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Chris Cuomo is, once again, making headlines instead of delivering them.
CNN said Monday that is was placing new scrutiny on the actions its most popular anchor took when his brother Andrew, the former governor of New York, was facing accusations of sexual harassment that eventually led him in August to give up his role as New York's top politician.
The WarnerMedia-owned outlet said in a statement that new revelations about how Chris Cuomo aided his brother, released today by the New York State Attorney General, "deserve a thorough review and consideration." The documents indicate the younger Cuomo's assistance was more pronounced and significant than previously known, and included the CNN anchor reaching out to sources and doing active research to help his sibling. At the start of the coronavirus pandemic in 2020, Cuomo and his brother became a popular media spectacle when they started doing interviews during CNN's 9 p.m. program, "Cuomo Prime Time," despite long-held conventions among journalists that reporters recuse themselves from a news story when they may face a conflict of interest.
Chris Cuomo had previously acknowledged offering counsel and advice to the former governor and his team of advisors, and in August reiterated that he had made a mistake when he engaged in strategy sessions with Governor Cuomo's advisers, noting on air that he never did so again after telling CNN executives he would not. He still continued to talk to his brother about his situation directly, and as such, never took part in CNN's coverage of Gov. Cuomo or tried to influence any of it.
"It's not easy being in this business and coming from a political family," Chris Cuomo said on CNN in August.
And yet, Monday's disclosure suggests Cuomo was running down leads for his brother's team, and communicating his progress in doing so to Melissa DeRosa, then Governor Cuomo's top aide. Messages and conversations released by the Attorney General show Cuomo pressing to help and offering public statements for his brother to give.
"We will be having conversations and seeking additional clarity about their significance as they relate to CNN over the next several days," CNN said in a statement.
Cable-news outlets once kept their anchors on a tighter leash. Keith Olbermann and Joe Scarborough faced discipline at MSNBC after they made political donations, a violation of NBC News policies. But in recent years, some news networks have kept their top personalities on the schedule even when controversy threatened to engulf them.
MSNBC's Joy Reid in 2018 found herself under scrutiny after the discovery of a group of unsavory, even offensive, posts she made on a blog earlier in her journalism career. She made things more difficult when she claimed that an unknown party had hacked the now defunct blog, and even said at the time she had engaged a cybersecurity expert to find evidence — none of which has ever been brought to public discussion. Her colleague, Lawrence O'Donnell, was forced to retract a report in 2019 in which he alleged Russia had co-signed many of President Trump's loans. "We don't know whether the information is inaccurate, but the fact is we do know it wasn't ready for broadcast, and for that I apologize," he had to say during one of his MSNBC broadcasts. Fox News' Sean Hannity, on two different occasions, lent a promotional boost to the campaign of former President Donald Trump, appearing in a campaign video in one instance, and getting on stage at a Trump rally in the other. "Fox News does not condone any talent participating in campaign events," the Fox Corp.-owned news network said in a statement in 2018. "This was an unfortunate distraction and has been addressed."
Some news executives may be paying as much attention to ratings and relationships as they do to ethics lapses. They are operating in an era when viewership is becoming harder to ensure. More consumers are migrating to streaming, on-demand video, and the trend is manifesting at a tough time for news outlets — in the months following a presidential election, when viewership typically declines noticeably. With that business dynamic in full swing, benching a popular anchor is a more difficult prospect.
Despite the controversy, or perhaps because of it, Cuomo remains CNN's most-watched anchor. In the third quarter, "Cuomo Prime Time" generated an average of 959,000 viewers, as well as an average of 212,000 among viewers between 25 and 54 — the group most coveted by news advertisers. Those are the biggest audience totals out of all of CNN's programs.
Cuomo, a former veteran of ABC News, has gained traction since coming to CNN in 2013. His pugnacious on-screen demeanor has become a signature element of CNN under current chief Jeff Zucker, who has given anchors more leeway to bring emotion to their news reporting. Anchors like Don Lemon and Brianna Keilar have thrived at the network by offering more personal reactions to strong stories in the news cycle and sometimes brandishing viewpoints that some critics believe have little place in the down-the-middle journalism outlets like CNN are supposed to embody.
CNN has steadfastly tried to stay out of the fray. In May, the network said it would not discipline Cuomo for his actions, noting that "it was inappropriate" for Cuomo to "engage in conversations that included members of the Governor's staff, which Chris acknowledges. He will not participate in such conversations going forward."
During a May appearance on CNN, Cuomo tried to explain his position to viewers, noting he routinely put his family ahead of his job. "It was a mistake, because I put my colleagues here, who I believe are the best in the business, in a bad spot. I never intended for that, I would never intend for that, and I am sorry for that," the anchor said on "Cuomo Prime Time." He vowed: "It will not happen again." Even so, the matter continues to surface.
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To ensure sustainability, farmers with approved projects are provided a three-year irrigation water management subscription and associated equipment, including telemetry, soil moisture probe, flow meter and weather station.
By Debra Davis
MONTGOMERY, Ala., June 30 — Water and funds have started flowing for north Alabama farmers approved for financial assistance through the Soil and Water Conservation Committee's (SWCC) Alabama Irrigation Initiative.
The first payment for new, water- and energy-efficient irrigation systems was made this month to F&W Farms in New Hope. The Madison County row crop operation owned by Jeff Webster and Mike Frazier is among 45 farms currently approved for the program, which will invest a total of $8 million to increase on-farm irrigation.
SWCC Executive Director Dr. Bill Puckett said the first payment marks the culmination of years of work by farmers, SWCC personnel, university researchers, the U.S. Department of Agriculture's (USDA) Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS), elected officials, the Alabama Farmers Federation and other stakeholders.
"A watershed plan for the middle Tennessee River watershed was written by Auburn University (AU) and the University of Alabama in Huntsville. It determined increasing irrigation in the watershed would not produce significant environmental impact," Puckett said. "A Finding of No Significant Impact (FONSI) was issued in the fall of 2019, clearing the way for cost-share assistance under the USDA-NRCS PL-566 program. We look forward to delivering more payments in the coming weeks and months."
An on-farm environmental review was conducted for each applicant. To ensure sustainability, farmers with approved projects are provided a three-year irrigation water management subscription and associated equipment, including telemetry, soil moisture probe, flow meter and weather station. A professional irrigation specialist will provide advice on irrigation scheduling through a computer app. The service is valued at up to $10,000. Cost-share assistance is capped at $200,000 per application.
The decision to support subscription services for farmers was a direct result of research conducted by AU's Dr. Brenda Ortiz on precision agriculture and variable-rate irrigation. SWCC supported the research, which was funded by the Federation's affiliated cotton; soybean; and wheat and feed grain producer checkoff programs.
The Federation's Mitt Walker thanked SWCC for its sponsorship of the Alabama Irrigation Initiative and U.S. Rep. Robert Aderholt, R-Haleyville, for helping secure the needed funds.
"Irrigation is among the most effective risk management tools at a farmer's disposal," said Walker, the organization's Governmental & Agricultural Programs Department assistant director. "Access to reliable water at critical times during the growing season can mean the difference between a good harvest and a total loss. We appreciate Congressman Aderholt's support for increasing on-farm irrigation and the commitment of the SWCC to helping farmers implement efficient, sustainable systems."
Aderholt, who serves on the powerful House Committee on Appropriations, emphasized the importance of agriculture and rural communities when announcing the initial funding.
"The funding will help local farmers better weather severe droughts," Aderholt said. "Federal funding, such as this, is a proven example of how partnerships between federal, state and local governments benefits communities. This is exactly the type of partnerships we should be forming to best use the taxpayers' dollars. Investing in our agriculture and conservation communities will pay dividends for decades to come, and I look forward to seeing the benefits of this partnership between the government and our state's farmers."
A second signup in the middle Tennessee River watershed will begin in September. The eligible area includes part or all of Lauderdale, Limestone, Lawrence, Morgan, Madison, Marshall, Jackson and Cullman counties. A watershed management plan for the Choc-Pea Rivers Watershed is under internal review. Implementation of the Alabama Irrigation Initiative in that watershed is expected to begin in early 2021.
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SAN DIEGO — Sophomore Sergio Guerra continues to receive accolades following this past football season.
The speedy and talented all-around athlete was named First Team All-State in Class 3A by the Texas Sports Writers Association. The TSWA 3A all-state selections were announced Wednesday. Defensive lineman Ryan Garcia was named honorable mention in Class 3A by the TSWA.
In December, Guerra was named Class 3A First Team All-State in the Associated Press Sports Editors all-state team announced this week. He was one of four Vaqueros on the APSA all-state list. Guerra, a second-year starter for San Diego, had eight interceptions, 107 tackles, 15 tackles for loss and five passes broken up.
Guerra was an all-state honorable mention last year as a freshman last year. He completed the 2017 season with five interceptions, including one for a touchdown, and 120 tackles.
Garcia had 92 tackles, 15 tackles for loss and 11.5 sacks this season. He also had 12 hurries, three recovered fumbles and one caused fumble.
The Vaqueros were 8-3 for the season and 5-2. They were bi-district finalists.


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When I started writing several years ago, an editor for an international magazine commented that she liked the way I write because it is a "slice of life". I love to weave nostalgia, family, pets, parenting, spirituality, and travel intricately together.
Ammon, Carter, and I have a ton of things to discuss and share: curriculum, Gardner's Multiple Intelligences, Bloom's Taxonomy, Guided Reading, and so much more. Both of us parents have doctorate degrees: Education and Medical! We are blessed that Carter and Ammon get to be homeschooled again this 2018-2019 school year as 4th graders.
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The U.S. pointed out the difference between the mythical and the real Putin
Published February 1, 2022 on February 1, 2022
Western media deliberately build an unflattering image of Russian President Vladimir Putin in order to cover up the mistakes of their own politicians, writes political analyst Anatol Lieven in The Nation magazine.
The author of the article compared Putin's policy with the qualities attributed to him in the American and European media and came to the conclusion that this image consists of mutually exclusive features that are impossible in reality.
"The "Put'n" monster in the Western imagination is extremely cynical and interested only in its own power and profit, but at the same time is ready to take a colossal personal risk in order to expand the power of its power. It rules a country that is supposedly a miserable impoverished ruin and at the same time is a mortal threat to some of the richest and most powerful countries on earth," Lieven listed.
He stressed that the real Vladimir Putin has actually proved his caution and poise on the world stage. "He has never taken an international action that would actually threaten war with the West or defeat Russia at the regional level. And this should give us confidence that we will be able to get out of the current crisis without a catastrophe," Lieven said.
The political scientist called the Russian leader's desire to protect his country's borders from NATO a vital interest that is shared by both the establishment and a significant part of the population. In addition, Lieven recalled that the States hold similar views regarding their own "zone of influence."
"For Russia (as for the United States), this implies excluding the presence of any hostile military alliances in the immediate vicinity of their country and preserving an important voice in European security," he writes.
The expert noted that during the Ukrainian crisis, Russia, under the leadership of Vladimir Putin, achieved primarily diplomatic successes, expressing claims about security guarantees that have accumulated since the 90s. In particular, he highly appreciated the restoration of diplomatic dialogue between Moscow and Washington and the return to active action in the "Normandy format." The political scientist pointed out that it is the Ukrainian side that does not comply with the "Minsk Agreements" and does not go to grant expanded autonomy to Donbas, and the West is in no hurry to influence Ukrainian partners.
"Now only the mythological "Put'n" would go to Kyiv and central Ukraine, not to mention an attack on Poland or the Baltic States. These ridiculous Western fantasies are generated partly by real paranoia, partly by representatives of American and European politicians who need to demonize Russia to cover up their own horrific mistakes and lies of the last 30 years, and partly by calculations to allow NATO, this chorus of comic warriors to demonstrate their heroic resistance to a threat that does not really exist," Lieven summed up.
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In both the cases, it is good that you have your wisdom teeth removed as they can cause crowding, impaction or dental drift. Even in patients who opted not to remove, faced complications that lead to removing them later.
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Q: Open Type Level Proofs in Haskell/Idris In Idris/Haskell, one can prove properties of data by annotating the types and using GADT constructors, such as with Vect, however, this requires hardcoding the property into the type (e.g. a Vect has to be a separate type from a List).
Is it possible to have types with an open set of properties (such as list carrying both a length and running average), for example by overloading constructors or using something in the vein of Effect?

A: I believe that McBride has answered that question (for Type Theory) in his ornament paper (pdf). The concept you are looking for is the one of an algebraic ornament (emphasis mine):

An algebra φ describes a structural method to interpret data, giving
  rise to a fold φ oper- ation, applying the method recursively.
  Unsurprisingly, the resulting tree of calls to φ has the same
  structure as the original data — that is the point, after all. But
  what if that were, before all, the point? Suppose we wanted to fix the
  result of fold φ in advance, representing only those data which would
  deliver the answer we wanted. We should need the data to fit with a
  tree of φ calls which delivers that answer. Can we restrict our data
  to exactly that? Of course we can, if we index by the answer.

Now, let's write some code. I've put the whole thing in a gist because I'm going to interleave comments in here. Also, I'm using Agda but it should be easy to tranlate to Idris.
module reornament where

We start by defining what it means to be an algebra delivering Bs acting on a list of As. We need a base case (a value of type B) as well as way to combine the head of the list with the induction hypothesis.
ListAlg : (A B : Set) → Set
ListAlg A B = B × (A → B → B)

Given this definition, we can define a type of lists of As indexed by Bs whose value is precisely the result of the computation corresponding to a given ListAlg A B. In the nil case, the result is the base case provided to us by the algebra (proj₁ alg) whilst in the cons case, we simply combine the induction hypothesis with the new head using the second projection:
data ListSpec (A : Set) {B : Set} (alg : ListAlg A B) : (b : B) → Set where
  nil  :  ListSpec A alg (proj₁ alg)
  cons : (a : A) {b : B} (as : ListSpec A alg b) → ListSpec A alg (proj₂ alg a b)

Ok, let's import some libraries and see a couple of examples now:
open import Data.Product
open import Data.Nat
open import Data.List

The algebra computing the length of a list is given by 0 as the base case and const suc as the way to combine an A and the length of the tail to build the length of the current list. Hence:
AlgLength : {A : Set} → ListAlg A ℕ
AlgLength = 0 , (λ _ → suc)

If the elements are natural numbers then they can be summed. The algebra corresponding to that has 0 as the base case and _+_ as the way to combine an ℕ together with the sum of the elements contained in the tail. Hence:
AlgSum : ListAlg ℕ ℕ
AlgSum = 0 , _+_

Crazy thought: If we have two algebras working on the same elements, we can combine them! This way we'll track 2 invariants rather than one!
Alg× : {A B C : Set} (algB : ListAlg A B) (algC : ListAlg A C) →
       ListAlg A (B × C)
Alg× (b , sucB) (c , sucC) = (b , c) , (λ a → λ { (b , c) → sucB a b , sucC a c })

An now the examples:
If we are tracking the length, then we can define Vectors:
Vec : (A : Set) (n : ℕ) → Set
Vec A n = ListSpec A AlgLength n

And have, e.g., this vector of length 4:
allFin4 : Vec ℕ 4
allFin4 = cons 0 (cons 1 (cons 2 (cons 3 nil)))

If we are tracking the sum of the elements, then we can define a notion of distribution: a statistical distribution is a list of probabilities whose sum is 100:
Distribution : Set
Distribution = ListSpec ℕ AlgSum 100

And we can define a uniform one for instance:
uniform : Distribution
uniform = cons 25 (cons 25 (cons 25 (cons 25 nil)))

Finally, by combining the length and sum algebras, we can implement the notion of sized distribution.
SizedDistribution : ℕ → Set
SizedDistribution n = ListSpec ℕ (Alg× AlgLength AlgSum) (n , 100)

And give this nice uniform distribution for a 4 elements set:
uniform4 : SizedDistribution 4
uniform4 = cons 25 (cons 25 (cons 25 (cons 25 nil)))

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Northern elephant seals have one of the longest migrations of any mammal. Their extended foraging migrations in the North Pacific take them beyond the jurisdiction of any one country. (Photo credit: NOAA)
Tracking migration patterns of marine predators yields geopolitical challenges
Understanding the movements of migratory marine animals through different countries' waters and in the open ocean beyond is vital to their management and conservation.
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Tunas, leatherback turtles, white sharks and blue whales pay no heed to geopolitical boundaries as they crisscross the Pacific Ocean in their annual wanderings, but an improved understanding of migratory marine creatures' movements through the territories of different countries will be crucial to their conservation.
In a new study coauthored by Stanford marine biologist Barbara Block, researchers used state-of-the-art animal tracking devices to reveal how much time 14 migratory marine predators spend in the waters of different countries and in the open ocean, or "global commons," beyond national jurisdictions.
Satellite tags, such as this one on a female elephant seal, have enabled unprecedented tracking of migratory marine species. (Photo credit: Dan Costa)
The project drew upon thousands of days of tracking data collected and analyzed by Block's team at Stanford as part of the Census of Marine Life's Tagging of Pacific Predators (TOPP) program. For over a decade, Block co-directed the program, which tracked the movements and behaviors of top ocean predators throughout the Pacific Ocean.
"Our electronic tag tracks demonstrate that highly migratory marine animals, such as bluefin tuna and leatherback sea turtles cross the open ocean for thousands of nautical miles annually, plying the waters of many nations. The high seas cover almost half our planet and we need more accountability for the catch of wildlife in these waters," said Block, the Charles and Elizabeth Prothro Professor in Marine Sciences at Stanford's Hopkins Marine Station and the co-principal investigator of the study.
The results, published online on September 3 in the journal Nature Ecology & Evolution, provide critical information for designing international cooperative agreements for the management of these species.
"Determining which stamps each of these species would have in their passports helps us understand which countries need to cooperate to ensure the animals' are protected during the most important parts of their journey," said the study's lead author, Autumn-Lynn Harrison, a research ecologist at the Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute in Washington, D.C.
Under international law, every coastal nation can establish an exclusive economic zone (EEZ) extending up to 200 nautical miles from shore, giving it exclusive rights to exploit resources and regulate fisheries within that zone. The high seas beyond the EEZs are a global commons and are among the least protected areas on Earth. Discussions have been under way at the United Nations (U.N.) since 2016 to negotiate a global treaty for conservation and management of the high seas, which accounts for nearly 50 percent of the planet's surface.
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The high seas cover almost half our planet and we need more accountability for the catch of wildlife in these waters.
Barbara Block Charles and Elizabeth Prothro Professor in Marine Sciences
Mature sharks spend about 60 percent of their time in the high seas where they are vulnerable to global fishers. (Photo credit: Terry Gross / Wikimedia Commons)
Harrison will present the team's key findings at a September session of the U.N. General Assembly's Intergovernmental Conference, which will focus on securing an international agreement for the conservation of marine biological diversity in the global commons.
"These migratory species are a shared heritage, and this paper shows their international travels better than ever before," Harrison said. "The first step to protect them is knowing where they are over their annual cycle and promoting international agreements to manage the threats they may face across several countries."
The new study reveals that many of the ocean's top predators spend time in different parts of the ocean, where they can face a variety of threats. For example, white sharks are protected in U.S. and Mexican exclusive economic zones, but the TOPP data show that mature sharks spend about 60 percent of their time in the high seas where they are vulnerable to global fishers.
Cumulatively, the animals in the study visited the jurisdiction of 37 countries and all of them spent some time in the high seas, where they are vulnerable to overfishing and incidental catch of non-target species (bycatch) and pollution.
Leatherback sea turtles, a critically endangered species, may visit over 30 countries during their migrations. (Photo credit: Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute)
Some traveled only through a couple of countries, making their management relatively straightforward. For those species, this study shows which countries need to collaborate on management decisions and when during the year those measures need to be put into place.
But others, like the leatherback turtle, were found to travel through dozens of countries. Leatherbacks were among the most critically endangered of those included in the study and are a priority species for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, which contributed to the research. The population that the researchers tracked could face a 96 percent decline by 2040. Because they travel through more than 30 countries and the high seas, leatherback turtles highlight the need for multi-lateral, cooperative and international agreements to manage the species, according to the paper's authors.
"Without a concerted effort for international fisheries to allow these migratory turtles to move through corridors of open ocean free from longlines and purse seines, we will not be able to save these ancient mariners," Block said.
Other coauthors on the study include Steven Bograd at NOAA Fisheries; Arliss Winship at NOAA's National Centers for Coastal Ocean Science; Scott Benson, Heidi Dewar, Peter Dutton, and Suzanne Kohin at NOAA Fisheries; Michelle Antolos and Patrick Robinson at UCSC; Aaron Carlisle at University of Delaware, George Shillinger at Upwell; Sal Jorgensen at the Monterey Bay Aquarium; Bruce Mate at Oregon State University; Kurt Schaefer at the Inter-American Tropical Tuna Commission; Scott Shaffer at San Jose State University; Samantha Simmons at the Marine Mammal Commission; Kevin Weng at the Virginia Institute of Marine Science; and Kristina Gjerde at the IUCN Global Marine and Polar Program.
TOPP research was funded by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, David and Lucile Packard Foundation, and the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation, with additional support from the Office of Naval Research, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, the E&P Sound and Marine Life Joint Industry Program, donors to the Oregon State University Marine Mammal Institute, and the Monterey Bay Aquarium Foundation.
Block is also an affiliate of the Stanford Woods Institute for the Environment.
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The Russian Copper Company presented one of the most technologically advanced stand at Innoprom2018 fair.
The main theme was "Copper is the DNA of civilization".
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There are computers available to the public in every campus library. Ask at a service desk if you are not able to locate them.
At the Stamford Library, one workstation is available for public users. There is a 30 minute time designation.


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Q: How do I publish a ClickOnce application using Microsoft.Build.BuildEngine I have a WPF, ClickOnce application that I am trying to build using the Microsoft.Build.BuildEngine.
I believe my question actually boils down to "how do I do the command line /target:publish using Microsoft.Build.BuildEngine"?
I've tried the following
projectToBuild.SetProperty("PublishUrl", myPublishUrl);
projectToBuild.Targets.AddNewTarget("publish");

but I'm really just guessing at those properties based on the command line properties I'm setting to publish the ClickOnce application.

A: The Targets.AddNewTarget appears to be the mechanism for creating a new target.
It appears that the mechanism to build to a target is to use the string parameter on the .Build():
projectToBuild.Build("publish");


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Kitingan: Sabah will look into amending constitution to revert TYT title to Yang di-Pertua Negara
KOTA KINABALU: Sabah can now amend its own state constitution to restore the title of Governor to Yang di-Pertua Negara, restoring the original wordings of Article 1(2) of the Federal Constitution.
Deputy Chief Minister Datuk Seri Dr Jeffrey Kitingan said Sabah will look to amend its own constitution to restore the title of the Sabah Governor from the
Yang di-Pertua Negeri to the Yang di-Pertua Negara.
"This is significant because it elevates our status compared to when we address our governor as Yang di-Pertua Negeri.
"We need to instill in the people's minds the true status of Sabah, and for that matter, Sarawak, within Malaysia," the Keningau MP said in a statement here Wednesday (Dec 15).
Kitingan, who is Sabah STAR president, said this will also restore the original wording of the Proclamation of Malaysia, where the Governor of Sabah was addressed as the Yang di-Pertua Negara of Sabah.
Between 1963 and 1976, governors of Sabah and Sarawak were known as Yang di-Pertua Negara before the Federal Constitution was amended to make Sabah one of the 13 states of the federation.
He said Tuesday's amendment to Article 1(2) was only the first step toward restoring the true status of Sabah and Sarawak within the federation of Malaysia.
He also said the Gabungan Rakyat Sabah-led government will continue to fight for the full restoration of Sabah's autonomy, particularly in the fields of education and healthcare.
He also pointed out that in addition to Article 1(2), the other flaw in the Federal Constitution is Article 160(2) which defines the "Federation" as the "Federation" established under the Federation of Malaya Agreement 1957.
"Sabah and Sarawak are not parties to this agreement. This interpretation must be corrected because otherwise, whenever the term 'Federation' is used in the Federal Constitution, it refers only to the states of Malaya.
"An amendment must be made to interpret the Federation as the Federation formed pursuant to the Malaysia Agreement 1963," he added.
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Flexton Corp., in Re, 208 F.2d 869 (2d Cir. 1953)
US Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit - 208 F.2d 869 (2d Cir. 1953) Argued Dec. 11, 1953. Decided Dec. 30, 1953
Krause, Hirsch, Levin & Heilpern, New York City (George C. Levin and Elliott L. Krause, New York City, of counsel), for appellant.
Chauncey H. Levy and Sydney Basil Levy, New York City, for Lindsay Oberholzer & Co., appellee.
Before CHASE, Chief Judge, and SWAN and MEDINA, Circuit Judges.
On September 28, 1953 Flexton Corporation filed a petition for arrangement with its creditors pursuant to Chapter XI of the Bankruptcy Act, 11 U.S.C.A. Sec. 701 et seq. Shortly thereafter two of its creditors moved for an order under section 32 of the Act, 11 U.S.C.A. Sec. 55, transferring the proceedings to the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania on the ground (1) that venue was laid in the wrong court of bankruptcy, and (2) that the interests of the parties would be best served by such transfer.1 The motions were heard upon the pleadings, supplemented by supporting and opposing affidavits, and were granted by Judge Murphy without opinion.
Upon the first ground we have no doubt that the order of transfer was justified; hence we need not discuss the second. Section 322 of the Act, 11 U.S.C.A. Sec. 722, permits a debtor to file an arrangement petition 'with the court which would have jurisdiction of a petition for his adjudication.' Under section 2, sub. a(1), 11 U.S.C.A. Sec. 11, sub. a(1), a petition for adjudication may be filed in the district where the bankrupt had his domicile or principal place of business for the preceding six months, 'or for a longer portion of the preceding six months than in any other jurisdiction'. The debtor is a Pennsylvania corporation; its manufacturing plant and substantially all its assets are located in Conshohocken within the territorial limits of the court to which the case has been transferred; its officers and directors reside in Pennsylvania, and its books and records are kept there. It maintains in New York City a small sales office 'where all its sales are consummated,' and it has factored accounts receivable with factors located here. A few weeks before filing its petition it closed its accounts in other banks and opened one with a New York bank. Relying upon Capitol Motor Courts v. Le-Blanc Corp., 2 Cir., 201 F.2d 356, the debtor contends that its 'financial heart' is within the Southern District of New York. That case has no application to the facts of the case at bar. We think it clear that this debtor's principal place of business for the preceding six months was in Pennsylvania.
On oral argument the appellee raised a question as to our appellate jurisdiction. In bankruptcy appellate jurisdiction exists as to interlocutory orders as well as final orders. 11 U.S.C.A. Sec. 47, sub. a; Cohen v. Eleven West 42nd Street, 2 Cir., 115 F.2d 531, 533.
The order is affirmed.
11 U.S.C.A. § 55 reads:
'(a) In the event petitions are filed by or against the same person or by or against different courts of bankruptcy each of which has jurisdiction, the cases shall, by order of the court first acquiring jurisdiction, he transferred to and consolidated in the court which can proceed with the same for the greatest convenience of parties in interest.
'(b) Where venue in any case filed under this title is laid in the wrong court of bankruptcy, the judge may, in the interest of justice, upon timely and sufficient objection to venue being made, transfer the case to any other court of bankruptcy in which it could have been brought.
'(c) The judge may transfer any case under this title to a court of bankruptcy in any other district, regardless of the location of the principal assets of the bankrupt, or his principal place of business, or his residence, if the interests of the parties will be best served by such transfer.'
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Q: Load RAW YUV video in OPENCV I have a problem with a RAW YUB video load in OpenCV. I can play it in  mplayer with the following command:
mplayer myvideo.raw -rawvideo w=1280:h=1024:fps=30:y8 -demuxer rawvideo

My code for load in OpenCV is:
CvCapture* capture=cvCaptureFromFile("C:\\myvideo.raw");

cvCaptureFromFile always return NULL. But if I try with a normal avi file, the code runs normally (capture is not null).
I'm working with the lastest version of OpenCV under Windows 7.
EDIT: Output messages are
[IMGUTILS @ 0036f724] Picture size 0x0 is invalid
[image2 @ 009f3300] Could not find codec parameters (Video: rawvideo, yuv420p)

Thanks

A: OpenCV uses ffmpeg as back-end, however, it includes only a subset of ffmpeg functions. What you can try is to install some codecs. (K-lite helped me some time ago)
But, if your aim is to obtain raw YUV in OpenCV, the answer is "not possible".
OpenCV is hardcoded to convert every input format to BGR, so even if you will be able to open the raw input, it will automatically convery it to BGR before passing it. No chance to solve that, the only way is to use a different capture library or hack into OpenCV.
What you can do (to simulate YUV input) is to capture the avi, convert to YUV
cvtColor(...,CV_BGR2YCBCR /* or CV_BGR2YUV */ );

and then process it


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Thailand Post Unveils New Daily Postmark Only for New Parliament House Post Office
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Thailand Post Co., Ltd. has launched a new daily postmark design, which was designed by Mr Chuan Leekpai, President of the National Assembly, for use as a special stamp on all types of postal mail sent from the Parliamentary Post Office, only.
Mr Kamputh Yookong, Chief Executive Officer of Postal Systems and Metropolitan Operations, Thailand Post Co., Ltd., said that Thailand Post has opened a postal service in the area of Parliament for more than 27 years and has moved the parliamentary post office from the former parliament building to the Sappaya-Sapasathan Council. On this special occasion, Thailand Post has, therefore, released a new daily seal designed by Mr Chuan Leekpai, President of the National Assembly, to be used as a special stamp on all types of postal mail sent from the Parliamentary Post Office. This new daily postmark will be effective from 7 December 2021 onwards.
Mr Kamputh added that the new daily postmark, designed by Mr Chuan Leekpai, is a replica of the "Phan Wan Fah" symbol, the symbol of the Thai Parliament, which surrounded by the words THE NATIONAL ASSEMBLY OF THAILAND resembling the English name of the National Assembly The zip code and the date of the deposit sent will be stamped on the postage as evidence for the delivery of the postal service used.
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In advance of International Women's Day, American University School of Public Affairs' Women & Politics Institute hosted six female ambassadors to the U.S. for a special panel discussion about the progress and challenges involving female political representation and participation around the world. WPI Executive Director Betsy Fischer Martin moderated the event.
"As we examine our own political system, it's important to learn about other countries as well," said Fischer Martin, introducing the panelists from Albania, Kosovo, Finland, El Salvador, and New Zealand. "Here in the U.S., we had a midterm election that resulted in a record number of women elected to Congress — 127. It has been referred to as the 'Year of the Woman.' Considering there are now 22 female ambassadors serving their countries here in the United States, it appears we are having a 'Diplomatic Year of the Woman' as well in Washington, D.C.," said Fischer Martin.
After Fischer Martin's introduction, each of the ambassadors shared their personal experience about how far women have come in political leadership roles in their respective countries, but they also acknowledged there is much work to be done to address equal pay, domestic violence, and other critical issues of equality.
When asked how Albania observes International Women's Day, Ambassador Faber explained it is also known as Mother's Day and that women are honored with flowers and lunches and are celebrated by their families.
Kosovo was one of several countries represented at the event that have gender quotas in government. The ambassadors explained the importance retaining the visibility of women in office, especially as prime ministers and presidents.
"If we don't see women in important posts, people don't perceive women as important for politics," said H.E. Ambassador Karin Olofsdotter of Sweden.
"Women's participation in the civil war in El Salvador elevated their status in society," said H.E. Ambassador Claudette Ivette Canjura de Contento. "After the peace accord was signed in 1992, women moved into more positions in the political and academic spheres. Still, women have not achieved top government posts."
"We need to translate to other generations why women have to be in office," said Ambassador Canjura de Contento.
Ambassador Banks also explained that New Zealand's current female prime minister is taking "well-being" into account in the budgeting process, not only earning and wealth but also looking at measures of health, environment, and preserving culture.


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Q: Neo4j multiple relationship query I am doing a school project using Neo4j and have run into a problem. I want to get all students that have applied to take exam and taken any exam or registered for, by their ID or indexnumber. I connected students and subjects with exams, which are relationships with properties (STUDENT)-[EXAM]-(SUBJECT) and/or (STUDENT)-[REGISTRATION]-(EXAM).
I need 1 Student by id, all connections of said student to Subjects in 1 query.
The database looks like this:
MERGE (std5:STUDENT { name:'Nola', surname:'Joan', indexnumber:12000, semester:'I' })
MERGE (std4:STUDENT { name:'Pola', surname:'Moan', indexnumber:12001, semester:'II' })

MERGE (sub1:SUBJECT { name:'Databases', semester:'VII' })
MERGE (sub2:SUBJECT { name:'Advanced Databases', semester:'VIII' })

MERGE (std5) - [ :EXAM { signed:' ' , mark:6 , date:'12.01.2017.' }] -> (sub1)//mark 6 is passing
MERGE (std4) - [ :EXAM { signed:' ' , mark:5 , date:'12.01.2017.' }] -> (sub1)

MERGE (std5) - [ :REGISTRATION {date:"2/11/2015", charge:0,  term:'June'}] -> (sub1)

MERGE (std5) - [ :REGISTRATION {date:"2/11/2016", charge:0,  term:'June'}] -> (sub1)

MERGE (std4) - [ :REGISTRATION {date:"2/11/2015", charge:0,  term:'June'}] -> (sub2)

The query I used is this one, but gives me double the data and often it is wrong. I need for a specific student to get all exams and registrations for each of those exams, so I may get a complete list of who and when took and or passed exam, registered or if he never did register and took exam.
OPTIONAL MATCH (p:STUDENT) - [d:EXAM] - (c:SUBJECT)

WHERE p.indexnumber = 12000  and d.mark<5 //failing grade

WITH collect (distinct c) as c1,d

OPTIONAL MATCH (p:STUDENT) - [b11:EXAM] - (c:SUBJECT)

WHERE p.indexnumber = 12000

WITH p , count(c) as rels, collect(b11) as exams,d,collect(distinct c +c1) as c2

RETURN p, c2, d, rels , exams

So to summarize, student is connected either by registration or exam, or both, I need to get all those relationships for said student for index number. Then to count all those relationships to subject, since the data of how many times student took the exam is saved on the relationship exam to said subject. Also all students that have mark <6 failed the exam. So I hold plenty of information and I intend to use it fully in relationships. Multiply this by number of subject and exams, complexity went up.

A: I do not fully understand your requirements yet, but a couple of suggestions:

*

*Use a MATCH clause for selecting the student once and reuse that variable later.

*You can shorten your code by including {indexnumber: 12000} in the MATCH clause instead of adding a condition to WHERE.

*Using collect(distinct c + c1) includes the c1 collection for every c element, which is probably not what you want.

So, to collect the failed and successful exams, along with the registrations, I'd run a query like this (updated as suggested by InverseFalcon):
MATCH (p:STUDENT {indexnumber: 12000})
OPTIONAL MATCH (p) - [e1:EXAM] -> (c1:SUBJECT)
WHERE e1.mark < 5
WITH p, collect(e1) AS failedExams
OPTIONAL MATCH (p) - [e2:EXAM] -> (c2:SUBJECT)
WHERE e2.mark >= 5
WITH p, failedExams, collect(e2) AS successfulExams
OPTIONAL MATCH (p) - [e3:REGISTRATION] -> (c3:SUBJECT)
RETURN failedExams, successfulExams, collect(e3) AS examRegistrations


There's no one more likely to experience electrical phenomena than Ian. Which makes him a sort of phenomenon himself, really.
Ian, also known as Cha Cha, hasn't actually been struck by lightning, but he has experienced a fire ball at close hand, twice. And once his white goods were so badly damaged by a lightning strike that none of them worked again. He's also seen, at close hand, those strange pink lights that were pictured on the front page of The Herald Sun many years ago. And what was that green light that made him race, heavy suitcase in hand, 3kms along the Murray Valley Highway to the first place he could find shelter, the Swan Hill Drive-In?
It was as a young boy while he was running along the channel in Swan Hill that he experienced his first fire ball. He was trying to get birds to chase him, or something innocuous like that. The day was overcast and he saw an arc-shape light in the sky. Suddenly a ball of fire came shooting out of the sky at such speed that he was forced to dive to the ground.
The second time he saw an arc of light was when he was walking back to his house with his wife and son. They were in the middle of a quiet country road when a fire ball shot out of the sky and then up this street. Other people who witnessed it said it went round a corner, smashed through a window in the local primary school, smashed its way out a window on the other side, then went back up into the sky again, where it exploded.
"It makes a hissing sound," Cha Cha says.
It was when his wife and son were sitting in the lounge room watching telly - he was looking out at the garden from his back door - that a bolt of lightning hit his chimney. With a bang his white goods were rendered inoperable, including the telly his wife and son had been watching. When Cha Cha got to the lounge he found them sitting in a state of shock with soot covering their faces.
But I skip too far ahead. Cha Cha experienced a strange green light years before that after he had hitched a ride from Sydney on a truck heading across the Hay Plains. He had gone past Swan Hill, his destination, when he alighted and was making his way back down the Murray Valley Highway. Waiting on the side of the road for his next ride, he became aware of something very, very cold beside him. Slowly he turned and came face to face with a green light. It was in the cast of its glow that Cha Cha decided his legs would be his next mode of transport and picked up his suitcase and ran as fast as his body would carry him.
Some say there are a lot of green lights around this area, because of phosphorus. But what could explain the drop in temperature too?
Cha Cha wasn't alone in seeing pink lights, these were so widely sighted images of them made front page news. I think I recall him saying that they moved too...but I'll have to speak with him again to find out for sure.


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