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In the early 1970s Janet Hilton set out on a quest to find good teaching materials. The 6th-grade teacher's search led her up a rickety stairway to a dingy old store in Chicago. When she got past the cobwebs, she said, "I found the most wonderful books and materials. I thought, `We should have something like this in the south suburbs.' "
Hilton wanted something better, an appealing retail store with a vast array of products. In 1975, she opened the Teacher's Storehouse of Knowledge in Country Club Hills. Initially catering primarily to teaching professionals, the Teacher's Storehouse now offers something for all educators, including parents, scout leaders and Sunday school teachers.
"Our store philosophy is that teachers and parents need to find their children's talent and build on that," Hilton says. "When the children grow with their talents, the other things will follow."
To help find each child's talent, Hilton offers an eclectic collection of teaching aids. The art supplies include how-to-draw books and craft books ($1.95 to $2.95) and the craft sticks, paper, glues and other art supplies to make the projects.
Curriculums for all subjects ($10.95-$21.95) are available for more formal teaching. Homework helpers, which are reading, spelling, math and other skill workbooks and review books ($1.95-$2.95), hone in on areas in need of improvement.
Multicultural items are gaining popularity. In addition to books that feature people of different races and nationalities, the Teacher's Storehouse carries multi-cultural markers and papers ($2.25-$3.95) which represent different skin colors and tones.
Creative and educational toys, in brands such as Playmobil and Brio, help younger children use their imagination.
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Obama's Man From MADD
When Big Things are going on, little things often slip by unnoticed. Such is the case with regard to the recent nomination of Charles Hurley to head the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA), which is the federal government's chief regulatory apparat governing both automobiles and what may be done with them on public roads.
NHTSA is actually a pretty big deal, given the power it wields over one of the country's last remaining major industries, as well as anyone who drives a motor vehicle. And the nomination of Hurley is an ominous development for both. If his prior record is any indication, we can expect more in the way of arbitrary interference with the way the car companies do business at a moment when they can least afford the burden of bureaucratic meddling. And drivers can expect a ratcheting up of the low-grade harassment they already endure — in the form of more obnoxious laws, especially "safety" checks and very possibly lowered speed limits — all of it imposed on the states in the time-honored way: Uncle Sam will withhold federal highway funds for any refusal to toe the line.
Why be worried? For openers, Hurley is a former leader of Mothers Against Drunk Driving — arguably the most unreasonable and totalitarian-minded "special interest" in all of D.C. Its original mission — a public campaign to make driving drunk unacceptable — has metastasized into a crusade against any consumption of alcohol whatsoever. The legal standard for "drunk" driving has already been lowered to .08 BAC — a level well below the .10 and up at which people have actual accidents as opposed to running afoul of "sobriety checkpoints."
But even that isn't enough. MADD wants the legal threshold reduced to .04 BAC, which would turn anyone who had a glass of wine over dinner into a "drunk driver" as far as the law was concerned — and subject them to penalties more severe than those applied to many violent felons.
Hurley was the chief cheerleader for this grossly disproportionate, factually unsupportable crusade. As NHTSA head, expect him to push the MADD agenda as far as he can — including mandatory in-car alcohol detectors for everyone, not just those already convicted of DWI. "Sobriety checkpoints" — where random people are randomly subjected to Gestapo-like stop and frisks, for absolutely no reason other than they happened to be driving on a particular road at a given time — will be stepped up.
Prior to becoming MADD's Obergruppenführer, Hurley was head of the National Safety Council — essentially, the agit-prop organ of the insurance cartel — where he helped force-feed airbags and "primary enforcement" seat belt laws on the public.
Mandatory airbags — which add thousands of dollars to the price/lifetime ownership costs of every new car — have arguably helped undermine the car industry by making new cars much more expensive and thus less affordable to consumers as well as less profitable to sell. Airbags are also the only "safety" device known to maim and even kill. It's true "only" a relative handful of people have been sent to a slab or permanently disfigured (eyes popped out of their sockets, etc.) by the force of a deploying airbag. But one imagines that matters a great deal to those involved, if not to Hurley.
Some might argue they'd prefer to make the choice to have or not have airbags — for safety or cost reasons — on their own. Hurley sneers at such a concept. If "most" people benefit from airbags (according to him), then what of the few who might get hurt? To make an omelet, one must break eggs, after all. And the cost? Improved "safety" — as defined by Hurley — is well worth the expense. The Little People must have guidance since they are too dumb to know what's best for them.
The same goes for laws that make wearing a seatbelt mandatory — and which give the cops authority to pull drivers over for failing to do so. Hurley, like the rest of Washington's ruling caste, knows what's best for us — and intends to enforce it at gunpoint.
As head of NHTSA, he will wield immense power to do precisely that — and more besides. Expect photo radar and red light cameras to proliferate; have no doubt there will be a major push for a "pay as you go" driving tax — with mandatory GPS transponders for every vehicle, so that Uncle can keep track of where, when, and how much you drive — and send you a bill accordingly.
The good times are only just starting to roll.
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Selah Lyrics
Genre: Pop/Worship
Selah Bibliography: (click on each album cover to view tracks and Selah lyrics)
Be Still My Soul (1999)
Press On (2001)
Rose of Bethlehem (2002)
Hiding Place (2004)
Greatest Hymns (2005)
Bless The Broken Road: The Duets Album (2006)
Selah Biography
These are the paradoxes of Selah.
Three gifted young musicians-a brother and sister brought up in the African heartland, a Tennessee native who had barely set foot outside of his home state-united now as one voice raised in praise to God.
A stream of successes-five Dove Awards, two #1 Inspirational radio singles and five Top 10 hits, enthusiastic receptions at venues ranging from "The 700 Club" to Carnegie Hall-that began almost by accident and built into a Christian music phenomenon.
A new album, Hiding Place, on which the group intermingles Congolese, Irish, R&B and pop melodies alongside hymns and worship songs into what has now become known as the "Selah sound."
Finally, there's the name itself: Drawn from the Psalms of David, selah suggests taking the time to pause and reflect, even as their music invites you to immerse yourself in the joy that it conveys.
Yet Selah-Nicol Sponberg, Todd Smith, and Allan Hall-have only begun their journey.
Returning with Hiding Place, their fourth offering to date, Selah again successfully melds the many musical flavors that have personally influenced each member into a diverse, yet cohesive collection. Produced by Jason Kyle and Selah, Gospel favorites like "Power In The Blood," the Irish melody "You Raise Me Up," the African pulse of both "Esengo" and "By and By," the pop feel of "All My Praise" and the contemplative "The Deep, Deep Love Of Jesus," among other selections, are woven into a single statement of faith that communicates with urgent power.
To those who have followed the group over time, Hiding Place affirms the music and mission of Selah even while charting new territory. Specifically, the group's interpolations of familiar hymns alternate with songs that deliver an edgier, more contemporary sound-a direction that might be credited largely to Todd.
"That's more my style," he admits. "You have songs like 'All My Praise' and 'The Deep, Deep Love Of Jesus,' which build up and convey more intensity than much of what we've done before. But then you have very simple songs like 'Hiding Place' and 'Before The Throne of God,' which is lyrically one of the strongest hymns I've ever heard. We always do an African song on our album, and for this project we have two, both of which have a fun, up-tempo vibe. And we also really enjoyed bringing a rock and R&B feel to the old spiritual 'Power In The Blood.'"
"What it comes down to is that we have a lot of variety on Hiding Place," Allan adds. "I love taking people on a journey. And if that makes us harder to categorize, well, that's great. I love it that we do all kinds of music and can't be so easily pegged."
The uniqueness that has made Selah's sound so hard to pinpoint originated in two vastly different locations-central Africa and East Tennessee. Jim Smith, in resuming his own father's ministry, took his family to a life of missionary work in the Congo. The Smith children, Todd, Nicol, and their two other siblings grew to see the world as a place of trees-mango, palm and coconut-many planted by their grandmother, circled around their outpost home. They'd wake up each morning to the crackle of the CB radio, as their parents touched base with other missionaries scattered through the veldt.
They came to know the Congolese people, to speak their Kituba language and love their music. Some resisted their message, yet the Smith family persisted, singing and preaching, even assisting during operations in hospitals, learning far more about life than most children their age.
"Our dad drove a seven-ton army truck, the only kind that would make it on those muddy roads in the rainy season," Nicol remembers. "We'd have to cross these bridges made of six planks, 40 feet above the river, and we'd always pray that the planks wouldn't break under the truck. That's what life was like there: You had to pray-just to survive."
At the same time, in Knoxville, Tennessee, thousands of miles from these adventures, Allan Hall woke up to a different landscape each day. Like his future colleagues in Selah, he built his life on faith-in his case, symbolized by two compelling images: the Grigsby United Methodist Chapel, an old whitewashed building shaded by a sprawling oak and abutted by a cemetery of former parishioners, and a dusty upright piano hidden in the basement of his house.
Allan's parents bought the instrument when he began showing interest in playing; at age 7 he started learning melodies and chords from the pianists who played at the church. Spending hours there and at the keyboard back home, he learned to read music from church hymnals and developed his ear by playing from his heart. Ten years would pass before he had his first formal lesson, and by then he had already become an experienced musician, as accompanist to the high school choir beginning when he was just in seventh grade. His piano teacher, a strict Italian emigre, found his self-taught technique severely flawed-yet something in his playing won her attention.
Their work culminated in her decision to enroll him in a piano competition near Nashville. There, surrounded by rivals who had been drilled on a classical regimen since age 2, Allan felt like a drowning man in a pool filled with piranhas. Yet he fought down his panic, played his selections of Debussy, Beethoven, and Bach, and then awaited the verdict.
"I actually won first prize," Allan recalls. "All of the judges said that I needed technical development, but yet they also said I had moved them. One judge wrote, 'I've been dazzled a lot by technique today, but no one playing today made me feel anything until you came to play. I can hear your heart.' I've clung to those words. There are far better players than me, but from that day I've known that I can connect with people through my playing and singing."
Each prepared in his or her own way, the three young artists set off on paths that would soon bring them together. Allan followed his dreams by studying music at Nashville's Belmont University. Nicol, meanwhile, entered Wheaton College in Illinois as a French language and literature major. A friend there told her about the music business program at Belmont, and she passed the information along to her younger brother Todd, who had decided to set aside his earlier ambitions to follow his grandfather and father's footsteps and pursue missionary work himself. With his family's blessing, he arrived at Belmont, where a new world of sound and ideas presented itself.
"I loved Jesus and believed in Him fully, but I was going through a time when I didn't want anything to do with going to a regular church," Todd says. "I really wanted to do more secular music. I was a big fan of groups like Boston and Kansas and Toto, but I was also drawn to Russ Taff, Andrae Crouch, Bob Carlisle and the Allies, and Matthew Ward, and after a while I came back to the fact that I really did want to sing about the Lord."
Allan and Todd met during a recording session for a mutual friend. When Allan's pastor asked him to organize the music at a worship service one weekend when he would be out of town, Todd accepted the invitation to join him for the service. Then, feeling that he'd like to augment their duo vocals, Todd invited his sister to make it a trio. Nicol had been developing her own solo material, but when she, in turn, was offered an opportunity to perform at a youth concert, she decided to ask Todd and Allan to take part too.
Already their direction was clear. All three had grown up in a tradition of singing hymns, and they found that in presenting these songs they connected in every way-musically, spiritually and emotionally. Rev. Smith and his wife sensed it too; after hearing the new group's second performance, they gave the kids $2000 to record some tracks. They did so, not thinking of their effort with any sense of professional aspiration.
Still, when the tape fell into the hands of Curb Records, the label liked it enough to release it as an album. Its appeal to every age group, its understated yet electrifying treatment of familiar and forgotten hymns, made it a unique release in 1999. Be Still My Soul earned the group its first Dove Award for Inspirational Album of the Year, and with that a new phenomenon took flight.
Their sophomore release in 2001, Press On, became Selah's second consecutive Dove Award-winning CD for Inspirational Album of the Year, and the project also produced two number one singles, the title cut and "Wonderful, Merciful Savior." Following-up with 2002's Rose of Bethlehem, Selah brought their signature style to a Christmas recording.
In addition to this year's Hiding Place, all three members of Selah will be releasing solo projects in the months to come, delving deeper into the individual musical tastes the three bring to the group. Their road may have begun separately in Africa and Tennessee, and it may split on occasion in individual directions, but Hiding Place makes it clear that Selah will endure.
"When you need to be comforted, there is nothing like these hymns, because so many of them were written from a place of suffering," Nicol states. "We hope this record will soften everyone's hearts to worship. God is just waiting for us to take that first step to draw near to Him, and these great songs can lead people to the source of comfort and strength."


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WYDOT message board draws complaints
By: Mark Davis Powell Tribune Via Wyoming News Exchange - Updated: 5 days ago
POWELL — WYDOT announced seemingly uncontroversial plans in late December to use message signs to remind motorists of posted speed limits and the presence of wildlife along the North Fork Highway.
But when a message on a sign at the entrance to the Shoshone National Forest proclaimed "Sheep Lives Matter," it drew concerns from some who say it mocks the Black Lives Matter movement.
"I feel WYDOT's use of 'Sheep Lives Matter' is in poor taste," said Melissa Maier, an activist for racial justice from Cody. "There are so many other ways to get the point across and this feels misguided, especially for a state department. It reads more as a mockery of [Black Lives Matters] than as a cheeky joke, and that's the issue."
"I don't know why they had to go where they did," said wildlife photographer Amy Gerber. "I love the bighorn sheep as much as anyone but think they could've chosen a phrase that wouldn't cause controversy."
The sign was installed to bring awareness to motorists and to protect wildlife on the highway and a maintenance worker for the department created the message, said Cody Beers, a regional spokesman for the department. But, he said, it "apparently upset some people."
After the WYDOT began receiving calls from the public, the message was changed.
"There was no harm intended to anyone," he said.
Every year, more than 6,000 deer, pronghorn, elk and moose are reportedly hit by vehicles on Wyoming's roads. The accidents cost nearly $50 million annually in damages to vehicles, human injury expenses and loss of wildlife.
A black bear and a grizzly were killed in vehicle collisions on the North Fork Highway in September, prompting calls from the Game and Fish and WYDOT for motorists to slow down.
"As winter sets in and seasonal recreational activities on the North Fork begin, traffic typically increases along the North Fork corridor, which can lead to an increase in collisions with bighorn sheep, mule deer or elk," Game and Fish officials warned in a recent plea for drivers to use caution while navigating the North Fork (U.S. 14/16/20) and South Fork (Wyo. 291) highways near Cody.
Game and Fish, Wyoming Department of Transportation, Shoshone National Forest and Sleeping Giant Ski Area are working collaboratively to raise awareness about wildlife on roadways and minimize wildlife-vehicle collisions for the safety of motorists and wildlife.
As of Tuesday, the Game and Fish hadn't received any reports of bighorn sheep being killed on the North Fork Highway this winter.
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Students, legislators propose increased climate mobilization
Brennon Dixson
Sen. Henry Stern was among the group of California lawmakers who joined more than 100 students on the steps of the Capitol, where the group proposed to increase climate mobilization efforts by accelerating California's timeline for achieving aggressive statewide goals.
California legislators joined students from across the state at the Capitol Monday to call for aggressive action in regards to climate change.
Sen. Henry Stern was among the group of California lawmakers who joined the more than 100 students from the California Public Interest Research Group on the steps of the Capitol. Together, the group proposed to increase climate mobilization efforts by accelerating California's timeline for achieving aggressive statewide goals.
The draft climate emergency resolution echoes calls by students and artists for bold climate action after California wildfires in 2017 and 2018 killed 151 people, injured at least 291 people, and caused approximately $21.5 billion in damage, a release stated, adding the multi-pronged effort in the Legislature seeks to address a number of growing threats that amount to a "climate emergency."
A discussion draft of the climate emergency resolution highlights the Legislature's call for an unprecedented mobilization of financial, technological, natural and human capital between now and 2030, according to the release. The mobilization includes a New Deal-scale commitment of $100 billion of existing funds toward green innovation, infrastructure and workforce development that hopes to put California on an accelerated path to 100 percent clean energy and carbon neutrality by 2030.
"Climate change is an emergency," Stern said. "It's burning down our hometowns, undermining our state's public safety, driving alarming rates of childhood asthma and other new disease vectors like West Nile virus, and keeping middle-class family budgets at the mercy of global oil and gas markets."
California has gone big with its goals, the senator said, "but we must go bigger if we're going to make this 2030 deadline to turn things around."
Brennon Dixson covers education for the Signal. He comes to Santa Clarita from Long Beach, where he was previously employed by the Press Telegram in Long Beach and the Daily Breeze in Torrance.


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Lindry is een gemeente in het Franse departement Yonne (regio Bourgogne-Franche-Comté) en telt 950 inwoners (1999). De plaats maakt deel uit van het arrondissement Auxerre.

Geografie
De oppervlakte van Lindry bedraagt 15,4 km², de bevolkingsdichtheid is 61,7 inwoners per km².

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

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Gemeente in Yonne

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When Birmingham rebuilt its town centre for the 2011 Midland Metro tram extension, wayfinding signs would be essential information to connect the stations, tram stops and bus interchanges. Gathering important stakeholders around his growing vision, Rafael Cuesta forged ahead before a complete budget or a final plan was in place. The result was Interconnect Birmingham – one of the world's most thoroughly designed City Wayfinding Systems.
Interconnect describes itself as a vision for connecting people's journeys, improving the quality of information across all transport services and walking environments. It is heavily focussed on users, appreciating that people move differently through a city and therefore have different information needs. Users range from first time visitors to locals, time-rich to time-poor. Their journeys may be to a single destination, cross-city or simply meandering around in exploration.
The wayfinding vision taking shape featured a beautifully designed basemap at the core, with layers of information added to create maps for specific purposes, including a shopping map, tourist visitor map and detailed bus stop information. Around this was built a versatile system which could expand in stages as funding becomes available. Maps would be the main outputs from the system, including 110 pavement 'totems' for walking, 70 bus stop information panels, special purpose paper maps and a digital version for interactive displays and mobile apps.
According to Rafael Cuesta, then Head of Development at Centro, Birmingham, Interconnect was only possible thanks to a large collaboration of stakeholders and multiple funding streams. The infrastructure development around the new Metro line had allocated circa £120,000 for improvements to the pedestrian area. Unfortunately Rafael had loosely budgeted for £3 million! The key was to gather funding from a number of streams and build enthusiasm and momentum among local businesses.
Rafael Cuesta has a large international contact network and is involved in several EU-funded projects. He secured EU funding from the UITP 'Nodes' project for improving urban transport integration; 'Involve' project to promote cooperation between local and regional authories and the private sector; and significant funding from the European Regional Development Fund for infrastructure provision.
Business Improvement Districts (BIDs) in UK cities draw a tax on local businesses to fund local services such as pedestrian and streetscape enhancements. Budgets are often in the £ millions. These vital stakeholders in Interconnect Birmingham included Colemore Row, Broad Street, Jewellery Quarter, Southside and Retail Birmingham.
Birmingham City Council were engaged in the form of its strategic marketing partnership, Marketing Birmingham, who co-managed the initiative with Centro (now Transport for the West Midlands).
Rafael Cuesta cleverly created a strong partner collaboration from the outset. BIDs were keen to be involved, recognising the retail benefits of investing in local information for pedestrians while making the streetscape more pleasant. Public consultations, focus groups and disability groups were used to gain the support of the public, and a viewing room was set up at a local train station. Everyone's input was welcome, and as a result everyone invoved was enthusiastic about the project. Today stakeholder workshops are still held regularly to ensure that the value of the basemap is maintained and that on-street maps remain accurate.
The result of this careful attention to detail is that with the endorsement of the BIDs, the system spread like wildfire to become a showcase for other cities. Rafael Cuesta proudly hosted representatives from New York City, Moscow and several European cities keen to be inspired into creating similar wayfinding systems.
Work with partners and local businesses to ensure funding streams.
It is worth investing lots of time and effort to create a clear vision and use it to ensure the buy-in of everyone involved. This way you will create support along the way, and minimise resistance.
Be careful not to take shortcuts with user testing. Include sufficient time and milestones for these activities in the project plan. Time and money invested in thorough user testing ensure early success and save significant effort later on.
Presently working for Transport for Greater Manchester, Rafael Cuesta is establishing a city wayfinding system to improve walkability in that city. He is also head of a Smart City initiative which will innovate the way people move, using Mobility as a Service (MaaS), driverless vehicles and intelligent mobility. In an increasingly digital future, I was curious if there will still be a role for physical map signs and a well designed wayfinding basemap.
"Cartographic craftsmanship cannot be replicated digitally. It is an art. Digital solutions inevitably compromise this craftmanship.


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Sustainable Raw Materials Specialist
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WWF and Marks and Spencer (M&S) started working together on sustainable cotton in India in 2009, partnering to support farmers to develop ways of producing cotton that has a lower environmental impact. In short, a way of producing 'better cotton', under the Better Cotton Initiative (BCI).
In this blog, Phil Townsend – sustainable raw material specialist at M&S – talks to us about his recent visit to the cotton fields in Warangal, India, and discusses the many individuals and groups who contribute to making cotton, better!
Why is M&S working on cotton?
Phil: M&S is a leading international retailer, specialising in high quality food and fashion products. Cotton is therefore one of the most significant raw materials that we use. To give some background, In 2007, M&S launched Plan A, the company-wide strategy to protect the planet by sourcing responsibly, reducing waste and helping communities, with the ultimate goal of becoming the world's most sustainable major retailer M&S originally made 100 commitments to achieve in five years, but it has since evolved to Plan A 2020, which consists of 100 new, revised and existing commitments – including sourcing sustainable cotton under the Better Cotton Initiative.
Cotton is a hugely important material, making up nearly half of the fibre used to make clothes and other textile products globally. At the same time, it plays a major role in supporting the economies and social welfare of developing countries. It provides a livelihood for hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of small-scale farmers. It's therefore incredibly important for us that M&S plays an active, significant role in helping cotton to be produced in better ways and reducing the environmental impact related to its production.
What were your expectations of the trip?
Phil: The aim of the WWF – M&S partnership is to produce cotton using less water, fewer chemicals and with a lower carbon footprint. The project involves working with over 18,500 BCI-certified farmers on over 20,000ha of cotton fields across nearly 250 villages. It was in 2010 that the first harvest of better cotton was produced and the project has gone from strength to strength.
This was my first trip to the project site, and, after working on it remotely for several years, I was very eager to see it for myself and meet the many people involved! It was a chance for me to see one of the key areas that M&S sources its cotton from to make the wide range of garments we sell.
Tell me what it was like in the field
Phil: One of the amazing things about this project is the number of different people involved in making it a success. There is the WWF team – both in the UK, which oversees the project, and also the team in India, which focuses on implementing the project and tracking its progress. Then there are the local partners, like MARI (a leading NGO in India), which help establish and strengthen farmer cooperatives; and KVK (the Indian Council of Agricultural Research), the science and research centre which provides education and support to farmers to help improve their crop management. And, of course, all the field facilitators, cooperatives and the farmers themselves, without whom the project would not be possible. The BCI works with all these groups at each stage in the cotton production chain. For me, seeing how the BCI model had motivated all the different groups to deliver amazing results in the field made the trip so worthwhile.
What benefits have you seen from the project?
Phil: When you arrive at the project sites and speak to the farmers, the benefits that the project is bringing become very clear. Farmers told me of the Farmer telephone helpline that has been set up by KVK, one of the local partners, to deliver instant technical support to them for a whole range of queries, including guidance on farm management practices. From this helpline, a weekly newsletter is published to help others understand more about the most common questions asked. I saw various methods of Integrated Pest Management (IPM), including pheromone traps for boll worm, insect paper traps, refuge crops and others, all of which are more environmentally friendly alternatives to chemical pesticides. Importantly, most farmers in the project benefited from yield increases, which have meant that their net income has increased both from more cotton crop and less expenditure on chemical fertilisers and pesticides. A win-win for people and planet!
So, what next for the project and for M&S?
Phil: The project will move towards its final phase next year, but the lasting ambition of this partnership is to ensure the Better Cotton programme becomes self-sustaining by strengthening the cooperative societies formed through the project. It will also ensure responsibilities to comply with the Better Cotton Standards System are handed over responsibly. The skills and expertise of both WWF and M&S can help famers develop a strong sense of purposeful, impactful and successful business practices that are positive for both people and nature.
This project is a great example of different partners working towards a common goal to produce better cotton and this is why it is one of the most successful and impactful sustainable raw material stories. M&S originally committed to source 25% of its cotton sustainably by 2020, but with the enormous progress made in projects like this, it sourced 32% sustainable cotton 2014-15. Therefore, M&S has increased its target to 70%. Here goes!
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Q: Is it possible to not log in the user after password reset flow azure ad b2c? I was wondering if it's possible to not log in the user after the password reset flow?
So basically what I want is to let user reset their password, but after the process the user to be redirected to login flow.

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When you set the access level of a community or user to read/write, and an individual data object has a read-only access type, access to the object remains read-only. In short, the access level or type that is the most secure takes precedence when there is a conflict. Table 13.1 illustrates this point.
For example, Figure 13.1 shows a sample snmpd.conf file when you use the Configuration utility to grant read/write access to a community.
Both sets of MIB files are already present on the Access Policy Manager system, in the directory /usr/share/snmp/mibs. However, you still need to download them to your SNMP manager system. You can download these MIB files from the Welcome screen of the browser-based Configuration utility. For more information, see Downloading SNMP MIB files.
Table 13.2 shows standard MIB-II objects and the F5-specific objects that approximately correspond to them.
You can use an SNMP command with OIDs to gather data on the number of megabytes of memory currently being used on the Access Policy Manager system. Table 13.3 shows the OIDs that you need to specify to gather data on the current memory use. To collect memory use data, you do not need to perform a calculation on the collected data.
You can use SNMP commands with various OIDs to gather data on the number of active connections on the Access Policy Manager system. Table 13.4 shows the OIDs that you need to specify to gather data on active connections. In this case, you do not need to perform any calculations on the collected data.
You can use SNMP commands with various OIDs to gather data on the number of new connections on the Access Policy Manager system. Table 13.5 shows the OIDs that you need to specify to gather data on new connections, along with the calculations that you must perform on the collected data.
You can use SNMP commands with various OIDs to gather data on the throughput rate on the Access Policy Manager system, in terms of bits per second. Table 13.6 shows the OIDs that you need to specify to gather data on throughput rate, along with the calculations that you must perform on the collected data.
You can use SNMP commands with various OIDs to gather data on the number of current HTTP requests on the Access Policy Manager system, in terms of requests per second. Table 13.7 shows the OID that you need to specify to gather data on HTTP requests, along with the calculations that you must perform on the collected data.
You can use an SNMP command with various OIDs to gather data on RAM cache utilization. Table 13.8 shows the OIDs that you need to specify to gather this data.
To gather the data for each of these metrics, you must perform some polling and calculations. First, for each metric type (for example, sysStatTmTotalCycles), you must perform two separate polls, at ten-second intervals. Then, you must calculate the delta of the two polls. Finally, you must use these delta values to perform the calculation shown in Table 13.9. The two sections following the table contain the specific procedures you use to calculate metrics for TMM CPU Usage and CPU[0-n] metric types.
Using the resulting delta values (for example, DeltaCpuUser), calculate the CPU[0-n] metric, according to the formula shown in table 13.9.
Using the resulting delta values (for example, DeltaTmTotalCycles), calculate the TMM CPU Usage metric, according to the formula shown in table 13.9.
You can use SNMP commands with an OID to gather data on active sessions. Table 13.11 shows the OID that you need to specify to gather data on active sessions.
You can use SNMP commands with an OID to gather data on SSL performance, in terms of transactions per second. Table 13.11 shows the OID that you need to specify to gather data on SSL TPS, along with the calculation that you must perform on the collected data.


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Q: Validator.js return invalid on random gmail addresses I am creating a mern application and am using validator.js to do some basic email format validation.
Everything is working correctly however some random gmail addresses are returning as invalid emails
example: test@gmail.com returns invalid while testtest@gmail.com registers completely fine.
I have also tried 1@1.com to make sure its not a length thing
Here is my validation
// Check to make sure email is formatted correctly
    if (!Validator.isEmail(data.email)) {
        errors.email = 'Invalid Email'
    }

Here is my mongoose model
email: {
    type: String,
    trim: true,
    lowercase: true,
    required: true,
    unique: true
},

Has anybody experienced something similar?

A: validator.js module has implemented special validations for the domain "gmail.com" and "googlemail.com". As per the gmail, minimum length of the username should be 6 and maximum allowed can be 30. The same validations are incorporated in Validator.js module.
That is the reason, it is failing for you if the length of the username is less than '6' for gmail and its not failing if you are using domain other than gmail. One more thing, minimum length doesn't include dot.
So,
1. test1@gmail.com --> fails.
2. test12@gmail.com --> success
3. test.1@gmail.com  --> fails
4. test.12@gmail.com -- success
5. ab@mydomain.com --> success

Hope this clarified.

A: I suggest you to use RegularValidationExpressionValidator
<asp:RegularExpressionValidator ID="RegularExpressionValidator_Email" runat="server" ClientIDMode="AutoID" ControlToValidate="TB_Email" ErrorMessage="*Email is invalid" ValidationExpression="\w+([-+.']\w+)*@\w+([-.]\w+)*\.\w+([-.]\w+)*"></asp:RegularExpressionValidator>

for CustomValidaor that is using JS function you can use this function:
function ValidateEmail(source, args)
{
    if(!(/^\w+([\.-]?\w+)*@\w+([\.-]?\w+)*(\.\w{2,3})+$/.test(args.Value)))
    { args.IsValid = false; }
}

this is the CustomValidaor in the front code:
<asp:CustomValidator runat="server" ControlToValidate="TextBox_Email" ClientValidationFunction="ValidateEmail"></asp:CustomValidaor>


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@protocol FSImage;

/// FSImageSource is the data source for the images. For normal usage you can use FSBasicImageSource
@protocol FSImageSource <NSObject>

/// The array contains all image objects.
@property(strong, nonatomic, readonly) NSArray<id <FSImage>> *images;

/// The number of the image objects are stored in the images array.
@property(assign, nonatomic, readonly) NSInteger numberOfImages;

/// Must return image at the given index - with object subscription you can use it like `imageSource[1];
/// @param index image index
/// @return image at given index
/// @warning index must be in the range of the images
- (id <FSImage>)objectAtIndexedSubscript:(NSUInteger)index;

@end

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"The Chain" is a song from Fleetwood Mac's best-selling album Rumours. The only song credited to all five members of the Rumours-era lineup - Stevie Nicks, Lindsey Buckingham,Christine McVie, John McVie and Mick Fleetwood - "The Chain" was created from combinations of several previously rejected materials, including solo work by Buckingham, Nicks and Christine McVie. It was assembled - sometimes manually by splicing tapes with a razor blade - at the Record Plant in Sausalito, California, with hired engineers Ken Caillat and Richard Dashut.[1] Following the critical and commercial success of Rumours, "The Chain" has been featured on The Dance, a 1997 live concert CD/DVD package, as well as several Greatest Hits compilations. It attained particular fame in the United Kingdom, where it is used as the theme tune for the BBC's Formula One coverage programme Grand Prix.[2]
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Background[edit] Edit
According to interviews on the writing of Rumours, the final section of "The Chain"—beginning with a bass progression—was created by John McVie and Mick Fleetwood. Stevie Nicks had written the lyrics separately and thought they would be a good match; she and Christine McVie did some reworking to create the first section of the tune. Other elements were worked in from an early project of Christine's called "Keep Me There."[1] The blues-style piano motif was ejected, and the remainder combined with a bridge from yet another piece manually using a razor blade to cut and splice the tapes. To complete the song, Buckingham recycled the intro from an earlier song from his duo with Nicks, "Lola (My Love)", originally released on their self-titled 1973 album.
Due to the spliced nature of the record - the drums and guitar were the only instruments actually recorded in each other's company - and its sporadic composition and assembly from different rejected songs, "The Chain" is one of only a few Fleetwood Mac songs the authorship of which is credited to all the then-band members.[1] The finished song itself has a basic rock structure, although it has two distinct portions: the main verse and chorus, and the outro. The song shows influences of hard rock, folk, and country. The song also uses a dobro to play the famous riff.[3][1]
Release and reception[edit] Edit
Rumours garnered widespread critical acclaim upon its release. Subsequent analysis of "The Chain" has also led many to cite it as one of the most evocative expressions of the internal fracture between various band members at the time. Buckingham and Nicks were ending their relationship at the same time that John and Christine McVie's marriage broke down, as did that of Fleetwood and his wife Jenny Boyd.[1] In 1997, Fleetwood Mac released a live concert CD/DVD package called The Dance, which featured the reunion of the Rumours-era Fleetwood Mac members. The rendition of "The Chain" reached number 30 on the Billboard Mainstream Rock Tracks chart. It has also appeared onThe Very Best of Fleetwood Mac and 25 Years - The Chain.
The ending of "The Chain"MENU 0:00 The ending as used by the BBC's Formula 1 coverage and other media outlets----
The BBC's Formula One coverage used the ending bass line as a theme tune from 1978 until the BBC's loss of TV rights to ITV Sport in 1997, thus making the song highly recognisable in the United Kingdom.[4] On 29 March 2009 the song re-entered the UK Chart at #94 through downloads, following confirmation from the BBC that it would be reintroduced, the BBC having regained broadcasting rights from ITV. On 20 March 2011, "The Chain" scaled further heights to reach #81 in the UK chart following to a campaign onFacebook to try to get the song to number 1 for the start of the 2011 Formula One season.[5]
Lindsey Buckingham – guitar, dobro, vocals
Stevie Nicks – vocals
Christine McVie – keyboards, Hammond Organ, backing vocals
John McVie – bass guitar
Mick Fleetwood – drums, percussion
There have been numerous covers of "The Chain". 1980s rock band Shark Island included a cover of "The Chain" on their 1989 album Law of the Order, notable for not including the famous bass solo in the song. Canadian heavy metalband Kick Axe performed a cover of "The Chain" on Rock the World, their third studio album, released in 1986. In 2004, Kentucky hard rock band Tantric covered this song on their second album After We Go. It was also released as one of their singles. In 2009, Three Days Grace originally recorded "The Chain" for their album Life Starts Now but was one of the few not put on the record. However, it was put on their Lost in You EP, and since September 22, 2009, they have been playing "The Chain" at their concerts throughout their tour. The band also performed it at IHeartRadio in December 2009, and Shawn Colvin performed a cover of the song for Legacy: A Tribute to Fleetwood Mac's Rumours. The hard rock band Taking Dawn also performed a cover of "The Chain" on their 2010 debut album titled "Time to Burn (Taking Dawn album)". They regularly perform the song as part of their live sets.
A cover of the song by the band Tantric was used as the theme song for the HBO Documentary series Family Bonds.[6] This song was sampled by rap artists Bone Thugs-n-Harmony in the song "Wind Blow" off their album Strength and Loyalty, and rapper Project Pat used the bass line in the last section of the song on his song "Don't Save Her" off his album Mista Don't Play. It was also sampled in Sway DaSafo's debut single titled "Up Your Speed".
In other media, Mark Radcliffe and Stuart Maconie have a feature on their BBC Radio show called The Chain which is a list of songs, each track having something in common with the one before it, beginning with "The Chain" and introduced each time with the bassline from the song. Little Big Town sometimes covers this song.
Mumford & Sons, Vampire Weekend, Ben Howard, Haim and Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros performed this song live for the final song of their Summer Stampede festival at the Olympic Park, London, in July 2013.
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By CANDICE SPECTOR cspector@chespub.com
BALTIMORE — Maryland State Superintendent of Schools Dr. Karen Salmon announced this week she will not seek reappointment as superintendent upon her term's expiration at the end of June 2020.
Salmon, who was elevated to the role in 2016 following a unanimous vote by the Maryland Board of Education, said she is "honored to have had the opportunity to lead education in Maryland" during her four-year assignment.
"Together, with many stakeholders and the state board of education, we have accomplished much," she said. "My focus for the remainder of my term will be to continue to provide a quality education to our students and to prepare a strong foundation on which the next state superintendent can build."
Salmon's departure from the superintendent post rounds out her 40-year career in public school education, which she began on the Eastern Shore as a special education teacher in the Caroline County Public Schools system.
Salmon later served as assistant superintendent of Talbot County Public Schools in 1997 and then superintendent in 2003. Her appointment as Talbot schools superintendent lasted 10 years.
State Board President Warner Sumpter said in a statement that Salmon "will be greatly missed," but the "(board members) wish her well in her future endeavors and offer our sincere appreciation for her tireless efforts for Maryland children."
"While the Maryland State Board is saddened by her decision, it is also grateful for her exceptional leadership," Sumpter said. "Dr. Salmon brought many years of executive experience to her position and her passion for equity and excellence has benefited all of Maryland's students.
"Dr. Salmon is greatly respected nationally and by many education partners throughout the state. It is her leadership that has placed Maryland education on solid footing for future achievements."
After Salmon's role in Talbot schools, she briefly left Maryland for New York, where she served as superintendent of the Bay Shore Union Free School District in Bay Shore, N.Y.
Upon her return to Maryland, Salmon joined the Maryland State Department of Education in 2015 as assistant state superintendent for college and career readiness. The following year, Salmon took over as interim deputy superintendent for school effectiveness, which led her to her current position as state superintendent.
Dr. Kelly Griffith, who succeeded Salmon as Talbot schools superintendent in 2013, has nodded to Salmon's expertise in the past, acknowledging her "passion and commitment to children."
"Karen has been a dedicated educator in the state of Maryland," Griffith said.
Andrew Burke, president of the Talbot County Education Association, echoed Griffith's sentiments in prior statements, calling Salmon "one of the most determined, hardest working educators" he's worked with in his career.
While it's unclear what's next for Salmon, it appears she's bowing out with the support of her colleagues and a long résumé of accomplishments in the realm of public education.
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How Computer Vision extracts data from in-store images
Computer Vision geometry stitching
Trax Retail Trax Retail
Published October, 2018
The real value of Computer Vision in retail execution lies in translating captured images into actionable insights.
Previously we discussed factors like accuracy and completeness as being paramount to data quality when it concerns in-store data generated by Computer Vision solutions.
But how does Computer Vision actually convert in-store images into meaningful quantitative data for the retail and consumer goods industry? What are the tools and techniques in play when using pictures to understand real store conditions?
Digitization of a physical store
The key advantage of using Computer Vision for retail execution lies in its ability to generate a version of real in-store conditions far more accurately than manual audits. Because this approach is oriented towards the shelf and displays, it delivers more data on metrics like on-shelf availability and share of shelf than scanner data can.
For this to work, a holistic digitized representation of the store is required to convert the captured images into actionable insights and KPI calculations capable of driving decisions. A state-of-the-art Computer Vision platform can leverage advanced image stitching and geometric techniques to digitize physical retail.
Panoramic image stitching
If you ever need to take virtual walks, explore landmarks or find shops, restaurants and hotels on any street in the world, you'd be using the Google Street View feature on Google Maps. This is a feature that provides panoramic views from positions along many streets in the world. Most photography is done by car, but what's on display is a panorama of stitched images.
Understanding in-store conditions using Computer Vision involves capturing numerous images across hundreds of aisles each containing many products. One of the most compelling means of visualizing data of this form is via multi-perspective panoramas.
In simple terms, this process amounts to extracting individual images taken from different viewpoints and devices and then aligning them to generate the final panorama. This process of mosaicking— or stitching— involves greater computational complexity in retail than in other domains.
In a non-retail setting, for example, tracking faces in a crowd is slightly easier as there are no faces that are repeated. But in the context of a retail store, where identical products are often placed next to each other, the process of visually reconstructing the shelf while ensuring that there are no overlaps or duplicates needs a stitching engine built on advanced algorithms.
The latest innovations in store data capture also leverage augmented reality technology which informs auditors exactly what portions of the shelf were captured, thereby dramatically accelerating the stitching process.
Identifying location and size of products using geometry
Often, consumer goods manufacturers rely on a cluster of metrics or KPIs to understand their brand visibility, for example linear share of shelf. This metric refers to the percentage of the physical shelf length occupied by a brand in a category out of the total shelf length in inches or meters.
The Trax system uses advanced geometric techniques to account for the angle and distance from the shelf from which the photo was taken. This helps reveal the exact location of each product on the shelf, even accounting for stacked items. For example, it can pinpoint a Coca-Cola 600 mL in bay 4, shelf 2, as the fourth item from right, at the top of the stack.
But to calculate metrics like linear share of shelf, knowing individual product size is as important as its location. Tight rectangular masks are created around each product, and the exact amount of shelf space occupied is computed using deep learning algorithms that train on known dimensions of a small sample of products.
Foundation to perform complex shelf measurements
The image stitching and the geometry engines digitally recreate the entire shelf, but the data still needs to be translated into meaningful insights.
A flexible and agile KPI calculation engine works on aggregated multidimensional data points to deliver actionable insights on various store parameters like product presence, position, planogram, promotions, and pricing.
The metrics calculated provide answers to critical questions that brands and retailers may have, such as: am I getting my fair share of shelf? are my power SKUs in store? do I have the right facings? and how effective are my displays and promotions? These insights are then delivered via dashboards tailored to user roles ranging from field sales representatives to supervisors and head-office managers.
Advanced algorithms that perform panoramic stitching and geometric calculations are essential to capture store conditions accurately and translate them into actionable insights.
Watch this video to go under the hood of the Trax Computer Vision platform.
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"The missing link": Leveraging in-store execution data to inform category strategy
The shelf is a constantly changing entity. Several events trigger major and minor shelf actions. Product or category innovation, shopper leakage, market and regulatory changes, retailer merger or acquisition – all are reasons for retailers and CPG companies to review categories periodically. Category reviews present an opportunity for CPG companies to disrupt the market; both brand and category performance depend on what products make the shelf and how they are segmented.


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Q: Besides Logo and Emacs Lisp, what are other pure dynamically scoped languages? What are some examples of a dynamically scoped language? And what are the reasons for choosing that design? Is it because it is easy to implement?

A: Dynamically scoped languages are much easier to implement. To access variables which is not in the current activaiton record / stack frame, one just follows the control links. Static/lexical access links are then not needed, making stack frames smaller.
Dynamic variables can be "unpredictable" at runtime, because one needs to know in which order the actual stackframes are to know which variable will be used. This information is not available by just looking at the static structure of the code. One could quite easily get caught out if the actual call graph of the program is not easy to predict at implementation time. Thats why most languages today have static scoping (most Exception systems however, are dynamic as this is the most practical).
However in some cases, dynamically scoped variables are very useful. For example when redirecting output, you could using dynamic variables set standard output for local code and all code called from there on.
(let ((*standard-output* *some-other-stream*))
 (stuff))

In this common-lisp example (from Seibel), standard output is bound to another stream for the duration of the let form, (inside its enclosing parens). When execution leaves the let, it goes back to whatever it was beforehand. See http://gigamonkeys.com/book/variables.html Peter Seibels free and excellent book, Practical Common Lisp, for a good discussion. In Seibels own words:

Dynamic bindings make global variables much more manageable, but it's important to notice they still allow action at a distance. Binding a global variable has two at a distance effects--it can change the behavior of downstream code, and it also opens the possibility that downstream code will assign a new value to a binding established higher up on the stack. You should use dynamic variables only when you need to take advantage of one or both of these characteristics.

A: Well, there's a bunch of websites that discuss the pro's and con's, so I'm not going there.
One interesting language that has some features that faintly resemble dynamic scope is XSLT; although XSLT's templates and variables and the like are lexically scoped, XSLT is of course all about XML - and the current position in the xml tree is "dynamically scoped" in the sense that the context node is global and thus that XPath expressions are evaluated not according to XSLT's lexical scope but according to it's dynamic evaluation.

A: Dynamic scope is/was easier to implement with interpreters. Most early Lisp interpreters were using dynamic scope. After several years lexical scope was found to have an advantage, but was first mostly implemented in Lisp compilers. Several implementations appeared that implemented dynamic scope in interpreted code and lexical scope in compiled code. Some provided a special language construct to provide closures. Lisp dialects like Scheme and Common Lisp required then that there is no difference between interpreted and compiled code and thus interpreted based implementations had to implement lexical scope, too.
Early Smalltalk implementations implemented dynamic scope. All kinds of Lisp dialect implementations implemented dynamic scope (Interlisp, UCI Lisp, Lisp Machine Lisp, MacLisp, ...).
Almost all new Lisp dialects from the last 20 years use lexical scope by default or even exclusively. Several publications have described in detail how to implement Lisp with lexical scope - so there is no excuse not to use lexical scope.

A: All the shell languages (bash, ksh, etc) use dynamic scoping.

A: Mathematica is another language that is dynamically scoped, via the Block construct. This is actually quite useful when working with formulas. It allows you to write things like
 In[1]:= expr = a*t^2 + b*t+ c;

 In[2]:= Block[{a = 1, b = -1, c = 2}, Table[expr, {t, 5}]]
 Out[2]= {2, 4, 8, 14, 22}

which wouldn't work at all if variables like a and t were scoped lexically. It works particularly nicely with Mathematica's rule-rewriting system, which will, among other things, leave variables unevaluated (as symbolic expressions) if it doesn't have an existing definition for them.
Mathematica can fake lexical scoping with the Module construct, but what this really does is rewrite the expression in terms of new, allegedly unique symbol (you can cause clashes if you predict what the next unique symbol will be, which is easy in most cases). This means
Module[{x = 4},
  Table[x * t, {t, 5}]]

will be turned into something like this:
Block[{x$134 = 4},
  Table[x$134 * t, {t, 5}]

Emacs Lisp, in one of its libraries, has a construct (really a Lisp macro) called lexical-let that pulls exactly the same trick to fake lexical scoping.
There are performance advantages to real lexical scoping when you're compiling your language which you don't get with the fake lexicals of ELisp or Mathematica, since you need some mapping between the dynamic variable and its current value, which means doing lookups (through a hash table or property list or something) and additional layers of indirection.
EDIT: If you have only lexical variables, you can fake dynamic scoping by storing the original value of a global, lexical variable on entering the scope and guaranteeing that the old value is restored upon exiting the scope. In order to ensure that, you'll need something like Lisp's UNWIND-PROTECT or a finally block. I've seen this done using C++ destructors as well, mostly as an exercise.

A: m4 has pushdef/popdef which is a typical dynamic scope implementation.


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For the second consecutive year, Dassault Systèmes was included in the Dow Jones Sustainability Index (DJSI), placing in the top 1% of rated companies in the software sector and ranking fourth out of 332. This performance in one of the world's foremost assessments of the sustainability practices of global companies in terms of ESG and economic criteria marked an eight-point gain over 2021, with the greatest progress in the innovation management, environmental policy and management systems, and human capital development topics.
In addition to its ranking in the DJSI, Dassault Systèmes received an MSCI ESG "AAA" rating for the first time, recognizing it as a "leader" in the software and services industry. MSCI ESG Ratings aim to measure a company's resilience to long-term ESG risks. The AAA rating, upgraded from AA in 2021, was achieved based on the company's robust business ethics framework and its focus on talent retention and development.
Other 2022 achievements include a "Platinum Medal" rating from EcoVadis based on an assessment of environment, labor and human rights issues, and ethics and sustainable procurement criteria. The company also maintained its inclusion in the Euronext Eurozone ESG Index (Large 80) based on its sixth place ranking in the software sector by Vigeo Eiris, as well as in the FTSE4Good Index.
"ESG reporting is a key area of focus for Dassault Systèmes. We recognize its importance for our ambition to become the trusted and leading partner for reinventing a sustainable economy through our own business practices and human resources, as well as through the virtual twin experiences we enable for more than 300,000 customers in 12 industries worldwide," said Florence Verzelen, Executive Vice President, Industry, Marketing and Sustainability, Dassault Systèmes. "We will further this year's achievements by continuing to drive sustainability awareness, solutions and engagement inside our company with our employees at the core as well as at our customers and among our global ecosystem. Every action we take aligns with our corporate purpose to harmonize product, nature and life."
In addition to its ESG achievements, Dassault Systèmes reaffirmed its commitment to sustainability in 2022 by launching its life cycle assessment solution on the 3DEXPERIENCE platform to enable customers to measure the environmental impacts of their products and processes; by appointing Philippine de T'Serclaes its Chief Sustainability Officer, and by signing the Action Declaration on Climate Policy Engagement and the "All In" statement during COP27.
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A client going through a divorce brought in receipts for noncash charitable donations roughly equal to the dollar amount of her income. The Texas woman had taken her cheating husband's possessions and donated them all to Goodwill. She was told she could only deduct up to 50% of her AGI. The return did not get audited.
An Ohio woman tried to deduct her tricked-out hot tub for medical reasons. A portion of it was deducted, but that did not include the in-tub stereo, underwater speakers and mood lighting.
A Texas woman didn't like the mature trees in her yard so she dug them up and donated them to charity. She had to get an appraiser to value the trees, but the IRS did accept the deduction.
An 85-year-old Tucson, Ariz., woman deducted more than $8,000 for dance lessons after her doctor suggested it would be good for her arthritic hips. The following year, she had receipts for more than $35,000 in lessons and $18,000 in gowns and expenses for cruises for her and her dance instructor, who was in his 20s. The accountant did not accept those expenses and called adult protective services. The client died before the investigation was finished.
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New Coalition of Industry and Consumer Groups Voice Support for Internet Tax Freedom Forever Act
written by Matthew Glans August 6, 2013
Matthew Glans
Matthew Glans is a Senior Policy Analyst at The Heartland Institute. Glans joined the staff of The Heartland Institute in November 2007 as Heartland's Legislative Specialist on Insurance and Finance. Glans' responsibilities include interacting with elected officials and staff on insurance and finance issues; tracking new legislation; and drafting responses to emerging issues via talking points, news releases, and op-ed pieces, with the goal of educating legislators and informing them about free-market ideas.
Glans earned a Master's degree in political studies from the University of Illinois at Springfield. He also graduated from Bradley University with a Bachelor of Arts degree majoring in political science. Before coming to Heartland, Glans worked for the Illinois Department of Healthcare and Family Services in its legislative affairs office in Springfield. Glans also worked as a Congressional Intern in U.S. Representative Henry Hyde's Washington D.C. office in 2004.
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Since 1998, the Internet Tax Freedom Act has imposed a moratorium on state and local taxation of Internet access and the creation of discriminatory taxes on emails and other data. The current moratorium, which is set to expire in 2014, was designed to promote the growth of the Internet by keeping the cost of Internet access low and affordable. The ban on Internet access taxes has been a rousing success and is one of the factors responsible for the meteoric rise of the Internet and the digital economy.
A new proposal from Senators Ron Wyden (D-OR) and John Thune (R-SD) currently being considered in Congress, the Internet Tax Freedom Forever Act, would make the moratorium on Internet access taxes permanent. The Act also keeps state and local governments from imposing multiple and discriminatory new taxes on digital items like digital apps and music like many governments have begun to do with wireless phone service. Supporters argue that making the internet access tax moratorium permanent is a necessary step in promoting wider access to the internet while keeping the cost of access down and eliminating discriminatory taxes.
As the internet has become one of the driving forces behind economic growth across the United States, ensuring affordable internet access for businesses and consumers is crucial, Senator Wyden argued in a statement. "As the Internet Tax Freedom Act enabled and promoted Internet access and adoption across America, the Internet became a platform to facilitate global commerce, sparking nothing short of an economic revolution," said Wyden. "Keeping the Internet accessible to consumers encourages innovation and investment in our global economy," added Senator Thune.
A new coalition of communications companies, business associations and consumer groups recently joined together in an effort to support legislation that would make ITFA permanent. The new group, the Internet Tax Freedom Act (ITFA) Coalition, voiced their support for the Internet Tax Freedom Forever Act and emphasized the importance of affordable internet access for the growth of the Internet economy.
"The Internet has become an integral part of almost every aspect of our daily lives over the past fifteen years and is one of the largest drivers of the U.S. economy today," said Annabelle Canning, executive director of the ITFA Coalition in a press statement. "The steady increase in broadband adoption rates, as well as ever-expanding choices of online services and e-commerce offerings, underscore the need to keep the Internet Tax Freedom Act in place. A permanent extension of ITFA will maintain affordable access for all consumers and encourage the next generation of innovators and investors to build upon the expansion of the Internet ecosystem that we have witnessed over the last decade."
A Heartland Institute Research & Commentary on the Internet Tax Freedom Forever Act is available here.
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Hatch, Gary Layne
Gary Hatch (1964–2010) was a professor of English at Brigham Young University who specialized in the history of rhetoric, rhetorical criticism, and writing program administration. He taught first-year writing, advanced written and oral communication, and courses on rhetoric, argumentation, and writing pedagogy.
Hatch graduated from Bingham High School, where he was senior class president, Sterling Scholar, and state debate champion. He served an LDS mission in Copenhagen, Denmark. He attended BYU as a Kimball Scholar, and there he met Anne Marie Henrichsen. They married in the Mesa Arizona Temple on May 31, 1986, and became the parents of three children.
In 1992, he received a PhD from Arizona State University and took a position as a BYU professor of English and later as associate dean of Undergraduate Education. He was also former committee chair and chief reader for the national Advanced Placement English Language test.
He passed away unexpectedly on May 1, 2010.
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The Electric "Elements of Oz"
Elements of Oz is a new stage/video show that seems to combine an homage to the MGM movie with Ozma's Magic Picture. (Which, as we all know, can show you any place or person you ask to see.)
Here's a taste of the review in today's New York Times:
At "Elements of Oz," having its premiere as part of the Peak Performances season at Montclair State University here, viewers are encouraged to use smartphones or tablets during the performance. . . . You download a special app that instructs you to put your phone in airplane mode until the show starts. The app then provides access to various elements that enhance the production, primarily nifty filters that, when you point the phone at the stage, add new layers of imagery to the action. When Dorothy's house in Kansas flies skyward, for example, you can hold up your phone and see a real corker of a tornado and slashing rain that isn't apparent to the naked eye.
Directed by Marianne Weems, "Elements of Oz" was jointly created by James Gibbs and Moe Angelos. Ms. Angelos is also one of the three performers, alongside Sean Donovan and Hannah Heller. A loose, loopy and enjoyable seminar on the making of the movie and its influence on pop culture, the production combines live video and performance — several famous scenes from the movie are more or less filmed anew before us — with anecdotes about its production and other random arcana about the film and the book it was based on by L. Frank Baum. . . .
The live re-creations of scenes from the movie are technically marvelous; the digital video (by Austin Switser) is dazzlingly pristine, and it's fun, at least for a while, to watch the wry comic impersonations of the performances in the movie. . . . But ultimately these sequences don't provide enough comic stimulation to justify their length. It begins to feel a bit too much like a draggy day on the back lot, and you might find yourself tempted to escape the app and fire up the real movie on your phone…
The performers, who each play multiple roles, all get praise, as does Bert Lahr.
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Happy 5th Birthday, Jew in the City!
allison! I just got back yesterday from Israel! I can say without a doubt it was the best summer and trip and experience of my entire life! I've never had more fun and i've actually become semi religious! i pray everyday! i keep shabbat! im trying to keep kosher.
Now for the background information: the author of this message is a teenage girl whom I've never met, but who wrote the following comment on a JITC YouTube video nearly two years ago.
wow, you're like the coolest Orthodox Jew I've ever seen, but isn't it so hard to keep kosher?
Honestly you have changed the way I look at orthodox people, I used to think they were so much different weirdly enough ! And I kinda secretly, like no one knows this but I feel like I'd want to be more religious when grow up.
I told her to keep learning and maybe try out a summer program in Israel. Feelings are one thing, but if they're not coupled with learning and experiences, then they can easily dissipate. I recommended the Israel program a couple times over the years – but again, we had never met, and teens get busy and distracted with all sorts of things. This girl had no one in her real-life to support such a decision and many people to dissuade her from going.
I don't write any of this in order to toot my own horn, but rather to highlight the power of mitzvos and Torah wisdom. Orthodox Jews have a bad rap – plain and simple. Some of it's deserved, I'm sorry to say, but most of us are pretty nice people, trying to live purposeful lives connecting to our Creator and our beautiful heritage.
But as we can see with this one teen, when the negative stereotypes about Orthodoxy are removed, the pintele yid (the spark of Jewishness within the soul) wants to return home. Jew in the City has had some exciting breakthroughs of late in terms of publicity, sponsorships, and a speaking career for me that is actually starting to make this endeavor make some financial sense. But as I take stock of what we've accomplished in these last five years, it's the stories like this one that come to mind first when I ask myself are we succeeding.
Happy Anniversary! May you continue doing your great work for years to come and be successful doing it.
B"H, we should all merit the joy of sharing our light with the world!
Happy birthday and thank you for your wonderful work!
Happy birthday JITC! Mazel tov on all the hard work you've put in, Allison. I've watched a few videos through the years but the last few months have led me to a more observant lifestyle, and I rewatched all of the videos earlier today and have been diving into learning more about living traditionally. It's been very fulfilling for me and I'm so glad to have resources to go to! Thank you for all you do!
Teshuva: If a Garbage Can Can, So Can You!


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## Panda3D
See [Panda3D Manual: Log Messages](https://www.panda3d.org/manual/index.php/Log_Messages).

## Render Pipeline
In Render Pipeline, [spdlog](https://github.com/gabime/spdlog) library is used for logging.

Log file is saved with program name in `render_pipeline/logs` directory in User App Data directory.
(If App Data directory does not exist, the file will be saved on current working directory.)


You guys got the memo a long time ago. We LIKE birthdays in our house. One could even say we LOVE birthdays in our house - heck one could even go as far as saying we are cuckoo for birthdays in our house! Girl's 11th birthday was no different. From the moment she heard that Hubby and I stumbled upon a Cat Café she knew this is where she wanted to spend her 11th birthday and who am I to say no? (Plus it is WAY EASIER than some of the home parties we throw!) Girl was allowed to bring 4 friends with her on this adventure as I wasn't sure I could handle more than 5 of them on the streets of Seoul.
So THIS is as close as my girl got to playing with the sweet little kitties.
But don't worry, this EPIC FAIL is going to be restored....we still have doctor fish, lunch and maybe one of the other 5 Cat Cafés in Myeongdong will be open. Failure is NOT an option.
Plus, the stop at Dunkin' Donuts helped ease the pain a *tiny* bit.
On our quest to find another Doctor Fish these sweet young Korean college students wanted us to take a survey for their English class.
Since we had a little time to kill and the girls were hungry they decided they wanted to eat street food instead of going to a sit down restaurant. French fry corn dogs on a stick it is!
As we were walking and eating we stumbled upon The Foot Shop and there was a sign that said "Dr. Fish" - we went in. The girls were SO EXCITED until the guy told me it was going to be 20,000 won PER PERSON!! WHAT?!?! It is typically 2 or 3,000 won per person. That is when I realized he was going to give them all foot massages & Dr. Fish. This is a POSH place, not a place to bring five 11 year old squealing girls. This could have been Epic fail #3, but I pleaded and bargained with him and finally got them all in for 20,000 won but he said they need to be 'quiet' - BAHAHAHAHA!! Did he not see that there are 5 young girls chomping at the bit to stick their feet in a tub of little fishies nibbling at their feet?!?! I mean this tickles like you cannot believe - So like any good mom would do, I agreed anyway knowing I could not hold up to my end of the bargain. I mean come on this was for the greater good of birthday girls everywhere!
So the dog café is pretty similar to the Cat Café except MUCH louder and much more stinky.
The entry fee is an 8,000 won drink.
The girls had hot chocolate and I had a latte.
The girls had a ball playing with the dogs.
I personally didn't even want to sit down because I saw a dog pee on the leg of a table, another one pee on the leg of a chair, I saw a dog poop on the floor. I was gagging! Now the staff was amazing and had very sharp eyes because each time a dog went potty there was a staff member cleaning it up within seconds, but really, this place wasn't for me. However I endured it since the girls were having SO MUCH fun.
By this time the streets of Myeongdong were getting pretty crowded so I had the girls form a human chain where we walked and sang to our next destination. SO MUCH FUN.
Hello ice cream! Yes we will have a foot long ice cream thank you!
These little characters were all over the place! I'm not sure what this one was advertising.
But this one is advertising a Nintendo gaming room!! How fun is that, I was up for it, but the girls decided against it - they thought this would be better for one of the boys birthday parties.
Finally after several hours 5 happy girls are back on the subway heading home to have a little birthday cake.
OH BUT WAIT...Girl wanted to stop at 7-11 and have her friends try one of our favorite Korean snacks - rice triangles filled with bulgogi and wrapped in seaweed. As you can see a couple of them were not thrilled with our favorite Korean snack, but all agree that the cider is good.
And sang Happy Birthday to one special girl!
So even though this party could have been a complete failure, we persevered and we ended up having a total ball!
Happy 11th birthday my sweet angel!
Secretly your middle name is perseverance, isn't it?!
what a great party! loved the pictures!


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Betty is a busy bee! She loves her job and she works very hard. But because she works a lot she can't find time to tidy up her house. Her bedroom is in a huge mess! She needs your help to tidy it up. But first, you need to dress her up and send her to work. You have to add all kinds of clothes and accessories in order for her to leave the house. While she is away, you can clean up her bedroom!


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Electronic-Pop Group 3OH!3 to perform
3OH!3 is scheduled to perform on Friday, March 18th in Alumni Hall at 10 P.M. as a part of SPA LateNight. There will be no tickets for this event. Students with valid PSU ID will be let in for free on a first come, first serve basis.
With catchy singles such as "Don't Trust Me" and "My First Kiss," 3OH!3 is not just your everyday pop duo. Made up of Boulder, Colorado natives Sean Foreman and Nathaniel Motte, 3OH!3 has gone on to release three studio albums, with the most recent, "Streets of Gold," debuting at number seven on the Billboard 200, and selling 41,000 copies within the first week of its release.
With a "Best New Artist" nomination at the 2009 Video Music Awards against Lady Gaga, Kid Cudi, and Drake, 3OH!3's popularity in recent years has increased dramatically. In a biography off 3OH!3's website written by group member Sean Foreman, he says, "The future is looking bright for these two Boulder boys."
This fun and eclectic group is one not to be missed. For more information, visit 3OH!3's website at http://www.3oh3music.com/ or their Myspace at http://www.myspace.com/3oh3.


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