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Brian Kent Named to Board of The National Crime Victim Bar Association
Brian Kent Named to Board of The National Crime Victim Bar AssociationFuria Rubel2019-10-17T18:04:45+00:00
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PHILADELPHIA (September 2019) – Personal injury law firm Laffey, Bucci & Kent is proud to announce that founding attorney Brian Kent has been named to the board of The National Crime Victim Bar Association. An affiliate and program of the National Center for Victims of Crime, the bar association is the nation's only organization of attorneys and expert witnesses dedicated to helping victims of crime seek justice through the civil court system.
As a former sex crimes unit prosecutor, Kent is a passionate advocate for justice for all crime victims. Prior to entering the civil arena, he worked as an Assistant District Attorney in Montgomery County, Pennsylvania where he prosecuted sex offenders. This background gives him a unique perspective on civil liability in criminal cases in which victims have been injured physically or emotionally. Kent knows how to conduct a civil case while a related criminal case is pending in order to maximize a victim's chance of financial recovery.
Active in national and local crime victim advocacy, Kent also serves as a child advocate for Montgomery Child Advocacy Project and is a member of the American
Association of Justice. Kent serves on the board of directors of the Pennsylvania Innocence Project, a nonprofit organization that works to exonerate those convicted of crimes they did not commit and to prevent innocent people from being convicted.
Kent has been named among the Top 100 Trial Lawyers in Pennsylvania since 2011, and among the Pennsylvania Super Lawyers since 2010. He is a lecturer in trial advocacy at Temple University's Beasley School of Law and an adjunct professor at Drexel University School of Law. He holds a bachelor's degree from University of Delaware and a law degree and LLM in trial advocacy from Temple University's Beasley School of Law.
Laffey, Bucci & Kent, LLP is a personal injury law firm representing individuals seriously injured due to the negligence of others. The firm represents people who have been catastrophically injured in construction accidents and at work, in auto accidents and as a result of defective products. The Philadelphia lawyers also have a long history of representing sexual assault, sexual abuse and crime victims in civil actions. For more information, go to www.laffeybuccikent.com.


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'A Story' Part 4
stephenfrug
Another superb pair of episodes. (I repeat myself, I know. What can I say? Make a really bad one — heck, even a mediocre one — and I'll be more original in how I open my comments, I promise.) I particularly liked Brandon's opening comment that this novella is harder than Book of the New Sun — because I think it's true. Not that the ultimate understanding of what's going on is harder in this case than that — it's really hard in BotNS! — but that BotNS gives you a lot of surface to hold on to, the adventure and the amazing world and the characters, etc. Here there is some of that, but there is, for me at least, less to hold on to (particularly in the first half; in the second half the mist clears a bit). It's one of his hardest works (in a good way, of course!)
Various thoughts, reactions, questions, quibbles & amens:
1. At the beginning of the episodes you say that the five shadow children Sandwalker meets might be the last shadow children; by the end you are assuming it, talking as if by killing those five they exterminate them (you use that word). Why do you think so? The plain evidence of the text is that there are others. For example:
"You talk to all of us when you talk to me," the Old Wise One said. "Mostly to we five here; but also to all Shadow children. Though weak, their songs come from far away to help shape what I am."
Obviously, they might still be the last—this is Wolfe, after all!—but you didn't make the case. Unless there's some reason to think otherwise, it seems to me the plain sense of the story is that there are more, just not nearby.
2. You said that when God sees that Adam & Eve are shamed he heals the shame, clothing them, and contrast this with Sandwalker, who thinks he would kill to end shame. But it's worth noting that God also kills them for feeling shame — not precisely, but for doing what they do that makes them feel shame. He doesn't kill them right away; but he sentences them, so to speak, to death — them and the world. I suspect that Wolfe, who knew that Christ was also a torturer, saw this.
3. You mentioned the famous Hamlet quote "nothing is good or bad except thinking makes it so". But you didn't distinguish the sense of the quote. I presume you both know this, but too often it is taken as the equivalent of the line from Milton's Satan, "The mind is its own place, and in itself/Can make a Heaven of Hell, a Hell of Heaven." Milton is straightforward mind-over-matter. Shakespeare is a lot trickier and (dare I say) subtler (than Satan, if not than Milton): Hamlet is saying that to him Denmark is a prison—his thinking makes it so. It is not a declaration, as Milton's line is, of power, but of helplessness. (And further complicated by his ironic sparing with Rosencrantz, of course.)) The question is: is what the Shadow Children believe in a Miltonic mind-over-matter — or a Shakespearean matter-shaped-by-mind-however-it-will?
4. You rightly point out that the Shadow Child Wolf is a reference to Wolfe. But it's also a reference to the first novella. In particular, note that the Shadow Child starts as one of a group of five — the fifth head of a single beast (in some sense, since they all go to make up the Old Wise One). Then they become three (the normal heads of Cerberus) then one (the normal heads of a normal dog). I think there's some connection to the first novella here. (Also, the whole "group norm" thing is interesting to think of viz-a-viz cloning, and Marsch (the author of our story!)'s insistence that the GW clones are all one individual.
5. I have a tendency to hear Tolkien references more than is warranted, but given that Wolfe is a fan of Tolkien, and that you have argued that this is a version of high fantasy, it seems that this might be a Tolkien reference:
"...But we walked among you in power and majesty and might, hissing like a thousand serpents as we splashed down in your sea, stepping like conquerors when we strode ashore with burning lights in our fists, and flame".... "We are taller than you, and stronger," said the Old Wise One. "And wrapped in terrible glory. It is true that we no longer have the things of flame and light, but our glance withers, and we sing death to our enemies.
These certainly sound like Tolkien's elves: tall, powerful, majesty and might and glory, associated with fire and song and light. But remember the fate of Tolkien's elves: those who do not cross the sea (the stars?) will dwindle, becoming small, diminished — becoming a lot like the smaller elves of later myth or, say, the Shadow Children.
6. I wonder if some of the names of the hill people are holdovers from when they were shape changers: after all, they might really at some point have been like ceder branches waving, or like many pink butterflies (if they can be like lava!). Not that those particular individuals were ever like these things, just that their strangely physical names might be a holdover from when they would be called by the name of the form they have taken.
7. You mentioned Ignatius Donnelly as the author of Atlantis. The book I associate him with—because I was assigned it in grad school—was his SF novel, Ceasar's Column. Also: Glenn said "that was back when you had crackpots in Congress." I question your use of the past perfect there, Glenn. I really do.
8. You also mentioned the word translated as Dominus/Adonai/Lord. In talking about a slave master, that is a translation of the word in the Hebrew. But in talking about the name of God, it's a translation of a euphemism; the name isn't Adonai, the name is the tetragramaton, which is pronounced (in prayer) adonai to avoid saying it. (I hadn't ever thought about the fact that it's the same word for a slave master. Disturbing thought!)
9. I liked your comparison of this to Greek tragedy. It caught the spirit well, I think.
10. I also loved the idea that the Shadow Children are drugged-out communists. Hilarious & right.
I'm looking forward to the wrap-up episodes! (I'm going to assume you're going to do more with Marsch's role as author in the wrap-up episodes? Since so far that hasn't gotten much attention.)
G.L. McDorman
Stephen, I'm glad you've enjoyed these episodes -- I think they're probably my favorite of all the episodes we've done.
4. This is a great observation. We did (including in the final wrap-ups about to come out) very little with a symbolist reading of "A Story," and I'm looking forward to more of these types of observations.
5. Haha, yes, this does have a kind of Silmarillion feel to it, doesn't it?
6. Given what we know of the names of the twins, I thought that the names all had something to do with the circumstances of the individual's birth. I'm not sure they can all fit that, though.
7. Haha, yeah. I should have said "different kind of crackpot." There certainly aren't enough legislators writing books about lost civilizations these days.
8. Yes, right -- it's a designation and not a name (title, maybe?). I've come to be really bothered by the way that we obfuscate this in translation.
Re: obfuscation in translation. Do you know Richard Elliott Friedman's translation of the Torah? He translates the tetragramaton with the letters YHVH, and tells readers they should pronounce it as their religious tradition does, i.e. say "Lord" if that's what you do. But that way the text replicates the experience of the original, i.e. seeing the name and then choosing how to pronounce it. It's just one thing he does in his translation which made it, to me, feel really fresh & interesting. (Others: he translates the genitive with the possessive — "Abraham's children" instead of "children of Abraham": Hebrew, like French, does only the latter, but the former is the normal way to do it in English; similarly, he translates the Hebrew grammatical structure that repeats a word for emphasis — the one usually translated as, e.g., "dying you'll die" — simply with italics: "you'll die". He puts contractions in dialogue, since he points out, correctly, that English dialogue without it sounds unnatural.) Overall, he tries to make it read like an English text, not like an English bible translation. Makes the text new for me. Highly recommended.
This is awesome. One of my first courses at Princeton was with a historian of late antique culture who emphasized translating for sense rather than for replication -- that is, trying to read the text the way a contemporary would have. It really changed the way I approach writing history -- and especially teaching.
Ryan M.
The Book of the new sun and neal Stephenson's Anathem
Hello, first time poster here. I have been following the podcast cover Fifth Head of Cerberus at work and in Episode 44, the Wrap Up, Brandon and Glenn briefly talk about Neal Stephenson's Anathem and how its use of leaves as paper could be a nod to Fifth Head. Glenn also says there are several Book of the New Sun references in Anathem. I'm a big fan of Anathem and read the Book of New Sun last year, but I'm at a loss of spotting the references. Can anyone help me out, or is this discussed in another episode?
Daniel Falch
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I loved this story. The craftsmanship on display in introducing a third story type and having them all mesh is just wonderful. It really highlights what a next level master Gene Wolfe was and makes me incredulous that he isn't more widely known. I think that is mostly due to his fiction being too complex to be adapted into film and tv which Would have increased his audience. Your long discussion about St. Croix government in the second sections recap and discussion was great. You talked a lot about Vichy France but there are many other examples of this kind of government. From Sulla's proscribed lists in Rome, the second triumvirate, the England of Shakespeare and Marlowe and East Germany in the time this story was written. The combination of a minority, for political religious or other reasons, government that is distrustful of its population and a perceived weakness in foreign affairs is a combo that leads to this. There is no evidence that the government of St. Anne is also a military junta or threatening St. Croix in anyway. The statements about St. Anne are all made by government officials of St. Croix and are unreliable. They need St. Anne to be an enemy to justify their actions. All we see of St. Anne is the edge of a colony towns, never the main city. The fact that the military is also the customs authority is common in many countries here on Earth. I appreciated that the ballistic table in the back of the field guide was the main excuse used to detain the prisoner. The fact that it was old doesn't matter. It also is set for a different planet, a particular weapon with a specific loading and is therefore useless for what Constant claims the prisoner was going to use it for also doesn't matter. Why V.R.T. brought the field guide with him is kind of odd though, given the weight penalty for space travel. That Wolfe adds these types of details and uses them correctly is one of the things that makes reading his stories so enjoyable. Is there a race of shape shifting pastoral beings living a natural existence on an alien planet? Your discussion convinced me no, but I want it to be true. I can't remember on which podcast that you mentioned wanting a happier ending. It seems to me that the 70's science fiction market didn't want a happy ending. Most every sci fi movie between 2001 A Space OdySpey and Star Wars are pretty bleak. Dystopian worlds with environmental disasters and tyranny in government was the order of the day.
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Great discussion as always. In the discussion of which character could be Jesus it seems to me Diane is the only one who fits the bill. She sacrificed herself so that others could be saved. I actually don't think any of the characters fit but it's an interesting question. IQ was often made a big deal of in the 70s and 80s. I don't think it's being used correctly by most people and I'm glad it's out of favor as a measuring standard. I am always interested in fiction that have serious questions about how culture should work. In this story Wolfe created a world that valued IQ and asks at what point does that measurement no longer matter? This last year I saw a great movie called Ad Astra that asked the same kind of questions about the engineering culture of NASA and how that would translate into human migration into space. It is a fascinating movie with a lot of sutb points, like a Wolfe story needs to be seen multiple times to be appreciated.
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Harold Moukoudi (* 27. November 1997 in Bondy) ist ein französisch-kamerunischer Fußballspieler, der aktuell für AEK Athen in der griechischen Super League spielt.

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Moukoudi spielte in seiner Jugend bei US Nogent, US Chantilly und dem Le Havre AC. Bei Le Havre rückte er in den Seniorenbereich auf und spielte zunächst für die zweite Mannschaft. Ein Jahr später wurde er auch in der ersten Mannschaft in der Ligue 2 eingesetzt.

Nach Auslaufen seines Vertrages bei Le Havre wechselte Moukoudi im Sommer 2019 zu AS Saint-Étienne. Dort bestritt er am ersten Spieltag der Saison 2019/20 gegen FCO Dijon sein erstes Spiel in der Ligue 1. Für die zweite Saisonhälfte wurde er im Januar 2020 in die EFL Championship zum FC Middlesbrough verliehen. Im Juli desselben Jahres holte ihn Saint-Étienne zurück. Moukoudi wurde im Finale der Coupe de France 2019/20 gegen Paris Saint-Germain eingesetzt. Bei der 0:1-Niederlage wurde er in der 34. Minute für Yvann Maçon eingewechselt.

Am Ende der Saison 2021/22 stieg Saint-Étienne nach zwei 1:1-Unentschieden und einem 4:5 nach Elfmeterschießen in der Relegation gegen AJ Auxerre unglücklich aus der Ligue 1 ab. Moukoudi stand über die volle Spielzeit auf dem Platz, trat jedoch nicht als Elfmeterschütze an. Nach dem Abstieg wechselte er zur Saison 2022/23 zu AEK Athen.

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Moukoudi durchlief die Auswahlen der französischen U-16-, U-17- und U-18-Junioren sowie der U-20-Nationalmannschaft. Nachdem er sich entschieden hatte, künftig für Kamerun spielen zu wollen, bestritt er am 12. Oktober 2019 gegen Tunesien sein erstes Spiel für die kamerunische Nationalmannschaft.

Beim Afrika-Cup 2022 wurde er in den kamerunischen Kader berufen. Bei diesem Turnier, an dessen Ende Kamerun den dritten Platz belegte, kam er im letzten Gruppenspiel gegen Kap Verde, im Halbfinale gegen Ägypten sowie im Spiel um den dritten Platz gegen Burkina Faso zum Einsatz.

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When Fujiwara no Fuhito (659-720) was constructing Kofukuji temple in Nara, his sister sent him three treasure balls in memorial of their father who had passed away; however, as the boat bearing these jewels passed through Shido Bay, the undersea dragon-god stole them.
Fuhito married a local woman diver whom he asked to retrieve the balls.
She agreed to do it if their son could inherit the Fujiwara clan.
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Do you have a couple of preferred \"best\" herbs? Why not expand them in water and also maintain them around on the cooking area window sill or precisely the counter? Water-grown herbs are just as flavorsome as those you grow in the yard. You do not have to mess with dirt or stress concerning normal watering or changing seasons.
Many herbs will certainly be satisfied expanding in water, but those propagated from cuttings are less complicated to begin in water. Seed-grown annuals like cilantro, dill, and also mustard are a little bit complicated because you should plant the seeds in soil or some various other tool then move the seedlings to water. Dirt to water shift is possible, however it may not always exercise since soil-grown roots are a bit different from water origins.
For a simple natural herb stand in the kitchen area, you could root natural herb cuttings in ordinary water in glass containers. Spring water or well water is the best because it has some amount of liquified minerals that may be of usage to plants.
When it comes to the container,mason containersor any other glass bottles will do, also plastic containers. Roots generally prefer to expand far from light, so colored containers, especially brownish-yellow colored ones (such asYou could simply wrap a piece of paper around the bottle to keep the root area in the dark. This will certainly also protect against algal development on the container walls and on the origin surface area.Narrow-mouthed containers have a benefit: they could sustain the cuttings and maintain them nearly upright. The mouth of the container should not be tight-fitting or also narrow around the cutting. The origins have to take a breath, and also the mouth of the container should enable free movement of air.
You have the choice of covering the leading with nylon or cord netting if you're using a wide-mouthed container. Put the cuttings with the holes, as well as that will certainly offer some assistance to the cuttings. An additional benefit, particularly in warmer areas, is that the netting avoids mosquitoes from laying eggs in the water and increasing.
Soft cuttings are pretty fast to root in water. You do not require to use any rooting hormonal agents. If you have some herbs expanding in the garden, trim off 6-inch areas from growing ideas as well as placed them in the water-filled containers. The very best part of growing natural herbs from cuttings is that you can make use of the ones you receive from the supermarket. Simply wash them in ordinary water as well as cut off the lower part.
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— This is the most preferred mint for medicinal uses because it has high amounts of the volatile compound menthol. It offers a distinct cooling experience on the skin or tongue, however without actually creating any kind of temperature level variation. Expanding peppermint in water is easy; just put fresh cuttings in water to grow new plants.2. Spearmint.
— This is an additional mint variety very closely pertaining to pepper mint. Actually, pepper mint is a natural crossbreed of spearmint and also an aquatic mint that is frequently referred to as water mint.3. Oregano.
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— This sweet plant is great to have in your house to include in freshly brewed teas and drinks. Take cuttings of proactively expanding soft branches and also position them in water. Offer a cozy location and also as much light as possible to maintain this exotic plant complete as well as delighted of sweetness.7. Lemon balm.
— The lemony fragrance of this mint-family herb is a welcome treat in any kind of home, especially in the winter months. The leaves are wonderful for making tea. Take cuttings in springtime or fall. Keep the containers in a cozy area that receives lots of intense indirect light. They may occupy to 3-4 weeks to develop origins. Maintain the water tidy with regular adjustments. Some individuals discover it simpler to root the cuttings outside your house when the climate's still warm. It could assist avoid white mold that lemon balm is susceptible to. You can bring them inside when the new plants are well developed.8. Tarragon.
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Question: How Much Sunshine Does Andover England Get A Year?
Home > Andover > Question: How Much Sunshine Does Andover England Get A Year?
1 Does Andover have snow?
2 How many days of sunshine does England get?
3 How many hours of sunshine does London get a year?
4 Where is the healthiest place to live in England?
5 Where is the warmest place in UK?
6 Where in UK has most sunshine?
7 What is the sunniest city in the UK?
8 What is the coldest place on Earth?
9 Does the sun ever shine in London?
10 Where is the cleanest air in UK?
11 What is the dirtiest city in the UK?
12 Where is the healthiest place to live?
Does Andover have snow?
Andover averages 52 inches of snow per year. The US average is 28 inches of snow per year.
How many days of sunshine does England get?
Average Sunshine a Year in the United Kingdom The UK as a whole averages 1493 hours of sun a year.
How many hours of sunshine does London get a year?
The United Kingdom has some of Europe's gloomiest cities. Birmingham, London, and Manchester average around 1,400 hours of sunshine a year, whilst in Scotland, Glasgow averages just 1,203 hours of sunshine.
Where is the healthiest place to live in England?
The Berkshire town tops the first official wellbeing rankings, which reveal who has the cleanest air and the worst diets. Wokingham in Berkshire is the healthiest place in the country, according to the first official national health index.
Where is the warmest place in UK?
Seven of the hottest places in the UK to enjoy warm weather this
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Where in UK has most sunshine?
Where to go in the UK for the Most Hours of Sunshine
Bognor Regis, 1902 Hours of Sunshine per year.
Eastbourne, 1888 Hours of Sunshine.
Hastings, 1871 Hours of Sunshine.
Isle of Wight, 1860 Hours of Sunshine.
Bristol, 1671 Hours of Sunshine.
What is the sunniest city in the UK?
According to data from the UK Met Office, Shoeburyness in Essex was the sunniest place in the UK, with over 2,207.67 hours of sunlight across the year. However, Jersey clocked up a scorching 2,392 hours of sunlight, says Jersey Met Office – 185 hours more than Essex.
What is the coldest place on Earth?
Oymyakon is the coldest permanently-inhabited place on Earth and is found in the Arctic Circle's Northern Pole of Cold. In 1933, it recorded its lowest temperature of -67.7°C.
Does the sun ever shine in London?
The sun in London is rarely seen from November to February, while from May to August, it shines for an acceptable number of hours, and in any case, it shines a bit more often than in the rest of Britain (excluding the southern coast). Here are the average sunshine hours per day.
Where is the cleanest air in UK?
InDecember 2018 the place in England with the cleanest air was Windermere inCumbria.
What is the dirtiest city in the UK?
The worst UK city for pollution is Stoke-on-Trent which scored highly for pollution rankings.
Where is the healthiest place to live?
Spain was named the healthiest country in the world. One of the contributing factors was its Mediterranean diet, which is high in omega-3, fats and protein, as well as its social meal times and walking as a popular mode of transport.


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But it's not, instead I get a button with the typename Windows.Ui.Xaml.Media.Imaging.BitmapImage written on it.

A: Need to set its Content to <Image> and the <Image>'s Source to the BitmapImage
_subjectFilePoster = new BitmapImage();
_subjectFilePoster.SetSource(t);

Image i = new Image();
i.Source = _subjectFilePoster;

_btnPlayVideo.Content = i;

A: Here's how I do it:
<Button x:Name="MyButton">
    <Image Source="{Binding}" />
</Button>

With this:
this.MyButton.DataContext = "http://server/image.png";

Why does it work? Because you get to use the native type converter in the underlying XAML framework. It's the easiest way to do it. It certainly works. I use this technique all the time.
You can do it like this:
<Button>
    <Image x:Name="MyImage" Source="{Binding}" />
</Button>

Then with this:
this.MyImage.DataContext = "http://server/image.png";

Is it the only way? No. Is it the easiest way? Yes.
The best of both words: binding and code-behind.
Best of luck!


Read this instruction manual while also referring to the instruction manuals of your camera and Speedlite.
Before using the transmitter, read this instruction manual and the instruction manuals of your camera and Speedlite to familiarize yourself with the operations.
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• The display will show only the settings currently applied.
• The functions displayed above function buttons 1 to 4, change according to the setting's status.
• When a button or dial is operated, the LCD panel illuminates.
l.Open the cover:Slide the cover down as shown and open the battery compartment cover.
2.Install two AA batteries: Install two AA batteries according to the + and - marks, rechargeable batteries of 1.2V can be used. 3.Close the battery: Close the battery Compartment cover and slide it up.
* Remove the batteries when the product is not used for long time. Please replace the both two batteries at the same time.
* When <q il> is displayed, replace the batteries with new ones.
Slip the transmitter's mounting foot all the way into the camera's hot shoe.
On the mounting foot, slide the lock lever to the right. When the lock lever clicks in place, it will be locked.
While pressing the lock-release button, slide the lock lever to the left and detach the transmitter.
* Before attaching or detaching the transmitter, be sure to turn the transmitter power off.
3.Tuming on the Power:Set the power switch to <ON>.
> The LCD panel illuminates.
• The charge lamp lights when the wireless shooting (slave) is ready.
• During wireless shooting, press the transmitter's charge lamp (test flash button) to fire a test flash.
To save battery power, the power will turn off automatically after 5 min. of idle use. To turn on the transmitter again, press the camera's shutter button halfway, or press the test flash button (charge lamp).
By setting the power switch to <LOCK>, you can disable flash's button and dial operations. Use this to prevent the transmitter function settings from being accidentally changed after you set them .
If you operate a button or dial, <LOCKED> is displayed on the LCD panel .
When a button or dial is operated, the LCD panel illuminates in greenfor 12 sec. When setting a function, the illumination continues until the setting is complete.
* The transmitter settings are stored even when the power is turned off.
* You can fire a test flash even when the power switch is set to the <LOCK> position. Also, when a button or dial is operated, the LCD panel illuminates.
Using a transmitter and a Speedlite compatible with radio transmission wireless shooting makes it easy to shoot with advanced wireless multiple flash lighting, in the same way as normal E-TTL II/E-TTL autoflash shooting.
The system is designed so that the settings of the transmitter attached to the camera (master) are automatically reflected on the Speedlite that is wirelessly controlled (slave). Therefore, you do not need to operate the slave unit while shooting.
The basic relative positions and operating range are as shown in the figure. You can then perform wireless E-TTL II/E-TTL autoflash shooting just by setting the master unit to <ETTL>.
* Before shooting, perform a test flash (p.10) and test shooting.
* The transmission distance may be shorter depending on the conditions such as the positioning of slave units, the surrounding environment and weather conditions.
To avoid interference, Set the same channel and ID for both the master unit and slave unit.
Set a flash that is compatible with radio transmission wireless flash shooting as the slave unit. For the slave unit settings, see the flash's instruction manual.
Setting the Master Unit Transmission Channel / Wireless Radio ID.
l.Display < ni t iii >.
• Press function button 4 to displaym < iii 3 i i'n >.
• Press function button 1 <CH>.
• Turn < @ > to select "AUTO" or a channel from Ch. 1 to 15, and press the < Hi > button.
3.Set a wireless radio ID.
• Press function button 2 < I ID | >.
• Turn < @> to select the position(digit) or number to set, and press the < |8| > button.
• Press function button 4 <1 3 |> to return to the shooting-ready state.
You can scan the radio reception status and set the master unit's transmission channel automatically or manually. When the channel is set to "AUTO", the channel with the best reception signal is automatically set. When setting the channel manually, you can set the transmission channel again while referring to the scan results.
• Press function button 4 to display <EM1 >.
• Press function button 3 < | ET7IT71 | >.
> The channel is reset to one with a good reception signal.
• Press function button 4 to display < | I .1 I 1 1 1 I Ł ■ >.
• Press function button 3 < I UUJ >.
• The radio reception status is displayed in a graph.
• The higher the peak of the channel in the graph, the better the radio reception signal.
• Turn< ^ >to select a channel from Ch1 to 15.
the channel and return to the shooting ready state.
l.Set the flash as the slave unit A, B or C . The flash will not fire if it is set to D or E.
4. Press the <MODE> button on the master unit and set the flash mode to <ETTL>.
• The slave unit is set automatically to <ETTL> during shooting via the control from the master unit.
5. Check the transmission status and that the flash is ready.
• Check that the <LINK> lamp is lit i n green.
• Check that the < % > slave flash-ready icon is lit on the master unit's LCD panel.
• When the recycling of all the flash units is completed, the master unit's charge lamp lights.
• Press the master unit's test flash button (charge lamp). The slave unit flashes.
• If a standard flash exposure was obtained, the flash exposure confirmation lamp lights for 3 sec.
Support 1/3-stop increments to set FEC/FEB within ±3.
2. Turn < 0> to set the flash exposure compensation amount, and press < 0 >. The FEC amount is set.
* Tocancel FEC, return the amount to "±0".
1. Press function button 4 to display < ■ ■i■■■ >. Press function button 3 < !■?■ | >. < % ■ > is displayed and the FEB level display is highlighted.
2. Turn < @ > to set the FEB level, and press < ^ >. The FEB l evel i s set.
* When used together with flash exposure compensation, FEB shooting is performed based on the flash exposure compensation amount.
With the high-speed sync function, the flash can synchronize with all shutter speeds. This is convenient when you want to use aperture-priority AE for fill-flash portraits of a subject.
1.Display < I 1 u i a i m ■ >.
Press function button 4 to display < ■ ,'. i i i i ■ ł ■ >.
• Press function button 2 < m > to display < 05 >.
• Check that < H> is lit in the viewfinder.
FE (Flash Exposure) lock locks the correct flash exposure setting for any part of the scene.
Perform FE lock by operating the camera. For the operations, see the camera and flash's instruction manual.
You can use two or more master units (master units + slave units =maximum of 16 units). By preparing multiple cameras with master units attached, you can shoot by changing cameras while keeping the same lighting (slave units).
Note that when using two or more master units, the color of the <LINK> lamp varies depending on the order in which the power was turned on. The first master (main master) is green and the second and subsequent masters (sub-masters) are orange.
The exposure is controlled automatically so that the total flash output of firing groups results in the standard exposure.
l.Set the firing group of the slave units.
• Operate and set the slave units one by one.
< mmi[■! > and set to <A:B> or A:BC>.
4.Set the flash ratio.Press function button 3 < I EH I >.
• Press function button 3 <Iąb+- > or < I c+- >.
• Turn < @> to set the flash ratio or the flash exposure, and press the <|P > button.
• Press function button 4 < I EśB> to return to the shooting-ready state.
The slave units flash at the set flash ratio.
If you need more flash output or wish to perform more sophisticated lighting, you can increase the number of slave units.
Simply set an additional slave unit to the firing group (A, B or C) whose flash output you want to increase. You can increase the number of slave units up to 15 units in total.
For example, if you set a firing group with three slave units to <A>,the three units are controlled as a single firing group A with a large flash output.
• To fire the three firing groups A, B and C at the same time, set <A:B:C>. With the < A:B > setting, firing group C does not fire.
• If you shoot with firing group C pointing directly toward the main subject, overexposure may result.
• The flash ratio of 8:1 to 1:1 to 1:8 is equivalent to 3:1 to 1:1 to 1:3 (1/2-stop increments) when converted to number of stops.
• The details of the flash ratio settings are as follows.
• button on the camera.
• The flash fires continuously for 1 sec.
This describes wireless (multiple flash) shooting using manual flash.You can shoot with a different flash output setting for each slave unit(firing group). Set all parameters on the master unit.
l.Set the flash mode to <M>.
2.Set the number of firing groups.
• While <cmnn > is displayed, press function button 2 < ■ ;ii i i»j > and set the groups to fire.
• turn < ^ > and select the group for which you want to set the flash output.
• Press function button3< EM >.
and press the < lĘl > button.
• Repeat steps 3 and 4 to set the flash output of all groups.
• Each group fires at the set flash output.
• When ALL <RATIO OFF> is set, set A, B or C as the firing group for the slave units. The flash will not fire if it is set to D or E.
• To fire multiple slave units with the same flash output, select ALL <RATIO OFF> in step 2.
You can use 1st curtain Sync, high-speed Sync, or 2nd curtain sync in manual flash.
1.Display < | 1 i n i i ■ u >.
Press function button 4 to display < ■■'.' i i i ' »« >.
While <ESiI!3> is displayed, press function button 2 < EH3> and set the shutter sync.
* The 2nd curtain sync can be used in manual flash only.
* When using the 2nd curtain sync , wireless settings and other parameters recommend using the speedlite transmitter settings.
In stroboscopic flash, set the flash output, number of flashes, and flash frequency (number of flashes per second = Hz).
1.Set the flash mode to <MULTI>.
master unit and set to <MULTI>.
2.Set the firing groups and the flash output.
• Set the number of firing groups and the flash output for each group by referring to the manual flash on the preceding page.
3.Set the flash frequency and thenumber of flashes.
• While < miin ■ > is displayed, perform the following procedure.
• To set the number of flashes, press function button 2 < run ii >, turn < @ > and select < 0 >.
< 0 > and select < 0 >.
• You can shoot with a different flash mode set for each firing group, with up to 5groups (A/B/C/D/E).
are indicated only as an example.
• This function is for advanced users who are very knowledgeable and experienced in lighting.
l.Set the flash mode to <Gr>.
• Press the <mode> button on the master unit and set the flash mode to<Gr>.
2.Set the firing group on the slave units.
• Set a firing group (A/B/C/D/E) for all the slave units.
* When using the <Gr> flash mode of the camera released from 2007 to 2011, all the parameters should be set up through the speedlite transmitter.
3.Set the flash mode of each firing group by operating the master unit.
• While < EM!D> is displayed, press function button 3 < | ||fl ! > and turn <Ę^> to select the group.
• Press function button 2 < BH3 > and select the flash mode of the selected group from < E-TTL> < M > and < Ext.A >.
< mim > to set it to <OFF>.
4.Set the flash output or flash exposure compensation amount.
• While a firing group is selected, press function button 3 <E3 >.
• Turn <^> to set the flash function corresponding to the flash mode, and press < 0>.
• When using the <M> mode, set the flash output. When using the < E-TTL> or <Ext.A> mode, set the flash exposure compensation amount as required.
< ii ! i: i i i i > when < | E2 l> is displayed, flash exposure compensation can be set for all the firing groups.
You can perform remote release (remote control shooting) from a flash set as a slave unit. (see the flash's instruction manual).
Linked shooting is a function that automatically releases the shutter of a slave unit camera by linking it to a master unit camera. You can shoot with linked shooting for up to 16 units, including both master units and slave units. This is convenient when you want to shoot a subject from multiple angles at the same time.
To shoot with linked shooting, attach a flash that supports radio transmission wireless shooting or the Speedlite Transmitter YN-E3-RT to the camera.
l.Set to linked shooting mode.
• Press the < kS> button continuously until <LINKSHOT> is displayed on the LCD panel. Linked shooting mode' s "Slave unit" is set.
• Press the < ES > button again to set "Master unit" of the linked shooting mode.
2.Set the channel and ID.
3.Set the camera's shooting functions.
4.Set all the transmitters or flash.
• Repeat steps 1 to 3 and set all the transmitters or flashes to "Master unit" or "Slave unit" in the linked shooting mode.
• When pressing the < ES > button to change the setting of a unit from "Slave unit" to "Master unit," the other transmitters (or Speedlites) that were set to "Master unit" until then automatically switch to "Slave unit" .
5.Set up the slave unit cameras.
• Check that the <LINK> lamp of the slave unit is lit in green. 6.Take the picture.
• Check that the <LINK> lamp of the master unit is lit in green and take the picture.
• The slave unit cameras are released in coordination with the master unit camera.
• After shooting with linked shooting, the <LINK> lamp of the slave unit is briefly lit in orange.
When using EOS digital cameras released since 2007, you can set flash functions, transmitter functions or Custom Functions from the camera's menu screen. See the camera's instruction manual.
• Select [External Speedlite control] or [Flash control].
• Select [Flash function settings] or [External flash func. setting].
• The screen changes to the (external) flash function settings screen.
• The setting screen varies depending on the camera.
When using the transmitter with cameras such as EOS-1D X, you can set the functions for "Radio transmission wireless shooting" in the [Flash function settings] screen.
When performing "Radio transmission wireless shooting", set the functions by operating the transmitter.
For normal exposures, set it to [Evaluative]. If [Average] is set, the flash exposure will be averaged for the entire scene metered by the camera. Flash exposure compensation may be necessary depending on the scene. This setting is for advanced users.
You can set the flash sync speed when performing wireless flash shooting in aperture-priority AE (AV) mode.
You can select the flash mode from [E-TTL II], [Manual flash], [MULTI flash] and [Individual group control] to suit your d es ir e d fl a s h sh oot in g .
You can select the flash firing timing/method from [1st curtain] and [High-speed synchronization]. To perform normal wireless flash shooting, set it to [1st curtain].
In the same way as normal exposure compensation, you can set exposure compensation for flash. The flash exposure compensation amount can be set up to ± 3 stops in 1/3-stop increments.
You can take three shots while automatically changing the flashoutput. The settable range is up to ± 3 stops in 1/3-stop increments.
Radio transmission wireless flash shooting is set automatically.
You can return the transmitter settings to their default settings.
The displayed contents vary depending on the camera. If C.Fn-20 and 22 are not displayed, set them by operating the transmitter. For the Custom Functions, see pages 26 to 27.
• Select [Flash C.Fn settings] or [External flash C.Fn setting].
• You can now set the Custom Functions of the transmitter.
• Select the Custom Function number and set the function.
• To clear all the Custom Function settings, select [Clear all Speedlite C.Fn's] or [Clear ext. flash C.Fn set.] in step 1.
You can customize the transmitter features to suit your shooting preferences with Custom Functions and Personal Functions.
l.Display the Custom Functions screen.
The Custom Functions screen is displayed.
2.Select an item to set.
• Turn < |||||> to select an item(number) to set.
• Press the < ^ > button, The setting is displayed. Turn < ^ > to select the setting that you want, and press the < Ul > button.
• Press function button 4 <!»!> to return to the shooting-ready state.
When the transmitter is not operated for 5 min., the power turns off automatically to save energy. You can disable this function.
Press the camera's depth-of-field preview button to fire the m o d e l ing fl a s h .
Press the transmitter's test flash button to fire the modeling flash.
Press the camera's depth-of-field preview button or the transmitter's test flash button to fire the modeling flash.
You can set whether or not to cancel FEB automatically after shooting three shots with FEB.
You can change the order of the FEB sequence, 0: Standard exposure, -:Decreased exposure (darker) and +:Increased exposure (brighter).
When using the function with the cameras released until 2011, it needs the shutter release cable LS-MINIB/C3 or LS-MINIB/C1(sold separately). As for the EOS digital cameras(such as EOS-1D X) released after 2012, it does not need the shutter release cable.


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Q: Unit Test Coverage is being pedantic I'm using the Analyse Code Coverage tool in Visual Studio 2012.  The report appears to be very pedantic about what is covered and I have no idea what else could be done to provide more coverage.
The code I am testing is this:
public class Factory<T> : IFactory<T> where T : new()
{
    public T Create()
    {
        return new T();  // This line has only partial coverage.
    }
}

The unit tests:
using System;
using Xunit;
public class Factory_Tests
{
    [Fact]
    public void Constructor_Works()
    {
        var target = new Factory<Exception>();
    }

    [Fact]
    public void Create_ReturnsNewValue()
    {
        var target = new Factory<Exception>();
        var actual = target.Create();
        Assert.NotNull(actual);
    }
}

The report claims that the line commented above has only partial coverage.  What could I have possibly failed to test on this line?

A: Since it is a generic method that can accept both a reference type and a value type, it wants you test it with both.


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53 Years After Losing His Wallet In Antarctica, A Former Navy Meteorologist Just Had It Returned To Him
By Lindsey Matthews / February 11, 2021
Paul Grisham spent some of his time in the Navy serving as a meteorologist at McMurdo Station in Antarctica. In 1968, he was sent to the continent where he spent 13 months monitoring the weather for incoming planes and ships carrying personnel, equipment, and other supplies. Speaking to the SAN DIEGO UNION TIBUNE, Grisham said:
"McMurdo Station was in what we called the 'banana belt,' the temperature got up to about 25 degrees and I've seen it as cold as minus 65," he said. "It's almost inconceivable just how cold it is. It's almost impossible to describe to people who haven't been there. In fact, we spent a lot of time trying to figure out 'how do we explain this to the folks at home?' and we just never really came up with a good way to explain it."
At some point during his time on the frozen continent he lost is wallet which contained ID cards and other items. Paul Grisham is now 91-years-old, so imagine his surprised when his wallet was returned to him two weeks ago. It was a walk down memory lane for the veteran as he unloaded the items which had remained untouched for over five decades.
The wallet was found during demolition of some of the older buildings at McMurdo Station, including the building Grisham lived in while posted there. Among the antiquated items found inside were a beer ration card that had 21 punches remaining, as well as a pocket reference card on what to do in the event of a nuclear, chemical, or biological attack.
"The one thing that really made life worth living down there was the people that were there," Grisham said. "We wintered 180 men and they were the most congenial, likable men that I ever had the pleasure to be around."
Inside the wallet were several money order receipts money for sent back home from the many hands of poker Grisham won while playing his buddies during the long months of being locked inside due to the inhospitable outside temperatures.
The highlights of his year and a half at McMurdo were his expedition to the South Pole, and meeting Sir Edmund Hillary, the famous explorer and mountain climber who asked Grisham detailed weather questions before setting out on a new adventure.
Grisham during his promotion to 1LT
Grisham served honorably in the Navy for 25 years before retiring in 1977, and after his first wife, Wilma, passed away, he married Carole Salazar in 2001 and moved to San Diego, California.
A group of do-gooders and amateur sleuths worked for weeks trying to track down Grisham through a serious of emails and social media exchanges, and when they finally did, it was sent to Paul in the mail.
The Grisham and Salazar families are grateful for the effort put in by complete strangers to return the heirloom. They have enjoyed listening to Paul reminisce about his adventures during his 25 years of military service.


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Q: Populating a listbox in a seperate window gives me a InvalidOperationException. I'm using WPF and .NET 6.0 As I was trying to learn how to use multiple windows in WPF, I stumbled upon a problem. I have a MainWindow containing all the logic for a blackjack game. Now I wanted a second Window with the last 10 games played by the user.
These last 10 games were stored in
public static ListBoxItem[] historiekArray = new ListBoxItem[10];

In the 'Speler' class (Player in Dutch). Now when I try to populate the HistoryWindow Listbox, everything goes well the first time, but the second time I open up the window this error occurs:
System.InvalidOperationException: 'Element already has a logical parent. It must be detached from the old parent before it is attached to a new one.'

This is the C# code in the HistoryWindow.xaml.cs
public HistoriekWindow()
{
    InitializeComponent();

    // empty the listbox
    LbxHistoriek.Items.Clear();

    // Populate listbox with array items
    for (int i = 0; i < Speler.historiekArray.Length - 1; i++)
    {
        ListBoxItem temp = new ListBoxItem();
        temp = Speler.historiekArray[i];
        LbxHistoriek.Items.Add(temp);
    }
}

Looking at other posts on StackOverflow and learn.microsoft, I thought the problem might be that my ListBoxItem was being reused, but after placing ListboxItem temp = new ListboxItem() inside the for-loop, nothing much changed.
SOLUTION
The array of ListboxItems was changed into an Array of strings.
public static string[] historiekArray = new string[10];

And the for-loop sets the .Content of the ListBoxItem to the corresponding Array item.
for (int i = 0; i < Speler.historiekArray.Length - 1; i++)
            {
                ListBoxItem temp = new ListBoxItem();
                temp.Content = Speler.historiekArray[i];
                LbxHistoriek.Items.Add(temp);
            }

Please excuse my formatting, this is my first post on StackOverflow and English is not my native language.


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Q: Runtime of Binet's Formula So I'm computing the Fibonacci numbers using Binet's formula with the GNU MP library. I'm trying to work out the asymptotic runtime of the algorithm.
For Fib(n) I'm setting the variables to n bits of precision; thus I believe multiplying two numbers is n Log(n). The exponentiation is, I believe n Log(n) multiplications; so I believe I have n Log(n)Log(n Log(n)). Is this correct, in both in assumptions (multiplying floating point numbers and number of multiplications in exponentiation with integer exponent) and in conclusion?
If my precision is high, and I use precision g(n); then I think this reduces to g(n) Log(g(n)); however I think g(n) should be g(n)=n Log(phi)+1; which shouldn't have a real impact on the asymptotics.

A: I don't agree with your evaluation.
The cost of long multiplies depends on the algorithm in use. Can be O(n^1.585) [Karatsuba], or O(n.Log(n).Log(Log(n))) [Schönhage–Strassen], or other.
The cost of exponentiation can be made O(Log(n)) multiplies for exponent n.


Draft Local Area Plan for lands at Donabate, Co. Dublin.
and a Draft Environmental Report has been prepared.
Plan would not adversely affect the integrity of any European site.
Appropriate Assessment Screening – pursuant to Article 6 of the EU Habitats Directive 92/43/EEC has been carried out and a Natura Impact Report prepared, which has determined that there is no requirement to proceed to Stage 3 of the Appropriate Assessment.
Submissions or observations, with respect to the Draft Local Area Plan, Environmental Report and the Natura Impact Report, made in writing to Fingal County Council from Tuesday 1st December 2015 to Thursday 21st January 2016 or made online https://consult.fingal.ie/en/browse, (one medium only), will be taken into consideration by the Council before the making of the Local Area Plan.
All comments, including the names and addresses of those making the comments, submitted to the Council in regard to this development will form part of the statutorily required report to be presented to the monthly meeting of Fingal County Council. Accordingly they will also be included in the minutes of that meeting which will appear on the Council's Website. Children or groups or associations representing the interests of children are also entitled to make submissions.
Such submissions/observations should be addressed to: Senior Executive Officer, Planning and Strategic Infrastructure Department, Fingal County Council, County Hall, Main St., Swords, Co. Dublin, K67X8Y2. Alternatively, they can be e-mailed to devplan@fingal.ie. Or https://consult.fingal.ie/en/browse.
Dated: Tuesday 1st December 2015.
35 submissions have raised observations relating to this consultation.


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Howard Fishman performs as part of the Basement Music Series in Bennington on Saturday.
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Battenkill chorale celebrates Dan Forrest
CAMBRIDGE, N.Y. — Battenkill Chorale will present "Te Deum: New American Songs of Nature and Praise." This program celebrates the music of Dan Forrest, who is at the forefront of a Renaissance in American choral music. The performance will be at 7 p.m. Saturday, April 27, at the Cambridge United Presbyterian Church, 81 East Main St. Tickets are $20, and can be purchased in advance by calling 518-692-7458 or emailing battenkilltickets@gmail.com.
Children's author to present book at Northshire Bookstore
MANCHESTER — Children's author Ali Benjamin presents her new book, "The Next Great Paulie Fink," the second novel by the author of "The Thing About Jellyfish." The event will be at 5 p.m. Monday, April 29, at Northshire Bookstore.
Lincoln biographer to discuss second inaugural
MANCHESTER — Lincoln biographer Harold Holzer speaks on "Lincoln's Second Inaugural Revisited" at 7 p.m., Wednesday, May 1, at First Congregational Church of Manchester
Chamber music in the Courtroom
CAMBRIDGE, N.Y. — Director Daniel Shulman leads this series featuring talented musicians from all overthe world. Violinist and violist Kaori Washiyama and mezzo soprano Iris Rogers will perform works by Beethoven, Brahms, Schubert and Strauss. The performance is at 3 p.m. Saturday, April 27, at the Historic Salem Courthouse, 58 E Broadway, Salem, New York. Tickets are $20, a series of three concert for $54. Future concerts on May 26 and June 23.
Library holds poetry salon
MANCHESTER — Manchester Community Library will hold a Poetry Salon at 6 p.m. Friday, April 26 at the library. Bring a poem or two of your own work to read, and enjoy listening to the diversity of the spoken word.
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From NPR: The federal government loses its control of land that's granted to railroad companies after the track has been abandoned, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled Monday. The court sided with a private landowner in Wyoming who is fighting efforts to convert disused tracks into a bike path near his house.
The court's decision overturns decisions by district and appeals courts. The wider impact of the ruling is difficult to estimate, partly because the U.S. government doesn't have a central database of the land it owns under such circumstances, as SCOTUS Blog has reported.
The justices and attorneys acknowledged that uncertainty during oral arguments over the case in January.


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Clinic interns provide the entire range of legal representation, from initial interview to sentencing.
and researching and drafting motions and other memoranda.
Students may also represent clients in related proceedings including parole revocation, school suspension, and Department of Motor Vehicle hearings where these hearings arise from the facts of the criminal case.
In order to perform their court responsibilities, students must keep Tuesday and Thursday mornings (9 a.m.-1 p.m.) free from all other obligations.
Students will meet for both seminar and rounds during the term, in addition to court appearances. Criminal Procedure and Evidence are prerequisites or co-requisites for admission to the Clinic. Trial practice experience (mock trial, NITA classes, etc.) strongly recommended.


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Donald Trump, drug warrior: How the president slowed cannabis progress
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When it comes to cannabis, it's hard to say just what a Trump presidency has meant to the industry. It's not as clear-cut as his record on, say, immigration, LGBTQ rights, the environment, or public health. But one thing is certain: As president, he's made it pretty damn hard for those in the cannabis industry to thrive.
When Trump entered office, the cannabis industry was on the rise. Under Obama, there had been a shift in the climate — not just in popular opinion (as of 2016, 57 percent of Americans supported legalization) but also through some of his policies. Though cannabis remained on the DEA's list of Schedule I drugs (codifying its criminality on a federal level) Obama's justice department had issued the Cole Memo in 2013. That guidance stated that federal marijuana laws would not be prosecuted in states that allowed for cannabis operations, both medical and recreational. States began to relax; investors started to get curious. Markets in Colorado, Oregon, and Washington grew exponentially. The day Trump was elected president, California, Maine, Massachusetts, and Nevada all voted to legalize adult-use marijuana. "The Cole Memo signaled to the cannabis industry that as long as you're complying with the local laws, state laws, you're good," says Maritza Perez, director of national affairs for Drug Policy Action, the campaign arm of the Drug Policy Alliance. "Which is significant considering that marijuana remains a schedule one drug."
Then came Trump. His pick for attorney general, Jeff Sessions, was a longtime drug warrior, and promptly rescinded the Cole Memo. During his campaign, the disconnect between Trump's anti-drug stance and his seeming embrace for states' rights left some wondering what would happen — and many took this as their answer. It turned out that it didn't change law enforcement policy in practice. However, it did set a tone.
"It was a big moment, in theory, because it showed that the Department of Justice was going to take a hardline approach to state-regulated markets," says Natalie Papillion, director and policy advisor for Last Prisoner Project, a nonprofit that works with business leaders to establish restorative justice measures in legislation and within the industry. "Now, in practice, we haven't seen that come to fruition." But one thing was made clear to the U.S. industry: Trump's administration would be no friend to legalized marijuana.
"I think the intention of it is just to have a chilling effect," says Perez. "And I think it did." Since Sessions' resignation, Bill Barr seems to have only ramped up the hostility. Earlier this year, a whistleblower alleged that Barr's DOJ had put cannabis companies through unnecessary and arduous antitrust investigations.
And his Trump's other appointees have been no more receptive — across his cabinet, he's appointed people who are unfriendly to cannabis. In March, Secretary of Treasury Steve Mnuchin refused to tell his staff to stop penalizing banks that worked with state-legal cannabis companies, saying he would leave it to Congress to sort it out. Then, just last month, Business Insider spoke with industry professionals who claimed the IRS was auditing more and more cannabis companies using section 280E, a Regan-era part of the tax code that restricts companies doing business that is federally illegal (i.e., cannabis) from writing off most standard business expenses. (This has been one of the hurdles for marijuana businesses hoping to make any profit at all.)
The Department of Veterans Affairs has also been slow to adjust to the growing positive sentiment toward cannabis. Though studies have indicated that weed can be a helpful therapy for PTSD, VA physicians are not permitted to recommend it to patients, nor are they allowed to help them obtain recommendations elsewhere. The VA has clarified that use of medical marijuana will not result in being stripped of their benefits, the ambivalence has made some vets nervous. "Were the Trump administration to be more progressive on it, that would also pave the way for veterans usage of medicinal marijuana with less fear of negative repercussions," says Papillion. "Another thing that can be done on the executive level is policies that allow the VA to conduct research on the efficacy of medicinal [cannabis], as well as other sorts of controlled substances."
The Department of Homeland Security has also been particularly hostile to those who use marijuana, or work in the industry. After Canada legalized adult-use cannabis in 2018, reports began to pour down from the northern border of entrepreneurs and investors involved with the legal cannabis trade being blocked from entering the country by Customs and Border Control. In 2019, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, an agency under DHS, publicly clarified that people who partake in legal U.S. cannabis — both medical and recreational — could disqualify them from emigrating. "Under the Trump administration, they've put out guidance saying if you are found using or possessing cannabis — or even if you work at a business that is legal under their state — that would be grounds to deny citizenship," says Sarah Gertzen, executive director and general council for the Last Prisoner Project.
There is more at stake, however, than just an industry being hindered: Increasingly, conversations in the legalization movement have focused on the need for decriminalization, to prevent current arrests, and mass expungement to clear the records of those who've been convicted in the past. (Trump, it must be said, has been terrible on clemency, the executive power that's the equivalent of expungement: Obama had set up a program that re-sentenced 1,700 low-level offenders using contemporary guidelines. Trump did not continue this program. Only two people convicted on drug-related charges have received a pardon from Trump, while one has received a commutation.)
According to an annual report released by the FBI in early October, there were 545,602 marijuana arrests in 2019. Though this number is lower than 2018, as NORML points out, it's still higher than violent crime. "Police across America make a marijuana-related arrest every 58 seconds," Erik Altieri, executive director of NORML, said at the time. "It is an outrage that many police departments across the country continue to waste tax dollars and limited law enforcement resources on arresting otherwise law-abiding citizens for simple marijuana possession."
Trump himself has claimed to be a social justice president, he has so far offered minimal clemency to victims of the drug war; during his entire time in office, he has only pardoned two people arrested for cannabis crimes.
While the executive branch would be a place to set a more positive tone, legalization will probably ultimately happen when a critical mass of states opt-in to adult-use legislation, so that congress will be forced to act. The MORE Act — a bill that would open up the banking industry by federally decriminalizing it, and set out methods for mass expungement — is expected to pass the House later this November. What happens when it goes to the Senate, however, is anyone's guess. "The interesting thing is that there is bipartisan support when you speak to voters," says Perez. "It's just Congress that's really out of touch."


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2019 Life in the Universe Symposium InformationHeathe Kyle Yeakley2019-08-21T20:52:43-04:00
International Symposium on
Life in the Universe 2019
Big History, SETI and the Future of Humankind
FINAL PROGRAM Milan Symposium July 15-16, 2019
Milan (Milano), Italy,
July 15th – 16th, 2019,
with an Excursion to San Marino, July 17th – 18th, 2019.
INAF – IASF Milano,
Via A. Corti 12,
I-20133 Milano,
Deadline for abstract submission:
Symposium begins in:
It is a pleasure to invite you to Milan (Milano, Italy) to our first Symposium on LIFE IN THE UNIVERSE: Big History, SETI and the Future of Humankind.
The Symposium is organized jointly by some members of the international SETI community and the International Big History Association (IBHA). It will take place in Milan (Milano, Italy) on July 15th – 16th, 2019, with an additional visit to the Republic of San Marino on July 17th and 18th, 2019. San Marino, known as the Most Serene Republic of San Marino, is an enclaved microstate surrounded by Italy, situated on the Italian Peninsula on the northeastern side of the Apennine Mountains. It was named a World Heritage Site by UNESCO in 2008.
Big History seeks to understand the integrated history of the Cosmos, Earth, Life, and Humanity, using the best available empirical evidence and scholarly methods. The International Big History Association seeks to promote the unified and interdisciplinary study and teaching of the history of Cosmos, Earth, Life, and Humanity.
SETI, the Search for Extra-Terrestrial Intelligence, is the scientific search for radio signals or other signs of life reaching the Earth from other Civilizations possibly existing in the Milky Way (our own galaxy) or elsewhere in other galaxies. It started in 1960 with Project Ozma conducted by Frank D. Drake at the United States National Radio Astronomy Observatory (NRAO) in West Virginia, and continued with interruptions up to now not only in the United States, but in an increasing number of technologically advanced countries like Russia, France, Italy, UK, Argentina, South Africa, Australia and, most recently, China. No sign of any Extra-Terrestrial (ET) Civilization was found up to now.
The theme of this "Life in the Universe" Symposium will be all facets of finding ET Life in the universe.
Topics of Interest:
Big History Educational approaches for different ages and sector
Local Histories from a Universal point of view
Planetary sciences: the geologic conditions for life and civilizations
Astrobiology: life on other planets
SETI, both Radio and Optical
Sociological, Ecological and Economic Implications on Humankind after the First Contact with Aliens
The deadline to submit abstracts is July 12, 2019.
To submit your abstract, please see the link at the top of this page.
The abstract must stay within ONE A4 PAGE, single spacing. It must contain:
a) Abstract title.
b) Author's name and surname.
c) Author's current affiliation, if any.
d) Author's e-mail.
e) It must be typed in Times New Roman font 12.0, single spacing.
f) All abstracts must be written with Word, and NOT with Latex, so that they may be printed in the Book of Abstracts to be distributed at the Congress opening.
Deadline for abstract submission: July 12, 2019.
Organizing Committees:
(Scientific Organizing Committee)
Claudio Maccone (Chair) – Italy
Nicolò Antonietti – Italy
Adalberto Codetta – Italy
Adam Frank – USA
Mike Garrett – UK
Leonid Grinin – Russia
Lowell Gustafson – USA
Andrey Korotayev – Russia
Lucy Laffitte – USA
Andrew Siemion – USA
Fred Spier – The Netherlands
(Local Organizing Committee)
Patrizia Caraveo (INAF-IASF Milan – Italy)
Francesco Brigante (Republic of San Marino)
Day-By-Day Calendar
SATURDAY, July 13th: American Participants fly in the evening and overnight to a European "big hub" of their choice, where they land in the following morning, July 14th. From there, anyone of the three Milan airports may be reached:
a) Milan Malpensa airport (code: MXP),
b) or possibly Milan Linate (code: LIN)
c) or Orio al Serio (Bergamo, code: BGY).
Alternatively, Participants might wish to fly directly to Milan Malpensa airport MXP. A train ride from Malpensa MXP airport lasts about an hour (cost: about 20 euros) and takes you directly to Milano Centrale train station, from which the Metro (#2 line, i.e. green line) takes you anywhere in town.
SUNDAY, July 14th: Participants arriving from Russia and the Eastern European Countries may fly directly from Moscow or their home towns to Milan Malpensa (MXP) airport on Sunday 14th, and then reach Milano Centrale station by rail.
The next three nights (nights of July 14-15-16) at a hotel of your choice in Milan.
MONDAY, July 15th: At 8:30: Registration at INAF-IASF in Milan, at the entrance of the large CNR building (Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche), located at Via Alfonso Corti 12, Milan. Please have your PASSPORT or IDENTITY CARD (photo id) with you for the Registration. Thanks.
SYMPOSIUM STARTS AT 9:30.
There will be an intermixing of lectures about both Big History and SETI, so that the two communities of Big Historians and SETI professionals will come to know about each other.
Coffee break (15 minutes) at 11:00.
LUNCH at a restaurant or pizza-bar of your choice in Milan: 12:30-14:00. There are plenty of dining places in the vicinity of the Symposium VENUE at Via Alfonso Corti 12: just walk around, please.
SYMPOSIUM continues at 14:00.
SYMPOSIUM ENDS AT 18:00.
Evening: free.
TUESDAY, July 16th: At 8:30: Registration at INAF-IASF in Milan, at the entrance of the large CNR building (Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche), located at Via Alfonso Corti 12, Milan. Please have your PASSPORT or IDENTITY CARD (photo id) with you for the Registration. Thanks.
At 12:30 GROUP PHOTO of all Participants taken in the Conference Lecture Hall.
EVENING: SYMPOSIUM DINNER at 8 pm thru 11 pm at a restaurant in Milan to be specified later. This dinner is graciously offered by the Breakthrough Listen (BL) SETI Program currently conducted by the University of California at Berkeley, United States. Attire: casual.
HOTEL ACCOMMODATION in Milan for the three nights of July 14-15-16
In the map of Milan below you see, near the bottom right edge, the Symposium VENUE located in Via Alfonso Corti 12 and marked as Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, Area di…(Milano) . In red are the two Metro stations of Piola (bottom left) and Lambrate (top right), both served by the Linea 2 (Green Line).
All around, the blue pins mark hotels nearby, all at walking distance from the Symposium venue and good for all budgets. The largest blue pin on the center-left is the suggested hotel "Oasi Village", web site https://www.oasivillagehotel.it/ costing some 200 euros for the three nights of July 14-15-16.
WEDNESDAY, July 17th: At 9:30 OPTIONAL BUS EXCURSION to the Italian SETI facilities at Medicina (near Bologna) and to the Republic of San Marino, lasting two days: July 17th and 18th.
The cost of this excursion to Medicina and San Marino is NOT included in the Symposium Registration Fee and will be about 100 euros excluding the cost of the two nights of July 17 and 18 in San Marino.
a) Visit to the SETI facilities at the Medicina Radio Telescopes (Medicina is a small town in the country about 30 km east of Bologna). History of the SETI activities in Italy (1980s-present), website: http://www.centrovisite.ira.inaf.it/index-en.html. Visit will end about 13:00.
b) Lunch at the "Voli e Sapori" restaurant nearby the radio telescopes, ending at about 14:30. The lunch cost is included in the cost of the Excursion to Medicina and San Marino.
c) In the afternoon, at about 5 pm, our bus reaches San Marino and the hotel(s) that Participants have selected to spend the night of July 17th and possibly more nights, at the Participants discretion.
d) CONVIVIAL DINNER at 7:00 thru 11 pm at "Boschetto" restaurant at Fiorentino (a village within the Republic of San Marino) with a fantastic view of the Adriatic Sea. A bus service will take you there from your San Marino hotel and back, late in the evening. The cost of this Conference Dinner is 40 euros per person, including musical entertainment and transportation to and from the San Marino hotels. This cost of this Convivial Dinner is NOT included in the cost of the Medicina and San Marino Excursion.
THURSDAY, July 18th Free day to visit San Marino. More later about an organized San Marino Tour.
HOTEL ACCOMMODATION in San Marino for the night of July 17th and possibly more nights
Please keep in mind that the town of San Marino is built on the western SLOPES of Mount Titano (at 739 m (2,425 ft) above sea level), while the eastern slopes are "just vertical" and so "dangerous" if you walk "carefree" in between the three medieval towers on its top: beware!
Please wear comfortable shoes all the times in town, and be prepared to climb up and down on foot throughout the city.
To see with your own eyes, please watch the movie https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eSqoEhWd9cM. Now about some hotels in San Marino, with TENTATIVE costs:
1) The suggested hotel for Symposium Participants is the 4-stars Hotel IDesign (four stars), web site:
https://www.hotelsanmarinoidesign.com/en/. Early booking is strongly advised. It is 30 minutes walking distance from the Kursaal (with climbing up), but a free shuttle bus service will be organized just for the Participants. Cost per day: 65 Euros Single Room, 85 Euros Double Room for 2 people only.
2) The smartest hotel in San Marino is possibly Grand Hotel San Marino (GHSM), web site https://www.grandhotel.sm/en/ (four stars). It the summer it may be expensive, but it is at walking distance (about 400 meters) from the Kursaal and you won't have to climb either up or down: just walk along via Antonio Onofri on your left when you leave the Hotel. Again, early booking is strongly advised. Cost per day: 95 Euros Single Room, 115 Euros Double Room for 2 people only.
3) Less expensive hotels are located around Piazza della Stazione (the former train station in San Marino, dismissed after the bombardments of World War Two). The cost of three-stars hotels is 60 Euros Single Room, 80 Euros Double Room for 2 people only.
4) In conclusion, please carefully select your accommodation well in advance. Thanks.
1) EARLY BIRDS, i.e. Participants paying their Registration Fee BY SUNDAY, MARCH 31st, 2019, INCLUSIVE:
a) US$ 100 per Participant aged in between 30 and 65 (i.e. Professionals, whatever their job).
b) US$ 50per Accompanying Person.
c) US$ 50Student Fee for participants aged up to 30 inclusive.
d) US$ 50Senior Fee (i.e. people aged 65 inclusive or higher),
e) Italian Amateur astronomers who are registered members of UAI (Unione Astrofili Italiani, site https://www.uai.it/ ) will be granted FREE ENTRANCE to the Conference Hall in Milan on July 15-16, 2019.
2) LATECOMERS, i.e. SINCE MONDAY, APRIL 1st, 2019, INCLUSIVE
f) US$ 150 per Participant aged in between 30 and 65 (i.e. Professionals, whatever their job).
g) US$ 75per Accompanying Person.
h) US$ 75Student Fee for participants aged up to 30 inclusive.
i) US$ 75Senior Fee (i.e. people aged 65 inclusive or higher),
j) Italian Amateur astronomers who are registered members of UAI (Unione Astrofili Italiani, site https://www.uai.it/ ) will be granted FREE ENTRANCE to the Conference Hall in Milan on July 15-16, 2019.


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Q: Is there a programmatic way to determine whether a PDF's text is extractable using Python? I just spent 45 minutes trying to figure out why pyPdf's
PageObject.getPage(x).extractText())

wasn't extracting anything.  I finally fed it a different PDF and it worked fine, leading me to conclude that the original PDF has some sort of (non-password) protection on it.  Confirming in Adobe Reader, "page extraction: not allowed."
How, if at all, could I have programmatically determined that this protection was present?

A: This might do what you are looking for.
x = PageObject.getPage(x).extractText())
if (x == ""): #Or whatever exactly you get when it fails.
   raise ValueError("The PDF file can not be imported")


You can create a professional-looking, easy-to-maintain site even if you have no technical skills.
When I worked in the newspaper industry, my company sold third-party website-building services. That was more than five years ago, and even then, paying for something you could easily do yourself was a bad idea.
Now, when technology has gotten even easier to use, paying real money for a website is almost always a bad idea. You can easily create a professional-looking website for your small business with limited effort at a very low cost.
Doing this might seem scary partly because there are so many services marketed to make the process easier. Yes, you can get a website built professionally that costs a few thousand dollars or one that comes with hundreds a month in maintenance/server/hosting fees, but you don't have to, and you shouldn't.
It's easy to build a basic website. Image source: Getty Images.
There are exceptions to the do-it-on-the-cheap rule. If you run a retail business and plan to integrate online and in-store inventory, then you may want to consider getting professional help. The same is true if your business is based on visual aesthetics. In that case, you may want something that truly stands out, and it may make sense to hire someone.
For most companies, however, you can build an elegant, effective website for less than $10 (maybe under $5) a month with limited (if any) investment beyond that.
Ideally, you start by picking a hosting company and purchasing a package that includes a domain name. You can go with one of the bigger names like GoDaddy or opt for other significant players like 1&1, DreamHost, or HostGator. There are lots of credible review sites out there that break down the differences between the various companies, but generally, they are minor.
You will want a package that includes a do-it-yourself site-builder tool. You might also want one that includes free WordPress installation. Basically, a site-builder tool allows complete novices to build a website through drag and drop. WordPress is a content management system (CMS) that works much the same way, but it allows more customization and the ability to add more functionality.
If you want a brochure site -- one that just shares what your business is and when you're open along with contact info -- then a site builder will work fine. If you want to sell stuff on your site or add customer message boards, event calendars, and maybe more, then WordPress makes sense.
When you pick your domain name, select something that is easy to remember. If JoesHouseOfPancakes.com is taken, look at reasonable alternatives (most hosting companies will offer suggestions). In general, you want a .com address because that is what most consumers are familiar with.
As for your hosting package, look at your options. In most cases, prices will be lower if you pay up front for a longer term. You can generally convert to that down the line, so you may be better off going month to month at first.
Look at the packages and consider your needs. Do you want the option of support via phone? That may cost more, but it might be worth it for the peace of mind. The same goes for installing WordPress. It's generally a one-button install if you do it yourself, but if you find that daunting, pay the extra for someone to do it for you.
You generally have to wait 24 to 48 hours for your domain to go live, but you can start building your site right away. Whether you use a site builder or WordPress, the first step is picking a template. Once you do that, you will see all the areas you need to fill in.
These will generally contain dummy text and basic images. Go through and begin making substitutions and figure out what you need. For example, you might need to have a version of your logo made that's vertical or horizontal, and you might need to take pictures or find free stock images that reflect your business. You will also need to fill in text spots and add hours, contact info, and other information.
You can build a good-looking brochure site in a couple of hours (maybe less) if you have the materials you need (logo, images, text). From there, you can add more pages, create navigation, and even add functionality. In site builders or WordPress, it's all pretty intuitive, and if you get stuck, it's easy enough to find a tech-savvy high school or college kid who can help you out.
Websites used to cost a lot of money to build. They still can, but they really don't have to. If you can click a button, write in a word processor, and get around on the web, you should be able to build your small-business site without too much trouble and with very little cost.


Washington, DC—The National Quality Forum (NQF) is convening a new Measure Applications Partnership (MAP) workgroup to make recommendations to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) on performance measures to improve healthcare in the nation's rural areas.
Establishing a MAP Rural Health Workgroup was one of the major recommendations from a 2015 NQF report. In addition to identifying the challenges rural providers face in healthcare performance measurement, the report recommended that rural healthcare providers be integrated into federal quality programs so they are better able to evaluate the care they provide and identify ways to improve it.
The MAP Rural Health Workgroup will identify the best measures to assess rural healthcare quality. The workgroup also will determine areas where new and better measures are needed, as well as recommend ways to streamline measurement across programs, care settings, and specialties in the public and private sectors, to reduce measure burden.
Convened in 2011, MAP is a federally funded public-private partnership that provides annual recommendations to HHS on the use of quality and efficiency measures in federal public reporting and value-based payment programs. More than 150 healthcare leaders from 90 organizations who regularly use measures and measurement information participate in MAP discussions.


Entrepreneur and content curator Alexandra Ampofo better known as "Planet Alex", is back on IndustryMe being open and honest with invaluable advice on the music industry for all the upcoming artists out there.
In this candid conversation she offers her perspective, as content curator and the founder of Acoustic Live, on navigating the industry and the process of team building.
What advice would you give for artists looking for management?
It's important to keep patience in mind, the process of finding a manager that you work well with can be a gruelling one.
Don't settle for any manager out of desperation, find someone that you connect with, someone that understands your music as well as the music industry itself.
Do you think having management is important and why?
Having management is important if you have no idea about the business aspect of the music industry, it's not the be all and end all though.
It would help if an artist teaches themselves some small aspects of managing a musician for contingency reasons and just general sense of understanding from an alternative perspective.
Should management and artist development be the same team or separate and why?
Having management and artist development in the same team isn't fundamental, different strokes for different folks, there is no blueprint. What works for you as a musician won't necessarily work for a fellow musician.
That's the beauty of trial error, if one set up doesn't develop properly, you can always attempt to calculate another.
Why is networking important for musicians?
Networking is essential for musicians. I feel networking should be used as a means of expanding an artist's perspective beyond their own musical mind.
We never stop learning as humans and one of the best ways to learn is to create a bridge between ourselves and others, like-minded or not.
Has the importance of having label backing shifted and why does this mean for upcoming artists?
Having label backing isn't as essential today, as it was ten years ago or even five years ago. The music industry is such a rapid changing environment, the cycle of sponsorship, funding and acquiring money to push a project can be done without a label these days. This Can mean a number of things for up and coming artists, one being that they don't have to rely on a label to take their music off the ground, which makes the whole process seem more organic.


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DMACC Basketball Battles IWCC in Double-Header at The Den
Alex Loew January 13, 2022
DMACC Men's and Women's teams went 1-1 on Wednesday against Iowa Western Community College. The two teams competed in a double-header vs. the Reivers on their home floor.
The DMACC Women's team fell to the Reivers by a score of 82-64. The Bears were led by Magan Christopherson who finished with 24 points and seven rebounds in the loss. Freshman guard Payton Tahahwah had a nice game off the bench for the Bears, chipping in 10 points to go along with two steals and two blocks.
The Bears kept it close in the beginning, down single digits after the first quarter. The second quarter remained relatively the same, with the Reivers taking a 13-point lead into the halftime intermission. In the third quarter the Bears used a hot shooting stretch to bring their deficit within six points heading into the final quarter of play. The 9th ranked Reivers mimicked their first quarter, scoring 24 points for a final score of 82-64. The Bears fall to 10-7 overall and 2-5 in the ICCAC.
The DMACC Men's team found themselves in a barn-burner against the 7th ranked Iowa Western Reivers. The Bears scored on 52 percent shooting in the 90-86 victory over the Reivers Wednesday night. Though the Bears finished victorious, it was a rough road and slow start on the way to victory. DMACC trailed by as much as 16 in the first half before exploding for a 23-6 run and would lead the Reivers at the halftime break by a score of 43-38. The Bears didn't look back in the second half of the matchup and would never trail the Reivers for the remainder of the game.
The Bears were led by Goanar Biliew who finished with a season-high 31 points and eight rebounds. Guard Jadan Graves had a hot night shooting, going 4/4 from behind the arc. Graves would finish the night with an impressive statline of 18 points, seven rebounds, and five assists in the win. The unranked Bears improved to 12-6 on the year, with a 4-2 record in the ICCAC. Though unranked, the Bears had been receiving votes prior to the matchup against the Reivers. After a hard-fought win vs. the 7th ranked team, the Bears will surely find themselves in the new poll.
Meet the 2022 Spring Team!


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