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October 11, 2019 - NJHMFA Joins Ribbon-Cutting Ceremony Marking Opening of Affordable Apartments in Plainsboro
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Friday, October 11, 2019
Development also Includes Supportive Apartments for Residents with Special Needs
PLAINSBORO – New Jersey Housing and Mortgage Finance Agency (NJHMFA) executive staff joined representatives of Community Investment Strategies, Inc., and local officials for a ribbon-cutting ceremony celebrating the opening of The Place at Plainsboro, which includes 70 apartments affordable to families.
The development, at 100 Rue Place, consists of nine two-story buildings providing one-, two- and three-bedroom apartments for residents earning between 50% and 60% of the area median income. The complex also includes five apartments for individuals and/or families who are homeless and two for residents on the autism spectrum. A community room and community gardens are also part of the development.
NJHMFA awarded the project very competitive 9% Low Income Housing Tax Credits, which generated $11.6 million in private equity, and also provided $3.6 million in financing and $100,000 from its Special Needs Housing Trust Fund, which helps create permanent supportive homes in the community for residents with special needs.
"NJHMFA was pleased to have awarded this project Low Income Housing Tax Credits, which have been a key tool in the creation of affordable housing," said NJHMFA Executive Director Charles A. Richman. "The tax credit program has prioritized developments located in high opportunity areas close to good schools in particular which can make a critical difference in the development and success of young minds as well."
The Place at Plainsboro is close to schools, which have consistently received top rankings; parks, such as the Plainsboro Preserve; retail and other amenities in the downtown Plainsboro business district and Quaker Bridge Mall; and major highways and the Princeton Junction Train Station.
Residents have already begun to move into the new apartments. Rents on the one-bedroom apartments will range from $887 to $1,089 for incomes between $41,450 to $56,820; rents on two-bedroom apartments will range from $653 to $1,321 for incomes between $28,410 to $70,980, depending on household size. For three-bedroom apartments, rents will range from $750 to $1,522 for incomes between $31,950 to $82,380, depending on household size.
Triple C Housing, a private nonprofit agency which provides housing and support services to people with disabilities, will provide social services for the homeless residents including outreach and coordination with all Triple C's programs that serve the homeless including service linkages with other community agencies.
Eden Autism Services Inc. will provide services for the special needs residents on the autism spectrum, such as case management including mental health and physical counseling, rehabilitation; vocational and employment assistance.
NJHMFA and CIS have partnered on several projects to provide affordable and supportive housing to families, seniors and residents with special needs. Most recently, CIS held a grand opening for North Brunswick Crescent in June, which included the rehabilitation of an aging complex to provide 184 apartments affordable to working families and was financed in part by NJHMFA.
Community Investment Strategies, Inc., based in Lawrenceville, is a woman-owned, award-winning business that has built and redeveloped more than 3,200 units throughout the state, bringing high quality housing options to low- and moderate-income families.
For information on rentals visit https://www.ciscommunities.com/theplaceatplainsboro.
For more information on NJHMFA and its programs, visit njhousing.gov.
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sion, industrial, health, school numbers. The artistic cover design was dropped and replaced by a graphic design, and the entire issue was single-column print. The special issues contained articles written by people outside Carlisle. The school emphasis, which had declined considerably under Friedman, disappeared altogether as did the student writing. Alumni notes and news of ex-students, however, remained until 1915, when they and most of the art work were dropped. In 1914, Lipps began to include large amounts of exchange material relating to Indians around the country. In early 1915 nearly all of the content was exchange material with more historical and folklore emphasis, with an occasional article focusing on the problems facing a particular tribe.
In the fall of 1916, Lipps returned to more current topics, emphasizing "progress" and litigation involving Indians. Most of this material, however, continued to be exchange items. The length of issues was slightly reduced during the last several months, and in 1917 only combined monthly issues appeared.
The last two issues were edited by John Francis, Jr., who became superintendent early in 1917. The Red Man ceased publication with the May/June issue, when it merged with The Carlisle Arrow to form The Carlisle Arrow and Red Man.* Well before that time, it had lost the originality and quality it had had when Friedman edited it. The first five years of the periodical remain a fine example of Indian printing.
The Indian Craftsman, 1 ( February, 1909), 43.
Oscar H. Lipps, "Edgar K. Miller--Master Teacher: An Appreciation," The Indian School Journal, 33 ( December, 1933), 33.
Ibid., 36.
Bibliography: Oscar H. Lipps, "Edgar K. Miller--Master Teacher: An Appreciation," The Indian School Journal, 33 ( December, 1933), 32-36
Location Sources: Danky and Hady; MnULS; NL; NYPL; OCLC 1640454; UCLA; ULS. Microprint: Datamics; DLC. Reprint: Johnson
Title and Title Changes: The Indian Craftsman ( 1909- 1910); The Red Man ( 1910- 1917)
Volume and Issue Data: The Indian Craftsman (Vol. 1, No. 1, February, 1909-Vol. 2, No. 5, January, 1910); The Red Man (Vol. 2, No. 6, February, 1910-Vol. 9, No. 7, May/June, 1917)
Publisher and Place of Publication: U.S. Indian Industrial School, Carlisle, Pennsylvania ( 1909-1917)
Editor: Moses Friedman ( 1909- 1914); Oscar H. Lipps ( 1914- 1917); John Francis, Jr. ( 1917)

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Gameday 42: Hurricane? This is Penguins Weather
Posted on January 4, 2018 by Rad88
For the first time this season the Penguins had a higher chance of missing the playoffs than making it, and the loss that did that was to the Carolina Hurricanes. Since that loss the team closed out 2017 with a dud in Detroit and then opened up 2018 with a bang in Philly, one that the players are still getting STI testing for. We've spilled out the implications for this game in the recap yesterday, so a quick recap: the Penguins need to win.
Pretty straight forward here, a regulation win puts the Penguins ahead of Carolina and a loss gives the Hurricanes a 3 point advantage with two games in hand. It is important to note that the Hurricanes have 3 fewer regulation and overtime wins than the other teams fighting for the Wild Card which is the first tie-breaker at years end. The Islanders are also playing tonight against the Flyers, and believe it or not the Flyers have actually been the better team between the two; the Islanders are currently on a 3-6-1 slide while Philly is chugging away at 5-4-1. The Penguins play the Islanders tomorrow night in Brooklyn, so now you can really see the implications of these two games. Two regulation wins and the Penguins are in 5th in the Metro, which will be the second Wild Card spot by Saturday morning. Two regulation losses and the Penguins will be 3 points out of the Wild Card as the best case scenario, and potentially 5 points out worst case. The Penguins need to remember how embarrassed they were to call what they did in Carolina a hockey game and play like they did in Philly tonight.
Carolina has been building this team for awhile and to his credit Ron Francis has done a great job so far. That being said they are also using the 2017 Ottawa Senators method of racking up overtime losses to build their points total. For example, the Penguins are 12-9-3 in one goal games this season, if they managed to tie half of those losses up and then lose in overtime the team would currently be sitting with 4 or 5 addition points, giving them 47 and tied with the Rangers. The Penguins are a better team than the Carolina Hurricanes, and they need to play like it tonight regardless of who is filling the holes in the roster left after the Philadephia game.
I left Rowney, Dumoulin and Jarry in the graphic because the Penguins didn't make any announcements yesterday in regards to their respective injuries. The team did scratch Casey DeSmith in Wilkes-Barre last night and signed 37 year old Sebastian Caron, yes the one that played for the Penguins from 2002-2006.
to a PTO in order to play back-up last night and save DeSmith from potential injury. Caron backed up Anthony Peters, who was signed to a PTO last week following the injury to Michael Leighton.
In regards to the other injuries it isn't difficult to imagine that the team will replace Dumoulin with Hunwick if they have to, and potentially Simon for Rowney as the fourth line center. It also wouldn't be too surprising to see the team recall Greg McKegg to fill in for Rowney since they know he will clear waivers instead of risking another player clearing.
The use of either Simon or McKegg on the fourth line might result in the line getting less time on ice tonight which I feel is not in the Penguins advantage. In their last 4 games the Penguins have had two really determined wins, against Columbus and Philadelphia, and two complete duds. Something intriguing I find about these four games and their outcomes is the time on ice of Ryan Reaves: CBJ (7:24, win), CAR (5:13, loss), DET (4:04, loss), PHI (8:42, win). I'm not saying Ryan Reaves is winning these games. I am saying that when he gets closer to his career time on ice average of 7:53 instead of his season TOI average of 6:40 it is more rest for the rest of the team. This got me thinking about the Penguins record when Reaves gets closer to his career average so I did some digging. The Penguins are 9-7-2 when Reaves gets over 7 minutes a night so far this season, however 4 of those losses were the disasters against Chicago, Winnipeg as well as those awful back-end games against Tampa. Additionally, the Pens are 5-3-1 when Reaves gets 8 minutes of ice time (2 of the 3 losses were the 10-1 Chicago loss and 7-1 Winnipeg loss). Removing the two games the entire team played like steaming shit, the team is 5-1-1 when Ryan Reaves gets 8 minutes of ice time. It's not because he is a difference maker, it's because 8 minutes compared to 5 is a full minutes rest for each of the 3 lines above him throughout the game. The team has played 41 games, and they have played Reaves for more than 8 minutes in 9 of them. I wouldn't mind seeing the forward ice time distribution we saw in Philly last game.
Also, Oskar Sundqvist is currently chilling with 0 goals and 3 assists in 29 games played and Klim Kostin (31st pick traded in Reaves acquisition) has 2 goals and 9 assists in 26 AHL games. Thanks to Penguins Jesus on Twitter for doing the research on that one, though I did confirm. Here's to the other Penguins Jesus to get the job done tonight:
The implications in the standings are evident, we as fans can feel how important this game is so you know the team feels it as well. They started the New Year off perfectly as far as I'm concerned, and tonight would be the perfect time to continue climbing their way up the standings. A lot of people have counted the Penguins out. A lot of those same people also told you the team stood no chance without Kris Letang last April. The climb to the playoffs began when the calendar changed and a year that hasn't been printed on the Stanley Cup was revealed. The Penguins names are represented in Silver under the numbers 15, 16, and 17. They started their climb to put 18 in silver on Tuesday, and as we know all this team needs is a playoff position. Even the Tampa Bay Lightning would shudder a bit if they knew they were facing the Penguins in the first round. If they do their job that will be the position the team is sitting in come Saturday morning. So let's fucking do it.
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On UP^2 at system start all the pin in the hat connector are configured in function mode.
after finishing to use the gpio we need to unexport it.
Warning: The current pinctrl driver implementation does not allow to restore a pin in function mode (e.g. uart) once it has been already swithed to gpio mode until the operating system is rebooted.
Warning: when a pin is unexported it retains the last value/direction. So if you don't intend to use the gpio again better set it to input to protect it from short/electrical problem.
Of course you cannot use different numbering scheme on the same pin as the same time.
Currently interrupts are only supported using the linux gpio numbering scheme (e.g. use 432 gpio umber instead of Rpi gpio number 27).
The first UART (associated to dw-apb-uart.8) is the uart on the M10 connector, and the one associated with dw-apb-uart.9 is the one on the HAT.
There's just one PWM controller on APL-I, and it provides 4 PWM outputs.
The Intel Fpga MAX10 10M02 fpga act as a level shifter between the Intel Soc and the Hat/exHAT interfaces.
The Emutex pinctrl driver reconfigure the pin direction (input/output/highz) between the external connector and the soc.
Because almost every connection to hat/exhat passes through the fpga is also possible to provide customized firmware to expose other peripherals/pin mapping on hat/exHAT or to implement custom devices in the fpga fabric.


Eastwood Parkview is a residential brilliance that is nestled in the center of the extremely renowned Eastwood City. The residential tower is a high risen beauty that features forty spacious and well-designed stories. The architecture of Eastwood Parkview is inspired by the warm and beautiful Miami style of architecture. It features rich landscaped areas jam-packed with lush green trees. Palm trees dominate the vegetation that the property features. There is also a beautiful lagoon that the property conveniently features.
The initial four levels of Eastwood Parkview is made up of concrete glass having excellent Moorish, Southern Spanish, and Italian setting. These four stories flaunt posh boutiques, commercial establishments, entertainment zones, retail counters, cinemas, a departmental store, a snacks bar, an electronics entertainment arcade, a central atrium with illuminated skylight and many more.
Home seekers including young couples, young professionals, small families, students, etc. can conveniently pick from the various available units including one bedroom units, studio units, two bedroom units, and three bedroom units. Additionally, to further ease out the lives of the residents Eastwood Parkview is close to a number of essentials including hospitals, schools, colleges, clinics, restaurants, cafes, amusement centers, shopping malls, supermarkets etc. that makes life an eased out affair.
Some of the many such closely located essentials include places like Chelsea Kitchen, Early Bird Breakfast Club, 8 Cuts Burger Blends, Robinsons Supermarket, Eastwood City Walk 1, Bagumbayan Elementary School, Santolan Elementary School, Libis Elementary School, Brgy IVC Health Center, Quirino Memorial Medical Center, Sandaime, My Thai Kitchen, Eastwood Mall, Eastwood City Walk 2, Cyber and Fashion Mall, Santo Tomas De Villanueva High School, Santolan High School, IVC Health Center, St. Camillus Polyclinic and various others.
Megaworld Corporation is the developer name behind this marvelous setup. It is one of the most renowned and country's leading real estate names that has been successfully delivering happy homes to many. This brand has successfully completed all the undertaken projects with precision. They pay attention to all the basic needs of all the age groups while getting a project design approved and executed so that the customers get nothing but the best. They have crafted a number of high-end mixed uses condominiums that are spread across large spaces of land. With such a name being associated with the project one can easily rely on the deliverables.
Eastwood Parkview features one bedroom residential units which cover almost fifty-seven square meters of area. These units accommodate one spacious bedroom, two toilets and bath, and a utility area with an Antipolo view. There are more single bedroom units featured which are spread in an area of twenty-eight square meters. These units feature a bedroom, a fully functional kitchen, a living space, a dining space, and a toilet and bath.
All the various units are well furnished and equipped so that the residents face no hassles post shifting. The units are ready with cable connection, internet connection, and pipeline fittings. The electricity supply to all the units of Eastwood Parkview is via Manila Waters, electricity supply is via Meralco etc. There is Aircon Split type of window in all the various units of Eastwood Parkview. The kitchen of all the units features ceramic tile fittings, stainless steel sink, and cooking gas stoves.
Eastwood Parkview is a highly secured community that keeps its people safe in a carefree environment. The entrance and exit point of the property is guarded by trained security professionals who keep a close check on all the various ongoings of the property. This provision keeps the residents in an environment where their families and belongings are 24x7 protected.
There is a fitness gymnasium featured in Eastwood Parkview where the residents can head to for their regular workout sessions. This gymnasium is a fully functional one with various high-quality equipment. The residents can have their workout sessions in the morning, evening or late at night without even taking the pains of stepping out of their residential community.
There is a large-sized swimming pool featured in Eastwood Parkview where the residents can have regular relaxation sessions. The occupants can take a dip in the pool anytime that they like without investing any time in traveling to distant places. The residents can also learn how to swim having this provision available within their residing community. Therefore, while investing in one of the residential units of Eastwood Parkview you need not be worried about the heated summer days and nights.
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Eastwood Parkview features a reception where the receptionist is available 24x7 to help the residents with all their various inquiries and problems. There are a number of open spaces available at Eastwood Parkview which makes the surroundings a pleasant and pollution free one. The developers have also posted a management team at Eastwood Parkview who make sure that all the various offered amenities and features are excellently taken care of. This ensures that the quality of all the various offerings are maintained and the residents never face a drop in the quality.
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We weren't about to let a dead boat battery stop us Saturday as Coburn Powell, Brett Gore and I set out to complete our Halfway Day. We do the X-TREME! each year, and we find that it works pretty well a few weeks prior to complete half of each PEC.
So, we swim a few miles, paddle seven, walk seven, and, heck, bicycle the whole thing. We take our time and it takes up most of our day.
Jan and Walter Palmer did a similar event Saturday.
What Halfway Day does effectively is scare the heck out of us into some real training, and we lay it on hot and heavy for the next few weeks. We can sure recommend that no matter what PEC you're working on, if you're able to do at least half of it now, you'll be in better shape.
We don't really recommend using jumper cables in knee-deep water, however.


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I love Noah Centineo and the charisma he exudes, but this movie is setting the wrong precedent for young people.
Watching shows like One Day At A Time can be both educational and relatable to the audience.
"Boy with Luv" is BTS' attempt to grapple with their past. ARMY should be proud of their boys.


N-Power Build is one of N-Power Program that is people-oriented initiatives the designed and implemented by the federal government of Nigeria to harness the potentials and abilities of Nigerian youths. In addition, N-Power is an accelerated training and certification (ranges from Skills to Job) program that will engage and train over 75,000 unemployed Nigerian youths with the aim of raising and building a new set of the competent and highly skilled workforce of technicians, artisans and service professionals. In this article, we'll be discussing all you need to know about N-Power, how to apply, requirements and every necessary step to take.
N-Power came to existence under the regime of the present Nigerian government headed by President Muhammad Buhari. His aim of establishing this programmer was to alleviate unemployment among the Nigerian youths. The driving force of an economic growth, as well as the social development of a nation, includes Skills and knowledge. Harnessing Nigeria's young demography through appropriate skill development efforts despite the current high level of unemployment, this initiative makes provision for an opportunity to achieve inclusion and productivity in the country. Additionally, Large-scale skill development is the principal policy thrust of the N-Power Program.
N-Power is a policy initiated by the Federal Governments in the economic, employment and social development areas. The essence of designing the N-Power Program is to address the challenge of youth unemployment through the provision of a structure for large-scale, important and relevant work skills acquisition and development while associating its core and outcomes to amending and fixing inadequate public services and to stir the larger economy. The defragmented program under N-Power will make sure that each participant learns and practice most of what is needful and important to find or establish work. To further expand the program, the creation of The N-Power Volunteer Corp is an also a part of the N-Power initiative which involves the deployment of 500,000 graduates who are trained and are expected to assist as well as improve the inadequacies in Nigerian public services in education, health, and civic education. Some of the candidates who graduated will also help in actualizing Nigeria's economic and strategic aspirations of achieving food security and self-sufficiency.
N-Power also will become a platform for diversifying the Nigerian economy. N-Power is a medium to prepare the Nigerian youths for a knowledge economy where they are been equipped with world-class skills and certification, thereby becoming movers and innovators both in the domestic and global economic markets. The advent of this initiative will provide Nigeria with a pool of hardware service professionals, software developers, animators, graphic artists, building services professionals, artisans, and others. Not just that alone, N-Power also focuses on providing Nigerian non-graduates with relevant and necessary technical and business skills that enhance their work outlook and livelihood.
This program is an initiative embedded in the N-Power Program. This particular program aims to develop the market for a wide range of technician, artisanal, and service professional jobs primarily in the housing and infrastructure construction value chain and then migrate to all other economic sectors. The essence is to increase the percentage of Nigerian youths employment thus introducing and engaging them to fill high demand job opportunities, by so doing improving their income and making the job cares lucrative to average Nigerian youth.
N-Power training centers are located and scattered across the 6 geopolitical zones in the country and they are about 250. Two of these programs participating training Centers which are ANAMMCO in Enugu and the Multi-Skill Entrepreneurship Development Centre, Obingwa-Aba, AbiaStates are among the Build N-program training center. These training providers enter a partnership with the Federal Government's N-Power program to train the beneficiaries.
Apart from providing accelerated training and certification to successful candidates, the program is undoubtedly helping to create jobs especially for teaming population of women and youths and indeed helping to elevate the average Nigerians out of poverty and other social problems.
this program is not a lifetime contract or a long contracted job, but there are a limit and period a participant can be in the scheme, afterward, he or she is dissolving so that a fresh course with fresh candidates can begin. However, this program lasts for 12 months after which a new recruitment process is done.
N-Power Program duration is 12 months.
During the 12 months period, this program beneficiaries are to spend 3 months in approved and accredited Training Centers while the rest 9 months apprenticeship with partnering companies in order to have additional first-hand experiential learning leading to final job placement or offering of their services as technicians and contractors.
All N-build beneficiaries that are verified get training work tools and training consumables distributed to N-Power training partners.
Beneficiaries will be paid 10,000 as a monthly stipend for the 12 months duration.
ID card – successful candidates need to present a valid and acceptable national identification that indicates their identity.
Birth certificate – candidates are to present a valid document showing their age and date of birth. This is to authenticate that candidates are within the specified age range.
Proof of address of residence – candidates can present documents (i.e. light bill, water bill etc.)indicating their address or place of residence.
You must have the ability to indicate your interest to develop all the skills needed to be the best you can be.
Even though there are fixed requirements, you are expected to take ownership of the process and making the most of the training that you will receive.
Under N-Power, Graduate connotes any post-tertiary qualification including a National Diploma (ND) or Nigerian Certificate in Education (NCE) or as may be specified by the program.
Now that you are acquainted with the basic and necessary requirements for these categories on N-Power, you can follow the step shown below.
Eligible candidates who want to apply should go to the N-Power portal or click on www.portal.npower.gov.ng/n-build.
It is important that candidates should note that this program is eligible for only undergraduates or non-graduates. Upon registration, you will not be required to make any payment. This connotes that, the application is totally free of charge.
The application form can as well be downloaded.
If you are not satisfied and need more clarification or have any questions with regards to this, kindly put it down below the comment box.
N-Power is presently one of the avenues most Nigeria youths apply for on yearly basis. The program has yielded positive results since inception. N-Power (Build) is a very unique scheme which is very much welcome and needed in a trying time like this. Also, many Nigerian youths enroll in the scheme yearly so as to be empowered and be equipped so that they can be self-reliant rather than be idle. Also, Nigerians have praised and welcomed this program with open hands. It is hoped that a new regime or leadership to come in from next year can continue this scheme until all Nigerian youths are fully empowered.


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Marquand-Zion R-VI School District
Home of the Tigers
Brian and Terri Kinder @ Marquand
Doug Berry
Grammy-nominated children's performers, Brian and Terri Kinder made an appearance at Marquand On December 3rd, in the Marquand Zion gym.
The performance was sponsored by the Mineral Area Council on the Arts, under the direction of Mrs. Scottye Adkins, and featured original children's songs written by Brian Kinder himself. Children were allowed to participate in several songs offering choreography and vocals to some of their favorites.
Brian Kinder, a native of Fredericktown, and his wife, Terri have been traveling all over the United States performing for schools and corporate events as well as private functions.
Marquand-Zion R-VI School District205 Morley StMarquand, MO 63655Phone: (573)783-3388
* NOTICE - VIRTUAL EDUCATION: The District will annually permit any eligible student, under the age of twenty-one (21) who resides in the District, to enroll in Missouri Course Access and Virtual School Program ("Program") courses as part of the student's annual course load. Course costs will be paid by the District provided that the student:
1. Is enrolled full-time and has attended a public school, including a charter school, for at least one (1) semester immediately prior to enrolling in the Program. However, if the reason for a student's non-attendance in the prior semester is a documented medical or psychological diagnosis or condition which prevented attendance, such as non-attendance will be excused; and
2. Prior to enrolling in the Program course has received District approval through the procedure set out in Regulation 6190 (A). (see regulation in District Policy at request)
Each Program course successfully completed will count as one class and will receive that portion of a full-time equivalent that comparable course offered by the District generates.
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I'm sure you've met a few people like this before – he is the life of the party who always impresses the boys and charms the girls: he is the alpha male.
Have you noticed how some men have such a magnetic personality that others just seem so drawn towards him? He is the guy who could easily have any of the girls around him, and is someone that the other guys respect and strive to be like.
Now, imagine for a moment if you could be that person. How different would your life be, if you become the alpha male of your social circle?
Do you often wonder how some men get all the attention from the guys and ladies alike?
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RSG is looking forward to sharing our current work and learning from others at the 97th TRB Annual Meeting in Washington, DC next week. We hope to see you throughout the event and invite you to attend the workshops and presentations we are leading - and to come chat with us in the exhibit hall (Booth 675). We're excited to share how we're shaping the future of transportation!
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In 1964, Lionel produced a cheaper-to-manufacture version of the car number 6414-85. Although the stamping remained 6414 to the left of LIONEL, both in white. The unpainted medium red body had AAR-type trucks, one with and one without an operating copler, attached with 566-16 rivets. It carried two yellow and two red automoblies unlike those carried by any of the other cars. These automoblies were adaptations of LIONEL'S slot car bodies. There was no window insert, bumpers, baseplates, tires, wheels or axles installed. The body molding itself was changed to incororate molded-in-place simulated tires. The proper cars for this variation DO NOT have holes in the sides near the door seam, or numbers stamped on the sides. Those cars that do are really slot car bodies that have been erroneously placed on the 6414.


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Berlin Central Station to Walther-Schreiber-Platz (Berlin U-Bahn) Buses
Distance 9.4 km
Average price 3€
Berlin Central Station
Walther-Schreiber-Platz (Berlin U-Bahn)
The average bus between Berlin Central Station and Walther-Schreiber-Platz (Berlin U-Bahn) takes 35 min and the fastest bus takes 27 min. The bus runs at least 5 times per hour from Berlin Central Station to Walther-Schreiber-Platz (Berlin U-Bahn). The journey time may be longer on weekends and holidays; use the search form on this page to search for a specific travel date.
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Berlin Central Station to Walther-Schreiber-Platz (Berlin U-Bahn) bus times
Buses run every 15 minutes between Berlin Central Station and Walther-Schreiber-Platz (Berlin U-Bahn). The earliest departure is at 04:23 in the morning, and the last departure from Berlin Central Station is at 13:04 which arrives into Walther-Schreiber-Platz (Berlin U-Bahn) at 13:41. All services run direct with no transfers required, and take on average 35 min. The schedules shown below are for the next available departures.
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Yes, there is a direct bus departing from S+U Berlin Hauptbahnhof and arriving at U Walther-Schreiber-Platz. Services depart every 15 minutes, and operate every day. The journey takes approximately 35 min.
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The distance between Berlin Central Station and Walther-Schreiber-Platz (Berlin U-Bahn) is 7 km. The road distance is 9.4 km.
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Berlin Central Station to Walther-Schreiber-Platz (Berlin U-Bahn) bus services, operated by BVG, depart from S+U Berlin Hauptbahnhof station.
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Berlin Central Station to Walther-Schreiber-Platz (Berlin U-Bahn) bus services, operated by BVG, arrive at U Walther-Schreiber-Platz station.
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Q: .NET Core XUnit tests project errors: The active test run was aborted. Reason: .2.0.3545 I got the an error while trying to execute my .NET Core 2.0.0 XUnit tests project...
Errors
Using Visual Studio and the dotnet test command
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The exact same config works perfectly in an other project.
Am I doing something wrong?

A: The error was caused by the code itself more specifically by the use of the Debug.Assert () / Debug.Fail () methods which causes some sort of error which is apparently not handled by xunit.

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Q: how to change dbplyr's show_query() quote covention for snowflake SQL I am using dbplyr's package to translate my dplyr's query to SQL  and it works really well, however when I copy and paste my translated SQL statement it wont run in snowflake because the quotes the columns with ` (the key above tab), whereas my snowflake SQL will only run if its columns are quoted with either " (double quote) ' (single quote) or no quote at all (if there are no breaks).
Is there a way to change the dbplyr::show_query() argument so that the outcome is in double quotes or single quotes instead of backtick? there is a con argument which I've set to simulate_snowflake() however that doesn't change anything.
The error I get is: SQL compilation error: error line 2 at position 0 invalid identifier '"COL_NAME"'
#This will not work in my snowflake SQL

SELECT
`COL_NAME`
FROM
TABLENAME

#This will work though:
SELECT
"COL_NAME"
FROM
TABLENAME

A: One possibility would be to use sql_render(), convert to a character string, and use any regex replace process that you like to change the quotes. For example:
<pipeline> %>%
  sql_render() %>%
  as.character() %>%
  str_replace_all(pattern="`",replacement = "\\\"")


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Whether Kuomintang candidate Lien Chan wins or loses the Mar. 18 presidential election, Taiwan's ruling party will fragment further. So says legislator Eric Chu Liluan, official campaign spokesman for the vice president. "This is a turning point for the KMT," says Chu, 38, a party youth leader and reformist. "Honestly, we have to accept people's criticisms, especially of our poor handling of hei-chin."
Literally "black gold," the term evokes bribery and gangsters - all too broadly embedded in Taiwan politics today. In the popular mind, it is also linked with the $6 billion in assets on which the KMT reportedly draws to buy votes. Lien vows to clean up the party if elected. But even if the VP loses, Chu says that he and other KMT youth-wing members will begin a purge of party elements responsible for hei-chin practices. "We are not stupid," says Chu, who is also a professor of accounting at National Taiwan University. "We need the votes - not the money."
Chu may be a fresh-faced do-gooder within the KMT, but there is little doubt that Taiwan politics will enter a new era when Lee Teng-hui relinquishes the presidency in May. The Nationalists began fragmenting seven years ago when the old guard, made up mostly of mainlanders, left to form the New Party. They were disenchanted with Lee's political style of pitting Taiwanese against China-born citizens. The split deepened recently when the KMT expelled former heavyweight James Soong Chu-yu - another mainlander - and dozens of his followers. And, as Chu predicts, more purges are likely as the party must overhaul itself in order to survive as a credible political entity.
The imperatives for reform are clear enough. With only 119 of 224 seats, the Nationalists hold a bare majority in the legislature. The opposition Democratic Progressive Party (DPP), which has 70 seats, has pledged that if it wins the presidency, it will investigate how the KMT accumulated such vast assets and return any ill-gotten gains to the people.
The ruling party's possessions, which last year yielded $261 million in net profits from equity investments alone, consist primarily of shares in seven major holding companies (see table). Most of these are highly profitable enterprises formerly owned by the state. The remaining assets are in the form of stakes in dozens of listed and privately held companies in Taiwan and abroad, including mainland China. Key stakes in these concerns were also held by prominent local families, which had grown rich and powerful under the patronage of the KMT regime.
Under the management of Liu Tai-ying, a close friend of Lee Teng-hui, the ruling party's assets more than tripled in the 1990s. A former business executive under industrialist Koo Chen-fu, Taiwan's chief negotiator with China, Liu holds a doctorate in economics from Cornell University. He assembled a team of global fund managers to invest the ruling party's money, which ended up in the local stock market as well as around the world.
Under pressure from the DPP, the Nationalist hierarchy has pledged to put the assets into a trust, run by professional managers. But critics say that won't be enough. "The party should go one step further," says Lien supporter James Jin, a leading television commentator and publisher of Business Weekly, Taiwan's top business magazine. "We believe the party should return the assets to the country." Jin's logic is simple: years ago, when the KMT was virtually synonymous with Taiwan, it was understandable that the party should have assets of its own. Back then, the Nationalists often used the money to build infrastructure or to start key businesses that the private sector wasn't interested in. The seminal Hsinchu industrial park, for example, was initially funded from KMT coffers. But with the party's lock on total power now a thing of the past, says Jin, Nationalist assets should be turned over to the public.
Over the past decade, those assets have served the KMT more than Taiwan. The party, which began political reforms in the late 1980s allowing multi-party elections, reportedly began buying votes to ensure its members won polls. But what made Taiwan politics really controversial was that the KMT allegedly used gangsters to buy the ballots. (The party has denied such charges.) "They would give you money in one hand and tell you to vote for so and so. Then with the other hand, they would show you the gun beneath the vest, in case you had other ideas," claims Li Ao, presidential candidate of the New Party. The going price, reportedly, was up to NT$2,000 ($66) per vote. But the gangsters evidently began wising up: Why be intermediaries when they could run for election themselves? According to lawmaker Chu, at least 10% of the Legislative Yuan and 25% of local assemblies are linked with triad gangs. "Lee Teng-hui's top achievement is his democratic legacy," says Chu. "But his failing is that he never stopped the darker side of democracy."
Source: KMT Investment Management Committee and China Development Corp.
Nor is the KMT alone in its supposed underworld links. The DPP is also alleged to have members with triad backgrounds. Vote-purchasing became so prevalent that even the opposition ended up doing it. (The DPP admits to having only $1 million in assets, most of it from donations.) What makes the ballot-buying legacy even more sinister is that not all of the money comes from party coffers. The party will contribute only in key races, says a former legislator, forcing many candidates to pay out of their own pockets. This, adds the ex-lawmaker, leads to further corrupt behavior once the politicians win, as they may want to recoup their money by taking cuts in public-works projects in their constituencies. In fact, many such projects are subcontracted out by companies linked to lawmakers, says the onetime legislator. "I just bought a $1-million house in California - with cash," he says gleefully.
Another tactic attributed to the KMT is to get companies in which it invested to support its candidates in elections. According to an employee at a Taipei hotel belonging to a major KMT-invested group, the owners not only required workers to show up at rallies, but also to vote for the party's nominees. "Otherwise we'll lose our jobs," says the employee. "But it's a lot better these days. We need only attend the rallies, not vote for the Kuomintang. We can pick whomever we want."
People like Chu want to change the hei-chin electoral subculture. "The top layer of society believes that Lien Chan is honest and he can step out of the shadow of Lee Teng-hui," says the lawmaker. "Most of the people around Lien are reformers." Whoever wins the presidency, Chu goes on, this reformist faction will strive to be the dominant force in the KMT. "We would like the party to be more clean," he says, adding that the pro-reform forces, if they succeed in gaining control of the party, may return KMT assets to the public. "If we lose to the 'black-gold' faction, then the people will win for us [in future elections by throwing them out]," Chu says. "I am not worried."
Other leading presidential hopefuls - notably the DPP's Chen Shui-bian and independent Soong - have also vowed to curb hei-chin. But the entrenched interests, with their extensive clout and reach, will not be so easily dislodged. The reformers have a tough fight on their hands.


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Eskimos still have key positions to fill
Eskimos general manager Eric Tillman believes Ricky Ray will be warmly received by Edmonton in their CFL season-opener.
The Esks host their former long-time quarterback and the Toronto Argonauts on June 30.
Tillman traded Ray to the Argos in a December blockbuster deal for quarterback Steven Jyles, kicker Grant Shaw and a draft pick.
"Ricky is one of the more beloved players in club history," Tillman said Thursday during a CFL conference call. "I think he's going to be embraced.
"There's no pressure on him. If there's pressure that day it will be on me."
The Eskimos head into training camp with questions at quarterback. Can Jyles carry the freight for a whole season or will veteran Kerry Joseph be required to step in?
"Ricky Ray is a future Hall of Famer and when you trade a Ricky Ray there will be questions and we understand that," Tillman said.
Even if Ray's performance in Edmonton on June 30 makes Esks fans wish him back, Tillman says the trade was a move he had to make now for the long-term health of the Eskimos.
Ray, 32, is an expensive player under the $4.35-million league salary cap, he says. Tillman felt it was better to move him prior to the 2012 campaign, instead of waiting until 2013 or 2014.
"We would have had a ton of free agents because we still would have had the highest-paid quarterback in the league, the highest-paid player in the league on our payroll," Tillman forecasted. "We would not have the ability to extend some contracts and maintain our nucleus.
"Could we have waited another year or two? Yes, we could have, but a year from now, Ricky would be turning 33 or 34. If the trade doesn't work, that's my responsibility.
"It was about having the confidence in our young guys that somebody would step forward. It was about creating cap space and feeling that there's never a good time and it's probably better to make the change before it's obvious to everyone the time has come to do so."
Training camps open June 3 for all CFL teams.
Jyles, Joseph, Matt Nichols, Eric Ward and Jeremiah Masoli will be the five signal-callers in Edmonton's camp, but the battle for starter is expected to be between Jyles and Joseph.
Jyles, 28, has 20 career starts over six CFL seasons and has thrown as many interceptions (29) as touchdowns (31). He compiled 2,804 passing yards in 16 games, including 11 starts, with Winnipeg in 2010.
Jyles got the ball in Toronto for eight games last season when Cleo Lemon was released and the Argos were well out of playoff contention. He completed 124-of-218 passes for 1,430 yards with seven touchdowns and 11 interceptions.
Joseph, who turns 39 in October, won both a Grey Cup and the CFL's Most Outstanding Player award in 2007 with the Saskatchewan Roughriders. Two unsuccessful seasons in Toronto after that, Joseph then joined the Esks as Ray's backup.
"We believe Kerry can be a starter," Eskimos coach Kavis Reed insisted. "Kerry will come in and compete for that starting position.
"I think Kerry is a 39-year-old quarterback with a 24-year-old's body. We're not at all concerned that if he wins the job, he cannot survive through an 18- or 20-game season."
The Eskimos are coming off an 11-7 season in 2011, good enough for second in the CFL's West Division.
Edmonton beat Calgary 33-19 in a playoff game at Commonwealth Stadium before falling 40-23 to the host B.C. Lions in the West final.
"You've never heard us use, and you never will hear us use, the term re-build," Tillman said. "We have high expectations.
"At this time last year, most people picked us last."
Another key position Edmonton must sort out at training camp is at running back following the departure of Jerome Messam, who was the CFL's outstanding Canadian. The Toronto native signed with the NFL's Miami Dolphins in February.
Calvin McCarty, Hughes Charles, John Goebel and newly-signed Cory Ross are prospects to try to fill that void.
"We think we've got four interesting competitors and we'll just let it play out," Tillman said.
Edmonton will get one of their two first-round draft picks this year to camp. The Philadelphia Eagles didn't extend a contract offer to Wilfrid Laurier's Shamawd Chambers after a mini-camp, so Tillman expects his No. 6 pick in Edmonton.
Offensive lineman Austin Pasztor, taken No. 4, has signed with the Minnesota Vikings.
Edmonton had the second-best defence in the CFL last season. Reed predicts the Esks' pass-rush will be the centrepiece of the defence, led by defensive lineman Marcus Howard.
The off-season signing of lineman Rashad Jeanty is a blast from Edmonton's past. Jeanty won Grey Cups with the Esks in 2003 and 2005 before heading to the NFL.
"If he is 50 per cent of what he was when he left to go to the NFL, he's going to be a gentleman who is going to pose a lot of problems for offensive linemen," Reed said.
A major change in Edmonton's coaching ranks was the promotion of Mark Nelson from linebacker coach to defensive co-ordinator with the departure of Rich Stubler to the B.C. Lions.
"There won't be that much of a difference between Rich Stubler and Mark Nelson philosophically," Reed said. "Schematically, there may be some noticeable differences."
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Happy December, readers! As we usher in the holiday season, I will be providing a series of reviews of products that have helped me specifically on my 12+ year journey as a chronic migraineur. I have committed to my readers from the very beginning to provide clear and honest reviews on this blog. The products reviewed are, in all cases, products that I have personally used during migraine attacks and/or daily life as a migraineur. I have not been paid to write these reviews, though in some cases I have contacted companies whose products I am interested in to obtain said product for personal review. The way in which I obtained the item (or items) that I am reviewing will be explicitly discussed in each post. I will never endorse something that has not personally helped me. I think all of you know me better than that.
That being said, let the fun begin! Hopefully, some of you will find my experiences useful and perhaps even add some of these items to your holiday wish lists this season. These reviews are also a great opportunity to surprise the migraineur in your life with something they can really use, although it must be noted that each person has their own specific preferences when dealing with their migraine attacks, so a one-size-fits-all approach is rarely effective. However, if you are familiar with your loved ones preferences (or if they have been directly stated to you), this series of posts will provide valuable information.
Which products will I be reviewing? You didn't think I'd spoil the surprise, did you? What I can tell you is that I'll be discussing my recommendations for the best pillows, ice packs, sunglasses, eye masks, bath and body products, and more. Stay tuned for my first review, coming soon!


Once more Wren Valere's game plan has taken an unexpected direction. She'd agreed to a bargain with one super-secret magic-watching outfit to protect her partner and herself on their last job. But now the Silence is trying to wedge them apart.On the one hand, ever since she and Sergei began to talk about their "relationship" things have been tricky. On the other, though . . . Well, no one better try to stand between Wren and Sergei when danger is near!So now they are off to Italy in search of a possessed parchment (or maybe not possessed – all they know is that whoever reads it disappears). Still, when compared to what's going on at home (lonejacks banding together, a jealous demon, tracking bugs needing fumigation, etc.) maybe disappearing won't be so bad . . . As if!


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Minnesota faces growing threats from extreme heat and drought. The state has taken several steps to address its current risks, but it has only taken limited action to address the ways in which climate change could increase these risks in the coming decades. The state has initiatives such as the Climate and Health program, but could do more by developing a comprehensive climate change adaptation plan.
Minnesota is projected to see more than a five-fold increase in its number of heat wave days by 2050. The state has taken some steps to address its current and future extreme heat risks, but it could do much more to increase its overall level of preparedness.
Minnesota faces its greatest threat from drought, but it is also doing a lot to prepare for its current and future drought risks. The state is taking strong action to understand its climate change-related drought risks, but needs to develop a comprehensive adaptation plan to be better prepared for the future.


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SARAHSVILLE — Heading into the 2017 prep football campaign, the Shenandoah Zeps felt "It Was Time" for their team to take the next step forward after back-to-back 4-6 seasons.
The Jesse Wells-led Zeps indeed took a giant step forward as they qualified for the playoffs for the first time in 14 seasons finishing with an 8-3 record.
After falling in a heartbreaker to Coal Grove in the first round of the Division VI, Region 23 playoffs by a 7-6 margin, Shenandoah will look to "Finish" what it started in 2018.
The Zeps graduated seven players from last years team including three who have advanced on to play collegiate sports in Nick Miller, Austin McPeek and Cash Presnell, but still start the season with a four-year starter in All-Ohio quarterback Boone Jones.
Jones passed for more than 1,000 yards and 16 touchdowns in his junior season, while carrying the ball for nearly 500 yards and three more scores.
The Zeps will need to find a replacement in the backfield for Miller, who rushed for more than 1,000 yards last year despite missing several games to injury.
Senior Ethan Wiley (5-foot-9, 170 pounds) and junior Kendal Sherman (5-9, 175) both are experienced backs that will get plenty of carries while juniors Luke Rataiczak (5-10,160) and Wesley Guy (5-6, 140) are in the mix as well.
Junior Aden Laipply (6-2, 155) figures to be the starting tight end while Jones will have a plethora of targets to throw to including junior Kade Varhola (5-11, 145), and sophomores Cade Denius (5-7, 145) and Dayton Hill (6-1, 160).
The biggest strength of all for the Zeps may well be their offensive line which has size and experience.
Five players with significant experience return including a pair of three-year letter winners in seniors Dalton Rice (6-1, 235) and Tanner Brown (6-4, 275).
Junior Easton Hitchens (6-3, 300) lettered in each of his two seasons while classmates Logan Waers (5-11, 220) and Branson Van Sleet (6-0, 270) lettered last season.
Also in the mix on the line for the Zeps will be senior Chase Chicwak (6-1, 200), who has unselfishly moved form a skill-level position to the line for the good of the team.
On the other side of the line, Chicwak is no doubt the leader of a Shenandoah defense that limited their opponents to less than 10 points per game.
The Zeps limited their rivals to seven points or less six times including three shutouts.
Chicwak led the team in tackles for the third consecutive season and was rewarded by being named All-Ohio at linebacker for the second consecutive season as well as earning Eastern District Defensive Player of the Year.
The Zeps appear poised to switch to a three-man front, featuring many of the same kids who make up the offensive line with the likes of freshman transfer Preston Mackie (6-0, 260) and junior Briggs Schafer (6-1, 170) vying to join the rotation.
Chicwak is joined at inside linebacker by Wiley and Jones, giving the Zeps three backers who will be starting for the fourth year in a row.
Rataiczak and Laipply figure to man the outside linebacker positions with support from senior Jayden Porter (5-11, 160).
Sherman, an Honorable-Mention All-Ohio selection last year, leads a strong secondary that also consists of Guy, Denius, and Varhola.
The confidence level could well be at an all-time high for the Zeps who will also be the home team this season for seven of their team's 10 games.


The coming-of-age genre's tropes have become so ubiquitous that chances are when you read a title like The Diary of a Teenage Girl you've already anticipated her sexual awakening and an unhealthy romance. This film has those beats, but Marielle Heller's debut feature film comes with so much more. Mostly, it's the authenticity of 15-year-old Minnie's voice (played by newcomer Bel Powley).
Writing and directing an adaptation of Phoebe Gloeckner's novel of the same name, Heller includes several animated sequences from Gloeckner's graphic illustration style, which are peppered through the movie. Minnie endearingly and hilariously spouts her limited wisdom into her audio diary, which serves as the movie's narration. She tells herself, the diary, and us, "It felt so good to imagine he might be thinking about me." They're such well-observed statements, so clearly the reflection of an awkward but thoughtful adolescent mind.
Early on, Minnie becomes involved with her mother's boyfriend Monroe (Alexander Sakrsgård), a man 20 years her senior. At first he's her vehicle for escaping the isolation of virginity. As the movie continues he becomes her gateway to further sexual exploration and drug experimentation. Part of what's refreshing in The Diary of a Teenage Girl's approach is we don't feel the film judging Minnie for any of these actions. She retains her agency, and pulls herself out of her stupor. She's a girl being confronted with the realities of adult life and the consequences of her actions.
As the Opening Night Film for New Directors/New Films, it's fitting that The Diary of a Teenage Girl comes from such an exciting voice. Heller's film brings life to a story that could have otherwise felt tired, and portrays its characters with such honesty that their emotional arcs are felt. Minnie Goetze is bound to become a favorite movie character for teenage girls, but she's also one of the most fun, easy to root for protagonists of any film in this festival.


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By Dave Brousseau Staff Writer If the Blanche Ely girls' basketball team was already one of the best in Broward during the 2018-19 season, they've become one of the favorites for a state title entering next season. Former two-time girls' Class 3A state championship coach J.R. McNabb of Somerset Prep was named coach of Blanche…
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By Dave Brousseau Staff Writer POMPANO BEACH – Numbers don't lie, and the proof isn't difficult to calculate either. Since 2006 the boys' and girls' basketball teams from Blanche Ely have not only owned Deerfield Beach, they've picked them apart. Saturday at Blanche Ely High was no different as the Tigers reeled off a pair…


It's the eve of New Years Eve, and it's gotten me to thinking about what lies in store for cheese and the makers of it in 2009. With each passing year, we are graced with more and more beautiful cheeses coming from small farms across the country. And while there may be lots of ice (or mud) and sludge and puddles out there, the seeds of next years' production are being sown as we speak.
In Vermont, in Pennsylvania, upstate New York, there are bunches of folks learning the cheese ropes and honing their craft, and with a bit of luck and a few pestering entreaties via telephone, we'll be seeing some of their cheeses this coming winter and spring. And that's just the newbies. The more seasoned cheese makers that we work with at Saxelby Cheesemongers are twisting and stretching their creative limbs and evolving new cheeses in a seemingly round-the-clock, dairy-centric effort to get the most interesting and true flavors from their animals and their land.
Now is an especially fruitful time for makers of delicious dairy, and the cheeses that we are seeing (and eating!) are changing the cheese-scape of our country like never before. Just like different moments in the history of art produce different outbursts of inspiration and innovation, cheese is the movement of our day. I guess if we were painters it would be a return from abstraction to realism to a more solid, tangible realism. Like tracing from Pollock back to Sargent, from Kraft to Jasper Hill Farm. Any way you slice it, from these mongers' eyes, things are definitely looking up.
One of the particularly American innovations that has captured my interest over the past year is the influx of mixed milk cheeses out there. There are many cheese makers out there milking goats and sheep who have begun to craft an impressive array of mixed milk cheeses, usually by adding a bit of cows' milk. Sometimes the imperative is economic, and other times the desire to experiment and create is the overarching goal.
Goats and sheep are quite seasonal in their milk production, goats giving milk for about 9 months after freshening (farm speak for giving birth) and sheep for just 5 months or so. As the animals near the end of their lactation cycle, the constitution and flavor of the milk changes, getting fattier and more rich. Many of the farms we work with at Saxelby Cheesemongers have taken to combining this late season goat and sheeps' milk with a bit of cows' milk, both to balance out the fat content, and eke out some different flavors. It also means that the farmer can make and store more cheese to get them through the winter months when their own animals aren't giving milk. Cows' milk, being quite mellow and buttery in flavor, is an ideal element to play with, tweaking the flavor a little bit in the direction of butterfatty goodness, and making the texture of the cheese a bit silkier and more supple.
This seasonal mixing of the milk is something that is unique to America, and to be frank, something that probably would not be tolerated by AOC and DOC regulations in Europe. Across the pond, cheeses are made according to traditions that were established over the past couple of hundred years, and to deviate from them is akin to sacrilege. However, in our little age of experimentation, these tweaks and deviations are being embraced daily by cheese makers mastering their own styles and varieties of cheeses. Ok, so there might be a bit of Pollock in there. Cheese makers nowadays are kind of benificent, stir-the-pot renegades in their own right.
We wish you a Happy New Year and Happy New Cheeses to Come in 2009!


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Keto public blockchain focuses on bringing enterprise grade features such as privacy and security to the public space. These features were formally only available on private blockchain implementations.
Streamlined supply chains, Building decentralized apps, Simplifying the Internet of Things, Fortifying identity management, Forming smarter predictions
Streamlined supply chains
Global commerce has grown unevenly, more as a reaction to changing needs than an organized expansion. This dynamic has also made supply chains needlessly convoluted, with manufacturing activity taking place across the globe and transparency between suppliers oftentimes nonexistent. For suppliers, warehousing, and even logistics providers, prioritizing accountability is not only popular, but essential when considering the countless moving parts involved.
Blockchain is perfectly suited to the task at hand, with real-time tracking that's especially appealing to companies with multiple supply chains. Major multinational retailer Walmart has partnered with IBM to work on the Hyperledger Fabric blockchain, for example, to track food staples from supplier to shelf. Proper implementation of the ledger could also prove valuable for pharmaceutical giants, which are required by law to maintain the chain of custody over every pill.
With Keto's public blockchain companies will be able go beyond the confines of an organisation and track goods on a truely global and transparent scale. This will enable the development of revolutionary business modules and products.
Building decentralized apps
One of the biggest changes blockchain offers developers is the ability to build decentralized applications (or dApps) that circumvent many problems they have today. Originally created using the Ethereum ERC-20 chain, dApps offer a truly decentralized platform that inherits many of the benefits blockchain provides, including greater democratization, peer-to-peer interactions, and a fully trustless protocol based on consensus. The biggest difference, however, is the way data is stored and accessed. Unlike traditional apps where data is centralized in one location, dApps store transaction and other data directly on blockchain's distributed ledger, which removes single points of failure and makes for more transparent operation.
Even so, Ethereum is starting to run into serious problems due to its difficulty scaling for massive userbases. The ability to build better dApps and do so faster is vital for blockchain, and businesses looking to integrate it. By simplifying the dApp process, companies can more quickly reach market with better products.
Keto solves all of these problems and provides complete privacy. It does this through the introduction of POB (Proof of Behavior), thus enabling the network to scale horizontally for the first time and introducing private side chains. Thus Keto provides Dapps with near real time speeds and horizontal scalability, with the added benefit of storing their data in complete privacy on their own side chain.
Simplifying the Internet of Things
The Internet of Things represents one of the major pillars of greater automation efforts. Connected ecosystems that can record, process, and share interactions are instrumental in building smarter cities and supporting the coming autonomous vehicle revolution. Blockchain means that the infrastructure has finally caught up with modern IoT capabilities.
Distributed ledger technology can record the immense amounts of data produced by IoT systems in a trustless fashion and transparently analyze data points to produce valuable insights. Thanks to its identification, verification, and data transfer abilities, blockchain is perfectly suited for hosting IoT devices for both public and private sector use cases.
In the public sector, IoT devices can be used to improve infrastructure management and upgrade municipal services such as taxes. For private businesses, blockchain-based IoT offers better logistics and warehousing tracking, as well as enhanced data on performance and efficiency.
Fortifying identity management
The expansion of the internet has coincided with a rapid rise in identity theft and fraud. In 2017 alone, 2.6 billion records were lost, stolen, or exposed across the globe according to data collected by the Breach Level Index, with identity theft alone accounting for 69% of all data breaches. Even improving security has not been enough to counter evolving threats. Thankfully, blockchain's immutability and engrained authentication tools are ideal for preventing identity theft.
Using blockchain for identity verification gives a new dimension to security, removing verification bottlenecks and providing more accurate results. For instance, Civic's Secure Identity Platform (SIP) is designed for multi-factor authentication without the need for passwords or usernames and relies instead on biometric information verified by the blockchain ledger.
Each user goes through an identity check, creating a verifiable user ID that has been validated. From there, partnering organizations like banks or governments can review a user's personal identifying information in an encrypted format.
Blockchain holds the key to many forms of disruption across industries, sectors, and activities. Whether via more accessible data intelligence and predictive capabilities or better educational tools, blockchain-based services display immense potential thanks to transparency and a revolutionary take on consensus-building.
Forming smarter predictions
Because all transaction data is stored directly to the ledger, blockchain-based business intelligence and analytics tools are more capable than ever of scraping massive amounts of data and uncovering hidden insights. Some have already started applying the concept for practical needs. For instance, by using natural language processing–the equivalent of typing in a question or query—blockchain-powered AI platform Endor uses predictive analytics capabilities to deliver answers in real-time. With their predictions protocol, individuals and businesses can tap into available public data sets or use it privately for their own projects.Users can spend coins to access the predictive capabilities of the ecosystem while data providers, predictive engine providers, and application developers are rewarded for their contributions. The ecosystem is designed to deliver accurate forecasts, putting predictive capabilities in the hands of consumers and smaller private enterprises.
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Q: Saving DOM references outside of renderer class I am new to Electron + Typescript so bear with me please.
Currently, I am simply testing what I can do inside of Electron
Issue: I want to manipulate DOM elements outside the renderer.
I pass the button I add an Eventlistener to as parameter to a function in test.js. This Evenlistener listens to a 'click' event, which will console.log that the button has been pressed. That works perfectly.
Now I add a Textarea. I pass it as parameter as well and save a reference to it in the test. On Click, a function is called that uses this reference to the textArea to console.log the text of the textArea.
Problem: The textArea reference is defined in the function I add the eventlistener in, but outside this function it is undefined. Why, and what can I do to fix it?
renderer.ts
import { test } from "./test";

// This file is required by the index.html file and will
// be executed in the renderer process for that window.
// All of the Node.js APIs are available in this process.

let testInstance = new test();
let testButton = document.getElementById("test");
let testArea = document.getElementById("texttest");

console.log(testArea);

testInstance.addEventListenerToButton(testButton, testArea);

test.ts
export class test{

    textArea;

    addEventListenerToButton(toAddTo, textArea)
    {
        // Defined
        console.log(textArea);
        this.textArea = textArea;
        // Defined
        console.log(this.textArea);
        toAddTo.addEventListener('click', this.showTheText);
        // Defined
        console.log(this.textArea)
    }

    showTheText()
    {
        // Undefined
        console.log(this.textArea);
        console.log(this.textArea.value);
    }
}

Expected: showTheText() either works, or throws an error about
textArea.value

Unexpected: The error is textArea undefined:
Uncaught TypeError: Cannot read property 'value' of undefined
      at HTMLButtonElement.test.showTheText

A: It turns out to be a reference 'error' (more of a quirk) caused by Javascript itself.
The reference of this changes when a function is invoked by an Eventlistener, causing this to point to the HTML element instead of the script. Therefore, obviously, it cannot find the reference to the previously saved variable, causing all of these calls to be undefined as there simply IS no variable like that on the HTML-Element.
Two Solutions:
1) And my preferred one: use arrow functions on the Eventlistener, that sets a strict context for this, solving the issue
 toAddTo.addEventListener('click', () => { this.showTheText(); });

2) Bind the context to the function. Not sure how that works, but there it is if you wanna google it


The Document Foundation launched LibreOffice 3.3.0 today, the first stable release of the community developed free office suite.
LibreOffice 3.3 brings some very interesting new features such as bundled extensions (which provide PDF import, a slide-sow presenter console and more), import and work with SVG files, an easy way to format title pages and their numbering in Writer, a more-helpful Navigator Tool for Writer, improved ergonomics in Calc for sheet and cell management and Microsoft Works and Lotus Word Pro document import filters.
Note for Ubuntu users: You can install LibreOffice from an Ubuntu PPA; the LibreOffice PPA currently holds LibreOffice 3.3.0 RC4 for both Ubuntu Lucid and Maverick (LibreOffice is default in Natty) - but that's "bit-for-bit identical" to the final LibreOffice version (according to the release notes - thanks to Luigi Pezzotta for the info) so basically installing it you'll have the final version.


Philosophy of Political Science is a specialisation of the MA programme in Philosophy of a Specific Discipline. For information about the objectives and general structure of the programme, the MA thesis and the requirements for graduation, please see MA in Philosophy of Specific Discipline . For a brief description of this specialisation click on 'Meer info/More Info' below.
First, there are methodological concerns. Are social structures better conceived of as systems of laws and forces, or as webs of meanings and practices? Is social action better viewed as rational behaviour, or as self-expression? And is the proper aim of the social sciences to explain the social world in a manner devised for the natural world, or should we aim to understand the social world from within? These questions and others are the topic of the specialist course Philosophy of Social Sciences I.
The second type of concern is normative. What is a just society? How should we evaluate the institutions that govern our everyday lives? How do freedom and equality relate? How to conceive of members of society, as citizens or as private individuals? These questions come up in the second specialist course, Philosophy of Social Sciences II.