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Cook County Board proceedings and the end of civilization
The research I'm doing for my dissertation requires me to read the proceedings of the Cook County Board from around the mid 1880s through 1940. (Actually, I look through the indexes for subjects that I'm interested in....I don't read the proceedings page by page.) One thing I've noticed is unsurprising is that, as the years go on, the volumes get bigger and bigger so that, by the 1920s, they're about twice the size for the same time span (one year).
A lot of obvious things explain this increase in length, which I take to be rough proxy for an increase in the number of things the Cook County government did (as for the types of things, they were: managing the county court system, managing the county public service institutions, like the county hospital, its "psychopathic ward," etc., and providing for poor relief: all these duties required advertising for innumerable (well, I guess they're numerable, but I'm not going to count them) bids, issuing loads and loads of check letters, and receiving all sorts of "communications" from people in the county). One explanation is that the county population had increased at least twofold and probably threefold, so the board had to oversee more and more people. The demands of World War I required, or at least effected, a significant mobilization of the county's services, and the relief demands of the Great Depression required a significant expansion of the county's poor relief.
But I suspect at least some of the growth of the proceedings' content has to do with something inherent in government, that is, the tendency for most institutions to take on more and more duties and concern themselves with more and more things so that they expand, almost inexorably. One (for example, me) gets the impression that these volumes will just succumb under their own weight some day and implode.
I guess I've been working on my dissertation too long.
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The myth of the immortal twenty-something
There is much to be said for the claim that younger people tend to think themselves immortal, but the point ought not be pushed too far. Even though I once was a teenager and a twenty-something (I am now 37), I can't speak with much authority about what other teenagers and twenty-somethnigs think and any recounting of what I used to feel or believe or think when I was younger is inevitably bound with and obfuscated by my current biases.
I remember a philosophy of science class I took as a freshman in college. The professor asserted confidently that we--almost all of us were traditional aged college students--did not really understand our immortality the way he--a forty-somethingish (I guess) professor--did and, by implication, that we did not have as close of an understanding of death as he did. I remember resenting that claim, not because I thought it factually incorrect (even at the punkish and arrogant age of 18 or 19, I realized that an older person might actually know more than I), but because this professor simply assumed that his claim was true. It was true of me, but he had no way of knowing which students in that class, if any, had had parents or close friends died, or who had witnessed one violent or near fatal episode, or who had undergone their own life-threatening situations.
I at 37 have known at least one person much younger than me who had faced the prospect of an early death through childhood cancer, and I suspect (because I've never really talked to him about it) that he had and has a much more acute sense of mortality than I did at his age or than I do now.
I'm reminded of the poem by Billy Collins "On Turning Ten," which ends like this:
It seems only yesterday I used to believe
there was nothing under my skin but light.
If you cut me I could shine.
But now when I fall upon the sidewalks of life,
I skin my knees. I bleed.
There is much we don't know about the consciousness of others, and there is even less that we have the right to assert.
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How did Robo-Signing happen?
When I worked as a loan processor for a local bank about couple years ago, there were two kinds of shortcuts I at least once took or played a part in when processing the paper work.
The first had to do notarized documents. Certain documents had to be signed by one, sometimes more than one, bank officer. I would take the documents to the eligible officer(s), have them signed, and then drop them off at the desk of a fellow employee who had the misfortune of being both nice and a notary. (Some of the nice people were not notaries, and some of the notaries were true grouches, so the nice people probably got more than their fair share of documents to notarize.) The notaries would look at the signatures because they recognized the signatures and notarized them, attesting to the fact that they had seen the officer sign the document, even though they really hadn't. I picked up the documents and continued to process them.
The second shortcut I did only once. I was processing a refinance loan for a person who was self-employed. Part of the refinancing process involves calling the applicant's employer. I either didn't know or was willfully ignorant that the "employer" I called was actually the loan applicant. And so I credulously wrote down his assessment of his own income, which is a big no no. The loan officer in charge of reviewing the loan application caught what I had done, and informed me of my mistake (I had only been on the job a few weeks and had no prior experience, so I wasn't punished). He simply told me that in cases where someone was self-employed, we had to use a different process (in this case, call his accountant to verify income) and made me correct my error.
These two types of shortcuts were different. The first was not technically the right thing to do, but was so close to technically the right thing to do that the officers of that bank and the notary(ies) would not face much if any trouble if a regulator had called them on it. Of course, if I, as a loan processor, had forged a bank officer's name on one of the loan documents (because, say, I was in a hurry to go home and couldn't find a qualifying officer), that would have been quite a different story, and by doing so I could have, would have, should have been fired. (This first type of shortcut reminds me of another shortcut taken when I was a bank teller. The tellers were divided into two groups of people, and the members of each group each had a set of keys to the vault unique to that group, so that, if someone wanted to open the vault or one of the protected lockboxes--such as the box that held blank traveler's checks--theoretically two people were needed. This was the concept of "dual control," premised in part on the notion that it's harder for two people to conspire to rob the bank than it is for one person. In practice, however, if a teller from one group needed to access the traveler's checks box, he/she would simply ask a teller from the other group for their keys.)
The second type of shortcut was simply wrong. I don't know precisely if it was a federal regulation, a state regulation, or an internal regulation (probably a combination of all three) that required us to verify income in certain prescribed manners. But simply taking the type of shortcut I had taken was wrong, and I should have known it.
I suspect that certain banks' alleged practice of "robo-signing" may have originated as a shortcut of the first category. "Robo-signing" was the practice of some large banks to process their mortgage and foreclosure paperwork without doing the appropriate verifications of income, etc. And the discovery/disclosure of this practice have prompted calls for moratoria, some voluntary others mandated, on foreclosures in some states. So many documents were being processed (probably) and certain things that had to be signed and verified took on a certain pro forma quality so that these large companies fell into the practice of simply signing off on things that had to be verified. The rules, technically construed, did not allow for this, but I suspect that the companies that engaged in this practice thought either that it was standard industry practice or that it was worth a risk: the increased "efficiency" from robo-signing was worth the risk that a foreclosed person's attorney would not find the error (and, more perniciously but probably never explicitly stated in order to claim plausible deniability, that people facing foreclosure were unlikely to afford the legal representation of their interests that would root out technical violations). The lapse into "robo-signing" was also, I suspect, made easier by the practice of bundling mortgages and selling them to different banks (a process I only dimly understand).
Although I suspect that "robo-signing" began as a shortcut of the first type, it obviously (to me) came to function as a shortcut of the second type, especially as the practice of foreclosures, at least by the banks implicated, is being called into question. (I have heard that a reader must beware when a writer uses the word "obvious" or "obviously," because such usage often signals that the point is not obvious at all. Still, this is my blog, and I'm making the claim.)
For what it's worth, I don't really have a problem with the fact that people facing foreclosure are challenging these allegedly robo-signed mortgages. These people would be on the hook for technically violating their mortgage agreement, and while banks often would prefer to continue accepting mortgage payments rather than resorting to foreclosure (banks probably don't make as much money on foreclosures as they lose by engaging in the process), banks would not hesitate to cite technical violations when resorting to foreclosures is convenient for them. Banks, after all, have lawyers on retainer, and the larger banks have legal divisions that advise them on this stuff, something actual homeowners usually don't have. I also think the "moral hazard" of a moratorium on such mortgages is almost nil: I can't imagine someone irresponsibly taking a mortgage in the future on the off chance that his or her bank will engage in improvident processing and that any subsequent foreclosure proceeding against them would be delayed for about three or six months.
Get out the vote: the shaming strategy
I reject the popular notion that "if you don't vote, you don't have the right to complain."
For starters, I assume that people who make this statement exempt certain people, to wit:
Children who are not old enough to vote.
Someone who gets in some sort of accident on the way to the polls.
Military commanders who, as a matter of conscience and to remain "apolitical" choose not to vote.
For continuers, I assume that people who make this statement don't mean the following by "complain":
Any complaint that has nothing to do with government.
One radio talk show host I listened to on election day piously clarified to his audience why he believed that people who don't vote have abrogated the "right to complain": if someone complains and didn't do the bare minimum of voting, then he will discount that person's complaint. This talk show host then offered a hypothetical to a caller who said she wouldn't vote this time around: say Pat Quinn be elected governor and he run this state (Illinois) into the ground, and say that this caller complain: he would discount her complaint automatically because she didn't vote.
He needn't have been so hypothetical. As most people who follow politics know, the Illinois governor (re)elected in 2006 disgraced his office by, apparently and among other things, trying to sell Barack Obama's senate seat to the highest bidder. I suppose if someone who had not voted in 2006 made the complaint, this talk show host would have discounted that complaint. So far, so good. But the fact that the one who made the complaint hadn't voted in 2006 has nothing to do with whether Blagojevich tried to sell the senate seat and says nothing about whether his attempt to do so was a bad or illegal thing. The truth or falsity of the governor's actions, and the goodness/badness or legality/illegality of those actions, has nothing to do with whether the one making the complaint voted.
I think the talk show host would probably respond that, well, yes, he would exempt people who are blowing whistles or making fact-based claims, but wouldn't abide complaints about "politicians these days" from people who don't vote. In my observation, however, most of the time that people complain about "politicians these days," with election seasons excepted, they are doing so in the context of a certain policy debate, such as (choose your poison) the Iraq war, Cap and Trade, Health Insurance Reform. And the complaints here are not the general "politicians these days don't care about people like me"; they are "politicians favor and are enacting policy x but they neglect the very legitimate concerns of people like me."
The most charitable construction to put on the "if you don't vote, don't complain" aphorism is that the act of voting is the most minimal forms of political participation and puts the voter among the community of people who are making the basic decisions in a democratic republic such as we live in. It is, in that respect, the "least we can do" is participate in the electoral process and be part of the civil society that puts a check on governmental power and expresses the voices and concerns of "the people."
Fair enough, and this construction has a certain appeal. And that is probably one reason why I usually chose to vote in city and national elections, although I usually do not vote in the primaries. (In Colorado, at least when I lived there, one had to be registered with a party to vote in its primary, I was not. Now in Illinois, one needn't register to vote in the primary, so I have less of an excuse.)
But not voting does not preclude participating in other ways. And the complainer, by complaining, is participating, and usually more vocally, than if all he or she did vote. If one writes a letter to one's congressperson, that is a more direct form of participation (although I suspect a letter from someone who the record shows has voted might carry more weight.....who knows? I don't.)
I'm not saying, as I used to say by implication (click here and here and here for examples), that voting is an entirely worthless exercise. And I think one should vote in the same way that one should [insert logically appropriate, but preferably also witty and folksy, analogy here]. But voting is not the summum bonum of all things good in a person qua member of civil/civic society.
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The five more minutes syndrome
When I was a freshman in college, I took a "world history" class (actually, it was a history of the "20th century world"), and when the professor talked about Winston Churchill's disastrous Gallipoli Campaign--in which the British army, during WWI, tried to take control of the Dardenelles from the Ottoman Empire--I chimed in that I had read something, somewhere, to the effect that later evidence showed that if Churchill had held out for a few more days, the Turks would've surrendered. That professor chided me for what he called the "five more minutes syndrome," the notion that a failed policy will work if only it's given more time.
Well, I don't know if it's a failed project, but I just finished the rough draft of a chapter for my dissertation (it's rough indeed: it has no conclusion and is still 95 pages), and it took at least two weeks longer than I had anticipated. One reason was that I stumbled upon an interesting tidbit in the local papers that cover one of my case studies, and I took a 1 to 2 weed digression in researching the item. It was a true case of serendipity, and actually helped make whatever point it is I'm trying to make in my chapter (I'm not sure what that is.....when it comes to this project, I'm working rather inductively and am trying to draw conclusions as I go). Anyway, I might have spent even more time researching this tangent that turned out not to be a tangent but integral to what I wanted to do.
In my case, the "five more minutes" plea played out.
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National Media Museum sees 11% rise in visitors
SMG says museum's new focus on Stem is driving success
The National Media Museum (NMM) saw its visitor numbers rise 11% in 2015-16, according to the latest figures from the Science Museum Group (SMG).
The Bradford museum welcomed 460,000 visitors last year, a figure the SMG said was driven by the museum's "new focus on the science of image and sound", which ties in with the government's agenda to promote science, technology, engineering and maths (Stem) subjects.
Recent temporary exhibitions created under this agenda include a partnership with Horrible Science and last summer's Light Fantastic exhibition on physics.
The SMG's director Ian Blatchford said he was thrilled by the increase, which he said had been triggered by the sharpened focus on Stem.
The rise is a change in fortune for the NMM since it was threatened with closure three years ago. However, the museum's more streamlined remit has been controversial, with protests over its proposals to transfer its 400,000-strong Royal Photographic Society (RPS) archive to London and cease its involvement in Bradford International Film Festival.
The MP for South Bradford, Judith Cummins, welcomed the rise in visitor numbers but said the loss of the RPS collection would be a "regressive step".
"The future of the museum is key not only to the cultural success of the city of Bradford, but the wider Yorkshire region. For that reason, I remain very concerned and staunchly opposed to the SMG's proposal to ship the RPS' collection down the M1."
The SMG's four other museums all saw a rise in visitor numbers, with a total increase of 4% across all sites.
The National Railway Museum in York recorded a 3% rise in spite of severe flooding in the city last winter. The newly restored Flying Scotsman and the staging of two plays at the museum in partnership with York Theatre Royal helped drive up footfall. The National Railway Museum in Shildon had similar success, reporting a 27% rise.
The Museum of Science and Industry in Manchester, which has also made significant efforts to align itself with the Stem agenda, saw its numbers increase by 4%, while visits by schools and educational groups to the museum rose by 12%.
The Science Museum in London welcomed 3.4m visitors through its doors, a 2% rise on last year and the highest attendance in the museum's history.

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Q: Rails image assets - postpending ")I've run into a strange situation with leaflet-rails and its marker-icon.png asset that is bundled with the gem. In my app, I have included my own version of this file in my assets/images folder, which is ahead of the gem's version in Rails.application.config.assets.paths.
When I run this in production, I see the following:
http://beta.pitot.io/flights/2035
As you can hopefully see on the map, the marker appears in HTML as:
http://beta.pitot.io/assets/marker-icon-f8cd76868804022ae9aeb0e99417ccb0ced2db3a9b4e107ec44f4a43ee9a6635.png")marker-icon.png
Including the quote and the paranthese before marker-icon.png.
This doesn't appear in development without asset precompilation, and didn't previously occur before an update to the leaflet gem.
Does anyone know what might be causing this?

A: This issue was due to an issue with the rails gem leaflet-rails. Issue here:
https://github.com/axyjo/leaflet-rails/issues/59

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The UK's three digit emergency numbers explained – from 999 to 105
Elizabeth AtkinTuesday 9 Nov 2021 5:00 am
Who should you call in a crisis? (Picture: Getty)
Nobody wants to find themselves needing to call for help in an emergency – obviously.
But fires do happen, ambulances are needed at times and, in rare cases, criminals put ordinary citizens in danger.
Sadly, the world isn't an easygoing place. Sometimes, you've no option but to act fast and make an emergency call.
Most of us know that in any kind of life-threatening situation, the number to dial for immediate assistance is 999.
But what about the other three-digit numbers we have in this country, and when should they be used?
Here's what you should know.
What are the UK's three-digit emergency numbers?
999: Emergency
We're taught from a young age to call 999 if there's a medical emergency, a crime taking place or a fire raging.
Our emergency line is actually the oldest in the world, being created in 1937 and used in the London area following a terrible house fire that killed five women.
When you call, you'll be put through to an operator and asked if you need police, firefighters or an ambulance.
If for some reason you can't talk, but are in urgent need of help, dial 55 on a mobile while on with the operator to get their attention without using words. On a landline, try to whisper, cough or tap your keys only if possible. You'll then be passed on to the police.
101: Police Non-Emergency
Meanwhile, if you need to speak to the police, but there's no urgent or dangerous situation in play – you can call 101.
This is the non-emergency police line. If you call, you'll be reporting something that you feel the police should know about, such as a suspicion about crimes taking place.
Call 101 to speak to your local police station in a non-emergency (Picture: Getty)
Often, you will be put through to your local police force to discuss with them.
105: Report Power Outage
Interestingly, there's a number you can call if your power has gone out to alert UK Power Networks.
Dial 105 (hey, if your phone is still working) at any time, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. If you've got access to the internet, you can also follow a live Power Map for updates.
111: NHS Non-Emergency
Much like the non-emergency police line, if you've got a medical issue that isn't an urgent ambulance job, dial 111 on your mobile or landline.
You'll be put through to a call centre and your medical (or dental) condition will be assessed over the phone – and you'll likely receive a call back from a dentist, doctor or nurse, whatever's most relevant.
If needed, you'll be recommended to get an emergency GP/dentist appointment or to go straight to A&E.
If you need an ambulance, call 999 (Picture: Getty)
112: Emergency in Europe
Essentially, 112 is the EU's version of 999 – but since 1995, we've been able to use it in the UK too.
It puts you through to the same help centre as 999, so no worries there.
It's a good one to remember because, if you're ever on holiday in Spain, Greece or beyond, and you need emergency assistance – this is what you'll need to call.
Or if you're originally from Europe and aren't used to dialling 999, you can rest assured that if you call 112 by mistake, you'll still get help.
119: Coronavirus Helpline
Interestingly, there's another medical number it's worth knowing. 119 is the coronavirus helpline.
Call 112 for police, ambulance or fire brigade in Europe. The number also works in the UK (Picture: Getty)
If you need to speak to Test and Trace about being exposed to the virus, this is the number to call. You can also get help regarding testing (such as where to test) and advice on which circumstances require you to quarantine or self-isolate.
123: Speaking Clock
Did you know we have a 'Talking Clock' or 'Speaking Clock' number here in the UK?
Yep, since July 1936, all disputes about what time it really is have been settled by a knowing voice over the telephone – because sometimes, a mechanical clock just can't be trusted.
Dial 123 from a BT landline phone and the Speaking Clock will reveal the exact time, which is updated every 10 seconds. So useful for those who have trouble telling the time, or don't have access to a clock but do have a landline.
This isn't a free call, though, costing 50p per minute. So don't go crazy if it's not an essential service to you.
According to the BBC, it's very popular on New Year's Eve, but also on Remembrance Sunday, as people want to time their period of silence correctly.
If you need to hear the time, call 123 from a BT landline (Picture: Getty)
159: Report Scams
A new emergency line has been set up to help those who are preyed on by scammers.
If you ever get a call from someone purporting to be your bank, someone asking for money or for personal details (that could lead to you being scammed) – you're advised to simply hang up the phone.
To report the call, then dial 159. You'll be put through to an operator who can help you contact your actual bank safely.
Currently, around 70% of UK current account users can use this number. If you have a Santander, Starling Bank, NatWest, Barclays and Lloyds account, it will be able to help.
Most UK phone networks, including landlines, should be able to use it. Right now, though, the number is just a pilot scheme.
You can also report cyber crime, frauds and scams to Action Fraud on 0300 123 2040.
Who to call in an emergency? Now you know (Picture: Getty)
P.S. If you need to remind a loved one of these numbers – or stick it up on a noticeboard for them – there's a PDF explaining them in bold lettering you can print out here.
Is there an 888 emergency number?
No, there isn't currently an 888 number – though you may have heard things about it.
There is a proposal out for one to be created, maybe by Christmas, as a safety helpline for women.
Ideally, the number would be a 'walk me home' service – which women could use if out on the streets late at night, or if they're stuck in a threatening situation.
There's also been talk of an '888' app, using GPS to alert people if someone has not reached a destination as planned.
However, you can't currently call this number or find this app. Right now, it's just an idea.
In the meantime, if you are in danger you should call 999 and ask for the police.
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We had an office brunch this past week. Everyone was asked to contribute a dish. My secretary baked this simple, yet delicious casserole made with eggs, cheese and chilis. Everyone raved over the wonderful flavors so I immediately requested the recipe.
This weekend, all of our kids have come home for the holiday. Trains, planes, and automobiles have brought them in from other states. I am one proud Mama! I so enjoy having everyone back under one roof. My husband had been traveling in Germany for work all week; he too, flew home for the reunion.
This morning, I woke early to assemble a buffet of breakfast fare… sausage, bacon, pancakes, homemade maple syrup and a selection of fruit rounded out the menu. I also threw together the Chili Egg Bake to add to the mix. Once again, everyone loved the dish. Creamy, smooth and spicy… a great combination.
Happy holiday week to all. This girl is truly thankful for a simply wonderful life!
Shred cheeses. Mix with three beaten eggs and green chilis. Pour into a greased 9×9″ baking pan. Bake 30 minute at 350 degrees or until set. Cool slightly and cut into squares.
I've been meaning to try this recipe adapted from a collection of similar recipes. I happened to notice that our local grocer had riced cauliflower on sale and thought I would use the opportunity to make a little "comfort food" for this chilly Sunday afternoon. The texture of the diced cauliflower simulates the texture of rice or noodles. It's certainly not exactly like my original version of mac and cheese that my family has grown to love, but it's close enough for carb concious gals like me.
While most households were gobbling up lots of carb-laden snacks and appetizers this past Sunday, we watched the Super Bowl while munching on this delightful Low-Carb Taco Casserole. I used to make this recipe without the added Doritos chips but I find the crust to be a bit more crunchy and a lot less low-carb tasting… just by added 3 little chips to the mix. I looked up the nutritional facts for Doritos and calculated that 11 chips equal 16 grams of carbohydrates so you can do the math to figure how many carbs exist in just 3 crumbled chips. Boy, those chips add a world of difference to the crust. You be the judge… It's totally up to you if you'd like to omit the chips. …Hope you enjoy this simple recipe that's packed with flavor!
Preheat oven to 375 degrees. Grease a 9×13″ baking dish; set aside.
To make the crust: Beat the cream cheese and eggs until smooth. Add the half & half and taco seasoning, mix well. Spread the cheddar cheese over the bottom of the baking dish. Spread the egg mixture evenly over the cheese. Sprinkle crumbled Doritos over egg mixture. Bake at 375ºF, 25-30 minutes or until golden brown on the edges. Let stand 5 minutes.
To make the topping: Reduce oven temperature to 350 degrees. Brown the ground beef until no longer pink; drain thoroughly. Stir in the taco seasoning, tomato sauce and chiles. Spread over the crust. Top with diced tomato and shredded cheese. Bake for 20-25 minutes or until hot and bubbly. Cool slightly before cutting into serving-sized squares.
Traditionally, this is the breakfast casserole that I make for early morning holiday meals throughout the year. What I really like about this dish is that it's prepared the night before the occasion. I assemble things just before heading to bed, pop the dish in the fridge and pull it out early in the morning with little fuss or cleanup involved. Early the next day, I usually head into the kitchen well before anyone else is up, make myself a piping hot cup of coffee and enjoy the quiet first light of the new day.
This Easter was no different when prepping for the holiday brunch. A special treat, I was pleased to have our K home for the weekend. We will drive her back to campus later today but it's always a blessing to have the family together on these special mornings.
Happy Easter everyone! I hope you are enjoying the warmth of the sunshine wherever you may be this lovely blessed day.
Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Spray with cooking spray, a 13×9″ baking pan. Crumble sausage into a medium skillet. Cook until evenly browned; drain.
Evenly distribute bread in the bottom of pan. Next, layer in the sausage and then the broccoli. Pour egg mixture over entire dish, making sure to saturate all of the bread. Top with shredded cheese. Cover with plastic wrap and chill in the refrigerator for 8 hours, or overnight. Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Cover with foil and bake 45 to 60 minutes. Uncover, and reduce temperature to 325 degrees. Bake for an additional 15- 30 minutes, or until set.
This is one of the first recipes M&K were able to make on their own. About 12 years ago, during a Scholastic Book Fair, M spied a Strawberry Shortcake Berry Yummy Cook Book named for her favorite cartoon character called Strawberry Shortcake. She fell in love with the book on the spot. We brought it home and she went to work trying to find the perfect first recipe to make for Saturday breakfast.
Early Saturday morning, M&K put on their aprons and began assembling the egg dish. They did a fantastic job measuring and pouring ingredients. They were delighted when we pulled the completed dish from the oven.
The original recipe was called Huckleberry Pie's Hash Brown Bake (so cute). At the time, the recipe included hash brown potatoes but we weren't fond of the soggy potatoes in the dish so we tweaked it a bit. We gave our adapted dish a new name; Strawberry Shortcake Eggs.
The best part about making a pan of these eggs is that they are great for feeding a crowd or a big family quickly. Just pour the beaten eggs into the pan with a few other ingredients and in 20 minutes, you've got lots of eggs. I often wrap the cooked squares individually in plastic wrap and freeze them. Later, I use them to make breakfast sandwiches by combining an egg square with an English muffin, a sausage patty (optional), and a slice of cheese.
Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Spray a 13×9″ baking pan with non-stick cooking spray. In a medium bowl, whisk together eggs with milk or half&half. Stir in shredded cheese, and bacon pieces. Pour into baking pan and bake for 17-20 minutes or until set, puffy, and lightly browned. Cool slightly before cutting into squares.
This is a tasty casserole that takes minutes to put together. It's such a treat to put a big pan of French toast in the oven rather than standing in front of the stovetop making slices in small batches. This makes for more time to enjoy early morning conversation with the family while savoring the awesome combination of cinnamon, raisin, pecans and maple syrup with a piping hot cup of coffee. I often make this the night before serving so that when I wake up there is no prep time and the casserole is ready when the rest of the crew wakes up.
Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Lightly spray with cooking spray a 13×9″ baking pan. Pour bread cubes into the prepared pan. Beat milk, eggs, brown sugar, vanilla and almond extract together in a bowl until evenly mixed; pour mixture over bread cubes. Set aside for bread to absorb liquid, about 10-15 minutes. Sprinkle with cinnamon and pecans. Evenly arrange butter cubes on top of casserole. Bake until golden, about 50 to 55 minutes.


Sometime poker pro Michael Borovetz, 43, has been arrested after scamming travellers using Newark Airport by 'borrowing' money from them to pay for a hotel room after claiming his flight had been cancelled.
Borovetz's latest victim was a 55-year-old New Jersey man who was temporarily taken in by Borovetz's tale of woe last Tuesday (3rd April) and gave him $200 after being approached by the con-man at baggage claim.
Soon after handing over the cash the victim started to regret his decision and reported the incident to Port Authority who were able to confirm that this was not the first time Michael Borowetz had been found pulling this stunt, having targeted a San Jose man there last June. After having determined Borovetz was at the Newark Airport Marriott the authorities went to his hotel room last Thursday and placed him under arrest.
This is not the first time Borovetz, who has won a WSOPC Gold Ring and has almost $600k in live tournament winnings, has been in hot water with the authorities over his airport scams, and he has a criminal record dating back to the early 2000's for various misdemeanours.
Some of you reading this might recognize the name Michael Borovetz, as back in 2014 he was the subject of an epic 163 page thread on 2+2 where he was outed for a similar aiport scam in Las Vegas.
The OP described Borovetz's elaborate back story about having been in town for a few weeks looking for an apartment after coming to Vegas for an interview with DuPont but was now stuck as his flight had been cancelled and he needed money, which he promised to pay back with 100% interest. During their exchange Borovetz took one of the OP's business cards for his contact details (this was another ploy of Borovetz's – he would take a victim's business card and present it to a future mark, telling them that he had just been for an interview with the person who's card he had taken).
As the thread unfolded and Borovetz was identified, the man himself took to the forum (his 2+2 name is PSUMike1999) to admit his guilt. He followed this up by making several lengthy posts detail his decade and half of total gambling degeneracy.
Apparently Borovetz fell into gambling after graduating from Penn State in Chemical Engineering in 1999. After graduation he really did get a job with DuPont in Iowa but found himself hating it and so started to spend more and more time at the nearby riverboat casinos where he became chronically addicted to Pai Gow. Cue a series of disasterous life choices, lost jobs, sleeping in casino lobbies or under bridges, arrests, rehab, skipping bail, and general degeneracy. One a couple of occasions he was able to turn a few hundred into a six-figure sum, but always lost it within 24 hours. He did find, however, that he had something of a talent for poker – but once again every and any penny he won was lost at the pits.
Unfortunately it woudl appear that Michael Borovetz has yet to conquer his gambling demons and is due back in Essex County Municipal Court on April 17th.


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'Queen and Slim' Director Accuses Golden Globe Voters of Refusing to Watch the Movie
Melina Matsoukas claims the Lena Waithe-written drama didn't get any nominations at the Golden Globes because the HFPA members didn't even watch the movie.
AceShowbiz - "Queen & Slim" director Melina Matsoukas has claimed Golden Globes voters didn't want to watch her film - which led to the movie missing out on any nominations at the 2020 ceremony.
The film, starring British actors Jodie Turner-Smith and Daniel Kaluuya, tells the story of a young black couple who go on the run after a fatal encounter with a racist policeman. It had been tipped for success at the awards ceremony, so many people were left surprised when it didn't get a single nomination as the honourees were announced earlier this week.
However, director Melina told Variety that she wasn't surprised - as many of the voters from the Hollywood Foreign Press Association (HFPA), a group of around 90 international journalists who decide who should be nominated for a Golden Globe, hadn't even bothered to attend screenings of the film.
"We held three screenings for the HFPA and almost no members attended," she told the publication. "For me, it's reflective of their voting body. It's not reflective of the society in which we live in or the industry as it stands today. They don't value the stories that represent all of us, and those stories are so often disregarded and discredited, as are their filmmakers."
"It's extremely discouraging. It's extremely infuriating. And it just represents an archaic system that is full of people who don't value us."
A representative for the HFPA disputed Melina's allegations, insisting that all voters had been sent screeners of the film, so could have watched it at home rather than attending a screening event.
"The HFPA maintains that 'Queen & Slim' was in the conversation amongst the membership," they told Variety in a statement.
"Queen & Slim" wasn't the only movie snubbed from the Golden Globe nominations. The HFPA also attracted criticism for not nominating a single female filmmaker or screenwriter - despite Greta Gerwig and Lorene Scafaria having been among those tipped to earn nods for their respective movies "Little Women" and "Hustlers".
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DFL confirms relegation play-offs schedule - Frankfurt to face Nürnberg
The DFL Deutsche Fußball Liga has confirmed the kick-off times for the 2016 relegation play-offs.
Relegation play-offs overview
The first leg between Eintracht Frankfurt, the team that finished 16th in the Bundesliga, and 1. FC Nürnberg, who are already guaranteed to finish third in Bundesliga 2, will take place on Thursday, 19 May at 20:30CEST. The return leg in Nuremberg on Monday, 23 May will kick off at the same time.
The first leg of the game between the 3. Liga's third-placed outfit FC Würzburger Kickers and MSV Duisburg, who finished 16th in Bundesliga 2, is scheduled for Friday, 20 May (kick-off: 19:10CEST), with the return leg taking place on Tuesday, 24 May at the same time.
Bundesliga - Bundesliga 2
19.05.2016 - Eintracht Frankfurt vs 1. FC Nürnberg (kick-off: 20:30CEST/ 18:30GMT)
23.05.2016 - 1. FC Nürnberg vs Eintracht Frankfurt (kick-off: 20:30CEST/ 18:30GMT)
2. Bundesliga - 3. Liga
20.05.2016 - FC Würzburger Kickers vs MSV Duisburg (kick-off: 19:10CEST/17:10GMT)
24.05.2016 - MSV Duisburg vs FC Würzburger Kickers (kick-off: 19:10CEST/17:10GMT)
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Frances Montgomery, principal of St. Joseph Pro-Cathedral School, Camden, visits with children at lunch time.
Third in a series of profiles of the five Catholic Partnership Schools, the others being Holy Name, Sacred Heart, St. Anthony of Padua, Holy Name and St. Cecilia. The stated goal of the Partnership is to develop "already good schools into great schools" because education holds the greatest promise for breaking the cycle of poverty.
Stepping into St. Joseph's Pro-Cathedral Elementary School in East Camden, one immediately notices the lighthouses. Student art. Tapestries. Logos. Sculptures.
Since 1902, the school has served East Camden students; it has been at its Federal Street location since 1929. Today, the school educates 264 K-8 students. Predominantly Hispanic, the school's population also includes Asian and African-American students.
As a member of the Catholic Partnership Schools initiative —which aims to revitalize the five Camden-area schools with "increased enrollment, funding, and emphasis on excellence," through outreach to corporate and individual sponsors, with staff who have experience in the fields of development and enrollment — St. Joseph's is strengthening its school, to bring in more resources and provide better education and opportunity for Camden's children.
"We're blessed to have this partnership," Montgomery said.
With a before-school and after-school program; breakfast and lunch; gym; art; computer science; and girls' and boys' basketball, the school is dedicated to forming well-rounded students, grounded in the Catholic faith.
Outside organizations have also partnered with the school, bringing new experiences for the students. The Philadelphia Museum's Zoo on Wheels, Perkins Art Center, and Campbell Soup Company's "Read and Believe" Program, where company employees come to the school and read to students, have all been crucial to the school's success.
Last year, St. Joseph's students participated in the Coriell Science Fair Competition, with two going on to the Delaware Valley competition, and garnering honorable mentions for their projects.
With Catholic Partnership Schools, the hope is that St. Joseph Pro-Cathedral students will go "off and away" to "great places" after they leave the school, and be their own "beacon of light" to all those they meet.


Chris Currid playing Michael Collins.
Oyster Lane Theatre Company's Festival production of 'Michael Collins: A Musical Drama' opened with a bang in Dún Mhuire Theatre on Monday night and will continue nightly at 8 p.m. until Saturday, October 27.
The award-winning musical which won Best Overall Show in Ireland when it was last performed in 2014, brings to life the events of the 1916 Rising, War of Independence and the Irish Civil War.
It stars Chris Currid, Sean Henley, Denis Brennan, James McDermott and James Dobbs with director Imelda McDonagh, musical director Patrick Claney and choreographer Suzanne O' Leary.


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Сотер Стефан Ортинский де Лабетц (; 29 января 1866, село Ортиничи, Королевство Галиции и Лодомерии, Австро-Венгерская империя (ныне Дрогобычский район, Львовская область, Украина) — 24 марта 1916, Филадельфия, Пенсильвания, США) — церковный деятель, василианин, первый епископ Украинской Греко-Католической Церкви в США

Биография
Предки Стефана Ортинского происходили из шляхетского рода герба Лебедь (), позже от родового села Ортиничи () у них появилась фамилия . Родители Стефана были глубоко религиозные и благородные люди. В том же духе они воспитывали своих пятерых детей. Стефан после окончания народной школы в селе, учился в Дрогобычской гимназии, а с 1883 года, — в гимназии в Самборе.

Василианский Орден и философско-богословское образование
В Василианский Орден Стефан Ортинский вступил 3 февраля 1884 года, приняв монашеское имя Сотер. Приняв монашество он отправился сначала в Добромиль, где изучал философию и затем в Краков, где изучал богословие . Рукоположен в сан священника 18 июля 1891 года.

Пастырская деятельность
С 1894 года — проповедник и миссионер во Львове. С 1895 года — профессор философии и викарий монастыря, 1896—1897 — еклезиарх, проповедник и проводник Апостольства молитвы. В 1898—1901 годы — миссионер и эконом монастыря в Михайловке, а с 1 ноября 1901 — игумен монастыря, с 1905 года — миссионер в Дрогобыче. В 1906—1907 годы — миссионер и реколектантам в Львовском монастыре св. Онуфрия и директор миссий в Провинции.

Сотер Ортинский отличался глубокой верой, врожденной большой добротой и нежностью, полученными основательными занятимями и богословским знанием, искренним патриотизмом, неустрашимистью и твёрдым упорством, также был щедро одарён природой: осанкой, красивым голосом, музыкальными способностями, силой воображения, хорошей памятью, способностями к языкам и ораторскими способностями. Также его заслугой было сдерживание трагического для галицийского села пьянства. Активно боролся с русофильством.

Епископ
Отец Сотер мечтал о миссионерской работе среди украинских переселенцев в Бразилию. Однако митрополит Андрей Шептицкий видел молодого отца Сотера будущим владыкой для верных в Америке, в США.
28 февраля 1907 Папа Римский Пий X назначил отца Сотера епископом для всех русинов в США верных греко-католическому обряду. В США ситуация на национально-религиозном фоне среди русинов из Австрии была непростая, главным образом среди галичан и карпаторусов, не говоря уже о тех, кто исповедовал антицерковные идеалы. Митрополит Андрей, владыки Константин Чехович и Григорий Хомишин 12 мая того же года в кафедральном соборе Святого Юра во Львове наделили отца Сотера архиерейской хиротонией.

В США
27 августа 1907 года владыка Сотер прибыл в США, где его встретили многочисленные священники и верующие. Владыка отслужил молебен в церкви Святого Юра в Нью-Йорке. После визита в Апостольского Делегата в Вашингтон владыка Сотер поселился в Филадельфии.

Его заслугой было то, что в 1911 году он пригласил в США Сестер Василиянок, открыл приют для 200 детей-сирот; благодарностью-учителей организовал скаутское общество и приказал им вести вечерние школы, утвердил учебники букваря, Библии и катехизиса; заботился о формировании кадров священников для будущей семинарии и приобрел земельный участок для дома престарелых; способствовал созданию католической благотворительной организации «Провидение», объединявший греко-католические братства Америки; в 1913 год у церковная единица греко-католиков в США стала самостоятельной и неподвластной латинским епископам. За неполных девять лет он основал 63 новых прихода, а для лучшего управления поделил прихода на деканаты; заложил религиозные общества «Возрождение» и «Апостольство молитвы», основал журнал «Душпастир», «Америка», «Миссионер» и «Епархиальный вестник».

Не обходилось и без конфликтов — епископа Сотера обвиняли в самоуправстве, что приводило к уходу многих русинов в лоно Православной Церкви в Америке.

Кончина
16 марта 1916 года владыка заболел пневмонией и через восемь дней, 24 марта, умер. Похоронные богослужения 30 марта 1916 возглавлял владыка Никита Будка из Канады. Похоронили владыку Сотера в кафедральном соборе в Филадельфии.

Память
27 ноября 1944 года на воду было спущено судно проекта Либерти SS. Soter Ortynsky с бортовым номером 2331.
В 1960 году судно было разобрано на металлолом.

Примечания

Ссылки
 Most Rev. Stephen Soter Ortynsky, O.S.B.M., D.D.
 Ваврик В., Епископ Сотер Ортинский Ч. С. В. В., Слово доброго пастыря, Изд-во А. А. Ордена в ЖДА, год VII, ч. 9-10, 1956 , с. 96.
 Пекарь А., «Тернистый путь владыки-пионера», журнал «Свет» 1966, № 3, с. 100—102, № 4, с. 147.
 Гавлич В., «В 40-летия смерти епископа Сотера Ортинского, ЧСВВ», «Свет» 1956, № 5, с. 32-37.
 Bishop Soter Stephen Ortynsky de Labetz, O.S.B.M.

Базилиане
Католицизм на Украине
Умершие от пневмонии
Похороненные в Филадельфии
Епископы Украинской грекокатолической церкви

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Can't get tired of playing this game!
So addicting! It is one of those games that when you do complete it you still go back and play your favorite levels just because you don't want to quit! I can't wait until they come out with a sequel! The graphics aren't the best but you soon forgot about that once you get involved with the challenges. Buy it!
This game is great if you like Time Management Games. Very addicting! It is one you will want to replay and not just beat it and move on!
I loved the flow of this game; not just any ordinary food prep game. Time was not a factor - and you had to keep track of a lot of different things to make sure you have success. My only complaint is that the game was over way too quickly - I thought the first board of 5 cities would just be the first of many, but it was the whole game.
This game is really fun and has provided me with hours of entertainment. It took me many days to finish it the first time, since I found the last 2 levels particularly challenging, and needed to visit the game's forum here for some tips on how to pass them. Now that I finished the game, I am playing it over again so that I can obtain all of the achievements since I missed out on 2 of them the first time. I am new to this kind of game, and I really enjoy how it allows you to be a restaurant entrepreneur. I also love Flo and the Dinertown characters and it was fun to have them in a game that is different than the Dash series. I enjoy Dash games too, but this is not one of them. It is slower moving and involves a lot of strategy. Sometimes you need a strategy to pass levels in Dash games but this is different than that. I find it to be more of a thinking game than those games, but still just as fun. I know it has been a few years but I hope they will make a sequel for this game. I would buy it in an instant!
Big Fish, can you please make a sequel to this one? This one and Fairy Godmother Tycoon are the two best of the Tycoon type games. I LOVE Tycoon games, and you guys need more of them! Can we have a sequel please?
I really enjoyed this TM game as there was much less "stress" than in the majority. If you enjoy Flo games this one is a must try. Not time based and allows you to plan your day ahead of time. I would have categorized it more as a strategy game. The only downside for me was it was too short. Would have enjoyed a few more locations.
I have purchased this game eons ago and keep playing it over and over. It is super entertaining and challenging You have to get the right combination of upgrades/price/strategy to get through the day.Reminds me of Lemonade Tycoon games a little. Try it for yourself!
Fantastic TM game with a twist.... a must-play, even if you never thought you'd enjoy TM (as I didn't). Diner Town Tycoon has tremendous replay value and lures you right into TM gameplay as if you were born playing. I now love the entire DASH series and, of course, this one is exceptional and unique as well. Thank you, BFG and devs.... the ending alluded to a sequel and my fingers are crossed to that possiblity. Will be an instant 'buy' for me when/if one is released.


The Koi Society Member Club Show Award recognizes a koi, an exhibitor or a Club member whose contribution to the success of the Koi Show is greatly valued.
We are fortunate to have members who are able to pitch in on Thursday morning with set-up as well as throughout the weekend and with Sunday tear down and clean-up. The Koi Society Koi Show Award was given to Elbert & Johnnie Smith who are one of the couples who have been here all 5 years, from Thursday through Saturday even though they do not show koi. Johnnie and Elbert are MKPC members but their primary Club in which they are very active and each hold an office, is The Metro Detroit Pond & Garden Club. Yet each year they donate an entire weekend to the MKPC KOI Show to help insure our Show is successful. This dedication to helping fellow koi hobbyists is outstanding and much appreciated.
Our Friday night meet and greet dinner is the best I have ever been to, thanks to Martha Conrad. Martha and Mike Conrad have hosted this dinner since our first Koi Show in 2012. They welcome us all into their lovely home, the pond is beautiful, the gardens reflect a Japanese theme but, best of all, Martha loves to cook a variety of dishes and is outstanding at it. Everyone, MKPC members and koi hobbyists traveling to our show, look forward to this Friday night, it sets the tone for the weekend. We can't thank Martha and Mike enough for what they do.
As we all know, it takes a lot of work to put on a Koi Show. When you have someone or several some ones, who help whenever it is needed, the show chair is very fortunate. Bruce Modetz did so much to help out and to reduce the workload for the chairpersons, from being a sounding board for various thoughts and ideas, brainstorming and researching ways to help with costs, helping with set up and take down, to completely taking care of the show site meals for members, vendors and visitors. Ray would call Bruce and Bruce would say "Don't worry about it, I got it". That's a simple statement that provides so much relief for the Chairperson. The best part was, he did follow through and take care of what he promised.
We have known Bruce for a number of years now, and he is so enthusiastic about ponding and koi and this enthusiasm reflects in everything he does all year for the Michigan Koi and Pond Club.


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Istio Certificate Authority (CA)

istio_ca [flags]

Flags
Description

--append-dns-names
Append DNS names to the certificates for webhook services.

--cert-chain <string>
Path to the certificate chain file  (default ``)

--citadel-storage-namespace <string>
Namespace where the Citadel pod is running. Will not be used if explicit file or other storage mechanism is specified.  (default `istio-system`)

--custom-dns-names <string>
The list of account.namespace:customdns names, separated by comma.  (default ``)

--enable-profiling
Enabling profiling when monitoring Citadel.

--grpc-host-identities <string>
The list of hostnames for istio ca server, separated by comma.  (default `istio-ca,istio-citadel`)

--grpc-hostname <string>
DEPRECATED, use --grpc-host-identites.  (default `istio-ca`)

--grpc-port <int>
The port number for Citadel GRPC server. If unspecified, Citadel will not serve GRPC requests.  (default `8060`)

--key-size <int>
Size of generated private key  (default `2048`)

--kube-config <string>
Specifies path to kubeconfig file. This must be specified when not running inside a Kubernetes pod.  (default ``)

--listened-namespace <string>
Select a namespace for the CA to listen to. If unspecified, Citadel tries to use the ${NAMESPACE} environment variable. If neither is set, Citadel listens to all namespaces.  (default ``)

--liveness-probe-interval <duration>
Interval of updating file for the liveness probe.  (default `0s`)

--liveness-probe-path <string>
Path to the file for the liveness probe.  (default ``)

--log_as_json
Whether to format output as JSON or in plain console-friendly format

--log_caller <string>
Comma-separated list of scopes for which to include called information, scopes can be any of [default]  (default ``)

--log_output_level <string>
The minimum logging level of messages to output,  can be one of [debug, info, warn, error, none]  (default `default:info`)

--log_rotate <string>
The path for the optional rotating log file  (default ``)

--log_rotate_max_age <int>
The maximum age in days of a log file beyond which the file is rotated (0 indicates no limit)  (default `30`)

--log_rotate_max_backups <int>
The maximum number of log file backups to keep before older files are deleted (0 indicates no limit)  (default `1000`)

--log_rotate_max_size <int>
The maximum size in megabytes of a log file beyond which the file is rotated  (default `104857600`)

--log_stacktrace_level <string>
The minimum logging level at which stack traces are captured, can be one of [debug, info, warn, error, none]  (default `default:none`)

--log_target <stringArray>
The set of paths where to output the log. This can be any path as well as the special values stdout and stderr  (default `[stdout]`)

--max-workload-cert-ttl <duration>
The max TTL of issued workload certificates  (default `2160h0m0s`)

--monitoring-port <int>
The port number for monitoring Citadel. If unspecified, Citadel will disable monitoring.  (default `9093`)

--org <string>
Organization for the cert  (default ``)

--probe-check-interval <duration>
Interval of checking the liveness of the CA.  (default `30s`)

--requested-ca-cert-ttl <duration>
The requested TTL for the workload  (default `8760h0m0s`)

--root-cert <string>
Path to the root certificate file  (default ``)

--self-signed-ca
Indicates whether to use auto-generated self-signed CA certificate. When set to true, the '--signing-cert' and '--signing-key' options are ignored.

--self-signed-ca-cert-ttl <duration>
The TTL of self-signed CA root certificate  (default `8760h0m0s`)

--self-signed-ca-org <string>
The issuer organization used in self-signed CA certificate (default to k8s.cluster.local)  (default `k8s.cluster.local`)

--sign-ca-certs
Whether Citadel signs certificates for other CAs

--signing-cert <string>
Path to the CA signing certificate file  (default ``)

--signing-key <string>
Path to the CA signing key file  (default ``)

--upstream-ca-address <string>
The IP:port address of the upstream CA. When set, the CA will rely on the upstream Citadel to provision its own certificate.  (default ``)

--workload-cert-grace-period-ratio <float32>
The workload certificate rotation grace period, as a ratio of the workload certificate TTL.  (default `0.5`)

--workload-cert-min-grace-period <duration>
The minimum workload certificate rotation grace period.  (default `10m0s`)

--workload-cert-ttl <duration>
The TTL of issued workload certificates  (default `2160h0m0s`)

istio_ca probe

Check the liveness or readiness of a locally-running server

istio_ca probe [flags]

Flags
Description

--interval <duration>
Duration used for checking the target file's last modified time.  (default `0s`)

--log_as_json
Whether to format output as JSON or in plain console-friendly format

--log_caller <string>
Comma-separated list of scopes for which to include called information, scopes can be any of [default]  (default ``)

--log_output_level <string>
The minimum logging level of messages to output,  can be one of [debug, info, warn, error, none]  (default `default:info`)

--log_rotate <string>
The path for the optional rotating log file  (default ``)

--log_rotate_max_age <int>
The maximum age in days of a log file beyond which the file is rotated (0 indicates no limit)  (default `30`)

--log_rotate_max_backups <int>
The maximum number of log file backups to keep before older files are deleted (0 indicates no limit)  (default `1000`)

--log_rotate_max_size <int>
The maximum size in megabytes of a log file beyond which the file is rotated  (default `104857600`)

--log_stacktrace_level <string>
The minimum logging level at which stack traces are captured, can be one of [debug, info, warn, error, none]  (default `default:none`)

--log_target <stringArray>
The set of paths where to output the log. This can be any path as well as the special values stdout and stderr  (default `[stdout]`)

--probe-path <string>
Path of the file for checking the availability.  (default ``)

istio_ca version

Prints out build version information

istio_ca version [flags]

Flags
Shorthand
Description

--log_as_json

Whether to format output as JSON or in plain console-friendly format

--log_caller <string>

Comma-separated list of scopes for which to include called information, scopes can be any of [default]  (default ``)

--log_output_level <string>

The minimum logging level of messages to output,  can be one of [debug, info, warn, error, none]  (default `default:info`)

--log_rotate <string>

The path for the optional rotating log file  (default ``)

--log_rotate_max_age <int>

The maximum age in days of a log file beyond which the file is rotated (0 indicates no limit)  (default `30`)

--log_rotate_max_backups <int>

The maximum number of log file backups to keep before older files are deleted (0 indicates no limit)  (default `1000`)

--log_rotate_max_size <int>

The maximum size in megabytes of a log file beyond which the file is rotated  (default `104857600`)

--log_stacktrace_level <string>

The minimum logging level at which stack traces are captured, can be one of [debug, info, warn, error, none]  (default `default:none`)

--log_target <stringArray>

The set of paths where to output the log. This can be any path as well as the special values stdout and stderr  (default `[stdout]`)

--short
-s
Displays a short form of the version information

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Motion carried: Community Futures (Voluntary Sector and Volunteering Policy Paper)
Originally published by UK Liberal Democrats
Federal Policy Committee
Mover: James Lindsay
Summation: Baroness Barker (Chair of the Policy Working Group)
Conference believes that:
i) Community and voluntary organisations, by virtue of their independence, are a powerful means by which citizens can shape and change society. They unite people who are passionate about particular causes and in doing so they not only foster a sense of community and empower people to challenge the state and large corporations, but also counteract the disconnection and atomisation of today's society.
ii) A vibrant, independent community and voluntary sector, working alongside government and the private sector, enriches social, environmental and economic well-being. Government, national and local, must support the development and modernisation of voluntary organisations and social enterprises to inspire the next generation of active citizens.
Conference therefore endorses policy paper 98, Community Futures, and shares its vision of a future in which strong, independent voluntary and citizen-led community organisations, working in partnership with national and local government and the private sector, build safe, sustainable communities in which individuals and communities thrive. Conference in particular welcomes the proposals to:
1. Capitalise on the wealth of experience in the voluntary sector and build vibrant community organisations which engage the next generation through:
a) Supporting modernisation programmes designed to enable voluntary organisations to update their infrastructure, IT and business development skills and social networking skills.
b) Simplifying regulation for charities, for example by standardising information reporting requirements and making the Charity Commission the sole regulator for both incorporated and unincorporated charities.
2. Enhance the capacity of charities and social enterprises though:
a) Encouraging the Charity Commission to develop joint programmes with other infrastructure organisations to ensure that all charities have access to good practice.
b) Working with the Small Charities Coalition, the National Association for Voluntary and Community Action, and local authorities to improve support to local community organisations and volunteers in statutory organisations such as school governors.
c) Negotiating a UK-wide insurance package, available from major insurers, to provide comprehensive coverage for the vast majority of volunteering, local activity and celebrations.
3 Assist companies and voluntary organisations to design, set and maintain standards of good ethical, environmental and social practice through:
a) Supporting a pilot programme to modernise Corporate Social Responsibility by developing a network of Professional Services Working Groups across the country, so that voluntary organisations have access to services such as lawyers, accountants and architects.
b) Working with a range of organisations to develop a new Community Benefit Index in which companies are encouraged to maximise their 'community footprint'.
4 Support the role played by voluntary and community organisations in convincing policy makers and the public of the need to adopt sustainable policies and technologies through:
a) Encouraging local authorities to provide advice and resources to schools, residents and tenants associations and other community groups to enable them to take an active role in managing open spaces to make them as attractive as possible for people and wildlife.
b) Working with environmental NGOs to promote individual and community actions which take forward the green agenda in practical ways.
5 Help voluntary organisations to compete for public service contracts on equal terms with statutory and private sector providers through:
a) Reviewing the implementation of the European Commission Directive 2004/18/EC to ensure that small charities are not being unfairly excluded and that the rules are being implemented with the flexibility which member states are entitled to determine.
b) Encouraging the development of public sector contracts which require bidders to demonstrate how they will develop social capital.
c) Ensuring that public services are delivered without unjustified discrimination against service-users or employees, by amending equalities legislation to narrow the exemption granted to organisations with a religious ethos , and in the interim requiring public sector commissioners to include non-discrimination clauses in their contracts with providers.
6 Encourage a range of different forms of charitable giving, and make it easier for charities to raise and earn income, through:
a) Setting up a series of initiatives, in partnership with the private sector, to promote digital giving.
b) Modernising Gift Aid, by enabling online declarations and reclaims.
7 Promote social investment through:
a) Piloting programmes under which local authorities could act as guarantors for new local investment instruments, up to a specified limit.
b) Establishing, in partnership with private investors, a high risk investment fund to enable innovative projects with the potential to transform the voluntary and community sector to be supported through early stage research and development.
c) Reviewing the legislation which governs programme related investment so that foundations would be able to invest in social good rather than always investing for return.
d) Encouraging a much larger community banking and community development finance institution sector, funded - as it is in the USA - by the big banks in lieu of the loans which they find it difficult to make to small business and social enterprises themselves.
8. Encourage volunteering as a welcome addition to, rather than a substitute for, statutory service provision, and to increase active citizenship through:
a) Engaging young people in designing new systems to incentives volunteering.
b) Commissioning research into volunteering programmes to be run by small and medium enterprises.
c) Encouraging a major increase in voluntary activity through public services, so that service units like schools, surgeries or housing estates also become volunteering hubs and catalysts, capable of using the resources that their users represent to reach out and rebuild local neighbourhood life and mutual support.
Applicability: Federal, except 1 b) and 2 a) (lines 21-23 and 25-26) which are England and Wales, and 1 a), 2 b), 4 a), 5 b), 7 a), 7 b), 8 a), and 8 c) (lines 18-20, 27-29, 43-46, 54-55, 66-70, 79 and 82-85) which are England only.
Applicability of some points varies depending on the public service affected.


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Q: I Need a simple and short python3 code that count secounds in a background process I'm trying to make a text based flight simulator in python, but I can't really find out how I can count seconds in python.
I would like to write code that lets me write, while the time counts in the background. I also want a simple code like for example Import Time then do time.sleep(1).
I tried to do this:
for takeoff_time in range(0,16):
    time.sleep(1)

Then:
while takeoff_time == (15):
break()
print ("Fly Crashed Before TakeOff ")
time.sleep(2)
os.system("cls")
main()

A: using the time module you can do:
start_time = time.time()
RUN THE PART OF THE PROGRAM YOU WANT TO MEASURE
print(time.time()-start_time)
or instead of printing it you can assign it to a variable to keep track of it

A: In Python, you have time.clock() and time.time()
time.clock
start = time.clock()
... do something
elapsed = (time.clock() - start)

time.time
start = time.time()
... do something
elapsed = (time.time() - start)

For benchmarking code snippets, you should try using timeit: http://docs.python.org/2/library/timeit.html


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Home INTEREST Trofeo SAR Princesa Sofía postponed to October
Trofeo SAR Princesa Sofía postponed to October
The Trofeo SAR Princesa Sofía, a reference event among international sailing regattas, postpones its 51st edition to October. The Olympic Classes and offshore regatta will be held from 2nd to 9th October in the bay of Palma.
The Organising Committee has made this decision following the recommendations from the Balearic Islands Government and after the joint assessment of the evolution of the global pandemic caused by Covid-19.
Ferran Muniesa, the Trofeo Princesa Sofía Race Manager, outlines, "The priority is the safety of the approximately 1000 sailors from around 50 nations that participate each year in this regatta, which must take place in the best possible conditions both ashore and at sea".
The Princesa Sofía, organised by Club Nàutic S'Arenal, Club Marítimo San Antonio de la Playa, Real Club Náutico de Palma and the Balearic and Spanish Sailing Federations, will continue to have the support of its collaborators Iberostar, Marine Pool, Trasmediterránea and Europcar, as well as of the main Balearic public institutions.
The new Notice of Race is already available on the regatta's official website (www.trofeoprincesasofia.org). The organisation has made the announcement to the around 300 sailors that had already made their application to participate in the edition to be held from 26th March to 3rd April.
The Mallorca Sailing Center Regatta, the training regatta prior to the Trofeo Princesa Sofía, will be held from 24th to 26th September 2021.
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Erik knew it was safer to walk on the sidewalk, but he walked down the center of the road.
Bertrand's had numerous opportunities to set the record straight.
Daren held up his wine glass for a toast.
Dale hopes to get the results by Thursday.
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Jagath told Fay that he'd gone to the beach that weekend.
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Owen gave Margaret a weird look.
Christina is proud of his car.
Val lost his sense of smell.
Vassos got some paint on his shoes.
Monty took a hot bubble bath.
Kanthan wants me on his team.
Neville looked after my dog.
Eileen locked the door and put the key into his pocket.
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Micah should be back here by 2:30.
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Cathryn died in a boating accident.
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Kerri took the microphone away from Dani.
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Hughes's real last name is Jackson.
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I recently ran into a problem where I had a 'form' in a UserControl which contained the Recaptcha control. As it happens somebody put this control into an UpdatePanel and onto a page, eventually noticing that the Recaptcha was not re-displayed after a PostBack. A quick Google identified a very large number of people suffering the same problem, with a few different idea circulated as to how to fix it. After trying a few I noted that either the particular solution was not appropriate to my case, or simply did not work – so I decided I would investigate and fix the problem the 'old fashioned' way… brute force.
Actually, I've paraphrased there for readability and to get the syntax highlighter to correctly identify the script. The actual code is slightly different but functionally equivalent, at least for the purposes of this discussion – try not to get bogged down in it, it won't affect the results.
"What's nasty about that" I hear you say. Well in and of itself there's nothing wrong there, but this bit is definitely the source of our PostBack problem. See when the AJAX PostBack infrastructure executes it gathers up the response send from the server, picks out the part contained in the UpdatePanel we are executing and 'pastes' it back into the right place in the HTML document. Which, for regular HTML works a treat.
What do the other blogs say; and why are they wrong?
Whatever, how do I fix it?
+ "if ( RecaptchaOptions && "custom" == RecaptchaOptions.theme )"
+ "  if ( RecaptchaOptions.custom_theme_widget )"
+ "    Recaptcha.widget = Recaptcha.$(RecaptchaOptions.custom_theme_widget);"
+ "  if ( Recaptcha.widget == null || !document.getElementById("recaptcha_widget_div") )"
+ "    jQuery("#" + pbTarget.ClientID + "").html('

');"
+ "    Recaptcha.widget = Recaptcha.$("recaptcha_widget_div");"
Actually, I've paraphrased that too before I get caned for the idiotic use of string concatenation – I was just trying to make the syntax highlighter behave.
What I have done, with the help of jQuery, is to re-inject the div that the Recaptcha code wants to paint into, then re-initialise the control with the challenge_callback() method. There is a tiny lag when the reload() method is firing where you get to see the old code, but it's fast enough to not bother me. The main reason the reload() didn't work on its own is that Recaptcha.widget is null since the DOM object had been destroyed. With our new and improved code we restore the div and re-attach it to the Recaptcha.widget property before calling reload().


Scúlchaint is the name we have given to our school Newsletter. Cúlchaint is the irish word for "gossip" and by adding an S at the beginning we feel that we have come up with a rather appropriate title. It is after all just "gossip from our school".
The very first edition was published for Easter 2008 and since then we have produced seven issues in total. An editorial committee is selected from the boys in 6th class to oversee the content for each issue – under the watchful eye of the teachers of course.
Welcome to the very latest edition of our school newsletter fresh off the presses just in time for Easter. Hope you enjoy it.


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Q: Initializing NSMutableArray but the class of an initialized object displays as a NSArray I have initialized a mutable array like NSMutableArray *mutableArray = [[NSMutableArray alloc]init];. I have printed the object class in NSLogs like NSLog(@"object class is %@",[mutableArray class]);. I have initialized a mutable array but the class of the object is displayed as __NSArrayM.
I try to add items to mutableArray then application is crashed. I don't know where is the problem. Please tell me why it is considered as a NSArray instead of NSMutableArray.
Thanks In Advace

A: It is as expected, the M in __NSArrayM means mutable.
NSArray / NSMutableArray is a class cluster and you should never expect to see the class directly printed as NSArray or NSMutableArray.

A: For Immutable array it returns
__NSArrayI    // Here I is for Immutable

And for mutable it returns
__NSArrayM   // Here M is for Mutable

A: May be you are assigning a non mutable array to this mutable array or you are inserting nil objects. Could you post the exception details.

A:     [mutableArray insertObject:object atIndex:0]; (for first)
    [mutableArray insertObject:object atIndex:[mutableArray count]]; (for last)
or  [mutableArray addObject:object];

How are you adding them?


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Artificial intelligence and machine learning are continuing to grow in importance within Industry 4.0. With Industrial Intelligence as its lead theme, the upcoming HANNOVER MESSE is putting this development center stage. HANNOVER MESSE is the world's largest B2B platform in the digital factory segment. And from 1 to 5 April 2019 it will be answering all software questions along the industrial value chain.
Hannover. Everyone is talking about the digital transformation of industry. Visitors to the Digital Factory halls at HANNOVER MESSE can discover the driving forces behind this development. The boom in this sector demonstrates clearly the triumph of Industry 4.0 and networking. The companies in Halls 5, 6, 7 and 8 are developing and supplying the prerequisites for what will be the lead theme of the world's foremost industrial technology show in 2019: Integrated Industry – Industrial Intelligence. This refers to the digital networking of humans and machines in the age of artificial intelligence.
In addition to blockchain and industrial security, other topics in Halls 5 and 6 include engineering software (CAx, PLM), cloud solutions, platforms and services, virtual reality and additive manufacturing. Hall 7 will showcase business software with MES, ERP, CRM and DMS as well as SCM solutions, IT solutions and consulting, and embedded systems. Finally, Hall 8 marks the transition to the Automation area featuring the Industry 4.0 Forum , Industry 4.0 initiatives and political platforms, and the SmartFactory/Intelligent Manufacturing area.
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