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BAAHUBALI : The Movie
By Rushika Gill
The most famous movie that I will talk about in this essay is Baahubali (Part 1 and 2). It is the highest-grossing film of the years 2015 as well as in 2017. This duology has created a history in the world by becoming the first Indian movie that has collected the highest amount of money worldwide. The duology took five years to complete and was directed by SS Rajmouli. The duology cast included Prabhas in the central role supported by Anushka Shetty, Rana Daggupati, Tamannah Bhatia, Ramya Krishna, Satyaraj, and Nassar. It was the first-ever Indian movie that had earned a whopping amount of 500 crores each. There are many reasons why this movie made history in the whole world and took Indian cinema to the next level.
Subject Matter– The duology was a product of the cinema in Southern India. None of the actors who were a part of the movie belonged to the Hindi Film industry. There was not much expectation from South Indian cinema to produce such a great legend in its cinematic effects and the storyline. The life-size characters of Baahubali and Bhallaldev reminded us of the concepts of goodness and evil that always walk side by side in every individual. Sin makes too much noise, while the goodness forever remains calm and composed. As a result, sometimes, people ignore the good aspects of their personalities. Baahubali, getting killed through a conspiracy at the hands of Bhallaldev, reinforces the idea that evil always needs to adopt a wrong path to get victory over goodness. Evil cannot walk with confidence because it knows it is wrong while goodness has nothing to hide. It shows what it is irrespective of what others think about him. In the end, Bhallaldeva was killed by Baahubali's son, thereby reinstating the concept of victory of good over evil, which we also find in Ramayana.
Personality traits– Every character in the movie represents an idea. Let's take the example of the main character, Baahubali. He represents what a person should strive to become- an ideal son, an ideal husband, an ideal brother, an ideal ruler, an outstanding and humble king, and of course, an ideal father. Some people will not agree with the above-stated idea, but having a difference in opinions with other people does not restrict one from becoming an ideal person. One can still be an inspiration for others even if one differs in his views from the rest of society and the whole world. Devsena represents a wife's wrath when her husband and her son are made to suffer without any fault of theirs. Katappa represents the idea that a body can be enslaved but not the mind. He was the slave of the kingdom of Mahishmati, which was ruled by an evil leader, but in his heart, Katappa could distinguish between moral and immoral. Sivgami (Baahubali's aunt who brought him up like her own child) represents an ideal mother and a humble human being who does not feel ashamed of seeking forgiveness from her daughter-in-law when the former realized her son's hand in provoking her to get Baahubali killed. She did not hesitate to rectify her mistake by announcing Baahubali's new-born son to be the next king of Mahishmati Kingdom. When she realized that Baahubali's new-born son's life is in danger, she spent not an extra single minute and fled away with him, resulting in saving the child's life. Bijjaldev (Baahubali's uncle or his father's elder brother) represents that a man is considered paralyzed not when he is physically disabled but also when he lacks the distinction between good and evil, moral and immoral. Due to this flawed character, he had developed a feeling of hatred against his younger brother, who was the father of Baahubali. He didn't stop there; instead, he transferred that feeling of hatred in his son against Baahubali. Last but not least, who can forget Bhallaldev, who is a symbol of greed, jealousy, lust, anger, violence; in short, all the seven cardinal sins? Bhallaldev appeared to be very good and calm on the outer side, but inwardly he was a serpent getting poisoned by his ill feelings.
Direction-Despite such a great theme, if a movie lacks the essential qualities that make it a terrific film, such a movie lasts not more than two days. Therefore, the director gets the maximum credit for every ounce of success. He has to see how different elements go well together to make it a superb piece of entertainment. Music, cinematography, special effects, acting, screenplay, dialogues, action, etc., need to be taken care of by one person. Together, they form a piece that is accepted or rejected by the public. But the movie discussed in this piece of writing was highly accepted and appreciated by the public, so much so that both the parts have been re-released in the first week of November of 2020, i.e., after a gap of 5 and 3 years respectively.
A good ruler v/s a poor ruler- The most significant idea with which people of the whole world could relate themselves was this one. This movie's success forces us to think about the nature of India's elected governments and in other parts of the world.
'What makes one a good ruler?' is the biggest question which this movie asks us. Is he the one who is loved by the people of his kingdom? Is he the one who does not practice archaic traditions like an animal sacrifice before commencing a big task? Is he the one who refuses to follow the age-old customs and traditions in the interest of the people of his kingdom? Is he the one who puts up a strong fight not only against the enemies of his country but also of his states as Baahubali did for the Kuntal kingdom? Is he the one who risks his life but never sided with the evildoers….? And if yes, such a person deserves to become the country's ruler, why is Bhallaldev ruling the kingdom of Mahishmathi? So is it due to this very reason that this movie became a blockbuster hit in the whole world and not only in India? The cause is not known despite the varied possibilities. Have people from different parts of the world answered that question by making this movie a blockbuster hit? Does every time a Baahubali gets killed by a Bhallaldev? Do the future generations reap the fruits of the plants of hatred that their fathers have sown? And the biggest question – if the destiny of Mahishmati Kingdom could be changed after 26 years, can this happen in other cases? If evil forces rule a nation for a long time, does that blur the possibility of change?
This movie has been successful enough in attacking the hearts of people and their minds. It has evoked many questions like those mentioned above and has left it upon the viewers and critics to find their answers. This movie is not just a story presenting characters, but it is an amalgamation of such great thoughts and concepts that its few drawbacks could easily be overlooked. Although the movie's story has ended after the second part, the story of a government and a country never ends. It keeps evolving and growing, and every country needs a BAAHUBALI to protect its glory, respect, honour, and prestige against every BHALLALDEV that obstructs its way.
Rushika Gill, Amritsar
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Q: Rails form on landing page cause page refresh to go to bottom of page I added a form to the bottom of my landing page using partials

    <%= render "layouts/header" %>
    <%= render 'product' %>
    <%= render 'people' %>
    <%= render 'contact' %>

Keep in touch?

        <%= render "contacts/form" %>

I rendered the form from my contacts folder My contact form is below
and added to  my static pages controller in
def home
@contact = Contact.new
end

<%= form_for @contact, class: "contact-form"  do |f| %>

      <%= f.label :name %>

      <%= f.text_field :name, autofocus: true, required: true, class: "form-control", placeholder: "name" %>

      <%= f.label :email %>

      <%= f.email_field :email, autofocus: true, required:true, class: "form-control", placeholder: "email" %>

      <%= f.label :message %>

      <%= f.text_area :message, autofocus: true, rows:4, required:true,  class: "form-control", placeholder: "send us your thoughts and feelings" %>

        <%= f.submit "Send Message", class: "btn btn-danger btn-lg btn-fill" %>

<% end %>

The form works but every time I refresh the landing page or load it in a browser, the page lands on the contact form (the bottom of the page)
Any ideas what I need to do to get the page to load normally (to the top of the page)

A: You should remove the autofocus: true for all fields.

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Q: Preventing event handler loop I have a form with two text fields, A and B that are supposed to behave in the following way:

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*Typing something into A should set B.Text = f(A.Text)

*Typing something into B should set A.Text = g(B.Text)
...for some arbitrary and potentially unrelated functions f and g.
The problem I'm facing is that the naive implementation of simply throwing the above code into each field's handler will create an infinite loop as A's handler will update B's value and call B's handler, which will update A, etc.
What would be the correct (and preferably thread-safe) way to handle this? Either somehow determining whether a change was done manually or programmatically, somehow suppressing events firing when changing the value, or some other way.

A: Use a flag to signal that you are doing changes
private bool updating;

private void A_TextChanged(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
    if (!updating) {
        updating = true;
        B.Text = f(A.Text);
        updating = false;
    }
}

private void B_TextChanged(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
    if (!updating) {
        updating = true;
        A.Text = g(B.Text);
        updating = false;
    }
}

You don't have to care about thread-safety as this all happens in the unique UI-thread. UI events never create new threads; i.e. an event (click, text changed, etc.) never interrupts another one!

If you want to be sure that the flag is reset, you can use the try-finally statement. The finally block is ensured to run, even if an exception should occur within the try block (unless the application is terminated unexpectedly).
if (!updating) {
    updating = true;
    try {
        A.Text = f(B.Text);
    } finally {
        updating = false;
    }
}

A: I assume you're using TextChanged event, try this then:
private bool callB=true;
private bool callA=false;
private void A_Click(object sender, System.EventArgs e)
{
    callB=true;
    callA=false;
}
private void B_Click(object sender, System.EventArgs e)
{
    callB=false;
    callA=true;
}
private void A_textchanged(object sender, RoutedEventArgs e)
{
    if(callB)
       B.text=f(A.text);
}
private void B_textchanged(object sender, RoutedEventArgs e)
{
    if(callA)
        A.text=g(B.text);
}

Anyway, a better way to just edit A when the user is finished with B(finished whatever he wanted to  write in it), that's because if expression will be evaluated at every character the user inputs.
By the way, changing a text while the user writes might be surprising to him, so better to avoid textchanged event in this case.


Prof. Amar Mohanty attended the 25th Anniversary meeting of the Bio-Environmental Polymer Society (BEPS) from August 15-17, 2018 at Rensselaer Polytechnic University (RPI) in New York. On Wed. Auguest 15, he gave a Keynote presentation on "Innovation and commercialization of biocarbon for advanced green manufacturing". Prof. Manjusri Misra also gave an oral presentation on "Sustainable green packaging: global transition towards a circular economy".


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today, that particular link (to the slide-show) was not offered … It couldn't have been just for me, was it???
they go so far as to say something like, "the iconic statue looking down over the city …" or, will they call it by name?
Will they … will we … will the audience … recognize the representation?
Will they even show it? Call it by name?
How will the networks present "Christ the Redeemer" to the world?
Is it possible to leave "Christ the Redeemer" out of the Olympics?
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Q: How can I validate user-input in python? I'm building a console-based bill reminder app as my first project and i'm having some trouble ensuring that the user will enter the proper data when it comes to floats.
Based on the python 2.7 documentation and a few answers here on stackoverflow I've come up with the following solution, that is not working.
billAmnt = raw_input('How much is this bill?')
try:
    float(billAmnt)
    return True
except ValueError:
    return False

This will either return True or False, I need to ask the user again if it's false or continue to the next section of code if it's true.
If there is a good explanation of this elsewhere and you want to point me in the right direction i'd be fine with that as well.
Thanks

A: Any time when you'd like to repeat something until some condition is satisfied, a while loop is probably a good candidate.
def get_bill_amount():
    while True: # repeat until you hit a break statement or a return
        billAmnt = raw_input('How much is this bill?')
        try:
            amount =  float(billAmnt)
            return amount # exit the loop.
        except ValueError:
            pass
            #Since I've gotten to the end of the while block, start again from the top!


This past week was crazy busy and overwhelming. I had a test, a presentation, Ring Premiere for the Class of 2013, a retreat to the Cascades with the Dean of Students Office, football game against University of Miami and…oh yeah…I got hit by a car.
So let's focus on the good stuff. Er, the interesting stuff: Me getting hit by a car.
So there I was. Standing in the street completely in shock. Did that REALLY just happen?? After standing there, I decided to walk the 2 miles home. As soon as I got home, I did what I always do when I'm in crisis: I called my boss, Rick. He suggested that I report the incident to the police. So I drove to campus and sat in the police station for an hour and a half. The highlight had to be Dean Brown coming to visit to make sure I was OK (I'm so lucky to work with incredible people).
To conclude the story, the police investigated and tried their best to find the jerk/idiot. The next day, I chatted with my friend who happens to work with some students in the same fraternity and she was able to figure out who the guy was! After talking to her, he turned himself into the police. Stay-tuned because I get to chat with the police on Monday to figure out the next steps.
Did you know hitting something/someone and running is a felony? Because it is.
Oh! And don't worry..I'm OK. I just have a really cute bruise on my hip. And an extreme fear of cross walks.
Ring premiere was lovely. SO proud of all of the NSP students who were a part of it. But honestly, the highlight was fireworks and eating crab cakes with Rick. (I have THE best job ever).
And you couldn't have asked for better weather for gameday in Blacksburg. It was the first time I watched the Hokies walk in.
Anyways, the Hokies won and the Aggies whooped Texas Tech in Lubbock (despite the Raiders spray painting and throwing manure all over the Aggie buses). And the Rangers won! Such a great weekend. Now on to an even busier week this week. Is it Friday yet?
Previous postI miss Texas. A lot.


The Eno Center for Transportation > Research Report > Eno Aviation Insights: Is air travel becoming pricier for travelers?
However, adjusted for inflation, average airline ticket prices have actually declined over 40 percent in real terms since 1979 (See Figure 2). That year is important as a baseline since it is the first year after the federal government deregulated the industry and allowed airlines to set their own fares and routes. In 1979, it took about 30 hours of work for the "average American" to buy a round trip airline ticket. By 2016 the same person only had to work 17 hours.  Focusing on just the last decade – before the major airline mergers began – the figure shows a slight decrease in the A4A Base Fare and the U.S. DOT figures, with a slight increase in the A4A Total Fare figures.
On average, ancillary fees now account for $23 of the total fare of a round trip ticket or around six percent of total ticket price.  Despite their relatively recent introduction, ancillary fees are now quite common especially on low-cost carriers. They now represent about 4 percent of airline revenue.  Figure 3 shows a dramatic ramp-up in both baggage and change/cancellation fees between 2008 and 2010. While baggage fees have increased recently, change/cancellation fees have leveled off.
The cost of domestic air travel, including bag fees, taxes, and other charges, has increased since 1979. However, adjusting for inflation shows that air travel costs have declined over time and have ranged between $395 and $457 for an average round trip since 2001.
Passenger complaints about travel costs may be due in part to the emergence of ancillary fees for items like checked bags and seat assignments.
In some markets ticket prices have increased in real terms, as a later Eno Aviation Insights brief will illustrate.
Figure 2 presents two different sets of fare data. U.S. DOT data includes taxes on the estimates but excludes zero-fare tickets (including frequent yer miles redemptions) as well as a few abnormally high reported fares. Airlines for America (A4A) data includes all tickets but excludes taxes; "base fare" represents the round trip ticket price, while "total fare" includes the "base fare" plus ancillary fees.
The A4A base fare data in Figure 2 do not include ticket taxes and other government fees, which add approximately 16 percent to the base fare.  Domestic travelers would expect to pay about $59 in taxes and government fees to the average $367 ticket cost. With the average cost of bag and change fees at $23, the total cost of an average round trip air travel to the consumer in 2016 was $449.
Ancillary fees are optional fees that airlines charge but are not part of the "basic" ticket price. Examples include fees charged by some airlines to check a bag (typically $25 for the first bag) or fees to change a ticket to another date (up to $200). The U.S. DOT does not collect data on fees for seat upgrades or priority boarding.
 Roger Dow, "Comments of the U.S. Travel Association: Transparency of Airline Ancillary Fees and Other Consumer Protection Issues," Docket OST-2014-0056, September 29, 2014.
 Another way to examine the data is to use 2005 as the baseline year before the major airline mergers began. A later Eno Aviation Insights brief examines the effects of the mergers.
 Madhu Unnikrishnan, "A Law That Changed the Airline Industry Beyond Recognition," Aviation Week, June 4, 2015.
 Bureau of Labor Statistics, "Average Hourly Earnings of Production and Nonsupervisory Employees: Total Private", United States Department of Labor, 2017.
 Tanya Powley, "Airlines Look to Take Flight with Lucrative Extras," Financial Times, September 18, 2017.
 U.S. GAO, "Information on Airline Fees for Optional Services," GAO-17-756, 2017.
 The difference between the $23 per round trip figure and the numbers in Figure 3 (which add up to around $10 per passenger), stem from the fact that the numbers in Figure 2 are calculated on a per-flight basis, while the $23 figure is calculated on a round trip basis, which includes at least two flights, but sometimes more than that. Bureau of Transportation Statistics, "2016 Annual and 4th Quarter Airline Financial Data", U.S. Department of Transportation, 2017.
 The introduction of bags fees also correlated with a decline of more than 60 percent in the number of lost bags between 2007 and 2016. Of course, it should be expected that the number of bags checked declined after those fees were introduced but U.S. DOT data does not show the total number of bags checked, just the number of mishandled bags. This will change in 2018: U.S. DOT issued new rules mandating that airlines report both the total number of mishandled bags and the total number of bags checked. See: U.S. Department of Transportation, "U.S. Department of Transportation Announces Enhanced Protections for Air Travelers, Actions to Promote Airline Competition," 2016.
 U.S. GAO, "Information on Airline Fees for Optional Services," GAO-17-756, 2017. Actions to Promote Airline Competition," 2016.


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Q: Generate interactive dashboard for relational data in Kibana I am having search engine data (Searches and Clicks), there are two tables(as table field in Elasticsearch) searches and clicks. I have a mapping between them (Same id in corresponding data), now I want to generate the various interactive dashboards using Kibana, some examples are

*

*Pie chart using range filter for clicked positions. (1-5,5-10 etc.)

*Data table containing Top queries for selected position buckets from both table.

*Data table for Top queries and their clicked urls with URL count.

All these graphs should be interactive, i.e. if I click on position bucket then search table data should be displayed as well. (Note there are no position field in search table, we have only same id mapping between these records.)
So my question is can we use Kibana 4 for such use case?? If yes, then how can I generate reports for data in two different tables? Currently we are using tableau which supports sql joins, so we are able to achieve this functionality.

A: I also posted the same question in official Kibana discussion board. Found the below answer.
https://discuss.elastic.co/t/generate-interactive-dashboards-for-relational-data/1146
Summary of the answer. "Elasticsearch does not support joins.
You need to look at parent/child or nesting, however Kibana does not currently support either of these."


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MCPER secures $20 million grant to support postsecondary outcomes for deaf individuals
MCPER and a team of national partners have secured a $20 million, 5-year federal award to establish a national center focused on postsecondary outcomes for deaf individuals.
The new center, which will be part of MCPER's Deaf and Hard of Hearing Institute, will launch on January 1, 2017. Institute Director Stephanie Cawthon and Co-Investigator Carrie Lou Garberoglio will lead the initiative.
The overall goals of the center are to increase the numbers of deaf individuals who, without requiring remedial coursework, are admitted to, persist in, and complete postsecondary education or training; improve collaborations between community organizations, institutions, and state-level agencies; increase institutional capacity to implement evidence-based practices and strategies; increase knowledge on how to use technology to promote access and provide accommodations; and disseminate lessons learned.
"Ultimately, we seek to change the culture surrounding postsecondary outcomes for deaf individuals and create conditions for success in a way that recognizes and honors their experiences, perspectives, and abilities," Garberoglio said.
Services the center will provide include professional development opportunities, intensive training, live chat support, dissemination of promising models, community engagement activities, mobilization of local resources, national task forces, state collaboratives, national data reports, and research-to-practice activities.
The grant is through the Office of Special Education Programs in the U.S. Department of Education.
In new article, Write for Texas director advocates for policy that supports research-based practices
A recent article by Write for Texas Director Ellie Hanlon in Texas Lone Star, a publication of the Texas Association of School Boards, features ways that school board members can influence classroom teaching practices to improve student writing.
Emphasizing that change requires commitment at all levels, "The Write Stuff: How to Create a Cadre of Strong Readers and Writers in Texas" engages school board members to consider focusing policy discussions and agendas on the importance of research-based instructional practices. The article supports board members to become knowledgeable about expectations for student writing skills at various grade levels and encourages them to look for evidence of strategies that promote reading and writing in all content areas.
The article also points readers to MCPER's 10 Key Writing Practices for All Schools, which includes practical, research-based recommendations and grade-level descriptions of student skills. The resource is part of the 10 Key series, which distills the latest research findings into concise, one-page top 10 lists of the most important things that should be in place in every school.
The backbone of Write for Texas continues to be its network of almost 100 dedicated writing coaches in more than 200 schools across the state. These site-based staff members design and deliver professional development to support classroom teachers, instructional and content specialists, and campus and district administrators to provide opportunities for all students to read, write, and discuss a wide variety of genres throughout the school year. In addition to planning a reprise of the regional summer institutes for 2017, Write for Texas will continue to develop resources to support educators at all levels to implement the guiding principles of effective writing instruction.
Nancy Lewis to present on cost analysis in intervention research
UPDATE: The presentation is now available online. Read the original announcement below.
MCPER's Nancy Lewis will deliver a presentation titled "Understanding Cost Analysis in Intervention Research" from 10:30 to 11:30 a.m. on August 24 in Room 324 of UT Austin's Sanchez Building.
The following description is from a flyer for the event: "Funders are increasingly interested in researchers determining the costs associated with their educational interventions. This brief introduction to cost analysis will describe the differences between cost analysis, cost-effectiveness analysis, and cost-benefit analysis to help you determine which type of cost study is most appropriate for a given intervention. The steps involved in conducting a cost study, including determining costs and combining them with effects or benefits, also will be briefly discussed, along with ways that the findings of a cost study can be used for decision-making."
Emile Elementary book study program changes mindsets, sees results
The Texas Literacy Initiative (TLI) and Emile Elementary School in Bastrop have developed a book study program for teachers that goes beyond reading and responding—instead creating a culture-changing, high-impact professional learning community that has seen real results.
Emile Elementary Principal Jennifer Hranitzky, TLI State Literacy Liaison Jennifer Greene Gast, and TLI District Literacy Liaison Angeline Vrbsky developed the program for Mindsets in the Classroom: Building a Culture of Success and Student Achievement in Schools by Mary Cay Ricci during a summer brainstorming session. As a part of its campus improvement plan, Emile Elementary chose the book for its 2015–2016 book study.
In the book, Ricci focuses on how to implement a "growth" mindset (versus a "fixed" mindset) in the classroom. This idea comes from the research of Carol Dweck. According to Dweck's Mindset website, "In a fixed mindset, people believe their basic qualities, like their intelligence or talent, are simply fixed traits ... [and] that talent alone creates success—without effort. In a growth mindset, people believe that their most basic abilities can be developed through dedication and hard work—brains and talent are just the starting point. This view creates a love of learning and a resilience that is essential for great accomplishment."
Emile teachers met monthly on Mondays after school. Gast or Vrbsky demonstrated one instructional strategy at each meeting, and teachers participated in activities in an interactive notebook for each chapter. At the end of the program, teachers had a notebook that highlighted the main points of each chapter and the staff appointed "mindset mentors" who will use their notebooks to guide new teachers through Mindsets in the Classroom.
As teachers began to put this new knowledge into practice, the effects could be seen.
"We found students who began the year below level in reading making gains and no longer pushing reading materials away in frustration," Hranitzky said. "They have built persistence and are more likely to ask for the harder problems when given an option of choices."
The numbers back up Hranitzky's observations. Several areas have seen marked improvement, including the following from the first-grade Texas Primary Reading Inventory.
First Grade: Percentage of Students Scoring Proficient on the TPRI
Beginning of the Year
Middle of the Year
Graphophonemic Knowledge
Word Reading
18% 52% 189%
One student in particular started the year with high levels of anxiety but later embraced the idea that her learning was tied to how hard she worked, not how "smart" she was—key to a growth mindset. By the end of the school year, she had been on the A/B Honor Roll twice and asked the teacher for paperwork to apply for gifted-and-talented screening.
Across the campus, teachers reported hearing "I can't do this" less this past year, Hranitzky said. "Our pre-K students even embrace that they have to work hard to grow their brain."
Best of all, the ideas from the book study and the culture it created didn't end after the monthly meetings. Emile Elementary now holds ongoing mindset-related read-aloud lessons in the classroom and has held two family literacy nights.
"Teachers need to take their mindset seriously," said Christina Phillips, a prekindergarten teacher at Emile. "Anyone working in the school environment can have such a powerful effect on students if only they have the right mindset."
Write for Texas launches its third program year
The Write for Texas project, entering its third year, has extended its reach to more than 200 schools in 100 districts across the state.
Since its beginnings in late 2013, Write for Texas has made significant strides in improving academic writing instruction in the secondary grades. An alternative to formulaic writing instruction, the project offers a series of online professional development resources aimed at integrating reading and writing activities across all content areas.
Additionally, the project supports schools and districts across the state with a cadre of more than 100 professional writing coaches. Participants tout this collaborative network as one of the greatest strengths of the project, providing opportunities for individual teachers to align their instruction with research-based practices and streamline their approach to teaching writing.
The 27 project sites, including all 20 regional education service centers and seven university-based national writing projects, will continue effecting change at the local level. Additionally, regional Summer Institutes are expected to continue in 2017, where coaches design and deliver professional development specific to the needs of educators in their respective service areas.
For more information, view the promotional video below and visit the Write for Texas external website.
Middle School Matters Institute unveils new website
MCPER's Middle School Matters Institute (MSMI) has launched a new website designed specifically for educators: https://greatmiddleschools.org.
The new site has a user-friendly interface for anyone looking to improve middle grades education, especially the following:
District and school leaders
Curriculum facilitators
Educators and researchers can access the Middle School Matters Field Guide and the accompanying resources that translate research into action in the following areas:
Research-based instruction
Student supports that enhance learning
Informed decision-making
Additionally, the website features ready-to-use instructional toolkits and implementation tools.
For more information, view a brief introductory video or contact MSMI.

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Gaza seems to be winning the war against Israel - on Facebook, at least.
Gaza seems to be winning the war against Israel - on Facebook, at least. Members of the popular social networking Web site have recently created a function allowing users to donate their status, or personal update, to any number of causes, including support for or opposition to the IDF offensive in Gaza. The pro-Israel application, created by Facebook members from the United States and Israel, allows users to display on their profile pages an up-to-date announcement of how many Kassam rockets have been fired on Israel from Gaza. The latest update reads: "QassamCount: 20 Hamas rockets hit 5 Israeli cities on Saturday. Donate your status: http://qassamcount.com/fb.via QassamCount -17 hours ago." The latest such application, "STOP Israel's War Crimes in Gaza," was created by a Facebook user in Egypt in response to QassamCount. In the description of the application, the creator explains what he believes supporters of Israel are attempting to do through Facebook: "They are making use of the Facebook applications platform, and the great number of users who will be viewing these updates from their friends' statuses, to spread the idea of Israel being a victim defending itself, and win the world's support, especially [since] the West's mass media are twisting the truth and giving a misleading idea about the barbarian Israeli attacks to Gaza, and its reasons." The STOP Israel's War Crimes in Gaza application is twice as popular as QassamCount. The first boasts 648, 828 monthly active users, as compared to QassamCount's 342, 892. The discussion board, which exists in all applications and allows users to debate the merits and faults of any application (or, in this case, the political situation) is hands-down more popular for STOP Israel's War Crimes in Gaza: 305 discussion topics, some with responses up to 30 pages long, versus 52 discussion topics by QassamCount. In addition, a new function on Facebook that allows users to become fans of applications is another instance in which the Palestinian cause has proven more popular. Whereas QassamCount has only 1,634 users identifying themselves as fans of the application, the opposition boasts a staggering 87,537 fans.


If you missed it, we had the fight of the century! Last month, we had more than 30,000 video views and thousands of comments on LinkedIn debating how sales leaders can best build pipeline with different prospecting methods.
Is the phone really dead? Has buyer behavior changed? Is LinkedIn the answer? Can email still be effective? All of these questions plague sales reps and leaders and are debated daily on sales floors across the globe. What is the answer and more importantly what will bring results to resolve the biggest challenge in sales – building quality pipeline?
Gabe Larsen, VP of Growth at InsideSales.com has taken the stance that the phone is not dead and reps and companies should continue to use it as a tool in their prospecting arsenal.
Mario Martinez Jr., CEO at Vengreso argues the phone has its place but using social tools such as LinkedIn must be included.
Is one right and the other wrong? The answer must be decided and the winner defined and the only way to do it is battle it out. One expert to another, face-to-face, mano-a-mano!


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"Rational design of 3D dendritic TiO2 nanostructures with favorable arc" by Ziqi Sun, Jung Ho Kim et al.
Sun, Z., Kim, J. Ho., Zhao, Y., Bijarbooneh, F., Malgras, V., Lee, Y., Kang, Y. & Dou, S. Xue. (2011). Rational design of 3D dendritic TiO2 nanostructures with favorable architectures. Journal of the American Chemical Society, 133 (48), 19314-19317.
Controlling the morphology and size of titanium dioxide (TiO2) nanostructures is crucial to obtain superior photocatalytic, photovoltaic, and electrochemical properties. However, the synthetic techniques for preparing such structures, especially those with complex configurations, still remain a challenge because of the rapid hydrolysis of Ti-containing polymer precursors in aqueous solution. Herein, we report a completely novel approach—three-dimensional (3D) TiO2 nanostructures with favorable dendritic architectures—through a simple hydrothermal synthesis. The size of the 3D TiO2 dendrites and the morphology of the constituent nano-units, in the form of nanorods, nanoribbons, and nanowires, are controlled by adjusting the precursor hydrolysis rate and the surfactant aggregation. These novel configurations of TiO2 nanostructures possess higher surface area and superior electrochemical properties compared to nanoparticles with smooth surfaces. Our findings provide an effective solution for the synthesis of complex TiO2 nano-architectures, which can pave the way to further improve the energy storage and energy conversion efficiency of TiO2-based devices.


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Sophie Kauer, cello
Sophie Kauer is 15, lives in Godalming and is a Year 10 Music Scholar at Guildford High School. She began cello lessons at 8 and achieved her Grade 8 Distinction aged 11. She attends the Junior Department of the Royal Academy of Music where she won the 2015 Junior Lower Strings Prize and is currently Principal Cello of the Sinfonia. Sophie recently became a private pupil of Melissa Phelps and Maria Zachariadou.
Recent highlights have included being chosen by Guy Johnston as the winner of the 'Musicale Search for a Cello Soloist' competition and making her debut as a soloist with orchestra at the 2015 Harpenden Music Festival. She was also the recipient of the 2016 Guildford Spring Music Festival Bursary for musical promise and was offered a scholarship to attend the 2016 Astona International Summer Music Academy in Switzerland.
She has won many prizes at local music festivals including Woking Junior Musician 2014 and the Godalming Festival Cello Prize.Sophie has appeared in major concert venues across the UK as Principal Cello in the National Children's Orchestra. She has also made chamber appearances at the Hatfield House Chamber Festival, the London Schubertiade Festival and the Danish Radio Koncerthuset. In 2014, together with her duo partner, violinist Amber Emson, Sophie won 3rd prize in the national final of Germany's most prominent youth music competition, Jugend Musiziert.


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Commentary on the Organisation of Occupational Health and Safety in Southern Africa the International Labour Organization and Policies in General
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Background: The design and implementation of sound occupational health and safety (OHS) programmes require understanding of the main issues that need attention. This article highlights key issues regarding the (i) organisation of OHS services in southern Africa, (ii) role of the International Labour Organization (ILO) in the provision of OHS services and (iii) implementation of policies in general.
Methods: Relevant peer-reviewed journal articles, ILO conventions and policies were identified and discussed.
Results: Inadequacies that exist on the organisation of OHS services in southern Africa include (i) lack of some critical categories of OHS practitioners, (ii) no emphasis on the surveillance of the work environment (iii) disregard of the worker's right to refuse to work in unsafe work environments and (iv)non-coverage of some sectors of the economy. Further research is needed to identify additional efforts that the ILO requires to effectively discharge its OHS promotion mandate.
Conclusion: Responsible authorities need to attend to the shortcomings of the national OSH laws and intergovernmental pacts.
Keywords: Article has no keywords
DOI: http://doi.org/10.29024/aogh.2333
On February 17, 1988, the International Labour Organization's (ILO) Convention 161 [1] came into effect. This convention focuses on the organisation of occupational health services and addresses issues such as the need for the formulation, implementation and review of occupational health and safety (OHS) policies in member states. The present article comments on the organisation of OHS in southern Africa [2], the International Labour Organization (ILO) and policies in general.
Occupational Health and Safety Organization in Southern Africa [2]
In the four regions of Africa, very few research efforts have been focused on examining existing OHS legislation in order to suggest required improvements for actioning by policy makers. However, in the Annals of Global Health, Moyo and colleagues [2] make a valuable contribution in this regard, in the context of southern Africa. More importantly, the publication of their findings in an open access scientific journal is a giant step towards drawing the attention of OHS practitioners, policy makers and the scientific community to the fundamental concerns requiring correction. Given the value of the conclusions arising from their work, Moyo and colleagues [2] may also need to consider additional platforms for sharing their findings, such as the annual Public Health Practitioners Association Conference (PHASA), hosted by South Africa, which is regularly well attended by researchers, policy makers and OHS practitioners from various developing and developed countries. On the other hand, the authors' country selection may not necessarily mirror the status of OHS laws in the remaining unreviewed majority of other southern African countries. Consequently, further work may need to also concentrate on such nations as well as the eastern, western and northern African countries, in order to identify their peculiar scenarios requiring redress.
About two decades back, Auria [3] rightly observed that the bulk of published OHS articles were unfortunately small-scale, local and not national and strategic. Fundamentally, Moyo and colleagues' regional study is a step ahead rather than repetition of previous research shortcomings raised by Auria [3]. In their study, Moyo et al. [2] describe, discuss and analyse OHS laws in South Africa, Zimbabwe, Botswana and Zambia and observe, among other issues, the severe shortage of occupational medicine specialists. Similar human resource challenges stifling the performance of OHS services have been reported in various other developing countries [4, 5, 6]. Although massive improvements in such critical expert staffing levels in resource-constrained countries might appear difficult, some positive improvements in African countries, such as South Africa, fruitfully demonstrate that these limitations are solvable. Consequently, the need for researchers' sustained efforts in convincing policy makers to take practical remedial action is more crucial than ever. Further delays in the rectification of the OHS expertise deficits prevailing in various developing countries are unwelcome giant steps backwards that are grossly incongruent with the requirements in article 5 of the ILO convention 161 of 1985. Article 5 requires organisations to provide vital OHS functions such as risk assessment, workplace and worker's health surveillance, expert guidance, ergonomics and first aid and emergency treatment.
Moyo and colleagues rightly bemoan the lack of coverage of informal workers, the civil service and domestic workers in reviewed compensation laws. The economies of developing countries appear to be driven by the informal sector, which suggests that informal workers, like their formally employed counterparts in the manufacturing and mining industries, deserve top priority with regard to OHS services provision. Similarly, in industrialised countries, the work conditions of informal workers seem not to meet the fundamentals of decent work. For instance, some studies report that informal workers: (1) do not have social security coverage [7], (2) require consideration with regard to enforcement of universal labour rights [8] and (3) are vulnerable to various work-related health problems [7, 8, 9]. Therefore, in both developing and industrialised countries, the lack of coverage of the informal sector by existing OHS laws is a disheartening omission that suggests that their workplace injuries and unsafe conditions largely go unmonitored, unreported and uninvestigated. We call upon policy makers to broaden coverage of OHS services to such currently neglected sectors.
A central theme emerging from the Moyo et al. [2] study is the finding that OHS functions are fragmented among the ministries of health, labour and mining. The authors provide a detailed and comprehensive evidence-based analysis of particular OHS laws administered by different government departments in reviewed countries. However, some critical issues remain unresolved and unaddressed and deserve further examination, such as how such fragmentation can impinge on enforcement and how it can possibly be corrected. From an economic perspective, fragmentation may result in duplication of enforcement roles of OHS laws, especially where there are overlaps, which may result in costly waste of scarce resources. Still, fragmentation may yield inconsistencies and lack of uniformity on the implementation of enforcement functions among concerned departments. These limitations may hamper progress concerning safeguarding workers' health. Therefore, more efforts are required with regard to exploring options for solving the fragmentation, such as unifying the laws under one regulatory authority.
Moyo and colleagues wonderfully present the strengths of Zimbabwe's Pneumoconiosis Act [10]. The provision for various medical examinations of workers exposed to dusty occupations is stressed. As such, the examinations constitute a necessary proactive surveillance approach for worker fitness screening and for early identification of signs of ill health in those workers in dusty occupations. However, two fundamental points are missing in the article and deserve the urgent attention of policy makers. Firstly, the Act only certifies the worker fit to work in a dusty environment but neither certifies the work environment fit for the worker nor obliges the employer to improve conditions of work in dusty occupations. Secondly, an overwhelming shortcoming of the Act is that it does not give workers the right to refuse to work under unsafe and unhealthy work environments. Therefore, the Act appears predominantly employer-centric rather than worker-centric. Taken together, these omissions of the Act are an unfortunate misstep grossly inconsistent with ILO Conventions ratified by Zimbabwe. For example, Convention 161 requires employers to offer workplace risk assessment whilst the Convention 170 on chemical safety [11] contains the worker's right to refuse to work in unsafe environments.
ILO and Policies in General
Most sub-Saharan countries are predominantly agrarian [12] but lack laws for protecting the OHS of agricultural workers. Agricultural work may expose workers to diverse synthetic pesticides and herbicides which may be genotoxic, mutagenic, carcinogenic, neurotoxic and endocrine-disrupting. At the global level, the ILO 170 governs the safe manufacture, labelling, transportation, use, handling and disposal of chemicals. Importantly, this convention appears insufficient with regards to sound protection of agricultural workers' occupational health. It does not, for example, ban usage of the synthetic pesticides and herbicides in the sector, despite the emergence of overwhelming evidence on the availability of equally effective alternative non-chemical agricultural pest control methods like organic farming and integrated pest control initiatives.
Moreover, ILO seems grossly limited to the production of OHS proposals for implementation by member states, particularly, conventions and recommendations. Since ILO lacks the mandate for direct OHS lawmaking, its conventions merely serve as draft legislation ultimately requiring both ratification and subsequent enactment into locally binding national OHS law by member states. Worse still, recommendations are not designed to be legally binding but to instead provide optional guidelines concerning OHS policies, laws and practice. Therefore, beyond conventions and recommendations, further research may need to identify additional efforts that ILO requires to effectively discharge its OHS promotion mandate.
On the other hand, the ILO conventions anchoring decent work concerns have several missing components, which make them less relevant in the OHS field. For example, the ILO's Convention for Minimum Age on Child Labour lacks the much needed specific standard definition of what constitute a minimum working age. Without such a definition, member states are bound to adopt different minimum ages for working, which will make it a complicated and daunting task for ILO to effectively carry out its watchdog functions. Resultantly, member states that practice child labour may set a minimum working age as low as 13 years and still not adhere to it, thus perpetuating the employment of children, who in fact, are school age. Therefore, ILO needs to urgently rectify this loophole by setting a uniform minimum working age, say 18 years, if meaningful gains on banning chid labour are to be attained.
Improvements are required for industrialised and developing countries with regard to addressing some health inequalities. For example, migrant workers and refugees' right of access to health services seem to be unfulfilled in some industrialised countries [13, 14], which is a violation of the United Nations' article 25 on the right to health for all. Still, some authors found positive associations between the poor health of immigrants and discrimination [15]. There appears to be limited literature that discusses the extent to which developing countries have complied with international conventions that abolished child labour, forced labour and bonded labour. Such a discussion is critical, particularly in the context of the current UN Sustainable Development Goal number 8 on decent work and the 2014 ILO Protocol on Forced Labour [16], which devote unequivocal emphasis to these fundamental human rights infringements.
In light of the explosive HIV/AIDs prevalence rate in some low- and middle-income countries, it is also important for the scientific community to examine how governments and employers have addressed the issues of workplace discrimination against workers with HIV/AIDs. Areas of focus may entail the adequacy and coverage of existing national legislative and policy measures. The existence of global anti-discrimination pacts [17, 18] is a positive development that provides a valuable yardstick to measure the level of compliance to their provisions by member states.
To conclude, Moyo and colleagues' findings elegantly provide a wonderful call for governments to freshen up and attend to deficits within their OHS laws. We urge responsible authorities to rectify the limitations of the national OHS laws and of the intergovernmental pacts. We also call upon industrialised nations to attend to the health needs of refugees, migrant and informal workers.
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The Appointments
Fri, Mar 11, 2011, 00:00
Profiles by HARRY McGEE, DEAGLÁN de BRÉADÚN, MARY MINIHANand PAUL CULLEN
SEAT AT CABINET TABLE
Government Chief Whip and Defence
Paul Kehoe
PartyFine Gael
ConstituencyWexford
TitleMinister of State at the Department of the Taoiseach and the Department of Defence with the responsibility of Chief Whip
A farmer from Bree, Enniscorthy, Kehoe was first elected to the Dáil in the general election of May 2002 and became Fine Gael Chief Whip in 2004. He has been a loyal supporter of Enda Kenny and was a key figure in defeating the attempted heave in June last year. He said recently that he was proud of his role and would "do the same in the morning". He is a former youth officer with Wexford GAA and former chairman of Macra na Feirme and Fleadh Cheoil na hÉireann Inis Corthaidh. Kehoe is married and became a father for the first time last year.
Willie Penrose
PartyLabour
ConstituencyLongford-Westmeath
TitleMinister of State at the Department of Environment, Community and Local Government with responsibility for Housing and Planning
WILLIE PENROSE topped the poll with almost 11,500 votes in his constituency, proving his reputation as one of the country's most successful vote-getters. A barrister, he was a member of Westmeath County Council from 1984 to 2003. He was first elected to the Dáil in 1992, the first time Labour returned a deputy in the constituency since 1927. He was an unsuccessful candidate for Labour deputy leader in 2002, and the party's spokesman on enterprise, trade and employment in the last Dáil. As a super junior minister, he can sit at the Cabinet table.
OTHER APPOINTMENTS
Róisín Shortall
ConstituencyDublin North West
TitleMinister of State at the Department of Health with responsibility for Primary Care
First elected to the Dáil in the 1992 general election as part of the "Spring tide", she has kept her seat in every election since then.
Ms Shortall previously worked as a primary school teacher for the deaf. She was educated at Dominican College, Eccles Street; UCD; and St Mary's College of Education, Marino, and was elected to Dublin City Council in 1991.
Until the recent election she was Labour spokeswoman on social protection and an effective questioner of witnesses at the Dáil Committee of Public Accounts. She is married with three daughters. She topped the poll in Dublin North West at the recent election and her surplus helped elect colleague John Lyons.
John Perry
ConstituencySligo-North Leitrim
TitleMinister of State at the Department of Enterprise, Jobs and Innovation with responsibility for Small Business
Born in Ballymote, Co Sligo, and educated at Ballymote National School and Corran College, he was first elected to Dáil Éireann in the 1997 general election and has retained his seat since. He was chairman of the Dáil Committee of Public Accounts from 2002 to 2004 and Fine Gael spokesman on the marine from 2004 to 2007.
He was demoted in a reshuffle following the 2007 general election but appointed chairman of the EU Scrutiny Committee. He was restored to the front bench last year as spokesman on small business. Member of Sligo County Council from 1999 to 2004.
Lucinda Creighton
ConstituencyDublin South East
TitleMinister of State at the Department of the Taoiseach and Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade with responsibility for European Affairs
Like her party leader Enda Kenny she is from Mayo, but has represented the constituency of Dublin South East since 2007. Ms Creighton was the youngest member of the last Dáil. She opposed Mr Kenny in last year's failed leadership heave. Outspoken, she told an International Women's Day event earlier this week there was a responsibility on women politicians to create "an old and young girls' network". She has been a public representative since 2004, when she was elected to Dublin City Council as the youngest ever member. She studied law at Trinity College, Dublin and qualified as a barrister.
Trade & Development
Jan O'Sullivan
ConstituencyLimerick City
TitleMinister of State at the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade with responsibility for Trade and Development
A full-time public representative and a former pre-school teacher, she was elected to the Dáil in 1998 in the byelection following the death of Jim Kemmy. Educated at Villiers School, Limerick, and at Trinity College Dublin, she has been in politics since the mid-1980s when she was elected to Limerick City Council. She was elected to the Seanad in 1994. In the last Dáil, she was Labour's health spokeswoman.
She is on the boards of the Island Theatre Company, Cara Housing Association and the Rape Crisis Centre and is a member of Amnesty International. She is married with one son and one daughter.
NewEra Project
Fergus O'Dowd
ConstituencyLouth
TitleMinister of State at the Department of Communications, Energy & Natural Resources and Department of Environment, Community and Local Government with responsibility for NewEra Project
Fergus O'Dowd was disappointed not to be awarded a senior ministry, but having responsibility for the big-ticket jobs and utilities plan, NewEra, will compensate.
A former teacher based in Drogheda, he came late to the Dáil but has made an impact. He retained his seat when Mairéad McGuinness was a candidate in 2007.
His groundwork exposed the practices within Fás. He was on the wrong side of the leadership challenge last year, which may have cost him.
Public Service Reform and OPW
ConstituencyDublin South West
TitleMinister of State at the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform and the Department of Finance with responsibility for Public Service Reform and OPW
This is another key junior ministerial role. The appointment of Tallaght-based Hayes shows Enda Kenny favoured ability over loyalty. While Hayes was closely identified with the plot against Kenny, his elevation is not a surprise. If he was not Dublin-based, he may have become a senior Minister. He excelled as deputy finance spokesman and was one of the party's strongest performers during the election campaign. He has been a member of the Oireachtas since 1995. The OPW job is a plum role. With public sector reform thrown in, this is as senior as a junior job gets.
Ciarán Cannon
ConstituencyGalway East
TitleMinister of State at the Department of Education and Skills with responsibility for Training and Skills
A native of Killimordaly in east Galway, Cannon and his wife Niamh have run a pub in the village of Carrabane for more than a decade. Cannon was elected to Galway County Council in 2004 as a representative of the now defunct Progressive Democrats. He unsuccessfully ran for that party in the 2007 general election but was later appointed as a Taoiseach's nominee to the Seanad. He became leader of the Progressive Democrats for a short time before the party's demise and joined Fine Gael in 2009. He secured 6,927 first-preference votes in his Galway East constituency in the general election.
Seán Sherlock
ConstituencyCork East
TitleMinister of State at the Department of Enterprise, Jobs and Innovation and the Department of Education and Skills with responsibility for Research and Innovation
First elected in 2007, he was Labour's spokesman on agriculture in the last Dáil. Mr Sherlock topped the poll in Cork East last month and was elected on the first count with 11,862 first preferences. He studied economics and politics at University College Galway and worked as an assistant to Labour's Dublin MEP Proinsias De Rossa. Mr Sherlock was opposed to the idea of a strike or national day of protest by trade unions in 2009. His father was the late Joe Sherlock, who was first elected to represent the Workers' Party and later made the transition to Labour.
Gaeltacht Affairs
Dinny McGinley
ConstituencyDonegal South West
TitleMinister of State at the Department of Arts, Heritage and Gaeltacht Affairs with responsibility for Gaeltacht Affairs
A native Irish speaker from Gweedore in the Donegal Gaeltacht, where he still lives, he worked as a teacher before being elected to the Dáil in 1982. He has held a variety of frontbench positions in the party, including youth affairs, defence and Gaeltacht.
He was chairman of an Oireachtas committee on the Irish language from 1995 to 1997. In June 2006, he announced he was to retire from national politics but in February 2007 said he had changed his mind. The candidate selected in his place, Cllr Terence Slowey, stepped aside and Mr McGinley kept his Dáil seat in the 2007 general election.
Michael Ring
ConstituencyMayo
TitleMinister of State at the Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport with responsibility for Tourism and Sport
One of the Dáil's most colourful characters, Michael Ring was promoted to the Fine Gael front bench last year following the failed leadership heave by Richard Bruton. He was later promoted to spokesman on social protection.
The Westport native became a county councillor in 1991. He was elected to the Dáil at a byelection three years later in 1994 following the resignation of Pádraig Flynn. He was party spokesman for social and family affairs, agriculture and deputy health spokesman.
A former auctioneer, he is married with three children.
Food, Horticulture and Food Safety
Shane McEntee
ConstituencyMeath East
Title Minister of State at the Department of Agriculture, Marine and Food with responsibility for Food, Horticulture and Food Safety
Shane McEntee is not a surprising appointment, nor is the portfolio he has been handed. One of Enda Kenny's most passionate and loyal defenders during last year's leadership challenge, he was crestfallen not to have been given a spokesman job.
His elevation is partly a reward for Fine Gael winning two seats in a constituency that was Fianna Fáil heartland. The Nobber TD comes from a farming background and is deeply involved in the GAA. His brother Gerry was a member of the Meath team in the 1980s. He has also been vocal in calling for a reverse of the stag hunting ban.
Disability, Equality and Mental Health
ConstituencyCork North Central
TitleMinister of State for Health and for Justice, Equality and Defence with responsibility for Disability, Equality and Mental Health
A colourful and often effective performer, she has had a chequered electoral career. She was first elected to the Dáil as a Democratic Left TD in the November 1994 byelection caused by the death of Labour's Gerry O'Sullivan.
She lost the seat in 1997 but regained it in 2002 following the merger of DL and Labour. Women's rights, health, housing and welfare issues, as well as the plight of disadvantaged communities in her constituency, have always figured high on her political agenda. In the last Dáil, Lynch was the party's spokeswoman on equality and disability.
She is married with four children.
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TitleMinister of State for Transport, Tourism and Sport with responsibility for Public and Commuter Transport
The former e-business manager with Bord Fáilte entered political life in 2007 when he was elected to the Seanad's agricultural panel. Kelly was appointed as Labour's spokesman in the Seanad on tourism, finance and local government after the election of Eamon Gilmore as party leader in 2007. He was elected MEP for the South constituency in 2009 and secured 9,559 first preferences in last month's election. He studied eCommerce in University College Dublin. He is a younger brother of Declan Kelly, who was appointed in 2009 as economic envoy to Northern Ireland by US secretary of state Hillary Clinton.
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Q: Custom class extending AsyncHttpResponseHandler and return modified bytes I have searched with google for the past 3 hours to no avail, I am not sure if this is even possible.
I am using AsyncHttpResponseHandler in 10-12 different activities, and with all of them I am doing the same initial transforming of the "byte[] bytes" in the initial code, which is around 50lines of code per activity.
How would I do said transformation of bytes, and then return the final value on the activity where the custom class gets called?
How would I reference the message variable?
public class MainActivity extends AppCompatActivity {

@Override
protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
    super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
    setContentView(R.layout.activity_main);

    AsyncHttpClient client = new AsyncHttpClient();
    client.post(URL, params, new VenueAsyncHttpResponseHandler() {

        @Override
        public void onSuccess(int i, Header[] headers, byte[] bytes) {
            //How do I reference the transformed message here?
            switch (message) {
                case "success":
                    //Do something
                    break;
            }

        }
    });
}
}

when using the custom class
public class VenueAsyncHttpResponseHandler extends AsyncHttpResponseHandler {
@Override
public void onSuccess(int i, Header[] headers, byte[] bytes) {
    String byteToString = null;
    JSONObject response = null;
    String message = "";
    try {
        byteToString = new String(bytes, "UTF-8");
        response = new JSONObject(byteToString);
        message = response.getString("response"); //return this to the activity
    } catch (UnsupportedEncodingException | JSONException e) {
        e.printStackTrace();
    }
}

@Override
public void onFailure(int i, Header[] headers, byte[] bytes, Throwable throwable) {

}
}

A: Add a method to your activity class which does what you want with the message. Then call this method from onSuccess().
Also, do not create an anonymous inner class. Instead instantiate your custom class directly:
VenueAsyncHttpResponseHandler handler = new VenueAsyncHttpResponseHandler();
client.post(URL, params, handler);


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Police officers stand guard during a raid on a terrorist hideout. (Antara Photo/Risky Andrianto)
Detachment 88 Arrests Three Suspected Terrorists in East Java
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Jakarta. Indonesian police's anti-terror unit Detachment 88 arrested three suspected terrorists in Blitar, East Java, on Friday night and took them to the East Java Police headquarters to be interrogated, a police spokesman told the Jakarta Globe on Saturday.
"They were arrested last night and brought here to the police headquarters this morning," police spokesman Comr. Frans Barung Mangera said.
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Kurniawan was captured in front of his house in Sentul, a village near Blitar. Subagio was arrested in Beru and Joan was arrested in Kepanjen Kidul.
The arrests were part of a police investigation in which they had already arrested two members of the Islamic State-affiliated militant group Jamaah Ansharut Daulah (JAD) on Thursday, also in East Java.
One of them was Beni Luqman Hakim, the leader of the JAD branch in Lamongan, East Java. The police also took Beni's wife and children to be questioned.
"These terrorists have changed the way they fund their terror acts. They now earn halal money. In the past, they used to earn money from robberies," Frans said.
He said the suspected terrorists arrested in Blitar, Lamongan and Sampang this week make money from running a small business or working as employees.
Frans said the wife of Hari Setiawan, the JAD member arrested in Sampang on Thursday, is a medical doctor and police are investigating her possible involvement in the group and its network.
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The singer-songwriter and ex-Pink Floyd star said he had been approached by the Kremlin's "minister of propaganda" to ask him to perform for a Russian audience at Russia's upcoming Eurovision song contest (see "Abandoned Ship," April 17).
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Sport England joins Idox's Consultee Cloud Service
Idox announces the integration of Sport England's back office planning application management system with its integral Consultee Cloud service.
Idox's Consultee Cloud links local planning authorities and consultees via a direct, online channel, and provides the solution necessary to speed up the process of distributing, coordinating, receiving and responding to planning consultations of which there are hundreds of thousands per year. Town planning process stakeholders use the e-consultation cloud to complete both internal and external consultations online, benefitting from both time and resource savings.
Mark Critchley, GIS Manager at Sport England explains, "The integration of the Consultee Cloud service with our in house planning application management system ensures applications are received and responded to directly instead of by email. The integrated service reduces effort and removes errors for our administration team to log applications, whilst also establishing a more streamlined process for our Planning Managers to send responses back to planning authorities."
Marie White, Senior Planning Administrator at Sport England adds, "With around 2,400 applications handled by Sport England every year, the time saving alone will be significant. We expect this efficiency to continue to rise as more and more planning authorities carry on joining the service. With application numbers running into the hundreds for some, an automated service is definitely the way forward in terms of streamlining and making a success of the process."
Paul Beaney, Operations Director at Idox, highlights other benefits of Idox's Consultee Cloud, which in addition to being a service for back office integration can be accessed via a dedicated website with single login. "The website not only provides a clear visual indication of priority by ordering consultations according to expiry date, it's geographical information system (GIS) feature also allows consultees to plot the location of applications on a map. This allows them to easily identify clusters of development and plan appropriately."
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Beginning Saturday, January 5, the Milwaukee County Zoo will display a commemorative wall for Mahal, the orangutan youngster who died unexpectedly on December 29.
When visiting the Zoo, the public is invited to bring along cards, thoughts and memories of Mahal and post them on the wall which will be displayed in the Primates of the World Building.
Mahal arrived at the Milwaukee County Zoo in 2008 from the Cheyenne Mountain Zoo, to be introduced to MJ, the Zoo's female orangutan. It was the hope MJ would serve as a surrogate mother to Mahal. It didn't take long before the two bonded, and soon displayed a strong and stable mother/son relationship.
A complete necropsy (animal autopsy) is being performed to determine the exact cause of death; final results are pending. The Zoo's veterinary personnel believe the cause of death was pneumonia, as orangutans are susceptible to the serious respiratory condition, just as humans.
For further information, please contact the Zoo Public Affairs and Services Division at 414.256.5466.