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PRESS RELEASE – Juncker: the 1st elected European Commission President, accountable to the people.
STRASBOURG – The European Federalist Party congratulates Jean-Claude Juncker as the first elected president of the European Commission and demands that his election brings more accountability and more ambition to the work carried out by the European Union.
Yesterday, July 15th, the second EU legislative chamber representing the people (the European Parliament) voted by absolute majority in favour of Jean-Claude Juncker as the next European Commission President. This vote follows the vote cast in the European Council on June 27th when the heads of state and government voted by qualified majority in favour of Juncker as the next European Commission President.
"Regardless to the policies that may be carried out by Jean-Claude Juncker, this is a victory for democracy in Europe" argued the co-President of the European Federalist Party Pietro De Matteis. Juncker was the candidate put forward by the party who obtained the most votes at the latest European Elections in May. As such he was the first to seek a majority in the two legislative chambers (Council and Parliament) through negotiation with the other political forces, similarly to what happens in many parliamentary democracies.
"This new procedure to elect the European Commission President brings more power to the people and makes the EU more democratic as from now on it will be up to the people to vote for the president of the European Commission, who will be accountable not only to the European Council and to the Parliament, but also to the People directly" continued the co-President.
This is also a victory of European public opinion which refused to accept an attempted "coup d'état" against the European Parliament and the voters which seemed to be in preparation after the informal European Summit of May 27th (see EFP press release of June 2nd) when several heads of state including Cameron, Orban and Merkel – with the tacit accord of others including Renzi, refused to openly support Jean-Claude Juncker as the winner of the European Elections.
The European Federalist Party was the first to call for the respect of the results of the European Elections and launched the initiative: "Respect our Vote" (www.respectourvote.eu) run in partnership with other NGOs such as Project for Democratic Union, One Europe, JEF Belgium and JEF Brussels.
The board of the European Federalist Party
CONTACTS: The contact person for this press release is Marirosaria Marziali: mariarosaria.marziali@gmail.com (mobile: +32484077897). The co-president of the European Federalist Party Pietro De Matteis can be contacted by writing to: pietro.dematteis@federalistparty.eu.
WHO WE ARE: The European Federalist Party (EFP) is the pan-European party for a more democratic, united and solidary Europe. Founded in 2011, the EFP has sections in 16 countries and took part in the 2014 European Elections in 6 countries. The EFP was instrumental in the introduction of several key reforms in the EU including the European Citizens' Initiative and the EU roaming regulation. More information is available on our website www.federalistparty.eu and on Facebook: www.fb.com/EuropeanFederalistParty .


HEART Evangelista fanatics are apt to rejoice with the actress recently revealing her upcoming appearance in an international film.
She didn't reveal much, apart from saying the film is of the action genre.
The 34-year-old, known mainly for romantic films, admitted it was something she didn't foresee doing.
"Medyo nagulat din ako sa sarili ko but you know again, you only live once, try new things from time to time," she said.
Earlier this year, Evangelista flew to China for a hush-hush project.
Many thought it was for the sequel of "Crazy Rich Asians" but Evangelista was quick to deflate the allegation.


Quite a lot of women admire nature, and some of them may admire it so much as to jump at the occasion to wear it on themselves. That is a pretty literal suggestion! A recent design by Ali Seçkin Karayol and Mette Lyckegaard allows to do just that, wear a garden of your own anywhere you go. Don't you believe it yet?
Look here: their design is called the Mesh Dress and is done over in organic waste container slots. You can really plant there flowers, herbs and plants that you are fond of or that symbolize you. Buy the seeds, plant them in the outer slots of the dress and give them some kitchen compost nourishment. In a while you will be blooming with life in what the creator called "a beautiful symbiosis between nature and citizens." The (probably) most convenient way to become as one with the green pristine world and create an ecosystem of your own around you can be a bold fashion statement as well as a psychologically inspiring outfit. Moreover, it can be a different dress with every year, and you will always look like a fresh bouquet!
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NZ On the Wrong Side at WTO Ministerial Meeting in Argentina
Thursday, 14 December 2017, 10:20 am
Article: Professor Jane Kelsey
NZ On the Wrong Side of the Only Outcomes From WTO Ministerial Meeting in Argentina
By Jane Kelsey
13 December 2017 -'The World Trade Organization (WTO) ministerial conference in Buenos Aires has concluded without a formal statement. This reflects the deep divide between poorer countries who have demanded that WTO members deliver on their promises to address outstanding development issues', Auckland University law professor Jane Kelsey reports from the meeting.
'Richer countries, including New Zealand, sought to leave those promises behind and move on with negotiations on rules of commercial interest to them'.
Two side-statements have been issued today by those countries, one on electronic commerce and another that proposes 'disciplines' on how governments can regulate their services.
'Sadly, New Zealand is a signatory to both statements', according to Professor Kelsey.
A Joint Statement on Electronic Commerce was supported by only 70 of the 164 WTO Members. The majority of developing countries held firm against massive pressure, led by Japan, Australia and Singapore, to launch negotiations on electronic commerce in the WTO. Their proposals were designed for, and largely by, the Big Tech companies.
They plan to hold 'exploratory work towards future WTO negotiations', even though there is no mandate from the Ministerial Conference to take e-commerce any further than the 'discussions' that are currently authorised.
This repeats the tactics used in the Trade in Services Agreement (TiSA), where a self-selected group of countries took it upon themselves to rewrite the trade in services rules of the WTO in ways that intrude deeply on nations' right to regulate and without any development dimension. Those negotiations have been suspended for over a year.
The collapse of TiSA is partly behind the second statement on Domestic Regulation Disciplines. New Zealand has been a cheerleader of these negotiations under successive government.
It was among a small group of countries that took the most hard-line position that government's licensing requirements and procedures and technical standards should be subject to a 'necessity test'. Decided, that means regulations that are least burdensome for business – a repeat of the light-handed, risk-tolerant approach that official inquiries show have brought us Pike River, leaky buildings, deaths in the forestry sector. The only specified goal is the 'quality' of the service.
'It is shameful that the new Labour-led government has been willing to play a leading role in signing up to these statements at the WTO'.
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Discussion in 'For Sale and Lost & Found' started by Zeratul, Mar 16, 2019.
It is that time of year!!! Is the Little League selling discount cards? Or another organization? Please let me know, I am interested.
I usually buy one from the Briar Woods Softball team, but they haven't come around selling this year. I'm looking for one too.
We should be getting DLL cards in the coming weeks. I can let you know when we get them.
Yes, Little League is where we usually get them... that would be great. Let me know ASAP!
...bump. Ant updates for Discount Cards? They should be available now.


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SCC receives ECOLAB science grant
The robotics students have used the Microbit technology and the Finch robots to create Mardi Gras Parade Floats. The pieces were designed and printed in SCC's 3D printers, and the pieces fit together to create moving vehicles.
LAPLACE — St. Charles Catholic High School is a proud recipient of the ECOLAB/ECOLAB NPO 2020 Grant in the amount of $18,000 as part of their Sustaining a Legacy of Innovation during a Global Pandemic Initiative. The goal of this partnership is to encourage and reward creativity and innovation in the classroom. St. Charles Catholic has long been an educational leader in the River Parishes, and with a recent award from EcoLab, SCC will be able to continuously improve the resources and equipment available in their physics, chemistry and biology labs. SCC's aim is to help students develop deep, critical and quantitative thinking skills while increasing their Science ACT score. Over 300 students and four science teachers will benefit from this grant as the science department commits these funds to their class projects. This year, the science department has many plans for the monetary award, including upgrading microscopes for more detailed biological and chemical studies, purchasing Microbits for use in the robotics classes and the improving the air exhaust systems in the labs to allow for more frequent and complex lab experiments.
SCC juniors participate in a special lab with Deacon Tom, utilizing many of the equipment pieces in the chemistry lab to complete their experiments.
The updated microscopes will allow students to use the latest in available technology in the study of microorganisms and to explore cellular biology while engaging in the real-time processes used by scientists. Next Generation Science Standards emphasize processes that require students to ask questions about the world around them. They further this curiosity through hypothesizing, investigating, making inferences and building their own theories. Providing quality microscopes will allow students to build skills in the areas of STEM that will allow them to expound on what they have learned in the classroom.
Robotics has purchased Microbits with the ECOLAB grant. The lessons in Microbits introduced the Comets to various tools needed in coding including data handling, animations and various forms of computational thinking. SCC updated the Hummingbird Robots with money from the grant. Hummingbird taught the students to design, program and build a robot out of materials that they have on hand in the classroom. After learning how to use the hummingbird components they created animated Vincent Van Gogh projects. The projects were based on an art exhibit held at school called the Traveling Art exhibits where SCC facilitates interdisciplinary learning. After experiencing an art exhibit and discussing the style of Van Gogh, the students each researched the extensive work of Van Gogh. Each student chose a work of art to paint and animate with their robotics. The projects had to incorporate light and movement to a work of art by Van Gogh incorporating the Microbit technology. Students will use the ECOLAB grant to also purchase Finch robots that work in conjunction with the Microbit. Their upcoming project will be a Mardi Gras Parade Route in which 3D printed floats will fit onto Finch robots. The Microbits will be programmed to allow for lights and movement on the floats as they follow a parade route established by the students through the classroom.
The robotics class created replica Van Gogh paintings complete with moving parts, such as this example's boats rocking in the waves and it's blinking stars in the sky, using Hummingbird robots.
SCC would like to express gratitude to ECOLAB for providing the opportunity for our students to experience hands on activities in STEM. The students will be able to further develop their skills of reasoning, critical thinking, problem solving, flexibility, collaboration and creativity with the help of this grant. These vital skills will certainly impact their futures.
"We are very thankful to the ECOLAB Foundation and ECOLAB Garyville for their support of science education in the River Parish area," said Dr. Courtney Millet, principal of St. Charles Catholic High School. "This grant will allow us to continue to provide STEM opportunities for our students. Furthermore, this grant not only provides support to our organization, but also the community we serve by allowing us to develop students with critical thinking skills to solve real-life problems in their homes, communities and future careers."
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Brianna Howell and her father, Jerry, look for 'a diamond in the rough' during the Fredericksburg Comic and Toy Show at the Fredericksburg Expo Center on Saturday.
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Amber Seagrave of Fredericksburg, portraying Zarya from Overwatch, won the adult division of the cosplay costume contest at the Fredericksburg Comic and Toy Show Saturday.
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Ched Hall as an AT-ST (All Terrain Scout Transport) from 'Star Wars' makes his way through the crowd.
Harry Hopkins of Fandata talks with customers at the Fredericksburg Comic and Toy Show. He and his wife, Marlane, have been buying, selling and trading comics as a side business since 1978.
Taylor Gowen of Fredericksburg waits for her turn before the judges of the cosplay competition.
Collector Gary Schlegelmilch holds one of his finds: 'Superman's Girlfriend, Lois Lane #9' from 1959.
James Roberts of Winchester, cosplaying as Spiderman/Venom stops for a photo at the Fredericksburg Comic and Toy Show at the Expo Center on July 6.
A comic fan looks at a copy of "Thor" at the Fredericksburg Comic and Toy Show at the Expo Center on July 6.
Yvonne Stanwood and her son, Thomas, check out the Ghostbusters Virginia display at the comic fest.
Superhero fans flock to Fredericksburg Comic and Toy Show
By CATHY JETT THE FREE LANCE–STAR
Amber Seagrave loves to tackle new skills for creating costumes when she isn't cutting hair for her Fredericksburg clients.
She spent eight months off and on learning how to code and solder just so she could create a Particle Cannon to go with the Zarya outfit she wore to the Fredericksburg Comic and Toy Show on Saturday. Zarya, a character in the Overwatch video game series, uses the massive weapon to unleash a short-range beam of destructive energy; Seagrave used a micro controller so her version would emit a harmless beam of light.
Her creativity, along with her pixie-cut pink wig and body armor fashioned out of foam floor tiles, catapulted her into first place in the cosplay costume division for adults at the event. She won a crisp $100 bill and a medal.
"It definitely makes me feel that my skills are being validated," said Seagrave, who'd eventually like to make costumers for movies, television or theater.
The 30-year-old was one of nearly 1,400 adults and children who turned out for daylong show, which was held at the Fredericksburg Expo & Conference Center for the first time. It gave people who love superheroes—and an occasional supervillain—the chance to buy comic books, game cards and other related paraphernalia; and have their photos taken with their favorite characters and celebrity vehicles.
Like her, there were a number who came in costume or wore T-shirts bearing the name of their favorite superhero from comic books, video games, movies and anime. Nine-year-old Zachary Fowlkes, for instance, dressed up as Emerald to win the children's division in the cosplay contest.
"Everybody loves superheroes. Everybody loves comics. Everybody loves Marvel movies. I think it's a very, very broad appeal," said Mike Federali, president of Incredible Conventions.
He took over the Fredericksburg Comic and Toy Show from Sam Ellis, who started the show three years ago as Fredericksburg Comic Con, or FredCon for short, at Spotsylvania Towne Centre.
"There was one year in between when it was just impossible to make it happen, but we're really happy that the expo center worked with us to make it be our new home," Federali said.
Comic book conventions date back to the 1960s, and gave comic book fans a chance to meet creators, experts and each other. Federali said that he can remember when he was growing up that fans would be lucky to find a small event at a mall. Today comic cons, as they're often called, are held in big venues around the world and feature a wide variety of pop culture related to comics, including film, television and animation as well as gaming and collectibles.
"This show right here is a tiny, tiny fraction of what [Dragon Con] at Atlanta is," said Federali, who organizes a number of comic cons in Virginia and several other states. "It's nice to bring this to town. If all goes well, we'll add a couple elements next year."
Saturday's event drew 114 exhibitors, who were selling everything from Pokémon cards and vintage comic books to small Pop! Games vinyl figures and full-scale replicas of the proton packs worn by the original "Ghostbusters" cast. Spider-Man was there posing for pictures with people, and there were several celebrity vehicles such as Pikaz, one of 10 Nintendo-owned Pokémon promotional cars.
Jonathan and Jenna Stillman of Orange, who own Super Heroes Armory, were doing a brisk business selling replica weaponry, including knives and swords from Marvel superhero movies and the gaming world, along with steampunk masks and other items. He's a government contractor who works at Quantico, and selling their wares at shows from West Virginia to Raleigh, N.C., a couple of times a month allow her to home school their children.
"It started with mostly superheroes and then Marvel took off and now with the gaming world being so huge it has really taken over," Jenna said.
Their bestsellers are metal and foam swords like the one Zelda wields in "The Legend of Zelda" video games, said her husband. Some comic con organizers, she added, no longer allow metal weapons to be sold at their events.
Another couple, Harry and Marlane Hopkins of Fredericksburg, started collecting comic books when they were growing up, and have been buying, selling and trading them as a side business since 1978.
"Comic books put our two daughters through college," said Harry Hopkins as he straightened the display at their Fandata booth. "One went to Virginia Tech and the other went to the University of Mary Washington."
The Hopkins do 15 to 20 shows a year on the East Coast now that he's retired from his job with Homeland Security. Customers typically look for issues when their favorite characters made their first appearance or the last issue in a series. Then, when a popular movie such as "Wonder Woman" comes out, interest in comics with the lead character will spike, he said.
Fredericksburg natives Graham and LaToya Gronhoff are Marvel fans and brought their two children, Connor, 8, and Zoey, 2, to the show because Connor had never gotten to do anything like that. He found a Funko Ballora vinyl figure from Pop! Games' "Five Nights at Freddy's" video game that he wanted, and Zoey got to sit on a plush triceratops as the siblings posed next to the replica "Jurassic Park" jeep so their dad could take their picture.
Spotsylvania County residents Cimarron Miller, her fiancé Brad Hederer and their friend Michael Whitlock decided to attend the show dressed as their favorites.
"I'm a huge nerd and he's my fiancé, so that's why he's here," joked Miller, who was wearing a blonde wig, white face paint and harlequin-type attire.
She was dressed as Harley Quinn, the psychiatrist who fell in love with The Joker in "Batman" and became his sidekick. Miller said that she's one of her favorite characters because she always has a smile on her face and tries to lift people's spirits, even when she's being "tough as nails."
"I just love everything she embodies," she said. "For the day, I get to be that."
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Makayla Hay Buck: 205-Inch Texas Non-Typical
December 02, 2014 By Matt Williams
Anyone who likes a good deer story should love this one. I know I do. My hunting spirit holds a special affinity for youth hunters and whopper bucks, especially when the hunter is a girl — and the buck is one for the ages, with a colorful story that sounds like something straight out of a Texas fairy tale.
Now, before you get the wrong idea, let's set this straight. The story I'm about to pass along isn't built around a package hunt in which a kid shoots a buck and Daddy writes a fat check to pay the kill fee. Far from it. Makayla Hay of New Waverly, Texas, takes her hunting more seriously than most other kids, male or female. At 15, she's likely shot and skinned more deer than have many grown men.
Makayla and her dad, Jim, hunt on a 1,600-acre low-fenced lease that borders the Trinity River near Madisonville. But she tends to her deer- hunting business alone — and has for several years now.
The high school sophomore knows her way around a rifle, and she knows her deer well enough that the thought of killing an 18-inch 8-pointer doesn't excite her any more. In fact, as gun season opened last Nov. 2, she was watching a handsome buck of that caliber and a young 6-pointer. And then, a monster emerged from a distant brush line and postured his way toward the feeder where those bucks and a couple does were snacking on corn.
"He came straight out of the brush, facing right at me," Makayla remembers. "Most of the time when you see a buck at that angle it's hard to tell exactly what he is, because all you can see is a row of tines."
That wasn't the case with this deer. He was wearing a rack that resembled nothing she'd ever seen in real life. The gnarly, thick antlers sported a bounty of tines and kickers poking in odd directions, and in numbers too high to count in the dim light.
Makayla went into action. She chambered a round into her 7mm-08 Rem. and clicked the safety off.
"I never chamber a bullet in my rifle until I know I'm going to shoot, and it took me all of two seconds to jack one in there once this buck walked out," she says. "As soon as he turned broadside and I could see his shoulder, I took him. I didn't worry about trying to count points. I knew that would just give me more time to get nervous."
Makayla's shot was well placed at a distance of 145 yards. The buck dropped in his tracks but then started trying to regain his footing. The hunter quickly disposed of the deer with a second shot.
"I wasn't taking any chances," she notes. "When I saw him trying to get up, I jacked another shot into him real quick."
Makayla's dad, who was in a stand a few hundred yards away, says he could tell from the sound of the shots that she'd been on target both times.
"She didn't waste any time, either," Jim recalls. "If I hadn't known better, I'd have thought she was shooting an automatic."
No sooner had the woods settled than Jim felt his cell phone vibrating in his pocket. It was a call from Makayla, which was somewhat out of character.
"She usually sends me texts," Jim says. "When I answered, all she said was, 'Dad, come here.' Then she hung up. I thought that was sort of strange. My first thought was that she had shot a deer and it had jumped the fence onto the property next to ours."
Dad learned differently when he arrived at his daughter's box blind a few minutes later.
"Makayla was standing outside the blind, and she was highly excited," he says. "She told me she had shot a big buck. When I asked her how big, she just put her thumbs to the sides of her head with her fingers going in all different directions. She said, 'He's big, Dad.'"
It wasn't until father and daughter closed the gap to the deer that they realized the true majesty of the animal before them. Fairy tales apparently can be true in deer hunting, because one had just unfolded before them along the Trinity River bottom.
The Buck in the Photo
While this 23-pointer is an incredible deer in every respect, what makes the story behind him truly unique is a photo that had showed up on the Internet in mid-October, just weeks before the gun opener.
The photo depicted a huge non-typical buck swimming alongside a much smaller 6-pointer in off-colored water. Jim says the owner of the property he and Makayla hunt had e-mailed him the photo, along with an interesting notation.
The note indicated the picture was taken in the Trinity River in close proximity to their lease, reportedly by a fellow named Chuck Kelly. According to the story, Chuck had been fishing on the river at the time he snapped the rare image.
As that picture made the rounds on the Internet, questions as to its authenticity began to circulate. I first saw it on texasbowhunter.com, where some naysayers claimed it was a doctored version of an image that had surfaced in the early 2000s. That photo, which showed six bucks swimming side by side, reportedly had been taken farther downriver, much closer to Lake Livingston.
Jim wasn't sure if the photo he'd been sent was real or not. Regardless, he showed it to Makayla as a way of getting her even more pumped up about the approaching season.
"I didn't know if it was in the Trinity River or in a stock tank," he says, "but Makayla believed it, and she really got excited about it. That's all that mattered to me. She went hunting opening morning with full intentions of killing the deer in that picture. Never in my life would I have believed she'd do it, but she did.
"The moment we walked up on the buck, I knew it was him," Jim says. "I still had the picture on my cell phone, so I pulled it up so we could compare it. There was no mistaking that deer. Makayla had killed the buck in the picture everyone was talking about."
The Guy With the Camera
To learn more about the origin of the photo and the story behind it, I did a quick Internet search for Charles Kelly. A phone call later I was talking to his father, a soft-spoken gentleman who was quick to vouch for the photo's authenticity.
"My son, Chuck, took the picture," he said. "Everybody in town was talking about that deer and that picture. We've heard a young girl killed it. Is that true?"
The man offered me a phone number so I could contact his son for more details. Soon I was getting the photo's story from the 25-year-old man who'd taken it.
Chuck told me he was fishing with his younger brother, Cole, and two friends when their boat rounded a bend on the Trinity near the Hays' hunting lease. The anglers noticed a small group of bucks in the water.
"It was about two weeks before the beginning of gun season," Chuck told me. "We were moving up the river to try another spot when we came through a curve and saw a buck that was almost across the river. Then I looked to the right and there were three more bucks together, and one of them was really big. When we stopped the boat, one of the smaller bucks split up from the big one and a little 6-pointer."
Chuck said he moved his boat to within a few feet of the big buck and the men took several photos with their cell phones. They also captured a short video of the deer swimming. Although the footage was taken from a distance, one of the bucks in the group was clearly a giant.
"When I started showing the pictures around, nobody believed us," Chuck said. "Nobody around here had ever seen a buck like that. Then she (Makayla) goes out and shoots it on opening weekend."
The deer was officially scored for Boone & Crockett by Texas Parks & Wildlife Department biologist Billy Lambert of Hearne. The gross score for the 5 1/2-year-old giant is 215 4/8 inches, with a net of 205 0/8. That makes the Hay buck Madison County's biggest in 46 years!
The wild rack, which is adorned with 48 5/8 inches of abnormal points, has a number of unique features. These include split brow tines (one with an easy-to-identify crab claw), clusters of points protruding upward and outward and a club-shaped drop tine off the left main beam. Billy had seen the picture of the buck swimming the river, and once he had the rack in his hands, he knew it was from that deer.
As if all of this weren't amazing enough, there was more icing to add to Makayla's cake. According to Justin Dreibelbis, Texas Big Game Awards Hunting Heritage program director, this giant whitetail is the biggest low-fenced buck ever recorded by a youth hunter in the state. Yes, some fairy tales are true!
Kyle Heuerman
Any serious whitetail hunter knows that it's not often that we get a second chance on the buck of a lifetime, or even a first chance for that matter. But luck was on the side of Kyle Heuerman and his girlfriend Jennifer Weaver when they put an arrow through this 196-inch Illinois brute. Read the full story.
Joe Franz
We estimate he was 7 1/2 years old. That's based on photos from 2010, when he clearly wasn't over 3 1/2. When I got him he weighed over 300 pounds on the hoof, as suspected. Official B&C measurer Glen Salow came up with a 'green ' gross score of 258 7/8 inches. After the 60-day drying period, he again taped the rack. This time he got a gross non-typical score of 261 3/8, with a net of 230 7/8. The gross score evidently makes this the highest-scoring wild whitetail ever harvested on professional video. Read the full story.
Jon Massie
Jon's no stranger to free-ranging whitetails across the central plains, having guided a number of clients to trophies and harvesting many big ones himself. In fact, going into 2013 he'd shot two net Boone & Crocketts: one a non-typical scoring over 200, the other a typical from public land. With such success behind him, Jon felt all of his hunting dreams already had come true. At least, he did until a buck he'd never seen showed up on one of his trail cameras. Read the full story.
Tom Boyer
Knowing I couldn't even come to my knees without breaking the little concealment we had, I decided to lie on my left side, using my left elbow for as solid a rest as could be achieved within the slight incline of the old fencerow. But when I shouldered the rifle, the sight of the crosshairs oriented at a 10-4 o'clock angle was definitely a different look from the normal 12-6 position we all practice from. Even so, I didn't figure that would matter if I aimed at the right spot and squeezed off a clean shot. I settled the crosshairs where I needed to place the bullet and steadied the rifle. Whispering 'fire in the hole ' while floating the crosshairs on the spot, I gently squeezed the trigger until the recoil removed the buck from my view. Read the full story.
Teddy's Buck
With a whopping 40 inches of non-typical growth, he has a gross Boone & Crockett score of 215 3/8. The rack's 21 6/8-inch inside spread certainly helps to show off its unique character. He was just a special deer, and very much a result of patience in both management and hunting. Read the full story.
Ryan Sullivan
Ryan Sullivan was only 19 when, during the 2013 season, he arrowed an Arkansas buck of gigantic proportions. Like many of his fellow Arkansans, Ryan is a deer and duck fanatic. For several years, however, he gave up most of his duck season to lock horns with the world-class buck. Read the full story.
Junior Key
Junior's outstanding whitetail is the biggest ever recorded from Monroe County, and he ranks as one of the Bluegrass State's top bucks from the 2013-14 season. This great non-typical also is the latest member of Kentucky's all-time Top 30 list. Read the full story.
Mikell Fries
At 16 yards, Mikell took aim at the giant and released his arrow. In an instant, the shaft had passed through him. The deer instantly whirled and ran out of sight . . . but then, within seconds the archer heard him crash to the ground. 'I remained in the stand for several minutes to gather my thoughts and calm down, ' Mikell says. 'I'm sure the entire encounter only took a few minutes, but it seemed an eternity. ' Read the full story.
Bill Robinson
Three double-digit tines of 10 2/8 to 13 5/8 inches, plus 7 1/8- and 9 3/8-inch brows and a 21 3/8-inch inside spread, add plenty to this regal crown. Put everything together and you have a gross 9-point frame score of 193 6/8. That's as big as it sounds. Typical asymmetry and 11 6/8 inches of abnormal points total 25 1/8 inches of deductions, so as a typical, the deer nets 'only ' 168 5/8. But the 8×5 rack's total gross score of 205 4/8 is much more reflective of its stunning size. Regardless of score, the Robinson buck is clearly a marvel of nature. Read the full story.
The action was fast and furious right from the get-go. At daybreak a doe busted through the cedar thicket with an eight-point suitor following close behind. The doe, however, wanted nothing to do with her pursuer and jumped into a nearby pond in an attempt to flee the buck. This, however, wasn't the last of the action. Nick continued to watch several bucks harass does throughout the morning, but chose not to take a shot at them. Read the full story.
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Utah's coronavirus death toll hits 139, includes a Utah Valley University student and a 34-year-old mom
(Rick Egan | The Salt Lake Tribune) TestUtah Covid-19 testing at the 800 North location in Orem, Tuesday, June 9, 2020.
By Sean P. Means
and Paighten Harkins
| June 12, 2020, 7:30 p.m.
| Updated: June 13, 2020, 4:37 a.m.
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Utah's death toll tied to the coronavirus reached 139 on Friday, and at least two recent victims were young people.
Utah Valley University student Trevor Syphus Lee, 27, died Tuesday. Lynzi Marice Isbell, who died June 7, was 34 and a mother of two.
The youngest known coronavirus victim in Utah was Silvia Melendez, who was 24. She died in late March.
Their deaths show that while the elderly are most vulnerable to dying from the disease, COVID-19 can — and has — affected young adults.
The Utah Department of Health reports the average age of those in the state who die from coronavirus is 73.9, yet those between the ages of 25 and 44 comprise the largest percent of cases.
Lee's and Isbell's deaths came to light Friday, as one southern Utah county moved into the "new normal" green safety designation and the state's health department reported another 325 people contracting COVID-19 — and eight more Utahns lost their lives to the coronavirus.
Five of the deaths announced of Friday, the Utah Department of Health reported, were Salt Lake County residents — four men, one woman — of long-term care facilities, all over the age of 85. A sixth Salt Lake County resident, a man between 18 and 60, died in a hospital.
The other two fatalities were a woman, between the ages of 60 and 85, in a Weber County long-term care facility; and a Washington County woman, between 18 and 60, who died in a hospital.
Lee, who was a senior at Utah Valley University, had an underlying medical condition and received medical care after testing positive for COVID-19.
Lee previously served a mission in Brazil for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. A GoFundMe page has been created to help his parents with medical and funeral expenses. Lee died "[a]fter fighting and enduring until the very end," according to the page.
"Trevor loved life and making people happy. He was a friend to everyone he met and wanted to make sure no one was ever alone," his obituary said. He was a "fabulous chef" who loved traveling, arts and crafts and video games, and making holidays special and life interesting, it said.
A GoFundMe page for Isbell mentions that she was diagnosed with COVID-19 "a few weeks ago" and says "her body was too compromised to fight it." She leaves behind a husband and two young boys, ages 13 and 10.
Isbell also loved to travel. In her travels, she fell in love with Hawaii and ended up moving there for a few years, where she enjoyed collecting shells. She was a big fan of watching — and laughing at — comedies and also baking pastries, according to her obituary.
But her greatest love, it says, were her two boys.
"She loved them with all her heart, they were everything to her," it read.
Her GoFundMe proceeds will go toward supporting Isbell's children and their father, Nick Alder.
The 325 new cases reported Friday bring the total number of cases in Utah to 13,577. Friday is the 16th straight day where the new cases topped 200. Before that, the daily count had topped 200 in Utah only once since the first cases were confirmed in March.
The state's health department reported another 4,118 people have been tested for COVID-19, bringing the total to 258,786.
The Utah Public Health Lab last weekend was dealing with a backlog of tests, brought on by targeted testing of a long-term care facility and at the JBS meatpacking plant in Hyrum. Some 1,400 employees were tested at the Hyrum facility last week, and the state reported 287 positive cases of COVID-19 among those employees.
As of Friday morning, said health department spokesman Tom Hudachko, the public health lab — which can process around 1,100 tests a day — did not have a significant backlog.
"We have about 100 more tests than we do capacity for today," Hudachko said. "But this changes daily, and we anticipate having more capacity than we will have samples over the weekend."
Ideally, the lab processes a COVID-19 test in less than 48 hours from when it arrives at the lab, Hudachko said. "We've been at 72 hours this past week," he added.
Also Friday, the University of Utah's Division of Public Health announced it would work with the health department to train and field more than 100 "contact tracers" — the people who do the legwork to follow the coronavirus's spread from person to person.
"Even while many people may feel that we're on the downslope of this [pandemic], the epidemiological work is on the upswing," Sharon Talboys, assistant professor of public health and the project's director, said in a statement.
Gov. Gary Herbert issued a Friday executive order — which he had announced Thursday — to move Kane County from the low-risk "yellow" safety level to the so-called "new normal" or "green" category.
The sparsely populated county, which is located along the Utah-Arizona border from Kanab across the Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument to the Glen Canyon National Recreation Area, has had only four cases of COVID-19 since the pandemic began, according to the Southwest Utah Health Department.
Herbert also ordered two San Juan County communities, Bluff and Mexican Hat, move from the moderate-risk "orange" to "yellow," where most of the rest of the state sits. The only jurisdiction still in "orange" is Salt Lake City, Utah's most populous city.
UDOH's Friday report tallied 130 people with positive COVID-19 cases in Utah hospitals. There have been 988 people hospitalized in Utah since the pandemic began. The department reported that 7,935 people in Utah who have had COVID-19 are considered "recovered" — meaning the person was diagnosed at least three weeks ago and is still alive.
Lee's funeral is scheduled for June 17 at the Tonaquint Cemetery in St. George. Grieving UVU students, faculty and staff can access counseling through Student Health Services; students can call 801-863-8876, while employees should call 1-866-750-1327.
Isbell will be buried in a small, private graveside ceremony because of COVID-19 concerns. Those hoping to share memories or send condolences can call into the Riverton-based Larkin Mortuary on June 17 between 9 and 11:15 a.m.
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Machine learning is a hot topic in healthcare analytics today. Shea Parkes and Anders Larson, two of Milliman's machine learning experts, started a podcast focusing on the subject for the Society of Actuaries (SOA) in 2015. The latest episode was posted May 1, 2018 and is called "Machine Learning Tools Overview." In the episode, they discuss the range of tools available to help implement machine learning.
"Tools are anything that helps you get the job done. You should do some planning, you should talk some stuff out. But at a certain point, especially with machine learning, someone is going to need to interface with a computer and get something done." Shea and Anders discuss a range of tools for machine learning, drilling deeper on Graphical User Interface (GUI) modeling tools such as RapidMiner and KNIME. Many of the prior sessions focused on the concepts and theory, only hinting at specific tools and implementations. This episode kicks off a whole new series that will focus on languages, libraries, frameworks, and cloud providers.
Previous episodes include a 12 part series on machine learning from an actuarial perspective. The episodes start with fundamental concepts, then move on to many of the common machine learning algorithms.
Shea Parkes has been in many different roles in his time at Milliman. Now as a Principal he helps lead PRM Analytics with products that focus on Accountable Care and other Organizations. He also participates in many volunteering opportunities with the Society of Actuaries (SOA), mostly within the SOA's Predictive Analytics and Futurism division. He served on the council of that division for a term and participated in planning many webinars, conference sessions, and newsletter articles.
Anders Larson is a consulting actuary with the Milliman Indianapolis office. He provides actuarial consulting services to commercial and Medicaid health plans, self-funded groups, and provider organizations.
All the episodes of the podcast can be found on the official SOA page here and you can find it on iTunes!
If you would like to learn more about the podcast and or request topics for discussion email Shea Parkes at shea.parkes@milliman.com.


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Q: Is there a non-type-erased generics extension to the Java Compiler available as a 3rd party compiler extension? I'm becoming increasingly frustrated with the limits of type-erased Java generics. I was wondering if there was a custom Java Compiler that provided a full version of generics without the quirks associated with type-erasure?
Chris

A: It is not just a compiler change that would be required.  I think it would also be necessary to change the JVM implementation in ways that are incompatible with the JVM spec, and the Java class libraries in ways that are incompatible with the current APIs.
For example, the semantics of the checkcast instruction change significantly, as must the objects returned by the Object.getClass() operation.
In short, the end result would not be "Java" any more and would be of little interest to the vast majority of Java developers.  And any code developed using the new tools/JVM/libraries would be tainted.
Now if Sun/Oracle were proposing / making this change ... that would be interesting.

A: Scala (a language which runs on top of the JVM) may allow you to get around the problem of type erasure using the powerful concept of manifests, which essentially give you reified types.
More info: http://www.scala-blogs.org/2008/10/manifests-reified-types.html

A: Question is meaningless unless you are asserting that the JDK compiler doesn't implement the language correctly. Any compiler that didn't obey the same rules wouldn't be a Java compiler so nobody could recommend its use.

A: It would be doable, but I'm not aware of anyone that's done it yet.  It would require a significant rewrite of javac to make it instantiate generics when needed (creating a new .class file for each instantiation), but otherwise should be reasonably straight-forward.  It could even add support for using primitive types as generic type args.

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UPDATE 2-EU to adapt state aid schemes in response to U.S. subsidy package
December 4, 2022, 10:57 a.m. ·3 min read
Competition requires level playing field - von der Leyen
EU needs to adapt state aid schemes to new environment
EU and U.S. could establish "critical raw materials club"
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BRUSSELS, Dec 4 (Reuters) - The EU will adapt its state aid rules to prevent an exodus of investment triggered by a new U.S. green energy subsidy package, the bloc's chief said on Sunday, while offering cooperation over raw materials to counter China's dominance.
"Competition is good ... but this competition must respect a level playing field," European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen said in a speech in the Belgian city of Bruges.
"The (U.S.) Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) should make us reflect on how we can improve our state aid frameworks and adapt them to a new global environment," she added.
The 27-country bloc fears that the $430 billion IRA with its generous tax breaks may lure away EU businesses and disadvantage European companies, from car manufacturers to makers of green technology.
The topic is one of several on the agenda of the EU-U.S. Trade and Technology Council meeting on Dec. 5.
Participants include U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken, Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo and U.S. Trade Representative Katherine Tai, along with European Commission Executive Vice Presidents Valdis Dombrovskis and Margrethe Vestager.
Von der Leyen said the EU must take action to rebalance the playing field where the IRA or other measures created distortions, while cautioning that a trade war was in neither country's interest.
"We need to do our homework here in Europe, and at the same time we have to work with the United States to mitigate the disadvantages," she noted.
To help European companies in the short term, the EU is working on boosting RePowerEU, the bloc's plan to end dependence on Russian fossil fuels by funding the green transition, von der Leyen said.
"However, we also need to think beyond ad-hoc solutions. The new assertive industrial policy of our competitors needs a structural answer," she said.
"This means on one hand new and additional funding (for research, innovation and strategic projects) at the EU level and ... on the other hand a higher level of policy coordination, like hydrogen, like semiconductors, quantum computing, artificial intelligence (and) biotechnology."
At the same time, Europe needs to cooperate with the United States in the face of China working with massive automobile subsidies while controlling critical raw materials, von der Leyen noted. This could mean agreeing on joint EU-U.S. standards for EV charging, for example.
"If Europe and the United States agree on common standards, we will shape global standards and not leave it to others," she said.
As regards scarce raw materials for clean tech, "Europe and the U.S. can build an alternative to this (Chinese) monopoly by establishing a critical raw materials club," von der Leyen said.
"The idea behind it is simple: It is cooperation with partners and allies on the sourcing, on the production, and on the processing that gives us the ability to overcome this monopoly." (Reporting by Sabine Siebold and Riham Alkousaa; Editing by Gareth Jones and David Holmes)
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Q: PHP + cURL + session id After googling for hours trying to find an answer for my problem I hope someone on SE can give me an answer.
I am trying to parse some PDF files from a website, the format of the URL looks like this: example.com/?s=ef6d225b80c0c590da26dcf1e37bc02c&t=2-1-2014%2013:24:25
I have no idea how I can fetch the session ID from this URL.
I tried something like this:
session_write_close();

$ch = curl_init($link);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
curl_setopt( $ch, CURLOPT_COOKIE, $strCookie );
$response = curl_exec($ch);
curl_close($ch);

ini_set("session.use_cookies",0);
ini_set("session.use_trans_sid",1);
session_id($_GET['session_id']);
print_r($_SESSION);
print(session_id());
But there is no output.

So what I need the session ID to pass into the URL and I have no idea how to do this.
I appreciate any help I can get about this issue. Thanks!

A: You can get it from $link:
if (preg_match('~s=([a-f0-9]{32})~', $link, $match)) {
    // got the session id in $match[1]
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A comparison of regulatory approval of clinical trial protocol with different countries
K. Amaresh Department of Clinical Research, KLE College of Pharmacy, Belagavi, Karnataka, India
Geetanjali Salimath Department of Clinical Research, KLE College of Pharmacy, Belagavi, Karnataka, India
M. S. Ganachari Department of Clinical Research, KLE College of Pharmacy, Belagavi, Karnataka, India
Revana S. Devarinti Department of Clinical Research, KLE College of Pharmacy, Belagavi, Karnataka, India
Uday Kumar Department of Clinical Research, KLE College of Pharmacy, Belagavi, Karnataka, India
RA guidelines and requirements, FDA, TGA, EMA, CDSCO, Clinical trial approval process, Timelines and requirements of CTA
In present scenario, different countries must follow different regulatory requirements for protocol approval process of new drug application. Present study, we studied the regulatory requirements, timelines of approval and guidelines according to central drug standard control organization (CDSCO), therapeutic goods administration (TGA), food and drug administration (FDA) and European medical agency (EMA). The objective was to compare the regulatory approval of clinical trial protocol process. A comparative observational study was undertaken among the clinical trials and regulatory bodies of India (CDSCO), Australia (TGA), US (USFDA), Europe (EMA). The study specified various regulatory guidelines and safety requirements for conduct and inspection of clinical trial. Clinical trial protocol guidelines the essential documents are determined, and various timelines are being identified. And compared with the fees with other countries. Indian payments were compared with other countries. Timelines with safety reporting were compared with other 3 countries (Europe, Australia and US). The regulatory guidelines in the clinical trial different between countries. There is different timelines and requirements of clinical trial application approval process for each regulatory body. This study methodology has enabled comparisons to be made both within agencies and between different authorities and has identified differences in the timelines that applications spend in different stages of the review.
Evangeline L, Mounica NV, Reddy VS, Ngabhushanam MV, Reddy DN, Bonthagarala B. Regulatory process and ethics for clinical trials in India (CDSCO). Pharma Innovat. 2017;6(4):165.
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Kumar V, Chopra S. Comparative study of the regulatory guidelines for clinical trials in regulated and semi-regulated countries. Nat Con Assoc Pharma. 2016.
Wandre SS, Wali S, Ganachari MS, Salimath G, Devarinti RS, Tumari D, et al. Comparision of clinical trial application approval process and safety reporting requirements with different countries guidelines. J Med Sci Clinic Res. 2018;6(2).
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This 125cc scooter was showcased at the 2016 Auto Expo. As their name suggests this particular scooter targets male riders. The front fascia of this scooter is bit aggressive and adopted a bold styling features. The showcased model featured LED headlamp, digital console, mobile charging port, side stand indicator and many more. It also have alloy wheels with front disc brakes. This particular model targets the prime markets of Honda Dio and Yamaha Ray.
Hero Dare is expected to be launched in February 2017.
Hero revealed their Hybrid scooter Leap back in 2014 and this particular model is rumoured to be available in the market from 2017. This is the first hybrid scooter from the Hero MotoCorp. It is powered by an 8kW permanent magnet AC motor with the help of 60 Nm rated Lithium-ion battery. The Leap also features a 124 cc, air-cooled engine works with the help of 3 litre fuel tank. The maximum power output of 10.7 bhp is the combined effort of this engine and the electric motor.
Hero is yet to make an official statement about the launch and pricing of this concept hybrid scooter.
D'elight is a new retro style light weight scooter from Yamaha, targeting the sole market of Piaggio Vespa. This scooter sits on the 114cc, automatic engine with a power delivery of 7 bhp and a peak torque of 8.1 Nm. This engine will feature fuel injection system. Like Fascino, this one has a chrome rimmed headlamp and clean body lines, giving it an old Vespa like scooter looks. This scooter has already set their marks in Japan and other Asian countries.
Delight is rumoured to be launched here by early 2017.
Vespa GTS 300 is one of the powerful and elegant scooter in the global market. As India is considered to be a fertile ground for two-wheelers, especially scooters, they are planning to bring this premium scooter here by 2017. This retro-style scooter is powered by a 278cc single cylinder engine capable of producing 22 bhp of power and a peak torque of 22.3Nm. Once it is launched this could be the flagship scooter of Piaggio and for the entire scooter clan in India.
This scooter could be the replacement of Honda Aviator. It will be officially launched in the coming festive season. Scooter sits on a 124.92cc engine, delivering a maximum power of 11.33 bhp and a peak torque of 11.6 Nm. This particular model offers the highest volume of fuel capacity with 6 litres. And the under seat storage capacity of Lead is 37 litres. Lead will feature fuel injection system with a fuel efficiency of 45-55 kmpl. It will also feature beige seat and digital display.
Lead will hit Indian roads by April 2017.
Graphite was showcased at the 2014 Auto Expo. One of the attractive feature of this scooter is, it uses Automatic Manual Transmission, with the help of paddle shifters for quicker gear shifts. It is built using an underbone high tensile steel. It features LCD screen display, immobilizer, smart electric key and an enhanced ABS. This could be one of the advanced scooter from TVS with a futuristic styling and innovations.
Graphite is rumoured to be available from November 2017.
Aprilia is yet again ready to strike the Indian market after the success story of SR 150. The new Aprilia SR 125 is rumoured to be a scaled down version of 150, in the same platform. This Italian scooter will be powered by an 124cc engine with a power output of 9.46 bhp @ 8500 rpm.
We can expect SR 125 in early 2017.
This special electric scooter could be the most talked or discussed two-wheeler ever after its announcement. S340 is the first production model from the Bangalore based hardware start up company Ather Energy. It was officially announced in February 2016. This smart scooter is based on a 3KWh electric motor powered by a 40Amp battery. It can achieve a top speed of 72kmph upto a range of 60km. Not only that, it has a Linux based dashboard with 7 inch touch screen integrated with cloud-based data, which works with a mobile SIM card. This particular scooter is categorized under Central Government's FAME scheme.
It will hit the Indian market by early 2017.
Dazz was displayed at the Auto Expo 2016. This 2-wheeler is a combination of moped and a scooter. It is one of the most awaited product from TVS for the upcoming year. The scooter is powered by a 109cc, 4-stroke, air-cooled engine capable of producing 8.34 bhp of power @ 7500 rpm and a peak torque of 8.3 Nm @ 5500 rpm. Dazz is already available in International markets.
TVS may launch this scooter in April 2017.
Price varies from 45,000 to 52,000 INR.
Liberty was initially introduced at Auto Expo 2014. The Italians are planning to launch this 125cc scooter in 2017. This scooter is already available in South East Asian markets. One of the standout feature of Liberty is the 14-inch wheel compared to 10-inch wheels found in most of the available scooters. Liberty highlights better fuel efficiency and maneuverability.
May 2017 is the expected launch date.
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Do you have any idea that when the scooter Metropolis is going to be launched in India?
Not in 2017 year. Indian motorcycle industry is not yet ready to welcome 3-wheelers. Lets hope it might happen in near future.
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How did a man in charge of 12 million slaves become "the good Nazi"? A cautionary tale about Albert Speer's 1971 attempt to whitewash his past with a Hollywood adaptation of his bestselling wartime memoir, Inside the Third Reich.
DIRECTOR'S BIOGRAPHY
Vanessa Lapa is an accomplished journalist, who produced and directed over 100 news reports and documentaries for Israeli TV. In 2006 she founded Realworks Ltd., an independent production company, specializing in documentary film. Its projects include Olmert: Concealed Documentary (2009), about Israel's former prime minister, and award-winning documentary The Decent One (2014), a glimpse into the mind of SS chief Heinrich Himmler, based on his personal diaries, which was officially selected for Panorama at the Berlinale. In 2020, she returned to the Berlinale, officially selected for Berlinale Specials, with a feature documentary about Reichsminister Albert Speer, Speer Goes to Hollywood.
Best Director, Jerusalem Film Festival 2021
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Speer Goes to Hollywood (doc.)
Director: Vanessa Lapa
Year: 2021.
Language: English, German, French
Cast: Albert Speer (arhivski snimak)
Production: ORF, Realworks, Yes Docu
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Also, in January, the Wachusett Regional School District Committee learned that the student population in the district decreased by 166 students over the previous year. The decrease was spread over the district, WRSD Superintendent Darryll McCall said, with only Naquag Elmentary School posting a noticeable increase. McCall said he anticipated that in years to come, the Paxton school age population may drop to be as low as Princeton's.
Another shifting number is the number of eighth graders choosing to attend high school out of the district. Typically, about 13 percent of WRSD eighth graders switch to other schools before the ninth grade. For the 2018-19 school year, that number rose to 16 percent, with district administration attributing the increase to students choosing to attend the vocational schools Monty Tech and Bay Path.
For the first time in many years, the school year started off with a district budget in place. At the annual town meetings in May, residents of all five member towns approved their shares of the $94 million plus budget, that was just over 4 percent higher than the previous year's budget figure.
The number included Paxton voters approving a Prop. 2 ½ override to meet their payment.
The towns paid about $62.7 million total as their shares, with about $30 million in state aid and $1.5 million in local revenues making up the rest.
The news here was both good and bad. The good news was the state bumped its share of regional transportation costs up to 80 percent after legislative budget amendments were filed by state senators including Anne Gobi (D-Spencer). The WRSD also learned that in some prior years, it had miscalculated state reimbursement for student busing costs. The district then adopted a new methodology, got it approved by the state Department of Elementary and Secondary Education and filed amended reports, McCall said in September.
In the Central Office, there were a few new faces. Finance Director Joseph Scanlon became the finance director for schools in Belchertown, his hometown. He was replaced by Interim Finance Director Daniel Deedy, whose past posts included Auburn, Leominster and Southbridge. WRSD is Deedy's first experience with a regional school district.
Dr. Kimberly Merrick, director of special education for the district left to take a position as superintendent for Lenox schools. Among Merrick's contributions to the WRSD, she said she was most proud of the Special Olympics and the winter sports program for students with disabilities.
Merrick's position was handed off to current Interim Director of Special Education, Lincoln Waterhouse. Among his past job experiences, he was previously a special education coordinator for the school district and a special education teacher at Central Tree Middle School.
New principals were also welcomed into the district: Shawn Rickan at Paxton Center School, Melissa Wallace at Dawson Elementary School and Elizabeth Garden at Mayo Elementary School. Tammy Boyle was named principal at Thomas Prince School after serving as interim principal.
The school year started at the tail end of August with the district rolling out year two of the Chromebook initiative, so that all current freshmen and sophomores have the school-issued laptop devices.
Select boards from the five member towns met to get a head start on having input in the WRSD budget for fiscal year 2020. The boards did not all agree to ask for a 3.5 percent budget cap over the fiscal year 2019 budget (Paxton and Rutland were hold-outs), but they were of one mind about getting a little more transparency from the school district.
"It shouldn't be that hard for us as community leaders to understand where the majority of our budget goes to run this school [district] and we don't understand exactly how it's spent," said Holden selectman Anthony Renzoni.
Chair of the Rutland Board of Selectmen Sheila Dibb agreed, saying the line item budget as currently presented supplies large numbers for overall expenses, but she would like to see more detailed numbers.
Other concerns voiced by selectmen were the district's future $133 million obligation for Other Post Retirement Benefits that provides health insurance for retirees. They also asked for a five year capital plan.
Despite its easy rhyming quality, there's nothing simple about providing full-day for Wachusett Regional School District youngsters. Superintendent Darryll McCall named it a priority this year, noting that the WRSD is one of only a few communities in the state that do not provide this grade level.
Full day kindergarten allows for more exploratory learning, gives kids a chance to develop independence around learning and to have better social and emotional support that is needed for classroom success, McCall said.
Although full-day K has enthusiastic backing from school committee members, two things stand in the way – the almost $1.3 million it will cost to implement the program and the fact that Holden will need to lease modular classrooms to have enough room at Mayo Elementary School. The kindergarten proposal does not involve redistricting to other schools.
The Fitchburg- based school officially celebrated the completion of its new on-site veterinary clinic. Students have begun talking classes in the facility that was built by Monty Tech students under supervision of school instructors and with support of local businesses. The clinic will open to clients in the fall of 2019.
The school also learned in June that it would receive a $500,000 Skills Capital Grant from the state. The grant will support the electrical, engineering and CAD/Drafting & Design programs and will fund a state of the art Automation, Robotics and Mechatronics Lab as well as an Advanced Fabrication Lab.
In March, 56 cadets from the school's' Junior ROTC program headed to Texas to assist in the aftermath of Hurricane Harvey.


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The Brink's Job1978
The Brink's Job (1978)
Average Rating: 7/10
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A handful of bumbling crooks pull off the heist of the century in spite of themselves in this blend of comedy and action. Tony Pino (Peter Faulk) is a small time crook whose attempts to stage large scale robberies have a habit of going very, very wrong, and he fares better at running a diner and fencing stolen radios than making a living as a thief. However, while casing out a Goodwill office with his brother in law Vinnie (Allen Goorwitz) in hopes of robbing the safe, Tony notices the Brink's Armored Car Company's building near by, and starts to wonder how hard it would be to break in. The more Tony investigates, the more he discovers the security at Brink's is more a matter of reputation than intricate design, and that getting in after hours would be within his abilities. Tony assembles a crew of thieves -- clumsy Vinnie, sharp-dressing bookie Jazz (Paul Sorvino), money launderer Joe (Peter Boyle), fast-talking but edgy Specs (Warren Oates), funny man Stanley (Kevin J. O'Connor) and nice guy Sandy (Gerard Murphy) -- and together they pull off the biggest cash robbery of their time, walking away with $1.5 million. But stealing the money is one thing -- keeping their mouths shut and not going crazy as they wait for the statute of limitations to run out on the job is something else. Also starring Gena Rowlands, The Brink's Job was inspired by the real life robbery of the Brink's company's Boston headquarters in January 1950; as the ends credits note, at the time of the movie's release in 1978, it was the only successful robbery of a Brink's company building, though a Brink's armored car would be ambushed by thieves in Nanuet, New York in 1980.
Comedy, Drama
Walon Green
Dec 8, 1978 wide
Peter Falk
as Tony Pino
as Joe McGinnis
Allen Goorwitz
Warren Oates
as Specs O'Keefe
as Vinnie Costa
as Mary Pino
Paul Sorvino
as Jazz Maffie
Sheldon Leonard
as J. Edgar Hoover
as Sandy Richardson
Kevin O'Connor
as Stanley `Guss' Gusciora
Claudia Peluso
as Gladys
Patrick Hines
as H.H. Rightmire
Malachy McCourt
as Mutt Murphy
John Farrell
as F.B.I. Agent
Walter Klavun
as Daniels
Randy Jurgensen
as FBI Agent
John Brandon
Earl Hindman
John Farrel
Angela Morley
Critic Reviews for The Brink's Job
The Brink's Job comes off as a black comedy with a sour, misplaced sense of humor. Falk also seems misplaced...
December 17, 2018 | Full Review…
Arthur Knight
What we have here is basically two hours of inventive, colorfully imagined entertainment, with the Brinks job laid on top: A movie-movie, so to speak, and fun from beginning to end.
October 23, 2004 | Rating: 3/4 | Full Review…
The movie is told in three different parts. The first features a sense of humor that progressively disappears. The second focuses on the bank robbers and their act. And the third reflects on the multiple consequences. [Full Review in Spanish]
August 7, 2019 | Full Review…
Augusto Martínez Torres
El Pais (Spain)
The Brink's Job never really catches fire, with both the humor and the suspense simmering on low for too much of the time.
July 6, 2019 | Rating: 2.5/4 | Full Review…
Matt Brunson
Film Frenzy
What a surprise, and kind of a welcome one, that "The Brink's Job" is as much a character-based comedy as it is a thriller.
July 2, 2019 | Rating: 3/4 | Full Review…
Capital Times (Madison, WI)
Arguably William Friedkin's funniest film.
October 10, 2008 | Full Review…
Audience Reviews for The Brink's Job
Fun heist film (from the director of the Exorcist??) with a fine cast of underrated actors.
Anthony Valletta
Uninteresting & not funny
Arash Xak
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Q: How to execute code in isolated environment I'm creating dynamic expression invocation and need to have security mechanism for code execution.
The parameter of context below is visible to the "world", so someone who can write some piece of a script.
Simple expression:
context => "a" + "b"

Parsing:
Expression<Context, int> expression = Parse(@"context => \"a\" + \"b\"");

Now, let's assume that context has some properties on which it can operate, so the expression could look like this and this is correct:
context => context.State.Value1 + "c";

Here is the problem. Someone who writes the script can also do something like:
context => string.Join(", ", context.GetType().Assembly.GetTypes().Where(...)

and access some core classes, invoke unauthorized logic etc.
Also it's worth to say that someone could do this:
context => Assembly.GetExecutingAssembly().GetTypes().Where(...)

So the question is - how to prevent this and separate context of exeucution which should handle only neccessary data and should be executed in isolation from main/calling assembly.
I'm not sure if separate AppDomain will help.
Checking input against keywords, method access - I think it's not a solution, we cannot prevent all available unathorized method access. It can be done in too many ways.


When it comes to wireless headphones, Beats doesn't offer a whole heap of choices, pretty much telling people keen to buy its headphones that they need something big. Or it did, because now there's a smaller option out in Australia.
Launching this week is an updated model of headphones for people who like on-ear cans, but would prefer them without noticeable cables, or unnoticeable cables, or cables of any kind.
The headphones in question are called the Solo 2 Wireless on-ear headphones, and from what we can tell, these are the same Solo 2 headphones we checked out last year improved to work over Bluetooth.
So what's different about this pair compared to the ones that came out last year?
As far as we can tell, it comes down to the included wireless functionality, the remote being built into the ear cup (as it is on the larger Studio Wireless headphones), and a built-in battery.
For the technology changes, we're hearing that the microphone is built intro the headset instead of solely on the remote cable, with the Bluetooth working for up to 9 metres of range. A battery needs to be there to make this work, and we're told this should last up to 12 hours, recharging through microUSB, though we're likely to see a small light-up battery life metre just like on previous Beats battery-powered headphones.
And hey, just in case you run out of battery and there is no microUSB charge cable around, you'll find the headphones work through the included 3.5mm cable, just like the original Solo 2 headphones.
"We're taking one of the most popular headphones in the world and adding wireless Bluetooth functionality to it," said Luke Wood, President of Beats.
Pricing is the other thing that changes, understandably, and while the corded Solo 2 headphones fetched a recommended retail price of $259, the cordless Solo 2 grabs an even higher tag of $399 locally.
Just like with the original Solo 2, this is probably a little more than we'd expect to pay for wireless headphones, especially since Beats is competing with better priced headphones from the likes of Bose and Sony, and quite a few others. It's worth noting the Beats Solo 2 headphones don't include noise cancellation either, and in that section of the market, there are a few competitors for near this price that are wireless, also.


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The New Gatekeepers
Conference in Perugia takes the pulse of journalism worldwide
By Mathew Ingram
Every year for the last 12 years, some of the top thinkers in journalism, as well as many CEOs of media companies, publishers and startups, have gathered in the Italian city of Perugia for a one-of-a-kind conference called the International Journalism Festival. The summit offered an eyeopening, global perspective on topics that continually confound US journalists.
The word "festival" might seem like an odd term to describe a journalism conference, but when you are surrounded by buildings that date back to the 13th century and some of the best food in Europe, it somehow seems appropriate. It's difficult to sum up the main theme of a conference that runs for five days, with more than 700 speakers over a dozen different venues and at least two languages (English and Italian).
There were panels on how to build trust and community and connections with readers—including a discussion I had with NYU journalism professor Jay Rosen on how to "optimize journalism for trust"—as well as tips on how to handle the EU's General Data Protection Regulation or GDPR, a debate on the value of algorithms, panels on the decline of local journalism, and a keynote by Omar Mohammed, the man behind a previously anonymous Iraqi blog called Mosul Eye.
But every year, there are key topics, questions, or fears that pop up in the titles of panels or the conversations in the hotels (and bars) after the official events. In previous years I've gone, these conversations were around blogging, and then Twitter, and then Facebook and other startups.
At this year's conference, which ended this past weekend, one of the words that kept coming up—not surprisingly—was misinformation, and occasionally "fake news"—a term many journalists stopped using after it was co-opted by Trump. American conference-goers might have been shocked not to see more appearances of the president's name. And while he was a shadow that hung over the discussions (especially after he tweeted about a Syrian missile strike), he was not the only one, and not even close to being the most dangerous.
As talking to journalists from other countries continually reminds me, the US may be a giant on the political stage, but when it comes to electing a demagogue who threatens journalists, Trump is still a piker compared to someone like Philippines president Rodrigo Duterte. Conference attendees got that message directly from Maria Ressa, a journalist in the Philippines who runs a site called Rappler, which has been targeted by Duterte for its reporting. At another event, a former Turkish journalist who is now in exile talked about how dozens of his former colleagues are currently in prison.
When it comes to vehicles for misinformation, the name that kept cropping up was Facebook, which also sponsored the conference (along with Google). Campbell Brown, head of news for the social network, was scheduled to do a keynote but cancelled at the last minute, likely in part because of the PR firestorm the company is currently caught in. Instead, the keynote turned into a panel talking about what Facebook could do to help journalism, a list that included handing over large bags of cash.
The social network was a looming presence in more than one panel, even if it wasn't referred to directly. But one of the more optimistic attendees told me this year's conference reinforced the idea that "the Facebook era is over," and media startups and entrepreneurs and thinkers of all kinds are working on ways to do an end run around the giant platform and connect directly with users. Though existing media companies whose businesses still rely on it may not have that luxury.
Mathew Ingram is CJR's chief digital writer. Previously, he was a senior writer with Fortune magazine. He has written about the intersection between media and technology since the earliest days of the commercial internet. His writing has been published in the Washington Post and the Financial Times as well as by Reuters and Bloomberg.
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It was Asha's daily ritual, ever since she was a very young child, to rise early in the morning to go picking through trash with her mother. Asha's father was paralyzed, so he couldn't provide for his family. It was up to Asha and her mother to maintain the family. But being "Untouchables" within their society, they didn't have many options when it came to jobs. They were left to rummage through trash heaps and filth every day to find plastic items they could sell. Asha shouldered the responsibility of gathering, sorting, grading and selling whatever she could find.
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Sévérac-le-Château is een plaats en voormalige gemeente in het Franse departement Aveyron in de regio Occitanie. De plaats maakt deel uit van het arrondissement Millau en was tot 22 maart de hoofdplaats van het gelijknamige kanton. De gemeenten van het kanton werden ingedeeld bij het op die dag opgerichte kanton Tarn et Causses en fuseerden op 1 januari 2016 tot de commune nouvelle Sévérac d'Aveyron.

Geografie
De oppervlakte van Sévérac-le-Château bedraagt 108,1 km², de bevolkingsdichtheid is 22,7 inwoners per km².

Sévérac-le-Château ligt in het Centraal Massief. In de buurt van het plaatsje ligt spoorwegstation Sévérac-le-Château en ontspringt tevens de Aveyron.

Demografie
Onderstaande figuur toont het verloop van het inwonertal (bron: INSEE-tellingen).

Externe links
 Informatie over Sévérac-le-Château

Sévérac d'Aveyron
Plaats in Aveyron
Voormalige gemeente in Aveyron

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NewsLocal NewsFlathead County
FWP finalizes purchase of Flathead Valley land
Flathead Land Trust
Bad Rock Canyon Wildlife Management Area near Columbia Falls.
KALISPELL — Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks (FWP) recently finalized the purchase of 772 acres of intact forestland along the Flathead River from the Columbia Falls Aluminum Company.
FWP will manage the property which is now known as the Bad Rock Canyon Wildlife Management Area.
The purpose is to safeguard critical wildlife habitat while allowing public access to the property just east of Columbia Falls. It's one of the Flathead Valley's largest remaining undeveloped riverfront properties, according to FWP.
The land also serves as critical winter range for elk, moose and white-tailed deer, and provides important habitat connectivity for grizzly bears, bull trout and 43 species of greatest conservation need.
In addition, the wetlands and quality riparian habitat on the property help safeguard the healthy function and water quality of the Flathead River and Flathead Lake. The protected property will add to a 12,000-acre network of conserved land along 50 miles of the Flathead River and Flathead Lake downstream of Columbia Falls.
The acquisition means there will be permanent public access to the property, which will include a limited opportunity for hunting and a three mile community trail constructed by Gateway to Glacier Trail for use by hikers, bikers, birdwatchers and others, according to FWP.
FWP partnered with the Flathead Land Trust on the deal.