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OpinionLetters
Newsday letters to the editor for Tuesday, April 24, 2018
Rashon Nelson, left, and Donte Robinson said they were waiting for a friend for a business meeting at a Philadelphia Starbucks on the day they were arrested. Both Starbucks and police have issued apologies. Credit: AP / Jacqueline Larma
By Newsday Readers Updated April 24, 2018 10:23 AM
Contracts, mandates raise our local taxes
The firm hired by the Long Island Regional Planning Council to study our region's high taxes asked me, as a former county executive, for my thoughts on the issue. I agreed, but cautioned that the council must not take the easy way out: to simply call for more or different types of revenues ["Seeking revenue to cut property taxes," News, April 18].
Unfortunately, that's exactly what the council did.
The root of high taxes on Long Island is not a lack of revenue, it's excessive costs that emanate from exorbitant municipal contracts and state mandates.
We don't need a higher sales tax, we need an end to state mandatory arbitration that's given us $200,000 police salaries. We need to eliminate overtime in pension calculations, limit termination pay for unused sick days, and end 20-years-and-out retirement plans. We need to eliminate the Triborough Amendment, which continues step pay increases even after a public contract expires. We need to convert taxpayer-guaranteed pensions to private sector-type 401(k) pensions for future public employees.
The report laments that these needed changes will not come about because they require state legislation. But rather than restating the obvious, that taxes are high, why not pressure the state to change these burdensome laws?
Steve Levy,Bayport
Editor's note: The writer is executive director of the Center for Cost Effective Government, an advocacy organization, and was Suffolk County executive from 2004 to 2011.
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Fallout from Starbucks incident
Why is it that any negative interaction between white people and people of color is assumed to be racially motivated?
In Philadelphia, two black men entered a Starbucks, purchased nothing, and sat down. They said they were waiting for a friend. They were asked to leave and refused ["Starbucks eyes training on 'unconscious bias,' " News, April 17]. What gall! Police were called.
Why did these men believe they had the right to take up space provided for customers without supporting that business? Suppose they entered a restaurant and sat at a table to wait for a friend? Or any business, office or clinic that provides seating for customers?
It's not racial. These days, we're encouraged to say something if we see something. Any person loitering raises concern about possible violence. It's the times we live in that make people react in ways that they ordinarily wouldn't.
Chris Monzert, Lynbrook
I was disgusted by the situation at the Starbucks in Philadelphia. An employee called the police on two young black men because they refused to leave.
There was no indication that a crime was committed. The men were questioned and arrested. This issue has caused multiple protests, and remarks against Starbucks. I was intrigued to know the employee was no longer working at that store, and the Starbucks CEO apologized to the men.
Starbucks has decided to shut down 8,000 stores in the United States for one day for training to prevent bias. The training is a great idea. However, sessions should be held at least every three months, and focus on race and gender, and how to communicate during and deal with stressful situations. Employers should also encourage employees to contact a supervisor during a serious situation.
Andrea Armfield, Wyandanch
Cuomo's parolee-voter decision is an insult
I'm outraged that Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo will restore voting rights to parolees ["Gov: Parolees can vote," News, April 19]. These people lost their right to vote because they were convicted of felonies and served more than a year in prison. They have shown a total disregard for the laws of New York State.
What will Cuomo do next, allow sex offenders to work in day care centers? This is an insult to law-abiding people.
Lawrence Paul, West Sayville
Editor's note: The writer is a retired Suffolk County police officer.
How are schools ensuring safety?
"Threats spike at LI schools" [News, April 2] sparked my concern for the mental health of students. The constant threats could be interfering with students' learning because they have to worry about their safety.
The story said Suffolk County police had responded to 189 threats this year, and 74 since the school shooting in Parkland, Florida, in February. That's almost double the number from last year, and 2018 is not even half over. Nassau County police reported similar trends.
Local school districts have re-examined their safety plans in response to the increased threats. Obviously, it's important to take threats seriously and thoroughly investigate each one. But what are we doing on a larger scale to ensure the safety of children in schools? Some schools require students to use see-through backpacks, but how does that solve the problem of threats and violence? It should also be noted that this article didn't address threats or acts of violence that have occurred outside of school.
Brianna Oliveri, North Babylon
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By Ruth Warick and Carole Willans
Did you know that the Canadian Hard of Hearing Association (CHHA) is a General Member of the International Federation of Hard of Hearing People (IFHOH), an international non-governmental organization representing the interests of more than 360 million hard of hearing people worldwide?
Expanding the Model for Auditory Rehabilitation: A Consumer Perspective
By Marilyn O. Dahl, OBC, PHD
The professional approach to auditory rehabilitation has a solid research base. In contrast, the consumer approach is an empirical one, focused on proactively dealing with the factors who know from experience affect adults with hearing loss. It is our opinion that the rehabilitation model currently practiced in the professional approach is not effective enough for most hard of hearing people.
Barrier Free Cities Project
By Daria Valkenburg
The hard of hearing can come up with a gazillion examples of the many annoyances and frustrations through which we navigate daily life. Help may be on its way though! There is a movement to eliminate many barriers to the enjoyment of daily life, in a project called "Barrier Free Cities."
The Honourable Carla Qualtrough
World Congress of Audiology
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ETF Trends
A Physical Gold ETF Backed by The Perth Mint
This article was originally published on ETFTrends.com.
Investors who are looking for a way to diversify their portfolios may consider the potential risks and supporting factors that could maintain the gold outlook and consider an alternative approach to diversify a portfolio with a gold ETF.
On the recent webcast (available On Demand for CE Credit), Combating Geopolitical Risks in Your Portfolio, Cameron Alexander, Director, Metals Demand, Asia and the Middle East for Thomson Reuters, pointed to some of the overarching themes that could affect the gold market ahead, such as geopolitics and political risk, notably Brexit and tensions in the Middle East.
Basic consumer demand is an important buffer for price falls. As a result, Alexander argued that upside potential depends on continued uncertainty and risk hedging, predicting further price upside as a result. Looking ahead, rising prices could attract fresh retail investment in price-elastic regions, but upside momentum will be driven by external tensions. Alexander predicted that demand from ETFs could gain further ground in 2018 on rising geopolitical risk and uncertainty.
Alexander highlighted a recent Thomson Reuters GFMS survey that revealed physical demand recovering from a dismal 2016, with total physical demand before ETF activity gained 10% over the previous year - the recovery in jewelry demand and electronics drove the increase in industrial demand, but it was overall still well below earlier levels. Meanwhile, the annual reduction in supply last year reflected a drop of almost 100 tonnes in scrap return, which revealed gold's relatively narrow range.
Outlook for Gold Demand
A rising middle class, notably among Chinese and Indian consumers that make up over 80% of global consumption, could further contribute to gold demand. Jerry Hicks, Sales and Business Development Manager for The Perth Mint, pointed out that by 2025, the World Gold Council expects China's nominal GDP per capita to reach US$20,000, which surpasses the World Bank's high-income threshold and exceeds the global average.
Additionally, the proportion of middle-class households across China's 1.4 billion people is expected to hit 74% by 2020. Meanwhile, close behind China in terms of population is India, with 1.3 billion people, and it is expected to have a population of more than 1.7 billion by 2048. Both of these two emerging countries exhibit strong seasonal demand for gold.
"The cultural affinity for gold in these two Asian powerhouses is very evident from the lead-up to the Indian wedding season in September until Chinese New Year in February," Hicks said.
Global central banks have also been a large contributor to gold demand, and for the eighth consecutive year, central banks provided a substantial source of demand in the gold market in 2017, with net official sector activity rising by 36% to 366 tonnes, Alexander said. Additionally, Russia's central bank has been a large buyer this year, adding nearly 29 tons in July, the largest monthly increase since November.
Australia, the second biggest gold-producing country, has been a key player in global gold market. Hicks pointed out that of the 295 tonnes of gold produced last year, 92% was refined and distributed by The Perth Mint.
"We are therefore well aware of the robust demand for bullion among banks, investors and fabricators in key markets, including China and India. These countries are the world's two largest consumers of gold and are, of course, situated within our region of the world," Hicks said.
As a way to better help investors access the gold market, Exchange Traded Concepts, in conjunction with The Perth Mint, Australia's largest fully integrated precious metals refining, minting and depository enterprise, recently launched the Perth Mint Physical Gold ETF (AAAU) .
"Investors still want to include gold within their portfolios, but increasingly they are demanding an accessible and convenient way to hold the precious metal, without the need for physical storage," Hicks said.
Mike Cronan, President of Marketing Services at Exchange Traded Concepts, explained that AAAU is the first gold ETF backed by a sovereign entity, the Government of Western Australia. The fund's Custodian Gold Corporation, which trades as The Perth Mint, is 100% owned by the Government of Western Australia and the guarantee is explicitly stated in an Act of Parliament, the Gold Corporation Act 1987. The majority of the fund's physical gold is vaulted by The Perth Mint, and its network of central bank grade vaults is the largest in the southern hemisphere and located in Western Australia, one of the world's most geopolitically stable regions.
Additionally, AAAU shareholders can choose to exchange shares for physical gold from The Perth Mint at any time to almost any location serviced by FedEx. The fund is the only US-listed ETF to vault gold in Asia versus the traditional centers of NYC and London. The ETF comes with a very competitive management fee of 0.18% per annum, and it minimizes potential tracking error to the gold price that currency conversion could allow.
Financial advisors who are interested in learning more about investing in gold can watch the webcast here on demand.
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Clyomys bishopi es una especie de roedor de la familia Echimyidae.

Distribución geográfica
Se encuentra en Sudamérica: Brasil.

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Isa Is a Face of Statelessness
Isa was born in Kosovo. He fled to Belgrade following the 1999 conflict, but because he didn't have any papers proving his identity, was never registered as an internally displaced person.
His very first document, his birth certificate, was issued in 2013 when he was 29. This was only possible due to a new procedure introduced in 2012. Up till then Isa lived a life of an invisible. He did not attend school, he did not have health insurance and the only pieces of evidence about his residence are the statements of his common-law spouse and his neighbours.
However, despite managing to register his birth into birth registry, Isa remains stateless without a nationality. He cannot "inherit" his father's nationality since his father doesn't have any (his father was born in Macedonia and lived in Kosovo since the 1980s, but has never had his nationality officially registered) or his mother's (she left Isa when he was only two weeks old and Isa doesn't know if she held any nationality at the moment of his birth). Without nationality, Isa remains deprived of rights and services.
Serbia currently lacks a procedure to recognise Isa's statelessness and regularise his status. Meanwhile, the only option open to Isa now is to try to acquire Serbian nationality through the naturalization procedure. Unfortunately, the outcome of the procedure remains uncertain because Isa cannot provide any written proof of his residence, which is one of the legal requirements. So he remains stuck in a vicious circle and facing a life in limbo.
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Tata Consulting-led JV wins Rs 1,111 crore PMC contract of Mumbai-Ahmedabad HSR
Anushka Khare Posted on: 2021-03-22 20:31:00 Viewer: 5,266 Comments: 0 Country: India City: New Delhi
New Delhi, India (Urban Transport News): National High Speed Rail Corporation Ltd (NHSRCL) today opened financial bids for the selection of Project Management Consultants for 'Project Management Consultancy Services for the Construction of Civil Works Packages for Mumbai Ahmedabad High Speed Rail (MAHSR) Project.
According to bid results, a consortium of Tata Consulting Engineers Limited, Consulting Engineers Group Ltd., Aarvee Associates Architects Engineers & Consultants Private Limited, PADECO Co. Ltd. emerged as the lowest bidder.
"Joint Venture of Tata Consulting Engineers Limited, Consulting Engineers Group Ltd., Aarvee Associates Architects Engineers & Consultants Private Limited, PADECO Co. Ltd. has quoted the lowest bid for an amount of Rs 1,111 Cr. and the tenure of the contract is 96 months," said official statement issued by NHSRCL.
The scope of work includes supervision of all 13 civil works packages including Viaducts, Concrete/Steel bridges, Tunnels (Undersea & Mountain tunnels), Civil work of all 12 stations, Maintenance depots, and Training Institute building.
A total of three consortia/Joint venture companies were submitted their bids. Out of, two consortia/Joint venture companies were qualified in the technical bid evaluation. The final score achieved by the shortlisted bidders are as under:
Joint Venture (JV) of Tata Consulting Engineers Limited, Consulting Engineers Group Ltd., Aarvee Associates Architects Engineers & Consultants Private Limited and PADECO Co. Ltd.: Score 99.25/100
Joint Venture (JV) of Nippon Koei Co. Ltd., Oriental Consultants Global Co. Ltd., RITES Ltd.: 97.25/100
However, the third consortia comprising Engineers India, RODIC Consultants, STUP Consultants and LEA Associates South Asia was found not compliant in the technical round. The bidders have been selected on the Quality and Cost Based Selection (QCBS) method.
Tender (Notice No. NHSRCL/CO/CA/MA-SVGC/2020/34) for providing project management consultancy (PMC) services for the 508.17 km under-construction Mumbai-Ahmedabad High Speed Rail corridor was invited on 11th November 2020. Technical bids were opened in December 2020. A total of three firms have submitted the bids.
In December 2016, NHSRCL had appointed a General Consultant (GC) team comprising of Japan International Consultants for Transportation, Nippon Koei and Oriental Consultants Global. The GC team is now working to appoint a dedicated project management consultant to manage the construction work of the project.
For more details, please explore the "Mumbai-Ahmedabad High Speed Rail" page of Urban Transport News.
Anushka Khare
Anushka Khare is a Post Graduate in Journalism from Makhanlal Chaturvedi National University of Journalism and Communication, Bhopal (MP). She covers stories and updates from India.
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What are the action steps that will follow your conversation?
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Great read, Alison. I've been enjoying matcha more of late, with powdered greens, coconut oil and coconut milk. Sure, it tastes like grass, but I'm a big fan of grass ?
Definitely pinning this for future reference! I'm always curious what goes into all your potions, so it's super helpful to see this breakdown! Looking forward to reading your adaptogen guide, too!
Completely obsessed with Brian Giniewski's pottery, too- I got a little pot for one of my succulents earlier this year, but I'm regretting not being able to use it as a matcha mug now.
Going to try the Pumpkin Spice Matcha recipe first because it finally feels like Fall!
So glad you've found the guide to be helpful, and I hope you love the PSML. It's super fun for fall! Omg and so much YES to Brian's work. His pieces blow my mind.
I have never thought of making a PSML. I'm stoked to try it!
Yay! I hope you love it. It's a fun fall take on a regular matcha.
I am just jumping into the Matcha world and I am researching what Matchas they sell at my local store. Is Matcha Love a good brand?
So I've tried making the everyday matcha potion twice now and it turns out like dark green/brown. And it just seems like there's too much powder in it for two cups of water. How do you make yours work??


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Q: why there is a benchmark difference for opencl code for same graphics card but on different machines? I am using graphics card Nvidia GeForce GT 630. and running a program of opencl. Program collects the double array and passed on as an argument to gpu kernel as a buffer. where calculation using this array is done. It takes around 10 mins for performing the job.
machine i am using Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-3470 CPU
Similar stats,
machine: Intel(R) Core(TM) i3 CPU
graphics card: GeForce 9500 GT
time taken for same program is 16 minutes.
I thought time might be because of different graphics card. Hence i replaced GeForce 9500 GT in Intel(R) Core(TM) i3 CPU with Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-3470 CPU.
but still time is 16minutes. As there is no connection between CPU AND GPU while a program. Can anyone please suggest me, after installing high end graphics card in lower end machine, why there is no improvement in time, because everything is calculated on same GPU only?
thanks in advance.
code for creating kernel:
void create_kernel () {
    FILE *fp;
    char *source_str;
    fp = fopen("cw_calc.cl", "r");
    if (!fp) {
        fprintf(stderr, "Failed to load kernel.\n");
        exit(1);
    }
    source_str = (char*)malloc(MAX_SOURCE_SIZE);
    source_size = fread(source_str, 1, MAX_SOURCE_SIZE, fp);
    fclose(fp);
    cl_uint count;
    clGetPlatformIDs(10, NULL, &count);
    // get all platforms in array platfroms
    platform = (cl_platform_id*) malloc(sizeof(cl_platform_id) * count);
    clGetPlatformIDs(count, platform, NULL);

        ret = clGetPlatformIDs(1, &platform_id, &ret_num_platforms);
    if (ret != 0) {
        printf("clGetPlatformIDs error: %d. couldn't load\n", ret);
        exit(1);
    }

    //////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
        ret = clGetDeviceIDs(platform_id, CL_DEVICE_TYPE_DEFAULT, 1, &device_id, &ret_num_devices);
    if (ret != 0) {
        printf("clGetDeviceIDs error: %d. couldn't load\n", ret);
        exit(1);
    }
        /* Create OpenCL context */
        context = clCreateContext(NULL, 1, &device_id, NULL, NULL, &ret);
    if (ret != 0) {
        printf("clCreateContext error: %d. couldn't load\n", ret);
        exit(1);
    }
        /* Create Command Queue */
        command_queue = clCreateCommandQueue(context, device_id, 0, &ret);
    if (ret != 0) {
        printf("clCreateCommandQueue error: %d. couldn't load\n", ret);
        exit(1);
    }
        /*Initialization complete*/

        /* Create Kernel Program from the source */
        program = clCreateProgramWithSource(context, 1, (const char **)&source_str,(const size_t *)&source_size, &ret);
    if (ret != 0) {
        printf("clCreateProgramWithSource error: %d. couldn't load\n", ret);
        exit(1);
    }
        /* Build Kernel Program */
    printf("loading GPU kernel..\n");
    system("date");
        ret = clBuildProgram(program, 1, &device_id, NULL, NULL, NULL);
    system("date");
    if (ret != 0) {
        printf("clBuildProgram error: %d. couldn't load\n", ret);
        // Determine the size of the log
        size_t log_size;
        clGetProgramBuildInfo(program, device_id, CL_PROGRAM_BUILD_LOG, 0, NULL, &log_size);

        // Allocate memory for the log
        char *log = (char *) malloc(log_size);

        // Get the log
        clGetProgramBuildInfo(program, device_id, CL_PROGRAM_BUILD_LOG, log_size, log, NULL);

        // Print the log
        printf("%s\n", log);
        exit(1);
    }
    printf("GPU kernel loaded successfuly..\n");
        /* Create OpenCL Kernel */
    printf("creating kernel program..\n");
        kernel = clCreateKernel(program, "gpu_solve", &ret);
    if (ret != 0) {
        printf("clCreateKernel error: %d. couldn't load\n", ret);
        exit(1);
    }
    printf("kernel program created successfuly..\n");
}

code for executing kernel:
int gpu_solve()
{
    printf("Calling gpu_solve\n");
    cl_int ret;
    cl_event event;
    cl_mem spcmBuffer,pvpmBuffer, frmBuffer, ipcmBuffer;;
    size_t global_work_size[1] = {1};
    double sending = 0.0, recv = 0.0, calctime = 0.0;
    double temp = 0.0;
    struct timezone tz;
    struct timeval curr_time;
    gettimeofday(&curr_time, &tz);
    temp = (curr_time.tv_usec/1000000.0) + curr_time.tv_sec;
    spcmBuffer = clCreateBuffer(context, CL_MEM_COPY_HOST_PTR, numsp * sizeof(double),(void *) cti_spcm, &ret);
    if (ret != 0) {
        printf("clCreateBuffer spcmBuffer error: %d. couldn't load\n", ret);
        exit(1);
    }
    pvpmBuffer = clCreateBuffer(context, CL_MEM_COPY_HOST_PTR, numparams * sizeof(double),(void *) cti_pvpm, &ret);
    if (ret != 0) {
        printf("clCreateBuffer pvpmBuffer error: %d. couldn't load\n", ret);
        exit(1);
    }
    frmBuffer = clCreateBuffer(context, CL_MEM_COPY_HOST_PTR, numreactions * sizeof(double),(void *) cti_frm, &ret);
    if (ret != 0) {
        printf("clCreateBuffer frmBuffer error: %d. couldn't load\n", ret);
        exit(1);
    }
    ipcmBuffer = clCreateBuffer(context, CL_MEM_COPY_HOST_PTR, numsim_spc * sizeof(double),(void *) cti_ipcm, &ret);
    if (ret != 0) {
        printf("clCreateBuffer ipcmBuffer error: %d. couldn't load\n", ret);
        exit(1);
    }
    ret = clSetKernelArg(kernel, 0, sizeof(cl_mem), (void *)&ipcmBuffer);
    if (ret != 0) {
        printf("clSetKernelArg 0 error: %d. couldn't load\n", ret);
        exit(1);
    }
    ret = clSetKernelArg(kernel, 1, sizeof(cl_mem), (void *)&spcmBuffer);
    if (ret != 0) {
        printf("clSetKernelArg 1 error: %d. couldn't load\n", ret);
        exit(1);
    }
    ret = clSetKernelArg(kernel, 2, sizeof(cl_mem), (void *)&pvpmBuffer);
    if (ret != 0) {
        printf("clSetKernelArg 2 error: %d. couldn't load\n", ret);
        exit(1);
    }
    ret = clSetKernelArg(kernel, 3, sizeof(cl_mem), (void *)&frmBuffer);
    if (ret != 0) {
        printf("clSetKernelArg 3 error: %d. couldn't load\n", ret);
        exit(1);
    }
    ret = clSetKernelArg(kernel, 4, sizeof(int), (void *)&ct_numsim_spc);
    if (ret != 0) {
        printf("clSetKernelArg 4 error: %d. couldn't load\n", ret);
        exit(1);
    }

    ret = clSetKernelArg(kernel, 5, sizeof(double), (void *)&ct_deltime);
    if (ret != 0) {
        printf("clSetKernelArg 5 error: %d. couldn't load\n", ret);
        exit(1);
    }
    gettimeofday(&curr_time, &tz);
    sending = ((curr_time.tv_usec/1000000.0) + curr_time.tv_sec) - temp;
    printf("sending time %lf\n",sending);
    gettimeofday(&curr_time, &tz);
    temp = (curr_time.tv_usec/1000000.0) + curr_time.tv_sec;
    ret = clEnqueueNDRangeKernel(command_queue, kernel, 1, NULL, global_work_size, NULL, 0, NULL, &event);
    if (ret != 0) {
        printf("clEnqueueNDRangeKernel error: %d. couldn't load\n", ret);
        exit(1);
    }
    clWaitForEvents(1, &event);
    gettimeofday(&curr_time, &tz);
    calctime = ((curr_time.tv_usec/1000000.0) + curr_time.tv_sec) - temp;
    printf("calctime time %lf\n",calctime);
    gettimeofday(&curr_time, &tz);
    temp = (curr_time.tv_usec/1000000.0) + curr_time.tv_sec;
    ret = clEnqueueReadBuffer(command_queue, ipcmBuffer, CL_TRUE, 0, numsim_spc * sizeof(double), cti_ipcm, 0, NULL, NULL);
    if (ret != 0) {
        printf("clEnqueueReadBuffer ipcmBuffer error: %d. couldn't load\n", ret);
        exit(1);
    }
    ret = clEnqueueReadBuffer(command_queue, spcmBuffer, CL_TRUE, 0, numsp * sizeof(double), cti_spcm, 0, NULL, NULL);
    if (ret != 0) {
        printf("clEnqueueReadBuffer spcmBuffer error: %d. couldn't load\n", ret);
        exit(1);
    }
    ret = clEnqueueReadBuffer(command_queue, pvpmBuffer, CL_TRUE, 0, numparams * sizeof(double), cti_pvpm, 0, NULL, NULL);
    if (ret != 0) {
        printf("clEnqueueReadBuffer pvpmBuffer error: %d. couldn't load\n", ret);
        exit(1);
    }
    ret = clEnqueueReadBuffer(command_queue, frmBuffer, CL_TRUE, 0, numreactions * sizeof(double), cti_frm, 0, NULL, NULL);
    if (ret != 0) {
        printf("clEnqueueReadBuffer frmBuffer error: %d. couldn't load\n", ret);
        exit(1);
    }
    ret = clReleaseMemObject(spcmBuffer);
    ret = clReleaseMemObject(pvpmBuffer);
    ret = clReleaseMemObject(frmBuffer);
    ret = clReleaseMemObject(ipcmBuffer);
    gettimeofday(&curr_time, &tz);
    recv = ((curr_time.tv_usec/1000000.0) + curr_time.tv_sec) - temp;
    printf("recv time %lf\n",recv);
    return 0;
}

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void calc_ipcm_cc (__global double* cti_ipcm, __global double* cti_fprm) {
    cti_ipcm[0] = (-cti_fprm[605] + cti_fprm[3135])*5.000000e-01;
    cti_ipcm[1] = (cti_fprm[132] - cti_fprm[1037] + cti_fprm[6734])*1.004016e+01;
    cti_ipcm[2] = (cti_fprm[3993] - cti_fprm[4090])*5.000000e-01;
    .....
    ....
    ~10000 equations to be solved
}

void gpu_eval (__global double* cti_spcm, __global double* cti_pvpm, __global double* cti_fprm) {
    cti_fprm[7632] = ((1.00000000e+00*cti_spcm[2986])/(1.00000000e+00+cti_spcm[2986])) ;
    cti_pvpm[6208] = (((1.00000000e+00*cti_spcm[2986])*1.66000000e+00) );
    cti_pvpm[4434] = (((cti_pvpm[6208]*cti_spcm[212])/(1.00000000e+00+cti_spcm[212])) );
    cti_fprm[7633] = cti_pvpm[4434] ;
    .....
    ....
    ~10000 equations to be solved
}

__kernel void gpu_solve(__global double* cti_ipcm,__global double* cti_spcm, __global double* cti_pvpm, __global double* cti_fprm, int ct_numsim_spc, double ct_deltime)
{
    int i = 0, ispc, mnspcidx;
    ct_deltime = 0.00001;
    double simtime = 0.0;
    while (simtime <= 50000.0) {
        calc_ipcm(cti_ipcm,cti_fprm);
        gpu_eval(cti_spcm,cti_pvpm,cti_fprm);
        simtime = simtime + ct_deltime;
    }

}

A: You are using CL_DEVICE_TYPE_DEFAULT, I am pretty sure you are using CPU instead of GPU.
Because if it is taking you 16M to finish only 1 kernel, the GPU driver would reboot.

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Re-Entry & Recidivism
In Public Safety
How the Cognitive Community Model changes offender thinking and behavior
Since implementing this model, VADOC has recorded the lowest rate of offender recidivism among 45 states that produce three-year recidivism rates for felons
By Dudley Bush and Jessica Lee, contributors to In Public Safety
Historically, correctional facilities have offered offenders various programming to help them reenter society. However, these approaches were often limited to occasional sessions in a classroom setting.
To give offenders the best chance at successful reintegration, the Virginia Department of Corrections (VADOC) developed a reentry program called the Cognitive Community Model where offenders live together in a structured and supportive community environment. This allows them to develop healthy habits, better understand their errant thinking, develop positive social skills and make significant changes to their behavior.
Offenders live together in a structured and supportive community environment as part of VADOC's Cognitive Community Model. (Photo/VADOC)
How VADOC reduced recidivism using the Cognitive Community Model
How successful re-entry into society helps break the cycle of recidivism
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(Read about the origins of the Cognitive Community Model and its foundational principles, which are heavily rooted in social learning theory.)
Creating a community environment
A cognitive community consists of 40 to 90 offenders, depending on the security level of the facility. Offenders are selected to participate in the community based on their release dates. Selected community members are moved to a designated housing area, which can operate in either a dormitory setting or a celled housing unit, but it is critical for the community to be segregated from the general population. It is also important for the membership to be diverse regarding age, race, criminal history and years served. Such diversity enhances the character of the community and helps offenders learn how to positively interact with a diverse group of people. The community setting is highly structured and operates 24 hours a day, seven days a week.
Following Rules
Within this community, just as in society, offenders are expected to follow rules and standards that emphasize right living. This prepares offenders to follow laws in society. Community rules, in order of significance, are:
Cardinal: These are the strictest rules, which ensure the safety and security of the community. Examples include restrictions regarding drugs, fighting and violations of confidentiality.
Major: These rules define the relationship between individual members, as well as between members and staff. Examples include being on time for all activities, full participation in community activities, and no derogatory comments regarding race, ethnicity, sexual orientation and religion.
House rules: These rules support the integrity of the community and are specific to each unique community. Examples include no eating or drinking during group, no non-related classroom materials allowed in the group, and things like not dragging chairs across the floor.
Structured Days
In addition to rules, each community holds a morning development meeting (AMD) and an afternoon development meeting (PMD). The AMD and PMD meetings are similar to a morning briefing for correctional professionals. These meetings help to offer structure, accountability and responsibility, while keeping community members informed and focused on their personal development.
Each meeting has a "structure board" that displays names of offenders and their roles and duties. For example, the structure board lists an offender as a "senior coordinator" who is responsible for ensuring the community is operating smoothly and efficiently. There are several other coordinator positions that are responsible for a crew of individuals assigned to carry out specific tasks for the community. For example, crews include:
Information crew: Provides the news, weather, sports and entertainment for the day.
Expeditor crew: Announces events and ensures groups start and end on time.
Creative energy crew: Leads the community in creative energy activities.
Service crew: Cleans general areas of the housing unit.
Inspiration crew: Offers a "thought for the day" that the community expounds on and reflects on throughout the day.
Education crew: Provides a "word for the day" and education seminars.
Although the coordinator is the person responsible for the crew, the program is designed to ensure that every community member contributes and has value. It should also be noted that offender job positions have no authority, but rather a great deal of responsibility. Although offenders are in positions of leadership, staff maintains all authority within the community. For example, community members do not have the authority to cancel an AMD or PMD meeting, but it is essential that they disseminate a schedule change.
Benefits of the cognitive community environment
Improving Communication Skills
Living in this community environment challenges offenders to step outside of their comfort zone. For example, this population often struggles with public speaking and effective communication. To overcome those issues, meetings are highly structured and all members of the community must contribute. Practicing public speaking in this environment can help an offender build communication skills and confidence that help them after incarceration with things like employment, education and personal relationships.
Learning Productive Schedules
The cognitive community design also helps offenders develop positive and productive daily habits, something many offenders have not had in their lives. Offenders work to develop a behavior pattern that they can use when released. This can include ensuring cell compliance and grooming standards are in place prior to the morning meeting. Throughout the day, community members are expected to attend group, complete homework, work in the housing unit, assist other community members as needed and prepare for the upcoming PMD meeting. Instead of spending their incarceration time sleeping through the day and relying on recreation as their only means of organized daily activity, offenders learn how to effectively schedule their time. This skill is practiced throughout their time in the program, while offenders attend daily AMD and PMD meetings, and spend their day completing job duties and other programming tasks.
Taking Care of Each Other
At the core of community is the concept of brothers/sisters keepers and helping everyone be successful. Each offender has a level of responsibility not only for themselves, but for other members of the community. Learning about productive confrontation techniques and how to hold one another accountable are important components of the community. Developing these skills challenge the criminal mindset of "snitching" and assists in replacing destructive thinking patterns with a more pro-social thought process of being a concerned community member.
Positive Confrontation Skills
The issue of confrontation can be difficult for this population. Incarcerated individuals often struggle with anger management and lack the needed skills to confront another individual in a productive manner. The community teaches offenders the value of receiving feedback and the steps needed to confront others in a healthy way. Offenders and staff hold one another accountable through verbal and written feedback, learning experiences, behavior contracts, and confrontation meetings. Again, these tools are highly structured and guarded through specific standards.
Push-Up & Pull-Up System
To commit crimes, individuals often lack empathy and have limited regard for others. However, in the community, developing empathy helps offenders understand victimization and the harm they do to others. To help identify both positive and negative behavior, the cognitive community program employs a "pull-up" and "push-up" system, which is used by both staff and community members.
The "pull-up system" is a verbal or written awareness that highlights a problematic behavior that needs to be addressed. For example a staff or community member will say something like, "Mr. Smith, I am pulling you up for not being in group on time." This process clearly states the behavior that needs to be corrected.
On the other end is the "push-up system" that is used to affirm positive behavior that needs to be reinforced. Push-ups are verbal or written affirmations that are specific and inform the offender that their change is visible and their new way of living is supported by the community. For example, a staff or community member may say, "Mr. Smith, I noticed you assisted another community member clean the bathrooms and this is not your assigned job. Your contribution to the community is appreciated." A push-up can be given immediately when a positive behavior occurs, or it can be acknowledged during AMD or PMD meetings.
Community members are taught the importance of giving four (4) push-ups to every 1 (one) pull-up. Often times, offenders have experienced a great deal of criticism throughout their lives, but it is through positive reinforcement that change is possible. Therefore, the 4-to-1 ratio forces staff and offenders to affirm others and reinforce positive behavior rather than focusing on the need for correction. This teaches the value of affirmations over criticism.
Influence of staff
Each community is managed by a team of staff that consists of one cognitive counselor, one case manager and a treatment officer who all support the community in its development. While these staff receive specialized training, all staff working at a correctional center where a cognitive community exists are expected to attend a 40-hour cognitive community staff training.
The staff working within the cognitive community must lead by example. These employees are fundamental to the community's growth and development. One program led by staff is called Thinking for a Change, which is a cognitive behavior change program that consists of 25 lessons addressing cognitive restructuring, social skills, and problem-solving skills. As staff engages offenders, they focus less on command and control and more on raising awareness of the thinking that drives offender behavior. For example, it is common for staff to pose questions like:
"Share what you were thinking as you made that choice."
"How did your thinking in this situation move you closer or farther from your goal?"
"What thoughts and feelings influenced your action in this situation?"
Offenders are often asked to complete "Thinking Reports" that provide a glimpse into a person's thinking process and can help guide change. Thinking Reports are a formatted document that asks the writer to identify a situation and then share their unfiltered thoughts and feelings that arose from that situation. The author can then evaluate their risky thoughts and feelings, physical responses, and attitudes. It is critical to note that the author of the report is always the expert on the report. Often a person's thinking is rooted in a core belief system that may be contributing to their criminal lifestyle. It is important to challenge this thinking to assist in the change process and by actively pinpointing thoughts, a person can alter their actions and lifestyle.
Positive impacts of cognitive community at VADOC
The cognitive community model has contributed to a significant reduction in recidivism rates. VADOC started the first pilot program in 2004 at a low-security, 50-bed female facility. Since then, there have been significant statewide changes to Virginia's reentry practices. There are now 18 Intensive Reentry Cognitive Community sites at major correctional institutions throughout Virginia, serving more than 3,100 offenders per year.
These changes have paid off. In the last two years, VADOC has recorded the lowest rate of offender recidivism among 45 states that produce three-year recidivism rates for felons at 23.4 and 22.4 percent. It attributes much of this success to implementing changes to its reentry programs and embracing the cognitive community model.
C. Dudley Bush, M.S. is a clinical psychologist and received his clinical training at the Menninger Foundation. He directed mental health and drug treatment programs in three states and has served as a consultant to criminal justice agencies since 1980. As Executive Director of Corrections Research Institute (CRI), a non-profit research and training organization based in Powhatan, VA, he delivered technical assistance and training to jail and prison, juvenile and community corrections agencies in 48 of the 50 states and provided more than 1,000 training events over the past two decades on behalf of federal and state agencies. He has extensive experience designing correctional treatment programs for adult and juvenile populations. Bush has published in Corrections Today and The Counselor and authored several national curriculum. He has written and managed several federal and state grants as CRI Executive Director. In June of 2003,Bush joined the Virginia Department of Corrections as Statewide S/A Programs Manager responsible for the oversight of many prison-based therapeutic community programs and transitional community reentry programs. In his current role as Administrator for Cognitive and Reentry Services, he is responsible for the oversight and clinical supervision of the numerous Virginia Department of Corrections drug treatment and Intensive Reentry Cognitive Community Programs. He is also responsible for agency oversight of several Federal grants and contract monitor for drug treatment services provided by vendors at several DOC sites. To reach him email IPSauthor@apus.edu. For more articles featuring insight from industry experts, subscribe to In Public Safety's bi-monthly newsletter.
Jessica Lee currently serves as the Cognitive Program Manager for the Virginia Department of Corrections (VADOC) Programs, Education and Reentry Division. This position offers technical assistance to Reentry Sites throughout the Eastern and Central Region. In addition, Jessica serves as a statewide trainer for both staff and offender trainings.
Jessica was instrumental in developing the first Cognitive Community Program in the state of Virginia. She has been with the Virginia Department of Corrections 14 years now. Prior to working in the VADOC, she worked in the field of corrections for the state of Iowa for 10 years, where she assisted in the implementation of the first Therapeutic Community Program for Iowa Department of Corrections.
Jessica's work reaches beyond reentry, noting she is a Victim Offender Dialogue Facilitator and she has served on numerous committees focusing on such issues as Female Offenders, Gang Population, Substance Abusing Offender, etc. Jessica recently co-chaired the Creating Safer Communities Through Long Lasting Public Safety Committee that developed the four-year Reentry Strategic Plan for the VADOC.
Jessica earned a B.A. Degree from Drake University in Des Moines, Iowa with a double major in Sociology and Journalism/Mass Communications. She has been a Certified Substance Abuse Counselor for over 18 years and she recently completed the Commonwealth Management Institute at VCU.
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Christmas gifts cost retailers billions each year
The number of products being sent back on National Returns Day (2nd January) were expected to be 72% higher than the average day in December according to the Royal Mail – contributing massively to the yearly total of £60 billion worth of products being returned to UK retailers. Data by B-Stock, a leading online secondary marketplace, showed that toys, speciality kitchen items, tools and women's trendy apparel are the most returned items.
"Every year, the number of truckloads of returns doubles between January and March following the Christmas period," says Ben Whitaker, EMEA Director at B-Stock. "Consumer behaviour is driving this level of returns with online shopping and customer-friendly returns policies encouraging the shop, regret and return customer behaviour. Online holiday returns are projected to reach rates of around 50 per cent of the total holiday sales figure of £21.22 billion. Retailers are swallowing billions of pounds of profits every year on holiday returns and each year the number is growing."
According to a survey by Barnado's, 50% of adults say they do not want or use the presents they receive on Christmas day. Receiving items from top leading retailers, B-Stock is seeing women's clothing and speciality kitchen items as some of the most returned items after the holiday season.
Whitaker adds, ", returns place a burden on the retail industry who are already under pressure to generate profits across the high street and online. Many of the top leading retailers have strategies to deal with returned gifts such as finding resellers who are willing to buy these untouched presents and sell on. Doing so also supports the circular economy and avoids returned gifts from ending up in landfill which is a growing concern for retailers."
As we head into the new year, sustainability is a growing area which retailers are increasingly taking responsibility for. "Already, we have witnessed big businesses removing the plastic toys from Christmas crackers and consumers switching to recyclable Christmas paper. The way retailers manage returned overstock is also a business operation which is under scrutiny particularly at this time of year when returns are the highest. This is why global leading retailers are utilising secondary marketplaces to deal with masses of returned overstock, simultaneously offsetting the losses of returned products too," concluded Whitaker.
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Vehicles travel along a snow-lined U.S. Route 50 the morning after a winter storm pelted the region with a large amount of snow, in South Lake Tahoe, Calif., Sunday, Jan. 1, 2023. (Stephen Lam/San Francisco Chronicle via AP)
California snowpack off to great start amid severe drought
by: ADAM BEAM, Associated Press
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — The snowpack covering California's mountains is off to one of its best starts in 40 years, officials announced Tuesday, raising hopes that the drought-stricken state could soon see relief in the spring when the snow melts and begins to refill parched reservoirs.
Roughly a third of California's water each year comes from melted snow in the Sierra Nevada, a mountain range that covers the eastern part of the state. The state has built a complex system of canals and dams to capture that water and store it in huge reservoirs so it can be used the rest of the year when it doesn't rain or snow.
That is why officials closely monitor how deep the snow is in the mountains — and Tuesday was the first formal snow survey of the winter, a sort of Groundhog Day event where Californians get their first glimpse of how helpful the winter might be. Statewide, snowpack is at 174% of the historical average for this year, the third-best measurement in the past 40 years. Even more snow is expected later this week and over the weekend, giving officials hope for a wet winter the state so desperately needs.
But a good start doesn't guarantee a good finish. Last year, the statewide snowpack was at 160% of average at the first survey. What followed where the three driest months ever recorded in California. By April 1 — when the Sierra snowpack is supposed to be at its peak — the snow was just 38% of historic average.
That history prompted muted optimism from state officials on Tuesday.
"While we see a terrific snowpack — and that in and of itself may be an opportunity to breathe a sigh of relief — we are by no means out of the woods when it comes to drought," Karla Nemeth, director of the California Department of Water Resources, said Tuesday after a ceremonial snow measurement in the community of Phillips, just west of Lake Tahoe.
This winter's promising start was aided by a spate of strong storms last month, most notably on New Year's Eve, when much of the state was drenched in heavy rain causing floods that killed one person and damaged a levee system in Sacramento County.
That storm was warmer, so it brought more rain than snow. Two more powerful storms are expected to hit the state this week, and these will be much colder. The National Weather Service says the mountains could get up to 5 feet (1.52 meters) of snow between the two storms.
While the precipitation seemed out-of-character for the parched state, it reflects the type of rainfall the state would expect to see during a normal winter but that has been absent in recent drought-driven years.
In Southern California, weather forecasters said "all systems go" for a major storm to sweep over the area Wednesday and Thursday, with peak intensity occurring from midnight to noon Thursday.
Strong winds will add to impressive storm dynamics "setting the stage for a massive rainfall event" across south-facing coastal mountains, especially the Santa Ynez range in Santa Barbara and Ventura counties, forecasters said.
That could cause dangerous conditions. On Jan. 9, 2018, the community of Montecito on the foothills of the Santa Ynez Mountains was ravaged by a massive debris flow that killed 23 people when a downpour fell on a fresh wildfire burn scar.
As California braced for more wet days ahead, heavy snow and freezing rain dumped on the upper Midwest on Tuesday, prompting the closure of the Sioux Falls Regional Airport in South Dakota and closing parts of Interstates 90 and 29. Meanwhile, heavy rain and thunderstorms threatened to cause flash flooding in Mississippi.
The storms in California still aren't enough to officially end the drought, now entering its fourth year. The U.S. Drought Monitor showed that most of the state is in severe to extreme drought. Most of the state's reservoirs are still well below their capacity, with Lake Shasta 34% full and Lake Oroville just 38% full. It takes even longer for underground aquifers to refill, with groundwater providing about 38% of the state's water supply each year.
"We know that it'll take quite a bit of time and water to recover this amount of storage, which is why we don't say that the drought is over once it starts raining," said Jeanine Jones, drought manager for the California Department of Water Resources.
But back-to-back-to-back powerful storms have left many Californians preparing for the worst. In San Francisco, crews were rushing to clear trash, leaves and silt that clogged some of the city's 25,000 storm drains during Saturday's downpour before the next storm hits later this week.
The National Weather Service is predicting up to 6 inches (15 cm) of rain in San Francisco with winds of speeds up to 30 mph (48 kph) with gusts of 60 mph (96 kph).
Mayor London Breed said city workers may not have enough time to clean all the storm drains before Wednesday and asked the public to prepare by getting sandbags to prevent flooding, avoiding unnecessary travel and only calling 911 in a life-or-death emergency.
City officials had distributed 8,500 sandbags as of Tuesday, asking residents to only get them if they have experienced flooding in the past. Tink Troy, who lives in South San Francisco, picked up some sandbags from the city's public works department on Tuesday.
"They said (Saturday's storm) was going to be bad, and it was really bad. Now they're saying this one's going to be worse. So I want to make sure I'm prepared and not having to do this when it's pouring rain tomorrow," she said.
This story has been updated to correct that the past three years have been the driest ever recorded dating back to 1896, not 1986.
Associated Press reporters John Antczak contributed from Los Angeles. AP writers Olga Rodriguez and Haven Daley contributed from San Francisco.


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From the amateurish to the exquisite, Winter Carnival posters offer a unique retrospective of 20th-century graphic design.
Elena Tsakopoulos Kounalakis '89 traveled a circuitous route to her latest job as U.S. Ambassador to Hungary.
Former CIA analyst Paul Pillar '69 makes his case against the war in Afghanistan.
A quirky housing option of last resort, the Lodge—a motor inn that became a dorm—lives on.
For a Japanese student on campus during the Pearl Harbor bombing, Dartmouth President Ernest Martin Hopkins proved a reassuring presence.
As Dartmouth's recently appointed professor of Shakespearean studies, Jonathan Crewe keeps the Bard alive and relevant in Hanover.
New and great ideas are common in the business world. What's often missing is a sound strategy to implement them.


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Q: Update fields on the fly on odoo10 wizard I have a wizard and a button Calculate which has this at the end of the
function:
return {
        "type": "set_scrollTop",
    }

When the button Calculate is clicked, it is printing the correct values,
but self.margin (the field that needs to be updated) is not updated. It just
puts 0 inside (its a float field).
Did you have this problem and know how to resolve it?


It is like Hourglass Cosmetics is in my head, just knowing what I have been craving this summer: a shiny, bold and glossy look with staying power. I'm weighed down by my winter thick and matte lipstick in this weather. Recently released from Hourglass is a lip duo that is my new go-to: Panoramic Long Wear Lip Liner and Extreme Sheen Lip Gloss, both in Muse, a vibrant orange red with just a hint of pink.
This summer, Hourglass added four new shades of Panoramic Long Wear Lip Liner and three new shades of Extreme Sheen Lip Gloss. Just like the original versions, the duo is super long-wear – much appreciated in the humid, sticky Oklahoma summer.
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"Everytime you face a challenge, or a risk, keep being positive and you can win one day," Malaysian cartoonist Zulkiflee Anwar Ulhaque, aka Zunar, offered his words of wisdom to a 400-strong crowd of journalists during his keynote at the Uncovering Asia Conference.
The award-winning cartoonist, who suffered years of persecution under the former Malaysian prime minister Najib Razak's regime, shares many parallels with investigative journalists. Like journalists, he speaks truth to power, questions authorities' misdeeds, and exposes excesses and corruption, albeit through a different medium.
He has also lived through many of the threats that investigative journalists face today: arrests, travel bans and sedition charges. However, Zunar has remained optimistic in spite of all these challenges and offered a personal example of staying positive while under attack.
"The police informed me that they bugged my phone, I said thank you very much, everyday I can say four-letter word to the police," he joked. "For me, if you cannot beat them, laugh at them. No dictator in the world can stand it if you keep laughing at them…until one day they introduce an anti-laughter law," he added, drawing laughter from the crowd.
And Zunar certainly seems to be having the last laugh now.
While Razak was in power, Zunar was arrested at least five times and banned from leaving the country because the government deemed his cartoons to be "detrimental to public order." But now the political tide has turned, and Razak, the infamous kleptocrat, has been voted out of power, prohibited from traveling overseas and facing the possibility of imprisonment.
Sheila Coronel, academic dean of the Graduate School of Journalism at Columbia University, said one of the problems with investigative journalism is that journalists write long, complicated pieces that sometimes do not resonate with the people, and she asked Zunar to share his secret to engaging the public.
The free access to his cartoons, Zunar believes, was key to growing his support base. And the public's backing is the one thing that gives him strength to keep fighting the injustices of the authorities curbing his civil rights.
"I want to quote Liverpool's motto: You'll never walk alone. I get support from the people," he said, adding that cartoonists and journalists alike, in "jail-friendly jobs," have to take a stand and do what we do best when faced with corrupt dictators.


I need to amend my return. Is it possible to e-file amended return?
No. The IRS will not accept an e-file amended tax return. If you need to amend your return to claim Earned Income Credit (EIC) or any other credit after you have already submitted an e-filed return, you must print and mail your amended return to the IRS for consideration.


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Q: Wordpress custom fonts does not work i have super stupid problem.
I try to use custom fonts on my simple WP site and @font-face not working at all.
I even put whole path to font files and it work - you can download the font from my server. But i Can't use it on my website.

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Q: What value does System.Drawing.Color -state have? System.Drawing.Color has a private field int state which makes equality a bit more tricky than one would expect from a struct.
Anyone know what on earth it's for? Who, what and why sets and reads it?

A: As far as i understand, it is compared to theese values:
    private static short StateKnownColorValid   = 0x0001;
    private static short StateARGBValueValid    = 0x0002;
    private static short StateValueMask         = (short)(StateARGBValueValid);
    private static short StateNameValid         = 0x0008;
    private static long NotDefinedValue = 0;

http://reflector.webtropy.com/default.aspx/Net/Net/3@5@50727@3053/DEVDIV/depot/DevDiv/releases/whidbey/netfxsp/ndp/fx/src/CommonUI/System/Drawing/Color@cs/1/Color@cs
So my shot is that its used to dertermine if its a "System Color" or a user defined from e.g. ARGB values.
public bool IsKnownColor
{
    get { return((state & StateKnownColorValid) != 0);}
}

A: The Color struct overrides the Equals method and does therefore automatically do the right thing when colors are tested for equality.
The Equals method compares the value, state, knownColor and name fields.


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In Hopes of Finally Settling Cases, EEOC Revises Process
By Dennis J. Merley, Attorney, Felhaber Larson Jan 11, 2021 Diversity & Inclusion
The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) recently unveiled regulations to modify the presuit conciliation process in hopes of finally settling some employment disputes.
Requiring COVID-19 Shots? Employers Advised to Follow EEOC Guidance Carefully
By Tammy Binford, Contributing Editor Dec 17, 2020 Coronavirus (COVID-19)
The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) has provided new guidance for employers considering requiring COVID-19 vaccinations—guidance that attorneys advising employers say needs to be studied carefully.
EEOC Clarifies Employers' Rights to Require COVID-19 Vaccinations
The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) has updated its guidance on how employers can navigate federal antidiscrimination laws while requiring employees to be vaccinated against COVID-19.
Workin' Moms Employment Issues, Revisited
By Destiny Washington, FordHarrison Dec 16, 2020 EntertainHR
This week, we revisit not only a series I've previously written about but also an issue I blogged about in my first-ever "EntertainHR" post.
Employers Weighing Whether to Make COVID-19 Vaccinations Mandatory
The long-awaited COVID-19 vaccines are apparently close to mass distribution across the country. It's a welcome development but also one that may put employers in a quandary: Should they require employees to be vaccinated, and, if not, what should they do to keep workers safe?
EEOC Addresses Telework as Reasonable Accommodation
By Conor Leedom, Attorney, Axley Brynelson, LLP Dec 11, 2020 Coronavirus (COVID-19)
By now, many employees have been working from home since March 2020 as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic. With no signs of slowing and the rollout of a vaccine to the general public not likely to occur until well into 2021, teleworking looks like it's here to stay for the foreseeable future.
Unlimited Vacation: Worker Exploitation or Dream Benefit?
By David Siegel, Partner, Grellas Shah LLP, Mital Makadia, Partner, Grellas Shah LLP Dec 10, 2020 Benefits and Compensation
The term "unlimited vacation policy" is almost a Rorschach test. Is it a marketing slogan for a system to exploit workers, or is it an attractive benefit that recognizes the changing nature of many workplaces?
To Wear, or Not to Wear: Managers' Compliance With Face-Covering Mandates
By Don P. Gallo, Partner, Axley Brynelson, LLP, Troy D. Thompson, Partner, Axley Brynelson, LLP Dec 8, 2020 Coronavirus (COVID-19)
Most managers are committed to the success of their organizations, employees, customers, and communities. They work hard to provide safe and healthful workplaces. They give their best efforts to manage in good-faith compliance with the myriad of federal, state, and local laws applicable to their organizations. They are generally mission critical to protecting their organizations […]
Continuing Pandemic Blurring the Line Between Furloughs, Layoffs
By Tammy Binford, Contributing Editor Dec 7, 2020 Coronavirus (COVID-19)
Back in the spring when businesses across the country first fell victim to COVID-19, many employers chose to furlough workers temporarily rather than lay them off permanently. But now, with the pandemic dragging on, some furloughs are extending much longer than originally expected, triggering employer obligations under federal and state laws.
ABC's Respectful Treatment of 'Jeopardy!' Host and Cultural Icon Alex Trebek Offers Valuable Lessons for Employers
By Marilyn Moran, FordHarrison Nov 25, 2020 EntertainHR
Over the last week, my husband and I have been grieving the loss of one of our most steadfast companions, someone with whom we spent hundreds of hours over the years but had never actually met. Sadly, Alex Trebek, the longtime host of "Jeopardy!," passed away on November 8, 2020, after a battle with pancreatic […]


Necessity truly is the mother of invention! In 1989 Floyd Jones, founder of F&M Enterprises, was changing the oil and cleaning the oil screen on his Cessna 150 Aerobat. While cleaning the mess made by the removal of the oil screen Floyd had an idea. His idea... an adapter that would bolt directly to the engine and provide a method for using a spin-on filter. Since its inception, the idea of an engine mounted oil filter was an instant success. Through the years, F&M Enterprises has received numerous requests to design aircraft engine mounted oil filter adapters that would accommodate everything from the small C-75 to the larger IO-520 engines. Today, F&M Enterprises manufactures five different adapters that allow aircraft owners an opportunity to lower the cost of routine maintenance, extend engine life, and provide an extra margin of safety.


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She's right legal definition of she's right
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In an abstract sense, justice, ethical correctness, or harmony with the rules of law or the principles of morals. In a concrete legal sense, a power, privilege, demand, or claim possessed by a particular person by virtue of law.
Each legal right that an individual possesses relates to a corresponding legal duty imposed on another. For example, when a person owns a home and property, he has the right to possess and enjoy it free from the interference of others, who are under a corresponding duty not to interfere with the owner's rights by trespassing on the property or breaking into the home.
In Constitutional Law, rights are classified as natural, civil, and political. Natural rights are those that are believed to grow out of the nature of the individual human being and depend on her personality, such as the rights to life, liberty, privacy, and the pursuit of happiness.
Civil Rights are those that belong to every citizen of the state, and are not connected with the organization or administration of government. They include the rights of property, marriage, protection by law, freedom to contract, trial by jury, and the like. These rights are capable of being enforced or redressed in a civil action in a court.
Political rights entail the power to participate directly or indirectly in the establishment or administration of government, such as the right of citizenship, the right to vote, and the right to hold public office.
1) n. an entitlement to something, whether to concepts like justice and due process, or to ownership of property or some interest in property, real or personal. These rights include various freedoms, protection against interference with enjoyment of life and property, civil rights enjoyed by citizens such as voting and access to the courts, natural rights accepted by civilized societies, human rights to protect people throughout the world from terror, torture, barbaric practices and deprivation of civil rights and profit from their labor, and such American constitutional guarantees as the right to freedoms of speech, press, religion, assembly and petition. 2) adj. just, fair, correct. (See: civil rights, marital rights)
(Correct), adjective aboveboard, accurate, ethical, fair, honest, honorable, in accordance with duty, in accordance with justice, in accordance with morallty, in accordance with truth, legitimate, reasonable, rightful, scrupulous, truthful, unswerving, upright, valid, veracious, virtuous
(Direct), adjective absolute, exact, immediate, straight, straightaway, straightforward, undeviating, unswerving
(Suitable), adjective accepted, admissible, allowable, appropriate, apt, conventional, customary, fit, fitting, orderly, perfect, proper, reasonable, recognized, seemly, suitable, valid, virtuous, well-done, well-performed, well-regulated
(Entitlement), noun authority, authorization, due, fair claim, heritage, inalienable interest, ius, iusta, just claim, justification, legal claim, legal power, legal title, power, prerogative, privilege, sanction, stake, title, vested interest, warrant
Associated concepts: absolute right, accrued rights, Bill of Rights, claim of right, color of right, Constitutional right, conningent right, established right, exclusive right, future right, inchoate right, incorporeal right, inherent right, marital rights, material rights, mineral rights, natural rights, permissive right, preemptive right, preferential right, prescriptive right, prima facie right, proprietary right, prospective right, reciprocal rights, right of action, right of entry, right of priiacy, right of redemption, right of way, right to bear arms, right to counsel, right to jury trial, right to vote, right-tooork laws, riparian rights, substantive right, vested rights
Foreign phrases: Assignatus utitur jure auctoris.An assignee is clothed with the right of his principal. Nul charrer, nul vente, ne nul done vault perpetualment, si le donor n'est seise al temps de contracts de deux droits, sc. del droit de possession et del droit de propertie. No grant, no sale, no gift, is valid forever, unless the donor, at the time of contract, has two rights, namely, the right of possession, and the right of property. Non videtur vim facere, qui jure suo utitur et ordinaria actione experitur. He is not considered to use force who exercises his own right, and proceeds by ordinary action. Nemo plus juris ad alienum transferre potest quam ipse habet. No one can transfer to another any greater right than he himself has. Cui jus est donandi, eidem et vendendi et concedendi jus est. He who has the right to give has also the right to sell and to grant. L'ou le ley done chose, la ceo done remedie a vener a ceo. Where the law gives a right, it gives a remedy to recover. Ubi jus, ibi remedium. Where there is a right, there is a remedy. Non debeo melioris conditionis esse, quam auctor meus a quo jus in me transit. I ought not to be in better condition than he to whose rights I succeed. Nemo potest plus juris ad alium transferre quam ipse habet. No one can transfer a greater right to another than he himself has. Jus publicum privatooum pactis mutari non potest. A public right cannot be changed by agreement of private persons. Nullus jus alienum forisfacere potest. No man can forfeit the right of another. Neminem laedit qui jure suo utitur. He who stands on his own rights injures no one. Cujus est inntituere, ejus est abrogare. Whose right it is to institute anything, may also abrogate it. Qui jure suo utitur, nemmni facit injuriam. One who exercises his legal rights, innures no one. Ignorantia juris sui non praejudicat juri. Ignorance of one's right does not prejudice the right. Jus triplex est,-propietatis, possessionis, et possibilitatis. Right is threefold-of property, of possession, and of possibility. Nullus videtur dolo facere qui suo jure utitur. No one is considered to have committed a wrong who exerrises his legal rights. Cuilibet licet juri pro se introducto renunciare. Any one may wave the benefit of a legal right that exists only for his protection. Qui prior est tempore potior est jure. He who is first in time is first in right.
(Righteousness), noun correctness, due, duty, equitableness, equity, evenhanded justice, excellence, fair treatment, fairness, good actions, good behavior, goodness, honor, integrity, justice, justness, merit, morality, morals, principle, probity, propriety, rectitude, rectus, straight course, truth, uprightness, verus, virtue, worthiness
Foreign phrases: Fiat justitia, ruat coelum.Let right be done, though the heavens fall. Ipsae leges cupiunt ut jure regannur. The laws themselves are desirous of being governed bywhat is right. Jus et fraus nunquam cohabitant. Right and fraud never dwell together. Jus naturale est quod apud homines eandem habet potentiam. Natural right is that which has the same force among all mankind. Pacta privata juri publico derogare non possunt. Private compacts cannot derogate from public right. Jus est norma recti; et quicquid estcontra normam recti est injuria. Law is the rule of right; and whatever is contrary to the rule of right is an injury. Lex est norma recti. Law is the rule of right. Quid sit jus, et in quo consistit injuria, legis est definire. What constitutes right, and what injury, it is the business of the law to define. Jus ex injuria non oritur. A right does not arise from a wrong.
See also: accurate, actual, allowable, applicable, appropriate, authentic, authority, birthright, capacity, cause of action, certain, condign, cure, dominion, droit, due, eligible, emend, equitable, equity, ethical, exact, factual, fairness, fit, fitness, fix, franchise, honest, intangible, interest, juridical, just, justice, liberty, license, licit, option, ownership, patent, positive, possession, prerogative, prescription, privilege, proper, propriety, qualification, rational, real, reasonable, rectify, rectitude, redress, remedy, repair, rightful, share, sound, stake, suitable, title, true, truth, undistorted
RIGHT. This word is used in various senses: 1. Sometimes it signifies a law, as when we say that natural right requires us to keep our promises, or that it commands restitution, or that it forbids murder. In our language it is seldom used in this sense. 2. It sometimes means that quality in our actions by which they are denominated just ones. This is usually denominated rectitude. 3. It is that quality in a person by which he can do certain actions, or possess certain things which belong to him by virtue of some title. In this sense, we use it when we say that a man has a right to his estate or a right to defend himself. Ruth, Inst. c. 2, Sec. 1, 2, 3; Merlin,; Repert. de Jurisp. mot Droit. See Wood's Inst. 119.
2. In this latter sense alone, will this word be here considered. Right is the correlative of duty, for, wherever one has a right due to him, some other must owe him a duty. 1 Toull. n. 96.
3. Rights are perfect and imperfect. When the things which we have a right to possess or the actions we have a right to do, are or may be fixed and determinate, the right is a perfect one; but when the thing or the actions are vague and indeterminate, the right is an imperfect one. If a man demand his property, which is withheld from him, the right that supports his demand is a perfect one; because the thing demanded is, or may be fixed and determinate.
4. But if a poor man ask relief from those from whom he has reason to expect it, the right, which supports his petition, is an imperfect one; because the relief which he expects, is a vague indeterminate, thing. Ruth. Inst. c. 2, Sec. 4; Grot. lib. 1, c. Sec. 4.
5. Rights are also absolute and qualified. A man has an absolute right to recover property which belongs to him; an agent has a qualified right to recover such property, when it had been entrusted to his care, and which has been unlawfully taken out of his possession. Vide Trover.
6. Rights might with propriety be also divided into natural and civil rights but as all the rights which man has received from nature have been modified and acquired anew from the civil law, it is more proper, when considering their object, to divide them into political and civil rights.
7. Political rights consist in the power to participate, directly or indirectly, in the establishment or management of government. These political rights are fixed by the constitution. Every citizen has the right of voting for public officers, and of being elected; these are the political rights which the humblest citizen possesses.
8. Civil rights are those which have no relation to the establishment, support, or management of the government. These consist in the power of acquiring and enjoying property, of exercising the paternal and marital powers, and the like. It will be observed that every one, unless deprived of them by a sentence of civil death, is in the enjoyment of his civil rights, which is not the case with political rights; for an alien, for example, has no political, although in the full enjoyment of his civil rights.
9. These latter rights are divided into absolute and relative. The absolute rights of mankind may be reduced to three principal or primary articles: the right of personal security, which consists in a person's legal and uninterrupted enjoyment of his life, his limbs, his body, his health, and his reputation; the right of personal liberty, which consists in the power of locomotion, of changing situation, or removing one's person to whatsoever place one's inclination may direct, without any restraint, unless by due course of law; the right of property, which consists in the free use, enjoyment, and disposal of all his acquisitions, without any control or diminution, save only by the laws of the land. 1 Bl. 124 to 139.
10. The relative rights are public or private: the first are those which subsist between the people and the government, as the right of protection on the part of the people, and the right of allegiance which is due by the people to the government; the second are the reciprocal rights of husband and wife, parent and child, guardian and ward, and master and servant.
11. Rights are also divided into legal and equitable. The former are those where the party has the legal title to a thing, and in that case, his remedy for an infringement of it, is by an action in a court of law. Although the person holding the legal title may have no actual interest, but hold only as trustee, the suit must be in his name, and not in general, in that of the cestui que trust. 1 East, 497 8 T. R. 332; 1 Saund. 158, n. 1; 2 Bing. 20. The latter, or equitable rights, are those which may be enforced in a court of equity by the cestui que trust. See, generally, Bouv. Ins t. Index, h.t. Remedy.
RIGHT, WRIT OF. Breve de recto. Vide Writ of light.
"The Civil Rights Cases"
Bradwell v. Illinois
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When the lady of the house is in there she makes sure she's right up against the glass for all to see.
The Sex Doctor: My naked soap star
She's right to say that it is a very limited number of people in the Pakistani community but I think she's right to raise those concerns.
Top Tory: Some Pakistani men do see white girls as fair game for sex abuse; MUSLIM PEER SPEAKS OUT
I know she's right, but my friend has had depression a couple of times and once rang me to say she was going to do away with herself.
My needy friend is breaking us up
As soap signings go she's right up there with Shane Richie - a ludicrous idea which might turn out to be a masterstroke.
Ian Hyland: Meet Patsy Transit
I don't think she's right for the role and I don't think she's capable at this point to portray that character.
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And she's right to go on the attack after being subjected to criticism for wearing dresses which accentuate her curvaceous figure.
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Executive Summary Supplement
What if we could simply move some pictures and tell a story only we know to login?
The Idea: A Semantic Story
Instead of arranging arbitrary alphanumeric characters in a complex order (like 'DjK7-Uikk2'), you will see a group of your favorite pictures and select some of them to tell a story that is meaningful and memorable for you.
This Demo only uses the factor "knowledge" (the secret move pattern). PASSPOL consists of several factors which are combined to a highly secure and unique cryptographic token which is also hard to break by brute force or guessing attacks.
https://www.passpol.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/Passpol-DemoVideo_slomo.mp4
This is the public semantic story behind the pattern:
Alice sails with Bob to an island finding a secret treasure. Alice got the key, and Bob threw it into the sea.
Now enter the secret move sequence, which can be found in the video.
It looks like a game..
..but behind the scenes, the system generates a unique statistically equal high entropy pattern of characters. Therefore, together with other technical factors not used in this demo, you handle a usable strong "password", you use it quickly and conveniently and it is strongly memorable without extensive practice. PASSPOL uses the so-called Dual-coding theory to enable a real human-centered design.
The PASSPOL pattern used in this demonstration represents about 75bits of entropy and equals a strong textual password. Enabling all features of PASSPOL makes it possible to use much higher entropy.
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