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Having complete control of the technical and facility management of your portfolio can lead to huge cost savings. Fortrus is the strategic partner for the management and maintenance of your properties. Fortrus is a market leader managing 6000 properties including office buildings, shopping malls, airports, logistics centres and 3500 homes. The total portfolio includes about five million square metres of real estate.
Fortrus provides effective property management following a one-stop-shop concept. You have complete control of long-term maintenance, calamities, periodic inspections, sustainability, certifications and administration at low cost.
Anyone wanting total control of the management of their property portfolio and the advantages of a professional support organisation will find Fortrus to be an innovative and reliable partner. Fortrus has over 20 years' experience in managing and maintaining real estate within a nationally distributed portfolio. A high degree of automation is characteristic of Fortrus' way of working. The company constantly develops new solutions in order to meet the current needs. Unique property management concepts ensure effective management and cost reduction.
Fortrus recommends, implements and provides the tactical and/or operational management of your portfolio. Fortrus utilises its nationwide network of consultant for the execution of work. These companies are frequently tested for quality and performance. Your own suppliers could also be added to this network.
In technical and facility management no two situations are the same. Fortrus analyses each situation and needs in detail and develops a tailored approach based on scales of efficiency. Work procedures are reduced to a minimum. There are no inefficient man hours and no bureaucracy or unnecessary paperwork. The management chain is kept as short as possible. Fewer error messages need to be handled by phone and there is more automation and online management. Fortrus' Way of Life stands for maximum efficiency in property management.
The Fortrus team consists of approximately 35 enthusiastic professionals with a broad knowledge and practical but also customer-oriented perspective on the business. Architectural and installation engineers, NEN2767 Inspectors, EPA and EPA – U W-Advisors, BREEAM Experts, Facilities specialists, programmers and administrators are included in the team. All Fortrus employees are educated to college or university level and have extensive practical experience.
Fortrus is an established name in the real estate world. A large number of well-known real estate owners, users and tenants, property managers, insurance companies and service organizations in the Netherlands have been using our products and services for the last 20 years.
Fortrus views sustainability as integral to company policy, the service provided to clients and management of its own offices. Attention is paid to environmental issues, health and safety and energy consumption. Fortrus works in accordance with environmental management policy BS EN ISO 14001.
If you have any questions about BREEAM (new and existing buildings) and EPA-U (residential and commercial buildings), our advisors will be happy to talk to you.
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Student protests against tuition increases at the 10-campus University of California system pushed Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger to announce on Tuesday an initiative to guarantee that the state spends more on universities than it does on prisons.
The central role of student protests is not just my theory; it's the explanation offered by the governor's own chief of staff. "Those protests on the U.C. campuses were the tipping point" for the governor, Susan Kennedy said in an interview with the New York Times.
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Lapeirousia arenicola is a species of flowering plant in the genus Lapeirousia. It is endemic to the Northern Cape and Western Cape of South Africa.

Conservation status
Lapeirousia arenicola is classified as Least Concern as the population trend is stable.

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Flora of South Africa
Flora of the Cape Provinces
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'The OA' Part II Trailer Arrives, Release Date Finally Announced
The OA Part II Trailer Arrives, Release Date Finally Announced
Jump into a new dimension. The long awaited trailer for The OA Part II has finally arrived after waiting three long years. Netflix has announced that all-new episodes are being streamed globally starting Friday, March 22.
The "mind-bending" story returns with The OA Part II, which follows OA as she navigates a new dimension, one in which she had a completely different life as a Russian heiress, and one in which she once again finds herself as Hap's captive. Part II introduces Karim Washington, a private detective tasked with finding a missing teen, Michelle Vu.
His path crosses with OA, as they try to solve the mystery of Michelle's whereabouts and a house on Nob Hill connected to the disappearance of several teenagers. Meanwhile, back in the first dimension, BBA, Angie and the boys find themselves on a journey to understand the truth behind OA's story and the incredible realities she described.
Related: The OA Gets Renewed for Season 2 on Netflix
Creators Brit Marling and Zal Batmanglij once again return to finish the story they started with the captivating first season of the hit Netflix series. They are executive producing alongside Michael Sugar, Brad Pitt, Dede Gardner, Jeremy Kleiner, Sarah Esberg. Aida Rogers will serve as producer.
The returning cast includes Brit Marling, Jason Isaacs, Kingsley Ben-Adir, Emory Cohen, Patrick Gibson, Phyllis Smith, Sharon Van Etten, Will Brill, Brendan Meyer, Ian Alexander, Brandon Perea and Chloë Levine. New guest stars added to this season are Paz Vega, Irene Jacob, Vincent Kartheiser, Sheila Vand, Riz Ahmed.
The OA was renewed for a second season way back in March 2017. But it has taken Brit Marling and Zal Batmanglij quite a bit of time to get the characters and story just right in continuing this trippy sci-fi tinged drama. Back in November of last year, Marling had this to say about the process.
"TV shows are created on a yearly cycle primarily because they function off a pattern narrative. The show creator acts as a master tailor, she crafts the pattern for the original garment (pilot). Then other great tailors come in and create new garments out of this same pattern. This allows for creation with great speed and also familiarity, which is one of the things we all love about great TV. Our chapters vary in length, scope, and even genre. There is no pattern. As a result, at every step along the way nothing can be imitated, it has to be invented. The same is true for editing. An editor may solve how best to cut chapter 3, but that learning curve doesn't apply to chapter 5, which is a completely different genre of storytelling."
Well, the long wait is over and new episodes will be here soon. Thanks to Netflix streaming Youtube Channel for a first look at the trailer and the poster. March 22 can't get here soon enough.
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The OA Gets Renewed for Season 2 on Netflix
Why Netflix's The OA Is Better Than Stranger Things

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Changsha Ferris Wheel is a -tall giant Ferris wheel in Changsha, Hunan, China that has a diameter of . It is adjacent to Helong Stadium.

It was completed on September 30, 2004, and officially opened to the public on October 1, 2004.

Changsha Ferris Wheel is one of four 120 m Ferris wheels in China, the other three being Suzhou Ferris Wheel (completed 2009), Tianjin Eye (completed 2008), and Zhengzhou Ferris Wheel (completed 2003). The only Chinese Ferris wheel with a greater height is the -tall Star of Nanchang, which opened in 2006.

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Buildings and structures in Changsha


Just a reminder that we are continually taking donations for our Resale Center in Plano: 2540 K Ave | Suite 200 | Plano, TX 75074. This is a place where soldiers can receive any items they need free of charge. More information can be found under "OPERATION LOGISTICS-DROP" on our Special Ops page.
Also, Brandon's Soldier Store, where soldiers can also receive donated goods, will be opening soon in Fort Hood. We are putting a grant together for a million dollars that will be submitted in March to help make this happen. More information about Brandon Barta, his legacy and the store can be found on Brandon's Million Dollar Wii site.


This bridle is hand crafted with the very best top quality leather to the highest exacting standards. The IR bridle's innovation and design have considered comfort for the horse and how to improve communication between horse and rider. It has a shaped padded poll, which cleverly allows for your horse to move his ears without any restriction or discomfort. It was very noticeable that my horse relaxed much more wearing this bridle and in turn worked in a soft outline. This bridle stands out from the crowd, so if you are looking for a quality bridle that will give you and your horse years of pleasure then you will not be disappointed with the Jeffries IR. The attention to detail is outstanding.


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Why Is Dental Care Sometimes More Difficult for Your Elderly Loved-One?
Homecare in Maui HI: Managing her own dental care can be more difficult for your elderly family member than it has been in the past, but you might not fully understand why. Figuring out what to do for your senior can take a little bit of trial and error.


It is a modern technique and it was not very popular in the previous generations. High key technique is used to eliminate shadow areas and bringing in more light into the camera to create cheerful and pleasant images; on the histogram, you would find majority of pixels on the highlight zone.
Select a scene that is appropriate for applying high key technique. The scenes should have lower levels of mid tones and dark tones.
Identify the subject with bright non-distracting background. You can use the bright sky as the background.
Over expose the image by 1 or 2 stops.
Place the focus point on the subject and click the image.
If you notice any tiny patches or variation in tones in the background, that can be fixed at post processing level.
Low key photography is about taking an image of a subject with everything around it dark. A low key photograph has most of the pixels in shadow area, the bigger portion of the image is dark and only the subject or a portion of the subject is well lit. Low key lighting condition creates attractive contrasts and can be taken indoors and in natural lighting conditions as well.
The background should be two to three stops darker than the subject and the background should be in shadow.
The sunlight should be falling on the subject.
Spot or partial metering mode will be appropriate.
Underexpose the background by 1 or 2 spots.
Adjust and control the light flowing into the camera the shadows fall around the subject completely as you have visualised it.
If there are minor details visible in the background, adjust the level sliders in Photoshop till you get a complete dark background.


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Q: Replace Field with Property using System.Reflection.Emit namespace? I'm trying to figure out a way to use the Reflection.Emit namespace to remove a field and replace it with my own Property implementation. I've been reading on how to generate code using Emit and writing and compiling IL code directly, but I haven't seen any examples on how to do a replace or remove using the Reflection.Emit namespace; Can anyone show me any examples of something along those lines?
Thanks.

A: To my knowledge this is impossible in the CLR. I don't even think you could amend a type once it has been loaded. Depending on how you plan to use the property, you could possibly use either a custom TypeDescriptor (components use this to dynamically extend properties such as the ToolTip component in Windows Forms) or you may be able to use DependencyProperty. But as for plain old late binding to a new or modified member of a loaded type, I don't think that's possible.
Why not use the Assembly.ReflectionOnlyLoadFrom to load the DLL prior to loading the assembly into the AppDomain then emit a new type with the dynamically generated type in memory and then load that?

A: You might try looking into Aspect Oriented Programming with Postsharp.
I have never used Postsharp, so I have no specific ideas on how exactly you might accomplish this.  However, this does sound strikingly similar to some things that I've heard you can do with Postsharp (set up code to run  pre/post access of a property or field).
http://www.postsharp.org/

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Sinclair has been having some troubles with the former Trump administration communications adviser and ultra-pro-Trump supporter. Now, we can see why.
It was highly unusual, but Sinclair distanced itself from Epshteyn's very conservative opinions. Not only that, Sinclair did not even mention which of its political analysts' commentaries it chose not to support. Did that mean Epshteyn's employer was withdrawing all of its support for him?
That is hard to say given that Sinclair labels his pieces as "must-runs." That means that any Sinclair-owned station has to air them during the local news broadcasts. This makes a strong point for regulating corporate ownership of local broadcast entities.


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MKE DNC 2020 Forum featuring Ed Rendell, chair of the 2016 DNC Host Committee
Former Pennsylvania Gov. and Philadelphia Mayor Ed Rendell was the chairman of the host committee for the 2016 DNC in Philadelphia. He was also mayor of Philadelphia when the 2000 Republican National Convention was held in the city. Rendell, former chairman of the DNC, will talk about the economic
Former Pennsylvania Gov. and Philadelphia Mayor Ed Rendell was the chairman of the host committee for the 2016 DNC in Philadelphia. He was also mayor of Philadelphia when the 2000 Republican National Convention was held in the city. Rendell, former chairman of the DNC, will talk about the economic impact of the convention, what it meant to Philadelphia and the lessons learned from hosting the major political event.
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Caching is a way to temporarily store the results of an operation that might be too expensive to run on every request.
It is most commonly used for large database results.
This module currently only supports local file-based cache, which is stored in data/cache/keyValue.


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Heidi Klum is apparently the latest celeb to get married and not tell us
Looks like congratulations are in order for Heidi Klum and Tom Kaulitz.
People magazine reported that the 45-year-old supermodel and the 29-year-old musician quietly married in February, two months after Kaulitz proposed.
It's not the first time for either of them.
Klum was wed to actor Ric Pipino from 1997 to 2002 and to musician Seal from 2005 to 2014, while Kaulitz was married to model Ria Sommerfeld from 2015 to 2018.
Last year, Klum told daytime talk show host Ellen DeGeneres that rapper Drake had been interested in her, but she was already happily involved with Kaulitz.
Heidi Klum says Drake tried to date her
"Someone who I know knows [Drake] and I guess he asked to have my number, and then he texted me," Klum said. "I was like, 'Oh, my gosh. This is so weird!' But I never texted him back, because I found the love of my life."
CNN has reached out to reps for Klum to confirm the marriage.
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On January 2, 2013, the vast majority of federal nondefense discretionary (NDD) programs will face deep, across-the board cuts. Sequestration would reduce the nation's gross domestic product by $215 billion, decrease personal earnings of the workforce by $109.4 billion and cost the economy 2.14 million jobs.
The sequestration was meant as a last resort. Members of both political parties in both chambers were to come together and find a solution to our nation's growing deficit problems by November 23, 2011. When Congress reached an impasse they were ordered by the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act to begin spending cuts to both discretionary and nondiscretionary appropriations; unless a joint committee bill achieving an amount greater than $1.2 trillion in deficit reductions can be enacted.
Sequestration will be enacted unless Congress acts to change the law and the cuts will be 8.2 percent/year across the board. Cuts will continue at this rate until 2021. Please note, these cuts are in addition to a 43 percent cut over FY11 and FY12 that Justice Programs have already experienced.
In July, Congress passed H.R. 5872, the Sequestration Transparency Act of 2012, which required the President to submit to Congress a detailed report on the implementation of discretionary reductions and nonexempt direct spending reductions in the sequestration. The White House delayed the release of the report by a week.
The OMB Report notes that the Administration strongly believes that sequestration is a bad policy. Congress can and should take action to avoid it by passing a comprehensive and balanced deficit reduction package. The report also notes that sequestration would be deeply destructive to national security, domestic investments and core government functions.
There isn't much time for members of Congress to act on this issue. The legislative calendar has Congress in recess until after the November elections and there will be few work days through the Thanksgiving and Christmas holidays. This time constraint makes it even more important for members of Congress to take this matter seriously.
NAPO attended a Town Hall Meeting on Sequestration Implementation with speakers Robert Gordon (Executive Associate Director, Office of Management and Budget) and Jon Carson (Director of the White House Office of Public Engagement.) They emphasized that the President does not have discretion on how cuts are administered.
The issue of sequestration does not lend itself to a simple solution. Cuts will need to be made to Congressional spending. It isn't beneficial for any organization to seek an exemption from sequestration. The best path forward is to advocate for a balanced approach to deficit reduction, one that does not include additional cuts to discretionary programs.
Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV), along with Senate Democrats, has made numerous attempts to advance legislation that would provide jobs for American workers.
The first bill, supported by President Obama, is popularly known as The American Jobs Act of 2011 (S. 1549). Initially generating much attention, S. 1549 was never considered and remains on the Senate Legislative Calendar.
Following this effort, Senator Robert Menendez (D-NJ) introduced The Teachers and First Responders Back to Work Act (S. 1723) in October of 2011. This bill failed to reach cloture by ten votes.
Recently, Senator Bill Nelson (D-FL) introduced the Veterans Jobs Corps Act of 2012, (S. 3457) which the Senate voted for cloture on the motion to proceed with the legislation 95-1 with Senator Rand Paul (R-KY) voting in the negative. Later in the week the Senate again voted on the motion to proceed on the substitute amendment of the Veterans Job Corps legislation 84-8. The Senate is scheduled to resume debate before they break for recess for November elections.
All of these bills have one thing in common: funding for the COPS Hiring Grants.
The Veterans Jobs Corps bill is a $1 billion investment in our veterans. It will enhance their capacity to strengthen America over the next five years. The VA will transfer up to 10% of the appropriated funds ($100 million) to the Department of Justice for the hiring of veterans as law enforcement officers and first responders through COPS grants. NAPO strongly supports this legislation due to its inclusion of a provision that will award grants to hire veterans as law enforcement officers.
NAPO supports The American Jobs Bill and The Teachers and First Responders Back to Work Act. The importance for funding of the COPS Hiring Grant Program cannot be overemphasized; law enforcement has experienced deep funding cuts and continues to do more with less resources. COPS Hiring grants go directly to state and local police departments and are an effective use of taxpayer dollars.
The House passed a five-year renewal of the Byrne JAG grant program by voice vote. The program will authorize up to $4 billion through FY17. The Senate has already passed its version of Byrne JAG reauthorization, S. 250 sponsored by Patrick Leahy (D-VT). There has been an effort in the Senate to pass the House bill via unanimous consent. However, there are a few concerns raised by Republicans, and it has yet to be determined if they can be resolved in order for the bill to pass.
The Byrne JAG grant program is a legislative priority for NAPO, and was approved as a resolution for 2012 at this year's 34th Annual Convention. NAPO continues to work with our colleagues within the justice community and with members on Capitol Hill to reauthorize this important grant program.
September marks the anniversary of 9/11. NAPO joins the entire nation in remembering those who gave their lives on that day.
NAPO has worked to secure passage of legislation to improve the lives of those who serve and are survivors of the attacks. After enactment of the James Zadroga 9/11 Health and Compensation Act, NAPO urged the Director of the National Institute for Occupational Safety & Health (NIOSH) to expand the list of cancers to be covered under the 2010 law.
NAPO specifically requested that treatment for first responders be expanded to cover melanoma, thyroid and prostate cancers and non-Hodgkin's lymphoma. With the exception of prostate cancer, all of NAPO's recommendations were included. A total of twenty-three cancers were added to the WTC-Related Health Conditions eligible for coverage.
We would like to give special recognition and thanks to the members and survivors of The New York City Patrolmen's Benevolent Association, The NYPD Detectives' Endowment Association, The NYPD Lieutenants Benevolent Association, The NYPD Captains Endowment Association, The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey Police Benevolent Association, The Port Authority Police Detectives Endowment Association, The Port Authority Police Sergeants Benevolent Association, and The Port Authority Police Lieutenants Benevolent Association.
On April 18, 2012, Treasury released updated guidance making modifications to the 2007 regulations covering retirement age. They also requested comments on the guidance under consideration.
Although the proposed regulations improve retirement conditions for many public safety participants, they still do not address the situation when "normal retirement" occurs after a set term of service, not based on age. NAPO urges the IRS to consider that the plans for public safety officers shall be deemed fully compliant, so long as the plan does not allow in-service distributions before age 40 and the attainment of the set number of years in a plan. Additionally, the IRS should adopt requirements that are not solely dependent on the age of the employees.
Please note that for the immediate future, the enactment date for the IRS Normal Retirement Age has once again been postponed. The new date of enactment has been moved to January 1, 2015. The IRS also fixed the "safe harbor" provision that allows public safety officers to qualify for "early unreduced retirement" and clarifies in-service distributions for public safety. For more information on how the IRS Normal Retirement Age affects you, please contact NAPO's Director of Government Affairs, Rachel Hedge.
NAPO also submitted comments in reference to the Federal Communications Commission notice of proposed rulemaking on the promotion of interoperability for the First Responder Communications Network (D Block).
As the FCC considers how to implement a public safety interoperable network NAPO continues to advocate for interoperability across the 700 MHz spectrum specifically in the lower bands.
It is important to note that NAPO's remarks were quoted in a CommDaily cover story on interoperability. NAPO was the only rank-and-file group to submit information on the subject.
The House has passed the CR 329-91 and the Senate is expected to clear the measure before breaking for recess. NAPO successfully lobbied to increase the spending allocated to priority funding programs such as Byrne JAG and COPS Hiring Grants. It is unclear if members of the 113th Congress will continue funding the remainder of FY13 with appropriations bills or another CR. NAPO will keep you informed of these and other legislative developments as they occur.
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De bleke baardbuulbuul (Alophoixus pallidus; synoniem: Criniger pallidus) is een zangvogel uit de familie Pycnonotidae (buulbuuls).

Verspreiding en leefgebied
Deze soort telt 7 ondersoorten:
 A. p. griseiceps: Pegu Yomagebergte (het zuidelijke deel van Centraal-Myanmar).
 A. p. robinsoni: Tanintharyi (zuidoostelijk Myanmar).
 A. p. henrici: zuidwestelijk China, oostelijk Myanmar, noordelijk Thailand en noordelijk Indochina.
 A. p. pallidus: Hainan (nabij zuidoostelijk China).
 A. p. isani: noordoostelijk Thailand.
 A. p. annamensis: centraal Indochina.
 A. p. khmerensis: zuidelijk Indochina.

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This is a fixture for the efficient storage and easy visibility of fliers placed around the entrance to an art gallery. Vinyl sheets have been installed in existing movable partitions. The arrangement of the fliers creates its own expression. As it is transparent both sides are readable.


Geneva, 5 July 2017 – In a year already marked by heatwaves and new daily temperature records, television weather presenters have explored how climate change would make future summers even hotter in some of the world's major cities.
If greenhouse gas emissions continue to increase, Earth's average global surface temperature could rise more than 4°C (7.2°F) by the end of the 21st century. But what does this global average really mean for the daily lives of people living in Madrid, or Ha Noi, or Montreal?
To find out, Climate Central, a research and communications organization based in the United States of America, downscaled the global climate models assessed by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change to see the effect on summer temperatures in various cities by the year 2100. It used two different climate change scenarios (high emissions and moderate emissions) and matched each selected city with a city that already experiences such temperatures.
WMO and Climate Central invited weather presenters from a dozen countries to work with meteorological services and other national experts to explore the implications. For example, by the end of the century the citizens of Paris (where daily summer high temperatures now average 22.7°C) may see summer high temperatures like those today in Fez, Morocco (29.2°C).
Many of the assessed cities could see their maximum daily temperatures in summer rise by as much as 6-9°C. No place on Earth is currently as hot as the summer highs that cities such as Doha and Baghdad could experience if global emissions remain high.
Other cities featured in the videos include Barcelona, Berlin, Brussels, Buenos Aires, Cape Town, Frankfurt, Hanoi, Havana, Kampala, Madrid, Montreal, Nairobi, Sofia and Tokyo.
"What the weather presenters have created are only possible scenarios, and not true forecasts. Nevertheless, they are based on the most up-to-date climate science, and they paint a compelling picture of how climate change may impact daily life in cities where most of the world's population lives. Urban warming could be double that of surrounding areas due to the presence of stone materials and paved roads. This would lead in particular to higher night-time temperatures," said WMO Secretary-General Petteri Taalas.
"The enhanced heat – and an expected increase in associated extreme weather like summer storms – will have major implications for energy and water supplies, public health and transportation. More intense heatwaves would also often lead to poorer air quality, which can even be lethal," he said.
The new video series is part of an initiative by WMO and weather presenters to make climate science more accessible so that the public can better understand how climate change affects the local and national weather conditions that impact our daily lives.
In a similar exercise, WMO previously worked with some 60 weather presenters on "weather reports from the year 2050." Four series of reports were launched in conjunction with the Paris climate change conference (COP 21), the Third World Conference on Disaster risk Reduction held in Sendai, the Lima climate change conference (COP 20) and the UN Climate Summit in New York.
Watch the "summer in the city" climate reports on the WMO YouTube channel here. Climate Central has posted an interactive map to make it easier to visualize these "shifting cities" here.
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I think a franchise with the Cardinals' revenue has more flexibility than ownership lets on. I think $115 million is certainly in order and $120 million is reasonable for a club that draws more than 3 million paying customers on an annual basis. I also think the overall payroll number can be misleading. If a player gets a big signing bonus (perhaps paid with the unexpected bounty of cash produced by eight or nine home playoff games) as part of his deal it could lower his average annual salary. Deferred payments or an ownership stake could also make the impact on the annual budget smaller.
But I worry that the Redbirds are drawing a line in the sand on the deal they put in front of Pujols -- which he immediately rejected -- and that bad feelings are going to quickly take over.
Supposedly Pujols was offered a nine-year deal for about $22 million a year. And few thought that was going to get the job done when Ryan Howard -- a guy whose statistics can't even be compared with Albert's with a straight face -- is getting $25 million a year for five years.
I'm guessing the minimum offer likely to get Pujols to ink the dotted line is $25 million a year for eight seasons. And that might not be a bad compromise for the Cardinals or the player.
Pujols would be the second-richest player in major league history behind Alex Rodriguez's absurd contract (which has already started to bite the Yankees as his health and productivity fades.) The Cardinals would pay a little bit more a year. But they would shave a season off the back end of the contract, which would prevent the club from paying a 41-year-old player $22 million.
Plus, Pujols could still get the "respect" of being the highest paid National Leaguer AND claim he took less money to stay in St. Louis because he's such a great guy at the same time.
The most difficult part of fitting Pujols into the payroll would be season one. In 2013 the Cardinals currently stand to pay Jake Westbrook and Kyle Lohse a combined $20 million. They'll both be gone for much cheaper replacements in 2014 with Kyle McClellan, Marc Rzepczynski, Lance Lynn and Shelby Millers all candidates for the fourth and fifth spots in a rotation that alread includes a discounted Chris Carpenter and a very friendly option year for Adam Wainwright.
Some Cardinals fans wonder why the team won't chase big-time free agents
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The Chicago Cubs were never lovable losers, but their fans are absolutely insufferable
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After winning the 2016 World Series, fans of the Chicago Cubs MLB baseball team became even more obnoxious despite years of rooting for the lovable losers while making fun of the Best Fans in Baseball in STL.
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Q: A bad pun short story I'm looking for a feghoot or shaggy dog story, either by Isaac Asimov or in an collection edited by Asimov, about the poor dependability of inter-dimensional mail.
The story ends with a guy having a "stumpy, sulfur trussed antelope" in front of him, while a "stomped 'sylph' addressed cantaloupe" is on his desk when he is supposed to have received a "stamped self addressed envelope".

A: This is Author, Author by Tim Colley, published in Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine, v. 5, no. 1, published 1981.

Grabbing the lens, the Editor could just make out a tiny label
with these words almost hidden by dribbled juice: Send to Sylph.
"So what?"
"I would deduce our friend here has been eavesdropping. Perhaps
sound in his universe is less distinct than here, or his hearing may
just be poor. Perhaps he's heard you laying down the law to some
aspiring author: certainly he knew that any unsolicited manuscript
had to be accompanied by a stomped, Sylph-addressed canteloupe."
"How laborious." The Editor groaned and turned the ice-pack to
high.
"But when you rejected his first submission, he must have thought
he mis-heard you. So here he is again . . ."
"With a stumpy, sulphur-tressed antelope," completed the Kindly
Editor, pounding softly on his desk.

You can find the full text at the Internet Archive

A: I think it is in Asimov Laughs Again, right by "Death of a Foy." I have a copy, let me check. update still looking for my copy, it seems to be misplaced.
Update 2: I did find my copy of Asimov Laughs Again; sadly that particular story isn't in it as far as I can tell.


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import { Answerable, AnswersQuestions, d, Interaction, UsesAbilities } from '@serenity-js/core';

import { PageElement } from '../models';
import { PageElementInteraction } from './PageElementInteraction';

/**
 * Instructs an {@apilink Actor|actor} who has the {@apilink Ability|ability} to {@apilink BrowseTheWeb}
 * to perform a double click on a given {@apilink PageElement}.
 *
 * ## Example widget
 * ```html
 * <!--
 *     The editor shows up when the user double-clicks
 *     on one of the properties of their profile
 *     and lets them change the value of that property.
 * -->
 * <div id="user-profile">
 *     <ul>
 *         <li id="display-name" ondblclick="edit(this)">User12345</li>
 *         <li id="email-address" ondblclick="edit(this)">tester@example.org</li>
 *     </ul>
 *     <form id="editor" class="hidden">
 *         <input type="text" value="" />
 *     </form>
 * </div>
 * ```
 *
 * ## Lean Page Object describing the widget
 *
 * ```ts
 * import { By, PageElement } from '@serenity-js/web'
 *
 * class UserProfile {
 *   static displayName = () =>
 *     PageElement.located(by.id('display-name'))
 *       .describedAs('display name')
 *
 *   static emailAddress = () =>
 *     PageElement.located(by.id('email-address'))
 *       .describedAs('email address')
 *
 *   static editor = () =>
 *     PageElement.located(by.id('editor'))
 *       .describedAs('editor')
 * }
 * ```
 *
 * ## Double-clicking on an element
 * ```ts
 * import { actorCalled, Wait } from '@serenity-js/core'
 * import { DoubleClick, isVisible, Enter, Text } from '@serenity-js/web'
 * import { Ensure, equals, not } from '@serenity-js/assertions'
 *
 * await actorCalled('Dorothy')
 *   .whoCan(BrowseTheWeb.using(browser))
 *   .attemptsTo(
 *     DoubleClick.on(UserProfile.displayName),
 *     Wait.until(UserProfile.editor(), isVisible()),
 *
 *     Enter.theValue('New username').into(UserProfile.editor),
 *
 *     Ensure.that(Text.of(UserProfile.displayName()), equals('New username')),
 *     Ensure.that(UserProfile.editor, not(isVisible()))
 *   )
 * ```
 *
 * ## Learn more
 *
 * - {@apilink BrowseTheWeb}
 * - {@apilink PageElement}
 *
 * @group Interactions
 */
export class DoubleClick extends PageElementInteraction {

    /**
     * Instantiates this {@apilink Interaction}.
     *
     * @param pageElement
     *  The element to be double-clicked on
     */
    static on(pageElement: Answerable<PageElement>): Interaction {
        return new DoubleClick(pageElement);
    }

    protected constructor(private readonly pageElement: Answerable<PageElement>) {
        super(d `#actor double-clicks on ${ pageElement }`);
    }

    /**
     * @inheritDoc
     */
    async performAs(actor: UsesAbilities & AnswersQuestions): Promise<void> {
        const element = await this.resolve(actor, this.pageElement);
        return element.doubleClick();
    }
}

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Episode 202: Cursed Child, 2.1 – Cursed Right Off the Page – Alohomora!
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Sharla Alegria
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Sharla Alegria is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Sociology at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. Her dissertation examines how and why women remain underrepresented in the computing workforce despite support from both the private and public sectors to increase women's participation. She focuses on the interplay between race, gender, and migration in the development of the IT workforce and the experiences of IT workers to shed new light, not just on women's representation, but more broadly on how gender, race and migration together shape opportunities for technical workers in the US.
"I never cease to be inspired by these women, like Grace Hopper, the women who worked on the ENIAC, and the women now who start their own coding schools to teach other women to code, who simply do things that seem impossible or barely imaginable until they do them."


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Salman Khan hands over his Feroza Bracelet to his Sisters
Home Bollywood News Hot News Salman Khan hands over his Feroza Bracelet to his Sisters
Bollywood superstar Salman Khan has been sentenced to five years in prison for the Hit & Run case, that had killed one and injured four. After a tense night the Khan along with his family members had reached the court much earlier that required. When the judge charged him as guilty, Salman Khan broke down. His two sisters Alvira and Arpita too broke down in the courtroom.
After the proceedings came to an end. Salman Khan was surrounded by his family members. Salman's brother Arbaaz khan gave a tight hug to Salman Khan. Salman handed over his lucky Feroza bracelet to his sisters present in the court. Then hugged his two sisters, later he was seen talking to some one on the phone. Apparently it was to his parents who had not come to the court. He was taken to court's jail area later.
Salman Khan's lawyer had applied for a bail in the High Court. The bail of two days has been granted to Salman Khan and so now instead of going to Arthur Road Jail. He might be going home to Galaxy Apartment, in Bandra.
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Q: How do I get a Maximise button and a What's This button on a Qt Dialog? I currently have a Qt::Dialog with a What's This help button, and a close button in the title bar.
I tried modifying the window hint flags to include the maximise and minimise buttons as well.
This worked but removed the What's This button, even if I explicitly included the flag for the what's this button as well.
Is there any way that I can have a dialog with maximise and minimise buttons but keep the What's this functionality?

A: If you don't mind where the What's this button appears, you can create a new button anywhere (probably called "What's This" or just "?").
This new button must be connected to a slot that includes the function:
`QWhatsThis::enterWhatsThisMode();`

which will perform the same function as the now missing What's This button in the title bar.
It probably is the only function the slot needs to call.
This action can even be called from a menu, and if required from a key combination.


I have now made it to the gym 4 days in a row. But of course there is a new road block. There are just so many. Well this one is that I have to work on Saturdays 9am - 6pm, the exact hours the gym is open, for the next 5 weeks. So I say that I'll just work out on Sunday and let Saturday be my relax day. Wrong again, after this weekend we will be working Sundays too for a whole month. This is my life I have to accept it.
The good thing is that we only have to stay til 8:30pm during the week. I am ok with that because after 8pm my mind tends to shutdown towards work anyway. And then I think why don't I stay a little later during the week so I won't have to work as much on the weekends. See you have to understand the way my managers think. My understanding is that there will always be work on weekends no matter what, so why stress myself out during the week for only a hope of leaving early on the weekend. It's just not worth it.
Eating has been ok. Sometimes really good, sometimes a little bad, so it evens out eventually. I finally cut up the fruit I bought to eat with cottage cheese. Mind you I don't really care for the texture of cottage cheese, so I thought I would just blend it up with a little yogurt and I'll be fine. Well they tricked me. I opened the lid and thought it was small curd already so I could handle it. Wrong! I've been eating it just because I don't like to waste food, but I don't think I will be buying any again for a long time.
I watched the Biggest Loser couples last night. I though I wouldn't care to watch it, but it is still interesting. I am routing for the red team. I guess it is because they both seem so genuine and they look very happy with each other. And the fact that her goal is more than to just look good on her wedding day, but to be able to have kids got me a little teary eyed. But I think the blue team will end up winning it all because I taped the show and paused it right when they showed a glimpse of the final weigh in and the blue team woman looked very small like all of the contestants on season 2. So we shall see.


• AY-3-8910/12/13 is a 3-voice Programmable Sound Generator (PSG) designed by General Instrument [GI]. Later this chip was produced for a few years under the Microchip Technology brand.
• YM2149F is a 3-voice Software-controlled Sound Generator (SSG) produced under license by Yamaha Corporation (with minor modifications).
Also this platform includes some sound cards based on these sound processors as for example Turbo Sound [TS, Turbo-AY] or QUADRA [Quadro-AY] (2xAY/YM = 6 sound channels instead of 3 channels) for the ZX Spectrum.


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Nuclear knowledge management (NKM) is knowledge management as applied in the nuclear technology field. It supports the gathering and sharing of new knowledge and the updating of the existing knowledge base. Knowledge management is of particular importance in the nuclear sector, owing to the rapid development and complexity of nuclear technologies and their hazards and security implications. The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) launched a nuclear knowledge management programme in 2002.

Definition of nuclear knowledge management
Nuclear knowledge management is defined as knowledge management in the nuclear domain. This simple definition is consistent with the working definition used in the IAEA document "Knowledge Management for Nuclear Industry Operating Organizations" (2006). Knowledge management (KM) itself is defined as an integrated, systematic approach to identifying, acquiring, transforming, developing, disseminating, using, sharing, and preserving knowledge, relevant to achieving specified objectives.

Description
Knowledge management systems support nuclear organizations in strengthening and aligning their knowledge. Knowledge is the nuclear energy industry's most valuable asset and resource, without which the industry cannot operate safely and economically. Nuclear knowledge is also very complex, expensive to acquire and maintain, and easily lost. States, suppliers, and operating organizations that deploy nuclear technology are responsible for ensuring that the associated nuclear knowledge is maintained and accessible.

In the organizational context, nuclear knowledge management supports the organization's business processes, and involves applying knowledge management practices. These may be applied at any stage of a nuclear facility's life cycle: research and development, design and engineering, construction, commissioning, operations, maintenance, refurbishment and life time extension, waste management, and decommissioning. Nuclear knowledge management issues and priorities are often unique to the particular circumstances of individual Member States and their nuclear industry organizations. Nuclear knowledge management practices enhance and support traditional business functions and goals such as human resource management, training, planning, operations, maintenance, projects, innovation, performance and risk management, information management, process management, organizational learning and information technology support.

A nuclear knowledge management strategy, with clearly defined objectives, provides a framework for establishing principles, policy, priorities and plans to apply knowledge management practices in the workplace.

Implementation
Knowledge management focuses on people and organizational culture to stimulate and nurture the sharing and use of knowledge; on processes or methods to find, create, capture and share knowledge; and on technology to store and assimilate knowledge and to make it readily accessible in a manner which will allow people to work together even if they are not located together. People are the most important component in a KM system and the creation of new knowledge is one of its most valuable byproducts. For a KM system to function properly, the people involved must be willing to share and re-use existing knowledge and to cooperatively generate new knowledge to the advantage of the organization.

Due to the nature of nuclear power plant operating organizations (high hazard but low risk), a number of knowledge management activities and programmes have been in place throughout the industry to manage and control the knowledge and information related to nuclear power plant design, construction, operation and maintenance. Examples of such existing KM activities employed by NPPs and in most other nuclear technology facilities include the following functions:

 Plant policies and procedures;
 Communication techniques;
 Configuration management;
 Document control;
 Work control systems;
 Quality assurance and quality management;
 Operating experience programmes;
 Corrective action systems;
 Safety analysis;
 Training and development;
 Human resource management;
 Company intranet and other web-based strategies.

The implementation of a KM system is not intended to replace any of these systems, but rather should increase the benefits to be derived from these systems in conjunction with the deployment of an integrated management system. Properly implemented KM should increase the benefits to the organization of these existing activities, rather than substituting for them. The lessons learned in the nuclear industry in the past 20 years, moving away from inspection by large quality assurance organizations towards building quality into all facility processes, have considerable relevance for KM implementation.

Motivation for nuclear knowledge management programs
It is probable that nuclear knowledge will continue to expand and change. Without diligence in managing nuclear knowledge, substantial portions of it could be lost due to personnel retirements and the likelihood that much of it could be disused or discarded as a result of either negligence or changing priorities. It will be as important to identify and properly treat obsolete, superseded knowledge as it will be to gather and share new knowledge. It is therefore necessary to maintain effective and efficient KM systems.

NKM has become an increasingly important element of the nuclear sector in recent years, resulting from a number of challenges and trends:

 Countries with expanding nuclear programmes require skilled and trained human resources to design and operate future nuclear installations. Capacity building through training and education and transferring knowledge from centres of knowledge to centres of growth are key issues.
 In countries with stagnating nuclear programmes, the challenge is to secure the human resources needed to sustain the safe operation of existing installations, including their decommissioning and related programmes for spent fuel and waste. Replacing retiring staff and attracting the young generation to a career in the nuclear field are key challenges.
 Non-power applications of nuclear technologies require a stable or even growing base of nuclear knowledge and trained human resources, be it for cancer treatment or for food and agriculture. This need is present in all Member States using nuclear technologies, independent of the use of nuclear power.

Nuclear energy
Concerns about global climate change and the availability of economically exploitable fossil fuels are driving many countries to reconsider the use of nuclear energy. Yet, the innovations required to design, construct, operate and maintain nuclear power plants consistent with international needs and constraints must derive from a strong foundation of well-sustained nuclear knowledge.

In contrast to knowledge in other scientific domains, the free sharing and uncontrolled use of nuclear knowledge are severely restricted due to concerns about nuclear security and proliferation. On the other hand, ensuring nuclear safety requires free sharing of information and experience to avoid repetition of accident precursors. Risks to nuclear safety could be very high due to the nature and size of third party liability and the possibility of nuclear security being severely compromised. In managing nuclear knowledge, therefore, an appropriate balance between nuclear safety and security requirements needs to be established.

Other sectors
The applications of nuclear technology in the non-power areas enumerated above tends to be less controversial than nuclear power. Knowledge in these areas is broadly disseminated and – in many cases – is freely shared. Effective and efficient systems of managing nuclear knowledge form the basis for refining existing applications and developing new, even more widely used applications.

IAEA program on nuclear knowledge management
The importance of nuclear knowledge management is increasingly being recognized in the industry. The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) has been a repository of knowledge related to peaceful applications of nuclear technology from the time the organization was established in 1957. Nuclear Knowledge Management came in the forefront in the IAEA as a formal programme to address Member States' priorities in the 21st century. Several resolutions adopted at the IAEA General Conference since 2002 include knowledge management topics.

The IAEA Secretariat was urged to assist member states, at their request, in fostering and preserving nuclear education and training in all areas of nuclear technology for peaceful purposes; in developing guidance on and methodologies for planning, designing and implementing nuclear knowledge management programmes; in providing Member States with reliable information resources on the peaceful use of nuclear energy; and in continuing to develop tools and methods to capture, retain, share, utilize and preserve nuclear knowledge.

The IAEA has organized a number of international meetings, schools and conferences covering a wide range of topics, from general concepts that underpin nuclear knowledge management to specific methods and tools taught at training seminars for practitioners.

The IAEA Nuclear Knowledge Management Programme was headed by Yanko Yanev (2002–2012) and by John de Grosbois (since 2012).

References

External links
 Managing Nuclear Knowledge, A Pocket Guide, IAEA Vienna 2012.
 International Journal of Nuclear Knowledge Management, Inderscience Publishers.

Knowledge management
Nuclear technology


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What we'll wanna do for safety, especially for the height when putting our boom pole on, is we're gonna wanna put a sandbag onto one of our legs of the C-stand. All right, so now we have our boom pole. This here is the K-Tek KE110CCR. The side exit is a good choice. This is one that I like to go with. A lot of boom operators will end up just setting their boom pole on the ground, and if you had the XLR coming out of the bottom, you could potentially damage, over time, your XLR connector there. And then I have the DPA 4017 shotgun microphone. It's a pretty sweet mic. I definitely recommend it. And then I'm using the K-Tek KMTS shock mount.
All right, so now we have our Boom Boy attached to our grip head here. You'll see that it has, like, the U-shape here and then the other side. What we'll wanna do is just set our boom pole in. It just holds it up like so. So the huge advantage to using the Remote Audio Boom Boy is now your boom is now hands-free, and this would allow for your sound guy to be able to watch the levels and ride them, ensuring that you're getting great, excellent audio. This here, this is the Sound Devices MixPre-6. Awesome mixer, by the way. I definitely suggest checking that out.
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Not all of these are in order of release date as I was too young for a couple of the now 'classic' albums on my list. Instead I've placed them in order of when I was listening, from earliest to most recent time.
I was blown away when I first heard The Stone Roses. I was just leaving school and this album seemed to define my mood perfectly. The only Stone Roses song I had heard up to this point was 'Fools Gold' which I assumed was the best they had to offer (seen as it was the only song that seemed to have remained commercially popular) but I was completely wrong. I can remember watching the commenwealth games one year and they used the song 'This Is The One' over the closing credits of the program. I absolutely loved it and it lead me to look into the band and to this album.
It's obviously a classic, and although there wasn't a great deal from them since (The come back is now on though) they will always be a very special and influential band. John Squire created some amazing memorable melodic guitar riffs with effects, and the driving energy of the rhythm section of the band was to die for. Ian Browns mumbling vocals also fit perfectly. I loved the atmospheric sound with all the reverb and echo etc. It's just a shame for me and all John Squire's music fans that, for a long time, he preferred art much more to his music!
A 'proper' band with it's own unique sound and a bit of a masterpiece of an album.
One of the albums from my college days from the technically sound, bizarre lyric writing RHCPs. I was listening to this album when it was first released and wasted many an hour playing retro video games with this album as my background soundtrack. A lot of that coursework never did get done because of this!
Ah, those were the days, "Fly away on my zephyr…..
One of my first forays into the 'trendy' indie scene. I get memories of 'Golden Touch' being played constantly at the places we went at the time. A very punky and energetic album and definitely memorable for me, some decent songwriting on here. I pretty much stopped liking the band after this album though, heard bad things about Johnny Borrell too.
I heard some of Nirvana's songs previous but didn't start listening to the band properly until I was in college when I really got into this album. This album is just full of atmosphere and is an example of brilliant and simple songwriting, often the best way to write music…make it simple! It was the soundtrack to a dark, winter holiday I went on to Sherwood Forest in Nottingham during the festive holidays between college terms.
I am personally far from a fan of Pete Doherty and would love to have seen the guy actually fall to sleep whilst playing live with Babyshambles like some of my friends did (Quite an achievement!) but I digress, I must admit this is actually a very good album. There's some great songs on here throughout and the production suits Doherty's unorganized, drunken, rambling style well, like the Libertine's studio albums. I also probably have such clear memories of it because because it was released before I went away to university.
I can often pin an album to a very definite moment in time from my past but that's not quite the case for this album. Many songs from here have obviously remained well know and commercial and I heard them all often at the time without ever really listening to the album when it was released. I think I revisited a couple of years later and discovered that most of the album was great. My personal favorite track being 'Jenny was a Friend of Mine' a beautiful song with the baseline thieved from the The Smiths' 'Barbarism Begins At Home'.
I've loved all their albums and used to listen to them all the time. It was definitely hard to pick a favourite. I love their sound, the comedy lyrics and the full sentence song titles. Patrick Stump is also one hell of a singer with a great vocal range! I don't find them pretentious like some people bang on about. This 'breakthrough' album is definitely one of, if not the best that they released and for me they have never released a bad one. I thought their first album 'Evening Out With Your Girlfriend' was great, although it was understandably under produced. If you've not heard it it's a great insight into the sound of the band still in transition. It doesn't sound anything like the FOB most people know.
Early Paramore. I'm a big fan and Hayley has an amazing voice and great style. She also seems to be a genuine down to earth girl that you would like to hang out with. I'm just annoyed that they always seem to use drop C tuning on their guitars. I was always too lazy to re-tune and try learn any of their songs!
A great album I listened to when it was released for its energy, frantic tracks and cool guitar riffs and later returned to actually listen to it's lyrics and relate to. Bloc Party's singer/songwriter and guitarist Kele Okereke is obviously a very sensitive guy who finds it hard to relate to modern English society and that's definitely something I know I feel and understand.
A bit of a change in direction from what I listened to as a kid and I ended up getting into Guns n Roses as I seemed to develop a bit of a blues style of guitar playing and therefore a bit of a liking for Slash… and Jack Daniels.. or even just vodka!
It's an obvious, undoubted classic full of energy and amazing memorable songs and guitar riffs. It's also mainly very fast in tempo in most places and they were actually a semi punk rock band at this early raw stage. When they returned with 'Use Your Illusion I' just over four years later everyone had taken a lot more drugs and everyone was on a very different plain, they sounded completely different.
What would go on your list? What albums relate to special memories, places and times for you?


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April 7, 2018 cardadmin1944 education, projects
Recognition in Piantok
Piantok Primary school got a recognition award for their outstanding service delivery in school.
By Riak Madut- Education Project Manager
Pupils at Piantok sat and listened attentively to the appreciation speech delivery by many speakers
On 16th March 2018, the executive Director for CARD Andrew Apiny Macham, the representative from the State Ministry of Education-Director for planning Mr. Simon P. Ndogo and Piantok Primary school Head master Mr. Angelo Ngor participated in a Radio Talk Show at Voice of Hope Radio at Wau Cathedral. During the radio show they explained to the public what made Piantok Primary school to be qualified, given an award and recognition in the state. The three guests did mention that Piantok primary school's teachers and PTA were very active. It was also explained that education cluster actors want to recognise their efforts for doing tremendous work to encourage school teachers to go the extra mile and to challenge other schools which are very inactive to be more active. The education clusters did this in order to create competition among the head teachers in different schools given the fact that children will benefit out of this move.
The selection of Piantok Primary School to be given their award was done by different education partner organisations, among them were UNICEF, State Ministry of Education Science and Technology, CARD, Peace Corps, War Child Canada, Meltser International and WFP after their rapid assessment done in 2017- 2018 in different schools.
Teachers were given teachers bags for their great work
Each organisation was given an opportunity to mention the best school in the state that did very well in terms of school management and commitment. However, the majority of education cluster partners selected Piantok Primary School as the best school.
CARD was then, selected by the education partners to organise an appreciation ceremony in collaboration with UNICEF, the State Ministry of Education Science and Technology Wau- South Sudan and to give an award to Piantok Primary school in recognition of the Teachers and PTA for their tremendous effort and commitment in developing the school and service delivery.
The selection criteria were based on access to information, school resources management, compliance with South Sudan school calendar and many others. Piantok primary school was found to have met most of the criterion set forth by education actors. There was proper management of school resources given to Piantok primary school by different actors in the state, teachers and PTA. Commitment was also observed and the school calendar was seen being observed by Piantok compared to the other schools.
Another observation noticed was the high enrolment of pupils particularly girls, Piantok recorded the highest number of girls in school. Also taking into account the issue of information sharing, Education partners are always frustrated in accessing school information, it's difficult to get accurate information but with Piantok Primary school whenever education actors come to school they get all information they required and that was also taken into account.
Mismanagement of school resources has been observed by education partners as one of the major challenges in various schools. Learning materials when given to any schools in big quantity may later on be seen being sold in the market the following day. This behaviour has frustrated most education partners as to why thing are not reaching the target beneficiaries. Many pupils were interviewed by different education actors in Piantok Primary school but there was no report from them lacking learning materials while in other schools more pupils are crying for learning materials.
Simon Ndogo Director for Planning (Wau State ministry of education gave speech) during function
During the award ceremony Simon Paul Ndogo Director for Planning said, this award and recognition didn't mean that Piantok Primary school had reached the peak of success, they still have a long way to go. They must do more this time so that other schools can emulate this kind of spirit of hard working. Executive Director for CARD Andrew Apiny Macham added that, Piantok primary school shouldn't think that the school has reached the Promised Land, but there are still a lot of work to be done so as to make this school the best school in the state. He added that some other schools were calling them on the studio of Voice of Hope during the Radio Talk Show saying that in the coming year of 2019 Piantok primary school will be overtaken. He urged the school teachers and PTA members not to sleep but to continue with that kind of spirit. He assured them that it's the only way South Sudanese will bring sustainable peace and development in the country".
Working With Unicef to Distribute Teaching Materials
On 12-15th February 2018 CARD in partnership with UNICEF distributed Students' and teachers' kits and School in-boxes in various schools around Wau.
Pupils were very excited during learning materials distribution
The distribution of learning materials to vulnerable children came as result of the parents' failure to afford to pay for their children's learning requirements e.g. Exercise books, pens and etc among schools received were Masna Talip, Bilpam, Piantok. Adet, Alel chok, Marial Ajieth nad New Sites primary schools
Due to the economic crisis which has hit the country so badly to the point of buying exercise book became so difficult to most of the learners, as per now the cost of one exercise book in Wau ranges from 300 to 400 South Sudanese Pounds which make it too difficult for IDPs children to purchase and vulnerable marginalised community to afford. A part from the conditions they are in; what is even worse is, there are no exercise books in the market. One PTA member from Masna Talip IDP primary school said, Pinyi Akuar,
"At first the biggest challenge was school tuition fees, it was the obstacle that impeded our children's school enrolment, but now the conditions at the issue of writing material has made everything worse than ever before, some IDPs parents who couldn't afford to pay for their own school supplies. This includes pencils and books, as well as uniforms or appropriate clothing and shoes which has tripled the increment of children dropping out from schools among children."
"Because most of the pupil's parents are vulnerable, having lost their usual source of income, tend to have great difficulties in covering their children's education requirement".
PTA chairperson Pinyi was very happy during exercise book distribution in school
The Masna Talip primary case is the same across the countrywide in many schools that were assessed by CARD and UNICEF, the lack of exercises and text books as well as the "decent" clothing and sanitary supplies has caused significant school absenteeism among girls, especially among adolescents. Whereas schools which were established by communities whatsoever; schools that had been established were found to lack the most basic supplies, such as blackboards, chalk, school benches, books, and even roofs.
Family's poverty has driven many adolescent girls out of schools and into prostitution where they are at risk of trafficking. CARD in partnership with UNICEF is responding to this situation by supporting vulnerable children with writing materials to improve education systems and encourage children to learn.


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Penny Trites leads the way in social work
Social work builds better futures with lessons learned from difficult past
Erin Knutson
Penny Trites
Penny Trites is a distinguished team leader who supervises Agassiz, Seabird Island, Harrison Hot Springs, the Fraser Canyon and Peters reserve in her work with the Agassiz and Fraser Canyon Child and Family Services Team with the Ministry of Child and Family Development (MCFD).
She was also the recipient of the 2015 Emerging Leader Premier Award.
"My motto is to do the best child centered, family focused, and culturally and community minded work. We do generalist social work out here, we're not like a specialized team, which is something you see more in the urban centre," she told The Observer.
Trites' team focuses on child protection reports that come in, which includes intakes and investigations, providing support to families, foster families, and really doing the very best planning that they can for children.
They deal with everything from calls from the families themselves asking for help and that's always been her goal, to build enough trust within the communities they service.
The Ministry's goal is for families to feel safe and to know the organization is going to support and care for them.
"It's important that they know they can call us and that happens quite a lot," she said.
The organization also gets calls from concerned citizens and professionals if they feel children are being harmed or if families are in need of extra support.
Trites credits a lot of her success to having an absolutely fabulous team.
"I honestly think that all of them have hearts bigger than they can carry — it's using collaboration and finding out what the families truly need to make things better and we try to empower the families to come up with the best plans they can," she said.
Her team puts referrals in with great community partners, within Agassiz, Boston Bar, and the reserves they service which include Seabird Island, Peters, Union Bar, Spuzzum, Boston Bar, and Boothroyd.
Trites was gracious about receiving the Emerging Leader Premier Award, as she shared the experience of it, which included a presentation made by Christy Clark at the Victoria Conference Centre.
The award really spoke to the work that is being done within East Fraser Service Delivery area. "It's not just me — to me it represents a lot of good work that's being done, and it was really an honour because the emerging leader award was done by votes and that made it feel even more surreal."
Trites started with the organization in 1999, in the same building she's in now, on Pioneer Ave in Agassiz.
The team leader's arrival in her profession was no accident. She wanted to change the system from within after dealing with a less progressive system in her own childhood.
Trites started with humble beginnings having grown up in a little village in Saskatchewan with a population of just under 100 people.
"I was adopted at birth and I didn't know my true identity, that I am Metis. It was in the 70s and even my birth date was wrong. I was adopted into a loving family with lots of poverty."
After having lost her Dad instantly when she was 14, life changed drastically for the social worker. The system ended up taking her brother out of the home and because she was older she was able to stay.
"The community I grew up in wrapped their arms around me — they kept me safe and they told me that I was important and that I mattered and that I could do and become anything, so when I had lost all hope they kept me safe."
This taught her great compassion when she reflected upon her life.
"Don't ever look down on someone else, unless you're willing to bend down and pick them up yourself," she said, of one of the greatest lessons her life experience taught her.
Trites is a firm believer that it really does take a community to raise a child.
"I don't know where I would be without my friend's, teacher's, parent's and even the local RCMP — they instilled hope and belief in me and as a teenager — I knew I wanted to be a social worker and I was never going to treat people a certain way because of how the system treated my family."
The system impacted Trites family negatively, and that was something she wanted to change when she got into social work. The system has improved in that they work using a more collaborative approach than they did before.
"They do everything they can do to keep a child safe in their home, in their communities and connected to their culture," she said.
Trites is passionate about her work, and glows, as she speaks about the day to day operations.
"I can't believe I get paid to come here every day, and if I won the lottery I would volunteer — I have been treated with the most respect, working under and with an amazing leadership team, in a culture that wants to build you up and allow you to shine and to do your very best."
Trites reunited with her birth parents when she was 18. Her birth dad passed away in 2001 and her birth mom lives in Chilliwack. "I believe it is every person's inherent right to know who they are and where they come from."
She found a practicum with Dr. Rob Lees, Child and Youth Mental Health in Chilliwack, worked in group homes and then applied for The Ministry, where she's been ever since.
One of the biggest things for her has been the ability to work with family and community and to create the very best plans for them and their children.
"It's about finding safe homes for children, when it's not safe for them to go home, and it's about preventing kids from going into care to begin with," she said. "It's the relationships, I feel like I'm family on so many levels, especially the First Nations communities that we serve — I feel like I'm part of their communities now."
Everything is about trust, according to Trites, which involves time. Trites' belief is that the act of walking together in partnership models truth and reconciliation which is her biggest goal in the future for the Ministry.
"I want to continue to walk in partnership and make right what was made wrong," she said of her work with the First Nations communities.
One of the challenges the organization faces is funding, and staffing according to Trites, though the team she has is an award winning one.
She supervises five and a half staff and credits much of her success to them.
"We're all so different and complement each other so well — we're a really really tight group."
Trites shares her success model and acknowledges that it's about finding and enhancing strengths in others and helping to lift them up so they can be all they can be — she will find strengths in her staff and match them to tasks and cases accordingly.
"I believe in living and working your passion and feeding your hunger," she said.
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6% output drop boosts calls for construction stimulus
Latest grim construction figures from the Office of National Statistics have strengthened calls for a proper stimulus package for the industry.
Latest ONS construction figures released today revealed that output fell 6% in May compared to a year earlier while the outlook for the rest of 2012 appears bleak.
Noble Francis, Economics Director at the Construction Products Association said: "Although the coalition has consistently made pronouncements of boosting UK construction and the economy, there is little sign of this in reality.
"Public sector housing output in May was 23% lower than a year earlier and in the three months to May was also 23% lower than a year earlier.
"Public non-housing output, which primarily covers education and health construction, during May was 20% lower than a year earlier and in the three months to May was 22% lower than a year earlier.
"Private commercial, the largest construction sector, continues to be the key bright area of construction.
"Commercial output in May was 2% higher than a year ago and in the first five months of the year was 1.3% higher than one year ago.
"However, this is not enough to offset the public sector cuts and, overall, in the first five months of the year, construction output was 5.4% lower than a year earlier so prospects for the year as a whole are bleak.
"If government is serious about recovery in UK construction and the economy, it clearly needs to focus on getting a replacement for PFI sorted out immediately, getting work on the ground now by focusing on repair and maintenance and ensuring that the Green Deal becomes a success by giving householders greater incentives to invest in energy-saving improvements."
Steve McGuckin, managing director of the construction and programme management consultancy, Turner & Townsend, said: "What began as a dip has become a dive.
"With public sector construction down around 22% on this time last year, the impact of the government's austerity cuts is clear.
"It's time for George Osborne to look at stimulating demand in this crucial sector."


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On March 15th, intense Tropical Cyclone Idai made landfall in south-eastern Africa, killed over 1000 people and caused immense damage in Mozambique, and to a lesser degree in Zimbabwe, Malawi and Madagascar. _____________________________________. In Mozambique alone, the cyclone caused some 770 million dollars in damages and displaced around 400,000 people. The 200 kilometer winds and massive flooding damaged or destroyed homes, schools, farmland and crucial infrastructure, particularly in Manica, Sofala, Tete, and Zambezia provinces.3月15日,强力热带气旋伊代着陆于非洲东南部,导致1000多人死亡,并给莫桑比克造成了巨大破坏。津巴布韦、马拉维、马达加斯加也遭受了破坏,只是程度比莫桑比克轻一些。_____________________________________.仅在莫桑比克,热带气旋就导致近7.7亿美元的损失,让近40万人流离失所。时速200公里的大风和来势汹汹的洪水不同程度地损坏了房屋、学校、农田、重要基础设施,马尼卡省、索法拉省、太特省、赞比西亚省受损尤为严重。
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On March 15th, intense tropical cyclone xx made landfall in southeast Africa, kill over one thousand people and cause immense damages in xx, and to a less degree in xx. It was the worst natural disaster to hit southern Africa in two decades and the third deadliest tropical cyclone on record. In xx alone, the cyclone caused some 770 million dollars in damages and displaced around four hundred thousand people. The two hundred kilometers winds and massive flooding damaged and destroyed homes, schools, farmland and crucial infrastructure, particularly in xx provinces.
It was the worst natural disaster to hit southern Africa in two decades and the 3rd deadliest tropical cyclone on record.
it was the worst natural disaster that hit south Africa in 2 decades and 3rd deadly tropical cyclone on records.
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It was the worst nature disaster that hit south Afric in twoo decades and the third deadly Tropical Cyclone on record.
It was the worst natural disaster to hit Southern Africa in two decades and the third deadliest tropical cyclone on record
On March 15th, intense Tropical Cyclone Idai made landfall in south-eastern Africa, killed over 1,000 people and caused immense damage in Mozambique, and to a lesser degree in Zimbabwe, Malawi and Madagascar. It was the worst natural disaster to hit southern Africa in two decades, and the third deadly tropical cyclone on record. In Mozambique alone, the cyclone caused some $770 million in damages and displaced around 400,000 people. The 200 kilometers winds and massive flooding damaged or destroyed homes, schools, farmland and crucial infrastructure, particularly in Manica, Sofala, Tete, and Zambezia provinces.
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It was the worst natural disaster to hit South Africa in 2 decades and the third deadly tropical cyclone.
on mar 15, intense tropical cyclone Edi may landfall in southeast africa,killed around 1000 ppl and caused immense damage in mozanbi, and to a lesser degree in zinbabuwy,malawi and maligasbar.
it was the worst natural disaster to hit southern africa in two decades, and 3rd deadliest tropical cyclone on record.
in mozanbi alone, the cyclone caused some 770 million dollars in damages, and displaced around 400,000 ppl.
the 200 km winds and massive flooding damaged or destroyed homes,schools,farmland, and crucial infrastructure, particularly in manica, sofala,taytay,and zonbizia provinces.
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Hw: It was the worst natural disaster that heat southern Africa in 2 decades and the third deadly tropical cyclone on record.
it is the worst natural disaster hitting southern africa in two decades and the third deadliest tropical cyclone in record
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Q: Condition in the foreach loop I am trying to do something simple - compare a value with an item in an array and then run a condition based on the comparison.
Here's my array:
$states = ['AL','AR','CT','DE','FL','GA','IL','IN','IA','KS','KY','LA','ME','MD','MA','MI','MN','MS','MO','NE','NH','NJ','NY','NC','ND','OH','OK','PA','RI','SC','SD','TN','TX','VT','VA','WV','WI'];

Here's the rest of my code with my foreach function:
$region = '';
$array_length = count($states);
foreach($states as $state_item){
    if($state_item == $state) {
         $region = 'E';
    } else {
         $region = 'W';
    }
}

echo $region;

So far my code only successfully gets to the ELSE part of my condition and prints out the W. So it basically doesn't even compute the IF part. It's been a long time since I've done PHP. Please remind me/correct me if there's a better way of accomplishing this.
$state is being pulled in from a DB by a query and is working properly.
ENDED UP USING A FOREACH LOOP with an array declared as $states = array(...) for it to not throw a server error (500) at me.

A: The problem with your code is that after $state_item == $state is true and $region is E, the foreach loop keeps running. With the next iteration $state_item == $state is false, and $region is overwritten as W.
To fix it, with your code:
$region = 'W';
foreach($states as $state_item){
    if($state_item == $state) {
         $region = 'E';
         break; // stop here
    }
}

A better way to do so:
if (in_array($state, $states)) {
    $region = 'E';
} else {
    $region = 'W';
}

A: I prefer ternary operator for simple cases like this one:
$region = in_array($state, $states) ? 'E' : 'W';

A: instead of loop you can directly use ternary operator:
$region = in_array($state, $states) ? 'E' : 'W';