To start with the minutes of the last cabinet meeting are challenged by Cllr Powers – they are not complete in terms of including the question asked of Cllr Bramer as regards evidence indicating the economic importance cultural activities deliver in Herefordshire … and Cllr Bramer's reply refusing to acknowledge this fact beyond the narrow area of the museum. Disappointingly the Monitoring Officer points out that minutes need only be accurate in terms of what they include, not what they ommit. She will consider the matter of minutes and tehir accuracy as part of the ongoing constitutional review. Orwellian.
First up on the agenda is the SHYPP contract cuts. IOC proposed a £200k 2-year transition fund in the Budget council meeting. This proposal was defeated but the administration promised to provide the funding necessary to securely support transition. Of course this is not happening.
Instead, a 1-year transitional fund of £78k is being provided to ease the reduction to zero of the county-wide preventative support that SHYPP provide to young people in supported housing and with high levels of need but still living in their own homes. Staged questions asked by Cllr Powell to give the appearance that what is being proposed is not going to be damaging to this young people's housing project.
Officers answer, suggesting that the council is going to use this transition period to 'find out what the needs are of the young people who are supported by the project'. Pretty horrifying that the council doesn't currently understand the need and the situation – before feeling confident to pull the plug on this project's contract – given that this support service has been being built over the last 10 years.
Cllr Matthews (Independent Group Leader) asks a bunch of questions written out for him – most of which unfortunately Cllr Bowen (Chairman of General Scrutiny) – seeks assurance that responsibility for homeless young people will revert to the council in future. He also questions reference in the decision report for referencing that CAB can be of assistance in plugging service gaps – when CAB are about to close in Herefordshire … the only county in the country to close this service. Unfortunately aren't relevant to the decision on SHYPP funding under debate.
Officers reply – implying that greater choice will be achieved by the revised service not relying on specific housing providers and housing in particular locations. Officer suggests that if not CAB then perhaps some other advice provider would be out there to satisfy any gaps created by these decisions.
Cllr Powers (IOC) asks a series of skewering questions … why did cabinet approve a homelesness strategy only last week with no mention of the existence of SHYPP – was the decision to pull the plug on SHYPP already made? Why wasn't the £4.6m additional funding from government been used in any degree to assist with transitioning? The funding has all been put in reserves. Why hasn't SHYPP's own counter-proposal report been referenced in teh decision report? Why is it not listed as one of the alternatives considered?
Cllr Morgan states that the decision report needed another week's work so it wasn't considered at last week's Cabinet … this doesn't explain why the Homelessness Strategy makes no mention of the SHYPP service. She says that the council made a budget decision to move additional relief funds to reserves … what she doesn't say is that this decision can be changed the next day – as the officers/cabinet members do regularly. Cllr Morgan says that change is inevitable and that the council may decide to change its mind in six months time if the decision looks like it was wrong.
No mention that yeterday's budget removed the otion for SHYPP to increase its funding from housing benefit recovery of rental. No understanding of the services currently delivered by SHYPP.
Monitoring Officer clarifies that if SHYPP's counterproposal was not relied upon by officers in making their recommendations there is no need for it to be referenced as a background report. Stunning!
Cllr Andrews (Chairman of Health Scrutiny – responsible for the SHYPP service) has no questions to ask.
Cllr Bartlett – raises concerns at the impact on young people countywide as a result of the reduced services to be provided by SHYPP.
Cabinet unanimously approve the decision to reduce funding.
Extension of the council's agreement with the county's Clinical Commissioning Group is approved without much discussion.
Health Visiting & School Nursing Services now up for discussion … bottom line here seems to be to unringfence funds committed to these health services in schools to enable them to be put into the Children's Services 'pot'. A 'strategic redesign' is proposed with a direct contract for one year to be awarded to Wye Valley Trust while a review of the wider commissioning strategy is undertaken.
Cllr Powell is disappointed that this single source contract is needing to be awarded when the need to combine and recommission services has been known about for ages … why are we needing to give ourselves another year to sort it all out when the cost of the extra contract is significant?
Officer says that current services are not of an acceptable standard and nee renegotiating and redesign of the service needs to be considered in a broader context of early years provision … it was too difficult to do this all at once and in advance of today's date.
Cllr Matthews asks what the risk is that the single source contract will be challenged as it falls above the value where teh council is required to tender. The Monitoring Officer says the risk is assessed as low because the only organisations likely to challenge the decision are those who would wish to be considered by the council as future suppliers for the contract. Stunning! We don't expect to be sued legitimately by disadvantaged companies because we would be likely to punish them by not considering them for future work.
Designation of Director of Public Health … for the last 2 years we have bought 2 days a week of Shropshire's DPH. Council is now proposing to commission for the 'service' of a DPH rather than to appoint a person. Officer argues that this is more robust because the 'service' will not sit with an individual who might 'fall under a bus'. Also if the service is procured, it is not a person and doesn't need to be considered by the council's employment panel.
It is proposed that the council commissions a 4-year service to be provided to us by Shropshire CC at a cost of £65k p.a. up to £260k.
Concerns raised about how this proposal will ensure that the role is fulfilled. We had better be good at writing the contract specification for this 'service'. Cllr Powers asks what would happen if there were to be a public health emergency involving both Shropshire and Herefordshire? Officer suggests that review points are put in the contract but that in the event of an incident Herefordshire would be better served supported by a procured service frm a bigger authority.


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Q: read textfile in Matlab I am quite stuck with my Matlab problem here.. I have a *.txt file that looks like this:
1
2
2
x50
2
2
2
x79
which means that at the coordinates (1,2,2) the f(x)-value is 50 and at coordinates (2,2,2) the f(x)-value is 79. I am trying to read this into Matlab so I have for a vector (or using repmat a meshgrid-like matrix) for x and one for y. I will not need z since it will not change over the process.
Also I want to read in the f(x)-value so I can plot the whole thing using surf().
If i use
   [A] = textread('test.txt','%s')

it always gives me the whole thing... Can someone give me an idea please? I am thinking about putting the thing in a loop, something like this pseudocode
   for i=1 to 50
   xpos = read first line
   ypos  =read next line
   zpos = read next line (or ignore.. however..)
   functionvalue= read next line
   end

Any hints? Thanks

A: Assuming that the data setup in the text file is like lines 1,2,3 are XYZ coordinate points and the next line (fourth line) is the function value. Then 5,6,7 are the next set of XYZ coordinate points followed by the function value on the 8th line for that set and so on with such a repeating format, see if this works for you -
%// Read data from text file
text_data = textread(inputfile,'%s')
data = reshape(text_data,4,[])

%// Get numeric data from it
data(end,:) = strrep(data(end,:),'x','')
%// OR  data(end,:) = arrayfun(@(n) data{end,n}(2:end),1:size(data,2),'Uni',0)
data_numeric = str2double(data)

%// Separate XYZ and function values
xyz = data_numeric(1:3,:)' %//'# Each row will hold a set of XYZ coordinates
f_value = data_numeric(end,:) %// function values

A bit more robust approach -
%// Read data from text file
txtdata = textread(inputfile,'%s');

%// ----------- Part I: Get XYZ ---------------------
%// Find cell positions where the first character is digit indicating that
%// these are the cells containing the coordinate points
digits_pos_ele = isstrprop(txtdata,'digit');
digits_pos_cell = arrayfun(@(x) digits_pos_ele{x}(1),1:numel(digits_pos_ele));

%// Convert to numeric format and reshape to have each row holding each set
%// of XYZ coordinates
xyz_vals = reshape(str2double(txtdata(digits_pos_cell)),3,[])'; %//'

%// ----------- Part II: Get function values ---------------------
%// Find the positions where cell start with `x` indicating these are the
%// function value cells
x_start_pos = arrayfun(@(n) strcmp(txtdata{n}(1),'x'),1:numel(txtdata));

%// Collect all function value cells and find the function value
%// themeselves by excluding the first character from all those cells
f_cell = txtdata(x_start_pos);
f_vals = str2double(arrayfun(@(n) f_cell{n}(2:end), 1:numel(f_cell),'Uni',0))'; %//'

%// Error checking
if size(xyz_vals,1)~=size(f_vals,1)
    error('Woops, something is not right!')
end

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blog	November 30, 2020
After the Dust Has Settled: How Progressive Tax Policy Fared in the General Election
While the results of the 2020 presidential election are all but set in stone—and a sign of life for progressive policy—the results of state tax ballot initiatives are more of a mixed bag. However, the overall fight for tax equity and raising more revenue to invest in people and communities is trending in the right direction.
ITEP Work in Action	April 2, 2020
Colorado Fiscal Institute: Protection From a Pandemic: The Federal Response to COVID-19 in Colorado
The federal response contains important provisions designed to help individuals and families, businesses, and state and local governments respond to this unprecedented event. This report aims to provide a summary…
Colorado: Who Pays? 6th Edition
COLORADO Read as PDF COLORADO STATE AND LOCAL TAXES Taxes as Share of Family Income Top 20% Income Group Lowest 20% Second 20% Middle 20% Fourth 20% Next 15% Next…
Tax Cuts 2.0 – Colorado
The $2 trillion 2017 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (TCJA) includes several provisions set to expire at the end of 2025. Now, GOP leaders have introduced a bill informally called…
blog	July 10, 2018
Building on Momentum from Recent Years, 2018 Delivers Strengthened Tax Credits for Workers and Families
Despite some challenging tax policy debates, a number of which hinged on states' responses to federal conformity, 2018 brought some positive developments for workers and their families. This post updates a mid-session trends piece on this very subject. Here's what we have been following:
ITEP Work in Action	March 29, 2018
Colorado Fiscal Institute: Pies & Charts: Mid-Session Briefing
Pies and Charts is the annual mid-session briefing hosted by Colorado Fiscal Institute.
Colorado Fiscal Institute: Forecast Five: March 2018 Revenue Estimates
As a result of TCJA, Legislative Council estimates the state will see increased revenue of $196.5 million in FY 2018-2019, and $329.8 million in increases in FY 2019-2020. However, new analysis from the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy suggests the revenue increase next year could be closer to $28 million.
Colorado Fiscal Institute: Effect of Federal Tax Law on Revenue for Colorado and Colorado Taxpayers
The Colorado Fiscal Institute (CFI) has a long-time partnership with the Institute of Taxation and Economic Policy (ITEP) and their estimate of the impact on state revenue is significantly smaller than the current amounts predicted by the Colorado Legislature and the Colorado Governor's Office. This brief explains the various components of the ITEP estimate.
Colorado Fiscal Institute: Colorado State Tax Basics
The Colorado Fiscal Institute (CFI) promotes tax and budget policies that are effective, efficient, equitable, transparent and accountable. Each year, CFI takes positions on new legislation that affects the sustainability and equity in Colorado's state budget and tax system.
How the Final GOP-Trump Tax Bill Would Affect Colorado Residents' Federal Taxes
The final tax bill that Republicans in Congress are poised to approve would provide most of its benefits to high-income households and foreign investors while raising taxes on many low-…
How the House and Senate Tax Bills Would Affect Colorado Residents' Federal Taxes
The House passed its "Tax Cuts and Jobs Act" November 16th and the Senate passed its version December 2nd. Both bills would raise taxes on many low- and middle-income families in every state and provide the wealthiest Americans and foreign investors substantial tax cuts, while adding more than $1.4 trillion to the deficit over ten years. The graph below shows that both bills are skewed to the richest 1 percent of Colorado residents.
How the Revised Senate Tax Bill Would Affect Colorado Residents' Federal Taxes
The Senate tax bill released last week would raise taxes on some families while bestowing immense benefits on wealthy Americans and foreign investors. In Colorado, 53 percent of the federal tax cuts would go to the richest 5 percent of residents, and 14 percent of households would face a tax increase, once the bill is fully implemented.
How the House Tax Proposal Would Affect Colorado Residents' Federal Taxes
The Tax Cuts and Jobs Act, which was introduced on November 2 in the House of Representatives, includes some provisions that raise taxes and some that cut taxes, so the net effect for any particular family's federal tax bill depends on their situation. Some of the provisions that benefit the middle class — like lower tax rates, an increased standard deduction, and a $300 tax credit for each adult in a household — are designed to expire or become less generous over time. Some of the provisions that benefit the wealthy, such as the reduction and eventual repeal of the estate tax, become more generous over time. The result is that by 2027, the benefits of the House bill become increasingly generous for the richest one percent compared to other income groups.
GOP-Trump Tax Framework Would Provide Richest One Percent in Colorado with 59.3 Percent of the State's Tax Cuts
The "tax reform framework" released by the Trump administration and congressional Republican leaders on September 27 would not benefit everyone in Colorado equally. The richest one percent of Colorado residents would receive 59.3 percent of the tax cuts within the state under the framework in 2018. These households are projected to have an income of at least $637,800 next year. The framework would provide them an average tax cut of $86,480 in 2018, which would increase their income by an average of 4.7 percent.
In Colorado 37.5 Percent of Trump's Proposed Tax Cuts Go to People Making More than $1 Million
A tiny fraction of the Colorado population (0.4 percent) earns more than $1 million annually. But this elite group would receive 37.5 percent of the tax cuts that go to Colorado residents under the tax proposals from the Trump administration. A much larger group, 40.4 percent of the state, earns less than $45,000, but would receive just 4.1 percent of the tax cuts.
Trump Tax Proposals Would Provide Richest One Percent in Colorado with 52.5 Percent of the State's Tax Cuts
Earlier this year, the Trump administration released some broadly outlined proposals to overhaul the federal tax code. Households in Colorado would not benefit equally from these proposals. The richest one percent of the state's taxpayers are projected to make an average income of $1,845,700 in 2018. They would receive 52.5 percent of the tax cuts that go to Colorado's residents and would enjoy an average cut of $142,190 in 2018 alone.
media mention	December 21, 2016
The Daily Sentinel: Fix online sales tax
"Even if the law is a zero-sum proposition, many lawmakers feel there's an important principle at stake — a level playing field for business. Brick-and-mortar stores located in Colorado are…
media mention	November 14, 2016
Denver Post: CDOT to test taxing drivers by the mile instead of at the pump
"Carl Davis, research director at the Washington, D.C.-based Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy, said it's true that state governments will have to find alternate ways of generating revenues for…
media mention	August 24, 2015
Policy Mic: What Republicans Don't Want You to Know About "Securing the Border"
New York's place on that list is especially salient given its place as the largest of the estimated 200 "sanctuary cities" across the country. The designation reflects a decision by…
News and Observer: Problems with NC Legislation to Cap Taxes, Reduce Spending
Colorado has struggled with its TABOR, with declines in the percentage it has spent on education, including secondary and elementary schools, and on higher education. Colorado declined from 35th to…
Colorado Fiscal Institute: The truth about taxes in Colorado
Who really pays a greater share of their income in taxes in Colorado? The rich or the poor? We answered this question by using the latest data from the Institute…
Denver Post: Obama's Action Appeases Immigrant Hopefuls in Colorado
With the work permits promised in Obama's orders, those workers could add an estimated $43 million in tax revenues because their wages would increase and more of them would…
report	October 10, 2013
Paying for Education Finance Reform in Colorado
As this report shows, this change would somewhat reduce the steep regressivity of Colorado's overall tax system. In other words, taxpayers across all income levels would pay a more equal share of their income if Amendment 66 is approved, in large part because most of the revenue raised by the amendment would come from the wealthiest 20 percent of Colorado residents.
ITEP Work in Action	October 3, 2013
Colorado Fiscal Institute: Amendment 66 will Improve Colorado's Income Tax
Amendment 66 will restore Colorado's ability to raise enough revenue to meet our schools' growing needs and make the income tax more like those of our neighboring states, all without…
The Daily Camera: What's at stake for Colorado in immigration reform?
As Congress takes a summer respite to figure out how to move immigration reform forward in the House, mounting evidence shows that reform would be a plus to the national economy. For instance, the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) recently estimated that the immigration reform bill which passed the Senate in June (S. 744) would reduce the federal deficit by roughly $1 trillion over 20 years and would boost the U.S. economy as a whole without negatively affecting U.S. workers in the long run. In addition, an April report from the conservative American Action Forum, authored by a former director of the CBO, went further, estimating that immigration reform has the potential to decrease the cumulative federal deficit by more than $2.5 trillion over the course of just 10 years.
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 The new airbag tech from Alpinestars inflates faster than the blink of an eye.
BMW Motorrad is launching the BMW Motorrad Street Air jacket by Alpinestars, an advanced airbag system offering comprehensive upper body protection and the freedom to ride a motorcycle in both on- and off-road situations.
The technology is adopted from the current Alpinestars Tech-Air® street airbag system – a system that requires no motorcycle-mounted sensors. The airbag system of Alpinestars utilizes a sophisticated algorithm that detects imminent danger with the greatest precision and inflates the full upper body airbag, faster than the blink of an eye, to provide a highly effective crash protection system.
The BMW Motorrad Street Air Dry by Alpinestars textile riding jacket is designed to interconnect with the Alpinestars airbag system vest and is an essential component for the system to be fully operational.
It offers instantaneous inflatable upper body protection to the back, kidneys, chest and shoulders – the most exposed areas in a crash. It is also fully independent, incorporating its sensors close to the rider's or passenger's body means the airbag activates without the need for a triggering wireless signal to be sent from the bike.
• Full airbag inflation in 25 milliseconds for protection during crash impacts and loss-of-control situations when riding but also in stand-still situation – for example a rear impact while waiting at traffic lights.
• Function is independently of the need for sensors to be installed on the bike and the subsequent need to link a specific motorcycle to the airbag system.
• Immediately ready for use and no time is wasted in setting up electronic pairing between rider and/or passenger and motorcycle. Rider can easily switch between motorcycles without reconfiguring or reinitializing.
• Placing sensors near to the body means the airbag system can be used on road or for off-road adventure-touring.
• No need to deactivate the system if leaving the road for off-road trails or to stop in between to change settings. Changing surfaces while adventure-touring therefore presents no problem.
• System is protected by a durable and water-resistant casing which, when worn under a compatible outer jacket, means the airbag system is fully weatherproof.
The new BMW Motorrad Street Air Jacket works with any motorcycle and the system is developed for a wide range of riding scenarios, including off-road adventuring touring situations. However the systems is not recommended for aggressive off-road use with full off-road (knobby) tires.
This jacket is the first safety product to be launched under an exclusive agreement between BMW Motorrad and Alpinestars and is available for both female and male customers in different colorways beginning October 2016. For more information visit the BMW Motorrad site.
All New Sidi Crossfire 3 Off-Road Boots Coming Soon!
New Triumph ADV Video Explores the Question: Why Do You Ride?
HAH! Of course they did. I JUST bought a Helite airbag vest… Of course, the Helite doesn't require charging or come with a BMW price tag, (although it certainly wasn't cheap).


Why isn't this book tagged Post-Crisis?
The majority of the dc books aren't tagged with post crisis or modern age yet. I tagged Chrono, RRO, and Split all at once for every book, but the others have been coming as I work my way down.


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Vale de Mendiz foi uma freguesia portuguesa do concelho de Alijó, com 5,59 km² de área e 249 habitantes (2011). Densidade: 44,5 hab/km².

Foi extinta (agregada) em 2013, no âmbito de uma reforma administrativa nacional, tendo sido agregada às freguesias de Casal de Loivos e Vilarinho de Cotas, para formar uma nova freguesia denominada União das Freguesias de Vale de Mendiz, Casal de Loivos e Vilarinho de Cotas.

População

(Obs.: Número de habitantes "residentes", ou seja, que tinham a residência oficial neste concelho à data em que os censos  se realizaram.)

Património
 Marco granítico n.º 4

Antigas freguesias de Alijó

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While working for others you will be required to expel your best abilities for the benefit of the company. Sometimes your performance will go up and down, and usually the company will understand it. This is no longer what you can do while working to grow your own business. You have great freedom and will, but you are also in control. Every day you will be faced with the demand to continue to issue the best abilities you have. Consistency and discipline are the keys to your success.
If forever working for a company you will never really know the meaning of hard work and discipline for your success. Only those who want to try to open a business themselves who will understand this.
After learning to manage your own business, you will realize that money does not necessarily come to your account on the same date every month. No more paying you, your performance and performance are the ones that determine the amount of income you earn.
Not just a matter of income, you also have to be smart to deal with limited funds. You have to rack my brain in order to get enough capital to start the business and ensure that at the end of the process there will be significant advantages for business development. Not to mention when there are already employees and have to pay their salary every month.
Studying entrepreneurship from a young age will make you a personal worth of money. You will know that money does not come from sitting sweet for 8 hours each day in a cold office. He is the end result of endless struggle, discipline and consistency every day.
How terrible it is to grow old with youthful memories of road congestion, fear of coming late to work, unyielding routine tasks, and life like a machine, which will only end in little retirement.
Do you agree that it is indeed that kind of life that we have been living for? Busyness and job demands often force us to get rid of personal needs, becoming machines whose brain content is just the same duties every day. Say goodbye to hobbies and activities that make you feel whole again yourself.
With entrepreneurship you have a chance to escape from the vicious circle above. The freedom and great autonomy you have can make you have time to take a breather in the midst of busyness and run the thing that makes you truly alive.
Starting a business as early as possible gives you plenty of opportunities to fail, rise up and retry. When you are young you tend to be freer to do things. No one else has depended on you yet. When you are 40 and married, of course will be another story.
Start your business as young as possible because then you have more chance to fail. You will have a greater chance of success.
The business you build will not be successful overnight. In the first few years your profits will still go up and down; You still have to struggle to build brand image and compete with competitors. Only after your product is widely known and have loyal customers, you can breathe calmly.
Starting a business from a young age will make you have enough time to build the financial security you expect. When you are young your needs will not be as big as when you are married, the up-and-down income of the newly pioneered business is still enough to live.
If you are new to building a business in old age, you can get out of the world when your business began to stabilize.
Young people usually have an understanding of the technology is quite capable. Not just about the use of gadgets, but also about using social media. Knowledge of the use of technology and social media will greatly help you in the business development process.
Starting a business at a young age will make you more literate on the various conveniences offered by the technology. You can skillfully promote through the internet, create a web for business promotion that you are pioneering.
These profits will not be owned by those who start business when they are older. So while you're still very tech-savvy, why not use it to grow your business right now?
Is not life the most meaningful is life that brings benefits to others? Entrepreneurship from youth will give you this opportunity. Through the business you build you can open employment opportunities for others. You can also spread your values positively to the environment.
Building a business is not just about making a lot of money. But how can you take advantage of your ability to give goodness to those around you?


The Tertiary Education Commission (TEC) is seeking nominations to finalise peer review panels for the Performance-Based Research Fund (PBRF) 2018 Quality Evaluation.
Professor Paula Jameson, Principal Moderator for the PBRF 2018 Quality Evaluation, says that panel members play an essential role within the Quality Evaluation.
Panel members need to have substantial experience in a peer review or research evaluation role, significant research expertise, and the confidence of their peers.
The panel nomination process occurs in two stages. The first stage closed in September 2015 and included the selection of Chairs, Deputy Chairs, and the initial cohort of panel members. The second stage of the nomination process is open until 26 February 2018.
For the second stage, we encourage nominations that will ensure panels have good representation across subject expertise, type of research experience, gender and ethnicity.
We have specific needs for nominations for Māori and Pacific panellists across all peer review panels. We are also keen to receive nominations for researchers associated with institutes of technology and polytechnics, wānanga, or a non-tertiary education organisation setting.
Below is a list of the 13 peer review panels that have been established for the 2018 Quality Evaluation. Next to each panel name are subject areas with a need for panel nominations.
We expect to receive some nominated research outputs in languages other than official New Zealand languages. As part of the nomination process, we ask that nominees confirm what languages (other than English) they can assess research in. We will take this into account when assigning Evidence Portfolios of research.
Panel nominations close 26 February 2018. Potential panel members must be nominated by another person – this may be a head of department or similar person from an employer.
More information about the nomination and selection process, as well as what will be required of panellists, is available at PBRF 2018 Quality Evaluation.
If you or your colleagues have any queries about being nominated or appointed as a PBRF panel member, please contact us.


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Q: After authorise the Google editor add-ons, How can we navigate to a new page on successful authorization In our Google Editor add-ons,we have implemented a logout where we reset the service. OuthClient2 for appscript
function logout() {
 var service = getDriveService();
  service.reset();
}

After logging out, in the same instance (without refreshing the page) if we try to login (authorize) the add-on it throws an error.

"Cannot call DocumentApp.getUi() from this context. (line 3, file "Code")"

Is there a workaround with this?


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Howard E. Covington Jr.: Let's Remember Terry Sanford
We're in the centennial year of the birth of Terry Sanford. Born Aug. 20, 1917, he fully expected to be around to share this time with us. After all, his mother, Betsy, was a centenarian and still driving to church. Terry saw no reason that her genes wouldn't carry him the distance as well.
That was not to be. We lost Sanford in 1998. The chapel at Duke University was filled beyond capacity that spring day when North Carolinians from all walks came to remember and help bury the man whose terms as governor and U.S. senator bracketed a 15-year presidency of Duke University. It was quite a run for an Eagle Scout and combat veteran from Laurinburg who believed to his core that public service was an honorable way of life.
So why is it worthwhile to remember Sanford? His name has faded into history; he is truly unknown to many. As a columnist for Raleigh's News & Observer observed recently, this year's college freshmen have lived in a world that never knew Jim Hunt as governor or Dean Smith as coach of the Tar Heels. For goodness sakes, Sanford was the man who introduced Hunt to politics in 1960, and as governor and chairman of the UNC trustees, he hired Dean Smith in 1961 to coach at Chapel Hill. He also had something to do with Mike Krzyzewski's berth at Duke.
Terry Sanford
But you need to think about Sanford when you hear people talking about putting their political careers on the line for education and the future of young people in this state. He learned in his mother Betsy's classroom that education was the universal economic bootstrap. As governor, just a few months in office, he convinced a legislature that expanding the sales tax was necessary to get North Carolina's schools in shape for future generations of students. One of the last public appearances he made as governor was before a room full of students at a public school.
Think about Sanford when you hear that, when the South was coming apart in the 1960s, with bombings in Birmingham and violence from St. Augustine to Selma, North Carolina had a governor who was talking about breaking down racial barriers and making sure all people had jobs and opportunity. He held off a segregationist opponent in the Democratic primaries in 1960 largely by parsing words. But when George Wallace declared "Segregation Forever," Sanford and one of his cabinet members, Greensboro's Hargrove "Skipper" Bowles, were desegregating the public facilities in North Carolina's state parks, a transition that went smoothly without anyone suffering a scratch.
Think about Sanford when you hear that another graduate of the N.C. School of the Arts has won an Emmy, or an Oscar, or composed a captivating piece of music. Sanford embraced new ideas as if they were old friends. When things got slack around the governor's office, he brought in big thinkers like Buckminster Fuller to stimulate the conversation. Not many people believed that a Southern state could produce any art worth the price of admission. That is, no one did until Terry's "toe-dancing" bill passed the General Assembly in 1963 and created the NCSA.
Offended by poverty in a deep and profound way, Sanford saw to it that North Carolina was years ahead of President Lyndon B. Johnson's War on Poverty. Sanford combined the resources of the Ford Foundation with those of the Z. Smith Reynolds Foundation and created the North Carolina Fund. During its four creative years, the fund became the nation's proving ground for anti-poverty programs that later were incorporated into federal initiatives.
Howard E. Covington Jr.
Howard E. Covington Jr. of Greensboro has been writing history and biography for more than 30 years. He is the author, with Marion A. Ellis, of the biography Terry Sanford: Politics, Progress, and Outrageous Ambition (Duke University Press, 1999).
Sanford could have had the top job at the Ford Foundation after he left the governor's office, but isolation in that ivory tower, all inside work and no heavy lifting, didn't suit his style. When the trustees at Duke University offered him the presidency, he decided that was the kind of place where he could really exercise his muscles. Some of the academicians sniffed that he didn't have the pedigree for such a lofty spot. Sanford smiled and said he wouldn't hold it against them that they didn't have a UNC law degree.
Remember him as a university president who tamed the passions of students angry about an Asian war. When they blocked an intersection on campus, he waded into the crowd to hear their concerns, the same way he had engaged a night-time crowd of African-Americans a few years before when marchers interrupted a gala he was hosting at the Governor's Mansion. Sanford turned the students' energy to go door-to-door in Durham neighborhoods and explain their views. He then arranged for those who were so inclined to travel to Washington and present their case to their elected representatives.
Think about the transition that began in 1970, when Sanford went to work on transforming Duke from a middling Southern university into one of the leading institutions in the world. His formula was simple, as he told a new hire who asked what in the world Sanford was doing at a university. "I am going to identify creativity and leadership and bring it here and make it better," he replied. He left a worn and tattered rug on the floor in front of his desk as a reminder that Duke desperately needed money to make good on his ambition.
While at Duke, he made two bids for the Democratic Party's presidential nomination, both of which ended in disappointment. The last in 1976 put him in the hospital.
He took those experiences, and more, and turned them into a book called "A Danger of Democracy." It warned of the pitfalls of presidential primaries. Some Republicans should have read it before Donald J. Trump hijacked their party in 2016.
Over the years, Sanford felt the sting of political loss, including defeat for re-election to the Senate in 1992. Throughout it all, Sanford knew that for an old paratrooper who had survived the bloody, frozen hell of Christmas in the Battle of the Bulge, these setbacks didn't really amount to much. He just kept going and turned his classroom at Duke, where he returned to teach, into a laboratory on running a state with creativity and determination.
I like to remember what Sanford had to say in 1984 when he delivered his farewell to the Duke faculty, a crowd that didn't always stand with him. (See the Nixon Library fight, for example — a grievous loss, in Sanford's mind.) He was talking about the university he had come to love as dearly as his alma mater, the University of North Carolina. I think he was also expressing a philosophy that steered his life through the years.
"The stamp of Duke University and its continuing goal ought to be the unrelenting search for excellence in all of its endeavors. Duke aspires to leave its students with an abiding concern for justice, with a resolve for compassion and concern for others, with minds unfettered by racial and other prejudices, with a dedication to service to society, with an intellectual sharpness, and with an ability to think straight now and throughout life. All of these goals are worthy of outrageous ambitions."
Outrageous, indeed.
Full Circle: David Price Returns to Sanford to Teach Public Policy After 34 Years of Congressional Service
David Price returns to Sanford after a 17-term career in Congress.
MPP'92 30 year Reunion: Old Chemistry Still Binds
The MPP class of '92 gathered for their 30-year reunion recently at Sanford and the community among them is still strong.
Greener Pastures [Podcast]
New episode of Sanford's Ways & Means podcast asks, "Can we find a better way to raise animals as food and help the planet at the same time?"...


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Q: Read data from multiple sub-collections in Firestore? I'm stuck on obtaining data from sub-collection from Firestore. I'm attaching my code script below for reference.
Right now I get the data from a specific sub-collection. Using this Query line:
 Query query = db.collection("Users").document("Group").collection("Group_1);

It works fine and returns the data also.
But I want to get all data from the Group document.
Below link attached to my database image.
Firestore Database Image
  Query query = db.collection("Users");

    FirestoreRecyclerOptions<PatientRegister> response = new FirestoreRecyclerOptions.Builder<PatientRegister>()
            .setQuery(query, PatientRegister.class)
            .build();

    adapter = new FirestoreRecyclerAdapter<PatientRegister, RegisterHolder>(response) {
        @Override
        public void onBindViewHolder(RegisterHolder holder, int position, PatientRegister model) {

            holder.text_1.setText(model.getPatient_name());
            holder.text_2.setText(model.getGender());
            holder.text_3.setText(model.getDatetime());

        @Override
        public RegisterHolder onCreateViewHolder(ViewGroup group, int i) {
            View view = LayoutInflater.from(group.getContext())
                    .inflate(R.layout.registration_list, group, false);

            return new RegisterHolder(view);
        }

        @Override
        public void onError(FirebaseFirestoreException e) {
            Log.d("000147", e.getMessage());
        }
    };

A: I had a similar problem, and the problem I think is that you can't get all data from a document, .get() method just work for collections.
In my case i just solve the problem adding a data in my documents to specify the group:
Map<String,Double> User = new HashMap<>();
User.put("name","MyUserName");
User.put("group",1);

Now to get all:
db.collection("Users").get().addOnSuccessListener(new OnSuccessListener<QuerySnapshot>() {
   @Override
   public void onSuccess(QuerySnapshot queryDocumentSnapshots) {
       postList.clear();
       for (DocumentSnapshot dc:queryDocumentSnapshots.getDocuments()) {
          //dc get each document
    }
}

A: According to my question:

So you want to get all documents from within all collections that exist under the Group document?

And your answer from the comment:

Yes, I want to get all data inside the Group document.

Please note that there is no way you can do that. Queries in Firestore are shallow, which means that will only return documents from the collection that the query is run against. There is no way you can get documents from multiple subcollections that exist under a particular document in a single go.
To solve this, you have to perform either a separate different query for each and every sub-collection, or you can use a collection group query. However, using your actual schema you won't be able to perform such a query since your sub-collections are dynamically added. So the best option that you have is to change your schema a little bit like so:
Firestore-root
  |
  --- users (collection)
       |
       --- $uid (document)
            |
            --- groups (sub-collection)
                  |
                  --- $groupId (document)
                        |
                        --- name: "Testing"

In this way, you can simply get all groups that correspond to all users using:
FirebaseFirestore db = FirebaseFirestore.getInstance();
Query groupsQuery = db.collectionGroup("groups");
groupsQuery.get().addOnCompleteListener(/* ... */);


Discover the history of rum production in Reunion !
The adventure begins with an information area giving visitors a combined history of an island, its population and manufacture of a product.
A timeline, amply illustrated with historical documents, authentic objects and quotes by members of the population, invites you to experience the history of the island of Reunion from the start of its settlement to this day.
Through this approach, mingling history, culture, techniques, industry and the sensory aspect of rum, the Saga du Rhum museum throws a light on the history of Reunion through the prism of rum.
The space also welcomes those preferring a shorter visit, through a condensed trail presenting just the key events of the history of rum in Reunion.
No special clothes, no safety helmets required and no minimum age. The Saga du Rhum is a true compromise between an industrial and a cultural museum. Families are welcome: visitors can wander freely and in total safety through the different areas of the museum.
For safety reasons, use of cameras, video equipment and telephones is forbidden along the walkway leading across the distillery. Such equipment may be used in all the other parts of the museum.
Smoking is forbidden everywhere, with the exception of the car park.
Consumption of rum on the site is forbidden. Any rum bought from the museum shops must be taken away.
Children under 18 may not participate in tasting..
and LSF Surdité (for the hard of hearing).


Siding is responsible for keeping your home safe from the elements while also making up a significant portion of your house's aesthetic presence, making it one of the most important aspects of your home's exterior.
Good siding will prevent water from entering your home, provide adaquate insulation, and will compliment your windows, door, and roof. Bad siding will cause a host of problems, be costly to maintain, and represent an eyesore for years to come.
There are 3 main types of siding to choose from. When installed properly, each of them will function as a guard against the elements, leaving your choice down to budget, look, and maintenance.
There's a reason most other forms of siding are judged by how well they imitate the look of wood. Wood siding is beautiful to look at and provides a feeling of authenticity that can't be beat.
However, there are a number of reasons that the popularity of wood siding has declined. Wood requires regular maintenance (chalking, painting, staining) to prevent weather damage, and as other forms of siding like vinyl and fiber cement become better at imitating wood, the appeal of wood siding diminishes.
By far the most popular choice in York Region, vinyl siding is durable, cost effective, and comes in a dizzying array of colours and styles, making it the perfect choice for most home owners.
Most vinyl siding comes with a lifetime warranty and is maintenance-free. Unlike other economical forms of siding, such as aluminum, vinyl siding won't corrode and is much less likely to dent.
The most varied, siding manufacturers offer a wide range of styles that come in almost any colour you can think of. Gentek, the vinyl siding manufacturer used by Edmunds, offers 8 unique styles of vinyl siding, each with a range of colours to choose from. Gentek siding comes backed by a Lifetime Limited, Non-Prorated, Transferrable Warranty with hail protection and lifetime fade coverage.
Fiber Cement siding is often offered as an alternative to wood siding. Requiring less maintenance than wood with a similar look and feel, fiber cement offers great protection from the elements with the look and feel of wood. Fiber cement can also replicate the look of stucco and masonry in a way that vinyl often can't.
Beyond the more rigid durability and stucco/masonry look and feel, there aren't many advantages of choosing fiber cement over vinyl. Although it appears more durable, it hasn't been shown to perform any better than vinyl equivalents. Further, fiber cement often requires maintenance in the form of repainting and caulking.
When compared to wood, fiber cement is priced similarly, low maintenance, flame-retardant, and termite resistant. For these reasons, we recommend it over wood. In most circumstances, however, vinyl siding will provide all of the benefits of fiber cement at a fraction of the cost.
Still not sure which type of siding is right for you? Come visit our showroom to see samples. We can also recommend homes that you can view where the products you are interested in have been installed. For more information or to get a free estimate, call Edmunds at 905 472 0276.


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The Resource Weapons of mass destruction : reducing the threat from the former Soviet Union, an update : report to Congressional requesters, United States General Accounting Office
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"GAO/NSIAD-95-165."
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Weapons of mass destruction : reducing the threat from the former Soviet Union, an update : report to Congressional requesters
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Q: How to upgrade Ubuntu 18.04 Beta 2 to Ubuntu 18.04 LTS Final Release? Right now I am using Ubuntu 18.04 beta 2 (Bionic) and already change the repository to kartolo sby to upgrade my Ubuntu, but when I run this command :
I also already do :
sudo apt-get update, sudo apt-get upgrade

sudo do-release-upgrade or sudo do-release-upgrade -d

and change the setting of software and update to find new release of Ubuntu and it's still show message that no new release of Ubuntu.
How can I upgrade my beta version to final release version ?

A: I am in the same situation as you.
cat /etc/os-release
NAME="Ubuntu"
VERSION="18.04 LTS (Bionic Beaver)"
ID=ubuntu
ID_LIKE=debian
PRETTY_NAME="Ubuntu 18.04 LTS"
VERSION_ID="18.04"
HOME_URL="https://www.ubuntu.com/"
SUPPORT_URL="https://help.ubuntu.com/"
BUG_REPORT_URL="https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/"
PRIVACY_POLICY_URL="https://www.ubuntu.com/legal/terms-and-policies/privacy-policy"
VERSION_CODENAME=bionic
UBUNTU_CODENAME=bionic

So I think it is already updated, as N0rbert commented.


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Pillow 2.7.0
============

Png text chunk size limits
--------------------------

To prevent potential denial of service attacks using compressed text
chunks, there are now limits to the decompressed size of text chunks
decoded from PNG images. If the limits are exceeded when opening a PNG
image a ``ValueError`` will be raised.

Individual text chunks are limited to
:py:attr:`PIL.PngImagePlugin.MAX_TEXT_CHUNK`, set to 1MB by
default. The total decompressed size of all text chunks is limited to
:py:attr:`PIL.PngImagePlugin.MAX_TEXT_MEMORY`, which defaults to
64MB. These values can be changed prior to opening PNG images if you
know that there are large text blocks that are desired.

Image resizing filters
----------------------

Image resizing methods :py:meth:`~PIL.Image.Image.resize` and
:py:meth:`~PIL.Image.Image.thumbnail` take a `resample` argument, which tells
which filter should be used for resampling. Possible values are:
:py:attr:`PIL.Image.NEAREST`, :py:attr:`PIL.Image.BILINEAR`,
:py:attr:`PIL.Image.BICUBIC` and :py:attr:`PIL.Image.ANTIALIAS`.
Almost all of them were changed in this version.

Bicubic and bilinear downscaling
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

From the beginning :py:attr:`~PIL.Image.BILINEAR` and
:py:attr:`~PIL.Image.BICUBIC` filters were based on affine transformations
and used a fixed number of pixels from the source image for every destination
pixel (2x2 pixels for :py:attr:`~PIL.Image.BILINEAR` and 4x4 for
:py:attr:`~PIL.Image.BICUBIC`). This gave an unsatisfactory result for
downscaling. At the same time, a high quality convolutions-based algorithm with
flexible kernel was used for :py:attr:`~PIL.Image.ANTIALIAS` filter.

Starting from Pillow 2.7.0, a high quality convolutions-based algorithm is used
for all of these three filters.

If you have previously used any tricks to maintain quality when downscaling with
:py:attr:`~PIL.Image.BILINEAR` and :py:attr:`~PIL.Image.BICUBIC` filters
(for example, reducing within several steps), they are unnecessary now.

Antialias renamed to Lanczos
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

A new :py:attr:`PIL.Image.LANCZOS` constant was added instead of
:py:attr:`~PIL.Image.ANTIALIAS`.

When :py:attr:`~PIL.Image.ANTIALIAS` was initially added, it was the only
high-quality filter based on convolutions. It's name was supposed to reflect
this. Starting from Pillow 2.7.0 all resize method are based on convolutions.
All of them are antialias from now on. And the real name of the
:py:attr:`~PIL.Image.ANTIALIAS` filter is Lanczos filter.

The :py:attr:`~PIL.Image.ANTIALIAS` constant is left for backward compatibility
and is an alias for :py:attr:`~PIL.Image.LANCZOS`.

Lanczos upscaling quality
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

The image upscaling quality with :py:attr:`~PIL.Image.LANCZOS` filter was
almost the same as :py:attr:`~PIL.Image.BILINEAR` due to bug. This has been fixed.

Bicubic upscaling quality
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

The :py:attr:`~PIL.Image.BICUBIC` filter for affine transformations produced
sharp, slightly pixelated image for upscaling. Bicubic for convolutions is
more soft.

Resize performance
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

In most cases, convolution is more a expensive algorithm for downscaling
because it takes into account all the pixels of source image. Therefore
:py:attr:`~PIL.Image.BILINEAR` and :py:attr:`~PIL.Image.BICUBIC` filters'
performance can be lower than before. On the other hand the quality of
:py:attr:`~PIL.Image.BILINEAR` and :py:attr:`~PIL.Image.BICUBIC` was close to
:py:attr:`~PIL.Image.NEAREST`. So if such quality is suitable for your tasks
you can switch to :py:attr:`~PIL.Image.NEAREST` filter for downscaling,
which will give a huge improvement in performance.

At the same time performance of convolution resampling for downscaling has been
improved by around a factor of two compared to the previous version.
The upscaling performance of the :py:attr:`~PIL.Image.LANCZOS` filter has
remained the same. For :py:attr:`~PIL.Image.BILINEAR` filter it has improved by
1.5 times and for :py:attr:`~PIL.Image.BICUBIC` by four times.

Default filter for thumbnails
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

In Pillow 2.5 the default filter for :py:meth:`~PIL.Image.Image.thumbnail` was
changed from :py:attr:`~PIL.Image.NEAREST` to :py:attr:`~PIL.Image.ANTIALIAS`.
Antialias was chosen because all the other filters gave poor quality for
reduction. Starting from Pillow 2.7.0, :py:attr:`~PIL.Image.ANTIALIAS` has been
replaced with :py:attr:`~PIL.Image.BICUBIC`, because it's faster and
:py:attr:`~PIL.Image.ANTIALIAS` doesn't give any advantages after
downscaling with libjpeg, which uses supersampling internally, not convolutions.

Image transposition
-------------------

A new method :py:attr:`PIL.Image.TRANSPOSE` has been added for the
:py:meth:`~PIL.Image.Image.transpose` operation in addition to
:py:attr:`~PIL.Image.FLIP_LEFT_RIGHT`, :py:attr:`~PIL.Image.FLIP_TOP_BOTTOM`,
:py:attr:`~PIL.Image.ROTATE_90`, :py:attr:`~PIL.Image.ROTATE_180`,
:py:attr:`~PIL.Image.ROTATE_270`. :py:attr:`~PIL.Image.TRANSPOSE` is an algebra
transpose, with an image reflected across its main diagonal.

The speed of :py:attr:`~PIL.Image.ROTATE_90`, :py:attr:`~PIL.Image.ROTATE_270`
and :py:attr:`~PIL.Image.TRANSPOSE` has been significantly improved for large
images which don't fit in the processor cache.

Gaussian blur and unsharp mask
------------------------------

The :py:meth:`~PIL.ImageFilter.GaussianBlur` implementation has been replaced
with a sequential application of box filters. The new implementation is based on
"Theoretical foundations of Gaussian convolution by extended box filtering" from
the Mathematical Image Analysis Group. As :py:meth:`~PIL.ImageFilter.UnsharpMask`
implementations use Gaussian blur internally, all changes from this chapter
are also applicable to it.

Blur radius
^^^^^^^^^^^

There was an error in the previous version of Pillow, where blur radius (the
standard deviation of Gaussian) actually meant blur diameter. For example, to
blur an image with actual radius 5 you were forced to use value 10. This has
been fixed. Now the meaning of the radius is the same as in other software.

If you used a Gaussian blur with some radius value, you need to divide this
value by two.

Blur performance
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

Box filter computation time is constant relative to the radius and depends
on source image size only. Because the new Gaussian blur implementation
is based on box filter, its computation time also doesn't depends on the blur
radius.

For example, previously, if the execution time for a given test image was 1
second for radius 1, 3.6 seconds for radius 10 and 17 seconds for 50, now blur
with any radius on same image is executed for 0.2 seconds.

Blur quality
^^^^^^^^^^^^

The previous implementation takes into account only source pixels within
2 * standard deviation radius for every destination pixel. This was not enough,
so the quality was worse compared to other Gaussian blur software.

The new implementation does not have this drawback.

TFF Parameter Changes
----------------------

Several kwarg parameters for saving TIFF images were previously
specified as strings with included spaces (e.g. 'x resolution'). This
was difficult to use as kwargs without constructing and passing a
dictionary. These parameters now use the underscore character instead
of space. (e.g. 'x_resolution')

redpajama_set_name: RedPajamaGithub


Fermentation Support Forum • View topic - Why my pickles are hollow? All of them!
Why my pickles are hollow? All of them!
I wonder if anybody had a similar experience?
I prepared the second batch and I decided to use only salt, no spices or whey this time. I used 3 tablespoon of sea salt on 1 liter of filtered water. 10 fermentation days. When I checked on them, they were completely hollow! all of them! . The skin of most of the pickles was firm though. I read on different blogs, that this could be caused by too much time between the gathering of the vegetables and the pickling. But I suspect that it might be also the increase in salt. Any thoughts?
Re: Why my pickles are hollow? All of them!
I've had the cukes form hollow spaces with a sort of diamond cross-section. Is that what you're seeing. I don't know what causes it, but the larger the cuke, the more likely it is, in my experience.
Huh! They don't look like large cukes, either. If you can get similar cukes from the same source, you should try again -- maybe two jars at once, one with 2T salt and one with 3T. Also, bisect a couple of them before pickling to see if there's a hollow when fresh and raw.
Looks like a cucumber to eat stuffed and raw.
Did you grow these cucumbers or buy them? If you grew them you might be able to tell us if they are parthenocarpic. That is, are they a cucumber that can produce seedless fruits without being pollinated? The empty space in the middle is, of course, where seeds would normally be. I see no seeds, so I'm guessing the fruit is parthenocarpic. The fruit might develop differently if it has no interaction with seeds to nourish and protect. But that would not be how a good parthenocarpic cucumber should look.
So yes, do tell us if the fruit looks like that before you ferment it.
I was just reading Linda Zeidrich's Joy of Pickling where she discusses different brine concentrations and why one would choose to use different levels. She says, "If you like salty pickles and want a slower fermentation-- of six to eight weeks, say-- use a 7 to 8 percent brine. With stronger brines, though, lactic-acid formation happens more slowly, so more yeast and gas develop, and cucumber pickles often become "bloaters"--hollow, floating pickles. Mold is more likely to develop, too."


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Silly Pet Pics of Cats Racing along a walking trail on Razor Scooters.
Photographing, or more accurately, creating silly pet pics, is one of my specialties. I create these pictures of cats, dogs, mice, elephants, cows and other animals by combining photography with digital compositing and manipulation. I use Photoshop to combine numerous photos and create anthropomorphic scenes and situations of our animal friends. The whole idea is to bring a bit more humor and fun into the world by treating others to the unexpected delights of LOL pet pics.
For example, in this photograph of three cats zooming down a walkway on razor scooters, I first found a location that featured a meandering path alongside some rolling hills green with spring grass. Next I arranged to have an animal trainer bring several "professional" cats to my photography studio. I worked from a layout, that is a drawing, of what the final image should look like. I might add here that the image was originally created for a greeting card company. Using the layout I made sure I photographed each part of each cat in the position and lighting that I would need to put the final photograph together. When we do our shoots for these images, part of my Animal Antics collection, we make sure we also have on hand any props and or wardrobe apparel that we might need. In this case that was only the scooter. After photographing the cats, the scooters, and the location, I use Photoshop to put all the images together into one final photograph. There are a lot of cat and dog lovers out there that not only enjoy these silly photos, but also appreciate the images used on a variety of gifts products such as coffee mugs, calendars, journals, tote bags, mouse pads and more at CafePress.com. The images are also availabe for licensing for advertising, editorial, corporate and promotional uses. I love photographing cats, they are such amazing athletes...though the only thing that motivates them is food! I am always impressed with how a good animal trainer can get the most out of an animal without stressing them. A stressed pet is not a good model! As it is it takes a tremendous amount of patience to work with animals, particularly when you need to get all the very specific angles and parts that I need to get in order to complete one of these pictures. A good trainer, a professional animal (one who is used to these environments and is chosen for their tolerance of such things) and lots of time can usually be counted on to produce the results we need. But not always...so we tend to arrange, whenever possible, to have back-up animals on hand. An important point about a good animal trainer (we use Bow Wow Productions), is that they usually have back-up animals. That is, they can bring two or three cats that have a very similar appearance, so if one cat just doesn't feel like working on a given day, they have one or more that can be substituted. As you might imagine, this all doesn't come cheaply. We try to make our dollars go further by ganging up our animal shoots. We try and shoot enough animals at once to provide for a dozen or more images. Usually this means about three consecutive days of photographing animals, two days for shooting props and wardrobe, and a day or so for shooting locations...and that doesn't even account for location scouting, finding props and wardrobe, and casting for the right animal talent. On top of that, it takes me at least a day of digital imaging for each of our photos. We now have over 200 hundred of these silly animal pics in our collection...and we are still adding more. Recently we have added a number of elephant and cow photos. As you can imagine, they are much more difficult to photograph than cats and dogs. Cows are harder than elephants. You can have an elephant sit, stand, lift its feet, etc. Cows, well, they just stand there and look at you like you are an idiot! Mice are also difficult to photograph. They are so small that you have to much in tightly to get a good image to work with. If you need to have them holding something then it is necessary to get a tight shot of their little hands…and as cute as those little hands are, they are very difficult to get in focus and in the correct position, The mice don't exactly pay attention to our requests…and they have this habit of moving quickly and unexpectedly. Trainers don't like to work with them either…they have nasty little bites!


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The Hawaii Health Connector's federal grants are still frozen, and at least one major technology and oversight contractor has walked off the job.
The state's health insurance exchange is still waiting for approval from Washington to release more than $10 million in federal grants it needs to pay its vendors and keep the organization afloat while it transitions to the federal marketplace, said Executive Director Jeff Kissel.
"We now have contractors walking off the job because they're not being paid," he said Thursday. "We need that money to perform the tasks that are essential for the transition."
The Connector, created by the Affordable Care Act, is closing down most functions and moving them to the federal Obamacare program, healthcare.gov, after spending $130 million on the faulty exchange.
The feds froze the Connector's remaining grants when it couldn't reach sustainability, resolve ongoing technology issues or connect with the Medicaid program that determines eligibility for Obamacare subsidies.
When asked why the federal government hasn't released the funds, Kissel said, "We don't know. We've submitted everything that the federal government has asked for."
Turning Point, the Connector's independent validation and verification contractor, gave notice this week that it would no longer be doing work for the exchange because it hasn't been paid, Kissel said. He said he didn't immediately know how much was owed to the contractor.
The exchange has about four other major contractors who have not been paid, Kissel added.
"I've told the public our good points as well as our flaws, and I can't withhold information now that we're in a difficult period," he said.
Laurel Johnston, Gov. David Ige's deputy chief of staff who has been negotiating for the release of the federal funds, also said she did not know why the money isn't being released.
Ige has signed off on the Connector receiving the $2 million the state Legislature appropriated this year for the health exchange, a spokeswoman for the governor said Thursday. The Connector will get the money after July 1, the start of the new fiscal year.
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José Antonio Pérez Bacallado (San Cristóbal de La Laguna, España, 27 de septiembre de 1939 - Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, España, 12 de junio de 1981) conocido como Victoriero, fue un futbolista español que se desempeñaba como defensa. Falleció tras un fuerte encontronazo mientras practicaba fútbol sala como aficionado.

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The story focuses on the receptionist glow worm Lucia, the ever optimistic bumble bee Marimba and the resident guest grasshopper Åke T Grönqvist and uses a Hotel in a Cantharellus (mushroom) as a backdrop. Live action guests check in and stir up drama for the characters.

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LEN president upbeat over aquatics involvement at 2022 European Championships
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The 2019 LEN European Short Course Championships (Photo by Ian MacNicol/Getty Images)
Paolo Barelli, the president of the Ligue Européenne de Natation (LEN), aquatics' European body, has expressed his confidence in the sport's European Championships in Rome being part of Munich's 2022 multi-sport European Championships.
The issue of the LEN's involvement in the second iteration of the event has been under the microscope since Munich was last month announced as the host but swimming was not named among the confirmed sports.
The LEN and the European Broadcasting Union (EBU), its worldwide broadcast rights-holder, have already aligned the dates of the LEN's 2022 European Championships (August 11 to 21) with those of the multi-sports event as discussions continue, and Barelli sees few obstacles in the way.
Speaking to SportBusiness in Glasgow as the city hosted the European Short Course Championships, Barelli said: "I think there will be no problem for us to be one of the leading sports in this type of solution."
Barelli was a key figure among stakeholders of the first European Championships co-hosted by Glasgow and Berlin, as one of two co-chairs of the board (alongside European Athletics president Svein Arne Hansen).
Pressed about any details still to be finalised, and if the specific marketing plan or scheduling of prime-time swimming spots were to be discussed, Barelli insisted that there are "no problems on the table".
He continued: "I want to underline that our agreement is strong with the EBU. Before we talk with anybody else our partner is the EBU and they want a wonderful show, better [even] than Glasgow-Berlin. So if the EBU has in its hands two cities as important as Munich and Rome then they're going to be glad."
The Italian, in conciliatory mood, underlined his belief that the EBU members want aquatics at the combined 2022 event (the EBU also holds rights to the combined European Championships). Barelli stressed that the LEN is "in good friendship and open to discuss with everybody".
He added: "Any decision has to be taken in the right way, we appreciate that and we'll do it."
Speaking at the recent Host City conference in Glasgow, Stefan Kürten, the EBU's executive director of sport, said that the EBU expects, hopes and is pushing "very much" for the integration of swimming in 2022. The long-standing Kürten, who will leave the EBU next year, also said he hoped there would be another sport added (on top of swimming).
Upon announcing Munich as the 2022 host and revealing that athletics, cycling, golf, gymnastics, rowing and triathlon would all return for the second hosting of the new multi-sports concept, event organiser European Championships Management (ECM) left the door open for swimming's inclusion.
Commenting on the issue before Rome was allocated the 2022 hosting rights by the LEN, ECM said: "Let's see what host city and date is chosen by LEN for 2022. If these are compatible, and the European Championships 2022 participation requirements are fulfilled, LEN could still be considered by the EC2022 board."
ECM also said that the swimming facilities in Munich did not fulfil the LEN's technical requirements after the European federation discussed hosting the event in the German city.
However, Barelli insists that was not the case.
He told SportBusiness: "It was not possible for a couple of main reasons. First of all, we never received an official invite from the city [Munich] to visit and to discuss.
"We know that it's a strong city and that the German Swimming Federation is one of the strongest. But for us the decision [was] taken because we didn't talk anyway so we don't know if the venues were enough for our competition. So probably, yes, we could have arranged something, but the evolution was different."
LEN's dual Russian award, Glasgow 2019 wraps up
Barelli was speaking shortly after the LEN Bureau met on Friday in Glasgow to discuss matters including future hosting rights of LEN events.
At the meeting, the LEN Bureau unanimously awarded the 2021 European Short Course Swimming Championships and the 2024 European Aquatics Championships to Kazan in Russia.
The dual award comes despite the World Anti-Doping Agency imposing a ban on Russia hosting sports events for four years because of the Russian Anti-Doping Agency's non-compliance over inconsistencies in anti-doping data.
Speaking after the host city announcement, Barelli said: "We are happy to award both events to Kazan as the city has become a home of aquatics in recent years where the highest standards are guaranteed for our athletes. Kazan has hosted a series of major events in aquatics including the 2015 World Championships and our junior European Championships this summer which were outstanding by all means.
"They have world-class facilities and an experienced organising team, today a federation cannot wish for more."
Meanwhile, Barelli declared the LEN was "very satisfied" with the "top level" standard of facilities and sport presentation at Tollcross International Swimming Centre, Glasgow's venue for the short-course Championships, which drew to a close on Sunday.
Asked about the spectator attendances, which picked up over the weekend after a sluggish start, Barelli advocated the involvement of more swimming clubs to increase awareness of the event to ensure stronger crowds for the weekday sessions.
He concluded: "Anyway for us the TV show is very important as it's covered by the EBU and a lot of European broadcasters. We know it can be a showcase for TV. That has worked very well and we're satisfied."
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Mayo manager James Horan says reports Ciaran McDonald and James Burke have left his backroom team are 'bonkers'
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Published: 14:49, 18 Oct 2021
Updated: 14:49, 18 Oct 2021
MAYO boss James Horan insists reports that Ciaran McDonald and James Burke had left his backroom team were bonkers.
Strong reports emerged last month that the pair had departed the camp in the wake of their All-Ireland final defeat to Tyrone.
Mayo manager James Horan
Horan remained silent until he conducted a lengthy interview with Midwest Radio this morning.
And the Ballintubber man says some of the "untruths" that emerged after their 2-14 to 0-15 loss left him stunned - and their attention is already turning to 2022.
He said: "The amount of untruths that were published on this is just phenomenal. Ciaran Mac, James Burke and myself have been working over the last number of weeks to plot and plan for the new season.
"That's really where we need to be so stories generated or whatever is just… it's actually incredible and I think maybe once some people, when they take a breath and reflect on some of the stuff that's been written they might wonder themselves.
"Ciaran Mac has been in my house I don't know how many times and we talk maybe four or five times a day, plotting and planning on what we can do.
"To me it's bonkers. It's bonkers how people… that was published then and people ran with it based on absolutely nothing.
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"So it's a complete untruth. Look, that's where it is. I can't control that. I can't do anything about it. There's no change in the coaches, there's absolutely no change and there never was.
"I haven't come out and said anything because there was nothing really to say because there was so much stuff going on."
Horan also slammed the abuse aimed at the squad in the wake of their All-Ireland final loss.
Mayo county board chiefs issued a strongly worded statement condemning the "unnecessary and unacceptable" personal attacks on some players and the team management online and in the media in the aftermath of the defeat last month.
GAA president Larry McCarthy also condemned the abuse in a scathing statement days later.
And Horan admits people need to think before they act, because it has a huge impact on people.
He said: "I was aware, of course I'm aware, of the general theme that was out there. Over the last number of months if you think about it, from the amount of professional athletes that have come out, we've had people pulling out of Grand Slams in tennis, all over the place, the impact of what social media can have on people.
"Unfortunately it's part of life, it's not nice. It's not nice for the person that gets it, it's not nice for the family of the person that gets it and it's not nice for the partner of the person that gets it or their friends.
"But I suppose thankfully I can logically just have a think about it, 'what's going on here? Why are people saying that?' And 'why do people feel the need to say that?' and you work through it.
"There's a certain amount of people that no matter what happens, stuff will be going on. I'm sure anyone in public life; there's letters or notes that come in, and anyone in public life will get a certain amount of that.
"It's unfortunate, it's disappointing and the personal nature of some of it; some of the players that I work with, it's just not right.
"Again, it's someone somewhere sitting down behind a computer saying something so when you put it into context you try and shelf it that way and just move on."
Horan also jumped to the defence of his skipper Aidan O'Shea, who was slated for taking part in a beach photoshoot after their Connacht final victory over Galway.
He said: "Aidan O'Shea and some of these players are amazing at what they do for the local community and I haven't seen it highlighted any of the work that Aida O'Shea does when asked.
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