overvaluation of Statistics — "Not everything that can be counted counts. Not everything that counts can be counted." — quote usually attributed to Einstein
Fashionable Darkness Bias — A novel, film, etc. with a positive ending is thought to be naïve and/or crassly commercial. Dark art, though often a postmodern cliché, is thought to be more authentic, daring and avant-garde. See my friend Rob Breszny's book Pronoia for more on this vast cultural bias.
Here are some blind spots I've noticed myself:
The Special Occasion Fallacy — Almost any occasion can be interpreted as either particularly stressful or celebratory and declared a "special occasion." Once the "special occasion" label is applied, we can suspend disciplines and allow unwise indulgences — e.g. "Studying for finals is a special occasion, so I'll allow myself to eat all the ice cream and pizza I want." The antidote: "Everyday seems like a special occasion, I need to eat now in a way that would be suitable to set as a pattern of lifelong eating." Food is merely one example, the special occasion blind spot is one that can riddle a lifetime the way holes riddle Swiss cheese. A drama queen, for example, is someone who has the special occasion blind spot at the center of his way of life. As Dorothy Canfield Fisher said, "Nothing is cheaper and shoddier than dramatic living." We feel entitled to indulge when we are eclipsed by the special occasion blind spot,and thereby lose awareness that it is the nowever that is the special occasion, an occasion that has a sacred aspect, and that demands of us what I call "existential impeccability" — the stance of impeccability that is path-oriented rather than goal-oriented.
Kurt Vonnegut's Fart Pardox — In one of his novels, Kurt Vonnegut pointed out that we are much more offended by the smell of other people's farts than by our own. In other words, we overestimate the annoyingness of others while underestimating how we might be annoying to them. For example, we're offended by the banality of someone's loud, oblivious cell phone conversation, but don't notice when we intrude our cell phone conversations in public places.
The I Fallacy — We always refer to ourselves as "I," when actually there is typically a revolving cast of often very different subpersonalities.
Attraction Paradox — We want other people to be attracted and love us for who we really are, while we allow our romantic attractions to largely depend on appearance.
The Celebrity Fallacy — The belief that celebrities are fundamentally better off despite all evidence to the contrary.
The Amazing Success Formula Fallacy — The belief in hyped up one-size-fits-all success formulas. Dieters, multi-level marketing folks, and power of positive thinking/ you-create-your-own-reality absolutists are especially prone to this delusion — The Secret, many self-help books, surefire methods to get rich quick, etc. When asked the secret of his success as a composer, Philip Glass responded: "My secret — I get up early in the morning and work all day long." Even that isn't a success formula, because Philip happens to be a genius who works all day long.
The Romantic Completion Fallacy — Seeking a beloved to make yourself whole. Wholeness can only be found where it always was, within. You betray your inner wholeness by making it dependent on another.
The Real Life Up Ahead Fallacy — This isn't your real life right now, you're working toward your real life up ahead when you find your soul mate, perfect weight, career,dream house,etc. If nothing else, aging painfully exposes this fallacy. The antidote: existential impeccability.
The Star Fallacy — I recognize myself as the star of my movie, but fail to recognize that other people are the stars of their movies.
Consider this a propitious time to become more aware of how you, and those close to you, are affected by blind spots.
This card invites your participation. What blind spots have you noticed that I am not mentioning here? I would like to add some of the blind spots you've discovered to this document. If you give a personal example, I won't use that without permission. Send to [email protected] Also, is there a blind spot in this oracle, something you feel is missing or over-emphasized?
My editor, Austin Iredale, suggested the following:
Aysmmetrical Suffering — The idea or feeling that your experiences and hardships are unique or perhaps greater than those of others. e.g. "Nobody knows the troubles I've had." "People in Haiti probably have no idea what I have to go through to run my own website."
My knowledge of blind spots was expanded by the following three books. Sway, was by the far the best.
Sway — The Irresistible Pull of Irrational Behavior — Ori and Rom Brafman
Predictably Irrational: The Hidden Forces That Shape Our Decisions — Dan Ariely
Blind Spots — Why Smart People do Dumb Things — Madeleine L. Van Hecke, PhD
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Q: How to change my ListView to LinearLayout in Android? I am building an Android application where I am fetching data from a local DB and displaying it in a custom ListView.
Now the problem is I want to use LinearLayout in place of ListView as a scroll problem.
Below my code that I am using for listView.

*

*Declaration in activity -
lv = (ListView) findViewById(R.id.listView1);

adapter = new CustomAdapter(this, dbh.fetchAllRec(),
        CursorAdapter.NO_SELECTION);
lv.setAdapter(adapter);

*CustomListView -
public class CustomAdapter extends CursorAdapter {

///---  cunstructor ---///

@Override
public void bindView(View v, Context context, Cursor c) {
// TODO Auto-generated method stub
//TextView tvId=(TextView)v.findViewById(R.id.tvId);

//tvId.setText(c.getString(c.getColumnIndex(c.getColumnName(0))));
//tvId.setText(c.getString(arg0));

TextView tvEmail = (TextView)v.findViewById(R.id.tvEmail);
tvEmail.setText(c.getString(c.getColumnIndex(c.getColumnName(4))));

TextView tvPword = (TextView)v.findViewById(R.id.tvPword);
tvPword.setText(c.getString(c.getColumnIndex(c.getColumnName(5))));

TextView tvMobile =(TextView)v.findViewById(R.id.tvMobile);
String FlatNumber = c.getString(c.getColumnIndex(c.getColumnName(1)));
String Landmark = c.getString(c.getColumnIndex(c.getColumnName(2)));
String Address = c.getString(c.getColumnIndex(c.getColumnName(3)));
tvMobile.setText(FlatNumber+","+Landmark+","+Address);

  }

@Override
  public View newView(Context context, Cursor c, ViewGroup parent ) {
    // TODO Auto-generated method stub
  LayoutInflater inflater = LayoutInflater.from(parent.getContext());
  View v = inflater.inflate(R.layout.cust_list, parent, false);

  return v;
 }

}

<TextView
    android:layout_width="wrap_content"
    android:layout_height="wrap_content"
    android:text="@string/locationT1"
    android:textSize="14sp" />

<TextView
    android:layout_width="wrap_content"
    android:layout_height="wrap_content"
    android:layout_marginTop="5dp"
    android:text="@string/locationT2"
    android:textSize="10sp" />

<RelativeLayout
    android:layout_width="wrap_content"
    android:layout_height="40dp"
    android:layout_marginTop="@dimen/margin_10"
    android:background="@drawable/cornerround">

    <ImageView
        android:id="@+id/mapLogo"
        android:layout_width="wrap_content"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:layout_centerVertical="true"
        android:contentDescription="@null"
        android:src="@drawable/locationicon" />

    <TextView
        android:id="@+id/pickerUserAddress"
        android:layout_width="wrap_content"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:layout_centerVertical="true"
        android:layout_marginRight="@dimen/margin_50"
        android:layout_toRightOf="@+id/mapLogo"
        android:lines="1"
        android:textSize="@dimen/text_size_14" />

    <ImageView
        android:id="@+id/editLocation"
        android:layout_width="wrap_content"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:layout_alignParentRight="true"
        android:layout_centerVertical="true"
        android:contentDescription="@null"
        android:src="@drawable/editiconn" />
</RelativeLayout>

<EditText
    android:id="@+id/pickerUserName"
    android:layout_width="match_parent"
    android:layout_height="40dp"
    android:layout_marginTop="@dimen/margin_10"
    android:background="@drawable/cornerround"
    android:hint="@string/hintEnterName"
    android:textSize="@dimen/text_size_14" />

<EditText
    android:id="@+id/pickerUserPhoneNumber"
    android:layout_width="match_parent"
    android:layout_height="40dp"
    android:layout_marginTop="@dimen/margin_10"
    android:background="@drawable/cornerround"
    android:hint="@string/hintEnterPhoneNumber"
    android:inputType="phone"
    android:maxLength="12"
    android:textSize="@dimen/text_size_14" />

<EditText
    android:id="@+id/pickerUserFlaNumber"
    android:layout_width="match_parent"
    android:layout_height="40dp"
    android:layout_marginTop="@dimen/margin_10"
    android:background="@drawable/cornerround"
    android:hint="@string/hintFlatNumber"
    android:textSize="@dimen/text_size_14" />

<EditText
    android:id="@+id/pickerLandMark"
    android:layout_width="match_parent"
    android:layout_height="40dp"
    android:layout_marginTop="@dimen/margin_10"
    android:background="@drawable/cornerround"
    android:hint="@string/hintLandmark"
    android:textSize="@dimen/text_size_14" />

<RelativeLayout
    android:id="@+id/pickerCollectCash"
    android:layout_width="wrap_content"
    android:layout_height="wrap_content"
    android:layout_marginTop="@dimen/margin_10">

    <TextView
        android:layout_width="wrap_content"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:layout_alignParentLeft="true"
        android:layout_alignParentStart="true"
        android:layout_centerVertical="true"
        android:text="@string/cashToCollect" />

    <EditText
        android:id="@+id/pickerCashToCollect"
        android:layout_width="@dimen/width_100"
        android:layout_height="40dp"
        android:layout_alignParentEnd="true"
        android:layout_alignParentRight="true"
        android:layout_gravity="end"
        android:layout_marginTop="@dimen/margin_5"
        android:background="@drawable/cornerround"
        android:hint="@string/hintRs"
        android:inputType="phone"
        android:maxLength="5"
        android:textSize="@dimen/text_size_14" />

</RelativeLayout>

<RelativeLayout
    android:id="@+id/PickerDoneBtn"
    android:layout_width="wrap_content"
    android:layout_height="40dp"
    android:layout_gravity="right"
    android:layout_marginTop="10dp"
    android:background="@color/secondary_color">

    <TextView
        android:layout_width="wrap_content"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:layout_centerHorizontal="true"
        android:layout_centerVertical="true"
        android:paddingLeft="20dp"
        android:paddingRight="20dp"
        android:text="PROCEED" />

</RelativeLayout>

<RelativeLayout
    android:layout_width="match_parent"
    android:layout_height="wrap_content"
    android:layout_marginTop="10dp"
    android:layout_marginBottom="10dp"
    android:background="@color/newDesignGrey">

    <TextView
        android:layout_width="wrap_content"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:layout_marginBottom="5dp"
        android:layout_marginLeft="5dp"
        android:layout_marginTop="5dp"
        android:text="Saved Addresses"
        android:textSize="@dimen/text_size_14"
        android:textStyle="bold" />
</RelativeLayout>

<ListView
    android:id="@+id/listView1"
    android:layout_width="match_parent"
    android:layout_height="wrap_content"
    android:dividerHeight="0dp"
    android:scrollbars="none"
    android:background="@color/newDesignGrey" />

A: Please, describe all scope of issue.
As I see from question and comments, you've got a ListView, which scrolls on some part of the screen, but you need to scroll all the screen. And you want to cast ListView to LinearLayout. Is that correct? If yes, it's not good idea, specially if your ListView contains a lot of items. It's better to add header to your ListView or use custom NonScrollableListView class. But as for me first option is preferable.
Waiting comments from you, it'll be a bit more clear for me after your response.


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Beijing Playhouse Closes Run of I DO! I DO! 5/23
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Beijing Playhouse, China's largest locally produced English Broadway theatre, will present the Broadway musical I Do! I Do! from May 14th to the 23rd. I Do! I Do! will be performed in English with Chinese subtitles at Goose and Duck and various venues in Beijing.
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Empower Generation (EG) is a social enterprise that supports rural women to lead inclusive businesses that deliver clean energy solutions to their remote communities in Nepal. In partnership with Kalpavriksha, they provide finance, sales, and supply chain management training and mentorship as well as working capital to women who in turn run their own clean energy enterprises, selling portable and large solar home systems through their sales agents.
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What led you to start an energy access enterprise?
Is there any advice or a mantra you would like to share with organizations that are on the fence on incorporating women in their business models?
In many ways, your work on establishing and growing clean energy businesses coupled with gender inclusion is about breaking social barriers in countries like Nepal. How do you circumvent issues of traditional gender roles that limit participation of women?
What have been your biggest challenges and how are you working to address them?
SA: "Working capital for women is the biggest challenge. Rural women in Nepal do not own property and do not have access to their own money, making it difficult for them to start their own business. In addition, people tend to hesitate to invest in a woman-run business. Another challenge is the perception that poor people can only purchase poor quality products. In addition, the communities we work with expect to get products for free, and they have the job-finder perception rather than the job-creator mindset.
Do you think there is adequate evidence around the impact of involving women as entrepreneurs or as part of the business models in the energy access space? If not, what would you like to see more of, in terms of both research and implementation?
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Billie Jean King Says Men Are Not Held to the Same Strict Standards As Women in Tennis
By Lisa Ryan@lisarya
Billie Jean King. Photo: Vivien Killilea/Getty Images for Clase Azul
In May, Serena Williams sported an all-black bodysuit while competing during the French Open — and it was recently revealed that the tournament decided to ban such outfits afterward. Once she heard the news, tennis legend Billie Jean King took to Twitter to call for the end of the "policing of women's bodies."
On Tuesday night, the Cut caught up with King at the U.S. Open, during a benefit for the CityParks Foundation's tennis programs. The Battle of the Sexes icon explained to the Cut that the ban falls in line with the tennis world's long history of controlling and criticizing women's attire — often while not holding men to the same strict standards.
"Fashion usually dictates our freedoms. Back in the old days, our wrists and our ankles couldn't be shown," King told the Cut. "If you look at the fashion every decade in women's tennis — which is very small — you can see how things are changing in the world for us: our freedoms, the way we dress, which is good. But I never hear them really talk about how the guys should dress."
King explained that, likewise, she has long noticed that women tennis players have been asked questions about their outfits, appearances, and sexuality during press conferences — while male tennis players are not faced with the same questions. "They were all guys," King said of the journalists at the press conferences she'd attend. "I didn't have one woman reporter at the Bobby Riggs match. Not one. I used to go into a press conference and it was always all men."
King went on to say that she saw some of the male reporters who weren't as "enlightened" appear to become more informed as their conversations continued over the years. "That's why you need to see each other; that's why you have diversity and that's why you have inclusion," King explained. "Because if you have 8,000 new opinions versus one or two, you just hear more things and you start to help each other learn and start thinking about each other.
She continued, "Usually the dominant group thinks the subdominant group is invisible — that's usually white men. … I don't want to generalize, but they've done studies on this. But the subdominant group knows a lot about the dominant group, because they have to navigate their world: You work for them, you have to navigate daily. So what we want to do is bring people together so that there's no hugely dominant group or not hugely subdominant group."
King added that "women shouldn't be a subdominant group." She told the Cut that she wants girls to stop being taught to be perfect, echoing Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's We Should All Be Feminists, while boys are taught to be brave. She said, "We just have to be self aware … That's what makes greatness and makes us the best we can be. But we're not perfect, and men are not always brave."
The morning following our interview, news broke that another female tennis player, Alizé Cornet, was criticized for trying to fix her shirt (which she had inadvertently put on backward) during the U.S. Open on Tuesday. Just as she did with Serena Williams, King immediately took to Twitter to stand up for the athlete (while also plugging her collaboration with Adidas):
This rule is outdated and impractical. We are here to create change with @adidastennis. #CreatorsUnite https://t.co/3C7iEb0dwq
— Billie Jean King (@BillieJeanKing) August 29, 2018
A Brief (and Frustrating) History of People Policing Women's Tennis Outfits
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Q: creating a facebook pages like app in rails I have a rails app where users can sign up and create posts, now what i want to achieve is that i want to give users option to create pages and those pages will be able to create post, what i have done till now is i have generated another controller called pages i have added users to that pages by doing a migration.
Relationship between modals look like:
user.rb
class User < ActiveRecord::Base
  # Include default devise modules. Others available are:
  # :confirmable, :lockable, :timeoutable and :omniauthable
  devise :database_authenticatable, :registerable,
         :recoverable, :rememberable, :trackable, :validatable,
         :omniauthable, :omniauth_providers => [:facebook, :twitter, :google_oauth2]

         act_as_mentionee

  validates :username, presence: true
  validate :avatar_image_size

  has_many :posts, dependent: :destroy
  has_many :pages, dependent: :destroy
end

pages.rb
class Page < ActiveRecord::Base
    validates :name, :description, :user_id, presence: true
    belongs_to :user
    has_many :posts, dependent: :destroy
    delegate :username, to: :user
end

posts.rb
class Post < ActiveRecord::Base

  act_as_mentioner

  validates :title, :body, :user_id, presence: true

  belongs_to :user
  belongs_to :channel
end

Now i want to add posts to pages and i really don't know how to do that, i want to add posts in pages so pages can create post.
what will be the best way to go around this?
and if you know some kind of tutorial or gem for this please tell me.

A: First you need add a controller for User Model
to add a controller you can refer this rails guide
http://guides.rubyonrails.org/layouts_and_rendering.html
once controller is added you need to add your routes in routes.rb
resources :users

You need to add the corresponding views for each action in controller
In user model you can add
nested attributes for the :pages and :posts
see the below help document for nested attributes
https://apidock.com/rails/ActionView/Helpers/FormHelper/fields_for
Hope this answer gives you some idea on how to proceed further


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New BC Society Act gives more control to students, but how much control is still uncertain.
BC's student societies have a big question on their minds — can their members optout and stop paying fees?
The answer is complicated, but it's true that students may now "resign" from UBC's AMS, thanks to new provincial legislation. What this would mean for voting rights and other aspects of AMS membership is unclear. Under that legislation, students are also entitled to a number of court remedies if their society has "oppressed" or "unfairly prejudiced" them.
These changes are part of an update to the BC Society Act, which took effect November 28 after five years of consultation. The act governs more than 27,000 societies in BC. Included under that umbrella is the AMS and all other student societies in the province – about 25 in total, representing close to 100,000 students.
The new act is now enforceable. It is not intended to be retroactive, but how it will be enforced is still unclear moving forward. When the act was first proposed in 2010, the AMS was worried about it then.
The AMS's concerns were echoed at that time by the UBC Graduate Student Society, the University of Victoria Student Society and the Canadian Federation of Students BC (CFS BC), a provincial alliance of 14 university and college students' unions that aims to provide a unified voice on education.
In response to these concerns, the government passed Bill 41. This bill splits student fees into two categories: "capital fees" and "program and service fees." The AMS is now waiting for Bill 41's terms to be clarified, as it will affect their current fee structure. Also unclear is what resignation does to a student's other rights such as voting on the implementation of new fees.
The Alliance of BC Students (ABCS), similar to CFS BC, is a not-for-profit advocacy group of graduate and undergraduate student societies representing more than 60,000 students, and said they were promised the "status-quo" of fees would remain. But they're awaiting clarification, and uncertain whether courts would enforce the fees of resigned members.
The AMS is not a member of the CFS BC or the ABCS, but on its own, UBC's student union represents 45,000 students, making it Canada's largest student union. The AMS declined to comment on their efforts to influence the Society Act, and declined an interview about the effect of the new act, saying it would be premature until the province issued its clarifying regulations.
The right to resign is not the only significant change under the new Society Act. Under Section 102, "Complaints by Members," students are now entitled to new court remedies. The court has always been able to interfere in societies under Section 105, but only when "irregularities" occur such as a failure to comply with provincial legislation or a society's own bylaws. Now, students can take their societies to court over "oppression" and "unfair prejudice" — terms which have yet to be tested in court.
Since these terms are untested in court, it's too early to tell what their effect will be, or how much more vulnerable to litigation. That will depend on the court's interpretation.
CFS BC opposed Section 102, however, calling it an "invitation to nuisance litigation." But the AMS took a different view, and encouraged additional avenues of accountability. Societies can remove elected officials, but only at a special general meeting that meets quorum, which is the minimum number of students that needs to be in attendance to make decisions on their behalf. Reaching quorum of 45,000 students the AMS represents has been historically difficult to achieve.
A number of other Society Act clauses were disputed by student societies. The AMS fought against a requirement that all directors be at least as old as 18. This was passed, but student societies were allowed to make exemptions. Another gave members of the public legal recourse if a society failed to act in the "public interest." In response, the CFS BC argued that student societies are designed to serve the interests of their members, not the overall public. This public interest clause was removed in the final version.
The AMS has other concerns with the act, but they are summarized by their core argument in 2010 — that BC student societies, which collectively represent more than a hundred thousand students, are significantly different from the 27,000 other nonprofit societies governed by the BC Society Act.
The option of resignation and new legal remedies are significant changes to students' rights within their student unions, and both can have an effect on a society's funds, whether through revenue collection or legal expenses. The two combined represent a shift of power from societies to individual members.
The Ministry of Advanced Education did not respond to a question about whether a separate student society act was considered. The CFS BC and the CFS did not respond to requests for comment.


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For complex surgical procedures, you'd better go to university hospitals, which are usually at the forefront of health research. Medical students and residents ask many questions, providing more eyes and ears to pay attention and avoid mistakes. Operations at university hospitals usually have lower rates of complications and better outcomes. Also, many university hospitals have EHR software, so if you want to transfer to another hospital later, you don't have to worry about your medical record.
If you are going to be released for rehabilitation, shop around for a place that has experience with your condition. Rehabilitation providers who handle more than two dozen hip fractures per year are more likely to successfully fulfill seniors within a month than facilities that are less experienced.
Super Germs live everywhere and can travel around. Even if the doctor washed his hands as many times as possible can easily transfer a dangerous germ to someone else. Hospital cleaning staff use bleach bottles or alcohol wipes for cleaning bed rails, remote controls, doorknobs, telephones, call buttons, and toilet flush levers. But germs are still there. So people who are visiting a patient in a hospital should be aware of germs.
Do not interrupt the nurse when she is preparing the patient's medication, because the more you interrupt, the greater the chance of error. In fact, each interruption was associated with a 12 percent increase in errors.
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/* globals __DEV__ */
import Phaser from 'phaser'
import Mushroom from '../sprites/Mushroom'
import AnimePotato from '../sprites/AnimePotato'

const playerScale = 1
let speed = 2
const walkVelocity = 150

export default class extends Phaser.State {
  // do not know why I needed to add these manually for animation support...
  init () {
  }

  preload () {}

  create () {
    this.explosion = this.game.add.audio('explosion')

    this.mushroom = new Mushroom({
      game: this.game,
      x: this.world.centerX,
      y: this.world.centerY,
      asset: 'mushroom'
    })

    this.player = new AnimePotato({
      game: this.game,
      x: this.world.centerX,
      y: this.world.centerY,
      asset: 'a-potato'
    })

    this.game.add.existing(this.mushroom)
    this.game.add.existing(this.player)

    this.game.physics.startSystem(Phaser.Physics.ARCADE)
    this.game.physics.enable([this.player, this.mushroom])

    this.player.animations.add('cycle')
    this.player.scale = {
      x: playerScale,
      y: playerScale
    }
    this.player.body.onCollide = new Phaser.Signal()
    this.player.body.onCollide.add((sprite1, sprite2) => {
    })

    this.cursors = this.game.input.keyboard.createCursorKeys()
  }

  update () {
    const {player} = this
    const {body, scale} = player
    const {velocity} = body
    const {up, down, left, right} = this.cursors
    const {x, y} = velocity
    const slideFriction = 5
    let isWalking = false

    if (up.isDown) {
      velocity.y = -walkVelocity
      isWalking = true
    }
    if (down.isDown) {
      velocity.y = walkVelocity
      isWalking = true
    }
    if (left.isDown) {
      velocity.x = -walkVelocity
      isWalking = true
      scale.x = -1
    }
    if (right.isDown) {
      velocity.x = walkVelocity
      isWalking = true
      scale.x = 1
    }
    if (down.isUp && up.isUp) {
      if (y > 0) {
        velocity.y -= slideFriction
        if (y < 0) velocity.y = 0
      }
      if (y < 0) {
        velocity.y += slideFriction
        if (y > 0) velocity.y = 0
      }
    }
    if (left.isUp && right.isUp) {
      if (x > 0) {
        velocity.x -= slideFriction
        if (x < 0) velocity.x = 0
      }
      if (x < 0) {
        velocity.x += slideFriction
        if (x > 0) velocity.x = 0
      }
    }
    if (isWalking) {
      this.player.animations.play('cycle', 8)
    } else {
      this.player.frame = 0
      this.player.animations.stop()
    }

    this.game.physics.arcade.collide(this.player, this.mushroom, (sprite1, sprite2) => {
    })
  }

  render () {
    if (__DEV__) {
      this.game.debug.bodyInfo(this.player, 16, 24)
    }
  }
}


Mods is there going to be trivia tonight? Usually starts at 8 pm EST and no question yet.
Cool a whole week of double tickets to make up for no trivia tonight!!!! What a way to come thru for us HSN. Thanks.
I'm betting no too. Too many problems already today!!
I sure hope there will be trivia tonight. I love to answer the questions and get tickets.