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Promoting gender diversity across the Globe – Compass Group leads the way
Compass Group is the world leading food service supplier
We believe that great team work comes from a culture of inclusive and welcoming work environments.
Compass Group is a lead supporter of many equality initiatives
The Compass Group's footprint spans 50 countries and over 55,000 client locations. Across this base you can find nearly 600,000 colleagues.
Our success as the World's leading food service supplier is driven by our teams that deliver first class service in each and every client venue, seek out innovative solutions and serve first class food and beverage – and those teams are themselves fuelled and motivated by great team work.
We believe that great team work comes from the culture that supports the building of inclusive and welcoming work environments that reflect our shared values and vision. It's a key tenet of our business that the diversity of our workforce reflects both the communities we serve and the societies we work.
Earlier this month Compass Group CEO was delighted to sign up Compass as a lead supporter of WiH2020. WiH2020 is an industry wide initiative dedicated to promoting gender diversity and increasing women's representation in leadership positions across the hospitality, travel and leisure sectors. We have also signed up to the Diversity in Hospitality, Travel and Leisure Charter, a ten-point action plan designed to put diversity and inclusion at the heart of leading businesses in the sector.
Tea Colaianni, Founder and Chair of WiH2020 pointed to Compass' proud history and commitment of investing in training and support for female chefs and progressive workplace practices which provide the platform and inspiration for women to both consider and build a career within our business.
To understand more about how Compass Group promotes all levels of diversity across our global business contact Graeme Tomkins on +44 1932 573 000
"We believe that great team work comes from the culture that supports the building of inclusive and welcoming work environments that reflect our shared values and vision."


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First Story
#TellYourStory
Launch the first ever National Writing Day, while inspiring children to discover the joy of creative writing.
Children who enjoy writing are eight times more likely to write above the level expected for their age, compared with children who don't enjoy writing at all (23.2% vs 3.2%). Putting fun back into writing isn't just a nice idea, it's critical to helping every child fulfil their potential.
On National Writing Day, we created "#TellYourStory". The campaign tapped into an established technique used to help writers get rid of their writer's block - simply describing the view from their window.
We used the power of social platforms and influencers to explode the technique to a massive scale and inspire new writers to find their voice. In one day, we would get children, and everyone else, all over the country writing and sharing their stories with the world, using the hashtag #TellYourStory.
Number one trending topic on Twitter (Above the Queen's speech)
Reach: More than 26m people
Strong uptake from schools - a new generation of writers imspired
First Story: #TellYourStory
We helped charity First Story launch the first ever National Writing Day, with a campaign that inspired children to discover the joy of creative writing.
Juventus: LoveJu
Juventus united its fans from all over the world, letting them show their support with the first ever social choreography.
We helped Hello Bank! support the future of music, while creating affinity amongst its mobile-native audience.

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HEADLINE MANIAC
Headline Maniac is the outstanding new project from long-serving Eddie and The Hot Rods members Ian 'Dipster' Dean (bass/lead vocals), Chris Taylor (guitar/vocals) and Simon Bowley (drums/vocals). A classic power trio, who deal in solid, blues-based rock 'n' roll, served with a contemporary punk gloss, and earworm pop sensibilities, Headline Maniac were, somewhat ironically, first conceived of as a support act. When the original Hot Rods line-up, of Steve Nicol, Barrie Masters, Paul Gray and Graeme Douglas, reunited for a series of 40th anniversary shows in mid-2015, Dipster, Chris and Simon put a band together to open for them, basing their setlist around a batch of new material, which Dipster had recently presented to the contemporary Hot Rods. Although jamming the songs had revealed they weren't quite right for that band, it also led Dipster and co to realize they were far too good to give up on.
Encouraged by a phenomenal response at the anniversary gigs, Headline Maniac have swiftly grown into their name. Taking another prestigious support with Big Country, and playing their own well-received high-energy club shows throughout the Rochford-to-Canvey 'Thames Delta' swathe of Essex they call home, the trio had the opportunity to tighten and hone the tracks, before entering the studio in autumn 2015. The result of those sessions is their accomplished, punchy, and massively hook-laden self-titled debut album, which is set for release on 8th July, via Rod Hot Records.
Headline Maniac's roots in the area which gave rise to Dr Feelgood, The Kursaal Flyers, The Hot Rods, and other pub rockers who paved the way for punk, are undeniably worn with pride on their debut. However, the band also add elements of blues, classic rock and pop punk into the mix, to create a distinct, engagingly fresh sound. Simon comments "the three of us have quite a different range of musical influences. Chris was hugely influenced by Thin Lizzy and is a real rock-head. Dipster was more into his R 'n' B bands, like Dr Feelgood and the Pirates. I was into punk, but also love the classic rock sound of Bad Company and The Who. Headline Maniac has all those influences in its sound".
Indeed, listeners will hear all of these and more in the band's dynamic debut album. Numbers like 'You're The One For Me' and 'Bad', which throb with Chris's relentless, grooving riffs, evoke Zeppelin's classic 70s blues rock power, while '14 Days's bounding pace and unabashedly poppy hook married to a punk rock bite calls to mind Green Day's modern punk. Elsewhere, 'Give Me One More Chance' hums with coiled energy, in its twitchy, jumpy guitar runs, while Simon and Chris's backing vocals perfectly complement Dipster's gravelly yet melodious lead on an instant singalong chorus. Getting his hands on an advance copy of the album, Vive le Rock magazine's Mark Chadderton was quick to pick up on the intuitive chemistry between the band members, stating in a 9/10 review, "this debut album exudes a superbly meshed mix of classic quality rock, punk and new wave swagger. Chris Taylor's ear grabbing guitar, Simon Bowley's dominant drums and Dipster's booming bass are as tight as you'd surmise, pumping out an almighty edgy, tuneful racket... the energising quality never lets up".
That impressive chemistry stems from the fact the trio have already been playing together for more than a decade, as three fifths of the most enduring Hot Rods line-up to date. Drummer Simon was the first to get the call when Barrie Masters resurrected the Rods in 2000, although, as the nephew of original drummer Steve Nicol (who inspired Simon to pick up his instrument at the age of six!), he'd been around their music a lot longer. Simon then recruited Chis and Dipster, having been impressed by their work in local Essex bands.
The sort of tightness and camaraderie that arises only from intensive, tireless touring (the Hot Rods UK comeback run consisted of no less than 76 dates, and they've not stopped touring Europe, Asia and North America since) is strongly apparent on the trio's debut as Headline Maniac, but along with it you also sense the energy, freshness and excitement that accompanies and brand new venture. That kind of sheer, infectious enjoyment of playing music is exactly what Headline Maniac is all about, according to Simon. "We aren't kids anymore and we aren't looking for rock stardom anymore, we just want people to enjoy the live shows, rock out to the album, and we will continue doing what we love doing", he says, adding "we're having fun, and that's exactly the way it should be".


Location: 2120 14th Ave NW, Gig Harbor, WA 98335.
Tubby's Trail Dog Park near Hwy-16 is 9 acres and is a wide, rectangular field perfect for throwing balls with grassy side slopes that your dog can run up and down. As a catchment area for excess water, it can get muddy during the rainy season. It is fully fenced and has a large dog area and small dog area.
"Tubby" was a black male Cocker Spaniel that fell into fame when Galloping Gertie collapsed on November 7th, 1940. As the only victim of that great disaster, Tubby has earned a special place in the hearts of many. His death symbolizes the drama of that terrible day. Tubby was owned by Leonard Coatsworth and although he did his best to coax Tubby out of the car Tubby refused to leave. PenMet Parks has named this off leash dog park in remembrance of Tubby, the only fatality when the first Tacoma Narrows Bridge fell into Puget Sound.


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An attack of asthma is an agonising experience, and none there are who would willingly go through a further attack if they knew of any means whereby such attacks could be averted.
Unfortunately for the asthma sufferer, Medical Science offers no means of treatment whereby the condition can be really cleared up and the possibility of future dread attacks banished once and for all.
Medical methods of dealing with the disease centre solely around the employment of certain drugs to bring relief to the sufferer during an attack, and no more. But such drugs are highly dangerous in the extreme, and the relief they bring is purchased at the cost of the further deterioration of the health of the sufferer.
So that asthma treated along orthodox medical lines invariably tends to become worse and worse under treatment.
Happy, however, is the asthma sufferer who comes into touch with natural methods of treatment, for by such treatment his condition unless very severe and of long standing ¡ª can be very much improved, if not definitely cured, in a large number of cases.
Natural treatment does not aim at just trying to palliate the effects of an asthmatical attack; it aims at purifying the system of the toxic matter which is at the root of the trouble, and so effectually preventing the occurrence of further attacks.
At the same time the whole general health-level of the sufferer is built up by the treatment, and many an erstwhile sufferer from asthma has been heard to declare that Natural Cure has made a completely new man of him, as well as ridding him of the nightmare of ever-recurring asthma attacks.
Asthma may be connected with other respiratory diseases in the same person, such as bronchitis, tuberculosis, etc., but many people suffer from asthma who have no other sign of serious chest complaint of any kind. Thus it can be seen that it is not chest trouble as such which is needed to set up an asthmatic condition in any givenindividual.
The whole point about asthma is that it is a nervous condition affecting the breathing of the sufferer, and can be brought on from a variety of constitutional causes, the chief of which is disturbance of function of the digestive organs. The stomach and bronchi and bronchial tubes are connected by the vagus nerve, and by reflex action digestive disturbance can so affect the bronchi and bronchial tubes that the passage of air through them is restricted, and an asthmatical attack precipitated.
Obviously, a catarrhal condition of the bronchial tubes will tend to make the appearance of asthma more likely than otherwise, and a highly nervous and run-down condition of the system will also conduce to its development.
Still, no matter what combination of causes there may be acting together to set up asthma in any given individual, the method by which the trouble should be tackled is quite simple and obvious really.
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Using Machine Learning will not require expert knowledge.
All machine learning tasks follow the same basic flow.
Difficult to find best fit hyper parameters.
Hard to make hand made features.
My motivation to write blog on this topic was Google's new project - AutoML.
The goal is to design the perfect machine learning "black box" capable of performing all model selection and hyper-parameter tuning without any human intervention.
Bayesian optimization - It is a sequential design strategy for global optimization of black box functions.
Meta learning - It is a field of machine learning where automatic algorithms are applied on meta-data about machine learning experiments, improving the efficiency of existing learning algorithms.
Converting the data to tabular form.
Splitting the test, train and validation data.
Label or one hot encoders for categorical variables.
TF-IDF or Bag Of Words for text variables.
For high dimension data PCA is used.
For text data - SVD is applied after converting text to sparse matrix.
Using models like LASSO or Random Forest for implicit selection.


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Stevenson, Wilkin seek jobs as Montezuma County commissioners
Spiegel announces run for Cortez City Council
By Jim Mimiaga Journal staff writer
Sunday, Jan. 12, 2020 5:32 PM
Updated 3 days 23 hours ago
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Three local Republicans announced they are running for elected positions during a party meeting Thursday. From left, Dave Spiegel is running for Cortez City Council, Joel "Joe" Stevenson is running for Montezuma County Commission District 3 (Mancos), and Danny Wilkin is running for Montezuma County Commission District 2 (Cortez).
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Three Republican candidates announced their run for elected positions during the monthly meeting of the Montezuma County Republicans Thursday at Shiloh Steakhouse.
For the Montezuma County Board of County Commissioners, Joel "Joe" Stevenson is seeking the District 3 seat, and Danny Wilkin is seeking the District 2 seat in the Nov. 3 general election.
The positions are held by Larry Don Suckla and Keenan Ertel, who have served the maximum two four-year terms.
Dave Spiegel plans to run for one of five seats open on the Cortez City Council on April 7.
Stevenson said he is a staunch supporter of property rights and the U.S. Constitution. He was born and raised in the county and has worked as a livestock inspector for the Colorado Department of Agriculture for 22 years.
"I've been active in the community and served on different boards, and I also have some experience with state government. I'm currently serving on the Montezuma County Planning Commission," he said. "I believe I can get the job done."
Stevenson said he is familiar with the county land use code and is learning more about the inner workings of the county as a planning commissioner. Some of his goals include keeping the county financially secure and governing in a business-friendly way to attract jobs.
Wilkin is running for the District 2 commission seat. He served as party chairman of Montezuma County Republicans and supports property rights and the U.S. Constitution.
Wilkin has a professional background in construction and raises bison on ranches in the county. In 1999, he started Wilkin Home Constructors, a residential building company.
"I would like to be your commissioner because I care deeply about the community," he said. "I want to bring ideas and solutions, I have business experience and have been active in a variety of organizations."
Protecting local water rights from outside interests on the Front Range and Lower Basin states is a big priority, Wilkin said. He served for six years on the Montezuma Valley Irrigation Co. board.
"The West Slope is continually under pressure for us to reduce our consumption to allow for more uncontrolled growth" on the Front Range and Lower Basin cities such as Phoenix and Tucson, he said. "Water is truly our lifeblood and needs to be protected and fought for."
Other priorities are working with the Colorado Department of Transportation for infrastructure needs, working with federal land agencies and addressing social issues in the county.
"I don't have all the answers, but I will work hard with passion and determination to help Montezuma County and its residents prosper, as well as keeping the county a great place to live," he said.
Spiegel is running for a seat on the Cortez City Council. He said there needs to be more control of the marijuana industry in the city. He is critical of the median project on Main Street and would work to prevent more of them.
Monitoring the impact of state legislation on Cortez is important, Spiegel said, and recognizing the local political landscape is part of governing.
"I'm moderately positioned on most things, provided it can be morally done. I will make a stand on key conservative issues," he said. "We have a lot of blue voters in this community, so it is important that we reach out toward the center while staying true to conservative values."
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Commish on video: I fully support the police
in All News, Crime/Police / By: BVI News Online on February 8, 2017 at 2:52 PM /
Commissioner of Police Michael Matthews (foreground) during a press briefing
While noting that he is encouraged by the support expressed through comments in the online media and otherwise, Commissioner of Police Michael Matthews has declared that cops will not be intimidated by unruly motorists and residents trying to obstruct law enforcers carrying out their lawful duties.
His comments come after BVI News Online published a recording of residents including motorcyclists engaging police officers in both physical and verbal confrontation during a traffic operation last week in the Long Bush area of Tortola.
Commissioner Matthews, in a media release, noted that a few offenders were 'less than civilised' in their conduct toward police officers.
"But he was encouraged by the number of people who supported the efforts of the officers and later shared their gratitude to officers through phone calls and online comments," the RVIPF said.
The commissioner also indicated that he has seen other videos of other incidents.
"Like many members of the public, I saw the circulating videos showing the conduct of some drivers, riders and even onlookers when traffic stops are made. But we will not be intimidated. I fully support the efforts of my officers in such challenging circumstances – who are there to uphold the laws of this Territory," Commissioner Matthews declared.
He continued: "We are a law-abiding society and, in order to maintain this, we must make our actions and voices heard opposing the lawbreakers. This is the work that must be done to maintain a safe society."
The RVIPF, in the meantime, stated that its Road Policing Unit, patrols and specialist teams made a number of traffic-related arrests last week – mostly for persons driving without licences, registration, and insurance.
Here is the amateur video of a portion of the Long Bush incident:


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Giving during the holidays
Service locations are overlooked as volunteers flock to others.
Grace Boudreau
Junior Anna Doggett lays out gingerbread men to prepare for the Santa Fest holiday fundraiser at the General's Residence in Fort Mason. Children of Shelters runs the annual event in the Presidio for local homeless children.
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Volunteers clamor to serve meals at soup kitchens or package food at local food banks as the holidays approach, while less popular organizations in San Francisco are overlooked and left with little assistance.
"Unfortunately, people like to reach out and say, 'I'm going to go to Glide and serve a meal because it's the holidays,'" Ray O'Connor, Stuart Hall service learning director, said. "Well, there's a lot of people who think that way. Then they get inundated with volunteers and don't need it, so I like to find those places that may be forgotten that may need it."
O'Connor says Most Holy Redeemer Church in the Castro district is one of those places constantly in need of help for its Wednesday night suppers. Elder homes, such as The Sequoias and Vintage Coventry in Japantown, are a hidden and vulnerable population that also could use help over the holidays.
"We have so many retirement communities in this city with a ton of people and no one visiting them," O'Connor, who established the Students in Action club, said. "Families are either distant, can't or won't visit them and a lot of [the residents] can't go anywhere."
While O'Connor says he and students in SIA often send out emails to the student body to communicate volunteer opportunities, junior Molly Brown finds out about service opportunities through her service non-profit.
"I'm part of National Charity League where mothers and daughters do community service together," junior Molly Brown said. "We're in contact with organizations around the city, so there's a ton of different philanthropies you can do."
Brown says she has signed up for several volunteer opportunities this winter through the charity league, including helping at family housing organizations like the Hamilton Families and the Raphael House.
Junior Isabella Bermejo, who volunteers at the SF SPCA as a cat socializer, says the animal nonprofit needs extra help over the holidays.
"There is an influx of traffic during the holidays from people who see the animals in the Macy's windows," Bermejo said. "If they don't find an animal there, they get inspired to go to the shelters to find a pet."
O'Connor says he is astounded by the amount of service Convent & Stuart Hall students at do and says the willingness to serve is strong.
"We have the reputation that we deliver, that we're responsible and that we follow through," O'Connor said. "I want to preserve that. It is a great reflection on our entire community."
Half-day holiday celebration ends semester
Community celebrates annual tradition
High school celebrates All Saints' Day with community Mass
High school celebrates All Saints' Day with community Mass
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students in action
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My son dropped his DS in a sink full of water. Of course it no longer works at all. No power up, no life what so ever. We've since replaced it with another DS, but we still have the carcus of the original water soaked DS, and if it can be fixed, I would like to try.
You can use the guides to take the DS apart to 1: get it dried out 2: check for and repair any damage caused by the water.
There will likely be oxidation on connections, and basically anything metal inside. You will want to clean this with >90% isopropyl alcohol and cotton swabs. The oxidation will usually be a white or green powder. Blow off what you can with canned air, then swab the rest. Be sure to use at least 90% alcohol, any lower percentage is diluted with water, and that would defeat the purpose.
not to be redundant, but this is how i did my first DS repair. A buddy from work brought it in just to see if i could do something with it. I cleaned it as stated above and it worked just fine again. Water damage is tricky (Coke damage much worse) but alcohol is the answer.
What do I do if it has been out of use for years since it happened?
Instead of takeing a part ,you get a bag of rice. Put the device in the bag of rice and bury it in rice but not cooked rice and wait 48 hrs.
Barrett will be eternally grateful.


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Henry John Anderson
June 23, 1934 ~ November 24, 2019 (age 85)
John Anderson II, 85, of Idaho Falls, passed away November 24, 2019, surrounded by loved ones. He passed away at Eastern Idaho Regional Medical Center, after sustaining an injury doing what he did best: working!
Henry was born June 23, 1934, in Idaho Falls, Idaho, to Henry John Anderson and Margaret Kathrine Muir Anderson. He grew up and attended schools in Idaho Falls, graduating from Idaho Falls High School in 1953.
On January 10, 1952, he married his high school sweetheart, Bernetta LaRue Hebdon in Rigby, Idaho, while still attending high school. The night they got married, they had car troubles, and Bernetta got home late from their date/secret marriage. As a result, she got grounded for two weeks. They didn't consummate there marriage until she got ungrounded.
John and Bernetta went on to make their home in Idaho Falls, Idaho. They had 7 children in the first 10 years of marriage when John was stricken with a brain tumor. Due to complications, it kept them from having more children or they would have, John always said. They loved their kids; family was always first priority. John often worked several jobs at a time to keep his family comfortable. He worked in the auto parts industry at various local shops his whole career. The last 22 years of his working career, he worked at the INL in the auto parts department. He owned a wedding catering business with his wife for more than 30 years. They loved helping others join in marriage. John and Bernetta were inseparable. Their marriage was solemnized in the Idaho Falls Temple in April 2017.
Despite the fact that neither John nor Bernetta liked sports, they made a bet on a ball game several years ago, and Bernetta won. The prize was flowers every week for the rest of her life. John held up his part of the bargain, and she has received flowers for several years right up until his death.
John adored his wife, kids, and grandkids. He hosted many pow wows, luaus, parties, and class reunions. He loved people and was always happy and selfless in his service. He was a friend to all and was kind and generous to anyone he was acquainted with. He never spoke ill of anyone and was a quiet, funny man. He could make anyone laugh and loved to play jokes and pranks on everyone, especially telemarketers. He was a master at it. Paul Harvey and Ronald Reagan were his idols, and he was a gentleman of that era and stature. He never met a stranger that didn't leave a friend.
He was a member of the Elks and The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. He enjoyed making stained glass windows, and going to and hosting garage sales. He was a devout thrift store enthusiast, occasional golfer, Boise State fan, and the world's greatest prankster.
Henry is survived by his wife, Bernetta Anderson; sons, Henry John (Loralee) Anderson III of Idaho Falls, ID, and Douglas (Kathy) Anderson of Rigby, ID; daughters, Laura (Randy) Gray of Idaho Falls, ID, Diana (Michael) Bell of Boise, ID, and Lisa (Michael) Barnes of Hamer, ID; sister, Marjorie (Marvin) Packer of Roy, UT; 16 grandchildren, 30 great-grandchildren, and 4 great-great grandchildren.
He was preceded in death by his parents, Henry and Margaret Anderson; daughters, Karen Jeanette Anderson and Robyn Christen Gray, six sisters, and three brothers.
Services will be held at 11 a.m. Saturday, November 30, 2019, at the Idaho Falls North Stake Center, 955 Memorial Drive, with Counselor Don Ostler officiating. The family will visit with friends Friday from 6 to 8 p.m. at Wood Funeral Home, 273 North Ridge Avenue, and Saturday from 10 to 10:45 a.m. at the church.
To send flowers to Henry's family, please visit our floral section.
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Home » News & Analysis » Senate Armed Services Bill Directs Navy to Start a Preliminary Design Effort for a Light Carrier, Pluses Up Shipbuilding Totals Over Trump Budget
Senate Armed Services Bill Directs Navy to Start a Preliminary Design Effort for a Light Carrier, Pluses Up Shipbuilding Totals Over Trump Budget
By: Sam LaGrone
June 28, 2017 8:41 PM • Updated: June 28, 2017 9:07 PM
Four F-35B Lightning II aircraft perform a flyover above the amphibious assault ship USS America (LHA 6) on Nov. 20, 2016. US Navy Photo
The Senate Armed Services Committee version of the Fiscal Year 2018 National Defense Authorization Act piles on more ships and aircraft over the Pentagon's request in a plan that spends more than $20 billion above the Trump administration's request, according to an executive summary of the legislation that the SASC issued on Wednesday night.
"By supporting $640 billion for defense, this legislation begins to address the readiness shortfall, crisis in modernization, and eroding military advantage by recapitalizing and reinvesting in our forces. This year's legislation also builds upon the sweeping reforms that Congress has passed in recent years," committee chairman Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) said in a statement.
"By continuing important efforts to reorganize the Department of Defense, spur innovation in defense technology, and improve defense acquisition and business operations, the NDAA seeks to strengthen accountability and streamline the process of getting our warfighters the equipment, training, and resources they need to succeed."
Specifically for the Navy, the SASC is adding $5 billion to the shipbuilding and conversion fund, bringing it to $25 billon. Included is language for the Navy to buy 13 ships in FY 2018, or funds for five more ships than the Pentagon's budget submission. Included is a third Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer for a total of $5.5 billion, and $3.1 billion for advance procurement of Virginia-class attack submarines (SSN-774).
Both totals, in line with House proposals, include money set aside for "economic order quantities" that would help shipyards by long-lead materials that support a multi-year procurement deal for the destroyers and the attack boats.
An artist's concept of the 12th San Antonio-class (LPD-17) amphibious warship Fort Lauderdale. HII Image
The SASC bill also calls for $1 billion for an additional amphibious warship in the FY 2018 budget – either the first next-generation LX(R) amphibious dock landing ship replacement or the 14th San Antonio-class amphibious transport dock (LPD-17). The mark also included $661 million for a new Expeditionary Sea Base; $250 million for a T-ARC cable ship; and $509 million for eight Ship to Shore Connectors, five more than the administration asked for.
Absent from the executive summary provided to the public on Wednesday is any mention of the Littoral Combat Ship ship construction. USNI News understands the SASC bill will align with the original presidential budget submission that just asked for one hull in the Fiscal Year 2018 shipbuilding plan, though the administration requested a second ship the day after submitting its budget request to Congress. The bill called for removing $94 million from LCS and the mission module procurement line.
A P-8A Poseidon aircraft assigned to Patrol Squadron (VP) 45 is parked on the flight line of Naval Air Station Keflavik, Iceland. US Navy Photo
In aviation, the bill almost doubled the Pentagon's request for F/A-18E/F Super Hornets fighters to 24 for $1.9 billion. The SASC calls for $2.3 billion for 13 P-8A Poseidon maritime surveillance aircraft. The bill also calls for $2.9 billion to buy 24 F-35B Lighting II Joint Strike Fighters for the Marine Corps and $1.4 billion for ten F-35C Navy variants.
Among one of the largest departures for the SASC, their bill sets aside $30 million for the Navy for a preliminary design effort to create a light carrier for the service.
McCain has been a constant and consistent critic of the Ford-class carrier program and for years has called for an alternative look to the $13-billion price tag for the next-generation hulls. Included in the series of studies the committee asks the Navy to undertake is the question of light carriers' ability to distribute aviation assets throughout a battlespace.
Launching of Virginia-class submarine Indiana. HII Photo
The most likely scenario would be a modified version of the America-class big-deck amphib that would add two catapults to launch aircraft, similar to World War II-era straight-deck escort carriers. The idea would be to give deployed amphibious ready groups greater ability to field a wider variety of logistics and intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance (ISR) aircraft that would give the groups a better ability to project power, Bryan Clark, author of the Center for Strategic and Budgetary Analysis (CSBA) fleet study, told USNI News earlier this year. The Navy has said it has been looking at alternatives to the larger 100,000-ton carriers but a serious public study has not emerged.
While the SASC mark added more ships and aircraft, it also trimmed from other programs. The language wants the Navy to hold the third Gerald R. Ford-class aircraft carrier – Enterprise (CVN-80) – at a cost cap of $12 billion, claws back $100 million in funding from the three-ship Zumwalt-class (DDG-1000), and cuts $225 million in funding for the Arleigh Burke-class (DDG-51) line, which USNI News understands was tied to FY 2016 funding for the first Flight III destroyer that has yet to be spent.
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Q: Create a tiff with only text and no images from a postscript file with ghostscript Is it possible to create a tiff file from a postscript-file (created from a pdf-document with readable text and images) into a tiff file without the images and only the text?
Like add a maxbuffer so images will be removed and only text remaining?
And if boxes and lines around text could be removed as well that would be awesome.
Best regards!

A: You can redefine the various 'image' operators so that they don't do anything:
/image {
 type /dicttype eq not { % uses up argument, only one if dict form
   pop pop pop pop   % remove the arguments for the non-dictionary form.
 } ifelse
} bind def

/imagemask {
 type /dicttype eq not { % uses up argument, only one if dict form
   pop pop pop pop   % remove the arguments for the non-dictionary form.
 } ifelse
} bind def

/colorimage {
  type /integertype eq {
    pop                  % multi
    0 1 3 -1 roll {pop} for % one for each colour component
  } {
    pop pop pop
  } ifelse
} bind def

Save that as a file, and add the file to your GS invocation.
You can remove linework similarly by redefining the stroke operator:
/stroke {
  newpath
} bind def

rectstroke is harder, I suggest you read the PLRM if you need that one.
Possibly also the fill operator:
/fill {
  newpath
} bind def

/eofill {
  newpath
} bind def

Beware! Some text is not drawn using the text 'show' operators, but is constructed from linework, or drawn as images. These techniques will be defeated if you redefine the operators as shown above.
Note that the PDF interpreter often doesn't allow re-definition of operators, so you may first have to convert your PDF file to PostScript, using the ps2write device, then run the resulting file through GS to get a TIFF file.

A: gs -sDEVICE=bitrgbtags -o out.tags <myfile>

will create a ppm file with tags - tags label each pixel as text, vector, image etc.
Then you can use the C programs in ghostpdl/tools/GOT to process the image.  It sounds like you want to write a new C program to to set each non text pixel to the background color or maybe just white, this is fairly straightforward with the example C programs in the GOT subdirectory as a guide (if you are a programmer).  Then you would convert the ppm to tiff.  Ken provided a different way of doing this that doesn't require pixel processing.

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Like Father, Like Daughter! Willow Smith Stunts Like Her Daddy (PHOTOS)
Caitlyn Hitt
Willow Smith rocks a hairdo fit for a prince – the Fresh Prince, that is.
Willow's always been known for her unique style choices, from her hair to her clothing. Most recently, the young star gave a nod to the '90s and her dear old dad, Will Smith, by rocking a flat top at New York Fashion Week.
DETAILS: Is Willow Smith Leaving The Entertainment Industry? "How About I Just Be 12?"
The real question now is, who wore it better, Will or Willow?
The 12-year-old wasn't the only one making a bold statement at Fashion Week. Her gorgeous mama, Jada Pinkett-Smith, chose to stand out in this bright green frock, pictured above.
DETAILS: Not Gonna Happen! Willow Smith Pulls Out Of "Annie" Remake
Check out the photos and let us know what you think of Willow and Jada's Fashion Week looks.
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LAL is located on the Université d'Orsay Paris-Sud Campus, 25 kilometers south-west of Paris. The easiest way to reach the Orsay campus is by taking the RER B line to the Orsay-Ville station (35 minutes from Châtelet, around 3.45 Euros for a single ticket and 1 hour from Charles de Gaulle).
From Terminal 3: The RER station is not located inside Terminal 3. Look for « Paris by train » signs (follow the signposted footpaths). RER station is 400 meters away from the terminal (5 minutes journey by walk) .
At the RER station, take the RER B going to Saint-Rémy-lès-Chevreuse (and not to Robinson), getting off at Orsay-Ville. The price for a RER ticket from Roissy-Charles de Gaulle to Orsay-ville is 13,70 Euros.
Take the Orlyval at the price of 12,05 Euros (Automatic rail link connecting to RER line B) to the Antony station and then transfer to the RER B going to Saint-Rémy-lès-Chevreuse (and not to Robinson) and get off at Orsay-Ville.
Tips (You will find maps, time tables, etc., about metro and RER here.
Please do not mistake the RER B station « Orsay-Ville » for the Paris metro station « Musée d'Orsay ». From Paris, you must buy a ticket specifically for « Orsay-Ville ». A Paris metro ticket is not sufficient !.
There is a special ticket called « ParisVisite » .
It comes as a card with a coupon attached and opens the doors to the whole Ile-de-France network : Metro, RER, Buses, Trams, SNCF overland suburban trains. How about a few destinations ? – Disneyland Resort Paris (zone 5), the Château de Versailles (zone 4), Orsay-Ville (zone 5) or the airports at Charles de Gaulle (zone 5) and Orly (zone 4). The pass becomes valid from the first day of use (and not when you buy it). Once you have bought your ParisVisite pass, fill in the card with your name and first name. Take care to write the serial number of the card on the coupon and add your planned start date. The card and coupon must be kept together and produced for inspection when requested. The price for Five days (Zones 1-5) is 70.30 €.
The main train stations (Gare du Nord, Gare de l'Est and Gare de Lyon are connected to the Metro/RER system going to Orsay-Ville. Consult the preceding paragraph for fares (coupons etc).
If you leave Paris from « Porte d'Italie » or « Porte d'Orléans », take the A6 autoroute in the direction of Lyon ; on the autoroute, after 10 km, follow in the direction of « Bordeaux » ; after another 10km, take the Orsay exit and follow panels to reach Orsay and « Faculté d'Orsay ». After this, look up in a local map to find LAL.
If you leave Paris from « Pont de Sèvres », take the N118 in the direction of « Bordeaux », after 30 km, exit at Orsay. Then, follow « Faculté d'Orsay » or find the RER-B train station « Orsay-Ville ». After this, look up in a local map to find LAL.
In principle, going to Orsay from Paris in the morning is « against the flow » : « pros » do the trip in 30 mn ! (Speed is limited to 110 km/h on autoroute, 90 km/h on national roads, 50 km/h in town).
Exit station and to the left take the pedestrian tunnel that crosses back under the railway (follow the students) go down « Rue E. Desjobert », following the « Orsay University » arrow. At the bottom of the hill, turn left « Rue de Launay » and go straight following the road that crosses the Orsay campus. The main LAL entrance (building 200) is on the left, around 12 minutes walk from railway station (see).


Whitney's cousins are in town! Yay! Time to do the Gymnastics Challenge with Giavanna, better known as The Bon! Here Whitney demonstrates a gymnastics skill and Gia has to do her best to complete the skill. Gia does remarkably well, only to fail decisively on the ultra difficult scorpion stance.


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Thysanoptera of Lamington National Park, Australia, collected during the IBISCA-Queensland Project
Tree, D. and Mound, L. (2011) Thysanoptera of Lamington National Park, Australia, collected during the IBISCA-Queensland Project. Memoirs of the Queensland Museum, 55 (2). pp. 349-358.
Article Link(s): http://network.qm.qld.gov.au/About+Us/Publications...
Publisher URL: http://network.qm.qld.gov.au/About+Us/Publications/Memoirs+of+the+Queensland+Museum
We documented species of thrips (Thysanoptera) collected during the IBISCA-Queensland Project, an altitudinal study in subtropical rainforest at Lamington National Park, Queensland, Australia. Thrips were identified from samples collected by four methods, leaf litter extracts, Malaise traps, flight interception traps and yellow pan traps, conducted at four plots at each of five altitudinal zones (300, 500, 700, 900 and 1100 metres above sea level) in October 2006 and January and March 2007. A total of 61 thrips species from three families were recorded from these samples. An additional 20 species were recorded from Lamington National Park by targeted collecting for thrips, mostly beating live and dead foliage and branches, bringing the total thrips fauna to 81 species. Biogeographically, the most interesting record was a new species breeding in the flowers of Pentaceras australis , Cranothrips ibisca, the only eastern species in a western and arid zone genus.
Thysanoptera, Aeolothripidae , Melanthripidae, Thripidae, Phlaeothripidae, IBISCA-Queensland , altitude
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McGreevey Resigns: McGreevey resists pressure from own party to leave now
The Star-Ledger | August 17, 2004
By DAVID KINNEY AND JOSH MARGOLIN
With some of his strongest former backers now working for his quick ouster, Gov. James E. McGreevey showed up for work at the Statehouse yesterday morning, and his allies said he was digging in for a fight.
Four days after McGreevey disclosed he had an affair with another man and would resign effective Nov. 15, he faced increasing pressure from within his own Democratic Party to leave immediately so U.S. Sen. Jon Corzine can run for governor in a special election.
Three party bosses worked yesterday to enlist legislators, county Democratic chairmen and leaders of organized labor to join in the call for a fast exit. But McGreevey showed no signs of changing his timetable.
"This is about who controls the party. There's no way they're driving us out," one high-ranking Democratic official allied with the governor said. "The last thing we're going to do is let these warlords get the last piece of meat."
The revolt in the governor's party has been growing since he declared Thursday that he is gay and will resign because of an affair, which administration officials said involved former McGreevey aide Golan Cipel. The next day Cipel publicly accused McGreevey of making repeated unwanted sexual advances.
The governor's dramatic news conference followed what Cipel's lawyer, Allen M. Lowy, has said was more than two weeks of negotiations between himself and McGreevey's emissaries to avoid a lurid sexual harassment lawsuit.
That group included state Sen. Raymond Lesniak, one of McGreevey's top political backers; William Lawler, a Washington, D.C., criminal lawyer representing the governor's office in a federal probe of a Democratic fund-raiser; Michael DeCotiis, McGreevey's chief counsel; and Timothy K. Saia, a Livingston lawyer with ties to both Lesniak and Cipel.
Lowy said the talks grew increasingly heated and frantic in the days leading up to McGreevey's startling announcement.
The Manhattan lawyer said he also perceived threats in the comments made by some of McGreevey's representatives.
During the week of July 26, Lowy said, DeCotiis and Lawler told him there would be "a lot of investigation into my client" and questioned Cipel's immigration status. Lowy said Cipel, an Israeli citizen who arrived in the United States in September 2000, remains a legal resident on a work visa.
Lowy said Lawler also mentioned he "had some friends in the FBI."
Asked about Lowy's claims that threats were made by McGreevey's attorneys, DeCotiis responded for both himself and Lawler.
"I would just characterize his statement as bizarre," DeCotiis said. "We referred the matter to federal authorities for them to look at. I have no further comment."
Separately, Lowy said, Cipel received threatening letters in the mail, though Lowy did not elaborate or suggest who sent them.
The lawyer contested a claim by administration sources that Cipel demanded $50 million at the outset of negotiations to stop a harassment suit against McGreevey.
"I told them that, as far as I know, a jury can award him five dollars, five thousand dollars, fifteen thousand dollars, five million dollars or fifty million dollars. I don't know," Lowy said.
Saia said he became involved in the talks in the final week. "I saw a train wreck coming and tried to get the parties to talk."
Yesterday morning, McGreevey went to his office in Trenton and called his senior staffers together to talk about their plans for the next three months. He planned to huddle today with the man in line to succeed him, Senate President Richard Codey.
Corzine, meanwhile, is expected to return to New Jersey today after a fund-raising trip for Democratic Senate candidates that has taken him from Los Angeles to Miami. His aides said he plans to reach out to New Jersey political players and plot out his next step.
The senator has worked to stay above the fray but has made it known he would run if McGreevey left early and Democratic leaders drafted him, party officials say.
If McGreevey remains in office past Sept. 3, the state constitution calls for Codey to serve as both Senate president and acting governor through next year. If the governor resigns sooner, a special election would be held the same day as the presidential vote, Nov. 2.
The debate over the timing has escalated into a high-stakes power struggle, one that some Democrats compared to the 12 days in 2000 when McGreevey and former U.S. Sen. Robert Torricelli went to war over the Democratic nomination for governor. But many of the political players who supported McGreevey that time are working against him now.
Former state Sen. John Lynch, who was McGreevey's political mentor, Rep. Robert Menendez (D- 13th Dist.), who leads the party in Hudson County, and South Jersey power broker George Norcross III are pulling out all the stops to pressure the governor to go.
Senate Majority Leader Bernard Kenny, who is also Hudson County Democratic chairman, Assemblywoman Loretta Weinberg (D-Bergen) and organized labor leaders were among the previously loyal McGreevey supporters who called the governor's office yesterday and pressed for his immediate departure, party officials said.
"We do it very respectfully and with great sadness," said Kenny. He said he called two dozen Democratic leaders in Hudson County and they agreed McGreevey should give way to a Corzine candidacy.
Middlesex County Democrats allied with Lynch planned to go public tomorrow with the McGreevey- must-go message.
But McGreevey has three things on his side.
He has the unwavering support of the party leaders in two key counties – Sen. Ray Lesniak in Union, and Codey in Essex. Codey, who has feuded with both Lynch and Norcross, would gain broad statewide power as acting governor.
McGreevey also still has the power of the governor's office, and for the next three months could exact political revenge on defectors.
And the decision of when to go is his, and his alone.
"Frankly," spokeswoman Kathy Ellis said, "they can camp out in their sleeping bags outside the governor's office door. We'll be here until Nov. 15."
Lynch and Norcross adamantly oppose a Codey governorship of any length – so much that there have been discussions about trying again to dump him as Senate president, thereby blocking his promotion to acting governor, two party officials said.
Yesterday, the political climate remained, in the words of Cumberland County party chairman Lou Magazzu, "fluid" and "ever-changing" as players all over the state were put under pressure to choose sides.
Also yesterday, two independent lawyers affiliated with Ralph Nader's presidential campaign filed suit in federal court seeking a ruling that "a vacancy exists in the office of the governor," requiring a Nov. 2 special election. The attorneys, Bruce Afran and Carl Mayer, said McGreevey's planned November departure "is intended to deprive the voters of the state of New Jersey of the right . . . to elect a chief executive."
Republicans have made that argument since McGreevey's stunning announcement Thursday. Republican Donald DiFrancesco, who served as acting governor for a year after Gov. Christie Whitman resigned to join the Bush administration, said yesterday that if McGreevey did not resign immediately, New Jersey would suffer "second-class" status by having an acting governor.
"He wants to resign but he wants to wait until there's no election. That's not right," the Republican said.
DiFrancesco also said he had considered it "shocking" when McGreevey named Cipel his homeland security adviser. DiFrancesco said he had lined up former FBI Director Louis Freeh to hold a similar position – unpaid.
Appointing Cipel, he said, "was terrible judgment. It was really a shocker to me."
Democrats and Republicans say the pressure on McGreevey will only mount as the week goes on.
Tom Wilson, a former DiFrancesco spokesman who watched his boss's political future unravel in 2001 amid conflict-of-interest allegations, said McGreevey, as a besieged lame duck chief executive, is in a nearly impossible position.
"He's rapidly in danger of becoming an island. You can't survive as an island there," Wilson said.
When McGreevey left Trenton and returned to the governor's mansion in Princeton around 3:30 p.m. yesterday, he found 11 protesters with homemade signs in the street out front. One, held by Susan Pizzi of Princeton, read, "It's the Corruption, Stupid."
Another protester, Carolyn Hoyler, who lives one block from the mansion, waved a poster that declared, "Get Out of Our House."
_____________________________________________________________________________________________ Staff writers Mark Mueller, Ana M. Alaya and Tom Hester contrib uted to this report.
PHOTO CAPTION: 1. Surrounded by State Police officers, Gov. James E. McGreevey leaves the Statehouse yesterday afternoon. 2. Loralee Strauss casts her sentiment for a special gubernatorial election during a gathering of Princeton residents outside Drumthwacket yesterday. Next to her is Cameron Hoyler. CREDIT: 1. AMANDA BROWN/THE STAR-LEDGER 2. PATTI SAPONE/THE STAR-LEDGER
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One Pause Poetry to unite student and teacher in dual reading
By Joey Steinberger, Daily Arts Writer
Stop. Pause. Breathe. Take a minute or two for poetry, that beautifully elusive form forgotten by pop culture and the mainstream, to receive attention from only enthusiasts and academia.
Living in Ann Arbor, we might have an inflated sense of the popularity of poetry. Students study it, the Neutral Zone hosts poetry workshops for teens and the University brings in poets from around the world to recite their work.
One Pause Poetry: Fall Conference Reading
In 2010, a new organization appeared on the poetry scene in Ann Arbor: One Pause Poetry, a nonprofit arts organization working to make poetry accessible to all. They often organize poetry readings and workshops around Ann Arbor, in spaces that range from an active metallurgy workshop to an organic farm.
One Pause Poetry will host a reading at METAL with Matthew Rohrer Friday night, a faculty member of the Creative Writing Program at NYU, and Residential College Lecturer Ken Mikolowski. The combination isn't happenstance — many years ago, Rohrer was Mikolowski's student.
"Matt was always a good writer, but then he started discovering his own unique style, which is very funny and yet he is able to carry some emotion, too," Mikolowski said. "There is enough going on in his poems that makes him complex and always interesting to read."
The two have kept in contact since Rohrer graduated, but this will mark their first joint reading.
Rohrer won a Hopwood award for poetry at the University, and graduated from the Residential College in 1992. Shortly after graduating, he wrote his first published book of poetry, "A Hummock in the Malookas," which won the National Poetry Series award.
"A Hummock in the Malookas" was Rohrer's first published work, but not his first book. As a student in the RC's Creative Writing major, Rohrer and his classmates worked closely with their professors for multiple semesters in courses called "tutorials." Mikolowski, who supervises tutorials, has his students write a book before they graduate.
"You get to know someone pretty well doing class and tutorials because you share poetry, it's pretty personal," Mikolowski said. "The great thing about doing that is you get to watch someone grow and develop as they go along."
During his time at the University, Rohrer developed his distinct writing style.
Mikolowski started writing poetry when he went to college at Wayne State University. He began college as an engineering student but a writing class caused him to change his mind.
"You should have seen the look on my father's face when I told him I'm going to become a poet," Mikolowski said.
Mikolowski has written three books of poetry, but he plans to read mostly from "That, That," a book he is currently working on. The book has approximately 75 poems, and its longest poem is two lines.
"I keep getting briefer and briefer and briefer," Mikolowski said. "Haikus are too long for me."
Mikolowski became more economical with his wording after running the Alternative Press for thirty years. The press, which published poetry giants such as Allen Ginsberg and Robert Creeley, was all hand-set and hand-printed.
"It was a letter press. You set the type one letter at a time," Mikolowski said.
Mikolowski's own poems shrunk in length because printing longer poems in the Alternative Press was such an intensive process.
As part of their mission to make poetry accessible to all, One Pause Poetry records these events.
"We record audio and video of all our programs and put them on our website so people can see them if they don't get out to the event," said Sarah Messer, the director of One Pause Poetry.
The organization hopes to work collaboratively with poetry groups around Ann Arbor to help the scene be more cohesive and grow.
"We really want to be a place with our website where different poetry groups can come together," Messer said.


West Ham will speak to London Stadium's operators as they try to find out how two fans got on the pitch during the 3-1 Carabao Cup defeat by Tottenham.
The club are waiting to hear if they will be sanctioned by the Football Association for a pitch invasion and crowd trouble against Burnley in March.
The club gave lifetime bans to five supporters who invaded the pitch during the match against Burnley.
Wednesday's incidents are the latest in what has been a difficult tenancy at the old Olympic Stadium, for which West Ham pay £3m a year in rent.
The London Legacy Development Corporation (LLDC) is responsible for the overall management of London Stadium, which is set to lose £140m over the next 10 years, but the matchday operation falls to subsidiary company LS185.
In addition to the ongoing investigation into the game against Burnley, there have been several disputes about who pays for certain elements within the stadium.
West Ham are due to face LLDC in court later this month over the ground's capacity, which has been set at a figure less than the 60,000 the club argue they were promised.
Last month, West Ham vice-chairman Karren Brady told the London Assembly the club would consider any offer to run the stadium in its entirety, though there has been no suggestion that is likely to happen.
She also said the club would like to take more charge over the running of the stadium on matchdays.


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Aon Risk Solutions' Pittsburgh Office Taps Health and Benefits Expert
Issued by: Aon Corporation
PITTSBURGH (May 25, 2011) – Aon Risk Solutions, the global risk management business of Aon Corporation (NYSE: AON), today announced Randy Main has joined the Pittsburgh office as a senior consultant of health and benefits.
Main will advise clients on issues related to financial measurement and cultural assessment, consumerism solutions, tactical vendor management and effective benefit administration.
"Health care reform is changing the benefits landscape for companies across the country, making stronger benefits supporttoday more important than ever before," said Candice Mill, senior vice president and chief operating officer of Aon Risk Solutions' Employee Benefits Consulting Practice's Pittsburgh office. "Randy's proven consulting expertise in the health and benefits space will help our clients reach their goals efficiently and effectively."
With more than eight years of industry experience, Main joins Aon from CIGNA Healthcare, where he held various positions in health care analytics, employee benefit consulting and marketing management as part of the company's leadership development program.
Main earned a Bachelor of Business Administration from the University of Georgia as well as a Masters of Business Administration from Carnegie Mellon University.
About Aon
Aon Corporation (NYSE:AON) is the leading global provider of risk management services, insurance and reinsurance brokerage, and human resources solutions and outsourcing. Through its more than 59,000 colleagues worldwide, Aon unites to deliver distinctive client value via innovative and effective risk management and workforce productivity solutions. Aon's industry-leading global resources and technical expertise are delivered locally in over 120 countries. Named the world's best broker by Euromoney magazine's 2008, 2009 and 2010 Insurance Survey, Aon also ranked highest on Business Insurance's listing of the world's insurance brokers based on commercial retail, wholesale, reinsurance and personal lines brokerage revenues in 2008 and 2009. A.M. Best deemed Aon the number one insurance broker based on revenues in 2007, 2008 and 2009, and Aon was voted best insurance intermediary 2007-2010, best reinsurance intermediary 2006-2010, best captives manager 2009-2010, and best employee benefits consulting firm 2007-2009 by the readers of Business Insurance. Visit http://www.aon.com for more information on Aon and http://www.aon.com/manchesterunited to learn about Aon's global partnership and shirt sponsorship with Manchester United.
This is a press release issued by the company named above. BenefitsLink is not the author. Use of any information obtained from this release is voluntary, and reliance on it should only be undertaken after an independent review of its accuracy, completeness, efficacy, and timeliness. Reference to any specific commercial product, process, or service by trade name, trademark, service mark, manufacturer, or otherwise does not constitute or imply endorsement, recommendation, or favoring by BenefitsLink.


Our congregation voted to sell the manse property at our Annual Meeting in May. There will be a Special Meeting of the Congregation on Sunday, December 2, 2018 for our membership to vote on a financial investment plan to responsibly manage this additional financial asset. The Trustees have recommended approval of the financial investment plan that our Treasurer, Sherman Zemler-Wu developed. The plan was explained in two Congregational Conversations earlier this fall.
Financial stability is necessary to grow the impact of our spiritual and social justice mission. We need to be good stewards of our assets to support our mission today and for future generations. The endowment is a way to meet the spiritual needs of our congregation and increase the impact of our social justice mission. We should do both while maintaining intergenerational equity.
Contingency for emergency facilities needs.
Support for future programs to grow the mission of the congregation.
Plan for larger capital projects.
FPD members received an email last week with the Special Notice of the congregational meeting and a link to the Plan supporting materials. Those without email will get both the Special Notice and the Plan by regular U.S mail. Stay for the Special Meeting on December 2 to vote for our continued financial stability. If you are a member and did not receive this notice and the link, please contact Kit Binns at admin@firstparishdorchester.org.


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Q: PHP: Convert str to number For an unknown reason, I cant seem to be able to convert a string to a number. It always return 0. Here is the code:
$str = 'C$2,313';
$str = str_replace(array("C$",","),"",$str);
echo $str.PHP_EOL;
echo intval($str);
exit;

The following always output:
2313
0

How can I convert this string successfully to a number?

A: You have a non-printable character between $ and 2. Try using preg_replace to remove all non-digit characters instead:
$str = preg_replace('/[^\d]/', '', $str);
echo $str.PHP_EOL;
echo intval($str);

Output:
2313
2313