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Governor Walker signs HOPE agenda bills
July 17, 2017 By WRN Contributor
Efforts to fight opiate abuse in Wisconsin continued Monday, as Governor Scott Walker signed 11 bills during stops around the state that are aimed at stopping the epidemic.
Walker started out the day with a signing that took place at the Medical College of Wisconsin located on the St. Norbert College Campus. The governor said opiate addiction crosses all borders. "The small towns, suburbs, big cities, everywhere in between. It crosses economic status, political status, demographics of every kind," he said.
The bills include making sure 'schedule 5 medications' have to be prescribed, provide more addiction education for medical professionals, and allow for an expansion of HOPE centers that focus on addiction treatment.
Representative John Nygren (R-Marinette), who has helped pursue several pieces of anti-opiate legislation, said he believes Wisconsin's success in combating opioid addiction is because of its multi-pronged approach. "It's the governor's office, the attorney general, it's the lieutenant governor, it's the medical profession, law enforcement as a whole, education," Nygren explained.
The HOPE Agenda was introduced by Nygren back in 2013. HOPE stands for heroin, opiate, prevention, and education.
WTAQ
Filed Under: Legislature, News, Politics / Govt

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ICYMI: Maxine Waters Says President Trump Is 'Setting Some Of Us Up to Be Killed'
Why say this?
California liberal Congresswoman Maxine Waters leans heavily on hyperbole. She'll often intentionally exaggerate quotes or statements or whatever she wants to further scare the politically uninformed into believing President Trump is worse than Josef Stalin.
She's not the only Democrat who does it. Most of them do. "Most" might be putting it lightly. How sad is that? It's as if Democrats hate Trump more than they love their country. Not cool. It doesn't help anyone.
Here's the latest from Mad Max…
From Daily Wire:
Rep. Maxine Waters (D-CA) criticized President Donald Trump on Wednesday for endangering her own safety by supposedly dog-whistling to white supremacists to start a civil war over the House's impeachment inquiry.
"[Trump] should not be going after anybody," Waters told MSNBC host Ali Velshi. "He is the president of the United States of America. He is setting some of us up to be killed. I have death threats constantly."
She added, "There are a number of people who have been convicted for threatening to kill me, and when he does that he's dog-whistling to the white supremacists, the KKK, and the dangerous people. We have stories about many of those white supremacists who do nothing but practice how they're going to be involved in a civil war and fight against this government. This president is irresponsible in so many ways aside from making us a target of these white supremacists."
Maxine Waters, who infamously instructed her supporters to harass Trump officials in public and "tell them they're not welcome anymore, anywhere…"
…is now complaining on MSNBC that she can't go to the grocery store without security.
Maxine Waters, who infamously instructed her supporters to harass Trump officials in public and "tell them they're not welcome anymore, anywhere…"
…is now complaining on MSNBC that she can't go to the grocery store without security. pic.twitter.com/HmX6NQ2VCR
— Andrew Clark🎃 (@AndrewHClark) October 2, 2019
Waters needs to stop.
She keeps trying to create new ways to take down Trump but more often then not, just winds up looking like a goof.
Trump is known for calling others disrespectful names, especially women. It's your turn now. What name would you call him? _______________________
Trump is known for calling others disrespectful names, especially women. It's your turn now. What name would you call him? _______________________
— Maxine Waters (@RepMaxineWaters) June 7, 2019
It instantly backfired.
I'd call him the best President since Ronald Reagan and so very happy to have a man of his caliber in control of our country.
I'd call him the best President since Ronald Reagan and so very happy to have a man of his caliber in control of our country.
— Michelle Hughes (@MichelleHughes_) June 7, 2019
President. That's what I'd call him. What do you call someone who's been in office for over 27 years but has gotten nothing done and has the audacity to bash our President when in 2 yrs he's achieved lowest black unemployment EVER, restored our economy, and much much more?
https://twitter.com/AngeloRayGomez/status/1137101147607523329?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1137101147607523329&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.thegatewaypundit.com%2F2019%2F06%2Fepic-fail-mad-maxine-waters-tries-to-give-trump-a-new-nickname-and-it-backfires-bigly%2F
What do you call someone living outside the district boundaries they represent?
— Justin Time (@timej31) June 8, 2019
President Trump, the 45th President of the United States of America.
(This tweet really backfired, huh?)
— #ThePersistence (@ScottPresler) June 8, 2019
Best US President Ever
https://twitter.com/OmarC221/status/1137427302168649728
Related Topics:2020CongressFeaturedMaxine WatersTrump
12-Year-Old Points Finger Gun At Classmates, She's Then Handcuffed & Charged With Felony
Flashback: Biden Says Taxpayers Have 'Obligation' to Give Health Care to 'Undocumented'


After years of development, comprehensive testing and numerous crash tests, Niesmann and Bischoff have succeeded in creating the safest Flair ever. Their tailor-made safety concept, which includes a driver and passenger airbag, ESP and seatbelt pretensioners as standard — in addition to a newly developed chassis — signals an absolute breakthrough for the liner class. As well as the industry leading safety features the 2018 Flair includes supreme luxury in a sleek and stylish design! Extra features on this highly specified motorhome include, full leather, 205hp 3.0L engine and Rear air suspension.


The first thought that probably comes to your mind is "This wishlist is NOT indicative of realwinter weather." Yeah, yeah, I know…living in the south, I'm lucky enough to experience relatively mild winters. The not-so-great aspect is that the weather can be unpredictable (as a matter of fact, this weekend I'll probably be able to go outside in bare legs, ha!), so I always make an effort to dress in layers during the colder months.


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Q: Lower system volume I want to lower the ringtone, media volume, and alarm volume from an app (button press, no slider). So I've been reading up on AudioManager , but I'm still a bit confused on how to do this.
Also, with Audio Manager, is the volume set for the whole phone or just for the app? I want it to be for the whole phone

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but I'm still a bit confused on how to do this

Call adjustStreamVolume() with your desired stream (e.g., STREAM_ALARM) and change (e.g., -1). Here is a sample project that demonstrates this.

is the volume set for the whole phone or just for the app?

Android does not have a concept of app-specific volume, so this is for the whole phone.

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Hungría estuvo representada en los Juegos Olímpicos de Atenas 2004 por un total de 209 deportistas que compitieron en 20 deportes.

La portadora de la bandera en la ceremonia de apertura fue la yudoca Antal Kovács.

Medallistas
El equipo olímpico húngaro obtuvo las siguientes medallas:

Enlaces externos
Página del COI .
olympedia.org .

Hungría
V 2004
Hungría en 2004

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I don't do white-on-white very often but this time I was commissioned to make a wedding card and white-on-white is what seemed to be wanted so I did it.
I did three embossed layers (Swiss Dot and Lattice by Darice) then added die cut hearts (Spellbinders) and tiny dried flowers in the peach color being worn by the bridesmaids. The lace came from my stash and the doves are cut from sparkly CS. I used a gem brad to attach the wing pieces to the bodies. The "I Do" sentiment and the random pearls are stickers that I had in my stash. Sparkly ribbon for the bow came from Really Reasonable Ribbon.
It's Friday again and that mean a new challenge at QKR Stampede. Our theme for the challenge this week is "Harvest Colors." I had just come in from tidying up my garden by tossing the old plants which were pretty brown and withered and I'm sure that influenced my color choices for this image -- mostly kraft and browns with splashes of red, yellow, and orange.
The name of this image is "Turkey Dinner" (Digi 102) and I'm not sure whether that refers to the corn being the turkey's dinner or the turkey being Thanksgiving dinner. :-D Either way, the image name made for a great sentiment questioning that very thing.
I used my ProMarkers to color the scene, then die cut it and two CS mats with my newest rectangle stitching dies from Lawn Fawn. The corner die cuts are by Spellbinders. I added the little bow which is one of those I make by the dozens and toss into my stash for future use.
The image on this card (yes, another card for Halloween because I fell in love with the image) is from Sweet Pea Stamps and it was just so much fun to color!
I decided to stick with the usual Halloween colors and used my ProMarkers. I die cut the image with a rectangle die from Spellbinders. The dark background dp was cut with a stitched die from Lawn Fawn and the purple dp was cut with my newest Spellbinders die. Ribbon is from Really Reasonable Ribbon and the bow was hand tied using lace.
I used the sketch from the Wednesday challenge at The Outlawz.
I colored the image with my ProMarkers and then fussy cut it. The dp which I cut with the circle die (QuicKuts) is a digital paper from Kitten Scraps but I used chalk to color the background on it rather than leave it white. That helped the image to stand out from the paper a bit more, as did mounting the image on dimensional dots.
The curved strip is dp cut with two of my new curved dies from Spellbinders. That particular paper has been in my stash for a couple of years and I think it's from a stack by DCWV. I know I've had the Halloween ribbon for at least 3 years and couldn't begin to tell you the manufacturer if I racked my brain for an hour.
The leaf is cut with a die from Cheery Lynn and the little flower is handmade from the bits which fell out of the scallops on the curved dp strip. I added a small, brown pearl to the flower center.
QKR Stampede has some fabulous Halloween images and I could hardly wait to use this one. Our theme this week is "Halloween" so that works perfectly. :-D I used Digi 16314 "Hanging" and Digi 16316 "Halloween High."
This card was pretty simple compared to most of my QKR DT cards. The background sky is done with watercolors and I printed the silhouette image right on top. I printed the sentiment separately and used Lawn Fawn stitched square dies on each of them. The bat is also a die cut; die from Impression Obsession, and I adhered only his body, lifting the wings to add a bit of dimension. The orange ribbon came from Really Reasonable Ribbon and that's the last of it. Will have to order more soon.
I keep telling myself I'm done with Halloween cards and then I find one more stamp or one more sentiment I just have to use... need I say more? At least this time, I combined the image and the sentiment onto one last Halloween card. Both of these came from a set by Sparkle n Sprinkle and I'm entering their monthly challenge with it.
This is a single layer card and I painted the background with watercolors. Both the image and the sentiment are done with black EP. Fast, clean and simple. Less than 15 minutes, including time for the watercolor to dry since I used my heat gun and then ironed it flat before doing the embossing.
I decided to try something I haven't done in many, many months and used this darling little clown which I got for playing in the Progressive challenge at Sweet Pea Stamps on their FB page.
I took my colors from Color Throwdown.
Instead of my usual ProMarkers or chalk markers, I used a brush and watercolor paints. Not as much shading detail but then that isn't what watercolors are meant to do. Once the clown was painted, I cut it with a rectangle die from Spellbinders and adhered it to the card front.
Then, I dug out one of my Cheery Lynn border dies and used it to cut border pieces from two different papers, both of which came from my scrap stash. I had to trim some of the inside parts of the border because they overlapped the image far too much, making it look cluttered instead of bordered.
I haven't decided if this is going to be a birthday card or something else but it was a fun image and I had fun digging out the watercolors.
If you're looking for my QKR Stampede DT card, please scroll down or click here.
When did the cornucopia become the traditional symbol of the harvest season? I don't know the answer but I know it's universally recognized so this stamp from "From the Heart", given for their Progressive Challenge, is perfect this time of year.
I did use the colors from the challenge at Sketchy Colors.
Fast description here: colored with ProMarkers, die cut with a die from Spellbinders, dp from DCWV and that set of papers has been in my 'fall' stash for more than 3 years! Ribbons also from my stash and they were scraps about to be thrown out but worked perfectly for this card design.
We are starting another challenge at QKR Stampede today and our theme is "Make Your Own Background."
For more than a month now, I've been doing fall/ Halloween/ Thanksgiving theme projects and today I'm thinking about how we'll all feel after one day in the Black Friday crush of shoppers. Here's another card for my Christmas stash.
The image is colored with ProMarkers and die cut. I hand-cut the shopping bag and popped it up on dimensional dots. The background is made from natural fiber paper (great texture!), and I chalked the red and green Christmas colors onto it. My final touches were the ribbon bow and the little gems on the corners of the image piece. Pretty CAS and it really showcases that fun image.
I'm already thinking of three more themes and sentiments for this Couch Potato, one of which has to do with Super Bowl Sunday and another for "after the meal" Thanksgiving. I may even do something with a sun lamp and a 'baked potato' sentiment. lol This is going to be a very versatile image!
I have no idea why this image from The East Wind made me think of a "Get Well" card; maybe it was the potion bottle that made me think of 'a teaspoon of medicine?' :-D Whatever it was, I love the dragon and I know a granddaughter who will love it, too, so I'll have a get well card in the stash if she gets sick this winter.
I colored the image (using a favorite blue and purple color combo) with a combination of ProMarkers and Copics and, although it doesn't show, I added sparkle gel ink to the bottle. The image is cut with a framing die from Spellbinders and the polka dot blue mat is also die cut. I layered that onto a deep purple CS, then added the sparkly striped ribbon. I used that same ribbon to tie the bow with my Craft-Dee BowZ bow maker. Finally, I added the sentiment. Can you believe everything was done with scraps from my stash, including the ribbon?
If you go looking for this image, don't look for the moon in it. I added that myself by drawing around a circle die because I thought it gave more of a Halloween/harvest look. The image is colored with my ProMarkers and I cut it out with a die from Spellbinders.
I took all the little leaves which fell out of the die cut, colored them, and used some of them on the embossed tree in the background. The black lace was added and I hand cut the printed sentiment, then colored the background on it, and adhered it across both the image and the lace.
Yes, I know birds learn to fly at a young age and aren't required to have a license but that's only when they use their own wings to fly. Flying a broom like a witch is a totally different thing! Check out the example below and you'll see what I mean about being a Student Pilot.
and also followed their "CAS with paper strips" twist.
That silly bird is a digi I got at From the Heart Stamps and those Bird Brains are fast becoming favorites of mine. I used my ProMarkers to color the image then added strips cut from dp scraps and three little black gems.
I'm trying to get caught up on things after being gone last week so if I haven't made it over to visit your blog yet, be patient with me, won't you? I have more classes this week and have to find time to get my car registered, have some lab work done, and still find some time for relaxation and fun in the craft room.
I love Doodle Pantry stamps! This one is from a couple of years ago and I don't think I've used it before. Shame on me! But it's just too cute to languish in the stash any longer.
I added my sentiment to the inside, wanting to keep the outside as CAS as possible.
It's also from Doodle Pantry. This time, I guess my "white" space is black.
I took my colors primarily from House That Stamps Built.
The doily is cut with a die from Cheery Lynn, from paper by Lawn Fawn. The bow is one of those I make myself and toss in my stash for use as needed. It was made from white satin ribbon and I used my ProMarkers to 'dye' it the shade of purple I wanted.
I'm late posting this and I apologize. I didn't get the post written and pre-scheduled before having to leave for the conferences I attended last week. But at least I have it up today.
The newest challenge at QKR Stampede started on Friday and our theme is "Scarecrows." I used an image called "Scarecrow" Digi 8807 and Digi 15808 "Good Friends" as the sentiment.
Colored with my ProMarkers, die cut with a die from QuicKutz, and some sparkly ribbon from Really Reasonable Ribbon for texture. Both the leaf embellie and the layers of flower petals were hand punched. I added one small pearl to the center of the flower.
My grandson just turned 9 and he wanted to do an Army theme for his party. My daughter has a friend who's a Sgt. in the National Guard, and she brought all kinds of gear and desert camo stuff for decorating, including a bivouac tent, cots, and sleeping bags. Everyone showed up wearing some kind of camo clothing.
We made MREs (Meals, Ready to Eat) for each child, filled with typical birthday treats. We also made up door prize bags for each kid to take home. They ran and played Nerf Dart tag, then divided into teams and competed with each other on treasure hunts and other games.
In keeping with the military theme, I did this card with an adorable image from Bugaboo Stamps.
because they made it easy to do the camo and the boots.
A really CAS design, colored with my ProMarkers, but perfect for his birthday.
I had some wonderful inspiration for this card, not the least of which are some early childhood memories of Halloween and costumes. Once I was beyond the age where my mom chose my costumes and dressed me for Halloween Trick or Treating, my first demand for a costume was to be Alice in Wonderland. Don't ask me why -- my First Grader's thought process is not part of my memory.
But my mother dutifully sewed an "Alice" costume for me from some blue and yellow fabrics she had on hand (no, there weren't any costume stores back in those days - we made our own.) The following year, I still wanted to be Alice and fortunately, the costume still fit, although it was a bit short. By Third Grade, when I wanted to be Alice again, my mom had to let out a couple of seams and add a ruffle to the hem so that the jumper would be long enough. And there it ended. By Fifth Grade, I'd had a growth spurt and no amount of costume alteration would let me wear it one more time. But I still remember my first costume and whenever someone mentions Alice in Wonderland, I always think of Halloween. Probably nobody else associates those two things, but I do.
The scallops are done with a border die from Cheery Lynn and because they are a separate piece, I had to adhere them to the sides of the rectangles. I added the sentiment and then left it alone to show off those wonderful scallops.
but did just the bow instead of a ribbon across the middle.
The only coloring this time was on the little mouse and her eyes, both of which were colored with ProMarkers. I really liked the pencil sketch look of this image and wanted those muted colors that we see after the garishly-hued leaves have all dropped and died in the late fall. The image and the sentiment were printed directly onto the card front so what looks like a mat of brown CS behind the image is actually layered on top of the image and a window is cut so the image shows.
I didn't know I was going to do a frame around the image when I printed the card front and it was a challenge just getting the window cut in the right spot. Not only did I have to get the image framed, I had to make sure the sentiment still showed. That's a process I'll think all the way through before trying it again. :-D I added three score lines at the top for a little texture and interest.
It wasn't until I was editing the photograph that I noticed the misprint on the sentiment. I corrected the missing stem on the "p" in 'Spooked' with a black ink pen but couldn't correct the photograph and didn't have time to photograph it again..
Another Sunday morning and another challenge starts at Pile It On. We have a 1, 2, 3 recipe for you this week, meaning that we want to see 1 of something, 2 of something else, and 3 of something else. You get to choose what those things are. I chose 1 bow, 2 mats of CS behind my image, and 3 different ribbons.
Our sponsor is Stitchy Bear and they generously provided images for the DT. I used a new one called "Snowflake Butterflies" and the sentiment that came with it.
I colored the image with my ProMarkers and added a bit of sparkle to the snowflakes with a gel pen. I die cut the image, plus two CS layers for mats. I went shopping this week and bought new ribbons, so three of those made their way onto the card. Finally, I added the little bow which is one of those I make by the dozen and toss in my stash. Like the majority of my other bows, this was made from white ribbon and I 'dyed' it with my markers to get the exact share of blue I wanted.
The image on this card is a freebie from TLC Creations in honor of World Card Making Day. Since I spent the majority of the day with family while we celebrated my grandson's birthday, I didn't have much time to make cards. This one was a late evening effort and I rather like it. Thanks, TLC!
I colored it with ProMarkers, cut it with a die from QuicKutz, and added two mats before layering it onto a white card base. The feathers were in my stash and the bow is one of those I make and keep in my stash for future use.
One of the really great things about Thanksgiving when I was a child was the pumpkin pie! For some reason, we rarely had it the rest of the year but Thanksgiving was a guarantee that the lovely, orange-y, nutmeg-spicy pie would be there, just waiting for a first bite. It was my favorite pie back then and remains so all these years later. :-D My card today celebrates that annual occasion.
I used this sketch from Tuesday Morning Sketches.
I colored the image with chalk markers and made a background sky and clouds by coloring with gel inks. (I'm totally crazy about all these Bird Brain images by From the Heart Stamps!) I added gold and silver glitter to the moon and gold glitter to the embossed pumpkin embellie. The papers are from Lawn Fawn and I rounded the corners on the image and the mat with a punch. The 'raffia' ribbon is actually a strip of plastic bag, wrapped around the card front and scrunched on a piece of 3/8s double stick tape. The bow is made from glitter-striped ribbon, tied with my bow maker.
New challenge at QKR Stampede this morning and our theme is everybody's favorite, "Anything Goes" so I took advantage of that to get one more Christmas card done for the stash. I used Digi 4201 "Gnome Man" and Digi 15710 "Name Ain't There" for the sentiment.
All it took to turn him from a plain gnome into Santa was to color him in red. :-D I used ProMarkers and chalks, and die cut him with a die from Spellbinders. The dp is a left over scrap from my stash. I made the candy cane with recycled white and red wires, twisted together and curved into the cane shape. The bow is tied from red cord. It's a CAS design and I really like it. This one will be easy to mail come holiday time.
It's time for the next monthly challenge over at Pattie's Creations and our new theme is "Fall or Halloween." In honor of a new month and a new challenge, I bought a new type of die (new for me) and used it for the first time. It's a reverse die, by Memory Box, meaning that when you use it, you have the negative space showing instead of the cut out piece. Check out these butterflies.
and Crafting for all Seasons.
The image is called Pumpkin Watering Can with Mums and I love it! It was fantastic to color and I used a die from Spellbinders to frame it. The sentiment is mine. I used two different colors of CS, both of which have been embossed with my 'Linen' folder.
No, it's not the Headless Horseman. Take a closer look.
by From the Heart Stamps.
This is a brand new image for me and I'm using it right away! I colored with Copics and used Memory Box dies to cut the image and the mat. The dp piece is from DCWV, the "Autumn Melody" stack. I added three little punched leaves which were still on my desk from yesterday's creation. I didn't do any other embellishing since I want this for a masculine card.


I know I just posted a Jamie Oliver recipe a week or so ago, but I'm telling you - this guy is a culinary genius. I adore pasta. Truly, I adore it. This is a really simple, yet beautiful way to make a quick pasta dish. It's perfect for an easy weeknight dinner or something to wow weekend guests with. You can make it as spicy as you'd like...mine came out with a bit more kick than I had anticipated, but still delicious.
Heat the frying pan with olive oil and add garlic and onion. Saute until tender - about 3 minutes. Add the dried chili, tomatoes and olives. Let cook for another 5 minutes. Add a quick swig of balsamic vinegar and leave the heat on low. Meanwhile, cook the pasta according to the directions on the box.
Before the pasta is done, add salt, pepper and greens to the tomato mixture. Toss until the greens start to wilt.


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Q: Itereate HashMap with HashSet as values I've got HashMap with HashSet as value
How to iterate over it ti reseive result like:
   key1
   value1
   value2
   value3
   ...
   key2
   value1
   value2
   value3
   key3
   ...

I have something wrong in my code:
Map<String, HashSet<String>> remarksMap = new HashMap<String, HashSet<String>>();
//...

Iterator<Map.Entry<String, HashSet<String>>> itr1 = remarksMap.entrySet().iterator();
Iterator<String> itr2 = itr1.next().getValue().iterator();

    while (itr1.hasNext()) {

        System.out.println(itr1.next().getKey());

        while (itr2.hasNext()) {
            System.out.println(itr2.next());

        }
    }

Currently receiving wrong result like:
key1
value1
value2
value3
key2
key3
key4
...

A: You don't need explicit Iterators to do this.
Here's a simplified nested iteration with fast-enumeration:
Map<String, HashSet<String>> remarksMap = new HashMap<String, HashSet<String>>();
for (String k: remarksMap.keySet()) {
    System.out.printf("%s%n", k);
    for (String v: remarksMap.get(k)) {
        System.out.printf("\t%s%n", v);
    }
}

A: put that Iterator<String> itr2 = itr1.next().getValue().iterator(); into your loop like this:
Map<String, HashSet<String>> remarksMap = new HashMap<String, HashSet<String>>();
//...

Iterator<Map.Entry<String, HashSet<String>>> itr1 = remarksMap.entrySet().iterator();

while (itr1.hasNext()) {

    Map.Entry<String, HashSet<String>> entry = itr1.next();
    System.out.println(entry R.getKey());
    Iterator<String> itr2 = entry .getValue().iterator();

    while (itr2.hasNext()) {
        System.out.println(itr2.next());

    }
}

A: You initialize itr2 with the values of the first element of your map and not with the values of the current element. Adjust it like
Iterator<Map.Entry<String, HashSet<String>>> itr1 = remarksMap.entrySet().iterator();

while (itr1.hasNext()) {
    Map.Entry<String, HashSet<String>> entry = itr1.next();
    System.out.println(entry.getKey());
    Iterator<String> itr2 = entry.getValue().iterator();

    while (itr2.hasNext()) {
        System.out.println(itr2.next());
    }
}

A: Check following code,
    Map<String,HashSet<String>> map = new HashMap<String,HashSet<String>>(); // Map with HashSet as value

    HashSet<String> hashset1 = new HashSet<String>();
    hashset1.add("Midhun");
    hashset1.add("Amal");
    hashset1.add("Ajith");

    HashSet<String> hashset2 = new HashSet<String>();
    hashset2.add("Sooraj");
    hashset2.add("Vinay");
    hashset2.add("Vishnu");

    // Putting data in to Map
    map.put("friends",hashset1);
    map.put("relatives",hashset2);

    for(Entry<String,HashSet<String>> mapEntry : map.entrySet()){
        System.out.println("Key :: "+mapEntry.getKey());
        for(String value : mapEntry.getValue()){
            System.out.println("Value :"+value);
        }
        System.out.println("===================");
    }

A: Move your itr2 assignment to inside your itr1 while loop.
But be careful! Your System.out.println() in the outer loop grabs the next key, and your itr2 assignment currently does the same. Make sure you only call next() once each time you go through the loop, or you'll miss some keys.


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using System;
using NUnit.Framework;
using spectator.Sources.WMI;

namespace spectator.Tests.Sources
{
    [TestFixture]
    public class WindowsManagementInstrumentationDefinitionTests
    {
        [Test]
        public void windows_management_instrumentation_definition_cannot_be_created_from_nothing()
        {
            Assert.Throws<ArgumentNullException>(() => new WindowsManagementInstrumentationDefinition(null));
        }

        [Test]
        public void windows_management_instrumentation_definition_must_start_with_slash()
        {
            Assert.Throws<ArgumentException>(() => new WindowsManagementInstrumentationDefinition("querysource"));
        }

        [Test]
        public void windows_management_instrumentation_definition_must_contain_a_querysource_and_property()
        {
            Assert.Throws<ArgumentException>(() => new WindowsManagementInstrumentationDefinition(""));
            Assert.Throws<ArgumentException>(() =>  new WindowsManagementInstrumentationDefinition("\\querysource"));
        }

        [Test]
        public void a_windows_management_instrumentation_can_be_defined_from_a_querysource_and_a_property()
        {
            var counter = new WindowsManagementInstrumentationDefinition("\\querysource\\property");

            Assert.That(counter.QuerySource, Is.EqualTo("querysource"));
            Assert.That(counter.PropertyName, Is.EqualTo("property"));
        }

        [TestCase("\\query%^@")]
        [TestCase("\\query source")]
        [TestCase("\\!*@(#&;")]
        public void querysource_cannot_contain_characters_other_than_alphanumerics_or_underscore(string querySource)
        {
            Assert.Throws<ArgumentException>(() => new WindowsManagementInstrumentationDefinition(querySource));
        }
    }
}

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Colonial Williamsburg Begins 'Reenactments' About 'LGBT History In The Colonies'
Conservative News Daily August 26, 2021 Posted in Conservative News Daily - Breaking News 0 Likes 710 Views
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The Colonial Williamsburg Foundation, which runs a monument to 1700s history in Virginia, has created a "Gender Diversity Committee" to create "programs and reenactments geared toward educating the public on LGBTQ history in the colonies."
The Virginia Gazette reported that their goal is "piecing together a more complete history of LGBTQ people in colonial times" and that "they have made strides in answering their research question: What is the Western population's view on sexuality and gender and how did they determine who was a man and who was a woman?"
Committee researcher Ron Tolson told the paper that LGBT people were more accepted than expected. One woman asked for a marriage license to marry a woman but was denied. The next day she came back with short hair and men's clothes and the license was granted.
One colonist was born Thomasine in England, but joined the Army as Thomas, and wore both men's and women's clothing in Virginia. "A trial ensued and the court ruled Hall was both a man and a woman," the paper said.
Colonists also read a book called "Fanny Hill: Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure," about the "multiple romantic relationships of two women."
The history museum will soon begin running a play called "Ladies of Llangollen," a "true account of a love story between two 18th century women whose relationship garnered the attention of Queen Charlotte."
"For a lot of people, it's very hard to know yourself when you don't know your history and you feel an incomplete form of your own identity," Tolson said.
The museum and history industry has become gripped with the fever over "diversity and equity."
Latta Plantation, a museum in North Carolina, was "closed indefinitely" by Mecklenburg County in June after criticism of a program that included stories told from the perspective of a former slavemaster who was "on the run" from Yankee troops and living in the woods. "Confederate soldiers who will be heading home express their feelings about the downfall of the Confederacy," a flyer said, according to WSOC-TV.
Ian Campbell, the museum's manager, who is black, said he would never glorify the Confederacy and that the media had engaged in a rush to judgment.
"To the masses on social media and politicians, no apology will be given for bringing a unique program to educate the public about former slaves becoming free," he said.
Also this summer, a consultant to the state of Virginia said the early colony's celebration of America's 250th birthday in 2026 should not be called a celebration because "For those who had significant concerns about how inclusive events will be, or that the U.S. hasn't lived up to its values, the word 'celebration' can appear to be tone-deaf (or worse)."
She cited a survey in which one respondent lamented that a celebration of America in 1776 would not have enough "Latinx voices."
Related: America's 250th Birthday Will Be A 'Commemoration,' Not 'Celebration' In Virginia Because Leftists Don't Think It's Worth Celebrating
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What Happens When Entire Departments Get the Ax
By Robin Wilson
MGH Photo for the Chronicle
Terry J. Converse (above, in a campus theater), a professor of theater at Washington State U., is upset that his department is slated to be axed while other programs remain intact.
The Jones Theatre at Washington State University is getting a $500,000 face-lift this summer. A construction crew has already ripped out its 500 orange and blue seats and is replacing them with new ones covered in a wine-colored fabric. The theater's walls are being painted a light beige, and a new set of black velour curtains will grace the stage.
But some professors are worried that the theater will remain dark. That's because the department of theater and dance is one of three academic programs slated for elimination because of budget cuts at Washington State. Officials say they must slash a total of $54-million from the university's budget over the next two years. The 11 tenured and tenure-track professors who work in the three programs are also on the chopping block.
Administrators are calling the eliminations "vertical cuts." Instead of slicing costs equally across the board as many other colleges have done, the administration singled out a few that it said were not crucial to the university's mission and attracted few students or little outside research money.
As the economy slumped this year, institutions in other states adopted similar strategies. The Louisiana Board of Regents cut the philosophy major at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette, for instance, and colleges in Idaho, Florida, Michigan, and Wisconsin are also planning to eliminate programs and departments.
That has typically happened after broader austerity measures have failed to stanch enough red ink. "You can bleed to death from a thousand cuts," says Warwick M. Bayly, provost at Washington State. "We felt we had to prioritize."
But selective cuts have their own price. Faculty morale is hurt, and professors worry that the damage extends to the overall reputation of the institution. Terry J. Converse, a professor of theater who has been at Washington State for 18 years, is angry that his department is scheduled to be wiped out completely while others remain largely intact. "It's unconscionable," says Mr. Converse. "It's just not fair to knock off a very functional department that is critical to the liberal arts when it clearly could have been completely avoided."
Justifying the Cuts
As colleges and universities struggle through the nation's economic downturn, most are trying to preserve both academic programs and tenured faculty jobs. When it comes to saving money, universities are laying off staff members, freezing future faculty hiring, imposing furloughs, and trimming operating expenses. Some are merging academic departments, but few are eliminating them outright.
Besides theater and dance, Washington State also wants to get rid of the German major and the department of community and rural sociology. It figures the cuts will save $3.6-million over the next two years. In documents justifying the cuts, officials said professors in theater have too little time for research and that those in community and rural sociology bring in little money for research. Rural sociology has no undergraduate majors, and German awarded only four degrees in 2008. The theater program, administrators said, lacks "visibility and impact."
Other universities that have sliced specific programs include the University of Idaho, which has cut 18 degrees, including master's of arts in the teaching of Spanish, French, German, history, chemistry, and earth science. Administrators at Florida Atlantic University want to suspend the master's program in women's studies. And the political-science major was eliminated this year at Wisconsin Lutheran College after the college laid off the two faculty members who taught in the discipline.
On some campuses, the cuts have become a rallying point for faculty members, students, and alumni. At Louisiana's Lafayette campus, where the philosophy major was cut, a dozen students and alumni boarded a school bus near the campus in late May to attend a Board of Regents meeting in Baton Rouge. They wore white T-shirts with black lettering that said, "Let My People Think." Their mission: to persuade the board to reinstate philosophy. "How can you have a university without a philosophy program?" asks István S.N. Berkeley, an associate professor in the program who traveled to Baton Rouge.
While the regents said they were sympathetic, they did not change their minds. The board had decided in April to cut the philosophy major along with dozens of other "low completer" programs at Louisiana's public colleges. In the last five years, the philosophy program at Lafayette has graduated fewer than four students per year. In documents on the program cuts, the regents said that "philosophy as an essential undergraduate program has lost some credence among students."
Gerard L. Killebrew, the regents' associate commissioner for academic affairs, says the decision to eliminate the philosophy major wasn't easy. "The idea of philosophy as a core discipline is exceptionally valid," he says. "But that can be accomplished without having a free-standing program. There simply are not enough students to justify it."
The regents did not say how much money they would save by eliminating the low-completer programs, and, unlike Washington State, faculty members in the programs will not automatically lose their jobs. But Mr. Killebrew says professors in the programs who retire may not be replaced, and universities would save money on the costs of administering the programs, such as maintaining accreditation.
The five tenured or tenure-track faculty members in philosophy will continue to teach introductory-level courses to nonmajors. But it isn't clear whether the professors will be interested in staying at Lafayette without the challenge of teaching advanced courses.
Keith Korcz, who coordinates Lafayette's philosophy program, says eliminating the major runs contrary to the university's overall mission statement, which says: "The University is dedicated to … a fundamental subscription to general education, rooted in the primacy of the traditional liberal arts."
Mr. Korcz also points out that student interest in philosophy is on the rise at Lafayette —a total of 31 undergraduates had declared it their major as of last January. And the program's philosophy club attracted more than 150 students at one of its meetings last year.
"This program is stronger than it's ever been," he says. "But the board has said, If you want to make a serious study of philosophy, you can't do it here."
'Just the Beginning'
Peter D. Eckel wrote a book in 2003 called Changing Course: Making the Hard Decisions to Eliminate Academic Programs. Now a new edition of the book is coming out. "These issues are back on the table," says Mr. Eckel, who is director of programs and initiatives for the American Council on Education's Center for Effective Leadership.
Mr. Eckel predicts that the current round of academic-program cuts in higher education "is just the beginning." He says universities start eliminating academic departments when "there are no more notches in the belt to tighten." Administrators who do the cutting, he says, evaluate programs according to three criteria: cost, quality, and centrality to the mission of the university. Small numbers of students, few faculty members, and a home in academic units with other priorities all heighten the risk.
Most of the professors at Washington State will be allowed to work another academic year before they are out of a job. The university's faculty handbook allows it to lay off faculty members if their department is eliminated, although Mr. Bayly, the provost, says the university is trying to find jobs for the professors in other departments.
The university may have underestimated the outpouring of support for some of the programs it wants to scrap. Scholars have staged a national letter-writing campaign on behalf of the rural-sociology department, and in May students in theater and dance conducted a silent march across the campus to the president's office. (Despite the elimination of theater and dance, says Mr. Bayly, the newly renovated Jones Theatre will still get some use.)
In addition to eliminating three academic programs, university officials had also planned to cut a fourth program —in sport management —but faculty members persuaded administrators to grant the program a reprieve, at least until next year. The administration had said sport management was not central to the mission of the university. But professors pointed out that sport management graduates about 50 student majors a year and provides free athletic-training expertise to the university's sports programs. The provost is considering moving it from the university's College of Education to its College of Business.
The university is also making significant budget cuts in most of its other units. It announced details of those plans last week, saying it would cut the salaries of top administrators by 5 percent, consolidate some academic majors, trim its cooperative-extension program, and cut 192 jobs. Most of those jobs are administrative and staff positions, but some are academic positions off the tenure track in the classroom, the library, and in research centers. The College of Nursing is one of few that will be spared any reductions. Mr. Bayly says that is because nursing is considered a "high demand" area by the state legislature and its budget is already slim.
Mr. Eckel says faculty members can take steps to protect their programs from elimination. First, he says, professors should build connections between their programs and other units on the campus and position their programs so they are seen as "integral to key university activities." Professors should also build off-campus allies for their departments, he advises, and be ready to explain how their elimination would affect important constituencies, including students, women, and minority-group members.
Mr. Bayly says he understands how painful some of the cuts are. "Generally, nobody ever thinks they deserve to be reduced or phased out, and it's a very difficult thing," he says. "It is stressful and heartrending to have to make these decisions."
Annabel R. Kirschner, a full professor in community and rural sociology, is just three years away from her planned retirement. Closing academic programs and laying off tenured faculty, she says, are dramatic steps for a university to take. "I'm concerned it will reflect on the prestige of the university for many years to come," she says. Besides, Ms. Kirschner believes the action just wasn't necessary. "If they had done a 10-percent cut across the board," she says, "there wouldn't be a need to terminate tenured faculty." Mr. Bayly, however, says the university already tried that approach, making across-the-board reductions totaling between 2 percent and 5 percent in about 10 of the last 15 years. It wasn't enough, he says.
José L. García-Pabón has taught in the community and rural sociology department at Washington State for only two years. His position is unique: He is the university's first Latino community-development specialist. He works with Latino farmers on agriculture and health issues, and on literacy issues with the Latino population in general. Latinos are the fastest-growing minority group in the state. "If I'm gone," he adds, "I don't think anyone's going to continue to do these kinds of things."
Robin Wilson
Robin Wilson began working for The Chronicle in 1985, writing widely about faculty members' personal and professional lives, as well as about issues involving students. She also covered Washington politics, edited the Students section, and served as news editor.
Making the Cuts: Warnings for Faculty Members and Campus Leaders


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While Mr Blair worries about Iraq, the unions worry about him
BritainSep 14th 2002 edition
THE prime minister, Tony Blair, says he is willing to pay a "blood price" to prevent Saddam Hussein building up biological and nuclear weapons. But there could be a political price too. Speaking to the Trades Union Congress (TUC) this week, Mr Blair challenged the growing number of vocally anti-war union leaders to forgo rhetoric and work with the government to achieve common goals. "Indulgence or influence—it's a very simple choice," he said.
The prime minister's unqualified backing of American military action against Iraq, however, means awkward choices. Dealing with Saddam and finding extra money for the military is bound to affect domestic politics—starting with a recall of Parliament for a one-day debate in the week of September 23rd, which the government announced this week.
The chief war casualty on the home front could be next year's referendum on the euro. An early date, Mr Blair's initial preference, is expected to slip in the event of war. The longer the delay, and the worse the economic outlook in France and Germany, the stronger will become the arguments for postponing the whole thing. While opinion polls show large majorities against both adopting the euro and attacking Iraq, Mr Blair will not want to risk both an unpopular war and an unpopular referendum.
Another possible victim—strongly denied by his allies—is Mr Blair's determination to reform public services. The broad base of union support that sustained Labour's first term of office has eroded. Old friends such as John Monks, the TUC leader, and Sir Ken Jackson, former head of Amicus, the manufacturing union, are leaving the stage. A new breed of noisy left-wing union chiefs has taken power such as Bob Crow (railways) Derek Simpson (manufacturing), Dave Prentis (public sector) and Mick Rix (train drivers).
An immediate test of the government's resolve is the threatened national strike by Britain's firefighters, who are demanding a 40% wage increase taking their basic pay to £30,000. The last fire service strike, 25 years ago, went on for nine weeks. The government cannot afford to be seen to cave in but the pay campaign has public support. Both train and tube drivers have promised to help by stopping services. Laws against secondary strikes normally prevent this sort of thing, but the drivers say it would be unsafe to run trains with no firemen available.
All this may be awkward for the government but threats of a return to 1970s-style industrial mayhem are overdone. In truth, the TUC is deeply divided and the union movement has never been weaker. It represents less than 20% of private sector workers; even in the public sector, it has only 59%. For all the militants' hot air, most trade union leaders know that their power is strictly limited and that they have little to gain by sniping from the sidelines. Bob Crow, the fiery leader of the RMT, failed even to be elected to the TUC's governing body this week, the first rail leader not to win election to the general council.
The government will not budge on the unions' more extreme demands for repeal of all the Conservatives' trade union legislation. The employment relations minister, Alan Johnson, a former trade union general secretary, has said there is not "an ice cream's chance in hell" that the government would remove the requirement for ballots before strikes, or allow the return of the closed shop. But Mr Blair cannot ignore union concerns over public-private partnerships, pensions, and employment laws. With the party haemorrhaging members and woefully short of cash, he needs their support more than ever.
This article appeared in the Britain section of the print edition under the headline "The price of war"
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The importance of collections: identified specimens of Bombus polaris from the entomological collection at the University of Fairbanks, Alaska. Photo by M. Duennes.
We use a combination of lab- and field-based approaches to examine how bees function in, and are influenced by, their environment. Our work primarily focuses on the level of the organism and the molecular processes underlying bee behavior and physiology, but we also examine how these processes scale up to influence bee population dynamics and ecosystem function in natural systems.
There are more than 20,000 bee species worldwide, most of which we know virtually nothing about. We are also using comparative methods to characterize the molecular basis of fundamental processes in bees, such as larval development.
Most bees rely on pollen and nectar from flowering plants as their sole or primary nutrient sources. Yet, in many ecosystems around the world, floral resource availability is being significantly altered by agricultural intensification, global warming, and other anthropogenic processes.
Our research focuses heavily on floral food resources, as these are rapidly changing, quantifiable resources that have direct mechanistic relationships to bee behavior, physiology, and population dynamics. In the lab, we are using experimental feeding assays to study how bees eat, what they eat, and how this influences physiology and health. In the field, we are developing novel methods to examine how nutritional landscapes shape bee foraging behavior and population dynamic processes.
The oldest bee: the extinct Melittosphex burmensis, the oldest bee specimen, encased in amber. Photo used with permission from Poinar & Danforth (2006) Science 314:614.
The evolutionary history of bees can give us insight into how this insect group responds to environmental change. Bees arose from a wasp-like ancestor more than 100 million years ago, and today the group is highly diverse and found from the tropics to the Arctic, living under a wide variety of ecological conditions. We are using comparative genomic approaches to understand how bees have adapted to these unique environments, with a focus on the role that natural selection has played in this process.
Bees that have adapted to extreme environmental conditions are especially important models for understanding plasticity and resilience in the face of global change, given that many temperate areas are predicted to become hotter, drier, and/or more climatically variable in the coming years. We are studying the biology of bees in extreme environments in order to gain a predictive framework for anticipating how bees might respond to the global changes that threaten them.
Most bee species are solitary, but some lineages have independently transitioned to living a social lifestyle. The social bees and other group-living insects, such as ants and termites, have been extremely ecologically successful, in part because living in a social group creates a buffer between the individual and the environment. We are studying how and why some bees became social, and how their societies function today, in order to understand how sociality buffers bees against the direct impacts of their environment.
Inside the colony: a queen (center) surrounded by males and workers in a Bombus impatiens colony. Photo by A. Wild.


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Question Box
Is it ok to use fertility drugs and artificial insemination to conceive a child?
By Neela Kale June 7, 2012
Many couples experience the heartbreak and disappointment of being unable to conceive a child. While the Church encourages research that may help them to conceive, it also notes that some medical interventions available today are contrary to Catholic teaching. In the understanding of the Church, procreation and union are the twin purposes of sexual intimacy; conceiving a child is uniquely and necessarily linked to the loving sexual union between its mother and father. Any procedure that disassociates the procreative act from the sexual act is in violation of Church teaching. This rules out artificial insemination, even when the sperm and egg belong to the married couple, because of the involvement of third parties (doctors and technicians) in the procreative act. A child comes into the world as the fruit of its parents' sexual love for each other; the intervention of other parties cannot have the same meaning as that act of love. On the other hand, fertility drugs may be used to stimulate ovulation and help a married couple conceive through intercourse. Other morally acceptable procedures include surgery to correct tubal blockages in the reproductive system and timing intercourse to coincide with the most fertile days of the wife's menstrual cycle.
As devastating as infertility can be for a couple, it does not mean that they cannot have a loving and fruitful union. The Church encourages those who have exhausted morally legitimate procedures and still cannot bear children to be co-creators with God in other ways, through adopting children or through loving service to those in need.
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Neela Kale is a writer and catechetical minister based in the Archdiocese of Portland. She served with the Incarnate Word Missionaries in Mexico and earned a Master of Divinity at the Jesuit School of Theology. Some of her best theological reflection happens on two wheels as she rides her bike around the hills of western Oregon.
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package org.elasticsearch.search.aggregations.bucket.global;

import org.elasticsearch.common.io.stream.StreamInput;
import org.elasticsearch.common.io.stream.StreamOutput;
import org.elasticsearch.common.xcontent.XContentBuilder;
import org.elasticsearch.index.query.QueryParseContext;
import org.elasticsearch.search.aggregations.AbstractAggregationBuilder;
import org.elasticsearch.search.aggregations.AggregatorFactories.Builder;
import org.elasticsearch.search.aggregations.AggregatorFactory;
import org.elasticsearch.search.aggregations.InternalAggregation.Type;
import org.elasticsearch.search.internal.SearchContext;

import java.io.IOException;

public class GlobalAggregationBuilder extends AbstractAggregationBuilder<GlobalAggregationBuilder> {
    public static final String NAME = "global";
    private static final Type TYPE = new Type(NAME);

    public GlobalAggregationBuilder(String name) {
        super(name, TYPE);
    }

    /**
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        super(in, TYPE);
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    @Override
    protected void doWriteTo(StreamOutput out) throws IOException {
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    @Override
    protected AggregatorFactory<?> doBuild(SearchContext context, AggregatorFactory<?> parent, Builder subFactoriesBuilder)
            throws IOException {
        return new GlobalAggregatorFactory(name, type, context, parent, subFactoriesBuilder, metaData);
    }

    @Override
    protected XContentBuilder internalXContent(XContentBuilder builder, Params params) throws IOException {
        builder.startObject();
        builder.endObject();
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    public static GlobalAggregationBuilder parse(String aggregationName, QueryParseContext context) throws IOException {
        context.parser().nextToken();
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    @Override
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When it comes to seafood, there are a number of ways to express sustainability (though thankfully no claims of green seafood!) Our Seafood Watch program acknowledges seafood certified sustainable to the standards of the Marine Stewardship Council (marked on the pocket guides with a blue symbol). You can look for the MSC logo on products in the fresh and frozen counters, and in some restaurants too. If you can't find an MSC eco-labeled product, then look for one of the best choices among our recommendations. It's the green list, of course!rom the Monterey Bay Aquarium.
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Tuesday, February 29, 2000,
Barak hints at Golan Heights pullout
JERUSALEM, Feb 28 — Israel has for the first time given the Palestinians a limited choice over West Bank land to be transferred under an overdue troop withdrawal outlined under a signed accord, a Palestinian official said.
CHOKWE: A South African National Defence Force helicopter crew rescue people in Mozambique's Chokwe province who had been trapped on a roof top on Sunday. At least 150 persons have died, more than 2,00,000 have been left homeless and 8,00,000 are at risk since the floods began two weeks ago. — AP/PTI
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KARACHI, Feb 28 — The entire legal team defending deposed Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif against a possible death sentence will boycott the trial to protest against the court's refusal to let Mr Sharif testify in public, a key lawyer said today.
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PAKISTAN does not let go of any opportunity to internationalise its dispute with India and that is what it did in September last year by instituting proceedings against New Delhi before the International Court of Justice at the Hague over the shooting of a Pakistani plane that had intruded into Indian air space. Now the court is to hold hearings from April 3 to decide whether it has jurisdiction to deal with the bilateral dispute.
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JERUSALEM, Feb 28 (AFP) — Israel has for the first time given the Palestinians a limited choice over West Bank land to be transferred under an overdue troop withdrawal outlined under a signed accord, a Palestinian official said.
Under proposals presented through US Middle East envoy Dennis Ross, Israel is allowing the Palestinians to choose the 6.1 per cent due to be transferred out of a 10 per cent area earmarked by the government of Prime Minister Ehud Barak, the official said yesterday.
Mr Barak hinted he was prepared to withdraw from all of the occupied Golan Heights, the strategic plateau at the heart of the conflict.
He told a marathon Cabinet meeting on Lebanon yesterday that four of his predecessors had agreed to a withdrawal to the borders in place before Israel's occupation of the Golan in the June 1967 war.
"Four former government leaders accepted in very general terms that this June 4 line would be the basis of discussions with Syria in exchange for security arrangements," Justice Minister Yossi Beilin reiterated on Israeli radio.
While Barak did not specifically commit to such a withdrawal, he told ministers he does not intend to "throw away the past," press reports said today.
The Haaretz newspaper, citing a diplomatic source in Jerusalem, reported that the US administration had informed Israel that Syria has "shown an inclination" in the past few days to renew negotiations.
Mr Ross has so far waged an unsuccessful shuttle diplomacy between the Israelis and the Palestinians in a bid to kickstart peace talks which have been stalled for more than three weeks, causing the two sides to miss a mid-February deadline for a framework peace accord.
Palestinian sources said a planned meeting last night between Mr Ross and Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat, the third since Mr Ross's return to the region, had been put off a day.
Mr Barak had earlier said a peace accord with Syria is "far from certain" although US President Bill Clinton is pressing for a deal to be concluded by May, Israeli radio reported.
"Clinton is in a hurry because he is coming to the end of his term as President and fears a wave of Islamist violence that could ruin hopes for Middle East peace", the Israeli Prime Minister said.
Although Israel has left the way open to resuming the peace talks, "Syrian President Hafz Assad is hesitating to continue the dialogue because he is a member of the Alawite minority and fears for the very survival of his regime if he makes peace with Israel", Mr Barak added.
RIYADH (AFP): Saudi Arabia is contributing to a "discreet" US effort to persuade Syria to resume peace talks with Israel in March, an Arab diplomat said here today after a visit by the Syrian Foreign Minister.
The diplomat, asking not to be named, told AFP that the USA had made "proposals to work out a formula" that would allow Damascus to return to the negotiating table.
"An announcement of a resumption of negotiations could be made after the Arab League Foreign Ministers' meeting" on March 11 and 12 in Beirut, he said, adding that Washington was keeping its effort "discreet".
Syria's Foreign Minister Faruq al-Shara visited Saudi Arabia yesterday and held talks on the stalled peace process.
KARACHI, Feb 28 (Reuters) — The entire legal team defending deposed Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif against a possible death sentence will boycott the trial to protest against the court's refusal to let Mr Sharif testify in public, a key lawyer said today.
Mr Iqbal Raad, legal adviser to Mr Sharif's Pakistan Muslim League and member of the defence team, told Reuters television in an interview: ''We have boycotted this hearing because we have been denied the right of defence...we have walked out in protest.''
Mr Raad said none of the several defence lawyers would be present at the anti-terrorism court in Karachi on Wednesday when the trial was set to resume.
''We (have) stated that if ample opportunity is not being given to the defence, (and) to the accused persons in their defence, according to the law of the land and the rights which have been given by the constitution of this country.... there is no need for defence persons to be present there,'' Mr Raad added.
Mr Raad said Mr Sharif and the other accused were ''now at liberty to give their statements without the legal advice of their advocates or...they may engage other advocates to proceed with the case.''
He said the court should adjourn the proceedings on Wednesday to give time to the accused to get new lawyers.
The Advocate-General of Sind province, Raja Qureshi, told reporters last night that the move by the defence lawyers was politically motivated.
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The court had wished to hold hearings in March this year, but in view of requests by the parties, it had agreed to open them later. The April public hearings would last a week.
Pakistan had claimed that the aircraft which was shot by the Indian Air Force on August 10, 1999, was on a routine training mission with 16 personnel on board and that the plane was flying over Pakistani air space at the time of shooting. The Pakistani application had further alleged that in the two and a half hours which elapsed between the shooting down and the discovery of the wreckage, Indian helicopters sneaked into Pakistan's territory to pick up a few item from the debris in order to produce "evidence" for India's "claim" that the aircraft had been shot down over Indian air space.
Islamabad's contention is that the Indian action breached the obligations to refrain from the threat of use of force under Article 2 of the UN Charter and of the provisions of the agreement of April 1999 between Pakistan and India on Prevention of Air Space Violations, and of the obligations under customary international law not to use force against another state and not to violate the sovereignty of another state.
In November last year, India had told the Hague court that it had "preliminary objections" to the assumption of jurisdiction by the court on the basis of Pakistan's application. At a meeting with the then President of the court, judge Schwebel, the two parties had provisionally agreed to request the court to determine separately the question of the court jurisdiction before any proceedings on the merits of the case.
JAKARTA, Feb 28 (Reuters) — Indonesia's armed forces today said it would appoint outspoken, reformist Major-General Agus Wirahadikusumah to head the country's powerful army strategic command, Kostrad.
Meanwhile, Indonesian President today appointed former US Secretary of State Henry Kissinger as a political adviser.
Mr Kissinger said he would confer with President Abdurrahman Wahid at least once a year on political and social policy for the world's fourth most populous nation.
"I responded to the request of the President out of friendship for the Indonesian people and the importance I attach to the Indonesia nation," he told reporters after the meeting. "I would like Indonesia to be strong, unified and democratic."
Major-Gen Wirahadikusumah, outspoken critic of the military's involvement in politics, will replace a close ally of former military commander General Wiranto who was suspended from the Cabinet this month after being implicated in last year's violence in East Timor.
The 49-year-old Wirahadi-kusumah, who currently heads the south Sulawesi military command, will take over the post on March 1, chief military spokesman Graito Usodo told reporters.
Usodo, who announced that another senior Wiranto ally would also be replaced, denied that President Abdurrahman Wahid had been directly involved in the appointment but added : "There has to be a communication between...(the President) and the military command especially for strategic positions.''
MOSCOW, Feb 28 (Reuters) — The Council of Europe's Human Rights Commissioner was today set to visit rebel Chechnya as Russian troops battled to crush the last main stronghold of separatist fighters in the region's southern mountains.
Mr Alvaro Gil-Robles, a Spanish diplomat, was hoping to visit Chechnya's devastated capital Grozny, abandoned by the rebels earlier this month after weeks of heavy Russian bombardment.
His visit comes amid strong Western pressure on Russia to allow independent investigators into Chechnya to probe allegations of human rights abuses by its troops among parts of Grozny's civilian population and at special detention centres.
As he prepared to leave for the volatile North Caucasus, a lawyer for Russian war reporter Andrei Babitsky said he would protest against the detention of the journalist in the region.
Babitsky (35) reappeared on Friday in Makhachkala, the capital of Dagestan, the region neighbouring Chechnya, but was immediately arrested by police for allegedly holding a false passport.
Mr Gil-Robles was not expected to visit the detention centre of Chernokozovo, centre of allegations by Chechen refugees of systematic torture, rape and executions by Russian troops. The camp is about 50 km north of Grozny.
But a group of Western reporters was due to be shown the camp on Monday. Russia rejects the charges of rights abuses and acting president Vladimir Putin has appointed a human rights envoy to Chechnya, Mr Vladimir Kalamanov, who is accompanying Mr Gil-Robles on his trip.
Some of the British pilots who took part in the attack on four Nazi floating prisons in the Baltic on May 3, 1945, three days after Adolf Hitler's suicide, learned only recently that most of the dead were allies and not diehard Nazi SS troops as they believed.
"The Typhoons's Last Storm," by Paris-based US film-maker Lawrence Bond, includes shocking testimony by rare survivors recounting how Royal Air Force planes returned time and again to strafe swimmers who survived the initial attacks.
Former RAF pilots who flew in the mission are shown telling Bond they were told the ships carried Nazi leaders and troops trying to flee crumbling Germany to make a last stand in Norway, then still in German hands.
"We used our cannon fire at the chaps in the water...We shot them up with 20 mm cannon in the water. Horrible thing, but we were told to do it and we did it. That's war,'' said Allan Wyse, formerly of 193 Fighter Squadron.
David Ince, who led one of the aircraft formations, said the RAF pilots had just learned of conditions in the Bergen Belsen concentration camp, newly liberated by British troops, and had no qualms about killing people they thought were Nazis.
''I saw people killed. When they got hit, their bodies would jerk and sink into the water,'' said Maurice Choquet, then a teenager, captured by the Nazis during a sweep against ''Maquis'' guerrilla bands during their occupation of France.
"I could do nothing so I just held on to my plank. Then the planes came back again, right down on the water firing their machine guns," he said.
Some of the prisoners, resistance fighters and Jews from 24 European countries, managed to stumble ashore only to be shot dead on beaches near Lubeck, north Germany, by members of the Hitler Youth Movement or by SS troops, the survivors said.
"Although there was an investigation after the war, references to the operation in official histories mention the sinking of the ships but do not say who the people were that they were carrying," Bond told Reuters.
Military specialists and people in northern Germany are aware of the incident but it is not widely known. "It was one last horror forgotten in the joys of victory celebrations," Bond said.
The film, which had its premiere in the USA this month, is expected to be shown on European television channels later this spring, Bond said.
MANILA, Feb 28 (Reuters) — A restive volcano in the Central Philippines blew its top seven times overnight and scientists said today they expected eruptions to continue for weeks.
Tens of thousands of people have abandoned their homes on the slopes of Mayon and sought refuge in evacuation centres since it began erupting five days ago.
According to a bulletin of the Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology the restlessness displayed by Mayon, including the occurrence of swarms of earthquakes, "strongly indicates that explosive activity shall continue over the next weeks''.
Chief Provincial Relief Officer Cedric Daep said he expected the number of evacuees to swell.
Mr Daep said more than 47,000 persons now in evacuation centres included several thousand villagers whose houses were outside the designated no-man's land of six km from Mayon's crater but who fled anyway for fear of their lives.
Indian kills cook, commits suicide
KUWAIT CITY: An Indian driver set himself ablaze after murdering and mutilating a compatriot in a dispute, a newspaper reported on Sunday. Shankar Raju, 58, killed 28-year-old cook Krishnan Nair with a cleaver on Saturday before mutilating his body and dumping it in the back of a pick-up truck, the Arab Times said. In his efforts to disguise the murder, Raju doused with petrol the three other domestic workers in the house where they were employed, but failed to set them alight. — AFP
Fishermen rescued from ice floe
MOSCOW: Hundreds of stranded Russian fishermen had to be rescued on Monday from a huge ice floe that broke free on Lake Ladoga near the north-western city of St. Petersburg. The floe, measuring 4 by 15 km broke away from the shore ice on Sunday and carried up to 1,000 persons 14 km from land, news agencies reported. By mid-day on Monday around 400 persons including women and children, had been rescued by fishing boats and helicopters of the Emergency Situations Ministry, the Border Guards and a local oil company. — DPA
Prisoners to serve sentence at home
SINGAPORE: A home detention scheme to be introduced in Singapore will allow some criminal offenders to serve up to six months of their jail terms in their residences while wearing tags monitoring their movements, it was reported on Monday. The offences must be non-violent and non-sexual in nature for inmates to qualify for the new programme involving up to 40 convicts a month, prison officials said. Those selected will be entitled to leave home in the day to work or study but must be back during curfew hours from 2200 hrs to 0700 hrs. — DPA
Cops warn strippers
NEW ORLEANS: After 360 tourists got busted last year for exposing themselves during the Mardi Gras season, the police is warning this year's crowd to keep their clothes on or face even more arrests. And as the holiday parades began, the police warned hotel and restaurant owners that they will close down balconies if people toss beads or other trinkets from them. The beads are traditionally offered as rewards to people below for flashing flesh. On Friday, the first big parade night kicking off carnival, the 11 days leading up to Mardi Gras, the police arrested three women and one man for exposing themselves. — AP
Floods hamper relief work
SYDNEY: Floods hampered relief efforts on Monday in Cairns, the northeastern Australian city that the previous evening was buffeted by winds of up to 140 km per hour whipped up by a tropical cyclone codenamed "Steve". Cairns, a tourist destination close to the Great Barrier Reef, bore the brunt of cyclone "Steve" with 40,000 homes losing electricity and widespread property damage. Residents were being evacuated from Cairns' northern suburbs as run-off from the Atherton tablelands turned normally placid rivers into raging torrents. — DPA
Spy agencies bugged Diana
LONDON: Spy agencies in Britain and America eavesdropped on Princess Diana, Princess of Wales and Mark Thatcher, son of former Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher as part of a global system of monitoring communications, media reports on Sunday said. Calls by Diana were picked up because of her international charity work. Thatcher's calls surfaced in the monitoring of British arms deals with Saudi Arabia, the Sunday Times said quoting former intelligence officials. The officials revealed that organisations like Amnesty International, Christian Aid and Greenpeace were also spied on. — PTI
UK nuclear firm's chief quits
LONDON: British nuclear fuels chief executive John Taylor has resigned over a safety scandal at the state-owned company, The Independent newspaper reported on Monday. It said his departure would be announced on Tuesday. Britain's nuclear watchdog this month issued a damning report on the Sellafield Reprocessing Plant in northern England which British Nuclear Fuels Ltd (BNFL) operates. — Reuters
Bulgaria's Queen Mother dies
SOFIA: Loanna, the mother of Bulgaria's exiled King Simeon II, has died. She was 92. Loanna, died on Saturday "after a brief illness" in Estoril, Portugal where she lived alone, Bulgarian state BTA news agency quoted the Bulgarian royal family on Sunday. — AP
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House passes $1.4 spending deal to prevent government shutdown
The deal addresses funding for border security, gun violence and the military
by: Alexandra Limon
WASHINGTON (NEXSTAR) — The House of Representatives may have averted an impending government shutdown by passing a spending deal addressing funding for border security, gun violence and the military.
The deal, passed by the House on Tuesday, may have ended a weeks-long fight to fund the government over money for President Trump's border wall: Republicans wanted to increase funding while Democrats wanted to kill it altogether.
"This bill does not give President Trump additional border security funding over what he had last year but it does give him what he had last year. It's a compromise," said House Democratic Leader Steny Hoyer.
Democrats also included millions of dollars in the package to pay for official oversight of immigration detention facilities.
The nearly $1.4 trillion spending package also provides $425 million for states to beef up election security and includes $25 million Democrats say will help get a grip on gun violence.
"By funding gun violence research at the CDC and the National Institutes of Health for the first time in more than 20 years," said House Speaker Nancy Pelosi.
The spending package was split into two bills. Rep. Kay Granger (R-TX) said Republicans also won their share because the deal increases defense spending, extends some business tax breaks and "secures the largest pro-life victory in a generation by maintaining the Trump administration's Title X family planning regulation."
The deal also raises the legal age for tobacco to 21 and extends tax cuts for middle-class families.
The spending package will have to be approved by the Senate and signed by Trump by Friday to avoid a shutdown.
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by BRIAN SLODYSKO, Associated Press / Jan 17, 2020
WASHINGTON (AP) — Billionaire Michael Bloomberg won't have to publicly disclose his finances until late March, well after voters in more than a dozen states take to the polls on Super Tuesday.
Presidential candidates are required to reveal their investments, businesses and streams of income. Bloomberg, the former New York City mayor, is the only Democrat seeking the White House who has yet to file paperwork to publicly disclose his.


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Facebook cracks down Ukraine-based fake accounts
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Copywriter and Senior News Editor
Tue, 22nd Jan 2019
Facebook has stamped out two massive fake account networks that appeared to originate from Russia and the Ukraine.
The first network comprised at least 107 Facebook pages, groups and account, as well as 41 Instagram accounts that were 'engaging in coordinated inauthentic behaviour'.
The accounts, which shared local Ukrainian news on topics including NATO, protests, and weather, demonstrated similar overlap with Russia-based activity prior to the United States midterm elections. Behaviour also shared characteristics with activity from the Internet Research Agency, which is a Russian organisation with a mission to influence public opinion and politics.
According to Facebook's head of cybersecurity policy, Nathaniel Gleicher, the network spent approximately US$25,000 on ad spending across Facebook and Instagram.
"The first ad ran in January 2018, and the most recent ad ran in December 2018. We have not completed a review of the organic content coming from these accounts," Gleicher writes in a blog.
"About 180,000 Facebook accounts followed one or more of these Pages, and more than 55,000 accounts followed one or more of these Instagram accounts.
The second takedown involved 364 Facebook pages and accounts for 'engaging in coordinated inauthentic behaviour'. The network originated in Russia and operated in a number of regions including Central Asia, the Baltics, the Caucasus, as well as Central and Eastern European countries.
The accounts masqueraded as news pages or general news pages. Many of the posts spread anti-NATO sentiment, protests, corruption, and many accounts were linked to a Moscow-based news agency called Sputnik.
The accounts spent approximately US$135,000 on ads on Facebook.
"The first ad ran in October 2013, and the most recent ad ran in January 2019. We have not completed a review of the organic content coming from these accounts," Gleicher continues.
Approximately 790,000 accounts followed one or more of the offending pages. What's more, Around 190 events were hosted by the pages.
"The first was scheduled for August 2015, and the most recent was scheduled for January 2019. Up to 1200 people expressed interest in at least one of these events. We cannot confirm whether any of these events actually occurred," Gleicher says.
Facebook says it has shared information about its investigation with United States law enforcement, the United States Congress, other tech companies and policymakers in countries affected by the face accounts.
It is also committed to security efforts to uncover abuses, particularly as Europe faces political movement and elections in 2019.
"We are committed to making improvements and building stronger partnerships around the world to more effectively detect and stop this activity," Gleicher concludes.
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