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ArentFox Schiff LLP provides strategic legal counsel and multidisciplinary solutions to a global roster of corporations, governments, and trade associations. Our nationally recognized Health Care Industry Group features veteran attorneys with years of experience advising hospitals and other health care providers.
Lowell Brown is widely recognized as one of California's pre-eminent medical staff lawyers. His long experience counseling health care providers includes medical staff peer review, disciplinary hearings, regulatory matters, and health care operations. He has appeared before the California Courts of Appeal and the California Supreme Court in multiple medical staff peer review matters. The highly respected Chambers USA attorney ranking service places Lowell in Band 1, the highest level available.
Debra Albin-Riley focuses on complicated health care and medical staff peer review hearings and litigation. Having served as the lead attorney on numerous high-profile matters, Debra's experience allows her to take matters through hearing, trial, appeal, or skillfully negotiate positive solutions for her clients. She recently argued before the California Supreme Court and Court of Appeal, prevailing in establishing significant anti-SLAPP protections for medical staffs in peer review matters. In 2022, she was rated a "Top Health Care Lawyer," and has been named a "Top Women Lawyer" in California by Daily Journal as a result of her impressive track record. Debra has also been recognized by Chambers USA and Legal 500. As noted in Chambers USA in 2022: "She is a consummate professional with experience, expertise, and a remarkable ability to translate the complex into layperson's terms."
Thomas Jeffry has extensive experience counseling hospital systems and other types of providers on business and regulatory compliance matters, including health information technology, privacy and data security, corporate integrity programs, and transactions. In addition, his wide range of experience in bioethics, nonprofit tax & antitrust issues, and clinical research have made him a trusted advisor on a multitude of matters. Thomas has been recognized by Chambers USA as a leader in healthcare and noted as a Southern California Super Lawyer.
Sarah Benator specializes in advising health facilities and medical staffs on regulatory, operational, and medico-legal matters. She has vast experience with medical staff bylaws, practitioner credentialing, disciplinary hearings, Joint Commission accreditation, bioethics, allied health practitioner scopes of practice, and consent and confidentiality. Sarah has advised on briefs before the Supreme Court of California addressing significant peer review matters and has been repeatedly recognized in Best Lawyers in America for her achievements in health care law.
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On a Thursday afternoon in late September, a group of high school boys gingerly worked dogwood saplings and eastern bluestar shrubs out of plastic containers and placed them in an oval-shaped patch of soil on the campus of the Glen Mills School, outside Philadelphia. Glen Mills isn't an ordinary high school: It's an alternative to juvenile detention for teenaged boys who have had run-ins with the law—petty theft, assault, and everything in between. It's also home to the region's largest Purple Martin colony, where up to 700 birds nest each year. When the martins return to campus next spring, they'll find a new rain garden awaiting them.
The garden is one of several projects that came to fruition after the John James Audubon Center at Mill Grove, the Chester Ridley Crum Watersheds Association, and the Willistown Conservation Trust joined together last fall to brainstorm ways to engage the students in the rich ecosystem of Glen Mills' Hogwartsian, 800-acre campus. With grant funding from Toyota Together-Green, the groups created an afterschool club and in-class programming that provide interested students with a hands-on environmental education, while also enriching the Purple Martins' habitat.
"They're learning that their actions can have a positive impact on the environment," said the John James Audubon Center's Janelle Wommer, who spearheaded the programming. "That's something they can take with them wherever they go." The grant wraps up in November, after a hawk watch and a visit from a Pennsylvania Game Commission official who's going to talk to the students about careers in wildlife.


Today we have with us the best of the best among flagships, and it goes by the name of Google Pixel 3 XL.
Google Pixel 3 has everything you want and need from a flagship smartphone. The only huge barrier, for now, is its hefty price.
But as you can see from the above, the three major advantages that the Pixel 3 XL has is on its larger 6.3-inch size. Secondly is on its Quad HD resolution which makes for an enjoyable screen.
Thirdly, the higher rated 3430 mAh battery ensures that you now have enough juice to last for a day or two.
The rest of it are similar as its smaller sibling. We have the exquisite body with great look and feel to it. Great protection in the form of Gorilla Glass 5 and IP68 certification.
Then there's the top-of-the-line Snapdragon 845 chipset paired with a very powerful Kryo octa-core processor, great graphics and 4GB RAM. Now you might ask why there's only 4GB of RAM available here, that's because the Pixel 3 XL is running on a plain vanilla 9.0 Android Pie operating system – the latest and greatest OS yet from them.
For camera lovers, get ahead of everyone with the excellent 12.2MP primary camera and dual 8MP-8MP selfie camera combination. It seems like almost everyone is praising the camera quality brought by Google.
Just like its predecessor, having no bloatware makes for great user experience. You are in control of everything, no unnecessary baggage.
Google Pixel 3 XL ups the ante with a larger 6.3-inch screen with an even bolder Quad HD resolution. The bigger battery size ensures that you have the necessary power to tame this beast of a smartphone.
Google Pixel 3 XL is expected to be released in November 2018 for an estimated price tag of 899USD for the 64GB storage variant and 999USD for the 128GB storage variant. You get to choose three colors, namely Clearly White, Just Black and Not Pink.


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This Banana Chip Company Saw Early Online Success, But Soon Realized Its Branding Wasn't Ready for Retail
Bubba's Fine Foods originally sported a bearded man on its packaging, but have since switched to a more appealing monkey in a fedora.
Image credit: Courtesy of Bubba's Fine Foods
Stephen J. Bronner
Jeff Schmidgall learned how important branding is the hard way. Since its founding in 2014, the savory snack brand he co-founded, Bubba's Fine Foods, has sported a bearded man as its mascot. The thinking was to have a more masculine-styled brand, like those found in the jerky section, to stand out in the natural snack set.
It didn't work.
"Despite our branding, 85 percent of our consumers were still female," Schmidgall said. "It maybe should've been obvious to us, but it was a lesson learned."
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So Bubba's has recently undergone a rebrand, replacing its bearded dude with a fedora wearing monkey -- who can resist an ape in a hat? -- and playing up its key differentiating factor: savory banana chips as the base of its snack mixes.
It's what got the brand this far. Bubba's products can now be found in 1,800 retail stores across the U.S., and the company says it's experienced 100 percent year-over-year growth for four years. Its top-selling products are its Savory Original Snack Mix, Grand Garlic Parm Nana Chips and Blazing Buffalo Nana Chips.
Schmidgall co-founded the company with his brother-in-law, Jared Menzel (whose nickname is Bubba), both of whom, according to Schmidgall, are "byproducts of the standard American diet." The former developed Crohn's Disease while the latter developed type 2 diabetes. After improving their health by switching to better diets, they still craved salty snacks. Menzel then made his own snack mix using banana chips.
"When he made this snack for me, I immediately knew that the market was craving and needing something just like it," he said.
Being in a "natural food desert" of Iowa, as Schmidgall described it, he was used to buying food online, so that's the route he decided Bubba's should pursue.
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"I had no consumer packaged goods experience prior to starting this company," he said. "The initial idea was just to do ecommerce and not even do grocery at all."
But after about two months, Bubba's had proved a hit with its customers, and a chain of Hy-Vee stores called and requested the product. The brand didn't even have a nutrition label yet.
"I'm a big proponent of initially doing a ready, fire, aim approach just so you can get something out there and start to get messy with it and figure out what the reactions are," Schmidgall said. "If you can do that with a somewhat limited amount of capital, you can learn so much by trial by fire. That's probably the fastest and best way to learn things."
He added, "That's simply what this Hy-Vee experience was. We just got the product into people's hands, and all of the sudden doors of opportunity started to open."
Related: This Pancake and Waffle Company Dedicated Years to Getting Its Branding Right and Now Makes 8-Digit Revenues
Since then, the Bubba's co-founders have also learned that the old adage of "you have to spend money to make money" applies to packaged foods. One of Schmidgall's recommendations is to pay stores to feature products at the end of aisles or by checkout to boost visibility. This strategy goes hand in hand with keeping your distribution footprint to a minimum, at least at the start. And of course, spending money early on to have good branding can end up saving funds later.
Bubba's new branding just hit shelves, so the company doesn't know what impact it will have, but it's already used the new design to open conversations with retailers.
"Branding is a really big deal," Schmidgall said. "It's the only thing the consumer sees when products are on the shelf. I used my cousin to design the packaging. [But now I know that] the most important investment right off the bat is to get your look nailed down."
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Not happy with the standard 3 or 6 cell batteries that come with most Acer Aspire One netbooks? You can find a variety of 9 cell batteries on eBay. These third party batteries have prices ranging from around $58 to $80. It's worth noting that third party batteries can be hit or miss. Some people have purchased similar batteries and found that they run down quickly or have other defects. But they're also generally cheaper than anything you can find from the computer manufacturer — and Acer doesn't even make a 9 cell battery.
If you're lucky, you'll get a decent quality battery that can provide a serious boost in battery life. One member of the Netbook News.de forums picked up a 9 cell Aspire One Battery from Amazon and posted an extensive review. He reports that it lasted for almost 9 hours under regular use. It was good for about 6 hours of DVD playback.
The only down side is that the battery is significantly larger and heavier than the standard Aspire One battery. Check out the picture after the break to see just how much bigger.
It looks like a womans high heel shoe. The keyboard will be at such a rakish angle ya gotta look up to type on it… It would be better if the battery sat out and back as opposed to raising the unit at an angle.
Have you seen the Aspire One? The lid doesn't allow the battery to sit out at the back.
That is the stupidest battery ever made. Why would you want to type at a 28 degree angle on a now 4.9 lb netbook?
Because you are stuck on a flight from NYC to Melbourne and you don't have an outlet for your laptop. That's why!
I just found one that is $84, claims 7200 mAh (vs 2900 for reg 3 cell), and weighs 466g, or about 1 lb. If you leave your 3 cell behind, that makes the total weight maybe 3 lbs instead of 2.3 lbs… Not a bad tradeoff for 3x longer battery life.
sure wish I got that much out of my 3 cell. Lasts maybe 2 hours. I travel for my job, and having a super long life battery will make a big difference. The one I ordered is 7200mAh. If get 5 hours out of it I'll be satisfied.


INDIANAPOLIS – Early this week, a bipartisan recommendation for a government spending bill included funding for a portion of phase one of the Indianapolis Red Line rapid transit program. As of this afternoon, the spending plan passed through both houses of Congress, making the deal final.
The Red Line is an element of the Marion County Transit Plan, and phase 1 will become the backbone in a more frequent, grid-based network. IndyGo anticipates breaking ground on the Red Line before year's end with service expected to commence in 2019.
This summer, IndyGo will host several public outreach activities about the Red Line and implementation of the larger Marion County Transit Plan.
IndyGo, the Indianapolis Public Transportation Corporation, provides public transit service throughout Marion County. On February 27, Indianapolis City-County Council approved dedicated funding for transit projects. Visit our website, follow @IndyGoBus on Twitter, or call 317.635.3344 for more information.


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Iran urges EU to expedite setting up SPV 'before it's too late'
TEHRAN, Jan. 27 (MNA) – Iran's nuclear chief has urged Europe to accelerate the launch of a promised trade mechanism aimed at bypassing US sanctions before it becomes too late.
In an interview with the Islamic Republic News Agency (IRNA) published on Sunday, Head of Atomic Energy Organization of Iran (AEOI), Ali Akbar Salehi, commented on the current situation of cooperation between Iran, the Europeans, Russia and China within the framework of Iran's nuclear deal known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) and said 'it is unfortunate to say that lately the developments have not been very encouraging.'
He said Europe should take this as a message.
Salehi further expressed hope that "before it is too late, Europeans, in particular, should fulfill what they have promised beforehand; otherwise, I am afraid that the future developments will not be conductive neither for us nor for them or even for other participants of the JCPOA."
He was referring to the EU's promised trade mechanism known as Special-Purpose Vehicle (SPV), which is an alternative payment channel for Iran to continue trade transactions with the EU by circumventing the US sanctions.
There have been reports that the EU would set up the trade mechanism by next Monday, January 29.
Elsewhere in the interview, Salehi went on to say that Iran does not want to see the nuclear deal disintegrated and breached by any of the present members.
He said although the US has already withdrawn from the JCPOA – back in May 2018 – there are still other parties still committed to the agreement.
Salehi went on to reiterate that "Iran has been fulfilling its commitments under the deal and the 13 reports by the IAEA confirming the fact is a clear proof of this claim."
"The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) has confirmed this in its 13 consecutive reports, based on a robust verification system, proving that Iran is implementing its nuclear commitments. There is no credible peaceful alternative to the JCPOA," the official added.
The top nuclear official noted that "Iran's patience is wearing thin and it is time for the EU to take its strategic decision. "
"On the side of the Europeans, it's been months since they have promised us to come up with the SPV scheme which unfortunately has not yet been materialized,' Salehi said.
"I have heard in the recent news that hopefully by Monday they will probably announce the formation of the SPV," he added.
"I hope that they will take this step because this is an encouragement and will help keep the trust that we worked so hard to build between the two sides; otherwise, we will be losing the trust and once the trust is lost everybody will be a loser in the game," the nuclear chief stressed.
"So I say that this is a battle we should not lose," he added.
Salehi went on to add, "we should win this battle and we can only win it together. Otherwise, it will become a battle already lost and certainly this will not be in the interest of the Europeans, specifically if one considers that they look at the JCPOA mainly from the perspective of security."
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Study suggests video games can help mental health
Photo: AP Photo/Jae C. Hong, File. In this Thursday, Jan, 23, 2020 file photo, Nintendo Switch game consoles are on display at Nintendo's official store in the Shibuya district of Tokyo.
Updated: November 16, 2020 08:23 AM
Created: November 16, 2020 08:02 AM
Time spent playing video games can be good for mental health, according to a new study by researchers at Oxford University.
The finding comes as video game sales this year have boomed as more people are stuck at home because of the pandemic and many countries have once again imposed limits on public life.
The paper released Monday is based on survey responses from people who played two games, Plants vs Zombies: Battle for Neighborville and Animal Crossing: New Horizons.
In a first, the study used data provided by the game makers, Electronic Arts and Nintendo of America, on how much time the respondents spent playing, unlike previous research that relied on imprecise estimates from the players.
The researchers at the Oxford Internet Institute said they found the actual amount of time spent playing was a small but significant positive factor in people's well-being.
The paper, which hasn't been peer reviewed, said the level of enjoyment that players get from a game could be a more important factor for their well-being than mere playing time.
The results could cast doubt on long-held assumptions that gaming causes aggression or addiction, though the authors acknowledge they are only a snapshot.
"Our findings show video games aren't necessarily bad for your health; there are other psychological factors which have a significant effect on a persons' well-being," said Andrew Przybylski, the institute's director of research. "In fact, play can be an activity that relates positively to people's mental health – and regulating video games could withhold those benefits from players."
Some 2,756 players of Animal Crossing: New Horizons in the U.S., U.K. and Canada were surveyed along with 518 players of Plants vs Zombies: Battle for Neighborville. They were asked to fill out a survey on their experiences that was matched up against playing time logged by the game companies.
Lack of transparency from game makers has long been an issue for scientists hoping to better understand player behaviours and the authors said previous research used to propose advice for parents and policymakers was done without a robust evidence base.
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Q: Extract IP address from a string using boost regex? I was wondering if anyone can help me, I've been looking around for regex examples but I still can't get my head over it.
The strings look like this:
"User JaneDoe, IP: 12.34.56.78"
"User JohnDoe, IP: 34.56.78.90"
How would I go about to make an expression that matches the above strings?

A: The question is how exactly do you want to match these, and what else do you want to exclude?
It's trivial (but rarely useful) to match any incoming string with a simple .*.
To match these more exactly (and add the possibility of extracting things like the user name and/or IP), you could use something like: "User ([^,]*), IP: (\\d{1,3}(\\.\\d{1,3}){3})". Depending on your input, this might still run into a problem with a name that includes a comma (e.g., "John James, Jr."). If you have to allow for that, it gets quite a bit uglier in a hurry.
Edit: Here's a bit of code to test/demonstrate the regex above. At the moment, this is using the C++0x regex class(es) -- to use Boost, you'll need to change the namespaces a bit (but I believe that should be about all).
#include <regex>
#include <iostream>

void show_match(std::string const &s, std::regex const &r) {
    std::smatch match;
    if (std::regex_search(s, match, r))
        std::cout << "User Name: \"" << match[1]
                  << "\", IP Address: \"" << match[2] << "\"\n";
    else
        std::cerr << s << "did not match\n";
}

int main(){

    std::string inputs[] = {
        std::string("User JaneDoe, IP: 12.34.56.78"),
        std::string("User JohnDoe, IP: 34.56.78.90")
    };

    std::regex pattern("User ([^,]*), IP: (\\d{1,3}(\\.\\d{1,3}){3})");

    for (int i=0; i<2; i++)
        show_match(inputs[i], pattern);
    return 0;
}

This prints out the user name and IP address, but in (barely) enough different format to make it clear that it's matching and printing out individual pieces, not just passing entire strings through.

A: #include <string>
#include <iostream>
#include <boost/regex.hpp>

int main() {

    std::string text = "User JohnDoe, IP: 121.1.55.86";
    boost::regex expr ("User ([^,]*), IP: (\\d{1,3}(\\.\\d{1,3}){3})");

    boost::smatch matches;

    try
    {
        if (boost::regex_match(text, matches, expr)) {

            std::cout << matches.size() << std::endl;

            for (int i = 1; i < matches.size(); i++) {
                std::string match (matches[i].first, matches[i].second);
                std::cout << "matches[" << i << "] = " << match << std::endl;
            }

        }
        else {
            std::cout << "\"" << expr << "\" does not match \"" << text << "\". matches size(" << matches.size() << ")" << std::endl;
        }
    }
    catch (boost::regex_error& e)
    {
        std::cout << "Error: " << e.what() << std::endl;
    }

    return 0;
}

Edited: Fixed missing comma in string, pointed out by Davka, and changed cmatch to smatch

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The Last Jedi: My Thoughts on: Poe & Finn
As per usual, I didn't get around to seeing Star Wars: The Last Jedi for a week or so later than everyone else around me. So, once again, I was subject to everyone else's opinion before I could formulate my own. I was more surpised than anyone to hear such a range of views on this movie after the first one being hype on toast.
When I eventually did get around to seeing the movie, I agree that it might be the most decisive Star Wars film that I've seen. While Rogue One felt like a much darker take on the material than I was ever expecting to see from the series, especially under the Disney umbrella, it was a refreshing move away from what felt like a very safe entry with The Force Awakens.
After seeing The Last Jedi, I agree that there is a lot to digest. So much so that I felt it prudent to split this post up into multiple parts, because otherwise this would end up a million years long. This first part will be focusing on Poe Dameron and Finn's contributions to the series thus far. I'll be talking about the events of The Last Jedi in depth in case you couldn't guess that.
The Character Development of a Poe Dameron
If there was a massive strength of The Last Jedi, it was its character development. All of the characters go through some major development, none more so than Poe Dameron, a character who hardly featured in the first part. He stands centre stage as the best and most developed character in The Last Jedi, at least that's how I feel.
While his arc is a simple one, what makes it work so well for me is how it plays out in a very subversive way for the franchise. As the movie opens, Poe is a brash, hotshot pilot who ignores direct orders and has an "ends justify the means" mentality. In the traditional, swashbuckling style of story that Star Wars is born from, he would be praised for his individuality and singular efforts, despite the heavy losses it cost the Resistance. However, in this movie he is admonished by Leia for it and demoted.
The "breaking the rule" types are always bucking against authority though, so initially this seems like standard fare for the character archetype.
Not long after this, Poe finds himself thrown out of his comfort zone. Leia is unconscious and the Resistance are in dire straits, left under the leadership of a new that character Poe, and thus the audience, knows nothing about. Shortly after her introduction, we are lead to believe Laura Dern's character is just content to lead the Resistance to their doom, only because she won't share her plan with Poe.
As events play out, through her actions, she turns out to be the singular most heroic character in the movie. Making the ultimate act of self sacrifice without flinching and creating one of the best visual moments in the movie. It's an interesting change of pace for the genre and the franchise. Poe is the swaggering, swashbuckling hero throughout, and yet is wrong the entire time until he stops and finally has that moment of character growth. It's when this happens that Leia graciously passes the torch of leadership onto Poe for the future of theResistance and the franchise.
Poe's inability to follow the chain of command almost brings down the entire Resistance. For large parts of the movie we only see events through Poe's perspective, and in the traditional pulpy style of story of which Star Wars is based, he would have been justified and his disreguard for authrotity would have saved everyone. The Last Jedi is a movie that isn't afraid to make its hero look the fool, much to the ire of the vocal fan base.
Growing from Failure
Poe felt like somthing of a background character in The Force Awakens, a cool pilot who doesn't do much other than fill the swaggering hero role that Han Solo can't be present for. This second movie fleshed Poe's character out, making him feel like an invaluable character in the franchise going forward, because it humanised him. It allowed him to make mistakes and gave him the opportunity to better himself from them.
Failure is the theme of The Last Jedi, and why we shouldn't shy away from it. Something that we surprisingly don't see from these kinds of blockbuster movies. It's a very mature approach to the franchise. I've read a hell of a lot of negative backlash about how "the purple haired woman" was at fault for not sharing her plan with Poe. These are the people, I feel, that don't ever really want to see Star Wars change or grow. They want the cocky hero to continue to succeed despite everyone around him. But that's not how storytelling works.
Holdo's character has no reason to share her plan with Poe in the movie. When she comes into the leadership he immediately undermines her authority, despite the fact he is freshly demoted himself. Plus, with so much at stake and the potential for a mole in their midst, there is no reasonable expectation for her to share her plan with Poe. Much to the ire of the traditionalist out there.
But that's the reason it works so well, the director subverts our expectations by allowing us to believe Poe's plan will lead to him the saving the Resistance, when in actuality his actions almost causes Holdo's plan to fail and ultimately forces her to sacrifice herself to keep the Resistance alive.
It's this subversion of the trope and the bait and switch that makes me enjoy Poe's journey through this movie all the more. Hell, Even the wisest character in all of fiction shows up and tells us to learn from our failures, just in case you couldn't catch that.
Finn: The Odd One Out
Finn's growth in The Last Jedi is similar, but not as effective. In a movie that I felt could have stood to lose a few minutes from its run time, Finn's side story on Cantonica felt like it could have been left out for later use. Finn's arc here feels very similar to his from The Force Awakens. He starts out both movies making selfish and cowardly acts, running away from danger. Only to find somthing to fight for along the way. His acts of heroism in The Force Awakens feel motivated by his attraction to/love for Rey, with him making a sacrifical act in facing Kylo Ren for her sake.
He goes through almost the same arc in The Last Jedi, although I do feel it was done better here. He wants to run from the First Order but ends up getting roped back into events again due to his unique knowledge of them. During the movie he learns how wide spreading the First Order's influence actually is and how running away would never have been a true solution.
Finn goes through a journey of discovery and where his own priorities lie and by the end reaches a point where he is willing to sacrifice his life to hinder the First Order and give the Resistance time to escape.
Finn's story is somthing of a confusing one for me on what purpose it serves. While is works to flesh out the Star Wars world somewhat, showing us something rather the main characters and villains. It also establishes just how the First Order affects the little people who initially seem to have no connection to the war. But then goes and introduces a character whose job seems to be to insinuate that the 'bad guys' profiting from the war are doing it by selling weapons to both sides.
I can only assume that this is laying groundwork for future plot lines regarding Finn's character. Because in this movie it seems a touch out of place when everything else feels so deliberate. I like Finn as a character but feel like he could have almost been cut from this movie for the most part. Hell, it would have made a pretty cool spin-off movie.
Poe and Finn's Importance
In the end, both Poe and Finn's contributions are important to this new Star Wars franchise. It's because they break away from the thought that the main characters have to be a continuation of the characters from the original trilogy. That there needs to be a continuation of the bloodline, which ironically is a very imperial way of thinking about things.
At this point, none of the hero characters in the new Star Wars series have a blood connection to the characters from the originals, distancing themselves from a bloodline driven series that fans initially seemed to want. Instead, the only bloodline character is a part of the Imperial style order that serves as the current antagonists of the franchise. The resistance, conversly is filled with a rag tag bunch of nobodies, as it should be.
Whatever is going on elsewhere in the story with Rey, Ren & Luke; Poe and Finn are just people. They're not chosen ones, or strong in the force. They're just people fighting for what they belive is right, harkening back to the original Star Wars in which, despite his many flaws, Han Solo couldn't leave his new friends to die at the battle of the first Death Star over Yavin IV.
While I was a little cool on Finn's contributions to the movie, Poe's development here is the first real mark of intent by Disney that they're going to start bucking trends and expectations with the Star Wars franchise's main line movies. Poe's swashbucking actions would have caused him to save the day in this type of movie in the past, instead the Last Jedi shows us that he makes wrong desicion after wrong descision in this movie until his moment of character growth at the film's end. Even leia shoots him and calls him an idiot to prove that his actions were wrong.
It's one of the reasons I really appreciate The Last Jedi as a movie, as well as an entry in this long running franchise. I was worried that the new trilogy would be a lot of retreading old ground, especially with how many parallels line up between The Force Awakens and A New Hope. But The Last Jedi felt far more ambitious and it makes me excited to see where Disney will go with Episode IX.
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I consider myself an optimist. The glass is always half full – and it can always get worse.
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If he did, he may be asked to give testimony under oath.
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Auditing The Storm: HUD Funds Trickle Slowly Into Oklahoma Disaster Areas
By Kate Carlton Greer • Jul 23, 2014
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In the year since a series of severe storms devastated Central Oklahoma, the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development has awarded nearly $146 million to the city of Moore and the state to help with recovery. But so far, only a fraction of that has been spent, and spending the money has turned out to be harder than you'd think.
Auditing The Storm: Why Moore Missed Out On Mitigation Funds
Kate Carlton Greer / Oklahoma Tornado Project
When federal aid started pouring into the state after last years' storms, FEMA designated $4 million for hazard mitigation – a tool used to protect communities from future severe weather through things like storm shelters. But the communities you'd think might receive this kind of money sometimes don't.
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Auditing The Storm: Assistance Is Hit And Miss For Individuals After 2013 Tornadoes
After last year's deadly tornadoes, private insurers paid out over $1 billion in claims. FEMA also chipped in $15 million as part of its individual and household assistance program. But nearly three-quarters of that program's applicants were denied.
As part of our series tracking the federal aid money, we look at the decision-making process that left much of Central Oklahoma out of luck.
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Auditing The Storm: Disaster 4117 - Public Assistance Helps Moore Schools Rebuild
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When tornadoes damage buildings, there are a number of things to account for when it comes to insurance and federal aid: how many square feet were there? Is the building a total loss? How much will it cost to repair?
But you often don't think about the contents of a building. For example, what about the number of beakers in a school science classroom?
Robert Romines had been the superintendent of Moore Public Schools for just one week when the May 20th tornado devastated the town, leveling two schools, damaging multiple buildings and taking the lives of seven children. Romines promised the town that the district would rebuild, and it would do so quickly.
"We made a lot of promises early on, and I'll be honest with you, there were a lot of nights I went home shortly after May 20th, 2013 and thought to myself, 'Holy cow, we have made promises not only to our community, but worldwide media was here,'" he said.
Following Oklahoma's 2013 Tornadoes, Where Does Federal Aid Really Go?
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After a string of deadly tornados hit Oklahoma in the spring of last year, President Obama signed a federal disaster declaration that paved the way for up to $257 million in aid.
One year later, about one half of that funding has been spent. The Oklahoma Tornado Project teamed up with Oklahoma Watch to track where all the money went.
Following huge disasters, there's always a potential for things to go wrong. In New Orleans, former mayor Ray Nagin was recently sentenced to 10 years in prison for taking bribes from contractors rebuilding after Hurricane Katrina. And in New Jersey, there's been criticism that some Sandy aid money has gone to less needy areas.
So we wanted to look into Oklahoma's post-storm recovery. State Department of Emergency Management Director Albert Ashwood – who has worked closely with FEMA – says outright fraud is less common than it used to be.
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By Kate Carlton Greer • Jul 7, 2014
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A group that wants to install a tornado shelter in every public school in Oklahoma spent the holiday weekend gathering signatures to get its initiative petition on an upcoming ballot.
This isn't Take Shelter Oklahoma's first attempt to collect 155,000 signatures, but the group is giving it another shot.
Supporters of Take Shelter Oklahoma stood on the porch of David Slane's Oklahoma City law office last week to celebrate the launch of their second signature gathering campaign.
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By Kate Carlton Greer • Jun 30, 2014
Oklahoma has one of the highest incarceration rates in the country. Each year, the state releases roughly 8,000 people from prison, and many of them are looking for work. One organization now hires ex-offenders to help rebuild and restore tornado-struck towns.
When Reuben Ramirez was released from prison three months ago, it was hard for him to adjust. Ramirez spent a total of seven years behind bars, so getting used to the outside world wasn't always easy.
Red Cross Program Teaches Emergency Preparedness To Children Affected By 2013 Tornadoes
By Kate Carlton Greer • May 26, 2014
Jason Colston/American Red Cross
During tornado season, preparedness is key. Phrases like "Don't be scared, be prepared" populate Twitter, Facebook and other social media sites when there's a severe weather threat. One organization is now taking steps to ensure kids also know what to do when weather rolls in.
Neighbors Find Comfort In Community After 2013 Moore Tornado
Kate Carlton
One year ago this week, a deadly EF-5 tornado swept through Moore, Oklahoma, taking the lives of 24 people and destroying over 1,100 homes. For many people, this week marks a painful reminder of the damage. For others, the year anniversary is an opportunity to put the devastation behind them with the support of their peers.
Alise Newby lived right across from Plaza Towers Elementary School last year when the tornado leveled both the school and her house. She isn't from Oklahoma, so she wasn't exactly sentimental when it came to finding a new home outside of the devastated town.
"Where Was God" Documentary Provides "Spiritual Disaster Relief" To Moore, Okla.
Where Was God
For many victims of last year's deadly tornadoes in central Oklahoma, the storms created an existential crisis, where people questioned their beliefs and wondered just what to make of all the destruction in their midst.
One group has decided to try to tackle life's big questions through the lens of several storm survivors.
Chris Forbes calls himself a "faith-based film producer." After the deadly tornado struck Moore last May – the second EF-5 storm in less than 15 years – he knew there was a story to tell.


The word Yoga means 'the perfected state of universal oneness or spiritual completion' but it's also used to describe the activities, the exercises leading to that state.
Beginning with the physical, the first aspect of yoga is asana comprising all the physical exercises. These exercises condition the body creating freedom of movement, improved muscle tone and overall balance within one's physical structure.
Is your posture killing you?
One is sometimes compelled to ask, what do we really know about ourselves, and in particular our bodies? Science has made a great many studies and come to a number of conclusions but are these conclusions correct?
Science and medicine in many ways constitutes an educated guess-work and when what some treatment works for a majority without actually causing apparent harm to most users or trailists, it becomes medicine. In many ways our ancestors had a better understanding of what was to be human in regard to our physical posture.
I was recently sitting by the bed of a very ill patient who had suffered a major stroke wondering why? Why is it that such a good life ends in such unfair and unimaginable suffering?
The idea dawned on me that perhaps there is some residual suffering that is self inflicted. Just think, today the body fails and the personality becomes angry, disappointed, disillusioned and blames their body, blames God and existence for their pain and this happens in every generation.
Women are tasked with not only bringing new life into the world, they also tasked with supporting life which is why after the often dangerous process of pregnancy and childbirth, they get to spend long hours nursing, preparing food and maintaining a warm and safe environment for children and spouses.
Inasmuch as the civilisation and the society we live in is probably corrupted making life a struggle, the foundations for life are unchanged. Everyone needs a stable and nurturing environment in which to grow and prosper, and this is her task in addition to the often called upon need to participate in earning money just to survive.
Some of the problems women experience with their breasts.
As with the rest of the body, breasts are susceptible to changes and health problems. Therefore every woman needs to know about her breasts so as to be able to appreciate how they change and to know when to get advice.
Do you dislike going to the dentist?
Interestingly, brushing teeth is something that people only began doing in Europe about 200 years ago whereas in India and parts of Asia, it has been done for thousands of years. According to archaeologists, the skeletons and ancient European fossils of people who had that had died before this 200 year marker had very good teeth.
The most significant event that took place about 200 years ago was the introduction of sugar into Europe. The simple conclusion; sugar causes tooth decay and today this is compounded by low nutritional foods, processed foods and poor lifestyle.
Back in the 1950s, times were changing and people's awareness of the world around them was expanding. The insane asylums had been around for many years but they were becoming something of a social embarrassment to governments who had little idea what to do those who could not function in the fast changing world.
The mental asylums as well as accommodating dysfunctional were also experimental facilities for electric shock treatment and new drug trials. They also became alternative places to prison for people that governments didn't like and yet they had sufficient credibility that people who were feeling out of sorts with the world could admit themselves.
Health care as with every aspect of humanity is controlled and affected by Politics and Money. The politicians decide what health care we have access to, how much it will cost, and of course where there is money and power, we also get conspiracies.
Throughout history humanity has been structured with either leaders and followers or rulers and subjects, but what about democracy?
Washington, DC. Global health funding hit an all-time high of $31.3 billion in 2013, five times greater than in 1990. Yet with 3.9% growth from 2012 to 2013, the year-over-year increase falls short of the rapid rates seen over the previous decade, according to new research by the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME) at the University of Washington being published online in a web first edition on April 8 by Health Affairs.


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Steven Spielberg is an American producer, director, writer, screenwriter, and actor.
Steven Spielberg was born Steven Allan Spielberg on December 18th, in Cincinnati, Ohio, United States. His zodiac sign is Sagittarius.
A producer, Steven Spielberg has worked on movies such as Jurassic World, released in 2015, The Adventures of Tintin: Prisoners of the Sun (2015), Transformers: Age of Extinction (2014), Lincoln (2012), Men in Black 3 (2012), and Robopocalypse (2012).
Steven Spielberg is also a movie director and has worked on movies such as Lincoln, released in 2012, Robopocalypse (2012), The Adventures of Tintin (2011), War Horse (2011), Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull (2008), and Munich (2005).
Steven Spielberg has written the story of movies such as Eagle Eye, released in 2008, The Goonies (1985), Poltergeist (1982), Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977), The Sugarland Express (1974), and Ace Eli and Rodger of the Skies (1973).
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Int 1156-2018 * Stephen T. Levin Requiring the mayor's office of criminal justice to report on Multi-Agency Response to Community Hotspots operations. Introduction This bill would require the Mayor's Office of Criminal Justice to provide quarterly reports on Multi-Agency Response to Community Hotspots ("MARCH") operations. The reports would include information on establishments subject to MARCH operations, complaints or issues that led to interventions, summonses issued pursuant to MARCH operations and business closures resulting from such summonses. Hearing Held by Committee Action details Not available
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Multnomah County deputy steals blank COVID-19 vaccination cards from jail, pleads guilty to official misconduct
Updated: Dec. 21, 2021, 3:00 p.m. |
Multnomah County sheriff's deputy Robert James Haney, a nearly 23-year veteran of the sheriff's office, stole blank COVID-19 vaccination cards during a clinic at the downtown jail where he worked.
A Multnomah County jail deputy who stole blank COVID-19 vaccination cards from a clinic at the downtown jail where he worked pleaded guilty Tuesday to official misconduct and was sentenced to six months of probation.
Investigators said Deputy Robert James Haney, a nearly 23-year veteran of the sheriff's office, also copied a co-worker's completed vaccination card and intended to use the information on it to falsify his own card and the other blank cards that he planned to share with family, according to the sheriff's office.
Haney, 50, will resign from his job in one week and relinquish his certification as a sheriff's deputy, according to the sheriff's office. He also faces a $500 fine.
The district attorney's office decided to allow a week for Haney's resignation. "Our determination is that one week is both expedient and allows for Mr. Haney to get his affairs in order," said Elisabeth Shepard, a spokesperson for the office.
Co-workers had reported Haney's theft of blank official Centers for Disease Control vaccination cards in May to the sheriff's Professional Standards Unit.
Detectives obtained a warrant to search Haney's locker, phone and home in Battle Ground, Washington, and found stolen vaccination cards in his home, according to the sheriff's office.
Haney had stolen two vaccination cards during a clinic at the Multnomah County Detention Center, located in the Justice Center, and took a co-worker's completed card and made a copy of it, according to investigators.
He used the information verifying two COVID-19 vaccine doses from the copied card to fill out the stolen blank cards he swiped, so he and others could falsify their vaccination status, the sheriff's office said.
The sheriff's office did not say if Haney had shared any with co-workers.
Haney was indicted on Sept. 29, charged with third-degree theft and first-degree official misconduct.
He pleaded guilty to second-degree official misconduct, a misdemeanor. The indictment alleged the theft occurred on Jan. 11.
According to Haney's defense lawyer Christine Mascal, Haney took two blank cards that contained official clinic site stamps and took a photo of a co-worker's filled-out card, "but he did not alter any of the cards he took."
State records show Haney joined the sheriff's office May 4, 1998, and was placed on paid administrative leave May 21 of this year.
Haney appeared in court via phone with his defense attorney for his plea and sentencing at 9 a.m. Tuesday before Circuit Judge Kelly Skye.
"Community trust is the foundation upon which we build our legitimacy as public safety professionals. Our profession's credibility is damaged when any member engages in illegal actions or misconduct," Sheriff Mike Reese said in a statement.
District Attorney Mike Schmidt said the outcome of the investigation by the sheriff's office and prosecution of Haney "shows our accountability systems at work."
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capital = 1000

myport = portfolio('TD Dank')

print(bcolors.OKGREEN + 'Portfolio name: ' + myport.name + bcolors.ENDC)

# Provision portfolio
myport.add_security('VTI')
myport.add_security('VXUS')
myport.add_security('BND')
myport.add_security('BNDX')

# Provision portfolio
for sec in myport.group:
	if sec.name == 'VTI':
		sec.set_shares(18)
		sec.set_allocation(0.54)
		sec.get_price()
		sec.get_marketvalue()
	if sec.name == 'VXUS':
		sec.set_shares(27)
		sec.set_allocation(0.36)
		sec.get_price()
		sec.get_marketvalue()
	if sec.name == 'BND':
		sec.set_shares(0)
		sec.set_allocation(0.07)
		sec.get_price()
		sec.get_marketvalue()
	if sec.name == 'BNDX':
		sec.set_shares(0)
		sec.set_allocation(0.03)
		sec.get_price()
		sec.get_marketvalue()

# Update portfolio value
myport.update_portfolio_value()

# Ensure provisioning process with the below
for sec in myport.group:
    print 'Security: %s Shares: %s Allocation: %s Price: %s Market Value: %s ' % (sec.name,str(sec.shares),str(sec.allocation),str(sec.price),format_money(sec.marketvalue))

print('\n')
print(bcolors.OKGREEN + "Portoflio Total Value: " + bcolors.ENDC)
print format_money(myport.portfoliovalue)

print('\n')
print(bcolors.OKGREEN + "Query functions: uses portfolio" + bcolors.ENDC)
print("Get portfolio security price")
print get_port_security_price(myport)
print("Get portfolio allocation")
print get_port_allocation(myport)

print('\n')
print(bcolors.OKGREEN + "Buy functions: uses capital" + bcolors.ENDC)
print("Proposed whole shares to buy")
print buy_shares(myport,capital)
print("Left over cash")
print leftover_cash(myport,capital)

print('\n')
print(bcolors.OKGREEN + "Rebalance functions: uses portfolio" + bcolors.ENDC)
print("Target share allocation")
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he came to a brahmin village of the Kosalans named Sālā.
and others again in silence.
in whom they had confidence.
No, sir, was their answer.
to your lasting happiness and welfare.
And in what does it consist?
and make it all known to others.
that there are indeed such things as these.
of bad behaviour in body,  word and thought.
of Renunciation allied to sanctity.
he exalts himself and disparages others.
thrive apace because of his wrong views.
and an apostle of vanity.
he misses the right conclusion.
of good behaviour in body, word and thought.
neither exalts himself nor disparages others.
thrive apace because of his right views.
will pass to a happy state or to heaven.
and preaching what is salutary.
he seizes on the right conclusion.
torturing and causing to be tortured.
and virtue in the latter.
diametrically opposed one to the other?
but if ... misses the right conclusion.
seizes on the right conclusion.
within one or other of life's Six Environments.
and bound by life's hard and fast environment.
because of his wrong views.
but if ...  misses the right conclusion.
because of his right views.
while others assert the contrary.
while all else is error.
whereas nothing of the kind occurs with the Incorporeal.
and towards stilling it for ever.
while others again assert the contrary.
while all else  is error.
to be found in the world.
and is given up to self-torture.
and is set on torturing them.
who tortures neither himself nor others.
and is given up to self-torture?
as in the Kandaraka-Sutta (No. 51).
and is given up to torturing them?
given up to torturing them.
tortures both himself and others too?
there is no more of what I have been!
has the reverend Gotama made his Doctrine clear.
from this day forth while life lasts.
 Here clearly the plural Ariya is a synonym for the Arahats supra.
 See Charpentier on 'The Leśyā-theory of the Jainas and Ājīvikas' in the Särtryk in honour of K. J. Johannson (Goteborg, 1910). But the Jain 'colours' arose as the direct product of Karma, which Makkhali is here represented as flouting. At D. III, 250 only two abhijātis are particularized as colours (the 'black' and the 'white'), but at D.A. I, 162 Bu. completes the six (as colours) by adding blue, red, yellow and very white. The Cy. (here) goes on to explain that - in an ascending scale - the black or lowest are bird-fowlers, pig-stickers, fishermen, robbers, robbers' executioners, and all others who follow cruel callings. Buddhist almsmen are 'blue.' - It is said that these, putting 'thorns' in the Four Requisites (of an Almsman), eat them, and so an Almsman is a 'thorn-liver,' this being their creed; or 'thorn-livers' are certain Pilgrims (pabbajitā), for, in their belief, recluses (samaṇas) are 'thorn-livers.' - The 'red' are Nigaṇṭhas who wear one garment, and are reputed to be whiter than the foregoing two classes. The 'yellow' are lay folk who are followers of the unclad (gihi-acela-sāvakā); thus they make their own donors of requisites higher than the Nigaṇṭhas. Nanda Vaccha and Sankicca are classed as 'white,' being spoken of as whiter than the foregoing four classes. The Ājīvakas are spoken of as 'whitest of all,' being reputed whiter than all the others.
On our Majjhima passage, Bu. concludes his exegesis by saying that: - first of all (paṭhamaɱ) all people are bird-fowlers etc. In the successive stages of being purified (tato visujjhamanā) they become Sakya Recluses; then Nigaṇṭhas, then disciples of the Ājīvakas; then Nanda etc.; and then Ājīvakas;. Such is the doctrine held. The 'white' class is to be explained as the converse to what has been said (of the othei classes).
In the Sumangala-Vilāsinī version (I, 162), apart from minor differences, Makkhali Gosāla is added to Nanda Vaccha and [Kisa] Sankicca, - the trio being raised from the white category to the whitest of all, while ājīvakas [and female ājīvakas] descend to the merely 'white' and there is no specific mention of Samaṇas (as above) in connection with bhikkhus.
In adopting the two colours, black and white, Buddhism characteristically adopts also the familiar number of six abhi-jātis (D. III, 250-1), but transmutes their meaning ethically. Thus, a man born into a black (or dark) environment may evolve therein (i) a black character and life or (ii) a white character and life or (iii) Nirvana. And so also threefold possibilities lie before the man born into a white (or bright) environment.


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The Commission was accompanied by various independent consultants including paediatricians and child psychiatrists. The following are some of the reports prepared by these consultants after their visits to immigration detention centres.
These expert reports do not represent the views of the Commission.


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Picnicking – Though small, the preserve offers many scenic picnic locales along its shoreline.
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How to Get There: Folly Island is located in Bartlett Narrows in the town of Mount Desert.