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Play up, play up and play the game
I was looking at my brother-in-law's copy of The Sportsmans Who's Who of 1957. The foreword included a quote from Milton which gives you an idea what world this came from.
A fair number of the people listed played more than one sport. Fred Titmus didn't just bowl off-breaks for England and Middlesex. He also played inside-right for Hendon in the Athenian League.
Many of them were amateurs and therefore they provide a home address rather than that of a club. Eric Dominy of 18, Hamilton Way, Finchley learned judo in a German P.O.W. camp from which he managed to escape. Hubert Doggart of 66 Kingsgate Street, Winchester played test cricket for England versus the West Indies but could only manage to play for Sussex in August. He also wanted to mention that he played squash, rackets, rugby fives and soccer for Cambridge as well as turning out at inside-right for Corinthian Casuals.
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Lloyd George clearly didn't know my grandfather
This is the picture known in my family as grandfather with Lloyd George. Since he's in the top left while the former Prime Minister is trying to get away to resume his pursuit of some young filly we may assume that their legendarily close relationship was going through one of its chillier periods. I don't suppose there's an expert on liveried servants out there who might be able to date or place this picture?
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Hur-hur-hur
I don't hold the bien-pensant view of Jeremy Clarkson. If anything I'm a fan but the story about him describing the Prime Minister as a see you next Tuesday during a Top Gear audience warm-up does shine another light on what happens when that unique admixture of money, celebrity and yobbishness goes off as it does all the time these days.I can't imagine any public context in which I would use the c-word about anyone, from the Prime Minister to the lowest in the land. If I was employed by an organisation and used it in front of that organisation's clients I would expect to be fired on the spot and wouldn't expect any redress. If you were in charge it would definitely happen.
So what possessed this educated, upstanding member of the bourgeoisie to drop the c bomb in front of an average bunch of licence-payers, most of whom probably wouldn't dream of using that word even if they hit their thumb very hard with a hammer? It's not a heat of the moment thing or you would hear rock stars use it on stage and footballers in post match interviews. It doesn't escape. It's deployed. So why did Clarkson do it? Was he momentarily struck by the terror of the man who knows he's meant to be funny but has nothing funny to hand? Maybe it's the increasingly desperate pursuit of that low "hur-hur-hur" of (largely male) approval that can usually be elicited without need for material that is actually funny. I was talking to Danny Baker about this very thing earlier this week. He didn't do "hur-hur-hur" because it wasn't his sense of humour and women didn't like it. Nonetheless he noted that it was the easiest way to do material that broadcasting bosses considered acceptably "edgy".
Pets win prizes
I watched a programme on BBC1 last night. That doesn't happen often. It was called "The Rat Pack", about as bog-standard a piece of slice-of-life telly as you can imagine. The BBC may be overpaying certain of its stars but it's good to see that they can still make a series like this for the change they found down the back of Graham Norton's sofa. It was about two brothers whose business was ridding hysterical Londoners of rats. But really it was about their dog Charlie, a Jack Russell who had found, late in life, a true purpose to existence; clamping rats in his teeth and shaking them until their necks broke. The producers made it clear at the top of the programme that this was going to happen and so you had to hang around for the money shot, which came, as ever, near the end. It only worked out because one of the brothers took the precaution of putting the rat in a bucket, thereby making it near impossible for Charlie to fail. You can only conclude that TV viewers have no problem with cruelty to animals, providing it's the right animal dishing out the cruelty and the right one on the receiving end.
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You won't believe what happened to me when I called BT
I've been buying broadband from BT for ten years now. During that time they've irritated me by changing the name of the service from BT Openworld to BT Connect to BT Yahoo. Everything, in fact, except BT Meets The Upsetter At The Grass Roots Of Dub. I have three BT lines. A phone line, a burglar alarm line and another number that carries the broadband. Because I have only one point that delivers this last line I wondered if I could transfer the broadband to the main phone line, which has more sockets. I'd put off doing it for a couple of years because I couldn't bear the draining, uncomprehending conversations with distant call centres, the cost and upheaval of engineers or the risk that I would be left with no phone lines at all.
I was talking to Fraser about it. He said it ought to be possible for them to just switch it over. Fearing it couldn't be as simple as that, I put it off for a further couple of months. Eventually, I took my courage in both hands and called the BT Broadband queries line which connected to somebody in Bangalore who gave me another number to call in sales. They then put me on to the change of address section who said they could switch over the line but it might take seven days. Over the next seven days I received a series of automated phone messages promising that the process had been instigated and then a final call noting that the deed had been done. A couple of days later an actual human being called and asked if it was working. It was.
So there you are. The story of something working as it should and good customer service. I couldn't let it go unremarked.
I grew up surrounded by men who'd fought in either the First or the Second War. Some must have served in both. None of them talked about it much, partly because they had the traditional ambivalence of old soldiers and also presumably because they didn't wish to appear to be taking the limelight of somebody more worthy. Old combatants rarely show off about it. If anything they're slightly embarrassed to have survived. At his death at the age of 113 First World War veteran Henry Allingham was widely referred to as a hero. I'm sure he would have been appalled to be called any such thing. It seems that the less experience of military service anyone in the media has the more ready they are to dust off the h-word for anyone who's done what they would have modestly called their duty.
Why is junk always so poignant?
I've spent the day listening to the Test Match and, in a very half-hearted way, trying to throw out a lot of junk. Here, in the words of Julie Andrews, are a few of my favourite things.
The box is one of many packed full of unmarked cassettes. For ten years I did a radio show on GLR. I used to slip a tape into the machine before each one so that I had a record for my own reference. I didn't bother recording the dates. It probably wouldn't have made any difference had I done so. I don't even have a functioning cassette player to play them on at the moment. This is a classic Stuff Dilemma. I can't bring myself to throw them away but I am very unlikely to ever listen to them.
The huge VHS cassette of "All The Presidents Men" was the one I got when I joined one of the first video rental libraries. In those days you had to pay a joining fee, a sum on each rental and you had to buy the first cassette. This cost me £40 and this was in the mid-80s.
The pipes were my father's who died twenty-seven years ago. They've got his teeth marks on them.
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The only thing I took away from "Jurassic Park" was the advice that if you wanted to get an idea of how prehistoric creatures behaved, look at birds. There are herons living in our very un-exotic London suburb and when you hear their wings beating above, generally early in the morning, it can seem like you're about to get a visitation from the distant past. I snapped this one on a neighbour's roof this morning.
A portrait of the artist
I went to the first day of the Lord's Test today and found myself in a small section with this beautiful view. It was to the side of a balcony on which the photographers with long lenses perch, lining up ball after ball in the hope of getting the one that tells a story. And alongside them in their eyrie was cricket painter Jocelyn Galsworthy who spent the day dabbing away at a canvas. Seems a pleasant way to make a living.
Suffer the little children to come unto me for I've been checked by the ISA
I'm delighted that a bunch of well-known childrens' authors, with Philip Pullman and Michael Morpurgo at their head, are refusing to cooperate with a body called the Independent Safeguarding Authority in being "checked" prior to giving readings in schools. It needs a case like this to draw attention to the damage being done to all of us by the all-pervasive belief that children:
a) survive their childhood thanks only to the ceaseless vigilance of adults;
b) are at most risk from the people who are set in authority above them;
c) can be protected from predators by a cursory records check.
I've been going into schools from time to time over the years in a professional and parental capacity. In the last ten years I've grown sadly used to the feeling that I am likely to be seen as a sinister interloper unless I'm properly badged and certificated and in the presence of a licenced teacher with a stun gun. It's that depressing presumption of guilt that Pullman is objecting to. I think he and his colleagues may bring about some change. Good luck to them.
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It's the mothers I feel sorry for
"It rips out my heart a little every time, the sight of those young men's fresh, hopeful faces, and the knowledge that yet another mother, somewhere, has just had her heart ripped out for eternity," writes
Melanie Reid in The Times of the deaths of young soldiers in Afghanistan. Meanwhile in Muswell Hill the mother of backpacker Jamie Neale must have feared she would never get to know what happened to her son. (Once the relief over his return has flooded through the system I fear he'll get a public kicking for his stupidity.)
Is it strange that we instinctively feel the grief of mothers must be more painful than anybody else's? This is particularly the case with the mothers of men of that age, who seem programmed to put themselves in harm's way whether in uniform or in the fleece of a gap year tourist. Last week I spoke to the 28-year-old Patrick Hennessey who's written "The Junior Officers Reading Club" about his time with the army in Helmand province. He assured me it was common practice to tell one's mother that the fighting was taking place far away from where you were operating. I have a friend whose son is out there now who's probably spinning his mother the very same line.
Mark Ellen reckons the most poignant song ever written may be Anna McGarrigle's "Heart Like A Wheel". He may be right, just for the line "when you bend it, you can't mend it". I don't know whether the Arabic tongue deals with hearts differently but the other day I read this line in Louise Richardson's "What Terrorists Want". It's the mother of a suicide bomber speaking. She said had she known what he was going to do "I would have taken a cleaver, cut open my heart, and stuffed him deep inside. Then I would have sewn it up tight to keep him safe."
And Deliver Us From Inappropriateness
No single word pops out of the mealy mouth of modern management more frequently than "inappropriate". It manages to avoid being specific about the transgression while suggesting that the person using it has moral standards significantly higher than everybody else's.
And now it's "inappropriate" behaviour involving a researcher that has got Hardeep Singh Kohli suspended from his roving reporting role for BBC's The One Show. Somebody reported somebody else and before anyone could stop it the corporation's disciplinary procedure had swung into action and he's being hung out to dry for six months - and this is where it really sounds as if the captain of the second eleven has got pissed and thrown up at the back of the coach - "to reflect on his behaviour". Honestly. Wouldn't we rather be dismissed in shame than sent off to reflect on our behaviour?
A couple of thoughts occur:
1. In the media the standard interpersonal stuff which makes every work environment interesting is often further, er, enlivened by the presence of fame, money and influence. Part of me thinks that if you don't want to tangle with what's involved when highly competitive show-offs work closely together for long periods of time you should get a job with, say, the Church of England. But then I've read "Barchester Towers" so I know that it goes on pretty much everywhere. And the researcher who was on the receiving end of the "inappropriate" behaviour didn't formally complain. Which makes the whole incident even more puzzling.
2. What with this and the Carol Thatcher case you do wonder who's supposed to be managing The One Show. Local difficulties like these shouldn't turn up on the front pages. In my experience if you have to instigate a disciplinary procedure you've lost control. This particularly applies with freelance contributors. Surely you take them for a walk and warn them how they might be coming over to people. If that doesn't work you just don't ring them any more.
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What were once vices are now habits
The 40th anniversary of the Stonewall riots provides an occasion to quote from this Time magazine piece from 1966 back when the world was, by repute, swinging.
[homosexuality] is a pathetic little second-rate substitute for reality, a pitiable flight from life. As such it deserves fairness, compassion, understanding and, when possible, treatment. But it deserves no encouragement, no glamorization, no rationalization, no fake status as minority martyrdom, no sophistry about simple differences in taste—and, above all, no pretense that it is anything but a pernicious sickness.
In the 60s the only homosexual I was aware of was our local butcher and that was because he was said to be in court from time to time. On the bigger stage there were certainly no openly homosexual actors or musicians, let alone politicians. Stonewall triggered a movement which eventually arrived here as the Gay Liberation Front. At the beginning of the 70s I was in a scummy flat in Turnpike Lane with a number of flatmates, one of whom had come out in a most flamboyant way. Our flat became a meeting place and crashpad for members of the GLF Youth Group, a movement which combined self-righteousness with copping-off opportunities that guaranteed its success. Within six months I graduated from not knowing a single homosexual to knowing hundreds of them, their language, their hang-outs, their mating habits and quite a bit about the mechanics of sexual congress. Had any of those people at the time been told that the first wedding my youngest daughter would be invited to on her own would be the civil partnership of a gay couple, I suspect they would have been amazed, as much by the fact that the couple were women as anything else.
This is the odd thing about change. It's deucedly unpredictable. We don't march in lock step towards the light. There are all sorts of curious mis-steps and wrong turnings. Gay Liberation was triggered by Stonewall. It might never have happened. Actually, the group who appeared ripest for liberation at the time were schoolkids who were loudly demanding the right to ruin their own lives, marching in the streets and waving the Little Red School Book. That's one emancipation movement that's gone backwards if anything. In the last forty years the argument that children should be shielded from real life has prevailed, often with the happy support of the children themselves who have benefited materially just as their own independence has been reduced.
When I read pieces like the Time editorial above I can't help thinking that some of the opinions held by people who think of themselves as moderate and liberal will appear equally ludicrous in ten years time.
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Nobody sings like Mama Cass
Today I am mainly listening to Mama Cass. There don't seem to be any voices that are lovely in the Mama Cass way anymore. I hear belters, divas, the peddlers of empty melisma, the ones who gargle to denote high emotion and faux-naïf pixies by the score, but I don't hear a woman with a voice that can make you sit up straight and take on the day with a smile on your face like Mama Cass did on "Getting Better".
Everybody has to convince us that they're mining some inexhaustible source of inner pain. There may well have been some of that going on with Mama Cass but she didn't let it show. The best thing a singer can do is make people feel better and the first person she needs to make feel better is herself. Nobody did that better than Mama Cass on "Getting Better". It's not perfect. It's got slight slips and even wanders off the note briefly. Nobody's gone back and fixed it. It's the sound of somebody making the best of things, which we don't hear often enough. And what a love song Barry Mann and Cynthia Weill provided her with. Few people can sing the word "groovy" without parenthesizing it. Mama Cass could. Just as great songwriters can pack a line with a lot of syllables great singers like Mama Cass manage to sound as if they're discovering that line for the first time. "Now there's something groovy and good 'bout whatever we've got". Indeed.
It's the Ashes. Look away now.
Everyone above a certain age remembers "No Hiding Place", the episode of "Whatever Happened To The Likely Lads" where they sought to avoid learning the score of an England international until the evening's highlights. It seemed a bit of a stretch even then. Nowadays if you want to avoid knowing what happened in the last minute of a major sporting occasion you have to remove yourself from society entirely. Now that the Ashes has begun it's an all-day hazard once again. During the 2005 Ashes I was working in an office with a window into an adjoining room in the corner of which was a television. That meant I only had to glance up to get a rough idea of what was happening. I couldn't see detail but I nonetheless developed a way of reading the play just from the camera angles the director was selecting. Wide shot with lots of green meant a boundary. Close-up meant batsman was having torrid time. When the games were taking place overseas I followed the ball-by-ball coverage on the excellent Cricinfo. Sinister patterns begin to appear. A dot ball took no time to come up on the screen. If the page was taking a while to refresh that could mean a wicket. The reporter was busy filling out the details. It's like the off-screen yelp of the football-watching ex-pros on Jeff Stelling's programme or Alan Green saying "we're going to go to White Hart Lane in a moment" on Five Live; an entirely new form of the thousand natural shocks that sport is heir to. Compared to all this agonisingly mediated information actually being at a match is a breeze.
Contrast all this with Charters and Caldicott in Alfred Hitchcock's "The Lady Vanishes". This pair are trying to get back by train from some unspecified Mittel European country on the brink of war in time to catch the last day of the Test Match. The progress of the train is of course interrupted by disappearing women, the always distracting Margaret Lockwood, shoot-outs with secret agents and regular passport checks by fascist jobsworths. And yet they never lose their faith that they will be returned to Victoria in time to scoot across town to Euston and take the train to Manchester that will get them to Old Trafford in time to see the last day's play.
An Art critic writes
The problem with the whole fourth plinth business is that plinths are traditionally occupied by larger-than-life figures. Once you plonk an actual human being on a plinth - even one dressed as a fish - he all but disappears.
Another internet music play gets a free ride from the City pages
All stories about music companies get disproportionate space on the financial pages because they provide the section editor with an excuse to run a picture of a glamorous woman singer under a headline about being "on song". There was a classic on the front page of the Sunday Times's Business Section yesterday: Fergie from the Black Eyed Peas under "Going For The Big Notes", which announced a story about Spotify seeking to raise another £30m. In this I wish them well but I wonder if a little bit of the page area devoted to Fergie's frock could have been used to ask the odd question.
Spotify costs the end user nothing. Its revenue comes from either advertising or monthly subscriptions. Since it's signed up more than 2m users since last October you might say that the company's proud claim to be doubling revenues monthly is not quite as spectacular as it first appears.
You really don't need a weatherman
An economist on the Today programme just apologised in case he and his fellow professionals are confusing us with the latest round of figures about public spending. How could we possibly be confused? We don't know the numbers. We don't need to know the numbers. It's quite sweet that politicians of all sides think it's about the numbers, as if we can be dazzled by a little book cooking, or "re-prioritising" as some government spokesman had it the other day. If you want to know how it's going you don't look at the figures. You look at their eyes.
My grandmother was no economist but even she could have told you that when the government has borrowed as much as ours has, unemployment and its attendant costs are rising steeply, the pound is in bad enough shape to frighten anyone who buys a bottle of Chianti, let alone goes on a holiday abroad, almost a million young people are not in work, education or full-time training, the one source of taxation income, financial services, is on the bones of its arse and according to the World Bank and the ratings agencies Britain is getting a reputation among the lenders of money of a particularly bad-risk sink estate, then the fantasy that public spending won't have to be reduced and taxation won't have to rise is one that you couldn't get past Pollyanna, let alone the supposedly sensible British public.
When every business or household in the UK is planning for no-growth, decline or armageddon, the idea that the present government is going to have a leetle bit of a look-ette at the figures after the election gives you an idea of what an empty charade that's going to be. Either they think somebody else will be looking at the books after the election (which is certainly what the polls believe) or their research has told them that we'd prefer not to have our pretty little heads clouded with the awful truth. I find this kind of collective delusion a lot more frightening than the truth could ever be.
There was an interesting exchange on the radio yesterday between Jack Straw and Ann Widdicombe about the rights and wrongs of releasing Ronnie Biggs. What made it interesting was that they were referring to each other as "Jack" and "Ann". This is the first time I've heard British political adversaries address each other in such familiar terms without one of them being at death's door. Perhaps they're both retiring at the next election. It was made even more unusual by the way they referred to the subject of their discussion as "Mr Biggs", which must be an indication of just how ill he is.
Mrs Slocum: the joke goes on forever
I don't suppose I've actually watched "Are You Being Served" for many years. The beauty of this kind of comedy is you don't really have to watch it as long as you carry it around in your head. It's like the Carry On series. The predictability is what makes it work. The plot is only there to provide excuses for the characters to behave in stereotypical ways.
Mrs Slocum (what a wonderful name that is) embodied a stock character that you can find in English literature as far back as Chaucer. She was the lady of a certain age who kow-towed to her superiors, lorded it over her underlings and yet remained immensely vulnerable to flattery, particularly of a romantic nature. Mollie Sugden was a master of this kind of characterisation. Her lines came front-loaded with flowery pretension before souring into fish wife abuse at the end. She was high and low in a very English way. You could smell the face powder and the "products" in her hair but she could probably look after herself in a scrap in a dockside pub.
Of course a dockside pub is as much of an anachronism as Grace Brothers itself, which had probably gone out of business by the time the series was first launched. If there are any Mrs Slocums still around they're not wearing corsets or sitting at home with their pussies. Nonetheless the joke embodied in that character, just as the joke attached to the characters played by Charles Hawtrey or Sid James, chuckles on down the years.
The banality of evil (a continuing story)
The horror of last night's Dispatches on the massacre in Mumbai didn't come from shots of the station concourse covered in brains, first-person accounts of those who were lucky to escape with their lives or even security camera footage of the gunmen cutting down guests at the luxury hotels. It came from recordings of the phone conversations between the murderers and their controllers back in Pakistan.
The squaddies with their fingers on the triggers may have been country boys who were temporarily distracted from their bloody work by the size of the computer screens in the buildings they moved through but they were being issued with their instructions by people far more frightening. Anyone inclined to believe acts like these are organised by people temporarily setting aside their finer feelings in pursuit of a sane political goal should hear this monster as he choreographs each move in his own personal festival of carnage. A slit throat here, a bullet in the back of the neck there, capricious mercy for a Turkish muslim followed by words of comfort for a Jewish woman (each Jew, he tells his team, is worth fifty ordinary corpses) who in due course he intends to have despatched.
He's sitting in a room with a bunch of fellow mobsters who are watching the events on live TV. Occasionally he has to seek advice from the rest of his management team and we hear him calling over his shoulder "should they kill them now or later?" At one stage a gunman answers the phone with the words "peace be with you." It's the kind of thing no scriptwriter would dare hand in for fear of vulgarising an event so terrible and writing a role no actor would dare play.
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After seven years, Red Alert returns! After a time travel mission goes awry, a new superpower has been thrust onto the world stage and World War III is raging. The Empire of the Rising Sun has risen in the East, making WW III a three-way struggle between the Soviets, the Allies, and the Empire with armies fielding wacky and wonderful weapons and technologies such as Tesla coils, heavily armed War Blimps, teleportation, armored bears, intelligent dolphins, floating island fortresses, and transforming tanks.
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posted: December 15, 2009 • Spain, Wildlife
Large scale risk-assessment of wind-farms on population viability of a globally endangered long-lived raptor
Author: Carrete, Martina; Sánchez-Zapata, José; Benítez, José; Lobón, Manuel; and Donázar, José | Spain, Wildlife
A B S T R A C T
Wind-farms receive public and governmental support as an alternative energy source mitigating air pollution. However, they can have adverse effects on wildlife, particularly through collision with turbines. Research on wind-farm effects has focused on estimating mortality rates, behavioural changes or interspecific differences in vulnerability. Studies dealing with their effects on endangered or rare species populations are notably scarce. We tested the hypothesis that wind-farms increase extinction probability of long-lived species through increments in mortality rates. For this purpose, we evaluate potential consequences of wind-farms on the population dynamics of a globally endangered long-lived raptor in an area where the species maintains its greatest stronghold and wind-farms are rapidly increasing. Nearly one-third of all breeding territories of our model species are in wind-farm risk zones. Our intensive survey shows that wind-farms decrease survival rates of this species differently depending on individual breed- ing status. Consistent with population monitoring, population projections showed that all subpopulations and the meta-population are decreasing. However, population sizes and, therefore, time to extinction significantly decreased when wind-farm mortality was included in models. Our results represent a qualitative warning exercise showing how very low reductions in survival of territorial and non-territorial birds associated with wind-farms can strongly impact population viability of long-lived species. This highlights the need for examining long-term impacts of wind-farms rather than focusing on short-term mortality, as is often promoted by power companies and some wildlife agencies. Unlike other non-natural causes of mortality difficult to eradicate or control, wind-farm fatalities can be lowered by powering down or removing risky turbines and/or farms, and by placing them outside areas critical for endangered birds.
Biological Conservation, doi:10.1016/j.biocon.2009.07.027
Martina Carrete and José A. Donázar: Department of Conservation Biology, Estación Biológica de Doñana (CSIC), La Cartuja, Sevilla, Spain; José A. Sánchez-Zapata: Department of Applied Biology, University Miguel Hernández, Orihuela, Alicante, Spain; José R. Benítez and Manuel Lobón: Colectivo Ornitológico Cigüeña Negra, Tarifa, Cádiz, Spain
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namespace ash {
namespace input_method {
namespace {

// String parameter containing the JSON-encoded rules dictionary.
const char kJsonRulesDictKey[] = "json_rules";

constexpr base::FeatureParam<std::string> kFieldTrialParams{
    &ash::features::kImeRuleConfig, kJsonRulesDictKey, ""};

// Array of objects, containing the list of rules.
const char kConfigRulesKey[] = "rules";

// Array of strings, containing the list of items the rule will use.
const char kConfigRuleItemsKey[] = "items";

// String, rule name of autocorrect domain denylist, containing the list of
// globally denylisted domains for auto correct..
const char kAutocorrectDomainDenylistKey[] = "ac-domain-denylist";

}  // namespace

ImeRulesConfig::ImeRulesConfig() {
  InitFromTrialParams();
}

ImeRulesConfig::~ImeRulesConfig() = default;

void ImeRulesConfig::InitFromTrialParams() {
  std::string params = kFieldTrialParams.Get();
  if (params.empty()) {
    VLOG(2) << "Field trial parameter not set";
    return;
  }
  absl::optional<base::Value> dict = base::JSONReader::Read(params);
  if (!dict || !dict->is_dict()) {
    VLOG(1) << "Failed to parse field trial params as JSON object: " << params;
    if (VLOG_IS_ON(1)) {
      auto err = base::JSONReader::ReadAndReturnValueWithError(params);
      VLOG(1) << err.error_message << ", line: " << err.error_line
              << ", col: " << err.error_column;
    }
    return;
  }

  // Read mandatory list of rules.
  auto* rules = dict->FindDictKey(kConfigRulesKey);
  if (rules == nullptr || !rules->is_dict()) {
    VLOG(1) << "Field trial params did not contain rules";
    return;
  }

  // Read optional rule for auto correct deny list.
  auto* ac_domain_denylist = rules->FindDictKey(kAutocorrectDomainDenylistKey);
  if (ac_domain_denylist == nullptr || !ac_domain_denylist->is_dict()) {
    VLOG(1) << "Rules from config did not contain "
            << kAutocorrectDomainDenylistKey;
  } else {
    // Read optional list of auto correct denylisted domains.
    auto* ac_domains_items =
        ac_domain_denylist->FindListKey(kConfigRuleItemsKey);
    if (ac_domains_items != nullptr) {
      for (const auto& domain : ac_domains_items->GetList()) {
        if (domain.is_string()) {
          auto_correct_domain_denylist_.push_back(*domain.GetIfString());
        }
      }
    }
  }
}

bool ImeRulesConfig::IsAutoCorrectDisabled(
    const TextFieldContextualInfo& info) {
  // Check the domain denylist rules
  for (const auto& domain : auto_correct_domain_denylist_) {
    if (info.tab_url.DomainIs(domain)) {
      return true;
    }
  }
  return false;
}

// static
ImeRulesConfig* ImeRulesConfig::GetInstance() {
  return base::Singleton<ImeRulesConfig>::get();
}

}  // namespace input_method
}  // namespace ash

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Connecting People to Jobs: Comparing Current and Potential Future Transit
June 14, 2016 June 28, 2019 / ACT, BRT, James Robertson, Regional Transit Authority, Regional Transit Plan, SMART, Woodward
One of the core purposes of transit is to connect people to jobs. Nationally, half of all transit trips are to get to work.
So the first in a series evaluating our region's current and potential future regional transit will focus on connecting people to jobs.
How does our region's transit do at getting people to jobs?
Our current transit works well for some commuters, including these riders on a SMART Woodward bus.
It works for some. Our current transit operators get more than 25,000 people to work each day. For some people traveling along major corridors during rush hour times, a bus commute can be easy, affordable and convenient.
Yet for far too many people, getting to work without a car is a huge struggle:
James Robertson walked 21 miles each day because buses were not available to get him where and when he needed to work.
I'm sure you know of James Robertson who became famous as The Walking Man for his 21 mile hike to work and back because the bus didn't go where and when he needed.
Have you heard of Michael Parker? He's a veteran who has to spend 3 hours on the bus to get to college.
How about Akeela Moore? She's a mom who has to leave by 4am to take 3 buses to get to work by 6am.
They are a few of the tens or thousands of people who undertake extrordinary efforts just to get to work or job training, all before they start their work day.
Many more people cannot access jobs at all. Today, 92% of jobs in Southeast Michigan cannot be reached within 60 minutes on public transit, according to SEMCOG.
All in all, our region does a poor job of connecting people to jobs.
How well would the RTA's proposed Transit Plan help connect people to jobs?
The RTA's plan would help get people to jobs in several ways:
Travel to work would be faster, with four rapid transit lines that would make riding transit just as fast as driving.
Travel to work would be more reliable, with less waiting, thanks to 10 Cross-County Connectors that would operate far more frequently than current buses do.
People could reach job centers that are currently inaccessible by transit, including Livonia, Canton, Novi, Wixom, and Rochester Hills.
Travel to work could be more comfortable and productive, with Commuter Express routes featuring
It is not a silver bullet. Some jobs would still be inaccessible by transit and others would still take a long time.
But many people would easier, faster, more reliable trips to work on transit, which could make all the difference in the world to people like James, Akeela, and Michael.
Share your Story: How is your transit commute to work?
Tell us about the joys or challenges you face taking public transit to work and representatives from TRU or ACT may ask you to be in the next ACT video.


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College (Latin: collegium) is a term most often used today to denote degree awarding tertiary educational institution. More broadly, it can be the name of any group of colleagues, for example, an electoral college, a College of Arms or the College of Cardinals. Originally, it meant a group of persons living together, under a common set of rules (con- = "together" + leg- = "law" or lego = "I choose"); indeed, some colleges call their members "fellows". The precise usage of the term varies among the English-speaking countries. In the United States, for example, the terms 'college' and 'university' may be regarded as loosely interchangeable, whereas in the United Kingdom, Ireland and Australia, a 'college' is usually an institution between school and university level (although constituent schools within universities are also known as 'colleges').


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Q: Install pygame in anaconda I have anaconda on Ubuntu 14.04. I want to install the pygame module with anaconda. I already run sudo apt-get install python-pygame, but this only works on python, not in anaconda.

A: I realize I am quite late to the party but here is what worked for me if anyone needs it. Ubuntu 14.04 64-bit with Anaconda 2.3.0 installed.
Install binstar:
conda install binstar

You get a response like: The 'binstar' conda package has been renamed to 'anaconda-client'. Please run: conda install anaconda-client.
So run:
conda install anaconda-client

Then search for the pygame package on anaconda.org:
anaconda search -t conda pygame

You get a list of pygame packages available at anaconda.org. Select a package for your distribution e.g. tlatorre/pygame is for Linux 64-bit.
To install it use:
conda install -c https://conda.binstar.org/tlatorre pygame

Once done, import pygame should work.
Credit: Answer by cohdez on
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/29137369/installing-pygame-module-in-anaconda-mac

A: Use this code at Terminal:
    conda install binstar
    conda clean --lock
    conda install anaconda-client
Search for appropriate package at:
anaconda search -t conda pygame
For Python 3 use the following
conda install -c https://conda.binstar.org/kne pygame

for Ubuntu this would work

A: I'm having the same problem and am looking for the same answer. Sadly, I didn't find an answer to install pygame with anaconda. What I did find is an alternate solution. You have to change your path like so:
Open terminal and run
echo $PATH

then you will see:
/home/username/anaconda/bin:/usr/lib/etcetcetc..

Now, copy this from the : to the end (excluding :). Then, run
PATH=/home/username/anaconda/bin:/usr/lib/etcetcetc..

This will make the terminal use the default python and pygame will work. This is not permanent. When you close the terminal, this is automatically changed.

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There are many reasons to buy a truck, from the pure power of it to the overall tough appearance. The 2018 Chevy Silverado 2500HD is certainly a truck's truck and one that will impress you not only with its overall aesthetic but with its durability as well.
Below you'll find a quick list of three things to love about the 2018 Chevy Silverado 2500HD, for truck experts and novices alike, though this list is by no means exhausted.
It may sound silly, but the 2018 Chevy Silverado 2500HD is one good looking truck. It's got the right color for everyone with up to thirteen possible exterior color options ranging from deep ocean blue metallic to a vivid red known as "red hot." Unlike many motor vehicles, there is an extensive number of options for the color of the interior as well, such as "saddle," a warm mix between tan and brown and dark ash, a muted but sophisticated gray tone. With black features such as door handles and a black and chrome grill that come as standard features of the truck, the Chevy Silverado 2500HD oozes style and sophistication.
Though the 2018 Chevy Silverado 2500HD comes standard with cloth seats, an upgrade to vinyl seats is offered along with a carpeted floor covering (and weather mats, for rainy days and snowy seasons) and a full cloth headliner.
The 2018 Chevy Silverado 2500HD is a car that you'll love to drive and that your passengers will love to ride in. Unlike many cars that have style but no real comfort, the Chevy Silverado 2500HD offers a number of features – both as standards and as optional extras – that make driving the Silverado 2500HD akin to a luxury experience.
The seats themselves lend themselves to comfort, providing lumbar support to both driver and passengers. The bench style seat (which can seat as many as three people comfortably) means that there is plenty of space to go around and that no one ends up feeling cramped or wedged in. With four-way adjustment capability in the driver's seat, even long rides will not impact overall comfort, and both driver and passenger are able to recline and adjust the heights of their seats as they so, please. An optional driver cushion tilt only adds to the luxury that the driver will experience even just while test driving the Chevy Silverado 2500HD.
There is a definite benefit to a powerful truck, particularly for those drivers who are perhaps interested in off-roading adventures and the like. A powerful motor vehicle is a good thing to have in any situation, however, in case of the unexpected or even an emergency situation.
Two types of engines are available for the Chevy Silverado 2500HD: the 285 horsepower, 4.3 liter V6 and (for an additional cost) the 355 horsepower, 5.3 liter V8. Both these engines are able to safely take regular gas, thus saving the new owner of the Silverado a considerable amount of money at the gas pump, as premium gas comes at a premium price.
The 355 horsepower engine has an impressive amount of torque too, able to haul as much as 383 pounds per foot with ease. For those prospective buyers who are looking to hook up something such as a boat or a trailer to the Silverado 2500HD, it's important to know that this engine can handle it without any problems.
Though power is great, it's not worth much without the safety features necessary to keep both driver and passenger (or passengers) safe. Fortunately, the 2018 Chevy Silverado 2500HD comes equipped with both, with safety features to match the amount of power it is capable of putting forth.
To start, the Chevy Silverado 2500HD has a front passenger airbag sensor, meaning that an airbag will deploy only if someone of a certain weight is in the front seat. This means that a safer environment is able to be created for any children riding in the front seat who could possibly sustain a serious injury caused by the detonation of the front airbag. With six airbags in total in the Silverado, a safe and protected environment is cultivated, only enhanced by standard feature of the front seat belt pre-tensioners.
But the Chevy Silverado 2500HD does more than just protect its occupants in the unfortunate event of a motor vehicle accident. In fact, the Chevy Silverado 2500HD is able to help prevent many motor vehicles accidents from even occurring in the first place. This is possible through the implementation of safety features such as brake assist and traction control, both of which come standard with the vehicle. Other safety features in the same vein include electronic stability and four-wheel disc brakes.
The Chevy Silverado 2500HD also comes with a spare tire as part of the standard package, ideal for even the most experienced of truck drivers. After all, flat tires are all too common, with the majority of drivers sustaining at least five in the entirety of their driving years.
Aside from the above three reasons to love the Chevy Silverado 2500HD, there are countless other reasons to give this truck a test drive at your local dealership. For instance, the 2018 Chevy Silverado 2500HD comes equipped with heavy-duty suspension as well as other features, most of them standard with the purchase of the motor vehicle, like speed sensing steering and gas pressurized rear shocks.
The optional extras are pretty great too, such as the option to install remote keyless entry as well as power windows.
The Chevy Silverado 2500HD is a solid truck, one that is built to last through all conditions. Not to mention that the Chevy Silverado 2500HD is even extremely comfortable as well, a truck that will prove to be a joy to drive through all kinds of weather and all seasons.


Interim Management: The temporary provision of management resources and skills. Interim management can be seen as the short‐term assignment of a proven heavyweight interim executive to manage a period of transition, crisis or change within an organization. In this situation, a permanent executive may be unnecessary or impossible to find on short notice.
The roots of interim management can be traced to the mid 1970s, when employees in The Netherlands were protected by long notice periods for lay‐offs and companies faced large costs when terminating employees. Employing managers on an interim basis presented itself as an ideal solution as it offered a flexible way to acquire additional resources.
In the 1980's interim management spread throughout Europe, especially in the UK. It has since seen annual growth rates of 20%. In fact many Europeans in their 30's now embrace interim management as a viable career option.
In the United States the use of interim management first gained headway to fill the seat of a CEO, COO, or CFO who suddenly left a company. Interims were needed to step‐in and provide critical leadership on short notice, while a permanent replacement was recruited—a process that often took months.
Today interim management in the US is expanding, offering an ideal solution to a wide range of corporate situations. These include project management, restructurings, business closings, acquisitions, mergers, and start‐ups. Interim managers go into organizations for a short time, make significant contributions, and then move on.
Why aren't interim executives more widely used?
The concept of 'interim management' is not widely understood. As a result many companies, when they require additional management resources, still seek permanent replacements or utilize consultants.
The wide spread downsizings and reorganizations that occurred during the most recent downturn have changed the business landscape. Companies recognize that, in today's volatile economy, they must respond rapidly to changing markets and new business opportunities. As a result they are now beginning to view interim management as a viable solution.
So what are interim executives?
Interim executives are seasoned managers who can quickly establish themselves as a strategic resource. They are typically utilized for a three to twelve month period to focus on specific programs or projects, a shortfall in management depth, a need for mentoring, or a rapid change in business performance and culture.
Interim executives understand the importance of company values and culture. Without the concern about internal politics or job security, they can provide sound business advice and take the appropriate actions. An interim executive's value also comes from taking advantage of vast experience that may be missing internally in an organization. Often a business cannot justify hiring a person since the assignment may be required only on a one‐off or occasional basis.
With experience that allows them to be productive immediately they are responsible and accountable to company managers and are often "sensibly overqualified", working one to two levels below the positions they once held in their professional careers.
How does a consultant differ from an interim executive?
A consultant reports to his or her employer firm and is generally retained to make recommendations that would then be acted upon by the hiring organization's management team.
An interim executive reports to a senior manager within the client's organization and can both recommend and implement the agreed upon strategies.
They are being recognized as a best practice for companies of all sizes and for a wide‐range of situations. Organizations that have experience with interim executives find that they are an effective and lower‐cost way to implement change or transition. Because of these factors these organizations often become multiple users of interims.


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Branching is an important tool in your development process, as it offers a very powerful way to let developers work in isolation on different aspects of a software project.
Plan branches represent a build for a branch in the version control system. The plan branch inherits all of the configuration defined by the parent plan, and any new branch created is automatically built and tested using the same build configuration as the parent. When the plan branch build succeeds, it can be automatically or manually merged back into master.
Branch deployments extend plan branches by allowing users to create a deployment release from any plan branch.
Why should we use branch deployments?
Bamboo deployments allow a plan branch to be deployed to a non-critical test environment before the feature code is merged back to master. This means that the feature code can be thoroughly tested and evaluated in a real server environment before the developer merges back the changes to master.
Developers should consider using branch deployments whenever they want to keep their in-progress development code separate from the master code, but want to test it within a deployable environment.
Learn more about deployment releases and how deployment releases work.
The following diagram shows a typical deployment branch example.
Now that the changes are in master – sporting the new feature – a new release can be created and deployed to the mainline environments (e.g. QA, Staging and Production).
Branch deployments should only ever be triggered into safe testing environments - they should never be triggered into production-like environments such as Staging, QA or Production.
Learn more about Creating and configuring a deployment project.
Let's examine each strategy in more detail.
Let's assume a developer is using a plan branch to work on a new feature for a product. They reach a point in development where the new code needs testing in a server environment.
When deployed, the developer thoroughly tests their new code. When satisfied that all of the tests have been passed, the developer can merge the changes back into master.
Learn more about Manually starting a deployment.
Let's consider another developer who is also using a plan branch to work on a new feature for the product. They decide to automate the branch deployment so that it isn't triggered manually.
Remember: Plan branch code should only be merged back to master AFTER testing of the branch feature code is complete AND successful.
Learn more about Triggers for deployment environments.


My marketing inspiration today comes directly from the movie theater. You see, nearly every time I order snacks at a theater, the same conversation ensues. At first, it was annoying. Then as time passed and it continued to happen, it became amusing. After a while it was simply a study in human behavior. Ultimately, it's an insight into how human behavior can affect your marketing.
The problem is Buttered Popcorn Syndrome, and it will wreak havoc with your snack order and your business plans alike.
I'll have a large buttered popcorn and a large Pepsi.
And that's when Buttered Popcorn Syndrome sets in. It hardly ever fails. The person behind the counter grabs a bucket, starts shoveling in popcorn, then stops and turns to you.
Did you want butter on your popcorn?
You wonder: is that not what I just asked for? But patiently, after all it's now twelve seconds into the first preview, you answer, "Yes." Recommence shoveling and a bucket of popcorn materializes. Alas, so does the next question.
What did you want to drink with that?
Thirty-nine seconds into the preview you repeat your request for a large Pepsi.
And so it continues. Heaven help anyone who orders a candy bar, hot dog or second drink with that order. It's simply TMI. Poor concession stand employee's brain cannot handle the barrage of information. The result is that you must repeat, or risk ending up with the wrong order.
This isn't a commentary on the state of hiring at movie theaters or the lack of mental capacity of the probable high school student who takes your order. Nor is it a reflection on our diminishing short-term memories. Rather, it's a simple statement: give a person too much information and little, if any, will be processed.
This is important when it comes to giving your customers and prospects information about what actions you want them to take.
Any marketer will tell you that a call-to-action is the central piece of a good marketing strategy. Define what it is you want your customer, website visitor or Facebook fan to do and prompt her to take action. This is sound advice. But rarely is it emphasized that a call-to-action is singular. It is an action, not actions.
If you ask your customers to do too many things at once, much like I asked that concession stand employee to do too many things, the entire exercise will be lost.
In the case of the buttered popcorn, I gave two directives: make it large and make it buttered. Experience has taught me that two directives are one too many. Even worse, in reality I gave four: large popcorn, buttered popcorn, large soda, Pepsi soda. Faced with four actions, the employee had to choose one, and the rest… well, I doubt they wiggled through the membrane of a single gray cell.
These days, when I'm not amusing myself at an employee's expense, I ask for a large popcorn. Eventually he'll ask if I want butter, and I'll say yes.
If you want a response that results in the outcome you desire, you should use this strategy with your customers. Ask them to take a single, primary action. Once that's done, you can try for a second.
This isn't just anecdotal. It's been supported by numerous usability and conversion studies that show that when there are multiple calls-to-action in a single place – whether that's on your brochure, your Facebook landing page or your website home page – people will generally fail to take any action at all.
Most of us want our customers and prospects to take more than one action. We want them to contact us for services, Like us on Facebook, sign up for our newsletters, download our eBook. If there were only a single action to take, it would probably be time to rethink our business outreach.
The problem is that we string these actions together like the largebutteredpopcornandlargepepsi request, and when it comes to marketing, it results in a more serious consequence than missing a preview.
The average consumer, overwhelmed with choices and directives, will experience a mental fatigue that results in zero response. No new fan. No new subscriber. No new lead.
What's A Smart Marketer To Do?
Reduce the amount of mental effort required of your customers and prospects by defining the single, most important action that you want them to take at any given time. If your top priority is getting new email subscribers, then make that the directive. Make it easy, make it clear and don't dilute your message or distract your customer by adding "and Like us on Facebook." Just ask for popcorn.
These are sometimes called micro calls-to-action because you're leading your prospect or customer to an end in baby steps.
Another strategy is to change the directive based on its location.
You aren't confined to a single call-to-action just because two is too many; the key is to distribute and apply them appropriately. For example, on your website home page, your directive might be to sign up for your newsletters. But on your services page, your directive is more likely to be getting people to contact you for a consultation or meeting. And if you've gotten someone as far as your contact form, don't muddle the issue by asking a person to do anything besides fill out that form and submit it. A contact page is not the right place to start asking for Likes and Pluses and Tweets… unless it's in the "Thank You" message, in which case, ask away!
Here's your homework. First, define the actions that you want your customers or prospects to take. Make a list and make it specific. Next, prioritize them. Figure out what's most important to furthering your business goals. Finally, decide where and how you'll implement them so that whenever you touch a customer or prospect, you're only ever asking them for one thing at a time.
It works in movie theaters. And it works in marketing.


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China drops hint it could blackmail U.S. over pharmaceutical exports as coronavirus that came from them spreads across America
In an article published by Xinhua News, the Chinese Communist Party's media propaganda outlet, the author suggests that the Wuhan coronavirus (COVID-19) is spreading farther and faster in the U.S. than the Trump administration is saying.
While the article, titled, "Be Bold: The world owes China a Thank You," also notes that President Trump recently praised Beijing's virus containment in a press conference, it also made mention that stocks on Wall Street have been severely battered by uncertainty over the outbreak.
The article, according to a translation posted by Zero Hedge, reported that the stock market "has plummeted continuously with a drop of more than 12 percent in just one week."
But then it goes on to note that Trump's travel ban on China — which is solely tied to the coronavirus epicenter being in China and includes restrictions of those who have recently visited the mainland — has had "great economic impact" on the country.
It accuses U.S. officials including Commerce Secretary Wilber Ross, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, and White House Economic Adviser Peter Navarro of having "publicly gloated over China's new crown pneumonia epidemic, saying that the outbreak … is good for the United States and will help companies return to the United States."
In addition, the article says that the Trump administration is using the outbreak in China as the impetus for calling on companies to leave the country and return to the United States, the implications being that it's safer to operate in the U.S. The Xinhua story cited reports in The Wall Street Journal and The New York Times "condemning the closure of Wuhan in China as a violation of human rights" (Wuhan City is the epicenter for the current coronavirus outbreak).
Now you see why Trump's trade policies toward China are spot-on
"The American culture of falling rocks is really shameless," the translated article continues, noting further:
Today, Feng Shui is taking turns, and the United States has become a victim of the new crown pneumonia epidemic. At this time, China has not fallen into rocks and has not condemned the United States. At this time, the United States should recognize its mistakes. Apologize to China for your actions.
But the "punchline," as Zero Hedge noted, is this, essentially: If China were to retaliate against the U.S. at present, including a travel ban or a strategic restriction over medical exports, our country would be "plunged into the mighty sea of coronavirus." (Related: WHO admits global coronavirus death rate HIGHER than initially thought: Now 3.4%.)
Translation: Stop insulting China with 'punative' actions like travel bans and trying to get American companies to come back home, or we'll cut off your badly-needed drugs and other medical supplies.
Xinhua goes on to note that "most of the drugs in the United States are imported," and that "most masks in the United States are made in China and imported from China. Thus, if Beijing were to order restrictions on those exports to the U.S., we could not take "the most basic measures to prevent the new coronavirus."
William Engdahl of New Eastern Outlook confirms that some 80 percent of drugs consumed in the U.S. are indeed made in China, a stupid, ridiculous amount that puts our people at risk for any geopolitical disagreements with China, up to and including war.
And, according to Rosemary Gibson of the Hastings Center bioethics research institute, who wrote a book in 2018 on the issue, that kind of dependency on a potential nemesis is quite alarming.
The drugs made in China are among the most commonly used and prescribed in the U.S., including the bulk of antibiotics, birth control pills, blood pressure meds, and various cancer medications.
If the dependency of the U.S. on China exposed by the coronavirus outbreak doesn't convince you of the wisdom of President Trump's "MAGA" philosophy and trade approach with Beijing, nothing will.
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BREAKING: State of Washington about to go under medical martial law to stop the virus from infecting 64,000 by May, warns Gov. Inslee
CDC denied access to FDA official sent to check on coronavirus lab test delays
Alex Azar, former drug giant Eli Lilly lobbying czar, now the U.S. HHS Czar, declares "Nuclear Winter" over Trump's "devastating" pharma legislation that trims a little drug pricing fat


The Spirit beings of minerals and gases. This is why they were traditionally associated with mining.
Included within this classification is molten rock - lava - which is why some dwarfs are glowing and wear red or have red eyes and wobble.
He would clearly perceive that the little blue lights were borne by dwarfs, whose pale clay coloured faces with their huge noses and red eyes, disfigured too by birds' bills and owls' eyes, were supported by misshapen bodies, and they tottered and wobbled about here and there, so that they seemed to be at the same time merry and in pain……………..
Solidified lava becomes stone and visible when it cools and from this we get the concept of the Troll. Both Dwarfs and Trolls are favourites of volcanically active countries such as Iceland.
On turning about, they saw sitting at the table an immense figure, which Orm instantly recognised ….. He was now a cold and hard stone… the stone image remained sitting in the house, no human power was able to remove it.


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New Round of Haitian Family Reunification Invites Going Out
U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) has announced a third round of invitations for people to apply for Haitian Family Reunification on behalf of their family members in Haiti. The program was officially launched in early 2015, after years of advocacy by IJDH, members of Congress and other allies.
USCIS Message: Haitian Family Reunification Parole (HFRP) Program
Dear Stakeholder,
We are pleased to share with you an important update regarding the Haitian Family Reunification Parole (HFRP) Program.
On Friday June 3, with the help of the U.S. Department of State's National Visa Center (NVC), U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) issued the third round of invitations to apply for the HFRP Program.
The HFRP Program allows certain eligible Haitian beneficiaries of family-based immigrant visa petitions approved on or before Dec. 18, 2014, to be paroled into the United States up to approximately two years before their immigrant visa priority dates become current. Once paroled into the United States, these beneficiaries will be able to apply for work permits while waiting for their immigrant visas to become available. Once their visa is available, they can apply for lawful permanent resident status.
The invitations that were sent to eligible petitioners provide instructions on how to apply to the program and also include important information petitioners should consider as they determine if the program is right for them and their eligible family members. Only individuals who receive an invitation will be eligible to apply for the HFRP Program on behalf of their family members. For additional information on the invitation process, please seeuscis.gov/HFRP.
If you believe that you may be eligible for this program, please ensure that the NVC has your most current mailing and email address. You may update your mailing address by emailing the NVC at asknvc@state.gov or by completing the Public Inquiry Form on the NVC's website at travel.state.gov.
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Washington, D.C. (June 12, 2018) - The high-profile deaths by suicide last week of celebrity chef Anthony Bourdain and designer Kate Spade shed light on a growing national problem. While other causes of death are declining, the suicide rate keeps climbing – alarmingly so. The same week Bourdain and Spade died, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) released a study, which revealed that suicide rates increased in all but one state between 1999 and 2016, with half of those states seeing an increase of 30 percent. Nearly 45,000 Americans died by suicide in 2016 – that's one person every 12 minutes.
Our hearts go out to the family and friends of Anthony Bourdain and Kate Spade and to anyone who has lost a loved one to suicide. Clearly, suicide is not an isolated incident and it's not just a mental health problem. The CDC reported that more than half – 54 percent – of people who died by suicide did not have a diagnosed mental health condition. Among the other factors that contributed to suicide deaths were relationship problems, substance use, physical illnesses, job loss, and money troubles. Suicide is a public health problem that can and must be prevented.
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Third, we must advocate for public policies that support individuals and their families at risk of suicide. We must fully implement the National Strategy for Suicide Prevention and its Prioritized Research Agenda. We must urge Congress to pass the Excellence in Mental Health and Addiction Treatment Expansion Act to increase the number of Certified Community Behavioral Health Clinics (CCBHCs) around the country. CCBHCs receive a Medicaid rate that allows them to provide comprehensive, evidence-based care for mental illnesses and addictions, integrated with primary care. CCBHCs provide services when and where people need them.
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Kies is a software by Samsung which allows you to manage and upgrade firmware of Android devices like Galaxy S. It seems there is some bug with Kies, as many users are facing issues like error messages when trying to uninstall/remove Kies from Windows.
Thankfully, Samsung has looked upon and released an official uninstall program for Kies. This Kies uninstaller is a small .exe file which lets you easily remove KIES from your PC. After uninstalling Kies, download the latest version of Kies and install it.
i have to ask this: is kies just the worst piece of software ever, in the history of software coding, to have been written. I have NEVER, REGARDLESS OF ADVICE FROM FORUM AFTER FORUM, been able to run or load Kies. the link above has given me yet another version of kies THAT DOESNT WORK. I got YET ANOTHER ERROR MESSAGE: kies installer failed to initialize. I have used a computer for many many years, with many different phones, printers, faxes, devices, gps devices and software. kies is the ONLY piece of software in the i have NEVER been able to use. was it written by monkeys? is it in fact a monumental joke piece of software. it is unblievable that i have never been able to find a single version which will load and perform any function.
I have been trying to uninstal kies on numerous occasions without success.Any ideas.
Agreed Samsung Kies is possibly the worst software written – and it makes you wonder if it was ever tested before release.
Guys, try Revo Uninstaller. I prefer the portable version because you dont need to install it, it just runs. Be warned though, don't mess around too much!
Yes, Kies is trash. Total trash. I don't understand how a company as big as Samsung can create such a monstrosity. I can't remove this damn thing from my computer…there's some mega annoying notification that keeps coming up telling me that it has downloaded firmware. Worthless.
Kies is a major piece of garbage: Huge, slow and does very little. Worst of all it can't be uninstalled like any other windows software. Can't believe this junk has passed Samsung quality control.
but it may have another location pointing to a folder in the user directory.
Samsung … Kies … worst program I have ever tried.
– used RevoUnistaller to uninstall (revo uses the samsung unistaller but there is a heap of leftovers in my registry and all the Kies program files remain.
– I used Revo about 12 months ago … that equates to about 300+ reboots since then and Kies leftovers are still in the registry and the $$##%^ program files are still there.
Even their TVs (we have bought 2 in 3 years) are full of firmware bugs.
– next time it will be German gear. German products/software is well thought out and always works.
– Samsung have been unreliable for over 4 years now.
Uninstall.exe (extracted from Uninstall.zip) does nothing.


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