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Juvenile-Justice System Not Meeting Educational Needs, Report Says
'Systemic' problems outlined in report
By Alyssa Morones
Many of the teenagers who enter juvenile-justice systems with anger problems, learning disabilities, and academic challenges receive little or no special help for those issues, and consequently fall further behind in school, a report released Thursday concludes.
"Way too many kids enter juvenile-justice systems, they don't do particularly well from an education standpoint while they're there, and way too few kids make successful transitions out," said Kent McGuire, the president and CEO of the Atlanta-based Southern Education Foundation, which produced the report, "Just Learning: The Imperative to Transform Juvenile Justice Systems Into Effective Educational Systems."
The report characterizes the problems plaguing juvenile-justice systems as "systemic." It found a lack of timely, accurate assessments of the needs of students entering the system, little coordination between learning and teaching during a student's stay, and inconsistency in curricula. Many of the teaching methods were also inappropriate, outdated, or inadequate, and little or no educational technology was used.
"We need to help find ways to create structures and dramatically change how schools and principals and teachers [in juvenile-justice systems] are held accountable," said David Domenici, the executive director of the Center for Educational Excellence in Alternative Settings, in Washington.
"We have kids who have not done well in school, but, more or less, they have to come every day. They're a captive audience," he said. "We can transform their perspective on school. But the reality is, education has been forgotten [in juvenile-justice systems]."
Educational Challenges
Youths in the juvenile justice system have many difficulties related to education.
SOURCE: U.S. Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention
On any given day, 70,000 students are in custody in juvenile-justice systems across the country. Nearly two-thirds of those young people are either African-American or Hispanic, and an even higher percentage are male. Those systems, though, may be doing more educational harm than good, according to the report.
Once in the programs, the report says, students made very little academic progress—a situation particularly taxing to students in such facilities for longer periods of time. Fewer than half of "longer term" high school students (those enrolled for at least 90 days) earned one or more course credits while attending juvenile-justice schools. Only about 25 percent of those students were on track to re-enter public schools.
According to federal reports mentioned in the study, only 15 percent of all students in juvenile-justice facilities, and 26 percent of longer-term students, improved to some extent in reading during their custody. In the Southern states, that proportion was 9 percent.
And just 9 percent of students ages 16 to 21 in such facilities were on track to earn a GED credential or high school diploma. Two percent were accepted and enrolled at a two- or four-year college.
Nearly a third of the individuals in juvenile-justice facilities who were tested were diagnosed with learning disabilities, though fewer than 25 percent received special education services and supports to address those disabilities, according to the report.
The report also notes that a disproportionate number of the students are male and members of minority groups. In 2010, two-thirds of the young people in custody in the United States were youths of color: 41 percent African-American and 22 percent Hispanic. Eighty-seven percent were male.
The racial and ethnic disparities were even starker in the South, which had a higher percentage of African-American and Hispanic youths than the country as a whole. Of all African-American youths housed in juvenile-justice facilities in the country, 41 percent were located in 15 Southern states. Twenty-one percent of all Hispanic youths housed in juvenile-justice systems in the country were in the South.
The report notes that students who had been suspended or expelled from school were more likely to enter a juvenile-justice program.
Federal data on student suspensions and expulsions show minority students are also disproportionately suspended and expelled from public schools.
Adding to the grimness of the picture for juvenile offenders, some studies, cited in the report, show that as many as 70 percent to 80 percent of all individuals who are released from residential juvenile-justice facilities will return to jail after two to three years.
"The better we could get at keeping kids in school in the first place, at bringing down suspension rates and improving discipline policies and practices," said Mr. McGuire, "the more likely kids will be to complete their high school degrees and find opportunities in postsecondary education, and the less likely it is that they will land in the criminal-justice system in the first place."
Juvenile-justice systems are more expensive than keeping teenagers in school.
For example, in Georgia, a special commission on juvenile-justice reform estimated that the cost of each placement in a state facility averaged from $88,000 to $91,000 per year. The annual average cost in Louisiana was $119,073, according to a 2009 audit report. In Virginia, it was an estimated at $101,037 annually, and in Tennessee, the average cost was $92,060, according to data from the states.
But the costs, both fiscal and societal, are more than those numbers suggest, argues the Southern Education Foundation report. Those numbers usually do not include costs for local police, social service agencies, juvenile-court judges and court personnel, public defenders' offices, and support personnel who are involved through the arrest, referral, intake, screening, and evaluation processes.
"These are still kids," said Mr. McGuire. "Education needs to become a much bigger focus in these detention centers, because that's the pathway to participation in the economy and society. It costs way too much for us to not figure out how to do that."
Vol. 33, Issue 29, Page 6
Published in Print: April 23, 2014, as Juvenile-Justice Systems' Educational Shortcomings Noted
"Road Back to School Is Rocky for Ex-Offenders," April 25, 2012.
"Student Expulsion and Suspension Data, School Year 2009-10," January 10, 2013.


Not sure how to book golf in St Andrews, here's our guide.
Advance bookings for all courses other than the Old Course can be made up to seven days in advance for play Sunday to Friday. The Castle Course is the only course which can be booked in advance for play on a Saturday. To make a booking for up to 7 days in advance , contact the Links Advance Reservations by phone +44 (0) 1334 466718 or on line at www.standrews.org.uk.
Single golfers should go to the starter on the day. Advance bookings for the Old Course can be requested after the first Wednesday in September for play for the following year. Visit www.standrews.org.uk/howtobook for full details.
Green fees for the six 18 hole courses and the nine hole Balgove are priced according to the season: high, shoulder and low.
All prices shown below are the VAT Exempt rates, with the exception of The Castle Course where the rates shown are inclusive of VAT at the standard rate.
Tickets for three and seven day play can be bought on the first day of play from the clubhouses or starters. These can be used over a period of seven and fourteen days respectively. Advance Reserve-able Three Day Tickets may only be bought from the Reservations department and are valid for three consecutive days.
Payment can be made in cash (sterling), cheques (with guarantee card) and major credit cards (except Diners Club). To avoid speculative bookings, we regret that pre-paid green fees cannot be refunded.
N.B: Bookings made with the Trust by individual golfers are VAT Exempt, with the exception of The Castle Course where VAT always applies. VAT is payable on golf bookings not made by individuals, e.g., by commercial concerns such as tour operators, hotels, corporate bookings etc.
Tickets for 3 and 7 day play can be bought on the first day of play from the clubhouses or starters. These can be used over a period of seven and fourteen days respectively.
The Castle Course can be included in these tickets when it is open for play.
Advance Reserve-able Three Day Tickets may only be bought from the Reservations department and are valid for three consecutive days.
Tee times for all tickets above can be booked 24 hours in advance or, for the New Course, by arrival at the Starter on the day.


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Q: The medium can't be used as the requested device type I recently tried downloaded Kali and I don't want to run it along side my current Ubuntu 13.10. Instead I intend to run it through VM VirtualBox (downloaded from Software Centre).
Here is what I entered into the first set-up stage:

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*Name: Kali Linux

*Type: Linux

*Version: Linux 2.6 (this I am not so sure on? should it be Debian)

All is well in setting the RAM and disk size etc.
But when it comes to loading the Kali ISO (32bit) I am confronted with this perplexing error message.

Failed to open the CD/DVD image /home/anonhalo/VirtualBox VMs/kali-linux-1.0.6-i386.iso.

The medium '/home/anonhalo/VirtualBox VMs/kali-linux-1.0.6-i386.iso' can't be used as the requested device type.

In my own head I am thinking it is the file location of the ISO? But I moved it to 10 different locations. And still the same error?

A: You're going about this the wrong way, you are trying to add an ISO image as a CD/DVD drive. Instead, first, create the new VM, using Debian 32bit as the OS type. Then, once this has been created, go into the VM's Settings and choose the "Storage" tab. Once there, select the "Empty" item under the IDE controller:

Then, click on the CD icon on the top right, and select the 1st choice,

In the dialog that will appear, select the Kali .iso, save the settings and then boot the machine. It will boot from the .iso you just selected and you should be able to istall with no problems.

A: Make sure that the image file is of kind ISO disk image in the properties. I had the same problem as the kind of file was as Folder and Not ISO disk image eventhough it had iso extension. Just double click the folder and copy the disk image file into new hard disk partition. Now use this path for loading in the Virtualbox in the storage option. This method worked for me.

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The site of Jericho, just north of the Dead Sea and due west of the Jordan River, is one of the oldest continuously lived-in cities in the world. The reason for this may be found in its Arabic name, Ārīḥā, which means fragrant; Jericho is a natural oasis in the desert where countless fresh water springs can be found. This resource, which drew its first visitors between 10,000 and 9000 B.C.E., still has descendants that live there today.
The site of Jericho is best known for its identity in the Bible and this has drawn pilgrims and explorers to it as early as the 4th century C.E.; serious archaeological exploration didn't begin until the latter half of the 19th century. What continues to draw archaeologists to Jericho today is the hope of finding some evidence of the warrior Joshua, who led the Israelites to an unlikely victory against the Canaanites ("the walls of the city fell when Joshua and his men marched around them blowing horns" Joshua 6:1-27). Although unequivocal evidence of Joshua himself has yet to be found, what has been uncovered are some 12,000 years of human activity.
The most spectacular finds at Jericho, however, do not date to the time of Joshua, roughly the Bronze Age (3300-1200 B.C.E.), but rather to the earliest part of the Neolithic era, before even the technology to make pottery had been discovered.
The site of Jericho rises above the wide plain of the Jordan Valley, its height the result of layer upon layer of human habitation, a formation called a Tell. The earliest visitors to the site who left remains (stone tools) came in the Mesolithic period (around 9000 B.C.E.) but the first settlement at the site, around the Ein as-Sultan spring, dates to the early Neolithic era, and these people, who built homes, grew plants, and kept animals, were among the earliest to do such anywhere in the world. Specifically, in the Pre-Pottery Neolithic A levels at Jericho (8500-7000 B.C.E.) archaeologists found remains of a very large settlement of circular homes made with mud brick and topped with domed roofs.
As the name of this era implies, these early people at Jericho had not yet figured out how to make pottery, but they made vessels out of stone, wove cloth and for tools were trading for a particularly useful kind of stone, obsidian, from as far away as Çiftlik, in eastern Turkey. The settlement grew quickly and, for reasons unknown, the inhabitants soon constructed a substantial stone wall and exterior ditch around their town, complete with a stone tower almost eight meters high, set against the inner side of the wall. Theories as to the function of this wall range from military defense to keeping out animal predators to even combating the natural rising of the level of the ground surrounding the settlement. However, regardless of its original use, here we have the first version of the walls Joshua so ably conquered some six thousand years later.
The Pre-Pottery Neolithic A period is followed by the Pre-Pottery Neolithic B (7000-5200 BCE), which was different from its predecessor in important ways. Houses in this era were uniformly rectangular and constructed with a new kind of rectangular mud bricks which were decorated with herringbone thumb impressions, and always laid lengthwise in thick mud mortar. This mortar, like a plaster, was also used to create a smooth surface on the interior walls, extending down across the floors as well. In this period there is some strong evidence for cult or religious belief at Jericho. Archaeologists discovered one uniquely large building dating to the period with unique series of plastered interior pits and basins as well as domed adjoining structures and it is thought this was for ceremonial use.
Other possible evidence of cult practice was discovered in several homes of the Pre-Pottery Neolithic town, in the form of plastered human skulls which were molded over to resemble living heads. Shells were used for eyes and traces of paint revealed that skin and hair were also included in the representations. The largest group found together were nine examples, buried in the fill below the plastered floor of one house.
Jericho isn't the only site at which plastered skulls have been found in Pre-Pottery Neolithic B levels; they have also been found at Tell Ramad, Beisamoun, Kfar Hahoresh, 'Ain Ghazal and Nahal Hemar. Among the some sixty-two skulls discovered among these sites, we know that older and younger men as well as women and children are represented, which poses interesting questions as to their meaning. Were they focal points in ancestor worship, as was originally thought, or did they function as images by which deceased family members could be remembered? As we are without any written record of the belief system practiced in the Neolithic period in the area, we will never know.
Cite this page as: Dr. Senta German, "Jericho," in Smarthistory, August 8, 2015, accessed April 19, 2019, https://smarthistory.org/jericho/.


In 2007, former Bain consultant Stuart Wall, 31, wasn't looking for startup ideas–especially not among the knickknacks of his sister's pick-and-paint pottery studio in Indianapolis, IN. His first year at Harvard Business School well underway, Wall had set his sights on a future in finance or private equity. Then, he offered to help his sibling set up an account on Google AdSense to attract more customers. How hard could it be?
Wall and his sister, who holds a Duke MBA and an undergraduate degree in computer science, were stumped–the advertising results were dismal. "It was really complicated, and frankly we wasted a bunch of money," Wall recalls. Then, the epiphany hit: "If a Harvard MBA and a Duke MBA can't advertise and get results, then the average small business definitely can't get the results they're looking for," Wall says.
Local businesses were "getting left behind" in the Internet age, but few had the time or resources to figure out a solid online strategy. They needed a platform that would automatically manage their advertising on sites such as Facebook, Google+, Yelp, and Yahoo. Wall expanded on his idea for a marketing software that would accomplish this during his second year and enlisted the help of HBS classmate John Buchanan. They pitched the idea to the Harvard Computing Society and attracted the attention of undergraduate computer scientist Shaneal Manek, who signed on as founding CTO.
The trio entered the idea under the name Postabon in Harvard's 2009 New Venture Competition. They didn't win (CloudFlare stole the show), but the experience proved pivotal in getting the business off the ground, Wall says. After graduation, the team bootstrapped, pouring in their own funds. Wall turned down offers at Bain and several private equity firms. It was a tough call to make–he had student loans and an unproven business on his hands, but putting his startup on hold wouldn't help. "A lot of MBAs, in my opinion, want to be entrepreneurs, and most of them don't do it directly after they graduate–the problem is the opportunity cost only gets higher," he says. The gambit paid off. In 2010, the company attracted the attention of Spark Capital and Google Ventures, which both backed the startup. It also got a new name, Signpost, and a deal-digging mascot, Max the Mole.
For Wall, Signpost's biggest achievement is providing a necessary service. "We think being online as a small business is just as important as paying your electric bill," Wall says. "There needs to be software that helps them … I'm proud to say that I think we've really executed on that vision." Investors clearly agree. To date, Signpost boasts some $15 million in funding, including a recently closed $10 million Series B. The new capital will be used to expand the startup's Denver team from 30 to some 100 employees in 2014.


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Apollo 11 50TH Anniversary
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SINCE THE SPEEDMASTER FIRST LANDED ON THE MOON
THE WORLD'S MOST FAMOUS CHRONOGRAPH
The OMEGA Speedmaster Professional Chronograph has a unique place in the history of space exploration as the only piece of equipment used in all of NASA's piloted space missions from Gemini to the current International Space Station program. When Buzz Aldrin stepped on the lunar surface in 1969, he was wearing a Speedmaster Professional, the chronograph that has been known as the Moonwatch ever since.
"…the timepiece became known as The Moonwatch, the first watch worn on the Moon."
WE CHOOSE TO GO TO THE MOON
President John F. Kennedy's challenge to send an astronaut on the Moon was particularly audacious considering that when he first voiced it in 1962, only one American had been in space for a grand total of 15 minutes and 28 seconds. Of course, his objective was eventually achieved and the OMEGA Speedmaster was there for the first famous steps.
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With its black dial and tachymeter scale, this 42 mm chronograph was designed to stand out. The indexes and central hour and minute hands are coated in Super-LumiNova. A hesalite crystal protects the dial enhanced with a 30-minute recorder, 12-hour recorder and small seconds sub-dial. The stainless steel case is presented on a matching bracelet or a black leather strap.
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Until 1968, the Speedmaster was powered by the iconic calibre 321 which was later changed to calibre 861. This was updated with the high-grade rhodium-plated finish of the calibre 1861 and the more embellished 1863. Today, the timepiece is driven by virtually the same hand-wound movement trusted by NASA's astronauts on the Moon.
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The third human spaceflight program carried out by NASA, the Apollo Program (1961 – 1972) was dedicated to President John F. Kennedy, the man who set America's sights on the Moon. The program was responsible for the landing of the first humans on the Moon's surface in 1969.
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Each of the four timepieces in this family is offered with a special presentation box which includes two additional straps - a "NATO" strap and a strap for astronauts. A tool to change the bracelets and instructions for how to do so are also included along with a Speedmaster loupe, a metal plate and a book highlighting the adventures of the Speedmaster.
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Wage Growth Fell Slightly Towards the End of 2016
Home | News | Wage Growth Fell Slightly Towards the End of 2016
The latest UK labour market report from the ONS showed that wage growth fell slightly from Q3 to Q4 last year, but remained above CPI inflation.
The number of people in work grew slightly between the third and fourth quarters, with a 37,000 increase pushing the total up to 31.84 million - still 302,000 higher than in the same period in 2015. Of this total, 23.29 million people were working full time (218,000 higher than in 2015). The employment rate was at 74.6%, staying at a record high.
David Freeman praised the latest figures, saying: "Continued moderate growth in employment has led to a new high in the total employment rate, while the rate for women has reached 70% for the first time on record.
"Overall, the labour market appears to be edging towards full capacity."
The unemployment rate, despite little change between the quarters, remained at an 11 year low of 4.8%, having fallen by 0.3% over the past year. In total, there were 1.6 million unemployed people, and 8.86 million economically inactive (not working and not seeking work or unable to work).
Growth in average weekly earnings (as total pay including bonuses) went down slightly between September to November and October to December 2016, from 2.8% to 2.6%. The drop is the first of its kind since July
Despite the drop, this was still higher than annual inflation as measured by the Consumer Price Index, which sat between 0.9% and 1.6% for the months given. These figures for wage growth are not adjusted for inflation, when adjusted for CPI inflation, growth in earnings for the two month period was at 1.4%.
The ONS showed earnings data for the past 16 years, over the course of which earnings have gone up by 62.8%, while the Consumer Price Index increased by 41.7%.
Home Repossessions at 35 Year Low
Fuel Costs Push Inflation to Highest Level for 3 Years
Danny Lord
Danny is Money Expert's editor-in-chief, and has been writing about utilities and personal finance since 2014.
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The Indian Register of Shipping (IRClass) and the Government of Assam, a key state in India's north-east, has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to further enhance the state's inland water transport (IWT) system to improve commuter safety.
The MOU follows the funding agreement between the Government of Assam and the World Bank to modernize and transform inland water transport in the state which has the largest network of navigable inland waterways in India. Plans include the integration of high quality passenger and vehicle ferry services into its wider transport network.


When I was new to Disney World, I was so overwhelmed by the immense number of things to do! The restaurants! The rides! The characters! I would cram pack our trip's itinerary. We got every last minute of fun during those vacations, but we frequently returned home thinking we need a second vacation just to relax! And I hear this from a lot of Disney-goers. They are exhausted at the end of their trip because they try to do as much as they can. For a short trip or if you only go once in a blue moon, that makes sense. But for those of us who wish to actually relax on vacation, I've compiled a few tips to have a relaxing day at Walt Disney World or at least help squeeze in a few relaxing moments.
If your time and budget allows it, make a pit stop at one of Disney's amazing spas. The Grand Floridian and Saratoga Springs resorts have a Senses Spa on site. While their services can be on the high side, they do not scrimp on luxury and the relaxation. They offer massages, mani/pedis, as well as other body treatments and facials. Included in the service is access to their changing room with plush robes and amazing showers, whirlpool, steam room, relaxation room, and fitness facilities. You are free to use the amenities as long as you like. This is pure luxury and a sure fire way to have a relaxing day! You can check out our full review of Senses here.
This may be hard for some of you to do, but take a day away from the Parks. Thats where the crowds and the lines can really add some stress and exhaustion to your trip. Instead, make a late breakfast reservation at one of the more picturesque resorts. I recommend any of the Boardwalk area resorts, then after you've had a leisurely meal you can stroll along the Boardwalk and people watch. Another great option for this is the Polynesian with 'Ohana and the beach right there. You can then head to Disney Springs and stroll through the shops at your own pace.
OK, if you are like me and just can't stay away from the parks (not even for a day!) then find out ahead of time where the quiet, secluded spots are in each park to take a break and enjoy your surroundings. We recently wrote a post about just those spots in Magic Kingdom. But they exist in every park. In Epcot, take a ride on Spaceship Earth, and in Animal Kingdom, take a seat and enjoy the Finding Nemo Movie. If you can plan ahead to take a break, not only your day, but your entire trip will feel so much more calm and relaxing!
I am a huge advocate for enjoying some adult only time at Disney World. Either an entire trip without kids or just a Magical Date Night, you can't go wrong by having some time to yourselves. If you are staying off property (Hopefully at Adventureland Villa!) you can reserve a babysitter through Kids Night Out. We have used them numerous times and always been happy. If you are staying on property, a few of the Disney resorts have kids' "playhouses" where they can watch your kids for a fee. We are trying this out in October, and will let you know how it goes!


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Reflecting on the Declaration
The author argues that Thomas Jefferson helped us think about the difficult line between prudence and revolution.
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One of the most amazing thoughts in that most amazing of documents, the Declaration of Independence, comes in the second half of the second paragraph. The lines directly follow the more famous ones about life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. They address the question of (for lack of a better term) revolution. The case is stated thusly: "That whenever any form of government becomes destructive to these ends, it is the right of the people to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their safety and happiness."
In essence, it argues that the American people have a right to make up a new form of government, of whatever sort they like, any time the old forms of government seem like they aren't working. Needless to say, this is an incredibly bold and incredibly dangerous proposition to put forth. Thomas Jefferson, the principal author of the document, was -- along with his colleagues -- perfectly aware that he was opening a massive can of worms with this principle of revolution and self-rule.
That's why the next sentence in the Declaration comes right in to qualify the situation, to dampen down the radical impact of these thoughts. Jefferson writes, "Prudence, indeed, will dictate that governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shown that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed." We have a right to abolish any government and to establish a new one under any principles we fancy, but it is a right that only a fool would actually exercise.
It is an almost impossibly tricky line to establish, the one between revolution and prudence. In establishing it, Jefferson not only formulates a new approach to government, he inaugurates a new prose style, an American prose. Its central principle is the following: When addressing matters difficult and august, it is best to be chatty. There is a danger in this approach. It is the danger of shallowness. Many Americans since Jefferson have fallen victim to that danger. But in the hands of a master this style has the virtue of honesty and confidence in the face of the profound.
Hat tip Andrew Sullivan.
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Conor Friedersdorf is a California-based staff writer at The Atlantic, where he focuses on politics and national affairs. He is the founding editor of The Best of Journalism, a newsletter devoted to exceptional nonfiction.
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Robert Spada walked into the decrepit warehouse in Detroit and surveyed the chaos: Thousands of cardboard boxes and large plastic bags were piled haphazardly throughout the cavernous space. The air inside was hot and musty. Spada, an assistant prosecutor, saw that some of the windows were open, others broken, exposing the room to the summer heat. Above the boxes, birds glided in slow, swooping circles.
It was August 17, 2009, and this brick fortress of a building housed evidence that had been collected by the Detroit Police Department. Spada's visit had been prompted by a question: Why were police sometimes unable to locate crucial evidence? The answer lay in the disarray before him.
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The president's tweets are an invitation to a racial conflict that pits citizen against citizen, under the calculation that racism itself is a winning political strategy.
If you're surprised today that Donald Trump is a racist, you haven't been paying attention. Since he entered politics, he has proved it repeatedly. In fact, as I reported with several colleagues in The Atlantic recently, bigotry has been a part of Trump's public persona since he's had a public persona.
Yet Trump's racist Twitter attacks on Democratic congresswomen over the weekend still managed to shock, even in this benumbed age, because of his willingness and eagerness to place racism at the center of his political platform in a run for reelection to the presidency. It is not simply the employment of racist ideas for political advantage—that has been a staple of campaigns in both parties for some time. It is the invitation to a racial conflict that pits citizen against citizen, under the calculation that racism itself is a winning strategy, that astonishes.
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Real-time data from the Apollo 11 astronauts, carefully monitored by mission control, capture the frenzied maneuvers that put men on the moon.
Two men were about to land on the moon, and Mission Control in Houston was thrumming with tension. In the science operations room, Gerald Schaber, a geologist, needed something to do while he waited for the lunar module to touch down. Schaber had come from northern Arizona, where engineers had warped the desert with dynamite to make a cratered landscape where the astronauts could train. His job didn't start until Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin stepped out of the lunar module and began to explore the slate-colored surface. And the wait was getting to him.
"Our hearts were beating [fast], of course, everybody's was," Schaber told me recently. "So I figured I might as well watch theirs."
Schaber switched his monitor to the channel displaying biomedical data for the astronauts. Armstrong seemed calmer than some of the folks in Mission Control. The commander's heart was ticking along at 75 beats per minute, a remarkable rate for someone who was about to, you know, land on the moon. An adult's normal resting heart rate is between 60 to 100 beats per minute. My heart rate right now, writing this story, is 75, according to a fitness tracker.
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The president is trying to divide the House caucus and force it to fight the election on his terms. So far, it's working.
Don't impeach Donald Trump.
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi reached that decision early, and she reached it firmly.
The Senate will not remove him, so the impeachment drive will end in failure. In the aftermath of a failed impeachment, holding President Trump to account will become even more difficult than it is now. He'll think, Why comply with subpoenas? What will they do—impeach me? They already dropped the atom bomb and it went fzzzzt. They're not going to do it again!
A failed impeachment will rally hesitant and embarrassed Republicans to Trump's side, risking the seats of moderate Democrats elected in 2018. Meanwhile, it will commit all Democrats, even in safe seats, to a year of talking about process issues. Important as those issues are—Who doubts that Pelosi feels them?—they are not the issues that will mobilize the voters Democrats need in 2020. Pelosi wants to set the board to run on two themes: (1) Trump will take away your health insurance, and (2) Trump wants to deport your husband or wife or nephew or neighbor.
Rose Wong
What if marriage is not the social good that so many believe and want it to be?
In America today, it's easy to believe that marriage is a social good—that our lives and our communities are better when more people get and stay married. There have, of course, been massive changes to the institution over the past few generations, leading the occasional cultural critic to ask: Is marriage becoming obsolete? But few of these people seem genuinely interested in the answer.
More often the question functions as a kind of rhetorical sleight of hand, a way of stirring up moral panic about changing family values or speculating about whether society has become too cynical for love. In popular culture, the sentiment still prevails that marriage makes us happy and divorce leaves us lonely, and that never getting married at all is a fundamental failure of belonging.
Qatar Responds: Don't Cancel the 2022 World Cup
The tournament's host country pushes back on Franklin Foer's proposal that FIFA change course and reallocate funds to women's soccer.
Last week, the United States won the 2019 Women's World Cup championship. The tournament, Franklin Foer wrote, was "an exhibition of excellence, a noble step in the struggle for gender equity." In contrast, he argued, the 2022 men's World Cup, set to take place in Qatar, "will be an authoritarian regime's vulgar vanity project, allegedly made possible by massive corruption." The money that would be spent on that World Cup, Foer said, would be better invested in the women's game.
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Rise of the Know-Nothing Judge
Nicholas Bagley
The Fifth Circuit may be poised to accept a ridiculous argument against the Affordable Care Act.
If you've heard anything about the Texas lawsuit seeking to blow up the Affordable Care Act, you've heard that it involves yet another constitutional challenge to the individual mandate. That's true—but it's also profoundly misleading.
The parties in Texas v. United States don't actually disagree about what the Constitution means. What they're fighting about, instead, is what Congress meant to do, in late 2017, when it wiped out the tax penalty for going without coverage. At the time, President Donald Trump crowed, "The very unfair and unpopular Individual Mandate has been terminated as part of our Tax Cut Bill." Congressional Republicans said the same.
In the lawsuit, however, the Trump administration is singing a different tune. Together with a group of red states, it now claims that Congress didn't really end the mandate when it removed the penalty. Instead, it says that Congress kept the mandate and made it even more coercive—and thus unconstitutional. Trump & Co. would also have you believe that if the (now zero-dollar) mandate is unconstitutional, so is the entire Affordable Care Act.
Bianca Bagnarelli
Dear Therapist: I Don't Understand Why My Girlfriend Dumped Me
She said that she loves me but doesn't want to be with me.
Dear Therapist,
Nearly two months ago, my girlfriend broke up with me. It was quite shocking at the moment, especially considering that we had just spent a lovely weekend out of town visiting her sister and brother-in-law. She explained that something about their relationship reminded her of "what she wants," and that being with me would compromise her pursuit of this.
I didn't fully understand what she meant, and I was too astonished to even push back. During our final embrace, in the park, she told me that she loved me. I told her that I loved her too. The surges of heartbreak immediately rushed through my chest, and my days since have been consumed by thoughts of her. Our relationship was truly wonderful—we laughed with each other all the time, we had thoughtful discussions, and we always noted how blissful it was to be in each other's presence. It's been devastating to lose this person with whom I shared so many wonderful experiences.
Justyna Stasik
Elementary Education Has Gone Terribly Wrong
Natalie Wexler
In the early grades, U.S. schools value reading-comprehension skills over knowledge. The results are devastating, especially for poor kids.
At first glance, the classroom I was visiting at a high-poverty school in Washington, D.C., seemed like a model of industriousness. The teacher sat at a desk in the corner, going over student work, while the first graders quietly filled out a worksheet intended to develop their reading skills.
As I looked around, I noticed a small girl drawing on a piece of paper. Ten minutes later, she had sketched a string of human figures, and was busy coloring them yellow.
I knelt next to her and asked, "What are you drawing?"
"Clowns," she answered confidently.
"Why are you drawing clowns?"
"Because it says right here, 'Draw clowns,' " she explained.
Running down the left side of the worksheet was a list of reading-comprehension skills: finding the main idea, making inferences, making predictions. The girl was pointing to the phrase draw conclusions. She was supposed to be making inferences and drawing conclusions about a dense article describing Brazil, which was lying facedown on her desk. But she was unaware that the text was there until I turned it over. More to the point, she had never heard of Brazil and was unable to read the word.
Elizabeth Frantz / Reuters
The Activist Left Already Knows Who It Wants for President
Elaine Godfrey
Many of the MSNBC moms and energized youths at the annual Netroots Nation conference have already settled on their top candidate—with a surprising second choice.
PHILADELPHIA—It's still early. There will be 16 more months of speech making and glad-handing and glitzy ballroom fundraisers before Election Day. Not committing to a presidential candidate just yet would make sense. But here at Netroots Nation, the premier annual convention for progressive activists, many attendees already seem fairly certain about their choice: They want Elizabeth Warren, the progressive senator from Massachusetts, to be their next president. And if they have to pick a second choice? It's Senator Kamala Harris of California.
It's not necessarily intuitive that the same person would support both women: Warren is a folksy public-school teacher turned anti-corruption advocate, while the blazer-wearing Harris is more of an establishment type, with a long career climbing the ranks of power in California. Warren has pledged not to hold high-dollar fundraising events in favor of grassroots-style meet and greets, while Hollywood heavyweights have been some of Harris's biggest campaign boosters.
The Horrors of ICE's 'Trans Pod'
A woman who spent two months in solitary confinement in a "transgender pod" tells her story.
'1 Million Americans Will Be Shot in the Next Decade'
Jillian Banner
Trauma surgeons describe gun violence as a public-health crisis.
Identical Twins Who Look Nothing Alike
Though they share the same DNA, the Pearson twins' disability has manifested in different ways.
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A tense lunch summit between Monica, her mother, and Imad becomes hard to stomach but yields surprising results. After coming up short for her Havana Nights fundraiser, Ashandra refocuses her goals for the Wellness Center. A Bollywood charity event hosted by Cindi Rose brings all the ladies together and Rachel tries to find some piece of mind with Maribel, understanding that she might not be ready to live on her own. Meanwhile, Monica becomes so swept up in the party that she does not realize that Imad might be finally ready to commit to her.


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select * from hivetable limit=5;

The query successfully executed but in the logs I can't see output of the select query.

A: I got why output of SQL query is not showing.
Put a new line after last command in your .sql file and REMOVE all new lines within a query. Means your query should not contain any new line, when query finishes add a new line and add another query if you want to.


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Today's story comes from Sarah Davies. Sarah lives in New York and is a writer, wife and mother of two.
A woman's life is painful. Bras hurt, heels hurt, too tight jeans that we feel compelled to wear hurt. Cramps, childbirth, post-partum recovery, menopause all hurt. Sexism hurts. Sexual harassment, misogyny, microaggressions hurt. Judgement for being a stay at home mom, a working mom, childless by choice are all part of the daily hurts as a woman. We get so used to hurting that we diminish the pain. It's the only way to survive the day to day as a female in our culture.
We grow so accustomed to a painful experience that we start overlooking pain – physical, emotional and mental. I got so used to it that when I first started feeling sick I blew it off. It's just a cold, maybe allergies, certainly nothing to run to a doctor about. I'll see someone when there's time. My husband's busy at work, there's no one to watch the kids, it's just no big deal. When things slow down, I'll go. Things, of course, never slow down and I start to forget how I felt and sounded before I got stuffed up. I have forgotten what things smell like. It's just become something else in my background of pain.
A year and a half after I first started feeling sick, my symptoms were getting worse. It was finally bad enough for a doctor's appointment. I was dizzy, forgetful, and my headaches were increasing. One of the general intake questions at the clinic I go to is how is your overall health. "Fine, good" I answered. I don't want to sound like a hypochondriac after all. The doctor diagnosed me with depression, gave me some Zoloft, and sent me on my way with a psych consult. I was, understandably upset – "he didn't listen to me" I complained to my husband. This is true and the medical profession has a horrific track record on taking women seriously when it comes to their health concerns. It wasn't until I got a third opinion, from a female doctor, that I was referred to an ENT. That was six months later and my symptoms had only worsened.
While it is hurtful to be overlooked and trivialized by doctors, and the medical profession does need to do better, I keep thinking of my part in this. If I didn't assume that my life should be painful would whatever I have have been caught earlier? Would my prognosis be easier? Being female shouldn't be a sentence to a life of pain. It shouldn't be so expected that it's overlooked.
As women we need to demand more from doctors. We also need to demand more from ourselves in taking responsibility for our bodies. I have a friend who put off gallbladder surgery because 'who would watch the kids.' Another has avoided a hysterectomy for the same reason. I've seen people ask on Facebook if cuts that are almost to the bone need stitches because they didn't want to pack the children up and wait with them in the doctor's office. Our health needs to be important; it has value. Doctors need to do more (childcare in doctor's offices would be a great place to start), but so do we as women. I wouldn't dream of my kids missing a physical. I owe that to myself as well.


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Followed are a list of spells, and how they can be used by who. If you are first year, you will be able to do any spell that costs 1 point, second year 2 points and so on. After leaving Hogwarts, you can through RP and experiences make even more points than 7. Type the number of your points in your location.
To be able to do in nonverbal spell (a spell without making a sound), you will have to have the 10more points than the amount of points in the spell.
The rules regarding combat is very simpel. Again your spellpoints is important.
You can make a series of spells, equal or less of value, of your own spellpoints. So if im a 3rdYear, I can make one Sonorus, or three wingardium Leviosa's, per post.
This rule was made, so that a 1stYear dont makes a hundred Flipendo's to defeat a 7thYear, so it keeps a natural rank order. If you dont have enough power to make 2 Protegos in a row, you cant defend yourself from the opponents 2 stupefy's.


I am a devoted child of the King and a follower of Jesus Christ, led by the Holy Spirit to guide me in my divine calling to bring the Kingdom of God to earth. My greatest joy comes from serving, coaching and supporting others to find their God-given purpose and live the life our Father created for them. The most important people God has entrusted me to serve, is my husband who is my best friend, my rational voice and the foundation of our family, as well as our amazing 14 year old daughter and brilliant 11 year old son. Not only are they my biggest inspiration, but also my best critics in this journey of being a wife and a mother.
As a child growing up in a traditional Christian home, I have always believed in God. He blessed me with incredible talents, from creative design to signing, and with every year I realised that this list was never ending. At the age of 4, I dreamt of becoming a world-famous designer, and continued to qualify as a Fashion Designer. Life seemed to have other plans as I then met my husband at the age of 21. As wife and soon after mother, I pursued a paying career with a stable income. What I then perceived to be my abilities, continued to increase as I became a successful marketing representative, leading to a career in fundraising that would prove to be God's most incredible gift. I have been exposed to incredible opportunities and awarded with invaluable knowledge when I started my consulting business as a Strategic Analyst and Funding Expert.
It may seem that this is an incredible testimony of God's love and grace, but the most incredible part of my testimony is embedded in the 7 years after my son's birth. I had fallen ill and due to medical complications, underwent 7 surgeries as I fought a life-threatening illness that left my body broken and weak. It was in this fight, where I learned to know God and accepted Jesus as my Lord and Saviour. I was redeemed and my spirit strengthened as my flesh failed. With the prognosis of either a slow road to eventual death or high-risk surgical intervention, God revealed His glory through me. Medical experts only gave me a 20% survival probability, but God woke me up from the surgery. Each day since, I have grown hungrier to know our God and Father, especially in the midst of my continued physical challenges and this broken world where we have so many trials and tribulations. He is the only answer. He is THE WAY, THE TRUTH and THE LIFE!
I am a student of life. I am a student of God's word and I am a student of my fellow humans. In my journey from lost creative spirit, to wife, mother, entrepreneur and theology student, God has awoken my passion to serve and inspired me to share my journey, knowledge and love with others. I have trained and gained experience to assist individuals, employees and groups as internationally accredited NLP Practitioner in Life Coaching, Time Line Therapy and Hypnotherapy. I am passionate about helping other people find truthful joy and hope for their future to bring the Kingdom of God to earth through personal coaching and mentorship. Each person equipped to grow their wings through faith, grace and God's divine love!
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Blumhouse Productions and Universal Pictures presents Halloween which will be released on October 19th, 2018. Laurie Strode comes facetoface for one final encounter with Michael Myers, 40 years after his initial killing spree on Halloween night. Halloween H20: 20 Years Later is a 1998 American slasher film directed by Steve Miner. It is the seventh installment in the Halloween film series, and is a direct sequel to Halloween and Halloween II, dismissing the events that take place in the sequels Halloween 4: The Return of Michael Myers, Halloween 5: The Revenge of Michael 6 lost attractions of San FranciscoAmity at Universal Studios Florida Turning advertisements off on Orlando Informer The Horrors of Blumhouse announced for Halloween Horror Nights 2018 3 days ago SAN FRANCISCO (KRON) Michael Myers who?
This little girl is absolutely fearless and doesn't have a care in the world as she jams out to the" Halloween" theme song. Of course she doesn't give a Halloween: The Curse of Michael Myers was released on September 29, 1995 in the United States, while Mick LaSalle of the San Francisco Chronicle said the film lacked suspense and said that" not even the presence of the late, gloriously histrionic Donald Pleasence can liven things up, " deeming it" bland" On Halloween in 1963, Michael Myers murdered his sister, Judith.
In 1978, he broke out to kill his other sister, Laurie Strode. He killed all of her friends, but she escaped. A few years later, she faked her death so he couldn't find her. But now, in 1998, Michael has returned and found all the papers he needs to find her.
He tracks her down to a private San Francisco Giants trade for Andrew Laurie Strode officially returns to Haddonfield: Halloween 2018 begins production. by Robert Comment; Michael Myers has returned home to Haddonfield Halloween (2018) Jamie Lee Curtis and director David Gordon Green join Fandango's Grae Drake at San Diego ComicCon to discuss the legacy of the 'Halloween' franchise, the return of Laurie Strode 40 years after the events of original film, and the turmoil of Laurie's untr Nick Castle, Jr.


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The Las Casas Institute for Social Justice
for social justice
Established in 2008, the Las Casas Institute brings insights from the Catholic intellectual tradition to bear on hard and urgent questions facing contemporary society. Attention is focused in four main areas: Human Dignity, Economics as a Moral Science, Migration, and Poverty. Our home at Blackfriars Hall, one of the forty-five Permanent Private Halls and Colleges of the University of Oxford, puts us at the heart of a community of scholars and students with global interests and outlook.
Bartolomé de las Casas OP was a sixteenth-century entrepreneur turned opponent of genocide and advocate for the rights of indigenous peoples in the "new world". His experience of the suffering of the people and his preaching profoundly influenced debates within colonial Spain. His dialogue with his brethren in Salamanca, especially Francisco de Vitoria OP, contributed to the emergence of international law.
Blackfriars Hall is a Permanent Private Hall of the University of Oxford and is also part of the English Province of the Order of Preachers (also known as the Dominicans), a charity registered in England and Wales (231192) and in Scotland (SC039062).
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I wrote an article back on March 2nd that provided my thoughts at the time on each of the 13 candidates chances of progressing through the primary and on to the general election for Howard County Board of Education. It has been four weeks since I wrote that article and thought it would be good to take another look at this race and provide another round of predictions. I did it a little different this time…I invited two other local bloggers to weigh in to provide you a more comprehensive review.
None of these predictions are based on any specific data…this is just a summary of gut feelings from three local bloggers.
This is not an endorsement of any candidate running for HoCoBOE.
I very probably will update this article in future posts as endorsements come out and we learn more about the candidates at forums.
Comments: Only two candidates made the top category…and while I am not listing all candidates numbers in this post…Taj did get a perfect 4.00 score on the results, the highest possible.
Comments: We had four candidates make this list. Miller and Mallo are on the high side of this category…Wu and Mackey are on the low side of this category (in terms of total points received).
Comments: Don't overlook any of these candidates…even if the six above all make it…at least two of these candidates will move forward.
Comments: Now look…no one wants to be in this category…but take this as an opportunity to kick start your campaign…and my recommendation is to follow the tips below to get your campaign going in high gear over the next 88 days.
Let me say this again…"None of these predictions are based on any specific data". This is the opinion of three local bloggers…so take it as that and not get overly happy or overly concerned at the results. There will be a number of endorsements from HCEA, African American Coalition of Howard County, The People Voice and others that will shake up this list significantly. I do plan to write updates to this listing in the future once we have some of those endorsements…and I plan to continue to have others in the community help me with the predictions.
3. Online outreach…if you have not already done so…get your website online and your social media accounts (I recommend Facebook and Twitter) going now. Here is the current listing that I am aware of: https://scotteblog.com/2018-howard-county-board-of-education-reference-card/. If your online outreach account is not listed…get it online ASAP and let me know so I can update that listing.
88 days until June 26th…plenty of time for all of the candidates to build support from around the county.
That is all I have for this morning…off to work I go.


The Old Parktonian Sports Club Bowls Section was founded in 1962 with one green.
The Clubhouse and a second green were built in the early 70's.
The Bowls Section now boasts 2 well maintained greens appropriately named after two prominent members – namely Lawrie Locke and Robin Craggs.
The surrounding gardens make these greens amongst the most attractive in the region.
The club facilities are sought after as venues for competitions and tournaments under the auspices of the JBA.
The 110 members enjoy a full calendar of Tabs sessions, internal and external tournaments and competitions which ensure that the facilities are not underutilized.
Wednesday Fours sponsored by Century Properties.
Social tournament held between Christmas and New Year.
Club Shirts, Jerseys and Jackets are available from the committee at competitive prices.
Members are required to be members of the Old Parktonian Sports Club.
The club has 3 Mens and 3 Ladies Teams and a pennant side in the JBA Saturday League.
Club Teams are entered in the JBA Midweek League in both the Mens and Ladies Divisions.
The National Tournament and Black & White Tournament are also well supported by members.
The Entertainments Committee is always active and has traditionally arranged several functions throughout the year – most notably a Christmas Luncheon and Musical Quiz Evenings. All functions are well attended and enjoyed by the members.


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(review) by Glowing Fish Sun Mar 18 2012 at 23:11:56
"The Doctor's Daughter" is the sixth episode of the fourth series of the revival of Doctor Who. It stars David Tennant as The Tenth Doctor, Catherine Tate as Donna Noble, Freema Agyeman as Martha Jones, and Georgia Moffet as Jenny, the Doctor's titular daughter.
This episode starts off right where the last one lets off: The Doctor, Donna and Martha are in The TARDIS, which starts to shake and take off with no input, bringing them to an alien planet where the Doctor's tissue is sampled, and a fully formed daughter steps out of a machine three seconds later. And that is before the opening credits.
We soon find out that the planet we are on is stuck in the middle of a generations long war between two societies, one of humans and the other of fishlike aliens. The Doctor finds their endless war repugnant, but his daughter Jenny is a natural warrior, raised by the machines that produced her to fight and kill without question. The war becomes more violent and both races might be wiped out if The Doctor can't solve the mystery in time. Along with having to stop the fighting, The Doctor has to cope with his daughter's worldview, as well as challenges to his own self-perception as a pacifist.
The story ends on several different notes, with a plot twist (perhaps) taken from the short story "Frost and Fire" by Ray Bradbury, a revealing moment about The Doctor's psychology, and an even further plot twist that, five years later, has yet to be resolved.
This is a great episode, and is especially great when seen in the light of the rest of Series 4, which has a number of episodes dealing with The Doctor's competing roles as healer and warrior. It also hearkens back to Series One's The Empty Child, where denial of an offspring and what they represent is the hinge of the plot and theme. It also, for good measure, features Georgia Moffet, the daughter of 5th Doctor Peter Davison, playing the daughter of David Tennant, the man she would later marry. (You may or may not want to think about that one.)
In short, another thought provoking and well plotted episode.
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Q: foreach loop not giving required result I'm performing an API request using PHP's cURL library. The output is XML as follows:
<xml>
   <urlnext>
    <list>
      <list1>
      <list2>
      <list3>

After getting this output, I'm calling the URL inside urlnext again with cURL and get a similar output and so on, if I keep on getting the urlnext in response we call the new URL with cURL library.
But that loop is calling the first response urlnext but not the next ones. It's giving response for first urlnext but it doesn't go for next loop. Please tell me how can I modify this loop. Here's my code:
$dat1 = httpGet($url);
$xml2 = new SimpleXMLElement($dat1);

foreach ($xml2 as $array) {
    $url  = $array->urlnext;
    $data = httpGet($url);
    $xml2 = new SimpleXMLElement($data);

    foreach ($xml2 as $array) {
        doing the operations.....
    }
}

The httpGet function is performing the cURL request and returning the XML as expected.
<?php

function getData($url){
   // $dat1=httpGet($url);
$ch = curl_init();

    curl_setopt($ch,CURLOPT_URL,$url);
 curl_setopt($ch,CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER,true);
//  curl_setopt($ch,CURLOPT_HEADER, false);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, array(
    'header1: value1',
    'header1:value2'
    ));
    $output=curl_exec($ch);
    curl_close($ch);
   //return $output;

    return new SimpleXMLElement($output);
}

//Create main array that will contain the XML responses of all the urls.
$mainData = Array();

//Pass in URL, calls getData function, finds next url, then calls its self with the new URL.  Be forewarned--- this could create an infinite loop
function loopData($url){
    $data = getData($url);
    array_push($mainData, $data);

    foreach($data as $array){
        $nexturl=$array->urlnext;
        loopData($nexturl);
    }
}
//Call initial URL
$url = "http://exampleurl.com";
loopData($url);

//Print all data results.
print_r($mainData);
?>

A: One thing that jumps out right away to me is the missing "$" before the "data" variable on line 6.  But the shared variable names is concerning as well.
I'm not able to test this without knowing the API you're calling, but here was my initial stab at creating a piece of code that does what you described:
//Pass in URL to call, returns the XML element
function getData($url){
    $dat1=httpGet($url);
    return new SimpleXMLElement($dat1);
}

//Create main array that will contain the XML responses of all the urls.
$mainData = Array();

//Pass in URL, calls getData function, finds next url, then calls its self with the new URL.  Be forewarned--- this could create an infinite loop
function loopData($url){
    $data = getData($url);
    array_push($mainData, $data);
    foreach($data as $array){
        $nexturl=$array->urlnext;
        loopData($nexturl);
    }
}
//Call initial URL
$url = "http://www.exampleurl.com";
loopData($url);

//Print all data results.
print_r($mainData);


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The mime-mapping of conf/web.xml in Tomcat 7 ist far more complete than in Tomcat 6 . Please keep both sections synchronized. It's quite a tedious work to create a suitable patch with every release and apply that to Tomcat 6.
AFAIK, Nothing is broken with the current list of mime-mappings in Tomcat 6, so I am marking this as enhancement.
1. web.xml in Tomcat 7 is 100 kilobytes larger than the one in Tomcat 6.
I wouldn't be wondered if the time to parse those additional 3000 lines and the memory used to store the mappings for each deployed application were noticeable in some configurations.
2. There is nothing wrong with having your own copy of web.xml to replace the one provided by Tomcat.
I would not expect many changes to the default web.xml in Tomcat 6, so you do not need to update your copy.
3. Tomcat 6 is RTC, so someone has to prepare the actual patch to be proposed for a vote.
Personally, I think it is too late to backport such enhancement to Tomcat 6. Though if anyone else goes with it, I wouldn't mind. Maybe ask on opinions on dev@.
Are there any more requests for this?
> so I am marking this as enhancement.
Sorry, I did not mind to file a bug actually. This is a enhancement of course.
> 1. web.xml in Tomcat 7 is 100 kilobytes larger than the one in Tomcat 6.
> noticeable in some configurations.
This happens anyway if you run an app with Tomcat 7. Why this should make a difference to Tomcat 6?
> the one provided by Tomcat.
I know, I have done this partially. But it has a huge drawback. Everyone has to do the same stupid work over and over again, patch, check, patch, etc. We can do this in a single place, here.
> do not need to update your copy.
> proposed for a vote.
> Personally, I think it is too late to backport such enhancement to Tomcat 6.
What is RTC? Yes, I will raise this on dev@ as you advise.
I'll have an updated proposal shortly.
New patch that doesn't create the duplicates.
Updated patch proposed for 6.0.x.
Fixed in 6.0 by r1476538 , will be in 6.0.37.


Did You Catch Ewan McGregor Thanking His Wife *and* His Girlfriend During the Golden Globes?
Ewan McGregor won the Golden Globe for Best Actor in a Limited Series for his work on Fargo, and ended up pulling a Globes first by thanking both his estranged wife Eve Mavrakis and his new girlfriend Mary Elizabeth Winstead.
Left: Ewan McGregor and his wife Eve Mavrakis. Right: Ewan McGregor and his girlfriend Mary Elizabeth Winstead.
First, McGregor thanked Mavrakis, saying "I want to take a moment to just say thank you to Eve, who always stood by me for 22 years." He then continued, "There wouldn't have been any Ray without Mary Elizabeth Winstead."
The moment drew a lot of chatter on Twitter, and the reaction was best described as shocked.
Enjoying how, in one speech, Ewan McGregor thanked his wife of 22 years and the actress he left her for.
Winstead and McGregor were spotted together in October, and People confirmed the news of his separation from Mavrakis shortly after.


Brogues have become something of a wardrobe staple over the past few seasons, but if the more masculine look isn't to your taste you might prefer the Paul Smith Tilla Court Shoe instead.
Not the cheapest shoes on the market, but if you want classic and long-lasting, these Church's Patent Burwood Wingtip Brogues are hard to beat.
That rich chocolate brown colour for the patent leather is certainly an eye-catcher, with the shoe finished with the decorative brogue perforations and topped off with a leather sole.
£355 is the hefty asking price, but look after them and these timeless gems should serve you well for many years.
Brogues have been seen everywhere across mainstream footwear retailers for a few seasons now, which can only mean it's time for the high street to try something new in retro shoes. These spats-inspired Two Tone Shoes by Qube are a quirky and cool pair with evident vintage inspiration.
Taking an earlier menswear trend and adapting it for women's fashion, the idea behind these has a real sixties sensibility. The end result, with a monochrome palette and clean, sharp lines, has instant retro impact that you'll wear again and again.
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Brogues as womenswear have been on our high street for a few seasons now, and as we move into Autumn/Winter 2010's new lines the style is becoming more varied. These Ivory Lace-Up Brogues from Dorothy Perkins provide a classic and well-styled pair ideal for the transition from Summer.
The rich cream shade of the faux leather provides an instantly retro look, perfect for sixties and seventies styles. For those decades which dared to take menswear on board in women's wardrobes, this pair is both traditional and feminine thanks to the punched hole designs combined with sleek curves.
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The Marquette Pioneer Trail is located in Marquette, Kansas. The 2.8-mile trail surface is rolled and packed asphalt millings suitable for bicycles, walkers, joggers and wheelchair users. There is also a nature trail loop that runs around the football and baseball fields which connects with the Marquette Pioneer Trail.
It is hoped that someday Marquette Pioneer Trail will connect with the proposed Smoky Hill Recreational Trail which would stretch between Marquette and Lindsborg in the old K-4 right-of-way.


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Everything was perfect--great view, clean room, comfy bed, lots of natural light. The owner was even very accommodating when I mixed up my travel dates in the original booking. If I go back to Hydra, this is definitely where I'll stay.
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The guesthouse is in a traditional sailor(?)house converted into hotel. Very stylish decoration and design, it is in a beautiful, quite, leafy street of Hydra, just a few steps away from the port and restaurants.
Excellent location, short walking distance from ferry, fantastic cafes, bars and restaurants nearby. Great view from the suite. Well furnished. Lovely Greek shower products. Very nice staff.
Very nice decorated room, in a quit lovely area, near to restaurants, shops, harbor. Staff very friendly and helpful. Super comfortable mattress and very modern bathroom. Next time in Hydra I will for sure stay there!
Airy clean room with lovely large terrace ideally located just slightly away from port... Fresh sheets and towels regularly. The owner was always available for help.
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There was building work next door that started very early.
Only thing that would have been good was beach towels.
I'm only hesitant to leave a review because it means it will get booked up!
Only 1 negative. Have to turn the electric water heater switch on 30minutes before you can shower. Was a bit of a pain. Would be nice to have more clothesline and pegs on balcony for drying clothes after handwash but what was there was great.
Very clean, great wifi, very friendly and accommodating host, very pretty environment. Would definitely stay here again.
Beautiful location in quiet area.
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Home/Business/'We Suffer While You Debate': Many Fear Being Left Behind as Democrats Trim Spending Bill
'We Suffer While You Debate': Many Fear Being Left Behind as Democrats Trim Spending Bill
WASHINGTON — Democrats in Congress are curbing their ambitions for President Biden's economic agenda, and Jennifer Mount, a home health care aide, worries that means she will not get the raise she needs to pay more than $3,000 in medical bills for blindness in one eye.
Edison Suasnavas, who came to the United States from Ecuador as a child, has grown anxious about the administration's efforts to establish a pathway to citizenship, which he hoped would allow him to keep doing molecular tests for cancer patients in Utah without fear of deportation.
And Amy Stelly wonders — thanks to a winnowing of Mr. Biden's plans to invest in neighborhoods harmed by previous infrastructure projects like highways that have harmed communities of color — whether she will continue to breathe fumes from a freeway that she says constantly make her home in New Orleans shudder. She has a message for the president and the Democrats who are in the process of trying to pack his sprawling agenda into a diminishing legislative package.
"You come up and live next to this," Ms. Stelly said. "You live this quality of life. We suffer while you debate."
Mr. Biden began his presidency with an expensive and wide-ranging agenda to remake the U.S. economy. But under the duress of negotiations and Senate rules, he has shelved a series of his most ambitious proposals, some of them indefinitely.
He has been thwarted in his efforts to raise the federal minimum wage and create a pathway to citizenship for undocumented immigrants. He has pared back investments in lead pipe removal and other efforts that would help communities of color. Now, as the president tries to secure votes from moderates in his party, he is reducing what was originally a $3.5 trillion collection of tax cuts and spending programs to what could be a package of $2 trillion or less.
That is still an enormous spending package, one that Mr. Biden argues could shift the landscape of the economy. But a wide range of Americans who have put their faith in his promises to reshape their jobs and lives are left to hope that the programs they are banking on will survive the cut; otherwise, they face the prospect of waiting years or perhaps decades for another window of opportunity in Washington.
"The problem now is this may be the last train leaving the station for a long time," said Jason Furman, an economist at the Harvard Kennedy School who was a top economic adviser to President Barack Obama. "It could be five, 10, 20 years before there's another shot at a lot of these issues."
President Biden entered the White House with an expensive and ambitious agenda to remake the U.S. economy. He has pared back those plans.Credit…Tom Brenner for The New York Times
Mr. Furman and other former Obama administration officials saw firsthand how quickly a presidential agenda can shrink, and how presidential and congressional decisions can leave campaign priorities unaddressed for years. Mr. Obama prioritized an economic stimulus package and the creation of the Affordable Care Act over sweeping immigration and climate legislation in the early years of his presidency.
Stimulus and health care passed. The other two did not.
A similar fate now could befall Mr. Biden's plans for home care workers, paid leave, child care subsidies, free prekindergarten and community college, investments in racial equity and, once again, immigration and climate change.
If Mr. Biden is able to push through a compromise bill with major investments in emissions reduction, "he's got an engine that he's working with" to fight climate change, said John Podesta, a former top aide to Mr. Obama and President Bill Clinton. "If he can't get it, then I think, you know, we're really kind of in soup, facing a major crisis."
Republicans have criticized the spending and the tax increases that would help fund it, claiming that the Democratic package would hurt the economy. Democrats "just have an insatiable appetite to raise taxes and spend more money," Representative Steve Scalise, Republican of Louisiana, said on "Fox News Sunday" this week. "It would kill jobs."
Amy Stelly said she wondered whether she would continue to breathe fumes from the Claiborne Expressway, which is near her home in New Orleans.Credit…Edmund D. Fountain for The New York Times
The threat of Republican filibusters has blocked Mr. Biden's plans for gun and voting-rights legislation.
For now, though, the president's biggest problem is his own party. He is negotiating with progressives and moderates over the size of the larger tax and spending package. Centrists like Senators Joe Manchin III of West Virginia and Kyrsten Sinema of Arizona have pushed for the price tag to fall below $2 trillion. Mr. Manchin has said he wants to limit the availability of some programs to lower- and middle-income earners. Progressive groups are jockeying to ensure that their preferred plans are not cut entirely from the bill.
The House has proposed investing $190 billion in home health care, for example, less than half of what Mr. Biden initially asked for. If the price tag continues to decrease, Democrats would almost certainly have to choose between two concurrent aims: expanding access to older Americans in need of caretakers or raising the wages of those workers, a group that is disproportionately women of color.
Another proposal included in Mr. Biden's original infrastructure bill was an investment of $20 billion to address infrastructure that has splintered communities of color, although the funding was slashed to $1 billion through a compromise with Republican senators.
Ms. Stelly thought the funds, plus the president's sweeping proposals to address climate change — which might also be narrowed to appease centrist Democrats — would finally result in elected officials addressing the highway emissions that have filled her lungs and darkened the windows of her home.
Ms. Stelly, an urban designer, has since limited her expectations. She said she hoped the funding would be enough to at least issue another study of the highway, which claimed dozens of Black-owned businesses and the once-thriving neighborhood of Tremé.
The Claiborne Expressway bisects the residential neighborhood of Tremé in New Orleans. Ms. Stelly said she hoped the funding would be enough for another study on the effects of the highway.Credit…William Widmer for The New York Times
Some Democrats are eager to pack as much as they can into the bill because they fear losing the House, the Senate or both in the midterm elections next year. Mr. Podesta has urged lawmakers to see the package as a chance to avoid those losses by giving Democratic incumbents a batch of popular programs to run on, and also giving the president policy victories that could define his legacy.
Mr. Biden has promoted some of his policies as ways to reverse racial disparities in the economy and lift families that are struggling in the coronavirus pandemic from poverty.
Ms. Mount, who immigrated to the United States from Trinidad and Tobago, said she was appreciative of her job helping older Americans and the disabled eat and bathe and assisting them in their homes. But her wages for her long hours — working about 50 hours a week for $400, at times — have made it effectively impossible to stay on top of payments for basic needs.
She had hoped Mr. Biden's plan to raise the minimum wage or salaries for home health care aides meant she would no longer need to choose between her electric bills and her medical expenses. She said the treatment had improved her blindness, but without a salary increase for her field, she is more convinced that she will be working for the rest of her life.
"I have to make a choice: Do I go to the grocery store or pay my mortgage? Do I pay my water bill or pay my electric bill?" said Ms. Mount, who lives in Philadelphia. "With that, retirement looks B-L-E-A-K, all uppercase. What do I have there for retirement?"
When Mr. Biden initially proposed two years of free community college, Ms. Mount, 64, was encouraged about future opportunities for her six grandchildren in the United States. But she fears that effort could also be cut.
"That's politics from on top," she said. "At times, they always seem detached."
Protesters gathered in front of the White House in August in support of the DACA program, which protects young immigrants from deportation.Credit…Andrew Caballero-Reynolds/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images
Some measures that Democrats have long promised voters have run afoul of Senate rules that dictate which policies the administration should include in bills that use a special process to bypass the filibuster, including a minimum-wage increase and a plan to offer citizenship to immigrants brought to the United States as children.
When the Senate parliamentarian rejected the strategy, it made Mr. Suasnavas, who has lived in the United States since he was 13, consider the prospect of eventually being deported; he would have to leave behind his job as a medical technology specialist, and his 6-year-old daughter and 2-year-old son.
"We've been having the hopes that politicians in Washington — Democrats and Republicans — will see not only the economic impact we can bring to the country but also we're still people with families," said Mr. Suasnavas, 35. "Our hearts have been broken so many times that it feels like another wound in your skin."
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The Cadillac version of the Chevrolet Volt will cost more than twice as much as the car on which it's based.
General Motors said the Cadillac ELR electric coupe will start at $75,995, putting it in direct competition with the least-expensive version of the Tesla Model S. The ELR, schedule to go on sale in January, will be the most expensive car GM offers in the U.S.
With a federal tax credit of up to $7,500, the real price could be about $68,495, including a destination charge of $995.
"The ELR is a unique blend of dramatic design with electric vehicle technology capable of total range in excess of 300 miles," Bob Ferguson, Cadillac senior vice president, said in a statement.
Unlike the Model S, which is all-electric, the ELR, which workers at GM's Detroit-Hamtramck plant will assemble, can travel 35 miles on a battery charge before a 1.4-liter gasoline engine kicks in and powers the car. The Volt can travel 38 miles on electricity before using gas.
Although the two GM cars share a powertrain, the ELR is heavier, reflecting the weight of premium materials such as wood grain and chrome trim, and safety features such as lane departure warning and forward collision alert.
GM executives have said they expect the vehicle to be a "halo" vehicle for Cadillac — a model designed to lure buyers to the showroom whether they buy it or another model.
The vehicle's release comes as GM executives are studying consumer reaction to the Tesla Model S, which ranges from $60,000 to $110,000.
GM recently said it is pursuing a $30,000 pure-electric car with a 200-mile range to compete with a future offering from Tesla.


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Special: Further Analyses of Current Mental Health Legislation Smith and Tenney
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Yvonne Smith and Lauren Tenney host open lines for further analyses of the MHASP webinar, "Murphy Bill in 2015". Not that they would put it this way, maybe, but the webinar will feature a discussion about three sweeping legislative efforts concerning the psychiatric industry and state power. The bills discussed will include the Congressman Tim Murphy's now dead H.R. 3717 and its resurrected evil twin, H.R. 2646, the Helping Families in Mental Health Crisis Act of 2015, put forth by Congressmen Murphy and Johnson. Meanwhile in the Senate, back in March 2015, Senators Bill Cassidy and Chris Murphy successfully swayed the Senate to unanimously pass a "comprehensive mental health reform budget" and just announced last week a new bill, the "Comprehensive Mental Health Reform Act of 2015", S. 1945.
S. 1945 is essentially an edited and plagiarized version of the Murphy-Johnson Bill (H.R. 2646), which also includes the spirit of the H.R. 2690 bill, the "Involving Families in Mental Health Recovery Act of 2015," put forth by Congresswoman Matsui. Like H.R. 2690, the new S. 1945 also slices at privacy going as far to say: "the protected health information of patients with a mental illness may be disclosed with and without patient consent" (p. 82).
This show will be an open lines call in show for people to express their further anaylses about these bills.
To read S. 1945 https://www.dropbox.com/s/x7eodspllgtrqmx/Cassidy%20Murphy%20Mental%20Health%20Bill%20Senate%20August%202015.pdf?dl=0
Tenney reads S.1945 on demand: http://www.blogtalkradio.com/talkwithtenney/2015/08/06/talk-with-tenney-special-reading-the-cassidy-murphy-bill-and-open-lines
(Registration for webinar: (THIS IS NOT AN ENDORSEMENT.) https://attendee.gotowebinar.com/register/8129261578418685185)


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Rapids on the Youghiogheny River, Pennsylvania. Nicknamed the "Yough", this river is a tributary of the Monongahela River which drains a portion of the west side of the Allegheny Mountains. It's a popular river for whitewater kayaking and rafting.