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The Frederick Hotel, New York City, USA. The Frederick Hotel is a glimpse of New York grandeur. This landmark gothic revival building has been welcoming guests since 1845. Now, a step through the doors reveals a luxury hotel immersed in TriBeCa's culture. Rooms and suites fuse elements of mid-century-modern furnishings and art-nouveau inspired details set against a minimalist, neutral colour scheme (like the shower pictured above). Beds are made up with luxurious Frette linens that beckon you to dive right in, C.O Bigelow toiletries and bathtubs all add an extra touch of indulgence. Unwind in privacy or step down to the hotel restaurant, Serafina, for all-day Italian dining. The handmade pasta and signature truffle-topped pizza is not to be missed.
Hotel Grand Powers, Paris, France – Opens January 4th 2019. At the heart of the bustling Golden Triangle in Paris' eighth arrondissement close to the Champs-Elysees, Hotel Grand Powers has been welcoming travelers from around the world for more than a century. Following a complete transformation, the new five-star hotel will officially open at the start of 2019. Original features such as moldings and marble fireplaces are complemented by bespoke furniture and striking contrasts between stone and fabric. Rooms and suites make the most of classic Haussmann proportions, with high ceilings and large windows – some even have balconies and Eiffel Tower views. Step out to explore the city and return for a massage or hammam bath at the Thala Spa. This peaceful haven comprises a huge jacuzzi, steam room, sauna, 24-hour gym with the latest Technogym innovation and a treatment room.
The Franklin, London, UK. A stay at The Franklin means a trip back in time to a bygone era, where designer interiors by Anouska Hempel seamlessly blend La Belle Epoque style with modern-day sensibilities. Located in London's leafy Knightsbridge neighborhood and sister hotel to SLH's Hotel D'Inghilterra, The Franklin is just the right side of opulent with refined velvets and patterned wallpapers creating a sophisticated space. Whether you select a Deluxe Room with a mirrored four-poster or the one-off grandeur of the Presidential Suite, expect a bedroom that is as restful as it is refined. Upping the relaxation levels, downstairs a hammam is a blissful way to end a day spent walking the royal parks and galleries of London. Dinner is served in The Franklin Restaurant, where Italian influenced menus by Michelin-starred Alfredo Russo give seasonal ingredients star billing. For a pre-dinner experience to remember, you can even enjoy a cocktail masterclass with award-winning mixologist Salvatore Maggio.
Hotel Les Bords de Mer, Marseille, France – Opened December 1st 2018. Standing beside Plages des Catalans and just a short walk from the old town, this boutique retreat is immersed in Marseille life. Its gleaming white exterior complements the blue of the sea and the sky, which stretches out endlessly in front. Spellbinding Mediterranean Sea views are the star of Les Bords de Mer's rooms and suites. Depending on your room, you could take them in from huge bay windows, or from your private balcony or terrace. Inside, pastel hues and pale, natural wood complement the clear Cote d'Azur light that drew so many painters to the region. Spend the day unwinding beside the rooftop pool or out exploring the city. The hotel is SLH's first in Marseille and offers cultural tours of the old town, as well as excursions further afield – from boat trips to Calanques National Park, to wine tours of the Luberon.
Terra Dominicata, Priorat, Spain – Opened August 2018. A sense of peace seems to arise the moment you arrive at Terra Dominicata. Originally part of a Dominican monastery, the hotel immerses you in the heritage of its 'holy mountain' setting. The calming colour palette of earth tones complements the minimalist furnishings in the spacious rooms and suites, including original stone walls that tie these spaces to their past. Outside, warm terracotta tiles lead you to the pool, where swims come with Montsant Natural Park views. To take a closer look at your surroundings, set off hiking through the rugged scenery or visit the ruined monastery in nearby Escaladei. Back at Terra Dominicata, the tables at Alma Mater are laid for dinner. Dine in the impeccably styled restaurant or choose a table out on the stone terrace and feast on modern takes on traditional produce and recipes.


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Choices for genome engineering and integration involve high efficiency with little or no target specificity or high specificity with low activity. Here, we describe a targeted integration strategy, called GeneWeld, and a vector series for gene tagging, pGTag (plasmids for Gene Tagging), which promote highly efficient and precise targeted integration in zebrafish embryos, pig fibroblasts, and human cells utilizing the CRISPR/Cas9 system. Our work demonstrates that in vivo targeting of a genomic locus of interest with CRISPR/Cas9 and a donor vector containing as little as 24 to 48 base pairs of homology directs precise and efficient knock-in when the homology arms are exposed with a double strand break in vivo. Given our results targeting multiple loci in different species, we expect the accompanying protocols, vectors, and web interface for homology arm design to help streamline gene targeting and applications in CRISPR compatible systems.
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At Quarq, our mission is to create kick-ass bicycle data systems. It's that simple. Our goal is to make products that are robust, intuitive, cutting edge — and invisible. The clever technology is tucked deep inside. We make Quarq power meters, Qollector, ShockWiz and TyreWiz for riders who seek results. Insights. Breakthroughs. Epiphanies. New personal bests. And, increases in confidence from knowing exactly how and when to use the most important part of any bicycle. Themselves.
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The very first Quarq power meter being tested at the Queensland Academy of Sport in Australia, May 2006.
Jim and Mieke Meyer, Quarq's founders, moved to Australia in 2006 for her to work on an MBA and him to focus on triathlon. Jim wanted a power meter for training but couldn't find one that fit his needs or budget. So, with his background in mathematics and passion for tinkering, he decided to start his own power meter company. As a result, Quarq – an intentional misspelling of the word quark, which is a fast-moving subatomic particle – was founded.
The next year Quarq established its factory in Jim's hometown of Spearfish, S.D., and demonstrated prototype power meters at the InterBike trade show in Las Vegas. In June 2008, the company shipped its first power meter.
Fast forward to May 2011, when Jim and Mieke officially signed the papers that would make Quarq part of SRAM LLC. When the pen was lifted, Jim reached into his backpack and handed over a previously secret power meter prototype that was a complete departure from previous designs. SRAM's expertise in drivetrain engineering helped deliver the groundbreaking SRAM RED Quarq Power Meter, which remains the first and only power meter in a groupset.
Read Jim Meyer's profile from the SRAM 25th Anniversary Milestone Book, published in 2012 (PDF, 25KB).
Today, Quarq designs and manufactures data and digital technology products for cyclists in every discipline and at all levels of expertise and experience.
Quarq's latest power meter platform, DZero, is packed with 10 years of development and 150 documented iterations. As Jim Meyer says, "DZero is everything we know how to do in a power meter, done all at once." DZero is named after the DZero detector, which involves an intense search for subatomic clues that could reveal the building blocks of the universe. It's one of the world's most sensitive and accurate devices — just like Quarq Power Meters.
Qollector captures GPS and ANT+ data such as power, heart rate, gear selection, altitude, location and speed, and transmits it live over cell networks. The companion web platforms, QuarqNet and QuarqRace, share tracking and metrics to smartphones, tablets and computers. Qollector was introduced at the 2015 IRONMAN® World Championship in Kailua-Kona, HI. and fans around the world logged on to see the drama of competition unfold in real time. In 2016, Qollector tracked under-21, masters and professional racers in mountain biking's Enduro World Series.
The automated suspension tuning device, ShockWiz, was a Kickstarter project acquired by SRAM in 2016 and brought to life by Quarq. ShockWiz combines high-tech hardware with an intuitive smartphone app and evaluates air-sprung suspension performance 100 times-a-second while you ride. Pinkbike's Mike Kazimer said of ShockWiz, "It's easy to see how the ShockWiz could become an invaluable tool…simplifying a process that to many seems like a dark art."
In future, Quarq will continue to refine its fast-track pipeline for new products and ideas from the creative minds of bicycling technology — connecting bicycling's most talented innovators with the sport's early adopters.

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The third largest but most developed of the seven islands in the Spanish-administered Canary archipelago, Gran Canaria has been billed as a 'miniature continent' because of the variety of climates and landscapes that it offers, from the big city bustle of the capital, Las Palmas, to the serenity of its lush woodlands.
The Canary Islands lie in the Atlantic Ocean, about 125 miles (200km) from the African coast and almost 800 miles (1,280km) from the closest European port of Cadiz. Gran Canaria is almost circular, with a diameter of about 32 miles (50km), and is characterised by deep ravines that radiate out from the centre down to the coast. The north of the island is humid and lush, with green valleys and volcanic craters, while the south is arid and desert-like, with vast stretches of sandy beach. The interior of Gran Canaria has steep highlands dotted with small villages, sporting white houses with red roofs, banana plantations and orchards bursting with tropical fruits.
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Work less, play more
The 40-hour work week is an ingrained part of our culture, but it does very little to enrich our lives. Here's how to do away with the nine-to-five.
Lucy Purdy
An unconditional basic income could free us up to do necessary work without anxiety. Credit: Shutterstock.
Time is perhaps the most precious commodity of all. While we can buy more possessions and work new jobs, we can never make more time or recapture what has already been spent. But considering how much work dominates our lives, we question concepts around working and time relatively little.
While paid employment can provide security, for many, jobs are a means of putting "food on the table" within a work culture that feels more enslaving than natural or joyful. But now there is growing recognition that traditional working patterns no longer serve us. More and more people are searching for freedom from bosses, wages, commuting and consuming, seeking instead the lives we truly want to lead.
Today's working model stems largely from the Industrial Revolution, whose architects convinced the masses of the importance of disciplined hard work. Rising early to toil all day for others was considered a virtue and this began to form part of the national consciousness. Families started to rely on their wages alone, buying in the food they had previously grown themselves, and work which was governed by the seasons, weather and necessity was replaced with standardised employment. The shift didn't go unnoticed – poet William Blake was among those criticising the "cogs tyrannic" – but it established a narrow blueprint for a "dutiful citizen" which is largely still accepted today.
While capitalism was supposed to save society from having to labour as much, we have never worked more.
But now people are speaking out anew. The gift and sharing economies have grown in response to a system which means many people feel they're unable to give what they want because "there's no money in it". While corporations have long used our money, skills, lives and arguably even relationships and health to build their businesses, many people are now seeking alternative routes toward financially, emotionally, intellectually and spiritually rewarding lives.
"More and more people are searching for freedom from bosses, wages, commuting and consuming, seeking instead the lives we truly want to lead."
Institutions are experimenting with change, too. The city council in the Swedish city of Gothenburg has trialled a programme of six-hour working days, hoping the move could create a healthier and happier workforce. In Japan – where a culture of overwork is particularly ingrained – the government is considering making it a legal requirement for workers to take more days of paid holiday each year.
And in the UK, a YouGov survey last year found that 57 percent of workers would support a four-day week, something championed by the New Economics Foundation. It says a 'normal' 40-hour week is neither natural nor inevitable and insists a shorter, more flexible working week would be good for people, the environment and the economy too.
At the same time, the size of the self-employed workforce in the UK has soared. Self-employed people now account for a record 15 percent of the workforce, totalling more than 4.6m people. While some argue this shift stems from people being unable to find full-time jobs, other surveys suggest people have deliberately chosen this route.
If our needs are to play, love, create and to connect with others and with nature, there seems to be a renewed effort to ask how we can nurture them. How could we better devote our energy and time to the areas of life that work – and money – cannot reach?
Tom Hodgkinson, editor of The Idler and author "We need to increase the time we spend doing voluntary, fun work, or to put it another way: playing."
As William Morris and Bertrand Russell agreed, there are two types of work. One is unpleasant and done solely for money. And the other is creative and feeds our souls. But it is perhaps not the nature of the work, but more the conditions under which it is done, that really matter. The lawyer might well enjoy digging his garden at the weekend. But for an underpaid immigrant working twelve hours a day in the rain, doing the same work, digging, for a gang master, might be seen as unpleasant in the extreme. In the same way, I might enjoy mucking out a stable if I have chosen to do it, and if I own the stable. If I am forced to muck out a stable by an authority, I am very unlikely to enjoy it, even though it is exactly the same job.
This means that work is good if we voluntarily choose to do it. Therefore we all need to consider whether we need to quit our job and get a different one, or quit our job and create our own work life as a self-employed person. If, for whatever reason, this option is simply not practicable, then we ought to make better use of our leisure time. Instead of indulging in television or shopping, we should reclaim our leisure time for creative or useful or intellectually fulfilling pursuits, such as gardening, brewing beer or reading a book. On an individual level, and as a society, we need to reduce the time spent doing unpleasant work under coercion, and increase the time doing voluntary, fun work, or to put it another way: playing."
More information: www.idler.co.uk
D. JoAnne Swanson, founder of Rethinking the Job Culture and whywork.org "An unconditional basic income could free us up to do necessary work without anxiety about paying for our basic necessities."
We can ask provocative questions that call attention to the systemic functions of wage labour. For example: why must we work to "earn a living"? Why should paid jobs be the main means by which income is distributed, and by which most people gain access to necessities like food and shelter? And why – in the US at least – is health insurance tied to paid employment?
'Earning a living' has come to seem inevitable to many people, but there are other ways to live. We could start by giving everyone an unconditional basic income.
So many people hate their jobs, and only endure them so they can put a roof over their head and food on the table. This is not the way we are meant to live! But our coercive system of enforced scarcity ensures that wage labour is the only way most of us can meet our fundamental survival needs.
Most of us want to be useful and do work that uses our gifts, but the system we have now makes that difficult, if not impossible. Certainly there's no shortage of work that needs to be done, but a lot of it is unpaid, and there aren't enough paid jobs to go around even in the best-case scenario. So why try to shoehorn everyone into paid jobs? An unconditional basic income could free us up to do necessary work – and enjoy greater leisure time too – without anxiety about paying for our basic necessities.
More information: www.whywork.org
Sarah Lyall, researcher in the Social Policy team at the New Economics Foundation"Moving to shorter hours would challenge the prevailing assumption that the main purpose of life is to work more to earn more to buy more."
Fewer hours of paid work per person is a guaranteed route to a better, balanced and inclusive labour market in the context of little or no economic growth. Today, the official norm is between 37.5 and 40 hours. No-one is supposed to work more than 48 hours a week, but there are plenty of exceptions to this rule and many opt out and work longer. One in five works more than 45 hours a week. Our proposal is for a new norm of 30 hours, moving over a longer period towards a working week of 21 hours.
Moving to fewer hours would challenge the prevailing assumption that the main purpose of life is to work more to earn more to buy more. It would give us more time to participate in local activities, enjoy our families and friendships, and cultivate creative pursuits. It would reduce the amount of resource-intensive consumption associated with being busy and time-poor, such as processed ready-meals, flying instead of taking the train and travelling by car rather than walking, cycling or taking public transport.
There is no evidence that fewer hours are bad for a country's economic performance as measured by GDP. Indeed, many countries with fewer than average working hours have stronger than average economies. Our research has consistently found that workers on fewer hours tend to be more productive hour-for-hour, while workers who are better able to balance paid employment with unpaid responsibilities have higher wellbeing and constitute a more loyal, stable and committed workforce.
More information: www.neweconomics.org
Justine Roberts, CEO of Mumsnet "We'd like to see companies acknowledge the absolute centrality of family to their employees' lives."
Rather than the 'concept' of work needing to be redefined, we would do better to address the ongoing lack of flexible-working and family-friendly workplaces.
Too often, we hear about parents who feel under pressure to pretend they've no interest at all in starting a family – right up to the point that they have their three-month scan. Rather than perpetuating a situation in which workers feel they have to conceal this side of themselves, we'd like to see companies acknowledge the absolute centrality of family to their employees' lives. A culture in which anyone feels able to discuss their work-life balance with their boss, without fear of losing their job or missing out on a promotion, would increase employee loyalty and job satisfaction no end, and yield rich rewards for everyone.
Whenever we ask Mumsnet users how employers could do better, we always get the same answer: flexibility. More than a third of Mumsnet and Gransnet staff work part-time, or from home at least one day a week. Mobile technology is also making flexible working more possible than ever. Ideally the concept of 'office hours' will become increasingly obsolete and, as everyone's working hours deregulate, mothers who work outside the home and require flexible hours to balance work and family will become less conspicuous; the relative importance of ability over ability-to-stay-in-the-office-after-5pm will increase.
All the evidence suggests that flexible working increases productivity and helps with staff retention. Companies who take the leap are rewarded with dedicated, hard-working and loyal staff.
More information: www.mumsnet.com
Helena Norberg-Hodge, author, filmmaker and director of Local Futures"The worldwide localisation movement supports an economic shift that slows down the 'work and spend' treadmill."
If you're feeling overworked, financially stressed and depressed about the state of the planet, I have some good news for you. Looking at the world through different lenses can help you become a little kinder towards yourself and the rest of humanity.
The new lenses require us to step back and look at our economic system. Through globalisation – the deregulation of trade and finance – governments on both the left and right have supported huge banks and corporations at the expense of our jobs and financial security. As a result, most of us are working longer and longer hours to feed our families and keep a roof over our heads. At the same time, we're bombarded by contradictory messages that tell us that we're to blame for climate chaos and the extinction of species – while simultaneously urging us to consume more and more in order to create jobs and 'grow the economy'.
There is a way out. The worldwide localisation movement supports an economic shift that slows down the 'work and spend' treadmill, uses fewer resources, and reduces CO2 emissions and other pollution. So far, the most successful demonstrations centre on food – farmers' markets, community supported agriculture, edible schoolyards, urban gardens and more. From the USA and China to the UK and South Africa, these initiatives are bringing health back to our soil, our communities and our economies, while creating jobs that provide real meaning and connection. At the same time, local business alliances and local finance are revitalising economic relationships in other sectors of the economy, making them more accountable and responsible to nature and community.
Localisation bridges the artificial divide between healing people and the planet, between the personal and the political: it's the economics of happiness.
More information: www.localfutures.org
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DALLAS – The The Law Offices of Frank L. Branson is proud to announce that firm founder Frank Branson has been honored with the Teddy Roosevelt "Man in the Arena" Award presented by the Association of Plaintiff Interstate Trucking Lawyers of America (APITLA).
The national honor recognizes individuals for their hard work and dedication to promote interstate trucking highway safety.
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Mr. Branson accepted the award during the organization's national conference in St. Louis in September.
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Meet our Mentors / Ben Jordan
Benjamin S. Jordan is the Manufacturing Manager for Centrus Energy's Technology and Manufacturing Center. In this position Mr. Jordan is responsible for ~$50M+ of precision manufacturing equipment including 50 precision CNC machine tools as well as the associated inspection and certification equipment. Mr. Jordan is also responsible for business development in this role.
From 2011 to 2015 Mr. Jordan served as the Demonstration Facility Operations Manager for Centrus Energy's K-1600 Test Facility. In this capacity, he was responsible for the Test Engineering, Operations, and Maintenance required to maintain and operate the full-scale test centrifuges used in the American Centrifuge Program.
From 2009 to 2011 Mr. Jordan served as the Design Engineering and Analysis Manager. The responsibilities of this position included management of USEC's design engineers, who produced the design drawings for the centrifuge machines, as well as the direction of the analysts who used various analysis tools to validate design characteristics and predict outcomes of design modifications. Additionally, Mr. Jordan provided the final signature approval for the mechanical drawings and technical reports produced by the program.
Beginning in 2005, Mr. Jordan served as the Manager of USEC's Manufacturing Development and Integration group. In this capacity, he was responsible for the on-time delivery and high quality construction of components necessary for the development and demonstration of USEC's American Centrifuge. He was responsible for leading the team that provided the hardware necessary to build the first Lead Cascade of machines to operate at the American Centrifuge Plant in Piketon, as well as the hardware for the machines used at the K-1600 Test Facility to demonstrate "Target Performance".
Upon joining USEC in 2003, Mr. Jordan served as the Integrated Product Team Leader for both the Upper Suspension and Column subassemblies. After resolving design challenges associated with these subassemblies, he delivered 66 of each to the American Centrifuge Plant in Piketon on time and within budget. Before coming to USEC, Mr. Jordan performed a variety of engineering and supervisory roles in auto parts manufacturing facilities. Early in his career, Mr. Jordan operated and then sold a business which held rights to a patented technology, which he and several partners developed, to provide deceleration sensitive flashing brake lights.
Mr. Jordan has a Masters of Mechanical Engineering and a Master of Business Administration from the University of Tennessee in Knoxville. He has obtained certification as a Project Management Professional and is a Derivative Classifier of Centrifuge information.
Allie Eskew, Piper Communications
E: Allison@piper-communications.com


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Q: Samba local copy speed & 'insufficient disk space' I have Ubuntu Server 16.04 installed with Samba on another computer in my network. The Ubuntu OS is on a small SSD and I have 2 additional harddrives mounted to /media/drive1 and /media/drive2.
Now I as far as I know I have 2 options in making these drives accessible from my Windows PC:

*

*Make 2 Samba shares, one for each drive

*Make 1 Samba share, of the complete /media/ folder

Currently my goal is to copy data from drive 1 to drive 2 (so locally on the server), from the comfort of Explorer on my Windows desktop.
If I make 2 shares, one for each drive, the local copy speed is simply impossible to work with. It ranges around 20-50 KB/s with rare spikes to 1-1.5 MB/s and every 20 or so seconds it just dies and stalls at 0.
From what I've read I now assume this is because the files first have be copied to my windows desktop and be re-uploaded to the server. I guess that 2 shares aren't interpreted as 'local' anymore. Why it completely stalls out though I don't understand.
If I make 1 share, with the entire /media/ directory, I get problems with 'insufficient disk space' when trying to copy files from drive 1 to drive 2, even though there is plenty space. I can copy 80 GB at a time, but never more than 80 GB at once. The speed when copying this way is normal though, around 70-80 MB/s with some spikes to 90 MB/s +.
I now discovered that this happens because Samba checks the available space on drive of the directory you point at, in this case /media, and this folder is on the small SSD. The SSD only has 80 GB free space, so the math checks out.
So I guess the question is, any way to solve this so I can have the best of 2 worlds? I'd like to be able to copy files within the server from one disk to the other without having these limitations, from the comfort of my desktop windows explorer.
Appendix: This is the template I use to create my shares in smb.conf
The authentication and access and such all work, no issues.
[Drive1]
    comment = Drive1
    path = /media/drive1
    browsable = yes
    guest ok = no
    valid users = @samba
    read only = no
    create mask = 0755

A: It will be nasty workaround:
create file /usr/local/bin/dfree_Drive.sh
#!/bin/bash
df | egrep '/media/drive[0-9]+$' | awk '{total+=$2; avail+=$4; print $0} END{print total, avail}'

and make it executable. Then in share section of your samba configuration add:
    dfree command = /usr/local/bin/dfree_Drive.sh

This solution is nasty, because it lies to client about capacity of shared volume. But as far as I know there is no way to make samba aware of capacity of specific folder (in contrast to volume).

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package main

import (
	"fmt"
	"time"
)

func main() {

	// For our example, suppose we're executing an external
	// call that returns its result on a channel `c1`
	// after 2s. Note that the channel is buffered, so the
	// send in the goroutine is nonblocking. This is a
	// common pattern to prevent goroutine leaks in case the
	// channel is never read.
	c1 := make(chan string, 1)
	go func() {
		time.Sleep(2 * time.Second)
		c1 <- "result 1"
	}()

	// Here's the `select` implementing a timeout.
	// `res := <-c1` awaits the result and `<-Time.After`
	// awaits a value to be sent after the timeout of
	// 1s. Since `select` proceeds with the first
	// receive that's ready, we'll take the timeout case
	// if the operation takes more than the allowed 1s.
	select {
	case res := <-c1:
		fmt.Println(res)
	case <-time.After(1 * time.Second):
		fmt.Println("timeout 1")
	}

	// If we allow a longer timeout of 3s, then the receive
	// from `c2` will succeed and we'll print the result.
	c2 := make(chan string, 1)
	go func() {
		time.Sleep(2 * time.Second)
		c2 <- "result 2"
	}()
	select {
	case res := <-c2:
		fmt.Println(res)
	case <-time.After(3 * time.Second):
		fmt.Println("timeout 2")
	}
}

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Joel Brenner
Temporary Research Fellow
brennerj@mit.edu
Keeping America Safe: Toward More Secure Networks for Critical Sectors
Internet Policy Research Initiative
Report warns of hacking risk to electric grid, oil pipelines, and other critical infrastructure
Security & Cryptography
March 28 '17
MIT experts urge Trump administration to take immediate action on cybersecurity
In a world where hackers can sabotage power plants and impact elections, there has never been a more crucial time to examine cybersecurity for critical infrastructure, most of which is privately owned.According to MIT experts, over the last 25 years presidents from both parties have paid lip service to the topic while doing little about it, leading to a series of short-term fixes they liken to a losing game of "Whac-a-Mole." This scattershot approach, they say, endangers national security.


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Southeastern Connecticut is a premier summer playground, thanks to its beaches, outdoor concerts, Shakespeare in the Park, sailing, al fresco dining, carnivals and countless other warm-weather activities - and the season's entertainment blockbuster, Sailfest, which opens today, promises to pack 'em in.
The highlight, as usual, will be a fireworks extravaganza at 9 p.m. Saturday, billed as the fourth largest pyrotechnics show on the East Coast. There also will be dozens of musical acts performing on various stages throughout the weekend, as well as jugglers, rides for the kids, a road race and assorted vendors hawking T-shirts, balloons, glow sticks and the like.
Every year some curmudgeonly citizens complain about the crowds, the traffic, the high-priced parking or the noise, but we say they should push their way through the City Pier throngs, buy some fried dough, plop down on a bench overlooking the Thames River and chill out.
Those seeking entertainment in a distinctively non-urban setting can, as an alternative, hitch up their wagons and roll over to the 50th annual North Stonington Agricultural Fair for authentic C&W music, tractor pulls, pie-eating and nail-driving contests, and a women's hay-bale toss. Yee-haw!
The fair opened Thursday and continues through Sunday.
And for a completely different experience, consider attending tonight's Amherst Early Music Festival at Connecticut College in New London for a performance of the Baroque opera-ballet of Jean-Philippe Rameau's "Les Indes Glantes." Niantic Community Church also is staging The Golden Gates traditional Russian folk dancing troupe, and the Bean and Leaf in London is putting on a poetry open mic.
Saturday's alternatives to Sailfest include an intergenerational family performance using mask style puppetry by Larry Hunt of Masque Theatre at St. John's Episcopal Church in Niantic, and a horseshoe crab walk at Bluff Point State Park in Groton co-sponsored by the Mystic Aquarium and Denison Pequotsepos Nature Center.
That's what's so great about this region: There really is something for everyone.
Of course, you can always stay home, flip on the tube and watch the ballgame, but what fun is that?


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The SFJFF must-see: Axelle Ropert's beautiful/devastating WOLBERG FAMILY; Q&A with the filmmaker
Of all the films TrustMovies has seen this year, one stands out. Not necessarily because it is the best (it is very, very good, however) but because it manages to somehow get at the heart of parental and family love in a manner unlike most others. THE WOLBERG FAMILY (La Famille Wolberg) is the first full-length movie from writer, sometimes actress and now a director, Axelle Ropert, below, and it is a gem of almost perfect proportion -- small (less than 90 minutes long) bright, beautiful -- whose facets illuminate some unusual people and events.
There is a melancholy to the movie (from its present-day winter setting in France's northern Basque country to its soundtrack of American "soul" songs) that is rich and deeply-felt, yet it is consistently jolted into active life by the quirky characters on view and their fascinating, intelligent dialog. The family under the microscope is a highly intelligent one: Its members talk smart, think smart and act smart, but without undue pretension. This is simply who they are, and it's a pleasure to see a family of intellectuals brought to such alert, unapologetic life.
The father, the film's pivotal figure, is Mayor of the town. His family consists of his own widowed father, a wife, her suddenly reappearing brother, and two children. The outer circle includes the father's workplace assistant, the family doctor, and a "blond" (not quite what you will expect). Few things happen in the movie but what does is enough to keep you thoroughly engrossed.
The theme here is how to protect those you love. The Holocaust hangs over the film (well, the family is Jewish), though it is hardly mentioned, yet the cultural references are just as likely to be American as French. As our understanding of the situation grows (Ms Ropert does a sterling job of parsing her exposition/information cleverly and correctly), so does our appreciation of all the charac-
ters, as well as the travails that each is going through. Toward the finale, my companion murmured aloud, "My god, he gets right to it!" He was speaking of the father's words at that moment but also of the manner in which Ropert has brought us to the point where we understand and feel this man's pain and desire in our very gut.
I admit that much of my fascination with The Wolberg Family lies in my identification with the father and his need to protect his family above all else -- at the same time as he knows that he cannot. The film speaks to all parents who try yet fail to do this. Despite our best intentions (even our most stupid mistakes), the situation is finally, at a certain level, out of our hands. Ropert captures the moment -- and its attendant pain -- when the father give vent to this, and in doing so her film achieves a level of greatness.
When Ms Ropert's movie made its New York debut last March, as part of the Film Society of Lincoln Center's Rendez-vous with French Cinema, I spoke with the filmmaker, who told me that it appeared her movie would indeed have a U.S. release. Now, according to its distributor, Pyramide International, this is not to be. So these festival screenings may be the only chance Americans will have to see it. Fortunately, the SFJFF has scheduled four screenings of the film during the coming days: Monday, July 26, at 2:15pm in the Castro Theatre; Tuesday, August 3, at 6pm in the CineArts, Palo Alto Square; Thursday, August 5, at 6:30 in the Roda (Berkeley Rep) Theatre; and Saturday, August 7, at 6:45 in the Smith Rafael Film Center. Click here for ticket information.
In the following interview, which took place last March during the film's premiere at the FSLC's Rendezvous-With French Cinema, TrustMovie's questions appears in boldface, and writer/director Axelle Ropert's answers in standard type:
I really loved your film – really loved it.
So I just wanted to have ten minutes with whomever it was who made this film. I wasn't even sure if it was a man or a woman—
(Axelle laughs)
--but then I noticed there was an "e" on the end of your name. So, I figured it was a woman.
Yes. With only one "l" and no "e" at the end, it would be a man.
So then I went on the IMDB and discovered that you also co-wrote La France.
Actually, I wrote La France all alone; I am the only scriptwriter on that film. I've known Serge Bozon for a long time, and we always work together.
That's interesting because I don't find a lot in common with those two movies, so I would never have imagined that the same person wrote them both. I liked them both, but I liked Wolberg so much more. I kept trying to "get" La France, but finally I couldn't. With Wolberg, I really felt like I "got" it. Do you think La France (a still from that film is shown below) is very different from Wolberg because the former is directed by a man?
I think it is very different because, even though Segre and I really like the same types of films to watch, we are very different when it comes to the kind of films we want to make. It's sort of... well, Serge Bozon, like many men, is not so interested in psychology, but I, like many women, am!
Understandable. And that comes through very strongly in your film. The photography was really gorgeous, too, and I looked up who did it, and it seemed like the same person did several of the movies that are here at this year's Rendez-vous: Regrets, Restless and your film
Yes, it was Céline Bozon, the sister of Serge. I work a lot with her. She is a young DP, 35 years old, and she is very talented.
Is 35 that young? Well, to me it is!
She's had a lot of experience. She's been working for about ten years.
And the music! I forgot to mention this in my (original) review, but it is wonderful! Yours is now one of my favorite soundtracks. Where did this come from? Did you love all these songs to begin with?
I really love American "Soul." This is my favorite kind of music. If I put it into the film it is because I feel that it is music that is very melancholy but also very commercial. For me it is such a complicated equation -- to create films that are both melancholic and commercial -- this is what really fascinated me.
How do you create a commercial film? How do you know?
Well, my film is not very commercial. It was really important for me that each audience member would have his or her own say about the film. Because family is something that is common to all of us. And because I also really strove to create in this father figure someone that you are not quite sure if you are supposed to love or hate.
Oh, no! You love him -- but you feel very sad for him.
There are audience members who really hate him.
Really?! I didn't hate anyone in the film. I loved everyone. That is so strange. The performances were all so, like, on point, like in ballet or something. I thought your movie was exceptional: a marriage of you and the performers. Everyone is so bright. And it was wonderful to see Jean-Luc Bideau again. I remember him from Jonah Who Will Be 25 in the year 2000 -- when he was a much younger man.
Also, for me the Holocaust hung over the movie without ever being overtly mentioned. I wondered if, on some level, this was why the father was trying so hard to protect everybody.
The Holocaust is like a ghost for me in the film. I think the father figure doesn't ever realize this. He is sort of inhabited by this ghost.
That is how I felt about it. It is not even brought up in the film.
There is a joke made in the film between the father and the brother-in-law – a very strange joke about Auschwitz: an awful joke.
I don't remember this. So I must see your movie again. Does it have a distributor yet? I will make sure that everyone I know goes out to see this movie. But I can't if it does not have a distributor.
In the USA, we are in negotiations for a distributor.
So it looks good at this point?
Yes. And a DVD of the film will be available on line in about a month.
With English subtitles?
Oh, yes.
(Note: This does not seem to have happened yet. As of now, the French distributor of the film, Pyramide International, says that there is no distributor in the USA.)
It would be great if it had a theatrical release. It is such a beautiful film to see. And on the big screen! (Axelle nods, yes) So—what are you going to do next?
A romantic comedy, and again, very much inspired by the work of James L. Brooks.
Oh, good—we have not seen much by him lately! Spanglish, but it was a flop here, yet it was a wonderful film. Was that movie successful in France?
How did your film do it France?
Excellent. People actually went to see it and liked it.
So it was commercial!
Well, on its own scale. Which was small. But the critics were raving about it, and it received excellent reviews.
So the next one will be a romantic comedy after a type of James L. Brooks film?
Yes, (she laughs) and there will be no Jews in the film! I try to do not a Jewish movie next time.
It's funny, but even though I say the Holocaust hung over your film, I did not find it such a Jewish movie. The Jewish part of it was not as important as the family part. That's one with which I think audiences can easily identify. You do not have to be Jewish to identify with the adultery part, or with the woman's side, the man's side, or the children's. Even the brother-in-law. Everybody registers so strongly and truly – yet they are all a bit bizarre. Not bad bizarre. You think, gee, I have never seen people quite like this before, but I absolutely believe who they are!
I think what is strange in them is that they are absolutely inhabited by the passion they have for their next of kin. Nowadays in life, people tend to be passionate about their lovers…
Or their work.
But not about their wife, and their children, even the brother-in-law. This is rather strange.
Is this because…? Does the wife feel too protected, too loved? Is that why she must strike out on her own?
It is a very tyrannical kind of life, in a way.
Maybe good for the kids but not so much for the wife.
With the ghost of the Holocaust, love is supposed to build a kind of a wall around the family. But it is difficult to live when you are surrounded by a wall.
It is hard to build impregnable walls, too, because things like sickness, as you show, can come in and tear down that wall. So, in one month the film will be available on DVD.
Via Films Pelleas. This is the name of my producer.
Do you have anything to say that journalists never ask you but that you would like to talk about?
I like to say that my film is just as French as it is American. Because, for me, the USA has sort of been my second cinema homeland. I have been really, really, deeply influence by all of Jewish-American culture.
Are you Jewish?
A little. Only by my mother.
Oh, well then you are officially Jewish, right? My ex-wife is Jewish, so my daughter is Jewish. But you cannot live with Jews, I think, and not become somewhat Jewish.
Yes! (We laugh.)
What filmmakers in particular have influenced you?
In the classics, two of them: Vincente Minnelli and Richard Quine – for a movie that is not very famous in France -- Strangers When We Meet.
Oh, yes, Kim Novak and Kirk Douglas!
I love this movie, and it was very important for The Family Wolberg!
Wow-- really?
Oh, yes! Yes, the story between a married woman and a married man.
I saw that when I was like 17 or 18, when it first came out. And I wasn't too crazy about it.
It is not a movie for teenagers, but for adults. Very sad, very bitter. Very strange about how it affects us.
I am definitely going to watch that one again! (Since this interview, I have watched Strangers When We Meet again, and oh, yes, I can see what Axelle means -- and where the influences come from.)
But these influences are all very indirect. And with Minnelli, I really love his films that deal with the love that parents have for their children. For instance, Meet Me in St Louis!
And there is a movie with Glenn Ford as a widower, and his son is played by Ron Howard…
(Note: It's The Courtship of Eddie's Father: I looked it up post-interview on the IMDB)
I can't think of anything else to ask right now, and I see that our time is up. I don't know when I will post this interview, but it will be whenever the movie comes out for either theatrical release or on DVD or Streaming.
And thank you so much, Axelle. I will look forward to seeing The Wolberg Family again, just as soon as I can.
(And I must thank the SFJFF for giving me that opportunity to see the film again. I think it is extraordinary, in its own quiet way, so I hope moviegoers who live in the San Francisco area will take advantage of the four SFJFF showings of this film and see it now.)
Labels: Axelle Ropert, family stories, French films, Jewish films, rich deep feeling movies, The Wolberg Family
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An Bord Pleanála (The Planning Board) is the national planning appeals board. It is an independent body which was set up by the Government to operate an open and impartial planning appeal system.
Anyone applying for planning permission and anyone who made written submissions or observations to the planning authority on a planning application, can appeal a subsequent planning decision to An Bord Pleanála.
The Board deals with planning appeals, other appeals, referrals, local authority infrastructural projects, compulsory acquisition of land and certain other matters under the Planning and Development Acts 2000–2011. It is responsible for determining appeals under the Building Control Act 1990; the Local Government (Water Pollution) Acts 1977–1990; and the Air Pollution Act 1987. The Board also advises the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government on planning and development policy.
The membership of the Board is determined by the Planning and Development Acts 2000–2011. A Chairperson of the Board, holds office for 7 years and may be re-appointed for a second or subsequent term of office. The Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government appoints 9 other Board members. Eight are selected by 4 groups of organisations representing professional, environmental, development, local government, rural and local development and general interests. One member of the Board is a civil servant appointed by the Minister. Board members normally hold office for 5 years and may be re-appointed for a second or subsequent term. The Planning and Development Act 2000 allows for more Board members to be appointed, if the volume of cases makes this necessary. They are supported by an administrative staff and a professional staff of planning officers and planning inspectors.
Under the Planning Acts 2000, it is an offence to try and influence the decision of any member of the Board in relation to a planning appeal. There are also legal obligations on members of the Board, its employees and consultants to declare certain interests. This is to avoid any conflict of interest arising during the appeal process. The Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government has the authority to make decisions about general planning and development policy and the Board must take them into account when making their decisions. However, the Minister cannot influence the Board in relation to a particular appeal.
To make sure that all the Board's decisions are fair and impartial, no one person can make decisions about a planning appeal. The quorum for the Board is three members and if the case is particularly sensitive or complex, all members are normally involved in the decision-making process.
The Board only make their decision after they have studied all the evidence. This includes submissions from the public and the planning inspector's report and recommendation. In most cases, the decision of the Board follows the recommendation of the planning inspector but this is not always the case. If the Board's decision differs from the inspector's recommendation, the Board must give reasons for this in their decision order. The Board can dismiss an appeal if it decides that it is based on non-planning considerations, such as personal grievances or attempts to delay a development.
The Board aims to make a decision on an appeal within 18 weeks. Due to the large number of planning appeals it receives, it is not always possible to meet this deadline. If this is the case, it will inform all parties to the appeal.
Once a decision is reached in a planning appeal, the Board will not discuss the pros and cons of the decision. All decisions are final and can only be challenged by judicial review in the High Court. This process will judge whether the Board followed due process in reaching its decision and will not include an examination of the planning merits.
In certain cases, a planning inspector will hold an oral hearing. This may be at the request of a valid appellant or it may be the decision of the inspector. An oral hearing is generally only held if it will help the inspector to understand a particularly complex case, or if there are significant national or local issues involved. Some oral hearings are held to determine the motives behind an appeal. The inspector will decide on the order of the speakers and the hearing is usually quite informal.
The Board must make sure that all planning decisions stick to principles of proper planning and sustainable development. If they feel that a planning authority has not taken these principles into sufficient consideration, the Board has the authority to go against the provisions of a development plan. Generally, this would only happen where the proposed development is of local or national importance. The Board tries to strike a balance between environmental and economic considerations when they are determining appeals. In exceptional cases, they will take issues of economic development and job creation into account when making a decision.
The Board aims to make the planning process as open as possible. The entire file on an appeal can be inspected by any member of the public for at least 5 years starting on the third working day after the appeal is decided. A copy of the Board's order and direction and the inspector's report is also available.
The fee for making an appeal depends on the type of case and the relevant legislation.
Find out more about getting planning permission and how to make a planning appeal.
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Used Python:
Not for Sale — Ever!
Dave lights 'em up at a past Elmer Keith shoot near Spokane
with his Model 57 S&W. It's not for sale at any price!
The rubber duck decoy was about 250 yards away floating in a pond downhill from the back door of the clubhouse, where a couple of guys were banging away at it with a scoped, bolt-action rifle as I drove up.
Walking over to ascertain the situation, the property owner — it was his wide-open field in which the pond had been created for seasonal waterfowl shooting — told me the distance. I looked at the deke, told the guys I'd be right back and strolled out to the truck to retrieve a plastic tackle box inside of which was a well-sighted circa-1980 Colt Python with its 6" barrel and about two dozen .357 Magnum handloads consisting of 125-grain JHP bullets, propelled by a healthy dose of — if I recall correctly — then-Hercules 2400.
Using a two-hand hold, I touched off one round, watched to see the splash, adjusted my aim accordingly and with the second round, the rubber duck jumped out of the water. The third shot whacked it at the waterline. The fourth effort missed, and I prudently put the gun away. The point had been made.
You don't sell such a handgun — you baby it, maintain it, keep it well-oiled and wiped down, and someday you pass it along to a son or daughter.
A couple of years ago, I visited with a buddy at a gun show and on his display table was a Python in about the same condition as mine and he was asking $4,000 for it. A couple of hours later, he got it, and far as I could tell, it was not accompanied by the original box. Mine is, and it sits in that box as you read this, locked in a gun safe but ready to rock. None of my firearms are a show horse. They all taste gunpowder on occasion.
When I first acquired the Python, I was visiting my aunt and uncle and told him, "I bought a Python." His eyes lit up and he wanted to see it. Naturally, I had it in the car and brought it inside. He spent the next 45 minutes or so allowing his hand to get the feel of it, occasionally carefully cocking and uncocking the revolver slowly, listening to the clicking of the action.
There is something about the Python, or maybe a lot of somethings. I've had other guys tell me they've had theirs re-timed, but I must be lucky because no such problem has ever reared its head with my Colt. Maybe it's because I don't use maximum loads just to see how much punishment the frame will take
At the gun range, other shooters occasionally ogle the Python, ask politely to pick it up or maybe just drool. On the rare occasion somebody asks what I might take for it, a simple shake of the head is all the reply they get.
This Python is the gun I posed with for a photo appearing in the newest edition of the Nosler Reloading Guide, where I was honored to write about the .357 Magnum.
I carried it on a few hunting treks, once posing with it and an unlucky cottontail rabbit for publication in an outdoor newspaper where I worked at the time. By then, I had discovered the Python really liked a .38 Special load I had worked up using a 158-grain lead SWC launched by a moderate charge of Hodgdon's HP-38, the same load I occasionally used in matches at the time.
A couple of years earlier, I'd purchased a 6" Model 57 Smith & Wesson in .41 Magnum. It too proved to be accurate with the right load — in my case a 210-grain Nosler JHP ahead of 20.0 grains of H110 ignited by a magnum CCI primer — and it's the gun that has gone with me to several annual Elmer Keith Memorial long range handgun shoots southwest of Spokane. It's an invitational event, at which some of the finest unknown long-range sixgunners I've ever met gather for a Saturday of camaraderie, potluck food, a silent auction and awards. Proceeds from this event go to support the National Rifle Association Foundation and Second Amendment Foundation.
Twice, I've been out-scored by Debbie Ditunno, who also uses a Model 57, with handloads brewed up by hubby, Ed. Not ashamed to acknowledge her ability with a good revolver of the same caliber, with the same barrel length. I doubt her gun is for sale, either.
Indeed, it's not surprising to be awestruck by some of the marksmanship on display at these events. You meet some of the nicest people at shooting matches and at such gatherings, you get to break bread, eat hot dogs, barbecued chicken, potluck beans and share tales. If you've never been to such a shooting match, find one or start your own.
At the most recent shoot in 2019, I watched a couple of guys pull apart an N-frame S&W and replace a spring with the same part out of another gun, using my truck tailgate as their workbench. It was no big deal. One of these guys had a compartmentalized parts box with some tools and I think they had fun tinkering just so one of them could compete.
Targets are placed anywhere from 100 to 600 yards, the farthest positioned to duplicate the shot Keith made on an Idaho mule deer buck some years ago with a S&W in .44 Magnum with a 6" barrel (according to a photo in "Hell, I Was There!"). Everybody tries his or her luck on that far target and I once actually hit it during a practice round on the evening prior to match day. It required some walking of my shots because at 600 yards, a handgun bullet has a trajectory arc that makes Keith's hit on that buck one of the luckiest bits of shooting with iron sights I've ever heard or read about.
I've fired the Python during practice sessions at this event, but I always defer to the .41 Magnum for scoring relays.
For long-range work, the 6- to 7 ½" barrel seems to be the right length. That appears to be the consensus at these gatherings. Alas, for the second year in a row thanks to the COVID-19 pandemic panic, the Elmer Keith has been cancelled. But I expect it to be back with a bang in 2022.
With any luck, I'll be there with the Model 57 and the Python, a comfortable chair and enough ammunition to make it a memorable occasion.


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Transient Traders Licence
>> Town Hall >> Clerk's Office >> Transient Traders Licence
Sample Message when a Transient Trader Licence is issued
The Town of Petawawa has granted a transient traders licence to (insert company name). The licence permits them to canvass door-to-door in Petawawa from (start date to end date).
The issuance of this licence by the Town of Petawawa in no way guarantees or endorses the goods, wares, merchandise or services being provided by the licence holder.
Council of the Town of Petawawa implemented a Transient Trader licence in order to ensure that out-of-town businesses that were operating a door-to-door sales campaign were registered and approved by the Town. This has been enacted through our Transient Trader By-Law. All non-Petawawa businesses that operate in this manner are required to complete the Transient Trader documentation and provide all additional information as requested in the Transient Trader By-Law.
This process allows staff to review the business and product to ensure that they are permitted to operate and conduct business in this manner. It also allows staff the opportunity to make a posting on our website that advises residents that the business has in fact registered with the Town and will be in the community for a specified length of time.
Any business that fails to undergo this process is in violation and will be reported to the Ontario Provincial Police and/or ticketed by our By-law Enforcement Officer.
To communicate with the Clerk's Department, please call 613-687-5536 ext 2003.
Ontario Ban on Door-to-Door Sales in Effect as of March 1st
New Law will Protect Consumers at Home
February 23, 2018 10:00 A.M.
As of March 1, 2018, Ontario has banned unsolicited, door-to-door sales of certain household appliances to better protect the consumer from aggressive and misleading contracting at home. Please see the attached communication from the Ministry of Government and Consumer Services regarding the new law and the list of household appliances included in the ban. If you wish to report a violation of this law please contact Consumer Protection Ontario at 1-800-889-9768.
Businesses will only be able to enter into a contract in the consumer's home if the consumer has contacted the business ahead of time and invited them into their home for the purpose of entering into a contract. Contracts that are in violation of the new rules relating to door-to-door contract solicitation will be considered void, and consumers will be able to keep the goods and services with no obligations.
The new rules will apply to:
Duct cleaning services
Water treatment devices
Bundles of these goods and services
In addition, businesses will be required to keep a record of how contact with the consumer entering the contract was made, and all contracts signed in the home for these goods and services will also have a 10-day cooling-off period, allowing consumers to cancel the contract for any reason without penalty.
Protecting consumers is part of Ontario's plan to create fairness and opportunity during this period of rapid economic change. The plan includes a higher minimum wage and better working conditions, free tuition for hundreds of thousands of students, easier access to affordable child care, and free prescription drugs for everyone under 25 through the biggest expansion of Medicare in a generation.
"These new laws will ensure that people aren't being taken advantage of through unsolicited door-to-door contracting. We have heard from many consumers, including many seniors, who are being taken advantage of at their doorsteps. Our government is taking steps to protect Ontario consumers and provide them with more protection against aggressive and misleading door-to-door contracting tactics so that they can enjoy peace of mind in their homes."
Tracy MacCharles Minister of Government and Consumer Services
Door-to-door contracts have been among the top complaints received by the Ministry of Government and Consumer Services.
Ontario is the second province in Canada to restrict door-to-door solicitation and contracts.
If a consumer calls for a repair, maintenance or any other reason, businesses will onlybe allowed to leave information about the products and services they offer, unless the business has a written contract in place with the consumer and secures the consumer's approval in advance of the visit to solicit a contract for the restricted goods or services.
Businesses will need to keep a record of how contact with the consumer was made and provide consumers with clear information about their rights.
Know your rights about door-to-door contracts.


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Persistent sex disparities in implantable cardioverter-defibrillator therapy. Academic Article
Clinical guidelines recommend cardioverter defibrillator implantation for patients with heart failure and reduced ejection fraction. Despite this, women and minorities have been less likely to receive implantable cardioverter-defibrillator (ICD) therapy than white men. We examined race and sex differences in ICD implantation in a recent cohort.Using cross-sectional, retrospective analyses, we mined our health system's outpatient electronic medical records to assess age, race, sex, medications, and comorbidities for patients aged ≥18 years with ejection fraction ≤ 35% during 2014. While adjusting for confounding variables such as medications, age, and comorbidities, we conducted a multivariable logistic regression assessing whether racial and sex differences in ICD therapy persist.Among 5,156 outpatients with ejection fraction ≤35%, 1,681 (32.6%) patients had an ICD present at the time of their index outpatient visit in 2014. Women were less likely to have an ICD than men (25.0% vs 36.3%, P < 0.01), and black patients were less likely to have an ICD than white patients (28.0% vs 33.2%, P = 0.02). In adjusted multivariable analyses, women were less like to have ICDs (adjusted odds ratio [OR] = 0.68, 95% confidence interval [CI], 0.58-0.79, P < 0.01) but the race difference dissipated (adjusted OR for black race = 0.86, 95% CI, 0.68-1.08, P = 0.18).In this large, outpatient cohort, we have shown that sex differences in ICD therapy continue to exist, but the difference in ICD prevalence by race was attenuated. Dedicated studies are required to fully understand the causes of persistent sex differences in ICD therapy.© 2018 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.
Adhikari, Shubash
Althouse, Andrew D
Dalia, Samir
Frost, Floyd
Hausmann, Leslie R M
Johnson, Jameel R
Koscumb, Stephen
Marroquin, Oscar C
Myaskovsky, Larissa
Pacing and clinical electrophysiology : PACE Journal
Defibrillators, Implantable
Practice Guidelines as Topic
https://doi.org/10.1111/pace.13435


LAF is searching for a law student or recent law graduate to help staff a Juvenile Expungement Help Desk. The Law Clerk will have the unique opportunity to gain experience in direct legal services and empower people by providing them the skills to gain access to the legal system. The law clerk will advise clients on juvenile expungement law, how to file juvenile expungement petitions and how to represent themselves in court proceedings.
Length of Commitment: At least 4 months, 2 semester commitment preferred.
The law clerk will be responsible for working at the help desk located at the Cook County Juvenile Court House one morning per week (either Tuesday or Thursday morning) and conduct expungement related work at LAF's main office one morning or afternoon per week. The intern may participate in expungement and criminal record related community outreach. If interested, the intern may also work on other legal issues (divorce, special education, orders of protection) in the Children and Family Practice Group.
Applicants should be a 2L, 3L or law school graduate. Applicants should be self-starters who are interested in developing experience working directly with clients. Applicants must be detail oriented and able to follow directions well. Anyone interested in public interest law, working with high-risk youth, or the practice of law with community outreach will find this position very rewarding. Applicants must be sensitive to difficulties faced by members of Chicago's low income communities.
This position is unpaid, but may be eligible for class credit.
Applications: Email your cover letter and resume to Lizzy Ullman at eullman@lafchicago.org Put the phrase "Juvenile Expungement Law Clerk" on the subject line of the e-mail. No phone calls, please.


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            width: 32,
            height: 32
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        // Set layer
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        // Update even when outside viewport
        this.alwaysUpdate = true;

        //for easy reload
        this.type = "sorcerer";
        // Set movement speed (fastest in game)
        this.body.setVelocity(.5, .5);
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        this.base_y = base_y;
        // Possible AI instructions
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        this.goToBaseOne = false;
        this.goToBaseTwo = false;
        this.goToBaseThree = false;
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        this.renderable.setCurrentAnimation("idle");
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            this.maxHealth = 150;
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                this.body.vel.y = 0;
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                this.body.vel.y != 0);
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        this.renderable.addAnimation("idle", [0, 1, 2, 0, 1, 2, 0, 1, 2, 3, 4,
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        this.renderable.addAnimation("move", [15, 16, 17], 200);
    },
    // Use correct animation based on current movement
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        if(this.body.vel.x != 0 || this.body.vel.y != 0){
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                this.renderable.flipX(false);
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                this.renderable.flipX(true);
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                this.renderable.setCurrentAnimation("move");
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        }else{
            if(!this.renderable.isCurrentAnimation("idle")){
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    onCollision : function(response, other){
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Under Ramanan's leadership Atal Innovation Mission has introduced game changing education initiatives like launching thousands of state of the art Atal Tinkering Labs in schools across the countries and over a hundred incubators fostering innovative Startups in various sectors.
R Ramanan was previously Managing Director & Chief Executive Officer and a member of the Board of Directors of CMC Ltd., a subsidiary of the globally acclaimed Tata Consultancy Services (TCS).
Ramanan's illustrious career in the IT industry spans more than three decades when he joined TCS in 1981 after graduating from IIT Bombay in Electrical Engineering.


Last weekend, Veuve Clicquot's version of an adult treasure hunt popped up on Aspen Mountain. The champagne tent and mobile bar appears at different locations on the ski mountain on the weekend, and riders are encouraged to ski up and sip on-mountain bubbly in the sun. Look for the Oasis on sunny weekends to come this spring, and in the meantime, check out pictures and video here.