Brixton Fund gives out grants for the second time!
On Tuesday 7th June we held the first ever public Brixton Fund event at Brixton East 1871, and together with Brixton's community made the final decisions for this round of grants. Our idea was to make the grant-giving process more transparent, participatory, and democratic, so the public's involvement was absolutely crucial! Thank you to everyone who came along, supported the event, spread the word, or got involved in any other way.
Keep an eye on our blog and Funded Projects page for more information and features about this cohort of Brixton Fund grant recipients, and check out the projects we funded previously too.
Brixton Buzz and Brixton Blog both published nice write ups about the event and the feedback we got from community members was overwhelmingly positive (if you were there on the night and would like to let us know what you thought, please do fill out this short survey!) More pictures are on the B£ Facebook page. If you took photos on the night we'd love to see them too!
With many questions from the audience the discussion was very lively, and we all agreed it needs to continue. That's why we wanted to point you in the direction of Open Project Nights which happen every Monday 18.30-22.30 hosted by Impact Hub Brixton and Transition Town Brixton. The sessions are free and open to all, and can be used for working, networking, holding meetings, themed events, and you can experience the immediate benefit of engaging with inspiring community projects and enterprises. Current projects include Bank of Lambeth and The People's Fridge, a community fridge that Impact Hub and TTB are currently crowdfunding for. Get involved!
As we asked on Tuesday night, we are looking for community members who would like to join the Fund Panel who scores applications to the Brixton Fund. It would require scoring up to 10 applications (2-4 pages long) twice a year. If you or anyone you know would like to get involved in this way, please email us on info(at)brixtonpound(dot)org with your or their name, email, and phone number.
Play the Brixton Bonus! Every month you have a chance to win B£1,000to spend in Brixton's independent businesses, or runner-up prizes of B£20 or 4 cocktails from Fund partners Seven and Three Eight Four. Tickets are just £1, and if you sign up for a recurring entry, you'll get some sweet rewards from us too!
Spend electronic Brixton Pounds: 1.5% of every pay-by-text transaction goes straight into the Fund.
Treat yourself to a Bowie tribute cocktail, the Ziggy Stardust, at Three Eight Four – served with B£1 note. Every sale supports the Brixton Fund!
Once again, thank you to all involved for your trust, enthusiasm, and participation in the Brixton Fund. The next round opens in October and we hope that with your support it can be even bigger and better!
This entry was posted in news and tagged brixton, brixton bonus, brixton fund, community, event, fundraising, local heroes, local organisation on June 15, 2016 by brixtonpound.
Zoe Adjonyoh, who runs Zoe's Ghana Kitchen in POP Brixton, won the March draw of the Brixton Bonus. She joins the small crowd of winners, who are featured in our Winners Gallery – have a look! And make sure you get some Bonus tickets before the next draw on 29th April – who knows, it could be you next time! Better yet, set up a recurring entry to never miss a chance for a Brixton Grand – and get some extra goodies as a reward from us.
When did you first come to Brixton?
I used to come to Brixton a lot as a kid, when my Dad emigrated from Ghana he lived in Brixton with his Aunt at the time. I grew up in Woolwich but later on when I was a student, Brixton was a good destination to go out for parties.
So what are your favourite things to do in Brixton?
Before I started the business I liked going clubbing and dance nights too but now I don't have much free time to socialize, so when I do I like to get a cocktail from Seven. I also go into the village when I can to have dinner at Fish Wings and Tings. I also just like walking around Brixton, when I go down into the market I just enjoy chatting to the people in the market.
Brixton is a very vibrant, fun, friendly place and that's why people want to come here.
What major changes have you seen from when you first came to Brixton to now?
I think Brixton has changed substantially, it used to have a vibe in the 80s and 90s where there was a lot of tension; race politics was a big deal, not just in Brixton but in lots of places across London where there was a strong black community. Race relations with the police weren't great and it was a period of change for how people addressed those issues, a lot of stuff happened in the 80s politically, not just in Brixton, that forced changes for the better. In my mind Brixton has always been very colourful and live and energetic and that is still true today, but we have seen a migration into Brixton from other parts of London and other parts of the UK: the demographic has changed slightly, there are more people here with more spending power.
Do you think that's a good or a bad thing?
I think when it's balanced it's okay, it's ok to have new money coming in, but you don't want that to happen at the expense of the people already living here, which is difficult. What's great about Brixton is how community minded it is, which is quite rare in London. It thinks of itself as a community, and even people that come into Brixton respect that community and that's important. Brixton has become a destination for people to go out, eat good food, listen to good music and celebrate all of the colourful things that Brixton provides culturally.
There's always going to be a downside to "progress" because unfortunately when a destination becomes a popular place to go to, the knock-on effect is that there are rent increases and value of land gets higher, and that prices out a lot of people that have been in Brixton potentially all their life. It links to what's happening with Brixton Arches, businesses that have been there for 20, 30 years are under threat for financial reasons. And you would hope that some consideration is put into keeping cornerstones of the community alive rather than bulldozing everyone out just to get more money out of residents.
Is it progress? I don't know, but it's definitely development which is always going to have controversies surrounding it. What's great about Pop Brixton is the idea that we are occupying land that was empty beforehand so we haven't displaced any other businesses or anything else. I think every business in here, especially through the giveback scheme, is really concerned not to be disharmonious with the Brixton community. I in particular want to be part of it, it's important for me and it's important for my business. It's the thing with displacing people in communities in favour of financial gain.
Where did your interest in cooking come from?
I've always been curious about food, I've always loved eating food and cooking for people and particularly Ghanaian food. My Dad used to come home with traditional Ghanaian ingredients that were mysterious and exotic and I was intrigued and wanted to know more about it and wanted to know how to cook it. It was also a strong link for me back to those cultural roots in Ghana because we didn't have any Ghanaian relatives in London. Both my parents are immigrants so we were quite a small family and didn't have any extended family to speak of. We didn't have access directly to that cultural heritage, so the food was a way in and something that I connected with and it's just grown and grown.
When did you first decide you wanted to open a restaurant?
I've been doing Zoe's Ghana Kitchen since 2011, I started doing supper clubs, event catering and street food, and we still do all those things. Pop Brixton is our first proper restaurant space.
Did you always plan to open a restaurant from a young age?
No, I never had an ambition to become a cook or a restaurateur or anything like that. It's been a peculiar journey but an exciting and interesting one. It's been a very organic process I didn't decide one day I wanted to do – this just kind of kept happening.
It started one day when I set up a little stall outside my house selling a dish which is basically peanut butter stew or soup which is a Ghanaian dish. I used to cook it a lot for my friends, it's one of my favourite foods that I ate growing up. So one day when there was a festival going on in my neighbourhood I thought I might be able to make some money and it proved very popular and created a nice social gathering outside my house. People kept coming back and then wanted me to do it again, so the following year I turned my flat into a restaurant, I put in lots of tables and chairs and African fabrics and it had a real restaurant atmosphere. I called it Zoe's Ghana Kitchen and we sold out every day for three days and were constantly full, people were trying to book and come back but I could not continue like that because it was my living room. I took down people's email address so that next time, a few months later, I could notify people. From word of mouth it became more frequent and got some press, and then from there I started to be hired for catering and asked to residencies.
What would you say your business offers?
It offers tasty Ghanaian food at affordable prices in a restaurant setting. Our whole concept is about bringing food from Ghana and making it accessible; making as many people as we can possibly reach aware of how great the Ghanaian food and ingredients are, and just about celebrating food culture from Ghana. We do everything we can to support and raise the profile of food from Africa generally and specifically Ghana.
Where did the interest in the Brixton Pound come from and why did you accept it?
When I first got here I was very keen to take the Brixton Pound because I think it's a great idea, it's a great way of keeping money in the local economy and encouraging people to shop local, which is something that aligns with my ethos of how I want my business to function and run, and because it was so easily ready and available to sign up I decided to do it!
Do you have any other future plans or projects planned?
I've got quite a lot of different projects in the pipeline right now; we have a cookbook coming out in April next year, I'm opening a second space hopefully by the end of the year outside of Brixton. Possibly launch our own brand of sauces and ready meals so people can eat our stuff at home easily. The idea behind opening it here was to test what we do in a restaurant setting and see if it will be a viable business with a view to opening a full restaurant in the next year or two. We are looking at a couple of potential sites for the future so hopefully by next year I'll be able to open a second space that probably has at least 20 or 30 covers.
What will you do with your Brixton Bonus winnings?
I haven't decided yet, but I'm sure at some point it will be spent on a staff night out at a local bar or restaurant, and I may also use it to give the team bonuses.
This entry was posted in news and tagged brixton bonus, brixton fund, brixton restaurants, local economy, meet the trader, meet the user on April 22, 2016 by brixtonpound.
Located in Loughborough Junction, AGT Social was set up by Karl and Vicki after running a computer repair clinic at the Lambeth Country Show. They aim to provide much-needed affordable/free IT services to lower income communities as well as offering training, with the aim of increasing social, employment and educational opportunities.
In November 2015, AGT Social received £250 from the Brixton Fund, the Brixton Pound's local micro-grants scheme. The Brixton Fund is funded by Brixton Bonus ticket sales (our monthly community lottery), sale of B£ merchandise in the Brixton Pound Shop, and a 1.5% business transaction fee on pay-by-text B£ payments. So – whenever you play to win B£1000, grab yourself a snazzy B£ T-shirt or simply do your weekly shop in B£s, you're helping fund local groups like AGT Social!
Vicki: AGT Social has been incorporated as a social enterprise for nearly three years alongside AGT UK which is our commercial company.
Karl: We are like the one stop shop for people looking to cover their IT requirements. We host websites, run off-site back ups, host cloud conscriptions, all kinds of stuff as well as repairing broken screens installing servers and so forth.
Vicki: Our ethos is that we don't want to chuck things away. We want to reuse.
Karl: We are very conscious of consumerism and the impact it can have on the planet the economy and the community.
Vicki: And we have a big community we can tap into here. The Lougborough Junction community is crying out for new things, for people to fix their computers and opportunities for apprenticeships and training.
Vicki: The idea behind AGT Social came about in the first year you (Karl) were running AGT.
Karl: So I had already set up AGT and I had an idea to promote the business based on a free bike repair clinic I saw one year at Lambeth Country Show. In fact I got my bike repaired there and had to queue up for a long time. I thought: OK, this is a good idea, and wondered, could this work for computer repairs? So the following year I decided to get a pitch at the Country Show.
Vicki: The idea was to set up a free laptop repair clinic for people to be like, oh, who is AGT, maybe if I can't get my laptop repaired there this time I can phone them up and this would bring business in for us. Purely commercial.
But it was soon apparent that people started to anticipate we would be there for the following year and people that couldn't afford to get their computers fixed were waiting for the next year to bring them along for something as simple as removing a virus.
That inspired us to turn it into something bigger than an annual laptop repair clinic. It led to us turning it into a social enterprise (AGT Social).
Karl: The whole point of AGT Social really, as Vicki said, is to provide trustworthy and affordable services to communities and individuals who may not otherwise be able to access these services. Not everyone has the luxury of being able to go down to the Apple Store and part with £300 to get their computer repaired. Also what you realize is that those who do not have much disposable income are the ones that need their computers most in the first place. To look for jobs, manage finances and communicate with family aboard.
Everything we have done in the arch has been self-funded so far. And that's been really difficult. We approached Lambeth Council to get some support but didn't get much and submitted some applications for a few local grants and again we didn't get anything from that.
Vicki: Even with the Brixton Fund money, we are going to have to raise some more, but it does show that we can be successful in applying for funding. It boosts our own confidence in applying for funding and shows that there are people out there that recognize the value of what we are doing. It means we can now go to other people and get them to help us out in building our training room.
Karl: We feel a sense of obligation of pride to not let B£ down and show that their investment, no matter how big or small, was entirely justified. We want to prove that we know what we are talking about and provide solutions.
We have already run some training courses with a few local charities. One of the courses we put on was called IT essentials and it basically was a course designed to give anyone and everyone the confidence to be able to repair a machine. So right from the basics to switching between operating systems, removing viruses and how to diagnose and fault find. Really, we are teaching the logic, not the solution to every problem out there, because that's impossible. As soon as that student grasps that knowledge, their confidence and ability multiplies. So that's what we are going to be doing here, running courses for professionals and for people that are looking to improve their skillsets.
And for business and personal IT support, AGT.uk.net have got you covered.
This entry was posted in news and tagged brixton, brixton bonus, brixton fund, fundraising, local heroes, local organisation, reasons to use B£, young people on April 6, 2016 by brixtonpound.


Airborne Wind Energy (AWE) is an emerging renewable energy technology that aims to replace the use of fossil fuels for energy production on an economical basis. A characteristic feature of the various AWE concepts is the use of tethered flying devices to access wind energy at higher altitudes where the wind is more consistent. The AWESCO project funds 14 PhD researchers at different places in in Europe to work on "Airborne Wind Energy System Modelling, Control and Optimisation". It is coordinated by the Technical University of Delft, runs from 2015-2018, and has a total budget of €3.4 million that is provided by the European Union within Horizon 2020 and by the Swiss Federal Government. Three of the AWESCO researchers are employed at Syscop: Andrea Zanelli, Paul Thedens, and Rachel Leuthold. Their research topics include: Fast numerical methods for the optimal control of airborne wind energy systems durable structural reinforcements of large-scale fabric kites low-order aerodynamic models in the optimal design of multiple-kite airborne wind energy systems Further, Syscop and the Uni-Freiburg host the 7th Airborne Wind Energy Conference (AWEC 2017) on 5-6 October 2017.


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SIM maker Gemalto confirms possible spy attacks
PARIS, France, Feb 25 – European SIM maker Gemalto said Wednesday it had suffered hacking attacks that may have been conducted by US and British intelligence agencies but denied any "massive theft" of encryption keys that could be used to spy on conversations.
Investigative website The Intercept last week said the US National Security Agency and Britain's GCHQ hacked into the firm in 2010 and 2011 and stole SIM encryption keys, with which they can reportedly monitor communications over mobiles without using a warrant or wiretap.
The website made the allegations on the theft of the keys – which encrypt and decrypt data – based on a document leaked by former NSA contractor Edward Snowden, and its report prompted some experts to decry a huge breach in mobile privacy.
"In 2010 and 2011, we detected two particularly sophisticated intrusions which could be related to the operation," Gemalto said in a statement.
"During the same period, we also detected several attempts to access the PCs of Gemalto employees who had regular contact with customers," it added.
"At the time we were unable to identify the perpetrators but we now think that they could be related to the NSA and GCHQ operation."
But the company denied that these attacks resulted in a large-scale theft of encryption keys.
"The attacks against Gemalto only breached its office networks and could not have resulted in a massive theft of SIM encryption keys," it said.
The company said the aim of the operation was to intercept the encryption keys as they were exchanged between mobile operators and suppliers such as Gemalto.
But "by 2010, Gemalto had already widely deployed a secure transfer system with its customers and only rare exceptions to this scheme could have led to theft."
"In the case of an eventual key theft, the intelligence services would only be able to spy on communications on second generation 2G mobile networks.
"3G and 4G networks are not vulnerable to this type of attack."
The NSA has come under intense scrutiny both at home and abroad after Snowden leaked documents from June 2013 about government surveillance programmes that sweep up data from Americans as well as foreigners.
The revelations led to a public outcry and strained relations with US allies.
Snowden, who fled the United States, has now sought temporary asylum in Russia.
US President Barack Obama vowed to reform the country's surveillance programmes following the outcry, but the US Senate in November blocked a bid by lawmakers to curb NSA bulk data collection.
The USA Freedom Act surveillance reform bill that was blocked would have reined in the NSA and also replaced the agency's blanket authority with a far narrower one allowing it to obtain call records from phone companies but only in specific cases.

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Devotees of massage therapy know it's relaxing and feels good. But massage may also be an effective tool for maintaining good health. Researchers from Cedars-Sinai Medical Center reported that a single massage produced measurable changes in the immune system and endocrine system of healthy adults.


From left, Congressman Paul Tonko, New York Assemblywoman Pat Fahy, 2016 Maccabi athletes (clutching the torch) Alex Goldberg and Haley Golderman, Albany County Executive Dan McCoy, City of Albany Treasurer Darius Shahinfar and Assemblyman Phil Steck.
ALBANY – The Capital Region has been chosen as one of the sites for the 2017 Jewish Community Center (JCC) Maccabi Games, an Olympic-style sporting competition held each summer in North America. The games are the second largest organized sports program for Jewish teens in the world. The Capital Region games will be held Aug. 6-11, 2017.
Next summer, the games will be held in three United States locations: Miami, Fla., Birmingham, Ala., and this region. Seven hundred to 750 athletes from around the world, along with their coaches, delegation chairpersons, parents and other spectators will come to The Capital Region games.
Bringing the 2017 JCC Maccabi Games to the community was a joint effort of the staff and volunteer leadership of the Sidney Albert Albany JCC and the Robert and Dorothy Ludwig JCC of Schenectady.
The events here will rely on volunteer support from throughout the area. Jewish families from throughout the region will host athletes, and hundreds of other volunteers will be needed to help bring the games together. Those wishing to sign up to be a volunteer can do so at the Games' website: www.CapitalRegionJCCMaccabi. org.
Athletes will compete in the following sports next summer: table tennis, ice hockey, basketball, swimming, soccer, dance, tennis, golf and baseball. Venues for the games are being finalized now but they will be scattered throughout the region.
The Capital Region will likely host delegations from around the U.S. and Canada as well as Israel and other foreign countries.
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"I am glad to see the Capital Region as a host of the 2017 Maccabi Games. Such a unique event highlights the rich and diverse heritage that supports our communities throughout the region, and I look forward to seeing the games begin next year. I thank the teams at the Sidney Albert Albany Jewish Community Center and the Robert and Dorothy Ludwig JCC of Schenectady for their work and participation in this tremendous event," said Congressman Paul Tonko.
"I applaud both the Albany and Schenectady JCCs for their efforts to help secure the greater Capital Region as one of three sites for the 2017 Maccabi Games. This Olympic-style sporting competition has a long and storied tradition that goes back many years. The Maccabi Games teaches Jewish youth about mutual respect and sportsmanship and I encourage everyone to come out and enjoy the competitions," said New York State Senator Neil Breslin.
"I am so thrilled that the Capital Region will be hosting the JCC Maccabi Games.
The Games foster the long history of Jewish involvement in sports. For centuries through the present day, Jews have been remarkably successful athletes across a wide range of sports for a wide variety of countries that is far in excess of what would be expected from their worldwide population," said New York Assemblyman Phil Steck.
"It is an honor that the Capital Region has been chosen for the 2017 Maccabi Games. We look forward to welcoming students, coaches, and their families who have traveled from around the world to participate in this prestigious sporting competition," said New York Assemblywoman Pat Fahy.
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The 2017 Capital Region JCC Maccabi Games co-chairpersons are Lauren Finkle, Joanna Goldberg, Debbie Gordon, Lauren Iselin and Michelle Ostrelich. U.S. Congressman Paul Tonko is the honorary chairman of the Games.
"It is exciting to host the 2017 Maccabi Games in our community and I welcome the worldwide players and other visitors. It is wonderful to see the outpouring of community support, from the volunteers, to the families that have opened up their homes to host the athletes," said Schenectady Mayor Gary McCarthy.
Information about becoming a sponsor, to sign up as a volunteer, host an athlete or compete is available at www.CapitalRegionJCCMaccabi.org.


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Law isn't the only passion of Tammy Lee Clause. She is also an avid author. Her poetry books consist of numerous volumes and feature unique phrases, words, and poems created by Tammy. Her many publications also include heart-warming children's books like the ever popular Goodnight Lovebug.
Tammy's publications are available for purchase in her office or on Amazon.com, along with all other retail book store's websites.


When I was a kid (and to an extent now), I loved watching Disney films. I drove my brother to distraction (he is 18 years older than me) watching "The Jungle Book" and "The Fox and the Hound" repetitively. As I got a bit older "Alice in Wonderland" became a firm favourite as it brought to life the surreal adventures of a young girl thought up by Lewis Carroll. I realised quite early on how animation could really achieve anything, which could be why I became such a fan of surrealism as an art form. I mean, what is more surreal that a talking mouse and a dog that can talk, owning a dog that can't (I am of course referring to Goofy and Pluto).
I think that this is why picture by Schorr appeals to me so much. For me I see the genres which shaped my love of art, brought together in one picture.
If you don't know much about Disney or Dali, as they seem like they should be polar opposites as one created entertainment for children and the other a surrealist artist, but actually they aren't so far apart. To create animated films that appeal to children, one could say that you need the imaginative brain, equally this is required for the surrealist artist, both looking to the mind working in a spectrum outside of reality.
These two created a union through mutual appreciation. Disney had read Dali's biography and wanted it signed so sent a copy of the book to Dali requesting his signature, Dali in turn was a fan of Disney's silly symphonies. From here a collaboration began.
In 1945 Disney and Dali started animation for a piece called "Destino". After creating only 2 minutes of animation the project was abandoned but the pair remained good friends. Storyboards and sketches have made exhibitions from this collaboration, and in early 2000 the piece was resumed, going on to receive a posthumous Academy award nomination in 2004.
Below is the video so you can watch how this collaboration worked so well. Taking elements from both Disney's style and Dali's to create something which I feel is a beautiful juxtaposition of the genres.
Schorr brings this juxtaposition to the forefront in his creation, highlighting the relationship between the two giants of their genres and melding their styles to create an image which supports the union which they achieved. This picture was created in 1996, and follows the lowbrow/pop surrealism genre.
I don't particularly want to get in to character assassinations of either Disney or Dali as they both had their flaws, and I don't feel that these are brought to the forefront of this picture either.
I love how Schorr has utilised recurring elements from both artist. Mickey Mouse being the iconic motif for Disney along with the magic castle, and then the soft form which Dali created being held up by struts, the long legged elephant in the background, but with Mickey ears. The cross overs are endless. There are, of course, touches of Schorr's own personal touch in this piece, with a dark Tinkerbell hovering over a demented magic castle. This could be a slur of the commercialisation of the Disney industry as Schorr's work does usually point towards the downfallings of the human condition, highlighting things such as greed, jealousy, and our other shortcomings.
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I love reading your posts!!!! I learn so much each time and I love the works you choose. Thank you!!!
Thanks so much 😊 it's so nice to know that you enjoy reading them.
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That's really nice! I heard of it but never saw it before. Thanks for putting it up there!


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Canada competed at the 1956 Summer Olympics in Melbourne, Australia and Stockholm, Sweden (equestrian events). 92 competitors, 77 men and 15 women, took part in 81 events in 14 sports.

Medalists

Gold
 Archibald MacKinnon, Kenneth Loomer, Walter D'Hondt, and Donald Arnold in Rowing, men's Coxless Four
 Gerald Ouellette in Shooting, men's 50m Rifle Prone

Silver
 Philip Kueber, Richard McClure, Robert Wilson, David Helliwell, Wayne Pretty, Bill McKerlich, Douglas McDonald, Lawrence West, Carlton Ogawa – Rowing, men's eight with coxswain

Bronze
 Irene MacDonald – Diving, women's 3m springboard
 Stuart Boa – Shooting, men's 50m Rifle Prone
 John Rumble, James Elder, Brian Herbinson – Equestrian, Team Three-Day Event

Athletics

Basketball

Boxing

Canoeing

Cycling

Sprint
Fred Markus – 17th place

Time trial
James Davies – 1:15.2 (→ 17th place)

Individual road race
Patrick Murphy – 5:27:28 (→ 29th place)
Fred Markus – did not finish (→ no ranking)
James Davies – did not finish (→ no ranking)

Diving

Men's 10m platform
William Patrick
 Preliminary round – 67.71 (→ did not advance, 15th place)

Fencing

One fencer represented Canada in 1956.

Men's foil
 Roland Asselin

Men's épée
 Roland Asselin

Men's sabre
 Roland Asselin

Gymnastics

Rowing

Canada had 13 male rowers participate in two out of seven rowing events in 1956.

 Men's coxless four
 Archibald MacKinnon
 Lorne Loomer
 Walter D'Hondt
 Donald Arnold

 Men's eight
 Philip Kueber
 Richard McClure
 Robert Wilson
 David Helliwell
 Wayne Pretty
 Bill McKerlich
 Douglas McDonald
 Lawrence West
 Carlton Ogawa (cox)

Sailing

Shooting

Five shooters represented Canada in 1956. In the 50 m rifle, prone event, Gerald Ouellette won gold and Gil Boa won bronze.

25 m pistol
 James Zavitz

50 m pistol
 James Zavitz

300 m rifle, three positions
 Gerald Ouellette

50 m rifle, three positions
 Gil Boa
 Gerald Ouellette

50 m rifle, prone
 Gil Boa
 Gerald Ouellette

Trap
 Earl Caldwell
 Frank Opsal

Swimming

Weightlifting

Wrestling

References

Nations at the 1956 Summer Olympics
1956
Summer Olympics

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package org.ohdsi.webapi.service;

import org.ohdsi.webapi.GenerationStatus;
import org.ohdsi.webapi.cohortdefinition.CohortDefinitionRepository;
import org.ohdsi.webapi.cohortdefinition.CohortGenerationInfo;
import org.ohdsi.webapi.cohortdefinition.CohortGenerationInfoId;
import org.ohdsi.webapi.cohortdefinition.CohortGenerationInfoRepository;
import org.ohdsi.webapi.cohortsample.CohortSamplingService;
import org.ohdsi.webapi.cohortsample.dto.CohortSampleDTO;
import org.ohdsi.webapi.cohortsample.dto.CohortSampleListDTO;
import org.ohdsi.webapi.cohortsample.dto.SampleParametersDTO;
import org.ohdsi.webapi.source.Source;
import org.ohdsi.webapi.source.SourceRepository;
import org.springframework.beans.factory.annotation.Autowired;
import org.springframework.stereotype.Component;

import javax.ws.rs.BadRequestException;
import javax.ws.rs.Consumes;
import javax.ws.rs.DELETE;
import javax.ws.rs.DefaultValue;
import javax.ws.rs.GET;
import javax.ws.rs.NotFoundException;
import javax.ws.rs.POST;
import javax.ws.rs.Path;
import javax.ws.rs.PathParam;
import javax.ws.rs.Produces;
import javax.ws.rs.QueryParam;
import javax.ws.rs.core.MediaType;
import javax.ws.rs.core.Response;
import java.util.*;

@Path("/cohortsample")
@Component
@Produces(MediaType.APPLICATION_JSON)
public class CohortSampleService {
	private final CohortDefinitionRepository cohortDefinitionRepository;
	private final CohortGenerationInfoRepository generationInfoRepository;
	private final CohortSamplingService samplingService;
	private final SourceRepository sourceRepository;

	@Autowired
	public CohortSampleService(
			CohortSamplingService samplingService,
			SourceRepository sourceRepository,
			CohortDefinitionRepository cohortDefinitionRepository,
			CohortGenerationInfoRepository generationInfoRepository
	) {
		this.samplingService = samplingService;
		this.sourceRepository = sourceRepository;
		this.cohortDefinitionRepository = cohortDefinitionRepository;
		this.generationInfoRepository = generationInfoRepository;
	}

	/**
	 * Get information about cohort samples for a data source
	 *
	 * @param cohortDefinitionId The id for an existing cohort definition
	 * @param sourceKey
	 * @return JSON containing information about cohort samples
	 */
	@Path("/{cohortDefinitionId}/{sourceKey}")
	@GET
	public CohortSampleListDTO listCohortSamples(
			@PathParam("cohortDefinitionId") int cohortDefinitionId,
			@PathParam("sourceKey") String sourceKey
	) {
		Source source = getSource(sourceKey);
		CohortSampleListDTO result = new CohortSampleListDTO();

		result.setCohortDefinitionId(cohortDefinitionId);
		result.setSourceId(source.getId());

		CohortGenerationInfo generationInfo = generationInfoRepository.findOne(
				new CohortGenerationInfoId(cohortDefinitionId, source.getId()));
		result.setGenerationStatus(generationInfo != null ? generationInfo.getStatus() : null);
		result.setIsValid(generationInfo != null && generationInfo.isIsValid());

		result.setSamples(this.samplingService.listSamples(cohortDefinitionId, source.getId()));

		return result;
	}

	/**
	 * Get an existing cohort sample
	 * @param cohortDefinitionId
	 * @param sourceKey
	 * @param sampleId
	 * @param fields
	 * @return personId, gender, age of each person in the cohort sample
	 */
	@Path("/{cohortDefinitionId}/{sourceKey}/{sampleId}")
	@GET
	public CohortSampleDTO getCohortSample(
			@PathParam("cohortDefinitionId") int cohortDefinitionId,
			@PathParam("sourceKey") String sourceKey,
			@PathParam("sampleId") Integer sampleId,
			@DefaultValue("") @QueryParam("fields") String fields
	) {
		List<String> returnFields = Arrays.asList(fields.split(","));
		boolean withRecordCounts = returnFields.contains("recordCount");
		return this.samplingService.getSample(sampleId, withRecordCounts);
	}

	/**
	 * @summary Refresh a cohort sample
	 * Refresh a cohort sample for a given source key. This will re-sample persons from the cohort.
	 * @param cohortDefinitionId
	 * @param sourceKey
	 * @param sampleId
	 * @param fields
	 * @return A sample of persons from a cohort
	 */
	@Path("/{cohortDefinitionId}/{sourceKey}/{sampleId}/refresh")
	@POST
	public CohortSampleDTO refreshCohortSample(
			@PathParam("cohortDefinitionId") int cohortDefinitionId,
			@PathParam("sourceKey") String sourceKey,
			@PathParam("sampleId") Integer sampleId,
			@DefaultValue("") @QueryParam("fields") String fields
	) {
		List<String> returnFields = Arrays.asList(fields.split(","));
		boolean withRecordCounts = returnFields.contains("recordCount");
		this.samplingService.refreshSample(sampleId);
		return this.samplingService.getSample(sampleId, withRecordCounts);
	}

	/**
	 * Does an existing cohort have samples?
	 * @param cohortDefinitionId
	 * @return true or false
	 */
	@Path("/has-samples/{cohortDefinitionId}")
	@GET
	public Map<String, Boolean> hasSamples(
			@PathParam("cohortDefinitionId") int cohortDefinitionId
	) {
		int nSamples = this.samplingService.countSamples(cohortDefinitionId);
		return Collections.singletonMap("hasSamples", nSamples > 0);
	}

	/**
	 * Does an existing cohort have samples from a particular source?
	 * @param sourceKey
	 * @param cohortDefinitionId
	 * @return true or false
	 */
	@Path("/has-samples/{cohortDefinitionId}/{sourceKey}")
	@GET
	public Map<String, Boolean> hasSamples(
			@PathParam("sourceKey") String sourceKey,
			@PathParam("cohortDefinitionId") int cohortDefinitionId
	) {
		Source source = getSource(sourceKey);
		int nSamples = this.samplingService.countSamples(cohortDefinitionId, source.getId());
		return Collections.singletonMap("hasSamples", nSamples > 0);
	}

	/**
	 * Create a new cohort sample
	 * @param sourceKey
	 * @param cohortDefinitionId
	 * @param sampleParameters
	 * @return
	 */
	@Path("/{cohortDefinitionId}/{sourceKey}")
	@POST
	@Consumes(MediaType.APPLICATION_JSON)
	public CohortSampleDTO createCohortSample(
			@PathParam("sourceKey") String sourceKey,
			@PathParam("cohortDefinitionId") int cohortDefinitionId,
			SampleParametersDTO sampleParameters
	) {
		sampleParameters.validate();
		Source source = getSource(sourceKey);
		if (cohortDefinitionRepository.findOne(cohortDefinitionId) == null) {
			throw new NotFoundException("Cohort definition " + cohortDefinitionId + " does not exist.");
		}
		CohortGenerationInfo generationInfo = generationInfoRepository.findOne(
				new CohortGenerationInfoId(cohortDefinitionId, source.getId()));
		if (generationInfo == null || generationInfo.getStatus() != GenerationStatus.COMPLETE) {
			throw new BadRequestException("Cohort is not yet generated");
		}
		return samplingService.createSample(source, cohortDefinitionId, sampleParameters);
	}

	/**
	 * Delete a cohort sample
	 * @param sourceKey
	 * @param cohortDefinitionId
	 * @param sampleId
	 * @return
	 */
	@Path("/{cohortDefinitionId}/{sourceKey}/{sampleId}")
	@DELETE
	public Response deleteCohortSample(
			@PathParam("sourceKey") String sourceKey,
			@PathParam("cohortDefinitionId") int cohortDefinitionId,
			@PathParam("sampleId") int sampleId
	) {
		Source source = getSource(sourceKey);
		if (cohortDefinitionRepository.findOne(cohortDefinitionId) == null) {
			throw new NotFoundException("Cohort definition " + cohortDefinitionId + " does not exist.");
		}
		samplingService.deleteSample(cohortDefinitionId, source, sampleId);
		return Response.status(Response.Status.NO_CONTENT).build();
	}

	/**
	 * Delete all samples for a cohort on a data source
	 * @param sourceKey
	 * @param cohortDefinitionId
	 * @return
	 */
	@Path("/{cohortDefinitionId}/{sourceKey}")
	@DELETE
	public Response deleteCohortSamples(
			@PathParam("sourceKey") String sourceKey,
			@PathParam("cohortDefinitionId") int cohortDefinitionId
	) {
		Source source = getSource(sourceKey);
		if (cohortDefinitionRepository.findOne(cohortDefinitionId) == null) {
			throw new NotFoundException("Cohort definition " + cohortDefinitionId + " does not exist.");
		}
		samplingService.launchDeleteSamplesTasklet(cohortDefinitionId, source.getId());
		return Response.status(Response.Status.ACCEPTED).build();
	}

	private Source getSource(String sourceKey) {
		Source source = sourceRepository.findBySourceKey(sourceKey);
		if (source == null) {
			throw new NotFoundException("Source " + sourceKey + " does not exist");
		}
		return source;
	}
}

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Q: How to send push notification after analyzing api call return using firebase or any other cloud service? I want to send a notification to the device when some condition satisfies on the data returned by API call on the cloud. I can easily do this on the device but using API every minute, for hours,  might drain the battery and use a lot of internet. API returns JSON data. I have never used Firebase before but have used others (like Kumolos). Is there a way to do this or do I need to write code on the device?
I am coding for android.

A: You have to implement it on server side. For example you can use cron-job with PHP technology and window service or SignalR for .Net technology. For SignalR client side library is also available for android and ios

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Happy good Friday everyone! Following the same heart route as the 'Nothing but Love route' back in February, we were lucky this time not to have a drop of snow in sight!
We celebrated this Easter with a fun heart-shaped cycle ride around the lakes of Milton Keynes! Starting at Furzton Lake this gentle 5.5 mile route took us through the parks of Shenley Brook End into Loughton and passed the fields of beautiful horses. We then cruised past Teardrop lake and followed parts of the great Millennium cycle route alongside the National Bowl.
At the end we had a little Easter egg hunt at Furzton Lake around the Triple Starhead Sculpture! Congratulations to Lauren for finding all the eggs in the fastest time and winning the tasty Golden Chocolate bunny!
Easter egg hunt at the Triple Starhead Sculpture, Furzton lake!


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You know what, I did, and it now works fine! Well, on initial look it works better than before and it keeps the TIF at the level it was saved! More experimenting for me now then... although I do think I'll get StarTools too!
Hi, I've been experimenting processing stacked .tif images from DSS. Whilst I can get fairly decent processing done in StarTools from the output tif of DSS, if I use GIMP to try and do anything, even basic levelling, it just looks 'blocky' i.e. far less initial image quality. Even if I just mess around with windows picture editor I get better results than GIMP v 2.10. Surely this can't be right for something that's meant to be a rival to PS? The reason I am asking is before I get a license for StarTools can GIMP do similar for free?
Are you doing any kind of polar alignment before you start. Doesn't need to be accurate if you are only observing but needs to be roughly aligned north even just with a compass? I did this the other evening with a single star alignment on Venus before it even went dark and it was still accurate enough to get other bright stars and the moon almost central to the finder every time? You say you have to 'shove it' to bring it into view - you are doing this using the app and slewing rather than just moving the mount manually?
That's the spirit Mike! Us Mak boys (and girls) have to stick together... if the bloody weather allows obvs! I really am inspired by @MarsG76 stuff. Gotta see if my 150 can do anything half (and that would be hoping) as good!! That is the challenge after all... don't matter what you got to work with - if it's a Mak or SCT let's see what they can do!


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Teemu Pukki has been named as the Championship's Player of the Season.
The Norwich City striker has been integral to a campaign that has seen them storm to the top of the Championship and edge close to a return to the Premier League.
Pukki, who signed on a free transfer in the summer, is the top scorer in the Championship with 26 goals and has also provided nine assists for his team-mates.
He beat Sheffield United's Billy Sharp and Birmingham City's Che Adams to the honour on Sunday evening.
Pukki said: 'It's an honour to win this award, I'm really happy for the recognition. I have really enjoyed this season so far in what is a fantastic league, but we know there are still many big games to come.
Luton Town forward James Collins was given the League One Player of the Season gong. James Norwood, meanwhile, was handed the League Two equivalent.
Collins said: 'Obviously this is a really proud moment for me personally, it's been a great season so far both personally and for the team.
The overall EFL team of the year was named as Adam Davies (Barnsley), Max Aarons (Norwich), Liam Cooper (Leeds), Krystian Pearce (Mansfield), James Justin (Luton), Alex Mowatt (Barnsley), Jay O'Shea (Bury), Jarrod Bowen (Hull), Teemu Pukki (Norwich), Billy Sharp (Sheffield United) and Norwood (Tranmere Rovers).
Sheffield United's Chris Wilder was named as the manager for the team of the season.
Norwich full-back Max Aarons was named the EFL Young Player of the Season.
Former Rochdale player Joe Thompson, who beat cancer twice and scored a crucial goal at the end of last season to keep his side in League One, was awarded the 2019 Sir Tom Finney Award.
Doncaster Rovers were handed the Family Club of the Year honour while Sharp was handed the Moment of the Season award for scoring his 220th goal this century.
Will Vaulks was named the Community Player of the Year and Portsmouth received the Community Club of the Year honour.


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Estate developer to cough out $450k over unlawful demolition
A real estate Company, AD Construction Limited and its Chief Executive officer (CEO), Alex Dautey have been sued at the Land Division of the Accra High Court for unlawfully causing the demolition of a three-bedroom house sold to Theophilus Amesimeku, (plaintiff) for $200,000.00 in 2007.
The action filed by Jerry Amesimeku, on behalf of Theophilus Amesimeku, (per his lawful Attorney) who resides in United Kingdom is asking for a compensation sum of $450, 000 from the estate developer for demolition of his property without lawful authority.
AD Construction Limited and its CEO, Mr Dautey per the records has been in court once since 2016 when the action was initiated at the Lands Court over the matter.
He was again absent when the matter was called in the court presided over by Justice Samuel Asare Nyarko.The case has since adjourned the January 28/29/30, 2020.
Witness statement
In the witness statement before the court by the plaintiff (Theophilus Amesimaku) through his lawful attorney (Jerry Amesimeku), a brother and a businessman said to the best of his knowledge the 1st defendant is a Limited Liability Company while the 2nd defendant is the Chief Executive Officer (CEO), the company that deals in Real Estate.
The plaintiff currently lives in the United Kingdom and his given Jerry the power of attorney to pursue the case.
According to the statement, sometimes in 2007 per an offer letter on February 16, 2007, the 1st defendant offered to sell an executive detached house consisting of a three-bedrooms, three-bathrooms, one-guest toilet, a living-room, kitchen and one car garage with one-bedroom outhouse (boys quarters) located on the Spintex Road, East Airport Accra commonly known as Genesis Estate to the plaintiff for the purchase price of $200, 000.00.
It stated that, the plaintiff accepted the offer and on April 5, 2008, he (plaintiff) has made a total payment of $140,000.00 as part payment to the 1st defendant to enable defendant complete the house and also to acknowledge receipt of the said payment by issuing an official receipt to that effect.
The statement explained that sometimes in October 2017 the house was completed and plaintiff was given the keys to take effective possession as owner.
Mortgage agreement
It was also the case of the plaintiff that because he (plaintiff) did not have money to pay the balance of$60, 000.00 he approached Ghana Home Loans (GHL) Limited in 2008 for a loan and with the consent of the defendants he used the house as mortgage for the loan, which attracted an interest of 12% per anum.
According to the plaintiff, on August 20, 2008, a mortgage agreement was made between himself as the mortgagor (the borrower in a mortgage) and GHL Limited as the mortgagee, for the said loan of $60, 000.00 which agreement took effect from August 29, 2008 for a 15-year period.
It added that the house was built on a parcel of land covering an approximate area of 0,160 and measuring 70×100 feet more or less and situated at Genesis Estate, East Airport, Accra and numbered as G21. The current estimated value of the land the plaintiff understood it to be $160, 000, 00.
The plaintiff explained that the full purchase price of $200,000.00 was paid when GHL Limited paid the balance of $60, 000, 00 to the first defendant per Stanbic Bank cheque No.003344 dated, August 29, 2008.
It explained that upon full payment of the purchase price of $200, 000.00 to the 1st defendant, it transferred its interest in the land together with the building numbered G21 to plaintiff per a sub-lease agreement made between AD Construction Limited, (1st defendant) and Theophilus Amesimeku, (plaintiff) on May 2, 2008 and stamped as LVB 24468/08.
"That even though the sub-lease agreement was prepared on the May 2, 2008, same was signed on the September 29, 2016 after full payment was made. Even though the loan amount was $60,000.00 charges such as preparation and registration of the mortgage agreement was added to the loan which brought the total sum to be paid to Ghana Home Loans to $7, 500.00."
The statement added that the plaintiff has been servicing the loan by paying $810.00 per month representing interest and a component of the loan to GHL Limited since he secured the loan in August, 2008.
Request for tenant
It said in 2013, the "plaintiff instructed defendants to look for a tenant to live in the house and so from January 2013, to November 2016, it was the 1st defendant through its Chief Executive Officer, Alex Dautey, 2nd defendant who received rent from the tenants without giving the said rent to plaintiff, claiming they used the money to renovate the house.
"That defendant took $1,200 per month from tenants who rented the fully furnished house from January 2013 to November 2016. The total rent defendants received during the said period amounted to $36, 400," it stated.
Needless renovation
On the use of rent money for renovation, it argued that "granted without admitting that defendants used the rent received to renovate the house, it is plaintiff's case that the alleged renovation were needless or unnecessary since defendants knew they were going to unlawfully pull down the house away shortly thereafter.
The plaintiff claimed that, "it was a complete waste of money and it was a ploy to deprive plaintiff of the rent they received on his behalf," adding that "when the last tenant vacated the house in November, 2016, plaintiff instructed defendants to hand over the keys to me (Jerry Amesimeku) to stay in the house but 2nd defendant kept on evading both plaintiff and myself until plaintiff became frustrated and instructed Jerry Amesimeku to change the keys to the door which I did."
Assault from macho men
The witness statement before the court stated that seven days after "I changed the locks and moved into the house, 2nd defendant without any authority from the plaintiff came to the house with macho men and forcibly removed me from the house and three my belongings outside and assaulted me severely."
The incident it said was reported to the police at Manet Police Station but the police did not take any action until the December 10, 2016 when defendant caused the whole building to be demolished.
After the said unlawful demolition, it said the defendants purportedly wrote a letter dated December 12, 2016 to inform him that they have 'exercised their right under the lease and terminated the agreement therefore the lease dated October 15, 2009 is accordingly forfeited.'
The plaintiff held that having made full payment of the purchase price of $200,000.00 to the 1st defendant in August 29, 2008 and the interest in the house transferred to plaintiff per a sub-lease agreement accordingly, "the purchase and sale transaction has been concluded long ago and therefore there was no existing agreement to be terminate or forfeited."
The plaintiff contended that he is not aware of any agreement and /or lease entered on August 15, 2009 between himself and the defendants and is of the view that the said document referred to by the defendants is just a figment of defendants own imagination.
The demolition of the plaintiffs house by the defendants it said "was unlawful, unwarranted and without authority."
In reaction to the statement of defence and counterclaim by the defendants, the Plaintiff stated that he is not aware of any payment of $40, 000.00 made by the defendants to GHL Limited to qualify him to obtain the loan.
"It is not true that defendants accounted for rent collected on behalf of plaintiff. 2nd Defendant claimed the rent was used to renovate the house which assertion the plaintiff describes as untrue.
Plaintiff contends that defendants pulled the building down to conceal the non-existing renovation while it is the case of the plaintiff that, the building was not sold and he remained the legitimate owner of the house till same was unlawfully pulled down
The plaintiff averred that "he had not breached of covenant in the sub-lease agreement and therefore any alleged forfeiture of the said sub-lease agreement was a nullity and that the defendants "have no right or authority to give him the opinion contained in their statement of defense as the property did not belong to them.
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Residents protest bright-orange boom on Connecticut River
Nov. 14, 2014 Updated: Aug. 12, 2017 4:33 p.m.
1of2The public has demanded that a Department of Energy and Environmental Protection permit be rescinded after reports surfaced that Connecticut Yankee improperly installed the barrier on the river near its decommissioned nuclear power plant site in Haddam.Courtesy UglyOrangeBarrier.weebly.com Show MoreShow Less
2of2These dry cask storage containers at Connecticut Yankee in Haddam are shown in this 2002 file photo.File photo Show MoreShow Less
HADDAM >> Public outcry over orange navigational barriers in the town's portion of the Connecticut River has reached the state Capitol.
A public petition to remove the water barrier has been submitted to Gov. Dannel P. Malloy's office and the state's Department of Energy and Environment Protection.
The 220-foot fluorescent orange booms were installed a mile north of the historic Goodspeed Opera House, blocking access to a canal near the Connecticut Yankee power plant site. The barrier appeared on the Connecticut River before any official request was ever made, according to Haddam's First Selectman Melissa Schlag.
After resident protests and negative publicity, Connecticut Yankee officials say they're considering a relocation of what petitioners have termed a "ugly orange barrier." It currently lies on a mile-long stretch near its decommissioned nuclear power plant, blocking access to a navigable waterway and prime bass fishing waters.
The move was made a year ago, creating an immediate backlash from area residents, fishermen and environmentalists who complained about its ugly visual impact and the restricted access to one of the area's prized fishing waters.
"At first it was annoyance," said Schlag. "But when the Haddam Bulletin looked into it, we found out that it it was granted outside the legal permitting process."
Haddam resident Alan Aronow, a reporter for the Haddam Bulletin, conducted a year-long investigation into the issue that uncovered many disturbing details.
"I've uncovered a complex story, one involving homeland security claims, blocking access to public waterways, and questionably close relationships between state regulators and companies they regulate," Aronow wrote in the story published in August.
The investigation claims that the barrier was not required or authorized by the federal government, a claim made by Connecticut Yankee. The decision to install it was instead made by company offcials who later applied for a permit with CT DEEP.
Freedom of Information documents show that DEEP acknowledged it approved what the company did without any investigation, according to Aronow.
A petition started by the local chapter of Connecticut Valley Bassmasters fishing group calls for removal of the boom. It has garnered more than 1,000 signatures, and has been forwarded to Malloy and DEEP Commissioner Robert Klee.
"Since the petition started...people are writing scathing letters to the editor, and CT Yankee and DEEP are feeling the pressure," said an Oct. 22 update on the site. "Denying the right to boat on navigable waterways is illegal."
Schlag said she contacted DEEP officials months ago, requesting that the agency rescind the permit. So far, the town has received a "mini response" from a commission officer who said that the issue was a "high priority," she said.
"We are still waiting for a response from DEEP," Schlag said.
Dennis Schain, a spokesman for the DEEP, told The Day that state environmental regulators have asked the owners of the Connecticut Yankee power plant site to modify its barrier installed for "security reasons."
"We understand residents' concerns, but we have an obligation to protect the public, as well as our security personnel and first responders," Connecticut Yankee spokesman Bob Capstick told The Hartford Courant.
"It wouldn't be the first time" that the agency has circumvented the rules, according to Schlag, who actively lead opposition to the Haddam Land Swap, a deal that would have given 17 acres of state-owned land overlooking the Connecticut River in Haddam to a commercial business in exchange for 87 wooded acres owned by the firm in Higganum.
The commercial development was proposed by the Riverhouse at Goodspeed Station, and the deal eventually fell. The DEEP eventually backed out, citing unequal land appraisals as the reason.
"A process was put in place to protect citizens," said Schalg. "We should all have to follow the same rules and regulations."


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Summer Demands
by Deborah Shapiro
1 Hawthorne
Emily doesn't know what to do with herself. She and her husband had plans to renovate the camp she inherited from her aunt, but work has stalled. With no other job prospects in sight, she is adrift in a listless echo of the eternity of childhood summers. So when she discovers a magnetic young woman staying on their property, she is more intrigued than alarmed. Despite her better judgment, Emily is drawn to Stella and they quickly become very close: friends, or maybe something more. But a powerful current runs beneath their relationship, one that threatens to become an undertow. I was enchanted with this dreamy novel, with the questions Shapiro raises about intimacy, identity, and purpose. With its hypnotic pacing and prose, The Summer Demands is as seductive as a secret. Recommended By Lauren P., Powells.com
"Shapiro's The Summer Demands is sultry, shrewd, unnerving, and simply magnetic. I was hooked from beginning to end." --Rebecca Kauffman, author of The Gunners
On the verge of her fortieth birthday, and shaken by a recent miscarriage, Emily inherits an abandoned summer camp in Massachusetts. She and her husband move onto the property and make grand plans to revitalize the land. But they soon discover that their inheritance includes an unexpected guest. On a walk through the old campgrounds she once frequented as a girl, Emily discovers, living undetected in one of the cabins, a magnetic twenty-two-year-old named Stella.
As the two women begin spending time together--talking and drinking, swimming in the lake, watching seductive French films through long afternoons--Emily finds herself playing at performing various roles relative to Stella: friend, mother, lover. Each encounter they share promises to bring Emily a little closer to an understanding of her own identity, but it also puts her marriage and future at risk. How much does she really know about Stella? Why is Stella here, and what does she want, and what might she take with her, if and when she leaves?
Taking place over a single summer in a landscape that refuses to be tamed, The Summer Demands is a beautiful, quietly startling exploration of the sting of seduction, of unspoken female rage, and of how desire and ambition shift over time. It advances Deborah Shapiro's place as one of America's most captivating writers--a novelist who "adroitly conveys women's complicated intimacy" (The New York Times Book Review).
"A sun-saturated tale of love and longing. . . Smart, funny, nuanced and seductive." --The Chicago Tribune
Named one of the best books of the summer by O: The Oprah Magazine, Cosmopolitan, The Chicago Tribune, BBC Culture, NYLON and more
On the verge of her fortieth birthday and shaken by a recent miscarriage, Emily inherits an abandoned summer camp in Massachusetts. She and her husband move onto the property and make grand plans to revitalize the land. But they soon discover that their inheritance includes an unexpected guest. On a walk through the old campgrounds she once frequented as a girl, Emily finds, living undetected in one of the cabins, a magnetic twenty-two-year-old named Stella.
Taking place over a single summer in an abandoned Massachusetts summer camp, this quietly menacing novel explores the sting of seduction, unspoken female rage, and how desire and ambition shift over time to reveal the "undercurrents between our younger and older selves" (O, The Oprah Magazine).
After Emily inherits an abandoned summer camp in Massachusetts just before her fortieth birthday, she and her husband David move onto the property with grand plans to fix it up. Instead, Emily finds herself drifting, grieving her recent miscarriage and her own perceived lack of ambition, while David works in the city. Until the day Emily discovers that their new property includes an unexpected guest. Living undetected in one of the cabins is a magnetic twenty-two-year-old named Stella. Their immediate and intense connection expands and contracts over the course of an single summer, calling all of Emily's relationships, including her marriage, into closer scrutiny.
As the two women begin spending time together―talking and drinking, swimming in the lake, watching seductive French films through long afternoons―Emily finds herself playing at performing various roles relative to Stella: friend, mother, lover. Each encounter they share promises to bring Emily a little closer to an understanding of her own identity, but it also puts her marriage and future at risk. How much does she really know about Stella? Why is Stella here, and what does she want, and what might she take with her, if and when she leaves?
Named one of the best books of the summer by O, The Oprah Magazine, this "sun-saturated tale of love and longing" is a "smart, funny, nuanced and seductive" read (Chicago Tribune). Startling yet dreamlike, The Summer Demands marks Deborah Shapiro as a master at capturing complex relationships and the electricity of what passes unsaid between people.
Taking place over a single summer at an abandoned Massachusetts summer camp, this "sun-saturated tale of love and longing" explores the sting of seduction and how desire and ambition can shift through time and experience (Chicago Tribune).
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It's no secret that Prince Harry loves spending time with children, but his latest encounter is definitely one for the books. On Monday, the prince attended the WellChild Awards in London, where he delivered an emotional speech to sick children and their families. "Watching these young people face challenges with such determination, positivity and good humor never fails to take my breath away . . . I am so fortunate to have had the chance of meeting you all and so proud to be associated with this fantastic charity," he said.
During the event, Harry showed off his playful side as he mingled with the kids and gave them hugs. He had an especially sweet encounter with a little boy named Ollie, who received the inspirational child award and was diagnosed with Battens Diseases, a rare genetic condition, at the age of two. Just add this to Harry's ongoing list of wonderful moments this year.
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TORONTO, Ontario (Reuters) — A small Canadian university has ruled out campus-wide wireless Internet access because its president fears the system's electromagnetic forces could pose a risk to students' health.
Lakehead University, in Thunder Bay, Ontario, has only a limited Wi-Fi connections at present, in places where there is no fiber-optic Internet connection. And that, according to president Fred Gilbert, is just fine.
"The jury is still out on the impact that electromagnetic forces have on human physiology," Gilbert told a university meeting last month, insisting that university policy would not change while he remained president.
Lakehead University published a transcript of Gilbert's remarks on its Web site. Spokeswoman Eleanor Abaya said the decision not to expand the university's few isolated wireless networks was a "personal decision" by Gilbert…..
Comments: Wi-Fi or wireless networks are sprouting everywhere nowadays and is yet another example of how the human population exposure to EMF is growing at an exponential rate. And you don't have to be using the computer to be exposed to the radiation, either. As in 'second hand' cell phone radiation, you only have to be in the vicinity of a wireless 'hotspot' to be affected. This is one big reason for a personal EMF protection like the BIOPRO QLink. The QLink forms a virtual 'bioshield' and strengthens your resistance from stress induced by EMF anywhere you go. It is a MUST for anyone living in today's technological world.


Ranchi, the capital of state of Jharkhand (which is endowed with rich iron ore and coal deposits), is rapidly developing into an important industrial sector in India. Famous for its natural scenic beauty in and around and still unspoilt by modern commercialism, Ranchi is located in the eastern part of India, around 400 kms from Kolkata. Ranchi has very pleasant and moderate climate. During the month of September the temperature may vary from + 20°C to + 30°C.
Domestic airlines connect Ranchi with Delhi, Kolkata, Mumbai, Bangalore, Hyderabad and Patna. Ranchi is well connected by rail and road network with major cities, namely Banglore, Bhubneshwar, Chennai, Jamshedpur, Dhanbad, Kolkata, Mumbai, Nagpur, Patna, Raipur, New Delhi, Vishakhapatnam, Hyderabad and Steel Cities located in Eastern part of India.
Huge number of both economy and luxury class hotels are available in Ranchi. These hotels are located within 5 kms from the Conference venue. Delegates are requested to book the accommodation in advance through online. For assistance in advance booking, Seminar Secretariat may be approached.
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October 5, 2006 (Burbank, CA) - With dramatic week-to-week increases, "America's Next Top Model" once again beat all competition in the hour, ranking first in The CW's target demos of adults 18-34 (3.3/11) and women 18-34 (4.8/14), according to preliminary live plus same day Nielsen ratings for Wednesday, Oct. 4. "Top Model" ranked second in the hour among women 18-49 (3.9/10).
"America's Next Top Model" climbed to season highs in key demos and viewers, including adults 18-34, adults 18-49 (2.7/8), women 18-49 and viewers (5.42mil).
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Despite facing off against the season premiere of "Lost," "One Tree Hill" posted week-to-week gains in its target demo of women 18-34 (11%, 3.1/8) and retained 100% of last week's premiere audience in adults 18-34 (3.1/6).
"America's Next Top Model" and "One Tree Hill" combined to lift The CW to second on Wednesday night among women 18-34 (4.0/11) and adults 18-34 (2.7/8-tie).
The CW's Wednesday line-up represents a major improvement over both UPN and The WB on the same night a year ago (10/5/05) in all key demos. Compared to The WB's Wednesday, The CW is scoring increases of 42% in adults 18-34, 54% in women 18-34, 40% in adults 18-49 and 38% in women 18-49. Versus UPN's year ago Wednesday, The CW is up 42% in adults 18-34, 48% in women 18-34, 31% in adults 18-49 and 32% in women 18-49.


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6. The Friars Club
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U.S. Treasury sells shares in four banks
Published: Aug. 24, 2012 at 12:58 p.m. ET
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WASHINGTON--The U.S. Treasury Department said Friday it sold shares it holds in four banks, but was forced to cancel sale of a fifth when bids came in too low.
The bank-share sales are part of a broader effort to wind down the government's federal rescue programs dating to the 2008 financial crisis.
The Treasury auctions brought in $62.4 million in proceeds, compared with an original investment of about $67.5 million. Overall, the government didn't take a loss on this group of banks, thanks to about $12 million in dividends it received on its shares.
The cancellation of one auction highlights potential difficulty at future sales--including on some institutions that have missed dividend payments or aren't publicly traded entities.
The Treasury lately has been accelerating the sale of its bank holdings, auctioning 36 since April. Still, more than three years after the launch of the Troubled Asset Relief Program, in which the Treasury invested capital in various banks and other institutions, the federal government still owns stakes in 302 banks.
They are mostly small institutions that have been unable to fully pay back the government. The banks owe more than $10 billion to taxpayers. The Treasury has turned an overall profit on its TARP-era bank rescue programs. About $265 billion has been recovered on an initial investment of $245 billion--most of which went to the nation's biggest financial institutions.
Still TARP, which also included housing, auto and insurance rescues, will likely end up costing taxpayers. The Congressional Budget Office this spring estimated the final price tag at $32 billion.
Treasury said Friday it sold shares in BNC Bancorp BNCN of High Point, N.C.; First Community Corp. FCCO, -2.96% of Lexington, S.C.; First National Corp. FXNC, +4.23% of Strasburg, Va.; and Mackinac Financial Corp. MFNC, -1.94% of Manistique, Mich.
The auction of shares in Guaranty Federal Bancshares Inc. GFED, -0.92% of Springfield, Mo. was canceled due to insufficient bids, the Treasury said. The Treasury sets a minimum price for the auctions.
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Q: Can JIT be prevented from optimising away method calls? We are building a tool for average case runtime analysis of Java Byte Code programs. One part of this is measuring real runtimes. So we would take an arbitrary, user provided method that may or may not have a result and may or may not have side effects (examples include Quicksort, factorial, dummy nested loops, ...) and execute it (using reflection), measuring the elapsed time. (Whether or not we benchmark properly at all is besides the point here.)
In the benchmarking code, we obviously don't do anything with the result (and some methods won't even have results). Therefore, there is no telling what the JIT may do, and we have in fact observed that it seems to optimise the whole benchmarked method call away on occasion. As the benchmarked methods are not used in isolation in reality, this renders the benchmark useless.
How can we prevent JIT from doing that? We don't want to turn it off completely because then benchmarking takes ages, and we want to benchmark "real" runtimes anyway (so we want JIT to be active inside the method).
I am aware of this question but the given scenario is too narrow; we do not know the result type (if there is one) and can therefore not use the result in some fashion the JIT does not see as useless.

A: The simple solution is to write a more realistic benchmark which does something almost useful so it will not be optimised away.
There are a number of trick to confuse the JIT, but these are unlikely to help you.
Here is example of a benchmark where the method is called via reflection, MethodHandle and compiled to nothing.
import java.lang.invoke.*;
import java.lang.reflect.*;

public class Main {
    public static void main(String... args) throws Throwable {
        for (int j = 0; j < 5; j++) {
            testViaReflection();
            testViaMethodHandle();
            testWithoutReflection();
        }
    }

    private static void testViaReflection() throws NoSuchMethodException, IllegalAccessException, InvocationTargetException {
        Method nothing = Main.class.getDeclaredMethod("nothing");
        int runs = 10000000; // triggers a warmup.
        long start = System.nanoTime();
        Object[] args = new Object[0];
        for (int i = 0; i < runs; i++)
            nothing.invoke(null, args);
        long time = System.nanoTime() - start;
        System.out.printf("A call to %s took an average of %.1f ns using reflection%n", nothing.getName(), 1.0 * time / runs);
    }

    private static void testViaMethodHandle() throws Throwable {
        MethodHandle nothing = MethodHandles.lookup().unreflect(Main.class.getDeclaredMethod("nothing"));
        int runs = 10000000; // triggers a warmup.
        long start = System.nanoTime();
        for (int i = 0; i < runs; i++) {
            nothing.invokeExact();
        }
        long time = System.nanoTime() - start;
        System.out.printf("A call to %s took an average of %.1f ns using MethodHandle%n", "nothing", 1.0 * time / runs);
    }

    private static void testWithoutReflection() {
        int runs = 10000000; // triggers a warmup.
        long start = System.nanoTime();
        for (int i = 0; i < runs; i++)
            nothing();
        long time = System.nanoTime() - start;
        System.out.printf("A call to %s took an average of %.1f ns without reflection%n", "nothing", 1.0 * time / runs);
    }

    public static void nothing() {
        // does nothing.
    }
}

prints
A call to nothing took an average of 6.6 ns using reflection
A call to nothing took an average of 10.7 ns using MethodHandle
A call to nothing took an average of 0.4 ns without reflection
A call to nothing took an average of 4.5 ns using reflection
A call to nothing took an average of 9.1 ns using MethodHandle
A call to nothing took an average of 0.0 ns without reflection
A call to nothing took an average of 4.3 ns using reflection
A call to nothing took an average of 8.8 ns using MethodHandle
A call to nothing took an average of 0.0 ns without reflection
A call to nothing took an average of 5.4 ns using reflection
A call to nothing took an average of 13.2 ns using MethodHandle
A call to nothing took an average of 0.0 ns without reflection
A call to nothing took an average of 4.9 ns using reflection
A call to nothing took an average of 8.7 ns using MethodHandle
A call to nothing took an average of 0.0 ns without reflection

I had assumed MethodHandles to be faster than reflection but it doesn't appear so.

A: I do not believe there is any way to selectively disable JIT optimizations, except for some of the experimental ones (like escape analysis).
You say this:

We don't want to turn it off completely because then benchmarking takes ages, and we want to benchmark "real" runtimes anyway.

But what you are trying to do is precisely that.  In a real runtime, method calls will be inlined and the will be optimized away if they don't do anything.  So by inhibiting these optimizations you would be getting measurements for method execution time that don't match what actually happens in a real program.

A: The purpose of a benchmark is to get as close to actual performance as possible, so I don't see what you would gain here. If you suspect that the JIT will do certain things, and you wouldn't want to actually disable it in normal use, your best bet is to build the benchmark with that assumption. If there are ways you can write the benchmark that would stress it out and make it behave inefficiently under the JIT, that might be useful too since running the benchmark under a profiler would help figure out when it breaks down in its efficiency.


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Q: How to find the profit and loss of a stock in SQL Table I have a SQL table with columns (TRANSACTION_ID, STOCK_NAME, STOCK_ID, VALUE, TYPE). The table represents the investment in different stocks as transactions. I need to get the SQL query to find the total profit/loss in each of the stocks.
SQL TABLE
1|REL|2624|6653|sell
2|INFY|7660|3064|buy
3|INFY|4361|3117|buy
4|ITC|7292|6865|buy
5|INFY|2187|2618|buy
6|ITC|7292|7313|sell
7|INFY|3478|3196|sell
8|INFY|3472|3105|sell
9|REL|4472|7398|sell
10|INFY|7660|3351|sell
11|REL|4472|7350|buy
12|REL|5833|8240|buy
13|REL|5833|7937|sell
14|INFY|2187|2487|sell
15|REL|7198|7998|sell
16|INFY|3478|2944|buy
17|REL|2624|6985|buy
18|REL|7198|7645|buy
19|INFY|3472|3046|buy
20|INFY|4361|3384|sell

STOCK_ID represents the id of that stock and TYPE represent whether the transaction is a buy or sell. For each STOCK_ID there will be exactly 1 buy transaction and 1 sell transaction. I need to find the profit or loss for each STOCK as follows
RESULT
ITC|448
INFY| 734
REL| -234

I have the logic and formula but I don't know how to convert it to SQL Query.
MY LOGIC
for each STOCK_NAME, find sum(profit/loss) for STOCK_ID as (TYPE='sell') - (TYPE='buy').
for example
4|ITC|7292|6865|buy
6|ITC|7292|7313|sell

Profit/Loss of ITC = 7313-6865 = 448
This is the SQL Query for replicating the data
BEGIN TRANSACTION;

/* Create a table called NAMES */
CREATE TABLE stocks(id integer PRIMARY KEY, symbol text, stock_id integer, value integer, typ text);

/* Create few records in this table */
INSERT INTO stocks VALUES(1,'REL', 2624, 6653, 'sell');
INSERT INTO stocks VALUES(2,'INFY', 7660, 3064, 'buy');
INSERT INTO stocks VALUES(3,'INFY', 4361, 3117, 'buy');
INSERT INTO stocks VALUES(4,'ITC', 7292, 6865, 'buy');
INSERT INTO stocks VALUES(5,'INFY', 2187, 2618, 'buy');
INSERT INTO stocks VALUES(6, 'ITC', 7292, 7313, 'sell');
INSERT INTO stocks VALUES(7, 'INFY', 3478, 3196, 'sell');
INSERT INTO stocks VALUES(8, 'INFY', 3472, 3105, 'sell');
INSERT INTO stocks VALUES(9, 'REL', 4472, 7398, 'sell');
INSERT INTO stocks VALUES(10, 'INFY', 7660, 3351, 'sell');
INSERT INTO stocks VALUES(11, 'REL', 4472, 7350, 'buy');
INSERT INTO stocks VALUES(12, 'REL', 5833, 8240, 'buy');
INSERT INTO stocks VALUES(13, 'REL', 5833, 7937, 'sell');
INSERT INTO stocks VALUES(14, 'INFY', 2187, 2487, 'sell');
INSERT INTO stocks VALUES(15, 'REL', 7198, 7998, 'sell');
INSERT INTO stocks VALUES(16, 'INFY', 3478, 2944, 'buy');
INSERT INTO stocks VALUES(17, 'REL', 2624, 6985, 'buy');
INSERT INTO stocks VALUES(18, 'REL', 7198, 7645, 'buy');
INSERT INTO stocks VALUES(19, 'INFY', 3472, 3046, 'buy');
INSERT INTO stocks VALUES(20, 'INFY', 4361, 3384, 'sell');
COMMIT;

/* Display all the records from the table */

A: Use a nested query.  One to sum up the adds and subtracts, then one to combine them:
SELECT symbol, SUM(value) AS profit
FROM (
    SELECT symbol, typ, CASE
        WHEN typ='buy' THEN -SUM(value)
        WHEN typ='sell' THEN SUM(value)
    END AS value
    FROM stocks
    GROUP BY symbol, typ
) sub
GROUP BY symbol;

Output:
REL|-234
INFY|734
ITC|448

And, by the way, kudos for including your data set as an executable query.  That made my job a lot easier.
(For MySQL, the subquery must have an alias ['sub' in this example].  That isn't required for the other SQL products.)

A: WITH cte AS
(
         SELECT   symbol,
                  typ,
                  CASE
                           WHEN typ='sell' THEN sum(value)
                           WHEN typ='buy' THEN -sum(value)
                  END AS volume
         FROM     stocks
         GROUP BY symbol,
                  typ )

A: with cte as (
    select stocks.symbol as sym,
           sum(case when typ='buy' then value end) as buy,
           sum(case when typ='sell' then value end) as sell
    from stocks
    GROUP by stock_id, stocks.symbol
)
select sym,
       sum(sell-buy)
from cte
group by sym;