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Likewise consider the door designs, and other functions including windows, designs and insulation, all which can increase the rate from 15% to 20%. An automatic opener will likewise increase the cost of the garage door, depending on the style and additional functions you purchase. An opener could raise task cost from $150 to $300 – however, a semi-automatic opener ought to not be more than $50. The width can also impact the rate of the garage door, whether the door is double or single width. For example, if you decide to install a single width door for a two car garage, that has many more structural intricacies than installing two garage doors for each vehicle. Exterior lighting can enormously increase the expense, because the garage business usually has to employ their own electrical expert to obtain the task done.
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Turkish Band performed at Cinema Asmara
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Turkish band with Turkey's Ambassador to Eritrea, H.E. Mr. Firat Sunel (red tie), at Cinema Asmara (Photo Credit: Turkish Embassy in Asmara)
By EritreaProfile
For the Celebrations of 25th Anniversary of Eritrea's Independence, the Turkish Jazz-Pop Band of the Izmir Metropolitan Municipality arrived in Eritrea and performed its concerts on 1st and 2nd May at Cinema Asmara.
High government officials, generals, ambassadors and members of diplomatic corps and other invited guests attended to the concerts. Ambassador Zemede Tekle, Chairman of Commission of Culture and Sport said on his speech that the arrival of this Musical group on this very special occasion shows the developing relations between the two countries.
H.E. Mr. Firat Sunel, Ambassador of the Republic of Turkey in Eritrea mentioned on his side the historical relations of the peoples of Eritrea and Turkey and said that his assignment as the first ever Ambassador of Turkey to Eritrea made him feel honoured. He also assured that he will continue to work in order to deepen the bilateral relations further.
The concerts of the Turkish Musical Band was organised in cooperation of the Commission of Culture and Sport & the Turkish Embassy in Eritrea. There will be also several other cultural programs open for the public during the Turkish Cultural Days.
Besides, on the occasion of the 25th Anniversary of Independence Day, an Art contest for children and exhibition was organized under a theme of "Children & Nature." Total 558 Eritrean children from 32 schools participated to the painting contest and 25 best artists have been granted with awards and certificates.
Photos below of the event are courtesy of Turkish Embassy in Asmara
Turkish Band performed at Cinema Asmara Reviewed by Admin on 1:16 AM Rating: 5
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If I were in your position, I would not have posted it as it is more confusing than convincing. He is very short of explaining the answers. He should have explained it in a number of ways. So, by posting you would rather confuse the little ones. So, please watch carefully by put yourself in the position of the little ones, and decide.
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Someone grab my jaw! I think it's still on the ground in Piazza Maggiore. We stood, totally awestruck by the beauty of this medieval city. Bolonga is not the first city in the Italian guidebook, infact in our European Lonely Planet guide it only got one paragraph. We had 4 days in Bolonga and it was a great way to get a taste of this underrated city. We are enchanted, we are in love and we don't want to leave! Read on to find out about our top activities and things to see.
Wander the streets -if your from little ol' New Zealand wandering the streets of an ancient city can blow your mind. Everything is so old and different from what we are used to seeing at the bottom of the world. In Bologna they know how to do urban without ruining the landscape. People live in apartments and the streets are lined with trees, ensuring green is everywhere.
The city centre is stuffed full of high stone and terracotta buildings, lining narrow cobblestone streets. It's great to try and get lost as you give in to the call to wander off down another enchanted alleyway. It's also a great way to find beautiful churches to explore. We recommend getting the bus to the city centre, or staying there and walking in any direction, heading down each alley as they call to you or offer a beautiful building in the near distance.
Have a slurp at Fontana Di Nettuno -the Fountain of Neptune is one of the city's well known landmarks and is just off the Piazza Maggiore, Bologna's main square. Check out Neptune's chizzled bod and the intricate bronze work. This is also a good spot to fill up your water bottle. In the 1500's merchants would use the water of the fountain too!
Wander around Comune di bolonga -also on the Piazza Maggiore is the city's town hall. Have a look at the statue of Pope Gregory XIII who overlooks the square. Climb up the trippiest staircase you ever did try. There were lots of other areas in the hall but we didn't check them out as we weren't sure what they were for.
Marvel at many of Bolonga's stunning churches -we spent a lot of our time in Bologna wandering in and out of ancient churches. They were all awe inspiring, with astonishingly high ceilings, carved marble and stone, frescoes, icons, stained glass and more. It's amazing to see the extreme effort, time and funding that went into these ancient sites of worship. A few of the city's most recommended churches are Basilica di San petrionio, Santa Maria della Vita and Basilica di Santo stephano. If you are wandering around central Bolonga you will find it hard not to bump into these highlights.
Hike up Le due Torre -we tried and failed to do this. Le due Torre has nearly 500 steps, giving you an aireal view of Bolonga. There are two towers here, dating back to the 12th century, built as status symbols by wealthy families. Make sure to book at the tourist office on the main plazza, you cannot buy tickets at the tower (like we tried to do!). Even if you don't go up, they are definitely worth a visit from the outside.
Spend a few hours in Museo Di palazzo poggi -this was definitely worth the €5 entrance fee. The main building is the University of Bolonga's base and houses collections of natural history, physics, military architecture, model ships and more. Our favourite collection was of obstetric and anatomical models. There are many human models of human skeletons with wax muscles and other teaching models of babies in the womb. They are so real that you feel a little uneasy but they are stunning!
Drink a tiny coffee on a cobblestone street -a useful phrase we picked up in Bolonga is 'un cafe per favore' which gets you a ristretto shot of coffee with a shot of water, which is how the Italians drink it. No idea how you order anything else! It's great to people watch while sitting in the sun with your caffeine hit.
Spend a sunny afternoon at the park -we discovered that on sunny Saturdays, the people of Bolonga head to the park to catch some rays and hang out with their friends. It was wonderful to see people sitting around chatting and playing music, not a phone to be seen! Grab a beer and some snacks then find a spot of grass to relax like an Italian. We loved Giardini Margherita.
Bus -Bolonga has a fabulous bus system. As total public transport rookies we found it really easy to navigate and get to where we wanted. We primarily used Google maps and the timetables at the bus stops to work it out. You can either buy a pass at shops around the city or purchase a 75 minute pass from a machine on board each bus for £1.50. We used this and chose to walk most places. There is also a bus to take you from the airport to the city centre. Purchase a ticket from a kiosk before you exit the terminal.
Walk -walking is easy as the terrain is flat. It's also a great way to see the city. We used Maps.Me to make sure we were heading in the right direction. Just download the city you need when you have WiFi and then cruise the city without the fear of getting lost.
Think we've missed something important? Let us know in the comments below and we'll do our best to answer any questions and include similar information in our next post.
Such an inspiring story, hope to get there someday! Please, do post more!
Lovely description. Makes me want to go there NOW!
Thanks Steve. We had a wonderful visit!
It looks so amazing and nice to see you both enjoying yourselves.
Thanks Judy. Were having a wonderful time.


Why Teach Math at an Early Age?
You can begin teaching mathematics to your baby from the age of four months, and if you do so, you have the opportunity to provide an intuitive understanding of a core skill that will be used for the rest of your child's life as well as develop and enrich her brain, allowing your child to understand anything quickly and easily.
Your child's early years present a most important and unique opportunity to not only learn the language of numbers, but also to improve her chances of excelling in life with ease and confidence.
It's all down to a very special phase of development; up to the age of three and a half, small children perceive the world largely through the dominant right hemisphere of their brains. This right-brain dominance allows several curious things to happen - children are able to learn new facts and skills effortlessly with minimal repetition, directly storing the information in their long-term memory. In this manner, young children can develop amazing abilities, such as perceiving the number of dots on a flash card in an instant without counting them, just as some savants can.
In other words, children can develop and have demonstrated the ability to instantly differentiate, for example, what 48 is versus 49. Children who are able to retain this ability can perform seemingly complex mathematical equations without a calculator, even after their left brain begins to assume dominance. (For the rest of us though, numbers will have to remain abstract concepts, with a calculator almost certainly required for tasks such as multiplying two three-digit figures.) This fluency in what Glenn Doman refers to as the "language of numbers" can give your child the keys to understanding (and enjoying) a topic that, for most of us, is a lifelong frustration!
But it's not just about being able to excel in math; there are many, many other benefits to be gained. Other abilities, such as effortless, rapid learning also directly relate and transfer to anything your child may be presented with, be it reading, physical activities, encyclopedic knowledge, even spatial and logical reasoning.
This is because teaching math to your child exercises the right brain during its dominant phase in your child's development, and in doing so you are maintaining and enriching neurological pathways that would otherwise be unused and eventually destroyed. By enhancing your baby's brain, you not only teach your baby math, but you also make learning easier; arguably an even more enticing benefit for spending a few minutes a day with your child cycling through flash card presentations!


Big news - and positive news - out of Spain on an otherwise dark day where a fallen hero was mourned.
Argentina midfielder Juan Roman Riquelme has agreed to join Atletico Madrid on a 2 year deal. I suspect that the price was fairly low considering that this was partly about his old side - the Yellow Submarine - getting rid of his contract.
Atletico have done some fantastic business this summer and as our earlier poll showed, this community believes that the Juan Roman deal turns their decision to sell their hero to Liverpool a good one for the club. I just wish they were playing CL this season.


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Further funding for fossil-free steel
Steel manufacturer SSAB, iron ore miner LKAB and energy company Vattenfall, the Swedish owners behind the HYBRIT initiative, are investing SK150 million (US$15 million) and the Swedish Energy Agency is contributing another SK50 million towards the construction of a storage facility for hydrogen at the HYBRIT pilot plant for fossil-free steel production
Jan Moström, LKAB; Magnus Hall, Vattenfall; and Martin Lindqvist, SSA
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The HYBRIT initiative, which began in 2016, aims to use fossil-free electricity and hydrogen instead of coke and coal in steel production, meaning the emissions would consist of water instead of carbon dioxide. According to the companies behind the project, it has the potential to reduce Sweden's total carbon dioxide emissions by 10%.
The plan is to build a hydrogen gas storage facility 25-35 metres below the surface on LKAB's land in Svartöberget, close to the pilot plant currently under construction on SSAB's site in Luleå. The storage facility is expected to operate from 2022 to 2024.
The implementation study for the HYBRIT initiative showed that large-scale storage of hydrogen gas can play an important role in Sweden's future energy system.
SSAB president and CEO Martin Lindqvist said: "The investment in a storage facility for fossil-free hydrogen gas is an important building block in achieving our goal of a fossil-free value chain from ore to finished steel."
In June last year, the companies behind HYBRIT started the construction of the pilot plant in Luleå. Work also began recently on the reconstruction of a pellet works in Malmberget to replace fossil fuel with bio oil, with the aim of manufacturing fossil-free pellets.
The pilot plants for fossil-free steel production will be used from 2021 to 2024, and the partners in the initiative are already looking into the possibility of scaling up the manufacturing by building a demonstration plant in 2025, three years earlier than previously planned, to produce fossil-free steel from iron ore for commercial use. The aim for 2035 is to sell fossil-free steel on a broad scale.
Since 2016, the HYBRIT initiative has been granted SK599 million of financial support by the Swedish Energy Agency, and the three owner companies have so far spent and committed to invest SK1.1 billion.
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News : AT&T Sets Meriden Layoffs Amid Nixed Bill Protecting Call-center Jobs
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Meriden, CT, USA, May, 2019 -- Global telecommunications provider AT&T in August will begin its first round of layoffs at three Meriden call centers, which are set to close by year-end, according to a state Department of Labor filing.
AT&T will terminate 46 of the 89 Meriden call-center jobs it plans to cut this year beginning Aug. 2, AT&T Connecticut President John R. Emra said in a recent WARN notice filed with the state labor unit.
The notice is required by federal law for employers to provide advance notice of major closings and layoffs. AT&T originally announced the impending layoffs in late February, informing affected employees they would be terminated unless they relocated to AT&T offices in Tennessee or Georgia.
The August cuts will include 24 network technicians and 10 tech analysts based at AT&T's facility at 84 Deerfield Lane, Emra said. Most, if not all, of those employees are represented by labor union Communications Workers-America (CWA), which slammed the company at several protests in recent months.
A dozen management-level employees will also be terminated in August, Emra said.
Meantime, at least 33 workers at the Meriden call center, including seven customer-service technicians, 20 network technicians and six tech analysts, have agreed to a severance package to voluntarily leave the company beginning Sept. 27.
Remaining Meriden workers on the chopping block will be terminated by Dec. 13, the filing said.
The layoffs will be permanent and there are no bumping rights for affected employees.
"To increase efficiency and effectiveness, we are consolidating some work currently done in Meriden into two other facilities," the company said in a statement Friday.
The letter surfaces weeks after the state judiciary committee overwhelmingly voted down a bill aimed at protecting call-center jobs in Connecticut by imposing certain penalties on telecommunications companies choosing to leave the state.
According to S.B. 990, which CWA advocated for at recent protests, call centers with more than 50 full-time employees relocating 30 percent or more of their call volume in a year would have been subject to civil penalties and a potential loss of grants, loans, tax benefits and state contracts.
Several other states, including New York and New Jersey, have considered similar legislation to protect call-center jobs.
An AT&T spokeswoman said the large majority of employees working at its Deerfield Lane location will not be affected by the cuts. In total, she said AT&T hired more than 150 people in Connecticut last year, however, CWA has argued the company is counting its hires made to fill vacancies and address turnover.
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I really like this song. The lyrics and melody are lovely but, to me, it's the harmonies that are sappy and cheesy. I wish that Paul had sung it on his own like For No One , but who am I to say. They knew best. Like the wonderful While My Guitar Gently Weeps , it has a certain ethereal quality even though it is quite different, both structurally and in subject matter. It's that feeling you sometimes get when you walk into a room and there's a stillness, a sudden hush, that it stops you in your tracks.
I love the harmonies. To me, they highlight what the Beatles had that other bands failed to match.
The take posted previously is take 7 with the harmonies from take 13 superimposed near the end because someone in Apple was bored and needed to waste 20 minutes.
Totally agree, I love the Beatles' harmonies too. I just don't like them on this particular song for some reason. Thanks so much for the information on the takes - I have listened to take 7 and prefer it (except for the end bit) ... I think too that Paul sings in a slightly lower register?
John and I shared a room and we were taking off our heavy ski boots after a day's filming, ready to have a shower and get ready for the nice bit, the evening meal and the drinks. We were playing a cassette of our new recordings and my song Here, There And Everywhere was on. And I remember John saying, "You know, I probably like that better than any of my songs on the tape." Coming from John, that was high praise indeed.
While the way it's been told over the decades has varied, the structure has been the same in every interview I've seen it come up in: John and Paul sharing a room while filming Help !, put on a tape of their new stuff while getting ready, John picks out HT&E for praise.
I've just been reading a transcript of the recent CBS 60 Minutes interview on the CBS site, the story comes out, but all the Help ! references are gone!
Paul McCartney : --John gave me a compliment.
Paul McCartney : It was only once, the whole time. No, I think it was "Revolver ," but it was "Here, There And Everywhere " was-- was one of my songs on it.
Paul McCartney : And-- but John says, just when it finishes, "That's a really good song, lad. I love that song." I was like, "Yes, he likes it." You know, and I-- I've remembered it to this day. It's pathetic, really.
If there was one Paul song for John to compliment, he chose a good one. I love the song. Haunting and beautiful.
I believe the second account more, too. Maybe Paul was thinking of another song on the recording.
It certainly sounds like an electric, but it could also be an acoustic that had been amped up. Does anyone have any definitive answers?
Paul's definitely using his Casino since he didn't own a Gibson J-160E at the time and since he was left handed whereas John and George were right handed, that rhythm guitar part would've been nearly impossible if played upside down. Also, the rhythm guitar sounds like a Casino.
It sounds like an electric to me.


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Netflix is proud to present their slate of world premieres at the 2018 SXSW Film Festival (March 9-17 in Austin, TX), including three features, one documentary feature, and one documentary series. The world premieres include feature films First Match, 6 Balloons and The Legacy of a Whitetail Deer Hunter; documentary feature Take Your Pills, and documentary series Rapture.
Hardened by years in foster care, a teenage girl from Brooklyn's Brownsville neighborhood decides that wrestling boys is the only way back to her estranged father. The film stars Elvire Emmanuel, Yahya Abdul Mahteen II, Colman Domingo, Jharrel Jerome and Jared Kemp. From producers Chanelle Elaine, Veronica Nickel and Bryan Unkeless, First Match is the first feature film for writer/director Olivia Newman.
Over the course of one night, a woman drives across LA with her heroin addict brother in search of a detox center, with his two year old daughter in tow. The film stars Dave Franco and Abbi Jacobson. 6 Balloons is written and directed by Marja-Lewis Ryan and produced by Samantha Housman, Ross Dinerstein, Channing Tatum, Reid Carolin and Peter Kiernan.
and Vice Principals, The Legacy of a Whitetail Deer Hunter is directed by Jody Hill and is produced by Scott Rudin, Eli Bush and Jody Hill.
Every era gets the drug it deserves. In America today, where competition is ceaseless from school to the workforce and everyone wants a performance edge, Adderall and other prescription stimulants are the defining drugs of this generation. From executive producers Christina Schwarzenegger, Maria Shriver, producer Julie Goldman and duPont award-winning director Alison Klayman (Ai Weiwei: Never Sorry).
From Mass Appeal, Rapture stares directly into the bright light that hip hop culture shines on the world and doesn't blink. Throughout 8 episodes and featuring a diverse swath of artists — Nas and Dave East, T.I., Rapsody, Logic, G-Eazy, A Boogie wit da Hoodie, 2 Chainz and Just Blaze – Rapture dives into the artists' lives with their families and friends, to sitting front row in the studio and grinding on tour, to experiencing the ecstatic power of moving the crowd. Directors: Sacha Jenkins, Ben Selkow, Geeta Gandbhir, Steven Caple Jr., Marcus A. Clarke, Gabriel Noble. Executive Producers: Peter Bittenbender, Sacha Jenkins, Ben Selkow.


The camera performance of today's best smartphones continually impresses. Personally, it has become my primary way to capture my trips as of late, despite also having a DSLR on-hand. The DSLR undoubtedly has the advantage when talking about visual technicalities, but when it comes to the equal consideration of both convenience and performance, the smartphone puts up a overwhelming argument. The performance gap isn't vast, at least to the unprofessional eye.
So to put my money with my mouth is, I primarily used my Samsung Note 9's camera to try to truly capture Germany's exquisite scenery, in an Autumn flavor. Was that a mistake? This Synopsis covers the results of the Note 9 camera against some of Germany's most beautiful offerings.
These shots covered many of Germany's most well-known sites, starting north at its rad capital, Berlin, and down to the iconic Neuschwanstein castle in the Bavaria region. Included is the picturesque town of Salzburg at the foot of the Alps.
The transitional time of Autumn presented a lot of visual differentiation to test the Note 9's camera, from well-lit overcast and sunny landscapes to complex shadowy city dynamics and those tricky indoor low-light situations. We tested it all. Let's see how the Note 9 fared to such a tall order.
*Every image shown was shot on the Note 9, only in Auto mode and default camera settings. None were tweaked – this is exactly what the camera outputted.
Eiserner Steg bridge in Frankfurt.
Sunflower bokeh in Burg Colmberg castle.
Small field of daisies at Hohenschwangau castle.
I had used the Note 9 a while before putting it to this test. I knew the camera was an excellent performer, but these results have enhanced my appreciation for it. No, it doesn't form a perfect reproduction (especially when it comes to prevalent shadows or highlights), and some conditions fare better than others. But so often it was able to capture the drama of the moment, through its excellent contrast, colors, and detail. I'm able to revisit the emotional awe I felt in many of these scenes, and as far as I'm concerned, that's mission accomplished.
That said, we'd like to hear what you think. Do you also find these shots impressive, or think we're not yet at the point of leaving behind our trusty dedicated cameras? Let us know in the comments section!


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Q: Accessing DOM from EMSCRIPTEN is there a way to access the DOM from a EMSCRIPTEN C++ application?
I'd like e.g., to read / set the value of an html textarea and receive html buttons onclick events.
Can someone provide a C++ snippet?
Thanks.

A: I'll try to answer my own question with the only method I found by now:
this is the html snippet:
<!-- html file -->
...
<input type="text" id="my_textbox" value="...">
...
<input type="submit" value="Submit" onclick="_onBtnPressed()">
...

and this is the C++ code:
// C++ file

// callback for button event
extern "C"
{
    void onBtnPressed() { std::cout << "Btn pressed\n"; }
}

...

// change text of a text box:
emscripten_run_script("document.getElementById('my_textbox').value = 'Hello, emscripten world!'");

Compiled with the flag:
emcc -s EXPORTED_FUNCTIONS="['_onBtnPressed']" ...

This method works. However, I'd expect some explicit emscripten API to directly manipulate the DOM.

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The Boston Red Sox today purchased the contract of right-handed pitcher Hector Velazquez from the Piratas de Campeche of the Mexican League. The deal is pending a physical.
Velazquez, 28, most recently pitched for the Mayos de Navojoa in the Mexican Pacific Winter League. In 14 appearances with the club, all starts, he was 9-3 with a 2.32 ERA (22 ER/85.1 IP) and 87 strikeouts. He made five scoreless starts of at least 5.0 innings, and in his final four outings from December 9-27, he posted a 1.71 ERA (5 ER/26.1 IP) with 22 strikeouts against two walks.
A native of Sonora, Mexico, Velazquez spent the 2016 regular season with Monclova of the Mexican League-while on loan from Campeche-and went 5-1 with a 2.47 ERA (36 ER/131.1 IP), 120 strikeouts, and 16 walks in 22 starts. He allowed four earned runs or fewer in each of his outings, including two earned runs or fewer in 15 of them. On August 6 against the Aguascalientes, the right-hander surrendered only one hit in a 9.0-inning, complete-game shutout, striking out nine batters without issuing a walk. He also gave up zero runs and only one hit in his next outing-his final appearance of the regular season-on August 11 against Reynosa, recording 10 strikeouts and no walks in 7.0 innings.
In seven seasons in the Mexican League with Campeche (2010-15) and Monclova (2016), Velazquez went 43-29 with a 3.76 ERA (287 ER/687.1 IP) in 136 appearances (120 starts). He has also pitched in the Mexican Pacific Winter League following each of those seven seasons, posting a 4.07 ERA (189 ER/417.2 IP) in 101 games (75 starts) for Obregon (2010-11) and Navojoa (2012-16).


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No mom looks forward to the day when her children stop taking their afternoon naps. I have been dreading this day, and it has finally arrived.
Different children stop taking naps at different ages. I have heard of many children giving up their nap at age two, but I hung in there with my twin boys until they were almost three and a half. When they started refusing to go to sleep until 11:00 p.m., I knew something had to change!
Giving up naps is a difficult transition for a toddler, and difficult for parents too. My boys were thrilled when I told them they didn't have to take their naps anymore, but the first couple of days they were passing out on the couch right before dinner…they could hardly make it through the day.
It has been several weeks now since they stopped taking their afternoon nap, and we are definitely making progress. First of all, I have found that catnaps are okay when they just can't make it through the day, but I can't let them sleep for very long (i.e. more than an hour). The couple of times I let them sleep longer they were up until 11 p.m. again!
When I can keep them up all day they are generally asleep between 9:00-9:30 p.m. We start getting ready for bed by getting pajamas on, brushing teeth, reading books, etc., around 8 p.m. They will then sleep between 11-12 hours. Depending on what time your children need to get up in the morning, this will definitely affect what time they go to bed at night. My boys get up around 8:30 a.m.
I have one son who falls asleep really quickly, and one that plays in his bed for quite awhile before he falls asleep. During our first week of no naps, my sleepier one fell asleep at 7:30 p.m. one night and slept until the next morning! On the other hand, my other son just tonight couldn't fall asleep until after 10:00 p.m., and I put them to bed before 9:00.
The key is consistency. Putting your children to bed at the same time every night is important, as well as getting them up at the same time every morning. They won't always fall asleep at the same time, but at least if they are in bed they will have the opportunity to fall asleep. I have also found that wearing them out definitely helps! Make sure they run around and get some of their energy out during the day.
Giving up naps doesn't happen overnight. The afternoon is definitely longer, especially for me, but I am enjoying them going to bed at an earlier time and I realize this is just one more step in the process of them growing up!


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Microsoft Previews ASP.NET vNext
At its TechEd event in Houston today, Microsoft talked about the future of its .NET and ASP.NET frameworks. While the company isn't quite ready to announced .NET 5 just yet, it's clear that Microsoft is pretty close to launching the next version of its standard development framework.
As Microsoft's Brian Harry, the corporate vice president in its Developer Division, told me last week, the team has realized that the framework had to evolve in order to stay relevant in a world where developers now have to target multiple platforms. "We had the same framework that ran everywhere, but we were seeing very different requirements for the different platforms," Harry told me. "More than large monolithic libraries, developer now want small packages that they can pick and choose."
As Microsoft noted today, it also wants to make .NET more agile on the server and in the cloud. To do this, it will launch optimized .NET runtimes for the cloud that are faster and need fewer resources than today's standard .NET runtime. These cloud-optimized .NET runtimes will only feature the libraries you would typically need in the cloud — without weighing down the framework with tools like Windows Form or Windows Presentation Foundation libraries.
Harry told me that one major advantage of this is that developers can package their apps with the libraries and more easily run apps that use different versions of .NET side-by-side.
Through its partnership with Xamarin (at some point, Microsoft should just buy Xamarin given how deeply it is integrating its services into its developer ecosystem…), developers will also be able to run their .NET applications on Unix or OS X on top of the Mono runtime.
ASP.NET vNEXT
As part of today' announcement, Microsoft also announced a preview of the next version of its web development framework ASP.NET, dubbed ASP.NET vNEXT. The focus here is on allowing developer to select which libraries and packages they want to use for their apps.
Developers will be able to take all of their existing ASP.NET skills, but with vNEXT, they will also be able to use the dynamic compilation available in the new open-source Roslyn .NET compiler platform, so they won't have to recompile their apps to see the changes they made in their browser.
ASP.NET vNEXT will be an open-source project and become part of the Microsoft's recently announced .NET Foundation.
So far, this is all Microsoft is sharing about the next version of .NET, but chances are we will hear quite a bit more about it in the months to come.
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Accounting the issues of irregularity of the procurement process of Wide body of Nepal Airlines Corporation (NAC), Public Accounting Committee of Parliament had asked for clarification with Minister of Culture, Tourism and Civil Aviation, Rabindra Adhikari. Tourism Minister has suggested to conduct further studies if necessary.
Minister of Culture, Tourism and Civil Aviation, Rabindra Adhikari stated that strategic partner should be included in order to boost market of Nepal Airlines Corporation (NAC).
In the meeting of Public Accounting Committee of Parliament held to discuss about the issue of the procurement process of Wide body of NAC yesterday (December 5), Minister Adhikari accepted that the corporation could not compete in current international market.
Tourism Minister stated that not only strategic partner investment but also requires effective management for NAC's development. He also urged that going for a company model along with a strategic partner would be better for NAC to operate smoothly.
Previously, NAC demanded a sum of NRs 20 billion with government for capital enhancement as the corporation was going in losses.
Previously, the board of directors decided to demand NRs 20 billion with the contemporary government of Sher Bahadur Deuba. However, along due to the change of Government, the Ministry of Culture, Tourism and Civil Aviation (MoCTCA) had suggested the corporation to revise the amount. According to the Ministry's suggestion, the corporation decided to request NRs 5 billion from the Ministry. The letter was sent to Finance Ministry on the month of May, 2018. Unfortunately, the Finance Minister returned the document.
Currently, the capital of NAC is only NRs. 370 million. However, NAC's capital amounts to over 3.10 billion rupees after adding the cost of a MA60 and Y-12e aircraft granted by China. The government has suggested NAC to include the grant of NRs 2.13 billion for MA 60 and NRs 580 million for Y-12e aircraft to extend the capital.


Buying the one you love a gift shows them how much you care, and if you choose the right thing it will make them very happy. That's the main dilemma when you're thinking about what to buy – getting it right. Sometimes your spouse will give you an idea during a conversation, and a lightbulb will start to shine above your head as inspiration strikes.
Summer itself is a gift….
….so why not use that as your theme and celebrate the season? For example, browse some jewelry websites like blomdahlusa.com and see what sun-inspired pieces they have that would suit your beloved.
You can extend this theme to any item, using the ideas of the sun, flowers and plants, fruits, the sea, seashells, or anything else that evokes that summery feeling.
There are also the gifts that make sense for the summer, like a new barbecue for the keen outdoors chef, or a striking plant for an enthusiastic gardener.
Maybe your partner's idea of heaven is to sit in the sun reading a good book, in which case you could get some new titles in their preferred genre, or buy them an e-reader. By taking the summer as your starting point, you're approaching the choice of gift from a new angle, and that's sometimes all it takes to find that spark of inspiration.
An alternative idea is to plan an experience for your spouse, a special day or activity that will delight them and make happy memories to look back on. Summer is one of the best times to plan this kind of event because you'll hopefully have the good weather that most activities require.
This is where knowing your spouse will pay dividends because you'll be able to choose an appropriate activity or destination that you know they will love.
Consider first what your beloved would rate as the best kinds of experience. If they're an active, outdoorsy sort of person then an extreme sports adventure could be right up their street. If they like a bit of pampering, then a spa weekend or a stay at a luxury hotel might be more their style.
A special trip like this also provides you with an opportunity to find some souvenirs that will remind you both of the time you spent together.
Summertime is when your mind turns to fun in the sun, happy days at the beach, and making the most of the sunny weather.
Sharing all this with your spouse makes summer an even more enjoyable experience, and showing them how much you love being together by buying them perfect summer gift will bring you even closer.


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Johann Hari has criticised the current war on drugs in his new book Chasing the Scream, and says that Scotland should follow Portugal's lead by decriminalising drugs. His book aims to tackle drug addiction and answer fundamental questions that many people have about these illegal substances. He believes that Scotland could be the perfect place to implement more forward thinking policies in terms of tackling drugs. His book has been critically acclaimed by Stephen Fry, Naomi Klein, and Elton John, among others.
Hari's book tells the stories of a number of people affected by the war on drugs. It includes the story of Harry Anslinger, once the chief of the Bureau of Narcotics in the US. Hari says that Anslinger did 'more than any other individual to create the drug world we now live in'. He also believes that Anslinger's drugs policies played a significant role in the death of singer Billie Holiday.
Hari is of the opinion that ending the war on drugs will save many lives. He says that bad drugs policies are responsible for thousands of deaths because, when drugs are banned, they do not disappear. They just move from medical professionals to drug gangs, which bring its own set of violence that would not exist if drugs were not banned.
Hari is hoping that his book will 'rehumanise people' and says, "I hope the overall effect is you want to change the way these people are treated."
Hari is not the only person to believe that decriminalising drugs is the best way to fight the problem. Earlier this year, Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg and Sir Richard Branson joined forces to fight the war on drugs. They believe that drug addicts should not be criminalised for their actions, and that focus should instead be placed on helping them.
The men believe that resources should be spent on tackling drug manufacturers and dealers, and helping those who have developed addictions.
Many people believe that banning drugs and making them illegal only makes them more attractive. They believe that decriminalising drugs would have many benefits, with the biggest one being the elimination of the criminal marketplace. The illegal drug trade is worth billions for organised crime gangs. However, by legalising drugs, organised crime gangs would have no place in the drugs trade and it would allow the market to be controlled and regulated.
The fact that the drugs trade is illegal means it is led by demand, and drugs can be very expensive. Those addicted to drugs will do whatever they can to get their hands on them, and many will resort to crime. It is estimated that almost all drug-related crime is caused by the fact that the drugs are illegal.
Making drugs legal would allow addicts to access their drugs at a lower price, thus eliminating the need for them to resort to crime to fund their habits. This would reduce the amount spent by the government on crime by billions – money that could be invested in the treatment of people suffering from addictions.
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Q: Javascript use mouseMove event to move objects does not work when mouse suddenly moves quick I'm trying to build a drag and drop feature for shapes in a svg using svelte framework. Here is the structure of the svg
<svg>
  <g
    on:mousedown={mouseDownHandler}
    on:mousemove={mouseMoveHandler}
    on:mouseup={mouseUpHandler}>
    <circle />
  </g>

But with this structure, if I move the mouse quickly, it could accidentally move out of the <g> before it can be updated with the current mouse location, and the mouseMoveHandler will stop responding.
I tried something like memorizing the selected element in mouseDownHandler, hoping that even if the mouse is no longer within the group, it could still use the current mouse location to move. But it did not work as I expected.
I suspect that this mouseMoveHandler is only activated while the mouse is within the group, is it correct? Any suggestions for how to overcome this problem?
Thanks

Update:
  I am aware that adding the handlers to the parent group would solve the problem. The reason why I wish to do so is because there are different types of elements, and I would like to do different things with them. Right now I have everything in one big mouseMoveHandler under the svg and everything works fine, but it's getting really ugly as I add more features to the handler. This is why I wish to have different handlers for different elements.

A: When you're implementing drag and drop (in any situation, not just Svelte or SVG), never apply the 'move' handler to the element itself. Always apply it (and the 'up' handler) to window. The 'down' handler should be responsible for noting the start coordinates and registering the 'move'/'up' handlers, nothing more.


The Moorebank intermodal freight terminal is one of the most important freight infrastructure projects being developed in Australia. An intermodal freight precinct is made up of a rail yard, trucking and warehouses, which allow shipping containers to be transferred between rail and road.
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The precinct master plan includes the future realignment of Moorebank Avenue to the northern and eastern boundary of the precinct. Any such proposal will be subject to a separate planning approval process.


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'UpFront': Cross says UW will do 'best we can' with 2 percent raises, Hitt says WisGOP energized
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UW System President Ray Cross, who sought 3 percent raises for faculty, said "we'll do the best we can" with expected 2 percent pay hikes, but the university is behind some peer institutions when it comes to compensation.
Cross appeared in an interview aired Sunday on "UpFront," produced in partnership with WisPolitics.com.
Saying the university needs to compete for top talent, Cross asked the governor and lawmakers for 3 percent raises in each year of the 2019-2021 budget.
The Joint Committee on Finance, which is dramatically reworking Gov. Tony Evers' budget, approved 2 percent annual raises for most state employees, including UW faculty.
"UpFront" host Adrienne Pedersen asked Cross if UW salaries are in line with its peer institutions.
"Most research shows that we are a little behind, and some areas we're behind more than others. But compensation is an important piece of the total overall package to make the university part of the solution for the state," Cross said.
"We have to compete for talent, we have to compete around the world for talent. And that's important to Wisconsin's future," Cross said.
"It's really important that the Legislature and the governor recognize the importance of compensation for our employees and the role the university plays in helping the state resolve its problems," he said.
Also on the program, new Republican Party of Wisconsin Chairman Andrew Hitt said party members emerged from their state convention in Oshkosh "organized and energized" and ready to work to re-elect President Trump in 2020.
"As I've traveled the state, meeting with grass roots leaders," Hitt said, "many people have told me, 'We're working now like it's June of 2020, not June of 2019.'"
Hitt said his focus as chairman would be on the grass roots and making sure they have the tools and data they need.
Pedersen asked Hitt if he thought Trump would win Wisconsin again.
"I think it's very likely. I think we have to work harder than we even did in 2016," he said. "I think it's going to be close. Wisconsin is a purple state."
In another segment, Tom Still, president of the Wisconsin Technology Council, said his organization is moving its annual entrepreneur conference back to Milwaukee because "there's a lot more happening (there) now."
The conference, geared toward start-up businesses, used to be held in Milwaukee, then shifted to Madison for many years. This year's conference is scheduled for June 4 and 5.
Still said Milwaukee, which lacked a vibrant start-up scene for years, is now "a city where you're seeing an entrepreneurial buzz, there are more young companies starting out."
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Q: Do late-2015 27" 5K iMacs have an AC/DC T2 secondary heatsink thermal sensor? Since yesterday, on my iMac (A1419 EMC 2806) the fan is maxing out from power up, regardless of safe mode, recovery mode, or booting into Windows (via Boot Camp), diagnostics return PFM006 (SMC error) Assuming a thermal sensor defect, I installed iStats to check the thermal sensors. Readout below in the screenshot - all temperatures are within normal ranges, the fan is at maximum and also won't slow down if I try to do that manually, and the only temperature that's missing is the one from the power supply unit (AC/DC T2 secondary heat sink). So my question is: Is there even such a sensor in that model, do I expect a readout here? Have I thus found the probable cause and should be looking into the connection or the sensor itself?
(No other hardware or software changes made recently)

A: I exchanged the power supply unit as a whole, assuming that the thermal sensor is integrated as I had read elsewhere. After that, it worked again perfectly, and also showed a normal temperature readout from the above mentioned AC/DC T2 sec. heatsink sensor.
Here's the new readout:


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Their seeds far forth, seeking a place to grow.
For some eternal minutes in his eyes.
My presence was some pleasure, I could tell.
Then forth we went beneath the smoky skies.
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Predatory publishing: A wake-up call for editors and authors in the Middle East and Africa
Salem A Beshyah
Institute of Medicine, Sheikh Khalifa Medical City, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates
Date of Web Publication 4-Sep-2017
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DOI: 10.4103/ijmbs.ijmbs_26_17
Beshyah SA. Predatory publishing: A wake-up call for editors and authors in the Middle East and Africa. Ibnosina J Med Biomed Sci 2017;9:123-5
Beshyah SA. Predatory publishing: A wake-up call for editors and authors in the Middle East and Africa. Ibnosina J Med Biomed Sci [serial online] 2017 [cited 2020 Jan 18];9:123-5. Available from: http://www.ijmbs.org/text.asp?2017/9/5/123/213921
The increasing worldwide availability of the Internet has made it possible for the free global availability of scientific journal articles online. Before this, readers can only get access to journals through their individual (personal or by society membership) or institutional (library) subscriptions to hard copies that get delivered periodically.[1] Soon after journals turning online, two main publishing models developed: the open-access (OA) and subscription-only access. Subscription-only journals depend on income from the subscription with or without advertising and consequently do not charge authors.[2] However, OA journals rely on charging the authors to cover their publishing expenses. The expansion of OA to the scientific literature came as a result of a recent revolution in scientific communication rejecting the publishers' limited rights of copyright. Indeed, it is a noble concept and is now required by an increasing number of funders and institutions. OA may be through OA scientific journals or by authors posting manuscripts of articles published in subscription journals in open web repositories.[1] The European Union and the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development have argued for OA to scientific data for all publicly funded research in Europe by 2020 with a similar initiative through the Fair Access to Science and Technology Research Act in the USA.[2] The concept and practice of OA journalism have been severely damaged by a vicious attack of the so-called "predatory publishers." This editorial considers the concepts and practices of predatory publishing with a particular focus on the challenges in the Middle East and Africa.
The Uncovering of Predatory Publishing
In 2012, Beall, a scholarly librarian from the United States, launched a blog called "Scholarly Open Access" in which he listed what he called "predatory publishers and journals" and offered critical commentary on scholarly OA publishing.[3] Over the following 5 years, he has published extensively in many general and specialized journals on the threat of predatory journals to genuine OA journalism.[4],[5],[6] The black list of predatory journals on his blog formed the basis for much editorial research work and helped focus the professional opinion on this matter.[7],[8] There has been a steady increase in the interest and concern of professionals and academics reflected in the relevant volume of work in the international literature [Table 1]. Criteria have now been developed for identification of predatory publishers and journals based on recognition of their business model and lack of serious editorial practices.[3],[4],[5],[6],[7],[8] In January 2017, he shut down the blog and removed all its content from the blog platform. His recent reflection on his 5 years of experience with the blog does a fascinating reading even for the uninitiated.[9]
Table 1: The increasing volume of work in the international literature on the threat of predatory publishing
The Danger of Predatory Publishing
Predatory journals charge an article processing fee to authors, yet do not provide the hallmarks of legitimate scholarly journalism such as peer review and editing, language enhancement, support by a credible, experienced editorial boards, physical editorial offices, and other editorial standards.[3],[4],[5],[6],[7],[8],[9] Consequently, these journals pose some new ethical issues in journal publishing. This new danger threatens the integrity of scholarly publishing. Internet-only "OA" publishing is a valid way for researchers to reach the public without a paywall separating them. However, of the thousands of OA scientific journals today, perhaps as many as 25% are considered fake, existing only to generate income by charging authors high-processing fees.[3],[4],[5],[6],[7],[8],[9] In such sham journals, peer review is either cursory or absent. The majority of submitted manuscripts are accepted may be simply by the return of post without any editorial comment. However, predatory journals can be remarkably good in their looks in this day and age of advanced information technology and presentation software. They may mimic reputable publishers by simple cut and paste methods. These journals do intentionally use names and logos that closely resemble those of legitimate journals. There are serious ethical issues around predatory journals and publishing in them. These problems include misrepresentation; lack of editorial and publishing standards and practices; academic deception; waste of research efforts and funding; lack of archived content; and undermining confidence in the research literature.[10]
Low Awareness of Predatory Journals
A search on the websites of a convenience sample of 11 general medical journals with OA search engine online from the Middle East and Africa was conducted manually. The search included Annals of Saudi Medicine, Ibnosina Journal of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, Lebanese Medical Journal (The), Libyan Journal of Medicine, Maroc Médical, Oman Medical Journal, Qatar Medical Journal, Pan African Medical Journal (The), Saudi Medical Journal, Sultan Qaboos University Medical Journal, and Tunisie Médicale (La). The search failed to detect any record to search terms of neither (predatory journals) in English nor (journaux prédateurs) in French. The only reference detected was its mention in the agenda of the sixth regional conference on medical journals in the Eastern Mediterranean Region held in 2015. Reportedly, the focus of the conference included OA and "predatory" journals.[11] However, no published position statement or formal proceedings could be found on the same site. On the other hand, African Journals Online (AJOL) is the world's largest and preeminent collection of peer-reviewed, African-published scholarly journals. AJOL is a nonprofit organization based in South Africa. The website hosts 521 journals, including 218 OA journals. No records were detected in the journals by the same search described above. However, a report on the state of scholarly journal publishing in Africa based on a survey in 2013 was found.[12] About 74% of 185 respondents were not familiar with the concept and dangers of predatory publishing. A few respondents, however, expressed well-informed views condemning predatory journals.
A Wake-up Call!
The observations stated above suggest a noticeable lack of knowledge and appreciation on the part of editors of the seriousness of the danger of predatory journals on medical research. It can presumably be safely inferred from this deficiency of guidance that prospective authors are equally unaware of the threat of predatory journals. Formal evaluation was small and limited to Africa only.[12]
This editorial is a wake-up call for both prospective authors and editors. Students and young researchers, in particular, should be closely supervised by senior staff with knowledge and expertise in research and publishing. All submissions, as a rule, must be reviewed and approved by all authors and the target journal is carefully selected. When choosing a journal, following the criteria of genuine scholarly publications is crucial to avoid falling into the trap of predatory journals. When all matters are equal, publishing in an unindexed local or regional journal that is published by a local university, professional society, or even an independent group but can be verified and traced to its sources is a safer choice. This may be much more appropriate than striving to publish in an international-sounding journal. Those who fall for predatory journals are putting themselves into the risk of "publish and perish" rather than taking up the challenge of "publish or perish."[13] Editors and publisher have heavy responsibilities on them to attract local and regional and even international authors to submit to their journals. To this end, they need to facilitate easy communication with their journals' websites and send prompt responses to authors with a friendly tone and content. The profession at large and reviewers in particular need to address the editors' agony caused by delays in submission of peer-review reports with guidance to authors on how best address any deficiencies in their manuscripts. This requires a strong editorial machinery. The WHO East Mediterranean Regional Office lists 641 titles of medical journals in the region.[14] Sadly, 221 of these are interrupted publications. Consequently, it would appear much more logical that the number of such journals is reduced, but their activity and quality is sustained with a larger, more experienced, and fully functional editorial boards. These practices are likely to deprive predators from potential preys.
It is vital and timely that the scholarly community in our regions joins the worldwide struggle against predatory journals. Authors, editors, publishers, and institutions should only support the legitimate scholarly research enterprise in the region primarily or elsewhere in the world at large. The choices can be appropriately made by the nature of the research or opinion being communicated and the audience being targeted. Such scholars and institutions must clearly and decisively distance themselves from predatory journals by not publishing in them, serving as their editors or on their editorial boards. Equally important, that senior physicians and scientists should not permit their faculty to publish in them knowingly and to guide them so that they do not fall into their traps. Finally, following the "think, check, and submit" advice remains wise and prudent strategy.[15] Furthermore, academic institutions should specifically exclude publications in predatory journals from supporting applications for career promotions.
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Shen C, Björk BC. 'Predatory' open access: A longitudinal study of article volumes and market characteristics. BMC Med 2015;13:230.
Shamseer L, Moher D, Maduekwe O, Turner L, Barbour V, Burch R, et al. Potential predatory and legitimate biomedical journals: Can you tell the difference? A cross-sectional comparison. BMC Med 2017;15:28.
Beall J. What I learned from predatory publishers. Biochem Med (Zagreb) 2017;27:273-8.
Ferris LE, Winker MA. Ethical issues in publishing in predatory journals. Biochem Med (Zagreb) 2017;27:279-84.
Anonymous. Sixth Regional Conference on Medical Journals. Available from: http://www.emro.who.int. [Last accessed on 2017 Jul 13].
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Yenni calls resolution to keep him banned from schools 'political grandstanding'
He admitted to sending improper texts to a 17-year-old male in 2015.
Tammy Estwick
WEBVTT RESOLUTION. THEY ARE URGING THE JEFFERSON PARISH SCHOOL BOARD TO MAINTAIN ITS BAN ON PARISH PRESIDENT MIKE YENNI. THEY DON'T WANT HIM AT SCHOOL EVENTS OR FACILITIES. LET'S GET MORE INTO WHAT THEY ARE TALKING ABOUT. THEY ARE TALKING ABOUT THINGS LIKE SPORTS, CONTESTS, AND FESTIVALS. THE RESOLUTION STATES THAT YENNI HAD ASKED FOR THE BAN TO BE DONE AWAY WITH. WE SPOKE TO YENNI BY PHONE TONIGHT. HE TOLD ME "I BELIEVE THAT IT'S POLITICAL GRANDSTANDING. AND THEY'RE DOING A RESOLUTION TO SUPPORT ANOTHER RESOLUTION HAS HAD NO FORCE OF LAW." ONE WOMAN DIDN'T WANT TO GO ON CAMERA, BUT SAID SHE FELT LIKE YENNI HAS DONE GOOD FOR THE PARISH AND LAWMAKERS SHOULD STOP TRYING TO PUNISH HIM AND EMBARRASS HIM. HERE'S WHAT ONE KENNER MAN HAD TO SAY. >> NO, HE DOESN'T DESERVE TO BE AROUND YOUNG MEN ANYMORE. TAMMY: WE ASKED YENNI IF HE PLANNED ON BEING AT TOMORROWS KENNER COUNCIL MEETING. HE TOLD ME ABSOLUTELY NOT.
The Kenner City Council plans to vote Thursday on a resolution urging the Jefferson Parish School Board to maintain its ban on Parish President Mike Yenni from parish schools.The ban, although unenforceable since it was done by way of a resolution, would be intended to keep him away from Jefferson Parish school facilities and school events.Yenni said by phone Wednesday that he considers the resolution political grandstanding.He admitted to sending improper texts to a 17-year-old male in 2015.After the sexting scandal, some parish officials called for his resignation.Keep up with local news, weather and current events with the WDSU app here. Sign up for our email newsletters to get breaking news right in your inbox. Click here to sign up!
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The Kenner City Council plans to vote Thursday on a resolution urging the Jefferson Parish School Board to maintain its ban on Parish President Mike Yenni from parish schools.
The ban, although unenforceable since it was done by way of a resolution, would be intended to keep him away from Jefferson Parish school facilities and school events.
Yenni said by phone Wednesday that he considers the resolution political grandstanding.
After the sexting scandal, some parish officials called for his resignation.


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Allison Abner – pictured in 2013 with her husband, Gene Sperling, who was until last year director of the National Economic Council at the White House – is a supervising producer on "Narcos," the newest binge-worthy Netflix series. | AP Photo
KGB File
Washington power couple goes Hollywood
By KATE BENNETT
A little more than two years ago, Allison Abner was the quintessential Washington power woman, balancing her job as a television writer with a home in Georgetown and her role as a mother of two and wife of an Obama administration official; Abner's husband, Gene Sperling, was until last year director of the National Economic Council at the White House. Today, Abner is the toast of the West Coast, a supervising producer on Narcos, the newest binge-worthy Netflix series — a gripping drama that chronicles the life and crimes of notorious Colombian drug lord Pablo Escobar.
"Supervising producer is just a fancy way of saying I was both a writer and producer on the show," Abner told KGB File. "It was a major undertaking to capture Escobar's criminal empire — he went from pot-smoking smuggler to pot-smoking purveyor of the most successful criminal product that the world had ever seen."
Sperling, until he left his post at the White House, had been commuting back and forth to Los Angeles to be with his family, but he's now "with us full time," Abner said. "He's dropped 10 pounds, plays tennis once a week and is loving carpooling our daughter to school every morning." The laid-back Cali vibe was key to Sperling finishing his new book, What Works in Girls' Education. "He's giving speeches, consulting and loving his West Coast life," added Abner, who met Sperling when she was writing for The West Wing and he was a consultant for the show.
"I'm often desperately homesick for D.C. and my D.C. squad," Abner said of her Washington circle of friends: GOP strategist Juleanna Glover, human rights advocate Autumn VandeHei, Assistant Secretary of State for Educational and Cultural Affairs Evan Ryan, the State Department's curator of the ART in Embassies program Virginia Shore and magazine editor Elizabeth Thorp.
But don't hold your breath for an Abner/Sperling West Wing-style redux just yet. "I'd love to write a D.C. drama, and have been asked to many times," Abner said, "but it would have to be a whole new take on the Washington genre. If the right project came along, I'd be thrilled to bring it to life."
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ALYSSANDRA KATHERINE DANCE PROJECT ANNOUNCES THE WORLD PREMIERE OF UNRAVELED COMING TO ODC APRIL 11-13, 2019 8PM
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SAN FRANCISCO, CA, January 17, 2019 – Alyssandra Katherine Dance Project (AKDP), a four-year-old London-born, San Francisco-based contemporary dance company, is proud to announce the world premiere of UNRAVELED, April 11 – 13 at ODC Theater. Featuring an ensemble of five performers, and film projection design by Clare Schweitzer, Unraveled explores the all too common experience of dependency, addiction and isolation. Performances run Thursday to Saturday at 8 p.m. Tickets are $20 - $40, and may be purchased online at odc.dance/UNRAVELED or by phone at 415-863-9834.
Alyssandra Katherine Wu launched her self-named company in 2015 while completing an M.A. from the prestigious London Contemporary Dance School. While performing on the festival circuit in the United Kingdom, Wu's choreography earned resounding praise. LondonDance.com named Wu one of the most promising young choreographers of her generation. Since relocating to the Bay Area where Wu was born and raised, AKDP has continued to turn heads, earning an audience choice award at PUSHfest 2016, in addition to several competitive grants and awards. After Brace Forward which premiered in 2017, Unraveled is AKDP's second evening-length work to date.
In Unraveled, each of the five performers – Kelsey Gerber, Tayler Kinner, Jan-Matthew Sevilla, James Washington and Erin Yen – blends movement with spoken word, drawing on a mix of personal stories of dependency and addiction, in addition to stories gathered through interviews with members of an East Bay chapter of Alcoholics Anonymous and the Center for Open Recovery in San Francisco.
For Wu, this is a very intimate project, and her performers will also draw on her own personal struggles with dependency and addiction. "My grandfather was a gambling addict, and he lost everything before he died," said Wu. "The trauma of that experience is something my family still carries. But I have also had my own struggles with dependency and substance abuse, and I believe that in sharing our own stories we can short-circuit the vicious cycle of shame and relapse." "What does your 'shame monster' look like?" asked Wu of her dancers in the first rehearsal. "I cast this piece for diversity to stress that dependency and addiction strike all of us, directly or indirectly, and that we're all sharing this experience regardless of gender, class, race, sexuality and so on."
Additional collaborators on Unraveled include lighting designer Del Medoff and technical director Keagan Chipp.
Following the performance on April 12, a representative from the Center for Open Recovery will join Wu in a talkback with the audience. AKDP is proud to donate $2 from the sale of each ticket to Open Recovery.
Performances of Unraveled are made possible in part by the Opportunity Fund at ODC Theater supported by the Fleishhacker Foundation. For more information, visit odc.dance/Unraveled.
WHAT: Alyssandra Katherine Dance Project presents the world premiere of Unraveled.
Choreography: Alyssandra Katherine Wu
Core Dancers: Kelsey Gerber, Tayler Kinner, Jan-Matthew Sevilla, James Washington, Erin Yen
Technical Director: Keagan Chipp
Lighting Design: Del Medoff
WHEN: April 11 -13, 2019 Thursday - Saturday at 8 p.m.
WHERE: ODC Theater 3153 17th Street San Francisco, CA 94110
TICKETS: $20 - $40 To purchase tickets call 415-863-9834. Or online visit odc.dance/Unraveled
FOR MORE INFORMATION: odc.dance/Unraveled
For all press inquiries please contact John Hill at johnhillpr@gmail.com.
To see full press release please click here: PRESS RELEASE UNRAVELED
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A study by MODUL University Vienna analysed the financial situation of startups in Vienna. Eight tangible recommendations show the way to international success.
On average, startup companies in Europe have access to ten times more private investment capital than startup companies in Vienna (as a percentage of GNP). This is just one of many aspects of the capital situation faced by technology startups in Vienna recently revealed in a study conducted by MODUL University Vienna and supported by the Vienna Chamber of Commerce. Overall, the study highlights pragmatic and concrete ways in which Vienna could catch up with the world's 20 leading locations for establishing a startup.
Regardless of whether in Silicon Valley or Vienna, only sustainable investment over an extended development period guarantees a real chance of success. According to a current study by the Department of Public Governance and Sustainable Development at MODUL University Vienna, optimising the range of financing options is a key factor in fully exploiting Vienna's great potential as a startup ecosystem, as well as improving the level of networking and coordination. Smart provision of public money, tax incentives for investment and the dismantling of bureaucratic obstacles for international investors would enable Vienna to compete with the most attractive startup locations around the globe.
"We analysed many statistics relevant to Austria and abroad", explains Dr. Harvey Goldstein, Professor Emeritus in the department, who headed up the project. "This showed that the value of Austrian venture capital investment in Austria amounted to just 0.03 percent, i.e. just 0.003 percent of the gross national product – ten times less than the European average." To gain a better understanding of the reasons for this low value and investor motivation in general, the authors of the study conducted several interviews with important players in the Austrian financial world who provide private investment capital for technology-oriented startups. In doing so, they discovered that business angels are among the most active sources of finance and form a very important bridge between the initial backers among the startup team's family and friends and the venture capitalists who become involved at a later stage. As the study also shows, this function makes the small Viennese investment scene particularly dynamic and resilient – a real advantage for Vienna.
Interestingly, the study also shows that different types of investors base their decisions on fairly similar investment criteria: marketability and potential for growth, business plan, prototypes and market overview are all relevant. Venture capitalists place even more importance on the startup team's skills when they make their decisions (complementary skills, ability to work as a team, resilience to stress).
Co-author Dr. Sabine Sedlacek, head of the department and Vice President for Research, points to other findings arising from the study, the data for which was collected and analysed in the last 24 months: "The information flows within the startup community are also interesting – while venture capitalists tend to respond to insider information from their own networks, business angels are more open in their communication. They often share information with one another and are also happy to be contacted directly by startup teams." The authors of the study believe that these different communication flows have the potential to optimise synergies between various investors in Vienna in the future and also make specific recommendations for such cooperation in their study.
A large part of the study focused on comparing Vienna as a startup ecosystem with a number of other cities around the world, all of which have managed to reach the top 20 of global startup centres within a short space of time: Tel Aviv, Berlin and Amsterdam. Thanks to this first-ever benchmarking process of its kind, the authors were able to identify three key factors that have contributed to the success of the three international cities. The first is better prioritisation of entrepreneurship by the political and business community, which is also reflected in joint grant schemes for startups. Moreover, each of the three cities has at least one major investment initiative for providing grants to startups from the seed stage to the late growth phase. The third factor was a coordinated process that created a supportive environment of investment, infrastructure and further training for startups.
This third point in particular coincides closely with one aspect that numerous interviewees mentioned in the study: the lack of a vision or strategy on the part of policy makers or business leaders in Vienna, which could help to remove the bureaucratic and regulatory obstacles to investment. There is no doubt that such obstacles lead to reluctance on the part of international investors when it comes to investing in Vienna. The unanimous opinion was that the examples of foreign investors who have co-invested in Viennese startups did so on the basis of their networks and not because Vienna had caught their attention as a location to do business.
The study, which has now been completed by the four authors, Prof. Harvey Goldstein, Dr. Dimitris Christopoulos, Dr. Verena Radinger-Peer and Dr. Sabine Sedlacek, represents a seamless continuation of an earlier study on obstacles to university startups in Vienna. This was also conducted at the MODUL University Vienna and once again proves the practical relevance of the university's focus on actively researching "startup ecosystems".
Original study: Making Vienna a Leading Startup Center of Europe. Authors: Harvey Goldstein, Dimitris Christopoulos, Verena Radinger-Peer, Sabine Sedlacek.
MODUL University Vienna is an international private university in Austria and is owned by the Vienna Chamber of Commerce. It offers study programs (BBA, BSc, MSc, MBA and PhD programs) in the areas of international business and management, new media technology, public governance and sustainable development, as well as tourism and hospitality management (www.modul.ac.at/study-programs). The study programs meet strict accreditation guidelines and, due to their international focus, are conducted in English. The university campus is located at Kahlenberg, in Vienna's 19th district. The research program at the Institute for Public Governance and Sustainable Development focuses on issues that deal with the main political challenges of the 21st century, such as the development and role of university institutions, changes in democratic processes and the sustainable use of resources.