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Q: NEST adding context information to suggestions does NEST support adding context information to suggestions in the current version (1.0.2)? According to this article (http://www.elasticsearch.org/blog/elasticsearch-1-2-adding-context-suggestions/)
I didn't found a way how to achieve this by using fluent API.
thanks.

A: Not yet.  I just opened #927 to add support for this.  We'll try and get to it as soon as we can.

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HS2 Phase One given the green light
15/04/2020 in Network
Government confirmed today (April 15) that work can now start on building Phase 1 of HS2 from London to Birmingham.
Until now, only prepatory work had been carried out. But the Department for Transport has now given approval for HS2 Ltd to issue Notice to Proceed (NtP) to the four main works civils contractors, to commence full detailed design and construction of the railway.
Commenting on the Notice to Proceed, HS2 Ltd Chief Executive Mark Thurston said: "In these difficult times, today's announcement represents both an immediate boost to the construction industry and the many millions of UK jobs that the industry supports, and an important investment in Britain's future - levelling up the country, improving our transport network, and changing the way we travel to help bring down carbon emissions and improve air quality for the next generation."
It's expected that a partial start of services between Old Oak Common and Birmingham Curzon Street will begin between 2029 and 2033, with full Phase 1 services from Euston forecast to start between 2031 and 2036.
For the FULL story, read RAIL 903, published on April 22, and available digitally from April 18.
Government confirmation came as this issue of RAIL went to press. See RAIL 904 for in-depth reaction and analysis.
High Speed 2
New railway
Notice to proceed
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The biggest single waste of taxpayers money in recent history,a railway going somewhere to nowhere,trust me it will stop at Birmingham and stay there for decades thank heaven i wont be around to see it finished
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'Green Book' alterations to end north-south divide
Hope for more investment for northern England projects as Government looks to change way projects are assessed
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Facebook Takes the Microsoft Money And Runs.
While the storyline would have been more dramatic if Facebook had spurned its current ad-serving partner Microsoft for Google, it is confirmed that Microsoft has won the deal. It will invest $240 million in Facebook and expand its existing relationship to international markets, according to the WSJ. (The previous advertising relationship was only for the U.S., now Microsoft is Facebook's exclusive advertising partner both in the U.S. and abroad until 2011) The $240 million is a minority stake that values the company at $15 billion. So that comes out to less than a 2 percent stake for Microsoft, which is much smaller than 5 percent stake that was bandied about earlier. (Update: During the conference call, Facebook left open the possibility that more investors may be included in this round of financing, though it declined to disclose who those investors may or may not be. But that does open the door to Facebook raising more than the $240 million).
While Google would have been a closer fit in terms of it overall philosophy (more open than not), it may have just been too expensive to buy out Microsoft from its current deal to supply ads for Facebook in the U.S. Given its deep ties with Microsoft, sticking with them was always the path of least resistance. And one could argue that Google has never felt comfortable targeting ads based on private user profile data, which seems to be the great promise of Facebook, ad-wise. Microsoft doesn't share those qualms.
We are liveblogging the conference call here.


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Q: Mark NuGet Package content as "Copy to Output" in consuming .NET Framework 4.8 project I have a .NET Standard 2.0 project that is being packed into a NuGet package upon build. (Using the .csproj approach to generate a package on build) This project contains a file ApiClientSettings.json, which I want to copy to the output directory of the consuming project.
I have the following in my .csproj:
  <ItemGroup>
    <Content Include="ApiClientSettings.json">
      <CopyToOutputDirectory>Always</CopyToOutputDirectory>
      <PackageCopyToOutput>true</PackageCopyToOutput>
    </Content>
  </ItemGroup>

According to MS documentation, the PackageCopyToOutput attribute should do exactly what I want to do, but it does not seem to work when I install the package into a .NET Framework project. (Works perfectly for .NET Core project)
Am I missing anything else?
Here is my entire .csproj file:
<Project Sdk="Microsoft.NET.Sdk">

  <PropertyGroup>
    <TargetFramework>netstandard2.0</TargetFramework>
    <GeneratePackageOnBuild>true</GeneratePackageOnBuild>
    <IsPackable>true</IsPackable>
    <TargetsForTfmSpecificBuildOutput>$(TargetsForTfmSpecificBuildOutput);CopyProjectReferencesToPackage</TargetsForTfmSpecificBuildOutput>
    <AllowedOutputExtensionsInPackageBuildOutputFolder>
      $(AllowedOutputExtensionsInPackageBuildOutputFolder);.json
    </AllowedOutputExtensionsInPackageBuildOutputFolder>
    <Version>1.0.0</Version>
    <AssemblyVersion>1.0.0.0</AssemblyVersion>
    <FileVersion>1.0.0.0</FileVersion>
    <IncludeContentInPack>true</IncludeContentInPack>
  </PropertyGroup>

  <PropertyGroup Condition="'$(Configuration)|$(Platform)'=='Debug|AnyCPU'">
    <OutputPath></OutputPath>
  </PropertyGroup>

  <ItemGroup>
    <Content Include="ApiClientSettings.json">
      <CopyToOutputDirectory>Always</CopyToOutputDirectory>
      <PackageCopyToOutput>true</PackageCopyToOutput>
    </Content>
  </ItemGroup>

  <ItemGroup>
    <PackageReference Include="Microsoft.AspNet.WebApi.Client" Version="5.2.7" />
    <PackageReference Include="Microsoft.Extensions.Configuration" Version="3.1.5" />
    <PackageReference Include="Microsoft.Extensions.Configuration.Json" Version="3.1.5" />
    <PackageReference Include="Microsoft.Extensions.Http" Version="3.1.5" />
    <PackageReference Include="Newtonsoft.Json" Version="12.0.3" />
  </ItemGroup>

  <ItemGroup>
    <ProjectReference Include="..\DbModelLibrary\DbModelLibrary.csproj">
      <ReferenceOutputAssembly>true</ReferenceOutputAssembly>
      <IncludeAssets>DbModelLibrary.dll</IncludeAssets>
    </ProjectReference>
  </ItemGroup>

  <Target DependsOnTargets="ResolveReferences" Name="CopyProjectReferencesToPackage">
    <ItemGroup>
      <BuildOutputInPackage Include="@(ReferenceCopyLocalPaths->WithMetadataValue('ReferenceSourceTarget', 'ProjectReference'))" />
    </ItemGroup>
  </Target>

</Project>

Here is my generated .nuspec file aswell:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<package xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/packaging/2013/05/nuspec.xsd">
  <metadata>
    <id>Iso17025ApiClient</id>
    <version>1.0.0</version>
    <requireLicenseAcceptance>false</requireLicenseAcceptance>
    <dependencies>
      <group targetFramework=".NETStandard2.0">
        <dependency id="Microsoft.AspNet.WebApi.Client" version="5.2.7" exclude="Build,Analyzers" />
        <dependency id="Microsoft.Extensions.Configuration" version="3.1.5" exclude="Build,Analyzers" />
        <dependency id="Microsoft.Extensions.Configuration.Json" version="3.1.5" exclude="Build,Analyzers" />
        <dependency id="Microsoft.Extensions.Http" version="3.1.5" exclude="Build,Analyzers" />
        <dependency id="Newtonsoft.Json" version="12.0.3" exclude="Build,Analyzers" />
      </group>
    </dependencies>
    <contentFiles>
      <files include="any/netstandard2.0/appsettings.json" buildAction="Content" copyToOutput="true" />
    </contentFiles>
  </metadata>
</package>

I am adding the file structure of the consuming .NET Framework apps:

When the NuGet package reference is used, the file gets copied to the output directory, from the global package directory, but does not get added to the solution.
If the packages.config is used, the file gets copied to the solution but does not get marked as "Copy to Output" even though it is specified to do so in the NuGet package.
This probably has to do with the changes between pacakges.config and PackageReference NuGet package management? The difference between contentFiles and content probably.
What still confuses me, is that the .NET Core apps use PackageReference and the behaviour is different as with the .NET Framework apps.
In the .NET Core apps the appsettings.json is added to the solution AND marked as "Copy to Output".
I would like the users to have roughly the same experience with the package no matter which target framework they are using. (I do not want them to manually add an appsettings.json JUST because they are using .NET Framework. Is this avoidable in some way?

A: I have tried this in plain projects with these lines from your sample and it works.
<ItemGroup>
    <Content Include="ApiClientSettings.json">
        <CopyToOutputDirectory>Always</CopyToOutputDirectory>
        <PackageCopyToOutput>true</PackageCopyToOutput>
        <PackagePath>contentFiles\any\any\;content</PackagePath>
    </Content>
</ItemGroup>

However, there is something wrong with your generated NuSpec. This line in the contentFiles tag is wrong.
<files include="any/netstandard2.0/ApiClientSettings.json" buildAction="Content" copyToOutput="Always" />

According to your project file, instead of netstandard2.0 it should be any and the attribute for copyToOutput allows for true or false, but not Always. The files tag should look like this.
<files include="any/any/ApiClientSettings.json" buildAction="Content" copyToOutput="true" />

Maybe there are leftovers from testing your package and your caches are corrupted, because your NuSpec does not match the given project file. In Visual Studio you can clear the caches with Tools > Options > NuGet Package Manager > General > Clear all caches or delete your global .nuget folder contents.
Just for you to compare, this is the library project.
<Project Sdk="Microsoft.NET.Sdk">
    <PropertyGroup>
        <TargetFramework>netstandard2.0</TargetFramework>
        <GeneratePackageOnBuild>true</GeneratePackageOnBuild>
    </PropertyGroup>
    <ItemGroup>
        <None Remove="ApiClientSettings.json" />
    </ItemGroup>
    <ItemGroup>
        <Content Include="ApiClientSettings.json">
            <CopyToOutputDirectory>Always</CopyToOutputDirectory>
            <PackageCopyToOutput>true</PackageCopyToOutput>
            <PackagePath>contentFiles\any\any\;content</PackagePath>
        </Content>
    </ItemGroup>
</Project>

This is the PackageReference in both .NET Framework and .NET Core projects.
<ItemGroup>
    <PackageReference Include="ClassLibrary" Version="1.0.0" />
</ItemGroup>

The behavior you recognize between PackageReference and packages.config is because the latter does not support contentFiles. You will have to resort to using the content folder and a custom MS Build .targets file, like this.

I would like the users to have roughly the same experience with the package no matter which target framework they are using.

NuGet packages behave very different not only in terms of PackageReference and packages.config but also whether you use the old-style project format or the new SDK-style project format in your libraries and applications. Consequently, it is hard to provide the same experience in all cases. I recommend you to use SDK-style projects with PackageReference to gain access to the latest features.


Do you have a feeling that your family isn't the warm, loving nest it's supposed to be? Are you tired of trying to make things right and ending up feeling hurt and misunderstood?
Don't despair – things can be a lot better! You have the power to change the relationships between you and your family members and to invoke that positive, supporting and loving spirit back into your home – and it won't even take much of your time!
Yes, family relationships can be complicated and if not taken care of, they can escalate and even become destructive. But we often overlook the fact that the seed that can change the dysfunctional patterns can grow, thanks to one family member who is willing to devote him or herself to bettering things.
The deep underlying reasons behind much of disturbed family relationships is the inability of family members to communicate effectively, which then produce all sorts of misunderstandings: someone ends up not feeling loved or appreciated by the very community that should, by definition, love and accept them unconditionally.
They get hurt and from there things can go in many wrong directions, involving the rest of the family and creating a domino effect of turbulent emotions and reactions.
And yes, it takes more family members to make things right, but in most cases the willingness of only one person is more than enough to begin the healing process within the family.
If your family is really important to you, you can decide to be that one person!
What can YOU do to restore healthy and loving energy to your family?
Someone has to stay calm and to know what to avoid and what to aim for, right?
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So, if you're the one who has decided to take things into their hands, the most straightforward process for healing your family relationships is to make sure that you're as compassionate, as understanding and as objective as possible – and then to act from that point.
Two of the most important skills one needs when handling all human relationships are the art of effective communication and emotional intelligence. When you understand what drives others, why they feel the way they feel and behave the way they do, you will find a way to communicate with them much more naturally and efficiently.
And even if you're not aware of it, you already possess these skills. There were also the situations you intuitively handled well, weren't there?
So the main focus here is to help you awaken them and become more aware of them, so that you can be better equipped when handling your family misunderstandings and tension.
This collection of positive affirmations was compiled with the intention to help you rewire your mind and the way you view what's going on between you and your family members and to help you establish a bridge that will make the process of healing quick and painless.
You will be more in touch with your own emotions and reactions, which will make you more sensitive to the reasons why someone behaves the way they do. This will enable you to make better, more intimate contact with your spouse, your children or your parents, to make them feel understood and loved, which will release a lot of the tension between you.
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The energy you will be spreading will send a message so powerful that your family members will become motivated to work on your mutual relationship too! Never underestimate the power of sincere effort and love, they are the most powerful weapon to win others and to make them believe in your "cause" just as much as you do.
This change will begin with you, but you will soon notice that the others in your family are responding to it – you will be working on your common goal together, as a family!
If you're doubting your parenting skills, if you're too worried and overprotective, often unsure about what's the best way to react, this album will help you develop a more self-assured approach to your parenting, to be more balanced and to discover your inner strength and guidance that will make you a better parent to your kids.
These affirmations will reinforce positive beliefs about your parenting abilities, until you can confidently rely on yourself and your judgment and be the best possible parent to your kids.
A problematic childhood is a hard burden to bear; many people experience some sort of emotional consequences caused by inadequate behavior of their parents and emotional scars are often much more difficult to deal with than the experience itself was.
This album will help you heal painful memories of your youth, make peace with your parents and develop a new, positive and optimistic perspective on life, on yourself and your future.
If you have a son and are feeling like he's slipping too quickly from your grasp, fearing that your relationship is getting worse and that you'll completely lose him, then this album will help you overcome fear of making a wrong move and make you confident that you can indeed renew the connection with your son.
It will help you help you expand your horizons and come up with new ideas and ways to connect with him - you will learn to really listen to what he's saying and to go beyond his words to understand what bugs him or what makes him happy.
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You will learn to overcome your fears related to her and develop faith in her as a capable young person who can make her own choices. You'll be better able to understand her and to give her what she needs of you, helping you create a strong, lasting bond with your daughter based on trust and mutual respect.
This album is focused on helping you learn how to effectively use your emotions and improve your relationships with your family members. You will be more in touch with your own emotions, which will allow you to understand them, to understand how they impact your behavior and because of that you'll be better equipped to understand the behavior of others.
Good communication skills are extremely important for nurturing any relationship and these affirmations will make you focus on improving yours so that you'll be heard and understood all the time and at the same time, more open to really hearing and understanding others.
They will make you a better listener who pays more attention not only to the words, but also to the body language of the person you're talking to and you will be able to adapt your own message to the response you see. This will directly influence the way others react to your words and tremendously help in developing mutual understanding between you and your family members.
Being unable to compromise with others can be a huge complication in family relationships and many times, instead of finding the best possible way, you can end up getting nowhere at all and making things worse than they were.
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Most people study textiles, but not everyone has a vision like the ambitious & optimistic Juliette Berthonneau. Her research aims at looking for alternative, speculative textile materials which could replace the polluting ones. Moving forward with our #GreenTalks series, MiND spoke to Juliette Berthonneau, who took part in the Greenhouse Project at the Stockholm Furniture & Light Fair of 2019.
"I feel inspired by the poetic relationship between space, human motions and textile behaviors."
I studied Fine Art, History of Arts & Philosophy in Paris after which I progressed onto my textile practice at the School of Beaux-Arts in Lyon. In the meanwhile, I took up a few internships at weaving studios, which helped me build on my understanding of fabric properties. Coming from an artistic & theoretical background, my fascination for countless fabric possibilities, digital tools and technologies has grown over the years. This motivated me to travel to Eindhoven to work with a studio on a specific technique of 3D printed textiles.
Currently I'm developing my research at the Swedish School of Textiles. Here I have the possibility to learn any textile techniques from weaving, knitting to printing, dying etc. I consider this as the best playground for textile experimentation.
I see The Greenhouse Project as an international inspiring platform, open for discussions and a place to build the future of design practices. This exhibition was a chance to show few research projects from my degree work, and to have an industry professional's point of view. As a young designer, this fair is an opportunity to consider the future of my textile research.
I exhibited two projects – 'Bouncing Patterns' and the other one 'Active Screens' in collaboration with textile designer Maria Wolff Metternich. 'Bouncing Patterns' investigates the use textile technologies to challenge the traditional flat format of weaving. It is a collection of three-dimensional surfaces and experimental shapes, investigating the interrelation between pattern and form and questioning the way they influence each other's structure. My aim in the project was to use the weaving technique to develop diverse alternative materials, and to give an innovative and broader picture of textile, inspired by architecture.
For the second project 'Active Screens', my partner Maria & I, created some visually vibrant surfaces that due to transparency of layers, merge to create forms. Each piece is hanging from springs which gives it movement and rhythm. On the edge of functional and artistic research, each composition acts as a floating painting designed as minimal and playful. The fluidity of textiles enables to create a space for experiments and discoveries. They are not static which brings something attractive and surprising.
During the design process, I think about how technologies can be used to produce minimum waste. I imagine how to design directly on the loom, to have a product almost ready to use when cut off, and reduce the production line. It is important to think about the future of a design in its conception, its longevity. Materials should be thought in relation to resources and environmental concerns, as well as the need of new products, number of functions it can serve, durability, energy issues, weight saving, recycling or transforming possibilities. My textiles have the quality of being lightweight which is an important feature. They are easy to transform, carry and move.
I'm inspired by the architecture of spaces and forms. I went to Japan last summer and I visited the Teshima Art Museum (by the architect Ryue Nishizawa and sculptor Rei Naito). It was a beautiful immersive experience of space in relation to nature, sky, air, water and light. A good metaphor of what textile is for me. Weaving is like mathematics – it's all about structure, proportions and balance, but it's also very sensitive. A textile is something that has different scales in one piece. It has a presence in a space, but is also a micro structure made of miscellaneous details. A part of me is a little geeky. I am fascinated by digital and virtual spaces. I design my weaves digitally and a big part of my process is to program them on a computer.
What are the changes you would like to see in design industry?
In my point of view, the textile industry has advanced and opened up to some specific fields such as medical, sport, automotive, but not so much for designers' research. It would be ideal to break the resistance of conventional production and to give more space to creativity and experimentation. With industrial equipment and technologies, many possibilities both in visual expressions and potential functions could be developed. What should also change is the mass production's system. I believe that highlighting durable and qualitative products is a key for our future.


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Justices hear case against the contraception mandate
Dan Diamond, Managing Editor
A seemingly divided Supreme Court on Tuesday heard arguments in Sebelius v. Hobby Lobby, a case that turns on whether the Affordable Care Act's contraception mandate is constitutional.
The case was something of a rematch of the battle over the ACA two years ago—the same panel of justices; the same prominent lawyers—if for smaller stakes this time. And it was incredibly fast-paced, with arguments touching on a range of legal opinion and law, but centering on the 1993 Religious Freedom Restoration Act.
Hobby Lobby's case
Paul Clement—who again represented a challenger to the law, albeit a different plaintiff than the National Federation of Independent Business—had barely begun his opening remarks before being aggressively questioned by Justices Sonia Sotomayor and Elena Kagan. The two justices were quickly joined by Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, and the three women combined to push Clement on a key issue: If the Court ruled for Hobby Lobby, what other procedures could qualify for religious exemptions? Vaccinations? Blood transfusions?
Clement responded that each treatment would have to be individually scrutinized to see if there was a compelling interest.
"Every case would have to be analyzed on its own," he said. "I do think in the context of vaccinations, the government may have a stronger compelling interest than it does in this context because there are notions of herd immunity," Clement added.
But if the Court was to rule in favor of Hobby Lobby on these grounds, Kagan suggested, it would create a new burden—the ruling would subject individual health care treatments like transfusions and vaccinations to the "highest test under our constitution" and result in a piecemeal approach to regulating health care.
Kagan and Sotomayor also wondered aloud if Hobby Lobby truly faced a mandate to provide contraceptive coverage, or had a choice to opt out and pay a penalty.
HHS defense focuses on rights of employees
Defending the law, once again, was Donald Verrilli, the Obama Administration's Solicitor General. And just as the liberal justices pushed on Clement's argument, the conservative wing of the Court was quick to interupt Verrilli—who opened with a statement that Congress determined that contraceptive coverage was an essential benefit under the ACA—and insist that RFRA did allow for religious exceptions to general laws. And Chief Justice John Roberts suggested that the Court could rule narrowly and allow certain firms an exception to the contraception mandate.
Also in play: The issue of the ACA's grandfathering provision. And several justices pointed out that since the ACA grandfathered in plans that don't offer contraceptive coverage, so how could the measure be so important and essential under the ACA? Roberts further pushed Verrilli to explain when HHS planned to end the grandfathering provision; Verrilli said he didn't know. "Shouldn't we assume in our analysis that it is current and, as far as we can tell, not going to end?" the Chief Justice asked.
Justice Anthony Kennedy wondered if Verrilli's argument was also intended to "protect the operational integrity" of the ACA; the White House's lawyer agreed that yes, it was. So "does that mean the constitutionality of the whole Act has to be examined before we accept your view?" Kennedy mused. Amid laughter in the courtroom, Verrilli was quick to assure him that that question was closed. "I think it has been examined, your honor, is my recollection," he said.
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Q: Inject in scala object I'm using Play framework 2.5 and try to inject WSClient in a scala object used in my controllers.
import play.api.libs.concurrent.Execution.Implicits.defaultContext

    object MyObject {

        @Inject
        var ws: WSClient = null

        def doSomething() = { // use wsclient }

    }

I use MyObject in several controllers and when calling doSomething() wsclient is null.

A: You should define MyObject as class and inject wsclient to it:
class MyObject @Inject()(ws: WSClient) {
    def doSomething() = { /* use wsclient */ }
}


The purpose of the forum is to support research and development activities by facilitating networking across the membership. We've organised the forum into three groups which are aligned to the themes of the R&D strategy: Healthcare delivery, Patient experience and Developing the workforce. The strategy document gives an overview of what each theme is about.
You can contribute to any of the groups. Hopefully, this structure will make it easier for people to connect around common interests.
Rule 1. Remember the human. Never forget that the person reading your mail or posting is, indeed, a person, with feelings that can be hurt.
Rule 2. Adhere to the same standards of behaviour online that you follow in real life.


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Slide continues for Xavier
Falcons fall to Wilbur Cross, lost three of their last four games
Published 11:28 pm EST, Friday, February 21, 2014
MIDDLETOWN >> It's a basketball axiom that in a close game, the first few minutes of the second half are crucial. The latest piece of evidence of that came Friday night at Xavier's Art Kohs gym when Wilbur Cross hit the Falcons with a 9-0 run to start the second half to blow the game open.
The Governors went on to an easy 67-46 win in front of a crowd of 500, handing Xavier its third loss in its last four games.
"We got off to a slow start, but we came back from 14 down to get to within two just before the half," said Xavier coach Mike Kohs. "We recovered very well. But then the kid banks one in just before the half on a three-pointer, then they hit us with a 9-0 run to open the second half.
"That killed us."
Xavier never led. The Governors opened the game with a 6-0 run and led 21-12 at the first turn. Cross' two stars, Josh Fleming and Chan Williams-Bey led with 10 and nine points respectively.
But Xavier got off the deck and on a basket by Elijah Pemberton (18 points) with 1:14 to play in the half, Xavier had the lead down to 26-24. But Daryl Stokes hit the buzzer-beating trey to give Cross a 29-24 lead at the break, which was a hint of what was about to hit the Falcons.
Wilbur Cross (15-5) led by as many as 16 in the third and led 50-36 after three. The Governors poured it on from there.
"I thought we played well in spurts," said Cross coach Kevin Walton."Right now we're looking for defense and giving up 46 points is maybe too many.
"Fleming [23 points] is our spark offensively and he and Williams-Bey [18 points] give us a good 1-2 punch. But everybody knows about them, so we're looking for the next two or three guys to step up both offensively and defensively. I thought Stokes gave us some very good minutes off the bench."
Robert Durante was also in double figures for Cross.
Xavier (13-7) had Brandon MacPerson join Pemberton in double figures with 11.
"Our league is brutal," said Kohs, whose team will play a Southern Connecticut Conference playoff game at home Thursday. "Fairfield Prep is above everybody, but Cross, Hillhouse, Notre Dame, Cheshire are all very good teams."
Xavier was 17-for-43 from the floor for 39 percent, while Cross was a scorching 30-for-51 for 59 percent.


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Vermont Law School's 110 year old Debevoise Hall serves as an historic landmark in South Royalton's village center. The four story, 28,000 sq.ft. building provides a home for the school's Environmental Law Center, classroom space, faculty and administrative offices and an all-purpose space that serves as the Law School's "living room".
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A consultation to decide the future of Scotland's Crown Estate opened yesterday.
The Scottish Government is seeking views on how best to manage and devolve the lands owned by the group, which includes much of the country's foreshore and seabed.
The consultation will run until 29th March.
It follows calls from those who suggested the Crown Estate was not maximising the benefits to Scotland and its local communities to put control of the land back in the hands of the people.
The Crown Estate currently leases areas of the seabed for wind, wave and tidal energy developments as well as telecommunications cables and oil and gas pipelines. The consultation is expected to allow for better decisions to be made on how profits from these areas can be reinvested back into communities.
For example, the Crown Estate will likely have to take wider social benefits into account when deciding to lease or sell land, with potential measures such as lower amounts charged for renewable energy projects being introduced.
Existing green energy projects in Scotland meant it exceeded its goal of reducing greenhouse gas emissions by 42% six years ahead of schedule.


In the last few years or so, microservices have achieved the rock star status and right now are one of the most tangible solutions in enterprises to make quick, effective, and scalable applications. The apparent rise of Typescript and long evolution from ES5 to ES6 has seen lots of big companies move to ES6 stack. If you want to learn how to leverage the power of microservices to build robust architecture using reactive programming and Typescript in Node.js, then this book is for you.
Typescript Microservices is an end-to-end guide that shows you the implementation of microservices from scratch; right from starting the project to hardening and securing your services. We will begin with a brief introduction to microservices before learning to break your monolith applications into microservices. From here, you will learn reactive programming patterns and how to build APIs for microservices. The next set of topics will take you through the microservice architecture with TypeScript and communication between services. Further, you will learn to test and deploy your TypeScript microservices using the latest tools and implement continuous integration. Finally, you will learn to secure and harden your microservice.
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Harness Wealth Wants to Be Advisors' Digital Matchmaker
Co-founder and CEO David Snider is hoping to bring lessons learned from real estate technology into wealth management.
Samuel Steinberger | Jun 25, 2019
Harness Wealth co-founder and CEO David Snider is hoping his firm will be the digital matchmaker for the wealth management industry thoughout the U.S. With a background in real estate, the entrepreneur turned his attention from properties to intermediating between individuals looking for financial, tax and trust advice—and the professionals with the experience to help them.
The service wants to be the trusted search engine of consumers looking for a financial advisor, tax strategist, or trust and estate lawyer anywhere in the country. Snider and Katie Prentke English, Harness Wealth's co-founder and chief marketing officer, envision consumers going to the firm's website, answering a questionnaire about the services they're interested in obtaining, then being matched with a pared-down, vetted list of professionals with the right qualifications.
While Snider and team have been running the firm on an invitation-only basis for the past six months, starting today the service is available to the broader market. There are over 300 advisors on the platform, said Snider, up from just a few dozen, months ago. Participating advisors agree to a revenue share with Harness Wealth as part of the lead generation service, "modeled after the wealth management custodian advisor programs," he added.
Trust is paramount for an intermediating platform. The due diligence process for advisors to be listed attempts to build that trust with advisors' self-reported data and regulatory filings, along with firm-level interviews conducted by Harness Wealth staff. It's a process that gathers more than 120 attributes, said Snider. Individual advisors are not allowed on the platform—all advisors must be part of a firm. Although there is no cap on the AUM that a firm can have, each needs at least $300 million in assets under management to be listed.
Leading the interviews is Michelle Tran, the Harness Wealth head of business development, who joined the firm after working at firms like BlackRock and Apex Clearing. She "worked closely with financial advisors" in her previous positions, said Snider. "The team is comprised of individuals with wealth management experience, including direct experience with RIAs."
Part of the due diligence process was built by Maliz Beams, the former CEO of Voya Financial, said Snider. Beams, who also served a brief stint working alongside former U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson in the Trump administration, is a member of Harness Wealth's advisory council. "Our process continues to evolve to be as holistic as possible and to draw out key distinctions among firms for clients," said Snider. Firms on the platform are subject to an annual review and client feedback helps Tran, Snider, English and the rest of the Harness Wealth team determine which advisors should remain on the platform. Client feedback is collected by Harness Wealth employees and via an automated feedback process.
For advisors interested in joining the platform, the review will require roughly four to six hours of an advisor's time over two to three weeks, said Snider. "In-depth profiles are created for each firm once firms are approved," he noted. "We work with each firm to ensure their unique value, and differentiating attributes are identified in the profiles."
Harness Wealth is hoping its platform will attract mid-career Gen X households with high earning potential, according to the company's launch announcement. Company data pointed to the need for a human-tech hybrid solution for financial advice, a need which the firm is hoping to meet.
The firm raised $4 million in seed funds late last year, with capital provided by firms like Bain Capital Ventures, where Snider was an investor.
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Shaq is making a sequel to Shaq Fu, needs $450,000 in funding to make it happen.
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Oh my... Shaquille O'Neal is making a sequel to Shaq Fu, and has taken to IndieGoGo for the $450,000 he needs to make it happen. You might want to fund it, after you've checked out the trailer below:
Considering Shaq has mountains of money, why does he need to ask for crowdfunded money to get his game off the ground? Here's the explanation:
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Core Requirements provide the foundational knowledge for the major.
Cluster Requirements (A, B, and C) are designed to provide disciplinary variety in the study of organizations, drawing on courses in a number of fields, and ranging across multiple levels of organizational analysis.
Quantitative Skills and Senior Research Capstone requirements give students the tools necessary to engage in various types of research in organizations, and provide the opportunity for real-world experience in organizational research.
Details and course lists for each requirement area are below, and an OS Curriculum Worksheet is also available for your reference.
AP/IB credit is acceptable to fulfill the Psychology and/or the Economics prerequisites. Transfer credit may also be used to fulfill prerequisites, with the exception of online Economics courses, which are not accepted for credit at UM.
Students should be aware that additional prerequisites are required for many of the upper-level courses in the OS curriculum. Depending on their particular area of interest, students may wish to complete Econ 102 and/or entry level courses in Political Science, Communication Studies, or other areas of interest as they prepare to apply to the OS program.
See the Organizational Studies Courses for OS Majors for course descriptions of ORGSTUDY 305 and ORGSTUDY 310.
All courses listed above also fulfill the LSA Quantitative Reasoning requirement.
OS 410 is offered in the Fall term only. For honors students, please note that two research courses are required (typically OS 497 in fall and OS 498 in winter).
Definitions of each cluster, along with lists of courses that fall in Clusters A, B and C are indicated here.
Cluster A (micro) courses are those that focus mainly on questions and topics concerning the organized behavior of individuals or the behavior of individuals in organizations. Cluster A classes are broader in scope than Cluster C courses below, and are typically upper level offerings in the LSA curriculum. These courses may address the relations of individuals to larger social structures such as the family or formal organizations, but their concern with these larger structures will typically remain the impact thereof on individual psychology or individual behavior. Most psychology courses concerned with organizations and organized behavior will fall in this cluster, as will some courses in political science, anthropology, communications, and economics. Sociology courses rarely fall in this cluster.
Cluster B (macro) courses are those that focus mainly on questions and topics concerning the organization of social groups (e.g., ethnic groups), historical processes (e.g., the rise of capitalism), and/or medium to large social structures (e.g., corporations, national governments, or global governing bodies). They are broader in scope than Cluster C courses below, and are typically upper level offerings in the LSA curriculum. Although Cluster B courses may at times address the impact of such larger structures and processes on individual behavior or may include attention to particular individuals from U.S. or world history, the primary concern of Cluster B courses is with questions about how social groups, historical processes, and social structures emerge, remain stable, and/or change. Most sociology, political science, and history courses will fall in this cluster, as will some economics and anthropology courses.
Cluster C (interest) courses in the Organizational Studies curriculum are intended to allow majors to pursue their curriculum pathway interests in a more specialized way. Cluster C courses should have an organizational theme and can be of either the macro or micro variety, but are almost always more narrow and focused in their content. Cluster C courses can and do often come from a variety of departments both in LSA and in various University of Michigan schools and colleges.
Does NOT count as credit toward OS Major Requirements. ALA 225 can also be used by OS students to receive internship credit, and has a lower number of required hours (visit the Opportunity Hub website for ALA 225 information).
Students who are required or wish to receive credit for an internship experience, can register for this course. Students must complete at least 320 hours during the course of the internship. Upon completion of the internship, the internship supervisor must send an official email to the major advisor. Students typically register for the ORGSTUDY 299 during the fall term after their summer internship. OS students interested in registering for this course should email the OS Advisor prior to the summer internship.
This course offers an overview of the psychology of people in organizations, broadly defined. Topics will focus on social dynamics in organizations, including employee motivation, influencing others, decision-making, cooperation, culture, leadership, and teams, to name a few. The format of the course will comprise lectures, general discussions, and smaller seminar discussions. To complement the standard reading material, case studies will also be read as a common touchstone for analyzing and discussing psychological phenomena in a real world organizational context.
This course provides OS students with a survey of theory and research on formal organizations from sociological and economic perspectives. The course emphasizes multiple levels of analysis in organizational theory from internal structure and practice to organization-environment relationships. Students apply theories to existing case studies and develop original case research over the course of the term.
Based on psychological research on negotiation, conflict resolution, and social influence, this course aims to provide students with the theory-driven skills they need to become effective negotiators. Students will participate in in-class negotiation exercises, mini-lectures, and discussions on a weekly basis. By the end of the term, students will have learned the fundamentals of distributive and integrative bargaining as well as an array of social influence strategies – all through the lens of theory – in order to succeed as a negotiator. They will also become adept at analyzing every negotiation experience from the perspective of various psychological concepts and theories.
This course is an advanced exploration of the methods used in conducting organizational studies research. Students expand their abilities to conceptualize, design, implement, report, present, and critique research. Students learn through review and discussion of research methods, as well as their direct application in short assignments and a semester-long, team-based research project. Methods examined in the course include, but are not limited to, surveys, interviews, participant observation/ethnography, archival research, social network analysis, and experiments. Students build skills in presenting research and discuss research ethics.
This course explores the relationship between formal and informal social networks and the dynamics of organizational processes. Networks may be based on friendship, technical expertise, family, authority, sexual relations, common interest, political alliances, electronic communication, or many other factors. We consider a variety of theories of networks (e.g., small worlds, the strength of weak ties, structural holes) and apply them to topics such as Facebook friendships, social movement activism, the choice of sexual partners, and advancement within a corporation. We will give special attention to the question of how to "use" networks to attain organizational objectives. Computer applications will be emphasized, though no specialized computing knowledge is prerequisite.
Fulfills either Cluster A or B requirement (student choice).
This course focuses on the skills and strategies that can help you become a more effective leader for the environment. Students will learn about the importance of decision-making, influence, and teamwork for implementing organization change and innovation towards greater environmental stewardship. We will focus on the different roles that leaders take in addressing environmental strategies within and across for-profit, not-for-profit, and governmental organizations. Students will also analyze and reflect upon their own personal goals and challenges as environmental leaders.
Fulfills Cluster B requirement. Students cannot receive credit for both OS 204 and OS 420.
In the first half of the course, we will pose and answer questions about the nonprofit sector's emergence in the United States; its changing relations with government and with the for-profit sector; the current state of the nonprofit sector; and its likely future. Attention to the nature of civil society abroad will shed light on the unique role of nonprofits in the U.S., while comparative analyses of different domains of U.S. nonprofit activity (the arts, education, healthcare, etc.) will provide an in-depth understanding of the processes and issues that divide and structure the nonprofit sector internally. In the second half of the course, drawing on readings in law, public policy, and business, we will develop practical knowledge of the special challenges that come with managing and working for a nonprofit organization. Among the topics we will take up in this half of the class is the formulation of nonprofit mission and strategy; the management of relations with boards, committees, volunteers, and employees; and marketing and fundraising for nonprofits.
This course may vary clusters by term and section, depending on the topic offered.
Students participate in small research teams with OS faculty on their current research. Students in the research teams will conduct experiments and surveys, analyze data, and discuss findings with OS faculty. Research areas have included Psychology of Competitive Advantage, Social Movements and Political Parties, US Knowledge Economy, Leadership and Organizational Identity, and various other areas.
This course investigates topics relating to structure and function of organizations. Topics vary by section and term.
This class, in combination with OS 498, fulfills the Senior Research Capstone Experience Students admitted to the OS Honors option will enroll in the OS Honors Research sequence in the senior year (OS 497+OS 498). These are independent study courses in which the student will work on research and thesis with a faculty mentor. Students will also meet twice per term with the OS Honors Coordinator for ongoing assistance and support throughout the project. Students typically enroll in OS 497 during the fall term of the senior year, during which the student will conduct research. The student will be graded by their faculty mentor on data analysis and an outline of the thesis (full paper to be completed the following term in OS 498).
This class, in combination with OS 497, fulfills the Senior Research Capstone Experience OS 498 is typically taken during the winter term of the senior year, during which the honors student will complete the research and thesis begun in OS 497. The thesis will be evaluated by a panel of 3 readers, who will indicate the Honors designation to appear on the student's transcript and diploma. OS 498 will be graded by the faculty mentor.
The course used for individual independent study projects with a faculty supervisor. Due to credit variations, it does not count toward OS major requirements unless approved by individual petition.
Please refer to OS Waitlist Policy regarding overrides to any of these courses.
Please note: These 200-level ORGSTUDY courses are not prerequisites for the OS major. They are intended to give freshmen and sophomore students an introduction to the field of organizational studies from various disciplinary perspectives, but can also be counted toward OS major requirements.
(3 credits; Fall term). Fulfills Cluster A requirement.
This is a project-based class that uses organizational sociology, psychology, economics, and political science to ask what good leadership is and how people can be effective leaders when they lack formal authority.
This course satisfies the LSA Social Science Distribution requirement.
(3 credits; offering terms vary). Fulfills Cluster B requirement. Students cannot receive credit for both OS 204 and OS 420.
This course is an introduction to the nonprofit sector. It focuses primarily on the history and structure of the nonprofit sector in the United States; contemporary debates concerning the function and impact of the nonprofit sector; and key differences between the U.S. nonprofit sector and those in other countries.
(3 credits; offering term varies). Fulfills Cluster A requirement.
This course examines psychological theories about why intergroup prejudice, discrimination, and inequality are so ubiquitous, both in organizations and beyond. We consider the possibility that human evolution predisposes us to be biased in favor of the groups we belong to over other groups, and explore how human motivation and social context work in conjunction to produce behavior that either increases or decreases social inequality.
(3 credits; offering terms vary). Fulfills Cluster B requirement.
This course offers a broad introduction to the study of business and the natural environment, integrating insights from sociology, psychology, and economics. It begins with an overview of the triple bottom line framework, in which corporations take into account social and environmental performance in addition to financial performance. Then it focuses on contemporary business activities that address the natural environment.


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A word spoken aloud, or an act performed a moment ago – or long ago – and heard or observed by someone else is not a thing that can be undone nor taken back.
A desire to retract, replace, or remove a word spoken aloud or an act observed involves personal integrity; or a continuation of one's personal facade. In that regard one is found between the poles of cowardly courage or courageous cowardice.
Personal integrity is not the inherited dispensation of revered ancestors nor the flooded inundations of cultural norm. It is authored by one's self and none other.
One who understands that he knows nothing takes personal integrity to its normalcy. One who believes and supposes his own integrity to be subject to the common acceptance and approval of peers lives off someone else's magic and will die mistaken.
Such is the formation of why morality – thinking that one must be right or wrong with a thing – is not a valid theory.
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FILM: For a safer future – Insights on climate resilience from India
"The earth is warming, it's just the beginning," goes a new farming song in Uttar Pradesh, India as rainstorms and flooding become more frequent, and property and crops across the state are ruined. The increasing number of weather disasters, as a result of climate change, is making it harder for people to get back on their feet after each one.
A film released by the Gorakhpur Environmental Action Group (GEAG) and TERI India, in association with CDKN and ICLEI-Local Governments for Sustainability, For a safer future – Insights on climate resilience from India, tells the story of "chronically flood prone" Gorakhpur district in Eastern Uttar Pradesh state. Here, nearly 70% of the population of the area is rural and sustained by agriculture. Local people have traditionally been attuned to the ebb and flow of seasonal floods – until global warming changed everything.
"We call it 'live with the flood, our lives were in tune with the floods," says Shiraz Wajih, Director of GEAG. "But now the floods come very fast. There are flash floods, landslides and more water logging. So in spite of best preparedness, no one is ready for such uncertainties." It has come to the point, he says, where pre-disaster, disaster and post-disaster periods are all merging together, as Gorakhpur lurches from one calamity to another. This has brought the need to prepare for and cope with disasters entirely differently than in the past.
The film charts how, in the past two years, Gorakhpur authorities, civil society experts and farming communities have worked to put climate change issues at the heart of disaster preparation plans. At farm level, spreading simple techniques to protect lives and property is making all the difference when intense floods and storms arrive. Actions include everything from running community seed banks with climate-resilient seeds and sharing knowledge about diverse, traditional crop varieties, to covering crop stores when rain is on the way and making simple flotation devices to protect non-swimmers.
The government and communities have moved on from a 'response-centric' way of doing things; now they are putting better systems in place to anticipate and brace against weather and climate-related disasters. Front-line community organisers explain how "four mounds of mud" placed strategically along the river can avert a disaster if placed in time, whereas investment after the disaster cannot reverse the damage.
"We should not wait for disaster to take action," says Professor Anil Gupta of India's National Institute of Disaster Management (NIDM). Now the NIDM's training course has shared the Gorakhpur model of disaster risk management with 600 district governments throughout India as an inspiration for others.
Watch the film about the Gorakhpur experience here:
Read the associated papers by GEAG:
INSIDE STORY: Integrating climate change concerns into disaster management planning: The case of Gorakhpur, India
BACKGROUND PAPER: Integrating climate change concerns in disaster management planning: The case of Gorakhpur, Uttar Pradesh, India
The film For a safer future – Insights on climate resilience from India and 'Inside Story' and Background Paper on 'Integrating climate change concerns in disaster management planning: The case of Gorakhpur' are all outputs of the learning programme on local and subnational climate compatible development run by CDKN with ICLEI-Local Governments for Sustainability.
Image courtesy Jose Pereira.
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One response to "FILM: For a safer future – Insights on climate resilience from India"
Durga madhab Panda says:
6am, November 04, 2015 at 6:33 am
I have seen the film. we are also interested to conduct a training by National Institute of Disater management in our area.It is very much useful


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Georgia Conservatives and Tea Party Members Must Not Be Fooled by CAIR
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The Council on American Islamic Relations (CAIR) has been tied to HAMAS, a designated Foreign Terrorist Organization. CAIR has also been named a terrorist organization itself by US ally the United Arab Emirates (UAE) due to the fact that it is a wing of the Muslim Brotherhood, the granddaddy of all modern Sunni Jihadist organizations.
Now, CAIR is conducting "outreach" to conservative groups and a major Tea Party organization in the state of Georgia.
In view of this development, we thought it important to detail CAIR's disturbing history, members, officers and ties ahead of more of its "outreach" efforts in Georgia:
• CAIR was named as an unindicted co-conspirator in the US v. Holy Land Foundation, the largest terrorism financing prosecution in US history.
• The Holy Land Foundation was a Texas-based charity whose officers were sentenced in May 2009 to between 15 and 65 years in prison for funneling over $12 million to Hamas. One of the sentenced officers, Ghassan Elashi, is the founder of CAIR's Dallas chapter. Elashi's illegal activities took place while he was affiliated with CAIR.
• CAIR opened its first office in Washington, D.C. with the help of a $5,000 grant from the Holy Land Foundation.
• In a formal letter to Senator Jon Kyl of Arizona dated 28 April 2009, the FBI stated that during the Holy Land Foundation trial, "evidence was introduced that demonstrated a relationship among CAIR, individual CAIR founders (including its current President Emeritus and its Executive Director) and the Palestine Committee. Evidence was also introduced that demonstrated a relationship between the Palestine Committee and HAMAS, which was designated as a terrorist organization in 1995. In light of that evidence, the FBI suspended all formal contacts between CAIR and the FBI."
• In March 2011, Muthanna al-Hanooti, one of CAIR's directors, was sentenced to a year in federal prison for violating U.S. sanctions against Saddam's Iraq.
• In January of 2011, the CAIR California chapter published a poster promoting a conference called "Know Your Rights and Defend Our Communities." That poster prominently featured the following slogan: "BUILD A WALL OF RESISTANCE DON'T TALK TO THE FBI."
• On March 22, 1994, During a panel discussion at Barry University in Florida, CAIR Executive Director Nihad Awad said: "I used to support the PLO, and I used to be the President of the General Union of Palestine Students which is part of the PLO here in the United States, but after I researched the situation inside Palestine and outside, I am in support of the Hamas movement more than the PLO."
• On February 2, 1995, U.S. Attorney Mary Jo White named CAIR Advisory Board member and New York imam Siraj Wahhaj as one of the "unindicted persons who may be alleged as co-conspirators" in Egyptian Islamic Group leader "Blind Sheikh" Omar Abdel Rahman's foiled plot to blow up numerous New York City monuments.
• On April 19, 1996, in its first published report on alleged anti-Muslim discrimination, titled "The Price of Ignorance," CAIR cited the arrest of Sheik Omar Abdel Rahman (the Blind Sheikh), the Egyptian cleric serving a life sentence for conspiracy to blow up New York landmarks in 1993, and the detention of senior Hamas leader Musa Abu Marzuq, as "incidents of bias and violence" against Muslims in the U.S.
• On July 4, 1998, former CAIR chairman Omar M. Ahmad, told Fremont, California's daily newspaper, The Argus, that "Islam isn't in America to be equal to any other faith, but to become dominant, he said. The Koran, the Muslim book of scripture, should be the highest authority in America, and Islam the only accepted religion on Earth."
• In October 1998, CAIR demanded the removal of a Los Angeles billboard describing Osama bin Laden as "the sworn enemy." According to CAIR, this depiction was "offensive to Muslims."
• In 1993, CAIR spokesperson Ibrahim Hooper told the Minneapolis Star-Tribune that "I wouldn't want to create the impression that I wouldn't like the government of the United States to be Islamic sometime in the future. … But I'm not going to do anything violent to promote that. I'm going to do it through education."
• In September 2003, CAIR's former Community Affairs Director, Bassem Khafagi, pled guilty to three federal counts of bank and visa fraud and agreed to be deported to Egypt. Federal investigators said that a group Khafagi founded, the Islamic Assembly of North America, had funneled money to activities supporting terrorism and had published material advocating suicide attacks against the United States. Khafagi's illegal activities took place while he was employed by CAIR.
• In 2004, CAIR-Northern Virginia director Abdurahman Alamoudi pled guilty to terrorism-related financial and conspiracy charges in 2004, which resulted in a 23-year prison sentence.
• In 2006, the co-founder of CAIR's parent organization, IAP (Islamic Association for Palestine), Sami Al-Arian, was sentenced to 57 months in prison on terrorism charges for financing Palestinian Islamic Jihad, a designated terrorist organization according to the US State Department.
• On August 12, 2006 CAIR helped to coordinate a number of demonstrations in support of Hezbollah and "resistance" groups fighting American forces in Iraq.
• Randall Todd Royer, who served as a communications specialist and civil rights coordinator for CAIR, trained with Lashkar-I-Taiba, an al Qaeda-tied Kashmir organization that is listed on the State Department's international terror list. He was also indicted on charges of conspiring to help al Qaeda and the Taliban battle American troops in Afghanistan. He later pled guilty to lesser firearm-related charges and was sentenced to twenty years in prison on April 9, 2004. Royer's illegal activities took place while he was employed by CAIR.
• Onetime CAIR fundraiser Rabih Haddad was arrested on terrorism-related charges and was deported from the United States due to his subsequent work as Executive Director of the Global Relief Foundation, which in October 2002 was designated by the U.S. Treasury Department for financing al Qaeda and other terrorist organizations. Haddad raised money for the Ann Arbor, Michigan chapter of CAIR.
• On April 20, 2002: Nihad Awad addressed an anti-Israel rally in Washington D.C. while standing next to Hezbollah flag.
• On October 12, 2001: Ghazi Kankan, executive director of CAIR's New York office at the time, defended Hamas's targeting of Israeli civilians. He told the Jewish Week that, like Hamas, he considered all Israelis over the age of 18 to be "military" because "they are all reserves."
• In 2014, US ally the United Arab Emirates officially designated CAIR
as a terrorist organization.
Given the number of individuals associated with CAIR who have been convicted on terrorism-related causes, as well as the disturbing associations and statements from CAIR and its officials, it is very difficult to take their views seriously.
Georgia conservative and Tea Party leaders must be made aware of the facts surrounding CAIR.
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Oh The Irony: UAE Media Runs AP Story Critical of NYPD Intelligence Ops
1 OctpmTue, 04 Oct 2011 15:21:47 -06002011-10-04T15:21:47-06:0003 2009 – 15:21
Gulf News is a UAE-based media outlet and, before we delve into the article they ran today, we simply must point out that the UAE is not a free country, a free society or a nation in which the media enjoys freedom. In fact, just the opposite. The UAE is essentially a monarchy. So Gulf News cannot be regarded as independent to begin with.
Gulf News ran a story today that was published by the Associated Press which was critical of efforts by the NYPD to gather intelligence on Jihadist terror plots and groups by "spying" on Muslims.
The article is perfectly ridiculous for a variety of reasons, but the fact that Gulf News picked it up is doubly so, because if a non-Muslim gets caught kissing his girlfriend in public even in Dubai, he's looking at jail time.
Then there's some pesky facts as to why the NYPD might need to keep an eye on Muslims and mosques in particular. We have a breaking news bulletin for the folks at Gulf News: the overwhelming majority of terrorist plots and attacks in the US seem to involve Muslims. This is particularly true in New York, where, to name a few, we've seen the 1993 World Trade Center bombing, the September 11th attacks and the attempted bombing in Times Square, all perpetrated by Muslims.
This doesn't make all Muslims bad people or terrorists. But in the intelligence world, you need to gather your intelligence from locations and sources that make sense. And watching Methodist churches in the Catskills or Catholic school girls in Schenectady isn't likely to produce any actionable intelligence to head off a terrorist attack.
Unfortunately, there is ample evidence that mosques and the Imams who oversee them have been involved in material support for terrorism, so it makes sense for the NYPD to attempt to save lives of all kinds of people by gathering intelligence on Muslims in mosques.
After all, it's not like it is highly unusual for Muslims in America to be involved in Jihadi plots:
https://terrortrendsbulletin.wordpress.com/2010/07/07/18-american-jihadist-terrorists/
https://terrortrendsbulletin.wordpress.com/2009/11/29/a-year-of-jihad-in-america-december-2008-to-december-2009/
But now we come to the real irony when it comes to a UAE-based media outlet whining about intelligence gathering involving surveillance of Muslims.
Back when the 9/11 Commission was interviewing witnesses and officials, they received testimony from former CIA director George Tenet, who had been CIA director under both Clinton and Bush. In sworn testimony before the commission, Tenet revealed that the US missed an opportunity to kill Osama Bin Laden in an Al Qaeda camp in Afghanistan because the raid had to be called off due to the presence of members of the UAE royal family in the camp. It seems that the UAE royals were great friends with Bin Laden and shared his love of falconry. So, periodically, they'd load up a bunch of SUVs in a C-130 (bought from US manufacturer Lockheed) and fly out to go falconing with Bin Laden. They'd leave the SUVs behind for their good buddy when they scampered back in to the Hercules for the trip back home.
So, excuse us if we remain unimpressed by Gulf News's whining about intelligence gathering targeting Muslims. In fact, we hope someone in the CIA has the good sense to keep a close eye on the UAE, given their past.
http://gulfnews.com/news/world/usa/call-to-end-police-spying-on-muslims-1.884899?
By terrortrends | Also posted in 5th Column, Afghanistan, Al Qaeda, Homegrown Jihad, Homeland Security, Islam, Islamic Jihad, Jihad, New York, NYPD, Osama Bin Laden, Persian Gulf | Comments (0)
Report: Al Qaeda has sent Jihadist Terrorists to Germany, Britain for Attack
1 NovamWed, 17 Nov 2010 10:51:25 -06002010-11-17T10:51:25-06:0010 2009 – 10:51
German intelligence has received evidence from the US that Al Qaeda has sent two to four terrorists who were en route to Germany and Britain, the daily Tagesspiegel reported.
Intelligence agents reportedly fear attacks on Christmas markets or similar popular events.
The organizer of the attack is reported to be Mohammed Ilyas Kashmiri, a prominent Al Qaeda leader from Pakistan. Kashmiri is also thought to be behind an attack earlier this year on a German bakery in Pune, India, in which 17 people were killed.
Kashmiri is said to have recruited the Jihadis for the latest planned attacks from the Afghan-Pakistani border area. The terrorists' identity is not known.
The report indicated that the terrorists planned to travel to Germany and Britain via India and the United Arab Emirates. German police had been checking visa requests at embassies in Pakistan, India and the UAE in recent days.
http://www.monstersandcritics.com/news/europe/news/article_1599662.php/Report-al-Qaeda-sent-operatives-to-Germany-for-attack-Extra
Mohammad Ilyas Kashmiri
By terrortrends | Also posted in Al Qaeda, Europe, Germany, Great Britain, India, Pakistan, Terrorist attack | Comments (1)


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To provide an initial characterization of the wet and gaseous organic feedstocks available in the continental U.S., and to explore technological possibilities for converting these streams into biofuels and bioproducts.
Terrestrial feedstocks are currently the largest resource generated for the bioeconomy, estimated at 572 million dry tons for 2017 (Billion Ton 2016), and have traditionally constituted the primary focus of the Bioenergy Technologies Office (BETO). However, the resource assessment conducted by the National Renewable Energy Lab and Pacific Northwest National Lab indicates that wet waste feedstocks (Summarized in Table ES-1) could also make significant contributions to the bioeconomy and domestic energy security goals.
1 116,090 Btu/gal. This does not account for conversion efficiency.
2 The moisture content of food waste varies seasonally, ranging from 76% in the summer to 72% in the winter.
3 Methane potential. This does not include currently operational landfill digesters (>1,000 billion cubic feet [Bcf] annually) and may double count potential from wastewater residuals, food waste, and animal waste.
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As illustrated by example in Figure ES-1, wet and gaseous waste streams are widely geographically distributed, frequently in areas of high population density, affording them unique current and emerging market opportunities. The size of publicly owned treatment works, landfills, rendering operations, and grease collectors overlay with the largest population centers nationwide. Therefore, when compared to terrestrial feedstocks, these waste streams are largely aggregated and any derivative biofuels, bioproducts, or biopower are close to end markets.
At the same time, however, this close proximity to populations markets often correlates with more stringent regulatory landscapes for disposal. Therefore, the value proposition presented by these waste streams commonly includes avoiding disposal costs as opposed to an independent biorefinery that requires stand-alone profitability. Aided by these and related factors, public and private entities are actively exploring and deploying novel solutions for waste stream valorization. Potential competition between biofuels, bioproducts, and other beneficial uses will likely be a key element of future markets, and clearly merits further analytical and modeling investigation.
This report concludes that wet and gaseous organic waste streams represent a significant and underutilized set of feedstocks for biofuels and bioproducts. They are available now, in many cases represent a disposal problem that constitutes an avoided cost opportunity, and are unlikely to diminish in volume in the near future. As a result, at least in the short and medium term, they may represent a low-cost set of feedstocks that could help jump start the Bioeconomy of the Future via niche markets. While much modeling, analysis, and technological de-risking remains to be done in order to bring these feedstocks to market at significant scales, the possible contributions to the overall mission of the Bioenergy Technologies Office merit further attention.
Future activities are contingent upon Congressional appropriations.
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Q: STL containers with fixed growth I have a use case for containers that provide fixed growth patterns instead of exponential ones. In this use case, conserving memory is more important than runtime.
Is there a way to make std::vector or std::list to grow with N elements automatically instead of growing exponentially whenever the container runs out of space?
I know I can write an adapter that does this but I first want to find out if it's possible through standardized means.
If it's not possible, is there a boost container I can use?

A: std::list does not grow exponentially, it's a doubly linked list under the hood.
std::vector cannot grow by a constant number of elements, because of complexities of operations required by the standard. For example, the complexity of push_back should have O(1) amortized time complexity. With the constant size grow it would be O(n) complexity.
If you need a container that is quite similar to std::vector and has no exponential growth factor, take a look at std::deque.


Breath of the Wild's Champions' Ballad DLC came with the shocking inclusion of Link's new motorcycle, the Master Cycle Zero. Near the end of Champions' Ballad, Link unlocks the motorcycle, which he's then able to drive around Hyrule.
In an interview with series producer Eiji Aonuma and game director Hidemaro Fujibayashi, IGN asked about Link's new ride, including its possible relation to the Master Cycle Link rides in Mario Kart 8.
"It really felt like we borrowed someone else's bike and then did our own custom conversion," he added.


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Shawn Minter Announces the New Album Life Again
Shawn Minter is proud to announce his first Christian music release, LIFE AGAIN, the debut solo album from the Christian rock vocalist, Shawn Minter with co-producer/guitarist, Jason Riley. This anxiously awaited album will be available on compact disc or through digital download internationally beginning May 21, 2017.
A LIFE AGAIN release party for the artist and album will be held from 6 – 8 p.m. on Sunday, May 21, 2017, at the Liberty Theatre, in the Atchison County Memorial Building, Rock Port, Missouri. Shawn will perform a couple of selections beginning at 6:30 p.m. and offer autographs. The LIFE AGAIN album will be available for purchase with light refreshments being served. Everyone in welcome to join us for the evening.
LIFE AGAIN will be available by digital download around the globe via the world wide web at places like iTunes, Amazon, Cdbaby. You can download the entire album or select individual tracks. The album will be wide-released on Sunday, May 21, 2017, and can now be found at many area businesses who graciously allowed the album to be offered to their clientele. Watch for Shawn Minter to visit your area in 2017.


Ok you went to Troy, you did Gallipoli and you've still got a week left and are wondering what to do? Well, you could do worse than spending an awesome week in Çanakkale but the region has so much more to see! Here are the top 10 spots around Troy for history buffs who just can't get enough.
The ancient city of Alexandria Troas was founded as Antigoia and received its current name after the death of Alexander the Great. The city is an important settlement with many wonderful temples, small baths, a stadium, fountains, a stone-paved street, a theater and a harbor. Its gymnasium is particularly spectacular and one of the biggest surviving gymnasiums in all of Anatolia.
Neandreia, like Alexandria Troas, was founded by Antigonus I Monophthalmus. It's a particularly old settlement, and Pliny in his writings discusses how it had already ceased to exist by his period in the 1st century. Its impressive walls have remained to this day, however, and given that it's set on top of a hill you get a sense of a mighily powerful city that's over 2,000 years old.
The Temple of Apollo Smintheus, formerly known as Gülpınar, is located on the hillside of the valley near the town of Gülpınar. There is water running underground that was likely shifted in ancient times to feed the town center. This temple was devoted to the cult of Apollo. The temple features reliefs depicting scenes of Homer's epic the Iliad and is largely intact to this day.
The ancient city of Parion is an extremely old city, with records that indicate it was founded in 709 B.C. It has two harbors in the norther part of the city, and the ruins of an aqueduct which gave the nearby Turkish village its name (Kemer, meaning aqueduct in Turkish). The city has fortifications and beyond those are a necropolis, with a Roman theater still surviving above the hill as it leads down to the city's ancient Acropolis.
Cyzicus is a city that was much admired, and the ancient Greek geographer Strabo wrote about it in the 17th and 18th century that it was an island in the Marmara Sea (Propontis) connected to the continent by two bridges. The town was huge and massive, and Homer as well mentions it in comparison with Troy, helping locate the original city of Troy in comparison.
This altar is located on Dedetepe, just west of the village of Adatepe in the district of Ayvacık. According to legend, this is the spot from which Zeus stood and directed the course of history by playing his role in the Trojan War. Homer's Iliad places Zeus closer to Mount Ida, so it's possible the Greek God did not actually direct the events of the war from this spot, but the altar itself is still carved beautifully and well worth a visit.
Mount Ida is located in the Kazdağı National Park, and this is the mountain where the events leading up to the Trojan War are said to have taken place, as Paris was commissioned by Zeus to choose between Aphrodite, Hera and Athena. Homer mentions Mount Ida many times as a beautiful spot with wild animals, and legend has it that the gods watched the war itself unfold from this spot.
This is an ancient city that's famed for its mosaics and is a city unlike almost any other ancient city in the region. The city clearly was of great import in its day, mentioned by the historian Thucydides as well as Homer and many other historians of the period.
The modern name of the island is Bozcaada, but in history it was known as Tenedos, taking its name from Tenes, son of Kyknos, the king of the Kolonai ancient city on the opposite bank of the island. The necropolis of the ancient city has been found and dates back some 3,000 years, with other remains on the island dating back to the Early Bronze Age. This island is a great place to end your trip through ancient cities and instead lie back on a beautiful island in the middle of the sea and just enjoy the beauty of this incredible region.