Indira Awaas Yojana (IAY) is a scheme run by the Union rural development ministry to construct houses for those below poverty line (BPL). Under the scheme, a financial assistance of Rs. 75,000 is given to a beneficiary.
It has been claimed on the basis of a series of a RTI application that housing funds meant for the poor have been diverted for the rich and influential section of Dhank village in Rajdot district of Gujarat. Four villagers, Bharatbhai Ghughal, Bhanjibhai Jogel Naranbhai Varagiya and Govind Gangera are on satyagraha for the past one week in front of the Rajkot Collector's office, demanding appropriate action against officers responsible for corruption in IAY.
In a press statement issued by the Mahiti Adhikar Gujarat Pahel (MAGP), a NGO which has guided these two villagers to crusade through RTI, it has been reported that despite the exposure, the government has not taken any action against the responsible officers. The press release has appealed to citizens and activists, nationwide to contact Bhanjibhai Jogel, Bharatbhai Ghughal on 09974573036 for moral support and send emails requesting action on the corrupt to RM Patel, Additional Chief Secretary, Panchayat and Rural Housing Dept (GOG). secprh@gujarat.gov.in, commi-prh@gujarat.gov.in; D Rajgopalan, Chief Information Commissioner – Gujarat gscic@gujarat.gov.in ; Rajendar Kumar, District Collector Rajkot collector-raj@gujarat.gov.in and/or N B Upadhyay, District Development Officer, ddo-raj@gujarat.gov.in.
The issue erupted in 2010, when Gughal and Jogal observed that well-to-do people owning large properties were getting the houses meant for below poverty line persons and raised the issue through RTI applications at the Gram Panchayat office requesting names of the beneficiaries in Dhank village for the IAY and SPAY schemes for the last five years. When the Public Information Officer (PIO) did not reply, they filed the first appeal with the first appellate authority (District Development Office of Rajkot district). During the hearing, the PIO submitted a hand-written chit with six names of beneficiaries who received allotment out of the rules. Jogel and Ghughal demanded a certified copy of the list of beneficiaries and information whether they belonged to the BPL section of the society. After multiple RTI applications were filed, it was informed that there were 65 beneficiaries in the last five years out of which 22 The provisions of this Act shall have effect notwithstanding anything inconsistent therewith contained in the Official Secrets Act, 1923 (19 of 1923), and any other law for the time being in force or in any instrument having effect by virtue of any law other than this Act. of them belonged to the affluent class and had received multiple benefits. The applicants claim that despite incriminating evidence found against the seven officers including the sarpanch of the village Dhank which has a population 7,000 odd, neither the Panchayat Department nor the Vigilance Commission is taking action against them.
A case study has been done on this issue which examines how the villagers bravely used the RTI after the conventional methods of procuring failed. Is a mega housing scam not in existence in most villages all over the country?


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Mr Nick McGough
BSc (Hons) Dip Arch, ARB, RIBA
Faculty of Technology, Design and Environment
Associate Partner | Weston Williamson + Partners; Associate Lecturer & MArchD Studio Lead | OxfordDS6
Nick McGough is a British/Spanish UK registered Chartered Architect and educator with over 15 years experience in the construction industry.
During his time at Bath University Nick developed an interest in cybernetic systems and in 2003 had a number of inspirational discussions with Dr Julian Vincent regarding the potential for biomimetics in architecture and specifically the application of auxetic structures.
Following this, Nick's student work was both published in the Architects' Journal and exhibited at Modern Art Oxford. This interest in technology, structure, art, systems and networks was developed in the context of a deep personal preoccupation with the notion of place and identity; given the homogenisation of western society in the globalised, networked, instant and branded world we now inhabit.
Much of this thinking has manifested itself in Nick's involvement in airport, rail and bridge design projects during his 9 years at Grimshaw Architects' London studio and more recently as Associate Partner and Lead Architect at Weston Williamson + Partners where he leads the WW+P IF_Lab (Innovation & Foresight Laboratory)
Outside practice, Nick is active in teaching design having been a Visiting Teaching Fellow at Bath University from 2011 and running the OxfordDS6 Masters Design Studio at the Oxford School of Architecture since 2014.
Nick has also been invited as a guest critic and lecturer at Schools of Architecture in London, Bath, Oxford, Tokyo, Hong Kong and New York.

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VTech's line up includes digital tables like the Innotab and many more.
By now you've probably heard of the VTech data hack that exposed the personal data and photos of upwards of five million customers and their children.
Consumer security expert Troy Hunt posted a detailed breakdown of the hack on his website. Going through it leaves you a little bit pissed off and how easy it appears to have been for this hacker.
As a documented fan of VTech's young toddler toys, we have not yet branched out into their digital devices but now will likely do so in a more cautions manner.
The hack – conducted November 14 – was not noticed until more than a week later after a Canadian journalist asked VTech about the situation. That journalist was tipped off by the hacker himself.
"An unauthorized party accessed VTech customer data on our Learning Lodge app store customer database," VTech released in a statement.
Learning Lodge is the way customers download content to their VTech devices.
"Our customer database contains general user profile information including name, email address, encrypted password, secret question and answer for password retrieval, IP address, mailing address and download history," the statement continued.
They go on to stress it does not contain any credit card information or personal identification data (ID card numbers, Social Security numbers, etc.).
While that is somewhat a breath of fresh air, what isn't so comforting is that they were unaware this had even happened until someone specifically asked them about it.
Hacker himself tipped off the journalist. Claiming to only expose the company's security shortcomings, not to actually utilize the data.
This clip from CBS This Morning explains the scenario quite well.
In an age when everything is going digital, we are freely turning over more and more data to companies who traditionally are not prepared or equipped to handle such information.
VTech saw an opportunity to create new and more highly engaged devices that allows parents to offer educational options to their children's screen use. That alone is not bad. In fact – as shown by the breach – millions of parents believe VTech is offering beneficial products.
Yet, as the company offers more technical options, forcing us to turn over our information (and our children's) there is an expectation they are also going above and beyond to protect it.
Our toddler is on the cusp of starting to use these types of products. As our world becomes increasingly digital, these types of problems will only continue. As parents, it is our job to hold these companies accountable to acceptable standards for holding the data that comprises of most of our family.
I hope VTech will make things right and will increase their security for the future. I hope this is a wake up call for their business and what their customer expects from them. I hope this is a wake up call for us as parents to understand that we are the gatekeepers for our kids. It's harder to do every day but something we simply have to do.
Will you still purchase from VTech? How do you try to keep you families data safe?


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package com.reyansh.audio.audioplayer.free.Dialogs;

import android.app.AlertDialog;
import android.app.Dialog;
import android.os.Bundle;
import android.support.annotation.NonNull;
import android.support.v4.app.DialogFragment;
import android.widget.Toast;

import com.reyansh.audio.audioplayer.free.Common;
import com.reyansh.audio.audioplayer.free.Database.DataBaseHelper;
import com.reyansh.audio.audioplayer.free.R;

/**
 * Created by REYANSH on 7/5/2017.
 */

public class ClearRecentTracks extends DialogFragment {

    private Common mApp;

    @NonNull
    @Override
    public Dialog onCreateDialog(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
        AlertDialog.Builder builder = new AlertDialog.Builder(getActivity());
        mApp = (Common) getActivity().getApplicationContext();
        builder.setTitle(R.string.clear_recently_played);
        builder.setMessage(R.string.clear_recently_played_long);
        builder.setNegativeButton(R.string.cancel, (dialog, which) -> dialog.dismiss());
        builder.setPositiveButton(R.string.ok, (dialog, which) -> {
            mApp.getDBAccessHelper().getWritableDatabase().delete(DataBaseHelper.RECENTLY_PLAYED_TABLE, null, null);
            Toast.makeText(getActivity(), R.string.recently_played_cleared, Toast.LENGTH_SHORT).show();
            dialog.dismiss();
        });
        return builder.create();
    }
}

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Yalonda Terry holds her four-month-old son, Sawyer, at the Children's Hospital of New Orleans. Doctors did not offer the family much hope, but God answered their prayers with multiple miracles that continue to mark Sawyer's ongoing improvement. Submitted photo
Baby Sawyer: A true miracle in the making
By Will Hall, Message Executive Editor
NEW ORLEANS, La. (LBM)—Sawyer was an answer to prayer for his parents Yalonda and Louis Terry. He was the brother they had hoped for their then 18-month-old son Callan and 11-year-old sister Kacie. Her nephew Daniel (11) also lives with them.
But on August 18 tragedy struck the Terry home when Yalonda discovered four-month-old Sawyer was not breathing.
"I did CPR for 11 minutes before the ambulance arrived," she told the Baptist Message. "I knew it was bad at that moment, because they did not even try it [CPR] in my house, but instead picked him up and ran straight to the ambulance."
Sawyer was rushed to Byrd Regional Hospital in Leesville and shortly after he was ventilated they flew him and Yalonda to Rapides Women and Children's Hospital in Alexandria.
"I was in the waiting room for six hours," Yalonda recalled. "I received some updates and at times reports about him seizing. By that night they said they had him stabilized."
For days it seemed all the news was bad news, and Yalonda finally put down her foot to tell the medical staff not to discuss anything negative in front of Sawyer, insisting they talk positively when around him or not at all.
She said the most dramatic turnaround in outlook was made by Sawyer's doctor.
"We did not see eye-to-eye in the beginning, but God put her there for a reason," Yalonda shared. "She saved my baby, and I couldn't be more grateful for her."
But the medical team in Rapides recommended Sawyer be transferred to another hospital for more specialized treatment.
A hospital in Texas was offered as a transfer option. But after the medical team there reviewed Sawyer's records they told Yalonda that he was "brain dead" and that they were uncomfortable with taking him unless she was willing to accept that prognosis.
"I didn't want to send my son to a hospital full of negative people," she exclaimed. So she prevailed upon Sawyer's doctor to help her get him admitted to Children's Hospital of New Orleans, which was more positive about Sawyer's condition she was assured.
Meanwhile, several miracles took place.
Sawyer began breathing over the ventilator, indicating, essentially, he might be able to breathe on his own.
His daddy, Louis, arrived from Africa where he works on an offshore oil platform, and when he spoke Sawyer opened his eyes for the first time since the emergency at home.
Sawyer also started to raise his arms, reaching up for his daddy.
And he began to blink.
Louis Terry gives his four-month-old son a kiss in the Children's Hospital of New Orleans. The family has witnessed God perform miracle after miracle following an accident on August 18. Submitted photo
"They told me he would never wake up," Yalonda emphasized.
But after arriving in New Orleans, the news did not get better.
An MRI was performed and it showed his brain was dissolving, she was told.
"There were multiple spots all over," indicating brain matter was missing, she said. "I was told it would not regenerate. It would not heal. They said he had no cortex function, just brain stem function."
His eye and hand movements were attributed to "spinal reflex," she recalled.
"They gave me two options: Send him home on hospice care and give him morphine to keep him comfortable," she said, which meant he would eventually choke to death on the saliva they said he could not clear from his airway.
"The second option was to insert a trach [tracheotomy tube] and move to a special facility in New Orleans or Baton Rouge," which meant she would be unable to take care of her other three children, she explained.
"I cried. I prayed. I discussed it with Louis," she said.
Then she offered the doctor a "Daniel" kind of compromise.
"I asked him to meet me in the middle," Yalonda said, sharing how she proposed to take small steps and test them to see what to do next.
So, she had them check to see if Sawyer could breathe for himself.
Prior to pulling the ventilator tube, the technician set the machine to "auto" and for 48 hours it did not kick on.
An oxygen tube replaced it, but that was removed in less than a day.
Moreover, during all this "test and see" approach the staff discovered Sawyer could clear his airway.
"His secretions are still thick," she shared. But now he only needs a feeding tube for assistance.
However, he is scheduled for surgery to move the tube from his nose to his side so he can begin therapy that will teach him to bottle feed.
Importantly, his improvements have allowed him to go home.
"I was told he would never walk, talk, function," she recalled. "'This is it,' they said."
"He is now making noises and the speech therapist says it is a sign he is trying to talk, to cry," she said, smiling. "God is good. He stayed with me. I prayed every day and He worked on him.
Yalonda and Louis have been Christians for two years and are members of the First Baptist Church in Anacoco.
Although young in her faith, she offered sage advice for parents who might face tragic medical circumstances with a child: "Pray."
"You cannot read a textbook and figure out the next step," she said. "It's God's plan you need to know, no one else's.
"God gives you a person for a reason," she continued. "It's my job to fight for Sawyer when they tell me, 'There's no hope.' If you don't fight for the one you love, the one who is depending on you, then nobody will.
"God has done miracles with Sawyer," she added, "and I believe He still will."
Friends of the Terry Family have opened a fundraising page to help pay off some of the debt incurred from Sawyer's hospitalization. Anyone wishing to donate should visit https://www.gofundme.com/f/baby-sawyer-accident/.


THE TEBO GROUP of Company's safety program defines the method employed by management to share and to assign responsibility for accident prevention and to ensure performance under that responsibility.
A safety program is not something that is imposed on company organizations. Safety MUST be built into every process and be an integral part of company operations.
The prevention of accidents and injuries is basically achieved through control of the working environment and control of people's actions. Only management can implement such control.
The following statements affirm our commitment to maintaining a continuous program of accident prevention activities with the ultimate objective of eliminating all accidents. People entering the employ of the company have the right to expect that they will be provided with a proper place in which to do their job so that they can devote their energies to their work without fear of possible harm to life and health.
Only under such circumstances can the relationship between employer and employee by mutually profitable and harmonious. It is our desire to provide a safe work place, safe equipment, proper materials, and to establish and insist upon safe methods and practices at all times.
It is a basic responsibility of all supervisors to make the safety part of their daily concern. This responsibility must be accepted by everyone who has a part in the affairs of the operation, no matter in what capacity they may function.
Management considers no phase of operation or administration as being of greater importance than accident prevention. It is the policy of the company, therefore, to provide and maintain safe and healthful working conditions, and to follow work practices that will safeguard all employees and result in safe working conditions and efficient operation.
Accident prevention and efficiency go hand-in-hand. All levels of management have a primary responsibility of the safety and well being of all employees. This responsibility can be met only by working continuously to promote safe work practices among all employees and to maintain property and equipment in safe operating condition.
The supervisor is the key man in the safety program because he is in constant contact with employees. No superintendent or foreman may ever be relieved of any part of his responsibility for safety. Safety is an operating function and cannot be transferred to a staff organization.


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export BASEDIR=.
export CLASSPATH=$BASEDIR/dist/woc.jar:$BASEDIR/lib/antlr-3.4-complete.jar:$BASEDIR/lib/jgrapht-0.8.3/jgrapht-jdk1.6.jar
export INPUTFILE=$BASEDIR/examples/network/test/instance-1-3-3-100-a-mixed.lp

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We all know that culture has been growing darker in our state and nation--taking the time to vote is one easy way to help turn the lights back on! All it takes is filling out a ballot.
God has instituted government as an authority over us on this earth, and we are also called to be a light in the darkness. Why not take the time to vote for godly statesmen and stateswomen who will uphold godly values in their public service?
Speaking of godly statesmen, it is our pleasure to endorse Dan Severson for Minnesota Secretary of State!
Please take some time to learn about Dan Severson below and on Minnesota Family Institute's nonpartisan Voter's Guide--and remember to vote for Dan on Tuesday, November 4th!
To see where Dan Severson stands on important issues like Life, Marriage, Taxes, Education and more, check out Minnesota Family Institute's nonpartisan Voter's Guide.
Minnesota Family Institute's Voter's Guide is a 501(c)(3) nonpartisan guide that can legally be distributed as a resource to your members THIS SUNDAY! Please print and share! Together, the Body of Christ can turn the lights back on in Minnesota...one vote at a time.
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Published on October 31, 2014 by Autumn Leva.


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Dancing With The Stars Derek Hough was a guest on Jimmy Kimmel Live last night!! Jimmy teased him on Dancing With The Stars. Derek also talked the Wonderful World Of Disney 60th Anniversary Special coming up this Sunday night on ABC. Check it out below. To see some pre-show coverage and screenshots of Derek at the show, see Pure Derek Hough. Thanks to @IdolXfactor1 for recording.
Saving the best for last, below is Donald & Peta, Mark & Katherine, and William and Cheryl on Good Morning America today after catching a red eye to New York City last night. GMA asks them some great questions, Len has a special message for Donald and it's well deserved, William's little boy shows some love (a total awwww moment), and the couples dance too….
After the show last night, Bruno was a guest on Jimmy Kimmel LIVE. He enters the studio in a tank top with Dracula teeth as the "real him". 😯 He takes a bite out of Jimmy and Pee Wee Herman. Bruno explains what Halloween is like in Italy. Jimmy also asks Bruno on Dancing With The Stars and the tension last week. Bruno explains how intense the competition is at this stage and how hard it is to see people go. He appreciates everyone's efforts, but, they also should know that it's only right for the best dancers to make it when they sign up. More below, but, Bruno goofs around more than anything wanting to play Dracula. Ok, so….
And so we say Good-Bye to Mark and Kristin on Dancing With The Stars. Below they make the press rounds on On The Red Carpet, Jimmy Kimmel LIVE, and Good Morning America. They are disappointed and shocked. Mark even looks angry in some shots. He thinks Kristin was underscored by the judges this week which I disagree with. She's lucky to have received 8's in my opinion.
Adding: You can see their Good Morning America >>>HERE. Mark is clearly upset with the judges "low balling".
Not sure on this Dancing With The Stars new cast possibilty and it's probably unlikely, but, Mike Tyson was Jimmy Kimmel's guest Thursday night. In Thursday's segment with Mike, Jimmy questions Mike about the possibility of him dancing on the show since he's currently starring in the Argentina's "Dancing With The Stars". Tyson replies, "They [the US version] don't pay as much as Argentina" which makes me wonder if he hasn't been asked and given an offer by the American version. What's more, Mike's wife wants him to do the show. Mike and Jimmy talk about Dancing With The Stars at the end of the first video and at the beginning of the second video.
Speaking of another athelete dancing on the show and after Hines Ward winning the Mirror Ball this Season, as well as other atheletes in the past, do you think atheletes have an unfair advantage over the rest of the contestants in the competition and should execs think of not including them in the future so others have a chance to win? I ran onto this article at Popwatch that examines the question.
With Pittsburgh Steelers wide receiver Hines Ward bringing home the glittery disco ball last night, it's easy to wonder if the reality show's athlete stars have an advantage on the show. After all, they do have a major foot up, thanks to years of vigorous physical training, which sometimes includes dance. (I'm fairly certain all pro football players are sanctioned by the NFL to know and perform the Super Bowl Shuffle on command.) And as as most late night talk show hosts have been quick to point out, Kirstie Alley wasn't nearly as athletic as her DWTS counterpart Ward, so did she even have a fighting chance to take the whole thing? Did Hines, like Shawn Johnson and Emmitt Smith before him, come in with physical capabilities the other contestants simply couldn't compete with? Or was he, like them, just a better dancer?
So, what do you think? Do you like the idea of Mike Tyson (another boxer) doing the show?
Also, do you think the show shouldn't cast any more atheletes since they have unfair advantage?
One more question, if you'd like to see more atheletes on the show, who would you like to see dance?
In my opinion, I don't care if the atheletes have an advantage or not. Yes, Kirstie might have won this season if Hines wouldn't have danced. Even still, I've loved the atheletes on the show with my favorite being Evan Lysecek. Not sure about Mike Tyson though? He seems a little cocky. I continue to dream on Johnny Weir being cast …as well as Oksana Baiul or Katerina Witt. I'd love to see Chris Evert do the show too (or any tennis star for that matter).
Heidi's Note: So, Nicole's an athlete now?? Give me a break. I also don't count Helio as one either. As for if they have an unfair advantage?? Most everyone cast on the show has some sort of advantage (it's about whose is biggest) and I think this is just another way for those who LOST to whine about losing. If it's not "previous experience" it's "athletes". :::rolls eyes::: EVERY season you can point at at least one person and say "So and so would have won, if not for_____" Winning or losing has to do with a huge number of factors besides that person's past history – Chelsea SHOULD have had the biggest advantages as she was the youngest, and we saw what happened there – beaten by said 60 year old Kirstie. Why? Kirstie had fanbase – a better advantage than Chelsea's age. Hines beat Kirstie because he was an athlete? Doubtful – he could move better than her and his personality was very engaging. Could he move better because he was an athlete? Well, how about the fact that he's half Kirstie's age?? I think this is just another case of sore loser-dom. 🙂 I'm with Vogue – bring 'em on.


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Healthy Consumption Growth Keeps GDP Positive in Fourth Quarter
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The economy grew 0.7 percent in the 4th quarter, bringing its rate for the full year (4th quarter to 4th quarter) to 1.8 percent. That is a substantial slowing from the 2.5 percent rates of the prior two years.
By far the major component boosting growth was consumption, which grew at a 2.2 percent annual rate, driven largely by continued strong growth in durable goods consumption, which grew at a 4.3 percent annual rate. Consumption of services grew at 2.0 percent annual rate and non-durables grew at just a 1.5 percent rate.
Housing was also a big contributor to growth, expanding at an 8.1 percent annual rate and adding 0.27 percentage points to growth. Housing growth has averaged 8.5 percent over the last seven quarters. While this component is likely to continue to grow in 2016, the pace will probably be somewhat slower.
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Investment and trade were both big negatives in the quarter. The trade deficit, measured in constant dollars, increased by $20.4 billion in the quarter, subtracting 0.47 percentage points from growth. The trade deficit is likely to continue to grow in 2016 as the dollar has risen further and we probably have still not felt the full effects of the prior increase.
Spending on equipment and non-residential structures both fell in the quarter, subtracting 0.3 percentage points from growth. Equipment spending has been hard hit both due to the impact of the trade deficit on manufacturing and also due to the collapse of investment in energy related sectors. There has been some overbuilding in office buildings and retail space which could be a drag on non-residential construction in 2016.
Another factor depressing growth in the quarter was the slowing of inventory investment, which subtracted 0.45 percentage points from growth. The growth in final demand in the fourth quarter was 1.2 percent.
The government sector added modestly to growth, with a 2.7 percent increase in federal spending slightly offsetting a 0.6 percent fall in state and local spending. Both figures are slightly anomalous (federal spending is growing more slowly and state and local spending is growing), but the net impact on growth of 0.12 percentage points is roughly what we can expect in future quarters.
Health care spending continues to be very much under control. Spending on health care services, which accounts for the overwhelming majority of total health care spending, rose at a 5.2 percent nominal rate in the fourth quarter. This brings the increase over the last year to 4.8 percent.
Inflation continues to be nowhere in sight. The core PCE grew at just a 1.2 percent annual rate in the quarter, bringing the increase for the year to 1.4 percent, well below the Fed's 2.0 percent target.
Non-farm business value-added grew at just a 0.1 percent annual rate. Given the strong growth in employment over the last three months of 2015, this implies that productivity growth will be negative for the quarter and barely positive for the year as a whole.
One of the striking aspects of the recovery had been the sharp and completely unpredicted collapse of productivity growth. This has been a positive in that employment growth would have been near zero if productivity growth had remained in a range of 1.5–2.0 percent over the last five years. On the other hand, if productivity growth remains stuck at the slow pace of the last five years, it will impose a serious limit on the ability to raise living standards.
A possible explanation is that the weak labor market itself is acting as a drag on productivity as workers are forced to take low-paying, low-productivity jobs. We will only know if this is true if the labor market tightens enough to give workers more bargaining power and the ability to move to higher paying jobs.
The overall picture of the economy going into 2016 is one of weak growth, albeit with little risk of recession. Consumption growth is likely to remain moderate, especially if energy prices stay low. Investment is likely to be a small negative in 2016 as is trade. However, residential construction and government spending will both be modest positives. The biggest risk is that a set of bad events elsewhere in the world could cause the trade deficit to deteriorate further.
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Node.js Server: Binds to both IPv4 and IPv6, HTTPS/SPDY and HTTP, and a few simple redirects. I'm logging to stdout, and using runit to keep it up.
Node.js from Ports: At first I was going to compile Node.js from scratch, but then I noticed that the FreeBSD ports collection provides it, and was pleasantly surprised to see it is well maintained — so I went with using it.
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DHS acting deputy secretary resigns
Source: The Hill
Claire Grady, acting deputy secretary at the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), offered President Trump her resignation Tuesday as the agency finds its upper ranks thinned after a string of departures.
Her exit comes after DHS Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen announced Sunday she was leaving her post. Trump subsequently withdrew his nominee to lead Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and the White House announced that Secret Service Director Randolph "Tex" Alles would be departing the agency.
"For the last two years, Claire has served @DHSgov w excellence and distinction. She has been an invaluable asset to DHS – a steady force and a knowledgeable voice," Nielsen tweeted in announcing Grady's resignation, adding it will be effective Wednesday.
"Her sound leadership and effective oversight have impacted every DHS office and employee and made us stronger as a Department. Clair has had a remarkable career in public service - 28 years at the Departments of Homeland Security & Defense - that is coming to a close. I am thankful for Claire's expertise, dedication & friendship & am filled w gratitude for her exemplary service to DHS & to our country," she continued in a series of tweets.
Read more: https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/438145-dhs-deputy-secretary-resigns-nielsen-says
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Lori Lightfoot wins, becoming Chicago's first African-American female mayor
Source: Chicago Tribune
Lori Lightfoot wins, becoming Chicago's first African-American female mayorAttorney Lori Lightfoot defeated Cook County Board President Toni Preckwinkle in Tuesday's election, making her Chicago's first African-American female mayor, according to unofficial returns.
Chicago Tribune staffContact Reporter
Attorney Lori Lightfoot defeated Cook County Board President Toni Preckwinkle in Tuesday's election, making her Chicago's first African-American female mayor, according to unofficial returns.
Lightfoot jumped out to an early lead over Preckwinkle, a longtime political power broker, and had what appeared to be an insurmountable lead.
Lightfoot, a former federal prosecutor making her first run for elected office, had 74 percent to Preckwinkle's 26 percent, with 1,583 of 2,069 precincts reporting, according to unofficial vote totals.
The two candidates emerged from a record field of 14 candidates in the Feb. 26 first-round election for the chance to become Chicago's 56th mayor.
Lightfoot becomes the third African-American to serve as mayor. Harold Washington was elected in 1983 as the city's first black mayor and won re-election in 1987 before dying in officer later that year. Eugene Sawyer, the city's second black mayor, was appointed to serve out Washington's term until a 1989 special election.
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Most of the time when we roll up with our grip truck and pull out all the stops on a shoot, we'll have way more gear than our clients. That definitely hasn't been the case on our recent shoots with E.R. Snell Construction. We've bounced all around the state of Georgia filming at some huge construction sites to construct their new safety video. While we didn't have the most or the biggest gear there, we did have the right gear to capture all the action- our drone for all the neat aerial shots, a go pro to mount to the end of a 160-foot crane, and our ronin gimbal system to climb all over the sites and get in the action (safely of course, we are shooting for a safety video).
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Home / General / "Keep reading McCulloch till you understand it": Why Wickard Was Obviously Correct
"Keep reading McCulloch till you understand it": Why Wickard Was Obviously Correct
By Scott Lemieux
In comments yesterday, we heard familiar arguments that Wickard v. Filburn was wrongly decided. But it wasn't, and attempting to place restrictions based on the federal commerce power based on the arguments raised in Wickard would be a incoherent fiasco, just like all previous attempts to arbitrarily limit the commerce power were.
The facts of Wickard are straightforward:
The appellee for many years past has owned and operated a small farm in Montgomery County, Ohio, maintaining a herd of dairy cattle, selling milk, raising poultry, and selling poultry and eggs. It has been his practice to raise a small acreage of winter wheat, sown in the Fall and harvested in the following July; to sell a portion of the crop; to feed part to poultry and livestock on the farm, some of which is sold; to use some in making flour for home consumption, and to keep the rest for the following seeding. The intended disposition of the crop here involved has not been expressly stated.
In July of 1940, pursuant to the Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1938, as then amended, there were established for the appellee's 1941 crop a wheat acreage allotment of 11.1 acres and a normal yield of 20.1 bushels of wheat an acre. He was given notice of such allotment in July of 1940, before the Fall planting of his 1941 crop of wheat, and again in July of 1941, before it was harvested. He sowed, however, 23 acres, and harvested from his 11.9 acres of excess acreage 239 bushels, which, under the terms of the Act as amended on May 26, 1941, constituted farm marketing excess, subject to a penalty of 49 cents a bushel, or $117.11 in all. The appellee has not paid the penalty, and he has not postponed or avoided it by storing the excess under regulations of the Secretary of Agriculture, or by delivering it up to the Secretary. The Committee, therefore, refused him a marketing card, which was, under the terms of Regulations promulgated by the Secretary, necessary to protect a buyer from liability to the penalty and upon its protecting lien.
For the reasons I stated yesterday, this is really an easy case. The wheat market created collective action problems in an insterstate commodity market. Article I explicitly empowers Congress to address these problems. Quotas on wheat production are a reasonable means of addressing these problems. The act is therefore constitutional as applied to this case.
Critics of Wickard miss the boat because they come to the case as if it is an individual rights cases rather than a case about the scope of governmental power. (It's not a coincidence that most critics of Wickard tend to oppose federal regulation of the economy; it's also not a coincidence that Filburn also brought a Fifth Amendment claim. Most of these federalism cases are just libertarian economic arguments in thin disguise.) They focus on whether Filburn, when he grew some winter wheat he intended to consume himself (and some of which he sold, free riding on federal regulations he refused to abide by, and some of which he fed to his commercial livestock), was engaged in interstate commerce at this precise moment. But that's not the right question. The right question is whether wheat quotas are a reasonable part of a program to regulate an interstate market. They are, and that ends the case in the government's favor. The federal government has the power to regulate interstate commerce, and it has the powers necessary and proper to regulate interstate commerce. The claim that plenary federal powers to regulate an interstate market cannot be applied to individual cases necessary to make the regulation effective is nonsensical. As Jackson put it, "even if appellee's activity be local, and though it may not be regarded as commerce, it may still, whatever its nature, be reached by Congress if it exerts a substantial economic effect on interstate commerce, and this irrespective of whether such effect is what might at some earlier time have been defined as 'direct' or 'indirect.'"
At this point, opponents of Wickard will turn to the slippery slope: "I can see the day coming when even your home garden is gonna be against the law!" But Wickard does not actually create an absolutely unlimited federal police power; Lopez did not overrule Wickard. Could Congress apply quotas to a small, noncommercial home garden? Maybe — if it could show that such a regulation was reasonably related to a broader regulatory scheme. Wickard doesn't tell us, because the quotas were applied to commercial farms and Filburn was a commercial farmer. There's not really much point in considering whether Congress can apply quotas to small noncommercial home gardens growing legal products, because 1)it's not going to do this, and 2)in any extraordinary hypothetical circumstance where it would do this it's likely that the regulation would be justified by a reasonable relationship to a broader regulation of interstate markets.
The slippery slope most certainly does go the other way, however. If the criticisms of Wickard sounds familiar, it's because they're exactly like the arguments used to assert that the Affordable Care Act was unconstitutional. "People who do not buy health insurance are not, in doing so, engaged in interstate commerce." And it's true! True — and completely irrelevant. The health insurance exchanges are a concededly valid regulation of interstate commerce. Guaranteed issue without a mandate would cause the exchanges to fail. Therefore, the mandate is constitutional even though it does not directly regulate interstate commerce. Article I gives the federal government the powers reasonably thought to be necessary to address problems of interstate commerce. Wickard was correct; the Court's holding on the mandate in Sebelius was wrong.
And the problems (if you're not a libertarian, I mean) with the arguments made by Wickard critics don't end there, and that goes double if you think that it would exceed the commerce power for the federal government to regulate abortion clinics. Having to show that every business was engaged in interstate commerce before occupational health and safety or environmental regulations could be applied would be a disaster. Forcing the federal government to, at a minimum, show that a business was more like Heart of Atlanta and less like McClung before civil rights laws apply would be a disaster. For most Wickard critics, of course, these outcomes would be features, not bugs. But there are a few liberals who would be happy to go down this conservertarian rabbit hole because medical marijuana in California. Thankfully, Stevens et al. were much smarter than that.
I will conclude by turning things over to Akhil Amar:
The most important limit, the one we fought the Revolutionary War for, is that the people doing this to you are the people you elect. That's the main check. The broccoli argument is like something they said when we were debating the income tax: If they can tax me, they can tax me at 100 percent! And yes, they can. But they won't. Because you could vote them out of office. They have the power to do all sorts of ridiculous things that they won't do because you'd vote them out of office. If they can prevent me from growing pot, can they prevent me from buying broccoli? Perhaps, but why would they if they want to be reelected? So if you ask me what the limits are, I'd say read McCulloch vs. Maryland. And reread it. And keep reading it till you understand it. The Constitution is a practical document, it's designed to work. And the powers are designed to be flexible in order to achieve the aims of the document.
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Probably a lot of you know this project by now, but a bunch of Interactive Comms students at the Berghs School of Communication have launched this sweet viral activity focusing on the most followed user on Twitter, Mr Ashton Kutcher.
The idea reminds me of the Million Dollar Webpage. The way it works is very simple, just tweet @donttellashton and your avatar is automatically part of this huge canvas which apparently will be turned into a physical piece by Swedish artist Jon Holm.
This must be one of the best virals ever made.
This is a cool video produced by the guys at Numero 10 – an ad agency based in Bern (Switzerland) – to drive recruitment of few available roles within the business, but mostly to increase awareness around the agency network (I believe).
For the very expensive promotion of the Avatar DVD in Blue Ray, they've decided to create this pretty cool installation at what I think it's The Grove Shopping Mall in Los Angeles. The video itself doesn't show much of the actual technology, but it's very briefly mentioned that 'a face recognition facility allows users to be photographed and being morphed into an Avatar right away'.
This is something I've been proposing to a lot of my retail clients in the past year but never got round to it. I believe this is taking the 'social shopping' experience to a nice new level – I just wish it could be way smoother then coming out of the changing room, sign-in onto Facebook, take a photo, share it on your wall and wait for your friends to get back to you with their opinions – It takes a bit of time doesn't it?
Whether you believe in this or not, Facebook seems to be turning into the 'default online website' for decades to come. The most recent news in the publishing word might not be a total surprise.
Question Time! – Are we taking it too far or is this the best way to provide the audience with the best targeted content from the publishing industry and bring it into their world?
Alec Brownstein is the Man!
Brilliantly done, the campaign is asking women to sign a petition to abolish such new rule. I'm pretty sure they won't have any shortage in signatures after having watched the video. Can I say? Great way to bring women closer to Football !?!


The home-coming of Charles II, May, 1660 by W. Van der Velde (by permission of Messrs Geo. Bell and Sons).
The period after the Restoration of the monarchy under Charles II (1660 onwards) was an important time in the history of yachting. Charles brought back with him experience of the Dutch maritime scene, as well as ships with a variety of rigs. It was about this time that the idea of privately-owned vessels began to take hold. Competition between them then provided the spur to encourage experimentation with hulls and rigs.
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Remove Bonita Tindle from her university campus, for intimidation, racism and bullying.
Lu Hart started this petition to San Francisco State University.
Bonita Tindle physically grabbed, harassed and racially abused a total stranger by the name of Cory Goldstein. Goldstein is a fellow student at San Francisco State University, and was insulted, physically intimated and touched without his consent, by Tindle.
Goldstein had his hair in a particular style: dreadlocks. Dreadlocks are not exclusive to the black community, and as he politely tried to explain this, Tindle's behaviour became increasingly erratic and alarming. She began to PHYSICALLY grab him, insult him and demand a pair of scissors so that she could cut his hair off.
Not only is Bonita a racist, for insisting dreadlocks are "her culture" inaccurately - she is also ignorant to the fact that dreadlocks are part of many cultures, originating in India - this shows that she is not concerned with her culture, she is more interested in being a bully. She is more interested in physically intimidating strangers, for any excuse. She does not care about the facts, she cares about hurting others who are of a different race to her. This is racial bullying.
Imagine, if this was a white man, PHYSICALLY GRABBING a young black girl with dyed blonde hair, threatening to hurt her and cut her hair off, saying that she had no right to have a hairstyle of her choice. Does this young man not deserve the same rights? Should he be allowed to be touched by anyone, WITHOUT HIS CONSENT? She blocked him trying to leave the confrontation peacefully, and tried to PULL HIM DOWN A FLIGHT OF STAIRS. This is assault.
San Francisco State University has a bully on their campus - a racist, physically violent, dangerous bully who should be removed, before she attacks any more innocent students for both their race, and how they look. Please sign and share.
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Q: How to wait for a user event to occur in JavaFX elegantly I am currently writing my own implementation of Tic-Tac-Toe. This is what I am stuck at:
All of my code runs via the
  start(Stage stage)

method. A part of the code in there handles the events if the user clicks in a specific area on the stage. Basically whenever the user clicks a field
That looks like:
   scene.setOnMouseClicked(new EventHandler<MouseEvent>(){

      if(blabla){ // if field is empty
        doBla(); // put X into it
        //...
        }
   }

My game loop is as simple as:
   while(gameIsFinished == false){

    //Player 1's turn

    /*Wait until if-statement in the snippet above is executed*/

   //Computer's turn

     }

I could implement a button that the user has to press after completing his turn.
I am searching for a more elegant solution though; one that makes the games faster.
How could I go about this?

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The Devotional Art of Sassoferrato
Aug 21, 2018 | Rau Staff
Madonna in Ecstasy by Sassoferrato
Giovanni Battista Salvi was an Italian Baroque painter who is celebrated and held in high regard for his Catholic devotional images, particularly of the Madonna. Across his oeuvre, the artist uniquely captures a sense of all-consuming spiritual bliss that is prevalent amongst the most devout of believers.
Salvi was born in 1609 in the small Italian town of Sassoferrato, conveniently located between the artistic hubs of Rome and Florence. In his early years, the young artist trained as an apprentice under his father, painter Tarquinio Salvi. His father's work is poorly documented, but fragments can be viewed in the Catholic church of St. Francis in their hometown. As was common with Italian Baroque artists at this time, Giovanni Battista Salvi adopted the name of his hometown upon relocation.
Madonna by Sassoferrato
Sassoferrato later moved to Rome, where he likely trained under Domenichino, a prominent member of the Caracci school. Sassoferrato also likely worked alongside and was influenced by Baroque painter Guido Reni. While the guidance of his peers and tutors impacted the trajectory of his career, it was the work of High Renaissance master Raphael that most influenced the work of Salvi. From the bright, elegantly colored robes of his subjects to his use of triangular compositions to the sculpturing rendering of facial features, Sassoferrato's admiration for and alignment with Raphael is striking.
Praying Madonna by Sassoferrato
Unlike his Renaissance predecessors, Sassoferrato primarily produced smaller devotional paintings for the collections of private patrons. This was a common practice in the years of the Counter Reformation. Nonetheless, the artist did have the privilege of executing a handful of public commissions, including the altarpiece for Santa Sabina church in Rome, and additional paintings for the convent of San Pietro in Perugia, Umbria. Small devotional art of Sassoferrato occasionally remain in the collections of important churches, perhaps most notably on the altar of the Basilica of San Clemente al Laterano in Rome. It is believed that the artist's self-portrait was gifted to Cosimo III de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany.
Santa Barbara by Sassoferrato, Convent of San Pietro, Perugia
Sassoferrato died in 1685, though his legacy lives on thanks to the prevalence of his work in major museums. Paintings by the artist can be found in the public collections of the National Gallery in London, the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam, the Louvre in Paris, The Prado in Madrid, and elsewhere. Paintings by the artist have been reproduced as postage stamps in Italy and the United States in various instances during the late 20th century.
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namespace app\modules\administrator\models;

use Yii;
use yii\base\Model;
use yii\data\ActiveDataProvider;
use app\modules\administrator\models\Menuadmin;

class MenuadminSearch extends Menuadmin
{
    /**
     * @inheritdoc
     */
    public function rules()
    {
        return [
            [['id', 'visible', 'parent_id'], 'integer'],
            [['name', 'label', 'icon', 'url', 'options'], 'safe'],
        ];
    }

    /**
     * @inheritdoc
     */
    public function scenarios()
    {
        // bypass scenarios() implementation in the parent class
        return Model::scenarios();
    }

    /**
     * Creates data provider instance with search query applied
     *
     * @param array $params
     *
     * @return ActiveDataProvider
     */
    public function search($params)
    {
        $query = Menuadmin::find();

        // add conditions that should always apply here

        $dataProvider = new ActiveDataProvider([
            'query' => $query,
        ]);

        $this->load($params);

        if (!$this->validate()) {
            // uncomment the following line if you do not want to return any records when validation fails
            // $query->where('0=1');
            return $dataProvider;
        }

        // grid filtering conditions
        $query->andFilterWhere([
            'id' => $this->id,
            'visible' => $this->visible,
            'parent_id' => $this->parent_id,
        ]);

        $query->andFilterWhere(['like', 'name', $this->name])
            ->andFilterWhere(['like', 'label', $this->label])
            ->andFilterWhere(['like', 'icon', $this->icon])
            ->andFilterWhere(['like', 'url', $this->url])
            ->andFilterWhere(['like', 'options', $this->options]);

        return $dataProvider;
    }
}


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% FUNDMATRIX - computes fundamental matrix from 8 or more points
%
% Function computes the fundamental matrix from 8 or more matching points in
% a stereo pair of images.  The normalised 8 point algorithm given by
% Hartley and Zisserman p265 is used.  To achieve accurate results it is
% recommended that 12 or more points are used
%
% Usage:   [F, e1, e2] = fundmatrix(x1, x2)
%          [F, e1, e2] = fundmatrix(x)
%
% Arguments:
%          x1, x2 - Two sets of corresponding 3xN set of homogeneous
%          points.
%
%          x      - If a single argument is supplied it is assumed that it
%                   is in the form x = [x1; x2]
% Returns:
%          F      - The 3x3 fundamental matrix such that x2'*F*x1 = 0.
%          e1     - The epipole in image 1 such that F*e1 = 0
%          e2     - The epipole in image 2 such that F'*e2 = 0
%

% Copyright (c) 2002-2005 Peter Kovesi
% School of Computer Science & Software Engineering
% The University of Western Australia
% http://www.csse.uwa.edu.au/
%
% Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy
% of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal
% in the Software without restriction, subject to the following conditions:
%
% The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in
% all copies or substantial portions of the Software.
%
% The Software is provided "as is", without warranty of any kind.

% Feb 2002  - Original version.
% May 2003  - Tidied up and numerically improved.
% Feb 2004  - Single argument allowed to enable use with RANSAC.
% Mar 2005  - Epipole calculation added, 'economy' SVD used.
% Aug 2005  - Octave compatibility

function [F,e1,e2] = fundmatrix(varargin)

    [x1, x2, npts] = checkargs(varargin(:));
    Octave = exist('OCTAVE_VERSION', 'builtin') == 5; % Are we running under Octave

    % Normalise each set of points so that the origin
    % is at centroid and mean distance from origin is sqrt(2).
    % normalise2dpts also ensures the scale parameter is 1.
    [x1, T1] = normalise2dpts(x1);
    [x2, T2] = normalise2dpts(x2);

    % Build the constraint matrix
    A = [x2(1,:)'.*x1(1,:)'   x2(1,:)'.*x1(2,:)'  x2(1,:)' ...
         x2(2,:)'.*x1(1,:)'   x2(2,:)'.*x1(2,:)'  x2(2,:)' ...
         x1(1,:)'             x1(2,:)'            ones(npts,1) ];

    if Octave
	[U,D,V] = svd(A);   % Don't seem to be able to use the economy
                            % decomposition under Octave here
    else
	[U,D,V] = svd(A,0); % Under MATLAB use the economy decomposition
    end

    % Extract fundamental matrix from the column of V corresponding to
    % smallest singular value.
    F = reshape(V(:,9),3,3)';

    % Enforce constraint that fundamental matrix has rank 2 by performing
    % a svd and then reconstructing with the two largest singular values.
    [U,D,V] = svd(F,0);
    F = U*diag([D(1,1) D(2,2) 0])*V';

    % Denormalise
    F = T2'*F*T1;

    if nargout == 3  	% Solve for epipoles
	[U,D,V] = svd(F,0);
	e1 = hnormalise(V(:,3));
	e2 = hnormalise(U(:,3));
    end

%--------------------------------------------------------------------------
% Function to check argument values and set defaults

function [x1, x2, npts] = checkargs(arg);

    if length(arg) == 2
        x1 = arg{1};
        x2 = arg{2};
        if ~all(size(x1)==size(x2))
            error('x1 and x2 must have the same size');
        elseif size(x1,1) ~= 3
            error('x1 and x2 must be 3xN');
        end

    elseif length(arg) == 1
        if size(arg{1},1) ~= 6
            error('Single argument x must be 6xN');
        else
            x1 = arg{1}(1:3,:);
            x2 = arg{1}(4:6,:);
        end
    else
        error('Wrong number of arguments supplied');
    end

    npts = size(x1,2);
    if npts < 8
        error('At least 8 points are needed to compute the fundamental matrix');
    end


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Does fiction have the power to transform readers? Yes, it does, says Keith Oatley in Why Fiction is Good for You in the July/August 2011 issue of the Literary Review of Canada. The latest issue also brings us reviews of Andy Lamey's Frontier Justice: The Global Refugee Crisis and What to Do About It and Ruben Zaiotti's Cultures of Border Control: Schengen and the Evolution of European Frontiers.
Also included in the issue are reviews of Philip Slayton's Mighty Judgment: How the Supreme Court of Canada Runs Your Life, Norman Ravvin's The Joyful Child, Wayne Lewchuk, Marlea Clarke and Alice de Wolff's Working Without Commitments: The Health Effects of Precarious Employment and Walter S. DeKeseredy's Violence Against Women: Myths, Facts, Controversies, among other works by more Canadian authors. The issue also features poetry by Torontonian Gillian Harding-Russell, Toronto-based Victoria Mohr-Blakeney and Moez Surani and Ottawa-born Tim Mook Sang.
In addition this month, Shawn Syms looks at the transformation of Canadian gay fiction in Modern Love, available exclusively online.
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So who was Bertram Brooker?
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I keep calling him Canada's first avant-gardist, but what does that mean? In a series of sketches, I'd like to offer an introduction to Brooker and his revolutionary writing. He was Canada's first Futurist, flirted with Vorticism, dabbled in Cubism, and fashioned his own breed of Ultimatism. He did all of that before the First World War -- in Neepawa, Manitoba.
The sketches will be organized by vocation, starting with journalism.