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Noblis Names Deborah Drake as Vice President and Chief People Officer
Significant human resources leadership experience in government contracting industry
RESTON, Va.— Jan. 24, 2020 – Noblis, a leading provider of science, technology and strategy services to the federal government has named Deborah Drake as vice president and chief people officer.
Drake will lead the Noblis human resources and organizational development organizations which includes responsibility for talent recruitment, the total rewards system, professional and organizational development, and employee engagement. She reports to Amr ElSawy, Noblis president and CEO.
"Noblis is a mission-focused, advanced science and technology company and we strive to maintain an exceptional workplace focused on the growth and development of our people," said ElSawy. "Debbie has significant experience in our industry and demonstrated success building environments that foster collaboration, growth and development. Our talent management strategy is central to our ability to deliver exceptional results to our clients. We are looking forward to having Debbie work as an integral member of the Noblis leadership team."
"I am thrilled to be part of such an exceptional culture that values our mission-focused people," said Drake. "I look forward to engaging with such a dynamic workforce."
Prior to Noblis, Drake was the vice president for human resources and talent acquisition at ManTech, senior vice president and chief human resources officer at Sotera Defense Solutions, and vice president/ human resources business services director at Leidos.
Drake earned a bachelor's degree in psychology from Mary Baldwin College and a master's degree in administration / human resource management from Marymount University.
Last year Noblis was named a top employer on The Washington Post's annual "Top Workplaces" list for the sixth year in a row. The ranking, based solely on employee feedback, recognizes employers that excel at organizational health and workplace engagement in the Washington, D.C. metropolitan area.


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What's the world's most poached animal?
The sad answer is the Pangolin. Of the eight species, four are found only in Africa -the Black-Bellied Pangolin, White Bellied Pangolin, Giant Ground Pangolin and Temmincks Ground Pangolin. All are protected under national and international laws, and two are listed as Critically Endangered on the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species.
In the last 10 years alone, over a million Pangolins have been taken from the wild to feed demand in China and Vietnam. Here their meat is considered a delicacy, whilst their scales are used in traditional medicines to treat a range of ailments from asthma, rheumatism and arthritis. Yet despite their threatened status, there is hope for pangolins. CITES recently voted to end international commercial trade in all pangolins by listing all eight species in Appendix I of the Convention.
Conservationists from Chester Zoo have captured 'momentous' video footage of the elusive giant pangolin – part of a pioneering study which is revealing new insights into the previously secret lives of the little-known species.
The zoo team, in collaboration with the Uganda Wildlife Authority (UWA) and the Rhino Fund Uganda (RFU), is aiming to uncover new information about the rare nocturnal animals in the first ever study of species in Uganda. Scientists hope to generate vital data that will help with the long-term conservation of giant pangolins in Uganda, and elsewhere in Africa.
Pangolins, sometimes called scaly anteaters, are the only mammals in the world to be covered in hard overlapping and protective scales made of keratin - the same substance as human finger nails and rhino horn. They live on a diet consisting entirely of ants and termites, which they lap up with their long sticky tongues, and are able to quickly roll themselves up into a tight ball when threatened.
The giant pangolin, measuring up to 5.9ft (1.8m) long and weighing up to 5st (75lbs), is by far the largest of the world's eight pangolin sub-species and is found only in the rainforests and grasslands of equatorial Africa.
Pangolins are protected by international wildlife laws that ban their trade, but they remain the most illegally trafficked group of mammals in the world. Their meat is considered a delicacy in many countries and their scales are widely used in traditional medicines, particularly in Vietnam and China, despite there being no medical benefit from their use.
In Uganda, hunting or possession of protected wildlife species such as pangolins carries a punishment of five years imprisonment, while trafficking of pangolins or any other wildlife species carries a minimum prison sentence of seven years. However, despite full legal protection in Uganda and elsewhere in Africa, international customs agents have in recent years intercepted large shipments of African pangolin scales.
Earlier this month, customs officials in Hong Kong seized the world's largest ever haul of pangolin scales, weighing a staggering 8.5 tonnes and representing thousands of African pangolins. Meanwhile, officials in Uganda recently seized 423.7 kilograms of pangolin scales believed to have originated in the Democratic Republic of Congo.
Such seizures have set alarm bells ringing for conservationists, but very little is known about giant pangolin behaviour, ecology and habitat requirements – crucial information which is urgently required in order to develop strategies to monitor populations and protect them.
Now, researchers from Chester Zoo have surveyed for the presence of giant pangolins within three protected areas in Uganda. Working alongside the RFU, they have carried out an intensive survey of the country's Ziwa Sanctuary using camera traps and tracking techniques such as looking for footprints, burrows and other signs of the species.
So far, the 70 motion-sensor trail cameras installed by the zoo in Ziwa have captured hundreds of images and video clips of giant pangolins, including the first colour footage of the species ever recorded in Uganda. From these images and films, the researchers are now able to identify a number of individual pangolins by the unique marks and patterns on their scales and are recording previously unknown behaviours.
The giant pangolin is a beautiful, mysterious and utterly fascinating species but studying them is extremely challenging . Being nocturnal, rare and very shy it's only with new technologies such as high sensitivity trail cameras that we are able to learn more about how they live and interact with their each other and their environment.
"The giant pangolin is a beautiful, mysterious and utterly fascinating species but studying them is extremely challenging . Being nocturnal, rare and very shy it's only with new technologies such as high sensitivity trail cameras that we are able to learn more about how they live and interact with their each other and their environment. Tragically we do know the giant pangolin faces a huge risk of going extinct across Central Africa. With no giant pangolins in zoos or safari parks anywhere in the world, all our conservation efforts must focus on saving them in the wild. The race is on against criminal networks that only value dead pangolins, to save this species and protect them well into the future."The momentous images and video we are capturing at Ziwa prove that when sites are well protected against poaching giant pangolins and other species can flourish
By collecting pangolin dung samples, the zoo's conservationists are also gathering crucial information on the animals' diet and hope to learn more about the genetics of giant pangolins. The team is also planning to fit satellite and radio tracking devices on the scales of giant pangolins to learn more about their ranging behaviour, feeding ecology and to help develop methods that allow conservationists to count and monitor them.
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Aggies looking for a win against Lobos to stay in championship hunt
LOGAN – The Aggies are two-thirds of the way done with their nine-week stretch of no byes. They will continue it in Romney Stadium Saturday afternoon. Start time is at 2 p.m. and will be against a New Mexico team that hasn't won at home yet, but is 3-1 on the road.
The Aggies have won 13-straight games in November, dating back to 2010. They are hoping to make it 14. Head coach Matt Wells said winning in November is what needs to keep happening for the Aggies to compete for Mountain West championships.
"You talk about baseball and Mr. October, Reggie Jackson. You talk about making plays, and playing your very, very best when your best is needed in late September, October in baseball playoffs," Wells said. "I think it's the same thing in football. You got to play your very, very best in the month of November if you want a chance to win a championship, and we're still in the hunt."
As of right now, Utah State still has a shot at the championship, but they can't do it alone. If they want to play in the conference championship game they will need help from either Air Force or Hawai'i. One of those teams needs to beat Colorado State for the Aggies to have a chance at playing in the championship game.
"Unfortunately, again this year, two years in a row, we don't control our own destiny," Wells said. "But if something presents itself in the last week of the season you better be in position, or you're going to have a missed opportunity. There's no reset button. There's no redo's. This isn't a video game. You have to take advantage of every single opportunity."
Stopping New Mexico may come down to stopping their run game. The Lobos have the third leading rushing offense in the country and the number one spot in the conference with 326.3 yards per game. In last Saturday's 60-49 loss against Boise State, they ran for 505 yards.
Utah State's defense has proven they are capable of stopping the run. The Aggies have the best run defense in the conference and the sixth best in the nation, but due to injuries, they are thinner at the linebacker spot than they have been all season. According to Wells, linebackers Nick Vigil and Torrey Green are day-to-day, but linebacker LT Filiaga is done for the season after an Achilles injury he suffered against Wyoming. Junior nose guard Travis Seefeldt said the team will do the same thing for the linebacker position they did for the quarterbacks and wide receivers after those spots were hit hard with injuries.
"It's just next man up," Seefeldt said. "Whoever steps in the role we know will make plays and do their job."
Freshman quarterback Kent Myers is set to make his third career start. Myers is 2-0 as a starting quarterback and is 30-36 passing for 381 yards and three touchdowns.
"It's amazing to see," senior kicker Nick Diaz said. "To see him come in and perform the way he has. I mean, his level of maturity is off the charts right now. He's been performing really well, taking extra time in the film room, trying to talk to a lot of the older guys on the team. He's really taken on that leadership role the way that we've all expected him to, and he's done a phenomenal job."
The Aggies are 9-11 all-time against the Lobos. In last year's contest, Utah State won 45-10 in Albuquerque. Saturday will be the first time the Lobos have made a trip to Logan since 2002.
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The game portrays the European colonization of the Americas, between approximately 1492 and 1876 CE. There are fourteen total civilizations to play within the game. Age of Empires 3 has made several innovations in the series, in particular with the addition of the "Home City", which combines real-time strategy and role-playing game features. Two expansion packs have been released: the first, Age of Empires 3: The WarChiefs, was released on October 17, 2006, and introduced three Native American civilizations; the second, Age of Empires 3: The Asian Dynasties, was released on October 23, 2007, and included three Asian civilizations.
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The continent of Australia lies in the southern hemisphere. The Indian Ocean borders the country to the west, while the east coast lies on the south Pacific. Throughout this huge continent there are several different climates to experience. In the north it can be quite tropical, while the middle latitudes experience a subtropical climate. You'll find a temperate climate to the south. The seasons in Australia are opposite to what they are here in Ireland. It's winter in Australia at the same time as it's summer in Ireland So, the best time to visit Australia if you're looking for the heat is from October to March. You can experience temperatures of between 25° C and 40° C, depending on which region you travel to. This is the rainy season in the north of Australia, though, so do expect heavy rainfall on an almost daily basis.
As well as this, October to March is the most popular travel time for the Aussies themselves. Tickets, hotels and campsites can be more expensive and booked up long in advance. Keep this in mind when you're planning your trip to the Land Down Under. To help you make the most of your holiday to Australia, I've put together a guide explaining the climate in Australia in each of the states in more detail. There's also some information on the rainy season here, and everything else you need to decide when is the best time to visit Australia for you.
Australia is roughly the size of the continental US (so without Alaska or Hawaii). This size also explains why Australia has so many different climates. Keep this in mind when you're planning your perfect holiday to Australia. In general, Australia rarely gets as cold as it does here in the UK. Even their winters are pretty mild. But, as a rule of thumb, the weather is hottest in the centre of the country. The closer to the coast you travel, the cooler it comes and the more likely it is that you'll see rainfall. The Australian Spring is good for city breaks from the months of October to December. If you're looking for the best time to hike or visit national parks, then this is it. A beach holiday is ideal for the months of January to March. The Australian autumn and winter (April to September) is the best time to visit the desert region in the centre of Australia.
Southeastern Australia included two the states of New South Wales, where you'll find the popular metropolis of Sydney, and the Australian Capital Territory, where you'll unsurprisingly find the country's capital – Canberra. In the south east of Australia, there's a pleasant climate the year round. Temperatures are often between 15° C and 29 ° C. You can expect moderate rainfall pretty much throughout the year. In summer, there can be long periods of intense heat. The further inland you drive, the colder it will get. The probability of rain also decreases as you move into the interior of NSW and the ACT.
The climate in Sydney is a bit of a guideline for the climate in New South Wales as a whole. The best time to travel to Sydney and New South Wales is from November to April. Temperatures can rise to up to 27° C, and the average water temperature can be maybe 21 ° C. So, no reason why you can't have a fantastic holiday here. The fresh breezes from the Pacific Ocean are enough to cool you down on a hot day.
The climate in Canberra is the perfect example of how an inland location can affect temperature and precipitation. Compare it to Sydney to see what I mean.
Mount Kosciuszko in the Snowy Mountains, found in Kosciuszko National Park in New South Wales, is Australia's highest mountain. Here, there's a lot of snowfall, which isn't very typical for Australia.
The climate in the state of South Australia can be divided into two zones: that around Adelaide and Kangaroo Island, and also the coastal area around the desert area of Nullarbor Plain. The weather in the area around Adelaide and Kangaroo Island is Mediterranean. Summer brings dry and hot days. The average summer temperature in Adelaide is 27 °C, and there might be about four rainy days during the summer. If you need a refreshing dip, the water temperature is a cool 19° C, perfect for a swim. The best time to travel to Adelaide is from October to April. But, Adelaide is always worth a visit – even in autumn and winter. During these seasons, the average temperature is around 18°C. But, when you plan your trip, keep in mind that there could be anything from 13 to 17 rainy days a month during autumn and winter.
The south coast at Nullarbor Plain is a lot drier compared to Adelaide. There are very few rainy days, and this means there's an annual total rainfall of less than 250 mm. This transforms this region of South Australia into a desert landscape. There is even very little rainfall during winter. But, do expect some pretty violent hurricanes from March to August.
The best time to visit South Australia is the months from October to March.
The climate in Victoria is temperate. You can really experience all the different seasons in the weather here, unlike in the rest of Australia. My climate chart for Melbourne, which I've included below, will give you an idea of what the weather in the state of Victoria can be like.
Melbourne is at its warmest during the summer months of January and February, with average temperatures of 26° C. In winter, it can be as low as 12°C. The weather in Melbourne is generally quite changeable and unpredictable. There's a reason the locals say you can experience "the four seasons in one day" in Melbourne. You can go from having the sun shining and no clouds to heavy rain in just a few minutes.
So, I believe the best time to visit Victoria is from the warm months of November to March. A If you visit during this time, you can look forward to warm temperatures of 26 to 30°C. You also don't have to worry about there being too much rain.
Tasmania is an island off the southern coast of Australia, and so it does have a slightly different climate to the other states that are on the mainland. In fact, the weather in the state of Tasmania can be a little like the weather that we have here in the UK. In Tasmania you can experience warm summers and mild winters. In terms of its climate, Tasmania can be divided into two zones. On the east of the island you'll find flat land areas, while in the west it's quite mountainous. The table below shows the weather for Hobart, the Tasmanian capital. This should give you a rough idea of what the weather in Tasmania is like as a whole.
Thanks to the winds from the Pacific, summers in Tasmania are relatively cool by Australian standards, at an average of 21°C. The water temperature hits about 16°C, too. You won't have to worry about too many rainy days, as the warm summer months also tend to be quite dry. In autumn and winter, the east of the island experiences temperatures of about 12 to 15° which is pretty fresh. The western side of the island is a rugged and mountainous landscape. Much more rain falls here compared to the eastern side. As the western side of the island is influenced by the western winds over the oceans, the national parks on the west coast can experience up to 2500 mm of rainfall a year!
The best time to visit Tasmania is definitely the warmer months of October to March. This is when you can experience the island's vegetation in full bloom.
In the state of Queensland, on the north of the island, the sun shines pretty much all year round. That's why it's known as Australia's Sunshine State. There's a tropical climate here in Queensland. The super popular holiday resort of Cairns, as well as the Great Barrier Reef, can also be found here. Summer is the perfect time for a visit here, with temperatures of 30° to 35° C. If this is too much for you, you can come back in winter when it's slightly cooler at 25°C. The water is the perfect place to cool off, with water temperatures of a balmy and pleasant 23°C from May to August. So, a beach holiday to Queensland is ideal no matter what time of year it is.
In the summer season of November to March (also their wet season), you should expect heavy rainfall on an almost daily basis. The weather can be very humid and extremely hot. It can happen that the rain is so heavy, the roads become impassable. Be sure you check your journey with rest stops and tourist centres before you go. These can give you reliable updates as to which routes are passable during the rainy season. As with all the other Australian states, in Queensland, the further inland you travel, the more humid it gets and the less likely it is to rain.
The weather in Brisbane is quite temperate compared to northern Queensland, and the weather can actually be quite similar to that of Sydney. There can be rainfall in summer here, so be aware – there can be up to 10 rainy days per month.
The best time to visit Queensland is the months of June to October. In this time the temperatures are a pretty pleasant 25°C, so it's not too stifling hot. It's also perfect for beach holidays, as the water temperature is the ideal 23°C.
Western Australia is the only state in Australia where you can experience all the different climate zones. There's a tropical climate found in the northwest and Kimberley region. Below you'll find the climate data for Broome, a town in the north of Australia in the Kimberley region.
In summer, temperatures in northern Western Australia can ride to at least 40°C. During the rainy season (November to March) you also have heavy rainfall to contend with. This season is known as the "wet season" or "green season". Most of the heavy rainfall should happen during the afternoon. Due to high humidity, lots of tourists think the wet season is very humid, unbearably hot, and generally unpleasant. So, because of this, a lot of tourists will avoid the region during the rainy season, so you can really grab a bargain for your hotel and travel prices. During the dry season (April to October) the average temperature in the region is 29°C. There is just one rainy day a month during this time.
In the stretch of land from Exmouth to Perth, there's a subtropical climate. Check out the climate table below for Perth, the state capital. This will give you a little more of an idea as to what you should expect. From November to March, the temperatures rise to a quite summery 26 ° to 31 ° C. February and March are the hottest months. There's just two rainy days a month, so you don't have to worry at all about getting caught in a shower. In contrast, if you come to visit in June, July or August temperatures can drop to a low of 12°C. There can also be at least 16 rainy days a month.
The region of Margaret River, which is south east of the city of Perth, is reminiscent of the Mediterranean climate as we would know it from our holidays to Spain and Italy. December is the perfect time to visit this popular wine-growing region. The temperatures are often between 25° and 35° C during this month. From April, the temperatures drop to an average of 12°C, and you should prepare yourself for some cool nights.
The best tome to travel to Western Australia is difficult to determine, mainly because of the different climate zones. However, I do recommend travelling to Australia's largest state during October and November, and in March and April. In this time, you can expect temperatures of around 25° C to 30°C, and you'll avoid the threat of tropical rainfall in the northwest of the state.
You'll find a tropical climate in the Northern Territory, which means that the summer months from October until March are characterised by very hot with temperatures between 35 – 40°C and heavy rainfall. The autumn and winter (April – September) are not really any cooler than the Australian summer with average temperatures of 30°C, but the air humidity in the winter will at least be a lot lower. Take a look at the table below for some tasty statistics!
The rainy season in the Norther Territory lasts from October until March, where rain is pretty much a daily occurrence in the afternoon, and you might come across a few storms and cyclones along the way as well. Some streets may be cut off due to flooding. If you're wanting to travel in rural areas of the Northern Territory (such as the Kakadu National Park), you should definitely pay a visit to either the police, service stations or tourist offices where they can inform you about the current road conditions.
The southern part of the Northern Territory is in the centre of Australia, featuring a desert climate where daytime temperatures can reach up to 40°C. Night times cool down to a chilly 3 – 5°C. These drastic temperature flucuations are normal in desert regions, as is the limited rainfall. In winter (April – September), temperatures are a lot more comfortable at the 21°C mark, so it's a great time for tours.
When it comes to the best time to visit the Northern Territory, I recommend the months from April until September. If you're planning on visiting Kakadu National Park, then you're best going in May – the waterfalls will be at their strongest and the vegetation will still be in bloom.
Central Australia isn't actually a proper state in itself, but since the climate is so distinct it's worth taking a look at this area in its own separate section! This is pretty much the area that we'd definite as the Outback, with Alice Springs serving as a popular gateway to the so-called "Red Centre".
During the summer months, temperatures of over 40°C aren't unheard of – so make sure you always have enough water with you! Departures plummet to an average of 4°C during the nights, which is what you'd expect from desert regions. If you're wanting to do a camping tour through central Australia, you'll have to be prepared for those cold nights by bringing thick sleeping bags. It's very rare for rain to fall in central Australia. In fact the long dry spells can even lead to sandstorms that sometimes reach cities down by the coast.
I would recommend the months from June until August as the best time to visit central Australia. Temperatures are at 21°C on average, meaning that you can go out on longer excursions and hikes in the national parks without melting in that blistering summer heat.
The northern regions of the states of Queensland, Western Australia and the Northern Territory have their rainy seasons from October until March. The weather during this time is extremely warm and humid, which many holidaymakers find uncomfortable. You will have to take into account daily (and sometimes very strong) rain showers, with most of the rainfall occurring in the afternoon or evenings. You'll often see storms too. As you'd expect, such heavy rainfall will lead to localised flooding, so like always, stay safe and be smart – the police, tourist offices and service stations will all provide you with an overview of the road conditions!
The strongest showers tend to be between January and March – and it's at this time of year that you'll find the most cyclones as well. Cyclones are a type of storm that form when water temperatures reach 27°C. Smaller storms are called "Willy willy" by locals. If the authorities think that a cyclone will present a danger, then they'll provide you information using local media outlets.
Those of you planning a beach holiday to the northern parts of Queens, Northern Territory and Western Australia should keep an eye out for box jellyfish. These guys produce some of the nastiest stings around, and can in fact lead to other things such as nausea, skin irritations, cramps and localised paralysis. Just keep your eyes peeled! Most beaches will have jellyfish nets, protective suits and vinegar on hand as precautions (vinegar helps with the stings!).
Since there are three climate zones in the Land Down Under, it can be pretty difficult deciding the best time to go. So you'll more than likely have to make a compromise somewhere! If you want to travel around the whole continent, then you're best going during the Australian spring or autumn. It may be a bit chilly in Victoria and Tasmania at this time, but at least you'll be able to see the landscapes in full bloom. It also means that you won't have to put up with heavy rainfall up in the north of Australia. Autumn is also another good time to go, and the sea will still be lovely and warm, though the plants will have lost their colour somewhat as they start to dry. Another advantage of travelling in the shoulder seasons that hotels and flights will be cheaper too. During the summer, when the schoolkids in Australia will all be on holiday, you can imagine that the prices will be sky-high!


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Kagey Parrish, along with his wife Laura Wortman, tour the country as the Americana duo, The Honey Dewdrops. Earlier this month, the pair released their fifth studio album, 'Anyone Can See.' The collection of spare, acoustic tunes – recorded and minimally edited to capture the feel of the band's live performances – tackles weighty subjects like immigration and the proposed border wall, gentrification and the impact of Freddie Gray's death on the city of Baltimore, where the two currently live.
On the phone, Parrish speaks with the rapid clip and soft, rounded vowels of a native Virginian. More strikingly, he demonstrates a politician's gift for empathy, optimism, and conciliatory rhetoric. He talks about the ordinary Americans he meets during his travels – men and women who are "worried about the economy, worried about what's going to happen with their kids, worried about whether or not they're going to be able to retire or if they will ever be able to buy a house." Parrish refuses to see the country as divided, preferring instead to think of individuals as existing on a broad cultural spectrum.
The song got started driving from San Francisco to almost Portland, Oregon in a day – which is a hefty haul for sure. And I think we were around Mount Shasta as the sun started going down. Tar Valley is a lonesome place, like super beautiful going through those mountains, but you're out there with not many other people and a lot of truck drivers.
I just remember coming up with some kind of line, something about the king of lonesome. And the idea started there, by truckers driving all the time. And being in that cab by yourself as the sun goes up and the sun goes down, day in and day out.
It's lonesome for us being on the road, but at least we have another person in the car. For so many of those folks, it's just they're there by themselves, hauling, hauling, hauling. And that's a lonesome place to be, for sure. So I guess I had images of, if you were in that situation, the conversations you must be having with yourself back and forth.
You know, some of those days, it must feel like the whole world is against you – with traffic and directions not working out and difficulties with the road and some kind of problem with the rig. Just thinking about it right now kind of makes me feel like, that's just so rough man.
That day in particular [when the song started] was one of those. I think it was a day off, where we were trying to make up some ground and making those travels. And when you're out west especially, those distances are so far between markets. I love going to California, but man, you get a sense for how big the continent is when you get out in those regions.
The Honey Dewdrops. Michael Patrick O'Leary.
Playing this is just super fun, man. First of all, Hank is the best. And trying to dive into his songs, it can be hard. Those songs, the way that he recorded them, they're about as perfect as they're going to be.
We saw Darrell Scott a few years ago at a festival cover this song. It was just him playing guitar and singing. He knocked it out of the park, went for the falsetto parts, and in his way, he made that song his own.
I've always loved that song, "Rambling Man." I've always loved to hear Hank do it. And I don't think I had ever heard anyone else do it. And so, it just sort of got in my head, "Hey. Maybe you should try this out and see what happens." I definitely wasn't thinking about it becoming a song we could play or even record. But it ended up being something that was super fun for us to do together. And eventually, it made it onto this record.
Talk about a lonesome song, too. I mean, it doesn't get more lonesome than this narrator confessing that, against his best efforts and trying as hard as he can, he's got this thing inside of him that keeps him moving along.
We got to meet Tim O'Brien [the Grammy Award-winning bluegrass musician] last weekend, and we were talking about this song. He feels like it's a song about addiction. And I think he's right about that. It sets up the story of someone who desperately wants to change and knows what other people are saying about him, but it's just not in the cards. I think it's powerful that way, and it's been really fun to dive into it.
It's so hard to not be feeling things that are going on in the world today, especially politics in this country. And without diving too far down that huge, long discussion, I started writing some lyrics a couple of years ago that just started coming out. Some of my favorite songwriting happens when it just comes out in an hour or so, and it doesn't take a week or a month or a year. And that song was one of those examples.
I knew where it was coming from. I was thinking about a reaction to walls and keeping people out and saying that these certain people are bad and these other people are not bad. But I also felt like I was sort of reporting on the people I'm from at the same time. I think this is true for Laura as well. Our families and the friends of our families, it's like you could show up at their house and you could be unannounced and there was another place set at the table for you.
And it was like, "Hey. Can I get you another cup of coffee? Or can I get you a beer?" It just feels like, that's the people we're from. And also, that's the people we meet so often out there touring, whether it's in this country or somewhere else.
We just did a tour in the UK in February and it's so much of the same thing. Like, "Hey. What do you guys need?" And I feel like that's something we could talk about a little bit more. Hey, this is who we are as people. We look out for one another. We want to everybody to be okay.
And it's sort of lost in this talking about walls and talking about immigration and talking about "we should be allowing this kinds of people and not this kind of people." It seems so beside the point. And that song just talks about, this is who we are for real. And I think that's an important message to get out there today.


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Shamrocks defeated Lansdowne Bhoys for the first time in the league in three years—seven matches—vanquishing them 3-1 in the season opener on Saturday night away from home at Tibbetts Brook Park Field 3.
It only took the CSL two minutes to produce its first goal of the season and it was Kevin Grogan's men who had the pleasure of scoring it.
New signing Mark Roche headed Dylan McCabe's corner low and hard on frame, forcing Lansdowne keeper Abdoukarim 'Kabo' Danso to dive on his left to block the ball. But unfortunately for Danso he blocked the ball toward Kurt Cameron, who stayed composed and tapped a shot in the goal.
Ex-Cedar Stars winger Sammy Gehman attempted to pull the Bhoys levelled in the fourth minute, curling a free-kick toward the lower left corner of the net but the Rocks keeper Stephen Skonieczny was quick to dive on his left to protect his side's early lead.
Shamrocks missed a crucial scoring chance six minutes in the second half as an unmarked Cameron skied Alejandro Fritz's low cross over the bar.
Fritz missed a similar goal scoring opportunity himself in the 63rd minute, steering McCabe's cross far away from the net's left post.
After those two misses the Queens-based club took advantage of a rare mistake from Kabo in the goal to go up by two. The big keeper spilled McCabe's corner in front of him; Shamrocks substitute Travis Blair was at the right place at the right time to drive the ball in the goal with his right.
Blair found the net again in the 90th minute. Nick Laurent spotted the former Wheaton College forward on a counter with a well placed through ball. Blair then charged into the left side of the box, dribbled away from Kabo before steering a low shot in an empty net from a tight angle.
Lansdowne new signing Andre McFarlane scored perhaps the most exquisite goal of the encounter in a losing effort as he squeezed a low shot from about 25 yards out to the left corner of the net.
Shamrocks missed the playoffs last season; forward Travis Blair was thrilled to start this campaign with a 3-1 victory over the champions after a strenuous offseason.
However the 25-year-old expressed that he and his teammates aren't getting ahead of themselves after this win as it was only the opener.
"It's the first game so you gotta keep that in mind but we're very confident. We still have room to grow," he said.
Blair was delighted of his double coming off the bench.
1. The new signings weren't shy: The new Rocks played a huge role in the win. Dylan McCabe's free kick followed by Mark Roche's header started the first goal and former Zum Schneider F.C player Yannick Diese put up a solid performance in the middle of the pitch.
New Bhoy Paul Wilson, a former USL playmaker, dictated Lansdowne's game and took two shots, one of which was on frame.
Lansdowne new Bhoy Andre McFarlane scored a voluptuous goal on his debut for the club. Another newcomer worth mentioning is Paul Wilson. The former USL playmaker dictated the Bhoys' game and took two shots, one of which was on frame.
2. Unusual start for Lansdowne: The Bhoys never lost a CSL opener in the modern era of the league, which amounts up to six seasons.
3. Fouls on fouls on fouls: Well it was a Irish Derby. The two clubs exchanged 37 fouls, Shamrocks was guilty 22 times while Lansdowne returned the favor 15 times.


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I am very proud of our young generation. Keep up good works. Victory is with us.
God bless our youth as they carry on the quest for justice with knowledge, energy and committment.


2013-01-28 – Today I'm in La Crosse, WI on business. Long day. Still working even in the hotel.
I look out the window at the Mississippi River. It is largely covered by ice. But the ice is cracked and moving with areas of open water. The sky is gray and mist rises from the river in the distance. The streets still have a thin coat of ice from yesterday's ice storm, but the temperature is above freezing and the ice is melting. It should be gone tomorrow.
Folks coming to meetings here yesterday by car had a hard time, but I came by train. The train was unimpeded. We looked out the train window at the gloom. That's all. Inside the train was like every trip to La Crosse. Roomy but uncomfortable seats. Junk food in the café car. My trip is too short for the dining car or an overnight in the roomette.
Meetings here are good, but I'd rather be home.


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Tumbiscatío de Ruiz es una localidad del estado mexicano de Michoacán de Ocampo, cabecera del municipio de Tumbiscatío.

Toponimia
El nombre Tumbiscatío que se interpreta como «lugar donde hay racimos».

Ubicación
La ciudad de Tumbiscatío de Ruiz se encuentra aproximadamente en la ubicación , a una altura de 913 , y a una distancia de 252 km de la capital del estado.

Demografía
Según los datos registrados en el censo de 2020, la población de Tumbiscatío de Ruiz es de  habitantes, lo que representa un decrecimiento promedio de -1.2% anual en el período 2010-2020 sobre la base de los  habitantes registrados en el censo anterior. Ocupa una superficie de 1.982 km², lo que determina al año 2020 una densidad de  hab/km².

En 2020 el 49.7% de la población ( personas) eran hombres y el 50.3% ( personas) eran mujeres. El 59.1% de la población tenía edades comprendidas entre los 15 y los 64 años.

La población de Tumbiscatío de Ruiz está mayoritariamente alfabetizada, (11.50% de personas mayores de 15 años analfabetas, según relevamiento del año 2020), con un grado de escolaridad en torno a los 6.5 años.
El 97.7% de los habitantes de Tumbiscatío de Ruiz profesa la religión católica.

En el año 2010 estaba clasificada como una localidad de grado alto de vulnerabilidad social. Según el relevamiento realizado,  personas de 15 años o más no habían completado la educación básica, —carencia conocida como rezago educativo—, y  personas no disponían de acceso a la salud.

Población de Tumbiscatío de Ruiz 1900-2020

Referencias

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[332 U.S. 234 , 236] Mr. Philip Elman, of Washington, D.C., for petitioner.
In May and July, 1940, six contracts were made between the United States and the Federal Contracting Corporation, in which the corporate contractor agreed to paint and repair certain federal buildings. Each contract conformed to the requirements of statute, 49 Stat. 793, 40 U.S.C . 270a et seq., 40 U.S.C.A. 270a et seq., by providing for two surety bonds, one conditioned on the completion of the work within the contract period, and the other on the payment of those furnishing labor and material to the contractor. The Aetna Casualty and Surety Company signed those bonds, each of which assigned to it the contractor's claims against the government for sums due on the contracts whenever the surety should be compelled [332 U.S. 234 , 237] by default of the contractor to fulfill its obligations. 1 The work was completed by the contractor apparently in 1940, and accepted by the government. The surety therefore was not called upon to make good the promise of the performance bonds. But the contractor did not pay $13,065. 93 owed to persons who had supplied labor and material for performance of five of the six contracts. This indebtedness the surety paid between April and September, 1941 as the payment bonds obliged it to do.
On demand by the receiver for the amounts due, the General Accounting Office deducted the government's claim of $6,731.50 and paid over $5,713. 53. Aetna, by letter to the Comptroller General, protested the government's settlement by set-off and asserted its right to an additional $ 3,568.23.3 The receiver also protested the set-off and demanded $3,143.23 for reimbursement of the surety. It relied upon Maryland Casualty Co. v. United States, 100 Ct.Cl. 513; Id., Ct.Cl., 53 F.Supp. 436. The Acting Comptroller General declined to follow the opinion of the Court of Claims, in the absence of ruling by this Court, and rejected the protests. When the receiver reported its efforts to the district court, it was ordered to turn over to the surety the money collected, less $500. That sum was for prosecution of suit in the Court of Claims for the recovery of whatever other moneys 'may be due under the contracts of the Federal Contracting Corporation.' This action was begun, and the Court of Claims gave judgment for $3,568.23 to respondent. 67 F.Supp. [332 U.S. 234 , 239] 976. We granted the government's petition for certiorari because of the importance and novelty of the question and the cumulative effect of Maryland Casualty Co. v. United States, supra, and the decision below. 330 . S. 814, 6 .
If the right of the United States to make the set-off were opposed only by the claims of the contractor, this case would present no difficulty. The government has the same right 'which belongs to every creditor, to apply the unappropriated moneys of his debtor, in his hands, in extinguishment of the debts due to him.' Gratiot v. United States, 15 Pet. 336, 370; McKnight v. United States, 98 U.S. 179, 186 . More than that, federal statute gives jurisdiction to the Court of Claims to hear and determine 'All set-offs, counterclaims, claims for damages, whether liquidated or unliquidated, or other demands whatsoever on the part of the Government of the United States against any claimant against the Government in said court * * *.' Judicial Code 145, 28 U.S.C. 250 [332 U.S. 234 , 240] (2), 28 U.S.C.A. 250(2). This power given to the Court of Claims to strike a balance between the debts and credits of the government, by logical implication gives power to the Comptroller General to do the same, subject to review by that court. Insofar as the suitor in the Court of Claims asserted the contractor's title to the sum in dispute, that court was under statutory duty to recognize the undisputed claim for damages of the United States. Cherry Cotton Mills, Inc., v. United States, 327 U.S. 536 .
But the surety urges that it is subrogated also to the rights of laborers and materialmen whom it paid and of the United States. From Prairie State Nat. Bank of Chicago v. United States, 164 U.S. 227 , to American Surety Co. v. Sampsell, 327 U.S. 269 , 66 S. Ct. 571, we have recognized the peculiarly equitable claim of those responsible for the physical completion of building contracts to be paid from available moneys ahead of others whose claims come from the advance of money. But in all those cases, the owner was a mere stakeholder and had no rights of its own to assert. Respondent tells us that here the United States is in the same position and that as a general creditor, it has no more right to the money which it holds than does any other general creditor of the contractor.
At the time demand for payment was made by the receiver, the claim of the United States on the St. Louis contract was extant for some time. The disbursing officers, therefore, did not concede that they held the entire amount of the retained percentages for distribution to the contractor or others. And one whose own appropriation and payment of money is necessary to create a fund for general creditors is not a general creditor. He is not compelled to lessen his own chance of recovering what is due him by setting up a fund undiminished by his claim, so that others may share it with him. In fact, he is the best secure of credit ors; his security is his own justified refusal to pay what he owes until he is paid what is due him. [332 U.S. 234 , 241] But the infirmity in respondent's case goes deeper. If the United States were obligated to pay laborers and materialmen unpaid by a contractor, the surety who discharged that obligation could claim subrogation. But nothing is more clear than that laborers and materialmen do not have enforceable rights against the United States for their compensation. Cf. H. Herfurth, Jr., Inc., v. United States, 89 Ct.Cl. 122; see Schmoll v. United States, 63 F.Supp. 753, 105 Ct.Cl. 415, 455; Maryland Casualty Co. v. United States, Ct.Cl., 53 F.Supp. 436, 440. They cannot acquire a lien on public buildings, United States, for Use of Hill, v. American Surety Co., 200 U.S. 197, 203 , 170; Equitable Surety Co. v. United States, to Use of W. McMillan & Son, 234 U.S. 448, 455 , 805, and as a substitute for that more customary protection, the various statutes were passed which require that a surety guarantee their payment. Of these, the last and the one now in force is the Miller Act under which the bonds here were drawn.
The surety says, nevertheless, that the laborers and materialmen may have a lien, or something in the nature of a lien on the retained percentages. Its argument runs into logical difficulties. For it asserts that the moneys are retained by the government as much for assurance that the contractor will perform his contract by paying the laborers and materialmen as by completing the work on time. It is said to follow that so long as they remain unpaid, the contractor may not demand payment and the government would be justified in refusing to disburse the retained percentages. 4 In that case, how may the laborers and materialmen have a lien upon money which the United States may legally keep? Surely it is not intended that the laborers and ma- [332 U.S. 234 , 242] terialmen may claim payment of that which is not due to the contractor. We are aware that the laborers and materialmen have been paid, so that by no interpretation of the contracts between government and contractor can there be restrictions on paying out the money retained. It is said that it was the surety's payment of those claims which released the asserted contract restrictions. In relying on the rights of the laborers and materialmen, however, the surety must establish that those rights existed before their claims were paid. For it is elementary that one cannot acquire by subrogation what another whose rights he claims did not have. Once the laborers and materialmen have been paid, either by contractor or surety, they have no rights in any fund. If before they are paid, the fund to which they are said to be entitled to look is unavailable for the very reason that they are unpaid, the surety relies on nothing when it relies on those nonexistent 'rights.' One who rests on subrogation stands in the place of one whose claim he has paid, as if the payment giving rise to the subrogation had not been made. See Aetna Life Insurance Co. v. Town of Middleport, 124 U.S. 534, 548 , 629. He cannot jump back and forth in time and present himself at once as the unpaid claimant and again, under the conditions as they have changed because payment was made.
The surety has yet another party whose rights it would claim, if it cannot prevail by substitution or contractor or laborers and materialmen. This contention too was sustained by the Court of Claims when it said that the rights of the United States devolved upon the surety, because of its payments. We are told that the United [332 U.S. 234 , 243] States retained the money to assure performance of all the obligations of the contractor, and that the surety is entitled to apply that security to indemnify itself for performing one of those obligations. This is by analogy to the rule that an obligee, as against a surety, may not apply security in satisfaction of debts other than the one it secures. See 4 Pomeroy, Equity Jurisprudence, 5th Ed., 1075. But although we have assumed, for the purposes of another argument, that assurance that laborers and materialmen will be paid is one of the reasons for retaining the money, it seems more likely that completion of the work on time is the only motive. California Bank v. United States Fidelity & Guaranty Co., 9 Cir., 129 F.2d 751; see Schmoll v. United States, 63 F.Supp. 753, 105 Ct.Cl. 415, 455; Maryland Casualty Co. v. United States, supra, 53 F.Supp. at page 439. It is hardly reasonable to withhold money in order to assure payments which perhaps can be made only from the money earned. In any event, we are not prepared to apply law relating to security to unappropriated sums which exist only as a claim.
Finally, the surety by reference to the Maryland Casualty case, supra, suggests that it has rights of its own in the money which the government retained. It argues that the implication of the several contracts among government, contractor and surety was that the moneys earned under the repair contracts would be available to pay claims arising under each job. However, if statute did not require a surety, there could be no question that the government would have the right of set-off. Respondent's contention then comes to this: that by requiring the contractor to furnish assurances that he will perform his obligations to laborers and materialmen, the government has deliberately decreased the ordinary safeguards it would have had to enforce the contractor's obligations to it. We see nothing in the words of the contract or the statute to lead us to this conclusion. On the contrary, the statutory provisions requiring a separate bond [332 U.S. 234 , 244] for payment of laborers and materialmen were enacted for their benefit, not to the detriment of the government. It is the surety who is required to take risk. We have no warrant to increase risks of the government.
[ Footnote 1 ] These assignments were of course invalid against the United States, R.S. 3477, 31 U.S.C. 203, 31 U.S.C.A. 203; Martin v. National Surety Co., 300 U.S. 588 , but they enable the surety to prevail over the contractor if there is contest between them.
[ Footnote 2 ] Such proceedings to appoint a receiver in the District of Columbia are for the purpose of taking possession of a fund or property and to prevent its loss or dissipation. Insolvency is not a necessary allegation, Houston v. Ormes, 252 U.S. 469 , and there is no claim in this case that the contractor is insolvent.
[ Footnote 3 ] The surety did not and could not claim the whole amount retained by the government. The payments for which it was liable and which it paid, on two of the contracts exceeded, and, on the other four, were less than, the amounts retained on each particular contract.
[ Footnote 4 ] If the money is retained only to assure performance of the work, then the contractor might compel payment when the work is accepted. In that case, the surety's argument falls, since obviously, before paying, the government might set off claims against the contractor.


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Eros/ion is an installed performance that explores our categorizations of perception; the imagined divisions and boundaries between our senses. While we live as if all the things we hear are sound, and all the things we feel are touch, these "discrete" experiences actually exist along a spectrum. Eros/ion is a forced synesthesia of audible and tactile experiences, embodied as a series of delicate sculptures. These sculptures are broken down over time by the physical, tactile power of sound waves from a sound composition played through the boxes attached to the sculptures. Over time the sculptures succumb to the tactile, destructive properties of the sound.
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Category: Scooter
Segway-Ninebot's new scooter drives to its docking station for a recharge – gpgmail
August 19, 2019 administrator electric scooters, micromobility, Scooter, segway-ninebot, TC, Transportation
At an event in Beijing last week, Chinese scooter company Segway-Ninebot Group unveiled a trio of new products. The most compelling of the bunch was no doubt the KickScooter T60, which harnesses AI to drive itself back to the charging station.
The company says it will start piloting the products next quarter, with a timeline for commercialization realized some time early next year. "The pain point for scooter operators is to better maintain the scooters at a lower cost," Ninebot chairman Gao Lufeng told Reuters in an interview tied to the event.
Cost is an interesting point here, given that a "smart" scooter would be priced considerably higher at around $1,400 — several times the price of its more basic units. But the executive's statement factors in the cost of having to manually collect scooters to recharge them. Obviously managing the two different factors will be a bit of a balancing act for scooter operators.
In an age when delivery robots have become something of a hot-button topic amongst various city councils, there's also a question of sidewalk legality for a self-driving vehicle — even one designed to drive relatively short distances.
The company hasn't offered much detail, but a video that has since appeared on YouTube shows a fleet of T60s in action. In the short promotional video, the scooters appear to be semi-autonomous, with an employee controlling them remotely via desktop computer.
Ninebot also used the opportunity to debut a pair of delivery robots for indoor and outdoor settings.
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Ford-owned Spin is bringing a tougher electric scooter to dozens of cities – gpgmail
July 25, 2019 administrator Automotive, baltimore, denver, electric scooters, Ford, Kansas City, Los Angeles, memphis, Scooter, Spin, Transportation, Washington D.C., Zaizhuang Cheng
Spin, the electric scooter company acquired by a Ford subsidiary for around $100 million, is launching a new electric scooter with a sturdier frame, improved braking system, bigger tires and longer-range battery.
In short, this third-generation product is built to handle the kind of abuse that a shared dockless scooter is subjected to on a daily basis. It's also designed to be more secure. The company has added custom security screws that were developed to thwart vandalism and tampering.
The design improvements should improve the riding experience and, in theory, attract more customers. However, more customers is only one important piece of the scooter game. Gross profit margin is the other.
This third-generation is built to have a longer life, a key factor in improving the unit economics of the dockless scooter business.
Spin launched a pilot program in June to test the new scooters in Baltimore. The pilot showed "promising results for increasing gross profit margin, while decreasing costs associated with theft and vandalism," according to the company.
"In our testing of the next edition Spin scooter, we have seen a significant increase in utilization and our customers are taking more rides and traveling longer distances," co-founder and COO Zaizhuang Cheng said in a statement.
The third-edition Spin scooter has 10-inch tires, a feature meant to better absorb shock from potholes and other rough road conditions. Other features include a wider and longer platform, a battery with 37.5 miles of range and and an upgraded authentication system. The company also revealed a new logo as part of a brand refresh across its scooters, app and website.
Spin, which is housed under the automaker's subsidiary Ford Smart Mobility LLC, will deploy the new scooter next month in Berkeley, Calif., Denver, Kansas City, Los Angeles, Memphis, Minneapolis and Washington, D.C. Other U.S. cities will be added in the future.
Spin has been ramping up across the U.S. The company is the exclusive operator in 11 markets and has more than quadrupled the number of dockless scooter markets in which it operates to 47 cities and college campuses.
Its aim is to be in 100 cities and college campuses by the end of the year.
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#ifndef TALK_P2P_BASE_RAWTRANSPORTCHANNEL_H_
#define TALK_P2P_BASE_RAWTRANSPORTCHANNEL_H_

#include <string>
#include <vector>
#include "talk/base/messagequeue.h"
#include "talk/p2p/base/transportchannelimpl.h"
#include "talk/p2p/base/rawtransport.h"
#include "talk/p2p/base/candidate.h"

#if defined(FEATURE_ENABLE_PSTN)

namespace talk_base {
class Thread;
}

namespace cricket {

class Connection;
class PortAllocator;
class PortAllocatorSession;
class PortInterface;
class RelayPort;
class StunPort;

// Implements a channel that just sends bare packets once we have received the
// address of the other side.  We pick a single address to send them based on
// a simple investigation of NAT type.
class RawTransportChannel : public TransportChannelImpl,
    public talk_base::MessageHandler {
 public:
  RawTransportChannel(const std::string& content_name,
                      int component,
                      RawTransport* transport,
                      talk_base::Thread *worker_thread,
                      PortAllocator *allocator);
  virtual ~RawTransportChannel();

  // Implementation of normal channel packet sending.
  virtual int SendPacket(const char *data, size_t len, int flags);
  virtual int SetOption(talk_base::Socket::Option opt, int value);
  virtual int GetError();

  // Implements TransportChannelImpl.
  virtual Transport* GetTransport() { return raw_transport_; }
  virtual void SetIceCredentials(const std::string& ice_ufrag,
                                 const std::string& ice_pwd) {}
  virtual void SetRemoteIceCredentials(const std::string& ice_ufrag,
                                       const std::string& ice_pwd) {}
  virtual TransportRole GetRole() const { return ROLE_UNKNOWN; }

  // Creates an allocator session to start figuring out which type of
  // port we should send to the other client.  This will send
  // SignalAvailableCandidate once we have decided.
  virtual void Connect();

  // Resets state back to unconnected.
  virtual void Reset();

  // We don't actually worry about signaling since we can't send new candidates.
  virtual void OnSignalingReady() {}

  // Handles a message setting the remote address.  We are writable once we
  // have this since we now know where to send.
  virtual void OnCandidate(const Candidate& candidate);

  void OnRemoteAddress(const talk_base::SocketAddress& remote_address);

  // Below ICE specific virtual methods not implemented.
  virtual void SetRole(TransportRole role) {}
  virtual void SetTiebreaker(uint64 tiebreaker) {}
  virtual void SetIceProtocolType(IceProtocolType type) {}
  virtual void SetIceUfrag(const std::string& ice_ufrag) {}
  virtual void SetIcePwd(const std::string& ice_pwd) {}
  virtual void SetRemoteIceMode(IceMode mode) {}

 private:
  RawTransport* raw_transport_;
  talk_base::Thread *worker_thread_;
  PortAllocator* allocator_;
  PortAllocatorSession* allocator_session_;
  StunPort* stun_port_;
  RelayPort* relay_port_;
  PortInterface* port_;
  bool use_relay_;
  talk_base::SocketAddress remote_address_;

  // Called when the allocator creates another port.
  void OnPortReady(PortAllocatorSession* session, PortInterface* port);

  // Called when one of the ports we are using has determined its address.
  void OnCandidatesReady(PortAllocatorSession *session,
                         const std::vector<Candidate>& candidates);

  // Called once we have chosen the port to use for communication with the
  // other client.  This will send its address and prepare the port for use.
  void SetPort(PortInterface* port);

  // Called once we have a port and a remote address.  This will set mark the
  // channel as writable and signal the route to the client.
  void SetWritable();

  // Called when we receive a packet from the other client.
  void OnReadPacket(PortInterface* port, const char* data, size_t size,
                    const talk_base::SocketAddress& addr);

  // Handles a message to destroy unused ports.
  virtual void OnMessage(talk_base::Message *msg);

  DISALLOW_EVIL_CONSTRUCTORS(RawTransportChannel);
};

}  // namespace cricket

#endif  // defined(FEATURE_ENABLE_PSTN)
#endif  // TALK_P2P_BASE_RAWTRANSPORTCHANNEL_H_


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Honduran conservationists are worried. A deadly insect that wiped out more than a quarter of the Central American country's conifers between 2013 and 2017 is back. The southern pine beetle -- or gorgojo, as it is known locally -- appears in large numbers during droughts brought on by El Nino, a climatic phenomenon that occurs every few years and can be a threat to agriculture and even drinking water sources.
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After finding that exposure to the weedkiller Roundup was a "substantial factor" in one man's cancer, jurors in California must now grapple with the question of just how culpable the product's manufacturer, agriculture giant Monsanto, was in his illness. Hardeman is the 70-year-old man at the center of the case who says his 25-year use of Roundup, whose principal ingredient is controversial chemical glyphosate, contributed to his non-Hodgkins lymphoma diagnosis.
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Q: bufferedreader search text file? file txt:

1 aaa 100

where insert number 1 the output null
java :
private static void SearchForId() {
        try {
            Scanner scanner = new Scanner(System.in);
            System.out.println("Inter Id");
            String id = scanner.next();
            BufferedReader Buffer = new BufferedReader(new FileReader(new File(
                    "D://Save.txt")));
            String line = null;
            while ((line = Buffer.readLine()) != null) {
                if (line.trim().equals(id)) {
                    System.out.println(line + "\n");

                }

            }
        } catch (Exception e) {
            System.out.print("" + e);
        }

    }

where the problem.??

A: You can try this way.
    private static void SearchForId() {
    try {
        Scanner scanner = new Scanner(System.in);
        System.out.println("Inter Id");
        String id = scanner.next();
        BufferedReader Buffer = new BufferedReader(new FileReader(new File(
                "D://Save.txt")));
        String line = null;
        while ((line = Buffer.readLine()) != null) {
            String arr[] = line.split(" ");
            for (int i = 0; i < arr.length; i++) {
                if (arr[i].trim().equals(id)) {
                    System.out.println(line);

                }
            }

        }
    } catch (Exception e) {
        System.out.print("" + e);
    }

A: If I understand the question correctly, you don't need Scanner here:
private static void SearchForId() {
    try {
        System.out.println("Inter Id");
        BufferedReader Buffer = new BufferedReader(new FileReader(new File(
                "D://Save.txt")));
        String[] line = Buffer.readLine().split(" ");
        int a = Integer.parseInt(line[0]);
        String s = line[1];
        int b = Integer.parseInt(line[2]);
    } catch (Exception e) {
        System.out.print("" + e);
    }

}

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23 June 2005, Rome -- Six months after the devastating tsunami around the coasts of the Indian Ocean, strong coordination between governments, donors and aid organizations is essential to ensure that the unprecedented resources committed to the recovery effort are directed appropriately and help build back better livelihoods for those hardest hit by the disaster, FAO said today.
"Inappropriate and uncoordinated assistance will do more harm than good," said Richard China, Rome-based coordinator of FAO's rehabilitation activities. "FAO is working with ministries and local authorities to help build consensus among non-governmental organizations on what should be done where by whom and how, including providing technical specifications, to avoid duplication and fragmentation of activities and unsustainable practices."
To date, FAO has $53 million of approved funding for its tsunami response and has deployed more than 70 international and regional experts to help affected countries with needs assessments, coordination, planning and delivery of early recovery and longer-term reconstruction assistance.
Contributors to FAO's programme include the European Community, Italy, Norway, Japan, Belgium, Finland, Spain, China, United Kingdom, Germany, Canada, Zambia and the United States.
FAO is providing direct assistance via governmental and non-governmental intermediaries to fishers and farmers through the delivery of repair kits and engine parts for fishing boats, fishing nets and other gear, seeds and farm tools, motorized paddy cultivators, and repair of irrigation and drainage infrastructure, as well as guidance, training and equipment to deal with salt water damage to farm land.
In order to provide income and livelihood opportunities to communities and allow resumption of food production, FAO is supporting cash-for-work programmes to rehabilitate paddy fields covered with debris.
FAO's forestry programme for tsunami rehabilitation, including assessment of wood demand and supply for reconstruction of houses and other infrastructure, has produced positive results concerning government action to protect natural forest and wildlife reserves and address the danger of accelerated illegal logging and deforestation.
FAO is also developing a programme to facilitate district and village level land use planning to identify the opportunities for forest rehabilitation, reforestation and agroforestry to provide for coastal protection and livelihood needs of local populations.
Furthermore, FAO has provided essential support to line ministries and development banks in the preparation of their initial reconstruction plans. In Indonesia, the Rehabilitation and Reconstruction Agency for Aceh and Nias last week asked FAO to provide advisers in fisheries, agriculture and forestry to assist the Government in the more detailed planning of its recovery activities.
"FAO's budget is relatively small in comparison to the billions received by other organizations, but our technical assistance and know-how will have a multiplier effect, helping to optimize sustainable outcomes from all of the resources deployed towards recovery of rural and fishing-based livelihoods," said China.
Approximately 40 percent of FAO's tsunami budget has already been delivered to the affected countries and committed to procurement of inputs and technical assistance.
While another $22 million of potential donor funding is in the pipeline for FAO, $50 million is needed to enable FAO to maintain and expand its technical assistance and direct support in line with the unmet needs of local fishers and farmers to restore their self-reliance and dignity.
FAO is providing training to improve boatbuilding skills.
Farmer tending a rice crop. FAO is supporting cash-for-work programmes to rehabilitate paddy fields covered with debris.


Date/Time: Thursday, January 31, 2019 / 7 p.m.
TULSA, Okla. – In the middle of a four-game home stand, the Oral Roberts men's basketball team will host South Dakota State Thursday evening.
Thursday's game will tip off at 7 p.m. from the Mabee Center and will be televised on KGEB TV53/CoxHD and streamed around the world on ESPN+. Adam Hildebrandt's radio call of the game can be heard on The Franchise at 107.9 FM and 1270 AM, and online at TheFranchiseOk.com.
• Senior Mike Daum, the reigning Summit League Player of the Year, is averaging 24.8 points and 11.3 rebounds per game to lead SDSU, while David Jenkins is scoring 19.8 points per game and Skyler Flatten chips in 15.3 points per contest. Daum is currently leading the nation in defensive rebounds per game (9.13) and total points (571).
• In the first meeting between the two teams, that trio accounted for 67 of the team's 84 points and 20 of the team's 32 rebounds.
• Including the first contest this year, ORU is 9-13 all-time against South Dakota State, but 6-3 at home. All but one of the 22 games have come since the 2007-08 season when South Dakota State joined The Summit League.
• ORU is 21st in the nation in total rebounds with 835 and 73rd in the nation in total 3-pointers made (182).
• Even with missing the last two games, Nzekwesi is 48th in the nation in total double-doubles with seven and is 56th in total rebounds with 176.
• After giving up just 27 points in the first half against NDSU, ORU has held teams to 36 points or fewer in the first half in nine of the last 12 games and a total of 14 times this season. 20 is the lowest total given up in the first half, doing so in an eventual overtime win over James Madison.


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Four hidden benefits of SD-WAN adoption
By Stefan Keller 2019-03-22T10:00:00Z
Here are four of the less-considered upshots of SD-WAN I see coming into play over the next year or two.
(Image credit: Image source: Shutterstock/everything possible)
In an era of digital transformation it might seem to the casual observer that networking capabilities wouldn't be at the top of IT leaders' lists as something critical to address today. Surely, one might assume, the structural changes that enterprises all over the world are now pursuing are about integrating processes more tightly with their network, and the network itself is already digitally native.
Indeed, the first reason that a company might turn to software-defined wide-area networking (SD-WAN) is not to help it become more digital, but to simplify, streamline, and optimise the networking capabilities it already has. In many enterprise WANs today, policy management – the routes between different areas of the network, the prioritisation of some application data over others, rules stopping data from going where it shouldn't – is performed by operators on a router-by-router basis, often through the command line. Maintaining such a system demands intense planning and oversight as well as laborious processes when network policies need to be changed.
SD-WAN completely upends the network management workflow. By providing a centralised, application-aware, and automatable cloud platform for network oversight, policy can be applied across the whole network on an on-demand basis, and that policy can react to changing network needs. For example, a business might add a new software-as-a-service (SaaS) collaboration application, roll it out globally, set compliance-related rules on where the application's data is allowed to go within the network, and implement traffic shaping for video-conferencing bandwidth peaks, all without having to think about the network's physical links or methodically apply these rules server by server.
While the potential efficiency savings are obvious, to think about SD-WAN only in terms of reducing man-hours or implementation lead time would be to miss some of the more radical changes to business methodology that the technology can deliver. Here are four of the less-considered upshots of SD-WAN I see coming into play over the next year or two.
Consumer-grade interfaces for enterprise-grade technology
For many years, it has been generally accepted that the simplicity of installation and usage that consumers demand comes at the cost of the power that enterprise users need, and vice versa. Over the last decade, developers of enterprise applications have faced a serious challenge when trying to utilise the flexibility offered by the cloud, while also building in the level of security and reliability that a business needs, in order to comply with regulations and guarantee service availability to its workforce.
By its nature, SD-WAN offers the flexibility of the cloud, allowing applications to be installed and run anywhere, making data available in multiple points of presence, and enabling a rapid development cycle via on-the-fly updates. At the same, it maintains the end-to-end nature of routing protocols such as Multiprotocol Label Switching (MPLS), allowing for a level of demonstrable security not normally possible in cloud environments. As a result, the tools that companies need to operate will begin to feel more and more like a consumer-grade experience, so that employees can get on with the business of the day.
Super-powered access options and bandwidth capacities through 5G
Unlike the mere speed-boost that 4G delivered to our devices, 5G promises to involve a fundamental rethink of how mobile networks are constructed and operate. With blankets of small-cell antennae, radically reduced latency, and new modes of everything-to-everything communication, 5G will on-load a mass of new device types and network modalities, threatening to radically complicate the network landscapes which administrators must account for.
SD-WAN will ease the burden of that management work through the power of policies which react to changing network needs. As 5G devices proliferate, an SD-WAN control centre will provide the visibility administrators need to stay on top of their networks. However, I believe that, beyond this, companies which quickly adopt both 5G and SD-WAN will find significant synergies between the two technologies. Because SD-WAN is application aware, while also being relatively agnostic as to the type of connections being used, it can be used to rapidly deploy new points of service: remote offices might be provisioned within hours, not weeks, and even on a temporary basis, by treating its 5G connectivity as though it were a traditional physical network link.
Thinking in terms of applications and security instead of network provisioning
Today, business users and IT teams too often find themselves at odds. Users want easy access to the applications and data they need to enable them to get high-quality work done quickly. IT, meanwhile, must focus on the nuts and bolts of networks, appliances, storage, and everything other than making access easy, forcing them to respond to user requests by saying 'no, because…'. The shift change that SD-WAN creates in network administration methods means that IT teams will be able to align their priorities with those of their end-users. Abstracting the nuts and bolts into a software command centre enables faster decision-making and more agile responses to changing demands, and therefore empowers IT teams to say 'yes' to their users.
Regulation compliant hybrid clouds powered by SD-WAN
The way in which enterprises think about cybersecurity, data breaches, and privacy protection has evolved rapidly in recent years. Partly this is due to high-profile incidents involving failures in major corporations. It is also a result of new regulation, such as the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), creating a framework for governmental response to inappropriate data handling. Regardless of an organisation's context, data and security is now a matter of necessity - not a matter of preference - which if handled badly can pose an existential threat to the organisation. SD-WAN can help prepare organisations for this new operational reality in two key ways.
First, a centralised point of control for network activity radically simplifies the management of layers, which sit on top of the base-level network, such as firewalls and identity management. Policies in these areas, as with routing policies, can be disseminated across the network in one move, reducing the risk of oversights and human error.
Second, in just the same way that SD-WAN can easily create pathways for application data to travel along, it can just as easily shut those routes down. No network is 100 per cent immune to attacks and breaches, and once a problem is detected, the business needs to be able to respond quickly and efficiently to limit the extent of the damage. By establishing security zones ahead of time, administrators using SD-WAN can rapidly isolate security flaws and thereby minimise the damage – reputational and financial – that those flaws threatened to cause.
The adoption of SD-WAN is an opportunity for IT teams to rethink how the essential networking capabilities they provide operate in their businesses, offering unrivalled access to the right resources at the right time whilst simultaneously minimising complexity, inertia, and risk. Indeed, SD-WAN is a sector in rapid growth, and smart systems administrators will no doubt find new ways of leveraging it as it spreads across industry. I look forward to seeing where the network goes next.
Stefan Keller, Head of Product Development, Open Systems
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Alek is an Army National Guard Specialist from Sacramento, CA. Alek and his two childhood friends, Spencer Stone and Anthony Sadler, made headlines around the world on August 2015 when they heroically overpowered a man that opened fire on a train from Amsterdam to Paris. This true American hero was recently awarded France's highest honor by President François Hollande.
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We have just completed a video summary of the last four years of ministry in the community of Primero de Mayo, Cayambe, Ecuador. The video traces the ministry from our first days hosting a kids club in a vacant lot to the most recent activities of the church and images of the property that was just purchased a few weeks ago. We hope it will be a blessing and an inspiration to you as we move forward together to bring Christ to Cayambe.
If you prefer to view the video on Vimeo, follow the link below the video.
The Birth of a Church: Primero de Mayo, Ecuador 2007-2011 from David Meyer on Vimeo.
This is a video summary of the ministry in Primero de Mayo, Cayambe, Ecuador, that our joint team has been privileged to have a part in. The effort has been a partnership between Ecuadorian missionaries from the Association of Berean Evangelical Churches of Ecuador (AIEBE, in Spanish) and our family from the mission, CrossWorld.
We just watched the video and it was wonderful to see the progress, and lives changed. I noticed a lot of smiles of joy on the faces of many in the pictures, but I know that along the way, many trials have come, and there are many trials yet to come. Praise God for what he has done.


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H.R.263 - To rename the Oyster Bay National Wildlife Refuge as the Congressman Lester Wolff Oyster Bay National Wildlife Refuge.116th Congress (2019-2020)
Rep. Suozzi, Thomas R. [D-NY-3] (Introduced 01/04/2019)
House - Natural Resources | Senate - Environment and Public Works
H. Rept. 116-228
01/27/2020 Became Public Law No: 116-110. (TXT | PDF) (All Actions)
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Constitutional Authority Statement
Public Lands and Natural Resources
Text: H.R.263 — 116th Congress (2019-2020)All Information (Except Text)
There are 6 versions: Public Law (01/27/2020)Enrolled BillReferred in Senate (11/21/2019)Engrossed in House (11/20/2019)Reported in House (10/11/2019)Introduced in House (01/04/2019)
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Public Law No: 116-110 (01/27/2020)
[116th Congress Public Law 110]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[[Page 134 STAT. 6]]
Public Law 116-110
An Act
To rename the Oyster Bay National Wildlife Refuge as the Congressman
Lester Wolff Oyster Bay National Wildlife Refuge. <<NOTE: Jan. 27,
2020 -  [H.R. 263]>>
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the
United States of America in Congress assembled, <<NOTE: New York. 16 USC
668dd note.>>
SECTION 1. FINDINGS.
The Congress finds the following:
(1) The Oyster Bay National Wildlife Refuge was created in
1968. It is located on the north shore of Long Island in eastern
Nassau County, is the largest refuge in the Long Island National
Wildlife Refuge Complex, and receives the most public use of all
the refuges in the Complex.
(2) The State of New York designated Oyster Bay a
significant coastal fish and wildlife habitat. It is especially
important for wintering waterfowl such as black duck, greater
scaup, bufflehead, canvasback and long-tailed ducks. Management
activities include wetland restoration and protection of the
natural shoreline and vegetation.
(3) The refuge is unique in consisting solely of bay bottom
and adjacent shoreline up to the mean high-tide mark. Ninety
percent of New York's commercial oyster harvest comes from the
refuge. Visitors enjoy fishing, wildlife observation,
photography and environmental education. The refuge is truly a
national treasure.
(4) Many visitors are unaware that were it not for the
tireless work and advocacy of then-freshman Congressman Lester
Wolff, this area would today be an 8.5-mile causeway and bridge
across Long Island Sound between Oyster Bay and Rye, New York,
connecting Nassau and Westchester Counties.
(5) The bridge was first proposed by Robert Moses, the well-
known New York City Planner, to divert traffic from New York
City. Former Governor Nelson Rockefeller signed into law
legislation creating the bridge authorized by the New York State
Legislature in 1967.
(6) Congressman Wolff, elected in 1964, quickly decided the
bridge would be an intrusion in a pristine area, and that Long
Island Sound was a very precious resource that was despoiled.
The conservation threats in the mid-1960s were suburban
development, wetland filling, and industrial pollution. The
fight to preserve this land became an enormous political fight
and is considered to be a turning point in New York State's
environmental legacy.
(7) With State and local political and community leaders,
and especially the North Shore leaders and the Committee
to Save the Long Island Sound, Congressman Wolff arranged a
meeting with Department of the Interior representatives and
local leaders where the idea of creating a wildlife refuge from
municipal and privately owned wetlands was created.
(8) The Town of Oyster Bay, in which one end of the bridge
was to be located, deeded 5,000 acres of wetlands to the United
States to be maintained as a Federal wildlife preserve. It was
stipulated that if the Department of the Interior agreed to an
intrusion of the property, it would revert to the town. Creating
a Federal wildlife preserve provided the land with Federal
(9) Because of the vision, dedication, and perseverance of
Congressman Lester Wolff, all of us and future generations can
enjoy the beauty and magnificence of this refuge.
SEC. 2. RENAMING THE OYSTER BAY NATIONAL WILDLIFE REFUGE AS THE
CONGRESSMAN LESTER WOLFF OYSTER BAY NATIONAL
WILDLIFE REFUGE.
(a) Renaming.--The unit of the National Wildlife Refuge System known
as the Oyster Bay National Wildlife Refuge and located near Oyster Bay,
New York, shall be known as the ``Congressman Lester Wolff Oyster Bay
National Wildlife Refuge''.
(b) References.--Any reference in a law, map, regulation, document,
paper, or other record of the United States to the unit of the National
Wildlife Refuge System known as the Oyster Bay National Wildlife Refuge
is deemed to be a reference to the ``Congressman Lester Wolff Oyster Bay
Approved January 27, 2020.
LEGISLATIVE HISTORY--H.R. 263:
HOUSE REPORTS: No. 116-228 (Comm. on Natural Resources).
CONGRESSIONAL RECORD:
Vol. 165 (2019):
Nov. 20, considered and passed
Jan. 9, considered and passed