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Administration submits follow-up report after 2017 Middle States accreditation
Rachel Looker, Editor-in-Chief
Marywood administrators submitted a follow-up report today required by the Middle States Commission on Higher Education.
The university met all 14 standards for accreditation and was approved by the Middle States Commission last year to remain an accredited university for the next eight years. The commission required Marywood to submit a follow-up report due on Dec. 1, 2017.
According to Middle States' guidelines on follow-up reports and visits, "the Commission may request follow-up as part of its action to ensure continued compliance with accreditation standards and requirements of affiliation or to provide more information to keep the Commission informed of institutional progress."
There are four different types of follow-up reports a university may be asked to complete upon accreditation. Vice President for Planning and Institutional Effectiveness Kathleen Ruthkosky said Marywood is completing the Middle States monitoring report.
Middle States may request a monitoring report if an organization has concerns about "ongoing compliance with one or more of the requirements of affiliation or standards for accreditation," according to its website.
Ruthkosky said there are four main areas included in Marywood's follow-up report. These areas include strategic planning, budgeting, institutional assessment and enrollment management.
She added that Middle States visited Marywood in November 2016, soon after Marywood President Sr. Mary Persico IHM, Ed. D, stepped into the role as president. It was also around the time the university was completing the Strategic Resource Allocation (SRA) process, which analyzed the amount of resources Marywood allocates to programs. Additionally, Marywood had just filled the administrative positions of provost and vice president of business affairs.
Ruthkosky described how Marywood was "at a new place" when the team visited last year.
"I think it's that we had so many things happening at that same time that they [the Middle States Commission] wanted to ensure we're continuing to make progress as we move forward because there were a lot of changes in the last year," said Ruthkosky.
Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences and previous co-chair of the Middle States self-study Dr. Frances Zauhar said the Middle States visit "came at the end of a couple of very difficult years at Marywood."
Ruthkosky said information in the report includes a copy of Marywood's operational plan, a four-year strategic plan for enrollment management, progress made on core curriculum revisions and a projected budget for the next three years. Zauhar added that the commission wanted to see Marywood had a financial plan, an operative plan and strategic plan that connected together.
After completing the self-study for Middle States last year, Zauhar said the report revealed areas where Marywood could improve.
"We needed to look at our financial affairs differently. We needed to look at long-range planning differently. We needed to continue to pay attention," said Zauhar.
She said when Middle States affirmed Marywood's accreditation, the commission said " we affirm it without conditions, but we want a follow-up report that tells us what [Marywood] has been doing."
Ruthkosky said monitoring reports are a way for the Middle States Commission to make sure the university is making progress on initiatives seen during their visit. She said the report will show the commission improvements made to the things that were in stages when they visited.
With all Middle States accreditations, institutions are required to submit a midterm review halfway between their accreditation period, Ruthkosky said. This means Marywood will be required to submit a review in four years, halfway between the eight-year accreditation.
However, she said the commission may ask Marywood for another progress report before that.
"When they accept our monitoring report, they can ask for another progress report in a year or they can wait for our four-year report," she said.
Ruthkosky said she believes Marywood has improved in the four areas of the report.
"I think the monitoring report shows that Marywood has made good progress over this past year," she said.
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Access to AP courses has increased significantly for rural students. In 2001, only 56% of rural high school seniors had access to at least one AP course; by 2015, this percentage had increased to 73% of high school seniors.
While access to AP courses improved for rural students (73%), it still lagged that of urban (92%) and suburban (95%) students in 2015.
Of the rural high school seniors who had access to at least one AP course in 2015, only 31% took an AP exam. This compares with 40% of urban and 39% of suburban high school seniors.
The report does not provide a detailed analysis of the reasons behind rural students' outcomes beyond explaining that rural schools have difficulty hiring and retaining high-quality teachers and often lack sufficient technology infrastructure.
For rural districts with sufficient infrastructure, distance learning programs and self-paced courses can facilitate access to diverse AP course offerings in the absence qualified teachers. College Board-approved distance learning programs, such as the Apex Learning Virtual School and The Virtual High School, enable students to participate in a range of AP courses that are taught online by experienced AP teachers. Self-paced courses that provide AP instruction using an online curriculum are another option for rural districts. While most self-paced courses require some support from a classroom teacher, they can help inexperienced teachers by offering valuable background information as well as prepared lessons and assessments.
Regardless of experience, teachers are more likely to be effective if they have access to instructional materials that are closely aligned to the AP course frameworks and include supports, such as teaching guides, detailed lesson plans, and online professional development.
A key strategy that all districts, including rural districts, can use to help improve AP outcomes is to use instructional materials that are aligned to the College Board's course frameworks.
For each AP course, the College Board publishes a course framework that specifies the knowledge and skills that the course should cover and that will be assessed on the course's AP exam. While there is variation across courses, the frameworks contain content standards which are generally organized in terms of big ideas or themes that are then broken into learning objectives and essential knowledge statements. In addition to content standards, each framework includes a set of skills or practices that students are required to learn.
In partnership with the College Board, Learning List has reviewed AP instructional materials for alignment to the content standards as well as to the skills or practices contained in the course framework for each of the courses listed in Table 1.
The College Board used Learning List's reviews to select the materials for the 2016 and 2017 Example Textbook List for each of the courses listed in Table 1. Educators can use Learning List's reviews to distinguish among the materials on the Example Textbook Lists, and identify the instructional materials that are aligned to course frameworks, meet their teachers' instructional needs, and fit with the district's existing technology infrastructure best. Tools on Learninglist.com allow educators to compare the key attributes and standard-by-standard alignments of multiple materials for the same AP course.
In addition to lacking qualified AP teachers, many rural districts lack administrative resources, such as curriculum staff and AP coordinators, that support AP teachers in delivering high-quality instruction. In large suburban and urban districts, trained curriculum staff, AP coordinators, and experienced AP teachers are often available to fully vet the instructional materials for AP programs and support teachers in using the selected materials. Learning List's reviews of AP materials can help level the playing field for rural districts that lack such administrative support. Learning List's alignment reports identify the specific citations (i.e., pages, lessons, videos) in each material that are fully aligned to each standard. Like a GPS through the material, the alignment reports guide teachers to the parts of their materials that teach all of the knowledge and skills the course framework holds students accountable for learning.
AP materials also tend to be quite expensive, and smaller, rural districts often do not get the volume discounts offered to larger suburban and urban districts. So, mistakes in selecting materials may be particularly costly. In addition to reviewing publisher-produced AP materials, Learning List has reviewed some AP open-educational resources (OERs) that are available at no cost to districts. OERs may help districts seeking to introduce or expand AP offerings without incurring expenses for instructional materials.
While the gap has narrowed over time, the August 2017 report shows that significantly fewer students in rural districts have access to AP courses, take AP exams, and score as high on those exams as their urban and suburban peers. Recognizing those trends, College Board partnered with Learning List to provide the AP community with independent reviews of AP materials. Learning List's reviews have informed the College Board's selection of materials for inclusion on the 2016 and 2017 AP Example Textbook Lists. Similarly, the reviews can inform districts' selection of AP materials. Moreover, Learning List's reviews help teachers use AP instructional materials most effectively to ensure that students are learning the standards and skills that will be tested on the AP exam.


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Report from the Wharton Global Forum: Beijing Edition
By Executive Director Saikat Chaudhuri
In today's global economy, Asia's current role as a major growth driver is poised to keep increasing into the future. Countries such as China, South Korea, India, and Japan are emerging as the latest hotbeds of innovation. For companies and institutions wishing to perform on the world stage, engagement with this region is key.
I recently returned from the Wharton Global Forum in Beijing, one of the largest in the School's history with over 600 attendees. This yearly event started as an alumni get-together but has grown into a summit involving a wide array of senior executives and government leaders who discuss business and policy matters of regional importance. With a healthy mix of networking opportunities and content sessions focusing on Asia and specifically China, the Beijing event was needless to say an inspiring potpourri of ideas and influence fueled by its dynamic setting.
The Mack Institute's presence in this particular Forum was especially appropriate, given the theme of "Growth through Innovation," and as such, we led or contributed to multiple sessions. Co-director Harbir Singh participated in a panel discussion based on his research on distinctive Chinese leadership practices. He observed that Chinese business leaders, in absence of clear ideology in society, create theories of management and human behavior, based on which they implement practices and policies across firms. As a result, there is a strong cohesion in their approaches.
My own master class focused on the changing nature of outsourcing innovation: As corporations evolve into globally distributed virtual organizations in order to tap into worldwide markets and resources, outsourcing is shifting from the peripheral to core activities of the firm. Outsourcing relationships are increasingly becoming partnerships rather than just transactional exchanges, and as a result, outsourcing is increasingly viewed as a key corporate growth and development strategy.
I also moderated a panel discussion on leveraging emerging markets for global innovation, based on my own work. Developing markets are increasingly a source for not just innovative products and services, but also new processes and business models. These innovations initially take shape to satisfy local needs, but subsequently spread to other countries. Leading firms can make the most of this shift by cultivating a global R&D network capable of tapping into local conditions the world over, allowing the firm to optimally innovate a particular product/ service for rollout locally but export elsewhere thereafter. It's an undoubtedly challenging endeavor, but should be viewed as a long term investment.
Of further note was a captivating talk by the chairman and CEO of Haier, the Mack Institute's latest corporate partner, who outlined how his company's management practices challenge typical practices of the West. For example, the company follows a "platform" approach, by which it is subdivided into small self-organizing units. Additionally, Haier embraces a philosophy of extreme customer centricity: employees working closest to the customer are held in high regard, as they are viewed as conduits of information for product development.
Finally, the Forum included a lively panel discussion on the rise and impact of MOOCs in higher education, a topic which was the subject of a recent workshop hosted by the Mack Institute. Massive open online courses are extending unprecedented global access to people who wouldn't normally be able to partake in higher education, expanding the university's role in society. Though MOOCs attract recurrent scrutiny about the value of a degree when information is freely available online, their track record for diversity and demonstrated ability to attract in-person students offers compelling arguments in their favor.
This is of course just a sampling of the three-day program, and I hope some of you can join us at one of the upcoming Global Forums, as the Mack Institute continues to expand its global presence!
June 26, 2014 | Mack Institute News	Harbir Singh, MOOCs, Saikat Chaudhuri, Wharton Global Forum

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La rue Notre-Dame est une voie de Montréal.

Situation et accès
Cette rue qui traverse une grande partie de l'île de Montréal, sur son flanc sud-est, longe (sauf au centre) le fleuve Saint-Laurent jusqu'à l'extrémité est de l'île de Montréal. D'une longueur de 35 km, la rue Notre-Dame est la deuxième plus grande artère de la ville de Montréal (après le boulevard Gouin).

À la faveur des annexions, la rue Notre-Dame traverse presque toute l'île, de la Pointe-aux-Trembles, où elle reprend le tracé du second chemin du Roy ouvert en 1841, jusqu'à l'arrondissement de Lachine. À l'est de l'île de Montréal, la rue Notre-Dame rejoint entre autres; le boulevard Gouin, la rue Sherbrooke, la rue Sainte-Catherine ainsi que le pont Le Gardeur. D'ailleurs, de l'autre côté de ce pont, elle est également nommée Rue Notre-Dame à Repentigny ainsi que dans la majorité des autres municipalités vers l'est jusqu'à Québec. Dans l'ouest, un autre tronçon existe au cœur de l'arrondissement Lachine et ce dans le même axe que le tronçon précédent. Celui-ci débute à l'intersection de la  pour se terminer à l'angle de la  dans l'axe de la rue du Fort-Rolland. Ce tronçon est en fait la rue principale du centre-ville de l'arrondissement Lachine.

Quartiers et villes traversés

D'est en ouest:
 Pointe-aux-Trembles
 Montréal-Est
 Tétreaultville
 Longue-Pointe
 Hochelaga-Maisonneuve
 Centre-sud
 Vieux-Montréal
 Griffintown
 Petite-Bourgogne
 Saint-Henri
 Montréal-Ouest
 Lachine

Intersections notables
D'est en ouest :
 Boulevard Pie-IX
 Rue Saint-Denis (son nom change en rue Bonsecours)
 Boulevard Saint-Laurent
 Rue Peel

Origine du nom

Historique

Au début des années 1670, le Séminaire de Saint-Sulpice, souhaite ériger une église paroissiale. Par la même occasion, ils redessinent la trame urbaine afin de faciliter l'accès à l'église située au cœur de la nouvelle grille et de régulariser le développement de la ville selon un plan orthogonal.

En , François Dollier de Casson, supérieur du Séminaire, accompagné de l'arpenteur et greffier Bénigne Basset, définit les nouvelles rues, leur donne des noms et appose des bornes. La rue Notre-Dame est la première rue tracée par Dollier de Casson. Elle suit l'ancien chemin du coteau Saint-Louis vers l'est de la ville et devient l'un des trois grands axes qui traversent la ville d'est en ouest. Étant la principale artère de Ville-Marie, il lui donne le nom de Notre-Dame en l'honneur de la Sainte Vierge, patronne de la paroisse.

En 1737, le Chemin du Roy reliant Montréal à Québec est inauguré. À Montréal, le Chemin du Roy débute sur la rue-Notre-Dame dans ce que l'on appelle aujourd'hui le Vieux-Montréal.

À l'origine, large de 30 pieds français (9,7m.), la rue Notre-Dame allait de l'actuelle rue de Bonsecours jusqu'au delà de la rue McGill. Au moment de la démolition des fortifications de Montréal (1804-1810), les rues Saint-Joseph (à l'ouest) et Sainte-Marie (à l'est) dans les faubourgs voisins sont rattachés à la rue Notre-Dame.

Au  et au , on retrouve sur la rue Notre-Dame les communautés religieuses masculines de Montréal: les Récollets à l'ouest, les Jésuites à l'est et les Sulpiciens au centre. Après la Conquête, l'administration civile établit une présence importante sur cette rue avec, au fil des ans, la construction des prisons, des palais de justice, et de l'hôtel de ville. Au , la rue Notre-Dame devient la rue principale pour le commerce de détail. La rue est aussi élargie par la Ville grâce à une série d'expropriations et d'achats de terrains, notamment du côté nord au cours des années 1860. À cause de sa largeur, et du fait qu'elle mène à l'église paroissiale, la rue Notre-Dame sera le haut-lieu des processions religieuses, manifestations et parades de toutes sortes. On note entre autres, la procession funéraire de Thomas D'Arcy McGee en 1868 et de celle de George-Étienne Cartier en 1873.

En 1882, l'ensemble du parcours formé par les anciennes rues Saint-Joseph (faubourg des Récollets), Notre-Dame (Vieux-Montréal) et Sainte-Marie (faubourg Sainte-Marie) est baptisé rue Notre-Dame par le conseil municipal de Montréal.

Les années 1880 font de la rue Notre-Dame un lieu privilégié pour le transport métropolitain. Le Canadien Pacifique s'y installe dès 1881. À la fin du , la rue accueille sur toute sa longueur un service de tramway électrique de la Montreal Street Railway.

Le développement aux abords de cet axe atteint son apogée dans les années 1900. Les activités industrielles, portuaires et ferroviaires prennent de plus en plus d'ampleur en bordure du fleuve et provoquent le repli des riches bourgeois et commerçants riverains dans des quartiers plus tranquilles.

Hôte de plusieurs établissements  historiques célèbres telles que la brasserie Molson, la prison du Pied-du-Courant, de même que la Canadian Rubber, l'étroit corridor de la rue Notre-Dame parvient à peine, dès le début du , à absorber le débit de circulation qui y transite.

Quartier des antiquaires
Sur la rue Notre-Dame ouest, entre les rues Atwater et Peel, se retrouve le Quartier des antiquaires où une soixantaine d'antiquaires et galeries d'art avaient élu domicile. En raison d'une baisse des ventes et de l'augmentation de la valeur des immeubles, on estime que la moitié de ceux-ci avaient fermé leurs portes en 2019.

Projet de modernisation
Au début des années 1970, le gouvernement du Québec décide de construire une autoroute est-ouest permettant de raccorder l'autoroute Décarie au pont-tunnel Louis-Hippolyte-La Fontaine. Un premier tronçon, l'autoroute Ville-Marie, voit le jour.

En 1976, le gouvernement du Québec suspend la continuation des travaux de l'autoroute Ville-Marie vers l'est sur la rue Notre-Dame devant les protestations des citoyens et commerçants, inquiets d'une baisse de leur qualité de vie. Le gouvernement décrète en 1977 un moratoire sur le prolongement de l'autoroute à l'est de la rue Saint-André. En 1979, le Conseil des ministres du Gouvernement du Québec annonce sa décision de construire un boulevard de type urbain plutôt que de prolonger l'autoroute en tranchée. Dans la foulée, le Ministère des Transports du Québec commande, en 1984, l'aménagement d'un parc linéaire dans le but de créer une frontière entre la rue Notre-Dame et ses quartiers avoisinants. Il s'ensuivra, en 1986, l'aménagement de la rue Notre-Dame tel qu'on la connaît aujourd'hui, de la rue Saint-André jusqu'à la rue du Havre, à l'est.

En 2002, un décret gouvernemental autorise, avec 19 conditions, la construction d'un boulevard urbain conjointement dessiné par le Ministère des Transports du Québec et la Ville de Montréal. Le projet conjoint de modernisation de la rue Notre-Dame est annoncé en 2005 et un bureau de projet est en place en . Il est prévu alors que les travaux s'effectuent en plusieurs phases, échelonnées sur six ans, à compter de l'automne 2008.

En fait, le projet actuel de modernisation vise un tronçon de neuf kilomètres, soit de la rue Amherst jusqu'à l'autoroute 25. Les principales composantes du projet sont : l'élargissement de la rue Notre-Dame à 4 voies dans chaque direction, dont une réservée aux autobus, une partie du parcours en tranchée, une voie piétonne et une piste cyclable. On prévoit aussi faire le réaménagement et l'agrandissement des parcs Bellerive, Morgan et Champêtre, ainsi que de réaliser des mesures d'atténuation du bruit (butte ou mur). Finalement, le projet prévoît la mise en valeur de la station de pompage Craig et de l'Esplanade des Patriotes, de la Caserne Letourneux et de la Tonnellerie.

Toutefois, en , la ministre des transports du Québec, Julie Boulet, demandait une révision de l'ensemble du projet de modernisation de la rue Notre-Dame. En effet, la réfection de ce tronçon de la rue Notre-Dame devait coûter initialement (en 2007) 750 millions de dollars. En un peu moins de deux ans, le montant s'élèvait désormais à un milliard et demi de dollars.

Bâtiments remarquables et lieux de mémoire

Bâtiments historiques
 Basilique Notre-Dame de Montréal
 Édifice Wilson-Chambers
 Musée du Château Ramezay
 Hôtel de Ville de Montréal

Espaces verts
 Parc des Meubliers
 Belvédère du Chemin-Qui-Marche
 Promenade Bellerive
 Parc de la Capture-d'Ethan-Allen

Chemin du Roy

Historique, la rue Notre-Dame est partie intégrante du chemin du Roy reliant Montréal et Québec dès 1737.

Viaduc de la rue Notre-Dame

La rue Notre-Dame, à l'est de la rue Berri, repose sur une structure surélevée à 8 mètres du sol, sur une longueur de 400 mètres dans le faubourg Québec. () Le viaduc de la rue Notre-Dame fait l'objet d'étude afin de compenser son effet de rupture dans le quartier à vocation résidentielle. Ainsi, il est proposé d'aménager un parc sous le viaduc : Espace Faubourg Québec.

Sources
 Ville de Montréal. Les rues de Montréal. Répertoire historique. Montréal, Méridien, 1995, p. 353-354
 Site web du Gouvernement du Québec sur la modernisation de la rue Notre-Dame

Liens externes

 Projet de modernisation de la rue Notre-Dame
 Coalition pour humaniser la rue Notre-Dame
 Site descriptif, Vieux-Montréal
 Développement économique - Rue Notre-Dame sur le site de la ville de Montréal

Références

Notre-Dame
Vieux-Montréal

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7 Tips for Navy SEAL Turned Author Mark Owen on How to Stay Out of Prison
An open letter to the author of "No Easy Day," who may soon face legal action for allegedly violating nondisclosure agreements in writing his book.
Written by Shane Harris
| Published on September 6, 2012
Dear Mark Owen (a.k.a. Matt Bissonnette),
On Tuesday, I wrote a review of your new book,
No Easy Day, about your role in the raid that killed
Osama bin Laden. There are few easy days
ahead of you. The government apparently is considering whether
to take legal action
against you for allegedly violating the terms of two nondisclosure
agreements you signed while
still in uniform that the Pentagon says remain in force today.
And this administration,
as you may already know, is not too fond of employees who talk
about sensitive national
security operations without asking permission.
The Pentagon says there are secrets in your
book.
It seems officials are preparing to move against you, possibly
with an eye to indicting
you. (They've already determined they can't stop the sale of
your book.) I'm not a
lawyer, but I've written about leak investigations,
the government prosecutors who run
them,
and the pledges government employees often sign to keep quiet about their work. We journalists also have to be
cautious these days
about whom we talk to and what secrets we publish. So here are
some tips learned in
the field that you might keep in mind as you mount your
defense.
1) Behave honorably in public.
It will be politically difficult for the government to attack a hero who helped kill
Osama bin Laden. It would be much easier to go after a loudmouth who thumps his chest
and sticks his finger in the eye of the President. The Pentagon will decide whether
to prosecute you in large part based on how you acquit yourself in the promotion of
your book, and principally during your media tour, which kicks off this Sunday on
Of course, you may just opt to keep quiet. Your publisher tells us that as of now,
you're not planning to give any more interviews.
2) Don't sweat the bin Laden material. Worry about all the other stuff you wrote.
The Pentagon claims you revealed some secrets in the chapters about the bin Laden
raid. I've read the book, and I can't find much that wasn't already revealed by members
of the administration. But the first half of your book chronicles many other operations
in which you took part, including raids in Iraq and Afghanistan, a failed mission
to rescue an American POW, the successful rescue of a shipping captain who was taken
by pirates, and even operations you say the United States conducted with Pakistan,
inside that country. I doubt you were authorized to talk about any of this, and you
might have said something that gives the government grounds to come after you without
even touching the bin Laden mission.
3) Talk to your publisher's lawyer.
Presumably, an attorney for Penguin Group (USA) went through your manuscript line
by line looking for copyright infringements, possible libel, and other issues lawyers
routinely check before a book goes to press. This lawyer works for your publisher,
not for you, and is under no obligation to ensure that you abide by the secrecy agreements
you signed with the government. If in the course of your back-and-forth with this
lawyer, which probably took several hours, if not days, you discussed any information
about those agreements and whether you were breaching them, that information could
be discoverable by the government. Call me paranoid, but you should ask this lawyer:
How much of our communication is covered by attorney-client privilege? Are your discussions
limited to the scope of this lawyer's job, which was to review your manuscript for
legal liabilities to your publisher, or does it cover a lot more ground than that?
4) Consider playing the gray mail card.
A big reason cases of unauthorized disclosures rarely go to court is because the accused
has an opportunity to bring forth information that might reveal even more secrets.
For instance, he can demand that the government turn over documents about other intelligence
operations that might prove his innocence, but that also shine a light on matters
the government would prefer to keep hidden. This is known as "gray mail," and it works.
From 2005 to 2009, the FBI received almost 200 referrals from federal agencies about
alleged leaks. Investigators opened only 26 cases, identified 14 suspects, and prosecuted
none of them. Granted, this was before the Obama administration began an unprecedented
number of leaks prosecutions, but it gives you a sense of how cautious prosecutors
are about giving people in your situation a chance to expose the government.
5) Prepare a defense under the Espionage Act.
You've already hired your own lawyer—smart
move—who's arguing that the secrecy agreements you signed don't apply to the bin
Laden raid,
and in any case, that the law merely "invites" you to submit your work to pre-publication
review by the government. The government, no surprise, has a much stricter interpretation of your agreements, and the Pentagon's spokesman has essentially accused you of withholding
your book in order to avoid official censorship.
But you should consider that rather than prosecute you for breaching signed agreements,
the government might go after you under the Espionage Act. Sound improbable? That's
exactly what prosecutors have done in other cases where government employees allegedly
revealed classified information,
and those people weren't writing a book. To defend yourself, you'll have to argue
that nothing you wrote about was classified, and then you'll have to turn the tables
on the administration and make the case that officials already revealed the most telling
details of the mission to kill bin Laden. (Side note: This will end up diminishing
the importance of your book. In
No Easy Day, you claim to "set the record straight" about the bin Laden operation, which implies
you're telling the world things it doesn't already know. I don't think you are, and
you might have to admit that in order to save yourself.)
Also be aware that even if the prosecutors' case under the Espionage Act was without
merit, they could still practically bankrupt you with legal fees. Indeed, they've
done it before. That
leads me to Tip 6.
6) Don't spend the book advance.
You've said you intend to donate much of the proceeds of the book to organizations
that support the families of fallen SEALs. But first, you might want to set aside
some of it for legal fees. And second, don't kid yourself: Absent a prosecution, the
government's primary relief in your case will be to impound the proceeds of your book,
including the advance you've already been paid, future installments that you're owed,
and any subsequent royalties and revenue from the sale of other rights, like the movie
or the TV show. (These dramatic properties are in demand in Hollywood, as you are
surely aware.)
Unlike with a public trial, there will be little, if any, blowback for the government
if it takes this money. People will defend your right to write a book about the SEALs.
They won't defend your right to make millions off it if you broke a promise to stay
quiet.
7) Protect your communications with your cowriter.
A leaks prosecutor need not just focus on you. He could go after your cowriter,
Kevin Maurer,
and compel him to turn over all e-mails, interview notes, recordings, or other documentation
about what you told him in the course of writing this book. Does he have a lawyer?
Has he destroyed his notes? You need to find out.
Of course, if your arrangement was like most cowriting gigs, you actually didn't write
a word. You told your story to Maurer, and he wrote the manuscript, or most of it.
In this case, Maurer could argue that you were merely a source, and that reporters'
privilege means he doesn't have to divulge any information to the government. That
would mean the details of your conversations were safe on his end. But the government
could then come after you as a source, and it's a lot easier to subpoena someone in
that position.
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Criminal Justice - Behind Closed Doors Review: Pankaj Tripathi And Kirti Kulhari Are The Backbone Of This Riveting Crime Thriller
Check out our review of Disney+ Hotstar's Criminal Justice: Behind Closed Doors starring Kirti Kulhari, Pankaj Tripathy, Jisshu Sengupta, Mita Vashisht, Deepti Naval and Ashish Vidyarthi
Updated on Dec 24 2020, 16:29:4
A jar of Vaseline and an abusive shout-out from the bedroom (Kutti bann, become a bitch) are the key to this season's Criminal Justice. Grim and taut, and utterly engrossing (I never once fast-forwarded the narration) Season 2 of Criminal Justice is every bit as riveting as Season 1 where Vikrant Massey tasted the nightmare of the Indian prison system in all its stomach-churning glory.
This time it's Anuradha Chandra (Kirti Kulhari), devoted dutiful beautiful wife to hotshot lawyer Vikram Chandra (Jisshu Sengupta), who's accused of stabbing her seemingly perfect husband to death. Our most favourite on-screen lawyer Madhav Mishra is pulled out of his wedding to handle the case. Leaving behind in Patna his aggrieved wife(who complains that they haven't been able to do their 'First Night') Madhav catches the first flight to Mumbai to defend the seemingly indefensible woman, a classic Hitchcockian murderess so beautiful and haunted that only Kirti Kulhari could play her.
What I loved about CJ2 is that it pulls none of the stereotypical stunts of a suspense thriller. No annoying redherrings, no false leads and no attempt to mislead us. From the start, we know Anu is guilty. The question is not a straightforward one of guilty/not guilty. This time justice is not a court concern alone. Writer Apurva Asrani skillfully digs deep into the crevices that deshape Indian marriages.
If Anuradha was being systematically driven beyond the brink by her bedroom brute of a husband, there is the other couple, two cops Harsh and Gauri(played with disarming naturalness by Ajeet Singh Palawat and Kalyani Mulay) who seem to be aligned on opposite sides in both their professional and domestic dynamics.
On a lighter note, there's the show's eminently likeable hero, the low-level lawyer Madhav Mishra with a neglected newly-married wife (played by a refreshingly unspoilt new actress Khusboo Atre). Of course, Madhav respects women. But unknowingly he has fallen into the trap of playing the traditional role of the domineering husband who dictates every move his wife makes by pretending to give her the freedom to do what she wants until she breaks out with a flourish that hits Madhav and us in the solar plexus.
Madhav's marital metamorphosis has its roots in Satyajit Ray's Apur Sansar although I'm pretty sure this couple has never heard of Ray or his masterpieces. Madhav's very healthy professional relationship with his lawyer colleague Nikhat(Anupriya Goenka, charming) is also explored with something that most Indian films lack: an instinctive understanding of an asexual relationship between two colleagues of differing genders.
The ground rules and the background material of Criminal Justice 2 are solidly constructed. The scenes in the prison are suitably stark, with Shilpa Shukla putting in a persuasive performance as a headstrong inmate. The repeated shots of puke could have been avoided, though. Also, the background score seems partly inspired by Francis Lai's score in Romeo & Juliet.
At the forefront is the case… ah, the stabber wife Anuradha whose teenage daughter Rhea (Adrija Sinha) is the only eyewitness to the crime. The young actress has a very tough role and she negotiates her trek through the tough turf with the expertise of a veteran. The show is in fact suffused with memorable performances—Deepti Naval and Mita Vashist are a delight to watch together and apart, and I wish there was more of them—none more so than Pankaj Tripathi and Kirti Kulhari who are the backbone, the soul of the plot. I can't imagine what this season of Criminal Justice would have been without them.
Ms Kulhari's final lingering closeup of relief and happiness after 8 episodes of trauma will stay with viewers for a while. She plays the murderess as a victim without a trace of self-pity. The series is stunningly assembled, often surpassing the original British series by adapting the British legal system to a homegrown reality. The cynicism, the corruption, the power of the privileged to subvert the law…. It all comes together in ways that are both exciting and disturbing. What a wonderful way to end this confounding year!
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Q: How to extract dates from input text for chatbot? I am building a chatbot in python. I need to extract dates from the input text from the user. Some test cases can be as follows:
1."last week of july"
2." in june"
3. "last month"
4. "last n days"

These are just a sample. After extracting dates i need to build a query in sql. I have hot encoded for few cases. But when i think, more and more cases arise for which hot encoding might be time consuming. Is there any built in library which can ease my work ?

A: You can use the dateparser library.
import dateparser

nl_dates = ["last week of july", " in june", "last month", "last n days"]

for nl_date in nl_dates:
    res = dateparser.parse(nl_date)
    if res:
         print('"{}"": {}'.format(nl_date,res.date()))

" in june": 2019-06-12
"last month": 2019-05-12

This library would be able to correctly address 2 of your 4 examples. In addition you may find helpful to be using a NER (Named Entity Recognition) model, spacy offers one:
import spacy
nlp = spacy.load("en_core_web_sm")
nl_dates = ["last week of july", " in june", "last month", "last 7 days"]

for nl_date in nl_dates:
    doc = nlp(nl_date)
    for entity in doc.ents:
        print('{}: {}'.format(entity.label_, entity.text))

"DATE: last week"
"DATE: last month"
"DATE: last 7 days"

In general you may want your chatbot to specifically ask for the date in a format easier to detect when it is not able to extract it from the text.

A: I would consider using NLP APIs such as Dialogflow or Wit.ai. Personally, I prefer Wit.ai because it can recognize both dates and date ranges, and also accepts context, which allows you to adjust the recognition according to the user's timezone (which can save you a lot of trouble - depending on what time it is in the user's zone, "Wednesday" or "next week" can have different interpretations).

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Current Account Comfortably in Surplus
Nigeria Economy	 3252 VIEWS
Thursday, July 20, 2017 9:40 AM /FBNQuest Research
We observe from the balance of payments for Q1 2017 that the current-account surplus eased gently from the equivalent of 3.5% of GDP to 3.4%.
This recovery from the earlier deficits is explained by a rebound in oil exports, a further compression in merchandise imports and stronger inward transfers.
We see the classic lag between the initial slump in oil export revenues and the crash in imports. Merchandise exports fell sharply from Q4 2014, and the nosedive in imports began in Q4 2015. In a forthcoming daily note we will examine trends on the capital account.
The share of oil and gas exports in GDP has crashed from 18.5% in Q4 2012 to just 9.6% in Q4 2016. A modest recovery to 10.8% in Q1 is attributable to a pick-up in oil production and the further contraction in GDP.
The compression of import demand does point to some success for the FGN's substitution policy, one example being rice cultivation. However, the greater influence would have been what we term involuntary substitution.
Drilling down into the outflow on services in Q1 2017, we find a sharp decline in business travel outflows to US$61m from US$655m two years earlier. Similar trends are discernible for health and education related expenditure. The picture should change now that the CBN is making fx regularly available for the retail segment.
Net current transfers, which are mostly workers' remittances, have held up better than expected, at more than 5% of GDP for three successive quarters.
We see current-account surpluses representing 3.1% of GDP this year and 1.2% for 2018, when imports are expected to recover. The forecasts of the IMF from April are 1.0% in both years, and those of Fitch Ratings from March are a deficit of -0.7% this year and a surplus of 0.9% in 2018.
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FoursquareAPI
=============
Foursquare API .NET wrapper is written in C# and provides quick access to Foursquare API v2. Supports oAuth protocol. Now Venues and Users endpoints are almost fully implemented. All the other endpoints implementations will be published as they are tested properly, it's the question of the nearest future.

Do not hesitate and look for code examples in SamplesProject which is a part of the solution.

Installation
==============
To install FoursquareAPI with Nuget, run the following command in the Package Manager Console
```
PM> Install-Package FoursquareAPI
```

Code examples
==============
To create an instance of FoursquareApi:
```
var clientId = "Your_clientId";
var clientSecret = "Your_clientSecret";
var redirectUri = "Your_RedirectUri";
var accessToken = "Your_accessToken";
var foursquare = new Foursquare(clientId,clientSecret, redirectUri,accessToken);//if the user is authenticated
OR
var foursquare = new Foursquare(clientId,clientSecret);//if the user is not authenticated
```

After creating an instance different API methods are available, like below:
```
var venueDetail = foursquare.Venues.VenueDetail("4c263af6a852c9287537e66c");
var trendingVenues = foursquare.Venues.TrendingVenues(40.7,-74);
var userDetail = foursquare.Users.User("userId");
var userPhotos = foursquare.Users.UserPhotos("userId");
```

Authentication
==============
Start by registering your app to obtain its Foursquare API credentials.
Then send a request to foursquare authentication service which will return a code to your Redirect URI:
```
var foursquare = new Foursquare(clientId, clientSecret, redirectUri, null);
foursquare.Authenticate();
```
Finally you should use the code you received earlier to get access token which is used for authentication-sensitive features:
```
var accessToken = foursquare.GetAccessToken("code");
```

Save this access token for this user in your database.

More info
==============
More detailed information about Foursquare API, endpoints, authentication etc can be found at https://developer.foursquare.com/

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This piece discusses the case of Andrea Yates, the woman who confessed to drowning her five children to death and was subsequently convicted of murder (though the conviction has since been overturned). In this piece, Colb contends that Andrea Yates was convicted because of the jurors' emotional/psychological response to the possibility that post-partum psychosis could cause an otherwise decent person to commit such brutal acts. As a symptom of denial, Colb argues, the jury rejected the insanity defense and thereby reassured itself that only evil people could do what Yates did. If that were the case, then it would be fine to continue to ignore the issue of mental illness in general and its impact on post-partum women in particular.
Sherry F. Colb, "The Conviction of Andrea Yates: A Narrative of Denial" (July 2003). Rutgers Law School (Newark) Faculty Papers. Working Paper 16.


Retrofitting warehouses the green way. Michael Koploy reports on Talkback.
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ENGLISH FORUM: JOURNAL OF THE DEPARTMENT OF ENGLISH, GAUHATI UNIVERSITY.
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CALL FOR PAPERS.
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8th ANNUAL CONFERENCE 第八屆年度會議
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"Memory, Amnesia, Commemoration"
ELN (English Language Notes)
ELN (English Language Notes) Fall 2019 (Duke University Press)
Editors: Ramesh Mallipeddi, University of Colorado Boulder and Cristobal Silva, Columbia University
English Literature since 1900
Rocky Mountain Modern Language Association
Literature during the years between the World Wars reflected the angst, chaos, and turmoil of modernity. Psychoanalysis gave rise to the diagnoses of "hysteria" and "Shell-shocked." Individuals struggled with political and economic instability. The Influenza pandemic spread fear as millions succumbed to the infection. Artists captured this period of turbulent historical and cultural change through their prose and poems. The Rocky Mountain Modern Language Association's panel on "English Literature since 1900" seeks papers that explore the connections of medicine, psychoanalysis, and science, in modernist texts. Primarily, how does the artist use his/her personal relationships with doctors, scientists, and/or psychologists to create images that reflec
Cultivating Leadership; Creating Agents of Change
The National Coalition of Latinxs with Disabilities (CNLD)
William Stafford and the Anthropocene: Toward a Poetics of the "Earthbound"
Friends of William Stafford
Friends of William Stafford: Call for Papers for a William Stafford panel at the 29th annual American Literature Association conference (http://americanliteratureassociation.org/), May 24th-27th, 2018, San Francisco, CA.
WILLIAM STAFFORD AND THE ANTHROPOCENE: TOWARD A POETICS OF THE "EARTHBOUND"
LURe Journal: UNDERGRADUATE Research CFP
LURe Journal
LURe Journal is an undergraduate research journal based out of the University of West Georgia in Carrollton, GA. We accept research on literature, film, cultural studies, and critical theory.
Manuscripts should be no more than 20 pages in length, be formatted in Microsoft Word or as a Google Doc, and conform to MLA 8 citation style.
Because of the blind review process, the author's name and contact information must only appear in the email affiliated with the work being submitted. Please include current address, phone number, email address, and institutional information in your email as well.
CFP: (RE)UBICANDO EL SER ECUATORIANO
Thursday, January 25, 2018 - 10:22pm
Asociación de Ecuatorianistas (Estudios de Literatura, Lengua y Cultura)
ConvocatoriaLa Asociación de Ecuatorianistas (Estudios de Literatura, Lengua y Cultura), la Universidad Católica de Santiago de Guayaquil, y la Casa del Cultura del Ecuador, núcleo del Guayas convocan a los interesados a participar en el próximo congreso que tendrá lugar del 17-20 de julio del 2018
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Chat with an Editor at MLA in New York (1/5/18-1/6/18)
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The Council of Editors of Learned Journals is committed to mentoring authors at all career stages. MLA members—especially new faculty, emerging scholars, and graduate students—are invited to meet with an experienced journal editor to discuss their writing for scholarly publication. This opportunity, managed by the CELJ Mentoring Coordinator, is provided at each MLA Convention by the CELJ, and is one of the organization's signature events.
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This will be submitted as an "Innovative Proposal" special session. Depending on the abstracts received, the final form of the session might take a Speed Geeking or PechaKucha format. Please note that as a special session, our acceptance is in no way guaranteed and the process is highly competitive. The deadline to submit special session proposals to the MLA Program Committee is April 1, and we would be notified of our status in early June.
"Tracing Non-Human Agency in Literatures in English"
Tuesday, April 24, 2018 - 3:42am
Heinrich-Heine-University Düsseldorf, Germany
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Irish Journal of Gothic and Horror Studies Issue #17
Irish Journal of Gothic and Horror Studies
The editors of The Irish Journal of Gothic and Horror Studies are now soliciting article and review submissions for Issue #17, due to be published in Autumn 2018.
The Irish Journal of Gothic and Horror Studies (ISSN 2009-0374) is a peer-reviewed, interdisciplinary, open-access, electronic publication dedicated to the study of gothic and horror literature, film, new media, and television.
We are currently seeking submissions of articles and reviews that deal with any aspect of gothic and horror studies, including (but not limited to) literature, film, television, theatre, art and architecture, music, and new media. Please note that we cannot include pictures or sound files with articles or reviews.
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"Good God, but Life Could Be Less Than Easy": George Saunders and the Fiction of Radical Humanism
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Loyola University Chicago is seeking abstract proposals for a day-long event to be held March 1, 2018, featuring critically-acclaimed fiction author George Saunders. In light of the upcoming softcover version of Lincoln in the Bardo (winner of the 2017 Man Booker Prize for Fiction) and the recent release of George Saunders: Critical Essays (Palgrave, 2017), Loyola's Hank Center, in collaboration with other university communities, seeks to explore, interrogate, and celebrate Saunders's work.


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To succeed in this mission we "provide an environment enlightened by living prophets and sustained by those moral virtues which characterize the life and teachings of the Son of God" (BYU Mission Statement). We subscribe to the vision of the Brigham Young University–Public School Partnership Commitments, which can be found here.
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Q: why changing the root logger does not have affect on other loggers? Here is the log4j.xml that I use with my spring application.
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<log4j:configuration xmlns:log4j="http://jakarta.apache.org/log4j/">
    <appender name="PRIMARY" class="org.apache.log4j.rolling.RollingFileAppender">
        <rollingPolicy class="org.apache.log4j.rolling.TimeBasedRollingPolicy">
            <param name="FileNamePattern" value="/var/log/myappcontroller-%d{yyyy-MM-dd}.log"/>
        </rollingPolicy>
        <layout class="org.apache.log4j.EnhancedPatternLayout">
            <param name="ConversionPattern" value="%d{ISO8601} %d %-5p %c - %m%n"/>
        </layout>
    </appender>

<logger name="com.myapp.usercontroller" additivity="false">
        <level value="INFO"/>
        <appender-ref ref="CONSOLE"/>
        <appender-ref ref="PRIMARY"/>
    </logger>

  <root>
        <priority value="INFO"/> //changing this to DEBUG
        <appender-ref ref="PRIMARY"/>
        <appender-ref ref="CONSOLE"/>
    </root>

Two questions:
1) when I change the priority value =DEBUG in <root>, I was hoping to see debug logs from com.myapp.usercontroller. But I did not. why changing the <root> value did not have effect.
2) On the contrary, I start seeing the loggers (org.apache.http)
DEBUG org.apache.http.headers - http-outgoing-0 >> POST /token HTTP/1.1

Why is it so? I have not configured this logger. but changing the <root> has direct effect on this logger.
Thanks for explanation

A: Your explicit definition of the logger called com.myapp.usercontroller contains a threshold level parameter that is overriding the value that would otherwise have been inherited by the root logger. When you change the root logger's priority from INFO to DEBUG, then that will affect every logger except those loggers which have an explicitly configured value. That's why you see the DEBUG logs from org.apache.http.headers, but not for your controller.
Note that log4j xml is confusing in that it uses priority for the root logger, but level for the named loggers, even though they both refer to logging thresholds.


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Barclays vows to keep these two North Staffordshire branches open... for two years
The banking giant says its branches in Leek and Kidsgrove will stay open until at least October 2021
Phil Corrigan
Barclays has promised to keep two branches open (Image: Ian West/PA Wire)
Barclays has vowed to keep two Staffordshire branches open – for at least two years.
The banking giant says its branches in Kidsgrove and Leek will be safe from closure until October 2021, as part of a commitment to 'remote' communities and places where Barclays is the 'last bank in town'.
Barclays is now the only bank left in Kidsgrove, following the closure of the town's Co-operative Bank last year. The Barclays in Leek, which still has other banks, is classed as a remote branch.
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The firm also says it will work with customers and community leaders in Kidsgrove to explore ways of making the Liverpool Road branch more sustainable in the long term. Kidsgrove is one of 12 locations selected for trialling new ideas, which could include flexible opening hours and video banking.
Kidsgrove councillor Kyle Robinson, who campaigned to save the town's Co-op bank, welcomed Barclays's announcement, but believes banks could do more to support branches in small towns.
Councillor Kyle Robinson campaigned to save Kidsgrove's Co-op Bank
He said: "I'm pleased that the Barclays in Kidsgrove is safe for two years, as it is a lifeline for many people here. There are still a lot of people who want to go into branch and deal with someone face-to-face. There are also security concerns over online banking.
"I think Barclays should be looking at how they can make the branch more sustainable. This could turning it into more of a community space, meaning less space has to be supported by the banking side – it is quite a large branch in Kidsgrove.
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"But at the end of the day, banks like Barclays make millions and millions of pounds in profit, so they should reinvest some of that in keeping branches open."
Leek mayor Sue Coleman is a Barclays customer herself, and hopes the town's Haywood Street branch can be kept open for longer than two years.
The Barclays in Leek
She said: "I have got the feeling that the branch in Leek has been teetering on the edge of closing. It no longer opens on Saturday, and there are other banks in town, such as Natwest.
"Obviously I don't want to see it close. Leek is a market town, and so it needs to keep its banks to support its traders.
"There may be ways of making the branch more sustainable, and now we have two years to try and come up with some ideas."
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A total of 105 Barclays branches around the country, including the one in Market Drayton, will be ring-fenced under the scheme.
But the announcement does not affect other Barclays branches in Staffordshire, including those in Hanley, Newcastle, Longton and Cheadle – which are not classed as remote or 'last in town'.
The Barclays branch in Kidsgrove will stay open until at least October 2021
Barclays also says that it will end over-the-counter cash withdrawals at post offices from January next year. But this will be replaced with a new cashback scheme, which will allow its customers to withdraw cash at businesses in more than 200 remote towns.
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Adam Rowse, managing director for branch based banking at Barclays, said: "We are constantly exploring new ways to evolve the role of the branch. By maintaining last in town or remote branches over the next two years, and working with the community, we hope to increase demand and keep these branches viable.
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"We also recognise that there are opportunities to support customers with access to cash where there is no branch or ATM nearby. We are launching a cash back offering working with merchants to give customers access to cash over the counter. By behaving differently, we hope to see a real difference in how customers interact with us."
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Q: Create code inspection for views in Android Studio for Kotlin I would like to create a kotlin code inspection for invoking of view's id reference.
In settings I cannot see an option for adding a kotlin code inspection.

My goal is to inspect when I don't write a nullable id reference to .xml's type of widget in a kotlin class.
For example:
etMain.text = "" -> and it should inspect that I could write with nullable type: etMain?.text = ""
Do you have any idea how could I achieve that?

A: There is related issue on YouTrack: https://youtrack.jetbrains.com/issue/KT-10176. Please follow it for updates.


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Home BLOG Celebrating 40 Years in Business!
By Shoe Republik
Posted in 40th Anniversary, Crescent Shopping Centre, Gok Wan Fashion Brunch Club, Limerick Leader, Media, Newcastle West, Sale
Shoe Republik's parent company celebrates 40 years in business this month.
Tim's Shoe Centre thrives after 40 years
Since its opening, Tim's Shoe Centre in Newcastle West has weathered every storm of the last 40 years. And the husband and wife team behind the business, Tim and Frances Kelly, still have plenty of ideas up their sleeves when it comes to shoes. Even though times have changed since the first day instore, the Kelly's have retained their loyal customer base around the county.
"Business is good, and although we've been through turbulent times in retail, we've gotten through that. Even last year showed great improvement, and already we are only into the first three months of 2017, and things are looking good," said Tim, who opened the Maiden Street store on April 1, 1977 - shortly before his 21st birthday.
Having started out at age 13 working in a draper's shop which also sold shoes, Tim moved on as a dedicated shoe seller at various stores in Limerick city during his teenage years. "I always had this thing in my head that I wanted to work for myself. I had a good look around, and I found that there was no one really fitting kids, and providing that service for children. That was a gap that needed to be filled in a big town like Newcastle West, and that brought in extra customers. So that was an area which was very strong for our business for a good number of years," he said. Kelly's still fit kids to this day, with the most popular brands being Geox, Skechers and Pablosky.
Decades of experience: Tim's Shoe Centre's stand at the wedding fair in March 1980
Tim's Shoe Centre was the second dedicated shoe shop in Newcastle West when it opened, and is now longest-running shoe shop in the town. The family business also had a base in the Crescent Shopping Centre for almost 20 years, but left their unit at the centre last year. The biggest thing they miss about the Crescent store is their loyal customers and the "wonderful" staff they had there, according to Frances. The spouses are currently planning a replacement in the city for their Crescent store. "We are hoping that that's going to happen before the year is out. We had built up a massive customer base in the Crescent, and to this day, a lot of the customers are so loyal that they are actually travelling to Newcastle West to deal with us," said Tim.
The Kelly's have a strong presence online, with a popular Facebook page, run by Tim and Frances' son, as well as the online store. "It's a family run business, and the lads always help out when they can. We have three boys, Michael, Alan and Timothy," said Frances. "We are very lucky in the sense that we have very loyal customers, that keep coming back, which really is the backbone of any business. We see regular faces very often, and it's a good sign for us," added Frances, who also had a background in selling shoes before she partnered up with her husband. "I suppose that they are very happy. We have built up a very good customer rapport," she added.
History: Kelly's previous store in the Crescent Shopping Centre, Limerick
Although very popular for children's fittings and shoes, the store's most loyal fanbase comes in for their comfort footwear. "We specialise in the wide-fitting and comfort shoe. When the recession really hit, the customers that were very loyal and had disposable income were those people that were near retirement. They were coming in solely for comfort, because we had that business built up over years," said Tim. The store stocks quality shoes made with the finest leather and materials. Some of their most popular brands include Skechers, German brands Rieker, Ara and Gabor and Spanish brand Pitillos.
"I've met children, and now those children are grown up and they are bringing their own children. Customers have travelled out to us from Limerick. It's a good sign of the services we give and I suppose a lot of people love the patience we have for them. We make customers feel very comfortable," said Frances.
Ms Kelly revealed that they are rebranding their Newcastle West store as Shoe Republik - which is currently the name of their online store - once the 40th celebrations are over. An anniversary sale event will be taking place in-store on Saturday April 8th. All customers are welcome for drinks, finger food, giveaways and special anniversary offers, including big discounts and buy-one-get-one-half-price on selected current season stock. The store is also running discounts throughout next week, in addition to free giveaways on their Facebook page throughout the month of April.
This is all ahead of the store's participation in the Gok Wan Fashion Brunch Club on April 15th in Desmond Castle, Newcastle West, where the King of Fashion himself will be sharing style tips to an enthusiastic crowd of 300.
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Q: Strange behavior of Java String split() method I have a method which takes a string parameter and split the string by # and after splitting it prints the length of the array along with array elements. Below is my code
public void StringSplitTesting(String inputString) {

        String tokenArray[] = inputString.split("#");

        System.out.println("tokenArray length is " + tokenArray.length
                + " and array elements are " + Arrays.toString(tokenArray));

    }

Case I : Now when my input is abc# the output is  tokenArray length is 1 and array elements are [abc]
Case II : But when my input is #abc the output is tokenArray length is 2 and array elements are [, abc]
But I was expecting the same output for both the cases. What is the reason behind this implementation? Why split() method is behaving like this? Could someone give me proper explanation on this?

A: One aspect of the behavior of the one-argument split method can be surprising -- trailing nulls are discarded from the returned array.

Trailing empty strings are therefore not included in the resulting array.

To get a length of 2 for each case, you can pass in a negative second argument to the two-argument split method, which means that the length is unrestricted and no trailing empty strings are discarded.

A: Just take a look in the documentation:

Trailing empty strings are therefore not included in the resulting
  array.

So in case 1, the output would be {"abc", ""} but Java cuts the trailing empty String.
If you don't want the trailing empty String to be discarded, you have to use split("#", -1).

A: The observed behavior is due to the inherently asymmetric nature of the substring() method in Java:
This is the core of the implementation of split():
         while ((next = indexOf(ch, off)) != -1) {
            if (!limited || list.size() < limit - 1) {
                list.add(substring(off, next));
                off = next + 1;
            } else {    // last one
                //assert (list.size() == limit - 1);
                list.add(substring(off, value.length));
                off = value.length;
                break;
            }
        }

The key to understanding the behavior of the above code is to understand the behavior of the substring() method:
From the Javadocs:

String java.lang.String.substring(int beginIndex, int endIndex)
Returns a new string that is a substring of this string. The substring
  begins at the specified beginIndex and extends to the character at index
  endIndex - 1. Thus the length of the substring is endIndex-beginIndex.
Examples:
"hamburger".substring(4, 8) returns "urge"  (not "urger")
"smiles".substring(1, 5) returns "mile"   (not "miles")

Hope this helps.


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Golden Summers
When Graeme Swann sealed a rare Ashes win at Lord's in 2009 the celebration was given extra warmth by that fact that this was the first English fixture for over 70 years.
And so starts Golden Summers, a Wisden produced book of 50 essays charting the summers of primarily English from 1934 until the present. The essays are great, the pictures superb, but its real allure is the quality of the writing.
All of the essays have previously appeared in Wisden; this collates them, adds some iconic photos, and politely asks to be on your coffee table.
They are from a range of cricket writers reviewing a particular season from a personal point of view, with a historical perspective provided. For example Vic Marks writes about the 1976 West Indies tour of England when Viv Richards and Michael Holding announced themselves on the world stage in that legendary demolition of England.
But that essay is not so much about the test series, but more about how it accelerated the use of helmets by batsmen, with universal adoption still a couple of years away. An evolution of the game which gets explained from within.
There is, predictably, an English focus to the book, but that is not exclusive.
Pat Murphy writes about how he got to author the biography of EJ "Tiger" Smith. At the time Smith was the oldest living cricketer. He'd been captained by WG Grace, kept to SF Barnes, and umpired in an Ashes Test.
The rule was he wasn't allowed to publish until after Smith's passing. When that happened the highlight for Murphy was that he inherited 40 or so Wisden in Smith's will.
And in 1981, a belligerently sport hating teenager Tom Holland went to see Excalibur at the movies and immediately bought into the Ian Botham mania metaphor of that year.
Like many New Zealanders the temptation is to flick through to the essay from 2019. As it turns out this is written by Mark Wood who played in that final. There is reassurance in the revelation that he hated the World Cup Final too; he really hated it. And it is a good account of how the pressure of the situation can take its toll.
In Geoff Lemon's moving piece about the 2000/1 West Indies tour to Australia, and the official and sad transfer of power, there is a MCG so big reference.
It seems wrong to pull out one essay as being superior to the rest, but Simon Barnes on the 1983 World Cup is a superb piece of writing. Barnes had recently returned from a four year OE in Asia so had mixed loyalties going into the tournament.
He goes into how limited overs cricket was so different then; "It was to be held in England for the third time running, for where else could it ever be played?"
On the semi-final "India bowled beautifully on a pitch that suited their seamers of quiet pace, and England could only make 213. That's 213 off 6o overs. (The to-date record for a T20 international, by the way, is 278.)
On the final itself he believes that if India had scored more than 183 they would have lost; a total that West Indies were simply unable to take seriously.
The long afternoon unfolded with the mad logic of Alice through the Looking Glass. Everything was the wrong way around, but it was beyond anyone's power to change it.
Then there is tale from Elanor Oldroyd who in 1987 became the first female broadcaster with a posting with BBC Radio Shropshire covering minor counties cricket. As a child she was known for being the girl walking around the playing fields with a thick yellow book in my hand.
"To get a day off to go to Lord's to watch the Ashes in 1977, my father wrote to my headmistress "Elanor has expressed the desire to be the first woman cricket correspondent of The Times, so I feel this would be an educational visit."
And so a teenage ambition was born.
Elanor Oldroyd is now a broadcaster with BBC Radio. She co-hosts BBC Radio 5 Live's Saturday Breakfast and has twice been names the Sports Journalists' Association Broadcast Presenter of the Year, in 2014 and 2016.
Then there is the 2005 Ashes and a tribute to the West Indies team in England in 1984. A team that, in hindsight, was unlikely to be replicated.
Golden Summers is a great account of cricket's great moments. But it's more a showcase of great essay writing with a selected choice of some the best cricket photography going around.
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As part of a long-running campaign it really felt like a bunch of old friends getting together again (which it was). The quiet professionalism of all involved was a marvelous way to shoot. Hell, even I got involved as an extra – "Big man with a chihuahua". Bibi, the office labrador, was dismissed though from being involved for "being too excitable and pooing within 5 minutes of arriving on set".