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Inbox by Google
I switched from Yahoo Mail to Gmail back in 2006 or 2007; it took awhile to come to grips with it, but I loved some of its conveniences and never switched back. I kept the old Yahoo Mail account as a backup just-in-case account, but I only check it every week or so. I'm always hesitant when trying new Google products. I didn't try Google's Wave product when it was introduced (and which died a relatively quick death). The company's offhand attitude and abandonment of its Google Reader users really set the warning flag. I don't plan on keeping any notes in Google Keep. And as for Google Play's takeover of my beloved Songza service -- well, I'm not holding out any hopes for that. Songza did exactly what I wanted from it and I'd have cheerfully paid them for the service. I simply don't trust Google to do anything I expect, even if I did pay them.
But I have been trying out Inbox by Google for a month or so and I'm liking it. Based on what I've read, Google really wants to push users to Inbox and I thought, well, let's try it. They may one day turn off Gmail and users will wake up with Inbox. So it makes sense to start coming to grips with it now.
Inbox's guiding philosophy is to view the email inbox as a to-do list. For any item in the Inbox, you must Do, Delete, or Defer. Viewing emails, newsletters, promotions, Facebook notifications, listserv digests, etc. as tasks has been a standard tenet of productivity literature since David Allen's first book. But while email clients helped me move emails around and write them or reply to them, they didn't really provide a framework to help me process them more quickly. Inbox, as I've been using it, is really helping me process (that is, delete or archive) emails in a more sane manner.
Inbox groups emails into pre-defined bins like Promos, Updates, Purchases, and so on. Their groupings are pretty accurate and it's easy to move an email from one group to another. What I like best about the groups is that it's easy to scan them and delete them all in a single stroke; this bulk management of emails saves me a good deal of time.
It's also easy to define my own group (in Gmail-speak, a label or tag).
I love the feature that lets me create reminders to myself right there in the Inbox and then set them to appear at any date/time or to recur. In the past, I'd have used the FollowUpThen email reminder service (which I pay for) or SaneLater (which I stopped paying for) or Google Calendar or GQueues. (Geez, do I think I need a lot of help in my life or what?) Instead, the Reminders are quick and easy to set, they appear in my iPod's Google app and Notifications, and my inbox is clear of any emails I used to keep there as reminders.
It's dead easy to snooze emails so I can deal with them later. Snoozing an email is like setting a reminder. It makes keeping a clean Inbox a breeze. Previously, I'd have forwarded the email to FollowUpThen and archived the original mail. Inbox's Snooze feature is much neater and more convenient.
Inbox delivers the grouped email once a day -- 7am. So if I get any new Facebook notices or Promos or Updates, then Inbox holds them back from appearing till the next morning. I have found that rather authoritarian management of my email to be liberating. I'm one of those sad people who likes to check his inbox every 5 minutes. But knowing that these bulk emails are by default not urgent, and that they'll show up in tomorrow morning's email anyway, means my Inbox stays mostly empty. Personal emails from Liz or friends appear instantly and so I don't need to plow through other emails to get to them. So during the day, I'm more likely to receive only emails that will be of immediate interest to me.
(You can, of course, look inside Inbox's Social, Promos, Updates, etc. folders and see the emails that have arrived and that are being held for the next day. I prefer, in most cases, to let Inbox deliver them to me in a batch at 7am.)
You can set three default snooze times for a reminder or an email; I use 7am, 2pm, and 7pm. When I open up Inbox in the evening -- BAM -- I'll see all the reminders and snoozed emails that I couldn't deal with earlier in the day. At this point, I deal with them by reading them, taking action, or deleting them. The Inbox becomes my to-do list -- which is the way I've always used it.
What I Wish Were Better
Google's material design of Inbox looks nice in the browser, but the performance is not as snappy as in Gmail. Even on my Chromebook, Inbox is a visually stuttering application. However, using Inbox on my iPod is a treat and cements the idea for me that Inbox is optimized for mobile rather than the browser.
Still haven't figured out how to filter an email so Inbox can automatically send it to the Trash. I still have to create those filters in Gmail. I also had saved searches in Gmail; the search facility in Inbox never seems to work as I expect.
Some operations are simply easier in Gmail for me. I am taking part in an online course, so I'm receiving a ton of notifications throughout the day on new posts to the course's Facebook group. Processing 20 of these messages in Inbox just takes too many clicks. It's far quicker for me to zip into Gmail and process the emails rapid-fire.
I went all-in on Inbox over the Christmas break, avoided Gmail, and it was the best way to learn Inbox quickly. I also recommend reading Computerworld's JR Raphael's post on adopting Inbox. The second half of his post, where he talks about workflow, convinced me to give Inbox a try.
Today, I still access Gmail when I need to process a big batch of emails quickly. But Inbox rules the roost for the moment. Until Google says otherwise.
Update, January 11, 2017
I've gone back to using Gmail plain. Inbox's best feature was the scheduling function, but I have already duplicated that with FollowupThen. Inbox was just too slow, even when using it in Chrome on my iMac, even when using it on my flipping Chromebook. I often had to click on a mail two or three times for it to display as the clicks never seemed to register; Google's Material Design took so much time to load I got impatient. The only time Inbox performed at an acceptable speed was when I started using Kiwi for Gmail Lite; even so, I found myself flipping over to Gmail to process mails more quickly. Inbox by Google will have to offer much faster performance before I'm willing to switch again.
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Can an employer be liable for harassment of an employee by other employees because of his or her religion or belief?
Yes. Under the Equality Act 2010, an employer will be liable for harassment by its employees in the course of their employment even if it was unaware of it at the time, unless the employer has taken all reasonable steps to prevent the employees from harassing others. As a minimum, to have a successful reasonable steps defence, an employer is likely to need to have a policy in place dealing with harassment related to religion or belief and to have taken effective measures to ensure that employees are aware of, and understand, the policy. This is likely to require some training of employees.
The definition of harassment under s.26 of the Equality Act 2010 is very wide. The unwanted conduct need only be "related to" religion or belief; it does not have to be directed at the victim's actual or perceived religion or belief. Further, the conduct may concern the religion or belief of a third party and/or be directed at a third party.


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Respawn's big new Star Wars game is a sprawling epic story set around a Jedi power fantasy, and will feature unique action combat.
Today Respawn revealed a story trailer for Jedi: Fallen Order, and it looks absolutely fantastic. The game follows the story of Cal, a young padawan Force user who's on the run after the Jedi were hunted down after Order 66. Respawn says the Empire is at the "height of its power" during the game, and Cal must hide in plain sight and survives by following three rules: don't stand out, accept the past, and trust no one. Cal ekes out a living and stays in the shadows until he uses his Force powers to save a life. The Empire immediately hunts him down, pushing Cal into the wilds where he discovers old Jedi teachings as well as an ancient lightsaber.
According to Vince Zampella, Jedi: Fallen Order is all about living the magic of being a Jedi during dire circumstances. It's singleplayer-only (there's no multiplayer or microtransactions) and has heavy emphasis on new characters and locales.
"This is a jedi fantasy story game. I think we're known for being multiplayer shooter games. That's not just who we are. There's no multiplayer, no microtransactions, it's about being a Jedi," Zampella said at Star Wars celebration event.
While no actual gameplay was revealed, Stig Asmussen says combat is hugely important to Jedi: Fallen Order. The system will be easy to pick up and accessible to all players, but it'll have lots of opportunities for mastery. Respawn used a process called "thoughtful combat" to craft the game, which sees players using their strengths to attack enemy weaknesses in unique ways.
"It's an action melee game. You play as a Jedi on the run in training with a lightsaber and force powers," Asmussen said during the panel reveal.
"We made sure the combat is something easy to pick up, but if you put the time in you can master it. It has a lot of depth. This is Star Wars. Combat is key to us--we call it thoughtful combat, and you identify and exploit the weaknesses."
We've been reporting on this game for a long, long time now...and we're beyond excited to try it out when it drops this holiday season.
Jedi: Fallen Order will release on November 15, 2019 for PS4, Xbox One, and PC.
Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order is an action-adventure game set after Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith. Develop your Force abilities, hone your lightsaber techniques, and explore the ancient mysteries of a long-lost civilization-all while staying one step ahead of the Empire and its deadly Inquisitors.


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For the css, I first put a display none cause initially the sub-menus cannot be visible.
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Now, How can I add a class dropdown-menu to a menu item that has sub-items everytime I hover over that particular item?
Here my js but it does nothing when I hover over the item:
$('.main-navigation ul > li.menu-item-has-children').on("hover" function(){
    $('.main-navigation ul > li.menu-item-has-children').removeClass('dropdown-menu');
    if($(this).hasClass('dropdown-menu')){
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A: You can do it CSS :hover itself. but as you wanted in jquery here is the solution
Use $('.main-navigation ul > li.menu-item-has-children').on("mouseenter mouseleave",  function(e){. mouseenter mouseleave in place of hover

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If yes, then go demo that!
If not, then you might just be blowing smoke (i.e. you are claiming that you are working and completing stories of demonstrable value but there is no evidence (a demo) to support that claim!) Might be that your stories were actually tasks… a symptom that you were unsuccessful in shifting your mindset from thinking in terms of task (Work Breakdown Schedule of tasks) to thinking in terms of value (Roadmap of values)!
Or…you might just be busy working on a horizontally sliced story? Horizontally sliced stories are not demonstrable by itself… example is a "component" piece (a story worked on by the component team) that is to be consumed by vertically sliced stories.
Or…is it possible that you are NOT effective in vertically slicing your stories? Vertically slicing a story is an art — you have to be creative, strategic, and tactical! Read my earlier post (Thin,Vertical Slices — the Key to Success! ).
Message: Every vertical slice — however small it is (part of a bigger slice) — is demonstrable.
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'Different Families, Same Love'-posters, 2007
Accessing Health: the Context and the Challenges for LGBT People in Central and Eastern Europe, 2006
After Amsterdam - Sexual Orientation and the European Union
After the Framework Directive, April 2002
Anti-discrimination poster, 2008
Cooperation between police forces and LGBT organisations in Europe
Different families, Same rights? Implications of the Hague Programme for LGBT Families
Different families, Same rights? LGBT Families under HR law
Equality Mainstreaming fact sheet, 2007
Equality for lesbians and gay men - a relevant issue in the civil and political dialogue
Equality for lesbians and gay men- a relevant issue in EU accession process, 2001
Exploring the Lisbon Treaty, September 2011
Families, Partners, Children and the European Union, April 2003
Forced Out: LGBT People in Armenia, 2009
Forced Out: LGBT People in Azerbaijan, 2007
Forced Out: LGBT People in Georgia, 2007
Funding for LGBTI Activism in Europe and Central Asia: Comparing the Priorities of LGBTI Organisations and Funders
Funding for LGBTI activism in Europe and Central Asia: priorities and access to resources
General leaflet about ILGA-Europe (June 2006)
Going Beyond the Law: promoting equality in employment
Going beyond the law, 2005
Good practices related to LGBTI asylum applicants in Europe
Guidelines : transposition of the Asylum Qualification Directive
Guidelines Free Movement Directive, 2005
Guidelines for transposition EU Crime Victims' Directive and homophobic/transphobic hate crimes
Guidelines on the Refugee Status Directive, 2005
Handbook : monitoring and reporting homophobic and transphobic incidents, 2008
Handbook on Observations of Pride Marches, 2006
Human Rights and Gender Identity: Best Practice Catalogue
ILGA-Europe toolkit for training police officers on tackling LGBTI-phobic crime
International Human Rights References to SRHR
LGBT families and the Free Movement Directive: Implementation Guidelines, 2009
Laying the grounds for LGBTI sensitive asylum decision-making in Europe
Make It Work: Six steps to effective LGBT human rights advocacy, 2010
Meeting the challenge of accession, 2004
Non-binary gender registration models in Europe
Organising for change: resources to support LGBTI community organising work
Prides against Prejudice. A toolkit for pride organising in a hostile environment, 2006
Protecting Intersex People in Europe: A toolkit for law and policymakers
Report of the joint ILGA-Europe/IGLYO AGE Project 'Intergenerational Dialogue with(in) the LGBT Community'
Rights, not crimes, April 2005
Social exclusion of young LGBT people in Europe, 2006
Standing up for Human Rights of Intersex People - How can you help?
Stepping Stones and Roadblocks, 2001
Suicidality among lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender youth
The Rights of Children Raised in Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual or Transgender Families: A European Perspective, 2008
The legal grounds for inclusive EU legislation against bias violence and hatred
The right to freedom of religion or belief and its intersection with other rights
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Transgender EuroStudy Legal Survey and Focus on the Transgender Experience of Health Care (April 2008)
Transgender people and the Gender Recast Directive
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Bodily autonomy – making one's own informed decisions about one's body and what happens to it – is a fundamental human right.
This report provides a compelling challenge to assumptions about the funding landscape in Europe and Central Asia.
The report provides an overview of the different legal gender registration models in Europe.
This report shows where funding is needed and signposts ways for funders to fund LGBTI activists in an ever-more strategic and sustainable way.
This interactive resource tries to answer the What, Why and How questions on community organising based on the current knowledge from the European LGBTI movement.
Standing up for human rights of intersex people
This toolkit will explain the major challenges intersex people face in different areas of life, set out intersex people's demands, provide information about current political developments, as well as give advice on how to become a great intersex ally.
This paper was commissioned by ILGA-Europe, to examine how the right to freedom of religion or belief intersects with other human rights, including the rights to freedom of expression, freedom of a
Transposition of the Recast Asylum Procedure Directives and of the Recast Reception Conditions Directive (Published : September 2014)
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By Professor Steve Peers, Human Rights Centre, University of Essex on behalf of ILGA-Europe.
Protecting LGBTI asylum seekers. Published in 2012
This Catalogue is a civil society follow-up to the pioneering work of the Council of Europe Commissioner for Human Rights, Hammarberg, and his 2009 Issue Paper.
How to devise and implement training for police forces better to tackle LGBTI-phobic hate crime.
This publication is about research on legal grounds and political arguments on hate crimes in the European Union. Published 2011.
This paper seeks to take stock of the developments of the Lisbon Treaty and of their significance for the protection and promotion of LGBTI rights in the EU.
Make It Work: Six steps to effective LGBT HR advocacy, 2010
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Joining forces to combat homophobic and transphobic hate crime. Cooperation between police forces and LGBT organisations in Europe (September 2010)
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ILGA-Europe has produced two posters focusing on the rights of transgender people.
Implementation Guidelines (December 2009)
Forced Out: LGBT People in Armenia
This report about same-sex relationships and LGBT people in Armenia explores identities, common human rights violations, the landscape of LGBT organising, health and HIV/AIDS, and relevant legal aspects.
LGBT families and the Free Movement Directive: Implementation Guidelines
These guidelines, from 2009, provide an introduction and explanation of the Directive on the right to free movement in relation to LGBT families.
This report is the final outcome of the Age Project. (Published : December 2008)
This report documents the existing framework of legal protection of the rights of children in LGBT families at European level.
This handbook is designed for LGBT and human rights organisations who intend to monitor the occurrence of homophobic and transphobic incidents and violence.
Transgender EuroStudy 2008
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The poster provides examples of discrimination LGB people face in Europe because of the lack of legal protection.
ILGA-Europe has produced and printet a serie of 12 A2 posters of LGBT families.
Different families, Same rights? LGBT Families under Human Rights law
This document is an important contribution to ILGA-Europe's work towards the recognition of diverse forms of families and an end to the current discrimination against LGBT families and their children.
Freedom and Justice in the EU: Implications of the Hague Programme for LGBT Families and their Children
International Human Rights References to Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights (regarding LGBT populations and HIV/AIDS and STIs) (December 2007)
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Report by ILGA-Europe to the Social, Health and Family Affairs Committee of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe, August 2007
This joint ILGA-Europe and COC report is the first of its kind to be published about same-sex relationships and LGBT people in Azerbaijan.
This joint ILGA-Europe and COC report is the first of its kind to be published about same-sex relationships and LGBT people in Georgia.
Going Beyond the Law: promoting equality in employment, 2007
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Accessing Health: Context and Challenges for LGBT People in Central & Eastern Europe, 2006
The report presents the findings on health and access to the health care system by the LGBT communities in five Central and Eastern European countries.
This toolkit is intended to provide ideas and information resources for those wanting to organise Pride events in a hostile environment.
You can read the general leaflet about ILGA-Europe in 38 languages, sincere thanks to all translators!
This Handbook has been designed for people and organisations who are thinking of monitoring human rights abuses occurring during Pride marches.
Young LGBT people across Europe face discrimination and exclusion in their everyday life.
In 2004, the European Union adopted a new Directive on Free Movement Rights which has relevance for same-sex families who want to exercise their right to free movement.
ILGA-Europe's report examines the implementation of the 2000 EU employment equality directive and identifies further needed action to acheive greater equality for LGB people in employment.
Guidelines Refugee Status Directive, 2005
The purpose of the guidelines is to identify the relevant parts of the Directive for LGBT persons and to enable national organisations to assess whether national legislation meets the Directive's standards in this area.
ILGA-Europe's report on the EU's role in ending criminalisation of same-sex acts in third countries.
Surveys on sexual orientation discrimination in countries joining the European Union.
ILGA-Europe's policy paper on how various aspects of EU law are impacting upon national rules relating to 'personal status' in its broader sense.
There is a clear need for the EU to move quickly to complement the measures introduced in the area of employment with further legislation designed to prohibit discrimination.
This report, from 2001, maps the legal and social situation of lesbians and gay men in 13 candidate countries to EU accession.
From December 1999 to March 2001 ILGA-Europe carried out a joint project on discrimination with UNITED for Intercultural Action and Mobility International.
After Amsterdam - Sexual Orientation and the European Union, 1999
This guide, published in 1999, focuses on the implications of the Amsterdam Treaty in relation to sexual orientation discrimination.
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All electrical installation work in a home, garden, conservatory or outbuilding must meet the Building Regulations. Apart from some types of minor work, all electrical work must either be reported to the local-authority building-control, or be carried out by an electrician who is registered with one of the Government-approved scheme providers.
2. Employ an electrician who is registered with one of the Government-approved Part P schemes.
Regulations – What does Part P of the Building Regulations mean for me?
• An Electrical Installation Certificate or Minor Works Certificate that confirms that the work meets BS 7671.
• A Building Regulations Compliance Certificate that confirms that the work meets the Building Regulations.
Electrical installation work must be carried out only by people who have the knowledge, skill and experience needed to avoid danger to themselves and others. It's easy to make an electrical circuit work – it's far harder to make the circuit work safely.
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DENVER - Governor Jared Polis provided an update on the State's response to the COVID-19 pandemic today.
"People of all ages are concerned with the significant increase of COVID-19 infections and hospitalizations in Colorado and know that we must all need to do our part better to stop the spread of this deadly virus. We might be tired of the virus but it's not tired of us," said Governor Polis. "Whether you are 23 or 93: wear a mask, avoid large gatherings, and interact with less people each day because you love your family, yourself, and your community."
Governor Polis signed an Executive Order today allocating $14.9M in available CARES Act funds to support the state's economic recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic:
$6.0M to Energize Colorado to supplement the $20M provided by SB20-222. This funding will enable Energize Colorado to provide additional support to small businesses affected by the pandemic. SB20-222 was sponsored by Sen. Faith Winter, Sen. Jeff Bridges, Rep. Mary Young, and Rep. Perry Will.
$2.6M to the Department of Local Affairs to supplement the funding provided by HB20-1410 for housing assistance to support those who have been economically impacted by COVID-19. The bill was sponsored by Rep. Serena Gonzales-Gutierrez, Rep. Tony Exum Sr, Sen. Julie Gonzales, and Sen. Rachel Zenzinger.
$0.1M to the Food Pantry Assistance Grant Program to supplement the funding provided by HB20-1422 to aid Colorado food pantries and food banks in the purchase of foods to meet the needs of Coloradans. The bill was sponsored by Rep. Daneya Esgar, Rep. Lisa Cutter, Sen. Rachel Zenzinger, and Sen. Tammy Story.
$6.2M to the Department of Corrections for staffing costs associated with the COVID-19 pandemic.
Gov. Polis also highlighted the Energize Gap Fund, which is a bold, ambitious proposal and bipartisan effort in the state legislature to provide much-needed relief to small businesses and nonprofits across the state that are feeling the impacts of this pandemic. In the first round, 6,000 applications that requested $79 million in grants and $56 million in loans were submitted. Over 50 percent of applicants were from women-owned entities, more than a quarter were rural entities, 12 percent were from Latino-owned enterprises, and 10 percent were from black-owned enterprises. The second round of applications just opened this week.
Gov. Polis also discussed tips and tricks for Halloween. Coloradans should keep a physical distance and figure out ways to hand out candy while keeping distance. Move activities outside and limit the number of people. Get creative about Halloween activities, for example, a candy hunt at a local park with a small group of friends. Trick or treat close to your home. Those participating in Halloween related activities should not rely on costume masks because they may not provide a full barrier against respiratory droplets. To protect against COVID-19, a mask should have multiple layers of fabric and be free of any holes or tears. Most importantly, do not participate in any Halloween activities - indoor or outdoor - if you are feeling symptoms of COVID-19 or if you have been exposed to someone with COVID-19.
Gov. Polis also extended Executive Orders related to learning pods. View the news conference on the Governor's Facebook page.
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Q: Git push issue, added large file by mistake , cant remove it from the commit i just pushed a large file by mistake , then i got an error like
Enumerating objects: 48, done.
Counting objects: 100% (48/48), done.
Delta compression using up to 8 threads
Compressing objects: 100% (31/31), done.
Writing objects: 100% (32/32), 549.93 MiB | 7.12 MiB/s, done.
Total 32 (delta 18), reused 0 (delta 0), pack-reused 0
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remote: error: GH001: Large files detected. You may want to try Git Large File Storage - https://git-lfs.github.com.
remote: error: Trace: 18cdd4c550929262ddff914e24f2f504d9bdd73ff8e7f71f1a60cef087522dd0
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remote: error: File vendor.zip is 558.48 MB; this exceeds GitHub's file size limit of 100.00 MB

Then i removed the file from the direcotry , and the  tried to push again.
But getting the same issue.
I tried to change the branch  also , but no way, still getting the same error, tried some solutions from the web, that also didn't work

A: You would have to remove the file from the tracked files.
git rm —cached path/to/file

Make sure afterwards you add the file to .gitignore to avoid issues in the future.


Perched on a high rocky outcrop overlooking the sea, from where you can enjoy a stunning view of the Gulf of Salerno, the Monastero Santa Rosa Hotel & Spa in Conca dei Marini is the newest 5 stars luxury boutique hotel on the Amalfi coast. Born after a meticulous restyling of an old XVII century monastery, it is located along the SS163 "Amalfitana" road, rightly considered one of the most scenic roads in the world; it is a unique and exclusive place for spending your holidays and most important events in an oasis of relaxation and privacy.
It has 20 luxurious rooms and suites, each one distinguished by the name of a medicinal herb grown in the garden of the monastery and used, in the past, by the nuns for preparing curative remedies. Although the protagonists is the sea and the superb view of the Amalfi coast, the rooms and suites have a strong link with the past: old and massive XVII century walls, painted in soft pastel tones, valuable antiques, vaults and all the modern comforts. The suites also have a wonderful sea view terrace with lush lemon trees and bright colored bougainvillea.
The Monastero Santa Rosa Hotel & Spa features lush terraced gardens, equipped with relax areas and day-beds, among scented Mediterranean plants and a moving view of the coast. The spectacular infinity pool, magically suspended between sky and sea, is set in the rocky base of the lower level of the terraced gardens.
Relaxation, history and wellness. Designed according to the Italian spa tradition, the Spa of the Monastero Santa Rosa, is a sophisticated wellness path: tepidarium, flavored Turkish bath, rocky sauna with crushed ice fountain, experience showers and hydrotherapy pool will be at your disposal to strengthen body and spirit.
The restaurant of the Monastero Santa Rosa offers one of the most beautiful view of the Amalfi coast. Among these old walls, where the fragrant "sfogliatella Santa Rosa" was produced for the first time, chef Christoph Bob created a menu inspired by the scents and the Mediterranean tradition, enhanced the typical products of this land.
The spacious and beautiful spaces of the Monastero Santa Rosa Hotel & Spa, the breathtaking views, the superb infinity pool and the lush gardens will be the perfect venue for your most important events, giving an exclusive touch to your ceremony.
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Chandelier shown consists of 91 "Knobby Curly" glass pieces. Chandeliers are also available without lighting, call for pricing.
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San Francisco-based Global Film Initiative announced the lineup for its annual Global Lens series that will premiere at The Museum of Modern Art in New York City January 12-28, 2012. Four out of the ten films that comprise the ninth edition of Global Lens are from Latin America: Paula Markovitch's El premio / The Prize (Mexico/Argentina, 2011, pictured); Sergio Teubal's El dedo / The Finger (Argentina, 2011); Gustavo Pizzi's Riscado / Craft (Brazil, 2011); and Carlos Osuna's Gordo, calvo y bajito / Fat, Bald, Short Man (Colombia, 2011).
After its run at MoMA, the series will embark on a yearlong tour around fifty cities around the U.S. and Canada, and it will simultaneously be released throughout the year on Virgin America airlines and available for online preview by industry professionals at Festival Scope.


So began Edwin Kelly, CEO of Specialized IRA Services, in his 60-minute training session at the 2017 Think Realty National Conference & Expo in Atlanta, Georgia, on October 14-15, 2017. Kelly launched into a specific and highly detailed list of actions real estate investors must take in order to begin self-directing their retirement effectively. He also spoke on how to leverage the power of real estate investing to create a lifestyle during retirement that meets or exceeds what they enjoyed while working full time.
Kelly refers to this list as the "3 Ds of Self-Directed Retirement." He observed that in order to make his list work, it is important for real estate investors to remember they are using a relatively new tool, the self-directed retirement account, to gain tax advantages and maximize returns in the process. "You're changing up the tools you are using, so be prepared to do things differently than most people," he said.
Below is an action list compiled from Kelly's presentation, which delved into the details of setting up a self-directed retirement account to use with your real estate investing, often referred to as a real estate IRA.
"Nothing will happen until you decide you deserve more out of your retirement and your investments and that you want to be in control of your financial future," said Kelly. He noted that once this decision is made, it takes investors a relatively short amount of time to set up their self-directed account since a provider like Specialized IRA Services will do most of the legwork for them.
This involves simply putting money into the account. The amount you can deposit will depend on IRS regulations regarding your level of income.
Kelly recommended letting your new IRA provider handle this step, since incorrect transfers can result in taxes and penalties where none should exist.
taxable if they are handled correctly.
Once that money is in the account, start making wise decisions about how you use those funds. Make real estate investments (or other types of alternative investments) to grow your retirement portfolio into something that will support you throughout your retirement.
Kelly's firm, Specialized IRA Services, is a boutique financial services firm that helps clients self-direct their retirement, education, health savings, and 401(k) accounts into alternative assets. While most self-directed investors have at least a portion of their portfolio in real estate, there are a number of other alternative assets, including some precious metals and even private equity and interest, that may be acquired through a self-directed account.


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Add the organizer to the list of attendees, with a proper status, to avoid tagging the event as having been declined by the organizer.
NOTE: : This is one of two proposed ways to fix it.
When John logs in to the web client, the meeting occurs on John's agenda properly.
When John logs in to the web client, the meeting is on the "Declined Invitations" calendar.


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A match made in … Eagle County
Rosanna Turner
Special to the Weekly
Cupid's Cronies, a new local dating service that started in Minnesota, have at times gone to great lengths to find that diamond in the rough, in the hopes that in the end their client will want to put a ring on it. Once in Minneapolis, an elderly gentleman was looking for a sweetheart, and there were few ladies in the database who were in his age range, said Nicole Moritz-Mills, Eagle-Vail matchmaker. Cupid's Cronies put up "large font" flyers in his neighborhood to find more women to interview, and ended up matching the gentleman with a woman who lived down the street. They've been together since 2012.
Special to the Weekly |
What: Singles With A Cause — Singles Mixer.
When: 7 to 9 p.m. Saturday.
Where: Montana's Smokehouse in Avon.
Cost: There is no fee for this event, but there is a $10 minimum suggested donation benefitting The Youth Foundation of Vail Valley Foundation.
More information: Call 855-622-8743 or visit http://www.cupidscronies.com.
A sign of a true local is knowing the end of this joke about dating in the valley: You didn't lose her, you just lost your … turn.
While at times it does appear that there are more single men in the area than women, this doesn't necessarily mean that dating is easy for anyone, even when the male-to-female ratio might be tipped in your favor. Enter Cupid's Cronies, a matchmaking service that started in Minnesota and has now expanded across Colorado, including Eagle County. Matchmaker Nicole Moritz-Mills, who lives in Eagle-Vail, has been pairing people up locally since 2013 and specializes in helping single folks find love beyond the bar scene. It was Moritz-Mills' sister, April Davis, who founded Cupid's Cronies after realizing that there were plenty of men and women out there looking for Mr. or Ms. Right, but they just hadn't connected yet.
'CUPID'S' ARROW HITS EAGLE COUNTY
"(April) had been doing this as a hobby," Moritz-Mills said. "When she was with her single friends … she wondered, why are all my girlfriends single? They're high caliber, beautiful women on the inside and out and not able to meet (someone). This didn't mean there weren't any good men out there. Her interest grew and she decided to take her matchmaking from a hobby to a full-time career."
"We try to get it right the first time. People who are asking us for their help typically have very busy lives. They don't have time to go on a bunch of dinner dates."Nicole Moritz-MillsCupid's Cronies matchmaker
As online dating has become the new norm, not just an embarrassing anecdote akin to a one-night stand, Moritz-Mills said more people are seeking a personalized approach to matchmaking and dating services. Clients of Cupid's Cronies undergo an extensive interview when they first sign up, in order to help the matchmakers find them a perfect pea to fit snugly alongside them in the pod. Moritz-Mills said they typically interview 20 potential matches for a client before setting them up on a first date.
"We don't just set people up on a bunch of dates," Moritz-Mills said. "We meet with a potential candidate to see if they're a good fit for our client and vice versa … We try to get it right the first time. People who are asking us for their help typically have very busy lives. They don't have time to go on a bunch of dinner dates."
Mortiz-Mills said what sets Cupid's Cronies apart from similar services is that they don't just partner up clients with other clients. There's also a free database anyone can sign up for, which the service pulls from to help make the dating pool for a client a bit deeper. This may seem strange in the age of Instagram and Tinder, but Cupid's Cronies doesn't show their clients or their dates photos of the other person before the first meet up. Mortiz-Mills said the no-photo policy is partly because of confidentiality, but also because many times a picture can tell a thousand words, but can't tell you if someone's The One.
"This is the strategy we've used and has been working," Moritz-Mills said. "Photos can be so judgmental and can close people's minds to opportunities … It's not just about a photo, it's way deeper than this. We do an intense interview, do our research to find someone and spend lots of time talking to them and making sure they're authentic. I think that ups our success rate."
Along with arranging first dates, and hopefully first kisses, Cupid's Cronies also act as "wingmen" or "wingwomen," helping clients improve their online dating profiles, upgrade their wardrobe and offering dating advice. Mortiz-Mills said one of the most common mistakes people make on a first date is talking about their exes, which won't exactly make your date want to do the other word that ends in "ex" with you in the future.
"That's a real turnoff," Moritz-Mills said. "(Another mistake) is being too judgmental about the outside before taking time to get to know the inside."
Locally, Moritz-Mills said her client base is split evenly 50/50 between men and women, which some may find surprising.
"Women come to us because there are so many men here, but they have specific needs and wants and desires," Moritz-Mills said. "(They want us) to sift through the lift operators and ski bums and find the higher echelon men. There's plenty of boys here, but let's sift through and get them the men."
With her male clients, Moritz-Mills finds some have been burned by bad relationships in the past, or spent their 20s and 30s focusing on their careers and are now looking for that special lady to ride the slopes with.
"Men who have had bad luck in the past, that's why they're seeking us out," Moritz-Mills said. "They've chosen the wrong women, their relationships have ended, they're frustrated, they want help … We (also) have people who are recently divorced and they don't know how to get out on the dating scene."
SINGLES READY TO MIX AND MINGLE
Saturday evening, Cupid's Cronies will host its first Singles With A Cause Mixer, benefitting The Youth Foundation. This is a public event open to anyone looking to hook a fellow available fish in the Eagle County sea. Avon resident Mindy is a woman in her 40s who's planing on attending the event. After spending her younger years as a successful career woman, Mindy decided to move to the area four years ago to take some time off work and focus more on her personal life. Mindy said while dating in the valley at times she feels like she's in the "grey zone," in that most men are either younger and not looking for something serious, or older and already retired.
"It's a little challenging at my age because I'm looking for a man who's a bit more settled career-wise, financially and emotionally," Mindy said. "There aren't a whole lot of men in the valley that fit that description."
Compared to other places she's lived, Mindy said what she likes about dating here is the variety of activities one can do as a twosome.
"You don't always have to go out for dinner and a movie," Mindy said. "There's skiing and hiking, a lot of great adventures. It doesn't have to be the traditional date."
No matter where you live, finding that person you'd be willing to sip the same milkshake with while using two straws can be hard. Moritz-Mills said she believes there really is someone out there for everyone.
"Intimacy and companionship is just the way God wired us," Moritz-Mills said. "I would definitely be a believer in that."
However, you don't always have to wait for a signal from the heavens to get lightning to strike.
"All singles gathered in one location — I think that increases the odds too," she said.


Considered to be one of the first feminist novels. Originally published in 1848, it challenged the prevailing morals of the time; a critic went so far as to pronounce it "utterly unfit to be put into the hands of girls". It is concerned with the story of a woman who leaves her abusive, dissolute husband, and who must then support herself and her young son.
Therese Raquin begins an affair with a friend of her husband. Their passion is such a contrast to her dry almost loveless marriage that they plot to drown her husband. The novel caused a scandal when it was published and Zola continued to be a controversial and notorious figure.
This story is excerpted from Kadrey's second novel Kamikaze L'Amour. The novel is described by Mac Tonnies' Cyberpunk/Postmodern Book Reviews as "mesmerizing...a surreal (and distinctly Ballardian) account of synesthesia and mutant desire set in the jungle-choked ruins of L.A."


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Merger of McGuireWoods and Gordon & Glickson to Create New Tech Group
McGuireWoods and Chicago-based law firm Gordon & Glickson announced plans this week to merge and form a new technology and business department consisting of 40 to 50 attorneys. Gordon & Glickson's lawyers will join McGuireWoods' Chicago office, boosting that location's head count to 150. With a total of about 750 attorneys, the Richmond, Va.-based McGuireWoods is No. 63 on The American Lawyer 's annual ranking of the top 100 law firms in the country.
By | Updated on January 20, 2006
McGuireWoods and Chicago-based law firm Gordon & Glickson this week announced their plans to merge and form a new technology and business department consisting of 40 to 50 attorneys.
Gordon & Glickson's lawyers will join McGuireWoods' Chicago office, boosting that location's head count to 150 attorneys.


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Q: How to pass Stored Procedure with DateTime parameter in Entity Framework public List<Data> GetData(string Date1, string Date2, string param3)
{
    var myData= new List<FindData_Result>();
    using (var context = new Config())
    {
        var queryResult = context.FindData(startDate, endDate, param3);
        final= (from a in queryResult select a).ToList();
    }
}

How do I pass date1 and end date2 as datetime parameter to my stored procedure?
I am using MVC web api with entity framework (DB first approach)

A: You should convert the string representations of your dates, start date and end date, to their DateTime equivalent. This can be done by using the Parse method of DateTime type, like below:
var startDate = DateTime.Parse(Date1);
var endDate = DateTime.Parse(Date2);
var queryResult = context.FindData(startDate, endDate, param3).ToList();

You could also use the ParseExact method, provided that your string have a specific format. For further info please have a look here.


Students can pursue advanced measures for the Distinguished Achievement Program (DAP) through AP courses/testing, National Merit recognition, independent study, or dual credit. A course taken at an accredited college or university and receiving both college and high school credit is considered dual credit. Earning a grade of A or B is required for the DAP advanced measures.
* Student classified as a senior, TASP exempt by TAAS scores, ACT scores, or SAT scores or qualified through a test for TASP purposes.
* Enrollment in advanced courses (AP/PreAP or Honors) at the time of SJC registration.
* 80 average or above in each academic area.
* A student may not register for a class that conflicts with scheduled high school classes.
* Prior to registration, students and their parent(s) are required to attend one of the scheduled informational meetings held at San Jacinto College or the high school.
* Students may, with approval, take the following courses at their own expense: English 1301, English 1302, Government 2301, and Economics 2301.
* Advanced level courses (such as Calculus II) not available at the high school may be partially funded by Pasadena ISD. If approved, the district pays tuition and registration fees for a maximum of two (2) approved courses, one per semester. All other costs (textbooks, out-of-district fees, late fees, drop/add fees, qualifying test fees, etc.) are the responsibility of the student.
* The district does not pay for summer sessions or mini sessions.
* If a student drops or is dropped after the full refund date (prior to the first class) or earns below C, the district will not pay for other dual credit courses.
* Withdrawal from any dual credit course requires approval by a campus counselor before action by San Jacinto College. The high school counselor will forward the completed drop/withdrawal form to San Jacinto College. The student then completes the formal drop/withdrawal procedures at the college. A student is not officially dropped/withdrawn from a class until the process is completed at San Jacinto College.
* Premium points are awarded if there is a corresponding high school course receiving premium points.
* All grades, including F's, appear on the official high school and college transcripts.


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import eu.icred.model.datatype.enumeration.AreaMeasurement;
import eu.icred.model.datatype.enumeration.AreaType;

public class Area {
    private Double          value;
    private AreaType        areaType;
    private AreaMeasurement areaMessurement;

    public Area() {
    }

    public Area(Double value, AreaMeasurement areaMessurement, AreaType areaType) {
        this.value = value;
        this.areaType = areaType;
        this.areaMessurement = areaMessurement;
    }

    public Double getValue() {
        return value;
    }

    public void setValue(Double value) {
        this.value = value;
    }

    public AreaType getAreaType() {
        return areaType;
    }

    public void setAreaType(AreaType areaType) {
        this.areaType = areaType;
    }

    public AreaMeasurement getAreaMessurement() {
        return areaMessurement;
    }

    public void setAreaMessurement(AreaMeasurement areaMessurement) {
        this.areaMessurement = areaMessurement;
    }

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Caratteristiche tecniche
È un mediano.

Carriera

Club
Ha giocato nella seconda divisione portoghese.

Nazionale
Ha esordito con la Nazionale di calcio del Burundi il 25 novembre 2012 in un incontro vinto 5-1 contro la Somalia, match in cui ha siglato una doppietta.

Statistiche

Cronologia presenze e reti in nazionale

Collegamenti esterni

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With a little bit of luck… and a T1 line, Mike was able to get 2 tickets to Fundays 2017. We waited in line for hours getting ready for the Funko experience of the year. It did not disappoint, there was food, drinks, games, protos, pops, t-shirts, and so, so much more. It is an event that all funatics should experience if they have the ability to.


Lovely band turban style hat in a rich brown/bronze patterned rayon/satin fabric. This hat has been gathered at the back and sits where ever you like on the head and is designed to be fixed to the head with grips. This hat has been made using the original copy pattern of 1940's Butterick pattern 1786. Great if you have shorter hair.


An Englishman, Irishman and Scotsman got trapped in a joke.
'How do we get out?' said the Englishman.
'Just stop telling it' said the Irishman.
'But we're too far in!' said the Scotsman.
All three checked their phones for reception.
A new play from Perrier award winner Will Adamsdale with Brian Logan and Lloyd Hutchinson - exploring jokes and why we tell them, countries and why we need (and despair of) them, and life and why we bother. And tic tacs.
= Directing support from Joe Hill-Gibbons.
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Bridesmaid speeches are easy to do if you follow some of the tips in this article. I found a lot of tips and tricks about speech writing online and I found it helpful when I made my own speech. I hope that you will find my tips and guide helpful as well.
When I learned that I was going to deliver a maid of honor speech, I was a little distressed because I am not a professional writer, and I have not written anything since school. Instead of panicking, I calmly searched the Internet for some tips and guides to help me write a great bridesmaid speech and even toasts. Allow me to share some of the things I learned about speech writing.
Shakespeare must be the best writer of English drama, but it would not sound so great if you write like Bill when making your speech. Just make use of conversational English. Write like you talk and you won't sound like a pretentious person during the delivery of your speech.
Along the same line, do not use thesaurus words as much as possible. The goal here is to keep your wedding speech short and simple.
When populating your paragraphs, use 4 to 5 short sentences. Using short sentences can help your speech be as cohesive and simple as possible. This will at least allow you to memorize an easy to understand maid of honor speech.
Make a single topic or a thesis statement and stick with it all throughout the speech. This will really keep your speech short and simple. With one unifying topic, you can make sure that you will not stray off the point that you want to make.
You can make a point like, marriage is sacred and full of responsibilities. This will allow you to impart something important to the listeners, especially the newlyweds. You can tell inspirational stories or funny anecdotes as long as it revolves around the single topic that you have come up with.
If you want to make great bridesmaid speeches, then you can look online for professional help. There are a lot of tips and tricks online that can help, but you must only trust the best sites around for awesome speeches. If you need more tips and tricks to wedding speech writing, head on over to bridesmaid speeches and toasts site.
The suggestions here were very clear, so easy to understand and learn. I had a blast giving my speech because the audience had fun with it too. It made that so successful for me because I listened to what I learned from this posting. They all made sense so no hard time dealing with my speech. I might not be very confident or happy about until it's over. That's also when I just realized that the suggestions were true. I literally based my speech on here. My speech was more than just okay. I did a great job so allow me to say thanks to your suggestions.
At the wedding I attended most recently, the bride was my childhood best friend and her fiancé was an English teacher in a local university in Chicago. I had to go back to my hometown to witness their exchanging of vows and union blessing. Not that I was one of the dearest friends but also had a big role to take on their wedding. I was also expected to give a speech. It was okay for me the moment my friend told me about it. When I started doing it I realized the other listener beside her is an English instructor. If you're thinking I should have good grammar, you're totally in it! I didn't want to hear anything bad about my speech straight from her groom! I respected them both so much that I didn't want to mess up my speech and embarrass them in front of their loved ones and friends. Good thing this article gave me an excellent idea to make my speech not only had the proper application of the grammar rules but also a touching message.
It's so cool to read the article posted on this website. I totally enjoyed reading it but I wished there was more. I could read for an hour but might not be a good idea cause after that I started writing my wedding speech. I was chosen to be a bridesmaid at my best friend's wedding which happened just three weeks ago. I could still remember that time I presented my speech. The reaction of the people was still fresh in mind. I knew they loved it although not all of them came to me to give their congratulation. All I needed was a good feedback from my best friend. She gave me before I waved goodbye to them at the event. it was sweet to my ears and I liked that she loved it.


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Support for the nRF52 DK.
There are some nameless simple development Boards with an nRF52832 available. These boards providing access to most SoC ports. There are two buttons (RST, KEY), two LED's (Pin 30, 31), a voltage regulator and a current messurment shunt on board. A serial connection and flashing must be provided by external Hardware.
The nRF52832 is a SoC with a 32-bit ARM® Cortex™-M4F CPU with 512kB Flash and 64kB RAM. The embedded 2.4GHz transceiver supports Bluetooth low energy, ANT and proprietary 2.4 GHz protocol stack. It is on air compatible with the nRF51 Series, nRF24L and nRF24AP Series products from Nordic Semiconductor.
P0.22 D28 near Radio! -> Low drive, low frequency I/O only.
P0.23 D29 near Radio! -> Low drive, low frequency I/O only.
P0.24 D30 near Radio! -> Low drive, low frequency I/O only.
P0.25 D00 near Radio! -> Low drive, low frequency I/O only.
P0.26 D01 near Radio! -> Low drive, low frequency I/O only.
P0.27 D02 near Radio! -> Low drive, low frequency I/O only.
P0.28 D03 near Radio! -> Low drive, low frequency I/O only.
P0.29 D04 near Radio! -> Low drive, low frequency I/O only.
P0.30 D05 LED0, near Radio! -> Low drive, low frequency I/O only.
P0.31 D06 LED1, near Radio! -> Low drive, low frequency I/O only.
Caution**: NFC is not usable with this board.
On many (all?) nrf52dk boards, the reset pin is not configured out-of-the box. This means, that simply nothing happens if the RESET pin is pressed. To change this, RIOT provides a little tool in dist/tools/nrf52_resetpin_cfg.
There are two pins for current measurement on board. Don't connect these pins to GND!. The left pin is at 3.3V level and the right pin is connected to V33. Divide the measured voltage between this pins by 22 to get the current.
Board specific configuration for the nRF52 DK.
Peripheral configuration for the nRF52 DK.


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Consumer card transactions will overtake cash transactions for the first time in 2016, according to global research firm Euromonitor International.
Cash is expensive to manage and is extensively used in the underworld. "A less-cash society would be a fairer and safer place," Kenneth Rogoff, a professor of economics at Harvard, wrote earlier this month. But card use is fraught with problems as well, particularly in the U.S., which owns half the world's card fraud.
"The average card will pass through three data breaches," said Canh Tran, CEO of fraud detection service Rippleshot. "The problem for issuers is that 20% of customers don't reactivate cards." Reactivating cards after breaches is also expensive, particularly in the case of EMV cards.
A hot new area in card fraud is gift cards, where cards can increasingly be digitally issued and used without much friction.
Breaches can happen at the point of sale and online. Shopping online, unless a form of tokenization as with Apple Pay is present, robs the consumer of the benefits of EMV, and reduces all transactions to magstripe level, with fixed and therefore hackable information. Rippleshot's technology identifies trouble spots — hacked merchants — and identifies cards likely to be used in future fraud attempts. The company does this by identifying the velocity of breaches," Tran said, and analyzing client spending patterns.
Rippleshot makes fraud patterns visible and forms rules about whether or not a certain card should be reissued. "It's about looking st cost versus estimated loss," Tran said. In other words, fraud or no fraud, sometimes it doesn't make financial sense to do the more secure thing.
The ROI argument certainly does not seem to have convinced credit unions, the majority of whom are yet to even adopt EMV cards. Around 30% to 40% of credit unions have issued EMV cards, according to Caroline Willard, EVP of Markets and Strategy at CO-OP Financial Services, which supports 3,500 credit unions and their 60 million members. Many merchants have yet to switch as well– new point of sale devices can be expensive, particularly for smaller businesses.
Israel, for all its security acumen in the startup world, is one of the few countries where card payments still using magstripe cards are common, but its deadline (3-1/2 years, set in 2013) is fast approaching, and the country, and its issuers, are making rapid progress and the deadline should be met, according to Ohad Maimon, EVP of business development and strategy at Leumi Card, one of the largest providers of payments cards in Israel.
McKenzie, who works on one of the web's most widely used payment systems, was making the point that consumers should not be responsible when their identity is compromised by merchants' insecure systems or banks' outdated cards.
In the case of card fraud, even if merchants are at fault, it is generally the banks who pay, and they will continue to pay until all the cards are updated and payments systems take fraud seriously, rather than as an acceptable cost of doing business.
To learn more about payments, please join us in Tel Aviv this November 1-3 for Bank Innovation Israel. Register here.


Researchers at the University of Pittsburgh and Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh of UPMC have been able to effectively repair damaged heart muscle in an animal model using a novel population of stem cells they discovered that is derived from human skeletal muscle tissue.
The research team at Children's Hospital is led by Johnny Huard, a professor in the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine's Departments of Orthopaedic Surgery, Molecular Genetics, Biochemistry, Bioengineering, and Pathology. He is also the Henry J. Mankin Professor and vice chair for research in the Department of Orthopaedic Surgery.
Huard transplanted stem cells purified from human muscle-derived blood vessels into the hearts of mice that had heart damage similar to that which would occur in people who had suffered a heart attack.
These transplanted myoendothelial cells repaired the injured muscle, stimulated the growth of new blood vessels in the heart, and reduced scar tissue from the injury, thereby dramatically improving the function of the injured left ventricle, said Huard, director of the Stem Cell Research Center in Children's Hospital's John G. Rangos Sr. Research Center.
Results of the study were published in the Journal of the American College of Cardiology.
The myoendothelial cells used in this study were more effective at repairing the injured cardiac muscle and reducing scar tissue than previous approaches that have used muscle cells known as myoblasts, according to Huard. At six weeks after injection, the myoendothelial cell-injected hearts functioned 40 to 50 percent more effectively compared with hearts that had been injected with myogenic cells (myoblasts).
Huard and colleagues in the Stem Cell Research Center are researching and developing numerous therapeutic uses for the population of muscle stem cells that the team identified. One of the most promising uses could be for the treatment of Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD), a genetic disease that affects one in every 3,500 boys. Patients with DMD lack dystrophin, a protein that gives muscle cells structure.
Huard is an internationally recognized cell biologist conducting laboratory research into the therapeutic use of stem cells to treat a variety of musculoskeletal and orthopaedic diseases and injuries. In the lab, Huard is developing cutting-edge therapies to regenerate bone, cartilage, and peripheral nerve and to repair damaged skeletal muscle after sports and military injuries.


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SHARON THOMAS, Plaintiff, v. INREACH, Defendant.
THIS MATTER IS BEFORE THE COURT on "Defendant InReach's Motion To Compel Plaintiff's Attendance At Her Deposition And For Sanctions" (Document No. 23). This motion has been referred to the undersigned Magistrate Judge pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 636(b), and immediate review is appropriate. Having carefully considered the motion, the record, and applicable authority, the undersigned will grant the motion in part, and deny the motion in part.
Pro se Plaintiff Sharon Thomas ("Plaintiff" or "Thomas") initiated this action with the filing of a "Complaint" (Document No. 1-1) in the General Court of Justice, Superior Court Division, Mecklenburg County, North Carolina on November 26, 2012. Although Plaintiff is appearing pro se, the undersigned again observes that Plaintiff is not unfamiliar with litigation before this Court. See (Document No. 16). Plaintiff has filed several lawsuits in recent years, either with this Court, or that were removed to this Court. See 3:11-CV-386-FDW; 3:11-CV-387-FDW; 3:12-CV-038-FDW; 3:12-CV-486-RJC; 3:13-CV-001-MOC; and 3:13-CV-005-MOC. Plaintiff has also acknowledged that she has filed other lawsuits that deal with the same facts involved in this action that are either pending in state court or in the United States District Court for the Middle District of North Carolina. (Document No. 7-1, pp.8, 14).
Defendant InReach filed its pending motion to compel and for sanctions on February 3, 2014. The motion alleges that Plaintiff failed to appear at a properly-noticed deposition on January 21, 2014, and requested that the Court compel Plaintiff to appear at a re-scheduled deposition on February 18, 2014.
The undersigned issued an "Order" (Document No. 25) on February 4, 2014, requiring Plaintiff to "file a response to "Defendant InReach's Motion To Compel . . ." (Document No. 23) on or before February 11, 2014." The Clerk of Court sent the "Order" (Document No. 25) to Plaintiff via certified mail, return receipt requested, and the record indicates that Plaintiff received that "Order" on February 6, 2014. (Document No. 26). Nevertheless, Plaintiff failed to file her response by February 11, 2014, and has failed to request additional time to respond.
The Court is informed that Plaintiff also failed to appear at the deposition re-scheduled for February 18, 2014. As such, Plaintiff has now failed to appear at two scheduled depositions, and has failed to abide by an explicit "Order" of this Court requiring her to respond to a pending motion. (Document No. 25).
Parties may obtain discovery regarding any nonprivileged matter that is relevant to any party's claim or defense including the existence, description, nature, custody, condition, and location of any documents or other tangible things and the identity and location of persons who know of any discoverable matter. For good cause, the court may order discovery of any matter relevant to the subject matter involved in the action. Relevant information need not be admissible at the trial if the discovery appears reasonably calculated to lead to the discovery of admissible evidence.
Fed.R.Civ.P. 26(b)(1). The rules of discovery are to be accorded broad and liberal construction. See Herbert v. Lando, 441 U.S. 153, 177 (1979); and Hickman v. Taylor, 329 U.S. 495, 507 (1947). However, a court may "issue an order to protect a party or person from annoyance, embarrassment, oppression or undue burden or expense." Fed.R.Civ.P. 26(c)(1).
Whether to grant or deny a motion to compel is generally left within a district court's broad discretion. See Lone Star Steakhouse & Saloon, Inc. v. Alpha of Va., Inc., 43 F.3d 922, 929 (4th Cir. 1995) (denial of motions to compel reviewed on appeal for abuse of discretion); Erdmann v. Preferred Research Inc., 852 F.2d 788, 792 (4th Cir. 1988) (noting District Court's substantial discretion in resolving motions to compel); and LaRouche v. National Broadcasting Co., 780 F.2d 1134, 1139 (4th Cir. 1986) (same).
If the motion is granted - or if the disclosure or requested discovery is provided after the motion was filed - the court must, after giving an opportunity to be heard, require the party or deponent whose conduct necessitated the motion, the party or attorney advising that conduct, or both to pay the movant's reasonable expenses incurred in making the motion, including attorney's fees.
Fed.R.Civ.P. 37(a)(5)(A). In addition, Fed.R.Civ.P. 37(d) authorizes the Court to order sanctions if a party fails to attend a properly noticed deposition. Theses sanctions may include dismissal of the action and/or the payment of the reasonable expenses, including attorney's fees, caused by the failure. See Fed.R.Civ.P. 37(b)(2).
In short, the undersigned finds Defendant's pending motion very persuasive, and Plaintiff has declined to provide any response that challenges either the facts or law asserted by Defendant. Plaintiff filed this action and is responsible for participating in discovery as required by the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure, the Local Rules of this Court, and the "Pretrial Order And Case Management Plan" (Document No. 22). See Fed.R.Civ.P. 30 (a party may depose another party without leave of the court, and attendance may be compelled under Rule 45). To date, it appears that Plaintiff is failing to adequately prosecute her lawsuit. Moreover, Plaintiff's conduct is causing Defendant, and the Court, to expend unnecessary resources on this case.
Based on the foregoing, the undersigned will grant Defendant's motion to the extent it seeks to compel Plaintiff's attendance at her deposition. Defendant may re-schedule, in consultation with Plaintiff if possible, and properly notice another deposition of Plaintiff. If Plaintiff fails to attend her re-scheduled deposition, she will likely face sanctions. Such sanctions may include dismissal of this lawsuit, and/or the payment of Defendant's reasonable expenses related to any or all of the depositions scheduled for Plaintiff in this matter.
At this time, the undersigned will deny Defendant's motion to the extent it seeks sanctions, but will take that request under advisement. Pending Plaintiff's participation in the proposed deposition and other discovery, Defendant may renew its request for sanctions at a later date.
IT IS, THEREFORE, ORDERED that "Defendant InReach's Motion To Compel . . ." (Document No. 23) is GRANTED in part, and DENIED in part, as more fully described herein.
The Clerk of Court is directed to send this Order to pro se Plaintiff via certified mail, return receipt requested.


Though it's well known that preventive care can improve health and save lives, establishing that preventive care can also save money has been more difficult. Until now, researchers have consistently found that preventive services do not end up saving money in the long term, but a new study shows that cardiovascular treatment seems to be the exception.
Spending on older adults over age 65 in the Medicare program slowed remarkably between 2005 and 2012, and researchers point to reduced spending on cardiovascular disease as responsible for as much as half of that downturn. These reductions in spending are largely due to increased use of medications to combat high cholesterol and high blood pressure, which are risk factors for heart disease and stroke.
The spending reduction, the researchers estimate, has saved the average person nearly $3,000 per year, with nearly $120 billion in savings split roughly evenly between the Medicare program and the rest of the health system. In addition, the researchers suggest that greater savings are possible if more at-risk individuals receive preventive cardiovascular care earlier in their lives. The researchers note that only half of all people with high blood pressure and high cholesterol currently seek preventive treatment.
Preventive care is given to prevent illnesses or disease. It can include treating risk factors, like high blood pressure, for serious conditions, like heart disease. In order to generate statistically-relevant health outcomes, programs testing preventive care interventions must include a large number of participants. This means that preventive programs are expensive, and often spend money on people who are at lesser risk of developing dangerous conditions. For example, high blood pressure is a risk factor for stroke, but not everyone with high blood pressure will have a stroke. However, studies have shown that if everyone with high blood pressure is treated with medication to bring their blood pressure under control, fewer people will have strokes. The health improvements are clear, but in order for such an intervention to demonstrate a financial savings, the amount spent on lowering program participants' blood pressure must be less than the amount saved by avoiding strokes. Until this study, demonstrating that savings has been difficult.
Preventive care is valuable because of its effect on health and lives even without savings. This exciting study shows even more potential for preventive care to save Medicare, and taxpayers, money. Medicare Rights continues to support innovative, effective approaches to improving the health and financial security of people with Medicare and their families.


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#AraratChallenge Global Campaign Inspires Thousands to Give Back
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Aurora celebrates the participants of the #AraratChallenge who strive to change the world.
September 6, 2019 – Aurora Humanitarian Initiative celebrates the participants of the global #AraratChallenge crowdfunding campaign who have donated $1 per month or more to give a second chance to the world's most vulnerable.
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Since the launch of the campaign, 2035 people from 25 countries have joined the #AraratChallenge, raising $77,070 and spreading the message of generosity and hope. We thank those who have taken part in the campaign and call upon everyone to join it.
The #AraratChallenge participants follow the simple steps to create their own #AraratChallenge videos and share them with their friends online, inspiring others to embrace Aurora's mission of empowering successive generations of humanitarians and join a movement that is giving a second chance to the most vulnerable among us.
«The Aurora Humanitarian Initiative and the #AraratChallenge were created to give a second chance to those in need today. Thousands of people have already taken part in the #AraratChallenge, leading to real and tangible changes in many communities around the world. We hope that thousands or even millions more will join this movement of Gratitude in Action and help awaken humanity to the plight of those in need today," said Noubar Afeyan, Co-Founder of the Aurora Humanitarian Initiative.
All donations received through the #AraratChallenge are allocated to the Aurora Humanitarian Initiative's programs in support of those in need. Aurora's projects aim to combat poverty, improve healthcare and provide education to people across the continents. With continued support, Aurora has already been able to help more than 850,000 people living in poverty and in war-stricken areas through 23 projects in 15 countries, with 43 percent of those programs benefitting children.
"What makes the #AraratChallenge unique is its truly global nature. People from around the world are responding to those in need by joining the #AraratChallenge. They are doing it in the spirit of one humanity. This is a testament to our collective conscience and determination. I am sure this will inspire everyone to participate in the #AraratChallenge both with donations and activism," said Vartan Gregorian, Co-Founder of the Aurora Humanitarian Initiative.
Aurora is now launching a promotional campaign in California, USA, calling on everyone, but especially the descendants of the Armenian Genocide survivors, to join the movement with their videos and donations. The #AraratChallenge, which features Mount Ararat — a universal symbol of renewal and second chance — provides an opportunity to Armenians whose ancestors were saved by others during the Genocide and to all communities fortunate to live in peace and prosperity to make the world a safer place for the generations to come through Gratitude in Action.
"Noah's story and Mount Ararat are universal symbols of a second chance that was given to humanity. We are thankful and happy to see thousands of people taking part in the #AraratChallenge because they want to help others and make our world a better, more humane place – it is our common cause. Join us in making the world a better place," said Ruben Vardanyan, Co-Founder of the Aurora Humanitarian Initiative.
All videos created for the campaign, as well as detailed information about the #AraratChallenge, can also be found on a special webpage.


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Q: Ограничение доступа к скриптам напрямую средствами php Пытаюсь постигнуть моменты безопасности.
Подскажите, есть ли какие-то рецепты запретить запуск скриптов php напрямую запросом из браузера?
Читал вариант про задание константы, например, в index.php и потом её проверке во всех include-файлах. А можно ли как-то ограничить доступ к тем, что не инклудятся?
Или вообще это плохая идея и делается иначе?


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Q: How can I play Pokemon USUM while living in the US on an European 3ds xl? How can I play the upcoming pokemon games here in the US (I'm currently working here) using my european new 3ds xl. Buying a new 3ds xl is NOT an option.
Clearly I can't buy a physical copy of the game due to geo-blocking. Can I use the eShop on my Nintendo and buy the game there? Does anyone have any experience with this kind of situation?

A: Yes, you can.
I went to Japan and China last year with my (European) New 3DS XL and had absolutely no issues buying a couple of games on the eShop and playing them while overseas. You will, of course, need a credit card to do that; foreign eShop funds cards won't work at all.
Keep in mind that the 3DS eShop has a daily upper limit on how much you can buy (somewhere around €180-200), and your credit card most likely has a monthly limit.


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Stan Galloway's Interview of Frederick Pohl on "Edgar Rice Burroughs and the Development of Science Fiction"
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The Burroughs Bulletin, published by the Burroughs Bibliophiles, is a fanzine that had its origins in 1947 with the blessings of Edgar Rice Burroughs himself. Here is an interview of Frederick Pohl by Stan Galloway, a scholar and member of the Biblophiles, and a member of the John Carter Sequel Facebook Group. (You can contact the Bibliophiles via this link)
Edgar Rice Burroughs and the Development of Science Fiction
(Editor's Note: Frederik Pohl is the author of more than thirty novels and short fiction collections, including the Hugo and Nebula award-winning GATEWAY and CHERNOBUL. He is the only person to have won the Hugo Award as both author and editor. He published the first series of anthologies of original stories in STAR SCIENCE FICTION and edited two leading science fiction magazines: GALAXY and IF. A noted teacher and lecturer, he has also received the American Book Award, the annual award of the Popular Culture Association, and the United Nations Society of Writers Award. We are much indebted to Stan Galloway of Lawrence, Kansas for this interview with Mr. Pohl for THE BURROUGHS BULLETIN.)
* * * I met a lot of the major writers of the early period of science fiction, but never Burroughs … a man named by Brian Aldiss as "a dinosaur of science fiction." In 1919, TARZAN THE UNTAMED ran in THE RED BOOK, McClurg brought out THE WARLORD OF MARS, and I was born. I grew up in Burroughs' heyday and began my own writing as Burroughs himself left the scene.
I was introduced to Burroughs in the way of countless other fans … through his stories. I read the Mars and Pellucidar and various other odds and ends, partly because Bur-roughs was about the only American science fiction writer available at the public library.
While today's readers of science fiction deal largely, though not exclusively, with paperbacks, in the past the pulp magazines had a much more important impact on the field. My personal introduction to science fiction came about as follows: When I was maybe ten, someone left an issue of SCIENCE WONDER STORIES at our house and I read it because I read everything I could get my hands on. I don't remember the story but the cover showed a monster from another planet knocking the tops off illuminating gas tanks … big ones … and I read it and loved it.
Read the full article at Burroughs Bibliophiles
Michael Chabon on Edgar Rice Burroughs – Unedited Interview
Taylor Kitsch Interview: Being John Carter
Abraham Sherman says:
"Wells is a much finer writer. And some of the English writers like S. Fowler Wright and Stapledon had much more profound thoughts than Burroughs ever allowed to appear in his novels. But Burroughs had the imagination and the color and the adventure and the excitement."
I haven't read all the authors he mentions there, but from the general sentiment I've gleaned from comparisons between Burroughs and the more "literary" sci-fi writers, I'll offer a hearty "Yep!" in agreement. ERB is the kind of writer who gets people to love reading in the first place, and his books are so fun that he kinda spoils us a bit in regards to the other writers of the genre.
"astronomically he was describing Mars the way a lot of astronomers described it at the time. It wasn't that he was wrong; he was right and the authorities were wrong."
So, Burroughs was writing fairly responsible science fiction for his time. And now, even though the authorities have caught up with the Mars we discovered via the Viking missions, I still think that ERB was right and the authorities are still wrong. ERB gave us a Mars that is much more fascinating and inspiring than the real one, and thus, through science fiction, gave us something that science could not.
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Yet Burroughs stories are still around, and I see no danger in them being left behind in the wake of high-tech developments or changing tastes because the stories are still fine. The Barsoom stories survived the changes in literary criticism, or the changes of the critical attitudes of the readers. They survived the fact that now we know what Mars is like, and it isn't that way at all because they're such damned good stories.


On Friday afternoon, while sitting in the choir room at my old high school where my mother plays piano as a volunteer, I finished up Dan Kennedy's Rock On. It was an ironic setting to be reading this book – with so many students dreaming, as Kennedy did, of becoming a rock star – but the reading moment was stellar. As was the book. . .
Kennedy is funny, really funny. In this book about his semi-unexpected employment at a major record label where he has to make ads for Phil Collins and participate in Jewel's reinvention, he captures the balance between honest self-deprecation and interiority while also guiding the reader through the physical and psychological space that is a corporation that produces art.
Here's what he writes about the possible buy-out of the company. "Fact: You can be a grown man worrying about having your job yanked up and out of your hand's by some guy's grandson who's got it in his head that he wants to buy a music company. This is so sadly funny to me — that you can wind up in this position as an adult. I keep thinking of him as a cross between Mr. Burns from The Simpsons and a giant infant monster running amok in some sort of herky-jerky motion against a skyline, like some kind of sixties sci-fi Ray Harryhausen stop-motion animation. I literally have to make an effort to remember he's a grown man. We're so clearly doomed. Morale is unbelievably low" (143).
There's a sad poignancy below Kennedy's humor, and it's just this ability to balance the funny with the bleak that makes Kennedy's book a great read for anyone who has ever worked in an office, dreamed of being famous, or just found themselves trying to communicate in ways that seem entirely unnatural.
P.S. Eva, from A Striped Armchair, has won How to Read Literature Like a Professor. Congratulations.


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ASER report: Children's basic reading skills have dramatically declined due to the pandemic.
The ASER reading exam measures a child's ability to read letters, words, a straightforward paragraph of level one complexity, or a "story" of level two difficulty.According to the most recent annual status of education report (ASER) survey, which was released on Wednesday, the basic reading proficiency of students in the age group of 5 to 16 who are enrolled in both government and private schools nationwide has sharply declined amid the Covid-19 pandemic, "reversing" the slow improvement achieved in the intervening years.According to the ASER 2022 research, which was spearheaded by the Pratham Foundation, 98.4% of students in the age range of 6 to 14 years are now enrolled in school, despite the lengthy shutdown of schools. The percentage was 97.2% in 2018.In addition, the research noted a decline in the percentage of girls who are not enrolled in school nationwide and a dramatic rise of 7.1 percentage points in the number of kids enrolled in pre-primary age groups in 2022.
After a four-year hiatus, the ASER 2022 began its nationwide survey, reaching 19,060 villages throughout 616 districts.3,74,544 homes and 6,99,597 kids between the ages of 3 and 16 were polled.ASER 2021 was carried out in the midst of the pandemic using telephone surveys, with a particular focus on digital inequality and school enrollment levels.2018 saw the publication of the most recent ASER report based on physical household surveys.As a result, the current report compares it to that.
The number of third-grade pupils in public and private schools who can read at the class second level has decreased from 27.3% in 2018 to 20.5% in 2022, according to the research.Every state showed signs of this deterioration.States with better reading proficiency in 2018 include Kerala (from 52.1% in 2018 to 38.7% in 2022), Himachal Pradesh (from 47.7% to 28.4%), and Haryana (from 46.4% to 31%), all of which show declines of more than 10 percentage points from 2018 levels.According to the research, significant decreases are also seen in Telangana (from 18.1% to 5.2%) and Andhra Pradesh (from 22.6% to 10.3%).The ASER reading exam measures a child's ability to read letters, words, a straightforward paragraph of level one complexity, or a "story" of level two difficulty.
According to the research, the percentage of fifth-grade kids who could read at least class 2-level material decreased from 50.5% in 2018 to 42.8% in 2022.Bihar, Odisha, Manipur, and Jharkhand are among the states where this metric remained stable or slightly improved. States with a decline of 15 percentage points or more, however, include Gujarat (from 53.8% to 34.2%), Himachal Pradesh (from 76.9% to 61.3%), and Andhra Pradesh (from 59.7% to 36.3% in 2022).Additionally, Uttarakhand, Rajasthan, Haryana, Karnataka, and Maharashtra all had declines of over 10 percentage points.Compared to patterns shown in classes 3 and 5, the decline in pupils' basic reading skills was less pronounced in class 8.According to the research, "Nationally, 69.6% of children enrolled in class 8 in government or private schools in 2022 can read at least basic text, down from 73% in 2018."The report also emphasised a national fall in children's basic math proficiency levels compared to 2018 levels for the majority of grades. However, the decline wasn't as severe as it was with basic reading.Children in class 3 who can at least perform subtraction, for example, went from 28.2% in 2018 to 25.9% in 2022.Similar to this, from 27.9% in 2018 to 25.6% in 2022, the proportion of Indian students in class 5 who are proficient in division has also somewhat decreased.The Covid-19 epidemic was also included in the ASER 2022 study as contributing to an increase in enrollment at government schools."From 65.6% in 2018 to 72.9% in 2022, the percentage of children (ages 6 to 14) enrolled in government schools increased significantly. Almost every state in the nation has seen an increase in the number of students attending government schools, according to the report.
The percentage of females aged 11 to 14 who were not enrolled in school in all of India was 2% in 2022, according to the report, which highlighted the rise in the number of girls attending school. In 2018, that percentage was 4.1%."This figure is about 4% only in Uttar Pradesh and is lower in all other states," the report's opening sentence stated.Among older females in the 15–16 age range, the decline in the percentage of girls who are not enrolled in school is considerably more pronounced.In 2008, more than 20% of 15 to 16-year-old girls nationwide were not enrolled in school. In 2018, ten years later, this number had dropped to 13.5%. The percentage of 15- to 16-year-old girls who are not enrolled has decreased and will be 7.9% in 2022, the report noted.
In just three states—Madhya Pradesh (17%), Uttar Pradesh (15%), and Chhattisgarh (11.2%)—do girls in this age range not attend school.The survey also emphasised the fact that from 26.4% in 2018 to 30.5% in 2022, more students in grades 1–5 are enrolling in paid private tuition programmes.According to the report, "the proportion of pupils receiving paid private tuition grew by 8 percentage points or more over 2018 levels in Uttar Pradesh, Bihar, and Jharkhand."