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Chan Kong-sang, known professionally as Jackie Chan was born on 7th April 1954. He is a Hong Kong martial artist, actor, film director, producer, stuntman, and singer. He is known for his acrobatic fighting style, comic timing, use of improvised weapons, and innovative stunts, in his movies, which he typically performs himself. He has been an actor since the 1960s and has appeared in over 150 films. Forbes magazine estimated his net worth to be $350 million in 2015.
Off-screen, he has been directly involved in many philanthropic ventures providing financial assistance to schools and universities around the world. He is also a UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador, and has campaigned against animal abuse and pollution and assisted with disaster relief efforts to the 2004 Indian Ocean Tsunami victims.
Academic career:
In 1996, Jackie Chan received his honorary Doctor of Social Science degree from the Hong Kong Baptist University and in 2009, he received another honorary doctorate from the University of Cambodia. In 2008, he was also awarded an honorary professorship by the Savannah College of Art and Design in Hong Kong.
Chan is currently a faculty member of the School of Hotel and Tourism Management at the Hong Kong Polytechnic University, where he teaches the subject of tourism management. He also serves as the Dean of the Jackie Chan Film and Television Academy under the Wuhan Institute of Design and Sciences since 2015.
Dating Profile:
In 1982, Chan married Joan Lin, a Taiwanese actress. Their son, singer, and actor Jaycee Chan was born that same year. Jackie Chan also has a daughter who was born on 18th January 1999 as a result of an extra-marital affair with Elaine Ng Yi-Lei. Chan admitted he had "only committed a fault that many men in the world commit". However, Elaine decided she would take care of her daughter without Chan.
Religious Views:
Jackie Chan is a Buddhist but does not like to talk about his faith, calling into question his level of devotion. But Chan did study Shaolin Kung-Fu which is very closely tied to the Buddhist religion, and Chan has expressed a disappointment with the commercialization of this religious art form.
Political Views:
If Jackie Chan talks about politics, he usually gets himself into trouble–which may be why he doesn't talk much about politics. But when he does say something, it seems to be anti-democratic, or at least seems to express a total disenchantment with democratic attempts in East Asia. Chan called the 2004 Taiwan elections "the biggest joke in the world" and commented that the Chinese people were not ready or incapable of governing themselves. He said:
"I'm not sure if it's good to have freedom or not. I'm really confused now. If you're too free, you're like the way Hong Kong is now. It's very chaotic. Taiwan is also chaotic. I'm gradually beginning to feel that we Chinese need to be controlled. If we're not being controlled, we'll just do what we want."
Understandably, the comments stirred up quite a bit of controversy.
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Q: jQuery get Inner  of a  with a different classes using the .find() method I am trying to use jQuery to return a all the rows that are checked within my data table. A row is checked if span class="checked" (1st and 3rd row) and unchecked span class="" (2nd row). Is there a shortcut way using the jQuery .find() method to return all the rows. As opposed to iterating through all of the rows and comparing the span class attribute?
I know i could just use find() to get all the rows. But is there a way to define inner elements in the jQuery find method?

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You can do it generically by testing directly if the checkbox is checked
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A: You can use the :has selector or has method:
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A: this is my solution using of .closest() and .find()
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Howard University Showtime Marching Band Will Perform at Washington Redskins Home Game Oct. 21
The Howard University Showtime Marching Band will be the halftime performance during the NFL Washington Redskins home game against the Dallas Cowboys on Sunday, October 21 at FedExField. Howard will be the only guest band to perform this season.
"We got a call from the Redskins organization asking if we would be interested in doing a halftime show for them," says Band Director John Newson. "We performed for them years ago before they added their own band, so it's an honor to be invited back with a new generation of student musicians."
Washington Redskins Chief Marketing Officer Steve Ziff explains that hosting Howard at the stadium was an obvious choice since the band was so well received in the past.
"Howard University's Showtime Band brings an incredible amount of energy to FedExField, and we're thrilled to have them back again for our rivalry game against the Cowboys," said Ziff. "It's an honor to host this historically prominent group from one of the pillars of the Washington, D.C. community."
The Showtime Band, consisting of approximately 100 performers, will present an 8-9 minute set.
Newson promises the performance will be one for the record books.
"Our goal is to always display a well-rounded show, complete with precision drills and musicality in addition to the dance routines that make the band so popular. It's going to be an exciting show," says Newson.
Alumni, family and friends of Howard University are invited to attend the game and join the festivities to get a pre-Homecoming glimpse of the band in action. The Washington Redskins take on the Dallas Cowboys at 4:25 pm ET on Oct. 21.
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IWTYAL 205: Should I learn Mandarin or Cantonese?
Good morning everybody, welcome back. This is the I Will Teach You a Language podcast. If you're learning a foreign language, you're in the right place, welcome home. This is where we talk about language learning and how to learn foreign languages quicker, better and have more fun in the process. At the time of recording or rather when this episode comes out, we're going to be nearing the end of July. In the end of August, so a few weeks away from when you're currently listening to this, we have a great event coming up in Montreal, Canada. It is the Montreal Language Festival. I'm helping to organize it along with Steve Kaufman, Tetsu, and Joey who are the main organizers. I'd love to see you there. If you are in Canada, especially eastern Canada or maybe you live in New York or Boston or somewhere like that and you fancy coming along, please do. We have tickets available still, it's at the end of August. You can go to LangFest.org for more information, or you can just search for Montreal Language Festival. We have a stunning lineup of speakers, we really do. I will just leave it at that, you can go to the website for more information if you'd like. I also mention that because today's question comes from Montreal as well. I want to make sure that Daco you're listening, I hope you're going to come to the event at the end of August.
Before we get to that, I'd like to thank the sponsors of the show, Italki. Now, there are different ways to practice the language that you're learning. You can get formal lessons with a professional tutor, or you can just have a tutor or a language partner that just helps you practice speaking. Different kinds of lessons that you can have. Whichever one you think you need, you can find that person on Italki. You can go and you can browse by language, by nationality, by dialect and find that person that's just right for you to help you get that all important speaking practice. To get a free lesson, go to IWillTeachYouALanguage.com/freelesson. Without any further ado, let's hear today's question from Daco.
Hi, Olly, this is Daco. I'm from Venezuela, but I live in Montreal, Canada. Thank you so much for your podcast, it's a great companion for anybody that is trying to learn any language. My question is the following; I want to learn Chinese, but I know there are two different Chinese I think, Cantonese and Mandarin. I have no idea what's the difference between those two and where to start. I heard you speak Cantonese, I think, so which one do you recommend? Thank you so much, bye, bye.
Hi, Daco, thank you very much for your question. I like this, because it gives me an excuse to talk about Cantonese, which is always welcome. Now, should you learn Cantonese or Mandarin? This question comes up surprisingly often, and I think it probably stems from people not realizing what the distinction is and what the relevant information is. I speak Cantonese, I don't speak Mandarin, but I know a fair bit about it because I have many colleagues who work with Mandarin and in Mandarin. I consider myself fairly familiar with the kind of relevant formats. You've got a lot of different Chinese dialects. It's not just Cantonese and Mandarin, there are many more. I can't really talk about them with authority other than if you do a search on the internet for varieties of Chinese you will find a lot. Some people consider Cantonese to be a dialect of Chinese, others consider it to be a completely separate language. It doesn't really matter, but they're very closely related although they're not mutually intelligible. If I speak Cantonese to someone from China or Taiwan, they won't understand. Likewise, if you go to Hong Kong and you speak Mandarin, some people might understand if they've studied or gone to school in Mandarin, but otherwise a native Cantonese speaker will only understand limited amounts of Mandarin. They are not mutually intelligible languages, although interestingly the written language is pretty much the same. We're not going to get into all that detail yet.
How can you choose to study Mandarin or Cantonese, how do you make the choice? Actually, it's really simple, you just need to know why you're learning it in the first place. It's really like asking should I learn English or French, the question itself is impossible to answer. You need to know why you're learning it. Is it because you want to travel to China? Is it because you want to speak with ethnic Chinese communities in your hometown? Is it because you want to learn a language that is internationally useful? If so, for what? Is it for trade, is it for online work, what's your reason? Daco, without knowing your reason, it's very difficult to respond to the question. Picking a language arbitrarily is something that I never recommend doing. We recently had a question from Turkey, which was like should I learn Japanese or Spanish? That's like what should I have for dinner, chicken or beef? If you learn a language for a reason that is just I think it will be useful, you're really going to struggle over the long term, especially with a language like Chinese that's really, really hard. The way that you succeed at a language over the long term is by having a real reason to use it.
Daco, you said you're from Venezuela, you live in Montreal. I guess one of the reasons that your English is so good is because you live there and you have to speak it there. You may also speak good French, perhaps, not everybody speaks French in Montreal. Learning Chinese is a big undertaking and you need to have a reason why. Let me give you some of the reasons why you might choose one or the other. If you want to learn an international language that gives you access to Asia and allows you in general to spread your wings and communicate with more people around the world, then you need to learn Mandarin. There are in the world a total of 873 million native speakers of Mandarin Chinese, compared to around 59 million native speakers of Cantonese. So, there are 10 times as many native speakers of Mandarin. If you include second language speakers, it goes up even more, there's more than a billion native or second language speakers of Mandarin Chinese compared to Cantonese. Twenty times more people speak Mandarin than Cantonese.
As you travel around the world and you go to Chinatowns in various cities around the world, you will often find more Cantonese speakers than Mandarin. The reason is that there's a lot of migration from the south of China, where they also speak Cantonese. If you weren't aware, in the southern provinces of China, places like Guangdong, they also speak Cantonese. There's a lot of migration from there around the world to places like the US and Canada and Europe. Often when you go to Chinatown in places like London for example, you'll mostly hear Cantonese being spoken. I seem to remember it was the same in Montreal when I was there last year. Obviously if you go to Hong Kong in particular, and also Macao and Singapore to a certain extent, you will hear Cantonese being spoken. It kind of depends.
If you hang out in Chinatown, Daco, and you've been on holiday to Hong Kong, then you are likely to think to yourself Cantonese might be more useful. If that's the case, then you should learn Cantonese. For any other reason, assuming you don't have a particular reason or motive to learn the language, it's almost certain that Mandarin is going to be more useful for you, simply because that's the main language of China. It's what you'll speak if you ever meet a regular Chinese person and if you ever go to China. Without a deeper reason, it's impossible to say anymore, but those are the kind of things that you might like to think about. I hope that's useful for you, and if you'd like to give us a little bit more information about your reasons for wanting to learn Chinese, then go ahead and leave us a comment on the show notes; IWillTeachYouALanguage.com/episode205. Maybe a few of us can weigh in and give you some ideas there based on your specific situation.
I hope to see you in Montreal at the end of August, Daco, thank you for your question. If you would like to leave a question, please go to IWillTeachYouALanguage.com/ask. Also, if you have been enjoying the podcast, I would love it if you would leave a star rating and a review on iTunes, because it really helps other people find the podcast as well. If you'd like to do that, simply open up iTunes and search for I Will Teach You a Language. Click on leave a review and you can do that there.
At the end of every episode, I like to leave you with a resource of some kind on the topic of the show. For this one, I would like you go to back to episode 42 of the podcast. This may not be available on iTunes, because they don't make the older episodes available, but you can listen to it on the blog if you go to IWillTeachYouALanguage.com/episode42, then you can access it there. That podcast is called What Language Should I Learn? I think it's very relevant to you if you're kind of making a choice between a couple of languages, maybe weighing up the pros and cons. It will really help you make a decision. That's IWillTeachYouALanguage.com/episode42. Thank you for listening, I really appreciate it, and I will see you back in the next episode.
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Petermann Bus, National Express School's (NEXS's) student transportation provider serving the state of Ohio, was originally founded in 1921 to provide transportation for children with special needs in Cincinnati. Along with his Rotary Club, Petermann organized the first education program for children with special needs in the basement of Cincinnati's General Hospital. Subsequently, he was instrumental in building Condon School, the predecessor to today's Roselawn-Condon School in Cincinnati's Roselawn neighborhood.
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Chief Executive Officer, School Bus Division & Transit
Alejandro Castro brings more than 25 years' experience, serving most recently as managing director of North America for Ceva Logistics. Prior to that, he served as the CFO, Americas for Ceva. His extensive expertise includes various roles with progressing responsibility in finance with Olam, ConAgra Foods and PwC. Alejandro is a certified public accountant and received his MBA from Instituto Tecnolόgico Autόnomo de México.
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Dorothy Capers is a corporate attorney and legal business partner with more than 28 years of extensive in-house, government and private law firm experience, primarily in the areas of litigation and litigation management. She joined NELLC in 2015 and recently comes from US Foods, where she served for six years as associate general counsel and led the litigation and bankruptcy team for more than 70 locations in 39 states. Most recently, Dorothy helped guide US Foods through its $8.2 billion proposed merger with Sysco. Prior to US Foods, she has held positions at the City of Chicago Department of Law, the Cook County State's Attorney's Office and Metra Railroad. Dorothy previously served as President of the Black Women Lawyer's Association of Greater Chicago and is currently on the Board of Directors at the Illinois Equal Justice Foundation. She holds a J.D. from Howard University School of Law and a B.A. in Speech Communication and History from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign.
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With over 26 years of successful leadership in the transportation industry, Bob Ramsdell has developed broad expertise in the areas of operations, safety and human resources. Since joining the company in 1997, Bob has provided consistent leadership in the company's safety, operations, human resources, labor relations and recruiting functions. His long oversight of safety and driver recruiting has established a lasting culture of hiring and training the safest drivers in the industry. Returning to once again lead our safety program after overseeing our central area operations for six years, Bob brings a wide breadth and depth of experience to help ensure we get children to and from school safely each day. Prior to joining NELLC, Bob served as the director of safety and training for DAVE Transportation, a provider of contracted public transit services to cities, counties and agencies in 16 states. Bob holds a master of business administration degree from DePaul University and a bachelor's degree in English from California State University, Fullerton. He received the National School Transportation Association's prestigious Golden Merit Award in 2002.
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John Finn brings more than 20 years of experience to the maintenance team, having managed fleet operations of up to 50K buses and over 450 maintenance facilities in both the US and Canada. He recently joined NELLC after having spent more than 37 years in the transportation industry. John has a reputation for his proactive focus on LEAN, Blue Seal and ASE Technician programs and parts reclamation programs. John earned his degree in Business Administration and Management from Merrimack College; he is a Master ASE Certified Technician, holds certifications in OSHA and Safety Leadership, and is currently a member of both NAFA and the School Bus Fleet.
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Mike Goddard provides the strategic direction for human resource programs, policies and procedures – encompassing benefits, training, human resource information services, performance management and human resource generalist activities. Mike has more than 10 years of global HR experience, as well as previously holding senior executive roles in transport operations. Mike has been supporting HR at the organization since 2011 alongside his role as group HR director for the parent company, National Express Group. He began his current position as SVP of human resources in 2014.
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Carina Noble
Carina Noble has been with the organization since 2001 and has held varying roles across the organization from transportation planning to transit and now student transportation. In her current role, she has oversight for strategic communications, market development activities as well as charter sales growth. In 2011, Carina was awarded the National Student Transportation Association's Golden Merit Award, which recognizes excellence in service, safety, and community responsibility.
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John Elliott, Jr. joined NELLC in 2015 in an executive leadership role, overseeing our company's safety programs such as field safety support, safety training, safety analytics and safety audit. In March 2017, John took on the role as our senior vice president of business development assisting with acquisitions and leading our sales efforts for both school bus and transit. Throughout his 26-year career, John has held numerous leadership roles in the petrochemical industry. Before joining the organization, he was at Chevron Phillips Chemical Company, where he spent the majority of his tenure overseeing global/domestic sales and marketing of key product lines where he acquired considerable management, purchasing and commercial experience.
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Charlie Bruce rejoined National Express in 2019 as the senior vice president of business development. He is currently responsible for growing the school bus business at the organization. He has extensive experience gained while working for two Fortune 500 companies and with over 300 districts regarding their student transportation needs. In his previous capacity, he was the founder and senior partner of the Transportation Advisory Group, which has provided consulting services to the yellow bus industry for both the private and public sectors. In addition, Charlie was named President of the Bus Parts Warehouse located in Syracuse, New York, where his business acumen resulted in an achievement of nearly 20% in year-over -year growth. He is currently a member of the board of directors for Gatekeeper Systems, Inc., a leading provider of high-resolution video security and safety systems for mobile applications.
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Michael Settle has almost 40 years of experience in the school transportation business. He has held operational responsibility for as many as 70 school transportation operations spanning 10 states. In his various operating roles over the years, Michael has held responsibility for all facets of school transportation operations including recruiting, retention, training and development, maintenance oversight and customer relations. Currently, he manages Ohio and Michigan. Michael is a member of the Ohio Association for Pupil Transportation.
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In 1921, C.H. Petermann founded Petermann Bus Company to provide transportation for children with special needs in Cincinnati, Ohio. Along with his Rotary Club, Petermann organized the first education program for children with special needs in the basement of Cincinnati's General Hospital. Subsequently, he was instrumental in building Condon School, the predecessor to today's Roselawn-Condon School in Cincinnati's Roselawn neighborhood.
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You will find a crib in the bedroom, a campers cot, safety sideboards, wash basin and a bottle warmer (upon request). In the dining lounge there are high chairs and baby dishware. In the play ground area right next to the restaurant our entertainer Flavio will play with the children organizing games, drawing sessions, fairy tales and much more during meal time.
Is there a dedicated menu for children?
Upon parents request our kitchen staff will prepare vegetable soups, vegetable purees, fish and meat cooked in the pan, in the oven or boiled. Furthermore in order to satisfy the appetite of our tiny guests, meal time schedule is flexible and may be anticipated.
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Small size animals are more than welcome in our Hotel with a supplement of Euro 5.00 per day. In respect of all our guests, animals are not allowed in the restaurant area nor on the beach.
Is it possible to park in the Hotel?
Our Hotel has underground limited free parking spaces and it is not possible to book in advance and is therefore available until all spots are taken. Outside of the Hotel there is free parking and there is no time limit. If you do not find place in the underground parking and if you do not want to park on the street, there is a public parking lot approx 1 km from the Hotel and weakly tariffs are quite convenient.
The train station is about 1 km from the Hotel. The tax fee to get to the Hotel is about 10 Euro and if you wish to use the bus, line N. 61 stops right in front of Hotel delle Nazioni.
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In order to confirm your vacation it is necessary to send in a deposit which can be done by bank transfer or money order.
If you cancel your reservation, the deposit shall be sent back fully within 30 days upon arrival. Up until the 29th day of arrival, this deposit can be destined if you wish for another date to be fixed during the current season or you can book even for the next year.
What happens in case of anticipated departure?
In case of anticipated departure you shall pay for the cost of your stay in the hotel, plus overnight bookings of at least 3 days from departure date.
It is possible to settle your payment through Bancomat, Credit Card (Visa, Mastercard, Maestro) or bank check (only if payment is done on your arrival date). Cash payment is possible up to the maximum amount allowed by law.


Tucson, Ariz.—Omar Mireles has been named president of the HSL Properties. He will replace HSL's current president, Humberto S. Lopez, who has led the company since 1975 and will remain chairman of the board.
Mireles hails from Nogales, but spent much of his childhood in Tucson living with and learning from his uncle, HSL Co-Founder Lopez. Mireles graduated from Salpointe Catholic High School in Tucson, before heading to New York to attend Cornell University, where he studied Policy Analysis of Consumer Economics and Housing.
After he graduated from Cornell, Mireles was an analyst in the Real Estate Finance Group of Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette in New York. Following the company's merger with Credit Suisse First Boston, he moved onto the company's Real Estate Finance and Securitization Group. In 2001 and 2002 he received recognition as the most valuable team player while heading the underwriting team in the CSFB Small Balance Loan Program and working on their real estate credit committee.
In 2003, Mireles joined HSL as executive vice president, where he manages the company's property portfolio worth more than $800 million, which includes acquisitions, dispositions, financing and development. He has structured and negotiated over $500 million in real estate transactions and more than $300 million in loan transactions for HSL. Mireles heads the property development team and is president of HSL Asset Management LLC, the company's project management arm.


Clare Girton, left, and her 11-year-old, Teddy, in their Wayne, Pa., kitchen. Ms. Girton can check her four kids' assignments and grades by using the district's parent portal.
When Debbie Sumner Mahle, an Atlanta mother, wants to know what her sons, ages 6, 7 and 10, are working on in school, she turns on her computer and logs into NetClassroom. The portal lets her see not just their school assignments but also their attendance and grades.
More public and private school systems are wiring up data-management systems, and school work is just the tip of the iceberg. Parent-accessible websites and "learning community management systems"—or LCMSs, in the age of no jargon left behind—are increasingly handling schools' scheduling, emergency contacts, immunizations, academic assessments and even meals, with some offering a daily nutritional breakdown of lunch.
Molly Baker on Lunch Break looks at the dynamic between parents and school-age children changes now that parents can see homework assignments, grades, and curriculum in real-time by logging onto the computer systems schools are implementing.
Ms. Sumner Mahle receives email reminders to place her sons' requests at orderlunches.com, which manages the meal program at their school, the Davis Academy. If she wants to work a shift as a cafeteria monitor, or bring cupcakes to a Halloween party, she signs up at volunteerspot.com.
"The sites make volunteering and keeping up on things at school a lot easier. It saves people from the endless chain of emails," Ms. Sumner Mahle says. "But the amount of time you spend online with these things is insane."
As districts look to save money by going paperless outside the classroom, the digital push is picking up steam. One immediate result is a new wave of user names and passwords for families to keep track of. Longer term, the change is requiring parents to become active seekers of information, not recipients of mailings or notes sent home from school. And there are opportunities for overuse.
More than 100,000 of the country's 125,000-plus elementary and secondary schools rely on some sort of Web presence, says Sanjeev Ahuja of Edline, one of the largest providers of website management and support to schools whose systems include Edline and SchoolFusion. The other systems out there typically have a parent portal with a name like iParent, Homelink or MyBackPack and the offerings can be customized.
For some parents, the systems are a way to feel more involved in their children's education. This isn't always a good thing for their children.
"I find it to be a really good communication tool for me. But it can also be used for evil," says Kammy Hambrick, who uses the Henrico County Public School website, outside Richmond, Va., to track the work of her two sons, ages 12 and 9. "These tools give parents more opportunity to hover, and I was completely guilty."
Ms. Hambrick says she was logging in every day to check on homework assignments, grade averages and upcoming tests and projects. "I knew what time individual teachers updated, and I would be on there at 4:01," she says. "It was bad."
Clare Girton says she misses the human connection when using the district portal to keep up with happenings at school.
This school year, her 12-year-old, Jack, called her on her habit. "He said, 'Mom, you need to stay off my HCPS link. I can do it myself.' And he's right. Part of middle school is crashing and burning, and learning how not to crash and burn," she says. The two did agree that Ms. Hambrick would have the right to make random checks.
As they get older, though, students often become the ones who hover. "Sometimes you'll hear in school, 'Oh first period got their tests back,' so then everyone will race to their phone or a computer and check," says Meg Girton, a junior at Radnor High School in Radnor, Pa. "I'm starting to look at colleges and I do care about my grades."
Clare Girton, Meg's mother, says in her household, the district's system isn't a seamless communications tool yet. The Girtons' seven-year-old Dell PC sits in the corner of a second-floor bedroom—far from the family command center in the kitchen, where most of the planning and decision-making about the four children takes place.
Ms. Girton uses a double-page Month-At-A-Glance paper calendar to keep track of her family's busy back-to-school routine of homework, hockey bags, baseballs and soccer balls, lunches, backpacks and SAT-prep books. "What I don't need is another password," she says.
Meg Girton, left, says some of the most avid users are students checking their own grades.
"All of these emails come from school and I can never open them because my computer is too old," Ms. Girton says. "If I want to get any information from the high school, I first ask my high-schooler's permission to use her laptop. Then I usually have to ask her to log in for me, because I don't know the family password."
Teddy, Ms. Girton's fifth-grader, wants to know if he should pack his lunch or buy. It depends: Are they serving "breakfast for lunch" or veggie lasagna? The monthly menu used to hang on the refrigerator door. Now, it's all online.
"He's going to have to take his chances because I can't be checking it all the time," Ms. Girton says.
What concerns Ms. Girton and some parents is the sense that community bonds are weakened when the district gets wired up. "Sure it streamlines it, because you don't have to talk to somebody," Ms. Girton says. "But sometimes, isn't that part of it—talking to somebody?"
Typically, privacy concerns don't surface as a barrier to acceptance, providers say, possibly because people are now accustomed to having so much of their banking and medical business online. Security and student privacy are a priority, they say, and the systems are continually upgraded.
School districts credit these systems for huge savings in paper, mailing and office expenses. Teachers praise their ability to relay the same information to all parents at the same time.
"There are parents who are divorced or separated, you've got working parents, or you could have a parent stationed in Iraq. Now they all have access to the same information," says Edline's Mr. Ahuja. "It can make for a much more meaningful conversation with children about school."
"Being up on technology is not considered a luxury or an option anymore," says Kristin Hayman, a teacher at the Haverford School in Haverford, Pa. "It used to be just young teachers or the parents who were really advanced who used the systems."
For families that lack home Internet access, many districts and schools keep computer-lab hours in the evenings. And many providers offer mobile versions of their portals, so parents can access them using smartphones.
"It's about getting parents involved not just at the end of the quarter and at report card time," says Rob Wilson, president of Edupoint, whose biggest product is the Genesis system, which manages student-information systems for more than 200 school districts.


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Q: Java Calendar DAY_OF_WEEK SET to zero I have this very old code block from PROD (>7 years) to be debugged. There's one point I couldnt understand.
A section in the code does a calculation of next time a task will run and for tasks who need to run specifically on sunday, monday it uses Calendar.SUNDAY. But there's one statement whose behaviour I cannot interpret even after reading the docs multiple times
Calendar cal = Calendar.getInstance();
cal.set(Calendar.DAY_OF_WEEK, 0);
since the days are numbered from 1-7 (Calendar.SUNDAY to Calendar.SATURDAY) that can be interpreted, but how does zero work here and why there is no exception?

A:
why there is no exception?

It is because you haven't set the lenient mode to false and it is true by default.
Demo:
import java.util.Calendar;

public class Main {
    public static void main(String[] args) {
        Calendar cal = Calendar.getInstance();
        cal.setLenient(false);
        cal.set(Calendar.DAY_OF_WEEK, 0);
        System.out.println(cal.getTime());
    }
}

Output:
Exception in thread "main" java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: DAY_OF_WEEK

The documentation says:

Any out of range values are either normalized in lenient mode or
detected as an invalid value in non-lenient mode

As part of the normalization, the value are rolled over e.g. the following code sets the value equivalent to cal.set(Calendar.DAY_OF_WEEK, Calendar.SUNDAY - 1):
cal.set(Calendar.DAY_OF_WEEK, 0);

Similarly, the following code sets the value equivalent to cal.set(Calendar.DAY_OF_WEEK, Calendar.SUNDAY - 2):
cal.set(Calendar.DAY_OF_WEEK, -1);

A: By trying it out in a "test bench", I found this:
It looks the "calendar set" adjust value/integer when number 1-7 is "overflown".
I can see this pattern:
       Day Of Week:  1  2  3  4  5  6  7  | 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 | 1  2  3   4   5   6   7  | ...
 Value of calendar: -6 -5 -4 -3 -2 -1  0  | 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 | 8  9  10  11  12  13  14 | ...

Test bench:
public static void main(String[] args) {
    Calendar cal = Calendar.getInstance();
    cal.set(Calendar.DAY_OF_WEEK, -6);
    System.out.println("Calendar value -6 returns: " + cal.get(Calendar.DAY_OF_WEEK));

    cal.set(Calendar.DAY_OF_WEEK, 0);
    System.out.println("Calendar value 0 returns: " + cal.get(Calendar.DAY_OF_WEEK));

    cal.set(Calendar.DAY_OF_WEEK, 1);
    System.out.println("Calendar value 1 returns: " + cal.get(Calendar.DAY_OF_WEEK));

    cal.set(Calendar.DAY_OF_WEEK, 7);
    System.out.println("Calendar value 7 returns: " + cal.get(Calendar.DAY_OF_WEEK));

    cal.set(Calendar.DAY_OF_WEEK, 8);
    System.out.println("Calendar value 8 returns: " + cal.get(Calendar.DAY_OF_WEEK));

    cal.set(Calendar.DAY_OF_WEEK, 14);
    System.out.println("Calendar value 14 returns: " + cal.get(Calendar.DAY_OF_WEEK));
}

Output:
Calendar value -6 returns: 1
Calendar value 0 returns: 7
Calendar value 1 returns: 1
Calendar value 7 returns: 7
Calendar value 8 returns: 1
Calendar value 14 returns: 7

Output is according to "pattern".

A: java.time
I recommend that you use java.time, the modern Java date and time API, for your date and time work. For example:
    LocalDate ld = LocalDate.now(ZoneId.systemDefault())
                            .with(DayOfWeek.TUESDAY);
    System.out.println(ld);

When I ran this code today, Saturday, June 5, the output was:

2021-06-01

And yes, June 1 was Tuesday. Since we are passing an enum constant to with(), there is really no possibility of passing an out-of-range value. DayOfWeek is an enum holding 7 values for the 7 days of the week. Only trouble we can get ourselves into is by passing null, which will throw a NullPointerException, which I think you wanted.
If we do insist on passing the day of week as a number, that is possible, though. java.time numbers the days of the week from Monday = 1 through Sunday = 7.
    LocalDate ld = LocalDate.now(ZoneId.systemDefault())
                            .with(ChronoField.DAY_OF_WEEK, 2);

So far the output is 2021-06-01 as before. But what if we pass 0?
                            .with(ChronoField.DAY_OF_WEEK, 0);

Exception in thread "main" java.time.DateTimeException: Invalid value
for DayOfWeek (valid values 1 - 7): 0

Not only do we get the exception you asked for, we are also getting a clear and helpful exception message, IMHO.
How does day of week zero work here?
With Calendar day of week 0 works the same as 7 = Saturday. It seems that at least a lenient old-fashioned GregorianCalendar performs a kind of modulo 7 operation on the day of week to bring it inside the interval 1 through 7. I did not find this documented. GregorianCalendar is probably the concrete subclass of Calendar that you are dealing with. I tried with different numbers that are all equivalent to 7 modulo 7:
    int[] dows = { 0, 7, -7, 14, -14, -98 };
    for (int dow : dows) {
        Calendar cal = new GregorianCalendar(2021, Calendar.JUNE, 2);
        Date dateBefore = cal.getTime();
        cal.set(Calendar.DAY_OF_WEEK, dow);
        System.out.format("%s and day of week %3d yields %s%n", dateBefore, dow, cal.getTime());
    }

Output:

Wed Jun 02 00:00:00 CEST 2021 and day of week   0 yields Sat Jun 05 00:00:00 CEST 2021
Wed Jun 02 00:00:00 CEST 2021 and day of week   7 yields Sat Jun 05 00:00:00 CEST 2021
Wed Jun 02 00:00:00 CEST 2021 and day of week  -7 yields Sat Jun 05 00:00:00 CEST 2021
Wed Jun 02 00:00:00 CEST 2021 and day of week  14 yields Sat Jun 05 00:00:00 CEST 2021
Wed Jun 02 00:00:00 CEST 2021 and day of week -14 yields Sat Jun 05 00:00:00 CEST 2021
Wed Jun 02 00:00:00 CEST 2021 and day of week -98 yields Sat Jun 05 00:00:00 CEST 2021

Tutorial link
Oracle tutorial: Date Time explaining how to use java.time.


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We have concluded the summer virtual camps for 2020. The information below remains as a reference.
Camp 2021 information will be updated by March 2021.
We are offering a LIVE, half-day program with all materials included. Parents are given a hyperdoc schedule with Zoom links for all classes. Class supplies will be available for pick-up or delivery. Review details with Fee information. Reminder emails will be sent daily.
As we pivot to virtual camp, parents may be needed from time to time to assist their child and should always be in eye-shot and ear-shot of their child. Typically parent participation will be approximately 15-20 minutes before and after camp, but certain activities may require additional assistance from a parent or older sibling.
2020 Themes for Captivate Explorers Camp
June 15 – 19: Castles & Catapults
June 22 – 26: All Roads Lead to Rome!
June 29 – July 3: Explore Hawaii
July 6 – 10: Legends of the Sea
July 13 – 17: A Bug's Life!
Sample Daily Schedule
9:00 – 9:30: Circle Time & Fitness Fun
9:30 – 10:30 Art
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11:45 – 12:00: Story Time Link
Fees include Art supplies and craft materials, plus a CC Tote bag & Notebook
Kit includes: CC Art Kit, valued at up to $30 of materials to keep. Materials vary by week.
Captivate Explorers Camp is a half-day (9:00 am – 12:00 noon), virtual, integrated camp which shows how "Science, Art, and History Fit Together." We offer week-long camps during summer break for children ages 5-7. We believe that kids learn best through hands-on investigations and children will explore different cultures and time periods in our history. Our camp program fosters the development of the "whole child" and incorporates many team-building and spirit activities. Our teachers are experienced and credentialed.
We always maintain a maximum 1:12 staff-to-student ratio in our in-person camps to ensure that each child gets plenty of attention. For virtual camps, class size is capped to maintain an intimate camp feel. Our camp is kept intentionally small so that campers can build relationships with each other and the staff. We foster a learning environment filled with engaged students who are exploring, creating, laughing, playing, and moving.
Due to COVID-19, the full-day (9:00 am to 3:00 pm), in-person camps have pivoted to a half-day (9:00 am to 12:00 pm) virtual camp for 2020, and some of the lessons have been modified or changed based on material and time constraints. Despite that, we have maintained the integrity of our hands-on program and cover the same core concepts in our themes with some modifications from the original pre-COVID programming.
Castles and Catapults
Enter the world of the Middle Ages. Design a castle and its defenses. Use models of catapults and battering rams to bring down the castle walls. Train like a knight–shoot a model, crossbow, and fire a trebuchet. Explore daily life in the Middle Ages; serfs and merchants, knights and kings all played a role in this complex society. Examine the devastation caused by the Bubonic Plague and learn about medieval medical practices. Design a stained glass window, weave on a loom, draw a castle, and create your own coat of arms.
Imagine chariots racing through the center of Rome–the greatest city in the ancient world. Use blocks to build a massive model of a Roman city, including: roads, walls, aqueducts, sewers, baths, markets, temples, theaters, arenas, and a forum. Help build a working aqueduct that can even move water uphill. Learn why the arch was the "keystone" of Roman architecture and explore the marvels of the dome. Train like a Roman soldier and defend your legion from the enemy. Make concrete like the Romans. Create a relief sculpture and mosaics and learn how the volcano Mt. Vesuvius destroyed Pompeii but preserved a portion of the Roman Empire.
Explore Hawaii
Erupting volcanoes, brightly colored coral reef ecosystems, lush tropical rainforests and incredible sunsets. Hawaii is beautiful! Explore the geology, biodiversity and amazing Polynesian culture in this fascinating camp program. Students will learn about the gods and goddesses of Polynesia, including the legend of Pele, the "Fire Goddess". Dive into the culture and beauty of this tropical island and its beautiful people.
This camp is part science and part mythology. We will explore the ocean zones and the sea creatures that inhabit them. Learn about jellyfish and other pelagic creatures and create stunning art to represent them. Learn about Octopus and Squid and investigate the legend of the "Kraken" which was inspired by these organisms. Study the science of sharks and how they are commonly misrepresented at the "monsters of the sea." Learn about lampreys and eels and the the legend of the "sea serpent" that sailors so feared. Investigate the Greek/Roman god of Neptune/Poseiden and some fun stories about this deity. This camp is part science and part storytelling and will spark a passion for the sea.
A Bug's Life!
Some folks are afraid of bugs but they are nothing to fear. Insects play a vital role in ecosystems and food webs. Students will learn the anatomy of an insect and spider and how to differentiate between these arthropods. Through labs, stories, art projects and kinesthetic modeling, we will learn more about the life of ants, bees, monarch butterflies and spiders. After all, it is a "bug's life"!
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4-H, 4-H Livestock Program, Youth Livestock
Mr. Robert Nathan Gregory
JACKSON, Miss. -- Lily and Emma Grace Putnam raised their Mississippi-bred reserve champion lamb in their Sunflower County pasture, which they recently finished fencing in with the help of loans and grants.
"We have always had the land and have been pasturing it in piece by piece as we've been able to, but we needed to complete the fencing this year so we could finish breeding our ewes," said Lily Putnam, a Sunflower County 4-H'er based in Sunflower County. "The loan was helpful to me because we used it to buy equipment to get ready for lambing and start a breeding business."
This year marks her 10th and last time to compete at the Dixie National Junior Round-Up, as well as her second appearance at the Dixie National Junior Sale of Champions.
Putnam was one of 1,538 4-H and FFA members across Mississippi at the round-up to show 2,262 head of livestock including steers, hogs, goats and lambs. Forty-six champion market animals advanced to the sale through the round-up. This year's Sale of Champions generated a preliminary total of $448,500, breaking the previous record by more than $40,000. The sale included 46 champion market animals, including 15 hogs, 12 goats, 10 lambs and nine steers.
A freshman at Mississippi Delta Community College majoring in biology, Putnam plans to transfer to Mississippi State University in the future and major in animal and dairy sciences with a preveterinary concentration.
"I love to compete, and show day is one of my favorite days of the year, but the process leading up to it interests me because you have to work hard with your animal throughout the year if you want it to perform well at the show," she said. "I take pride in knowing my sister and I worked closely with our animals every step of the way."
MSU Extension 4-H livestock specialist Dean Jousan said the Putnams are an example of many exhibitors at the annual Dixie National Junior Round-Up who personify persistence and a strong work ethic.
"The organizations that offer youth loans and grants want to know what kinds of livestock projects the applicants are doing, how they propose to generate income and what expenses are expected," Jousan said. "The process of applying and the process of getting an animal in peak condition takes a lot of effort and responsibility and a willingness to do whatever it takes for 4-H'ers to make their projects successful."
The sale's committee raised $61,500 in support for 39 scholarships, including 25 $1,500 scholarships to exhibitors who are high school seniors, six $2,000 scholarships to premier exhibitors and eight $1,500 scholarships to exhibitors of supreme champion livestock.
As of the completion of its 53rd event, the sale has generated more than $8.5 million through livestock sales. Hosted at the Mississippi Trade Mart, the sale began in 1970 as an avenue to encourage young people to pursue livestock projects.
Released: February 11, 2022
Contacts: Dr. Dean Jousan
Teens learn leadership, explore careers in 4-H
Young 4-H'ers grow to reach world stage
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Conservation camps offer educational fun
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Publication Number: IS1653
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The Significance of Mississippi 4-H S.A.F.E.T.Y. Workshops for Volunteer Leaders and County Programs
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I knew that my father was different from other dads at an early age. For one thing, he did not work in an office, he went to his studio to paint, or to Loomis School to teach art, or to the New Britain Museum of American Art where he was the director. My mother was an artist, too, so I grew up in a very creative family. And my father was the only dad that I knew who played the guitar and sang songs in Hawaiian. The fact that I was part Hawaiian didn't really have much meaning for me, growing up in a very haole world in New England. What fascinated me most were stories my father told about HIS father – a famous cowboy from the Big Island known as "Rawhide Ben Low." How could I not be interested in a grandfather who was a cowboy? I loved dad's stories of Rawhide Ben growing up on the Parker Ranch, hunting wild cattle on the slopes of Mauna Kea, losing his arm in a roping accident, and founding Puuwaawaa Ranch. Still, I really did not know what "being Hawaiian" meant.


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Panther football gearing up for new season
Senior quarterback Mitch Kimble attempts a pass during the first half of the Panthers' 24-21 win over Illinois State Saturday, Sept. 17 at Hancock Field in Normal. The Panthers will lean on Kimble this year to guide the team after injuries limited his playing time in 2016. The QB completed 112-of-190 pass attempts for 1,414 yards and 13 TDs in only seven games last season.
Sean Hastings, Sports Editor
It goes without saying that last year's Eastern football team fell short of expectations, especially with the talent the team possessed, offensively and defensively. The Panthers just had too many bumps in the road to find a steady pace.
The finger could be pointed at having quarterback Mitch Kimble being plagued by the injury bug for much of the season, missing four games. The Panthers were 5-2 with him in the game but ended up finishing the season 6-5.
Kimble was a dual threat quarterback, with the ability to rush for yards and score. He also had a solid arm and racked up two 323 passing-yard games.
Kimble is back to play his redshirt senior season for the Panthers, but loses three of his top targets from last year, including running back Devin Church. Church led the team in receiving yards, while putting together a 1000-yard rushing season.
Receiver Paul Gossage transferred out of Eastern and receiver Shawn Mitchell graduated. Both receivers had over 200 receiving yards, even though they combined for only one touchdown.
Defensively, the Panthers will go into 2017 without its leading tackler from last season, linebacker Seth McDonald. But Eastern's defense will stay strong with the return of senior linebacker Nick Horne and senior safety Bradley Dewberry.
Eastern's defense was fourth in points allowed in 2016 with 310, averaging 28.2 per game. There were times where the defense shined, but could not get over some humps that came about during the season.
Eastern was not a contender in the OVC last seson and missed the FCS Playoffs as well.
It was not the season that the Panthers should have had, but this year's returners bring promising talent to the field.
The Panthers will square off with in-state rival Illinois State Sept. 16, looking to hold onto the Mid-America Classic Trophy that they won last season at Illinois State.
Eastern opens with back-to-back road games to start the season.
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Cushing steps down as football coach
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LIVE in Cambridge
Date: March 17th, 2020
Location: Cambridge, UK
Venue: The Portland Arms
Cherry Suede returns for a special intimate show on Tues March 17th at The Portland Arms in Cambridge, UK.
Join us for this intimate and interactive night of songs and stories from Randy Scott and Randy Young of Cherry Suede where they'll focus on music from their past, present and future.
One of the most fun bands to see live...
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About CHERRY★Suede
The true spirit of Rock n' Roll is alive and well in independent artists who put faith and heart into their art and no one better exemplifies this spirit than Cherry Suede.
Founding members Randy Scott (lead vocals/guitar) and Randy Young (lead guitar/vocals)—with a potent mix of passion, talent, and skill—have proved to the music industry, and more importantly to their fans, through tireless touring and successful recording that independent artists have a voice, a loud one.
Having played nearly 3000 gigs on three continents (North America, Europe, Africa) to sold out audiences and major festival crowds, a large part of Cherry Suede's success is due to the fact that they offer a musical honesty that is missing from many of today's stages and radio stations.


It's not about the finish. It's about the journey. Pull on these compression pants for muscle support while you attack weight work or cardio efforts. Mesh vents in key areas release heat build-up. Plus the evolved seam design cuts out chafing.


I enjoyed the subs during the Halloween event, I played them a lot. It was a nice break from playing the boats. I don't know how feasible it would be trying to fit them into the game as it is now. I wouldn't mind seeing some sort of scenario type of gameplay, much like it was during Halloween but permanent. Maybe introduce some DD's with depth charges to counter them or add depth charges to some existing DD's.
Here's the Blyskawica Szarza camo. Only 20 daily missions and it's yours!
. . . I make screenshots of all my ships and use them as wallpaper. I process them through Adobe Lightroom and I did the same thing with these. Here are the before and after screenshots. The first one is of course the before shot.
I thought the same thing so I looked it up, this is the WIchita flag. It was officially adopted on Flag Day, June 14, 1937. The flag of New Mexico was officially introduced in 1925. It looks as if the Wichita flag may have been "inspired" by the New Mexico flag.
I agree, although the critics are split on it a large percentage of the audience likes it. Initial reports said that it was a flop and was losing money but the last report that I read (I can't remember where) said that it is doing better than originally reported. I hope it does well enough for the studio to make part 2!
After pressing PrtScrn you will find the JPG file in a sub-folder named screenshot located in the main World_of_Warships folder.
My match is the Tirpitz!
I play Co-Op, there are no CV's in Co-Op so how am I supposed to figure out how the AA is working so that I can redistribute commander points or change modules?
I received all of the rare ships but this is the one that I wanted the most.


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I pride myself on a commitment to customer-centric service, emphasizing one-on-one personal relationships and working patiently with my clients to boost their confidence levels during the more challenging parts of a transaction. My market place insight, vast network of contacts and negotiating tactics truly shine during time-sensitive deals. At the end of the day my business model is designed to create long-term relationships with my clients so that I can help them buy their first home, be there to assist them when it's time to move up or retire, and even work with the next generation of the same family when the time comes.
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Remember back in the day when leetforum was called TFz, was blue, and had a quotes box at the top that displayed a user-submitted quote at random?
Any chance it could come back? I've got some decent quotes for it . . .
Time to re-incorporate it wouldn't be worth the feature. CTEN has some new sites coming that will make some people happy. I don't think there's any one service that everybody wants though so it's hard to please everybody.
There is one site thats coming that should please quite a few CTENers though.
How are all the sites we have now doing?
GamersGallery and Games4Work are doing really great. GamersEmail is continuing to grow and has about 650 or so people using it. ClipUpload could do better, but gets people online and viewing the funny videos, but the site still needs to be promoted more as video dump site. The newly launched ArcadeUpload is doing alright, but it's going to need more pimping, but I'm also going to grow it and make it large like I started doing with ClipUpload. Once ArcadeUpload has a good 1 or 2000 games and people are going to play them quite a bit, I think people will start to get the drift of adding games and getting their sponsor links seen. LeetForum has been getting some new activity since Stinki and Nad came aboard and more so since they launched their TAC comic.
Ureviews and GameIndustryJobs are still doing poor. I'm continuing to learn more about stats of what CTENers like and don't like and those two sites are our real hard points. The time it would take to try and overhaul them isn't worth the chance that it might make the sites popular. They may be upgraded for other reasons, but for the most part, we can spend our money, resources, and time on other upcoming projects that will be more interesting and in the end make us more money to keep alive and launch more services.
Overall we're improving. We are making a good deal more than we were a year ago and are learning more about the people that visit our sites and how best to make money. Some new side projects that aren't as service related as some recent CTEN sites are coming to, simply to expand into certain areas to help the community and hopefully start growing in that area as well.
It's a shame about ureviews . . . I'm sure there're loadsa people out there who would love it, but just don't know about it . . .


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In Venezuela, si è formato un culto della personalità intorno all'ex presidente Hugo Chávez: il leader venezuelano riceveva il supporto della popolazione attraverso il suo carisma e utilizzando i fondi del petrolio per i più poveri.

Sin dalla sua morte, i seguaci noti come "Chavistas" sostengono che in realtà sia avvenuta una "transizione verso l'immortalità" e si riferiscono a Chávez come il "comandante eterno". Ovviamente questo culto è a livello ideologico, per proseguire ciò che Chavez ha iniziato: un Venezuela e Latino América libero dalle ingiustizie, disuguaglianze e povertà. Tra i suoi sostenitori, Chávez è stato paragonato a figure sante, in particolare dal successore Nicolás Maduro.

Contesto

Secondo Tomas Straka della Universidad Andrés Bello, il culto della personalità di Chávez iniziò in seguito al tentato colpo di stato del 1992 guidato da Chávez, quando alcuni venezuelani "non riuscirono a vedere nessuna soluzione ai propri problemi fondamentali e cominciarono a vedere in Chávez un salvatore, o un vendicatore di quei gruppi che non avevano speranza". Sin dall'inizio del regime di Chávez nel 1999, il governo venezuelano manipolò il popolo con programmi sociali che lo ritraevano come un grande leader. Le difficoltà che attraversò Chávez durante la sua presidenza, come il tentato colpo di stato del 2002, fece provare compassione tra i suoi seguaci ed incrementò il suo sostegno.

Alla morte di Chávez, le speculazioni riguardo alle possibili reazioni dei chavisti furono confrontate al dolore di coloro che in Corea del Nord rimasero a lutto per la morte di Kim Jong-il, e uno studente latinoamericano della Università della California, Santa Barbara, Juan Pablo Lupi, affermò che la creazione del culto della personalità di Chávez era "molto avanzata, tutto questo processo di mistificazione e di appellazione alle emozioni e al sentimento religioso del popolo. Ciò è un qualcosa che è quasi religioso". La spiegazione di Lupi era simile a quella di Juan Carlos Bertorelli, direttore creativo di una compagnia pubblicitaria di Caracas e Larry Birns, direttore del Council on Hemispheric Affairs. Carlos Bertorelli affermò che il governo bolivariano creò un culto della personalità intorno a Chávez per "mantenere una presenza che lo legittimi" mentre Birns sostenne che "Per molti all'interno del movimento, Chávez, o il movimento dei Chavistas nei confronti di un'istanza religiosa, è più una questione di fede piuttosto che di strategia".

Immagine religiosa

Secondo Associated Press, "il lascito di Chávez ha assunto un bagliore religioso in Venezuela" e che "sono diventati molto diffusi rosari adornati con il volto di Chávez, santuari e immagini che lo ritraggono con una croce cristiana". Nel 2014, coloro che furono coinvolti nell'istruzione e nell'opposizione al governo accusarono il nuovo programma educativo venezuelano di rendere Chávez "messianico", come il "liberatore del Venezuela" e come "un nuovo Dio". Mentre affermava che l'opposizione stava festeggiando per la siccità che il Paese stava attraversando agli inizi del 2014, il presidente Maduro disse che la stagione delle piogge era arrivata grazie a "Chávez e Dio" che soffiarono insieme le nuvole.

Controversia della preghiera "Nostro Chávez"
Ad un convegno del PSUV tenuto il 1º settembre 2014, i partecipanti recitarono una versione modificata del Padre Nostro, intitolata "L'orazione del delegato" (Oración del Delegado).

Tale versione fu presentata da María Uribe, un delegato del Comitato sulla comunicazione e propaganda del PSUV-Táchira, che recitò le seguenti parole:

La CNN riportò che la comunità cristiana in Venezuela si sentì offesa, affermando che "le parole di una preghiera trovate nei libri di Matteo e Luca nella Bibbia non devono essere cambiati per fare propaganda politica o per qualsiasi altro scopo". Un'altra reazione interna arrivò dal quotidiano venezuelano di estrema destra La Verdad, che paragonò l'atto a qualcosa "proveniente dalla mente di Joseph Goebbels, il padre della Propaganda nella Germania nazista". La Chiesa cattolica del Venezuela criticò la versione alterata tramite un comunicato firmato dalle figure più importanti dell'organizzazione, dove si affermò che il Padre nostro è "intoccabile" e che chiunque recita la versione modificata compie il peccato di idolatria. Baltazar Porras, arcivescovo di Mérida, disse che tale atto non rappresentò "nulla di nuovo" negli anni successivi alla rivoluzione bolivariana e che il governo venezuelano voleva "avvitare i principi e i valori che la rivoluzione vuole imporre, una specie di religione secolare".

Maria Uribe, la prima a recitare la controversa "preghiera", rispose alle critiche affermando che la "preghiera dei delegati" era stata creata per riflettere su "cosa significasse essere come Chávez", da lei descritto come "un esempio di solidarietà, amore, umanità e onestà". Il presidente Maduro respinse la risposa della Chiesa cattolica sostenendo che essa stava cercando di implementare una "nuova inquisizione", ed incoraggiò i cittadini a recitare quello che chiamò una "poesia" per seguire i "valori di Chávez". Anche il presidente dell'Assemblea nazionale Diosdado Cabello criticò la Chiesa cattolica affermando che essa dovrebbe preoccuparsi di questioni più importanti.

Il direttore del dipartimento per l'America latina di Deutsche Welle, Uta Thofern, rispose all'azione dicendo che "il movimento bolivariano pare abbia smesso di essere un movimento politico per diventare un culto fanatico" ed essendo tedesca, temeva che i leader bolivariani "usassero con cognizione di causa i simboli e gli strumenti religiosi, abusando dei bisogni spirituali delle persone" con metodi che furono visti sotto la "dittatura tedesca". Ennio Cardozo, uno scienziato politico all'Univeristà centrale del Venezuela, afferma che un tale atto come il "Nostro Chávez" rappresenta "lo sforzo del governo venezuelano per sostenere la sua legittimità".

Analisi

Lo studente di letteratura latinoamericana alla UCSB, Juan Lupi, vide dei parallelismi tra la venerazione di Chávez e quella di Evita Peron in Argentina. In un articolo scritto dallo Spiegel Online riguardo al funerale di Chávez, si afferma che "La sua ultima processione è anche una maratona televisiva, presentata con il tono di un sermone, durante la quale Chávez, il combattente per la libertà Simón Bolívar e Gesù Cristo si uniscono in una sola persona."

Secondo un rapporto del 2014 intitolato Faces and Traces of a Leader. Hugo Chavez: Memory of a People e realizzato dal Centro nazionale per la storia del governo venezuelano, l'opera di propaganda degli occhi di Chávez dovrebbe rappresentare uno "sguardo vigile e protettivo" e far provare quel sentimento di trasparenza o fiducia. È stato notato che da quando Chávez non c'è più fisicamente, per i sostenitori del governo bolivariano i suoi occhi rappresentano un Chávez "onnipresente" che ricorda agli elettori il loro "impegno ideologico". Alcune persone che hanno lavorato al rapporto affermano che tale rappresentazione instilla una presenza di Chávez, una sensazione paragonata alla figura orwelliana del Grande Fratello.

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Voci correlate
 Chavismo
 Bolivarismo
 Culto della personalità

Chavez
Cultura del Venezuela

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Q: Database cleaner strategy in Rspec Is it possible to check what the database cleaner strategy is at any point in the test cases?
How will I come to know which type of strategy is used in the test cases?
config.before(:example) do
  DatabaseCleaner.strategy = :transaction
end

config.before(:example, type: :feature, js: true) do
  DatabaseCleaner.strategy = :truncation
end

require 'rails_helper'
RSpec.feature 'Login Feature', type: :feature do
  it 'invalid user login fail' do
    a = create(:normal_user, role: AdminType::OWNER)
    visit('/')
  end
end

Here, I have mentioned type as a feature in the top most describe block (Example Group), not in the example. But I have configured my database cleaner to use truncation strategy on feature type example for others using transaction strategy.
Which type of strategy will the database cleaner use, truncation or transaction?
If it uses truncation strategy, then I think that all examples under type: feature will be considered type: feature examples. Am I right?
How will I check what the current strategy is (for example, by seeing the test log)?

A: Yes - any test inside the RSpec.feature block will have tpye: :feature metadata unless it overrides by specifying another type.  System specs and feature specs are basically the same thing, just Rails added an extra layer of abstraction on system tests (driven_by, etc)
In Rails 5.1+ for feature or system tests, even if using RSpecs system tests rather than the Rails minitest based system tests, DatabaseCleaner is generally not needed. This is because Rails 5.1 added automatic sharing of the database connection between all threads in the test process while in the test environment. If you were needing a separate process to access the database during tests then you would still need DatabaseCleaner, but that's not common especially with beginning projects.


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15 September 2017 James Butler
1961: Director James Butler on the hell that is studio visits by the public
Television is accepted by most people as part of their everyday life. They can be entertained, informed or infuriated by it without wanting to know more about it than how to operate the on/off knob of their set.
From 'Fusion' 19, Associated-Rediffusion's house magazine, published June 1961
However, the day comes when they have been more entertained or more infuriated than usual and an idea grows that it would be interesting to see 'how it works', or 'how human are the people in television' or 'whether they are all morons'. Then a letter is written by a club secretary, or a father pestered by a son telephones, and another group of people go down on the evergrowing waiting list for visits to Wembley.
The idea of such visits is not to preach to the converted but to inform those that are uninformed, to answer the criticisms of the critical and to allay the fears of the fearful. An explanation of how everyone and everything joins together to overcome the problems surrounding the recording or transmission of a programme, calms even the most heated.
About 50 requests a week reach me from a cross-section of our own and the BBC's audiences. As only about six visits are made each week hard pruning is necessary. It is then that one begins to see the groups of people who are interested and why they want to come.
It is easy enough to cut out those who are obviously out for an evening's jollification, drink and anything else that amounts to a night in London, taking in the Victoria Palace, Buckingham Palace and the Strand Palace. Studio 5 is palatial in size, but the work behind the scenes is altogether too serious. An offer of tickets for a show is all that is necessary here and about 50 per cent can be given these.
It is the other 50 per cent who are more difficult to sort out. They range from groups of solicitors, through Polytechnic, engineering societies, political study groups, overseas visitors, young wives' clubs, to school children with all their mothers, fathers, pastors and masters.
No one group of people reacts in the same way to what they see and hear. The most critical and questioning are the professional groups. They are also the most uninformed. Many of them freely admit to having either no set or to only watching BBC programmes. Their complaints are based on what their patients or colleagues have talked about on the golf course. They talk only of quizzes and the excess of advertising and are therefore a little hurt to discover that quizzes are minimal, that it is us, not the BBC who produce 'This Week' and that advertisements are subject to control.
Because of their reaction and change of outlook, they are the most rewarding, and although many come to sneer, very few leave with their noses in the air. The guilds and study groups think they know everything but after a few minutes it becomes very obvious that they, too, are woefully ignorant. They need much convincing before they will accept a point of view and there is always somebody in their parties who tries to slip in an answer to a question, almost before it has been asked.
Children are open-mouthed and open-minded. They ask innumerable questions, but in the end admit that they have come in the hope that they will meet some star or other.
Occasionally one loses all faith in human nature. This happens with those who are able to do nothing except giggle or blink at the lights and exclaim, 'It's too hot'. They always drift along at the back aimlessly swishing at metaphorical daisies like Mr Stillbrook in 'The Diary of a Nobody'. Invariably they belong to clubs affiliated to either Her Majesty's Government or Her Majesty's Opposition.
The tour of Wembley runs on roughly the same pattern. Studio 5 is looked at in its entirety. Its vastness impresses everyone. The scoffer, the informed, the gigglers are mercifully silent for a short time. All are surprised that we should have taken the trouble to build a large new studio when we are 'commercial television'. It is from now on that one begins to see a change of mind. Eyes light up and different people look at each other as if to say: 'They do take trouble after all'.
Vision Control ('worse than flying an aeroplane' said a lady the other night who had never flown one, but had a vivid imagination), sound ('Oh! It's here they drown the singer with the orchestra'), lighting ('Where's Harold Smart?') bemuse people, but make them realise that there is co-ordination behind every programme.
Old ladies, young technicians become filled with unholy fire so that questions rush out like those from satisfied, and dissatisfied, shareholders at an annual general meeting.
Now is the time to get everyone into a viewing room, give them a drink, watch a rehearsal or transmission and answer as many questions as possible.
These run to no fixed pattern. Every side of television is covered as well as a good deal of general knowledge.
'Does Eric Lander like mauve ties?' This was from a middle-aged lady 'passionately interested in clothes'. A straightforward statement of fact from a 16-year-old girl was, 'Jango's better than Elvis'.
Advertisements, colour and violence raise many questions, I presume because these are the problems about which the Press exercises itself so often.
People by now are less hostile and although they still naturally do not agree with everything we do they are open to reason. The power of Wembley is working. Then to end a visit and crystalize their ideas they go to see the old studios and the service areas around them. 'In Studio 5', their minds seem to work, 'everything looked reasonably easy. In Studio 1 all is obviously difficult, yet the results are comparable. The ever mysterious THEY are human after all.
Another visit comes to an end. In the two hours or so we have been open to the public, no half-crowns have been taken but the impressions made are better than any gained in a stately home. We are progressing all the time, not standing still in the past.
James Butler was a director at Rediffusion. He was one of the main directors on 'This Week'.
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MSU basketball signees Loyer, Kithier building chemistry at Clarkston
Clarkston High School basketball standouts Foster Loyer and Thomas Kithier both signed national letters of intent Wednesday to play at Michigan State.
MSU basketball signees Loyer, Kithier building chemistry at Clarkston Clarkston High School basketball standouts Foster Loyer and Thomas Kithier both signed national letters of intent Wednesday to play at Michigan State. Check out this story on Freep.com: http://on.freep.com/2Aokrxc
Keith Dunlap, Special to the Detroit Free Press Published 8:00 a.m. ET Nov. 9, 2017
Clarkston junior guard and MSU commit Foster Loyer discusses his team's 75-69 win over Grand Rapids Christian in the Class A final on Saturday, March 25, 2017 at the Breslin Center. Video by Chris Nelsen, Special to the DFP.
Clarkston's Foster Loyer (1) plays against Hazel Park on Thursday, Jan. 12, 2017, at Clarkston.(Photo: Elaine Cromie, Detroit Free Press)Buy Photo
Foster Loyer and Thomas Kithier are making up for lost time.
The Clarkston High School basketball standouts didn't become teammates until playing on the AAU circuit over the summer, but they've already started developing chemistry in advance of their college careers at Michigan State.
Loyer, a point guard, and Kithier, a forward, signed with the Spartans on Wednesday, the first day high school basketball players in the 2018 class were allowed to sign binding National Letters of Intent.
"We run a lot of pick and roll together," the 6-foot-1 Loyer said. "He can either roll or pop. He has a nice outside jump shot. Just kind of feeding off each other. The more we played together, the more we learned each other's tendencies.
"We just want to build off this summer and how well we did play together and continue to master that."
Foster led Clarkston to its first Class A basketball state championship last season, averaging 25.4 points, six assists, four rebounds and three steals per game. He united with Kithier over the summer, playing together on the AAU basketball circuit. Kithier then transferred to Clarkston from Macomb Dakota before the school year began, though his immediately eligibility remains in question.
Macomb Dakota's Thomas Kithier, right, scores against U-D Jesuit's Gregory Eboigbodin during an MHSAA boys basketball Class A semifinal Friday, March 25, 2016, in East Lansing. U-D won, 72-51. (Photo: Kimberly P. Mitchell DFP)
"Just being on the same level and understand how we think on the court," the 6-foot-9 Kithier said of how he and Loyer have jelled in recent months. "Knowing if I'm going to roll or if I'm going to pick, what is Foster going to do? What kind of pass will he throw me? I think Foster and I have adjusted well together playing AAU over the summer."
Loyer said there was no drama at the end of his recruitment.
"MSU was where I wanted to go," Loyer said, "and today was one of those days that puts in place that everything you have worked for has paid off."
Also a part of the ceremony was 6-foot-9 forward/center Taylor Currie, who signed with Wisconsin after decommitting from Michigan in September.
Grand Rapids Christian's Xavier Tillman shoots over Clarkston's Taylor Currie during the Class A boys high school basketball championship at the Breslin Center on Saturday, March 25, 2017. (Photo: Joel Bissell, AP)
Currie's signing comes after he reclassified from the 2019 class, meaning he's scheduled to graduate high school a year early.
"I wouldn't say it was unsettling," Currie said. "I knew eventually I would find where it was right for me and what the best fit was."
Currie has a good shooting touch from the outside, which is another element about Wisconsin that appealed to him.
"We went and watched practice and their bigs do everything in practice," Currie said. "I feel like as a player, I have been able to diversify my game and allow myself to do everything. Hopefully that will continue to improve because that is what their players do."
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