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Belgium has closed a major meat processing plant in the country, and supermarkets have taken meat products off their shelves in a scandal over rotten meat.
The company, Veviba, saw its licence revoked by the federal government, after spot checks revealed a potential health risk in two products: minced beef and oxtail.
Officials found traces of so-called meat waste, pieces of the carcass, intended for animal feed which are prohibited for human consumption.
Meanwhile, a Viveba employee spoke to Belgian public broadcaster and explained how he manipulated labels on meat products.
In the end, that prolonged the meat for a year.
The meat in question was then exported to southeastern Europe, and not to the home market.
But the fallout of the scandal continues in Belgium, where the public health committee of the federal parliament debated the issue for the first time.


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Egyptian Voters Approve Referendum Extending Sissi's Rule Until 2030
The nationwide referendum is widely seen as another step toward restoring authoritarian rule eight years after a pro-democracy uprising that toppled Mubarak
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FILE PHOTO: Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sissi attends a signing ceremony following a meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Sochi, Russia, October 17, 2018. \ POOL New/ REUTERS
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Egyptians vote in constitutional referendum that could extend Sissi rule until 2030
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Voters in Egypt approved constitutional amendments allowing President Abdel-Fattah al-Sissi to remain in power until 2030, election officials said Tuesday, a move that critics fear will cement his authoritarian rule eight years after a pro-democracy uprising.
Sissi led the military overthrow of an elected but divisive Islamist president amid mass protests against his rule in 2013 and has since presided over an unprecedented crackdown on dissent. Thousands of people, including many pro-democracy activists, have been arrested by authorities. Freedoms won in 2011, when mass protests ended President Hosni Mubarak's nearly three-decade rule, have been rolled back.
Lasheen Ibrahim, the head of Egypt's National Election Authority, told a news conference the amendments to the 2014 constitution were approved with 88.83% voting in favor, with a turnout of 44.33%. The nationwide referendum took place over three days, from Saturday through Monday to maximize turnout. Egypt has some 61 million eligible voters.
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In his first public comments on the amendments, Sissi thanked the Egyptian people for voting "yes."
An Egyptian man holds a banner reading : "Vote with us... now... now" outside a polling station in shamma village in shamma village, Menoufia, Egypt, April 22, 2019. AFP
"Wonderful scene done by Egyptians who took part in the referendum... will be written down in our nation's historical record," he tweeted minutes after Ibrahim announced the results.
Pro-government media, business people and lawmakers had pushed for a "Yes" vote and a high turnout, with many offering free rides and food handouts to voters, while authorities threatened to fine anyone boycotting the three-day referendum.
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Opposition parties had urged a "no" vote, but they have little power in parliament, which is packed with Sissi supporters and overwhelmingly approved the amendments earlier this month. The local media is also dominated by pro-government commentators, and the authorities have blocked hundreds of websites, including many operated by independent media and rights groups.
Two international advocacy groups — Human Rights Watch and the International Commission of Jurists — had urged the Egyptian government to withdraw the amendments, saying they placed the country on a path to more autocratic rule.
Hassan Nafaa, a political science professor at Cairo University, said the results were expected. "There will be dangerous repercussion from the ruling regime as we will see more repression and restrictive policies," he said.
Egyptian women cast their ballots in a box as they vote in a referendum on constitutional amendments, Cairo, Egypt, April 10, 2019.AFP
Generally, the amendments extend a president's term in office from four to six years and allow for a maximum of two terms. But they also include a special article specific to Sissi that extends his current second four-year term to six years and allows him to run for another six-year term in 2024 — potentially extending his rule until 2030.
Sissi was elected president in 2014 and re-elected last year after all potentially serious challengers were jailed or pressured to exit the race.
Parliament overwhelmingly approved the amendments last week, with only 22 no votes and one abstention from 554 lawmakers in attendance. The national electoral commission announced the following day that voting would begin Saturday.
Since early April, the Egyptian capital had been awash with large posters and banners encouraging people to vote in favor of the changes. Most of the posters were apparently funded by pro-government parties, businessmen and lawmakers.
In Cairo's central Tahrir Square, where mass protests became the symbol of the 2011 anti-Mubarak uprising and of hopes for democratic change in Egypt, the posters urged people to vote in the referendum.
File photo: Thousands of Egyptians attending a demonstration at Tahrir Square in Cairo, Egypt in March 2011 in what became a revolution that overthrew then-president Hosni Mubarak.AP
"Take part, say ... 'yes' for the constitutional amendments," said one banner near the offices of the pro-government Nation's Future Party. Most of the posters were apparently funded by pro-government parties, businessmen and lawmakers.
During the referendum, business people and lawmakers loyal to Sissi offered incentives to voters. They provided buses to transport people free of charge to a polling center. Also some voters were being handed bags of food staples — like oil, rice and sugar — after they cast their ballots.
Trucks with loudspeakers drove around central Cairo through the three-day referendum, playing patriotic songs and urging people to vote.

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facebook is definitely the major culprit in the tanking of many outlets, but on some level, a lot of web-based outlets really should have known better than to try the "pivot to video" strategy or to tether their sails to the fickle, ever-changing machinations of facebook. because let's be real: if your model heavily relies on the continued consistency of a website you don't control and which has never demonstrated consistency on any level, you've fucked yourself from the start.
even though it would have no doubt been just ruinous to a lot of outlets as buying in has been, in retrospect, the only winning move with facebook for basically everybody was to not play. instead, facebook got a lot of people to play along, and when the model collapsed, the result was a lot of people getting burned very badly and now journalism on the web isn't in the best place.
Ill just leave this comment here as a reminder that facebooks privacy record is enough reason to never use their services ever.
Although I do imagine I am preaching to the choir a bit on a site like Tildes.
Sad fact is that even Mother Jones is culpable and compromised if they can't bring up the protests in France in an article without spinning them as as some sort of fringe alt-right phenomenon motivated by hate.


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Pope's early 2020 likely to be dominated by documents rather than deeds
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Pope Francis holds up the book of Gospels as he celebrates an Epiphany Mass in St. Peter's Basilica at the Vatican, Monday, Jan. 6, 2020. (Credit: AP Photo/Andrew Medichini.)
At least for the early part of 2020, it seems likely the biggest papal bombshells will come in things the pope is expected to publish.
ROME – Normally when one looks ahead at a pope's new year, it's either things the pope is expected to do over the coming 12 months that loom largest – foreign trips, for instance, and bishops' appointments – or things he's likely to say, such as milestone speeches or sensational media interviews.
There will be all of that for Pope Francis in 2020, but at least for the early part of the year, it seems more likely the biggest papal bombshells will instead come in things the pope is expected to publish, especially two keenly awaited texts: Francis's conclusions to last October's Synod of Bishops on the Amazon, and the Vatican's report on the case of former cardinal and former priest Theodore McCarrick.
Also on that list probably should be Praedicate Evangelium, Francis's long-awaited overhaul of the Roman Curia, though it's probably not destined to be the thunderclap the other two texts will represent. Many of its main conclusions have already been made public, including the pope's plan to make evangelization and mission the engine driving the Vatican's train.
Both the synod conclusions and the McCarrick report could be out within the first third of the year, and both are likely to fuel debate and controversy for some time to come.
In a statement at the end of the Amazon synod, the officers of REPAM, the Pan-Amazonian Ecclesial Network, one of the driving forces behind the gathering, appealed for patience awaiting Francis's conclusions from the monthlong affair, suggesting they could come in a document in March.
Undoubtedly, the most keenly anticipated nugget within that document will be whatever it says about the ordination of the viri probati, or tested married men, into the priesthood on some sort of limited regional basis. The synod endorsed the viri probati as a solution to chronic priest shortages, though the bishops did circumscribe the idea a bit by saying married men called into the priesthood should be deacons first.
The debate over married priests dominated the synod discussions, irking Francis to some extent, who insisted that the real agenda ought to pivot on broader social, cultural and ecological issues. (In that regard, it will be interesting to see if the pontiff once again expresses his frustration with what he regards as myopic focus on one hot-button issue by dealing with the viri probati in a footnote, as he did on communion for divorced and civilly remarried Catholics in Amoris Laetitia.)
The synod also called on Francis to reopen the consideration of women deacons, and to launch a study toward the creation of a specific "Amazon rite" of the Catholic Mass to honor the cultural and spiritual patrimony of the region's indigenous persons. No matter what the pope says on those subjects – including, by the way, absolutely nothing – someone's destined to be less than fully satisfied.
Speaking of unhappiness, that's also likely to be the reaction to the Vatican's McCarrick report whenever it does appear. While it likely will document any number of senior officials both in Rome and the U.S. who were aware of rumors and concerns about McCarrick over the years, it may well not produce any "smoking gun" that would prove an active cover-up and provide a basis for sanctions under Church law.
That said, the document is also likely to be by far the most comprehensive disclosure the Vatican has ever offered of its decisions and reactions in a specific case, and will revive debate about what accountability for the cover-up of abuse, not just the crime, ought to look like.
Beyond those watershed moments, Francis should have a good deal else on his plate in 2020, including building his bank of frequent flyer miles.
Though no foreign travels are officially yet on the pontiff's 2020 calendar, he's repeatedly said there are two places he's keen to visit this year: South Sudan, in the company of Archbishop Justin Welby of Canterbury, and Iraq.
In both cases, the pope would be trying to advance an agenda of peace and conflict resolution, though also in both cases his desire to go could be upended by security considerations.
There's also talk of papal outings to Indonesia, East Timor and Malaysia at some point in 2020, as well as possible visits to Hungary for a Eucharistic Congress and Cyprus and Lebanon, though that outing might be put on hold depending on how things evolve with the present tensions between the U.S. and Iran and the possibility of a wider regional conflict.
In terms of major appointments, three highly influential cardinals this year will join an expanding list of Princes of the Church already over 75 and therefore theoretically up for being replaced in their present jobs: Christoph Schönborn of Vienna, Robert Sarah of the Vatican's Congregation for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments, and Vincent Nichols of Westminster in the UK. While there's no immediate reason to believe they're going anyplace, it's a reminder that Francis has the possibility to shuffle the episcopal deck in significant ways this year.
Indeed, 2020 will see two cardinals actually turn 80 while still on the job: Béchara Boutros Raï of Lebanon, and Lorenzo Baldisseri of Italy, currently head of the Synod of Bishops. Once again Francis seems inclined to keep both in place as long as they're able, but change could come at any time.
In the U.S., Francis faces important choices in Atlanta, Philadelphia and St. Louis, all of which are tone-setting positions for the Church in a given region of the country.
Finally, Francis also faces a ticking clock in 2020 on his financial reform, since the Vatican is slated for its next round of review by Moneyval, the Council of Europe's anti-money laundering agency and a key gatekeeper for global "white lists" of financial virtue. The agency may well express alarm over several recent developments, including a scandal involving a $220 million land deal in London and the departure of key personnel, especially the former head of the Vatican's Financial Information Authority, Swiss lawyer and anti-money laundering expert René Brülhart.
Francis still enjoys considerable good will internationally, but the failures of reform to date to stem the tide of scandal and embarrassing revelations, sooner or later, may cause observers to wonder if the pope's heart is actually in it.
All of this is without saying anything about how the Vatican may choose to react, even obliquely and indirectly, to the political drama in the United States this year, or what role Francis and the Vatican may choose to play should things turn violent in the Middle East amid the current tensions between the U.S. and Iran.
In other words, 2020 promises to be a tumultuous, uneven, and divisive year for the Vatican – likely making it, therefore, not all that different from the previous six years of the Francis era.
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Employment fraud is on the rise, BBB San Antonio warns
SAN ANTONIO – The Better Business Bureau advises job applicants to be extra careful of scammers at a time when companies are offering generous incentives to new hires.
Whether full-time, part-time, or a part-time job, the BBB reports that the number one scam reported in San Antonio in recent months has been employment fraud.
"We saw a lot of job fraud," said Jason Meza, the regional director of BBB San Antonio. "They followed so many different variations, everything from the overpayment check regime to car dealership schemes."
Verónica Juárez is one of the latest victims of scammers posing as an employer.
"It's just devastating," said Juarez. "It's devastating to work so hard for something and then get it completely done in less than a day (for someone)."
Her bank account is nearly $ 1,000 negative, but she has lost nearly $ 2,000 in total.
"I (issued) applications and then when I got this text I thought, 'Thank God,'" said Juárez.
An answered prayer quickly turned into a nightmare.
"First of all, they sent me a text message stating that they had received, checked and posted my application," said Juárez.
She had applied for a job as a secret shopper the day before.
Juarez said the recruiter said she would interview a company about customer service by buying gift cards. The scammer contacted him via text message, sent instructions and asked for updates on Juárez's first assignment.
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At one point, the scammer reminded Juarez that she qualified the first job within 12 hours for a $ 200 bonus.
"I went (to the bank) and I withdrew the money. I took about $ 1,500 (out) and started doing what I thought I should be hired to do, "she said.
However, the BBB warns that these are empty promises and a deployment tool to steal people's money.
"Unfortunately, shady recruiters keep getting better and that works against us," Meza said. "They communicate through text and put pressure on you to say, 'Are you there? Can you get the gift cards? '"
Juárez bought gift cards on eBay and later received a company check for $ 1,950 in the mail.
"Once it is a company check, it can be weeks before your bank recognizes that it is a counterfeit check," Meza said.
The check broke, and Juárez's bank account froze and left her with regret.
"After withdrawing the money, I tried to log into my account that night," said Juárez. "For some reason it wouldn't let me. I called the bank and they said, 'Well, we blocked your account because the check you deposited was a fraudulent check.' "
The scammers have since stopped texting her, but she is still trying to get her money back.
"I tried to send them everything," said Juarez. "All the text messages, emails, everything they sent me (and) the police report (to try) to show (the bank) that I didn't know it was wrong."
Your chances of getting a refund are slim, according to Meza.
"It's like cash in the wind," said Meza. "Zero to 2% of the time we see people getting money back or relief when they give money through gift cards. It's just very hard to find. "
So when looking for a job, pay special attention to offers that sound too good to be true.
Employment fraud red flags
No requirement number in the job posting
Automatic professional qualification
High pay
Fees including for application, background check, etc.
Use of gift cards, bank accounts, cash applications, or wire transfers
"You really want to stop and, you know, take the breaks and research, examine the offer and the company yourself," Meza said. "Usually a job posting number, a job number, is attached to each advertised position."
Be suspicious if this number isn't on the job posting and company website.
"We have seen a lot of recruiters send email prospects (candidates) through personal accounts. That should be a red flag. "
Job applicants should never ask for prepayment.
"If the job vacancy calls for you to pay for a background check or use your own account to purchase equipment, be very suspicious," Meza said. "Because that's your own money that goes out the door immediately. Anything online should be used as a credit card, a real third party intermediary who can help you dispute a charge. "
In Juarez's case, she may never see her money again because she used a gift card with a non-refundable policy.
"Money goes back and forth with gift cards," Meza said.
Meza also advises staying away from virtual transactions.
"Cash apps that can be opened and closed very quickly and that are directly linked to our bank accounts. In addition, transfers can be picked up from anywhere in the country. "
If you lose money to a job scam, report it to the Federal Trade Commission and BBB's scam tracker tool. You can also report it to your attorney general.
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Standing on the tarmac at Accra Kotoka Airport after a disorienting 15-hour, two-layover, flight from Cleveland, it was easy to confuse the thick, palpable air and verdant landscape for coastal Florida, save for the rust-red soil that bears Barry Callebaut AG's most important input; cocoa.
The airport was nearly empty, but outside bustled with activity. Ghana's graciousness was immediately on display as nearly a dozen kind locals offered to help with my bags and navigate me through the capital city's ceaseless traffic. I declined and headed back into the terminal to seek out my in-country contact.
As the sun set, an international pool of journalists boarded a roof-racked tour bus as sporadically spaced street lights railed in vein against the descending darkness, throwing an orange hue on the gridlock of multi-colored cabs, motorbikes, trucks and wandering merchants with their wares balanced atop their heads.
The following morning we were up with the first light and off to Nana Korkor Daa, one of eight schools Barry Callebaut supports in the region.
We reached the school after a three-hour bus trip, exacerbated by Accra's glut of traffic and slowed by pockmarked rural roads. Tucked well off the beaten path, by western standards, pupils at Nana Korkor Daa are entranced by the glow of computer screens.
"In most villages like this, a computer would be a very rare thing," said Nicko Debenham, Barry Callebaut vice-president, head of sustainability, managing director of Biolands Group, and chairman of Cocoa Horizons.
The computer lab and an adjacent library were made possible by support from the company, and are part of its four-prong Forever Chocolate platform, which aims to lift 500,000 cocoa farmers out of poverty, eradicate the worst forms of child labor from its supply chain, source only sustainably grown ingredients for all of its products and make the company carbon and forest positive.
The company has set a tight deadline of 2025 to accomplish these four goals.
Touching all points of Barry Callebaut's Forever Chocolate mission, lifting farmers out of poverty is perhaps the most important goal.
Just outside Kumasi, the capital of the Ashanti region, we arrived at one of the cocoa farms.
The "plantation" had the appearance of untouched forest, save for a few paths, with green, yellow and red cocoa pods blending with the foliage and fauna of West Africa. By the time we made our way from the bus to the center of the farm most of the party were visibly dripping sweat.
A large group from the village that welcomed us appeared unaffected by the humidity, as a some started digging up cocoayams, while others collected firewood to prepare our boiled, woodlands lunch. If the Sahara desert had a culinary equivalent, it would be boiled cocoayams. With a pleasant flavor, they are extremely dry and were served with nearly every meal during our trip.
For the typical westerner, the thought of a farm conjures images of neatly organized orchards and heavy harvesting equipment. These are both luxuries not found on Ghana farms, with all labor-intensive activities done by hand.
"This is very good pruning on these cocoa trees," Joshy Varkey, managing director at Nyonkopa Cocoa Buying Ltd. — Callebaut's Licensed Buying Company (LBC) in Ghana — remarked to a farmer as he looked over the trees during our visit.
Proper pruning is important because of the "power structure" in trees, according to Debenham. "Bigger trees devote more energy to growing leaves and branches than pods," he explained. While it might seem a simple factor in farming, pruning is one key to improving cocoa farmers' yields, and in turn increasing their income.
Additionally, unpruned trees can result in cocoa pods growing beyond the reach of the farmer. Even with a Go-To Hell, the long pole with a hooked end used to harvest each pod, cocoa can still remain out of reach, leaving the farmer no choice but to let fruit rot.
In addition to growing to unreachable heights, aging trees are less productive. This factor is leading many stakeholders to devote attention to rehabbing cocoa farms. To this end, Barry Callebaut is working to distribute nearly two million seedlings during the 2017/2018 growing season.
However, with the average age of a cocoa farmer ranging from 40 to 55, many are hesitant to rehab their farms and wait the three to five years it takes new trees to bear fruit. This is compounded further by a lack of interest in farming among Ghana's youth.
Douglas Nsoh, a merchant at an open-air market in Accra, said he chose not to follow his father into cocoa farming because of the excessive time and labor needed to run a successful farm.
We carefully snipped cocoa pods by hand from tree trunks, as damaging the delicate flowers and buds on surrounding branches ruins future crops. With the pods piled together, our hosts showed us how to bust them open using wooden clubs.
Once open, we scooped the pulp and cocoa beans onto banana leaves, where they remain for six days to ferment. Banana leaf fermentation is the most common method used in Ghana.
Following fermentation, farmers bring the beans back to the village to be dried out on bamboo mats for another seven days.
While it is labor intensive, as our tour group found out first hand, producing certified sustainable cocoa that meets Barry Callebaut's Cocoa Horizon standards offers growers two benefits: A direct cash premium and, more importantly, access to better planting materials and services that boost productivity.
Our hosts showed us how to test the moisture content. As he ran a hand over the drying cocoa we could hear the shells cracking. We scooped up beans as well to see that none stuck to our hands, a sign that they are sufficiently dried.
Although there have been some developments in mechanization for cocoa harvesting, such as pod splitters and tray drying, these methods are either not available on smallholder farms or, in the case of tray drying in Ghana, forbidden by the government.
Yet, there is one area where technology is playing a part in Ghana's cocoa supply chain: the Katchile Project. The mobile application, inaugurated in Ivory Coast, surveys farmers, collects grower data and aggregates it, according to Haidab Farhat, Ghana information systems manager for Barry Callebaut.
"Once the phone gets a signal, it syncs automatically and that information can be accessed anywhere in the world," Farhat told Candy & Snack TODAY.
Additionally, the Katchile program is being used to map cocoa farms to help growers identify boundaries and monitor land usage.
Mapping farms is an important component in ending deforestation as well as curbing the company's carbon footprint, which is mainly driven up by land use changes, according to Debenham.
"The best opportunity to address this issue is to increase productivity, so they are getting more from less land," he said, adding mapping also helps prove farming isn't occurring on protected lands.
The sour, vinegar-esque smell of fermented cocoa permeated everything surrounding Nyonkopa Cocoa Buying's depot.
As Barry Callebaut's LBC in Ghana, Nyonkopa plays a critical role in quality management. This is crucial, as cocoa quality is checked first at the buying depot, again after purchase from the Ghana Cocoa Board (Cocobod) and a final time before shipment.
A "political crop," as it is referred to on the ground in Ghana, the government tightly regulates trade of the commodity through the Cocobod. These controls include checking moisture levels and bean counts, which takes into account the number of beans in 100 grams. Lower bean counts are preferred, as it indicates a higher yield associated with larger beans. Ghana averages between 90 and 95 beans per 100 grams, according to Barry Callebaut.
As part of these quality controls, each bag coming into the depot is tagged with a unique identifying code so it can be traced back to the farmer. In addition, after a bag of cocoa is cleared at the depot it is tagged with a special metal seal to indicate it has been tested.
"If you have traceability, you will have sustainability," Debenham noted.
Once cocoa in Ghana passes inspection, it is then sold to Cocobod, which in turn, sells it to processors such as Barry Callebaut. Cocoa that doesn't meet standards is returned for additional treatment, such as further drying.
While the system seems convoluted, it does have benefits such as insurance of high-quality cocoa and pricing support for growers.
While its name evokes images of an Orwellian dystopia, the Ghana Free Zone appears as a typical American business park. Established in 1995 to spur economic development and provide regulation activities, the Free Zone is where Barry Callebaut processes cocoa into chocolate liquor, butter, cake and roasted nibs.
As we pulled into the park, the smell of roasted cocoa overwhelmingly wafted from the supplier's plant, which was the first in-country facility to receive ISO 9000:2000 certification.
Barry Callebaut invested $17 million into expanding its production range this past year.
In addition to processing cocoa, the plant is partially powered by the crop, with cocoa shells used to heat the boilers. As a result, the facility operates on 64 percent renewable energy.
Demonstrating the industry's employment power, Barry Callebaut's Ghana operation employs 170 people directly with another 150 working daily full-time positions to handle activities such as warehousing and trucking.
In a country with unemployment nearing 50 percent, in-country processing of cocoa is gaining more focus as President Akufo-Addo has suggested keeping production local could double the nation's earnings from the crop. Only 28 percent of Ghana's cocoa crop is currently processed in-country.
"We can and should be able to build a Ghana with use of her own resources and their proper management as a way to engineer social and economic growth in our country," President Akufo-Addo said at a recent Royal Africa Society-organized event in London.
The late morning sun blazed unflinchingly as we exited the Free Zone, and I couldn't help but wonder if the light being shone on Ghana's cocoa sector and Barry Callebaut's lofty 2025 goals were presenting more uncertainty than reward for the supplier.


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School Supplies Delivered to Rocky Mount Elementary School
School Supplies Delivered to Rocky Mount Elementary School Effort part of Governor Cooper's School Supply Drive
Department of Information Technology Secretary and State Chief Information Officer Eric Boyette and Department of Public Safety Secretary Erik Hooks delivered school supplies today to D.S. Johnson Elementary School in Rocky Mount as part of a drive organized by Governor Roy Cooper.
Students received spiral notebooks, pens, pencils, dry erase markers and tissues to help meet classroom needs. Since 2008, state funding for school supplies has been cut in half, and teachers spend approximately $500 of their own money each year to stock their classrooms with supplies to meet basic instructional needs.
The supplies for today's delivery were donated by employees of the Department of Public Safety, the Department of Information Technology and the North Carolina National Guard, in partnership with Communities in Schools of the Rocky Mount Region. Four schools, including D.S. Johnson and neighboring Fairview Elementary, will benefit from these supplies.
"It was an honor to deliver today, along with Secretary Hooks, supplies to student ambassadors on behalf of Governor Cooper's School Supply Drive," said Secretary Eric Boyette. "These students showed great pride and energy, and we were once again reminded of the importance of our youth and how they are our future leaders. "
This was a part of Governor Roy Cooper's School Supply Drive, in partnership with North Carolina Business Committee for Education, State Employees Credit Union and Communities in Schools of North Carolina. For more information, please visit https://governor.nc.gov/news/governor-cooper-kicks-annual-school-supply-....
The North Carolina Department of Information Technology promotes a stronger North Carolina through broadband, public safety, healthcare, cybersecurity and customer service. For more information about the North Carolina Department of Information Technology, visit https://it.nc.gov/ or follow @NCDIT on Twitter.
Maggie Bizzell, MPA
maggie.bizzell@nc.gov


Victoria's secret is the largest retailer of lingerie in the world. Some of the world's best top models- Tyra Banks, Adriana Lima, Alessandra Ambrosio, Naomi Cambell and others have walked their famous runways wearing beautiful wings, and had the honor of being called "Victoria's secret angels".
Every year, dozens of designers, stylists and photographers work together to create the eye catching pieces, the remarkable details , and the dreamy angel wings VS is so well known for, and 2014 was no different. Six themes had been chosen for Victoria's secret fashion show 2014: Exotic traveler, Angel Ball, Dream Girl, Gilded angels, Fairytale, and of course, University of Pink. In this magical event, we saw Taylor Swift, Ed Sheeran, Ariana Grande and Hozier performing some of our favourite songs!
Here are some of the best highlights of this years fashion show!
During the presentation of gilded angels, we admired Behanti Prinsloo, wearing her giant gold metallic wings, walking with so much confidence. We all left feeling a little bit jealous!
Lily Donaldson, dressed in Swarovski crystals worth $150,000!
Speaking of this year's highlights ,we have to mention Taylor Swift walking the runway ,holding hands with her BFF ,Karle Kloss during the Angel Ball theme!
We couldn't miss Lily Aldridge, who showed us her girly side, wearing a pair of furry poofs on each side of her shoulders.
Another girly piece, graffiti combined with pink fur, something that you have never seen before.
One more example of the outstanding mind and talent of VS'S designers. Tons of detail and amazing execution.
We are looking forward to the next fashion show! Stay tuned for 2015!
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// Copyright 2011 The Go Authors. All rights reserved.
// Use of this source code is governed by a BSD-style
// license that can be found in the LICENSE file.

/*
The gotype command does syntactic and semantic analysis of Go files
and packages similar to the analysis performed by the front-end of
a Go compiler. Errors are reported if the analysis fails; otherwise
gotype is quiet (unless -v is set).

Without a list of paths, gotype processes the standard input, which must
be the source of a single package file.

Given a list of file names, each file must be a source file belonging to
the same package unless the package name is explicitly specified with the
-p flag.

Given a directory name, gotype collects all .go files in the directory
and processes them as if they were provided as an explicit list of file
names. Each directory is processed independently. Files starting with .
or not ending in .go are ignored.

Usage:
	gotype [flags] [path ...]

The flags are:
	-e
		Print all (including spurious) errors.
	-p pkgName
		Process only those files in package pkgName.
	-r
		Recursively process subdirectories.
	-v
		Verbose mode.

Debugging flags:
	-comments
		Parse comments (ignored if -ast not set).
	-ast
		Print AST (disables concurrent parsing).
	-trace
		Print parse trace (disables concurrent parsing).

Examples

To check the files file.go, old.saved, and .ignored:

	gotype file.go old.saved .ignored

To check all .go files belonging to package main in the current directory
and recursively in all subdirectories:

	gotype -p main -r .

To verify the output of a pipe:

	echo "package foo" | gotype

*/
package main

redpajama_set_name: RedPajamaGithub


Tirecraft is a proudly Canadian owned and operated expert in tires and automotive services. We are seeking a motivated individual to fill the position of Agricultural and Off the Road Tire Technician. The Agricultural and Off the Road Tire Technician reports directly to the Store Manager. We are looking for someone who has a good attitude, is hard-working, and is not afraid to get their hands dirty! They will also align with our Employer of Choice and Service Provider of Choice values.
Professionally interact and communicate with work site customers to obtain work orders and Off the Road customer service specific requirements.
Install, service and repair Off the Road tires in a safe and efficient manner, including on and off site mobile service and after hours.
Able to install and service all tires sold and serviced at the store location, this includes Large Off the Road, Small Off the Road, farm, truck, industrial, passenger light truck, as well as lawn and garden.
Conduct efficient Receiving/Shipping of all Off the Road inventories that enters and leaves the shop.


OK, so John Lennon didn't really write this , but statistical power is a very abstract concept and the ability to "imagine" really helps.
Power is the probability that you will find a statistically significant difference in your study SAMPLE if it truly exists in the larger POPULATION.
Beta is the probability that you will not be able to detect a difference if it is truly there in the population.
The study you can't afford: There are 72,000,000 people with hypertension in the U.S. If you could study them all you would find that the new drug Lowpressure® lowers blood pressure by 7mm more than Whocaresapine.
Power Calculations Before the Study !!
We will describe the process in four simple steps.
Decide how big a difference you consider clinically important.
For our Hypothetical Dilemma Example: You think a 7mm difference or more is clinically important.
Fact: the more variable the data , the more people you have to study to get statistical significance.
How sure do we need to be?
If you haven't picked this up yet, One minus beta = Power.
Because the concept is the important thing, we will spare you the headache of the power equation and just tell you that these assumptions yield a calculated N required of approximately 100 in each group.
Hypothetical Dilemma Example: You will need to study 200 people, randomized to the drug "Lowpressure" or the drug "Whocaresapine" to have an 80 percent power to detect a 7mm difference or more.
However, studies often don't enroll exactly the number of people they need so you may have to do ….
Power Calculations After the Study !!
Don't despair, there are only three steps for this part.
If you found a statistically significant difference (p less than 0.05)…You had enough POWER. You don't need power calculations. Really.
If you found a statistically non-significant difference (p greater than 0.05). There are two main possibilities.
Since you are the insatiably curious type, we can now calculate The Power we had to detect the difference we said was significant.
The power you calculate from this is the probability you had of detecting a clinically important difference if it is present in the larger population.